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2 Ludington Daily News, Saturday, March 10, 1973 Hospital Notes leon Teime Sr Mrs. Bessie Riffle ADMITTED FRIDAY Miss Marsha Wait of Branch. David Maule of 106 E. Mclcndy. Miss Pamela Eckholm of Park St.

Dale J. DcSarl of 3286 Pincy Ridge Road. Mrs. Ernest A. Larson of 708 N.

Gaylord. Thomas Krepps of route 1 Ludington. John Shoup of route 2 Ludington. Joseph Husted of 709 E. Filer.

Mrs. John Pomcroy of 1150 Ellis Road. Mrs. Kathleen route 2 Ludington. Kevin Morlock of Pentwatcr.

Heidi Hoffman of Baldwin. mStllAUGKI) FRIDAY Theodore Caldwell of route 1 Ludington. Harold Mead of Battle Creek. Carl Swanson of E. Loomis St.

Mrs. Merl Schlaack and daughter, Sarah Suzanne, of 606 Fourth St. Robert Englund of 210 Fourth St. Mrs. Varney Bennett of Free Soil, Mrs.

Gary Thurow and son, Travis Stephen, of route 3 Ludington. Mrs. Robert Irlck and daughter, Teresa Elizabeth, of route 1 Ludington. Mrs. Catherine Smith of 807 N.

Harrison. Deer Killed In Accident Mason County sheriff officers investigated a car-deer accident at 8 p.m. Friday on US-31, south of Hesslund Road. A car driven by John Cameron of 602 N. Staffon St.

struck and killed a deer when the deer ran into the path of the car. There was moderate damage to the car. Leon Tcnney 78, of route 2, Sherman Road, Ludington died at 4:50 a.m. Friday at Memorial Hospital of Mason County. He had only been a patient for nine hours but had been in ill health for some time.

He was born Jan. 29, 1895 in Sumerset, Mich, and on April 17, 1920 married Rose Arts in Jackson, Mich. He left Ludington several years ago to live in Wisconsin where he resided for 14 years, returning to Ludington in 1958. Mr. Tenney was a member of the Mason County Barracks No.

405 Veterans of World War I USA Inc. and was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving overseas in France. He was a fireman on lower lakers and with the car- ferries from 1929 to 1949 when her retired due to a disability. Surviving are his wife; three sons, William J.

of Eau Claire, Herbert E. of Victory Township, Leon Jr. of Tallman; one daughter, Mrs. Clifford (Madeline) Klopfenstein of Ludington; 26 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; one brother, Earl Tcnney of Litch- ficld, Mich. He was preceded in death by one son, Donald G.

Tenney in 1968 and by a brother, Grant Tenney. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday from the Rye Funeral Home with Rev. John Chrlstensen officiating. Committal services at Lakcview Cemetery will be under the auspices of the Mason County Barracks No.

405 Veterans of World War I. Friends may call at the Rye Funeral Home beginning at 2p.m. Sunday. The family will be present from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday to receive friends, Mrs. Bessie Riffle, 78, of North Custer Road died early this morning at Memorial Hospital of Mason County. She had been ill health for the past two years: She was born Aug.

8, 1894 in Greenville, Ohio and was married to Charles Riffle on Dec. 31, 1910 in Ohio. He- preceded her in death in 1951. The couple moved to the Fountain area in 1921 and Mrs. Riffle moved to Custer in 1956.

She enjoyed gardening and raising flowers. She attended the Methodist Church. Surviving are seven daughters, Mrs. Maynard (Bculah) Marrison of Custcr, Mrs. Earl (Thelma) Stark of Custer, Mrs.

Walter (Glendora) Ray, Miss Beatrice Riffle and Mrs. Joseph (Corrine) Labas, all of Ludington; Mrs. William (Betty) Courtland, Mrs. Robert (Marguerite) Rcnwick, both of Scottville; five sons, Russell of Cassopolis, Thurman of Scottville. H.B.

(Bud), Charles Jr and Curtis, all of Custer; one sister, Mrs. Hazel Bickle of Richmond, 34 grandchildren, 41 great- grandchildren. She was also proceeded in death by two infant children and a son, Roger, who was killed during World War II. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Stephens Chapel with Rev.

William Schoettlc officiating. Burial will be at Fountain Cemetery. The family will be at the Stephens Chapel from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

to 9 p.m. Monday. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Mason County Heart Fund. Court News MASON COUNTY MAGISTRATE COURT Cyrus N. Patten of Boyne City paid $18 for having no valid registration on his trailer.

Duane L. Cook of Riviera Trailer Park paid (18 for having expired registration plates. Rodger H. Kroes of Muskegon paid $22 for speeding. Michael B.

Luskin of 1039 N. William St. paid $27 for speeding. The above charges were by Michigan State Police. DISTRICT COURT Gail Ann Bialochowski of 918 N.

Gaylord Ave. paid $50 for petit larceny, on a charge by Ludington Police. Perry A. Skeens of 819 E. Melendy St.

paid $50 for being intoxicated in a public place, on a charge by the Mason County Sheriff's Department. Paula N. McConnell of Luther paid $50 for petit larceny, on a charge by Pinkerton detectives. Equipment men representing two major railroads, a mining company and a track construction company gathered last week at Jackson Corporation's Ludington plant for five days of intensive technical training on the use and care of Jackson's model 4500 Automatic Tamper. This "at home" service school is one of several types of technical training programs provided by Jackson to customers.

Other programs, tailored to customers' needs, are being provided during the current season at locations such as Wisconsin, Montana, Washington, Jackson Corporation Training School RUSS MILLER STUDIO PHOTO Newsman Learns Woes Of Mailman Grand Rapids TV Station Sold GRAND Communications Corporation, Birmingham-based owner of WZZM-FM-TV and other communications properties, has spun off ownership of the Grand Rapids radio and television stations, it was announced today Mrs. Edward Graczyk (Mary) Grac-1 zyk, 73, of Manistec, died Thursday morning at West Shore Hospital in Manistec after a short illness. She was born Mary Glover on Oct. 3, 1899, in Hart, and moved from Hart to Manistce 34 years ago. Surviving are her husband; one daughter, Mrs.

Fred (Betty) Bild of Douglas; three sons, Wellington Hasty of Kalamazoo, Edward Graczyk of Ludington, and Jerome Graczyk of Arlington, 13 grandchildren, two great- grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Harry (Bessie) Schweitzer of Shelby, Mrs. Earl (Maude) Clement of Grand Rapids, and Mrs. Milford (Gertrude) Pontius of Muskegon; three brothers, Orson and Milo Glover, both of Hart, and George Glover of Muskegon, and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m.

Monday at the Johnson Funeral Home at Manistec with the Rev. James Schacki officiating. Burial will be in Mount Carmel Cemetery at Manistec. Friends may call at the funeral home. by L.

William Seidman, Synercom Board chairman. Under the agreement approved by Synercom Board of Directors, West Michigan Telecasters, wholly-owned Synercom subsidiary, will reassume ownership of the stations as an independent company. West Michigan Telecasters, Inc. is composed of residents of the West Michigan area. West Michigan Telecasters merged with Suburban Newspapers, and The Averill Press, of Birmingham in 1969 to form Synercom Communications Corporation.

Since then the corporation has acquired The Instructional Fair, publisher of children's books and teaching materials; the Towne Courier, weekly East Lansing newspapers; Elinor Bunin Productions, New York City film production company; and Western Hills Publishing Company and Suburban Typographies, Cincinnati suburban weekly newspapers and printing house. Under the divestiture agreement, 58.4 per cent of the Synercom stock will be exchanged for 100 per cent of the shares of West Michigan Telecastcrs stock. The resulting West Michigan Telecastcrs operation will include WZZM- FM-TV and Elinor Bunin Productions. Synercom will retain ownership of all newspapers, Averill Press and Instructional Fair. Don't buy.

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Letter Carriers magazine, under the heading, "Don't Raise Your Son To Be A Don't raise your son to be a postman. It's a bad rap. This is the conclusion of The Chronicle staff and a hatful of other volunteers who set out shortly after dawn last Thursday to do something the U.S. Post Service does every week with singular The Chronicle to Reading (Mass.) subscribers. But the Post Office was closed last Thursday, part of a general shut-down during a national day of mourning for the passing of former President Harry Truman.

No mail was received or delivered that day. Our view of the situation was that our newspaper had been printed on schedule, and subscribers who cohtitfdid with us to receive 'their newspaper on time for 52 consecutive weeks should not, if humanly possible, be disappointed. Given the proper number of vehicles and foot soldiers, we reasoned, the task on the newspapers to our subscribers would be a relatively simple job. It turned out to be a cold, wearying, confusing nightmare. And here's why.

Copies of The Chronicle are stenciled with subscribers' addresses and carefully stacked by route and street. That part of the task was relatively easy to grasp. But we quickly iound we were without such Postal Service amenities as experience and Jeeps with right hand (or curbside) drive. Now we know why postmen were issued those unique Jeeps. Then there are those unnumbered houses, hundreds of them.

A postman knows his route and his patrons, both by name and by house number. The Chronicle staff did not. And the thought kept going through our minds as we searched in vain for housenumbcrs: What if we were a fireman or policeman on a far more serious mission than delivery of The Chronicle? IRAD'ORD SAYS BRING THE FAMILY! SUNDAY SPECIAL ALL YOU CAN CHICKEN, FISH IR CLAM DINNER: Served with trench fries, cole slaw, roll and butter Hours: Daiiy 9:30 to 9:30. Sunday: Noon to 6. E.

LUDINGTON LUDINGTON CHOICE In God's name, number your house clearly! A number of this community's unleashed dogs joined us in several just to sniff and wag, but others were bent on having at The Editor. One dog on James Road wouldn't settle for less, as a matter of fact, and The Editor didn't deliver that paper. Matter of fact, it took him (The Editor) several streets to get his wind back. One lady came to the door clad in slippers, bathrobe and night curlers and holding that first marvelous morning wanted to know what happened to her "regular" mailman. "Well, lady, the Post Office is closed today." "Why?" she asked, waking to the day.

"Mr. Truman died, and this is a day of mourning," we stated. "Then what are you doing here?" we're delivering your Chronicle, madam." "Don't you call me madam!" She slammed the door on her also on the end of my scarf. Perhaps she'll relent and send it back some day. One volunteer courier suffered the indignity of snow- covered trousers, and was soon wet and cold.

But the lady driving his route was his mother, and she whisked him into the laundry room at the Housing for the Elderly project, popped his pants into a dryer thec, and for 25 cents had him back on the road in no time. I don't know whether postmen have that ingenuity, or whether such a dryer-break is in their contract, but I put it forth as one of the few positive reflections on the day. Subscribers, however appreciative, soon found their newspapers were in strange places. Postmen know boxes or mail slots are at side doors, behind certain trees, or even on the side of the garage (Westcroft Road), but The Chronicle volunteers labored without this knowledge. Consequently, newspapers ended up in the driest, most expedient niche we could rarely, perhaps where the postman usually leaves them.

Some of the winter's worst driving and walking conditions prevailed last Thursday morning, and postmen were lucky to be able to turn over, go back to sleep and forget their daily chore. Our volunteers, however, can tell you first hand the aching peril of negotiating unplowed and untreated walks and driveways. We wondered aloud now at how any householder can expect any kind of delivery service to be made at an unnumbered, un-shoveled address. Did we do the job we set out to do? A little better than half the job. No more.

Would we do it again? No. And it may be candidly stated each of us built up an immense respect and affection for postmen during our eight hour adventure on Reading's slippery roads and walkways. Many subscribers were delighted at our effort and were kind enough to come right out and say so. It is obvious, however, that many missed their mailman and his familiar red, while and blue that they stoically tolerated our assortment of grimy vehicles and winded, newspaper-laden foot soldiers in their neighborhoods. In all of this, it occurs to me we owe apologies in several directions.

We owe the biggest apology and presentation of our new respect and affection to the postmen. We've tried their job and it's a tough one. We now know the consequences of sloppy stenciling, addresses that cannot be easily read. We now know from intimate experience the condition your newspaper gets in after it has been bundled and shuttled from one vehicle to another, and from hand to hand, before it reaches your home. These things we never really knew and, frankly, never worried about.

But now we know, and now we can and will take corrective action. We also owe a large apology to our long-laboring staff, their children and their children's friends, who turned out in the spirit of "let's tackle the job." They, too, saw a side of their newspaper they have never known. In all of this, I trust I have made the point your son should not be raised to a career with the Postal Service. It is hard work delivering The Chronicle each week. And if by chance you have a son, or know someone's son who is a postman, be nice to him.

Send him over some chicken soup, and maybe a scarf. And make sure he has a quarter for his dryer-break on bad days. SERVICEMEN'S Notes CA Roger A. Kass, 383567805, 20th Naval Construction Regiment, Fleet Post Office, New York, New York 09501. NEWS PHOTO BY RUSS MILLER JR Floyd Lange's New Service Station Floyd Lange, above, has recently opened Lange's Arco Service at the corner of Washington and Tinkham Avenues The station will offer complete automotive service Jet.

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M. A. Getty (kneeling second from left, in picture), Director of Service Training for Jackson, notes that the extensive complexities of modern track maintenance equipment is demanding increasing abilities on the part of equipment men to obtain maximum machine performance. Jackson's service training programs for customers date back to the mid-1950's and are considered an integral part of the railroadequipment marketing concept Of Pioneer Michigan Geologist Are Found MT. PLEASAJNT-The long lost field notes and journals of Douglass Houghton, Michigan's first state geologist, missing for well over a century, have been recovered by the Clarke Historical Library of Central Michigan The original journals were found in a box of miscellaneous manuscripts purchased at auction in New York City.

One of the first acts of the first State legislature in 1837 was to call for a complete geological survey of the state. To perform the survey, Houghton was selected by Gov. Stevens T. Mason. Houghton, trained in medicine and science, had come to Detroit in 1830 to lecture on science.

He remained in Detroit and was selected by Henry Schoolcraft to accompany him on an expedition to the Upper Peninsula and the lands west of Lake Superior in 1832. On this trip, he served both as physician and naturalist. His reports as a naturalist demonstrated his knowledge of geology. The geological survey of the newly organized state extended from 1837 to 1845. Each year Houghton prepared annual reports for the governor and legislature.

These were published and became models for other geologists to follow. Houghton, however, never completed the survey of the entire state. With only a few small areas remaining to be visited, he was drowned in Lake Superior. Professor Edsel K. Rintala of St.

Clair County Community College, a recent biographer of Houghton, lamented the fact that, through negligence, Houghton's original notes had been lost. Over the years, Rintala pointed out, rumors persisted that Houghton had discovered gold in the Upper Peninsula. This secret, if such a discovery had been made, was lost with the Houghton field notes, the historian wrote. It was presumed the notes had been destroyed until their recent discovery by the Clarke Historical Library. The field notes are still in the process of being catalogued the Clarke Historical Library and have not been read completely.

They are small penciled notes which will require much study before an accurate transcription can be made, according to John Cummihg, director of the Library. The notebooks and journals are small pocket-size books in which Houghton kept a daily record of his observations together with occasional sketches, Houghton's notes, principally dealing with the physical aspects of the state, include descriptions of such things as how to prepare a porcupine for cooking. The discovery of the field notes was made by Gumming and his assistant William Miles while attending a conference in New York City recently. In addition to the field notes, the box they discovered contained a quantity of Houghton's receipts and letters, Mason Students Earn Degrees At Michigan State EAST LANSING-Four Mason County students are I among those scheduled to receive degrees in commencement exercises Sunday, March 11, at Michigan State University here. They are Harold J.

Grasman of route 2 Ludington who will receive a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice; Susan S. Steinberg of 804 Anderson Ludington, receiving a bachelor of science degree in mathematics, Dorothy Trebilcock of 109 N. Gaylord receiving a master of arts degree in sociology, and Edgar M. Struble of 410 N. Thomas Scottville, receiving a bachelor degree in instrumental music.

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