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PAGE EIGHTEEN THE HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, EVENING SENTINEL TUESDAY, MAY 5,1970 Blue Star Highway Gets Additional Road Signs To be the first woman in the marked. It is now marked but state of Michigan to obtain a could stand improvements after highway designation from the this length of time. State Highway Commission is i With the introduction ot the accomplishment of to the state highway system the Howard "Gene" Temple of elimination of the former route i Saugatuck township. After near-! US31. labelled Blue Star Mem- ly 10 years of hard work, such; orial Highway was designated to as letters, telephone calls, become a county road.

AU state meetings, legislative highway road "markings were national contacts, the persis-1 taken off. and signs bearing I tance of Mrs. Temple won out. former US-31 were placed at Mrs. Temple now has a key various junctions where the county road marked in Blue Star highway came adja- county.

the first in the southern I cent to 1-196. this left the, peninsula. This is known as i motels, and other business on 1 Highway A-2 on the 1970 state former US-31 with the designa- maps- tion of Blue Star Highwav. The I The battle for the marking powers that be failed to see! started in the early 1960's, as 5 that with no map Sirs. Temple began her cam- Blue Star Memorial Highway paign after seeking aid from meant nothing to the persons, others in the Saugatuck community.

Early in May of that! year. Gene and Howard werej awaiting Tulip Time guests at coming into the area, vacations or of no value to the' persons having businesses on iL In August of 1968. with the their motel just north of Sau- tourist trade in the Saugatuck gatuck. They were awakened area at a low ebb, Mrs. Temple about 3 a.m., with a long dis- forgetting her ''battle fatigue" tance call from Kalamazoo.

The of the previous years launched caller was the awaited motel I a new She again ap-1 guest, who started that they! pealed to Fred Neils, Allegan! had become lose due to inade- County engineer, his response! quate road markings and were i was better than at previous oc-1 in a Kalamazoo area motel, and that they were can- celling reservations. This was only the beginning, more calls were recehed from not onlv Tulip Time guests but other guests during the summer. This was too much. Gene took her troubles to the Village Board and the Chamber casions. She appealed to Earl F.

Rogers, Engineer-Director of County Road Association at Lansing, Mich. He is the association director relative to county planning aid in the 87,650 miles of county road. He was appealed to by Gene as the! Memorial Highway had now been designated "as a county ff CIO O. of Commerce at Saugatuck, all road. It was of no tourist or! were sympathetic, but no pro- jj commercial value to anvone, gress was made.

Letters to the onlv a road for travel state highway commission and was not wm Garv legislators at that time did not seem to do any good. The work i Byker fr eshman Republican at that time was to try and senator from Hudsonville be- get Interstate 1-94 properly' came interested that the parts awake. You need life insurance. Now we've got It. Search all you want.

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Holland Division Houn: Man Friday 9 A 5 9 -12 30 George W. Hillii, Oiv. Manager Henry Mast 772-4534 224 Central Ph. 392-3158 Walter M. Furjanic Jr.

392-1220, Philfp P. Jager 392-1746 MemberLife is underwritten by Michigan Life Insurance Joe Louis' Attorney To Get Court Order DENVER (UPD-Joe Louis' said Monday he would a court order to transfer nationally televised light June 17 in Madison Square Garden with the approval of the New York State Athletic Commission. Dutch Netters Blank Maroons Holland High's tennis team' handed Holland Christian S- Investigate Breokin third setback of the season by ip ion from the Colorado Psycbia-i At Harrington School blanking them 7-0 Monday Hospital to a private hos-l pitaL 1 Ottawa county sheriff's depa- defeating Aquinas, 5-4. was ac lu J- the final score indicates be rj ht a short occurred sometime Sunday night the 22nd Street courts. The than the final score indicates as the Maroons extended the atiorne Dutch to three sets in three of He sa trouble and Hope Wins 1st Regular Match Hope College's tennis team won its first match of the regular season compared to three setbacks here Monday by Rov White (A) def.

occurred sometime Sunday Andrews said, or early morning, he would have no; Deputies said a janitor dis- the court order, covered a kitchen window had transferred' been broken out and the door unlocked to gain entry. About 20 100-watt frosted light bulbs and a 1967 IBM typewriter valued at $294 was reported missing. two or three da vs." the matches however they failed 'to come through to take a single, match. In singles: Vic Amava 'def. Dick Frens (HC) 6-2.

(He 1 From Rick PaauTM H) def. Dan, A FoihtoYMdWoy (H) def. Buzz Halt 6-3, 6 Greg Pfent (A) def. a i Schrotenboer, 6-4; Russ Kiefer (H) Roger Lylak. 6-2 6-3; Chuck Luyendvk (H) def.

Bill Loepke, 64, 3-6, 6-3; Rick Smith (H) def. Dan Farrell. 6-4, 64). In doubles: White Hall (A def. Kraai-Teall, 6-3.

64; Pfent iLjlak (A) def Schrotenbocr- Terpsma (HO 3-6. 3-6. 6-4; Don' Van Duren (H) def. Dave Den' tms pickles broke! 'Ouden (HC) 6-2. 6-2.

down along M-40 south of the In doubles: Bill Xotier-Jim I 31 bypass Monday at Mac Loed (H) def. John some of its! Smith, 6-0, 6-4; Kiefer-Luyendyk Cars driven bv Allen a H) def. Koepke-Farrell. 6-2, 6-2. Heyboer, 29, of 127 Riverhills and Herbert Eugene Cop-! persmith 52, of 14293 Essen- burg collided at River Are.

5 stra-Boh fHfM loatl on pavement. uuig cuuiueu 'li Steve Holland poh'ce said the frame and Lakewood Blvd. at 7:12 rm i the truck apparenUy broke a according to vn.n^n^r* causin load to sheriffs deputies KLngenberg (HC) tr cited Hevboer for failure to 7-5; a a se (H) def. Glenn Ten Harmsel-Jeff Peerbolt (HC) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. TM rg (HC) ersr rwtedtrafficaroundthe clted eyboer for failure umK eff disabled truc-t while the loarl.

yield the right of way. Neit 'disabled truck while the load was transferred to another truck The truck was operated by Ralph Hill for Pilgrim both of Plymouth. Ind. No in-j juries were reported. Wayland Hands Hawks Second League Defeat MIDDLEVILLE Wax land Urn erica League 1970 Hamilton its second Wayer Representatives to! Neither driver was reported injured.

O'Malley Returns Home LOS ANGELES (UPD--Wal- ter O'Maliev returned homo Monday to convalesce from his abdominal sureery. SUCCESS STORY Mrs. Howard (Gene) Temple of Saug- aruck Township has finally won her almost one-woman campaign to get the old US-31, Blue Star remarked on state highways maps. She is shown here looking at one of the new signs, about 50 that have been placed on the highway. of the crossword puzzle held by Mrs.

Temple fell into place Two special meetings were called by the senator, after Gene pnnedi her point of the poor marking. These meetings attended by reresentatnes of state, county and local ernment together with all persons concern- ed with the highway department and other interested in tourist i and resort operations. i The meetings under the direction of Senator Bjker a success. The combined effort of all backing the request or Mrs. 5 Temple won the issue.

She can' now take the honor of being the first woman in the state of Michigan to succeeded in! having the state highway commission mark the routings of a road on the state highway map. Today the new 1970 state highway maps carry the boxed, paragraph "Experimental Pro- gram for identifying Key Coun- i ty Roads If found to be bene-1 ficial to the motorist, additional route will be added to future maps. Mrs. Temple now has the entire old US-31. Blue Star Memorial Highway in Allegan county marked with the symbol A 2.

These are reflectorized kev stone shaped signs having a blue background with a jellow border and the letters A2, also in vellow. The name of the highway long ago dedicated to the of our pasc wars, will remain the same. Approximately 50 signs been placed from the Holland City limits to the North Shore Drue at South Haven. Fred Neils stated that if the experiment is successful. Van Buren and Berrien counties south of Allegan may also take like steps in marking the highway through their areas.

The cost to Allegan countv was about S2 000. Neils also stated that the new sign was one that was adopted bv the National Association of County Engineers and could eventually be issed to mark all heavily traveled primary roads which involve more than one countv. No, "Gene'" is not a busybody, she is a person who is willing to give her lime for the good of the community. She was active in the staging of the Saugatuck Centennial and she also aided her husband during his many years as chairman of the Saugatuck Township Planning Commission, dunng which time some effective planning for the area took place Both been actne members of the Saugatuck-Douglas Cnamber of Commerce and have assisted tns community program with some outstanding ideas for the area. a season in golf Monday at the DETROIT Catcher Jim Springs Golf Course 1 Price of the Detroit Tigers is wT'e.

rvr. the Tigers player representative Dick Sevigny of Wayland was: while Byron Center native Phil medahst with a 46 while Doug ega is the player representa-1 Ter Haar was low man for tive for the Chicago Cubs. Hamilton with a 47. other American League team i 01111011 scorers in- representatives include Brooks eluded Rick Poll with a 48, Robinson of Baltimore, Jim Randy Essmk had a 55 while Lonborg of Boston. Eddie Fish- bptn Kelly Lampen and Denny er of California.

Ron Hanson of nn Cnieago rabo wsky Of Kansas City, Jim Perry" of Cards' Crenshaw Traded ST. LOUIS (UPI) Willie! Crenshaw, a veteran running back of the St. Louis Cardinals was traded Friday to the Den-1 ver Broncos for a future draft choice. 17th AND CLEVELAND Try Us Soon! 16th A 17th On Cleveland Ave. Kempkers shot Dutchmen Place 15th In Golf Tournament Minnesota, Steve Hamilton of New York.

Berme Allen of Washington and Jim Hunter of Oak- NAPERV1LLLE. Ill--Aquinas land. College caotured first place i the North" Central Invitational Powerful Chix Raise Golf tourney Monday with enn Mnrlr tn 10 score of 294. Hope College plac- i arlt t0 IU ed 15th out of 28 schools with ZEELAND Powerful Zee- a 320 total. laug ra ised its season's tennis record to 10-0 by defeating West Ottawa, 5-0 here Mondav.

Tom Page led the i Dutchmen with a 78 while both. ucic Drake Van Beek and Rick Hine I In singles- Bruce Vanden-had Tim Jailing carded Beldt (Z) def Craig Stoel, fr4 84 6-0 and Chuck De Pree (Z) def. Kip Klinge, 6-1, 3-6, 6-0. Panthers Pull Off Another 1-Stroke Win In doubles- Dan Flaherty- Rene Rios (Z) def. Bill Maa't- man-Bob Ladewig.

6-3, 6-2; Joe KENTWOOD The West i Bouwents-Dave Pvie (Z) def. Kim Longstreet Jack 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Joe Zvlstra- day at Bnerwood Countrv cfub Jeff Flaherty (Z) def. Rick as they defeated Kentwood 175! Solis-Chris Johnson, 7-5, 6-4. 176 to bring their seasons re- Ottawa golf team pulled off snother one-stroke victory Mon cord to 6-5.

Jan Dreijer carded a 37 to Quarry to Fight NE YORK (UPI)--Jerry take medalists honors XT i 1 Quarry and Mac Foster, a pair Randy Knoll followed -nrith a 43 of heavyweights looking for a for the Panthers. title bout, "will meet in It Isn't so long since Mothers soothed a baby's cries with paregoric, a sleep-inducing drug derived from opium. Mothers, today, are better informed on child care. They depend on the physician for prescriptions--and on the pharmacist for professional dispensing that affords an added safeguard against the giving, or taking, of dangerous drugs. BABY OPIUM MODEL DRUG Free Prescription Delivery 35 W.

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iloselev's Drumptop, who has been in the money in 1 1 all five starts this year, rallied fifth in the backstretch I Monday to win the feature race I at Aqueduct by a half-length. I Wins Exemption I NEW YORK (UPI)--Dick. 1 Lou has won exemption froir iall qualifying for the 70th Open championship by placing third in a newly devised point system of the U.S. Golf Association. NOTICE TO- crnzExs AXD RKSIDEJCTS OF THE OF HOIy LAXD OTTAWA COUNTY PLEASE TAKE XOTICS.

that on inc 12Sn day May. 1970, a public hearing win be he3d in the Township i Kali of Holland Townshio 373 NorSn 120th Aienue in said Toicnshio at 7 30 o'cSock P.M.. lo consider" two (2) air.eramcnts Jo Inc Zonjpg O-- 1 dmance and Mao of trie Townshjn of Holland wmcn amendments pro- nose the changes: 1. To change the lands located 3n tne Township of Holland hereinafter described from the Residence D.slnct 'B and Agricultural Dis- sr.ct to ire Commercial The description of said as ollou Soutn 400 feet of the SEU the west 210 feet- Section 21 T5N R35W. 2 To change tne lands locaSed i in the Township of Holland herem- after descrioed from the Kesjdencc District to the Commercial District.

The description of said I lands is as follows All that part of Lots 1 2. Block 9 Howard add' t. on to Holland descnoed as the Southerly 50 ft. of thp Northerly 150 ft. King North of Douglas Avenue, The North and South lines of said parcel measured parallel to the Northerly line of Block 9, Township of JanU The tcnta'ive text of isid proposed amendments to the Zoning Ordinance and Map of the Township of Holland may be examined bv any person at the Township Hall at 373 North I20th Avenue on any day of the week except Saturdavs.

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