Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 10

tf i 10 THE BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER AND NEWS Tuesday, August 26, 1958 THE Township Awards Water Contracts Michigan Takes Spotlight In Magazine for Russians WATCHMJIH Creighton R. Coleman, town ship attorney, has prepared an in which the center is located. The attorney also will check to see if there are any restrictions in the original deed from the Jones, Henry Williams. The Muskegon firm is drilling a new well at the Richfield avenue well site. A request from the Battle Creek and Lakeview Kiwanis clubs to hold their annual Kids' Day street sale on Saturday, Sept.

27, was approved. Mr. DeMaso reminded the board that bids will be opened Wednesday evening on the bond issue to finance street improvements. The board agreed to close the township hall next Saturday, in conjunction with the Labor Day holiday on Monday (Special to the Enquirer and News) WASHINGTON Russian readers are-getting a special report on Michigan in the current issue of "America Illustrated," the big, slick picture magazine published monthly by the U.S. government for Soviet consumption.

The magazine's cover is a opinion and has drafted an ordinance to regulate the construction of private swimming pools. Mr. Coleman said he had consulted with the Calhoun County Health Department and had studied a Grand Rapids pool ordinance, the only one of its kind in the state, Copies of the proposed ordinance are to be distributed to the trustees for study. A letter from Maxwell A. Goodwin of 80 Woodland dr.

asking consideration again for the flooding of Emerald Lake (a pond to the rear of the Goodwin residence near Goguac Lake) this coming winter for ice skating for neighborhood Miss September Morn will be at the water's edge early next Monday morning. Negro Pupils Briefed As Integration Nears united states government. Speed Controls Needed The road commission will be requested to rcsurvey Beckley road, from M-78 westward to the township line, for a possible change in speed limits. Supervisor Harry A. Dc.Maso said the request was being made because the striking of a young bicyclist by a car on Beckley road Sunday indicated how the area is becoming more populated and in need of speed restrictions.

Parts of Beckley road now are limited to 50 miles per hour and 65 miles per hour. The road commission also will be asked to consider a "yield right of way" sign at the intersection of 25th anH sparkling color photo of a sailing ketch on Lake St. Clair, and the featured article inside is "The Real Michigan" by a Michigan-born historian, Bruce Cat-ton. Appeared in 'Holiday' Catton's article, which originally appeared in the magazine "Holiday," has been translated into Russian with only a few minor changes. Miles, acres and yards, for instance, have been converted into kilometers, hectares and meters.

Under special agreement with the Soviet government, 50,000 copies of "America Illustrated" are allowed on sale at Soviet newsstands each month. In return, this country admits an equal number of copies of a Soviet English-language propaganda magazine called "USSR." Here is a sample of what the Russians will be reading about Michigan in the Catton piece: "Michigan is perhaps the strangest state in the union, a ARLINGTON, Va. Ne The open season on picnics is drawing toward its close. It seems that thousands have been the victims of this habit. gro children have been prepared for integration of Arlington's schools by a five-session work authorized payment of $5,641.22 to the Calhoun County Road Commission for 1956 street improvements on W.

Territorial road between the Battle Creek city limits and Arbor street. The commission informed the township the actual cost was $7,494.67 for some curb and gutter and blacktop work, on which the cost had been underestimated. The board went on the premise that the bond issue was floated on the original estimate and that it was "almost impossible" to reassess property owners now for the remainder of the cost. O.K. Traffic Light The board was notified by the road commission that it had approved installation of a traffic signal at US-12 and 20th street, provided the township pays one-sixth (S266.67) of the estimated cost of $1,600 for the light and the installation.

The road commission also is to pay one-sixth, while the remainder is to be paid by the State Highway Commission. The board approved the payment. Next step is for the road commission to notify the state about the action. Actual installation should follow soon afterward. The township attorney was requested to see whether a FRIEND FOR LIFE SARNIA, Ont.tfi Michael Skclton, 9, made a friend for life when he rescued a deserted baby rooin.

Fed with eye-dropper and tweezers, the bird won't leave the Skelton's yard. His favorite perch is on Michael's shoulder. shop in "Citizenship" and "Meet youngsters. The letter was re The City Hall estimates that 1.121 local golfers at various times during the present sea Three contracts totaling to improve the Battle Creek Township water system, were awarded last night by the Township Board. On recommendation of Jones, Henry Williams of Toledo, consulting engineers, the board accepted the low bids from among 10 bidders from four states.

The contracts awarded were: 1. Well field revisions, P. M. Construction Co. of Battle Creek; 2.

Water distribution lines (Columbia avenue. Capital avenue. Riverside drive and 28th street). $88,310.85, Haines 4 Haines, Elkhart, Ind. 3.

elevated water tank and foundation, Chicago Bridge Iron Co of Detroit. Well Below Estimates The consulting engineers reported that all of the low bids are under their estimate except for the well field revisions, which was $3,750 above the estimate. The total of the low bids for the three major contracts was $46,675.35 below the estimate. Time for the projects was listed this way: weir field revisions, 270 days: water distribution lines. 180 days; tank foundation, 90 days; tank, 110 days.

Projects are to begin shortly after the signing of contracts. Another step required before the projects can be started is the approval by the Michigan Municipal Finance Commission of the $250,000 bond issi-e to finance the program. The bonds are before the commission now. son, broken 1,121 wooden driv streets, following a request from ers over stumps, tee boxes or ing New People. Parents of the 31 Negro children seeking to enter white schools here next month issued a 400-word statement on the workshop.

They asked that their names not be revealed at present. The statement said the Negro children "will be coming to the schools in September with over one another heads. This, ferred to the fire chief. Township policy has been to flood rinks when fire hoses are available. Drilling Bill Approved A bill for S517.54 from Ricgler Water Well Drilling, of Muskegon was approved on recommendations of of course, provides a splendid example of wasted energy.

Mrs. Kichard W. Sievert of 156 N. 25th who appeared at the meeting as a neighborhood spokesman. A stop sign was put at the intersection about a year ago following a neighborhood reauest and then was rmnonH IT'S NEW IT'S DIFFERENT IT'S REVOLUTIONARY All in One Pun Department place where the past, the pres Judge Harold E.

Steinbacher hss been having some fun late friendliness, calmness, self re also by request. Mrs. Sievert spect and respect for the children they will be meeting ly with local members of the bar. All the judge has done is said it is feared that when blacktopping is comnletpd at ent and the future are all tied up together in a hard knot It is the twentieth century incarnate the skyscraper, the mass production line and the frantic rush and at the there." The parents said the children had been instructed in the five the intersection, speeding will pick up again and endanger children in the neighborhood. Mr.

DeMaso reported that COMBINATION ALUMINUM SCREEN STORM WINDOW same time it is golden sand, blue sessions by Negro and white township-owned lot at the rear water, green pine trees on clergymen, educators, attorneys ask certain barristers if they know the difference between "unlawful" and "illegal." Some of the counselors have wandered off into rhetorical and long-winded definitions. Then the judge explains that "anything against the law is unlawful, but ill eagle is simply a sick bird." empty hills, and a wind that Average $Q95 Size and social workers. The statement added that the Negro children expect to be treated with respect. of the Columbia Plaza shopping center on S. 20th street, and facing S.

22nd street, could be leased to the center as a parking lot for employes. The center would surface, fence and drain the lot. Lease terms were not discussed. The lot is in residential and is contiguous to the commercial zone comes down from the cold spaces, scented with forests that felt the axes of hard-handed men in checked flanned shirts and floppy pants." Picture of Bridge Accompanying illustrations include the Mackinac Bridge, log BEEF QUARTERS We Prepare for Freeieri 4 MOS. TO PAY B.

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The U.S.-Soviet propaganda swap calls for "America Illustrated" to be distributed in 80 Soviet cities at five rubles per copy $1.25 at the official rate of exchange. This sounds high, but the U.S. Information Agency says that "five rubles is the normal price for Soviet publications of the size and quality of 'America An excited citizen phoned the police the other night to report a terrific fight was going on at his house. He happened to reach a policeman who has done some boxing himself. "Keep the fight going," the officer advised, "and when I get there I will take on the winner." A local husband and wife are now numbered among the city's smartest theater-goers.

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