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wm i A-10 THE STATE JOURNAL Fridoy, June 11, 1965 Lansing. Michigan I UP TO CITY COUNCILMEN Fate of Boys' Clubhouse Uncertain I By MARGE WALDO Journal Special Writer 1 GRAND LEDGE Time was a when boys who wanted to build 1 a shack for a clubhouse just 1 chose a site and built one. Progress seems to have 1 changed all this. Now cv or-jj dinances, zoning restrictions jj and building codes enter into the picture. nishings which the boys had scrounged from their parents and neighbors.

"I can understand the position of the council members." said Robert Bates, father of Toby Bates, those boys have worked hard at that building. The city spends money on other youth recreational programs, and these boys have furnished their own recreational project. It will be a shame if the actions of a few hoodlums cause these boys to lose their clubhouse." Each councilman seemed to agree that "boys will be boys," and the decision on whether the local youths will be able to keep their house may hang on what kind of boy each council member has rr 1 i of the structure several things had to be considered: first, the city's liability if someone were injured on the property, since the boys had built the house on city property; building ordinances were not complied with; zoning restrictions had not been met; the whole thing was hazardous, even though most of the members of the council could recall claying in similar houses in their youth. The father offered to lease from the city that part of the property upon which the house was built, in order to free the city from insurance liability; the city attorney said he would look into the necessary procedure for such a lease and report. The boys tore down the framework of the proposed ad- sene heater for warmth.

When finished, the shack, built on an old foundation from a former city pumping station, seemed solid and well-built; a 10 by 10 foot room with wall-to-wall carpet, divan, tables, chairs and curtains. The youths helped Tom Ham ilton clean up scattered lumber piled near the site and were given the right to utilize the discarded pieces of lumber. The edifice had a half-attic and a trap door to the basement formed by the old foundation. A 15 by 10 foot room was planned toward the river. And here comes the trouble.

Other boys, after the work was all done, began to come to the "Key Club" (so-called because only two of the boys had keys to the house), and been. Appalachio? It's 'Home' to (left to right) Bruce, Ed and Toby Williamston Boy Killed hy Auto Take the case of a group of 14-to-16-year old boys in Grand Ledge. Last August the boys started construction on a clubhouse on property at the dead end of N. Clinton Street, on the bank of the Grand River. The boys spent many hours getting the outside work done before cold weather, and finished the interior during the winter months, using a kero- Pose in Front of Shack CARSON CITY Officers of the Carson City Lions Club were installed bv Williams William son, crystal.

Lion chairman, at the club's meeting this week. Installed were: Karl Mikko president; William Seiter, Floyd Beal and Dr. Leslie Spriggs vice presidents; Rev. Max Bailey, secretary-treasurer James Nelson. Lion Tamer; H.

J. Martin, Tail Twister; Dr. E. R. Boonstra, Dr.

Beach Graham Lyle Gustafson, and Herschel llaradine, directors. Nashville Mail Carrier Dies on Route NASHVILLE Robert M. Sher man, 44, of 239 W. Casgrove: r- i umiii mmn'tmrrmimmmmum 1 dition and began usins the floored space as a sundeck and a vantage point for watching wildlife in the trees and along the river. However, some vandalism has' occurred.

The house has been broken into, some other young people have tried to "horn in" and once broke in and smeared tar over the fur- school was painted white, but school officials were dissatisfied because the paint would fade to a dirty grey-brown. No one wanted to copy the idea of "the little red schoolhouse," so it was decided to paint the school pink. The pink color was continued through the years and soon became a landmark. Finally the school officially became known as Pink School. Community life evolved around the Pink School in its early days.

The big social event of the month was the night the Community Club, a forerunner of the PTA would meet at the school for box Pink School, Neor Mason, Poses for Lost Portrait After 111 Years Pink School Will Turn Back Clock Briefly, Close Forever WILLIAMSTON An eight-' year-old Williamston boy was struck and killed by a car Thursday afternoon while two of his sisters watched in horror. State Police said David Fill- wock, 4171 Rowley Road, ran into the path a a car driven NewLibrarv Bids Asked In St. Louis ST. LOUIS July 16 is tentatively set as the deadline date for new library bids provided architect reports can be completed in time. An incomplete report presented to the City Council by Morris Stein of Frank and Stein, Lansing, gives an estimate range from S68.000 to $72,000, depending on several alternates.

The actual base estimates was $67,050 with $1,986 to be added nf fw S960 for vinyl asbestos to 83,664 for carpeting. Stein advised. With professional fees and furnishings yet to be figured, City Manager William Barrons' cost estimate of the completed project is $80,000, compared to now seen available for the Library Fund. OVID-The Rev. Ham' Dick ersnn ministnr frntn Ihp rhnrrh died of an annarpnt hpartising, who is connected with the u- j.inew firm as director of devel- bring others, even skipping school to enjoy the fruits of the young boys' labors.

This caused complaints from neighbors, the police department was alerted and found that the planned addition might be hazardous and unstable, and the boys were asked to tear down their shack. The father of one of the boys appeared before the city council and asked that the boys be allowed to keep the place if they suspended building operations of the new room, which he admitted seemed a bit shaky to him. Once the council had word Irrigation Plant Start Set Monday WILLIAMSTON Ground will be broken on Monday for the plant of the new Adjusto-Rain which will manufacture underground irrigation fittings. The 13.000 square foot build ing will be located in the 1100 block of West Grand River Ave nue. It will employ about 20.

The company is a division of! the Mahogany Corp. William L. Brittain is president and James H. Donahue, executive vice pres ident of Mahogany. Leroy A.

Hughes, formerly vice president of Revco, of Deerfield, has been named president and plant manager of Adjusto-Rain. Mam products to be produced at first are related to an adjustable device to setting head levels for underground sprinkler systems. The device was invented by William Trickey of East Lan- Pment engineering work. 8 at Mason Seek Posts MASON Seven men and one woman will vie for two Mason Board of Education positions Monday. To be filled are a one-year post and a four-year post.

One-year term candidates are Max C. McCarn, Duane Pierce and Rex Stribley. Candidates for the four-year position on the board are Dr. Kenneth Kalember, Glenn E. Oesterle, Mrs.

Jane Parker, Richard J. Pifer and Edward L. Tuckey. Balloting will be in the Mason Arts Building from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Airport Cash For Michigan Passes House WASHINGTON (AP) The House Thursday passed and sent to the Senate a $2 billion military construction bill. These are the proposed constructions for Michigan installations: Kinchloe AFB, Sault Ste. Marie: $189,000 for construction of operational, supply and community facilities. K. I.

Sawyer Municipal Airport, Marquette: $148,000 for construction of operational and supply facilities. Selfridge AFB, Mount Clemens: $117,000 for construction of operational facilities and possible maintenance and production facilities. Wurtsmith AFB, Oscoda: for construction of operational facilities. Michigan installations would nf thp b7arpnp riptmit will hpjnection with the new high school. Mason High Graduating Record Class of 162 MASON Graduation activi- Principal Robert Prudon will socials, bazaars, and put on plays.

The money was used to purchase a fence to keep children out of the intersection, bought kitchen equipment and an early Victrola. Mrs. Holmes, the last of 105 teachers at Pink School, has taught here for the past six years. To recall early days, children will come dressed in Centennial clothing and have an old fashioned picnic in the school yard on the last day of school. For many in the Mason area who once attended a one-room school, not only will a door close, but a link with the past will be broken.

announce awards ana scnoiar- ships and present the class to Glenn Oesterle, president of the board of education, who will issue diplomas. Supt. M. Chandler Nauts will introduce the commencement I speaker. Music will be provided by the high school band.

Lake Safety iProgram Under Way LAKE ODESSA Presentation of marine safety certificates to 'nree Lakewood High School freshmen heralded the start of the summer lake recreation season in this area; Presentations were made to Edie Dillon, Jane Alderink and 1 pnnarH Rrmm after rnTYinlotinn nf fivo.hnnr fire of if bv Mrs. Nancy Bjorkquist, 23, of 421 E. Church Williamston, in front of his home. David suffered a broken neck and multiple cuts and bruises. He was dead on arrival at Sparrow Hospital.

Troopers said David and two of his sisters had just gotten the mail from the postman, Harold Larson, 4287 N. Williamston Road. Larson said he admonished the children to wait until he drove away, but that instead David ran around the rear of his auto and into the path of Mrs. Bjorkquist's machine. David was a second grade student at St.

Mary' School. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Fillwock; three sisters, Diane, Annette and Theresa, all at home; two brothers, Patrick and Kenneth, at home; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Roman of Lansing and Mr. and Mrs. William Fillwock of Webberville. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Sunday at the St.

Mary Catholic Church, Williamston. Burial will be in the ML Calvary Cemetery. Rosary services will be at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Gorsline Brothers Funeral Home, Williamston. Ovid-Elsie School Vote Seeks Pool OVID The Ovid-Elsie- area schools will have a special election Monday, June 14, on the $200,000 bond issue for a swim ming pool, constructed and equipped as part of the proposed new uvia-tisie mgn scnooi ouna- ing ana an airieuc iieia in con- The athletic field would in-a lighted football field.

elude basball diamonds and an "all weather" track. The swimming pool would be built indoors. Bonds which would mature over a 26 year period would be sold to obtain the The bonds would require an annual levy of y2 mill or 50 cents for each $1,000 of state equalized valuation. This S200.000 bond issue was defeated on March 2, when the voters approved the new Ovid-Elsie high school. Petitioners re quested another election which was approved by the board of education.

Only those owning property and husband or wife of property owner will be eligible to vote. Precinct No. 1 is at the high school gymnasium in Elsie. Precinct No. 2 is at the high school in Ovid.

Board Jobs, Millase Votes LESLIE At the annual school election Monday, electors in the school district will be to approve a two-mill aOT hnildincj anH sitp fnnn tav anH in elect two candidates to fill a four-year and three-year term on the school board. Incumbent J. B. Hyatt. Leslie School Board president, will be running for re-election for the third time for a four-year term aiso running tor tne ottice is William N.

Hart. Running for the three-year term are William L. Connell, Nelson J. Maiville and Marvin L. PLxley.

To approve the millage vote, voters will be asked to approve two ballots. One ballot will ask to raise the school limitation tax by two mills and the other will ask to approve a two-mill tax for a building and site fund for three years. Both ballots must pass to be effective. Approval of the two-mill building and site fund will allow repairs to be made at Woodworth Elementary School to the roof and to the boiler, a major rewiring of the electrical facilities at the Intermediate school as well as a new roof and floor in the old gym and surfacing of roads and parking lot at the new high school. Reject mm OWOSSO (AP) Employes of Universal Electric Co.

here Thursday rejected certification 'Zoning Violators' Funds Boost Work-Study CMU Role MOUNT PLEASANT Central Michigan University will be able to nearly triple its work-study program under the Economic Opportunity Act following approval of a federal grant. James t. Bealer, tJil work-study coordinator, said the grant is approximately 90 per cent of the university request. It represents $4,982 for the summer, session, $33,534 firmly committed for fall semester, and $33,534 tentatively set for spring, he explained. The spring figure is pending final action by Congress on appropriations tor next year, according to C.

E. Deakins, acting director of the Division of Student Financial Aid for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Bealer reported that 135 students will be employed on cam-: pus compared to 49 in the program spring semester, which cost $8,640. Eight categories of work-study are available for assistants in research, laboratories, teaching, library, clerical, audio visual, stockrooms and buildings and grounds. Carl E.

Sharp CHARLOTTE Carl E. Sharp, 79, a retired Walton Township farmer, died Thursday after noon at a local nursing home where he had been a patient two years. He had been an Eaton County resident his entire life and was a member of the Olivet Grange. Surviving are a son, Murl, and two daughters, Mrs. Orville Eishen and Mrs.

Andrew Heisler, all of 1. Olivet; a sister, Mrs. Zelma Messenger, Battle Creek; 12 grandchildren and 25 greatgrandchildren. Services will be -Monday, 1:30 p.m., at the Burk-: head-Cheney Chapel, with burial in Maple Hill Cemetery'. Miss May K.

Stewart WILLIAMSTON Miss May K. Stewart, 90, a lifelong Williams-ton area resident, died Thursday at the Alma Masonic Home. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Edna Rogers of Okemos.

Funeral services will be at the Gorsline Brothers Fu- neral Home, Williamston. at 11 a.m. Saturday. Burial will be in the Summit Cemetery, Williams ton. She had been at the Michi gan Masonic Home for about six years.

Mrs. Allie P. Newton ST. JOHNS Mrs. Allie Payne Newton, 76, 1101 S.

Chipman Owosso, formerly of St. Johns, died Friday at an Owosso hospital. She was a member of the Kebekan Lodge nere ana is stir- vived by one son Harry of Tor-i ranee. two daughters, Mrs. Marjorie Lunger of Owosso and Mrs.

Leota Curry of Detroit. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Osgood Funeral Home with burial in the Payne Cemetery. Mrs. Arvada II.

Cameron FOWLERVILLE Mrs. Arva da H. Cameron, 47, of 209 Free died Thursday at her home after a long illness. She is survived by her husband, Lyle; two daughters, Mrs. Shirley Mcpherson, Howell; and Mrs.

Ger-aldine Crandall, Fowlerville; a son, Bruce, with the Marine Corps on Okinawa; a sister, Mrs. Velma Sells, Lompoc, five brothers, Clifton, Cleon, Jesse and Wyvern Jones i a By VALERIE BACKUS Journal Special Writer MASON For a few fleeting hours, the historic Pink School at College and Columbia Roads will be back in 1S53, when it was founded. Then its doors will close-forever. On Friday, Pink School pupils will dress in centennial garb and held an old-fashioned picnic in the school yard. The Pink School is one of seven one-room schools in the Mason School District closing June 18, as Mrs.

Martha Holmes, last of 105 teachers in the school's 111-year history hangs up her keys. Completion of the new North Aurelius School led to the decision by the Mason Board of Education to close this school and the Webb, Aurelius Center, Barnes, Canaan, Eden, Hubbard, and Harper schools. Harper already has been demolished. Teachers will be assigned to schools in Mason, but there's a feeling of regret. Says Mrs.

Holmes: "The personal touch, the feeling of de-pendance upon one another can only be found in the seclusion of a small school building." The Pink School one of the oldest of the little schools-was built because there was too much mire and difficult trails for children to go to the Mason city school. Community fathers paid $299.95 for the original building, making it accessible to most farm children. Miss Emiline Rowe began her first teaching assignment in June of 1853 at $10 a month. In the summer term she taught the younger children, while older brothers and sisters helped out on the farm. After harvest, the older boys and girls took their turn for learning.

For the fast few years the Harvest Over For Macomb Rhubarb Crop muuim i.Lc.nic.iNa (At; wn ie many iwicnigan tarmers still are planting their 196a crops, some 200 Macomb County! growers already have completed this year's harvesting and mar- their crop is notnouse rnu barb and their harvest amounts about one-half the nation's to tal rhubarb production. They now are turning their tention to cultivation of a wide variptv of other horticultural crops this season. Rhnharh ic fipM rmim fnr ties for Mason Hich Schools! largest senior class in history will start Sunday with baccalaureate and conclude Thursday with commencement. A class of 162 will be graduat ed from Mason High. The baccalaureate is scheduled for 8 p.m.

Sunday in the high school auditorium. The Rev. E. Lenton Sutcliffej of the First Methodist Church will deliver the sermon entitled. "The Stuff of Paradise." The Rev.

Murl Eastman of the First Baptist Church and the Rev. Paul Tidemann of All Saints Lutheran Church will assist in- the rites. MUSIC PLANNED I The senior high mixed chorus with Mrs. Dom Diehl as organist will provide the music. Thursday at 9 a.m.

the mothers of seniors will serve the annual breakfast in the high school cafeteria, after which students will practice for commencement. The commencement is set for Thursday, 8 p.m., at the ath letic field. In the event of rain kind to use the new 'curriculum ij? Clinton County Soap adopted and financed by inspection andjttopp I ochp the program will be in the ri.hnnl onrlitnvlum and lit livering mail on M-79. about i three miles south of Nashville. Mr.

Sherman, who was the carrier on Nashville 1. had been in ill health and only recently returned to work. He had worked at the Eaton Manufacturing Co. in Battle. Creek until 1942 when he entered military service.

He served in the European Theater with the Army Medical Corps. He was awarded the Silver Star. He later worked for the Barryl County Lumber at Hastings and in 1948 became a substitute! city mail carrier in Hastings. In 1949 he became the Nashville rural carrier. Mr.

Sherman was a member; of the Elks lodge of Hastings and the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Nashville. Surviving are his wife, Doreen three daughters, Pamela, Linda and Darla, all at home; his mother, Mrs. Smith R. Sherman. Hastings; two brothers, Harold of Richmond, and Smith J.

of Hastings; and a sister, Mrs. Robert Nelson, Trenton. Services will be Saturday, 3 p.m., at the Lenoard-Osgood Fu neral Home, Hastings, with burial in the Riverside Ceme tery. Area Doctor Ends Residency CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Dr.

Gary Rollin Noble of Grand Ledge. Michigan, will complete two-year residency training! program in internal medicine at North Carolina Memorial Hospital here on July 1. The hospital is the teaching in-1 stitution for the University of North Carolina School of Medi cine. Dr. Noble will join the Epi-d i Intelligence Service Branch of the U.S.

Public Health Service for two years. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed one year of internship training at North Carolina Memorial. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rollin A.

Noble of Route 3, Grand Ledge. Tavern License OK'd at Durand Country Club Journal Capitol Bureau The State Liquor Control Com mission today reported it has approved a tavern license for the Chippewa Hills Country Club at Durand. In another action, the commission said it has approved adding Gerrardo F. Bonofiglio as a partner with Salvadore Spagnu- olo of 104 E. Jefferson, Grand of R.

1, Shepherd, for a beer and wine takeout license was denied, the commission re ported. guest speaker at the Sliepards-ville Methodist Church at 9:45 a.m. and the Ovid United Church at 11:00 a.m. Sunday. Rev.

Dickerson is a graduate of Olivet College and is executive vice president of the Detroit Col-1 of Applied Science. The Ovid United Church, in coopera tion with the Shepardsville Me'h-odist Church, will start its vacation Bible school Mondav. Mrs. Chandler Gleason is the director. An open house program is planned for the final dav.

June 23. The First Baptist Church va cation Bible school will start June 16 through June 29. Nursery students classes will be from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Beginners through teenagers classes, from 9:00 a.m.

to 11:30 a.m. Time Trials Saturday for Derby Event ST. JOHNS Looking forward II mp Trials nt vphm ps un I hp iicm oaiuiuay at p.m. on street l.ars mePTin? snpnfinat 1 ---j. he locked im nnt 1 thp rtav Ul I -f About 50 boys, from 11 through years Old, ate expected to compete nere.

ine cnampion will receive a $500 savings bond, a trophy and an all-expense paid trip to Ak ron. Ohio, to compete in the 28th; running of the Soap Box Derby championships. All local boys competing will receive a trophy and a free trip to Akron to see the local cham-Dion compete. A downtown parade will pre cede the June 20 local running. Local officials include: Ber nard Feldpausch, director; Jerry Shoemaker, assistant director; Leon Brewbaker and Don Bast, parade Robert Prowant and Robert Cole, race directors; Lee Hansen, inspection director; Jack Downing, starting line director: Gene Downing, finish line director; and Jerry Green, photo finish director.

Killed in Crash TROY (AP) Rolla Gilliland. auto collision in Troy Ihussday Swim Victim ROMULOUS (AP) George W. Vierheller, 13, of Canton, Ohio, i-iicnisaii Duaimg control tom Merl Campbell has i "cell a pnnrc IIIUei 111 Hie Via- P'lSi" uecauie OI i ri 1 i innlnHintr I aU-P Anp nf flipi laropcf nf TniH.Miohicran'c lal-pc Courses were taught bv Der uty Richard Abbey of the Barry County Sheriff's Department, William Blackmore and Daryl Hartzler. Deputy Abbey has directed marine enforcement locally for six years. Using three portable, motor-equipped boats, his primary job is water safety enforcement.

He estimates he issues 40 100 tickets every summer, the most common violation being inadequate safety1 equipment. Carson City Post Picks Delegate For Boys State CARSON CITY Carson City's delegate to Boys State next week will be Donald Joseph Churchill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Churchill. nnnaM 17 xi-ill ho a cpninr af receive a total of $499,000 if of a 5 million-pound crop.

Terrence admissions furpv Hii-pntnr nf Carey, CllieCtor OI and srhnlarchins at juicnigan Mate university, wm be the speaker. 1U Wit AUUHtMU The salutatory address will be given by Miss Mary Margaret Scott, and the valedictory ad- tw TVficc Tana lVfl.jvip fliipr- irierom. Twenty-one other honor students will be no(ed by spe. ja, Pension Rate lllCreaSetl 101 1 ALBION The Michigan Meth jodist Conference, at Thursday's general business session, decid- ieacn service year to a $59 total This means that a minister reining atier years of serv Mi -nr, A ice fould draw $2 360 a year. The conference has between 75 and retirees.

A the annual conference cor Pration meeting. Dr. Maurice, to two years and then moved to raise the pension rate to long narrow hothouses. Pald retired ministers $9 for Senate passes the bill. Albion Man, 37, Bound Over on Car Death Count ALBION Claud J.

Key, 37, an Albion factory worker, was bound over to Calhoun County Circuit Court Thursday on charge of negligent homicide after an examination before Municipal Judge Theodore Van Dellen. Key was continued at liberty under $2,500 bond pending arraignment in Circuit Court at Marshall June 18. The charge grew out of the death of Rudolph Tabler, 18. an Albion High School senior here i May 15 when Tabler's small foreign car and one driven by1 Key collided. to tv of of St.

MatV's School next fall. Detroit, died in a head-on year's harvest started in early continued through Anrii Jack Prescott, Macomb Coun- nnnnprativp pvtpneinn cprvipp director, said area growers have Droduced 5 million Doundsi rhubarb during each of the last 15 years. Vat Victim DETROIT AP) Dee Vassar, 46, of Detroit, died Wednesday injuries suffered 1 tav 25 when he fell into a chemical vat in a Detroit factory. McKean of Niles, Dr. Carson City Post 380, Ameri will be sponsored at Boys State can Legion.

Presently employed part time by Carson City Hospital and Car son City Lanes, he is also an al tar boy at St. Mary's Catholic; all of Hillman; and Vernard ofjusc- lac'" Alaska; and six grandchildren. wule licenses Qnrvis uill he Saturrlav 2' An application by Gladys H. Avery of Grand Raoids and Edwin Quick, a layman from Muskegon, were re-elected trustees for three years. The conference approved the sale of the former bishop resi dence on W.

boston Boulevard. jDetroit, drowned in the Huron Riveriof the United Mineworkers Dis at the Liverance Funeral iinmo Fnwlprville. with hni ial in the' Lakeside Cemetery, How-; ell. I Church, and played on the St.j near here Thursday. Police 50 as bargaining agent for Mary's basketball team last the boy was swimming while I some 700 workers.

The vote was year. Ivisiting relatives here. '380-307. 1 A -1.