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run win streak to eight By RICK SCHEUERMAN Times Herald Sports Writer MARINE CITY The Bell is back in St. Clair today. The Steel Bell, symbolic of the reigning football champion in the East China Township School District, returned to St. Clair after the Saints raised their season record to 8-0 by trouncing Marine City 33-0 Friday afternoon. "It's about time we got it back here," said 'St.

Clair Coach Ben Witukiewicz. "They had it for an extra year, becuase we didn't play last year." Millage problems forced the district to eliminate fall sport in 1979. While Witukiewicz was relishing his team's most recent victory, the question on everyone's mind after the game was the status of star tailback Ron Chisholm. Chisholm, who missed the previous week's game with a bruised shoulder, sat out the entire second half after the Saints had built a 27-0 lead. St.

Clair faithful were worried that Chisholm might be hurting again. "No. He's all right. There's nothing wrong with him," Witukiewicz said. "We did what we wanted him in the first half and that was it.

We let him have some contact and then took him Chisholm and Gordie Loftis drove the ball downfield on game's opening drive before quarterback Tom Hopper found Dave Liniarski with a 26-yard touchdown pass on fourthand-16. Rich Buslepp rambled over for the two-1 conversion. The 14-play, 64-yard drive appeared stalled after Chisholm had a 20-yard touchdown run nullified on a penalty. But a Marine City penalty and the touchdown pass to Liniarski rectified the situation. The Saints then recovered a Marine City fumble on the Mariners' 31-yard line.

After Liniarski carried for a first down to the 15, Chisholm carred twice, scoring from yards out. Chisholm's 2-point run failed and St. Clair led 14-0 with 3:36 to go in the first quarter. In the second quarter, the Saints looked trapped again with a thirdand-25 ac their own 45 yard line, but a Mariner personal foul moved the ball to the Marine City 39. Two plays later, Hopper dropped back on first down and found Scott Fitzgerald wide open at the 20 yard line and Fitzgerald ran the ball in for the touchdown with 4:11 remaining in the half.

The extra kick was good for a 21-0 lead. The Saints' defense held again and the offense took over at the St. Clair 48. Hopper completed two of his next four passes to get St. Clair down to the 18-yard line.

The Mariners' Don Wesley sacked Chisholm for a 6-yard loss, but Hopper came right back and found Liniarski with a 24-yard touchdown pass with 32 seconds left in the half and a 27-0 lead. The only score in the second half came after Marine City fumbled inside their own 1-yard line and Bus- 3B THE TIMES HERALD PORT HURON, MICH. Saturday Oct. 25, 1980 The Times Herald Rob Kozloff DIVING CATCH St. Clair's Dave Liniarski reaches for a Chuck Reichle tries to stop the touchdown pass which gave pass from quarterback Dave Hopper as Marine City's the Saints a 27-0 lead.

St. Clair went on to win 33-0 lepp scored on the next play. cluding three touchdown passes and ners to one first down and 25 total season-ending confrontation beHopper finished the game with one interception. yards. tween the Saints and Marysville seven completions for 130 yards in- The Saints' defense held the Mari- The win sets up next Saturday's Other games Pages 1B, 2B Craig Dahlke leaves one Central By JIM WHYMER Times Herald Sports Writer MOUNT PLEASANT The 'Great Escape' from Port Huron by many athletes grabbed the sports headlines last summer, but a coach quietly slipped away too.

Craig Dahlke, a former football and track standout at Port Huron Northern, decided not to let the 1980-81 academic and athletic year go to waste. Port Huron lost its sports due to millage failures, so Dahlke moved on. While PH Northern, High and Central coaches are spending their Friday nights or Saturday afternoons attending other Blue Water Area football games, est Dahlke sits in the Central Michigan University press box. Dahlke, who was a varsity assistant to Lonnie Rutkofske at Central last season, is now a graduate assistant at the successful Mid-American Conference school. "I've thought about being a graduate assistant at a big school for a long time," Dahlke said.

"I wanted to see exactly what college coaching was like. "I started sending out letters around the state. I was told not to go to a real big school because of the size of the coaching staffs. I wanted something that would be a Dahlke's first break came late last winter when Central Michigan and Western Michigan were recruiting Cougar tailback Shawn Faulkner. Both ended up with offers, Faulkner to WMU and Dahlke to CMU.

the college scouts came to school, I would sit in on the recruiting talks," Dahlke said. "It was a good chance for personal contact. I thought maybe they would remember the face and the name. "It was at a medalist football clinic that I ran into CMU Coach Herb Deromedi, and he asked if I was still interested in a graduate assistant position. "I went up to Central for an interview, and the other graduate assistants really laid out the whole picture of what was involved.

I went home, talked it over with my wife and decided to give it a try." Dahlke got a jump on the CMU program by helping out at summer football camp held at Perry Shorts Stadium. Former Lion great dies ADRIAN (AP) Bob Westfall, captain of the University of Michigan football team in 1941 and an All-Pro fullback for the Detroit Lions, died Thursday after suffering an apparent heart attack at his home. He was 61. Westfall was Michigan's starting fullback for three seasons, from 1939-1941, and was chosen by the school as one of the 25 all-time great University of Michigan players in 1979. His backfield mates at Michigan included Tom Harmon and Forest Evasheveski.

Westfall was captain of the East team in the East-West Shrine game in 1942 and was a starting fullback the College All-Star team in 1942. He played professional football with the Lions from 1944-47 and was named an All-Pro fullback by the National Football League in 1945. Westfall was president of the Adrian Steel which he founded in 1953. He is survived by his wife, Ruthmary, two sons and a daughter. Services will be Monday afternoon in Adrian.

Coetzee battles Weaver today SUN CITY, Bophuthatswana (AP) South African challenger Gerrie Coetzee, who has lost only once in 24 professional fights, will try to get by the crunching right hand of Mike Weaver in a World Boxing Association title bout today. Weaver, a 28-year-old former U.S. Marine from Los Angeles, won the WBA crown in Knoxville, March 31 when he decked John Tate with a stunning right hand in the last round of a 15-round bout. Weaver was behind on points throughout the fight. Tate had won the title left vacant in 1979 by the retirement of Muhammad Ali when he fought Coetzee in South Africa last October.

Tate won on points. If Coetzee, a 25-year-old former dental technician with a mild manner outside the ring, should win today's scheduled 15-rounder in a arena erected at the Sun City resort hotel in the South African bush country, he will be the first white champion in 21 years. The last white world champion was Ingemar Johansson of Sweden, who knocked out then-champion Floyd Patterson of the United States in the third round on June 26, 1959. Patterson, in Sun City for the bout, regained his title with a fifth-round knockout of Johansson on June 20, 1960. The fight is scheduled to start RACQUETBALL Your whole family can enjoy racquetball at It's inexpensive, great exercise, easy to learn, and lots of fun.

Join Today. Court Rooms 987-8700 385-4475 Central for another to stay in football the camp gave me a head start," with my own few players before getting back tohe said. "I got the chance to meet the staff and gether as a team," Dahlke said. got to know them better. I sure asked a lot of "With our type of offense, option football, the questions about the program during that time.

receivers have to throw good downfield blocks i in "By the time the week-long coaches' meetings order to break plays." began in August, I knew most of what was going Dahlke played football at Michigan State Union." versity and graduated in 1974. He returned to Once school and football began, Dahlke has Port Huron and taught elementary physical eduspent little time at home due to night classes, cation before moving over to Central. He teaching classes and football practices. coached junior varsity football before being eleDahlke involved in the Chippewas' 23- vated to the varsity. game unbeaten streak, which included five "I don't know what I'm going to do next straight wins this season.

CMU, however, has year," Dahlke said. "I really can't afford to be a struggled offensively the past two weeks in con- graduate assistant another year. My wife and I ference losses to Ohio University and Northern are expecting our first child in April, so I'll be Illinois. looking for a job. The former All-Eastern Michigan League full- "I took a leave of absence from Port Huron, so back drills the CMU receivers and works with I probably could return if there is a job.

There the scout teams. His work in the press box on was no guarantee that I would have a full-time game days is relaying plays and looking for op- job up here at CMU after I was done. posing team's weaknesses or breakdowns in the "I won't have my masters completed when Chippewas offense or defense. school ends in May, so that might hinder me too. "During practices I work with the receivers on I would like to be a a head high school coach pass routes, drill them on catching the ball and someday.

If things don't work out, I may even Craig Dahlke blocking. We break down into groups and I work have to try something else like WARREN TAYLOR DEMOCRAT FOR COUNTY CLERK TO PARAPHRASE HARRY TRUMAN: "I AM NOT GIVING, MY OPPONENT MARION SARGENT THE DEVIL, I AM JUST TELLING THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SOUNDS LIKE THE DEVIL." MARION'S RESPONSE "The Board of Auditors is the only county agency responsible for authorizing spending. Our form of government (Board of Auditors) excludes the clerk from having anything to do with the expenditures of the county." THE TIMES HERALD Oct. 20, "The clerk is not involved with tax levies or anything!" I don't fill out the warrants, they are filled out by the assessors and supervisors." THE TIMES HERALD Oct. 20, "Federal regulations provide money to pay CETA employees for 18 months.

She can't automatically add them to the clerks staff without the Board of Commissioners Approval." THE TIMES HERALD Oct. 20, "Not adding, a third clerk has helped keep administrative costs THE TIMES HERALD Oct. 20, PAID FOR BY THE TAYLOR FOR COUNTY CLERK 1017 PORT HURON, MICHIGAN Craig Dahlke MY CHARGE about 11 a.m. EDT and will be telecast by CBS on a delayed basis, about 5 p.m. EDT, in the U.S.

Channel 2, Detroit, will carry the fight. Weaver will collect $2.2 million plus a 40 percent share of the TV rights. Coetzee gets $200,000. Coetzee weighed in Friday at pounds. Weaver, who has had 30 professional fights and lost nine of them, weighed 210.

Weaver said that one of his best points is not his boxing skill but his determination to win, even when things are going badly as in the Tate fight. "I don't give up," he said. "I just won't give up." Local anti-apartheid criticims of the fight among South African blacks has been subdued, even though the fight is being held in an independent black tribal homeland recognized only by South Africa. Relatively few blacks are expected to occupy the arena built for the fight because the lowest price tickets sell for $67. The arena is sold out.

C. Francis Malane I support DAN DeGROW for State Representative. Paid Political Advertisement The County Clerk is posed to review and counter-sign all county checks to insure that they are for a proper amount and a legitimate expense. This is a necessary safeguard to reduce the potential for propriation of funds. Marion is responsible for filling out the counties portion of the Tax Warrants.

I Her failure to do so in 1979 resulted in the over tion of hundreds of homes. The present clerk laid off competent and perienced employees and hired inexperienced friends. By assigning one deputy clerk to each circuit court the number of errors will be reduced. THE UNMENTIONED FACTS "The Board of Auditors is responsible for auditing invoiced and claims against the county and preparing checks to be signed by its chairman and countersigned by the county clerk. No other county officer is authorized to issue checks if the county has a board of auditors." This quote is taken from the Michigan Association of Counties Guide to county government Chapter III, page 12.

This is further substantiated by two court cases: Betty Prout County Clerk v.s. the Isabella County Board of Commissioners (1973); and Melvin Peterson County Clerk vs. the Gogebic County Board of sioners. In both cases the courts ruled the clerks do have the financial responsibility. 1.

The St. Clair Assessor has stated that the county is supposed to fill this out. 2. The former Casco Twsp. assessor insisted the clerk was supposed to fill this page out.

3. The title of the page states "Certification from County." 4. There is room for only one signature on the section that of county clerk. 5. A copy is on file at the County Treasurers office and is available for public inspection.

This skirts both the issues and the facts. My objection is that there were 3 vacancies on the regular employees staff during the time the CETA employees were accumulating a combined 4 years experience. When the vacancies occured the CETA people with experience should have been transferred to the regular employee status the new employees should have received the less stable CETA positions. Former clerk Howard Mussey did this on 3 separate occasions and if done this way it does not cost the county extra money does not require commissioners approval. The clerks staff has 2 deputies and one chief deputy total of three deputies for each court.

The issue is not one of Increasing personnel; the Issue is that each clerk should have the responsibility for one court, then if and, when papers are misfiled you know who did it. This will reduce errors. COMMITTEE 48040.