Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 15

15 THE BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER AND NEWS Friday, January 8, 1965 $1 Million Sand Industry Land Swap OKd by State Pesticide Watchdog Group to Be Formed Ex-Resident Here Dies in Big Rapids Charles A. Davis, 83, a Battle Creek resident from 1909 until 1940, died yesterday at his home in Big Rapids. A retired tool and die maker, he had worked for a number of local industrial Upper Peninsula but a smaller harvest in the northern Lower Peninsula. Little change was made in firms and was last employed the southern one-third of the! here bv the Kelloeg Co. state.

The proposal called for more a problem in Michigan although it has become a problem in some other states. The testers reported that while they have found some problem herds in Michigan they found no residues in milk that is being offered for sale on the market. Adopted by the commission He was born July 3, 1881. in Putnam County, Ohio, son of John A. and Jennie Davis.

He areas open to trapping in Men- LANSING (UPI)-The State Conservation Commission today approved a land-exchange plan designed to bring SI million-a-year sand processing industry to Mackinac County. The proposal calls for an anonymous firm acting through St. Ignace attorney Prent Brown Jr. to acquire 440 acres of state land in Mackinac County north of Highway US-2. In exchange, Brown said the firm he represented before the informal commission meeting Thursday would give the state 640 acres to add to its Betsy ominee, Marquette and Mack-iwas married in 1907 to Eula By Our State Bureau LANSING The State Agriculture Commission has agreed to move ahead quickly to establish a watchdog committee to oversee large scale pesticide programs.

State Agriculture Director George S. Mclntyre said Thursday a statewide Pesticide Advisory Committee will be set up before this spraying season begins. Considerable public controversy surrounds the possible effects on humans and wildlife inac Counties. Gripman, who died in 1916. In 1927 he was married to Ruth Reynolds Slusher, who survives, in addition to two daughters, Mrs.

Merle (Maxine) McClure of 19 Richmond Ave. and Mrs. Truman H. (Aileen) Langs of 402 Taylor six grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday in Big Rapids.

However, a protection policy for otter in the southeastern sector and a ban in all of Pre-que Isle county plus parts of Montmorency, Alpena, Wexford, Missaukee and Roscommon will cut into harvests in that area. The beaver trapping regulations are closely related to the animal's role of building dams and creating ponds that serve as "duck factories." of various chemical sprays in Lake natural area preserve and Tahquamenon State Park in the Lake Superior forest of Chippewa County. In addition, the state asked $10,000 for mineral rights to the 440 acres because of the hazard factor" that the business might fail. Wednesday was the first set of Michigan standards for pickling cucumbers, based on U.S. Department of Agriculture standards.

Mclntyre said the new standards for grading cucumbers will apply to the 1966 crops. Label Steps Taken Given tentative approval were proposed agency regulations for carrying out Michigan's new truth in packaging law adopted by the Legislature last year. The law is designed to require an honest statement of weights and measures on prepackaged foods and household commodities and to prevent misrepresentation in packaging. About 40 per cent of U.S. deaths occur on weekends.

t.iJ i 1 itSik I 1 i JL tL 'I tvN 3 SrKg man's war against insects and in weed control projects. Programs Protested Massive aerial spray programs in southern Michigan counties to control the Japanese beetle and cereal leaf beetle have drawn protests from people residing in the areas despite Agriculture Department efforts to safeguard public drinking water supplies and livestock. Mclntyre said the statewide To the ONE MAN in TEN Brown said what the company plan to do is in effect turn dirt into sand. The pilot project, he said. hopefully would bring about a saleable product from "dirt which is now not of commercial committee would include repre quality.

Gerald Eddy, head geologist for the conservation department, estimated there are sentation from a large number Date for a public hearing on the new regulations has yet to be set, Mclntyre said. The commission also agreed to explore ways of opening up new out-of-state markets for Michigan agricultural products of interested groups and a num ber of state agencies interested LIKE SPRING It was coats-off-skipping-weather at noon today around Verona School. From left, in the June-in-January ballet were: Alicia Tgiros and Erik Hansen, both six-year-olds, and 10-year-old Helen Walters. in safeguarding public health who does his own 23 million tons of sand on the land involved. In other action, the 1965 regulations for beaver and otter trapping were set with department game men recommending a more liberal policy for the wildlife and the state's lakes and streams.

Membership of the committee and approved the allocation of $950 for advertising for the Michigan Association of Mrs. Lawrence Smith, Former Resident, Dies will include, but not be limited MSU Band Is Set To Hail the Chief Mrs. Smith, whose father owned and operated a dry goods store, taught high school here at the turn of the century. This year you face a new COMPLETE set of tax rules and reg. lations.

You'll save rims, ntlUKH Mrs. Lawrence Genevieve Decker) Smith, 88. a former Battle Creek resident who at-j tended Battle Creek Central' High School, died yesterday at! her home in Grand Rapids. She-! was a sister of the late J. New-j ton Decker of Battle Creek.

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The band will leave, East Lansing by special train! on Jan. 19. to, representatives of the State Conservation, Health and Agriculture Departments; the Water Resources Commission; the dairy, fruit, vegetable and food processing industries; the pesticide and herbicide industries; the veterinary medicine profession; and the general public, said Mclntyre. At its Wednesday meeting, the agriculture commission held a report on the ongoing state testing program to prevent pesticide contaminated milk from reaching the market. Milk No Problem Here Mclntyre said scientists in his department and from Michigan State University reported that pesticide residue in milk is not 2c GUARANTEE: PHONE 665-7091 ea.

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Tex. (AP) Establishment of an urban housing department with Cabinet rank ''is inevitable now that we have a Congress that should be more receptive to it," Federal Housing Administrator Robert C. Weaver said Thursday. Weaver spoke of the possibility at a Southern Methodist University seminar for about 200 municipal planners. her son, Lawrence Jr.

of Grand Rapids, is also an attorney. She was the daughter of Garrett and Mary Decker and the family home was on E. Michigan Avenue (then Marshall Street) where the Masonic Temple now stands. Funeral services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. from the Mayflower Congregational Church in Grand Rapids.

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David M. Duane, 22, of 227 N. Madison Marshall, and Barbara Ann Schumacher, 19, of 312 N. Liberty Marshall. Jerry D.

Sneed. 20. of 136 S. 2Sth and Linda May Burton, 17, of 827 S.W. Capital Ave.

Lester C. Martin, 56. and Bertha Vil-key, 6J. both of 1915 W. Goguac St.

Harold Van VVormer, 24. of 39 E. Rit-tenhouse and Nancy Kaye, 16, of 333 W. Goguac St. Local Births COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Lt.

and Mrs. Ballard L. Has-kew, 1063 Barberry Drive, a son at 9:18 a.m. yesterday. Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph W. Hall 92 S. 31st daughter at 10:45 a.m. yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. Larry L. Anthony, 120 Bowers a son at 12:37 p.m. yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. David W. Ball, 430 W. Van Buren a daughter at 11:56 p.m.

yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Howell K. South-all.

287 Avenue a son at 2:33 a.m. today. LAKEVIEW GENERAL HOSPITAL Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Bolden.

112 Snrinff a son at 8:18 a.m. yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. William J.

Hoi- lis. 27 Hanover a son at i 11:35 p.m. yesterday. Local Obituaries Robert Pendergrass Robert Pendergrass. 63, of 141 Upton died in a local hospital yesterday evening.

He hours new programmin I A 1 i had been taken ill at his home about noon. Mr. Pendergrass was employed as a kitchen helper at the American Legion Hospital. For years, he was employed at the former A-B Stove Co. and had worked with wrecking companies in the Battle Creek area.

His survivors include his wife. Ruth. Area Obituaries Mrs. Fred E. Hayes COLDWATER Mrs.

Mary Hayes, 88. died at Maple Lawn Hospital at 12:01 a.m. today after an illness of six months. She was born April 1. 1878, in Algan-see Township, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Frederick Berlin. On Feb. 28, 1900, she was married in Coldwater to Fred E. Hayes.

He died Oct. 14. 1958. She formerly lived on a farm in Algan-see Township before moving to Coldwater in 1925. She lived at 16 W.

Montgomery St. Mrs. Hayes is survived by a daughter. Miss M. Arlene Hayes of a son, Ernest B.

Hayes cf CnM water Townshin: three Effective Sunday, Jan. 10th, WILX-TV and WMSB-TV will change programing hours. These new hours are designed to bring viewers a better balance of entertainment and informational viewing. The new hours will permit WILX-TV to carry the NBC Huntley-Brinkley national news program each weekday evening. WMSB-TV will have additional show telecasting time on Sundays and on Monday evening.

Consult the television program listings in this newspaper for exact show hours. The sharing of Channel 10 by two broadcasters is a unique arrangement designed to bring viewers informational and educational shows via WMSB-TV (Michigan State University) and commercial entertainment viewing from WILX-TV (Television Corporation of Michigan, Inc.) WMSB-TV WILX-TV and six great- srandchildren grandchildren. Area obituaries also will be found on Page 4. Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 48823 Television Corp. of Inc.

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