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SATURDAY, tHE NEWS PALLADIUM, BENTON TTARBOP, nCH. PAGE THREE St. Joseph Is Safest NEWS OF JOE City In '62 Safety Council Instructs Police i i.r I. (I W1 St. Joseph took fjrst place in the Safest City Contest for 1962 and was presented the award yesterday in the offices of the Twin Cities Area Safety Council.

Niles got second place and Benton Harbor took third. The awards were presented at a planning meeting on the annual. Traffic Inventory, with training' for area police personnel by Norman Olman, of the National Saie-tey Council and Sgt. Matt Hrebec of the State Police. Present for the meeting jcere: St.

Joseph Chief Tom Graespie and Lt. Fred Benton Harbor Chief Merle McCarroll and Clerk jJoyce Norkus; Niles CMeH ancTMatfoir Mae Sherrick; Hrebec, Olman and. Harry Hatcher, executive-secretary of the Safety in' iJ ri i' TwmmmJmm''' i. iff 'v'lf GIVE OUT 1962 TROPHIES: Trophies for the 1962 Safest City Contest were presented at a Traffic Inventory training meeting Friday in the offices of the Twin Cities Area Safety Council. St.

Joseph took first placerivriles, second -place and- Bentoir third. -Chief-TonHiiHespie, of StJoseph, "centefTholdslsr placetrophyf Other sat the trainuigsession arerfrom" leftiSgtriatr Hrebrec-Saf ety Officer, Fifth district, Michigan State Police; Lt. Fred Walters, St. Joseph Police Chief Merle McCarroll, Benton Harbor; Gillespie; (standing) Noraian Olman, district representative of the National Safety Council; Chief Arthur Pears of Niles Police department and Mrs. Mae Sherrick, Niles Police department.

jlllllll Chief Gillespie got first place with a Safety Index for the year of six. Niles had an index of 3.3 and Benton Harbor was down with Weather Is Blamed For 15 Crashes STEADY CONTRIBUTOR: During the past six years the management and customers of the Pine Pub have helped the March of Dimes with from $150 to $350 each year. Shown here, from left, are Pine Pub owner Adolph Broski; Chief of Police Tom Gillespie, who is also executive secretary of the Berrien County chapter, The National Foundation; Tom Ferren, seated, St. Joseph city chairman for the 1963 March- of Dimes, and Bob Farnam, manager of the Pine Pub. Van Peursem Bowing Out At Sta te Repu lican Ch a irm a Van Peursem has held several recent conferences with Gov.

Romney to discuss Republican af Not AWOL But Fined Fifteen minor auto accidents were reported to St. Joseph police Friday and today. Slippery roads duefp paw and sleet were the prime ause of the according to police. Thirteen tickets were issued to motorists involved in the accidents. There were no injuries, police said.

Ferren Will Memorial Hospital a minus 12. PROCEDURES CHANGE The training and planning program was to acquaint local police officials with detailed changes in the forms' and procedures for reporting all traffic activities to the National Safety Council through the annual inventory. The report covers police administration, training, enforcement, traffic courts, school safety programs, traffic accident record keeping, city ordinances and Safety Council traffic safety education programs. Recommendations made by the NSCi American Bar Association, International Association of Chiefs of Police and others, based on the reports, are worked out by city and police officials with the help of the Safety Council. In the past this has helped to secure better street lighting, more police LANSING (AP) Republican state chairman George Van Peursem said today he wifl not be a candidate for re-election to the top party post-at the GOP convention next month.

Van Peui'sem told The Associated Press that he would make his announcement at a meeting of the Republican State Central Committee here later today. The state chairman also disclosed that he will take a job outside the party organization or Drive state government, and said the exact nature of the job would be disclosed later. Van Peursem said he would, remain as state- chairman until the party convention in Grand Rapids Feb. 15-J6. "I have lot of work to clean up yet and I would not place a burden the party 'to appoint a replacement for me for just one month," Van Peursem said.

"I feel that I should let the 1,500 delegates to the convention decide the question of my replacement." Van Peursem said his private employment would not force him to fairs. Van Peursem. 50, an attorney and former speaker of the Michigan House Representatives, said he ne'ver had asked Romney. for an endorsement. Van Peursem said he believed it would not be fair to Romney to ask such The governor and the state chairman conferred briefly at Lansing Friday.

Political observers believe Romney is favorable to the candidacy of Arthur G. Elliott, former Oakland County GOP chairman, for Harborite Admits Liquor Violation Loren W. Collins, 18, of 328 Brunson, Benton Harbor. Dleaded ADMISSIONS St. Joseph Mrs.

Mabel Bridges, 23 Lakeshore; Mrs. Mykolas Ma-zeika, 709 Lake street. Benton Harbor Minnie Brum-mett, 681 Highland; Carl Hingst, 111 Downey; William Teske, Route Victoria Lynn Miller, Route Terrell Metz, 427 Clay. Postponed A meeting of the St. Joseph Catholic Marian Guild, which was to have been held Monday, has been postponed to Wednesday, Jan.

16. at 8 p. in th Named Chairman Of St. Joe March was paralyzed once and if there is something I can do to aMfe and birth defects, I'll do it." guilty in St. Joseph Municipal court Friday to a charge of fur maps, better record keeping and increased enforcement.

nishing intoxicants to minors. training, more manpower, adopt school social hall. effective use of accident location fined Collins $30 their reports, by Feb. 10. Tom Ferren, named chairman for the St.

Joseph 1963 March of Dimes, made the statement when asked to lead the city cam St. Joseph police gave Army authorities an improper Army identification card which Collins had used to purchase beer. Collins was under investigation, for "being absent without leave, but authorities at Fort Sheridan, 111., confirmed his furlough. paign, by county chairman Ro Brown, Route Lester Lieber, 272 Glenlord. (births St.

Joseph A girl, weighing 7 pounds, 3V4 ounces, waS born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gerbel, 1204 Lattimer, Friday at 11:20 a.m. Benton Harbor A girl, weighing 7 pounds, 3Vt ounces, to Mr. and Mrs.

Todd E. Beck, 852 Pearl, TERRY'S ANNUAL bert Lake. Ferren. who lives oh Donna drive, in Stevensville, is program CLEARANCE nam Literature Is Topic At 19th Century Club Terry's Annual Clearance of Entire Stock of mm Sportswear director for WSJM radio. He was speciaL events chairman for the 1962 March of Dimes in St.

Joseph. He is second vice president of the Lakeshore Jaycees and belongs touthe Twin City Federation of Musicians He was educated at the University of Detroit. Ferren and his wife' are the parents of two daughters. The campaign theme for this, the 25th anniversary March of Dimes, is "Give for the Life of a Child." Ferren said, "and we're asking residents of St. Joseph and all of Berrien County to do just that." Mrs.

Viola Hughson spoke at a recent meeting of the Nineteenth Century club, held in the home of Lingerie Robes and Children's Wear Today! 05 LNJ 7 w'W t'A-. a gp 8d 6 fit. OB. Friday at, 2:09 p.m. Stevensville A boy, weighing 9 pounds, 8 ounces, to Mr.

and Mrs. Ray Weatherford, Route 1, Friday at 9:07 a.m. DISCHARGES St. Joseph Miss Helen Engel, Route Janet Rosenthal, 410 Lake; Mrs. Anthony Dlouhy, 132 Glenlord, Benton Harbor Mrs.

Richard Seagrave and girl, 602 Lynwood; Mrs. Jack Pringle, 649 McGui-gan; Mrs. Krisjanis Plume, 1363 James; Mrs. George Williams, 975 Buss; K. R.

Haigler, Route Mary Susan Klitchman, 990 Og-den; Kirsten Johns, 408 East Britain; William Schneck, 1351 Monroe; Sharon Klemm, 405 Waverly; Debra Gillespie, 1471 Bishop; Delia 2253 South Glendale. Berrien Springs Mrs. Philip Wazdatskey and Route Harry Heim, Route 2. Cassopolis Mrs. Virgil Coon-fare, Route 4.

Niles-Mrsr James Treatr 421 West Main. Stevensville Robert Janssen and boy. Mrs. Alfred Anderson, 512 Wayne street, St. Joseph.

The speaker's talk, "Famous Lovers in English and American Literature," was followed by a discussion. Roll call was answered with sayings of Benjamin Franklin. Mrs. W. R.

Gilmore read, letters from former member'sr- "Mrs. Ralph Madison, St. Petersburg, Mrs. C. R.

Rossman, Colorado Springs, -Cole--, and- Mrs. R. Bennett. Mrs. Hughson will host the Jan.

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