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Saturday, January 12 11)71 Battle Creek At CUPPAD KSrANAIJA PHKSS, Kscanaba. Michigan Page Throe The Mayor of Ha Creek, i I oat I inf industrialist aue- crcssful inventor, will be the guent a1 Fifth Hunquei for the CVn- trnl Uppw Peninsula Planning and Development HfKioriHl Commission. Mayor Frederick will highlixht the event at l.ako Bluff Country Club, which begins with a cocktail hour at 5:30 p.m. Mayor of Rattle Creek for t.iP past five years, has written texts on combustion and automatic control for Michigan State University, and has invented two for ute by the U.S. Navy Gunnery ion, Mayor Brydges was educated at the University of Michigan and the University of sin.

lie haft been employed with the Pofrt Division of General in Bariitle Creek since 1031). Presently serving as Superintendent of Power anti for the Post Division, he 50 Under iblity are the total energy of manufacturing in the Rattle Creek General Foods complex, with an estimated personnel force of 2,200. First elected to the Rai tic Creek City Commission in he re-elected in and 1973, and in each election he received the highest vote of all candidates. Rr.vdges alno used of ubile industriai experience top idea for a community service project preaeiytly atmg in Baitle Creek The Area Metropolitan Agency (AMSA) js prisi! of fot ir a wmall city and City of Rattle k. It eh a iter ed hy State of Michigan, in fall of 1973.

The se locai unita of government are sceking cost- and effi- eieney throngh Ihia cooperative arrangement. Mavor Riydges will be din- cussing thia agency in gieater dettai 1 at CUPPAD Benquct, Woman Learns To Live With Shrapnel Gas Blast Kills Four WEST ST PAUL, Mum. A spectacular explosion of a propane storage tank in the middle of a large apartment complex killed four and injured nine Friday. The explosion set two apartment buildings afu-e, heavily damaging both and leaving about 100 families homeless. As many as 50 cars in the area were destroyed.

Witnesses said the sheet of flame reached 150 feet into the midnight sky and could be seen 55 miles away. looked like an atom said Jerry Bertsch, a resident of one of the ments. lit up the sky like it was Three fire fighters died in the blaze at about 12:30 a.m. with at 6 below zero. Law Officers At Bark River Legion Monday BARK RIVER Delta County law enforcement officers will be at a meeting of the Rheaume Knauf Poet 348.

Bark River, of the American Legion to be held Monday at 8 p.m. at the Legion Hall. The vandalism problem in the Bark River area will be the of discussion by Harold Finman, Delta Cournty Sheriff; Lt. Richard VanSipe, commander of the Gladstone State Police Post; Probate Judge Dean Shipman; and Bark River Township supervisor Greg Johnson and his board. A good turnout of all Legion members will be appreciated for support of the purpose of the meeting, said Legion officers.

A state trooper 55 miles blast area, said bright orange glow in the for about eight seconds. at Zumbrnta, south of th" there was a ky knew it must have been a big fire." he said. Tlie blast occurred as firemen were arriving on the scene No Injuries In Rollover Mishap GLADSTONE An Escanaba man emerged with no injuries after iiolling his car several times on US 2-41 near Gladstone Friday night. William H. Allingham, 605 S.

14th age 70, lost control oi his vehicle while trying to I pass a semi-truck. The car rolled at least twice, city police estimate, and came to rest its top. The incident occurred north the Soo Line viaduct north of Gladstone at 7:30 p.m. Friday evening. Allingham was ticketed for violation of the basic kpecd law'.

to fight a blaze that broke out on a tanker truck loading the 10.000-gallon propane storage tank. Russell Seheibel. director of public safety for this St. Paul suburb of 18,000. said firemen had just arrived were hooking up the hoses and it just blew Tenants in the 60-unit Bellows Court apaftment building and the 38-unit Charlton Arms, both three-story structures, said they had at least 10 minutes warning to evacuate.

A Red Cross spokesman estimated 750 families were evacuated from about 15 apartment buildings in the immediate area lor fear the propane tanker truck might also explode. Gas Available For Weekend Bv The Associated MARK VANLERBEPGHE, son of and Mrs. John D. Vanlerbcrghe of 2100 12th Ave. 8 ha accepted a position as accountant with Chemical Cor Midland.

Vanlerbeighe, who graduated from Central Michigan University on Dec. 15. will work in various accounting phases with the company- Vanier- bt i also plans to purMie a degree in accounting at CMU. Cost, Not Supplies, Pinch School Fuel Jaycees Take Paper Drive Beginning this weekend, th" paper drive in the City of Es- eanaba will be handled by the Fscanaba Jaycees. tne drive was handled on a monthly basis by the City on a "break basis.

Now, under the Jaycees, the drive will be held each Saturday with a few- modifications in guidelines. Jon Taylor, president of the local Jaycee chapter, said Fri- joav that the drive will be held fiom 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. each Saturday through June 1, 1974 on a trial basis. He said after About one-fourth of Mich- June, the local organization will retail service stations evaluate the program and dc- will have their pumps open dur- term in? then if it will continue, ing the day Sunday, the Au- Another change in the baic tomobile Club of Michigan said program, according to Taylor, Friday.

is that newspapers will not be The AAA reminds motorists the only acceptable product. By to fill up if they plan to do any finding another buyer, the Jay- nigh time driving over the week- cees will be able to accept magazines as well. He added that the and magazines do not need to be bound. SARASOTA, Fla. Debi body is still filled with shrapnel from a parcel bomb which exploded in her hands two years ago The killed her father and sent her 1o the hospital for eight months.

But the 22-year-old Sarasota woman said she feels no hatred for the man who placed the bomb in her car felt hatred at she said Friday. now I feel that way anymore. I just want 1o concentrate on the future and building my life At the time of the January 1972 accident. Miss Short wa staying with her father, Richard, in Angeles life, dating, having a good Her parents were di- vorced. From their car in a city parking lot she retrieved a pared addressed to her father and handed it to him.

As Short opri ed the package, six sticks oi dynamite exploded, killing him Instantly. Miss Short, classified as legally blind, lost her right eye in the blast which damaged her face, right hand and caused internal injuries. was as close to that bomb as my she said, tried to rationalize lt. Maybe I was meant to I hurt, healed and to learn from Police Jack Hoel of Angeles, presently serving a lilr sentence, placed the bomb in the car out of jealousy over Short's friendship with his tranged wife. Miss Short has undergone 11 operations.

She returned here few months ago from Ixjs Angeles to live with her mother. SI said she was waiting to be fitted with a special contact lens which she hopes will improve the Mght in her left eve. going back to after I have the lens and I may study education or Miss Short "My social acUvities are not the greatest certainly not what they used to be. Rut I'm hapjiy because every day and every week I'm a little bit better. a fuller, deeper person now and while still groping for direction.

sure I will find Scientists believe that Australia and Antarctica, now separated by about 2,000 les of water, were once part ol an ancicnt DUCKING THE COLD Ducks found ome open water in the Menominee River near downtown Milwaukee recently as clouds of rose above the industrial plants in the background. The temperature was near zero. (AP Wire- photo) Lightning Sparks Oil Blaze PORT NECHES, Tex. I Fire that erupted after au oil tank was struck by lightning burst out of control Friday and tanks were going up one by one at a Mobil Oil Corp. tank farm here.

Other tanks ruptured from the heat, and escaping crude oil bubbled over the tops and overflowed the 6-foot earthen ing dikes surrounding each steel drum. A Reaumont assistant fire chief said eight tanks definitely uere afire. Other observers said as many as 20 might be ablaze. The heat and flames drove firemen and their equipment out of range at one Rut they returned after reorganize- Navy Will Hold Sanguine Brief end. BONUS AT END OF JOB ROME P.dian who works, from factory hand to bank president, receives by law a liquidation payment oi at least a salary for every year of work when he quits, retires or is fired.

His heirs receive it if he dies. For executives, private or public, tnir often runs into hundred? of thousands of dollars on toy of handsome pensions. LANSING, Mich. (AP) A spokesman for the state Department of Education said Friday it apix'ars that local school districts will have enough heating fuel and the cost may impose problems. The spokesman said information from Washington indicated that schools will be able to obtain extra gas for their buses and fuel to heat classrooms, the latter because it costs less to heat.

He said the department has received no official Notification of the availability of the fuel. But the main problem, he said, was the increased cost of fuel. School districts are expected to spend about Si lion more for gas for school buses this school year than they did last year. The hike in prices has led a state senator to propose leg station to increase support of school transportation by million. Sen.

Gilbert Bursley, R-Ann Arbor, said Friday he has drafted and will soon introduce a law to that we continue the commitment we have finally made even in the face of sharply rising Tile Jaycers will also offer a pick-up service. Those persons unable to take their papers to the collection center, which is still the old Northern Rebuilders Ruilding in the 800 block of 1st Avenue North, may call 786-2511 before noon to arrange pick-up. All proceeds derived from the drive will be returned to the community through projects co-ordinated by the local Jaycee chapter. Death Notices Will Probe Bings Lung BURLINGAME. Calif.

ment, his doctor said Friday. Ailing singer Bing Crosby will condition continued undergo a probe of his diseased left lung to help pin down the Dr. Stanley Cros- cause of a lesion that has failed family physician, said the to respond to normal treat- bronchoscopy test the singer Maitha Moran Martha Burns Moran, 82, Glrcstone passed away at 2:15 Friday morning at the Bishop a Homo in Escanaba where he has resided the past three jears. She was born Feb. 22, 1891 in England.

Her husband, Fred J. Moran, passed away in 1962. She was a member of All Saints Church in Gladstone. include one broth- i in England and several nci- tcs and nephews. Friends may call at the ISkradski Funeral Home from 4 p.m.

Sunday. Parish prayers will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday. Fun oral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at All Saints Church, the Rev.

John N. Arneth officiating. Rurial will be in Fernwood Cemetery. Mrs. of Johnson, Mrs.

Ferrari, Mrs. Oseen all of Roy (Noi'ina) John. (Joyce) Ray (Janet) Escanaba; Mrs. The U.S. Navy an informational briefing on Project Sanguine Monday, Jan.

21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn at Marquette. David Lori, chairman of U.P. Citizens Concerned About Sanguine, this week that may be our only opportunity to ask the Navy questions about Sanguine. We hope organizations will send delegations to this briefing and that individuals will form car pools so as many can attend as he said.

assume the Navy will accept questions from the floor following their The Navy is focusing its attention on the U.P. as a possible site for Sanguine, a system of grjd antennas for communications, after the project met strong opposition in Wisconsin and was abandoned will conduct, there. Texas is also being eon- sidered as a site. The controversial project was revived by Senate action after the House voted to delete funds for it. The Navy received $8.3 million lor Project Sanguine for fiscal year 1974.

tion. There was an official report of one injury, but its nature was not immediately known. Roy Dickerson, a spokesman for Mobil and owner of the tank farm, said 60 to 100 tanks were in the Mobil complex. He said the fire threatened a Union 76 refinery just north of the Mobil facility. The oil flowing over the dikes had not reached the Neehes River by late afterntion.

but the Coast Guard had a fire boat standing by. The river carries ocean-going ships into the heart of this oil and petro complex at southeastern tip. A Pure Oil Co. tanker pulled back from the nearby docks shortly after the lightning bolt set the first tank afire at 3:25 a.m. The fire quickly spread to a second tank.

However, by midmorning firemen declared the blaze under control, Then at 11:30 a.m., a third tank went up with a roar, set ablaze by the heat from the other two. An hour later, firemen pulled their men and equipment back from the inferno and tried to determine some strategy to keep the flames from spreading. One tank held 20,000 barrels of oil and another held 70,000. An oil barrel contains 42 gallons Flames and smoke could be seen for 10 miles across the flat land. The Woodcrest Elementary School in the vicinity dismissed classes because of smoke.

Port Neehes, population 11.000 persons, is one of the many communities what is called the Golden Triangle. Principal cities in that area of 320.000 population are Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange. Leon (Marilyn) Gendron of1 Gladstone and Mrs. Richard (Marlene) Bader of West Bend. 26 grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; three brothers, Edward Buckland, Edwin and Ernest Buckland, all of Escanaba: three sisters, Mrs.

Esther Lindbolm, Escana- i ba, Mrs. Clifford Enstrom of Menominee and Mrs. Leonard Johnson, Largo, Fla. The body was removed to the, Anderson Funeral Home and will lie in state from 4 to 9 p.m. Sunday and complete funeral services will be held at 11 a.m.

at the funeral home with Rev. Walfred E. Nelson of- i ficiating. Burial will be Gar- 1 dens of Rest Cemetery. Briefly Told United Transportation Union.

Local 315 will hold a regular monthly meeting Sunday, Jan. 13 at the Eagles Hall; 608 Ludington at 7 p.m. General ohairman G. R. Maloney of Green Ray will be present at the meeting and all members are asked to attend.

Refreshments will be served following the meeting. Buy and Sell the Classified Way WHETHER YOU HAVE HEARING PROBLEM or a Problem With A HEARING All) WE CAN HELP YOU! CU. CP. c.Hearing Services DONALI) WKIOIIT 209 W. Ohio St Marquette Dial 225-0923 WE MAKE HOUSE CALLS will undergo Saturday is frequently used on patients with lung disease.

The entertainer, hospitalized here on New Eve for pleurisy later diagnosed as pneumonia, was cheerful and walking around talking to other patients at Peninsula Hospital with his intravenous tubes following on a rolling pole. Crosby will be anesthetized for the diagnostic procedure in which a flexible probe with a mirror-type device is placed in the windpipe and then moved into the bronchial tubes leading into the lungs. BIDS WANTED The Board of Education of the Escanaba Area Public Schools will receive scaled bids for four (4) 1974 model, 66 passenger conventional- type school bus chassis. Bids cre to be delivered to the Administration Building, 1219 N. 19th Escanaba, by January 24, 1974.

Specifications and instructions may be obtained at the Administration Building. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Hairy T. Cumin MANIST1QUE Services for Harry T. Curran, 64, Gulliver, will be held Monday a4 10 a.m.

from Hewitt Jackson Funeral Home with Rev. Fr. John Shiv- erski officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Friends may call at Hewitt- Jackson Funeral Home beginning at 4 Sunday afternoon.

Mr. Curran, longtime Schoolcraft County resident and self employed farmer, died Friday morning in Schoodcratt Memorial Hospital. Born Feb. 7, 1909 in Chicago, he came to Manistique in 1910. He wws married April 12, 1934 to the former Evelyn Plante who died Mav 21, 1970.

Surviving are two Marvin, Manistique, and Ronald, Houghton: two brothers, Arthur and Ellsworth, both of Manistique; a sister, ins Arnio Blanchard. Battle Creek, and three grandchildren. Mrs. Mary A. Pearson Mrs.

Mary A. Pearson, 80, formerly of Wells, died at St. 1 Francis Hospital at 2:10 p.m. Friday. She was born in Finland, Aug.

24. 1893. Her husband, John B. Pearson, preceded her in death Nov. 21.

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