The Herald-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan • 25

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1965 THE NEWS PALLADIUM, BENTON HARBOR, MICH. PAGE TWENTY-FIVE Vp To Nine Per Cent Allegan Grants Employes Raises js i i- j- -xf -iJJ i'x' ALLEGAN Four amendments were called for before the Allegan board of supervisors finally approved a committee report raising maximum county employe and officer salaries by more than nine per cent at this week meeting. A resolution introduced by before it went into effect The board approved finance Allegan city supervisor John committee chairman Philip Pahl prompted the board to increase the salary of the juvenile court's chief probation officer from $5,356 to a top of $5,500 with a starting wage of $5,000. Two other probation -ii officers are to receive $4560 to start with a $5,000 ceiling. The county dog warden's top salary was pegged at $4,650 an increase of $250 a year.

A move td raise deputy sheriff's salaries from the 1965 maximum of $4,120 to $4,850 was defeated by a vote of 23-12. The top starting salary of the traffic safety officer day shift was pegged at $4,650 with a top of $4,850. Four other deputies and four radio operators will get beginning salaries of $4,500 to $4,650 maximum. POSITION DELETED In unprecedented action, the board voted to delete the social PROGRESS ON COLOMA SCHOOL VISIBLE rett. The new school facility, scheduled for occupan- way, Barrett said.

Pearson Construction Ben-FROM AIR: Contractors are expected to complete cy by early 1966, was designed by Architect Guido ton Harbor, is general contractor. (Aerial Photo by outside work on new $1,076,202 Coloma high school Binda, Battle Creek. The building's heating plant AdolphHahn) in about two weeks, according to Supt. William Bar- has been installed and other interior work is under- Quade recommendation to Include pension plan figures in the 1966 budget now being set np. The plan itself as yet unapproved calls for pensions for all elected officials and county employes as suggested in a Michigan Municipal League survey subscribed to by the county.

SHARING PENSIONS If approved, the pension plan would cost the county approximately $18,968 annually on an average payroll of around The employe would pay 3 per cent of the first $4,200 income and 5 per cent of any in excess of that amount. The county would pick up the tab for 6.5 per cent of the first $4,200 and about 10 per cent of any excess. A motion to raise the county youth home superintendent's and matron's salaries from the present $4,400. and $2,600 to $4,650 and $2,750 was defeated by a wide majority. A sick leave and vacation pay schedule voted down at the Aug.

10 meeting was approv-ed as amended. The plan becomes effective Jan. 1, 1966. The approved 1966 maximum salary schedule calls for a bit more than $365,500 an increase of almost $33,000 over the current year. Monday, Oct.

25 has been set for a public hearing on the 1966 budget. She Brings welfare director classification from the salaries committee report. It was agreed that the job in question awaits further Open House At Church Painting Presented To School clarification by the state before county board approval. Jan. 1, 1966, has been tentatively set as the changeover date when the social welfare department will merge with the state bureau of social aid.

The county social welfare board whose responsibility it is to hire the director, had set Allegan's director Robert i 1 i 's salary at $7,000. A court ruling read before the supervisors stated they must approve this figure In Decatur riff i-i -i itimmn Rev. Marion Will Be Guest Speaker DECATUR The. First Church Is your coiffure in constant chaos? of God will hold open house from 5:30 to 7:30 p-m. saturaay, o.

23, in colebration of its 75th anniversary. The Rev. Robert Hurt nf Marion Ohio a former 2 x. A Mrs. McOmber Enjoys History By RALPH LUTZ Staff Writer A bit of Millburg history has been reproduced in oils by a woman who paints only for enjoyment and does it weU.

Mrs. Earl (Esther) McOmber painted the former grist mill and saw mill on one canvas and presented her work to Millburg school as a gift. The Benton township settlement owes its name to the two mills, and no artist could be i pastor of the 'church, will be is your answer guest speaker, at ine serv ice. Th Rev. Uenrv Houseman.

EX-ACTOR: Tom Neal, 51, sits at his trial in Indio, where he is accused of shooting to death wife Gail, 29. pastor of the Trowbridge Meth odist churcn, wm give we invocation. There will be special i M- better suited to portray the scene. Mrs. McOmber lives on North in i i ra-innnwi in i it "i in" li' rn rrr I ir Branch road at the edge of Millburg, and over the years, she has traced its history to the roots.

music by members ana tormer members of the congregation. A sextette from Cassopolis will sing. A special pianist, Miss Mary Ellen Drake of Three Rivers, whose father was a minister in Jones, for several years, will play. There will also be special musical numbers by Mr. and Mrs.

Oliver Shumway and Mrs. Bert Go-ens of Decatur, as a trio. Some of the participants will wear clothes of that period. On Sunday, Oct. 24, Rev.

Hurt will speak at the morning service, followed by a basket dinner in the church basement MILLBURG HISTORY IN OILS: Mrs. Earl (Esther) McOmber, North Branch road, Millburg (center) holds her 'painting which depicts the mills from which Millburg received its name. With her are Mrs. William Fricke, second grade teacher at Millburg school, who prompted Mrs. McOmber to paint the scene and who furnished the frame, and John Cooper, principal "of Millburg school.

The artist presented the work to the school as a gift. (Staff photo) Credits for the project, however, were given to two persons. Mrs. William Fricke, second grade teacher at Millburg school, prompted Mrs. McOmber to paint the mills.

USED A GUIDE This was done by using an Millburg. Enos, in 1843 moved the mills to St. Joseph. Richard original photograph as a guide. Enos, a descendant, now lives 100 human hair wig only $49.95 (SOME LIGHT SHADES SLIGHTLY HIGHER) VALUE TOOUHJMWAMTy.

at 3211 Cleveland avenue, St. Lutheran Society Holds Rally Fall Event Held In South Haven SOUTH HAVEN-The Southwestern Michigan circuit of the Lutheran Women's Missionary Society, Wisconsin Synod, recently-held a fall rally at St. Paul's Lutheran Christian Day School center in South Haven. Mrs. Merbert Speckin, national president from Wauwatosa, spoke to the group on the history and aims of the LWMS.

She said women of the Wisconsin Lutheran churches organized back in 1957 for the purpose of giving assistance in the mission field. Since then, Mrs. Speckin laid, the society has grown to be a national organization. The southwestern circuit is part of 220 churches now belonging to the organization. Van Buren Hunters9 Dinner.

Set stops between St. Joseph and Detroit. FIRST SCHOOL The first school house in Benton township was reported located at Millburg, and the first township election id 1841, was held here, too. The winners in that election were E. P.

Mann, supervisor; James B. Higher, treasurer; Jehiel Enos, clerk; and Phineas Pearl and Jacob Van Horn, justices of the peace. Millburg grew. A hotel and several stores were built. Millburg was an important trading center where early north and south-bound roads intersected.

Benton Harbor was an infant with one house. This was the Morton home, still standing at the foot pf Morton hill. MILLS MOVE Times changed, and so did for her schoolmates. INTEREST IN HISTORY An avid interest in Millburg's history was evident as Mrs. McOmber opened the pages of a small book, -'Reminiscences of Lower St.

Joseph Valley," by J.S. Morton. Then, there was information from the original abstract of Helen Lobdell, who now owns the mill property, just south of Millburg. It began in 1834 when Jehiel Enos received a land grant from the government along Blue creek, where he built two mills a grist mill and saw mill. In 1835, Amos Amsden and Jehiel Enos platted land into lots, and the first major settlement east" of the St.

Joseph river in this area was founded. A post office was built in 1836, and stage coaches made regular Mrs. McOmber said the painting was made possible by the courtesy of Albert of William Randall who purchased the mills in 1872. The younger Randall loaned Mrs. McOmber the photograph of the mills.

Millburg school officials accepted the work from Mrs. McOmber Tuesday during a Parent Teachers association session. The oils were scarcely dry, since the artist had applied the finishing touches only Monday night. This is the latest effort in a hobby that was begun in earnest only five years ago. But talent had been evident for many decades.

Mrs. McOmber started school 62 years ago at Millburg. Even then, she drew -pictures L-Kh MA Joseph. The mill in. 1885 was again moved, this time to Benton Harbor' for use in the manufacture of wagon parts.

It was moved again in 1895 to Covington, Tenn. Mrs. McOmber, a retired employe of Bramall Supply 200 Water street, Benton Harbor, enjoyed tracing Millburg's history. And, she enjoys putting the former landmarks on canvas. Among her works are the churches, the old school house and the dam.

She does this for enjoyment. But she has one set rule. The subject painted should look like it did when it stood. BLOOMINGDALE A hunters' dinner is planned for Saturday between 6 p. m.

and 7:30 p.m. at Van Buren Youth Camp on Great Bear Lake to raise funds tor next year's camp operations. The dinner, an annual camp event, will feature a menu with antelope, deer, sheep, beef and a variety of "hunters' luck." Tickets may be purchased at the door or from members of the camp board of directors. 109 human hair wiglet only $18.05 AN AMAZING VALUE FOR THIS HIGH QUALITY Van Buren Marriage Licenses OPEN Monday Friday Until 9 P. M.

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