The Herald-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan • 13

4 SECTION TWO PAGE THIRTEEN Michigan's Biggest Buy For Reader And For Advertiser BENTON HARBOR, MICH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1971 NT! $2.3 Million Lawton Bond School Bonds Voted Down At Paw Paw Wins By ORVIN JOHNSON taff Writer LAWTON By a 27-vote margin, voters here yesterday approved a $2.3 million bond issue for a new high school and athletic field. By STEVE McQUO.WN Paw Paw Bureau PAW PAW A second election on a school construction financing proposal appears certain here after voters rejected the issue by 165 votes Monday. The $2.7 million bond issue 1. 1 1 if 1 A a I I I I Vi i-I i I i I) I OFFICIALLY OPENED: State Senator Charles O.

Zollar of Benton Harbor, only top state official to reach the point on 1-94 at the Michigan-Indiana line yesterday, presided at ribbon cutting ceremonies. After cutting ribbons on each side of highway, Michigan officiate gathered at the "Enter Mich- igan" sign. From left are Fred Russell, district highway department engineer; Ardale Ferguson of Benton Harbor, former Michigan Highway commission chairman; R. H. Harrell, executive director of Indiana Highway Commission, Senator Zollar and Charles J.

Gallagher of the Chicago Motor club. The vote was 328 to 301, with two spoiled ballots. Supt. George Dannecker said after the vote that the district may hold off sale of the bonds for a time in hopes of a more favorable market but he expects construction to begin by next fall. Dannecker said 29-40 acres Father Is Sent To Jail One father was ordered jailed 60 days and two others with children on welfare were ordered to begin paying off support arrearages Monday in Berrien circuit court.

Martin Mach. 38, of the Hornack hotel, Benton Harbor, was ordered jailed 60 days after being found in contempt for falling $2,971 behind in support for three children of a prior marriage, Friend of the Court George Westfield reported. Mach will be released to find work after serving the 60 days. If he fails to get a job, "it's back to jail, according to Judge Chester J. Byrns' order.

Judge Byrns also ordered Michael Huss, of Fulkerson road, Niles, to continue regular $11 weekly support payments for one child on ADC plus an extra $3 weekly on a $165 arrearage, Westfield reported. If Huss fails he'll spend 30 days in jail. Judge Philip H. Mitchell ordered Otis Mattin, of Box 137, Townline road, Benton Harbor, to continue regular $12 weekly payments for one child on ADC plus 3 weekly on a $76.50 arrearage, Westfield reported. Man Earns Bronze Star DOWAGIAC Gregory G.

Stroud, 21, of Dowagiac, has received a Bronze Star medal for his service in Vietnam. A specialist four with the army and son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmon Stroud, 306 Oak Street, Dowagiac, earned the award as a turbine engine repairman in "company 101st aviation battalion of the 101st airborn division, near Phy Bai, Vietnam. He also received the Army Commendation medal for his service.

will be needed but no site has been selected yet. The planned facility would have capacity for 450 students, replacing the present high school, where 426 students are jammed into a 264-student capacity. The older building will become a middle school. The $2.3, million bond issue will build the high school, furnish and equip it, establish a bus service area and a new athletic field, with facilities for track and field events, football and baseball. Dannecker has estimated that Lawton taxpayers initial-' -ly-will pay $3.27 $3.77 more- a year for each $1,000 of the state equalized value of their property.

The bond issue will run for 29 years though the extra millage will decrease over this period. SOUTH HAVEN Food Stamp Service May fie Cut Off SOUTH HAVEN Food stamps will be issued again in South Haven by the Van Buren County Department of Social Services on Dec. 9 and 23 but may be discontinued after that if participation is insufficient. E. J.

Thomas, director of the department, warns that food stamp distribution in South Haven, at the UAW Union hall on M-43, has been well below expectations. Of 168 persons who said they would buy stamps in South Haven on Nov. 23, only 30 appeared for service. Thomas said the South Haven service would be discontinued if participation in December does not show a marked increase. Santa Due Saturday In South Haven SOUTH HAVEN Santa Claus will make his first visit to South Haven Saturday.

He will arrive at Dyckman park at 1:30 p.m. Santa's visit is sponsored by the Retail Council of the Greater South Haven Area Chamber of Commerce. He will be at Dykeman park' each Saturday until Christmas between 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Ji rattic malty Jrlows Along 6Miiuriig Link9 New Buffalo Bottleneck Eliminated on Monday ballot, which would have provided a new middle school, an outdoor athletic field development and high school classroom expansion and renovation, was defeated by a 684-519 vote, according to election officials.

Officials expressed "disappointment" over the loss but indicated that another election on a similar proposal will probably be held in the spring, possibly May 29 or soon afterwards. The defeat will be discussed at next Monday night's school board according Jo Frank Wangberg, board president. Wangberg said that in his opinion are against paying additional taxes for whatever the purposes." Wangberg had been asked whether he thought that attaching the proposed $100,000 athletic field development to the construction program, or any other single factor, had been responsible for the proposal's defeat. Had the. proposal been approved, it would have added an estimated 3.2 tax mills to property taxes on a long-range loan program through the state.

Officials said in an extensive campaign prior to the election that the school system presently has some 270 students over capacity now and shifting of students at the middle school will be necessary next year. They also said in the preelection campaigning that projections indicate that the system may be some 600 students over capacity at the end of the next five years. While school officials were generally unhappy about the millage defeat, they seemed elated that 1,204 voters braved cold and slush and wind-blown snow to vote. While the voter turnout did not topple records, it ran ahead of voter turnouts in much balmier weather on millage elections and not far behind more controversial issues. An August, 1969 operating millage proposal was defeated when 868 voters went to the polls; 1970, 1,202 persons approved an operating millage; in April 1971, 846 persons voted in defeating an operating millage; and in June 1971, 1,288 persons voted in approving operating millage.

A controversial proposed merger with the Lawton school system drew 1,370 voters out to defeat the issue in February, 1970. The election Monday may have been especially important to school teachers, administrators and board members, who had departed from prior campaign tactics by going out into the community in unpre-cendented frequency. "It was the most intensive, active campaign of anything at the school," said acting superintendent Darrell Crose prior to the election. He said teachers and staff members visited more than 30 organizations and neighborhood meeting and addressed more than 600 persons in trying to win support for the proposal. New Buffalo Tree Sale Aids Blind NEW BUFFALO The New Buffalo Lions club is sponsoring its annual Christmas tree sale.

Trees are being sold from now until Christmas at the corner of Whittaker and Buffalo streets. Proceeds of the trees sales will go into the club's fund for the blind, reported Robert Nystrom, president of the local Lion's club. ty, Ind. and Indiana highway 39. Indiana officials said the remainder of 1-94 from US-20 to Gary is all under construction and will open in December of 1972.

Michigan Highway depart- ment officials announced a new highway information center would open shortly and it will bear the name of Ardale Ferguson, of Benton Harbor, first chairman of the State Highway Commission under the new constitution. It will be dedicated next May during Michigan week on Hospitality By DICK DERRICK SJ City Editor Michigan and Indiana high-, way officials opened 12.3 miles of 1-94 freeway yesterday in a snow storm that kept top brass away but didn't spare Hoosiers from a ribbing on dragging their feet. The 1.3 mile of freeway in Michigan completes 1-94 from Port Huron to the Michigan-Indiana line, a distance of 274 miles. The section of the freeway opened in Indiana, a distance of 11-miles, now ends at US-20 midway between Michigan Ci RAY MITT AN State Representative Mittan Calls Job Chaotic State Rep. Ray C.

Mittan of Benton Harbor has called for the establishment of joint House-Senate rules to govern movement of legislation from one house to the other and to set firm dates for operation and adjournment of the legislature. The 44th District Republican in a November report from Lansing, termed "frustrating' the dragging out of key bills, ranging from tax reform, welfare reform and school aid. He criticized House Speaker William Detroit Democrat, saying: "It is the lack of any feeling of urgency, of not having a work schedule and of having: no deadlines. We seem to be sitting in session day after day without accomplishment just to create the image of. a fulltime legislature.

"We have watched the deterioration of the legislative process, in general, and the very backbone of the legislature, the committee system, specifically. This deterioration comes for the most part, from the near one-man rule of the speaker, who, true to his background as a union negotiator, seems bent on approaching the problems of the state, not by majority rule, but by having negotiating- teams or committees make the decisions that we are supposed to blindly follow." Mittan noted that the 1971 session has become chaotic and remided that many citizens are seriously considering a constitutional amendment that would do away with the two-house legislature and replace it with one chamber. Mittan 's report was largely partisan in nature, harking back to 1968 when a GOP legislature passed a total budget by June 26, to enable the signing by July 1, the start of a fiscal year. Under Democrats in the House, Mittan noted that in 1970, the final budget bill was not signed until Aug. 19, while the current budget has just been completed.

Watch For Tree Rllstlers LANSING, Mich. (AP) The Michigan Agriculture Department warned Wednesday that farmers with prized walnut trees should be on guard against timber rustlers. The department quoted B. Dale Ball, director, as saying even one section of a walnut log could be worth "several hundreds of dollars" if sold to a cabinetmaker or furniture manufacturer. Indiana Gov.

Edgar D. Whit-comb for fulfilling campaign promises to build the missing sections of the highway. Indiana, heavily committed to its east-west toll road, has been reluctant to build a highway that would cut into the revenue of the toB road. The west end of the toll road has always been the most profitable. Gallagher noted Motor club officials first proposed a free, divided, limited access highway between Detroit and Chicago back in 1945.

He also noted that all but 30 miles of this highway were completed 10 years ago. "Surely there is no need at this time to remind those of you here today about the continuing battle since then to finish Indiana's 'missing link' portion of the Chicago to -Detroit expressway," Gallagher said. "During the past decade both the Automobile Club of Michigan and the Chicago Motor club have waged a constant campaign for completion of this highway. To say that more often than not we met with frustrations and disappointments would be the understatement of the day." R. H.

(Bob) Harrell, executive director of the Indiana State Highway commission noted the 29.7-mile section will cost $59,620,540 or $2,007,425 per mile. Harrell said Indiana is committed to a pay-as-you-go plan on highways and its share of federal funds has been cut from $100 million to $69.9 million. An increase in Indiana gas tax from six to eight cents a gallon has been a lifesaver, Harrell said. 1-94 from Port Huron to Billings, Mont, is 1,607 miles long. Of that distance, Harrell noted, 36 miles lies in Indiana and of the 36 miles, 29.7 has just been opened or is under construction.

day. Snow storms in Lansing and Grand Haven kept top Michigan highway brass from attending so State Senator Charles O. Zollar of Benton Harbor helped cut the ribbons that opened the highway to traffic. First Zollar cut the ribbon on the northbound section that sends traffic into Michigan then crossed the median to cut the ribbon leading to Indiana. The ceremonies took place on the state line.

A crowd of around 100 persons was on hand for the rites. For Berrien county motorists bound for Giicago the new highway won't make a great deal of difference. It ends at US-20 3.5 miles west from the junction of US-20 and Ind. 39. Then from that junction it's only a couple of miles to the LaPorte interchange to the Indiana Toll road.

It also is possible to take US-20 and US-421 to the Michigan City interchange on the toll road. The new section of highway parallels two-lane Indiana 39 where traffic on occasion has been jammed to a standstill. US-20 which runs from Gary to South Bend is four lanes wide but not divided nor is it limited access. When the second missing link is opened in December, 1972, the route to Chicago, will be considerably shortened and the $1.05 passenger car toll cut in half. 1-94 will eventually link up with the Tri-State (I-294) that by passes Chicago although it wJll be possible to gain access to the Indiana Tollway at Burns Harbor.

Charles J. Gallagher, senior vice president of the American Automobile association and a director of the Chicago Motor club, reminded Indiana officials they had dragged their feet on building the missing link. He did however credit Map Explanation: New Bu-ffaloV' A INTERCHANGES J. PREVIOUSLY OPENED llll' JUST OPENED rfnYL I OOO opeh late 1972 MichiganCi'g) fa TEMPORARY ROUTE Cjv INDIANA I rP STATEPARK CiO fcSsterton ends 3.5 miles 'west from the junction of US-20 and Indiana 39 which by-passes the last two-lane highway between Detroit and Chicago. The map shows the stretch of 1-94 just opened and the final section scheduled to be opened in December of 1972.

NO MORE TRAFFIC JAMS: Those summer weekend traffic james on Indiana 39 between New Buffalo and LaPorte are a thing of the past. Michigan and Indiana highway officials yesterday opened 12.3 miles of 1-94 from New Buffalo that.