The Herald-Press from Saint Joseph, Michigan • 3

PRE IE EMALD Twin City News ST. JOSEPH, MICE, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1966 ma I5n nnnn slLUIiwill CO UUVJ urn Overpass Project Assured Will Rebuild Intersections At Euclid, Crystal 1 READY TO CAP LAST NAPIER BRIDGE PIER? Workmen for Brown Bros, contractors of Lansing build forms for top of west pier for the new Napier avenue bridge. When the pier is completed the first steel girders can then be laid. In the background work on raising the grade for the new four-lane approach continues by J. V.

Burkett excavators. of the bridge is scheduled for next Nov. 1. i.f I tm in 4 A ipl I I he saved by feeding after, their mother died. One pup has been sold.

Survivors here include four males and one female. (Staff photo) HE PULLED TttEM THROUGH; Jlick Newhouse, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Newhouse, East Britain avenue, Benton township, is shown with iveof six German Shepherd puppies, whose lives Elimination of "killer cross ing" at 1-94 business route and Euclid avenue in Benton township was virtually assured by a State Highway department announcement today approving construction of an overpass. Howard E.

Hill, state highway director, said bids will be taken in April 1967 on the project estimated to cost more than The work will involve com plete reconstruction 0 both Crystal and Euciia avenue intersections, both considered lethal crossings. North and southbound Euclid avenue traffic will cross over the business route on a bridge. There will be no direct access from Euclid avenue to the business route. Traffic from Euclid avenue can reach the business route over new service roads that will be built to the Crystal avenue interchange. Crystal avenue will be widened to a 48-foot four-lane pavement through the business route intersection.

Traffic bound for 1-94 can enter the business route over new ramps constructed at grade level from Crystal avenue. North and south traffic on Crystal will still be able to cross the business route at grade level. The Crystal avenue overpass was authorized after a study of accident statistics and complaints from area officials. Figures compiled by the Highway department from January, 1962, to June, 1965, show 14 accidents with five killed and 30 injured at Euclid avenue. Crystal ave nue statistics at the intersection for the same period are 25 accidents with 26 injuries and one fatality, according to the Highway department.

Hill said the business loop was constructed 1961 with split" diamond intersections at Euclid and Crystal and the stipulation that bridges would be considered at a later date. NYC Train Derailed Near Michigan City MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP)- Six cars of a 61-car New York Central freight train derailed today at Otis, 5 miles south of here. No one was injured. The derailed cars carried trailers packed with freight and blocked both tracks.

The west bound NYC 20th Century Limited and New England States passenger trains were rerouted from Toledo through Jackson, Mich. The cause of the derailment was not learned immediately, WITH SYRINGE FEEDING Benton Youth Saves Lives Of Six Puppies Grass Fires Prompl it Warning Law Gted By Benton Chief A rash of grass fires this week in Benton township DroniDted Fire Chief Ken Kraiger to remind residents that permits are required for open burning. "The state law makes it a misdemeanor to burn outdoors, except in trash-burners and enclosed incineration devices, when there is no snow on the eround." Kraiger said. The permits are issued with out charge, at -the Benton township fire stations and at "fire stations of other municipalities, the chief said. -Township firemen were called to extinguish a grass fire Wednesday on property by Bill Buckles near the High land and Euclid avenues' intersection.

Lt. Ken Polmanteer said the fire burned about two acres in' a vacant lot and that the cause was unknown. Also on Wednesday the township firemen stood by at the home of Ernest Wake, at Roslin road and 1-94, while Wake fired an oil furnace that had become flooded. Last night the firemen were called to the Josephine Bates home, 394 Walnut avenue, where a gas range had malfunctioned, Polmanteer said. No damage occurred at either residence, according to Six German Shepherd puppies are alive today, because of a tube, syringe and attention given by 16-year-old Rick Newhouse, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Newhouse of East Britain avenue, Benton The pups were part of a litter of nine, born last Dec. 20. The mother- died after giving birth and the newborn pups were unable to get nurishment, except by artificial means. Three of the puppies died, but today, the survivors are healthy and right up to proper size according to Dr George G.

Freier, -FORM 'FOR BRIDGE PIER: This is the top of the pfer the west side of the St. Joseph river of the new Napier avenue bridge as seen from the old bridge? Three carpenters, Robert Southard (front), Arlie Tanner (center) and Don Tanner, his nephew, all of the Twin City area, are shown putting final touches "to the form which will mould concrete to top of pier. (Staff. photos) a local veterinarian. Dr.

Freier, recommended the- tube and syrtoge saving he" Vnew of ifs use aTcorneU BH Extends Homestead Tax Filing Extra Time For Senior Citizens Deadline for senior citizens to apply for homestead tax exemption has been extended to April 1 in Benton Harbor, city Assessor Howard Weber Weber said the extension was granted by the city board' of review which postponed its adjournment from Friday until April The senior citizens homestead tax exemption act requires all applications to be filed by the day the local board of review adjourns. The Benton Harbor board acted on a recommendation in a joint resolution by the House and Senate in Lansing, Weber said. The Legislature wants the extension by local boards while it works on an amendment to the act to correct an unanticipated situation in the Upper Peninsula. PROPERTY PROBLEM Weber said some claimants in the U.P own houses on land owned by mining companies. 1 Under present interpretation, 'the homes would be considered umversity.

Each day for three weeks, Rick slid the tube down each dog's throat and then supplied the nourishment from a syringe. After about three weeks, the poppies suddenly began eating under their own Dower. Mrs. Newhouse said one of the sur- vivors has been sold, adding that while the others probably wUl Sta-Rite Stockholders To Vote On Merger Rick. Valve Engineers To Meet, Hear Du Wei Exec Lou Capek, vice-president for sales of Du-Wel Metal Products, Bangor, will speak this I evening at a meeting of the Michiana chapter of the Society of American Valve Engineers at I Franky's restaurant, Niles.

Stockholders of Sta-Rite Products, parent firm of Lakeshore FFABoys Plan Trip State Convention In East Lansings Six members of the Lake-shore Future Farmers oi America will journey to Michigan State university in East Lansing awards, compete for honors, awards, compete for honors, and conduct business during te fJ FFA State convention. They are Jerry Nitz, Dale Nye, Scott Risch, Barry Menser, William Pschigoda, and Mark Nye. Pschigoda and Mark Nye are Lakeshore delegates to the convention. Nitz and Dale Nye are nominees for the State Farmer degree that will be presented Thursday evening along with outstanding state farmer and star farmer awards. Risch and Menser are trying for positions in the national FFA band.

They will be among some 1,600 to 1,800 youngsters from all over the state attending the convention. The Lakeshore chapter adviser is agricultural instructor Roger Landsburg. Grass Fire Is Doused St. Joseph firemen Wednesday doused a gra.ss fire the Railroad tracks in the 1900 block of Pine street. Firemen did not theorize on the cause of the blaze.

QUITS HIS POST ROCHESTER (AP) School Supt. Dr. Early has to ne school i superintendent at Flint be sold, one is to be kept for personal property and not eligible for homestead exemption. Applications for exemption can be made in Benton Harbor at the assessor's office in the municipal building. The board of review will wind up its hearings on assessments tomorrow then meet again April 1 to formally adjourn.

Members of the board are City Commission er Rex Sheeley, Supervisors R. Paul Newman, Walter Miller, Michael Govatos and W. W. Butcher. If place, high Benton Karen original original and Skidmore Pumps of St.

Joseph, will vote at their annual meeting in Delavan, next Monday on a proposed merger with Webster Electric Racine, Wis. Webster stockholders, meanwhile, will meet earlier in the day in Racine to act upon the merger proposal on a pooling of interests basis. Already approved by the boards of directors of the two firms, the merger would bring Webster Electric into Sta-Rite as a subsidiary. Combined sales of the two firms in 1965 amounted to $34,752,423. Sta-Rite stockholders also will be asked to change the com pany's corporate name to Sta Rite Industries, Inc.

Sta-Rite has expanded rapidly in the past severaf years as result of a series of mergers; such as the one that took Skidmore Pumps of St. Joseph in the organization and is being proposed with Webster Electric. Ir is proposed that all eight present Sta-Rite directors and Mhree present Webster Electric directors become directors, in the new merger. Sta-Rite directors currently are: Henry Lauterbach, presi dent and board chairman; Quentin E. Bittle, Orlando, vice president; Earl Nelson, Delavan, vice president; L.

E. Fonteine, Mil waukee; J. Victor Loewi, Milwaukee; Julien R. Steelman, Milwaukee; Joseph W. Simpson, Milwaukee; Arthur K.

Wat son, Chicago. Present Webster Electric Co. directors proposed for the new board are David J. Munroe, president; Edwin A. Gallun, Milwaukee, and M.H.

Weinberg, Chicago. The National Baseball Hall of Fame is located at Coopers town, N.Y., where the game is said to have originated. humorous interpretation Sharene Richardson, Benton Harbor school, first place humorous interpretation Elissa Ban-now, Harbor high school, first place, serious interpretation Sherman, Benton Harbor high school, first place, oration; Bob Bolline, St. Joseph Catholic, second place, oration Pat Brpwer, St. John's, second, place, declamation; Dan Mc-Kinley," St.

Joseph Catholic, first place, TWIN CITIES FORENSIC WINNERS: These Twin. Cities high school students were among winners in a Michigan High School Forensic association spring meet at St. John's school, Benton Harbor. They will compete in regionals at Western Michigan University between March 28 and April 9. From left: Pat Kerill, St.

Joseph Catholic high school, second place in serious interpretation; Philip Herzog, St. John's, second place, humorous interpretation; Tom Tucka, St. Joseph public high school, second 11.... 1 1 nmrnm i $. LA MEMBER OF THE FAMILY: Mrs.

Frieda Habel, 918 State street, St. Joseph, watched the blast-off of Gemini 8 Wednesday morning with special interest since one of the astronauts, Neil Armstrong is married to her grandniece, Tanet Sharon Armstrong. Mrs. Armstrong's mother, Mrs. Louisa Sharon of Pasadena, in years past a visitor to the area on several occasions, is the daughter of the late Mrs.

Louisa Hepner, Mrs. Mabel's sister. Letters from the niece and her daughter have kept Mrs. Habel informed of the progress of the astronaut from a family viewpoint. (Staff photo) 'Joan VanBrocklin, Anne Glass, Mary Hudson and Janet Johnson.

Phil Keath of Benton Harbor high school (right) won radio news commentary event. Students from four- Twin City high schools competed in contest, judged by Brian Jacques of Andrews university speech department. (Staff photos) ON TO REGIONAL CONTEST: These students yesterday secured berths in forensic meet through efforts yesterday, at St. John's school. Girls behind lecterns, all from St.

Joseph Catholic high school and wearing "granny" glasses for their talks, won in multiple reading. They are, from left:.