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i FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1878 THE HERLD-PALLADrUM. riU. HirW-St JtwpMCkklgM PAGETELVE OBITUARIES i -v. Av i.

Vrixy THIRD SET; Jim and Margaret Murphy of Omaha show off their third set of twins who were born Wednesday. A genetics expert says the chances of having three sets is one in 512.000. (AP Wirephoto) Bainbridge Slates Tax-Paying Days Bainbridge township 1976 tax payments may be made to Treasurer James Lull in person during two tax collection days slated, in January. Lull said taxes may be paid Friday. Jan.

14 from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.. at the Bainbridge township hall and Friday, Jan. 28.

at Millburg bank. 9 a.m. to nn and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Taxes may also be paid byjnail to Lull OFFICES PLANNED: Raymond Tortora speaks to reporters at a news conference in Lansing Thursday with Governor William Milliken annoucing their agreement on the construction of a state office building in the downtown area of Saginaw.

AP Wirephoto) State Is Planning One-Stop Offices LANSING, Muh. (AP) Gov. William Milliken announced Thursday that Saginaw will get a $6 million state office building to provide "one-slop service" to residents. Milliken said tin- state and Saginaw officials have agreed on a central business district site for Hie building. He said tie will ask the legislature next year to allocate funds for the construction.

The office building is one of several planned, with others tagged for Flint. Jackson and Traverse City. Tlx' state also has bought a building in Detroit and built one in Grand Rapids. The Saginaw site consists of vacant urban renewal land and is part of the city's plans for redevelopment of the downtown area. Milliken said the construction depends, luwever, on a favorable ruling by the Supreme Court on the state's plans to sell bonds to finance most of its construction projects next year.

That ruling is expected ithin a few nonths. The Saginaw building will feature services or severat state departments, including civil rights, education, the toiiery labor, natural resources, social sen ices and secretary of state. (EST) in Friends cemetery, Wabash. Friends may call at the funeral home beginning Sunday morning, Gisela Turba EAU CLAIRE Mrs. Gisela Turba.

82, route 1. Eau Claire, died at 7:15 a.m. today at Berrien General hospital. Berrien Center. Mrs.

Turtw was born Sept. 10. MM. in Austria. Sun Ivors include a daughter.

Mrs. Robert (Marie) Kooning of Eau Claire, with whom Mrs. Turba made her home, and a sister. Mrs. Theresa Zoltan in Eun)e.

The body lias been donated to the University of Michigan UMllcal scool. The family has suggested memorials lie made to Unchurch. Bi merman runeral home. Eau Claire, as in charge of arrangements. Benjamin Clark SOUTH 1 1A VEX Benjamin F.

Clark, 78. of 854 Kalamazoo street. South Haven, died Wednesday in the South Haven Community hospital. Mr. Clark was born Jan.

10, 1818. in Lacota and was former editor ol the South Haven Tribune. For 25 years he had Uvn an industrial agent for the State of Michigan. Surviving are his widow Mabel; a daughter. Mrs.

Wil-darene McDowell, Grand liapids; a brother, Glea Clark, Lake Placid. and a sister, Mrs. William Becker. Ft. Lauderdale.

Fla. Funeral services will be held at. 10 a.m. Monday in Calvin funeral liome.South Haven, where friends may call from 7 until 9 p.m. Sunday.

Burial will be in Lakeviow cemetery. James MeGoldrick FENNVILLE James A. McUililrick. 64, Route 1, Fenn-ville, died Thursday in Dade City. Fla.

Mr. MeGoldrick, was born Dee. 30, 1911, in Eau Claire and retired in 1974. Surviving are his widow, the former Marie Slehle; two daughters. Mrs.

Kenneth (June) Perkins, Fennville and Mrs. William (Aileen) Redeker, (irand Haven, and a brother. Samuel MeGoldrick, South Haven. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Chap-pell funeral home, Fennville.

wiiere friends may call from 7 until 9 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Taylor cemetery, Ganges. -1 Road Toll By ASSOCIATED PRESS Snowfall slowed traffic on highway from the Great Lakes to New England and rain and snow dampened roads in the Pacific Northwest today as travelers began the long Christmas weekend. Traffic accidents had claimed 28 lives by early this morning.

The National Safety Council has estimated that between 460 and 500 persons will die on the roads between 6 p.m. Thursday and midnight Sunday. A year ago, hen the weekend was four days rather than three, 397 people were killed on streets and highways. The council said the worst Christmas for highway travelers was in 1965, when 720 persons died over a three-day period. Readers Express Op mions (Continued from Page J) either.

Michigan has become a welfare state by their spending and the Governor hasn't tried very much to stop it. The Federal government has become the biggest welfare state in the world and to make things wOTse, we will soon have almost a one-party government and that is bad. It is the legislators that have passed so many bills of all kinds in the last few years that have made the Bureaucracy so big in Washington. The president and the cabinets are blamed for big government but they are only-doing wtiat has been forced on them by the congress. Only' a few presidents have been big spenders.

Over one hundred years ago. Henry Thoreau said government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said when it is expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce if they were not made of India rubber would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way and if one were to judge these men wtiolly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who pat obstructions on the railroads, So when Michigan and trie nation goes broke, we will know who is at fault, I LyfordM. Fulki Route 1 Claire WANTS EAU CLAIRE TO PERK UP Editor, 1 Do you know where Eau Claire, Mich. Is? You can't miss it, its the little town somewhere between Dowagiac and the one that has about six Christmas bulbs burning on a wire across the main street, and please donH try and park, because if you do you may never get away frqm the curb (that Is If you can find the curb).

What is the matter with the townspeople, don't they have a street maintenance man, or a nice truck with a blade to clear the streets? Forget the side -streets, that's a lost cause. Is Eau Claire the little forgotten town? Y'ou townspeople, what's the matter with you? Thirty years ago the streets were in better condition than they are today, and they had less equipment than they have today. 2 And as for decorations, why doesn't every family in Eau Claire give one decoration, which they probably have in the attic, and put it either. on a light pole or all get together and put them on the wires that are strung across the street. Come on folks, wake up, let's not be ashamed of that little town, get it back on the map as the town that came to life.

Even Sodus and Vandalia look better. So get together you newly-elected townspeople and see what you can do. Evelyn Merritt 4500 M-140 Eau Claire. Kerlevs Starks MfmmtL MOatft mc. 901 MAIN ST.

983-5538 ST. JOSEPH BERRIEN SPRINGS NEW BUFFALO Mrs. Alice Grimes Tuesday afternoon Shauer and Schymacher funeral home Green Bay. is. no local visitation Debbie Powell 11 a.m.

Monday Smith chapel. New Buffalo visitation from 5 untU 9 p.m. Saturday 2 until 9 p.m. Sunday and Monday until hour of sen ice Sophie Rymarz To Be Arranged Eastern Star's Oldest Member Dies In Berrien Mrs. Alice Grimes.

W. formerly of 712 IVarl street. St. Joseph, died at 7:30 a.m. Thursday in the Bry-Fem nursing homo.

Berrien Center. Mrs. Grimes was born July-Si. 1877. in Green Bay, and had resided in the area since Wl7.

She was a member the American Cliapter OES. No. 234 and was the oldest lady in the 7 Eastern Star in the State of Michigan. Her husband. Frederick preceded her in death in 193B.

Surviving is a stepdaughter. Mrs. Lillian LaMore. Braden-ton. Fla.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon in the Shaucr and Schymacher funeral home, (ireen Bay. Local arrangements were in charge of the Kcrlc? and Starks funeral home. St. Joseph. Leicis Ilutchins Lewis E.

Ilutchins. 84, Sioveasviile, died early today in Berrien General hospital. Berrien Center. He was born Feb. 23, 1892.

in Stcvens ille. Surviving is a sister. Mrs. L. E.

(Hope) Spindler. Columbia. Ma Funeral arrangements were incomplete this forenoon at the Allred-Mayhew funeral home. Berrien Springs. A a than liroun Nathan Brown.

82. of 363 Washington street. Benton Harbor, died at 12:52 a.m. today in Berrien General hospital, Berrien Center, where he had been a patient since Dec. 20.

Mr. Brown was. born July 6, 1894. in Little Rock, Ark. Surviving are a brother.

Woodrow, Milwaukee, a stepbrother, Emmett Smith, Los Angeles, and a sister, Mrs. Minnie Lee Cobb, Benton Harbor. Funeral arrangements were incomplete this forenoon at Hobbins Brothers funeral home. Benton Harbor. Marvin E.

Ilidenour Marvin E. Ridenour. 73. 2650 South Pipestone, Benton Harbor, died at 1:45 a.m. today in Memorial hospital, St.

Joseph. Mr. Ridenour was born Feb. 3. 1903.

in Wabash county. and moved to this area in 1927. Iltj, was a member of the Friends church, Wabash, and was employed by Fred Ashman, Benton Harbor. Survivors include his widow, Mildred; a son, Charles of Chicago Heights, two daughters, William (Frances) Foote of Flint and Mrs. Joseph (Marianne) Quinlan of Santa Rosa, his mother, Mrs.

Eurah Ridenour of Urbana. anda brother, Robert of Urbana. Funeral services will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at the Fairplain chapel of the Florin funeral home. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m.

Reinstated '(Continued From Page One) rule in his handling and disposal of a gun that had come into his possession by virtue of his official position as a member of the Niles police department." The statement said regarding payment of the two weeks pay that it was. awarded because there had been a misunderstanding between the' board and Cole over his desire for a hear-, ing. The pay is to be at the patrolman's pay level. House said. According to House, the vote to reinstate was unanimous although two of the five board members declined to vote either because they missed the hearing into the case or had testified in it.

The hearing was held Monday and the board received, petitions signed by 1.042 people calling for the reinstatement. As a patrolman, Cole will receive a yearly base pay of $12,811. He was receiving $14,027 in base pay as a sergeant. In addition he will receive a longevity amount for his years of service based on two per cent of the base pay for each five years of service. BOBBINS BROS.

FUNERAL HOME 1 N. Pair Av uNm Haraar PMONI Nathan Brown To Be Arranged Boil Of Disinfect It LANSING. Mich. (AP) A well-water shortage that has rorced son' Upper Peninsula residents to find substitute sources of water poses a potential health risk, state health officials warned. Dr.

Maurice S. Rcizen, public health director, urged residents to be sure they know where their water conies front and that it's safe. If in doubt, boil it or disinfect it ith chlorine, he advised. A severe drought last spring, summer and fall caused many wells to go dry' in Gogebic. Houghton, Iron, Marquette, Menominee, Delta and Dickinson counties on the western UP.

Some 1,750 residents have resorted toocal springs for their water, while others are getting water from nearby communities. Board May Face Lawsuit LANSING, Mich. (AP) The Warren Consolidated School Board may have to face a lawsuit filed by parents of a child who was allegedly sexually assaulted more than 100 times by a school principal. The stale Supreme Court in a split decision has returned to Macomb County Circuit Court the $1.5 million suit filed by the parents of Mark Galli. It left it up to the court to determine whether the school board and district administrator Olin Adams were liable for damages from the alleged assaults.

Three justices said the board and Adams were liable for damages, along with the accused principal, Arthur Kirkeby. Two judges said only Kirkeby was liable, while two other justices said the lower court should decide how many defendants were liable. The boy's parents charge that Kirkeby, who later pleaded no contest to criminal charges in the case, assaulted the nine-year-old boy more than UK) times in the storage room of the Hatherly Elementary School in Sterling Heights in 1972-73. Clerk Killed (Continued From Page One) suffered head injuries, officers said. A second passenger in the Colson car, Kurt Gabbard, 12.

of Prospect Heights, 111., was treated and released from Pawating. He was a passenger in the Colson No tickets were issued, but the accident remains under investigation. Miss Powell's death was the 37th traffic fatality on Berrien county roads this year. There had been 56 traffic deaths in the county as of this date in 1975. A spokesman for the Powell family' said King, a student at River Valley high school, had taken Miss Powell to Niles that morning so she could hunt for a full-time job.

The, spokesman said the two had recently become engaged to.be married. They were returning home when the fatal collision occurred. Debbie was born March 10, 1958. in Chicago. 111., and at the time of her death was a part-time retail clerk at Buttermaid Bakery in Niles.

Surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Powell, New Buffalo; a sister Dawn and a brother Dale, both at home; her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Clara Bergman, New Buffalo and paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Marshall Powell, Riverdale, III. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in the Smith funeral home. New Buffalo. Burial will be in Forest Lawn cemetery.

Three Oaks. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 until 9 p.m. Saturday; on Sunday from 2 until 9 p.m. and on Monday until the hour of service. ma FAIRPiAIN PIAZA 1 UMone Remembrances" I imamwinm I I HOSmUSiUMMTt fft Some Stations Staying Open By ASSOCIATED PRESS Michigan holiday motorists should find enough service stations open to meet their needs if they start their trips, with a full tank, the Automobile Club of Michigan says.

The auto club's "fuel gauge" survey of 300 stations along major state arteries showed 29 per cent of the stations checked will be open Christmas Day, hile 23 per cent will remain open after 9 p.m. Nine per cent will remain open after midnight. On Christmas Eve, 92 per cent of the stations surveyed wll be open during daylight hours, with 32 per cent open after 9 p.m. and 10 per cent after midnight. On Sunday, 81 per cent of the stations will operate, 54 per cent after 9 p.m.

The average cost of regular fuel at the 300 surveyed stations held steady at last week's price of 62.6 cents a gallon. Prices ranged from 54.9 to 68.8 cents. Who's Really In Doghouse? SOUTHFIELD. Mich. (AP) A Southfield woman is suing the city because one of its police dogs chewed up her carpet.

But her husband a policeman might end up having to pay for the damages. City officials say since Officer Robert Brown was in charge of the German shepherd, Charlie Brown, he's liable for any damage the dog may have done to his ife's $468 Brow was given charge of the police dog in June 1975, and decided to keep the animal at home rather than in a city kennel. The city reimbursed the officer for taking care of the dog, and installed a doghouse in his backyard. But on the night of July 1, 1975, Charlie Brown began howling. Officer Brown let the dog inside his house, and was rewarded with a chewed carpet.

His wife, Charlene, filed suit this month in Southfield District Court against the city. Alderman To Lead It's Up To Them 7 CONVICTED: A federal jury convicted Anthony Ulasewicz on two counts of tax fraud Thursday; in New York. This ruling was for failing to report on time S41.000 he was paid Tor deliver 1 ing more than $200,000 to Watergate burglars who faced prosecution. (AP Wirephoto) permanently in the special election which must be held within six months. Black Alderman Wilson Frost, president pro tern of the City Council, proclaimed himself the acting mayor Thursday but was immediately challenged by Frank Sullivan, press aide for Daley, and William R.

Quinlan. city corporation counsel. FLORIN FUNERAL SERVICE Marvin Ridenour 10 a.m. Monday Fairplain Chapel FAIRPLAIN CHAPEL 10S3 E. NAPIER BENTON HARBOR LAKESHORE CHAPEL 5767 RED ARROW HIGHWAY STEVENSVILLE DAVIDSON CHAPEL 249 E.

CENTER COLOMA DEV FLORIN FUNERAL HOME 2506 NILES AVENUE ST. JOSEPH CIIXRLETTE CAR.NES.S MICHELLE CARNES.J Girls Die In Fire At Heatless Home LANSING, Mich. (AP) It's up to school districts whether to admit nonresident pupils and how much to charge the parents for -tuition, the stale attorney general's office said. Tuition must be charged in such cases, but if the tuition is to be paid by the parents the local school board doesn't have to charge the maximum rates allowed by law, said Atty. Gen.

Frank Kelloy. The opinion was requested by state Sen. Daniel S. Cooper, D-Oak Park, in connection with recent amendments to the state School Aid Ail. Two Checks Or None At All LANSING, Mich.

(AP) The slate social service department is probing its own billing and accounting practices concerning welfare payments to a Salvation Army center in Detroit, Department Director Deiupsey said he ordered the investigation after receiving a letter from a caseworker who complained her supervisors refused to probe the mailer. Dempsey said an internal task force has not found "any impropriety" concerning the Salvation Army's Harbor Light Center in Detroit. The state probe reportedly centers on general assistance welfare payments made to the Salvation Army for the care and treatment of indigent men at the Hartmr Light Center. The center's program includes rehabilitation or men suffering from alcoholism and drug abuse. Dempsey said it was possible the Harbor Light Center was receiving extra welfare, checks because of problems in Wayne County's fiscal bureau in Detrnit.

"The Army might have received two checks or none at all." Dempsey said. "That's what we're trying to find out." Enrollment Down LNS1NG. Mn. (AT) The state's public school enrollment decreased nearly 45,000 this year, the biggest one-year decline since enrollment started dropping five years ago. An estimated 2.083.000 pupils were enrolled in Michigan's 4.000 public schools on Oct.

1. down 2.1 per cent trom the student population last year, the state Hoard of Education said. Public school enrollment peaked at 2.212.000 in 1971-72 and has been dropping ever since. A recent study predicted enrollment will decline by another 236.000 in the next five years Flashing Light Bill Signed LVNSLN'G. Mich.

(AP) Doctors and ambulance drivers may install flashing lights on their ow cars for use when responding to emergencies, under a bill signed into law Wednesday. Except for limited police instances, drivers of such emergency vehicles must sound an audible signal when using the flashing or rotating lights, in addition to numerous minor bills. Gov. William Milliken also signed an amendment to the nx'ntal health code requiring a final hearing within seven days after a person is admitted to a mental institution. The former limit was 14 d.us GR.VNT, Mich.

(AP) Two young sisters perished when lire swept through their home Wednesday while their parents were out buying an ax to cut wood to warm the Imuse. The bodies of Michelle Carnes. 3. and Charlotte, 6, were found near a wood-burning kitchen stove which had Ixiii the family's only souree of heat since their fuel oil and mrney to buy it ran out a couple of weeks ago. Hre Chief Er in Van Hoovering of Grant expressed belief llie fire started near the stove He said the roof and one of tlie walls of the house collapsed before firemen arrived.

The fattier, Jerry Carnes. an unemployed welder, told officials he made the short trip into town to get a handle for liis av On the way home, he and his wife. Betty, saw the fire engines and followed them, not knowing it was their home which was on fire. A third child. Mark, 9.

was in scfwol at the time of the fire. CHICAGO (AP) The odds-on favorite to serve as interim may or of Chicago has shifted to the late Mayor Richard J. Daley's floor leader in the City Council, Alderman Michael A. Bilandic. Leading Democrats told the Chicago Sun-Times that Bilandic went over the top when 27 of 48 votes were pledged1" to him by-noon Thursday.

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