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Twin City Highlights Twin City Highlights combining (l)e jDfapgnllnStnm and the herald-press BENTON HARBOR ST. JOSEPH, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, APRIL 1977 ticker Mace Features Of St. votes. Ballots cast spelling out her first name should also -be counted, he said. Here are the kieations of the polling places: precincts 1 and 2 voteat xity hall; precincts 3 and 4 vote at Washington school; precincts 6 and 1 vote at Jefferson school; precincts 8 and 10 vote at Lincoln school; and precinct 9 votes at the senior high school: There is no precinct 5.

endorsed the penetrator only on the condition that it be part of an overall business route through the Twin Cities. Mrs. Wilson is distributing material on how to cast a write-in vote. The material advises voters to rite her name on the ballot as, Wilson." Patrick Phelan, city clerk and treasurer, said it appears from Michigan election law that votes cast for Mrs. Wilson using the first initial should be counted as legally correct Jefferson school and she is active in United for Survival and in Concrete Opposition Unlimited.

The latter group has taken a stand against construction of the proposed 1-94 penetrator in St. Joseph township. Hanley, along ith other commissioners voted in October to adopt a position favoring construction of the penetrator despite a 2 to 1 vote against it by city residents' last May. The commission Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday, April 4, for the nonpartisan St. Joseph city commission election. Incumbent Joseph Hanley, who is seeking his third, three-year is the only candidate on the ballot. Hanley, 54, of 1310 Lewis avenue" Js president of Vail Rubber inc. Hanley Is facing a challenge, however, from Sharon Beal Wilson who announced Thursday she is a write-in candidate for the post.

Mrs. Beal, 36, of 1221 Lane drive, is a kindergarten teacher at Prison Foe eek Aid Of Lillian 'f ix i more than 1,400 by the end of the year." Perry Johnson, director of he' state corrections department, said the former seminar' would be used primarily for minimum prisoners. Other state officials have talked of a predominantly medium security prison with 500 inmates. The anti-prison committe claims there was no local input during discussions on the proposed jail and that such a facility will destroy the area's tourist economy. The group suggested that the federal and state governments consider turning Kincheloe Air Force base near Sault Marie into a prison hen the Air Force abandons it this summer.

Estimates on the costs of acquiring the seminary site and converting it to a prison range up to S12 million. The DNR has been reported as willing to in-vBt $5 million in a park. jr j'' f- EMU COUNCIL MEMBERS: Donald and Annabelle Tinberg, 1216 Hillcrest, St. Joseph; have been appointed to the Eastern Michigan University Parents' Council for 1977-78. The purpose of the Parents' association is to promote an understanding of Eastern among parents, to afford parents a channel through which they can express their ideas and learn more about Eastern and to promote and support programs for the betterment of Eastern and its students.

The Tinberg's daughter Donna is a sophomore at Eastern. OPEN AT LAST: Westbound lanes of new bascule bridge over St. Joseph river were opened this week permitting four lanes of traffic to flow on bridge between Benton Harbor and St. Joseph. Eastbound lanes had been opened for some time but westbound was closed while hydraulic lift system was being checked.

Four lanes on fixed span Morrison channel bridge were opened last year. New bridges cost $9.2 million. Demolition for project began in 1974 and ac- tual contraction in 1975. Final completion of project is scheduled for August, Paw Paw Hospital Has Tight Budget 11 1 111 3 ing outstanding bills, and tightened purchasing policies. Payne said the budget includes pay raises of up to five per cent for the hospital's 252 employes.

Captain98 Table, rr a a SAUGATUCK. Mich. (AP) -Local residents opposed to a plan to build a prison near here have asked for help from Lillian Carter, the President's mother. They bought a four-column," two-inch in the Times Recorder the nearest daily paper to Mrs. Carter's home in Plains The ad said: "Miss Lillian We need your help.

Please ask your son, Jimmy, to read a Mailogram we sent to his office March 23." Signed by the Prison Action Committee of Saugatuck-Holland, the ad cost $14.80 and was paid for by Aimmittee member Del Clark. "Committee memlcrs told the President in the Mailogram: "It may seem strange that we should turn to the President for such a local problem, but we need to be We did not support you in the national election, but we have been attracted by your openness to the problems of little folk and your wish that government move by the advice and consent or its citizens. "Surely there must be an agency or a fund that can help us save our lakeshixe area." the message said. At issue is the 600-acre site of a soon-to-be abandoned seminary in Laketown Township of western Michigan's Allegan County. Michigan prison officials, searching for additional prison space, have considered using the old seminary and its convent.

The property includes numerous buildings and 13,4 miles of Lake Michigan waterfront. State officials have said only 60 or 70 acres of the 'site ould be used for a prison. The remainder would be given to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for a state park. Gov. William Milliken flew into the area Thursday to look at the property after he received letters and petitions protesting the plan.

Milliken told area residents, "We have a very serious and immediate We now have more than 12,000 prisoners and expect the figure to grow Man Hurt When Hit By Truck By TOM RENNER Sooth Haven Correspondent SOUTH HAVEN An Illinois man was seriously injured Friday when struck by a truck as it backed into a loading dock of a South Haven store. City police said Edmond Maas, 67, of Elmhurst, 111., suffered a broken right leg and shoulder and internal injuries wten the dual right rear wheels of a truck rolled over him. He was listed in tion today at Holland city hospital. Police said a truck driven by Dale Staal, 20, of Grand Rapids, was backing into a loading dock at the Consumer Discount store, 530 Huron street, at about 11:55 a.m., when Maas was struck. Police said Maas had just made a purchase at the store and was returning to his car.

No charges were filed against the truck driver, police said. was overly optimistic. Payne said the new budget is based on an average occupancy of 61 per cent for the coming year, compared to the current 56 per The acute care facility has 59 beds and the nursing home 47. Also expected to help the hospital's financial picture, he said, are higher room rates which went into effect last November. At that time, the basic rate for a room at the nursing home climbed from $24.50 to $29 per day.

At the hospital, ward care went from $66 to $76 per day, a semi-private room from $68 to $80, and a private room from $70 to $84 Videre, a Grand Rapids medical consulting firm, assumed management of the hospital last August under a contract with the hospital board. According to William E. Darooge, Videre president, the hospital has operated at a profit for the last two months, ending nine straight months of losses. "Unfortunately," he said, "the fourth quarter performance will not be sufficient to offset the large operating losses experienced during the first nine months of the year." What those losses will amount to is expected to be presented to the board at its June meeting. Since assuming management, Darooge said Videre has cut operating expenses by six per cent, made progress on collect PAW PAW Lake View Community hospital authorities are banking on increased occupancy and room rates boosted last November to help balance the financially troubled facility's budget in the coming year.

The combined fiscal 1977-78 budget for the hospital's acute care and skilled nursing facilities, which was approved by the hospital board Thursday, is $3,207,676, about $4,000 more than last year. But individually, the budgets of the two units have changed At the acute care facility, expenses 'are budgeted at $2,641,030, down from last year's budgeted disbursements of $2,755,320. Conversely, the skilled nursing facility's budget has climbed from $448,029 to $566,646. "Internally, a number of expenses that were being charged to the hospital (acute care facility) were really expenses that should have been charged to the nursing home (skilled care facility)" said hospital administrator Michael Payne. "What we've really done in this new budget is to re-allocate them." Payne said actual expenses for the fiscal year which ended March 31 won't be known until an audit is completed in May.

But, he added, the 70 per cent occupancy rate on which the fiscal 1976-77 budget was based tor for new bridges. Old two-lane bridge is at least 6ft years old and has long been outmoded for volume of traffic it carries. (Staff photos) UNLAMENTED END: Demolition is scheduled to "start Monday on old Main street bridge over St. Joseph river, according to Fred Holland, general superintendent of Walter Toebe general contrac St. Joe Student Appointed To U.S.

Naval Academy MICHAEL VAN BROCKLLN Annapolis bound Achievement company and a winner of a St. Joseph Elks lodge scholarship award. 1 OSl Ull AAA Honor List. The Captain's Table, Benton Harbor, and Tosi's, Stevens-ville, are among 37 restaurants in western Michigan recommended in the April edition of Motor News, the publication of the Automobile Club of Michigan. The issue is devoted to what the magazine calls Michigan's best resorts, man-made attractions, natural wonders, scenic drives and fishing waters.

RESIGNS: Larry Fortner, 35, athletic director and assistant principal at Paw Paw high school, has announced his resignation from posts effective at end of school year. Fortner said he plans to return to Detroit area. He came to dual posts last September from Farmington, where he had taught and coached cross country and wrestling. tfi. Michael J.

Van Brocklin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eber Van Brocklin, 1104 State street, St. Joseph, has been appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.

lVaniiroeklin's appointment was announced by Congressman Dave Stockman (R-St. Joseph). He was nominated for the academy last year by then Congressman Edward Hutchinson. Van Brocklin said he has accepted the appointment and will report to the academy July 6. Concert He will graduate in June from St.

Joseph high school here he ranks 13th in a classuf 363 with a grade point average of 3.75. Last fall Van Brocklin was named center on the Big Seven all-conference football team. He is tri-captain of the Bears' track team this spring. Van Brocklin, 6 feet, 185 pounds.he intends to go out for football at the academy. His pother school activites include National Honor society, concert, symphonic and stage bands.

He is vice president of. "Creative Woods" Junior Business Luncheon At Catholic School BHHS Jazz Scheduled April 14 The Benton Harbor high school vocal music department will present its fifth annual jazz concert Thursday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in the high school's performing arts center. Singing pop tunes and jazz arrangements, will be the Madrigals, Men's Glee club. Women's ensemble.

Tiger chorale, Octavia and Concert choirs all under the direction of Cole Tyrrell, director of vocal music at BHHS. Admis The 10th annual Businessmen's Luncheon sponsored by the junior class of Lake Michigan Catholic high school will be held at the school from 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday, April 4. Proceeds from the luncheon are used to sponsor the junior-senior dinner dance, an annual going-away gift from the juniors to the graduatng seniors.

The menu for the luncheon is turkey a la king, salad, bread, butter, cranberries, apple rings, homemade pie, coffee and milk. Tickets are $2.00. General chairman is Mary Bazan. Co-chairmen are Mary Broderick and Janice Sarno. Cindy Jaskiewicz and George Schueneman are in charge of Science Courses Started BERRIEN SPRINGS Richard Schinkel, Oronoko township naturalist, has started weekly classes in natural science for children in the third, fourth and fifth grades.

The classes meet at the township hall at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, Schinkel said. He said there is no charge for classes which will include instructions on plants and animals. sion is $1 and tickets may be purchased at the door or from any member of the choral groups. publicity and tickets.

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