Petoskey News-Review from Petoskey, Michigan • 1

Dems Say Courts Create Crisis Interfering in Party Disputes Settle Weather Cloudy, warmer. High 70, Low 55 Noon 72 The only newspaper in the North- -West Michigan Region that is read each day by you and over 30,000 of your friends and neighbors. Vol. 197 Thursday, July 6, 1972 46 Pages INCLUDING ONE TABLOID Fifteen Cents Free Rides, Park on Waterfront Barney Urges DisneyType Shopper Vehicles By JIM DOHERTY Bill Barney told city council Petoskey has a beautiful waterfront that could provide parking and the city might consider Disneyland style little vehicles to provide transportation. Speaking last night, Barney said he didn't expect to see this happen this year or next but he thought it was something the city should be thinking about.

He also felt the waterfront could be beautified and made even more attractive. He said the area east of the softball park near the old lime kiln pond could be an attractive area and also provide parking. Barney described the slow moving Disney style trailer type vehicles as safe, slow traveling and could also be used to send packages for shoppers down to the Charles J. Gray Building where they could be picked up. He felt several such vehicles would be necessary.

He said he would like to see doubledeck parking, but this is expensive and he thought this might be an alternative. Mayor James Gibson referred the matter to Councilman Ross Biederman to take back to the Petoskey Building Authority, which is studying downtown parking, to consider along with their parking proposals. He said other suggestions he had heard included an aerial tramway. Lake-st. Parking Biederman asked if councilmen had done any thinking about the request of the authority for a city decision on what they plan to do with the Montgomery Ward warehouse and the former PennDixie Building on Lake-st.

The Ward lease expires Nov. 1 and the authority recommended that both buildings be torn down at that time to start the parking lot. He brought this up at the last meeting and council tabled it. A decked lot has been recommended. Biederman said the authority is at a standstill until a decision is reached and they can get cost estimates for a public hearing so Central Business District merchants will know how much their assessments would be in the project with the city.

Mayor Gibson said he was waiting until Petoskey Planning Commission made a decision on the W.T. Grant Shopping area proposal on the West Side. City Manager Richard Gorman said the commission had held a public hearing, a meeting and was planning another meeting for 7 a.m. Thursday (today) but he doubted if a decision would be reached until July 20. Sees Office Space Councilman James Dilworth said he was in agreement that the Montgomery Ward warehouse building should be torn down after Nov.

1 but on the Penn-Dixie building he had questions. He said the city and county had many requests for office space from the District Health Secretary of State's Branch License Bureau, Michigan Employment Security Commission, Bureau of Social Services and others. "We have people hollering for more office space, we have a beautiful building (the Penn Dixie building) perhaps we should ask them if they are interested," he said. Gorman said he thought it could be rented. But until a decision is reached by council on what they'll do with these buildings, or whether or not they will be able to purchase the former Abstract Building, the Petoskey Building Authority can't proceed with its plans for decked parking, the assessment and bonding program or plan for the public hearing.

Mayor Opposes Parking Meter Proposal for the West Side By JIM DOHERTY Mayor James Gibson expressed opposition to recommendations of the Petoskey Building Authority for parking meters on Jackson-st. and Connable adjacent to US-31. He said at a special meeting last evening that posting two hour signs would do the trick, felt this was not the time for parking meters on the West Side. Councilman Ross Biederman, a non-voting council representative on the authority, said he would take the matter back to the authority but he differed with the mayor. He felt two hour signs weren't working in providing parking in this business area and disagreed on meters for the West Side.

"West Side merchants are no different than the downtown area if they need parking and if they want meters they should have Fischer Sends Apology REYKJAVIK, ICELAND "Please accept my sincerest (UPI) American chess apology for my disrespectful challenger Bobby Fisher hand- behavior in not attending the delivered a note to the Soviet's opening ceremony. I have ofBoris Spassky today, fended you and your country, apologizing for his the Soviet Union, where chess "disrespectful behavior, and his has a prestigeous position," petty dispute" over money and Fischer's note said. asked the Russian to withdraw Fischer also asked Spassky to a demand that he forfeit the get the Soviet Chess Federation first game in the 24-game world to drop its demand that he championship series. forfeit the first game to Spassky, Petoskey School Mrs. Herman At their organizational meeting held last night, the Petoskey Board of Education re-elected Mrs.

Herman (Hazel) Meyer to serve in a second term as school board president. Others elected as board officers were Hugh Winnel, first vice president; Orval Cutshaw, second vice president; Dr. Ted Schaub, treasurer; and Mrs. Paul Brown, secretary. In other board business, it was agreed that the third Monday of each month would be the date of the regular monthly board meeting, which would be held at 7:30 p.m.

in the senior high school library. The First National Bank and the First State Bank, both of Inside Petoskey school, council ok agreement for community pool, seek federal funds. Charlevoix council ok's 35 unit apartment. Petoskey studies adding space for 60 more boats, more ramps, parking. Indian fishing disputes.

Petoskey, Mich. 49770 Ask High Court Settle McGovern, Daley Issues Issues them," he said. Mayor Checked Area Mayor Gibson at the last meeting had requested a delay on the request for meters in this area. He said he had surveyed the area and had police check Connable and they found no violations of the two hour limit after it was signed. He said meters cost $80 each, installed, and have to be policed.

He said he found only one person interested in meters in this area and there were several business places. Mayor Gibson said he had talked with the Lee Ann Bakery people and they had advised their workers to park in the school area, giving four or five spaces and he said Lee Knudsen felt the two hour signs adequate. "I see vacancies there every day," Mayor Gibson added. Mayor Gibson also called for publicity to spaces available on State-st. by the junior high school for all-day parking since school is closed.

William Barney of the Gas Light District requested that the city add meters in the 100 block on lower Howard-st. to provide more parking for shoppers. He said the $2 fine for second-time violators who don't move was working and clearing the streets of all-day parkers. Barney also asked police to crack down on noisy motorcycles and other vehicles here, especially on the corner of Bay and Lakest. He also asked the city to check into installing a pedestrian crossing sign on the Petoskey-Lake-st.

intersection such as the city has on Mitchell-st. Board Re-Elects Meyer as President Petoskey, were also designated superintendent and treasurer as the school depositories. be authorized to co-sign checks Theodore Schaub was also drawn on the current building authorized by the board to sign and site fund and that if neither general fund and payroll were able to sign Leonard checks drawn on the school Burgess would be authorized. district by use of the check disburser and that in the event Burgess and Schaub were the treasurer is not able to sign also authorized to co-sign the school superintendent would checks drawn on the Debt be authorized. Retirement Funds of the school It was also decided that district.

Traverse Workers Electrocuted GRAWN (UPI) Two young both of Traverse City. workers were electrocuted Wednesday when a large They were employed by the irrigation pipe they were Duffy-Mott a fruit holding fell against a processing firm. The fatal power line 28 feet above the accident occurred on the first ground. day Core and Ankerson were The victims were Ken Core, back on the job after being laid 20, and Eugene Ankerson, 19, off last November. WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court was asked today to decide whether 153 California delegates committed to George S.

McGovern and 59 Illinois delegates headed by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley should be seated at the Democratic National Convention. In appealing the California case, the Democratic National Committee said the country had been "thrown into a constitutional crisis" by court interference in the delegate selection process. QUELL GAS LEAK. Petoskey Fire Department sent three units to 112 Howard st.

yesterday where they brought a ruptured 100 gallon LP gas under control. Here firemen Jerry Featherly and Bill Hansen shower the broken tank with high pressure fog while other firemen and police kept the people away from the area. The electric crew cut the wires to halt any accidental explosion. (NEWS photo by Fred Lovelace) Open Bids, Start Special Assessment Pro Procedures res By JIM DOHERTY Bids were opened last night for recapping (paving) several streets here and sealcoating more. In addition, council set July 17 for public hearings on special assessment paving for Spruce from Selden to Lockwood and Selden from Spruce to Jennings as well as curb and gutter, base and double seal for Hoffmanave.

from Karamol to Kalamazoo. City Manager Richard Gorman estimated costs of the special assessment on Hoffman at $25,500 or $12.88 per lineal foot. In addition, the city will spend more than $16,000 to install a storm sewer and water main on the street. The Spruce-st. project will cost $7.16 per lineal foot to the adjoining property owners as the city is one of the large landowners (Lockwood Field) "The courts have never intruded in this way into the quarrels of political candidates and now that the Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia has done so," said John Kester, a National Committee lawyer, "we have no recourse but to ask the Supreme Court to restore the judiciary to its proper place in the constitutional scheme of things." The Supreme Court was in recess and it was not certain whether a special session would be convened as both parties requested.

In the Illinois appeal, attorneys for Daley and the other delegates said the lower court had "totally ignored the Illinois election code and had superimposed on the code requirements which disenfranchised the electorate and violate the rights of officeholders." McGovern won all of California's 271 delegates in the winner-take-all June 5 primary. The Democratic Credentials Committee stripped 153 of them from McGovern on grounds they should have been distributed proportionately among the candidates along the line of the party's reform rules. But the Court of Appeals restored all of them to McGovern Wednesday. The Credentials Committee also refused to recommend seating Daley's "uncommitted" delegates and the Court of Appeals sustained it. On Wednesday, the Appeals Court first issued a terse just after 11 a.m.

EDT saying only that it was remanding the California and Illinois delegates cases to the U.S. District Court for reconsideration. News services reported that action. It was not until nearly four hours later, when the appeals panel issued opinions in the cases, that it became clear the three judges had voted 2-1- to overturn the Credentials panel and give the full 27-member California delegation to McGovern. The same was true of the Illinois case, in which the appeals court voted unanimously to uphold the credentials committee and bar seating of Daley and 58 other uncommitted delegates.

It turned out that the cases had been remanded to U.S. District Judge George L. Hart jr. -but only for the formality of clearing his docket of the matters. John Kester, cocounsel with Joseph A.

Califano general counsel of the Democratic National Committee, filed pato pers asking Chief Justice is Warren E. Burger to temporarily block the appellate court's order and to convene the Supreme Court in a special See Democrats Page 14 and curb and gutter is in. The will cost $12,549 with the city city is also picking up 25 percent picking up $6,564. of the cost. Selden will get a Bidders on the city's paving base and two inch surface and program which were announced the lineal foot cost is estimated in the last issue: at $5.63.

Gorman said these projects See Paving Page 14 Cash, Drugs Stolen At Boyne Center BOYNE CITY Boyne City Police today are investigating the breaking and entering of the Boyne Valley Medical Center that apparently occurred late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. Chief John Talboys said that approximately $150 to $200 in cash along with a variety of medical supplies including syringes and a quantity of narcotics was taken from the center. He said a window was broken to gain entry to Dr. Murray Clark's office and a door was broken down to enter Dr. Richard Mansfield's office.

Talboys said both offices were ransacked. Full inventory of supplies will be taken by the doctors determine exactly what is missing, Talboys added. The medical center is located on M-75 just inside the northeast Boyne City limit. Bear Creek Board Drops Plan To Adopt Local Dog Controls By JIM HERMAN BEAR CREEK After lengthy discussion with numerous officials last night, the Bear Creek Township Board agreed that it would not take action to form a dog control ordinance. "We as a township would have no means of enforcing an ordinance so we have decided against writing one," a board member said this morning.

At its last meeting, the Bear Creek officials had agreed to study ordinances in effect in neighboring towns at the suggestion of resident Henry Budek. The board member said that there is already a state ordinance in effect that is applicable to all areas and enforceable by the county sheriff's department. Tim Behan of the Emmet County Humane Society is a deputy and in charge of the handling of such situations. problem is not the sheriff's department the Humane Society," another official told the News Review. "The problem is with the prosecuting attorney's office.

Everybody knows if you get a summons from Behan you can throw it in the waste basket because it will not be enforced." Budek has complained for over a year about barking dogs in his neighborhood. He has sought action from all county and township levels and law enforcement agencies to no avail. Last night, Al Foster, Bear Creek representative to the Emmet County Board of Commissioners, Charlevoix County Sheriff Philo Sumner and deputy Joe Etienne, Behan, Budek and one of Budek's neighbors discussed the problem before the township board arrived at its no-action decision. The Charlevoix County officials explained how they enforce the state guidelines and Behan explained Emmet's system. Sheriff Zink This morning, Emmet Sheriff Richard Zink was asked about the allegation that there is laxity in enforcement by the prosecuting attorney.

"I wouldn't want to make a generalization like that," sheriff Zink commented. "It may be true in one or two cases but certainly not all the time." Zink further stated that it is his opinion that the problem in Bear Creek is an isolated problem. He said his department had investigated Budek's complaint numerous times and finally chose to follow the advice of the county prosecuting attorney. "This particular problem in Bear Creek is a civil problem in which Budek has the right to go to an attorney. But it is not a criminal matter," Zink explained.

"We have investigated and it is our finding, on advisement of our prosecuting attorney, that Budek should go ahead and handle this civilly and he has been advised to that effect." He added that at this point he feels it's outside the jurisdiction of the county sheriff's department. The discussion of the possible dog ordinance dominated the township board meeting with the only other issue being approval to pay bills. Mrs. Herman Meyer.