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HOPEFULLY, ingress and egress to the Maple
Street School will be organized before winter
buries us. The roads leading to and from the
school are In, but it doesn't appear they're
fterald [imes
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THE ANNOUNCEMENT this week of
S56.20CS in federal funds to employ a number
of persons in Otsego County is good news.
County Commissioner Don Walsh put
forth considerable effort in securing the
money Otsego County was the first of the
out-state counties to get its share of the $41
million allotted to counties and cities in
Michigan.
completed The road to the north has not been
graded as yet Looking to the future, Al sees the
need for sidewalks at both new elementary
schools m Gayiord
Money Will Go Long Way
The money not only takes several people
off the welfare roles It results in the hiring
of a much-needed dog warden for the
county The new warden won't have any
problem keeping busy. He'll also serve as a
deputy sheriff
tinder X^Jte o UH
Autumn Is Like That
SOMETIMES AUTUMN IS \ warm and
pleasant season, allowing us a leisurely
Indian summer and gradually reading our
hearts for winter's blast. The sky drapes a
bright blue backdrop for brashish orange
and golden leaves throwing a final fling
before sighing down to earth.
Gifted with such a gentle autumn, we
stand outside in the crisp evening air to
watch a moon, paler than August's, whisper
across a crystal night And maybe we only
shiver a little should we forget to close the
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window before going to bed.
Sometimes autumn is like that. soft,
unhurried days Children ignore summer's
exit. They continue playing ball, riding
bikes and skipping rope wearing short
sleeves and sneakers Everyone regards
autumn in the friendliest of terms,
overlooking the vacant spot where the wood
should be stacked and the unwashed storm
windows still resting in the basement.
SOMETIMES AUTUMN IS not like that at
all. but instead sends a mean wind crashing
against the house Branches, stunned by the
sudden burden of soggy snow, weep lowover
the streets and sidewalks, and hills
only hint russet where a generous sun
touched.
Hardly anyone notices the premature
beauty of a green landscape turned white
overnight Nor is there any apparent good
humor abounding as we shove stalled cars
or rush to buy boots that haven't been
stocked yet
Then, just as we settle down to permanent
grumbling autumn returns, sanguine, and
bearing sweet breezes Fields laze in a
yellow dazzle and mustard moons stand
sentry duty
Nostalgia descends sprawling in piles of
musty leaves and snuggling on hay wagons
beneath star-chilled skies Marshmallow
roasts around crackling fires, and
dreaming big dreams while smoke drifts
and winds through naked tree limbs
crisscrossing the night
VNe remember, and tr> not to think about
winter, for awhile
&tter& to *€ke Sditor
Observations of The Chairman
Friday, Sept. 24, 1971, could
very well be considered a red
letter day for al! Otsegn
County for it was on this day
that Donald Walsh, county
commissioner presented, a
check for $6,047.55 which he
received from the Emergency
Unemployment Fund for the
first month ,/ayment to the
Board of Commissioners who
will in turn pass it on to the
Country Treasurer Robert
Pray and county clerk Ted
Werts whose departments will
administer the funds.
The board recently appointed
Don to do the administrate
work necessary
to secure the money and we
wish to commend him for a job
well done and we also wish to
thank the governor's Task
Force which is in charge of
distributing the money for
restoring our faith in human
nature as well as the government
for distributing the funds
quickly without excessive
administrative costs.
This certainly is a switch
from our previous experiences
with boards and commissions.
The awarding of this money
makes it possible for the
county, the city, and the
village of Vanderbilt to see the
light at the end of the tunnel.
The money will provide the
county with five employees,
Otsego County Herald Times
Mr James Grisso, Editor
Gayiord, Michigan
Dear Mr. Grisso:
This letter is a response to
Name Withheld on Request in
your Sept. 22nd. issue.
I am a member of the Board
of Education, Gayiord
Community Schools. We do a
lot of things but we do not
make dress code regulations
nor do we employ an instructor
for a class entitled
•RESPECT". As a member
and as a private citizen, I
hoped that parents would help
control how their child dresses
for school and how they learn
about personal hygiene and
good grooming, just as they
two at the Recreational Center
which will insure that the
renter will be put into
operation, another deputy for
the sheriff's department
which should provide better
service and take care of the
dog situation and a clerk at the
court house which should take
care of the seasonal overloads
and an additional janitor for
the court house.
It will also provide the city
with two needed employees
and the village of Vanderbilt
with one.
We would like to thank
Thompson and Brown and
their engineer Roy Russell
and Joe Wasie for architectural
and engineering
assistance they extended to us
at the recreational center. It is
appreciated and certainly will
speed up the work there. We
believe that even a small
amount of bad publicity,
regardless of the source plus
lack of communication is the
major cause of a lot of our
troubles and in this vein we
would like to state our position
in regards to the various
departments.
We believe zoning and
building inspection department
is in capable hands with
Robert Kilboum in charge. We
recognize the fact that some
changes are necessary and
they are in the making with
the combined assistance of the
zoning committee and
prosecutor Mike O'Rourke.
We regret that Rod Hutcnins
left due to policy differences
and we are glad he found
employment with Shell Oil.
There never was any doubt as
to his capabilities.
We believe our new
equalization director is highly
qualified to do a good job and
we believe Lewis Jensen's
staying on until after the first
of the year will be to our advantage.
We believe Lucille
Boughner and Evelyn Pratt do
an excellent job. We have
always believed that equitable
and fair assessment of both
real and personal property in
a major part of the solution to
our tax problems.
We certainly appreciate the
co-operation of Ford Allen of
the Soil Conservation
department and Lester
Howard, our extension agent.
We believe the Juvenile
Court division of Probate
Court, Veteran's affair and
the Department of Social
Services are in good hands.
A major problem confronting
us is the drainage of
Otsego Lake. Projects of this
nature are complex and
progress is painstakingly slow
but we are confident that when
Up to Parent, Not School
" If It Fitz..."
teach them to walk, talk, eat,
etc...
Do you parents ever see how
your children leave home in
the morning 7 If you allow
them to arrive at school
looking as the writer cited,
and react to open petting and
long hair and beards, then you
as parents must have them act
and do this at home. Is it
accepted at home but not at
school?
Speaking in defense of all of
our School Board Members,
they are responsible, mature
and competent parents. I
know each ones families and
theirs and mine are all of
these things. Perhaps a visit to
a board meeting will give you
an introduction to the members.
We as Board members are
there to see that their (the
studentsi minds giuw. We
need helpful co-operation
from all parents for this,
likewise, we hope parents will
help banish the so called
the work is completed on it it
will be a model for future
ordinances.
The departments headed by
elected officials are operated
and run primarily under
accepted guidelines, rules and
regulations and we believe
they do a good job. We would
be remiss if we stated that all
things were 100 percent
perfect as there is always
room for improvement but all
in all we believe this progress
report, if it can be considered
as such, should be accepted on
the positive side. The board,
too, can see the light at the end
of the tunnel.
There are two subjects
which individual members of
the board have been long
interested in which more than
likely should be given consideration
by the entire board
as they affect the entire
county. They are the building
of a senior citizen and low
income housing project and
the re-establishment of the
Otsego County Historical
Society. The County will be
one hundred years old in 1975.
We believe both of these
projects vitally effect
everyone in the county and
should be given consideration
by everyone.
Otsego County Board
of Commissioners,
Lewis A. Perry, Chairman
Prevalent America Pollution
that the writer cites.
Very truly yuuis,
Mattie Lee Townsend,
Member
Gayiord Community Schools
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Let The Indians Fish
Dear Editor:
Lo - the poor Indian. This
writer has been following,
with an ever increasing and
deepening disgust, the antics
and maneuvering by sportsmen,
rod and gun clubs, etc.,
relative to the Indian fishing
for a livelihood. In my opinion,
it is one h— of a lot more
important that these down
trodden, one and only original
Americans be permitted to
fish at will rather than
At Least The Klan Is Honest'
WHEN ROBERT MILES wrote that nasty
letter about me, several years ago, I didn't
know he was Grand Dragon of the Michigan
Ku Klux Klan.
I figured he was just one more in a long
line of unhappy readers who think I should
hang up my typewriter and return to the
Chrysler assembly line. Except Miles'
letter was more articulate than most, and
more full of venom. And it bugged me
because I couldn't figure from it exactly
what I'd written to turn him so far off.
But I soon found out. The letter appeared
in the Press in Livingston County where
Miles lives. The editor filled me in on Miles'
undersheet activities. Such a fine fellow
could hardly be expected to think much of a
jerk like me. It isn't just that I'm continually
rapping the racists. Gosh. I even wrote
that my college daughter was welcome to
date a Negro, and bring him home for
Christmas dinner, if she could find a black
boy who would forgive her white skin.
Statements like that really upset a
Kluxer, even the more modern type such as
Miles In recent years he has courted
publicity, inviting the press to Klan
meetings, and he generally comes off as a
reasonable, likable, nonviolent man who
doesn't hate Negroes. He just doesn't want
black and white mixing and he can probably
show you in the Bible where God feels the
same way.
MILES IS CURRENTLY in the headlines
because of his arrest by the FBI for conspiracy
in connection with the bombing of
school buses in Pontiac I find it hard to
believe he is that dumb - or the FBI is that
smart. But that's for the courts to decide
I don't find it hard to believe that Miles
would be against busing to achieve racial
integration But thousands of people arc
against that people who are horrified by
the Klin That's the sad thing. You don't
m
preserve it for so-called sport
fishing.
I am only sorry that instead
of going to court these people
did not call out the second
Cavalry under Gen. Custer
and Maj. Reno with the same
end results. This would have
been most gratifying to many
of us who are sick and tired of
money, politics and pull
always prevailing.
Art Hill.
Vanderbilt
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By Jim Fitzgerald
have to be a Kluxer to be opposed to mixing
black and white.
You can be a white liberal who attends
fund-raising parties for the Black Panthers.
You might even be black. But when it comes
to Black Joe climbing into bed with White
Jane, you see red. You want to throw up.
Heck, you're still having trouble accepting
Catholics marrying Protestants, Isadore
Steinberg courting Rosie O'Grady, and the
Lone Ranger bunking so close to Tonto.
That's what it's all about; the tattered old
bromide: "Would you want your sister to
marry one?"
The cocktail-hour liberals can give you a
lot of double talk about how they want to
improve the lot of the black man. But most
of them talk from behind their trimmed
hedges and precious property-values in
Suburbia They'd welcome a black neighbor
as long as he is Willie Mays or Ralph
Bunche. Otherwise, there goes the neighborhood
and you can't blame a man for
protecting his investment, can you?
At least Miles and his Klan are honest.
They're dead against "mongrelization" of
the white race. And they know the surest
way to prevent White Jane from marrying
Black Joe is to keep a fence between them.
The Klan works to keep that fence strong
and the men in sheets get a lot of help from
hypocrites who say the fence is a terrible
thing - except where it touches their
backyard. And please don't put any windows
in it.
The Klan and the hypocrites are equally
wrong, as time will prove. The only real
answer is "mongrelization." Love thy
neighbor, like The Man said. As viewed
from the moon, we are all neighbors.
The world will be a better place when
none of us give a damn who our sister
marries, just so long as she gets the guy she
wants and he treats her right
Which opinion should bring another letter
from Mr. Miles.
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DISTRICT COURT
Michael Mamood Dakroub.
Highland Park, disregarded stop
sign, pleaded guilty. SS, Sll.
Donald James Flynn. Saginaw,
speeding, pleaded guilty. IS. $11.
tailed to yield, pleaded guilty. $s.
Ml William Joseph Ooryl. Grand
Kttpids. speeding, pleaded guilty.
S5. Illi Timothy James
Himebauch, Golden. Colorado,
speeding, pleaded guilty. SS. Si I
Carl Max Peterson. Gayiord. no
registration plates lor cycle,
pleaded guilty. SS. Sll. Richard
Gregory Mutt. Gayiord. improper
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overtaking and passing, pleaded
guilty. SS. Sll.
Mark S Schuitz, Massilon. Ohio,
speeding, pleaded guilty. $9. su.
Claude Arthur Lumber!, jr,
Grand Ledge, wrong way on one
John Boimowski, Detroit,
speeding, pleaded guilty. S10, SIS.
Jack Louis Kelbey, Montrose,
speeding, pleaded guilty, $5, $n.
Gary Lee Hotman, Byron
Center, speeding, pleaded guilty.
SS. Sll.
Charles Darwin Hendrickson,
Gayiord. excessive noise no
muttler. pleaded guilty. SS. $11
Sealed offers to purchase the following equipment
will be received at the office of the City
Clerk until 5:00 p.m., Monday, October 11,1971:
1 - 1970 Chevrolet Automobile
1 - 1966 Chevrolet •£ ton pickup truck
2 - 1966 Chevrolet 2Vfe ton dump trucks
1 - 1966 Dodge van type truck
Information and bid forms available at the office
of the City Clerk.
Jean L. Tomaski, City Clerk
City of Gayiord
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Gregory George Ames, Gayiord.
speeding pleaded guilty $S. $11
Geraldme Louise Higley
vanderbilt, detective equipment,
pleaded guilty. $S. $11.
Lynn Kurt Starr. Roscommon,
'-•op v;rv p'eade^ fuNty M IH
John J Dagneau. careless
oriving dismissed, disorderly
person, pleaded guilty, $?S. S2V
Michael W Durlmg. simple
larceny. 1 years probation, $25.
$29
Leon Berry Queen disorderly
person. $40. $44
George Porzondeck abuse ot
state land dismissed Thomas
Weatherly, careless driving
dismissed. Thomas Edwards.
DUIL pled to driving while im
paired. $7S. $79 Dellmo Martinez,
speeding. $S, $14 Geraldme
Higley. allowing unlicensed driver
to operate car, $is, $34. reckless
driving pled to careless driving.
$10, $24 Thomas Leo Wernet.
disorderly person. $2S, $29. Ernest
t-rank Brosck. jf , DUIL. $S0. $79.
Robert Krai, excessive nose. $S.
$14, James V Hogan. \x . driving
on suspended license, 3 days in
tail. $2S. $29
MARRIAGE LICENSES
John Evans Bergquist. 24,
Gayiord. and Diana Marie Totetl.
21. Gayiord
James Krys. 23. Saginaw, and
Gladys Louise Smolarz. 16,
Gayiord
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Cannibals
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custom of eating other human
beings existed among the
Caribs, a West Indian tribe.
We derived our modern word
of cannibal from the Spanish
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Q. As an interested citizen
ioutside the school system)
and an avid high whool sports
fan for over 25 years, I am
very concerned about reports
that the State Board of
Education is attempting to
take over control of the
Michigan High School Athletic
Association. Will you please
send me all available information
and state your
views on this subject? J.M.,
Petoskey
A. One of the key items on
the agenda for the State Board
of Education's meeting this
week (September 20) will be
the sports issue. The MHSAA
issue came to light about two
years ago when a Detroit
area eligibility controversy
prompted a re-examination of
the MHSAA's official status.
On the advice of the
Michigan Attorney General's
Office, a State Board of
Education Sub-Committee
began drafting a proposal for
resolving the conflict.
Namely, as the Board sees it,
a private organization
carrying on the duties more
appropriately handled by a
legally constituted state
agency.
SonotorBob Davis
^^S
DIRECT
LINE
This opinion, however, is not
held b\ a great number of
people who are directly or
indireitl> involved in high
school athletics.
These people feel, and I
agree, that the State Board of
Education is making a big
drive to take over complete
control of the independently
operated athletic association,
whic h over the years, has kept
Michigan high school athletics
simon pure—and which, for
man\ years, has been a model
of perfecUon for other states
to adopt.
The principal proposal
which has high school sports
fans plenty worried is
procedure 2-F, which reads:
Questions involving an
athlete's eligibility raised less
than five days prior to an
athletic contest shall not be
resolved by the Director of
State Athletics prior to that
contest and shall not affect the
participant's eligibility."
'Ihen comes the "blinger."
The second sentence in the
rule says:
The eventual resolution of
the case shall have no effect
on the outcome of the contest
in which the athlete participated
but will affect future
1 MEN in SERVICE ~|
WILLIAM H. MARCOTTE
Navy Petty Officer Second
Class William H. Marcotte,
son of Mrs. Helen M. Sherman
and husband of the former
Miss Rachel A. Leese both of
Wolverine, Mich., has completed
two weeks of reserve
summer training at the Naval
Air Reserve Training Unit,
Naval Air Station, Norfolk,
Va
ROBERT J. WARD
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Robert J. Ward, son
of Mr and Mrs. Robert H.
Ward of Route 3, Gayiord,
Mich., has graduated from
recruit training at the Naval
Training Center, San Diego.
CALENDAR
September 29 - Girl Scout
Neighborhood Meeting, 8
p.m., Gayiord State Bank.
September 30 - Women's
Miss. Society, Evangelical
Free Church, 8 p.m.; Kiwanis,
6:15 p.m.. The Fettig's;
Rotary, 12:15 p.m., Schlang's.
October 2 - Lakevieu
Grange, 8 pjn. October 3 -
Square Dance at High School
October 4 - Camera Club.
Bank room, 7:30; Vanderbilt
Council, 8 p.m.; TOPS, nurses
office at Gayiord High School
8 p.m.; Gayiord School Board.
7:30p.m.; Weight Watchers. 1
and 7 p.m. St. Mary Church
Basement.
October 5 - WSCS Methodist
Church, 8 p.m.; Corwith
Township Rd.; Daughters of
Isabella, 8 p.m . St. Man
Church; Gayiord Lodge No
366 F and A.M., 8 p.m .
Regular Communication:
County Board of Commissioners,
8 p.m.
October 6 - Nazarene Miss.
Society, Church, 7:30 p.m ;
Chamber of Commerce
Board, 7:30 p.m.; F.O.E
Auxiliary 1825 8 p.m.; First ad
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Classes. 7 p.m., Fire station.
October 7 - Kiwanis, 6 p.m.,
The Fettig's; Rotary, 12:15
p m., Schlang's.
October 9 - Senior Citizens,
Bagley Township Hall, 6:30
pm.
contests."
Under this proposed Slate
Board of Education rule it
appears there would be
nothing to stop a metropolitan
area school from wooing an
outstanding athlete within five
days of basketball tournament
finals or the big championship
football game.
It wouldn't do any good for
opponents to question it
because the rule says the
participants eligibility shall
not be effected and "the
eventual resolution of the case
shall have no effect on the
outcome of the contest."
To me it would be a serious
mistake to involve any elected
or appointed official or
politician in athletic eligibility
determinations or conducting
any of the high school meets
that are sanctioned and
controlled by the Association.
I can think of no valid reason
why present controls should
be removed from the Director
and the Executive Council.
(Please address your
questions and comments to
Senator Robert Davis, State
Capitol, Lansing, MI 48902.)
From The Office of
Zoning Administrator
Robert Kilbourn
Until further notice
building permits will
be issued between the
hours of 8:30 a.m and
10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.
to 5 p.m.
II for any reason this
is inconvenient please
call Zoning Office in
advance for other
arrangements.
732- 2621
Mtodftusdfty. Sept 29. 1971
a ACE FIVE
Girl Scout Meeting Tonight
All adults in the Gayiord and
Vanderbilt areas are invited
to a Girl Srout Neighborhood
meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday,
Sept 20 (tonight) in the
BID NOTICE
Community Room of the
Gayiord State Bank. A field
representative from the Big
Waters Council will be
present.
Sealed proposals will be received at the office of
the City Clerk until 5:00 p.m. Monday, October
11, 1971 to supply the following:
2 - 23,000 lbs. G.V.W. dump trucks
2 - 7,500 lbs. G.V.W. pickup trucks
1 - 4 door police automobile
Specifications available at the above office.
Jean L. Tomaski, City Clerk
City of Gayiord
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