Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 2

THE STATE JOURNAL Sept. 14, 1965 Lansing, Michigan Delta Shopping Center Proposal Changed May Locate On Another Site in Area The request for rezoning land on W. Saginaw Highway and Elmwood Road for a shopping center which has caused considerable controversy, was withdrawn suddenly Monday evening at a meeting of the Delta Township Planning Commission. Sidney Forbes, a Detroit veloper who had sought rezoning of the old Hanes property, notified the commission by letter that he was dropping his request. Alfred G.

Marquardt, township supervisor, told the commission Forbes has purchased 76 acres of the old Mead farm, west of Elmwood Road and had taken an option to buy the Sharp property and Saginaw at 5520 W. Saginaw Sportsland Golf Driving, Range The combined area is about 120 acres. The property is zoned commercial to a depth of 1,000 feet while the Hanes property was zoned commercial to depth of only 300 feet. One earlier attempt to rezone all of the Hanes property was defeated. The last attempt had been opposed by township residents.

Forbes, according to Marquardt, has changed his plans on developing a center on the Hanes property but has not announced any plans for the new propertipplication of Lawrence T. VanOstrand for rezoning for offices an area on W. St. Joseph Highway west of the gas station on the northwest corner of Waverly Road was tabled until further notice. A group of residents of Worthmore Subdivision came to protest rezoning for a combined gift shop and residence the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Abraham on the corner of Saginaw Road and Lincoln Court. A commission member said the restrictions for the subdivision might prohibit commercial zoning. This matter will be determined before a recommendation is made. The commission heard a letter from Norman Shreve, who lives across the Grand River from the Clarence Roe Estate, which was recently bought by Dr.

W. O. Badgley for use as a restaurant, if proper rezoning is al-, lowed. Shreve said he has no objection to a restaurant in that location. Commission members plan to visit the property next week to see how commercial rezoning would affect the area.

George Scott, vice chairman, presided in the absence of Chairman Hamrick. Bosley Infant To Be Buried Wednesday Services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Evergreen Chapel, Carr Settlement, near Baldwin, for a Lansing infant who died Sunday as a result of respiratory complications growing out of a popcorn kernel lodged in his bronchial, tract. The victim, Keith Bosley 21-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Michael Keith Bosley 3708 Berwick will be buried in Evergreen Cemetery there. The Bosleys are former Baldwin residents. Dr. Powell said there was a cardiac arrest while surgery was being performed to remove the kernel which had brought on pneumonia. Surviving in addition to the parents are a sister, Malissa Kay, and the grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Duffing of Baldwin and Mr. and Mrs. Ar-: thur Bosley of Branch. City Truck Overturns, Man Hurt Robert D.

Barnum, 24, of 1913 Stirling was cut on his left arm early today when a Lansing city truck overturned in the 600 block of Moores River Drive, police said. Barnum was treated at St. Lawrence Hospital. In another accident, Thelma B. Little, of 1028 Raider was cut about her face in a two crash at Cavanaugh Road and Pennsylvania Avenue, police said.

She was taken to Sparrow Hospital. Richard Cudney, 17, of 4415 S. Pennsylvania had back and mouth cuts in the same accident, police said. He was taken to Ingham Medical Hospital. Delta Payments Delayed Sewer Work Protested By FRANK HAND had Journal Staff Writer project Delta Township trustees withheld more than $90,000 in payments to two sewer, contractors Tuesday evening residents objected to construction operations on the sanitary sewer project.

The funds had been requested the Forsberg Construction and the McNamara Construction Co. Harry R. Hall of 4323 Appletree Lane led a group of testers from the Mar-Moor subdivision where the McNamara firm is installing sanitary sewers. Hall charged that no warning signs had been put up over the Labor Day holiday and that cars were being mired in the streets where the sewer lines were installed. He "high school and college kids" were inspectors on project.

'COMPLETE DISREGARD' Mack W. Worden of 4263 Barton Road said "there is a complete disregard of personal property." Worden said lawns were being torn up and when residents objected they were berated by the workers. Complaints ranged from the width of the trenches made to install the tile to the failure of the contractor to clean up the streets after the trench was closed. Supr. Alfred G.

Marquardt said he has, been "driven just about crazy" with complaints. J. Paul Thompson a township engineer, admitted there Council Notes An additional school crossing guard to be posted at Cedar and Baker Streets was authorized by the City Council. A recommendation by police that a guard be placed at Logan Street and Grand River Avenue was referred to committee for a recommendation next Monday. It's official now.

Those police cars with blue flashing lights are emergency vehicles. The council Monday amended its emergency vehicle ordinance to require motorists to yield the rightfor vehicles with either: red or blue oscillating Use of blue lights, however, is restricted to police cars by state law. Michigan Avenue between Pine and Sycamore Streets was formally vacated by the City Council for use by the state in the Capitol office building complex. It will become part of the site for the new Supreme Court, state library and historical museum at the west end of the Development project. Contracts were awarded to low bidders on three public works projects.

They went to Reith-Riley Construction Co. for blacktop paving on six northeast Lansing residential streets at Barnhart Construction Co. for storm and sanitary sewer construction in Scotsdale No. 2 subdivision at and Construction Co. for additions to the Frances Park pumping station at 400.

City councilmen switched to a local product Monday. They authorized purchase of two ambulances for the fire department that are mounted on special Oldsmobile chassis at a delivered price of $14,793. Mayor Murninghan observed that by the lance model used firemen, abandoning the former, ambucouncil was not only boostling a the local product but was savcity at least $4,000. The personnel director was authorized to hire a parking lot attendant for Municipal Lot No. 2 at 315 N.

Capitol reconditioned and converted to attendant lot last month. The lo: will serve the Community Col-18 lege and eventually may be the site of a parking ramp. Permission was granted the United Community Chest Campaign to stencil its fund drivel slogan and symbol on downtown sidewalks and to erect the traditional thermometer in front of the George S. Banta, Board of Water and Light member, filed a statement of interest to do business with the city. Banta is an officer and director of BantaBrooks, a construction company.

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WIND STARTS "The wind About 1,100 homeless were sheltered in a school building in the wake of Hurricane Betsy and the flood that ravaged New Orleans last week. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chapman, 1223 William who were visiting relatives in New Orleans when the deluge began last Thursday. "President Johnson visited the school while we were there," said Mrs.

Chapman, 66, who resurged, with Monday. her "The husband to President Lanshook hands with me. I told him I wanted to go home up in Michigan and he said he would do all he could." Mr. and Mrs. Chapman arrived in New Orleans on Saturday, Sept.

4, to visit Mr. Chap- started blowing hard Thursday night and it worse and Mrs. Chapman recalled this morning her husband returned to work the Christman Co. "About 10 p.m. the house gan to fill up with water and heard people crying for help side.

Someone told us to go into the attic. My husband hammer and broke a hole the ceiling of the one-story house. "Then he piled boxes on a dar chest and helped his 86-yearold father, 80-year-old stepmother, his stepsister and me to crawl up into the attic. stayed there until 3 the next afternoon, when a rescue boat Chapman's father, however, refused to leave the attic refuge, and relatives still don't whether he is dead or alive." Mrs. Chapman said there about a foot of water on front porch when the rescue arrived.

They were taken where they could wade to land. WADED OUT waded about 15 blocks la school," the Lansing woman said. "I'm quite short and water came up to my The Chapman family remained at the school until Saturday noon and were then transferred to another school building, where the Red Cross and Volunteers America had set up temporary hospital and housing facilities. Army blankets were sent there in large bundles along with she said. The Chapmans lost their three suitcases, but luckily they tained their purse and wallet.

They were taken by taxi to railroad depot, where put into buses and transported some miles from New Orleans board a train on Sunday. cause of the flood conditions, trains were not running into Orleans. "That flood was the worst thing I've ever seen," Mrs. Chapman said. "I never want to caught in one Florence Brown Dies in Hospital Mrs.

Florence A. Brown, 52, of 121 Garden died Monday at a local hospital. A lifelong resident of Lansing, she was a member of the Church of God. Surviving are her husband, Clifford; five daughters, Mrs. Marilyn Miller of Grand Rapids, and Mrs.

Beatrice Hampton, Miss Elgeva Brown, Miss Jean Brown and Miss Geraldine Brown, of Lansing; two brothers, Carl Pease of Wisconsin, and Edward Pease of Lansing, and two sisters, Mrs. Anna B. Jones of Bannister, Miss Mildred Pease of Lansing; nine grandchildren. The body is at the PalmerBush Funeral Home. City in Brief Grand River Roadside Park, four miles east of Okemos on M-43, for a five-mile hike.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd W. Estes are in Gary, to attend funeral services for Mr. Estes' brother, Clarence B.

Estes, who died Sunday. The services will be held Wednesday at the Burns Memorial Funeral Home, Gary. Members of the Greater Lansing Walking Club will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Clinton County Official Warns of Sanitary Crackdown De Witt Township Drains to Be Checked fired. He said the project is being closely inspected.

Residents also complained about work done by some private contractors connecting the home sewer lines to the main sewers. INSPECTION QUESTIONED After the delegation left, trustees questioned whether 1 home connection inspections were bedone according to state law. (The home hookups are not covered by the main sewer contract.) Neil A. McLean, township attorney, was ordered to ask the state plumbing board for a have ruling. So far, 160 homes been to the system, Forest Starkweather, building inspector, the board.

Starkweather said he had inspected these installations. In order to have a full-time person available for such problems, the trustees approved the hiring of Carl Pain of Charlotte as public works manager at a salary of $8,000 a year. SALARY INCREASE been some trouble with a inspector, who later was The board also raised the salary of Starkweather from $3,500 to $4,500 a year effective Sept. 1 and changed the mileage allowance from a flat $40 a month to 10 cents a mile. The board also gave final approval for five subdivisions with 150 lots and initial approval of two rezoning applications.

Approval was given to: Forest Hills Estates on W. Willow Highway near the Seventh-day Adventist camp. Evergreen Heights No. 4, on W. St.

Joseph Highway west of the I-96 overpass. Echo Valley on the northeast corner of W. Mt. Hope Avenue and Canal Road. Stone Ridge Estates on Saginaw Highway and Garfield Avenue.

REZONING APPROVAL Tentative approval of A-residential rezoning went to the proposed Earlington Estates on Crietz Road, north of W. Saginaw Highway, and for 78 acres at the rear of the old Millett school. Both properties are now farmland. The first request was from Earl Schneeberger and the second from Lloyd Parr. Trustees also approved a planning commission recommendation to rezone six lots in the Lantern Green subdivision to B- residential for multiple dwellings.

The board refused, however, to approve rezoning of a portion of the subdivision to D- small farms so the developer, Gordon Elieff, could keep a horse on his property. Trustees James L. Oliver and Lyle A. Benjamin and Clerk Dorothy Staley were appointed to a salary study committee to make a recommendation at the next board meeting. City Picks First Eaton Supervisor Keith G.

Smith, 30, of 3089 S. Waverly Road, was Monday by Mayor Max E. Murninghan as Lansing's first representative on the Eaton County Board of Supervisors. The appointment was immediately confirmed by the City Council to allow Smith to take his seat on the board at its Sept. 20 session.

Mayor Pro Tem Glen E. Dean termed the appointment "a milestone for the City of Lansing." Smith, a production at Fisher Body, was selected the mayor for his work in bringing the part of the Maple Grove district in which he lives into the city last April. Smith will have one of the smallest constituencies of any supervisor on the Eaton Board. He also will represent one of the fastest growing areas. When he is seated next week Smith will represent only about families seven in the Maple Grove area where he lives and 11.

who have occupied new houses in the Rivers Edge subdivision. But the developers of Rivers Edge say families are moving into the subdivision at a rate of two or three a week. And they predict that at this time next year Smith will represent more than 1,000 Lansing residents living 'in Eaton County. Smith is a life-long Lansing resident. He attended Sheridan Road school and Eastern High School.

He and his wife, Jean, have six children. By ROY J. CROSS Journal Staff Writer DeWITT All sanitary sewer tile lines in southern DeWitt Township will be checked and those flowing into county drains will be blocked, the Board of Trustees was told Monday night. The warning came from Clinton County Drain Commissioner Dale Chapman a township board meeting, when the sewage problem along Road was discussed. During the meeting the trustlees also turned down a the request Sherifrom Lansing to annex dan Road School property to the city.

The board said any annexation will have to come through a vote of the school district residents. The discussion of both the sewer problems and the school property annexation had overtones of fear that Lansing will eventually absorb the populous section of DeWitt Township that borders the city on the north. Predictions of what Lansing will do cropped up in both discussions, although at no time did anyone quote a city official as saying annexation is planned. PROMISES INSPECTION The drain commissioner promised inspection of the entire southern half of the township in an effort to keep sewage out of storm sewers. Although the most recent problem of sewage flowing into drains and overflowing into low-lying fields is along State Chapman said he has had many complaints from Baby Could Extend Kendall's Viet Nam Tour SAIGON, Viet Nam man, U.S.

Army enlisted who ran into red tape while trying to take a Vietnamese baby home, said today he hopes he will not be forced to leave the child behind. The soldier, Spec. 4. William C. Kendall, 208 E.

Main Lansing, said he has Viet Nam's permission to take Michele Marie, a nine-month-old girl, to the United States. But U.S. officials have withheld a visa. Elm Cost Aid Asked For Elderly It may have been a banner year for senior citizens with the passage of medicare, property tax exemptions and other beneficial legislation. But there's still a problem they need help with.

It's Dutch elm disease! That's what Walter Carter, 2612 S. Logan told the mayor' and City Council Monday night. Carter, who said he was appearing before the council in behalf called of the Lansing's city's senior citizens, disease tree removal policy "terrible hardship" on property owners over 65 who are living fixed income. "There are any number older people living on $1,000 year or less in this area," he plained, and appealed to council to work out some way. elderly property owners could get relief on tree removal costs.

Under the new policy, property owner pays the first $50 of the cost of removing condemned elm trees on his property and 50 per cent of all moval costs over $50. Carter said that the cost of moving two or three elm trees was more than most elderly citizens could afford. Mayor Murninghan assured him the problem would be studiled and solution worked to ease the financial burden the elderly. The council also aside 10-day period from Sept. 14 to to honor the city's senior citizens.

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The commissioner said it is lacainst the drain law into for storm sanitary drains and it would not be fair to check some and not others. cent of the sanitary lines in the Chapman estimated ed that 90 per southern section are tied into storm drains. He said residents will be given a chance to remove their lines from drains before the check starts, but the commissioner was emphatic that a thorough inspection will be made and soon. it won't be 30 days until we "We can plug those tiles and 1 start," he said. Norman White, Clinton prosecutor, said the problem is one that must be faced by the county and township health officers.

He said it may be possible to enforce a law pertaining to dumping of sewage on private land and in cases where private sewers are overflowing a fine of got after for to bewe outup C. took into ce- up was the boat said the Kendall A U.S. counsular, spokesman and his wife to satisfy preadoption requirements of the state of Michigan. Kendall said had been met but that Sandra, these, 28, has written him that she has encountered problems posed by federal immigration authorities. A.

J. Salturelli, assistant director of Immigration and Na-3 turalization Service in Detroit, said the problem arose because of a difference in Michigan and federal law. "The State of Michigan nizes the adoption," Salturelli said. "But the United States does not recognize it under a regulation requiring both parents to see the child prior to the adoption." Kendall, 30, completed a oneyear tour of duty in South Viet Nam last month. He is to be discharged from tine Army when he returns home but hopes he will be granted permission to remain here until the legal snarl is untangled.

The child has been living with a Vietnamese family in Saigon since Kendall has sought to adopt her. Mrs. Emma Cooke Services Held Funeral services for Mrs. a Emma E. Cooke, 83, of 624 Glendale who died Sunday at a local hospital, were held Tuesday morning the Gorsline-Runciman Funeral Home.

Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery. A resident of Lansing for 45 years, Mrs. Cooke was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Gladys Cook, Lansing; Mrs.

Frances Rennie, Montreal, Mrs. Betty Birkness and Mrs. Hilda Yanoff, both of Toronto, and Mrs. Parr of Detroit; 14 grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren. $100 could be levied.

BONDING DEFEAT CITED The trustees pointed out that bond issue for construction of sanitary sewer system and treatment plant in the southern section of the township had been defeated. The members said they could possibly put it on the ballot again. Also discussed was the possibility of building a new storm drain system which would exclude the illegal sanitary lines, but no action was taken on this. During the discussion, Supr. Oliver Angell said he had recently talked to Mayor Max E.

Murninghan and asked the Lansing chief executive how long would take to get sewers into the southern section if it was annexed. While the mayor did not say the city wanted to annex the territory, according to Angell, he did say the schedule for extending sewers was three to five years in new territory. The annexation talk carried over into the Sheridan Road School discussion. Lansing had asked the trustees to release only the school property which borders the city's northern limit. The request was made so Lansing police can serve the school and the fire department make inspections and enforce fire laws.

Lansing fire equipment now answers calls to the school. The Sheridan Road School is now part of the Lansing system. A delegation of Sheridan Road residents, with Kenneth Weaver, 1028 W. Sheridan as spokesman, objected to the annexation. They received a promise from the board that any annexation will have to come by a vote of the people.

Then the discussion expanded into other possible annexation overtures on the part of Lansing, although at no time was any city official quoted as saying such moves are planned. DISTRICTS TO VOTE With Gunnisonville Valley Farms, Schools Hurd to vote and Oct. 25 on joining the Lansing system, the trustees voiced a fear that the next step would be to annex those districts to the city. The trustees also took Lansing's move as an affront to police and fire protection in the township. "I feel the mayor was condemning our fire and police departments before they (the school) had a chance to try them," Angell said.

In other action the board: -Set Oct. 27 for a special election to renew the franchise of the Consumers Power Co. to provide electric and natural gas service to the township. An election is needed every 30 years to renew the franchise, with the utility paying the cost of the election. -Appointed a fire and police administrative board to supervise the two departments and set up the budgets.

Members are Miles Merrill, Henry Willard and Fred Culy, trustees, and S. E. Bellows and E. J. Thelen.

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