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The Sentinel Leader • Wednesday, August 16, 1967 Page 3

Sparta Marine Volunteers To Return to Viet Nam

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Marine Lance Corpora l E r n e s t S. McCracken, son of Mr. and Mrs . E rnes t McCracken of 693 10 Mile Road, Sparta, i s home on a 30-day leave f r o m Hoa Khanh, Viet Nam, where he served twelve months with the Supply Battalion, F i r s t F o r c e Service Regiment, F o r c e Logistic Command. Hoa Khanh is nine mi les northwest of Da Nang in Viet Nam.

His battalion f o r m s the nucleus of the support echelon of the Force Service Regiment and r e -ce ives all s t o r e s , i s sues and p r o -vided field maintenance fo r a l l supply i t ems fo r e lements of the Air Ground Task Fo rce . It can a lso re in force the supply and maintenance units of a division of a i r c r a f t wing.

Ivan Emeries To Host Sparta Garden Club

Sparta G arden Club will hold a Garden Pa r ty and White Elephant Sale commencing with a picnic supper at 6:30 on Monday evening, August 21, at the home of Mr . and Mrs . Ivan E m e r i c in Casnovia.

All p e r s o n s planning to attend a r e asked to bring their own table se rv ice and a dish to pa s s .

Four Receive Degrees From Western M U

Baccalaurea te and graduate deg rees were confer red on four Sparta r e s iden t s F r iday night in commencement e x e r c i s e s at Western Michigan Universi ty in Kalamazoo.

Richard Tice of S. State S t ree t , sc ience t eacher in the Spar ta Jun-ior High School, received a M a s -t e r in Teaching of Science d e -g ree . His graduate s tudies were aided by a National Science Foun-dation Fel lowship.

His wife, Joyce Tice , a l so a teacher in the Sparta Area Schools sys tem for the past two years , ea rned a Bachelor of Sc i -ence In Education degree .

Miss Jo Anne Furhof , a f o r -m e r teacher at Sparta Cen t r a l and Junior High School, was a -warded a Mas t e r s in L i b r a r i a n -ship degree f r o m the univers i ty .

Dennis Buck, son of Mrs . M a r -ian Buck of Olmstead Street and graduate of Sparta High School, rece ived a Bachelor of Arts in Education degree .

CARD PARTY AT ALGOMA GRANGE

T h e r e will be a c a rd pa r ty on Saturday evening, August 19, at the Algoma Grange Hall c o m -mencing at 8:30. P r i z e s and r e -f r e s h m e n t s . Everyone welcome.

has volunteered fo r a second tour of duty in Viet Nam and will r epo r t back to T r e a s u r e Island near San F r a n c i s c o in Cal i forn ia to r e tu rn to Hoa Khanh the l a t t e r pa r t of th is month.

The local Mar ine is a 1964 graduate of Spar ta High School and has been in the Mar ines s ince F e b r u a r y , 1966.

Migration to Cities Predicted The National Planning Association predicted recently tha t

American cities would continue to drain population f rom the rural areas during the next eiffht years, but at a slower ra te than before.

The association said that employment and income in the cities could speed up their growth.

By 1975, the report said, some 73 per cent, 164 million people, of the nation's population will be concentrated in 224 metro-politan areas, with 60 per cent of these people crammed into the 25 largest centers.

CaJofSLanL The one thing worth while

having is the Fr iend who s tands the T e s t - - of Time.

And those who have such f r i e n d s know Friendship at i ts Bes t .

Sincere thanks to the many f r i e n d s and re la t ives who made our Fa rewe l l Pa r ty a joy to r e -m e m b e r .

Edd and Thelma Nason

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SPARTA STATE Is Not An Average Bank GROWTH

. . . This Community Bank has grown to a $14,000,000 institution.

. . . We are now No. 137 in size in Michigan, notwithstanding being in a small village and have no branches.

. . . People in this community have SAVINGS of nearly $9,000,000, with a growth in the past 12 months of over $1,400,000.

. • • Sparta State has total mortgages of over $4,000,000 which has assisted in the purchase of farms, homes and various business build-ing, and includes loans in Newaygo, Muske-gon, Ottawa and Kent counties.

FACILITIES . . . This Bank has kept step with this com-munity and points with pardonable pride t o

i ts modern facilities; a banking building rare-

ly found in a community th is size; Walk-up and Drive-in Windows; Electronic posting; Time and Temperature s ign; Electric doors; air conditioning; carpeted lobby and off ices; parking facilities (being enlarged); a conser-vative Board of Directors who have been suc-cessful in their various lines of business; com-petent and trained personnel; and best of all . . . a team willing and able to serve the people

of this community.

• . • While we do take pride in what we have accomplished and a feeling that

we enjoy the confidence of the community, we want to be better than an

AVERAGE BANK. So we continue to work harder to be the very best in your

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Philip Schaefers Attend Luthersm

Bonnie Jane Jensen and Leonard Schwartz Marry Miss Bonnie Jane Jensen , daughter of Mr . and M r s . Harold Jensen

of North Muskegon became the b r ide of Leonard Raymond Schwartz on Saturday, August 5, in a high noon ce remony at St. M a r y ' s Church in Muskegon. The groom is the son of Mr . and M r s . Herman Schwartz of Seven Mile Road, Grand Rapids .

Miss Janet Jensen of N. Muskegon attended h e r s i s t e r a s maid of honor and the b r ide sma ids w e r e Miss Sue Ann J ensen , s i s t e r of the br ide, and Miss Pa t r i c i a Schwartz of Grand Rapids, s i s t e r of the g room.

Miss Mickalee Umstead and Bruce Wilde, both of Muskegon, s e r v e d a s f lower gi r l and r ing b e a r e r .

l^eon Schwartz of Marne, b ro the r of the groom, was the best man and the g roomsmen were Stephen Ockaskis , J r . of Grand Rapids and Michael Carmody of Marne . Seating the gues t s were D a r r e l Anderson of Muskegon and L a r r y Arends of Ravenna.

M r . and Mrs . E l m e r Horton of Casnovia and Mr . and M r s . Winfred Wilde of Muskegon p res ided at the recept ion held that even -ing in the Vikings Lodge in Muskegon.

The couple a r e now res id ing on 16th Avenue in Marne . The groom is a graduate of Kenowa Hills High School. (Photo by Ockaskis & Schwartz Studio)

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QUESTION: When auto insurance

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WOMENS GOLFING LEAGUE

GREEN BENDERS ^SEMI-FINALS

In the Semi-F ina l Champion-ship Tournament held at Alpine Golf C o u r s e last Wednesday the winners were :

Championship Fl i te - Olga Wempa, and Betty Folkf.

F i r s t Fl i te - Emily Skuzin-ski , and E s t h e r Klein.

Second Fl i te - Lois B la las and Jean Z a m i a r a .

Th i rd F l i t e - Paula Diegert and Sandy Mojzuk.

Four th F l i t e - Lor ra ine June-wick and Shir ley Cook.

Fif th F l i t e - Betty Thome and Evelyn Becker

Sixth F l i t e - Helen Dunneback and T h e r e s a Thome.

Seventh F l i t e - Jean Homrich and Lyn Hill.

Eighth F l i te - Dorothy Morse and Dorothy Bell iel .

C^arJ of? ̂ Jlianbd The many ac t s of k indness

shown t o me at the t ime of my operat ion and hospital izat ion will never be forgot ten . To all my f r i e n d s and r e l a t ives , may I s ay a s i n c e r e " t h a n k - y o u " . God b l e s s you, everyone .

B e a t r i c e B e r g e r 8 -16p

Education Meet Mr- aau M r s . Philip Schaefer

at tended the ann ive r sa ry conven-tion of the Lutheran Education Associat ion and the National L u -the ran P a r e n t T e a c h e r s League held at Concord ia T e a c h e r s Co l -lege in River Fo re s t , I l l inois f r o m August 4 through 6. Mr . Schaefer i s the pres iden t of the P a r e n t - T e a c h e r League at T r i n i -ty Lutheran School In Conklln.

The convention was opened by D r . Herman G l a e s s of Seward, Nebraska with a keynote w o r -ship s e rv i ce , conducted by Reverend C h a r l e s Re icher t of St. Louis, Convention Chaplain. Reverend Reicher t is the c h a i r -man of the Mis sou r i Synod's F a -mi ly Life Commiss ion .

His visual presenta t ion was based on th ree k e y w o r d s T E L -LING - TEACHING - TOUCHING taken f rom the convention theme " T h a t HE should touch t hom," Mark 10:14.

On Saturday, s epa ra t e s e s s i o n s of the two organiza t ions w e r e conducted. Mr . Ben Eggers , of Topeka, Kansas . Pres iden t of the L.E.A. , p r e s ided over i ts s e s -s ions, while N.L .P .T .L . P r e s i -dent , M r . Ralph Alt of St. Louis , Missour i , p r e s ided over s e s s i o n s of that organiza t ion .

P r o g r a m s for the o r g a n i z a -t ions were planned by Mr . R o -b e r t Huebner, Ba l t imore , M a r y -land, f o r the L.E.A., and M r . Wallace Brueggemann of Inde-pendence, Mis sou r i f o r the N.L. P . T . L .

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Funeral Rites for Wilber S. Pease

Funera l s e r v i c e s were held Wednesday af te rnoon at the H e s -se l Chapel In Spar ta fo r Wilber S. P e a s e , aged 70, of 936 E. Four th S t ree t , National City, C a l -i fornia , f o r m e r l y of Kent City, who p a s s e d away on August 11, In Heflln, Alabama.

Mr. P e a s e was born on J a n -u a r y 4, 1897, in Irving, I l l inois, w a s a ve te ran of World War I, and r e t i r e d a s fo reman of Rock-f o r d Pape r Mill ten yea r s ago.

Surviving a r e h is wife, F l o r -ence ; two daughte rs , Mrs . Leon-a r d (Ruth) Greenland of Hudson-vllle and Mrs . E ldred (Joyce) He lss of Kent City; two sons , David C. P e a s e of National City, Cal i fornia , and Kenneth Pease of Ceda r Springs; 20 grandchi ldren; 10 g rea t -g randch i ld ren ; two s i s -t e r s , M r s . Gladys Wiseman and Mrs . Helen French, both of Grand Rapids; and four b r o t h e r s , Albert of Grand Rapids, Law-rence of Grand Rapids, Daniel of Kent City, and Homer of Kala-mazoo.

The Rev. Rober t Ward of the Snow Bible Church conducted the s e r v i c e s . Buria l was In Mar t in C e m e t e r y .

Janet Jensen Engaged To Stephen Ockaskis, Jr. Mr. and M r s . Harold Jensen of 2437 Memor ia l Drive, North

Muskegon, announce the engagement of thei r daughter, Janet, to Stephen Ockaskis , J r . , son of Mr . and Mrs . Stephen Ockaskis, Sr . of Eight Mile Road, Grand Rapids .

A December 16 wedding Is planned. Miss J ensen Is a graduate of Muskegon Senior High School and

rece ived a Bachelor of Science degree f rom Western Michigan Univers i ty in Kalamazoo.

Mr . Ockaskis i s a 1960 graduate of Sparta High School, and r e -ceived h i s Bachelor of Science degree f r o m Western Michigan Univers i ty and a Mas te r of Social Work degree f r o m Michigan State Univers i ty in Eas t Lansing.

(Photo by Ockaskis & Schwartz Studio)

4'MCM SPEND WEEKEND AT SCOUT CAMP

The Alpine P ioneers , a 4-H g roup , spent a week-end r e c e n t -ly at the Boy Scout Camp Totten Ranch.

C a r l Morehouse spent F r i d a y night with the group supervis ing. Bud Van Ooft, their leader , took

over Saturday fo r the r emainder of the week-end. The group e n -joyed a t r a i l r ide Saturday fo l -lowed by a pot- luck supper in the evening attended by their pa ren t s .

Taking pa r t in the week-end were Bill and Steve Alt, Chuck Brechting; Janie Blondln; Eddie Dunneback, Gay Ebers , Dobble Ives, Kay Klein, Mark, Mike, Renee, and Diane KOber, Nancy Kraf t , Linda Longcore, Chuck Louis, Jan Momber, Car la , Cin-dy, Cheryl , and Kurt Morehouse, Bob, Fred , Joe and Mike Nichols, Sally Rodgers , Jack Van Oeffelen, and Lou Ann Van Ooft.

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