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2A THE TIMES HERALD PORT HURON, MICH. Obituaries Friday, March 29, 1974 Benjamin C. Thornton MARYSVILLE Benjamin C. Thornton, 79, of 585 St. Paul, died today in Mercy Hospital after a long illness.

Thornton was born June 28, 1895, in Big Rapids, Mich. He lived in Marysville the last 54 years. Thornton was a former employe of Champion Home Builders, Dryden, retiring in 1965. His wife, Mrs. Anna J.

Thornton, died Dec. 5, 1973. He is survived by two sons, Roy B. Thornton, Port Huron, and Benjamin C. Thornton St.

Clair; a daughter, Mrs. Wesley Wilton, Sault Ste. Marie; six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday in Arthur Smith Funeral Home.

Rev. Arthur Ditty, retired Free Methodist minister, will officiate. Burial will be in Marysville River-lawn Cemetery. The remains will be in the funeral home after 4 p.m. Saturday.

Memorials may be made to the Visiting Nurses Association. InsellG. Harris ST. CLAIR Insell G. Harris, 55, of 216 North Sixth, died Thursday in William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, after a long illness.

He was born Sept. 6, 1918, in Detroit. He married Virginia Landfair, of Pennsylvania, May 24, 1941. He owned and operated Harris TV and Repair Service until three years ago. He served with the U.S.

Army during World War II. He was a member of First United Methodist Church of St. Clair. He is survived by his widow; two sons, Dennis Harris, Glendora. and William Harris, Port Huron; five daughters, Mrs.

Lorretta Gorr, Richmond; Mrs. Janet Konowlton, Lexington; Mrs. Gail VanTiem, St. Clair; Mrs. Jenny Delor, Port Huron, and Christine Harris, St.

Clair, and 12 grandcchildren. The remains will be in Jay Street Colonial Chapel Funeral Home after 7 p.m. Saturday where services will be 2:30 p.m. Monday. Rev.

Merton Seymour, pastor of First United Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Hillside Cemetery. Lit III fx L' 4 4 Jltt OT i QQY Ot thB tnOVIQS It was a free afternoon at the movies for more than 250 muscular dystrophy and crippled persons throughout St. Clair County who were treated to an afternoon of popcorn, pop and Walt Disney by members of the Port Huron Lodge No. 158, LOOM, at Playhouse I and II Theater, Marysville.

Members of the Lodge provided the transportation and refreshments, while the theater donated its facilities and films. Assist- ing the guests are left, Robert A. Lin- der, of Lodge No. 158, right rear, Donald Chapman, general manager of Playhouse I and II, and right, Stephen S. Pavlik governor of Lodge No.

158. Counffy hassle pood $10,000 svudy ers heads have voiced strong objections to the work. Probate Judge R. Gerald Barr pulled out from the study completely saying the commissioners have no right to set salaries for court employes. He cites a court decision in a similar Bay County case, involving the county commissioners and a circuit court, that held the judiciary has salary authority for its own staff, he said.

Several St. Clair County Commissioners, including Robert P. Gibbs (Port Huron) have accused Judge Barr of "usurping" their legislative duty finance to county operations. County Attorney Dernier L. Cleland said, according to court rulings, the commissioners must approve Probate Court salaries or "go to jail.

It's as simple as that." County Mental Health Services also has complained about the study. Jerry L. Wilson, director, told his board Tuesday he had been trying to see the Yarger study personnel for four months without success. "I've been able to get very little input into the study," he said. The main effect on the county so far, has been that cost-of-living benefits for county non-unionized employes were held up for two weeks.

At the March 13 commissioners meeting, Commissioner Richard A. Cooley (Port Huron), who has opposed the county's present system of granting Mrs. Guy Seaton Sr. MIO, Mich. Mrs.

Mabel I. Seaton, 76, Mio, a former Peck resident, died Wednesday in Tolfree Hospital, West Branch, after a short illness. Mrs. Seaton was born April 14, 1897, in Sanilac County. She lived in Mio for the last 29 years.

She was married to Guy Seaton Sr. She is survived by her husband three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Woodruff, Mio; Mrs. Anna M. Krueger, Mt.

Clemens, and Mrs. Donna Barringer, Port Huron; five sons, Charles Reaume, Peck; George Reaume, New Baltimore; Lester Reaume and Lyle Reaume, both of Port Huron, and Guy Seaton Mio; 21 grandchildren; 26 great grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Cora Heldinger, Snover, and a brother, George Hall, Clarkston. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in Larrison Funeral Home, Mio, with Rev.

Leslie Dillon, pastor, Mio Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Mio Cemetery. Richard A. Bauman MT. CLEMENS Richard A.

Bauman, 60, Mt. Clemens, a former Algonac resident, died Wednesday in Mt. Clemens General Hospital, after a long illness. Bauman was born June 21, 1913, in Algonac. Bauman was employed as a machine repairman with Active Tool Manufacturing, Detroit.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mildred Bauman; four sons, Lawrence R. Bauman, Robert Bauman and Gerald Bauman, all of Mt. Clemens, and Dennis A. Bauman, of California; a daughter, Mrs.

Stephen "Kathleen" Bauman, Mt. Clemens; two brothers, Frederick Bauman, Algonac, and Hubert Bauman, Wisconsin; and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday in Grosbeck Chapel of the William R. Hamilton Company, 226 Crocker, Mt.

Clemens, and at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Catholic Church, Mt. Clemens, with Rev, Vincent R. Welch, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Nicholas Flynn ST. CLAIR Mrs. Ella M.

Flynn, Trumbull, died Thursday in Mercy Hospital, Port Huron. She was born in Marysville. She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church parish and a member of St. Mary's Altar Society.

Her husband, Nicholas, died in 1967. Mrs. Flynn is survived by two stepsons, Leo Flynn, North Carolina, and Richard Flynn, Muskegon; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Jacqueline Fanning, Melvindale; a sister, Mrs. Mary Mockey, Port Huron, a brother, Edward J.

Manion, Dearborn, and several grandchildren. A Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday in L. C. Friederichs and Son.

Funeral Home. Visting hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday in the funeral home and at noon in St.

Mary's Church. Rev. Karl D. Hubble, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in St.

Mary's Cemetery. Port Huron Area Deaths PRICE, BEATRICE M. Of 5616 Dove, March 28 Beloved wife of Charles dear mother of Dolly Danver, dear grandmother of Deora. Charles, Kay and David Danver, sister of Helen Mousseau, Edward and Thomas McCracken, Services at Pollock-Randall Funeral Home p.m. Sot.

afternoon. Interment Caswell Cemetery. Blue Water District Deaths 1A WALDBACK, KENNETH Age 73 or Harbor Beach, died Thursday in Harbor Beach Community Hospital. Funeral services will be held al 1 p.m. Saturday In the Ramsey Funeral Home.

Harbor Beach. Burlol will be In Rock Falls Cemetery, Harbor Beach. Mrs. Otto Burzlaff PORT HOPE Mrs. Hilda Burzlaff, 82, Port Hope, died Thursday in Huron Medical Care Facility, Bad Axe, after a long illness.

Mrs. Burzlaff was born June 25, 1891, in New York. She was married to Otto Burzlaff on June 16, 1942. He died Jan. 25, 1974.

She has no known survivors. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in United Church of Christ, Port Hope, with Rev. Arnold Fued-meyer, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Marquardt Cemetery, Port Hope.

The remains will be in Ramsey Funeral Home, Harbor Beach, after 4 p.m. Saturday. Mrs. William Salisbury BROWN CITY Mrs. Mildred H.

Salisbury, 85, of 5920 St. Mary's, died Thursday in Marlette Hospital after a long illness. She was born Oct. 24, 1888, in Elmer Township, Sanilac County, and lived in this area all her life. She was the former Mildred Hyslop and was married to William Salisbury.

They farmed near Marlette. He died in January, 1960. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Renwick, California; Mrs. Dorothy Franco, Arizona, and Mrs.

Eleanor Kalbfleisch, Brown City; 12 grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren. A son, Franklin Salisbury, died in 1940. The remains are in Carman Funeral Home where services will be 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Rev.

Warren Pettis, pastor of Immanual United Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Hyslop Cemetery, Elmer Township. Kenneth Wa Id back HARBOR BEACH Kenneth Wald-back, 73, Harbor Beach, died Thursday in Harbor Beach Community Hospital, after a short illness. Waldback was born Aug. 30, 1900, in Chicago.

He lived in Chicago for many years, moving to Harbor Beach in 1969. Waldback attended First Baptist Church of Harbor Beach. He married Viola Huster Nov. 28, 1925, at Chicago. He is survived by his widow; a brother, Charles Waldback, Buchanan, and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Ramsey Funeral Home, Harbor Beach, with Rev. Grant Lapham, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Rock Falls Cemetery, Harbor Beach. Luke J.Smith BROWN CITY Luke J.

Smith, 70, Pontiac, died today in Oakland County Hospital after a long illness. He was born Jan. 3, 1904, in Brown City. He was a retired employe of General Motors Company, Pontiac. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs.

Loretta Carpenter, Rochester; two sons, Jerry Smith, Pontiac, and Marvin Smith, Rochester; a brother, John Smith, Mt. Pleasant; five sisters, Mrs. Winnie McAllister, Marlette; Mrs. Lulu Miller, Saginaw; Mrs. Grace Wright, Florida; Mrs.

Ima Lempke, Traverse City, and Mrs. Thelma Horton, Oxford; 12 grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren. The remains are in Carman Funeral Home where services will be 1:30 p.m. Monday. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.

Mrs. Donald Carless YALE News has been received of the death Monday of Mrs. Donald Car-less, Farmington, in an auto accident near her home. Mrs. Carless is the niece of Mrs.

Lula Bidleman and Mrs. Katherine Hall, both of Yale. Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in Elmwood Cemetery, Yale mT" Tj 1 1 1 1 1 1 nTTiraiiwfjiiiii 4 1 1 1 Juw; 'nMiHtiiX. iiiMniini yfl1 A' Lm Board A Virginia firm engaged by the county to study job classifications, salaries, and cost-of-living benefits has completed its work, but the County i Board of Commissioners doesn't know what to do with the study.

Commissioner John W. Hurley (Marysville), chairman of the board's salary committee, told the commissioners Wednesday the study is finished, but the committee needs time to decide what recommendations should be implemented. In the meantime, the study by Yarger and Associates, Falls Church, and which may cost up to $10,000 according to a board allocation, is being withheld from the public until the salary committee studies it further, Hurley indi- cated. Already, two county department Weather Yesxerday Yester- Today day 1 a.m 28 Ip.m 33 5 a.m 27 5p.m 32 9 a.m 29 9 p.m. Midnight28 Noon 34 SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN Windy and warmer tonight with rain and showers and possible thunder-showers.

Lows in the high 30s to around 40. Cloudy with occasional rain or showers likely Saturday. Highs in the mid 40s to around 50. Winds southeast to east 12 to 22 miles an hour and gusty today and tonight and southwesterly 12 to 20 miles an hour Saturday. Chances of precipitation: Tonight, 90 per cent, and Saturday, 70 per cent.

EXTENDED OUTLOOK, lower peninsula (Sunday through Tuesday) Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers Monday and Tuesday. Temperatures will average above seasonal normals with lows in the upper 20s and 30s and highs mainly in the 50s. The Weaier Plctur By The Associated Press The highest temperature in Michigan Thursday was 36 ot Flint. The overnight low In Michigan was at Sault Ste. Marie The highest temperature In Detroit one year ago today was 61, the lowest was 46.

The highest temperature since 1872 In Detroit on this dote was 77 in 1946; the lowest wos 7 in 1887. The sun sets in Detroit today at 7:55 and rises Saturday ot 7:20 a m. The moon sets Saturday at 2:27 a.m., rises Saturday at 11:55 a.m. and sets Sunday at 3:18 am. Sky conditions, highs, overnight lows and precipitation at selected sites: High Low Pr Alpena, pty cldy Detroit, hazy Escanaba, hazy Flint, cloudy Grand Rapids, hazy Houghton, cldy Houghton Lk, cldy Jackson, msng Lonsing, hazy Marquette, cldy Muskegon, frzng drzzle Pension, cldy Port Huron, cldy S.

Ste. Marie, cldy Saginaw, cldy Traverse City, cldy 27 23 34 30 .52 31 26 36 28 .15 33 26 .37 30 26 33 26 33 27 54 34 21 32 26 .44 30 20 33 28 23 14 32 27 32 26 DEGREE DAYS Listed in the following chart are the total degree days for the month up to Thursday, the cumulative heating degree days for this winter since Oct. 1, and the monthly averages from October through March for the previous heating year. 1974 1973 710 March 824 Heating Year To Date (From Oct. 1) 5,888 6,670 Averages by month, 1972-73: 213; Nov, 788; Dec, 977; March, 677.

cost-of-living benefits, offered a resolu? tion, which was adopted, to hold up further increase unitl a better system can be implemented. However, Wednesday the board adopted another resolution offered by Cooley to return the benefits to the county employes under the old plan. "I'm not against cost-of-living benefits," Cooley said, "I just don't like the county's system of granting them." The delaying of such payments cost the employes nothing because the cost-of-living index did not rise enough to increase benefits during the two week period, he noted. He describes his success as "being in the right place at the right time," and emphasized that he is the "greateat borrower of all time" as far as ideas and improvements are concerned for the company. He attributes a great deal of the firm's flourishing business to the staff "who work long hours," (he has just given them a pay raise to cut company profits), and also to his wife of 40 years, Eleanor, whom he described as being "very understanding over the years." Beautiful and Economical Before purchasing a memorial from a door-to-door salesman or Funeral Director's catalog, see Eastern Michigan's Largest Monument Dealer.

art never knowingly undersold" JONES MONUMENT Co. 3349 Stone 982-2783 Mil East of Yank Russell A. Smith, president of Modern Motors, in front of his company's new building on Lapeer Road. Open house today, Sunday "ICE FANTASIES OF '74" SAT. MARCH 30 "It started out as a 'we company' with all of us working together.

After 30 years, it still is." This comment from Russell Smith, president and treasurer of Modern Motors Service 3292 Lapeer, a firm celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this weekend with an open house The company started at 1111 Military in March, 1944. It moved to 1504 Twenty-fourth in December, 1949, and The Times Herald A GANNETT NEWSPAPER Vol. 64, No. 88 Fred G. Euton, President and Editor Samuel S.

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Hunter, merchandise manager. The company incorporated in 1960. The original building housed only 2,000 square feet, Smith explained, while the new structure contains some 20,000 square feet and perhaps more than 200,000 different automotive related parts and accessories. Employing some 20 persons in a variety of jobs, Modern Motors not only supplies automotive parts, but provides precision-custom engine rebuilding and repair work. Although he's toying with the idea of retiring and letting his son, Brian, take over the business, Smith still plays an active hand in nearly all facets of the business working long hours on the floor and in his office.

STOCK QUOTATIONS Following are today's market quotations on stocks of local interest: U.S. Industries 7 SEM Gas Co ,...21 bid 23 asked Detroit Edison 16 Ex-Cello-O 16 U.V. Industries 40ig Eltra Corp 24 Standard Oil of Ohio 57 Port Huron Paper ...12 bid 13 asked Dennison Mfg. Co. 19 Mich.

Natl. Corp. 38 bid 40 asked Gannett -M'i MATINEE 2 P.M.-8 P.M. McMorran Auditorium Sponsored by: Port Huron Figure Skating Club Atlm: $200 Adults Children 14 and under $1.00 Pictured- LiinrI-ilMaia i Baby Doll (Hair Bow)-Beth Hooper (Right) Sarah Henderson (Rear, Hands. Up) Lisa Hooper (Rear Left) Sheryl MacLean (Pro.).