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Volume 8 8 — Established 1876 Sparta, Michigran Wednesday, Nov. 10, 1965 Number 45

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1965 TRI-RIVER LEAGUE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS—The Spartans defeated the Rockford Rams 14-6 last Friday night to clinch Sparta High School's first football title since 1953. Spartans are: Front row: left to right, Marv Knauf, Leon Kik, Jim VanderZee, Jay DeBoer, Tim Cumings, Jack Carlson, Jon Cumings, Mark Krauss. Second row: Steve Archer, Bill Mars, Tim Pease, Mike Keck, Pete Childres, Mark Potes, Ken Traxler, Rod Heugel. Third row: Mike Stewart, Randy Longstreet, Pat

Spartans Win Tri-River Championship With 14-6 Victory Over Rockford

Hall, Bob Overholt, Paul Swanson, Rich Bloom, Paul Johnson, Chuck Brown, Rich Knauf, Mike Bottorff . Fourth row: Ro-land Losey, Larry Andrus, Bud Elve, Dan Schiffer, Dick Hodges, Steve Young, John Blaauw, Tom McCready, Mike Mieras. Fifth row: Jack Dinkel, Bill Lauffer, Jim Tuin-stra, Ron Vogel, Bill Goodfellow. Back row: Coaches Jerry Wabeke, Hess Wever and Jim Dickey; Managers Rex Bartlett and Bill Barenbrock.

Photo by DeVo

The Sparta High Spartans brought the T r i - R i v e r football championship home to Sparta las t F r iday night by downing the favored Rockford Rams 14-6 in one of the biggest upsets of the season.

A crowd of more than 5,000 excited fans witnessed one of the f ines thigh school football games of all t ime as the determined underdog Spartans combined tj e e lements of s u r p r i s e , harmonious teamwork, and finely executed plays coupled with a g g r e s -sive offense and tough defense to give them the coveted victory over the hard-hi t t ing Rams . The victory not only gives Sparta the league crown but possess ion of the Oil Can for the f i r s t t ime, a subjec t of r iva l ry between the two schools .

In toppling the Rams f r o m their unbeaten perch, the Spartans se t a few r e c o r d s . This is the f i r s t t ime in the his tory of the T r i - R i v e r League that Sparta has won a football championship. T h e i r l a s t league t i t le came in 1953 when they captured the crown of the old Ken-Owa League. Not only has Sparta never won more than th ree conference games in one season before , but this is the f i r s t t ime in the h is tory of the school that Sparta has eve r beaten Lowell and chalked up its f i r s t win over Rockford since 1954.

School sp i r i t had reached an in -tensive high in the week preceding the showdown clash and reached a t remendous peak on F r iday night when eightbusloads of s tuden tboos t -e r s and a pep band joined the swel l -ing crowd of spec ta to rs a t Rockford more than an hour before game t ime. By 6:30 p.m., the only sea t s avai lable were in enemy l e r r i t o r y and soon a f te rwards , it was Standing Room Only.

The weatherman coopera ted to

produce a dry c r i sp night, p e r f e c t for football , the fans were there cheer ing; and the only thing le f t was for the team to play ball and win that championship. And win they did! They played the kind of ball for which any coach can be just ly proud. The broad smi l e s on the faces of Coaches j i m Dickey, J e r r y Wabeke, and Hess Wever, could leave no room for doubt! The happiness and en -thus ias t ic support of the fans was contagious and the Spar tans played like champions.

The winners put together touch-downs in Uie f i r s t and third q u a r t e r s and held Rockford until the final th ree minutes of the showdown ba t -

tle fo r their 14-6 win. Sparta stayed on the ground to

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Sparta State Bank Represented by Two At Bankers' Meeting

Gordon VanDenMout and L a r r y Bradford , o f f i c e r s of the Sparta State Bank, attended a Consumer Cred i t Conference on November 3rd and 4ih.

The conference is an annual event sponsored by tlie Michigan Bankers Associa t ion and was held at Boyne Lodge this yea r .

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| Increased Tax Millage 1 Vote r s of Kent County have been asked to ballot in a Nov. 16

election on the proposal to " lock up" the county's allocated tax r a t e with a " p e r m a n e n t " 10-year division of millage among the var ious uni ts .

The i ssue was placed on the ballot by a 53-16 vote of the Board of Superv i sors , act ing under implementation by the s tate l eg i s l a tu re of a provision of the new state Constitution.

As set up in the proposal the permanent al locat ions of millage, on an 18-mill level , would be:

Kent County 5,53 mil ls , an increase of .715; school d i s t r i c t s 10.83 mi l l s , an increase of 1.98 over the presen t allocation; townships 1.50, an inc rease of .25, and the Kent Intermediate Dis t r ic t .14, an inc rease of .055.

Stabilization at the 18 mill level instead of at the present 15 mill l imit is the intent of the millage p roposa l ' s suppor te r s . They repor t that virtually all school d i s t r i c t s in the county now have voted ex t ra millage, putting the tax levy above the 18 mill level ,

Kent County will be among the f i r s t to adopt this principle if the Nov. 16 proposal is adopted, but not the f i r s t . Five counties a l r eady have adopted a fixed allocated tax ra te , including Mid-land, Washtenaw, Cas s , Ogemaw and Tuscola Counties. In Mid-land and Washtenaw, industr ial counties like Kent, the division c lose ly pa ra l l e l s that proposed here .

School Boards in Grand Rapids, Eas t Grand Rapids, Spar ta , Rockford , Godwin, Wyoming, Kenowa, Kelloggsville, Kentwood, Comstock Pa rk and other d i s t r i c t s have a l ready approved the proposa l .

SPARTA SCHOOL BOARD SUPPORTS 18-MILL LIMIT The proposal on die Nov, 16 ballot

to " f r e e z e " Kent County tax a l loca -tions for a 10-year period at an 18-mill l imi t has been given support in die Sparta area by the Sparta a r ea schools Board of Education.

The Sparta School Board indorsed the pr inciple of a fixed mil lage for each unit of government . Supt, Joseph Puvogel of the Sparta School sys t em has agreed that the bas ic i s sue is s tabil izat ion of the mil lage alloca tion,

"We haven ' t levied all of our voted ex t ra millage, and under an inc rease of al located mil lage under this proposal it is unlikely we would take advantage of the voted millage to any g r e a t e r extent. It need hot mean a school tax inc rease h e r e , " Mr , Puvogel comments .

J r Behind the T r i - R i v e r League champions a r e the coaches , th ree men-

to r s who went f a r out of their way to insti l l the knowledge and en thus iasm into the Sparta High School football team so n e c e s s a r y to consis tent ly win. They a r e (left to r ight) J e r r y Wabeke, line coach; J a m e s Dickey, head coach, and Hesse l Wever , backfield coach.

Frank Holmquist New Sparta Twp. Building Inspector

h r a n k Holmquist of 3094 13-Mile Road, f o r m e r Sparta Township Sup-e r v i s o r , has been appointed Sparta Township Building Inspector to suc -ceed the la te F red Humeston.

A res iden t of Sparta Township s ince 1922, Mr. Holmquist served as s u p e r v i s o r f rom 1938 to 1951. He a l -so was a member of the old Spang-enberg No. 1 School Dis t r i c t Board of Education and was Ju s t i c e of the Peace f r o m 1932-38,

P r i o r to his r ecen t r e t i r e m e n t , he was with the Kent County T r e a s -u r e r ' s off ice as n deputy tax co l -l ec to r f a r m rep re sen ta t ive . He held this posit ion at two d i f f e ren t t imes f o r a total of 11 yea r s ,

Mr . Holmquist is a m e m b e r of Mamrelund LuUieran Church and is a pas t commander of tlie L e k s t r u m -Burnet t Pos t of the Amer ican L e -gion. He a lso was associa ted with tlie f o r m e r Peoples State Bank in Sparta for three and one half y e a r s p r io r to its m e r g e r with tlie Sparta State Bank.

Sparta Runners Finish Eighth

Sparta c ro s s country team placed eighth in the Class B State Meet held last Saturday at Eas t e rn Michigan Universi ty in Ypsilnnti. C e d a r Springs ra ted 12th position in the event .

The title of tlie C la s s B champion-ship was captured by Dearborn Riv-e r s i d e with 77 points. Runner-up was Eas t Grand Rapids with 147, Other top teams were as follows: 3rd-Lans ing Waverly 168; 4d i -Eas t Chr is t ian 172; 3rd-Grand Rapids Rogers 179; 6th-Okemos 209; 7di-Gros se Pointe 220; Sth-Sparta 232; 9 th -Harper Woods 233; 10th Vicks-burg 268; l l t h - A l m a 277; 12Lh-Ce-da r Springs 279,

T e r r y Jacht placed in eighth po-sition to be top man for the Spar tans . John Davis placed 20tli. Dan Mem-ber 55th, Dave Davis 67th, and Verne Barclay 82nd,

The Spartans claimed co-cham-pionship of tlie Tr i -River League a f -ter placing second to Cedar Springs in tlie dual meets and winning die conference meet . They went on to win die Regional meet at Mt, P leasant a week ago Saturday to qualify them for the s tate meet . Don Worm has been coach of die Spartan h a r r i e r s for the pas t five seasons during which t ime they have earned two T r i - R i v e r championships and diree co -cham-pionships.

—o-Santa Claus to Arrive In Sparta on December 4

Santa Claus will open his annual s e r i e s of p r e - C h r i s t m a s visi ts to Sparta with a parade on Saturday, December 4. according to die Sparta Chamber of Commerce . Stores will remain open evenings and Thursday af te rnoons through Chr i s tmas s t a r t -ing December 10.

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Sparta GOP Women The Sparta Woman's Republican

Club will meet at 9:45 a.m.'1 uesday, November 16, a t the home of M r s . Ivar Johnson, 58 Orchard Drive,

Election of o f f i ce r s will be fo l -lowed by a film " B a s i c Republican

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B e l i e f s . " T h i s f i lm was produced by tlie joint House and Senate C o m m i t -tee on Republican p r inc ipa l s . It will be shown by Spense Ruthe r fo rd of the

Kent County GOP headqua r t e r s . Anyone who is in te res ted i s in -

vited to at tend. The p re s iden t is M r s . John Schaefe r , 888-0392, and vice p r e s i d e n t i s M r s . I. R . Folker th , 887-2551.

ALPINE TOWNSHIP TO USE VOTING MACHINES

F o r the f i r s t t ime November 16, voting machines will be used by e l ec to r s in Alpine Township at all th ree of tlie township's prec inc t .

Previous ly tlie township had voted by paper ballot .

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Spartans Win (continued / r o m f r o n t page)

s c o r e its t i r s t TD. The winners moved 79 yards in 19 consecut ive plays before punching a c r o s s for the touchdown. T i m Cumings capped the long march by going in f r o m tlie 4 yard line. The ext ra point was made on a s u r p r i s e play by a pass f r o m J i m Tuins t ra to Bob Overholt . (The Rams were expecting a kick for the extra point.)

The keyed-up Sparta team s t ruck quickly in tlie third per iod . Af t e r , holding Rockford deep in the R a m ' s t e r r i to ry , Elve broke through to block a Rockford punt. End Paul Swanson picked up tlie loose ball and scooted the remaining six y a r d s to score .

Rockford scored in tlie closing minutes behind the hard- running of Dave Sawyer. Ron Smith made the TD f r o m the 1- foot line on a plunge.

The Spar tans a lmos t sco red again in the las t seconds of play when they were on the R a m ' s four yard line following a 60-yard run by Cumings, but the clock ran out.

Spa r t a ' s defense was sparked by the s t e l l a r play of guards Steve Arche r and Rich Bloom. A r c h e r f igures in 17 tackles and Bloom in 15. Fullback Cumings ran the ball 22 t imes for 141 ya rds rushing to be the leading ground ga iner of tlie night. He was followed by the S p a r -tan speeds t e r . Chuck Brown (junior) who ran the ball 15 t imes for 54-ya rds .

The offensive rush for both t eams was quite even although Sparta out-gained Rockford. Sparta c a r r i e d tlie ball 48 t imes for 222 y a r d s . Rock-ford ca r r i ed 48 t imes fo r 202 ya rds . Sparta passed once for 10 y a r d s while Rams went to the a i r ten t imes for 39 ya rds . It was the final game of die yea r for Spar ta .

During the y e a r of Spa r t a ' s eight game season, the Spa r t an ' s f inished with 6 wins and 2 l o s se s , bodi in non-conference play. Over the s e a -son, this is what happened . . . .

Spa r t a ' s total s co re was 166 points for 8 games while their opponents tallied up 62 points . In league play, Sparta scored 120 points while the defense held the five conference t eams to l3 total points . Lowell and Rockford were the only teams to s c o r e against die Spar tans in con-fe rence play.

The total rushing fo r Sparta was 1910 yards for 359 c a r r i e s for an average of 238 ya rds pe r game with 5.3 rush per c a r r i e r . T h e opposing team ca r r i ed the ball 344 t imes for 1309 ya rds .

The pass ing was done by two q u a r -te rbacks throughout the season , L a r r y Andrus (sophomore) and J i m Tu ins t r a (junior). Andrus was in -jured midway tlirough the season and didn ' t play in three g a m e s . Andrus completed 12 of 35 for 259 y a r d s and T r i n s t r a completed 5 of 17 for 159 ya rds . The Spartans leading r e -ce iver was Chuck Brown ( junior) .

High s c o r e r for Sparta was Brown who had 12 touchdowns and 72 points followed by T im Cumings (senior) witli 3 ' I D ' s and 18 points . Jack Car l son (senior) with no T D ' s and 14 points, Bud Elve (sophomore) 2 T d ' s and 12 points. Roland Losey (sophomore) 3 TD ' s and 18 points , Paul Swanson (junior) with 2 T D ' s and 12 points, Paul Johnson (sopho-more) 1 TD and 6 points, T u i n s t r a (junior) 1 T P and 6 points , Leon Kik (senior) P.A. 1 . and 1 point and Bob Overbold ( junior) 1 P .A.T , and one point.

The leading r u s h e r s for Sparta were Cumings with 109 c a r r i e s for 613 yards and Brown 68 c a r r i e s for 453 y a r d s . Brown a l so c a u g h t p a s s -es for 291 yards and 5 T . D . Brown led with a total of 744 ya rds . Paul Swanson caught 6 p a s s e s fo r 46 ya rds and Bud Elve ran 48 t imes for 232 ya rds . Jack Car l son made 14 of 22 points a f t e r touchdown fo r 14 points or 67%. Mike Bottorff (senior) punted for the Spar tans fo r a 35.1 yard average .

Leading t ack le r s for tlie y e a r were : Marv Knauf (senior) 30 un-ass i s t ed and 105 a s s i s t e d . Rich Knauf, ( junior) 25and 80, Rich Bloom (junior) 12 and 65, Steve A r c h e r , (Senior) 5 and 65, Jack Dinkel ( s en -ior) 6 and 60, Mike Bottorff 14 and 50, and Bud Elve 7 and 50.

The above r e c o r d s were made by outstanding m e m b e r s of the Spartan football team, but eve ry m e m b e r of the squad s h a r e s in the v ic tory . Each in his own way contr ibuted to the championship of the 1965 Spa r t ans .

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