The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-16
When Does Kitchen Waste
Take On Air of Garbage?

Judge James (. Spier, now in
India, and visit the pig problem.
tSome years ago, i'm a Warren
Township "piggery' case, Judge
Spier heard such conflicting evil
dencc in court that he went out
TO the pig pens and did some
fancy smelling himself. How did
1t smell? Well, the court inn
mediately halted operation of
the piggery.)
OFFICIAL TARGET
The pre- sent Chesterfield
Township case springs from
petition filed recently by SUI
perviSor Adolph Veryser, as
Township health officer, and Is
residents, claiming the pig pro-
duction center of Earl and Fred
Clubine, about eight miles north
of Mount Clemens is Cd a nui-
sance because of obnoxious
odors; (2) a menace to health.
because of spilled garbage,
CD and a deterrent TO seeds and
cops because Of the large num-
bers OF sea gullS, starlings, black
BIRDS and sparroWs attracted to
the scene by the choice morsels
of kitchen waste fed 10 the
pigs by the truck load.
In addition TO the above listed
general complaints, petitioners
attorney George w. John ex-
pounded at some length on the
nuisance created by the presence
of large flocks Of seagulls soar
ing over the roofs, lawns, family
WaSh-lines and new spring hats
of Chesterfield Township resi-
dents, He said that roofs were
detaced and lawns practically
oblitcrated by this blitz, funny
TO everyone but the victims.
John E. Merrill appeared as
attorney for lie defendant, own
er Earl Clubine, and his brother,
an employee, Fred Clubine.
WHOLESOME AURA
Three witnesses. living near
(but not too near the Clubine
property, testified in defense of
the pig raisers that they could
neither smell the hogs nor the
garbage, and that 80 far the
ALLEGED nuisance had not affected
their individual hcaiths. They
said large flocks of seagulls and
birds which held mastery o tfhe
Chesterfield Township air for
some time, had not been seen
lately.
The witnesses were Mrs. Lot
tie Moulton, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Szymklo.
Frank Szymklo's testimony
brought repeated spells of laugh
ter in the court room, when he
insisted on cross examination
that hogs, goats or anything
don't bother me-" He admitted
he had hauled garbage as a
Clubine omploye three or four
times, and waXed eloquent in his
description Of the garbage as
mice fresh garbage that Smell
cd good He said il was nice
stuff from Sclfridge mess ia
blcs, and did not require covers
to be placed over the garbage
trucks because il was so fresh.
NICE CARRIAGE
But it remained for Fred
Clubine, brother of the princi-
pal defendant, TO take the stand
and eXtoll the virtues of Sell
fridge Field Kitchen waste
like an crt. He stressed the
freshness and quality of the
scraps, and said they were al
most invariably consumed by
the hogs from troughs the same
day it was conveyed from Sell
fridge.
In respect to a health men
ace, Clubine said their hog yard
was mo more injurious to health
or offensive to smell than their
own yards (mcaning the petit
tioning neighborS. some Of whom
also keep animals)
Asked to define the difference
between kitchen waste and
garbage, Clubinc said kitchen
scraps came right from the table
and were all good food. Gar
bage, he said, is an expression
covering a multitude of sins,
and usually refers TO rotten,
stale or sour food and waste of
all kinds, including scraps of
junk.
MILITARY SECRET
Clubine said they now have
lao hogs at the farm, but had
more previously. He refused to
discuss details of their contract
the government at SeIfridge
Field, or the amount of garbage
hauled in two ! ! . ton trucks on
one trip each daily - despite
Attorney Johns pointed re-
marks regarding the contract
being "a military secret"
In urging an early disposition