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GLARE, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1946
New Series Vol. 54, No. 44
MRS. ELLA BUCK
PASSES TO REWARD
LASHATURDAY
Laid at Rest  in  Plainfield
Cemetery Beside
Husband
The peaceful passing from this life
on July 27th of Mrs. filla Buck at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Vera B.
Peterson, hrought the scripture verse,
"Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord," to the minds of the members of
her family and close associates. She
crossed the valley while in her chair
after the morning meal and her countenance radiated the fulfillment of this
quotation so often heard from the
lips of this aged Christian pioneer.
She had been granted eighty-one years
nine months and thirteen days, aa her
life's span.
Ella Amelia Ross, daughter of Peter
and Jane Ross, was born in North
Plains township, Ionia county, October
14th, 1864, where she grew to womanhood. She was united in marriage to
Henry R. Buck, of Hale, Michigan,
April 25, 1S88, where they began life
together,
' 1f-l* companion passed away April
27th, 1912, leaving Mrs. Buck with
their family of three children, one
daughter, Addie May, having preceded
the father. She remained in Hale
about six years after her husband's
death and has been permanently located iu Clare with her daughter, Mrs.
Peterson, for about fourteen years.
Upon establishing their home ia
Hale they undertook the task of the
early settlers in" the community, clearing the land and building their home
and their happiness was in seeing
their efforts grow. Mrs. Buck accepted the Lord * . '*er Savior when
fourteen years of age and in finding
a need of Christian worship among
her new associates she united in efforts with five women aiid two men
and the Hale community soon had a
church edifice which remains today as
a monument of the Christian pioneers'
interests.
On July 4th, 1943, the Hale Baptist
Church held a jubilee service in commemoration of the completion of the
Milding and Mrs. Budk wasTpVese'flfe'
She was presented with a bouquet of
roses placed in the church in honor
of, the charter members, she being the
only surviving member of the thirteen
who united with the church organization a few years prior to 1898.
Her life was ever a testimony for
her Master and her heart burdened for
the unsaved. She was devoted to her
family and grandchildren and rejoiced
as she learned of their conversions.
Her oldest grandson, Raymond Dafoe,
brought her great comfort by singing
and he contributed two beautiful bari-
i. Continued on Page Bight;
John Underwood's
Brother Killed in
Oil Well Accident
Austie Curtis Underwood, 61, was
killed in an oil well accident Wednesday, July 17, near his home at 'Mc-
Camey, Texas.
A son  of Valentine and Elizabeth
I'Jane Shrader Underwood, he was born
in Doddridge county, West Virginia, in
July, 1885.
He moved to Texas soon after the
death  of  his  first  wife  ,the  former
j Jessie Gorby.   One son, Harry Under?
wood,of Painesville, Ohio, was born
to this union.
His second wife, Jewel Underwood,
of McCamey, Texas; survives, as do
two brothers, John, of Clare, and C. E.,
of Morgansville.
Mr. Underwood, a driller, was at
work on a well when part of the rig
fell and crushed him.
He was laid at rest Sunday, July 21,
in the family lot at Center Point,
West Virginia.
WOMEN GOLFERS BEAT
ITHACA WOMEN THERE
WEDNESDAY MORNING
Womens Championship  Match
To Commence Monday,
August 12
Women golfers from the Clare club
won an inter-club match at Ithaca
Wednesday, downing the Ithaca women, 5-2 in a contest played by seven
foursomes. Twenty-six players from
Clare made the trip to take part in the
contest.
Clara Titus and. Fran Andreson tied
with scores of 49 for low among the
Clare players. Mrs. Titus was awarded the prize after cutting cards to
decide the tie. Mrs. Mary Brewer
played a prize winning 45 to take low
honors for Ithaca.
Golf lunch was served by the ladies
from Ithaca, after which bridge and
social golf was enjoyed. Next week's
Wednesday match for ladies will be
the last out-of-town game this season,
an inter-club match at Portland.
Championship Match Planned
The Clare Womens' championship
match play will begin Monday, August 12, with eighteen holes of qualifying play scheduled to commence at
9:00 a. m. First elimination round
matches will follow on Wednesday,
August 14.
Another tournament of first place
Interest on the women's calendar- is
the "Life Begins at Forty" competition
now being played. Golfers entered in
this tourney have been asked to
schedule their matches for rapid completion if possible, with deadline date,
Tuesday, August 20, set for the wind-
up of all play in this event.
Mixed  Foursome  Next Sunday
Men's and women's tournament
committees have jointly* announced a
two-ball mixed foursome event for
next Sunday, Angus. 4. This game is
always a popular feature of the season
at the club, ami promises to draw
many entries. Players may register
their rtajpes with either Jesse Hampton of Mrs. Seatrjcs Lange.
208 KILLED BY
FIRE IN MICHIGAN
THEPAST YEAR
Flrp Loss Over $19,500,000
State Fire Marshall's
Report Shows
A toll of 208 lives and property destruction exceeding $19,500,000 was
Michigan's 1945 fire loss, according to
figures just released by Oscar G. Olan-
der. Commissioner of the Michigan
§tate Police aud state fire marshal.
While this was an increase of 15
lives and approximately $200,000 in
property loss over the preceding year,
it was not in proportion to the increase
in the country as a whole.
Two fires, one at JMuskegon March
16, which five died from suffocation
while fighting fire in the hold of an. old
ship, and one at the" Export Box and
Sealer Company, at Detroit, August 13,
tofWhieh Ifr persons met death, sent.
Michigan's fire death toll to an all-time
high it was pointed out by Arnold C,
Renner, Chief of the Fire Division of
the state police.
An analysis of the report shows that
of the number killed by fire in the
state during 1945, 49 percent were children. High on the list of causes of
(his loss of young lives, Renner said,
was leaving children alone.
The job of fighting fire, the survey
shows, grows more hazardous each
year. Eight firemen lost their lives in
the performance of duty during 1945.
This was double the numher killed in
1944. Three were killed In 1943, and
none in 1942.
The survey lists 787 fires attributable to carelessness, which was 225
fewer fires than were recorded under
the same heading in the 1944 report.
This would indicate that spreading the
gospel, of fire prevention is naving
some effect, Renner said.
There was an upswing in the number _f fiVes traceable to malicious mischief of juveniles in 1945, with 408 being recorded as against 219 in tlie preceding year.
From all other causes with the exception of a few such perenials as
Over-heated irons, overheated stoves
and furnaces, and the use of petroleum
liquid to kindle fires, there was a
notable decrease in the number of
fires.
A recapitulation of tlie survey shows
the following: Loss of life by fire,
208; total loss on buildings, $10,400,-
319.74; total loss on contents, $7,076,-
439.24; rural fire loss, ?2,_72,984.39.'|
total fire loss, $19,549,707.37.
The report shows there were 49,1.7
fires in Michigan in 1945, which were
2,408 fewer than were recorded for the
preceding 12 months' period.
HOLLEY BROTHERS
OPEN CARBURETOR
PLANTJN CLARE
To   Manufacture   Automotive Parts for Ford and
International
An important business transaction
was completed here Tuesday of last
week and announced this week, involving the Holley Carburetor Company, of Detroit and Portland, Michigan, the Clare Travel Coach Company
and the City of Clare, with Art Damoth
acting in the capacity of intermediary.
In the deal the carburetor company
has leased the building of the travel
coach company, recently vacated by
Wood Parts Inc., of ' Cadillac, and
leased the city's land adjoining the
property on the west.
The Wood Parts lease expired August first and the carburetor company
took possession of the property on this
day, their engineers having been in the
city since last week.
The Holley Brothers, with two Detroit plants employing several thousand men and the Portland plant 550,
will manufacture automotive parts in
Clare for the Ford Motor Company
and International Harvester Company,
having made parts for Ford for the
past forty years.
The firm will employ a small number of men and women here, approximately thirty-five when the plant is
opened, and will increase this force to
from 500 to 550 as progress is made.
Production will commence as soon as
equipment can be moved in and set
up.
Clace is fortunate in securing this
industry, as both the cities of Sauga-
tuck and West Branch were very interested in having the business locate
there. The Holley management did
not ask any favors of either the Travel
Coach Company or the City of Clare
in coming- here, .but were only interested in finding the most desirable location for their new plant.
They have expressed a desire to become a permanent part of our community life and be recognized as a local concern, and we are sure they will
.-ceWyii a "hearty welcome to Clare
personally and as an important addition to our industrial sphere.
Young Fblfys Take
689 Mile Bicycle
Trip to Wisconsin
Edmund Burdo, of this city, Frank
Sutton of Chicago, a college mate at
the University of Michigan who has
been visiting in the'Burdo home, and
the Misses Doris Dunkleberger, of
Dowagiac, Michigan, and Barbara
Lynn, of Nebraska, returned to Clare
last week from a 6S9.mile bicycle trip
through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Wisconsin.
They spent ten days on the trip, averaging" eighteen miles an'hour on the
straightaways by cyctemeter and eighty miles a day; stopping at St. Ignace,
Marquette, the home, of Ed's uncles,
Ben and Dan Brobaskfe, at L'Anse, and
Iron Mountain, Michigan, and Green
Bay, Sturgeon Bay and Kewanee, Wisconsin, and crossed Lake Michigan by
ferry to Ludington.    '
They report that it-,was a little tiresome at first but really enjoyable after
they got their "second wind."
Injuries Slight
When Cars Crash
Late Wednesday
Cars driven by D. W. Osborn and
Tim Frey collided at the street intersection of Seventh and Pine, Wednesday evening, when Frey, momentarily
blinded by the late sun, shining in his
eyes, didn't see the Osborn car crossing the intersection northbound, and
struck it broadside.
Occupants of both cars "were shaken
aiid jarred somewhat and Mrs. Osborn,
riding with her husband, was bruised
about the right elbow and arm. The
cars were both damaged considerably,
but were driven away under their own
power.
TAKE IT EASY!—the wartime sal*
utatioh—-is the guiding slogan for an
intensive nationwide traffic 'safety
drive—Auto Club of Michigan.
VFW TOPS COUNTY
SOFTBALL LEAGUE
AS SEASON ENDS
Round  Robin Playoff For
Six High Teams
August 12-23
The ■unbeaten VFW Softball team continues to lead in the Clare County
League, Farwell moving up to second
place by virtue of a 7-5 win over the
Browns Thursday evening of last
week. Temple, who held fourth place
last week, has dropped from the
league.
With averages running close for the
majority of league teams, interest and
competition are keen during this last
week of the regular league season.
LEAGUE STANDINGS
Wednesday noon, July 31
By Glen McKeever, Official Scorer
Team
.    Won Lost Pet.
VFW
9
0   1.000
Farwell
6
3     .667
North Bradley
6
4     ,600
Eagle
5
4      .555
Firestone Gulf
5
4      .555
Moline
5
4      .5^5
Brown
<?        4
5     .444
K of C
3
5     .375
Houghtons
2
7      .222
Schaeffers
1
7      .125
The results of games played since
Tuesday,  July 23,  through  Tuesday,
July 30, are:
Wednesday, July .24:
Firestone Gulf, 10—N. Bradley, 1
Meyer Hdwe.,  Cadillac,  4—Clare
All Stars, 6
Thursday, July 25: •
Moline's, 2—Fires-tone Gulf. 5
Farwell, 7—Brown, 5
Friday, July 26:
Eagle, 7—N. Bradley, 10
VFW, 18—Ki of C, 8
Monday, July 29:
Schaeffer's, 3—Brown, 10
Moline's* 1—Houghton'sj 2
Tuesday, * July 30:
Farwell, 7—Firestone Gulf, 0
Houghton's, 3-^VFW, 5
The Houghton-VFW game, on July
30, was an exhibition game and "does
not count in league standings.
CLOSED SATURDAY AFTERNOONS
The Consumers Power Company office in Clare will be closed Saturday
afternoons, beginning August 1st.
ROSEBUSH LOSES
ANOTHER PIONEER
TUESDAYJULY 23
Mrs. William J.  Johnston
Laid atfcRe|t There
Last Friday
Rosebush has lost another pioneer
_nd long time resident. After a short
illness, Mrs. William J. Johnston died
in Marion at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Frank White. While Mrs. Johnston had passed the last few winters
in Marion, she had maintained her
home in Rosebush and spent all but
the winter months there.
Margaret Ann Cameron was born
July 2, 1856, at Ailsa Craig, Ontario,
and died July 23, aged ninety years,
and three weeks. She was the third
of a family of fifteen children, thirteen
of whom grew to adulthood. As a girl
she came with her parents to Michigan and the family settled on a farm
two miles west of Rosebush,
July 30, 1S79, she inarried William
J. Johnston and the couple lived on a
farm a mile and a quarter west of
Rosebush until about 1890, when they
moved to Rosebush, where Mr. Johnston kept a store. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston had six children, two of whom
died in infancy. Surviving are a
daughter, Mrs. Frank White, of Marion; two sons, Melvin, of Marion, and
Dean, of Ludington; four grandchildren and one great grandchild. Also
surviving are a brother, Edward Cameron, of Rosebush; a sister, Mrs. Mai*-
vin Follett, of California; nieces and
nephews and many friends. She was
preceded In death by her husband in
1934, and by a son, Arthur, in 1939.
She had a busy life, for the farm
on which she and her husband settled
was all woods, and the clearing of the
area occupied the early years of their
marriage. But she and Mr, Johnston
found time for three trips to the Pacific coast and one to the Atlantic
coast.
Mrs. Johnston was remai'kably
sturdy for her years, mentally alert,
and keen of sight and hearing. An
outstanding trait' of her character was
her pioneer independence and self-
reliance. She never wanted one to
do things for her, but she was happiest when she could do things for
others.
In spite of her more than four score
years she was young in spirit, always
interested in hearing of the doings of
young people and delighted with any
piece of good fortune which came their
way. She was a good enjoyer and
savored every aspect of living: the
hard work of early days, the trips
taken with her husband, her home
and friends and neighbors.
She saw this country change from
nn era of corduroy road-*; ox teams,
and log houses to an era of paved high
ways, high speed transportation and
rapid communication. She saw the
forest gradually replaced by cultivated
fields and green meadows and comfortable homes. She "lived richly,
saw much, and gave greatly." Her
going leaves a vacant place in the
community.
Funeral services were conducted, by
Rev. R. O. Thomson in Rosebush
Methodist Church, Friday afternoon,
July 26, and she was buried in the
family plot'in Rosebush cemetery.
M. B. GALLAGHER
CLOSES BUSINESS
ACTIVITIES HERE
Career Dates  Back to the
Horse and Buggy
„      Days in Clare
The sale of the Central Motor Sales
here July 18th, by M- B. Gallagher,
brought to a close a business career
in Clare that dated back tp the .horse
and. buggy days.
Thirty-four years ago Mort, ag he is
known .to his friends, and William
Webb opened a hardware and farm
implement store in the portion of the
Doherty building now occupied by the
Clarified Bakery and continued in business there a number of years.
Later Messrs. Gallagher and Webb
purchased the Charles Calkins hardware and implement business located
in the building now occupied by the
Burdo Hardware & Furniture store
and in 1926 Ben Mercer purchased Mr.
Webb's interest in the business, subsequently adding the furniture line to
the business. The Clare Hardware
and Furniture Company at one time
during Mr. Gallagher's association
with the firm owned a half interest
in the Mt. Pleasant Hardware & Furniture Company.
Messrs. Gallagher and Mercer sold
the business to the Burdos in 1936
and since that time Mr._ Mercer has
passed away.
Mr. Gallagher built the Central Motor Sales building in 1938 and conducted, the Dodge and Plymouth sales and
service there until selling the business
to Gene Featherston, the present owner.
Mort sold Durant & Dort buggies before that well known firm commenced
the manufacture of automobiles and
was a personal friend of their sales
manager, Charles Nash, who is now
prominently associated with Nash-
Kelvinator.
Mr. Gallagher sold the first Dodge
automobiles purchased in both Clare
and Isabella counties and lists among
his customers not only men who have
purchased all of their automobiles
from him, but families where the father, sons and grandsons .have bought
all of their'cars from him. 7
These things have not been accomplished without considerable effort
and Mort has earned a rest from his
businuess life and the Sentinel joins
his many friends in extending him best
wishes upon his retirement.
MRS. RUTH DUNCAN
PASSES AWAY AT
HOMHF NIECE
Funeral Services and Burial
Here Monday Afternoon
of Last Week
Betty Walker
Rotary Speaker
N Wednesday Noon
Miss Betty Walker, Clare county
counselor for veterans' affairs, explained some of the' functions of her
office and reported on veterans rehabilitation and employment in a talk to
members of the Rotary' club at their
noon lunch meeting, Wednesday, in
the Barnes Cafe dining room.
Michigan leads all states in the detailed organization of small community counseling service to veterans of
all wars and to their next oi kin, Miss
Walker said. This service provides
contact for the vet, through the local
representative, with the state office for
Veterans' Affairs and the region Veterans' Administration headquarters.
Advice for individuals and hilp in
filling out forms which are required by
yets' agencies in problems concerning
re-employment, aid for dependents,
medical aid or hospitalization, benefits
under the "GI Bill of Rights," and
other problems is tbe main business
of Miss Walker's office, and she reports that increasing numbers of ex-
servicemen and their employers are
calling on her for counsel.
JOHN BRIEF BARN
SAVED BY RURAL
TRUCKWEDNESDAY
Firemen Called to Jackson
Home Here Tuesday
Evening
DAVIS REUNION
The Davis reunion will be held on
Sunday, August 4th, at Wilson State
Park, Harrison.
Mary L. Davis,, Sec.
DANCING
At Water' l_dge Park, Stevenson'n
Lake, Saturday, August 3rd. Popular
and square dances by Cholnius Farmers Orchestra.
Ruth E. Allen, daughter of Edgar
and Minerva Allen, was born at Wah-
jamega, Mich., November 29, 1869.
She lived later at Saginaw and on the
farm in Wise township, where she attended school and grew to womanhood.
On November 29, 1892, she was
united in marriage to Llewellyn E. Mcintosh and resided at Coleman, where
their son, Ivon, was born. Later they
moved to Harbor Beach where they
purchased a drugstore. There Mrs.
Mcintosh was active in church and
fraternal circles. • About twelve years
later, due to failing health of Mr. Mcintosh, they sold the store and moved
to Wise township, where he passed
away June 1, 1913,
On November 25, 1915, she was
united in marriage to John Duncan
and lived on their farm in Vernon until his death five years ago. Since that
time she has lived with her son on his
farm in Vernon during the summer
months, spending the winters with her
sister and nieces in Detroit.
In .ate years her health began to
fail and in May she entered the hospital at Royal Oak, where she improved enough to return to Jier niece's
home, but the loving care of sister
and nieces could not prevail and she
passed away July 20th.
Her Sympathy went out to anyone in
need. "Inasmuch as ye do it unto one
of the least of these my brethren,"
was her motto.
She was brought back among h_r
old friends and neighbors to lie at rest
in Cherry Grove, Service? were held
at the Thurston Funeral Home, Rev.
Chas. B. Hahn officiating,
Besides a host of friends she leayes
to mOiirn their loss, her son, Ivon Mc:
Intosli, and family, brother, Clyde Alio, and family, of Clare; brother, Ralph
Allen, and family of Harbor Beach;
her sister, Maude M. Tubbs, and
nieces, Grace Husan and husband and
Minerva Adams and husband, of Detroit; and a cousin, Minerva Parker,
of Battle Creek.
A burning straw stack which threatened the barn and other buildings at
the John Brief farm in Vernon, Wednesday forenoon, was extinguished
without serious damage after a speedy
run by the Clare rural fire truck.
The fire was noticed by Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Denton, of Pontiac, passing
by, and the alarm was phoned in to
the department from the residence of
James Walsh, the nearest telephone
available. Blazing grass and the
straw stack near the corner of the
barn were extinguished in quick time
and the only damage resulting from
the fire was a noticable blackening of
the barn on the corner nearest the
blaze.
It is difficult to estimate the saving
to farms in the Clare area which, is
credited to prompt response to fire
alarms by our rural truck, but it is
generally agreed that many fires have
been controlled, or put out with little
damage, which might well have destroyed valuable buildings and crops
if it were not for the .alert firemen
and the truck available for fighting
farm fires. Fifteen minutes after the'
call was made, Wednesday, the truck
was On the scene at the Brief farm and
everything was under control.
Fire at Jackson Home
The Clare Fire Department was
called to the John Jackson home on
West Seventh Street, at 6:30 o'clock
Tuesday evening when fire of an unknown origin broke out in a closet off
the living room on the first floor.
Irwin Schlegel, Mr. Jackson's son-in-
law wno with Mrs. Schlegel make
their home with Mr. Jackson, investigated when smoke was discovered
coming from the closet, and extinguished the fire before the fire department arrived.
AMERICAN SKI CO.
UNDER PRODUCTION
IN CURE PLANT
Manufacturing Complete
Line of Skis From
Magnesium
Former Teacher
Discusses Police
Woman's Duties
Miss Clarissa Young, former Social
Studies instructor at Clare High
School, who is now serving as Lansing's first police woman, spoke before
members of Lansing Zonta *Club at
the Hotel Olds Tuesday of last week,
discussing vital needs to setting up
of crime prevention units in modern
police'departments.
With a 44.6 percent crime increase
in war and post-war months among
women and girls, she pointed out that
progress in methods of handling juveiin
ile delinquents and -nisbetfavior among
women is making obsolete the old general formulas of suppression and repression as crime handling theories.
Especially vital is tbe need of a
prevention set-up such as the Lansing
police department now includes, in face
of the reasoning that most adult criminals begin their careers as children,
she said. The challenge for the local
unit today, she added, is an approach
to the problem of handling more intelligently and thoroughly children
showing signs of criminal tendencies.
' She outlined at length the problems
of the police officers and courts of
Lansing and Ingham county and steps
taken for solving these problems as
concerned her work and that of her
colleagues, and her talk was well re-*
ceived by an appreciative audience.
The American Ski Company plant,*
which has been under construction on
West Fourth Street, for some time, was
virtully completed this week, with only the finishing of the painting and
installation of machinery and equipment to be accomplished. The build-
ig is of steel and cinder block construction and well adapted to the manufacture of the products of the company.
The company manufactured metal
skis in Saginaw before moving into
the new Clare plant.
ProducJJon is already underway here
in the making of American air-Skis
from magnesium (Dow metal) in sizes
6.0, 6.3, 6.6, 6.9, 7.0. 7.3 and 7.6, and all
fabrication is done in the local plant.
One shift is now kept busy and it may
be necessary to add another shift.
William C McConica, a member of
the firm and a brother of Dr. T. H.
McConica, III, who developed the American Air-Ski, is general manager of
the Clare factory.
Air-Skis (U.S. and Foreign patents
applied for) are made from Dowmetal
O-lhta, the highest strength alloy of
magnesium, the world's lightest structural metal, and because of their unusual "sliding ability" on snow, are
very fast. In strength test a magnesium truck wheel was dropped from a
third story window to a cement floor
and the same stunt was tried with a
steel wheel. The magnesium wheel
showed not a dent, or even the most
minute change in dimensions. The
steel wheel, however, was bent when
it struck and again bent when it hit
after the first bounce.
Air-Skis were developed by Dr. T.
H. McConica, III, Assistant Director ot
the Dow Chemical Company's MetaU
lurgical Department, in cooperation
with Sepp Ruschp, internationally recognized skiing expert of Mt. Mansfield,
Vermont. No effort has been spared to-
produce a ski which is suited to the requirements of the professional and t
amateur alike.
Late in 1944, Dr. McConica, of the
Midland plant that pioneer-ed the way
in extracting magnesium from brine
and sea water ,hit upon the idea that
the metal would be ideal for skis. He
studied all the best hickory-wood skis,
then designed a pair to be made fi;om
magnesium. These were first tested
on Michigan slopes and proved their
sliding ability. One of the most important things discovered was that
the surface of the magnesium skis re-^
quired none of the surface treatment
that other skis need.
The possibilities of Air-Skis are as
unlimited as the source of the magnesium  from which they are manufactured.   One cubic mile of sea water
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SOIL CONSERVATION
PRACTICES NEEDED ON
MICHIGAN FARMLANDS
District Supervisor Coming to
County to Plan for
Demonstration
R. G. Hill, executive secretary of the
Stato Soil Conservation Committee,
says land, surveys show S5% of our
farmland needs some soil conservation
practices. Michigan has 36 soil conservation districts, which include nearly 75,000 of the state's 196,000 farms.
But there is a big job ahead.
First of all, Hill believes soil conservation is an educational program.
People, young and old, rural and urban
must be made to understand that the
conservation of soil and water is important to their own future. If the soil
is to be eroded away, soon there will
be no land to produce crops, or woodlands and pastures to provide the nee-
essities of life. \
Hill reports that more than. 4,000-
Michigan farmers have asked for and!
received conservation plans from soil
conservation districts. But that alone
is not the extent of the value.. ThesQ
farms have served as demonstrators- to
neighboring farmers and as locations
for stops on tours at which approved;
methods of conservation are pointed-
out.
Soil conservation districts are operated by the farmers who name fi^e-
directors in each district. These farm-,
efs administer the soil conservation1
program. Farmers in areas not covered by soil conservation districts,
may be interested in gaining information on how to get into a district.
W. R. Trellis, District Supervisor ot
the Soil Conservation District, will be-
in Clare county the week of August
26 to make plans for demonstration
farms, and meet farmers interested in
soil conservation program.