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CLARE. MICHIGAN, FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 25. 1950
Seven Cents Copy
New Series Vol. 58. No. 48
Clare County Softball Champions
Win In Tournament First Rounds
Cain. & Grove, who won the 1950 Clare County Softball League Championship and brought to an end
the local Veterans of Foreign "Wars team's four year reign as league champions, won their first game of
the Clare-Mt, Pleasant leagues tournament here Tuesday evening and were scheduled to play Art Savage, of
the Mt. Pleasant League, Thursday night.
Players are (left to right, first row above) Dick Kraus, Leon Stanley, Don Ferguson, Dale Stough, bat-
boy Leon Stanley, Larry Shelander, Zane Walters and Floyd Stanley. Second row; Hollis Haggart, Jim Joslin
Jack Brinkerhoff, Paul  Schroeder, Jim Grove, Clifford "Wood and Leonard Stanley.    —TIMES-NEWS PHOTO
V.F.W. TO PLAY
IN TOURNAMENT
FINALS^SDNDAY
Winners of Clare-Mi. Pleasant
Tourney To Play Reed City -
Big Rapids Champs
Clare scored a clean sweep over
three Mt. Pleasant teams in the first
night of action in the District Class
C softball tournament opening here
Tuesday evening. -The £amss were
scheduled fo£ Stbifd^ evening, fer^
could not be played because of rain.
V.F.W,, second place team in the
Clare County softball League, started
the opening night rout With a 7-4 victory over Mt. Pleasants West Side
Merchants. Farwell then defeated Van
Zandt 7-6, and Clare County League
leading Cain & Grove put Remus out
of the running with a 7-5 win.
The Merchants took a one-run lead
on the Veterans in the first inning,
but VFW tied it up at 1-all in the
second and then tallied four more in
the fourth to clinch the victory.
Bud Hendershot, the winning pitcher, led off the fourth and was safe
Youths Caught
Taking Gas From
Parked Car
DISTRICT FINALS
Semi finals of the Clare County-
Mt. Pleasant Leagues playoffs will
be played on the Clare public
school diamond at 7:00 o'clock
Saturday evening; and the finals
at 1:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
The winners of the Clare-Mt.
Pleasant finals will play the winner of the Reed City-Big Rapids
finals on the Clare field at 7:30
o'clock-Sunday evening; and the
winners of Sunday night's game
will play in the district finals at
Ithaca Monday evening.
on an error. Bill Foell advanced him
to second with a single and he scored
on Leeny Greenfs hit. Foell went to
third on the play and came over on a
passed ball. Bob Beck's single scored
Green, and Neilan Cradit doubled to
score Beck with the final run.
The West Siders counted two more
runs in their Half of the fourth when
Dick   Whitney.,  the   losing   pitcher,
homered with Jerry Lynch on base.
V.F.W. 0,1 04110   793
Merchants 1002001   425
Hendershot and Beck; Whitney
and Elias.
Farwell tallied three runs in the
last inning to eliminate VanZandt
from further play in the Class C
tourney. Winning pitcher John Colosky walked with his team behind 6-4,
and came all the:way around4pn passed balls and wild pitches. "*
Ellis Barber and Matt Brown were
safe on infield errors and advanced
on Ray Marshall's sacrifice. Both runners crossed the plate when the VanZandt outfield made a threebase error on Ken Renner's fly.
Farwell 3 1 0 0 0 0 3   7 6   3
VanZandt 0 3 0 0 3 0 0-   6 7 10
Colosky and Brown; Cook and Leu-
der.
Home runs brought on Remus down-,
fall after the defending Mt. Pleasant
champions had taken a two-run lead
in the first innihg.
Dick Kraus led Off Cain & drove's
second with a homer. Jim* Joslin and
Leon Stanley 'worked Chum Linten-
muth for walks aM Hollis • Haggart
sacrificed. Tip Wood fanned lor the
(Continued Oil Page Eight)
City Police were called to the 100
block of West Seventh Street, at 11:45
o'clock Thursday evening of last week,
where four youths had been caught
taking gasoline from a parked car
and one of the young men and a gallon of gas in a glass jug were being
held.
The other three were apprehended
later by the Officers and taken to the
pol&e station for questioning, where
they adinltted taking the gas and told
officers they were from "Belleville,
near Detroit, were short of money,
and were trying to get home. According to police, it was learned they had
also taken gas from a car in Harrison,
Clarence M. Butler, 21, a member of
the U. S. Army home on furlough, was
turned over to Army authorities,
Jurisdiction over two of the boys,
who were 16 years of age, was waived
by Probate Judge George Bates and
they were brought before Justice* Wm.
B, Dunlop in Municipal Court here
and placed on probation.
The fourth boy, only 14 years of
age, was taken before Judge Bates,
charged with simple larceny, and
turned over to the Wayne County
Probate Court.
Saginaw Fair To
Open September 10
With New Features
Plans are progressing rapidly for
the 1950 Saginaw Fair and every effort is being made to make it the
greatest in its history.
New* classes have been added and
premiums in all departments are being
raised to an all time high. The new
light saddle horse division which has
been added is assured of a great number of entries from present indications.
Most of the grandstand seats for the
night show will be reserved.   -
LEATON REGAINS
TOP POSITION IN
CENTRAL LEAGUE
Green Sox Drub Rosebush To
Tie For Top Honors
Sunday Afternoon
Leaton defeated «geond place Far-
well as Big* jQhif>Keebaugh allowed
only five "lifts' for a 7-1 victory and regained top position in the Central
Michigan League, Sunday.
The Mt. Pleasant Green Box drubbed, leagne-Ieading Rosebush 9-1 to
tie if up with Leaton for top honors.
Trailing 1-0 the Green Sox staged a
batting spree to bat around and score
nine runs in the seventh for the victory.
Rosebush     00100000 01   81
Mt. Pleasant 000 00090x9 10 0
Grove and McConnell; Hoyt and
Kennedy.
Leaton won its contest in the first
inning with two out, two runs were
scored. Every man on the Leaton team
hit safely.
Farwell 0 0 10* 00000 1 53
Leaton 20O0O014x   7 15 1
Sowle, Elton Marshall (8) and Ray
Marshall; Keebaugh and Methner.
Harrison defeated Clare, although
Bill Lucy, the Clare manager, hit two
home runs and a single. Jim Eaton,
of Harrison, was the winning pitcher
allowing six hits, while - his team
mates were connecting for nine off
Clare's Bob Wallace.
Clare 00 02000 2 1     56 3
Harrison      210H2122X   11 91
Wallace and Bellows; Eaton and
Ritter.
Leaton   _, .    9     3
Mt. Pleasant  9     3
Rosebush  _._  9     4
Farwell , , _: 8     4
Beal City ____ _*__ 8     6
Coleman _ __,    5     8
Harrison __, .__,  3   10
Clare _,    0 ' 13
NEXT SUNDAY'S GAMES
Mt. Pleasant at Farwell
Leaton at Clare
Harrison at Rosebush
Beal City and Coleman open
Fight Crowd Will See Ring
Giant in Main Go Tonight
The Headline bout on tonight's fight
card will match Clarence Krzyzaniak,
of the Linwood A. C. against the better of two opponents who are being
sought for the contest.
Krzyzaniak is a big powerful boy
from a farm near Standish. He weighs
238 and has won four Golden Gloves
bouts while losing one, and has two
KO's and two TKO's to his credit.
His seriousness about training and
clean living has marked him as a
youngster who will probably go places
in the ring. Several old time observers
mark him as a very likely prospect
and a possible champion, heavyweight
contender after he gains more experience,
, Roy Williams, a big Negro heavy
from Saginaw, might be the one who
can stop Clarence, or another big boy
from  Grand  Rapids   could   get  the
| matchmaker's nod.
At any rate, the featured heavyweight fight will be the main crowd
pleaser.
'Tit For Tat'
NINE TREATED AT
AS CARS CRASH
Mt.  Pleasant  Family  Of  Five
And Three Soldiers Sijirt
In One Collision
Eight persons were injured and
brought to the Clare Hospital when
cars driven by Harrison J. Pijtok, 35,
of Mt. Pleasant, and Marshall "Klaper,
20, of Detroit, a soldier enroute to
Camp Grayling, collided head-on eight
miles north of Clare on US-27,*at 1:30,
o'clock Monday morning. According
to State Police, Klaper attempted to
pass another car on a hill and collided
with the Plank car.
Plank suffered tw0 fractured ribs,
two fractured toes and laceration of
the forehead; and his- wife,. Leona,
34, sustained two bone fractures of
one leg and extensive lacerations of
the forehead. Their daughter, nine
year old Karen Lee Plaftk, suffered
lacerations of the scalp anil trauma of
the neck; and the Planks' children,
Waneta Mae, 15, suffered severe injuries to Jhe head and jaw, and Rox-
ann, three, minor injuries. Tlje family
were enroute home from'a vacation
Klaper, the most seriously '.injured
of those, riding in his cap, suffered a
fractured leg and fractured collar
bone. The other soldiers, Bernard
Singal, 19, of Detroit, sustained extensive lacerations of the scalp, concussion of th*e brain; and Jerome
Freidman, 20, of Detroit, injury of the
right leg.
Klaper's car was totally demolished
and damages to Plank's estimated at
$1,000,
One-Car Accident
Mrs. Beverly Epstein, 19, of Detroit,
was brought to the Clare Hospital
suffering a fractured leg and scalp
lacerations, early Sunday" "morning,
when a car driven by her husband,
Herbert, 22, rolled over on US-10 at
Loomis. Epstein told police that his
wife awoke from sleeping and, suddenly grabbed the steering wheel, throwing the car out of control. Damages
were estimated at $900.
Larry W. Scherzer, 18, lost control
of his car Saturday, after a rear tire
blew out, and it rolled over a mile
and a half east of Loomis otf US-10,
Damages were esfl'mal^di" St"'*,'£&0ftv
There were no injuries. v ***■
Festival Fever Stirs As Farwell
Gets Up Steam for Labor Day
City Library Is
Seeking Location
In Moving Plans
The Clare Public Library Association was given notice Saturday to
move the library out of its present
quarters in the Hotel Doherty Building to make way for a hotel expansion
program that is planned in the near
future. Though no date has been set
the hotel management wishes to take
possession as soon as possible.
It will be' necessary to call a meeting of the Library Association to discuss a new location and the removal.
Drunk And Reckless
Drivers Plead Guilty
In Municipal Court
Clare Eugene Lash, of Flint, was
arested by City Police at 3:00 o'clock
Saturday afternoon and arraigned in
Municipal Court Monday On the
charge of driving on US-27 while
drunk. He plead guilty and was fined
$53.00.
Norman G. Olson, of Detroit, was
arrested by city officers on a reckless
driving charge, at 11:40 o'clock Saturday morning. He plead guilty when
arraigned in Municipal Court later in
the day and was fined $28.50.
Wm. J. Farrow, of R-3, Gladwin,
charged with driving at excessive
speed when his car crashed into the
rear of another, and it into the rear
of a third when the latter two cars
were waiting for a train to pass a
West Fifth Street crossing here Au-
guest 16, was arraigned in Municipal
Court last Friday. He plead guilty
and was fined $13.50.
. Among those selling tickets .for the
Rotary Club boxing show this evening
is a city Official, who was a bit chagrined when another "ticket salesman" sold one of the popular little
cardboards to a member pf the official's force—"right under his nose."
But the embarrassment Was only borrowed, because said city official
promptly sold a ticket to the "offender's" wife.
Pardon the "commercial," but the
ten bout boxing card will commence
at 8:00 o'clock this evening at the
Clare school athletic field—md, just in
case you have not purchased your
tickets yet—either of the above will
be pleased to furnish them or you
may get them at the gate.
Mrs. Garthe's Story ,
In September Issue
Of "The Instructor"
Mrs. Helen Garthe, teacher of third
grade in the Clare Public School, is
represented in the September issue
of "The Instructor," nationall circulated magazine for elementary teach-
' ers,
Mrs, Garthe is the author of an article   entitled   "We   Learned   About
Communities."
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COLONVItLE REUNION
Colonville school reunion will be
held at the Colonville church Saturday, September 2, tot luck dinner at
7:00 p. M. Bring silverware and cups.
48t2 Secretary
Suspension Of
Passenger Service
Reconsidered
The legal battle for passenger train
service on the Ann Arbor (Wabash)
Railroa'd will be renewed in Federal
Court September 14, when a rehearing on the Federal Court order that
made cancellation possible is scheduled,
Passenger mail and express service
were discontinued July 19 following
litigation that started before World
War II.
Cadillac, Owosso, Ann Arbor and
several smaller cities and villages between Toledo, Ohio, and Frankfort,
Michigan, terminals of the railroad,
protested the suspension of passenger train service.
J. H.vStevens, railroad safety engineer for the Michigan Public Service Commission, said that cities and
villages on the Ann Arbor line will
be given an opportunity to state their
views.
Mail, service here, formerly furnished by the Ann Arbor, is being supplied by star route mail trucks between Clare and Lansing and Clare
and Cadillac.
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HOWARD B. KING
SUCCUMBS TO ILL
HEALTH MONDAY
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Laid    To    Rest    _n    Coleman
Cemetery    Wednesday
Afternoon
Howard Bruce King was born in
Wood Courfty, Ohio, December 9,1900,
to Fred W. and. Carrie Thrush King,
being the oldest of seven children.
When he was six years old, tha'f am-
ily moved to a farm two miles west«of
Coleman, where he lived and wprked-
on the farm until bis parents sold-.it.
in 1946 and moved to Clare, where he
has 'since rgsidgd. He passed away £t'
home after a "three years' illness of
heart and kidney disease. Monday
August 21,( 1950 at the age of forty-
nine years, eight months an'd twenty-
two days.
He ieaVe^ to mourn their loss, besides his "parents; four sisters, Ber-
della Wichert, of Blanchard, Ida Mae
Loomis, of Clare, Winifred Sherman,
of Flint, LaVQnna Snellenberger, of
Birch Run; one brother, Wm. King,
of rural Coleman; eighteen nieces and
nephews and many other relatives and
friends. One brother, Richard, passed
away in. 1935°.
Prayer service was held at the Stephenson Funeral Home at 2:00 o'clock
and funeral services from the Latter
Day Saints Church in Coleman at 2:30
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, with
Elder Gene Burton officiating, and interment in' Warren Township Cemetery near Coleman.
MRS. GARFIELD
1950 CHAMPION
AT COUNTRY CLUB
1949    Champion    Mrs.    Albert
Haley   Runner   Up   In
Finals    Friday
Mrs. Sam Garfield defeated Mrs.
Albert Haley, defending champion of
the Clare Women's Golf Club, 3-1, in
the: final rounds of the championship
flight of the annuaf tournament played
at Clare Country Club course last
week.
In the qualifying rounds played
Monday Mrs. Garfield was medalist,
with the score of 93. Play continued
each day with Mrs. Garfield defeating
Mrs. Bernie Hampton and Mrs. Leslie
Bonstelle before playing Mrs. Haley
in the final rounds on Friday.
First place in the consolation flight
went to Mrs. Marian Bellinger, who
defeated Mrs. E. A. Anderson and
Mrs. Bernie Hampton.
In the first flight, Mrs. James Olson
was the winner, having defeated Mrs.
Clara Titus and Mrs. Norris Elden,
runner up.
Second flight winner, Mrs. Mark
Bicknell, who won from Mrs. John
Wicklund, Mrs. Allen Crum and Mrs.
William Hanna, runner up.
Third flight honors went to Mrs.
Earl Baumgarth, who defeated Mrs.
Arthur Damoth and Mrs. Harold
Wright, runner up.
In the Field Day 18 hole low net
contest, for the first match losers in
all flights below championship, Mrs.
Allen Crum was the winner with a net
score of 63.
The annual handicap tournament
was begun August 23rd and is now in
progress.
August 30th a tentative match is
scheduled with St. Johps women golfers to be played at the Clare Country
.Club.
Pioneer Gridders
Called For First
Football Practice
Coach DOn Richardson has issued
the call for the first football practice
of the Clare High School Pioneers at
9:00 o'clock next Monday morning,
August 28, and practices will continue
at 9:00 a. m. and 1:00 p.m. daily until
further notice.
Physical examination, application
blanks are to be picked up at the
Sport Shop, taken home and filled
out, handed in Monday morning at
9:00 o'clock, and the examinations
will then be given.
Coach Richardson must find eight
men to replace last year's graduates.
Clare faces a very tough football
schedule, opening the season at Shepherd Friday, September 15, against a
team that was undefeated last season.
City Hall Ceremony For
Warship 'Clare* Renaming
Next Wednesday, August 30, will
stand out in the history of this city
as a day in which this community is
to be singularly honored in an event
ot importance in maintaining friendship between the western nations.
On this day ranking British dignitaries will come to Clare from Detroit
and Washington, D. C, to present a
record book of the wartime destroyer
H.M.S. Clare, and a badge commemorating the renaming ceremony in
which the ship becomes the namesake
of our city.
The book tells the story of the
ship's wartime achievements, and the
badge which Mayor Haley will receive, is a ponderous forty-pound
medal, east from solid bronze,
H.M.S. Clare was one of fifty lend-
lease ships which the British navy
has used since 1941, It and two others
have been named after U. S. communities which in tlyrn, were named after
English, or Comonwealth localities.
Included in the party will be Col-,
onel W. E. Williams, British Commercial Officer,at Detroit, and Mrs. Daw-
sop-Moray, wife of the Britisjf Consul
General at Detroit, who will arrive at
the Hotel Doherty about noon in readiness for the ceremony,
, Mrs.' H. McNuita, of Charleston,
South Sarolina, sponsor of the Clare,
whose son died on the Upshur before
she was renamed Clare, has been invited to attend the ceremony, and has
expressed *a desire to be present at
the function if it is at ail possible for
her to make the journey.
Master of Ceremonies Judge Donald
E. Holbrook will open the formalities
in the city hall auditorium at 2:00
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, following invocation by Rev. Fr. J. I..Sruba,
a chaplain in World War II, and will
introduce Captain Holmes and Consul
Dawson - Moray. Mr. DaWson-Moray
will make a. short speech giving the
general outline of the facts leading in
1940 to the cession of the 50 destroyers by the U. S. Government to the
British Government. Captain Holmes
will give an account of the wartime
achievements of H.M.S. Clare. The
presentation of the ship's badge and
book will then be made to Mayor Albert Haley, who will accept the gift
on behalf of the City of Clare.
Color guards Of the Gold Star Mothers, American Legion and Veterans of
Foreign Wars, will be in attendance
at the ceremonies,
The public is invited to attend the
presentation in appreciation of this
splendid gesture by the British Government and distinction bestowed
upon our city.
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Rosebush News Pages 9-11
Lake and Temple News 15'
Harrison News 2-21
Farm News 22-23
Farwell News    „ 8
Classifieds 12
Vernon City News 16 '
Farwell will hold its forty-second
annual home-coming over the Labor
Day week end, with, festivities commencing with the Auld Lang Syne
Society dinner and program in the
school gymnasium at 7:00 o'clock Saturday evening, September 2,
Hundreds of former Farwell residents and friends will attend church
Sunday morning and in the afternoon
baseball' will be played With the lads
and dads playing at 1:30 and Coleman
and Farwell at "2:30.
Thousands are expected lor the Labor Day celebration on Monday, wit|i
the program opening with horse P**"^
ing contests at the ball park at 10:00
a.m.
The "Bird Man" will jump from a
plane at 1:00 p.m-, followed by bike
races and sack races at the ball park
at 1:30, with 'prizes offered for the
winners of the races.
The Mt. Pleasant Green' Sox andi
"Farwell baseball teams will play at
2:30.
Open house will be held at the new
school building from 1:00 until 5:00-
o'clock.
An agricultural exhibit will be held!
with first and second place prizes offered for corn, grain, vegetables, fruit,.
potatoes and domestic arts. Three-
prizes will be offered for the best displays of farm produce. A complete
premium list will be found on page
20 of this week's Sentinel.
There will also be displays of curiosities, oddities and antiques.
During the two-day celebration
Wade Shows will offer high class entertainment in the midway.
Old acquaintances will be renewed
and new friendships formed as former
Farwellites and the citizens of today
join in this great annual event. All
roads will lead to Farwell and fun
Labor Day week end.
ALVINA EAK1NS
LAID AT REST IN
^J)EyiN«I»:
Funeral Services Held In Clare
Chapel Friday Afternoon ,
August 11th
Mrs. Alvina Eakins was bom the
daughter of Christian and Barbara
Leibgood King on December 13, 1859.
She became the wife of Lloyd Eakins on January l*?, 1881. To this
union were born four chlidren, two
sons, Herschal C, now of Coleman,
and A. Herman, now of Dayton, Ohio.
One son and the daughter preceded
her in death.
She also leaves grandchildren and
great-grandchildren and a niece and
nephew.
She was taken from the home of
her sonHerschai and wife, where she-
had lived for several years, to the-
farm home of Mr, and Mrs. E. C. Van
Sicklen in April of this year, where-
she was confined to her bed until her
demise on August 9th> 1950, at the*
age of ninety years, seven months, and
twenty-seven days.
She was for many years a member-
of the Reformed German Baptist.
Church.
Funeral services were held at the-
Thurston Funeral Home August 11th,.
with pastor Amizo Miller, Of the Reformed Baptist Church of Custer,.
Mich., officiating, and the singing' of*
hymns by several of the faithful
church friends from both Custer and'
Flint.
Relatives and friends attending the,
Services from out of town were fronr
Custer, Flint, Shepherd, Mt. Pleasant
and Delwin; also the son, Herman
Eakins and wife, of Dayton, Ohio.
Mrs. Eakins was laid to rest in the
family* lot at Delwin.
City Contracts For
C of C Sanctioned
Meter Advertising
At the City Commission meeting
Monday evening a contract was made
with George F, Conway, Jr., of Lansing, to place adyertisments on city
parking meters, with the approval "of.
the Clare Chamber Of Commerce.
' According to present. plans, three-
advertisments will be attached to each-
meter "post and the advertising space-
sold to national advertisers and local.
'businessmen,-at a nominal charge.
This   Advertising |dan   is  "already *
[working^Satisfactorily at Ma&oh and
other towns and in twenty five places
where it Has been suggested- about.
half have approved it.  The project
has been approved at Alma, where1;
the proceeds will be used exclusively
! for recreation activities.
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