1953-03-20; Clare Sentinel

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CLARE, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 20, 1953
$2.50 Year In Michigan
New Series, Vol. 61, No. 26
Juvenile
Five Brought
Here Following
Seven Felonies
The apprehension of a 17-year-
old young man and four minors
by State Police in Howell early
Sunday morning brought to an end
a juvenile crime wave in Central
Michigan, following two (breaking
and enterings in the night time
and the theft of five cars-.
.-Melvin George Gaynor, 17, boys
16 and 15 years of age and girls
15 and 13 years old, all of Chelboy-
gan, were -brought to Mt. Pleasant
Sunday by Clare City Police and
State Police.
Gaynor was arraigned before
Justice Wm. B. Dunlop in Municipal Court here Monday, on the
charge of breaking and entering
Perry & First Market at Harrison
early Saturday morning. He waived examination and was bound
over to Circuit Court under $2,500
bond. In lieu of bond he was
placed in the custody of sheriff
Everette Allen.
Prosecuting Attorney Robert
Campbell has requested Prohate
Judge George Bates to waive jurisdiction of the 16 year old boy and
a hearing on the waiver will be
held Monday.
The two older boys admitted to
officers that they had broken into
the Perry & First Market and all
three boys admitted stealing a car
in Clare Saturday afternoon, two
cars in Cole-man, one near Saginaw and one in St. Charles Saturday night and breaking and entering a gas station in Fowleryille.
Candy bars, cigaretts, gum and
potato chips were taken from the
the market and about ?3Q in cash
from the gas station.
The 16 year old 'boy is being
held in the county jail pending
Judge Bates' waiver. The 15 year
old boy and girl were returned to
Cheboygan by their parents to be
turned over to Probate Court here.
The 13 year old girl was taken to
the detention home at Mt. Pleasant when she refused to return to
Chelboygan with her mother.
DeMolay To
Seat Offi
The installation of the officers
of the 'Glenn F. Sanford Chapter
Order of DeMolay for the ensuing,
term will take place in the Mason- j
ic Temple, next Monday evening
at 8 p. m. This ceremony will be
open to the public.
Past Master Councillors with the
aid of Masons will serve as installing officers: John Sexton will
be the Grand Installing officer,
Robert Seiter, as Grand Senior
Deacon, Hollis Haggart as Grand
Marshal, Bill Brewer as Grand
Chaplain, P. M. Earl Beatty, Senior Councillor and P. M. Fred Sexton,  Junior   Councillor
The past six months William
Seiter, has headed this outstanding youth organization as it's
Master Councillor. Much progress
has been made under his outstanding leadership, Ray Ruby, scribe
for the past two years and who
has performed yeoman work for
the Chapter is retiring- from this
position, but will remain as a member of the Advisory Board. Both
will receive pins in the ceremony.
The Chapter attended the Methodist Church services last Sunday
in a body, recognizing Church
Week. The DeMolay Degree under
the leadership of John Sexton,
was conferred on Tom Becker,
Leon Stanley and Bob Jackson last
Monday evening in a special meeting.
Members hope that all who are
interested will attend.
Mishap Causes Slight Delay In Plant Construction
Story of Easter
To Be Presented
Palm Sunday
An inspiring pageant, "The
Story of Easter," will ibe presented
for the fourth consecutive year, on
Palm Sunday, March 29, by the
High School Hustlers Class of
the Clare Methodist Church.
Cooperating in the presentation
are members of the church and
friends in Clare, Mt. Pleasant,
Harrison, Farwell, Coleman, Central Lake and other localities.
The original musical pageant
was written in 1946 iby H. R.
Evans, director of the Presbyterian Choir at Bay City and former
director of music at the Bay City
Consistory.
The drama part of the pageant
includes our Lord's activities during the Passion Week. An added
feature of this year's presentation
•will be a new first scene, In The
Upper Room-, with music hy the
author. Other scenes will be, the
Last iSupper, At the Garden of
Gethsenrane, The Trial of Christ,
The Crucifixion, and The Ressurec-
tion. Much of the drama will be in
more than 100' "persons.
Mrs. R. E. -Seelye, *of Central
Lake, will Ibe special soprano vocalist. The choir and cast will include
pantomime.
Excellent musical accompaniment ,will 'be provided by the
church -choir, under the 'direction
of Harry Dice, with Miss Doris
Gerow at the Connsonata organ.
Emil Bucholz is in charge of directing 'the pageant and arrangements have Ibe en made 'to have Mr.
Leibrecht, of Bay City, assist in
making up the characters.
Rehearsals are now taking place
and members of the cast and choir
will be announced next week.
The pageant will Ibe staged at
8:00 Palm ISunday avening in the
Clare High ISchool auditorium, to
accomodate the usual large crowd
expected,
It is hoped: that all whoVcan will
he present to enjoy this important part of the observance of the
Easter season in this area. There
will be no charge for admission.
Voters' Choice Widens
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Out at the nearly-completed sewage djsposal plant, workmen
were preparing to lift the sections of the digester tank top into
place one day last week.
Getting off to a bad start on the job, this troublesome gas chamber proved too heavy for the lifting boom set-up. Its ponderous
weight bent the pole and carried all the rigging down as it sank
down, down into the tank interior. Recovery operations began immediately and the job is now progressing  as planned.
Inset pictures show the moment before and after the accident
when the tank swung over the concrete edge . . . and then dropped
out of sight. Photos by Lee Sowle
vov. wasc
Career Day
At Clare
March 26
Career Day for ninth and tenth
grade -students will 'be held at
Clare High School Thursday,
March 26.
The program will be opened at
9:30 a.m. with an address by Eugene Parent, head of the Public
Relations Department of Dow
Chemical Co. at Midland. A movie
will be shown by Mr. Parent.
Groups who have named their
vocational preferences will hear
lecturers aud speakers furnished
by the Clare Kiwanis Club and the
school.
Eleventh and twelfth graders
will attend Career Day at Evart
next Thursday.
FFA Boys To
eceive
Two Suffer Minor
Injuries Friday
In Collision
Twe persons suffered minor injuries in an auto collision here at
2:3-5 p.m. last Friday.
'Calvin Hollar, of Tiffin, Ohio,
driving a 1949 Ford north on US-27
attempted to make a left turn onto
US-10i and his car collided with a
1952 Ford driven south -on TJI3-27
by Charlotte M. Brown, of Clare.
'Treated, at Clare General Hospital Tvere Mrs. Dorothy Hollar, of
Tiffin-, for contusions- of the left
arm, knee bruises and a sprained
ankle; and Mrs. -Greta Willoughby,
of Tiffin, for scalp lacerations.
According to City Police, Hollar
started to make the turn, saw Mrs,
Brown and started to stop. Mrs.
Brown told officers she did not
see Hollar in .time to stop, ahd the
collision followed.
Farmer Degrees
The Clare community and school
were pleased when they learned
this week that Ted Hoersch and Jim
Bader of the Clare F. F. A. Chapter, are to receive their State Farmer Degree's at the State Contention being held in East Lan-
sing, on March 26-27, 1953.
Mel Walters and Norris Bay are
representing the Chapter, as delegates to the convention.
Two  Chosen To
Honorary FFA
Membership
Leon Dull, of Dull's Farm and
Feed Service, and Dex Elden, of
The Clare Sentinel were recog-
lized by the members of the Clare
school chapter of FFA iu making
the two honorary memlbers of the
chapter. The honor came as the
Future Farmer's response to active interest in the. organization
by the two businessmen.
Attending the FFA Banquet
Thursday evening, Mr. Dull accepted the compliment and thanked the boys for the honor. "I appreciate the friendship of • the
FFA memtoers and will be always
happy to contribute interest and
help in any project."
Dex Elden told the boys he was
sincerely pleased and honored at
his- selection as an honorary FFA
member. '"Your activities are worthy of all the publicity they can
get," he said.
Hope To Replace 58 Unit
Shortage At Blood Clinic
County 4-H Clubs
Thank Local Folks
The 4-H Clubs of Clare county
wish to thank the Wm. H. Bicknell
Company and the Consumers Power Company for their generosity
in letting them display some of
tlieir winning projects in their
windows.
This was their first attempt in
doing this sort of thing to celebrate 4-H Week.
Perhaps next year they can have
more and .better displays. Now is
the time to join a summer club.
Carl Stephenson, chairman of
the Clare County Red Cross Chapter, announced Monday evening at
a meeting of the Board of Directors, that the American Red Cross
is urgently in need of blood donors
for a clinic to be held April 2,
from 3:00 to 8:15 p. m., at the
Clare city hall.
Mrs. Grace Frey, chairman of
the county blood bank, added to
Mr. Stephenson's appeal by pointing out the desperation of the
situation locally.
Mrs. Frey said there are some
very faithful people in Clare county who answer the appeal for every
clinic. However, there have been
all too few. In the past three clinics the quotas have not been .reached.
The desperate situation results
from this and Clare county has
now overdrawn its blood supply by
58 units.
This overdraft cannot continue
and if human lives are to be
saved by blood, the people of Clare
county must give more blood if
they wish to have this security.
Here is actual proof of some who
have benefited in this county. Sixteen pints were replaced to University Hospital, Ann Arbor, for
Eugene Thayer while he was a
patient there. Five pints were replaced to Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Minnesota, for John Davy. Nine
pints were replaced to Blodgett
Hospital, Grand Rapids, for a polio
and a burn case. Many, many more
11,500-pound Load Limit on Some Roads
Highway weight restrictions
went into effect last Saurday with
the first definite showing of frost
witlidr&wl. Many truck drivers and
large shipping loaders will" lose
an estimated 25 percent of their
load totals until danger of damage
to thaw-softened roads is past.
Total gross weight limit including vehicle is fixed at 13,000
pounds per-axle on class a (concrete) roads north of US-16, There
is no restriction on loads carried
over class A roads south of this line.
■On gravel, blacktop and other
roads anywhere^ in Michigan the
total gross weight limit is 11,500
pounds per axle.
Mr. Fred Campbell, superintend3
ent at the State Highway Department garage in Mt, Pleasant said
truckers should take notice that
strict enforcement is the responsibility of state police and highway
department .weigh masters who
carry portable- scales- for checking
vehicles on the road.
The boundary line, US-16 is on a
line roughly from Holland to Grand
Rapids to Lansing to Brighton to
Detroit, which leaves most of the
lower peninsula of Michigan with
in the area of restriction.
Cyril Bolle, Clare farmer has
had occasion to load baled hay
during the last few days, and he
noted that some confusion existed
concerning the weight allowed.
Truck drivers-, loaders and farmers are using caution because of
stiff penalties imposed for overloading, he said, but it was not
easy to get the official word from
Highway Department people as to
weight limits.
Limits will remain in' force for
three weeks to a month or more
depending on the weather,
have, benefited by the plasma and
other derivitives.
At our April 2 clinic, one-half of
all taken will be kept in Clare
county. The other half goes for national defense, including the Armed forces, disaster and gamma
globulin for polio treatment.
Any blood or blood derivitives
from the Michigan Department of
Health through the Red Cross are
free.
If you are between the ages of
18 and 60 years, call and make an
appointment now. If between the
ages of 18 and 21 you must have
your parent or guardian's consent.
Telephone 234 or 50.
Make this your Easter contribution.
oad Dispute
Settled In
Vernon Twp.
Township Pays,
Walsh Renominated
A dispute over Isabella County
Road Commission charges for
work performed On Vernon township roads last winter was the attraction for a large crowd which
attended the Township Board
meeting last week on Monday evening at the town hall. It also helped provide opposition to James
Walsh before his reelection as Supervisor candidate at the Republican caucus on Saturday.
Long simmering differences between Vernon Supervisor Walsh
and the County Road Commission
led up to the airing of the dispute
at the Township Board meeting on
March 9. Walsh maintained that
the county had been guilty of long
delay in fulfilling a contract for
the construction of two miles of
new road west from the George
House farm.
"The contract was made and the
money paid to the county in 1950
for this road," he said, "and they
got arouud to building the road in
1952."
Then last fall, Walsh recalled,
the County Road Commission was
without funds for our road main-
High Schoo
Athletes To
Be Honored
Outstanding Senior
To Be Announced
At Kiwanis Banquet
"Chuck" Davey will be guest
speaker at the eighteenth annual
Clare Kiwanis- Club Athletic Scholarship Banquet In the Wedgewood
Room at Hotel Doherty Wednesday evening, March 25.
Guests of the Kiwanis Club will
include   all   major  athletic   letter
winners in all sports and the parents of all Senior letter winners.
The outstanding high school ath-
taTne7cVU"Soa we  agreed" to TeTr,| let,f haa Ueen selected by the high
them over the hump", and pay for1 s*h°°l   ^culty.1,£!nd   tlle  fIvL™S
maintenance    and    snow   removal  Clu,b *n,d he wtU be presented with
Deadline Passes With Field of Nine
Entered to Fill Four Commission Seats
The city' election campaign to fill four seats on the commission erupted into a surprise "battle royal", just one day
before the deadline for filing petitions when eleventh-hour
entries were made by Leon Dull, Albert Haley, Larry Jackson, Gerald Nivison, and Robert Walters.
These candidates brought to nine the number of men qualified for
places on the ballot.
Commissioner Laurenee Seiter is the only member of the city body
who remains in office with part of his unexpired term still to be
served.
An early start in the contest saw
Mayor Howard Everts, Al Crum
and Charles Cooper all members
of the present commission, take
out petitions two weeks ago, and
Dale Groves declare his candidacy
last week.
Reasons for entering the race
for the commission jobs were given by candidates in a variety of
answers. The motives ranged from
a desire to liven the competitive
spirit of the election and heighten
the interest in voting, to the belief
that "I could serve the city well
as a member of the commission,
and I'd like to try." All the candidates are interested In the city affairs primarily by reason of being
property  owners  and  taxpayers.
Larry Jackson told The Sentinel,
"I don't think it is best to have
only four men running for four offices. Voters' choice for members
of the commission should be made
from a larger field of candidates."
Dr. Neff To Open
New Denial Offices.
Dr. C. B. Neff, local dentist will
open his offices next Monday in
his new location at 114 West Fifth
St. He is moving this week from
the Dunlop Building, where he had
been located the past 20 years.
The new offices are finisted in
attractive pastel colors, with plastic tile floors. *
They include a reception room,
business office, two operating
rooms, laboratory and dark room,
there will be complete new equipment for the additional operating
room.
Dr. Neff's receptionist will ibe
Mrs-. Jack 'Stuart.
GOP Womens' Club
To Meet Monday
The Republican Womens Club of
Clare county will hold a meeting
next Monday niglit, March 23 at
8:00 in the Court House at Harrison.
Anyone from Clare wishing a
ride pleas© call 'Mrs. Elizabeth
Little, phone 345-W, or Mrs. Harold Schaeffer, Phone 171. '
New Dog Warden
Ralph Leposky has been appointed dog warden by the City Coin*
mission,
from October 15 to December 15.
When our bill against the township, arrived for road service performed, it amounted to $7,801.06.
This bill was refused by the board
because it was, "about $4,000. ir.
excess of the amount we figured
we owed", - according to Walsh.
At the Township Board meeting
March 9, the county Road Commission was represented by Ernest
Bruce, Isabella County Road Superintendent who served notice that
unless the township paid up in full,
the county would withhold all road
maintenance in the township.
Walsh, in charge of the meeting,
found himself "in the middle"
with the county demanding money
on the one side, and township residents demanding some care for
their fast-deteriorating roads, on
the other. Leaving the matter to
be decided by a vote of the taxpayers present, brought the solution of settling the bill in full with
the county.
Supervisor Walsh still maintained that the Road Commission billed Vernon Township for work on
the roads commencing September
first instead of October 15 as he
understood the agreement to call
for.
A fine turnout of 77 voters came
to the Vernon caucus on Saturday,
March 14 when Ernest Irwin was
nominated to enter the contest for
supervisor against Walsh. The resulting votes placed Walsh back
on the ticket for the Republicans
with 48 votes to Irwin's 29.
In another contest for the Treasurer job, Earl Beatty replaced the
presents office holder, Mrs. John
Robson. Others nominated were
Roy Wilson, for Clerk, Lionel Duncan aud Karl Ouderkirk for Trustees, William Seiter for Highway
Commissioner, and Ralph Irwin for
Justice of the Peace.
a medal and his name will be engraved on a loving cup which will
remain in the trophy case at the
school.
At the banquet, Davey will autograph miniature boxing glove favors for Senior letter winners.
The outstanding (Senior selected
for the honor was chosfen hot* only
for his athletic ability, but also
for his scholastic rating and extra
curricular activities. "*
Charles Cooper and Fred Luc-
kaart were received as new Kiwanis members last Wednesday
evening.
Gerald Thayer
Places High In
Bowling Tourney
The Fraternal League held its
second annual Bowling Tourna-
hient at the Clare Bowling Alleys
March 14 and 15. Mason No. 2 won
the team event with a total of
3108. Ferris Graham with a 5S3
actual pin count and Fred DeDolph
with 569 contributed to this effort.
K of C No. 1 was second in teams,
rolling a 2977 series.
Dominic McConnell and Fred DeDolph won first place in the doubles with a 1244 series. Ray
O'Laughlin. of Coleman and Gerald
Thayer were a close second on
1242
Gerald Thayer took over undisputed first place in singles- with a
big 680. "Jake" also won all events
on actual series of 623 in doubles,
617 in singles and 54S in team
event for an actual 17S8, 1977 with
handicap. Vern Wood took second
place in singles with a 657. Wood
also was second in all events witb
a 1545 actual and I860 count with
handicap.
. Vernon Grange 51st
Anniversary Observed
Last Monday night Mt. Vernon
Grange celebrated its fifty-first anniversary. The members gathered
at 7:30 and had their eivening meal
before Grange. There were 75 present and when all had their fill
they gathered upstairs in the lodge
hall. Grange was called to order
by Worthy Master Fred Sexton.
The usual order of business was
taken care of after the opening
ceremony.
The meeting was- then turned
over to Worthy Lecturer Harold
Brooks. Harold had a wonderful
program built up around St. Patrick's Day. All the memlbers were
asked to tell an Irish joke, or
otherwise, or pay a nickel. The
jokes were plenty, some were1 not
so Irish, but Harold got $1.40.
This- money was divided and one-
half given to the one who told the
best joke and the one whose joke
was the, well you know, no one
laughed.
The race was so close on both
ends that they had to draw to get
the winners. There were some tall
jokes told and from people you
didn't think knew any, Art
Thayer's tall corn story held for
awhile, but when they began to
loosen up, wow! Even one of the
young\ memlbers stumped Harold ou
a fiddle.
The little tots came in for some
part of the show and they did.
their stuff. They had some Irish
songs also.
Mem'bers told when and where
they joined the Grange. This was
real interesting to listen to. It
also gave away some ages.
After the closing.of Grange the
youngsters danced. The- White orchestra furnished music for the
square dance.
While over at the city hall one
day this week, District Deputy
Jennings1 Archamlbiault saw several
young people who were in custody
of the police and he just wondered
if. they ever had a chance to dance
and have good clean fun supervised by their elders, while growing
up.
Guests from other Granges were
Mr. and Mrs-. Dan Balog, from Union Grange, and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Myers from Riverside Grange.
There were also several friends
present.
Honored guests were Brother
Wm. Drake, who is acting State
Master, and his wife. Also all of
Mt. Vernon Grange's charter members, Nellie White, Lena Brewer,
Archie Ackerman and Charlotte
Kapplinger.
This meeting was one of 'Michigan's outstanding Grange events
ahd will, long be I'emenibered,
Leon Dull who has been in business in Clare for some four years,
came here from Beaverton township in Gladwin county where he
was born and raised on a farm.
His acquaintances in Clare asked
him to run for the commission, he
said, and stated "If elected as a
taxpayer and a home and business
owner in Clare, I will cooperate
with townspeople and members of
the commission to the best of my
ability toward the improvement of
the town for all alike."
Albert Haley is well known to
voters by reason of his public service. He was a member of the first
city commission elected in 1948
after the Home Rule charter was
adopted here, and of his four years
on that body he was mayor for
two. He has been a member of the
county Board of Supervisors, Fair
Board, and' city fire department
where he was Fire Chief for 15
years. He said that Clare business
people circulated his petition and
that if the voters elect him to a
commission job, he "will see the
job done right to the best of my
ability."
Robert Walters is a taxpayer
who worked for the city two years
ago. He said "I feel that when the
city spends a dollar, we should receive as much as we can possibly
get". He points out that he is in
business and has made a success.
"If anything comes up that the
taxpayers should know about, I
will do my best to get them down
there for a vote." If elected, he
plans on working in the interest of
all to the best of his judgement in
deciding issues.
Gerald Nivison could not be contacted Thursday when The Sentinel tried to get a statement on his
candidacy.
Mayor Howard Everts said he
is interested in reelection because,
"so many of the present city projects and undertakings are just
nicely started or making good progress, that I would like to stay
with the job and see them
through." He said he is striving
for fair administration and economy in city affairs
Other incumbents campaigning
for reelection had much the same
thought. Al Crum feels that a commission member can do a better
job for the city after he has been
through a term of "breaking-in" to
acquaint himself with problems
and procedures. "If my record
pleases the voters", he said •'!
would like another term to stay
with the many projects already
started."
Charles Cooper hopes to go back
for another term for the stated
purpose of helping finish the program outlined concerning Sewers,
water main and replacement of
old wooden tubes, and sidewalk
construction. "I have time to give
to the job of Supervisor and I consider it important to have our
city's full representation at these
sessions",* he said to The Sentinel.
He also expressed his desire to see
all city improvements allowable
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