1953-12-25; Clare Sentinel

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ENTINEL
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1878— Celebrating the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of This Pioneer Michigan Weekly —1953,
Established 1878
Seven Cents Copy
CLARE, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1953
$2.50 Year In Michigan
New Series, Vol. 62, No. If
Entertains Crowds
In Clare Saturday
Santa Claus received the most
enthusiastic, most noisy welcome
in Clare last Saturday that the old
Saint ever remembers . . .
And some two thousand or more
boys and girls received for their
part, the most suspenseful, the
most jumping-up-and-down exciting thrill oi seeing Santa land right
in front of them on Clare's McEwan street in a helicopter.
It all happened just as Santa
promised the boys and girls it
would. Almost exactly at 2:30 as
the streets were packed with nearly four thousand people, the "whir-
ly bird" came into sight, —circled
helicopter landing, to make the big
open-air celebration.
Planning on an increase of ihe
size of their annual entertainment
for area hoys and girls, firemen
and their wives" and friends filled
some 5,054 candy sacks. All were
given away.
Kiwanis newsboys reported huge
success for their annual Goodfei-
low Newspaper Sale which raises
money for just such projects as
the Santa Claus party. With the
extra,large crowd in town, it was
no trick at all to sell papers as
fast as they could be handed out.
The pilot of Santa's helicopter,
Robert Boughton, of Chicago, did a
narrow landing in the street, and
he seemed to be having as much
fun as all the rest of the folks.
Ag. Secretary Counts Losses,
Congress Wil! Hear .Remedies
Teen-Age Dance
There will be a teen-age dance
at the City Hall, Saturday night
from 8:00 to 12:00. All young people are welcome.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Benson, is the author of a two-,
part series of articles which tells
the background reasons for the
slump in farm income.
In a note to editors, the cabinet
member states ". . an informed
public is essential -to a proper understanding and solution of present-
day agricultural problems", (the
articles) provide background for
farm legislation that will be considered by the January session of
Congress".
Describing the farm income
problem and surpluses, the Secretary tells what brought them about
Yeh, —Merry Xmas
Santa! Y'Better
Get On the Ball
Santa Claus was still shaking in
his boots after receiving the following "threatening" letter from a
small girl in Mt. Pleasant:
Dear Santa,
I am 8 years old.
Last year I was a good girl and
you didn't bring me what I wanted.
This year I was a bad girl and
If you don't bring me what I want
I'll be worse.
I have a little sister, she is three
years old, her name is Janice and
if you don't 'bring her what she
wants she will be bad too.
Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year.
Linda and Janice Fancovic
the town over the sea of up-turned very capabie job of flying in to the
faces and waving mittens, —and -    -	
then slowly wafted down to the
pavement between the packed
curbs.
Santa Claus jumped out of the
plane and shouted for joy to see
so many folks there to meet hym.
He danced around the whole
length of the city block, laughing
and telling everybody "hello, ho-
ho!" Then he collected his mail
from the Santa mail box and climbing on the platform,, started handing out all the candy and sacks of
good things to every girl and boy.
The crowd was so big that Santa
even with lots of helpers, spent
nearly an hour giving away candy
to all the kids. Traffic was stopped
on the streeT while the throng was
packed solid from curb to curb.
# The stores were all packed full
too, and merchants reported a very
busy afternoon.
Counting all the boys and girls
and adults who saw Santa's 'copter
from the street, in the stores, and
from upstairs windows all over the
business district, —there were just
a few short of four thousand people.
Finally, when all the candy was
given away, more than two thousand and fifty sacks of it, Santa
climbed back into the helicopter
and flew away with a happy wave
of his hand. Back where he came
from.
Clare Fire Department members
and Kiwanians took a great deal
of pride in the tremendous sac-
cess of the afternoon party. The
firemen's party for kids was merged with the spectacle of Santa's
Fair Warning
For Michigan
Drunk Drivers
Tests Measure
Intoxication
Conclusive results about the
worth of lab tests to measure intoxication have been obtained in
research at Michigan State Col-'
lege.
. An important finding of the researchers is that closer definitions
can be established—based on lab
tests—between persons "possibly"
or ': probably" under the influence
of alcohol and those definitely under the influence.
Under carefully controlled conditions approximately 1,700 analyses were obtained from 127 human
subjects, none of them students.
The research was conducted by a
staff under the direction of Prof.
Ralph F. Turner of M.S.C.'s Police Administration department.
A grant was provided by the National Safety Council's Committee
on Chemical Tests.
Conclusions reached by the research team included these:
1. "Current literature delineates
three zones of blood alcohol concentration for the guidance of law
enforcement officials: 0.00—0.05
per cent, safe; 0.05—0.15 per cent,
questionable; above 0.15 per cent,
definitely under the influence. It
is recommended that these lines
of   demarcation'   be   amplified  in
the following manner:  0.00 0.0.
per cent, safe; 0.05—0.10 per cent,'
possibly under the influence; 0.10
—0.15 per cent, probably under the
influence; above 0.15 per cent, definitely under the influence."
2. "In 127 subjects tested, when
the concentration of alcohol had
reached or exceeded 01.15 per cent
in the blood, as indicated by analysis of either the blood or the breath
impairment of-some type was noted in every case. In most cases,
impairment was evident far below
this 0.15 per cent mark.
3. "Three methods of blood alcohol determination" by analysis of
the breath were studied—Drunk-
ometer, Intoximeter and Alcc-me^
ter. When these devices were used
in the manner recommended by
their manufacturers the results obtained were in close agreement
With results obtained by direct
analysis of the blood".
4. '"the methods of blood analysis and breath analysis toy Drunko-
meter, Intoximeter and AlCometer
may be used with confidence.
Station WWTV
Goes On Air
January 3rd
WWTV, Channel 13, begari a
regular schedule of test pattern op-
peration on, Monday, December 21.
The test pattern was on the air
essentially during afternoon hours,
but some unscheduled, evening
hours also were planned. Program
operations of WWTV are scheduled to begin on January 3, 1954..
First signal from the new Cadillac station, which is -designed to
provide television service for the
entire northern half of the Michigan Lower Peninsula, was provided for about one hour on Friday,
December 11, for the purpose of
testing antenna. Reports on reception of this initial test indicated
that WWTV will supply good service over all of its basic coverage
area and. to many points far beyond.
WWTV is operated by the Spar-
ton Broadcasting Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Sparks-
Withingtou Company of Jackson,
Michigan.
why crop exports have dropped
alarmingly, what his Department
plans to do about the solutions to
the problems.
The first article in the two part
series follows:
"The nation has a serious farm
problem.
"It does not affect agriculture,
alone. It is everybody's problem.
"Today your government has approximately $5 billions of your
money invested in farm commodities.
"You own outright more than
$2.5 billions worth of wheat, corn,
cotton and other surplus farm products. You have outstanding loans
on agricultural commodities totaling about the same amount. This
figure is growing daily.
"You are paying more than §14
millions each -month, just to store
these surpluses. This bill is growing, too, as additional inventories
are accumulated by your government.
- "The losses whrdii your government sustained in disposing of just
a small portion of your holdings
during the first three months of
this fiscal year amounted to $47
millions.
"But, you ask, don't we have a
farm program, designed to insu"*#
agricultural prosperity and prevent
the very situation we find ourselves
in today?
"The answer is that we are operating under the  same farm program we had last year  and for
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Pioneer Fives
Split With
Crimson Tide
The Clare Varsity cagers lost
Friday to St. Louis as they dropped the game 41-34 and lost their
much cherished goat "Casper".
The Pioneers showed great improvement over their last week's
game with Coleman as they led
the powerful "Crimson Tide" for
the first three quarters. Clare took
a close first quarter lead 9-6 and
stretched it to a 24-18 halftime
lead.
In the third guarter St. Louis
hammered back to narrow Clare's
lead to 28-27. In the final period
Clare met with their-usual trouble
as they lost three of their starters!
by fouls and made only 'six pOTnts
to fall behind and,.dropthe game.
Brown maintained his usual pace
and racked up 12 points to be followed by-Hanley with 7*.
Reynolds was -St. Louis' big club
at his center position to lead for
the night with 15 points.;
"    JV's Win 42-40
The Cla,re' J.V.'s racked up their
third consecutive victory by defeating St. Louis JV's 42-40 Friday
night on the home court,
They again proved great depth
of- reserve by maintaining the lead
even after losing a top man.
' The little Piopeers showed an
improvement in passing as only a
few were thrown away. With Clare
controlling the rebounds they took
an 11-9 first-quarter lead.
This was increased to a 20-16
half-time score. Clare came back
to outs core St. Louis 8-6 for a 28-22
third quarter count."
In the close-fought, free-scoring
fourth quarter, Clare was outplayed 18-15 but managed to hang on to
the game lead and emerged a two-
point winner,
John Roe, Clare's high point man
made 11 points but was closely followed by the rest of the team.
Clare Merchants
Greet Friends
Through Sentinel
Merchants and business people
of Clare and vicinity are extending
season's greetings to their friends
and patrons in -the columns of this
week's Sentinel."  :
All are appreciative of the patronage and courtesy shown them
by the many thousands of shoppers
visiting .their places of business
during the Christmas season and
wish for each ahd every one a mo3t
happy holiday. ,
They   also   wish   to   especially
greet the older friends whom they
•have known   through   the   years,
but are unable to get about as fre-
I quently as in the past.
Santa Came to The Clare Firemen's Party to Give Away 2,054 Sacks of Candy
€Ducky tective
Wanted Here
Thieves, by gad!  !
A crew of hungry, webfooted,
feather-preening, renegade ducks
made occasional winter raids on
conservation department trout
hatchery ponds, so the report from
Lansing goes.
Mostly the culprits are mergansers and goldeneyes, and fisheries workers Say they make off
with tasty young trout from the
spring-fed, ice-free hatchery ponds
during severe winter months.
Workers shoo the birds away
and have erected wire gratings
over pond waters, but sometimes
those measures don't work so well, j
Last, winter, for example, a pond
at one hatchery was nearly picked clean.
U.F. Drive
May Reach
$3,070 Goal
Clare Manufacturing
Contributes $1,045
"Clare's big goal of $3,070 in the
United Health and Welfare fund
drive is now within reach and will
probably be fulfilled before Ne\v
Years, Frank LaGoe said this
week.
"It depends almost entirely on
the size of last-minute contributions which we are still soliciting
in our campaign finish", ihe said.
Clare's city >canvass started late
and was yet incomplete -when the
rest of the county went over the
top.
. County after county in the Michigan United Fund organization reported success in the late fall campaigns while the local city total
climbed slowly toward the big
three thousand dollar mark.
Now, with the extra time of the
campaign almost over, local leaders see the probability that Clare
too, will hit the mark and possibly
go over the top. .
Largest single check offered in
the drive came from the Clare
Manufacturing company whose
$1,045 given Frank LaGoe by plant
manager Earl Morgan, represented
United Fund contributions from
both the management and the em.-
ployees,
The $3,070 being raised in Claire
includes half of the quota for the
entire county plus four hundred
each for the Girl Scouts of Clare,
and the Clare Community Council.
Leonard Klaasse, county drive
chairman, said that the chances
for meeting the $5,340 county quota
depended on how Clare comes out
in the city campaign finish. Several townships have reportd contributions short of the expected goals
but the county-wide total may yet
reach, the mark if other units go
beyond their goals to make up the
balance.
Child Hurt In
Fall From Car
., Da^id, the three year old .son pf
Mr. and Sirs. Russell Wellman suffered head injuries when he fell
from his father's car Sunday December 6.
He was brought to Clare General Hospital for treatment of a blood
clot On the outside of his head. He
was released from the hospital
Wednesday of last week and is getting along nicely at his home at 109
East Fourth St.
The accident occured in Marion
as the family was enroute to their
home here. David was in the back
seat of the car with his brothers,
Tommy and Ray, five and two
years old, respectively, and David
opened the door and fell out. The
car was traveling about 35 miles
per hour.
Rotarians Enjoy
High School Chorus
A Clare High School mixed chords of seventy voices provided the
Christmas program at the Wednesday noon meeting of tbe Clare Rotary club in the Wedgewood Room
of the Doherty Hotel.
Under the direction of Miss
Nancy Keller, -music instructor at
the school the group sang carols
and holiday favorites for the entertainment of the club men.
Guests attending the meeting
were: Don Huber, Lou Hubbs and
Gene Gazley, all Rotarians from
Gladwin. Emil Pfister and Art
Skeets, Rotarians from Mt. Pleasant and Blair Seiter, with Albert,
Seiter..
Christmas Program Given
By Sunday School Group
Many hundreds of girls and boys had eyesronly for Santa
Claus Saturday afternoon after he made a thrilling entrance into Clare riding a helicopter right onto the main
street. Shown here is pari of the mob which surged around
Santa to get a share of the itfeais which he passed out to
children.
More than two thousand and fifty sacks of candy were
packed by tthe., Clare Fire Department for distribution to
youngsters.-ai ihe big party. Attendance was more than
double that of ihe Fireman's annual party last year. (See
another picture "on page nine). Photo by Lee Sdwle
The   Annual   Sunday   School
Christmas  Program  of the  Clare
Congregational Sunday School was ,
held Sunday afternoon,, December ,
20,  at 5:00  p.m.  Opening with  aj
congregational hymn, "Joy To The
World", with Mrs. Wilson Thompson at the piano  and Dex Elden
leading, the children of the Beginners-Primary  Department presented the first part of the program.
With Mrs. Harold Hughes at the
piano, the pre-school class satig
"Jingle Bells", ringing little bells
as they sang. They were then joined by all the children of the department, which is supervised by
Miss Effie Hales, and this group
sang "Christmas Greetings" and
"Christmas" Time."
Sharon Schutt then gave a recitation', "The Babe of. Bethlehem",
Sara Wilson, Tommy Davy, Janet
Lettick, Toinhiy Finch, and Vicki
Bryant participated in an exercise,
"Why We Like Christmas", Tim-
mie White gave a recitation, "To
Old St. Nick"; there was an exercise, "Christmas Time" by Sharon
Schutt, Bonnie Cerney, Gary Head-
ington, Jeffry Jones, Janie Elden,
and Terry Cooper;    r    .
A duet, "Christmas Eve", Sung
by Shaton Bickel and Barbara
Hankins, with Mrs. Wilson. Thompson at the piano*, a recitation, "If
I Were Santa Glaus*" by Richard
Hughes', and exercise, 'four Christ
mas Bells", by Susan Perrine,
Sharon Bickel, and Karen Sue
Day; a recitation, "What We Cau
Give", by Barbara Hankins, and an
exercise, "Christmas Arithmetic",
by Donald and Richard Hughes*
Jimmy Johnson, and Johnny
Groves.    ** t
The members of the Junior-Senior Department then presented a
pageant, "The Birthday of Jesus",
which was directed by Mrs. Geoige
Beck and Allan Tulk and consisted
of a series of nativity scenes inada
more impressive by unusual lighting effects and following the Bibla
story with appropriate carols.
The cast for this pageant included Kathy Elden and Elaine Wilson
as pages, Barbara Tubbs ag Grandmother Christmas, Diane Bryant
as Mary, Jimmy Perrine as Joseph,
(Continued on Page Ten)
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Harrison News
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Lake News
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City Briefs
5
Farwell News
6
Society.
7
Market Reports.
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Bowling Scores .
3
RUth Mcllnay
12
Farm News
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Church News
10
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