1955-02-24; Clare Sentinel

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CLARE, MICHIGAN. THURSDAY* MORNING   FEBRUARY 24, 1855
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New Series, Vol. 83, No. 23
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Leonard SchwanzNamed
County School Head
The Clare County Board of Edu-
cation announced Monday, the selection of Mr. Leonard Schwanz
for County Superintendent of
Schools. Schwanz will leave a post
as Superintendent of Richland
Township school at Prescott Michigan to take up his new duties
sometime before July.
Expressing pleasure in the making of the appointment, the county
board indicated that the • ihigh
qualifications of all the candidates
for the office made the selection a
"very difficult one".
Just -before the final announcement of Schwanz' appointment to
the county position, two more applications were received by the
School' Board, One was from a
man who currently has a post in
a Jarge city school. In all, there
were a total of eight applicants
for the County Superintendent job.
The boards announcement said
the members were deeply grateful to each aspirant.
Schwanz plans to assume his
duties several weeks before John
F, Brown's retirement date on
July first. The new superintendent has said that he would like
time to make himself thoroughly
familiar with Clare county school
records. He will study the system
in use in the county superintendents office.
Schwanz was born in Arthur,
Illinois, 1906. When he was three
years old, his parents moved to
Greenwood Township, in Clare
county, where he grew up.
He was graduated from Harrison High School in 1923 and later
taught school in Clare -county for
five years. Then he taught three
years at Prescott, Michigan.
In 1933, he went to work as a
foreman at A. C. Spark plug for
General Motors. Schwanz stayed
there until 1951, with time off to
•put in a hitch in the Army during
World War II. He has owned and
operated a grocery store at Beaverton.
In 191)1, Schwanz joined the
teaching profession again. Since
that time, he has been principal
and superintendent of the Richland township school at Prescott.
He has a Bachelor of Science
degree from .Central Michigan
College at Mt. Pleasant.
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LEONARD SCHWANN
County School Superintendent
Propose
Rotary Club
For Farwell
Clare Rotary Club members
met with "Farwell businessmen
Monday night February 21 to discuss "plans for organizing a Far-
well Rotary Club, under the sponsorship of the Clare group.
Past district Governor Dr. Mac
Ginnis, of Alma Rotary club was
present to outline some of the
special problems and situations
that come up in chartering a new
Rotary Club.
If enough interest is indicated
by the Farwell group, "the Clare
Rotary will act as sponsors in the
organization. 20 members are required to charter a club.
The meeting was held at Twig's
Restaurant with a chicken dinner.
Another meeting will be held
for the Farwell businessmen at
the Farwell High School February
28 at 8:00 p.m. A film newly released toy Rotary International,
"The Great Experiment" will be
shown.
GOP State Central
Committee Elected
The newly-elected Republican
State Central Committee of Michigan will hold a special meeting at
Lansing, Saturday, February 26,
to make plans for a spring election campaign designed, they say,
to keep control Of Michigan's
school system in the hands, of local communities.
Committeemen chosen for the
Tenth Congressional district which
includes Clare County were Harry
Tope, of Mt. Pleasant; Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of EVart; Mrs. Carrie
Capling, of Gladwin; and Ben Calvin, of Bay City.   •
Murphy Team
New Bowling
Champs
The 1955 Clare Men's City Bowling Tournament came to a blazing
finish Saturday night when the
Murphy'' Construction team of
Clare nosed out the lead the Surrey House team of Harrison established early in the tournaiment.
The Murphy team is the new
City Champion with, a score of
3046.
In the singles division Ray
Houghton tied John Musser for
first place when he matched the
latter's 676. These two will bowl
off- the tie this 'coming Sunday.
Dale Weldon and Jim Russell of
Harrison are the new doubles
champions with 1271. Don Smith
of Farwell won all-events with
handicap with his 1961 count.
The 1764 total posted toy Larry
Shelander the first week of the
tourney was good enbugh to make
liini all-events champion.
Speech Contest
Place Winners
Represent CHS
By L. Woodward
Of The Pioneer Staff
Six winners were picked from
entries in a series of speech contests held in the Clare auditorium
last week.
Selected for first places were
Mary Tice's declamation, "I Speak
For Democracy", Dick Lajewski's
humorous reading, "Arsenic and
Old Lace", and Alice Walter's dramatic reading, "The Old Woman
and the Clock."
Second places were Dick Beery's
"The Mast Tree", Kyle Hanley's
"Romeo and Juliet", and Ivalee
Foss'  "Honey".
The students are all eligible to
represent our school at the Sub-
District contest to be held in St.
Louis sometime near the end ot
Chesaning, Durand, Shepherd, and
March in competition with Ithaca,
St. Louis.
Judging the Declamations last
Wednesday were Mrs. Pat Gra-
velle, Mrs. Myrtie Bowerman, and
Mrs. Ivan Bartow.
Father Sruba, Attorney Robert
Campbell, and Superintendent
Thomas Campbell judged the dramatic and humorous readings on
Friday.
Charlie Zeiter with his humorous
selection, "The Big Game", Kyle
Hanley, and Dick Lajewski gave
their readings at- Rotary Club on
Wednesday. They were guests
there of Mr. Thomas Campbell.
Plan Double
Celebration
Clare's Rotary club, on the eve
of a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the -club charter, is
also joining Rotarians everywhere in the observance of the
organization's golden anniversary.
Pointing to features of the local Rotary club which add meaning for an international celebration. Clare Rotarians have pride
in their club's record of one-hundred percent participation in the'
Fellowship program of student ex-1
change among nations of the
whole world, In this program, \
clubs are asked to subscribe
money according to a quota system. Clare's club has been a full
quota club" since the program was
initiated.
Miss Mary Nevins, daughter of
Rev. L, J, Nevins, local club
member, was an outstanding student from this Rotary District to
wiu appointment to study abroad
under the sponsorship of the Fellowship program.
Srecko Kajfez, Clare Rotary
member has traveled to imany
European and Asiatic countries,
as well as North Africa in 'the
course of his .business and has
carried greetings from the Clare
membership to Rotarians everywhere as an ".emissary of good
will and international understanding". .
The banner of the local club
hangs in many meeting places
around the globe following visits
of this Clare Club member.
Calling -attention to'the local observance of the anniversary, Rotarians and business firms have
sponsored messages in this issue
of The Sentinel, and will display
special decorations in show windows in Clare.
The story told is that of service
to the community, to the nation,
on an international plane, and efforts to maintain high standards
of business ethics and honesty.
Farwell -,
News Items
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Wanted
The Sentinel needs - a; Fa*rw,ell
correspondent again.      ,      '   • >-   ■
Mrs.- Eunice Weaver who has
been doing a good job of coverage
for us there for several months,
finds herself too busy to handle
a news gathering job besides her
regular job. , '
We are tolerably sure that Far-
well people like to read the Far-
well news in our newspaper. When
it is left out for a week or so, we
are promptly notified by* regular
readers of it.
So we are asking for someone
to collect the Farwell news for us;
If you are interested in dping a
community service for Farwell.
call at the Sentinel office for a
supply of paper and envelopes,
and you're in business.
Nott
Book
Down St. Louis
Cagers Here,
Ithaca Next
Clare's Green and White basket-
eers suddenly developing defensive strength earned a sweet 50-44
'victory over' St. Louis and then
tempering the sweet with a distinct bitter chaser, lost to. Harrison 62-52 in a Tuesday contest..
The St. Louis win was the first
8in.ce 1948.
In both games, Coach Robert
Baker's boys held the opposing
team to slimmer scores than, in
previous hardboard encounters.
Crowd Sees Queen Crowned
Nominate
10 Seniors To
Honor Group
By Elvis Denton
Of The Pioneer Staff
„.„,....,       ,    ,        .„ ,    Ten seniors were chosen as can-
ThVS,tV*«LTS  aV?'  lead,eVS  in  dJdates for membership in the Na
MEA Meets
At Clare
Tonight
Plans have been completed, for
the Clare-I3abella Michigan Education Association meeting tonight
at Clare.
It will be held at 7:45 p. m. in
the high school auditorium. MEA
Officers and directors set the date
when they met at Rosebush School
with Mrs. DDfo,thy Lowery as hostess.
President Willis Gelston announced the spring meeting would
be held May 5, at Harrison.
A nominating committee for
1955 officers was named. They are
Mrs. Pearl Farrand, Mrs. Ivah
Bartow,' L. J. Ross, and County
Superintendent of Schools, John
Brown, of Harrison.
Clare, Farwell To Observe
"World Day Of Prayer"
Church women of Clare and vicinity are reminded that the annual World Day of Prayer servict*
wili be held at the Clare Church
of God, Friday evening, February
25 at 8:00 p.m.
An interesting program is being
planned with members from sev-
.eral denominations taking part.
World Day of Prayer will be observed in Farwell at the Methodist Church on Friday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Matthew Scott is general
Clare FD
At Rural Fire
$500 damage was done in a
house fire at the E. C. Schudlich
home 4Ms miles east and south of
Clare, at noon on Monday.
Clare Firemen were called out.
Fire Chief Stan Pavish said the
blaze apparently started around
an overheated chimney. The property was insured.
chairman assisted by Mrs. Tom
Brooks.
The theme for the -service is
Abide in Me. This program is used
throughout the world and. every
group is a part of the world-wide
observance of the Worid Day of
Prayer.
The attendance Was -good last
year. It should be better this year.
Amateurs'
Acts Ready
Producers  of the Annual Amateur Show,  with the preliminary
j auditions out of the way,   are enthusiastic about the event scheduled for next Monday.
Tickets are on sale now, and the
1 entertainment, complete -with
cmusic, dancing, acts, costumes
and all the fun and excitement of
such events is set for the school
auditorium' on Monday, February
I 28.
CHS Driver
Attends MSC
Convention
'   By Fay Dickinson
Of The Pioneer Staff
Miss Ruthann Spence, junior at
Clare High School, represented
the driver training,, classes at a
Teen-age Safety Conference at the
Michigan State Campus February
18 and 19.   ■
The first meeting was a general
assembly in the Union Building
to hear an address given by Dr.
Wayne Hughes, Director of School
Safety Division, National Safety
Council.
After the general assembly
everybody was divided into
groups. Ruthann attended the
group called. "How Can Youth De
velop a School-Wide Safety Program for Better Driving and Traffic Safety?"
Some of the topics discussed
were:
1. Teen-agers are not thought ot
through the age 13-19, but 14-17
years of age, therefore putting too
much blame on the younger teenagers.
2. Students should organize a
student safety council like student
council in the school.
3; Ways were discussed in get*
ting teen-agers, who show off by
reckless driving, to organize "Drag
Strips and Economy Runs," showing that safe driving is also the
cheapest as well as the safest way
to drive..
' 4. We Would like to make driv*
ers training an essential part Of
the school's program.
For better driving and drivers,
drivers' training is an essential
part of a teen-ager's education, for
you have to have life to learn.
Films and pamphlets are available to wake up teen-agers and
parents to the driving situation.
Get Those New
Plates Put On
Car' owners are reminded that
new license plates -must be on
cars by midnight on February 2*8.
That's'the word from the State
Department,
The weatherman evidently got
his signals mixed, because ,he certainly didn't send us Festival
weather for last week end. In fact,
that -kind- of weather shouldn't
happen anytime, much less during
such a special week end. Well, the
Queens, were real pretty, 'anyway.
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But here's a cheery note.
Mrs. Vesta Budd at Harrison
reports seeing a beautiful butterfly sailing around. Either
spring is coming, or else
there's one confused butterfly
on the loose.
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And another. They've hit Oil on
the Powell farm out in Gilmore
township. Isn't it nice to think
that we might all be walking
around on top of a b$g, bl$ck,
p$$l of o$l?
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Wesley Oliver, the owner off
the goat who was turning so
many "heads a couple of weeks
ago when fhe was in town, said
the animal is sensitive about
all that. attention. He claims,
tho goat isn't used to "being
patted by just anyone, and
was glad to go back to the
farm and get away from it tail. '
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Sentinel publication day again,
and with time to clean off the
.desk corned the discovery,th£t,the
annual inventory report to Clare's
assessor hasn't been -completed
and returned yet. Betcha there's
plenty of YOU who have "forgotten" too. Better we all should get
with this bit before w.e all are
sent to Siberia. (Assessors get
Wrist-slapped too, if they don't
perform their Jobs, yeahl)
the Mid-Michigan B conference
race, took, a decision .-over Clare
on the St. Louis floor last month.
But in lagt- Friday's meeting,- the
Crimson's sensational Johnny Palmier was, limited to 13 points and
the low score tipped the balance
for Clare,      ' •       '
• Pete Brown, senior guard on the
CHS team took much of the
credit for clipping Palmer's wings.
Brown' displayed tireless defense
in his zone coverage arid rugged
work on ball rebounds," as well as
fine ball handling and -passing.
, B,rbwn's own score for: the game
totaled 16.    -
■ ' Determined team play, and good
attention tp "Baker's coaching were
, evident factors in the win, and the
• boys   enjoyed   improved   luck   in
shooting.
Harrison again proved team superiority over Clare . with a ten-
point margin of victory." The tough
Hornets from the county- seat
should prove to be strong district
and regional- contenders in Class
C ball.
.'Improved defensive work was
evident in the Harrison loss, however with.the Baker boys cutting
the Hornets down from the 7?
points scored in an earlier game",
to 62.
Friday night will see the Pioneer
five on the local floor in the regular season's last game. Ithaca, who
beat Clare by only three points
earlier, will invade the gym to
Stay in the conference lead tie if
they can;
The Ithaca game, besides being
the season's last contest, will be
the final chance for CHS to "Tune
Up" for the district tourney at Mt.
Pleasant where they must face
Gladwin, Mt. Pleasant and Big
Rapids.
- Clare jJVs switching fortunes
f*with' the varsity, lost the game
with-, St. Loui3 and then won decisively agaihst Harrison.
The team of Tu'bbs, Longstreth,
Roe, Miller, Green and Nivison,
cwne from behind in the Harrison
game- with the first quarter score
10'3j against them, to win "going
away" 42-31.-
tional Honor Society by the Clare
Class of '55 and the high school
faculty on February 17.,
Included in the group are Nancy Randall, Janet Walworth, .Jean
Walworth, Twila Beery, Alice' Walter, Joyce Arehambault;. Bonnie
Stanley, Pete Brown, Don Squires,
and Ron Garthe. They^ will be
initiated in a ceremony during
graduation week.
Clare High School has belonged
to the National Honor Society
since 1933, when it replaced the
choice o£ a valedictorian and a
salutatorian.
Each year the Society selects approximately 15% of the graduation
class for membership in. thi3 chapter. - -.
Selection is 'made in the following manner: the highest: one-third
of the class is determined on the
basis of scholarship: for which
each student is given 25 points.
Each senior and high school faculty member is then asked to rate
these students on the other three
points: leadership, service, and
character..
Ah estimated crowd of 400 packed the Doherty Ballroom
Saturday evening to see 17-year-old Phyllis Bolin crowned
Miss Clare County. Phyllis was Clare's entry in the county-
wide contest.
i The Coronation Ball came as a successful high point in a
sodden week end of rain and sleet that cancelled out many
of the winter sports activities planned for Clare County's
first Winter Sports Festival.
Queen Phyllis was chosen by a
panel of three judges; Jiin Mc-
Gowan from radio WCEN in Mt.
Pleasant, Ken Lawrence' from
WiNEM-TV in Bay City and Mr.
Sebastion, of WWTV in. Cadillac.
Bob Reynolds, Detroit sports-
caster over WJR, crowned Miss
Clare County. Earlier in the eve-
ning he held his' 6:30 sports'broadcast from the Doherty. The Clare
county event received much favorable publicity from Reynolds
and from'newspapers in.the' area,
' On the first of March, Wyman'si• Elsewhere in the County.' the
market will be taken over by,toad weather and roads put a dam- ■
Keith First,   of First  Market  in  P« on outdoor activities for'the
Keith First
New Owner of
.Harrison.    First   (made   the    announcement Wednesday,
Clare Dyer, of Harrison, wiU
manage the new First Market
here in Clare. He and his family
: will move here to make their
home.    ■
'As soon as the change of ownership is effective, a complete remodeling job will be done on the
market. Some new equipment will
ibe installed and the store will
change to other brand names of
stock, First said.
„ The market will have connections with the largest independent wholesalers in the United
States', First Baid.
200 See Boy Scouts
Honored With Awards
Clare county Boy Scout pot luck
dinner and court of honor was
held at the Clare city hall Tues-'
day, February 15. It was a great
success with a crowd of over 200
packing the city hall to overflowing.
Troop's represented were Far-
well troop Number 115, Lake
George Troop Number' 129, Harrison Troop Number 145, Clare
Troop Numbers 125 and 120. Also
cub packs Number 3125 of" Clare
and Number 3145 of Harrison.
The meeting was in charge of
the camping and activities chairman of Clare County, Harold
Schaeffer. He was assisted by
County Chairman Judge Holbrook,
E. B. Clark executive of the Valley Trails Council of Saginaw and
other members of the Clare District committee.
Our district'received two outstanding awards, the Presidential
Award won by Farwell Troop Number 115 nnder the leadership of
Scoutmaster Bert Maynard, and
Clare cub pack Number 3126 for
their superior Work.
The "Invite A Boy" campaign
award was won by Farwell Number 115. Awards were presented to
Cub pack Number 3125.
The Lake George Troop Number
129, under the leadership of Cliff
Musson scoutmaster, did a superlative job with this troop. His
sponsor, the Lake George group,
presented him with a framed certificate for his outstanding work.
The Lake George Scouts received a great".number of awards.
Judge Holbrook , presented a
trophy, given by Kiwanis, for their
Cub '■ pack leader, Herb Breen for
his long work in making cub pack
number 3125 .one of'the biggest
and best,Cub packs in our district.
Another trophy was given to Jack
Rodabaugli by the Clare Rotary
Club for his work with Troop Number 125.
Troop Number 120 was presented with their advancement "Under
the able guidance of Bob Beck,
Scoutmaster.
Waits 26
Hours For Help
After Fall
After falling on' her icy back
steps Saturday afternoon, Mrs,
Nannie SatiSon, 72, was found Sunday afternoon, after she had dragged herself into the house,' and
been alone for 26 hours.
She was taken by ambulance to
Mt, Pleasant hospital with a broken hip, where at latest reports she
is resting fairly comfortable.
Mrs. SatiSon apparently did not
realize how seriously hurt She
was, and managed to get into her
home on Wheaton and Maple-
Street. She pulled a blanket and
some pillows on the floor in front
of the stove, to keep warm, but
was unable to summon help, as
she has no phone.' . • '
On Sunday, six-year-old Terry
Shafer, who lives next door, came
in and found Mrs. Satison. Terry
ran home, and told her mother and
help was immediately called.
PROCLAMATION
CITY OF CLARE, MICHIGAN
Whereas Rotary International is celebrating fifty
years of public-spirited. and philanthropic accomplishment, and Rotarians all* through Ihe world are celebrating this Jubilee milestone in iheir history, and
Whereas the accomplishments of fhe Clare Rotary
club in concert with members of the International organization elsewhere are a source of pride among fellow townspeople, and
Whereas the observance of the ienth anniversary of
the Clare Rotary Club is being celebrated on ihe same
date as ihe Golden'Anniversary of Rotary International*
I fEefifbi'i, tif ¥i-fiU8 6f ike^Uihoriiy veslid ifl me ar
mayor Of the "City of Clare, Michigan,
Proclaim the week from Wednesday morning, February 23rd, io midnight of Wednesday, March 2nd, as
Rotary Week in the. city of Clare and accordingly request all citizens io join in expressions of courtesy io
Rotary International and io ihe local club in that organization.
I hereunto affix my signature' and the official seal of
ihe City of Clare.
HOWARD M. EVERTS, Mayor
Dated ihis 21si day of February/A. D., 1955
PTA Hears Conservation
Talk, Visual Aids Report
The February .meeting of the
Clare P.T.A. was held Monday
evening in the Multi-Purpose room
at the Clare School, with forty
parents, teachers and friends in
attendance.
Lloyd Conley, instrumental instructor at the school, presented
several pupils, for a musical pro-
•c  t>   rii ,.i,   ~* a„o-4„o„r „.6,„» _ r gram. Helen Akins, Martha Lucy
E. B, Clarke of Saginaw gave a} L|nda ^3,^   entertained
few thoughts to the Scouts and*with a flute trio, accompanied at
^ui)S* Ithe piano by John Akins, who also
• The Camping and Activities played a piano solo. This was
chairman thanked all the parents, followed by a clarinet quartette,
Scout cubs, and district committee Bonnie Witbeck, Lain-een Wood-
for making this youth program ward, Janet McQuiston and John
such a huge success. I Akins. The clarinet quartette and
SCHOOL CORNER
A Peek Behind the Scenes
With The Junior High
The   new   "schoolmarm"   in
the  junior   high,   Patty   Gra-
Velle,    writes    this    week's
Schooi "* Corner,    giving    the
stodgy  old" spelling,   grammar
apd reading a brand new treatment. IVirii Gravelle has really
impressed    Her   students   and
fellow, teachers  with   her   en-
thuslashi and  concern for Individual  students,  in  this her
first year of teaching.
You  say, "It's noisy!" Ho, Mr.
Citizen,    that's    not    noise,    it's
enthusiasm;   you've   just   entered
the junior high school wing of the
Clare Public School.
Please take a seat, Mr. Citizen-
right there in the back. Class Will
begin in a miiiute.
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Scene I—Spelling Class
"Class, please open your books
to Lesson 10, We spent Monday
discussing the pronunciation and
basic structure of our words. You
were supposed to have looked up
the meanings for today. Bill, if I
have a dirty countenance, what
do 1 have that's dirty? Yes, that's
right, Bill, I have a dirty face."
Oh, pardon me, Mr. Citizen,.you
have a question? Oh, you want to
know about that group of students over there — they haven't
their books open? I forgot to ex
plain to you that many students
have difficulty in spelling, and we
try to find their grade level ability before: we begin to teach them.
We sincerely believe that you
should not teach a child to spell
countenance if he can't spell face.
These students get special help
while the other-group is studying.
Note that child 6ver there. He
has a slightly different problem.
He is a victim of too much moving
around as a child and has missed
instruction Oh how to sound
vowels and consonants. We work
with him -in between times, helping him to, understand basic
sounds and encourage him to
learn to spell the 200 most used
vocabulary words,
- We feel that it is not only important for the child to know how
to spell a word, to. know its meaning, but it is equally important
tha the puts these words to use.
"Jane, suppose you, tell Mr. Citizen what we do to put our words
to use."
"Often times we take our new
words and make stouies from
them. Other times we use our new
words in sentences."
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One other thing we attempt to
do   early  in   the   semester   is   to
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John Akins, took first place at
the recent district music contest.
The new slate of officers was
presented, and elected. Mrs, Earl
Baumgarth will be the new president. Allen Talk, vice president,
Mrs. Earl Morgan, secretary, and
Mrs. Dale White, treasurer. *
Tulk gave a report on the Visual Aid program. The P.T.A. donated $75.00 to that program last
year, which, was matched with an
equal amount by the school. He
said that 62 film strips had been
purchased, which provided 900
minutes of visual aid for the
students, the cost amounting to
about $100.00.
Lyle Barden, assistant director
of the Houghton Lake forest, was
the speaker and gave an interesting talk on State School Forest
projects. The Clare school is in
need of land to be used for this
project. -Don Bell, conservation
officer of Clare county, showed a
movie "By Land We tive".
Mrs. John Wicklund president,
■conducted the business meeting.
It Was announced that this week
February 21 through. the 26 is
P.T.A. Week at Wiiibeck's market,
and that 1% of sales will go to
the P.T.A. Sales slips marked for
the .special grades, and the winner " having the largest amount,
that grade will receive a special
sweet gift per student.
'Mrs.,. Garthe's room mothers
were in charge of refreshments,
and ber room, also had the highest
pecentage of parents present at
the meeting.   ,
Recognize
Randall For
Lodge Work
Howard Randall, Tyler of the
Farwell Masonic lodge for 21
years, was honored for his long
service by a special communication of the Farwell Lodge.   %
Randall was raised to Master
Mason in Vandalia Lodge No. 290,
iii 1930. He has been a carpenter
since he was 16 yeasr old and has
driven a school bus for the Far-
well school for 13 years.
week end.
At Harrison, organized rabbit
hunting- was cancelled on" .both
Saturday and Sunday, due to'the
weather, even though a 'dozen or
so hunters had gathered' pn both
days.' * . - ,   '
The fox hunt came off on.schedule with 17 hunters coming from
Lansing, Detroit and surrounding
areas to participate. No foxei*
were taken however.
Slalom races at Snow' Snake,
Where the Queen and her court
were scheduled for an appearance
Sunday afternoon, were also called off due to weather.   •
In fishing contests at Harrison, Norm Brace of Harrison,
was first in the Blue-gfll division. In the Crappie division, •
Dorothy Balmer, of HarrlMn;
took first. Russell Spragne ot
Harrison oaugfat ike biggeut
pike, and Carl Saloff cangftt
the biggest perch. •■'•    .
At Lake George, rain, and sleet
put an almost complete stop. tp-
fishing. Only one prize was awarded.
At Lake, in the fishing contests;
Gerald Gregory, of Midland*
caught the largest pike and was ,
awarded a casting rod. William
A. Bratt, of Lake, received sec-,
ond prize on the pike, a spinning
reel, Oliver Priest of Lake tooK . «■
a "casting line ^^.'i&jpt^.f'ff r:}'~
The bobcat hunt simeduledj tori
Lake Saturday   morning   had   to .
be called off, due to the wedthef*
Fishermen won seven prizes at
Farwell, all in the bluegill ahd
perch divisions. "No pike or crap-
pies- were entered.
Roy Thrush had the heaviest string of bluegills, and Xoel
Wilson had the largest bluegill
in length. Vernie Hose had
the largest bluegill in weight.
William Moore took- first prize
for the heaviest catch of perch.
Sue Frisbey took first prize for
the heaviest perch, and Vic Finch
took second prize in the same
class. Billy Gelston Jr., caught
the longest perch,
Cite Family
For Baptist
Mission Wofk
A former Lake family, whp moved to Livonia sometime ago, was
cited in the Detroit papers recently for it's work in establishing a
Baptist mission.
The Chester Halsteads and their
five children moved to Livonia to
be near Halstead's work. As there
was no church of their choice in
that community, they took action.
In June, 1954, a Baptist mission
was started by the Halsteads in a
school house about a mile from
their home. That first Sunday, the
entire congregation was the Hal-
stead family.
Now they have built the congregation up to over 70 members.
Chester Jr., -17, is Sunday school
superintendent, and "Verna, 15, ia
organist.. The other three children
help make up the Sunday school
classes.
Drinking' Driver
Fined In Court
Clare Police arrested William
C. Berryhill, 50, of Flint, on February 17, and charged him with
driving under the influence of alcohol. He was picked up after a
report came .in that he was drlV?
ing erratically.
Berryhill has a previous bad
driving record. His license had
only been returned to him January 28 from another violation.
He was fined $75 by Municipal
Judge William"B. Dunlop.
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