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CLARE, MICHIGAN, flR^SPAT MOHNIHG^ JUNE 23, 1955>
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N«*vr 8*rS<Mi, Vol 63, No, #0
• A Glare youth -wag admitted to
Clare General Hospital in critical
condition Tuesday afternoon, after,
being run over by a ear while sunbathing near Stevenson Lake.
John White, IS, received injuries
. of the. right leg, shoulder and head,
■when he was run. over by a car
driven by Robert Kennedy, 19, of
rural Clare,        *   . ..
Young Kennedy went to the
Ernest Irwin home nearby and
asked Mr**. Irwin to call an ambulance for the injured boy. He
waited for the ambulance to come
and pick up White,
White had been lying in a patch
of grass a few feet off the road
In a small turnout near Irwin's
Lansing. The car had' apparently
Methodist
Bible School
Closes Session
■ Tie. Clare Methodist Church
completed a successful two weeks
daily vacation Bible School, Friday1, June 17, with an average attendance of 101, during the two
week period between June 6 and
17. Children from four years
old through the sixth grade were
dlyided into three different departments.
The theme throughout the
school was the study of the Life
and Teachings of JesuB. The program included lessons, Bible
study, worship, singing, stories,
recreation, committee work, activities and refreshments.
The childrens offerings did not
go toward expense of the Vacation
School as in other years, but were
sent to CROP, the Christian Rural
Overseas Program. As $1.00 will
buy $20 worth of food for these
people overseas, their offering of
?4D.73, will make it possible to
supply $950 worth of food through
CROP.
Three times a week the entire
school met in the sanctuary for
fifteen minute periods of singing
under the direction of Mrs. Delamarter. .
The school concluded with &
'•Family B*un Night", Friday evening,. June 17* at 6:30. This was U
pot luck supper .with the coffee,
milk and ice cream cones furnished by the W.S.C.S. Mrs. Nortaan
Maxwell and Mrs. Delamarter led
some clever informal "fun" songs,
and a "table orchestra,"
The supper was followed by a
program and worship service in
the sanctuary. ThiB program grew
out of the daily work of the school.
There was an exhibit of the things
Which the children had made during the two weeks, in the Church
Parlors.
Teachers and workers in the
Kindergarten department were:
Mrs, Wilson' Samborn, Mrs. Willard Ireland, Mrs. William Case,
Mrs. Ralph Ackerman, Mrs. Carl
Stephenson, Gail Samborn and
Sandy Bergstrom.
In the primary department —
Mrs. Eugene Frey, Mrs. Leonel
Green, Mrs. Robert Kring, Mrs.
Ronald Wilson, Laurene Woodward, Shirley McKay,- Joyce Delamarter.
In the Junior department —
Mrs. Norinah Max-well, Mrs. Wayne
Friesner, Mrs. Robert Greer, Mrs.
Delamarter, and Mrs. Clarence
Van. Mrs.- Clayton Neff was vacation school superintendent. Mrs.
Norman Wilson, refreshment
■shairman, arid Mrs. Neil Stirling,
chairman for the pot luck supper.
At the worship service Sunday
morning, Rev. L. J. Nevins called
these workers to the altar and expressed appreciation to them for
the giving of their time to work
in the Bible School, and the
church people joined with him in
expressing their thanks.
been stopped with one wheel on
his back, before it was moved off.
Clare Hospital attendants reported the boys' condition as improved on Wednesday, White's
parents ate Mr. and Mrs. Tom
White, of the Ranch Cabins north
of Clare. Kennedy ia the son of
Mr. gndMrs. Durward Kennedy.
Kennedy was not held by State
Police, who investigated the accident.
Business
Boom At New
Tourist Booth
in the less than a week that the
new tourist information booth on
McEwan Street has been open, 114
travelers have stopped to ask
about a good place to eat, or an
eye doctor tq go to, or the best
route to the Straits, and what time
the ferry leaves.
Al Tulk, who is tending the
booth, as a secretary of the Clare
Chamber of Commerce, has been
keeping track of the business
volume.
Big day of business was last
Friday, when 34 of the total 114
queries were answered. The total
week end accounted for 70 of the
requests for information,
said.
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Rosebush, Farwell Cutover Siimilto
Isabella Township Supervisor Oliver House shakes han*js with TV C. Maher, manager
here for the Michigan Bell Telephone Company, during a diriner marking the opening of
dial telephone service in Rosebush. At* the left is Village President* Bernard Schofield.
representing Farwell where dial service was cut in simultaneously.
Election To
Fill 2 Seats On
School Board
. Dr. Clayton B. Neff and Richard
Tuns:1 G-roves are expected to 'be no-
I roinated to succeed themselves on
The booth stays open Fridays, ^ Clare Board of Education at
from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. The rest-the annuai meeting which wiU be
of the week it closes at 5:30 p.m. I held in the school auditorium at 8
o'clock p.m. next Monday.
People have been known to stay
.away from school meetings literally "by hundreds" and the meeting on July 11 is not seriously expected to be an exception. But
those persons who are interested
in this community's schools
enough to attend the meeting, will
hear one piece of good news from
the financial department of the
school. The debt retirement rate
of tax is to Tie reduced from 11
mills to 9 6/10.
School superintendent Thomas
C. Campbell said that the lower
mmtfgS^-'J!** &»v'.3?j money to pay
Off the district's "debt in two years.
The reduction in rate is permitted
by the raise iri valuation over the
past two equalization sessions in
the county.
The school operating budget
needs ten mills on present assessments to qualify for State school
aid fund. (It is required to raise 5
mills on State Equalized valuations and since Clare county is
equalized at only half of the state
figures, the millage must be doubled to attain the required
amount.)
The Clare County Allocation
set   mill   rate   for   Clare
Tulk is one of the secretaries of
the Chamber of Commerce.
"We would like to have information sent to us so that we have
answers available on tourist facilities in surrounding areas", Tulk
said.
"The service is primarily for the
tourist. We like to promote Clare,
but we're also interested in doing
away with rivalries between localities, and giving travelers the
information they need," he added.
Areas with tourist information
to contribute should address it to
th© Secretary, Chamber of Commerce,** Clare, Michigan.
The Chamber of Commerce plans
to put out a brochure soon listing
available eating places and tourist
housing and amusements In Clare.
Telephone
Switchover
Local civic and business leaders
joined representatives oi the Michigan Bell Telephone Company Mon-,
day evening to mark an historic Board
advance in telephone communications in Rosebush and Farwell
Early   Sunday   morning,   Rose-
school operation at 9 7/10, so
voters at Monday evening's meeting at the school will vote on the
bush and Farwell telephones were{ question of raising the rate by just
switched   to   dial   operation   and. th**ee tenths of one milL
placed on a metropolitan  system! ,The over I11 sch001 tax rate is
that will eventually become part of do™P'  Campbell said,  to  19 6/10
a nationwide network. mills from 21 m*11*3*>"■1954-
Following the  Sunday  morning
event,   a   commemorative*   dinner
Was held n the Doherty Hotel injT c>C*d\ TVforf-i A-f*
Clare where Village President, I •l-'UV/aJ. 1TJ.CX1 XTlL
Bernard Schofield, of Farwell, andi^—i .   ■*-      -a
Township    .Supervisor     Oliver \jYBBX. Lj&K&S
House,   of   Isabella   Township,   of
ficially proclaimed the communities' acceptance of the new system.
T. C. Maher, area manager here
for Michigan Bell, was the master
of ceremonies at the dinner attended by some 50 local residents,
businessmen and civic heads. Mailer, in his talk,. traced telephone
history in both Rosebush and Far-
well from the time that a handful
of farmer-owned telephones were
in existance to the present time
when more than 1,000 are in service in both communities.
7b Choose Miss Clare
For Harrison Contest
Correction Of
Reunion Pate
'The date for the Reunion of the
class of 1925 was mis-stated in last
week's Sentinel. The correct date
is July 3. The Sentinel regrets the
error.
The Reunion dinner will be served in the Fifth Avenue room of
the Hotel Doherty at one o'clock
the afternoon of July 3,
Reservations should be sent to
Emma Jennings Sager by June 25.
Youngsters
Swim At
Own Risk
Wttle rhi'dr'-n.&W-'fc' P"^"*****"***-"
their "own risTc at 'fiedar 3?a"rk,vf»lB
riverside park which belongs to
Clare and is a popular playground
for as many as 150 or more children a day. This is the' word from
Ted Pixley, city attorney, who is
anxious to prevent any misunderstandings about who is liable in
case of hurts or accidents at the
unattended swimming hole.
It's not that there is any objection to kids having fun at Cedar
Park but the place has had adult
supervision for the past three
or four seasons, and, "parents
shouldn't send little children out
there in the mistaken assurance
that a lifeguard is on duty," Pixley said.
Wayne Menthen, Tom Green, Ed
Tomaski, and Jack Bailey, left
Sunday for Great Lakes Naval
Base at Chicago, where they will
spend a two weeks reserve training session.
Following this, they will go for
a two .weeks training cruise on
the Great Lakes. The four are all
Navy reserve members.
Two other Clare men, Tom Van*
Hoose and Chris Smith have recently enlisted in the regular
Navy.
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Fowl Friend
Nature has smiled on the ever-present sea gull and it seems like millions must be born each
year to keep Michigan skies as busy as they are. Here the Conservation Department's photographer
Jias frightened a cloud of the birds into the ait on a rocky Lake Superior coast hear Ontonagon.
Inset at top is t* nest with \vm «ggs atoA om bird about to pop from its shell.
Police Warn
Fire Chasers
City firemen and police were
really wrathy at the parade of
motorists who interfered with the
duties of the fire fighters Monday-
evening when the department
made a run to the Kenneth
Benchley residence on East Second. Autoists followed a car in
which Fire Chief Stan Parish and
Les Bonstelle were going to. the
fire. The street became so completely blocked with cars that the
fire trucks could not have driven
near the blaze if a water line had
been necessary.
Police were appealed to, and officer McDonald and Chief Head
issued tickets to Francis N. Davis,
Clare; Melvin Dale Gordon, Flint;
Norman W. Schroeder, Clare; and
a sixteen year old driver. The first-
two named paid ?5. fines and
costs, while the minor boy went
to Probate Court, and settlement
is not made on the last ticket.
Police promise severe "crackdowns" if the offense is repeated.
They emphasize that law prohibits
driving close to a fire truck or
fire. .
Note
Book
' Mr. George Tope, confined to
his home for over a year by
illness, was* up and arOtmd
downtown yesterday/,-., to the
pleased surprise of friends and
neighbors.
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Our nomination for Man-Of-Ther
Month is Mr. William Easlick, of
Farwell. He escorted both of his
pretty daughters to the altar, and
handed them over to their prospective grooms, in one trip, when
the girls' were married at a double
wedding June" 12.
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Well, they've caught the
raider of Lloyd Rathbnra's turkey flock at Lake. The 42 inch
fox iii the trap was found to-
have gotten outside of three,
three-weeks-old turkeys, one
ground mole, Q, canary, and a
squirrel, for one meal. Somo
appetite.
"CIa-re has been invited again
this year to enter a candidate in
the. Miss Independence Day Contest at Harrison on July 4.
A preliminary contest to pick an
entry will .be held Monday evening
at 8 o'clock, June 27, at City Hall,
sponsored by the Clare Chamber
of Commerce.
Girls between the ages of H>
and 26 may enter, if they are not
married. They must agree to make-
an appearance June 30 on Cadillac
WWTV in formal drees.
Contestants under eighteen
should furnish their parent's written permission to enter the event.
The winner of the contest will
be awarded $35 in cash, and will
compete in the Harrison event, on
July 4. Formal dress is also required for the Harrison appearance.
Winner of the Miss Independence title will be crowned by
GyV- G*. Utenneh Williams at a
dance the evening of July 4.
No entry blanks are needed.
Eligible girls need only appear at
the City Hall, June 27.
I
FFA Team
Wins State
Gold Award
Three boys from Floyd Norcutt* s
Clare School Ag. classes returned
from Michigan State College last
week . end with Michigan's top
team award for FFA boys in Farm
Management.
Pat Pudvay, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Floren Pudvay; Charles
Ruby,. son of Mr. and "Mrs. Ray
Ruby; and Francis Northon, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Northon, were
given a Gold Award for their excellence. It was the only such rating awarded in Michigan and
marked the Clare team as the undisputed top of schoolboy teams in
this field.
Norcutt also annouced with
pride that a Dairy Cattle Judging
team of Russell Allen, Dick Zinser,
and Don Bay had earned the
Bronze Award for their efforts at
MSC the same week end. The six
contestants and Norcutt, their instructor and FFA counsellor were
the only ones from Clare to attend
the event.
Last year's* Farm Management
team likewise took a Gold Award
at the same contest when Norris
Bay, Robert Brown and Richard
Clink were best in Michigan.
3 Sisters, Father Saved
By Coleman Man Sunday In
e at
Gas Fumes
Fatal To
Harrison Man
A young Harrison man died Saturday night, after being overcome
by gas fumes while working in the
oil fields near Elbow Lake in Clare
county.
Edward McCartney, 2G, failed to
respond to oxygen administered
by the Roscommon Fire department, after collapsing while working in a pocket of concentrated
gas.
A fellow worker, James RWke
Of rural Harrison, was also overcome, but is reported In fair condition at Gladwin hospital. They
were employed by the .Hilliard
Oil Company.
Edward's parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest McCartney, of Harrison. Also surviving are a brother,
Jerry, in the Navy, stationed at
West Virginia; and four sisters,
Mrs, Donna Russell and Mrs. Jean
Schuyler of Durand, and Doris
Ann and Janet at home.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Congregational
Church in Harrison, at 2 p.m., Rev.
George Pope, a 2&-year-old Coleman man performed a
heroic fescue of a father and three girls who nearly
drowned while swimming at Houghton Lake last Sunday'
afternoon. Cecil Faber, also of Coleman, and his** three
daughters were pulled from the dangerous current-in a
thirty-foot deep boat channel.
The youngest sister, Dixie,
who is only four years old,
had been in the water, fdr
about five minutes and Wals
unconscious when Pope
brought her to shore and revived her. The others would'
almost certainly have
drowned witnesses said, if it
hadn't been for Pope's swift,
response to their cries for
help, and bravery in making
four plunges into the channel
to bring them to safety.
Pope himself was in a state of
near collapse after the excitement
and was brought to Clare General
Hospital where he remained over-
Trustees
To Stay Put
Garfield township trustees, incumbent since before the April
county elections thlB year, seem
due to remain in office another
two years by default.
Garfield slipped'up and didn't
have trustees names ,put" on the
hallots for the April election. Tbe
error wasn't discovered until af**    . . .,...-„ -..,.
ter. the election, vnen the town- n'Snt and was treated for exhaust-
ship, asked an opinion of Attorney
Robert* Campbell, Clare County
prosecutor.
Prosecutor Campbell in turn
tpok lt np with the State Elections .Director, In. Lansing.
Last week an answer came back.
In the opinion of -the State Elections man, no provision is made
for special election In case of an
ommission of this* kind.
Trustees, the opinion said, can
Henry   Warner   and  Rev.   Gerald
Brady officiating. A Military Ser-' only be chosen in regular elec-
vice was performed by Harrison tions. So Garfield townships in-
VFW Post ' 1075. Burial was in cumbent trustees are scheduled to
Maple Grove Cemetery. | stay in office until April of 1957,
Mt. Pleasant Man Wins
11th VFW District Post
The V.F.W. State Encampment; night and Sunday by the Highland
was held at Traverse City June 16
through 19. Minard Johnson of Mt.
Pleasant was installed as new
commander of the Eleventh district,
Johnson replaces Charles Cooper
of Clare. *€doper received Hia diamond past commander's pin at the
session.
Other attending from the area
were Harley Teeter, Bob Howiey,
local Commander Ralph Acfcer-
man, Jack Rodabaugh, John Cobb,
and Frank Kapplingar.
For the auxiliary, Mary Karash
and Clarice Bellows were delegates, with Isabelle Cooper and
Mary Thomas- as alternates.
On Thursday, the streets oif Tria1-
verse City were made toldrful
With the red and white uhiforitts 6f
the 'men 'and-womeiu.At, J-dgbtjthby
held a torchlight parade.'
Friday wag resignation and-
presentation of distinguish-
ed guests. Mary DeForest, of dare
ber two children, and Mary Gab-
lesberger were introduced by the
Department President as representatives • of the National Home.
Miss Gablesberger, a graduate of-
the Eaton Rapids High School this
June, was presented with a five
•hundred dollar scholarship.
Saturday began with a joint ma-
morial service. Nomination of officers was the high light of the
general session. The parade formed at 2:00 p.m. and was also color-
ies, carrying their colors, and
ful and outstanding, with the lad-
members in line, with the different
bands.
BYRON F. GINN
Byron F. Ginn passed away at
Central Michigan Community Hospital in Mt. Pleasant early Taes-
>day morning, June 21. Funeral
services will be held at Stephenson Funeral Home, Friday afternoon at 2:00 P.M. with Rev. L. J.
Nevins officiating and interment
in Cherry Grove.
Bagpipe and Drummers at the V,
F.. W. Hall. .The meeting next year
will be in Bay City.
Little
Clare
For Little
Leaguers
A complete schedule of
League games at the new
field has been issued by Bernie
Wilson, league secretary. Beginning on Monday* June 27,* ;the
week'ti gimea aWti, :    >    •*
Jrioiiday'•?- Tigers vs!, l-Jpas;
Tuesday *-*■*-Cribs ,vs.»Beari;v Wednesday — Lions vs. Cubs; Thursday — Tigers vs. Bears.
The entire balance of the sea-
abn schedule will appear in next
week's Sentinel and Wilson said
that all games postponed on account of rain will be played on
Friday nights.
ion and shock.
Mrs. Faber, the mother of the
girls. witnessed the rescue of ner
husband and children from where
she was on the shore, and Mm
Pope with a daughter, were also
at the scene.
Pope ia an employee at Dowr-
Cornlng of Midland, During World
War II, he was in action with the
Sea-Bee Construction Battalidns of
the United States Navy.-His own
version of the rescue, given to The
Sf*ntinel on the morning after the
rescue took place goes like this:
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Faber with
their three daughters, together
with Mr. and Mrs. George Pope
and their daughter, and Floyd
Methner, all from Coleman or the
tho immediate neighborhood, were
enjoying an outI»g at Houghton
Lake. Pope end Faber with their
children decided to go in for 4
swim while Methner drove to Hig-
ginB Lake on An errand.
The three Faber girls with their
father were in water slightly over
knee-depth when they all moved
too close to the sharp drop-off at
the edge of the dredged boat chan-
• *aei, They slipped Int-^. watec* ---ter:
their heads, and none of the girls
were able to swim.
. Pope's first awareness of danger
was when he heard desperate colie
for help from the Faber girls and
their father, who by this time were
out in the treacherous swift current and deep water of the channel.
Swimming to the four, Pope
returned with first Linda, 12
then   the   father.   The   third
strained trip* brought Joan who
By .this   time,   Pope' said,
little  four-year-old  Dixie  had
slipped beneath the water far
out of the channel stream. Bat
more help arrived when Tom, "
Freeman,   a   boat  liveryman
dived into the water and hold
np the little girl nitta Pope
could   return   for   his   fourth
plunge into the deep -water.
Dixie   was   unconscious. when
brought to the shore but revived
after  Pope  pumped  air into her
lungs by artificial respiration.
The strain and excitement were
too much for the rescuer and when
little Dixie began to breathe again*
Pope folded up in a state of near
collapse. At the hospital, attendants said he was treated for severe exhaustion and that he might
have had a little water In his own,
lungs.
Pope was quoted yesterday in a
Saginaw News story as saying, "I
hope I don't batve any more rescues coming up in the near
future."
His  exhausting   experienc-*.
Auto Mishap
Takes Sears
Man's Life
Vernon Adams, 23, of Sears, died
early Tuesday mornittg shortly after being admitted to Clara General Hospital with injuries received in an auto accident near Coleman.
Adams was alone in his car
when It left the road near the
Coleman blinker light and crashed
into a signpost abuttment He was taught him one thing,""I'm going
pinned in  the  car,  Coroner  Carl-to get back in condition", he said.
Stephenson said. The motor was
knocked completely out of the car.
and lay beside it. The accident occurred at about 3 a.m. June 2L
He   was  rushed  to   Clare  Hospital with a fractured skull and
A big', husky man, "Pope hag not
been In for a Bwimming workout
in the last three years. He is not
surprised that his 45-minute ordeal
wore him out- ••;.■■
He Is also determined that his
internal   injuries,   where  he* died! own  little  daughter .ia  going  to
about 45 minutes later.   . | learn to swim,
Rising Costs Bring Crisis To Library
The Clare City Library, comirg
thirty-four years old next spring,
has. developed an acute case of
growing pains, brought on by problems of keeping a roof over its
head and books on its shelves.
Probably the dauntless ladies of
the Study Club and Good Literature Club didn't foresee these particular difficulties when the Clare
Library association was formed in
the spring of 1922.
The problems have come up
though, and now the members of
the present Library Association
are taking a long and careful look
at ways and means.
That original library set up shop
in a room in the Hotel Doherty
when the Hotel was first built. The
first A. J. Doherty had designated
one room in the structure especially for the use of the library,
rent free.
For stocking the shelves of
the n e w library project, the
members of the association
started a systematic door-bell
ringing campaign, • asking for
contributions of books.
Understandably, the first
shelves of books were a motley
collection, running" strongly to
victorian era novels and outdated books on etiqnette. But
It was a start.
For other furnitureji members
Contributed pieces fr6m their OWn
noi*C2S, and bought, out of the
scanty hoard in the embryo library
fund, a desk and a few necessary
supplies.
Then as a final touch, Doherty
had some handsome stained glass
windows,- depicting Well - known
poets, installed for the library, and
it was open for business.
For several years, -j-he library
enjoyed the use of the rent-free
room in the Hotel. But as property
values and taxes ivent up, the hotel
asked that the group pay a small
rental, in the form of a contribution to the hotel water bill, "not
to exceed $150 a year".
"The association agreed to this,
and the arrangement worked- to
mutual satisfaction for a score or
so years. Eor financial support,
■members of thq• association en
gineered bake sales, tag days, and
musicales, proceeds to go to tiie
library.-
Besides this, a delegation went
to the old Clare City Council and
asked for and got, a JS mill appropriation for support of the library
annually.
In 1942, rerit on the library went
raised to $450 annually. The association pointed out that paying the
rental out of only its earnings and
the .5 mill from the city was not
possible. The city offered an increase to .9 mill. The association
accepted and the new arrangement
went on for another eight years.
Then in the fall of 1950, with
the   expansion  of  the  Hotel's
dining   facilities,   tho  Library   ■
had to move out, and find a
new home. Along with, it went
these   elegant   stained   glass
windows, to be stored in the
barn of one of the trustees,
waiting to bo used again one
day.
Looking around for a new location, the Library board settled on Murt JHongaton's offe* 6f
a  five  year  lease  at  $50  a,
month,   in   the   basement   of
Maxwell's flower shop* where
the library ia enrrentty looM*
ed.
* F i v e* different librarians, Mr§.
Frank   Hochstetler,   Mrs.  Norm*
Pratt,* Mrs. Estella Artibee, the
late Mrs, Ed Waller, ahd presently
Mrs, Frank Shirley, h-ive watched
the library grow from a collection
of a few hundred books, to ovetf
8,000.
During the years covered by
those five librarians, such improvements as an awning that coat
the library .association something
over $300, was installed to protect
the door.
A story hour for children was
begun . and flourished for softie
time before it was discontinued. '*
Library supporters over the*
thirty-three year life of the insti-
tion, have contributed their own
time, money and energy by the
double handfuls.
Now with a hike in rent, and &
drop-off in cash receipts imminent*
ihey face a double problem.
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