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New Series, Vol. 63, No. 50
School Doors to Open For
50 Youngsters Tuesday
This Tuesday jn'orning, September 6, some 850 Clare Public School youngsters will don new school 'clothes, pick up
new notebooks and go off to meet new and old classmates
and teachers for another year of school activity.
Some rural schools are already open, since Monday of this
week, but most of the county's 2,751 grade and high
schoolers will start the 1955-56 school year Tuesday.
Classes will begin in Clare Public School tor all grades except kindergarten at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday
morning, September 6 and continue
until noon. Full day sessions begin in these grades on Wednesday at • which time the cafeteria
will begin serving lunches.
Kindergarten students have been
'.notified by mail when to come to
school for the first time, late kindergarten enrollees and new kin-
dergartners will come to the school
when notified by the school. They
should enroll ahead of the opening
of school with the elementary
principal.
School buses will run op the
same routes as last year for the
first day of school on Tuesday,
but the new routes will go into effect on the return trip home Tuesday and continue from that pojnt
on.
• Bus routes have been revised to
conform with new state regulations
and to handle the transporting of
rural students more efficiently. In
cases where students live off the
actual route the bus covers, the
distance from the nearest bus stop
and the age of the students will be
determining factor In whether the
bus.will be able to "stub in" and
pick Up these students.
In no cases will a bus "stub in",
to pick up students who live a half
mile or less from the corner. Families will be notified of procedure
in all cases.
The school bookstore is still
open Thursday and Friday this
week for u.udents who do not yet
have their books, and enrollment
will also continue those days.
Six new staff members will join
the teaching staff of the Clare Public Schools at the opening of
school. Five of the new teachers
are replacements and one an addition, bringing the number on the
teaching staff to 36.
Mr*. Wil&joe Bush join** -the do*
mentary department after teaching
In elementary schools in the Traverse City area for two years. Mrs.
Bush will take over a third grade
and replace Mrs. Art Freel who
along with her husband left Clare
to teach in the Alpena area. Mrs.
Bush's home was Traverse City,
but she and her husband will re-
side in Mt. Pleasant, during the
coming year while he finishes college.
Mrs. Mildred Rauch will take
over instruction in the sixth grade
replacing Art Freel, Mrs. Rauch
has taught in Harrison and prior
to that enjoyed 30 years of teaching in the Dundee Public Schools,
Were she met with great success
in working with elementary age
children. Mrs. Rauch lives on Budd
Lake near Harrison with her husband and is a relative of another
member of the Clare staff, Mrs.
Ivan Bartow.
Miss Joan Bond of Grayling,
Michigan graduated from Michigan
State  University  this  spring and
will teach sixth grade replacing
Mrs. J)oris Gerow Cotton, who retired and nioved to New Jersey.
Miss Bond had a scholarship while
attending MSU. Both her mother
and father have been active in
teaching.
Miss Violet Kuhnau of Windom,
Minnesota, graduated from Wittenberg College at Sprngfield, Ohio
this spring and joins tie staff to
teach the new fourth grade.( Miss
Kuhnau studied at Gustavus Adol-
phus. in Minnesota and finished at
"Wittenberg. She studied under a
scholarship at both institutions.
Mrs. Kathryn Morley comes here
from t\vo years teaching in Sag!-,
naw High SchOol to teach Home-
making, replacing Mrs. Barbara
Haske, who resigned. Mrs. Morley
graduated ,from Albion College.
She nad her husband will make
their home in Clare.
Miss Marjalee Dull graduated
from Wheaton College, Wheaton,
Illinois this spring and wil teach
social studies in the seventh and
eighth grades. The large number of
seventh graders made it necessary
to open an additional classroom in
this department and Miss Dull was
selected to fill out the junior high
staff. Mr. and-Mrs. Leon Dull, parents of Marjalee now reside in
Clare.
Other teachers who will return
to their teaching positions in Clare
this year are Richard Wheeler,
high school principal; Allan Tulk,
elementary principal; Mrs. Louisa
Bowler, Mrs. Myrtie Bowerman,
and Miss Olive Evans in the English department.
Mrs. Ivah Bartow and Robert
Gravelle in social studies; Larry
Wilcox in science and mathematics
Mrs. Bernice Wilson and James
Dunlap in commercial; Floyd Norcutt In Vocational Agriculture;
Carleton Garthe in shop; Lloyd
Conley In instrumental music.
Don,Richardson In driyer education and coaching; Mrs. Edna Cook
girls' physical education and health; Bob Baker boys' physical education and health and coaching;
George Perry, junior high math
and high school coaching; Mrs.
Patricia Gravelle, junior high English; Wayne Paterson, junior high
science,
Mrs. Ethel Marshall, fifth grade;
Mrs. Blanche Giebel, fourth and
fifth grades; Mrs. Helen Garthe,
third grade; Mrs. Verona White,
second and third grades, Mrs. Florence Kane, second grade; Miss Ef-
fie Hales, first grade, Mrs, Kathryn
Eroh, first grade, and Mrs. Leota
VanEvery, kindergarten. M r s.
Irene Davy will return as the kindergarten aid.
Mrs. Genevieve Fleming returns
as secretary to the superintendent.
Ralph Ackerman as head custodian
will be assisted by Ray Ruby, Dur-
ward Kennedy and Dale Davis.
Mrs. Marie Schug and Mrs. Adrian
Foote will handle the hot lunch
and cafeteria.
Announce Faculty Changes
And School Consolidations
At Farwell and Harrison
>t
Two rural schools have consolidated with Farwell Rural Agricultural School this fall, swelling
the expected enrollment to a late
count of 661.
Grant School Number 3, at Hink-
leville, and Hatfield school, in
Gilmore township of Isabella county will both send their pupils into
Farwell this year.
Farwell students! will meet eight
new teachers when the new school
■session opens. Miss Ann Marie Powers will teach second; Mildred
Teachout and Ruth Fransted will
teach fourth grade; Minnie Caul
will teach fifth grade; and Elizabeth Rohns will teach eighth
grade.
New to high school students will
be Robert Hamsher, teaching driver training and history; William
Huntsinger, coaching, and teaching math; and Virginia- Wind, vocal and music teacher.
There will be only one-half day
of, school the first day* the after-
trioon. The hot lunch program will
begin on September 19.
New furniture has -been added
for three rooms this year. A classroom has been enlarged, ahd new
office space 'in the high school
•building added, as well as a new
paint job, in pastel colors, done
■all over the -building. A new piano
and tape recorder have also (been
added, and Superintendent W. L.
Gelston said that any additional
public address system will toe installed soon.
Two new buses were purchased,
this summer, One of them Was a
■replacement and the other an addition (to the regular fleet that the
school maintains, in order to *Sc
comddate the'* additional students
being transported in,   V
jUl buses will run their regular
routes from last year for this first
day,  Superintendent Gelston  said.
Farwell school officials are asking that students who have moved
to homes off the regular route, or
are new students, to be at one of
the buses' regular stopping
points for that first trip. Permanent
arra'ngemtnts will be made as soon
as possible, the superintendent
said.
At Harrison, three positions on
the teaching staff have not been
filled, according to John Yourg,
Hayes Rural Agricultural high
school principal.
An Englif-h and Speach teacher
is needed in the high school and
•two teachers are needed in the
grades.
All of these'-would oo replacements fo>; teachers who have left
ou reth oment, or for a cnange ot
location. Several new teachers
'have been hired as replacements
in the grades Young said.
Other than that, everything is
•ready for the day after Labor Day
opening, when 591 will troop back
to school.
The interior of the school building haS been redecorated and the
gym floors all refinished.
A completely new oil burning
heating system has been installed
-replacing the coal stoker in previous "use.
One rural school, Bailey in Hamilton township, has consolidated
with Harrison, according to the office of the county superintendent
of schools.
There will be only a- half day of
school the first day and that Will
be in the afternoon. Buses will go
-out oh regular routes with only
minoy changes, {he j-irincipal said,
•She school's regular not lunch
titogtarti wiU start later*       ,      ;
Author
To Lecture
At Study Club
Mrs, Sally Baker Hewitt of Jackson, Michigan, author, lecturer,
concert pianist and composer will
appear before the Clare Study Club
Tuesday, September 6, at 8:00
o'clock p.m. in the Methodist
Church parlors.
She will review her recent book
"Life with Grandma" and include
some of her own compositions and
piano arrangements.   ' ■   •
"Life with Grandma" is a book
on country life as lived in the
early    days.    Grandmother    and
SALLY BAKER HEWITT
Grandfather, with their homely
philosophy, love the soil and try to
instill this in their children with
varied results. Small anecdotes of
country life, the church socials and
other,, activities of the times bring
back memories for the older folk
and smiles for the younger ones.
Mrs. Hewitt is also the author
■of- a bcokJ'Ye.'i.^, #ays, and Hours"
and a play "Standing in Line with
the Dleta Gammas". She 13 the
composer of "Dance Rhythm Music
Book" which won first prize at the
America Association of University Women State Convention in
1947.
She has Studied at the Chicago
Musical College, Detroit Institute
of Musical Art, Cortot School of
Music, Paris, France. Also, with
Jan Sickeskin of New York, and
with Percy Grainger.
Members are urged to atend this
meeting and bring guests.
Hostess will be Mrs. Ben Bosink
and the Tea Committee is Mrs. R.
K. Pinaire, Mrs. Donald Richardson, Mrs. Fred Gieble and Miss
Olive Evans.
New Pastor At
Congl Church."
Services at the Congregational
church will resume this Sunday.
Rev. Hugh J. Kennedy will preach
the first sermon \t his pastorate,
here at that time.  "
Rev. Kennedy formerly had a
charge in San Leandro, California,
but recently accepted the call to
the Clare" church.
Chuck Beltinck \.
Struck By
Ricochet Shot
Charles Beltinck, eight-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Beltinck
of Clare, was wounded by a .22
bullet that ricocheted off a rock
while he and his brother were tap*
get practicing Saturday afternoon,
The bullet inflicted a body woujM
and lodged below his chest,        *|
The accident occurred near the"
family's cottage at Five Lakes,    '.;
Charles was taken tc University
Hospital in Ann Arbor where hi|
condition on Tuesday was reported
very good. His parents were told
that he would be released to be
brought home- thi3 week-.
City"fhns
2nd New
Water Well
'Preliminary:-'discission* for yet
another water well.in- the city of*'
Clare, was hel<| at Monday night's
commission meeting, •
Following the meeting City Manager Willard Wedge was instructed to investigate possible east side
locations for the new well and get-
approval from the State of Michigan for any site proposed.
This additional well would be installed to relieve the low pressure
problem of householders and businesses on the East side oi tne
City,
Although city residents are still
getting rusty water occasionally,
Wedge points out that it is not
the fault of the recently installed
Water Well Number Three* but of
the mains that carry the water.
The water mains throughout the
city, he explains have a Coaling
of loose rust inside, from y* to %
inch thick.
Very often, -chunks of it break*
away and end up, via the wate*fi
system, in various sinks, bathtubs
and wash machines throughout the
city.
Wedge said this will probably go
on iii some degree until the tixst
wears'away under the; force of the
clean water/ now being ptisHfed*
through the pipes.
As soon' as the heavy lawn
sprinkling season is over, Wedge
said the city will drain the tank
and flush the water mains out, in
order to get rid of aa nitieh of the
rust as possible. Even this- will not
•take it all, he adds."
Water Well ISTumber Two, Which,
has always pumped rusty water,
still .comes into use occasionally,
because since the new Well started
pumping late this summer, Clare
residents have'been managing to-
do away with more than 700,000
gallons of water that the new well
pumps daily.
Complaints by water users about
unpleasant odors and discoloration
of Clare's Water (other than the
rusty condition) have, not "been
'brought to the attention of Wedge
and the Water Department people,
the Setninei was told. But at various locations On the city's west
side, residents have noticed a
cloudy, black quality in the water.
The condition comes and goes - at
times worse, and then toetter
again.,
Friday last week, the city was
entirely on Well Number Two, because of a break in a water main
from Well Number Three, at a
point under the railroad.
Farwell, ia in refidiness for the
Big Labor -Day Celebration and
With an assist irojp, the weatherman, it should he one of the biggest celebrations ever 'held in the
town,
A fujl day's activities have been
planned," starting at 8 o'clock in
the morning with the weigh-in for
ithe h-orsepulling contest, and ending with' the big fireworks display
at 10:30 in- the evening. Between
these two events has been sandwiched more fun and entertainment than has ever been put into
a one-day celebration at Farwell.
It Is one day of the year -when
Farwell plays host to all of the
home folks .who have called Far-
well, home h" the past, who live in
the surrounding areas and the
hundreds of summer residents 9>t
the lakes"that are in the area, who
have -found ,this .big celeferaJJjon
a fitting wind-up to the vacation
season.
Farwell Homecoming visitors
are.inyited to meet their old Auld
Lang- Syne, friends, on Sunday evening September 4" at the Farwell
Library for their annual visit and
Songfest, Also, .on Labor Day. air
ternoon, the.*iibrary wiil,be open to
provider a. place to .meet and visit,
or just 1-est and watch the -crowds.
'ih-iefly/here-is what you Can expect in Farwell next Monday. Following the weigh-in for. the horse-
pulling, contest,- there, will be a big
•parade. A long line of vehicles,
marchers, bands will be headed by
a color guard from the Sparta-
Esterline Post of the V.F.W. and
the Farwell High School Band.
Following the parade the horse-
pulling contest will be staged.
At 1-00 o'clock there .will toe a
sandlot baseball game between
Coleman and Clare and at 1:30 a
tug of war between Farwell and
Beal City* teams. • Following this
main event .will be a baseball
game between Rosebush and Far-
well and right after the ball game
a water battle between the Qare
and Farwell Fire Departments,
Starting at 9 o'clock there will
be a Variety Show, featuring the
"Spotlight On. Youth" group of
radio and television entertainers
which is made up of teenage and
younger groups. They have provided entertainment for some of the
larger celebrations and fairs
through Michigan, and have prov-
en^vej-y .entertaining. At 10;3Q the,
fireworks display will bring' this
big day to a close.
Asiusual, there will be a big
carnival and midway in the park,
Reservations •
Offered For
GOP Meeting
V w,. -■ E. B.owIer,\ Chairman of the
Cl£-,r'e.* County' Republican .Committee, Vhas. ben .named a member of
the Reservatipn-Committee for the
GOP- "FJor-ward tp "56." Conference
at -Mackinac Island September
17-18.' ... '.. ,..'.- :
-, Reservation ..blanks ' may. be obtained *by contacting W. E, Bowler
at, ClMe or .one of the following
who have been appointed to. help
With reservations -in this-.county:
Ben Ca**p,ent,er' Mrs, Lou Gee, Jot*
Grigware- James S. Bicknell, III.
Class Of '30
Rexinited
The Class of 1930 met at the
Clare High School Saturday, August 27, 1955, for their reunion and
picnic.
Eighteen members wore present,
and Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Bogan represented the teachers.
Those present from Clare, were
WUson Samborn, Leonard Stanley,
Leon Stanley, Otis Norton, Kenneth Hendrie, Lucille DesOrmeau
Brazie, and Ada Gillis Kinsel; Byron Gallagher, Ruth RasSat Joslin,
and John Methner," from Mt. Pleasant; Neenah Crigier Urquhart, of
Holt. .     .
Wilma Hochstetler Allen of Lansing, Frances Greer Gainey, of Saginaw; Homer Irwin, of Flint; Lois
Dawson Nugent, of Wyandotte;
James Nevill, of Midland; Hulda
Methner MacDonald, of Coleman,
and Glenwood Holmes of Toledo
Ohio.
County Red Cross Asks Funds to Aid Flood Victims
featuring nipre than, fifty attractions, and. including a- variety of
rides and entertainment for the
kids,        ...
Plan to spend the whole day in
Farwell and enjoy the fun and entertainment. Your friends will be
here too, and it will be a fine op**
portunity to renew acquaintances
and visit old friends.
Your Pups 'ud Be Barkin' Too
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He'd walk 1,700 miles to .get to Glare, Knbw hiin?
(See story in "Note Book") -
To Start Blacktopping On
Seventeen Blocks In City
Clare Group
Hosts Rotary
The Rotary Club of Clare on
Wednesday, August 31 was host
to Clare J. Hewens, Governor .of
the 220 District of Rotary International, who is making,his annual
.official, visit to, each of the .32
R»tary Clubs'ih -eastern; Michigan.
He addressed the Club and con-
feired with Preeident Martin Loomis, Secretary Lawrence W. Jackson
atid committee chairmen on Rotary
administration and service activities.
Mr. Hewens is publisher of The
Huron Co-unty . Tribune in Bad
Axe and Is a member of the Ro-
as president of the Bad Axe Rotary
tary Club of Bad Axe. He served
Club last year and increased its
membership '80 per cent. He is a
graduate of Michigan State Normal
College apd, Cleary College, both of
Ypsilanti. At present, he is jpresi-
dent of the- Bad Axe industrial Development Corporation.
He was elected District Governor of Rotary International for the
Golden Anniversary Convention in
1955-56 fiscal year at Rotary's
District Governors supervising the
Chicago last June. He is, one of 238
activities of some 8,700 Rotary
Clubs which have a membership bf
414,000 business and professional
executives ins92 countries and geo-
graphica Iregions throughout the
world.
Wherever Rotary Clubs are located, President Loomis asserted
in discussing the Governor's visit,
their activities are simliar to those
of the Rotary Club ot Clare because they are based on the same
general objectives - developing
better understanding and fellowship among business and professional men, promoting community
betterment undertakings, raising
the standards of business and professions, and fostering the advancement of good Will, understanding and peace among all the
people of the world.
Each year, this world-wide service organization continues to grow
in numbers and in strength. During
tary Clubs were organized in 50
the past fiscal year, 416 new Ro*
countries of North, South and Central America, "Europe, Asia", Africa
and the Islands of the Pacific.
Up- on Seventh and Cedar streets
a water main is being replaced
•and the water was shut off for
about four hours Tuesday, while
•the work was in progress, City
Manager Willard Wedge said.
Three blocks of water main are
going in on East Seventh, and one
block on Cedar. Part of this replaces wooden tubes that are 70
years old.
The mains were put in to increase water-pressure at the cemetery-and at the sewage disposal
FLOOD'S HAVOC . . . Disastrous Hood struck six northeast states costing 300 lives and two billion dollar loss in Connecticut and Massachusetts alone. Photo show» ruined main street of Winsted,
Oonn. >
The Clare County ,R-ed Cros
Chapter has been asigned a quota
of $200 for emergency relief of the
flood disaster Victims in five eastern state, Chapter Chairman J. W.
Grim, of Fatwell,. Said this week.
The quota was announced in -n
telegram received by the local
chapter from tlie .National Chair-
Mian E. Roliaud Hariman. Mr. Hari-
infth stated that this was the rock-
bottom figure, ahd urged the local
chapter to make every effort to
have the quota substantially oversubscribed.        • >
All organizations and service
clubs are asked tp make contributions to this fund, a"s well as individuals. Checks'-should be made
to the Olnre County Red Cross
Chapter, and sent to the Chapter
Secretary, Mrs. Harold Schaeffer,
Clare, Michigan.
It is of vital importance that
these funds be made available as
soon 'as possible, the local Red
Cross officers point out. The National organization has asked foi
a report by telegram by September 2nd, so it is important that
all organizations and individuals
who wish to contribute, make their
contributions as once.
Women
Golf ers Host
Big Rapids
The Clate Women Golfers entertained seyen women from the Big
Rapids Club on Tuesday, August
23. Low Net and Low Putts were
the "features" of play.
Mrs. Sammy Wakem'an of Big
Rapids had a low net of 37, and
Mrs. Freda Shepherd, had a score
of 17 for .low putts.        , .
Winners in the Clare group, in
the two divisions fOr low net
scores were Mrs. Ann Olson, with
a 35, and Mrs. Grace Frey with a
38; for low putts, Mrs. Jo Ander-
With a 15r and Mrs, Clara Titusj
with an 18. -
On, Wednesday, the Clare group
had their regular schedule home
play. This was a two ball foursome.
Winners Were Mrs. Rae Marie Mitchell and .Mrs. Clara Titus, with
37; Miss Joan Stough attd Mrs, Bea
Rosier, 39---**$*™**- Blanche Wright
and Mrs. iilae Baumgarth, 40»
The city of Clare has a whole flock of maintenance and
repair projects started and planned that will keep city
workers mighty busy during the early weeks of fall.
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Harrison News
2
Farwell News
2
Society News
3-6-7
Lake News
6
City Briefs
8
Sports News
9
Church News
10
Farm News
11
. Rosebush
13
Want Ads - Notices
14-15-16
. Comics
15
plant on the East side of the city.
Wedge said.:   ... *.■/•"'
"in cop-Junction ivith. this.VvalveS
wero installed , at various, points,
so that when work has tcV.be'done
on "the water system, .the water
can be turned off in-a small area,
rather than in a- whole section of.
the city.
Neixt week, the city -will start
a black-topping project. Seventeen blocks of city streets ar®
slated for surfacing, in .addition to the city parking lot at
the City,y^rfe,..Wedge .staid.,..,„.„
Streets blacktopped -will Include parts of   First,   Maple,
State,   Seventh,  Wheaton,   E.
Wheaton,, Court,   Cedar,; ana
Beaverton Road.
During the second week in Oc-.
tober,   contractors  will - start tho
tunnel under the railroad tracks,
where the new storm sewer .that is
to drain Fourth Street will be installed.
Wedge said the city Will haye all
the preliminary work for the job
dohe When the 'contractors" arrive.
Rosebush* Beaverton
Schools To Open Sept. 6
'Students and teachers returning
tc- Rosebush Agricultural School
Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock will
find changes made in the school
building and meet a new faculty
member.
An attractive room has been added on the. front of the building
by enclosing half of the porch.
This will serve as an office. The
library will then be used to meet
its expanding needs and to keep
school equipment shared by all
teachers and 4-H. Marie Evans is
the new faculty member. ^
Principal Mrs. Dorothy Lowery
has announced that children will
attend the first day only during
the morning, for enrollment, assignment to grades and distribution of text books.
Kindergarten children who have
enrolled will not come until Wednesday.
In general all kindergarten children south of the eastwest road of
.Rosebush and. all Keller. School
District kindergarten children
will come in the morning. Those
north of Rosebush and in Rosebush
will come in the afternoon.   ..
Parents are asked to pin name
tags on the Kindergarten child or
on a child new to our school. The
child's name, father's- name, and
the location of' their home from
the center of town will greatly assist the teachers and bus drivers
since the bus routes are being reorganized. •
Letters are*-being sent parents
of Kindergarten children explaining the details. All new registrants
for Kindergarten are to enroll
Tuesday morning at the Kindergarten 3 miles West of Rosebush.
Teachers for the coming year
are Blandid Murphy, Lola Fordyce
Geraldine Blodgett, Bernice Morrison, Ir us Eggleston, Marie Evans
Eileen Jacobs, Catherine Nelson,(
music; Dorothy V, Lowery, principal,
A sixth bus has been added this
year. Busses Will be driven by Asa
Andrews, Kenneth Halfman, Charles Marshall, Thomas Hamilton,
Carl Wurts and Nelson Calkins.
Custodian, Harold Lowery, will
Complete the cleaning, refinishing
and repairing ready fqr the opening of school,
The regular school day for students will be. from 9:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m.     : -
-' Milk Will foe supplied daily beginning Wednesday September 7
-foi? I8c*a Week. Parents are urged
to Make use of this seftt-ice.
The Beaverton Rural Agricultur-'
al School will open Tuesday Morning August 30 at 9:00 a.m. Superintendent Walter Hampton, has announced.
No great change is forseen in
the enrollment for the coming
year. It is expected approximately 850 students will be enrolled in
school.
A teachers Meeting will be held,
Monday forenoon, at 10:00 a.m. in
the high school. Teaching positions
for the coming year list Superintendent Walter Hampton; Principal Clarence Metzger; in the Elementary school Mrs. Harriet Martin is principle: In the junior High
Ylctor Snicker is principal.
' 'The fleet of foUs-seS" will take -the
saMe routes as'-Ehey had last year
with changes being Made as necessary after school opens,
Hot lunches will b.e served the
first day of school. There will be
no change in the cost of lunches
this year.
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Note Book |
Well, we Found out who got
the boys bike that Was given
away at the Clare county fair.
Larry Woodi, son of Mr. and
Mrt*. Jean Wo«*d, of R-l da-re
was the winner. Six year oldi
Larry was one escited youngster when his name was called
says his mother.
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A Maple Street family has a
nice idea in garage decoration-?.
They have plant racks -built up
the side of the garage holding
potted plants, which are blooMlng
with all their hearts. .They're visible only from the John R. Street
side of .the house. Splashed against
the dark finish of the garage,
they're a cheery touch.
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A man with a wheelbarrow
was walking along the highway on the outskirts of San
Antonio, Texas, Jafy 25, Hca«i^
ed as his sign said, for Clare,
Micbigan, He was spotted by
Pedro'Mata, oi Flint, in Texas "
on a trip and Mata took took
' the picture, on this page, hut
did .not get the man's name. A
week later, tbe wheelbarrow
pusher was 100 miles past Austin, Texas on his long- walk.
Now, the firsti of Stptember, ne
. shouia be. well on • "his. Way
here, ■   -.   *
if, -
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