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CLARE. MICHIGAN/THURSDAY    SEPTEMBER 6, 1956
T«a C»_ia Copy
N«w Series, Vol, 64, No, 51
Pioneers Search Material for Winning Combination
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As Football B-Conference Title Defense Nears
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If -another football miyacle happens at Clare High School this fall
, , , if Coach George Petty and the
squad, can come through with a
good season for the second time_m
two years after serious graduation
losses . . . the job will take genuine
'•masterminding" from coaches,
plus boys who can adapt to new positions and a .slightly changed style
of play.
'Tisn't easy to accomplish this
big miracle whert schedules allow
only a few days practice before a
tough opener. Can .the Pioneers do
it?
Perry sees plenty of rough spots
in squad performance which can't
be ironed out without lots more
work and polish. When he says the
season should be "interesting," he
is looking ahead to meetings with
rivals who will provide real tests
lor his conference* champs.
But the Green and White is preparing some gridiron surprises perhaps not expected from *a squad
which was four-fifths pruned away
last June.
Open-game possibilities are rich
with the halfback pair, Dick Roe
and Don Bay. Roe, a very elusive
runner also hits {-he mark well as
a passer and has been working out
at the left half spot. Bay runs
from the right half position and
throws left-handed. Here's .an option-play combination that is gat-
ting lots of Perry's attention. Veteran Bob Tubbs works out as a
Halfback on plays" with th© first-
string backfield.
A promising Fullback* prospect
is Ji niGilson, new on the squad
this' year.
A quartet of receivers have been
alternating at the ends. Dick Beery
saw much action last season and
as one of the few remaining lptter-
men has an inside corner at the
flank Position. Guy Hanekow,, Bernie Longstreth and John Miller, big
rangy boys up from the JV's can all
Handle the End assignment,
After the first week of pigskin
workouts the Quarterback job
seems likely to fall to Dave Moffitt, offensive signal-caller up f**m
a good season With the JV's last
year. Dick Roe is also doing some
work as quarter.
Floyd Davis is a new name
among.Fullback candidates, and he
has been showing up well along
with John Miller who may also see
action at the position.
Another newcomer on the varsity,
squad is sophomore Lanny Haring,
a big rough lineman with an eye on
a starting assignment. Tom-Garver,
a junior is another aspirant for a
job in the forward wall. Garver is
strong, and has experienc as a
member of last year's JV lineup.
Working out at Fullback, Garver
has also tried doubling at a
Tackle, Jim Nivison shared duties
as Center with Stanley last year,
and as a returning regular from the
1955 championship eleven, appears
to be favored to hold down the important pivot.
Roy Beltinck is a foremost contender for the Right Tackle job in
the line and gained plenty of experience as a JV regular last season. Charlie Murphy, another proven regular from JV competition, is
a strong prospect for a Tackle slot.
Letter winner Wayne Miller
along with Dan Bay at the Guards,
fill out the front line in early workouts.
Heavy dependence on boys who
were 1955's Junior Varsity stand-
$5,000 More
Pledged For
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S. C McArthur, M. D., made it
unanimous for the Clare medical
doctors in their support of the ef-
-forts■■'tot- -Central Miehig&ii■•-Community Hospital to raise $471,900
for expansion purposes. Fred W.
Turner, president Of the Hospital's
Board of Directors announced that
Dr. McArthur has subscribed $5000
to the campaign.
"The support of the Clare doctors has been outstanding," Turner
stated, "and It should set a fine
example for everyone in the hospital seiwice area".
DrY McArthur said, "Adequate
hospital facilities are a must for
our area's progress and physical
well being. We all should get on
the band wagon to provide these
lifesaving facilities for ourselves
and our families"
Previously announced gifts from
the Clare doctors were $5000 from
Dr. Kuno Hammerberg and $2500
from Dr. Donald Dunlop. Dr. Mc-
Arthur's gift of $5000 made a grand
total - of. $12,500 from the., Clare
medical doctors.
M, M. "Bud" Warden, Chairman
of the Area Division, stated that
many opportunities exist in this effort. "My goal is to have every
comiflftyiity establish a memorial
in the new wing. In establishing
such a memorial the people of
Clare could justifiably point with
pride in the future to their part in
this area-wide campaign."
Memorials In the new hospital
wing range from $1500 to $30,000;
"The elevator in the new wing
will cost $30,000," Warden stated,
"and I think that the citizens of
Clare county should set their sights
on this memorial."
Bronze plaques, suitably inscribed, will be premanently attached
to all the memorials chosen.
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Mrs. Olson
Wins Women's
Golf Handicap
Mrs. Ann Olson became this
year's handicap golf champion after defeating Mrs. Barbara Dunbar
in the play-off of the Clare Women's Golf Club tournament on
August 29.
Earlier in the tournament, Mrs.
Olson had beaten Mrs. Mae Baumgarth and Mrs. Dunbar had defeated Mrs. Adelaide Elden, to go into
the finals.  ■   " -
Mrs. Grace Frey edged out Mrs."
Jean Cradit and Mrs. Ruth Schroeder for the consolation prize.
The tournament started with Seven women competing..
At the regular Clare Women
Golfers meeting last; Wednesday,
the group played for the most
strokes under its individual best
garrics.
In a 4ie between Mrs. Jennie
Bowler arid Mrs, Olson, Mrs. Olson
■ was winner. Scven,^ women played,
and Mrs. Bea Lange was a guest.
Next week will be the monthly,
meeting. The trophy artd other
prizes for the recent tournament
events will be presented at that,
time",
Hole-In-1
For Mrs. Frey
Mrs. Grace Frey enjoyed a day ot
perfect golfers-luck Wednesday
when she made a hole-in-one while
playing the Twin J2irns **qurse.
Mrs. Frey wa? playing inuring the
regular Women's Golf dyy, and
made her "ace" on the fifthi hole, a
short uphill shot, 135 -yardi* from
■tee to cup, -which carries ^ three
strokes for par.
She Was playing* in the beginning
of a Women Golfers Round Robin
tournament with .Mrs. Blanche
Wright as her partner when she
made her lucky shot, using a driver. Her score for the nine holes was
52.
Mrs. Frcy's companions were almost as thrilled as she was by her
spectacular drive. And that was
very much thrilled indeed.
Church Schools
Begin After
Summer Recess
Following the summer recess,
regular church school in tnree
Clare churches will be resumed this
Sunday, September 9.
Methodist Sunday school will be
at 10:45 a.m, and it will be Promotion Sunday, when pupils will be
advanced a. grade throughout the
Sunday school.
Parents will come with their
children to the 10 a.m. church service and at 10:30 tbe youngsters will
be dismissed to go to their class
rooms. During church service, new
Bibles will be presented to all third
grade pupils. Pastor Leslie J. Nevins will conduct the presentation
service.
The Methodist choir resumed rehearsals this week, and will present an anthem during the church
service. ,
Congregational church school will
begin at 9:45 .am. Sunday, Mrs.
William Seitz has announced.
Morning worship will be at 11
a.m. Pastor Hugh Kennedy will
speak on the subject, "The Stereotype of Religion and Art".
The Sunday School of St. John's
Lutheran Church will resume
classes this Sunday, September 9.
Opening exercises will be held at
9:15 A.M. in the church auditorium,
after which the children will be assigned to their respective classes.
The Adult Bible Class, conducted
during the same hour of Sunday
School, will begin three weeks
later, on September 30.
One Clash
Mats Quiet
Traffic Week
An estimated total of $500 damage *vvas done to twp cars Wednesday noon when they collided at the
intersection of Fifth and Pine
Streets, according to Clare police*
Jarhcs Rodabaugh, 17, of Clare,,
was going south on Pine Street,
and pulled into the, path of. D. B.
Davis, 31, of Hopewell, New Jersey,
going east on Fifth Street, police
reports said. *
Da-mage to the right front of the
Rodabaugh car was  estimated at
$300 and to the left front bf the
other vehicle at $200,
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cuts is evident with only six placers returning from last season's
team qf varsity chansons. Depth
on the bench which furnished top
talent relief for the starting lineup
in last year's games may be somewhat thinner in this season's edition of the Pioneer team,
But the record rolled up by the
1955 "Little Pioneers" • included
some impressive wins over heavier
teams such as Alma —-loser by 7-0
margin, and Gladwin -*- which fell
12-7 in their only loss, and St. Louis
— beaten 40-12. Playefrs in this
winning outfit, are the ones now
rounding out the new Green and
White roster.
Besides the individual gridders
mentioned, other first-class material from JV's include Pat Crawford and Jim Rodabaugh who were
outstanding performers, and rrjany*
others. *     '    '".'    '
There is no easy start on the;
Pioneer*".' schedule — no'warm-up j
games against an easy, team, to test
plays and players. Big Rapids is
the non-league - opponent-■in."--.*the-'
opener to be played on the 01are
field September 14.. Clare will go
to Saginaw September 21 for a con--
test against Michigan Lutheran!
Seminary befpre returning home
again to begin the defense of the
conference title against Chesaning1
on September 28, '-.' >
Home town fans can get a look at'
the team in action Friday'evening, •
September 7 when they scrimmage •
for practice against boys frqrr**. Tra-
verse City St. Francis school. The,
practice is'to be called at*7:30 p.*m.?
on the school field. ■
Strange Gains In
First Recounting
Recount of votes, for Preston
Johnson and Russell Strange Jr.
in the recent primary- election in
the race for Clare-Isabella Representative, began Wednesday in
Clare county precincts, and was
reported, progressing slowly late
that day.
With two precincts counted by
late afternoon", results showed that
Johnson had lost five votes and
Strange had gained six votes, according to Clare County Clerk William Henderson.
The recounting was expected to
continue until Thursday noon, and
possibly later, Henderson said that
a very small percentage of the ballots was found spoiled.
Attorneys for both candidates
were present at the recount, held in
Harrison.
llth Isabella
Fair Called
ig buccess
The Isabella County Fair, held
August 21-25, wa» called "highly
successful from', every viewpoint"
by B. C. Mellencamp, Isabella agricultural agent.
The Fair's Weathe>lUck -till held,
and conditions we're as favorable
during that week as any week in
August, Mellencamp commented.
For 11 year**, ho- program has been
cancelled due tp bad Weather.
Financially, it now appears that
the Isabella Fair will show a profit of from $1500 , to $2000. The
$1500 note foe the Fair's contribution to the -new auto building has
been paid in full..
Slightly over $800 more income
Was made on the midway, grandstand and auto parking than in
1955." Receipts for the big Saturday
program featuring the Gene Holter
Animal Show were the second highest for one day since the fair started in 1946.
Mellencamp said all premiums
will be paid as fast 'as they can be
processed, but it will take close to
a month before all can be paid.
Saginaw
Fair Still
Shows Horses
The annual Saginaw Fair, long
recognized throughout the midwest
as one of the leading centers for
championship horse shows, promises to live up to that reputation
again this year as the home /of
some of horsedom's most highly coveted blue ribbon awards.
Leo Dorr, Superintendent of the
Draft Horse Departemnt, is proud
to point out that the 1956 Saginaw
Fair, September 9-15, is one of but
a. mere handful of Fairs' in Ameri*
ca still maintaining a. department
for the showing and judging of
Draft Horses. These massive, muscular beasts of burden, once a
trademark on every .farm, are today
rapidly disappearing from the American agricultural scene, vanquished by the mechanical horSe-power
of the farm tractors.
"The tractor may be replacing
the draft horse", Mr. Dorr stated,
"but the manufacturers haven't
built the tractor yet that can match
the living beauty of a matched
team of .these hard-pulling animals
in harness."
Mr. Dorr, who is serving as acting President of the Saginaw Agricultural Society, sponsoring body
behind the annual Saginaw Fair,
■announced that this year's premiums in the Draft Horse Department amount.to $3,070.00, and that
entries are already running ahead
of those received last year at this
time.
Judging will be divided into four*
classes, including Belgians, Perch-
erons, Grade Draft Horses, and
Draft 'Teams in' Harness. Judging
of Draft Horses "will be held Thursday, September 13th.
Clip Wings
Of Fly-Boy
Thrill Pilot
The pilot of a small private air*
plane, flying so low over the shoreline • of tLake Thirteen that he waS
reported clipping tree tops, was arrested Sunday by Clare Police as-'
sisting State Police.
Lake Thirteen residents, worried
by the low flying plane, called
Michigan State police at Mt. Pleas--
ant, who sent out two cars, and
alerted Clare Police.
When Ford Dale Frizzell, 3-7, of
1718 Burlingame S.W., Grand Rapids, landed his yellow and red
Aeronca at Clare airport, local po?
lice were waiting for him, and held,
him until State troopers came and!
served him a summons.     *
Frizzell appeared in Clare Municipal Court Tuesday, before -Justice?
William Dunlop,    »■*-   - '     •'*"*       ;*
He was fined $50 for reckless
flying and another $10 for failure to
have his registration in the plane-
ahd also paid $8.60 court costs.
Richard Garthe
Graduated
From MSU
Richard Garthe, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. C. Garthe completed his
studies at the Michigan* State University on August 22nd, at the end
of the summer term, receiving a B.
S. Degree in the department of
Light Construction and Lumber
Mechandising.
At the same time he recived his
commission in the ROTC, as 2nd
Lieutenant, and will go to Fort
Sill Oklahoma on March 25.
Dick arrived in Clare last week,
and is employed at the Seiter
Brothers Lumber Company, Mrs.
Garthe (Connie Seiter) who has
been employed as Secretary to the
Department of Chemical Engineering at the University, completed
her work there, arriving in Clare
Friday.
The Garthes are residing at 20G
West Seventh Street in the Chapman apartment.
Brinton Man
Found Dead
Ralph S. Beck, 48, a former Brinton resident, was found dead September 3, on the farm near Vef-
montville in Eaton county where he
had been employed.
He was discovered by his cousin,
who owned the farm. The Eaton
county coroner set the time; of
his death on September 2.
Funeral services will be today,
September 6, at 2 p.m. from Brinton Community Hall, C. Hiram
Gates officiating; and burial will be
in North Brinton cemetery. Mr.
Beck will be at the Coker Funeral
Home until noon Thursday.
Mr. Beck was born and raised at
Brinton. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beck, of
Farwell; two brothers,.William, of
Brinton, and Harley of Farwell;
and three sisters, "Mrs. Hazel Carson, of Livonia; Mrs, .N6da'Seidell
of Oregon; and Mrs. Qrace Seymour of Farwell.    .
Announce Surplus
Commodity Pick-Up
Dates for Surplus Commodity
pick-up have been announced by the,
Clare county Social Welfare department for next week.   .
In Harrison, it will be at First's**'
Grocery, on September 10, ll and
12. ':
In Farwell, it will be at Coker
Grocery on September 11, 12, and
Only Six - Lands Biggest Catch!
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Bonnie Jean Worden, aged six years, was too young io;
go out in a boat with her older sisters but she Jished off-
the dock and made the biggest catch of all one day last'
week when she landed a 15-inch, pound-and-one-half bass.
Bonnie and her sisters, Pat and Eileen were visiting their,
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Worden. of Brush College, and were invited to fish for a day at Bailey Lake by
Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Freeman.
Equipped with a five-foot poplar stick and a blue gill
hook, Bonnie had to remain when the boat set out. She look
' her station on the dock, and started fishing.
When the bass took her line, it was touch and go, jiisl
who was catching who. Mrs. Freeman came io Bonnie's
assistance though, and the big fish came out of the wafer
to stay.
The little champion angler is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William Worden, of Grand Ledge.
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Study Club Exchanges
Histories Of Keepsakes
"Silver Bells, Cockle Shells and
•SQUYeiJirSj^AU.in a, Row" was the
theme for the September meeting of
the Clare Study Club Tuesday evening. .
Members and guests arrived at
the Methodist Church parlors,
bringing keepsakes, souvenirs, relics, Jots of glassware and china,
d6Jls, old spectacles, civil war relic's', bedspreads and other articles.
Mrs. Walter Eroh, in charge, of
the program, called on each one
to tell of her own exhibit.
The business meeting was conducted by the president, Mrs. Neil
Stirling. She read "The Lord's
Prayer" by Leo Orso. Because of
the old time program, she called
for the reading of the minutes of
the September 1940 meeting,
which included a baby show, at the
meeting.
An invitation was read to attend
the Art Exhibit at the Hotel Doherty, Sunday September 9.
Miss Lucille Becker and her
mother Mrs. Louis Becker were
guests. Lucille, sponsored by the
Study Club, attended the Inter-
lochen Music Camp this summer.
She told of her experiences at the
camp and expressed thanks to the
club for the privilege given her.
Mrs. G. C. Born was the hostess
for the evening, -and the tea committee we're Mrs. Donald Richardson, Mrs. Robert Pinaire, Mrs. Clayton Neff and Mrs. Hugh Kennedy.
" The next meeting will be October
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of-county  and   out-of-state people.
Mrs. Emery Bonham, of Half
Moon lake, Clare county, passed
away at Branch Community Hospital, Coldwater, on September 4,
after a short illness. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m? Saturday from
Coker's Funeral Home, with C.
Hiram Gates officiating. Burial will
be in Surrey cemetery,
2, .and will be held at the Clare
City Hall, the members to receive
instruction*- in thg use" of the new
voting machines*
14 County
Rural Schools
Opened
Fourten rural schools, staffed by
•twenty-two teachers opened September 4, throughout Clare county, according to. Lenord Schwanz,
county superintendent of schools.
A meeting of Clare county rural
teachers was Held at the Harrison
Community school Friday, August
Rural schools in Clare county
and their teachers are Franklin No.
1, Mrs. Bessie Beem, Mrs. Ellen
Sharp, and Wayne Kelly; Frost No.
2, Mrs. Elsie McGregor and Mrs.
Ellen Graham; Garfield No. 6, Mrs.
Margaret Miekle, Mrs, Pansy Coon,
Mrs. Joyce Geasler and Mrs. Margaret Hoffmeyer;
Grant No. 1 Fri., Mrs. Freda Kistler; Grast NO, 5, Mrs. Flora Walters; Greenwood No. 3, Mrs. Pearl
Brady; Hamilton No. 4, Mrs. Eva
Malesworth; Hatton No. 2, Fri., Mrs.
Eva Bender; „
Hatton No. 3, Mrs. Oranlea Baker;
Redding No, 4, Mrs. Hazel Anderv
son and Mrs. Beryl Beaudry; Sheridan No. 1, Mrs. Ina Davison; Sheridan No. 4, Mrs. Bernice Miller;
Summerfield No. 3, Mrs. Marie Bailey; Winterfield No, 1, Mrs. Florence Richardson and Mrs. Ruth Mc-
Cannan.
Delegates
Named For
K" Conclave
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The Kiwanis Club of Clare will
be represented at the 1956. convention of the Michigan Kiwanis District at Detroit,. September 16-19,
Club President Robert H. Campbell
announced today. The Metropolitan
Council of Detroit Kiwanis clubs
will act as hosts for the mid-September meeting.
1 Local delegates to the convention
will be Joe Grigware, Art Chandanais, Ken Ritter, Gene Campbell
and Robert H. Campbell.
Delegates from 162 clubs, representing a total membership of
nearly 10,000 business and professional leaders, will participate in
the various sessions. Committee
conferences, a discussion of plans
for the coming year, and the election of offifcers Will highlight the
convention program, Robert H.
Campbell said.
The presiding officer at the
three-day session will be Aldrich
C.-Locke, Governor of the Michigan
District and operator of a department store irt FentOn, Michigan.
SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE .. ,
Classrooms Can1! Hold
Clare Public School rooms bulged
more than a little at the seajns yesterday as a recor<j enrollment Of
students • returned to classes after
the summer vacation and strained
every facility for class space and
teacher-students ratio. 628 elementary grade students - (K through 8)
crowded into the building at Clare,
and 257 more were at first-day
classes in rural schools which have
annexed and are now part of the
system. Elementary Principal Allan
Tulk counted the total of 885 altogether.      '
The enrollment at Clare was
twenty studepts more than had
been excepted after pre-school tallies indicated that just 608 would
enroll.  -■ . ■
High School grades were filled
.With, numbers at the approximate
level as early estimates indicated
A slight drop in enrollment to 345
in. the upper four grades was the
reverse of recent trends but High
School Principal William Harper
said that some -gains might' be expected with late arrivals at school
all this week.        :
Transfers of a few upper-classmen in .families whose ninth graders are obligated to attend schools
elsewhere explains the loss of students, Harper said. He had been
told that such families wanted to
keep brothers and. sisters together
in one school wherever they might
be.
At St. Cecilia's Catholic school in
Clare classes also started Wednesday with 132 enrolled in grades 1
through 8. At the school, the Sentinel was told that this number
fills aU classroom space and there
is a probability that the "school is
crowded to capacity.
A Fifth grade room at the public
school was the most severely overcrowded with 49 youngsters trying
Gas Company
Sale Asked
The new American Louisiana
Pipe Line from southern Louisiana
to Detroit is in full operation and is
delivering 200 million cubic feet of
natural gas a day to the Michigan
Consolidated Gas Company, it was
announced today,
At the same time Michigan Consolidated filed a petition with the
Michigan Public Service Commission requesting authority to resume unrestricted sales of gas to
industries which desire to purchase
gas on an interruptible basis. In its
petition the Company pointed out
that it is now able to supply its customers with all the gas they desire
for home heating and other uses.
Interruptible gas is sold with the
understanding that it may be discontinued if the gas is required by
other firm customers. Those who
purchase interruptible gas must be
able to switch to other fuels.
In its petition Michigan Consolidated pointed out that on August 3
the MPSC had authorized the Company to sell interruptible gas to 27
industries which had been receiving service under this schedule on
October 19, 1953. The Company
stated that it has contracts with 38
other firms which desire to purchase interruptible gas.
Local Women
At GOP Meeting
In Chicago
Mrs. Harold Schaeffer and Mrs.
Erma Byers left Wednesday this
Week by plane froni, the Tri-City
Airport for Chicago,, Illinois, to attend the National Federation of Re*
publican Women with headquarters
at the Conrad-Hilton Hotel, and
will return, home late Friday,
* They also were among the Glare
County delegation to attend the
State Republican Convention at
Grand Rapids last weelc Others attending were O. D. Bayes, Kenneth
Ritter, Harold Hughes, lUissell
Strange, Joe Grlgwarei and Mr. and
Mrs. June Rose. •
Cobo Visit
Starts G.d.1?.
Activity
O. D. Bayes, Clare County GOP
Chairman reminded the public today that Albert E. Cobo will be-at
Doherty hotel for a "coffee hour"
this afternoon, and everybody is incited to meet and shake hands With
the Republican candidate for State'
Governor, Cobo makes an appearance in Mt. Pleasant for lunch and
will stop in Clare later as he begin-1 his afternoon campaign swing,
through the lower peninsula,
to fit into 46 "seats. Mrs, Ethel
Marshall, the teacher said that
about thirty children would make
an ideal number, considering the
room's ' size and recommended
teacher  "load." "     (
In the Kindergarten, Mrs. Leota
VanEvery is again teaching in student-groups of half days. About 95
beginners are enrolled, slie' said,
but an official count after late enrollments ar ecomplete may briiig
this number close to 100.
Try Break-In
At Bicknell
Residence
An attempted break-in during the
early morning hours Wednesday at
the home of Mrs. Alberta Bicknell
was nipped by her prompt call to
police, but not until she had been
/severely frightened by the noisy intruder and damage had been done
to a door at her residence.
Clare police are holding Harry
Gustin, 53, of 127 S. McEwan for
questioning in the disturbance.
Mrs, Bicknell said she was awakened at about 3 a.m. Wednesday
when- she heard noise and loud conversation outside her house. She
heard phrases indicating a break-in
was being attempted, and could
hear her door being forced.
Unable to open the first door
tried, the intruder went' to Mrs.
Bicknell's garage and flung open an
overhead car door, and then returned to the house where still another door was tried. This time an
aluminum screen door was badly
damaged in the forcing attempt
and the house door itself was strained under pressure from outside.
In the meantime, Mrs. Bicknell
had telephoned for pplice, hut becoming more frightened as the
door-forcing "efforts continued, she
slipped out her front entrance and
ran to the Doherty hotel, a half-
block away. There she met Clare
EnUce Qfficeir Jim Davis-Who, returned with Chief Bilr'Cook- aiid
arrested the suspect. Stuart- Bicknell, who had beeh called,"came to
the* hotel and topk'his mother with
him to spend the rest of the night
at his home.
Gustin is on Clare police records
with a drunk and disorderly arrest-
last April. Officers are trying to
find out the identity of another person thought to be an accomplice.
Annual
Art Show
Sunday
The Fourth Annual Exhibit of the
Clare Art Group will be held this
Sunday from noon to 5 p.m< at the
Hotel Doherty.
About fifty pieces; all oil paintings by local painters, will be
shown. The exhibit will be somewhat smaller than last year, but
the quality is expected to be better, Mr's. Virginia Seitz, director of
the show said.
Mrs. Grace McArthur, who won
previous recognition for her work
in the primitive style, will have
some work on display. About 300 visitors saw last year's exhibit, and
many of the pieces were sold.
On Inside Pages   j
A whole list of Clare organiza
tions begin meetings after the summer recess this coming week. See
page 5 for Bulletin Board.
Harrison   flower   growers   took
their prize blooms to the annual
Flower Show there, and took home .
ribbons in many divisions. Story dh
page 2.
Sporting guns, confiscated by the
Michigan Conservation Department
will go on sale at Gaylord on September 21. Complete details on page
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140   old   friends   from   Farwell'
school days gathered for a big dinner and a good yislt at the 37th
annual  Auld Lang ,Syne banquet
Sunday evening, story on page 7-
Mrs. Lee Sickal. and daughter
Gloria, wife and daughter of the
Clare Church of God pastor, attended a International Youth Conference at Springfield, Illinois, last
week, where 3,000 young people
from all over the world, gathered
to hear outstanding speakers on
"One Lord, Ohe Faith." See page
'13. .-.' '-Y
.> County Agent Paul Gibson reminds wheat growers to check Hessian Fly-Free dates before fall
planting. Story on page S.
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