1957-03-14; Clare Sentinel

              */
.if-If.
'*'   (
Established 1878
$2,50 Y«ar in Clare. Isabella Counties
CLARE. MlCHIGAN,;,f«0»Sp-VY   MARCH 14, 1957
Ten Cents Copy
New Series, Vol. 65, No. 28
New Rosebush Industry
To Process. Hay For Feed
A new industry at KoSebush will manufacture Alfalfa
Metal for poultry and, livestock feeding in a $125,000 plant
there according to an armouncetnent this week by Ray D.
Amburn who heads the company formed of area  business
men.
'The company, to be known as the, Evergreen Dehydrating Company has purchased plant equipment and expects to
be operating by next June First.
The Alfalfa Meal product of the
new company, a "carrier" "for
molasses in livestock feed pellets
is described as high in vitamin
A and D.
Latest special equipment for the
plant will have a SYz ton-per-hour
capacity for dehydrating Alfalfa
hay. The company says that three
thousand acres of the leafy feed
will keep the process in. operation
through a season.
Leo Gatehouse has been named
in charge of field operations for
the Evergreen company. Volume of
purchases will put $100,000 per
year in the pockets of area, farmer's for Alfalfa which the company
will need.
***■• Field operations include the cutting of the hay, and transportation
to the plant in Rosebush. Probable,
plant location is near the Rosebush Elevator Company.
In an advertisement in this issue of The Clare Sentinel, Evergreen Dehydrating Company sets
Thursday evening (tonight) as the
date for a meeting to discuss details of the purchase contracts
with area farmers, The time is 8
o'clock p.m. at the Rosebush
school. Dave Dawson of the United States Soil Conservation Service will speak.
Gold Cup
Awarded To
Seek Central
Michigan
Queen
The area's most talented and
beautiful girls are once again being invited to enter the second annual Miss Central Michigan Page*1
ant to Be hold in Mt. Plea,*r„nt, Saturday, May 25, in Central Mlchigdh
College Field House. The pageant
held for the purpose of selecting
a Miss Central Michigan to represent the area in the state Contest
and national Miss America contest,
the latter if the state contest and
title is won by Miss Central Michigan.
Last year, this area was represented by Alice Walter, who tooR
her place with other lovely girf§*
in the pageant parade and socia)
events honoring the group, as well
as in the pageant itself. Winner
of last year's crown was MisF
Meredith White, co-ed from Central Michigan College. She wae
crowned by Miss Sharon Kay Ritchie, last year's Miss America.
This year, MiSs Marian Mc-
Knight, of Manning, South Carolina, who received the crown and
title of Miss America, last September, will be present to participate
in events. Also planning to attend
is Miss Michigan as well as MisS
Central Michigan.
Entry blanks for the contest map
be obtained from Allan Ott, at Citizen's State Bank, who is secretary
of the Clare Chamber of Commerce. 'I
Four-Year-Old
Dies Following
Heart Seizure
Teddy J. Wixsou, little grandson
' of Mr, and Mrs. Ed Wixson of
Lake, died suddenly Sunday March
10, following a heart attack. He
would have been four years old in
June.
Teddy had been playing outdoors
at the Wixson's and had just gone
in the house to get warm when he
was stricken. He had a heart condition from birth, and over a year
ago, had undergone surgery for it
'  at Ann Arbor.
He   made   his   home   with   his
grandparents,  the Wixsons.
< Funeral   services   for   the  little
boy were held Wednesday from, the
Gilmore Church of Christ. Coker
■f. Funeral Home, of Farwell, was in
charge of arrangements. Burial
was in Gilmore cemetery.
Besides his grandparents, Teddy
is survived by his mother Mrs,
Arthur Ferguson, a twin brother,
and a little half-sister.
Bamhart
Home Lost
In Fire
The home of the Keith Barnhart
family on Dunlop Road, % mil<|
"West of Clare, burned Tuesday afternoon for &. total loss.
Clare Fire Chief Stan Parish
said the cause of the fire Was tin-
known.
No one was at home when the
fire Avas discovered, and the alarjto
•was turned iu hy a passerby.
By Mary Tice
Of "the Pioneer Staff
Speech students rit the Clare
High -School bested, students from
four other schools in the Mid-
Michigan "B'' Conference to win
the gold cup at the annual District
Speech Contest, held at , Clare
March 12.
The trophy was presented by the
judges of the event, Dr. Elbert
Bowen and Dr. Emil Pfister, from
Central Michigan College,
Clare boasted two first place
winners. Lydabelle Bieknell won a
first in the Interpretative Reading
contest with "Magic Night"- 'by
Rosemary Howland.
Hal Makin took first in the Extempore contest with his subject
"Does Russia's Move to Have Access to the Mediterranean Indicate a Liklihood that Syria and
Egypt May Find Themselves Russian Satelites?" u
Shirley Moore won a second
place with her declamation "In
Defense of Our Generation'' by
Elizabeth Evans. Receiving third
ratings were Vernette Dunkle, who
gave "The Highwayman" in the
Interpretative Reading contest and
Mary Tice, who presented her oration on segregation, "The Dawn of
a Golden Tomorrow."
First place winner in the Humorous contest was Clifford Drex-
ier.of Chesanintr -»-hn guv* "Green
Pastures." Diane . GOwer of ' Durand won first place in the declamation contest, reciting "Little
Men," In the oratory contest first
place went to Gwen Johnson of-
Ithaca, whose oration was "Honesty — The Best Policy?"
Other Clare participants were
Bill Wilson II, Ann Jackson, Arlene Hogue, Roger Walter and Kay
Loomis.
Mrs. Louisa Bowler, Clare dramatics coach and organizer of the
district contest, reported that besides 42 participants and their 10
coaches there were 75 visitors. All
Clare student, had a chance tc
attend.
First place winners will go to
the Regional contest at Resurrection High. School in Lansing
sometime before April 23.
Department
Deputy Is
Rotary Talk
Dale Bell, deputy director of the
Michigan Department of Agriculture was speaker Wednesday noon
at the weekly Clare Rotary Club
luncheon.
He filled an engagement planned
by Director George S. Mclntyre.
of that department. It was announced last week that Mr. Mc-
Intyi'e would be here but he was
Unable to come.
Mental Health
Office At
Bay City
The Michigan Society for Mental Health, a Michigan United
Fund agency, announces the opening of the Society's first outstate
regional office at 836 Frank Street,
Bay City, Michigan. ■'
Harold G. Webster, executive"
directof of the Society, reports
that Ronald B, Sage, field
consultant with the Society for the
past year and a half, has bees
named to serve the new Bay City
regional office. He will work in
the counties - of Arenac, Gladwin,
Clare, Isabella, Midland, Gratiot,
Saginaw, TuScola, Huron, and Bay.
The expansion of the Michigan
Society for Mental Health, according to Mr. Webster, is an effort to
bring services and programming
closer to communities with growing interest in mental health and
the treatment of mental diseases*
Mr, Sage will be available to
help community, leaders and public officials who want io become
better acquainted -With hospital and
clinical services for children and
adults suffering- with mental disorder,.
Quite
A Haul
Clarfc Police Chief William Cook survey-''"in array of auto parts and
accessories recovered by local police when.a group of teen-agers were
questioned during an investigation of auto stripping and" looting complaints
in Clare. *
Chief Cook holds two long-bladed, knives and a homemade blackjack
confiscated from ihe youngsters. Lee Sowle Photo
Two-Floor Addition
For Clare Hospital
Clare General Hospital will soon
begin construction of a new addition to add a two-story 70x80-ft,
wing on the present building Ro'd-
ney M. LeSage, administrator saW
Tuesday. It will be the fourth enlargement of the hospital building
since 1951.
Larger than any of the previous
additions, the planned space is tq
be used for a new obstetrical and
-nursery department and a full new
pediatrics department with isolation facilities. There will be new
Urge Polio Shots For All
Clare High School Students
Dr. L. Sweet of the Tri-County
Health Department met with the
Clare High School class groups
on March 7, to discuss the advantages of polio shots.
With him he brought a movie
showing the manufacturing of the
vaccine in process.
The idea of giving polio shots
to high school students originated,
in the Clare Student Council.
Arrangements were made, and
the manufacturers agreed to sell
the school the polio vaccine at the
same price as the Health Department; $1.00 per shot. If the students were to get these shots elsewhere, they would cost anywhere
from $3.00 to $5.00 per shot.
Besides the saving of a few dollars, it's important that the students start getting their shots immediately, Dr. Sweet pointed out
The first of the polio season really
begins in March and reaches its
peaks in July, August and September.
Also speaking about the polio
shots were Mrs. Kathryn Freeman.}
Clare County Nurse; Richard
Beery, senior representative of the
student council; and Jack Bader,
junior member of the council.
The point was brought out that
while it' takes only five or six
minutes to get these shots, and it
might take a lifetime to recover
from polio" if attacked by it.
The first of the series of shots;
Thirteen Boy Scouts earned
credit for a winter camping
trip March 2 and "3, at Camp
Rotary. The boys passed track-
ting, compass and hiking tests,
and some cooklhg tests under
the leadership of Ray Han-
chett, port Hemstreet, John
Shayler, Jack Lansing, David
Grimason, Bill Hanohett, Keith
Jackspn, Dick Harrell, Larry
t Williams, Lester KrUg, Jim Al-
leo, Skip Breen, Larry McQuiston and Bob Williams took
part. .   ■ "
» » »
Tuesday, March 19, is the date
set for "Modern Moods in Music'',
this year's Clare High School Concert'Band presentation, Clare High
Schodl auditorium at 8 p.m. is the
place and time,
* * *
Girl Scout- are observing
their week,' ahd Clare Girl
Scout Troops sire ' displaying
some of their handiwork done
toward -arning' badges, in the
Glare store windows this we_l<.
will be given on March 21, to those
students with their parents' permission. If students want the shots
but cannot afford them, there is
a special fund set up to pay for
their shots.
The second shots will be given
in April. The third will be given
six months after the second shot.
If it is not possible for the graduating seniors to get back to the
school for their third shot, they
will be permitted to get the shot
from the doctors in Clare or the
Health Board for the same price
as the first two.
Business
Women Hear
Tax Expert
The Clare Business and Professional Womens Club held their
March meeting Monday evening in
the 5th Avenue room at the Hotel
Doherty. A dinner ■ as served at
7:00 p.m,
Mrs. Gerald Kempher, president
of the club, introduced Mr. Gray
of the Internal Revenue office at
Mt. Pleasant as the speaker for the
evening.
Mr. Gray spoke on 'Income Tax'
giving many helpful suggestions.
This was followed by a question
and answer session, which brought
out various phases of tax problems, how to clasify and-file.
Twenty-two. members and guests
were in attendance. The April activities of the club wiil include a
card party to follow their dinner
meeting April 8, which is to be
held at the Hotel at 7:00 p.m.
major and minor surgery rooms,
a receiving room, new dietary department with dining rooms fo**
staff and physicians, a medical records library, new and larger clinical laboratory with complete facilities.
In addition, the new building is
*j expected to provide a gain of about
ten hospital beds.
The new addition will cost about
$100'000. Mrs. LeSage said.
v. Form'er expansion programs,
since 1951 have provided space foi*
the hospital's growing laboratory..
X-ray,! and out-patient services be-'
sides increasing the number oi
beds. From a 23-bed institution in
1951, the growth of the hospital
has brought it to a present rating
of 38 beds, 5 bassinets aud 2 incubators.
Clare General Hospital serves n
central Michigan area of some '-0-
mile radius extending from Midland to Evart, and from Houghton
Lake to Shepherd. It is favorably
known for modern facilities in the
departments of surgery, interna}
medicine, obstetricjs and other
special departments in profession,
al diagnosis and treatment,
Capital for financing the addition has been raised by service
charges paid by individual staf*i
physicians. Assessments w e n
made accordng to the number of
patients each doctor entered in the
hospital. In addition, each physician is making a loan to the hospital.
Clare-Colon
Mayors Paired
In Exchange
In the drawing for Exchange of
Mayors, annual feature of Michigan
Week, set this year 'for May 19-25,
Clare Was paired with Colon,
Michigan, a I'.OOO population town
in St. Joseph County.
Formal invitations must be extended from -each town to the mayor
of the other "before the exchange
takes place. May 10 is the day set
for the exchange.
Elsewhere in this area, Gladwin
was paired with Chelsea, .Coleman
with Blissfield, Farwell with.Web*
berville, and Harrison with Mason
in the drawing.
Last year Mayor Laurenee Seiter
was    chief»executive-for-a-day    of
Iron Mountain, and the Mayor -of
tl\at Upper   Peninsula .city   took
lover in Clave for the day.
I  On Inside Pages   j
The law of supply and demand
is not functioning in Michigan's
tourist industry and park visitors,
are overflowing available park
space. Story page 16.
A Rebekah Assembly Warden Ad-
sited the Gold Leaf Rebekahs at
Farwell last week, Detals page 9.
Some talented young musicians
from the Children's Bible Hour wilj
be the star attraction at Dover
Church Sunday evening, page 10.
Clare County Agent Paul Gibson
describes the land eligible for soil
bank aid on page 11.
° The Kleiner twins, Ernest and
Henry, were guests of honor when
the family gathered to observe
their birthday last week. Page 12.
The hunting season human death
toll was the lowest since 1931 last
fall. Story page 13.
Clare Masonic Lodge and OES
Chapter members held a joint
meeting to take a look at building
fund progress Monday night. Page
5.
Priscila Silva, Cuban exchange
student, gave a Verbal picture of
her homeland at the Rosebush
PTA last Thursday evening. Story
page „. I
Harrison 'Girl Scouts Started off
Scout Week at a potluck supper
last Friday evening, page 2.
Dr. Irwin Sweet, district health
director, will give a talk on safety
at the Lake PTA Friday evening.
Page 3
Harrison News
2
Lake News
3
Rosebush News
4
Society News
5-7
City  Briefs
7
Farwell News
9
■Church News
10
Fftrni News
Sports Ne-ws
11
13
Want Ads - Notices
14-15
Comics
15
Seven Candidates File
For Commission Seats;
or Seiter Is In Race
Seven petitions were filed with
City Clerk David Adams by the
March 12 deadline for the coming
April 1 election race for three
seats open on the Clare City Commission.
Latest candidates to enter the
lists are:
William J. Cleveland, a newcomer to city politics;
Hiram Grimason, a retired member of the Michigan State Police,
and former commander of the
Houghton Lake post. He is presently employed as a car salesman
for Dan McDonald, and will also be
making his debut in city politics;
Laurenee Seiter, local lunibei
dealer, and an incumbent member
of the city commission, seeking
to retain his seat on the commission;   he is   presently  serving    a
Robert  Walters,  a Clare  Manu-
term as mayor of Clare;
facturing Company employee, who
previously has served one term as
a .commission member;
-Dan. Burdo, owner of Clare "''Furniture company, also making ?
first try for a post in city government.
See School Activities
Limited By Short Space
A meeting Wednesday evening
of last week brought members of
the Clare School Board together
with the Citizens Advisory Committee in a session to pick up
loose ends of school construction
plans ahd .chart a course for the
immediate future.
An ambitious program for improvement of public education, and
construction of new school buildings came to a dead halt here
February 18 when an election proposal to borrow needed money was
defeated.
It was made clear from information presented at the meeting that
next year's school program will be
limited by lack of -space. It has
been hoped that an elementary
grade school which was included
in the construction program would
be ready to admit pupils in September 1957.
With no extra classrooms to relieve crowded conditions, public
school administrators have tentatively decided to move classes to
the mUlti-purpose room and make
more classroom space in the present high  school study hall,
Superintendent Richard Wheeler
said that no full decision has been
reached yet, Abut of several courses
open,. use of the multi-purpose
room and study hall seem to present fewer difficulties than other
plans for use of space.
Clare Falls
In District
Cage Start
Clare hgih school's basketball
team failed to survive the first encounter in the district tournament
March 8 at Mt. Pleasant, and lost
a close contest to Mt. Pleasant
Sacred Heart academy 58-54.
The Green and White regular
season record was 6-won and 10-
lost, but the team fared better
against Mid-Michigan B opponents
and finished the league season
with a tie for third place.
Pro-season estmates of strength
placed Clare in the conference cellar.
On Claret -better nights -the
team .demonstrated a surprising
ability to come from behind in
second-half surges of scoring
power and many cage fans feel
that the players have become a
fine credit to their school and the
coach, George Perry. The 1956-57
season was Perry's first as basketball coach at CHS where he had
previously been only football and
track mentor.
In Friday's tournament appearance at Mt. Pleasant, the Pioneers
came from behind after the beginning of the second period and
evened the score.
Then began a see-saw battle in
which the score was tied again and
again with neither five able to
pull away more than three points
in the lead. Matching counters in
the poiht-for-poiiit race the opponents were tied at the half timej
and again at the end of the third
quarter.
But in the final fourth, Sacrec1/
Heart rallied to an 8-point lead
which CHS found impossible tc
overcome. Clare's late spurt after
Longstreth retired with five personal fouls, was short of points
needed to close the gap.-
PTA Meets
March 18
Mrs, Marjorie Hughes, of the
Office 6f Vocational RehabfUlta-
tion, in Saginaw, will be the speaker at the Glare PTA meeting Monday evening- March 18,
Mrs. Hughes will show a fiim
to illustrate her talk On the work
and responsibilities Of her office.
A good'attendance of parents and
teachers is urged. The meeting
will foe jn the Clare-School audi-
toriumat 8 p-m. Refreshments will
be served* *  ■
One alternate idea for transfer
of fourth, fifth, and sixth grades as
units to rural classroom locations
within the district is said to be opposed by parents in both rural and
city homes.
Mr. Wheeler said however, that
converting activity area to classrooms would mean serious interference with other schedules and
programs in three ways:
1) Conversion of the multi-purpose room to another classroom
means that the school lunch pro
gram would be discontinued. The
area to become a calssroom is presently fitted tor use as a cafeteria
serving space. With desks and partitions in place for class use, meals
could not be served in the room.
Students who formerly ate noon
lunches in the school cafeteria
would have to find other places to
eat at noon. Downtown restaurants
or lunch basket meals brought
from home appear to be the alternatives.
2) When needed classroom space
is created in place of the present
study hall in the high school, the
school gymnasium becomes tin-
only place where a substitute study
area can he set .Up* ATUts. *sigftal£
the .end or - physical •' education
classes and games and indoor recreation for all students. Possible
need for furniture and fixtures remains unsettled.
3) With the first two steps failing to provide enough'space for ex
pected enrollment, many classrooms will be packed with still
more students. Rooms already
holding more children than safety
and good educational practices dictate, will be crowded further. It iS
expected that some grade room*?
may have to accept classes oi
forty-five or more.
Last week's meeting failed tc
provide a decision on whether to
"cut back" the construction program and ask for a bond to finance,
a lower cost project, or to wait the
required six months and re-subftiij
the same proposal.
Some interest was reported foi*
d. scheme to obtain the required
classroom expansion in step'by-
step process. This plan was presented as a method Of saving loan
interest, but at the same time it
was pointed out that it would leave
the district with inadequate Schoo!
facilities for years to come.
More Annexation Invited
In a letter this week to primary
school district directors outside
the Clare-Isabella District 8, The
Clare Board of Education repeated
the invitation for area districts to
join the enlarged district.
The policy remains unchanged
for Clare Public School's acceptance of only resident students unless non-residents are presently enrolled in grades 10-12. The letter
was clear in stating that the only
way students from outside the district could be admitted to Clare
schools, is by the annexation of tho
students' districts. Property transfers into the district through accepted procedure is also invited
if districts disapprove joining the
Clare school system.
4 Teenagers
Sentenced For
Vandalism
Three teen-aged boys ahd a teen
aged gii*l plead guilty in Clare
Municipal Court Wednesday tc
window breaking in several rural
Schools and vandalizing a summer
home early in January.
A fourth boy entered no plea, and
will have a hearing in Municipal
Court at a later date,- Justice William B. Dunlop said.
Justice Dunlop ordered the foul*
young people entering guilty plea's
to make restitution, assessed theiri"
for court costs, and placed them,
on 90iday probation.
Restitution was ordered in the
amount of $75* each front two of
the boys and the gill, aiid $36, from
the third hoy.
Local and Michigan State Police
and the Glare county' prosecutor's
office had been working closely
with Clare school officials on settlement ot the case, since its oc*
currence,
- petitions had been taken out
last week for Earl Baumgarth,
plant engineer at Clare Manufacturing Company and Albert
Haley,   local   cattle  rancher.
" Mr. Baumgarth will be another,
candidate making a first bid for. a
commission seat.
Mr. Haley, an incumbent member of the commission seeking -to
retain his seat, previously haa.
served several terms as Clare's
Mayor. He is presently the chair*
man of the Clare County Board bf
Supervisors, and represents Clare
on that group.
■The two city commissioner-*-
who still have part of their terms
to serve are Commissioner Gerald
Nivison and Commissioner Paul
Schroeder,
One seat on the commission has
been vacant since last fall, when
Charles Cooper resigned to join
the county welfare department*
staff. *_
At- the April 1 election, Clare
voters will be asked for approvsfi
of an amendment to the Clare city
charter calling for annual colm
peusation to commissioners fpr.
their work running city affairs.
Commissioners presently _erve
without pay, since the charter as
it stands  does not provide for }t.
Under terms of tha proposed
amendment, each commissioner
would receive $400 a year, except the mayor, who would re*
ceive $500. Individual commissioners would be "docked $10 for each
commission meeting they failed to
attend during the year.
'Music Moods-
Ready For
BandAudience
Modern Moods in Music is tfca
title of the annual-Clare High Band
Concert that will be staged Tuesday March 19 at the school auditorium. Ticket sales for tho event
have been reported good and the
performers are hoping for a full
house when the curtain parts at S
o'clock p.m.
The full 59-piece concert band
is ready with a varied program of
the sort which has proved popular
in other annual appearances.
Mixed with traditional march-
time music will be seven offerings
including the tone picture, descriptive music, mood music in a number called "Colorama" which is
based on the melody Deep Purple,
musical "form'' expressed In a
composition by John Stainer, a
waltz and samba for modern danfce
tempo, and some Latin-American
rhythm.
Band Director Lloyd Conley explains that many of the numbe-ftf
were selected to exhibit tone quality, and display possibiiites of
various nstruments or sections of
the band
At concert time, the band
reaches its finest concert quality,
having recently appeared in contests in  excellence.
Great musical entertainment is
promised at next Tuesday's Moods
In Musfc.
Anderson's
Team Leads
Tournament
The Anderson's Drug team moved into the lead in the. Clare City
Womens Bowling Tournament last
week end with a 2805 team score,
In the doubles, Betty Stark and
her sister, Margaret Robbins Went
into the first place position with a
1205. Betty also is leading in all-
events, with 1775. She had a 522*
actual in the doubles, a 503 in the
team, event, and a 208 actualgame
in the singles. Phyllis. Hartshorn'
also had a 208 actual.
The singles position remains un-%
changed. This week end wili complete the women's tournament,
DBaTMS
Paul Manee, well known Clare,
resident died in the Saginaw "Veterans Hospital Wednesday'. Mr.
Maneo was formerly in meat retailing in Clare and in local politics "Was a former member of the
city's -council, A veteran of World
War 1, he Was active in ex-service
work. He leaves his wife Wilhe-
rriina, and two sons, Paul, Jr., and
Dean."
MRS. ELZORA -IEED
Mrs, Elzora Reed of Wise township passed away Tuesday, March
12 at the age of 70 years. Funeral
services will be held Friday March"
IS from, the Thurston Funeral
He-me " with- interment in Cherry
Grove -ce,nietery..     *. -.--..■
i