1957-05-16; Clare Sentinel

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CLARE, MICHIGAN, TJtUIlSPAY MAY' IB*. 1957
Ten Cents Copy
New Series, Vol. 65, No, 35
Grass-Roots "Envoys
Europe
If
Two- Clare girls,- Joyce Delamarter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Delamarter and Sharon
Gaspeny .daughter of Mr, and
Mrs. Harry Gaspeny, will spend
the summer in Europe on the
Student Exchange program, ar»
ranged by the U.S. State Department.
Mayor Switch
Sends Seiter
To Colon
Mayor Laurenee Seiter ywH
leave Sunday for Colon, Michigan
where on Monday he will serve
as Mayor For A Day, in the -annual Michigan Week .Exchange
of Mayors program. ■""'■'.".
He will he accompanied by Mrs.
Seiter, Clare City Clerk David.
Adams and Mrs. Adams.   ■.
Colon is a town of 1,000 population, located in St. Joseph county on Michigan's southern border.
Mayor Williams, of Colon, is
expected to arrive here Monday
at about 11 a.m. to take over as
chief executive in Clare ior the
day.
Mrs. Williams will accompany
her husband along with two-Colon
High School Juniors, a boy and
a girl, who will observe at first
hand hqw the May°r's exchange
operates.
Lunch at the Hotel Doherty
followed by tours of Clare's lead
ing industries, including Watervliet Paper Co., Kraft Foods C,
Clare Manufacturing Co. and
Thayer's Dairy, will .be -on the
visitors' itinerary.
A 6:30 dinner ' that evening,
planned by'the Clare Chamber
of Commerce will finish the day's
schedule.
Elsewhere in area Michigan
Week hospitality, a special invi
tation to the public to visit the
Mt. Pleasant post of, the Michigan
State Police during the- observance of Michigan Week May 19-25
has been issued by Sergt. Joseph
Svoke, commander.  t
"While the public -us welcome
to'visit a State Police post at any
time, Michigan Week is a very
appropriate occasion to do it"
Sergt Svoke said. "The best hours
will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each
day".
Officers will show visitors
through the post and answer
questions about State Police operations.
"We will be happy to have anyone call on us who is interested",
Sergt. Svoke said. "This open
house has been arranged to better acquaint the people with their
State Police and to inform them
on our numerous activities ' to
protect their security. Many persons believe that State Police are
strictly a highway patrol, when
actually we do general law enforcement and much of our time
is spent on criminal investigations
and other matters not having any
thing to do with the highways.
Michigan Week will afford an opportunity to find out just how
broad a field we cover".
Open house will be held at
eve*-y State Police post during the
week.
Poppy Days
Set In Clare
'May 23, 24, 25
Auxiliary - Units everywhere
will join with the Posts of the
American Legion in the observance of Memorial Day, May 30,
and a traditional part of the observance will be memorial po>-
pies, fashioned by disabled War
veterans in remembrance of
their departed comrades.
The annual Poppy Day observance will be held in Clare, May
23, 24 and 25, sponsored by the
local unit of the American Legion Auxiliary with Mrs. Sue
Holmes as chairman. Co-Workers
will be, on the streets here early
in the'morning with baskets of
the memorial flowers, to sell to
passers-by.
Employment for thousands of
disabled veterans confined to the
'hospitals or unable to do other
work has been provided by the
Auxiliary's poppy-making' program. The work has given these
men the encouraging experience
of earning money again and has
filled empty hospieal days with
interesting, beneficial activity.
Mrs. Holmes and her staff of
workers urge the citizens of
Clare to be a part of this worthwhile project, and says "We hope
to-see the poppies blooming over
every remembering heart,"
A fund of over $300, collected
by a committee from Clare service clubs, churches, and' individuals, will be used to pay the
girls! expenses. High school principal William Harper, and Hugh
Kennedy, minister of the Clare
Congrejajational Church, served
as the committee.
Joyce ahd Sharon will live as
members of European families,
in much the same arrangement
that foreign students to the U.S
are "adopted" by a family foi
their stay here. *
Joyce's parents have opened
their home to both exchange
Students who have come to Clare
in the past two years, Franz
G-ohre .of Germany, last year,
and Priscilla Silva, of Cuba,
this year.
The girls were chosen as good
representatives of the "American
\Ya'y of I_ife,'r on a basis of
Scholarship, personality, community interest and activity. They
Will leave, in June.
■'..' Sending young people to other
countries in; order that they experience living in family circles
of Other, nations has been lauded
as a real "grass roots" means of
promoting understanding among
the 'world's peoples.
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Five Youths Sentenced;
Cases Pending In
Ed Note: This is tlie second
In a series on late developments in stories that made
Clare news in recent months.
This one is on the results of
the apprehension by Clare Police of a group of local youths
charged with auto stripping.
Five Clare youths appeared in
Clare Municipal Court recently
and plead guilty to taking parts
and accessories off. parked automobiles during past months.
Appearing before Justice William B, Dunlop on April 10, were
Floyd Fair, 17, James Howlett
17,-Carl Trietch, 17, all of Clare,
ahd on April 15 were L. G.
Thompson Jr., 22, and his brother
Liarry Thompson, 18, also of
Clare.
Each of the boys were assessed
$14.30 fine and costs, and each
was sentenced to three days in
Clare County Jail at Harrison.
Warrants for the boys' arrest
were   issued   by   Clare   county
Taking Census
Of Residents
In School Area
The annual school census is
presently being conducted to determine population for purposes
of alloting State school aid funds.
Special co-operation of residents
is asked for the following census
staff.
Mrs. Dale Miller, Mrs. Neilan
Cradit and Mrs. Allen McKee in
Clare; Mrs. Carmon Newman for
the former districts ol Brand, Bal,
sley, Brewer, Brown; Mrs. Ray
Strouse for the former districts
Carrow and Colonville; Mrs.
Frank Thering for what was once
Andersonville and Herrick; Mrs.
Ed Schlafley for the former Phinisey and Vernon Center districts;
Mrs. Warren Tice for the former
district in Loomis; Mrs. Lionel
Duncan for .former Wilson and
O'Conner districts; Mrs. Loren
Birdsall for the former Randall
and West Grant districts; Russell
Eberhart for the former McKin-
ley district.
Railway. Express
Changes Location
The Railway Express office in
Clare has changed' locations as
of May 1.
The new location is Corsaut'*-
Radio and TV building, one block
east of the Citizen's State Bank
The express office will be open
8 a.mA to 5 p.m. daily except Sundays, the phone number is 672-W
Former location was the Ann Ar
bor Railroad Station. ,
American Express Company accepts packages for delivery in 106
countries.
Holding Final P-TA
Meeting Monday
The. Parent-Teachers Association will hold a last meeting of
the school, year Monday May 20
in the high school auditorium.
The main subject will be speech
cofrection. The Citizens Commit-'
tee Will report on plans to hold a
piiblic forum to consider the
school district building problem.
Coffee and cake will be served
afterwdrijs.
prosecutor James S. Bieknell III.
after Clare police had' questioned
over 20 boys in connection With
the thefts.
Four other boys arrested in the
case are minors and they will
have hearings in Clare County
Probate Court, before Judge Don-
3ia Hecker, Mr. Bieknell said.
Dog Warden
Asks Help
From Citizens
Clare county's dog warden, Joe
Barnes, who doubles as "dog Warden also for the City of Clare, expressed concern this week over
recently rising tone of complaints
of dog damage and trespassing
here.
Saying that he would try any
methods in his work Which would
seem to offer best results, he
asked James S, Bieknell III, county prosecutor "to help him prepare
directions for citizens who will be
willing to help' eliminate the
stray, or loose dog nuisance.
"If the law (obtaining licese
for clogs and confining them to
the owner's premises) was obeyed
there would be no trouble caused
by dogs trespassing on neighbors
lawns nor would there be any dog
packs found at our public schools.
It is every citizens duty to sign
a complaint when he or she sees
the law .being violated. It has
often been the experience of the
dog warden that the people who
call him to complain will refuse
to sign a complaint against the of
fending person".
JPFSets
Magazine
Collection
The Junior Pilgrim Fellowship
of the Clare Congregational
Church will have a magazine
drive in Clare this Saturday May
IS.
Clare householders who have
magazines to contribute are asked to tie them in bundles and put
them out at the curb where the
young people will pick them up,
Only magazines, and no news
print is requested. The group will
have a sack lunch together al
noon.
Heads Clare
Chapter MEA
Robert Thomas, • junior high
teacher, will head the Clare Chapter of the Michigan Education
Association' as president f or 1&57-
58. Mrs, Edna Cook was elected,
vice president, Joe Svec* treasurer and Mrs. Willajoe Bush, secretary in a nelection held May 9' in
the Multi-PurpOse Room.
The social committee,' all male
members, with Rohert Seidler as
chairman, ' announced the final
picuic of the year to be held at
the* Roadside YPark oh US-27
north oi Clare on May 21.'■•--
Police Chief William Cook said
he will ask that warrants on several other youths involved in the
looting be issued by the Prosecutor's office.
The collection of auto radios
fender skirts, hub caps, a battery
and other accessories that Clare
police confiscated from the boys
has mostly been claimed by own
ers, except for a few hub caps',
Chief Cook said.
Local police began the investi
gation in March when an insurance company complained that
accessories had disappeared ofl
an auto belonging to the company.
Chief Cook and his staff began
questioning a list of suspected
boys and turned up the whole assortment of items taken off cars
in weeks prior to the investiga
tion.
The auto parts had been taken
from used cars in the McDonald
sales iot, and from cars parked on
Clare Streets.
Youth Center
Planners Name
Committees
Progress was made Monday
evening toward the organization
of a Youth Center to serve the
Clare-Farwell area, at a meeting
at the Clare High School.
Present at the meeting were
representatives of 20 various organizations of the community,
and several young people who
would be served by the center.
To bring about the necessary
organization to set up the youth
center, the following committee
chairmen were named: Finance,
Dr. R. B. Kring; Building, Robert
Greer; Recreation, Edward Run-
yon; Management, John Cobb
and Publicity J. M. Grim. Dr. F-
V. Hrachovina was named chairman of a coordinating committee
which will be composed of all
committee chairmen and general
chairman Jack Leonard.
This committee will meet ,on
Tuesday evening May 21st, together With representatives from
the Clare and Farwell student
bodies to make organization plans
which will be reported to the next
general meeting of the group on
Monday evening, May 27th.
Women
Bowlers Enjoy
Annual Banquet
The Tuesday Night Ladies
Bowling League held its annual
banquet Tuesday May 7, at Twin
Elms Country Club.
. League Champions, the Drew-
'ery's Beer -team' members, were
honored.. Recognition was also
given Rose Neff,, for high average for the year with 154; Alliene
Schult*-, for Ixev 603 high series;
and Fran Carncross, with her 288
high; single game.        . -   *
Sixty-five bowlers, guests, and:
sponsors were entertained by
Poppy Walker, with a descriptive
monologue. The group enjoyed
dancing following the banquet.
:. Katherine' Cornell, of Lake, a
^Ophomore at CMCE is one Of
-t\vo Central students who have
been named Chippewa "Boosters
of The Year" Tom Sweeney of
Mt. feasant* shared, the honor on
tlfe/camps'. _ "'.*"
"^T,h'ese, awards are not based
on a* popularity- contest"., Jesse
Thorpe,*'B6'oSter 'Club,advisor said
"but rather the two students receive the 'hohor because of the
service they have' given to the
college".
Throughout the year members
of |he- Booster Club carry out
many- job's that are intended to
make Central a better school.
Such projects include hosts and
hostesses, and cheer leaders.. ,
, Thorpe said that all 'Booster
Club'-activities revolve around the
■philosophy- that the group .is a
volunteer student public relations
denization.
,■„ .Each-project that a"booster carries out,is worth points to his or
heij: credit. At thei year's end the
points are. totaled and the highest
boy an4 girl are named "Chippewa boosters for the year".
■Sweeney and Miss Cornell are
the; 1957.winners of the award—
mo'st aetive boosters of a club of
over 1Q0* students-
Katharine is on an elementary
education. curriculum with a
speech-English major.
Photo, Courtesy of
Daily Times-News, Mt. Pleasant
Plan Start Of
Colonville
Church Work
A project to remodel the basement of the Colonville Church
will begin this Saturday, when
members gather at the church
for a work bee.
Plans are to break the present
cement floor up and move it out.
A contractor will come in next
week to pour a new cement flo.Or
When the new floor is ready
the church kitchen, which is in
the basement, will be remodeled,
and new cupboards added. NeW
partitions will be put in the basement, creating classrooms and s
fellowship hall. Some painting
and redecorating will be included
in the work.
The ladies of the church and
the Ladies Aid group will serve
dinner outside on the church
lawn for the workers Saturday.
The remodeling job is expected
to be done in about six weeks
and. pastor Virgil Brinkman said
there will probably be- a dedication service held shortly afterward.
Band Boosters
Elect Year's
Officers
The Band Boosters Club met in
the band room at the Clare school
Monday night with the meeting
call-^d to order by the president
Mrs. Floyd Norcutt.
After necessary business was
taken care of the names of the
following new officers were
read: President, Donald Bryant.,
vice president, Mrs. Earl Baumgarth; secretary, Mrs. Clinton
Dunkle and treasurer, Maynard
Cole.
George Shayler was appointei!
chairman of ways and means';
Mis. Harold Murphy, band uniforms; Mrs. Leon Dull, transportation, Mrs. K. Hammerberg, concert and Mrs. Dunkle, publicity.
The Junior Band Concert was
announced for May 16 and a com
mittee appointed to plan refreshments for the members with Mrs.
Guy Comstock named as chairman.
An open concert at the Clare
city park is scheduled for May 24.
Kindergarteners
Entertain Moras
In a gaily decorted kindergarten, where baskets arid flowers
the children had made of crepe
paper and lace doilies created a
party atmosphere, the two groups
with the help of Mrs. Leota Van
Every*and Mrs. Irene Davy, entertained their mothers ort May
10.
The children were introduced
while walking through a. giant
card'which they had made.
A program chosen and pre
pared by the -children consisted
of poems, songs, rhythms and
the flag salute.       *
refreshments of Kool Aid and
cookies were served by the teachers,
Graduation Week
For Forty■■Thr-ee
County 8th Graders
Don't Try For
ThatExtraDay
Clare High School's annual
Senior Skip Day will be held May
16, the day after the class returns
from their trip {0 New York. No
seniors will have to be in school
on that day,' but it has been announced by Principal William
Harper that any senior not in
school the following day will not
be.expected at the Junior-Senior
Prom on May 17.
Proclaims Glean-up Week
Pick Up, Paint Up, Clean Up Week in Clare has
been proclaimed by Mayor Laurenee Seiter for May 20
through 26.
To set an example, floors have been painted in
Clare City Hall this, week, and a modern new water
fountain installed on the main floor.
There will be garbage pickups each day of the week,
and Clare householders are urged to take this time to
clean out attics, basements and garages.
Prom Time,
Dancing
Did you ever wish you were on
a star?
Juniors and seniors of. Clare
high school and their guests will
be made to feel like star-dwellers
When they attend the annual Junior and Senior Banquet and Prom
"Stairway to the Stars" at the
Hotel Doherty tomorrow night,
With Gail Samborn'and Mari
lyn Brown supervising the-finishing touches for. the .Banquet, near
ly two hundred guests are expected at seven o'clock.
Betty Gordon, entertainment
chairman, has arranged for Judge
Donald Holbrook to be the main
speaker With James Dunlop as
master of ceremonies. Loui_
Bolle, junior class president, will
welcome the seniors and their
class president Don Bay will accept. Rev. Hugh Kennedy will
give the invocation and Betty Jc
Bosserdet, accompanied by Joyce
Delamarter will sing.
Tom Bowler's Collegiate orchestra from Grand Rapids has
been engaged for the Prom
which will be in the Hotel ballroom from nine o'clock to one.
Mrs. Nancy Jabara, former C
H.S. music instructor Will sing
"Stairway to the Staia ■ accompanied by Ann Jackson. Ann will
also accompany the hoys quartet
consisting of Dick Beery, Jim
Rodabaugh, Deb Nolan and Larry
Stanley.
Others who helped on the gen-
Isabella
Soils Man
Promoted
David H. Dawson of the U.S.
Soil Conservation Service, headquartered at-Mt. Pleasant has
been promoted to the position of
Plant Materials Technician for
the SCS ih Michigan it Was announced this week by E. C.
Sackrider- State Conservationist
for SCS.
Dawson will assume his new
post on June 2 With headquarters at the Rose Lake Wildlife
Experiment Station of the Michigan State Conservation Department. His duties will include investigation and field trials
through the state in cooperation
with Soil Conservation District
of all types of plants which may
prove useful for soil and water
conservation purposes.
Dawson started his career
with the SCS in 1937 at Menominee, Wisconsin, interrupting it
for five year's service as a commissioned officer in the Army
during World War II, to attend
and graduate from Michigan
State University with a degree
in forestry, and to manage a
private landscaping business. He
returned to the SCS in 1948
since which time he has been a
soil conservationist in Lapeer,
Caro and Rockford, as well as
Mt. Pleasant, giving assistance
to local soil conservation districts.
. The DaWSOn family does vnot
contemplate moving to the Lansing area immediately.
Clare County Eighth Grade Graduation Day will be
"Commencement" for forty-three rural school students who
will be handed their diplomas Friday evening at the Clare
Public School auditorium. The program is to begin at 8:00
o'clock.
The program for the event was described by Lenord
Schwanz, Clare County School Commissioner, as complete
with a speaker for the graduation address, music, an address
by the honor student of the class, naming of achievement
award winners, and the ceremony of awarding tha diplomas.
Families and interested friends of the graduates will fill the
auditorium, it is expected.
Giving the principal address of the occasion will be M. J,
Farrel of Dow Chemical's Education Division, Midland.
Lawrence Carncross, a member of the Eagle school's graduating class will appear to deliver
the valedictory address. Lawrence, son of Mr .and Mrs, Ev.
erett Carncross of Beaverton
Road, is the top honor student
of the entire class of eighth
graders.
■ Having been chosen on a basis
of scholastic achievement, Lawrence has prepared his remarks
to outline opportunities and ad-
Vantages for eighth grade graduates who choose to continue in
the paths of further schooling.
His teacher at. Eagle has been
Mrs, Ina Davison.
More of the theme of Lawrence's valedictory will describe
the value placed on sound education by himself and his classmates.
A portion of the program anticipated with high interest is
the awarding of Achievement
Certificates to seven members of
the class who have attained high
scholarship averages. Receiving
the honorary awards will be:
Janet Bauer, Diane Priest,* Jar-
aldine McGraw, Nedra Fellows,
Karen Cunningham, Stanley
Warner, and Lawrence. Carncross-
More of the program includes
an invocation by Rev- Gerald
Brady of Harrison. Accompaniment for musical numbers will
be by Mrs. Ellen Graham. Honorary ushers chosen from among
county seventh graders are Judy
Kleinhart, Mary Kay Rilett, Evelyn Ferweda, and Judy Sheldon.
County schools and the number
of their graduates are:
and They're
The Stars
eral committees are Judy White"
Kay Cook, Janet Cole, Kay Blystone, Sandy Russell, .Mary Ma
loney, and Junell Grinnell, with
the. supervision of Katheleen
Thayer, general chairman, and
Mrs. .Myrtie Bowerman, class
sponsor.
Junior Band
Concert
Tonight
The Junior Band Concert will
be held tonight, Thursday May lfc
8:00 p.m. at the school auditorium
The largest Junior Band ever
45 members will perform- One oi
.the special numbers will be a
novelty, "Ragtime Wedding" featuring Linda McQuiston as nar-
lator.
In order to make the concert
more interesting and meaningful
remarks concerning the music
played and items about the band
ar.d -its members will be inter-
sported between th. numbers.
Although it is cailed a Junior
Band Concert, the Elementary
Eand, a group of 35 members, will
also perform, showlM/ what car-
be 'ircomplished in just 5 month?
of work.
The program wJLl include Let
All Men Praise Th') Lord, Activity March, Ambition Overture,
Village Chapel, and • Mister Joe,
by the Junior Band;    .
Circus Day March, Crusaders
Hymn,. The Merry-Go-Round, Sky
Rocket March, by the Elementary
Band; and Air and March, Mock
ing Bird Hill, Ragtime Wedding.
Honor Band, and Star Spangled
Banner by the Junior Band.
Band To Play
Park Concert
On May 24
The Clare High School Band
will treat the residents of Clare
and the surrounding area to an
old-iashioned concert in the park
on Friday, May 24. x
The band Will leave the high
school at 7:00 and march down to
the park across from the city hall-
Then they will assemble in concert formation and play until
dark.
This concert is part of the
School's activities in celebration
of Michigan Week, which runs
from May 19 through the 25th.
The music for Inis concert will
be very light in character, consisting mainly of military march
es with variety in the form o3
polkas, WalfzeSj,, a serenade and
perhaps a bit of rock-and-Toll
according to Director Lloyd Conley. ■.■'-■•■ J
Franklin Twp. No. 1 .... 2
Garfield (Lake)  9,
Dover ....?  1
Pratt   1
Amble 2
Redner  2
Temple  4
Eagle   5
Wildcat  5
Leota  3
Grandon   9
To Show Film
At Dover Church
The new film "Seventeen" will
he shown at Dover Church Sun-'
day May 19, at 8 p.m. Rev. Arthur Cunningham, pastor, has announced.
The film is especially recommended by him to junior and
senior high school students and
their parents, who should find
appeal in the meaningful story
and original musical score.
Rev. Cunningham suggests that
this is a chance for those people
to see the film who missed it in
showings elsewhere in the area.
I  On Inside Pages   |
John Palmer, well-known to
CHS Pioneer athletes in past
sports contests with St. Louis, is
pointed to as a probable track
star at Central Michigan College
on page 9.
Potatoes are an important
source of energy, and shouldn't
be boycotted even by dieters, says
a nutrition expert on page 12'.
A Silver Tea, at the Clare
Church of God, helped^mark the
25th anniversary of the Women's
Missionary Society of that church
Story page 10,
Temperature is a controlling
factor in milk quality, reminds
a MSU dairy specialist on page 11
The big week for graduating
seniors at Farwell high school
starts this^ Sunday with Baccalaureate exercises. Story page 13.
Dairymen with limited acreage
might profit by irrigation of forage crops, a farm economist
points out on page 18.
Trails, and marks left hy history on the Michigan mitten lure
travelers to do some modern day
exploring. Details page 14.
Brinton Cub Scouts visited the
Mt. Pleasant Fire Hall one day
recently. Story page 15.
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