1957-07-11; Clare Sentinel

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THE CLARE SENTINEL
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CLARE, MICHIGAN. THURSDAY JULY 11, 1957
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BUDDIES .,, . Heidc Kluger, 7 months old, trying to cool ott from.
New York city's heat wave, sits in pail o'f water as Boxer pal
shares her ice cream cone.
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School In Preparation
For Overflow Enrollment
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Martha Lucy
Crowned At
Harrison Day
Martha Lucy, daughter of Mrs,
John Gallagher, of Clare, was
crowned Miss independence Day
at Harrison's July 4th celebration, after competing in the
contest With candidates from
Weidman, Gladwin and Harrison.
■Lt. .Governor Phillip Hart .Was
one of the judges.
Having won the title, Martha
Will represent Clare County _s
beauty contestant at the Michigan State Fair, in Detroit, in
September. - *
Martha, who recently turned
19, is a June graduate of Clare
High School, where she was a
member of the National Honor
Society, and also won this year's
Arion Music award given annually by the Clare Rotary Club,
After winning the Miss Clare
title to represent Clare in the
county winter sports festival in
January, Martha has been Clare's
official representative to all
other beauty contests for the
year.
She plans to enter Central
Michigan College at Mt. Pleasant this fall as a pre-nursing
student.
Rain Floods
Cause Wide
Damage Here
A sudden storm Sunday night and early Monday brought
violent winds and rain of cloud
burst proportions which resulted in damage to homes and
farm crops in Clare and over
a wide area.
An estimated 4J4 inches of
driving rain here Was probably
as much as was reported anywhere nearby, and the water
swelled creeks and rivers to
serious flood stage.
Several families were driven
from their homes before fast
rising water, and submerged
roads and streets turned back
auto traffic in many localities.
High water in basements and
leaking roofs accounted for most
all of the damage to homes. A
few trees and television antenna
were broken over9 by wind.
In rural areas, fields and roads
were inundated with farm losses
to report in many cases and
washouts on roadsides as evidence-of the rushing force of the
waters.
The Lloyd Hunt family on
Maple near the creek bridge
.were hard hit by the rising
water. Their home was completely surrounded and boats
were used to get to artd from
the marooned dwelling.
Homes near the creek on
Clare's east side and along
First street on the west side
all were damaged or threatned
by flooding water.
Consumers Power company
service crews were busy from
early Monday morning on repair
of transformers that had been
knocked out by lightening.
At all points along the Tobacco
creek, observers said that the
water raised continuously .throu-
out "M-Kday forenoon. Nearly
twelve hours after the halt of
the rain, strong currents of.the
swirling muddy water continued
to cut ominously into banks and
bridge supports at Maple street
near First, and at the east end
of Fifth arid Sixth streets under
which the creek passes,
rivereeee
The city sewage treatment
plant was deluged With the volume of storm water. Operation
■wSH probably not return to
normal for several days, according to Manager Jack Hall.
MISS  MARTHA;LUCY
County's    "Miss    Independence'
Women Golfers
Entertain
Ithaca Group
Ten Ithaca Women Golfers
came Wednesday, June 25 to
be guests of the Clare Women
Golfers at Twin Elms. Nine
from here participated, and enjoyed the day together in spite
of the rainy weather.
Balls were given for low net
and low putts, Mrs. Helen Rae-
burn df Ithaca and Mrs. Mae
Baumgarth of Clare won for
low putts, and low net scores
Went to Mrs, Lillian MoKinney
of Ithaca and Mrs. -Blanche
Wright, of Clare,
Chris Demo donated the door
prize, arid this was won by Mrs.
Margaret Bromley.
The Clare Women played on
Wednesday, July 3, and on the
10th, joined the other five clubs,
in Central Michigan for Field
Day at Alma,
Clare Public School, having
grown out of its available classroom space, is undergoing some
remodeling and re-arranging
during the summer recess and
will open in the fall with space
for four additional classes, but
with no cafeteria, with * library-
and office quarters crowded, and
students finding a makeshift
study hall in the school gymnasium.    '
A permanent partition divides
■the former high school study
hali into two "class rooms.
The high school department
had to give way to up-coming
seventh and eighth ' graders, in
the junior high, In making room
for those growing classes, the
high school department had to
find more rooms for. its students
The study i-iall thus displaced,
is being moved into the gym
where folding-type chairs and
tables will be used during the
day, and-removed evenings, for
basketball   games   and   practice-
In further relief of crowding,
some junior high students will
attend classes in rural school
locations where the school district owns buildings.
Two third grade classrooms
are located fn the entire area
formerly used for the multipurpose activities of the school.
This is the room in a new wing
which accomodated. the cafeteria
dining area. No lunch' service
will be possible under the remodeled set-up.
The cafeteria kitchen is being
partially dismantled and will be
pressed into service as a small-
group classroom for speech correction classes and others.
A second kindergarten room is
in what was once a first grade
room. The process of grades and
classes, each crowding the next
one along one step continues
through the elementary and junior high levels
Allen Tulk's office as elementary principal is in a small cubicle intended for use as a supply
storage closet.
School libraries winch must
serve a combined student population of about 1,400 are in two
areas scarcely larger than two
residential living rooms
Corridor spacer^ student locker
accomodations, and' building ventilation are becoming problems in
more or less important degree.
The school which was seriously
crowded before, is struggling
with,the situation which now is
literally "bursting the seams"
there.
Until the district can expand
school facilities,    students    will
Three Way Tie For First
Place In Little League
The Lions defeated the Tigers
6-0 behind Butch Eberhart's two
hit pitching Monday, July 1.
Butch gave up a double -to Dan
Green in the fourth and' a single
to Sam Kushumaul in the sixth.
Butch helped his own cause with
a home run with the bases
loaded in the fifth.
For the Tigers Jim Youngs
pitched a j*oodgame, giving up
only four hit*?, Butch's home run,
two doubles to Al Acker and
a single to Keith Jackson.
Winning pitcher was Butch
Eberhart.    ■
Losing pitcher, Jim Youngs.
The Bears defeated the Cubs
6-1  as  Jack Lansing  shut    the
Cubs out with no hits.
Jack Warner retired the first
12 men to face him before
Charlie Stirling drew a walk in
the fifth inning. The cubs scored
their only run on two walks, a
wild pitch and a stolen base.
Joe Hall led the Bears hitting
with two out of three.
Winning pitcher, Jack Lansing.
Losing pitcher, Steve Bryant.
Stan
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Tigers
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Bears
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Cubs x-
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Accidental Discovery Led To
Michigan's i860 Mineral Spa
Ninety years ago lower Michigan was dotted with communities boasting mineral springs reputed to cure everything from
cancer" to over-brain-work.
A rate book, "Magnetic and
Mineral Springs bf Michigan*' by
Stiles Kennedy, published in
1872, and now in the possession
of The University of Michigan
Historical Collections, relates
that during the summer of 1869,
a company began boring the
earth at St. Louis for salt to establish a salt works.
. The' water found was beautifully clear, and to the taste barely alkaline, says Stiles. Many
used it for household purposes.
The town talked of buying it to
supply the town with drinking
water.
Library Receives
More State Funds
• The Clare City Library received its final paynient for the
year from the Michigan. State
Library, board.
■ The- grant* of ' $48.17 will be
used to" buy either books or
equipment, Librarian Mrs. Virginia Richardson said.
have inadequate libraries, no hoi
lunch and cafeteria service, suspension of organized physical
education and play during inside
recess periods. These serious
handicaps are aggravated by the
addition of many other inconven;
iences, discomforts and poor accomodations caused by the Jack
of space.
Hughes, Duncan
Re-elected
School electors Monday returned Board President Harold
Hughes and Trustee Lionel Dun-,
can to new terms.
Ballots were counted: puncah
— 177, Hughes —122, Stewart
Kinde —103. The proposal to>
raise operating millage one mill
was carried, 142-72. c
The' dr^ama began when someone discovered that his knife
blade stuck to the iron tubing
from which the water flowed.
The tube attracted and then held
like a magnet. Hundreds came
to get their knives magnetized.
Then, it seems, an old paralytic in town conceived the idea,
not unnaturally, that water and
magnetism, if good separately
for his disease,'should be better
still if combined- He began
drinking the water and bathing
in it and the people in' town saw
him gradually recover.
Excitement became - intense.
Rheumatics bathed and were relieved. Persons troubled with
kidney and' bladder trouble
drank and were relieved. In two
months over 200 diseased persons were in St. Louis using the
water, the report goes.
Michiganders, feeling sure St.
Louis wasn't the only lucky spot
in the state, started drilling elsewhere and by 1870 had found
nothing less than 60 wells of
water, each claimed to be "magnetic." The" magnetic mineral
springs Of Michigan were not
springs, at all but Artesian wells
made by boring the earth to a
depth varying from 100 to several hundred ieet, Stiles explains.
Farm Building
Demonstration
Set July 15
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Clare cbunty farmers, especially those who exhibit livestock at the county fair, are invited to come to the fairgrounds
on Monday, July 15 for an Old'
fashioned barn raising bee. The
County Fair Board has a new
cattle shed in progress and
would like some help to erect
the roof trusses, on Monday,
July 15.
The new building will be 96'x
40' of pole frame construction
with clear span roof trusses.
The building will accommodate
about 100 head of cattle in 4
rows of stalls, leaving an alley
in the center.
Retiring county agricultural
agent, P. D. Gibson, Chairman
of the building committee, and
Richard Schroeder, recently appointed Clare county agent, are
supervising the construction of
the trusses and pole setting.
Monday, July 15 wijl be .the
day to put. the roof trusses; in.;
place and the committee would
like to have some help. Prof.
James Boyd, head of the buildings section, Agricultural Engineering dept., MSU will be
present to assist with the demonstration. Mr. Boyd will also
point out some of the advantages
of pole frame clear span construction.
The County Fair Board plans
to provide a noon lunch for all
who come to lend a hand with
the building.
The building is being erected
on a very "tight" budget and a
donation of a few hours of labor on the part of some interested men will be a great help.
To Show
New Tillage
Methods
Farmers will have a chance to
see test plots using some new till
age methods as well as .other interesting developments at this
year's crops and soils field day
to ,be held on the Michigan State
University farm at East Lansing
Thursday July 11.
According to James Tyson of
the soils department, one stop
on the tour will be at -test plots
of "minimum tillage with plow
planting and subSoiling. Tillage
machinery will be on display including a plow planter, a Graham Hoeme deep tillage tool,
sweeps used in stubble mulch
tillage with chemical weed control and others.
At other stops, MSU soil scientists will show plots that demonstrate how depth of plowing
affects fertilizer requirements;
studies. of various forms of
phosphate fertilizers; ' and research on fertilizer placement
and row with of oats.
Milton Eardmann of the crops
department reports that an interesting stop along the crops
tour will be at plots of oats and
barley sowed in early March
when frost was just leaving the
ground, compared to grain
sowed at the usual time.
The crops department will
also show trials where Vernal
and other new alfalfa varieties
have been cut at different stages
to produce two, three and four
cuttings.
The general committeee, Stuart Hildebrand, James A. Porter
and 'James Tyson, heading the
event, have announced that the
tours will begin at 9:30 a.m. at
the crops barn and laboratory
on Mt.- Hope road near Beaumont, two miles -south of the
campus. Lunch will be available
on the grounds at noon,
Veteran Phone
Service Man
Started In '22
•5 Clyde R. "Pat" Hellinger, of
Lake Station RouteA2, marked*;his
35th year of service .with, the
Michigan Bell Telephone Company recently. Now a switch-
boardman at the company's
plare exchange, v Hellinger was
transferred here -only thee years
ago from Battle Creek, Michigan. ,.
» A veteran who got his start
in the ,horse-and-buggy days . of
jthe telephone in Michigan, Hellinger left a boxing career Id
join the company as a. lineman
in 1922.. Promoted to foreman
the same year, one of Hellinger's
first tasks was the repair of
damage wrought-by what telephone men remember as the
Great Sleet Storm of 1922.
The storm downed lines and
broke communications over
much o.f. the northern part of
the State, Hellinger, then, one of
the youngest line crew foremen
in the company, drew the* task
of helping to completely rebuild the plant of the Valley
Telephone Company. The company had merged with. Michigan Bell only a few days before, but had every one of its
wires' downed by sleet on the
day the Bell company took over.
Cc/ntrasting those days with
the present, Hellinger recalls
that line crews in those days
took the train to their job, then
roomed and boarded where they
worked. Now they drive to and
from work and are usually home
every evening. Bicycles, formerly the steed of the telephone repairman, have been supplanted
by speedy trucks .With modern
equipment, one-man "crews" do
the- work once assigned two
men . . . installing the wires
that run between pole and house,
for instance.        "      •       *
In his 35 years of telephone
servict, Hellinger has b,een
present at some auspicious
"firsts." He helped with the conversion to dial of the telephone
exchanges at Battle Creek, Athens, Fulton, and Belleview, Later
he maintained all the long distance lines in that area.
He has received commenda-
dations for the quality of his
work, and for his first-aid efforts. An, active community
worker, he served the Red Cross
in various drives when he lived
at Battle Creek, and was a
member of the Battle Creek
township board for 12 years.
Sarah Beck
Paintings In
City Library
Mrs. Sarah Beck will have an
exhibit of oil paintings hung in
the Clare City Library, during
the month of July.
Her work, done in a realistic
style, emphasizes form and color, and has consistently been
among the most popular shown
in local exhibits. She has also
exhibited work in Saginaw and
Midland art shows.
Learn Basic
Life Saving
Techni-ques
. A child screamed. "Janie fell
in the water." Janie's mother
ran to the river, -jumped in,
and- pulled the drowning child
from the water. She'd never
practiced artificial respiration
but she'd read about it and seen
pictures. She worked on the
child as best she could until
help came. The doctor said she
saved ,her life.
Could . you help in such an
emergency? What do you know
about- artificial respiration?
Safety experts say about 7,000
Americans will die by accidental drowning this summer, but
many could be saved by proper resuscitation and aftercare.
Resuscitation must begin immediately after a drowning person is brought out of the water.
Start by draining as much water as possible 'out of the respiratory system. Place the patient face down and lift him at
the waist. Remove any debris,
mucus, dentures, and * other
/rri|ater)hl Srom (mouth and
throat,
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Court Takes
Driver's License
1 A- Clare justice" court* jury
found Harold S. Glass, of 526 W.
Genessee, Lansing, guilty July 2
of. driving ynder the influence
of alcohol in Clare last April.
Ciare Municipal Court Justice
William B, Dunlop sentenced
Glass to pay $80 fine and $4.30
court costs. 'The man also surrendered his driver's license to
the cou.,t.
Glass was arrested by Clare
Police on April 20.
Now Series, Vol. 65, No. 4.
Isabella-Denver 4-H Club
Lists Projects For Year
The Isabella-Denver 4-H Ch\b
met at the 'Rosebush Memorial
Park     on   Tuesday     evening.
Twenty   - eight   members   and
their leaders were present.
The various groups were separated and met with their leaders to receive further instructions concerning their 4-H pro-
jects, .
It was   decided to ha-?e   two
Camping in Michigan
Thousands pf campers find enjoyment and recreation each year
in Michigan's state parks, recreation areas  and  forests.  This
camper digs a pit for the family campfire while his son lends
' a hand in the wood-gathering department.    .
Rebekahs
Cite A. Irwin
For Service
Patricia Holt, vice grand, presided at the Clara Rebekah
Lodge meeting Tuesday evening,
and Mrs. "VI Holt was acting vice
grand. Other substitute officers
were Mrs. Margaret Irwin, Mrs,
Cecil Bouchey and Miss Janet
Bouchey. Thirteen past noble
grands answered roll call.
Andrew Irwin Sr., who has
been chairman of the Board of
Trustees for many years, and
who has worked faithfully on
the hall project, was given, a
check, to partially repay him for
his time and expense incurred
since the hall fire in January.
He was overwhelmed, and pledged his loyalty in the years to
come.. Andrew will observe his
80th birthday, August 23.
Mrs. Ellen Henderson, finance
chairman, gave a report of the
audit committee, and the reports
to be sent to Rebekah Assembly
were read by the secretary.,
Mrs. Madeline Seiter, with both
approved.
Mrs. Julia Nessler was named
by the vice grand as her supporter to fill vacancy declared at
the last meeting. Mrs. Mary De-
Forest was named on the September committee, and Mrs.
Doris Mitchell on the July-
August committee, each making'
the fourth member of the committee.named recently.
The draping of the charter for
Thomas Ramey will be taken
care of when the new charter is
received.
At the close of the lodge session, the brothers joined the
ladies for the birthday supper.
Birthday members honored; were
Mrs. Bouchey, Mrs. Etta Snider,
Earl Henderson1, Bill ArtcUffi
Andrew Irwin, Sr., Howard Cotton, Clarence Ramey, ' Ernest
Green and Mrs. Ethel Thrush, a
guest from Farwell lodge. Each
member received a birthday
token, the group sang Happy
Birthday, and the committee
served punch and cookies..
More Work
On Church At
Colonville
Work on the Colonville church
basement is progressing, Colonville correspondent Mrs.. Beulah
Bodkins reports.
Tuesday evening 'the men
gathered with tractors and graders to remove the • dirt which
was piled near the church building and wliich was one of the
causes of w,ater leaking into the
basement.
Part of the crew Worked- on
the heatin_g Hsystem,, while some
Were putting' cement. blocks, in
place.- and still others did general clean Up jobs:
The church group hopes ■ to
landscape tlie grounds' in the
near future.
IOOF Installs
H. Fancon As
Noble Grand
The Clare IOOF Lodge held
its semi-annual installation at
their meeting Tuesday evening,
for a part of their business session.
Horace Fancon was installed
as noble grand tp serve another
six month term, and his appoint
ive officers installed were Andrew Irwin Sr. Right Supporter; Earl Henderson, Left Supporter; Clarence Ramey, Warden; Fred Ake}y, Conductor,
Emil Giers, Chaplain and William Artcliff, Inside Guardian.
The vice grand, his supporters
and the other appointees of the
noble grand will be installed at a,
later date...Ernest Irwin,** lodge
deputy} and Frank, Mitchell, as
deputy, marshal, Were the-install
ing staff. '' ' -.'*     ■>'   -".
During the summer -months,
the-members agreed to hold
only special meetings, and rriero-
bers to' be notified.
tours, the first to be taken on
Tuesday evening, July 9, to observe the members' individual
projects, and the second tour on
July 23.
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The next meeting will be held
at the Francis Mead home following the tour, with Sheila
Mead and. Patty Fetterly as
hostesses.
Beef and Dairy, Horses, Rabbits, Poultry, Swine, Field
Crops, Vegetable and Flower,
Gardening, Outdoor Meals, Photography, Food Preparation,
Food Preservation, and the 4-H
Girl are the projects chosen by
the members and led by Mrs.
Hugh Swindlehurst, Mrs. Roy
Keller, Mrs, Earl" Neff, Mrs,
Howard Sandy, Mr, and Mrs.
Donald Swindlehurst, Mrs. Robert Watson and: Mrs,. JECeith*
Mogg. The junior leaders -we
Margie Swindlehurst and Gerald Watson.  _
The Club, meets the second
and fourth Tuesday of each
month. • :
Refreshments were served, by
Mrs, Hugh Swindlehurst, and
Mrs. Russell Robertson.        .. "
Grangers
Receive
25 Year Pins
At the June 17 meeting, 15
members received their 25-year
certificates and pins. They were
honored for 25 years of continuous membership. •   '
The Lecturer had a program
made up especially for the occasion. Several of the 25-year members were on the program. A pot
luck lunch followed the presentation and program.
The members were introduced
by Past-Master Harold Brooks.
A talk was given by the overseer, acting as Master in the' absence of our Master Bill Brewer, whp was on his honeynjoon.
The members receiving this
honor were . Ralph, and Marie
BroWn, Mary Brooks, Claire and
Mabel Stanley*, Fifed and Hilda
Verrette, Bessie Holquist, Jennings and Gretchen Archambault, John' and Alice. Stough
and Anna Ackerman.
New Surface On
Stretch Of M-61
A project to put non-skid: surfacing on M-61: from the US-27
and M-61 junction 1.66 miles
west and northwest in Clare
county is scheduled for completion in September, * 1957, according to the Michigan State,
Highway department.
Seek Industrial Prospects
Among Michigan Tourists
With .a record breaking Summer tourist seasons forecast for
Michigan it was announced today
that the annual screening- program to locate industrial prospects among hundreds of thousands of visitors in the state will
be intensified.
This program, sponsored by the
Michigan Economic Develpoment
Colleges Must
Double Output
Of Teachers
Michigan colleges and universities face the task of educating
about 35,000 teachers ' oyer and
above their present rate of output in the next 10 years if 'the
qualifications of the teaching
staffs are to be brought up vto
"minimum standards."
This is the contention of a
subcommittee on teacher -education of the Michigan Council of
State College Presidents' in a
recent report entitled, "Teacher
Demand and Supply in Michigan
. . . 1954-1970." Dean Charles
Odegaard of The University of
Michigan College of Literature,.
Science and the Arts,, served' as
chairman of the subcommittee,
and Dean Willard Olson of the
School of Education,also worked
on it.
The 35,000 figure represents an
annual increase of. 3,500 teachers, or about 86 per cent more
'than the 4,050 teachers now edu-
pated each year. The' increased
demand is the result of the
heavy enrollments in elementary
schools brought on by a high-
birthrate during Wosld War II
which continues to the present*.
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Department 'and Michigan com*
munities to find industrial executives among summer visitors and
acquaint them with industrial
advantages of the area, was start
ed in 1950 and has resulted in f.a
number of new industries, espec-'
ially in resort centers..
According to Lee Uhl, chief Of
the area development division of
the Economic Development De>
partment, experience has proven
that' many summer visitors who
enjoy the recreational advantages of Michigan have selected; a
site near their favorite vacation
spot for- manufacturing or other
business Operations.
• "We know that among the vacationists there are industrialists
Who might be interested in Mich-
igan as a location for a branch
plant or for a hew location fOr
present operations", Mr. Uhl said
"During the summer tourist season our program is designed to
locate these .individuals and let
them know all about the industrial resources and advantages
we have".
There isn't any reason why
many industrialists can't carry
on their operations in a place
where they like to live and play.
In many Michigan communities
boating and fishing are literally
at the factory door", Mr. Uhl continued. "The -combination of recreational and favorable plant location factors had resulted in sev
eral good industries ' for Michigan communities. The purpose
Of the tourist screening program
is,to induce more industries to
consider, locations in our state". '
The Economic ^Development is
reminding all communities and
industrial development committees in resort ar'eas to let the va-'
canonists know that his favorite
recreation spot is a good place
for him to live and do business,