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' The Community Calendar sales
campaign, sole fund-raising project sponsored by the Clare school
Parent-Teacher Association, will
begin this weekend.
Final plans or the calendar
sales dirive. were made at the first
fall meeting the PTA held Monday evening, in the Clare High
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It was announced last week
by Lr, A, Walton, president of
Giant "Super Markets, Inc., and
Ray L. Carter, president of Ray's
Food- Fair, Inc., that the two
companies had completed .arrangement'for consolidated management, .This is a consolidation of management and purchasing only.
The new consolidation is designed for more efficient operation, increased buying power and
better merchandising features
for both companies.
Under the new managerment
consolidation, L, A. Walton, of
Alma, is chairman, Ray L. Carter, of Saginaw, is general manager, with W, F. Walton, of Midland, as his assistant.
David Mclntyre, of Bay City,
becomes produce sales manager
and buyer and Shirley Decker,
of Rosebush, is in charge of
sales promotion and general merchandising. Herbert Reymann,
of Bay City, will be meat sales
manager and buyer, with Jack
Hall, of St. Louis, his assistant.
Ray's Food Fair, Inc., operates
five super markets in Saginaw
and Bay City, while Giant S*|per
Markets, Inc., are in central and
northern Michigan, at Midland,
Mt. Pleasant, Alma, Clare, Big
Rgpids, Cadillac, and Lading-:
ton.
Both companies have new super markets planned for early
next year.
ty Calendar
School Auditorium.
Speakei" for the evening was Dr*
Riley GaskiU, reading center consultant in the department of psychology and education at Centra]
Michigan College, Mt. Pleasant.
Dr. GaskiU spoke on the
"Growth and Development .of the
Early Elementary Child," with his
remarks centered around six-'to-
eight-year-olds. a question and
answer and discussion period was
held.
Superintendent Richard Wheeler spoke briefly on the coming
bond issue, and urged Clare-Isabella School District 8 electors to
•go to the polls Saturday.
New teachers at Clare Public
School this year were introduced.
The group voted to continue
awarding a $3 prize at each PTA
meeting to the room having the
largest percentage of parents
present.
At the bi^siness meeting, Mrs.
Kuno Hammerberg and Mrs. E.
Baumgarth were named to serve
as co-chairmen of the Community
Calendar sales effort.
Proceeds from the project,
which proved so popular last year
are used by the PTA to buy equipment for the schools.
Volunteer workers for the project are Mrs. F. Sogge, who will
canvass Colonville; Robert Mc-
Daniels and George Perry, publicity; Mrs. Helen Anderson and
Mrs. Fran Sowle, contact service clubs; Mr. and Mrs. .Harold
Sandborn advertising; Mrs. Har
vey Hartshorn canvass of School-
crest avenue; James Dunlop, typing.
The Calendar lists meeting
dates of local clups and organizations, church, schoo land com
munity programs and events, as
well as birthday and anniversaiy
dates of local clubs and organi-
calendar,
They are available from any
junior high student or PTA member. Deadline for calendar sales
is November 1.
Following the Monday evening
meeting, refreshments were served in the high school gymnasium*
by the Kindergarten room mothers.
ROOM 19
Pupil Habits Amusing
In Qkssi
By Ann Ess Morrow
It's fun to see why children
sit just where they do. Often,
though, they do not choose. They
are told the place is theirs . . .
as much as if they'd signed a
lease. With minor murmurs, for
the most part, they move in and
all goes fairly well though confidentially we must admit we
have moment when we wish the
chair electrified the way the
children are when mystery tales
are being read.
When they're seated alphabetically, the only way of sitting
forward for a poor girl whose
name begins with Z, is by an
early marriage. But in this we
cannot help. We minister the
facts, instead of merely minister.
Some folks really like to sit in
front where they'll be bunny
quiet or where they can see the
board without indulging in a
squint, Besides, it's often easier
to get in and out from there.
Others like a far perspective and
hope that Teacher's near-sighted.
"MY-opia's okay!" we long to
shout at them. "How's yours?"
Position seems to be so important in this world of ours bisected by the railroad tracks.
Look how true it is with numbers. Put a figure 2 beside another 2, and the result is 18
greater than when one is above
the other with a plus mark at
the side.
We smile at the way in which
a student takes possession of a
chair. In Room 19 each boy and
girl selects his own and then
returns to it each day as if it
were assigned. Those spots are
his until he starts to talk without his vocal cords.
There's something of the 49-
ers in the youngsters, we helieve,
perhaps because they stake their
claims and then allow no trespassing on property that never
was-allotted them. But don't we
all tend to toe folks of habit? We
think of that when we all but
break a leg in rushing for our
usual cafeteria chair, And anyone who's been there first and
still remains is greeted with a
Three Bear's look — a "Who's
been sitting In MY" chair?" ex*
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Isn't it strange what a difference a situation can make? A
dog at home is ,as common as the
fleas he harbors ,but let Rover
prance into a schoolroom and
he draws attehtiorr'Slike a traveler in space. Especially if he's a
"hound dog," for then the children really squeal. Rover's right
at home when Teacher barks.
He's equally alert to growls,
And when the pooch sniffs eagerly for knowledge, he's bound
to learn cur-rectly — a fundamental principle on which all
teaching thrives.
But dogs are not the only animal invaders of the schoolroom.
Cats,' it seems, have moved in,
too — conversationally at least
—and that's one time when we
are not kitten!
"Who was punished for the
deed?" we asked concerning a
story one day.
"The cat that brought 'em
there!" Irreverently the words
somersaulted out, fairly steaming with eagerness- Whereupon
we shoved the feline from classroom diction and indulged in a
two-minute cat-nap while the
group ferreted for facts. But
with duck-tails and poney-tails
and poodle-cuts — youth is really harum-scarum, it seems to us
as we bunny-hop along.
f he Blackboard: Not "Barer
than a day in "June," but '♦Barer than a bottle-cork."
'Sijoy'
adies
matter
There were 66 out to enjoy the
Ladies Aid turkey dinner with
all the trimmings at the Brush
College Community Building
Thursday, September 12, The
turkeys were Mr. and Mrs, Leo
Fitzpatrick's way of saying
"Thank You" to all who who had
worked on the building of their
n«?w home, Mrs. Amanda Newman
Mrs. Bernard1 Allen awl Mrs. Leo
Fitzpatrick were hostesses,
Wild Turkeys
Released In
Clare County
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Eighty-five wild turkeys were
released in Clare county September 12, by the Michigan State
Conservation Department, to, reinforce plantings made last year.
Sixty of the birds were released along the Muskegon River between Temple and Leota,
and 25 in the vicinity of Lake
George,
The ten-weeks-old birds were
raised by the State Conservation
Department at its game farm at
Mason, from eggs sent to Michigan from Pennsylvania.
$20,000
To Study
Soil Bank
The Board of Directors of the
National Wildlife Federation,
meeting in Washington recently,
set up a special fund of $20,000
for a two-year educational program on the Soil Bank and on
the importance Of conserving
water and wetlands wildlife
through the curtailment of unwise drainage.
Executive Director Ernest
Swift of the Federation an
nounced the following resolution
had been adopted:
"Be it resolved that the National Wildlife Federation budget and appropriate $20,000 to be
expended during the next 24
months to promote the use of the
Soil Bank and Small Watersheds
program, to curtail wetlands
drainage where it is detrimental
to the long range economy of an
area through the lowering of the
water tables, and to cooperate
with all agencies and organizations in an educational program
to promote sound conservation
practices which will redound to
the economic and recreational
welfare of the nation; that the
sum appropriated shall be expended under the direction and
with the approval of the Executive Director of the National
Wildlife Federation and the Executive Committee of the National Wildlife Federation."
Swift said that before initiation of the new project he will
seek the suggestions of state
wildlife agencies and other conservation groups.
The federation was among the
early advocates of Soil Bank
legislation. They have supported
the program, now in its second
year, but Federation leaders
have expressed the belief its potential for .the -conservation pf
soil, water and wildlife lias riot
been appreciated by the public
or fully utilized by the farmers.
"We are also gravely concerned about the continued destruction of valuable resources
through the unwise drainage of
natural marshlands," S w if t
stated. "We wish to encourage
farmers and agricultural agencies as well as conservationists
to study the dangers involved in
federal subsidies that encourage
drainage in areas threatened by
water shortages and recurring
drought."
Swift recalled that in 1955 the
National Wildlife Federation conducted its annual National Wildlife Week observance on the
theme of "Save America's Wetlands." The new allocation of
funds, he said, will permit vigorous resumption of one of the
Federation's important programs.
Swift announced the Board also approved a tentative 1958
budget item of $20,000 for graduate fellowships, assistance in
teachers' Workshops and other
activities designed to encourage
the teaching of conservation
principles in the nation's schools.
This is a continuation of established parts of the organization's
educational program.
In other resolutions the Federation Board:
Commended Congress for appropriating water-pollution control funds and urged the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare to budget similar
amounts for fiscal year 1959.
Urged early Executive clearance
of the wildlife phase of "Operation Outdoors," a five-year plan
proposed by the Department of
Agriculture for improvement of
recreational resources in the
National Forests,
Asked Secretary of Interior
Fred A. Seatoft to expedite action
on proposed amendments to the
Coordination Act, a law providing for fish and wildlife conservation measures at federal
reservoir projects.
The National Wildlife Federation is Composed of state federations and sportsmen's leagues
in the various states and Alaska.
Its activities are financed largely through the distribution of
Wildlife Conservation Stamps;
Claude D. Kelly, businessman
and civic leader of Atmore, Ala.,
serves as president of the Federation and. cto,irniafi. of its Board.
Dial Phones
Promised
Within Year
Clare will have dial telephone.,
service next summer. . ,
. The annpi'ncement was made
this week by T. C. Maher, commercial manager for Michigan
Bell Telephone Company in the
Clare area.
"The project will involve a $223,-
000 expenditure by the teephone
company, and will mean added
convenience and modernization
for telephone users in Clare,
The change, will mean new tel-
ephone numbers, of. the type be
coming standard, throughout, the
nation, ^e hew' numbers will
consist of the -name "Evergreen"
and five numerals. Maher asked
business telephone, customers; to
remember' the corning . change
When ordering' printed. material
bearing their telephone number.
First evidence of" the transition
to the new dail system' will be
the installation, of dials on telephones in homes find offices "here,
due to get underway soon.
Dial installation will be preceded, according to Maher, toy a "Telephone Modernization" campaign.
Each Clare customer will re
ceive a brochure illustrating and
describing new types and colors of
telephones. By making a selection before the installer's visit,
the telephone user can save normal instrument change charges,
Installation of dials won't
change the way the present tele
phones work; the dials won't be
usable until the interconnecting
center is installed at the Clare
telephone building, Maher said
Work on this phase of the change
over will start later this year, he
said.
Clare thus becomes the last com
munity in the Bell Phone com
pany's local calling area to switch
to dial service. Beavertoh, Cole
man, Farwell, Gladwin» Harrison
and Rosebush have all in their
turns been, changed over to -dial-
type telephone instruments with
modern switchboard equipment
located in each of the towns.
Enlargement of the Bell com
pany's building to accommodate
the new facilities in Clare started two years ago, and installation
of dial equipment in the central
switchboard set-up has been progressing.
Coioy&titution
Week
Whereas, the basic need in oul
Nation today is the preservation
of Constitutional Government;
and
Whereas, in order to protect
our priceless heritage under our
unique form of government, it ii?
essential to support our Constitution, "The most wonderful work
ever struck off at a given time by
the brain and purpose of man";
and
Whereas, for its proper sup-
ort, it is necessary that our citizens understand its, provisions
and principles and appreciate its
values and benefits as "The greatest document for human liberty
in two thousand years of recorded history"; and
Whereas, The Daughters of the
American Revolution are sponsoring the observance of Constitution Week September 17-23..
1957, in commemoration of the
170th anniversary of the adoption
of the Constitution;
Now therefore, I, Laurenee
Seiter by virtue of the authority
vested in me as Mayor of the City
of Clare in the State of Mich
igan do hereby proclaim the week
of September 17-23, 1957, as Con
stitution Week in the City of
Clare and urge all citizens to pay
special attention during that
week to our Federal Coistitution
and the advantages of American
citizenship flying United States
of America Flags at their fousi
nesses and homes and especially
emphasizing the purpose of Good
Government as set forth in the
Constitution's Preamble and the
duty of all persons in our Republic to protect our Constitution and
the freedoms in its Bill of Rights
so that it may continue to protect
us and bur posterity in "This Nation Under God."
In Witness Whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the City of Clare this
7th day of September, in the Year
Of OUr Lord, orte thousand nine*
hundred fifty-seven, and of the In
dependence of the United States
of America, the one hundred and
eighty second.
" Signed
*-"*    LAURENEE SEITER
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Bonding
tor becona I ime
Next Saturday
A proposal, to "bond the Clare*
Isabella School District 8 to
finance construction and expansion in the school system, once
a failure in a previous election,
will come up again for a decision by electors on Saturday,
September 21 *— the day after
tomorrow.
In February oi this year, the
proposition went down in in-'
concliisive defeat When the election vote count' was. 560 "Yes"
and 579 "No," Supporters of the
measure were not satisfied because of the failure of a majors
ity of electors to vote, and because of the narrow margin of
decision.       s
Unofficial guesses place the
number Of voters as high as
2,500 and supporters of the program argue that if this number
is accurate, then a mere twenty
percent  of the  qualified voters
Mrs. Mary Brooks made a
day of attending weddings Saturday, when a niece and a
granddaughter Were* both mar*
ried. She was present when
Boris Marie Marshall spoke
her nuptial vows in the forenoon, "and that evening Went
to tho wedding of granddaughter LaVonna Seiter.
Mrs. Roberta MCKnight Cat-
tell, formerly ■ of Clare, was on
the "Name That Tune" TV show
Tuesday evening, and will appear on the same show next
Tuesday,
Members of the Farwell
VFW Post 309 are building a
new hall, and Saturday, several of them went to the. Reginald McBride farm near Elm
Grove, and cut down trees
that will be sawed into roof
boards for the hall. Members
of Post 309 Auxiliary furnished a potluck dinner to contribute to a productive day for
the group.
A young couple and their 18-
months-old twin sons, travelling
from Iowa to the east coast,
stopped in Clare one day recently and had their laundry
done at Crittenden's ■ Wash-O-
Mat. When the yOung mother,
Mrs. Bonnie McKeown, arrived
in Toledo that same night, and
found the whole - laundry, including a big bundle of diapers,
all neatly folded, she was so delighted with the service she immediately sent the crittenden's a
note of thanks.
A meeting of the Michigan
State Chiropractic v .Society,
Districts 3 and 4, was held at
the Hotel Doherty, Sunday,
with representatives there
from Flint, Mason, Lansing,
Grand Eapids, Saginaw, Detroit and other points.
Twin Elms Title
Taken By Una
Landskroener t
Mrs. Una Landskroener edged
out Mrs. Mae Baumgarth in the
championship flight, to win the
Ladies Handicap Golf Tournament held at Twin Elms Country
Club last week;
Matched in the first flight was
Mrs. Ann Olson and Mrs. Grace
Frey, and" in the second flight,
Mrs, Mae Behnke defeated Mrs.
Jennie Bowler.
In the Junior Golfers Tournament, Ray Neff was the winner
in boys' division with a 47.
Ralph Baumgarth was second
with 49, James Allen, third with
69 and Bob Bromley, fourth
with 82.
Carol Baumgarth was the
winner of the girls' * division
with a 64, Sandy Wright, with a
71, was second,. Sue Sheponski,
74, third, and Diane Demo, 75,
fourth.
succeeded in halting the project
When they voted "No" earlier
this year.
There is somewhat more organization in the efforts to get
out the voters for the elecion
next Saturday, Supporters assume, that the unfavorable vote
count is at or near its peak and
that bringing more electors to
the polls, on Saturday will aid in
passing the measure.
Two important differences
make the present issue a change
from the last one voted on, although the amount of the proposed borrowing is the same.
1.) Total valuation in the
school district is more now than
it was last February and so the
rate of millage levy per-thou-
sand is less. It has been worked
out to show that where an 8-
mlH-levy was    called, for    last
Dr. Cornelius B. Wood returned" on Monday from Chicago where he was honored last
week by being made a Fellow
of the International College of
Surgeons., '
The annual meeting was held
at the Palmer House where the
degrees were conferred and the
impressive ceremony was attended by nearly three thousand
prominent surgeons from the
United States and the free nations of the world.
Members of the International
College of Surgeons are presented with credentials which
serve as International Passports,
assuring them of warm and instant welcome to hospitals and
meetings in. other nations, as
well as their own. This has led
to much worthwhile interchange
of ideas, wehjipg of. friendships
and •dissermnation "of foreign
good" will.
This was. not the first recognition granted Dr. Wood, as he
was selected as a Fellow of the
American College of Surgeons
in 1951.
He graduated from the University of Michigan Medical
School in 1930 where he interned in pathology for a year-
This." was followed by two additional years of internship at the
Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago and three years of surgical
residency at Peter Bent Brig-
ham Hospital in Boston.
During World War II, Dr.
Wood served as a Major in the
United States Air Force and
from 1942 to 1946, he held assignments on the surgical staffs
of various Air' Force Hospitals.
For several years he • owned
and operated his own private
hospital at Clare, which is now
the Clare General Hospital.
At the present time Dr. Wood,
besides maintaining his office
in Mt. Pleasant, is consulting
surgeon" for the Gratiot Community Hospital in Alma. The entire area joins in congratulations upon the professional recognition accorded him last week
by the International College of
Surgeons.
State DeMolay
Advisory Group
Met In Clare
The State DeMolay Advisory
Board met at the Hotel Doherty,
Saturday, September 14 for their
regular meeting, With Richard
A- Brand of Detroit, Chairman,
Louis F. Janda, Muskijgon, Secretary, John Akkula of Marquette, Holden Wressel of Harbor Springs, James A. Burge
of Royal Oak, Winston Baughn,
Pinckney, Wm. R. Schultz, .of
Kalamazoo and Donald E .Holbrook of Clare in attendance,
"Dad" Harold Koch, of Dearborn, .State DeMolay board member,  was also present.
Final, plans were approved for
the State DeMolay Conference
to be held at Traverse City, this
November 8, 9 and 10.
The class of young men to receive their Initiatory and DeMolay degrees at the State Conference has been named the
Francis M, Dodge Class in honor of the<-iihmediate Past Grand,
Master of the Grand Lodge of
Free and Accepted Masons of
Michigan.
Fatal To
Dauss Jones
Dauss Keldon Jones, 30, of
Rosebush, was killed early Sat-
)irday motfning when his car
collided with the back of a
truck which was parked in
front of the Coffee Cup restaurant in Harrison.
Mr. Jo"nes apparently ' lost
control of his car as he came
to the curve at Harrison's
south city limits, and the vehicle went off the highway, according to Clare County Sheriff James Darling.
Sheriff Darling said that Mr.
Jones was thrown from his car
by the force of the crash, and
was dead when officials arrived
at the scene. Mrs. Jones was
summoned also.
Mr. Jones was taken, to Stin-
son Funeral Home, Mt..Pleasant
by Fanning's ambulance.
They Ga
February, at the present timci...
a 7-mili rate will provide repayment of the $1,300,000 which it
is proposed to borrow. This
lower mill rate is indicated because State Equalized Valuation
is now $12,334,619, or some $i,<**
363,789 more than was included
in the district last February.   '
-2.) The amount Which it Is'
proposed to borrow will fall
short of building as much School
as it would have when the plans
were drawn last February, Rising' prices of labor and material
are to blame for this. But informed leaders warn that the
trend continues, and . passing
time will further shorten the.'
value which the district can expect for the moneyA
School Board members have
pledged that if the 'election is
successful in providing me&ns
for school construction, then the
available funds< will be used as
far as the amount will go, to
build what is considered essential for modern educational facilities.
. Clare and Isabella valuations
being at the same ratio to 100%
Of State Equalized valuations,
the levy rate will be the same,
or practically so for purposes of
figuring an individual family's
tax. Eleven mills charged on the
County Assessed valuation figures'to provide nearly the same
tax service revenue as 7 mills on
State Equalized.
Every elector is urged to remember his duty as a citizen and
vote irt the election. Polls will
be open at the Clare Public
School building from 12 o'clock
noon September 21, until 8 o'clock p,m, .
Plastic Tubes These Days
Since colonial times in the
United States farmers have
been gathering maple tree sap
and boiling it down into syrup
and maple sugar. In the earliest
days a wooden spout was driven
into the tree to the proper
depth and a wooden bucket was
hung on the spout to catch the
sap as it ran from the tree.
Metal spouts have been substituted for the wooden ones
and galvanized buckets have
been designed to catch the syrup .. . but basically the method of gathering sap is unchanged from the early days.
Buckets still.have to be emptied
daily into large tubs drawn on
sleighs or wagons and the sap
carried to the sugar house for
boiling.
In recent years maple sugar
gathering has been faced with
steadily increasing production
and labor costs and a static
price situation which makes sugaring less and less profitable.
In addition to the increasing
cost of materials and labor, the
availability of labor for the
gruelling Work of gathering sap
buckets is steadily decreasing
as workers find less strenuous
work which is not as seasonal
as the four to six weeks during
which maple sap flows.
The result Of this squeeze Has
been a trend toward cutting off'
maple forests for lumber which
is in great demand. The decline
in maple sugar production has
alarmed many agriculturists and
several states.. have begun serious investigations into methods
of saving the industry.
The importance of the maple
products industry- to those
states in which maple trees are
native is indicated by Department of Agriculture figures
showing that 6,680,000 trees
were tapped in 1955, About 168,-
000 pounds of maple sugar and
1,730,000 gallons of maple syrup was produced in that year.
Many dairy farmers rely oh
maple products as a money crop
to be produced during a slack
period in the agricultural year.
Since the. main problem confronting the harvester of maple
sap has been both the availability and cost of labor, a new system using plastic tubing has
been developed which makt(s
sugaring a one man operation
in  many    rases. „ The    tubing
strung from tree to tree can be
set up in advance and the actual tapping of the trees done in
a very Short time when the sap
begins to flow. Since the tubing
system takes much of the heavy
manual labor out of sugaring,, it
can become a family operation
independent of outside labor supply.
It is the feeling of many agricultural experts that the maple sugar industry must either
modernize or die. One obstacle5
in the path of this modernization is the lack of information
among farmers who have orchards as to where to go for information and supplies in order
to convert their old bucket and
jspout systems to the more
modern tubing method.
In 1957-58,; a concerted program .on the part of both a'gri-
cultufal agents and Minnesota
Mining and Manufacturing Corn-
pany is "expected to inform the.
sugar farmer about the new
system, where to go to buy the
equipment and how to set it up..
All the necessary equipment
for the system will be available
through Leader Evaporator
Company and George H," Soule
Company, two of the largest
distributors of sugaring equipment in the United States with
dealer's throughout the maple
sugar areas of the country,
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Dover Church
To Dedicate
New Organ
Dover Church will dedicate its
ri^w electric organ in special
services this Sunday, September
22, at 3 p.m.
Present to initiate the new
instrument will be Mrs. Gertrude Pfetsch of Mt. Pleasant-
Her program includes 15 different selections.
On it will be hymns depicting
"Scenes Around The Cross", and
a series of sacred numbers titled
"From Gethsemane to Calvary,"
Climaxing her performance: will
be selections, "Pilgrim's Song of
Hope," by Batiste, and "Harvest
Time Is Here," by Gabrielle.
- Rev. Arthur Cunningham, pastor at Dover, invites the public
to attend,
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