1958-02-20; Clare Sentinel

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THE CLARE SENTINEL> CLARE, MICHIGAN FEBRUARY 20, 1958
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EFFECTIVE APRIL 1
Wedge Resigns
As City Manager
Clare City Manager" Willard
Wedge gave the Commission his
resignation Monday evening, to
become effective April 1. He has,
completed four years as the
city's chief administrative employee.
A resolution accepting the res-
ignation was accepted unanimous^.
Mr. Wedge, who has been' in
city manager and engineer positions for nearly forty years,
said he plans retirement and he
and Mrs. Wedge will remain in
Clare.where they own their own
home.
Mr. Wedge came to Clare in
1944, His last previous city managerial position was with the;
City of Gaylord, Michigan,
Mayor Laurenee Seiter. and
members of the City Commission were not completely surprised by the resignation move
as they had each, been previously'
furnished with a copy of Mr.
Wedge's letter.
Commissioners said that there
was no replacement in sight for
the position here. A notice of
the vacancy in the Clare office
will appear next month in a
publication circulated among
members of a city' managers'
association in North America. It-
was thought likely that applications will be received from
qualified men who could fill the
job for Clare.
In the meantime, Mr. Wedge
told the Commission that he will
make extra effort to finish work
on several projects for the city
before April 1.
so that his job will be cleaned up
Among major projects now occupying Wedge's time are annual reports to the State, blueprinting the needed remodeling
of Clare's old fire hall for use
as police .headquarters, and modernizing' city maps with accurate
locations of water and* sewer
system 'pipelines and valves,
Mr, Wedge became a City engineer and manager in the 1920's
after military : service with the
U.S. Army in-World War I.
Injured Flyer Improving;
First Outing Since Oct. 12
Mr. and Mrs, George Whitmore
marked Sunday as a special day.
George, an airlines pilot injured in a crash last summer,
was able to be out for the first
time, Sunday, and he and Mrs.
Whitmore attended services and
greeted friends at the Clare
Methodist Church.
George had spent from August
31, the date of his accident, until'
October 12, at Clare General
Hospital, He was released on
that date, and went in a wheel
chair to the Methodist Church
where he was united in marriage
to Miss Becky Hobbs,
Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore live in
a trailer hom_ at Luke's xj-a&er
Parle. He has beeji back to the
hospital several times for skin
grafting.
The many new friends that
the Whitemores' have made during their forced stay in Clare
were delighted to- see them out
Sunday. After church, Mr. and
Mrs. Whitmore were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs,
Robert Greer and family, where
they spent most of the day*
During the afternoon, George
had a telephone conversation
with his parents in Colorado,
his first since the accident. It
will be several weeks, George's
doctor thinks, before it is .advisable for the Whitmores to attempt the trip to his .parent's
home. Mrs. Whitmore is from
W6st Virginia.
Revenue Office
Open Mon,-Fri.
The area office of the Bureau
of Internal Revenue in Mt.
Pleasant, is open Monday and
Friday, from 8 a,m. to 4 p.m.
The office has been moved to
115 East Illinois, Mt. Pleasant,
from its former location in the
post office building. The phone
number is Mt. Pleasant, Spring
3-1171,
Not Candidate
For Supervisor
Chairman Post
Albert Haley, of Clare, who has
served as chairman of the Clare
County Board of Supervisors for
three years in a row, has announced he will not be a candidate for the chairman's job this
year. -*
Mr.- Haley's three" consecutive-
years on the job are more than
any other-member has served,
Train Upsets
Truck Load Of
Live Steers
A truckload of beef cattle, belonging to Clare Packing Company, was struck by a' southbound "Ann Arbor wprk-train at
the Dunlop Road crossing, Tues-
day forenoon, and. the livestock
spilled out on the ground.
The driver of the truck, Don
BrinKerhoff, of the packing,
comjoany, and his assistant,' Or-
ville'Allan, of Farvvell, were uninjured. Two head" of the cattle
were badly injured and had. to
be killed.
The accident occurred at about
10:30 a.m. The- men had loaded
the cattle in the truck to provide
weight while they went to. pull
another truck out of- a snoW'
drift.-Brinkerhoff told Clare Police he failed to see the train
coming. The engineer of the
train, Lester George, 39, of
Owosso, told the officers that he
was travelling at a moderate
speed, as he approached the
crossing.
Impact of the crash threw the
truck into a ditch, and -knocked
the platform with cattle rack
off the chassis.- The locomotive
was damaged enough So that
Engineer George brought it back
to Clare for repairs before continuing on the run.
The uninjured cattle were
rounded up arid confined in the
barn of William Maxwell, near
the crossing, until another truck
could 'pome for- them. -Several
men had a tough chore getting
the frightened livestock loaded
again.
This was the first accident for
a Clare Packing Company vehicle in ten years, according to
Nick Jabour, head of the company.
Call The Center
If Child Poisoned
Nearly 1,500 children die each
year in the United States as a
result of accidental poisoning,
and at least 200,000 require medical treatment for the same
cause.
Medicines, cleansing agents,
petroleum products and pesticides, in that order, are, most
frequent poisons swallowed by
children. Most fatalities occur in
the one to four year age group.
If a child does consume poison, seven poison control centers
in the state of Michigan may be
reached by telephone around the
clock, and will give crucial information for treatment in the
shortest possible time. This list
may be valuable for parents to
clip and save.
In Ann Arbor, the poison control center is at University Hospital, phohe NOrmandy 3-1531;
In Detroit, there are two poison control centers, one at Children's Hospital, phone TEmple
3-1000 ;and the other at Herman
Kiefer, phone TRinity 2-1540;
Grand Rapids has three of the
centers, located at Blodgett Hospital, phone GLendale 6-5301; at
Butterworth Hospital, phone
GLendale 1-3591; and at St.
Mary's Hospital, phone GLendale 9-3131.
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KeepDogsHome
Says City Law.. .
Dogs in the city of Clare will
have to stay closer to home, or
take their owners visiting with
them, according to the terms of
a new ordinance, No. 213, "amending former ordinance 177.
The old ordinance said if a
dog was within 500 feet Of his
.home premises, untended by his
owner, he was still under reasonable control by his owner.
The new ordinance 213 defines
reasonable control as the dog
being accompanied, at any time
he's off his home premises, by
the owner, or <else a family
member.     '      '
In Pontiac, the center is at
St Joseph Hospital, phone FEd-
eral 4-3511, Extension 103.
As prevention measures, keep
all drugs, poisons and chemicals
clearly labeled and locked up.
Get rid of medicines no longer
in use. Do not give medicine in
the dark, artd give only on doctor's instructions. Don't store
poisonous substances in food or
beverage containers.
Parents are urged to notify
their doctor imme-dfiately if a
child is known to have consumed
poison or potential poison. And
save the container of the substance, it may give valuable information for treatment.
City Orders 3
Paid Holidays
Clare City employees were
granted three paid holidays at h
recent meeting of the Clare City
Commission,
City workers will be paid for
Christmas, July 4th, and Thanksgiving, with the provision that
they work on the.day preceding
and the day following the holiday
In separate action Monday of
this week, the Commission approved a detailed survey and revision of insurance pro'grams covering city liability, and 'protection
of equipment and personnel.
Ordered increased was the
amount of protection in cases involving claims for bodily injury
and property damage.
Home Bums
Fire destroyed a home and its
contents located at- the end of
east First Street, Tuesday noon.
The owner of .the home was not
there when tlie fire started.
The whole house'Was in flame's
when it was reported to the Clare
Fire Department.
Grant OK   \
For Sale Of
School Bonds'\
According-  to  an   unofficial ,*
report Wednesday, sale of}
$795,000 Jn Clare -School:,
bonds, for the construction of i
a new high school plant", lias,
been given approval by the;
State Municipal Finance Commission.
Superintendent Richard
Wheeler was awaiting- arrival
of the official .documents that
would confirm the approval.
He added that the mat^r mil
probably 'be taken up by the
Clare board of education at its
nex*t meeting. He added that
the bonds may be put on sale
late in March.
The, $795,000 bond issue approval was "reported to be tlie
largest to come up for consideration during- this session
of the State Slunicipal i Fi]4*
ance Commission,   "      '"■■'■ '►..!
Woman Fined!
ForG
Beer To Boys
Mrs. Isabel Thomas, 40, of
Clare,, plead guilty to a charge
of furnishing beer to mmorsr.antl
paid $24,30 fine and costs in
Clare Municipal "Court oh Mon*
day, to Justice William B,
Dunlop.
Mrs. Thomas Was arrested by
Clare Police on a complaint Sunday night, after a witness saw her
buy the beer and take it out to
a car where four boys were waiting, police, said. The boys were
from rural Clare, they said.
Police stopped the car and,
searched it after receiving the
complaint, and found the beer
Mrs. Thomas was lodged in'Clare
County'Jail in Harrison until her'
court appearance Monday.
Two men were arrested by
Clare Police early Wednesday^, ai
about 1:30 a- m. as they were
fighting on-the Street.      '"
Floyd Stewart, 34, of Lansing,
who gave his occupation as a
student, and Ronald E. Doherty,
29, of Clare, were Charged* with
disorderly conduct when they appeared in Municipal Court Wednesday morning, before Justice
DUnlop.
Each was assessed a $10 fine
and ,$4i3Q court costs.
Area Paralyzed In Grip Of
Worst Cold Wave:
No School, Traffic Halted
' Twelve days of hard, old-fashioned, winter weather
held a frozen, grip oh the central Michigan area and most
of the midwest before warming temperatures brought
some relief on Wednesday.        ■ .     '
: While it lasted, the sub-zero storm wave clogged many
local country roads, closed schools, and' froze water systems iri numerous homes. These, and other storm-caused
Inconveniences plagued residents as day after day passed
"with no -letup in the intense cold and continual drifting of
snow.
Are Live Valentines
At Party For M^
The-^Kindergarten: division £trthe mothers and chocolate milk
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County CC
Plans List
Of Resorts
A listing of all resort and
recreation facilities in Clare county,, in directory form, is being
planned *to accompany maps distributed by. local Chambers of
Commerce in Clare county.
. The project was approved by
members of the Clare County
Chamber of Commerce, meeting
at Farwell .last week.
It is hoped that the directory
Will be ready for distribution by
April 1. In order to confine the
book,to a convenient size, only
motel antf cabin Accommodations,
boat liveries and recreational facilities will be listed.
Each local Chamber of Com
merce organizations is asked to
see that the proper listings are
Inlade for its own community. To
be of. value the listing should
contain the following information; 1) The name of the resort,
or other facility; 2) the name of
the person to contact regarding.
the 'Glare Public School and
their teachers Mrs. Shirley Don-:
.ovan and-Mrs. Leota VanEvery
entertained Friday. for a Valentine party. Mothers and preschool brothers and .sisters -were
guests;*     . '.'.,:•'
The children were introduced
to the patents as living Valentines, each walking * through a
large Valentine heart. Each child
presenting a Valentine to his
mother.
A' Valentine postoffice with
mail boxes for each child, was
a feature for the Valentine distribution,
Songs, poems . and rhythm
games were presented by the:
children.
Cookies decorated by the Child-:
ren were served, with coffee for
Teachers'
tefcitute
Set Friday
The annual Clare - Isabella
county Teachers* Institute will
be held at Mt, Pleasant High
School, Friday, February 28, according to Lenord Schwanz,
Clare county superintendent of
schools.
All schools in Clare county
Will be closed th&t day.
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Proof Is In The Cutting
At Michigan Tree Farm
ft takes time to grow timber, j hardwood  saplings    and    poles
but if you    have    any   doubts! with  some    excellent    chemicalj
Mrs. Roy Townsend has been
feeding the birds during past
weeks, and one of her feathered
visitors in Monday mornings
sub-zero weather was a meadow
lark.
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And Mrs. Gerald Barber, the
Sentinel's West Grant correspondent, mentions that pheasants are hard put to find food,
and are foraging recklessly close
to highways. '   .
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City Assessor Jack Hall said
Wednesday that the return
of property-owners' statements
declaring value of personal
property lias bpfien "fair to
good'* with many of the forms
properly filled out and returned
to his office* But there are
enough yet missing so that he
is asking, that ^business men return the wanted information to
him — not later than the end of
this week. The City is empowered by Jaw to obtain the infor*
mation by other means if it is
not given voluntarily.
Butane Spill
Blamed In Fire
Six men were injured, one of
them fatally, in a fire at -the
Leonard Refineries in Alma, Saturday afternoon. A 500 .barrel
butane tank may have ruptured,
spreading gas into the refining
area, to cause the flash fire,
according to Leonard officials.
. The gases, ignited by furnaces
in the refining area, were swept
back by Winds into the" gasoline
and asphalt and rundown storage
section, causing some tanks to
ignite, the refineries' fire department controlled the blaze within
an hour and extinguished ' the
, burning tanks in three hours, ■
about.it paying off in the long
run, just ask Roy Rogers, SCrt-
ey, Michigan, insurance agent
and owner .-of a 640-acre tree
farm in Alger-County.
Mr. Rogers purchased the
wooded acreage in 1943 after it
had been -clear-cut, and he has
since been devoting much of his
time restoring the property to a
productive timber area.
The woodland, located 16
miles north of Seney on Michigan Highway' 77 and two miles
west on Adams Trail, consists of
610 acres of hardwoods-- balsam
and spruce,, and 30 acres of red,
white and Scotch pine and white
spruce in the 1-3 year age class,
ification.
"All the clear-cut areas now
support   a stand    of    northern
Blast Wrecks
Hoiisehold At
Mt. Pleasant
Mt.
wood scattered throughout and
a small tract of sawlog timber,"
Said Tree Farm inspector David
C West of The Cleveland-Cliffs
Iron Co. at Negaunee.
In 1955, Some 50,000 board feet
of sawlogs, 50 "cords of pulpwood were harvested from 280
acres of the Rogers Tree Farm.
"Cuttings have been limited to
the balsam and spruce pulp
stands," West said, "with nothing harvested less than 5-8 feet
in length unless it is defective or
damaged. Forest openings are
planted with softwood species."
Impassable roads hampered deliveries of fuel and food
to rural homes. As supplies of these necessities dwindled
and disappeared the problem became more acute.
' County Highway maintenance crews. abandoned their
regular schedules of working shifts and remained on the'
job night and day after Monday's furious wind and drifts
climaxed the weather spell.
Drifts re-*formed constantly behind the struggling
plows- and made the highway workers' jobs a tough
battle. .
On Monday, a Weidrrtan school bus loaded with home-
bound .children became hopelessly mired by heavy drifts
in Gilmore township about a mile west of Stevenson Lake.
Men and tractors'from farms nearby worked through the
late afternoon to free' the bus, but drifts piled up faster
than the helpers cpuld push them aside.
Vaness Cook carried food- to the children from his"
home near the spot .Later when the bus grew cold and
darkness began to settle, Cook and another neighbor, Mr.
"VanBuskirk took the hus passengers with the driver into
their homes to wait until more help arrived. The children
finally- were taken to their own homes "shortly after
midnight. , *
At the Clare postoffice, The
Sentinel learned that complete
deliveries of mail on rural routes
were impossible since Monday.
Rural carriers found regular
routes blocked, and M m&ny eas*
es i hey drove u£ to twice their
nornal distances trying to find
alternate roads to patrons' mailboxes, All carriers returned late
Monday and Tuesday after exhausting all means Of delivering
mail,      * ■
Youths Jailed
When Caught
Five Gladwin youths, arrested
February Hand charged with
having beer illegally-in their possession, were arraigned (before
Justice William B. Dunlop in
Clare Municipal Court on February 12, and plead guilty to the
charge. ...
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cnargerf $1.00 for ea* listing, te: J* f ^°^'"{ZISS Sit
cover.fert.M printing the dlrec ^^ SSsSTso'tt
y* i court costs.
J" %J^H^^?_S"t- Two others, Joseph William Es-
fe J^vim»n-g n ?_»£ _S_ iline> ^ and Donald J, Whifcomb
Howard Ryckman, in Lake area % ^._ q£ Gladwin.  were iindd
$10 each besides $4,30 in court
costs.
The boys were- arrested early
to Carol Bratt, at the Lake Hardware; in the Farwell area to J. M.
Grim, at "the Farwell News; in
the Clare area to Ken Barnes.
Listings will not be taken after Tuesday morning by Clarfe Police,
March 10. after, they received a complaint
about the boys from a, Clare all-
night restaurant. The five had
left the restaurant when police
arrived, -but the Officers picked
them up on the street a short
time later, at about 5 a.m., Chief
William Cook said.
Dr. G. C. Born has ]ust return-     m .,      ,    .
ed from ah Educational Research They were lodged in Clare
Seminar held in Lansing Civic, county jail until their arraign-
Center, Lansing. i ment Wednesday.   Some of the
Attends State
Chiropractic Session
,«,.    _,„ ... on     The subjects covered in the two gang  with  dlsorjeHy   attitudes,
"Mr.   Rogers   maintains     30  . * gessioJn were related to the were led, handcuffed into the of-
miles of roads through his Tree Jay*foments andrese archie of Prosecutor James S. Bick-
^mfn.WHa,™   „„„   *~-;fth^ Hi- for   their lamination
cording to Dr. Born. I Wednesday.,
Farm for both access and fire
prevention purposes. He is very
interested in all aspects of forestry ahd has done an outstanding job of restoring this Once
cutover forest to tree production
again," West concluded,
Rogers purchased the land 14
years ago as an investment and
for recreation and wildlife purposes. The family maintains a
summer home on the property
and intends to use at least a
portion of the timber earnings
for future college educations for
Sentinel Ads List
Mid-week Si
Household Appliances
Pleasant Store was badly dam-!the grandchildren
aged early Wednesday morning' The Rogers forest was one of
when an explosion completely 22 recently approved by the
wrecked a restaurant .building Michigan Tree Farm Committee
next door for certification in the American
A huge'hole was blown in the Tree Farm System. This forest
Household store wall adjoining industries - sponsored program
the wrecked restaurant, and the -Ives public recognition to pn
other walls were all cracked. The
blast' came through the wall
where two chimneys" stood, demolishing the chimneys and
blowing dirt and soot all over
the store.
The large front show window,
as well as several smaller windows were blown out, and a number of appliances setting on the
floor were smashed. Plaster and
bricks littered the store.
James Wood, of Clare, one of
the store's owners, said that
damage could not be,estimated
until wreckage was cleai'cd away,
vate, taxpaying 'timberlann owners whoJ have demonstrated . exceptional ability in the management of their woodlands.
The Michigan Tree Farm program consists of 479 .certified
sites comprising 986,917 acres of
forested lands. It ranks eighth
in the nation in number of Tree
Farms and 18th i n certified
acreage!
■ Persons interested in the
Michigan Tree Farm program
are urged to write Forester Rowland W, Blair, Woods Department, American Box Board Company, Filer City, Mich,
Johnston Elevator Company, in a series of advertisements in The Sentinel, is offering special . underpneed
bargains from their stock of livestock feed supplements
and other farmers' supplies.'
Joe Johnston at the elevator points out that in his line
of business there are no reasons for periodical "clearance
sales" of shopworn, out-of-style, or seasonal merchandise.
Reasons for such' markdowns don't exist in grain elevator
" operation, he said. But he did want to try building, business on days of the week normally more quiet than others,
So, once each week at Johnston'?, a top-quality, fast-
moving item is selected' for fat discount reduction and
offered., Tuesday and Wednesday only on a cash and
carry deal.
The bargains are to be offered, one at a time, over a
period-of several Weeks. Advertisements listing/ these
"Buys Of The Week" appear only in The Sentinel and are
published-in the same position on the farm page of each
issue. - *•
The Sentinel is proud to have been selected
as ibe. agency for publishing this new ad series
and hopes ior Jtho project's .complete puccess,
Al Holbrook travelled mOre
than 100 miles on Tuesday in
backtracking efforts to cover his
regular- 56-mile journey. .Stan
Parish reported similar troubles
on his route.
"Parish, Fred- Krell and Harley
Sowle had not returned Tuesday
from their mail routes as late as
two hours past the time when
they normally finish the daily
chore. '
Postal carriers reported worse
conditions Tuesday when some
stops which were yet accessible
on Monday could not be reached
the following day. By arrangement with some patrons who
were snowed in,-mail was being
left with neighbors, or was being called for at the postoffice.
Mail carriers were not the only
ones .putting forth extra effort- -tp*
d& their job's under fIerc& weather conditions. County Highway
drivers and crews were doing -a, a
road-clearing job in their battle
against elements that gave them
no rest.
County Superintendent Tom.
Cook said that men were remaining at work in some cases
as long as 27 hours without rest
or relief. - -      ■  -,        .
All plowing equipment was in
full use against the drifts with
the Work concentrated on keep- ,
ing main roads open. Cook said
that at the first opportunity, the
crews would turn to the task of
opening all other secondary
roads throughout the county.
Mr. Cook and the entire organization expressed pleasure with
the complete co-operation given
their department by the public.
They said there wereNno ahgry ,
complaints because of snow-
blocked road conditions, and that
residents apparently realized that
the snow removal job was being
done as fast as conditions permitted. Garage workmen Wednesday were fitting a plow ofl a
large caterpillar tractor ih preparation for the job of pushing
banked snow off the roadsides
to widen cleared areas.
The County Highway   Department   requested that kutOs   be
parked off the  right-of-way as '
far as possible to allow plows to
move snow hanks back.
Emergencies interrupted the
highway-plowing schedules too.
On Monday, Farwell. school buses
each required a county snow*<
plow to make a trail on the
homeward rftn.
Monday night, th& plows matte
a passable trail for a woman expecting childbirth who had to be
moved to the hospital.
Again on Monday the county
snow plows were called* upon to
make a road for Fr. J. I. Sruba
of* St. Cecilia's parish who had
been called to the rural home of
a West Grant resident seriously
ill." Other numerous trips were
made to plow.paths for fuel and
food deliveries in emergency
cases. -
Schools, unable to send buses
on rural routes, were closed in
most parts of the state. Clare
students enjoyed their longest
recorded vacation due to weather
conditions when local schools
remained closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Many people employed in
Ciare, who live in other towns or
rural areas were unable to get
to their jobs. Others who could
not return to their homes Monday evening', were forced to find
lodging in town to wait road
clearance.