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THE CLAHE SENTINfEL, CLARE, MICHIGAN
FEBRUARY 27, 1958
Ten Cents Copy
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County Aid Groups
Map Assistance
For Needy Veterans
Local representatives of the
Michigan Veterans Trust Fund,
Soldiers and Sailors Relief and
Clare County Welfare Department met jointly in the Clare
county court house at Harrison
recently.
They discussed how each
group could give assistance to
those veterans who are eligible
and need aid. With a limited
amount of money in the county
funds available -for aid to veterans, the cooperation of the
other two groups with the Welfare Board is necessary.
Two representatives from the
state office of the Veterans'
Trust Fund were present, and
several cases were discussed
where each group did a share in
giving aid to veterans in need.
If a veteran applies for aid
from the Veterans Trust Fund,
he must have served his country
Teachers
Institute At
Mt. Pleasant
Good teaching as the key to
good public relations for schools,
will be the general theme of
the Clare-Isabella County Teachers'. Institute to be held in Mt.
Pleasant on Friday, February 28,
at Mt. Pleasant High School.
General chairman of the event
will be Lenord Schwanz, Clare
county superintendent of schools,
and the first general session
will convene at 9:30 a,m.
Tlie morning address will be by
Otis Crosby, assistant director
of information service for Detroit Public Schools. At 11:30, a
business session will be held. At
noon, the luncheon speaker will
be Laurence Taylor, of Hillsdale
College, on "The Future of Education!."' Grace Rinehart. of^Kfcr-
rison high gchGOl* - is £&ogr.4rh
-chairman. • / i
The afternoon session will
open at 1:30, with a symposium.
People on the panel will be from
Michigan State University, the
Michigan Education Association,
and the Wayne' County Board of
Education. James Knapp, Isa
bella county superintendent of
schools, is general chairman of
the afternoon program.
Following the symposium, the
teachers will divide into special
interest discussion groups. Topics covered will include public
relations, teaching materials,
uses of television and radio and
other audio-visual aids. The institute closes at 3:30.
at least 90 days from and after
August 27, 1940 to June 30, 1946
in World War II. Or if he served
at least 90 days in the Korean
conflict between June 27, 1950
and- December 31, 1953, he is
eligible.
His legal residence-prior to < entering service must have been
Michigan-- if he is to be entitled
to MVTF aid and a veteran loses
his rights to any aid if he has
left the state for more than two
years. He must present evidence
of his honorable discharge when
he., makes application. This is
only an emergency relief fund.
Present' at the meeting were
M, E. McDbnald of Clare, chairman of the Trust Fund for the
county; W. H. Stover, "of Harri-
son,. committeeman; Art. Morgan,
of Clare, for the Soldiers and
Sailors Relief; Inice Eaton, of
Harrison, Veterans' Counselor;
Everett G, Hilliard, commander
of the Farwell VFW;
George Post, of Farwell; Floren Pudvay, of Clare, State Welfare Department; Clare L. Davis,
of Harrison, Clare County Welfare Department; and Inez. Stover, secretary of the Trust Fund
for Clare county. Mayor Curtis
Murton,. of Harrison, Was also
present at the meeting.
Farm Union
Head To Speak
At Rosebush
John Spoelman, Michigan president of the Farmers' Union,
will speak on "The Farm Crisis",
at the Rosebush School, Thursday evening, February 27 at 8:15.
The Farmers' Union is One of
the largest national farm organizations. Its program advocates
100' per cent of parity price supports for farm products, and the
need for the farmer to gain bargaining power.       4
3-lr. Spoelman .has , presented
the F-a*meis' Union Viewpoint on
m-iny"-panels dealing with farm
policy -which, have been sponsored by Michigan State University.
Ask Charter
Charles Cooper, Commander of
the Department of Michigan,
WWI Veterans said Wednesday
that organization members are
being asked to write their congressman and urge passage of
legislation granting a charter
to the group. The measure was
reported out of committee this
week, he said.
RES?ORT from LANSING
by
RUSSELL H.
STRANGE^
JUNIOR
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Petitions
Out For 2
Candidates
, First nominating petitions
to name candidates for Clare
City Commission were taken
out from city-; hall this week,
City Clerk Dave Adams reported. ■ ■■
Hiram' Grimason and
George Shayler" are the two
men  named on the petition
forms. • */
Those wishing to become
candidates in the election
contest for three seats on the
Commission may take out per
titions at any time, Adams
said, ' but they* must be returned to be filed, with signatures sometime "between
March 8 and 18. Twenty-five
signatures of registered- voters are required on each petition. ' " ■   .
P r es e n t Commissioners
whose terms expire are Mayor Laurenee Seiter, ,' Paul
Schroeder, and Gerald Nivison. •   .
Mr Grimason is a retired State
Police officer who has often expressed a desire to sferVe'- the city
on the Commission. * „
He ran fourth in a field of six
candidates for Commission seats
last April in his "first try at
politics. His vote total was 'only 20
short of enough to gain him a
seat.
Mr. Shayler, in his try for the
city post;, is making a first-time
run for' a city elective office.
He has toeen active in club, and
school parents organizations and
is the father of a family of school
age children, -He and Mrs- Shayler with; their family reside on
Dunlop i-toad. He is a veteran of
the Glare Fire Department.
Ford^TV^In
Local Car Sales
CHS Honor Students Named
Eleven senior class member,-?
at Clare High School have been
named to the National Honor
Society for 1958."
They are Mary.Maloney, Sharon Grimason, Ruth Miller, Jean
Wood, Kathleen Thayer, Betty.
Gordon, Gail Samborn, Marilyn,
Brown, Nancy Burton, Kay Blystone, and Ann Jackson.       .   ,
The 11 represent   the top   15
per cent of the class chosen by
senior classmates and faculty
members on a basis of scholarship, leadership, and character,
from among the top 25 per cent
of the clctss. '
The National Honor Society is
sponsored by the Association of
Secondary School Principals,
Each of the 11 will receive a pin
from the society:
WWI Veterans Install Officers
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At Barracks Meeting Sunday
The World War I Veterans of commander, state auxiliary pres-
Clare-Isabella Barracks 228 and ident, department auxiliary chap-
Auxiliary ' met. for    installation lain -and past department chief
ceremonies at the VFW Hall in
Clare on Sunday afternoon.
After a chicken dinner served
to about 75 people, joint installation ceremonies for the "barracks and auxiliary were • conducted.    '
Department Commander
Charles Cooper introduced vis-,
itors present for the occasion.
They .included state junior vice-
Reschedule
For P.T.A.
Mrs. Ruth Toepfer, dental
Health consultant from Lansing
was scheduled to speak to the
PTA, February 17, but this date
had'to be cancelled because of
bad weather. She Will speak Monday," March 3, on a summer topi-;
cal fluoride program for the
prevention of tooth decay in
children. Representatives and
parents from all schools in Clare
County are invited to attend.
It has been found that "tooth
decay can be reduced by 40 per
cent when a 2 per.?, cent solution
of sodium fluoride is applied to
the surfaces of children's teeth-
Mrs. Toepfer' will explain how
such a. clinic Can be set up,
which children will receive the
most belief it and the apptoxj-v
mate cost involved,
This type of program -has the
full support of local dentists and
the Clare County Health Depart
More people in the county of ment.
Clare   bought   Ford    passenger
cars   in 1957   than   any other
make, according to final and official registration  figures    just
released by R. L. Polk and Company, the, automobile industry's
statistics  gathering agency.*
The figures show , that.; 140
Fords were registered' in' the
county of Clare during the year,
compared^ to 98 for Ford's closest competitor.
Nationally, Ford led all year
by selling about eight cars every
minute of the selling day..This
is figured on the basis of 310
selling days„ . . ten hours each
day.
House OKs Choice Of
Chairman By Delegates
House Bill No. 95 commonly referred to as the "county chairmen bilL", received overwhelming
approval-by the House of Representatives last Thursday when it
came up for the final vote.
This bill, as you may remember, makes it possible for the delegates to the fall county convention to elect the county chairman
ahd also the vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer as well as to
select the members of the county
committee. Under the present
statute the officers and "members
of the county committee are
•selected solely by the county anci.
legislative nominees.
This proposed legislation Has
received a great deal of support,
not only from political observers
and participants in. Isabella and
Clare counties, but' throughout
the State of Michigan. Both the
Republican and Democrat parties
have voiced approval of the
change wheh assembled at state
convention.
The vote on House, Bill No. 95
which consisted of 83 yeas and
9 nays is somewhat interesting
in itself, considering the fact that
the .bill was subject to hot debate
and discussion, not only on the
House floor but also outside the
chamber.
With the active support of both
state party organizations, the bill
received the 56 votes required for
passage. Before the vote Was
recorded, -however, many members, who were opposed to the
bill, switched their vote to yea
so as to <go on record for its
support.
It is rather ironic when you
think of it, because in order to
broaden the base of local political
control, it was necessary to take
away some of the "power" of the
county and legislative nominees
And it was necessary therefore,
to receive the approval of some
of the very people that were tc
lose "power."
But the majority agreed that in
the long run it would strengthen
'the political party system which
is the key to our democratic
process, and that in turn would
benefit the public.
Following the passage of ths,
bill, it was granted "immediate
effect" (% vote required) so that
it could go into operation immo
diately following the coming primary.
I must admit that I was quite
flattered ahd pleas'ed' when Rep.
Waldron (R.-Grosse Pointe),
chairman of the committee on
elections and also chairman of
the House Republican campaign
committee, moved that the bill
be known as the "Strange Bill.*'
The House unanimously approved. ,
, Continued on- Pago 8
Scouts Enjoy
Skiing Juant
.Scoutmaster Bill Hofweber
took his Troop 120 on a skiing
party at Snow Snake Mountain,
Wednesday evening last week.
There are twelve boys in this
troop, which is sponsored by the
Knights of Columbus, and they
meet regularly for instructions
and social activities."
Recently, Assistant Scoutmaster, Joe Bowler, demonstrated the art of making arrows. '
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of staff, .department auxiliary
guard and deputy chief of staff.
Some of the visitors assisted in
the installation.'
William Wood -was installed as
commander of . the barracks,'
Frank Thomas as senior vice-
commander, • Frank Freeman,
junior yice-commander; Charles
Cooper, . quartermaster; Emil
Giers, chaplain; Norman Wilson,
judge advocate;. Ed DeForest,
three year trustee; Vern Elwood,
adjutant; Egbert Fordyce, sergeant at arms.
The auxiliary .installed Clarice
Bellows,, president; Esta Hender-
shot, senior.vice-president; Iva
Wood, junior vice-president; Isabel Cooper, treasurer; Mina DeForest, chaplain; Nellie "Ester-
line, conductress; Jessie Jarvis,
guard; and "Mrs. Frank Freeman,
trustee.
Memorial services were observed for Eslie Harvey, Burley
Shaver and Frank Koeplinger
and for Frances Monroe.
Department Commander Cooper gave a talk on the charter
bill 441, and announced organization of several new barracks and
auxiliaries in the state. Following the meeting, Vern* Elwood
showed some films of recent
WWI Vets activities. The next
mqeting will be March 30, at 1
p.m.
Household's
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Paul Sell, of Toledo, Ohio, a
former West Grant resident,
writes that he would like to
know the name of Sentinel's
West Grant correspondent, as
he would like to send sortie
news items. Mrs. Gerald Barber, of K-2 Farwell writes the
West Grant news.
We read wry humor in a postcard message from a Michigan
subscriber who told us he.wants
his Sentinel delivered at home
he^e again after several weeks
temporary delivery to Florida.
Home,after suffering through
the southern cold spell, our
friend said he can freeze cheaper
in Michigan-
Ford
The Sales Leader
Is Leading Advertiser
In Clare county, more car buyers chose Fords in 1957
than any other make. Official figures' just published
place Ford in the sales lead over the nearest competitor by 140s*registrations tp. 98.
During that period Ford was the leading automotive
advertiser in Clare Sentinel columns with more than
1,130 inches of company and dealer association space
plus hundreds more ad inches purchased by Dan
McDonald, the local dealer.
The Sentinel leads all county publications in
"paid circulation* going into .every'' corner of
Clare co_nty ahd delivering heavy coverage in
the north half of Isabella county, and adjoining
portions of Gladwin, Midland, Osceola counties.
The facts add upt .' A  good product well advertised
•through The Sentinel as a selected advertising media
. , '. Sales come that way!   ' 	
Draws Crowds
Crowds of shoppers visited
Household Appliance Incorporated in Clare for gifts, free coffee, and chances on prizes during
the store's three day, 12th Anniversary sale last Thursday,
Friday arid Saturday.
Emerson Bergey of Clare, was
the winfter o'f a $100 cash prize
in a drawing Saturday night,
Mrs. Tom Abbott, of Clare, was
the lucky winner of a grand
award. Her prize was a carpet.
Winners of watches given
away during the three day event
were Bryan D. Miller, Mrs, Rus
sell McClain, Charles Strange,
Melville Stebelton, George Wilson, Inez Prather.
Omer Parent, Gerald Nivison,
and Helen Doherty, all of Clare,
Hilda Beck and Grace Schrahk
of Farwell, and Rev. Burdett
Faulk, of Gladwin,
Candy All Sold
Teen Town's mayor and council
are giving their thanks to helpers
in the recent fund-raising candy
sale. They were pleased when
Mrs. Sam Garfield .added a contribution to the price of the candy
she bought. Profits from the
sale are to be used for operation
of the project and help .finance a
Ham Radio club. Teen-age candy
salesmen accounted for all 480
packages Of candy given them to
be sold.
Four teen-agers and four adult
members of the club hope to obtain a radio receiving set kit to be
assembled. -They hope also to
own a transmitter „y the same
method.
MMTttS;
Mrs. Joseph Grigware, for' several years a Lake .resident died
Monday in Central Michigan
Community hospital, Mt. Pleasant where she had been taken
for treatment. She was the wif"
of Joseph Grigware, retired
C & O Railroad Superintendent.
Born ih Clare county; she had
lived' in Saginaw until her hus-
■■band's retirement, when they
moved back to Garfield township.
She leaves her husband; three
sons, J. Warner and Clare Grigware of Grand Rapids and Carlos B. Grigware of Munster.
Ind.; seven grandchildren; six
great-grandchildren; two sisters
and two brothers.
The funeral was at 2 p.-m.
Wednesday at Clare Congregational Church.
April City Election Ballot
Will Carry Proposal For
Millpond Development
' April elections in Clare should decide
whether first steps finally can be taken in
realization of the Millpond dream.
A proposal will be put on the Spring
ballot asking voters to decide whether the
city should transfer the Millpond ■ area dam
site, flowage rights and adjacent lands to a
non-profit corporation for development.
Transfer of the Millpond area to a nonprofit group for development would not
cost Clare taxpayers any money, Commissioner Dan Burdo pointed out, in discussing
the- development project. Mr. Burdo has
been one-.of the most active single backers
of. the work.
"If the voters give their approval to the
project, the net result will be that some
wasteland owned by the city will be turned
into cleared and iandscaped residential and
recreational property, at considerable advantage to the city, valuation-wise. And at
no cost to the taxpayer," Mr. Burdo saidN
The city commission went cm record in
its wording of the ballot proposal last week,
that it would "be advisable to build a dam
on the Millpond site,, and clear the adjacent
areas, and that an independent non-profit
group would be able to handle the .problem
most satisfactorily.
Court Fines
Man $25. For
Shooting Dog
: The ink was scarcely dry on
the newest revision of Clare's
city dog control ordinance before a wandering canine was
shot and killed by its owner's
neighbor, and the dog-killer was
summoned to court to be fined
for his act ■
However, it was a charge of
violating an entirely different
ordinance that cost Gerald Eroh,
303 EJ, State street, a fine^of $25
in Municipal Court Friday when
he plead guilty of illegal use of
firearms within the city limits.
Eroh, himself called the city
police just before 6:30 last
Thursday to report.that he had
shot a dog belonging to Ted
Cole, a neighbor. Cole telephoned th& police minutes later to re
pojrt the same thing.-He filed a
complaint against Ei-oh.
Records--bf the ease did not
give a reason by Eroh for the
shooting of the dog.
At his court appearance Friday before Justice Wm- Dunlop,
Eroh was "also assessed $16.50 on
a speeding ticket issued to him
last June in Clare. Clare Police
issued a warrant for him for the
offense, after he failed to appear and answer for the ticket in
municipal court. '     -,
Tuesday, Eroh is scheduled to
appear before Justice Dunlop
again, and make a plea on a
charge of careless use of fire
arms, violating a state statute.
County Prosecutor James S.
Bicknell III has issued' a warrant on the charge.
Patricia Sheldon, of Clare, was
ticketed by Clare Police, Saturday for failure to stop for a red
light at the intersection of McEwan and "Fifth, Streets. Mrs.
Sheldon was traveling North on
McEwan, and struck the rear of
a car driveh by Feme Allison Of
R'l Coleman, who was driving
east on US-10. The accident occurred at about 3:55 p.m.   ;
A car Was reported stolen
from Tim Cotter's used car lot
on North US-27^ on Tuesday
night, February 25.* The car was
recovered -in Mt. Pleasant the
same night by Michigan State
Police.
Wm*, Brake
To Be Guest
Of Riverside
Michigan State Grange. Master
William J. Brake will be special
guest of Riverside Grange, when
the grange holds an open house
on Tuesday March 4.
A .potluck lunch at noon and
an o^en meeting in the afternoon
will be included in the day's program. ,Ali members and officers
are urged to be present, and
others interested in the grange
are invited.
Harley Holt, Kraft Foods field
man will show a'film of tfie plant
in Clare.
Rosebush School
Open After Storm
Rosebush school resumed
classes Monday after being closed since the previous Monday
due to the drifted roads and cold
weather.
There will be no school on
Friday, February 28, so as to
allow the teachers to attend the
Michigan Education Association
meetings at the Mt. Pleasant
High School,
Dramatics
Students*At
Study Club
Mrs. Louisa Bowler, Clare
High School, speech and dramatics coach, will have charge of
the program for the Clare Study
Club, Tuesday evening, March
4, to be-1 held' in the Methodist
church parlors, at 8:00 o'clock.   .
She will present several dramatics students, winners in
speech contests, being held Wednesday and Thursday this week
at the school. •    .
They will present declamations, orations, dramatic and
humorous readings, Mrs. Bowler
will be assisted by Mrs. Paul
Sheponski and Robert Beidler,
as judges for the contests.
The collection at the club
meeting this month will be used
for Teen Town, and members
are urged to bring their contribution. ,
MSU Artist
In Lecture
Murray Jones, a member , of
the Michigan State University art
department, will speak to Clare
area artists on experimental
painting techniques, tonight in
the Fifth Avenue Room of the
Hotel Doherty, at 7:30.
Mr. Jones, who currently has
a one-man show on exhibit in the
Detroit Artists Market, makes
use of new materials such as
industrial laquers and various
foils in his- Work.
His work is recognized as
some of the- best of Contemporary abstract expressionism. In
addition to new materials, he
uses such-techniques as crackled
paint, sanded areas, and wax
varnishes for textural and tonal
effects. '
There will be ah admission
charge, ,
Several Clare area artists now
have work on display at the
Michigan State University Union
Building galleries,' in an exhibit
titled "Some Michigan Primitives." '
Local artists sending work
were -Grace McArthur, Donna
Dunlop and Ruth Blanchard of
Clare; Bertha Gardiner of Harrison; and Sam Sherwood, of
Grayling,
The exhibit came about after
Howard.. Church, head of the
MSU art department, visited the
annual fall exhibit of Clare area
artists last September, and became interested in their work.
With the help of Mrs. Virginia
Seitz, Clare art teacher, work of
the local artists was collected to
add to this exhibit of Michigan
primitive painters. '
The MSU exhibition runs thru
March 11, open from 8 a.m. to
9 p.m. including Saturdays and
Sundays. '
Appoint Vets
Fund Trustees
On February^!, 1958 the Board
of trustees of the Michigan Vet*
erans Trust Fund appointed
Loren A. Shank, Box 55, Farwell,
Michigan, to serve as the Veterans of War representative on tha
Clare County Veterans Trust
Fund Committee for the term
ending March 31, 1961.
He succeeds Robert Schellhas
who" has resigned.
Commissioner "Burdo offered the proposal resolution at
the Commission meeting. Development of the site was
one of. the aims he pampaign-
ed on for election to ther commission last April.
Thet city commission has
authority, granted by -the
city charter, to turn the land
over to a^ development group
without voter approval being
required. But Millpond backers and city commission
members both feel it is better
to have a vote of public confidence- behind the project.
If the proposal is approved
in the "April election, a preliminary organization, of
which Ken Barnes is chairman, -is all set to go to work
on raising funds to finance
the first steps in the development, clearing and surveying
th^ area.
?Other officers are Dr. Al Austin, vice-president; Dale Stough,
2nd v vice-president; Esther Gilson, secretary; Lawrence Brown,
treasurer} pM Earl Baiimgarth,
Art Damoth, Ray Archbold, Carroll Beard, ban Burdo and Harold Schaeffer, directors.. •      "„...
They were elected last June,
when, a meeting of representatives of all lodges, churches, civic, service and social clubs and
businessmen's groups was called
to plan promotion of the project,
When devei'apmeiit Is advanced
enough so that residential lots
can be sold, proceeds of the
sales can be used to finance
building of the dam and flooding
the area, along with further
landscaping, Mr. Burdo said.
The development in this way "is
able to finance itself, he pointed
out. Preliminary estimates by
backers of the "project last summer indicated ; that about 100
building lots would be available.
A, large share of the lots would
have frontage oh the   man-made'
i lake, and the rest would be very
close to it,   Shoreline recreation
i and tourist areas would also, be
•provided.
I >The new lake would be created
• from fresh waters,of the Tobacco River,   at   the   northeastern
edge of the city of Clare. Inquiries have come in steadily since
I promotion of the   project   first
began, from people who   would
like to buy* lake front residential
property in the city, according to
; officers of the Millpond project.
P^y !For Commissioners
Clare city voters Will be asked
again to express themselves on
a proposal to provide pay for
members of the Commission
when election time rolls around
April 7.
Commissioners resolved unanimously last week to offer an
amendment to the city charter
providing compensation for commissioners, on the Spring ballot.
Commissioners are presently unpaid for their jobs.
The amendment calls for $400
per year for each commissioner,
except the mayor; who would
receive '$500. The stipulation is
included that $10 be deducted
each time a commissioner misses
a regular meeting. A secondary
provision of the amendment is
that commissioners be paid $10
per day salary for official bu?i*
ness outside the -city, in addition
to*necessary expenses incurred.
The compfensation-for-commis-
sioriers proposal, which has been
submitted to Clare voters twice
before, failed by only 35 votes
last year, and commissioners
think this year It may have a
good chance of being accepted,
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