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THE CLAHE SENTINEL, CLABE, MICHIGAN
MAY 29, 1958
Tew Cents Copy
New" Series, Vol. 66, No- 37
chedide X-Rays
eek For
est Reactors
The TB Mobile Chest X-ray
Unit will be stationed in Clare
county ior four days next week
to X-ray positive reactors, post
sanatorium patients, or known
arrested tuberculosis cases.
The X-raying ot these people
will complete a very successful
tuberculin skirt-testing survey
conducted in Clare County by
Health District Seven, the Michigan Department of Health and
Michigan. Tuberculosis. Association-.
The exact number of people
tested is not yet completed because testing is still being done
in three areas this week.   .
Final Skin-testing clinics were
held on May 27 at the Eagle
Chuf-ch of God, and May 28 at
the Sheridan township hall.
Test readings are complete this
week end for persons tested at
these places. \
It must -be emphasized that
only those people who are pos-
tive reactors -to the test or are
known diagnosed arrested tuberculosis cases will be X-rayed
at this time.
The films to be taken are the
large normal chest-size pictures.
The machine will be set up at
the following times and places:
Clare City Hall: Monday,
June 2, 2-8 p.m,
Clare City Hall: Tuesday,
June 3, 12-8:00 p.m,
Harrison City Hall: Wednesday, June 4, 2-8 p.m.
Farwell Town Hall: Thursday,
June 5, 2-8:00 p.jn.
Mich. T€ch.
Graduating   ***
3 Claire Men
Three Clare men will graduate from the Michigan College
of Mining and Technology at
the commencement exercises on
Sunday, June 15.
Michigan Tech will confer 456
bachelors' and 25 advanced degrees in 17 fields of science, engineering, and business administration at the ceremonies.
Robert Barber, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dale Barber, 704 Hemlock,
will receive the B.S. degree in
chemical engineering. He is a
member of Theta Tau fraternity and the student branch of
the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Barber is a graduate of the Clare High School.
The B.S. degree in mechanical
engineering and the B.S. degree
in engineering administration
will be awarded to Ronald T.
Denton, whose parents are Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Denton, Route
4. He is a member of the student branches of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Automotive
Engineers and the Society of
American Military Engineers, A
graduate of th e Mt. Pleasant
High School, Denton attended
Central Michigan College for
two years before enrolling at
Michigan Tech.
• Receiving the B.S. degree in
metallurgical engineering is
Donald J. Woolston, son of Mrs.
Margaret Woolston, 209 W. First
Street. He has been active in the
Tech band, the student branch-
of the American Society for
Metals and Tau Beta Pi, a national honorary engineering
fraternity. Woolston is a graduate of the Clare High School.
Coleman PFC
Marching In
A rlington R ites
Pfc William C. Marble, soh of
Mr. and Mrs. Jofin P, Marble,
R-2, Coleman, recently' Was selected to serve in the main funeral procession which Will accompany the Unknowns of
■World War II and Kiorea from
the Capitol Rotunda, Washington,'D.C., to Arlington National
Cemetery on May 30.
Marble is regularly assigned
to the 3d Infantry at Fort Myer,
Virginia. He entered the Army
in April 1957.
The 22-year-old soldier is a
1953 graduate of-Coleman Community High School.        .  .
Recognition
Comes To 4-H
The first Clare CoUnty 4-H
Leaders Recognition Banquet was
held Wednesday May 21st at the
Surrey House at Harrison.
Thirty leaders were -recognized
for their service to 4-H ih Clare
county. Six Junior leaders were
also recognized.
Our 4-H leaders are the backbone of any 4-H program and yet
they receive very little attention.
This affair has been planned to
bring long overdue honors to our
faithful leaders in Clare County,
Current leaders recognized- and
their years of service were:
Lucille Prielipp, 13 years.
Inez Pudvay, 10 years.
Leo Fitzpatrick, June Dawson,
Elizabeth Marotzke each 9 years.
Avonelle Hildebrandt, 8 years.
Grace Coats, Mort Shea Jr.,
Alice Martin, and Helena Blackledge each 4 years.
Mable Iutzi, 3 years; Dorothy
Baumer, Mrs. Kenneth Rorke,
Josie Allen, and Eva Beal each
2 years, -
Mrs. Ethard Walters; Mrs. Donald Kleiner; Mrs, Bernard Eberhart; Mrs. Lowell Haring; Mrs.
Bessie Beem; Mrs. William C.
Smith; Mrs, Titus Blosser; Lloyd
Keysor; Mrs, Winifred Welch;
•Fes7.-M&y Bpe;. Franci"? Fry;
Carl Cleveland; Edward LaFave;
Mrs. Arvilla Miller; and Mrs.
Marvella Mosher, each 1 year.
Junior Leaders - Ben Holdman;
Bernard Prielipp; Charlene
Rockey; Marilyn Davis; Glen
Fancon; and Jim Crawford each
one year.
J^&te^&^L
Conservation Officer Don
Bell was shaking his head last
Thursday over an accident
which killed a buck and doe
'deer near Cherry Grove cemetery. A report said that the
deer were lying dead near Airport Road.
Bell investigated and decided
that the bface of whltetails had
.dashed full-tilt against the
cemetery fence and broken
their necks.
The venison was in excellent condition for accidentaDy-
killed deer, and aided by
Charles Cooper, Bell had the
dressedout meat distributed to
needy families.
With levelling of a vacant lot
Where fire in January, 1957 razed
a building on McEwan street,
Witbeck's IGA Supermarket expects to open a customer parking area soon. A private venture,
the new lot is the first move to
ease the town's parking shortage since half of the former city
park was converted to auto parking several years ago,
Tlie Senior CHS Bartd Will
rehearse one night a week thru
out the Summer and Mr. Conley luges all musicians of the
area to come and share in this.
If you can play* but don't have
an instrument, come and maybe borrow one. This Is a jam
session for all musicians;
Katharine Cornell, of Lake,
co-ed at Central Michigan College was featured in a dancing
role for the stage presentation of
'(Brigadoon" presented by fthe
music and physical education departments of CMC at Warriner
Auditorium May 22 and 24. The
play is a well-known costume entertainment.
" Miss Alice M. Kranich (left) and Mites Virginia M* Graham are
T?\[a£***fSY(*(*Tt two °* *ke Clare operators calling al| Glare telephone users. Tape
Ej Yd^ICCll contains a record of caller's' dialing!; helps check equipment and
,-*rv»   i* dial technique. After change fo dial* Clara telephone users will
• j_S_3ll-l|£ dial two letters and five numerals foir any of the, 8,000 telephones
in Clare's Extended Calling area,      f
ROOM 19
There's Special Beauty In
Our Flag Gloriously Unfurled
A blending of emotions comes
with Decoration Day —• joy that
there's a holiday and sadness at
the memories stirred.. And everyone who, owns a flag of any size
displays it then. Yet after it's all
over, I always wish, we'd had
more flags displayed.
. We give lots of attention to tlie
flag at school. Bulletin boards
are devoted to it at special times
during the year; children cut out
stars aria, Mam about them in
social studies, in art, in science;
little folks read stories Of Betsy
Ross and are inspired to make
their own flags from rectangles
of sheeting crayon-marked appro-
Diocesan
Fund Drive
Reaches $2,230.
Members of St. Cecilia's Parish here, to date have contributed $2230.00 in cash ahd pledges
to the fourth annual Diocesan
Development Fund Campaign,
which closed Sunday.
. Opened in 180 congregations in
Western Michigan on May 18
the Campaign is expected to be
as successful as it was in 1957
when $450,500.00 was obtained.
Totals released by Campaign
headquarters to date do not include receipts since Sunday, as
volunteer solicitors were requested to complete their calls
before reporting to parish, headquarters.
Revenues obtained from the
Fund are used by Bishop Allen
J. Babcock to conduct programs
on a diocesan-wide scale. A principal objective of this year's project will be the construction of a
chapel and social activities
building for Catholic students at
Ferris Institute.
Delegates
Veterans of World War. I, and
the auxiliary will hold a State
Convention July 11, 12 and 13,
Delegates from the Clare-
Isabella Barracks are: Riley
Harger, Hiley Jarvis, - Conrad
Walker, Jay Bellinger.
Frank Thomas, Norman Wilson, William Phillips,' William
Wood, Emil Giers, Frank Freeman,
The delegates were named at
a meeting held May 25 at the
VFW Hall in Clare.
priately.The Pledge of Allegiance
is part df our way* of living at
school — and I confess I "find that
I must watch that I insert the
words — ''one nation under God."
So many years I've said it without
that phrase that I must do It
•consciously. In doing so, I gain
appreciation that I did not have
before.
We hold essay contests with
love of America the theme; iVe
talk about the degree to which
we all have freedom of speech
and are surprised to find that
there are necessary confines.
We learn our nation's history;
we sing our famous flag song
with its opening visual query. We
study literature that's patriotic;
we familiarize ourselves with, flag
etiquette. * I wonder if We all appreciate the fact that there is
usually an American flag for
every schoolroom, the way there
is a Bible.
Yet if our families do not own
these symbols of oUr nation, how
can the children fly them? It
seems to me we all know far
more folks who raise the roof at
home than those who raise the
flag.
Dry-cleaners are helping us
along with that in some areas,
where they offer to freshen flags
free of charge, But so far, not
too many of us are' responsible
for making them work overtime.
There's something especially
beautiful about our emblem,
gloriously unfurled. I look about
for it in eagerness when 1 return
from off our nation's boundaries.
Sometimes I look, and feel both
puzzled and wistful as I recall
.low other flags waved everywhere. Then I think perhaps we
do not feel" the need to raise a
flag to ifhow we love our country.
I'd rather think it was that way
than caused by,careless loyalty.
That's not the kind we seek to
foster in our schools.
I think of it whenever there
are differences at school, for little
explosions will awayS pop up like
ready toast .wherever there are
many folks of Varying dispositions and backgrounds. Then we
look up and see the flag,symbol-
izing unity and bigger than us all.
And reverence is ours.
Gies Named
Scout Fund
Drive Leader
Marvin Gies, Clare, has been
appointed chairman of the Fall
1958 Combined Boy Scout and
Girl Scout Drive according to Dr.
G. C. Born, Tomahawk District
Vice-Chairman. Mr. Gies is employed as a Resident Engineer
Representative at the Clare Manufacturing Company. He lives at
£31 Rainbow' Drive, Clare, with
his wife Florence and their two
daughters, Diane and Susan.
He lias lived in Clare about a
year and is extremely interested
in yodth. He is currently working with the * Little_£jgaguj-Mj-i
Clare.       , "'"*"
The organization of the fall
drive began with Mr. Gies appointment. A meeting of all Girl
and Boy Scout representatives in
Clare, Harrispn, Farwell, Lake
George, and Lake was held Tuesday at the Clare Manufacturing
Company conference room.
Vets Graves
Decorated
Members of veterans organizations have been busy this
last week, decorating graves of
armed forces veterans in Cherry
Grove and St. Cecilia's ceme-
terys. Families and friends of
deceased veterans are urged to
notify the committee if individual graves have not received attention. Calls may be made to
Conrad Walker, of the Walter
H. Larman Post, American Legion.
Teens Invite
All Parents
Junior and Senior boards of
Teen Town have invited all
parents of teen-agers whether
they were Teen-Town members
or not, to attend aft open house
in their building on the evening
of May 31 from 7 to 10:30
o'clock. Coffee and donuts will be
served free.
After May 31, Teen-Town will
be open only on Wednesday 7
to 9:30, .and Friday 1 to 10:30.
To help make Michigan 'highways as safe for driving as possible over the Memorial Day
Weekend holiday, Highway Com:
missipner John C, Mackie has
directed that- all construction and
maintenance operation? ibe -sus--
pended, except for emergency
work and that on projects which
are' on relocations not open to
traffic.
Thursday noon, May 29, has
been set as the time to halt .-bridge
and .road construction -ton the
state trunklines which are carrying traffic. Work will not be resumed until Monday morning,
June 2,    Contractors haye been
Beaverton Man Becomes
Head Of Michigan Masons
A farmer's son who served with
the Red Arrow Division in World
War 1, Joseph L. Hunter of Beaverton, was proclaimed the 108th
Grand Master of Masons in Michigan during the closing session
of the 131st Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge F & AM
of Michigan held at Detroit
May 28.
Hunter was born at Chesaning,
Michigan, January 21, 1896, the
offspring of Canadian parents of
Scotch ahd Irish descent. He received his formal education in the
public schools of Michigan and
received his higher learning at
McLaughlin's Business College
where his principal study was in
railroad station accounting and
telegraphy.
Before completing his education
he enlisted in 1915 in Company F,
33rd Michigan National Guard
and was mustered into Federal
service at Grayling, Mich. June
16,1916. At the outreak of World
War.l he was sent to Texas and
became a part of Company K,
125th United States Infantry of
the 32nd Division, which later became the famed Red Arow Division and was labelled by the
French, as t$e "Les Terribles". -
He saw service with the A. E.F.
early in 1918 and was wounded in
combat during the battle of Ju-
vigny Plateau which was a part
of the Soissons Sector of France.
Following completion of his business college studies he was sent
to Coleman, Michigan for practical training in railroad station
accounting. He -was next employed as a station agent-operator*
at Beaverton by the Pere Marquette Railway where he remained for eight years. He resigned
to enter the employ of the United
States Post Office as a rural mail
carrier from which position he
retired September 30, 1957.
Freemasonry gained his interest in 1922 and he was raised to
the Sublime Degree of Master
Mason in Chesaning Lodge No.
194 during November of that
year. In October of 1925 he transferred to Beaverton Lodge No.
453 and served the lodge for four
terms as 'Worshipful Master,
1928 - 29, 32 and 35. He is also a
member of Midland Chap'ter No.
169, St. Bernard Commandery of
Saginaw and the coordinate Scottish Rite Bodies of Bay City.
In his adopted city of Beaverton he served first as alderman,
Service Awards
Three Cities Service Oil Co.
employees in the Clare and Mt.
Pleasant areas were presented
service awards at a dinner May
20 in recognition of their "years
of service with the company.
Those receiving awards in
Clare include George E. Apps,
15 year award; Jack P. Morrison and Annabel R. Wilson, ten
year awards.
League Opener
Pony League baseball opens
the 1958 season Monday, June
2 with a game between the
Seals and the Giants, The game
will be played on the Clare
school ball diamond at 6 p.m.
o'clock.
JOSEPH L, HUNTER
city treasurer* arid finally as
mayor.
He embarked upon the sea of
patrimony July 2,1936 by marrying the former Sylvia L. Bates.
The Hunters, are members of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Beaverton where Grand Master
Hunter presently serves-' on the
Church Board of Trustees..
Red Cross
Drive Ended
With $1,873
Workers and donors in the recent Red Cross Clare county
drive drew praise from County
Chairman Richard Schroeder
when he made, his final report
labeling the effort a success.
$1,873. was collected, by committees throughout- the county.
A list of communities and committee chairmen, together with
amounts contributed are:
Clare, Curtis Murton, $1069.65
Harrison, Leota Murton,
$200.50
Arthur Twp., Norman Myers,
$100.0
Garfield Twp., Donna Scott,
$100.00
Redding Twp., Mrs. Wm. Doty,
$75.00
Greenfield Twp, Carl Bringold
Sup., $75.00
Winterfield Twp., Ray Richardson Sup., $60.00
Lincoln Twp., Mildred Ryck-
man, $55.25
Grant Twp., Louis Becker,
Sup., $50.00
Surrey Twp., (Farwell) Dorothy Schmid, $41.26        -     .
Hayes Twp., Orlie Stockwell
Sup., $25.0.0 •
Hamilton Twp., Walter Ehle
Sup., $25.00
Sheridan Twp., Loren Krug
Sup., $25.00
Frost Twp., Harold. Mohler,
$22.00
Mr. Schroeder said, "This drive
Was successful only because of
the efforts put forth by the various community chairmen and
volunteer workers. I wish to
take this opportunity to thank
everyone who assisted, in the,
drive and Contributed anything
from a few pennies to fifty dollars, thus fulfilling their responsibility of citizens and members
of Clare county.
Phone Users Here Get Dial Service; "Preview
99
With the change to dial telephone service less than three
weeks away, Clare telephone
users are being offered "sneak
previews" of -what the new service will be like.   -
Several operators are calling
every telephone' user in the
Clare exchange to give them an
opportunity to try their hand at
dialing a few numbers, and to
familiarize themselves with the
sounds df the dial tone and
busy Signals,
Purpose of the calls is twofold , . , the trials constitute an
acid test of the new phone equipment's readiness, as Well as offering the customer a chance to
polish his dial technique.
Each customer is called, then
asked to dial a number or two.
As the telephone  user dials   a
number, it's automatically recorded on special test equipment.
Any inaccuracies in dialing or
equipment show Up on the
equipment as ink marks On paper tape.
From such marks, the especially-trained operators can de*
termine whether or not the
equipment is working properly.
If the telephone user has any
trouble mastering the dial- tlie
operator will assist
gestions.
with   sug-
The "sneak previews" * have
proved helpful in making the
change to dial smooth and easy
in other communities, reports
Michigan Bell Telephone Company manager T.C. Maher,
"We've found, that such trial
calls and the dial demonstrations
at schools and club meetings has
enabled most communities to
learn to use the dial quickly and
effortlessly. Under these circumstances, there are few cases of
wrong numbers or overloads on
the dial equipment/' he said.
Dial servide information is
published in a series of advertisements in the Sentinel, the
first of which appears ia this issue on page ten,
notified that they will not he-*
allowed to move any construction
equipment on or across state
highways during this period.
One-way traffic is to be elimina-j
nated where possible on projects
now being maintained for. restricted traffic.
Commissioner, Mackie also instructed Maintenance divisioit
engineers to have all temporary
and regular routes iri the best
possible condition for safe travel.
The highway chief also -appealed to motorists to take extra pre-!
caution whie driving over the
weekend, which is expected to
see unusually heavy .traffic
volumes. Experience hag j**ho*wn,
he pointed out, that expected
accident totals can be reduced
when the motoring public is
determined tb do so.
Emil Pfister
Selected For
BSA Honors
Dr. Emil Pfister, 1016 S.
Franklin, Mt. Pleasant, professor of speech at Central Michigan
College, was honored with the
Silver Beaver award for his outstanding work with area youth
groups at the 41st Annual Dinner meeting of the Valley Trails
Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Dr. Pfister had worked in
Scouting in Tuscola and Clare
Counties before moving to Mt.
Pleasant. He has served in
many positions including' the job
Of Tomahawk District Chairman. His present position is
Tomahawk Representative to
the Council Executive Board. He
has been active for several
years in conducting youth
camps during the summer. He
has also been camp director at
Camp Rotary north of Clare.    **
Other Silver Beaver recipients
were Robert Reynolds and "Chic"
Rankin, both, of Saginaw.
Nearly 250 persons attended
the meeting. Mahlon W. Vance
of Caro was reelected president
of the Valley Trails Council.
Other officers elected were:
Vice Presidents, Donald Holbrook of Clare, Raymond Abbey
of St. Louis, and John Wither-
idge, of Saginaw; Treasurer,'
Paul C. Souder; Commissioner,
RUssell A. Slade Jr.; Council representatives to the National
Council, Arthur A. Schupp of
Saginaw and James D. Leonard
of Mt. Pleasant.
District Officers Who were accepted at the meeting are:
James H, Jerome of Saginaw,'
Canupa District; Grant VanBus-
kirk, Sagana District; Glen Mun--
sell, Alma of Gratiot District;
Horace Buelen, Cass City of Tuscola District; and John Wiley,
Mt. Pleasant of Tomahawk District.
An annual sUmmaiy of Scouting activities during the past
year Was reported by Vahce;
Richard C. Lebetsamer, Council
executive; Oral Smith, deputy
regional executive,
Scouters from . Bianchard,
Shepherd, Mt. Pleasant, and
Clare attended the meeting,"
Attack Weed
Problem At
Lake Thirteen
' Residents of the community at
Lake Thirteen, north/of Farwell
sponsored a project this Week
for the mass destruction of
Weeds near their lake property.
A contractor was employed to
spray weed killer on fields and
lots back as far as 100 feet fronv.
the water edge.
•Joe McLaughlin, president of
the home-owners aGsoci^oii
said that hundreds of gallons of
Dow * manufactured chemical
weed-control solution was used
in the operation. A contractor,
one of only a few in the mid*
west equipped to undertake a
large project of this type, performed the job, The operatiejtt
WaS scheduled for completidis
Wednesday*