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THE CLARE SENTINEL, CLAHE, MICHIGAN
JANUARY 29, 1959
Ten Cents Copy
New Series, Vol. 67, No. 20
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The Winter Ball, —
ires* Of Them All?
A trio of pretty contestants
for the title of Queen of Clare
County Winter Sports Festival
* will grace the Ball to be held at
» Barnes Town and Country
Lounge Saturday evening. The
dancing and festivities will share
the limelight with outdoor fun
on rinks and ski slopes Friday
and Saturday.
Appearing before the judges
and an approving audience at
the Festival Queen's Ball will be
Miss Clare, — Ann Jackson the
seventeen year-old daughter of
Mrs.. Ruby Jackson of Clare.
Miss Harrison, — Sharon Griffin who is seventeen and the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Griffin of Harrison. Miss
Farwell, — Nola VanBuskirk, a
June graduate from Farwell
High and the daughter of Mr.
, and Mrs. Robert VanBuskirk of
^     Farwell,
One girl selected from the
three finalists will be crowned
to reign over the Ball and assume the title, "Miss Clare
County".
Earlier in the evening a banquet will be served at Barnes
where headlined Sportscaster
Bob Reynolds will broadcast his
Saturday radio program. A
mobile unit from Detroit station
olio Shots
tied For
WJR will be in Clare after visiting Snow Snake Mountain and
other spots during the day.
The banquet is to be served
at .6 p.m. with guests requested
to seat thep**jselves promptly so
that the broadcast can begin on
schedule. The Skyline Room will
be cleared after the banquet for
dancing.
Admission to the banquet is
by ticket, and couples will be admitted to the dance when displaying a lapel pin "Goofus" iri-
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The 57 per cent of Michigan's
pre-school children who still
aren't immunized against paralytic polio need to start the
three-shot vaccination series
immediately.
Dr. Albert E. Heustis, state
health commissioner, made this
recommendation recently and
pointed out that the low level of
protection   in the under-5    a'?e
* group" Is ia* serious ^fnadeliuacy
because pre-schoolers get more
paralytic polio than any other
age group.
"These youngsters need pro
tection," Dr. Heustis said, "and
we have an excellent vaccine
available to protect them with.
Polio vaccine will prevent 80 to
90 per cent of all paralytic polio,
but it can't do any good on the
warehouse shelf. We must get
the vaccine into young arms to
get the job done,"
Dr. HeUstis Said he is recommending /that the state legislature make an immediate appropriation of $400,000 to buy polio
vaccine for unprotected preschoolers. He said the vaccine
4 would be made available in
» health departments clinics
throughout the state and through
the offices of practicing physicians.
Polio vaccine is available to
pre-school children and youngsters at Health Service Well-
Child Conferences.
"Unless we start the preschoolers on their shots now,"
Dr. Heustis explained, "they
won't be protected when Michigan's so-called paralytic 'season'
starts next June or July. It
takes several months to complete the series and develop
maximum protection."
Failure to use the vaccine, Dr.
, Heustis added, can lead to tragic
, results. As an example he pointed to the outbreak in southeastern Michigan last year. Because of that outbreak, Michigan
recorded 550 cases of paralytic
polio in 1958 . . . almost five
times as many as the 121 cases
reported in 1957.
Bellingeirs9 Son
Gets CC Medal
Mr. and Mrs,    Jay   Bellinger
were guests Monday evening of
'■>      their son and wife, Mr. ■ and Mrs.
* Allan Kidder, to attend a Chamber of Commerce dinner and
meeting in Traverse City. The
special speaker was Pauline
Fredrick, of the United Nations
in New York.
As a complete surprise to the
Bellingers ' and to Allan, the
latter was selected as the "Citizen of the Year", and presented-
with a Gold Medal, by the
board of directors. Allan is a
past president of the organization, and has been faithful iri
his duties, and service to his
community.
About   seven hundred    were
present at the   banquet   which
was held in the St Francis Auditorium there.
>'-* The Bellingers   remained   in
Traverse City overnight returning home Tuesday mornin|r*
ANN JACKSON
Miss Clare
SHARON GRIFFIN
Miss Harrison
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NOLA VanBUSKIRK
Miss Farwell
Mother Of
5 Finishes
High School
After 13 years of married
life and being the mother of
five children, Mrs. Leon Thrush
so definitely felt the need of
possessing a high school diploma that last fall she resumed
the necessary studies, as a student in the Farwell High School.
She only needed two half-
credits and her subjects were
U.S. History and Biology. She
completed her work with 6 A's
and expects to receive her diploma before the School Board,
February 9. .
Honor Farm
Cooperators
Howard Penrose and Sons,
farm operators are among just
17 Farm Cooperators who have
compiled 30 years or more of
record keeping in cooperation
with local Agricultural Agents
and MSU's Ag. Economics Department.
Floren Pudvay, also of Clare
county, and Ralph Peterson in
Gladwin county, with Maurice
John and William Brickner of
'Isabella county have 20-year
records. All are being specially
honored by the University during Farmers' Week; in East
Lansing from February £ to 6
signia of the Festival,
At Snow Snake, the proprietors, Mr. and Mrs. Brockway
have announced a schedule of
demonstrations and competitive
events on Saturday to attract
skiiers and spectators alike.
Beginning at 3:30 p.m. there
will be Downhill Races for young
skiiers up to 15 years; Downhill Races for skiiers 15 and
over; Slalom and Cross-Country
Races and exhibitions. Prizes
are offered for a skier coming
from the greatest distance, the
skier with the most Snow Snake
Mt. tickets on his outfit, and a
door-prize drawing to be held
at 3:30. Activities at the popular park will continue through
Sunday," February 1.
Glare's -contestant for the
Festival Queen honors is a
first year co-ed at Central Michigan-College where she entered
after graduating from Clare
High in 1958 with highest class
honors.
Majoring in English, with
music and French as her minors, she plans to be a secondary
teacher.
Ann is well known and loved
by many for her pleasing personality and friendliness."
During her high school years
she was pianist for the Clare
City Four, playing for teen age
dances, proms and wedding re-
septions, etc, As a talented -musician, she is busy in her'spare
moments giving music lessons.
Active in sports, she loves to
swim and water ski in the summer, and is considered one of the
best girl skiers around Clare.
The dinner and ball this
week end will be a pleasant
climax for Ann, following her
week's studies and exams at
college.
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Spanned by overhead stoel
and with walls beginning to
outline ihe • shape:- of things,.
Clare High's new gymnasium
takes form. Work, slowed by
zero weather and drifting
snow, will spurt- ahead when
warmer spells begin to.b^reak
winter's grip on the'; job.
Small crews of workmen are
waiting reinforcements vwhe*o
conditions allow. . ■" I 7.
It's  slow work,  constructing
masonry walls in*.weather aU
cold as has been the steady  -, < (J
fare for workmen on the job ■-*'[' ,"
at the Clare High School But  \   •'
progress is being made- just
the  same,   and  here behind
canvas    and    plastic    windbreaks,   heaters   warm   new
work and the bricklayers too
as classroom units, rise on the
new location. •   : • ■'■•
Phone Service Paces
■•• If you are one of 2,258 .telephone subscribers in the local
area served by the Clare Exchange, you might be somewhat
surprised and almost certainly
interested to see what' statistics
reveal about you, and about your
town, your telephone habits and
to learn the over aU size of the
organization and equipment here
at your service.
Fqr example, you and your
neighbors pick up your phone to
make a local call on an average
of six times every day. And. you,
together with many more telephone users in six other nearby
towns included in this "extended
area" place a surprising total of
long-distance calls amounting to
a daily average of 1,400 to 1,800.
An average daily number of
local calls in the various towns
reaches numbers to prove that
we all depend upon the phone
for a great many errands. Each
day the phone calls in Beaverton
averages 4,100, Coleman 3,900,
Farwell 3,200, Gladwin 11,000,
Harrison 3,800, Rosebush 1,500
and Clare 13,500.
In Clare, you can telephone
any one of 8,174 telephones without toll charge. These phones are
located in the Clare area, and in
Beaverton, Coleman, Farwell
(plus Lake and Lake George),
Gladwin, Harrison, and Rosebush.
Altogether, your telephone's
long reach extends out with your
message over an area of 1,118
square miles where the magic
threads of telephone lines take
your voice.
Sixteen mayors and village-presidents together with newspaper
editors and city attorneys last
Thu'sday (heard Clarence Riedel,
Clare Area Manager for Mich-
ign Bell pick these, and other interesting facts out of company
statistics showing growth over
the past decade. They were
guests at the Hotel Doherty
where the Bell company invited
them for dinner.
Later the group was Conducted
for sightseeing through the Telephone exchange building on East
Fourth street Where they were
guests of Mr. ftiedel, Charles
Goldammer and Mrs. Irene Mussel, service supervisors.
; Explaining,that new constauc-.
tion foil improving telephone
service and extending areas has
been slowed toy inflated prices
and limits on available 'capital
Mr. Riedel told the group that
even so, his company had spent
$330,000 in 1958,
The 1958 construction program
represented a drop of some $120,
000 from that spent in 1957, tout
nevertheless, since 1945 the num
ber of telephone users and the
area served have grown surprisingly.       .    ....._ .....
In the ten,*" years from 1949
■through 1958 Clare has grown
from a town with 1367 telephones
to 2288. And the other towns m
the area, have grown too,—some
even more than Clare.
' Beaverton in 1943 had 315
phones, now, 815;' Coleman from
498 to 959; Farwell from 263 to
890;. Gladwin from 746 to 1917;
HarriSon from 351 to 906; Rose-
ibush from 198 to 399. Percentage
of families "with telephone service range from the high of 79%
in Clare to 34 % in Harrison and
35% in Farwell at the low end of
the range. But these and othei
towns in the area are showing
great growth and  advancement*.
Turning to the mayors present,
Mr. Riedel said that every so
often, some question arose as to
why the Telephone Company paid
no property taxes. And he reminded his listeners that his
company is one of several In
Michigan Which is taxed directly
by the State in lieu of local levies
with the money being paid into
the State Primary School fund,
and re-distributed to localities on
a per-pupil basis.
The tax paid in Clare was
$10,479.00 on a count of 1,666
pupils.
The Company's payment to the
state primary school fund in 19-
58 was the largest in the company's history.
Amounting to $12,498,000, the
payment again placed Michigan
Bell as the top contributor to
the fund.
Schools throughout Clare
county received from Michigan
Bell's payment a total of $24,065.
Payments were toased on the
county census of 3,826, and the
local school census Of 1,666.
Other towns collected shares of
school money in proportion to
their school enrollment and, census in amounts of: Beaverton,
$6,070; Coleman, -7,183; Farwell,
$4,925; Gladwin $6,780; Harrison,
$4,170.
It was explaned that the Michir
gan Bell company in the state
has an investment of $301.47 for
each telephone in use and pays
$5.82 per month, per telephone to
maintain operation. The company
pays' taxes equal to $1.52 per
phone, 'per month not taking into
account the tax which is leviecl
directly [upon the user himself.
Present at the meeting and dinner were newspapermen and
mayors from all the area towns
except Gladwin where storms
and snow prevented the party
from attending.
A staff of employees numbering. 58 has headquarters in Clare,
from where service personnel are
dispatched .daily to work, or td
area points of trouble when thei
need arises.
Taber Show
Here Feb. 2
From dark Africa andj . the
tropics, to fabulous Alaska and
northward to the Arctic is. the
globe girdling scene for Wallace
Taber's travels and the theme lor
his illustrated lecture to be given
in Clare next Monday, February
2 at tiie school auditorium.
Appearing in person with two
colored motion-picture .films of
■his travels, Taber is under the
sponsorship of the Clare Rod and
Gun club. '
"Road To Romance," carries
the audience the entire length oi
the famed Alaskan highway and
well beyond to fish for the littie-
known shee-fish above the Arctic
Circle. Off the highway,, side
jaunts iby packtrain, Iboat and
.plane reveal a sportsman's paradise ... moose, caribou, bear, sheep
cutthroat trout
The second film—"Salfari Ya
Congo"—puts the audience within
arm's length distance of Africa's
most dangerous, her quaintest,
her least known and her little-
explored".
"In one sequence," Ray Owens,"
club member said, "Tatoer plays
hude-and-seek with a world,'record, r^ifio while . toting only, his
camera. If- you' iiked. Disney's,
African lion, you'll love Taber s
amazing prbiluction."-'        '  .
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Death ; came Wednesday • to
Mrs. Francis Jackson, wife "• of
Clare's, postmaster. She had suffered from a long illness. Last
rites -are .to be at" St..Cecilia's
church-at ten o'clock Saturday
morning, and Rbsaries -will ;be
said at 8, p.m. Thursday -and
Friday "nights .at- the-Jackson
honie, 209 W. Wheaton, Family
survivors in Clare are the bereaved husband, a daughter,- Mrs.
Donald Jones, and * a- grandson
Jack Mair.       *
Two At Vets
Conference
* • Dr. Neil B. Stirling and Dr.
Jack" E. Sauer, both of Clare,
haVe returned from the 36th annual POsfrGraduate Conference
for Veterinarians at Michigan
State  University  January 21-22.
About 350 practicing veterinarians from Michigan and several other midwest states heard
about advances in the treatment
and care of farm and home animals. The clinical sessions were
held' at Giltner Hall with the
workshops and other programs
at the Kellogg Center for Continuing Education.
Major speakers included Dr.
W. W. Armistead, dean of the
sponsoring MSU College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. Albert F.
Heustis, state commissioner of
health, and'G. S. Mclntyre, director of the state department
of agriculture.
Mr. Mclntyre, in his address,
declared that "Michigan has one
of the soundest disease control
programs' in the nation, thanks
to the fine cooperation between
the .Michigan veterinarians and
the Michigan Department of
Agriculture."
Want Entries
For Ag. Title;
* Clare members of the " Junior
Chamber 6f Commerce, ■ fresh
from the 'success of their Outstanding • Community Service
award project are seeking a local entry for- nomination to the
title,* Outstanding Young* Farmerof 1958." •
; jLocal, State and National
eliminations will be based on
-higK-l&vel qualifications in agriculture arid' good citizenship.
■ • Carl 'Gruno,' JayCee memHer
has .official entry blanks and
can' accept nominations up to
February 5,         _
Strange Gets Big Voice
In State Tax Revision
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Don R. Pears
(R-*Buchanan)   has   announced   the appointment of State
Representative   Russell H. Strange,   J. to.  several   high-
ranking committee assignments for the 1959-1960 session of
•— ! the Michigan Legislature.
Towns Join
For Fire Aid
Progress is reported in efforts
to form a Mutual Help organization among fire ^departments
of eleven central" Michigan
towns within a 30-mile distance
of each other. The organization
would guarantee that if emergencies arose, Departments in
all the towns would take standby responsibility in the-protection of property in all locolities.
Included in the proposed organization are Mt. Pleasant,
Shepherd'/ Coleman, Gladwin,
Beaverton, Lake George, Rose*
bush, Farwell, Weidman, Harrison, and Clare.
How Cold
Can It Get?
Temperatures which climbed
to 20 degrees last Sunday at
two o'clock in the afternoon,
dropped in a swift plunge to a
record, low for the winter and
touched an unofficial 24 below
zero by 5:30 Monday morning of
this week. .
The' cold snap touched off
countless arguments also, concerned with "just how cold the
weather actually got." Household and yard thermometers varied from 16 below to a reported
26 below to cause more disputes
than baseball's hot-stove league.
Schools opened on schedule
however, after a vacation last
Thursday and Friday caused by
drifting snow- on bus routes.
Postponed semester exams were
completed on Monday.
In one of the greatest advancements ever accorded a
second - term member, Rep.
Strange has been appointed;
Vice-Chairman of the House
Committee on General Taxation.
Under the leadership of its
Chairman, State Representative
Rollo G. Conlin (R-Tipton), Rep.
Strange will have a strong
voice in the committee's recommendation for revision of Michigan's tax structure.
In addition, Rep. Strange will
serve as Vice-Chairman of the
important committee on Rules
and Resolutions, as well as continue on as Vice-Chairman of
the House Elections Committee.
Other important assignments
include membership on the Committee on Revision and Amendment of the Constitution, under
the Chairmanship of State Representative Louis C. Cramton, a
former circuit judge and member of Congress. Rep. Strange
will also serve as Chairman of
the State Library Committee,
In regard to the new assignments, Speaker Pears expressed
full confidence in Rep. Strange
and his ability to take on the
added responsibility.
"This will be a year we will
separate the men from the
boys," said Speaker Pears.
"Russ Strange has proven that
he has what it takes when the
going gets rough. Through hard
work and a willingness to learn
from others, he has acquired an
envious reputation in Lansing,
as* a straight-thinking legislator,
who insists on what is best for
the state of Michigan, regardless of the personal or political
consequences involved.
"We are proud to have him in
the House of Representatives
and a member of the Republican
Party."
Methodist To Open
New Annex Sunday
Next Sunday will mark an
important achievement at the
Clare Methodist Church. With
the completion of the new educational unit, the Church School
will move into the new quarters.
, Tt will be a memorable day
for all, the children and youth
who have beeh assigjied rooms
in the new building. The Child-
:ren's*.division,and the Youth will
meet ai usual with the adults
in the auditorium for the first
half hour and be conducted to
their classrooms toy the teachers, where each class will have
a separate room, Equipment for
each room is being moved in
this week and made ready for
use next Sunday.
At the morning service at
10:00 the pastor's sermon theme
will be, "Get Thee Up Into A
High Mountain.".
At 2:45 in the afternoon the
Mid-Winter meeting of Methodist Laymen and Ministers from
the Big Rapids District will be
held in the Clare Methodist
church. The guest speaker is to
be Dr. Orville H. McKay, pastor
of the Midland Methodist church.
Special music will be provided
by the joint choirs from Clare
and Farwell. There will be a
tour through    the new    educa-
Rodabaugh
Gets Advance
Jim Rodabaugh, 19 year-old
assistant manager at Grove
Brothers variety store here has
been promoted and will assume
the managership of the company's store • in Flushing. The
announcement was made by Jim
Grove of the Clare store and the
promotion is effective next
Monday, February 2.
Jim has been employed at the
Clare store for the past seven
years, learning the business during after-school, and week end
hours. The past two years he has
been a student in business management at Central Michigan
College, Mt. Pleasant..
The Grove Brothers chain
consists of three stores in Clare,
Flushing,  and Durand.
While working in Flushing,
Jim Rodabaugh expects to attend night classes sponsored by
the University of Michigan at
Flint Tech., where he will work
toward a degree.
tional unit, with a*tlun,cihi being
served at 5:45 by the v^>mfe*-i of
the Clare church. The meeting^is
open to all men who may Sesire'
to attend.  . -   H; '
Kellys Tell
Of European
Chours Trip
The February meeting of the
Clare Study Cluto will be next
Tuesday evening, February 3rd,
and will feature a travelogue given by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kelly
telling of their trip during the
summer of 1958 with a choral
'group in Europe.
This Michigan Chorale is a
mixed ensemble of seventy-five
young singers of high school and
seniors of Michigan. The purpose
is to interpret America to the
people of other countries through
imusic. It is a program designed
to develop understanding and
friendship (between countries
using one of the oldest arts in
the world,    .
The group gave free concerts
and programs in Amsterdam,
Holland, and in several large
cities in Germany. Members of
the chorus lived with families
in each city, where their pro7
grams were given.
The Youth For Understanding
program sponsors and directs ex-
Change of students between
Western Europe, Austria and
Michigan. The summer of 1958
one hundred and thirty-five teenagers lived with European families for two months. There were
one hundred and five teenagers
from Germany, Austria, Holland,
England, Finland, who lived lit
the United States and attended
high school for one year.
This year there are over one
hundred teenagers in the chorus.
These young teenagers have all
been chosen, and their number
includes BruCe Delamarter and
Clayton Hardman of Clare. Ron
Dull plans on joining the suimmer
program, .
If any teenager is interested
in the exchange program for the
two months in the summer o£
1959, write to Arthur Delamarter,
Clare, or direct to Yoiitih For
Understanding, Michigan Teenagers Exchange,. Mrs. Rachel
Andresen, 204 S. State Street*
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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