1959-10-08; Clare Sentinel

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ederai Cutbacks
THE CLARE SENTINEL, CLARE, MICHIGAN
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THURSDAY, OCT78, 135,9
The Federal Government has
indicated it will cut back Michigan's share of federal highway
aid on the Interstate Express-
Way system by about 29 per cent
during the current fiscal year.
Highway Commissioner John C«
Mackie reported, He made the
announcement on return from
Washington, D.C. and a confer-
Riverside
Grange 2d
In Contest
Riverside Grange of Clare has
.been judged second place winner
in the north central district of
Michigan in the annual Community Service contest sponsored toy a retail firm and the National Grarfge.
The Riverside group will receive a $50 United States Saving
Bond at the annual State Grange
Session October 21-24 at Saginaw.
Young and old, ill and healthy
were helped by Riverside Grangers in a variety of ways.
Youth projects included sponsorship of -a local softball team
and help with a young people's
folk dancing group.
Shut-ins and old folks home
patients were remembered by
the Grangers with Christmas
boxes, etc.
In January Grangers gathered
to harvest corn for a farmer
who had been hospitalized for
some time.
Several hundred evergreen
trees were planted around the
township cemetery and at the
church and town hall site's.
Educational programs of special interest to the Grarigej^ ^t
■some of their meetings iflci^IetlV-. dissidents of Clare county in
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ence with Ellis Armstrong'
Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads.
"It is both disheartening and
surprising. The cutback will
come despite the one cent feder^
al gas tax increase passed by
this session of Congress, I am
advised, however, that on the
basis of an administration agreement between the Bureau of
Public Roads, the Budget Bureau and the Treasury Department, total amounts allocated by
Congress will be reduced by administrative directive," Mackie
said, "They claim the increase is
still not sufficient to make our
full allocation available."
"Last year Congress allocated
96.2 million in 90 per * cent
matching funds to Michigan for
its Interstate program during
the current fiscal year, and we
have programmed the entire
amount in projects planned to be
under contract by next June."
Armstrong indicated a new formula proposed by the. Bureau
would only provide Michigan
about 70 million instead.
"In view of this, we will now
be forced to review our proposed
Michigan Interstate expressway
letting schedule and undoubtedly will have to delay certain
projects which we had hoped to
place under construction within
the next   eight   months."
"The review will get under
way immediately and those projects the federal aid cutback
Will effect will be announced as
soon as final determinations
have been made."
ro&ram
Mackie also said he had discussed addition of a 22-million
dollar one-mile connection on
the proposed Fort Vernor Expressway in Detroit between
the John C. Lodge ahd Chrysler
Expressways to the Interstate
system.
B.P.R. officials indicated they
would take the matter under
consideration but refused immediate approval..
A 2.5-mile, $1,183,930. section
of new US-27 expressway south
from Mackinaw, City was opened to traffic on October 1, almost a month ahead of i,ts
scheduled completion date, Highway Commissioner John C,
Mackie said.
This 2.5-mile stretch connects
with the already completed 1.5
milfes of expressway in Mackinaw City, which also serves as
the approaches to the Mackinac
Bridge, and will extend southerly to Potter Rd., about 2.5 miles
south of the Mackinaw City
limits. US-31 connects with the
expressway at this point.
More than 18 miles of the new
US-27 expressway are also Under
construction now from the
southern end of this 2.5-mile
section south to Topinabee Rd.,,
about five miles north of Indian
River in Cheboygan county.
US-27 here will be designated
Interstate route 75 later, and is
also a part of the eventual 380-
mile long expressway route
planned from the Ohio state
line northerly through central
Michigan to Sault Ste. Marie, in
Commissioner Mackie7s current
five-year   construction   program.
CLARE COUNTY FAR FROM GOAL
Public Is Slow Buyer
Of 1959 Savings Bornds
one on Legislation, a discussion*
by - Representative, Russell
Strange, Jr., a member, and other programs on- the topics Soil
Conservation, School Education
Handicapped Children and others.
Margaret Myers is chairman
of community service; Bernard
Allen* is Master; and Edith
Newman is secretary. All are of
Clare.
Booster Night
Booster night of the Riverside
Grange was held on October 6
with 32 present for the potluck
supper and six coming in after.
Tables were decorated with
fall colors- with pumpkins, corn,
flowers and colored leaves.
This being fire prevention
week, three firemen from the
Harrison Fire Department came
and talked to the group about
the equipment they have .and
what they need besides telling
what to do in case of a fire and
what kind of fire extinguishers
to buy.
Ruth Ann Newman played a
selection on the piano. The master read an article on booster
night from the National Master
and Dorothy Rockey' read a
poem also sent by the National
Master on the same subject.
vested $52,380 in series E and H
United States savings bonds during the first eight months of 1959,
it was announced today by Hon.
Judge D." E. Holbrook, volunteer
chairman of the Clare county
Savings Bonds  Committee.
But lagging more than 44 thousand dollars behind the mark'at
this time last year and with just
120 days to count before the ena
of the year, it appeared that tne
county will fail to attain the goai.
Ministers
Plan First
Fall Meeting
The first fall meeting ,'of the
Clare County Ministeral Association will be held at the Clare
Methodist Church on -Tuesday,
October 13th at 10:00 a.m.
The meeting will open with devotions, followed by the business
session,
A    very    special    feature,   is
planned for this meeting for the
program   that   should   prove  ot
much interest to all. Rev. Victor
A committee was  chosen    to'D. Longfield of Midland has con-
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complete the plans for the party
for the soft ball team sponsored
by the Grange. The date to be
October 28, 1959 at the Brush
College school house.
Color Tour
Information
Autumn travelers are reminded that the Michigan Tourist
Council offers a personalized
service=to keep them informed
on the progress of the state's
fall color spectacular.
Persons requesting ^ the service will be sent individually addressed cards, telling them
where and when autumn's display is at its best
A card or letter to the tourist
Council office, Lansing 26, is all
that's necessary to insure
against ,the disappointment of
missing any of fall's fleeting
beauty, council spokesmen said.
The post card-mailing system
. /..only one of its kind in the
nation, — is set in motion as
soon as the first patches of color appear irt upper peninsula
woodlands.
The program is designed to
aid'autumn travelers in planning
Michigan color tours, fall vacations ana weotemd outings.
sented to come and be our guest
speaker.
Last May Rev, and Mrs. Long-
field went back to The Congo in
Africa to visit old friends and the
mission they served some years
ago. Also *to make a study of
missions in that great country so
much in the lime light these days.
Many churches are studying Africa this year in their mission
study courses.
Rev. Longfield took many pictures during their, journey in
Africa with which he will illus--
trate his message to the Association.
The Ministerial Association is
strictly non-denominational and
invites to its meetings the ministers and their wives, of all denominations. /
Following the program a pot
luck luncheon is served with dismissal immediately following tne
the luncheon. Each pastor and
wife are asked to bring a dish to
pass, their* own sandwiches and
table service. Oven service is
available for hot dishes. A hot
drink will be furnished by the
entertaining church.
A sincere and cordial invitation
from Rev, L. J. Nevins is extended to «very pastor in the
county and his wife to attend
this meeting of the Association,
Rev, E» 0, Burk is the secretar'y-
trensurar.
The goal fox* file* county. ;|s- set
by the Treasury Department's
Savings. Bonds Division.
According to the County Bond
Chairman, purchases throught
August 31 were equivalent to
43 per cent of the current year's
g"bal of $122,000. County purchases of the two popular series
totaled $96,939 in the same 1958
period.
Holbrook said the Treasury
anticipates an enthusiastic response to the one-half per cenl
increase in interest rates recently
approved for both old and new
savings bonds.
"The 3% per cent rate for new
E and H bonds is both realistic
and attractive", he said. "Where
else in the world can one-find a
better rate for a security so fully
guaranteed, so insulated from
risks and hazards, so easy to buy
and own, so slanted in the saver's
own favor?. ,
"I feel sure", he continued,
"that the 3% per cent rate on
new bond purchases will inspire
many additional residents of ouv
county to begin systematic purchases through the Payroll Savings Plan where they work or
the Bond-a-Month Plan where
they bank. This will help us to
achieve our Treasury-assigned
quota and, consequently, is welcome news.
"The mo*3t impressive feature
of the new legislation, however,
is the granting of additional interest from June JL to maturity on
all E and- H bonds bought from
inception of the program in May
1941 through May 31 of this
year", he continued. "This is a
tangible reward for the millions
of savers who have demonstrated
their confidence and loyalty by
investing systematically in U. S^
savings 'bonds over the years.
Roundtable
Cub Scout, Boy,Scout atid Explorer leaders will be attending
a Roundtable meeting" to learn
program ideas for their November Scout programs.
The meeting will take place at
the Farwell High School on
Thursday, October 8th at * 7:30
p.mu The host will be Troop 115
sponsored hy the Farwell Rotary, Hi Gates, scoutmaster.
Leo Cohoon of Shepherd and
Herb Breen of Clare are in
charge of the meeting -which is
for ail leaders ih the Clare and
Isabella county area.     ,
All newly appointed den mothers, committeemen, and unit
leaders are invited to attend.
This inelu<JesY*the -units in Claro,
Harrison, Farwell mid take,
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New Series, Vol. 68, No. I
HOW HIGH.THE MOON? This sign of the times at Cocoa,
Fla., gives distances to city |iall, to Cape Canaveral, and to
Moscow, but why not the moon? .        *  ,
CHS Students
Name New
Class elections at Clare High
School this week named officers
for each of the Upper four
grades, and ' brought membership in the Student Council to
full strength.
Honored by classmen with selection as 'senior class president
is John Zinser, On the successful
ballot-with him are Vice President Deb Nolan, Secretary Sandy Teale and Treasurer Julie
Wood.
Senior class members of the
student council are -Roger Wallace and Joyce Dunkle.
Junior class members named
Jim Mercer their president. He
is a new student at Clare High
this year having moved here
with his family since the end of
school last spring. Serving with
him -will.be Joe Graves, vice
president; Vicky Cook, secretary; Virginia Northon, treasurer; Pat Harris and Joe Bowler
student council representatives.^.
Elected by the sophomores' it
President Tom "Kosicki, another
transfer student at CHS this
term. More of the second-year
class officers are Mike Robison,
vice president; Dan Green, secretary; Dale Winchell, treasurer;
Sharon Schultz and, Geprgi
Finch on the student council.
Lloyd Eberhart was the winner of the freshman class contest for president. Named with
him are Jim Zinser, vice president; Lois Presley, secretary;
Diana Kleiner, treasurer; Marcia Schlafley and Merve Davis
for student council. t
Student Council President Jim
Norcutt called the first meeting
of the group on Wednesday
where the members were organized for the coming year. Conferring with the council was
Principal Richard Snyder.
Discussing tentative projects
for the council's' consideration,
Mr. Snyder said that school
grounds landscaping as a school
"community" project, and needed furnishing for a student center and lounge in the new building-would be proposed.
Gateway •
Cafe Sold
Peter Caredis and his brother
Tom, who have been in the restaurant business in Clare for the
past 14 years, last week sold
their Gateway Cafe. The new
owners took possession on October 1. .
The transaction was a "family" deal With the buyers being a
nephew of the two, John Cocalis,
and a niece and her husband, Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Eliopoulis all Of
Chicago.
"Pete" said that the new
young proprietors are settling
themselves in the new work and
his own plans for "retirement"
are to continue on the familiar
job to help get the business rolling over the ownership change
and going smoothly.
Pete and Tom say that by
spring they might find time to
get awi-ty for a trip back to
Greece, their native homeland,
4-H Enrollment
The new 4-H enrollment card
will be the main topic for discussion at a leader meeting
scheduled for Tuesday night,
October 13, at 8:00 p.m. at the
Coldwater Lake 4II /Club Camp.
Rotarians
Give New
Scoreboard
The Clare Rotary club heard
an announcement * Wednesday
that; an electric game scoreboard
jto be donated by the local club
would hang in the new Clare
gymnasium.
President Frank LaGoe said
that the directors had approved
the purchase and donation of
the equipment as a local service
to youth project. •
The scoreboard had originally
been planned in the equipment
for the new school, but had to
be eliminated in economizing
made necessary when available
funds couldn't be made to
stretch over everything wanted.
Fund raising by the Rotarians
includes the -club's major project of the year in October when
a newspaper, . The Rotary
Chronicle is published and sold
by members. This year's edition
of the paper is to be sold on
October 30.
Need 2d
League Win
A mere slice of the Mid-Michigan "B" leadership rating may
not satisfy the appetite of
George Perry's CHS f oOtball
squad who can gain on Shepherd
if they conquer the BlUejays
here tomorrow night.
The two schools are tied with
Durand for the top position in
the circuit after all three scored
wins last week.
Fans may see the Pioneers
take to the air with Deb Nolan's
arm lauhching the football in
orbit. They have been weak
through stout line, defenses ancl
passing at the fleet halfback
targets can break up the stubborn ground resistance.
Give Midget Joe Graves or his
team mate Tom Kosicki a step
or two advantage on the Shepherd secondary, and they can
show some flashy gains.
A victory this weekend would
go a long Way toward erasing
memories of the opening game
which Clare dropped to Michigan Lutheran Seminary. It
would put the Pioneers in solid
contention for the league title
also with two wins against no
losses in Mid-Michigan tilts.
But the Clare "team can hold
no great hopes that their St.
Louis game showing makes
them feared. St. Louis is not
rated as a power. CHS must still
meet Shepherd, Durand, Ithaca,
and, Chesaning in the struggle
for the championship.
The "Jays" aren't going to
play dead for Clare, knowing
that the game is a crucial point
for both hopefuls,
An account of the Clare 18-6
victory over the St. Louis Reds
is on the Sentinel Sport Page
this week.
Tomorrow night's game will
be played at 8 o'clock on the
Clare field. Tickets are sold at
the gate.
LMe League
A- meeting of Clare Little
League officers and team managers, Coaches and umpires has
been called for Tuesday evening,
October 13, 7:30 p.m. at the Clare
High School. Secretary or the
league Chet Kolenda notified
•many of the interested persons
and said that' the public would
be welcome.
Kids Get
Fire Truck
Fun Ride
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Clare's Fire Department, congratulating itself and the town
because there have been no fire
losses of serioUS degree in the
past several months, celebrated
Fire Prevention Week by thrill-
riding little school tots on the
fire, engines Wednesday.
The kindergarten pupils at
Clare Public Schools and first
graders from St. Cecilia's school
were packed a-top the big red
trucks for a ride around the
streets in the neighborhood of
the schools.
The kids were visibly impressed by the shiny engines, firemen in their uniforms, and the
accompaniment by sirens to
make the ride more realistic.
The Fire Prevention "Week
treat for youngsters is a custom
of some long standing in Clare,
and is always coupled with
short lectures on precautions
that make homes and schools
more safe from fire.
' On the Department detail to
furnish rides for the kids were
Chief Floyd .Woodworth and
firemen Tex Vernon, Bob Cimmerer, Mariin Alexander, and
Bernard Wyman.
Boy Scout
Drive Starts
Next Week
Mrs. Donna Lozen of Clare has
been named chairman to organize
the annual Boy Scout Finance
drive according to Dr. Born,
Valley Trails Council TomahawK
District chairman.
Women have been recruited to
contact most homes in Clare for
contributions to help the drive.
These women will hold a kick-off
meeting.on October 14th at 9 a.m.
at the Methodist Church and be*
gin the drive on that day.   '
This finance drive provides
money to pay for the Cub Scout,
Boy ScOut . and Explorer programs in the area. It provides
professional service and the service of the adminstration of the
program by the Valley Trails
Council. It also provides tor
training and program meetings
in the area.
•« The Boy Scout Council also sup
ports Camp Rotary, Camp Kiwanis and Camp Weidman- available
for use by Scouts,
Six team captains who have a-
greed to lead groups of soliciters
are Mrs. Donald Dunlop, " Mrs.
John White, Mrs. Robert Camp-
Dell, Mrs. Jack Hemstreet, Mrs.
Stanley Crum, and Mrs, Stanley
Grigg.
Thirty-six soliciters for the
house-to-house drive have been
enlisted from all areas of the city.
More workers are needed. Anyone who would like to help the
drive can contact Mrs. Lozen at
EV 6-2649.
Give To
Girl Scouts
It's the time of year when
citizens hear giving appeals for
many, good causes. Elaborate
campaigns are designed to raise
funds for charitable and.worthy
organizations.
Meanwhile, back at Clare Girl
Scout headquarters . . .
A modest letter was mailed to
local residents asking them to
make a donation to finance the
work of Scouting for girls - in
this. city.
With sincere credits to all
who have donated to Girl Scouts
in the past and made the program possible, the letter said
that more gifts would be appreciated by the committee. All of
the money is us$d for strictly
local work among girls.
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Swine Raisers
.There will be an informational
type- meeting of a proposed
.feeder pig outlet and swine
meeting at the Union Township
Hall, Friday evening,' October 9.
Ed Miller, Extension Specialist
in Swine will be present to discuss the opportunity in the feeder pig business. This is a meeting for both Isabella and Clare
county swine producers. The
meeting will start at 3:00 at the
Union Township Hall.
Visitors Like Red Planes
- Gag On Bath Towels
By Donald E. Beard
One afternoon we took a nice
boat trip down the Moscow River, which enabled us to take
many more pictures from different angles — far better than a
bus .tour.
■ We visited the beautiful new
University of Moscow and listened to our guide recite a lot of
statistics,' most of which we
doubted; however, from the tow-
ar we could get a fine view of
the many new apartments and a
panoramic shot of the entire
city of Moscow,
After four interesting days in
MoscOw, we left at midnight on
Jail As
Unfit
Clare's city jail is deserted
these days. — No tenants are
"sleeping one off" behind its
barred doors and the cheerless
cells echo hollowly.
It's not.that everyone is suddenly reformed and we don't
need a jail, — not quite.
The jail has. been condemned
by the Michigan State Prison Inspector and city police and court
ordered not to confine any person there under present conditions,
This all happened a month
ago and to be honest, we hadn't
missed the clientele mat usually
came and went in the city Bas-
tile.
The > inspector complained that
the facilities there lacked enough refinement to be used for
the occasional Saturday night
drunks or disorderly mavericks
who were the most common patrons.
No sanitary facilities, he said.
And not complete enough supervision of the .prisoners. Whatta
think this is, -the DWk .,Mms:
when it.wasn't any fun and comfort to get locked tip for "misbehaving?
But probably the - inspector
was right. AnyWay the Clare police are. transporting all such
prisoners to the - county jail
these days. City Manager Clarence Gum says that it's just as
satisfactory and costs no more
than boarding them here.
No plans are in view for remodeling or improving the jail.
CMU Band
On Network
TV Sunday
The Esprit De Corps of the
110 piece Central Michigan University Marching Band is one. of
the factors that helps weld it into
a precise marching and playing
unit.
The other factor is the Band's
director, Professor Norman C.
Dietz, whose belief ancj trust in
his band members causes him to
describe them in superlatives.
That the two work well together is evidenced by their half-time
shows at football games, whicli
in the past have been rewarded
by standing ovations.
Tlie Chicago Bears were im
pressed enough by their perfor
mances to ask them to play at
the halftime of the Bear-Cardinai
game at Wrigley Field last year.
Ihis year they asked the Band to
perform the halftime ceremonies
at their opening home game witn
the Los Angles Rams, October 11
at Wrigley Field.
' Their appearance will be carried over the coast coast CBS television network.
The program chosen for the
half-time, "Music We Live By",
will feature songs relating to all
phases of life, from religion to
the dance, from Handel's famous
"Largo" to the "Cha Cha".
Marching formations will include moving figures, and how
the band does it, nobody knows,
their own rendition of the "Cha
Cha".
Band members practice' an
hour a' day to get ready for performances. This year in order to
get ready for the opening of the
football season the students
practiced at a band camp held
before school started as diligently as the football ^players. Ninety members showed up 'for the
five-day session;' contributing
ten dollars apiece to cover expense*!*.
the deluxe trairj "Red Arrow"
for Leningrad, a comfortable
ride of 400 miles in eight hours.
We had well lighted compartments, each with two lower
berths about three feet apart
with small table between, running crosswise of the car. There
were eight compartments in
each car, with toilet and wash
room at both ends, but no private toilets or wash basins in the
compartments. Our baggage was
piled along one side of the long
corrdor, handy to our compartments.
Leningrad
In Leningrad we stayed at the
Hotel E'uropa—the dining room
is on the top floor, from where
we could view the city, which is
built on 101 islands in. the delta
of the Neva River. Since it was
Sunday, most . of us went to
church and there were services
for about all denominations, believe it or not.
We visited the "Hermitage!' —.
winter home of Peter.the Grdat
— now a museum containing
thousands of oil paintings and
relics of the Czarist days. .We
took a boat trip on the Gulf of
Finland to the "Peterhof"—lavish summer home and gardens
of Peter the Great. The castle
itself is being stripped of its
contents, but the gardens and
many water fountains are beautiful.
" In Leningrad we went to the
famous Russian ballet, "White
Swan," which was very ' enjoyable, but not as good as the ballet in Moscow.
We returned on a Russian Jet
plane, which was the most wonderful ride I ever experienced —*
over 500 miles per hour-! Quiet
and comfortable, we flew to
Moscow in less than an hour. I
am now inclined to admit that
Russia is ahead of us in aviation, but wouldn't believe it until I saw it.
There are very few dogs in
Russia—I only saw two,, as I had
too much else to see, rather
than look for dOgs^ They are
jqAnsidered *aft Vhiiece^sa^ lusr
Ury by the State, but We had a
lot of fun telling the ladies irt
our group that the Russians killed the dogs as a substitute for
beef, which was probably true/
during the war. /
There is no. consistency about
the hotel service throughout
Russia. Sometimes we didn't
have any bath towels—-once we-
had one as large as a bed blanket, but they made us use it for
four,days, and seldom changed
the hand towels. '   '    .'.
Returning to Moscow. from
Leningrad, we prepared to leave
Russia and we .were glad to be
going. We fleW to Warsaw pn
two small Polish planes (made m
Russia)—a fiVe-hour rough trip-
but we were served a fairly good
meal aboard. ., ,
WARSAW
In War-saw our attention was
first drawn to the 30-story Palais*
of Culture, reminding us thai we
were still behind the Iron Curtain.
This mammoth sturcture was a
"gift" from Stalin to the people
of Poland, but they paid for it
and how! It stands on a piece
of ground-* in the heart of tne.
city, about one thousand ieet
square beautifully landscapes.
Several thousand Russian workers were brought here from Moscow, set up in housing quarters,
and spent three years, worKing
day and night to construct tnis
building of marble and stone, it
would cost" about .100 million
dollars in the United States ana
would require 10 years for us to
build it
All around this magnificent
structure, stands the rubble anu
ruins of the war bombing. Aitlio
London and Berlin were bomoed
heavily, Warsaw Ipercentayi*-
wise) was the worst bombeu-our
city,' and it will* take another 1U0
years to erase these awrul
lavages of war.
The Poles will never approve
the reunification of Germany Oe-
cause they hate and fear me
Germans more than they do the
Russians. Since Poland is more
than 90 % Catholic, they are allowed more freedom of religion
than the other satellite countries,
in an effort to win them over io
Communism.
We saw the destroyed gAetto
where Hitler brought -in/ and
murdered S00,000 Jews/We took
pictures of the three Jewish
members of our tour group standi
ing by the memorial where Nixon recently laid a wreath. This
area still contains crumbling
wjills and debris from the bomo-
ing.
Next week: Residents of .East
Berlin wanting to leave may
walk out anytime they desire,
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