1959-11-26; Clare Sentinel

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CLARE SENTINEL
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THE CLARE SENTINEL. CLARE, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, NOV. 26, 1959
Ten Cents Cop^
New Series, Vol. 68, No. U
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MORE SPORT AND BETTER CATCHES
Here's News To Make
Ice Fishermen Happy
More sport is in the offing for
ice fishermen this winter following recent action by   Cons^rva-
if    tion Department Director Gerald
E.Eddy.
Eddy issued an order designating 205 lakes and streams
which will be open to hook and
line fishing for rainbow trout
during January and February.
The order also cover December
of 1960.
Department fisheries officials
consider the upcoming special
Winter season on rainbows beneficial to all concerned.
They stress the season will not
jeopardize rainbow spawning
stock or, consequently, rainbow
populations in the designated
^ lakes and streams. There is no
'£*" natural reproduction of rainbows in most of these waters
and populations are maintained
solely by hatchery plantings of
the Department.
For fishermen, the season will
1 not only offer more sport but
better catches. Rainbows are jn
better physical condition during
the winter months than in the
spring.
Previously, rainbows were
frequently caught incidental to
fishing for other species. This
created a problem, both in fish
mortality and law enforcement.
f> A listing of lakes and streams
which will be open to the special
rainbow season can be obtained
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Police Warn
They'll Grab
Risk Drivers
Clare police warned this week
that infractions of ,^-.yx$Mte.
laws and regulations -fo^sare-
operation of autos Would be
vigorously dealth with during
the winter period of hazardous-
conditions.
A written warning which originated in the Clare Police Department and was approved by
City Manager Clarence Gum listed five specific good driving
rules which autoists will be requested to observe.
Not stated in so many words,
but quite possibly serving to influence the police in issuing the
warning is the outbreak of fatal
accidents in the immediate past
few days. The law enforcement
notice inferred that all police
agencies will be watching for
careless drivers in the special
situations appearing in * the
warning.
"All motorists must stop and
remain 'at a7standstill while
school buses load and "Unload
passengers. They shall not pass
' until the bus is again in motion."
The above rule is a Michigan
State law, and is furthermore an
enforceable ordinance of the
City of Clare. School bus drivers and police agree that it is
one of the most frequently flouted of any* law governing traffic
behavior. Drivers are breaking
the law when they pass from
front or rear while a tius is loading or unloading.
" "Motorists must stop completely at all stop signs and yield
right-of-way to oncoming traffic." /
"No motorist shall make a
"U" turn on ■' the main street
(MeEwan) Of the City of Clare."
"Obey the speed laws in the
city where posted, and where
not posted, the speed must not
exceed 25 miles per hour."
"No motorist shall leave a vehicle parked an the main street
of the city between hours of 2
to 5 o'clock a.m, These are the
hours for snow removal and
parked cars obstruct the path of
scrapers and loaders."
Above all, police warn, remember that children are hurrying to and from school and driving conditions are hazardous. A
constructive bit bf advice is
merely to repeat the request for
drivers to operate cars in responsible, good common sense
caution.
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Thanksgiving
Vets Dinner
The members-6f Clare-Isabella
.World War I Barracks and Auxiliary are having a Thanksgiving
dinner in the VFW Mall in Clare,
Sunday, November 29, All members are invited to attend-   .
from the Department's Lansing
office or any of its district field
headquarters.
Rremea's
Santa Party
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Clare Fire Department members big Christmas treat party
for children will be held this
year on Saturday, December 12
according to Chief Floyd Wood-
worth.
The fire station will be a busy
place on. Thursday evening, December 3 as firemen and volunteers gather for the sweet 3°b
of -filling individual candy bags
with hundreds of pounds of
goodies.
It will be an even busier place,
come the 12th when Santa Claus
visits Clare for his ride through
town on the shiny fire truck and
then' leads, all the young folks
to the park where the treats will
be placed in eager little hands.
In other years crowds of more
than two thousand people
(counting little believers and
their parents, too) have gathered
on Clare streets to watch Santa
being escorted through town in
the noisy fire-truck parade.
Even as early as this week,
Clare began getting ready for
the visit of Santa, and for the
busiest * of all seasons, the
Christmas gift buying splurge.
Yuletime decorations were attached to downtown lamp posts
by city workers and long festoons of colored lights will soon
go up to make Clare streets
bright and attractive for the
merry season..
A tangle of twisted metal and shattered glass was evidenc1© of the force of the impact
after three died iii,this wreck. Three-year-old Brenda ZilL was instantly killed and her
mother, Mrs.,,Donald Zill; nn.6\grandmother Mrs.7 Arthur |?ent failed io recover from
their injuries. Clare police Sergeant Alva Cochran was or*e to examine the : wrecked
car after ii was pulled info Clare. State Police Troopers said ihai in all' except one of
ihe fatal auio accidents in ihis area since deer hunting season opened, improper passing-was ihe ca\ise of irouble. Ii accounts for 60 io 70 percent of fatal mishaps in traffic,
especially in ihe frilly country in Michigan's north area.
Brookwood Water
Cost Study Ordered
For Work In
State Forest
The Michigan. Civil Service is
presently recruiting men for
seasonal employment in state
parks and forests. The work offers an opportunity for a summer of outdoor activity next
year.
Two types of jobs will be
available.
The first group of employees
will be responsible for detecting
forest fires and organizing facilities ih an area for the prevention and suppression of forest
fires. For this work, applicants
must be not under 18 or.over 46
years of age.
The second group of employees work in state parks as rangers who issue camp permits,
enforce park rules, and help
maintain the grounds and buildings. These parks are located in
every section of the state. For
these positions applicants must
be not Under 18 years of age
and a high school graduate.
The jobs usually run from
May to October'and have a salary beginning at $72.20 a week.
Applications for these examinations can be obtained through
your local Michigan Employment Security Commission or by
writing the Michigan Civil Service, Lansing 13, Michigan. Applications must be in the Civil
Service office no later than December 2, 1959.
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New Optician
With Dr. White
An optician recently joining
the staff at Dr. John G. White's
here in Clare is Gerald Richards,
formerly of Bay City. Richards
plans to move his family to
Clare as soon as possible.. He
and Mrs.. Richards are the parents of twins * and one other
child.
For the past twelve years, Mr.
Richards has been employed in
Bay City with Phoenix Optical
Service, a lens grinding and fitting firm- At Dr. White's, he
replaces Tom Davies who has
accepted a position in Marietta,
Ohio.
Also istatfting riecently at a
job as apprentice to the optician
is Duane McKay, son bf the Arnold McKays of Farwell. Duane's
father is a service repair man
at Glare llctrdware company,
Home owners and property'in-'
vestors in Clare's Brookwood
residential subdivision let the
City Commission know this* week,
that they are not happy with progress thus far in the "on-again-
off-again" water project to provide city water to the growing
neighborhood in the city's northwest side.
Following a story which
appeared in last week's Sentinel,
interested residents and property-
owners "set about inquiring what
.was nieantjby^tbe-Sentinel's In-
terprltkCiori*' as^-'irfdfeffnite side^'
tracking" Of the water main
construction project.
In a written statement to the
"Commission Monday evening
William C. McConica, one of the
developers of the subdivision reminded that body that a proper
petition for the improvement
was   accepted   fourteen   months
Wesley Oliver, whatev% his
politics may be, is a truck
garden expert and a very
alert man for his ninety some-
odd years, Yes, and he still
has a Warmly humorous twinkle in his eyes when he spoofs
a little now and then.
Digging slyly at the Michigan Republicans in the Legislature, Oliver may or may
not have been spoofing when
he said he learned a Thanksgiving Vtrick" from the GOP
who "voted a sales tax and
called it a use tax." Oliver
goes on, "I bought a chicken
for Thanksgiving and I'm
calling it a turkey!"
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The editor of the Gilbert
Paper company's trade magazine says he knows a feller
who would much rather play
poker with a poor loser than
any kirid of a winner.
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And then in a more serious
vein is this gem: "After saying our prayers, we ought to
do something to make them
come true."
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We wonder what our own
local highway maintenance
men think about when, after
being called out in the middle
of a cold night to scrape snow,
and load and dump it off the
roads • . . then to see the afternoon of the next day warm
up With a hot, clear sun
which would have melted the
white stuff in a matter of an
hour or so, anyway.
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We reiad somewhere about
a man who invented a defense
for managers against the pro-
longed coffee break. His new
paper cup melts in just six
minutes,
ago and that owners of eight
of nine parcels of land affected
were in favor of the improvement.
City Manager Clarence Gum
informed commissioners on November 1 that material and
equipment was ready for the
start of the project, but Mayor
Gerald Nivison ordered Gum to
stop the work because procedure^
calling for forming a special
assessment district and holding,
public hearings had not been
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A resolution passed by tlie
Commission Monday now provides for the next move and Gum
said that in two weeks he will
present complete cost estimates
and will show the Commission
the boundaries to, define the
special assessment district.       t.
Clare's commissioners may
then act on the matter, and if
the city manager's figures are
accepted, then steps to hold public hearings will be taken.
Involved is a six-inch steel pipe
main to carry water 1,460 feet into the new subdivision. Unoffic-
ial estimates of the cost place it
at $5,541.00.
The complete statement given
to the Commission to make clear
the position of petitioners, and
to urge immediate action on the
project follows:
Clare, Michigan
23 November 1959
To the Clare City Commission
The undex-signed respectfully
request reconsideration of the
Clare City Commission's decision,
as announced by the Mayor in
the November 19th Clare Sentinel, that the Brookwood Subdivision water main petition has
been "side-tracked indefinitely."
As you know this petition, signed
by more than the required majority of property owners affected, has already been side-tracked
for more than' a year but we believed this was due to the pressure of other city work. Apparently very few people had 'any
inkling of the actual situation
before publication of the Sentinel
scoop. N
Our request, for reconsideration of this decision is made for
the following reasons:
1.) Normal procedure in the
past has been to make such improvements when requested by a
bare majority of the owners of
51% of the front footage involved. In this case the owners of
eight of the nine parcels affected
favor the improvement with the
owners of only one parcel
opposed. The 'majority 'irr favor
on the basis of the front footage
involved is almost four to' one
(2328'  vs.   627').
2.) Granting of the petition
would not cost the city at large
anything since the entire cost
would be borne by the property
owners benefiting from the improvement. In fact the city's
cash position would benefit by
construction of the requested
water main since the necessary
six inch cast iron pipe has been
held in storage by the City for
over ten years and if it is put to
use the city will recover the mon\l
ey that has been tied up in it all
these years.
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Are You
Listening.
Water Users
A Michigan State University
professor says he's found a way
cities can coat their water pipes
to eliminate rusty water. Coating's been done before, he says,
but only by hit-or-miss methods.
Dr. Robert-F, McCaulley, a
civil engineering professor, has
been doing laboratory, work on
the problem and has applied his
findings to ah MSU greenhouse
system. * ■   '
"Results have bfeen promising," he says. His method calls
■f#i? adding -metaphosphate •■-'and
orte or more other' elements to
water.   "■'
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Thp treated water is run rapidly, through the pipes and in
about two hours coats them with
a thin layer of limestone. After
this, normal Water may be returned to the system.
According to Dr. McCaulley,
the treated water is harmless ;
MSU researchers have drunk' it
themselves. However, it is reported to taste a bit unpleasant
until normal water completely
refills the system.
While new city water systems
are pre-treated to- prevent rust,
there are thousands of older systems to which the formula
might be applied, Dr. McCaulley
says.
Bazaar Date
Set Dec. 5
Naming their annual holiday
bazaar Christmas Wonderland,
women of the Congregational
Fellowship are readying a daylong event for December 5.
Several new features have
been added to make the bazaar
fresh and interesting. Doors will
open that day at 9 o'clock a.m,
ih the church dining room..
Exhibited for sale will be sewn
handiwork, fresh baked goods
and candies, all home made, and
toys, Christmas household decorations, gift items and novelties.
A younger group of church
school class members will operate a "fish pond" for the sale of
novelty goods.
Two special events during the
day are a business man's lunch
tb which the public is invited.
Serving begins at 11:30, and a
social tea and musicale at three
in the"' afternoon. Mrs. Jan Johnston's Junior Choir will perform
on the program.
On Dean's
LisiAt Tech,
John Roe, student at Michigan
College of Mining and Technology at Houghton has won
"Dean's List". honors at the
school.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Art
Roe received a notice that John
was named to the distinctive list
in recognition of high scholastic
standing. Only the top two percent qf the class have their
names on the attainment list.
Johii was a member of the
Clare high school graduation
, class of 1956.
Estimate One Hunter
In Four Is
t
Early reports from the , Con-
servatiosi, Department's district
field offices indicate deer kill
was generally the^ same as last
year during the opening days of
Michigan's regular and special
firearm deer seasons.
Hunters harvested approximately 98,600 whitetails during
the November 15-30 seasons in
1958,  .
While snow aided tracking
throughout much of the state's
deer country, in some areas of
the upper peninsula it hampered
hunting, activity. Snow depths of
Head-on Crash
Takes Lives Of
3 In Family
Funeral services Monday were
held for three. accident victims
from the same family. A three-
car accident Friday of last week
took the lives of Mrs. Arthur
Dent, 45 of Farwell, her daughter, Mrs. Donald Zill, 22 of near
Clare, and Mrs. Zill's 3-year-old
daughter, Brenda Leah.
The head-on collision near the
foot of James Hill was the
second fatal accident in a week
to happen in the hilly country
north of Clare, and the third
crash to claim lives in the immediate Clare area during the
week.
State Police troopers investigating the aqcident said that
Mrs, Dent, driving the car with
her "daughter and two .grandchildren as .passengers passed a
line of kutOj-f-'rnovirtg" south- but
struck another car driven by Ellis Wood of Grosse Pointe Woods
who was going in the same
direction.
The bump caused Mrs. Dent's
car to veer across the highway
into the path of a large semi-
truck and trailer loaded with
aluminum. They struck head-on.
Brenda Leah' died instantly
and Mrs. Dent and Mrs. Zill died
later in Clare General hospital
where they had been taken, Mrs.
Zill's one-year-old son, also in
the car was not seriously injured.
The truck driver, Kenneth Conner, 20 of Eaton Rapids Was also slightly injured in the crash.
Police said that he was not to
blame in the accident.
Wreckage of the Dent car was
hauled to a gasoline station corner in Clare where scores of resident s and passing motorists
stopped to ex&mine the mangled
and twisted remains.
Mrs. Dent was born Jan. 13,
1914, in Ohio and was married
to Arthur Dent Aug. 14, 1934, at
Grand Rapids. She leaves her
husband; four sons and one
daughter, Kenneth, Richard and
Edwin Dent Of Farwell, Robert
Dent of Clare, Mrs. Cecil Krus-
sel of Grand-? Rapids; 10 grandchildren and- her mother, Mrs.
Harley Dennis, Bloomdale, Ohio.
Mrs. Zill,-jjom June 10, 1937,
in Midland County, was married
tQ Donald L. Zill at Farwell June
11, 1955. Shefleaves her husband
and a year-old son, Larry, who
suffered cuts- and bruises in the
accident andtnow is in satisfactory condition at Clare General
Hospital.
Services for the three on Monday were held in the Clare Methodist Church and burial was in
Cherry Grove cemetery here.
Install 4-H
Parent Assn.
Officers
New officers of the Clare
County 4-H Parent and Leaders
Assn. were installed at the last
regular meeting of the group.
Outgoing officers presided at the
installation.
Chosen to lead the organization for the new year was Dorothy Baumer.
Three new officers elected to
serve with the new president are
Vice President Myron D.Unkle,
Secretary Dclphia Kleiner, and
Treasurer Lueillo Prielipp,
28 inches were reported in some
parts of the Escanaba district.
In some sectors of the upper
and northern lower peninsulas,
extremely cold weather cut down
the ^hunters' time in the woods-
Nevertheless, gun pressure appeared equal to last year, or even
Grid Fame
somewhat greater with an estimated 400,000 - plus hunters
afield, •    <
Hunters above the Straits recorded light to normal kill. By
Tuesday morning, November 17,
southbound cars had brought 312'
deer and 3 bears ' .across the
Mackinac Bridge. The Depart* ■
Jtnent's upper peninsula districts-
reported slightly more hunters v
in the far east end and about
normal numbers in the * central
area and parts of the west end.
Reports from the Depart-,
ment's Various roadside biological checking stations indicated a
goo'd crop of' available young
bucks in the northern lower peninsula. Almost -76 percent of
bucks aged at these stations on
opening day were one *and one-
half year-olds, HSnter pressure
was par with that, of last year
except in the Mio district which
experienced an increase-
Deer kill was reported normal
in two of the three southern
lower peninsula districts. Hunt*
ers scored better-than-average
success in the Jackson district.
State-wide, some 491 arrests
were made for hunting violations as compared with about
300 for the same period in 1958.
Recovered illegal deer kill totaled 120, Six elk were recovered
in the northern lower peninsula.
Nard Robinette, Colorado State
University end was selected oh
the Skyline (Conference All-
Scholastic All-Conference first
team. Choices were made on the
basis of outstanding" gridiron
play and top grades in classroom
subjects.
Robinette, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Rex Robinette, formerly of
Cloifo graduated from Clare
high school in the class of 1955
after a record of outstanding
athletic achievements. He is a
senior at OSU, and has received
two offers of pro football contracts for his consideration after
graduation next June.
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Afternoon editions of Tlie
Saginaw News Tuesday said
that Clare High's veteran fullback Deb Nolan hag been selected on the first All-Area
class C team. In,the -central
state area and including the
Thumb district, jfolan received
(second highest number of
votes for a back.
Selections were made by polling coaches and newspaper
sport writers aind editors in
the area.
GOP Mapping
1960 Campaign
There will be a Clare County
Republican Committee meeting
at the Court House at Harrison
on Monday evening, December 7
at 8:00 p.m. All committeemen,
Township and County Republican officials and any other interested Republicans are urged
to attend. We will discuss State
and County plans-for the 1960
Campaign. We need workers for
all" of 1960 very badly, announced 'Robert H. Campbell, Clare
County Republican Chairman.
Each township and City precinct
should have representation a1
this meeting.
Send CROP
Contributions
Clare county CROP chairman
has announced; that Walter
Kleiner is appointed treasurer
for the Christian Rural 'Overseas Program in this county. All
organizations are requested to
send their contributions to Mr.
Kleiner at the Citizens State
Bank, Clare,
Schoolmen
Plan Area
Conference
An area conference of county
school board members Worn ten
Central Michigan counties will
be held at Central Michigan University on Thursday, December
3. "
Participating in the program
will be Clare County School
Board members Robert Carter,
Harold Bradley, Ulman Collins,
Mrs. Lucille Prielipp, and Meredith Stanfield. They will be accompanied by County School
Commissioner  Lenord  Schwanz.
•Others are expected from Gratiot, Montcalm, Isabella, Midland, Gladwin, Osceola, Lake,
Bay, and Mecosta counties.
The program will begin at
9:30 a.m. with registration and
coffee in Keeler Union. Dr. Julius Barbour, field secretary of
the Michigan Association of
School Boards, and Dr. W. Ray
Smittle, professor of education
at Wayne "State University, will
speak at the morning session-
The luncheon "speaker will be
Dr. Judson Foust, president of
CMU; Dr. Kenneth Bordine,
dean of the School of Education
at CMU; and Dr. Lynn Bartlett,
superintendent of Public Instruction, will speak in the after-,
noon.
Mr- E. George Schutt, consultant for school organization in
the Michigan Department of
Public Instruction, is chairman
of the meeting.
A similar conference called by
the Michigan State School Board
Association will be held on December 3 and 4 at the Kellogg
Center on MSUs campus at East
Lansing.    „
Planning to.attend from Clare
are School Board President Harold Hughes iwith Secretarv C. B.
Neff.
Superintendent Kenneth McLaughlin from Farwell Schools
will attend " the , sessions with
Board members Kenneth Kapplinger and  James  Start.
Qrder New
Police Car
Clare city police will be patrolling in a brand new police car as
soon as delivery can be made by
Dan McDonald Sales here. The
contract to purchase the new
Ford was made official at the
Commission meeting Monday
evening of this Week.
Allowing time v for delivery and
outfitting of the ear, it should
be in use in about one month.
The new car will be a V-8 four
door with, an engine rated at 235
horsepower. <lt is an improved,
heavier model than th6 one now
used by police hep?.
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