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THE CLARE SENTINEL* CLARE,,MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, MAR. 31, 1960
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Women's Bowling
Going Into Final Week
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Women of Clare and adjoining
towns belonging to the City Association have finished the second week-end of the three 'weeks
of their 1960 Tournament.
Clare Manufacturing team
with totals of 2824 are leading
thus far in the tournament and
have topped the 1959 champion
Ford-O-Matics when they bowled
2789. Mannie's Bar team is running close second —- 27791
Leading doubles team the first
week end was Nearine -Morse
and Marilyn Brown having 1204
totals, until Barbara Dunbar
and Betty Stark tied their score
the second week end.
Singles leader to date is Kate
Underwood with 604; Barbara
Mahon is a close second w|th 603.
High All-Events actual count
is Bonnie Bauder's 1519.' With
handicap, Barbara Mahon  1812
200 Games: Barbara Dunbar,
220, Barbara Mahon, 212,* Betty
Stark, 202, Bonnie Bauder, 201
Fran Carncross, 200, Kate Paxton, 200.
500 Series: Joan Mickle, 559,
Betty Stark, 544, Barbara Mahon, 530, Fran Carncross, 519,
Bonnie Bauder, 513-505-501, Fran
Shelander, 509, Fran Bolle, 505,
Barbara Dunbar, 502.
This is the largest Tournament since the beginning bf this
Association in 1950, There are 31
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For "Yes" j
Library Vote
Laboring to get out a favorable vote on the proposal .to collect a special tax for improved
library facilities in Clare, the Library Board this week is continuing to ^mp-'B'-'i-S ty/o points, in
favor of the proposal:    •
"Clare needs a bigger, better
library, but is hopelessly cramp*
ed in the present quarters. More
room and improved organization
in bigger quarters will provide
better service. And —
* "The end of tax collection for
Clare's fire 'station permits the
new proposition to be approved
without adding any new cost to
the city taxpayers. The levy for
one improvement would . simply
replace the old levy for the other."
A program of information offered by the Library Board to
support their assertion that
Clare's library facilities need
expanding was presented to
*. members of the Clare Kiwanis
club with Rotarians as their
guests at a meeting last evening
at 6:30 at the Doherty hotel.
Present to speak in favor of
the proposal were Dr. Kuno
Hammerberg, Miss Helen Kramer, State Library consultant, and
city librarians from Midland and
Mt. Pleasant.
The Clare Board's appeal to
support the millage proposal is
contained in the following statement by Board members:
Next Monday, April 4, citizens
of Clare will be given the opportunity of voting for a 3-mill
levy which, will cover the cost of
providing the City with sorely
needed up-to-date library facilities. As the fire hall assessment
has been retired, there Will b.e
little increase in present tax
rates.
The Clare City Library now
occupies a basement room at the
corner of Fifth and. McEwan
streets. For nine years, active library boards have been hard
pressed to provide adequate library service to meet the growing needs to properly display the
* volumes available through the
Library Lending Service.
There has now been made
available for purchase a conveniently located and properly
sized and conditioned building
which will provide the citizens of
Clare the needed library space.
Purchase price is moderate
and little alteration will be required to display and shelve the
. many books which are now in
boxed storage because of lack of
space, Adult andi children sections can be properly separated
and irtaintained. There will be
room for technical and reference
sections, a pressing need with
the growth of Clare's industry.
In short, for modest expenditure, Clare will have an up to
date library with room for expansion to meet future needs.
I The Library Board strongly
urges the citizens of Clare to
-join in support o[ the 3-mill levy.
team events with a total of 371
individual events.
Contract Due
On US-27
Near Shepherd
Low bidders will be determined in Lansing April 6 on a
6,7-mile section of new construction on the US-27 expressway
from a point one mile east of
Shepherd on Blanchard Road, to
a point nearly .11 miles north
from the south line of Isabella,
or 1 and Yz miles-south of Mt.
Pleasant.
The State Highway Department also announced that the
same contract letting will include a business route connection from the expressway to the
existing US-27 south of Mt.
Pleasant.
The completion date on the
project is to be June .30. The
contract is one of 52 which are
to be let on April 6 and will provide 35 miles of new expressway
construction in six counties.
Closer to Clare, the Highway
Department representatives continue to interview landowners in
the path of the expressway and
are now holding consultations
with property owners up to the
south limits of Clare,
TV Story
Will Carry
OCD Message
"Alas, Babylon", the dramatic
story of survival in a, small
Florida town isolated after a
fictionalized H-bomb attack or.
the United States, will be televised on Playhouse 90, Sunday,
April 3.
Barbara Rush and Dana Andrews are the stars of the production and Governor Leo A.
Hoegh, Director, Office of Civil
Defense Mobilization, will have
an important message concerning the non-military defense program of our nation.
"Alas, Babylon" by novelist
Pat Frank was published in 1959.
The locale is a town' in central
Florida named Fort Repose. The
mythical H-bOmbs hit Miami
and St. Petersburg first, followed by Jacksonville and Orlando,
Florida. Fort Repose is not hit
but is isolated from the rest of
the country. The inhabitants of
Fort Repose rely on their ingenuity in order to survive.
The program spotlights the
vital need in each community for
survival planning. It vividly portrays the importance to each
•citizen of a thorough knowledge
of civil defense survival measures, *
School Plans
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For Safety
In Tornado
Clare Public Schools this week
told parents exactly what plans
are made for protection of children if a tornado should threaten
during the hours when school is
in session,
Sent home with every student
was a letter outlining the • cooperation between the school,
and Civilian Defense authorities,
State Police and the county
sheriffs. It told parents under
What circumstances their youngsters would be dismissed to be
taken home, and warned) that under those conditions, a responsible person should be at the
home to care for the child.
Teachers have been instructed
to escort children out of the
school buildings and to buses if
tornado forecasts make it necessary to dismiss school. Other directions to the teacher require
her to ascertain ahead of time
whether each child knows where
to go if the father and mother
both work, or are not at home.
In extreme warnings of tornadoes when there, is not time to
send children home, they will be
kept in the building Under the
most safe and injury preventing
conditions possible.  •
The school's letter to parents
said:
"We are approaching the tornado season, since storms mostly occur between March and September and most frequently between the hours of 1:00 and 7:00
p.m. A warning system has been
developed by the office of Civil
Defense and the school will be
notified through the Sheriff's
office and the State Police regarding tornadoes.
"Two types of information are
given ... a tornado forecast or
a tornado warning:
"A tornado forecast is issued
when weather conditions are
such that tornadoes could occur.
"A tornado warning is issued
when a tornado has been sighted
in the vicinity.
/'In case _if t6i-_£__o- forecast,
school will be dismissed as soon
as the bus drivers can all reach
the school. All children will be
dismissed at the same time
whether they are walking or riding the bus. All students will be
expected to go directly home.
"In case of a tornado warning,
when there is not time to get the
children home, they will be taken to the safest part of the room
under the supervision of the
teacher.
"If a father and mother both
work, or if, for some reason,
there is no one home during the
day, will you please tell your
child where to go in case school
is dismissed because of tornado,
and be sure there is always
some person who is responsible
.for the whereabouts of each
2hild."
Achievements
Plans are being made now for
the 1960 Spring Achievement to
be held April 28 and 29 at the
Mt. Pleasant Senior High School*.
Mrs. Hugh Swindlehurst is General Chairman of this big event
HOW TO VOTE
WRWfelNS
When Mr, and Mrs. Clarte
Citizen vote on Monday, April
4, there is going* to be one innovation that will make the
experience a little different
than before.
Any person voting for City
Commissioner MUST write ihj
or use a sticker to indicate
his or her choice.
It's because this time, there
is no official candidate for the
post who has his name on the
ballot or on the voting machine board.
Voters can and should go today or tomorrow to the city
hall, where City Clerk David
Adams will gladly demonstrate
the method of writing in the
candidate's name. Here's what
he will tell the voters:
"You'll find a row of small,
slanted openings at the very
top of the voting machine panel, The openings-have dark colored sliding covers which are
to be slid open, or raised to
expose a paper upon which
voters should Write the name
fit theip candidates. (A pencil
jg provided inside the booth.)
"If the voter wishes, he may
attach a sticker, or gum-
paper slip bearing the name of
# candidate of his choice. A
^ticker must be attached to the
|paper underneath the little
£li_!ng cover.
;' "In Monday's election, only
openings corresponding to voting levers numbered 2, 3 and 4
may be exposed in order tb
•■Write or attach ^tickers. These
.are the positions on the mach-
•*ine Where Commission candidates would normally be
Jianied,"
Sound complicated? Well it
■ is not, really, and the—necessity for writing In names to
elect Commissioners should
not prevent civic-minded citizens from doing their duty.
Special efforts by sponsors
of the Library proposal to get
out a big vote will help make
a democratic choice of Commissioners possible, if everyone votes for his or her choices
Son Monday.
Three Candidates
For Commission
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Endorsed!
These are the three City Commission candidates who
were "drafted" by fellow townsmen and said Tuesday that
they would serve, if elected:
Gerald Nivison — present < mayor of Clare who was reelected in 1958 for his second term on the Commission. During his terms in office Clare built a new fire station, has
made continuing efforts to solve the critical Water problem,
continued with airport expansion progress and-has seen the
addition of new residential area and progress on other fronts.
Albert Haley — a former Commissioner and mayor of the
city who has served longer than any other Commissioner.
Dropping out of local city elective politics in 1959, Mr. Haley
nevertheless continued to serve as a County Supervisor from
Clare and is the acting chairman of that body in Harrison.
He has a record of long valuable .service on the Commission,
and elsewhere in county government affairs on the Fair
Board and! other committees, review boards and advisory
capacities.
Glen Cain — in private life an oil producer widely known
in Michigan and midwest oil industry circles. He has never
held a public office, but has valuable business experience
Like the others, he is a, property owner and taxpayer in Clare.
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Water Management in Action
Implicit in this year's National Wildlife Week theme, "Water—
Key To Your Survival," to b* observed March 20-26, is ihe need
for unified-and harmonious action in ihe resource's manage-
-men., . Such land practices as watershed i__prove__eni (above),
soil conservation and reforestation can maintain and improve
•water resources when properly managed. There is literally, a
"warehouse ,.of other tools available for conserving Michigan's
water,.'although conflicts arising from their misuse can produce bad side-effects. Use of each separate tool must be di-.
pecied with skill and vision to produce _ . onstructiyt and lasting
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Women's Central Michigan
Golf Events To Play Here
Ike Walton
Interprets
Farm Progress
Rotarians heard from Ike Walton, manager of the Detroit
yards of Michigan Livestock Exchange, the prediction that a
growing demand for meat on
Michigan tables could support a
greatly, expanded livestock producing economy in the state. The
talk was delivered at the noon
lunch meeting Wednesday at the
Hotel Doherty.
With Walton as guests were
Jake Seibt, Clare director of the
livestock marketers organization,
and Ray Montague, manager of
the sales yards at St. Louis.
The speaker said that amazing
technological advances in farming have brought about a situation where Michigan exports one-
third of the corn crop produced
here annually; while it imports
half of the meat which is consumed by its populace.
He said that either the state
will raise its beef cattle production to make use of feed crops
produced locally, or else commercial interests will move in and
do it.
What is needed to make more
efficient use of beef cattle feed,
and meat demand factors in the
economy is teamwork between
capable farm operators and finance sources, he continued.
Illustrating his point about the
strides in farm automation, he
said that on Jake Seibt's own
farm near Clare, 185 head of
cattle can be fed in just 15 minutes by the use of Seibt's automatic equipment. . If 100 head
more were to be fed, it would
only take an e'xtra five minutes,
Seibt agreed.   '
Walton contrasted this degree
of efficiency with conditions .during his own .boyhood on the farm
when necessary and important
equipment on the farm hardly
surpassed the one-legged milking
stool.
He urged Rotarians to observe
tlie modern methods now making
big business out of farm production.
The program speaker was introduced by Walt Kleiner, Rotar-
ian in charge of club programs
during the month of March.
A meeting of the Central Michigan Women's Golf Association
was held Wednesday, March 23
at the Park Hotel in St. Louis
with a one o'clock luncheon followed by a business meeting.
Fourteen members were present
and made plans for the 1960
season. *
Dates were announced for the
Invitational at Clare on June 27
and the Central Michigan Tournament also at Clare, July 25
to 28.
Clare women attending were
Mrs. Sam Garfield, Mrs. James
Olson, Mrs. Jennie Bowler and
Mrs. N. A. El'den, The'women's
golfing season schedule will be
announced later.
Census Calls
To Begin
Tomorrow
Census takers who will visit
every dwelling unit in the area
during the 19JB0 Census of Population and Housing which starts
April 1 participated in four
training sessions this week, District Supervisor George W. Myles
announced today.
The training sessions, conducted by the crew leaders, were held
on March 27, 28, 29, and 30. Each
census taker received a total of
approximately nine hours of instruction. Emphasis was placed
on the importance of a systematic, thorough canvass of every
dwelling unit during the census
to insure a complete count. Class
room training covered proper
manner of asking questions, use
of the Census questionnaire,
Census definitions, and map
reading. .    . .
Map reading is an important
census-taking 'technique' since,
without maps, defining the limits
of each district to, which a census taker is assigned, the. job
wtiuld be a welter of- confusion.
About 250,000 maps have -been
prepared for the 1960 Census.
This provides an individual map
for each of the 250,000 districts
into which the country has been
divided for the census.
• Every census taker will be furnished with a map of h^s district.
As1 they make their rounds, census takers will be required to
canvass cveiy street and road
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Two city hall "veterans", Mayor Gerald-
Nivison, and Albert Haley together with a
newcomer to Clare politics, Glen Cain are
sticker candidates for election to the City
Commission in next Monday's election. The
three men were."nominated" and persuaded
to accept the office if elected when a group
of town business and professional men held
an unofficial "caucus" Tuesday to draft candidates -for the three Commission vacancies.
With the coming City Election a .scant
four days- off as of today, the active support
that had been promised the three was evident in circulation of stickers bearing their
names, and in intensive person-to-person
campaigning in their behalf.
The meeting which produced the slate
of candidates was almost spontaneous, needing only a few telephone calls and very informal organizing to gather fifteen persons
for discussion and agreement on candidates
to be approached.
"With three seats open on the city's governing body by reason of expired terms, the
Baptists To
Open Series
On Sunday
Clare Baptists are presenting
.what they believe to be an unusual opportunity td hear Biblical interpretations next week in
an evangelistic series featuring
the preaching of Dr. Howard
Keithly and the music of a youthful couple, Mr. and Mrs. John
Bos. The series opens Sunday
morning, April 3 and concludes
with services on Friday evening
that same week.
The-public is invited to the
First Baptist Church on Wilcox
Parkway in the north part of
Clare east of US-27.
Dr. Howard Keithly, former
pastor of' the Berean Baptist
church and recent interim president of the Baptist Seminary in
Grand Rapids, is State Representative of the Michigan Association of Regular Baptist Churches, and travels widely in evangelistic meetings.
He announces his subjects for
the opening Sunday messages at
11:00 o'clock and 7:00 o'clock as
"Who Is A Christian?" and
"What Is A Christian?"
Topics nightly at 7:30 will be:
Monday: "Sinning Saints . . .
Why?"
Tuesday: "Victorious Living
. . . How."-
Wednesday: "Should Christians Judge One Another?"
Thursday: "Relationship of
Pastor And People To Each
Other."
Friday: "When Will Christ
Come Again?"
The pastor, Rev. Gerrit Schut
and church family extend an invitation to all to come and hear
-and meet these gifted servants.
Joyce Dunkle
Honored By
Future Farmers
Joyce Dunkle, Clare high
school senior and State Presi
dent of Future,.Homemakers of
America was in East Lansing
Thursday and Friday last week
as a representative of her organization attending, the -State
wide convention, of Future Farmers" of America*.   .
Joyce' is the"/daughter of the
Clinton Dunkles.   *
At tlFe, .convention, she met-
Ronald Hamlin, of. Webberville'
student. • there and State' president of FFA. The FFA president
is a grandson of a W. Hamlin, a
former resident of near Clare,
and he came to Clare for the
weekend to look over the Hamlin property here, Jfoyce related
how she was seated at the banquet near Michigan's Governor
.Of. Mennen Williams and enjoyed a two-hour conversation with
him.        "     : .      --■-
Mrs. Gerald Brown wife of the
proprietor of Gateway Lanes
bowling said this week thut some
person unknown had stolen a
bowling trophy from on top of
the glass display counter at the
Lanes. It was a. trophy that
could be easily missed ... it is
thirty inches tall. The Browns
and the Gateway team than won
the trophy are pretty sad about
losing the prize, and disappointed to think that anybody would
make off with such art object
that could have value only to the
rightful owners.
Scouters
To Elect
The Tomahawk District of the
Valley Trails Council will be
electing new officers at the annual business meeting April 5
at the Dunlop Cafe in Clare, according to Chairman Dr. G. C.
Born. Institutional Representatives from Scouting units in
Clare, Farwell, Harrison, and
Lake will join other representatives from * ^Isabella county to
name its new District leaders.
The members of this District
Committee make it possible to
offer Sc-ITtunits special Scouting services and activities that a
single Scout unit alone could not
do.
Commerce Men
To Hear
Clem Bement
Clare Chamber of Commerce
President Tim Cotter announced
to members that the next regular
meeting will", present as prbgram
speaker, Clem BeMent, secretary of the Mt. Pleasant Chamber of Commerce. BeMent's remarks will be on the topic, Population Trends and The Highway.
Enclosed to- each member was
a financial statement 61 the
Chamber for the year, with special' attention being called to the
fact that the directors have built
up an account of $600. . toward
"the-cost of erecting signs inviting ' expressway" motorists ihtb
Clare. . '    '
The annual dues and membership drive is scheduled for the
end of April when businessmen,
commercial and professional
firms ;and others interested in
helping the city's progress will
be asked to. join the organization.
The next meeting is to be at
Barnes Lounge, April 5 at 6:30
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March 14 deadline for filing of candidates
petitions had passed with only one candidate, Robert Walters qualified. He lafe".
withdrew, his name and left no official candidate whatever for the posts.
■ * Tuesday's'meeting to find -candidates
grew out of the concern widely felt at the
likelihood of a free-for-all election with no
choices for Commissioner named on the ballot. It was feared possible that the control
of city government could be dropped into
the laps of new Commissioners, elected at
random without their fore knowledge or
permission.
Leaving the election to pure chance
might result in the choice of persons who
might not be interested in the task, or who
might not. be even capable or willing to
serve, it was argued.
The three new nominees were impressed enough by the sincerity of the "caucus"
so that they agreed to let their names be
used on voting stickers and in the write-in
campaign. They said they will willingly
serve if they are elected by a majority.
verified the fact that under State
election laws, a write-in candidate must receive at least ten
votes to be legally elected.
Clare's city charter provision
still holds true that the two candidates with the largest number
of votes will be declared elected
for two-year terms, and the one
candidate with, the next largest
number will be elected for one
year.
One other man, William Cleveland said this week that he
'would .accept the pfftce if he; receives enough votes..
Tuesday nighfs meeting however decided on the support and
endorsement of only the three
candidates, Cain, Haley and Nivison.
Two election day problems are
going to receive a lot of attention
in the time between now and
April 4. One is the need for getting out as large a vote from the
city electorate as possible, and
the other, — acquainting people
with the procedure for writing in
candidates names, or applying
the stickers being made available.
City Clerk David Adams said
that the voting machines are
available for inspection at the
city hall, and voters may ask for
instructions on how to write in
the names of their choices.
On the machines, voting spaces
numbered 2, 3 and 4 are to be
used for indicating City Commissioner choices. Details elsewhere on this page explain how
to use the Write-in spaces.
Any vote for City Commissioner regardless of the voters preference, must be either written in,
or indicated by a printed sticker
since no regular candidates
qualified and thus no names appear on the ballot or machine.
Youth Rally
The popular Youth For Christ
film, "Teenage Rock" will, be
shown at the youth rally scheduled for April 3 at eight o'clock
at the Brown Corners United
Brethren church.
Band Staging
Annual Spring
Concert Tonight
"Design For Listening" is the
title chosen for this year's Clare
High Band concert to be presented tonight on the stage in
the school's new gym.
This yeais the band: is the
first in seven seasons to bring a
First Rated group to the concert
stage. The CHS Band won its
blue ribbon in the spring festival
recently and will perform the
same, numbers in the concert
that won the First award in Festival competition.
Other variations of . listening
moods include delightful light
music. Among the numbers is
"Variations On A Folk Song"
presenting the tune of "Skip To
My Lou" in styles fancied to imitate the writ-tigs of Bach,
Brahms, Gershwin and others.
The time of- tonights concert
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