1960-04-28; Clare Sentinel

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THE CLARE SENTINEL, C^ARE, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, i960
Ten Cents Cojpy     New Series, Vol, 68, No* 33
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To Farwell Schools
A. meeting Saturday evening
to hear Citizen's Committee reports on the proposed annexation Of Garfield School District
to the Farwell Area Schools
drew a turnout of about 50 per
sons at the Garfield town hall.
The committee report was followed by a "town meeting" with
opportunity for everyone to be
heard from the floor.
Jim Hilyard, head of the com-
Fishermen Eager For
Trout Opener Act.
"Gone Fishing" signs should
be as commonplace as flags on
Memorial Day come day after tomorrow when Michigan's trout
opener will lure thousands of
fishermen back into the fold,
Beckoning these anglers eager
for action will be crafty and
scrappy browns, rainbows, brooks
and lake trout, many of which
are being planted in lakes and,
Streams throughout the state by
the Conservation Department.
Department fisheries   workers
will release approximately 245.
TOO trout in streams and another
105,500 in lakes before the ApriJ
CHS Students
Presented On
P-TA Program
The Clare P.T.A. April meeting
was held Monday evening last
week, and was called to order by
the "president, Mrs, Warren Tice.
Devotions and prayer were given
by Mrs. Kenneth Cowles.
Due to the absence of the secretary, no minutes of the pre-
vious meeting Were read, and
•Mrs. Richard Schroeder was aci.
ing secretary for the evening.    .
Several items were discussed,
including a location for a meeting^ place, and also the serving
Of i_ ef reshments.
Announcements included a
Workshop at Mt. Pleasant on
May 11, and all officers should
plan to attend. Dinner will be at
5:30 p.m. Richard Snyder also
stated that the high school students would be enrolling for
next year in a few days.
> Installation of the new officers was postponed until the
May meeting.
Mrs. Helen Anderson, program
chairman, introduced Mrs. Louisa Bowler of the C.H.S. Speech
Department who presentee, students from her department for
the program- Featured were orations and other presentations by
students who had won distinction iri the district contest
Eric Hammerberg gave the
declamation "The Essence of
America" by M. J. As ch, in
which he received a second rating; Carron Randall, who received a first in oration, gave her
speech, "We're Not All Bad.
Really"; Sandy Teall gave the
humorous reading, "The Boy
Who Cried Dinosaur" by Jack
Douglas, and Fam Koch gave the
humorous "Go, Josephine in
Your Flying Machine" by Jean
Kerr.
Refreshments were served at
the close of the meeting by the
Fifth grade room mothers.
30-September 11 season arrives.
The • Department's stream trout
plantings will total around
1,000,000 for the year while an
additional 600,000 hatchery trout
Will be stocked jn about 350
lakes.     , *
Roughly one of every three
trout caught from the state's
36,350 miles of streams this season will be a Department hatchery product, judging from the
the take trend of previous creel
censuses. Lake plantings, composed mostly of rainbows and
brooks, provide "bonus" fishing
since many of these waters lack
conditions for natural production.
For those who can't make the
trip north, there are approximately 20 special trout ponds
stocked with hatchery fish.
Most of these are located in
southern Michigan.
Fishermen will find some 500
public fishing sites affording
them access to many of Michigan's popular lakes and streams.
A listing of these sites is free for
the asking from the Department's Fish Division, Lansing
26.
There have been no changes in
fishing license fees. Michigan
trout fishermen may purchase
their $2 trout stamps along with
$2 resident licenses from some
4,200 dealers throughout the
state. Copies pi the 1960 Michigan Fish Lav. Digest are available free from these dealers and
Department district field headquarters.
Postmaster
Convention
Will Be Here
The 48th annual convention of
the Michigan Branch of the National ■ Lea'gue of Postmasters
will come to Clare on June 13-14
with headquarters at the Doherty
Hotel, Louis Capen of Millbrook,
secretary of the organization said
this week.
Mr. Capen with Clifford Osborne, postmaster at Cedar Lake
were in Clare on Tuesday to confer with Clare Postmaster Francis Jackson, .md to make arrangements with Richard Groves,
manager of the hotel. Osborne is
State president.of the group.
Postmasters, Postal employees
and their guests will be treated
to a convention program ol information in their profession,
and will elect officers and conduct the annual business for
1960. It is customary to hear an
address by an executive of the
Post Office Department, usually
from the Chicago headquarters.
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Miss Sharon Butcher, Clare County Dairy Princess is hWe
shown second from left as she accepts a bouquet of flowers
after her selection as winner. At her right in the picture are
Carol McLouren of Winterfield, and Beverly Badgley, Clars
both runnersup in the contest. Sharon is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Theodore Butcher of Harrison and will represent
Clare county in the State Dairy Princess contest to be held
at Kellogg Center in East Lansing in mid-May. Clare Kiwanians sponsored the local contest and Judge D. E. Holbrook
and Dr. Neil Stirling are pictured with the finalists.
Lee Sowle photo.
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mittee spoke for its members
Which included Frederick %
Scott, Wilbur McLane, Alice
Ruck-Is and Viva Saupe,
. Conducting' the , session which
followed was . Stanley Oman
president of the Garfield School
Board.
School districts of Barryton
and Evart had been compared
with Farwell as possible systems
for annexation to, it was revealed
in the report. But recommendations by "the committee asserted
that Farwell had the most advantages to offer both students
and taxpayers of the Garfield
District.
Advice from the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction, and
by experts from Michigan State
University had helped guide the
committee. ■       .
Mr. Oman said that the committee, members deserved "the
thanks of his School Board and
of District parents and residents
for the thorough .report and capable manner in which their job
was performed;
In answering questions from
the floor, he reminded the meeting time and again that if Gax--
field votes to annex with the Far-
Well School District, residents of
both areas will then belong to
one big unit He told the people
that Garfield couldn't dictate
conditions under which it would
annex, --- but that if it did annex, then its residents should accept the responsibility for electing qualified members to the
new, larger district and exercise
their control in that democratic
manner. .
Interested discussion from the
floor indicated that Garfield parents expect improved schooling
in the field of yoca tional^ train-
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The Sentinel regrets the loss
of several engravings i n
transportatipn. Picture coverage of a school annexation
meeting '".i. 'kafee, and the
photo story* bi Sto_y«»-gtorni
damage are affected.
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F.B. Directors
Hear Varied
Program
The board of directors of the
Clare County Farm Bureau met
Monday evening, April. 25 at the
home pf Mr, and Mrs. Ray
Houghton.
The meeting was opened by
Dale Davis who conducted the
regular business session. Mrs.
Virgil Kistler. told of the new
Farm Bureau building to ,be constructed at Camp Kett and distributed lapel pins, the sale, of
which is to help finance the
building*
_u_to bumper stickers promoting-the use of dairy products
were ordered and are to be used
during June Dairy Month.
A report on the district commodity meeting by Charles
Mumford, district representative,
explained Farm Bureau's proposed Federal wheat program.
Members may get a detailed explanation from their bQard member. . .       ..     .
The date for the Rural-Urban
dinner was set for September 15.
President Franklin Schaaf and
Richard Schroeder> county extension agent, reported on a
meeting recently held to explain
and promote the use of calfhood
vaccination to control Brucellosis
in the county and state.
The next meeting of the board
of directors will be held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Mc-
Kenna-in Hamilton Township.-
Rises Past
In County;
ing in high school. The committee assured listeners that Far-
well's school superintendent,
Kenneth McLaughlin would be
ready with improving curriculum
to keep abreast of changing demands and conditions.
Acceptance of the growing
Garfield district by the Farwell
school system was seen as making a school expansion program
a probability within the next
short period, A $600,000. building
program will be ready for preliminary discussion if Garfield
voters approve the annexation.
13 Score
Over 600 In
Pin Tourney
Eighteen Clare women bowlers
enjoyed bowling Sunday^ , April
24 in the   first   annual   Singles
Classic at the   Northway   Bowl,
Houghton Lake.
Money winners at the close of
the first week, with two weeks
remaining, are:
Betty Gallagher, Clare — 692
Neita Wisler, Clare — 658
Myrtle Coil, Harrison — 649
Mrs.   Oliver/West   Branch —
638
Fran Shelander, Clare — 637
Eleanor Lehr,.Clare — 627
,   Donna Bailey, Clare — 626
Eva Bolen, Clare — 624
Gina Thomas, Clare — 619
Mrs. Quellette, West Branch —
611
Margaret Bedard,  Farwell —
605
Kate Underwood, Clare — 604
Lee Jackson, Clare — 603
Don't Let 'Em
When spring finally comes ahd
you start'working in the field
don't let young children ride on
your tractor, warns Richard
Pfister, agricultural engineer jat
Michigan State University. A
sharp turn or fast jerk can shake,
a young hitch-hiker off.
Appointed
Michael Dohertj**, local county
Democrat leader lias - been notified oi his appointment as "Emergency Interim Successor as Deputy Auditor General". The
appointment was made by the
State Deputy Auditor General
acting under a 1959' state law.  ,
Hire New
Principal
At Farwell
Farwell School Superintendent Kenneth McLaughlin named
a new high school principal for
his staff this week, William D.
Dodge is to take the post at the
beginning of the fall school term
in 1960.
Mr. Bodge is finishing".__._
year as Industrial Arts instructor at Sheridan, Mich, high school.
He will replace the present
principal, Edward Runyon Who
is ,not returning to Farwell after four years as principal in the
high school.
A native of New Jersey, Dodge
graduated from Michigan State
University where he received
both, his Bachelor and Masters
degrees.
A professional interest in student counseling.recommends him
for the administrative post in the
Farwell system. An estimated
260 to 270 students are expected
to enroll in Farwell High next
term.
He is a veteran of the Korean
war, and is married with three
children, the* oldest of Which is
a daughter Who will begin Kindergarten next September.
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Force of Sunday evening's sudden windstorm was too much
for this fine old maple in front of the Archie Cleveland home
pn W, Sixth in Clare. The top branches fell into ihe front
doorway blocking entrance there. Many trees, TV antennas,
signs and buildings were victims of the storm violence.
Sentinel photo
Storm Impact Scatters
Wreckage Over Area
Adoption of the 1960 Equalization Report jfor Clare county
with a $1,800,000. raise in the
county-wide, total was the principal business by supervisors at
their April session, just finished
last Friday at Harrison.
That, and other items of business occupied the county body
for eight days,' a new record for
length of a session.
County Equalization each year
confronts the supervisors with
the task of valuing property in
the separate townships and
wards with regard to correct proportion to each other and to
county totals.
Clare Rod and Gun Club members are sponsoring a campaign
to restock the central Michigan
area with Pheasants in an effort
to improve hunting conditions-
Ready with a novel scheme to
.raise finances for the program,
they hope to release hundreds of
dollars worth of birds sometime
in- late "July or in August.'
Helping to back the project are
ten retailers of* hunting and fishing supplies, and bait and sporting goods. Needless to say, the
sale bf tickets and enlistment of
public support are needed to
make the scheme.successful and
The Sentinel will print details in
sport page articles beginning
next week.
Doyer Rally
The radio staff of The Children's Bible Hour will be seen in
person' at' a rally at the Dover
Church, Sunday, May 1 at 3:00
p.m. Aunt Bertha, well-known director of the broadcast for boys
and girls brings a trobp of ten
child performers and musicians
With songs and pulpit messages.
The invitation is open to families from the area and the Dover
Church is five miles north and
one east of Clare. ■
A-windstorm of short duration,
but furious in intensity Sunday
evening inflicted damages in the
thousands of dollars on a central
Michigan area. Most of the
wreckage and the threat of the
storm swirled over the heads of
Clare residents although reported damage occurred in Other
areas from west of Lake and
farwell, and east and south from
Lc-omis to Mi tKaSaht.
Striking suddenly and violently, the storm hurled destructive
gusts of wind and, slashing rain,
without Warning.
Down Went scores of TV antennas, trees, barns and signboards. Many residents believed
they were experiencing a tornado although no twister was actually seen.
The blinding rain paralyzed
traffic on highways for a quarter of an hour with motorists
unable to see more than a' few
feet in front of them.
The time   of the   storm   was
Girl Scouts
Danced At
Festival
Members of Clare Girl Scout
Troop No, 2 joined with Harrison
Girl Scouts to "provide entertainment at intermission for the
Square Dance Festival held in
the Harrison gym Saturday evening, April 23,
The girls have been working
on a folk dancers badge under
the direction of Miss Phyllis Pearson. The Scouts danced the Kal-
velis Folk Dance, danced and
Called Swanee River and a Waltz.
A' big thrill was being allowed
to join with adults in the Jessex
Polka and The Northern Lights,
The Clare Girl. Scouts, were
dressed alike, in pink and white
square dance skirts with white
blouses and pink and white carnation corsages.
Members of Troop No 2 are
Susan "Bader, • Naricy .Doyle,
Vicki Eberhart, Grace Flood,
Betty Keehm, Nancy Knight,
Nancy Perrine, Janet jPiippo,
Sallie Samborn, and, Terry Sella-
fe_
New Hours
At Re venue
Local Office
The Mt. Pleasant office of the
Internal Revenue Service will he
open oh the last Friday of each
month beginning with April 29.
1960 for the purpose of rendering assistance to taxpayers,
Inquiries of an urgent nature
should be mailed to Taxpayer
Service Branch, Room 205, Federal Building, Detroit 31, Michi*
gan.
shortly before seven o'clock in
Clare, Then a few mjnutes later,
the elements subsided to occasional showers through the rest
of the night. A beautiful double
rainbow and a colorful 'sunset
signaled the end of the storm's,
worst part.
After it was gone, the path' of
destruction was revealed:
A 60-foot high neon sign deported to be worth more than
$2,300. fcl$w_f down: flat and f.
total loss at Lone Pine "Motel,
north Clare.
At the Irving Lumber Co, on
West Fifth street, a 21x60 shed
was lifted from its place and
dropped on the roof bf a new addition being built at Kraft fodds.
There the damage included the
loss of a new steel smokestack
which was sheared off above the
roof, and holes punched in the
building's new steel rbdf. A flying timber found its mark like
an arrow as it punctured the
body, of a bulk-tank milk truck
at Kraft.
The trailer residence of Mrs.
Margaret Clark at Luke's trailer
park was toppled over on its
side* and damaged. The occupant
was shocked and bruised, but no
reports were mad- of injuries.
Other trailers were rocked off
their positions and one was skidded sideways about ten feet before the force of the wind.
Plate glass windows blew into
fragments &t the .Clare Kroger
store, at Dan McDonald Ford
Salesroom, and at the Cavalier
gas station.
All over Clare TV antennas
and large trees were overturned.
Repair crews from Consumers
Power Co. were called out and
some temporary damages were
reported  to  telephone  facilities.
A mile west of the US-10 and
M-115 junction a barn belonging
to Robert Wilson was demolished
by the wind and the wreckage
scattered across the highway.
At Lake, Sentinel correspondent Ann Tryon related that much
damage occurred when the storm
blew through the area.
The Calvin Tryon barn was
blown down, and at the same
plfrce a trailer home had its
roof and one side collapsed.  '
A steel shed on Clare's . West
Fourth street was ripped apart
'and the remains were plastered
across two gravel trucks and
trailers parked nearby. The
trucks were the property of the
Yenglin firm of Pigeon, Michigan.
Ironic, humor was seen as the
wreckage was lifted from the
unoccupied trucks and one cab
was discovered to bear the lettered name, "Hurricane".
Lightning was reported to
have struck the residence of Tom
Codk, county Highway superintendent west of Clare. And the
high wind split a tall pine over
the residence of the Paul Schroe-
ders just at Clare's east edge.
Broken branches and other
storm litter remained to be combed our of Clare lawns and hedges
as late as Wednesday this -week.
School Boards
Increase To
7 Members
School Boards for Clare, Harrison and Farwell will increase
in* membership from five to seven at the time of their respective
annual meetings this year. The
change is *in accordance with
Michigan Public Act 16. No other area school districts are affected by the new law, since it
applies only to fourth class* districts operating grades kindergarten through 12th.
The two^new board members
whose positions are created by
the law will be elected by ballot
at the annual election. Their
terms will be for 4 years. Other
members of the respective boards
whos. terms of office expire
shall be succeeded by members
elected for three years. ,,
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after, the rotation of members
Wijl revert to the customary system where not more than two
members shall be elected in any
year to fill vacancies caused by
expiration of terms.
In next July's annual balloting
for the Clare Board positions,
President Harold Hughes and
Member Lionel Duncan will be
those with expired terms.
Qualifying petitions for candidates, to fill these two seats and
the two new ones created by the
law, must state whether the
candidate named thereon is running foi-* a three, or four-year
terjn.
Arrest Pair
For Theft Of    .
Cash Register
Clare Police Chief William Bell
announced two arrests and court
arrainments in a 'two-weeks old
*h._t case in which a Cities Stir-
vice gas station on south Mc__wan
lost its cash ^register and about
eight  dollars   worth  of , change
In jail at Harrison are* Ronald
Fort, 21, and Ronald Brown 19,
both of Farwell. They .both waived their , examination before
Justice William. B. Dunlop in
Clare on April 21, and are held
for Circuit Court appearances.
"It was the first breaking and
entering case in Clare for more
than a year", Bell said5 "And
we're happy to have it solved in
this short time".
The charge against the pair will
be Breaking and Entering in the
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Sheriff's Son
Recruit With
State Police
Having successfully completed
eight weeks of intensive training
at Michigan State Police " headquarters, Robert J..Darling, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Darling, Harrison, Michigan, has
been sworn in as a probationary
trooper by Commissioner Joseph
A. Childs and assighed to the
Clinton, Mich. post.
He and 34 other members of
the State Police recruit school"
class took the oath of offic. at
graduation exercises in East Lansing-.
■Darling, his *wife, Peggy,' and
one child have been residing) at
Route 4 Clare. "
Always regarded as a tough
issue upon which to obtain agree-
menf, the committee report came.
to a vote on the floor Friday afternoon after sometimes bitter argument in the committee room?
Objectors criticized what they
said were -'percentage" raises in
their townships, and said   that
comparable values placed on••like ,
properties in various parts, of the ;
county were faulty.
Final voting which approved
adoption of the controversial report was 18-4 on a roll call,
Against the report were John
Brubaker in Arthur, Howard
Carey in Frost, Stuart Huntley in
Harrison's Third Ward, and
.Chester Wallace in Freeman.
Supervisors George Nash and A.
E, Bartow, also from Harrison
voted for the report adoption) but
both indicated they were far
from satisfied with it.
Among the majority of those
voting for the new equaization
were six members of the Equalization Board whose appointment
was for the purpose of correcting inequalities throughout the
county where like properties
have /been carried on tax rolls at
valuations out- of balance with
one-another. .
Proving that they practice
what they preach, the six members of the Equalization Board
accepted a total of $1,275,298.
worth of added valuation On
their own units.
A rundown of where the added
valuation was found among
township and ward units in tlie
county reads as follows:
Unit .
Arthur
Franklin .
Freeman
Frost
G&r_?elc_
Grant
Greenwood
Hamilton
Hattpn
Hayes
Lincoln
Redding
Sheridan
Summerfield
Surrey
Winterfield
Harrison
Ward 1
Ward 2
Ward 3
Clare, city
. Added
$21,667.
4,189.
63,007.
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107,849.
31,197.
110,767.
48,125. ■
127,621.
66,252.
26,096.
5,875.
9,538.
120,341.
44,199.
New
Val.
$1,192,347.
967,200.
753,015f
1,137,478.
2.2_-.,-_f.
1,988,384.
796,071.
1,294,094.
1,078,181.
1,590,885.
2,127,324.
651,462.
1,590,190.
340,667.
2,095,974.
2,844,247.
25,698. 892,007.
30,759. 1,086,928.
14,259.       465,697;
    . ._       736,965.     7,494,154.
Total Clare county State Equal*
ized Valuation brought to $32,-
697,025. by the most recent hikes.
Another action by the supervisors ended a bid by sponsors of
a resolution to return the choice
of County Highway Commissibn-
ers to popular vote. Circulators
of a petition had sought to have
the next election decide whether
Road Commissioners shall be
elected, or continue to be appointed by supervisors as is now
the system.
Supervisors in session Friday
afternoon removed the possibility of balloting on the method of
choice when they acted directly
and considered a motion to return Road Commissioners*
choice to voters.
The motion failed, and the
Board of Road Commissioners
will continue to fill vacancies by
appointment of the supervisors.
Voting to elect were Supervisors Austin, Becker, Brubaker.
Case, Ehle, Moder, Nash, and
Smith. ■   *■*
For appointment were Supervisors Bartow, Bringold, Brunn,
Carey, Haley, Hall, Huntley.
Kress, Krug, Nivison, Richardson, Stockwell, Wallace.
Get Kraft's
10-Year Pins
Kraft Foods in Clare honored
Roger Garver, Earl Funke and
Tony Brannigan when they were
given the Kraft Award repre*
senting the company's appreciation for ten years of loyal service.
The award program Was established by Kraft in 1945, and
awards accompanied by a Service
.Citation Certificate signed by J.
C. Leftis, President, are given.
for ten, fifteen, twenty and
twenty-five year periods of service. The ten-year award for men
is a gold, tie bar with the Krait
e.mblem. For women, the award
is a gold charm bracelet with ttie
Kraft emblem.
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