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Seven persons were injured in
a seven-ear accident Monday afternoon three miles west of Clare
on US-1Q.
According to State Police from
the Mt, Pleasant Post, there
were no serious injuries. AH seven persons were taken to the
Clare General Hospital, were given aid and released. The total
amount of damages to all seven
vehicles came to $3,150.
A Sentinel reporter who witnessed the accident said that six
cars had stopped for the resurfacing being done on the stretch
Building
Ready For
School Start
With the start of this year's
school season only 7 days off,
students can find their element
imy building clean, ready and
waiting for the first day
swarm which will hit the
school September 7.
"Minor repainting, refinishing, and the usual maintenance
work has been completed.'Also
the grounds have been worked
over to give the lawn that
"not-yet-walked-over" look.
Fire Marshal's recommendations for fire-proofing have
not been carried out this year,
due to the defeat of the mill-
age raise proposal earlier.
Richard Wheeler, superintendent of schools, said that no action can or will be taken to
fulfill these recommendations
until tlie bortd issue passes, ,r
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Mrs. Olson
Takes 'Cap
Tournament
The Women Golfers'.Handicap
Tournament, was finished on
August 2\ when Mrs, James Olson defeated Mrs. Neilan Cradit
in the final match. Mrs. Olson
had defeated Mrs. William Bowler, Mrs. "Earl Baumgarth, and
Mrs. Roy Dunbar. Mrs. Cradit
had defeated Mrs. Jack Bromley,
Mrs. Norris Elden and Mrs.
Herschel Reiss.
The Cluh Tournament is now
in progress, with Mrs. Neilan
Cradit as medalist on qualifying
day.with a score of 99.
The final luncheon and business meeting of the season will
be on September 7th. and everyone is urged to be present. Officers for next year will be elected
at this time, and reports will be
given.
of highway between Clare and
Farwell, The seventh vehicle, a
dquble-bottom tractor hauling
two trailers loaded with crushed
rock, driven by Donald-E, Murphy, 27.. of Coleman, was unable
to stop and rammed into the rear
of the last car waiting in line for
the halted traffic, The chain-
reaction accident caused all seven vehicles to hit each other,
The scene gave the impression
of a train derailment, with each
car jack-knifed into the one-'preceding it. Broken glass, and
crumpled metal were evidence of
the impact resulting, even'to the.
first car in the line.
Traffic was unusually heavy,
and within a few minutes 40 to
50 cars in the west-bound lane
were lined up bumper to bumper,
waiting for the wreckage to be
cleared. A hold-up of approximately 30 minutes resulted for
the west-bound traffic to clear
the east-bound lane.
Murphy told police officers
that his brakes were . in good
condition, but he did not realize
the traffic was stopped ahead.
He was ticketed for being unable
to stop in an assured clear distance.
Drivers of the cars were as
follows: (1) Richard A. Warner,
23, of Harrison; (2) Florence I-
Bartell, 57, of Lake (3) Clyde C.
Payne, 07, of Dayton, Ohio; (4)
Paul J. O'Dell, 45, of Wyandotte;
(5) Thomas A. Maxwell, 26,- of
Hemlock; (6) Dale E. George, 27,
of Coleman, and (7) Donald Mur-
Phy.
Damages were estimated at
$100 to the first car, $350 to the
second, $700 third, $400 fourth,
$700 fifth, $450 sixth, and $450
seventh.
Injured were; .Lucille Cahow,
a passenger in the Bartell vehicle, who suffered a sprained
heck and back;. Alma Payne, passenger In the Clyde Payne car.
;^#*iia|tilie3'; Rachel- Pftullne
and Bonnie O'Dell, passengers in
the ©""Dell car, treated for hack
and neck injuries plusf lacerations and bruises; Thomas Maxwell, driver of the fifth ear.
sprained neck; and Dale George',
driver of the sixth vehicle, a
bruised .foot: and laceration Of the
lower lip and chin.
Testimonial
fyuneheoii
A luncheon for Republican women from all over Michigan on
Thursday, September 8 will honor Mrs. Rae Hooker, Mt. Pleasant who is retiring national com-
mitteewoman. To be held at The
Embers, the affair will start at
1:00 p.m. Price of tickets includes both the lunch and a contribution for a gift for Mrs.
Hooker.
" Mrs. Sarah Schaeffer, Clare
county Republican chairman is
accepting reservations and said
the invitation includes any in-
terested women.
Golf Banquet Finishes
Monday League Play
Monday Night League golfers turned out on August 29
'for their annual end-of-season fling. They played a nine-hole
"kickers" tournament in chase after an array of awards, and
then sat down in the Twin Elms	
A*
clubhouse for their banquet and
election of officers for next season-
Season league winners Ray
Neff and Ralph Baumgarth, and
the club tournament champ, Bob
Brown headed a list of 33 award
winners. More than 48 other
prizes for various attainments
sent nearly everybody away with
some kind of an award.
League President-elect for 1961
is Keith First of Harrison. He
has succeeded Dex Elden.
Re-elected secretary was Don
Richardson who received standing applause of the members in
appreciation for the fine job he
did in his Office during the present season.
Vice President John Bicknell
and Treasurer Chris Demo were
elected to complete the list of
1961 officers.
The audience of 75 golfers saW
the club' team championship
award given to Neff and Baumgarth after their charging finish to the 13-week season put
them in front of Harry Coney
and Bob BrCwn'who had led the
big field all through the season.
Continued on Sport Page
Buck Hickey
Struck By
Auto Tuesday
Emerson (Buck) Hickey, 67, of
Clare, was struck by an auto at
8:30 Tuesday night while walking
across south McEwan Street,
near Dan McDonald's Ford Sales.
He was taken to Clare General
Hospital, where attending physician, Dr. E. J. Gershon described his injuries as a compound
fracture of the right leg, severe
lacerations of the head and, face,
multiple bruises, and shock. His
condition was listed as serious.
Hiekey's sister, Miss Imogene
Hickey, signed a release at the
Clare hospital soon after he was
injured, and transferred him to
Veteran's Hospital in Saginaw.
Mrs. ^Frances Baum, of Jackson, was the driver of the auto.
Police took a statement, but Mrs,
Baum Was not held.
THURSDAY. SEPT, 1, 1960
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The driver of a huge gasoline transport
truck Monday saw another auto coming at
him head-on on ih$ wrong side of the highway cenlerline and wrecked .his loaded
tanker to avoid the collision.
The accident happened northwest of
Farwell on M-115 near Bear Lake,
Damage resulting lo ihe tanker was
estimated at $10,000.     •
Injuries to the driver, Albert Sutter of
Bay City included lacerations and shock.
Troopers from the Mt. Pleasant State
Police post said that the driver of the other
car, Don Woodrow was issued a summons
for illegal crossing of the center line.
Sutter told investigating officers that
he left the pavement to avoid certain collision and the wheels of the tractor he was
driving struck a concrete culvert, breaking
them off and overturning ihe tractor, the
semi, and a four-axle trailer.
Danger of fir© was lessened when tho
huge tanks held seam-tight and did not
leak ihe fuel. Empty tankers were rushed
io ihe scerie and pumped ihe gasoline from
ihe wrecked vehicle into their own compartments. Photo by Maurice Mitchell.
Labor Day Celebration
Lists Popular Events
The complete schedule of events for the Labor Day celebration at Farwell was announced
Tuesday by Don Lloyd of the
committee in charge. It includes
races, prize events, games and
contests and an elaborate parade.
Skerbeck Amusements are furnishing the midway rides and
shows, while most other concessions are sponsored by local organisations and groups.
On Labor Day the program be-
gin^'p &M, *$<!?"£ morning,
sharp:
9;30 a.m. Bbys and girls Bike
Decoration judging for ages up
to 12 years. Contestants must "be
in the parade to qualify for "a
prize. Awards are $5., $2-, and $1-
10:30 Boys' Footrace for up to
12 years. $1.00, 50c and 25c. And
a girls' race for the same ages
and same prizes.
A Bubble Gum contest follows'
for: ages 12 to'lfi'ye'arS'W'th; a $2.
prize for the Wihhet'. A* boys' Pie
Eating contest follows with the
same rules.
A boys' Three-legged race is
next with'ages 12'to 16 years
trying for prizes, $2., $1., and 50e
At 4:00 p.m. a novelty Log-
sawing contest for man and wife
teams offers a prize of $5.
George Snider
Counted Among
S.S. "Firsts"
Mr. George R. Snider, Dunlop
Road, Clare, is one of the 5488
charter social security beneficiaries who received their benefits for the first time in January
1940, E. O. Wiles,- district manager of the Traverse City social
security district office announced today. Still on the social security rolls are 28,500 people
from among those who became
eligible for benefit payments
during 1940, he said.
Mr. Snider, a youngster of 87",
still works half a day a week on
the job from Which' he retired
when he first drew social security benefits, Mrs, Snider has also
received social * security as a
wife. They live in the same
house he built shortly after their
marriage in 1903.
Mr. Snider still enjoys his hobby of gardening.
The 28,500 beneficiaries who
started getting monthly payments under this Federal' system of social insurance have another distinction — their ages,
Six of them have crossed the
century mark; 2,000 are now
over 90 years of age; and more
than 26,000 are now in the 80's.
Over the years sihce 1940, $57.2
billion- has been . paid out in
benefits to approximately 23
million   people.
Hurt In Fall
Mrs- Mary Osborn, of 704 Pine
St, Clare, fell and bruised herself badly when she missed her
footing on the curb in front df
the Citizens State Bank, Monday
afternoon. She was picked up by
ambulance and taken to the
Clare General Hospital.
Other features of the entertainment are to be staged at 2:30
when the John Sykes family of
Detroit takes the spotlight with
singing, guitar playing and dancing. The Farwell P-TA "Kitchen"'
Band will also perform. i
At 7:30 p.m, the crowd wilf
hear the Johnny Colmus band*
Don Holly, a recording artist in*
guitor playing and singing plus,
a return appearance by the
Sykes family.
FireWorks at dark will eon*
elude the day's show.
Day-long" activity on Sunday
and Monday will include ball
games, horsepulling exhibitions
and other popular attractions.
Joint Rites
For Le^ibii
Aux. Women
The- Mt. Pleasant, Coleman,
Hope and Clare, units of the
American Legion Auxiliary Department of Michigan held vtheir
joint installation" ceremonies* at
the Clare City Hall, Monday evening, August 22.-
The meeting was opened with
the Flags presented by Mrs. Fern
Archambault and Mrs. Lucelia
McDonald, and the ^pledges" given:
The unit was officially opened
by Mrs. Doris Cotton, second
vice president of the Clare Unit
Several musical selections were
rendered by Mrs. Margaret LaVoye, accompanied by her mother Mrs. Fern Wright, tenth district musician.
Mrs. Cotton presented Mrs.
Ina Hammond, of Clare,, fhe
tenth district president, wWwas
the installing officer. She Was
assisted by Mrs. Marcella Gwis-
dalle, of Bay City, the newly
elected tenth district president, as
sergeant at arms. • Mrs. Mabel
Lynch and Mrs«"Nell Willey of
Mt. Pleasant served as chaplains*
Clare officers' installed are:
Mrs. Lester Cotton, president;
Mrs. Hammond,'first vice president,' Mrs. LaVoyne, 2nd vice;
Mrs. Conrad Walker, secretary;
and Mrs. M. E. McDonald, treasurer; Mrs. Robert Archambault,
sergeant at arms; Mrs. Wright,
musician; Mrs. George Abbott,
historian. Chairman of committees will be appointed at next
regular meeting.
Remarks were' made by the
various members of the units,
and presentations made to the
out going presidents. Mrs. Hammond was presented, with a gift
from the units as the installing
officez-, -from her own Clare unit
for her servire as president the
past several years, and also a
gift from the new president.
Announcement was made of
the next district meeting to be
September 18th at Big Rapids,
at which time the district officers
will be installed. To close ,the
meeting, Mrs. LaVoye sang 'The
Lord's Prayer."
Tables were decorated in the
patriotic theme, and delicious re*
freshmenfcs of iee^crearh, cake
and punch were served by Clare
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Celebrates
35 Years
With Bell
Robert W. Milholin, installer
repairman with Michigan -Bell
Telephone Company, observed his
35th anniversary with the firm
this month.
: A native of Muscatine, Iowa,
Milholin attended Elkton High
School at Elkton, Michigan.
While he was living on a farm
near there in 1925^ a telephone
line crew stopped by to borrow* a
horse. Tiie'crew took-the horse,
and hired Miiholin as a helper
pA $he same time.
* He Worked out df the Port
Huron telephone office until 1942,
and was transferred to Sandusky
as a combinationman. He was
appointe'd a linemanhere in 1947,
and was named to ihis present
duties in 1951.
Milholin -was a member of the
specialized crews who worked on
the cutovers from, manual to dial
service at Sandusky, Snover, Car-
sonville, Port Sanilac, - Peck and
Clare,   ••••-.•       .
In 1958, he was presented With
a gold watch-as a.safety.award
for 25 years of distinguished driving .With Michigan Bell. ,
FarweU Sets School
Opening For Sept 6j
P-TA fo
The opening of Farwell Area
Schools on September 6 will be a
half-day session. !
Superintendent Kenneth McLaughlin has announced "that
buses will start student pickups
On opening day at 8:30 a.m. and
all students are asked to co-operate by being outside and ready to
board when the bus rolls through.
The 38-member teaching Staff
with three administrative principals and Mr. McLaughlin will
attend pre-school workshop sessions beginning September 1 at
9:00 o'clock ajm» in the 'high
school library. The workshop will
continue through September 1
and 2.
Junior high students are to report to the gymnasium upon arrival at school, while the senior
high students will go to rooms
according to class: seniors, room
1; juniors, room 9; sophomores,
room 4; freshmen, room 2;
All elementary grade students
are to report to their respective
rooms.
Administrative -personnel includes Elementary Principal Mrs.
Mildred Darnell, Lake School
Elementary Principal Mrs. Gladys
Thayer and Junior-Senior High
School Principal William Dodge.
Faculty members are:
Miss Armentrout,    Kindergarten.
:  Mrs, Thayer, Kindergarten.
Mrs. Cools, First Grade.
Mrs; Yarhouse, First Grade.
Mrs. Des Rocher, First and
Second Grades.
Mrs. Geim, Second Grade.
Mrs. Porter, Second Grade.
Mrs. Baker> Second and Third
Grades.
Mrs. McLane, Third Grade.
Mrs. Clarady, Third Grade.
Mrs, Teachout, Fourtr Grade.
Mrs\ La-nib, Fdurth Grade.
Mrs. Knapp, Fourth and Fifth
Grades.
Mrs, Monroe, Fifth Grade.
Mrs. Anderson, Fifth Grade.
Mrs. Hosier,  Fifth and Sixth
Mrs. Bailey, Sixth Grad«.
Mrs, Hoffmeyer Sixth Grade.
Mrs. Paesens, High School
History.
Mr. Danhoff, Gov't and World
History.
Mr." Felton, American Literature and U. S. History.
Mr. Warner, English and Commercial.
Mr. Thomas, Commercial.
Mrs. Oade, Librarian.
Mr, Hecksel, Industrial Arts*
;   Mrs, Hecksel, Mathematics.
Mr. Rhoads, Agriculture,
Mr. Gregg, Mathematics and
Science,
Miss Most, Home Economics.
Mr, 'Simmons, Art.   ,  ,
Mr, Tavener, Science.
Mrs. Beery, English, Speech,
Social Studies.
Mrs. Bellows, Language, Social
Studies, Business.
Mr. Eldred, Language, Social
Studies, and Boys Physical Education,
Mrs. Trethway, Science, Home
Economics.
Mrs. Teachout, Science and
Spanish.
Mrs. Darnell, Language, Social
Studies.   -
Mr. Lippert, Science.
The Executive Committee of
the Farwell P.T.A. had its organizational meeting on Tuesday, August 23. The main purpose of the-meeting was to plan
the first P.T.A. meeting for the
coming school year-
The committee decided to have
a Parent-Teacher get acquainted
dinner on September 19 in the
high school gym. The dinner will
be planned and served by the
school lunch staff.
P.T.A, members are urged to
donate pies to help keep the cost
of the dinner at a minimum.
A membership drive will be
launched during the week of September 5. It is the sincere.desire
of the P.T.A. executive committee to have both a large and
very active organization for the
coming year.
This group is a very close link
between community and school.
It is also our desire to have 200
or more people attend our Parent-Teacher ,get acquainted din-
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Tickets will -be. sold for $1.50
per person for the dinner. The
P.T.A. .Will.be hosts for teaching
staff and the Board of Education
members.
No Room
The Sentinel regrets that unavoidable conditions forced the
omission of local personal notes
and society-page stpries from
this issue. Most of the news will
be published in next week's Sentinel.
The cost for P.T.A- member*
ship is 50 cents per year. Tickets
for the dinner and-P.T,A, menV
bership" cards will be sold froipt
door to door. A booth will be lo->
cated at the Labor Day celebra*
tion. Anyone not personally con->
tacted may get in touch with-
Mrs. Mary Ashley, ticket committee chairman.
Tour Party
In Moscow
Today
Three Clare men were included
on the membership list of the
goodwill tour which departed
from New York, August 26, for
Russia. Richard Schroeder, Michigan leader; Norman Myers, and
Robert Clute, all of Clare, and
three others from Michigan comprised the delegation from this
state. Norman Keller, of Bliss-
field, Wesley Oeschger, of Bay
Port, and Harold Bender, of. Cor-
unna were the others.
The "Feople-To-People" tour
for agricultural leaders Is a.
twenty-one day goodwill inspection tour throughout Europe and
the Soviet Union. The tour was
arranged and designed under the
United States Cultural Visitation
Exchange program, and will give
metabers a glimpse into the different ways the farm people of
Europe and Russia conduct their
farming activities.
Originally the Michigan delegation was to consist of 32 members, all farm leaders, with as
•many ifoW; thfe clare area m
possible. However a change of
plans forced the project to combine the Michigan and California
groups into a 21 member delegation. Co-leaders of the group are
Harold Westlund, of Willows,
California, and Richard Schroeder, of Clare, Michigan.
The tour departed from. New
York Friday, August 26, for Paris. From there their touring will
include. Brussels, Holland, Moscow, Lvov, Chernovtsy, Warsaw*
Berlin, back to Paris, and then
New York Once again. Expected
arrival date is September 15,
Ancient Maples Fall For Timber
The little grandchildren of A.
J. Carncross, who are young
members Of the.,fourth generation on the farm near Eagle have
been witnessing the timbering of
virgin Maple in a large woodlot
on the place. It's something few,
if any youngsters these days
may boast of ever seeing.
A Martcelona, Michigan sawmill firm was taking Maple,
Basswood and other trees during
the pastv week or so, and are
now. continuing their timbering
operations On the adjacent property "of OrviHe Bates just south
of the Eagle church corner.
The- Carncross place was settled by Frank Carncross, father
of A. J. M the 188v0s after lumbering crews had worked across
the land.
Cleared of stumps, most of the
acreage has been farmed for the
past 74 years,
The woodlot covets about eight
acres of the land some distance
directly west of the home and
buildings. It would be more proper to call the timber stand a
sugar Maple grove since it has
been well known as a sugar and
syrup producing "bush" for some
50 years.
Uncut virgin Maple is not impossible to find in central Michigan, but amounts tiiat make
lumbering operations profitable
are becoming rare.
On the   Carncross   farm   the
crews from Mancelona moved in ^	
with a mixture of old   familiar *" ""   « [ "' " :        '
lumbering   tools   and   methods, . ■     ... '
aided by more modern machinery cutt"ng. Trucks carry the huge loned peavy hooks so familiar to     Sale of the   timber   provides
and facilities. loSs to the mill in the north.        loggers everywhere.  . welcome income from the land
,   A caterpiller   tractor   snakes     several previous   chances   to which id no longer farmed ex-
Tree cutting is done with pow- the big logs through   the' thick se]j timber from the farm have tensively, Carncross sells cream
erf ul chain saws driven by gaso- woods to the loading site where been turned down by Carncross, fr01"""' a small herd of dairy cat-
line powered engines. they are picked up with a cable but the higher price offered now tie, but cultivates no large cash
Individual trees scaling 34 to from an    A-boom    anchored to nas made a difference in the de- crops.
40 inches at the stump are yield- other trees   and lowered   on   a,ciSion to part with   the' ancient     For the past eight years since
■ing as many as four to six logs waiting truck. 'trees.    , " s the   loss of his   wife,   Carcross'
of mill sizes up to 16 feet. Despite the mechanized meth-     As high as $60.00 for   Maple sugar camp has   been   unused.
About 9 thousand board feet ods of cutting,and handling the and almost half that much for Once the giant Maples filled sap,
of timber were trucked off the logs, the workmen make fre- Beech and Elm is the going price buckets hanging, as many as
Carncross place in the first' day's quent use of axes and old-fash- per thousand offered,     ' .   .      four on & single tree trunk. *
A. J. Carncross at the left in ihe photo waiched these Maple trees fuliill a long, usetul
service as sugar and syrup producers before they were felled this week for choice lumber. In the picture also are A^ J.'s son, Wayne and his daughter Dianna, 6 and son Ricky,
4. Some of the mighty trunks of the virgin Maples measured 34 inches and more across
the stump end. . Sentinel photo
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