1960-09-08; Clare Sentinel

              THE CLARE SENTINEL
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THE CLARE SENTINEL. CLARE. MICHIGAN
THURSDAY. SEPT. 8. 1960
" Ten Cents Copy       New Series, Vol. 68, No. 52
Pictures Are Witness To Rural Wreckage Left Behind In Windstorm Wake
Glen Lower of rural Clare takes; a look at ih© damage
iq his barn and buildings when last Thursday's windstorm passed his way.   Bright 'sunshine Hoods a scene
that was black with fury a little earlier when rain and
winds of "a twister's tail" wrought this damage.
Trees that had withstood many a punishing storm came
crashing io earth Thursday when a sudden wind storm
struck the area and most of Michigan. In the Myeres
driveway near Clare this auto was crushed when a
weighty tree trunk was blown'down on it. These photos
by Lee Sowle.
Save Your Fishing Story!
Hear One That's Better
Fishing stories are most times
fun to hear, but When they get
to sounding too much alike, —
well, here is one that you'll remember after others are forgotten.
This is a story of a hand-
caught trout.
None of that package twine
and bent pin stuff for the boys
who caught this fish last Wednesday. It was a bare handed
catch.
The eight companions were
taking a little hot-weather plunge
in the Tobacco river west of the
Cedar Park hole when Johnny
Mester saw the trout nosing
slowly along the stream. He
threw a bottle which hit the fish
and quick-thinking Mickey McGuire scooped it in with' a finger
in its gill.
Success never made a bunch of
fishermen more excited.
They brought their prize to
Clare where everybody admired
it and listened with amazement
to their story.
Not a few envious grown-ups
offered to buy the fish, an 18-
inch German Brown. One reported offer was for the price of a
dollar but the boys weren't going
to be "hooked" into a fishy deal
like that.
They wrapped the fish and had
it frozen, but not until it had
been weighed at Richard Ja-
bour's dad's Packing 'company.
It scaled at one pound, 15ai
ounces.
So that's it, — the fish story
that tops any we ever heard.
Now each one of the boys in
the, crowd has been promised a
copy of The Sentinel with his
picture in it, just to back up his
story the next time he finds
someone who hasn't heard it.
In the photo starting 1. in front
are Mickey McGuire 11, Johnny
Mester 11, and Tim Casteel 9.
Standing are Joe Casteel 11,
Richard Jabour 10, John Casteel 11, Mark Koch 11. and Terry
Mester 13, all of Clare.
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Phone Service Restored After Knockout By Storm
Area telephone service was
worst hit by a furious storm
Thursday when extremely high
winds and what has been called
the "tail" of a twister blew down
wires and trees and damaged
some buildings.
Stories of statewide destruction placed the most serious damage in a belt from north of Clare
in the upper part of the peninsula, southeastward toward Bay
City and the Detroit region.
Bell Telephone Area Manager
Clarence Riedel said that 31 hundred telephones were reported
out of order after the storm
passed and spun trees down
across wires and cables.
The trouble Calls came from
throughout the extended service
area encompassing Glare, Beaverton. Coleman, Farwell, Gladwin, Harrison and Rosebush.
In the Clare area alone 400 telephones were temporarily out of
order following the worst of the
storm which tapered off at one
o'clock  on  Thursday afternoon.
With a suddenly blackening
sky as the only warning, the
winds of hurricane force and
torrents of rain struck the state.
Crews of extra telephone service men were in this area, having just finished some other construction work. They stayed to
assist with the restoration of
service.
Working on Thursday afternoon and Friday, some crews
were able to repair the most serious of the damage. More repairs
occupied linemen and installers
on through Friday and Saturday
and Sunday. On Tuesday this
Week, only   a few instances   of
Groves Regional Head
For ''61. Michigan Week
Richard D. Groves, manager of
the Doherty Motor Hotel in
Clare, will serve as 1961 Michi-#
gan Week chairman for an area*
of north Central Michigan which
includes Roscommon, Ogemaw,
Clare;- Gladwin, Arenac and Isabella counties.
His appointment as regional
chairman was announced by
John H. Carton, president of the
Trout Quest
Frank Snider, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Snider of Clare, who
lives at Lake Margarethe, near
Grayling, is employed in Midland, making his home during
the week with his parents. He
has been invited to join* a group
of men from Grayiing to go on
a quest for fish that was the
community's namesake.
The group will leave September 19th, and their destination is
Camp Grayling, 500 miles north
of Moosejawsask, in Lake Athabasca county. Dr. Hugh LeFav-
our of Boston, Mass., owner of
Camp Grayling organized the
trip for the Grayling residents,
who would like to try modern
that made the Au Sable river in-
day angling methods for the fish
ternationally famous. Mort Neff
is expected to be with the expedition too.
Wolverine and Federal Insurance
companies, Battle Creek, who is
general chairman for the eighth
annual state celebration to be
observed next May 21-27.,
, .Mr, Carlori pointed. Cut that
for 1961, the state has'been organized into 16 regions, which
compares with nine this year.
He explained that the reorganization will facilitate closer contacts with couny and communiy
organizations, as well as giving
regional-chairman smaller areas
to cover.
In accepting the regional chairmanship, Mr. Groves said that he
will begin immediately to select
county chairmen so that planning for the celebration can be begun much earlier than in previous years.
A native of Clare, Mr. Groves
is active in business and civic affairs. He is past president of the
Clare Kiwanis club and a former
member of the local school
board. He serves as vice president of the East Michigan Hotel
Greeters, is a members of the
East Michigan Tourist Association, and is active in the Clare
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Carton said it is time to
start organization now at all local levels so that plans can move
forward rapidly for a greater
state celebration than ever before.
damaged
clean up.
service remained   to
Six trunklines between Clare
and Beaverton where communication was completely wiped out
in the storm were reported back
in usable condition by Friday
morning, almost 24 hours after
the hurricane's strike.
Riedel said that not many
poles went down but thevdamage
was mostly caused by trees and
branches buckling over the
wires.
Elsewhere the clean-up of
Wind-blown wreckage continued
this week. Bay City lost scores of
trees and almost every street
was high with piles of branches
and. uprooted tree trunks: .
Near Harrison the Piney
Woods cabin colony suffered the
loss of many trees that were
twisted and scattered like straws.
Not much other property damage and personal injury was reported.
Harrison and Gladwin, both in
the belt marking the path of the
Pioneer "Weakness" Is
Depth, Speed, Experience
Clare High has the material
that can make a "fairly good"
football team this year, Head
Coach George Perry told Rotarians at their Wednesday noon
lunch meeting.
Of course Peri'y cHbked *i£ fi
little with hesitation when he
finally admitted that the squad's,
pre-season showing makes them
look like conference title contenders,- but coaches are like that.
His tongue-in-cheek complaints
were that he has a weak line.
The players he thinks will get
starting calls sound like this:
Ends — Six feet even at 190
pounds, and six feet "VHn, at 185.
Tackles — '■ Six feet two at 195
and six feet one at 195.
Guards — Both five feet ten.
One is 210 and the other 195.
Center — Five feet eleven at
185.
Backfield — Light but fast. A
couple of runners are 180-pound-
ers and one man has marked at
10.4 seconds for the 100-yard
dash.
The "best line in six years",
shows seriousneess and a good
team spirit' Perry indicated that
he fears disaster with no better
material than this.
But in a more sober forecast
of what he, and the school expect
of this year's grid warriers, Perry predicted:
Clare will enjoy a fairly 'successful season. The players sense
that their's is a good team in the
making.
Artist's Show
The annual exhibit of Clare
area artists will be held this
Sunday, September 11 from 12
noon to 5 p.m. at the Hotel Doherty. The public is invited to
attend.
Airplane Is Farm Implement For Rye Winter Cover Seeding
The Rye seed flew Tuesday,
you.can bet, when 35 acres was
sown on the Charles Bolle farm
* v   in two to three hours.
You can take that literally," because the Rye seed was dropped
from an airplane in flight.
The air method of seeding is
not called too unusual any more.
Ernest Irwin, Isabella County
ASC chairman has made use of
the service and other area farmers Use it from time to time. Isabella Extension Agent Harry
Densmore was visited by the,
Ovid Air Service crew Tuesday'
when Rye was sown on his farm
too-
Seeding from the air is par-
,w ticularly useful to farmers who
' - need speedy completion of the
joi). and who are seeding standing corn to- provide a Rye winter
cover crop that Can be turned'
under next spring for the soil*
building value.   ,,..,.
The grain seeded now will be
of sufficient size and development next spring, so that the
plowedunder benefits will have
reached near peak value.
.pn Tuesday, the operation
started when Max Miller, flying
proprietor of the service arrived
at Bolle's and found a field where
he could land and take off with
loads of the seed.
Attached to his special Piper
Cub is a fan-shaped chute device
that spills the seeds out into the
air under the fuselage. His working altitude,is not much higher
than the corn tassels on the field
below him.
We waited on the ground at
the end of the field where seeding was in progress* A crewman
stood holding a white circular
target oh a high staff to guide
the pilot on his "passes" just 17
paces apart   After   every pass
over the field, the target was advanced for the next strip until
the field was covered. v
We could 'hear the plane coming before it was in sight.
* "The two-way    radio    crackled
with the pilot's voice, "I can see
the mark." Then the Cub appear
ed on an 80-mile-per-hour brush
over the corn. Streams of, seeds
fell on the field.
At the finish of the run, the
plane pulled up in.a vertical escape from trees and wires at the
end of the field,, then circled for
another trip.
Police Hunting Man's Attackers
Ray Akers of Clare, who told
police he was attacked by two
men on a Clare street early Saturday morning was taken • to
Clare General Hospital with a
broken right leg.  '
Found by Police Sergeant Alva
Cochran andi Officers Wayne
Berg and Ray Lippold, Alters
was in the 190-block on W-
Fourth. He said that two men
approached him and one struck
him knocking him   down   and
breaking his leg. The other assailant fled.
Police are continuing an investigation into the affair.
The whole Labor Day weekend
Was reported to be quiet in and
around Clare as Chief William
Bell said that his department
handled nothing more than rou-'
tine traffic, assignments, '
Clare police were assisted by
three members of the National
Guard who acted as reinforcements over the holiday period.'   \
The ground crewman remarked that it was well into the heat
of the day and the pilot was having a rough time in the bumpy
air.
"Most of our work is very early in the daylight hours and
again at the cool end of the day,"
he said.
Irwin's interest in the project
was in his capacity of soil conservationist. He said that the
winter cover planting is encouraged to hold moisture, prevent
soil erosion, and enrich the
earth.
ASC bears about naif the cost
of the service, paying the farmer $1.45 an acre for the work. Irwin said that his office would
like to see more corn raisers use
Rye in this manner and added
that with nitrogen application,
and with other treatment of the
land, it is profitable to follow
corn with corn.
Practice has been tough and
rugged. The boys are earning
bruises along with their experience.
New iSctiecluie
A new work schedule has been
set up by the Clare Methodist
Church which will begin operation Sunday, September 11th.
There will be two worship services each Sunday, one at 8:30
a,m., the other at 11:00. For the
first Sunday. Rev. D. R. Salisbury will speak on the topic,
"The World's Big Squeeze."
At the first service, the third
graders" of the Church School,
who will be entering the Junior
Department, will be presented
their new Bibles.
The Sunday School hour has
been changed, and will convene
at 9:45 each Sunday. It is hoped
that all parents will take notice
of this change in the hour.
On September 18th, Rev. Salisbury will begin an evening service from 7:00 to 8:00, each week
thereafter, which will offer different types and varied programs.
On Thursday evening this
week,; the Methodist Men resume
their monthly meetings, which
will be followed by an all church
school teachers and workers conference at 8:00 p.m.
A non-scheduled scrimmage
game is to be played with Traverse City St Francis on the Clare
field at 7:30 tomorrow evening)
Friday and fans who are curious
and interested about the coming
team are. invited tp w&teh.
A couple of interesting sidelights were mentioned by Perry.
Most of the games-away from
home are to be played on the
homecoming weekends of the
schools visited. This will make
the schedule tougher, he thinks.
And, the boys themselves have
invented nicknames for their offensive and defensive units. The
attackers are "Longarrows" and
the defenders are "Hatchetmert."
Kinda' fits with the scho6l's
designation as "Pioneers", doesn't it?
The first scheduled game is at
home on September 17 against
Gladwin's Flying Gs who lost
only one game last season while
winning seven. They too, lost only two players from their 1959
starting lineup.
Fifty-two candidates are trying
for positions on the squad and
Perry showed his audience how
the boys are equipped with pads,
protectors and uniforms.
Sparkling new suits are white
with green letters and are styled
like the Spartans of East Lansing. Green jerseys also will be
worn.
storm's worst fury were highest
in telephone damage.
A barn was partly collapsed
on the Glen Lower farm of Clare
R-l, and at the Myers rural res*
idence also on Clare R-l a falling
tree smashed an auto parked in
the driveway. Several trees went
down or were stripped of their
branches which fell near "the
house.
On Budd Lake at Harrison a
woman camper and her small
children were taken off a small
island at the height of the storm
when their screams attracted
Clarence. Riedel's son who was
on the water with a large boat
in an attempt to keep it from
being smashed on the shore.
Minutes after the party was
taken frdrii the small island, the
tree under Which they had been
sheltered was .blown violently
down and mashed the spot where
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Rural-Urban
Annual Dinner
Friends and business acquaintances from town will be guests
of the families of The Clare
County Farm Bureau at a supper the evening of September 15.
Each Farm Bureau family will
invite their own guests from
town and meet at the commerce
building at the Harrison Fair,,
Grounds. Supper will be served
at 7:15, cafeteria style, with each
farm family furnishing food for
themselves and guests.
A short program is being
planned.
Five Years
A story describing the qualifications for ASC office manager
in Isabella county has an error
on page 12 of this issue. The correct number of years of agricultural experience is five, two Of
which must be in. an operational
phase.
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It's progress on wings! Rye seeding at the field. Air seeding and other services such
Lt's progress on wings! Rye seeding at the as fertilizing and pest control are not new.
Charles Bolle farm east of Clare was done but are gaining new   acceptance in   the
as rapidly as this pilot could load his spe* modern land management programs,
cial plane .and spray ihe seed   oyer the  ;  Sentinel photo
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