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THURSDAY, OCT* 6,1950
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New Series, Vol. $9, No,
Clarence B, Riedel (left)'. Glare area manager for Michigan
Bell Telephone Company, has been named regional fund
chairman for ihe 1361 B,pd Cross campaign. His appointment io ihe volunteer post was announced by Louis P.
Buineschoen (right), national fund vice chairman for Michigan. Riedel will work with* the local Red Cross chapters in
the counties of Clare, Crawford, Ogemaw, Otsego, and "Roscommon. .
Invite Public
To Firemen's
Program
Members of Clare's Fire Department are "steamed up" with
enthusiasm over a program
they'll offer the public Monday
next week in observance of Fire
Prevention Week.
The special week, October M6
is to re-acquaint citizens with the
operation of their community
Fire Department, and to point
out the dangers of existing fire
hazards.    "
A motion picture program on
Monday in the Clare school auditorium will feature films of a
recent disastrous fire in a Chi5
cago school, and added will be
films furnished by the State Police on the same topic, Spectacular Fires. Trooper Thomas from
Mt Pleasant will show the movies.
During the special week,
•Clares fire equipment "wilB be
parked in downtown locations to
allow public viewing and inspection. People are invited to
"board" the trucks and examine
the equipment and outfitting.
On Wednesday, school children
in tlie lowest grades will be
treated to rides on the rolling
fire equipment, and Fire Chief
Floyd Woodworth said that souvenir pencils with the Department's emergency phone number
will be passed out as gifts.
The public is urged to remember the Monday evening date and
attend the showing of the pic
lures.
Pulpit Guests
Announced
For Baptists
Tlie speaking engagements for
the month of October at the First
Baptist Church, opened on Sunday, the second with Rev. Victor
Barnard a missionary on furlough from Pakistan as speaker.
He also presided at a meeting
Monday evening, showing color
slides of the housing in the foreign field, and, the visitation efforts necessary in the work
there.
Due to this meeting, the regular Monday home visitation hour
was postponed until this Thursday evening.
Sunday, the 9th, Rev. Roger
Keel of Mt. Pleasant will be the
speaker at the morning hour. In
the evening at 7:00 o'clock, the
youth group will show the motion picture "Great Discovery",
featuring Colleen Townsend
Evans, showing the experiences
and personal history of her work
and efforts in Christian Service.
All young people are especially
urged to attend, as well as the
families.
The week of October 16-19,
Miss Saide Custer of China In-
. land Missions will Bring a series
of messages, showing slides and
films and will present a missionary challenge.
On the 23rd, Rev, DeBoer/'of
Vestaburg will be the speaker at
both worship services, and Rev.
: Moore of Belleville will supply
the pulpit on the 30th.
Sign Local
Staff At
Clare Radio
A radio station in Clare is
closer to reality this week with
the completion of the two radio
towers and the associated ground
system at WCRM.
The two towers, which were
completed Tuesday are 180 .ft.
high and are clearly visible at
night -by flashing red lights Just
south Of the city limits at the
site of the new station.
Due largely to the hurricane
storm damages to existing towers in the south and on the east
coast, the tower crew was unable to be on the site as originally planned, thus causing the delay in the construction of the
two towers,
One of two links to be joined
before actual operation can begin at the new station is the arrival and installation of phasing
equipment expected next week.
Other broadcasting equipment
has been delivered, installed, and
was temporarily tested last week.
The other link is the actual
on-the-air testing for the factual
report to the FCC in Washington.* During the "experimental
hours", which are between midnight and sunrise, Mrs. Norbert
Poeppelman, manager of WCRM
and his associate and nephew,
Mr. Donald Kuether, will take
measurements of the station signals within a 20 mile radius for
the report to Washington.
•'The radio Station will operate
on 990 KC*. The station has been
assigned the telephone number
of EV 6-9907, which incorporates
the assigned frequency of the
station. This was made possible
by the cooperation of the Michigan Bell Telephone company.
According to Mr. Poeppleman
the operating staff of WCRM
will consist of Donald Kuether,
Joe Kisnosky, Jay Lehr, Miss
Katheleen Thayer, Bernard Wilson and Poeppleman.
Kuether will act as program
director of the new station. He
was a native of Ohio and hopes
to acquire his radio engineer's license within the near future.
The commercial manager' will
be Joe Kisnosky, who has had a
wide experience in the broadcasting field.
Jay Lehr, also of Clare, will be
the sports director of WCRM. He
will also assist in sales work
and announcing.
Miss Katheleen Thayer of rural Clare will be the woman's director with broadcasts for the
homemakers. She is a sophomore
at CMU at the present time,
studying home economics and
journalism.
The news director, Bernie Wilson will assist the station in,
gathering of local news and information of interest to the listeners in Clare and Surrounding
communities.
In addition to managing
WCRM Mr, Poeppelman will act
as the stations chief engineer.
To Elect
Clare Babe Ruth League officials, arid interested persons will
meet October 11 at 7:30 in the
high school to organize for 1961
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Fair Board
Meeting Time
The Clare County Fair Board
Will call the annual meeting to
Order .'Thursday,- October 13 at 2
o'clock p.m. in the.courthouse at
Harrison.'
The public is invited to attend
the meeting and watch the election oi officers for 1961, and hear
the reading of the Fair's financial report and witness the transaction/of other business.
President of the Board is Ray
Richardson, secretary is Albert
Haley who Is also acting Fair
Manager, and treasurer is June
Eose Of Harrison*
Student
Campaign
Raises $3,221
Record-busting magazine salesmen from Clare High School
class groups pushed their total
sales way over three thousand
dollars in the 1960 campaign to
earn money for student activities*
The sale, ending on Wednes,
day set a new record with
$3,221.55 for the amount of money collected in the. annual campaign, and beat last year's total
by $1,850.
High School Principal Richard
Snyder said late Wednesday that
the total was not considered to
be official since clean-up accounting and tallying of receipts remained to be done, but it was a
certainty that the present campaign had produced the best rg>
suits ever attained.
Number One salesman in the
entire school is Eric Hammerberg with a total of $200.24.
Following in second and third
places are Elaine Wilson who
sold $85.77 worth of subscriptions, and Jim Ruby with sales of
$62.22. Hammerberg will be .giv-
en his choice of several valuable
prizes, and awards are to be given others in the successful drive,
also,
Many student salesmen, turned
in amounts of between $40. and
$50. to qualify for prize awards.
The Clare Sentinel was offered as one of the publications to
which residents could subscribe
and help students earn class
money. ...   ...
First place in the class totals
standings went to the Juniors
with their sales of $974.44. Following in the class rivalry were
the Freshmen, Seniors and Sophomores in that order,
Mr. Snyder said that students,
school authorities and sponsors
joined in thanking the public for
the support of the program,, the
only public fund-raising enterprise the school engages in.
Republicans
ScMilule   ^
Two Rallys
Northeast Isabella county will
be the scene of two Republican
rallys this week, according to
County Chairman Tom North-
way,
Complete with candidates, movies/ and. refreshments, ithe rally
will.be staged at 8 p.m*; Thursday,'Oct: 6," ih the Loomis-'Hall,
Chairman La Vern Rockett has
issued an invitation to all residents of Vernon artd Wise Townships and surrounding .'areas to
attend.
Included in the program will
be "Ambassador of Friendship",
a film of Vice President Richard
M. NixOn's tours throughout the
world. Highlight of the movie is
the famous "Kitchen Debate"
with Nikita Khrushchev.
Mrs. Duane Prout is in charge
of a Denver-Chippewa Townships rally slated for 8 p.m. the
following evening at the Delwin
Hall.
She has invited State Representative Russell H. Strange to
speak on legislation in Lansing.
Eighty-year-old Dr. Floyd Armstrong, oldest delegate to attend
the State GOP Convention in
August, has been invited io address Lincoln Township citizens
next Tuesday night at the Lincoln Town Hall.
Chairman John Goodwin announced plans to show the Nixon
film.
Two Attend
Women's Club
Convention
Mrs. George Beck and; Mrs.
Leon Dull attended the 39th annual Federation of Woman's
Club Convention at East Tawas
this week. They represented the
Clare Study Club.
Following registration on
Tuesday they attended a luncheon honoring present officers.
The afternoon meeting was pri*
marily devbted to election of Officers followed by a banquet at
the Holland Hotel.
Speaker Mrs. James Quinn,
the second vice president^.highlighted Wednesday morning activities, followed by Mr. Roy
McMurray, a humorous Speaker,
After the . luncheon honoring
the past arid present presidents
they returned home,
While, there, Mrs, Beck and
Mrs. Dull stayed at the Sims
Northwood Hotel. Mrs. Beck was
en the notnimiing committee.
s
Area Bypass Bids Due This Year
Clare Rotarians heard Michi-
gan Highway Commissioner John
C. Mackie picture a rosy future
for their town, — coming, he
said,-as soon as the economic effects of highway building and
improvements in the area begin;
to be felt. He spoke Wednesday
noon before the regular lunch-
time audience that was swelled
by the attendance of many
guests and visitors, >
The Doherty Hotel's Wedgewood Room was filled to ne.an
capacity. ,
T-h e Commissioner revealed
tha"?. bids will be, opened on December 7";for Work on the bypass: which is to route the "new
US-2,7 around Clare. . .
Discussed in detail in Mr.
Mackie's; speech* also was the Department planning and work on
the,new- route 'for US-10 from
Midland to Clare.
Mr, Mackie's 'appearance' in
Clare was arranged by club member Paul Hubscher, in charge of
the "program". In the talk, Mr.
Mackie told his listeners;
"Clare is in an enviable position because it will be served by
two freeways. Clare always has
been a "hub" city with two ma-(
jor highways intersecting here'
and it will continue to be. There
isn't another community north of
Lansing of 5,000 or less population that will be served by two
freeways, at least fbr many
years,
"There is no doubt in my mind
that the US-27 and US-10 freeways will contribute vastly to
this community's economic pro
gress. They will bring some new
industry* as well as more shoppers, and many more tourists.
"Time will prove that the new
highways will be among the best
Jbusiness stimulators Clare has
had for many years. They'll produce more jobs for local citizens
and more tax revenue for local
governments. Rather than killing a community, the new freeway brings new life . . . and I'm
sure that will be the case here in
Clare."
Nearly 15 miles of new construction on US-10 were
awarded to bidders Wednesday this week. The completed
project will bring ihe new Freeway from Midland io ihe
ciiy limits of Clare. In a later bid opening, the Highway
Department will determine ihe builder of ihe strip from
M-18 eastward. The Sergeant Construction Go*, Saginaw
is the appareni low bidder on the re-located Freeway
west io Clare from ihe Midland-Isabella line near Coleman ($3,081,053.) On the 6A2 miles from M-18 west io the
Midland-Isabella line, Cooke Contracting Co„ Detroit
was the apparent low bidder at $2,389,142.
Candidate
W. A. MOes
To Speak
Wendell A. Miles, Republican
candidate for Michigan Attorney
General will be introduced to a
Clare audience Friday evening at
a dinner at the-^qherty Hotel,
: As the guest of Nelson Miles;*
vice president of Holley Carburetor and friends, fhe candidate will
deliver a campaign address as
the feature on the program. Tickets for the affair may be secured
from Harold Sandborn, Holley
plant manager of the Clare Division, or from Art Damoth. The
public is invited to hear the,' program and attend the banquet.
Many .distinguished persons
are expected to-Mather for the
banquet including members of
the Clare County Republican
Committee and other candidates
for legislative and congressional
posts.
Wendell Miles was United
States District Attorney in the
West District of Michigan prior
to his selection at the State Convention as a candidate on the
GOP ticket.
Mr. Miles is a native of Holland. His father, Fred T. Miles
was Judge of the 20th Judicial
Circuit for many years.
He possesses a military record
of distinction, has been effective
in civic affairs, and before his
tenure as U.S. District Attorney
in West Michigan, he was Prosecutor for Ottawa county for
more than 4 years. He has numerous commendations from the
Attorney General of tlie United
States for his work in the law.
In addition, Mr. Miles record
lists achievements as Military
Trial Judge Advocate ih General
Court while in France; United
States Claims Commissioner in
Europe; Law Member, General
Court, Third U.S. Army., and
other legal achievements.
Michigan newspapers and public figures from both major political parties have acclaimed
Miles record and labeled him an
asset to the administration and
enforcement of law.
WENDELL 'A. MILES
Candidate Coming Here
Band Going
To U-M Game
Clave High School's Band will
depart tomorrow to take part in
the University Oi Michigan Band
Day where a performance will be
made in the huge Michigan stadium alohg with 186 other school
bands in the State.
* Staying in Detroit the night
before the game, the bandsmen
and the leader, Lloyd Conley and
chaperones Will have accommodations at the SheratomCadiHac,
About   12,500   musicians   arid
1,500' twirlers' will   perform   at
Once in the televised feature at
Ann Arbor, The buses are expect'
. ed to arrive back in ciare on Saturday at I0:oop^^      -_:   -
Teachers
Meet Here
Forty-four teachers from the
rtewly organize^ -Area .12 Department of Class Room Teachers of
the Michigan Education Association were served in the Clare
Methodist Church Friday evening, September 30th. The Esther
Circle of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service prepared and
served the dinner, Rev. D .R. Salisbury gave the invocation.
Tables were attractive With
special centerpieces made by
Mary Olson, elementary teacher,
and Miss Ida Bentley, home Economics, which included a teaching tree, the leaves representing
tools of the profession, and a
mesh apple, and these leaves
featured . the subjects taught.
Favors were presented each one
donated by business people of
the city.
For the business meeting, the
group were taken to the High
School Library, and Mrs. Kathryn
Eroh, area director was in
charge.
Mrs. Elsie Geeting, past president of the State Department of
Class Room Teachers told oi her
trip to Hawaii, as a delegate to
the National Department Classroom Teachers and Association.
She gave many interesting facts
of the people there, demonstrating how to make a lei, and gave
many other highlights of the
time spent there.
Dan Manthe of Lansing, a
MEA Field Representative, spoke
on Legislation and the issues in
Voting, and left with them this
quotation, "Every Teacher an
Active Political Citizen", also
"Teaching is our Profession"
is the theme for the Classroom
Teachers*
The next Area 12 meeting will
be held in Midland On February
l7th.
Three Winners
|Three lucky Clare people won
door prices at the showroom
viewing of the new^Fords^ at
Dan McDonald's Sales* Saturdays
Notified Monday of their good
fortune "were * Wayne Berg "Who
took top prize of a child's bicycle/ PaiMcCofineUapdEd S*i&
fer who both won radios*
Proclaim
Week For
B-P Women
Clare's Business and Professional Women's Club is joining
sister organizations in their National Federation this week in
observance of National Business
Women's Week, October "2
through 8.
The 1960 theme throughout
the nation and the local community is "Symbol of the Sixties
.. . More Women at Work/'
This week is set aside yearly
to pay tribute to women in business and the profession fields
and to the contribution they
make to the nation. Millions of
women are now at work 3n of-
ficesj. schools, factories and on
the farm;. Millions are now learning new professions, exploring
new fields, creating new ideas,
and on truth, women now number more than a third of the
work force in the country. Young
women choose from some 500 different career fields now instead
of the dozen or so jobs of a
decade ago. Married women
make up nearly three quarters
of this and older women. 40
years or over, whose children
are grown, are re-training in
either former or new fields and
make up a large portion of the
total of working women.
All women, young and more
mature, are using their qualifies
of compassionate and imaginative resourcefulness to make
their communities, states and nation better places. They are alert
to the necessity of preserving
civilization and freedom in the
world.
The Clare Business and Professional Women's Club was organized in 1956, and with a goal
for fifty members this year, are
looking forward to do their part
in the national, state and local
federation groups. A Shoe and
Boot fund' has been in operation
for three years, service in community baskets at Christmas,
active in many other civic prob
lems, they are being recognized
as one of tlie outstanding clubs
of the community.
Special emphasis will be made
for Business Women's Week, at
their October meeting on Monday eveningf the 10th, which
comes at the end of the week's
program.
Cycle, Auto
Collide
Frank, Cotton, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Calvin Cotton received minor injuries Sunday when the
motorcycle on which he was riding collided with an auto driven
by Harold Loomis of Clare. .
The accident occured at Colonville Corners and the motorcycle
is a total wreck, Frank's family
reports. Damages were covered
by insurance.
Comeback
Try Aimed
At St Louis
Clare High's football guns
will be aimed at St. Louis tomorrow night when the first
League game of the season under
home lights gives the Pioneers
their chance on the comeback
trail, ' ,._ _ ^ .'.;.,.;-
Beaten three times in previous
starts, the CHS team still has a/
chance in the wide-open Mid-
Michigan Conference race. But
another defeat will sink their
chances.
The Green and White's only
defeat in league play has been at
the hands of underdog Durand
who upset them last Friday.
Entertainment at halftime tomorrow evening will be provided
by Clare Public School's .71-
piece Junior Band which will
perform under the direction of
Neil Courtwright, new music
teacher on the school staff. Vicki
Bryant is head majorette of the
Junior Band.
Russian
Travels On
Program
Norman Myers, Richard
Schroeder, and Robert Clute recently visited Russia and have
slides made of pictures they took
while there.
They will tell of their trip and
show the pictures at the Arthur
Center Church of God Sunday
night October 10 at 8:00 p.m. The
pastor, Rev. Elza Beery is most
happy to have them for this service, for he feels oUr people will
appreciate Christianity and what
it stands for more fully, and also
the church and that which it attempts to do, The public is cordially invited to 'attend.
Eagle Church
Announces
Guest Speaker
Dr. D. D, Gibbons of Kalamazoo, Michigan will be speaking at
the Eagle, Church of God Sunday
morning and afternoon of October 16th. He is a noted Bible
School worker, and will be here
in the interest of Bible School
advancement.
In the morning service, he will
use his robot "Tommy", the
Toon-O-meter which will interest
the children. Bible School is at
10:30 a.m. and the morning worship at 11:30 a.m.
The afternoon service at 2:30
p.m. will be the Michigan Elder-
Ship Churches of God Sunday
School Rally, and Dr, Gibbons
will bo the speaker. While this
is a Rally for the Churches of
God, others interested in promoting Bible School work are,invited to attend, according to the
pastor, Rev, Elza Beery.
. Among the important nev
freeway routes "discussed iindi,|
vidually in Mr. Mackie's speech
was the Ohio to Sault Ste. Ma""«i
Freeway. This route starts al
the Michigan-Ohio border jus|
north of Sylvania, Ohio. It theji
proceeds north around Ann Arl
bor, by-passes Flint, .Saginaw anc
Bay City, then swings norti1
westerly over US-20 and "US-Kj
to Clare and then north to ttw
Straits on US-27, From St. Igl
nace to the Soo, it will parallel
US-2,
"The length of this route is 34*]
miles. As of today, 105 miles pi
this route is open to traffid
while the remaining 240 miles is]
either under construction or
be by next year.
"I'd like to give you a runj
down of the status of the US-IC
and US-27 Freeways in this areal
'-First US-10 ... as you knowj
this freeway will extend fror
Bay City to Clare. About 11 miles|
is now open to traffic from Bay
City to Midland, That portion oi
the freeway is now known aa
route M-20 but it will be rel
numbered US-10 later this year|
This moans the freeway will
known as US-10 from here td
Bay City.
"Ten miles of this freeway ..
the Midland by-pass ... is nov
under construction and will be
reopened to traffic November 4|
"Bids were opened in Lansing
this morning for approximate!}
15 miles of US-10 Freeway fror
Clare to M-18. Bids are scheduled
to be opened on Nov. 2 for the
10-mile section from M-18 east to
Stark Road on the outskirts oH
Midland.
"Construction of the US-2"*j
Freeway, some people like to
call it the Lansing to Mackinav
City Freeway, is progressing rap-|
idly,
"A little more than 40 miles
Js under construction from ' "fthj
aca to Herrick Road, just soutf
of here, we are going to try "our
best to open nearly 20 miles of
freeway between Ithaca and Mt
Pleasant before the end of ths
year. There'll be one gap in this
section , . . about four miles inl
the Alma-Sf, Louis area, thatT
probably won't be ready to open|
until next year.
"Our present plans call for usl
to open bids on December 7th fori
approximately 12 miles of US-27|
Freeway from Herrick Road
north to M-61, That section, of
course, includes the Clare by-|
pass. Contracts will be let Octo-I
ber 19th for a five-mile section!
from M-61 north to Arnold Lake!
Road.
"The six-mile section from Ar-I
nold Lake Road north to thai
Roscommon county line has beenl
under contract for severall
months,
"Including the bids   opened
today,    construction   will    be
starting soon on more than 40
miles    of  US-10  and    US-27, ,|
Freeways in the Clare   area.
Total cost of building these 40.
miles is estimated at $"}£ mil*
lion. This will be a real shot
in the arm to the area's econ*
omy   for the next 18 months
because niany of the men wlio
will be Working on these pro-:
jects will spend most of their,
paychecks in Clare' and    the-
surrounding communities.
'' "In addition, the Highway De-|
partment will spend approximately $5 million for right-of-l
way for these new freeways and!
contractors will be buying fillj
material and sod from many J
farmers in the area as construe |
tion progresses."
In a question   and   answer |
period following the address. Mr.
Mackie assured the audience that I
tlie Department    has no   plans I
whatsoever for building a new
road or freeway from Clare to
carry traffic on to M-115, bypassing' Farwell.
He said that while the new
US-10 will end where it joins
US-27 just north of Clare, thef
present two-lane US-10 will become a State Trunkiine and continue to carry traffic west from|
Clare on its present location.
The State Highway' Depart-1
ment will Open bids October 5f
on- two contracts for this 14.7
mile stretch of US-10 Freeway inl
Clare, Isabella and Midland |
counties.
The projects will extend thel
new freeway from the US-271
Freeway at Clare easterly across I
Clare and Isabella counties to I
M-18 in.Midland, county.
Completion'date On both con*|
tracts is July 31, 1962.