1960-10-20; Clare Sentinel

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THE CLARE SENTINEL, CLARE, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY. OCT. 20, I960
Ten Cents Copy
New Series, Vol. 69, No. J
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Call Talks On
Development
Industrial and business leaders from throughout Michigan's northern outstate areas have selected Clare as the site
for an Industrial Workshop to meet November 3 to swap
 ideas on attracting new business
Name lanry
Dem Chairman
formation oi a reactivated
Clare County Democratic Committee resulted, from a meeting
held heire October 13, at the Clare
city hall.
Daniel E, Reed, Democratic
candidate for congress from the
10th District was a. guest at the
special meeting called by James
R. MacLean, Democratic candidate for State Representative
for the Isabella-Clare District.
MacLean explained that the
candidates running on the ticket
in each county are responsible
for appointing a Democratic
Committee.
At the meeting he announced
the appointment of Laurence W.
Jackson, Jr., as Clare County
chairman. Also, MacLean appointed Rex Allen, local insurance agent, as treasurer.
Daniel E, Reed stated that
elections are won by people working at the grass roots level. Mr.
Reed praised the Clare county
Democratic Committee for their
interest and determination and
willingness to work at the precinct and township level in order
to increase the percentage of
Democratic vote in Clare county.
There will- be another Democratic Committee meeting October 20,1960, at 8 p.m. at the Clare
city hall. At that time the committee will appoint a chairman
from each township to be on the
County Committee, All interested
persons are weloojne. „fe-.,^    - ■•.
and manufacturing enterprize.
Alan W. Ott, cashier at the Citizens State Bank of Clare who
helped direct the decision to locai;e the meeting here
said Wednesday that the Clare
workshop is one of two such sessions to be held in Michigan this
year. About 75 to 150 leaders in
commerce, business and industries of Michigan are expected to
attend, he said.
The only other workshop of
this kind will be held in southern
Michigan for leaders of the highly urbanized area of the State.,
Sponsorship Of the Clare session, a day-long event at the Hotel Doherty, is shouldered by
Clare's Chamber of Commerce,
and the Michigan Department of
Economic Development.
Ott asked Clare C of C Secretary Dr, Robert Kring to circulate a letter immediately to all organization members and notify
them of the plans and urge individual businessmen and community leadeis and others to attend
all, or portions of the workshop.
It was explained that separate
panels on Manufacturing,. Resorts, Retailing and probably
others would discuss problems
relating primarily to their own
operations in the over all Michigan economic growth picture.
Advance registrations for attendance on November 3 are being taken by Mr. Ott at the Bank
in Clare, and may be given or
mailed to the Clare-Chamber of
Commerce. No fees or charges
for participation are being charged.
At least one speaker of wide"
reputation in the field of methods for attracting new industry
will be on the program, Ott said.
More details on the meeting itself will be announced as soon as
ready, he §£dd„      .
Achievement Day Prizes
Await Clare County 4-Hers
.Eighty coveted 4-H medals and
five all-expense paid trips to the
International Livestock Show in
Chicago Will be awarded at a
star-studded Achievement,. I>ay
for Clare county 4-Hers in Harrison next Saturday.
More than 300 people are expected to witness the program in
the school gymnasium, and inspect handiwork displays.
As a special feature on the
Achievement Day program this
year, Clare County Extension
Agent Richard Schroeder with
Norman: Myers and Robert Clute
who were in a party of tourists
in the U.S.S.R. last month will
present an illustrated lecture,
"Impressions of Russia",
Schroeder said that in addition
to. the 85 winners of medals and
trips, more deserving 4-Hers will
get 1960 certificates and pins for
completing projects from last
winter and the past summer.
The Awards committee that decided on medal-winning acheive-
rneiits includes Del Butcher, Leone Dunkle, Alice Martin, Grace
Coats, Inex Pudvay.
'Selections were made one week
ago, but individual winners will
not be informed until the Saturday ceremonies.
The modeling of hand-tailored
clothes by 4-H seamstresses is
another feature of the event.
Many other projects in areas
where youths compete for the
medals will present the best sewing, canning, fruit and vegetable
raising, electrical and mechanical
handiwork for boys, livestock
growing, and other Worthwhile
endeavour.
At the end of the program, refreshments will be served.
What Middle
Name Please?
The veteran's letter was signed
with a scrawled "Thanks a Million" so careful Veterans Administration clerks dutifully checked
the index files for a veteran
named Million before tossing it
into the unidentifiable basket.
The effort wasn't silly at all,
explained Gene A. Robens, Manager of the VA Regional Office
in Detroit. There actually is a
veteran in the files named Million and VA learned long ago that,
someone could have the first
name of Thanks.
' Careless veterans and veterans
with the same names like those
father-and-son combinations, not
to mention some 4,700 Johnsons
and 7,000 Smiths, are creating
quite an identification problem
for the VA these days, Mr. Robens said.
School District Voters
Must Now Be Registered
A resolution by the Board t of
Education of Clare School District (District 8, Clare and Isabella Counties) making it a
"registration district", is going
to bring three significant elect-
for residents of the District,
1.) In any future school election, none may vote except legally
registered electors and duplicate
systems of identification of voters belonging to city or township
governments, and to school dis-.
trict authorities will establish
who such electors are.       ^
2.) AfterSegistration lists are
completed, the use of absentee
ballots will be available to voters
in school elections.
Women Elect '61 Officers
At Annual Golf Banquet
The Clare Women's Golf Association met at Twin Elms oh
Wednesday evening, October 13,
for a banquet honoring the winners of the Club Tournament,
recently played.
After a delicious chicken dinner was thoroughly enjoyed, the
group was called to order by the
president, Mrs. Ben Bosink, who
spoke briefly, then introduced
the Sports Chairman, Mrs. Norris Elden, who thanked all the
members for their fine spirit
and willing co-operation during
the season.
Hunters Making Ringneck
A Ground-Hugging Sprinter
The hunter may be making a
ground-huggiiig sprinter of the
colorful pheasant, which becomes
a Michian target at 10 a.m. on
Thursday, October 20.
Karl F. Laglerj specialist in
natural resources at The Univer-
■ sity of Michigan, £ays, "In over
20 years of pheasant hunting in
southeastern Michigan, it has
seemed Jp me that man may
have accelerated the evolution of
ground-running pheasants by selective shooting of flying birds.
"While I have no real statis-
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Isabella Leader's
Handbook
" Chairman's-Handbook was presented to each representative or
Chairman at the luncheon at the
Officers' Training Meeting held
October 5 at the Embers. This
handbook is a new venture on
the part of our County Chairman
Mrs. Milo VanVrariken, to help
groups keep pertinent information available at all times for
reference. It includes both local
and state information that can
be used as reference for them.
tics to back up this impression,"
he adds, "and we started 20 years
ago in an attempt to encourage
ground runners, we might have
clone mostly what we do — shoot
the roosters that flush."
One way. to combat the problem, Lagler suggests, is to "feed
a dog the year long to help flush
even the ground-hugging birds."
In the air or on the ground,
prospects for the 1960 pheasant
season in .Lower Michigan are
good, if not "the best- Lagler reminds. State game biologists
have promised an average prospect — which would mean a
little over a milllion birds, he
adds.
"The predictions are • based
lardy on mail carrier counts of
broods which were substantially
up in the far southern part of
the state, but were down in
Gladwin, Mecosta, Lake, Newaygo and Oceaha counties," Lagler
points out on the radio series
"Conservation Report", produced
by the U-M Broadcasting Service
(WUOM) ahd carried by stations
around the state.
Nearly 600 mail carriers cooperated in the brood counts
this year. Their counts were
made on' some 370,000 miles of
road.    ,■  .       ,   ,
Two Clare
Doctors Open
New Office
Dr, R. J. -Krainik and Dr. E, C.
Shurlow announce the opening
pf an office at*408 East Fourth
Street, Clare, Michigan, Monday,
October 24th.
Dr, Krainik ha^'-bfeen -chief
surgeon at the Clare General
hospital since 1952. Prior to'his
arrivial, he Was head bf the
Surgical Department at the McLaughlin Osteopathic Hospital in
Lansing. He is a member of the
American-College Of Osteopathic
Surgeons and received 'his cert-'
ifacation in the specialty of General Major Surgery in 1958.
Dr. Shurlow has* a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Albion College.
He; is a graduate, of the Kirks-
viile' 'Colleger bf .Osteopath^ and
Surgery in Missouri. He interned at Flint Osteopathic Hospital
for one year and spent three
years as a surgical resident with
Dr. Krainik in Clare General
Hospital.
Dr, Shurlow just returned
from Europe Where he spent
nine months in Linz and Vienna,
Austria studying children's surgery, Thoracic surgery, and General surgery. He also spent two
months studying Urological
surgery in Dublin, Ireland.
Dr. Krainik's practice will be
limited to General surgery. Dr.
Shurlow is associated in surgery
and will have general practice
office hours in the afternoon by
appbintment*
Chosen To Sing
In CMU Choir
Three Central Michigan University students from Clare have
been chosen to sing in Central's
Concert Choir this year. They
are Shirley -Burgess, John C.
Hardman and Freda Rosevear.
Conductor of the choir is Dr.
Eugene F. Grove, head of the
music department.
Officers for 1961 are President,
Mrs. Ben Bosink; Vice. Pres,,
Mrs. Frank LaGoe; Secretary-
Treasurer, Mrs. Earl Baumgarth;
and Sports Chairman, Mrs, Neilan Cradit.
Trophies and prizes were presented by Mrs, Earl Baumgarth,
chairman of the gift committee
to the following members;
Mrs. Neilan Cradit, champion;
who also received a cup for
medalist honors. Mrs. Roy Dunbar, runner-up to champion."
Mrs. Herschel Reiss, first
flight winner. Mrs. Paul Schroe*
der, runner-up, - ■•
Mrs. Norris Elden, second
flight winner. Mrs. Jennie Bow*
ler, runner-up. *
Handicap Tournament winner,
Mrs. James Olson. Runner-up,
Mrs. Neilan Cradit.
Field Day for all who lost first
matches was a handicap event,
and low net honors went to Mrs.
Earl Baumgarth, with Mrs,
James Olson second. Since these
two players tied for low putts^
each* received a prize for this
also. Mrs. Baumgarth, with nine;
6's won .a priae for- "most Of &.
kind".
Mrs. Sam Garfield won a prize
for ldwering her handicap 57
per cent. A "ringer" prize went
to Mrs. Jack Bromley.
A gift was given to Mrs. Russell Foell,,who is leaving Clare
soon and will be much missed
by all.
.There were several visitors
present, some of whom expect to
be members next season.
Duck Hunters
Reminded Again
Conservation Department officials join federal authorities in
urging Michigan duck hunters to
hold their fire this fall until they
are sure that birds in their gun-
sights aren't canvasbacks or red-
reads.
Both of these so-called "diving
ducks" are in short supply and,
consequently, were placed off
limits to hunters in the continent's four major flyways when
regulations were set earlier jthis
month.
These two species are expected
to make a quick recovery from
their current low, provided that
conditions on their breeding
grounds continue to improve and
as many of them as possible are
around for next year's breeding
season.
The last "if" rests largely with
hunters this fall. Quick triggers
will riddle hopes behind this
year's regulations. Ducks are often hard to identify, particularly
when in flight. There are, however, several guides which help
to take the guesswork out of
identification.
z3.) A delay will be necessary before the district may vote on a
new bonding proposition, Originally discussed as a possibility
sometime in November after a
six-month wait following the last
election on bonding for a new elementary unit and other school
improvements, the proposal must
now wait until registration records are up -to date and the eligibility of electors established.
The change to a registration
district was prompted by State
law which rules that school districts must be registration districts in order to vote on bonding issues. The School Board decided that all,future elections
may as well be held under the
system.      •
Letters sent last week to township clerks and the City Of Clare
requested up-to-date lists of properly registered electors. From
these lists, the school will assemble its own registration
books of qualified voters within
the boundaries of the District.
School Superintendent 'Richard
Wheeler explained that persons
already legally registered in their
own political government units
such as cities and townships need
not re-register, but if any person
is not now registered as a voter,
he or she must register his name
to be a qualified elector in any
future school election.
Hospitalize
5 After Auto
Accidents
Paul J. Monoyian, 28, of Clare
fell asleep last Sunday night
while driving on US-27. north of
Clare. His car rolled over. He
was taken to Clare General Hospital with head and leg injuries
In another traffic mishap the
same night two motorists • came
to the crest of a hill from opposite directions with both in tlie
'center of the road. The resulting;:
crash hospitalized four persons.
State Police of the Mt. Pleasant Post said cars driven by
William Moore, 39, Farwell RD-2
and John Warren Athey Jr., 17,
Lake RD-1, collided on the Maple
Grove Road.
Moore suffered cuts and bis
passenger, Gabe Buskirk, 67, Far-
well, an arm fracture and cuts.
Edward Bergey, 16, Lake RD-1,
a passenger in . Athey's car,
suffered a skull fracture. Athey
escaped  with  cuts.
All were taken to the Clare
General Hospital for treatment.
Temperance
Speaker Here
The Clare County Ministerial
Association sponsored Dr. Delmar D. Gibbons of Kalamazoo at
a Temperance Education Meeting
at the Methodist Church in Clare
last Saturday night. He spoke to
a good audience with a number
of the churches in the county
represented. His message was informative and greatly appreciated.
In his address Dr. Gibbons
stressed the high cost of the use
of alcohol, including broken
homes and divorces, people killed
and injured on the highways,
and the increased tax burden
placed upon every citizen because
of the damages. "It costs the av>
erage community $9.00-$12.00 for
every dollar in taxes from the alcohol industry," Dr. Gibbons noted in his remarks. This sum included added police protection,
bigger jails, court costs, welfare
to dependent children and otfiers.
Homecoming Weekend Fuq
Begins Tonight; Big Game,
Parade, Dance Scheduled
By Linda Casteel
Clare High students tonight
will open their high-spirited activities for the 1960 Homecoming
weekend with the traditional
snake dance and pep meeting
around a giant bonfire. Choice* of
the Homecoming Queen will be1
announced at the rally.
US-27 Bids
Opened For
North Links
Bids were examined and contracts tentatively awarded yesterday for a 6.7-mile link in Clare
county's  US-27  construction.
The section extends from a
point south of M-61 near Harrison north to Arnold Lake rd.,
where it connects with another
1§ miles of the new route now
under construction from Arnold
Lake rd. north to M-55 at Houghton Lake.
Included in this project are interchanges at M-61 and Arnold
Lake rd.
Completion date on the job is
August 31, 1962,
The State' Highway Department also opened bids yesterday
on a 4.8 mile stretch of US-27
Freeway which will complete all
25 miles of the new route in
Crawford county.
This project will complete the
final gap, between ' Grayling
south to M-76 Included in this
contract are an interchange at
Chase Bridge rd. and a northbound. Yaecess. t$xnp into. Qmw
ling.     • "
Completion date on the work
is July 31, 1962.
To Explain
Teen Student
Exchange
Mrs. Rachael Andseren of-Ann
Arbor, director of Michigan's
Student Foreign Exchange- program will speak to an audience
in Clare on Tuesday * evening,
October. 25 ih the school auditorium on the aims and benefits
of the program.
Residents anywhere in the area
surrounding Clare and as far
away as Marion, Coleman, and
districts to the north and south
are urged to hear Mrs. Andseren
at 8 o'clock.
Sponsors of the program are
particularly anxious that families
know how the exchange of teenage students between Michigan
and foreign lands benefits both
the young people who gain the
broadening experience of a year's
education in countries other than
their own, and benefits also the
local families with whom the
students reside during the year
of study. 1   ;
At headquarters of the organization for arranging trades of
students, leaders want to know
why the Clare area has no homes
opened this year to residence of
visiting teen agers coming to the
United States for a year of
school. An appeal will be made
for volunteers to accept foreign
students into local homes.
Then tomorrow.. — the downtown parade in the afternoon
will be a prelude to the excitement of the football game and
later the Homecoming Ball in the
school.
At 7:00 p.m. tonight students
will meet at the city park for a
short pep meeting, then form a
long line for the shake dance
through the streets. The dance,
will end at the school, where
there will be a tremendous bonfire with wood furnished by the
freshmen.
The queen and king will be announced at the bonfire. The
queen will be picked, from the
following, candidates: Donna McKee, C'atihertine Haring), Karla
Cooper, and Marlene Shull. The
varsity football squad will pick
one of its members for king.
The parade Friday will begin
at 3:10 "p.m. starting in front of
the elementary school and will
progress down main street,
which will be colorfully decorated by the* Junior class.
The Clare senior band will
lead the parade followed by the
queen's float, decorated by the
student council and athletic
board.
On the queen's float, with the
queen and king, wijl be the runners up, Georgia Shayler, junior,
Sandy Szul, sophomore, and Margaret White, freshman.
All four classes and most of
the student clubs have plans for
floats also.
Added attractions will be the
junior band and another group of
cuties, the varsity and junior
varsity cheer leaders.
The biggest event of the week
end, the football game with Ith-
Disease Hits
A mysterious disease called
blue comb is hitting Michigan
chickens again this fall.
Also called pullet disease or
contagious indigestion, the malady usually strikes young adult
birds, causing molt or an "off
feed" condition. Fall is its peak
season.
The Michigan State University poultry diagnostic laboratory, part, of the College of Veterinary Medicine, recently received- case's from the'Thumb,
the Traverse' City area, 'Oakland
and Ken counties and several other poultry regions.~
Dr. C. C. Ellis, M. S. U. poultry pathologist, recommends a
quick "flushing" treatment, with
magnesium sulfate, aiso known
as. epsom salt.
He and Dr. E. S. Weisner, veterinarian "with the Michigan' De-<
partment of Agriculture, have
coined a formula for the treatment. It's simply MS 1*4-2, Mix
one pound of epsom salt "in four
gallons of water and keep it in
front of the birds for two hours.
Manufactured feeds have helped cut blue comb cases in recent
years. Feeding newly-harvested
cereral grains used to cause
trouble. Sudden diet changes as
birds come- off the range in the
fall still do.
"Researchers-are still hunting
for a - germ- or virus to blame,"
Dr. Ellis, reports. '-'Most attribute
blue comb to a disorder- in- body
processes".
The malady usually doesn't
cause high mortality unless other diseases come at the same
time.
aca, will begin at 8:00 p.m. With
a 1-2 league record, the Pioneers
are hoping for a gridiron victory.
Shepherd eliminated Clare
High from the conference title
race win a 6-0 de-feat last Satur*
day night on the BlueJay's field
and became the fourth claimant
to the league first place, tied with
just one loss with-Chesaning, Ithaca and Durand. '    ;   ..
Clare in a "spoiler" role still
meets Ithaca tomorrow,, ahd finally Chssaning next week, to end
the conference season.
Half-time ceremonies will include the coronation of the queen
and entertainment by the Clare
junior and senior band., and the
Ithaca band.
The dance following the game
is sponsored by the senior class
and will conclude the festive
weekend. All alumni are invited,
to attend the dance.
Describes
Russian Tour
For P-TA
The Parent-Teacher Association of the Clare Public School
held a regular meeting Monday
evening at 8 p.m. at the Elementary auditorium.
Rev. Jerry Ulrich of the Clare
Nazarene Church opened" the
meeting with prayer,
A motion was made by Mrg.
Richard Schroeder and seconded
by Mrs. Clayton Neff that the.
PTA buy a coffee urn. ''"■'
-•-'Mts:'IreR^'Davy'-3lt6#ea »itft*i
of the State department on testing of eyes.
Mrs. Richard Schroeder, program chairman, introduced her
husband Richard Schroeder, and
Norman Myers and Robert Clute
who just recently returned from
Russia who had as their topic*
"Glimpse of Russia."
Refreshments at the end of
the program were served by"
Fourth grade mothers in the kindergarten room.
The next meeting there will be
a discussion on the pros ahd
cons on report cards.
Family Night
Group Hears
Rev. Striffler
, The Rev. Roy Striffler, pastor
of the 1st Congregational Church
Bay City, spoke at a family night
meeting Tuesday at the Clare
Congregational Church.
v Mr. Striffler talked on a Christ- '
ian Social Action tour he took
last" summer in Mexico. The
family night began at. 6 p.m.
•with a pot luck supper.
During the program,' Norris
Elden, recently retired from the
volunteer, position of music director ahd choir leader of the
church after 42 years, was honored in „an. informal ceremony and
presented with a gift from the
church in recognition, of the
services he-has performed. The
presentation "was made by Mrs;
George Beck.
Hunting Dangerous? — Only The Careless Make It So
Sixteen hunters are and will
be missing from this fall's small
and big game seasons in Michigan. /There may be others but
the absence of these 16 is a sad
certaihty. They Were killed by
hunting accidents last year.
Another 270 hunters who may
take to the woods, fields, and
marshes owe their return to
luck. They were wounded during
the 1959 seasons. "Luck" is the
best word to describe that split-
second, paper-thin difference between a fatality and non-fatality.
This is not to say that hunting
is a deadly sport "as often pictured by bold, sweeping headlines during the gunning * seasons. Insurance statistics show
that, nation-wide, hunting rates
17th in terms   of accidents per
100,000 participants.
More than 1,000,000 hunters
were afield during. Michigan's
1959*60 seasons. There was one
fatal accident per 71,819 hunters
and one non-fatal per 6,474. Although the rate of injuries was
us somewhat from 1958, it has
been decreasing generally in recent years. j
Here is the.whole point: There
is always room for improvement.
The road to improvement is
straight and narrow, flanked on
either side by carelessness which
leads to most, if not all; accidents. „
A few examples from the Conservation Department's files
tells how hunters   got off   the
track last year. They include
some of the most common forms
of carelessness which Crop up
each year.
One hunter forgot to unload
his 12:gauge shotgun at the end
of his day in the woods. While
getting ready to head for camp
in a pickup, he lost his grip on
the gun and it discharged from
the impact of its fall. He was
wounded in the right forearm.
Another hunter shot himself
in the thigh while removing his
.22 caliber handgun from its holster to see if the safety was on.
Moments later ;when he nervously picked up his sidearm which
had dropped to the ground dui'j
ting the accident, the victim
touched the trigger and wounded
I his cousin in the foot
A hunter thought he saw a
deer jump the trail. He fired,'
heard a groan, and hurried to the
spot where he had aimed. The
"deer" was one of Michigan's 16
ill-fated hunters.
Mistaking humans for game is
a common "iaux pas" of hunters. Often,, it reaches the point of
being downright ridiculous.
For example, a young small
game hunter was wounded when
his leg looked more like a rabbit to a 14-year old hunting mate.
A veteran of 14 seasons shot' at
"something brown" thinking it
was a squirrel. "Twas ,the cap, of
another hunter. ,
.. Rushing tojjget another shot at
a deer he had wounded, a hunter
lost the. rln& finger on his left
hand when he tripped over a log
and fell on his .32 'caliber rifle.
Another wounding „ occurred
when a hunter's rifle discharged
as he drew it through the fence
with the muzzle pointed toward
him. A: hunter with 15 years experience learned the price of
horseplay when he shot at an
iron post nearby ahd the slug
from his 12-gauge Shotgun ricocheted into his left elbow.'
Failure to respect your firearm as such is a good way to wind
up in the hospital or . . . cemetery. Take the hunter tired from
hunting and suffering from a
sore leg who used his gun for &
crutch. He needed medical "support" after a bullet ripped thru
his chest, shoulder, and arm
when he slipped and his gun discharged as it hit the ground.
Lacerations of the face and
nose and 13 stitches were tha
penalties a hunter of 23 years.
paid for his carelessness. He
caused his own undoing two
hours before the accident' when
he dipped the barrel of his shotgun in the mud while picking up,
a dead pheasant. The next time
he fired, his gun blew up in his
face.
These examples don't rover all
of the miscues within the bro^d
spectrum-of hunger carelessness..
They do,     however,    serve   as I
"danger   signs" for  this yestfsi
hunters.
Will your name be in the Ejfej
partnient's files of 1960-61 hunting accidents? Will your ctfrel<si&
ness'put someone else's* name
there?
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