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THE CLARE SENTINEL. CLARE. MICHIGAN
THURSDAY DEC. 15, 1960
Ten Cents Copy
New Series, Vol. 69, No. 14
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Pioneers After 4th Win
Tomorrow
The Pioneer Five, now undefeated in their first three basketball starts are earning the
title of a Cinderella Team as.
fans talk of the miracle transformation from Clare teams that
had run up a record of 52
straight losses.
Farm Bureau
Told To Fight
Paternalism
The Clare County Farm Bureau was well represented at
their annual State Institute held
at Kellogg Center in East Lansing on Tuesday and Wednesday
of last week.
Those attending from Clare
county were Chester Wallace,
vice president; Mrs. Wilbur Weldon, county secretary; Mrs.
Chester Wallace, representing
the citizenship committee. Franklin Schaaf, chairman of the legislative committee; and Warren
White, chairman of the public
relations  committee.
The audience was told that in
order for farmers to keep their
right to make decisions based pn
their own operations and personal desires and to maintain freedom of choice it would be necessary for them to work within
their own political parties and
elect men who would fight for
these basic American principles.
The state chairmen of both
major political parties explained
the need for political workers
and welcomed all interested persons.
Many speakers pointed out
how far America has gone down
the road to socialism and how
great was the need for a reversal of the trend.
Speakers showed how the desire of many persons to allow
the government to make decisions and plans for them was
dangerously centering the power
of government in the hands of
socialist minded politicians.
The^ conclusion reached by
those'attending was that the so-
called liberals were advocating
a return to a paternalistic form
of government and that the present day conservatives were, in
reality, liberals in desiring that
the individual take the initiative
and responsibility . for his own
Welfare.
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Ike Invited
To Clare's
Festival
Tlie annual Winter Sports
Banquet and Festival., held in
Clare every January is being
planned as a repeat of last
year's success with many of the
events and attractions the same
as proved crowd-getters in 1960.
Sponsored by the Clare Chamber of Commerce, the event this
year will repeat the "golf" tournament in the snow at Twin
Elms, and has invited President
Eisenhower to attend and play in
the contest.
C.C. President Bernie Wyman
said Monday at a planning
meeting over lunch at the Doherty Hotel, "Sure we've invit*
ed The President. It will be a
stunning surprise if he accepts,
but we hope he will." The letter
on Clare Chamber of Commerce
stationery said:
Dear Mr. President:
The Clare Chamber of Commerce cordially invites you to
attend the Second Annual Mid-
Michigan Mid-Winter Open Golf
Tournament at Clare, Michigan
on January 28, 1961, to be held
at the Twin Elms Golf Club.
This tournament is held in
conjunction with our annual
Winter Sports Festival. We are
attempting to secure the attendance of Mr. Walter Hagen as
your opponent.
Of course this invitation includes Mrs. Eisenhower as Well
as yourself to participate in the
Winter Sports Festival. We sincerely hope that this date Will be
convenient for you to accept
prior to your winter cruise,
* Sincerely,
Bernard Wymart
' President Clare
Chamber of Commerce
' The gala Winter Sports
Queen's Ball will be held the evening of January 28 where contestants from throughout the
county will be judged for the
honor of the 1961 title and
prown,    , . _,
After beating Coleman High
•52-40 in the I960 season opener,
the CHS team extended the
winning streak by two more victories in five days. In the pair
of wins before home crowds, the
Pioneers downed Durand, last
year's Mid-Miphigan champions
54-42, and then took a close content from arctyrivals Harrison,
56-51.
The squad travels to Shepherd
tomorrow night for its last game
before Christmas vacation, and
won't return to play on the home
floor until January 13 when St.
Louis comes here for another
conference game.
In their first season under the
coaching of Jim Raymond, the
Pioneers dispelled any suspicion
that they are just lucky when
they battled from behind in both
of their latest tilts to forge into
late-game leads.
Clare 54, Durand 42
By Larry Mogg
Pioneer Staff Writer
A large home crowd taking its
first look December 9 at this
year's improved Clare squad-
must have gone home happy, as
the Pioneers won their second
game of the young cage season
with a 54-42 victory over last
year's conference champs, Durand.
The first half turned out to be
a nip and tuck affair with one
team taking the lead and then
the other. But four straight
points by Jeff Raymond in the
closing moments gave the Pioneers a narrow 29-25 halftime
lead.
plare pulled away in the third
period through alert play and
Durand's inability to sink free
throws.
After a Jeff Raymond free
throw opened the second half
scoring, the Pioneers pilfered
two straight passes with Dan
Green and Norm Davis scoring,
to take a healthy 10-point lead
which was never relinquished.
Especially worthy of merit
was outstanding defense shown
by the Pioneers. Constantly
batting down passes, blocking
shots, and stealing the ball, the
Green and White showed that
they may be a determining factor in this year's conference
race.
Bill Wells was high point man
for Durand with 17 points, and
Jeff Raymond and Dan Green
led the Pioneers in scoring with
14 points each, followed by
Dave Teran with 10.
Ithaca defeated St. Louis and
Shepherd squeaked by Chesaning in other conference games.
Trailing by only"four points at
halftime, Clare JV's defense and
Sh&oting ability fell completely
apart resulting in a 61-37 defeat. Skip Kegg was high point
man for the Little Pioneers with
16 points.
CHS Tops Harrison 56-51
It is now becoming a familiar
sight for basketball fans to see
coach James Raymond hoisted
on the shoulders of his jubilant
team and carried from the floor
after another victory. The Pioneers, who had broken their long
losing streak of fifty-two games
in the season's opener, have
started a new streak, and this
time it's in the victory column.
Overcoming a slow start. Clare
won its third straight game by
eking out a slim 56-51 victory
over a battling Harrison team.
Trailing by eight points at the
end of the first quarter, the
Pioneers pulled into a 28-27 half-
time lead, mostly on the hot
shooting of forward Norm Davis
and the hard rebounding work of
Jeff Raymond. But as in other
games, it was the strong third-
period play that brought victory.
The Pioneers widened their margin to eight points and even a
determined fourth period bid for
victory by the Hornets failed.
Norm Davis with 19, Ray
Murphy with 11, and Jeff Raymond with 10 led the Pioneers'
balanced scoring attack.
The JV's are once again back
on the-winning path with a
50-35 victory over the Hornet's
JV's. Skip^Kegg's 23 points led
the Little Pioneers to victory.
Water Filtration Plant
May Go Before Voters
For Decision In April
With no Christmas trees in school classrooms due io fire danger, pupils at Clare
Elementary School, have found original
ways to decorate their rooms. In Mrs.
Simmons'   First-Second   grade  room   a
bright  display  . board    is    loaded    with
Christmas I cutouts,- and Charles Jackson,.
Joe Foss, and Sherrie Cook are working.
on paper Santa iheads like others in their
room.
j Clare's city government, having achieved one goal in the development of a better water system with the success of Well-5
as a producer, will keep the program in forward gear and pointed for the next objective, — the
public willing.
At last week's meeting of the
City Commission, opinion favored asking for voters' "Yes" or
"No" on borrowing to finance
continuing water improvement.
Commissioners believe that
with the Municipal water supply
now assured in adequate amount,
the next attention can be given
to improving the ; quality of
household tap supplies.
High iron content in the public water supply has caused a
discolored appearance, stained
laundry and utensils, plugged
pipes and has long been a source
of annoyance and expense.
Mr. and Mrs. Clare want their
water refined to eliminate iron
rust. If an election proposal for
a solution to the problem gets
on the ballot next April, it will
likely specify millage for an
iron-removal plant to be built
for treatment of water which
Clare presently supplies.
Mayor Gerald Nivison and the
Commission said they want to
be guided by the results of a
public referendum. If a proposal
A mural-size window design in the Fourth
grade room of Mrs. Whitford was painted
by pupils and depicts the wise men and
kings coming to worship  the  new-born
Jesus.    Eyery    room   in    ihe school has'
Christmas^ season  decorations   exhibiting
ihe  imagination and  handiwork of  siu*
denis. Photos by The Sentinel
Courses For Fun Or Skills
Offered In Adult Education
Adult public education, due to
commence regular class meeting
at Clare Public Schools the second week in January will include
half-a-dozen courses either entirely new in adult instruction
here, or re-instated after being
missing for a year or two.
Advance notice of the enrollment dates and courses offered
will be published in the form of
a handy folder.
Choral Singing, Draperies.
Golf lessons, Knitting, Picture
Framing, Spanish, and Tailoring
for advanced seamstresses are
listed in the planned courses.
Jr. High
Carolers
The Clare Public School's Junior High Chorus from the seventh and eighth grades are planning a Christmas Caroling tour
on the evening of December
23rd. Twenty-two members of
the group will start their tour at
6:45 Under the direction of Neil
CourtWright, instructor.
Beginning at the Elementary
School on East State, the tour
will take the singers toward
downtown on their musical trav-
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Ten 4-Hers
Have Steers
Sponsors
Ten 4-H Prize Steer project
young people have newly selected animals which were sponsored by Clare individuals and businesses last week, and about that
many more are also in the project as sponsors of their own animals as the program gets its
start for 1961.
Growers of the steers will
compete for top prizes and cash
bids for their steers at the Clare
County Fair next fall.
Owners of the ten steers and
the sponsors are:
Gordon Carncross whose steer
was sponsored by James S
Bicknell 3rd.
Lawrence Carncross, — Anderson Drug Store.
Sandra Weldon. — Witbeck's
IGA.
Ann Weldon, — Citizens State
Bank.
Roilie Newman, ^-.Dan McDonald. ■   - ''
Margaret Sue Myers, — Clare
Kiwanis Club.
Jim Allen, — Doherty Hotel.
Dick Kleinhardt, — Johnston
Elevator Co.
Garry   Simpkins,   —   Jackson's
Market,
John Simpkitts, McGuire
Brothers.
Sixteen or mbjre groups yvill of-:
fer instruction * in subjects for
f-ecreation or the study of useful
skills. A class in Contract Bridge
will begirilin March and interested persons will be able to enroll
at a later date.
M fa, Genevieve Fleming,
school administrative assistant
and director of adult education
said that fees will amount to
$3.50 with the exception of Driver Training ($25.). Classes will
meet at 7:30 in rooms at the
school and sessions are mostly
scheduled one night a week for
ten weeks.
The courses are open to any
adult, regardless of what school
district one's residence is in, and
ten or more are   necessary   to
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Store Hours  i
Clare storekeepers and,
businessmen are opening
their doors to gift shoppers during day-long and
evening hours beginning
tomorrow. The customary
^  pre-Christmas   hours     will
fW continue all next week
K 'through Frilflay [evening,
Friday, December 23.
Most businesses will
§ close at six o'clock on
pr Christmas eve.
1 Family groups of par-
If ents with children, couples
who find it difficult to go
shopping together during
the daytime, and all last-
of-season gift buyers will
find the longer hours convenient.
And stoi-e displays and
lighted' windows are ready
W for this final splurge of
4 seasonal buying. Gift
» stocks are varied and still
© complete. Extra clerks and
H sales help are ready to
»  serve the crowds.
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Library Hours
Clare city library will be
closed December 23 and 24, also
on December 30 and 31,. The li-
brary will be open December 28.
formj a: class.
Classes dropped from last
year's school are Law. Wood-
workihg, Boating, and Photography. But Mrs. Fleming adds that
any courses not listed by the
school may be started if ten en-
rollees show interest and an instructor can be engaged.
Present plans call for the following to be offered:
Cake Decorating — Mrs. Sam
Kigar instructing.
Ceramics — Robert McDaniel
instructing in work with clay.
Design, mold, fire and glaze your
articles.
Dancing — Mrs. Joanne Wilcox teaches ballroom for married
couples or partners, and tap or
soft-shoe in a separate class for
exercise and fun.
Chorus — Neil Courtwright
instructor. For anyone who enjoys singing in a group., and no
training required. Men and women invited.
Draperies — Norleen Ackerman from the Clare County Extension staff teaches one class in
fabrics and one in styles with
some of the 10-week course devoted to actual making of
drapes.
Driver Training — Don Richardson and Jim Raymond instructing.
Golf for Beginners — Jim Raymond offers the same instruction
that a pro would give you.
Knitting — Mrs. Tim Frey
gives advice and help as you knit
any article you wish.
Picture Framing — Carleton
Garthe teaches this do-it-yourself
skill.
Rocks, Geology and Minerals—
A class so popular last year that
it helped develop a permanent
"Rock Hounds"  club.
Sewing — taught in two sections by Mrs. Esther Williams.
One class for beginners and another for experienced sewers.
Typing — James Dunlop offers training to*learn the keyboard ,or brush up on job skill.
Conversational Spanish — Edith McCorkle instructs those who
want to learn enough to be understood! in \Spanish-speakSng
countries, or who heed to communicate with Spanish-speaking
workers.
Christmas
Concert By
Band, Chorus
The annual Christmas Concert
by the Clare High School Band
Sunday afternoon,. December 18
and Chorus will be given on
Sunday afternoon, December 18
at 3:00 in the gymnasium of the
high school building.
Never before presented as an
afternoon concert, tlie affair
this year has been scheduled to
try to avoid conflicting with
evening shopping hours, holiday
season jobs- for performers and
other  activities.
The band -will appear in a program of traditional ^Christmas
music and will add two new
number^,. "Quiet Christmas", and
an arrangement of "Carol Of
The Drums". In the varied selection-are both sacred and secular
music.
The recently reorganized chorus is on the program for four
numbers, including a new arrangement of "Silver Bells".
Lloyd Conley, instrumental
music director said that the concert will last less than an hour,
and as customary, there is no
admission.
appears on the spring ballot
along the ideas presently being
discussed by the Commission,-
it will ask something like this:
"— Shall the city borrow to
construct an iron-removal plant
costing $90 thousand to $100.
thousand, and collect a tax up
to three mills on assessed valuation to pay for the improvement?"
Commissioners in discussing
what parts of the city's long
range water improvement should
come next were aware that opinions do not all agree on what
priority should be given to various parts of a program.
But the conversation seemed
to come back to the   idea   that
One Killed
In Wreck
Of Pickup
The Greenwood Rest curve on
M-61 east of Harrison was the
scene of an accident Sunday evening, involving Albert Seersaw
and Robert Fisch of Harrison.
Mr. Seersaw was killed instantly,
and Mr. Fisch was injured when
their pickup truck left the road-
striking several trees.
Fisch, driver of'the truck is in
Clare General Hospital with a
broken vertebra -and other injuries after being^freed from the
wreck by rescuers who pried
him loose with crowbars.
The vehicle was torn into
three pieces with* the cab and
box separated fr6m the chassis.
Cause Of the accident was not
known. .
Shipwreck
Crezp. Visits
Seventeen crew members off
the disabled Liberian freighter,
the Francisco Morazon' which
Was stranded off South ManitOu
island recently stopped last week
Tuesday, iiiYRosebush for their
dinner at the White Wagon restaurant. The restaurant owners,
Mr. and Mrs. Lavern Bullard
learned that the grounded sailors Were enroute by bus to New
York,
Only five of the 17 men were
able to speak English in ordering their meal.
Palomino
Team To
Draw Santa
Santa Claus, who has made his
arrival in downtown Clare by
many modes of transportation in
past Christmas seasons for the
annual Firemen's Party for children, has lined up a new spectacle for the event this year. —
The jolly old fellow will ride
through the town's business
street on a fancy cart drawn by
six   matched   Palomino   ponies!
The Palominos belong to a
show-stopping team, the property
of John F. Ivory, owner of a
moving and storage firm in Detroit, one of Michigan's largest.
Old Santa, all-time favorite of
boys and girls as a parade sight
will find that his team is accustomed to applause along the
curbs ,too. The Palominos have
been featured in many parades
and public appearances everywhere in the country and have
drawn crowds estimated as high
as 20 thousand to see them strut
and perform. The lead pair is
valued at $6,000.
Santa Claus has come to
Clare's Firemen's Party in a
helicopter, — drawn by pretend
reindeer, — on shiny fire trucks
... but never anything like this.
Hundreds and hundreds of
boys and girls with their families are expected to be on hand
Saturday at 2:00 ip.m. to greet
him.
The six ponies will come to
Clare on Friday, (tomorrow) to
make some appearances before
meeting Santa for the big party
on Saturday. Their owned says
that children may see the beautiful ponies and, perhaps ride
them at the Clare Fire Station
on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.
The program for Saturday is
much the same as the Fire Department has arranged in former years. After Santa's ride
through downtown Clare, he will
return to the Fire Station to
meet each one of the small children in the crowd, and give each
a bag of Christmas candy.
The Firemen are aided in their
project by contributions from
the City of Clare. Members of
the Chamber of Commerce and
the Fire Department with volunteer help will pack the candy tonight at the Fire Station.
Christmas
Prom Set
By Karla Cooper
The annual Christmas    Prom
at Clare High School will be held
December 17 from nine o'clock
to 12 in the school, cafeteria.
The dance is an all-school affair with alumni invited to attend. Sponsoring organization is
the Student Council. Dress is optional semi-formal or dressy
street clothes.
A dance band from Central
Michigan University, The Beavers, will provide live music. Refreshments will be served.
Techniques
Doctors J. R. Gershon and Alfred Austin recently returned to
Clare after attending a three-day
clinic at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and Metro
Hospital there where they studied newer methods of anesthesia
in relation to oral surgery*
Clare's water quality should be
improved before the construction of more elevated tanks, or
enlargement of the distribution
system. ;
One member of the Commission put it this way, "We think
the public wants rust and odor
cleared up, rather than an improved distribution of bad water."
It seems fairly certain that a
resolution will be framed to put
the proposal On the city ballot
for April voting.
The type of iron removal
plant under consideration would
act like a giant water softener.
If it were to be built originally
for present needs, more units
could be added in the future
when city growth made it necessary.
Such a treatment plant would
do more than just remove iron,
it was explained. Objectionable
odor in the water would also be
reduced or eliminated altogether in the filtering process.
To serve the city to best advantage, the plant would be located on property already owned
by the city, and in a location
nearby to the three water wells
producing the total city supply.
All water would go directly from
the wells through the new plant
before entering the city's system.
The probable cost to residents
assessed on city property of av-
erage value would be about two*
thirds less than the cost of home
water softener service on a basis of taxes up to three mills, the
commission believes.
Another reason for early decision on the iron removal facility was the possibility that water from Well-5, which is now
relatively clear and pure, may
develop increasing iron content
as the flow continues.
This newest well is currently
producing 650 to 675 gallons per
minute and is expected to continue as a very important source
of water.
But the history of Clare's
water wells shows that they
have a tendency to gradually increase in hardness content with
Use. If the new well follows the
same pattern, the need for removing iron would grow more
pressing as time passes.
Jury Finds
Embezzler
Guilty Here
A bill collector, charged in
Clare County court last January
with embezzling money collected
for his clients, was convicted in
a jury trial in Circuit Court this
week and is awaiting sentence.
Kenneth Patrick Michalski, operating as an agent of the Farmers Adjustment Bureau Company was judged guilty of embezzling "more than $100." on
testimony that he collected ex-,
cessive fees and kept or disposed
of property and cash which he
had collected "for creditors.
In one case described in the
charges against Michalski, he
collected a $13. debt for a client
but then billed the client for
$13.90 fees and expenses. The
client was 90 cents in the red as
the result of the collector's .services.
Clare County Prosecutor
James S. Bicknell 3rd, said that
Michalski's previous record had
been found to reveal .troubles
with law enforcement authorities, and that he sometimes went
by an alias, K. P. Mitchell, or
Pat Mitchell.
Sentencing of Michalski is
awaiting an investigation by the
court probation officer.
Well Baby
Conferences
. Well-jbaby conferences schedV
uled to be held in Clare county in
December will be at the follow^
ing times: In Clare at the city
hall second floor on Tuesday;
December 20th from 1:00 to 3:00
p.m. .
In Farwell at the Methodist
church on Tuesday, December
20th, the conferences will be
froin 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., and at
Harrison in the .courthouse base«
ment the date is Friday, December 16th from-9:.00 to 11:00 a.nii