1961-03-02; Clare Sentinel

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THE CLARE SENIfNEp; CLARE* "MICHIGAN
MARCH 2, 1961
New Series, Vol, 69. No. 25
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Ezra E. Miller,* Jr. is owner of a successful and very modern
e]gg producing business just south of Loomis where his new
poultry house contains 3300 Leghorns. 128-foot aisles between rows of cages permit easy egg gathering and feeding
of the flock. Sentinel photo.
Adopts Modern Methods
In Poultry Management
Experts will tell you that the runs fresh past the cages con-
first ingredient for success in stantly needing no attention.
a neW business is a real need Thirteen tons a month of lay-
for the product or service that ing mash is fed mechanically
is fo be offered, and Mr. and from overhead storage to the
Mrs. Ezra E. Miller, Jr. with a feed cart from which Miller
fresh egg producing industry fills the containers in front of
at Loomis did npt overlook this the. hens- Big open-mesh bas-
important axiom. Miller says kets full of gathered eggs are
that the decision to start in lowered into mechanical wash-
business Was based on market er which makes them clean and
,^.33fleds„.wh'jch he Iduew■ "Tftto ready-"for market. Weighing
waiting to be filled. and candling are done by hand,
as is the neat packing in con-
Now, not quite five months tainers.
after "completion of the modern To satisfy that all-important
poultry house that is stocked market for the eggs, Miller
with the Millers' flock of 3300 ioa^s Up on delivery days to
Leghorns, the saleable product ia^e care 0f commercial cus-
from the enterprise is some 200 tomers at the Log Cabin Gro-
dozen or more eggs daily, cery and Gateway Restaurant
while the service includes in Clarei grocery outlets in Mt.
scheduled delivery of the fresh Pleasant, Midland and Bay
eggs to store and restaurant city, and his individual, family
buyers as' well as Supplying customers who buy from 25 to
household customers on a 400- 30 cases of eggs per week,
stop door-to-door delivery route
• weekly. .;..'. . . Mr. Miller has long    exper-
The young business is a sue- ience in this business. He
cess already and is compiling worked for his father in the
interesting statistics in volume poultry -game, "ever since he
and application of modern was big enough to lift a chick-
ideas in poultry management
and egg production.
The birds are housed in    a
single building 30x128 feet fill-
en" and he with   Mrs.   Miller
managed  his  father's business
for a year before he decided to
strike out on his own.
The neat steel   building   for
ed with wire cages which hold his birds is a big improvement
two hens each .The hens never over raising hens in a yard or
leave   their   small  wire  enclo- on a    run-of-the-floor    system,
sures. Feed and water are just he feels. Natural ventilation is
a short reach outside the cages
and eggs roll through the wide
mesh floor to rest in sloping
screen troughs out in front
where they can be easily gath-
tred.   •
The wire floors make cage
cleaning unnecessary and the
hens live a clean, well ventilated, well-fed existance.
provided from screen side panels, open eaves and roof vents.
The building has no heating
system. Normal heat from 3300
hens is enough to keep the
temperature comfortable for
the layers.
The Millers' modern set-up is
the only one like it in this part
of the. state and the couple are
The Millers are busy people learning   more   new   business
despite many time and labor-
saving methods and machines
employed in their business. The
top capacity of their poultry
house is 3,456 hens and although their   flock is a   little
methods through guidance and
advice from a Purina feed representative working through
the Johnston Elevator in Clare,
supplier of the mash.
An immediate goal is restock-
Clare Draws
Beaverton
In Opener
By Larry Mogg
Pioneer Staff Writer
Clare High School's Pioneer
cagers will take their tournament hopes to the starting line
next Wednesday,, March 8 when
they take the floor against their
first opponent, winless Beaverton at 8:30. The location of the
game marks a departure from
past starts.for Clare, in that the
Pioneers have always started
Class C District competition at
Mt. Pleasant.
Should Clare win its first encounter, the next foe will be
Evart who drew a first-round
bye. This second-round game is
scheduled for Friday, March 10
at 7 p.m. with the winner meeting the survivor in the other
bracket's first two games for the
District Championship on Saturday evening, March 11 at 8:00
p.m.
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The other bracket pitts the
Harrison Hornets against Far-
well at 7 p.m. op March 8 with
the winner going into the semifinal contest against Whittimore-
Prescott and that winner qualifying for .the championship
game on Saturday night.
Although Whittimore-Prescott
and Evart were lucky in advancing through the first eliminations on byes, opinion differs as
to the advantages in drawing a
bye, or playing * out the full
tournament string. In all events
this should be a fine tournament.
Adult and student tickets may
be obtained at the Clare High
School principal's office priced
.at '75c for adults and 50c for
students.
Finish with Defeat
The Green and White, although they closed their regular
season Friday on a sad note
with 77-71 defeat handed them
by Ithaca, notched a good over
all 8 and 8 cage record, their
best in years.
■ -The CHS souad„hadn't won a
game in nearly "four previous
seasons and credit ioX "the improved 1960-61 record goes to
Coach Jim Raymond in his first
year at Clare, to the team for
moments of great, inspired play,
and to fans who have supported
the team so whole-heartedly
throughout the season.
Unable to bucket any points
through 4.23 Of the first period
Friday night, Dave Turan finally
broke the ice with a lor-g jump
Shot. The Pioneers couldn't solve
the Yellowjackets pillbox-size
gym. v
But Clare recovered from a
12-4 deficit midway through the
period to trail by only 3 points
at quarter-time. Both teams picked up the scoring pace in the
second with Ithaca's big center,
Eric Gruesbeck making the difference as he poured in 14 of his
night's 38 total in this period to
help his team to a 41-32 half-
time lead.
The determined Pioneers
couldn't fight into the lead, although they hit on 25 of 36 free
throw chances to Ithaca's 15 in
34, and were almost pulled' out
by Jeff Raymond in his best
game of the .year. Raymond
scored 28 points while team
mates Turan ahd Ray Murphy
counted 17 and 14 respectively;
The Little Pioneers went down
to their 8th defeat in 16 games
by the score of 60-47. Ralph
Bucholz Was high man with 21
points.
Govt, Day f
Experts - ./|'';;
Invited
Ardith Hardman & Barb Guiette
Pioneer; Staff Writers
More than twenty county and,
township officials have been ini
vited to appear as'resource ex--
perts at Clare county's Student
Government Day, March 16 a%
Farwell High School. They will}
lecture and answer questions
before senior-class students from*
three high schools in the county,
Clare, Farwell, and Harrison.
Topics will cover various phases
of state and local government
Clare, having the largest senior enrollment will provide ^resource people for four discussion
panels as follows:
Courts, Law Enforcement and.
Juvenile Problems- ■ ■ - ....-•
Highways and Roads	
Taxation and Legislation
Conservation  and  Agriculture
Farwell  is  providing   experts
in the fields of: '     \
■ Mental and Public Health
Civil Defense and Social Weft
fare <,
Harrison resource people will
lead discussions on:
Education and Consolidation
Nominations and Elections
The  Institute for Local  Government,    headed  by  D.    Hale
Brakej former treasurer of Michigan, will provide resource   officials from state level to be on
each panel.
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4-H Week
Starts March 4
During National . 4-H Club
Week, March 4 through 11, the
International Farm Youth Exchange program gets some attention. It is an example of a
people-to-people program.
Each year, Michigan sends five
or six young people to othe£
countries around the world
where they live with families and
learn a new way of life, Jeff
Arnold of Ithaca will be the first
Michigan IFYE to leave in 1961
when he travels to Brazil k ifr
April. During the year, Michigan
families play host to young people from other lands.
When IFYEs return home they
share their opportunities by visiting community groups, giving
talks and showing colored slides
and native visuals."The program
aims to promote international*
understanding and is sponsored
through the National and Michigan 4-H . Club foundations and
the Cooperative Extension Service. Dr, Russell Mawby, state
4-H Club leader, was Michigan's
first IFYE-in 1948 When he visited the United Kingdom.
short of this number, they say ing and replacement of the
that caring for this many birds flock a certain number at a
and marketing the eggs is just time so that birds of different
about all they can do by them- ages will maintain a constant
selves. Volume of egg production with
The hens' drinking water is no.peaks and no "lows" in the
piped to little troughs where it supply.
Lenten
Devotions
The first of three special Lenten services at the Congregational Church in Clare will be held
on Wednesday evening, March 8
when ReV. Robert McCleary of
the Harrison Congregational
ChUrch will deliver a sermon.
* Following speakers on March
15 and 22 will be Rev* Robert
■Hastings, Methodist minister and
director of the Wesley Foundation at Central Michigan University, and Rev. Phil Palmer of the
Kawkawlin Community Church,
Men of the local congregation
will take part in each of these
devotional services and the choir
will provide special music The'
public is invited to attend.
Results Due
At Farwell
Completion of- a Farwell
School area survey to. determine
feelings of residents in regard
to.a school expansion program
there is within
to Kenneth McLaughlin, superintendent, Who said Wednesday
that tabulation of all returning
questionnaires would probably
b„e complete in one more week.
.Between 1100 and 1200. answers will be studied to see
whether a majority of registered
voters in the district would support one of two plans being pro-
. posed, .for. the relief of student
.crowding, -in .the schools and the
replacement or modernization, of
"old', • 'obsolete or inadequate"
"clafefetobms now being used.
Iri," what is proposed as Plan
I, the district would build a new
Junior-Senior high school on a
new site with a gym and 27
teacher classrooms!. Total cost
with fees and other incidentals
would be $845,000. or less.
Enlargement of the present
Lake Elementary school by the
addition of three classrooms
with the remodeling of the gym
and replacement of the heating
plant would add $75,000. and
conversion of the gym in the
present Farwell school to double
in use as a cafeteria and all-
purpose room would take another $30,000.
In this plan, the Farwell high
school would become available
for use as an elementary classroom unit
Alternative Plan II proposes
a/$950,0Q0, program to include a
hew Junior-Senior high school
on the present school site (but
With 19 classrooms) for $700,000.
and a new nine-classroom elementary school on a new location costing $175,000. plus the
enlargement and remodeling of
the Lake school building for the
same $75,000.
Voters are* asked to tell the
district's Citizens Advisory Committee which of the plans they
prefer, and whether they would
vote for either proposal only if
parts were.to be eliminated. ,
The "questionnaire * explains
that no taxes for present debt
retirement will need to be collected in the district after Ine
current year, and the new program can be paid for by the collection of one mill above what
has formerly been levied for the
old .debt.'.
' Superintendent McLaughlin
said that response to the questionnaire has been gratifying
with between 500 and 600 answers already received. This is
about 200 more than the largest
number, ever voting in a school
election'' in  the  district.
Fund For County Buildings
To Be On April Ballot
A propolsal to permit Chxse
county • to collect small tax
amounts from property owners,
si^hT* according ™* save-it up against the day
signt accoromg whgn Jt .g   needed tQJ.   CQUnty
building outlays will be on the
April election ballot in the form
of a voted millage increase. A
place on the ballot for the proposal was authorized by supervisors at their last session in
Harrison.
Voters will be given the
chance to say "Yes" or "No" to
the question, Shall the County
of Clare raise one mill (levied
on State Equalized valuations)
for five years for a building
fund?
Actually, according to Clinton
R. Case on the Board from Garfield township, supervisors discussed building projects ' for
which the money will be needed
that are more specific than just
county building projects of the
future.
Mr. Case said that supervisors
talked over the desirability of
providing probate court quarters
that would affdrd more privacy
for cases and hearings before
Judge Robert Campbell, — especially those occasions when juveniles appear.
The probate court is presently
occupying chambers in the county courthouse, but sometimes
when first offender juvenile
cases, or those involving young
children are heard before Judge
Campbell, court is. held in basement rooips to avoid taking juveniles in and out of the court
through corridors in view of the
public.
Merchants
Start Sale
Campaign
Household
Sale Prizes
Go To Five
Excursion
For Club
.The Clare County Rock &
Mineral Club and the Adult Education Class for Rock Hounds,
plan an excursion trip by -Greyhound Bus to the Cranbrook
Institute in Detroit on March 19.
They plan to visit the mineral
display at the Institute, and will
visit the other departments as
time permits.
Extra seats on the bus are
available for others who may desire to go. If anyone in the area
would like further details ,,re-
garding the trip, please contact
Gerrit Hamstra, phone Clare EV
6-2395, or Lee Sowle, phone
Clare EV 6-7031,
Household Appliances, Inc., in
Clare this week announced the
winners of prizes and awards
given at the end of the store's
15th Anniversary Sale last
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
A boy and a girl winners of
bicycles were Scott Stough of
R-4 Clare, and Vicki. Lloyd of
Farwell.
Adults who took home valuable cash and merchandise prizes
were: Mrs. Carmel Muscat of
604 Beech, Clare — $50.00; Rose
WehtWorth of R-3 Clare — $100.;
Velma Cook of 210 W. Fourth,
Clare — A Bedroom Suite. Numerous other gifts to store visitors and customers during the
sale were also given.
James Wood, owner and manager of the store said that the
sale was by far the most successful held in the yearly anniversary series* t	
Resurface
US-27 Route
Nineteen miles of asphalt resurfacing on US-27 in Isabella
county is one .of several projects
in a broad statewide program of
repairs and improvement's in
highways announced for a new
program by the State Highway
Department.
Nearly 13 .miles in the Clare
to Mt. Pleasant stretch and 6.2
miles north from Shepherd are
in the program with October 28,
1961 as the completion date.
Anderson To
Head Rotary
•E. A. (Bud) Anderson was
elected president Of the Clare
Rotary club Wednesday in the
,annual election preceding 'thie
luhch program at the Doherty
Hotel, He is slated to take over
the office in July at the expiration of the term of present head
Gordon Mcintosh.
Named also in the full slate of
new officers were Warren Mc-
Guire, first vice-president; Virgil Bergstrpm, i&ecohd Vice-
president; Connie Walker, secretary; Lee Sowle, treasurer.
The School Board will be guid
ed by the- survey in their decision about what to present in the
proposal. One plan or the other
will likely be on the ballot in the
regular district election to be
held in June, 1961.
The Board, together with the
Citizens Committee under the
chairmanship of Warren Mc-
Guire took a year to analyse the
success of other districts in similar bond issue votes.
Candidates
In,Freeman township, Union
Ticket candidates are Frank Sar-
kozi for trustee, ahd Keith Blain,
Justin Blain, 'Charles Lyle and
Robert Geyer for constables.
« And in Lincoln township the
correct slates of candidates includes Gordon Smith for Board
of Review and Arlerie Green for
justices of the peace on the Nonpartisan ticket,' arid James Davis1
for Board .of Review and George
Wood for justice of the peace on
the Democratic ticket.
Make Plans
For Rural-
Urban Dinner
Final plans for the annual
Rural-Urban meeting were approved at the regular meeting bf
the Clare County Farm' Bureau
Board of Directors, held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Davis Monday evening, February 27. Farm Bureau families
will entertain their city friends
this year at ■ the Clare High
School gym with a ham supper,
and an interesting program
afterwards.
County secretary, Joan Wel-
don, announced that all members desiring Blue Cross coverage should notify her between
March 1 and 15th.
A program to appraise the
people of the community, of the
dangers to us if the constitution
of our state faces a complete revision was approved.
Announcement of a speech by
Barry Goldwater to be given on
March 7 at Michigan State University was made and several
from Clare county are planning
to attend.
A district institute will be
held on March 14 at the Coleman Methodist Church. Committees attending from Clare county will be Resolutions, Membership, Community Group, and
Youth Advisor.
'The March meeting will be
held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Hammersley 'in Franklin
township*.        ___    , . , ,._  ,
• Friday sale specials* are offered this week on a unique page of
advertising in the first of a
continuing series in The Sentinel. Sponsors are 24 Clare retailers who coffer price-busting bargains onJall Sorts of-items -from
cottage cheese and toothpaste,
to appliances, clothing and home
furnishings.
Shoppers in Clare Friday can
take advantage of the tremendously underpriced bargains by
clipping the page like a coupon
and showing it to the store people where the items are advertised. The offerings appear this
week on page 13.
Sentinel readers are advised to
Watch for the series of special-
price bargains advertised thru-
out Clare as the One Day sales
will continue for four weeks in
the first of what is hoped to be
a long series of lucky buys for
shoppers.
Mich. Week
In Fund Drive
A state-wide drive for funds to
finance 1961 Michigan Week,
May 21 to 27, has been launched
by the Greater Michigan Foundation, a. non-profit corporation
which sponsors this annual state
celebration.
James M. Smith, Detroit, vice-
president and general counsel
for the Michigan Bell Telephone
company, is state finance chairman and has organized the fund
raising, campaign in all areas of
the state with a finance commit-
tf**- .working in each of the 16
Michigan Week regions.
Alan Ott, Citizens State Bank
cashier and finance chairman
for the local region together
with Richard Groves, general
chairman for the region attended the meeting where action was
planned on the drive.
Calling for support by organizations, business, industry and
individuals, Smith emphasized
the - importance of the- program
to attract national attention to
Michigan's real,and positive assets, 'not brily during -Michigan
Week but throughout the year. *
"The greatest concentration of
publicity is being planned to tell
the story of* Michigan's resour-1
ces, advantages, recreational facilities, skilled labor, management know-how, educational institutions and other assets thru-
out the state and nation through
every available means,"' Mr."
Smith said, in making ■ an appeal for the financial assistance
necessary to' assure success of
the program.
Contributions should be * sent
to the Greater Michigan Foundation of which Fred Marin, president of the Bank of Lansing, is
treasurer. If preferable, contributors may make their contributions to the finance committee
members, in their respective com-
'munitiesj,
Farwell
Infant Dies
Of Burns
The infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. Riley Hilyard, rural Far
well died Sunday after an accident earlier the same day in
which the child was scalded with
boiling grease from a donut
fryer.
Little James William Hilyard
was rushed to Clare General
Hospital shortly after 11 o'clock
Sunday morning when the accident happened, and died from
complications following the
burns at 5:05. He had become
tangled in an electric cord attached to the electric fryer filled
with hot grease, and pulled the
appliance down upon himself.
The accident happened in the
kitchen of the Hilyard home on
Rock Road north and west from
the Clare stockyard corner. Severe burns covered part of the
child's head and face, back and
legs.
Born at Gladwin January 6,
I960,- the 13-mdnth- old victim
leaves his father and mother and
five brothers and one sister, all
at home. Grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Hilyard, and Mr.
and Mrs, Steven Leposky.
The funeral was held Tuesday
from the Reorganized Church of
Latter Day Saints in Farwell
with Elder Hobart Beavers officiating and arrangements directed by the Coker Funeral Home.
Burial was in Surrey Township
cemetery.
Twin Elms
Wins Bowling
Team Crown
Three Team entries in the
final weekend of the City Bowling Championships went into
top spots with two of them besting the mark set by Dan McDonald's in taking first place
last year.
Final standings  of the    tourney placed the teams    in    the
first six places like this:
Twin Elms — 3149
Holley Carburetor 12 — 3128
Holley Carburetor 10 — 3051
Dunlop's — 3030
Farwell Insurance ■— 3018
Log Cabin Grocery — 3012
The teams finished their competition one week after the final
events in all other   tournament
bowling and Twin Elms will col-
'ect the $100. top prize, largest
sver offered in the annual championships.
Cub Scouts'
Versatile .
Talent Shown
Monday evening, February 27,
Cub Scout Pack 120. had their
annual blue and gold potlUck
Sinner to celebrate the scouts'
51st anniversary. Twenty-two
Cub Scouts and their families
attended.
The den mothers planned the
dinner and constructed the table
centerpiece and decorations. On
each table stood a model of a
Cub Scoutv dressed in the traditional uniform.
After the dihner, each of the
dens showed the ' projects' they
had completed for. the month.
Den II, under the supervisionv of
Den Mother Helen Anderson,
had torn down an old radio and
put it back into working order,
which was'quite an accomplishment for boys Of 8 to ll.
Continued on Page  ,3
Discussion at Harrison also
touched on the idea that the
county might someday wish to
build or acquire a convalescent
and nursing home for welfare
patients who are recovering
from surgery or illnesses other*
wise requiring hospitalization.
Case said that in his opinion
and that of other supervisors, a
county owned convalescent and
nursing home for welfare pa**
tjents would reduce the cost of
providing hospital care, and free
hospital beds for use by patients
more urgently in need of them,:
Albert Haley of Clare, chair*
man of the Board of Supervisors
said that the vote on the motion
to place the proposal on* the ballot was unanimously in favor.
His own reasons for supporting
the measure came from the belief that if the county ever
spends money for any building
program, it is better to haye the
money available beforehand an<3
avoid paying interest on a loan
to finance construction.
He listed another advantage to
the county in accumulation bf
funds by the means suggested,
and that is the liklihood that if
money was collected for projects, and not used immediately,
it could earn interest while
waiting, and make a profit for
the county instead of costing
taxpayers interest on borrowed
funds.
Mindful that many property
owners in various parts of the
county are already paying relatively high taxes to support
school district, or civic programs,
Haley said that the proposal
was on the ballot to allow people to express themselves on a
problem of vital concern all
over the county.
"We can benefit by this method of paying for county building
improvements if people are willing to vote for the improvements," Haley said,
In other action taken by supervisors in January, new chairs
were authorized- for the-Office of
the county clerk; approval was
voted for the purchase of a new
Base Radio Station for the county sheriff's office in the jail —<
the cost not to exceed $500.
coming from the general fund;
asked the State Tax Commission
to reduce State Equalized Valuations on Arthur and Franklin
townships and Harrison's First
Ward
r
A resolution was carried to
permit the county probate judge
to appoint a "Probate Register"
to hold office for the same term
as that for which the judge is
elected. The salary for the Probate Register was set at the
same amount now being paid
for the court's chief clerk. An
extra full-time clerk was then
also authorized for the court until the April session of the supervisors when a full study of
the clerical needs of the court
was promised.
Firemen
Get Radio
A two-way radio unit installed
Wednesday in the Clare Fire Department's tanker truck has
modernized the Department's
communications and connects
the truck for instant messages
with police and Civilian Defense*
units throughout a wide central
Michigan area. *■
Clare Fire Chief Floyd Wood:
worth Said that the equipment
was tested Wednesday and is
ready for use in car-to-car, or
car - to r station transmissions
through the Base Broadcasting!
facilities Of the Isabella-County
Sheriff's office.
Use of the new radio equipment will make it possible to
send and receive urgent messages from any location where the
Clare tanker might be, even if
telephone service were to be interrupted through reasons OI
fire, storm, or civil disaster.
Lutherans
Given Site
At a special meeting of the
voters' assembly of St. J6hh%
Lutheran Church of Clare on
February 19, the congregation,
was pleased to receive from Mr.
and Mrs. Julius Schaeffer a gift
of 7% acres of land, for future
building. Mr. and Mrs. Schaeffer
are life-long members of St.
John's, and have given the property in memory of their parents
who, also were one-time members here. Thie proj-erty is locaV
ed on the north edge of the city'
of Clare. - "