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THE CLABE SENTINEL. CLARE. MICHIGAN
MARCH 23, 1981
New Series, Vol. 69, No. 28
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Holy Week
Church Rites
Announced
Christian Holy Week services
have been announced by the
Clare Congregational Church
and St John's Ev. Lutheran with
details of observances in other
congregations expected for publication soon.
The third in a series of Lenten
midweek religious meditation
services was scheduled at the
Congregational church last night
by the pastor, Rev. F. Van Parker. The/speaker announced for
the 8:00 p,m. service was Rev.
"Philip Balmer of the Kawkawlin
Community Church with men of
the church assisting and music
by the choir.
An evening service next week
at the Congregational church
will celebrate Maundy Thursday
Communion and Tenebrae. A
confirmation class will be received into church membership
in a special ceremony.
Members and friends at St.
Johns will attend Maundy Thursday Rites in an evening service
at 8:00 p.m. Rev. R. A. Schultz,
pastor has announced that ten
new members will be received into the church and eight children
ar to be baptised.
Rev. Schultz will conduct Palm
Sunday services at St. Johns,
and at St. Johns Lutheran - in
Hamilton township where one
new member is to be received in
the 9.00 a,m, worship.
Good Friday services are to be
held in the Lutheran churches
at 1:15 P-m. in Clare and 8:00
p.m. in Hamilton,
The Community Good Friday
rites will be held this year in the
Clare Methodist Church from
1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Details of that
and other Good Friday observances will appear in next week's
Sentinel.
Post Second
Week Scores
TJ3J Clara. Woman's., Boy>pm:
Association has completed... ihe
the second of three week ends of
Tournament with the following
teams leading: .
Uirich Standard Service       2729
Marble Auto Collision '      2702
Band Box Cleaners 2665
Twin Elms 2651
Schaeffer's Dairy Bar 2647
The leading doubles teams are.
R. Stanley-B. Marotzke     1144
Peg Bennett-Del Sheredy 1116
. F. Shelander-F. Hoffman 1107
: M. BedardrLeda Stough    1095
. Cesta Colvin-E. Kurnik    1092
■ In Singles competition .are:   .
Carol Cotton "   575
Barbara Mahon 572
Ruth Stanley 564
Fran Shelander 561
Tjttla Brown 559
Ruth Stanley still has the high
game of 207.
Communications
For Defense
Kenneth A. Crandall of Michigan Bell Telephone company will
tell members of the Clare Rotary
Club about the Bell system's roi.
in "Communications and National
Defense" at the club's noon program next Wednesday at the
Hotel Doherty.
During his presentation, Crandall will place a long distance
telephone call to the North American Air Defense Command headquarters in Colorado Springs,
Colo. An amplifying system will
make it possible for the local audience to hear an up-to-the-minute
report on the North American de
fense situation from Captain C.
Clark. The audience also will be
able to ask Captain Clark
questions.
Prior to making the long dist
ance call to NORAD, Crandall
Will explain the part the 'Bell
System is playing in providing
communications for national defense and undertaking other
projects vital to our country.    .
Mrs. Corrine A. Loth, right, assistant
chief operator for Michigan Bell, is
framing iwo employees on the handling
oi most calls to be placed through ihe
new Direct Distance Dialing equipment,
starting June 4,   At   the left   are   Mrs*
Sharon J. Skelcey and Mrs. Marie S.
Podolsky. By punching the keys shown,
ihey will record; the" calling party's number, and the* send the long distance call
on its way.
Isabella Cattle Tour
Scheduled April 6
A cattle tour on Thursday,
April 6 through six stops in -Isabella county will show how the
"other fellow" is raising beef
and will demonstrate feeding
practices and barn and lot installations.
Answers to questions on c6st
of gain, marketing information,
and a discussion at noon headed
by Hugh E, Henderson, associate
professor of Animal Husbandry
at Michigan State University
will also highlight the tour.
About 100 to 150 or more
farmers are expected to follow
the program beginning at 10
o'clock in the morning.
Assembling first at the farm
of Forest and William Brewer 1
mile east and lYs south ot Clare
ike <gf«ip<f WiH 4iave-coffee and>
donuts available for the "second"
breakfast, and then view two
lots of cattl feed separately on
high moisture corn and silage.
At 11-00 the tour moves to the
Ferd Seibt farm 2 miles east of
Clare on US-10 and % mile south
to see his 208 head on inside
feeding. The Jake Seibt place is
next at 11:30 to inspect the
widely known herd of 199 head.
The dinner ahd short program
are scheduled for noon at the
Clare Methodist church,
. The Alton Arnold farm starts,
'the afterndon swing where 122
head are in three lots. At 2:30
the schedule calls for a stop at
the Charles Bolle farm to see the
225-head herd and new barn.
Bolle's cattle get all the corn silage they can eat made up of
high-moisture shelled corn in a
formula with Stilbestrol. Inside
feeding in approximately 20 tnin-
utes feeding time.
• The tour ends at the Elmer
Methner farm six miles east of
US-27 on the Coleman Road "and
south to the first place. Here 59
Herfords are on corn cob meal,
silage until March 1,
The tour arrangements were
made by Harry Densmore, County Extension    director with   a
Offer CMU
Credit Courses
Professor A. T. Rolph of Central Michigan University has
announced that undergraduate
credit courses can be offered in
Clare this Fall if there is enough
interest. Any course can be given if there are at least twelve
persons wishing to take it. Anyone, whether enrolled at CM'U
or not, who is interested in these
tentative plans is asked to contact Mrs, Albert Seiter EV6-7990,
Mrs, Norman Maxwell EV 6-7543
or Mrs. E, Robert Allen EV 6-
7262 within the next two weeks.
committee of Dick Koester, Cyril Bolle and William Brewer.
Annual FFA
Banquet
Future Farmers of America
chapter members from Clare
High-School gathered for their
annual banquet at the IOOF hall
on Thursday evening last week
and heard a talk from an agricultural expert and awarded honorary Chapter Farmer degrees
to two helpful .faculty members,
Mr, Vern Freek, coordinator
of: stodeiiAt. programs -at MSU
was the main after dinner speaker and he told the audience of
agriculture's important place
not only on the farm, but now
more and more in science and industry.
The honorary degrees went to
High School Principal Richard
Snyder and to faculty mempgr
Robert McDaniel for their vahfc
able contributions toward the=
aims of FFA.
A humorous touch oil the pj*0-'
gram was provided when th^
boys sang and played ton all
home made instruments) -a little;
song that they invented for the
amusement of their members
and visiting guests. .
Committe reports and demonstrations and speeches completed
the evening.
At the Future Farmer State
Convention yesterday and today
at Michigan State University,
East Lansing, the Clare chapter
nominated two members Larry
Kleinhardt and Willis Strouse
for the State Farmer degree.
Conferring of honors and naming of the Star Farmer for 1961
was to be part of last evening's
program.
Gene Badgley and Russell
Graham were the Clare chapter's
official delegates at the convention.
Buy Store
At Dover
Mr. and Mrs. Dwaine Hoover
have announced the purchase of
the Favreau grocery at Dover
and took possession on March 15.
They will move into the store's
living quarters about April 1.
The name of the store is to be
changed to Hoover's Grocery and
will be operated by Mrs. Hoover
while Dwaine continues with his
employment as a construction
worker,
Mr. Favreau is returning to
his former job with the Swift
Ice Cream company.
Distance
Dialing Set
For June
Individual contracts for asphalt surfacing of two highways
in ■ the area were among 45
awarded in State Highway Department lettings earlier this
month. M-61 from a point on
US-27 between Clare and Harrison is to be resurfaced intermittently eastward to the Gladwin
county line. And US-10 from the
Clare-Isabella county line east
to-the city limits of Midland will
also get a new asphalt top.
$a cost $308,053.00, the US-10
job "was won by the Hicks Company, Alma and involves nearly
■■2.6" miles of work. The completion date is October 28,-1961.
On M-61, the $10,735,00 job
Will be-performed by the Mid-
Michigan Engineering Corp.,
Muskegon with a completion
date of June 25, 1961,
Included in the same lettings
was a project that Will bring the
first major improvement to
US-27 since the route was paved
thirty years ago.
Resurfacing with asphalt will
give the highway a new top
from Clare to Mt. Pleasant in
Isabella county and on a 6.2
mile stretch north of Shepherd.
Nineteen miles of the new asphalt will, go on US-27 in the
}ob altogether.
Plans for the introduction of
nationwide Direct Distance Dial-,
ing service in the Saginaw Valley area, taking in 38 communis
ties, were described by the Mich
igan Bell Telephone Company at"
a luncheon program held Friday,;
March 17, in the Bancroft Hotel,;
Saginaw.
The company reported its progress toward bringing the new
service to Clare and Rosebush'
and 36 other communities sur*1
rounding Saginaw, a service improvement project that Will cost
nearly $3 million.
In the number of communities
involved, the area covered, and
because the changeover will be
made in.all places simultaneously, It is one of the largest "service
"cutovers" to DDD the company
has made to date.
The new service, which Will
enable users to dial most of their
own station calls direct to about
45 million telephones in the
United States and Canada, will
be introduced also in the following Michigan Bell communities:
Akron, Auburn, Bad Axe, Bay
City, Bay Port/ Beaverton, Birch
Run, Coleman, East Tawas, Fair-
grove, Farwell, Frankenmuth,
Freeland, Gagetown, Gladwin,
Harrison, Linwood, Mayville,
Midland, Oscoda, Owendale,
Reese, Saginaw, Standish, St,
Charles, Ubly, Unionville, and
Vassar,
* In addition to these, the following communities served by
non-Bell connecting companies
will be able to make direct long
distance calls through the new
equipment: AuGres, Brant, Harbor Beach, H.emlock, Omer, Pig*
eon and Twining.
After the hour of 2.01, June 4,
users in these exchanges will be
able to dial most of their own
station calls direct to the millions of United States and Canadian telephones and reach them
about as quickly as calling their
next-door neighbors.
Just before the service is in
effect, Michigan Bell customers
will receive a Direct Distance
Dialing booklet which will contain a list of the most frequently-called cities across the nation,
their Area Code Numbers, and
complete instructions on dialing
a long distance  call.
Michigan Bell reported that
about 145,000 main telephones in
the Saginaw Valley area will be
tied into the new long distance
equipment. About 2,300 of these
are in Clare and Rosebush.
These bring* to nearly 80 per
cent the total of all telephones
served by Michigan Bell from
which nationwide direct long distance calls can be made.
New US-27
Surface
Let
JNo lakers Yet tor
2 Commission
This week with election day
only ten short days off, the same
suspenseful guessing game occupied Clare residents as they
played a year ago, "Who is going
to he elected to seats on the City
Commission?" And unless last
minute developments move new
candidates into the public's attention, the answer could be surprises, since there is but one candidate for three vacancies.
George Wisler, retired Gas
Company manager in Clare filed
his nominating petition to get a
place on the regular ballot. Two
more spaces will - be blank and
names must be written in.
Almost a similar condition
arose prior to last year's commission election when the filing
deadline passed with not enough
qualified candidates to fill the
vacancies. In 1960 the lone peti-
Travel Is Big Business.
Businessmen Reminded
Chamber Of Commerce Dues Drive
Through Mail Beported Success
Playtifne Guide L ures Vacationers
Appearing this week, on schedule as regular and as certain a
sign of spring as the swallows
at'Capistrano, is the East Michigan tourist guide, * Playtime
Guidebook.
Year-round vacation and travel attractions of east and central Michigan's famed playtime
country are described in this
1961 edition published by the
East Michigan Tourist Association.
Clare county - tells the vaca*
tioner what to do and whete to
go for fun and relaxation in a
section that includes a full page
.of descrioto of the county's at
tractions in general, s. full page
"advertisement for the City of
Clare by its Chamber of Commerce, ahd another page of invitations by various businesses
who offer accommodations for
vacationers' entertainment or
comfort
J. R. McDermott, EMf A act*
ing secretary-manager; said* the
128-page guide is available" for
free distribution to organizations
and individuals on. request" to the
tourist promotion association's
headquarters at the.Log Office,
Bay City, Mich.
Profusely illustrated, the book
contains several new features,
including a section on boating
and canoeing facilities in the'29-
county area covered11 by EMTA.
y ir
The guidebook also contains a
complete eat, sleep and shop di*
rectory, a county-b'y-eounty description Of vacation" features,
complete information ott ; trans*
portatioh,' state and county parks
and" campsites, ahd information
onn points of interest- to the traveler, among other features.
' The hire of vacations* in East
Michigan ,. is being exposed to
more than a quarter million Ohio
residents at ftavei   shows this
month, The EMTA participated
in Cincinnati's Ohio Valley Boat-
All Sport-VacatiOn and Travel
Show at the Cincinnati Gardens,
March 4-12.
Then the big exhibit moved to
Cleveland' for the 10-day American • and Canadian * Sportsmen
Vacation and Boat Show at the
Public Auditorium, March, 17-261
The Michigan exhibit features
a 20-fOOt .display depicting attractive highlights of Vacationing
in the* four-season * Playtime
Country, literature of EMTA
members is distributed at the
booths. *'
Announced winner of the job
was the Hicks - Company for
$211,926.00 with an October 28,
1961 completion dale.
P-TA Hears
Best Student
Oratory
High school winners of first
and second places in the school
speech) cor-tests were program
performers for the Clare P-TA
4t the regular meeting*;' Monday
evening. Speaking for the group
were Linda Casteel, winner of
first place for declamations and
the second place speaker Rox-
anne Schroeder, and Janet Slo-
cum who took first place among
students delivering orations, and
the second place winner, Carol
Baumgarth, and Sharon Haring
top winner in the field of interpretative readings.
The girls appearing on the
prog'rarh ,wer"e among eight who
were judged;,*best in the local
contest held*last Tuesday and
Wednesday-at the school. Other
winners were Laura Lynk and
Judy Presley first and second
in humorous readings, and Catherine Haring, second in interpretative speaking.
Judges at the contest were
Rev. D. R, Salisbury, Rev. Van
Parker, Mrs. Louisa Bowler former successful speech coach",
Mrs. Edith McCorkle, and James
S, Bicknell, III. Mrs. Beverly
Feight, high School English
teacher is the faculty advisor
and coach of this year's speech
contestants.
In an election which took
place during the business meeting, Mrs. Richard Schroeder was
named to head the association
next year with vice president,
Mr. Harold Brooks, Secretary,
Mrs. Nelda Murphy, Treasurer,
Mrs. Ruth Neff and Program
Chairman, Mrs. Donna Cooper.-
The officer slate was presented by High School Principal
Richard Snyder in his report
from the nominating committee.
Short Course
Graduates
Graduation exercises were held
this month for short course
students at Michigan State University. •
The short, course program offers education to both young
farmers and agriculture industry
employees,   '
Courses for the young farmer
involve classroom and laboratory
instruction as well as specialized
work experience. The courses are
designed to -meet the needs of
the young farmer wishing to
specialize. in some phase of
farming.' Emphasis is also placed
on rural leadership development.
Area graduates included John
C. Magnus of R-l, Clare in Farm
Equipment Service and Sales. He
was the reciepient of an- out-1
standing award; Donald Wayne
Moore or rural Clare, Elevator
and Farm Supply; H. Wayne Anderson, Rosebush, Elevator and
Farm Supply. •	
In a Chamber of Commerce
program that pointed out the relation . of tourist business to
every business in town, members
of the organization attending a
meeting Tuesday of last week
heard the assertion that an average of 24 tourists stopping in
Clare each day means the same
benefit to the community as a
permanent industry with an annual payroll of $100,000.
The program showed how
tourist * and vacation business
wjll change with the coming of
new highways which will bring
travelers from an enlarging area
Within 500 miles from Michigan's
south border. It includes areas
as far away as New York state,
Delaware, W. Virginia, Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota and Canada and all points closer.
"This is a vast new tourist
population that never .heard .of
Clare," members heard, "and it
is up to us individually and collectively to advertise our town."
For every dollar that was
spent advertising our Water
Wonderland State, Michigan
reaped $94... in taxes from tourist Spending?- <.
Looking forward to the day
when Clare Will ho longer be on
US-27, but will be bypassed on
the route Of the new Freeway,
one member, James S. Bicknll,
HI offered a suggestion that
Clare erect and exhibit a   lum
bering days museum or collection of curios and mementos of
those exciting and historical
years. The C of C solicits other
suggestions for any new tourist
attractions.
President Bernie Wyman and
Secretary R. B. Kring reported
on the first successes in the current membership drive which
has started with circulation of a
letter asking business men to
mail in checks for their 1961
dues. The idea is to avoid the
costly and time-consuming canvass of prospective members.
The. membership request by
mail is working so wellt they
say, that half or more of all
businesses on the list may finally be signed to memberships
this way. Several merchants or
professional men who were not
contacted for dues last year have
even included checks for their
1960 dues with their returns.
Mr. Kring renewed his request
for prompt answers to the C of
C dues letter and called attention to information enclosed that
tells members what is being accomplished with the money.
The next monthly meeting of
the organization is to be on the
evening of April 4. with a speaker already engaged. Farmers
Night, the annual banquet and
program to entertain rural
neighbors has been set for April
6th.
BEST WISHES for Fred Krell, retiring mailman at the
Clare postoffice were free and sincere when he was honored
March 17, his last day on the job. Here Mrs. Krell and Fred
receive a coveted plaque from Clare Postmaster Francis
Jackson and (r) Assistant Postmaster Gordon Mcintosh.
Lee Sowle photo
Retires After 37
Years On Mail Job
Fred Krell, Clare rural mail
carrier who retired from the
U.S. Postal Service last week
said that the idea of being retired without his old job routine is still so new to him that
■ he "hasn't made up his mind
whether he likes it or not.
He became kind of accustomed to his work after 37
years on the job in the Clare
postoffice.   '   .   i
Honored at ceremonies in
the postoffice on March 17
and awarded a plaque- for his
long attention to his work,
Krell is now on the pension
list and is starting to accustom himself to the retired
status in life. He has made
some calls at the ranch of his
son, Leland north of Clare
where post's are being cut this
week, and he speaks of "doing
Some fishing and tending to
colonies of honey bees which
he keeps at.home."
He began work in the Clare
postoffice in 1924, not long
after he returned from Army
service, in the first World
War. During- the time between
1918 and 1924, he* was a rural
school teacher at the Randall
school and had previously
taught at the Pratt.
Beginning during the time
when S. C. Kirkbride was
Clare's postmaster, he was
put on the job as city letter
carrier where he served 'for
thirty years through the postmaster administrations '.' of
Kirkbride, John Jackson now
both passed on, and later during the administrations of L.
E. Davy and finally Francis L.
Jackson present postmaster.
For the Oast seven years Mr.
Krell has^ driven a rural route
from the Clare postoffice.
He remembers that dufcing
his service with the Postal
Service three different locations served as postoffice
here. In 1924 the office was
still located on McEwan
street's east side near where
Alexander shoe store now is..
Later it was moved to what is
now the Carrier building on
E. Fourth, and in the early
1930s the government built
the present postoffice.        • -
The Krells, Fred and Anna,
have one child, their son Leland,
tion was filed by Robert Walters
who later withdrew and left thV
ballot with no names. ■   ■ ■-
A- last minute meeting of interested and concerned citizens,
"nominated" Gerald Nivison, then
mayor with an expirin"
bert Haley a former mayor and
many times elected to Clare's
Commission,, and Glen Cain. All
three were easily elected with
the public backing the citizen
group and friends.
This year, Haley and Mayor
Nivison are holdovers whose
terms do not expire until 1962,
and Cain, Earl Baumgarth and
Harvey Hartshorn all commissioners whose terms expire did
not become candidates.
In last year's election. Haley
counted 232 votes, Nivison 207,
and Cain 196 to roll up what may
well be all-time high counts for
write-in votes. But the possibility
exists that in a quiet election, tr.e
winners might be elected by
much less of a total that was the
case in I960. ■
It is possible that the next
mebers of the Commission could
be successfully elected by one
percent or less of the city's eligible voters, ***■
City Attorney Harold B.
Hughes said last year that a
write-in candidate could not be
certified, even if elected, — if
he received -less than ten votes.
And the • city charter provides
that "an elective officer of the
city shall, after his term of office
has expired, continue to hold Office until his successor is elected
and qualified,"
City Clerk David Adams is
somewhat dismayed by the idea
of another election with seats on
the commission to be decided, by
write-in voting.
For one thing, it takes much
longer to .count the vote since
election board members must
count aU votes written on the
machine's tape. Another thing,
stickers may be used but are
seldom practical since it is difficult to attach them to the paper
tape. underneaJh. Small .voting
machine openings. They sometimes fall off when not stuck
securely and clog the machine.
In addition to State offices appearing on the Biennial Election
ballot, Clare voters will express
their opinions on a proposal to
finance expansion of the, city's
Water distribution system and
build a plant for iron removal.
The project, calling for the spending of $150,000. to assure Clare
purer city water and more adequate water pressure all through
the city has the backing and endorsement of present commission members.
Safety In
Four Lessons
Young people from the Clare
area wishing to take a voluntary course in Hunting Safety
can sign up for th 4-lesson study
on Saturday afternoon at 1:00 at
the Ciare city hall. Sponsors of
the course stress that if a law
should be passed requiring such
study before a hunting license
can be issued to anyone under
17 in Michigan, the course will
entitle any youth t6 qualify for
a license without further study.
Such a law has been defeated
in the legislature once, but has,
a good chance for revival in another try.
Don Bell, Conservation Department officer said that the course
is to be taught by volunteer instructors from the Clare Rod
and Gun Club as part of the
club's public service program.
Co-operating in the teaching,
assignments are Leonel Green,
Jack Foss, Ron Chapman, Bob
Lodes, Jack Hemstreet, all of
Clare'. and Jerry Schaar and Roger Trucks both from Coleman.
The course has been recommended by the Conservation Department and in four one-hour,
lessons teaches: Safe handling of
firearms and bows; will analyse
hunting accidents; instructs in
behavior afield.
There is no cost for the in*
struction and classes are open fo
any youths, boys or girls from
12 through 17.
Religious Film
Evangelist Billy Graham's
newest feature-length dramatic
film, "Shadow Of The Boomer-
ang" will have its Clare showing
On Saturday, March 25 at 7:30
p.m. in the Clare Elementary
School Auditorium, sponsored by
the Clare County .Ministerial Association,
Starring vivacious Georgia Lee
and television's Buffalo Bill, Jr:,
it is an. outdoor action   picture