1961-04-06; Clare Sentinel

              THE CLARE SENTINEL
Established 1878
T»n Cants Copy
THE CLARE SENTINEL, CLARE. MICHIGAN
APRIL 6, 1981
New Series, Vol. 69, No. 30
Wisler, Cain
And Donovan
in In City
Gfeorge Wisler, only regular candidate for a Clare City
Commission seat tallied an easy victory in Monday's election, and voters picked up Glen, Cain, incumbent, and David
Donovan -*- both slip candidates for the other two vacancies.
Wisler and Donovan are new-
Start Work
On Huge
Overpass
The Sargent Construction Co.
Saginaw started work Tuesday
on freeway bridges in Saginaw
and Clare counties, the State
Highway Department announced.
Contract value of the bridges
is over $300,000.
The Saginaw county structure
is a grade separation to carry
Maple rd. over the US-23 Freeway about seven miles southeast
of Bridgeport. The $215,000 structure is part of a $2.6 million job
held by.Sargent for five miles of
freeway from Birch Run to
Townline rd.
Completion date on the entire
project is Aug., 1961.
The Clare county structure is
a $101,000 grade separation to
carry Clarabella rd. over the
US-10 Freeway about two miles
east of Clare. It is part of a $3
•million job held by Sargent for
8.3 miles of the US-10 Freeway
from Clare east to the Midland-
Isabella county line.
- Completion date on the entire
.project is Judy 31, 1962.
On State
Committee
Mrs.-Delmer Scott of Lake,
Garfield township clerk was notified yesterday of her selection
as a member of" a committee organized by the Michigan" Secretary -of State to study and review the state election laws and
make recommendations for revision or improvements. She said
that the committee would holds
its first meeting in Lansing probably next week.
One of thirty persons in Michigan asked to serve on the group,
Mrs. Scott received her invitation about 3:00 p.m. Wednesday
in a telephone conversation with
"Pat" Foley, Assistant Secretary
of State. She was told that members on the committee were being chosen from both major political parties in Michigan and
that she had been highly recommended for the assignment by
both Republicans and Democrats.
Chairman of the committee is to
■be Episcopal Bishop Richard
Emerich from Detroit.
Mrs. Scott has been Garfield
township clerk for several terms
where her efficient conduct of
the job has earned for her the
admiration of fellow members of
the township board and residents. For two years, she was recorder for discussion panels and
working groups in the field of
State Education who met with
Dr. Lynn Bartlett, superintendent of Public Education.
Beef Tour
Area beef men and farmers
are reminded of the Isabella
Cattle Tour today starting at 10
o'clock at the farm' of Forest
and Dilliam Brewer a mile east
and VA south of Clare. A dinner at noon is scheduled at the
Clare Methodist' Church where
the expected 100 to 150 farmers
will hear a talk by Hugh E.
Henderson, associate professor
of Animal Husbandry at MSU.
The tour continues in the afternoon. Complete details were given in a Sentinel article on March
23.
Tryouts
Team tryouts for boys who
want to play baseball in Clare's
Little League have been scheduled for Saturday this week at
10^ o'clock in the morning, anji
again Monday next week at 5:00
"•-***••  «_.
comers to Clare government
while Cain will rlturn for another term after serving since
April 1960,
A purely local issue, the three-
mill tax for the city water system improvement failed to
carry.
Vote totals in the Clare city
election were:
Wisler, 365
Cain, 153 , J
Donovan, 126
More than 30 others were named by voters in scattered write-
in choices for commissioner.
Among them were former member Robert Walters who polled
63 votes, and' Joe Willey who became a slip candidate shortly
after the deadline for filing regular petitions. He counted 38
votes.
The three newly elected Commissioners will take places with
Mayor Gerald Nivison and Albert
Haley, — Wisler and Cain for
two-year terms and Donovan for
a one-year term. The present
Commission in a scheduled meeting-ionight will canvass the vote
and the newly elected members
will qualify for office and be
seated at the next following
meeting.
Giving up their seats on the
five-man governing body are
Earl Baumgarth and Harvey
Hartshorn, neither having been
a candidate for re-election,
Activity at the polls was,very
light- until late in the afternoon
when- lines of people waiting
their turns began to slowly
lengthen. I>uring the -first 7 and
one-half hours after the opening
Of the; polls in Clare city hall,
'leis*-than''"200*"voters had exercised:' the privilege.
Election Board members watching th6 disinterested pace of the
days voting observed that even
waiting lines were not an indication of. election interest as it
might seem, but rather that
write-in voting necessary for
City Commission choices was
slowing up the flow through the
booths and ^taking much -more
time than Would have been necessary for just pulling levers.
f. ...
;     .Water Proposition Fails
■On a question .put-Up'to Clare*
voters on a special ballot the issue of a special tax to pay for
improvements to the water sys:
tem was far short of carrying**
when only 181 votes were counted in favor, against 193 No. Residents of Clare's two precincts
were divided in their opinion on
the issue as indicated by a count
of 100 to 88 in favor of the proposition in the No. 2 precinct
while" the ' count was 105 to 81
against' in Precinct No. 1.
Throughout the area as elsewhere jili -Michigan, townships
named supervisors and their other officers for' two-year terms.
In Clare county electors said
"No" to the proposed levy of 1
mill extra tax to create a fund
against future building needs.
The present supervisors had proposed the scheme as a means of
building a county fund in small,
less burdensome tax collections
and use it in the future when
county building modernization or
remodeling 'became 'authorized.
Burke Wins
At Harrison
In Monday's election at Harrison, veteran» Supervisor A. E.
Bartow, running on stickers
against Rev. Ernest Burke lost
his bid to return to the board.
The margin, was 55-30 in favor
of Burke. Bartow had represented Harrison's Second Ward.
At the county building, Bartow had been chairman of two
supervisor jcommittees, Tourist
and Resort, and Resolutions, and
a member of two other important committees, Equalization,
and' Ways- and Means.
Halt Blaze
The Clare Fire Department
answered, a call Wednesday of
last week where a blaze in the
home of Mr. and Mrs.* Gary
Lloyd at Brown Corner^ was threatening to destroy, the house.
Extensive damage was reported
but the firemen saved the dwelling and held the damage to less
than was feared. The house is
owned by Ada Coulter of Clare,
Mrs. Adolph Hildebrandt and Mrs. Bettie Marotzke, fourth
row from the front in this photo (were photographed in
Washington, D.C. among a group of 4-H club leaders recently
calling on Congressman Elford Cederberg. They were in the
capitol attending a Volunteer Leader Forum.
Outstate Objections
Don't Halt ConCon
Clare county voters' efforts to defeat the Michigan proposal to call a constitutional convention were crushed in the
state totals that gave ConCon a 589,270 to 553,699 margin
with 'just 87 precincts of the state's 5,075 not counted.
The election produced better than 3-to-l disapproval of
the proposal in the county. Yesr591, No-2041, and the City of
Clare voted 253 to 126 against overhauling the constitution.
Election news of how other propositions fared in the
county and in Clare revealed that the one-mill tax for the
county building fund went down with a county total of 688
to 1757 against it. Clare voters said the same, 240-No, arid
116-yes,.,.-^...... ,..w ■ _ .-.>..
One election report from Harrison said that the final
count on the one-mill tax for county building was delayed
when five townships failed to list the count in tally books
which election boards fcirwarded to the county clerk's office
on Tuesday. '
Smelt Dip
Prpspects
Said Poor
Prospects are not overly encouraging for Michigan's smelt
dipping season which will soon
get underway in tributary
streams of the Great Lakes.
Winter's generally below-jpar
snowfall points to low water levels which are expected to cut
down spawning runs of the silvery fish.
Great Lakes commercial catch,
a good barometer of spring take
in streams, was up from 1960
during" the first months of this
year. However, last year's commercial take was" down nearly 50
percent from the year before.
During spring runs, smelt
fishermen on inland streams
usually approach the annual
catch of commercial operators
in the Great Lakes.
Major upstream migrations of
smelt are expected to start
around April 10 and hit their
peak about Apr. 20. Exact timing
of runs may vary considerable
from stream to stream or even
with the same stream, depending
upon water temperatures. Smelt
begin their upstream journeys
when water temperatures rise to
about 40 degrees.
Heaviest runs normally occur
in streams which flow into the
northern third of Lake Michigan,
including the Green Bay region.
Streams and cuts that drain into
Saginaw Bay generally ' yield
good returns. Smelt take has
picked up somewhat during recent years in Lake Michigan
tributaries along the southwestern part of the state and in
streams of the northeastern
Thumb "area.       '
Hand nets not more than five
feet in circumference may be
used to dip smelt from March 1
to May 31 in Waters designated
by the Conservation Department.
Lists of these waters are available from the Department's Lansing office or its field * district
headquarters,    '
Junior
April 13
\ _ 	
Township Voters Turn Out
For Local Issues, Contests
The Clare Junior High School
Band, recipients of First Division
ratings in recent* festivals, will
present their Seventh Annual
Concert, Thursday evening, Arpil
13, 1961.
The 73-member group will be
playing a varied program, ranging from the 17th Century to a
Latin -American Mambo. "Music
for all to enjoy," says Mr. Neil
Courtright, the director.
Also performing, during the
evening will be the 46-piece Intermediate Band, under the direction of Mr, Lloyd Conley. This
Band is composed entirely of
sixth grade students and is the
youngest, performing, musical
group in the Clare School system.
Tickets will be on sale by band
members for one week only, beginning April 6, and will also be
available at the door.
Scientists
To Take
Classrooms
High School Science teachers
from a 10-county area have been
invited to a "Frontiers of Science" program at Central Michigan University May 5.
The entire project is sponsored'
by the Dow" Chemical"Company
in conjunction with other Michigan Chemical companies and
Central Michigan University,
While the High School Teachers are attending the -program at
CMU, their classes will be. directed by scientists from the
Michigan Chemical industry.
Highlighting the program at
Central Michigan will be speakers in the fields of biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics,
with follow-up discussions in
these areas during the day.
Counties selected to participate in the program include Bay,
Clare, Gladwin,' Gratiot, Huron,
Isabella, Midland, Saginaw, Shiawassee, and Tuscola* ■*
Township elections Monday
changed the membership slightly on the Clare.County-BOard of
Supervisors (another new supervisor was elected from the City
of Harrison), and will see a few
new faces in Townslup Board
membership here and there.
• In. Freeman township, Supervisor Pat Hellinger won his first
election after finishing, the term
Of .Chet Wallace who moved from
the township and • resigned, his
post .After completing the last
few. months of tihe unexpired
term,. Hellinger was nominated
ih Freeman-at the Union caucus
and re-elected easily.
Nominated for supervisor in
Hatton, Frank Rilett stood off a
sticker campaign by the man he
defeated in the Republican caucus... Verne Stephison, to take another-, "freshman" seat as a
supervisor. -
"Mrs. Ruth Coats, nominated for
member of the board of review
in Frost township won her. election by only 1 vote over challenger Ralph Carey, 36 to 35. ,
Newly elected first-term officers in Freeman are Constables
Charles Lyle and Justin Blain. In
Hamilton James Doyle is a first-
term Justice of the Peace. In
Hatton Trustee Everett Warner
was elected for the first time as
a Township Trustee.
Taken by townships, the election placed the following in
office:
Arthur Township
. Supervisor John Brubaker
■   Clerk Glen Newman
Treasurer Ruth Sanders
Trustee Charles Harrold
Justice of the Peace Lewis
Sunday
Board of Review Ray Houghton
Constables Clark Walters,
Joseph Barnes, Russell Sanders,
Leo Fitzpatrick.
Highway Comm. Cyril'Farmer
Franklin Township
Supervisor John. Brunn     --
Clerk Otto Pressprich
Trustee- Grace Ladd
\ Board    of    Review    Everett
Wallace
Constables William Hall and
Earl Townsend.
The entire slate of Republicans
was elected in Franklin .with the
exception of Grace Ladd who won
as a Democrat.
Freeman Township
Supervisor Pat Hellinger
Clerk Hilma Harris
Treasurer Gleo Bush
Trustee Frank Sarkosi
Board of Review Jesse Lee
i. Justice-of the Peace Thomas
Geyer
Constables Charles Lyle, Robert Geyer, Keith, Blain, Justin
Blain.
Freeman voters turned out in
better than average numbers
when 51 out of about 67 registered electors went to the polls.
Frost Township
Supervisor Howard L. Carey
Clerk Hazel Mavis
Treasurer Mearl Johnson
Trustee Arnold Blaekledge
Board of Review Ruth Coats
Justice    of   the   Peace   Olaf
Erneshagen
Constables     Robert    Thomas,
Francis Barkley
Garfield Township
Two hundred and lifty-six persons went through the voting
lines in Garfield township in what
may be the largest record turnout for other than a presidential
or State election. The township
has 335 registered electors and
before the day was over, a trip
had to be made to Harrison to
procure more ballots.
Seven separate ballots were
given to votors entering the
booths. Township Clerk Donna
Scott said that the election board
worked through the night until
5:00 o'clock before counts were
complete and ready to go to the
county seat.
A sticker campaign for the office of treasurer by Floy Sturgis
after losing the nomination in
caucus to Mrs. Alice Ruckle was
short of victory, 98 to 141. Elected
were:
Supervisor , Clinton, Case
Clerk Donna Scott : ,
Treasurer Alice -Ruckle
Trustee Neil Watkins, with 231
votes to lead the whole ticket.
Board of Review Elmer  Mc-
Lane
Highway Comm, James Sweet
Constables     Norman     Bauer,
Richard Bell, William Schemer-
horn
Justice of the Peace' Garnet D-
Ferguson,
An issue to authorize the township board to investigate and
recommend, the purchase of fire-
fighting equipment for the township carried by the vote in Garfield of 150 to 100.
■Grant Township
Supervisor Louis W. Becker
Clerk June Jerred
Treasurer Clair Stanley
Trustee Glenn Lloyd
Justice of the Peace Warren
White
Board of Review Paul Nass
Constables Virgil Brinkman,
Harold Bradley, Herb Randall, Jr.,
Frank Nessler,
Scattered write-ins were given
to Robert Archambault for Highway  Commissioner.
Hamilton Township
An unusually large turnout in
a spring election was thought to
be the result of a proposition on
a ballot in Hamilton' to permit
the sale of liquor and spirts by
the glass. The request for the
proposition to appear on the ballot was made by the owner of a
tavern soon to open on M-61. The
proposal carried 73 to 45. Elected
were:
Supervisor Walter Ehle
Clerk Elda Zelt
Treasurer Evelyn Lyons
Trustee Delmer Weldon
Justices   of the  Peace Albert
Lyons,   and   first-termer   James
Doyle
Board of Review Walter
ner and Bernard Iutzi
Constable Ernest Zelt
com
Study Club Entertained
By Saginaw Speaker
No Longer
Missing
Clare police who had been askr
ed Sunday to help find a missing
girl, Judy Hall, 17 of Vernon
township, said yesterday that the
girl's mother had heard from her
and apparently called off the
search. Judy was a student at
Clare Public Schools and her
family lived on Vernon Hill,
South McEwan street.
State Police at Mt. Pleasant
who had been asked to broadcast
a statewide message concerning
the girl said that that was as
far as their knowledge of the
case went. Judy's' call on Tuesday was supposedly to let her
mother know where she was and
Chief William Bell said that
Clare police had dropped the case
from active files,
Mrs. Audra E. Francis of Saginaw was the guest speaker for
the Clare Study Club meeting
Tuesday evening when they met
in the Methodist church parlors.
Mrs. Francis has just been
elected for the third time to a
term on the Saginaw City Council, and is the first woman ever
to serve there. She has been very
active in many civic affairs of
the community, has traveled extensively artd is an outstanding
speaker.
She displayed, a unique collection of miniature lamps, and
her topic "New England Samp--
lers", Wought" out the- theme of
Lights. Some of her lamps dated
back to 1620 and the Pilgrims.
Dressed in an old calico print
dress, and beautiful purple velvet hat once worn by her grandmother, she told of her grandmother's best parlor where the
samplers were displayed, and
how, attracted she was to them
as a child. Some of her lamps
belonged to her grandparents,
and as" she showed each lamp, she
had a particular story of the period, and sometimes of a person
of that era, which gave a personal and more effective setting for
each one displayed, giving her
audience a feeling that they were
re-living these" days with he.r
For the business meeting
which preceded the program,
Mrs. Leon Dull presided. The devotions were given by Mrs. W-
L, Sickal, reading "A Parable"
by MahlOn Smith, taken from the
magazine "Motive."
Mrs. Neil Stirling, chairman of
the Easter Seal Campaign announced that the drive was a
little better than last year, with
perhaps donations yet to come
in.
Mrs. George Beck is the new
district chairman for the "Club
Woman", of the Michigan Federated Womens Clubs.
Announcement was also made
of  the   luncheon  sponsored   by
the Evart Club at Evart on May
15. Tickets are available. The
May 2 dinner and Style Show
will be at the Hotel Doherty.
Mrs. Floyd Norcutt was hostess, and the tea committee were
Mrs. Harold Fleming, Mrs. Melvin Bonham, Mrs. William Stephenson and Mrs. N. A. Elden.
Spring flowers and yellow candles were the table decorations.
Farm Bureau
Banquet
Clare County Farm Bureau
members and invited guests from
all over the county filled long
banquet ,' tables at the Rural-
Urban Dinner in the Clare High
School gym on Tuesday night.
They heard a fine program MC'd
by Don Kinsey of the FB and
enjoyed the banquet of plates
only the "best of cooks know how
to prepare and serve.
Interwoven through the program were references to the
Farm Bureau creed of self reliance and relief from government controls, and warnings of
ideological capture of free men's
minds by Communist propaganda. ,
Cheers!
An instruction and teaching
dinic for high school cheerleaders in the central Michigan, area
will be held at Clare in the
school' gym on Saturday this
Week, Carol Feight, girl's physical education; instructor at Clare
-said that the clinic is scheduled
from 10 a,m. to, 4 p,m.
A Grosse Pointe mother with
her daughter returning homeward from Easter Sunday in upper Michigan received some kind
and considerate treatment when
their auto balked in Clare,. and
the lady, a Mrs. Jane Bryant is
full Of praises for gas station
operator Bob Schellhas for help
"above and beyond the call of
duty' 'and all that stuff. She
writes to The Sentinel:
", . . our car refused to start
after We had refueled at the
Suhoco station on highway US-27
coming into Clare. The owner, a
gentleman known to us only as
Bob came to the station after his
helper called him.
"He not only pushed the car,
but he fixed a loose wire and refused payment for this service.
My daughter and I were amazed
at the courtesy extended to
strangers in a strange town. We
are convinced all towns should
have citizens like him."
NOTEBOOK is blooming with
bouquets for some of our neighbors today and another is Ferd
Wieferich, who last month was
awarded a twenty-three year certificate for safe driving from the
Greyhound Bus Company. Ferd
estimates he has driven over two
million miles for Greyhound
without being involved in an accident. Ferd is a Clare resident
and lives at 216 E. Fifth street.
*   *   *
And by way of more happiness
and cheer, we note that twenty-
five years of service with the
Kraft Foods company was recognized on March 29, when Virgil
Bergstrom, Manager of Krafts
Clare plant was presented with a
specially engraved watch. The
■presentation was made by F. M.
Garey, Krafts .Central Division
Production Manager, at a banquet held in Bergstrom's honor,
at Barnes Cafe.
In presenting the award, Mr.
Carey paid tribute to, Mr. Bergstrom as he joined the group of
over 600 employees who have
been thus honored since the system of»awards was instituted in
1943. The award was accompanied by a Service Citation signed
by Mr. J. C. Loftis, President of
the company.
Mr.- Bergstrom started with
Kraft on April 1, 1936.
Any former school pupils of
Mrs. Stella Lampman' who
taught at Clare who might want
to help her observe her 02nd
birthday can send her a card or
message at 631 E. Baker street,
Flint. Her birthday is April 9.
Hatton Township
Supervisor Frank Rilett
Clerk Nial Abbott -
Treasurer Ila Brockway
Trustees Ruth Tessman, Everett
Warner,
Justices of the Peace James
Lloyd^, Forest Garver ■'
Board of Review Howard Brock*
way, in a 55 to 30 win over write-
in candidate Dola Kleinhardt. ■;,„ t
Hayes Township '-
A voter turnout of about half
the registered persons elected:
Supervisor Orlie Stockwell
Clerk June Stockwell
(Treasurer Edith Schneider *■■-
Trustee Paul Huber, Thoma's
Mall
Justice of the Peace Harley
Beagle, and to fill a vacancy, Le-
roy Darling
Board of Review Bernard
Randall
Constables Jim Car rig an,
Dwane Archbold, Harley Stock-
well,
Lincoln Township
Incomplete information gave
the election to: .       ,?
Supervisor Russell Kress
Clerk Burr Stoner
, Treasurer David Reed
Sheridan "Township —-«,«
Supervisor Loren Krug
Clerk Horace Fancon
Treasurer John Klingelhofer
Trustee Ronald Schunk
Justice of the Peace Donald
Davis; Harry Kaul
Board of Review Norman
Hutchinson
Constables Franklin Schaaf,
Dale Davis, Wilbur Weldon, Roth
Williams.
Summerfield Township
Supervisor Earl Prielipp
Clerk Ruth Jones
Treasurer Minnie Krchmar
Trustee Mary Pearson
Board    of    Review    Maurice
Henry, Jr.
Constable SteVe Krchmar
Surrey-Township" i
Splitting party tickets tb elect
personal favorites, voters Jin' Sur*
rey - elected township officers
naming five Republicans and
four Democrats. Straight tickets
were 88 for Republicans and 83
for Democrats. Elected were!
Supervisor Don Smith (D)-24i
over Eugene Schmid-121
Clerk Jeff Willey (R)-207 over
Larry Laverty-142
.Treasurer Lawrence Fihch (R)
422 over Roy Putman-133
Trustee Lewis'Schmid (R)-l83
over Walter Mpore-152
Justice of the Peace Rodger
Bonham (D)"-207 over Marcel
Petras Jr„-142
Board of Review Robert Wilson
(RM93 over Elton Marshall-168
Constables Bernard Glass (D)*
187, and Elvin 'Loomis (R)-l72
over Kerwin Paesens-164 and
Donald Shaw-148
Highway Comm. Ruby Strong
(DM54 over Helen Schmid-150
In  Isabella  County  township
choices went as follows in Gilmore Township
Supervisor John Laverty
Clerk Mary LoU Shilling
Treasurer Horace C. Bachelor
Trustee William Phillips
Justice of the Peace Vanness
C, Cook
Board of Review Alvin Wood
Highway Comm. W. Ray Jar«
man
Vernon Township
A Republican ticket over Democrat rivals in voting that rah 4
and 5-to-l,
Supervisor James C. Walsh '""
Clerk Roy Wilson -
Treasurer Earl Beatty
Trustee Ernest Irwin
.  Justice  of the  Peace  George
Sexton
Board of Review Elmo Mogg
Constables Harold Brooks, H.
B. Sheppard, Claude Bailey, William Wild
Highway Comm. Williarh $eit-
er.
Wise Township
Supervisor Ervin Vogel ,-
Clerk LaVern Rockett
Treasurer Marion Andrews
Trustee Max Morrison
Justice   of   the   Peace   Clark
Dennis
Board of Review Cyril Bolle
Constables' Russell, Dowd, Jack*
Tice, Henry McNerney
Highway Comm. Floyd Tubbs.
Re-Elected
At Coleman
Coleman's incumbent Mayor
Dean Keller was re-elected Monday over light opposition by William Pischel, 199 to 23, and in
the city's first ward, a new Suj£
ervisor, Richard Diment won
election with no opposition.