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The Eats And Fun Were Free At The Biggest And Best Holley Picnic Saturday
Photos by Meryl Graham
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THE CLARE SENTINEL, CLARE, MICHIGAN
JUNE 15. 1961
Farwell School Plan
Defeated At Election
' Opponents of Farwell Area
School's new building program
rose up in a flood of voting
strength Monday to defeat the
$895,000 bond issue for a new
building for high and junior
high grades. The count total was
Yes 256, No 656.
And in the School Board membership election, a bid for reelection by President James
Start was upset when Don Luce
and Eugene Schmid won out
over a field of candidates that
included five men. Both Luce and
Schmid were among 170 or so
residents of the school district
whose names were used in an
advertising appeal to vote
against the new school plan as
presented.
The 3-to-l loss of the program
now leaves the Farwell district
in the same straits as many
other school districts where enrollment is outgrowing classroom
space. Popular sentiment in the
aftermath of the election points
to a desire for a building expansion program on a scale that
calls for less spending.
field, and Lincoln served to
make the vote tabulation run
into the late hours. The heavy
turnout reflected the high interest in the issue. In each of
the three polling places the tide
ran the same way against the
program.
The leading vote totals for
Luce and Schmid were 592 and
503 respectively. Following were
Raoul Couts 243, James Start
225, Elven Larrance 174. The
pair of new Board members will
join carry-over members: Wilbur McLane, William Fisher,
Ray Agle, Kenneth Kapplinger,
and Frederick Scott.
Convention
Delegates
Grace Rinehart and J. Wilson
Rinehart, both of Harrison have
been named delegates to the 99th
annual convention of the National Education Association to
be held in Atlantic City, June
25-30.
Themed "A Charge To Keep"
the conference of the largest
professional organization in the
world is expected to attract more
than 10,000 teachers and administrators from throughout the
country.
Among noted speakers will be
Dr. Jonas E. Salk, discoverer of
the polio vaccine; Sir Ronald
Gould, president of the World
Confederation of Organizations
of the Teaching Profession; and
Dr. James H. Robinson, pastor
of the Church of the Master,
New York City.
Fairgrounds Crowded
On Holley Picnic Day
Balloting conducted In'election
halls in Surrey (Farwell),   Gar-
fhelped
infHolley
Progress
On US-10
In Midland county, an $86,835
grade separation carrying Coleman rd. over the US40 Freeway
will be opened to traffic Wednesday. Temporary roadways carrying Coleman rd. traffic around
the construction site will be
eliminated.
The Coleman rd. grade separation is part of a $2.3 million
contract held by the Cooke Contracting Co. of Detroit for 6.4
miles of US-10 Freeway from
M-18 to the Midland-Isabella
county line.
Completion date on the road-
work is July 31, 1962.
Child Health
Conferences
The Clare Co'unty Child Health
Conferences will be held on June
16 and 20 in the usual communities. The schedule is as follows:
Clare: it will be held at the
City Hall on Tuesday, June 20,
from 1 to 3 p.m.
Farwell: it will be held at the
Methodist Church on Tuesday,
June 20, from 9 to 11 a.m.
. Harrison: it will be held at the
Courthouse on Friday, June 16,
from 9 to 11 a.m.
Ideal weather and sunny skies
over the fairgrounds at Harrison
ftiakg, the. 14th. Annual
. Carburetor Employees'
Picnic a record-busting success
Saturday. Workers and their families were joined by visitors and
friends with tickets to crowd the
picnic grounds and entertainment stands.
Mountains of hot dogs, cotton
candy, ice cream and donuts and
gallons of coffee and soft drinks
were all free, — compliments of
the Company. Admission was
free (by ticket) and so were
prizes offered in contests and
games for children and adults.
According to counters and
ticket sales, approximately 2500
employees and family members
were present. Visitors are hard
to account for, but a rough
count would be 500 to 1,000.
People at the picnic ranged
from the smallest of babies, to
the senior age group. Planners
for the activities tried to arrange
something of interest for everyone present. »■
Entertainment for the children
included mechanical rides, ponies,
games and contests, such as the
individual races, 3-legged race,
wheelbarrow race, ball throwing
contest for accuracy, and the
balloon throwing contest.
For. the first time, a special entertainment for teen-agers was
provided this year. A juke box
was installed with all the popular
recordings., and dancing was
featured all day. Dance contests
Were held, and dancing to live
music was provided for about 1%
hours.
Bingo was the highlight for
wives and mothers -at the picnic.
All playing was free, and so were
the prizes.
■Horse shoe pitching for the
men offered the best test of skill
in all the games played throughout the day. Some of the men
practiced up ^*fr^r *hrow be<
fore the day t>f the picnic, and
City Bakery
Remodeled
Store Open
The modernization of one of
Clare's older business buildings
in the middle of McEwan Street
was completed this week when
Foss' City Bakery unveiled their
new store front.
The exterior of the store is
gray brick with large plate glass
windows and doors framed with
aluminum. A projected marquee
painted white and trimmed with
aluminum adds to the modern
effect.
The display window inside the
bakery has all Formica counter
tops and sliding wooden doors
under it to provide extra storage
space.   *
Sliding glass doors behind the
display counter insure fresh,
clean baked good right from the
window.
The large polished wood display cases in the bakery have
been rearranged to give the interior of the store a new and
more spacious look. Cooling
units for dairy products and
frozen ffoods also have been rearranged.
A new tile floor picks up the
colors *of the freshly painted
walls, giving bright color accents
to the interior of the bakery. A
new ceiling reflects light from
the newly installed fixtures.
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A banquet raeeihig and merit-awards
session of Michigan L-P Gas dealers filled
the Wedgewood Boom, at the Doheriy
Thursday to hear after-dinner speeches
and end a two-year service course. Dealers   and   Association   officers gaifeted
from throughout the area covering much
of the lower peninsula. Here the crowd
was enjoying the humorc-us antics of
speaker-entertainer Harris Helmet* o f
Plaitville, Wise, who was featured on the
program. Sewtinsl photo.
thus provided  some keen  competition for <top honors.
Winners in this field were: 1st,
Morris Kapplinger; 2nd, Clifford
DePew; 3rd, Edward Schlafley;
and 4th, Ray Leinback.
At this point in the day the
annual amateur contest was held.
The groups were separated by
ages* In the 4 to 8 years group
a trio of baton twirlers captured
the first place title. iThey were
Derra Schlafley, Jodee Laverty,
and Susan Paesans. In the 9 to
12 years of age group Kim,
Cherryl, and Virgie Wellman
sang their way to the first place
honor with a vocal trio.
David and Stephen Thrush won
the first place title in the 13 to
17 years group by performing a
coronet and clarinet duet.
There were also numerous
second and third place winners
announced at this  contest.
Refreshments were served
throughout the day, free of
charge, to all persons on the fairgrounds. Soft -drinks, cotton
candy, hot dogs, ice cream, and
donuts were available all day.
Lyle Skinner, head of the personnel dpartment at Holley Carb.,
reports that 215 cases of soft
drinks were consumed before the
day was finished.
At 3«30, live music entertainment was provided in the grandstand for about one hour. The
quartet, which was known as the
Don Snell Trio before the accord-
ian was added, played numbers
to appeal to everyone.
At 4:00 came the drawing of
the door prizes. First prize of a
17" portable television went to
Ralph Coleman, whose name was
drawn first. Four or five other
prizes were also given away.
At 4:30 the musical quartet
moved to the dancing hall to provide live dance music for about
1% hours.
Family Gone,
Home Burns
The Farwell Fire Department
was called to the Jerry Lassen
home on the Mill Road at 3:00
Sunday morning to fight a fire
that completely leveled the
house. The fire was reported by
neighbors, but was burning* too
rapidly to bring under control.
Everything in the home was
lost The Lassen family was in
Owosso at the time of the fire.
To Be Safe
Automobile drivers should
treat a tractor *on the road as
though it were standing still,
say Michigan State University
safety engineers. It is for all
practical purposes*
Sidewalk
Sale Plan
Complete
Clare merchants Sidewalk
Sale, scheduled for all day Friday, June 23 needs only fine
weather to assure the sixth big
success in as many years of the
novel retailing event. The idea
of the outdoor main-street bazaar was introduced here in 1956
by the Chamber of Commerce,
and has been a repeated success
ih every following June.
Advance preparations assigned
to a committee of C of C promoters headed by William Maxwell of Maxwell Flowers and
Gifts, and Larry Everts of Everts Jewelers have assured the
sale many of the features that
proven crowd pullers in the
past.
McEwan street will blossom
all along its business length with
flags, banners, music, — and
most of all merchandise bargains.
Once again the curbs and sidewalks will be crowded with store
tables and racks moved out into
the open outdoors for attracting
>th# passers-by. ColorfuLand comic costumes for salespeople are
always a feature of the day, and
circus peanuts will again be given away by the hundreds of
pounds.
Free chances on four bicycles
for youngsters are offered as
famUy attractions.
, Pointed footsteps on the sidewalk in front of each participating business will repeat the
"trademark" of the event. They
appear on the eve of the Friday
opening of the sale.
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A Circuit Court jury at Harrison Tuesday upheld the State
Highway Department's claim for
need to route new US-27 through
the McKay Ranch north of Clare,
and fixed compensation to the
owners at 29,800 for the 62 acres
of land to be taken plus a stone
house in the highway path? and
damages for the inconvenience of
separating the grazing acres
from the hugh cattle barn.
This is some $200. less than the
original Department offer refused by McKay.
Deliberations, expected to take
quite some time after the end of
the six-day trial in mid-afternoon
Tuesday, — came to an abrupt
finish with the verdict at 7:30
p.m.
The panel reached its decision
in. only about three hours of dis-
oussioh and balloting. Principals
in the casa and attorneys would
not have heen surprised if the
jury pondered at greater length
before reaching agreement. They
had to he located in the building
and notified that the verdict was
about to be announced. The word
brought reactions of frank disappointment from the defense
lawyers.
Unless an appeal by McKay
counselors continues the dispute
in another court, the verdict this
week denies the McKay conten-
Semester Top Grade
Announced At CHS
The second semester honor roll
from Clare High School was released this week, with ninety-
five students ranking as top
scholars. A point system is used
in compiling the honor roll.
Every semester grade received,
except physical education and
driver training, is assigned a numerical value.
Each student's grade point
average is compiled by    adding
the points earned  and  dividing iRobert Carrow
the sum by the number of sub
jects involved. In keeping With
practice at the college and university level, plus and minus
factors have not been considered.
>To be eligible for this honor
roll, a student must maintain at
least a 3.00 or better average
for the semester. A straight "A"
average is indicated by a 4.00
and a straight "B" by a 3.00.
Following are the 95 students
who earned a place on the honor
roll:
FRESHMEN
Carrying & Subjects
Gary Gershon 3.80
Roxanne Schroeder 3.80
Janet Lansing        - 3.40
Ellen Saul     ' 3.40
Charles Stirling 3.20
.    Carrying 4 Subjects
Diane Demo 3.75
Calla House 3.75
Emily Northon 3.75
Doris Winter 3.75
Karen Bergstrom 3.50
Karen -Hardman 3.50
Alice VanSicklen      ' 3.50
Robert Shetender 3.50
Mike Austin 3.25
Kay Beck 3.25
Mary Cascaddan 3,25
Karen Day 3.25
Robert Denton, 3.25
Barbara Hanking 3.25
Sandra Horn 3.25'
James Lawrence Johnson '    3.25
Samuel Kushmaui 3.25
Linda Riegle 3.25
Connie Savoix: 3.25
John Swarts 3.25
Doris Aldrieh 3.00
1 Glenn Garchow 3.00
Sharon Parkhurst
Susan Perrine
Paula Sheponski
Ruth Sutton
Stephen Vance
Timothy Walter
SOPHOMORES
Carrying 6 Subjects
Diana Kleiner
Carrying 5 Subjects
Carol Young
Gordon Carncross
Linda Casteel
Mark Hampton
Lois Presley
Sandra Szul
Elna Thompson
Janice Wood
Charlen.e Cole
William 'Hanchett
Theola Leeth"
Janice Brown
Faye David
Richard Krell
Jerry Nevill
Gerald prather
Mary St. Germairie
Karen Schleicher
Collen Spencer
Judy Warner
JUNIORS
Carrying 6 Subjects
Chris Schroeder
Lynn Salisbury    .
Carrying 5 Subjects
Eric Hammerberg
Tom Grogan
David Hintz
Linda Wood
Bonnie Bergstrom
Darlene Birdsall
Russell Graham
Michele Kinde'
Larry Mogg
Carrying 4 Subjects
Virginia Kushmaui
Sharon Schultz
Darleen Hein
SENIORS'
Carrying 5 Subjects
Doti sia * Young
Karla Cooper
Judy Presley
Barbara Guiette
Carol Baujfngarth
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tion that the cash offer for the
right-of-way was too little.
A conference between the McKay brothers, Joseph and Donald
and   their   attorneys   after   the
6 In Family
Hospitalized
After Crash
Sunday evening at 7:55  p.m.1
three cars were involved in an
accident  on  US-10, which    was
causd by a deer jumping onto
the highway.
Wayne Squires of Evart, vifes
traveling east about one mile
east of Loomis when he struck
the deer, which jumped in front
of the car. This Caused his car
to cross into the path of an oncoming car driven by James
King, of Belleview. Squires car
then Veered into the path of ia
second car driven by Hugh
Williams of Manistee, which he
hit head-on.
Ambulances were called from
the Stephenson Funeral Home in
Clare, and the McLaughlin Funeral Home in Coleman. Seven
injured persons were admitted to
the Clare General Hospital for
treatment. They were: Wayne
Squires, who suffered possible
skull injuries and various lacerations; Hugh Williams, with
possible chest injuries; his wife,
Marlene, who also has possible
chest injuries and other lacerations and bruises; their children,
Karen Williams, who has a
fractured right arm and Brian,
Kathy and Kristie Williams, all
with minor bruises and lacera-
tions.King, driver of the other
car, was not injured.
Squires was ticketed by Mt.
Pleasant State Police for operating his car .with an expired operator's license.
All of the injured persons
were kept in the hospital overnight.
Club Plans
Achievement
Activity
The Country Rosette Extension
Club met Tuesday evening at
the home of Mrs. Deknar Prout,
Eleven members were present.
The business meting was conducted by the chairman, Mrs.
Richard Ouderkirk. The minutes
were read by the secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Robert Cowden,
Everyone of the group wa$ reminded of the Spring Achievement Day, which will be held at
Coldwater Lake 4-H Camp on
June 14.
Report Was given about the
Bake Sale, which was held May
27,. to raise money to send delegates to the Homemaker Conference at Michigan State University on July 25 through 28.
Birthday dues were collected
from Mrs. Floyd Prout, Mrs.
Robert Cowden, Mrs. Ray Shep-
*ard, Mrs, Charles Doreni They
each "received a nice ? birthday
gift from their Secret Sisters.
No lesson was given, and refreshments Were served by the
hostess.      ' "
The next meeting will be held
July 6 with Miss Beatrice Cluley
as hostess.
trial's end failed to settle the
question of whether an appeal
will be made. The filing of intention to make the move must
come within 20 days.
In the meantime, progress in
highway construction ovejj the
disputed right-of-way remains at
a standstill.
Roadbuilders, poised at the
ranch f encelines cannot enter the
land until a court order of necessity is signed. The order would
not be issued while the possibility of court appeal remains; or
until the deadline for filing the
appeal is past.
During the six-day action in
Judge Holbrook's Court at Harrison, the jury heard the McKay
defense argue that the State's
original offer of $30,000 for the •
"taking", was half or less.than
the value of the property and ttiQ
compensation for damages.
Long at odds over the compensation for separating McKay's
barn, silos, and storage center
from the grazing lands, the two
sides differed anew over the
question of water drainage. The
defense claimed that the US-27
Expressway grade would 'interfere with normal water runoff
from parts of the Ranch and,
damages for this reason should
be figured in the price.
Accounts of the case last December told of Highway land ap--
praisers' offer of $30,000 for the
property, followed by a proposal
to build a cattle drive-thru "tunnel" under the expressway between barn and fields, — for
which McKay would pay back
$28,000. It was claimed that McKays would receive a net price
of about $1,500 for their right-
of-way if they had accepted the"
Department's first offer.
150 Compete
In Junior
Track Games
Students at the Clare Elementary School took part in a nationwide "Operation Fitness" program on June 2, 5 and 6, in the
form of track' meets. The program is sponsored by the American Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.
Students Who were eligable were
from the fourth, fifth, and sixth
grades. Ruth Fransted, elementary physical education teacher,
organized and supervised the entire project.
This year was the first time
Clare has participated in such
an activity. It was,operated under the pattern of an intramural
event, instead of interScholastic;
The. "Operation Fitness" wa;s
open to both boys and girls, who
were given an opportunity to try
their luck in individual or tealh
races, . jumps, and throwing
events. • :
Mother's of the students helped
during the three days by serving
as judges for the various events.
Teachers also donated time to be
announcers and. starters for the
races.
Boys and girls competed in the
25 yard dash, 50 yard dash, 60
yard dash, team relays, high
jump, running broad jump, standing broad jump, distance throw,
and accuracy throw.
First,, second, and third place
winners were announced arid
awarded certificates. Of the'approximately 150 students taking
part in this project, aimostt
everyone received a certificate
for some event or another.
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