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THE CLARE SENTINEL
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THE CLARE SENTINEL, CLARE, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, JUNE  7,   1962
New Series,     Vol, 70 No. 39
Board Member Choice
s School Vote Issue
Electors in the Clare school
district will elect a Board member and vote on proposed Special
Education at the polls Monday in
the regular annual School Election.
Incumbent Board member
Frank T. LaGoe is a candidate
for re-election opposed by Mrs.
Joan Weldon. The single vacancy
on the Board is for a four-year
term expiring in June 1966.
The polling place for the elec-
tino will be in the new high
school building in Clare where
Acquitted In
Negligence
Court Case
A verdict of not guilty and an
acquital in the negligent homo-
cide trial of Larry Lockwood
ended the case on Friday of last
week. It took the jury about 2Vn
hours to determine that Lock-
wood had no criminal responsibility in the traffic deaths last
February 24 of Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Towne.
Their autos met in a headon
collision on a slippery, snowy
road near Farwell. Mr. Towne
was fatally injured on the _jpot
and his wife died a short time
later in Clare General Hospital
where she was taken.
According to Lockwood's
story at the time of the mishap
and his testimony later, the cars
met on a curve where he was unable to maintain a course in his
own lane on account of the banked turn and the road's slippery/
surface. He was unable to prevent the cars from meeting as he
crossed into the left lane.
. The trial started on May 31 in
the Clare county courthouse and
was conducted by Circuit Judge
Donald E. Holbrook. Attorney
James S. .Bicknell, 3rd tried the
case for the people and Alex
Strange for the defendant.
Rams Swamp
LB Leaders
.4
Little Boys Baseball stand-
as of June 2 found the Bears
clinging to a 1-game lead to stay
on top of the six-team circuit.
Teams with their number of
games won are:
Bears 4
Lions 3
Colts 3
Cubs 1
Tigers 1
Rams 0
A game 'played on Tuesday this
week after the standings were
compiled by scorekeeper Frank
Walters saw the winless Rams
turn on the league leaders in a
surprising attack, and beat the
Bears 28-1. The runaway score
was accounted for partly by
Bear errors and by pitching control.
A seven-inning game on Sat;
urday, May 26 was finally won
by the Colts over the Rams, 12-5
and Archie Bell the winning
pitcher.
May 28 and 31 the Tigers took
a pair of shellackings from the
Lions and Cubs, 17-7 and 8-3.
Winning pitchers were Denni9
McNerney and Dan White while
a Lion double play featured the
earlier game. Home runs were
hit by Steve McNerney for the
Lions and Dave Geno for the
Tigers.
On June 1 it was the Colts 13-4
over the Lions. Winning pitching
was Mark Koch and Dick Norcutt pounded out a home run.
On June 2 the Bears scored 8
runs on 4 hits to beat the Rams
8-2. Winner on the mound was
Tim Haring and the Rams scored
a double play when their 3rd
baseman grabbed the ball and
stepped on the bag for a force-
-out and threw to 2nd for another.
Rowley In
Sheriff Race
An announcement is due shortly for the candidacy of Robert
Rowley in the primary campaign
for sheriff of Clare county on
the Republican ticket. Rowley
said this week that he already
has enough signatures on petitions to qualify for a primary
candidate and as soon as he collects the petitions and files them
his campaign will begin in
earnest.
A Grant township resident,
Rowley js the proprietor of a gas
station business in Clare.
the election will open at 7:00
a.m. and close at 8:00 p.m. EST.
Qualified electors are citizens of
the United States past the age
of 21 years who have resided in
Michigan for six months and in
the Clare-Isabella School District
8 for thirty days next preceding
the election. In addition electors
must be registered with the city
or township clerk of his residence. V
The proposal concerned with
Special Education asks voters to
approve the levying of one mill
for education of handicapped
children not otherwise able to attend schools in Clare county, or
for whom there is no present
program of training offered.
The collection of a local tax
not to exceed the single mill (or
$1.00 per thousand property valuation) will allow the distribution and use in Clare county of
State Aid funds paid on a more
liberal basis for Special Education than for conventional school
programs. The several boards of
education in the county and a
committee on Special Education
have said that taxpayers everywhere in Michigan, including
Clare county, are contributing to
the cost of Special Education
where it is presently in operation. But only in counties where
a local tax program supports the
system does State Aid money
find its way back to benefit
handicapped children.
Also in the election, still another proposition will ask voters
to abolish the small salary presently paid to the Board of Education treasurer.
On Monday, a group of volunteers will be telephoning district
residents to remind them to get
out and vote.
One group of supporters of LaGoe will work for his re-election
as the most completely qualified
candidate to contribute to the
successful finish of the school enlarging and remodeling project.
Since project construction
prices came, in dteappoiniiy high'
at the recent opening of contractors' bids, the 275,000. school
modernization and expansion
program still has urgent need
for his experience and ability to
help in revising specifications for
the work and dealing with the
architect and builders, his supporters feel.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce will furnish free transportation to the polls for those who
need rides, and all through the
week, announcements and short
talks about the urgency of a
large vote have been made at
meetings of various organizations throughout the district.
Seventy-five
At Commencement
Diamond anniversary class graduates of
Clare High School, seventy-five of them in
the 75th Annual Commencement will make
their last appearance as CHS students when
they march to the rostrum and receive diplomas tomorrow evening. The Commencement class will hear an address by Dr.
Lester W. Anderson, U of M, who is chairman of the Michigan State Committee,
North Central Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools.
The open house public showing of
Clare's new City Library last Friday
attracted scores of visitors from ihe area
to view ihe facilities in ihe Mamoih Oil
Company building ai McEwan and
Fourth. On display for ihe first time was
ihe  bright,   air-conditioned interior  on
ihe street floor ihat has been specially
re-designed for library use.
Volunteer hostesses greeted visitors
from 10 o'clock in ihe forenoon uniil >>
and tea and coffee were poured ai a
decorated table in ihe center of ihe floor.
Sentinel photo.
Don Luce To Enter Race
For District Rep. Post
Cancer Drive
Over Top
The 1962 Cancer Drive quota
in Clare county this year was
$1700. This past week contributions went over that figure. The
total amount collected thus far is
$1815.79.
Mrs. Van Tassel of Harrison
turned in $440.
Bar owners in Clare county
contributed a great deal to this
drive by the use of bar certificates, displayed in the places of
business, encouraging patrons to
donate to the Cancer Fund.
Those playing a part in this
project     are     Barnes     Lounge
■ Don Luce, Farwell businessman and lifetime Clare county
resident, this week declared his
intention to seek the GOP nomination for District Representative in the Michigan legislature
from the Isabella-Clare counties.
He is prepared to file nominating
petitions in opening a campaign
to wrest the office from incumbent Russell Strange.
The promise of a serious primary battle for the party nomination represents the first threat
to Strange since he won his
first primary bout with Preston
Johnson of Rosebush six years
ago. Strange is now completing
his third two-year term in Lansing.
If voters choose-Luce for- their-
Republican candidate, he will run
for the office against a Democrat
nominee in the state's general
election in the fall.
Clare county electors, particularly in the townships of Surrey,
Garfield, Grant, Lincoln and
Freeman lying in the southwest
corner of the county are well
acquainted with Luce's personal
background and qualifications.
Elsewhere in the district he
plans intensive campaigning to
make his record and personality
more familiar.
Luce at 55, is owner of a thriving business in real estate and
holds a broker's license, raises
and sells Christmas trees on
acreage west of Farwell, is a
member of the Board of Directors of the Farwell State Savings
Bank, and is a partner in The
Farwell Insurance Agency. He is
also a trustee on the Farwell
School Board and is active in
ether civic endeavors.
Mrs. Luce is the former Genevieve Schofield. They are the
parents of three adult children,
Al Luce whose home is in Lansing, Dean who is also married
and lives in Midland, and Mary,
a senior next year in Farwell
high school.
The candidate was born near
Lake George where his father
owned a country 'store and was
postmaster. Luce attended school
at Lake George before comple.
£$2t&}^Jl»     \
$105.00,    Duhlops    Bar    $103.00, ing the twelfth grade in Farwell.
Twin   Elms   $90.00,   Kipps   Bar
$81.00,  Hilltop Bar $75.00, Man-
nies   Bar   $42.00,   Flynors   Bar
$16.00,    Moutain    Haus    $11.00
and Weavers Bar  5.00.
Crusade chairman Josephine
Koch wishes to thank the people
responsible for their efforts in
promoting this drive in the fight
against cancer. If there are any
persons who have not turned
their envelopes in, please do so
within the next week.
2-Feature
Timetable
At Sundown
To allow the screening of two
of the season's top rated pictures
on the same program "Guns Of
Njavarone" and "The Hustler"
will be shown one time only on
each night.
Sunday, June 10th, the first
feature will be "The Hustler",
followed by "Guns Of Navarohe".
On Monday, June 11th, "Guns Of
Navarone" will be first and on
Tuesday, June 12th, the format
will revert to the same used on
Sunday, starting time 8:40 p.m.
This procedure applied to these
dates only.
For many, years he was manager of the Farwell Lumber Company's yard before leaving tc
enter business for himself. He
has now been a bank director for
18 years and is a former president of Michigan Christmas
Tree Growers Assn., and is
credited with valuable assistance
in forming a national group
along the same lines.
The decision to enter the primary race was announced by
Luce to the publishers and editors of weekly newspapers in the
two-county district when he mot
with several of their group this
week.
The challenge to Rep. Strange
comes at a time when Strange's
popularity among district voters
is dimmed by the loss of former
close contact with '"the folks
back home", and the memory
that remains of Strange's sponsorship of a House _. ill last spring
that would have yielded the
right to collect local property tax
on stored gas in Clare county
underground fields.
Efforts by public officials and
businessmen in Clare county and
six other counties forced Strange
to change his position on the' bill
after its second reading and it
was not passed. But the effect of
the incident may linger and cut
into Strange's appeal to voters.
Rent Service
Organized
An organization to help
find rental property in Clare
for incoming staff members
and employees of Beaver Tool
and Engineering Corporation
has been set up in Clare with
a central listing accomodation
recently organized at The Forsberg Agency, 107 W. Fifth
street.
The service could prove to
be helpful to any industry or
employer locating in Clare in
the future, as well as of immediate value to families connected with Beaver.
The service center for housing will •attempt to list as much
property as can be learned of,
and provide help where possible in introducing property
owners to new families seeking rental homes.
The aid will not be available
to local families seeking a
change in rented homes, but
for the time being will be
offered exclusively to employees of the Beaver firm
moving to Clare from'Gaylord.
A special invitation is extended to anyone owning homes
for rent, or whose homes will
be available for rentors by September 1, to call the Forsberg
Agency and list their property
free.
Church School
Observance
This Sunday
Church School Sunday will be
observed at the Congregational
Church Sunday morning. The
sermon by Rev. Van Parker will
have as its subject "Getting The
Message Across". Miss Effie
Hales, superintendent of the Primary Department will present
Bibles to all those who are graduating from the second grade.
The 10:45 worship service and
9:30 church school hour will continue through the month of
June-
Monday, June 11th the annual
Vacation Church School will begin. All children throu'gh the
sixth grade are welcome. The
school will close on Friday. The
sessions will begin at 9:15 to
11:30 a.m. each day.
( Three.men of the church, John
Green, Sam Shephard and Clyde
Westfall and Rey. Parker, attended the spring Laymens meeting
held in South Haven. There were
men from many Congregational
Churches in various parts of the
state, and the theme centered
around "How does the church become the Body of Christ".
Farm Bureau
Okays New
Constitution
Discussion on methods of acquainting the Farm Bureau
members and the general public
with the contents of the proposed state constitution was one
topic of business at the regular
meeting of the board of directors of the Clare County Farm
Bureau, held Monday evening
May 28, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Kapplinger. The
state board has given its approval to the new document.
The Women's Committee
chairman, Mrs. Walter Krom-
petz, reported that all workers
have been appointed for the
Rural-Urban dinner to be held in
October, and that their regular
meeting would be held on June
5th at the home of Mrs. Winston
Raymond.
The board also voted to send
two young people to the Farm
Bureau Young Peoples camp at
Clear Lake, June 11-15.
The June meeting will be at
the Warren White home on the
25th.
Family Honor
Birthday And
Graduates
Mrs. • Irene Muterspaugh's
home was the scene of a family
gathering on Sunday in observance of her birthday and to als'J
honor the Misses Avis and Lois
Muterspaugh, who are members
of the Mt. Pleasant High School
graduating class of 1962. A
bounteous dinner was served at
noon and supper in the evening.
Guests were Staff Sgt. and
Mrs. Tommy Muterspaugh and
two children of Spokane, Washington, Clifford Muterspaugh of
Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
Sabin of Edmore, Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Smith of Oil City, Ed
Nayer of Clare, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Peterson and children,
Mr, and Mrs. Gerald Baumann of
Mt. pleasant, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mogg, Mr. and Mrs. Barrett Muterspaugh and Roy, Mr.
and Mrs, Dean Muterspaugh and
family, ahd Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner Muterspaugh and family.
Fire School
Four members of the Clare
Fire Department attended a tri-
county meeting at Chippewa
Lake this week 'and attended a
short school on professional
methods for fire fighting. At the
meeting Chief Stanley Parish,
John Rodabaugh, Bill Schaeffer,
and Joe Greer saw films on late
methods and their effectiveness.
In the association are five fire
departments from Clare, Osceola
and Isabella counties,
About 100 or more men from
the three counties were fed their
dinner at the meeting.
Orley Stockwell, veteran of
several terms on the Clare
County Board of Supervisors,
passed away at his home at Harrison last week and Was buried
Monday. He was also a member
of the Clare County Republican
Committee*
Over at the the Little Boys
Baseball park a screen-di|_g,
used for levelling and smoothing the ball infield has turned
up missing —> and the kids
need  it!
Frank Walters, game announcer, scorekeeper and general look-out for the kids game
called The Sentinel to say that
he believes the levelling screen
was borrowed and nobody
knows where ' it is. It would
help the game, the kids, and
the condition of the playing
field if whoever has the screen-
drag would return it. Soonest!
* *   *
The first flag-raising on the
shores of Lake Shamrock took
place on Memorial Day when
Ken Ritter and some of his
friends raised a new pole and
The Stars and Stripes on his
building lot there.
* *   *
We heard of a boy who gave
up the manly art of self defense at the end of the third
round of his first match. Said
he had his sports mixed and
caused his manager to remark
that he had a "no-hitter" going.
* *   *
Clare Girl Scouts need adult
counselors 18 years of age or
older to supervise groups of
girls in the day camp. Hours are
10 to 3, five days a week June
18 through 22nd and transportation is provided to the camp near
Mt. Pleasant. Volunteers who
could spare the time and use
the experience should contact
Mrs. Richard Snyder in Clare at
EV  6-2405.
Hear Advantages
Of Uniting
County Cof C
The Rosebush Chamber of
Commerce met at the White
Wagon Restaurant, Monday evening, at 8 o'clock.
President Jack Robinson introduced Clem BeMent, President of
the Mt. Pleasant Chamber of
Commerce, who gave an interesting talk on the advantages of
uniting all the chambers of the
county and working together to
aid the progress, and communications to futher growth and de.-
velopment within the county as
a whole.
Norm Poeppleman, manager
of Radio Station WCRM at
Clare, and Howard Sommers of
Central Michigan University
Field Services gave enlightening
suggestions as to how to attract
tourists to our community and
mentioned ways in which other
areas appeal to the tourist industry. Michigan today ranks
5th highest in the tourist industry.
Delicious home-made donuts
and coffee were served by Mrs.
Florence Bullard, owner of the
White  Wagon  Restaurant.
Dog Trials Here
The first annual Land 'O
Lakes Open formal field trials
for hunting dogs will be held
this Saturday and Sunday at the
Tobacco River Hunting Club
where Alex Strange, club owner
and the Flat River Retriever
Club will be host to participants
and spectators.
On Saturday, Derby trials and
Puppy Class trials will commence at 1:00 p.m., and Sunday
the program calls for qualifying
at 8:00 a.m. with Hunting Dog
competition at 8:00 and Open All-
Age to follow.
Trial chairman is Robert Fin-
aire of Clare,
Committee
In Final
Vote Appeal
The County School District
Special Education Act enables
the people of Clare county to:
1.) Channel a small tax sacrifice on 1 mill or less into a
stable, continuing program
affecting over 400 Clare county
boys and girls.
2.) Extend the capacity of the
community schools to accomodate the needs of all children in
their home community.
3.) Bring competent professional people and highly individualized instruction into the community schools.
4.) Free the community school
teacher of serious problems
which may defeat room progress
and charge the classroom atmosphere negatively.
5.) Lower the drop-out or
push-out rate. Our goal is universal education not selective cutting.
6.)', Make available to the
children of Clare county, State
Aid to the extent of 75% of the
cost of the Special Education
program. Clare county taxpayers now contribute to the
$12,0(J0p00 now spent by the
state of Michigan for Special Education throughout the state Jbut
do not have a program for their
own children comparable to that
of 32 counties of the state.
7.) The most important consideration of all, Special Education programs, are succeeding.
Succeeding in educating handicapped individuals through carefully adjusted growth opportunities in psychological sequence
leading to:
— A feeling of belonging and
status.
— A feeling of individuality
and independence.
— Progress toward a useful
adulthood.
School Electors:
A survey team representative
of the board of education of
Clare, Farwell, Harrison, Redding and Winterfield established
the fact that at least 389 Clare
County children needed Special
Education and recommended to
the constituent boards that they
adopt the County School District
Special Education Act.
Upon recommendation by the
above boards the Clare County
Board of Education authorized a
ballot on June 11, 1962 and
named an education committee
to explain the program to the
public.
The committee recommends
the program to the school electors of Clare county. ,
Wm.  Dodge,  Chairman,
Farwell
David  Donovan,   Clare
Helen Heintz, Harrison
Early Opener
For "Luck"
Michigan's season on black
bass opened June 1, earliest in
years, to give anglers about 30
weeks of fishing for what some
call the Midwest's gamiest fish.
Except for the early opening,
regulations for taking bass are
the same as last year: minimum
size, 10 inches; daily or poses-
sion limit, five, large and smallmouth, singly or combined.
Moving the opening ahead
from the traditional mid-June
date gives fishermen a chance to
catch bass when the fishing is
at its best. This is pointed out in
a Department of Conservation
publication: "Michigan Fish and
How   to   Catch   Them."
Space Pinch
The Sentinel regrets the omission of news matter and personal mention items intended for
publication in this issue. UnfOr-
seen shortage of space makes
it necessary to hold matter suitable for publication later for the
June 14 issue. ■ ^
More traditional highlights of the program will be the presentations of scholarship
recognitions by Superintendent Richard
Wheeler and by Elaine Wilson representing
the high school National Honor Society; the
handshake and presentation of diplomas by
Frank T. LaGoe, School Board treasurer;
performance of the processional and recessional marches by the Clare High School
Band.
The exercises in the high school gymnasium will begin at 8:00 p.m.
Baccalaureate services were
conducted by Rev, Van Parker,
pastor of Clare's First Congregational Church last Sunday evening.
Members of the 1962 National
Honor Society, picked from the
top 15 percent of the class are*.
Bonnie Bergstrom, Russell Graham,  Eric Hammerberg.
Darleen Hein, David Hintz,
Michele Kinde, Virginia Kushmaui.
Lynn Salisbury, Chris Schroeder, Margrit Theysohn.
Elect F.H.A.
Officers For
Next Year
The annual installation of the
Clare chapter of Future Home-
makers Of America was held
May 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Home
Ec. room.
The program began with the
opening F.H.A. ritual, followed
by group singing led by Donna
Andrews.
Following this the candle lighting ceremony was used to install
the following officers for 1962-63.
President, Doris Winter; Vice
President,   Roxanne   Schroeder.
Sec-Reporter, Helen Penrose;
Treasurer, Jo Anne Carrow, Far
limentarian, Janet Walters; Historian, Judy Horn; Songleader,
Donna Andrews; Chapter Mothers, Mrs. Carrow and Mrs.
Schroeder.
Each new officer was presented with a long-stemmed red rose,
which is the official F.H.A. flower.
The president, Roxanne
Schroeder, presented a corsage
of red roses from the chapter to
Mrs. Vermon, the chapter advisor, for her guidance through the
year.
The decorations consisted of
red and white crepe paper and
dolls in red and white dresses as
a symbol of the leaders and members.
The entertainment included a
skit by Doris Winter, Jo Anne
Carrow, Judy Horn and Donna
Andrews and a pantomime by
Janet Walters.
Speaker was Mrs. Richard
Schroeder, who jspoke on the
theme of the evening "Family
Living".
After the program refreshments were served.
Church Of God
Vacation
Bible School
The Clare Church of God will
have its Daily Vacation Bible
School the week of June ll-15th,
and will convene each day at
9:00 to 11:30 a.m. Children from
ages 4 to 16 are invited to
attend.
Workers of the Bible School
include: Directors - Mrs. Hazel
Messer, and Mrs. Ruth Carey;
kindergarten teachers - Anita
Saul, Ellen Saul, Audrey Teeter;
Primary - Gladys Schug, Adeline
Cleveland; Junior Betty Foss,
Lucille VanSicklen; Junior High
- Edith Dickinson, Betty McClain.
Charlene Messer will be the
pianist, and Lena Maybee will
have the stories for the worship
hour.
The theme of the school this
ye^tr is "Friends of Jesus", and
the entire school will work on.
the project for underprivileged
children in the Kentucky mountain area. The program will be
held Sunday evening, June Itth
in the Wiapel at the church.
The combined Sunday School
and Bible School picnic has
been set for July 7, at 4;30 in
the Clare Tourist Park, and the
pot luck supper at 6:00 o'clock.
Gale Hettrick fo Lansing executive secretary-treasurer of the
Christian Service Board Was the
guest speaker at the prayer
meeting service on Wednesday
evening this week.. ,