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THE CLARE SENTINEL, CLARE, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, AUG. 16,  1962
New Series,      Vol. 70, No. 49
'A
Hire New
Comet Mentor
For Football
Head mentor for the Coleman
Comets this fall will be Duane
D. Wagberg of Milwaukee, Wis
consin.
Originally a native of Iron
River in Michigan's upper peninsula, Wagberg has played semi-
pro football with the Iron County
Steelers and the Detroit Tars as
well as with Northern Michigan
College where he received his
teacher's certificate. Wagberg is
a physical education and science
teacher and has worked in recreation departments in upper
Michigan and Wisconsin and was
most recently employed by the
Lakeside Milwaukee Children's
Center where he worked in the
(» *• rehabilitation of emotionally disturbed children through physical
education.
Though football practice doesn't start until August 27, Coach
Wagberg will begin his duties
August 20 when physical examinations for all Coleman athletes
have been scheduled and uniform
distribution  begins.
The coach's family, consisting
of wife Donna and three youngsters Don age 4, Darlens 3, and
Daniel 8 months, will move to
the community as soon as they
i    can find suitable rental housing.
In addition to serving as head
football, and assistant basketball
coach, Wagberg will teach biology and general science. He has
said that he is "looking forward
to working with the students in
Coleman both as a teacher and a
. coach".
School Buys
Milk, Gas
Contracts for the delivery oi
lunch milk for Clare school
children, and for gasoline to
operate school buses and other
vehicles were awarded by the
\ Board of Education at a regular
meeting on Monday of this week.
Adoiissiop^ prices for school attu
letie events were also Set for the"1
coming school year.
The American Oil Company's
Standard division bid 13.8 cents
to win the contract for sale of
gasoline, while Schaeffer's Dairy
of Clare was the successful bidder for furnishing milk with a
price of 5% cents per unit of
white milk and 7c for chocolate
milk.
General price increases will go
into effect at the beginning of
the CHS football season when
tickets will go for $1.00 for
adults and 50c for students. Junior Varsity games will be 50c and
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25c.
Rotary Loan
For Education
Loyd Davis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Perry Davis of Clare, has
been named as the recipient of
a $200 non-interest bearing loan
awarded recently by the Clare
Rotary Club.
The loan is to provide further
education for Loyd at Ferris Institute, where he is enrolled in
the Industrial Chemistry curriculum. He will finish his study
one year from this December.
oard Employs Two Specialists
pecial Education Beginning
Two speech correctionists have been employed by the
Clare County Board of Education to serve the needs of
Clare county school children.
Special education was voted a one mill tax on county
valuation in the June school election. The money is to provide education for the blind, deaf, crippled, mentally
retarded, and emotionally disturbed children of the county
as well as to correct speech deviates.
Jack Raymond, a graduate of Central Michigan University with a B.S. in Speech correction, has recently
earned a M.S. in Speech Pathology. Mr. Raymond taught
1 year in the Mt. Pleasajit City system and for 2 years
A class listens to a tape recorder audiometer io measure hearing sensitivity with
specialist Dale Fassett of the piare County
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Special   Education  staff   testing  members
for hearing deviation from normal.
Speech correciionisi Jack Raymond on the staff of Clare
County Special Education shows members of a class that
they can "see" good speech with a demonstration by a device to measure breath used in forming words.
worked for 5 cooperating schools. Jack is married, resides
in Clare with Mrs. Raymond and 2 children, Jill 5 and
Jacqueline 1.
Dale Fassett is a graduate of Central Michigan University with a B.S. degree ih speech correction. He has
taught for the past 2 years in the Mt. Pleasant City system,,
Dale Fassett resides in' Mt. Pleasant with Mrs. Fassett and
their 3 children. '
The services of the 2 iSpeech Correctionists will be the
extent of the Special Education program for this school
year according to J. C. McNamara, Clare County School
Supt.
This new special education for
Clare county will serve approximately 400 children in the Clare,
Farwell, Harrison, and njral
areas. The largest field of handicap among these youngsters is
the problem of speech. Mental
retardation, emotional difficulties, deafness, and severe physical problems constitute the majority of the other disabling con-
jditions which prevent these
phildren from gaining a proper
education through our normal
school systems.
With the new system, the
children will receive personal
help through the efforts of an
orthopedic room for chidren with
physical handicaps, a diagnostician to evaluate the children's
mental capacity, speech teachers,
a visiting teacher, and others.
The State of Michigan allocates
75% of the costs for the program
to match the money raised locally.
Expressway
Link To Open
Another section of the Ohio-
Mackinac Bridge Freeway in
northern Michigan will be completed and opened to traffic August 31, the State Highway Department announced today.
State Highway Commissioner
John C. Maekie said a nine-mile
section of Interstate 75 Freeway
from Gaylord north to Vanderbilt
in Otsego countyt will be opened
to traffic in time' for use during
the Labor Day weekend^
Last month, a 12-mile section
of the freeway between Waters
and Gaylord was put into use.
Maekie said the nine miles of
freeway, under contract to the
Johnson-Greene Construction Co.
of Ann Arbor, will be opened to
traffic two months ahead of its
original completion date.
Constitution
Must Curb
Courts -F.B.
"We believe that the Michigan
Farm Bureau should initiate action to amend the state and national constitutions so that the
courts will be unable to act in
the legislative fields as is the
present trend", said the Five
Lakes Farm Bureau group as
they met Thursday evening, August 9, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Armentrout.
The recent action of the Michigan Supreme Court in overstepping its authority was the subject of discussion, led by Chester
Wallace. The group resented having four men tell the people of
Michigan that they did not have
the right to say how they were
to be governed.
The further foplinion |Of the
group was that strong curbs
must be placed upon the various
bureaus and commissions of the'
government in making their own
rules and regulations and in their
abilities to impose penalties upon
citizens without legislative
action,    \.
A constitution to attain these
ends will be offered, the voters
in April. This could be our last
opportunity.
Baby Clinic
The August schedule for this
area's Well Baby Clinic has been
announced and is as follows:
Clare: City Hall on Tuesday,
August 21 from 1 to 3 p.m.
Farwell: Methodist Church on
Tuesday, August 21 from 9 to
11 a.m.
Harrison: Courthouse on Friday, August 17 from 9 to 11 a.m.
Bought Steer
A corrected list of buyers of
4-H   prize   steers   at   the   Clare
County Fair last week should include the Northland IGA in Har
rison.
Takes A Capsule Look At Vets 17 Years Later
■:n;
Seventeen years ago today,
millions of GI's were "sweating
it out" in fox holes, gun turrets
and almost every conceivable
place from Adak to Australia
Our combat teams were poised
for an invasion  of Japan.
Then the war was over. The
GI's started counting their "going home points", commenced
planning just how to take up in
civilian life where they left off.
There was the story of the
homesick youth Who has spent
months at sea in the U, S. Navy
after a young lifetime in which
he had never traveled beyond
his home county. -. He said he
was going to shoulder a pair of
longboat oars and walk inland
from the ocean beach until
someone asked him what thosg
"paddles" are for? Then that's
where he would settle down on
the proverbial chicken ranch!
Could the discharged Gls of
1945 overcome the handicap of
their time lost in the very prime
of their lives?
They could, and they did the
Veterans* Administration f ounc
out.
Today, the 17th anniversary of
V J-Day finds the average ex-GI
of World War II to be 44-yfears-
old, married with three children,
an annual income of just under
$6,000 and ... if he purchased
it under the GI Bill's home loan
guaranty plan . . . living in e
home costing $14,500.
This is a "capsule look" at the
15,127,000 living World War II
veterans, according to John S.
Gleason, Jr., Administrator of
Veterans Affairs.
A look at the record also
shows that 87.8 percent of the
World War II veterans are living with their original wives. Another indication of "normal readjustment" to civilian life is the
fact that 97.9 percent of World
War II veterans are employed,
according to latest available VA
compilations.
Most of them are engaged in
some phase of manufacturing,
with trade, transport and construction following in that order.
Seven percent live on farms and
follow some branch of agriculture or animal husbandry.
VA Administrator Gleason
pointed out:
"This settled character of the
average ex-GI and the lack of unrest common among veterans in
some other nations is, I believe,
due largely to the laws passed by
Congress,
"These laws, which expressed
the will of the American people,
were designed to aid and speed
the assimilation of the Wprlc"
War II servicemen into civilian
ranks and community life", Mr-
Gleason declared.
"It began before the war had
actually ended with passage of
the GI Bill and continues to the
present day in a series of laws
passed to benefit veterans and
their dependents.
"Congress has aided veterans
in the fields bf education, housing, medical care and hospitalization, vocational training and a
host of other categories ranging
from specially-equipped automobiles to burial expenses", the VA
head said.
Tlie scope of the various programs administered by the Veterans Administration ... for veterans of all wars . . . becomes apparent from some of the Mowing statistics:
The largest hospital and clinic
system in the nation. On ar
average day, 112,000 veterans can
be found in VA's 170 hospitals.
Between 500,000 and 600,000 veterans are patients in VA hospits
als in any one year and another
1.5 million are treated at VA outpatient clinics.
VA hospitals and clinics are
conducting more than 7,000 research projects in geriatrics,
mental disease, heart and blood
vessel conditions, cancer, and
virtually every disease and disability of man.
A $40-billion life insurance
business . . . one of the largest
in the world.
An educational and training
program that already has more
than 11 million alumni and is
still in operation.
The nation has gained and its
reservoir   of  trained  manpower
increased by:
460,000 engineers,
360,000 school teachers,
130,000   doctors,   dentists   anc"
nurses, and
150,000 scientists.''
A GI loan program that has already made more than 6.2 million loans values at more than
$54.5 billion. Under this program
have been made more than one-
fifth of the home loans granted
in the United States over the
past ten years. Nearly two and
one-quarter million of these
loans have been repaid in full.
Nearly $14 billion has been repaid by GI's who purchased
homes and farms under the loan
guaranty plan, and the loss sus
tained by the government has
amounted to only a fraction of
one percent of the principal
amount of the total loans made.
A compensation and pensior
system that makes payments of
over $300 million each month to
more than 4 million disabled veterans, and widows, children and
dependent parents of deceased
veterans.
Many other programs, relating
to the blind, the maimed, the
mentally ill and, finally, the family of the deceased veteran.
To handle these veterans programs VA has:
An annual budget of $5.5 billion and more than 170,000 employees spread through ev qry
state in the Union, the Commonwealth of Puerto • Rico, and an
office in the Philippines.
170 hospitals, 91 outpatient
clinics, 67 regional offices, 18
domicilarieS for elderly veterans,
three insurance centers, and the
most modern automatic data pro
cessing equipment to carry on
major programs with efficiency
A total of 18,000 full and part
time physicians connected with
the medical program, more than
1,000 dentists, and some 14,000
nurses working in the largest or-
Continued on Page 6
Council Says
Deaths Cost
7,920,000,
During the past five years 44
people were killed in motor vehicle accidents in Clare County.
Using the most recent yardstick established by the National
Safety Council the estimated total cost to society of these fatalities is $7,920,000.
James M. Hare, Chairman of
the Michigan State Safety Commission recently explained the
technique used by the National
Safety Council in arriving at
this figure.
Hare said, "Accident costs are
one of the most useful measures
of the importance of accident prevention work. No statement on
this subject is complete without
some reference to the financial
loss which is incurred. However,
it is not always possible to make
precise calculations of dollar
costs. They can only be approximated.
"The calculable costs of motor-
vehicle accidents are wage loss,
medical expense, overhead cost
of insurance, and property damage", Hare pointed out. "Last
year these costs averaged about
$180,000 per death for all accidents . . . fatal, nonfatal, and
property damage. This 'per
death' total includes the cost of
one death, 37 injuries, and 250
property  damage  accidents."
The ratio of 250 property damage accidents per death thus excludes cases of minor damage
which may not be repaired, such
as hub caps smashed against
curbs in parking. The unit costs
are: death, $31,800; nonfatal injury $1,900; and property damage
accidents $320.
Hare added, "These averages
may be used to estimate the cost
of motor-vehicle accidents in
cities or states, but if the number
of vehicles and fatalities in a
city or county is small they must
be used with care. For example,
if the year's total of deaths is
five, of which four occurred in
one accident, the average of
$180,000 per death should not be
used. This estimate includes ;the
cost of 37 injuries and 250 property damage accidents, and in an
unusual fatality these rations
will not hold."
If one uses the latest yardstick
used by the National Safety
Council, the cost of the 7,570
highway fatalities Michigan suffered during the past five years
could come close to $1,500,000,000.
In conclusion Hare said, "No
matter how accurately the statisticians may estimate the true
dollar costs of an accident, no
person can begin to cose close to
assaying the 'cost' of human suffering and mental anguish caused by highway death. I hope that
the people of of Michigan will
continue to drive with care, observe the law, and learn to take
it easy. If we do, we can reduce
both highway fatility and accident costs in our Water Wonderland."
STATE SHOW FOR CLUB GIRLS
Money, Homemaking,
Music In A 4-Her's Life
Music and money play a large
part in the home economics sessions at the 1962 State 4-H Show
August 27-30. So do clothing and
home improvement.
They are among'the educational presentations scheduled for
the 47th annual 4-H event at
Michigan State University.
Tuesday morning, August 28,
Dr. Gertrude Nygren, an MSU
home economist and an internationally recognized authority on
housing, gives a program called
"Teen Twists with Accessories".
"There's Music in Children"
a child care feature, will be offered by Wanda Cook, assistant professor of music at MSU, Wednesday morning.
Also Wednesday morning, s
panel will discuss "Money in
Your Life" for 4-H members,,
their parents and their leaders.
This discussion on family money
management will feature Michael
Sullivan, 4-H member, St. Joseph
county; Shelia Calhoun, 4-H
member, Genesee county; Arnold
Girbach, National Bank and
Trust Co., Ann Arbor, and Mrs.
Betty Guettler, home economics
agent, Mecosta county. Lowell
Rothert, 4-H agent for Genesee
county, will be moderator.
"Are you the One Girl in a
Million?" is the question asked at
Hearing On
Parks And
Recreation
A legislative committee hearing session has been scheduled
in Clare to obtain local and area
testimony on "economic impact
of State Parks in communities
where they are located, the possible encouragement of private
parks and recreation areas", and
other questions being examined
by an interim study committee of
the House of Representatives;
Clare Chamber of Commerce
President Joe Johnston said that
the hearing in Clare will be held
on August 24th with the time and
place to be announced later. It is
one of four such hearings and
visits to campsites throughout
western Michigan starting on
August 20.
League
To Start
The Friday Night Ladies Bowl
ing League will meet at 8:30 p,
m. on Friday, August 17 at
Gateway Lanes to begin the sea
son. Gateway's Wednesday night
men's league, will hold its initial
meeting at Twin Elms on Wednesday, August 22 at 8:00 p.m.
All captains must be present.
Key NORAD Maintenance Role
Airman First Class Larry D.
Cole, USAF, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Maynard D. Cole of RFD 4,
Clare, is playing a key maintenance and dollar-saving role ir
the aerospace defense program
of the 30th North American Air
Defense Command (NORAD)
Region.
Airman COle is a Computer
Maintenance .Technician, one of
a number oi Air Force men now
replacing IBM civilian experts in
providing maintenance for the
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) computers of the.
30th NORAD Region With headquarters here.
Tlie program of conversion is
called Project "Blue Suit", which
involves the maintenance of giant
high-speed AF/FSQ — 8 SAGE
computers used by the NORAD
Region in directing aerospace de*
fense in a 16-state area oi the
Midwest and a large part ol
southern" Canada.
Until recently, all SAGE computer maintenance was done
through contract With civilian
specialists of the IBM Corporation. However, in 1958, a study
by the Air Force found that a
great saving in dollar-cost could
be made if servicemen could be
trained to do the job.
Showing conf idehce in the
adaptibility of its men, the Air
Force some months ago named
Airman Cole as one of a highly
select group of officers fcind airmen to receive training for the
computer maintenance work .at
the IBM plant in Kingston, New
York. He spent 19 Weeks there
learning to do the job he now has
with the North American Air Defense Command.
Airman Cole's work is* considered vital in the active (aerospace
defenses of NOR AD. He joined
the Air Force September 17,1950,
after graduation from Clare
Public School in Clare, Michigan.
a Wednesday afternoon program.
A clothing session, it is to be
presented by the Joan Jewitt
Modeling and Finishing School
of Lansing.
State Police
'Break Even9
On 2 Cases
State Police said Wednesday
that while they were clearing up
an investigation of one summer
cottager's complaint of breaking
and entering, another cottager
reported the theft of an outboard
motor and gas can. On these two
complaints at least, investigators
"broke even" for the day.
Trooper James Thomas said
that a 5Vs h.p. outboard motor
and 6-gallon gasoline can were
reported stolen or missing from
a bouthouse belonging to Kath-
erine Hagerty on Bailey Lake.
If the motor and gas were
taken by a thief, he really had
to work for the loot. Bailey Lake
is a private spot and there were
no tracks to indicate that a
stranger had entered the property on the regular trail. Only
other access to the boathouse
was through a marshy bog,
across a large field and over a
fence a considerable distance
away.
The breaking and entering at
Lake George of the cottage of
Myra Woodworth was solved on
Wednesday, — only one day after
the complaint was made. State
Police Detective Ed. Johenghen
obtained the admission of a ten
year-old boy and other minors
that they were responsible, along
with a series of other break-ins.
Nothing had been taken.
Campineeting
Dates Set
At Gladwin
The fifty-first interdenominational Gladwin County Camp
meeting will begin this Thursday evening, August 16 and will
continue through Sunday, August 26, at the Flemming Grove
Campground, located three miles
north of Gladwin on M-18 and
% mile west at the Waggerville
Road.
During the first week of this
year's camp meeting, Thursday
through Saturday, services will
begin at 7 p.m. with a young
peoples variety service that will
be followed by the evening camp
meeting evangelistic service a1
7:45 p.m. Beginning this Sunday
and continuing throughout the
week to the closing Sunday of
the Camp, there will be afternoon services held each after
noon at 2:30 p.m. with the exception of Saturday afternoon August 25, when the annual business
meeting of the Camp-meeting association will be held. Special
feature of the camp this year
will be the Youth services held
each evening and the young peoples choir singing , during the
evening evangelistic services.
The Most
Parade Watchers
Crowds in Clare Wednesday
judged as great as any numbers
ever to watch downtown outdoor
events saw the Kelly and Miller
Brothers circus praade its animals and attractions through the
business district. The show was
making a one-day stand here ahd
was billed as the second largest
circus in "the United States.
With the weather fair and not
too hot, the big top drew ca^as-
ity crowds for both an afternoon
matinee and evening show. Spon*
sors of the circus in Clare wew
members of the Civitan club raising money for civic enterprises.
Re-scheduled
A letter to the editor of The1
Sentinel on the subject of land
platting and building restrictions
in Clare county was omitted
from this issue of The Sentinel
because of space shortage. Rather than print the letter in a posi*
tion different than the usual
page, publication has been s .hed»
uled for the issue of August 23
with the permission of the writer, Lee Swallow, president of the
Clare County Developers and
Businessmen's Association,