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Established 1878
THE CLARE SENTINEL, CLARE, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1962
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New Series,      Vol, 70, No. 42
oleman
eveniie
At a special meeting last
Wednesday the Coleman School
Board reviewed the 1962-63 budget and reduced it by $129,000 to
bring next year's school operation in line with the known revenues. The meeting was often interrupted by statements to the
effect "We know this is going
to hurt the children, but there's
nothing else we can do", "I don't
like to vote this way, but we
don't have any choice", "How can
we keep the most of our program and still keep within a budget?".
The decisions made by the
Board involved placing grades
one through eight on half-day
sessions and housing all classes
in only the intermediate and
high school buildings. Hot lunch
program will be discontinued and
one secretary and one custodian
will be released.
Kindergarten will be continued
but junior high homemaking and
industrial arts will be eliminated.
As an economy move to conserve
heat and lights all buildings will
be closed to non-school groups
beginning the first of July.
Details of the curtailed program will be discussed at the
July 9 annual public meeting. In
Say "Go"
For Lake
Flooding
Engineering officials and field
representatives from the Michigan Conservation Department
and Highway Department came
here Tuesday to inspect work
and future plans for the Lake
Shamrock dam. They liked v.'hat
they saw and agreed ort everything "go" for the flooding, expected any day now.
In Clare they met with city
representatives, - with Don Tietz
the contractor who replaced
James Cole, and with members
of the Millpond Development
Corporation.
Harry Aldrich, regional chief
for the Conservation Department
with Jack Hammond, District 9
fisheries supervisor said later
that there is an unqualified denial that frictions had existed between co-operating agencies,
commission and promoter groups
on any level. They said that the
meeting here this week was to
permit a final inspection by all
interested parties.
Nowhere was there any remaining suggestions for change
or modification of the dam design or construction, and the
open plans for finishing stream
banks and installing protective
rip-rap in the future met equally
whole-hearted approval. Hammond stated positively that fish
will be planted in Lake Shamrock as soon as the temperature
of the permanent water there
can be determined.
The dam washed out on May
6, one day after its dedication and
a work force has been busy ever
since in repairing the damage
.and readying the project for
restoration.
School Bus
Driver Classes
Central Michigan University
bus driver education classes for
Clare county will meet at Far-
well, September 6; Clare, November 5; and Harrison, December
18.
The bus driver education
classes are intended to help
drivers develop skills and techniques of direction and control
as well as to give them the latest
technical and mechanical knowledge.
Golf Day Is
JC Project
The Farwell <JayCees Will
sponsor a "Golf Iky" on Saturday, June 30 at the "Sportie";
Miniature Golf Course, located
% miles West of Clare on US*10/
The day will start at 12 noOn
and will last until' 6 p.m. All
proceeds from the day's fun will
be put toward the now community park area which Farwell's
JayCees ate working for.
A day of fun is promised all
at life new spott, whether a regular pair ot n®%
Jim Newman
Hospitalized
After Crash
A collision Tuesday with a
nearly empty school bus resulted
in serious injuries to James L.
Newman, 18 of R-l, Clare, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Newman.
Newman is in Saginaw General
Hospital where on Wednesday
afternoon he had not regained
cosciousness.
He was lifted from his wrecked 1955 Ford with very severe
injuries to hi9 head and left
side, internal chest damage, and
head injuries. His parents are in
Saginaw at his bedside until they
learn what the outcome of early
treatment will be. He was alone
in his car when the crash occur-
ed.
Reports of the accident investigated by Clare county Sheriff
James Darling said that Newman
turned onto M-61 from Bailey
Lake Road and collided with the
bus.
The bus, from the Standish-
Sterling school at Standish had
left a group of 4-H youngsters
at a camp and was returning
home with the driver, Mrs. Wil-
helmina Mann, 57 and one rldfer.
Mrs, Florence Schrieber of Ink-
ster, The latter was hurt slightly.'
, Tke, accident happened at 4:g5
Tuesday only five miles from
Newman's home and he was taken immediately to Gladwin hospital from where he was moVed
to Saginaw.'
At home, the injured youth
lives with his parents and a sister, Ruth Ann, 16, and a younger
brother, Rollie, 12.
Doctors performed an emergency operation to insert a drainage tube in Newman's head and
releave pressure caused from
fluid. Early symptoms of paralysis of his left side were reported
and his left arm was broken in
several places.
Farwell Youth
To Study
In Germany
Tom Jones, a 12th year Far-
well student, is another exchange
student who left Metropolitan
Airport in Detroit about 5:00
p.m. Monday enroute to Amsterdam and thence to southern
Germany. Mrs. Raymond Scott of
Lake drove Tom and his mother
Lucille Jones and son Jimmy to
Detroit Sunday and they were all-
overnight guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Halstead. Tom had done
much study and with a friend to
help has acquainted himself
with the German language so it
will not be much of a handicap.
Farwell's two exchange students
are very happy to have the opportunity of spending eight
weeks with people on foreign soil
and being a part of a family
there.
Women's Club
Workshop In
Harrison
The Northeastern District of
Michigan State Federation of
Women's Clubs conducted a wor-
shop for club presidents and district chairmen at the home -of
the second vice president, Mrs.
Alvin Bartow in Harrison Wednesday, June 20th.
Mrs. Edward Gwizdala, district
president, spoke on paramount
Federation projects and programs for 1962-63 including Girls-
town, membership, annual convention and fine arts tea, Interlochen,
• Attending the workship from
Clare were Mrs. G, G. Born, president of the Clare Study Club,
Mrs. Neil Stirling, district Treasurer, Mrs. Leon Dull Sr„ chairman of literature and drama, and
Msu, Warren White, ehakmm of
mntiMmmg wamemm. MO,
the meantime school teachers
and staff are being advised of
the cutback and approximately
seven teachers will be having
their   contracts  rescinded.
Unless the public votes additional millage in another year,
this type of reduced * program
will have to be in effect for
approximately three years. There
are no plans for another vote on
millage at this time.
Miss Linda Casteel, one of
Clare's Hospitality Day greet-
ers during the recent Michigan
Week program here has received a nice note addressed to her
and her "partner" greeter,
Linda Warner. The note came
from a family the girls met
and invited to be their guests
for coffee when they passed
through Clare, Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Pedgrift from England
who were touring with Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Fedgriffy Clare
residents of 15 years ago. Back
home in England again, the
couple wrote to the Clare girls
to thank them for the warm
welcome to Clare.
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A telephone call Monday noon
this week from Mrs. Rex Johnson called our attention to the
unuaual "ring". axaund the
bright sun straight up in the
heavens. The explanation fdr. the
rainbow ring was the light rays
reflecting from ice crystals supposed to be about 25,000 feet
high. The ring was easily visa-
ble to the naked eye and many
residents viewed it through dark
glasses.
Old time sailors, superstitious
about signs like this that they
called "sun dogs", would have
nodded, I told you so" when the
afternoon developed tornado
weather and a burst of hail and
rain.
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By way of our humor for the
week, — Ez scz, "Lots of
women like to look into a mirror, except when driving away
from  a parking place."
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Jack Aube was surprised
Thursday morning iast week,
when he went to the door to
pick up his paper, and was
greeted by three deer standing
in the yard, but they weren't
long at the take-off.
Volunteers
For Math
Demonstration
Central Michigan University is
offering a demonstration class
this summer as part of the National Science Foundation institute for secondary school mathematics teachers, Thirty-five students from eleven area high
schools will form the class.
Mike Austin, Gary Gershon,
Barbara- Hankins, Ellen Saul, and
Tim Walter will represent Clare
high school in the class, and will
work with students from, #d-
more, Farwell, Mecosta, Midland,
Mt. Pleasant, Remus, Sacred
Heart Academy, Shepherd, St,
Louis, and Vestaburg,
Russell Steigmeir, a high
school mathematics teacher from
LaGrange, Illinois, will teach the
class, which is to be observed
by teachers participating in the
institute program. For one hour
a day, he will demonstrate the
progressive methods of teaching
mathematics used in the La-
Grange schools.
The students participating in
the class are Volunteers and will
receive no academic credit for
the project. "
Lop-Sided Witt
The Clare Church of God soft-
ball team won their game Monday evening, June 25, against
Hope with a score of 21 to.3.
They will he playing Beaverton
at the Clare diamond next week.
aul McDonald Critical
From Accident Injnrie
rPau! H. McDonald, 39 of Clare remains in a critical
condition in Ford Hospital in Detroit as a result of injuries
suffered in a one-car accident early last Sunday morning
and his companion in the car, Paul Koch with a little less
serious hurts is in Clare General -—-——■ -;       ~""     '   -
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"Snow-berries" Grow In June
June . . . Yea, even the week
before July Fourth is the time
to expect the best weather,
Michigan has to offer. But you
know what people say about
our no-dull-moment State!
You're caressed with sunshine
and balm at one moment, —
and just don't turn your back
on the possibility of hail and
tornado winds the next!
Farwell '
Signs New
Principal
A new principal has joined the
staff at Farwell High School'
with the contract agreement for
Harold Elenbaas, Superintendent
Kenneth McLaughlin announced
Tuesday. The post has been vacant since the resignation of William Dodge at the end of the
school year. Dodge is the new
superintendent at Luther, Michigan.
Elenbaas has been teacher of
vocational agriculture at Fowler-
ville for the past eight years.
The new principal's home is in
McBain where (he was born in
1929. He graduated from Michigan State University, and hold
the office of secretary-treasurer
of the Michigan State Association of Vocational Ag. Teachers.
McLaughlin revealed that Elenbaas was the school board's
.unanimous choice for the job
from a field of several applicants. He will arrive to begin
his duties on about August 15
and he with his wife and f£ur
children are looking for suitable
housing in Farwell.   .
That's the way it was Monday.
A sudden hail storm that lasted no more than a few moments buried the US-10, M-115
area west of Farwell under
inches of hailstones as large
as mothballs.
Mrs. Richard Koontz coming
home from work found her
gardens, berry patch, and
pretty flower boxes slashed to
sorry ribbons by sharp hail.
And in places on her lawn
there were six inches or more
of the white pellets to prove
how capricious the weather
can be. A single scoop with a
small rubber mat gathered
enough of the hailstones to
show you how the yard and
flower box were filled a short
time before melting erased
the evidence. -Sentinel photo
Lumber Supply Ddalers
Speak Up With Warning
A campaign in local newspapers by lumber and building sup-'
ply dealers is aimed at more
effective notice to the puolic
that local roofing, siding and insulation and lumber and paint
applicators are usually more reliable and that they do offer savings and service that should not
be forgotten when itinerant
workmen offer to do the job. Local property owners have been
repeatedly warned by James S.
Bicknell, Clare County Prosecutor, and by the office of the
Michigan Attorney General that
signing for a "high-pressure"
deal usually results in no saving
whatsoever over local prices, and
also leaves the door open to costly problems because the buyer
didn't "read the fine print" on
the contract.
Now the dealers speak up:
"If you are approached by an
unknown company offering a
'bargain' on a new roof for youd
home, or an insulation, siding,
painting or repair job, ask yourself these important questions:
ON VACATION
The Sentinel's vacation issue, customarily
printed ahead of time and held in the Clare
postoffice until ihe delivery date,, is going io
press today and tomorrow. The business office
and plant of The Sentinel will be closed from
{SiOO p.m. oii tomorrow* June 29, until Monday
morning* July 9.
the vacation-issue custom Began in" i951
will probably expire with next week's issue. A
new printing and production method du6 io be
inaugurated ai The Sentinel within, a few weeks
will retftGVe ihe «e#d for closing for vacation
periods.
Wailt^d cilosittg time and deadline for news
copy iot ihe issue of July 5 is sux. n today. J Ua©
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"1—Do I know anything about
the salesman or his company?
"2—Have I asked the salesman
or his company for his references?
"3—Have I reason to believe
that the company will be in existence and financially able to ful-.
fill its guarantee five or 10 years
from now?
"4—-Have I Obtained a price on
this job on exactly the same
specifications from my own dealer?
"5—Does the company provide
liability and compensation insurance to protect me in case of an
accident?
"6—Do I know the brand and
grade or quality of material I
am getting?
"7—In the event I pay for the
job on an installment basis, do I
know what finance company will
have my notes?
"If the answer to any of these
questions is 'NO"—be careful.
Watch out for misrepresentation
and watch out for 'tricky' contracts. Play safe. Before you
purchase material, or enter into
a contract with an unknown
firm, consult yoUr lumber and
building material fdealer who is
reliable  and responsible.
"See your lumber dealer first.
His prices are reasonable and his
work is done by local, responsible craftsmen. He's your neighbor, your friend, your partner in
building your home town and
your community into a better
place in which to live."
Rolland Club
Projects
The Rolland *4-H Club under
the leadership of- Mr. and Mrs.
Milford Crowley, and Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Gifford have ■£
members enrolled in the following projects: Crops, safety, and
vegetable gardening. Their officers are President, Lewis Guy;
Vice President, Jim Leasher;
Secretary-Treasurer, Keith Gifford.
The McCormick Wood and
Needle 4-H Club under the leadership of Mrs. Mary Dennis, Mrs.
Leona McDonald, Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Ball have 12 members
enrolled in the following
projects: Crops, dairy, flower
gardening, foods, landscape, per-
-Sonal improvement, and poultry.
Their officers are President,
Jack Lemon; Vice President, Bill
Dennis; Secretary, Connie Har-
less; and Treasurer, Larry
White,
Hospital. Both are employed at
Dan McDonald Ford Sales in
Clare where McDonald is parts
manager and Koch an auto salesman.
According to reports of the
accident, McDonald lost control
of his car, a 1962 Ford when he
tried to avoid striking a deer.
Police said that the car turned
over several times and came to
rest right side up against a
fence on the southbound expressway, lane of US-27 north of Clare
neaij Dover Road. McDonald was
driving north at 2:55 a,m. Sunday.'
After undergoing first treatment at Clare General Hospital,
Mcdonald was moved late Tuesday] to Detroit.
Relatives in close touch with
his doctors for progress reports
said'that he had as many as 11
brollen ribs, a serious injury to
his lower side and a fractured
pelvis, and a crushed chest. It
is thought that the rolling car
landed  upon him.
After some progress late Monday, his condition was described
as worse on Tuesday noon,, and
he continues in extremely critical condition. Blood transfusions,
and efforts to drain fluid frOm
one lung have been continuous.
Paul Koch escaped serious
fractures, but was treated for
multiple abrasions and contusions and his condition was complicated by high blood pressure.
Koch is 56.
Truck Flips
In another of a rash of less
serious accidents free from personal injury, a large Ford trailer-
truck left the highway on Old
US-27 three miles north of Clare
and came to rest in a field after
taking out a line of guard posts
and cable.
The driver, Ray Mosher, 21,
failed to make it around a tujji
and Was traveling too f&st tO;
stop. State Police ticketed hirh
for violation of the Michigan
basic speed law. His truck was
damaged $700. worth.
Richard Lyon, 24, of Mt.
Pleasant told police that a deer
jumped in front of his car.four
miles north of Clare early Wednesday morning and was struck
and killed.
Holley Plant
May Be Ready
By Aug. 20
Satisfied with progress thus
far on the new plant building at
Holley Carburetor Company's
Clare division, Plant Manager
Harold Sandborn this week said
that completion of the building
may come as early as August 20,
and that a formal dedication
might be planned by the company.
The new building is to enclose
an area 100x390 feet and that
with an added boiler room, the
building will be a 40,000-ft. addition to the Clare plant.
The present "main" building
which was occupied by the firm
after 1948 and has been "home"
to operations since the auto carburetor manufacturing days,
has been sold to the Clare County
Development Corporation for
lease to the Beaver Tool and Engineering Corporation. The latter firm is moving operations
here late this summer from Gaylord.
In the new building process,
Holley contractors have moved
5,700 yards of fill dirt. When
finished, the Holley firm will
occupy a total of 106.00 square
feet of plant space here.
Cite P.O.
Service Gain
Clare's Acting Postmaster Larry W. Jackson, Jr. this week presented the Assistant Postmaster
General with a report on the local mail service showing ■ that
volume is now running at the
rate of 110,000 pieces monthly.
Conferring with Assistant
Postmaster General Frederick C.
Belen at the state convention of
postmasters in Bay City. Jackson
discussed work and problems in
a wide range of postal fields.
The Clare postoffice has a 5%
percent over all gain in the past
year, and a gain of some 30 percent in patrons served over other
previous years a dacade. ago.
Other favorable conSfoajK&ions
were related showing a^pfhces
in the local postal servicfe*' Jackson said.
Rosebush
Homecoming
All July 4
Rosebush will hold its Animal
Homecoming Celebration and
famous beef barbecue dinner at
the Rosebush Memorial Park on
July 4. For years this event,
sponsored by the Community
Council, has drawn people from
all over the area for the festivities which take place during the
day.
President Jerry Van Buskirk
has announced that the day's program will begin at 10 a.m. with
a Little League ballgame, followed by the Old Fashioned
Barbecue dinner which will
start at 11:30 a.m. and continue
throughout the day with serving.
The beef will be prepared by the
two famous chefs, Evart Bowerman, and Bud Cairns.
At 1 p.m. the Pony League
will play a game of ball, and at
2:30 the ever-famous rivals, Leaton and Rosebush, will stage another baseball game. At 6.p.m. a
women's soft ball game will be
played in the park.
The highlight of the celebration will come in the evening,
when Joanne Wilcox's Dance Revue and a Home Talent Show,
will be presented in an array of
costumes and talent. Gene Umlor
of WCEN will act as Master of
Ceremonies when the feature begins at 8:00 p.m.
In all, the plans which have
been made promise an exciting
a,n<l enjoyable day for everyoilej
young or old.
Rule On
Minimum
Lot Size
At a regular meeting of the
Clare County Board of Supervisors June 25, there was presented
a resolution to regulate the making of a plat of subdivisions. No
change from the present, approved method was adopted except:
water must be tested and approved by the State Health Department as safe for human consumption, minimum size of lot
to be 7200 square feet in area of
which not less than 2500 square
feet shall be 36 inches above
ground water level, no lot in a
recorded plat shall be divided
without making a re-plat of such
lot.
Tliese changes will be effective
beginning January 1, 1963.
The resolution was passed with
only three dissenting votes.
Entertained
Farmers
The Annual Clare Rotary
Farmer's Night banquet Was
held last night at the Hotel Doherty at 6:30 p.m. The red carpet
was rolled out for the guests
attending.
The guest speaker this year
was Mr. Joseph B. Billtzkfe;
Assistant Attorney General for
the State of Michigan, His topic
was  "Consumer Fraud".
The committee which organized this year's banquet was composed of J„ Stuart Bicknell,
chairman, Gordon Mcintosh, Albert Seiter, and Dan McDonald.
Parade Gall
For Band
In its first summer appear*
ance in many years, the Clare
High School Band wiil play in
the East Tawas -Centennial parade  next  Saturday,  June  30.
The parade, scheduled for 2:00
p.m., will also include the Harri.
son High School Band plus other
units from the Tawas area.
The Clare band will hold a rehearsal Thursday evening td
shape up the music, marching,
and other incidentals necessary
to a good performance. It is
hoped that a band of about 60
members will be on hand whgji
the Clare group leaves at 8t0b
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