1964-03-19; Clare Sentinel

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Thursday. March 19. 1964
Established 1878
Fourteen Pages
New Series,   Vol- 72 No. 28
Wreck Kills
FarweBMan
At Rosebush
A Farwell man, Robert
A. Kipp, Jr., 28 was killed in a one-car accident
last Thursday when his auto
left the road near Rosebush
and rolled over several
times.
He was alone in the car.
The accident happened
on the curving entrance to
US-27 Expressway from
Rosebush.
Isabella County Medical
Examiner Dr.  A.V.   Bedo
.     said Kipp was crushed in
the   wreckage   and   killed
instantly.
State police said Kipp
apparently was traveling
at a high rate of speed and
lost control on the curving
entrance to the expressway. The accident took
place about 8 p.m. Kipp's
parents operate a tavern in
Farwell.
Mr. Kipp was a Marine
veteran of the Korean War.
A native of Grand Rapids
and a graduate of Catholic
Central High School there,
he had lived in Farwell
for five years. Survivors
in addition to his parents
include a brother, Ronald
-t of ^ajfpfll; his grand-
pa;#its^Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kipp of Grand Rapids
and Mrs. Evelyn Malone
of Bradenton, Fla. Funeral
services were held at
11 a.m. Monday at St. Cecelia's Church in Clare.
The Rosary was recited at
8 p.m. Sunday ii. the Coker
Funeral Home at Farwell.
Expanded.
Service Is
"Seals" Aim
'' The first step is yours*'
is the  theme  of the 1964
JJaoter.5po_.. annoa.1   -in   _)<_—
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^ half   of crippled  children
'  and adults.
The local oo-wmittee,,
hopes people will respond
more generously than ever
before so expanded services to the crippled may
be possible in this community. Fifty percent of
the money remains here,
ninety per cent stays in
Michigan.
This year the local or-
. ganization has bought
glasses, hearing aids, tape
recorder for a blind- child,
walkers, invalid hoist,
aided three children in the
speech correction programs and performed various other services.
, Mrs. Faye Stephenson is
local chairman, Mrs. Leota
VanEvery treasurer, Mrs.
Neil Stirling fund chairman
Tells About
Haley And Cotter File
On Commission Slate;
Tom Bradley To Run
Deadline time passed at
5:00 p.m. Tuesday for filing qualifying petitions for
Clare's City Commission
election. Three candidates,
Albert Haley and Tim
Cotter,    incumbents,    and
Tom Bradley of 425WilcoX
Parkway on Shamrock have
filed.
Three vacancies will be
filled on the Commission
with the finish of present
terms   for   Albert Haley,
Women Bowlers Finish
High Scoring Tourney
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Precious Easter hats bloomed here like
spring flowers as First and Second graders
at St. Cecilia School ii. Clare modeled their
creations. They will wear them in a television  show  Tuesday  morning  to  be  seen  on
Channel 12. You can see that little girls go in
for gay and he-flowered little puffs of finery,
while boys design soldier hats, toppers, and
even hats for space travel. (A story is on-
this page.) Sentinel photo.
Takes Post
In Child
Welfare
Ths Michigan State Department of Social Welfare
has appointed Mrs. Evlyne
Sheltrown, route 4, Gladwin
to the position of Child
Welfare Worker for Gladwin, Clare, and Arenac
counties.
Mrs. Sheltrown was employed by the Tri-County
Health Department as a
home nurse for one year
before joining the child
welfare staff. Prior to that
she was employed as a
nuirse at Tolfree Hospital,
West Branch, and asapub-
t lie health nurse with the St.
Clair" county health department, Port Huron.
The position of Child
Welfare Worker is a newly
created one in this area.
Services include placement
and supervision of children in homes for foster
care and adoption, and
licensing of independent
boarding homes for these
children, and other types of
special care.
Persons interested in
foster care of children or
adoption are requested to
contact Mrs. Sheltrown at
her office in the Gladwin
courthouse.
Duncan Not Candidate
As Petitions Circulate
For School Election
Early declarations of
school board candidacy
are being readied by three
Clare men in preparation
for an election to fill four
seats on the seven-man
board.
William Case, 305
School crest, Alfred Iacco,
1205 Park. and. Anton
Wedal, 2515 W. Rock Rd.
Clare RFD all have qualifying, petitions |rj circulation. ■ '"■..
A fourth candidate,
Walter Kleiner will have a
petition also. He was appointed a month ago to take
the place of Harold Brooks,
a Board trustee who resigned. He must now run for
election to that seat.
Prosepctive   members
have    until   May 8  to get
petitions    signed   and returned to the school office.
The unusual circumstance of having four
vacancies occured because
of two terms expiring, and
two resignations.
- Harold Brooks had resigned because .of conflict
with a township office appointment, and Mrs. Wallace Johnson asked to be
relieved of her office as
Board secretary for reasons of health.
President Lionel Duncan
saiu WedTicSday-this1 "week
that he will not be a candidate again after bis term,
ends in June this year.'
Board Secretary Dr. Alfred Austin said that he is
undecided about running
again, but has plenty of time
to make an announcement
later.
Mr. Duncan has a long
record of unselfish and
valuable service in education. He is a former teacher and administrator before settling in his home
town area here.
He will found out eight
years on the Clare Board,
having served terms of one,
three, and four years.
Wheeler Appreciated Where It Counts
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An interesting letter received last month by Mr.
and Mrs. Jake Case of
Eight Point Lake was from
former residents, the
Richard Schroeders,nowin
Ghana Africa, and tells of
Schroeder's government
work there.
Schroeder, formerly
director of Agriculture Extension work in Clare
county is interested in his
daughter's public appearances here where Roxanne
tells, audiences about life
in Ghana.
He also expressed pride
in the proposed new courthouse   for   Clre  .county.
About the country there
and his work, he told Mr.
and Mrs. Case "while you
are shoveling snow and
freezing, we are having 90
degrees every day and real
dry weather. Rains don't
start until March or April"
He 'stared that the land
clearing and plowing ort
institute farm land is difficult due to the ground
bejJg too dr y ahd hard.
Time is spent in cutting
trees, bushes, and getting
ready for the rainy season.
There are 40 students at
his institute now for 11
months, with some 20-30
adult farmers taking two
weeks courses. They all
learn-modern agricultural
production methods plus
fairm mechanization, but
tractor driving is the most
popular.
More        dormitories,
are being built
In closing, he says, ^We
aire moving fast and setting
^the pace fd^ciher <rifpt.s
Richard Wheeler, superintendent of Claye Public
School is not sacred and
indispensible. In a public
job he must expect to be
criticized sometimes.
He knows this. Public
careers bear that risk.
But at the most recent
School Board meeting he
was attacked by a petitioner
whose purpose was to
"get" the superintendent's
job. Many residents of the
district, reading of this
move in The Sentinel, have
written to assure the
Board, -and Mr. Wheeler
himself, that his ability
and contributions are appreciated. Many of these
letters  are on this page.
We ourselves think that
while people cannot be
denied a voice to criticize,
and certainly Mr. Wheeler
is not "sacred", he IS
something else. He is
very "tall", very sincere,
and very secure.
His career started at
what we call the bottom of
the ladder and he has prepared for promotions and
taken advantage of opportunities. His self-confidence in his present job
comes from experience and
the knowledge that his ability is recognized where it
counts.
While he is sensitive
enough to suffer from a
public slap, just as you
or I, yet he knows that
whatever acts or professional decisions earned the
animosity of sdme,--these
were acts in sincerity and
without jealousy, personal
rancor, or Spite.
This makes him a "tall'
man, and a sincere one.
We know that Superiu*
tendent "Pete'" Wheeler IS
fijeeVfflf M-hift Mfiticmttftft
members of the Board of
Education are too strong
minded to be blown about
by winds of petty discontent
— Ed.
one    of   the   largest businesses  in the community
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some 1500 children.
At the regular meeting
of the Clare Education Association Thursday, March
12, the faculty of the Clare
Public School passed a
unanimous vote • of .confidence supporting Mr.
Wheeler's administration
of   the   schools  business.
The resolution stated;
"The Clare teachers express their confidence in
Mr. Wheeler and a statement to. that effect should
be made public on the front
page  of the local paper."
Friday morning all other
school personnel added
their strength to the resolution.
The^e include the principals, office secretaries,
custodians, and bus drivers
This makes a total of approximately 125 people who
work closely with Mr,
Wheeler in administering
Never has the world
heard of a man, who did
nothing, making a mistake,
but it is full of men who
tried, made mistakes and
failed, and in so doing profited by them. And, so, let
me say "thank you' to
Superintendent Wheeler for
trying to do a trying and
difficult job—that of pleasing all of the people all
of the time.
Let us not judge an Indian until we've walked a
mile in.,his moccasins.
Mildred  Thayer
Makes Like
A Duck
Gene Luke of Clare was
a traffic stopper-Saturday
when he tested his Am-
phicar in the river near
the US-27 bridge north of
town. The auto ib equipped
to travel on land as a
conventional car, and in
water by means of a rear
propellor.
Other- drivers passing
by and believing what they
saw,- but not understand-
?fn|f, it, imported -to police-
tHat a car was in the river.
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Easter
Parade
Like many members of
our community, I was disturbed to see front page
reporting of a petition,
seeking the removal of
Richard Wheeler as Superintendent of Clare Public
Schools.
Having had a greater than
usual interest in our public
school system for some
twelve years, I have
watched Mr. Wheeler make
a competent transitioh
-from classroom instructor
to chief administrator._no
mean feat in a profession
sometimes noticed for its
petty jealousies.
_ Mr. Wheeler's job has
been primarily to fight for
every forward step this
school system has achieved
and further, to fight in a
rational manner against irrational personal prejudices and provincial passions.
No man is genius tweh-
ty-foO'r hoj_rsveae_iS|ay,and
riot ev^ri genius'' £an battle
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■ An Easter parade on
television next Tuesday,
•tfill present little children's hat creations made
ahd modeled by first and
second graders from St.
Cecilia school in Clare.
.'The Easter ' Hats?
They're the dearest to the
dizziest, and the children
are sure to be rewarded
With "Ohs and Ahs'',
adult's smiles, and much
applause for their imagination   and   effort  involved.
The children will be
guest stars on a 9:30 a.m.
program on channel 12,
along with their teacher,
Sister Mary Kathleen and
Jgvcios Chase, studio art
teacher of the Central
Michigan Educational TV
Council. Title of the program  is, "Art and You".
Sister Mary Kathleen
says much enthusiasm and
imagination went into the
original styles created by
her children.
Ea s i 1 y recognizable
fashions range from "Toppers' , picture hats, pill
boxes..to outer-space hats
Extreme styles, indeed!
Materials used were
paper plates, oatmeal
boxes, cheese cartons and
even large, round plastic
bottles and jugs.
Colorful trimmings were
created from ribbons, feathers, flowers from old
hats, colored paper, tape
and bright foil.
Educational Television
is in its second year of
functioning at St. Cecila
School.
Through efforts of Rev.
Joseph I. Sruba, the pastor,
each of the school's four
classrooms has been
equipped with a television
receiving set.     >
St. Cecilia's is a member of the Central Michigan Educational Television
Council.
Deadline
For Planting
March 27 is the last
day that the Clare Soil
Conservation District can
accept orders for wildlife
food type trees and shrubs
for spring planting.
The 1964 Clare Women's
City Bowling Tournament
ended this past week with
at least two scoring marks
that should stand for a long
time with a winning team
total of 3024 by Clare
Furniture, and the first-
place score for Singles, a
726 by Ruth Thiemke.
High_ handicap and high
actual scores rolled by Singles winner Ruth Thiemke,
and by another high scoring
player, Fran Carncross
grabbed most of the individual honors when they
finished in one-two position in both high handicap
series and game, and high
actual series and game for
the entire tournament.
Lehr's Shell 2870.
Doubles - Pat Holbrook
and Tula Brown 1273, Lila
Wheatcraft and Joan Weldon 1233, Iola Archbold and
Iva Burnett, 1226, Connie
McNerney and Margaret
Bedard 1217, Fran Carncross and Bonnie Bauder
1200.
Singles - Ruth Thiemke
726, Iva Burnett 667, Lee
Jackson 659, Drusilla Big-
elow and Irene Cruden tied
at  655, Carol Cotton 650.
All - events - Iva Burnett 1937, Jo Raymond 1891
Ruth Thiemke 1858, Glenda
Baker 1844, Pat Holbrook
1822.
If You
Ruth Thiemke's series of T __■£*  P_a-©_-,ia
726 (handicap) and game of •■-'■«"■'  A «w"3
280 led  Fran  Carncross'
actual series of 552 and actual game of 221.
Clare Furniture's team
score of 3024 was fashioned
with series' of 618 for Pat
Holbrook, 592 for Lucy Roberts, 595 for Beverly Foster, 606 for Lee McGuire,
and  613 for  Tula Brown.
Doubles money went to
Pat Holbrook and Tula
Brown with a 1273. They
likely took away most prize
money of any individuals
with awards as members of
the first-place team, doubles winners, andPat boosting her share 'with a.fifth
place in the all-events
prize lineup.
The all-events top winner was Iva Burnett with
a 1937.
Top five places in each
event are:
Teams-Clare Furniture
3024, Gateway Lanes 2950,
Band Box Cleaners 2907,
Town     &     Country 2877,
Mayor Swap
On May 18
This year's annual
Mayor Exchange feature of
Michigan Week will take
place on Our Government
Day,   Monday,   May  18th.
Clare Mayor will trade
jobs for the day with the
mayor of Madison Heights,
a city of more than 22,000
population, halfway between Detroit and Pontiac
and several miles east of
Birmingham and Royal Oak
Personnel and plant attractions at Holley Carburetor' s Clare Division
might be enlisted to help
entertain the visiting
mayor, since Madison
Heights is near Warren,
Michigan, the location of
Holley's main plant and
home offices.
Other mayor exchanges
in this area will be: Mt.
Pleasant and Lathrup Village; Beaverton and Caledonia; Gladwin and Clio;
Harrison and Lake Ann;
Shepherd and Oxford.
A computer given a
chance to try its hand at
meal planning has come up
with a diet that would feed
a family of three for only
about $ 32 every four weeks.
The resulting diet, however, consists mainly of
creamed potatoes, creamed carrots, potato soup,
milk and lots of flour paste.
While the machine has a
lot to learn about culinary
arts, it may soon be used
to help     plan   meals   in
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other large-scale feeding
institutions, according to
Dr. Victor E. Smith, Michigan State University economics professor.
Get $4. for $1.
By  George  MacQueea
The open winter this year
is a real opportunity to have
bulk fertilizer topdress on
rotation hay or pasture or
corn plow-down. Out at the
Cornwell Ranch, Bob Carter tells me he's doing this
very thing.
Where slope is no factor, topdressing- now should
work out well.-
A farmer will get back
four dollars for each dollar spent on fertilizer.
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Old editions of the Clare
Sentinel bring to light many
memories of days-gone by.
An April 7, 1939 issue
was brought to this office
this week. In scanning the
pages we. note that more
than ten of the business
advertisers are still in
business and advertisers
of the Sentinel today.
Stories include Hotel
Doherty's 15 years of service, and the new telephone
office on East 4th street
nearing completion.
Part of an 1908 edition
was also brought in this
week by Jeanie Harpster,
and cited a story about a
former Clare editor, Dennie Alward.
Mack Thomson, and for
Tim Cotter who was appointed to succeed Dave
Donovan last fall.
Date of the coming election is April 6,
Also up for re-election
is Justice William B. Dunlop      whose   term     has -
expired.
The time limit passed
without a petition being
filed by Commissioner
Thomson who had apparently decided not to run
for re-election. City Clerk
David Adams said that only
three petitions were being
circulated as far as he knew.
Will Host
Model UN
Assembly
A model United Nations
Assembly will be held at the
Clare High School Saturday
April 11, under the sponsorship of the Northern
District Hi-Y Council, announced John D„ Wolf, State
YMCA secretary this week.
Schools in the north
central part of the lower
peninsula, both public and
parochial have been invited
to send delegations, said
Robert -White, Council
president.
David Guyer, member of
the United State Mission
to the United Nations will
be the keynote speaker for
the event.
His instructions will set
delegates to discussion on
twelve United Nations proposals referred to various
U.N. committees.
Following committee
meetings, an afternoon
session will include a
meeting of the General Assembly for the passage of
recommended proposals.
Flags representing the
United Nations will be
paraded by the visiting delegations.
The flags were hand
made by high school
students for similar U.N.
Assemblies held in other
districts under State YMCA
sponsorship. Addisional
flags will be added to the
collection at the Clare UN
meeting.
Early student appointments to leadership include
Alan Frier, Cadillac, administrative assistant for
Assembly Affairs; Joseph
P. O'Connor Jr., Oscoda,
chairman of the Political
Committee; and Kathy Key,
Midland, chairman of the
Cultural and Humanitarian
Committee.
The Student Council of
Clare High School will host
the assembly while William
von Reichbauer with members of the Mt. Pleasant
Hi-Y club will handle
registrations.
' Delegations of four may
still register until the capacity of the Clare school
is reached, said the registrar.
CHS Bands '
Will Play
April 9
Their 'tournament s£ore, 3024 took top team
money in the' Glan?^o__*n. s championships
tjpt|itffl|finUh^ From lett,
frt_^"mffl{^^-Wr3^tf§pi«r* Fuiwlture team
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nia.MHifiiiiinlli in i
are:   Tula   Bi;own,.. Beverly   Foster,   Lucy
Roberts, .Lee  McGtilre,   and Pat Holbrook.
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The annual spring concert presented by the Clare
School Bands each year,
was originally scheduled
for Thursday evening
March 26th this year.
Due to . Holy ., Weefc^
services, the dat£ has been
posponed to April 9. This
will be a combined program of the senior, junior
and intermediate bands,'
and will be held in the Clare
High School gymnasium.
Tiier~e is -no admission'
charge, although tickets
will be distributed by band
members, and a prize is,
offered to a boy and girl-
of the senior group having
the largest number of tick-/-
ets returned. Everyohe.is.
welcome, with or without'
a ticket.
A  free . will   collection
will be taken to help in thjl
expense of repair .al^£rf|S
placement ofrins.rum'efitSf
uniforms ■ *ndr 1%&kw!NE8g%g
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