1964-04-09; Clare Sentinel

              The   Clare   Sentinel
Ten Cents Copy
Thursday. April 9. 1964
Established 1878
Fourteen Pages
New Series.   Vol. 72. No. 31
Saved By Blood Exchan
Accident
Takes Life Of
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SLEEPING Jn peaceful unconcern that she is a precious person
at Clare General Hospital, baby Mary Jane Carpenter is recovering after a complete blood exchange. Her case is the
first of its kind at Clare General and the complete transfusion
was done after she was discovered to be an RH baby. It saved
her life.
SOON AFTER BIRTH on Good Friday, Mary Jane was discovered to havs marked respiratory difficulties and was becoming progressively more jaundiced. Dr. E. C. Shurlow was
the doctor who delivered her via Cesarean Section. "When Mary
Jane's condition was discovered, a call went to Dr. D. R.
Daciuk in Prudenville who recently joined the staff at Clare
General after a pediatric residency. He started the blood exchange on the newborn infant within one hour.
THE TRANSFUSION took two hours, and six hours later another complete exchange was performed. Then another on
Easter Sunday morning.
THE NEWEST and certainly one of the youngest patients on
the hospital's list of successful cases of unusual nature, Mary
Jane is under close observation, but definately on the recovery
list and is apparently free of jaundice. Even the photographer's
light didn't disturb her contented beauty nap.
Just 129 voters went to
the polls Monday in Clare* s
city election to vote in Tom
Bradley and Tim Cotter
for two-year terms on the
City Commission, and Al-
Little League
Tryouts Set
A call for Little League
tryouts next week went out
today to all boys who were
not members of a major
league team last year in
Clare.
The growing program for
young baseball players is
getting ready for its 1964
start and the tryouts will
be held on three nights at
the Public School Elementary playground according
to Al Iacco, president of
the L.L. organization here.
On Monday at 5:30 boys
nine years old will have
their chance. Tuesday at
5:30 is the night for 10
year olds, and Wednesday
at 5:30 is for 11-12 year
olds.
Color In
The Home
The final project leader
training meeting for Isabella Home Economics Extension Study Groups for
the 1963-64 Program Year
will be on "Color in the
Home".
This leader training
meeting will be presented
by Mrs. Phyllis Constance,
Kent County Extension
Agent, Home Economics
today, April 9 from 9:30
a.m. to 3 p.m. The meeting will be held in Ballroom A of the University
Center on Central Michigan
University campus.
Mrs. Constance will give
an introduction to color
principles with emphasis
being placed on their application in the home.
Thanks -=
Contributors
A generous thank you
is extended to all contributors to the Central Michigan Community Hospital
Charity Ball fund. Those
people who have still not
made their returns are
asked to do so before April
11, to the committee members, Dr. and Mrs. Kuno
Hammerberg.
Les Elgart and the 14
piece recording band will
present the spring concert
Wednesday evening, April
15, at 7:30 p.m. in Warriner Hall, and a dance
will follow.
The Women's Auxiliary
will purchase much needed
hospital equipment with
money received. Tickets
may also be purchased at
the door.
Mon.
bert Haley for a one-year
term.
Without checking the
records, City Clerk David
Adams guessed that Monday's turnout was the lightest at any election since
he has been clerk and it
was probably the smallest
number of voters at an election since the adoption of
the  present  city  charter.
Bradley's vote total of
120 was from 53 in precinct I, and 67 in precinct
II.
He is a newcomer on
the commission and replaces Mack Thomson who
did not run.
Cotter totaled 98 votes
from 44 in the First Precinct and 54 in the Second,
and Haley totaled 95 from
41 in the First and 54 in
the Second. They are both
incumbents.
Unopposed for Justice of
The Peace, William B.
Dunlop was re-elected with
118 votes.
A few scattered write
in choices accounted for
the balance of the total
cast.
According to procedure
the present Commission
will meet to canvass the
vote and declare the election results official.
Members elected this week
will be given their oath and
take Commission seats at
the next regular meeting.
KoseDiisiiBoy
An accident Friday
afternoon of last week took
the life of a Rosebush boy
on his way home from
school, and shocked that
whole community with the
numbing suddenness of the
tragedy.
The 10 year-old and two
companions were hit by a
truck after a collision that
sent it out of control and
up over a curb at the main
street intersection in
Rosebush.
Dead on arrival at Central Michigan Community
Hospital was John Eiiiott,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elliott, Rosebush. The
boy suffered fractures of
the skull, right leg, left
knee and internal injuries.
Steven Compton, 7, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin
Compton, 4041E. Rosebush
suffered a jaw fracture,
face cuts and broken teeth,
and Lee Hutchins, 11, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Hutchins, 4102 N. Mission,
was treated for minor
bruises. A third companion
James Cluley, 7, sonofMr.
and Mrs. Robert Cluley,
Rosebush,   was   not hurt.
Driver of the truck was
Leo Harris, RD 2, Lake,
who suffered minor bruises. His wife, Hilma, was
treated for back injuries.
Driver of the car, William H. Moss, 58, of Sault
Ste. Marie, Ontario, and
his wife, Sarah, 56, were
not hurt.
State Police from the
Mt. Pleasant Post reported
that the four boys were
standing at the corner of
the intersection on their
way home from the nearby elementary school.
After the collision, the
truck careened into the
group.
Deaths
Outlined oi. the aerial photo of Clare is the strip proposed for re-zoning
commercial along bo'b. sidps of East Fifth, and some property also at the
east end of Fourth. The view is facing northerly with McEwan at the extreme left. Center is one of the buildings occupied by Dow's Claro Fabricated Plastics. Off the picture to the extreme right is more property desired
for commercial use bounded by US-10, Sunset Ave. and Birchwood.
Photo by Lee Studior
Propose Re-zoning Fifth Street Commercial
A city zoning proposal to
change restrictions along
East Fifth street from
strictly residential, to
commercial use is being
prepared for recommendation to the City Commission
Some property owners
objections have already
been voiced and are almost
sure to be raised at a public
hearing scheduled for April
20 at the city hall at eight
p.m.
Notices have been published in The Sentinel (see
B-2 of this issue), and have
been mailed to property
owners affected. There are
more than 80 such lots and
parcels of land in strips
along both sides of East
Fifth which is US - 10
through the city from McEwan street to the east
limits.
Owners of lots on Fifth
and of land adjoining such
lots in their rear are notified to acquaint themselves with the proposed
change and present their
positions at the meeting.
Howard M. Everts, chair
man of the Planning Commission which scheduled
the public hearing said that
much of the property now
zoned residential is attractive to business or com-
merical interests because
of   its position along the
main highway. But ex- part of the same lot in a
perience has shown it is different class,
not practical to take legal Some businesses reaction to remove the "re- ported already interested
sidential" label from lots1 in locations in the zone
or   parcels   in   individual include a gasoline service
Rural Urban
Treat By
Farm Bureau
Local business men and
their wives were guests of
the Clare County Farm
Bureau at the annual Rural
Urban Dinner held at the
Harrison school on Thursday, April 2nd.
Following the supper,
Robert Clute, M. C. for the
evening, introduced Marge
Karker, coordinator of women's activities of the
Michigan Farm Bureau who
told the group of conversations she had had with Cuban businessmen who were
refugees from the Castr©
tyranny.
Their versions of the
events were entirely different from the official
propoganda at the time of
the   so  called  revolution.
Mrs. Karker urged the
schools, churches and politicians to reemphasize the
importance of the individual in our society and to
stop the loss of personal
freedom under the guise
of social betterment.
She  said  that the  pur
Planning for mock United Nations at CHS are
members   of   the   General   Committee   with
their principal. From left: Connie Savoix, Mr.
Bidstrup, Jim Johnson, Mike Austin.
160 Students Coming
For 'UN Assembly' Here
Dr. Frank W. McKnight, well known dentist
in Clare for many years
died suddenly at 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday in the Alma
hospital.
He is .survived by his
wife, Margaret, a son
Frank Jr. of Rosebush, and
a daughter, Mrs. Roberta
Breslauer . of New York.
The body is at Stinson
Funeral Home in Mt.
Pleasant and arrangements
were incomplete on Wednesday.
High school students
numbering 160 or more
from the north central area
of Michigan will be guests
in Clare High School Saturday for a "United Nations
Assembly" mock session
to study that organization.
The distinquished visitor
of the day will be David L.
Guyer of Ambassador Adlai
pose of Christ was to show Stevenson's staff who will
the importance of the in- address the Assembly. His
dividual as opposed topoli- speech is "Today At The
tical  or social groupings. United Nations' .
Humorous skits, featur- The Clare High Student
ing the "Beatles", a fash- Council has named Richard
ion show by the ladies and Hughes general chairman
a quartet composed of of the event, and Connie
Larry Rank, Loren Bird- Savoix director of Clare
sell, Donald Armentrout students hosts and hostes-
and Charles Kleinhardt ses. Students "represent-
rounded out the evening, ing" 40 countries in the UN
The members of Farm are coming from Manistee,
Bureau were pleased to Traverse City, Alpena, Os-
have this opportunity to coda, Bay City and other
entertain a few of their nearer places,
city friends. Sponsorship of the affair
is by the Northern District
•Council of the State YMCA
and the public is invited to
watch the event beginning
in the gymnasium at
9:30 a.m.
A colorful spectacle is
promised in a parade of
national flags by the various "delegations". The
flags, made by students
from all over Michigan are
on loan by the Hi-Y Council, j
Actual UN proposals will
be debated at the sessions
and in committees, according to John D. Wolf of Mt.
Pleasant, State YMCA secretary for the district.
Adult resource leaders
will attend, and Glare students with leading roles at
the affair are;
Mike Austin and Jim
Johnson, co-chairmen of
arrangements.
AN AFPREOIATIVE audience was entertained at the Rural-Urban dinner and program by the Farm Bureau.
Horatio Abelia, chief
delegate with Steve Vance,
Mary Loomis and Sara Wilson.
Mike Austin, chief delegate with Kaye Bergstrom
Roxanne Schroeder and Diane Demo.
Rich Hughes, Mike Austin, Tom Cain, Al Mackenzie and Kaye Bergstrom
entertaining over night
visitors.
High School Principal,
Marvin Bidstrup and faculty member Lester Putney are assisting with
directing activities.
Newspapers
Push Largest
Tire Sale
Standard Oil division of
American Oil Company and
seven of its local area
dealers announce the use of
hometown newspapers to
promote the largest and
most important tire sale
in  the company's history.
There are eight dealers
really! Seven listed in a
full-page ad on page A-4
of this issue plus the newest dealership, Ulrich's
station on the Expressway
north of Clare.
One of the larger advertising agencies, Mac-
Manus, John and Adans has
developed a campaign with
the first of three full pages
appearing this week. The
Sentinel is proud to have
been chosen to carry this
important lineage in the
American Oil Company's
special sales push for local
dealers.
considerations as their
cases arise.
The planning commission takes note that
many pieces of property
along the street are already under commercial
use, having been already
commercial at the time
the rest of the area was
designated residential.
The proposed amendment to the zoning ordinance would standardize all
East Fifth street property
under the commercial
class.
class. Interested owners
and residents are those
within 132 feet of the street
on both sides.
Flat opposition by twenty
percent of owners of frontage property or theii
neighbors in the rear can
kill the action to re-zone
by making it next to impossible to pass before the
City Commission.
The Clare ordinance that
created zoned classes of
property specifies that if
objections to amendments
are registered by 20 per
cent or more of owners of
frontage property, or by
owners of property immediately in 'the rear of
such property (or by 20
percent or more of owners
of property facing the affected property), then the
amendment shall not be
made except by a four-
fifths vote of the Commission.
It is unlikely that a
four-fifths vote could be
mustered if such opposition was evident.
But the Planning Commission cites many reasons for the change.
At least one local realtor
has told the Commission
privately that prospective
business and commercial
purchasers of East Fifth
property have shied away
from that location when
they were told it was zoned
residential, and have presumably lost interest in
Clare as a location.
A representative of a
large company recently
seeking a retail location
here said that he was interested in no spot except
East Fifth street.
The Planning Commission says it has found qualified agreement among
many people of civic concern that good business locations are no longer easy
to find and the situation
might require not only
some city property re-
zoning, but eventual expansion   of   the   city   limits^
Prospective businesses
and commercial enterprises declare Fifth street
desirable but not sufficiently attractive unless
the residential restriction
is lifted from the whole
strip fronting on the highway.
Eventual   boundaries  of
the      zone   proposed   for
change to commercial use
would follow an irregular years   were
line  to  either include, or Art Damoth
station, a food supermarket
and accompanying shopping
center stores, and perhaps
others.
A convalescent care in- ,
stitution is already in
stages of planning and businesses already established in the zone prior to
the present ordinance
include rooming houses,
auto service stations, television sales and repair,
a drive-in restaurant, grocery market, and trailer
dwelling court.
Appeal For
Donors In
Blood Quota
Slow registrations in
the Clare County Red Cross
Blood pank program for
volunteer donors has again
raised the fear that the effort may fail. As of Wednesday just 16 volunteers
had registered to give blood
when the Bloodmobile
visits Farwell Monday,
April 13.
Chairman Frank Coker
said the minimum quota
hoped for was 150 units,
but 200 would provide a
safer margin.
A similar appeal to save
the program last winter in
Clare resulted in long
waiting lines when many
walk-in donors swamped
the staff. Appointments by
pre-registration can save
waiting time and make sure
adequate facilities are
ready at the Bloodmobile
at   Farwell   High   School.
The -Bloodmobile will be
ready to receive doners at
2:00 p.m. and will continue
until 6:00 p.m. according
to Frank Coker, chairman
of the blood program in the
Civitans
To Honor
The Pinaires
Honors for Mr. andMrs.
Robert Pinaire will be featured on the program at
the Clare Civitan Club's
Charter Night Saturday
evening, April 18th.
Citing the couple as
"outstanding citizens" for
the year, the program will
recognize his accomplishments in area Scouting
work, and her contributions
in advancing the quality of
Clare's City Library.
The dinner meeting will
be held at Town and Country, with Keith Lee of
WCRM, as master of ceremonies, for this fourth annual event. '
Dancing will follow, with
music by Don Bryant and
his orchestra.
Awards   of   previous
received   by
in  1963;  the
remove small corners and five school teacher re-
edges of lots otherwise tirees in 1962, Effie Hales,
split by the line. The Plan- Florence Kane, Iva Strouse
ners would seek to avoid Irene Clute, ahd Mabel
classifying part of a lot Lynch; and in 1961, Mrs.
in one  class and another Grace McArthur.
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