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Established 1878
Clare, Michigan September 3, 1964
New Series. Vol. 72. N6. 52
County GOP Nominations
Go To Trucks, Darling
Judge Donald E. Holbrook
T
Judge Scores
As 3rd Distri
Court Choice
A tide of Clare county
voters Tuesday in Michigan's first September
Primary under the new
constitution, carried Jay
F. Trucks into the Republican nomination for
county prosecutor and
chose veteran Sheriff
James Darling for another
term.
The GOP choices are
counted good as elected
in the General Election to
come     on     November  3.
Trucks is a Clare attorney who made his campaign one of personal contacts up and down the
county. Traveling door
to door through every
township and criss-crossing' every road and high-
Area friends and acquain
tances of Judge Donald E.
Holbrook watched all but
the very last election returns pile up a winning total
for him in the outstate
Third District Court of
Appeals contest to find
three candidates to run in
November.
The non-partisan balloting, with just 290 scattered precincts yet to tally
Three-day
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weii- oration
For,l^rweH..„_.
Farwell's 62nd annual
Labor Day Celebration,
September 5, 6 and 7, is
being enthusiastically proclaimed by sponsoring Jaycees as, ''more than twice
the attraction" than has
been  offered in  the past.
Joe Willey, celebration
chairman and Bill Lynch,
parade director, have arranged a program that
backs up their claim.
Live entertainment including a hootenanny' and
square dance will begin
the local festivities Saturday at 7 p.m. A midway will be open beginning   Saturday   at  9  a.m.
Floats, marching bands
horses and riders and
more	
Following the parade at
9 a.m. is to be a horse
pulling contest.
On Monday the parade
will open the program at
nine a.m. and an all-day
schedule of contests,
games, and midway fun will
close with fireworks at 10
p.m.
To Tour
Europe
Fifteen industrial executives from Michigan,
Ohio, Indiana, and western
Pennsylvania will participate  this fall in a Trade
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rope sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers.
The executives, some of
whom will be accompanied
by their wives were named
by a NAM news release
and include A. E. Streadwick, president of Beaver
Tool and Engineering in
Clare and J. E. Riecker
legal counsel to the firm.
The group will gather in
New York City Sept. 30
for apre-conference briefing with representatives of
fee Departments of State
and Commerce and will
take off the following day
for a 21-day tour of the
major European world
trade .centers.
Moved To
Cadillac
Jade R_ Hammond, former Fisheries Supervisor
for the Gladwin Division,
Michigan Conservation De-
tt partment is in a new job,
[% having been promoted to
District Fisheries Biologist -at Cadillac.
gave Holbrook a very firm
second place in the choice
for three. Only 2000 votes
separated him from John
Fitzgerald of Lansing, the
front runner.
With the Judge a sure
winner in the nomination
for the Court and Donald
E. Holbrook, J_;. nominated
also in his race for GOP
candidate for the legislature, the father and son
candidates moved a long
step together in political
careers.
The two of them together
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inated for Clare County
Prosecutor, and Dr. Julian
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Coroner were recognized
with special honors at the
Clare Kiwanis Club meeting last evening. All are
members of the club.
Nominated
In Garfield
In the area's only Township Primary Tuesday,
voters in Garfield took an
extra ballot into the booths
to select nominees for all
local officers from supervisor down. Their choices
had to be marked in addition
to all other county, district, state and nonpartisan picks.
Neil Watkins, incumbent
trustee won in a three-man
race for nomination with
this vote result:
Neil Watkins 146
Mike Pavelka 24
Carl Heath 19
In a contest for constable
the incumbent was again
re-nominated:
Robert Priest 117
Charles Roland 46
W. Schermerhorn 31
Nominees in other offices were elected with incumbents unopposed on the
ticket:
For supervisor, C. R.
/ Case, 170
For clerk, Donna Scott,
181   '
For Treasurer Alice
Ruckle, 188
way in the county, he distributed hundreds of leaflets with his picture and
qualifications to make voters acquainted with him.
In capturing the place
on the party ticket, Trucks
upset incumbent Prosecuting Attorney Alexander T.
Strange, II.
Draw 3 For
Elk Licenses
Two Clare men will be
among 300 Elk hunters in
Michigan's first season
December 5 to 13.
Norman Hutchinson of
R-2 Clare, and Steve
Thomas of 626 W. Fifth
had their names selected
by data processing machine
to get the licenses. Merle
Calkins of R-l Rosebush
was another in the area who
was lucky on the selection.
The city of Clare gave
Trucks a lead of 172 votes
in the first returns reported and he clung to the
lead through ups and downs
throughout the county as he
maintained  more  or less
the same margin.
Unofficial totals in the
two county races where local interest was highest
were:
Sheriff Darling
Jay F. Trucks
For Prosecutor-
Trucks, 1420
Strange,1238 "
For Sheriff-
Darling, 1865
Rowley, 893
The outcome was closely
similar to that in the 1962
Primary in Clare county
when then incumbent Prosecutor James S. Bicknell,
III was unseated by Strange
as challenger while Darling
experienced little difficulty
in holding his place on the
GOP ballot.
Voting turnout surpassed
1962's Primary total by
more than 700 in the county.
No Democrates filed for
any county job, and further than prosecutor and
sheriff, no other Republican race developed for
courthouse posts.
Completing the Clare
county ticket in November
will be Clerk and Register
Two instances of individual heroism and quick
thinking that saved small
children from serious injury or worse, recently
came to the attention of
Notebook.
Just one week ago Sunday, August 23, Mrs. West
Semig was visiting on the
lawn of her parents' home
where she and her husband,
West with their two sons
Bob and Leon live. She
happened to look down toward Old US-27 highway
which passes the place and
was^ horrified. *o;. see.J?e_\,
two-year old nephew Stand-'
ing in the middle of the
pavement with a speeding
auto approaching on the
other side of a small rise.
In instant action, she
raced down the slippery
grass of the steep bank,
snatched the child and
threw him and herself into
the ditch on the far side
of the pavement. She was
just barely in time to prevent what might have been
a fatal accident.
Mrs. Semig said she
could actually feel the
brush of the speeding auto
as it passed her and the
tot. They were both understandable shaken by the
experience, but neither
were hurt.
The driver continued
without stopping or even
slowing.
In another unusual emergency that happened last
spring, Wetzel Rogers,
came around the end of
Manor Motor Court on his
rounds as city carrier in
the Clare postoffice, just
in time to see a driverless
car carrying several small
children crash through a
wooden fence and head
across busy McEwan
street.
He timed a jump as the
car went by him, made
it to the driver's seat and
tried     bring it to a halt.
Continued  On  Page   A-8
Holbrook s Edge 621
In House Nomination
Late election results
coming in to Donald E.
Holbrook, Jf's Clare headquarters Wednesday morning after the Primary votes
were tabulated; surged him
into a  621-vote lead over
Bob Phinny and captured
the GOP nomination for
State Representative in the
new 99th District.
A crowd of elated friends
Monday
Nighters
End Season
Fifty members of the
Clare Men's Monday Golf
League ended their season
Monday this week at Twin
Elms with a Kickers' Tournament for fun and prizes,
and a banquet afterward in
the clubhouse.
Prizes were awarded and
new officers elected for the
summer of 1965.
Virgil Bergstrom, conducting the meeting in the
absence of President Leon
Stanley, was elevated to the
head of the league in the
coming season. Elected
with him were Vice President Keith First of Harrison, Secretary Jack
Rodabaugh and Treasurer
Chris Demo both of Clare.
_
Team winners in the two
divisions of the league were
Joe and Dale Miller for
Hooks, and Fran-Jesse and
Chuck Eaton, a pair Of left
handefs from Harrison.
They all took away handsome trophys.
Added to the main prize
a golf club won by Leo
Hampton, were numerous
awards for putts, pitches
and drives, —and for just
attendance at the banquet.
and workers in Holbrook's
campaign gathered at his
home to listen to telephoned reports on the counting and congratulate him.
Holbrook won "the right
to go on the General Election ballot on November 3
as the Republican party's
chbiee against Democrat
Elden Crawford of Osceola
coupty in'the district.
The primary tussle was
among seven qualified candidates, but the election day
trend showed it to be pretty
much of a race between
Holbrook and Phinny.
Unofficial totals for
each, and county-by-county
votes in the district go
like this:
Total vote-
Holbrook 3520
Phinny 2899
Clare Co. gave-
Holbrook 1837
Phinny 249
Osceola Co. gave-'
Holbrook 664
Phinny 486
Mecosta gave-
Holbrook 829
Phinny 694
Newaygo county, where
Phinny's home is in Fremont, gave-
Holbrook-190
Phinny 1470
Outcome of the race between Holbrook and Phinny
grew in suspense as the
five others dropped back.
They included Milford Mel-
lon^ Jayne Cooper Moore,
Rex Roethlisberger, El-
wood VanAntwerp, Kenneth
Walthers.
At one point as returns
were being reported early
Wednesday morning, Holbrook lead Phinny by only
three votes 2398-2395 with
16 precincts still to make
reports. Four of the last
townships in Clare county,
-Surrey, Grant, Garfield
and Frost were among them
and were counted as strong
for Holbrook.
As these four came in
to headquarters, the lead
widened and remaining
precincts in other parts of
the district were divided
among several of the candidates evenly enough so
that Holbrook's winning
margin  could  not be cut.
The Clare candidate and
volunteer helpers in his
campaign had conducted an
old fashioned doorbell
ringing canvass of areas
in every part of the district and didn't stop until
the late evening before
election day.
Drought Blamed For High Nitrate Corn
Drought stricken corn is
causing headaches for farmers in some areas of
Michigan and other states.
While grain and forage
yields are expected to be
low in these areas, far
mers are also concerned
that drought stricken corn
silage may contain high
levels of nitrates, say a
pair of Michigan State University extension special-
ists.  Low production, poor
Local Support Strong
Tuesday's Primary voting in Clare rolled up a
total of 698 whose turnout made a heavy dent in the
record for numbers.
How   did   electors   mark their choices  in  Clare?
Hot races for nominees to represent local residents in the two houses of the' state legislature
brought sendoffs to Harold Hughes for the Senate
and Donald E. Holbrook, Jr. for the House from
hometown voters who made them favorites of
course. Donald E. Holbrook, Sr. a candidate for
3rd District Court of Appeals also enjoyed strong
support from Clare friends and neighbors.
Harold Hughes counted 333 votes here as against
a total of 202 for his Republican rivals combined.
Don E. Holbrook, Jr. took a lead of 311 ih Clare
over his nearest opponent Robert Phinny, in the
field of 10 for the new 99th Representative District.
Donald E. Holbrook, _>r. in the non-partisan,
primary for judge in the District Court of Ap-
peals was given 479 votes here with three closest
candidates counting 76 and 75, 75.
rate of gain, and other
signs of possible nitrate
poisoning of live stock could
result.
Don Hillman, MSU dairy
extension specialist, cautions farmers not to be to
hasty in harvesting corn
Silage. "The moisture
content of corn silage may
remain high even though
several leaves may have
turned brown near the bottom of the stalk,'* he points
out. "Harvesting of the
corn containing excessive
moisture could result in
poor quality silage. Yields
could increase by allowing more time for the plant
to grow and ears to develop."
Better yet, much of the
nitrate may disappear as
a result of further plant
growth and maturity.
Dr. Clifford Beck, veterinary medicine extension specialist aft MSU,
says high levels of nitrate
in silage does not neees-
indlcate the silage
will cause problems. Many
other factors also enter
into the nitrate problem--
mo_t of which are poorly
understood.
"High levels of nitrates
have been fed to cattle
for long periods without
any evidence of harmful
effects in some experiments, while in other cases
much lower levels have
caused economic losses
and "cattle deaths," explains Beck.
"Nitrate levels in silage may or may not be
associated with fertilization practices," he added.
"Other factors that should
be considered are the
nitrate content of the farm
water, supply, presence of
nitrate, containing weeds in
the corn crop and stunting
of plants with weed
killers.*'
However, drought is probably .he principle cause
of high nitrates in forage
crops. Com harvested as
grain present., no problem.
The Two specialists suggest several practices for
farmers attempting to
avoid nitrate toxicity problems;
—don't feed silage for
two or three weeks after
the silo is filled.
—make feeding changes
gradually by feeding small
amounts for several days
and providing extra roughage in the form of hay
for a week to permit cattle to adjust to the new
feed..
—feed liberal amounts of
grain to decrease consumption   of   the nitrate-
So effective was the voter
appeal that Holbrook's
telephone in Clare began
ringing early in the forenoon Wednesday as voters
from all over the new 4-
county district called to
congratulate him and assure him of more support
in November.
Not so fortunate was
Harold B. Hughes, whose
bid for re-election in the
Michigan Senate was turned
back in a three-way race
for the GOP nomination
between him, Guy Vander
Jagt of Cadillac, and Don
Gordon.
In the huge area of the
36th Senatorial District,
Hughes found himself in unfamiliar territory and
counted on an Uphill fight.
Vander Jagt took the contest with a heavy margin
over second place Gordon.
Dr. E.- J. Gershon will
oppdse him in November
as the Democratic candidate. He was unopposed
for his party's nomination
on Tuesday and counted
542 votes  in the district.
Listening to returns on
Tuesday night, Senator
Hughes saw the unmistakable trend from northern
parts of the district that
called his opponents their:
favorites. He left his office early and conceded defeat.   He was one of many
containing roughage and victims in the election, of
also enhance the conver- redistrieting and the con-
sion of nitrate to amnonia. sequent weakening of prestige as an incumbent,
—make sure cattle re- His; andJ several other
ceive adequate levels of experienced voices in the
vitamin A.
--feed iodized salt since
nitrate problems are more
serious with iodine deficient cattle.
legislature suffered their
defeats as moderate conservatives although Hughes
was never associated with
the "old Guard* areh-re-
actionaries.
of Deeds Wm. A. Henerson.
Treasurer Lewis F. Rutter; Drain Commissioner
Walter H. Ehle who replaces former officeholder
Bruce Williams; Coroners
Dr. Julian Gershon who is
new on the ticket and incumbent Carl Stephenson;
Surveyor Paul Lapham.
Their unofficial totals
in the county were:
Henderson 2519
Rutter 2437
Ehle 2258
Gershon1439
Stephenson 2064
Lapham 2281
Strange
Margin Just
64 Votes
Representative Russell
Strange, formerly of Clare
would rattier switch districts than fight in the candidate field of seven for a
seat in the House.
When redistrieting split
Isabella county from Clare,
he went with it to try for
nomination in the new Isabella-Montcalm District.
His decision gave him some
rough moments as early
returns on election night
gave his chief opponent,
Loren Gray a breakaway
lead that lasted on through
the night.
Strange, believing he had
lost didn't learn of his victory until Wednesday
morning.
But   jf&ai results from
Isabella county, last to be
reported, restored the rae
•tc.^&Ve_." terms- and at la,
put  Strange into a straw
thin   victory   edge   of   6±
votes!
The photo finish had th
count of:
Strange 2304
Gray 2240
Peterson 2041
A recount is possible,
although not officially discussed yet the margin is
not far from one single
vote in each precinct of
the district.
Examining the vote in
each of the two counties
proves again that campaigning in new district-areas
outside of older ones where
candidates were well
known, has been a considerable factor in the election this week. •
Gray had a margin of 15
votes in Montcalm county
and was in front by more
that until final reports gave
Strange an edge of 79 in
Isabella and enough to win.
In local Isabella races
Sheriff Ray Martin stood
off a challenge for the
nomination by Edwin Matlock, 2032-1612.
Drain Commissioner
Rollin Gross defeated a bid
by Matt McConnell, 2096-
1644. Other incumbent
county officers were renominated without opposition.
Estimates
High In
Fire Loss
A fire Tuesday afternoon
at 6;24 in the kitchen at
Town and Country Lounge,
Clare was under control in
15 minutes after the Clare
Fire Department responded, but damage from
lingering smoke odor and
stains might amount to as
much as $10,000 according
to    immediate estimates.
The popular dining spot,
owned and operated by Mr*
and Mrs, O. D. Bayesmust
have estimates on complete
cleaning and probably redecorating.
The blaze started on or
near'the cooking area and
quickly ignited a grease
filter in the hood over the
ranges.
Firemen said that a steel
roof prevented the spread
of Flame 8 and more
damage.
Thick smoke filled the
kitchen and then drifted
into other parts of the*
building that includes bar?
lounge, and rooms for large,.
dinners and parties.