1964-01-30; Clare Sentinel

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Tep Cents Copy
Thursday, January 30, 1964
Established 1878
Fourteen Pages
New Series, Vol. 72 No. 21
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Winter Festival
The 1964 Winter Sports
Festival here with part of
its activities cancelled by
poor weather conditions,
managed to provide enough
fun for attending crowds
so that Clare Chamber of
Commerce Project Chairman Jerry Forsberg gave
List Needs
For Area :
Development
Preliminary reports
from committee workers
were ready last night in
the job of forming a county
wide Over-All Economic
Development Plan. The
project is being undertaken
by a newly re-formed Clare
County Area Development
Committee under the
chairmanship of Louis
Becker.
Last night's meeting held
at Clare City hall was the
general committee's second session in three weeks.,
On January 15 the county committee organized and
appointed section chairmen
New action of the committee on area development
has been spurred recently
by the need for a co-ordinated program for the
whole county.
Leaders have been told
of the need for cataloging Club.
it a qualified success label.
One leading attraction,
the selection of Miss Clare
County Winter Sports was
headlined at the annual banquet and the event drew a
capacity crowd to the
Doherty Motor Hotel for
the dinner and Winter
5p-its-Ball* which followed.
Miss Farwell, pretty and
popular Ginger Fisher won
the judges' aclaim to
become Miss Clare County
Winter Sports-of ,19,64. She
and Calla House, Miss
Clare and Martha Sherill,
Miss Harrison with their
escorts were honored
guests at the banquet.
Miss Clare County was
crowned on the crimson
throne surrounded with
frosted evergreen decorations, and ruled over the
festive ball after.
Earlier in the day, Saturday a score of golfers
braved stiff winds and low
temperatures to play in
the annual "Mid-Winter
Tournament" at Twin Elms
Russ Foell took the prize
and the title.
The Penguin Club's
square dance on the ice
of Shamrock Lake was a
well-attended hit affair with
more than 32 costumed
dancers to entertain themselves and spectators.
Some three hundred people were at Lake Shamrock
Sunday afternoon to see the
"Penguins' dance on the
ice, sponsored by the Clare
Hayseeders  Square Dance
assets in the county and
outlining a program for
their use for the relief of
lagging economic development and unemployment.
Clare County Extension
Director George MacQueen
assisting in the work of
organizing and directing
the groups, said that several steps are outlined in
getting efforts started in
the right direction.
Participating in the festivities were couples from
Jackson, Beal City, Caro,
Reese, Marshall! Parma.
Dundee, Monroe, Charlotte
Saginaw, Midland, Houghton Lake, Bay City, Gage
Town, Azalia, Wayne, Harrison and Clare. Many of
them spent the week end in
the area and attended the
Harrison Penguin Dancei
on Saturday evening.
Miss Nelda Davis is the
An important first.mofea^||ri^^^flFJ      a
aR     rhP    Hpai™fM«_r^^W    .caller,   and
gu,est   callers  were  Mrs
was the designation,,^
county supervisors of the
present committee as the
sole authority for co-ordinating plans and applying
"tools" available for stimulating economic activity
in this county.
Any program that intended to use aid offered
by Federal agencies would
be seriously handicapped
by conflicting requests, or
/claims from
groups that all
to have official status
One of the earliest moves
was official recognition by
supervisors of the general
committee now headed-by
Becker.
This     committee     was
helped on January 22 when
some members heard remarks by a  regional co-  T_^ »-_*».
ordinator for the Area Re-  JloTIOrS    iWm
development   Administra-   '   UUUia   1UU1>
tion,   William   Jewel who <61
addressed   a    meeting at
West Branch.                             Dr> Julian Gershon med_
Jewel said the ARA Act ical  advisor  of the Clare
permits  each  local  com- Red Cross Blood Program,'
- munity  to take the initia-  received  a thank you let-
tive in the job of relieving ter   this   week   from  Dr.
its own-situation. Joseph  Venier, the medi-
Clare county was designated an economically
distressed   area   on   the
Blood Bank
Well Done"
cal   director   of Lansing.
,« _*-_._____   ax__    uu    luc      In ^uote "It certainly is
Oi        basis     of    unemployment a Pleasureto say to you and
here two years ago. a11 the volunteers and do
nors, "Well Done!" Last
Monday demonstrated how
well a community can work
together to meet a challenge."
Since that time, Federal
aid grants have been granted for Clare's iron
removal plant for city water, and another application
has been made for aid in
building a new county building and courthouse.
These two projects qualify for aid under Accelerated Public Works.
Recruiting
Ladies
Gray
Mrs. Jane Krainik,
chairman for the Gray Ladies program, sponsored by
the Red Cross, states that a
new class of recruits will
be organized.
All interested women are
urged to sign up: for the
training class, before February 10th. They may call
her at Ev-6-2667 or Maxine   Vance at Ev-6-7472.
Registration of ten or
more must be In before
the above date, if a class
is to be held.
Mrs. Krainik states this
is a worthwhile and rewarding service if youhave
f ree time available*
He suggested that 125
pints or more at each scheduled visit of the Bloodmobile would take care of
the quota, and another
crash program would not
be needed.
Important benefits to
Clare county in belonging
to the Blood Bank program
were emphasized at Clare
General Hospital Wednesday when on-hand supplies
were depleted in an emergency, and more was instantly available.
An accident patient at
the hospital required all
the blood on hand at the
time and a call was placed
to Lansing for replacement
units.
Due to anticipated need,
the blood was sent to Clare
by plane where Clare
police picked it up and
rushed It to the hospital
where it would be ready' if
needed.
MSU Opens Campus
Miss Clare County Winter Sports, Ginger
Fisher of Harwell proved that she is as
much at home in the outdoors as she is in
a party dress. On Sunday she turned up
on the icy surface of Lake Shamrock to.
applaud Tomi Dunn's under-the-ice skin
diving act. Phpto by Meryl Graham.
Tim Cotter (standing) was toastmaster at
the Winter Sports Banquet Saturday night
at the Festival in Clare and turned the
program intp; plenty of lively fun for a
capacity crowd. From left at the speakers
table are Bob Reynolds of Radio WJR, and
Mrs. Reynold?, Cotter, and Mrs. Jerry
Forsberg. :,
Photo courtesy of The Saginaw News
were
Phyllis Pearson Campbell
of Jackson, Lou Drake of
Midland, and Floyd Stanley
of Harrison. Mrs Campbell was the caller at Harrison.
There were nine and ten
sets on Lake Shamrock
most of the time, dancing
from 2 to 4 and an intermission at 3:00 during
several tne s^n divinS exhibition,
pretended Tom Dunn of Clare was
the performer in a full-
scale demonstration of skin
diving in the frozen water
of Shamrock—through the
ice.
Bowlers Score Well
Opener
The opening weekend of
bowling in the 1964 Clare
Men's Championships at
Gateway Lanes has produced some scores that will
be hard to beat for at least
some of the prize money.
A team score of 3052
by the Sun Oil Company
leads that division by a
margin of 99 pins over
the nearest rival, and beats
last year's top effort by
four pins as well.
Other. divisions of the
tourney have not yet shown
scoring that can be
regarded as safe in the
next two weekends of competition.
After Sunday afternoon,
leaders in team, doubles,
singles and all events lists
like this.- __,
Sun Oil Company 3052,
Johnson Oil Company 2953,
Holley Carburetor No. 4
29T7, Gateway Lanes 2895.
Doubles leaders are Jake'
Miller and Kullman 1266,
Ed Pudvay and Cecil Pudvay 1212, Couturier and
Heinlich 1207, Mahon and
Heim 1212, Moore and
Dickinson 1200, Berry and
Pitchford 1195.
On top in Singles are
Harvey 670, Couturier 654,
Berry 650, Fletcher 641,
Raymond 633, Gordon 629,
Cecil Pudvay 626 and
Pitchford 626.
Jack Raymond, fifth in
Singles is also the front
scoring, individual bowler
in All-events with 1884.
He is followed by Cecil
Pudvay one pin behind with
1883, Jake Miller 1852,
Norell Mahon 1805.
Tournament manager,
and Men's Bowling Ass.
secretary is J.C. Marotzke
who said that this year's
tournament is a little smal-
ler ■ than the  1963 event.
Loan Deadline
Farmers hav e until
January 31,-the end of this
month to apply for price
supports, loans or
purchase agreements on
their 1963 crops of wheat
and other eligible grains.
This is a change from a
former announcement that
fixed the date on January
15, according to Floren
Pudvay, chairman of the
Clare county ASC
committee.
Entered are -34 teams,
54 sets of doubles and 106
singles. Ninety one are paid
in   the All events  chase.
Total prize  money     is
$513.40 and the $75.00 first
place award for the best
team is the biggest chunk
of gold.
ABC arm patches also
go to winners in each of
the four events.
New Shops
Sell Gifts,
Draperies
Two of Clare's young
women, seeing business
possibilities in locations
off the main scene are in"
separate ventures in retailing and service.
Mrs. Robert Krell began
a business venture early in
December with Barb's Gift
Shop located at 210 West
5th street. The house was
completely redecorated,
and two rooms have been
set up for many lovely
gift items and novelties.
. One room is very attractive for "baby' and displays many useful items,
and colorful gifts too.
Parking is no problem
for customers, as the shop
is just across the way from
the1 city parking lot.
Specialties are items'for
card party prizes, showers
novelty gifts and other
lines.
Mrs. Stanley Crum has
opened a part of the Davy
house on north McEwan,
for a Drapery and Home
Furnishings Shop, and has a
fine seleation of drapery
materials and wall papers
to match.
The front foyer and two
center rooms are being
used for display purposes,
and a work room, for
custom made drapes. The
rest of the home is occupied by the Crum family.
Virginia has been a resident of Clare for twenty
years, and for some ten
years has been active in
the drapery making bus-
iness. She has been always
in demand for her ability
and fine workmanship as a
seamstress in making
drapes, and interior decorating.
Don't Fish
la Shanirock ,
When The Sentinel said
a few weeks ago that fishermen could not take trout
from Lake Shamrock in
Clare,—it was only half
right!
They can't take any other
kinds of fish right now at
Shamrock either.
So, to set the record
straight and correct the
error,—don't fish Shamrock until the spring season. It. is classed the same
as a trout stream.
Standard Open
Tomorrow
Michigan's newest
Standard Oil Co. service
station, a modern version
designed to serve expressway travelers, is snuggled
up to the entrance to 1-75
two miles north of Clare.
It was built and owned by
Art Ulrich, longtime Standard dealer in Clare and will
be managed by his son
Richard,
Construction was started
in November and the station will open tomorrow
(Friday) with only minor
details still unfinished. A
grand opening event is expected to be announced
early in the summer.
The station will have to
sell, T, B, A. ( that's gas
station man's" talk for tires
batteries, and accessories)
But the new place will also
offer Expressway road
service, food vending, and
the accomodations of overhead lighted exterior, and
ceramic- tile  rest rooms.
An American Oil Company Spokesman said that
the only other stations like
this in the area are operating near Mt. Pleasant and
Ithaca, just off the US-27
exits.
Club Panel
The Clare Study Club
Will have their, February
meeting next Tuesday evening in the Methodist
church parlors, at 8:00p.m
Dr. Ernest Donald, of
Central Michigan University, will -be the moderator for the topic "As Others See Us", with several
foreign students of the University on €_e panel.
Guests ate invited.
Farmers from all 83
counties will journey to the
Michigan State University
campus, East Lansing,
from February 3 through^
for the 49th annual edition
of Farmer's Week.
Special educational sessions—from A toZ-r-ofin-
terenst to everyone will be
held throughout the week. A
glance through the program
indicates a wide range of
topics including:
Alfalfa, Beef, Celery,
Diseases, Eggs, Fruit,
Goats, Honey, Irrigation,
Jobs, Kidney beans, Labor,
Mink, Nuts, Onions, Potatoes, Quail, Rabbits, Sugar
beets, Teenage marriages,
Uebanization, Vegetables.,
Weeds, X-rays, Youth and
Zinc fertilizers.
Theme of this year's
event is "Michigan Agriculture Grows With Michigan.*
Large numbers of farmers and other people interested in agriculture are
expected to attend more
than 100 special sessions to
to be held throughout the
week. More than 24,000
attended educational meetings, banquets and"toured
exhibits last year.
Youths will be able to
attend a special program
designed to acquaint them
with careers and job opportunities in agriculture
and   related   fields.   This
Order Man
Held For Trial
Over Checks
Robert Dougherty, 56, of
Detroit, and formerly of
Clare, was arraigned here
on a felony charge Monday
afternoon, for the passing
of three checks at local
business places.
He   waived examination
and     bond    was     set at
$1000,00. The case will be-
heard* ao the ■•■next term of
court.
Dougherty was stopped
on a traffic violation by the
City Police, and held on -
the worthless check charge
after he was identified as
the man . wanted here. He
is wanted in two other counties   on the same offense.
program is scheduled for
Tuesday morning and will
he      repeated     again ott
Thursday. • ,
The Police  report
accidents this week.
two
A two car collision occurred on January 27 at the
corner of Fifth and Maple
street. A car driven by Otto
Rudolph Qttersky of Clare
pulled out on US 10 in
front of a' car driven by
Mrs. Jeanette Crowell of
Frankfort* A passenger in
the Crowell car, Mrs. Carrie Doan, 69, of Honor, was
thrown into the windshield.
She was taken to Clare
General Hospital for treatment.
Ottersky was given a
ticket for failing to yield
the right of way.
Tuesday evening, a
minor accident took place
on the corner of Fifth and
McEwan streets, involving
cars driven by Leonard E.
Pierce of Farwell and
Norma K. Crawford. The
latter was • issued a ticket
for having an expired operator' s license.
Northwood's
Largest Gift
A gift of $1,125,000from
the Herbert H. and Grace
A. Dow Foundation for the
construction of new dormitories wa s announced
today by Northwood Institute, Midland, Michigan.
The gift will provide
housing for an additional
400 new residence students
through- the construction of
eight dormitory wings to
existing   residence   halls.
The construction of these
eight dormitory wings will
complete the first of three
such dormitory complexes
designed for the 176 acre
Midland campus.
Northwood president Arthur E. Turner stated that
the gift was the largest
single gift ever received
by the college. He further
said the assets of the college are in excess of four
million dollars With the new
gift.
Exclusive
100 Clnb
The "Century Club"
for bowlers, claims to
be the fastest'growing
club and all its members (2) come from the
Monday Night League
at Clare Alleys,
Ten days ago there
weren' t any members,
then George Lehr hit
100 pins over his average to qualify. With
an average of 139 he
knocked over 244 pins
in one game!
Monday of this week
Ed Willey increased the
"club" membership by
100 percent when he
too qualified. Ed more
than doubled his average of 131 when he
hit a,263.
League Secretary
Orv. Smith says each
will receive an ABC
arm patch.
Vernon Tax
Carl Seiter, treasurer
for Vernon township announced today that the tax
roll for the township has
been corrected and is now
ready.
Taxpayers may contact
his at his home three miles
south of Clare on old U.S.
27. The deadline date is
February 15th.
Many youths and parents
alike will want to attend
the program dealing with
"starting tomorrow1 s
farmer today" sponsored
by MSU agricultural economists. The experiences
and ideas of three farmers
and three agribusinessmen
working closely with young
farmers will be presented.
Some of the successful as
well as pitfalls that
should be considered
before youths plunge into
farming today will be discussed.
A,trio of men will receive Distinguished Service to Agriculture awards
from Dean T.K.Crowdenof
MSU's College of Agriculture • during a Wednesday
program. A Saginaw dairy
farmer, Edward J. Wright,
a bank .president from Pig-^
eon, E.J. Clabuesch, and a
Montcalm county potato
grower, Arthur E. Sack^tt,
will be presented with the
awards given to outstanding
Michigan agricultural
leaders each year since
1954.
Exhibits will dot the
campus from one end to the
other. These will be of interest to all types of farmers, homemakers, young
people- and others engaged
in agribusiness.
Crop scientists are
bringing a weed control expert all the way from Europe for their meetings. The
man is in charge of the weed
research institute of Holland and will presnet his
views of new herbicides,
methods of application and
the mode of action of herbicides within plants.
Stretching for a point, these Pioneer cagers Mike Calkins (32)
and Steve Vance (40) helped control rebounds and made Friday night's first half against Durand as even as it was. The
Railroaders ran away with, the second half to win by 15 points.
Sentinel photo.
It's Durand 55-40
Over Clare Cagers
Durand's sure bail handling paid off Friday with
a 15-point win over Clare
on the basketball court here
The score was 55-40.
Coach Bob Sippell's Pioneers, although trailing in
the game from the beginning, were not outclassed as much as they were
victims  of inaccurate
shooting ahd the worst kind
of bali handling - that
stopped many of their
chances ahd set up opportunities for the Railroaders*
In rebounding action the
Green and White had its
share of ball control and
mastery under the nets.
Jerry Russell, Sam Kush-
maul and- Ghuck Stirling
fighting to Outreach the taller Durand basketeers^
Stirling led Clare's
scoring with 13 points .and
Russell was a close sec
ond with 12.
The fighting Pioneers
stayed close enough to Durand to keep the crowd on
its feet through much of the
first two periods, but
couldn't match a third-
quarter rally that shot the
Railroaders far in front.
In other conference
games the same night, Cor-
unna beat Cheasning and
Ithaca edged St. Louis,
Clare plays in Corunna' s
Gym tomorrow evening but
then starts a four-game
stay at home to entertain
some of the best teams it
meets all season.
February     4—Sacred
Heart Academy, February
7—Chesaning, February 14
St.    Louis, February 21—
Ithaca.
The Pioneers will end
their regular schedule on
February 25 in a game at
Harrison.