1964-02-27; Clare Sentinel

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Thursday. February 27, 1964
Establi-hed 1878
12 Pages
New Series Vol. 72,   No. 25
Who Would
Steal Kids'
N.F. Money?
Five March of Dimes
canisters were reported
taken from Farwell business places, by pre-teen-
agers recently and this
was distressing news to the
campaign workers.
On the brighter side, the
Gallops and Sharps of the
Farwell Bar, sponsored an
auction sale, at their place
of business February 16.
Baked goods, clothing, furniture, etc., were donated
by the public and Farwell
merchants, and the Gallops
turned over $300.00 to Mrs.
Louis Gee, Clare County
March of Dimes Director.
Of this amount, $45.00 was
received from March of
Dimes cards. A certificate
of appreciation was presented to the Gallops from
the National Foundation.
In the past 12 years
prior to 1964, Clare county has raised $28,262.89
and spent on county patients care, $27,238.23, 960
of every dollar has been
spent in the county with
only 4£ going to the National Foundation.
Five canisters may not
seem like much, Mrs. Gee
says, but it could be the
price of a cripple child's
special shoes. The county
is still caring for polio
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Our grandfathers were fond of pictures like this taken in the
lumber woods of their day. It's much more rare now, in these
days to find virgin timber being cut. Webber Brothers lumber
producers cut this Elm wood on the farms of Orville and-
Lyle Bates near Clare. Sentinel photo.
Cutting Virgin Elm;
No More In State?
cant Take    Beats Off
Dogs Into
THIS THE STORY? Lots of people have troubles, but Ithaca's basketball players last Friday night had flat-footed inertia, - - and they had Clare! The upset-minded Pioneers
simply WANTED TO W_N! And this photo at the peak of the
excitement illustrates it with Jerry Russell crashing in for
a lay-up score while four opponents stand in attitudes of aj-
most spectator roles. Whatever the story of Clare's surprise
victory over Ithaca, it was the BIG story at Clare High this
week. *    . Sentinel photo.
Pioneers' Upset Win
Leaves Ithaca Tied
For Conference Title
A lumbering operation
going on recently near
Clare is not exactly like
the industry that used to
keep area pioneers busy,
but it could revive memories of Michigan's rich
history as a timber producer.
Cut and hauled out from
the farmlands of Orville
and Lyle Bates seven miles
northeast of Clare were
several thousand boardfeet
of Gray Elm in logs.
Weber Brothers, a lumber producing firm in Beal
City said it is virgin timber
and the woodlot on the Bates
land may be the last remaining stand of virgin Elm
Makes Sense
"*'" The Board of Directors
of the American Cancer
Society, Michigan Division,
Inc., has asked all the Hospital Governing Boards to
consider the removal of
cigarette vending machines
or other means of public
sale,  from the  hospitals.
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An almost unbelievable
thing happened (as the
saying goes), to the Ithaca
High basketball powerhouse Friday on its
way to a conference
championship!
Coach Bob Sippel's
Pioneer cagers beat Ithaca,
—tripping up the Yellow-
jakcets and sending them
sprawling into first-place
tie with Corunna.
And you know what?
The Pioneers, doormats
for every other team in the
league and in the area,—
these same helpless,
smarting CHS players are
the only ones in the Mid-
Michigan B League that
have beaten both the leaders,  Ithaca  and  Corunna.
Clare has now inflicted
a painful loss on both top
teams and earned the right
to be called "Giant Killers'.'
Friday night's contest
between Clare and Ithaca
here was supposed to be
like leading a helpless
green and white "lamb"
into an arena with an invincible powerhouse.
But there was a difference this time, the lamb
stunned the powerful opponent 50-47.
The outcome was a happy
stunning surprise for CHS
student fans, row on row
on row of them in the
crowded gym who gave
more noisy, freinzed support than the team got for
any other tilt this season.
It stunned sportswriters
in the area and state who
had voted Ithaca the number
four, or five team in the
top ten in Michigan.
And   the   Clare victory
was a fatal, stunning thrust
to the Ithaca hopes for
1963-64 cage  supremacy.
Up until Friday night the
Yellow jackets had won 13
and lost only two games.
They had scored 1,085
points against just 813 for
their opponents.
The game Friday could
not have contained more
suspense and excitement if
it was the product of a
fiction writers script outline!
Coach Sippel's strategy
was toplay carefully/Slowly
and keep control of the ball
as much as possible against
the taller Ithaca re-
bounders.
The tactics paid off with a
9-4 lead for the Pioneers
at the first quarter mark.
Clare's lead increased and
held at from five to 11
points thourgh most of the
rest of the game.
An exciting climax in
the final period brought the
Yellowjackets within one
point of Clare with less than
a minute to play. An Ithaca
player's chance to tie the
score was lost when a free
throw bounced outside the
hoop.
With but 21 seconds left
before the final buzzer,
Chuch Stirling was fouled
and calmly dropped his
shots through the net to
make the three-point winning margin.
Two things were un-
sually memorable in the
victory for Clare.
One was Clare's tireless
ballhawking and amazing
defense that held the big-
scoring Ithaca quintet to
47 points. This was the
same lineup that topped
100 points against hapless
Clare High in an earlier
meeting this season.
And the other strong factor in the win was Green
and White skill and luck
at the charity-throw line.
Clare poured 30 points
through the nets led by
Stirling's ten counters.
Despite close calling by
officials that had Clare's
Jerry Russell and Patterson fouled out early in the
last quarter, Ithaca could
total only nine points via the
free toss route.
Coach Sippell left the
gym after the game on the
shoulders of his excited and
noisy players, but he had
time to shout credits to
them for their courageous
and heads-up play.
The Pioneers have only
to meet Harrison in the
gym there to end their
regular season and allow
final practicing before the
district tournaments.
Part of the fun for Clare High
in Friday's win over Ithaca
was the wild enthusiasm and
great team support from the
stands. (You must have been
in hibernation if you don't
know that the Pioneers beat
•Mighty Ithaca, 50-147). Here
the bench and Coach Bob
Sippeli whoop it up for the
Pioneer's good scoring show,
and cheerleaders do gymnastics as they organize the
crowd's howling approval.
Sentinel photos, more are on
the sports page A-4.
Also Coaches
'Game Of Life*
Bob Davenport, Taylor
University Football coach,
was well received in Clare
over the week end. His
first appearance was at the
Clare - Ithaca basketball
game here.
Later on the young people and a number of adults
met Davenport at an "open
house" held at the Clare
Methodist Church. Bob
Grimes, a music teacher
at Clarkston, and brother-
in-law of Forrest Meek,
one of the youth counselors, was also a guest for
the week end.
The youth met with their
guests for breakfast at the
church Saturday morning,
and later Davenport talked
to adult workers with youth,
In speaking to the youth,
the Taylor University
Coach said "We all should
know our best, and give our
best in whatever we may
do or whatever vocation
we choose.
To illustrate, he cited
football, and stated that
as a coach, he expected the
best of his boys, and then
challenged his listeners to
always put forth their best
efforts in whatever they
do, whether in sports or
their daily living.
Sunday was also a big
day at the Methodist Church
with Bob     Davenport
speaking to a mixed group
of youth and adults during
the Sunday School hour,
and bringing the message at
the morning worship
in the state.
Many of the logs, piled
beside the C & O railroad
tracks here for loading
Monday were 25 to 30
inches in diameter.
Weber Brothers cutting
and loading the logs were
not the only ones to handle
the lumber.
It was sold before it was
loaded, to the L.H. Shay
Veneer Co. of Germfask,
Michigan for exportation
to European veneer makers
A Shay company representative at St. Johns,
Archie Taylor, said that
his firm exports more than
90 percent of all Birdseye
Maple that goes abroad.
His card carries the price
of Gray Elm as $125. per
thousand feet,  f.o.b.   car.
No ,one knows how the
giant trees orTthe Bates'
farms happened to be
passed over in the days
when this area was one vast
timber-cutting and harvesting beehive.
Reason for the sale of
the timber now is the
spreading danger of Dutch
Elm disease rendering the
trees useless, and their
saleability because of the
age and size of the trees.
Not so long ago a similar
Operation was harvesting
immense virgin maples
from the farm of Everett
Carncross in the same general neighborhood.
Clare Draws
Reed City
Li Tourney
If Clare Hi has any sharp
offense to unveil in the
coming first round of the
state basketball tournaments, it didn't show on
Tuesday night this week
when Harrison clipped the
Pioneers 60-30.
Unimpressed by Clare's
victory over Ithaca last
Friday, the Harrison
cagers hit a big average of
their shots from the floor.
Chuck Stirling was high
point man for CHS.
Clare's first opponent in
the district will be Reed
City, in whose gym the
games will be played. The
game is to start March
3rd at 7:30 p.m.
The survivor of this contest will meet the winner
of a lakeview Big Rapids
game in district finals on
March 6.
State Parks
Tentative approval was
given last week by the Conservation Commission to a
proposal that dogs be barred from state parks from
May 1 through September
30th.
The dog ban is due to
growing complaints that the
animals dirty campgrounds^
often howl at night, and a
nuisance to park visitors.
Dogs will not be allowed on
bathing beaches at any time
of the year.
Campers and other park
users may take dogs into
state parks and recreation
areas from October 1
through April 30, if kept
under immediate control
on leashes.
Parks would remain open
during the summer season
to seeing eye dogs, dogs
owned by employees who
live in the parks and dogs
taking part in hunting, and
training in areas where
permitted.   ■-••■---'
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Don't Be
One In
2 Million
This may be motorists
final week to avoid the long
lines of last-minute license
tab shoppers who will
undoubtely jam every
Secretary of State branch
office starting on February
24.
In mid-February, Secretary of State James M.
Hare said that more than
1-million Michigan motorists had purchases 1964
licenses, but "we still have
more than 2-million to go.'
"Unfortunately, more of
that 2-million will be
standing in line the last
week of the rush, getting
elbowed around in the big
crowds," Hare said.
Clare city police Wednesday were questioning a
suspect in the areas first
attempted armed robbery
complaint  in many years.
Arrested Tuesday night
by State Troopers and confessing guilt in the assault
was George Leman Bailey
24, of Harrison.
He broke down during
questioning Wednesday and
made his admission to a
Trooper who was fingerprinting him,
Charles E. Buchholz of
Clare, manager of a large
service station in downtown
Clare told officers that he
was through work Monday
night and getting into his
parked car •'hear the rear
of a dairy products store
at the corner of McEwan
and Third streets.when the
robbery attempt was made.
A man approached suddenly and poked Buchholz'
back with an object held
out of sight in his pocket.
The man growled, "This
is a stickup''.
Buchholz struck at the
man, knocking him back
and off balance, and jumped
into his car and locked
the doors before the thug
could recover. He told
police that the assilant
pounded his car windows
with his fists.
Clare Chief Milan Shepard, Officer Roger Depue
and Trooper Hoffman from
Mt. Pleasant worked on the
case with a description furnished by Buchholz.
In more police action
during the week, a young
thief who got away with
some cash from Loomis
Welding change drawer
February 4, was confronted with evidence against
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May Open July Camp   Celebrate
For Girl Scouts Here     Beauty Week  Three Families Start
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Walter are getting familiar with
Telfarm, a new system of record keeping and anaylsis.
They are being instructed by specialist Russell
Howes from MSU. More pictures on page A-3.
Both hopes and plans are
running high for this summer's Girl Scout day camp
to be held in Clare in July.
Mrs. William Ulrich and
Mrs. Richard Ulrich have
been appointed co-directors for the local camp
and are now taking training
in Saginaw for their job.
Members of Civitan, who
have taken a deep interest
in the land project, have
already been working at
clearing the camp site
owned by the Clare Outdoor Girl's Club.
Each Girl Scout in the
three levels of Brownies,
Juniors, and Cadettes will
receive a camp folder some
time ih March.
Many adults have already    offered their time
and assistance for the camp
but more women and a
number of teenagers will
be needed. Anyone interested in serving as a camp
counselor is asked to contact   either   Mrs.  Ulrich.
Clare scouts joined the
Coleman group at the
Coleman School forest site
and 105 girls attended. The
Coleman girl scouts have
been invited to attend the
day camp at Clare this
year.
Mrs. Earl Hacker, Troop
consultant, states there are
almost 150 registered girl
scouts in Clare, a net the
leaders have hopes that
this summer ahd next
year's plans and activities
will be the best yet.
Recognizing National
Hairdressers week- recently six beauty operators
from Clare and Rosebush
went to the Ardis Rest
Home, to donate their
services there.
Twenty permanents, 28
haircuts, and 22 wave sets
were involved in the day's
activities, making the women there very happy.
Supplies were given by
Ray Kerns of Saginaw, and
Pierce Supply Company of
Lansing. Towels were furnished by the Reliable
Linen of Cadillac.
Operators were Erma
Elliott of Rosebush, Evelyn Lutz, Emma Lee Kaiser, Erna Kay Northoh, •
Madeline Hinkle and Ruth
Schroeder,
New "Telfarm" System
A new aid to farm
record keeping and
management, a system
called Telfarm is being
put to use in Clare county
by three families pioneering in the program.
Telfarm's system of
controls and bookkeeping
is designed to accomplish
two goals according to
George MacQueen, Extension Service director
for Clare county;
There will be an
electronically computed
record interpretation for
the farm manager. This
is a tool to aid him in
making   management de
cisions.
Second, Telfarm is a
wider sounding board to
reflect the health and
condition of agriculture
in the entire state.
The system of on-farm
and in-the-home management assistance is a joint
undertaking between the
Agriculture Experiment
Station and Co-operative
Extension Service at
Michigan State University
in East Lansing.
A description of its
purpose is boiled down
to the short definition:
"A   new generation    of
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