1964-02-20; Clare Sentinel

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New Series Vol. 72,  No. 24
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A city hall remodeling
and "facelifting" job due
to start any day, will add
valuable office space where
it is needed by the city
clerk's office and the assessor and engineer.
The work, let on contract
to Jim Murphy of Clare for
about $5,000. is the first
repair and remodeling of
any extent for the 30-year
old structure.	
Brakes Fail;
TniekPliinges
Hirough Ice
A pair of apple orchard
workers had a hair-raising
escape from possible death
or injury Thursday. A
downhill ride, out of control with 18 tons of apples
in their truck ended when
they left the road and broke
through the ice of a pond.
It all happened like this:
The tractor and semitrailer, owned by McKin-
ley Orchards of Frankfort
and loaded with about 18
tons of apples was stalled
on the north side of the
Bear Lake hill on M-115,
about seven miles from
Farwell, at 9:30 Thursday
evening.
Orten's wrecker service
from Farwell was called,
to tow the trailer into Far-
well. Coming down the
south side of Bear Lake
hill, with all the ups and
downs, the driver lost con-,
trol, and the semi-tractor
brakes would not hold.
The loaded trailer
plunged down the embankment into a pond along
the west side of the road,
taking the tow truck with
it.
Considerable • damages
were sustained by both vehicles. Donald Townsend,
age 29 of Beulah, driver of
the semi, and his passenger
Robert Long, 24, of R. 1.,
Benzonia, were both injured slightly. William
Hay ward 41, driver of the
truck also sustained slight
injuries.     '
Sawmill
Demonstration
Small sawmill operators
ih Clare county may be interested in attending an
afternoon and evening sawmill operators training
session to be held Thursday
February 27th at Man-
celona.
The meeting will cover
a number of items including marketing, grade
sawing automation of sawmills, tips of winter sawing
and business management.
Those in attendance will
also have an opportunity to
see in operation the plants
of the Meeder Lumber Company which has a dry
kiln and a complete sawmill operation.
Sawmills operating in
Clare county are McGeorge
Roberts, Lake George; Peters Crate Works,
Harrison; Russell Williams, Farwell, and Schie-
mann Sawmill, Clare.
Clarence Gum, city
manager said that the addition some years ago of
a small toilet room on the
building's second floor, and
a partition to divide a large
hall on the second floor
are the only previous alterations.
According to plans for
the job soon to start, the
main entrance to the building will be closed ;pn the
Fifth street side and moved
around to Beech Street
where   it   will, face east.
An entrance corridor and
small "lobby" near the
present front door will become part of the city
clerk's office and add possibly 130 square feet of
area.
Public toilet facilities in
the northeast corner of the
first floor will be closed
and dismantled to make
room for the re-located
stairway.
A modern entrance enclosure of aluminum and
glass will be added to the
new main entrance to the
east. To enclose 10x12 feet
of area, the new entrance
will have two sets of double doors.
A vault addition in the
clerk's office will stretch
all the way across half the
first floor width from the
center corridor to the south
wall. It will close off the
clerk's office space from
that of the city manager.
Outside repairs to the
building will see masonary
mortar replaced around
brick work and stone coping at the top of the walls.
The Commission that approved the project also
wants aluminum capping to
protect the coping.
Already completed in the
building is painting and decorating of the entire
upstairs area. Floors have
been cleaned and re-
finished.
The large hall-like room
on the second floor comes
in for frequent use, Gum
explained, with Girl Scouts
and youth groups using it
as much as three nights
a week sometimes.
The Health Department's
Well Child Clinics are held
there once a month and
Thursdays are for unemployment compensation
check distribution.
There was a time when
the hall was a popular spot
for parties and dances.
The building was built in
1932 as a WPA project,
the finish of construction
did not come until  1934.
Dr. Gershon
Re-appointed
Dr. J.R. Gershon was
" re-appointed Medical Director at the Clare General
Hospital, for the coming
year.
Meeting at the Town and
Country Thursday evening
last week, the Board of
Directors of the Hospital
also heard Moehller and
Otto, representing the
Michigan Hospital Service.
Dr. Gershon has been
with the Clare Hospital
since 1953, and served as
chairman of the department
of anesthesiology, before
his appointment in 1961 as
medical director.
looking to buy something,
hire somebody, rent a house, get
a job? Best place to look to find
what you're seeking fastest is in
the Want Ads in this paper. A
few minutes spent scanning
these ads can pay off handsomely to youi
The Sentinel
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Top Grades Published In
Semester
Clare county's
ed traffic on
operation last
trying to pull
Sheriff James Darling direct-
M-115 around this wrecker
Friday when the crews were'
the truck and its load of 18
,' Photo by Harold Love,
tons of apple? out of the water. The truck
driver lost coiitrol while being towed to Far-
wijJI and took the towing wrecker into the
.rend with him. Story on this page.
Advice Offered I^rmers
In Leasing Advantages
The question whether to
lease, or not to lease farm
buildings and equipment is
putting new wrinkles in the
agricultural brow, says a
farm quarterly magazine of
wide circulation.
A story in the spring
issue discusses the advantages of leasing over the
outright purchase of say a
silo, equipment shed, hog
house or even a barn. The
same problem is argued as
it applies to equipment like
perhaps      an     automatic
Three CHS
Bandsmen
"All-Stais"
Three ■ Glaarft -students-
have been selected t'o participate in the "1964 third
annual greater Michigan
All-Stars Bands' I.
Of the originally 4,958
high school musicians considered, 214 top musicians
were selected. Honored
from Clare were Susan
Hobkirk playing an oboe,
Calla House, bassoon, and
Bob   Shelander,  alto  sax.
The musicians will meet
in St. Johns, Saturday and
Sunday, February 22, and
23 for the two days to prepare for the concert on
Sunday, at 4:00 p.m. The
doors will. open at 3;30-
p.m. and is free to the
public.
Some of the nation's top
conductors, soloists, and
clinicians will be present
to help the students in their
rehearsals and concert.
Seventy-five high school
bands will be represented
in the two bands.
feeding system or   other
machinery.
The answer to this question will probably vary with
each individual farm and
farmer. Leasing, of course
does not confer title. The
periodic payments which
the lessee makes, under
some circumstances, may
be considered a direct cost
and may in; this way constitute a tax saving. The
arrangement may also permit the lessee to invest
his working capital in opportunities that offer
greater profit potentials
than he could expect from
a building.
On the other hand, there
is something to be said for
ownership. The fact that
something is finally paid
for, and belongs to
may in the long run be
cheaper and more satisfying than the leased structure, which if you do not
purchase, you must eventually pay to have disassembled and returned to the
lessor.
The   article    concludes
I Mrs. Minnie Arts reported to the Sentinel Monday
!ihat she had gathered some
ipussy willows, somewhat
'early, but they are really
nice.    •
Mrs. Arts    also has a
lemon tree, which has its
second lemon on it now.
Clare FFA
Wins In
District
':, The Clare F.F.A. Leadership teams won two first
places and Farwell took
pne,v     in,    the     District
Seven all -A students
head the semester honor
roll at Clare Public
School's high and junior
high levels, Sixty-six more
in grades 9 through 12
earned a grade average of
B or better.
Winners of the coveted
scholorship   honors   were
announced this week in a
list published by the school.
The freshman class led
in the number of students
placing on the honor roll.
* With all A marks were
Stephen Mackenzie and
Richard Norcutt. They
were followed by 30 other
freshmen whose average
grades  were B or better.
Two sophomores, Susan
Hobkirk and Lorraine McDonald led their class with
all A grades and 16 more
second-year high schoolers had B or better.
Three juniors earned all
A marks. They were Gary
and Larry Norcutt, and
Carol Walter. Fourteen others took" a B or better
average.
The senior class was
represented on the honor
roll with six students whe
won B • or better averages.
Junior high students
scored high honors when
ten eighth graders made
the all-A list along with
seventh grade students.
From the eighth grade
were Archie Bell, Susan
Brooks, Debbie Greer,
Shirley Hampton.
Jeff Jackson, Charles
Knickerbocker, Don Pap-
esh.
Joanne Pinaire, Tom
Sheredy, Debra Warner.
In the seventh grade were
Penny Case, 'Leonard
Erickson, Patricia Knickerbocker, Karl Randall and
Sue Smith.
A high level of ability
and appliciatiori was demanded of students to attain
scholastic honors. Senior
high students were disqualified by any mark falling
under a B, and junior high
Holiday For
Bank, P.O.
The Clare Postoffice and
Citizens Bank and Trust
Company will be closed
all day, February 22nd, a
national holiday.
Mail will be dispatched
as usual but there will be
no post office window service or delivery.
Urges Use Of Warning
For Slow Moving Vehicles
y.0U,V -.eadership contest at Midland Senior High School,
Wednesday night, February
12th. The district includes
Pinconning, Bay City
Central,  Bay City Handy,
Midland,     Mt.    Pleasant,   |\Tfirr»-*Q    lYvr_
Farwell and Clare. _1^<U_UMS&   XUp
The Parliamentary Pro-  CoiH Hybrids
"The use of a slow-
moving vehicle emblem by
day and a flashing red light
at night can greatly reduce
the hazard of moving tractors and implements over
roads and highways", comments a Michigan State
University farm safety
specialist,
Richard Pfister, an MSU
agricultural engineer,
notes that a unique emblem is now available for
slow - -..moving - vehicles
which serves as a-^wa-rning
to oncoming motorists. The
emblem is a 14-inch-high
triangle, which is a brilliant flurescent orange with
certainly has some kind
of place in modern financing of improvements.
But like a high powered
piece of farm equipment,
the man who plans to use
it ought to have a thorough
knowledge of its workings.
There are various clauses
in the leases of which every
prospective lessee should
be well aware.
Delegates
At F.B.
Meeting
Farm Bureau members
attending the sixth annual
Freedom Conference at
Central Michigan University applauded vigorously
at the announcement that
Governor Romney has appointed Walter Wightman,
■jy -■-,. • an Allegan County farmer,
JdOV JLIieS t0 rhe University's  Board
" of Trustees.
Wightman, president of
the Michigan Farm Bureau
Nine year-old Albert was welcomed to the post
Charles Defoy, died Sunday by University President
February 9 in the Univer- Judson Foust, who 'com-
sity Hospital where he had mented on the coincidence
been  taken for treatment that     brought  the    Farm
that farm structure leasing cedure contest was won by
Clare. The members of the
team were: Chairman Robert Hutchinson; Secretary
Lyle Quigley: members-
Charles Magnus, Jerry
Dawson, Jim Eberhart, Ron
Walters, Dick Kleinhardt,
Lyle Garver. The Farm
Foruni contest was won by
Clare. The team was Sam
Kushmaul, chairman, Greg
Brooks', Jack Kleinhardt,
Loren Penrose and Frank
Hutchinson.
This annual event is organized and sponsored by
the Conservatory of Music,
Inc., with Walter P. Cole,
St, Johns High- School instrumental music director
as local chairman.
Dies
After Fall
Tim Fullerton of Farw<
won first place in Public
Speaking. Midland High
School team won the 4th
contest in Demonstrations.
By virtue of winning the
District contest, these
Clare teams together with
Tim Fullerton of Farwell,
.will represent the district
in the N.E. Michigan Regional Contest next week.,
The highest yielding corn
hybrids in the 1963 Michigan corn performance
trials have been named.
They produced 14 bushels
more per acre than the
average of 190 hybrids
tested over the state.
"Performance results
show that you do not need
to grow late maturing hybrids to obtain high yields"
reports E.C. Rossman,
':rop scientist at Michigan
'State University who conducted the  tests.
The hybrid corn trials
were conducted at 12 locations in Michigan by the
MSU crop science department in cooperation with
seed corn companies. A
detailed report of prefor-
mance records for all hybrids tested in 1962 and
1963 is available at the
Clare County Extension Office.
a border of dark red reflective'material.
"The inner triangle is
highly visible during daylight hours when three out
of four slow-moving ve-
vehicle accidents occur",
reports Pfister. "At night,
the outer border of reflective material shows: up as a
white triangle in the beams
of   automobile headlights.
"These, emblems are
now being-used on a triaL
basis in J36 states--and may
greatly "reduce the number
of rear-end collisions".
Continued1 on page  8
Temporary
R.C. Number
A change has been necessary in the personnel
contact for blood replacements, due to Mrs. Tim
Frey's absence from Ae
city.
Persons needing help
with blood problems or replacements are to contact
MrsY. Emma Everts
evenings, at EV-6-9895,
until further notice.
DEATHS
Mrs. Roy Feighner, age
77, who has been in ill
health for several years,
died in her sleep early
Wednesday morning.
Funeral services will be
held Friday afternoon,
from the Clare Church of
God, with Rev. Harold Mes-
ser officiating, and interment in Cherry Grove
cemetery.
Stephenson       Funeral
Home is in charge of arrangements.
students were eliminated
from consideration with
any mark less than a C.
A complete list of honor
students includes the
following with the average
of B or better;
Seniors-Mike Austin,
Karen  Bergstrom,"    G&iy
Gershon, Calla House^Lar-
ry Johnson, Linda Riegle.
Juniors-Gregory Brooks
Elaine Burdo, Pat Case,
Terry Cooper, Cathy Gro-
gan.
Mel Hampton, Stanley
Hampton, John House, De~
lite Kistler, Connie Lewis.
Louise Mackenzie,
Jackie Presley, Mary Rod-
abaugh, Jean White.
Sophomores-Laura Bon-
trager, Gretchen Brooks,
Kay Daniels, Lawrence
Jackson, Betty Keehn.
Mary Logic, Gerald
Machul, Lynette Miller,
Louise Nevill, Sharon Peltier, SuAnn Sager.
Sallie Samborn, Karleen
Smith, Bob Williams, Sara
Wilson, Sue Zinser,
Freshmen-Ellen Acker-
man, Myron'Allen, Bonnie
Bauder, Caroline Bechtel.
Barbara Bell, Charlene
Bennett, John Casteel, Andrea Clute.
. Judith Cornstock, William Corsaut, Lois Eberhart, Linda Erhart, Mary
Foster, Patricia Gibson,
Benny Hampton.
Barbara Hart, Robert
Hutchinson, Kathleen Ireland, David Isaac, Cynthia
Jeffery,   Charlotta Keehn,
after being injured in a
fall on the ice.
He was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Defoy
and schoolmates said he
struck his head in a fall
on an icy slide where children played , on school
grounds. He had been
treated at Clare General
Hospital and later at Samaritan Hospital in Bay
City, before being taken
to Ann Arbor.
He was born in Mt.
Pleasant, January 29,1955,
and besides his parents,
he leaves two brothers and
two sisters, William, Daniel, Sherry, and Rosemary,
grandparents, many other
relatives and friends.
Services Were held Wednesday afternoon February
12th from the Thurston
Funeral Home at 1;00 p.m.
with Rev, Virgil Brinkman
officiating,; and burial in
Cherry Grove. ,     ...
.   '■■:■ fc
Bureau leader to the
campus for the Freedom
Conference when the announcement was made.
Over 200 people from
all counties of the state
attended this popular conference to hear experts
examine such problems as
"Our Dwindling Gold Reserves", "Clinches of Socialism", "Problems of
Cuba and Latin America",
In a symposium titled
"Politics and You," the
farm group heard from
people active in local party
affairs. These active citizens urged the audience to
"join, contribute, and participate in the party of
your choice".
Those who attended from
Clare County were: Mrs*
Wilbur Weldon* Dale Davis
and Warren White. Joseph
Swain represented the Herrick Farm Bureau of Isabella county.
THES-3 BOWLEGS are slicing ihewirt-andi
lose margin mighty thin in the Monday Night
Mixed Couples League at Gateway! Only one
point separated the first-place team from the
fifth place before this week's match. This
week's Sentinel sports page shbws standings
on February 16 with teams of Brown and
White, and Bell and Wicks tied tot the top
with 20 points. Alter them are -Crchinar''*
Bulldozers, Mickle and Buche, Irwin and
Schultz, each'with 19 in a three-Way tie for
third! Here watching the points being figured at Gateway where they bowl are, (from
left) Thelma Irwin, Skip Busche^ -loyd
Stanley, Liz Bell and Vonnie White, Next
week's standings Will show Bel-1-.Wiks alone
in first place since their four-point win oh
Monday this week, Pete Blown photo.
Thomas  Koch, Billie Lukf.
Susan Neff, Pamela.Rie-
berg, Evaleen Seiter, Ruth
Smith, Donna Squires, Jane
Walters,   Sandra   WeldOn.
The B average or better in junior high included
the following eighth graders: Sharon Bay, Steve Bly-
stone, Carolyn Burdo,
Betty Chappie, Valerie
Cole, Steven Gallagher,
Jovanna Hacker, Jack
Hemstreet.
Carole House, Roger
House,. Roger Kleiner, Joy
Kleinhardt, Dennis Lloyd,
Bob McJames, Ann Miller.
Brenda    Notter, Sandra
Robison,     Betty     Shafer,
Donna      Skyring,    Shirley
Smith, Mary Stirling.
Jim Strouse, Carol Underwood, Martin Walter,
Bill Warner, James White,
Jean Witbeck.
. Seventh grade-Suzanne
Allen, Eric Armentrout,
Tom Baumgarth, BillCirh-
merer, Jim Clute Gloria
Cooper.
James Cooper, Joel Cooper, Judy Day, Ann Eberhart, Lana Eberhart, Sus-
anne Fetters.
Pamela Glenn, Mark
Graham, Ruthanne Goodwin
Dennis Iacco, Allen Isaac,
Shelley Jackson, Melissa
Loomis, Laura Mackenzie,
Paul McClain, Kenneth McJames, Steven McNerney,
Sharon Neiderheide, Burton Northon, Kathy Owens.
Mary Jane Schlafley,
George Shetler, Joe
Squires, Gary Thomas,
Russell Tiedeman, David
West, Dan White, Elaine
Wilson.
Hay Market .
Nose Dives
When the word got out
that hay buyers were no
longer Working in this area
the market dropped off considerably.
Much hay had been
shipped out of Clare county
into drought striken areas
in the country, but seemingly the needs have been
met. There is still a lot of
hay in farmers' barns.
It appears as though the
next time for a selling hay
market will be sometime
the latter part of March or
the  first part   of
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