1965-02-04; Clare Sentinel

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Ton Gents Copy
Sixteen Page.
Clare Michigan February 4, 1965
Established 1878
New Series Vol 73, No. 21
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Winter Festival
Packs In Crowds
At Best Show
The 1965 Winter Sports
Festival in Clare county
last weekend broke attendance records for several
events, and is being called
as good or better than any
like celebration staged
here in the history of the.
winter fun weekend.
Sellout crowds attended
events including a packed
house for the Festival banquet on Saturday night.
Spectators who gathered on
the sidelines for winter
golf, snow scooter races,
square dancing on frozen
Shamrock and other outdoor fun topped all previous
numbers.
Happy winners in festival
contests ranged from a new
champion scooter racer to
a lovely Miss Clare County
Cheryl Wood a Harrison
High School senior and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Wood of Lake
Street there.
Tom Cain, Twin Elms
club champion took the
men's. winter golf title in
the' Saturday novelty tourney and -Mrs. Jane Calkins
carried away women's honors.
Main prizes in another
contest sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce
were a colored television
set won'by Norman Cooper
and transistor radios won
by David Seiter,- Debbie
Bicknell, and Carl Gibson
all of Clare.
Shooting competition at
the Tobacco River Club
north of Clare was topped
by Ray Francis of Mt.
Pleasant, Richard Gordon
and Rod Raymond both of
Clare, and Bob Tarzwell
of Beaverton. Snow scooter
racing had a'1965 champ,
Mike Calkins of Clare.
Winter Sports Festival Queen, "Miss Clare County" is
Cheryl Wood of Harrison and here she is being congratulated by Bob Reynolds, sports announcer from Radio WJR fn
Detroit.   With her  in the  spotlight at  the  Saturday  night
Ball at the Doherty are her lovely rivals and runnel--up,
(left) Teresa Sandow, Miss Farwell and Fatty Case, Miss
Clare. Photo by Guys and Dolls,  Harrison
none"-. in
Anti-litter
Campaign
An av/ard for Leonard
Refineries in recognition
of its pioneer work in litter
prevention in Michigan featured the opening of a 1965
campaign to Keep Michigan
Beautiful.
The award, presented by
Governor George Romney
was accepted in behalf of
Leonard by L. R. Kamper-
man, vice president and
director of marketing.
He said, "This award
would not be possible without the cooperation of many
Leonard dealers throughout the state who distribute
thousands of Leonard lit-,
ter bags at their stations,
and maintain convenient
litter barrels for the public."
Cederberg's
Representative
To Visit
Congressman Elford A.
Cederberg has announced
that his District liaison
representative, Walter
Nakkula, will be in the
courthouse at Harrison on
Monday v February 8, 1965
between the hours of 10
a.m. to noon to confer with
any residents of the county having problems in which
the Federal Government is
involved. i
This is the first of periodic visits Congressman
Cederberg's representative will make to this county
as a part of the congressman's plan to keep in close
touch' with' the  citizens.
Nakkula was added to
Congressman Cederberg's
staff the first of the year
as a move to establish a
closer liaison between the
district and the congressman's Washington office.
Weed Seeds
Don't Give Up
Clare County farmers
have a pesky legancy in
farm crop weed pests. How
extensive is this problem?
Let's look at some individual weed plants. Field
bindweed has a seed length
of life in the soil of more
than 20 years. Green foxtail,, seed Jias a length "of
life of better than 16 years
i-eUgh ^IgWeei^'TiaOr.^thart
10 years. Quackgrass seed
life is only 1-2 years, but
the main problem here is
with the underground root
system. So we see that
chemical weed control is
a constant need.
Pioneers Move Up
In  Conference  With
Win  Over  Cqfffnna
10 Students
In State Test
Semi-finals
Campers Spent
$13.8 Million
In Area
In their pursuit of outdoor fun, recreationists
using state parks routed
an estimated $47.2 million
into the tills of Michigan
grocery stores, gas stations, and other businesses
during 1964, according to
the Conservation Department.
The , figure is based on
spending   by  13.8  million o
day users and unpreceden-   Tj-l1-"r\7'-YlP1"l«
ted 235,600 camping fami-   A^iry UlCIli.
lies. It includes $38 million from daily visitors
and $9.2 million contributed by. campers. One-third
of the camping total was
brought into Michigan by
out-of-state vacationers.
Clare High's cagers may
make basketball the major
sport here for the current
season if they can continue
in their winning, w. a'..y s
through t h e~ remaining
•gatti&s"of the s%ag_ttf -V^-
Victorious 73-52 in their
game Friday with Corunna,
they stretched their win
"streak" to two games and
moved up in conference
standings to a tie for fourth
place behind St. Louis.
Most joyous sight for
Coach Bob Sippell, however
was the scoring skill of Tim
Haring and Al Patterson
who continued their amazing spurts with 31 points
and 20 respectively against
the Cavaliers.
And in a valuable supporting role was Steve
Schroeder with aggressive
play Under the boards that
netted 21 rebounds to his
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After a low scoring first
half of the season when the
Pioneers    absorbed   eight
Recommends
Ten Clare High School
Seniors are among the semi
finalists in the State of
Michigan Competitive Scholarship, competition.
They-       are      Gregory
Brooks, John House, Melvin-iampfon* ~ * ~°
two-^weeks- 'a^~f^0^^oc^ Stanley Ha-mp-
73  they  scored" toni'Oithy'Grogan.
Carol   Walter, and Pat-
In the northern Lower
Peninsula area including
Clare county, $13.8 million went into the economy
through the spending by
over three and one-half
million daytime recreationists and 101,400 camping families at. state parks.
Ludington state park out-
drew all others in the area
but   Higgins   Lake   state
park had the largest number of campers.
Following on the list of
parks that were most popular for campers were
Straits state park, Waterloo recreation area> Brim-
ley, and Tahquamenon
Falls.
straighttf^-^its, -five of
them by*> me foes, the
CHS five V pund a surprising sco'x. punch with
57 in a near" . -'ja against
Ithaca, -85 jihNdowning
Meridian-
and the
against Corunna last week.
Clare's Mid-Michigan B
standings are now 2-5 with
three conference games yet
to play.
Heartening also was the
reversal of earlier team
form when the Pioneers
managed to stay near their
opponents during the first
half, or three quarters only
to drop the last quarter by
a wide margin. In Fridays
contest with Corunna, the
Green and White outscored
Corunna in the second and
fourth quarters by a big
superiority.
Individual scoring went
this v/ay: Haring-31, tPat-
terson -20, Schroeder -7,
Tim Sheredy -7, Kushmaul
-6, O'Dell -2. High point
player for the Cavaliers
was Gary Dutcher with 20.
Tomorrow night the
Pioneers will take the floor
here in the last game of the
long home stand with
Chesaning invading. The
game starts at 7 p.m.
Chesaning High comes
fresh after an upset victory
over Ithaca and in a lofty
tie for first place in the
conference.
The next home appearance for Clare will be in
the last game of the regular
season when Harrison
comes here on February 23
THE WANT ADS
ARE JUST MY
CUP OF TEA!
They'll score with
you, too, once you get the
habit of scanning them
with an eye to the real
bargains they offer.
Dial EV 6-9938
Record System
In only one other state,
New York do dairymen have
the advantage of production
record information as
Michigan and Clare county
dairymen do.
County Extension Director George MacQueen notes
that MSU specialists have
developed a unique method
of predicting production of
individual cows that is extremely accurate.
"By this system,' he
says, "and through the record keeping programs
available, no dairyman
should have cows producing below 11,000 pounds of
milk within the next 18
months."
Accurate prediction
wouldn't be possible without research and high speed
calculators.
With this method a dairyman can p r e d i c t a full
lactation's production with
only 15 days in the laca-
tion.
He can get this on-both
the 305 day extended production and on the mature
equivalent basis* * His cows
aire automatically ranked
according to production as
well.
This method is used
twice a year automatically
at no extra charge,
"All Clare County dairy-
men should be on a production record program rof
some kind wherejby this
information   is   available.
''Aiiot_fe_:-eMimpl«<elaf_i-'-^_»i__it meeting on Janwary
riculture's resleaich and-J.6 at the Ofr Community
teaching methods/'* ■   j -*.-
AskM-W
Nominations
The call is out to community groups throughout
the state to help find Michigan' s product of the year
arid Michigan's Agricultural Development of the
year. Both honors are to be
awarded during the 12th
annual Michigan Week, May
16-22.
The search will progress
through county and regional
contests to the state finals
early in May.
Elected ABA
Director
George Sprague of Harrison, farming in
Greenwood township has
been elected a director "on
the board of the newly enlarged Clare-Isabella local
of the Michigan Animal
Breeders Association.
Board elections were
of the Business at the
ricia Case, and Larry
and Gary Norcutt.
The semi-finalists Were
selected on the basis of a
scholarship examination
administered last November.
Finalists will receive
notification of their awards
when the applications and'
examinations are screened
and selected by the scholarship committee later this
winter.
This scholarship will be
awarded to three people in
each legislative district
and the balance of the scholarships will be awarded
to residents of the state at
large. Each award can be
renewed if circumstances
and performances permit.
Waring Show
In Midland
The Fred Waring Show,
nationally known television
group, will be brought to
the Midland Michigan
Senior High gymnasium
Friday, February 12, at
8:15 p.m. by the Town and
Campus Club and North-
wood Institute as the first
in their artist series.
This announcement was
'made by Mrs. J.W. Britton,
president of the Town and
Campus Club.
At 97 Still
Ice Fishing
No one is ever too old
for ice fishing as long as
he or she is still young at
• heart.
A sprightly example of
this is Arthur Sprague of
rural Harrison, who, as he
approaches vhis 97th birthday, is back on the ice
this winter.
Until they hear otherwise
Conservation Department
licensing officials are recognizing Sprague as
Michigan's oldest active
fisherman.
Circuit Court
Candidates To
Talk To Club
All four candidates for
the Circuit Judgeship vacated by Applelate Court Justice Donald Holbrook have
been invited to speak before
a public meeting sponsored
by the Midland County Republican Breakfast Club
Sunday February 7th, at
the Executive H o u s e
restaurant.
Stephen Fox, attorney
from Mt. Pleasant, Probate Judge Robert Campbell of Clare; Municipal
Judge Henry Hart, and
Attorney James Rood, both
of Midland will each have
an opportunity to briefly
present their qualifications
and background.
Th informal breakfast
meeting will then be opened
up for questions from the
floor.
Buffet style breakfast
will be served starting at
7:55 a.m. and the program
is expected to start at 8:30
Newly elected Breakfast
Club President, W.W. Allen
will introduce the judicial
candidates.
Election     of a    circuit
.judge.__to....serve .Midland,,
Clare and Isabella cbQnties
will: be^held Monday',* February 15th..,
Sunday's .'meeting is the
-first opportunity, and possibly the only one offered
Midland voters to meet and
evaluate the candidates all
at one time.
After'Vacation'
Cookie Sale
Supports G.S.
The annual Girl Scout
cookie sale with proceeds
going to develop and maintain summer camps for
girls,, will start tomorrow
in the area.
Orders taken for cookies
will be filled with delivery
between March 26 and
April 5.
A portion of each dollar
received from the sale of
cookies will go for camp
upkeep and development,
and also for a fund that pays
for camping by girls who
cannot afford the entire
camp fee.
Promoted
Directors of Osceola Refining Company in Reed
City have announced the
appointment of William
Warner as the new manager of industrial sales.
Warner, of 2696 So. Corn-
well Road, Clare is also a
member of the Clare School
Board.
The longest non-
scheduled vacation that
Clare schools have had in a
long time had to end sometime.
Roads that had been
either choked with snow,
slippery with icy crust, or
else threatened with drifts
ing were finally safe for
transportation
Tuesday morning and all
classes resumed.
But not quite as normal I
The schedule, -already
set back one week, had to
be re-arranged to get the
second semester started as
quickly as possible and final exams that were
originally timed for January 25-28 were telescoped
into Tuesday and Wednesday.
There was' no time for
further review or further
preparation for hundreds
of high school and junior
high students who plunged
right into their exam schedules on the morning that
school reopened.
Nobody really thought on
January 25 when schools
were recessed because of
heavy snow, that the closing would be for more than
a day. The next, day, Tuesday the 26th, school opened
in the morning as usual
but a gathering snow storm
sent all students home at
noon.   •
Conditions on Wednesday were frozen with a
crust over deep snow and
slippery surfaces underneath. The same on Thursday and more snow that
night which made conditions almost as bad on
Friday.
... Cla£g. superintendent Richard Wheeler admits that*
school could have opened
on Monday this week, but
predictions were for early
morning snow with winds
up to 30 miles per hour
and it wasn't worth the
risk.
So record day, regularly
scheduled after exams are
completed and should have
been January 29, has been
delayed till today. Students
and teachers "will hustle
right into the start of the
second semester tomorrow
The second semester beginning is only four days
delayed.
Another long weekend is
in store next week with
county teachers' institute
Friday, February 12.
School administrators
have repeated their urgent
advice for parents to listen
to radio announcements
concerning the closing of
schools rather than to telephone superintendents, bus
drivers and teachers to
learn whether school will
be in session on bad days.
On one day last week
when there was to be no
school in Coleman due to
severe road conditions,
three school buses departed on their morning runs
before word could be given
to    drivers    that   classes
would not be held. Superintendent C 1 a r e n c e
Maston' s phone line was so
busy with students and parents calling him that he
could not place a call to
the bus foreman to tell
him not to start the drivers
Station WCEN is always
informed when there is to
be no school fbr any emergency reason.'
Reactions were partly, eagerness and part
apprehension when Clare High students .returned from a. week's "snow vacation" and
plunged into semester' final exams on the
first day, This French I class receives test
questions and awaits the signal' to start
from instructor Mrs. Louisa Bowler,
Sintih-l photo
300 Musicians
Performing In
Festival Here
On Saturday February 6,
Clare High School will be
host to the District 9 Senior ;
High Instrumental Solo and
Ensemble Festival, one of
the activities sponsored by
the Michigan School Band
and Orchestra Association.
Approximately 300 high
school musicians from
twenty schools in the northeastern part of the lower
penninsula will come to
Clare to play before one
of four judges.
Offerings will range
from solos to sextets with
an almost endless variety
of instrumental combinations.
Judges for the Festival
are: Dr. Edgar Ross, Central Michigan University;
Floyd Mead, Midland Public Schools; Steve Wolf, Mt.
Pleasant High School; and
Edward Rima, Taylor Center High School.
A total of 185 events are-
entered in the festival,
which   will   commence at
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Participants will be
rated in divisions 1 to 5
and given a sheet with the
judge's comments and criticism. Entries receiving
a first or second division
rating will be eligible for
medals. Those receiving
a first will also be eligible
to participate in the state
festival on March 20.
Lloyd Conley, Clare band
director and secretary for
District 9 of the MSBOA,
is festival chairman.
Lunch arrangements for
visiting students is being
taken care of by the Clare
Band Boosters Club, under
the supervision of Mrs.
James Perrine.
The public is invited to
attend any of the performances at any time during
the day. A program can be
had by calling the school.
Household
Anniversary
Nineteen years in Clare
will be celebrated at Woods
Household        anniversary .
sale today through Saturday
night.
Offering repeats of popular sale features, t h e
store registers all sale
visitors free, for prizes,
cash, bikes for a boy and a
girl,   souvenirs  and gifts.
Lines of well known advertised merchandise will
be featured ih store demonstrations by specially train
ed personnel from manufacturers and distributors,
and samples of food and
other refreshments are
free.
Thousands of handbills
and free contest blanks
have been mailed out to
support Sentinel advertising covering two pages in
this issue.
liow Water
Tempts Dredgers
With low water levels in
1964 having presented a
tempting come-on, filling
and dredging by some
shoreline owners in Michi- .
gan advanced in helter-
skelter directions at more
and more inland lakes
The Conservation
Department is concerned
with the expense to public
interest and rights of otfifer
shoreline owners. *.,'
Along the Great Lakes,
too, the I_epa.:_tmenj&^$_i
need for n'ejy lawslo pfso- *
mote orderly development;-
of shorelines'. ***
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