1962-12-20; Clare Sentinel

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Ten Cents Copy       Thursday. December 20, 1962
Established 1878
New Series, Vol. 71,      No. 15
174 ATTEND GET ACQUAINTED MIXER MONDAY
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A crowd of 174 Clare
residents and business
people gathered in an
atmosphere of cordial welcome Monday evening when
the Clare Chamber of Commerce sponsored a "Get
Acquainted" banquet for
management and employees of Beaver Tool and
"Engineering Corp. at the
Doherty Motor Hotel.
The machine tool accessory manufacturing firm is
Clare's newest industry,
having re-located here
from  Gaylord in October.
About   70 people from
Beaver Tool, representing
.   management, supervisory,
and employee people and
their  wives and husbands
were dinner guests of the
Clare   business organization. Program M.C, Frank.
■*T. LaGoe told them," After
we leave this banquet, we
no longer wish to be known
- as Beaver Tool people, and
Clare people. Our welcome
. to you is sincere and deep
and we want to think of us
all as now members of our
common community."
On the program of short
speeches were' Nelson A,
Miles of Detroit, vice
president and secretary of
Holley Carburetor Com-
pany,David Donovan,mayor
pro tem of Clare, Marlin
Alexander, president of the
Chamber of Commerce/
Also called on for welcoming talks were Dr. J.R.
'''Gershon for Kiwanis,
Warren MeGuire for Rotary, Carl Stephenson for
Civitans, and Robert Roe
for JavCees.
Beaver Tool President,
Aubrey E, Streadwick responded with words of appre
ciation for the welcome his
company and people have
experienced in Clare. He
was generous with credit
for various assists in negotiations" toward moving
Beaver's operations to
Clare and in countless details of obtaining the plant
^building and re-locating the
new families here. He mentioned Art Damoth,Clare
realtor; the Citizens Bank
and Trust Company and
its vice president, Frank
T. LaGoe who also performed valuable services
as chairman of the C of C
Industrial Development
Corp.; Holley Carburetor
Company and Mr. Miles,
and Clare plant Manager
Harold Sandborn; Clare
Mayor GlenCain;individual
investors who subscribed
a local fund to purchase
<the building and lease it
back to the new occupant;
The Clare Sentinel.
Compliments came
from Miles for both Beaver
Tool and for -Clare for
its civic aggressiVene's in
finding and attracting new
■ industry. He said that the
competition between cities
in this goal is keen and
that the help Holley Carburetor was able to provide
in attracting Beaver Tool
was given with the knowledge that Beaver could
expect the same fine cooperation that Holley has
enjoyed in Clare.
Mayor pro tem Donovan
expressed the sentiments
gf Clare's city government
when he welcomed Beaver
Tool here to enjoy the benefits of life in this progressive city, and to lend a
share of effort in solving
the problems that face the
city from time to time.
He spoke for Mayor Cain
who was attending a city
commission meeting.
Claim Lost
Iron Filter Plant
On Program For
Better City Water
ENJOYING the Beaver Tool Get Acquainted party at the
speaker's table Monday were, from right: Frank T. LaGoe,
vice president of the Citizens Bank and Trust Company in
Clare, master of ceremonies for the evening, seated' next is
Mrs, LaGoe; Aubrey E. Streadwick, president of Beaver Tool
and Engineering Corp,, and Mrs, Streadwick; Nelson A Miles,
vice president and secretary of Holley Carburetor Company.
Nativity Celebrated In Rites
Throughout All Area Churches
Young people's organizations in various church
groups, pulpit speakers,
and choirs all will take
leading roles in the celebration of the adventseason
and Christmas in area'
churches this weekend and
through Christ's birthday
itself.
Programs in many
churches will be held on
Sunday evening, but with
others observing special
services on .Christmas
"five.
The Arthur Center
Church of God, at the corner of Ashard and Athey
Roads, will meet for the
Church School at 10:30 a.m.
and the worship service
will be at 11:30 a.m; The
junior choir will sing
"Glory to God", and the
morning message, "God's
Gift of His Son" will be
brought   by   Mrs.    Beery,
The Church School program will be Sunday night
at 8:00 p.m.
The Christmas message
will be observed at the
Clare Congregational
Church at the Sunday morning worship'service and at
a Christmas Eve service.
On Sunday morning, the
senior choir will sing,and
Mr.' Parker will preach
on the subject "God With
Us." Portions of the Christ
mas Story will be read from
the gospels of Matthew and
John.
The Monday Christmas
Eve service will be at 8
o'clock again this year.
Members of the junior
choir will sing. This is
a candlelight communion
service. During the hour
the congregation sings
several hymns and the
choir sings anthems between readings of the
Christmas story. The service is concluded with Holy
Communion.The communion service is open to all
members of any Christian
Church.
Mr. Nor is Elden,
interim director of the
senior choir and Mrs.Jay
Trucks, who directs the
junior choir, have rehearsed their choirs in a
number of special Christmas anthems to celebrate
the Advent and Christmas
seasons.
The receptpon of new
members,    scheduled   for
Articles
A lost and found depart
lenient is operating. at the
Clare police station in the
Clare city hall where articles may be taken, and
owners call to identify
, things thev have lost.
Adult Classes
Due To Start
Enrollment for classes
in adult education courses
will start the week of January 7 according to Mrs.
Genevieve Fleming, director of theproject at Clare
Public Schools. More
details about courses to be
offered and the tentative
meeting nights will be announced soon*
There1 will be a good
variety of subjects for im-
proving Skills, recreation,
and hobby activity; Mrs,
Fleming promises.
this coming Sunday, has
been postponed until Sunday
December 30th.
The Eagle Church of
God, corner of Dover Road
and Rogers Avenue, meets
for the Church School at
10:30 a.m., and the morn-
,ing worship service at
11:30 a.m. The choir will
sing, "Shine,0 Wonderful
■ Star" and the message will
be "God's Gift of His-Son"
brought by pastor Elza
Beery.
The Church School
Christmas program will be
Monday night, December 24
8:00 p.nu	
The Elm Grove Church
of God, on Beaverton Road
will hold the Church School
Christmas program Saturday night, December 22,
at 8:00 p.m.
The- morning worship
service Sunday will be at
10:30 a.m. The junior choir
will sing "Hark the Herald
Angels Sing".
The morning message
will be: "God's Gift of
His Son.",brought by Rev.
Mrs. Lou A. Beery.
The Church School will
meet at_ll:15 a.m.	
"The Christmas Reality" is the sermon topic
of Rev. D.R.Salisbury for
the worship services Sunday morning, at 11:00
o'clock in the Clare Methodist Church and the broad
cast hour at 11:30. New
members will be received
at this service. Christmas gift envelopes are being sent out this week to
be rpceiver* on Sunday.
The Church School
Christmas program will
take place at 7:30 p.m.
in the sanctuary.with all
departments participating
and a pageant, "The Birth
day of Our King" directed by Jack Raymond. The
offering will be the White
Gift Christmas for the
'Childrens' Home.
On Christmas Eve.there.
will be a communion table
set between the hours of
6:00 to 8:00 o'clock, and
members may feel free to
come during that time, to
take of the elements., meditate -and pray. At 11:00
there will be a worship
service, conducted by Rev.
Salisbury. Let us take time
out during this busy season
to re-dedicate our lives as
we again hear ^he story of
the Savior's birth.
A special . Christmas
program at the Dover
Church will present children in an hour of recitations and .song on Sunday
night. The young people's
group will srage a three
act ' play, "Teenagers
Christmas"
CHURCH OF GOD
Sunday morning service
.will  have special musical
selections' and Rev.Messcr
will speak on "The Manger
-and the Swaddling Clothes"
Sunday evening at7:30p.m.
the church program with
the    children's   program
first. Each class will par
ticipate under the direction
of teachers. The main part
of the program will feature
the Youth Group in a
cantata.	
The Christmas program
for the Church of the Nazarene will take place Sunday morning December 23
at the church school hour
10:00 a.m. and continue
through the morning worship service. ' There will
be solos, duets, recitations
and a play. Comevarid bring
your friends.
Rev, Eugene Hamblin,
the^ pastor, also announced
that Junior,Intermediate.s,
and^ High School Classes
had their Christmas party
at the Alton Allen home
in Weidman on Tuesday
evening. On Friday evening, there will be a prayer
time from 6:00 to 6-30
and a caroling program at
6.-30.  	
The First Baptist
Church of Clare Sunday
School Christmas program
will be held Friday evening, at 7:30 and will consist
of recitations, musical
numbers, candlelight-drills
concluding with a play by
the senior young people.
' On Sunday evening, December 23rd,at 7:30, the
choir will present the can-
tata,"Night of Miracles",
written by John Peterson.
The cantata is the thrilling
story of Christmas in
music, with various
changes of tempo and harmony to add to its effectiveness. Soprano soloist
is Mrs. Janet Goudie,tenor
soloist, Ed Schlafley, and
baritone, Alan Jeffery.
Reader will be Bob Jeffery. Mrs. Gertrude
Pfetsch is organist, Miss
Alma Rank, pianist, and
Mrs,Harold Knickerbocker
is choir director. A cordial
invitation is given to all
to attend.
At the Clare Baptist
Church the Sunday School
Christmas program will be
held Friday evening, December 21st at 7:30 o'clock
Mrs. Gene West isprogram
director.
The Maranatha Class
■ will have a progressive
Christmas Dinner Thursday evening, December
20th.
The Senior Young People's Christmas Dinner
will.be held Saturday evening, December 22nd, at the
church. Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Schlafley are the youth
couselors working with
this group.
At tho Sunday morning
worship service, the message will be "Winesses of
His Birth", by Rev. Knickerbocker. Special music
will be presented by Mr.
and Mrs. James Young of
Detroit,
"Night of Miracles"- a
cantata will be presented
by the choir Sunday evening, December 23rd at 7:00
The cantata, written by
John Peterson, is the heart
warming story of Christmas     in    the   words   of
Combined Ott "Pagfc A4
Fire Routs
Family; Home
Is Destroyed
Fire early Wednesday
morning destroyed the
rural home of Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde McJames. The
couple with their four children escaped although both
parents were reported
burned somewhat.
Nothing was saved of
their home and belongings.
It was reported that the
blaze started when McJames was risin g and
getting ready for work, and
tried to start^a fire in a
wood heating stove. An
accidental explosion
spread the flames and
forced the family to flee.
The family and sym--
pathetic neighbors and
friends are trying to collect some clothing, footwear
and other needed articles.
The father is medium build
and wears a waist size 36.
Mrs. McJames wears a
size 20 dress or coat and
7 1/2 shoes.
For their children,
there is one boy who wears
a clothing size 16, two
brothers in 12 or 14, and
a daughter who wears a
size 8-years.
Contributions of any
wearable clothing will be
welcome.
Speaker For
SCS Dinner
Clare County Soil Conservation District Annual
Meeting is to toe held on
January 17, 1963 in the
Harrison High School gym
at 8 p.m. Main speaker
will be Mr. Dave Overholt
of the Soil Conservation
Service, Michigan State
Office staff - in East
Lansing.    .
The topic of Overholt's
speech is to be "Recreation Development on Farm
Lands"..
The City of Clare has
launched a program in the
direction of better city
water and Monday, made
the first of planned moves
to obtain Federal aid and
build an iron-removal filtering plant here. After
an official policy of deliberations, study, and experimenting for years with
the problem of Clare's
mineral-laden water, the
present Commission took
swift strides to:
- 1.) Retain a firm of
consulting engineers to advise the city, and 2.) Apply
for Federal aid, as early
as Wednesday of next week,
to help pay the construction cost of 'a $153,000
filtering plant.
Mayor Glen Cain and
the Commission say that
there is a good likelihood
that Clare can get the assistance and that the city's
share of the cost can be
met without special taxes
of any kind or a bond issue.
Aim of the program is
to improve the quality and
taste of Clare "water and
to eliminate excessive red
rust in the water that has
long plagued residents.
Explaining the availability of Federal money,
Gain said that Clare county
is one of 273 in the nation
to be declared distressed
areas and is thus eligible
to apply for Accelerated
Public Works grants and
assistance.
A matching money formula under which the proposed filtering plant would
be built and paid for calls
for the participation by the
national government in the
amount of $88,740 or 58
percent of the cost. The
city would pay $64,260.
The mayor said that
enough cash is available
in the city contingency fund
and other funds to meet the
amount.
The Commission ,
Monday voted unanimously
to hire the firm of Norton
and Robbins and Associates in Traverse City
to prepare an application
and file the necessary
papers, Clare's application
will go to the. Chicago'
district office and has an
extremely good chance for
favorable action, the engineers think.
Measuring Clare's present water supply against
the rate of use and any
anticipated demands in the
future, the engineering
representative told the
Commission that well
sources tare sufficient for
the next 50 years. Purity
of city water, like quantity has been no problem.
Health departments tests
of samples taken at the.
wells certify its safety and
purity.
But iron content which
averages something like
two percent continuously,
has risen sometimes to
four percent for short periods,
A chemical injection
system installed several
years ago to loosen iron
in mains and pipes and to
free  it   in suspension has
proven to be no solution to
the problem. Failure is
only because of the extreme
high content of the iron
which- was- considerably
less when the calgon injection wa s first installed.
The consulting engineer
said he has seldom heard
of a water supply bearing
iron in such a large percentage.
40 Kids Get Shoes
As Giving Begins;
Cash Help Arriving
"Operation Christmas" j
received a needed contri- j
bution of $90.50 in cash
and a quantity of food articles, all gather by caroling groups on Tuesday in
the effort title/'Carolers
of Clare Help AH to Share"
Addition of more singers the last few days before
the party brought the total
number to about 350. They
separated to sing at various
locations throughout the
city and then massed for a
finale on the corner of
Fourth and McEwan.
Clare residents were
invited to donate money or-
food to the carolers for
packing in gift baskets for
needy families.
Mrs. Joe Johnston, organizer of the huge caroling party said that in addition to organized groups of
participants mentioned in a
story last week, singers
from the Clare Baptist
Church also joined in the
affair.
Forty school children
in serious need of warm
footwear didn' t have to wait
for the distribution of baskets when they were fitted
Tuesday with shoes, boots
and other items of warm
outer clothing. Representatives of Clare service
clubs met with Tony Wedal
co-ordinator of the Christmas basket project and decided to outfit the youngsters immediately.
Monday of next week
about 45 baskets ", loaded
with toys, food andxJothing
will be delivered >by the
workers. Until Sunday afternoon, persons ;having
donations of canned food,,
clothing or money may take
it to the Clare Congregational Church where the
baskets are being assembled.
At Holley Carburetor
Company, employees came
up with a helpful idea for
the project when they decided that money ordinarily spent for Christmas
cards to each other
Could be better used by
"Operation Christmas.
Fifty  dollars  was contri-
to the
buted   and   given
basket packers.
"We see each other
every day and can wish
each other Happy Christmas while the money we
would spend for cards will
help a family somewhere
that needs it."
More good response in
the program was acknowledged by Wedal from
Johnston Elevator, Circles
II and TTI of the Congregational Church, St, Cecilias
Home and School Guild,
Methodist W.S.C.S, Clare
Business and Professional
Women's .-Club, and Beta
Sigma Phi Sorority.
CHS Band
And Chorus
In Concert
Clare High School choristers and the band will
return to the annual custom
of a Christmas music concert this year when they
appear" in the new gymnasium tonight at eight
o'clock. Over one hundred'
voices and instruments will
join in traditional music of;
the season. The concert is'
free to the public.
The chorus of 35 members is under the direction
of Shirley Burgess and was
re-formed this year after
the activity had been
dropped for several sea-*
sons at school. The concert
tonight will mark the first
appearance since the reorganization. The band has
67 pieces.
A highlight of the presentation will be music
from a set of cathedral
chimes recently added to
the variety of instruments
used by the concert banjd..
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PEAK LOADS ot Chrlatma* mall and parcel post are arriving at th* Cfore p#*tofflce
th«M w»y. Ray Owene standi almost *urrounded by high piisa-of packages far patron*
of M»*«uU •*»*, ft*«plt« the WMitial enwb of mail that mu»t be ««lfye*ed for the hoi*
\ttmw, th* itaW Mrtt and d»llv«*» *ach «*a*'* dellvtry before th* awxt 1* unloaded.
A vaiiied mrexd «i«a
U.S. Pmm&£$*tte&.ciittimi
came to Cte'tfege 'TeecesMaj;
the Ciare $ostoffice last
week in recognition Of his
work «m a-^soject to speed"
deliV**-y^tfokxil for pat¥ons
on CJare ..tural roums^ami.
ffiaice i-^lfe1,*ddr«*3«*nK ***
such ifsiips^siex tt&m&m,
accuse.
Iffiifteiig for^which|jar-
tial •9m0t'fkiQAga to Postmaster *L0ry Jackson and
to *ij.e', ^eSffeumers Power
Company Involves the publication of a map of the
area-;ser-ved by; .the Clare
posftQffice, The map ehovre
the mail route -onvtrMch-:any -
givd| rural: ""street". ;ad~
dxeaii belongs,
'The citation, gttftttMe-
for framing, was preseffSted
to Teeter at a Christinas
party?   Saturday evening
- Teeter acted on a
preliminary idea by the
postmaster and assembles
needed material and actually   laid  out "the  i$a.pt
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