1963-02-28; Clare Sentinel

              »'«*•
The   Clare   Sentinel
Tea Gox&B C&Pf Thursday, February 28, 1963
Established 1878
New Series, Vol. 71       No. 25
Dairy Day Program Today
Featuring Management Helps
For Farmers In 3 Counties
It's   Dairy   Day   time
again, and the time is now!
Dairy Day, that annual
Clare,    Isabella,   Gladwin
county      event     with     a
program     of    worthwhile
talks  on topics  like herd
management, hay and feed
program improvement,
dairymen's questions and
their answers, free refreshments and other attractions for the family,
—it   is  to be held today
op mai
Clare High School
bandsmen and their director Lloyd Conley are
proud of a "history
making" achievement at
Friday's Band Festiyal at
Roscommon where both
Senior High and Junior
bands won awards of first
"place from an entire panel
of four judges.
For the first time since
Clare school bands have
• appeared in festivals of
any kind, the judges were
unanimous in giving them
first nlace ratings forper-
for '"       squired
nu a:.,    lor other
perxOi malices to test sight-
reading skill.
Ratings were the highest
possible to receive for the
standard of musicianship,
and were noted as  being
"worthy  of distinction."
Several hundred band
music fans heard the Clare
Senior Band play three
.Festival numbers in the
■**recent annual concert here.
Performed the same for the
Clare concert and Friday's.
Festival were: The Klaxoit
March by Fillmore, First
Swedish Rhapsody by Leid-
zen, and Introduction & Invention by Whear.
The Clare Junior High
Band will take its opportunity to show local- listeners how it won a First
rating, with a concert to
be played in the high school
gym on March 21. The
Intermediate Band will also
play at that concert.
Ot 14 District 9 schools
having bands at the Festival
«only   four others besides
*?~ Clare achieved the  First
rating.    They   were Roscommon in Class C, Arenac
Eastern and Gerrish - Higgins in Class D and Tawas
Area in Class B with Clare.
Charerones on the trip
Friday    were    Mrs.   Cris
Demo,  Mrs.   Ben Burdo,
Mrs.   Stirling, Mrs. Norcutt,  and Mrs.   Archbold.
Civic leaders in Coleman, irked because of west coast attempts to discredit Detroit as
a site for the 1968 Olympic Games, and convinced that the games in Detroit would be
a eourtse of pride and benefi s for all Michigan1, volunteered to lend what aid they can
to bring, the international athletic event to Michigan's metropolis. Coleman Mayor
Dean Keller (standing, left) listens as Supt. of Schools Clarence C. Mason outlines
what Coleman and other communities can do to aid Detroit's campaign.
Photo courtesy of The- Saginaw New*   .
oleman's Help Offered
■or Detroit Games Bid
INTRODUCED BY REP. STRANGE
Legislature Gets
Repeal Measure
On Sunday Law
The City of Detroit can
take aid ard comfort from
offers of help Monday by
Coleman residents who will
do what they can to bring
the 1968 Olympics to the
Michigan metropolis.
Coleman Mayor, Dean
Keller and School Superintendent Clarence Mason
led the Monday' meeting
which they hope will start
a statewide groundswell of
public sentiment for Detroit's selection as a site
for the world games.
Once thought to have exclusive designation as the
American host-city for the
Olvmnics. Detroit is now-
threatened by ambitions of
a west coast site with the
National Olympic committee being told that Detroit and Michigan cannot
finance the construction of
'facilities for the event.   ■
Coleman does not pretend to have a large voice
and great influence among
cities', but its offer of help
-to Detroit is no joke and is
not taken lightly by the
mighty neighbor either!
The "Coleman Olympic
Games Support Committee" learned from the office of Detroit's mayor thai
their enthusiasm and action
can really help in the campaign. Such support from
thousands of communities
and groups all over the
State would add valuable
weight to Detroit's cause.
Just about everybody
among Coleman's'1,200
population was represented some way at the meeting in the city hall Monday.
Representatives and their
organizations included:
Harvey Jones of the Men's
Bowling LeaguejMrs. Joan
Chupp for the Women's
Bowling League; Harold
Rellinger, Don Johnson and
Robert  Beacom  for    the
Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Ruth Little for the
Guild; Mrs. Jean Boman
for Indian Lore; Supt.
Mason and Stuart Fordyce
for the Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
Other were: American
Legion, Harry Brown; Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Raymond Moyer; Lion's Club.
John Brugger; Little
League, Bernard Johnson
Masonic Lodge, William
Lyness; Order of Eastern
Star, Mrs. James Brnka:
Rebekahs, Mrs. Velma
Rydman.
Schools Harry Brugger,
board      president;      high
Crusade Volunteers
Appoint Local Leaders
« A meeting of area
American Cancer Society
Volunteers was held at the
Hotel Doherty on Thursday
February 2.1st from 10:30
a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The
following counties were
represented, Roscommon,
Ogemaw, Gladwin, Isabella
and Clare.
Glare   county   leaders
were appointed in a meeting of their group which
followed.
Mrs. Frank Mitchell of
Lake Leelanau, vice president of the American Cancer Society Michigan Division, was chairman of the
area meeting. Other speakers were Maynard Reghi,
assistant executive director from Lansing, Mrs.
Earl Noel of Bay City,
and George Elleson, also
of Bay City,,and state
' president of the American
Canc'er Society.
The program concerned
the importance of using the
local newspapers, radio,
and tele'/ision as a means
of reaching everyone in
the county in the interests
of public education, especially in regard to the
menace of cancer in our
Ration at the present time,
^."^and the importance of its
early detection.
Other subjects were the
problem of budgeting and
formal recotmition of vol*-
unteer workers for faithful
service.
At the conclusion of the
meeting, Mrs. A.E. Bartow
of Harrison, president of
the Clare county chapter,
called for a business meeting of her group.
Minutes of the April
meeting were read by Mrs.
Marvin Heintz. Mrs. Barbara • Kinne, Clare County
Health Nurse, gave a report on purchases made ftr
the Loan-Closet, and she
suggested much needed additional supplies.
It was voted to buy one
more bed,  an alternating
pressure mattress, and two
magi - care   sheep - skin
pads.
Mrs. Robert H.Campbell was appointed Awards
chairman, Mrs. Van Parker, Educational chairman,
Mrs. James Ankney of Lake
chairman of the Farwell
area for the Cancer
Crusade, Mrs. John Bicknell, chairman, and Miss
Myrna Messecar co-chairman of the April Cancer
Crusade for Clare, and
Mrs. Ben Carpenter for
Ae Harrison area.
MrSi, Bicknell announced plans for the Crusade
"Kick-off" coffee hour to
le held at Barnes Town
rid Country Lounge on
v itch  25th at  7{30 p.m.
A RESIDENT of Fairbanks. Alaska who is in
Clare for a few weeks right
now is only kidding, of
course when he says he is
having a hard'time getting
accustomed to our cold
winter. But this has been
such a topsy-turvy season
that maybe he does have a
point there!
The Alaskan is Robert
Snyder, temporarily a
pharmacist at Economy
Drugs in Clare while owner
Roy Cimmerer is off on a
vacation. He once lived at
Houghton Lake, but went
north a few years ago to
.vhat has become our 49th
state.
You have probably heard
that during one of our recent spells of extreme cold
the temperatures in Mississippi and Alabama reached 15 or more degrees
below zero ( to say nothing
of the thermometer reading right here), while in
part of Alaska there was a
wave   of   40-degree heat,
Snyder is a tongue-in-
cheek booster for Alaska
weather, with accounts of
how in December when he
departed to come to Michigan for a visit, there was
just two inches of snow in
Fairbanks,, and even now
his relatives there write
him that there is only a
foot of the white stuff.
^" T* % "P
YOU'RE LOOKING at
someone you might know
when you watch a current
TV commercial for a popular soft drink. •— One of
the actors is Mrs, Mary
Ann Beck,granddaughter of
Mrs. Coral Turbush, of
Clare. Mary Ann's mother
is the former Virginia Collins who grew up as a resident of Clare.
Mary Ann has told her
grandmother that she en-
joyes her role in the advertising piece, and other appearances she makes in TV
commercials and is paid
well enough so she, "can't
afford to stop".
A WISE observation for
this, the taxpaying season
comes from The Times
in Blue Rapids, Kansas
which, says, "A man pays
a luxury tax on his new
billfold and" income tax on
the stuff he puts into it,
then sales tax whenever he
takes any out."
school. Miss Ronnie Barn-
hart; study club, Mrs.G.L.
Merr.er and M-trs t loyd
Pontius; Coleman Tribune,
Larry Key; Leo VanderpooJ
photographer.
Preparations for    this
week's meeting have been
going on for some time and
have   been   a   pretty-well
kept secret.
Committee leaders felt
that Coleman's organization to do what it could was
certainly an indication of
civic alertness and progressive spirit. They didn't
relish the thought that anj|
other "town might get wind
of preparations being made
and " stealing their
thunder."
Superintendent Mason
said that even students who
know what is being planned
kept the committee's confidence until Monday's
meeting.
But now that support for'...
Detroit's   Olympic bid is
.public,  there  is  need for
\haste  if other  towns will
join to promote what might
Continued On Page A-8
Reed City
Is District
Opponent
The Clare Pioneers will
-reel like invaders in a
far-off land next week when'
the entering game in Class
B district play pitts them
against Reed City in the-
Lakeview gymnasium.
Other teams in the class
pairings are Big Rapids
and Lakeview.
Tournament drawings
held Tuesday this week,
were attended by CHS
basketball coach Jim Raymond and Don Richardson,
athletic director. The three-
schools in the tournament
preliminary rounds with
Clare are located in close
proximity to each other and
compete mostly witn west-
Michigan neighbors.
In at least one case,
rivalry has brough a pair
of the squads together in
season games with Big
Rapids showing an advantage of some 20 points over
the Reed City Coyotes.
So Clare and Reed City
are both counting themselves lucky to be paired
against each, other in the
Thursday, March 7, opener
rather than against either
of the two favorites. Lake-
view's season record is 15
wins against only one loss.
The Clare - Reed City
game is 8:00 p.m., March
7 with the winner scheduled
to go against whoever survives the Friday Lakeview-
Big Rapids contest. The
final is  Saturday at 8:00.
F,B. Women
TbHearHubbs
Clare county Farm
Bureau Women will meet
On Thursday afternoon,
March 7 at 1:30 sharp, at
Grant Town Hall.
This is an open meeting
and all are invited to attend
•and hear Lewis Hubbs of
Gladwin, talk on the new
constitution,
the Pioneer group, as
hostesses, will serve light
refreshments.
State Rep. Russell H.
Strange (R-Clare ) introduced a bill Tuesday in the
Michigan House of Representatives to repeal the
state's controversial seventh day closing law.
The law was enacted
during the 1962 Session of
the' Legislature. It prohibits the sale, trade or
exchange or the offering
for sale, trade or exchange
of certain tangible personal
property on both of any
Successive Saturday or
Sunday.
"The passage of the bill
last year was surrounded
by. a  great deal of highly
emotional     controversy,"
said Rep. Strange.
He noted that within recent weeks a number of
Michigan counties, including his home county of
Clare, have moved by
actions of their Boards of
Supervisors to exempt
themselves from the provisions of the act.
"This proposal  to repeal the act is designed to
eliminate unnecessary legislative   entanglements at
the" local level of govern-
Clare Loses
At Ithaca:
Takes HHS
Clare High cagers had
the dubious distinction Friday of being the last rung
on the "ladder" which
Ithaca climbed to the Mid-
Michigan basketball crown.
The game played at Ithaca
ended 95-59.
The victory for the
Yellowjackets also clinched top spot in Saginaw area
• class-B ratings, — was
15th win in 17 starts for
the Ithaca powerhouse,-add
ed to honors for big Eric
Gruesbeck who scored 29
points in this, his final
game of the regular season.
The   loss  was   Clare's
seventh in nine league contests this season.
Pioneer       individual
scorers   who   led   in   the
one-sided   tilt were  Tom
Horgan with 24 points, Skip
Kegg    with    20,    Ralph
Bucholz with 10.
Piling up a lead of 24-6
i n the games first quarter, Ithaca Coach Bill Kirby
virtually emptied his bench
to let some of his starters
rest through parts of the
second and third periods.
He used 12 players and
top pointmakers following
Gruesbeck's 29, were
Sparky Kench with 17
markers, and Jack Raducha
with 16.
Elsewhere in the Mid-
Michigan conference, Chesaning and Durand clung to
their positions in the standings behind Ithaca with victories over their respective foes, St. Louis and
Corunna.
Glare, with only Friday' s make - up game at
Durand to go to finish the
regular season cannot possibly improve its position.
A game scheduled for December 7, 1962 with the
Railroaders had to be post
poned because of dangerous
weather and slipperyroads
that night. It was re-scheduled for tomorrow's date.
The   Harrison  Hornets
here  Tuesday night were
surprised 61-47 by a Pioneer  Five  that controlled
the game all the Way.
Coach   Jim   Raymond
started five seniors in this
last home game, putting a
lineup of Skip Kegg, Ralph
Buchholz,   jerry Russell,
OoBtmiisd on page A-8
ment and clear the air of
costly legal and enforcement actions, " Rep.
Strange said.
,The      act  —  No.   128
of the Public Acts of 1962
was  originally -introduced
and designed to affect only
counties with over 130,000
population.   The  act,  as
finally passed, included all
counties  of the state with
the   provisions for exemp
tion by  the county Board
of   Supervisors.   The  act,
which   becomes   effective
March  28,  has set off a
flurry of actions around the
state by the county boards
moving    to   exempt  their
counties.
in the IOOF hall at Clare
from 1:00 this afternoon
to four o'clock.
Arrangements have
been made by MSU Extension Service representatives" of Clare, Isabella,
and Gladwin counties in
co-operation with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture,
and with Kraft Foods plant
facilities in Clare,
The program today goes
like this:
At 1:00 p.m. an opening talk, Hay and Pasture
Management by Eugene
Doll, MSU specialist in the
Soils Department. A question and answer period follows.
A session on Farm Safety conducted by Richard
Pfister, MSU specialist in
Ag. Engineering is scheduled, at 2:00. At 2:30 o'
clock there is to be a talk
titled, Dairy Herd Management by Clinton Meadows,
MSU Dairyman specialist.
Following the talk,
another question and answer period is on the program until 3:30 when refreshments will be available by courtesy of Kraft
Foods of Clare.
Leaders in planning the
affair were PaulPennock,
County Extension Director
in    Gladwin   county,    and
Harold Elenbaas Is
New Superintendent
For Farwell Schools
The Board of Education
of the Farwell Area Schools
has announced appointment
of Harold Elenbaas as superintendent effective July
1, 1963.
He has served a principal   of   the   junior-senior
high    school    there  since
August 15, 1962..
The new superintendent
was born at Lucas, Mich.,
anrl received his high
school diploma at the Mc
Bain High School in June.
1947. He served in the
Armed Forces before beginning his college education at Central Michigan
University in Mt. Pleasant
He transferred to Michigan State University in 1952
where he • received his
Bachelor of Science Degree
in 1954.
Beginning his teaching
career at Fowlerville,
Michigan as a teacher of
vocational Agriculture,
Elenbaas remained in this
position   for eight years.
During this time he
earnpd the Master of
Science Degree from Michigan State University.Presently he is working
toward the Education Specialist Degree at Central
Michigan University.
Elenbaas, his wife, the
former Patricia Ann Kern
of Caro, and children,
Nancy 9, Janet 8, Mark 5,
and Sandra 3 reside at
248 S. Hall St., Farwell .
Ben Burdo
Assn. Director
Members of the Michigan Retail Hardware Association wound up activities of their three-day
Merchandise Show and
Convention, February 19,
i n Lansing, with the election of officers.
Drew Pearson, internationally known columnist
author and speaker, addressed tne Tuesday
breakfast on "Decisive
Decisions Today." Governor Romney and the legislators were special guests*
DeMolay To Install
22 Officers Saturday
Louie    Webb, Isabella Extension Director.
Clare County had no
active representative in
planning with the office of
Extension Director being
vacant after the resignation of Richard Schroeder
recently.
Police
'Team* Nabs
Auto Thief
A Saginaw youth who
played a kind of "shuttle"
game last week with stolen
cars running between Saginaw and Clare, has wound
up in the hands of Clare
police who tracked him
down here with plenty <f
help from State Troopers,
Saginaw City Police and the
Saginaw County Sheriff's
Department.
William Peter Fraser,
19, has been charged with
taking a car in Clare on
Thursday last week, driving it to Saginaw where he
drove it into an accident
and then driving away in
still another car from Saginaw which he drove back
to Clare.
Clare Police Chief,
Milan Shepard and State
Trooper Wyman Pomroy of
the Mt. Pleasant Post captured Fraser in Clare Friday after they discovered
him where he had broken
into a house belonging to
his parents at 206 E. Seventh street. There were
signs that he had been living
in the empty house since
February 17th.
To get to Saginaw last
Thursday, Fraser took • a
1960 Ford belonging to
Countv School Commissioner James McNamara of
Harrison. When he got to
Saginaw, he -ditched tne car
when a dog ran in front of
him.
He drove away from
Saginaw in a 1963 Pontiac
and returned to Clare. Officers found the car abandoned at the west end oi
State street.
Chief Shepard sent
Clare Police officer, Ray
Lippold to Saginaw to work
on the stolen-car reports
with officers there and Lippold kept the telephone
lines hot with reports of
findings, Fraser was a suspect because of former
troubles with the law, and
because it was known that
his parents owned the
emptly house here.
Officer Randy Vining
had surprised the suspect
in what is thought to be a
previous attempt to take
another auto a few days
earlier and the pooling of
all notes narrowed the
search.
When arrested, Fraser
was found to have forced
a   kitchen window in  the
house.
, Arraigned before Clare
Justice William Dunlop
Saturday," Fraser waived
examination and was bound
over for trial in Circuit
Court at Harrison.
Installation this coming
Saturday of 1963 officers
in the Clare chapter of
DeMolay will see Master
Councilor James Johnson
and" 21 supporting leaders
begin renewed activity in
their order for the ensuing
term.
To be installed with the
new Master Councilor are
the following:
Flavious  Hicks, Senior
Councilor
Steve      Bryant,  Junior
Councilor
Lamoyne Lamb, Senior
Deacon
Gary  Farnham,   Junior
Deacon
Ai      Cruden,      Senior
Steward
Don     Hughes,     Junior
Steward
Doug Shank, Orator
Tim Thayer, Scribe
David Archbold, Treasurer
Craig Clair, Sentinel
'Dale Corsaut,Chaplain
Tom Jones, Marshal
Gary    Scott,    Standard
Bearer
Bob Fike, Almoner
Sidney   O'Dell,    Larry
Fetters,    Lloyd   Preston,
Mike Marr, Bill Q'Dell,
Bob Coon, and John Dunlop
all Preceptors m the
order named.
The Glenn F. Sanford
chapter held initiation on
February 9 with 14 young
men from Clare, two from
Mt. Pleasant and one from
Midland becoming DeMolay
members.
Vet's Pensions
Suspended
Pension payments to
3,500 Michigan veterans
and their dependents have
been suspended by the Veterans Administration for
failure to report 1962 incomes.
Last November the
Center sent out income
questionnaires. VA needs
the information to determine a beneficiary's continued eligibility for pension and, under the law,
payments must be suspended February 1 if the
reports are not returned.
Michigan
Tourist Group
To Name Head
•Selection of a new director of the Michigan Tourist Council probably will be
made sometime in March
according to council chairman, Reverend Father
Louis C. Cappo ofRamsay.
The council, meeting
February 19-20 in Lansing
completed preliminary
screening of applicants for
the post and interviewed
the four top candidates,
Father Cappo said. The
nine-man council is expected to meet again in
March to make the final
decision.
Council members do not
Wish to disclose the names
of   the   four   candidates,
Father Cappo said.
The new director Will
replace Robert J, Furlong,
who will resign to become
secretary of the State Conservation Comrhissiohj
April 15.
■±
-..^<...*^VmfM