1963-03-28; Clare Sentinel

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The   Clare   Sentinel
Ten Cents Copy Thursday. March 28,  1963
Established 1878
New Series, Vol. 71, No. 29
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The influence of one. ....
There can hardly be imagined a more vivid example
of the importance of a few votes ... of perhaps just
ONE vote, than what has happened in the recent gubernatorial contest in Minnesota where a winner was decided by 91 ballots in the entire state total. Records of
another midwest state election reveal the believe-it-
or-not fact that a national candidate lost the state by
the narrow margin equal to only one vote in each
precinct.
So if we believe that voting in elections is a privilege
worm exercising in order to keep, — and if it is
agreed that the ballot of every individual citizen is
important. — that election outcomes CAN hinge on
unbelieveably few votes sometimes—
Then the vital thing is transforming the expressed
belief into action at the polls!
In your township and city, the election on April 1 will
, determine who is to represent you in public matters
'at the vory baalc, grass roots level of government.
And ;' <*re is no apparent contest for offices in your
vo< ',., t cinct or tovnship, then the broader, issues
of state  offices and of MK-higan's proposed new con-
dtution  should be impc rtant enough to bring you to
the polling places.
Ir might sound kind of "coi vy" to say, "The future
■    Michigan is in my hand", but the importance to
iichigan of the New-Con ouestion lies in Monday's
il ->t-even your's and mine I
vu'■■• free r^n criiici?-e government if he is in-
i:u! H ■"•.'!:  express his beliefs in a more
cons.. ,  ^ ... by his vote!
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eclictonan
Farwell High School's
valedictorian in the graduating class of 1963 is
Pamela Oliver, a school
announcement said this
week, and salutatorian is
Allyce Nichols. In addition
to the girls' top academic
achievements both have
records of student activity
and are popular with classmates.
Pamela is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ode Oliver
and  Allyce's parents  are
Mr.     and    Mrs.    Lloyd
Nichols.
To lead her class in
scholastic achievement,
Pamela earned a point
average of 3.68 of a
possible 4. She has been
very active in the F.H.A.,
Band, Ski Club and has been
Class President. She was
an exchange student to Finland last summer, and was
the recipient of the 1962
D. A. R. Good Citizen
Award.
She plans to attend Wisconsin  State  College  this
fall.
Miss Nichols has earned
a point average of 3.4 in
her class work at Farwell.
She has been on the yearbook staff for the last two
years and has been active
in the Band, and is presently vice president. She
was selected in the All-
Star Band and is in the pep
band as well. She has also
held a membership in the
F.H.A. organization.
Allyce plans on a nursing  career,  and  hopes to
get her training at Harper
Hospital in Detroit.
Judge Holbrook Found
'Problem Boy* Solution
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^A recent controversy
over facilities to handle
potentially dangerous
"problem boys" from big-
city areas has called attention to the program of
one circuit judge in Michigan.
For the past 12 years,
Circuit Judge Donald E.
Holbrook has placed a total
of 100 such boys on farms
for their probation period
} with 90 per cent success.
The judge has about 12
boys on farms at all times.
Judge Holbrook, a candidate for supreme court
justice of Michigan on the
separate non-partisan ballot, has served the 21st
Judicial   Circuit  (  Clare,
Elect New
E    President
Clare Rotarians in their
annual club election named
Virgil Bergstrom for president next year. Bergstrom
is manager of Kraft Foods
cheese manufacturing plant
in Clare, and was first
vice president of the club.
Walter Kleiner was elevated to the post of 1st
vice president to serve
during Bergstrom's year
and next in rank is Larry
Jackson, elected to be second vice president.
Filling out the slate of
officers  is Secretary Lee
Sowle and Treasurer Dale
White.
Isabella and Midland counties) for the past 15 years.
He began his probation
farm placement program-
shortly after going on the
bench.
The   judge's   probation
officer,      Anton     Wedal,
matches  the farm family •
to the boy.
One farm community
northeast of Clare is called the "therapeutic community" by Probation Officer Wedal. Within a radius of several miles, five
farm families are cooperating in the program. A
typical example is the Forrest M. Leeth family, on
Rodgers Road.
Leeth operates a 200
acre livestock and small
dairy farm. He and Mrs.
Leeth have five children,
the oldest 20 and the youngest 14 months. They have
had six probationers since
they entered the program
in 1955.
"Most of these boys can
be helped but occasionally
you  get  one who can't be
helped,"   Leeth  says.
Pamela Oliver
Allyce Nichols
Funds Make Help Possible
People of this community are responding well to
the annual Easter Seal appeal reports the local committee, emphasizing that it
is one of the worthiest
causes in America.
The amount contributed
will determine how much
the  committee can do for
those    in our community.
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At area Government Day Tuesday, seniors from Clare, Harrison, Farwell, and Coleman
higli consulted with resource people and experts In fields of county government, law
enforcement, taxes tnd finance^ education, health, agriculture and more. Here are a
group of the seniors getting answers to their questions from educators* Facing the
audience are: (standing at left) Tom .Woods of Harrison, student forum leader, and
(seated) County School Superintendent James McNamara, Mel Buschman, Grace Rein-
hart, Gladys Thayer, Meridith Stanfield, and (far right) Student recorder Janet Howard of Harrison. Sentinel photo by Peter Brown.
Holbrook Campaign
Races In Final Week
An Auto-harp provided the accompaniment for a song,
"Clocks and Watches" by massed second graders at Friday's
Spring Festival of Public Elementary students. Little Wendy
Burgess plucks the chords while Mrs. Yvonne White keeps
time for the song. Sentinel  photo'
Clare Circuit Judge
Donald E. Holbrook this
weekend is winding up—a
campaign for election to
the Michigan Supreme
Court bench, — a real
tornado of a personal campaign that has taken him
to every corner and by-way
of the state.
Everywhere Judge Holbrook has told voters that
he wants to go to the
high court as a good judge
who is qualified to be there
and wa~s to serve, not as a
politicia , and with no special inteiests to make demands of him,— but as an
interpreter of constitutional law for all citizens
alike.
Looked upon as an
"unknown" outside his
home Circuit of Clare,
Midland, and Isabella
counties, Judge Holbrook
has largely changed that
since the day the Republican State Convention
named him just six weeks
ago.
During the campaign,
his energy and perpetual
motion have set a pace that
threatened to leave behind
those who tried to keep up
with him. He has fulfilled
all scheduled appearances
that the state campaign
headquarters assigned to
him.
Once there was a half
amused feeling i"n Judge
Holbrook's own campaign
office that teammates on
the GOP ticket might not
be able to keep up with him
while he raced ahead at his
pace. Names of candidates
'Holbrook and Smith, and
Black and Adams for the
Supreme Court are on the
separate non-partisan ballot.
Surprises     and unpre-
dicted turns have marked
the Holbrook election campaign.	
To win nomination at
Grand Rapids, he upset
dopesters who said that
both he and Judge Smith
couldn' t win from the same
corner of the State,-but
he did win!
His methods were supposed to be too unspectacular and political veterans
told him at the convention
that he needed more "hoop-
Voting machines are set la and hospitality," treat-
up for next Monday's elec- ment to woo delegates. -He
tion in the Clare city hall won the nomination on the
and City Clerk David strength of his sincerity
Adams   said that demon- and the support that it drew
How To
Vote By
Machine
strations of voting procedure would be conducted
from now until noon on Saturday this week. Sample
Ballots are available for
inspection.
The "rehearsal" of voting • machine use is of particular value to persons
who have come of voting age
since the last election and
will be going to the polls
for the first time, and for
any others who never used
a voting machine before.
The machines are easy
to use and voting is simple
and quick for persons who
have seen them demonstrated Adams said.
Special attention will be
given to explaining how to
vote on the proposal for a
new Michigan constitution,
and how to vote the nonpartisan ballot for State
Supreme Court choices.
Requests for absent
voter ballots at the clerk's
office are 30 percent or
more ahead of most normal
elections. This seems to
'bear out a prediction that
heavy voting will be the
rule on Monday.
800
In
Springtime Festival
Cites Gains In
Escapes
Death !n
Accident
Currently within the
week, Mrs. Faye Stephenson has had requests for
a walker, three hearing
aids and wheel chair repairs.
Return your Easter Seal
contribution    as    soon  as
possible,  asks  Mrs.   Neil
Stirling,   chairman  of the
Easter Seal sales.
In a happy Spring festival of rhythm exercises
and group singing Friday,
800 '"" Public School pupils
in elementary grades one
through six entertained
each other and an audience
of over 200 parents and visitors in the CHS gymnasium.
Songs? On this program
you name your favorite,
-the kids sang it. All sorts
of songs drew hearty applause and they ranged
from "Where O Where Has
my Little Dog Gone", to
"She'll be Comin' Round
the Mountain", "Grandfather's Clock", and America The Beautiful" to recall just a few of the 20
on the program.
And as for rhythm dancing,   well,  shake my bobby
Nominate
Students For
Abroad
Inp
Three finalists were announced last week in a
Rotary International project to send a Glare student abroad for a four-week
sight- seeing and education
trip. The selection was
narrowed to Emily Northon
Mike Austin, and Rosemary
House, all juniors at Clare
High.
The project, sponsored
here by the Clare Rotary
Club will send the student
for a month's stay with, a
family in a European country and then on a Lhree
week trip to learn about
the culture of the nations
of Europe. Rotary calls
this an Experiment in International Living.
Club President, Warren
McGuire and Rotarian
Marvin Bidstrup, Clare
Public Schools Elementary
Principal are working with
the school in selection of
the finalists. Actual choice
of the student to go abroad
will come from Rotary
International.
This is the first year
the local club has joined
this program to help
advance world peace "by
mingling cultures of our
country with others through
the association of youths'
on the family level of
living.
sox down and bow to your
breathless partner, - these
kids danced to "Kinder
Polka", "Hokey Pokey",
and "Captain Jinks" among
the dozen or so energetic
numbers seen on the after
noons event.
Directing the singing
part of the performance
was Mrs. Yvonne White,
while Mrs. Ruth Fransted
taught and directed the
dance routines.
Accompaniment for the
songs was performed on a
string instrument called an
auto-harp played by members of the classes chosen
for the honor. The auto-
harp is played by a pick
or finger being struck
across strings to sound
chords in key with the song.
On one frolic entitled
"Yankee Doodle" which
featured second graders,
the script called for singing words to the song while
dancing at the same time
and teacher could be heard
to . remind the children,
"Don't     forget to SING!"
Many of the numbers on
the program resembled
folk dancing, or at least
the nearest thing to it that
we see any more in these
days.
Watchers     praised the
event  as  entertaining for
the performers and spectators,     and     very   well
staged.
The A Cappella Choir of
Huntington College,located
in Huntington, Indiana,will
"present a concert of Sacred
Music on April 9 in the
Harrison United Brethren
Church at 7:30 p.m..
Cancer Cures
Predicting more advances in the fight against
cancer in-1963, Mrs. A.E.
Bartow of Harrison,'chair-
ma n of the Clare County
Cancer Society chapter
said that during the year
44,000 will be saved from"
the disease who would have'
been lost if they had developed cancer 10 years ago.
Credit for the gains in
human lives saved belongs
in part to the Society and
its educational and fund-
raising crusades. "The
public is becoming increasingly aware of the urgency of the cancerproblem, and that something
can be done about it.",
she said.
On of the first goals
of the 1963 Crusade will
be to get more people to
doctors in time for early
treatment. An annual health
checkup is a person's best
protection against death
from cancer.
Another part of the first
goal is to make sure thai-
physicians are informed on
the latest methods of diagnosis and treatment.
To make the first goal
possible, the second goal
will be "more much needed
money for research", and
only through research and
new scientific methods that
cancer can be eliminated
as a threat to life.
The citizens of the community are urged to plan
now to make as large a
contribution for this worth
while cause as they can,
that more people will be
helped and cured in 1963.
Coleman Organizes
Commerce Group
The first meeting of the
Coleman Chamber of Commerce will take place 8:00
p.m. Wednesday evening in
the Coleman City Hall.
A month ago a former
businessmen's group voted
to dissolve and to. reorganize on a broader scale as
a chamber of commerce*
Dean Keller, mayor and
local businessman was
elected president; John
Swantek, a Coleman grocer, 'was named vice-president; Reg Telfer, proprietor of the dairy bar is sec
retary - treasurer; and
Borden's distributor,Robert Beacom and school sup*
erintendent, Clarence
Mason are directors.
The directors have held
weekly meetings to prepare
by-laws and plan the organizational structure; they
will also propose an outline
for the first year projects
at the  Chamber meeting.
An   invitation is  being
extended to all interested
people in the Goleman area
to    attend    this organizational meeting.
Edward Covert, 31, of
R -2 Farwell was critically
injured Sunday evening
when he lost control of his
car a mile east of Farwell
on US-10 and it rolled over
several times. He was
found pinned under the
mangled wreckage and was
taken to the Mt. Pleasant
hospital by ambulance.
State Police Troopers,
Bobbie Oaks and Harry
"Paulsen of theMt. Pleasant
Post investigating at the
scene of the accident pointed but skid marks and scat-'
tered parts of the wrecked
car that indicated Covert
left the pavement and rolled and flipped along a distance of more than 200
feet before coming to rest.
Travelling at a high rate
of speed, he rode the car
out of control, up a steep,
high bank on the highway's
north edge, and then
dropped down onto the edge
of the pavement again.
He was taken first to
Clare General Hospital,
but no beds were available
so the ambulance continued
on to Mt. Pleasant with
him.
The Troopers who arrived at the-* scene at 7:45
.supervised a foot-by-foot
search of the dark ditch
embankment on the chance
that if Covert had a companion with him in the car,
he might have been thrown
clear and might be lying
where he fell. They found
no one.
The Clute Garage
wrecker service from
Clare was called and took
the car into town supported on a rolling dolly. It
was too badly Wrecked to
be pulled in on its own
wheels.  .
On Wednesday, Covert
had progressed enough so
that he was released from
the hospital. At the hospital they said that it might
be that he would yet have
to spend some time recuperating.
Proclaims
FHA Week
On the twenty-sixth day
of March, 1963,1, Glen Cain
Mayor of the city of Clare,
hereby proclaim the week
of March thirty -- first
through ,April sixth, 1963,
as National Future Home-
makers of America Week
in Clare.
Glen Cain
to him.
In the weeks since Grand
Rapids    Judge Holbrook's
electioneering' has been on
a high'plane, He seemed to
ignore friends advice that
a position once taken by
Paul  Adams  on a trading
stamp  question gave Holbrook a ready -made campaign point in his favor.
Adams, a rival for the
Supreme   Court post  was
once   Michigan's  attorney
general and ruled that when
trading stamps are turned
in for premiums, the State
sales  tax on the value of
the premium article must
be paid. This upset a Michigan Dept. of Revenue position that the sales tax had
been   paid     once  already
when     the  shopper  made
purchases' in the store giving the stamps.
Could Adams' position
on- this question cost him
the votes of stamp savers?
Judge Holbrook apparently never turned this into
a telling point against
Adams, but trading stamps
got into the campaign last
week anyway!
Sheets of green S& ,H
(for Smith and Holbrook)
stamps that resemble
trading stamps are being
used on the backs of cor-
respondsncujrenvelopes like
Easter .Seals. They-remind
your mail recipients to vote
for Smith and Holbrook.
A story in a Detroit
newspaper last week said
that Holbrook might be
questioned by the S & H
trading stamp people for
use of their trade mark
without permission.
It made good campaign
publicity.
Volunteers for Holbrook
is an organization of workers who^have helped mail
thousands of pieces of lit-
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4-H Leaders
Busy With
Spring Plans
Twenty members of "the
Clare County Parents and
Leaders Association met
in the court house for their
March 12th session. Donna
Carr presided.
Paul Nass gave a report on the handicraft work
shop he attended at Camp
Kett. Some more up to date
articles are being planned
for   this  popular  project.
Alice Streeter and
Donna Carr attended the
district council at West
Branch. They enjoyed meet
ing other county leaders
and sharing experiences in
4-H work.
Del Kleiner brought back
recreation material from
her    training    session   at
Camp Kett..
Wilma Walters and Inez
Pudvay     attended     the
awards  session there and
gave report's.
Helen and Louis Schmidt
and Paul Nass. attended the
Leadermete at Kellogg
Center. They enjoyed
•touring the MSU campus
and learning about a few- of
the experiments of interest to farmers.
Betti Marotzke said
plans are being made for
the following dates of interest to 4-H folks-. Achieve
ment Day April 26 -27,
Leaders Banquet in May,
4-H camp June 27-28-29,
4-H Club Week at MSU
July 8-12, Clare County
Free Fair July 29-AugUsr
3, State 4-H Show August
26-29.
Helen    Penrose, John
Streeter and Judy Baumer
plan to attend the leadership     camp   workshop at
Camp  Kett March 28-30.
The    clothing   leaders
will report at a later date
oft their plans for judging
at Achieverttent Day.
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