1963-08-29; Clare Sentinel

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ntinel
Tea Cents Cony Thursday, August 29, 1963
Established 1878
New Series   Vol. 71. No. 51
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"4f
kpected Student Increase
y Bring Enrollment
1700 At Clare Schools
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Clare Public Schools will
reopen on Tuesday morning, September 3 but with
no classes on that day.
All students will report
for the start of classes on
Wednesday,  September 4.
An announcement from
the office of Richard
Wheeler, superintendent,
says that teachers will be
split into two groups for
their September 3 meetings at nine in the morning. Elementary teachers
will meet in the elementary music room, and secondary teachers are to as -
semble in the library of
the high school.
Enrollment is expected
to total about 1,700 this
term, although Administrative Assistant,. Mrs.
Genevieve Fleming says
that registration figures
cannot be counted as accurate until Friday of the
first week.
Late enrollments sometimes make considerable
changes in totals after the
opening day.
If registrations reach
1,700, it will mean an increase of 100 to 150 students over last year.
With students from Kindergarten all the way up
.through high school seniors due to arrive for their
first day on Wednesday at
9:00 a.m., second through
eighth graders" will find
their names posted on the
door %of the room where
they,  meet their teacher.
Kindergartners and first
graders have been notified
by mail regarding the time
they will report to school.
All high school students,
grades nine through 12 will
assemble in the high school
gym at 9:00. a.m. Wednesday. . _-'•>.
Collection of school fees
and. registration for new
students in Clare is continuing all the rest of this
week for those in junior
and   senior   high   grades.
Elsewhere in the area,
Beaverton schools have set
the opening day for September 4; Gladwin students
will attend an opening
half-day on September 3;
Harrison's first classes
will be on September 4;
Farwell students opener is
a half - day session on
September 3.
At Coleman where one of
the largest new hiring programs of any school teacher staff has been in progress, there will be a day
and one-half of teacher orientation meetings. Teachers meetings will occupy
all day Tuesday,,and after
a half-day of student attendance on September 4,
teachers will meet again
all afternoon.
The full start of classes
is scheduled for Thursday
morning, September 5.
Superintendent C, C.
Mason says that the
schools will be operating at
capacity and Arlen Schroeder, elemtary principal and
Harold Montgomery, high
school principal are enthusiastic with the confidence that Coleman pupils
will be gaining a great
deal from the improved
general program of education.
School will start with a
half-day of classes on the
morning of Wednesday,
September 4.
All students will be on
full - day schedules, and
restoration of several
courses and services gives
the school a full - scale
program.
Back in the program are;
'56 Grads
Reunion
A reunion of the Clare
High School class of 1956
was held recently in Shamrock Lake Park with 12
members of the class with
their families and guests
attending.
A special anniversary
reunion in 1966 was discussed and advance plans
talked over.
An election Of class
society officers was held
with Leon Stanley named
president* Chuck Ruby,yice
president, Glehda Waddington secretary, and Pat
Pudvay treasurer*
Intermediate school physical education for both
boys and girls; there is
and arts and crafts course
to replace industrial arts
and homemaking; full time
instructors have been employed for a junior high
band and instrumental music; there is also high
school physical education
for boys and girls and two
new courses added to the
curriculum are world geography and speech; remedial reading will be
taugh by a full time speech
correctionist already hired.
Included on the Coleman
faculty are 21 new
teachers:
Frederick Barten, a
graduate of CMU and currently an accountant with
Chevrolet is joining the
high school faculty as a
teacher of bookkeeping and
commercial subjects.
Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd left
Dow Chemical Company to
teach first grade in the
Coleman Elementary
School; she earned her degree from Michigan State
University and resides in
Midland.
Mrs. Patty Bugh will be
the speech correctionist
serving all Coleman pupils
who need speech therapy.
She graduated from CMU
and has assisted in speech
therapy at the Mt, Pleasant Training School. She
and her husband, WCEN
radio announcer Gary B.
"reside in Mt. Pleasant.    ".
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Caterer will'both instruct in'-
the high school. Mr. Caterer is completing graduate work in science at
CMU and will teach biology .and .general science,"
Mrs. Caterer Will teach
English and social studies.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Caterer
have had several years
previous teaching experience.
Mrs. Marcile Cunningham will teach sixth grade
in the high school building.
She previously taught in
Mt. Clemens and Center-
line schools and has a master's degree from CMU
where her husband is currently studying.
Robert Ericksen is a former Colemanite who has
lately been teaching in Sanford; he will join the junior high staff as a 7th and
8th   grade   math teacher.
Miss Frances Ford completed college at Western
Michigan University in
January and then travelled
to Hawaii where she completed advanced study in
the teaching of reading.
She will teach sixth grade.
Lynn Foxworthy a June
Graduate of MSU will assume the duties of instrumental music teacher and
band director. He and his
wife have rented a house
in Coleman.
John Gelski left the Saginaw school system to join
our faculty as a teacher of
7th and 8th grade block-
time classes in English
and social studies. His undergraduate d e g r e e is
_ from CMU
Bruce Heilbronn is* a
graduate of CMU who moved his family from Cope-
rnish to jpin the Coleman
faculty as physical education instructor in the In-,
termediate school. His primary work will be with the
7th and 8th grades but he
will also assist the upper
elementary teachers in
physical education instruc
tion.
Wayne Kelly has had
Several years experience
teaching in rural schools
and joins the Coleman Intermediate School staff as
a 4th grade teacher. He.
has. a bachelor's degree
and graduate work from
CMU.
Mrs. Sue Kreifeldt is a
recent graduate and former captain of the cheerleaders at CMU. She will.
be the high school girls
physical education instructor and will also teach
general mathematics and
will serve as advisor to
the high school cheerleaders. She and her husband,
the former Times-News
sportswriter, live in Mt.
Pleasant.
Mrs. Rosemary Lefferts
will bring to her 2nd grade
students the benefit of prior
teaching experience in
Grand Rapids and New Jersey schools. She and her
husband will reside in Mt.
Pleasant.
Mrs. Elizabeth Methner
has most recently been
teaching in-, the DeTour,
Michigan, schools; shenow
joins our faculty as a 4th
grade teacher. Her husband, a former Colmanite
is principal of the schools
in Rosebush where the
couple will reside.
■-. Ggntimsedl cWj Page A-8-   -
Gains May
Set Record
Michigan may be headed
for the greatest tourist
year in history as a re-
sult of record summer bus;-
iness, according to a midsummer survey by the State
Tourist Council. i
The mid-season survey-
drew on numerous "barometers" of tourist volume
and spending, nearly all of
which pointed to the record
year.      . ::
-:. .Traffic, Volume; Traffic
flow' on'Michigatt highways
was up 7.6 percent in June
over the same month last
year while July traffic was
up 7.8 percent. Area increases in southern Michigan ranged up to more than
47-per-cent/- ■    ■  •      >>.;-?»
A GOOD STORY never lacks for listeners, and these youngsters at the Clare Public
Library first weekly ctory hour are really attentive as Mrs. Judith Beyer, second
grade school teacher reads and shows them pictures. The stories for children are
scheduled Saturday mornings at 11:00 at the library. Sentinel photo.
Marvin Bidstrup
Appointed Principal
At Clare High
Golf Banquet
And Election
End Season
A turnout of about 60
members of the Men's
Monday Night Golf League
played in a year-end "kicker's" tournament Monday
at Twin Elms, and followed
the 9-hole tournament with
their annual banquet and
election of officers.
Named president for next
year's season of league
play was Leon Stanley .He
heads an all - new officer
group including Secretary
John Bicknell, Vice President Virgil Bergstrom,
Treasurer   Frank LaGoe.
-The fun of awarding
prizes for the day's tourney and for the annual
league championship was
the main feature of the.
evening and the program
was conducted by outgoing
president, Wendy Colvin.
Dick Ulrich took home the
champion's trophy for'63.
Appointment of Marvin
Bidstrup on the Clare Public Schools administrative
staff, to the office of high
school principal was announced    this    week. Mr.
Kay Wall
Is Champ
Clare Women Golfers'
Handicap Tournament
which has been in session
for three weeks has been
completed, with Kay Wall
as the winner, and Barbara
Dunbar as runner up.. -
On August 21st, eighteen
women were at Twin Elms.
Play was for low putts
with balls presented to
Grace Frey, 12, Ann Olson, 13, and Jean Allen,
14. Mrs. Olson also sunk
an approach to win a ball.
Low Gross for the day
went to Jean Cradit, with
_ 48, and Mrs. Olson had
low net of 40.
Bidstrup was    elementary
principal last year.
The vacancy in the office
of principal for high school
and junior high was created
suddenly last week by the
resignation of David Donovan who accepted an offer
from a school in Whitesboro, New York.
The new high school administrator has had one
year of experience in the
Clare school system. He
came here last fall under
contract for the job of elementary principal after an
assistant's job in the St.
Louis,   Michigan  schools.
A replacement in the elementary school post has
not been decided upon yet.
Mr. Bidstrup will oversee the school program in
the newly enlarged building
which now houses grades
seven through 12. A ten-
classroom addition for
junior high, along with band
and chorus facilities were
opert   for   use   last year.
Why
Soil Test?
The same farmer who
questions the value of "soil
testing would not question
the value of a doctor's
prescription. In both cases
conditions exist that need
correcting; one in the soil,
the source of his income.
The other in the body, the
source   of   his  existance.
Now Is one of the best
times to take a good soil
sample.
From this an' intricate
laboratory test is run and
recommendations made.
Research at Michigan State
University has placed into
the hands of qualified interpreters information so
that proper diagnosis can
be given.
This information is
based upon several things
Soil management groups,
of the native character of
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CUTE CUKES, .eannine, nine year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Waiter Bolle knows how to do amazing tricks with
cucumbers. Some are growing inside pop bottles where she
put them .while they were very tiny. Another takes a prize
for si«. Its a 12-inch giant, perfect for color, shape, and
firm body. - Sentinel photo.
Pickle Puzzle
LEARNING HOW to extinguish fires that might start around
hot stoves or ovens, Kathryn' Vining (with extinguishers,
and Vera Codling, both employed In fhe Ctare General Hos
pital  kitchen   are   Instructed
Parish. The practice Was part
to instruct' staff personnel, oh
Sentinel  photo,
by   Clare  Fire  Chief Stanley
of a program at the hospital
disaster procedures.
Medium-sized pickles
don't get a very fair share
of attention in the garden
patch ai> the farm of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Bolle
3-1/2 miles east and a
little south from Clare.
Their daughter, Jeannine
Ann, is grabbing all the
fun with cucumber oddities in the very largest
■ and the very smallest extremes!
Those littlest Ones?
Well, they are growing
up  to be pickles in pop
Bag Limits
Relaxed For
Duck Hunters
Michigan waterfowl hunters can look forward this
fall to more shooting days
and bigger bag limits on
ducks and coots   .
The Conservation Commission has selected an
Oct. 5 - Nov. 8 duck hunting season which will be
10 days longer than a year
ago. This season's daily
and possession limits on
ducks were set at four
and eight, double the 1962
quotas.
Michigan's 1962 shooting restrictions on mallards and black ducks have
been relaxed. Hunters may
include two mallard or
black ducks — singly of
combined — in their daily-
bag. Last season, hunter
take was limited to only
one mallard or one black
duck per day.
Canvasbacks and red-
head ducks will remain off
the legal hunting list nation-wide
The state's waterfowl
season will again have a
noon opener. After the first
bottles, or cuke-corks or
something like that!
Mrs. Bolle found some
pop bottles in the garden one day, and discovered they couldn't be
picked up because they
were attached to cucumber vines by the stems
of some little pickles
growing down the bottle
neck with the tiny pickles inside the bottles.
Jeannine's experiment
had followed an uncle's
advice that if very tiny'
cucumbers, were stuffed
down the bottle necks,
some day when they grew
larger, her friends would
be mystified with the
question of how big cukes
got inside the bottles
through those narrow
necks1 It works!
Already the growing
pickles are too fat to
come back out the bottle
necks, and. Jeannine is
wondering if they will
grow big enough to break
the bottles?
Ahd about the largest..
Well, the biggest
cucumber from -the garden is a full 12 inches
long.
The giant pickle is a
good appetizing color. —
Solid Green, and solid,
firm to     the hand, too.
It is so large and heavy
that it is rather Unusual it hasn't turned yellow, or Spunky".
The Bolles have kept
it cold since it was picked, and it might find its
way ihto the pickling syrup yet*
Jeannine can tell her
schoolmates next week
about her pickles -- some
that grew Up already in
glass bottles, and another
one that there was no jar
large enough to contain.
I wee-Day
Celebration
At Farwell
Farwell's Labor Day
celebration, again under
promotion leadership of
JayCees there is gathering
new steam this year for a
three-day carnival.
What old timers remember as Farwell's Homecoming, is now to boast an
improved parade, thrills of
a sky diver demonstration,
a performance by the famed
White-skinned Indian Dancers from Coleman—these
are outstanding features,
for the 1963 event.
Return of such successful former attractions as
the carnival midway, horse
pulling, kids baseball and
adult Softball, and a riding
club show all contribute to
expectation that Labor Day
will draw big crowds to
Farwell.
Some additional promotion has been given the
event by the Michigan
Tourist Council in its publication "Vacation Travel
News" in a calendar of
events for the late summer
season.
The Farwell school band
reinforced by players from
graduates in the area, will
take a big part in the celebration. Scheduled to play
in the parade, the band
will also perform in a concert.
A fireworks show is advertised for Monday night.
A timetable of goings-on
includes; Saturday, August
31- Softball with an outside
team taking on Farwell all-
stars; jazz music concert
at 4 p.m..
Sunday - Reduced prices
on Midway Rides from 1 to
6 o'clock; bicycle giveaway *
between land6p.m.;Horse
riding show at 1:00 p.m.;
Woby-Po-Kego White Skin
Dancers at 7:00 p.m.
Monday,   Labor   Day   -
Parade at '9:30, Horsepull-,
ing at 10:30; Skydiving ex-'
hibitipn all day; Fireworks
at night.
Practicing
Disaster
Measures
An organized procedure
for protection of hospital
patients and staff in any
kind of disaster is being
rehearsed at Clare General Hospital. First instruction s were Tuesday
with a demonstration of fire
fighting.
Dr. J.R, Gershon, and
Hospital Administrator,
Helen Morgan said that further sessions will train and
prepare the staff for, "internal evacuation" where
personnel might be moved
into the disaster shelter
in the building basement,
and "external evacuation",-
which might be ordered incase of severe danger from
fire, tornado winds, or
other risk where patients
and staff might have to be
dispersed to points farther
away.
Demonstrations of proper use of fire fighting
equipment Tuesday were
supervised by Clare Fire
Department Chief Stanley
Parish with Department
members George Shayler
and Vic Finch.
Kitchen staff personnel
and nurses, interns, and
others practiced snuffing
out fires in gasoline with
various kinds of fire equipment. The demonstration
area was irt an open parking lot west of the hospital
main entrance.
Miss Morgan said that
the shelter is large enough
to hold all patients arid the
complete staff. Special
construction of the ceiling
over the basement Makes
it particularly safe as a
disaster haven.
Delegates
The World War I Bar*
racks and Auxiliary held
their August meeting _un«
day *
Plans were discussed for
the State Convention to be
held September 22 to 25.
Delegates elected were Mr.
and Mrs. Egbert Fordyte,
James Pitts/"_\ir. and Mrs
Frank Freeman of Farwell,
Mf„ ' and Mrs. William
Crane of Harrison.,Mr. and
Mrs. ■ Charles -Cooper",
Conrad Walker, Other Parent of Clare.