1963-09-26; Clare Sentinel

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An
entinel
T«n Cents Copy Thursday, September 26, 1983
Established 1878
New Series, Vol. 72. No. 3
Supervisor
Missing Man
Found After
Day's Search Oil Pl-flS
Nature's Incomparable beauty stands cut in this tree Which
has its dark green leafy branches tipped with scarlet where
early frost has touched. "IJhis exciting scene was found under'
Monday's blue sky and mellow autumn sunlight on Surrey
Road  not far tatmx Lake Thirteen.      It was  photographed
through a red lens filter which made the bright red leaves
appear white and dramatized the blue color of the sky.
Sentinel   photo  with  special  credits  for  assistance by
Sowle.
Lee
Fall Colors Nearing Their Peak
TB Tests
>.-&■■
Wednesday, October 9,
Doctor Sweet, County-
Health Director, will skin
test student and school personnel of the Clare Public
Schools for possible exposure to tuberculosis.
Permission slips will be
going home soon with students, and it is hoped that
every parent will cooperate by having his child
tested. The last TB skin
testing in the school was
in 1958.
Mrs. Irene Davy, school
nurse says the tuberculosis skin test is the best
means of finding unsuspected cases of tuberculosis among children. If
the test is positive it means
that at one time or another
tuberculosis germs have
entered the body.
Then a chest X-ray
should be taken to see
whether or not the germs
have done any damage.
Anyone having a positive
TB test should never be
tested again, but should
have annual chest X-rays.
The Mobile Chest X-ray
unit will be in Clare later
in October, the dates will
be announced in the paper
and on the radio.
Early reports from
Michigan's- Upper Peninsula indicate there will
be an .earl, opening cur-r
tain for the , ill color show
this year.
Spot che...js show signs
of autumn foliage approximately three weeks ahead
of schedule in the Copper
Harbor area. The time
schedule is expected to follow suit throughout the
state, according to the Mich
igan Tourist Council.
Viewed through the wide-
screen of an automobile
windshield, autumn in Mich'
igan is magnificent. It is
an ever changing panorama
of color, set to the music
of rustling leaves.
From the high reaches
of the Porcupine mountains
in the Upper Peninsula
through majestic forests
and secluded glens to the
gentle rolling slopes of the
Irish Hills in the south,
Michigan in autumn is
ablaze with color.
The pleasures of touring the state's top color
areas have been increased by many local chambers
of commerce and other interested groups, the four
regional tourist associations and the Michigan
Tourist Council,	
Folders outlining color One of the prime at-
trips of particular beauty tractions of autumn, of
points
An all-day search Tuesday for Eugene Jourdain,
elderly Vernon township
resident lost near his home
ended shortly before dark
when he was found and placed in Mt. Pleasant Hospital
to recover from ' fatigue
and hunger.
He had wandered away
on foot from the rural residence of his son, Archie
and his family where the
elder Jourdain, 77, made
his home.
Isabella County Sheriff,
Ray Martin who organized
a search said that 75, or
possibly as many as 100
persons helped hqnt for
the missing man between
8:00 a.m. and about 5:30
in the afternoon. State
Police from the Mt. Pleasant Post joined in the
direction   of   the   search.
A pair of neighbors,
Roger Drake of R-4,Clare,
and Dave Tater of R-5,
Mt, Pleasant, came upon
Jourdain where he had tired
and stopped jto rest in a
field beside a small
stream.
Martin said that the day's
wanderings had taken Jourdain only about three quarters of a mile from home,
but he had made his way
through standing corn in
large fields, heavy grass,
ditches and even over a
woven wire fence.
He had been described
as in a rather weak condition, from illness and loss
of weight, and his family
had not thought he could
walk too far. Alarm was
felt as the afternoon grew
late, because of darkness
and cooling temperatures.
Radio appeals for more
searchers were broadcast
in the afternoon.
County
of interest and both
na~ui_i and; _tan.-made attractions are available to
help plan weekend wanderings or week-long vaca -
tiohs.
In some areas route
markers are placed by local organizations to assist
color viewers.
This year a new Michigan Tourist Council publication illustrating 24 selected color tours throughout the state with information on related points of
interest is available from Holley
the Council office, Lansing
26, Michigan.
As fall colors spread
southward from the Copper Country to the Straits
of Mackinac and then to
the rolling farmlands and
metropolitan areas of south
ern Michigan it adds a seasonal spice to other outdoor activities.
course,    is the opening of
the     small
season     on
southern lower Peninsula
Sheriff Martin said that
game hunting- -M-fs* -&rchi e Jourdain, the
Oct. 1 in the missing man's daughter-
in-law, was serving him his
breakfast at home about
7:45, when he suddenly
spoke of a wish,to go hunting. She left the house a
short time to get her husband to help convince the
elder Jourdain that he was
not able to hunt.
When she returned, he
was gone.
When a search of the
nearby area failed to locate him, the family asked
the sheriffs department
for help.
Jourdain's first request
when found, was for something to eat, and his condition was thought to be not
too much worsened by his
day-long exposure and tiring walk.
-gas Swamps
ioneer Eleven 45-0
Despite a 45-0 shellacking at Cheboygan last Friday and the sting of a 21-6
defeat still fresh from the
Friday before at Gladwin,
Clare football Coach
George Perry and the Pioneers are not going to
"play dead" for powerful
Ithaca when the teams meet
tomorrow at Ithaca.
4 CHS drew the chore of
being first in the conference to test the top-rated
Yellowjackets that have
won 1 and lost 1 in games
outside the league so far
this season.
About the Cheboygan
rout, Perry concedes that
Clare met a better team,
"But they were not THAT
good, and we were not quite
that bad either."
A slim ray of jsunshine,
if any there is, might be
found In the experience and
game seasoning the Pioneers have collected in the
first two encounters*
Mr Clare got behind Cheboy-
<fe vgan 13-0 in the opening
quarter of Friday's game
and so — gambling to get
back in the game, they tried
an aerial attack. The result
was  disastrous With Che-
boyc^n intercepting four
throv J.
T .•. of the pick-off s were
run back for touch downs.
Feelings of the coach and
players might be summed
like this; They came
through a bruising game
and were beaten by a team
that was admittedly better, — but that also enjoyed the breaks of the
game.
The game at Ithaca tomorrow will take the Pio--
ne.ers on the road the third
weekend in a row before
they start in front of home
fans October 4 against Du-
randj the second - rated
team   in   the   conference.
Perry indicates that he
doesn't expect much from
the aerial game tomorrow,
Tom Dunn and Chuck Stirling will divide the quar-
terbacking assignment with
Glen Badgley and Gary
Headington at the HB spots
and Jerry Russell at FB.
Continued On  pag. B-5
Dawn Patrol
Sponsored By
Clare C of C
• The Clare Chamber of
Commerce is sponsor of
the Second Annual Dawn
Patrol to be at Clare Municipal Airport on Sunday,
September 29, Residents of
the city and area are invited to come and take part
in events that will last all
day.
Flying in will be pilots
and entire flying families
from points far and near.
Court Bauer, airport manager says that whether flyers or not, people will be
interested in the latest models of private planes flying in, and in the program
of entertainment.
Breakfast pancakes will
be Served from 7:00 a.m.
in the Rod &. Gun Club
building across the road
from the airport where
DeMolay boys are sponsors. Six free airplane
rides will be given by Bauer
and downtown merchants
have donated more free
prizes of merchandise.
Other   features   are a
horse show, square dancing
and   various   demonstrations on the ground and in
the air.
Refreshments, on the
field are to be sold by
Clare Boy Scouts.
To reach the airport*
drive east of Clare on Old
Give 131
Blood Units
At Holley
The second annual Red
Cross Bloodmobile visit to
Carburetor Company was a huge success.
From Holley employees
alone, the Red Cross collected 131 pints, as much
as was collected when the
Bloodmobile visited Harrison last April, reports
chairman, Robert Rowley.
Thanks are due to a
great many people who
helped. Doctors who assisted were Dr. Elmer
Shurlow, Dr. J.R. Gershon,
and Dr. E. J. Gershon.
Nurses in attendance were
Ann Greer, Inez Prather,
Barbara Kinne, Ella Mc
Connell, Jeanetta Wood-
ard, and Juanita McMas-
ters.
The Grey Ladies, another Red Cross sponsored group are deserving of
special thanks, said Mrs.
Alex T. Strange, publicity
chairman.
The Nazarene Church
Ladies were in charge of
the canteen and were ably
helped by Holley plant
cafeteria employees. The
plant also supplied the coffee. Lucy Roberts was
typist   and   organized the
Send Delegates
To Association
Several delegates from
the Glare Congregational
Church attended a Central
Association meeting at
Breckenridge September
25. The included Mrs.
Winifred Coveart, John
Green, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin
Noblit,  and  Rev.   Parker.
At the business meeting,
delegates discussed pro -
grams in consolidating the
association into the United
Church of Christ.
This coming Sunday after
church, young people of
the church will hold a Youth
Retreat at Camp Rotary
from 12:30 to 7:30 to plan
Clare county supervisors will ask voters to
decide in December,
whether they approve a plan
for a new county building.
In a special session Monday this week at Harrison
a resolution was adopted
authorizing an application
for $205,000. Federal funds
and borrowing $108,000
more for which the country
would be bonded to repay.
Forty - five thousand
dollars more could come
from surplus on hand remaining in the county jail
fund, supervisors say,
Total cost of the proposed new county building
is $358,000 and architect's
planning and a list of specifications are already
partially complete.
At the coming special
election to be held on December 2, 1963, supervi-
'sors will urge a yes vote
for a one-mill property
tax for three years. Money
raised by this levy would
repay the loan and provide
enough revenue to put back
the $45,000 in county reserves, according to Louis
Becker, chairman of county
supervisors.
The action by the Board
Monday actually authorized
Mr. Becker to sign for the
county in applying for the
$205 thousand from an Accelerated Public Works
grant, — retained a firm
of Detroit attorneys, Miller, Canfield, Paddock &
Stone to act for the county
in the sale of bonds to raise
$108 thousand, — author
ized the special election to
seek voters agreement for
the special tax.   '
Seventeen supervisors
attending the session on
Monday were unanimous in
voting for the resolution.
The measure" was prepared arid reported favorably for adoption by the
Ways and Means committee headed by former Supervisor Chairman Walter
Ehle and including Board
Chairman Louis Becker,
Clinton Case and Ray Richardson. Three other members not attending the Monday meeting are Supervisors Glen Cain, Stuart
Huntly,  and Albert Haley.
Burn Awning
At BickneWs
An alarm Monday night
brought the Clare Fire Department to Bicknell's
store to extinguish a blaze
in the canvas awning over
McEwan street.
It appeared the fire might
have started in folds of the
raised awning "where perhaps a cigarette may have
been carelessly tossed.
Minor effects of smoke
and a very little water spotting damaged contents of a
fashion display window beneath where the fire
burned.
records
At a meeting at the Clare their program for the com.
City Hall,   Chairman  Ro-, ing year,
bert Rowley met with representatives      of  several
Clare organizations to
plan for the October 7 visit of the Bloodmobile to the
city of Clare. At last year's
visit, Clare collected only
103 pints and Bob Rowley
hopes  the  community can
do better this year.
Present at the meeting
were Winifred Coveart of
the Congregational Church,
Audrey Teeter and Anita
Saul, Clare Church of God;
Hazel McDonald, St. Cecilia Church; Bettie Marotzke, St. John's Lutheran
Church; Virgil Bergstrom,
Clare Rotary; and .Jay
Trucks, Clare Kiwanis.
Participation in this
Bloodmobile program insures that any resident of
Clare County can receive
Sorry —
A four-man delegation
of Supervisors, - Stuart
Huntley, Clarence Riedel,
Glen Cain, and Clinton Case
Will be sent to Chicago on
October 3 for a conference
with Federal authorities,
and hearing on the county's
application for the Federal
grant.
The present county
building and courthouse
was built in 1879 according to the memory of County
Clerk, Will Henderson,
without actually going back
to the archives.
Most criticism of its
present condition comes
from risk of fire.
Chambers of the Circuit
Court and several other
county bureaus and offices
are located on the second
floor with the only exit by
way of a stairway to the
ground floor.
Risk is heightened by
the location of the building* s heating boiler directly under these stairs.
But the lack of adequate
space for county government personnel!, working
room, and necessary storage facilities are high on
the list of present unsatisfactory conditions, too.
The building houses no
less than ten separate offices, bureaus and county
agencies.  More would be
and   inadequately   shelved
for use.
Plans to hold public
meetings and acquaint residents of the need for the
new building will be announced, supervisors say.
an
Week*
Clare police arrested 21
offenders and jailed seven
in what is described as the
busiest single weekend in
the records of the department.
On the records are arrests for thievery, traffic
violations, drunkeness, and
disorderly conduct. Department Chief Milan Shepard, half joking and half
rueful, says that the
officers of his Department were so busy that he
was called on to work
through Saturday and Sunday, "And I was supposed-
to have those two days
off!"
Four youths, one a
minor, were surprised in
the act Saturday of stealing gasoline from  school
located in the building if'buses parked on the Clare
there was room for them,  public School lot.
Three others,  the prosecuting     attorney,   sheriff,
and road commission have
headquarters customarily
located elsewhere.
In the. present building
are the county clerk and
register of deeds, the trea
surer, the courtrooms for' patrol tour,
Officers Roger DePue
and Mark House arrested
Andre Julian, 20, of Gladstone, George Nichols, 17,
and Lewis Sinia, 18, both
of Detroit and the juvenile
boy, after they came upon
them      during   a  regular
Circuit Court and Probate
Court with jury room and
judge's chambers, Clare
county and Tri - county
health departments.
More agencies and departments are the school
commissioner, county welfare, old-age assistance,
and the county rural extension service.
The building was originally built in 1879, - only
eight years after county
government was organized
and the seat of government
established at Harrison.
It has had various changes, remodelings and improvements in the years.
Most extensive was a brick
veneer front and side shell
built with W.P.A. help in
1936 and '37.
Recently a project has
been under study to replace
the aged boiler with a more
modern heating plant.
Supervisors, prior to the
introduction of the new-
building idea, were also
discussing building additions to enlarge the working and storage facilities
in- the county clerk's department and others, and
a better courtroom where
the law library is scattered
They were in the act
of taking the gas.
The three older youths
are in the county jail on
the petty thievery charge.
The two officers, checking the youths' car discovered that gas" wasn't
the only thing they had
taken. ^A box full of miscellaneous items of merchandise also contained a
shipping slip from a department store in Traverse City. Checking there,
Clare officers learned that
the things were stolen and
added this charge to the
local complaint for taking
gas.
Arrested Sunday evening
and now serving sentences
for drunk' and disorderly,
are Edward Epple, 45,
Jacob Fisher,43, and Dan
Fisher,45, all from Mt.
Pleasant. Clare officers,
House and Dee Wade observed the trio parked on
E. Fourth street near the
Loomis Machine Company
and stopped to investigate.
. The men were charged
with D and D conduct by
the two officers and Chief
Shepard who had been called to assist with the arrest and questioning.
Continued On Page A-5
What About
Tax Reform?
A public meeting to discuss Michigan's proposed
tax reform law will be held-
on Wednesday, October 2
at 7:30 p.m. in the Harrison courthouse. The speaker will be State Senator
Harold B. Hughes;
A discussion of. the new
tax structure will be followed by questions and
answers. The public is urged to attend.
US-10 through the US-27,blood free anywhere in the
overpass and then turn United States or Canada
north following the black- whether they have donated
top   road  to the airport, blood or not, '
A Sentinel story erred
last week when it gave
the location pf a Chamber
of Commerce meeting as
Barnes, The Doherty Hotel Is correct.
Clare County Supervisors' Ways and Means committee members are here preparing
a resolution to finance and build a new cwunty building and courthouse in' Harrison,
_ieir motion was approved Monday in a special session ot the Supervisors. In thfe
committee room looking over the final draft of the resolution _Te (from left) Kay
Richardson, Cilinton R. (Jake) Case, Ways & Means Chairman Walter EMe, and Supervisors Chairman Louis Becker. Also on the committee, but not present jMConday i\t»
Glen Cain and Albert Haley from Clare and Stiuart Huntley 'from Harrison;