1963-11-28; Clare Sentinel

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The   Clare
ntlnel
Ten Cents Copy Thursday. November 28, 1963
Established 1878
Spirits of Clare residents were at half-mast Monday in concert with spirits of other 'citizens of the United States and
Jmuch of ithe world while humanity mourned the death of
President John F. Kennedy. This flag was flown at the entrance of St. Cecilia's school in Clare and symbolized the sad
feeling everywhere during religious services for
the Presidents last rites. Sentinel photo
ourns
The President
Citizens of Clare joined
with residents oi Michigan
and the world Monday in
paying tribute to the late
President John F. Kennedy. They observed the
national day of mourning
proclaimed by the new
President, Lyndon" B. Johnson, and the city's proclamation by Mayor Glen
Cain, that all business
places be closed from 12:0C
noon to 2:00 p.m.
Schools in the area were
e-osed for the day, including Harrison, Farwell
Coleman, Rosebush, Beaverton, the public and parochial schools of Clare and
Mt. Pleasant, also Central
Michigan University, alsc
many others throughoul
the state and nation.
Shocked and stunned by
the tradegy, the young
people immediately cancelled their social activities
and were deeply concerned
as one local youth stated
"betore, it was history, now
it is a reality".
Rosary services were
.held at iSt. Cecilia's Catholic Church Sunday evening
by the Knights of Columbus, and many of the parishioners joined with them
for this devotional hour
and meditation.
At 9:00 o'clock Monday
morning, a requiem memorial mass was offered by
Father J. I. Sruba, before a
capacity audience, joining
with their fellow members
around the world, in this
hour of deep mourning fo.'
the late president, and tc
pay homage to the memory
of a great and good man
Father Sruba wore the traditional black  vestments,
Protestant union memorial services were held from
12:01) noon to 1:00 o'clock in
the Methodist Church
sponsored by the Clare
County Ministerial Association. Rev. D. R. Salisbury
minister of the host church
presided.
The altar held a portrait
of President Kennedy:
flanked with vases of
white mums, and lighted
candelabra, and Was draped With the American Flag
edged in black. A similar
flag draped the entrance of
ijhe church.
Meditations were giver
by Rev. Van Parker of the.
Congregational Church
and Rev. Harold Knickerbocker of the First Baptist
Church.
Others participating
were Rev. Ernest Belella
of the Loomis. Missionary
Church, Rev. Harold Messer, Clare Church of God
Rev. Virgil Brinkman, Col
onville, Rev. Charles Hilliard of Eagle, and Rev
Charles Hull of Brown
Corners.
The Methodist chance]
choir sang two anthems
"Open Our Eyes", and "In
Times Like These", and the
Baptist Choir rendered the
anthem, "Blessed is thr
Ration". Mrs. William Case
was the organist, and Miss
Alma Rank accompanied
the Baptist Choir.
The service closed with
the congregation singing
".America", and standing ir
an attitude of prayer during the playing of the national anthem, the benediction, and the chimes.
Damage
$23,500 As
Trucks Hit
A freeway accident Monday night two miles south
of Clare brought spectacu-'
Iar destruction to three
huge trucks, and narrowly
missed killing the drivers.
Overturned and jammed
into tangled wreckage
were long-chassis stake
trucks carrying loads of
two and one-half tons, and
two tons of Christmas
trees to Ohio, and the
third big truck, a bulk milk
tanKer owned by Roy Salisbury of Farwell and loaded
with milk for a dairy in
Lansing.
Hospitalized at Clare
General Hospital were Art
Brinks of rural Marion
driver of the milk tanker
and Herman Heighley
driver of one of the trucks
loaded with trees.
William H. Thomas, owner of the two trucks carrying trees', and driving one
of them, escaped injury.
State Police Troopers
Oaks and Davis investigating at the scene took a
Statement from Thomas for
their preliminary report.
He said that the twe
tree-loaded trucks stopped
at the shoulder of southbound US-27 to inspect
their lights. While both
drivers were standing beside their trucks, the southbound tanker crashed intc
the vehicles overturning
one load and carrying the
other one across the graded shoulder and a shallow
water-filled ditch, — _
distance of about 45 feet.
Ambulances rushed
Heighley    and   Brinks   tc
Clare.
Wreckers were on the
scene more than three
hours to untangle the
trucks and clear the shoulder, of the freewayf
Hundreds . of trees were
scattered about the spot for
a score pf yards or more in
all directions from the
wrecked trucks.
The troopers were called
to the spot shortly before
6:00 p.m. and stayed or
duty to investigate the accident and route freeway
traffic around the wreckage until 9 o'clock. Hot
coffee was brought to them
to take the edge off the
night's chill.
Dr. E. J. Gershon aJ
Clare General Hospital
said that the two injured
men were in satisfactory
condition Tuesday morning. A report said that 150
stitches were required tc
close multiple cuts on
Heighley's head and body.
A State Police report of
the accident, still not completed on Tuesday, placed
the damage to the milk
tanker at about $20,000. and
to one Ohio truck at $2,500.
the other about $1,000.
Driver  Brinks  told officers that the accident cause
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List New
Enrollment
Ten 4-H  clubs in Clare |
county have submitted enrollments to the county Extension office and interest
is
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Businessmen Revive
Kids' Santa Clans Party
New Series,    Vol. 72    No. ?_2
District
Shuffle To
Affect Clare
Politicians and district
leaders of both major parties from central Michigan
and many parts of the state
will attend a public meeting in Clare next Tuesday
to discuss plans for reapportioning the state under
rules in the new constitution.
The hearing, one of four
scheduled in the state will
present and consider several plans for re-dtstricting
both Michigan Senate, and
House of Representatives'
areas.
All of the plans involve
changes for Clare county.
The new Senate will be
increased from 34 to 38
members while the House
remains at its present membership of 110. Every individual in the legislature
must represent a single-
member district.
Four Republicans and
four Democrats named by
their parties on the reap-
portment commission will
show the plans to the public December 2 in Marquette, December 3 in
Clare, December 4 in
Grand Rapids, and December 5 in Detroit.
Under New-con, senate
districts must be laid out
according to a formula that
gives four times as much,
weight to population as it
does to land area.
Representation in the
House for Clare county was
shared with Isabella under
the old plan. Elected Representative is Russell H
Strange.
New plans proposed by
Democrats place Clare
county in District 10 with
Wexford, Osceola and Mecosta counties. The total
population according to the
1960 census is 64,759.
The Republican plan is
for Clare to be joined in
District 11 with Isabella
and Osceola counties with
a combined population of
60,590 in the same census.
ion office and interest "_,... . , .,        ,._.-,-        -^ ,        T,.       .       What v.
hieh according to clare businessmen reviv- youngsters was the subjed ised from Rotary, Kiwams , *_.yy £
-crff M„-nnppn riir<-nf- ed the Christmas season for an "emergency" meet- the Jay cees and also from «r"n +i
,ge  -viacyueen,  direct- g^a     -^    p^ty    foi ing   Thursday _ evening  in the Chamber of Commerce nJf ££' l\
What will happen at thr
;?
= Santa Claus party for ing Thursday evening in the Chamber of Commerce **?£ reLnortioniit °the
Enrollment lists have children last week> and * Alexander's Shoe Store On the party day, the ti state are obviouslv
befrrec^ved ffom ^ now appears that Santa's where Chamber of Com- committee in charge is hop- S?ffiiS^d^e SSd
erfield Eager Beavers, Col- downtown appearance with merce President Marlin Al- ing for help from Boy b Langing observersPto be
onville, Blrtha Lake, Far- a Parade, and the tradition- exander called members tc Scouts to keep children m ^odmedt §r even discarded
well Bronc Busters, John al can^ ^ f°r klds twl11 S*QJ ^ celebration, a fix- line to meet Santa, and the L   £__    new   ^ d
•_, -,■,___ ' be a December 7 event.       ture   for   many   years   in Clare school bands will be        ,. J   _     -. _,.   .,_,_  .__
Sit qtar,   Pr^wnnd       mu     n,        *■      h        +   Clare's   pre-Christmas   cal-  asked to furnish music ir PendmS on .h°wfn^^r
rSfLrc;! T1ie  Clare  ^Depart- endar, £uld be continued the parade. received, m __h? ^vJeaV'
Caballeros  Farwell Sharp- ment       announced       lasl under   volunteer   sponsol, P        "
shooters, Lake Busy Beav- month   that   it   would   nc ship y
er|; ,    ,  ,    , longer   sponsor  the   party     Contributions of cash and
Several clubs have org* due to lack of funds. personal time on the pro-
™£ ^ ^       S1X •  Fl«men had been solicit- ject were enough to as^me
rtww      f^f3   arei*g about $500 each year {hat the       t   *m be held
gathering material for pro- from  clubs  and  organiza-     Plans ^er(f      ickl
jects and making plans for tions to purchase candy and posed   to   hold4 the \ftair
the coming year. packaging    the    treats    a;  much the sam3 as last
„.,„,       ,   -  .. ,     -   wel1 as staging the Santa     A Santa d       ^ b[
Fifth and sixth grades ir appearance as its share o? b^ ^ downtown Clare on
Clare, Harrison and at St. the project. December   7  at   2-00   r> m --v,-ui. --_v._s-.v-.
Cecilia's School are busy So, the fate of the The Fir Department wil"1' Making soiis more Pro" In new reapportionment
with their 4-H Forestry Christmas cheer party for ride the red.ciad Santa or ductive to increase farm in" of Senate districts, Clare
activities. 2500 or more sweet-toothed a big fire truck and immed   come wiil be the topic- for county is  again sure of a
lately afterward the candy four daytime meetings for change and new lineup
will be ready for his little ™ral residents of Ciare and The old 28th District thai
friends in the Clare Fire Gladwm counties begin- elected Senator Harold B
Station   across   from   the ningWednesday. Hughes has been re-formed
city hall ' ^he   meetings   from   10 in the Democrat's plan as
Firemen   also  will  pack a-m- to 3 P-m- are *? be at follows: .
the candy and sweets intc Arthur township hall on In a District 5, Clare
individual bags on Wed- December 4 and 11, and county is with Newaygo
nesday  evening, Decembej  January 2 and 8; Mecosta, Osceola, Wexford
Soils Key
To More
Farm Profit
Making  soils  more pro-
ings early next month.
The problem, for both
party's commission members is how to conform to
New-con rules and avoid
changing districts so thai
their own incuiubents may
be re-districted out of their
jobs, or be forced to rur
against each other because
their former districts have
become merged.
In new reapportionment
th
Robbers
Try Again
At McGwires'
Tangled wreckage fifty feet from the point of impact was
testimony to the violence of the collision Monday night when
the milk tanker on the right struck iwo other trucks parked
with loads of Christmas trees Oh the shoulder of US-27 Freeway* two miles south of Clare. The truck cab on its side was
literally torn off the body of the truck, the other heavy
truck with its load was overturned. Christmas trees were
scattered for yards around and two men were injured. Roger.
Hicks' was orte of many passers-by who stopped to view the
wreckage. • Sentinel photo.
4 They 're hoping for'volun-     Extension     officers     of Missaukee,   Benzie,   Grand
teer help with the job and clare and Gladwin counties        continued On Page 4
can use all that's offered.     are sP°nso" o0TfT the ."l!^'
Cash contributions to buy H^s where MSU specialists   y    ;       »      '*,,
>e candy have been prom- Eugene Doll, soils and Ley-   X Ule Jfarty
■• ■    - - - .ton Nelson, farm crops will
unfold "secrets" of how to TPnf   A. T'A
wake up lazy soils. - -*  w    -*-*._- a
"Good working soils help A f Tpm^*oi&H
increase crop production to -^*-* J? UT^DUkZII
yield adequate quality and Parents and teachers o:
quantity of feed for live- the Farwell Area Schools
stock thereby improving s wm take part in a Christ-
For the second time with- farmer's net income", they mas variety program, Mon-
in a month, an attempted say. day evening, December 2
robbery was made at Mc-     Arthur    Center    Church 1953^   at  8:00  p.m an  the
Guire   Brothers,   on   West will serve dinner each day high school gymnasium
U.S. 10. in the church basernent. Christmas carols will be
Sometime during the Cost of the four-parl piayed and sung by various
night, November 25, thieves course is to be ten dollars, individuals in the commun-
entered the building by This includes the special- jty. An instrumental en-
breaking a window in the ists' instruction, handout semble will play and hum-
rear of the building and .materials and the cost of orous readings performec"
tried to open the safe with meals after which will: follow r-
a torch,  but were unsuc-     The Arthur township haP delightful social hour with '
cessful. There was only a is at the corner of Ashard Christmas refreshments,
small amount of money ir and Athey Hoads.
the safe at the time. George MacQueen, Clare     At this meeting a com-
McGuire Brothers ha. County Extension Directoi plete progress report or-
been a target for several at- said that because of expect- the new high school will be
tempts but these are be- ed popularity of the course presented and a prize will
coming a little too fre- farmers planning to attend again be presented to the
queht. State Police are still should make reservation, class with the largest at-
investigating. any Pay their $10. fee eafly tendance of parents.