1967-08-24; Clare Sentinel

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Clare Michigan. Thursday August 24, 1967
Eighty-ninth Year
New Series Vol.  75 No. 51
Ban Left Turns
To Speed Traffic
Across McEwan
A "no left turn' rule
will go into effect next
week for eastbound drivers
entering McEwan street
from Fifth, the Department
of State Highways said
Tuesday. It is the latest
step in the Department's
* efforts to speed up traffic
^flow through the busy intersection, and reduce
chances for accidents.
Sam Long in the Cadillac
office of the Department
told The Sentinel Tuesday
that the left turn ban is to
be on an experimental ba-
. sis.
"Drivers will learn to
make their necessary left
turns either two, or one
block before arriving at
McEwan, and take Maple
or Beech streets north until they can get back to
North McEwan , he guessed, "Or else drivers may
*go directly t h r o u g h
y McEwan headed east and
turn north on Pine street
one block later to circle
back  to North McEwan."
Elimination of the left
turn will make no difference with the Department's
plans to prohibit parking
along Fifth street, Long
added.
Clare Mayor Willard
Koch said that the Department had discussed with the
City Commission, such
details as the traffic counts
and the need for allowing
autos to move along Fifth
and through the intersection at a faster rate. The
city had been notified of
the State's intention of trying the no turn test.
A Highway Department
crew has been ordered to
erect the "No Left Turn"
sign Thursday of next week
^5&nd at no time of the day or
night, will drivers be allowed to make the turn
north.
Highway Department
traffic experts will be particularly interested in the
effect of the new rule on
heavy truck traffic, —or
perhaps on the effect of
heavy truck traffic on
routes through side streets
where pavement surfaces
were not built to the same
specification as main
trunkline concrete.
During heaviest use  of
the   intersection   in   peak
*   ^yolume    periods,   drivers
"have been observed waiting
on Fifth street to make left
turns on McEwan, and hesitating to enter the intersection with heavy traffic
flow facing them westbound
on Fifth. In such moments
the hesitating driver may
miss his chance to make
any turn at all until after
the light turns red for him
and he either makes the
turn late at the risk of
a headon collision, -or else
he backs up autos behind
him by blocking the lane.
Long said the new arrangement is expected to
develop into a two-lane flow
of traffic both east and west
bn Fifth through the intersection without altering the
painted stripes and lane
markers on the street.
Remind
Citizens of Clare County
are again reminded that
the Bloodmobile will be in
Clare Monday,, August
28th, at the Clare Congregational Church. The
hours are 12 noon until
6 p.m.
Anyone in good health,
ages 18 to 60, is urged to
donate blood, which is so
vitally needed by someone
every day. That someone
could be you.
New Day
The Alma Branch Office
of the Michigan Employment Security Commission
announces a change of days
for the payment of unemployment benefits at Mt.
Pleasant and Clare.
G.G. Guimond, branch
manager, stated that those
unemployed persons who
are now receiving, or who
will claim unemployment
benefits after September
18 wiil be required to report to the new schedule
as follows:
Persons who report to
the Mt. Pleasant office on
Tuesdays, will be required
to report on Thursdays on
and after Thursday, September 28, 1967, and only
on   Thursdays  thereafter.
.Persons who report to
the Clare office on Wednesdays will be required to'
report on Tuesdays on ahd
after Tuesday, September
19, 1967, and only on Tuesdays thereafter.
The manager said that
the reason for the change
was to allow more time to
process claims and to provide more effective services.
All persons will continue
to report as usual until the
above effective dates.
Don't Be
Fooled By
Another - 'Bill*
Local mails this week
were full of appeals for
money from a Directory
Service Co. whose envelopes bore a California post
mark and return address.
Made to resemble an actual
bill for payment, the piece
might startle- residents if
they didn' t happen to notice
the fine print which says^
"this-is a proposal form
-not a bill..."
On the reverse side of
the card resembling a bill
and also in fine print, the
Directory Service Co. admits, "This is an independent publishing company
and has no connection with
any other directory publishing company."
A driver in car A finds a. confusing situation trying to make a left turn off Fifth
street to go north on McEwan. The traffic
light is amber for car B headed north and
making a left turn to W. Fifth, and for car
C which is slowed part way through a
right turn and confronted by a freight
truck partially blocking its lane. In the
lower picture a couple of moments later,
car A had hesitated through light changes to green, red, and now green again
while waiting for a break to turn north
and meanwhile five other drivers were at
a standstill in the traffic lane behind car
A. The Department of State Highways
has said that left turns north on to McEwan from Fifth will be forbidden starting Thursday next week.   Sentinel photo.
4-H Members At
MSU - State Show
Michigan's top statewide
4-H event, the 52nd annual
State 4-H Show, will take
place August 22-25 on the
campus of Michigan State
University.
More than 3,000 4-H'ers
representing every MichiT
gan county will participate.
They give demonstrations,
practice judging, vie in
contests, participate in
many different, educational
events, and get a touch of
college life, according to
Carolyn C. Bay, Extension
4-H Youth Agent for Clare
County.
Clar e County will, be
represented by the following members and leaders:
Carolyn Burdo, clothing;
Linda Dawson, horse & veterinary; Pam Walters,
horse; Belinda Bicknell,
horse.
Gary Fletcher, vegetable
garden; Kay MacQueen,
vegetable garden; Debra
Fletcher, dog care; Rebecca Streeter, dog care; Alan
Montney, woodworking.
Kim Montney, entomology
Karen Gordon, conservation; Debra Macklem, conservation; Martin Murphy,
conservation; Patty Rodabaugh, home design.
Mrs.     Vivian   Dawson,
Farwell, adult advisor; and
Mrs. Ben Burdo, Clare,
adult advisor.
The public is welcome
and there is no admission
charge.
Sportsmen's Map By County
The State Highway Commission' s most popular
publication is the official
state highway map. But it
also publishes hundreds of
other maps and many of
them are available to the
public.
Among the best sellers—
especially with sportsmen-
are detailed maps of each
of Michigan's 83 counties.
These black-and-white
maps come in two sizes—
three-eights of an inch to
the mile and one-inch to
the mile.
The actual size of the
three-eights inch map is
13 by 18 inches while the
one-inch-to-a-mile map is
36  by  42  inches  in size.
The county maps show all
state highways and most
county roads. In addition,
they show section and town-?
ship lines, airports, railroads, and lakes and
streams.
All lower peninsula counties are contained on one
map in both sizes.    Eight
upper peninsula counties
are printed on two sheets
while three upper peninsula
counties* are so large it
takes three sheets to show
the entire county.
The small county maps
sell for 25 cents each or
$10 for an entire set of all
counties.
The large county maps
are 75 cents each.
Upper peninsula counties
covered in two sheets include Alger, Delta, Gogebic
Houghton, Iron, Mackinac,
Menominee and.Schoolcraft
Each sheet of the multiple-map counties is sold
separately so that a complete set of small Marquette
County maps, for instance,
would be 75 cents while all
three of the large ones
would be $2.25.
County maps may be obtained by writing Maps,
State Highway Commission,
Lansing 48926. Checks and
money orders should be
made payable to the State
Highway Commission.
Oct. 9 Opener Approved For Ducks
Michigan's 1967 duck
season was set this week
for October 9-November
17, five days shorter than
1      a    year    ago,    and goose
shooting regulations matching last fall's format were
jointly   approved by     the
State   Conservation Com-
i 4 mission.
"'*--*   This fall's 40-day duck
season and other waterfowl
rules were adopted in a
special telephone poll of
Commissioners from federal hunting guidelines offered by the U.S. Bureau
of Sport Fisheries and
Wildlife.
As established, Michigan's duck season will
carry  bag  limits  of four
Name Seven Fund Chairmen
Seven community chairmen for the Clare Hospital
Fund Drive have been
named by Laurence W.
Jackson, Jr., general
Chairman of the campaign
to raise $600,000. to expand the existing facility.
Named to fill the
community chairman rolls
were Albert lacco, Clare;
William H. Flower, Far-
well; Mrs. Myrtle Coil,
Harrison; Mrs, Emily Kib-
by, assisted by Mrs. Alice
Brown,   Marion;     Waiter
Yeager, Coleman; Wilbur
McLane, Lake; and Mrs.
Olga Ringley, assisted by
Mrs. Howard Ryckman,
Lake George.
Jackson explained that
the community chairmen
have the responsibilities
of securing and training
volunteers in their respective communities who are
to see to it that every industry, retailer and private
citizen has an opportunity
to contribute or pledge to
the Clare Hospital Fund
Drive.
birds per day and eight in
possession, same as last
year, but there will be reduced kill quotas on wood
ducks and canvasbacks
which are in short supply.
Daily limits on those two
species permit hunters to
take one of each. Only one
canvasback and two wood
ducks are allowed in possession.
Last fall, the state's
waterfowlers could take two
wood ducks and two canvas-
backs each day and have
four of each in their possession.
Mallards, NO. 1 on this
state's bag list for ducks,
remain under limits of two
and four. However, their
fall flights are not expected
to measure up to the good
levels of the 1950's.
The Commission again
chose October 1 as the
goose starter in the upper,
and northern lower peninsulas. Also in line *with
last year, goose hunting will'
begin concurrently with the
duck season in the southern lower peninsula and
end November 30 statewide.
Bag     limits  on    geese
Jim Exhibits
follow those of 1966 at five
per day and in possession.
Canada geese may again
total two of the five.
On October 1, starting
time for the goose opener
in northern Michigan will
be 11 a.m. E.D.T. Through
Cont, on Page A-5
4* Stete ^5    Hurt When
Car Upends
Visitors at the Michigan
State Fair, opening August
25 in Detroit will seeexhi^
bits designed to show them
the wide range of Michigan's farm products and
how the modern farmer and
processor work together to
bring those products to the
dinner table at reasonable
prices.
The prize animals—beef
and dairy cattle, sheep,
swine, horses, poultry,
rabbits, and pigeons—wiil
draw the most attention
among the farm exhibits.
An entry from Clare
county will be Jim Penrose
with a contestant for the
judging in Beef Cattle.
A Farwell man, Edward
Kuck, 52, of 236 Hall street
was painfully injured in an
auto accident Tuesday forenoon when he drove off a
dead-end road and crashed
and flipped over.
State Police at the Mt,
Pleasant Post said he was
taken from the wreck with
a fractured leg and internal
injuries. He was sent to
Glare Osteopathic Hospital.
The report said Kuck
came to the dead end of
Arthur Rd. at Bringold Ave.
in Lake George and failed
to- stop or turn.
Area Schools Announce
Opening Week Plans
Clare Public Schools released details this week
on the opening of school
here on September 6.
Superintendent Richard
Snyder said that enrollment is officially estimated at 1,825 but this is
based on factors that might
change in the first week or
two of the new term. He
said that if actual student
counts to not match the
estimate, it is expected
that the final enrollment
will be higher than the
estimated figure.
Schedule for the opening
of school calls for teachers meetings on September 5, the day after Labor
Day.
On Wednesday, September 6 and .Thursday, September 7, all s t u d e n t s
except kindergarten will
attend a half day in the
forenoon. Friday, September 8 is to be the first full
day of school for Clare Students.
Parents of kindergart-
ners will be notified when
their beginners should report to school.
At Harrison, Superintendent Robert Larson said
that negotiators for the
teachers and for the School
Board agreed Tuesday evening on terms of their master contract and the termt
would be up for ratification 'by both groups soon.
Harrison School will
start September 5 with an
enrollment estimated to be
1,250. Teachers there will
meet for pre-school sessions on August 31.
At the office of Farwell
Area Schools Superinden-
dent Harold Elenbaas, the
Sentinel was told that school
starts September 6 for a
half-day session in the
forenoon after teachers
meet on September 5
Enrollment estimates for
Farwell place the number
of students at 1,210.
Coleman Schools are
expected to greet 1,450 students on their opening day,
September 5, in the forenoon. All grades, 1 through
12 will report for classes
that day and kindergartners
will start on the following
day, September 6.
The Clare school office
said that bus schedules will
be similar to last year,
except morning runs will
be approximately fifteen
minutes later due to a
change in high school schedule.
New families should
check with neighbors for
approximate bus times, or
call the Transportation
Supervisor at. 6-9945 the
week of August 28. Students should be at their
bus stops ten to fifteen
minutes early on the first
day of school to allow for
minor variations in bus
schedules.
School Hours: The regular school day will be from
9:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
for all students.
Three noon periods will
be scheduled in both the
elementary and secondary
buildings this year because
of large enrollments and
limited facilities.
Junior and senior high
school students will eat
during one of the following
periods—10:55 a.m. to
II :25; 1) :30 a.m. to U:55
or -11:55 a.m. to 12;30p.m.
Lunch periods for elementary students will be
one hour in length with the
exact time for each grade
to be announced oh the
opening day of school(any
elementary child may*
choose to carry his lunch
instead of returning home).
Families new to the com-
munit are reminded that the
Clare Schools do not have
cafeteria services available. However, milk can be
purchased by .students
(preferably on a semester
basis in the elementary
grades).
New Students; Students
new to Clare this year
should report for registration during the week of
August 28, Both elementary
and secondary school offices Will be open. Parents
registering kindergarten
students should bring the
child's birth certificate.
High School Schedule
Changes:  Any high school
student who wishes to
change a schedule must see
one of the counselors during the week of August 28.
There will be no changes
when school starts except
to drop courses.
Textbooks and Other
Fees; Both high school and
elementary fees may be paid
from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00'
p.m, on Wednesday and
Thursday, August 30 and
31, and between 9:00 a.m.
and 12;00 noon, Friday,
September 1
Fees will be received
at the high school and elementary school offices and
receipts will be issued for
all amounts received.
The following fee schedule has been adopted by
the Board of Education for
the   1967-68   school  year:
Elementary: Publications
fee (My Weekly Reader and
Scholastic Magazine) $1.00.
Milk, $3.00per semester
Junior High; Book' rental
7.50, Phys. Ed. towel fee
1.00, Current events 1.50,
Art (8th grade) 1.00.
High School: Book rental
7.50, Phys. Ed. towel fee
3.50, Art, 5.00.	
MEA Fears
ate Start
For Athletes
The Michigan Education
Assn. said this week that
about 250 public school districts in the state have not
reached agreement with
teachers on the contracts
for the coming school year,
and if coaching staffs hold
to the line, "no contract
-no work", there might be
a delay in the, start of
athletic schedules.
Locally, in the US-10
"League of which Clare is
a member, other member
schools where no contract
agreement has been reached are: Farweil, Shepherd, Coleman, Evart, and
Reed City. In Gladwin there
was no contract agreement
as of August 18.
Clare Superintendent
Richard Snyder said Wednesday that the Clare Education A s sociation
(teachers) and the School
Board had agreed that a
delay in the final contract
agreement would not change
the scheduled start of
school on September 6.
Negotiators were said to
be very close to a final
form for the Clare contract
and hope to have it ready
for presentation to the
School Board at the regular meeting Monday,
Athletic towel fee (High
school & Jr. High) 2.00.
(Senior and junior high
school students participating in interscholastic athletics will pay their
coaches a $2.00 -towel fee
for each sport in which they
participate,)
Shop: High school shop
students will purchase a
$5.00 shop card. Junior
high students will buy a
$2.00 card. The cards will
be punched as materials
are purchased. A refund
will be made for the unused portions of the card
at   the   end   of the year.
Farmers Ask
Why Not Wheat
For Cattle Feed?
The low price of wheat
during the 1967 harvest
season has caused many
farmers to ask how competitive the grain is with
shelled corn as a source
of energy for finishing feed
lot cattle.
Drs. Hugh Henderson and
Terry Greathouse, beef
cattle specialists in the
Department of Animal Husbandry at Michigan State
University, say if there is
a price dockage in wheat
due to garlic or other
foreign material, farmers
may profit by feeding this
low-priced wheat, *
They point out that in total
digestible nutrients that
shelled corn and wheat have
very little difference.
Wheat is higher, however,
in crude protein.
"When switching beef
cattle from shelled corn to
wheat, substitute onepounr"
of wheat for one pound ot
shelled corn.
From a practical standpoint, most cattle feeders
substitute rolled wheat for
shelled corn on a pound for
pound basis. "Wheat should
be rolled or coarsely
ground and never fed whole"
Henderson added. He believes that one pound of
wheat daily per one hundred pounds of body weight
of animal is adequate.
Greathouse says in comparing values, if the shelled
corn price is $1.20 per
bushel (56 pounds) and the
wheat price is $1.38 (60
pound bushel), they are of
equal value, with the exception of wheat being
higher in protein content.
Corn at $1.00 a bushel is
equal to wheat at $1.15 a
bushel, he added.
Rep. Holbrook Holding
More Court Hearings
The first in a series of
summer public hearings on
court reorganization in
Michigan is scheduled for
Kalamazoo on August 26.
The hearing will be conducted by the House of Rep-
representatives Judiciary
subcommittee on court
reorganization.
Committee Chairman
Donald E. Holbrook, Republican representative
from Clare, said the meeting is designed to hear the
views of interested citizens
and judicial officials from
all the counties of southwestern Michigan.
Representative Holbrook
said the hearing will cover
all aspects of court reorganization, including the
establishment of new courts
of limited jurisdiction. He
said that all judges, justices of the peace, attorneys
local government officials
and interested citizens are
invited to attend the meeting and express their views.
The hearing will be held
in International Room "C"
at the Holiday Inn at 220
E. Crosstown Parkway in
Kalamazoo, beginning at
10:00   a.m.   on   the  26th.
Court reorganization is
ohe of the really major
issues confronting the
legislature at this time, and
will be the primary topic
of the special fall session
of the legislature which is
scheduled for October 10.
During the regular session this year, public hearings on the court reorganization question were held
in Lansing, Detroit, and
Clare.
At these hearings the
views from most of the
remainder of lower Michigan weite expressed. After
the southwestern Michigan
hearing, the court
reorganization subcommittee hopes to hold similar
hearings in the upper peninsula later this summer.
Committee members
hope to entertain- as many
opinions as possible on revamping Michigan's court
structure before the fall
session gets underway.
$103,357.' Is
County Share
Clare county's share of
State Motor Vehicle Highway Fund collections in the
1967 2nd quarter was
$103,357. and the City of
Clare received $5,497,
The distribution was
started August 14 from the
fund which amounted to
nearly $56 million.
Around    the area other   '
cities, and villages received:
Farwell $2,308., Beaverton
$2,434.,  Coleman $3,776.,
Gladwin $ 5,847., and Harrison $3,449.
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