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Clare, Michigan — Thursday, March 30, 1987
Eighty-seventh Year
New S*rfw Vol; 75, No. 30
Isabella Stock Raisers
To Treat 107 Buyers
County Re a
Over tour hundred 4-H
and   FFA   members   and
* their    parents will show
Lonnie Chambers
Gets Life Term
Lonnie Chambers, who
went on trial in Harrison
February 28 for the 1956
murder of his father-in-law, and was found guilty
of first degree murder,
was sentenced to life imprisonment late last week.
Chambers first trial in
1956 had been halted when
he was judged insane and
committed to Ionia State
Hospital. The past two
years, Chambers had been
jailed at Harrison until
tests determined his ability to stand trial and the
date set.
Under Michigan law, the
conviction on first degree
murder carried the mandatory life sentence.
-Gary Cole
Dies In
Auto Plunge
An auto accident Saturday took the life of Gary R.
Cole, 24 year-old Clare
man whose car left the road
and plunged down a steep
embankment near Sanford.
He left a wife, the former Connie Whltaker and a
small son, Anthony.
The victim had lived his
entire life in this area and
was the son of Mr. andMrs.
Maynard D. Cole of RFD-4
Clare, He served in the U.S.
Navy for four years until
1967 and was recently employed as a machine operator at Dow Corning inMid-
^and.
He   was   a* graduate  of
Clare HighSctoolandjfigtf--.
ried Mrs. Cole in California*
in 1965.
Members of his grieving
family who survive him are
his parents, and two brothers Larry D. Cole of
Midland and Roger D. Cole
at home, a sister Valinda
Cole at home, and his grand
mother Mrs. Verla Barry
of rural Clare.
Funeral services for Mr.
Cole were held Tuesday,
March 28 with Rev. Harold
I-. Knickerbocker officiating
and burial in Warren Township cemetery in Coleman.
Stephenson Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements.
School Notes
A clothing drive will begin Monday, April 3rd, in
the elementary building.
Parents are urged to send
clothing with their children
for the Save the Children
of Federation drive. Clothing will be sent to the southern part of U.S.
Five teachers from the
elementary school will attend a reading conference
held in Grand Rapids the
3rd and 4th of April. They
are: Ruth Schunk, Eva Anderson, Irene Shively,
Doris Mitchell, and Winnifred Denton.
their appreciation to 107
buyers of livestock at the
Isabella County Youth and
Farm Fair Livestock Auction next Friday night,
March 21, at their 12th annual Livestock Appreciation Banquet.
The event will take place
at Beal City High School
and is sponsored by the.
Isabella County Livestock
Producers Association.
One hundred seven buyers at last fall's auction
purchased a total of 42.4
tons of live meat from ninety-three club members at
the annual auction. This
included 77 steers, 23hogs
and 22. lambs fed and cared
fo r by the club members
as their 4-H or FFA projects last summer.
The program will feature
Professor Clyde F. Cairy,
of Michigan State University. Dr. Cairy is a professor of Pharmacology
and is widely known as a
mentalist, mind reader and
telepathist. He will present a program entitled
"Memory andMentalism.'
Bill Hubert, Central
Michigan University student and musician, will
present instrumental and
vocal entertainment.
Evart Bowerman, president of the Isabella County
Livestock Producers Association, will serve as
Master of Ceremonies for
the program. Susan Anderson, member of the Bowen Busy Bees 4-H Club,
will   give   the invocation.
Receiving special recognition from Don Walker,
Extension 4-H Youth Agent,
for having participated in
the fair auction sale for
ten years will be seven
buyers. They are the
Clare- Packing Company,
Collin Farmer Supply, Dutcher Implement Company,
Lee Implement, Inc., Peet
.Packing Company, Ridley
Commission Company, and
Hubscher and Son. Each
of these buyers will receive a certificate of honor
and membership in the
"Ten Year Buyers Group.'
Dinner for project members and buyers will be
provided by the Livestock
Association and served by
members of the Altar Society of St. Joseph Church
of Beal City.
Election
Monday
Electors in Clare will
go to the polls Monday
next week to choose three
members of the City
Commission.
Absence of any public
issue such as proposals
or other referendum may
keep voting at normal
numbers or below, it is
expected.
Candidates .for three
vacancies include all the
incumbents on the Commission who are Roy
Dunbar, Ray Owens, and
Robert Walters.
On the ballot also are
Willard Bell and Wendell
Colvin.
The polls will open at
7.00 a.m. and remain open
until eight in the evening.
The supervisor from
Surrey township on the
Clare County Board represents 1,653 people while
Summerfield township's
supervisor represents 119
people, but a plan for new
apportionment will shortly
even out such wide differences on the Clare County
Board.
Re-apportionment with a
nine-member Board was in
a  plan unfolded this week
Membership on the Board
has been 23 under present
representation.
The new plan has been
debated and passed in a
committee at Harrison and
will now come up for action
on the floor at the April
meeting of     Supervisors.
The City of Clare which
was held four places on the
present Board will be reduced to two members. One
will be elected or appointed
from the 1st Precinct and
the other from the 2nd
Precinct in the city.
Under the proposal the
City of Harrison would no
longer be represented by"
supervisors from its three
wards, but would help
elect one supervisor along
with the entire township of
Hayes.
Harrison's population in
the I960 census was 1,072
and because it was divided
into three wards, it daimed
three seats in the present
Board.
The townships of Garfield,
Freeman, Redding and
Winterfield are presently
represented by one supervisor each, but in the new
plan the four would be included in a single district
to   elect   one supervisor.
Picketing"
Abandoned
At Kraft
Milk strike pickets appeared Saturday forenoon
in Clare in connection with
the nation-wide effort by
the National Farmers'
Organization (NFO) to get
an increase for milk producers.
At Kraft Foods plant here
where picketing was started, it was said that the
NFO did not .attempt to
interfere with plant deliveries by milk haulers, but
it was believed the intention to persuade Teamster
union drivers to refuse to
haul  away plant products.
The short demonstration
was called off when the pickets were told by Clare
police that a city ordinance
required them to get a
permit.
Must Go!
The Conservation
Department" s annual reminder to winter fishermen
was issued this week; The
time is now to remove
shanties from the ice.
Submerged shanties can
become hazards to boating
and create litter problems.
Their populations   are
respectively:
Garfield, 686
Freeman, 127
Redding, 200
Winterfield, 285
total - 1298
Another district entitled
to one supervisor on the
proposed nine-man Board
tyould be made up of the
townships of:
Summerfield, 119
liincoln, 345
Greenwood, 255
Frost, 338
^total - 1057
ff Another supervisor would
represent the combined
townships of:
Franklin, 251
Hamilton, 513
Hatton, 295
total - 1059
Two of the county's larger townships amonjg those
which contain no villages
or,-cities are paired in another district to elect one
supervisor. They are:
Proposed    districts   under-* a-Clare    shaded to show which townships join
county    re-apportionment   plan    are • to elect one supervisor each. .	
Better Business Follows Freeways
The 45 counties in Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula were divided
into 12 areas of similar
size for a comparison" of
sales tax collections oh
food during June, July and
August.
Counties in each of the
12 areas and per cent of
increase in sales tax collections on food during the
summer months between
1961 and 1966 include (State-
Continued on page A-8
The Ohio-to-Soo Freeway' is triggering significant economic expansion" in Northern Michigan, the State Highway
Commission reported today.
Commission Vice Chairman Charles H. Hewitt of
Detroit said summer traffic volumes in the Northern half of the LoWer Peninsula increased more than
30 per cent between 1959
and 1965.
Hewitt said the increase
in sales tax collections on
food during June, July and
August between I960 and
1966 was higher in 19 Northern Michigan counties
than it was in the rest of
the state.
The largest percentage
increases in both traffic
and sales tax collections on
food occurred in the corridor of counties through
which the Ohio-Soo Freeway passes.
Summer traffic volumes
on the Ohio-Soo Freeway
north of Clare increased
from an average of 5,421
vehicles per day in 1959
to 13,800 vehicles per day
last summer.
Sales tax collections on
food increased 40 per cent
between 1961 and 1966 in
10 counties between Clare
and the Mackinac Bridge
compared to a state-wide
average increase of 25 per
cent.
"Unquestionably, 1-75 is
triggering significant economic expansion in the northern half of the Lower
Peninsula,'      Hewitt said.
Prom Money
This Saturday, April 1,
the junior Class of Clare
High is having an "April
Fool's Day Car Wash-Bake
Sale", from 10 a.m. until
5 p.m.
The car wash will be at
the I.G.A. parking lot,
which will include a
thorough cleaning of the
inside of the car.
The bake sale will be at
two locations, the I.G.A.
.and Clare Hardware. There
will be a large variety of
delicious homemade baked
goods. ■
Money received from
this project will be used
toward the Junior-Senior
Prom in May. They will
welcome   your patronage.
Pick'67-'68
Courses Soon
Enrollment for next
year's scheduled curriculum will be completed
within the next two weeks
for the students at Clare
high school.
A precaution must be
made to all students as
class changes in the fall
will be very limited, so
make your selections of
classes very carefully.
Class changes will be difficult because teachers,
'rooms, desks, etc., will be
arranged in advance to the
67-68 school year by the
pre-enrollment.
Arthur, 420
Sheridan, 712
total - 1132
One seat on the proposed
new Board for the township
of Hayes and including the
City of Harrison would represent a population of 1678.
Surrey township's representation would not
change from the present
Board of Supervisors under
the new proposal. Its elected member would
represent 1653 persons including the Village of Far-
well.
Also unchanged from
present representation on
the new Board would be
Grant township with one
seat for its 1328 residents
outside the city limits of
Clare.
The City of Clare with
a 1960 census population
figure of 2442 is given a
seat on the proposed Board
for each of its two precincts. Since the number
of • residents in each precinct is unknown, the committee divided the city's
population and listed each
precinct as having 1221
residents.
The proposed plan for
re-apportionment or some
new plan close to a true 1-
man, 1-vote formula for
county districting must be
approved at the coming
April session of supervisors, -or else-.
Or else the State has
ruled that the re-apportionment must be done by a
commission of five local
members: the county
prosecuting attorney, the
county clerk, the county
treasurer, and the county
chairmen of Republican and
Democrat parties.
Members of the supervisors committee that
drafted the proposal for the
new apportionment are
headed by Clinton Case,
chairman and include Albert Haley,. George Nash,
John DeForest, and Mark
McKenna.
The plan was submitted
on March 23 along with the
committee's recommenda-
tion   that   it   be   adopted.
The nine districts defined
in the plan come closer to
being equal in population
than any representative
districts in any former
Clare county supervisor
plan. The widest spread of
difference is 621 between
the largest Hayes district
and the smallest Summer-
field, Lincoln, Greenwood,  PollCe  Called
Frost district.
Average number of residents in the nine new districts would be 1294.
WHAT MAKES CLARE CLICK?
To Analyze Progress Here
-»The City of Clare will be the basis for a special course
in the techniques of area resource development.   The
1 course is being offered by the Michigan State University
B Department of Resource Development.
The first meeting will be April 7-8. Other course
| meeting dates will be April 21-22, May 5-6, May 19-20th.
instructors will be Dr. William J. Kimball, professor
of Resource Development; and Dr. Milton H. Steinmueller
assistant professor of Resource Development.
Residents of the elate area and about 15 graduate
(students from MSU's East Lansing campus have already
! planned to enroll In the course. Other Clare area residents can enroll at 7:00 p.m. Friday, April 7th, in the
Vocational Agricultural room of the Clare Public School.
The course is particularly appropriate for teachers,
clergymen,    community   leaders,   and employees of
federal, state, and local government. It is open to residents of Clare and surrounding counties.
Glare county was selected as a study area because
eever&l significant community development efforts are
Underway*
. J—_w— Friday, April 7, session will feature a dlscwssfen
by -a nunaber of Clare communies. Isadeara devoted; p
devJ#cjpme_iB of she count^s Msf&_#al im^frgpSMil asd
g©i^_&|ii--C5, social and economies stleiif. f «^*
Those participating in the discussion include; John
Brubaker, chairman, Clare County Board of Supervisors;
Glen Cain, Clare city manager; Ken Barnes, chairman,
Clare County Planning Commission; Malcolm Whitford,
Testing Will Reveal
Ear And Eye Defects
Health District Seven in
Cooperation with the Michigan Department of Public
Health, will do vision and
hearing tests at Clare Elementary School, April llth
through l3th.
Parents with children
between the ages of 3 1/2
and 5 are urged to have
them screened^ as there
will be no ehar,g|.,, v
e4iftg wi-f%i'l'ooeift.
?im_mimW__WS!&mi"
Mrs. Merle White, hearing
technician. Both have received special training for
this work.
Each year approximately
8,000 children ih Michigan
develop a handicapping loss
of hearing; many thousands
more develop a hearing
loss which may later become a haftditg&p.
One purpose of this sere-
enfeiig Is to detect a loss of
hearlfe <-af ly fjipugh Sot
fg S& le^M« ftf'Ofe
■'•* ■_f-rn"B!ii_j^tft Jflge, A- 8
engineer, Clare County RoadCommission; Frank LaGoe,
Industrial Development Corporation; Joe Dumont, WUCi
Soil Conservation Service; and Richard Snyder, supt.
Clare Public Schools.
The Saturday, April 8th session will include a tour of
Glare, Surrey, Grant and Sheridan townships. The tour
will Include visits to Mott Mountain Ski Area, Penrose
dairy farm, and Worldtronic's new plant.
The sessions on April 21-22 will be devoted to determining Clare county's economic base and how land is
used in the county.
Class members will analyze the county's human resources and the institutional framework within which
citizens and officials must work during the sessions on
May 5-6. Members of the class will also practice interview techniques.
The final session on May 19-20 will be devoted to
bringing together information collected in previous sessions. Alternative development paths for Clare's future
will be reviewed.
One of the best features of the course, according to
Kimhall, is the interactioj. afj. ong field people, com-
muhi-y residefite asm camptestedents. lash group tends
to^comp^ment the Ijnowlsgge #the <j$px^^
the next township elections
could be district elections
under the proposed organization.
College Hopes
For Review Of
Fund Sharing
Mid Michigan Community
College recently completed
applications for Federal
funds to aid in construction, under Title 1 of the
Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, of academic facilities.
The Federal funds are
allotted to the State of
Michigan and administered
by the Higher Education
Facilities Commission in
Lansing, under a state plan.
The plan provides a State
Commission to carry out
the functions of administration and operation of
the funds released by the
Federal government under
the Title 1 program. The
State Commission makes
verification that all construction projects submitted by application, meet
basic eligibility requirements. Applications are
assigned priority according to need based on
anticipated increased enrollment or creation of new
facilities for projected enrollment.
Past experience with the
HE FA program has shown
that community colleges
with the largest enrollment
or greatest potential enrollment have been given
highest priority in the administration of grants. At
the present time, however',
an overall review of the
program is being undertaken, with the objective
of providing a more equitable basis for distribution
of funds.
With the application made
by Mid Michigan Community College, it would be
possible to .receive
$240,000 in funds from the
Federal government for
construction of the first
instructional building.
Every effort is being made
by the college to assist in
the administrative review
of policy making it possible for the smaller colleges
such as Mid Michigan to
share in the release of construction funds.
Under thepresent system
of supervisor representation an extreme difference
of 1534 exists between the
largest single district
sending a supervisor to
Harrison and the smallest.
It is to correct this condition that the State directed in Act 261 of The Public
Acts of 1966, that all county
Boards of Supervisors in
Michigan shall be apportioned into single-member
districts along one-man*
one-vote guidelines.
April of this year was
declared the deadline for
approving a reapportionment plan in all Michigan
counties before the problem would become the
responsibility of the commission of county office
holders.
An earlier proposal was
discussed unofficially and
called for a 12-member
Board, but followed similar guidelines for the one-
man, one-vote districting.
Supervisors wonder if
there are other workable
plans to accomplish the
same result in this county?
Believing that the public
should have an opportunity
to express an opinion about
the plan now proposed, supervisors have agreed to
delay action on It until the
outline is made known and
residents are gfven the.
chance to coiita&t their representatives.        . ■ . a'"
Belief is thai; wilh xeap-
poBtiopnent „ fetog, eaKSlM
f ir by the April, ls&7 dafie^
In Chase Of
Wanted Man
Clare City Police, seeking to co-operate In a road
blockade and search for an
escaping homicide suspect
Monday, encountered some
out of the ordinary action
that started Off what Chief
Elry Tice called a busy,
frantic week here.
State Police asked for
help in catching a suspect
believed fleeing f:rom
Cadillac after a Monday
afternoon killing there and
Clare law officers went on
an alert at a few minutes
past eight o'clock.
A radio message asked
them to halt a converted
school bus carrying Sunday
school children toward Mt,
Pleasant, and which had run
through a blockade on
M-115 headed toward Clare.
Clare officers stopped
the bus just inside the city'S
west limits and emptied it
of the driver and young
passengers, but no suspect.
The bus driver's explanation was that he
misunderstood the signal to
Stop at the police blockade
and thought the Trooper
was ''waving the bus
through".
Later Monday Chief Tice
and two officers were called to the Robert Folkert
residence at 604 N. Maple
to question a man who stopped there,
Police were told^that a
man knocked at the Folkert
trout door at 11*30 p,ms
and lacked to be let i& iL
tte MilTErta. St6_-&. jgwlfei
by Foj^rbti? Bug $i^irjg.(
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