1967-04-13; Clare Sentinel

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Clare, Michigan —. ThuMday. April 13, 1967
Eighty-seventh Year
New Series Vol. 75, No. 32
v Clare School Board
In Weekly Meetings
With Crowded Agenda
At a regular session
Monday evening, Clare's
Board of Education made
decisions to:
1.) Allow up to eight
years credit on the local
teacher salary schedule for
former service in other
school systems.
2.) Place a second in-
_* strumental music teacher
on the staff here for the
1967-68 school year.
3.) Introduce a small
engines mechanics course
in the high school industrial
arts department beginning
next fall, and purchase
equipment for it.
4.) Purchase large cast
aluminum lettering to spell
out the name of the school
on the outside of the gymnasium's south wall as an
-assistance for the Student
Council's project to erect
the lettering.
Monday's meeting was a
busy and lengthy one, the
fifth meeting in as many
'^-.weeks counting special
sessions on March 20 and
27, and local Board participation in a joint meeting
of all Clare county Boards
of Education  on  April  3.
Dr. Charles R. St. Clair
chairman of the Michigan
State University Mechanical Engineering
Department, was named as
speaker for commencement exercises on June 8th.
Final approval was received from the Department
of Education for participation in the State Remedial Reading Program and
the administration w a s
directed to draw up specifications preparatory to
advertising for bids for the
purchase of three replacement buses.
The approval of the
E*^-*emediar reading program
*? carries with it a gt*\nt of
approximately $7,000 in additional state aid to be paid
during   the  current year.
Clare To Pay
$56. Rate For
later-Sewer
The Clare City Commission's special meeting
Tuesday evening to make
a final decision on new
water and sewer rates produced a unanimous decision
to charge $56. per year
for the city's 740 unme-
tered residential customers.
A rate as high as $65.
had been recommended and
considered and present cost
is   $37.33. Industrial me-
■^ tered rates will go up for
the first 20 thousand gallons from$9.35 to $12.15
and heavier users will be
billed at proportionately
higher rates per thousand.
The way residential customers will pay for services under the new formula
is this: Water will be $28.
I**. p*63^year, -no change from
I? ' cie present rate, and sewer
service will increase from
$9.33 charged at present to
$28.   making the total  of
$56.
.      Added revenue is expec-
| ted to total $21,595,80 per
| year, or just enough to meet
. water   bond  payments   of
y. $21,420.00.
The Board received an
interim report from its
committee investigating
various types of relocatable classrooms. Of the
many firms in this field
only four, or five, will
probably warrant serious
consideration.
Plans are being made
to visit units installed by
these companies in the area.
Four classroom units
will be purchased and installed for elementary use
next September.
A tentative budget for
the 1967-68 school year
was reviewed and approved
prior to its submission to
the County Allocation
Board. Superintendent Snyder emphasized that the
local schools will face a
serious financial crises
during the coming year unless there is another very
substantial . increase in
state aid, or additional
local tax support.
In other actions, the
Board began study of basic
policies covering the area
of adult education, approved a three year contract
for the superintendent and
authorized payment of
$62,931 in principal, interest and fees on the 1962
building program debt.
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Air Wiews On
Community
Recreation Here
Many guests and members were present at the
Clare Business and Professional Women's Club
Monday evening at, the
.Doherty Hotel.    '
The program was a discussion on Community
Recreation presented by a
panel of nine persons,
representing educational
and business fields.
George Devenny of WCRM
as moderator, led the interesting and informative
discussion attempting to
get various ideas about recreation, what it is, why the
community should be interested and the different
types of programs.
On the panel were Allan
Dighera, Community School
Recreation consultant, Department of Education,
State of Michigan; Malcolm
Elliott, associate professor
of Physical Education at
CMU in charge of community recreation, Ken
McLaughlin, visiting teacher, representing Clare
County Intermediate Board
of Education, together with
the local personnel, Mayor
Willard Koch, Ken Barnes
of Chamber of Commerce
Mrs. Pat Maxwell, a former waterfront director in
city recreation, Mrs. Ruth
Franstead, Clare Physical
Education teacher, Ray
Owens of the city commission.
It was pointed out that
"Recreation'' is. different
to every person, one definition given, that recreation is "what everyone does
that they don't have to do".
Every person, child or
adult, has a prime interest
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Handsome trophys and, prized honors
were given these members of the Clare
County -Livestock Club at the annual
Appreciation Banquet for Beef Buyers
Thursday* of last week. Taking their
bows are (from left) Deanna Montney,
Darleen Bolle, Alan Schmid, Jeanine
Bolle, and Patty Rodabaugh.
Photo by Guys and Dolls Studio, Clare.
Beef Buyers Treated
By Grateful 4-Hers
The Clare County 4-H
Junior Livestock Club held
the 4th Annual Appreciation
Banquet April 6th at the
Twin Elms Country Club.
The banquet was attended
by 275 people.
Club Seniors participated in the evening program.
Dee Dunkle was Master
of Ceremonies. Sandy Weldon gave the invocation and
Kent Schmid and Darlene
Bolle giving the flag pledges. Myron "Bud" Dunkle,
4-H leader for 10 years,
handled the introductions.
A special thank-you was
given the buyers of the
champion and reserve in
each livestock division by
the 4-H'ers who sold them.
This was a plaque that,
could be .hung |r. their offices. ' "'
The recipients were-.
Marion Livestock for
Champion Steer; Dunlop*
Cafe for Reserve Champion
steer. Marion Livestock
for Champion lamb; and
Twin Elms for Reserve
Champion lamb. Johnston
Elevator for the Champion
hog and Production Credit
of   Mt.   Pleasant   for the
Reserve Champion hog.
Harris Milling gave trophies to Darlene and Jeannine Bplle for Champion
and Reserve Champion
steers. Wolverine Stockyards of Clare, gave trophies to Alan Schmid and
Patty Rodabaugh for Champion and Reserve Champion
lamb.
Citgo Distributor, Charles Sweet, gave the Champion and Reserve Champion
trophies to DeeAnna Montney for swine.
Carolyn C. Bay, Extension 4-H Youth Agent, gave
a _ brief description of the
4-H program.
The program speakerfor
the evening was Roger De-
Pue, Clare County Juvenile
Officer,
Little League   p^ ^^
On Stage For
Tryouts Set
Dates for Little League
tryouts were announced
this week, with the ruling
that any player not a member of a Major League or
Senior Division team last
year must try out or automatically play in the Minor
League.
Boys 10 years old on or
before July 31 this year
will try out Monday, April
17 at 6 p.m. and boys 11
or 12 years old on or before July 31 will try out
April 18 at 6 p.m. All tryouts will be on the Clare
Elementary School playground.
Apportionment Waits
U.S. Court Ruling
Tite Clare P-EA Fsdf, coming May 5 will be named
Fun-Fest .and Sherrie Chadwick of Clare Elementary 6th grade won 10 free tickets because she
thought of the njune. Sherrie was; the winner in a
ftfwge contest and is in Mrs. Maybee's room. She is
thlmughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Chadwick. AI-
fegej. Seteanm, Elementary principal presented the
prize tiefeets. Sentinel photo.
The well-laid plans for
reapportionment of Clare
county's supervisor representation ran into a snag
this week when the Michigan Supreme Court called
such plans unconstitutional.
Caught between the
Michigan legislature's demand that reapportionment
be achieved by all county
supervisors this month,
and the Supreme Court
opinion that the State constitution forbade it, Clare
county will be ready and
then wait for a U.S. Supreme Court test that is
certain to come.
The scene in county
courthouses all over Michigan this week was one of
"hurry up and wait", as
supervisors scrambled to
approve plans for the new
apportionment and then
pigeon-hole them until the
courts test the whole idea.
At least, if new apportionment is found to be
acceptable, the resolutions
will have been adopted and
Giant Adds
Midland Store
L.A. Walton, president
of Giant Super Markets,
Inc., announced today that
Giant Super Markets has
purchased the Hamady Super   Market   in Midland,
This will make the Giant
chain now operating ten
super markets in central
and northern Michigan with
stores ih Mt. Pleasant, Alma, Big Rapids, Clare,
Traverse City, Cadillac,
Ludington, Alpena, Owosso
and two stores in Midland.
Giant also advertises and
buys co-operatively with
Ray's Food Fair stores in
Saginaw and Bay City,
At the time of the announcement, Mr. Walton
also stated that two more
Giant Super Markets are
on the planning board for
northern Michigan.
the matter will not become
the responsibility of the
bi-partisan commissions
which the legislature said
would act if supervisors
failed to comply.
Michigan's Supreme
Court, voting 5 to 3 upheld
the clause in the State's
constitution that provides
that each township must
be represented on the
Board of Supervisors by at
least one member. The
opinion was advisory and
asked for by the attorney
general.
The U.S. Supreme Court's
ruling in several similar
cases is expected In a few
months.
GailCogdiU
To Speak At
AwardBanquet
Kiwanians have obtained
Gail Cogdill, veteran member of the Detroit Lions
professional football team
for the featured speaker
and entertainer at the annual Awards Banquet to be
held Wednesday evening,
April 19.
The affair, held here under sponsorship of the
Kiwanis club each year beginning in 1936 honors one
boy from the CHS senior
class who is outstanding in
sports, scholarship and all
around achievement in
school.
Naming of the award'
winner is traditionally a
climax on the evening program and kept a careful
secret until the moment of
the announcement. Last
year's award wenttoRoyce
Colet
Nineteen seniors are eligible and have won athletic
letters in one or more of
five varsity sports at CHS.
Tickets for the banquet
are on sale at the high
school, Doherty Motor Bote! and Forsberg Agency.
Concert Tonight
This is a busy time of
-the year for Clare's Junior
High bandsmen as they display the results of their
efforts during the school
year.
Tonight (Thursday) the
Intermediate Band (7th
grade) and Junior Band (8th
grade) will present their
annual concert in the high
school gymnasium, the
downbeat to be given at 8
o' clock.
Each band will be playing seven numbers, including the three that won First
ratings in regional contests
and that they will perform
when they attend the State
Band Festival in Mt. Pleasant on April 22.
The remaining numbers
will round out the program
ranging from soft serenades to humorous novelties.
Last Saturday 30 performers in grades six
through nine attended the
District 9 Jr. High Solo &
Ensemble Festival at West
Branch, combining their
efforts to play in the 23
entries Clare had in the
Festival. Most of the events
were, solos; four were duets.
When the day was over
the students had won fifteen
first division ratings, seven
seconds, and one third.
Recordings made of tonight's concert will complete the tapes from which
selections will be chosen
for the band souvenir record,  the first  in  Clare.
Orders for the record,
which will include selections by all of Clare's Sr.
High and Jr. High bands,
will be taken at the concert.
This will be the last chance -
to get one as the order will
be placed with the manufacturer early next week.
April Cancer
Drive Begins
April has been designated Cancer Control Month
and the local Cancer
Society is asking the public to take three important actions.
These are as follows:
If you don't know cancer's
warning signals, learn
them; If you have not already had an annual health
checkup, have one; and
support the American Cancer Society's programs of
research, education and
service.  Give generously.
The annual fund drive
kick-off for the City of
Clare was held Wednesday
April 12th at the Methodist
Church. Mrs. Robert
Ackerman is directing the
fund dtrive for the City of
Clare.
SPRING ACHIEVEMENT DAYS
Project Exhibits Set
For Clare, Isabella 4-H
4-H'ers in Clare County will have their Spring
Achievement, Saturday,
April 15 at the Harrison
High School gym.
The members will be
personally evaluated with
their items starting at 9:30
a.m. The evaluators will be
4-H leaders and persons
from the community.
Spring Achievement is
the climax of the winter
4-H program and the projects include clothing, knitting, handicraft, electrical,
conservation, leathercraft,
and foods.
Open house will be from
1-3 p.m. on Saturday. At
this time all projects will
be on display for the public
to viewl
The Style Revue will be
in the evening starting at
8 p.m. All the clothing
and knitting girls will model
their items at this time.
There will be 15 style revue pins given to the girls
that evening. All other
members in projects will
parade by clubs before the
revue begins.
Mrs. Ronald Carr, Far-
well, is the chairman of
the 1967 program.
Two successive Saturdays,  April  15  and April
22, will be big days in the
lives of 400 4-H girls from
Isabella county who are
completing 4-H clothing or
knitting projects this
spring.
On April 15 from 9:00
a.m. to 1'2:30 p.m. in the
Courthouse Annex in Mt.
Pleasant the girls will model their clothing and knitting for a panel of evaluators.
Collins Fund
Established As
Students' Aid
A student aid and scholarship fund has been established in the memory
of the late Ullman Collins
for six years the president
of the Clare County Intermediate Board of Education. That Board announced the formation of the
fund this week.
Mr. Collins had been
credited with valuable leadership in the local work
that resulted in establishment of Mid Michigan Community College and the fund
is jointly sponsored by the
CoLege Board.
Here they will receive
suggestions on how they
might improve the fit of
garments and practice
modeling their walk, or
their smile f
This will serve to prepare them for the Spring
4-H Style Revue to be held
Saturday, April 22, at 8
p.m. in the Shepherd High
School gymnasium- which
is open to the public.
Thirty girls chosen by~a
panel of Style Revue judges
will be presented Dress
Revue  Pins at this event.
Seven girls will be selected to represent Isabella
county at the 1967 State
4-H .Show Style Revue in
August at Michigan State
University.
Mrs. Teresa Smith of
Mt. Pleasant is serving
as chairman of the Style
Revue committee.
Others planning the two
clothing and knitting events
are Mrs. Elaine Thering,
Mrs. Phillip Simpson, both
of Mt. Pleasant; Mrs. Joe
Vanas of Rosebush; Mrs.
Robert Bailey of Shepherd;
and Mrs. Albert Hyder of
Remus; and Mrs. Louisa
Nelson Grabau and Don
Walker, Area Cooperative
Extension agents.
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Excellent scholarship and high scores
on competitive tests earned college
scholarship awards for these seniors
from Farwell Area Schools. Back row
(from left): Doug Scott, Mike McGuire,
Ron Rumrill, Kim Timmons; front:
Joyce Perry, Paula Oliver, Ruby San-
drow. (Not in picture, Maria Bolen,
Supervisors Elect Brubaker      Farwell Seniors
John Brubaker, supervisor at Harrison from Arthur    _ is   _%■   ■.
township was elected Board chairman Tuesday as the    JIW0l'(|ftf8  §f flf ft
Board opened its April session and beganreorganiza-    "■■■•■■ tivtl   WMlfcv
tion.
Brubaker served as chairman during part of last year
after the death in office of Stuart Huntley of Harrison.
He   had   occupied   the   post of chairman pro-tem.
The naming of all regular and special committees will
be among first orders of business for the new chairman
this week.
School Play    Everts Opening
Has Murder   Second Store
Trial Theme  In Mt. Pleasant
The Clare High School
Speech Department, under
the direction of Forrest
B. Meek, will present a
stage adaptation of Reginald Rose's Television play
"The Remarkable Incident"
on Thursday evening, April
20, 1967 in the Clare Elementary Auditorium at 8:00
P.M.
This famous play concerns the small town of
Carsons Corners and its
citizens when the students
of the local high school
stage a trialto accuse a
kindly old janitor of murdering a- student.
As tension mounts and
tempers flare, the play
rushes head-long towards
a surprising climax.
Many students are involved in the production
of "Incident' , and all
friends and neighbors are
invited to attend. Tickets
will be available at the
door for those who did not
have the opportunity to secure them earlier.
Nurses Start
Fund Raising
Nurses at Clare Osteopathic Hospital have
started plans for a fund-
raising campaign to furnish
their new lounge in the
hospital expansion. Sales
and other money raising efforts are planned
Everts Jewelers of Clare
announces the opening soon
of a second store to be
located   in   Mt.   Pleasant.
Howard Everts opened
the Jewelry store in Clare
in 1945 and has been serving the community, not only
for its jewelry needs, but
has been very active in the
city to help promote and
improve industrial and
business in the mid-Michigan area for over 22 years.
Howard Everts and son,
Larry, who is a certified
master watchmaker, hope
to continue to give the same
service, which they have
been so well known for in
the Clare area to the Mt.
Pleasant area also.
The Mt. Pleasant store
is the old location of the
Daniels Jewelry Company
at 109 East Broadway.
Everts are in the process of remodeling and
cleaning. They hope to be
opened before May 1st.
Rest Your Dog
Michigan dog owners are
reminded by the Conservation Department that they
have through April 15 to
field train the winter kinks
out of their animals this
spring.
After that and until July
15, dogs may not be worked
afield except when they are
being used exclusively for
fox hunting.
Scholarships
Eight seniors at Farwell
High School were notified
last week that they were
winners of Michigan Competitive Scholarships.
Mafia Bolen, Mike McGuire, Paula Oliver, Joyce
Perry, Ron Rumrill, Ruby
Sandow, Doug Scott, and
Kim Timmons, seniors at
Farwell High, were named
by the Michigan Higher
Education Assistance
Authority for Honorary or
Monetary Awards.
The award is based on
scores in a statewide examination and pays the tuition and fees to the state
.college or university of the
students choice, on a need
basis.
Maria and Doug have
been accepted at the University of Michigan, Paula
Kim, Mike and Ruby are
accepted at Central Michigan University.
Joyce will enroll ■ at
Northern Michigan University, and Ron is planning
to attend Grand Rapids
Bible College this fall,
All the winners are not*
only excellent students, but
are active in school affairs
and    popular     with their
classmates and teachers.
Farwell has every right
to be proud of these fine
young people and of the
school which helped prepare them to earn this
honor. Competition is keen
and the test is a difficult
one.
This year, some 28,000
high school seniors through
out the state took the three
and one half hour college
type examination in late
November. Of this number,
only 6,000 were winners.
Congratulations to these
fine students on a good
start in their college careers.