1967-05-18; Clare Sentinel

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The   Clare   Sentinel
Ten Cents Copy
Fourteen Pages
Clare. Michigan. — Thursday, May 18, 1967
Eighty-seventh Year
New Series Vol. 75, No. 37
16 -Mill
Passes
The constitutional safeguard against high taxes,
—our traditional 15-mill
limitation, is not as staunch
as it once was if Michigan's
State Tax Commission is
correct with advice it has
Allocation
County Board
given to the Clare County
Allocation Board.
The Board, meeting in
Harrison Monday this week
allocated 16 mills to be
collected for the county,
for townships, and for the
State Parks Open for Business
Come Memorial Day weekend, the big push will be on again
at ^tate parks in Michigan and scenes like this will be
commonplace. With more fun-time facilities in the offing
than ever before, state parks are ready for this season's
surge of people who could well outnumber last year's 16
million-plus daily visitors and more than 300,000 camping
families. Ready, too, to maintain order and good clean fun
are conservation officers, park rangers, and others who
have been specially trained to control rowdyism, vandalism,
and other problems posed by trouble-makers. Conservation
Department officials have vowed to "protect law-abiding
park visitors with all of the manpower we can muster."
--Mich. Dept. of Conservation
$600,000 Is Goal
Of Clare Hospital
lie Fund Dirive ■
Clare Osteopathic Hospital trustees and Miss Helen
Morgan, administrator
outlined to newsmen Friday, a start of a fund collection campaign which
they hope will eventually
raise $600,000. to help in
the hospital's present and
future expansion and improvements.
John Quinnan of Clare
conducted the information
meeting after the hospital
Beard hosted a dinner at
Town & Country for newspapermen and radio broadcasters from Clare, Mt.
Pleasant, Farwell, Harrison   and   Houghton   Lake.
Developments already
include the appointments of
J.M. Grim of Farwell and
Forrest Meek of Clare to
be co-chairmen of the fund
drive. And it was revealed
at the meeting that a fund
has been started and is
growing to provide special
Free Check For
Auto Safety
Check your car. Check
|fS<our driving. Check accidents.. Take your car to the
City Park ( across from
the City Hall) Saturday,
May 27 for a free safety
check.
Friendly lane attendants
will safety check without
charge your cars brakes,
lights, steering etc. Make
sure your car is in safe
driving condition.
Sponsored by the Clare
Jaycees.
Wipe Out
Improvements
- Residents of Garfield
township are sad, -and angry over vandalism that has
ruined over $300. worth of
work and improvements at
the township trash dump.
Supervisor C.R. Case
said Tuesday that a new
gate and lock and part of a
fence   had   been  smashed
, and ruined some time Saturday or Sunday night.
It may have been the
work of some person who
was   resentful   at   finding
' the place locked and under
control when he wanted to
leave trash there after
hours.
Recent Improvements at
the dump were made in
response to State requirements that govern the use
i«£ public dumps and direct
standards for keeping them
Vpx. minimum sanitary con-
fditions.
equipment in the hospital
as a memorial for the late
Dr. E.J. Gershon.
Optimistic predictions
that the goals could be
reached were heard from
leaders of the drive, together with reasons for
the public appeal.
Miss Morgan assured the
newsmen that the decision
to campaign for contributions had nothing whatsoever to do with the hospital' s debt in the present
expansion building.
.She outlined the history
of the hospital here and
brought it up to its present
organization as a non-profit corporation with
business affairs directed
by a lay Board of trustees
and corporate members
from many central Michigan communities.
As this public-directed
enterprize, the Clare hospital has never benefitted
by taxes or other allocated
public money, and it is now,
and continues to operate,
"in the black".
The idea was strongly
suggested at the meeting
that other hospitals with
no more claim to public
concern and appreciation
than Clare Osteopathic has
conduct fund raising activities and make successful
use of gifts and contributions for equipment, improvements, and other
benefits that make the institutions more valuable to
the public they serve.
At Clare and in the many
central Michigan communities served by this hospital
the same response through
public generosity could be
used for maintaining and
improving the hospital's
services.
Details of how the public might be asked to help
were not ready yet, but it
is fairly certain that appeals will include gifts to
memorial funds for specific projects in the hospital
such as furnishings for a
room, gifts accumulated to
purchase special items of
equipment and the like.
A start has already been
made toward forming an
auxiliary organization to
volunteer help at the hospital and perhaps sponsor
money-raising events for
the hospital's benefit.
Clare Osteopath, Dr.
Elmer Shurlow and Mrs.
Shurlow have already made
a large gift to equip a room
in the hospital.
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Clare County Intermediate
School District and for Primary School Districts.
As far as the constitution is concerned and its
protection, "it givethandit
taketh away' .
In a divided vote Monday, the 6-man Allocation
Board approved this division of millage in Clare
county:
6 and 7-10 mills for the
county.
3-10 mill for the Intermediate School District.
One mill for townships
which show a need.
Eight mills for Primary
School Districts.
Add them up and the total
comes up 16 mills, something that has not happened
since the 15-mill limitation
became the law.
The law hasn't changed,
but a State Tax Commission ruling seems to contradict it and a letter from
the Commission to Clare
County Prosecutor J.
Franklin Trucks says the
J6-mill total is constitutional.
The ruling is based on
the opinion that, in a school
district lying across county lines in two or more
counties, the highest rate
levied in either county is
the constitutional rate that
can be levied in the entire
school district.
In the Allocation Board
action Monday, voting was
4-2 for the above formula
to whack up 16 mills with
members James Babcock,
Arnold Stamman, Mrs.
Leah Ulch, and James
McNamara voting for the
motion, and C.R. Case with
R.V. Hamp voting negative.
The Board had previously
failed to pass two motions
on alternate formulas that
would have given the county
as much as 7 mills and the
Primary Schooi- Districts
as little arT-lice as 6 and
7-10s.
Applying for their i-mill
cut and showing the need,
were the townships of Arthur, Freeman, Frost, Hat-
ton, Lincoln, Summerfield
and Surrey.
In the uncertainty that
accompanied the discussion
of the problem and the action taken Monday, it was
held a possibility that the
townships being granted
their 1-mill requests might
pay the total of 16 mills
while elsewhere in Clare
county the collection might
be 15 mills.
Members of the Allocation Board disagreed
over the point of whether
the opinion of the Tax Commission opened the door to
outright levy of the 16 mills
or whether a meaning was
intended for the Board to
merely agree to the tax
availability.
Highway Tax
Distributed
The City of Clare will
receive $9,831. in the quarterly distribution of Motor
Vehicle State Highway
Funds, and Clare county
will get 8178,225.
Total of the funds collected in the first quarter
of 1967 netted $99.8 million and was almost three
million more than the funds
distributed from the same
period one year ago.
Other amounts for counties in the area were;
Isabella, $266,966.
Gladwin, 158,910.
Midland, 273,878.
For cities the distribution included:
Beaverton, $4,351.
Coleman, 6,752.
Farwell, 4,127
Gladwin, 10,455.
Harrison, 6,166.
Clare Worker
Dies In Crash
A Clare man was one of
the victims Saturday last
week in a double fatality
accident in Isabella county.
Michael Foster, 23, of
R-4 Clare was killed when
the car in which he was a
passenger collided with
another on M-20. He and the
driver of the auto, Raymond Bush, 20 from Mt.
Pleasant were on their way
to work in Midland at seven
a.m, when the accident happened.
Dead in the other auto
was Gary Kidd, 22, of Port
Huron,  State  Police said.
Earphones in place eyerybody? This group demonstrates an exercise in which tape talks a story while
pupils follow the words on pages. Sight and sound
together of the words helps children gain reading
and comprehension proficiency.
Helping reading students learn to recognize and
pronounce words, this machine shows words on a
card and then 'talks' the word. Pupils may practice
saying the words and play back their own voices
instantly to test their pronunciation. Richard
Helberg, Kevin Dysinger, and Allen Lawson are
feeding word-cards into the machine for a lesson.
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Demonstrating use of the Tachist-O-Viewer, Debbie
Holiday shows it can be used without aid of a dark
room. Mrs. Ruth Schunk, reading coordinator says
the instrument helps develop desirable traits that
boost reading skills in her groups.
Invite Opinions
On Ambulance
Service Here
At a session of the Clare
County Board of Supervisors, held on May 9th, it
was agreed to bring to the
attention of the public the
efforts of the Board to
provide adequate ambulance service for county
residents. Due to regulations, established by
Federal-State agencies in
transporting Medicare
patients, it was too costly
for the Funeral Directors
to continue Ambulance service.
To protect the health and
welfare of county residents
they contracted with Clare
Nursing Home, Inc. to
furnish county ambulance
service and pay the operator $10,000. yearly to offset costs of complying with
Federal and State regulations.
The members of the
Board of Supervisors are
wondering if the present
service is meeting the
needs of County Residents.
Once again the Board
members wish to emphasize that It is the privilege of the public to register complaints with those
in charge. Prepared forms
for registering complaints
are available at county
clerk's office in the county
building in Harrison.
The Board was faced with
the situation wherein they
had to provide the ambulance servie'e themselves
or subsidize a private individual because it is not
economically feasible with
out a subsidy.
Upon determination, the
county could not operate an
ambulance service for the
amount of subsidy payment.
They chose the latter method as being the most economical for the citizens
of the county.
Supervisors have been
informed hy Sheriff, James
R. Darling, that in case
of an emergency, involving a community area, he
can request an ambulance
other than those provided
by the Clare Nursing Home
Inc.
The telephone number
for ambulance service at
the Clare Nursing Home
is 386-9255. Please keep
this number in a convenient
place in case of emergency
Instant  recognition   of  alphabet   characters   helps
speed  reading  for Don Dunbar (top)  and Robert
Dent who identify and mark letters in these books
of make-believe "words" which are purposely jum-    C^-it-Ic' C^!VlfVt*nc
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See Their Reading Skills Improve
Ever since the days when
school critics coined the
query, "Why Can't Johnny
Read?" our educators have
admitted that a problem
existed, and accepted the
challenge to solve it.
There is no grade level
today, where poor readers
suffer because their problem is ignored and future
generations of students can
be glad that the solutions
were left to professional
teachers who make a specialty of correcting reading faults.
Mrs. Ruth Schunk, reading coordinator at Clare
Public Schools says that
pupils who need help in
reading are most often
those with normal ability
to learn, but who may be
impeded by speech problems, hearing difficulties,
or vision deficiencies.
Most of them maintain
good average levels with
their grades in other subjects.
Amazing progress in
bringing these youngsters
up to their normal reading
levels has been achieved
by understanding their individual causes and intensive instruction in small
groups, -and by the use
of a system of electronic
and mechanical aids that
intensify sound and sight
experiences for pupils.
The goals are to make
reading easy and natural
for them, to speed it up,
-and to make more complete the understanding of
What they are reading.
School administrators at
Clare and Mrs. Schunk are
elated with the gains for
their students. A report
being prepared about the
remedial reading program
will highlight the fact that
measured progress here
has far exceeded the rate
regarded as a sort of
"standard
goal.
The present school year
is the first here for use of
a full time reading improvement coordinator.
Employment of Mrs.
Schunk in this position was
made possible under a Federal grant of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and it
represented the first major
federal award of funds to
the Clare schools.
There have been 46
children in the remedial
reading classes this year,
30 boys and 16 girls. Children who were referred
were very carefully screened. Each child was
checked for speech difficulties, visual and hearing
defects.
Results of the tests
showed:
Speech problems, 8
Hearing difficulties,     7
Vision problems, 11
Total 26
Each class met for 1/2
hour, with 5 and 6 in a
group.
1. So each child would
be able to develop reading
habits and skills at his own
learning rate.
2. The child was taught
by methods best suited to
his particular needs and
abilities.
3. It was hoped that each
child would become a more
independent reader.
4. The child had a variety of materials in which
to work with,
A report was made to the
regular classroom teachers
on effective methods and
materials that were used
with the individual students
so the remedial readingin-
struction co-related with
the regular classroom program.
Encouraging thechildren
to read involves more than
just books arid materials,
or hoped-for A pleasant, attractive physical setting is helpful too.
The reading center has
new tables, chairs, good
lights, many well displayed
books, the new visual
equipment, makes this center well equipped for learning.
Mrs. Schunk says that
experience shows that parents can help the teacher
teach  their child to read.
"Remember that learning to read is a difficult
task.    Praise   your  child,
"Do not expect him to
know the word when you
tell it once or twice—or
even 10 or 20 times. Some
entirely normal children
need to' see a word 60 or
more times before it is
his own! Others learn at
a single reading.
"Listen to your child
read at home. He ~ should
Girl Scouts
Romp In
Cedar Park
The Cadette Girl Scout
troop 646 of Clare and their
leaders, Mrs. William
Ulrich, Mrs. Robert Beck
and Mrs. Herman Luplow
entertained the Junior Girl
Scout troops to a Fun Fest
at Cedar Park on Saturday
May 13th. The Junior leaders present were Mrs.
Keith Benmark and Mrs,
George Gibis.
The Cadette girls led the
Juniors on a scavenger hunt,
taught them fire building,'
knot tieing, first aid at
which Mrs. Ulrich showed
the girls how to do artificial respiration, trail blazing, how to waterproof
matches, ax, saw, and knife
safety.
The Fun Fest ended with
a bonfire for each troop,
songs and Somemores for
a treat, with Mrs. Benmark
Junior troop having the flag
ceremony.
be  reading  a book easier
In Operetta
The eighth grade girls
chorus of Clare Junior High
School will present an
operetta this Thursday eve-
than the one he is reading ning  (tonight)     at  8 p.m.
at school.
"Read stories to your
child. A child who has been
read to is usually more
eager to read to himself.
Remember it is a long
time before his reading
ability will .catch up with
his interest.
"Buy books when you
can afford them.
"Keep your child well
and rested. A child who
has kept a late date with
television shows the effect the next day.
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This is an all girl musical and will be given in the
Elementary auditorium.
Tickets may be purchased   at   the   door.
L _, Seniors
Boys in the Little League
Senior Division will have
tryouts Thursday May 25
at 6:00 p.m. on the high
school ball field.
Applications from all
boys should be in to their
team managers before the
25th, or handed in at Town
& Country Lounge.
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Rose Jackson (left), a Girl Scout Cadette shows a
few' knot tying tricks to Juniors on a lesson break
at the outdoor Fun Fest Saturday in Cedar Park.
Games, practice at Scouting skills and a sack lunch
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