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Clare Michigan, Thursday   July 4, 1968
90th Year
New Series, Vol. 76, No. 44
Bangs and colored star bursts by the boxload are ready
for Clare's July 3 fireworks spectacle, says Mrs. Mae
Baumgarth who is chairman of the Business and Professional Women's sponsoring committee. She has
inspected the collection o'f bombs, rockets and colored
flares that will entertain crowds here on the holiday
eve. Sentinel photo.
. n Time Added
o 4th Fireworks
how Wednesday
The customary fireworks display for Indepen-
dance,. Day this year has
picked up some* rie. *ac
tivities to attract a large*
crowd and entertain people
around the shores of Lake
Shamrock. Joining in the
promotion of the holiday
spectacle are Clare firemen and the Summer Re>-
creation Commission,
Fireworks w'a t c h e r s
have Clare Business and
Professional Women to
thafik for the show that
will be staged from the island in the center pf the
.lake.
The sky show is due to
start as soon as it is dark
enough, -sometime after
9:45 p.m. and is expected
Cited For
No Injuries
The City of Clare has
earned a certificate of
honor for having had no
lost-time injuries for the
past three years while
operating its water waste
treatment plant.
The citation was announced this week byE.S. Shannon, of The Dow Chemical
Company, chairman of the
safety committee of the
Michigan Water Pollution
Control Association, during the Association's 43rd
annual conference at Boyne
Mountain Lodge, Boyne
Falls.
to last for the better part
of an hour, according to
Mrs. Mae Baumgarth,
heading the committee in
Charge.
Clare Recreation has
scheduled races,, games
and other activities on the
south shore of Lake Shamrock. This program is
supervised and expected to
lead up to the fireworks
as   an   evening's   climax.
The entire program is
July 3 since attendance
is better on the eve of the
Fourth.
Starting at 6:30 p.m.
there will.be sack races,
relay races for boys and
girls, and a dad's tug o'
war. More fun for kids
is ready with other games
such as 3-legged races and
John Wolf, director of the
games said more excitement and activity is ready
for children and spectators.
At 8:30 and until the fireworks begin at dark, there
will be a bonfire and community sing on the beach of
Lak e Shamrock. Everybody is invited to join in
and bring friends.
Clare firemen will team
up against State policemen
for a donkey ball game at
7:00 p.m. on the school
ball park, according to advertising posters.
Crowds estimated at
several thousand persons
annually view the fireworks from parked autos
circling the entire lake,
and from the south beach
and grassy spots in Shamrock Park.
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Fun Timetable
activities appeal to many
different likings, and mothers are urged to save
this general timetable and
to send their children as
often as they would like
to take part.
The Clare Summer Recreation program has
room for many more
youngsters in supervised
playground activities and
group recreation, says
Director John Wolf.
Morning and afternoon
MORNING
ACTIVITIES
Beginning at 9j00 a.m., children and young people
meet on the playground behind the High School gym.
The gym is also open all morning for inside games
and play.
THINGS TO
DO IN THE
AFTERNOON
Meeting at the same place at 1:30 p.m., youngsters
are supervised in races, games, basketball, hikes,
crafts and art.
The gym is open afternoons on rainy days, and
free swimming with a lifeguard in charge is On
the south beach of Lake Shamrock.	
Bell Promotes
Robert George To
Area Plant Chief
Michigan Bell Telephone
Company this week announced the formation of a new
plant department district
with headquarters in Bay
City, and in the local plant
the. promotion of a Clare
man in a supervisory, post.
The new district will include the Midland, Bay City
Tawas and Clare areas formerly served by the Saginaw district.
"This new area organization meets our prime objective which is to serve
local customers as fast, as
well and as efficiently as
possible," explained M.D.
Thompson, local manager
for Michigan Bell.
Harry D. White Jr.,
division staff supervisor
at Saginaw, has been appointed district plant man^
ager in charge of the new
Bay City district, effective
July 1.
White and his family live
at 5607 Sturgeon Creek
Parkway, Midland.
Promoted to plant chief
of the Clare area is H.
Robert     George,    former
exchange  repair foreman,
and resident of Clare,
His area of responsibility also includes the exchanges of Beaverton,
Coleman, Farwell, Gladwin, Harrison and Rosebush.
George, a native of Lansing, graduated from Alan-
son High School, Alanson,
Mich., and joined Michigan
Bell in 1949 as a lineman
at Petoskey.
Following several varied
assignments there in the
plant department, and. time
out for a two-year tour with
the Army combat engineers
in Hoechst, Germany, he
was appointed plant staff
assistant at Saginaw in
1963.
Two years later, he was
named exchange repair
foreman there, and continued in that position when
he was transferred to Clare
early this year.
While in Saginaw, he was
chairman of the credit
committee of the Telephone
Employees Credit Union.
During the academic year,
he is an evening student at
Delta  College
Businessmen
Contribute
Experience
The experience of business and industrial leaders
and other advisors from
Clare and Gladwin counties is being used at Mid
Michigan Community College to help prepare study
courses for the college
opening this  coming fall.
Four occupational advisory committees have
been holding meeting with
Francis Mitchell, dean of
applied arts at the college
to set up guidelines for
courses. They advise on
business .administration,
natural resources and conservation, and on industrial technology.
Among local men serving the college on these
. committees are Lyle
Skinner on the business
and distributive group, Donald J.. Collom with the
electricity and electronics
advisory group, and Al lacco and Neilan Cradit on
the industrial , technical
committee.
Applied arts course outlines are being prepared
by Mitchell and the advisors for enrollment Of students preparing for employment training.
July Clinic
The July Schedule for
the Child Immunization
Clinics is as follows:
Harrison, at the Courthouse, Tuesday, July 9,
10 a.m. to 12 noon.
For Clare and Farwell,
Thursday, July 11, 9:30 to
11:30 a.m. at the Clare
City Hall.
College Advisory Committees
The Business and distributive group, above, Wolfson, Lyle Skinner and "Robert Ridley,
includes, left to right, seated, Mitchell and Missing at time of picture, Charles Ash-
Charles Barrett.  Standing, I. to r., Carvel   craft.
p_«.
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Members comprising the natural resource   Joseph Dumont,  David Dilts and Thodore
group are, 1. to r„ Donald Peterson, Richard   Fairbanks.
J3aumuan, Walter O'Donne. , L. H. Rhodes,
The electricity - electronics committee
members are, 1. to r., D.J. Collom, Carl
Miller and  William  Mercer.    Missing at
time of photo were John Maxwell and Milton Alward Jr.
Choice Assured
In Each Of 5
New Districts
Candidate lists near the
cutoff time for Clare county
supervisors on the new 5-
man Board indicated primary contest for nominations in every one of the
five districts, and in at
least one district there is
a general election race
coming up between Republican and Democratic
nominees.
Eight incumbent administrative officers are unopposed for re-election to
Matt M eC onnell
Seeks Isabella
County Post
Committee   members   of   the   industrial^-  ' lacco,  and   Robert Hane.
technical     group  are,     1. to r., Gaylord    photo is Neilan Cradit.
Brown,   John   Graveline, Mitchell,  Albert
Missing from
Matt J. McConnell has
announced his candidacy
for nomination on the Republican ticket for Isabella
'county drain commissioner.
McConnell has been active in county drain problems for many years and
in the 1964 Primary Election, polled 46% of the votes for the drain commissioners office.
McConnell has completed three years of college;
is active in 4-H Youth activities, a member of St.
Henry's Parish and past-
chairman of the St. Henry's
Parish Board. He. is a
veteran of. World War II
where he served four and
one-half years, over half
of which was spent in the_
Pacific theatre. He is an
active member of the A-
merican Legion and the
Knights of Columbus.
McConnell, 53, is a lifelong resident of the county.
He and his wife, Kathryn
own and operate a dairy
farm in Vernon township
where he has lived all of
his life. They have a son,
Matt Jr., married, a daughter Elizabeth, a teacher in
the Detroit school system,
a son James in the service
and six sons at home, John
and Mark in high school,
Luke, MLke, Pat and Ray
in elementary school.
F-P LEAGUE TEAM WINS FIRST
Close Race Gets Closer
In an incomplete schedule last week due to the
rain out of several games,
Little League standings
tightened up another half
game and at the beginning
of this week only a half
game separated Anderson's and Stanley's tied for
first place, -and Clare
Hardware and Bryant's tied
for fifth.
Bryant's, the only team
that remained idle, did not
change position.
New standings:
Anderson's 5-4
Stanley Oil 5-4
Alexander's 5-5
Citizens Bank 5-5
Clare Hardware 4-5
Bryant's 4-5
In the three games that^
Were     completed, Stanley'
Oil   took the  measure of
Clare Hardware behind the
2-hit pitching of Mike Rogers.      It   was   Stanley's
6-4-1  to  Clare  Hardware
2-2-4.
Citizens Bank, batters
rapped out nine hits to
score a win over Alexanders while Mike Hales for
the winners all owed but one
base hit. Line score for
the contest was Citizens
5-9-3, and Alexanders 1-
1-5.
Alexander Shoes was
credited With only three
hits in the other game, but
they came in the right
places to score a victory
over Anderson's. Alexanders 6-3-3 with Steve Schu-
maker the winning pitcher
and Anderson's 4-4-2.
Minor League:
Lions 6 and
Bears 5.
Panthers 12 and
Eagles 7.
Colts 30 and
Orioles 2.
The Senior Division also
saw three of their week's
games -washed out by rain
and could finish games only
on Monday ' and Friday
nights.
Citgo took a 1-0 decision from Citizens Baffk
on Monday with Kelly Luplow the winning hurler and
the line scores, Citgo 1-
2-0, and Citizens Bank 0-
2-2.
On Friday Point Clare
rolled up another win with
a rattling attack at the
plate that produced 10 hits
and 13 runs. The result
sunk Ackerman's one full
game into the league cellar with the line scores
like this:
Point    Clare with   Ken
Sheredy pitching, 13-10-3,
and    Ackerman's     0-1-1.
Rained out games will be
played as soon as possible*
WIN AT CADILLAC
Clare's Free Press League team won the first game
. of' their season at Cadillac
when Steve McNerney went
to the mound and teamed
up with Grant Gillaspy and
■ Tom Sheredy who accounted for five of the team's
nine hits. Gillaspy collected 3 for 4 and Sheredy
2 for 3 while McNerney
was mowing down 20 Cadillac players at the plate
via the strikeout route.
Line score Was Clare
6-9-3 and Cadillac 4-6-2.
The win was dampened by
the loss of Steve Gallagher who wiil be on the
disabled list for the remainder of the season after his arm was broken
by a pitch.
Midland took a close 2-1
decision over Clare on Sunday and the next game coming up is here on Saturday when Alma plays a
return against Manager
Jerry Russell's boys.
Clare county posts.
The lists are considered
nearly complete and official except for the possibility that more candidates
might file in the remaining five hours between the
Sentinel's press time on
Tuesday, and the filing
deadline of 4:00 p.m. the
same day.
In District I which includes nine townships in the
north,, central, and west
parts of the county, three
Republicans and three Democrats had qualified assuring a spirited race for
the party nominations in the
primary and a contest in
the general election to represent the sprawling district.
Republicans Frank Rilett
Carl Bringold, and John
Waddle are qualified. On
the Democratic ticket for
the same office will be
Keith Blain, Max Myers,
and Cecil Hubel.
The list of candidates
throughout the county's
districts is sprinkled well
With men presently sitting
on the old Board of Supervisors.
LIST GROWS IN
OTHER DISTRICTS
In District II which includes all of Garfield and
Surrey townships and the
villages of Lake and Far-
well, the primary will see
a race between Burr R.
Stoner who resides near
the "Y" of US-10 and M-
115, and- J.M. Grim, filing
as Republicans.
* District "IH is the City
of Clare and candidates
are Albert Haley and Tom
Bradley. Both are Republicans^ veterans of city
government and Haley has
seen long service on the old
Board of Supervisors
where he was chairman for
several terms, and on the
County Fair Board as secretary.
District IV will see at
least a 3~way race between
Ronald Schunk, John Brubaker who is present chairman of the old Board of Supervisors, and Warren
White. All are running as
Republicans.
In District V comprising
Hayes and Hamilton townships with the City of Harrison included, the list includes A.E.* Bartow and
Mark McKenna, both Republicans.
COUNTY OFFICERS
ON SLATE
All county officers are
qualified for re-nominatlon
and all are unopposed.
County Clerk and Register of Deeds Louis Becker,
Ellen Ulch the county treasurer. Jay Trucks the prosecutor, and James Darling
the county sheriff will be
on the ballot assured of
nomination.
Walter Ehle the drain
commissioner, Dr. J. R.
Gershon and Carl Stephenson present coronors, and
Paul Lapham the surveyor
are the other incumbents
running without opposition
for nomination to their present posts.
Deadline
For Grade A
Producers
Grade "A" dairy farmers have until November
1,1969 to bring their water
systems into compliance
according to a report from
Keith Sowerby, Extension
Dairy Agent for Isabella
and Montcalm County. This
was a two year extension
of the old deadline of November 1,1967.
There is still a lot of
mis-information going a-
round concerning water
systems for Grade "A"
dairy farms. Extension
Bulletin 597 Recommendations for a Safe and Adequate Water System is an
interpretation of official
regulations.