1968-10-17; Clare Sentinel

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Clare Michigan, Thursday October 17, 1968
91st Year
Sentinel "Sayings"
Make it a habit to keep your
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never have far to fall.
New Series, Vol. No. 77       No, 7
Union Vote
Will Be He
End D»i-sis laaco of Clar*. took two Evart iack-
l&ss with him after completion of one of the Pioneer passes last week. Clare won 20-0, with laaco
scoring the first touchdown. Now the Pioneer eyes
are on Farwell this week.
Guys and Dolls photo
are Blanks Evart, Eyes Farwell
One of the closest games
the Clare Pioneer football
team has to a true "grudge
match" is on tap for Friday night when 'Clare hosts
_?_r*el_ at the local'field:
Coach Gary Rayburn is
keeping a wary eye on Far-
well,  despite  last week's
convincing 20-0 Pioneer
victory over Evart.
"If any team is 'up' for
us, it will be Farwell,"
commented Coach Rayburn.
He has ordered a hard
week of work for his charges in preparation for the
Farwell match.
Then there's the matter,
in addition to the "grudge"
aspects of the Farwell
game, of the US-10 conference championship,
currently held by the Pioneers on the basis of last
year's 9-0 record.
Clare has been defeated
only once this year, that
time by a power-packed
Reed City club which has
been bowling over conference foes with a heavy hand
But if Reed City should
stub its toe one of these
nights, Rayburn wants to
keep the Pioneers in position to take advantage of
the relapse.
After Farwell, Clare will
close out its conference
schedule against a tough
Sanford-Meridian team on
Oct. 25, then play Cheboygan before the finale against
state-ranked Oscoda, which
Rayburn sees as a real
toughie.
Despite the 20-0 victory
over Evart, accompanied by
clear superiority in the
statisitcs department, the
Pioneer Coach was not
overly impressed with his
team's performance last
week.
"In the third quarter,
they played real sharp ball"
he   said   of   his  charges.
But he quickly noted several "mental errors" a-
long the rest of the way to
Clare's homecoming
triumph over the Wildcats.
Despite the coach's reservations, the homecoming
crowd was happy as the
Pioneers blasted the outgunned Evart invaders in
every department.
After a scoreless first
period, Clare had to play
over two fumbles to put
together a 50-yard drive to
paydirt to score the first
Pioneer touchdown in the
second period. The score
.came on a pass from Grant
Gillaspy to Dennis lacco
Which covered" 20 yards.
The kick for point was wide
and Clare left the field at
halftime with a 6-0 edge.
The tnird quarter, however, saw Clare at its best.
The Pioneers took the half-
time kickoff and marched
65 yards straight dpWQJl...
'field "to score their second
touchdown.
With Evart using an
eight-man line to contain
the charging Pioneers, Gillaspy charged the final 10
yards right through the
middle, and Dan White
kicked the extra point to
make it 13-0 Clare at the
end of three periods.
In the fourth period, defensive tackle Larry Ruby
blazed through to block an
Evart punt and set up
Clare's third touchdown.
With about two minutes gone
ml. I he ..period, Gillaspy
pranced around end for'the
final 20 yards and into pay-
dirt. White again added the
kick to make the final mark
•20-0 for Clare.
Evart, meanwhile, managed to complete only one of
nine pass attempts for a
measly five yards, and ended up with a net ground
gain of only 30 yards, although the Wildcats racked
up seven first downs.
Just." two days after
America* _ voters go to the
polls Nov-. 5 to choose a
president, more than 500
production employees at
Holley Carburetor Company
in Claire will vote on which
of three employee organizations— or none at all —
will be the collective bargaining agent with this
city's largest single
employer.
Nov,  7  is the date set
by the - National Labor Reflations Board for the recog-,
nition  election  at  Holley.
Employees will face four
choices to represent them:
1. United Mine Workers
District 50.
2. United Auto Workers.
3. Clare Aircraft Division Employees Association,
which has been bargaining
agent at Holley since 1947.
4. No union or association at all.
A two hour public hearing
Monday followed by another
two hours of round-the-
table discussion both conducted by a hearing examiner for the NLRB, worked out the details for the
Nov. 7 election.
William Vorushke of Detroit, labor-management
relations examiner for the
NLRB, pointed out that the
results of Monday's meetings would have to be
approved by Jerome H.
Brooks,    Detroit  regional
lack of a sustaineadir^ct,0rvf0rtKlNL^B* •
SSt.KSS Brooks would not
:^i^^Sim^^^'r^ ** beopen
.^fdr two periods on Nov. 7.
The first time will be from '
The
The
from
6:45 a.m. to 9 a.-m.
second time will be
3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Then the ballots will be
counted immediately.
The winning organization
— or the "no union" vote—
Blaze Contained
But Room Ruined
A casual observer may
not be aware that a minor
fire in a home .can result
in expense, inconvenience
— and heartache.
The Clare Fire Department responded to a call
about 3:30 p.m. Monday to
extinguish a fire at the
home of the Harold Bennett family, 4635 Grass
Lake Road.
The Bennett family was
not home at the time; the
children were in school and
the parents working.
The alarm was given by
daughter became aware of
the area within the house
that had been burned. A
cry of anguish trailed behind her as she raced into
tne house and up the stairway.
The voice of her younger
brother could be heard.
"I'm glad it wasn't my
room," he said as his sister, Cherie, .stood in the
doorway of her ruined room.
The gaping hole, once a
window, stared unblinking
at burned furniture, blackened   and water  streaked
passer "time arid" again
his  own backfield and cut
way down on the Cats'- net
ground yardage.
Coach Rayburn paid tri
bute- to Evart as a hardhitting team.
"They hit _s hard as
anyone, we've played this
year," he said. . .    .
For the Pioneers, Ray- must receive a majority
burn singled out senior Tom ?f votes from those eligi-
Moline, for his play at de- bJe .t0 vote t0 win the
fensive end in both turning election,
in Evart runners and rack- .If none ?f *he fou£ s*des
ing them up. wins a majority at the Nov.
On offense, Clare piled 7 voting> then ? r". off be~
up 15 first downs and gained tween the two leading vote
176 yards on the fround §e"ers would subsequently
with fullback Gillaspy ac- be °£ld-
counting for 73 yards and . Jbe NoY; 7 vptmg will
halfback Steve McNerney be hlld at the Holley .lant'
adding more than 50.yards. ™ *e n™ supervisory
Clare also completed 5 of building- Employees can
9 passes for a healthy 93 vote on company time. Each
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yards.
William House who had been walls, wet and smoke dir-
working near the barn.
House said the sound of a
falling window drew his
attention to the fire.
Fire Chief Jim Brinkerhoff and seven of his volunteers quickly extinguished
the fire using water from
the 750 gallon tank carried
by the fire engine.
The chief said- the fire
was probably the result of
faulty wiring in or near
a record player in an upstairs bedroom.
The fire was restricted
to this one room although
water damage was present
in the  upper hallway and
tied   dresses,   skirts  and
Clare also won the statistical   edge  in fumbles,
losing the ball only twice j?,,?0^.
to  three times for Evart.
The Pioneers now stand
4-1 for the season, and
2-1 in US-10 Conference
play.
In other games of area
interest last week, Beaverton beat Harrison 14-0,
Standish - Sterling downed
Gladwin   20-13,   Meridian
of the four sides jn the
election is entitled to have
an observer at the polling
and an official of
the NLRB ~ probably Vorushke— will conduct the
election and do the ballot
counting.
Vorushke conducted Monday's public hearing, held
in the City Council Chamber's at the Ml:. Pleasant
City Hall. It was sort of
a continuation of an earlier
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.TOWN"
the kitchen directly below asks that they stop in at the
the burned room. One small city hall to  sign the  tax
access hole was made in a exemption     form    before
kitchen wall near the ceil- leaving,
ing.   The odor of smoke
was present throughout the Deserves Thanks
house. Mrs. Emma Everts, Red
The   Fire   Chief   said, Cross official for service
"Within ten minutes of our to military families in Clare
"^ county,  resigned her
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blouses, soppy pillows-and beat Farwell 18-0, and Reed nearing neia uct. 1,
a   young   girl   with  tears   City whomped Coleman 47-      The main points of con-
running down her face. 0_ tention  were  the field  of
eligible voters, plus details
■ it; jd Huddled around counsel
H6 3m tables were officials of and
'ta_____ «    at£oi'neys f°r the company,
m^^m the  Association, the UAW
By Schrot and the UMW. About 15 to
20 employees and partisans
Color Tours for   the   three   competing
Everyone noticed the un- groups and the company-
usual heavy traffic this week were in the audience,
end. Due to the marvelous The only genuine witness
fall weather we're having at the public part of the
and the beautiful scenery hearing was Lyle Skinner,
made by the colors of leaves personnel director for Hol-
and trees tourists are out ley. The key part of his
in full force. Specially happy are restaurants, gas
stations and motel businessmen.
Senior Citizens
City Assessor, Mack
Thomson is making a plea
to the Senior Citizens of
Clare. —To all who plan
to spend the winter months
in   warmer   climates,   he
scene)
arrival (ftthe °^--C/ u.c county,  resigned her post
fire would have spread into afte:r 25 years of service.
th__ tl:it _rea"* Her J°b consisted of con-
Mrs. Bennett and her tacting service men for
two children arrived as leaves and assisting in for-
the firemen were busy in warding telegrams for
the yard rolling hoses, and emergency: Last year Mrs.
Within the house mopping up Everts handled 197 tele-
water and shoveling out grams. Her post will be ta-
debris. ken Over by Frank Coker of
Mrs, Bennett was talking Farwell and Gary Stocking
to firemen as her teen-age 0f Harrison.
testimony w.ent to the question of layoff history and
procedures at the Clare
plant.
This was important because of the question of
whether 4S employees now
on layoff should be eligible
to help decide which or-
Dead Cardinal
A special ceremony will
be held this weekend at
Twin Elms in behalf of the
World Series outcome. A
dead cardinal i_ lying in
wait for the, ceremony. Rev.
Horswill will officiate With
Al Nystrom giving the benediction, A short eulogy
given by Al lacco. Honor
pallbearers will include Art For Reader Comments
Ulrich, Bob Beck and sev- on the Holley-union situa-
eral others. tion, please  turn to Page
14.
Continued on Page 11
Readers Speak
On Page 14
Homecoming Quean Ann Eberhart (center) kneels to receive her crown
from last year's queen, Joan Pinaire, during halftime ceremonies at last
week's Clare-Evari football game. Homecoming King was Tom Lewis
(right), while little Tammy Higgle was th© crown-bearer. For other homecoming pictures, se.   Pages 11 and 14. (Guys and Dolls photo)
Chamber To
Officials of the Clare
Chamber of Commerce are
urging Chamber members
to return their ballots in
the. annual election*of
directors.
Six candidates have been
nominated for three spots
on  the 10-member board.
Candidates are:
Fritz Allen of Consumers
Power, Ben Burdo of Clare
Hardware, Charles Clark
Of Clark's Drugs, Bud Dre-
bert of Holley Carburetor,
John Quinnan, an accountant
and M.D. Thompson of Bell
Telephone. Burdo is a past
chamber president.
Three will be selected to
succeed Robert Mettler of
Holley, Dan McDonald of
McDonald Ford Sales, and
Ken Ritter of Band Box
Cleaners, who are not eligible to succeed themselves
on the board.
The new board members
will take office at the next
directors' meeting on Nov.
11.
The board is comprised
of 10 members, who serve
three year terms, plus the
chairman of the industrial
development committee,
who currently is Frank LaGoe.
The board, in turn, selects
the officers of the Chamber. Richard Ulrich is current president and Jerry
Forsberg is vice president.
Ke n Barnes is secretary
treasurer.
Early
The Clare Sentinel is a
day early this week. To
better serve our readers
and our advertisers, we
have now established a
Wednesday publication date,
As a result, news and advertising deadlines have
been moved ahead. Classified ads must now be in
our office by 2 p.m, on
Monday, and news deadlines have been moved a-
head one day. You may miss
some of your favorite reading this week, but we should
.be back in the groove as
soon as the kinks are
ironed out of our new publication timetable. We ask
your. help, and hope you
like the earlier paper.
The deadline for returning  ballots  to the Cham-
-ber  office is Oct. 28, but
Chamber  officers emphasize   that  the  sooner  the
better.
Plans also have been
completed for the annual
dinner dance and Citizens
Night to be held by the
Chamber on Nov. 2 at the
Doherty Hotel. Paul Dart
and his orchestra from
Saginaw will play for dancing.
Honored at the event will
be a Citizen of the Year
for Clare, with the selection being made by a Chamber committee.
Also at the annual meeting, Robert Anthony of
Saginaw, president of the
Saginaw-Bay Area Boy
Scouts of America, will
present a special award to
Joe McKay of Clare for
outstanding work with Boy
Scouts.
-Chamber directors, meeting Monday, selected Jan.
•31 and Feb. 1 and 2 as the
dates for this year's winter
sports carnival. . Further
details are hring worked
out by a coi ..littee headed
by Vice Presxdent Forsberg.
Royalty aplenty reigned supreme over
Homecoming activities at Clare Hi£h
School last weekend. A pep rally and
snake dance Thursday night, a Var-
alty Club-sponsored car smash, a parade on Friday, the football game
against Evart complete with royal
half-time ceremonies, and a Queen's
Ball were pari of the festivities.
Reigning over the activities were the
Queen and King and their courts,
pictured above.. Front row, left to
rights Cathy Hitchcock, Scherrie Cook,
Cathy Love, Que«n Ann Eberhart,
Stephanie Galligher, Pam Glenn,
Cathy Owens. Back row, left to right.
Ken Sheredy, Dennis Bryant. Rick
Ca*»y, King Tom Lewis, Grant Gill*
a spy, Stan SjsuI, Dan Casteel.
Guys and Dolls photo.