1968-11-13; Clare Sentinel

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Clare Michigan, Wednesday November 13, 1968
91st Year
New Series Vol. 77 No. 11
New County Supervisors
After January 1
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Holley Workers Choose Association
CARL BRINGOLD
District I
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STANLEY OMAN
District II
THOMAS BRADLEY
District III
JOHN BRUBAKER
District IV
Voting better than 3 to 1
in favor of representation
by the local Employees'
Association, Holley workers last Thursday rejected
bids by national unions to
take over their bargaining
rights as agents.
Vote totals announced by
the  National  Labor Relations Board here were:
The Association (local)      ' 324
United Auto
Workers 142
Mine
Workers 12
No Representation 1
Campaigning that had
lasted through the past five
weeks for the votes of workers at Holley's Aircraft
Division plant at Clare, ended with balloting Thursday
and in one swift hour after
the booths closed at 4:40
p.m. the ballots were counted and tallied, and results
announced.
Lyle Skinner, personnel
director at the Clare plant
said Friday that negotiations on a new contract
would resume at the first
possible hour after the
election outcome is certified by the NLRB.
Contract talks and bargaining had been at a stand
still   since  the  UAW
petitioned for the election.
No reports have been
made public yet on the pos<-
sibility that the UAW might
object to the vote results
sometime before Thursday
this week, the last day for
such filing of objections
and request for a new election.
William Vorushko, NLRB
hearings officer who conducted the election, com-
Got Their
Bow Deer
The first deer kill for
Jerry Riedel, 21, of Harrison, -the first after four
seasons of trying, came
with a successful bow shot
last Saturday. He brought
down a 150 pound buck with
three points.
The fine target appeared
in front of Riedel at 10:30
a.m. in the old apple orchard on the Strange, farm
nine miles northeast of
Clare.
Another bow season mention goes to Leonel Green
of Clare who was one of
the first serious bow hunters in this area and who
downed his deer on opening
morning of the bow season
again this year.
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MARK McKENNA
District V
Cifiiens Bank
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Fur $7 (M4425
J. Stuart Bicknell, president of Citizens Bank and
Trust Company in Clare
announced today that the
bank has mailed checks in
a total amount of $76,444.25
to members of the bank's
1968 Christmas Club.
The checks, which were
mailed to 778 members of
the club represented an increase of approximately,
$7,000.00, over those paid
to members of last years
. club, Mr. Bicknell stated.
Christmas club checks
are used by members not
only for Christmas gift
purposes, but also for the
payment of year-end taxes,
for conversion to other
types of saving programs
and for other personal anticipated purposes, Mr.
Bicknell stated.
The bank is now enrolling
members in its 1969 Christmas Club which is open to
all persons, both members
of earlier clubs, and persons   who  would wish to
^avail themselves of the opportunity provided by the
club to set aside funds for
major personal year-end
expenditures.
Call GOP
Clare county Republicans
have a call to their convention at Harrison on
November 18 in the New
County Building from the
State Central Committee.
Clare County Chairman Don
Luce of Farwell said the
business meeting will consist of election of members on the county executive committee and the
transaction of other business. Ellen Ulch is secretary*
The     meeting v/ill be
called at 8:00
Area voters lived up to
expectations of a record
day at the polls November
5 and scored victories for
local Republican slates.
The national ticket headed
by Presidential Candidate
Richard M. Nixon also won
in the area and upstate
counts, -going contrary to
the Michigan final totals.
For the first time in
the memory of many voters,
waiting lines at the polling
place in Clare City Hall
formed several times during the day. At the office
of the'county clerk in Harrison the returns from
townships and precincts
were slowed presumably
by the volume of votes to
count.
Unofficial tallies by township and precinct began to
arrive at the County Building shortly before midnight
and,were not complete until
Garfield township's count
was in at 6:00 o'clock on
Wednesday morning.
Republicans won all five
seats on Clare county's new
Board of County Supervisors when three of them
were unopposed and two
others, -Carl Bringold in
District I, and Stanley O-
man in District II defeated
Democrat opponents.
All the officers in the
County Building from the
county clerk on down were
re-elected to succeed
themselves. They also were
unopposed Republicans.
In Isabella county a proposal to raise the legal
millage limitation permanently to 18, from 15 mills
was defeated. .The measure
would have fixed amounts
for county, schools, townships and for the county
intermediate school district, -and ended the need
for an allocation board.
The vote was 3649 No,
to 2819 Yes.
Isabella also voted to
permit' sale  of beer and
wine.
Surprising upsets at the
Isabella County Courthouse
replaced Prosecutor David
Burrows, .a Democrat
whose office was won by
Republican     James    IJox.
Douglas Dehn won the new sentatives Donald E. Hoi-
District Judgeship in a race brook, Jr. each won re-
with Russell Otterbine who election over Democrat
has been municipal judge,   opponents.
Another race for District
Judge in which Clare County Probate Judge Alex
Strange was pitted against
Jon Ringelberg turned out
2023 Clare county votes
for Ringelberg against 2836
for Strange, but a heavy
majority in Gladwin county
for Ringelberg elected him
with an unofficial margin
of 134 votes.
Congressman        Elford
Cederberg in this local district,   and   member of the
Michigan House of Repre-
Clare County Clerk Louis
Becker said the new 5-man
Board of County Supervisors would receive his call
for their first meeting after taking the oaths of office
on January 2, 1969.
The Board will organize
by naming one of their
number as chairman and
electing also a vice chairman. Becker will be the
clerk of the Board as has
been his job with the old
Board.
Pioneers Finish
With 16-2 Record
For Their Coach
Clare High gridders,
playing last Friday at Oscoda turned in as good a
performance as any this
season, -but met the best
and hardest hitting-team on
their schedule. They were
turned back 27-6.
For retiring Head Coach
Gary Rayburn it was only
the second loss for varsity
teams he coached here and
places his record at 16-
2-0. His teams won every
game on their own Pioneer
field.
Rayburn has resigned as
coach, giving the reason
that the duties conflicted
with his full-time post as
administrative assistant to
Superintendent Richard
Snyder in the Clare school
system.
Meeting the Oscoda eleven
that is 15th in state Class
B according to Associated
Press ratings, the Pioneers
made their own scoring
chance in the first quarter
when they took the ball
after holding for yardage
and forcing Oscoda to kick.
Their drive took them over
for" a touchdown with the
touchdown coming on a 42
yard pass from Steve Luplow to Dennis lacco.
The Clare defense stopped
Oscoda again on the Clare
20, but this time the breaks
allowed Oscoda to score. A
penalty against Clare and a
Clare fumble recovered by
Oscoda set up the TD to
even the count.
Halftime score was only
14-6 against the Pioneers
and it looked like anybody's
ball game.
But Rayburn and his men
remember the fourth period
with pain. Three Clare fumbles with the slippery ball,
-two interceptions against
them, -and a 74 yard scoring run by/ Oscoda made
the widening go-ahead difference. The Pioneers' single remaining threat was
stopped when one of their
costly bobbles was recovered by Oscoda on their
own 2-yard marker.
Rayburn said a few minor
injuries to his players turned out to be less serious
after examinations. A possible concussion for Larry
Ruby was a hard bump,
but not a serious one and
other players' various
sprains and bruises were
stiff the next day, but not
crippling.
Rayburn said every senior
on the squad had a chance
to play in the game.- They
included Joe Greer, Dennis
lacco,   Rick Garver, Dan
Vote Tops $-to-IMargin
plimented Holley management in Clare for their
cooperation      in      actual
balloting       arrangements
within the plant.
He   opened   the  ballot
boxes in the presence of
representatives from all
three  unions and officials
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William Vorushko. National Labor Relations Board hearings officer who
conducted ihe election last week at Holley's plant in Clare empties
the ballot container preparing to count votes after the close of the polls.
No hands but his touched any ballot after it was marked by the voter.
Sentinel photos.
Bill Cornell (center), president of the Employees Association has a confident grin as the' count climbs for the local union after election- Holley
Plant (Manager Robert Mettler (in white shirt) and Holley Carburetor
Company's Personnel Director from Warren. Donald Bramlege (right)
were watching the vote couitf.
Tallying votes as they were counted by Vorushko were (left) Mrs- Donna
Updyke, Holley employee and UAW worker. Walter Schultze a UAW
organizer and Charles Marshall UAW attorney who. are both seated ai
right end of the table. Many other interested observers attended the
vote count-
How Clare County Voted
X  ^<_     ^ ^>  ^ _>_    **>_    %>    %■   %   <&    %    %  ^ ..
Arthur
Franklin
Freeman
Frost
Garfield
Grant
31 129
19 27
62 52
23 30
142 208
26 140
23 26
60 70
19 45
66 110
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34 132 140 131 139 140 136   137    133    141
18 32 _36 _35 -35 -35 -34     33     32     33
57 73 79 82 79 79 _81   _78   -79   -72
18 46 47 48 48 45 _41   -44   -42   .42
63 109 119 126 121 127 121   119   115   121
165   189   128   227   133 224 247 263 245 248 244   243   248   245
Greenwood   139   416   133   449   144 443 487 492 497 491 492   492   475   480
Hamilton        31     70     24    75     24 76 78 79 81 80_ 78_   79_   77-   75
Hatton            95   115     80    136     85 127 141 145 140 140 145   140   136 .134
Hayes             31    119     28   129     34 126 145 146 143 143 139   141   135   139
Lincoln         260   205   227   241   231 241 279 298 278 286 278   277   268   278
Redding          89     71     86     90     84 92 96 107 105 106 102     99     94     97
Sheridan        29     27     27     29     28 29 28 32 32 33, 33_   33_   30_   34
Summerfield 58   206     55   223     59 224 241 230 236 241 234   236   228   242
Surrey          .208   388   199   412   207 410 429 450 426 421 414   416   406   414
Winterfield    47     63     41     77     41 78 83 90 86 84 _86_   84-   82_   85
Harr'n 1         85   155     75   177     75 171 195- 200 196 199 198   196   194   195
Harr'n 2         56   127     44   140     43 140 138 144 147 147 142   143   142   142
Harr'n 3        47     98     30   116     29 116 120 121 120 121 120   121   119   117
Clare 1         192   319   182   329   183 332 366 366 360 355 353   356   351   355
Clare 2         171   405   155   404   148 427 438 432 437 429 428   440   427   440
Totals     1980 3419 1708 3645 1735 3438 3912 4017 3941 3950-3899-3907-3855-3881
of the'company and counted
while marks were tallied
by all parties involved.
The Sentinel's own vote-
by-vote tally was marked
at the same time.
Observers and interested
parties who had predicted
a closer vote were surprised with the overwhelming rejection of the UAW.
The local Association
has represented Holley employees for 20 years and
made much in campaign
discussions of the longper-
iod of freedom from lost
time due to disputes or
strikes.
Many Holley workers and
their families and friends
from this area had voiced
opinions favoring both sides
in a flood of letters and
calls to The Sentinel. Campaigning at the plant was
intense with printed leaflets and bulletin board
literature. There were
frequent handouts at the
plant gates by both the
UAW and the Association.
Twenty six challenged
votes which were held out
of the count have ceased
to be an issue because no
matter how they were marked, they wouldn't affect
the outcome. The company
had challenged nine votes
and the UAW had challenged 14, -many of the latter
on the UAW's claim that
they were cast by persons
who were supervisors.
Tax Dispute
Ruling Against
Townships
"The"Michigan Tax Com--
mission, in a ruling earlier
this month upheld Consumers Power Co. and Michigan
Consolidated Gas Co. in
what was called, "appeals
on the re-figuring of'taxes
on their properties and
equipment in Clare county".
The action by the utilities
was aimed at bringing their
valuations into equal status
with other property in their
several assessment local
districts. State law provides
for valuation at 50 percent
of true value and the utilities claimed that while this
yardstick was applied to
their properties, -some
other properties in the
same townships were benefitting from lower valuations.
Charles Springsteen the
deposed Clare County
Equalization Director, had
earned the wrath of the
townships' outgoing supervisors on the old "lame
duck" Board when he predicted this would happen
and tried to correct the
situation.
County Clerk Louis Becker was quoted as having
said on November 4 that
the county would appeal the
Tax Commission ruling because supervisors from
Winterfield and Garfield
townships estimated the
corrected situation would
almost double taxes for
resident of these townships
Family Life
Speaker For
P-TA Monday
The Clare Parent Teachers Association meeting
scheduled for November 18
is to have a fine program
headed by a distinguished
faculty member from
Western Michigan University and also including an
important business meeting.
Darrell Thornas, assistant
professor of Family Life
Education at WMU in Kalamazoo is to speak on Morals
and Manners Matter, a
topic of interest for young
people and their parents.
He holds degrees from
Brigham Young University
and has taught Family Life
Education courses in the
Flint area since 1960.
Thomas is presently working on his doctorate at
WMU.