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Clare Michigan, Wednesday December 25,1968 f
Our 91st Year
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CENTS
New Series Vol. 77 No. 17
One
ackward Look At Year's Local Events
The year 1968 will be
remembered as one "filled
with events of importance
, and far-reaching significance on the Clare area
'scenel County government
and tax problems, -education, -crime and lawlessness... . . these headlined
Stories and others of only
slightly less impact are
rivals for the "stories of
the year" in Sentinel files.
Here is a reminder of
local news that was fresh
reading only 12 months ago
or later.
gement. Tne building in
downtown Clare formerly
Bicknell's store was sold
to Aliens. In Coleman, Citizens Bank and Trust opened
its new building with a
great 2-week observance of
the milestone.
un
Getting reacly in March
for spring elections, four
candidates declared themselves in the race for Clare
City Commission seats.
They were incumbents Willard Koch the mayor, and
Tom Bradley. Also candidates were C.J. "Fritz"
Allen and Richard Stoeker.
Koch, Bradley and Allen
were later elected and Stoeker was appointed to fill the
vacancy when Bradley resigned to take his seat on
the new  Board of County
Supervisors.
In Farwell Ray Agle was
elected village president.
Dry Spring;
Fires Burn
April's dry weather
brought the threat of fire in
fields and forest. The local
area was hit with blazes
early  in  the  month when
hundreds of acres near
Loomis were burned over
and more smaller fires
plagued the entire central
Michigan area. In another
fire disaster, Loomis
Machine Company's building on E. Fourth street
was completely destroyed
on the night of April 13.
News interest of a lighter
nature was provided by
stories of quint lambs born
at   the  Myers  Ranch,  -a
rare event, and a story and
pictures of an Easter Egg
Hunt in Shamrock Park
sponsored by Clare Jaycees.
First story of re-valuation of taxable property in
Clare county made April
headlines and the story continued to be one of the
biggest and most Important
of the year. The Sentinel's
exclusive report said that
valuations   might   rise  in
Incorporates
. In January 1968, Rosebush
Village took a decisive step
toward modern government
when residents voted to incorporate under the Michigan Home Rule provisions,
and named a 5-man commission to draw up a proposed charter.
Miss Caroline Burdo
became Miss Clare County
in judging for beauty and
talent at the annual Winter
Festival.
Clare ,
million
million.
county     to
from   1967's
$90
$56
In Fire
MRS. MARY HEMSTREET
A tragedy in February
headlines was the death of
a Farwell mother and son in
a home fire. Mrs. Alice
Patterson and 8 year-old
Jack suffocated before help
could rescue them.
Holley Carburetor, with
its Aircraft Division in
Clare was sold to Colt
Industries and continued
under the same local mana-
In this old photo, taken at the
second meeting of the Eagle
Aid Society in 1907, Mrs. Mary
Hemstreet is in the front row,
Eagle Honors Mary Hemstreet
■g<
Mrs. Mary Hemstreet of
E. Beaverton Road, president of the Eagle Ladies
Aid and only remaining
charter member of the
group was honored for 61
Pioneers Seek
To Break
Win Column
Clare High's cagers are
coming home January 7 for
try at breaking into the
"win" column, and yet braced for a tough evening
with the Harrison Hornets
for their opponents. Their
record for the season so
far is 0-4 and two of their
losses have been to rivals
in  the  US-10 Conference.
Sanford-Meridian ran wild
in Friday's fourth quarter
after outscoring the Pioneers in each of the first
three. With the score 44-
31 after three periods, the
Sanford team poured in 30
points while holding Clare
to eight.   *
Final tally, 74-39.
Coach Ivan Davis, who
was encouraged by his Pioneers' 80 points in their
first game of the season,
will be looking for a way
to restore the shooting eyes
of his starters.
Reed City is on its way to
a second league title after
dominating football. The
Reed City 'US-10 record
is 4-0, a game ahead- of
the Sanford Mustangs who
now have a 3-1 count.
The Clare game January
7 against Harrison will be
followed on January 10 with
another home encounter
against Farwell. Both varsity games start at 8:00
p.m. after JVs play.
years of loyalty and service
in a special service of
recognition on November
24   at  the Eagle  Church.
She was present and
initiated along with eight
others into the new Eagle
Aid Society on November
21, 1907 at the home of
Rev. and Mrs. Moffit.
At the second meeting a
picture was taken of the
members now grown to
about 22. They had wasted
no time getting a good start
on projects as the picture
shows quilts started and
nearly    finished.
Adopt Plan
For Board
In May there was a burglary attempt at the Clare
postoffice with the huge
vault door defying a night
try at smashing out the lock
and prying open the door.
The county adopted a plan
for a new Board of County
Supervisors with five members to be elected from
districts according to the
one-man, one-vote concept.
To Adjust
Harrison
Phone Rates
The Michigan Public Service Commission has issued
un*_-j__      u .      a    two-part   authorization
balls of braxd    Mrs. Hemstreet says that which   Fwill    permit    the
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Company to enlarge the
base rate area of its Harrison exchange and withdraw four-party residence
and     two-party   business
second from the right and holding on her lap, little Inez Hemstreet (now Pudvay).
Groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the first
building on the new Mid
Michigan Community College campus between Clare
and Harrison.
1st Fatality
In Viet War
David Murray of rural
Clare and a Clare High
graduate in the class of
1966 Was killed in Vietnam
Where he had been in action
for only one week. He was
believed to be the first
battle fatality in Vietnam
from Clare although his
Selective Service Board-
was ;in Isabella county.
A visit was paid Clare by
Rev; Fr. Patrick Kinnerk
on a trip through the U.S.
from his native County
Clare in Ireland, He paid
his yespects to Clare Mayor
Willard Koch and called at
the Sentinel office while in
the city.
The July election in the
Clare School District returned E.A. Anderson for
another term, and he was
re-named president of the
Board.   Glen  Thomas was
also re-elected and Joseph
Johnston won the seat formerly held by Dr. Al Austin
who was not a candidate.
Motorcycle gangs, for the
second time in a month were
in trouble in Clare county
for lawless behavior and
destruction of property.
The Detroit area gang
threatened vacationers and
smashed two autos in a
fight to prevent the gang's
littering pf a private beach
on Cranberry Lake near
Harrison.
Hit Raise
In Valuation
In August the Clare county
supervisors struggled with
an appeal to the State Tax
Commission in protest
against the imposed state
equalized valuation total of
near $82.5 million.
Tom Bradley won the
nomination t in the Primary
Election for supervisor
from the City of Clare on
the new 5-man board to
be   elected in November.
Clare School Superintendent  Richard Snyder predicted that enrollment would
reach  1850 students when
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Brothers Are
State Troopers
There were
for  rugs
members had brought their member of the Aid, she has
small children to the meet- picked her fingers, "quite
ing. a few times",
Mrs. Hemstreet says that        She  remembers  other
during the first year the happy   days in. the .Aid's
others
Aid* -held -t-WStrty
with an average attendance
of 14. Their earnings in
that first year were $160.18
They organized many Ice
cream socials and . lawn
socials, dinners and other
activities approved hy the
members. They also quilted
made- rugs and did fancy
work all for sale to raise
money for the church.
-ljiSt"ory"i- "too. Thefe was the ^service within the exchange.
Silver Anniversary it. 1932
Certain rate adjustments,
mostly decreases, will be
made.
FiftjMour Michigan State
Police candidates were
sworn in as probationary
troopers at the seventy-
third recruit school graduation Friday afternoon.
December 20 at Kellogg
Center   in .Eafet Lansing.
and the celebration of the
Golden Anniversary in November 1957.
At the ceremony in remembrance of her 61 years
as a member this year,
Mrs. Hemstreet was presented with a Bible and
the best wishes of the present members.
15 Students Gain
a
All-A Ratings
The company plans to
, add one and one-half square
miles to the present base
rate area which will bring
215 customers into the new
area, where urban telephone service will be available without mileage charges. The company has
chosen to combine enlargement of. the base rate with
the elimination of four
party residence and two-
party business service
throughout its exchange.
TROOPER HAMPTON
Among the new troopers
was Melvin G. Hampton of
Clare, second in his family
to become a' Michigan State
Policeman.
A brother* Stuart .amp-*
.tos is a.trooper serving at
the Romeo Post and-Mel.-
yin has ibeen. assigned to
duty at the Post in Rock-
ford. Both are.sons of Mr.
and" Mis. Emerson R.
Hampton of 5607 . . Colonville Road, Clare..
Among recruit class
awards December 20 was
one to Hampton for scholarship, and remarks in
behalf of the class were
made by him as class orator.
Col. Fredrick E. Davids,
Department Director, who
was principal speaker for
the occasion, administered
the oath of office to the
troopers and presented
their badges.
Eight Clare High students
attained All-A ratings for
the second marking period
and seven in Junior High
matched the honor.
Their names were on the
honor roll of all those with
average grades of B or
better.
Penny Case, Karl Randall
and Susan Smith from the
senior class, Bill Carlton
and Glenda Warner juniors,
and Bob Lozen,. Mark Murton and Beth Thomas from
the freshman class had the
perfect grades. In Junior
High it was Gary Buchholz,
Robert Heath, Richard Hillebrand, Darlene Seiter and
Kathy Shafer in the eighth
grade and Mark Carlton and
Lucy Hough in the seventh
grade.
Honor Roll and Perfect
Rebecca Raleigh
*KarI Randall
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John Winter
Principal
At Coleman
John T. Winter was named
intermediate principal-
elect at a special meeting
of the Coleman Board of
Education, Monday,
Novemher 25. He will leave
Attendance for this marking his present position as bus-
Newesl improvement to the
Clare Fire Dept. equipment is
this water tanker that doubles
-the gallonage that can be hauled
to rural fires. Members of the
•Department used their present
tanker chassis to mount the new
%ank donated by Standard Oil
Go. and were grateful for help
from Bob Dunn who did all the
welding at no charge. Members
painted the tank red" to match
the cab to finish the project.
The larger capacity of the new
tanker Will permit unloading
more than 1700 gallons of water
into portable storage at a fire
in about four minutes. Sentinel
photo* fis_
period and all following
marking periods are figured by the students. They
were given instructions for
determining their eligibility for these. If the student wanted to be on the
list, they were to turn their
names into the guidance
office where a list was
compiled. Requirements
for eligibility for perfect
attendance are no absences
nor unexcused tardies. Honor roll requirement is that
a student must carry a "B"
average in four or more
subjects.
INDICATES ALL A's
Seniors
Eric Armentrout
Patrick Austin
Thomas Baumgarth
Darla Carrow
*P£nny Case
Bill Cimmerer
; James Cooper
Joel Cooper
Ann Eberhart
Susanne Fetters
Robert Hartzler
Mark Krellv
Laura Mackenzie
._£aj:_L. Myers
"Kathryn Owens
Mark Paxton
mess manager of Cheboygan Public Schools to accept
his new duties in Coleman
January 1.
Delay in releasing this
information was necessary
so that Winter could obtain
release from his present
contract.
He received his B-.S.
degree from Central Michigan -University and his M.
A. degree from the University of Michigan. His
experience includes eleven
years as a classroom teacher, six years as a junior
high principal and two and
one-half years as business
manager.
Besides having coached
all major sports, Winter
has been a. critic teacher
and a school board member.
Mrs. Winter is interested
in Girl Scout work, but her
primary job is being mother .to three boys and two
girls, ages 17, 12^ 11,9 and
2, The Winters' are house
hunting in the Coleman area
and hope to move here soon.
'Keith Wing, current intermediate school principal
has accepted a position as
elementary school prihci ,
p. 1 in St. Louis.
"Have A Good Trip
And Bring Lots Of Toys
surprises.    Is    Rudolph's
Dear Santa
I am a 5 year old boy.
How have you been.. Hope
you have a glad Christmas.
I would Hke a truck,
race set and some Lincoln
Logs. My brother wants a
think that about all. Matthew J
is only 1 1/2 years.
Have   a   good   trip and
bring   all  the  good  girls
and boys some toys.
P.S.
Please bring my dog
Stormy "some bones and a
mouse.
Rory Lemke
410 E. 4th, Clare
Dear Santa,
My name is Jeff Sartor.
I am eight years old and   . ..
in St. Cecilia School. For of \n^e'
Christmas   I  want a  Hot      l lole y°u and I ^ kiss
Wheel set, Johnny Express y°u  when * Set a chance«
and   a   GI Joe and some
Glenda Sue Born
4 years old
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Jeff Sartor „       0     '
5061E. Pere Marquette Deaf, ^J^,
Clare, Mich.        " ""
Dear Santa.
I am 9 years old. My
name is Valarie Eaton. For
Christmas I want a Stacey
and a Jane West, Johnny
West and for Johnny West
a Comanche hores. For my
mother a Blender and for
my Brother-j a Hot Weehs
set*, For my Dad a new
pate of shoes. I will leve
you a piece of my birthday cake and a glace of
milk. My birthday is the
17. Have a good trip Santa
good-by
Valarie Eaton
Dear Santa Claus
Please bring me a dolly,
a pretend teakettle and tea- ™af
pot.
I'm sometimes good and
sometimes bad - - mostly
good.
I'd like some toy furniture.. I'll leave you a piece
My name is Terry Ellsworth. I'm in the third
grade at Clare school.
I would like for Christ-
this year a Microbiology     lab,    or   set of
Drums.
Thank-you Santa for
reading my Letter that is
Sent to you. '^ .
P.S. There will be nice
treat for you. When you
come to my house.
From Terry Ellsworth
411 W. Wheaton St.
Dear Santa
How are Y I arh fine. I
want a doll f or CHrlstAMS.
and my Sister Mary wants
a Jane west .oil with a
horse, and my brother Scot
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