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Homeowners in the wake of
heavy snow conditions and roof
melting, have been busy knocking down icicles that threaten
to collapse eaves. This one
(top) was more than six feet long
and weighed nearly 45 pounds.
BOTTOM: Art Damoth found all
the snow his rotary blower
could handle on the walks and
driveway of his home at. 1007
Court in, Clare. Sentinel photos.
Snow! We're More
Than Buried Under
Clare
Wins
First
Claxg High.'s basketball
players* lived up to their
coach's belief that they
could be a higher scoring
team when theyp iftlasted.
Farwell Friday, 74-73. It
was the Pioneers' first
victory in five games.
Their 4-1 record is not
an exciting start _or the
season, but it is better than
0-5 for important reasons.
Clare's locker room was
a happy one after the win,
and there is a marked upturn in spirit.     t
Team play was improved
and looks like it has a
chance tc get even better.
Coach Ivan Davis says his
squad, -hit and hurt by
injuries and Illness, is
improving and the days may
be over when he started a
different "five" every
game because somebody
was always benched by injuries or the flu.
Dan White was the leading
scorer Friday among Pioneers that had four players
in double figures. They are
coming back to the attack
level they exhibited in their
first game when they scored
80 points.
After another away game
Tuesday this week when the
Pioneers take on Evart,
they will battle Reed City
on the home floor Friday
evening January 17. Both
are important games in
conference standings and
Davis' squad will try to be
up   for these  top  rivals-
P-TA Will
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Exchange Student Here
er Detour To Cuba
Its a long time since the
remark has been heard,-
"Snow falls everywhere
else, -CI .re never gets as
much as surrounding
places".
The steadily falling and
drifting stuff continued to
make the biggest headlines
and cause the biggest headaches. Clare is getting its
share this season. . . more
than it is ready for.
There's that gasoline
dealers' sign bearing the
message ". . get De-icer"
and the sign is almost hidden behind festoons of
glistening icicles.
Everybody is sold out of
rock salt and snow shovels
almost.
There were no schools
in a wide area that weren' t
closed part of the time
since December vacation.
Clare schools have opened
only since Monday this
week after several days
shutdown because of ice and
drifted roads.
Consumers Power and
Michigan Bell Telephone
installations have suffered
more damage than inflicted
by tornadoes.
Street clearing equipment
of Clare's Department of
Public Works was unable to
keep up with snow removal
and» private trucking contractors had tc come to aid.
McEwan street wasn't completely cleared since December 28 until Monday
afternoon this week.
We don't* mean to be
pessimistic, but the Clare
County Road Commission,
-having a struggle of its own
with road clearing, reminds
beleaguered residents to
have patience with the efforts. —There's still half
of January and all of February and March that normally bring heavy snowfall.
The 'Sentinel's camera
records this week scenes
of people and places under
what will certainly be a
record snow season. (See
Pages 4, 6, 7, 10, inside).
The ClareP.T.A« will*
meet Monday ••Januarxf 20,
at 8:00 in theVEleme.ntary
auditorium. There will be
a short business meeting
and then one pf Mrs. Meek's
chorus groups will -entertain the P.T.A.
The main topic for the
evening will be a panel
discussion on bus matters.
On the panel will be Mr.
Simoneau, Mr. Snyder,
Mr. Rayburn, Mr. Bradley
and one of the bus drivers.
Mr. Simoneau will show a
film on buses. This panel
discussion will cover a
lot of different factors on
running buses, so if parents have any questions
about any bus matters and
want some information,
plan on attending this interesting and informing
meeting.
Refreshments will be served by the 3rd grade room
mothers.
Three Aides
Will Assist
In Grades
In less than a, week over
50 applications were received by the Clare elementary school for three
teacher-aide positions.
This response was very
gratifying to school officials
The selection comuiittee
is comprised of teachers
Mrs. Verona White, Mrs.
Inger Nelson, Mrs. Kay
Starner, Mrs. Ruth Schunk,
and principal Albert
Schum|p. They have completed a preliminary screening of the applications
and have arranged to interview about twelve of the
applicants this week.
Turn to Page 4
Sweetheart
Ball Feb. 15
On Saturday evening,
February 15 a Sweetheart
Ball sponsored by the Clare
Hospital Auxiliary, will
take place at the Surrey
House^Harrison.
Tickets are being mailed
this week. Anyone wishing
tickets for this event may
contact ticket chairman
Mrs.   Margaret Campbell
A mldnignt DUffet luncheon will climax the evening.
An exchange student
from Buenos. Aires, Argentina, tall blue-eyed
Beatriz Davidis, arrived
in Clare In the early
morning hours Monday
after her plane was hijacked and taken to Cuba
and she went without sleep
for four nights, -the arrival in this country delayed for one entire day,
-food not fit. to eat on the
Cuban plane that was substituted on t. h e return
from Havana! And she's
taking it all in stride
with the smiling remark
that it was more of an
adventure than a misfortune,
Beatriz, who likes her
nickname Trixie better
than her own, will live in
Clare at the home of Mr,
and Mrs. Ray Owens and
their family and attend
school at Clare High during this year's second
semester.
Youth For Understanding," a teenage student exchange program sponsors
her trip to the United
States, and finds volunteer families for all the
students from abroad to
live with.
About the "adventure",
Miss Davidis remembers
a well-dressed man walking past her in the aisle
of the plane as it n'eared
landing ; time.,%.% -Miami.
tfe.**. Bg#!iS^y and
jife was ott Ins way to the
/Bor-trol cab irt^threaten
th&pilot.  *   ..-.-.«-
. ..His* camera or tape
recorder sy. ung from his
sh qulde _■- vin a s mall I ea-
thfir casS, and it bumped
hijf head "as he passedmy
seat", she tells.
A few minutes later the
pl. ne had changed course
and the scheduled landing
time passed with no
Miami in sight.' JVhen Miss
Davidis and the other
passengers saw soldiers
afte r they finally landed,
they realized what had
happened. We had' been
joking about being forced
to land in Cuba, she remembers.
She is 18 years old with
straight blond hair that
reaches to her waist and
her beautiful features
break easily into a nice
smile. A smooth, tanned
complexion reminds you
that it is sunny summertime in the Argentina she
just left, and she likes
the outdoors.
The Owens family and
their guests are finding
each other friendly and
easy to get acquainted
with. You have the idea
they are all going to enjoy   the   next  half-year.
Miss Davidis has already told her new family
about how the passengers
on the hijacked plane were
taken to a room in a public building in Havana
where they sat among
piles of their luggage and
were told about accomodations planned for them
while they waited for a
Cuban refugee plane to
take them to Miami.
"Our rooms and the
food in Havana were very
good", she says. The de-
touring passengers were
allowed to go sightseeing
and were shown everything they asked to see.
Not so pleasant was the
trip from Havana to
Miami. The plane was
dirty and "shaky", and
the food served was so
bad that Miss Davidis and
many of the others
refused to eat it.
She said they were
hungry, but not that
hungry!
After the hijacked plane
landed at Havana, many
of the passengers saw the
man who had captured the
plane in midair and forced the: pilot to turn to
Cuba,    walking      freely
around the streets..
The students coming to
Michigan homes arrived
at Metro Airport in Detroit early Monday morning on their final leg of
the flight, and were met
by their adopted parents.
In school in Clare,
Miss Davidis will study
government, U.S.history,
and English which are
required. Although she is
already graduated from
seven years of primary
school and five years of
high school in her native
city, she is looking forward to her semester
here as valuable time in
continuing her education.
She plans to enroll in
a university when she returns to Buenos Aires
where her education
should be completed in
five more years.
At Owens' home here,
her "sisters" are Kathy,
-a senior at Clare High
and Becky who is a 10
year-old fifth grader. Her
"brother" is Bruce, a
Clare High freshman.
She is interested in
sports and says that
games and physical education are required of all
boys and girls in the high
school in her home city.
Football is her favorite
spectator sport.
Her father is employed
in Buenos Aires in textile
manufacturing. She said
she would let him know
by letter about the safe
outcome of the interrupted flight and her happy
welcome in the Owens'
home here.
"He dislikes telegrams"
she said. "Every telegram bears bad news, he
fears".
Miss Davidis got off
on the right foot with her
"Mom", Mrs. Alma Lee
Owens, when she unpacked
a gift brought from Buenos Aires. It was a set of
matching miniature
spoons and cocktail forks
with Sterling handles hand
made in figures suggesting interesting things
about Argentine life and
customs.
Mrs. Owens Is delighted
and will have a lifetime
memento of the visit of
her exchange guest.
The regional representative of Youth For Understanding said that
students from Brazil were
also understood to be
scheduled for visits here
in the homes of Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Foell, and
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Anderson.
"Trixie" Davidis  from Buenos     Clare,   Bruce and Kathy Owens.
Aires  (left)  getting acquainted    Sentinel photo.
with her   adopted   family    in
Sheriff Busy Denying
Snomobile News Quote
Readers here of the New
York    daily    Wall    Street
Hileman Is
County Road
Chairman
The Clare County Road
Commission has announced
the election of William
Hileman of Harrison as
chairman and Glen Lloyd
of Clare as chairman pro-
tem for the coming year.
Hileman, who is active in
community affairs, is beginning his fifth year as a
road commissioner and
Lloyd is beginning his seventh year.
The Commission took the
opportunity to thank the
residents and visitors to
Clare county for their
patience during the recer\t
heavy snow storms. They
noted that the county has
received more than 60 inches of snow fall so far
this year with half of January, all of February and
March, and possibly part
of April yet to come.
This amount of snowfall
compares with 43 inches
during the entire 1967-68
season and 77 inches during the entire 1966-67 season. The 1966-67 season
was a record fall for the
last 20 years.
Most of the present snow
on the ground has fallen in
a three week period beginning just before Christmas.
With all this snow and the
increased drifting which is
Turn to Page 6
Journal were surprised by
a Monday dateline story
about snowmobiling in
Michigan that took an ill-
natured tone that the sport
is ruining life in the rural
countryside, and the snowmobile itself is, "a lousy
invention".
But none were more surprised than James Darling,
Clare county sheriff who
was quoted in the article
as saying that his weekends
were filled solid with.com-
plaints about abuse of the
public with snowmobiles,
and that the sport was ruining rural life and property
in Clare county and becoming a bane to other outdoor
sportsmen.
Sheriff Darling told The
Sentinel Monday afternoon
that he was not interviewed
and a mistake might have
been possible because of an
incident related in the story
about a snowmobile accidently ramming a house in
Lake City, Michigan j->
Missaukee county, —mistaken by the New York
writer perhaps, for Lake
Village   in   Clare   county.
The Clare county Sheriff s
Department has no more
than a normal amount of
complaint about snowmobilers.
Most common are calls
that the machines are driven across people's lawns
Turn to-Page 16
Clare-Gladwin Dairy
Shortcourse Jan. 16
Hopefully the weather
will permit the third meeting in the Clare-Gladwin
Dairy Shortcourse says
George C. MacQueen,
County Extension Agricultural Agent. C.E. Meadows,
nationally recognized authority on dairy cattle breeding, genetics and production will be the speaker.
Dairymen are urged to
attend and bring their production records along. The
session begins at 10:30a.m.
in the Gladwin Extension
office Conference Rooms in
the basement of the County
Jail building.
The agent goes on to state
that it's fine to check the
milk hauler's weight slip
after he empties the bulk
tank at the farm.
The fallacy lies in the
matter of trying to evaluate
individual production. It
can't be donel A herd is a
group of individuals with
individual traits and
characteristics, the agent
said. Unless the good traits
of each individual can be
utilized to the advantage of
the he).d owner, he will be
in a poor competative position as a dairyman.
Dr. Meadows is in a position to help any dairyman
achieve higher dollar return, who are willing to
apply themselves to the
task, the agent said*
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