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Clare Michigan, .Wedneg^y^ebruary 19, 1969
entitle.
Our 9ist Year
15
CENTS
New Series Vol. 77 No. 25
1-1 In Weeks
Cage Action;
Juniors Win
A loss and a win for
Clare High's Pioneers last
week left them with a sea-
record   of   3-7,   and
son
'their 500 percent week
against US-10 League foes
advanced them not a bit in
standings there.
They will take their
hopes of improving their
league percentage out on
their home floor Friday
this week when Evart invades. The season's last
regular tilt is February
,28 at Reed City.
Grant Gillaspy poured
in 30 points against Meridian in the losing cause
Tuesday and led all scoring by both teams Friday
•against Farwell. Coach
jLvan Davis' problem has
"been to get consistant scoring help from his other
potentials.
In the lineup of starters,
-Tom Whitfield, Dan White,
Chris Busche, Steve Lup-
•low, Jerry Eberhart, and
Bud Wiley with Gillaspy,
there is seldom a combination of good scorers
on the same night.
In the Meridian game
Whitfield counted 17 and
his eight field goals was
within one of Gillaspy's
effort. Busche was next
with nine.
Against Farwell with
the defense assignment of
stopping Gary Paesens,
Clare scoring honors went
to Gillaspy with 21, and
other double figure counts
were Dan White's 16 and
Jerry Eberhart's 11.
The score in the Farwell
Win was 71-47.
CHS Will be after its
second  win  of the season
over    Evart that was
swamped 83-65 in a game
with Clare on January 14.
Boys' Fund
Sale Ready
For Saturday
Cashiers, salespeople,
auction helpers and other
workers at the White Elephant Sale Saturday will
be members of the Clare
Rotary and Kiwanis clubs
raising money for Eagle
Boys Village.
Their assortment of goods
at the empty PackingHouse
Market building on W.
Fourth street includes
items donated for the sale.
There's a last minute appeal for items that the
donor cannot use, but that
might be attractive for
others.
The huge auction will
begin at nine o'clock in
the morning and continue
until the building is sold
out.
The public is urged to
visit the sale and look over
the goods. Jim Sykora will
keep up a rapid-fire auction of "auction talk" for
thrifty bidders.
Household
Sale Prizes
' Wood's Household Appliances ended its annual Anniversary Sale Saturday
night with the store in Clare
packed with customers and
ticket holders in the famous
free drawings for prizes^
Five winners were an-'
riounced.
Gordon Wiley of Clare
was winner of the grand
merchandise prize and took
home a bedroom suite. For
cash awards $100. went
to Chris LaPratt and $50.
was won by Mrs. William
Stough.
Children's bicycles were
won by Danny DeFoy and
John Hein of Clare.
Sermons At
St. John's
* St. John's Lutheran
Church of Clare will observe the season of Lent
with a series of six Wednesday evening services,
beginning next Wednesday,
February 19, at 8:00 p.m.
Th e game promises to be
another free scoring affair
that the earlier contest turned in six double figure
performances on the two
teams.
JR. HIGH
TOURNAMENT
Clare Seventh and Eighth
graders have won their way
into finals of the US-10
tournament here with finals
Thursday this week in the
Clare High gym starting at
7:30.
Seventh graders fought
their way past Coleman
and Meridian for the right
to meet a strong Evart
squad in the finals. The
Little Wildcats had disposed of Chippewa Hills
and Reed City to gain the
finals.
The Clare Seventh graders' score Monday against
Meridian was 36-25 as
Evart was putting the Chips
away 32-17.
Eighth graders from
Clare won Saturday and
Monday over Coleman and
Farwell while Chippewa
Hills drew a bye on Saturday and then halted the expected domination of Evart
30-28 on Monday.
The Eighth grade finals
will have Clare against
Chippewa Hills Thursday
at 8:30 here.
Good crowds have been
following the progress of
the Junior Tourney, and
will have the prospect of
seeing the Little Pioneers
capture two titles tomorrow night.
It took teamwork to land this
16-lb. Northern Pike Sunday
when Mrs. Dennis Lemke hooked
it on a tiny bluegill hook and
with a two-pound test line. Adding to the problem was how to
bring the pike through a little
hole meant for panfish. The fish
is a big 39 and 1/4 inches long
but didn' t put up much fight for
Mrs. Lemke's light ice fishing
"diddle pole" gear. Her husband
answered the call for help and
the big fellow was carefully
raised with a finger in his
gill. Dennis had scant room in
the hole foff^his' hand beside
the bulk of thef big catch. Sentinel ptioto.
XfS^i^'-
Royer Advanced At Holley
The appointment of Ed
Royer as plant manager at
Holley Carburetor's Clare
Aircraft Division was announced this week. He replaced Robert Mettler in
the position after Mettler's
resignation to accept an
executive post with another
company in automotive
manufacturing.
Royer has been assistant
plant manager for the past
three years.
The announcement was
made by Carl F. Schorn in
Warren,'Michigan. Schorn
is Holley vice president
and general manager of the
Aircraft Division.
The statement praised
Royer's service with the
company in many positions
of responsibility and said
he is well qualified for the
new assignment.
In 18 years with Holley,
Royer has had important
responsibilities in the
fields of tooling and production equipment. He also
was assigned responsibility
for vendor selection and
procurement prior to his
service with the plant in
Clare since 1965.
Mr. and Mrs. Royer are
the parents of a daughter
11, and a son seven years
old.
Mettler _ had been with
Holley since 1950 and came
to Clare as plant manager
in June, 1966. Before that
assignment he had risen to
the post of production plan
ning and administrative
management supervisor in
the company's headquarters.
His new place is with
MGM Brakes in Detroit, a
subsidiary of Indian Head
Corporation where he will
be vice president an'd general manager of the 4-plant
division.
Holley executives from
Warren and management
and supervisory personnel
in the Clare plant will get
together tonight for a send
off party for Mettler at
Town and Country.
Schorn said in the announcement, "We wish Bob
well in his new position
and take this occasion to
thank him for his fine per
formance at Clare.'
Mr. and Mrs. Mettler
plan to remain Clare residents until after the finish
of the present school year
while he travels back and
forth, weekends.
Arrest Trio In
Holdup Of Station
Attendant Here
A trio of robbers that
threatened a gas station
attendant north of Clare
early Sunday morning and
made off with nearly $100.
were nabbed within minutes
by Troopers from the State
Police Post at Mt. Pleasant.
The stolen money was
recovered.
Joe Latarte, night attendant at the Ulrich Standard
station near the Expressway exit north of Clare
confronted the suspects after their capture and remarked, "You didn't get
far, did you?".
And one of the captured
men lamented, "Bad luck
man, -bad luck".
The excited call to State
Police had been received
at the post shortly after
three o'clock Sunday morning.
Troopers radioed the
Clare City Police to go to
the^robbery scene and get
more information while the
troopers were on their way youths
to Clare. Troopers* Gil
Studinger and Edward
Busch met the suspect's
car as they entered the
expressway coming north
from Mt. Pleasant and held
the three men.
Arrested were Terry
Gill, Jr, 21 years old, Jesse Lee Hawkins also 21,
and Charles Edward Wil-
lams, 20, all of Flint.
Latarte said the three
entered the station and took
the money. They threatened
him if he resisted.
The arresting officers
brought their suspects to
Clare while Clare police
brought Latarte to the city
police station where he
made the identification.
since the youths gave Midland addresses, a check
revealed that the items
were missing from a Midland shop.
Chief Tice was pleased
at the speed with which the
capture was made.
'The articles recovered
from the Midland shop
hadn't even been missed or
reported yet," he said.
One of the youths is a
minor and plead guilty in
District Court Monday and
paid a fine of $75.
GLASS BREAKAGE
IS UNSOLVED
One complaint Saturday
of smashed glass in an
auto kept police on the
watch for whoever damaged
school buses and many private autos one week before.
A call at 1:24 a.m. Sunday
sent Clare officers investigating broken windows in
an auto in the city.
Heavier patrols and special radio communications
set up by co-operating
agencies were credited
with stopping disturbances
and lawlessness.
Clare Police Chief Elry
Tice said that investigat-
. ing continues in the case
and at least four specially
equipped cars patroled
during the weekend.
One other report of broken glass in an auto may
be a' pressure break" said
Tice after examining the
windshield, although be
didn't rule out the ppssjl-
, , _,-     _. bility that the damage may
^ £'   .nd a  _ .^^-^ _iave been caused by aWoW
jacket and two sweaters.
Clare Police Chief Elry
Tice said the items were
recovered and more articles found in the suspects'
car are thought to have
been taken from a shop in
Midland.
Willard Bell, proprietor
of the store reported that
he saw two youths taking
a jacket from his store,
and they ignored his shout
to stop.
His attention was drawn
to them when he heard them
drop a clothes hanger on
the floor. He chased them
to the front of the store
and saw them drive away
in a car.
A short while later police
stopped a car at the corner
of Fourth .street and Mc-'
Ewan in Clare that matched
Bell's description. The
jacket and two sweaters
were discovered inside the
car    along    with   the  two
More items of clothing
were  al'so  in the car and
Roby Gershon
Is Regional
Ski Winner
Roby Gershon, son of
Dr. and Mrs. J.R. Gershon, and captain of the
Clare High Ski Team was
a recent double winner in
regional Alpine Ski Races
held at Thunder Mountain.
He. won  a  gold  medal  in
THIEVES
ARE CAUGHT
A pair of young shoplifters in Clare were caught
with the goods Friday of
last week within a half
block of Bell's Clothing
Store where they were
alleged   to  have  stolen  a
4.1 i.   giant slalom com
petition   in   the   Class' G
division.
Roby has qualified for
the Central Division Alpine
Races to be held in Minnesota on February 28, and
a chance to go on to the
national race meet sometime in March this year
in Alaska.
_vith   some
instrument.
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Scholarships For Youth
Is P-TA Project Aim
The Clare Parent Teacher Association is sponsoring a local scholarship
foundation and has given a
committee authorization to
draft bylaws and a proposal
for the establishment of a
non profit corporation for
the new venture.
Appointed by P-TA President Mrs. Betty Mussell
on the committee are the
chairman Mrs. Joseph Poet
and George MacQueen,
Harold Brooks, Robert
Allen, Mrs. J.R. Gershon,
Lavern Wood, Mrs. Ronald
Schunk, Russell Eberhart,
Mrs. Francis Loomis, and
Larry Eastley.
Lee Joes from the Foundation for Career Advancements has talked with the
committee about a similar
program in Mt. Pleasant.
Wood and Eastley have
visited Albion to see how
their local scholarship
foundation is functioning.
Several committee meetings have been held.
A constitution, an application for formation as a
non-profit corporation will
be submitted to the State
of Michigan licensing department.
Any person interested
in further information or
helping  to   work   on this
program is asked to contact   any   member of the
committee.
It is planned that the
constitution will be completed by March 1st. Brochures will be distributed
to all interested persons
in   the community solicit
ing their help.
The sponsoring P-TA
hopes that, with area people helping and participating, much'can be offered to
students in the way of help
with any type of training.
Appointments Made
By Hospital Corp.
ED ROYER
Advances to plant manager this
week   at   Holley  Carburetor's
Clare  Aircraft
tinel photo.
Division. Sen-
At the annual meeting
of the Clare Osteopathic
Hopital Corp., a new
member, M.D. (Doc)
Thompson was appointed to
the Board of Trustees and
officers were elected.
The hospital medical
staff also appointed officers for the year and in
other business, Administrator Helen Morgan announced that the American
Osteopathic Association
had continued accreditation
to the Clare hospital.
Corporate officers for
1969 are:
Frank Coker of Farwell
president, Walter Hunt of
Houghton Lake vice president, Clarence Riedel of
Harrison treasurer, and
Malcolm Whitford of Clare
secretary.
Trustees are all from
Glare   and include     John
Quinnan, Donald Holbrook
Jr., M.D. Thompson, Dr.
A.S. Mackenzie, Dr. E.C,
Shurlow, Dr. G.N. Dalby
of Evart. Dr. D.R. Daciuk
of Houghton Lake is a trustee and also Medical Director.
On the medical staff are
Dr. Daciuk, chief, and Dr.
C.J. Godell of Houghton
Lake, vice chief of staff,
Dr. W.L. Graham of Beaverton the secretary.
The hospital numbers 13
on its active staff with department heads named as
Dr. John Weitzel for obstetrics, Dr. C.J. Godell
for internal medicine, Dr.
G.N. Dalby for laboratory,
Dr. A.S. Mackenzie for
radiology, Dr. E.C. Shurlow for surgery, Dr. J.R.
Gershon for anesthisiology
and Dr. D.R. Daciuk for
pediatrics.
Hot Pace Set In
Pin Tourney Opener
ROBERT METTLER
Takes executive post, .with
Detroit manufacturer.'
Leading the Clare Men's
City Association bowling
tournament after the first
weekend of action is the
Citizens Bank and Trust
5-man team With32l6pins.
In the Doubles Division
the top pair of Norrel Mahon and Al Schumm toppled
1345 pins to lead by 61
count and high scoring B.
Simons has 713 for top
listing in Singles.
In All-events the leaders
are R. Jensen With 2045,
B. Simons with 1987, and
Al Schumm With 1966. A
high game (with handicap)
of 304 was recorded by V.
Smith.
In the following order
behind the leaders are for
teams:
Jackpine Lanes, 3158
Lucky Five, 3084
For Doubles are:
L. Beadle and
M. Beadle, 1276
George Haskell and
Gary Haskell, 1249
Pox Singles:
R. Jensen, 700
T. MacRae, 698
Order Survey
Of District
School Sites
~ The Clare Board of Education has ordered boundary surveys of 12 parcels
of land preparatory to plans
for additional building construction and site development. The real estate has
been acquired by the
District over a period of
the past 71 years.
And on a related topic,
the Board will request a
traffic survey and hazard
appraisal both on the school
site and nearby, or where
student crossings might.be
a factor.
The Automobile Club of
Michigan will perform the
traffic survey. Superintendent Richard Snyder said
the survey will be summarized in recommendations
for improvement of present conditions.
These actions and several
committee appointments
highlighted the agenda of
the Board in its regular
meeting February 11.
Observers at the meeting
were 25 members of the
Clare High School senior
government class, present
as part of a class assignment.
Students also figured in
another discussion by the
Board, as .it authorized
High School Principal Donald Spencer to select future
commencement speakers
from members of the graduating classes.
Members William Case
and Forrest-Sogge with Superintendent Snyder "were -
appointed to meet with St.
Cecilia's School Lay-Board
of Education to review
legislation for cooperation
between public and nonpublic schools, and Sogge
will represent the Clare
Board on a group including others from Farwell
and Harrison to hear the
Intermediate District's
proposed 1969-70 budget.
Repayment of $100,000.
borrowed last November on
anticipated State Aid payments was approved and a
report was heard on progress toward reorganization of school maintenance
and operation services.    .
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