1969-07-30; Clare Sentinel

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Clare Michigan, Wgdnesday^iy 30i 1969
tate Gives
Scholarships
The State   of Michigan
has honored 37    Clare
County     Students'    with'
Michigan  Department of
Education      Competitive
Scholarship's.
Eleven of the local
youths will receive monetary grants while 26 students received honorary
scholarships only. The
monetary grants range in
value from $100 to $800.
The scholarship awards
were based on a competitive exam taken by
Michigan high school seniors in "November of
1968.
Statewide this year
there were 3',048 cash
winners in the state
scholarship program
which pays all or part of
tuition in a Michigan public or private college or
university and 1,256 tuition grants for use in private colleges or universities only.
Including non-freshman it is expected that
more 'than 20,000 Michigan students will be receiving state scholarship
or tuition grant assistance during the 1969-70
academic year. Total
awards are expected to
reach more than
$11,000,000.
The following are the
37 Clare Cbunty Scholarship recipients.
Allen Suzanne B., 202
E. 6th St., Clare; Aman
Lillian, 9861 E. Ashard
Rd., Clare; Austin Patrick B., 106 Wheaton Ave.
Clare.
Case Penny Fra, 305
Schoolcrest, Clare; Casteel Tim A., 3037 Maple
Rd., Clare; Cimmerer
William R.', 626 N. Rainbow Dr., Clare.
Erickson Leonard W.
804 Beech St., Clare;
Hartzler Robert L., 107
E. 6th St. Clare; Krell
.Robert, 708 Rainbow,
Clare.
Loomis Melissa A.,
9390 South Clare, Clare;
Mackenzie Laura A., 1682
Columbus Dr., Clare; Mc
Clain Paul D., 9171 RFD
1., Clare.
McNerney Steven M.,
609 Schoolcrest, Clare;
Moline Karen Gayle,
1497 E. Maple Rd., Clare;
Owens  Kathryn Lee, 214
West 7th St., Clare.
Paxton Mark C„ 4350
Cornwell Rd., Clare;
Presley. Donald L„ 206
West Seventh., Clare;
Randall Karl W. ,10718
S. Grant Ave., Clare;
Rosenbrock Gary A.,
'ffl Spruce St., Clare;
Smith Susan J., J0935 N.
Mission, Clare; Squires
Joseph L., 9704 S. Grant
Ave., Clare.
Thomas iGary L. 626
W. 5th St., Clare; Tucker
Cassandra J., 531 Point
St., Clare; White Daniel
Bruce, 609 S. Rainbow Dr.
Clare.
, Whitford James V.,
4855 Browns Rd., Clare;
Armentrout Eric L., 1454
E. Surrey Rd., Farwell;
Ashley Terry A., 259
Corning St., Farwell;
Dent Sandra K. 76 E. Ludington D., Farwell;
Scott Alan D., RFD 1
Farwell; David Richard
Dean, Box 276, Gladwin;
See State Page - 2'
Our 91 st Year    New Series Vol. 77
No. 47
Building Code
Is Now Reality
THEYRE MOVED— Two Clare youths took some time last week to clean out the
Sentinel basement and complete the move of the Sentinel volumes of the past.90
years. The volumes will be kept in the basement vaults of the Garfield Memorial
library and offer the best record of Clare County's early history available. Mrs.
Robert Pinaire, chairman of the Clare Library Board said the volumes will
soon be shelved and will be available .for reference. Bill Carlton (above and
Lenny Erickson were the able movers.
Supervisors Table
Nuisance Ordinance
The proposed Nuisance
Abatement Ordinance for
Clare County floundered
in its big performance before the Clare County
Board of Supervisors last
Tuesday.
The ordinance which
puts ■ restriction on nuisances in the county,
found trouble from the
supervisors for the first
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The ordinance specifi-'
cally defines nuisandes
but leaves an opening
which was feared by some
supervisors. The ordinance says a nuisance is
any condition which is detrimental to the property
•of others. Several supervisors felt that with
enforcement of these conditions by the sheriff and
the county health officer,
the local governments
would be pushed into the
background and injustices
would result.
The    possibility 'of a-
mehding the ordinance to
replace to board of supervisors with the township board, as a board of
appeals was mentioned.
The supervisors expressed the desire to take
the ordinance back to
their local constituencies
and test their reaction to
the possibility of increasing the local participation. • The .possibility of
the township or city act-
Iftg as the m-diary for
complaints between the
complaintant and the
county enforcing officers,
was also discussed. Bernard Baumann, county
sanitarian, the man who
would probably be handling the complaints agreed
with this idea commenting
that the number of calls
his office receives is now
high and would probably
soar if their were no
mediating agency. .
The   board tabled  the
ordinance     for    further
County Fair In Full Swing
The Clare County Fair
had to contend with heavy
showers Monday but it
didn't seem to stop the
exhibitors and initial indications seem to point
to ainother great fair.
All exhibits were registered Monday and judging has been taking place
during the early part of
this week.
Wednesday N i g h t' s
grandstand feature is the
always favorite pony-
pulling   contest at  7:45.
Harness Racing ' has
been 'playingi to big aud
iences at 2 p.m. every
day and that program will
continue through Saturday
the  last day of the. fair.
Thursday morning the
4-Hers and F.F.-A. youths
show their stuff * in the
showmanship contest
scheduled for 10 a,m.
The annual Livestock
Automobile and Machinery parade highlights
Thursday night and.the
parade will be followed
by the big livestock auction.
Country and Western
Music at its finest comes
to the fair Friday night
as the David Houston
Country . and- Western
show takes the grandstand
area for two shows at 7
and 9 p.m.
Saturday night, the last
night of the fair is Rodeo
night with the Diamond
S. Rodeo and Wild West
show slated as the grandstand attraction.
Animal exhibits will be
released at  3 p.m. Saturday .and all other exhibits  will be released by'
8 p.m.
study with the local governing units.
Ken Barnes, chairman
of the Clare County Planning Commission informed the board they must
make applications for
their share of a $900,
000 grant through the recently established 14-
county Region 7 and order
district by August 18.
'■' The nfoney f r o"m *t_-.''
grant can be used fo„
equipment related to law
enforcement such as
mobile units, communi-
cation systems and almost, anything else related to improving the enforcement situation.
Chairman of the Board
Mark McKenna requested
Barnes to report back
to the first August board
meeting with additional
information as to the
county's share of the cost
in the program.
Charles Ashcraft,
chairman of the Harrison
Board of Education, appeared before the board
of supervisors and asked
the board for use of the
Clare County building for
classroom use for the
Harrison schools this
fall.
Ashcraft was asking for
use of the area which
has been occupied for the
last year by Mid-Michigan Community College.
A defeated bond issue
and a skyrocketing enrollment have apparently
forced the Harrison
schools to seek new housing.
Mid-Michigan plans to
move  their instructional
' facilities to the new colT
lege   site  on old US-27
some nine miles north of
Clare before September
11 although the office
space in the new building may not be completed
at the time according to
personnel Dean Allan T.
Nichols.
The board took the
matter under advisement
while they checked out
possibilities.
<*>• .The- - supervisors   ap-;.
i-pfoved $100 for insurance
for the Sheriffs posse
but then rescinded that
approval when legal question as to what kind of
insurance was being obtained was raised. The
issue was then tabled.
The supervisors in
other action appointed a
committee  to meet with
See Supervisors Page - 2
The comprehensive
building code for. Clare
became official last.
Tuesday night at the
postponed version of the
city commission meeting.
The meeting was postponed from the regular
Monday meeting date in
cooperation with the National Day of Participation for America's astronauts.
The building code which
has been in the works for
several weeks, was patterned after the abridged
edition of the Building ■
Official's Conference of
America  Building  Code,
otherwise known as
BOCA. The code provides for complete coverage of all building, plumbing and electrical service as well as demolition and alteration.
The code necessitated
the appointment of a
building code Board of
Appeals. Mayor Willard
Koch appointed Mack
Thompson, City Manager
Glen Cain, Kenneth Martz,
Marvin Witbeck and Paul
Lapham to that new board.
This board will work on
the selection of a building inspector and according to Koch will make
that suggestion at the August 4 commission meeting. The building inspector will be paid on a fee
basis.
The code was: necessary for Clare to be considered for federal funds
for the public housing
project designed to serve
senior citizens. Such a
building code must be in
- effect for six mohths-be-
fore federal furtdsr can be
granted to the project.
Leonard Crusen, chairman  of the new Housing
■ Commission in Clare expressed relief that the
code had been adopted and
said that it opened the way
for further action on the
public housing project.
A rezoning request
which opens the way for
a new apartment building
in the John R. Boulevard
subdivision was approved
by the commissioners at
the meeting. The rezoning request was made by
Anderson Construction
Company and asked that
lots 18 and 39 of the as-
sesor's plat of the subdivision be changed. The
two lots comprise over
45,000 square feet on the
soon to be built 900 foot
Dwyer street which will
extend into the subdivision from McEwan St.
The change request asked
that the lots be allowed
accomodate multiple
housing dwellings.
The commission also
heard a report from the
engineering firm of
Gourdie, Miller; Batzer
Fraser and Jones onIhe
progress of the Clare water system expansion,
program. The engineers
told commissioners the
project is about 95 per
cent complete.
Work  that  remains to
be done includes the painting  of the   water tower-
and the, subsequent testing  along with improve
ment of the existing iron
removal facilities. The
city "is also awaiting state
approval on their new test
water well. Stat e regu- '
lations specify that the
water well must be 200
feet from any structure
which would force the city
to use a secondary well.
The commission decided to borrow and sell 15
vear bonds on the city
sewer projects. The
move was an attempt to
yield funds to complete
the various city water
projects and the bond sale
will amount to about $20,
000.
The commissioners in
other action approved a
set of state boating regulations for Shamrock
lake. The adopted resolution also instructed a
request to the state Water Safety Commission
for proper restrictions
on the lake.
In further -action the
City Commission authorized lights to be placed
at the north end of the
Lake  Shamrock subdivi-
See Building Page - 2
Adrian Blades
Wins Award
Two Visitors
Drown in Lake
Two men from southern Michigan were reported drowned in Boat-
house Lake near Harrison, July 23.
State Police divers
from the Houghton Lake
post reported that the
bodies of Bervia Smith,
58, of 11444 E. Walker
Rd. in .St. Johns, along
with his fishing partner
Thurman Butler, 46, 705
S. Clinton St., Charlotte,
were discovered in about
20 feet of water.
Boathouse. Lake is in
Harrison Township about
five miles from the city
of Harrison.
State Police said the
subjects left about  5:30
p.m. July 22 to go fishing. When the'pair, did
not return at 11 p.m. the
incident was reported to
the Clare County Sheriff s
Department. The first
divers from the State
Police post arrived on
the scene about 4 a.m.
and the first body was
found at 8:20 a.m. The
second body was found
in deeper water an hour
later.
State Police theorized
because one man had the
boat's starter rope in
hand, that the men had
apparently stoo d up to
start .the boat and had
tipped it over.
Adrian Blades, a local
contractor was awarded
$75,000 hy a court of
commissioners in the
Clar e County Circuit
Court last week.
The case was ar<;pn- .
damnation case ,c_ the
State Highway department
against Blades which
dates back to 1960 When
the new freeway was being
built across property owned by Blades.
According to James
Bicknell III attorney for
Blades the Highway department condemned'
Blades land in I960 and
offered him $7,000 for a
69 acre area. Blades
contended that the condemnation took the best
part of his gravel supply
which at the time' comprised a major portion of
his business as he hauled
gravel for construction
companies-.
A soil appraiser and
expert appeared at the
trial of the case last week
and testified as to the
value of the gravel' and
the commissioners who
were appointed by the
presiding judge Robert
Campbell decided in favor of the Blades.
Bicknell told the Sentinel, "I was very impressed with the three
commissioners who
heard the case. They
were attentive and cooperative at all times."
Campbell had appointed
Wendall Drallette, Tim
Frey  and  Virgil Bergs
trom  as    the    commissioners.
Bicknell also said that
while the $75,000 award
' seems substantial he and
his client had hoped for
more.' The state will be
required topay nine years
interest On "the settlement.
Announcel
hysical
Schedule
Coach Allen Smith
has announced the
schedule for football
physicals as the 1969
season nears.
Junior and senior
football players will be
able to get their physicals at the Clare Clinic on August 14 from
9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
The sophomore football aspirants will
move in at 10:30 and the
Cheerleaders may receive their physicals
at 11:30 in the • morning. Freshmen will
be checked at 1 p.m.,
the same day, August
14.
Physical cards may
be picked up at Coach
Smith's home at 603
Schoolcrest or at the
time  of  the physical.
The physicals for
skiing and basketball
will be announced at a
later date.   -
WATER YOU  DOING THIS AFTERNOON—    A heavy rain hit Clare Monday and didn't seem to want to
cease creating several humorous situations and some bad tvouble at the same time. With water flowing
over the curbs and swelling the storm sewers the best mode, of travel if on foot Was with shoe in hand.
Water rose Well above the wheels of several cars and left Gorky's restaurant with a very wet andy muddy
dining area ' Interestingly enough today* s installment of "To Take a Look Back/' of dur editorial page
describes a heavy rainfall of 10-years ago which flooded Corky* s. History does repeat itself, But yesterday was a fun day as many pedple seemed to enjoy the deluge.
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