1970-04-15; Clare Sentinel

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Wadnasday, April 13, 1970
Our 92 Year Naw Sariat
Vol. 71 No. 32
Harrison Man Charged
With Drug Possession
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PRESENT SCHOLARSHIPS— Mr. and Mrs. William Morse, (top) owner of MIC
MobileHomes Sales and Service of Clare present a $500 scholarship check to
Mrs. Pat Parish, secretary of the Clare Scholarship Association.   Mrs. Betty
Mussell,  president  of  the Clare PTA hands a $100 check to Larry Ruby, vice
president   of   the   Scholarship   Association. (Sentinel photos)
Clare Scholarship Fund
Receives Two Donations
The Clare Area Scholarship Association is richer  this week by $600.
Two checks were presented to the association.
Mr. and Mrs. William
Morse, owners of MIC
Mobile Homes Sales and
Service of. Clare donated a $500 scholarship
for a graduate of Clare
High School.
Democratic Party
Ch iefHere Friday
State Democratic Party
Chairman James M. Mc-
Neely and staff will be
talking with Clare County
Democrats on Friday
April 17 as they continue
the! r swing through the
10th District to map out
county-by - county campaign strategy.
McNeely will sound out
local Democrats on the
political pulse in the
county and will conduct
a briefing on state-wide
campaign tactics.
McNeely is expected to
give an assessment of the
race for the gubernatorial nomination and the
possibilities available for
Other state-wide offices.
He will also be explaining the party's new computerized Voter Identification Program (VIP)
which McNeely has said
can make possible a total
Democratic sweep in the
1970 elections. The VIP
by use of computers, ma-
kes it possible for each
county to distinguish between registered voters
and unregistered persons
James M. McNeely
and pin-point the Democrats.
(Continued on page 11.)
The association may at
their discretion make this
award two $250. scholarships.
The Clare PTA presented a $100 check to the
association.
Eighteen seniors thus
far have applied for
scholarships offered by
the association.
Potentially an estimated $12,000 to $15,000
Would be available if
every family, business,
organization and student
would support the association by their year
membership.
If there was full participation, officials said, an
estimated 30 to 40
students could be granted financial assistance
each year.
An appeal is once again
being made for memberships; business, industry
and organizations, $10;
family, $5; individual, $3
and student $1.
Checks may be mailed
to any officer or member
of the association in care
of Box 111, Clare>Michigan.
Other new members
this week are Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Ruby; Gateway
Lanes (Mr. and Mrs. Pete
Brown); Clare Business
and Professional Women's Club; Ken Sheredy
Bill Rutter, Bill Mogg,
and Clare High School
Chorus Club.
A Harrison man is
free on bond today pending arraignment in Circuit Court Wednesday on
a charge of possession
of illegal drugs.
Robert Dexter Hutchinson, 20, of 1505 Grant
Ave., Harrison, had a
preliminary examination
in Clare County District
Court Monday.
Hutchinson waived examination  on the charge»
State    Police    Detective.
Lowell  Wilds  of Houghton  Lake post said    the
Mid-Michigan   Community  College   student  was
arrested   at  his     home
Wednesday April 8.
A search revealed a
quantity of marijuana, two
containers of marijuana
and a cube of hashis in
his possession.
He was arraigned the
following day before district court magistrate
Wayne Berg, Wilds said,
for the purpose of bond
only. He was released
on $1,000 personal reco-
ngition bond.
Detective Wilds said
Hutchinson was believed
to be one of a group of
seven or eight to bring
drugs into the area.
Further investigation
is pending, Wilds said,
and more arrests are expected at any time.
Wilds said r.he arrest,
which is expected to lead
to others, is the result
of an intensive two-month
investigation of drugs sales and usage in the Harrison area.
The probe has been
carried on in cooperation
with the Clare County
Sheriff's Department,
Harrison Police Chief Richard Bissell, Mt. Pleasant State Police Detective   Morris   Vincent.
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DRUGS  DESTROYED--     All   drugs from Clark's
Drug Store were burned and then buried last week.
Charles E. Holben, state pharmacy inspector, Clare
Police Chief Elry Tice and other officials were present  to  insure all itejns were destroyed. Charles
Clark, owner of Clark's Drug Store, said every item
in the store has been removed. A complete new
stock of drugs and other products will be brought in.
No products in the store during the recent fire will
be retained. (Sentinel photo)
Sign Up    'Non Work* One of The Fastest
Pleasure Boat classes
for 12 to 16 year olds will
be started April 27
through May 1 at the Clare
High School, conducted by
Sheriff Raymond Lippold.
Growing Occupations in Country
In Clare County, as well
as in most other commun-
Charge Official
In Embezzlement
Summerfield Township
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary
Pearson, 37, has been
charged with embezzeling
more than $1,000 in township funds.
She is scheduled to appear in Circuit Court
Wednesday. She was released on her own recognizance after waiving examination in Clare County
District Court.
Mrs. Pearson was
completing the fourth
year of a four-year term.
All books and records
of the township have been
confiscated by Clare
County Sheriff Raymond
Lippold following an
order signed by Clare
County Prosecuting Attorney Jay Trucks.
The books were picked
up April 3.
Summerfield Township
Supervisor Earl Parker
said that it is not known
at this .time how much
money is missing. An
audit will be made.
Parker said the loss
was discovered on April
1 during a meeting. Mrs.
Pearson announced her
resignation at that time
but the board refused to
accept  the  resignation.
A bank statement was
requested Parker said,
but was not forthcoming.
The statement was then
obtained from  the bank.
The loss is believed
to be covered by a bonding company.
Mrs. Pearson is the
mother  of  six  children.
ities across the country,
"non-work" is one of the
fastest growing occupations today.
Counted in the non-
work class in the local
area are those able-
bodied males over age
14 who are neither working nor looking for work
nor going to school.
For the most part they
are people who have acquired sufficient resources or financial backing
to enable them to not-
work, many of them at a
comparatively early age.
Although there are
some shirkers among
them who rely upon the
rest of society to provide
' for them, the great majority are quite different.
Because their funds are
adequate for their needs
they don't have to work
and they don't choose to
do so.
In Clare County, the
number of men in this
non-work group is estimated, on the basis of
statistics from the Department of Labor and the
Department of Commerce, at about 1,040.
The number in that category   in   1960   was   799.
Throughout the United
States at the present time
there are 8.5 million men
in this non-work population. ~Of those who are
over 65, three' out of four
have retired. The others
in that age bracket are
still working.
The proportion of non-
workers among those
over 65 is 22 percent
greater than it was in
1960.
In Clare County there
are many more men who
are over 65 and no longer working than - there
were ten years ago. At
that time the total was
531.
What do they live on?
Outside of savings, interest, dividends and other
income from investments
that they might have, their
main source of funds is
from government "transfer payments."
These include social
security benefits, pen-
continued on page 11.)
Camping Trip Planned
For Clare 4th Graders
Republicans Set
Program Apr. 21
"Mission 70s," a Republican organization
program, will be presented to Clare County Republicans April 21, at the
Harrison County Court
House in Harrison, Don
R. Luce, Clare County
Chairman, has announced.
The meeting will begin
at 7:00 p.m.
"I would like to urge
every Republican in the
county," the local chairman emphasized, "who
is interested in total victory this year to reserve
this date and attend this
meeting.''
The    slide and work
book session, co-sponsored by the Republican National Committee and the
Republican State Central
Committee, covers approaches to party organization techniques at all
levels.
"We presented this
program to some 300 Republican leaders in Lansing in March," said G
OP State Chairman William F. McLaughlin, "and
it was generally agreed
that this was thS finest
and most comprehensive
organization tool ever developed at the national
level."
Fourth-grade students
from the Clare Elementary School will participate in a week-long outdoor learning program at
Mystic Lake Camp this
May, in an educational
experiment unique to this
community.
Elementary School
Principal Al Schumm and
the fourth-grade teachers
who planned the campaign
trip said similar p ro-
grams in other Michigan
school systems have proved successful.
The five-day trip will
begin on Monday, May 18
and end the following Friday. Mystic Lake Camp
is located approximately
15 miles west of Clare, to
the west of Lake.
While at the camp, the
estimated 130 fourth-
graders will study a curriculum especially suited
for teaching in the out-
of-doors.
Professors     and stu
dents from Central Michigan University, along
with county conservation
officials and regular
classroom teachers will
teach such subjects as
conservation, earth
science, biology and nature study, and woodcraft
and campcraft. Following
the • day's classes, the
children will participate
in various planned recreation activities.
Accompanying the
children at the camp will
be the regular fourth-
grade teachers (Mrs.
Nancy Letts> Mrs. Patricia Smith, Mrs. Rachel
Maloney, and Mrs. Mary
Maher): husbands of the
teachers; and volunteers
including parents and C
MU students.
A t night, the boys will'
sleep in a two-story
stockade building, and the
girls will stay in camp
cabins. All facilities are
heated in event of colder
weather.
■Planning for the camping venture began early
in the school year. Since
that time, the fourth-
graders have engaged in
various fund-raising programs, such as candy and
bake sales. The sixth
grade students helped out
their classmates by donating the proceeds from a
special talent_show.
So far, the students
have raised approximately $600, or half the
estimated cost of $1,200
for the trip. Mrs. Letts
reports the response has
been enthusiastic from
the students themselves
and those volunteering to
help the program.
Any individuals or
clubs desiring to contribute to this learning adventure with t either food-
or money donations can
contact one of the four
teachers or the elementary school.
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