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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1970
OUR 93rd NEW YEAR SERIES
VOL, 79 NO. 5
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ounty,  School Public Budget
Hearings To Be Held October 12
County Budget
i Proposal Cut
'''■^irjal budget cuts were
__ing made Tuesday
evening by members of
■jMe Clare County Board
;of'; \ Commissioners . in
preparation for present-
;ijfg the proposed budget
during a public hearing
next' Monday.
; 'The Tuesday evening
meeting was called in order to provide all commissioners on the five-
member county board
ample time to review the
county budget proposed
by the board's budget
committee.
\y After five days of work
members of the budget
committee cut requests
by nearly $226,000 in order for income to equal
expenditures.
John Brubaker and Carl
Bringold, members of
the budget committee,
worked on the county's
proposed 1970-71 budget
for several days last
week. The two members
of the budget committee
also were aided by Tom
Bradley, a member of the
finance committee, Louis
Becker, Clare County
clerk, and other county
officials and department
heads. «,
■ Brubaker reported original requests from the
county's several departments totaled approximate^ $930,909. However,
tpftbudget committee estimated anticipated revenue would total only
$704,611 in the coming
year. So budget committee members reduced the
requested funds by about
$226,000 to a workable
total.
The entire board was
scheduled to review the
budget committee's proposed budget at the Tuesday meeting before accepting the committee's
f.epommendation.
"By law, the county is
required to conduct a
public hearing on the
proposed operating budget. Such a hearing will
take place October 12
, in the board of commissioners room at the Clare
County Courthouse in
ftarrison.
-*'- Discussion of the budget occurred during the
board's regular meeting
Monday at the county
courthouse. In other
action county commissioners also discussed a
bill "for payment for the
printing of new county
maps'.
• Board chairman Mark
MdK^nna received a letter from a Mt. Pleasant
legal firm requesting the
county to pay a $4,300
printing bill to Enterprise Printers in Mt.
Pleasant. But commissioners do not want to
pay the bill because serv-
eral mistakes were made
in the printing of the map.
It's not clear who is at
fault for the misprinted
maps.
Commissioner Stan
Oman, chairman of the
board's map committee,
said several corrections
he noted in copy for the
printer were not made.
Oman said the corrections were noted on a
printing proof by himself
and members of the Clare
County Road Commission.
However, the proof furnished to the board can't
be found. Commissioners contend that the corrections were noted on the
proof and were not corrected by the printer.
Oman was authorized by
the board to continue an
investigation into the
matter and to report back
to the board at its next
meeting.
County commissioners
also were presented a
report by Alvin House
who spoke on "the educational facilitating role of
the extension agent in
Michigan counties. House
is a specialist in state and
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Clare School
Budget Rises
COMMISSIONERS—Clare County Commissioners
ponder the fate of individual county department
budget requests during the regular meeting of the
board Monday. The commissioners, who are left
to  right,     Tom     Bradley,   John   Brubaker, Louis
Becker (Clare County clerk), Mark McKenna, Stan
Oman and Carl Bringold, met Tuesday evening to
make final cuts in the' proposed operating budget
for the county before adoption after a public hearing next Monday    (Sentinel Photo).
A proposed operating
budget of $1.4 million will
be discussed in a public
hearing conducted by the
Clare Board of Education
Monday prior to the
board's regular monthly
meeting.'
The public hearing is
scheduled to begin at
7:30 p.m. in the library
in .Clare High School.
The public hearing will
provide citizens within
the school district to
comment on the budget
proposed for the coming
school year. Copies of
the budget are available
at th e school district's
administrative offices.
The proposed budget
totals approximately
$1,419,567 and includes
expenditures in 11 major
Area Bazaar Of Values Program Starts
There's no need to
travel outside of Clare
County if you're looking
for values.
And beginning this week
for two months merchants in Clare County
will offer four pages of
special values right here
at home. These merchants are participating
in an eight-week Bazaar
of Values which this week
salutes local people shopping in local stores^
During the Bazaar of
Values, The Clare Sentinel, acting as messenger of these outstanding merchants and their
special values, will give
away $200 in cash to shoppers who patronize participating merchants.
A $100 cash prize
will be given away in the
final  week,  $20 a  week
for three weeks before
that and $10 for the first
fovr weeks.
A'a entries will be good
for the full eight weeks.
You may enter as many
times as you wish and
increase your chances of
winning.
To enter, simply write
your name, address and
phone number on any
sales slip, cash register
tape, charge slip receipt
or      any  business  form
Over $200.000 Raised
Hospital Fund
Drive Starts
By Phil Schneider
Managing Editor
Future operation of
the Clare Osteopathic
Hospital seems a little
more certain today after
fund raisers reported that
nearly a third of the funds
needed to continue operations  have  been  raised.
Members of a citizens
lay group organized to
raise funds to insure the
continued operation of
Clare Osteopathic Hospital were told more than
$215,000 has been pledged as of Tuesday.
News of the amount
collected was reported
during a kick-off breakfast meeting Tuesday
morning at the Doherty
Hotel.
A campaign to raise
the other $500,000 was
officially launched Tues
day and will continue until November 1, according to Bernie Wyman,
chairman of the citizen's
group.
Individual collection
chairman and final plans
for the three-week fund
raising campaign were
mapped out during the
Tuesday morning meeting.
Business, industrial
and individuals in Clare,
Farwell, Harrison, Coleman, Lake and Beaverton
will be contacted and asked to contribute toward
the hospital's fund raising
drive.
Approximately $700,
000 in funds are needed
to make necessary improvements in the physical portion of the hospital. The improvements
were ordered by the state
health department  which
Toepp Leads Hearings
"'St-jte     Senator     John
Toepp annnounced today
that "the   Special Senate
cjbmni'ittee to investigate
the" Michigan State Highway "Priority   Program
will'conduct public hearings.Monday and Wednesday of next week.
''Te&pp, Republican senator'Pfroi/   the     36th
tfistrict  which  includes
Clare County, if ,chair-
rijatf'of the special committee. ......
. VE*?lier Toepp and
titffi: area legislators,
including Donald Hol-
b'ttfok, state representa-
tivV "from the 99th Dis-
ttfct.-m-t in Lansing to
highway    con-
programs   for
discuss
struction
the state.
Area residents have
voiced concern over needed improvement in U.S.
131 and access routes to
the Clare Airport.
A meeting in Big Rapids will be held next Wednesday for area residents beginingatlOa.m.
in the Mecosta County
Building.
Under a special Senate resolution, the Committee is charged with determining the highway-
freeway priority planning
system, engineering and
right-of-way buying.
All meetings will be
open to the public and
testimony will be taken
from highway associations and the Department
Of State Highways,"
Toepp added.
Future meetings will
be held in Traverse City,
Petoskey, West Branch,
Port Huron, Detroit and
Lansing.
Other members of the
Committee are Senator
Robert VanderLaan, Senate Majority Leader; Senator Milton Zaagman,
Senate President Pro
Tempore; Senator Thomas Schweigert, Acting
Lieutenant Governor.
is requiring the hospital
to build an addition to the
existing facility and to
move operation and x-ray
facilities out of the older
portion of the hospital into
the newest portion of the
building.
The required improvements must be made or
the state health department will not renew
the hospital's operating
license. If the license is
not renewed the hospital
would be required to operate on a cash basis
only. Operation on a cash'
basis would mean the hospital could .not service
patients under medical
insurance programs by
private corporations,
such as Blue Cross, or
under state and federal
hospital insurance programs.
"It's essential that we
raise the necessaryfunds,
or Clare andthe surrounding area will simply be
without a hospital," Wyman said.
To raise funds for the
needed construction,
members of the steering
committee and others will
sell bonds in $500 and
$1000 demoninations.
For the past several
weeks John Bicknell and
Al Iacco have conducted
a pre-sale campaign and
together both raised over
$190,000 toward the $700,
000 goal. The other funds
raised to date have been
contributed to the drive
from surrounding areas
and individuals.
The bonds will pay eight
per cent interest over a
15 year period. Hall of
the bonds will be in $500
denominations and the re-
ma in der    in $1,000 a-
mounts.
In the Clare area Don
Collum will serve as
chairman of the industrial donation committee
and Earl Morgan will
chair  the   committee   to
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from any business displaying the Bazaar of Values poster.
Or you may use the free
coupon in Section B of
this issue of The Clare
Sentinel.
Bring or mail these
entries to the Clare Sentinel, 112 W. Fourth,
Clare, Michigan 48617.
Entries will be drawn
each week and a photo
of the winner will be published   in   The  Sentinel.
To kick off the official
opening of the Bazaar of
Values, Clare County
merchants, their statts
and families met for a
dinner and clinic to review selling practices so
they could better serve
you, their favorite customer.
This first week salutes
the consumer and to find
the best consumer values
in Clare County, turn to
Section B.
Merchants participating in the Bazaar of
Values are:
Jim's Leonard Service,
Sunshine   Center,  Bell's
Men & Boys, Discount
Carpet Center, Evert's
Jewelers, Log Cabin Grocery, Ruby' s Mobil
Homes, Dan McDonald
Ford Sales. Clare Furniture, Alexander Shoes
and Clare Carpet Ranch.
Others participating in
the Bazaar of Values include: Seiter Brothers,
Park View Hotel, Allen's
Department Store, Ken's
Hardware, Witbeck's IGA,
Gambles, R & M Sales,
Northland Hardware,
Cerwin's Carpets, Car-
row's Supermarket, Witbeck's Sales Agency,
Gateway Sno-Mo-Rina,
Barb's Children's Shop,
Clare H & S Hardware,
Giant" Supermarket, See-
beck's Sport Center, Thayer Dairy, Akins Piano
Service.
More Bazaar of Values
participants are: Green's
Clothing, Wilson T. V.,
Flegel Sports Center,
Bolle, Mill End Store,
Magnus Farm Machinery,
Harrison Trading Post,
and Ackerman Plumbing
and Heating.
groups, according to Richard L. Snyder, superintendent of Clare Public Schools.    -
The anticipated opera-,
ting costs for next year
are about $45,000 less
that expected revenue
Snyder said.^ However,
the small surplus could
easily be used, by unexpected expenses such as
a decrease in tax revenues or a major repair
job on some phase of the
physical facilities of the
school.
Total anticipated revenues for the 1970-
71 school year are estimated to run approximately $1,464,373, which
represents an increase
of approximately $148,000
over last year.
Expected income for
the school district is anticipated to come from
allocated and voted millage, delinquent tax collections, state and federal financial aid and
program reimburse
ments.
Instructional costs for
elementary school operations are expected to run
about $459,500, up from
$415,000 over last year.
Included in the operation
of the elementary school
operation are salaries
for administrative and instructional personnel,
clerical help, teaching
supplies and other expenses.
Operational costs for
the secondary level will
run about $512,725 and includes administrative,
clerical and instructional
personnel salaries and
other  teaching  supplies.
Administrative costs
for the school district will
run ■ approximately
$62,000. This amount
includes administrative
salaries, secretarial and
clerical costs, election
supplies, legal services,
printing and publishing,
contracted services, office supplies, travel  and
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Homemakers School
Starts Wednesday
HOME ECONOMIST—Miss Kay Jepsen, a home
economist, will conduct a homemakers school for
area women next Wednesday, October 14 at the
Clare Elementary School Auditorium. The home-
makers school, called Designs For Living, is
sponsored by the Clare Sentinel and is scheduled
to begin at 7 p.m. There is no admission charge
for attendance at the nationally known school
Next Wednesday is the
day Clare County women
have   been   waiting   for.
Next Wednesday Clare
area women and their
husbands are invitedto.be
the guests of the Clare
Sentinel at a nationally
known homemakers
school.
The homemakers
school, called Designs for
Living, will be held October 14 beginning at 7 p.m.
in the Clare Elementary
School Auditorium.
The Clare Sentinel has
been selected as one of
only 10 newspapers in the*
state to Sponsor this famous homemakers school
that has attracted national
attention.
The school is free and
it's designed to offer the
busy housewife some extra hints on how to make
housework easier.
Miss Kay Jepsen, who
will be conducting the food
lecture - demonstrations,
has said also that every
homemaker attending the
cooking school will be
given one of the new col
orful DESIGNS FOR LIVING cookbooks along
with dozens of other recipe leaflets and handout
sheets at the door. A
special laundry booklet
has also been prepared
for each lady.
Registration for the
prizes will be via a Home-
makers School questionnaire form which wili be
filled out at the Home-
makers School hall. They
will be collected and names will be drawn from
these cards to award the
door prizes. Winners will
have to be present in order to claim their prize.
Local merchants will
distribute several door-
prizes during the Designs
For Living homemakers
school.
Cerwin Carpets will offer a 10 by 12 foot commercial carpet and two
carpet coffee tables, as
door prizes, Food for
the meals prepared by the-
home economist will be
furnished by Witbeck's
IGA
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