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FIFTEEN CENTS
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 1970
OUR 93rd NEW YEAR SERIES
VOL 79 NO. 7
Membership In Task
Force Questionable
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Continued membership
for Clare County in a 14
county law enforcement
agency remains an unsettled issue today pending
further study by commissioners and action at the
next meeting of the Clare
County Board of Commissioners.
The question of membership in the 14-county
agency was raised by
Clare -County Sheriff Ray
Lippold. He reported to
the board that during a
recent meeting of the District VII Law Task Force, it was pointed out that
Clare County was the only
one of 14 Counties that had
not paid its membership
dues for this year.
Commissioners felt
however, that they had already agreed to pay mem.-
bership dues in the law
task force, but a quick
check of the minutes of
past meetings couldn' t
verify the fact.
At question is a $205
membership fee for the
county to pay in order for
members of the county's
law enforcement agencies
to qualify for possible
state aid on equipment
purchases and othe r items for law enforcement
agencies.
Sheriff Lippold wants
the county to pay the
membership fee so members of his department
will be able to enroll in
speciaj education classes
and receive reinburse-
ment benefits for the
countv.
But some commissioners indicated once
law officers received a
large amount of specialized training it would cost
too much to keep qualified officers on the pay-
For County
roll. The commissioners argued that with
more training higher salaries can be demanded
and the commissioners
were quick to point out
that the county's budget
"just doesn't have enough
money to hire more deputies or pay greatly increased salaries."
Lippold  said after the
first of the year any new
members  of the sheriff
department will have to
have 240 hours of classroom instruction before
officers can exercise full
powers.
The sheriff indicated
that participation in the
law task force could help
to provide the required
training needed to become
a law officer after January 1, 1971. But commissioners said thev
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In Clare
Rubbish Pick-up
Fees Raised 100%
A 100 per cent increase
in the amount charged for
residential garbage pickup was approved by members of the Clare City
Commission Monday
night.
The decision to increase rubbish pick-up
fees came on a 4-1 vote
during the regular meeting of the commission at
the Clare City Hall.
While technically the
rate increase is 100 per
cent, it really wan increased only 77 per cent.
What the commissioners
did was to increase the
annual charge for twice
weekly pick-up service
from $18 to $36. But included in that $36 annual
charge is a box of 100
large plastic bags valued
at $5.
The rate increase will
take affect January 1,197.1
and for the first time all
city residents will be required to place their rubbish in plastic bags furnished by city hall. Rubbish not in plastic bags
will not be picked up after
the new rate increase takes effect.
Non-city residents also
will be charged $36 per
year for the right to use
the Clare City land-fill
dump.
The  rate increase    is
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HOMECOMING PARADE— The weatherman cooperated for a
change and provided ideal weather for the Clare High School
Homecoming Parade last week. The sunny skies and mild temperatures brought a crisp autumn day for the start of homecoming festivities, which began with a parade down McEwan Street
which included three marching bands. While the weather was
good, it didn't bring good luck to the Clare Pioneers who lost
their homecoming game 18-12 to Sanford-Meridian. More
pictures and the homecoming football game story can be found
on pages 10 and 11. (Sentinel Photo)
Hospital
Gains Support of Area Groups
Wide spread support
continues to grow today
for the $700,000 fund rising drive for the Clare
Osteopathic Hospital.
Governmental, professional and service organizations have endorsed
the current fund drive
and  are  urging citizens
Planners Call Special Meeting
A special meeting has
been called for the Clare
County Planning Commission for next Wednesday at the Clare County
Courthouse.
Planning commission
members will review the
preliminary draft of a
county-wide zoning ordinance at the special
meeting,   according     to
Ken C. Barnes, chairman
of the Clare County Planning Commission.
In addition to members
of the county's planning
commission, other persons invited to attend the
special meeting are officials from the county's
road commission, drain
commission, individual
townships and   members
of   the
board  of
county
commissioners.
The preliminary draft
of the county's zoning ordinance was prepared by
Environetic Research of
Chicago, a planning firm
hired by the county. The
research firm compiled
the draft after intensive
study of the county and
individual  townships and
with
and
to
after     consulting
township    residents
officials,   according
Barnes.
The preliminary draft
is 119 pages long and is
divided into 15 sections,
covering different types
of housing and land development.
Base maps for each of
the county's 16 townships
and three municipalities
will be examined at the
special meeting.
Barnes said county and
township officials are
needed at the meeting to
review' the base maps and
report any errors in the
maps. The base maps
show existing land use for
each   of   the   townships.
in Clare, Farwell, Harrison, Beaverton, Coleman and other areas to
support the fund drive
financially.
Members of a -citizen's
steering committee officially launched a three
week fund drive October
14 to raise $700,000 to
finance construction of
two new floors on the
newest portion of the hospital and to move surgery, x-ray and diet service facilities into the
lower two floors of the
same building.
Earlier the Clare
Chamber of Commerce
and the Clare City Commission endorsed the
subscription drive. Members of the Clare Business and Professional
Women's Club and members of both local chapters of Beta Sigma Phi
Sorority will conduct a
door- to door campaign,
beginning this Wednesday to seek pledges to the
building fund drive.
Individual community
leaders in other areas
served by the hospital
also have been working on
the campaign.   The  Far-
well campaign organization is led by Frank Coker and John and Mary
DeForrest. In Beaverton the drive is headed
by Ray Neville and in
Coleman by Robert Bea-
com. Pat Redmond, director of the Clare County
Social Services Department is leading activities
in Harrison.
Clare Osteopathic Hospital serves a 40-mile radius and employs more
than 120 full-time persons. Last year the payroll for the hospital was
nearly $700,000.
The hospital operates
at nearly 90 per cent capacity, according to Helen Morgan, administrator of the hospital.    She
said the national average
is about 75 per cent. Miss
Morgan also indicated the
average length of stay for
a patient at the hospital
is   about   five  days
To raise the needed
funds members of the
citizen's steering committee and the hospital's
board of trustees have
decided to sell bonds.
Harrison Group Forms To
Solve School Overcrowding
HARRISON— A group
of concerned citizens will
meet this coming Monday
night in Harrison to decide the future of schools
in the Harrison area.
About 50 persons,
members of a group called Voters on Today's
Educational Responsibilities, will meet at the
Harrison High School to
discuss plans to obtain
funds to finance the construction of a new    high
school and additions to the
middle   school  complex.
"The new school facilities are needed desperately," according to
Robert Larson, superintendent of Harrison
Schools.
Larson said the school
system had been forced
to operate on two half-
day shifts in the high
school building in order
to      accommodate a
"tremendous overflow in
MMCC Cited in Unrest Report
PLANNERS— Examining new base maps of Clare that arrived Tuesday are Ken C.
Barnes .(left), chairman of the Clare County Plannin g Commission, and Glen
Cain (right), Clare city manager. The base map of Clare was one of some 20
maps sent to Barnes by the county's professional planning agency. A special
meeting of the planning commission will be conducted next Wednesday night to
discuss the maps and other proposals. (Sentinel Photo)
HARRISON-Mid Michigan Community College
officials are outraged
over allegations by a Congressman that a MMCC
student lost federal aid
assistance because of
participation and involvement  in  campus unrest.
The allegations were
made by U.S. Rep. Edith
Green (D-Oregon) that
a student at MMCC and
students at Northwood Inr
stitute in Midland and
Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo
were involved in' 'campus
disorders."
MMCC president Eugene Gillaspy said one
student at the college lost
federal assistance because of a violation of
federal drug laws.
Spokesmen for MMCC
rep-..-ted to The Sentinel
that a student enrolled
last year at MMCC was
arrested on the suspicion
of possession of narcotics. After the arrest
was made the student was
placed on social probation by college officials.
His  federal aid was cut
off because the college
is required to end all
federal aid when students
violate institution rules
and regulations. Later
the student plead guilty
to the charge.
Federal regulations
required us to stop the
federal  aid  once he had
Cookbooks Available
A limited suppiy of cook books from the Designs
for Living Homemakers School are available at
the Clare Sentinel on a first come basis.
The cook books are free and are the same books
Used in the homemakers school sponsored by The
Sentinel last week.
Over 400 area homemakers attended the evening program in the Clare Elementary Schodl Auditorium and Watched Homemaker Kay Jepsen prepare 10 recipes on stage.
violated terms of the financial agreement, college officials said.
MMCC officials are unhappy about the charges
of campus unrest on the
colleges campus located
south of Harrison. Officials report there have
not been any campus disturbances among the 700
member student body.
News of the suspension
of federal aid to the student was reported to the
U.S. Office of Education
under the Department of
Health, Education and
Welfare.
The U.S. Office of Education, according to Rep.
Green, has reported 434
students at 86 colleges
and universities in this
country had lost federal
aid,
school enrollment."
Larson pointed out in an
interview with the Sentinel that the present high
school building was designed in 1957 for a total
occupancy of 500 students'. Currently more
than 900 students use the
building in two shifts.
The first shift begins
at 7 a.m. for grades nine
through 12 and ends at
noon. The second shift
starts at noon and runs
until 5 p.m. for grades
six through eight.
The split shift has
caused problems for parents and students as well
as the school's staff, Larson said.
He pointed out that
some high school students
have to get up as early
as 5 a.m. to catch a bus
to ride for an hour and
a half in order to be at
school at 7 a.m.
"The result is the stuT
. dent becomes sleepy and
doesn't operate at his
peak efficiency and
doesn't get the most that
he can out of school,"
Larson said.
"We're also short of
classroom space, office
space and just about
everything else," Larson
fSaid. He pointed out in
one case two principles
have to share the same
desk because there isn't
'enough available office
space.
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