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THE CLARE SENTINEL. CLARE, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1962
New Series, Vol. 70,     No. 33
The Convention is moving toward its closing date which we
all hope will be May 12, On second reading, which began last
week, many of the proposals
passed in the same form as
approved on first reading. The
weight and gas tax, which funds
are now earmarked for construction of highways, was approved.
There was some feeling that if
the defining of use is left to the
Legislature, the fund would be
dissipated and not used for highway purposes. I am certain this
is an unjustifiable feeling. We do
have a good highway system and
I am sure that one having anything' to do with government
would want to continue it.
"PROPERTY CARRYING A HEAVY LOAD"
Con Con Reinstates
imitation
The continuing of the 15 mill
taxation on property, which was
dropped at first reading was reinstated on second reading with
the provision that any county
can vote 18 mills and establish
the number of mills to be given
to schools, townships, etc. If the
majority of the voters establish
the maximums, the allocation
board will be discontinued. It is
the feeling of everybody that the
schools must have more money
but that property is carrying a
heavy load now. Local units can
vote more than eighteen mills in
the same manner as is done now.
The counties were also given
the right to establish merit
systems under conditions set by
the Legislature. In the future,
therefore, a county can place
the county employees under
civil service.
The state again was given permission to borrow for current
operation up to fifteen percent
of the previous year's collection
on undadicated funds. This
means that the borrowing might
be up to forty or fifty million
dollars a year, provided however,
that this money be paid back at
the end of the fiscal year. This
should give greater flexibility in
state financing.
County officials may be elected for four years instead of two
years as presently true. I have
been asked how I voted in these
issues. I voted in favor of all of
these.
The question of eminent domain is yet to be settled by the
Convention. The Convention was
unable to come to a decision
when the proposal first came
up for attention. The proposal
will specify that a property settlement will have to be made before the state can move onto
property. I understand at the
present time in the acquiring of
property for highway purposes,
the state can move in and make i
settlement later. Without doubt, i
eminent domain will be settled)
fhis week. _^i
Sean Won't
Be Michigan
Week (iwest
There's a couple of Irishmen
in County Clare, Ireland whc
don't know what they are passing up!
Irish Senator Sean Brady, the
number-one man in all of County
Clare has declined a Clare
County (Michigan) invitation to
be a guest here for the celebration of Michigan Week.
Local Michigan Week program
arrangers said Monday that it,
"just had not occurred to us that
the man does not want to come
to the United States ... to our
town".
Brady excused himself in refusing the invitation for the all-
expenses trip to Clare, and so
did the second choice, another
figure in County Clare public
life who was not identified, but
was recommended by the Irish
ambassador to the United States.
' The idea of an 'lush guest*is
not dead, however. '    ,
Credited to Donald E. itol-
brook, Jr. regional chairman for
the Michigan Week observances
to be held this year May 20-26,
the idea of bringing a guest from
County Clare waits only more
trading of messages from Washington to Dublin to see if another Irishman can be found to
accept the honor and the free
trip.
Pledges of mony from local
organizations and county chambers of commerce are expected to
go far in financing the $4S"5 dollar trip by air, and the Doherty
Motor Hotel in Clare has volunteered free rooming for any
guest from the Auld Sod.
Michigan's Senator Phil Hart
in Washington has been contact
ed to assist in working with the
Irish embassy to find a man who
will make the trip. Expressing
enthusiasm for the idea, Ha_rt
told the committee that he will
send word to Clare as soon as a
visit can be  arranged.
One-Day
Clean Up
Campaign
Saturday,   May  5,   is   Clean-1
Up    Day    in    Isabella    county.]
Sponsored by the Isabella County
Safety  Council,   the  purpose  of
the project is two-fold:
1.) To make the roads, streets
and   highways  safer.
2.) To expose the natura?
beauty of Isabella county which
is too often marred by the rubbish scattered along the road
sides.
Bud Hubbell of Mt. Pleasant
is general chairman of the project. Area chairman are as follows: Weidman - Michael Mc-
Hugh, Beal City - Robert Ban-
ninger, Rosebush - John Jacobs,
Shepherd - Cecil Swenson,
Blanchard - Waino Pihl.
These chairman will enlist the
aid of various groups <— service
clubs, women's organizations
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H
groups and others to aid in their
particular areas. Farmers are
urged to clean up their roadsides
even though the bottles and
other litter were distributed there
by others.
Ernie Bruce, superintendent of
the Isabella County Road Commission is co-operating by making available a number of county
road trucks which will be located
in strategic points in the county
as collection centers for the rubbish from the roadsides.
As there are over 1200 miles of
roads in Isabella county, many
volunteers will be needed on
May 5 to make the project a
success.
Since the advent of the use
of throw-away beer bottles ir
Michigan, the litter problem has
become of more concern to safety
minded persons. Blow-outs of
tires caused by broken bottles
could be the cause of death or
serious injury to local residents,
said the council's committee.
Bud Hubbell invites all residents to co-operate on this very
worth-while project and make
Isabella county safer* and more
beautiful.   ,,.... .„_.., .w
Average Farm Family
Has $4,924. Budget
The promise of rising water in Lake Shamrock on Saturday, May 5 has sparked a rise In
Chamber of Commerce planning for a retail promotion day. At meetings early this week the
businessmen's group announced that many members would have Lake Shamrock Day selling
bargains ready for the date of closing the dike
to start filling the new lake in Clare.
The Clare citywide business group hopes to
accomplish two objectives with the special observance:
First, they see the event as a natural occasion
for attracting a crowd of people in Clare and believe that special retail bargains offered on that
day will be a boost for business in general. Along
this line, merchants are unanimous in the thought
that their special, sale offerings should be crowd
pleasers by their very attractiveness.
While there is nothing about the dedication
of Lake Shamrock that will move goods over
downtown counters, still genuine bargain offers
in connection with the celebration of the event
should certainly attract a great many buyers at
the start of the summer season.
Second, the occasion is a great opportunity
for Clare residents, and especially business men
and women to "sell" Lake Shamrock as the outstanding civic accomplishment it is, and to help
promote the sale of residential lots there.
A letter to all Chamber of Commerce members from their President Joe Johnston urged
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The brick, glass and aluminum front of Seiter Brothers new
office introduces visitors and customers to a complete builders'
supply headquarters. The Grand Opening 2s a two-day affair on
Friday and Saturday this week.
Sentinel photo
Ground For
Loomis Church
A groundbreaking ceremony
Sunday, April 29 at 11:15 will
mark the start of building at the
new Loomis Missionary Church,
The congregation of the church
will gather at the site of their
building which is to be on a new
location on Old US-10 in Loomis
and plans are for the occupancy
of the building by late fall.
The church's present building
was built by Rev. J. Wesley
Teale in 1935. Rev. Teale was
the group's pastor at the time
and started the work in Loomis.
Rev. E. J. Belella is the present pastor and will lead the service at the Sunday ceremony
The public is invited to attend.
Mail Timetable
Clare Postmaster Larry Jackson announced this week that
starting April 30 mail will be dispatched out of the Clare Post-
office at 11:00 a.m.
This is an advance in time of
about one hour from the former,
schedule, he said
It Will be necessary to have
mail in the postoffice by. 10:30
a.m. in order for the clerks to
sort and bag the mail So the
truck can depart at 11:00 in the
morning. The new schedule will
improve deliveries so that mail
as far south as Columbus, Ohio
will be delivered on the following day. This includes first class
How much money do farm
families spend for family living?
How much is spent for basic
necessities? How closely are
family spending patterns related
to income and size of household?
To answer these questions,
Michigan State University established the Michigan Family Living Sample. About 120 farm
families, drawn from all areas of
the state, participated in the
program  in  1960.
Income and expenditures were
reported by all families on a
monthly basis. Additional information was obtained for 57 families in the sample.
Expenditures were analyzed by
J. R. Brake, MSU agricultural
economist, and C. R. Holm, formerly of the Department of Home
Management and Child Development.
They found that the average
family in the sample had 5.28
members. Average total income
from farm and non-farm sources
(including the value of food and
fuel grown on the farm) was
$7,776. Average total family expenditure was $4,924 with $3,826
going for basic items such as
food, housing upkeep (and
taxes), household operation,
clothing, medical expenses and
education. Of this, $1,748 went
for food. The average expenditure for non-basic items, such as
.Gjorftributions, glfts^ ^,or special
purchases (automobiles, equipment, furnishings and the like)
was $1,098.
The researchers also arrived
at these  others  conclusions:
A minimum income of $4,000
is necessary for a family of two
persons. The necessary income
for a family of eight is at least
$6,000.
On the average, an additional
household member cost the family about $29.50 more per month
in 1960. This is important because the level of living in J:he
family is based on family size.
Families which do not have
enough income to cover total expenses tend to "live on depreciation". They will not be able to
make new investments as.equipment depreciates or wears out.
Because size of household is
relatively more important than
size of income, the effects of a
rise In family indome in the
United States . would probably
offer little help in eliminating the
food surplus problem. In -this
Sample, 10 per cent income increase was followed by only a
1.7 per cent food expenditure in*
crease,
Continued research in family
expenditures will provide a basis
for evaluating farm programs as
well as for advising families with
respect to expenditures for family living.
Pioneers
Stopped At
Three Wins
Three non-conference wins for
the baseball Pioneers against
class A Mt. Pleasant and Coleman and Sacred Heart seemed to
set a trap of over-confidence for
the opening conference game on
April 23, against St. Louis.
"Being lax on the diamond and
too many errors cost us the
game", stated coach Bob McDan-
iel, "but I'm sure when we play
them again this year it will be
a different story". St. Louis defeated Clare 3-2.
The starting nine fielded Tom
Kozicki on first; Dan^ Green
second, Skip Kegg short stop
Pat Murphy third base, and Jarl
Ruark catching. The outfield is
Roy Warner rt. field, Jerry Russell left and Skip Breen center
field.
"The mid Michigan B Conference is so widespread" said Mc-
Daniel, "that the southern and
the northern schools play off and
the winners meet on a neutral
diamond for the championship".
In the Mid Michigan B. Conference is Corunna, Durand, Chesaning and the northern teams
are St. Louis, Ithaca and Clare.
To Meet With
Developers
The Community Development
Committee of the Clare County
Board of Supervisors, the Clare
County Planning Commission
and other interested parties will
meet Friday, May 4th, at 8:00
■p.m. in the ourthouse, Harrison;
for the purpose of discussing
new platting and building requirements for Clare county.
All builders and developers are
invited to bring copies of their
requirements to this meeting.
A special attraction in Seiter Brothers' modern new sales office
and showroom is this Idea Center for building, planning and decorating homes. Effective use of materials and paints is explained and demonstrated. Many brochures and folders are available.
Sentinel photo
Speech Wins
For CHS Girl
In Contest
Janet Walter, Clare High
School 11th grader, has been
named one of 18 winners in the
20th annual Christmas Seal TB
Speaking project.
More than 1,700 students
throughout the state contested
for honors in the project sponsored jointly by the Michigan
Tuberculosis and Respiratory
Disease Association and the
Woman's Auxiliary to the Michigan State Medical Society.
Janet's speech entitled, "Wanted" was radio broadcast some
time ago. It earned for her
honorable mention in the statewide contest. Her teacher-advisor
is Mrs, Ida Reath Long,
State Judges were Mrs. A. B.
Gwinn of Hastings, TB speaking
project chairman of the Woman's
Auxiliary to the MSMS, John
Cook, chief, office .Of public
health information, Michigan Department of Health, and Theodore J, \yerle, executive secretary emeritus of MTRDA,
Hometown
Concessions
Questioned
The Farwell Labor Day Committee has notified all churches,
societies and organizations that
greater interest in hometown
management of concessions at
the -annual celebration is needed
to continue present policy of holiday earnings for local groups.
Churches, lodges and chapters,
Boy and Girl Scouts, and civic
groups are invited to have representatives attend a meeting tomorrow in the Farwell town hall
to determine the future of the
policy.
The Committee says that in
the past, only a few organizations have taken part in the Labor Day celebration.
An open letter on the subject
said, "There is not enough interest in the midway to make it
worth while".
The decision. at tomorrow's
meeting will direct the committee's determination as to wheth"
er or not to turn the entire midway operation to a full carnival
concession on September 3 this
year.
Deadline For
Farwell Board
Candidates
Nominating petitions for candidates who wish to have their
names on the ballot at the Annual School Election to be held
June 11, 1962, must file petitions
with the Secretary of the Board,
William Fischer, or in the Board
of Education office no later than
4:00 p.m., May 12, 1962. These
petitions must bear the names
of 50 qualified electors of the
school district and no elector
may sign more than two nominating petitions.
The successful candidates will
take office July 1, 1962 and serve
terms of 4. years. The incumbents Raymond Agle and Kenneth Kappliri'gfer have not indicated whether they will seek reelection.
Candiclats must be legal residents of the school district and
be a property owner or the
spouse of a property owner
whose property appears on a tax
roll within the boundaries of Far-
well Area School District No. 7.
Any interested candidate may
obtain a petition to circulate by
calling at the Board of Education
office between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30
p.m. any Monday thru Friday
prior to 4:00 p.m., May 12, 1962.
Open House
To Show 'New'
Seiter Bros.
An open house and welcome
to the public in Seiter Brothers
new quarters is scheduled foi
Friday and Saturday this week,
tomorrow and the next day.
The Clare lumber and builders' supply firm which burn.ed
out at its former location or
West Fourth street downtown in
January, 1961 is now bigger and
more diversified than ever before and occupies huge ware
houses, sheds, and a modern new
office and showroom on West
Fifth street (US-10) across from-
the Kraft Foods plant.
The public is invited to the
two-day open house to see displays and demonstrations of
building materials and methods,
to inspect the facilities for storage in a building that was once
a furnace factory and that has
been enlarged with the addition
of new cement and steel sheds,
to tour through the millwork
shop and see woodworking operations, and -view displays in the
bright, modern showroom where
customers enter the plant.
Free registration for prizes and
refreshments for open house
visitors are planned for features
of the event.
In addition to the attractions
for visitors, Seiters are offering
reduced price bargains during
the open house. Their advertisement appears on page 7 of this
issue of The Sentinel.
Seiters emphasize their busi
ness slogan, "There's A Material
Difference", and have added decorative wood-finished interior
paneling, beautiful builders'
hardware, truss-designed pre assembled structural members, decorator paints and finishes, roofing, structural windows, and outside paints. They feature a
modern "Idea Center" to coordinate h.ame builder's and
decorator's plans.
Golf Added
To Sports
Schedule
them to support their community, better business, and the Lake Shamrock Day celebration
plans.
He encouraged retailers to display and sell
Lake Shamrock Day special merchandise, advertise the event in business advertising, give prominent display to Lake Shamrock Day poster signs
to be furnished by the C of C, inform all personnel that contact the public to "talk it up".
The observance on May 5 will start at 10:00
a.m. and feature the actual closing of the small,
unfinished portion of the dike that is allowing
the Tobacco river to bypass water around the new
dam.
The Development Corporation
responsible for the success of the
project is the sponsor of a ceremony to give people a colorful
and interesting spectacle at the
site of the dam on the lake's east
end.
A parade from town will lead
the crowd to the place and then
bulldozers will fill the gap to
trap water in the lake basin. A
gold bucket is to be used to lift
the first water from the river into the closed-off lake, and a gold
shovel will be employed to throw
the first earth into the dike.
Public officials yet to be announced will take part in the
symbolic exercises.
The parade, still not completely set but with growing plans,
will include autos and horses and
riders. The committee has asked
the Clare School bands to march
and play.
Members of the planning committee named by Johnston said
that the short time allowed
would not permit invitations to
' .jVery organi^tfoir or 'individual
that would be welcome In the
parade. But it was made clear
that riding clubs from anywhere
in the mid-state area, show
horses and vehicles, auto and implement dealers, groups and organizations whether in uniform
or not, boys and girls with decorated bicycles and any others
would be counted as welcome additions to the parade.
If organizations could get
floats ready for the occasion
they would make valued contributions to the importance of the
parade.
Start of the parade will be at
McEwan and Third in downtown
Clare and at 10 o'clock it will
mdve north to Lake Shamrock.
Golf is the newest sport to be
added to the Clare High School
sports program with Jim Raymond coaching.
Last Thursday opened the first
match with Ithaca at the Ithaca
Golf course, where the four-man
Pioneer team was defeated 61/.
to 5'..j. Tom Cain played first
man with Jim Allen second, Mike
Haley third, and Denny Calkins
fourth.
On May 18 Clare will play Mt.
Pleasant Country Club and will
have a rematch with Ithaca on
May'- 22.- tliei-e;'' The" 'eonfet^ncfrj
championship will be played off
on May 25 at the Ithaca Country
Club and Clare will try to schedule a couple of games on that
course to get accustomed there,
stated  coach Raymond.
Each boy must provide his owji
clubs, however the school does
provide the balls for the conference games.
Track Team Wins
Clare placed second in their
second track meet of the year
with Farwell scoring 47% points,
Clare 45 V_, and Beaverton 44
points. The triangular meet was
held at Farwell on April 24, with
all schools having an entry in
each event.
Larry Hawkins placed second
in the 120 high hurdles with Pat
Murphy placing fourth. In the
mile, Skip Kegg placed first in
4.57.5 and Tom Dunn (freshman)
placed second. Don Green ran the
880 for first place followed by
second and third place Pioneers
Russ Graham and Mike Austin.
Chris Schroeder ran second in
the 440 and Jerry Russell tied
for third in the 180 low hurdles.
Jarl Ruark placed fourth in
the 220 and second in the pole
vault, jumping 10 ft. 6 inches.
The Pioneers brought home the
mile relay with a great lead, the
final timing being 3 minutes 56,9
seconds. Running the first leg
was Skip Kegg, second Pat
Murphy, third Russ Graham, and
fourth Dan Green.
On the shot was Jim Perrine
who placed second with a 35 ft.
11 inch throw. Bob Jeffery placed fourth in the broad jump and
first in the high jump followed
by Ra.ph Buchholz placing
fourth.
The wind accounts for the slow
timing of all teams stated Coach
Perry, so an accurate clocking
of each man can't as yet be determined.
During the past two weeks
streets and drives around the
lake itself have been beautified
with finish grading and generous
beds of gravel. One entrance is
along the north bank of the Tobacco river from the bridge just
north of Clare's business district.
Spectators at the dike-filling
ceremony can get close from the
completed end of the embankment that connects with the
street north of the Cherry Grove
cemetery.
Ken Barnes, president of the
Development Corporation said
that the level of lake water will
reach the base of the newly completed dam after the dike is
closed on May 5. Later the dam
gates will be installed and the
lake will be brought to its planned depth and the permanent
shoreline established. During the
interval, more finishing and
beautifying will continue on the
north beach.
The first residence on a waterfront lot at Lake Shamrock is
already under construction with
the footings finished and block
walls being constructed this
week. The home is being built
by Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bradley.
Minimum Tillage Day
Demonstration May 3
The latest techniques in minimum tillage methods for planting corn. New farm machinery
and tips on getting top corn
yields will be a part of a new
kind of field day next month.
At the first State Minimum
Tillage Field Day May 3, plans
have been made to plow, fit the
seed bed, fertilize, apply wee<?
control materials and plant 40
acres of corn in one day.
The.field day is being held at
the farm of Oliver and Robert
Mueller near Britton in Lenawee
county, according to Robert
White, agricultural enginnering
specialist at Michigan State University,  White , is   chairman  oi
the planning committee for the
event. MSU farm crops, soil
science and agricultural engineering departments are co-
sponsoring the event together
with .the cooperative Extension
Service of southeastern Michi
gan.
Demonstrations showing the
latest in fertilizer handling, weed
control, chemical insecticides and
farm machinery are being planned. Farm machinery manufacturers, distributors and dealers
hybrid seed corn firms, chemical
suppliers, fuel* distributor and
others, are all cooperating in the
event, White says.
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