1962-05-17; Clare Sentinel

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Ervin John Miller, 22 formerly
of Harrison was the victim in
a drowning accident near his
home in Kansas City, Mo. Saturday afternoon, May 12. He died
while on a fishing trip with four
others on the Missouri River.
The party of five left Saturday
morning on the fishing trip and
was never heard of again until
search parties organized later
that day recovered the bodies.
Their overturned craft, along
with their automobile and personal belongings were found
where the five left shore.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ellsworth Miller of Harrison.
Mller had lived over 19 years
in the Harrison vicinity, the past
two years he was in Kansas
City.
Besides the parents he is survived by five brothers, Alvin, of
" Erie, Michigan, Dick and George
of Clare, Larry of Kansas City,
Kansa9, Paul of Flint, also five
sisters, Shirley Hicks of Sears,
Elizabeth Varney and Carol Miller, Harrison, Dorothy Croff of
Coleman and Mildred Quinn of
Gladwin.
The body will be at Hall Fune-
ral Home in Gladwin after Wed-
, nesday afternoon' and funeral
services will be held Thursday
afternoon at 4:00 from the Men-
nonite Church northwest of
Gladwin. Burial will be in Cedar
Crest Mennonite cemetery near
Gladwin.
To Decide
Women
Pin Charts
The Champions of the six
leagues in the Clare Woman's
Bowling Association completed
' the first of a two week Roll Off
- Tournament. *** gateway Lanes
May 10th. Using the Peterson
Point scoring system the standings are:
Drewry's Beer, 14 points, 206
pins; Everts Jewelers, 13 points,
46 pins; Coleman Drugs, 13
points, 27 pins; Ashcrafts Market, 11 points, 130 pins; Bordens
11 points, 70 pins, and Clar.j
Furniture 9 points, 214 pins.
High Individual Games: B.
Bauder, 245; J. Willey, 202; N.
Morse, 193; D. Ashcraft, 183; G.
Dedloff, 182.181. High Individual Series: B. Bauder, 598; J.
Willey, 521; G. Dedloff, 510; E.
Bell, 494; N. Morse, 489. High
,   Team Game — Drewrys 839.
These teams will meet again
May 17th at the Clare Alleys to
decide the Championship.
Cash Pledges
Asked For
New Industry
Negotiations for the location
of a new and important industry
in Clare have_arriyed a., a point
this week where-tiie-loeaL-In-
dustrial Development Corpora-
f. tion is subscribing funds for investment in a building facility.
■''Without; naming names", a
member of the IDC told The
Sentinel, "we believe that our
industrial plant prospects is a
very fine one for Clare, and more
than that, the location of this
plant here would work tto a
great advantage for the industry
and its management."
"But at this point more publicity cannot be released pending
more decisions due soon."
Investments from local people
and organizations would be used
to secure a suitable building
known to be available. Subscribers will allow their cash to be
put to use and will be repaid
their principal amount along with
interest. Their bonds would be
secured by a first mortgage on
'■-   the plant facility.
Bringing tfie negotiations tc
their present point of progress
have been many weeks of conference where the industry studied Clare and its resources while
the IDC familarized itself with,
the background and requirements involved in absorbing the
industry into the community.
Any person finding the purchase of interest-bearing bonds
for this purpose attractive is invited to learn how to make a pre-
subscription pledge by contacting any member of the Industrial
, Development   Committee.   They
,,$,   4  are Frank T. LaGoe, James S.
1 Bicknell,  3rd, Harold Sandborn,
C. J. Allen, manager of Con
Burners Power Company, Bernard Wyman, Joseph Johnston
Xiouis Becker, Richard Groves
and Glen Cain.
Retiring teachers were awarded citations
for service by Clare Civitans ai ihe club's
charier night. From left are Mrs, Florence
Kane,   Mrs.    Iva   Strouse,   Mrs.   Mable
Lynch, Dr. Elmer Shurlow making ihe
presentations, Miss Effie Hales, and Mrs.
Irene Clute,
Ready For Piling
With day-by-day progress visable in the job of rebuilding the new dam on Lake Shamrock, Work Superintendent
Don Teitz said Wednesday that the target date for filling
the dike again and finally flooding the lake is two weeks
from now. This fits closely the time estimate given by
project chairman Ken Barnes on May 9,
A crew of as many as seven men are on the work and
to date Tietz has packed supporting stone and gravel under
the washed-out center of the structure and is ready for
steel piling.
The job remains under contract assignment to Richard
Fox and he is reported to have judged that seven days will
be sufficient time for cement curing of the repair concrete.
Since Tietz has had the opportunity to examine the
broken and underwashed construction of the dam, he has
made up his mind that the main damage leading to the
collapse came from leakage from the lake, or upstream side
of the dam. The tube was the first to give way, he said.
The new design will have no tube and in the judgement
of Tietz, "The simpler the dam, the more certain it will be
sound and free of accident."
Rebekah Mother-Daughter
Banquet Served To 100
The Rebekah Mother ant"
Daughter Banquet was held Wednesday evening last week with
nearly one hundred in attendance. Table grace was given by
Mrs. Effie Harvey. The dinner
was in charge of Mrs. Glen Hammond, and her committee and
Oddfellows   assisted  in  serving.
Mrs. James Yeoman was mistress of ceremonies. The wel
come was given by Mrs. Robert
Beemer, noble grand. Cheryl
Schlafley gave the toast to tha
mothers and the toast to the
.laughters was given by Mrs
William Lyness. An original
reading, "Home From School''
was given by Mrs. Albert Seiter.
Special musical program was
presented by Mrs. Robert Greer,
Penny Case, Kathy Owens, Kathy
Ireland, and Mrs. Norell Mahon.
Debbie Greer who was to appear
on the program with her mother
in duet numbers, was ill, and
the girls played piano solos.
Mrs. Earl Hacker, a girl scout
troop leader gave a few remarks,
and sincere thanks was expressed to her and her troop for the
lovely hat pincushions made by
the girls for the favors.
Mrs. Ed. Schlafley, Sr. presented the awards of the evening.
Mrs. Minnie Wilkie and Mrs. Effie Harvey were honored as the
oldest   mothers    present;    Mrs.
,IC^MlM&Ii
rncnn
Carl Strouse, was the youngest
mother, and her fourteen month-
old daughter was the youngest.
Mrs. Rex Morse, and Mrs. Gilbert
Waddington Jr., were honored
by having five daughters present.
Mrs. Wilkie also was honored
having four generations present.
Mrs. GJliver Nash of Midland
came the farthest distance.
Special introductions included
Mrs. William Schlafley, a member of the Community Service
Committee, of the Rebekah Assembly of Michigan, Mrs. Carl
Seiter, president of District 20,
Rebekah Association, and Mrs.
James Irwin, an officer in the
Department of Michigan Patriarch Militant Auxiliary.
Ruth League
Needs Help
A last effort to find enough
adult help to supervise the Clare
Babe Ruth League for boys baseball will be made at a meeting
next Wednesday, May 23 at the
high school at 8 p.m. A recreation program for about 60 boys
is in the balance according to Ky
Coveart, sec.-treas. of the last
years organization.
Developers
Renew
Protests
A meeting attended by more
than 40 land developers and supporters of their Clare county organization of Developers and
businessmen was held Thursday
evening of last week in the Harrison Community School for the
purpose of continued discussion
and study of the proposed minimum building restrictions anc"
land platting.
An ordinance to provide for
such controls is on the agenda
for county supervisors and
action will probably come in an
extra session scheduled for Friday this week.
An invitation to supervisors
members of the 11-man Ci§re
County Planning Commission,
the Plat Review Board and other
interested officials went unheeded as no representative of any of
the various boards and commissions showed up in the meeting.
The thread of discussion
among developers and. businessmen who are particularly sympathetic to the fight against restrictions of any kind showed
some marked separations of individual feeling regarding the
proposed ordinance. A clear majority of those present continued
to stand firm in their opposition
to restrictions on developers.
But a calming attitude of
assurance among others was
voiced by C. E. Wood of Harrison, an important operator in
the land development and building industry. He told the assembly that while a few others had
halted construction operations,
he was going ahead with full
crews and had no fear that
reasonable minimum standards
would harm his business.
Wood constructs and sells a
year-round home with a price
under $2,000 excellently suited
to residential areas, or to rssort
lots. He said that floor area is
close to 770 feet in his more popular design. A suggested minimum area of 720" feet in a now-
abandoned code was thought to
be too high and planners afterward heard alternate,suggestions
of from 400 feet to 500 feet.
In a business meeting that followed the discussion of the evening, Association President Lee
Swallow and. Secretary-Treasurer
Francis McKenna signed new
members of the organization and
heard motions to pay several
bills.
The members are continuing a
mail campaign of resistance to
the ordinance, and agreed to attend the Friday session of supervisors' to protest any action ;o
restrict their industry.
President Lee Swallow (I.) of the Clar© County Developers
and Businessmen's Asi.it. enrolled mafif new members at
a meeting Thursday ©vetting last wee), in the Harrison
school gym. The group is fighting a county code for
building and plaiting re. ijr. eiions, Sentinel photo.
A Michigan Week sensation
was announced 'this week by
Donald E, Holbrook, Jr., regional
chairman and Richard Alexander,
Clare county chairman after it
was confirmed that an international visitor from County
Clare, Ireland would be here for
the annual celebration May 20
through 26,
Dermot Phonan, member ol
the County Clare Council, and
chairman of the Ehni's Urban
(city governing body of Ennis,
the county seat), is to be
brought to Clare county, Michigan by Chambers of Cbmmerce
in Clare, Harrison, Lake and Far-
well.
The idea originated with Holbrook is regarded as a "natural"
in bringing Michigan Week's
purpose to national and international prominance with the
visit to the Clare county of an
important man from the Irish
county of the same name.
First attempts to arrange the
visit failed several weeks ago because of busy schedules facing
two  other men invited.
Welcomers here knqw that
Phonan will leave Shannon Airport, Ireland, early today and arrive at Metropolitan Airport, Detroit at 10 o'clock tonight.
Meeting him will be Holb'rook,
Alexander and others from Clare
along with Edward George, vice
president of Detroit Edison, Detroit, the state chairman for
Michigan  Week.
A round of constant entertainment and appearances for Phonan will begin with tours tomor-
row of the Ford industrial plants
at Dearborn, the Greenfield Village and museum, and a banquet
tomorrow evening at the Fort
Shelby hotel where he will rr\e_et
the mayors of Detroit and^Wind-
sbr, Ontario.
Saturday, * the HiSh gUest .vill
arrive in Clare where the Doherty hotel is to be his headquarters.
He will attend Clare Citizen of
The Year awards banquet and
public observance of Government
Day on Monday, and plan daylong visits during the week to
Harrison, Farwell, and to Lake
for appearances in those Clare
'county   communities.
In Clare county the visitor is
ours for the entire week.
Ticket requests for public
affairs where Phonan will
appear are expected to zoom and
the. entire local observance of
the annual week has taken new
life and interest for the public.
Clare county Michigan Week
leaders give generous credits to
the Doherty hotel for special
rates on accomodations, to Dan
McDonald Ford Sales for the
loan of a new car for the guest's
convenience, to the Central Trav
el Agency, Alma, Michigan for
special arrangements to get Phonan here, and to Michigan Senator Phil Hart for working
through the Irish Embassy in
Washington to obtain a public
figure for the visit.
School Buys
Four Buses
The Clare School Board Monday awarded contracts for the
purchase of four new school
buses to McGuire Brothers for
Chevrolet chassis and Bluebird
66-passenger  bodies.
The deal involving cost of
$22,268. and trade-in of two older buses amounted to about $600.
per unit less than was required
to bjiy buses last year.
In other action, the Board received petitions qualifying Frank
T. LaGoe, incumbent and Mrs.
Wilbur Weldon of rural Clare as
candidates for a lone vacancy
on the Board. The election will
be held on June 13.
Driver education for patrons
of the district has been extended
to a double program for the
coming summer. A special reading program that formerly took
Clare students to Mt. Pleasant
is to be initiated in Clare with
Mrs. Leota VanEvery as director.
The final step to obtain funds
voted for the building and remodeling program is slated for
Monday when the Board president, Lionel Duncan and secretary, Mrs. Bernice Johnson will
go to Detroit to sign bonds and
bring back the draft for the
amount borrowed.
Announce Kiwanis Sale Project
The Kiwanis Club of Clare, to^
help raise money for community'
projects, is holding" a White Elephant Sale and Bake Sale starting 3:00 p.m. May 25 and ending
at 5:00 p.m. May 26. The sale
is to be held in Witbeck's old
parking  lot  next to  the  Clare
New Honor
Members of the Fourth District of .State Association oi
County Supervisors Thursday
elected James Walsh of Vernon
township their president. Walsh
is a veteran of many years of
work in Isabella county political
endeavor
Cleaners in Clare. The Bake Sale
to be put on by the Kiwanis
wives, will start at 9:00 a.m. on
Saturday morning May 26,
Jim ' Sykora, well known Ki
wanian and auctioneer, wiT
auction off a quantity of furniture and other valuable merchandise at 7:30 p.m. on Friday,
May 25.
A secondhand car will be given
away on Saturday_ at 5:00 p.m,
This sale has been very successful in the past with much
good merchandise contributed
by the community. Any person
wishing- to contribute merchandise td this sale may call EV 6-
7829 or feV 6-7605 and the articles
will be picked up.     "
Mrs. Virginia Richardson, (right). Clare public librarian,
is pictured with Miss Jean Johnson, state library consultant, during a recent visit to the 'State Library in
Lansing to select 1,000 new books being loaned to the
Clax© public library for *two years.
Civitans
Awards Go
To Teachers
The Clare Civitan Club observed their 2nd Annual Charter
Night at Barnes Town &
Country Lounge on Saturday,
May 12.
Cal Foss, president, gave the
opening address and the invocation was given by Robert Greer.
After .an enjoyable dinner Jim
Cook, vice president, introduced
Don White, president . of Mt.
Pleasant Civitan Club, and his
wife, Dr. and Mrs. Howard
Jacobi and Adolph Preside Dr.
Jacobi, Civitan's Lt. Governor of
the Great Lakes District, commented on the achievements of
Clare Civitan Club during the
past year.
Jim Cook.called upon Dr. Elmer Shurlow to make the presentation of Outstanding Citizenship
Awards to the following teachers who. are retiring from the
teaching profession at the end of
this school year:
Mrs. Irene Clute completing
her 23rd year, Mrs. Mabel Lynch
her 26th year, Mrs. Florence
Kane her 32nd year.
Mrs. Iva Strouse her 37th year
and Miss Effie Hales her 52nd
year.
Each teacher was presented
with a plaque and a necklace
with a medallion of the Lamp of
Knowledge.
Dr. Shurlow expressed the
thoughts of all . the members
when he stated that no one person contributes more than our
teachers to molding ou;r children
:o be good citizens and a credit
to any community.
Mrs. Clute was accompanied
by, Mrs. .Giebel; Mrs- Lynch by
her husband; . Mrs. Strouse by
her daughter Mrs. Schunk, and
Miss Hales "by her sister Myra.
Adolph Presidio was in. charge
of the entertainment .and his impersonation of, "Luigi" of radio
fame' a few years back was enjoyed by all. .
A very enjoyable evening of
dancing followed.
Little-Boys
Baseball
J
"Little feoys'* baseball for Ut>
tie League-age players will start
the 1962 season Sunday with a
triple;header. Meeting, on the
opening card are* Rams ,vs*
Tigers, Sears vs. dolts, and Cubs
vs. Lions.
Planners To
Ask Minimum
Standards
A final draft of procedures and
standards for plats and subdivision in Clare county is ready for
recommended passing by the
Board of Supervisors at an extra
session tomorrow afternoon. In
it are minimum requirements
for health and property value
protection for all residents in
county areas outside of cities and
incorporated  villages.
It provides that lots shall be
at least 60 feet wide at a building
site and contain 7200 square feet,
and forbids the splitting of lots
except to make portions of split
lots a permanent part of other
60-foot sites.
More standards lay provisions
for safe water supply, roads con
forming to County Road Commission specifications, elevations
and fill.
In the standards, procedures
for obtaining plat approval and
other registrations are considerably less than an earlier ordinance proposed by the County
Planning Board, but discarded as
too unacceptable to developers.
Land developers, led by promoters of some northern-county
tracts have opposed restrictions
of any kind whatsoever.
In other Michigan Week developments Clare county's Dairy
Princess, Margaret Myers of
Gladwin will be a contestant for
the title Michigan Dairy Princess
in judging May 25 and 26 at Kel-
log Center, East Lansing. Eighty
three princesses will wear their
county's colors in the selection
ceremonies.
Clare Mayor Pro-tem David
Donovan will visit. Wolverine
Lake Monday on the mayor exchange program while Wolverine
Lake Mayor Oscar Fritz is in
Clare. Members of Clare's Industrial Development Corporation will trade towns with their
Continued on Page 6
lare Library
Getting 1,000
New Books
Approximately 1,100 new books
will soon be added to the collection of the Clare public library as
a result of a recent visit (April
26) to the State Library in Lansing by Clare public library rep-1
resentatives, according to Miss
Genevieve M. Casey, state librarian.
Mrs. Virginia Richardson
Clare librarian and Mrs. Robert
Pinaire, president of the Clare
Library Board, met with Miss
Elsa Strubble, Mt. Pleasant librarian, and Miss Jean Johnson,
state library consultant, to select
new books being loaned by the
State Library to bolster the collection of the Clare library. Increased demands lor books are
expected when the Clare public
library moves into new quarters
this summer.
The new books, on loan for
two years, are part of a cooperative program being developed
between Clare and Isabella
counties. Included are adult,
young adult and juvenile collections, reference materials and
current fiction and non-fiction
for all ages.
The large book loan is another
in the State Library's public library development program tc
extend and improve library serv*
ices throughout the state. At
present, about 100,000 books are
on loan to public libraries in 51
counties in Michigan.
Romney In
Clare Sat.
George Romney, Republican
candidate for the gubernatorial
nomination plans to he in Clare
on Saturday this week to meet
iocal citizens and confer with
local party leaders and the press.
Planning a two-hour stay in
Clare on his way to Gladwin,
Romney will huddle with District
Senator Harold B. Hughes, Representative Russell Strange, and
Clare County GOP Chairman
Mrs. Sarah Schaeffer. A press
conference at the Doherty hotel
will introduce Romney to county
editors and radio representatives.
"Pattern Of Living" Theme
At Mother-Daughter Affair
Two hundred and two mothers
and daughters were served a delicious turkey dinner Tuesday
evening at their annual banquet
in the social parlors of the Clare
Methodist Church.'The Wesley's
Table Grace was sung.    -
Programs featured pattern envelopes with Bible readings for
the pattern of living, designated
by the materials, notions needed
and the measurements. During
the dinner, musical patterns
were presented, by Roxanne
House, and Angela Seiter. Mrs.
Walter Eroh led group singing,
with Mrs. Norell Mahon at the
piano.
For the program in the sanctuary, the setting was around
"Musings of a Sewing Basket",
written by Mrs. Donald Holbrook
Sr., and narrated for the program by Mrs, Lester Cotton.
This' concerned the life of Susannah Wesley, mother of John
and Charles Wesley, famous in
Methodism,
The Welcome was given by
Mrs. James Yeoman, president of
the Woman's Society of Christ
ian Service, and she introduced
Mrs. Clayton Neff, seamstress
for the program. The toast to the
daughters was given. by Mrs.
Homer O'Dell, and Judy- O'Dell
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Honored For
Safe Driving
Fourteen Clare Postoffice env
ployees met at Point Clare,
Thursday evening, May 10 for a
get-together, and to honor three
rural carriers.
Receiving six year safe driving awards were Al Holbrook,
Harley Sowle and Stan Parish.
A discussion On Postoffice problems was followed by a showing
of the film, "The Sportsman and
The Farmer".