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ENTINEL
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Established 1878
THE CLARE SENTINEL, CLARE, MICHIGAN
Clare Needs Better
Law Enforcement
Increasing public criticism of Clare's Police Department can stand close examination to determine how much
of it is deserved, — how much involves public dissatisfaction that is impossible to eliminate under present Department organization — and how much is constructive observation that is aimed solely at bettering law enforcement
efficiency.
Recent unsolved burglaries in Clare and floods of
citizen demands for better policing of misbehaving youths
have created an image of the City Police Depatment as
one unable to cope with serious offenses, and slow in
answering complaints of less urgent nature.
Records of the Department itself would show that not
all crimes go unsolved, and that many complaints prove
to be only 'gripes" when actual complaints are never made
to the police.
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But the Department cannot dwell on satisfaction with
past solutions of lawbreaking incidents. And overwhelming public response to this Sentinel series of police problem articles that a delinquency problem has already
been allowed to grow too far.
Heard often are criticisms that Clare's police service
costs too much considering what service is given; there is
an obvious lack of close co-operation between the Clare
Police Department and the county sheriff; Clare police
protest at "overwork" when they are in reality spreading
their efforts too thin by assuming unnecessary details outside their most important work.
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To answer some questions and to form an opinion on
how valid are the criticisms, The Sentinel has prepared a
fact-summary to compare police costs and operation in
several Michigan towns. In a three-part series beginning
here, the articles will describe other police departments'
use of.sheriff facilities, savings.of as much as $18,316.00 as
compared between Clare police costs and those in similar
towns elsewhere, a lowering of delinquency and crime
complaints in other cities with the same size police departments.
Clare Police Chief William Bell has already answered
some of his critics when they say that officers do not
follow with action on misdemeanors.
He told The iSentinel that citizens are seldom willing
to sign formal complaints and police cannot act without
them. He has a complaint of his own, and it is that people
find fault to each other, or in public when they are dissatisfied with police action. They should be bringing their
advice or fault-finding to us, he thinks.
And along this line, he is sure that many complaints
about misdemeanors never find their way to his Department at alWhu. people imagine that pciice should put
a stop to misbehavior which has never been brought to
their attention.
In more serious violations, however, there doesn't
seem to be a ready explanation for the inability of Clare
police to make progress on solving two burglaries in
downtown Clare.
The owner of one business place where thieves made
off with merchandise valued at several hundred dollars
when they entered the place at night said that police
have reported no headway in , their investigation after
four weeks. To his knowledge State Police were never
notified of the need for assistance in the investigation.
Stolen cash was never recovered from another break-
in burglary although Clare police told the store owner
that they had a "suspect" but were Waiting for evidence
to make questioning possible.
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In the meantime, too many minor complaints and
time-consuming attention to details of routine prevent
officers from giving attention to heftier police service. In
short, the obscure kind of occupation that never reaches
public notice is preventing law-enforcement efficiency
that would draw praise.
$100. REWARD
To help speed the Solution of a burglary on June 28, 1963,
and to punish the offenders, and to help prevent the repetition of like crimes —
THE OLAKE SENTINEL will pay $100. in cash for reliable information leading to the arrest and conviction of the
person, or persons responsible for the unlawful esfering" 61
the Household Appliances, .Inc. store in Clare and theft of a
number of transistor radios from the stock there. Time of the
burglary was late in the evening of June 27, or in the early
hours of June 28, 1963.
Fair Plans Ready
In Isabella County
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The 1962 Isabella County fair
books are now being sent to 4-H
families, advertisers, and others
on request to set the stage for
this year's fair. The center section of the book has the complete
program listed for the week.
Amusement line-ups for the
midway indlude Jimmy Martin
and the Sunny Mountain Boys,
Monk Watson and the Banjo
Tainers on Saturday afternoon
and evening, the All Star Talent
Review on Tuesday and Wednesday, and many other events.
The usual 4-H activities will
, t be held throughout the week
ft'd . with the sale of livestock on Fri<
day evening providing one of the
climaxes to the week-long celebration, Other events 6f interest
to all include the tractor pulling
contest, horse' pulling contest to
front of the grandstand, ant the
"Heart of Michigan Holstein
Sale", scheduled for the last day
of the fair,
Organizations are busy making
plans to enter education booths
at the fair which will be on display under the grandstand. Farm
Bureau and Grange groups that
are planning exhibits are:
County Farm Bureau Women's
group and the Farm Bureau of
Shepherd, Home Economics Extension groups that will be hav-
exhibits ate: < Busy, Central
Country Rosettes, East Lincoln,
Gulick, Ideas Club, Lincoln Cent
er, Modern Mrs., Newton, North
Vernon, and Think and Do. The
Green Thumb Garden Club Oi
Mt. Pleasant will be putting up
an educational booth, also,
Coleman Tot
Drowns Near
Rosebush
Eighteen-month-old Kevin Monroe, son of Mr, and Mrs. Robert
Monroe, Coleman RD 1, drowned
yesterday in a watering trough
on his grandparents' farm 5%
miles noreast of Rosebush.
Kevin and his parents were
visiting his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Allan Bullard. He was
missed, a search was started and
the boy was found in the watering trough,
THIS 15 SAFETY WEEK
Farm Safety
Aims To Halt
Toll Of Lives
One death every 47 minutes. A
disabling injury every 33
seconds. That's what happens
every day on the nation's farms.
All of Michigan's rural families should give special attention
to safety during National Farm
Safety Week July 22-28. The
theme this year is, "Family Safety .. . At Work and Play".
These dates have been set
aside for the 19th annual safety
week. The week places emphasis
on the year-around farm acci
dent prevention program sponsored by the National Safety
Council ahd the U.S.D.A. Most
of the leading farm organizations also add their endorsement
to the special event.
Farmers and rural people need
to be alerted to the many haz-
zards they face every day. 'We
must continually stress the importance of safety at work, at
play and in the home", says Dr.
N. P. Ralston, director of the
Michigan State University Cooperative Extension Service, a key
agency in safety education.
Ralston points out that the
youth of the state need to be
made more aware of the alarming rate of fatal farm accidents
which occur on roads and highways each year.
Safety specialists point out
that 4-H, FFA and other youth
safety programs are really paying off. Michigan men .between
the ages of 20 and 24 have only
half as many fatal tractor accidents as men between the ages
of 35 and 39.
But there still is room for improvement. Three out of four
people who lost their lives on
the nation's highways in 1961
died on rural roads. More than
2,600 farm people lost their lives
in their own homes last year.
Farm accidents and fires cost
rural families about one-seventh
of their total net incomes each
year. Lightning . . . the number
one cause of fire losses on Michigan farms . . . has destroyed
buildings valued at more than
$3 million during the past five
years. Over 400 persons are killed and another 1,000 injured by
lightning each year in the
United  States.
The farm safety picture is improving . . . thanks to the ef
forts of education. Fatal farm
mishaps have declined one-fourth
since 1955, while farm production has continued to climb during the same period. The number
of fatalities per 1,000 farm workers dropped 15 per cent during
that time.
Farm Safety Week is a good
time for all rural families to
take added safety precautions
and make new resolutions for
the coming year.
Coming For
Conference
The Doherty hotel in Clare vifill
be the scene of a Political Issues
Conference on Friday, July 27th.
A public meeting featuring a discussion by Nell Stabler, Democrat candidate for Congressman
-at-large, will be held in the hotel
Wedgewood Room at 8:00 p.m.
Stabler has lectured on "practical politics" at the University of
Massachusetts, served as Mich
igan Democratic Chairman, and
as National Committeeman from
Michigan.
Other Democrat candidates
from the central Michigan area
will also be present.
Waiting
Confirmation
Laurence W. Jackson, Jr., act-
ing postmaster in Clare received
word yesterday that his nomina*
tion to the permanent postmast-
ership had been given to the
United States Senate for confirmation,
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THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1962
New Series,      Vol, 70, No. 46
One-Man Show Featuring
GraceMc Arthur's Work
Grace McArthur, of Rosebush,
is holding a one-man art show
for the next three weeks in the
Fleming Studio and Gift Shop
located at 208 p. Broadway, Mt.
Pleasant.
Mrs. McArthur will feature
many of her works of art, which
have been done in the past few
years. She is known for her
paintings which have appeared
on cards, with then' intricate,
true to life figures and landscapes.
Mrs, McArthur and Virgini.
Seitz, Clare art instructor and
dealer, are both showing paintings at the tenth annual Michi-
Hicks Firm
Gets Road
Contract
State Highway Department
officials this week announced
that the Hicks Company of Alma
received the contract for pav
ing 10.3 miles of state road surface in Clare county.
Included are the following
places:
One mile on Bailey Lake Ave.
seven miles east of Harrison;
two miles on Bailey Lake Ave. 11
miles northeast of Clare; 2.1
miles on Tobacco Drive sever
miles northeast of Clare; one
mile on Rogers Rd. seven miles
northeast of Clare. One and four-
tenths miles on Hoover Rd. eight
miles east of Harrison; one-half
mile on Bailey Ave. eight miles
north of Harrison; one mile on
Maple Rd. one mile east of Far-
well, and 1.1 miles on Norway
Ave. three miles southwest'] ol
Lake George.
Completion date is November
15, 1962.
A recent throat disorder
caused Clare County Prosecutor Jim Bicknell to lose his
voice for a few days. His
friends were thoughtful
enough to offer an idea for a
lapel tag to be lettered, "Please
don't discuss controversial issues in my hearing until I'm
able   to   speak   my   two-bits
worth out loud."
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More in the disability notes
concerns the broken right hand
of Legislative representative
Strange. The campaign handshaker was still in a bandage
the last time we looked.
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Don Luce' has declined a
radio appearance to air his
views on questions likely to
come before the Legislature.
Reason: he learned from Richard Nixon that even the best
thoughts sometimes sound
sour if spoken over the air
waves by an unskilled "mike"
voice.
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A  Sentinel reader  in Livonia
has been reading the classified
ads  with a vie"w  of  finding -a
house in Clare and living here,
Mr. George A. Draper wrote us
this week with a mild complaint
about homes advertised without
the price, ", . . it would be good
if we could see the price of different listings  quoted with the
ad." He composed the following
verse to make his point:
It's a home we want,
And  a home we'll buy.
To find this home
We will earnestly try.
We look at ads from here and
there,
And reading the ads We wonder
why
The seller did not
To his ad a price apply!
gan Regional Art Exhibition at
the University of Michigan. The
display starts on Thursday, July
36 and will through August 9.
j The exhibition in Rackham
galleries will include 126 paint-
ihgs from Michigan painters,
many of them award winners in
local and regional shows.
Mrs. Seitz will show her painting entitled, "Still Life With
Pear", and Mrs. McArthur will
display her "My Obit",
Seiters
Awarded
School Job
The announcement was made
last week at Clare Public
Schools, that Seiter Brothers had
been awarded the general contract for building additions to,
and remodeling Clare school
buildings. The $275,000. program
includes the construction of new
Classrooms needed, and fire-
safety modernization of the existing Elementary classroom building.
A slight delay in making the
bidding results known was
eaused by details -which had to
be worked out between Seiters,
the general contracting firm, and
other contractors who won the
mechanical and electrical work
orders.
The expansion and improvement of the Clare school was assured last January 27 when a
bondjng, issue was passed at a
school district election. But delays plagued the project when
first bids were opened and it
was found that specifications in
the proposed structure forced
bidders' priced above the amount
authorized by the election. A second advertisement for bids was
held after the specifications were
revised.
Besides Seiters, other firms on
the project are:
Mechanical contractor - Defining Plumbing and Heating ol
Cadillac.
Electrical contractor - Holp
Electric of Mt. Pleasant.
Fire safety remodeling contractor - Corbitt and Greenwald
of Mt. Pleasant.
Work on the fire safety remodeling has been underway
during the past month and will
be completed before school opens
in September.
The work on the ten room addition to the secondary school,
the music addition, and the high
school shop will begin Monday,
July 23rd. Completion date for
the entire project is January 1,
1963.
Caution On
Mail Order
Nurse School
The Michigan State Board of
Nursing, the Superintendent of
Public Instruction, and the
Attorney General issued a joint
statement today cautioning Michigan citizens against mail order
nurses' training courses offered
by Nurses Training Schools, Inc..
a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
corporation now soliciting Michigan residents.
This mail order training program is not accepted by . the
Michigan Board of Nursing as
qualification for licensing; it is
not approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction of
Michigan for license of solicitors
under the Private Trade School
Law; its activities in Michigan
are in violation of the laws of
this state,
Representations being made by
the school that legal qualifying,
demands of the state have been
met and that graduates of the
course can be employed .as,,
nurses in Michigan are false,
Meeting
The Thursday afternoon Ladies
Bowling League will hold an
open meeting Tuesday, July 31
at 1:00 p.m. at Gateway Lanes to
open its 1962-63 season. All interested bowlers from last year,
as well as women who would like
to start bowling, are invited to
attend this meeting. Substitutes
will also be needed.
'62 Fair
Opening
With the opening of the Clare
County Free Fair just three days
off, fair time excitement, im
provements on the grounds, and
a great program await the first
visitors on Monday.
The gates will open on the
biggest "little" fair in this part
of the state and the show is to
run for six days and nights.
The harness racing program
this year has been expanded to
a five-day meet. Extra attrac
tion of the richer purses totaling $21,000.00 has brought the
largest field of trotters and pacers ever to visit the track at Harrison.
Barns and stall accomodations
at the fairgrounds began to fill
as long ago as the second week
in July. The early fair dates
eliminated schedule conflicts that
divide the best horses among
many tracks later in the season.
Grandstand shows, a special
Dressage Horse performance
4-H club and youth events will
provide continuous free entertainment.
County youngsters are expected to swarm to the fairgrounds
for the annual free drawing for
bicycles. Four will be given
away.
A giant midway will provide
fun, thrills, lights and plenty of
food on the grounds. Fireworks
will entertain the crowds each
night-
Repeat of another crowd-pleas-
er, the auto thrill show featuring
the Hell Drivers is on the program.
Farm Management Tour
Rain or Shine -August 1
Rain or shine, the State Farm
Management Tour will be held
on the Simons Bros, and Lake
Bros, farms, two miles east of
North Branch }n Lapeer county
on Wednesday, August 1, Directions and a map, showing how to
get to the spot are on page 10 of
this issue of The Sentinel.
Mechanized livestock feeding
featuring beef and swine at the
Simmons farm and dairy cattle
at the Lake farm, will show how
Michigan family farms are making efficient use of increasing
corn yields.
Parking facilities for 2,000
people have been arranged by
Robert Lincoln, Lapeer County
Extension Director and his committees of local farmer's.
Tractors, with wagons attached, will be waiting at the parking
lot to take those who arrive before 10 a.m. to the Simmons
Bros, swine operation. Here Jack
and Bill Simmons have remodeled two old barns into farrowing
and finishing facilities to handle
600 to 700 market hogs annually.
Hold Boys
In Theft Of
Gasoline
Arrest Qf seven boys and
young men last week while they
were siphoning gas out of auto
and truck tanks, pinched off
their activities and also the only
apparent source of gas for an
auto trip for four of them.
Clare Police Chief said thai
four youths, one a minor, were
surprised Thursday night by two
of his officers while they were
"fooling around" the tanks on a
truck parked near the east edg(j
of town.
One of the youths tried to run,
but officers caught him and he
showed them hoses and empty
containers in the group's car. All
were from Detroit.
Earlier the. same day police
arrested three "other youths** for
questioning about gas stolen
from cars parked near the Johnston Elevator.'
Four Authors And Artists
Counted At Welty Reunion
A talented family including
four authors and an artist were
in the group at Lake George last
week for the reunion of six Welty brothers and sisters, together
for the first time in 17 years.
They were Rev. Ivan R. Welty
and his wife, Annabelle Noss
Welty of Boothbay Harbor
Maine; Prof. (Joel) Carl Welty
of Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, and his wife Susan Fulton
Welty; and Mrs. Norman (Mag-
dalena Welty) Tolson of Lake
George. Miss Viola Welty, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, formerly of
the Y.M.C.A. staff there, but now
retired; Mr. and Mrs. Harry W.
Welty of Lakewood, Qhio, where
Mr. Welty is a consultant for the
Braden-Sutphin Ink Company;
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Welty, formerly of Kalamazoo, Michigan,
where Mr. Welty was the longtime head of the Kalamazoo
Y.M.C.A. before his recent retirement; and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Welty and their two children
of Lakewood, Ohio.
The Harry Weltys have lately
built a new summer home on
Lake George, the Paul Weltys
have lately built a new summer
home on Lake George; the Paul
Weltys are at present remodeling
a cottage for summer use, and
Miss Viola Welty has been a summer resident on the lake for
some years, while Mrs. Tolson's
permanent home is near Lake
George.
Rev. Ivan Welty was the guest
preacher at the Lake George
Community Church on Sunday
morning, and all his five brothers and sisters attended the
service. Rev, Welty is the author
of -two books of story sermons
for     children,     "Sir    Gregory';
Former State
Senator Dies
Former State Senator Ben
Carpenter, 77, of Harrison died
Monday at his home after an
light year illness.
Carpenter, who operated a real
estate business after leaving the
Legislature, had served in the
Senate a number of non-consecU-
tfve terms.
He was a native of Hart wick
Township in Osceola County and
is survived by his wife and four
sons.
Lamp" and "Through All the
Seasons", and he' and his wife
have collaborated for more than
two decades on religious material
used in the nationally known D.
C. Cook publications. Mrs. Carl
Welty is the author of an adventure book for boys, "Knight's
Ransom", and a biography oJ
Maud Ballington Booth, great
American social service pioneer
and prison reformer, "Look Up
and Hope", published last year.
Prof. Carl Weltv 'is the author of
a book on bird biology to be
issued in August, "The Life of
Birds", especially interesting to
local residents because the late
Norman Tolson' of Lake George,
assisted by Mrs. Tolson, was the
illustrator.
Season Ends
With Bears
Undefeated
A Little Boys League baseball
game Thursday of last week between the Colts and Tigers was
the finale of the regjilar season,
and tabbed by the officials and
spectators as probably the best
game of the entire schedule. The
Colts won 1-0 to protect their tie
for third  place.
A tight pitcher's duel, the
game saw just 4 hits by both
sides. David West hurled the entire game for the Colts and allowed only one hit, a single by
Tom Baumgarth in the last
inning.      • ,
Dave Genow, pitching for the
Tigers gave up only three safe
hits and struck out 14. Each
pitcher faced only 21 batters.
End-of-seaSon standings are:
Won
Bears 15
Lions 8
Rams .7
' COlts 7
Cubs 5
Tigers 3
In other games during the
final week of the season:
July 16. Lions overpowered the
Colts 9-4.
July 17. Bears walloped the
Lions 15-0. Steve Blystone allowed only 3 hits,
July 18. Cubs squeaked out a
close yietory over the Rams, 9-8.
From the swine farm, wagons
will return the visitors to the
Simmons beef fe.edlot which has
been expanded to handle 400-425
steers. Fence-line bunk feeding
will be demonstrated at this
stop.
After hearing from Jack and
Bill Simmons, visitors will walk
a quarter mile down highway
M-9Q to the Glen Lake farmyard
for lunch and a noon program,
Lunch will be served by Home
Economics Extension groups and
4-H Clubs in Lapeer county.
The noon session will be held
on the Glen Lake lawn with Paul
C. Johnson, editor of Prairie
Farmer, Chicago, Illinois, speak'
ing on "Looking Ahead at Farming — an Editor's Viewpoint",
The after-lunch schedule calls
for viewing the Lakes' heifer
raising unit, which is highly
mechanized. All herd replacements come from their own heifers. They now raise their bull
calves as steers for beef.
Demonstration plots showing
use of fertilizer and weed killers
on corn at different plant population will be viewed enroute to the
Lake milking operation. Here 100
Holsteins are mechanically fe(.
silage in dry-lot and milked in an
8-stall side-opening parlor. Pipelines carry the milk to a 600-gal-
lon bulk tank.
Dr. Larry L. Boger, chairman
of the MSU Department of Agricultural Economics will summarize the tour.
A late-scheduled finale will.be
a demonstration of airplane seeding of rye in corn on the Lake
farm. An Imlay City firm will
stage the demonstration.
L. H, (Hi) Brown, Everett M.
Elwood and Leonard Kyle, MSU
agricultural economists', along
with the Lapeer County Extension staff, are in charge of the
program. Other MSU and county
Extension staff members have
cooperated in developing the program for the 14th annual state
tour.
Nabs Suspect
On The Spot
Distinctive tire marks at the
scene of a break-in led to the
arrest of Andrew James Hoag,
of Harrison iRD 1.
Hoag is being held at the
Clare County Jail on charges of
breakirig and entering in the
nighttime. He was nabbed by
Clare County Sheriff James Darling and State Police Trooper
Wilber Bond.
The officers had gone to the
Harry Randall home, Harrison
RD 1, to investigate the breaking
and entering of a tool shed.
While there they noticed the distinctive tire marks. As they inquired around the area, a car
passed them making the same
tread marks. They followed it
to Hoag's home. After questioning he admitted the break-in.
Deaths
Funeral services were held on
Thursday of last week for Lloyd
E. Conley,' of Rogers City, who
passed away at his home at the
age of 64. All arrangements were
taken care of in Rogers City.
Survivors include his son,
Lloyd, Jr., of Clare, his wife
three other sons), three daughters, one sister, and 27 grandchildren.
Funeral services for George A.
Brown, 77, retired railroad employe who died unexpectedly
Monday in Cadillac, will be at 2
p.m. today in the Coker Funeral
Home of Farwell. He is survived by four sons and four daught- ,
ers, Ivan, Matthew and Levi, all
of Farwell; Paul of Harrison
Mrs. Bernice Stambaugh of
Howell", Mrs. Frances Hale of
Gladwin, Mrs. Lila LaGrow of
Cadillac and Mrs, Goldie DeCamp
of Clare; 34 grandchildren and
34 great grandchildren. Burial
will be in Gilmore Cemetery.
. Mrs. Gustav Marotzke, 76,
formerly of Ciare died at heir
residence in Sebewaing on July
12 after a lingering illness. Services were held on July 15 with
burial in Sehewairtg. She leaves
her husband Gustav, a former
coal and building supply dealer
in Clare, sons J, C. of Clare and
Kenneth of Sebewaing, twe
daughters and other relatives.
Attending the funeral services
from Clare Were Julius Schaeffer
and Mr, and Mrs, Harold SchaeJt1
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