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Clare Drug Use
Near' Epidemic'
WEDNESDAY^J^OVEMBERJS, 1970
OUR 93rd NEW YEAR SERIES
VOL 79 NO. 11
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By Phil Schneider
Managing Editor
*■ You read about it in the daily
newspapers of the bigger cities
and see news reports of the problems it brings on television. But
you never really thought anything
like that could happen in Clare.
Well, it's here, and it's getting
serious.
New Look
Added
To Sentinel
There's a new look to today's
edition of The Clare Sentinel, and
it's designed with your interest
in mind.
The number of columns have been
reduced from the normal eight
to six columns. The six column
formate provides a more modern
look to The Sentinel and makes
it easier to read. You may have
noticed there are fewer word separations with the use of the wider
columns than with the previously
narrower columns.
Also enclosed with this week's
ediion is a color section of home-
making recipes and hints that will
become a regular monthly feature
of The Sentinel. The supplement
will be centered on timely seasonal
themes with recipes geared to the
seasonal theme.
- To serve our nearly 4,000 readers in 3,800 households, we have
established three more newstands
in the Harrison area. In addition
to newspaper sales stands at Ashcraft Market and Sullivan's 5 to $1
store, copies of The Sentinel can
now be obtained from the IGA Gift
and Foodliner Stores in Harrison
and  the  Harrison  Trading  Post.
What's getting serious is
the amount of drug use and experimentation with drugs in the
Clare area, according to law enforcement officials.
"It has gotten to the point where
we are now averaging as high as
three __ and four arrests a week
for use and possession of mari-
juanna." says Jay Trucks, Clare
County Prosecutor.
The shocking thing is that most
parents and others don't realize
the magnitude of the extent of drug
use  in  the  area,"   Trucks  said.
While the various law enforcement departments arrest an average of three or four for use of
drugs, officials estimate the number of actual users far exceeds
the number of arrests.
"We may talk to one youth
and he indicates that three or four
of his friends also have used
drugs," Trucks said. But nearly
all suspects refuse to identify
where they obtained the drugs or
who sold them the drugs.
"We have a problem, it's there
and we have to recognize it,"
said Clare County Sheriff Raymond D. Lippold, Jr.
"It's not as minor as you would
think," Trucks said. He said
his department has indication that
there is other drug traffic in the
area in addition to the use of mari-
juanna.
"The dangerous and sad part
of the whole thing is the fact
that these kids are paying $5 for
sometmng, suci. as a marijuanna
cigarette, and they really don'r
know wnat they're buying." One
official said.
Last week a 13-year old girl was
committed ■"■__/ •'her parents to the
State Mental Institution at Traverse City because the girl had what
is called among drug users a
"bad trip". She had taken some
kind of drug that had disturbed her
mind beyond awareness for the
time being.
One means local officials have
taken  to  combat drug use in the
area is a counseling session with
parents and suspected youth, whom
officials believe are using drugs.
At a meeting last week with law
officers and medical and clergy
representatives, a group of parents
of 19 youths suspected of using
marijuanna were confronted and
the facts were explained,
Nearly all the parents at the
meeting were surprised that their
children were suspected drug
users. But officials said after
the meeting, most of the parents
indicated they were going to try
to help their children and'help
to solve the problem.
The counseling sessions are
continuing this week, but area
law enforcement officers point out
that more needs to be done in
this area.
"The kids really don't realize
that use of marijuanna brings on
other drug use," one police officer
said.
"They don't realize that those
who are selling the marijuanna
are doing it so they can hook the
kids on harder drugs."
One parent said after the meeting, "I love my daughters and I
like their friends. The law is
losing the battle working alone.
Maybe it can be won working
together.  It's surely worth a try.'
It's not every 12-year old girl that can claim friendship with a justice of the
State Supreme Court, but Tammy Cimmerer is one who can. The daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cimmerer, Tammy met Justice John B. Swainson while he was
a candidate for the position he was elected to last week. After the election,
Tammy wrote Swainson congratulating him, and a few days later Tammy received a thank you from the judge. Now, if he only can take care of that parking
ticket.  (Sentinel Photo)
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City Lowers Garbage Rates,
Endorses School Bond Drive
It appears a workable compromise has been worked out concerning the amount of money the city
will charge next year for city garbage pick-up services.
A new collection system and a
change in rates was approved by
commissioners during their reg
ular meeting Monday
Clare City Hall.
night at the
In other business commissioners decided to conduct a public
hearing in the near future on a
request to install sewer facilities
in the Witbeck subdivision and pas-
For County
Better  Living  Law Sought
After getting off to a shaky start,
slow but sure progress was made
in the preliminary study of the proposed zoning ordinance for Clare
County.
Members of the Clare County
Planning Commission, township
officials and interested citizens
attended a  meeting of the plan
ning commission and voiced their
opinions during a page by page
review of the proposed document.
After nearly two and a half
hours, the commissioners made it
through 15 of the 119 pages in
the proposed county-wide zoning
ordinance that would place county-
wide guidelines on land use in the
future as a means of insuring orderly growth.
Representatives from 10 of Clare
County's 16 townships attended the
meeting which was peppered with
pointed questions aimed at the
planning commission and its members.
R. V. Kamp, Hayes Township
supervisor voiced strong opposition to setting up a county-wide
zoning ordinance if incorporated
villages and cities, such as Clare,
Harrison and Farwell, were not
included under the ordinance.
Hamp also criticized the concept
of dividing the county into land use
district categories, rather than on
a township by township basis. Hamp
contended that if the proposed ordinance was going to affect primarily townships, then "we should
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sed several other routine items of
business.
Acting on a recommendation by
Clare City Manager Glen Cain,
commissioners voted to set a
charge of $24 on the annual service rate for garbage pick-up for
those city residents that subscribe
for the service.
The $24 rate is $12 less than what
commissioners earlier voted to
charge beginning Janury 1, of 1971.
Four weeks • ago commissioners,
with the exception of Bob Walters,
voted to increase the annual charge
to $36 for twice a week residential pick-up. Monday's action reduces the annual charge, but it also
reduces the number of residential
pick-ups from twice a week to
once a week.
The commissioners said this
appeared to be one of the best alternatives to the matter of garbage pickup for city residents in
the face of rising cost to the city
for salaries and equipment.
Unless commissioners change
their mind again, the new rates will
take affect in January. Commercial rates will be considered at a
later date and negotiated on a separate basis with the city depending
on  need  and volume  of rubbish.
All the commissioners, with the
exception of C.J. Allan who was
absent, voted for the new rate
system proposed by Cain.   '"
"The city is a business and must
be run in a business-like manner,"
said Mayor Bill Koch.
In other action commissioners
went on record favoring the proposed $2.2 million bond proposal
being sought by the Clare Public
Schools Board of Education. Commissioners also authorized Cain to
install a three-way stop sign at the
intersection of Schoolcrest and
Ceder Streets.
CP Seeks Area Support
The future of adequate electric
power in the Clare area and for
industry employing Clare area residents hangs in balance in a historic suit to test the present development of nuclear power, includ-
Bazaar Program
Nears Last Week
BOND OWNER—--Helen Morgan (left), administrator of Clare Osteopathic Hospital, presents Donna Lozen with the first bond to be
distributed in the $700,000 fund raising drive for the hospital*
Other persons who made purchases of the bonds may pick them
up at the Hospital* To date nearly half of the goal has been reached
in bond sales, hospital officials report. (Sentinel Photo)
After today there's only one
more week to have a chance of winning a $100 prize in the Bazaar
of Values Program sponsored by
The Clare Sentinel.
Allan D. Jeffery of 11256 Deer
Lake Road became the sixth week
winner in the Bazaar program
and claimed $20 cash prize for
his efforts, this week. The seventh week winner's name will be
drawn this Friday and the grand
prize winner will be selected next
week.
More than 1,500 entry blanks
have been deposited in a special
box in The Sentinel office since
the contest began. The Bazaar
of Values program, sponsored by
The Sentinel in conjunction With 36
participating merchants, is designed to ehcourge area residents
to shop and buy from merchants in
the local trading area.
Merchants participating in the
program include: 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 & MSales, Cerwin's Carpets, Carrow's
Supermarket, Witbeck's Sales
Agency, Gateway Sno-Mo-Rina,
Barb's Children's Shop, Clare H
& S Hardware, Giant Supermarket,
Seebeck's Sport Center, Thayer
Dairy, Akins Piano Service.
More Bazaar of Values participants are: Green's Clothing,
Wilson T.V., Hegel Sports Center, Bolle, Mill End Store, Magnus Farm Machinery, harrison
Trading Post, and Ackerman
Plumbing and Heating.
ing the safety, siting, radiation
standards and licensing procedures of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Area governmental agencies and
business associations that would
be directly affected by a lack of
increased electrical power supplies have been asked to endorse
the idea of constructing the nuclear
generating plant at Midland.
Last week the board of directors
of the Clare Chamber of Commerce
went on record in favor of the construction of the nuclear plant that
Would provide electrical power for
Dow Chemical Company in Midland and the surrounding area. Dow
employs about 400 Clare County
residents.
Members of the Clare County
Board of Commissioners will probably be asked to consider supporting a resolution in favor of the nuclear construction project. The
Saginaw and Midland board of commissioners already have endorsed
the idea.
Seven organizations have filed
petitions to intervene at the construction license hearing of the
Midland twin nuclear reactor facilities. The organizations represent citizen, professional and student groups throughout the country.
A prehearing conference on the
proposal was held Tuesday afternoon at the Grace A. DoW Memorial
Library in Midland.
Consumer'* Powp- '
plied to the AEC for permits to
build its proposed Midland Plant
Units 1 and 2. Th e proposed
dual purpose facility would be
used both for the generation of
electricity and for the generation
of process steam for the Midland
chemical plant complex of the Dow
Chemical Company.
Each unit of the facility is planned to use a pressurized water
reactor. The combined operation
of the proposed two units will produce 1,325,000 net electrical kilowatts of power and 4,050,000
pounds per hour of process steam.
The plant site is located south
of Midland along the south bank of
the Tittabawassee River adjacent
to the Dow Chemical plant complex.
Since no plants of "the size being
proposed for the Midland area
have ever been successfully constructed and operated through a
core change anywhere in the world,
the question of attempting these
experimental procedures within an
urban area is being raised by the
interveners.
The current controversy on the
effectiveness of radiation monitoring procedures and AEC's radiation standards themselves, will
also be a part of the issue*
The petitioners also plan to raise
all of the environmental issues
which are present by virtue of
the Atomic Energy Commissions'
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