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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1947
Page
12
Fifth and sixth grade students under Mrs Amble will host an Arbor Day program in the school gym at 1 30 on April 25 with inviting attendance. Afterward children supervised by Mr Morrison will plant trees in the school yard.
Mrs. Sam Morrison and children visited Mrs. Edgar Brady on Sunday. The Yoders and their children called on Mrs. Ralph Carpenter and on Mr. and Mrs. Bob Foster. Mrs. Mae Conrite’s sister, Mrs. Jessie Gleason, improved in Corey Penn while cared for there.
Donna Rogers age eighteen from Clare county is five six and active in skiing but eyeing future office work. Lewis Post from Lima Ohio is seventeen, plans to farm after school, loves baseball and football and talks too much.
Eighth grade students welcome Geraldine Irwin from Flint and report on a hayride to Plez-All for dancing. Achievement Day planned for April 30 in Harrison with several hoping to attend. School ends May 23 for the students, and 4-H projects include sock darning and art articles.
The electric plant of the Queen Elizabeth, the largest ship ever built, provides power for a city of 150,000. It features 650 motors, 30,000 lamps and 4,000 miles of wiring, with motors handling 16-ton anchor lifts and a 140-ton rudder.
Chicago moves toward becoming the nation’s largest work and training shop for the blind with a new two story headquarters doubling space to 45 000 square feet. The Illinois Industries for the Blind reports 80 workers and contracts worth over 750 000 dollars this year. The organization has trained over 800 workers and won awards from the maritime commission for production during war contracts.
Bertram Mills, owner of a London circus, reports six elephants struck by a trunk paralysis mystery. The 18 year old star, Raphol, and five others Manjuli Hunguli Batho Lecine Jennie, received radiotherapy with little relief. Vets dubbed the disease fibrositis and could not determine a cause.
Detroit reports seven common house flies were subjected to an official test using a paint coated box with DDT. The insects, imported from Chicago, spent a night in a downtown hotel before the trial. After cooling period they died, validating the paint for use in dairy barns and creameries.
A seamless plastic glove that makes artificial hands look natural has been developed. The Veterans Administration announced eight clinics now operating in Boston New York Atlanta Cleveland Los Angeles San Francisco Baltimore and Chicago for fittings and repairs of plastic eyes noses ears and hands. Additional clinics will open soon at Memphis Dallas Minneapolis Denver and Portland and at Valley Forge hospital for transfer to VA care.
In Alexandria Louisiana Dr H H Hardy reports the successful removal of an eight inch knife blade from the brain of Clotile McCall The blade broken at the handle was extracted in a delicate operation Penicillin and sodium sulphadiazine were given to prevent meningitis
Child development expert Edna E Walls of the University of Illinois urges patient understanding and timing in guiding a young learner. She notes rapid learning when activities are appropriately paced and made pleasant, with three key donts to avoid coercion, overcoverage, and impatience.
In rug weaving districts of the orient a single dyer handles the yarn for each color. With about a dozen colors, each shade has its own specialist. The dyer's color formulas remain his own secret.
Regular meeting of Harrison Chapter 0.B.8 No. 408 set for Monday April 21 at 8 00 PM hosted by Mrs Martha Sullivan with two tables of bridge Roberta Roth won high second high went to Thora Morrison and traveling to Marie Skinner A luncheon followed. Merrilla Sewing Circle met at Mrs Julia Schaafs home with fourteen ladies present and refreshments served.
Saturday evening Mrs. Gertrude Gardiner and Mrs. Irah Emery hosted a chicken dinner at Gertrude Gardiner's Clare home in honor of Maude Harper's birthday and others celebrated.
Anne Wellington hosted a gathering with guests Bertha Hughes Jessie Gleason Flavia Schaaf and Josephine Henderson. After dinner five tables of bridge were in play with prizes awarded to Flavia Schaaf and Josephine Henderson.
Probate Court of Clare County holds hearing date May 19 1947 at 10 in the forenoon to determine rightful heirs to Lyda D. Bicknell's real estate. Public notice to run in Clare Sentinel weekly for three weeks prior. George Bates Judge of Probate.
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