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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1963
Page
1
Clare police and State Police fingerprint experts cooperate to identify a robber who broke into the Clare store over the weekend. Detectives report prints and impressions on a mattress and a boarded window, with a small radio possibly missing, and a breached wall exposing the entry point.
Elmer Houghton 48 of Clare dies in Lake Superior while rescuing his daughter during a canoe drift. He was Saline High School principal. Survived by wife two children sister Vivian of Houghton Lake and brother Murl of Clare. Funeral 2:00 p.m. at Bar ger Smith Funeral Home Houghton Lake Heights.
Clare officer Ray Lippold arrested Roger Brooks 22 and Danny Brooks 19 on disorderly conduct charges after a fight with Jerry Russell of Clare. Russell, questioned by Justice William Dunlop, was cleared after officers found he followed the youths suspecting shoplifting from Houghton's Drug Store.
Floyd Norcutt of Clare High School attended the 44th annual state conference for Vo-Ag teachers at Michigan State University from July 22 to 26. Over 200 educators heard Harry Nesman of the Michigan Department of Instruction urge faculty to make the right decisions for adaptations and improvements in agricultural education.
The Clare County Fair held its annual bicycle drawings on Children’s Day in Harrison and Lake. Richard Krchmar of Star Route Harrison won the boys bike and Mary Kimball of Lake R-2 won the girls bike. A third bike remains to be won Saturday in a free ticket drawing as Sherbeck Amusement Co offers reduced midway ride prices for Kiddies’ Day.
The Conservation Department proposes a 60000 deer harvest in northern Michigan during the 1963 firearm season. Action at the Conservation Commission on August 9 will set antlerless totals of about 17000 in the upper peninsula and 43000 in the northern lower peninsula. Buck kill is expected near last year’s level if conditions stay favorable.
Plans take shape for the Isabella County fair from August 20 to 24 at Island Park Mt Pleasant with a Fair Queen contest for the first time. Highlights include professional wrestling a free circus Grand Ole Opry stars and a tug of war final plus horse and tractor pulling shows and a big livestock parade and auction. Local prizes include cash for the queen and court and a crown and scepter for the reigning young lady.
Early fairgoers pack Harrison as the 1963 Clare County Fair launches six days of entertainment. Races run through Saturday with 50 pacers and 100 plus horses entered, and purses reaching $8,000 for Tuesday. Fireworks and Opry stars highlight nightly shows.
The Michigan Highway Department awarded bids for seven overpasses along the US-27 Freeway in Clare and Isabella counties. The Tabor Co. of Grand Rapids will build a $123,215 overpass at Town Line Lake Road north of Harrison, due September 30, 1964. In Isabella County, Tabor Co. and GC E. Atterback won contracts for multiple structures over roads including Isabella, Grass Lake, Beal City, Pleasant Valley, Shepherd and Broomfield, with a total building cost of $810,630 and completion by July 31.
A thrill show crash at Clare County Fair injured seven, mostly children, when a car lost control and struck a crowd at the race track. Victims include Mrs. Freda Kipp with a broken leg and 12-year-old Gregory Miller, with other arm and hand injuries. No fatalities reported.
Announcements by distributors and retailers of two major gas and oil brands in Clare report personnel reshuffles and additions to sales and distribution staffs.
Ernie Bryant longtime Mobil service station operator at McEwan and Third has become the Mobil sales agent for Hub Oil Company. He succeeds Ernie Sprague who previously held the post. Bryant will keep the station at the same address and phone. Ed Tomaski will handle public contact and tank wagon deliveries. The agency will sell and deliver bulk gasoline motor oils tires batteries Mobilheat fuel oil farm products and other auto items.
A new Pure Oil distribution and sales network takes effect today August first. Ernie Sprague becomes area distributor covering nine towns with Bell and DeDolph running the Seventh and McEwan service station. The Bell DeDolph Pure Oil station will offer auto service minor repairs quick washes and fuel oil and bulk farm products from Clare Coleman Lake Farwell Lake George Temple Rosebush and Mt. Pleasant.
Five children of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bay had their tonsils removed on July 11 at Fairview Clinic by Mrs. Bay’s uncle, Dr. B. E. Palmer. The patients are Lynn 11, Vicki 10, Chrystal 8, Cindy 6, and Viola 5.
Area farmers rushed wheat to market amid a potential rail strike and weather limits on combining. Unloading at Clare’s Johnston Elevator ran through the weekend with grain moisture around 12 to 16 percent and test weights 53 to 58 pounds per bushel. Floyd Tubbs of Isabella County led early deliveries. Clare County farmer Charles Harrold reported 12 percent moisture.
A wall demolition at 1008 Court uncovered papers from October 15, 1897 and February 25, 1898 printed on ready print stock. Royce Cole and Larry Jackson brought the relics to the Sentinel for inspection. Another discovery, The Nacional Aegis from Worcester Massachusetts, dated September 21, 1808, was found by Bert Maynard nearby.
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