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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1959
Page
8
June rainfall was below normal across Michigan causing inland lake levels to fall. The southern and northern lower peninsulas show declines of 0.1 to 0.5 feet below medians while the upper peninsula remains near normal with only slight declines. Eastern and western edges of the UP had above normal rainfall.
The Continen tal League plans to start in 1961 with eight or more teams as New York Toronto Denver Houston and Minneapolis Saint Paul are identified as initial growth centers. Oliver Spencer is traded to Detroit for Ken Russell while Bill Veeck orders evaporative coolers for Comiskey Park. CBS to televise 12 NEVS clubs with a 66 game football slate kicking off Giants versus Rams on September 26. Maurice Stokes, Cincinnati Royal star, hospitalized for a year and a half, receives a $6 246 check from teammates at a Pittsburgh exhibition.
M. J. DeBoer, a 40 year fisheries veteran, will head a new field management section in Michigan's Conservation Department fish division. He formerly supervised hatcheries since 1946. C. T. Yoder will replace him as regional fisheries supervisor. DeBoer also oversees regional and district supervisors and duties under the commercial fisheries act. The fish division, led by A. B. Cook, now comprises five sections: research institute, public fishing sites, lake and stream improvement, hatchery operations, and field management.
Mail carrier conducted grouse surveys begin August 3 in the upper and northern lower peninsulas. The annual census supplements spring drumming counts and brood surveys, with the latter running May to July. Together the surveys forecast fall hunting prospects amid cycles of population changes. Summer pheasant breed counts by rural carriers and farm cooperators will be completed this week to gauge pheasant hunting potential.
Weekend visitors and callers fill the area with social updates. Families from Saginaw Standish Farwell and Edenville visit relatives in Cyril and Beaverton while local residents host dinners and suppers. Marilyn Davis and nurses Lorene Hildebrandt plan duties at Sparrow Hospital after Mackinac Island weekend.
Governor G Mennen Williams signed a bill updating Michigan fishing regulations to boost pike protection and panfish limits. The package raises northern pike size to 20 inches and bluegill creel to 25, standardizes seasons across inland waters and Great Lakes connecting waters, and restricts multi hook use to artificial lures. It also broadens rainbow trout windows, allows fishing during winter kill, and removes a $1 pond permit while trimming licenses for caddis fly larvae collection.
In Gilmore on Sunday 175 people attended church where Ali Jarman delivered the morning and evening messages. The Jarmans plan to minister in Panama City Florida after traveling from Alaska. Gene Willoughby aged 90 was honored at a graveside service in Gilmore cemetery led by C Hiram Gates with interment there. Alvin Wood and wife vacationed at Cranberry from Tuesday to Friday last week. The community was reminded of the annual Gilmore church of Christ Homecoming next Sunday August 16.
The Good Luck Club held a combined birthday and farewell party at Mrs. J. B. Gilman’s home on Friday with a large turnout, ice cream, and cake. Mrs. Gilman and her husband depart for Cheyenne Wyoming for a winter air force base construction job, leaving soon. Her mother Mrs. Charlie Phillips of Roscommon attended as a guest.
Mrs Calvin Tryon hosted a farewell party for Mrs Minnie Gilman at her home on Wednesday afternoon. Ten guests attended and ice cream and cake were served. Mrs Gilman departed on Tuesday with her son Royal and family bound for their Safety Harbor Florida home to spend the winter.
Mr and Mrs Robert Bays left for Miami Florida on a vacation Their son Dale will stay with grandmother Mrs Carrie Dunbar and sister Nancy with their other grandmother Mrs Bernice Hays Mr and Mrs Lee Schwartz and daughters moved from Canton Ohio after a week with Calvin Tryon family The girls Nancy Linda and Vivian stayed six weeks with grandparents Ted Mattonen of Mt Pleasant paints Fred Mahan s house Mrs Jennie Muir visited Farwell Mrs Theodore Deegan plans a new home occupancy in six weeks Harold Lockwood and they visited from Ann Arbor for the weekend.
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