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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1958
Page
1
Mrs. Anness Morrows Room 19 column urges preparing for goals through Lincoln as a model. The piece links education, reading, and personal growth with Lincoln's self taught learning and curiosity, urging a value on print and understanding people as keys to lifelong success.
Speed traps in the South are nearly dead and motorists and states that rely on them are glad. The Automotive Club of Michigan notes that for every southern town with a trap there were many that promoted tourist welcome instead.
A report to the Fire Marshal by Clare Fire Chief Stan Parish cites 1957 losses at $423,200, including a major downtown fire, about ten times 1956's $4,335. Dwellings losses totaled $2,700. Rural areas under Clare protection posted $67,220 in losses, with causes ranging from careless smoking to faulty wiring and thawed pipes.
Nancy Bell Burton of Clare High School has the top written score in homemaking and attitudes among senior girls. Her paper advances to compete with 387 winners for the state candidate title and possible runnerup award. She earns a pin and the school gains a Britannica set. the national winner is announced April 17 at the Waldorf Astoria with scholarships up to 5,000 dollars.
The Clare Study Club met February 4 at the Clare Methodist Church to explore the folk song’s development as a reflection of a people’s life. Mrs. Kennedy traced ballads spirituals and country tunes linking postwar revival to today with notes on Home on the Range and songs preserved by settlement schools.
The Bell System Science Series presents The Unchained Goddess on Wednesday Feb 12 at 9 p.m. over channel 5. The program explains wind clouds precipitation and thunder and lightning with Weather Bureau data and forecasts. It shows tornadoes and hurricanes and how weathermen track them.
Rubinoff’s nine month national tour includes about 125 cities and 250 concerts with 1250 free appearances at clubs, hospitals, radio broadcasts, and schools. He starts before dawn and travels constantly, practicing relentlessly on his Stradivarius. The Clare performance Friday night features a varied program including Warsaw Concerto Clair de Lune Jalousie and I Got Rhythm.
Clare project directors seek community funding to launch a multi use center for both seniors and youngsters. They plan TV programs games and social events and will hold a candy sale February 8 to raise operating funds for daily hours 9 30 am to 3 30 pm.
Andrew Blackbird, son of an Ottawa chief, recounts a childhood memory of the Ottawa and Chippewa of Michigan traveling to Washington to appeal to the President for mercy and land protection. He describes a cedar tree memory near Little Traverse Bay and witnessing elders and women in sorrow.
Slides of five young martyred missionaries will be shown at Eagle Church of God on Sunday February 9 at 8 pm. Pastor Elza Beery invites the public to attend. Robert Savage of HCJB Quito will narrate on tape, with Nate Saint’s films used for daily scenes. An offering will aid missionary work and the Young People group funds Indian schooling project in India and Youth Work within the Churches of God.
Gordon Smith of Clare holds a strong lead in singles with a 683 three game total and a 302 high score after the second weekend. Doubles leaders D Gransden and J Washburn won the title with 1284 while Clyde Marshall and Stan Wickes dropped to second at 1253. Team standings show Harrison Dairy leading with 2927 followed by Livestock Auction and Gateway Lanes as finals near on February 8 at Gateway Lanes.
Preliminary outline for Michigan Week May 4 to 10 covers Region Five Clare Isabella Midland Bay Gratiot Saginaw Clinton Shiawassee Genesee. Meeting at Grand Blanc Flint Buick formed plans and highlighted Education in Michigan and Michigan's Water Resources as themes. Don Weeks of the Michigan Economic Development department attended.
Clare County seniors at Farwell High School on Friday January 31 explored why government matters through a four-point discussion. State official Austin Knapp, county prosecutor James Bicknell III, Farwell superintendent William LaVine, and Harrison senior Gerald Switzer offered perspectives on state, county, school relations, and student concerns.
Northern Michigan will mark its historic past with green and gold markers in Clare Isabella Iosco and Alpena counties detailing eras from lumber to cement. Earlier markers honored beet sugar and cherry industries with more planned in the Upper Peninsula and southwest Michigan for cereal and celery. Dedication dates are pending.
Four young men departed Monday February 3 for final induction into the U S Army. Clifton Schultz of Clare William Miller of Harrison Wesley Huskey of Farwell and John Rountree of Gladwin are the group. Three more men expected to be called in March.
Clare High School announces the first semester honor roll with A and B averages. 1st grade A pupils include Lawrence Carncross and Vicky Cook. 16th grade A lists Joyce Dunkle and Janet Hanchett. 12th grade A names Sharon Grimason and Ann Jackson.
Data from MSU Kel logg farm shows August to October rains about five inches caused heavy soil loss. A corn plot planted up and down a slope shed over a ton of surface soil, while oats on a 10 percent slope lost half a ton and a cross slope plot only a tenth ton. Established plots with conservation practices showed negligible losses. MSU records since 1954 document long term soil losses, including a single up and down slope plot with more than 46 tons lost since then.
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