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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1960
Page
14
The Methodist Family Night pot luck supper is set for Thursday at 6 30. An exchange student from Germany living with the Claude Brasington family in Mt Pleasant will present the program. Everyone is invited to attend and bring a dish to pass. Afterward an Education Meeting follows, then Official Board and Commissions meet.
The W S C S Study Class Town and Country will meet weekly in February. W5C8 members should watch for a special money making project. The Farwell W C T U meeting announced to meet last Wednesday was postponed. Weather permitting the meeting will be held this Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Mrs Anna Schofield home on 8 Hall.
Mr and Mrs Wendell Cook Mr and Mrs Gary Agile and Mr and Mrs Dean Luce accompanied the Northernaires to Houghton Lake High School for a Saturday night show. They celebrated Mrs Agles birthday the following day and shared a birthday dinner at the Dean Luce home Sunday.
A curious tale traces leap year customs to Scotland 1288 granting women the right to propose. Laws allegedly fined balking suitors and required compensation such as a silk gown while edge of scarlet petticoat could exonerate payment. Similarities claimed in France Florence Genoa and even England.
A long list of weekend guests and family visits from Farwell and surrounding towns is reported. Diane Snell stayed with grandmother Hazel Orton. Harold Adams family from Traverse City visited his mother and joined by James Orton and family. Numerous local households hosted relatives and friends including Locke, Davis, Farrow, Renner, McKenney, Brasington, and others. Skiing on local hills and a Washington DC youth trip were noted among activities.
C C Trillingham, Los Angeles County superintendent of schools, warns that leisure time from automation could become dangerous. He paints a future where 250 million people, a youthful nation with over 100 million under 20, work four days a week, enjoy two summer and two winter vacations, and live into 75 to 80. 25 million pensioners and households will drive demand for housing, appliances, telephones, and electronic cinema via television for cultural life.
Mr and Mrs Arlo Barber and the Don Pitchford family visited the Esterlines Sunday evening. Several couples traveled to Tower and skied at Mott Mt. Others hosted dinners and afternoons with grandchildren and relatives as Rev Norman Kolenda and George Coffey visited.
A six week experiment at Wolf Lake hatchery uses a fungicide to prevent dead eggs and replace trays with 140 glass jars housing 3.5 million eyed eggs. Biologists inject fungicide into the water flow to aerate eggs. dosing occurs one hour every three days to meet Michigan annual needs.
The Michigan Supreme Court says the driver entering a through highway from a subordinate street must yield until traffic is clear. In Churukian vs LaGest the court held the duty does not end after a stop, and the entering driver has to wait for gaps on the main road.
Fisheries biologists at Wolf Lake hatchery tested gravel sizes in tanks to reduce lower jaw abrasions in trout. Results show improved condition where gravel is used, while concrete tanks correlate with poorer outcomes.
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