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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1956
Page
1
Clare Community Council will ask Clare City Commission for permission to resume teen age dances at City Hall. A schedule proposes two adult chaperones per dance. If approved, dances would resume on the second Saturday in September.
The Coast Guard expects to board more than 50,000 motorboats on federal Great Lakes waters in the 1955 season. Past violations showed 10 percent cited for Motor Boat Act violations and 75 percent due to insufficient life saving devices on board.
Michigan promotes farm vacations for urbanites this summer with twelve retreats from Newberry in the upper peninsula to Howell and Jonesville in the south. Rates run 35 to 40 dollars weekly per person with reductions for children. Details on farms, facilities, and families available from the Michigan Tourist Council in Lansing. A nationwide Farm Vacations booklet can be obtained for 26 cents from Farm Vacations and Holidays, Inc., 506 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Michigan offers two vantage points at Mackinac Bridge construction in Michilimackinac State Park near Mackinaw City and Straits State Park near St Ignace. Visitors view progress on a large bridge model while excursion boats bring them within sight of 500 foot towers. The five mile span will connect the peninsulas, with completion targeted for fall 1957.
Michigan Consolidated Gas announces a large western and central Michigan expansion to supply natural gas this year. The Farwell project covers about 79 000 dollars for a distribution system and a receiving station with 66 miles of 10 and 12 inch pipe linking Clare County to Traverse City plus a spur to Cadillac.
City briefs and society notices appear in Inside Pages Harrison News for the community. Want ads and notices fill pages 5 to 7 alongside comics.
Wesley Oliver reports a pheasant nesting within a few steps of his home and remains unperturbed as neighbors view it. A proposed price raise for resident small game licenses from $2 to $3 is discussed after a prior misquote left out non resident fees, now corrected. Dover’s softball team leads the Tri City Softballs League with six consecutive wins.
The Michigan Department of Agriculture produced the Food Source book detailing state food warehouses processing plants and production regions. FCDA officials praised the project and requested a report on organization methods costs and distribution.
Michigan opens bass season and draws over a million fishing licenses. The state boasts 11 000 lakes 36 000 miles of streams and 3 000 miles of Great Lakes shoreline with more than 140 freshwater species including muskies lake trout and sturgeon. Perch fishing on the Great Lakes is free for all. Non residents may buy a season license for four dollars and add a trout stamp for one more.
Sault Ste. Marie Michigan will reopen the upper park by the Soo Locks for the first time since June 1950. Tourists may watch giant lake freighters pass through the locks as the Soo becomes the busiest ship canal. The park reopening invites visitors to witness the summer ship parade that surpasses the Suez and Panama Canals in yearly traffic.
Official notices announce a July 9 school board election at Clare with polls from noon to 7 pm at the Clare school. Two board seats are open with candidates K Hammerberg and Russell Eberhart for three years and Lionel Duncan and Warren Tice for four terms to finish Karl Ruby’s term. The vote shifts to ballots and the annual meeting will follow at 8 pm in the auditorium. Electors from Clare and annexed districts who have resided 30 days may vote.
Harrison hosts a week of Fourth of July events at the county fairgrounds with stage shows dancing prizes and a crowning. The Georges Colé circus kicks off Monday 2 to 8 pm and the Motor State carnival returns all week. Highlights include a Queen’s banquet ball skid rodeo parade talent show bicycle races a public dance and a baseball finale with Beaverton.
Michigan’s Economic Development Department urges resort communities to pitch industrial locations to vacationers. It outlines strategies such as visitor-focused cards, trained receptionists, and film trailers highlighting local advantages. Aimed at turning tourists into future business settlers or plant sites.
Seven members of Gilmore Grange were honored at an open Grange meeting. Grange master Ralph Carter presented pins to Mr and Mrs John Taverty Mr and Mrs Jim Pedigrist Mr and Mrs George Shilling and Glen Beach. Tea cream cake strawberries and iced tea were served to about fifty guests.
Donald C Kyam has been awarded an assistantship at the University of Wisconsin and will start the fall term to pursue his PhD in research. He recently settled in Clare with wife Suzanne Irving and their son Donald C. Kyam earned a BS in Pharmacy from Fertis Institute and worked at Houghton Drug Store before serving.
Floren J. Pudway chairman of Clare county ASC explains that a July 20 vote decides marketing quotas and penalties for excess wheat, while acreage allotments stay in effect regardless. If two thirds approve, quotas and penalties apply and price support rises to 75 to 90 percent parity. if over one third disapprove, quotas end and price support falls to 50 percent. Only commercial wheat states are affected and eligible voters are farmers with under 15 acres in 1957.
Sunday June 24 the Rev and Mrs Kenneth Mack announced they will leave their Lake Baptist Church pastorate in early fall after four years of service. The congregation has built a church above the former basement and developed programs including Sunday School worship Bible Study and a Women’s Missionary Fellowship. The Macks thank the Lake community for support and hospitality during their tenure.
Instructions for preserving mushrooms describe canning with fresh edible mushrooms using salt and citric or acetic acid, processing 30 minutes at 10 pounds pressure, and freezing steps including selecting ripe mushrooms, trimming, slicing, steaming times, lemon juice dip, and proper packing with head space and cooling.
Four Little League games are listed through July 13. On July 9 the Cubs play the Tigers, July 10 the Bears host the Lions, July 11 the Cubs meet the Bears, and July 12 the Tigers face the Lions.
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