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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1961
Page
1
Ezra E. Miller Jr and wife establish a 3300 hen operation in Loomis using cage housing, automated feeding, washing, and door to door delivery. Daily output exceeds 200 dozen eggs with steady production and plans to restock for consistent supply.
The first of three Lenten services at Clare Congregational Church features Rev. Robert McCleary of Harrison Congregational Church delivering the sermon on Wednesday evening March 8. Subsequent speakers March 15 and 22 include Rev. Robert Hastings and Rev. Phil Palmer with local men participating and the choir providing music. The public is invited.
The Clare County Rock & Mineral Club and Adult Education Class for Rock Hounds organize a Greyhound Bus trip to the Cranbrook Institute in Detroit on March 19. Attendees will tour the mineral displays and other departments as time allows. Extra seats are available. contact Gerrit Hamstra or Lee Sowle for details.
Clare High School Pionder cagers start tournament action next Wednesday March 8 at 8 30 against winless Beaverton at an unfamiliar site marking a change from past Mt Pleasant starts. If Clare wins, Ewart awaits Friday March 10 at 7 p.m. with the District final set March 11.
Five prize winners were announced at the end of the 15th Anniversary Sale at Appliances Inc in Clare. A boy Scott Stough from R-4 Clare and girl Vicki Lloyd of Farwell won bicycles, while adults Carmel Muscat, Rose Wentworth, and Velma Cooks won cash and merchandise including a bedroom suite. Owner James Wood praised the event as the most successful anniversary sale to date.
More than twenty county and township officials are invited as resource experts for Clare County's Student Government Day on March 16 at Farwell High School. Senior class students from Clare Farwell and Harrison will hear panels on courts law enforcement juvenile problems highways taxation and legislation and education consolidation elections and civil defense with state level officials from the Institute for Local Government led by D Hale Brake.
4 H Week March 4 kicks off with focus on the International Farm Youth Exchange program. Michigan sends five or six youths abroad yearly to live with host families and learn new cultures, while hosting foreign youths at home. Jeff Arnold of Ithaca will become Michigan’s first IFYE traveler in 1961, heading to Brazil in April.
The State Highway Department announced a broad statewide program of highway repairs. In Isabella county nineteen miles of US-27 will be resurfaced, with about thirteen miles between Clare and Mt. Pleasant and 6.2 miles north from Shepherd also included, targeting completion by October 28, 1961.
EH A Bud Anderson was elected president of the Clare Rotary club in a Wednesday election. He will assume the role in July after Gordon McIntosh completes his term. The slate also includes Warren McGuire as first vice president, Virgil Bergstrom as record vice president, Connie Walker as secretary, and Lee Sowle as treasurer.
In Freeman township Union Ticket fields Frank Sarkoz i trustee and Keith Blain Justin Blain Charles Lyle and Robert Geyer as constables. In Lincoln township Non-Partisan slate lists Gordon Smith for Board of Review and Arlee Green for justice of the peace, while the Democratic ticket presents James Davis for Board of Review and George Wood for justice of the peace.
Kenneth McLaughlin says questionnaire tally will finish in a week as residents weigh two school expansion options. Plan I would cost up to 845000 for a new junior senior high on a new site with a gym and 27 classrooms, plus Lake Elementary and Farwell renovations. Plan II totals 950000 with a nearby site for a high school and a new elementary on a new location, plus Lake School work.
Final plans for the annual Rural-Urban meeting were approved at a Clare County Farm Bureau Board session at the Clarence Davis home. Families will host city friends at Clare High School gym with a ham supper and program. Blue Cross coverage signups run March 1–15. Barry Goldwater speech announced for March 7 at Michigan State University. A district institute will be March 14 at Coleman Methodist Church with several Clare county committees attending. March meeting set for the Roy Hammersley home in Franklin Township.
Clare County voters will decide in April whether to raise one mill for five years to fund a county building program. The proposal aims to reserve funds for future projects such as probate court improvements and a potential convalescent nursing home. County supervisors backed placing the measure on the ballot.
The Sentinel announces a four week campaign with 24 Clare merchants offering price-busting bargains on cottage cheese toothpaste appliances clothing and home furnishings. Shoppers clip a page coupon and present it at participating stores to access the deals on page 13.
The Greater Michigan Foundation launches Michigan Week May 21 to 27 to fund a statewide publicity effort highlighting Michigan's resources, skilled labor, and institutions. James M. Smith of Michigan Bell chairs the finance drive with Alan Ott and Richard Groves organizing regional committees. Contributions go to the foundation with Fred Marin of Bank of Lansing as treasurer, or to local finance committee members.
The 13 month old James William M Hilyard died after being scalded by hot grease when he pulled a donut fryer onto himself in the Farwell home kitchen on Rock Road. He died at Clare General Hospital from burns and complications. He leaves five brothers, one sister, and his parents Riley and Mrs Hilyard, with grandparents Ralph Hilyard and Steven Leposky. Funeral held at Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints in Farwell, burial at Surrey Township cemetery.
Twin Elms captures the top prize in the City Bowling Championships finishing first with 3149 pins. Holley Carburetor teams 12 and 10 place second and third, followed by Dunlop's Farwell Insurance Log Cabin Grocery. Twin Elms earns the $100 top prize, largest in the event's history.
On Monday evening February 27 Pack 120 held its annual blue and gold potluck dinner for the scouts 51st anniversary. Twenty two scouts and families attended as den mothers planned decorations and centerpieces. Den II supervised by Helen Anderson repaired an old radio showcasing the boys 8 to 11 years old and their projects.
A two way radio unit installed in the Clare Fire Department tanker truck modernizes communications and links with police Civilian Defense units across central Michigan. Chief Floyd Woodworth said the system, tested Wednesday, supports car to car and car to station transmissions via Isabella County Sheriff’s Base Broadcasting facilities. It enables urgent messages from any location, even if telephone service fails during fires storms or civil disasters.
At a February 19 meeting of St John’s Lutheran Church voters in Clare the Schaeffers donated four acres for future building. The land lies on the north edge of Clare and honors the donors’ parents, former members of the church.
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