Clare High Band Debuts New Uniforms At Annual Concert
Clare High School band under Lloyd Conley performed at the auditorium Tuesday with 44 members on stage. The concert featured Storm King March and Autumn Leaves among pieces, ending with the presentation of new uniforms modeled by Linda Blystone Judy Ulrich Wesley Waddington John Wicklund Kay Ritter Ruth Janet Schroeder and Barb Kieinhardt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jan Schaeffer
Clare High School
Lloyd Conley
S.lb.a. Marth
Linda Blystone
Judy Ulrich
Wesley
Waddington
John Wicklund
Kay Ritter
Ruth Janet Schroeder
Barb Kieinhardt
The
Thes
Pageant Set For Easter Story At Mt Pleasant Warriner Hall
The Clare Methodist Church presents The Story of Easter this Palm Sunday March 25 at 8 00 p m in Warriner Hall Central Michigan College Mt Pleasant due to larger stage lighting and organ A rehearsal was held March 17 with another planned March 18 Emil Bycholz Harrison returns as The Christ directing Harry B Dice Birch Haven Farwell directs the chorus Harold Kelly Farwell high school serves as organist
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare Methodist Church
Warriner
Central Michigan College
Mt. Pleasant
Methodist Church
As-Emil Bycholz
Harrison
Harold Kelly
Farwell High School
Harry B. Dice
Birch Haven
Farwell
Warriner Hall
Easter Seal Campaign Underway In Clare County
The annual Easter Seal drive starts this weekend to aid crippled children. Half the funds stay in the county for handicapped youths, the rest support the state society. Mrs. Robert Pinaire is chairwoman with past leader Mrs. Virginia Richardson. The Clare Study Club backs the project locally. Equipment lists and aids for handicapped residents are available from Mrs. Townsend in Clare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Pinaire
Clare County
Virginia Richardson
Clare Study Club
Roy ‘Townsend
Clare
Crippled Children’s Foundation
Hobo Dick Zimmerman Plans Texas Trip Again
Loomis wanderer Dick Zimmerman vows to settle after a long Texas walk but spring revives his urge to travel. He will wheel his improved cart with dogs Goldy and Silver and seek new material for his book. Dick has wandered for nearly six decades seeking stories. A family birthday party for O. M. Somers members in Gilmore Grange was held at William Hileman Jr. home in Harrison last Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Zimmerman
Loomis
Texas
O. M. Somers
Gilmore Grange
William Hileman Jr
Harrison
Bound Over To Circuit Court In Check Case
David Wainman, 32, of Clare, waived examination in Municipal Court before Justice William 8. Dunlop on a charge of writing bad checks. He was bound over to circuit court for trial as an employee of Clare Manufacturing Company. A separate report notes an accident at North McEwan and John R. Street Friday afternoon involving Ray Underwood and Lyle Russell Cook, with estimated damages of 40 to Underwood and 100 to Cook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Wainman
Clare
William
Dunlop
Wainman
Clare Manufacturing , Company
McEwan Clare
North McEwan
John R. Street
Ray Underwood
John R Street
Lyle Russell Cook
Harrison
McEwan
Underwood
Cook
Clare High School Band Boosters Dinner Honors Seniors
The Band Boosters Club hosted its annual dinner in the Clare High School multi purpose room on March 12 to honor the Senior Band members and their parents. Rev. Hugh Kennedy gave the Invocation, Norman Dietz of Central Michigan College spoke, and musical entertainment included a CMC clarinet quartet and the Congregational church junior choir. The program featured group singing led by Mrs. Floyd Norcutt with Lloyd Conley on piano, and Ferd Wieferich acted as toastmaster. club officers listed include Wieferich as president, Mrs Norcutt as vice president, Dex Hiden as secretary, and Mrs Shelley Burton as treasurer.
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Clare High School
Hugh Kennedy
Congregational Church
Norman Dietz
Central Michigan College
CMC
Floyd Norcutt
Lloyd Conley
Ferd Wieferich
Clare Band Boosters Club
Norcutt
Dex Hiden
Shelley Burton
Allan Tulk To Help Pick Dairy Princess
Allan Tulk will serve as a judge for Isabella County's State Dairy Princess contest at Mt. Pleasant on March 23. Also judging are Dr. Wilbur Moore and Mrs. De Wayne Kyser with Joanne Barrett present as last year's State Dairy Queen. Contestants must be Isabella County residents with dairy farm background, aged 17 to 20, unmarried.
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Isabella County
Mt. Pleasant
Allan Tulk
Clare Public School
Wilbur Moore
CMC
DeWayne Kyser
Shepherd
Joanne Barrett
Lum
Hotel Chieftain
Isabella County Extension Office
Wwtv Cadillac
Farm Bureau Women Meet at Elm Grove Parish House
Clare County Farm Bureau women gathered at Elm Grove parish house on Tuesday March 6 with a 100 percent attendance from community group representatives. District meeting details are set for April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare County Farm Bureau
Elm Grove
Tor
Findlay College choir to sing in Eagle concert
Twila Beery and Gordon Kleiner of Eagle Ohio will perform with the Findlay College a cappella choir in a concert at Eagle Church of God on March 21 at 8 p.m. The pair, Clare High School graduates and Eagle church members, will join a five year tour with concerts across Michigan Ohio Indiana Illinois and Missouri. Gordon will deliver the Lenten message and Twila will sing in a girls quartet during a March 22 high school assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twila Beery
Gordon Kleiner
Findlay College
Cappela Choir
Findlay
Ohio
Eagle Church of God
Twila
Elza Beery
Eagle
Gordon
Ernest Kleiner
Clare High School
Eagle Church
Beery
Findlay Choir
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Beety Salt
Farwell elects officials and approves gas franchise
Farwell voters set a record turnout in the spring election on Monday to pass a summer recreation program for school age children and elect village officers. Bernard Schofield is village president, Louw Gee becomes clerk, Don Pitchford moves to treasurer, and trustees Willard Strahota Vernie Hose and Grover Updyke win two year terms. An extra two mill tax is approved to hire a recreation director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farwell
Bernard Schofield
Citizen's
Louw Gee
Citizen’s
Don Pitchford
Pitchford
Willard Strahota
Citizens
Vernie Hose
People’s
Grover Updyke
James McGuire
Clare Rifle and Pistol Club Formed in Clare
The Clare Rifle and Pistol Club held its first meetings with twenty two applicants and plans to affiliate with the National Rifle Association. Officers include Dale Miller president Richard Ford vice president Wayne Pitts executive Floyd Norcutt chief instructor and Don Bell secretary. Meetings are Mondays at the Clare school pistol range. Wayne Pitts led a pistol score contest with 242 of 300.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare Rifle and Pistol Club
National Rifle Association
Dale Miller
Richard Ford
Wayne, Pitts
Floyd Norcutt
Don Bell
Rod and Gun Club
Clare
National Rifle Assn
Wayne Pitts
Fraternal Bowling Tourney Concludes Week at Clare Alleys
Mason No. 3 won the team event with 2937 pins at the Fraternal League Bowling Tournament held March 11 12 at Clare Bowling Alleys. Mason No. 1 boarded second with 2924 pins while Mason No. 2 and KofC No. 1 followed. Jake Miller led singles with 628 actual 733 handicap. Jim Murphy 604 actual 677 handicap good for second. Speed Messecar topped all events with 1885 followed by A Messecar 1824 and Jerry Nivison 1816.
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Clare
Mason No. 3
Mason No
Kof C
G. Nivison
W. Goodwin
J. Kisnosky
A. Messecar
Messecar
J Seibt
Ej McConnell
Jake. Miller
Jerry Nivison
Speed
Messécar
Weel
Library Receives State Aid Grant For City Library
Michigan State Library board authorized financial aid again this year. A check for 85.40 arrived as the first payment of the grant. Funds will be used to improve and extend library service, with much of it likely spent on purchasing books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Richard
City’ Library
Michigan State Library Board
Richardson
Equal Membership Agreed For New School District
Clare and Isabella County School Boards reached agreement on a 36 to 30 member citizen advisory committee for a reorganized district serving Clare and rural areas. Each rural district will appoint one member, with the remaining rural seats filled jointly by the two counties. Letters to rural boards explain the plan with March 9 extension for annexation replies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare School Board
Rural School Board
Clare
Isabella
Isabella County
Wheeler
Clare County ministers discuss Good Friday service
The Clare County Ministerial Association met March 13 at Clare Methodist Church with seventeen members and two guests. Rev Mrs Mary Welch of Henderson Texas spoke, then a business meeting followed led by Rev Virgil Brinkman. They planned to combine Good Friday offerings for Christian Rural Overseas Relief Exchange Student Program and World Literacy, plus county needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare County Ministerial Association
Clare
Mary: Welch
Henderson
Texas
Methodist Church
World Literacy, Incorporated
Mary Welch
Kite safety warning urged for March warmup
Consumers Power Company official warns kite enthusiasts and parents to avoid metallic kite components near power lines. Posters detailing safety precautions will be sent to county school superintendents to distribute to schools. Open fields far from lines are the safe flying area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Ziegenbein
Consumers Power Company
Ziegenbein
Ziegebein
Inside Pages Harrison City Notes
Briefs and notices across Rosebush and nearby areas recap local happenings. Sports and society items hint at upcoming features while ads, notices, and comics fill remaining pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
Rosebush
Farwell
Society
Lake News
Fatin
Graders Decorate Egg Tree for Christmas Spirit
Mrs Helen Garthe's third graders create egg shell art to decorate The Egg Tree inspired by Katherine Milhouse. Children bring shells learn crafting using cotton for rabbits ribbons prints and yarn for hair with pinking shears and pipe cleaners for hanging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marilyn. McQuiston
Pioneer Staff
Haster
Helen Garthe
James Perrine
Garthé
Youngsters to Work in Bundle Drive in Clare
Clare Public Schools will run Michigan Bundle Week next Monday through Friday. Students will collect clean wearable clothing for needy boys and girls in the Southern Appalachian mountains and the Navajo Indian reservation. Infant and adult wear welcomed. bundles should be neat and folded. families without children may give to neighborhood students or deliver to the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare Public
Michigan
Appalachian Mountains
Clate
Richard Wheeler
Dr Form to Speak at Clare PTA Meeting
The Clare PTA invites parents and friends to a March 19 meeting at 8 PM in the public school multi purpose room. Dr Arnold Form of Central Michigan College will discuss The Problems of Adolescents followed by a Q and A. Nancy Jabara will show Grade School Christmas program pictures and copies may be ordered. A coffee hour will cap the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare Pta
Arnold Form
Central Michigan College
Form
Rochester
N. Y
MSC
Mt. Pleasant
Nancy Jabara
Clare Artists Sponsor Lecture and Films by Michigan Professor
Michael Church of the University of Michigan will present an 8 p.m. lecture at Clare High School Auditorium on March 20 titled And Experience In Art. The event, open to the public and sponsored by Mrs. Virginia Seitz art classes and Clare High School adult ceramics, will include color films on painting techniques and Kodachrome slides of Old Master works. Church is noted for color society work and studies with Emil Weddi ge. an exhibit of adult art student work will also be shown. No admission charge. Clare residents and art students urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Church
University of Michigan
Clare High School
Virginia Seitz
Church
Michigan Water Color Society
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters
Interlochen National Music Camp
Emil Weddige
Clare
Harrigan
Five File Petitions For Clare City Commission Seats
Five candidates filed petitions to fill three seats on Clare City Commission in the April 2 election. Incumbents Charles Cooper and Robert Walters run again. New names: Paul Schroeder Kenneth Roe Gerald Nivison. Dale Groves not seeking re election. Justice William B Dunlop runs unopposed for justice of the peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Commission
Charles Cooper
Robert Walters
Paul Schroeder
Kenneth Roe
Gerald Nivison
Nivison
Roe
Schroeder
Clare Sentinel
Dale Groves
Clare
William B. Dunlop
Justice of the Peace
Judge Bates Hears Delinquency Charges Against Boys
Probate Court in Harrison hears six Clare area youths charged with shoplifting and breaking and entering. The cases reflect a rising wave of juvenile misbehavior as authorities consider probation or corrective confinement. Police report six businesses damaged or robbed including Autry s Western Auto and Davys Department Store. Late night street roaming by young teens adds to concerns for parents and police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
Clare
Batés
Log Cabin
Autry’s
David Hintz enters drawing at Lansing talent show
David B Hintz a 12 year old Clare sixth grader enters two pencil drawings for the Ninth Annual Lansing Youth Talent Exhibit. He studies under Miss Bond at Clare public schools and is the son of Mr and Mrs William Hintz R 4. Entries open to youths 12 to 18 from eleven central Michigan counties with a March 17 deadline for entry blanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David B. Hintz
Clare
Lansing
Dave
Clare Public Schools
Bond
William Hintz
Michigan
The
State Journal
Lansing Recreation Department
Tubbs Promoted at Dow to Quality Coordination Chief
Bernard H. Tubbs, a Dow Chemical employee from Clare, is promoted to superintendent of quality coordination in the Styron production section. Formerly control coordinator, he now oversees scheduling and coordination of all production materials and other quality activities. He joined Dow in 1946 and, with two co workers, helped invent a company process. Tubbs and his family reside in Clare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard H. Tubbs
Dow Chemical
Clare
Styron
Tubbs
Dow
Glass School annexation vote approved by Farwell electors
Glass School District electors voted four to one in favor of annexation with Farwell on March 9. Final returns 29 yes 7 no for annexation. taxation results 28 yes 2 no. Glass to operate rest of term, then join Farwell. records and funds to be audited and handed to Farwell within 15 days. Farwell Board welcomed Glass residents and urged active participation.
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Glass School
Farwell
Glass
Glass School Board
Glass District
Farwell Board of Education
Arai
Hospital Service Meets At Doherty Hotel
The Michigan Hospital Service Blue Cross hosts a two day conference at the Hotel Doherty with about twenty five attendees. Earlier last week forty five Rawleigh dealers dined at the same hotel, and the Cornwallia Hunting Club held its annual stag dinner. Valley Trails Boy Scout Council met, and Clare General Hospital Auxiliary gathered for a meeting and dessert. State Mutual Cyclone agents held a luncheon and all day meetings there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan Hospital Service
Blue Cross
Doherty
Rawleigh
Cornucopia Hunting Club
Valley Trails Boy Scout Council
Clare General Hospital
The
State Mutual Cyclone Insurance
CHS Principal To Interview Ex Students In Mt Pleasant
Clare Public Schools Principal William Harper will visit Mt Pleasant on March 20 to interview Clare High School graduates attending Central Michigan College. The goal is to learn alumni progress and improve prep for college work. Five senior girls Diane Grigs Sally Porter Jan Schaeffer Daty Jene Schunk Lucille Beckes will join and tour the campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marilyn McQuiston
Pioneer
William, Harper
Clare Public Schools
Mt. Pleasant
Clare
Cenetral Michigan College
Diane Grigs
Sally Porter
Jan Schaeffer
Daty- Jene Schunk
Lucille Beckes
Gmc
Whi
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Jan Schaffer
Farm Bureau
Farwellites
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company
Ocal Singers
Library
Virgil Brinman
Mirs
Leslie Nevins
Joe VanderVeen
Ralph Claggett
Claggett
Katherine Milhouse
Dr. Form
Clare Artists
David Hintz
Bernard ‘Tubbs
Annexation
CHS
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