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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1947
Page
14
A office manager discovers employees kneeling in an alley for a craps game. He sends Joe to break it up but Joe returns with the claim he started the effort with only a quarter. The manager repeats the order and learns the moralizing pawned value of small stake.
A bill introduced in the Illinois Senate proposes coordinating veterans programs and creating a Michigan Veterans Commission to absorb powers from abolished offices. It sets 12 governor appointees plus representatives from veterans groups and unaffiliated members to oversee state programs and establish county committees to manage Soldiers Relief funds.
The Church of the Nazarene Sunday School averaged fifty for April. A praise note thanks helpers and the Rev. Phillips for a record month. Various locals visit, guests dine, and illnesses touched families as communities share news and upcoming events.
Residents and relatives from Clare Beaverton West Grant and surrounding areas gathered for weekend visits. Names include Teale Penrose Heiser Pifer Nevins and Van Buskirk along with Irwin Pryor Funnell and White amongst others. Several trips to Ann Arbor Flint and Bay City were noted as part of family support and hospitality.
Clare Airport activity includes Propwash on a recent X C flight as Ingraham finishes private license training. A BT 13 surfaced briefly with Army attention, then gassed up and departed to Chicago. Russ Hissan visited with a student pursuing X C for a commercial license. George Sherman begins G I Bill flight training in Flint, now on Cub 65. Airport improvement plans proceed, with James Orsott chairing the project and Arthur Dainoth, Laurence Selter, and Courtney K Baner on the committee.
A doctor confides to a dentist about his love for a widow who pays no bills. The dentist suggests marriage to escape the bind, but the doctor laments he cannot afford to wed since the widow is his only paying patient.
Ball fan asks how to explain Spivak's declining fielding average. Sports editor blames excessive chasing of high balls and misreads of line drives.
Harold hurries to school clutching his books and begs for a perfect attendance gold star. He trips at the doorway just as the bell rings and looks to heaven in mock reproach, then quips that God didn’t have to push.
A lady instructs the new maid Nora on house cleaning duties emphasizing sweeping behind doors. Nora hesitates noting she usually sweeps under the rug but agrees to clean behind doors as requested.
A teacher asks a riddle about flies on a chair. A student from the back replies that the remaining dead fly is the one left. The joke hinges on absurd logic and classroom humor.
A game warden questions a hunter about shooting a rabbit out of season. The hunter replies the act was justified as self defense, citing danger from the animal.
The neighbor recalls a loud exchange at the Glass residence last night. Mr. Glass says he and his wife had words but he missed his chance to speak.
Partial and garbled dialogue hints at a quirky circus scene where performers tease each other about finances. The exchange shows two acts, the India Rubber Man and the Patagonian Giant, dealing with a cash shortage and stage timing.
Three St Duke's Hospital surgeons report the Jewitt nail a steel three flanged nail and bone plate that replaces bed confinement with pulleys for elderly hip fractures. They say mortality falls from 40 percent to about 12 percent and hospital stay halves, based on 95 cases in New York.
Titusville reports a newborn baby among seven patients rescued when a five story osteopathic clinic burned. The infant was placed in a cardboard box and carried to safety in near zero winds. The Bushline Shrum clinic, once the Fieldmore hotel, valued about 80000 dollars. Firemen drained a well in a futile attempt to halt the flames.
Vancouver Washington. The Vancouver housing authority ruled tenants must buy their own coal for heating while electricity remains included in rent but without meters. Excessive use caused three transformers to burn out in one week, prompting smaller fuses and the threat of cutoffs for overuse.
Maj. Cornelis Leenheer testified at the international war crimes tribunal that Japanese guards beat and starved Allied civilian women and children in Sumatra internees with savage methods used against men. He said officials visited camps but failed to improve conditions.
A Palestine district court ruled Jerusalem Mission Hospital negligent and ordered a $60 000 damages payment to Threekhold Stephany Orran born burned by a leaking hot water bottle. The child has received treatment at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota since birth.
San Francisco reports Rean Jackson Stiles a 39 year old inventor who while jailed at San Quentin created an artificial hand that worked well enough to win a release to perfect it for military medical authorities. He is held on bad check charges by Napa and Vallejo police.
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