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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1960
Page
1
Development and business leaders across northern outstate Michigan pick Clare for an Industrial Workshop on November 3 to exchange ideas on attracting new business and manufacturing enterprise.
The formation of a reactivated Clare County Democratic Committee followed a October 13 meeting at Clare city hall. Laurence W. Jackson Jr. was named county chairman and Rex Allen appointed treasurer. A follow up meeting is planned for October 20 with township chairmen to be named.
Eighty medals and five all expense paid trips to the International Livestock Show in Chicago will be awarded at an Achievement Day in Harrison next Saturday. More than 300 people are expected to attend the program in the school gymnasium. Henry Schroeder and others will present an illustrated lecture Impressions of Russia.
University of Michigan resource expert Karl Lagler notes ground running pheasants may be rising from selective hunting. He predicts a 1960 Michigan pheasant season should yield about one million birds, based on mail carrier brood counts across southern and northern counties.
The Chairman presented the Isabella Leader's Handbook to each representative at the Officers' Training Meeting held October 5 at Embers. The handbook, a new county initiative led by Mrs. Milo VanVrakken, helps groups keep local and state information accessible for reference.
Gene A. Robens of the VA Regional Office Detroit explains the letters signed Thanks a Million trigger careful veteran name checks. He notes many first names and common surnames create identification errors among 4 700 Johnsons and 7 000 Smiths in VA records.
The Clare School District boards declares all future elections will use registered electors. Absentee voting begins after registration lists are completed. A delay remains before any bonding proposition is put to a vote. Existing registered voters need not re register. New voters must register to qualify for future elections.
The Clare Women's Golf Association met at Twin Elms on Wednesday evening, October 13, for a banquet honoring the Club Tournament winners. Officers for 1961 were announced and prizes awarded to champions and runners up, with several visitors noted.
Dr. R. J. Krainik and Dr. E. C. Sharlow announce a new office at 408 East Fourth Street Clare Michigan opening Monday October 24. Krainik, chief surgeon at Clare General Hospital since 1952, specializes in General Major Surgery. Sharlow, Albion College BA and Kirksville osteopathy graduate, returns from Europe with pediatric thoracic and urological training and will share general surgery practice in Clare.
Three Central Michigan University students from Clare Shirley Burgess John C Hardman and Freda Rosevear have been selected for the Concert Choir for the year Conductor is Dr Eugene F Grove head of the music department
Conservation officials join federal authorities in urging Michigan duck hunters to refrain from shooting canvasbacks and redheads this fall. The two diving ducks are scarce and already off limits in the continent's four major flyways. Their recovery depends on breeding-ground conditions and hunter restraint this season.
Paul J. Monayian 28 of Clare slept at wheel on US-27 north of Clare and rolled over. At Maple Grove Road collision two cars met head on, hospitalizing four including Gabe Buskirk 67 and Edward Bergey 16 with injuries. All victims treated at Clare General Hospital.
Dr. Del mar D. Gibbons of Kalamazoo spoke at a temperance meeting in Clare at the Methodist Church sponsored by the Clare County Ministerial Association. He argued alcohol imposes high costs on communities including damaged families and higher taxes.
Clare High marks the start of homecoming weekend with a snake dance pep meeting and bonfire tonight. Queen candidates are Donna McKee Catherine Haring Karla Cooper and Marlene Shull with the king to be chosen from the varsity squad. The parade Friday starts at 3 10 p.m. down Main Street with floats and bands followed by a football game against Ithaca at 8 00 p.m. and a weekend dance sponsored by the senior class.
Bids opened and contracts tentatively awarded yesterday for a 6.7 mile Clare county US-27 link from south of M-61 near Harrison to Arnold Lake road connecting to 19 miles of the new route to M-55 at Houghton Lake. Interchanges at M-61 and Arnold Lake road planned with August 31 1962 completion. A 4.8 mile Crawford county US-27 Freeway bid also opened to finish 25 miles of the new route with an interchange at Chase Bridge Road and a northbound ramp into Grayling. Completion set for July 31 1962.
Mrs. Rachael Andseren of Ann Arbor will speak on Michigan's Student Foreign Exchange program in Clare on Tuesday evening October 25 at 8. Residents from Clare and nearby Marion Coleman and districts to the north and south are urged to attend. Organizers seek volunteers to house visiting foreign students for a year of study in the United States.
A fall outbreak of blue comb or pullet disease affects young adult chickens in Michigan. MSU Poultry Pathology Lab officials report cases across Thumb, Traverse City region, Oakland and Kent counties. Dr. Ellis and Dr. Weisner offer MS 14-2 flushing with epsom salt solution to treat birds for two hours daily.
The Clare Public School PTA met Monday night at the elementary auditorium. Rev. Jerry Ulrich led the opening prayer. A motion to buy a coffee urn passed. Richard Schroeder, recently returned from Russia, spoke on Glimpse of Russia. Fourth grade mothers served refreshments.next meeting will discuss report cards.
The Rev Roy Striffler pastor of the 1st Congregational Church Bay City spoke at a Clare Congregational Church family night on Tuesday. He discussed a Christian Social Action tour in Mexico last summer. Norris Elden, retired music director and choir leader after 42 years, was honored with a gift in a small ceremony, a preservation by Mrs. George Beck.
A Michigan state bulletin notes sixteen hunters were killed and 270 wounded in 1959, with 1 fatality per 71,819 hunters and non fatal injuries per 6,474. It cites common carelessness causes from unloading guns to mistaking humans for game and urges stricter safety to prevent repeats in 1960-61.
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