City Manager Reports Gains In io Projects For The City
Clarence Gunn presents a June to September process report to the City Commission detailing twelve projects. Five major improvements include two parks cleaned, a Chemo-Feeder installation, downtown parking lot and meters, and 34 stop signs complying with State Highway rules. Additional actions cover sidewalk replacements, street patching, a city supply yard, hydrant installations, storm tile work, Legion room relocation, sewage plant updates, and pumping station drilling with results pending.
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Clarence Gunn
Clare
Layne- Northern Thas
Social Security Increases In Clare County Due 1959
The Social Security Amendments of 1958 raise monthly payments for about 1237 residents in Clare County, effective with January checks mailed early February 1959. Increases average around 7 percent, with some varying slightly. no action is needed from current recipients. The notice lists new eligibility groups and warns those who have applied previously but were denied to reapply. The tax rate rises in 1959 to 2.44 percent for employees and employers, 3 percent for self employed, with increases planned to 4.4 and 6 percent by 1969. The Traverse City district office at 125 Grand View Parkway serves inquires Monday–Friday 9 AM–5 PM.
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Clare County
E.O. Wiles
Traverse City
Social Security
Wiles
Rosebush Teachers Club Honors New Faculty Members
The Rosebush Public School welcomed new faculty at a Friday tea. Joanne Nelson becomes Kindergarten teacher at Mts Pleasant, Rhea OGrady teaches at Bowen School now annexed to Rosebush District. New officers are Helen Jacobs president, Agnes Epple vice president, Lois Watt secretary treasurer.
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Rosebush
Work To Begin On New School
Clare School Board awarded contracts for the new high school building with plans to begin term in September 1959. The board trimmed floor area and specifications to fit the budget and will decide in thirty days which features to discard or restore. General contractor Davison and Son of Tawas won the bid. Lyndrop Plumbing of Greenville and Dryer and Norris Electric of Fremont won their respective bids.
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Clare School Board
Davison and Son of
Tawas
Lyndrop Plumbing
Greenvillé
Michigan
Dryer
Norris Electric
Fremont
Public Schools Have Record Enrollment Rosebush Schools Grow
The Rosebush Public Schools opened Tuesday with 273 students in K–8, plus 27 from the Bowen District after annexation, totaling 300 in 9 classrooms. Faculty include Joanne Nelson, Lois Watt, Lola Fordyce, Bernice Morrison, Marie Evans, Irus Eggleston, Agnes Epple, Hileen Jacobs, Georgeann Wolfe, Rhea O Grady, Dorothy Lowery. Seven buses service elementary and high school students.
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Rosebush
Bowen
Joanne Nelson
Lois Watt
Lola Fordyce
Bernice Morrison
Marie Evans
Irus Eggleston
Agnes Epple
Hileen Jacobs
Georgeann Wolfe
Rhea O’grady
Bowen ‘School
Dorothy Lowery
Pioneers Scrimmage St Francis Ahead of Spotlight Brandon
Clare High football team will host St Francis of Traverse City for a Friday night scrimmage on the home field. The Pioneers have trained since September 2 and will face Michigan Supsea Seminary on September 26 at Sagi. The non regulation game offers fans a view of talent under coach George Perry.
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Clare High
St. Francis of
Traverse City
Pioneers
Michigan Suspeaa Seminary
Sagi
St. Francis
Clare
George Perry
Michigan Bell Names New Area Manager
Michigan Bell announces Clare as headquarters for a new Saginaw district area and Clarence B. Riedel as manager. Riedel will run commercial operations for Beaverton Clare Coleman Farwell Gladwin Harrison and Rosebush, an eight thousand two hundred telephone area. He has sixteen years with the company and previously led the Lapeer unit. He is active in local groups and a University of Michigan graduate. He is married with two sons.
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Michigan Bell Telephone Company
Clare
Saginaw
Clarence B. ‘Riedel
Riedel
Beaverton
Coleman
Farwell
Gladwin
Harrison
Rosebush
C. B. Riedel
Michigan Bell
W. Firth
Lapeer
Port Huron
Flint
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Lapeer County Red Cross
University of Michigan
U. of M. Alumni Club
Flint Area
Boy Scout Council
First Presbyterian Church
Congressman Cederberg to meet Clare County residents
Rep Elford A Cederberg of Michigan's 10th District will hold private conferences at the Harrison Courthouse on Monday September 22 from 2 30 to 4 p m Residents may discuss federal matters with the congressman who says the visit is not a political meeting and no speeches will be given He aims to learn citizens views and assist with national government issues in informal talks in each of fourteen counties.
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Clare County
Elford A. Cederberg
10Th Congressional District
Harrison
The
Sentinel
Washington
Cederberg
Clare Man Opens Sealtest Dairy Service
Bob Beck launches Sealtest Dairy service in Clare and Farwell with delivery routes serving local groceries. A lifelong Clare resident, he grew up here and served in the U.S. military. He is married to Virginia Prior, has four children, and operates from 506 East Sixth Street.
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Bob Beck
Clare
Farwell
Bob
U.S
Virginia Prior
Mt. Pleasant
Becks
East Sixth Street
Kroger and Westinghouse Sponsor Junior Cook Contest
Teenagers aged 12 to 20 compete for 1500 cash prizes totaling 100000 in a Kroger Westinghouse driven Junior Cook of the Year contest. Winners inJunior and Senior divisions receive 2000 each, runners up 1000 plus merchandise. Finalists and grand prize winner will be named after a Cincinnati cook-off next May.
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John Bone
Grand Rapids
Kroger Co
Kroger
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Clare
Air France
Paris
London
Brussels
Amsterdam
Westinghouse
Cincinnati
PTA Begins Meetings at Clare School This September
The Clare PTA opens the new school year with a September 15 meeting at 8 o'clock in the school. Mrs. Van Every and Mrs. Donavan will speak on kindergarten and parental attendance. A film titled Ricky and The Three R's will be shown and a Hospitality Committee will introduce parents to teachers.
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Clare Parent-Teacher Association
PTA
van Every
Donavan
Ricky
2 in 1 Egg Report Found by Mrs Merle Esterline
Mrs. Merle Esterline of Far reports finding a double egg on September 5 while cooking. A normally shaped egg contained a second smaller egg with a refined heart shape inside a transparent shell.
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Merle Esterline
Homemaking Talk Highlights Clare Club Meeting
The Clare Business and Professional Womens Club met in the Fifth Avenue room of Hotel Doherty. Virginia Seitz, local art teacher, spoke on Homemaking and color use in homes, with Q&A. President Fannie Yeoman led business, and members planned district meeting in Flint on October 5.
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Clare Business and Professional Womens. Club
Fifth Avenue
Doherty
Ina Hammond
Grace Higelmire
Doris Bicknell
Virginia Seitz
Mys Fannie Yeoman
Boyne Falls
Dorotha Kirkpatrick
Hammond
Yeoman
Flint
Rose Knight
Citizens Bank sponsored Clare softball opens State Invitational
The Citizens Bank sponsored Clare softball team begins play Friday in the State Invitational at Midland. The Ideal nine faces Lan sing at 6 15 p m. A two loss elimination format applies with Clare set for a second game at 10 30 a m Saturday if they win and 9 00 a m if they lose. Other entrants include Detroit Plymouth Saginaw Roseville Waterford and Midland.
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Citizens Bank
Clare
Midland
Ideal
Lansing
Detroit
Plymouth
Saginaw
Roseville
Waterford
Enrollment Short Of Predictions Crowded Clare District
Enrollment at Clare Public Schools stood at 1 410 after week one with nine sites in use including Clare and Andersonville. Pre registration had estimated 1 453 and last year counted 1 333 before final annexations. The board seeks extra kindergarten space, proposing use of Clare Methodist church classrooms to relieve two crowded rooms run by Mrs VanEvery and Mrs Donovan.
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Clare
Andersonville
Brown
Carrow
Colonville
Eagle
Herrick
Loomis
Randall
Wildcat
Clayton B. Neff
Clare Methodist Church
VanEvery
Donovan
Methodist Church Board
Baby Cousins Born Simultaneously in Mt Pleasant Hospital
Newborn cousins Ronald Lee Garver and Tammie Jean Bates arrived almost at once in Mt Pleasant Community Hospital on September 6. Their fathers, Roger Garver and Lyle Bates, are second cousins, linking the families via Forest Garver and Orville Bates with ancestral ties to Jennie Bates and the late Fred Allen.
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Mt. Pleasant Community Hospital
Ronald Lee Garver
Roger Garvers
Tammie Jean Bates
Lyle Bates
Forest Garvers
Orville Bates
Tammie
Jennie Bates
Fred Allen
Forest Garver
John Allen
Stag Day at Twin Elms draws central Michigan crowd
Clare Chamber of Commerce hosts first annual Stag Day with golf, games, and a steak dinner by chef Art Damoth. Door prizes and competitive awards promise a day of relaxation and camaraderie for local members and visitors.
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Clare Chamber of Commerce
Twin Elms
Central Michigan
Art Damoth
Clare Businessmen’s Organization
Collectors Clare Newsstands to Sell Esquire Anniversary Issue
Collectors Clare newsstands join others in selling a spectacular Esquire anniversary issue marking 25 years. McGregor news agency says copies come boxed in gleaming silver foil cartons with pages by renowned fiction writers and features. Priced at $1.00, the issue is billed as a collectors item.
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Clare
Esquire
McGregor News Agency
Local industry praised in Michigan ad series
A Sentinel ad urges appreciation of existing industry for community economic growth. It stresses that keeping and expanding homegrown industry offers the best payroll, calling it a priceless asset and urging towns not to take local plants for granted. The campaign is part of a statewide series in Michigan papers.
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Michigan
Michigan fall color alerts personalized for travelers
The Michigan Tourist Council will again offer individually addressed cards to notify travelers when autumn color begins and peaks across the state. Executive secretary Robert J. Furlong says the plan is unique in the nation and guides visitors from the first color show to peak displays.
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Michigan
Michigan Tourist Council
Robert J. Furlong
Tower Peninsula
Lansing
Young boater fined for reckless operation in Clare County
Lewis R Coulton 19 of Lake Michigan Lake R41 pleaded guilty to reckless operation of a motor boat on Perch Lake Garfield township on September 1. He was fined 25 dollars and taxed 4.30 dollars in court costs before Justice John DeForest.
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Clare County
Lewis R. Coulton
Lake
Perch Lake
Garfield Township
Coulton
John DeForest
Farwell
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