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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1957
Page
1
The Clare school Parent-Teacher Association announced a new Community Calendar sales drive to fund PTA projects. Final planning occurred at the PTA’s first fall meeting held Monday evening at Clare High.
L A Walton president of Giant Super Markets and Ray L Carter president of Rays Food Fair reveal a completed consolidated management plan. Walton is chairman Ray L Carter is general manager with W F Walton as assistant. New supermarkets planned for early next year in Michigan regions.
Ann Ess Morrow reflects on how classroom seating reveals habits and identity. The piece compares students choosing spots to daily routines, notes the front row desire and the anxious rush for chairs, and adds playful anecdotes about pets and classroom rituals. It closes with a whimsical line about the classroom Blackboard.
Sixty six attendees enjoyed the Ladies Aid turkey dinner with all the trimmings at the British College Community Building on Thursday September 12. Hosts and hostesses included Mrs Amanda Newman Mrs Bernard Allen and Mrs Leo Fitzpatrick who thanked workers on their new home.
Sixty wild turkeys were released along the Muskegon River between Temple and Leota and twenty five near Lake George in Clare County. The ten weeks old birds were raised by the State Conservation Department at its Mason game farm from eggs sent from Pennsylvania.
The National Wildlife Federation in Washington authorized a 20 000 two year fund to promote Soil Bank and small watersheds education and to curb wetlands drainage. Executive Director Ernest Swift said state agencies and conservation groups will be asked for input as the plan advances.
T C Maher of Michigan Bell announces Clare will receive dial phones within a year in a $223000 modernization plan. New numbers will use Evergreen prefixes plus five digits, with brochures and color choices offered to customers before installer visits.
Mayor Laurene Seiter proclaims September 17 to 23 1957 as Constitution Week in Clare Michigan urging citizens to honor the U S Constitution and the Bill of Rights with flags at homes and businesses and to support good government in this nation under God.
The Claré Isabella School District 8 asks electors to approve a bond for school construction and expansion on Saturday September 21, the day after tomorrow. The February defeat stood 560 Yes to 579 No with up to 2500 voters speculated. Supporters cite higher district valuation reducing the millage rate and aim to boost turnout to pass the measure.
Dauss Keldon Jones, 30, of Rosebush, was killed early Saturday when his car crashed into a parked truck in front of the Coffee Cup restaurant in Harrison. Sheriff James Darling said Jones was thrown from the car and died at the scene. his wife was summoned. Jones was taken to Stinson Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant.
Mrs Mary Brooks spent Saturday amid weddings as a niece and granddaughter wed. Doris Marie Marshall spoke nuptial vows in the forenoon and granddaughter Lavonna Seiter wed in the evening. Nearby events include Farwell VFW Post 309 building a new hall and Auxiliary hosting a potluck, a laundry stop for a traveling Iowa family, and chiropractors meeting at Hotel Doherty with reps from multiple cities.
Una Landskroener won the Ladies Handicap Golf Tournament at Twin Elms Country Club edging Mae Baumgarth in the championship flight. In other flights Ann Olson and Grace Frey played top, while Mae Behnke beat Jennie Bowler. Junior boys winner Ray Neff posted 47 with others following. girls winner Carol Baumgarth had 64 and Sandy Wright 71 was runner-up.
Dr. Cornelius B. Wood was honored last week as a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons at the Palmer House in Chicago. The ceremony drew nearly three thousand surgeons from the United States and other nations, reflecting exchanges of ideas and international goodwill.
The State DeMolay Advisory Board met at the Hotel Doherty on Saturday September 14 with members led by Chairman Richard A Brand of Detroit and Secretary Louis F Janda of Muskegon. Final plans were approved for the State DeMolay Conference to be held at Traverse City in November 89 and 10. The initiatory class at the conference was named the Francis M Dodge Class in honor of the immediate past Grand Master of Michigan Masonry.
Farmers move from wooden spouts and buckets to plastic tubing for sap collection. The method reduces labor and enables one person operation, aiding modernization as production costs rise and labor wanes. Minnesota programs and major distributors plan outreach and supply access to farmers.
Dover Church will dedicate its new electric organ in special services Sunday September 22 at 3 p m Mrs Gertrude Pfetsch of Mt Pleasant will initiate the program featuring 15 selections including Scenes Around The Cross and From Gethsemane to Calvary A Pilgrim's Song of Hope and Harvest Time Is Here conclude the concert Rev Arthur Cunningham Dover pastor invites the public.
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