Lenawee County elects first rural education board
A former county school commissioner, a banker, and three farmers campaigned at the Lenawee county court house to form the first county board of education. Five members will serve staggered six and four year terms, representing diverse townships and including Adrian city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenawee County
Robert Bruce
Blissfield
Ogden District No
Nathan Knowles
Manitou Beach
Rollin District No. 1
Knowles
E. T. Armstrong
Adrian
Hal Benner
Clayton
Dover District No. 10
Elmer Eberhardt
Britton
Tecumseh
Milton C. Porter
Board of Supervisors
Porter
Adrian City
Raisin
Palmyra
Madison
Woodstock
Cambridge
Rollin
Rome
Franklin
Russell Lapham
Clinton
Tecumseh Macon
Ridgeway
Eberhardt
Bruce
Harold Rohrback
J. W. Ferman
Ray Wiley
Charles Wilson
County Tax Allocation Board
Heat Wave Burdens Adrian And Michigan Area
The heat continued across Michigan with Adrian reporting 99.5 degrees yesterday afternoon the warmest since July 19 1946 while Pellston 97 Traverse City 96 Jackson 94 and Alpena 76. Other cities faced higher temperatures as far south as Chicago and Memphis saw readings above 100. An incoming cold front from Canada was forecast to lower temperatures tonight.
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Adrian
Michigan
Pellston
Traverse City
Jackson
Alpena
Chattanooga
Tenn
Little Rock
Ark
Memphis
Chicago Weather Bureau
Canada
Dakotas
Minnesota
Milk Ordinance Adopted in Adrian by City Commission
The Adrian city commission adopted a new milk ordinance to take effect April 1, 1949 aligning with state handling and sale standards. It licenses milk sellers and dairy farms, with copies to be printed for interested parties. A second reading on another sanitary food handling ordinance was postponed until final passage.
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Adrian
E. A. Ballenberger
H. C. Huntley
Airport Commission
Buckman-Hansen Co
Ft. Wayne
Maple Avenue
College Avenue
Bent Oak Avenue
Butler Street
Louis Germond
South Street
Dennis
Winter Streets
Fremon Ansted
The
Water Board
Gerity Purchases Brown Buildings In Indiana Plant Expansion
Gerity Michigan Die Casting Company buys part of the former Brown Fence and Wire complex at Michigan Street and Wabash Avenue, adding about 80 000 square feet across three brick and two frame buildings. A Wabash railroad spur enhances shipping, frontage on Michigan Street spans 375 feet, and offices will move to the new site freeing space at Beecher Street. The firm operates plants in Detroit and Adrian and is a leading independent plating and bathroom fixture concern with a large order backlog.
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Brown Fence & Wire Company
Michigan Street
Wa_bash Avenue
Gerity-Michigan Die Casting Company
James Gerity Jr
Tranfer
Beecher Street
Detroit
Adrian
Service Steel Co
Jim Brown Company
Question Of What Is Used Car Appears Headed For High Court
In Lansing on August 5 195? the Michigan Supreme Court may hear the case of Hugh D Salway a Jonesville used car dealer cited in a drive against dealers selling unlicensed cars The state seeks a court definition of new car vs used car amid a broader probe into a black market in new vehicles Defense argues for delay and pushes Salways case as a test while Attorney General Black says the aim is to end the racket and not to hurt Salway personally
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alger
Lansing
State Supreme Court
Fred M. Alger Jr
Hugh D. Salway
Jonesville
Eugene F. Black
Harry F. Kelly
Salway
Black
Michigan
Kelly
Albert W. Dimmers
Hillsdale
Golly
Jammed Aileron Forces Odom To End World Flight
CHICAGO August 5 William Bill Odom started a around the world solo flight but after reaching Halifax Nova Scotia he reported ailerons jammed forcing a return to Chicago airport where he landed after nine hours and 24 minutes of flight He plans to leave again tomorrow to attempt to cut Wiley Post 186 hour record in Winnie Mae monoplane and said the heavy 2460 gallon fuel load unsettled the converted A 26 bomber during takeoff and nearly caused a crash.
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Chicago
William
Bill) Odom
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Wiley Post
Six Year Old Breaks Leg After Running Into Car
Barbara Shourds six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Donald Shourds of Rome Center suffered a broken right leg and bruises when she ran into a car on US 223 in Rome Center yesterday at 1250 pm. She crossed from south to north side after waiting for an east bound car and struck a west bound car driven by Henry Sullivan of Rochester NY. The injured girl was taken to Bixby hospital and is expected to be discharged today.
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Barbara Shourds
Donald Shourds
Rome Center
Henry Sullivan
Rochester
N. Y
Too Many Amateur Pickpockets Lament by Jap Officer
TOKYO Aug. 5 A Japanese police officer complains that pickpocketing has shifted from skilled operators to amateurs such as demobilized soldiers and the unemployed. Tokyo police caught 159 pickpockets in the month long contest, including four women, with ten individual winners to be announced Aug. 10. The officer says it was a hard contest and recalls the days of more polished criminals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Takesai Utsugi
Home Ministry
Utsugi
Half Holiday Plan Voted To Continue Weekday Closings
Adrian merchants voted 30 to 4 to extend Thursday afternoon closings for a year from Sept 1 1947 to Sept 1 1948. Montgomery Ward disagreed citing national policy of no afternoon closings. Small shops favored staggered time off, while three large chains varied by location but generally stayed open into evenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrian
L. S. Trottier
Montgomery Ward & Company
Trottier
Queen Mary Arrives in New York After Ocean Crossing
The giant British liner Queen Mary, holder of the trans Atlantic speed record, completed her first postwar crossing and was given a gala welcome to New York harbor.
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New York
New York Harbor
Roosevelt resents implication party girls were for him
Elliott Roosevelt demanded that Howard Hughes publicist John W. Meyer state if any party girls obtained were procured for him during wartime airplane contracts. He argued Meyer implied all girls were for him, denied by Meyer who noted gifts at parties and questioned Roosevelt’s status in the army. Roosevelt recalled lavish entertainment expenses and his combat front service.
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Washington
Elliott Roosevelt
John W. Meyer
Howard Hughes
Roosevelt
Senate War Investigating Committee
Hughes
Meyer
Young Roosevelt
Emerson
Senate
Pacific Coast
George Co. Marshall
Army
Marshall
Carl Spaatz
Doolittle
Eisenhower
Spaatz
Hisenhower
Khow
Charchman Ferguson
Ki-Mich
Ferguson
Hoosevelt
Senate War Investigating Subcommittee
Afternoon Bridge Parties Seen as Household Curse
Detroit reports the International Stewards and Caterers Association annual convention hears Thomas P. Jones declare afternoon bridge parties are the curse of the American household. He advises wives to avoid such events and delicatessen stores to keep husbands content with varied menus.
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Detroit
Thomas P. Jones
International Stewards and Caterers Association
Hartley Says He's Satisfied With Decision
Rep. Fred A. Hartley says the Ford UAW agreement is an honest effort to comply with Taft Hartley and not an evasion. He praises a meeting of the minds to avert a potentially disastrous strike and argues the act proves labor can secure good contracts.
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Los Angeles
Fred A. Hartley
R-N.j
Cease fire holds as Dutch seize north Java coast
Front line reports say both Dutch and Republican troops observed cease fire orders in the Indonesian fighting zones. The Dutch control 210 air miles along Java's north coast after linking eastern and western forces before midnight. Sobsie appeals to the UN Security Council for a supervising commission and calls for a boycott of Dutch troop ships, while Dutch orders promise to maintain law and order in their controlled areas.
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Batavia
Java
Semarang
Sobsie
Republican Rage
United Nations ‘Security Council
Netherlands East Indies
Netherlands Army
Hiroshima Prays For Peace Amid Third Anniversary Observance
In Hiroshima, Aug 5, doves flew over the ruined city as survivors opened a three day observance marking the Aug 6 1945 atomic bombing. Mayor Shisso Hamai led prayers urging world renunciation of war and noted the city’s survival and return to peace. About 92 000 dead or missing from the blast and over half the city’s structures were destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiroshima
Japan
Shisso Hamai
Hamai
Attlee seeks powers in crisis to mobilize economy
Prime Minister Attlee introduced surprise wartime style legislation in the House of Commons to grant broad new powers to raise agricultural and industrial output amid Britain’s economic crisis. A government source noted it would not grant direct labor control. Morrison said it would enable full mobilization of national resources while Eden protested timing ahead of adjournment.
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London
Attlee
House of Commons
Britain
Herbert Morrison
Anthony Eden
House
Morrison
British Arrest Jewish Leaders in Palestine Dawn Raids
In Jerusalem on August 5 the British jailed mayors of Tel Aviv Ramat Gan Natanya and Petah Tiqva along with dozens of Jewish political figures in dawn raids billed as part of the anti terrorism campaign. A Street of the Prophets labor building blast killed a British constable, with two others trapped, while reports spoke of armed Jewish groups and missing soldiers. The arrests followed two weeks of Jewish underground violence including the hanged sergeants near Natanya. Authorities said about 60 were to be detained under defense emergency regulations.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Ramat Gan
Natanya
Petah Tiqva
Labor Department
Palestine
Revisionist
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Autopsy Fails to Reveal Cause of Infant Death
An infant boy about six months old found in the River Raisin near Blissfield was autopsied at University Hospital in Ann Arbor. Pathologists could not determine if the child was alive when placed in the water due to advanced decomposition. State police continue the investigation as bricks surrounded the body prior to its disposal.
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University Hospital
Ann Arbor
Raisin
Blissfield
Paul Betz
Blissfield Post
Lloyd Betz
Iffland Road
Youth Drowns in Canal During Vacation Stay
Robert Pillsbury an 18 year old Grand Rapids youth drowned Monday afternoon in a canal linking Lake Cadil lac and Lake Mitchell where his family vacationed. Tom Brehm of Franklin pulled him from the water but police could not revive him.
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Cadillac
Robert Pillsbury
R. M. Pillsbury
Grand Rapids
Lake Cadillac
Lake Mitchell
Tom Brehm
Franklin
Taft Hartley pact averts Ford UAW strike in delay
Detroit Aug 5 United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co reached an eleventh hour agreement under Taft Hartley to avert a 107000 strong walkout. The pact grants the union a one year protection from damage suits under the law as talks on remaining issues including a pension plan proceed. Ford and UAW will form a joint study group to resolve liability questions and potential strike rights beyond the year. Negotiations resume on pension and other issues while Murray Corp. strike actions and auto supply disruptions continue to affect plants nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
CIC
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
Ford
UAW
Henry Ford I
Waw-Cio
Ford-Uaw
John Burgas
Ford Industrial Relations
Richard Leonard
Thomas Thompson
Auto Union
Murray Corp. of America
Murray Uaw
Murray
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Gerity
Brown Buildings
Jimmy
Little Jimmy Foster
Odom
Queen Mary
Uaw-Cio
Hartley
Elliott
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