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Midwinter Michigan Travel Notes and Veterans Program Update
Col Karl Detzer spoke in Traverse City urging Michigan editors to back Secretary Marshall and Senator Van denberg. The piece recounts a June 1947 Traverse City weekend with coastal trips, cabin stays, and meals, plus notes on Michigan lakes, itineraries, and a curio-filled notebook of local hospitality. It also covers Office of Veterans Affairs programs, psychiatric clinics, and readjustment centers with statistics on veterans served and recovery rates. A safety feature explains how kapok life vests lose buoyancy when compressed and must be dried and stored properly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl Detzer
Reader's Digest
Michigan
George C. Marshall
Arthur Vandenberg
Detzer
Traverse City
Joe Stalin
Marshall