Legislature Considers 513800 for MMCC Funding
Mid Michigan Community College MMCC would receive 513800 in state funding under an appropriation bill in Lansing. The plan shows a 13.36 percent rise over 1972 73 funding but MMCC faces higher tuition and local tax burdens due to a new funding formula.
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Harrison
Mid
Michigan Community College
Lansing
George E. Miller
Miller
MMCC
Eugene W. Gillaspy
MMGC
Gillaspy
Michigan
Taxpayer groups meet to discuss Michigan association
Clare County hosts a day long meeting of taxpayers from several areas to discuss forming a Michigan taxpayers association. Speakers traveled from Lansing Grand Rapids and Washington to Clare County Courthouse basement for the session led by Martha Gallagher secretary of the Clare County Taxpayers Association.
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Harrison
Michigan
Lansing
Grand Rapids
Washington
Clare County
Martha Gallagher
Clare County Taxpayers Association
Gladwin Girl Carries Miss Michigan to Basketball Camp
Carrul Jannivan 2 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs James Piven of North MI begins a summer shift from Miss Michigan pageant to a girls basketball camp. The 1971 Gladwin High graduate placed third in Muskegon, won swimsuit and evening gown prizes, was named Miss Conpensal im by peers, and will coach and teach at a 4 girl camp in Pennsylvania before returning to pursue a PE major and possible college coaching career.
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Gladwin
Carrul Jannivan
James Piven
North MI
Qin
Bravette
Muskegon
Pennsylvania
Flynn
Gladwin Highschool
Kisnn
Carol Lynn Filgen
Gialdwin
Hayes Township growth studied by MSU survey team
Michigan State University survey team will study Hayes Township growth to guide future use in similar communities. Population rose from 606 in 1960 to 1942 in 1970, a 220 percent jump, among the state and nations’ largest. Supervisor Harley Tuttle reports growth continues.
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Harrison
Hayes Township
Michigan State University
Harley Tuttle
Peter Gladhart
Gladhart
Gladhare
Clare High School alumni hold reunion and elect officers
About 113 alumni from Clare High School or earlier gathered for the annual reunion and banquet in Clare. Louis Meeker was chosen president for the coming year, with Marguerite Forsberg as vice president and Lula Birdsall as secretary treasurer. The group discussed collecting historical data on early Clare County settlers as part of a bicentennial project.
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Clare
Clare High School
Clare County
Louis Meeker
Arthur D. Schoonover
Marguerite Thayer Forsberg
Lula Wooston Birdsall
Forrest Meek
Meek
America
Michael Archambault
Mable Mulder
Acd
Davy
Florence Kennedy
Dorothy Duncan
Frances FitzGerald
Jane Keshman
Florida
California
Iowa
Cleo Beale Hardy
Gordon MclIntosh
Frank Helprock
Frhel Carncross Penrose
Vesta Walton
Walter Toehe Co Low Bid On U S 10 Clare Project
The Walter Toehe Co of Wixom won the U S 10 freeway project in Clare County with a bid of 6 491 644 covering grading drainage structures and five bridges with an expected completion in April 1975. Seven firms bid and Toehe had the lowest bid.
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Clare
Walter Toehe
Straw berry man in Harrison recalls patch profits and origins
Amiel Steffens tends a four acre strawberry plot in Harrison where pick your own berries draw visitors. He recalls 18 years of planting, past prices, and the shift to plastic containers while noting raspberries were hit by frost and the church will be built nearby.
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Harrison
Amiel Steffens
Steffens
Town Line Lake Road
Harrisons
Lenawee County
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House Appropriations Committee
Senate
Ital
MSCU
Beauty
Florence McKeever Kane
Glee Duncan
Bernice Allen McKillop
Doris Nelson Bicknell
Frances Davy FitzGerald
Irene Allen Clute
Claude Love
County Extension
George MacQueen
MacQueen
Clare Chamber of Commerce
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