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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1968
Page
11
Michigan Public Service Commission keeps utility rate petitions in check with hearings and careful analysis. Knight McKeeson notes ratepayer interests guide decisions while partial relief requires solid evidence and public notice. Peter Spivak heads the Republican panel with a twenty thousand dollar annual salary.
In November 1948 the Good Old Days column notes two well known Clare men died within days of each other. The column reflects on the town’s history and memorializes local figures.
The Clare Sentinel lists Willis Ward of Detroit a Republican and William Boos Jr. of Bay City a Democrat each receiving $19 000. It details the Michigan Public Service Commission staff of 27 monitors 30 electric utilities 11 gas firms 72 telephone companies 15 private water firms and 26 gas pipelines. The staff builds cases after hearings and supported a $4.1 million rate reduction in 1960 for Michigan Bell. It recalls state government paid tens of millions in utility bills and mentions local figures and past election shifts including Truman Dewey Williams and other items.
Gilmore Pioneer Farm Bureau met at the William Phillips home last Monday evening. A chicken pie and pot luck dinner was served as seven o clock. Mrs Lola Graham from the Ardis Rest Home in Farwell was taken to the Mt. Pleasant hospital Wednesday night. She has pneumonia. Ray Spens has returned home from Vietnam. His wife teaches at Weidman. They are living in Elwyn Pitts trailer. Mrs. Bessie Sexton was in a car accident in Detroit and was in the Detroit hospital. Mr. and Mrs. William Korthas and family of Wixom are spending the weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Seymour. Terry Pitts got his first deer the first day of deer season.
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