Viewpoint on Free Textbooks Costs Burden for Michigan Schools
A reader letter discusses the Michigan Supreme Court ruling requiring free textbooks and materials. It notes deposits for damaged items, cites budget impacts of about 2.6 percent of a 1969-70 district budget, and urges state legislators to adopt a new tax plan beyond property taxes. The piece highlights wide regional differences and potential reductions in services and creativity.
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Supreme Court
the Sentinel
Clare
Mt. Pleasant
Saginaw County
Detroit
Birmingham
Dearborn
Michigan
Lawmakers Offices Listed in Washington and Lansing
U S Senator Robert Griffin and U S Senator Philip A Hart have Senate Office Buildings in Washington D C while U S Representative Elford A Cederberg serves the 10th District with Clare Rayburn Building in Washington D C State Senator John F Toepp of the 36th District sits at the State Capitol in Lansing Michigan and State Representative Donald E Holbrook Jr of the 99th District also meets at the State Capitol in Lansing.
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U.S
Robert Griffin
Senate
Washington, D
Philip A. Hart
Washington, D.C
U. S
Elford A. Cederberg
Clare Rayburn
John F. Toepp
Clare County
State Capitol
Lansing
Michigan
Donald E. Holbrook Jr
Two Key Moments Mark 1968 Michigan Republican Convention
At the August state convention Emil Lockwood clinched the secretary of state nomination in a dramatic 10 vote final tally after shifting county lists. The event contrasted with Richard Durant’s unity plea to conservatives and a broader push to shape Michigan Republican leadership for years to come.
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Emil Lockwood
Lockwood
Weldon Yeager
Detroit - Area
Richard Rant
Michigan
Chicago
Thos
Austin
Milliken
Richard Durant
Durant
Republican Party
Richard Nixon
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Liberty ship memories from war to nerve gas sinking
A veteran recalls being aboard a Liberty ship at war’s end on the Atlantic and later notes the Pentagon used another old Liberty ship for a nerve gas disposal in the same ocean. He cannot recall the ship names.
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Japan
Sen
Atlantic
Germany
U.S. Army
Pentagon
10 000 Cutouts Silenced by Base Action at Lackland
The Lackland Air Force Base newspaper printed a photo of the general without visible stars and officers then ordered 10 000 copies to be issued with holes. The editor was fired. The clippings were stored in a steel foot locker aboard an old LST and sunk by a small bomb. The narrator recalls a stormy Atlantic voyage and hints at nerve gas aboard a Liberty ship.
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U.S
Lackland Air Force Base
Texas
LST
Mississippi
Unrest Blamed In Part On Schools
A CMU driven two part series reports on student participation in college governance based on a national study by the American Assembly on University Goals and Governance. It notes wide variability and low overall student influence with fewer than 1 percent of CMU students on university committees last year.
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Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant
The
American Assembly
Jerry Shaffer
Pat Taylor
Shaffer
Charles J. Ping
CMU
Ping
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Alfred R. Bransdorfer
Paul G. Schroeder
Mgr
Geraldine Huntoon
Isabella
Gladwin
Osceola
Midland & Mecosta
States
Almanack
Lockwood and
Publican
James Brickley
Brickley
William Farr
Grand Rapids
John R. Dethmers
Edward Piggins
Joe
Ner
Richard Austin
Goldwater
Dick Durant
Jim Fitzgerald
North Atlantic
Air Force
University Senate
Donna Patterson
Miss Patterson
Albert S. Miles
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