Community school districts urged to boost rural Michigan education
Rural sociologist John F. Thaden of Michigan State University argues that forming 12 grade community school districts around local centers best serves rural Michigan children. He says universal educational opportunities are greater in these districts than in partial or low-commonality districts.
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Michigan
John F. Thaden
Michigan State University Agricultural Experiment Station
Thaden
Beleves
Community districts should organize around natural groupings
Thaden argues for community districts formed by natural boundaries and self sufficient service centers. He notes only 44 percent of 12 grade districts offer five services and predicts rising enrollments through 1962. A Michigan State bulletin outlines Equalizing Educational Opportunity Through Community School Districts.
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Thaden
Michigan State University Agricultural Experiment Station
Agricultural Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing
Alfalfa Cutting Study Teases Better Harvest Handling
Michigan State University researchers reveal a cutting management system for alfalfa to ease harvest load. Field Day at East Lansing on September 5 features tests of two three and four cutting treatments with tours starting at 10 am.
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Michigan
Michigan State University
East Lansing
Michigan State
Funeral Services Held for Willis E Gillen 69
Funeral services for Willis E Gillen 69 a former Saline resident were held Wednesday August 12 at Fred Wood Funeral Home Detroit. Burial followed at Oakwood Cemetery Saline He died Sunday at Veterans Administration Hospital Dearborn Born Saline September 24 1888 son of John and Eleanor Clark Gillen a World War I veteran he had lived in Detroit for years He is survived by a sister Ruth Rouse of Detroit and a brother Grover Gillen of Ann Arbor
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Willis E. Gillen
Saline
Fred. Wood
Detroit
Oakwood
Veterans Administration
Dearborn
John
Eleanor Clark Gillen
Ruth Rouse
Grover Gillen
Ann Arbor
Funeral is held for Norman D Beamer 24 of Lodi township
Funeral services were held for Norman D Beamer 24 at Lockwood Funeral Home. He died after a 60 foot fall from the Ann Arbor Trust Ridge in Ann Arbor. He was born in Flint and married Dorothy Weible in Detroit. He served in Korea and worked for the Ann Arbor Window Cleaning Co. He is survived by his wife two sisters a brother and his mother. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery.
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Norman D. Beamer
Pleasant Lake Rd
Lodi Township
Lockwood Funeral Home
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
Ann Arbor Trust Ridg
Ann Arbor
Beamer
Flint
George and
Velyo Keller Beamer
Dorothy Weible
Detroit
Ann Arbor Window Cleaning Co
Horseshoe Lake
United States Army
Moose Lodge
Velvo Culner
Robert Beamer
Ypsilanti
Kenneth Lawhorn
Grant Kline
William O. Farley
Grace Bible Church
Oakwood Cemetery
County Soil Bank Signup Opens September 1 1959
Washtenaw County Conservation Reserve details how farmers may enter the Soil Bank program for 1959. Signup begins September 3 at the Washtenaw County ASC Office in Ann Arbor with required farm data to establish annual rental rates. The program retires land from general crops for up to 10 years with government rental payments and cost sharing for conservation practices.
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Washtenaw County
Agricultural, Stabilization and Conservation Office
Ann Arbor
Max M. Kalmbach
ASC
Soil Bank
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