Michigan Mirror: Pressure groups sway state legislation
Lansing notes a gala season of lobbying as Rep Elton Eaton argues pressure groups push bills through in Lansing. The Plymouth Mail editor, a former governor secretary, contends many measures favor special interests at the public cost, leaving farmers and workers taxed and underserved.
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Lansing
Michigan
Elton R. Eaton
Wayne County
Plymouth Mail
Groesbeck
Haton
Mr. Eaton
Plymouth
Special pressure groups jam through bills before election
The article describes how organized pressure groups prepare legislative drafts far ahead of elections. An executive secretary runs a newspaper clipping service to identify candidates like John Hirman Promiser. They send letters promising backing from Lansing or Detroit and seek pledges of support before candidates are nominated.
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Hawks
John Hirman
Promiser
Hickory Corners
John Hirman Promiser
Lansing
Detroit
Michigan
Behind the Curtain of Lansing Lobbyists and Influence
The piece criticizes lobbyists and executive secretaries who pressure legislators with letters and promises. It notes some lobbyists provide useful information, but many seek to influence committee chairs through gifts and social hospitality to push favored bills.
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House
Senate
How Laws are Made Session Lobbyists Restricted On Floor
A legislative rule bars lobbyists from the house floor during sessions forcing them to stay in the gallery or cloak rooms. In a recent bill debate the committee chairman failed to spot his lobbyist friend in the gallery prompting note of the rule and its enforcement.
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Lansing
House
House of Representatives
Momentary interruption shapes law making in legislatures
An executive secretary arrives briefly while the chairman performs his role, illustrating how new laws often reach the statute books. The scene reflects public complaint about legislatures and the laws they enact.
Government by Pressure in Lansing and Washington
The portrait of Eaton underscores a Lansing scene where bills gain sanction through sponsor group influence. Government by pressure extends from Lansing to Washington as centralization grows with more bureaus and commissions, raising payroll costs funded by taxes and fees.
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Eaton
Lansing
Washington
Richards Family Visits Span Dearborn and Holland Tulip Festival
Mr and Mrs A G Richards visited relatives in Dearborn. Herbert of Detroit hosted Raymond Riggs and Paul Richards of Northville visited his parents D G Richards. The Richards and Margaret Schroen went to Holland for the tulip festival then stopped by South Haven and Lake Michigan and called on Mrs Andrew Murray of Jackson.
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A. G. Richards
Dearborn
Herbert
Detroit
Raymond Riggs
Paul Richards
Northville
D. G. Richards
Margaret Schroen
Holland
South Haven
Lake Michigan
Andrew Murray
Jackson
Local notes cover events in West Saline and Milan
Carl Graf plans a new tool shed project. Chickenpox appears in the Marion brothers' home. Mr and Mrs A A Harlan of Milan hosted dinner guests Friday. W P Schwoche and party attended the 46th wedding anniversary in Detroit for Otto Schwoche and spouse. Dell school to close Friday for a picnic with a midnight buffet. Ice cream funded by the school board. Chauncey Fitz Gerald serves as substitute teacher since Christmas. Dorothy Fairbanks hired as next year’s teacher.
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Carl Graf
Marion Brothers
A. A. Harlan
Milan
Fred Arend
W. P. Schwoche
Detroit
Otto Schwoche
Dell
Chauncey, Fitz- Gerald
Dorothy Fairbanks
Mooreville Social Notes With Illnesses And Visit Totals
Anna Shaw on the sick list while Wilfred and Worene Schwartz ill this week with tonsillitis. Dc S Herkimer left for Harlingen Texas to live with his brother for a year. Ida Wood of Omaha Neb spent Monday with Anna Shaw and A J Turner. Paul Ruddock and Detroit visitors visited Paul Ruddock and family. Paul Lewis builds a new house on Ridge road after a previous home burned. A miscellaneous shower honored Warren Naugie Jr at York hall with 150 attendees from Toledo Maumee Monroe and nearby towns enjoying cards dancing ice cream and cake and gifts.
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Ae Anna Shaw
Wilfred
Worene Schwartz
Dc. S. Herkimer
Harlingen
Texas
Ida Wood
Omaha
Neb
Anna Shaw
A. J. Turner
Paul Ruddock
Detroit
Ora Ruddock
Paul Lewis
Ridge Road
Warren Naugie, Jr
York Hall
Toledo
Maumee
Monroe
Deerfield
Ypsilanti
Macon
Milan
Hammond District News Recap and Local Notices
Hammond district residents visit neighbors and attend events. Union district school closes for a Friday picnic. Clark Gordon’s class completes annual outdoor meet with 85 participants. Probate notices requested via the Saline Observer for estate settlements and legal printing services.
Local notices include visits and meetings across town
Mr and Mrs Clark Bracy and daughter Thelma Spencer of Morenci visited Mr and Mrs Ronald FitzGerald Tuesday evening. Memorial Day flower donations invited for Legion room. Mrs Harry Friis attended Eastland high school baccalaureate and will attend commencement where her niece Evelyn Derr will diploma. Washtenaw County National Farm Loan Association members and wives meet Thursday June 8 at the Y M C A in Ann Arbor. Saline lost a close 2 1 Saline at Northville. Garden City and Schrader games set for Decoration Day. Ministers and religious education workers met in Saline with Dr Fred Poole and Dr Harry Lord speaking. Willing Workers club met with Mrs Bertie Gordon. Mother's Day poems read. June meeting planned with Mrs Jessie Robison.
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Clark Bracy
Thelma Spencer
Morenci
Ronald FitzGerald
Legion Room
Harry Friis
Eastland High School
Detroit
Evelyn Derr
Washtenaw County National Farm Loan Association
Ann Arbor
Saline Merchant’s
Northville
Frey
Garden City
Schrader
Saline
Fred Poole
Michigan
Harry Lord
Bertie Gordon
Jessie Robison
School to honor top students with special awards
Local faculty will present awards to students elected for excellence in scholarship citizenship dramatics athletics debate oratory declamation band orchestra art and journalism among other departments. The ceremony planned for May 29 will honor valedictorian and salutatorian Ruth Gable and Jean Fosdick and recognize top medalists in oratory declamation citizenship and basketball free throws.
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Jean Fosdick
Ruth Gable
Ruth Schleh
Maurine Hairwood
Benton 4 H Club News Officers Elected and Meeting Notes
The Benton 4 H food study and canning club elected Virginia Gall as president Evelyn Gall as vice president Alice Klein as secretary Pauline Hertler as treasurer and members Anna May Klein Dorothy Kohler and Edna Rose Otto. Leaders are Miss Florence Wiedmayer and Margaret Finkbeiner. The group attended the 4 H convention at the Y M C A in Ann Arbor Friday evening with Wiedmayer Klein and Otto. Wiedmayer was re elected to the Washtenaw 4 H council.lice The council of ten members is elected annually. Moving pictures of Michigan State police were shown and ice cream was served. Miss Wiedmayer and Finkheiner attended the 4 H leaders meeting at the Pittsfield Grange hall Tuesday afternoon. The note ends with an old proverb about Theodore and a reminder to pay cemetery dues.
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Benton 4-H Food Study and Canning Club
Virginia Gall
Evelyn Gall
Alice Klein
Pauline Hertler
Anna May Klein
Dorothy Kohler
Hdna
Rose Otto
Florence Wiedmayer
Margaret Finkbeiner
Ann Arbor
Anna
May
Junior Senior Banquet A Social Success At High School
The annual Junior-Senior banquet and J-Hop were held Friday at the high school with a Spanish hacienda theme. The gym featured decorations, a sombrero program, and a 9 pm return for dancing to Clare Saifs Pepper Shakers from Ypsilanti. A floor show followed the grand march with talks, piano duets, rhumba, tap dancing, and a master of ceremonies.
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Clare Saifz
Ypsilanti
Mildred Day
Ferdinand the Bull
Marilyn Schill
Dale Fosdick
Shirley Stevenson
Bill Lindenschmidt
Bud MacArthur
Electric fences hold good for Michigan farms
Michigan State College agricultural engineers warn that single strand electric fences can be effective yet dangerous if wrongly installed or improvised. They note devices support 6, 32 and 110 volt systems, and proper equipment plus farmer education reduce risk while guiding livestock behavior.
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Michigan
Agricultural Engineering
Michigan State College
D.emerson Wiant
Wiant
St. John's Lutheran Church Bridgewater Services
Divine services at 10 a.m. and Sunday school at 11 a.m. English services held every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Everyone is cordially invited.
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St. John’s Lutheran Church
Bridgewater
M. C. Phillipp
Funny Signs in Lapeer Showcases Whimsical Hint
A Lapeer Press photo captures a North Main Street house with a two layer sign display reading For Sale and Chicken Pox. The inset note remarks the humor in local bystander humor. The rest quotes constitutional and Sabbath phrases.
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Lapeer
MPA
Lapeer Press
Rural families plan finances for 1939 in Michigan
Farm families in Michigan map 1939 budgets focusing on food first, housing and clothing next, and non money income like home gardening and meat from home. Edna V. Smith notes garden value can reach 250 dollars per family and saving programs reached 49 thousand dollars last year.
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Michigan
Edna V. Smith
Michigan State College State
Woodiot
Michigan State College
Miss Smith
Dei
Annual Guardian Account Hearing Set in Saline County
Probate Court in Ann Arbor WAshte riaw County orders examination and allowance of the annual guardian account for Alice Simmons Incompetent. Lee Tescher as guardian must appear May 31 1939 at ten in the forenoon. Public notice to run in The Saline Observer for three weeks.
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State OF Michigan
Washteriaw
Ann Arbor
Jay G. Pray
Alice Simmons
Lee Tescher
Saline
Order for Publigation for Real Estate Sale
In Wash tenaw County probate Court on May 3 1939 Judge Jay G Pray reviews Lee Tescher as administrator seeking license to sell estate real estate to distribute proceeds. Hearing set for June 2 1939 at ten o'clock AM at the Probate Office with publication of this order in The Saline Observer for three weekly issues. Nora O Borgert Register of probate attest.
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State OF Michigan
Washtenaw
Ann Arbor
Said
Jay G. Pray
John Jacob Kinsley
Lee Tescher
Saline
Nora O. Borgert
Mortgage Foreclosure Sale of Ann Arbor Property
Huron Valley Building and Savings Association forecloses its mortgage on Lot 61 Packard Lawn Addition in Ann Arbor Washtenaw County. The sale at the Washtenaw County Circuit Court is set for June 3 1989 at 10:00 AM with debt totaling 5592 85 dollars including principal interest and attorney fees.
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John 7. Knapp
Genevieve D. Knapp
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Huron Valley Buildings and Savings. Association
A. Michigan Corporation
Office of the Register of Deeds
Washtenaw County
City of
County of
Washtenaw
Poppy Sale Set For May 27 By Saline Mayor
The Saline mayor announces a Saturday May 27 poppy sale to benefit American Legion Auxiliary and veterans. Poppies will be distributed door to door and on streets to honor those who died in service. Veterans in hospitals make the poppies, many without pensions, hoping supporters wear the tribute.
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Saline
American Legiont Auxiliary
America
France
Belgium
Notice to creditors in Marken probate case Washtenaw
The Probate Court of Washtenaw County Michigan notifies creditors of Mary Ann Marken deceased that four months from April 29 1939 are allowed to file claims. Claims must be presented at the Probate Office Ann Arbor by September 8 1939. The hearing is set for July 8 1939 and September 8 1939 at ten o clock.
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STATE
Michigan
Washtenaw
Mary Ann Marken
Ann Arbor
Jay G. Pray
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