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Newspaper
Shepherd Argus
Location
Shepherd, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1962
Page
6
Isabella County recorded 45 traffic fatalities over five years. The National Safety Council's method estimates society costs at 8.1 million dollars, with per death costs around 31,800 dollars and per nonfatal injury at 1,900 dollars, plus property damage costs.
The 7 570 highway fatalities in Michigan over the past five years could cost about 1 500 000 000 under the latest National Safety Council yardstick. Hare notes the true cost includes human suffering and mental anguish beyond dollars and urges safer driving to reduce fatalities and accident costs in Water Wonderland.
Local residents including Douglas Slates Russell Rhynard Charles Loomis Walter Nutter Mae Gruber and James Williams are listed as admitted or discharged from the C M C Hospital during August with updates on their conditions and recoveries. Mrs Grant Curtiss and Barbara Roethlisberger are noted as discharged from C M C Hospital while Mrs Raymond Robinson undergoes surgery at Gratiot Community Hospital.
State Attorney General Frank J. Kelley reports Bayer Aspirin maker Sterling Drug Co has sued Pac-Aid of Missouri and Doyle Raftis for unauthorized use of the Bayer name in vending machine sales. A federal injunction blocks false representations and Raftis faces mail fraud charges. Citizens with contracts are urged to contact authorities.
Michigan lawmakers pass a 1962 measure making calfhood vaccination for brucellosis compulsory for all female calves born from January 1, 1963. The rule applies between four and eight months of age if the calf is for dairy use or breeding. slaughter cattle and certain others are excluded. Vaccination by 269 days is required, county and federal officials note only about 35 percent of calves are vaccinated currently.
New Citizens Mr and Mrs Junior Wood announce the birth of a son at Clare General Hospital on Saturday August 11. The family resides at 166 South Geneva Road Shepherd.
Miss Gladys Gimmey of Nia bara Falls New York and Mr Russell Gimmey of Mason Michigan were honored at a birthday dinner August 19 at the John Gimmey home in rural Shepherd. Attendees included relatives from Mt Pleasant Shepherd Mason and rural areas along with Mrs Mullett Braittin and Hollenbeck families.
A Shepherd briefs note that the Wood Reunion took place at Island Park in Mt Pleasant on Sunday August 19 with a noon pot luck meal. Rev. Charles Ostrom will attend the Old Crusaders Reunion in Grand Rapids on Thursday. Charles Barker Esther Bott Nellie Bowman and Emma Bowman of New Lebanon Ohio attended the Mt Pleasant Fair Friday evening.
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