Civil Defense Courses Slated for Battle Creek
Eleven top level Civil Defense courses scheduled by the Federal Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization will run one week each from September through early December in Battle Creek. They aim to boost managerial skill and professional competency of civil defense planners with instruction in emergency planning resources management and non military defense for government and industry leaders.
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Battle Creek
Federal
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Walter R. Nunimaker
Civil Defense
Nunimaker
State Civil Defense Office
W. Washtenaw Street
Lansing
World Wise Girls in Factories and School Rules
The excerpt contrasts rural labor and factory work with strict school discipline and gendered education in wartime society. It notes girls cleaning silk, youth games, coed and segregated schooling, marriage patterns, and festival life, followed by memories of American life on a German base and travel tales including Dachau recollections.
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Miller
Germany
Munich
Perlacher Forest
Mercy Priest 60 Dies. Rites Set In St Louis Region
Mercy Rachel Priest 60 died July 24 at Carson City Hospital. Born January 19, 1901 in Jasper Township Midland County she lived there most of life. Survived by husband George two sons John R Mt Pleasant Shirley M Alma two daughters Mrs. Baldwin Salisbury Md and Mrs. Moore St Louis ten grandchildren two brothers John and Robert Raymond one sister Mrs. Fenton all of St Louis route 3. Member of Shepherd Rebekah Lodge No. 199. Funeral at Garber Funeral Home Thursday July 27 at 2:00 with Rev Jack Honeycutt officiating burial Salt River Cemetery.
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Mercy Rachel Priest
Carson City Hospital
Jasper Township
Midland County
George
John R
Mt. Pleasant
Shirley M
Alma
Charles Baldwin
Salisbury
Maryland
Richard Moore
St. Louis
John
Robert Raymond
Arthur Fenton
Route 3
Mercy Priest
Shepherd Rebekah Lodge
Priest
Garber Funeral Home
Jack Honeycutt
Salt River Cemetery
Milwaukee graduate joins family funeral home
Robert A. Garber Jr son of Mr and Mrs Robert Garber Sr Shepherd graduates from Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science in Milwaukee last Friday. He and wife Marilyn will live in Shepherd where Bob will work with his father at Garber Funeral Home.
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Robert A. Garber, Jr
Robert Garber Sr
Shepherd
Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science
Milwaukee
Bob
Marilyn
Garber Funeral Home
Drowns Attempting Rescue Nephew at Sanford Lake
Junior Robert Woodbury 30 of Route 1 Shepherd drowned at Sanford Lake ten miles north of Midland while trying to save his nine year old nephew Robert Mason after the boy fell from a raft. Woodbury body recovered about 4 15 PM. He was born January 9 1931 in Isabella County and a long time Mt Pleasant Oil City area resident. Survived by wife Pansy Lou six children his parents five brothers and three sisters. Funeral Thursday at 2 00 PM Stinson Funeral Home Mt Pleasant with interment Greendale Cemetery.
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Robert Woodbury
Shepherd
Sanford Lake
Midland
Woodbury
Robert Mason
Mason
Mr. Woodbury
Isabella County
Mt. Pleasant
Oil City
Pansy Lou
Sanford
Bloodmobile arrival in Carson City August 18
Montcalm County joins the American Red Cross Blood Program with a bloodmobile visit to Carson City Elementary School on Friday August 18. Donors are urged to participate as volunteer blood is collected for transfusions and distributed free to hospitals in participating counties. Local coordinators Mrs. Lee Goblitsch and Mrs. Mary Ruth Dearing will recruit donors in and around Shepherd over the next two weeks.
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Montcalm County
American Red Cross
Carson City
Red Cross
Lee Goblitsch
Mary Ruth Dearing
Shepherd
Shepherd Rotary Club Welcomes District Governor visit
The Rotary Club of Shepherd hosts D. Ferry Lomason district governor for 1961 62 as part of his annual visit to Michigan clubs. Lomason a Vassar business founder and former Rotary leader discusses administration and service with club officers and chairmen. The worldwide Rotary grew with 300 clubs added last year across 43 countries.
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Rotary Club of Shepherd
D. Ferry Lomason
Rotary International
Rotary
Michigan
Richard A. Murphy
Harry A. Brattin Jr
Lomason
Vassar
Rotary Club of
Citizen’s Committee
Board of Review, Planning Commission
Board of Commerce
Tokyo
Japan
Joe Abey
Abey
Gabon
Nigeria
Reunion
Somalia
Hook And Trigger Club Potluck Picnic Planned
The Shepherd Hook and Trigger Club schedules its next regular meeting on Thursday August 3 at the roadside park on old US-27 southwest of Shephard for a potluck picnic and brief gathering. Supper begins at 6:30 PM and attendees should bring table service and a dish to pass.
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Shepherd Hook and Trigger Club
Old Us-27
Shepherd
Isabella County Safety Council To Meet Aug. 1
The Isabella County Safety Council will meet Tuesday August 1 at 8 p m in the Municipal Court Room Mt Pleasant Representatives from organizations across Isabella County urged to participate Agenda includes plans for the Safety Council booth at the fair Reports from July meeting on hazardous Preston Road railroad crossing the missing yield sign at South Watson and Preston and welfare aid use in Midland and Kalamazoo Counties to brush blind intersections Residents interested in safety invited to attend all meetings.
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Isabella County Safety Council
Mt. Pleasant
Isabella County
Safety Council
Preston Road
South Watson Road
Preston
Midland
Kalamazoo
All Safety Council
VFW Auxiliary Plans 15th Anniversary Dinner
VFW Auxiliary met at the hall to plan building work and a dinner on August 20 marking the 15th anniversary for the Post and Auxiliary. Seven members were initiated and refreshments followed. District Rally is set for August 6 at Mt. Pleasant.
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Joe Alsh
Mt. Pleasant
Free school portraits offered at North Town hall
The notice invites families to bring pre school and school age children for portraits at a low cost with no obligation to buy. Finished portraits will be shown and available for purchase. Free offer applies Thursday August 3 from 1 00 to 8 00 p m at North Town hall.
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North Town Hall
National Hymn Poll Seeks Favorite Hymns Across America
The National Newspapers Hymn Poll invites Americans to vote for their favorite hymn or gospel song. Readers can write names on ballots printed with this article and receive Bill McVey's Hymn Thoughts for the Day as a reward. The poll, run by multiple papers, aims to revive hymn singing in homes and churches nationwide.
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Pute
the Argus
The
Argus and
Christian Herald
Bill McVey
Hymn Singing Revival Spurs National Poll
Rev Dr Daniel A Poling leads a hymn singing revival with Bill McVey across many states drawing crowds up to 6500. The National Newspapers Hymn Poll seeks reader favorites from The Argus and Christian Herald readers, with results to be compared to national data gathered by Audience Analysts Inc. Readers are urged to vote by printing their chosen hymn name.
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Hym
America
Daniel A. Poling
Christian Herald
Bill McVey
The
Argus
Shepherd Argus
McVey
Christian Herald Magazine
Our Times
Audience Analysts, Inc
Hynon
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Dauchu
Dackhow
Joyce
Colorado
George Priest
Bloodmobile
Barney Howard
L. B. Howard
Mancelona
Barbara
Lyle Howard
Richard and
Dennis Hartman
V. F. W. Camp
Newaygo
National Newspapers Hymn Poll
Audience Analysts Inc
Bala-Cynwyd, Pa
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Jirgus
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