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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1952
Page
2
The Wakefield News at 406 Sunday Lake Street announces its weekly publication and second class mailing status dated November 18 1913 in Wakefield Michigan. The notice states the paper is published weekly and filed as periodical matter.
Michigan faces a looming school funding crisis as the general fund runs dry. Auditor General John B. Martin Jr warns that without new borrowing or tax measures, schools may close within six months due to a mandatory quarterly payment of 25 million dollars and a diverted sales tax sharing system. The piece notes deficits, earmarked funds, and calls for broader tax reform, including proposals for a constitutional convention and potential new taxes.
Readers ask about earning limits while on benefits and widow or retirement payments. The guidance covers under 75 earning up to 75 dollars monthly, age 75 plus no limit, widow benefits at three fourths of the worker rate plus a lump sum death benefit, timing for applications in Florida, and an example showing a 75 dollar average wage yielding about 41.25 monthly.
Michigan State Police plan to install a tabulating machine in East Lansing to search fingerprint cards at 450 per minute. The system speeds work from hours to minutes, though experts still perform final comparisons. It processes about 400 fingerprint sets daily from Michigan and other states, aiding identification of unknown dead or amnesia victims.
About five and a half million tons of iron ore were shipped from Gogebic Range mines this season. H R Beisel reports season ship ping figures. total tonnage 4 497 000. All rail 179 000. to Ashland 2 795 000. to Escanaba 1 523 000. Ore docks at Ashland closed. Escanaba docks may operate until mid December weather permitting.
The list records pupils who were neither absent nor tardy through the six week period ending November 21 1952. Names span kindergarten through Grade 12 including Herbert Adrian Wilfred Alden Donald Carlson and many others across multiple grades. Also mentioned is a note about Lucille Ball and her upcoming book Lucy's Having a Baby in The Detroit Sunday Times with a brief aside on housefly lifespan.
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