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Newspaper

The Wakefield News

Location

Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America

Date

Dec 07, 1961

Page

4

Governor's Civil Rights Plan and Gogebic County Audit

Michigan Governor outlines civil rights program including housing education and public accommodations reform and renaming the Fair Employment Practices Commission to the Commission on Civil Rights with power to initiate action. Also notes Gogebic County in 1960 audit and notices on reflectorization refund credits for 1962 vehicle plate purchases handled by the Michigan Secretary of State.

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Publisher's Wife Wins Mink Once

State officials warn delaying into February or January increases workload for Lansing and field staff and risks missing the March 1 deadline for renewed vehicle plates.

Mink Lansing

Young Lola Luc Named 1961 MDAA National Poster Child

Seven year old Lola Luc of St Louis Missouri becomes Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America 1961 National Poster Child. She campaigns for March for Muscular Dystrophy funding, tours New Yorks Institute for Muscle Disease, meets President Kennedy era volunteers, and pursues walking without braces while dreaming to be a dancer scientist and psychiatrist.

Lola Institute For New York City MDAA Joan of Arc

Michigan road toll dips as year nears end

Michigan’s provisional Police figures show 11 months total of 1,405 deaths, 38 fewer than last year, with November fatalities at 17. Officials say the decline across 6 of the last 7 months is encouraging and a December gain is possible but deadly, due to longer nights and bad weather.

Michigan Joseph A. Childs

Police Dog Aids In Capture of Escapees

Two Camp Pellston escapees were flushed out by Chip the State Police German shepherd and handler Trooper Clare Hems from the Houghton Lake post. Chip followed tracks three-quarters of a mile along a railroad and into a bench where two suspects slept under a blanket pulled away. Arrested were Donald Lincoln, 24, serving three to 15 years for assault and robbery armed, from Wayne County, and Duane Irwin, 26, serving 15 months to 10 years for embezzlement, from Ingham County. Lowell W. Smith, 25, still at large, with parole violations from Ingham County.

Camp Pellston Chip Sleuth Tpr Clare Hems Houghton Lake Donad L. Lincoln Wayne County Duane Irwin Ingham County Lowell W. Smith

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