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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1948
Page
5
A reflective domestic scene unfolds as Mr and Mrs Jenkins and boarder Mr Brown navigate ordinary evenings. A bat Sebastian escape appears in the newspaper, then fades as the couple muses on dull routine until Sheriff Dawson’s news of the fugitive’s capture resurfaces.
Joe Marshall courts Sallie’s invitation to a quiet evening but ends up heading to Rita’s apartment after Sallie pushes him toward Kitty’s. At Rita’s, Joe faces Mary’s blunt question about proposing, learns the joke in her eyes, and publicly asks Rita to marry him.
President Truman discusses with Governor Williams a path to the U S Senate or a Vandenberg replacement. Williams faces a dilemma between remaining governor and pursuing higher office as Michigan readies a prolonged Republican campaign. Party figures, including Picard Hook Fox and others, line up for 1950 races as Sigler exits.
In Lansing Republicans approved a two-year salary of 5800 for each state legislator, up from 1095 yearly, plus 10 cent mileage. The move, tied to a November vote authorizing lawmakers to set salaries, faces constitutional challenges. Other top officials and the Navy’s 1944 payroll context follow.
A brief note from two Suomians from Wakefield recaps a Wakefield Mass basketball game set for February 25 in the Wakefield gym. Mass boasts 52 straight wins and one loss in 73 games, with Mass players predicting Wakefield will challenge the streak.
The Navy's food requirements for the fiscal year 1944 were four billion five hundred million pounds, a quantity sufficient to stretch from Boston to Charleston, South Carolina.
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