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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1956
Page
2
The Wakefield News at 406 Sunday Lake Street publishes weekly local news from Wakefield Michigan with a one year local and one year out of state circulation. The paper is entered as second class matter November 18, 1913 at the Wakefield post office under the 1879 act.
The Michigan delegation at the national Democratic convention plans to push a strong civil rights resolution and a broad Michigan Declaration of goals spanning automation agriculture and social security. governor williams could emerge as a key leader in a party facing potential split over civil rights. local Seaway hearings in Lansing target port readiness and tax breaks for dockside warehouses as Michigan maps a multi port strategy through 1959 to 1962. A separate victory secures state charter approval after a court challenge to the banking commissioner Maurice Eveland.
In Bay Port area residents learn how annual assessments are set by the township supervisor and board of review. The process uses cash value, considers location and building factors, and requires complaints hearings after March first. Public radar speed monitoring and a message from Mrs. Robert I. C. Prout anchor a broader civic update.
Judge Louis E. Coash of Ingham County Circuit Court held Eveland cannot make deposit insurance a prerequisite to bank organization and chartering. He cited the chartering power and the need to assess a bank's likelihood of success. Coash noted deposit insurance is obtainable from the FDIC only after a state charter is granted, a step organizers said they would pursue.
At Police Headquarters a witness described Specs McGuire and Buck Hanson caught taking money from parking meters during a fresh crime wave in town. The incident underscores ongoing concerns about public vandalism and theft.
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