"New-Con" --- You and the April Elections
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arm ews V01. 4 J, No. 3 41st Year MARCH I! 1963 Published Monthly. b) Michigan Farm Bureau "New-Con" --- You And The April Elections Proposed Constitution Voter-Issues Are Is Fairly Formulate~ Vitally Important "Vote YES April1!" The "New-Con"-University Boards, It was born of an orderly process as provided by the Supreme Court Justices, Are Involved law of the State of Michigan this proposed new The real "April Fool" is the man who says that Constitution. "Spring elections don't amount to much." The Spring Michigan voters must not forget this fact as they election of 1963. is full of important decisions for vote on it April 1. farmers and all voters. Delegates who drafted the document were elected Michigan will not be the same, Tuesday, April 2nd, by the people of Michigan as their representatives to -regardless of how many voters turn out to the polls perform this difficult job. One hundred and {orty~ or how. they mark their ballots. Either they will four of them came from the communities-men and awaken Tuesday morning under a new state constitu~ women whom the people knew, and in whom they tion, or under an old one that so many people have had confidence. worked to change for so many years. It is not likely that such work will end there. Bills to defray the costs The voters confirmed that confidence with their of the J 961 Constitutional Convention will continue to ballots. Jaycees Select Michigan's Outstanding Young Farmers flow through, the Auditor General's office. For more than seven months, (almost eight)-these CONGRATULATIONS-are offered the "Four Outstanding tween them is Paul Edwards. 29, Eaton County, one of three sec- BIG DETROIT TURNOUT? Michigan State University. He is a member of the Okemos men and women studied the structure of their state Young Farmers" selected in annual competition sponsored by the ond-position "runners up" in the tight contest. Others (from the It is probable that voters of School Board, the city of his government. Michigan Junior Chamber of Commerce. Shaking hands with top left) include Joseph Janca. 27. of Shiawassee County. and Richard Detroit will turn out in record residence. He has a broad winner. Robert Zeeb. 30. of Clinton County, is (Ie£!) Clarence Gentz. 34, of Lenawee County. All' are active Farm Bureau numbers. They are faced with background in educational ad- They debated the alternatives. Prentice, Secretary-Manager of the Michigan Farm Bureau. Be- members. two proposals for increased ministration. millage, which should provide Thousands of different ideas were explored, debat~ strong incentive for going to STATE UNIVERSITIES the polls. Important as such ed, selected, thrown out or changed and strengthened. ~farch For Freedom Protection Studied local issues are, they do not Candidates for the Univer equal the long-range import- sity of Michigan Board of Re- There was compromise. No group of delegates Protection of our American ance of a favorable vote on the gents are: Republicans, William freedoms through responsible proposed new constitution. B. Cudlip of Grosse Pointe could ever be expected to work out such a comprehen~ l\lembership Shores, and Ink White of St. citizenship was the keynote of Farmers especially, have Johns. The Democrats include: sive document without it. And there was cost. The month of March signals the Michigan Farm Bureau's much at stake. Eugene B. Power of Ann Arbor the opening of a massive state- fifth annual Freedom Confer- and Donald M. Thurber of The people of Michigan voted to hold the Conven~ wide "Michigan March for ence held at Mt. Pleasant's They, along with the rest of D: Central Michigan University. Detroit. tion although they knew it would be a costly affair. !\Iembership"-to secure an r Michigan's citizens were 'alert- expected 3,000 additional Farm Over 250 county Farm Bu- ed by the State Supreme Democrats on the ballot for Add to the direct expenses of the Convention the costs Bureau members. reau leaders attended the two- Court decision on reapportion- the Board of Trustees of Mich- of elections and the total reaches the substantial sum March 21 has been set as the day conference February 7-8. ment last July. This decision, igan State University include completion date for this state Political action programs if upheld by the United States incumbents Don Stevens, edu-' of three and a half million dollars. wide, membership campaign. and sessions examining funda- Supreme Court, would change cational director for the Mich-' the basis of representation in Whw com pIe t c d the mental grass-roots politic. " igan AFL-CIO, Okemos, and:; Michigan's Senate to a strict This was an "open'" convention all the way. Dele~ "march" is expecteli to shove w~re backed up by flannel Jan B. Vanderploeg of Nortl.' -board and film-tape presenta- "population" formula. Muskegon. gates worked overtime to make reports to those who the Michigan Farm Bureau past \ the 70,526 drive goal for the tions. Speakers, familiar with SUPREl\IE COURT' ELECTION' Republicans are Stephen S.. elected them. 1963 year. Involved will be the threats to American free- Nesbit, Fremont, - long-time: hundreds of Roll-Call volun- dom from without and within, Four names, for two posi- member of 'the Michigan Board' When the Convention dosed, the product of .these teers who are, concerned that appeared throughout the pro- tions on the Michigan Supreme of Education and President of' Farm Bureau remain strong in gram. elected delegates was adopted by a majority. Court, will be on the April 1st the Constitutional Convention;' the face of many agricultural One such spea:ter wa~ Air ballot. Those elected will serve and Arthur K. Rouse, of Boyne' Few Michigan citizens have fully examin'ed the threats. Force Major G«;neral Harold E.• on the Court until 1971,-an City. ' document; fewer will have made labored studies of The "!\larch for Member- lIumfeld, who discussed ~mer- eight year term. The length of ship" plan was approved at the ica's Strategic Air Command. this term makes it important Candidates for the Board of Michigan's government and its needs.' annual President's Conference. to choose men of sound, basic Governors of Wayne State held.at Camp Kett, February What Amer.cans can do to Cuban Refugees Happy to be Here government policy, and per- University are: Republicans: But April 1, with a stroke of the pen or the pull of 21-22. The presidents observed combat the communist threat Cuban refugee businessmen, provement of its agrarial1 sonal integrity. They should Marshall V. Noecker of Grosse the lever, they will declare that the work of the men that an additional 3,000 mem- from within, was illustrated by Manuel Lasada (left) and worth." be men who have no difficulty Pointe Farms, and Dr. Alfred bers could result from adding Edward Van Hartesvelt, in- Antonio Lopez (right) discuss distinguishing between the his- H. Whittaker of Grosse Pointe. they selected is good-or for some small reason, they only two more members per structor of the Zeeland High the current Cuban agricultural Rice crops had gradually im- toric functions of our three. Democrats: Michael Ference, may consign those months of work and study to the Community Group. School's course on Communism. fiasco with Dean Pridgeon, proved and cattle had reached great branches of government, Jr., of Dearborn and Leonard Each County Board will as- Two Cuban businessmen, chairman of the Michigan Farm high levels (,>fquality and pro- The Legislative, The Admin- Woodcock of Grosse Pointe scrap heap. sume responsibility for final Manuel Lasada and Antonio Bureau's Citizenship Comqiit- duction, Lopez told the farm istrative and The Judicial. Park. efforts to bring the 1963 Roll- Lopez (see picture), told what tee, after addressing a capacity group. "But under Castro, stud Milny of those who attack the proposed Constitu~ Call to a successful conclusion it is like to live without free- bulls worth thousands have been Many people have felt that Althougb other candidates Freedom Conference audience. recent decisions of the Court, and issues will be on the ballot, tion, do so on the same grounds with which they at~ and make the l\Iiohigan Farm dom in a country dominated slaughtered to feed greedy ,Bureau a "Goal Busting" state. by the communists. Lopez described the "Agra- Communists," he said. including action in the appor- this partial list of candidates tacked the existing one. They were a minority at rian Reform" in Cuba as a "big tionment case, have come closer for top offices plus "New-Con" mockery." "Cuba, the sugar-bowl of the to policy-making than legal in- provides at least ten good rea- the Convention. Since they did not get all they asked world, was able to produce terpretation of existing law. sons why the Spring election is for, they now condemn the entire work of the major~ "In spite of Castro's words seven million tons of sugar important. Roll-Call Nears' Goal blaming the large land estate without any additional effort. Although they are elected on ity of the people's delegates and ask the people now owners," he said, "Cuba had Now, under Castro's boot, a "non-partisan" ballot, candi- Farmers should register their accomplished a noticeable im- sugar has been ruined." dates for the Supreme Court coneern on every single one. to destroy that work. are nominated by political par- State Above 95% Mark ties. Democrat candidates in-- But Farm Bureau members have stated their belief With state-wide membership in the Michigan clude incumbent Eugene F. that the good in the new document is greater than any Puhlic Scllool Education is Black.