East Jordan, Michigan, Thursday, May 6, 1954 Ten Cents
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\ -/. pecial Northern Michigan Progress Issue . "HOME OF THE SWANS" VOLUME 58 NUMBER 18 EAST JORDAN, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1954 TEN CENTS OVER THE Marie Nielsen Tops All Officers Returned BACK FENCE County Dress Revue BY MARSHALL The largest crowd ever to wit• inent was in clothing work with MAYOR MAKES ANNUAL ness a county 4-H Achievement 109 making garments, Health It snowed so hard Monday program was present at the East Improvement was next with 72, right it pushed the mushrooms Jordan high school Tuesday eve• Handicraft with 71, knitting 37, back into the ground . Troop• ning, April 27. One hundred four- Conservation 37, Tractor Main• er Moon of the State Police Post girls took part in a Dress Revue tenance 14, Personal Grooming ai Gaylord has been transferred in a program planned and direct• 9, Personal Accounts 7, Home to Wakefield in the upper pen• CITY ENTS ed by Mrs. William Malpass of Improvement 5, Junior Leader• insula. He stopped in East Jor• East Jordan and her committee. ship 2, and there was 1 Electri• dan on his way and said: "Jen• cal member and 1 chrocheting On Monday evening, exhibits * * * ny Barnett served me my first member. were brought in and were viewed AG. SOCIETY QUITS cup of coffee in East Jordan six The Dress Revue winner was j.ears ago and now she is serving all day Tuesday by parents and Masonic Lodge To Construct friends of 4-H members and East Marie Nielsen, age 17, daughter my last here." . Sorry to see of Mr. and Mrs. Ole Nielsen of Koy Gregory back in the hospital Jordan school children. .State club leaders did the judging and Route 2 East Jordan. She mod• Sixty-Four Year Old Building On Main Street . this time Ann Arbor for an eled a white net formal. then Remained for the evening Mayor Chris Taylor made his annual city appointments at Tues• operation ... Tom St. Charles Rachel Webster won second is reported improving at Little program to present an Honor day night's council meeting with no changes in city workers' posi• Roll of outstanding 4-H mem- place. She is 15 and daughter of Traverse . < County Fair Killed tions. bers. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Webster of East Jordan. Councilman Frank Strehl was named mayor pro-tem and city of• . Queen Marian Danforth A total of 365 project exhib• ficers were returned. They were: Harry Simmons, chief of police; She modeled a red dotted" steps into the TV waves when its were made, which would Alberta Nowland, City Clerk and Fred J. Vogel, Treasurer. swiss dress complete with access• For Lack Of Interest she goes on the air tomorrow inake a combined total of about ories. The council granted building permits to the Masonic Lodge and right at WWTV. See her at 7:15. 3.000 4-H articles on display. Ed Portz. Marie will style her garment • • • A great big rumor said Ronald By far the greatest enroll- The lodge announced starting Colman was fishing at Ironton at Michigan State during Club •Week June 28 - July 1. of construction of a concrete but we were so scared of being Fair Assets Turned Back block building on the lot bet• foxed we didn't check on it . Other members receiving a Queen On TV Dress Revue pin for modeling ween the city hall and the A & John Seiler has been checking New Bookkeeping their garments were Carla Riley Queen Marian Danforth will P store. The lodge owns the score windows for those flower of Charlevoix, Rudolph Bulmann To Board Of Supervisors be interviewed on Television Sta• building housing the A&P boxes this summer ... Bill Por• Service Opens Eilsworth Judy Gunderson, tion WWTV, Cadillac, 7:15 to• store and will construct another ter has been throwing a lot of The Charlevoix County Agricultural Society went out of ^exist- Detwiler Bookkeeping Service Boyne City, Mary Martinek, East morrow night. (Friday). next to it to hold lodge meetings. dirt lately . he's been digging ance this week and there will be no 1954 county fair. has opened offices on the second Jordan, Linda Lumley, Boyne Minnie DesJardins, chairman Portz's permit was for construct• up the ground for our sewers ... The fair was cancelled, on what would have been its 65th anniver• floor of the News-Herald build• City,* Ruth Ann Smith, Charle• of the East Jordan Businessmen's ion of a house. Chris Taylor can look out and sary, due to lack of county-wide support. ing in the former Doctor Bech- voix and Martha Lord, East Jor• advertising committee, said Wed• ?ee the other side of the street. Fair president Claude Pearsall said "the action was regretted by The council authorized told offices. dan. nesday that Miss Danforth and His store window has been fixed the director, but seemed necessary after studying all the facts and John Seiler to place flower B. A. Detwiler, who for the herself will be guests at a din• . Folks continue to use Al Outstanding workmanship in opinions concerning the fair." boxes at the postoffice and past year and a half has been of• ner in Cadillac sponsored byrthe Thorsen's outdoor TV show ... clothing entitles Pamela Korth —— Two main reasons were given city hall in conjunction with fice manager and bookkeeper at 4 television station. The businessmen's assoc• of Ironton and Judith Annear of for the cancelation: Lack of pub- his work of furnishing flowers the Jordan Valley Cooperative East Jordan to exhibit their gar• BASEBALL jic support and the financial loss Saturday, Miss Danforth iation has purchased a large Creamery, made the announce• for merchants. number of auto window decals ments at State 4-H Club Show suffered each year. will represent East Jordan as ment this week. Upon a request from Alex so visitors can prove they have August 31- September 2. Ruth The Charlevoix County Ag• National Trout Queen in the Sinclair the council loaned the been to East Jordan . Bill Detwiler came to East Jor• Ann Smith of Charlevoix did re• Red Devils ricultural Society, which for parade at the Straits of Mac- , Rainbow City Softball Park $300 Taylor's grocery is fast becoming dan from Lansing where for el• markable work in wool and may nearly three-quarters of a cen• kinaw ground breaking cere- - to aid in payment of work done a pretty modern store . .. even years he was office mana• send her skirt to the State Fair tury has been conducting agri• mony for the new bridge. at the field. It will be paid back Speaking of Taylor, Mary Ellen ger and accountant at the lar• at Detroit or to the State 4-H Take Gaylord cultural exhibits, will be dis- through collections at ball games. did a bang up job escorting gest dairy in that area. Club Show. olved and its asstets .turned Queen Marian to the Kalkaska The new bookkeeping office Some outstanding work was 11-3 Tuesday back ts> the Charlevoix county . * * * Trout Festival . Sportsmen are will also handle various forms done by boys and the attractive board .of supervisors. Bids Wanted East Jordan 11 Gaylord 3 THE BODY tabled a request doing a lot of work fixing up the of tax services. lamp made by Dick Smith of The decision to cancel the fair The East Jordan High School from the Charlevoix county Hu• park area south of the Mill St. Detwiler reported that he has Charlevoix and the electrical jig• came at a board meeting in East The city clerk's office baseball nine won its second con• mane Society for a pledge up to bridge . Football fans are purchased the Bathke and Dres- saw by Lee Thomas of East Jor• Jordan where each director was has announced that bids^ test of the season at Gaylord last $500 to aid in the work of oper• wondering what progress is be• sel* Bookkeeping Service which dan were selected for State Show given opportunity to voice his Tuesday afternoon triumphing will be received for con• ating the society. ing made toward a high school formerly operated in the Sinclair exhibition. From the Consumer feelings and what he thought over the Gaylord high school A timeclock to be used by city football field . Now it can be building on Main and Mill Power Company Roger Stokes the counfty felt about the fair. struction of one block of Blue Devils 11 to 3. employees was purchased by the told . Arthur Godfrey, who streets. received his 3rd electrical medal. Meanwhile the county board sidewalk from Williams of supervisors will continue council and installed in the city vacations at Walloon Lake, stop• The game was originally paying $7,800.00 worth of in• street to Garfield street, building. Price was $195.00. ped into Sam Tokoly's store last scheduled to be played here surance on the fairground including three drive• summer for a small purchase. but was moved to the Gaylord Keith Dreissel was author• buildings. Tokoly lives in the north end of site because of unfavorable ways in the City of East ized by the council to operate Boyne City. Sam didn't know 200 Hear National If the buildings are not sold to the city's information booth in playing conditions at the West private interests or if the coun• Jordan. who the man was, but Mrs. Tok• Side Ball Park. the postoffice building under oly in the back room recognized ty does not find a new public the direction of the East Jor• use for them, the supervisors Specifications may be his voice and came out.