MABCH OF DIMES EAST JORDAN NEWS & FIGHT CHARLEVOIX COUNTY INFANTILE PARALYSIS HERALD, CONSOLIDATED <3 s > VOLUME 58 NUMBER 4 EAST JORDAN, MICH., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1954 TEN CENTS For Job Well Done WORLDWIDE SYNDICATE TO TELL LOCAL STORY * * * East Jordan Farm Woman New York Photo Service Sells Home Invention To Show 33-Week Miracle A 2,000 word News-Herald feature story describing the East Jor• Saturday was a big day for dan Businessmen's Association unusual industrial success has at• Mrs. Gordon Gibson, of East Jor• tracted the attention of a world-wide newspaper syndicate. Local Songsters dan route 2. She was in Detroit selling ba-^ King Features Syndicate, a news service dispatching news and fea• To Cahtpete At- by bibs at a large Woodward ture stories throughout United States and the rest of the world will avenue store. do "East Jordan's Industrial Story." Wolvetine High The store introduced Her — The syndicate is processing a home-made plastic bib which full newspaper page photograph• Winners from the East Jor• she designed here in East Jor• Boyne Falls ic layout to tell the story. It will dan Amastar Program will com• dan for her 18-month old son be sent to more than 100 news• who kept dumping cereal in pete for hbnors at the District papers in the United States. his lap. The syndicate placed a tele• Contest to be held at Wolverine Organized To The bib fastens over arms of phone call from New. York high school 8 p.m. Saturday. the high chair as well as the neck Tuesday to Marshall Sayles, The Cloverleaf Trio consisting of the baby, and cups up in front, Seek Industry editor and publisher of the of Nan Drapeau, Martha and catching anything baby spills. News-Herald, asking for as• Boyne Falls is looking for in• Margaret Lord will be guests on s>: * >fc sistance on making up the full dustry. The community has or• page layout. the program. THE BIB WAS designed at ganized a chamber of commerce, The story that attracted the her farm home on the Peninsula Those from East Jordan to named an industrial committee syndicate's attention appeared in road. She has turned out 5,000 of take part in the Amateur pro• and Wednesday held an import• the News-Herald's Christmas is• the bibs and after attempting to ant session at Boyne Mountain gram are: Robert Healey, Pat sue under the heading: open a Detroit market for them Ski Lodge. DeWatters, Vera Judy, Karleen lias been given opportunity to East Jordan Sets Pattern For Larsen, Pete Carney, Ralph sell them at least at one Detroit Mrs. Gertrude Bishop, north• America's Small Town*. Moore George Nelson, Jean store. ern Michigan representative of SL**:gh, Thomas Sheridan and Her husband, who has help• the State Department of Econo• IT TOLD East Jordan's tragic mic Development, met with the Rqger Stokes. „ ed at night with the product• need for more hometown employ- ion work on the new-type bib, Boyne Falls industrial committee jnent and gave a complete run Others are: Sophomore quar• rigged up a kitchen-table sys• at their Wednesday gathering. down on how the merchants and tette, with Pat Cihak, Martha tem for cutting six dozen at residents lifted themselves by Galmore, Fred DeHaven and a time. Mrs. Bishop said Boyne Falls "their oWn bootstraps." is rapidly setting up an indus• BACK IN THE NEWS—Al Sinclair, Chris Taylor, M. N. Mc• Thurlan Meredith. Mrs. Gibson had hoped to in• The goal was reached in 33 trial program and that they Daniel and the East Jordan Businessmen's Association industrial troduce the bibs on the Detroit Weeks, an unparalled accomp• effort were back into top news today. A New York news service market last winter. But the haz• are out for industry. lishment. is preparing to do a world-wide syndicated photo story. Above ards of farming prevented. The committee is taking a long The News-Herald's staff photos were taken the day ground was broken for the city's latest Farming has been easier, how• look at the amount of business photographer, Bill Huckle, has factory—Mount Clemens Metal Products Company. (See story on Priiiirose ever, than making her way past brought to the area by Boyne been assigned the job of ob• this page.) secretaries and assistants who Mountain Ski Lodge and noW taining photographs for the surround buyers in Detroit construction of the Straits bridge picture story., Huckle has long Trial Set stores. They feel they are well located been a recognized press and If mothers find the bib as for industry and community commercial photographer in useful as she did, Mrs. Gibson growth. Detroit and northern Michi• Expand Taylor Grocery To with the help of neighboring gan. OVER THE At Bellaire farm women of East Jordan, Written by Editor Sayles, who is set to go into big scale pro• h also secretary of the Merch• BACK FENCE 1,000 Feet Of Floor Space Eugene Primrose, 23, of R-l duction. ant's Association, the feature Elmira, is under $200 bond aw• At the time the News-Herald Pellston Tops story is being sent around the One of the oldest grocery BY MARSHALL aiting trial in circuit court at learned of her invention, Mrs. world as positive proof of what stores in East Jordan is being Bellaire as the result of a neg• Gibson was in Detroit and could a community can do for itself remodeled and enlarged for more Son Of Former ligent homicide charge brought Red Devils At How easily we forget. A 15- not be contacted personally be• when it is absolutely necessary. modern operation. against him by East Jordan re• year old Grand Rapids Press fore press time. The News-Herald is giving Taylor's Market, on the corner E.J. Minister sidents who were in an auto ac• clipping tells about an event of Tuesday Tilt all the credit for this well- of Bridge and Water streets, is cident January 7th near Alba. which we have no memory. deserved recognition to the being increased to 1,000 square Dies At Toledo The Pellston Hornets moved Antrim County Prosecutor men and women of the East It says: "Ted Christensen, feet by Contractor Donald Clark. into their fastest game of the Jordan Businessmen's Asso• Allan D. Grigsby, son of the Harry Cook, of Bellaire told of Boyne City set a 44-second Work is already underway. Report 2nd season here Tuesday night when ciation and residents of the former Rev. and Mrs. A. D. Grig• the News-Herald Wednesday record as he broke the tape a they grabbed a six point lead city—those who gave their In the Taylor family since sby of East Jordan, died at a hos• that Primrose appeared before half - length ahead of Bruce from the Red Devils and remain• time, their money and their 1928, the grocery was purcha• pital in Toledo, Ohio on January Justice Raymond C. Sexton Antrim Audit Malpass, of East Jordan, as ed out front all the game, win• honest effort to develop their sed from Elsie Taylor by Mr. 18,- 1954. Funeral services were Monday and after examination more than 1,000 persons wat• ning with the same six point own home town. and Mrs. William Taylor in was bound over to the March ched Charlevoix county's an• held January 20th. margin, 50 to 44. 1943 and has been operated by term of court. Circuit Judge At Bellaire nual Memorial day Soap Box He was born in London, Eng• Coach Max Damoth replaced is Charles L. Brown, of Tra• derby on Boyne - av. hill Fri• them for nearly eleven years. land October 22, 1883 and came Probate Judge William C. Sev• head coach Gayle Saxton during verse City. erance, of Antrim County was day afternoon. Their living quarters will re• to United States with his par• the reserve contest after Saxton South Arm 4-H main in the rear of the build• ents.. back in the news this week when The charge was brought ag• became ill and left the court. Da- "Calvin Demming, of Boyne ing- State Auditor General John B. Surviving are his wife, former• ainst Primrose when his auto moth handled the locals for the Travels To City took third money. Taylor said the new expans• Martin reported findings of a ly Clara Hurd; two sons, David crashed into another driven by remainder of the games. ion will'double the size of the second audit of estates handled "Judges were Paul Lisk of and John; five grandchildren; Mrs. Glen Campau, of East Jor• Outplayed by a fired up Pell• Millersburg grocery, 44 feet across the front three brothers, C. S. Grigsby of by Severance. East Jordan's Charlevoix dan. It was a head-on smashup. ston outfit, the locals were un- Several South Arm Commun• "and 22 feet deep. Plans call for Saginaw, W. T. Grigsby of Hast• It was reported in Lansing County Herald and Marshall Mrs. Martha Dean, 70, of abled to overcome the lead gain• ity 4-H Club members and lea• 24 feet of glass windows across ings, and Rev. Maurice Grigsby that Severance has been accus- F. Sayles, of the Boyne Citi• Brown City was killed outright ed by Pellston's high percentage ders will travel to Millersburg the front in the center of which of Kissimine, Florida; and two sed of irregularities in handling zen. and Mrs. Beatrice Graham, 44, of of bucket connections. Monday afternoon, February 1st. will be glass "in and out" doors.