Lockwood, Allen and Woodman are legislative victors ’**$\‘* *■•'•'> . ^ d 109th Year - No. 19 ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN Thursday, September 3, 1964 TEN CENTS Two veteran White, Hoag and Sirrine Supervisors get GOP 643714 • quit posts A margin of 34 votes won the Republican nomination for prosecuting attorney for Nor­ Two veteran Clinton County township su ­ man J. White, youthful St. Johns lawyer, in pervisors are retiring from office and a third Tuesday’s primary. White polled 1,942 votes has opposition at the November election. This to edge Alba F. Wert, former prosecutor, GEORGE ROMNEY ELLY M. PETERSON is the major news developing from last Satur ­ Renominated Governor U S Senate nominee whose total was 1,908. day’s township caucuses and Tuesday’s pri­ It was a nip-and-tuck battle all Tuesday mary elections. evening as returns trickled in from the coun­ L Charles Higbee, who has served as Su­ Romney, Elly, ty’s 25 precincts. It was not until Olive Town­ pervisor of Eagle Township for the past 18 ship reported at 2 a.m. with a 36-vote plural­ years, asked the Republican caucus there Sat­ ity for White that the winner was determ ined. urday to seek another nominee. Chosen to suc­ Johansen win In the only other Republican county con­ iHlli ceed him as head of the unopposed GOP slate test, Van Hoag and Robert Sirrine, both of St. EMIL LOCKWOOD LESTER J. ALLEN Incumbent Gov. George Rom- , - Johns, won over Lee Rummell, DeWitt, for is Russell Howe, Eagle township turkey grow­ Wins for State Senator Legislature (88 th district) ney easily won the endorsement of nomination as Coroners. er. his party in the statewide Repub ­ Fred Culv DeWitt DUPLAIN — (Republican Par- lican primary Tuesday in a con­ Mrs Pauline White of Victor won the r r e a t^Uly, ue ll George Moore, supervisor; test with former "State Senator nomination for Register of Deeds in the only Township Supervi S O r Kelley E. carter, clerk; John C. George N. Higgins, a Detroit area contested race on the Democratic ballot. Her since 1958, is also re­ Hall, treasurer; Victor LaRue, auto dealer. , justice of the peace; Wayne Peck, margin was only 38 votes over Mrs JoAnn tiring this year. trustee; Lawrence Hess, Royal In his November bid for re- Carpenter of Ovid. Mrs White’s total was Nominated to succeed him as Ellinger, Burton Tabor and Roy election, Romney will face Demo­ Supervisor on the Citizens’ Party Fizzell, constables. (Democratic crat Neil Staebler of Ann Arbor, 412; Mrs Carpenter had 374. slate is Oliver Angell, who is op­ Party) Elmer Thornton, super­ present Michigan Congressman- ♦ * ♦ posed at the November election visor; Steve Fabus, clerk; Reo at-large, who was unopposed for by Don J. Steavens, the Demo­ Patti.son, treasurer; Loyal Hlnk- the guliernatorlal nomination of / THREE CLINTON County legislative cratic nominee. ley, justice of the peace; Howard his party at Tuesday’s primary. Hess, trustee; Martin Galecka « » candidates were defeated in the Republican Jr., Frank Ladiski, Robert Cross Another Republican incumbent IN THE only other statewide primary. Rep. Andrew Cobb of Elsie, trying jf' Supervisor, George Moore of Du- and Frank Vlcek, constables. race, Mrs Elly Petersonof Char­ for nomination in the new 30th State Senatori­ lotte emerged as the Republican plaln, will be opposed in Novem­ al district, lost to incumbent Sen. Emil Lock- ber by Elmer Thornton, the Dem­ EAGLE—(Republican Party, nominee for US Senator. .Mrs Pe­ unopposed) Russell Howe, super­ ocratic nominee. terson was victorious in a three- wood of St. Louis. ♦ ♦ visor; E. Bard Fish, clerk; Carl way contest which also Involved AUGUST JOHANSEN Lockwood piled up big pluralities in THIRTEEN OTHER incumbent G. Lietzke, treasurer; Ed Rose, James F. O’Neil of Livonia and supervisors came through the justice of the peace; Bruce Moy­ Edward A. Meany Jr. of Grand Congress winner Gratiot and Montcalm to overcome Cobb’s er, trustee; Fred Biergans, Wil­ Haven. primaries and caucuses unscath ­ ■ vtif'- liam Mominee, Leo Clare Murphy of Kalamazoo, who was unopposed lead in Clinton and Eaton. A third candidate. ed. All will be unopposed for elec­ in the Democratic primary, in the BLAIR G. WOODMAN NORMAN J. WHITE tion in November. They are: and Paul Volk, constables. .Mrs Peterson will run against Lament Meier of Byron, carried Shiawassee Incumbent US Senator Philip A. November election. The 3rd Con­ Legislature (87th district) Nominee for Prosecutor ESSEX— (Republican Party, Hart, unopposed Democratic gressional district includes all of and Victor H. Meier of Williamston was lead­ Gerald Stie;jard, Bath; Ray­ Clinton County except Bath and mond L. Mayers, Bengal; Mau­ unopposed) John Setterington, su ­ nominee, in the November gener­ ing in the two townships of Ingham included pervisor; Verne Upton, clerk; al election. DeWitt townships. rice Gove, Bingham; William » * » ♦ in the district. Hufnagel, Dallas; John M. Setter- Waldo LaRue, treasurer; Charles IN THE contested Congres­ FOR THE 6th Congressional Ington, Essex; Derrill Shinabery, Smith, trustee; Harold Dershem, James C. Matthews of St. Johns, in an up­ sional race of interest to Clin­ district, which includes Bath and Greenbush: Walter Nobis, Leban ­ justice of the peace. ton voters Tuesday, incumbent DeWitt, Incumbent Charles E. hill fight for State Representative from the on; Almond Cressman, Olive; US Representative August E. Jo­ Chamberlain of East Lansing was George K. Austin, Ovid; Willard GREENBUSH — (Republican new 87th district, lost to Blair G. Woodman hansen of Kalamazoo won the 3rd unopposed as the Republican Krebel, Riley; Claude Underhill, Party, unopposed) Derrill Shina­ of Owosso. Norman VanEpps, another Owosso district Republican nomination. nominee. His November opponent Victor; Ernest Carter, Water- bery, supervisor; Gladys Hankey, clerk; Ellsworth Stock well, He was opposed by Dwight L. will be Boyd K. Benedict, East candidate, was second in the race. town: and Walter Thelen, West­ Lansing, who was nominated phalia. treasurer, Miron Post, trustee; Stocker Jr. and Harry F. Schan- Harmon Cropsey of Watertown was de­ Gordon Waggoner,' Lynn Law­ nlng, both of Kalamazoo. without opposition on his ticket Tuesday. feated in his bid for nomination in the 88th Here are the township candi­ rence, Ben Beck and Francis Johansen will face Paul H. Todd Motz, constables. dates for office in November as Republican and Democratic State Representative district by Lester J. reported following township cau- LEBANON —(Republican Par­ nominees for lieutenant gover­ Allen, Ithaca incumbent. cuse.s, and primaries this past nor, attorney general and secre­ w eek: ty, unopiiosed) Walter G. Nobis, List 40 jurors Unopposed Democratic nominees for supervisor; Eugene Tabor, clerk; tary of state will be named at state conventions of the two parties legislative posts in Tuesday’s primary were BATH—(Citizens Party) Ger­ Anthony Theis, treasurer; How­ later this month. ald Shepard, supervisor; Lee ard Pung, ju.stice of the peace; for court term — Joseph H. Kurka Jr., Ovid, State Senator Reasoiier, clerk; Iona Barker, Fred Watts, trustee. Forty jurors have been drawn in the 30th district; Sanford Volker, Owosso, treasurer; Ernest Trofatter, for the September term of Clin­ Bentley to speak trustee; Lawrence Read, justice OLIVE —(Republican Party, ton County Circuit Court which 87th district State Representative; and Le­ of the peace. (Demo.tra'lc Party) unopposed) Almond B. Cressman, opens Tuesday. Sept. 14, before at Clinton GOP roy E. Vincent, 88th district State Repre­ ROBERT R. SIRRINE supervisor; Hilary G. Simon, VAN W. HOAG Gaylord David, constable. Judge Leo W. Corkin. The jurors Coroner nominee clerk; Charles Faivor, treasur ­ listed by County Clerk Paul Meet Sept. 12 sentative. Coroner nominee BENGAL —(Republican Party, er; Gale Boron, trustee. Wakefield are: * unopposed) Raymond Mayers, su ­ Alvin M. Bentley, former Con­ l.ucy .Alward, Yvonne Wagner gressman from this district and WITH RETURNS FROM the nonpartisan pervisor: Rudolph Mohnke, clerk; OVID — (Republican Party, and Clayton Woodard of Bath; Otto chairman of Gov. Romney’s blue Donald Harper, treasurer; Don­ unopposed) Geroge K. Austin, su ­ P. Jacob and Irene Pope of Ben­ primary still incomplete early Wednesday, it ribbon committee on state educa ­ ald Irrer, trustee; Ernest Mar­ pervisor; George Goetze, clerk; gal; Dahl DeBoer and Irene Jump­ tional matters, will be keynote was impossible to determine the six candi­ Bank suesBond ten, justice of the peace; Gerald Christine Snyder, treasurer; er of Bingham; Lawrence Fox and speaker at the Republican County Pope and Gerald Rossow, con­ Robert Hebeler Sr., trustee; Ray Oscar C. Simon of Dallas; Sever­ dates who will be running for the three judge- Convention in the courtroom at stables. A. Hamer, justice of the peace; ance Bellows and Bernice Moots the Courthouse in St. Johns Sat­ ships in the 66 -county 3rd district Court of Erwin Cannon, justice of the of DeWitt; Doreen A. Kridnerand urday, Sept. 12, at 2 p.m. on $37,693debt BINGHAM—(Republican Par­ peace (to fill vacancy); Robert Stella Whitford of Duplaln. Appeals at the November election. ty, unopposed) Maurice Gove, su ­ Hebeler Jr., Duane Chamberlain, John F. Bond, former St. Johns Others of Bond’s creditors are Ben Avery and Ray W. Miller Principal business of the con­ Leaders included John W. Fitzgerald of pervisor; Alice Heibeck, clerk; Charles Wilson and Madison Wy- of Eagle; Vivian Sillman and insurance man, is named as de­ known to be considering legal Wilbur Brandt, treasurer; Law­ rlck, constables. vention will be to choose nine del­ Grand Ledge, Donald E. Holbrook of Clare, fendant in a suit for $37,693.84 action on notes which they hold, Harry Ward of Essex; Gordon egates and nine alternates to the rence Yallup, trustee; Byron Kls- Howard and Herbert Stevens of Allan C. Miller of East Tawas, Robert G. filed in Clinton County Circuit but have not yet taken their claims sane, justice of the peace; Duane RILEY —(Republican Party, Republican State Convention In Court Tuesday by the Clinton Na­ to court.