Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan (2024)

36 THE STATE JOURNAL Sunday, July 23, 1961 Laniint Michigan Voters Will Choose Con-Con Nominees Tuesday 1.107 Aspirants Seek Here Are the Candidates To Become Delegates 14th Senatorial District (Ingham. and Livingston Counties) and his wife live at 1420 Sunny-side ave. EUGENE "GIL" WANGER, 28, of 602 S. Jenison Lansing, Winners in Primary Will Vie In is making his first attempt in date for Republican nomination to the legislature last August. Stiles and his wife live at 4800 Allison dr.

DR. CLAIR L. TAYLOR, 59, former state superintendent of public instruction, has been director of the- Democratic As a pre-election service to its readers, The State Journal here presents biographical sketches of candidates seeking nomination for delegate to the Michigan constitutional convention in Tuesday's special primary election. Aspirants presented are those for whom voters of Greater Lansing will have opportunity to ballot. Candidates in other districts of central Michigan are listed elsewhere in this section.

Hannah married Sarah May Shaw, daughter of former M. S. U. President Robert Shaw. They have three children and live at Cowles house on the university politics in seeking the Republican nomination as con-con delegate from the first Ingham district.

Wanger is associated with the hept. 12 Election By WILLARD BAIRD (Stato Journal Capitol Burtau) In a special statewide primary election Tuesday, Michigan voters will narrow the field of 1,107 candidates who seek election as delegates to the forthcoming constitutional convention. Polls will be open from 7 a. m. to 8 p.

m. in all of the slate'i 5,075 voting precincts. Political observers forecast a small turnout campus. ROBERT E. CURBY of Howell, unopposed for nomination.

Republican DR. JOHN A. HANNAH, president of Michigan State university, is making his first venture in par GEORGE R. SIDWELL, 62, of i higan State university summer and evening college for the past four years. He took the post in 1957 after de 1527 W.

Ionia Lansing, seek ing the Republican nomination for of voters in most districts. Lansing law firmy of Fraser, Treb-LJ it. was a member of the college staff for two years. He has had 16 years of experience in township government and active in civic affairs, including uon-on iroin uie if mri business. He also operates with his two sons a 400-acre dairy farm, which has been in the family more than a century.

He was graduated from Michigan State university in 1929 and llcock, Davis and Wanger Foster. ciding not to seek cm He majored in political science as a member of a board of education. re-elec i as state superinten tisan politics Republican nomination for con-con from the 14th a torial district. Hannah, 58, is at Amherst college in Massachu setts, where he was an honors graduate. He earned his law de xtui a a im iu district, is a specialist in 1 a 1 government.

He has participated in the drawing up of 72 city charters, including one for Anchorage, Alas Kiwanis, Boy bcouts and Peoples church. Before coming to East Lansing, he was Grand Traverse county chairman for Red Cross and a member of the Traverse City board of education for four years. He is a World War I veteran. JORDAN JENKINS, 40, of 340 Whitehills East Lansing, has a legislative background. Son of a (nmn.

nor. iUl gree from the University of Mich igan in 1958. He was president of Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity a native of Grand Rapids. A 1923 wnue at Ann Arbor. graduate ofi Ingham County 1st Representative District (Includes City of Lansing and Lansing township except former Delhi township area recently annexed to Lansing) Tiro to be nominated for each party He is a director of Citizens for Michigan State, Hannah he was secretary of the board of Michigan and the Lansing Junior Chamber of Commerce.

He was dent, to which Taylor he had been twice elected. Dr. Taylor holds degrees from Central Michigan university and M.S.U. He taught school, coached and served as principal and superintendent at Sand Creek, Pid-geon and Elberta schools from 1924 to 1931. He was twice elected Missaukee county commissioner of schools, 1931-37.

He was chief of finance1 and child accounting for the department of public instruction from 1937 to 1948 and served as deputy superintendent from 1948 to 1953. A native of Illinois, Dr. Taylor agriculture from 1935 to 1941, when he became president of the political writer, he was a law named the outstanding new Jay-cee in 1960. It clerk for Su- Wanger, whose father. Eueene M.

Wanger, is a senior vice pres Democratic preme uoun jus--tice John R. ident or wicnigan National bank Dethmers. I Republican CLAUD R. ERICKSON, 61, of 1307 Cambride seeking the Republican nomination from the first ka, in 1959. Sidwell Sidwell, an engineering graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1923 and a law graduate of the University of Michigan in 1935, was a member of Lansing's city council from 1953 to 1956.

He was legal counsel for the Michigan Municipal league for 10 years and legislative law clerk in the house of representatives from 1947 to 1952. Sidwell was executive secretary of the State Bar association from 1945 to 1947. His wife, Emilie, is an assistant LUCILE BELEN, 48. was re-elect also has been active in the United Community Chest and the Young ed as councilman-at-large to the lobbyist at the itepuDiicans. Lansing city council this spring.

institution. In addition to his education work, he has served in many governmental capacities, including assistant secretary of defense for manpower, chairman of the Canadian-United States joint board of defense and chairman of the U. S. civil rights commission. He is a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and several large corporations.

He is a Mason, Rotarian and member of many other civic and educational organizations. capitol for several years. UMU The convention, fifth to be summoned since Michigan organized for statehood 126 years ago, will meet Oct. 3 in Lansing for a session generally expected to last seven to eight months. Delegates will draw pay of $1,000 a month up to a maximum of $7,500 and collect mileage at the rate of 10 cents a mile for two round trips a month from their home to the convention site.

Republican and Democratic nominees for each of the 144 con-con delegate positions will be chosen in Tuesday's primary. Party winners in each district will be paired in a general election Sept. 12. ONE PER LEGISLATOR The 144 delegates are being chosen on the basis of one for each member of the legislature. Thus, one delegate will be elected from each of the 34 senatorial districts and one or more will be chosen from each of the 86 state representative districts (depending on whether the district is entitled to one, two or three representatives in the legislature.

Michigan voters approved calling a constitutional convention in the April 3 election, setting in motion the machinery for holding the primary election Tuesday and the general election in September to select the delegates. In Ingham county, the primary balloting will pick two nominees for each party from the county's first representative district cov-S 1,107 Paga 37, Col. 3 Ingham repre-" Ingham County 2nd She had previa. sentative district, I "I ously served oir the council frorm the former third! ward. She was is a i his first bid for an elective office.

ri son, an engineer with the Lansing board of water and light. in the state law library. They have 1 council mayor Representative District (Includes all of Ingham county outside city of Lansing and Lansing township except former Lansing township area recently annexed to the city of East Lansing.) gri'" Jenkins a Jenkins graduate of Michigan State university and the University of Michigan law school, practices law in Lansing. He visited New Jersey recently to study the constitutional convention held in that state in 1947. CLAYTON F.

JENNINGS, 61, of 414 Southlawn, East Lansing, one of six Republicans seeking the two sons. pro-tem in 1959- 2 60, the first worn an to fill the holds degrees in 15th Senatorial District (Clinton, Eaton and Shiawassee Counties) 1 post. science, mechani She has been a I 1 cal, electrical Erickson member of the Belen Ingham county board of super Republican Democratic ly wounded of five congressmen shot by Puerto Rican nationalists and civil engineering from Michigan State university. He has been a member of the nomina-f tion from thel Ingham ondf pepnt ativni visors for five years and is chairman of the Ingham county ju HUGH W. BRENNEMAN, 45, of in 1954.

state bar since 1935. WALTER R. ACKERMAN, of Owosso, unopposed for county bar associations. He is a member of the a i Elks lodge. He is married and father of six children.

JULIUS A. HANSLOVSKY, 65, of 509 Division East Lansing, is a professional municipal fi- venile court committee, Erickson. a native of ManUfpp 627 Ardson East Lansing, is assistant administrator of the He is a millionaire industrialist with interests in Mitchell-Bentley has been with the board of water and light since 1920. district, is a vet- 't 1L- -j eran Lansing at-i Fl torney. I Jk He was grad- i She is a dircetor of the Lansing Downtown Development council and was treasurer of the Lansing Centennial Year, during the corporation of Owosso and Ionia, He is married to the former Ar- Republ lean He has participated in many community activities, including vella Duescher and is the father Michigan State Medical society, executive director of the Michigan Association of Profes i ALVIN M.

BENTLEY, 42, of uciicu nuui ucllj-j- nance consult ant. of three sons and a daughter. 1959 celebration. Miss Belen is a partner in Be the Elks, Lansing Symphony association, M. S.

U. Alumni club, sing high school. Owosso, is a native of Maine and a graduate of University of Mich and received his MARTEN GARN, 53, Charlotte A graduate ofi the University! len's Flowers and Belen's School of Floral Design. She has taught and advisor to igan. After serving four terms law degree from Jtnnings the University of Michigan.

area farmer and farm business leader, seeking the Republican of Michigan inl the State Bar of in the Lansing public evening municipal and He has practiced law in Lansing Spartan foundation. Red Cross, Michigan Municipal Utilities association, M. S. U. Engineering alumni.

Red Cross, Lansing Engineers club and Michigan Engineering society. Erickson was a member of a Michigan and the Michigan So business admin as eighth dis trict representa tive in the U. is ration, Mr ciety of Archi since 1924. He is a partner of the firm of Jennings, Younger, Par sons, Keyworth and Warren. Before becoming an attorney, ELECT A WORKING DELEGATE! schools lor the past 10 years.

JOSEPH M. PROCHASKA, 33 of 4625 Lyncott, Lansing, is as sistant professor of urban plan ning at VKmilmmm Hanslovsky was! tWrf I House, ne was tects. Brennoman nomination from the 15th senatorial distr i would bring agriculture, governmental and business experience to a consti a bank examin 1 (A I defeated 1 a ts citizens', advisory committee to the er for Jennings did manual labor and A former teacher and school administrator, Brenneman also has been interested in farming. He Michigan commission on state ycai ill ins uiu luw I taught school. He is a veteran of unseal jviicnigan Sen.

Patrick V.t a fx operates a tarm in Gratiot county. State university. A native of Detroit, he was; graduated from; MciNamara. L.Jai. government reorganization in 1951-1952.

WARD W. KELLEY, 52, Lansing attorney, is seeking public office for the first time. He has been an advisor to many state organizations, including the World War I. Democratic GORDON L. THOMAS of East tutional convention.

Garn is presi years and was Hanslovsky one of the staff of the municipal finance commission for five years. He has been a financial advisor to Michigan municipalities and school districts. A resident of East Lansing for 18 years, Mr. Hanslovsky has been Michigan State jvucnigan united Conservation He served in Bentley posts at home and abroad with the U. S.

diplomatic corps, from which he resigned in 1950. Bentley was the most serious- Kelley served dent of Farm Gam Bureau Services, a state Clubs, Republican party, Michi gan Cancer society, Michigan Hos- Lansing unopposed for I umihiih mn university and earned his master's degree in; urban planning' Jtjn wide farmer-owned farm supply pital association and Michiean in the armed forces from 1942 to 1948, part of neart association. in 1957, the yearl He was a delegate to the Re Prochaska he joined the uni the time as a special investiga publican state convention several times. versity faculty. He has been a planner for the Barry-Clinton-Eaton Representative District (Barry, Clinton and Eaton Counties) Tiro to be nominated for each party Central Michigan Candidates tor of war crimes in the Philippine islands.

Brenneman. who organized the Born in SL city of Lansing and now is acting principal planner for the tri-coun-ty regional planning commission. He also is a partner in Community Planners' Collaborative of St. Johns, Kelley Michigan Association of the Professions, is married and the father of one son. CHARLES J.

DAVIS, 50, Onondaga township farmer and business leader is a graduate of graduated from Kelley JAMES C. CRISTY, 48, Hick- Following are candidates in central Michigan senatorial and Republican East Lansing. ory Corners, Barry county, is the great-grandson of Henry H. Crapo, representative districts seeking nomination for delegates to the constitutional'convention in the July 25 primary election. (Candidates in the 14th and 15th senatorial districts and the Ingham and Barry-Clinton-Eaton representative districts are cov HARRY BRUGH, 51, of 436 N.

He is associated with the East Lansing Community council, Ur-bandale committee and is a member of national and state profes Cochran, Charlotte, was reared governor of Michigan from 1865 to 1869. A native of Michigan, he is i versuy. net" operates a 447-1' acre farm in On-I ered in the biographical sketches elsewhere in this issue.) old Lansing Central high school, Michigan State university and the Detroit College of Law. He and his wife, Helen, have a son, Dean, a senior at M. S.

U. The family lives at 726 Sparrow ave. C. ROWLAND STEBBINS, 1710 Moores River one of six seeking Republican nomination from on a farm in Brookfield township Eaton county. sional planners societies, ondaga township He or i i Prochaska is a navy veteran of.

World War II and an army vet IU51 SOUIO a depart head in the fi worked at Wil- Aurelius center. eran ot the Korean war. He and nancial division He was presi of the cox-Gay corpora- tion in Charlotte and served 37 in the his wife have three children. THOMAS C. WALSH, 37.

of 2509 BTW-I dent of Lansing Dairy for seven vears and when if 1 the first Ingham representa tive district, was a If, 1 company of Kalamazoo. He is a gradu Ionia County Representative District REPUBLICAN Stanley M. Powell of Ionia (unopposed). DEMOCRATIC a 1 D. Swarthout of Portland (unopposed).

Isabella County Representative District (Clare and Isabella counties) REPUBLICAN Charles L. Ans- Mark is one of three Democrats seeking con-con nomination army in World War II. Cristy member of the comm i i u'hinh Hrpw im Brugh was an from the Ingham first representa-tive district. r6m rOT the Dresent Lan- nsuccessful can-candidate for the it was merged Davis with McDonald Dairy in 1959 he was made director and later vice president. Davis is past president of the Ingham County Farm Bureau, a member of the Republican Town Walsh, a Lan- ate of the University of Michigan and spent 10 years in the insurance business in Chicago and Detroit before joining Upjohn 16 years ago.

He is chairman of the board of See MEET Pg. 37, Col. 1 Brugh sinff lawver. has Republican nomination for state Stphhins. a na-T Choose a full-time delegate who will represent ALL the people and NOT the special interest groups.

Elect Eugene (Gil) WANGER Con-Con Delegate 1st INGHAM DISTRICT (Lansing, Lansing Township), (Political Advartiscmant) representative pach of Mt. Pleasant and Donald: been village at-VX (Allegan, Barry and Van Burtn counties) DEMOCRAIC Carl A. Brod beck of Lake Odessa and Walter J. Godlewski of Allegan. REPUBLICAN Robert R.

Falk-ner of Benton Harbor and Edward Hutchinson of Fennville. 24th Senatorial District (Bay, Isabella and Midland counties) DEMOCRATIC John B. Schlot-ter of Midland and S. Joseph Woodka of Mt. Pleasant.

REPUBLICAN Karl K. Lei-brand of Bay City (unopposed). 23th Senatorial District (Gratiot, Ionia, Mecosta and Montcalm counties) REPUBLICAN D. Hale Brake of Stanton and Alfred J. Fortino of St.

Louis. MOC RAT I No candidates. 28th Senatorial District (Clare and nine other counties) sr5sr fa ST. from the Eaton district in 1934 tive of Lansing and graduate torney for Leslie and currently is a Dartmouth col- Stebbms lege and the University of Michigan, is a Lansing realtor. He is a former member of the member of Lansing board of, education.

He received the and again in 1936. He is a member of the Brook-field Methodist church, Brookfield Masonic and Eastern Star organizations, the Odd Fellows and Re-bekah lodges at Olivet, and the Grennawalt-Flaherty post of the American Leagion. Walsh Polls Open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in Tuesday's Primary Election club and for 12 years served on the county board of education.

He served four years as a member of the agricultural stabilization' and conservation committee of Michigan and was a director of the Ingham soil conservation district at its inception. THOMAS J. FAGAN, 46, of 831 Audubon East Lansing is a lawyer, former corporation of city planning commission, past president of the Lansing board of realtors, charter member of the Lansing Junior Chamber of Commerce and winner of its first award for outstanding civic serv ice. He is a past president of the Lansing Jaycees Young Man of the Year award in January, 1959. A month later, he was named by the Michigan Jaycees as one of its five outstanding young men.

He has taken an active part In partisan politics and civic affairs. Walsh is on the executive committee of the Michigan Association for Retarded Children and is past president of the Greater Lansing Association for Retarded Children. DEMOCRATIC C. RIO AN Society of Residential Appraisers ficer, torraer teacher, former state employe and a former resident of the F. Holbrook of Clare.

MOC RAT I Cecil W. Epple of Mt. Pleasant (unopposed). Montcalm County Representative District (Mecosta and Montcalm counties) REPUBLICAN -G. D.

Barcus, of Greenville, William G. Gover of Sheridan, Orville Lyle Lippert of Riverdale, Norman Mason of Big Rapids, John E. Rosander of Big Rapids and Donald H. Worcester of Big Rapids. DEMOCRATIC William H.

Noud of Stanwood (unopposed). Shiawassee County Representative District (Livingston and Shiawassee counties) REPUBLICAN George R. Anderson of Brigton, Raymond E. Basso of Owosso, Clifton W. Heller of Howell, Thomas G.

Sharpe of Howell, and Patricia C. Vaughn of Owosso. MOC RAT I Harry H. Jen-kins of Owosso (unopposed). and has been active in Community Chest, Red Cross and the City' club.

If5? upper CHARLES R. STILES, 33, Lansing attorney, is a former prosecutor of Ingham county. A native ot Marquette and resident of East Lansing since 1950, Fagan was Evans of Gladwin and Gilbert I. Stewart of Higgins Lake. I REPUBLICAN Lewis T.

Hubbs of Gladwin and George W. Myles of Tawas City. I Gratiot County Representative District DEMOCRATIC-Joseph F. Bell of Alma (unopposed). REPUBLICAN T.

Jefferson Hoxie of St. Louis, Carew S. Le-Blanc of Ithaca, Emil Lockwood of St. Louis and Ronald P. Smith of Alma.

He is a graduate oi naiamaioo college and the Univ ersity of? Polls Open 7 a. m. to 8 p. in Tuesday's Primary Election 0j i i an lavs scnooi. i A former? counter intelli-f apnpp nffipor in'.

1- mueV- western Ger--lJ many, he is iUiV Residents of Lansing and Lansing Township graduated from Fagan Northern Michigan college in 1935 and the University of Michigan law school in 1940. He taught school in the upper peninsula, was a claims adjuster on workmen's compensation cases, assistant attorney general assigned to the state revenue department, and assistant secretary and legal counsel for Motor Wheel corporation. He left Motor Wheel last May to enter private law practice. Fagan has taken an active part in many community activities, including Red Cross, Chamber of Commerce and the state and captain in the air Stiles force reserve. He was an unsuccessful candi- Country Parson ELECT WARD IV.

KELLEY Your Republican Delegate to the Michigan Constitutional Convention Election Tuesday, July 25 Elect a Lawyer Who Understands Constitutional Law and Your Needs KELLEY says: "Economy in government is the best single argument against excessive taxation." Let KELLEY protect the entire state, all the people and your future rights. "Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do. with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed." Cato. DELEGATE CON-CON (Republican) Your vote is respectfully requested for this highly Qualified candidate.

Hugh W. Brenneman Committee (POLITICAL VtPTISlMINT) Know Your Candidates! STILES ANNOUNCEMENT IN TODAY'S RADIO-TV SECTION Ool'ticjit dv.rti?fmnt) ELECT WARD W. KELLEY TUESDAY, JULY 25 (POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT) "I think I'd rather be hungry myself than not to care because others are.".

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