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The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 19

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Friday, December 27, 1963 ESCANABA DAILY PRESS, Escanaba, Michigan Pajre Seven Romney Stories Lead Off Top 10 In News Of 1963 By A. F. MAHAN Associated Press Staff Writer A victory and a defeat for Gov. George Romney rank No. 1 and No.

2. respectively, among Michigan's 10 top news stories of 1963. The victory came nine months ago. It was voter-adoption of a new state constitution, a document Romney helped write and for which the newly chosen governor campaigned. The defeat was that suffered Trading Stamps Buy New Bus For Retarded Pupils NAMPA.

Idaho How many books at trading stamps do you need to buy a $13 000 school bus? Answer: more than 6.000. That's how many the people of Idaho contributed to buy a new bus for the State School as a Christmas gift. The school for retarded children has been without a bus since its old World War II model broke down earlier thus year. last month by Republican Rom -1 ney when the GOP controlled killed his tax and reform program, something else he sought to build citizen-pressure for. Only seven points separated these stories, but they far outdistanced No.

3, of the Kennedy Assassination on Fish Scare Fourth Here are the chosen by editors and newscasters of Associated Press member newspapers and radio-television men nearest the news. 2. Fiscal Reform Defeated 246 3. Assassination Impact 188 Smoked Fish Botulism are 148 5. First Year 140 6.

Booming Auto Sales 137 7. Racial Demonstrations 91 8. Olympic Bid 62 9. Democratic Party Shakeup 61 10. Karras Suspended 54 A No.

1 vote was worth 10 points; No. 2. nine points. No. 3, eight, etc.

At least 22 different stories received It was the second consecutive year in which Romney and the I new constitution proved to be the top Michigan news. In 1962. election as governor, ending 14 years of Democratic rule in Lansing, was rated No. 1. Conclusion of the convention which wrote the new constitution ranked No.

2. The legislature killing of tax reform was ranked No. 6 in 1962 That killing was of Democratic Gov. John B. program, a part of which the Senate battled over all night and then passed, only to reverse itself later.

Auto Sales Slip Also a repeater from the big stories of 1962 was Auto Sales." but this apparently lost something in its two-year run. It was No. 6 this time: No. 4 a year ago. There was no 1963 happpening of the dramatic proportions of 1962's No.

3 story the high- wire collapse of the Wallenda human pyramid in which two died at Shrine Circus. But 1963 No. 4 was one with far more personal interest, both direct and indirect. That was the botulism poison scare in which at least four Michigan persons died from eating tainted fish and which put the Great Lakes fishing fleet out of business for a time. The first two Michigan deaths were charged to canned tuna; Gilmore Owns Five Stations KALAMAOO.

Mich Gilmore Broadcasting Corp. announced today it has purchased television station KGGM-TV and radio station KGGM in A' buqucrque. N.M., and radio station KVSF in Santa Fe, N.M subject to approval by the Federal Communications Commission. The corporation, headed by former Kalamazoo Mayor James S. Gilmore acquired all of tiie assets of the New Meixico Broadcasting Co.

These include the three broadcast facilities and an FCC construction permit for channel 2 television in Santa Fe Following FCC approval expected in approximately three months. Gilmore Broadcasting will be the owner of two television and three radio stations. KODE-AM at Joplin. in 1962 the next two to Michigan- smoked whitefish. Then authorities reported five southern deaths had been traced to Michigan-packaged smoked chubs.

Housewives quit buying fish. Racial demonstrations moved on the Michigan scene in 1963. There were many, with To which drew 100.000 participants. I topping all the rest. Combined, the demonstrations were ranked 7.

Olympic Bid Fails Two sports stories made the first 10 category this time, where none made it last time. They were Detroit's all-out but unsuccessful bid for the 1968 Olympic Games. No. 8, and the National Football betting-scandals that resulted in suspension of Detroit's star tackle. Alex Karras, No.

10. The ouster of John J. (Joe) Collins and the election of Zolton Ferency as Democratic State Central Committee chairman, accomplished with the help of delegates from the United Auto Workers Union, was ranked No. 9 among 1963 i stories. Former Gov.

John B. Swain- son quarterbacked the unseating of Collins, choice of the party's national committeeman. Congressman at Large Neil Stabler, who had masterminded party strategy since the election of G. Mennen Williams to the first of his six successive terms in 1948. Other stories gathering votes in categories somewhere between No.

1 and No. 10 included: Four convict escape from Southern Michigan Prison and slaying of Mrs. Douglas Watkins, a Brooklyn housewife, which tied for No. 11 with 48 points each: Debate on Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park; Michelle Moran's Kidnaping at Lansing: Dedication of Sault Ste. International Bridge; rising traffic fatalities: the Romney- Washington ruckus over Aid to Dependent Children of the Unemployed: An Lansing rampage.

attempted ouster of Dr. Eugene Elliot as president of Eastern michigan University; Detroit Tigers fail again; Chrysler to build new Michigan stamping plant. Hatcheries Up Fish Production Bureau by the Michigan Conservation hatch- i erdy at Marquette, will be reare to yearling size by Bureau hatcheries and released in the Great Lakes. A total of 4.440,500 brook, and brown trout, MINNEAPOLIS Federal veighing a total of 211,000 fish hatcheries in the Bureau pounds, were produced in the of Sports Fisheries and Wild-; region. life's north central region pro- About 80 per cent of these duced 42 per cent more fish in trout went into public waters.

1963 than in 1962. primarily on federal lands. Production from 20 national1 with the remainder going into fish hatcheries totalled more other waters open to public than 30 million adults, finger- fishing. Most Bureau-produced lings and fry fish of both warm and cold water species this year. This figure does not include more than 10 million rainbow and lake trout eggs being incubated for rearing in this region or raised for distribution throughout the nation.

Federal hatcheries at Pen- dils Creek, Hiawatha and Charlevoix in Michigan produced 1,751.437 yearling lake fis hare stocked in accordance with cooperative management agreements with state game and fish departments. More than million v. arm-water fish were produced at 10 federal hatcheries in the region. Isabella S-Sgt. David Fisk of Little trout weighing 67,042 pounds.

Rock AFB. Jacksonville, Lxcept tor one small experi- jg spending a ten day furlough mental plant in Lake with his parents, the Arthur these lake trout were stocked Fisks in Lake Superior. Richard Sabourin, student at In addition. 5 million lake Michigan College of Mining and trout eggs being incubated at Technology, Houghton, is the Jordan River nation- spending the holiday vacation fish hatchery in Michigan, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

These eggs were supplied the Louis Sabourin. i I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I WBAY-Channel 2-Green Bayr Wis. Schedule subject to last minute change beyond our control. Monday Thru Mornings And Afternoons WLUK-Channel 11-Green Bay, Wis. Channel 11 becomes Ch.

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CBS News 3:30 The Edge of Night 4:00 The Secret Storm 4:30 As The World Turns 5:00 Col. Caboose Show 5:30 Mickev Mouse Club CBS News 7:00 News, Weather Sports Monday Thru Mornings And Afternoons A M. 11:00 Price Is Right M. 12:00 Ernie Ford 12:30 Father Knows Best 1 General Hospital 1 30 Noon Report 4:00 5 00 Afternoon at Theatre 6:45 News Ron Cochran 7:00 Leave It To Beaver Sunday, Doc. 29 Channel Light Time Sacred Heart Sunday Mass Lamp Unto My Feet I Up And Live Take Two A M.

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SI Channel M. 6:00 7 30 00 9:00 9 30 10:00 11:00 11:30 12 00 12.15 1 15 Quick Draw MrGraw Naked City Skelton Petticoat Junction Jack Benny Gary Moore I New Year's Eve With Dick Rodgers New Eve With Guv Lombardo Feature Theatre "100 Men And A Wednesday, Jan. 1 Channel 3 M. 6 00 7 30 8 30 'I 9 30 10-00 11:00 11 30 1 00 Yogi Bear a Years oi Crisis I Tell It To Carnet a Bcverl' Hillbillies Dick Van Dyke Danny Kaye I Weather-News-Sporta 1 Scare Time Sincerely I Wrestling Champions I Thursday, Jan. 2 Channel 2 Sunday, Dec.

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Arrest St Trial 10:00 Laughs For Sale 10:30 News. Weather, Sports 11:00 Channmg Academy Award Theatre "Jane Ayre" Tuesday, Dec. 31 Channel 11 M. 7:30 Combat 8.30 McHalea Navy 9:00 Greatest Show on Earth 10:00 Orange Bowl Parade 11:00 Aquanauta 11 30 The Story of a 12:00 News. Weather.

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