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The Herald-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan • 40

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T11E NEWS-PALLADIUM. BENTON HARBOR, ft-'' WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26,1973 PAGE FORTY Ford's Selection Top Michigan News Story In 1 973 paying off this year. It made eight persons millionaires and put more than $60 million into the state's educational coffers. The earth seemed to turn against the' people at Williamsburg, a hamlet in the northern Lower Peninsula. Natural gas erupted from the ground in April forcing 200 residents to evacuate their homes, some of them for months.

The plague of erupting gas covered a mile-square area. Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley filed lawsuits totaling more than $1 million against an oil company and a drilling concern in connection with the underground blasts. A major storm blasted Michigan on St.

Patrick's Day, dumping heavy snow and causing serious flooding along Lakes Erie, St. Clair and Huron and the Detroit River. Construction unionists staged major protests against nonunion workers at major jobs. The two largest disputes were at a Shell Oil Co. plant near Kalkaska and against a Dow Chemical Co.

site at Midland. Police were called to keep order at both sites. The last U.S. fighting man to be killed in Vietnam was Lt. Col.

William Nolde of Michigan, a native of Menominee. Nolde, who worked in the pacification program, died in an artillery blast only hours before the ceasefire. after 30 years. The talks brought a week-long strike at Chrysler, where the pattern contract was negotiated. A combination of black and liberal white voters gave Detroit its first black mayor.

State Sen. Coleman Young defeated former police commissioner John Nichols. Young pledged that one of his main jobs would be to unify the city. The Michigan State Lottery, begun in November 1972, began auto plants produce' big cars and when the automakers laid off about 100,000 workers, many were here. Most of the laid-off workers had substantial unemployment protection.

Improvements in the protection came in the 1973 auto industry labor contract negotiations. But key issues in the four months of negotiating were voluntary overtime, improved medical and dental insurance and retirement with full pension next three selections. The energy crisis hit Michigan hard. Gasoline shortages threatened northern resort areas. School districts had to search for fuel for heating and gasoline for buses.

Gov. William Milliken asked for emergency powers to act in the shortage, but as the year ended, the legislature declined to give them to him. The fuel shortage was cited as a major reason for a sharp lag in big car sales. Most Michigan government scandal, President Nixon looked for a man whose record was as clean as northern Michigan snow. He said he found that man in Ford, a 12-term congressman from Grand Rapids.

After brief hearings, the House and Senate confirmed the President's nomination and Ford was sworn in as the first vice president to be chosen under the 25th amendment to the Constitution. Economics dominated the 1, By ASSOCIATED PRESS The selection of Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan as vice president was chosen the Wolverine State's top news story of the year by Associated Press member newspapers and broadcast stations. But economic stories, including the energy crisis and contract talks in the auto industry, took three of the top five spots.

The top 10 stories, in order, are: 1. Gerald R. Ford named vice president. 2. The energy crisis.

3. The auto industry begins layoffs because of a lag in big car sales. 4. United Auto Workers contract negotiations with the Big Three automakers. 5.

State Sen. Coleman Young is elected Detroit's first black mayor. 6. (tie) The Michigan State Lottery is a $61 million financial success, and natural gas erupts from the ground at Williamsburg, forcing many residents to evacuate their homes. 8.

Late winter storms batter the state in March. 9. Construction unionists stage demonstrations at' nonunion jobs, including sites at Kalkaska and Midland. 10. The last U.S.

fighting man killed in Vietnam is Lt. Col. William Nolde of Michigan. Here is a brief recap of the top 10. When Spiro Agnew resigned as vice president, after a major us GIANT SIZE i hi hr A ivoshloads ..12 iiiiliiiiiiiiiiii M--.

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