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...LARRY HESTER Hamtramck, Mich...
...Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, determined to succeed himself, was mixing with the common folk and earning a reputation as the best square-dance caller ever to stand alongside a fiddler ("Lady go gee, Gent go haw, Right allemande, just Pa and Ma"). Williams danced the polka with the Poles in Hamtramck, the czardas with the Hungarians in Ecorse. The Republicans, a bit breathless, felt a good deal like wallflowers. ¶ In California, Jimmy Roosevelt wound up a two-week "dry run" in his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. On street corners in 51 Northern California towns, lanky Jimmy...
...Hamtramck (pronounced ham-tram-mick) is a Polish factory community entirely encircled by Detroit and submerged by politics. Hamtramck's manners are Old World; but its morals have produced more political scandals than any city in Michigan. Mayors have become convicts; ex-convicts have become Congressmen. Once Hamtramck boasted a model school system which some optimists thought might save the place...
Instead, the school system became as bad as the town. Schoolkids between classes began joking about the latest graft scandals, and enrollments dropped from 14,000 twelve years ago to 4,200. Two years ago, the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools dropped Hamtramck from its accredited list...
...months ago, the board set out to find a new superintendent of schools. They hired one, fired him; hired him again, fired him again. In the midst of the hiring & firing, Michigan's Governor Kim Sigler, fed up with Hamtramck's scandals, told Hamtramck to "clean up the school mess" or the state would take over the school system. Just to make sure, he sent Clair Taylor, an able assistant in the Department of Public Instruction, to see that the board picked a superintendent who could be trusted. "We're on the spot," President Frank L. Piasecki...