Word: lapeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contributing mightily to the general excitement and confusion was the erratic behaviour of the Eisenhower train. At Saginaw, Ike had barely opened his mouth to say "Ladies & gentlemen . . ." when the engineer sent the Eisenhower train rolling inexorably away from the assembled crowd. At Lapeer, the next stop, the train again pulled out before Ike could speak, then halted some distance off, where Ike and Mamie began to sign autographs. As the train started up for the second time, Ike caught Mamie in the act of handing a pen down to an autograph-seeker and cried out in anguish...
...Liberty Street Gospel Church of Lapeer, Mich. (pop. 6,000) seats 280 people, but 400 crowded in one night last week. They stood six-deep at the back to pay a tribute to the Rev. Frank S. Hemingway-a man one Lapeerite called "as near a saint as anyone can be without being...
Pastor Hemingway was 24 when he came to town 33 years ago to take over the Lapeer Methodist Protestant Church. He was what the townspeople called a "visiting preacher"; he never forgot the people who lived too far away or were too sick to come to church regularly. When radio came along in the '205, he determined to expand his job at the Methodist church into a mission of the air. He tried to interest nearby cities such as Flint and Saginaw in setting up a broadcasting station strictly for religious programs, but he got no backing. Frank Hemingway...
...made of bicycle rims, and even a dog walking under it would joggle the station off frequency, but he kept it going two or three hours a day, six days a week with scripture, organ music, singing, and talks to shut-ins. Hemingway called his station WMPC after Lapeer's Methodist Protestant Church (which later became the Liberty Street Gospel Church...