July 24, 1924
Cadillac is especially blessed to have such an excellent supply of milk, declared state Department of Agriculture Inspector E. J. Friar after inspecting the town’s dairies and distributors. Friar is connected with the state department’s dairy bureau and travels from city to city to inspect milk supplies and distribution channels. Friar’s praise is therefore based on his expertise in the actual situation. Cadillac’s milk inspector George Dunlap is credited with maintaining the city’s supply to the required standard, Friar said. Dunlap was appointed to the position three years ago after a typhoid epidemic in which one producer’s milk was found to be contaminated. At that time the city commission passed a milk commission and regulations were made stricter at the suggestion of the state board of health. Cadillac’s daily per capita milk consumption is about half a pint, which compares favorably with the statewide average. Friar said the city consumes about 300 quarts more milk daily than Traverse City. Records show that 14 distributors handle milk from 26 farms, which milk about 325 cows and sell 2,745 quarts of milk daily. In addition to inspections of the dairy industry, state inspectors visited ice cream plants. These manufacturers were also found to be in very good condition.
July 24, 1974
Wexford County junk car dealers will pick up junk cars on a first-come, first-served basis starting next week. Faced with the possibility of no National Guard assistance in junk car removal until September 1, the Wexford County Township Association decided Tuesday to accept an offer from a local junk car dealer to “clean up the county before the snow comes” in exchange for expenses incurred in the project. Township volunteers will continue to locate, map, obtain releases and mark the cars. Junk car dealers will pay the association $2 per car to cover spray paint, release publications and other expenses. Association President John Brehm said the money received from the junk cars will be transferred to a separate account dedicated to the junk car cleanup program, and if there are funds left after expenses are deducted, they will be applied to the costs of future junk car removals. “We’re not in this project to make money,” he said. “All we want to do is clean up the county as quickly as possible.”
July 24, 1999
Melissa Miller and her boyfriend, Rick Black, were hiding in a hallway closet when the phone rang. It was Miller’s brother, who lives next door, telling them what they already knew. Their home was in the path of a tornado that struck on the Mackinac Trail north of 20 Mile Road near Tustin on Friday. Chris Holguin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gaylord, said he heard reports of two funnel clouds in Osceola County. “We’ve seen one of the tornadoes come through and do damage, but we don’t know what happened with the second one,” Holguin said. A thunderstorm that passed through the area earlier in the evening created a boundary in the area where warm and cold air mixed. “When fronts mix, there’s some kind of shear action that’s involved, and that’s what leads to tornadoes forming, and that’s what happened there,” Holguin said. Meteorologists said the storm was confined to a small area. “We could see the house shaking and the back door slamming open,” Melissa Miller said. “The shaking lasted about five minutes, before I looked outside and saw plants flying through the air,” Miller said. Trees in the densely wooded area were twisted and hurled onto the Mackinac Trail, tall trees snapping in half and scattering tops across Miller’s yard. A thick maple tree fell on a doghouse behind Miller’s house.
