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...easily hunted, even with bait and dogs, the best feasible method. Licenses to kill these animals are not given freely either; very few hunters actually receive such licenses. The bear population needs to be controlled for the safety of all people. Let's put humans first. MICHAEL YONKMAN Boon, Michigan Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1996 | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...Senate, Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge led the opposition to the plan. The Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Catholic War Veterans attacked it. A Grand Rapids, Mich, draft board suspended operations in protest. One member, Robert J. Yonkman, Air Force major in World War II, said: "The Government wants to ... give tests to disclose whether a man is dumb enough to bear arms. Maybe they should put on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier: 'I couldn't pass the aptitude test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: Up In Arms | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...Michigan, four-term Congressman Bartel J. Jonkman (pronounced Yonkman) was defeated in the week's biggest upset. A bitter-end G.O.P. isolationist who liked to refer to ERP as "Burp," Jonkman had always received most of the Dutch vote in the fifth district's "Little Netherlands." This year he did not bother to do much campaigning. His opponent, Gerald R. Ford Jr., 35, did. A Grand Rapids lawyer and onetime University of Michigan football star, Ford had hundreds of volunteers pushing doorbells for him, time & again dared Jonkman to debate his foreign-policy stand. Jonkman refused. Back-slapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: In the Semi-Finals | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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