1978 - Sheriff Duane Badder Wins Democratic Primary...and...Kim Hitchcock is Miss Northeast Michigan From Presque Isle County Advance and Onaway Outlook August 16, 2018

  
CAPTION: Sheriff Duane Badder beat his closest Democratic opponent by more than a 2-to-1
margin in the primary race.  Badder was to face former sheriff Melbourne Smith in the
November general election. Smith was unopposed on the Republican side. Badder was appointed
to Presque Isle County's top law enforcement position in January 1978 following Ray 
Kurczewski's resignation. Badder received 1,432 votes. Runner-up Harry Clendenin Jr., 
another former sheriff, garnered 570 votes and Richard Szymoniak had 358.  Smith
received 664 votes. Badder swept 27 of the 28 precincts in the county on the Democratic
side. In other Onaway news, Kim Hitchcock was Miss Northeast Michigan of 1978. The 
17-year-old from Millersburg topped the field at Onaway High School. Kammie Miller was 
first runner-up.



From the The Presque Isle County Advance August 16, 2018, page 7B. 


Retyped by J. Anderson