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The article reports that Federal District Court judges for eastern Michigan, are given notice to bring contempt proceedings against the Detroit News editor. It states that since Detroit's two other papers ran similar stories, their concerted defiance blew a national journalistic incident. According to Federal District Judge Theodore Levin, the stories published about the suit did not come from court records as the papers themselves admitted, but from sources over which the court had no control.

The article reports on the indictment of Hubert A. Bearss, a school superintendent in Litchfield, Michigan, who had invented ghost pupils in order to get more state money. Upon responding to a letter asking for an investigation on the district, the "Detroit Free Press" discovered that Bearss told his teachers to keep listing the names of the children of migrant Mexican workers who had been in the district the year before. Aside from admitting such malpractice, Bearss also admitted that he had burned all records in the case.

The article focuses on the riots in Detroit, Michigan. It states that Governor George Romney called Attorney General Ramsey Clark to let him know that he might have to ask for reinforcements in the form of federal troops, believing that Detroit police and the state's National Guard would not be enough to contain the rioters. In response, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson made a dramatic move in a prime-time television address and deplored the breakdown of law and order.

The article focuses on the rights of citizens to sue polluters in Michigan. It informs that any citizen of Michigan has the right to sue against a public nuisance on behalf of the general population whether or not the nuisance affects him personally. If any citizen of Detriot, Michigan does not like automobile pollution, he or she can ask a court to ban all downtown traffic. It tells that Michigan courts have given the right to its citizens to involve in environmental issues.