B ! —— a ti! The Weather ~ * Mostly Cloudy Details page two 1 13th YEAR *” * * * * PONT! AC, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY; NOVEMBER 24, 1955 —#0 PAGES | ‘iegler Ann HE PONTIAC p E Er taal jane oes.’ ¥ eee alt eS eX S i ? al aks apf ¢ unces Route Shift ‘ 5 5 v “Must Write Out 2s7 Sa ~ Own Tax Form aise caee expert advice Mrs. John Donley, of 119 Perkins St. is getti from her four children, Sharon, 17, and Kathleen, 14, Bay and Patsy, 11, and Jimmy, 9, closer to the big bird. Their claim “expert” title comes from their consumptive ability, not their culi- there, Mom, not too + pl | Nation Is Told Garis - Will Only Answer Their : Questions on Income . | ‘Inetticiency’ DETROIT w—U. s: Tetpayesal come tax returns from now on, the| search ‘and ‘auditing firm Internal Revenue Service said to-| day. A. M. Menninger, district direc-| rected that beginning with the 1955 returns the service will be|© restricted to answering questions. | In past years, taxpayers could AS I would like to, due to go to the Federal Building here -fee] that as a trustee these eae ethan hatnokding statements | matters should be looked enue serv'ce worker would make into,” Euler stated. exist. i | | Trustee of Hospital Asks I nvestigation A trustee on the board at Pontiac General Hospital will have to fill out their own in. jast night asked that the group call in an outside re- Energy Commission (AEC) deci-| to look into reported in- efficiency in the operation at the hospital. | Trustee Harold B. Euler requested the action in order a court fight today. The issue may tor, said the Washington office di-/ to confirm in his mind a reported inefficiency does |' my outside poaees, and I Gentine — Painting Spree recedes Annual Basi Explodes H. Bomb With Greatest Power Yel WASHINGTON (INS)—Soviet Russia has exploded] the toll road route was drawh up 2.super-bomb in its current series of tests of atomic and) se,” we Seen uel be hydrogeri weapons. The measure was sponsored by The Atomic Energy: Commission announced last pantan yore Clements ‘night that the explosion was Russia's largest thus far a and was in “the range” of megatons—equivalent to Higgins Charges Law Seeking ito Hit Turnpike Michigan. Turnpike Authority Chairman George N.-: Higgins charged yesferday a bill intro- duced in Lansing Nov. 4 to ban the State Highway Department jfrom. improving-roads adjacent to) (R-Sanilac ' | said Plan Could. Cut Competition for Traffic Volume Change Seen as Aid to Proposed Turnpike Through- the. Area | By BURDETT C. STODDARD } A possible route shift for a north-south freeway “It was an attempt.” Higgins to: place the MTA in the millions of tons of TNT. be sera of as woeaed ped | This indicated that the Soviets had touched off an epettaes |H-bomb. The largest atomic weapon known to have| °. beth sides of the tarnpike | been set off by the U. S. was only half a megaton—!| would be built, equal to 500,000 tons of TNT. “The turnpike authority is defi- equal to five million tons of TNT. The super-giant which 'of all highways in southeast Mich- spread lethal quantities of radioactivity over 7,000|igan, and we have. never taken route to” asstre the toll road America’s first hydrogen bomb, set off in 1952, Was nitely not opposed to development sere (AEC May Face D-Y Court Fight out the return, Menninger said the new ‘‘do-it- yourself’ policy was nationwide.) It was ordered to save the revenuc service money. “Last year about one-sixth of the 2% million income taxpayers in, Michigan got help from the serv- ice in filling out returns, Mennin-/for a 30-day period to be ger said. Red China Threatens — ~ BERLIN #®—Communist China’ 8) deputy Premier Chen Yi was quot-| ed today as saying Red China will invade Formosa if negotiations with the United States break down, “Reports of missing books |and ledgers are known even| F'o9tbaq]] Contest ‘though'I cannot definitely) - The blue and white colors of! {mention specific examples,” Royal Oak High School were dis- the trustee declared. “That covered early his why I would like an audit ed on Birmingham High School's exterior walts, railings, the bronz war memorial, mail boxes, speed presented at one of our rel = signs, -windows- and sidewalks future meetings.” | ‘The letters “RO” and “ROHS” Chairman of the Board William’ wore also smeared across windows! P. Babcock mentioned that a and other spots. Police state dam- ‘similar move was requested age is considerable, but estimates sly but with a different! twill not be determined until holi- — jday vacationing school authorities| ‘+ (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) this morning paint-! - $3 Area Groups Pledg _. More S-D Day Support Additional support for President Eisenhower's Safe- Driving Day campaign, Dec. 1, came today from Pontiac labor, postal and transpgytation leaders. Fred R. Haggard, president of the CIO Counel Leslie H. Dean, postmaster, and E. W. Dreasher, tran portatidn superintendent of Pontiac City Lines, Ine. urged citizens to help keep* _8-D Day accident-free. _And the Greater Pontiac “President Eisenhower believed that with care, aecidents can be dramatically reduced on S-D Day. a Community Advisory Coun-|And he hopes that an outstanding é $-D Day record will uade oh ates its voloe to the Coaiiehe 0 use more opti in traffic every day,” Meridith said. A sharp rise in Michigan traffic _| took at the situation. | Football teams of both schools iplayed their annual Thanksgiving) ‘lice did not rule out the possibility | ithat it, could have been other than) Royal Oak students responsible for’ ‘the vandalism, Korea Gls Feasting Over Loaded Tables. | j "| WITH U. S. 8TH ARMY, Korea, — Toiling cooks and groaning, “lasens were rolling up supplies to-. |day for the -Army’s . traditional Thanksgiving Day feast. L menu: Shrimp cocktail, Jemon- wedges. Roast young, tom turkey, oyster dressing, giblet gravy and cran- sauce. : Snowflake potatoes, whole grain tragedies this year demands that everyone help, the executive of the Pontiac advisory c pointed out. \ "Fatalities are up 13 per cent,| 9 percent and. total aocidents r gent, a council) — iit soe - f |¢orn, asparagus. spears with hol-/ ‘landiase suace. Phar go celery; carrot sticks, Wal- dorf salad, olives, mixed pickles. Hot_ rolls or bread, butter. . Pumpkin, pie, or fruit cake, tor \eream, apples, oranges, assorted be arate and mixed asa | and Gore of Tennessee, two of | an obligation which can be recog- c arene capsaicin Commission Decides Not to Pay Damages for} Canceled Contract WASHINGTON__«—An Atomic, sion to pay no damages to the Dixon-Yates group on a cancelled private power contract headed for nvolve millions of dollars. Figuring heavily in the AEC's action, announced last night, was “I have not been abie to investigate ‘these reports) a legal opinion that New York fi- ‘nancier Adolphe H. Wenzell, ‘‘while |having a conflicting private inter. lest, acted as one of the principai advisors to the government in the Holiday Shines on Gettysburg and Skid Row GETTYSBURG — At their | farm home here, President and Mrs. Eisenhower were a symbol | { of our traditional Thanksgiving | celebration. With them to partake of a tur- | their nuclear weapons potential.”|30 to 34 degrees. key dinner and some pleasant family talk were the Eisenhow- i | are miles in the Pacific on March 1, 1954, was roughl — ——t*equivalent to 13 million [naemes, of Pesaile: projects, wool ij tons of TNT. jthat position, Only a very limited cut into toll revenues.’ Clemehts’ bill was defeated be- backed by State Highway Commissioner Charles M. ‘Ziegler, opening the way for ‘construction of a toll road iby the Michigan Turnpike Authority (MTA) loomed yesterday in Ann Arbor. The MTA made public a letter from Ziegler listing The Russians are known fore it reached the Hous. the House floor. [planned projects which to have been testing hydro-| gen, or thermo-nuclear-) type devices since the sum- mer of 1953. But yesterday's AEC announce- ment .from Chairman Lewis Strauss added: “The Russian tests indicate an Siving,offered an atmosphere that) increasingly intensive effort by the Soviet government to develop The statement also was first) official U. S. report that the| Mercury fo Go | to Go Up Slightly Tomorrow The weather menu for Thanks- was partly cloudy, windy and cold. The high will range from’ The low tonight! | will be from 20 to 24. Toniorrow it will be mostly ‘might. compete with the proposed toll road. | MTA Chairman George 'N. Higgins said the list did ’ not include a réfocation of .U. S. 10 (Woodward) which would be in direct competi- ‘tien to the turnpike and probably make the pay- ‘road impractical. Higgins said he could only con- Soviets are able to explode an cloudy and not so cold with a clude that Ziegler had abandoned ers’ son, Maj. John Eisenhower, | H- -bomb eomparable in size to three grandchildren, “The children” got in yes- terday from Ft: Belvoir, Va., where Maj. Eisenhower is sta- tioned. sister Barbara Ann drove in with their parents, The littlest Eisen- hower, Susan, came from Wash- Le ay with her grandmother, is “Mimi” to the ag just as grandfather “Tke."’ A 40-pound bird contributed ‘by the turkey industry was ready for the oven, 5 WASHINGTON, Pa, uw — Mrs. Blanche Horner, 40, gave thanks today. : Mrs. Horner is confined to a wheelchair by arthritis. Six years ago fire destroyed the family home and killed two of the Hor- ners’ nine children. Four years later another child died of spinal meningitis, Last year Mrs, Horner’s hus- band, James, died of cancer. Yesterday another fire leveled the family home. Mrs. Horner and her children were rescued. ‘Mrs. Horner said: “We have our lives to be thankful for, and our faith in the CHICAGO — The spirit of Thanksgiving was evident in Judge Hyman Feldman’s Monroe Street Court yesterday as he faced 270 men-from the Skid Row district. ‘negotiation of the contract.” This opinion by AEC General Counsel William Mitchell in effect | confirmed charges made by Democrats ‘who had fought the | power contract from the > oe ning. ; The commission's, Action also - amounted to a victory he poe © Democrats who argued, a ident Eisenhower partly ‘ee yen éancélied last July, that no money ‘settlement should be made with! the Dixon-Yates group because of| li FOES, : APPLAU D Underlying the -lorig standing) Dixon-Yates controversy was the! |public-vs.-private power issue and! the dispute was almost certain to! E Day game this mornitig, but Po-| echo in the national election cam- paigns next year, | Sens. Anderson of New Mexico | the leading Democratic foes of | the Dixon-Yates. contract, ap- | plauded when they learned that ti*# “AEC had informed the Mississippi Valley Generating | Co, its power contract “is not nized by the United States.”’ The AEC action means it- does! not intend to pay any of the costs ia incurred by the Dixon-Yates group for site acquisition, preliminary work on the power project, and : the like. ~ In Today’ Ss Press. County News......... & - 6 Editorials .. 2.66605 .0is+. ++: ,6 Feod News............°- , Judge Feldman freed: the men drunk and disorderly conduct charges. . / Then each man was given a | ticket for, a Thanksgiving Day dinner today at the Salvation Army Piauiinalabial State Traffic Dr Drive =< Gathers Momentum LANSING (#—Plans for a gi- jthe conflict of interest they al-|gantic traffic life-saving campaign in Michigan were being broadenag to the grass roots today, * * «& A conference of public-support groups yesterday urged that local safety organizations conduct in the next 30 days a series of area con- ferences for schoolmen, mayors and police chiefs and judges who handle: traffic law violations. This recommendation came out of the third conference called this week by Gov. Williams te put steam behind his proposal for a 13-month campaign to cut Mighigan traffic deaths by 200. Police groups agreed on a stiffer and{tive commitments to crack dow] the public wants it and that means that public support groups like you Theaters ooo... ce ipec cece 7 TV & Radio Programs. ..... Es) Wilson, Eart....... bee s> th 7 mene | sr Al Athira At -_ mfr to carry , he part @ 3 a } | their daughter-in-law and their | those tested by the AEC. ae wh between 36 and 40 degrees. lowest temperature pre- plans for a previously announced north-south freeway which ‘would The Russian series of explosions; colieg 8 a.m. was 24 degrees. closely parallel the toll road route: which began in midsummer, has | heen the subject of four terse | reports from the AEC. The gov- it was nuclear tests. The Soviet's 1955 experiments are apparently being conducted in Siberia and got under way just | before the Geneva atoms-for-, peace conference last August. Scientists, who have developed ef The thermometer registered 26 at 11 a.m. Jernment has also indicated strat Ten Nominated | . Seven-year-old° David and his | report publicly all Yo the Russian: {Gy Five Posts; Election Planned | Nominees for the Chamber of| Commerce Board of Directors were announced today. Five of the 10 will be elected later for three year on, George N. Petroff, M.D., E. Wyman apo of the nominating com- _|eluded the are Bruce J. Annett, Gle 63 a. Clio to be started in 1956. But Ziegler later told the Pon- tiac Press he has not scuttled plans for a north-south freeway. However, he described a route | extending from the nerth end of Northwestern Highway which , would tie farther from the turn- | pike route than one previously | outlined by him. | Thé MTA also approved a relo- leation of its route east ot Pontiac to avoid bisecting Herritigton Hills Subdivision, a 379home develop- ment, The change had been re- _|quested by city officials. Ziegler’s letter to the MTA in- following _ projects which, he said, might compete with the toll road: 1, A four-lane, divided highway over 32 miles between Fenton and 2. The extension of Northwest- (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) “MMMMM—BOY!"" — Robert New York, demonstrates what he'll when hesits down with 150 off i ars ume dinner. . é Ai * / / gt kip’ the See SS Sauce!’ Maloney, 5, ot V daa 'beiety's' nikuntad Gadi e Rew We ' doing today . | Approximately 1,364 turkey dinners are being lidren for the \ served today at the soci¢ty’s seven children’s the awe centers in the city, rs j : # / f ‘7 ra. /