ATLANTIC CITY, N. (UPI) _ Organized labor's solid front began to come apart today as the United Auto Workers union opened its national convention with the threat to sever one of the last remaining ties with the parent AFL-CIO—the payment of $1.2 million annually in dues. * * ★ Top UAW officials have approved the The WBather V. I. WMNilf Rurttu Foracail Fair, Warmer (Dcltlli Pag* i) move that would bring to a head the long dispute between UAW President Walter P. Reuthcr and AFL-CIO President George Meany over the direction the AFL-CIO should take in domestic and foreign affairs. A UAW spokesman said the convention delegates would vote on the move to withhold seven cents per member per month to the parent organization and put THE VOL. 126 — NO. 76 ★ ★ ★ ★ the money Into a special fund that would her used later by the UAW or paid to the AFL-CIO should the two groups come to some sort of settlement. The AFL-CIO constitution calls for an affiliated union to be expelled from the parent labor organization if it falls more than three months behind in its dues, but no indication of what action the AFL-CIO might take was known. About 50 delegates from the Pontiac area are attending the convention. ELECTED LAST MONTH Slates were elected last month to represent locals at Pontiac Motor Division, General Motors Truck and Coach and the Fisher Body plant. Leading the area group are Ken Morris, regional director, and Harold Julian, subregional director. The 1.5-milllon-member UAW'plans to take no action on endorsing arty candidate for the presidency until after the national conventions this summer. But the convention is willing to listen to the contenders. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy will address the delegates and President Johnson has been invited to (appear. There was no word from the White House on whether the President would make an appearance. * A * Sen. Eugene McCarthy and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon have indicated they will be unable to attend and there was no immediate answer on an invitation to New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. PONTIAC PRESS 8Z PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1968 —60 PAGES ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL 10e 84 Are Killed as Airliner Explodes, Crashes in Texas DAWSON, Tex. UP) — Eighty-four persons died in a Braniff International Electra that exploded and plunged to earth in blazing pieces yesterday as the crew bucked thunderstorms. Chunks of wreckage and bits of bodies fell over an old farm—uninhabited anti grown over by grass and brush—two miles east of this little central Texas town. The high school gymnasium became a morgue as Dawson’s 700 townspeople, engulfed by trrtgedy and joined by citizens of neighboring cities, turned to the task of finding and bringing In the bodies. There were no survivors. A special FBI team was flown in to help identify the bodies. The National Guard was summoned to control traffic and sightseers. BEHIND SCHEDULE The brightly painted, four-engine turboprop airliner, Flight 352, decorated in Braniff’s Aztec Mexican motif, rolled to its takeoff from Houston at 4:11 p.m.—11 minutes behind schedule. Three minutes after takeoff, at 4:14 p.m., one of the flight deck crew—Capt. J. R. Phillips, First Officer John W. Foster and Second Officer t D. W. Crossland — estimated in a radio report that the flight’s estimated arrival time was 5:03 p.m., only five minutes behind schedule. That was the last word as the Electra headed into the turbulence between Houston and Dallas. Flight- controllers said they had no further conversation with the plane. The first indication of trouble to them came when the controller at Fort Worth’s Great Southwest International Airport said at 4:51 p.m. that Flight 352 had vanished from his radar scope. When the flight vanished from radar view, it flashed into the view of people in and near Dawson. Dean Montgomery of Corsicana, a private pilot and operator of an elec-. trical shop, said he saw a large explosion rip the plane. Then, he said, there were two smaller explosions, and the craft plummeted downward in two burning sections. Officials Hopeful of Voter Approval Waterford School Tax a Must' Witness Found to Bold Robbery By HUDSON WILLSE JR. Waterford Township school officials hope their first try to renew the district’s current l$»mfll taxing authority for operation will prove successful in Monday’s election. The proposed renewal is for a 15-year period from 1969 through 1983. If voters fail to renew the 15 mills ($15 per $1,000 of state equalized valuation) Low May Reach Freezing Tonight Skies are expected to clear after a few brief showers today. The U.S. Weather Bureau forecasts a pleasant weekend. Here is the official report: TODAY—Variable cloudiness and cooler with a chance of brief light showers. High 52 to 58. Clearing and much cooler with a chance of light frost in suburbs tonight. Low 32 to 37. Winds will be northerly at five to 15 miles per hour. TOMORROW—Sunny but cool. MONDAY—Fair and warmer. Precipitation probabilities in per cent are: today 30, tonight and tomorrow vnear zero. Forty was the low thermometer reading prior to 8 a.m. The mercury had pushed temperatures up to 55 by 2:00 p.m. In Today's 1 ' Press 9 1 1 1 Leaves 'em Laughing I | Comedian scores triumph at I | State Capitol - PAGE A-13. I Flower Show I § Pictures bear out success 1 E story - PAGE A-12. War on Poverty - $ 1 f OEO is plagued by uncer- | 1 tainty about its future — i | PAGE A-4. 1 1 Astrology D-6 1 1 Bridge . D-6 | i Church News . B-3-B-5 1 § Crossword. Puzzle . f Comics 1 Editorials D-15 1 D-« f . A-6 | 1 Home Section ' C-l—C-4, , C-ll- -C-13 1 | Markets • D-5 1 i Obituaries D-4 I 1 * Picture Page A-12 J 1 Sports 1)1- -D-3 I I Theaters . B 14, B-15 I 1 TV-Radio l Programs . C-5-fC-10, D-15 1 1 Women’s Pages ... B-l, B* 1 ' 1 before Sept. 1, 1969, the district is in real trouble, school officials contend. The district dm levy the 15 mills again - thisceraing December, but needs the approval of voters to assess the tax next year. “Certainly it’s got to continue if Waterford is to remain a school district at all,” said Supt. of Schools Dr. Don O. Tatroe. ‘CAN’T AFFORD EXPIRATION’ “It does not solve the financial conditions of the district. But it would go a long way toward giving the district a solid financial foundation,” Tatroe emphasized. “The community cannot afford to permit this tax to expire.” About 35 per cent of the district’s total operating budget is derived from locdl tax sources. The 15 mills up for renewal represent a substantial portion of the district’s, present 23,tt-mlff local operating fax. The remaining operating millage is allocated by the Oakland County Tax Allocation Board. Another 8 mills are levied locally for debt retirement. BILL TO HELP DISTRICT The new school-aid bill, signed into law this week by Gov. Romney, will help the district somewhat in 1968-69. District school officials had estimated an Increase of $270,090 in state aid next year or an additional $15 per student. (Continued on Page A-2, Col. 3) Four Face U.S. Charges in Detroit Riot Follow-Up DETROIT (AP) — Three white policemen and a Negro watchman have been charged with conspiring to violate the civil rights of 10 persons in a motel in Detroit during the riot last July. Two Of the 10 were slain at the motel. The federal indictment says policemen Ronald W. August, Robert N. Paille and David Senak, along with Melvin Dis-mukes, 25, the watchman, detained two young white women and eight young Negro men last July 25 in the motel. The two slain were Negro teen-agers. “The defendants would assault, threaten and intimidate the assorted victims to punish them and coerce them Into making statements regarding the identity of alleged snipers and the location of firearms,” the indictment said. The four will be arraigned next week, U.S. Atty. Lawrence Gubow said, but no date has been set. Conviction on the charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. ROBERT PAILLE August, 29, is scheduled to go on trial June 5 in Detroit Recorder’s Court on a first-degree murder charge filed by Wayne County Prosecutor William Ca-halan. The charge was filed in the shotgun slaying of Aubrey Pollard, 19, who was found dead at the motel July 26. If August, a four-year Detroit police veteran, is convicted, Michigan law requires that he be given a sentence of life in prison. Cahalan also charged Paille, 33, a Detroit policeman for two years, with murder in the fatal shooting of Fred Temple, 18, at the motel. ★ ★ ★ A Recorder’s Court judge dismissed the charge, but it was reinstated when Cahalan appealed, and Faille’s attorneys now are appealing the reinstatement. The murder charges were filed nine months ago and August and Paille have been free on bonds of $5,000 each since then. RONALD AUGUST Pontiac police and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents said today they have scored a major breakthrough by contacting an alleged eyewitness to the $50,000 robbery Tuesday of two GMl£-CteedU.Uniw employes............ • ★ ★ ★ Capt. Charles Gale, chief of city detectives, said the witness told officers he saw the holdup while on his way out of the credit union building. The robbery took place in an adjacent parking lot as the employes returned from the nearby Community National Bank branch with the money in a canvas bag. Gale said the witness reported seeing a lone gunman take the bag from the employes and then escape in a waiting car driven by an accomplice. ★ AW He described the car as a light green 1965 or 1966 Tempest. The holdup took place about 11 a.m. when the gunman approached employes Richard Eldred and Louis Giddings and ordered them to hand over the money. ★ * * The bandit had apparently waited at a bus stop in front of the credit union at 939 Woodward until the employes made their return trip from the bank with money intended for the cashing of payroll checks. AP WlrapMa CRASH AFTERMATH—Townspeople from Dawson, Tex., carry a body from the wreckage of a Braniff airliner which crashed yesterday in central Texas killing all 84 aboard. The plane exploded and plunged t6 earth during a thunderstorm. _________________________________4____________ 3 Heart Recipients Watched By The Associated Press Laymen and surgeons alike today watched closely the progress of three men — two in the United States and one in London — who received heart transplants within about 24 hours. The London operation, completed last night, was the world’s 10th heart transplant. At London’s National Heart Hospital, 45-year-old Frederick West was reported “fit” and in “entirely satisfactory condition.” In Houston, Tex., pleasure, accompanied by a note of caution, was expressed at the outcome of the transplant on Everett Claire Thomas, 47. At Stanford, Calif.-y where late Thursday 40-year-old Joseph Rizor received the heart of an older but athletic man, the patient’s condition was announced as fair — with a wait-and-see attitude. The London heart donor was named by London newspapers as Patrick Ryan, 26, who died of brain damage suffered in a fall from a scaffold. Thomas, of Phoenix, Arix., was operated on yesterday by Dr. Denton A. Cooley, head of a 20-person team at 8t. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston. Cooley said later of Thomas, whose heart was damaged by rheumatic fever: “I don’t want to be overly optimistic. Keep in mind he was a very sick man before undergoing this major surgery.” ■k k ★ Five years ago Cooley’s team performed corrective heart surgery on a 10-year-old girl named Kathleen. Thursday night the same, girl, Mrs. Kathleen Martin, a bride of six months, quarreled with her 18-year-old husband, Charles, and fatally shot herself through the head with a shotgun. _ County Awaits FAA OK Airport Land Deals Halted By JEAN SAILE “We’re not buying any more land out there until the Federal Aviation Administration approves the master plan for Oakland-Orion Airport.” ’ Daniel T. Murphy, chairman of the Oakland County Board of Auditors, reviewed the situation In Orion and Pontiac Townships, where last Dec. 19 the County Board of Supervisors voted to spend $284,336 on the acquisiton of four land parcels. The purchase of four separate scattered properties, Murphy feels, established a land value for use In the future If other land In the master plan area is to be purchased. He said an agent was ufccd to make the purchases, and Oakland County was not identified as the buyer. ★ A ★ Murphy said the airport master plan involves a total of 2,000 acres. Prior to December, the county owned 440 acres including the Allen Airport and the purchase last December added another 164. TRANSACTIONS LISTED Kenneth Van Natta, director of county parks and recreation who acted as land purchaser, described the transactions: • 76.82 acres at the southwest corner of Brown and Giddings roads, purchased for $675 an acre from' J. J. Jaburek, 774 Ledydrd, Pontiac. • Another 41 acres between M24 and Giddings, south of Brown, purchased at $1,073 an acre from Thomas McDonald, 9200 W. Fort, Detroit. • Two parcels,' zoned industrial and fronting on M24 in Orion Township, north of Brown, at $4,030 an acre. Edward Turner, 325 Lexington, Royal Oak, and Dr. Raymond Suwinski, 90 Shorecrest, Grosse Pointe, were recorded as previous owners of the parcels, one 21.55 acres and the other 25.19 acres. ★ ★ ★ Quizzed by local residents about the high cost of the latter two land purchases, Murphy and VanNatta both said they had relied on the advice of John D. Millis, 4314 N. Saginaw, Pontiac, a private realtor and appraiser. k , ★ ★ A letter from Millis to Murphy shows that the appraiser recommended a purchase price of $3,750 per acre for the land in question, but noted it was “zoned industrial and option price is in the $4,000 per acre range, including acquisition costs.” He continued, “Four parcels of Industrial land in the Immediate area have been recently sold frtr the following prices per acre: $3,000, $2,300, $1,770 and $1,397.' * (Continued on Page A-2, Col. 6) ^%NS9MHKMUNUMWJ( School Census Takers Busy | "St School census takers, who will be knocking on doors from now until the $ end of the month, are required for the first time to record the number of people over 19 years of age in each family. ' fl Each year at this time the State Department of Education requires ;! that every school district conduct the surveys. ' * - * . * In addition to the new Item, information will be collected about children up to age 19 and about persons having teaching certificates but not cur- t rently teaching. The census takers carry identification cards and are employes of In- ■ dividual school districts. wmarimmiimmmmMwHtKim U.5. Expected to Press j for Red Military Cutback Birmingham Area News WASHINGTON UB — Officials expect the first U.S. move In Paris peace talks with North Vietnam will be to press for a cuthack In Communist military activities! in Southeast Asia. They say this would clear the way for a total halt in U.S. bombing of the North. Hie talks are doe to open May 10 under an agreement reached yesterday by Washington and Hanoi through their embassies in Vientiane, Laos, ending almost five weeks of diplomatic sparring on a site. Paris represents a compromise which, diplomats say, both Washington and Kidnap Suspect Mute to Second Set of Charges Twice charged with kidnaping and raping Pontiac women, Laurence S. Moore of Pontiac stood mute to the second charges when he was arraigned yesterday before Waterford Township Justice of ' the Peace Kenneth H. Hempstead. Moore, 24, of 499 W. Huron, is accused of abducting both women from the parking lot at the Pontiac Mall Shopping Center in Waterford Township. He was returned to the Oakland County Jail, where he has been held in Ueu of $50,000 since early Wednesday. ,* He was arrested Tuesday in Genesee County following the kidnaping and rape of Mrs. Norman Kinnison, 19, of 435% University, last Mobday. Hempstead set bond in the second case at $10,000. Moore’s preliminary hearing on the Kinnison case is scheduled for next Friday, while the other hearing will be held May 14 at 2 p.m. The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office ordered the second charges against Moore after a 21-year-old woman iden-tif ied him as- the man. wha had attacked her March 15. Hanoi foresaw many days ago. Each side has shown itself prepared for hard bargaining, which means prolonged and often bitter negotiating in the morlths ahead. ★ ★ ★ North Vietnam said it wants talks “to decide with the U.S. side the unconditional cessation by the United States of its bombing and all outer acts of war’’ against the North. OTHER MATTERS Other matters will be discussed when that issue is decided, the Hanoi statement said. President Johnson imposed a partial bombing ban on U.S. planes operating over North Vietnam effective March 31. He limited their operations to the so-called panhandle area south of the 20th Parallel and called on North Vietnam for some similar show of military restraint. Top administration officials agree that infiltration of men and supplies from North Vietnam into the South has been at peak levels since early March. Some officials — and intelligence reports from Saigon — say the increase which began in early March has continued to grow since Johnson’s March 31 limitation order. HANOI’S MAN IN PARIS—Mai Van Bo, his country’s leading diplomat in the West, is North Vietnam’s representative in Paris. This is the site for preliminary peace talks between the U.S. and Hanoi. Candidates View Peace Hopes Nixon: Give LBJ a Chance 8 Die in Two Crashes; Weekend Toll Hits 12 By United Pres* International Four persons were killed tgefore dawn today in a head-on crash on 1-94 near Paw Paw. It was the second four-fatality accident of a weekend that has left' 12 dead in traffic in Michigan. Three of the victims in the Paw Paw crash were in a car headed the wrong way on the expressway. The fourth was In a second car. The crash at Paw Paw followed by a few hours an accident that killed four teen-agers near Three Rivers when their car sideswiped a tree and plunged over an embankment. \ By The Associated Press Now that the United States and Hanoi have found neutral turf for their peace talks, says Republican presidential contender Richard M. Nixon, there should be no grandstand quarterbacking by candidates. “I for one say let’s give the President a chance and let’s wish him well so he can bring this war to a successful con- * elusion,” Nixon said yesterday as he would up his campaign for Tuesday’s Indiana primary. ^ Sen. Eugene McCarthy, however, seemed unwilling to withhold comment on how the negqtiations should proceed. The Johnson administration, he said, must be willing to accept Communist representation in a new South Vietnamese government. ★ a ★ Sen. Robert Kennedy, who is contending with McCarthy in the Indiana primary,, said he hoped that, regardless of long-term results, the conferences in Paris might produce a cease-tire. ‘EARLY AS POSSIBLE’! “ “-PferveiAty -ht^ beti^adee u^ seris-- -to stop the killing as early as possible and that an international force might be brought in to supervise a ceasefire,” the New Yorker said. Speaking yesterday at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, Humphrey lost part of his audiences as first a group of Negro students, then a groups of whites, apparently peace demonstrators, marched out of the fieidhouse. But the thousands who remained booed those departing and appluded Humphrey, who said: “This is the most amazing thing. The last time anyone walked out. on me was when I pleaded for civil rights in the 1948 Democratic convention in Philadelphia.” ★ ★ ★ Nixon, who is unopposed in the primary Tuesday, planned to take in the Kentucky Derby today as a guest of Gov. Louie B. Nunn of Kentucky. New Oficers Are Elected by Education Association BIRMINGHAM — The Birmingham Education Association (BEA) has elected new officers, members of the executive board and representatives to the Michigan Education Association representative assembly. New officers include Robert Maxtield, Seaholm social studies teacher, president; John Kish, Seaholm math instructor, vice president; Mrs. Jennie Nelson, Pierce primary teacher, secretary; and Tom Lannen, Covington science teacher, treasurer. Elected to the three vacant three-year posts on the executive board wore Burton Bronson, Instrumental music, Groves; Mrs. Margaret Johnson, English, Groves; and John Sala, English, Groves. % Named for the three representative assembly seats were Miss Phyllis Hass-berger, primary, Pierce; Robert Rop, remedial reading, Harlan; and Edward Taras, coordinator of social studies. Leo J. Linsenmeyer, a member of the Birmingham-Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce and the Bloomfield Hills Civic Association, has been named vice president of sales for the I Transmission and Axle| Division of Rockwell-Standard Co. The appqintment was announced by Stephen J. Tompkins, vice president and general manager of die division. Linsenmeyer, a Bev- Linsenmeyer erly Hills resident, re* places D. D. Robertson, who has retired from the company. ★ ★ ★ Prior to being named to the new post, • he was manager of planning for the division’s plants, coordinating planning within the 10-plant group covering sales, (engineering mid manufacturing. IN U. OF D. CABINET Linsenmeyer received both a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s in business administra-tion fffim thgUniversity of Detroit. He was recently elected a charter member of 4ie U. of D. president’s cabinet, which acts as an advisory group to the president and other officers in status and planning for the university. He is also a member of the board of the U. of D. Alumni Association. In addition, Linsenmeyer is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, the American Marketing Association, the American Management Association and the Association of Industrial Advertising. it it it He is a former Beverly Hills council member,, and in 1961 was the village mayor pro tern. The Weather OUT ON A LIMB—Boys climb a tree for a closer look at Sen. Robert Kennedy as he campaigned yesterday in Greensburg, Ind., seeking that state’s nomination in the Democratic presidential primary. He flies to-Washington tonight but will be back in Indiana tomorrow afternoon for the last big push before Tuesday’s balloting. BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP — The Forest Lake Estates Property Owners Association has elected members of its board of directors and officers for 1968-69. Officers are Kenneth Stonex, 2732 Hickory Grove, president; Eldon Mar-wede, 2775 Mackintosh, vice president; James McLoon, 2645 Ayrshire, secretary; and Ted Studnickt, 1261 Rugby, treasurer. Other board members are Robert Larson, 1231 Cedarholm, and William Dick, 1390 Fieldway. BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Children living in, this school district may register for kindergarten from May 6 to 10 at the office of the elementary school where they will attend. By law, children must be 5 years of age on or before Dec. 1 to enroll. Health examination forms will be available for registrants. County Awaits FAA Approval of Airport Plan (Continued From Page One) “The $3,000 is most comparable, and in my opinion Parcels I and II (those purchased by the county) are approximately 25 per cent superior to the $3,000 sale, which would result in a fair cash market value of $3,750 per acre.” ★ ★ ★ Asked why the county board of supervisors approved a $280 per acre increase over the recommended price, Van .Natta said, “You must remember agreement must be achieved with the seller.” 3 COMMITTEES BACKED PRICE The $4,030 price was recommended to the board by the aviation, ways and means and buildings and grounds committees, according to board minutes. Murphy said though only one appraisal is interpreted as being required by county rules, a new policy requiring two appraisals on purchases involving $25,000 or more has been initiated. a member Of the American Institute Of Real Estate Appraisers. if it it Asked what would happen to, land prices where property in the master plan area continues to be improved, by its present owners, Murphy said, “The people have been put on notice. LAND VALUES ESTABLISHED “We have established land values there at the time the master plan was announced, and we will probably have to proceed through condemnation t o purchase such property if the FAA gives the go-ahead.” He stressed, however, that development of the airport is forseen as a 20-year project. “At first, if the FAA approves, the county will only put in a paved north-south runway and a few 'necessary buildings,” Murphy said. it it it “It will jake years to purchase all the land necessary, both from a legal and financial point of view,” he said. Full U.S. Weather Bureau Report PONTIAC AND VICINITY—Variable cloudiness and cooler with a chance of showers today. High 52 to 58. Clearing and much cooler with a chance of light frost in the suburbs tonight. Low 32 to 37. Sunny but*cool Sunday.. Monday: fair and warmer. Northerly winds 5 to 15 miles today. Precipitation probabilities in per cent are: today 30, near zero tonight and tomorrow. TMay In PMiflnc Lowtsf tamperature preceding 8 a.m,: 40 At I a.m.: Wind Velocity 5 m.p.h. Direction: Northeast Sun toft Saturday at 0:35 a.m. Sun rises Sunday at 4:24 p.m. Moon sett Sunday at 3:01 a.m. Moon risaa Sunday at 12:30 p.m. - Downtown Tom pare hires 4 a.m........ .40 11 a.m..........50 7 a.m..........40 12 m............52 8 a.m. ’.......42 1 p.m..........53 9 a.m..........44 2 p.m..........55 10 a.m.........44 Ona Year Ago In Pontiac Highest temperature ............... 44 Lowest temperature ............... 36 Mean temperature ................. 40 Weather: Little mist/ cloudy/ windy Highest and Lowest Temperatures This Date in 96 Years 19 In 1949 28 In 1964 Prlday In Pontiac (as recorded downtown) .Highest temperature din.non./.____51 Lowest temperature .... . .........46 Mean temperature ...................52 Weather: Sunny Alpena Escanaba Flint G. Rapids Houghton Friday's Temperatures 45 36 Denver 46 32 Detroit 55 40 Duldth 63 32 Fort Worth 42 34 Jacksonville Houghton Lk. 54 36 Kansas City 65 40 Los An 55 38 Miami Beach 41 35 Milwaukee 89 34 New Orleans 43 34 Omaha 49 34 Pittsburgh 44 37 st. Louis 3 H TimP* 82 55 s. Lake City 44 29 s. Francisco 63 51 $. ste. Marie 65 44 Seattle 82 48 Washington 72 40 44 39 62 94 81 61 89 64 74 48 68 56 83 76 62 38 79 621 70 44 78 45 79 46 82 73 Data From US. WEATHER BUREAU - ESS A _J py / ~ Showers IIMil Snow E23 * *rvv „vrrlM [m] V FORECAST Ngiwm Shaw l«w Temperature! Expected^ Until Sunday Morning lieleled Precipitation Net Indicated— Canivlt local Faracait NATIONAL WEATHER — Scattered showers are forecast in Washington, in Arizona and New Mexico, in southern Texas add in the Ohio Valley area tonight. It will be cooler in the eastern half of the nation. Waterford School Levy Colled 'a Must' (Continued From Page One) However, the new amount to an increase program will i of $458,00 of an additional $25.85 per pupil. This will raise the district’s total state aid to $5,761,000 for 1968-69, according to school officials. Because of the increase, first-through-fourth graders will be able to attend classes full-time next school year instead of going mi half-day schedules for one semester as had been previously planned. However, other cutbacks are planned -fc*. Reviewer Sits and Squirms for next school year as a result of an election setback last Nov. 20 when district voters rejected a proposed 7%-mill property tax increase by more than a 2.1 margin. ★ ★ ★ * Included are shortened school days for I Seagull' Oddly Fascinating By DON BRAUNAGEL Watching a Chekhov play is oddly fascinating. As the players go through their everyday actions and words, you sit and squirm — especially in this television-oriented age — wondering when the plot twists and excitement will begin. Suddenly, the play is over, and you realize there were no plot twists; in fact, few events out of the ordinary. Yet you realize also that you became engrossed, in these strangers’ lives. What they did and what happened to them mattered because it was much like your own life, i So it was last night at the Meadow Brook Theatre premiere of “The Seagull,” the John Femald Company’s last production of the season. ★ ★ it At first it seems as if the most worthwhile part of the production is Frank Masi’s elaborate settings — especially the trees, bushes aqd background lake for the outdoor scenes. Then the cast began giving life to Chekhov’s lines with such uniform quality that it’s a tribute to Fernatd’s direction. With any less, the play would have stayed at the level of soap opera melodrama. \ The story centers on a famous actress’s son, effectively played by Curt Dawson. Seeking his own identity as a writer, he falls victim to unrequited love of a young girl who wants only fame. She becomes enamored of a successful but second-rate writer (George Guidall) too weak-willed to be true to himself and return the girl’s love. NEWCOMER IMPRESSIVE A newcomer to Meadow Brook, pretty Lans Traverse, made an impressive debut as the young girl, stany-eyed, then matured by tragedy. One of the best scenes in the play has her gazing at Guidall, saying how wonderful it must be to be successful, while he talks of being Unfulfilled because he is not considered as good as Tolstoy. Dawson’s role is interesting In that it is somewhat autobiographical. He is scorned and abused as a playwright because of trying new techniques, much as Chekhov was. Ironically, “The Seagull” was a failure in its first performance at St. Petersburg. _ . Years later, it was reopened in Moscow where it became such a success it saved the Moscow Art Theatre and is now a classic. “The Seagull” will be at Meadow Brook thrqugh June 2, then will move to the University of New Hampshire at Durham for five performances June 5*8. secondary students and the elimination of 93 teaching positions. Even with the state aid Increase, the district still is 5 to 6% mills short of achieving a budget based on the needs to operate a full school program. Tatroe stressed that for every dollar of added local taxes that comes in through additional property assessments, "we lose 83 cents in the state aid formula.” Voting will take place at the following eight precincts: 1—Grayson School, 3800 W. Walton; 2— Donelson School, 1200 W. Huron; 3— Crescent Lake School (Waterford-Center), 1021 Airport; 4—Schoolcraft School, 6400 Maceday Drive; 5—Pontiac Lake School, 2515 Williams Lake; 6—Monteith School, 2303 Crescent Lake; 7—Leggett School, 3621 Pontiac Lake; and 8—String-ham School, 4350 Elizabeth Lake. 5 Calls for Honda Scrambler . . * “Our Press Want Ad did the triflk, Sold motorcycle in no time.” s , • Mrs. Di K 1»M HONDA 30} SCRAMBLER, fml-cuttom. Ext, condition. PRESS WANT ADS go directly Into the “marketplace" with your offer to sell. Quick Action and good profit usually result., Dial 332-Q181 or 334-4981 %J,I /': J (■ ( - • Man of the Quarter • Robert II. Becker PONTIAC DISTRICT OFFICE 1080 W. Huron Street Call FE 2-0219 When e men doer an ouutand-in| job of helping people with tomelhing ai important at dependable planning for the future aecurity of their fami-lie», Life of Virginia believe* he ihould be recogniied. Here i* a man whote thorough training, (kill and experience in planning have made him hi* agency’* leading repreiehta-live in the pa*t 3 month*. Shouldn’t your plan* for yonr family’* aecurity be reviewed? Life, of Virginia believe* that thin man i* equipped to offer yoa the beat in Planned Inaurance. PONTIAC DISTRICT OFFICE 1080 Weat fluron Street Call FIE 2-0319 ufeYof! VIRGINIA Rusk Weighs Return of General to Czechs WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Dean Rusk faces the prospect of deciding whether to extradite a Czech general wanted in his country. A decision should be made "in the not joo distant future," one source Bald Friday. * ★ ★ The man in question is Maj. Gen. Jan Sejna, who fled from Communist Czechoslovakia Feb. 25 with his 18-year-old son and Evzenie Musalova, 22, described as the son’s fiancee. The three are in the United States where the general asked for permanent residence, a request still under consideration. On March 7 the Czech government formally requested that Sejna be returned to be tried for embezzlement charges. Ever since the State Department acknowledged Sejna is in this country he has been under wraps, undergoing what Is described as extensive debriefings in one of the administration’s "guest houses," officials said. "The stuff is fairly interesting," one intelligence source said of the information Sejna has given. Vice President Will Visit Detroit Lansing May 14 LANSING (AP) - Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will visit Detroit and Lansing May 14, Michigan Democrats announced Friday. Humphrey is to address a joint session of /the Michigan Legislature in the morning and travel to Dqjroit later in the day for a Democratic party Century Club fund - raising reception, Democratic State -Chairman Sander Levin said. WWW Other activities may be announced later, he added. Humphrey’s visit will be his first to Michigan since he an-' nounced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Both of the other Democratic candidates, New York Sen. Robert Kennedy and Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy, already have visited* the state. ‘OPEN STANCE’ "This visit is in line with the (party policy) of keeping an open stance on the candidates until we hear them develop1 their position on the issues," Levin said. The Century Club reception, open to those who hold or buy $100 memberships in the Democratic party, will be held at 5 p.m. at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel. Officials declined to disclose Sejna’s location or which government agency is conducting the debriefing of such an important defector from a Communist country/ Rejection hinted Officials said no decision on the extradition request is likely until the debriefings are concluded. No one is publicly predicting how Rusk will decide on the Czech request. Privately, however, the expectation is he will turn it down and Sejna will be declared a political refugee who should not be extradited under the 1925 extradition treaty with Czechoslovakia. The treaty bars extradition for charges of "political crimes or offepses or acts connected with such offenses." ■ * ^ ★ The Czechs’ extradition request, however, wAs based on the embezzlement charge accusing Sejna of misappropriating $20,000 worth of state-owned alfalfa and clover seed. American officials-woqld not comment on these charges but voice suspicion that Prague wants Sejna for political reasons. i Though the Prague government /officially accused the general of common crimes only, Czech newspapers made it clear sometime ago he is sought for alleged participation in an attempt to keep President Antonin Novotny in power. Novotny has since been ousted. 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Harding, acting heath of the Oiffice of Economic Opportunity, met with his staff this week in an attempt to dry up what he called rumors the agency may be carved up and carted away. * ★ ★ “There are« no plans other than to go forward," Hailing said. “There are no hidden agendas. I was not put in this job to dissolve this agency.” But each time Harding promised OEO would not be dismantled, he was careful to begin, “As of today ...” FROM THE TOP 4 The uncertainty starts with the White House. President Johnson, creator of and crusader for the antipoverty program, has said he will leave the White House after this year. Sargent Shriver, OEO’s boss since birth, left the agency six weeks ago to become ambassador to France. Harding has only caretaker status as acting director and Johnson has not indicated when or whether he will name a permanent successor. Harding conceded OEO in recent weeks “has been in a state of turmoil, a .state of uncertainty, sort of wandering.” But he argued this is normal in time of change. A TRYING TIME Harding, 49, a Texan who once ran the Internal Revenue Service in another temporary job that lasted half a year, as- WE'RE YOUR HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTOR/ home Improvements from start to finish. Your satis-fiction is assured... on the dotted line! CALL 11$ TODAY FOR YOUR HOME IMPROVEMENT NEEDS 335-9237 CWICKES) HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICE MIRACLE MILE SHOPPING CENTER ___________________ J 'Salesmen Use' Fake Identities' LANSING (AP) - A band of high-pressure magazine salesmen are posing as orphans and would - be nurses in Michigan, says Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley. Kelley aaftf the gro&p ittcludes young men who Claim to be former residents of Nebraska’s Boys’ Town, and girls who say they are earning college money and plan to be nurses working with the handicapped. ★ ★ ★ Kelley said his office invest! gated and found the youths had never been Boys’ Town residents and that claims many of the salesmen are formerly handicapped also are untrue. The attorney general advised residents approached by the group to contact the consumer protection division of his Lansing office. -Hem Ou &uft -Auj Motke/u Would Wound on Motkm ~Dcuj[ ... and look at WKC'S LOW PRICE For MONDAY 9:30 a.m. to 9 P.M. ONLY! Beautifully Simple! Simply Beautiful! New“Silver Mist”Solid Stainless 54 PcJABLEWARE SERVICE for 8 Heavier! Mere Lustreus! More Complete! More ElogMtl HO MONEY DOWN PAY ONLY 50* WEEKLY sumes command of OEO at a time when the nation’s capital is confronted by plans for a massive march of protest by the poor. Harding said in an interview he supports the Poor People’s Campaign in its desire to dramatize the plight of the impoverished. But he said “I don’t think we can give a blanket, advance enforsement" in view of threats to disrupt government if demands aren’t met. if if ★ He said the campaign could backfire with such tactics. OEO is not without its own pocketbook problems—a budget pinch that has forced cutbacks in Head Start programs and reduction of working hours in summer jobs under the Neighborhood Youth Corps. Harding ia aware this has caused disappointment among both the poor and the poverty workers. HAVING TO RETRENCH “It’s difficult to maintain a forward thrust when you’re having to retrench in spots,” he said. But the career administrator said he is confident OEO not only will survive but will continue to cut new trails wjth its programs. He listed imagination, creativity and efficiency as his goals for OEO and says he wants maximum Impact from the programs. “I think there is room to get more bang from the buck,” he said. CHARGE DISMISSED Harding dismissed the charge by William F. Haddad, fanner assistant director of OEO, that the agency is being secretly dismembered. "f Harding said, “I think he’s misreading the tea leaves," and predicted OEO will go on regardless of which way political winds may blow. The antipoverty official said, “I have a personal view that OEO, for better of worse, has become the symbqj of the government’s commitment to .the problem of poverty. I think it would be unwise for any administration, Republican or Democrat, to do away with that symbol.” «7* A DIVISION OF , Decorative new bathroom accessory stores toiletries. Blue, pink, avocado, white, yellow,- or sand; white sliding doors. COMPLETE 5-PC. 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PmonALe Treasurer and Finance Officer Nation Pays Tribute to Worthy Cause Beginning tomorrow, the Nation will observe Goodwill W‘eek. Founded in Boston at the turn of the century, Goodwill Industries has built the largest network of private vocational, educational agencies in the world serving all types of handicapped people. There are now 136 autonomous Goodwill Industries, 42 branch workshops in 178 cities in the United States and another 22 located abroad. The Pontiac facility dn East Pike was established in 1957. The purpose of Goodwill remains the same-—to rehabilitate disabled lives and limbs. In recent years, the emphasis on the idea of service has been greatly expanded. of these persons are also being helped by additional evaluation, counseling, psychological and medical care and therapy. Of the 80,000 people*1 being helped by Goodwill some 50,000 receive the traditional job opportunity and experience. But, half In 1967, the 50,000 employed handicapped persons earned $37 million instead of living on charity from friends or Relatives, or on a dole from Government agencies. They paid a total tax bill of $3.5 million. The importance of Goodwill, however, cannot be measured in money alone. Its most important contribution to the Nation’s life lies in what, it gives to those it helps in terms of hope, self-respect and a chance to build productive, interesting lives. The Spirit of initiative /and self-help represented by this fine organization is exemplary. This Nation could use large doses of the same spirit in the running of more of its affairs. Rockefeller’s Bid Tightens GOP Convention The on-again, off-again and now finally on-again candidacy of Nelson Rockefeller is the latest indication that the 1968 presidential nomination ball game isn’t going to be over until the last man is in. ★ ★ ★ What promised only'a short time ago to be a routine affair—the automatic renomination of President Johnson by the Democrats and, after the withdrawal of George Romney, the inevitable selection of Richard Nixon by the Republicans, has turned into the kind of contest in which anything can happen. The party conventions my yet be unexciting. Nixon, amassing a powerful core of delegates, may be unstoppable. Kennedy and McCarthy may dissipate their energies against each other, with Hubert Humphrey easily stepping over them for his party’s endorsement. ‘ Many in, Class of Are Looking for Work’ Many of the class of ’68 have gone to the business world willing to work. We have skills which we are most anxious to express, but we are told "no, you are inexperienced,’’ "you are too young,” or “you want to go to college.” Many students have been confronted with this problem. ★ ★ ★ Our greatest aspiration is to attend college t and prepare ourselves for the fiiture on our own, financially and scholastically. We want to work, pay our own way, prepare ourselves for what is yet* to come. Through The Pontiac Press, I ask the City1' of Pontiac, can you and will you help us? NANCY C. HOWARD, SENIOR PONTIAC NORTHERN HIGH 41 WEST STRATHMORE The Rev. Francis Goh has come halfway around the world from a variety of religious backgrounds to give a new dimension, as associate minister, to the Methodist Church in Mamaroneck, N.Y. Bom in Singapore of Chinese parents, his father was a Diest, his paternal grandmother a staunch Buddhist, and his mother and maternal grandmother devout Catholics. As a boy he went to the Buddhist Temple with one grandmother and to the Catholic church with the other. But no one living is laying any bets. If the surprises of the past few months are a clue, 1968 may well be a year of the dark horse, of whom there are several undoubtedly beginning to prance nervously in the wings. His education was similarly varied. First he went to a Presbyterian school in Singapore, Jhen to a Catholic school in Penang, neither of which filled his needs. In a Methodist boys’ school he found what he wanted. i After high school he decided to be a Methodist minister. Following one year of college in Singapore he came to West Virginia Wesleyan on a full scholarship and finished college in two and a half years. He went to Duke Divinity School on a full scholarship and was ordained in 1965. U.S. Generals Take Dim Look at Countrymen The Rev. Goh’s faith typifies the best of the East and the West. He says, “Faith comes partly through knowledge and enlightenment, and love and service are the fruits of one’s faith.” Recently married to an American girl of Danish background ?ociaL worker, he has broken every tradition of his family. But he is con- "CtlltOTTBS~afmh-i«teaw'-wiB-iJeF muefe- to bring world peace.” Americans “have had it so good too long and have gotten soft,” said Gen. James H. Doolittle the other day. “On the average,” continued the man who led the daring air raid against Tokyo 26 years ago, “we are not as courageous or as moral as our founding fathers. We are suffering from the ravages of prosperity. As a nation, we are inclined to laziness and immorality.” want of virtue, such stock - jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another ... I never saw before, and pray God I may never be witness to again . . . Such a dirty, mercenary spirit pervades the whole, that I should not be at all surprised at any disaster that may happen.” Confident Living: Anyone’s Life Can Be Improved By NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Another general once delivered a much more stinging criticism of his fellow Americans: Thus wrote George Washington shortly after taking command of the army besieging Bostorf in 1775. It is amazing how. some people’s lives improve and all because they realize a dynamic fact. "Such a dearth of public spirit and All of which suggests that the fiber of a people is to be assayed in the light of history rather than contemporaneously. Our Mammoth Federal Government DR. PEALE By EVERETT DIRKSEN At various points in time the wordmongers and lexicographers have enriched the English l a n- guage with ap-proprlate words to de-n o t e bigness — words like g i a nt, mammoth, colos-s a 1, huge, massive, behemoth, enormous and gargantuan. And DIRKSEN all of those Words would apply in describing the size of your federal government today, whether in terms of scope, function or spending. In no respect are they more appropriate than in terms of describing our brobdingnagian civilian manpower. * ★ + You can begin to get the picture if you come to Washington and gaze upon the behemoths of brick, stone and concrete that are used to house the civilians who work for us. You would never have time to see all of the thousands upon thousands of people who work in those buildings, but you contribute to the salary of every one of them. For /evei/y man in the Internal Revenue Service who works to extract taxes from you, there are hundreds of civilians in CAA, ICC, SEC, Civil Service, ' GPO, AEG, GAB, and so dn, who vend those tuh>. I1 Hopefully, for your benrflL of course. Some day there will have to be an easing up of the load that is strapped to the back of the patient taxpayer. Yotf can get a picture of the future if you cast back in history andl look at the way the public payroll grew: When George Washington was president in 1792, the population of the new nation was estimated to be 4,192,000. The civilian payroll was 780 persons — about one person paid to work for the government for every 5,300 of the population. Under Abraham Lincoln in 1861 — 69 years later —> the population of the US. had grown to 32,351,000. The civilian payroll had gone to 36,372, about one person for every 900 in the population. In 1909, when Theodore Roosevelt occupied the White House, the population had risen to 90,470,000 and the federal civilian payroll to 372,379. One payroller for,, every 250 Americans. I , ★ *, * .A. When the frugal Calvin Coolidge was president in 1927 the pdpulation was 121,770,000 apd the civilian payrollers had gone to 579,159. The population had grown to 60 per cent of what it is today and the workforce had increased to ohe person per 210 in our population. Our population toda^9 is nearly 200 million. The civilian work force is 2,903,000 — one worker for every 66 people in the land. But we have been con- sidering the federal payroll only. If we think about the salaries paid by townships, counties, cities, park districts, sanitary districts and states for the services 'of clerkS, teachers, policemen, firemen and others the public payrolls get truly gargantuan in size. Why, teachers In one category alone would account for 1.75 million on public payrolls. ★ ★ ★ It might well be that if every person paid out of public funds at all levels for services rendered were counted it could meqn one payroller for every. 25 men| women and children in our population. When you think of it, the first word.that comes out is "wow!” The realiza-t i o n that works such w o n d ers is that every human being has greater p o s sibilities and potentials which have not yet been brought into action. Every person has it in him to become a more successful, happier individual. Ope Sunday evening a frustrated fellow was driving glumly from one New Jersey town to another on delivery pickups. His truck was not one of those mammoth high-powered- vehicles that go zooming along superhighways. It was rattly, rickety and beat up. This ’was not the kind of job he wanted anyway, But he did have a goal. He knew-what he wanted to do. He had an am-bitiOn to be a social worker helping underprivileged people. But he was lacking in the required education to qualify. So here he^w.as driving this truck. • ■ ' Oncfe having made this decision things began to happen. He began to think creatively and take more initiative. He soon found a job where he could earn a living at daytime truck driving and have his evenings free. So he started going to high school. It was a strenuous combination. But he kept at it. He discovered aptitudes he didn’t know he had and did increasingly well at his studies. He wrote me a letter telling of these experiences. It ended with this postscript: “I’ve got a motto. My motto is, ‘I’ll never quit. I will believe. I can do it.’ ” Not. long ago I heard from him again.; He is now an accredited social worker. '‘Now,” he writes, “I have the happiness of helping people who. have let things get them down like I once did. I am so thankful. My motto is still the same: TU never quit. I will believe. I can do it.’ ” about.” But he stuck it out. When the 24 hours were up he felt joyousness, a sense of release he had never known before. He felt free of anxiety and was full of new vitality and good will. Indeed he felt so good that he decided to continue living on this basis permanently. But about the fourth day the downward pull of long-established personality patterns became too much for him. He took a nose dive and plummeted back to Ms old unhappy ways. ♦ it Now if some people's lives get so wonderfully changed because they started the process of believing in themselves, the same can happen to anybody. Actually there is no need for anyone to go through life frustrated and beaten. But now he was more miserable than before, for he had had a taste of what life can really be like at higher levels. And he knew he had the potentials for topdrawer living. So he started climbing back up. And while he frequently slips and stumbles, there has been dramatic improvement in his emotional condition, his job and in personal relationships. Never forget it — you have real potential and you can activate it. Anybody’s life can be improved. (Publish* rt-Hsll Syndic*!*) Verbal Orchids There have been times when great effort was made to reduce the payrolls. For example, we took hundreds of separate units and made them into the GSA — General Services Administration — so the purchases of everything" from pencils to trucks and glue to buildings could come out of one place. The GSA, of course, only gets bigger. - As new functions,, programs and projects are added at all levels of government, the load grows.. One answer to cutting the payroll would be to return some of the demands for service to the local com-munity where perhaps greater and more penetrating attention would be paid to ex-penditures. • - Otherwise, that load we are all carrying on our backs is going to break our backs, f (Th* cart RIMat Jr. Syndic*!*)1 - The pay was bhrety enough to live on. and he could notx seem to save anything. So he wasn’t getting anywhere. “I’m a washout,” be thought bitterly. “A huge flop.” Dilapidated as it was, the truck did have a radio and he chanced to pick up a Sunday evening inspirational talk. “Have you a goal?” the voice was saying: “Some definite thing you want to achieve? Then with God’s help you can. do it — if you belieVe you can! Believe in life. Believe in yourself. Believe, in the potentials you;'possess.” : . The man wa's not convinced.^ But anyway he took to listening to that radio program each Sunday. And finally one night he decided to go with a positive attitude “I am going to be a social worker. I believe I have it in me -to reach that goal.” V I read somewhere about a man plagued with fears, Weaknesses and resentments, who got to thinking one day that the average person lives about half a million hours in his lifetime. And it occurred to him that it might be worth investing 24 hours of a half-million in an all-out try to live for one day in every respect according to positive living principles, a day . in which there would be no negative attitude,' not even a negative expression. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Pedersen of Waterford Township; golden wedding anniversary. Mrs. Margaret McManus of 61 S. Sanford; 87th birthday. George L. Bunker of 1008 Premont; 81st birthday. William Leonard of 231 N. Squirrel; Slst birthday; William F. Smith Of Dryden; 95th birthday. William D. Hill of Lake Orion; 82nd birthday. This idea took hold of him and he decided to give it a try. He chose a day and resolved he would start that morning and live that way for 24 houjrs. ’**w ■ It took plenty- of self-discipline. Hie had a lot of. battles with old habits, some rough moments, fighting off fatigue and “Oh, wnat’s it all Th* Associated Pr*»» I* ant It ted exclusively to th* us* for rapubll-catlon of, *11 local news printed In this newspaper a*, wall aa all AP news dispatch*!. mailed I* Oakland, Oanasaw Livingston, Macomb, Lopaor and WauhterUW Counties It te StS.OO a yaari auawhar* In Michigan and all othar pieces In th* United Staid* WM • year. Airmail aub-acnptkm* payable Jmi advance. Postage has bean paid at th* M clast rat* at Pontiac, MIcnIgdIt. writ Ate. , Calls Attention to Anti-Vivisection Society A Press editorial expresses concern over Vivisection. It sounds as though there are no groups currently fighting this in the U.S. ★ ★ ★ Perhaps ySIT will be interested in an issue of the monthly magazine I receive as a member of the Anti-Vivisection Society. It is a very worthwhile cause and any publicity might help. ,The part that concerns me most is that our young people are actually encouraged to be so heartless with living jaeings. I abhor the entire idea. EDRIS HOFFMAN 9543 WHIPPLE SHORES, CLARKSTON ‘Three Requirements for Honor Society’ As the valedictorian whose name was omitted from last year’s National Honor Society list, I feel qualified to reply to the question of “Student.” The omission of my name was due to a mathematical error in the tabulation of ballots. Scholarship is but one of four requirements for admission to National Honor Society. The other three are character, leadership and service. It cannot be denied that more enters into the personality of a well-rounded person than good grades. An A an