tek > PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, JUNE 25," 193680 PAGES eee ass ~¢ « & : eke Strong Gale Rips Across Region; Midair ier Which Killed 3 Drayton Pilot's Craft, | Rammed Near Field | Saturday Night | | ‘Pre Civil Aeronautics ‘Administration today con- ‘tinued ita investigation of ‘the midair collision of two private planes Saturday) evening that killed ethree) men near Pontiac Muni- |cipal airport. Trees, Electric. Lines Toppled as Winds Hit 65 Miles an Hour _ area yesterday morning snapping huge trees like match-sticks and ‘ causing excessive damage through- |out Oakland County. Hundreds of trees were reported down in Pontiac and surrounding town- ships. Most of the timber toppled on electrical lines cutting off hundreds of homes from power. Destruction High A sudden wind and rain. storm tore into the Pontiac The Pontiac Municipal Airport reported high winds up to65m.p.hiatllam.. _ | A large section of southern - 'Michigan was raked by this squall |line. of thunderstorms yesterday. Complaints of wires and trees down flooded all law enforcement and public utility offices during the day. Supervisors of Independence and Brandon vownsniys PANAMA Confab Many weekend travelers ran into blocked highways as city ‘today indicated that they have filed appeals on their cca the ee ene ‘tax allocation rates to the State Tax Commission. The Plans to Leave Hospital peer " moves were made today before the Oakland County This Weekend; Delays. There were a Board of Supervisors. : Alger Zapf, tax equalization chairman for the board, Session With Nehru WASHINGTON (INS) — Presi- tion of three light planes flying to S@id he expects a decision on the double action in from) dend EXecahowek’ plans to Sy 10 Aimont from Defiance, Ohio, when @ Month to six weeks. |Panama in late July to attend the| winds and rain were residents of "In Opinion of Manager: ~ Lakes, Highway. Control Tower at Airport Claim 3 Victims Might Have Averted Crash tte wesc se mw" The apps vil mat gorerament or school boatajracn ta, retool boner end Elma “te Ra Ca British Airliner ; > Pontiae Press Phete reported some 100 calls were received about fallen trees which knocked down _ electrical wires and blocked many city streets for hours. — 2 Dead were: ONE OF MANY — A tree on Perry street yes- Recreation Dept. _James G Pickett, 42, of terday morning gave way to a flash gust of 'Drayton Plains, a mechan- 65 m. p. h. winds and toppled, coming to rest lie: at the Guif refinery in against a nearby tree. _The Pontiac Parks and | Hamtramck coal hanes 285 kD Townships File Appeals lke Will Attend Pit of the plane that nn AGainst County Tax Rates ees Tratl 60, a. en ger with Mathews and own-| er of the Almont airport. The eraah eceurred at 7:22 p.m.! Acverding ta witnesses. Math- ews plane was leading a V-forma-| ~ ‘Three men were killed in the crash, which ts still | being investigated by the Civil Aeronautics Ad ministration. PROBE PLANE WRECKAGE — Police and airport workers here raise what is left of a wing on one of the two planes which crashed in midair Semereay rants! over Pontiac =e Airport. few minor traffic accidents as the result of_yester- \day’ s storm. \WEST SIDE HIT Hardest hit by the squall-like his ill poured into cit ice and sheriff Crash Kills No A control tower at Pontiac Municipal Airport might 4* Pickett was preparing to land. ‘in the county to spread this avamatic announcement department pelea reporting = is Navy Mon» sve prevented Saturday's fatal air crash over the local) Meward MacArthur, 39, assist- (their taxes until the com- trom Walter Reed Army liso -ecglia “hot” electrical Home on Leave; 2 Die ‘tieia, according to Homer D. Hoskins, manager of the ## manager of the sirport end mission rules on the appeal, |today was coupléd with two other -~ While Swimming airport. & Witness of the collision, esti oe spokesmen said. _ developments: Several hemes in Ponting and i : eceurred about | | Most of the t . Eisenhower plans ‘If the field had been under the surveillance of ‘&. capa main souk runway Cr ash Kills 16 |would be sdected tere urcaiy} a hospital cis sochand Wand trees butno persons were re- robe on zagred ear tower the operator would have seen the two planes con:| at a Printed their tax bills, the board drive to his Gettysburg farm | Ported injured, : verging and. at least noti-¢——- e) a _ . lexplaned.” radio,” Hoskins 1. Official Now— The drowning vict ence~ A. Tiiep, a A dl acen | A midair collision Saturday ¢ eve- - Contino to Wed Starlet. and Addage J. Paquette, 2%. of ™"Z of two private planes took! Keweenaw County ih the Upper’ ithe lives- of three Peninsula. Robert A. Heikkenin, home on leave from a Navy base in Clawson sailor, 13, ond in a traffic’ accident. pointed out. The state body will’ whe: ill celebrat Consumers Powe: He aaid the pianes collided and 18 Escape, 1 Lost After proba’ ’ cc Pe cant ges ‘ 10 is ot bly review allocation rates) anniv Sunda: immediately plunged straight to Plane Explodes in North ail over the county. — ares Seay: the greund, ane of them losing a “jsaid 500 customers were out of | 2. The President agreed with:®@tVice until around 4 p.m. An wing in the air before crashing Nigerian Territory SAN FRANCISCO (INS)=Accor jn a back yard about 4 mile its suburbs were hit by fallen , | The appeals were filed with the Prime Minister Nehr uof India/™T@ency repair crew from the | beard this morning by Super- ‘that it would be best for Nebral Saal te Meee es dionist Dick Contino is engaged to from the airpart. LAGOS, Nigeria uP—A four-en- oon aah Fleya Redes ct mae ke = his scheduled visit to) jglass window at the Consumers of- He said controlicd alrperts re- marry screen starlet Legh IN LANDING PATTERN gine British airliner crashed and ithe. U. S. in early July. ‘ice at -28 W. Lawrence blew in quire all planes based at the fleid ne Ni : |_ Eisenhower urged Nehru, how-itom the high winds . aace an Gar a Snowden Pickett was flying wwe i burst into flames in northern Ni-| netaiils of the conditions which ever, to set 9 later date for the in- | Contino, 26. and Miss Snowden, pattern, MacArthur said, when Ma- porn iast night, killing at least 6 prompted the appeals were not im- formal talks which were the chief PHONE LINES DOWN Maine, died when his car ran off must be turned on when in the ‘thews hit him from the left side.: | Northwestern highway one-half vicinity of the field. 25, made the announcement yester New % jake Gael ace cuss ‘Medi ly known. - purpose of the prime minister's) Michigan Bell Telephone re- mile north of Middlebelt réad — ..w » * day during a party in San Fran ‘een pe _ Watertend ieted eo rd en Similar appeal was lodged with trip to this country. ported some 300 phones were cut oF T ¢ might possibly have warned ape The plane steward, ard. the commission last by Water-| The Panama conference of the) pe" Continued on Page 2, Col § 5) armington Township. \the plane making- the downwind “8¢0. No date has been set for ship high schoal student who was of Reading, England. was report- ford Township which protested that | |Presidents of American States, or. , The accident occurred at the turn (a plane flown by James G. the wedding, which will be the first first to peach the plane’ after the ed missing. Three of the 18 known jt had been slated to pay an un-jiginally scheduled to begin today | height of a thunderstorm late Sat- Pickett) to pull up out of the way for Contino and the second for erash said yesterday | she heard. survivors were said to be critical- duly high percentage of the coun- has been postponed to July 722 2.| heck- p rintin | ~~ han arorasd - ©. of the other planes,"’ he added. Miss Snowden. (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6 _ ty in injured. Ee, \Eisenhower informed Presi dent ! rowned. about 5:40 p.m. - known dead included stew.) The tax comm prob f th ccepts| Sunday while swimming with his! king = prodigies ne other N t P a Kay Buckley, 11 women ably contort a eaten in coed fseleed Aegeoy =i pe ° : — uae aan Lipper by) {planes in the vicinity of the Pontiac ew ance or T ize [pommeeere ant-2~chitdren: .---+on-eounty taxes after the appeal go.’ | ef if stead Perk aa Lower Strains Tae | | The passenger list was not im- as been made and subjected to It is still uncertain exactly wise dy. The Pontiac Municipal mediately available but it was Stu six miles west of Pontiac. Pontiac Municipal Airport | a no Americans were | now core acm TWining, Aides See Argonaut, en route from Lagos to J Lendon via Tripoli, Libya, had Heavier by another $100, the Presa’ atill-untapped > Eisenhower will leave the hospital. POT-O-GOLD stood expectantly in its corner this 1. morning and began another week of waiting for |e | i i i 3 Held in County Jail . Admit Passing $10,000 in Bogus Vouchers . His body was recovered by life has the third highest amount of guards in four feet of water. Com- traffic for Michigan fields, and merce “Township inhalator crews, Im its long-range expansion pods failed to revive him. gram a control tower .and ad- Paquette was attending a na- | joining administration bupding te some reader to claim its contents, Nobody stepped forward last week—so today the usiaga tar’ See: Press offers everyone another chance on Page 30 ~ a.m, Sunday end sank from sight Marilyn, Arthur to Hideaway tienal conclave of persons of Fin- nish extraction at the Finnish Summer -Camp in Commerce Township, three miles northwest of Walled Lake. He dove trom the end of a 70- foot dock into Sun Lake about 7:55 after surfacing once. Sheriff's. deputies recovered the) body from # feet of water. Pa- quette had come to the conciave| from his home near Lake Lindon, and was staying with friends in Berkley. The drownings raise the county toll this year to 13. Secretly Flee NEW MILFORD, Conn. (INS)~ Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Mil- ler secreted themselves in the playwright's “rustic hideaway at nearby Roxbury today. The lovebirds capped a day of rumor and speculation about their marital plans last night with a fur- tive New Vork street-corner ren- dezvous which had all the. ear- marks of a colak-and-dagger plot. The blonde film star ducked out of her swank East Side apartment house into a walting taxi which drove her three blocks to where Miller was waiting in a station wagon. ‘ The field currently offers ad- tion and wind speed. The Pickett — had no radio, | Hoskins added. Rept aly ag oon of the cab|. Fe = TIMBER — thar wecy. “timber” jvomerday as «sudden wind storm tore ee Ad dee tae ce into t visory service to planes equipped. with high frequency radios, as to! which runway to use, wind direc within city. oe i where Puzzle No. 6 makes ita firat appearance. If you haven’t tried one of ita predecessors, why not start today ... it’s fun and it can be a profitable pastime. : Readers who tried Pugele No. + last week have a chance at the $400 prize if they mail their entries in by tomor tomorrow at midnight, - Quick Storm Wreaks Havoc = of shouts of ct ater gine we Sass m a ra and lee were busy Rs ao eres traffic and ent bean « : \ ‘ ; ‘i tf oe i pre ‘oaths Pontian Press Phote ‘just taken off from Kano, 700 ‘miles northeast of Lagos. It re- |portedly flew into storm clouds, ‘lost height and crashed into the trées, —— me oe & | Aboard ray sirceaie were 33 pas. \sengers and a crew of seven. The survivors included the plane cap- ‘tain, Capt. H. V. Tomlinson, 36, ‘a Royal Air Force veteran, and four other crewmen. An emergency squad = from Kano airport rescued most of the | surviving passengers. Adm. King’s Illness Is Becoming Worse. 2 PORTSMOUTH, N. H. —The condition of Adm. Ernest J. King, 77, who. led the U. S. Navy to vic- tory in World War I, “deteriorat- ed during the night,” a Ports-|' mouth Naval Hos pital bulletin said today. The .admiral was stricken with a heart ailment early yesterday and he was suffering from a cir- culatory and respiratory failure. The bulletin issued at 9 a.m. said: “He continues in‘a state of shock and coma. He igs not re-| - aviation developments, has controls. ‘» Latest Soviet Planes MOSCOW (P—Gen. Nathan Twining, U.S. Air Force chief of staff invited to Moscow to see the latest in Soviet told his hosts the United States will not disarm until it is certain of —— Twining, his aides and British and French, air force): chiefs were among foreign guests * yesterday at the jo ‘Soviet Aviation Day show in which the Russians un- veiled three new types of oe planes and a new jet- men and confiscation of their printing equipment halted a check- It was the first time U.S. and: British air chiefs wit-) ‘nessed the annua. display. | Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev told the foreign guests new heavy jet bombers because “we wanted to emphasize defense not offense , Then Twining, accompanied . cause -of his failure to rally’ the|seven of his aides and a party of military representatives: from Britain, France and other coun- tries, set ot in a motor cavalcade covag pa Ayer wa ate sgl propelled transport. _ + and newsmen’ the show omitted "\sonic speed, - ‘called “Farmer” lattempted to accompany Presi- ident Tito to the field recently. Western experts said yester- ~days’ show contained nothing startingly new. - The new models shown included (1) three delta-wing day inter- ceptors assumed capable of super- (2) two “advanced type’’ day fighters of a model by U.S. airmen and first shown last year, (3) two improved all- weather fighters’. of the type labeled “Flashlight” by * |Western. observers, also shown inj the original version last year, and (4) a single assault-type, twin-en- » |gine turboprop transport which can operate from short, unim- proved runways. about 120 fighters, 40 outlook is grave." - In Today’ s Press County News......... Gases Damon Vale essecests _ Editorials ....... Aeccduerenes 6 Pot-O-Gold .......666 66 6605..0 Sport... 66.18, MO, bil ¥ ‘Theaters ..... ph adees v0 oe. BD “TV & Radio Programs......%9 Wilson, Bari....47........... 2 Women's Pages... cil, M4, 15 oe { iy | : be | SM aks the erceit @ mnailiaek 200,000. at Tushino Airport saw The Saturday arrest of three * THE PONTIAC ¥ PRESS, MONDAY, 4 UXE 4s, 1956 * Carl C. Viola, 22, of Detroit, was killed iby lightning Saturday ashe Nelden T. Goundvie. 25, of. Mount fell down a flight of basement stairs. Killed in the Pontiac plane col- lision Saturday were Dale Mat- thews, 25, of Charlevoix; his pas- senger, Jess Trott, 60, of Almont; and Arnold Pickett, = of Orne ‘County. They were Bobby Paul Whiddon, 11, and Danny Gordon, 6. “Other drowning victims were: “Eugene Frederick Ambs, 16, of Addage J. Paquette, 26, of Berk- Keith Monnier, 27, of Algonac. Donald Crandie, 14, of Grand Webster Bernard, 40, of Flint. Clarence A. Tripp Jr., 7, of De- - Elaine Tillman, 10, of Recmamad “Traffic deaths incl Robert A. vemea "Mrs. Edith M. DuFresne, 49, of Lansing. William H. Parrish, 28, Detroit. State Taxes Travel fo Lansing by Train A special train today dramatized of half the state taxes paid by Michigan railroads by car- rying the money to Lansing for pre- sentation to state officials. The nine railroads will reportedly pay $8,145,365 in 1956 which, under state law, 2 ees school fund. The railroads pay additional $2 million to other state if} special train included The Grand Shoreline. Auto Passenger Hurt as 2 Vehicles Collide A Detroit woman was treated for’ lacerations of the head after the. car in which she was riding was. struck 16 in Holly ‘Township. Mrs. Margaret Brummer, 63, was released following treatment at the Groveland Clinic. She was! a passenger in a car driven by; John G. Brummer, 2. of Roch-| ester. The other vehicle was operated | by James C. Kell, of 915% Orchard | Lake Ra. Sylvan Lake. The Weather Full U.s. Weather Burean Report. Pontiac VICINITY — Partly tee = 76-n6. eveni High #-#6. Nertherly winds at 12-1 teday diminishing toni ie mites on hear Today in Pontine yest temperature preceding #8 a.m ne 8 pam: Wind veiocit s aren: Northeast ; “ Ben sets Monday at 8: wie Sun Slag Tuesday at } re am. tines Monday at $38 p.m. “18, of} by another Sunday on Us ! WRECKAGE FROM FATAL CRASH — Like the crumpled body of @ great broken bird, this shattered airplane lies in a field near Pontiac Municipal Airport. after the crash Saturday night that killed an estimated 800 feet to the ground. The Day in Birmingham - City Resident ca Max D. Evans, of 1522 Furnvail Hearings Slated Tonight Sees : Include Zoning, Paving’ {tn tied’tie cr oer o BIRMINGHAM — Hearings slat-ject appears again on the agenda,| 1°W®ship Sunday. ee ' led-for tonight’s commission meet- Vacation of Woodland Alley and \of Cole Street are on tonight's hear- jing agenda as wéll. Details of ,the extension of the New President Nassar, Sole Candidate ‘nue. go before commissioners to. in Saturday Election, |night in the form of a hearing on rezoning- for its’ extension and of Gets 99 Per Cent Votes approval by Bloomfield Township tions of the triangle formed by Woodward avenue and Huntér bou- levard. | Pontiac Press Photo idai the airport, falli CAIRO (—Premier Gamal Ab- three men, The two planes collided in midair over rpo’ ing det Naseer, Previdant-cioet’ ton ised today ‘‘we will be defenders DR. VAN HALTERN Dr. Van Haltern Dies Suddenly Was Pontiac General Hospital = Radiologist; Rosary Service Today dent radiologist, Dr. Harold L. ‘Van Haltern, 48, of 3670 Erie Dr., Or- chard Lake, died suddenly Satur- day in the Pontiac General Hos- * * * Born in Athena, Ore., he was the. son of Laura Piper and Guy W.-Van Haltern. On Octobef 6, 1948 he married Martha Zell in Detroit. He was a graduate of the Uni- versity of Texas Medical School and had studied at the University of Towa. Dr. Van Haltern came to Pon-| tiac (11 years ago and was a mem- ber of the-Wayne and Oakland County Medical societies, of the American Radiological Society and of the Detroit Roentgen may So- ciety. 8D SERVICE TODAY Surviving are his wife, Martha, and four childrén Carolyn, Eleanor ' i ‘ Jon and Martin. Rosary. service will be at 8 p.m. » today in the Voorhees-Siple Fu- neral Home. Following the service ;|the body will be taken to Little j-|Rock, Ark., for burial. * * «8 The family requests that me- morial tributes be made to the’ Harold L. Van Haltern memorial fund for the benefit of Pontiac Genera] Hospital. ‘Sharon Gale Baker — Graveside service was held to day at Perry Mt, Park Cemetery Sharon Gale Baker, infant daughter of Virginia L, and George O. Baker, 659 Markle Ave. : Sharon was born Friday in Pon- tiac General Hospital and died ithree hours later, Surviving brothers and sisters ‘are Cafroll Ann, Michael, David, land Terry, all at home. [Don Edward Gelbard Funeral service was held today at Temple Beth El, Detroit; for Don Edward Gelbard; 38, 19950 Shrewsbury, Detroit. He died Sat- .|urday in Chicago of a heart attack. a *| Rabbi Leonard Mervis, brother-in- law ‘of Mr. Gelbard officiated Yt the service. in Detroit,the son of AR. ‘and Katherine Gelbard, Mr. Gel- ‘bard married the former Audrey ‘Buckner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Buckner of Pontiac. Mr. ~ Pontiae “General Hospital resi-| kindergarten moppets. Politics Reigns Supreme Storm Hits Area, iat Governors’ Conference Trees Uprooted ATLANTIC CITY (INS)—Principals of the sath meeting of the governors of the states of the U.S. came to this neon-lighted sandspit of Atlantic City today! ibly..to. discuss such things as hot lunches for They wound up talking about the heart and innards of the President of the _— States and seine of the constitution and defenders jof right.""" He -said Egypt had ’ Flag displays by the local mer- chants is suggested by E. R.. : Pri aie, SS ses. wich soning, poring, 118 oo i oe alley-vacation projects includ- Unplatted parcels 1A, 1B and 2 $ The Holland Avenue paving proj. wah tee rear sections along the 3 : - River ae somieee for flood ® ‘Egyptians Hear Szsx—"—= § sir aebeston : | jan tonight i$ SW