‘day might not be reached. Fy os kext Tc “PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, “WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1988 —s2 PAGES “Git cam, Rurtawe = Here she is. This is Miss Fron} Page for Jan- wary, 1958, and we certainly start the New Year with a terrific bang. te & &€ Miss Front Page ans = a # Happy New Year! Wendy has the distinction of being our very youngest Miss Front Page. She didn’t exactly comprehend the full significance of New Year’s, but | she does understand fancy hats and | things that make new and interesting | wers more noises. readily to the name of Wendy Fay Hartman and day after tomorrow she ‘reaches the exciting age of precisely two years. Her parents-live at 1611 Alma Street. area. Happy New Year, Wendy, from The | ae i | .|industrial leaders today Heads Predict’ Favorable Year Pontiac, Truck Units Hope to Boost Share of Markets in ‘58 By GEORGE T. TRUMBULL IR. - While the year 1957 will be remembered as the one celine at the end, Pontiac forecast that the year ahead with the slight business de-| _ would be a good year for _ \business generally. “Here at Pontiac,” said Semon E. Knudsen, Pontiac] Motor Division general) manager and General {Motors Corp. vice president, “we are looking forward \with confidence to an ex-| cellént sales year.” . | Phiijp J. Monaghan, gen-| eral Manager of GMC, Truck and Coach Division: lyear based upon \ber of pre-war trucks now jon the nation’s roads. { “With this kind of @ replace- and GMC vice president,| predicted a “good” business. the num-) jment potential it is easy to see that the truck market coulc break into a‘real sales upsurge under any lone of a number of stimulating conditions," Monaghan said. * * * Industrial statistics for 1957, re-' leased recently by. James F.| * * * ishowed decreases from the year Spence, secretary-manager of the) Pontiac Manufacturers’ Assn., sameness 1956. Pontiac industries paid out a Hartsoe, of 38 South Sanford St and admiration at what is believed to be the “GEE, YOU'RE BIG” — Four-year-old Joseph ong first snowman .. gazés in awe of the year. The picture was taken at 369 South Anderson, at the home of Joe's grandmother, Mrs. Russell De Wolfe. But Believes We Are Stronger Than Reds total payroll of $153,689,958 last year. This compares to a 1956 payroll of $158,629,853. The average monthly payroll was! $12,807,496. This was $13,219,154 in 1956. * * * Pontiac Press and the whole Pontiac ation. It was 23,126 the previous| AI Traffic Deaths Reported at Mid-Point of Holiday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 5 { + a _... Winding past the halfway mark in the traffic count-' Township, will_ give a talk on an| , “2958 should be a good year _ , down, the New Year’s holiday auto deaths were running | “"@"nounced subject and then open’ about 60 per cent of the heavy Christmas toll. , that their predicted final deaths for the 30-hour holi- With 15. hour tabulations record- rity count, 6] auto deaths were ee RR The NSC saif~an all-out effort by motorists, mindful of hazardous auto fatality toll of 130 | i | in Pontiac Tomorrow Seven hundred members of some 20 luncheon clubs in the Pontiac area are expected to pack the Elks Temple in.Pontiac tomorrow| noon to hear former secretary. of| defense ‘Charles E. Wilson. the floor to questions. } i { _| Harold A. Fitzgerald, Pontiac} The National Safety Council expressed some optimism Press publisher, will introduce the| 5; speaker and act as moderator for, automobile in Pontiac's 50 - year :the question. and answer period. | : 4 The average number of hourly employes last year was 20,120, ac- cording to figures from the associ- year. Salaried employes for 12) months of 1957 averaged 6,623 as\*$ Much as the Soviet Union to-| compared to 6,636 in 1956. The peak month for hourly em-|- C. E. Wilson to Talk bent was reached in January of 1957 when 24,021 were on the pay- irols. In January of the previous’ year this figure was at 28,700. | The largest monthly payroll jast year—$14,579,553—was -paid. out in July. In 1956, this peak was $15,- 331,417, reached in January. * * * Looking at the coming year, ‘Knudsen had this to day: Wilson, who lives in Bloomfield) for business generally, for Pon- tiag Motor Division, commanity, — and this “We have the most outstanding By JAMES BINDER Associated Press Writer Former Defense Secretary try, by being too zealous in trying to win the arms race, could do ward touching off another war. * * x. “I think if we attempt to com- pete with the Russians actively by promoting too mfch of an arms buildup in our own defense we will contribute as much toward a fore- Wilson said. ‘ x * * “I sense we're working our- selves down unnecessarily and scaring too many people.” he added. Wilson said he does not feel the United States is in danger of being attacked at this time. ~ Asked ‘in an interview at his home in Bloomfield Township if he (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) thought the U.S. could defeat seeable war as the Russians,” | Russia should war break out, Wil- json replied: “I de.__ | Wilson said he favors an in- ierease to 40 billion dolaars in de- (Charles E. Wilson says this COUM- i fonse department appropriations in 11958, nearly the same sum he said ihe asked for last spring, several Temperature to Dip fo 10 During Night ty Road Commission. Thursday. : preceding 8 a.m. was 17 degrees. |The mercury stood at 19 degrees jat 1 p.m. . Main roads throughout the courity, t are reported clear but side roads| ber about his defense policies in are still slippery today according general. to a report from the Oakland Coun-' py asies PEOPLE FOR CUT The lowest thermometer reading Wilson Sees No Present War Danger months before resigning from the cabinet. The onetime Genera] Motors Corp. said the request was whittled to 3842 billion dol- lars by President Eisenhower, whom he said was faced with public and Congressional demands for a tight budget. Defense funds later were cut te 36 billion doi- lars. : “T had n oquarrel with the Pesi- dent,’’ Wilson said. He added that he never had been criticized by Eisenhower or any cabinet mem- “I blame the American people Partly cloudy and colder is the : * fiction for Pontiac tonight with Wy much as Congress for the cuts, ilson said. ‘“‘The public wanted the low dipping to near 10 degrees.) Continued cold is the forecast for {0 eee —— —— known through its Cor- gressmen.” He said the scare created by Russia’s launching of two earth (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) Babson Says: Russia Does Not Want Another War Slight Decline Seen for Auto Industry, Pontiac in ’58 By ROGER W, BABSON My forecast for 1958 business in Pontiac is not so optimistic as last i i Hi : i : i 3 i el u EE a ot Se ne ad be a | “|Dairy. products, rubber. products, On the credit side will be a few industries that will undoubtedly surpass the 1957 performance: electric power, roadbuilding, and public construction, There should paint, airline transportation, ce- be little change from the past! © year’s levels in lacquer, varnish,| © President Eisenhower's _ condition wih be of supreme importance. What its influence upon Russia will be, nobody knows. It prob- ably will not affect general busi- ness. I believé that for some time our President has not been making important policies and, much to ‘of conquering our country, she cer- tainly wishes to preserve our cities, industries, and other valuable as- sets. Russia has land enough now; it is our industries which Russia ignored.|wants,. This also applies to Eng- land and Western Europe as well as the United States. * * * intensified during 1958. This will increase fear of war, which could squeezed during 1958, as a result of higher costs and pressure for 5. Competition increase during These will apply mostly to small some big the Jones Aver- collapse HUE Hed ai ¥] i; TF First Snowman of the New Year ‘Third ls Saved , iAffer Crawling Under His Bed Smoke Fills Apartment on Highland Avenve in Mother's Absence Two young children, a brother and sister, suffo- cated early ti.is morning apartment at 430 Highland Ave. A third child, three-year- old R. D. Winfield Jr., nar- rowly escaped death, Pon- tiac firemen said, when he apparently smelled smoke and jumped under his bed to escape flames. The dead are: Victoria Winfield, age 2, and Nicho- ette Winfield, two months, children of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Winfield of the High- land address. Pontiac's south side to ‘visit neigh- bors for a few minutes.” Police said the father was not at home at the time of the fire. * my babies.” Firemen later learned (Continued on Page 2, Col. 8) Tractor Mishap Kills Area Youth Rose Center Boy . Dies as Vehicle Overturns on Icy County Road One freak accident resulting in death to a Rose Center youth marred an otherwise death-free New Year’s eve on icy Oakland County roads. David John Karwoski, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Connie Karwoski 6 18132. Buckhorn Lake Rd., was killed shortly before 6 p.m. Tues- day, when the tractor he was driv- ing overturned, pinning him be- neath it. * « * ; te He was pronounced dead of suffo- cation and shock at the scene; His In Today's Press eA RES tee eeeeeeeweeeeesene bd : News See eH OREO Ee bd Editorials Seeee ee eeetenseee t Markets sere eet ee ee eee eens bs j é : * Obituaries seve cia ddbbaseen’s 2 é ' Pet-O-Gold Puzsle Feeseene 3 Sports ............. 28 thre 2S Theaters TV & Radic when fire broke out in an_ of . His father told sheriff's deputies he ran to his ‘son's aid but could © seeeteereewrceenee BB ister Suffocate in Early Morning Fire _ Miss Front Page Makes Her Bow City Industrial ’ ) MY LOW nest ~ State's Manufacturing/! of those who have donated Output Holds Up BUt atinisan Beit Telephone Bmpierses oor. Jobs Show Big Dip oie: emaiores co kan Wrigiey’ Super Market Empl... Wrighey’s Super Market ..... |Pederal Department Store DETROIT & — Stepped-ap auto Teas mc. Employes mation in 1957 knocked Michigan Fleet Carrier Corp. Empi. ta to Sete » 0: manufacturing employment to thes. wenn Employes .... 380.00 : “J . aS. avern, pidyes...... 5 lowest point since 1949, the Michi-|jverade F Egy Ogg gan Employment Security Com-) Mark L906. ‘mission said today in a yearend| Sets nel. joes review. keds See 2 eee ee - Describing 1957 as a year Of/Hotel Roosevelt .............. 60 “serious unemployment.’’ Max M. t P - Horton, director of the commission, 'socony Vaewum Ot! (Emple) |... 148 ‘Thunderbird doubles the seating senger model and has one and a NEW THUNDERBIRD — Ford's long-awaited four-passenger Se es capacity of the former two-pas- half times the luggage capacity. > Yet it is only two feet longer and four inches wider. Ease of entry for all riders is obtained by fold-flat front seats widest door openings in the industry. , and one of the | Walker Company i... ..,, ample of the effect of automation, Grand Trunk Western Raurotd | (Smpis.) ... puis eal: Coes as The number of cars built’ in| A sone oe Lines a on November 1967 was only 2,000 {25} Eon eh see: fewer than the nunsber produced [J. J. Ruva M.D. ia. : : 1956, he said, but | Sit‘? Pontiac Cmopany _..... in Nevember . said, ‘Mr. and Mrs Elbert M. Wilmot auto facteries employed 29,000 te and Mrs JR. Greenhaigh.. . Mrs. Elizabeth Haushalter ...... tewer workers. id. E Pox. en ls ; HS. Freeman Gr. ..... ...... _ Horton said the monthly average Marry Monson Scrap iron . dt ee ee ee S232 S223228Ssae0 S5 4 manufacturing employment ia, Metal Co... 8... 1am < niieac Women's Rewling Assn. 00 ‘uchigan during 1957 was 1,050,000, | Universal C1. Cred: Corp... 60 a drop of 24,000 from the monthly | ero! ee Boece an eoged average in 1956, Household Figence ....... sarees ones The closing or remoyal of factor | Soe yp sme 9 io tat: (Ok ; | Good usekeeping rd pi... 88 jes and a reduction in defense @m- Beattie Motor Soles Empl. .- 67.00 Bt pe ployment also were cited as fac Saray Lape Co. Bmpi. 22.001 tors in cutting down the. number J 8. Sibley o....00.0000.0.. . 00.00) t Standard Blectrie Co. (Bmple | 80.00 1 Juer : Nuree’s Medical Bpilding Empl... 69.20 * * * Urban League Employes... 67.380 Siviey Coal & Ce. 65.00 At the same time, non-manu- iat Oo poe Employees | 2 facturing employment took up soMe | Daniels 1 (Daniel Motor Freight... 68.09) « sag. id non- .|/ Salvation Army yes , | if the Harton said | — ‘Awrey’s Bakery Employes ...... 00) facturing employment was 1,285.-' Peggy's oy rR $7.00) f Teas Oakiand & Pat .......... 85 000, an increase of 10.000 above te eresting Oe 2.) bas the 1956 level. ‘Reward on — peetnas Goccne be ged j Arthur _— Bon . . As * \Dr. Peter pde ........ . 60.00 Horton reported Michigans la-| Montgomery Ward ae [Ponting Eleetrie Supply Co... har force in 1957 totaled 2,923,000. | Feoties, Riwesete See se th bweeeee scale layoffs in the auto industry, James @penee .... °°... so phonon boue Company... Noon see cuen $0.00 60.00 80.00 of 1957, ¢ Employment in the auto in. ees ‘Waldron Hotei Ree erosellwegien 60.00) dustry stood at a 395,000 average Jana be 49.09! 7, j\Leonard Biackwell M.D. ....,. 60.00, for 1957, the lowest in nine years, \Oce Coal Company Oo eee Horton: said: Rev. Richard OMOS . 1. seers ve = (80.00) 50.00 KR. J, Muldowney “Tt is extremely unusual to have : such large-scale lawoofs this early ||. . Pee mchcan vere Alling Skelton Calls Greetings to Wife Three afeas in Michigan were listed as hard hit by unemploy- ment at vear’s end. They were Detroit with 8 per cent unemploy- S8zssesezss sesesss23sss s1:+ €100ger Thunderbird before a group of 32.00 'which will be introduced in Ford 0 09 dealer-ships later this month fe- 80.00/ $9.00 Unitized frame construction made to 90 Possible maximum interior pas- 80.60 senger room and comfort without cent. City and Jackson. ment, Grand Rapids with 7.9 per cent and Muskegon with 10 per Bay SANTA MONICA, Calif. ® — Red Skelton, who almost didn’t Other areas listed as serious Make it into 1958, kept alive a 13-| were Monroe, Port Huron, year-old New Year's Eve custom with his wife. * * * | “Sick as he is, he talked his, doctor into letting him call me at rmidnight,"" said Mrs. Georgia, |Skelton. “We had never been sep-| arated before at New Year's, ex- Kaew”: ‘cept when he was in the Army, and he wanted this to be a Happy New Year too.” . ne mi * ” * By &. Ces + Baplier in evening Skelton : ie ; : 44, stil under an oxygen tent, com ee heavier, cold alr or watched his TV show, which had Cold air is heavier than warm, |Previously ‘~“*, = gee :_ a& most people know. Cold air is Comic bss Shoo priny = denser. The principle of warming death Monday nig nye et, air to fill a balloon, which will! then rise, is well known Not as well understood is the characteristic of warm and cold) Adrenalin shots plus the oxygen fronts steming from this weight have eased his condition some-| factor. A cold front slides ever’ what. Early today St. John's Hos- the earth’s surface, leading edge pital reported that Skelton was hugging the surface, slanting slightly improved. backward. “But he's still a very The warm front’s leading warm Man,” said Mrs. Skelton. air is high, the frontal edge lean- ————=— ing forward. ‘This allows the keen A blind person is acutely sensi. observer to spot an approaching tive to sound and touch. When warm front by detecting the lean- offering a chair to a blind person, ing high cirrus clouds that move slap the chair’s back or put his in from the west. hand on the arth of the chair. | & near heart failure. * * * sick 1958 Whistles Into State With Icy Winds, Snow | By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Snowfall measured up to seven. or eight inches in spots. and prac- Young Mr. 1958 came riding into tically all areas got at least aj Michigan on whistling, snow-filled pround-covering last night. Winds! winds and brought a cald Wave piled the new snow in drifts in with him which U. S. forecasters some regions, particularly, the say will stay at least through northwestern sections of the Lower Friday ‘Peninsula. The Weather Fail U.s. Weather Bureag Report PONTIAC AND VICINITY—Cloudy, windy and cold with snow fiurries to- dar, high 24. Partly clowdy tonight and iemerrew, colder tonight, low near 16 Centineed cold temerrew, Fresh neorth- west winds diminishing tonight , 20s or lower downstate and were “expected to stay there all day, - then skid to § to 10 degrees to- night. A high of 8 to 12 was the outlook for the Upper Peninsula today, with sere to 6 forecast tonight and a high between 10 and 16 temorrow. The prediction for the top of the —Lower Peninsula is 2 to 8 tonight. * * * . Snow, general overnight, was @x- ms pb pected to break up into flurries Teday in Pentiac Bun sete Wednesday et $10 pm. Bun rises Thursday at @ 61 2m Moon sete Wednestay at 159 pm Moon rises Thursday at 4.47 pm Lowest temperature preceding @ © m V1 ? At ® ac Wind | velority Diréetion— West-Nerth west 3h Downtown Températares pected to be 25 to 35 miles an Regret --+ 18 hour in the Lower Peninsula and tam... ae er pa...’ ... 1p 18 to 24 m-p.h. in the Upper Penin- | 9 OM. . coos 17 sula. i. i@ a.m...., vay The Friday outlook: Partly cloudy and not quite so cold, with a 3t la chance of scattered snow flurries. State Police headquarters at East Lansing said reports jndi., | cated highways were snow-cov- | ered and hazardous throughout 14 | the state, although main thor. | oughfares were open. ; Highest ond, Lowest Temperetares This) “(rand Rapids reported 7 to 8 _ 65 tn 1976 3 in 1681 inches of new snow on a #inch base Tuesday's Temperature Chart jalready aground there, and an / overnight low of around the 20-de- Tuesday in Pentiar (As recorded downtown) Highest temperature ......... Lowest temperature .. ons a8} Mean température ...00.......0005 325 Weather—Anow One Year “age in Pentise _ Highest temperature . eee eee n nee e | at Pontiac Motor is good. Em: Thermometers tumbled info the |eration in this country, nearly 1,- Thunderbird Four-Passenger Model Unveiled as New Year Is Ushered In ushered in the New Year at mid- night by unveiling the four-passen- rominent Americans during the ‘ew Year's Eve party at the exclusive Thunderbird Golf Club in Palm Springs, Calif. x * * The completely new automobile jtalns Thunderbird classic lines. pretentious exterior bulkiness. * * * Although the new car has twice the passenger-carrying capacity, it) is nly 24 inches longer and four inches wider, sO The Thunderbird is four inches lower than the average of all U.S. luxury cars, but has more room per passenger than any luxury car. | The Thunderbird retains the per- formance characteristics of the two-passenger model and is pow- ered with a new 300 h.p. engine, | bers and free-flow induction. ‘A full Ine of power assists— brakes, steering, seats and win-, dows—is available, and buyers | have the choice of three trans-| missions: standard, overdrive and automatic. Industrial Leaders 1 THUNDERBIRD, CALIF.—Ford WASHINGTON Deputy Sec- retary of Defense Donald Quarles said today that the results of past weapons research will begin to show in the nation’s defenses in 958 . In a New Yetir’s statement, Quarles said 1958 is a year of promise” and added: * * * “Many research projects and- plans of previous years are be- coming realities and will begin to contribute importantly to our na- tional defense posture in the year ahead. In modernizing and stream- lining our armed forces we are adding to our arsenal a number of important new weapons, such as the intermediate range ballis- tic missiles." Pentagon officials -have said they expect production of IRBMs to begin late this year. ° Quarles said that Russia's Sput- nike and ballistic weapons ‘pose a challenge that may be a bless- ing in disguise,”’ adding: x * * “They have re-alerted the free worki to the dangers we must face and have brought national de- fense back into first place in the minds of our countrymen.” He also said that ‘‘all America should look ahead to the coming year with determination and con- fidence." In other yearend statements, \including a four-barrel carburetor,,Sen, Bridges (R-NH) and Sen. ‘fully-machined combustion cham-| Mansfield (D-Mont) agreed that 1958 will require important bipar-| Youths’ Rocket Success—but Where'd It Go? EL CENTRO, Calif. (®—A two- Ford Shows New tstesCatesevearetpomie; Sees Past Aiding Defense , 2 tisan decisions which Bridges said “must provide for the survival of this nation at all costs.” FA ; ~ * * Mansfield, acting Senate Dem- iocratic leader, said members of both parties in Congress must place ‘‘the security of the country ahead of the welfare of their par- ties.” Bridges, chairman of the Sen- ate GOP policy Committee, agreed in a Separate statement that the \debate over defense and foreign jpolicies must not be “a glorified soapbox for the p tion of po- litical parties or cAndidates.” - * * * Mansfield said both Congress and the President must plan for the future ‘‘with courage, confi- dence and hope,” and must “face the facts of life ag they are, and not as we would wish them to be 98: _ Quarles also called for a real- istic look at the present as well as the future. * * * “Until. that happy day when peace can rest on safeguarded agreements between the nations of the world, security must de- pend on the forces in being and ready for action," Quarles said, adding: “Their primary mission ig to [prevent war.’ residents year with firecrackers, bells shouts of “Happy New Year.” Approval has been given on the request of Oakland County Depart- ment of Publie Works for the pur chase of Birmingham's old water department billing machine. Harold K, Schone, director of the county DPW, made an offer of $200, the machine's trade-in Wilson Believes We Could Beat Russia (Continued From Page One) satellites is “out of proportion,” and that the Sputniks by them- ‘selves do not threaten this coun- try’s security. “But they are indicative of the progress Russia has made as a great industrial nation,” Wilson continued, but quickly added he doesn't feel that the United States is “behind” Russia mill- tarily. = we are.” He said annual funds for research and development ex- ceeded five billion dollars when he left the cabinet. He says he still favors inter- Wilson said he has received many letters from citizens since stepping down as defense Jeader. He cited one which accused him taining national security. “It's only natural when things go wrong for Americans to look for a fall guy or scapegoat,” he Expressing a belief that a bal-; anced national budget is necessary) for a “healthy military establish-| ment," Wilson said an increase in| ithe debt limit probably will be \necessary this year if Congress approves a 40-billion-dollar de- omne bill. * * * He was asked if he agreed with \Fisenhower's decision to trim his |stage homemade rocket swoosh- | (Wilson's) budget request for this ; ® iked into the desert sky and its Predict Good Year = : collegiate Gages mics | (Continued From Page One}; ¥?F motoring public wants and we ex- pect to increase our share of the 7 new car market. “During the past year, when the industry as a whole was in a sales decline, Pontiac's superiority main- tained our sales at a ievel that compared favorably with the pre-| vious year. Prespects for 1958 Pon-' tiac sales surpassing those of 1957 are good. “Competition in 1958 will be in-| tense, but with our bold new line: of cars we are extremely well: “The employment picture here ployment figures at the end of | December were on an equal with the average employment figure for the year 1956." - i “We are looking forward to 1958 with complete confidence that it will be a good business year,’’ said, Monaghan, who also took a look) ahead : at least the same approximate vol- ume, or 1,100,000 units, as we had) last year. “Of the 924 million trucks in op-| 500,000 are 1946 models or older,’ which means they are 10% or more: years of age. In fact, ‘there. are 785,000 trucks of pre-war vintage— 1941 and previous years' models— making them 15'% years or more of! age. . “GMC is uniquely able to fulfill | the demands of the trucking in- dustry with the finest and most complete line of new trucks it has ever had. ; “Customers who aiready have ioday. The wind range was ex-|PUt our new products into operation are high ir their praise of the quality of the units, Our dealer or-' ganization is enthusiastic over the 1958 GMC models and is projecting plans for what should be for them full and profitable.” 41 Deaths in Traffic Across United States (Continued From Page One) \ Mm Marquetie wit i gree mark. Biameek FY 2 Mini We " 70, Traverse City and Cadillac both uttent 2:2. 2 ‘} reported 5 - inch overnight snow- Clerelana’ Savin tie oa.| Echo, a weekly newspaper, died munism is challenging the Christian church as it has = her life. Cw: car William Howard, 91, of 179|Monday. He founded the newspe- ' mever been challenged before.” He sald Christianity tre. B Maceday Lake Rd., who died|Pér in 1928, sold it six months must match the Communists in dedication, discipline ot the First Preshyterian Charen, Zeeeran’ pit, St mph Maney AG Ist SSeS see denial rhe Presbyterian Church, Pontiac, place ant out ; ee the Eastern Sgr Yt lat 10 a.m. tomorrow. at Our Lady SPRINGFIELD, 1, @ — Kent _Elaborating on the need for a dis¢iplined life, Graham the Eastern Sigr. of the’ Lakes Church. The Rev, F.|Fitzgerald, 58, president gen- , asserted that Americans have gone “sex mad.” She saptd husband; her!y, Delaney will officiate, and burial/eral gong — © @ _| mother, children, Robert! win be in-Ottawa Park Cemetery.|Lines, Inc., Tuesday. He was | We're taught that, morals are relative instend of [Diner pod, Mrs. Marilyn Kinzler.| oy, cossey wilt be rected at (tM, last and ee ae absolute,” he said, “and the‘country is going the way of Helen Root of Pontiac "| 1380 p.m, today at Coats Funeral gg Rl was a ashen . Graham said one girl wrote in a letter to him that she per Survi ; the Capitol had forgotten how to blush. } I . ; ‘ f “ = 4, ores ‘ eer “I have a feeling in ‘my heart that you and I may be the ones that God has called: to evangelize the world in the last generation before the coming of Christ.” the world is witnessing “the confided: : d never before made such a * over the United States and * commented. “If some of them want me to be the goat, it's all right with me,” Pope Blesses Rome VATICAN CITY W—Pope Pius XII, following an annual custom, gave his New Year's blessig to- day to the City of Rome of which he is the Bishop. of “bungling” his job of main- will be the topic of Dr. Robert 8, Hiding Whisky in Oven Made Real Excitement DETROIT w—New Year's ex- citement efupted ahead of time at Mrs. Alice Scarlin’'s home. party nippers yesterday. She for- She put a New Year’s bottle of; whisky in her oven to thwart pre-|Dr., Waterford ward Hewitt in charge. Brother, Sister Die in Apartment Fire (Continued From Page One) Girl in Fair Condition After Car-Truck Crash A 14-year-old Pontiac girl, Rober. ta M. Watros, of 859 Orlando Ave.. The car in which the Watros girt was riding was driven by David F. Bedard, 19, of 1074 Holbrook Township. He was treated and released from Pontiac General for facial and leg bruises. got it was there and put in a cake. The bottle exploded. The and oer a heating duct. Firemen estimated damages at overn, across the floor! intersection when the light turned red and that Bedard’s car slid into $2,000. ‘the side of his truck. | #AMES L. ELWELL | James Lewis Elwell of 126 Sum- 53. \ | He was a barber and a veteran |of World War II. | Surviving are his wife, Esther; jhis mother, Mrs. George Elwell, jand.a son, James Elwell of Canton, TH. Also surviving are a brother ‘and three sisters, Mrs. Helena ‘Mooney of South Charleston, W. \Va, John Elwell of Fayetteville, |W. Va., Mrs. Lela Rohm and Mrs. Mildred Duncan, both of Pontiac. Mr. Elwell’s body was taken from the Pursley Funeral Home Tuesday night to the Snodgrass Funeral Home in South Chariés- ton for service and burial. HENRY E. SANBORN Henry E, Sanborn, 71, of 310 Park Ave, Yale,-and a former Pontiac resident, died yesterday in Pontiac General Hospital after a brief illness. A carpenter, he had been em- ployed at-Pontiac Motor Div. for many years before retiring in 1945 when he movéd to Yale, He was a member of the Liberty Street Gospel Church in Lapeer, ~~ Mr. Sanborn leaves his wife, Ethel; two daughters, Mrs. Thom- as Sinclair of Redford and Mrs, Vincent Amico of Long Island, N. Y.; and three sons, Earl J., Clinton D. and William K. Sanborn, all of Pontiac. a a a 2 Service will be at 1:30 p.m. Fri- ‘day from Donelson-Johng Funeral Home with Dr. Joseph I. Chap- man of Bethany Baptist Church officiating. Burial will follow in Mt, Hope Cemetery, Lapeer, Mr. Sanborn’s body will be at the fu- neral home at 8 p.m. today, v MERLE L. EVANS | Merle Leonard Evans, 45, of 430 | critics mit St. died suddenly Monday at Irwin St. died Monday in Pontiac called his “negative attitude’ | 10640 Gratiot Ave., Detroit. He was'General Hospital after an illness lof six months. | A member of the Church of God, he had been employed as machine operator at Pontiac Motor Div. Surviving are his wife, May: his mother, Mrs, John (Madeline Fitzgerald) Evans; and three sons, Merle Lee Evans with the U.S. Navy serving on the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, Gayle Eugene and Robert Dean Evans, both at home. Other survivors are five ibrothers and four sisters, Mrs. Mary Hopper and Paul Collins of Oklahoma, Carl Evans and Mrs. Ruby Burt, both of Kansas, Rollie Evans and Ralph Collins of Mis- souri, Mrs. Jewel Simmons, Mrs. | Goldie Vanderpool and Harry Evans, all of Pontiac. Mr. Evans’ body will be at ihe Pursley Funeral Home until Fri- day noon when it will be taken to the Church of God for service at 2 p.m. His pastor, the Rev. Perry Horton will officiate with burial following in Oak Hill Cemetery. FESTUS E. MILLS. ARMADA — Service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Tiffany Fu- neral Home for Festus E.. Mills, 94, of 22171 Center Rd., who died yesterday morning at his home. Officiating will be the Rev. Paul Burial will be in New Baltimore Cemetery. A resident of Macomb County mouth; five daughters, Mrs. Frank True Mrs. Neil Rosso ot Rochester, Mrs. Wade Eaton of : Lincoln Park, Mrs. ‘of Pontiac, Deaths in Pontiac and Nearby Areas [Peppin, Mrs. Albert Creger, all and Mrs. Edward Johnson of Grand Rapids; four sons, William, Alva, Harry and Raymond, all of Pontiac; a sister. Mrs. Robert Palmer of Modesto, Calif.; and a brother, LeRoy of Pontiac. Twelve grandchildren and five great-grandchildren also sur- vive. MRS. NORMAN EDWARDS HAZEL PARK: — Service for Mrs. Norman (Narva) Edwards. 43, of 21908 Dequindre, who died yesterday at Cadieux General Hos- pital, will b e held at 10 a.m. Fri- ‘day at Hopcroft Funeral Home, ‘Hazel Park. Burial will be in Dav- isburg Cemetery, Davisburg. She leaves her hsuband; 4a daughter, Mrs. Dona Jean Robert of Harper Woods: a son, Gerald /Sloughter in the Navy; her moth- ‘er, Mrs. Lena Rhoades, and a brother, Erwyn Rhoades. MRS. JUSTINE GRONDIN MI — Service for Mrs. Justine ndin, 78, of 204 Water St., who died Monday, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the St. Mary Church. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery. The rosary will be recited at & o'clock tonight at the Richardson- Bird Funeral Home. Deaths Elsewhere DALLAS, Tex. (®~Charles A. Myers, 76, former owner of news- papers in Houston, Fort Worth, Shreveport, La., and Dallas, died Tuesday. He was born in In- dianapolis. * * * HERMOSA BEACH, Calif, ~— James H. 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(Celts, St Lous Still Leading » Pro Cage Loop Old Rut * |} GRAND RAPIDS — shells t say, all officers rather expect an excuse of some sort when they cor Paacggen endl eng alae ial _|fraction of the law. et eins 0 win ow’ waa ran Le = know that was illegal, etc.” The [nounced the style of hockey Min- year, however, two conservation jnesota played against his team department officers ran into a jas “roughhouse and bad for, the . new one, - game.” eo While on a boat’ patrol, officer It wouldn't be tolerated East,” Weiland said. “The way it Paul Durham of Rockford checked a boat with three fishermen|W@s, Played Saturday might you . might as well use picks and shov- . —_ loge of the acai —_— els instead ot hockey .sticks.” Har- ‘Durham, : : ‘Say, I believe I know you. vera “No hockey player worth the Aren't you officer Barham or Dur- mplain about a i- ne rs sta thing like that.” ("ume will compl legit mate body check in the open. But “Yes,” the officer replied, “I'm|when they charge a guy into the x & * * Bs \Yardley’ s 22 Wasted Effort Royals Win, 130-96 been Aven werse, becausein eight games. He had been out held a 36-point with a leg injury, but he managed ‘fo snare 18 rebounds last night Picture Stars , Play With Pros in Links Event ~ CINCINNATI uw — The Cincin-|have nati Royals, slapped the Detroit Cine innati once ‘Pistons: out of sores place in the! edge. GEL So! of the = ' : i National Basketball Assn.’s West-| The season's smallest crowd at rand to net eight points. . gets es eee with Paul Durham. fence, put elbows and sticks in his Sparrow Hits 23 in? sige a : oe “4 into it! Cincinnati, a mere 1,248, wit- | With George Yardley, who got novie stars tomorrow in a $5,000 « * * face, use threatening gestures and & Knicks, 142-116 Win likens avec taal ght. nessed the slaughter. (22 Detroit points leading the way, pro-celebrity-amateur event, a| “Well, don’t you recognize me?” (molest a player when he doesn't Fy . Over ‘Lakers aE Royals whipped the Pistons| Maurice Stokes, ace Royal re- aan tas ane mt ome oa - % [prelude to the 32nd annual Losjasked the fisherman. “You . gave have the puck, it’s time to call a l1% "i t ti a os : . 130-96—or by 34 points. It could bounder, played for the AFSt UME When the half ended it was 54-38| PACES KNICKS — Pontinc's |Angeles Open tournament. ae ee oe * * ago. You said I was fishing with! “If this keeps up we may have . 7 Cincinnati. Guy Sparrow paced the New * : 4 .to& buy some swords to protect our- TH SSOCIATE: cs = 3 ' han nner three lines, but I reajly wasn't. The National Baskeroall “Aged, Jack Twyman, despite a broken| York Knicks to an important | Op hand are Doug vend, seane _ selves,” said Weiland. ‘starts the New- Year today in the _{jaw, got 30 points for the Royals. NBA victory last night with a 23- point output. His hot night of the Masters and Ios Angeles Open last year; Dick Mayer, Art You see, I had all my teeth pulled the day before and my mouth same row ‘it hoed to open 1957: EASTERN DIVISION 7 6 Wall, Dow Finsterwald, Gene Litt-|W@8 80 sore I didn’t feel like ar- sedate? ad Uoecmateated WE a: ASTER! | spar 142-116 win over Min- | Wall, vald, : Boston still leads the Eastern ion oo. 2) pasa noting ta scor- |ler, Mike Souchak-and others, [suing with you Mose Riestre eae Ciss. 3 Division, St. Louis still leads the Gytecuse ons. sseecen 18 18 363) ing rd. The celebrity roster includes Durham oats out that the ang. Selector Gelf c. x — i, 30 Western Division and Bill Russell, Pabedepiie <= S =~ Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Ray Bol-|ler, who didn’t want to argue, had} Nelties 15, 3 jae 6-10 Boston rebounder, still is in wt. Louis *STEEN DIVIBION ger and Mickey Rooney. pleaded guilty. . : Coin 645, Selector Gelf Club 1700. middle : is : = epee Cincinnati oo... n 2 ‘6 IL’ Sets Deadline The 72-hole Los Angeles Open), - oe Minneapolis 0. Se peo 24 3 for Miami Marlins begins Friday. All but three of|/ Neither division leaders were threatened after the completion of two NBA games yesterday. New York moved to within two games. of the second-place Syra-| cuse¢ Nats in the Eastern Division by routing Minneapolis 142-116 in| Madison Square Garden. Cincinnati slipped past Detroit Wally Fromhart fo Speak Here MIAMI, Fila., (—President Frank Shaughnessy of the . Inter- national League said yesterday the Marlins baseball club must find a place to play its games by! Jan, 22 if Miami, is to keep the team, : last year’s leading money winner: li are competing for the $40,000 prize money. Play for Gator Title JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The league meets Jan. 22. competitors, renew their keen ri w@—Flor- ida and Georgia, longtime sports’ _ semi-annual clearance sale into second place in the west, Shaughnessy said three other valry tonight in a battle for the!’ whipping the Pistons 130-96. The Wally Fromhart, head football, ‘cities are seeking Miami’ s fran-'championship in the 5th amual Royals’ best rebounder, Maurice coach at the University of De-'chise but named only Jersey City, |Gator Bow! basketball tourna-' Stokes, returned to action for itroit, will be the main speaker|j J. lment. lf of the first time since Dec. 38. ‘at the annual athletic banquet to! _ ose _ ______| 19 be held at St. Benedict's Church : St. Louis has a 10-game lead oF Feb. 3. : a poh aaa wale lomapre — He was recently named major 5 > Freer Y ian : Both sre defending divisi ha: college Catholic coach of the year BEATTY S TR : pions ad eats by the board of Catholic coaches } - * * * after the Titans went from a 28 Stetson an | ‘As for Russell, his boss, Celtic ‘record in 1956 to 6-3 last fall. / ‘ i | Several other notables from col- legiate and professional sports will ‘also appear on the program. | Bruno Kearns, Sports Editor of The Pontiac Press, will serve as ‘master of ceremonies. president Walter Brown, came to his defense after St. Louis coach Alex Hannum said the former! San Francisco star used what he called illegal maneuvers. Said Brown in Boston: . Hannum is a “basketball acci- dent” and a “whiner.” Hannum, who says Russell often walks with the ball while going in for a layup, said he didn't want to enter into a personality clash Nunn-Bush | shoes All Shoes in Stock Reduced in d Rowe Will Manage Montgomery Rebels AP Facsimile SHOT BLOCKED — George Yardley, Detroit’s scoring ace, tries to get off a shot in the lst quarter of a pre game at Cin- SERVICE and would protest Russell's play to. cinnati last night but the home team's Jack Twyman (27) blocked oe eee ee ae pos Price for This Sale : x | } . sate Cole, NBA comaioocr) Oe Lynwood (Schoolboy) Rowe has’ Complete Service on been named manager of the Mont- igomery Rebels. | The 46-year-old Rowe who served New York set a team and Gar den scoring record against Min- All Types. Transmission ! | OAKLAND COUNTY EMPLOYES Ready for Bowl Tilt Dicicinsons neapolis. y hit 0 field goals Ten Pins c a Hi-Lows > bias a scout for the Detroit Tigers All Work Guaranteed on ph shots. Rookie ea Spar-' ORLANDO. Fla. —East Texas Bec! ol Kel 2 “3 4 LaPorge’s M 29 a last year will be the second former F h k U S ' row led the Knicks with 23 points, State and Mississippi Southern, O¢¢ Balls 38 32 Goof Bails ; major league hurler to pilot the Cc Si rvice Sagi . & A. & B Girls 3223 Rockettes 24-35 Me - inaw at Lawrence followed by Willie Naulls with opponents tomorrow night in the Pontiac a Ee Cae es & 30 Class D Alabama-Florida League = — P > iad ~ s. Fl : 22 as every New Yorker but Larry 12th annual Tangerine Bowl foot. Coupt) 2°* 3) 33 pouands F' 1% & club. He succeeds Frank (Stubby) Shoe Department . , . Second Floor S Friend broke into double scoring ball game, scheduled their last, Social Brats 31 29 Rowettes 11 48:\Overmire who led the Rebs to the 47 N. 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