ee ee ee eee eee ee ee ee Charged with insubordination, in-
competency and inefficiency, Her-
bert W, Straley today. was under;
suspension from his job as Pontiac
chief of police
The suspension, without pay, was
effected at 11 a’m., when the 54-
year-old police chief was served
with charges filed yesterday after-
noon by City Manager Walter K.
Willman.
Signed by Public Safety Direc-
tor George D, Eastman, the pa- seis cauiined acdint of alingh:
dace 5) seeaca inc Cnt Sorvins,
| Commission is asked to tire Stra-
ley permanently,
The chief has until Friday to
answer the charges and demand a’
hearing if he wants one,
If he does, the Civil Service
Commission must schedule a hear-
ing by Feb, 19, If he doesn’t, the
suspension will automatically be-
come permanent. arges — Eastman said Sk woilld be
asked to turn in the badge he has
worn as police chiéf for the past
seven years,
The chief recently took out a
gun permit and might be legally
allowed to keep his .32 caliber
police pistol.
"The long-awaited charges were
finally filed at 3:15 p.m. yes-
terday after failure of efforts to
persuade the ar 2 to resign and -|tations, the administration had un- aveid an open nce before the
Civil Service Conmission,
Under a 90-day statute of, limi-
til yesterday to charge Straley
with anything that oceurred while
he still enjoyed full powers. .
The .charges alleged that “poor
conditions existed within the police
department under Straley, up to
the time he was shorn of powers
by Eastman Nov, 12, spen
chairman of the Civil Service Com-
mission, opened them up to in-
spection late this. morning.
der wraps until a copy had been
served on Straley.
efficiency and _ insubordination,
Straley was accused of ‘‘deliber-
‘Atte 20 hours d secreey, dur-
ing which the charges were kept/t
from the public, Stuart Austin,
+ +: e
He said they had been kept un-
In addition to incompetency, in-
olice aabty digpbeying” ‘weeitid instr uc-
accused personally of ‘failure to
maintain good behavior,”
ments Straley was given and said tions. gether to
Straley's vice wntad policy was - °F *
placed under fire and he was} One job.wag an assigned report
“The chiel has consistently re-
fused and neglected to do as-
signed work within ascribed
time limits,”’ the charges stated.
They outlined six routine assign:
do the wor
on the Public ‘Administration Serv-
ic@, study, “ ar Eastman gave to)
Straley 4. The chiet
er turned * ‘report: in, the cha
alleged. :
Straley was asked to take a day-
long examination given to all com-
mand officers Nov. 26, the charges
stated, but has ney)”
for various ‘Veasons| |
The Weather
U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast
Colder, rain, changing to snow
(Details. Page twe) —
THE PONTIAC PRESS
117th YEAR ‘ x** x * PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1959 ~80 PAGES UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Area in Icy Grip of Sleet Stor
=
Grim Rescue Work Continues
PULLED FROM WRECKAGE — Grimacing
in pain, an unidentified man is taken from the
wreckage of a building after being buried alive
for more than two hours after a tornado hit a below.) of his small son was on his back. AP Wirephote
mfle west of the downtown section of St. Louis.
When he was dug from the wreckage, the body
(See picture
Killer Tornado Hits
Heart of St. Louis The tornado hit at 2:12 a.m.
nado struck a deadly blow at the) First it hit two suburhs, Brent- ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP)—A tor-|
heart of St. Louis today without)
warning.
were known dead.)
were injured, 55 se- Seventeen
Another 265
riously.
Numerous persons were trapped
in homes and apartmenj{s which
crumpled under the storm's blows.
The storm took the same path:
of this city’s worst tornado which
killed more than 100 in 1927.
Men worked throughout the
night, searching the fallen bricks,
concrete and lumber.
’ ;wood and Crestwood i n southwest |
Ist. Louis County; then moved
inortheast into St. Louis. It took |
lits toll in an area bounded rough-
ily by Olive St., Grand Blvd.,
Newstead and St. Louis avenues.
This is a mile west of downtown
St.. Louis.
LASHED BY RAIN
St. Louis was lashed by torren-
tial rains for hours before the tor-
nado struck.
The tornado delivered its hard-
> AP Wirephote-
BODY REMOVED - The lifeless body of a small boy is carried
from the wreckage of a_ three-story building which. was hit by the
tornado. The boy was clinging to the back-of his father when rescue
workers reached them. The child's father was taken to the hospital,
9
*
° est .blows in
Negroes.
children under the age of 11.
On all sides there was tragedy
and destruction. One father was
pulled from the rubble, his dead
son in his arms.
Both City Hospital
mer G. Phillips Hospital
swamped with the injured,
Thirteen were dead upon arrival
jat City Hospital, and four at Ho-
mer G. Phillips.”
All police and fire equipment
was rushed into the area, Streets
were barricaded, Live electrical
wires curled in the streets. Pow
was cut off to the stiicken @one.
Police patroled' the darkened
streets ‘with flashlights.
station KTVI was toppled in St.
Louis. It fell across two houses
but no one was reported injured.
The 385-fodttower
tion KKLW also crashed. It fell
on part of the station where Bob
Hetherington, the general man-
closing up a filling station when
he was caught in the path of the
tornado.
“There was a terrific glow of
‘light as if a cloud was illumin-
{Continued on Page; 2, Col. 8) a section of tene,
ment houses occupied mostly by|
| All but three of 16 bodies t taken|
to the city morgue were those of More than a month, was disclosed
Negroes, Seven of the dead were|by President Eisenhower Monday
and . Ho-
were
The. 575-foot tower at television’
at radio sta-
ager, and fo rothers had gone
to inspect flood damage,
William McAllister was just Dulles Smiling
as He Enters
Army Hospital Plans Hernia Surgery?
Doctor Says Secretary
Needs Long Rest
WASHINGTON (?) — Sec-
retary of State Dulles,
walking slowly but smiling,
checked into the hospital
today for a hernia opera-
4 tion.
The secretary entered the
Army’s Walter Reed Medi-
cal Center at 10:28 a.m.,
EST. He was met by the
hospital commandant, Maj.
Gen. Peonexd 2 eat
Heaton, a surgeon who will do
the operation, told newsmen he ex-
pected it would be done either Fri- gn re
Read Dulles Story °
4 Page 10
there was no ftish since it is not an
emergency. ‘
“Good ,? Dulles said
to Heaton, “this is getting to be
familiar ground.”
Dulles Jaughed heartily at his
own joke about his recently fre-
quent trips to Walter Reed. He
underwent surgery for cancer of
the lower intestine two years ago,
was treated for a colon inflamme-
tion in December and for a
virus infection in January.
* * *
Heaton said it would take about
two weeks for Dulles to recuper-
ate from the operation. He said
Dulles also will be treated for his
|colon inflammation, which has re-
sisted medication,
He said that treatment will re-
quire several weeks of rest.
“The secretary is worn out,”
;Heaton said. “He needs a rest."
His ailment, kept secret for night as Dulles asked and got a
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 6)
News Flashes WASHINGTON (® — The De-
fense Department today asked
Congress to authorize military
construction costing $1,356,290,-
00.
Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D-Mass)
®aid the department proposal al-
so asks authorization for con-
struction of 21,701 units of fam-
ily housing for military person-
nel and dependents at bases in
| the United States and overseas.
The proposal was sent to Lane
and other members of Congress. |
DETROIT (®—Coach Sid Abel
today was given another contract
to coach the Detroit Red Wings
for the 1959-60 season,
LANSING (Backers failed
today in an attempt to pry the
veterans trust fund mortgage
bills out of the House Ways and
Means Committee, However,
Rep. Arnell Engstrom (R-Tra-
verse City), committee chair-
man, said another vote will be
taken soon, perhaps later today.
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WANT AD DEPT. MUNICH, Germany (P—Soviet
Russia has developed a Voiks-
wagen-type small car due to roll
off the production. lines next
year, Radio Moscow detailed the
small car which was jalgnes |
after testing Italian, German and
French cars,
The new Soviet small-car de-
sign will be suited to Russian |
winter. conditions and ‘for areas
where at present there are no
good roads.’* ;
a
Theodore F. Hughes merits, one of
your 5 votes for Circuit Jydge.
Promote Verne C, Hampton, Court
Commissioner as Circuit Judge,
j \
i * day or early next week. He said
Township comes to the aid of a a VITAL COMMODITY — Dipping down into a
Huron Street sand barrel, Detroit Edison employe
Paul A. Verhey, of 4173 Athens St, _ Sand Barrel Brings Nalvation —
Waterford
motorist having
placed in the role of Lincoln
Army Wilber B. Brucker as
nual Oakland County Lin-
coln Day banquet.
But Brucker was weather-bound
in Ottawa, Canada, A hurried call
to County Congressman William S.
dinner began, told of his plight.
So instead the men and women
were welcomed with a familiar
greeting: ‘Hello, I’m Paul Bag-
well, and I'm seared to death.”
Bagwell, originally scheduled
as master of ceremonies, was
forced to hastily scribble notes
while others munched on ‘their
tenderloin steak dinners, He
also called upon his press sec-
retary.to pull out one of the
prepared speeches he had for
seven other Lincoln Day ban.
quets this. week.
“If you're disappointed that Sec-
retary Brucker isn’t going to
speak,” Bagwell told the gather-
ing, “you can imagine how dis-
appointed I am."
However, banquet-goers were far
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Comles oo. cc eee cases 23
County News ......:.0. 00s 19
Editorials ......0ccgeseucuee 6
Markets .,......... ewe ds ee 24
Obituaries 0.6.6.0: cece FT
Sporta. 2.06.8 ves. . 20-22
Theaters 5.0.66. ee cieeey. ‘18
TV & Radio Programs .... 29
Wilson, = pene eaenys 20
Women’s Pages ......, 14-15
Green Empress ........ »
Broomfield, a half hour after the: Bagwell Asks Local GOP
Restore Lincolns Image Paul D. Bagwell, who found himself unexpectedly
Day speaker in Berkley last
night called upon local Republicans to restore to the
party the image of “greatest of all Americans.”
Some 548 Republicans braved rain and fog to pack
the Northwood Inn expecting to hear Secretary of the
keynoter er the 68th an-| Freezing Rain.
‘Closes Schools
Through Area Motorists Chip Away,
Then = Slither - Along
-Glazed Highways
The whine of spinning
tires mingled with the
waspish growls of exas-
perated drivers as the chip-
chip-chip of the windshield
scraper introduced a new
variation on a. thoroughly
disgusting symphony of na-
| ture today — freezing rain.
Pontiac Press Phote
trouble making the slight hill in front of the Edi-
son building. Traffic backed up out Huron Street
as the jce-glazed street left work-bound motorists
is uitlesaly: ‘sploning thelg wneys. Again.
Pontiac and most of the
lower peninsula were locked
in the translucent grip of
sleet - -.- and streets, yards,
and sidewalks again fook on
that’ icy-condition which
turned New Year's Day into
a giant skating arena.
There was hardly a road in this
part of the state that wasn’t either
completely impasable or snarled”
as screeching tires got"no where
on ice-covered surfaces, _‘
Schools by the score in Onk- land County were closed. — *
Many arose this morning, took
a peek outside at the glaze, and
called their bosses and said they
wouldn't be in, Absenteeism was
reported ar
* *
For those who risked their fend-
ders —- and in some cases their
lives to make it to work — they
wished they had stayed in bed,
Our Snowtall Is
3 Times Heavier
Than Last Year.
By The Associated Press
is running more than three times
the total amount of snow dumped
on the Motor City last winter, —
The U.S. Weather Bareau said
today It has recorded 26.3 inches
of snow this winter compared to
a total snowfall of 8.5 inches in
the Detroit area last winter, Nor-
mal average winter fall Is 18.5
laches.
Christians to Mark Ash Wednesday
Christians in Pontiae and
throughout the world will mark the
‘ibeginning of the 40-day Lenten
period of penance and _ self-denial|
on Ash Wednesday, tomorrow,
* * *
Many churches will open their
doors for special devotions to point
up this most solemn season of the
liturgical year.
The period of Lent follows a
tradition which Christ himself
instituted when He fasted 40
days in the wilderness in prepar-
ation for His public ministry and
crucifixion,
In Catholic and some Episcopal
churches, the faithful will receive
ithe mark of ashes on their fore-
‘heads,
..|bolie one—a reminder to Christians
that the body and all earthly things The ceremony is a sym-
must eventually become dust, and
_ jonly the spirit has eternal life.
* *
Churches which have reported
special Ash Wednesday and Lenten
week day devotions include:
Rev. C. George Widdifield, rector,
The Rev. David K.. Mills will
Vote for Wendell Brown for Circuit
Judge, *
: “9 ae
All Saints Episcopal Church will
hold both 7 a.m. and.10 a.m. Holy}
Communion services tomorrow, a3
well as an 8 p.m. service. The
will give the sermon at the eve:
jning worship period.
be the speaker at noon tomor-
row in the first of a Lenien. series of noon tuncheon talks at_
All Saints. Weekly Bible study
at 8 p.m, Wednesdays will be
otserved, and a series for chil-
dren will be held from 4:15 to
5 p.m. each Monday.
The imposing of ashes—procured
through burning palms left over
from the previous year’s Palm
Sunday—will take place in all
Roman Catholic churches.
In most churches, the ashes will
be blessed just before the first
Mass tomorrow. 4
* * *
St. Joseph Catholic Church will
distribute ashes following a noon
Mass and at 7:30 in the evening.
Services will be held at 7:30 p.m,
every Wednesday, Friday and Sat-
urday of Lent, with the Rev. Dr.
B. F, Jarzembowski, pastor, giving
the sermon at all services. ° Snowfall in the Metropolitan
Detroit area thos far this winter | Some were still struggling
along hours after they were nor-
mally at work,
In dowhtown Pontiac, motorists
left their cars on glazed inclines
(Continued on, Page 2, Col. 1)
Schools Closed i Schools in Oakland County area
closed today due to bad weather
conditions include those in the -
followjng localities:
Farmington, Romeo, Troy,
Bloomficid. Hills, Southfield,
Holly, Walled Lake, Huron Val- .
ley district, Lyon Township, West
Bloomfield Township, Avondale, .
Rochester and Armada,
Lent Begins Tomorrow St. Vincent: de Paul Church will
distribute ashes. following the 6
a.m., 8 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Masses
tomorrow, and from 3 to 4 in the
afternoon, as well as after the 7:30
evening service.
St. Frederick High School stu-
dents will start a three-day re-
treat, with dally talks by the
Rev. Raymond N, Ellis, archdio-
cese assistant director of the ©
Confraternity of Christian Boe
. trine,
- Friday night devotions, with ser
mons by the Rev. John
pastor of St. Anne Catholic Church
of Ortonville, also will be held at.
7:30 at St. Vincent's, as well as.
the regular 7:30 p.m.
each Tuesday. = ;
At St. Michael Catholic Ch
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from down-hearted in their state
In addition, he said the Michi-
gan GOP needs to continue to
pessimism symbolized by many,
he said, who asked him in the
last campaign ‘“‘do you think you
stand a chance of winning.”
“The party can be restored to
position
. and out
As Republicans hope to erase
Democratic claims that the GOP
Bagwell
urged tion at the grass
roots level to include members of
labor unions.
Switching over to his prepared
speech for the other dinner, Bag-
well said, “We live in a period
in history’ that demands the best
we can give.”
“It's an awesome era of rockets,
trips to the moon, and hydrogen
and atomic bombs. But these will
not be the final measure of our
destiny.
“The ultimate measure of our
nation and age will be found in
the principle for which we stand.
We will fail or win not by atomic
emergy but by moral energy,”
The country needs ‘‘a Lincoln
image of the Republican party gen- A READY SUBSTITUTE — Paul D. Bagwell,
new titular head of the Michigan Republican
Party, walked into Northwood Inn last night to
‘Restore Lincoln's Image’
_|erats are dangerous, Bagwell said, pared, Bagwell
smile while
which informed
key address at
just a certain group of people,”
he said,
Radical] programs of the Demo-
“not because they provide too
aa but because they provide too
little." Pontiac Press Phote
the Lincoln Day banquet. Despite being unpre-
met the unexpected news with a
he talked with former Oakland
County Congressman George A. Dondero, an
expert on Lincoln lore,
Bagwell
Haupt, that Lincoln too had some
ideas of money problems, ’
Haupt borrowed, “you cannot
help the poor by destroying the
rich’’ and “‘you cannot spend more
than you earn” quotes from the
party martyr to show Lincoln had
such awareness ‘which we need
now in Michigan.” _ .
Haupt introduced Broomfield,
who said the Republicans “stand
the best chance of electing a gov-
ernor because this fiscal situation
principal speaker at the Lincoln
uinely concerned for all and not Lincoln Republican Club. » thas finally caught up with Wil-
» jliams,”’ ’ bi
Pontiac Press Phote
BROOMFIELD GETS WORD — William S. Broomfield, Oak-
land County’s U. S. Representative in Congress, picked up theg
phone at the Northwood Inn in Berkley last night to learn from
Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker that he was stranded
by the weather in Ottawa, Canada. Brucker was scheduled to be
Day banquet put on by the County
ra
Criticism was leveled at the Oak-
way of reorganization of the county
lgovernment without home-rule.
es ®&
Birmingham Mayor and Super-
these “powers” were that he had te. :
“We have no powers, All we can
do is recommend,” declared Board
-|sion was not’ indicated. sponsibilities given us,” he added.
CALLS FOR STUDY¥
Ingraham, an attorney, asked
Delos Hamlin, ‘chairman of the su-
pervisors, to have & special county
government study committee make
a report on what improvements
might be made in Oakland’s goy
ernmental structure,
“There are things that can_be
done under the present
of the constitution,” he declared.
powers,” Ingraham sald.
Supervisors and Hamlin agreed
to having sttch'a report prepared.
When if will be ready for subm
Ingraham’s request for the st Supervisor Turns Fire
on Function of Auditors job and have fulfilled all the re-jendorsed a constitutional amend-
ment providing home-rule cHarters
for counties, despite knowing a bill
caljing for the amendment was
killed in Lansing last week.
» Ingraham, whe urged and won
a clause in the resolution passed
Monday to protect present home-
Oakland County.
“It's the feeling of the Board|"9m®
jnine hours after he returned from that something should be done, and
that we can’t afford to ‘wait until
Carey’s committee has already
brought about the merger of the
county clerk and register of deeds
office, It. now is urging the con-
solidation of the Drain Commis-
sion office with the Department of
came after Oakland supervisors Public Works, View Progfam as Inadequate Term 5-Year Proposal
at Cost of $21 Billion
a ‘Monstrosity’
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON (AP)—President _
night from refusing to reinstate Dr.
Scott Street as principal of the
Best School here.
He was fired Feb. 2 with the un-
derstanding that he would be given
doesn’t go far enough fast enough.
Ky) said ‘that as top Republican
on the Senate Education and La-
bor Committee he will introduce
the -administration’s bills, But he
said he does not believe. Eisen-
hower’s “will meet the proposals “ jneeds for elementary school con-
struction.”’
x ®
Secretary of Welfare Arthur S.
Flemming made public details of
the administration program Mon-
day, It proposes a five-year plan
of helping finance school and col-
lege construction at a cost to the
government of about 2% billion
dollars, But the spending, on a
Cooper was expected to discuss
his views with Eisenhower in a
call at the White House.
CALLED ‘INADEQUATE’
Sen, Pat McNamara (D-Mich),
who has proposed a two-year pro-
gram of.a billion dollars annually
for school aid, said in a separate
interview he regards the adminis-
tration’s program as ‘‘totally - in- adequate,"
Sen. James E. Murray (D-Mont)
chairman of a subcommittee con-
sidering school aid bills, called the
administration's program a “‘leg-
islative monstrosity’ he said was
“designed not to help -education
but to help bankers."
* * *
Flemming, disputing that, con-
f
cit financing, which would mean
government borrowing ‘‘at - inter-
est rates comparing to interest
rates on school bonds.”
“The damning thing about the
administration préposal is that it
sidesteps the problem which
should be met head-on,” Murray
said in a statement. “It will take
$5,600,000,000 to construct — the
more than 140,000 classrooms
tion to what was built - without
government help.
WOULD PAY HALF
As submitted to Congress Mon-
day the Eisenhower program
would call for federal aid to needy
school districts—up to a maximum
of 85 million dollars a year—to
pay half the cost of bonds and
interest to finance needed public
schools, This would cost about two
billion dollars over 25 years.
A college and university aid pro-
gram would provide up to 25 mil-
lion dollars a year for debt re-
tirement assistance on construc-
tion of housing and academic
facilities. Total cost was estimated
at half a billion dollars in 25
years.
Dulles in Hospital
for Hernia Surgery
(Continued From Page One)
formal leave of absence. It im-
mediately posed two big questions.
x .*&: *
Will Dulles, who will be 71 on
Feb. 25, return to his post?
Will the West, with an ailing
Dulles or without him at all, re-
vise its just a-borning policy to-
ward new Soviet threats and de-
mands on Germany?
: x * & ’
Both Dulles and presidential
press secretary James C. Hager-
ty Sought to give assurances on
those questions: Dulles said he
would be gone for ‘‘a few weeks”
only. Hagerty said Dulles would
not only return but would repre-
sent the United States in any talks
with the Soviet Union on the Ber-
lin crisis.
Dulles’ ability to shrug off ill-
ness and put in a grinding day is
almost legend. But on Capitol Hill
there was less optimism about
Dulles’ power to snap. back com-
pletely from his third illness in
as many months.
And the State Department, driv-
ing to develop a solid-front Allied
response to the Soviets, pondered
the effect of the absence of a chief
who likes to do most of the heavy
work himself.
idence of bond retirement basis, would be) officer morale
“|spread over about 25 years. \Straley Suspended,
Charged Inefficient
(Continued From Page One)
Straley if he could use his master
set to hear what went-on in East-
man’s office. The chief first pete
; later
Still later, Eastman said, it was
discovered that the chief could
Under the heading of neglect of
failure to
training program any rank; (2) failure to properly
uniform personnel of the depart-
ment; and (3) failure to establish
an effective vice suppression pro-
gram. °
The charges went into detail
about the latter accusation. They
read:
“Written directives (by Straley)
formulating vice policy were total-
ly non-existant. Police personnel
were confused and unaware of vice
repression
“Field support
squad) from other operating bu-
reaus and units was ineffectual
Straley was also childed for fail-
ure to maintain good behavior.
He was charged with improper-
It was alleged that during a Cir-
cuit Court suit last September,
Straley lost bis temper after po-
lice officers testified he had il-
legally withheld their promotions.
“If those — — — officers think
they can sit in court all day and
get paid for it, they have anoth-
er think coming,” Straley was
quoted as saying during recess
in the hallway.
“They won't get a —— cent. I'll
see to that and I don’t give a ——
what the judge says."’
On a fourth occasion, Straley was
accused of saying of a police cap-
tain, “‘That —— is telling everyone
in town that I belong in Jackson
x * *
This statement, it was alleged,
was made by Straley in a loud
voice in his office, with the door
open so that officers overheard it.
The largest single section of
charges was inefficiency and in-
competency,
Straley was charged with failure
to provide the division with an
adequate records system, and with
failing to carry out a planning and
research program jin the division.
* * *
It was also charged that Straley
“does not have a working knowl-
edge of administrative formula
and statistics that would provide
him measures of effectiveness.”
“He has failed to take advantage
of a blueprint for departmental
improvement drawn by the Public
Administration Service in its re-
port submitted to the city April
21, 1958.”
tion of police. personnel of all
is
School Board Refuses —
to Reinstate Dr. Street
Elton Mavon, president of Fern-
dale’s Board of Education, said he
expects a school principal to show
dignity, good judgment and mod-
eration.
* * *
“None of these were shown by
at Street be: (1) given a
on why he was -
removed, (2) given sufficient no-
tice of the time set for a public
hearing, (3) allowed to confront the
persons whose complaints alleged-
ly resulted in his dismissal, and
(4) that the board acknowledge
Street’s right to counsel.
“The board is acting under pow-
ers given it by law," said Wil-
attorney for the
board favored conservative. educa-
tion methods while Street was an
advocate of the progressive sys-
tem,
Killer Tornado Hits
Heart of St. Louis
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{| ated and there was a sound lilke
the roar of a tremendous auto-
mobile racing its engine,” he
said.
“Within two minutes the sound
of the storm had passed and there
was a terrific silence,”’
The Civil Defense went into full-
scale operation for the first time
since it was organized here in
1951.
Brig. Gen. Francis P. Hardaway
(Ret), St. Louis Civil Defense
head, pushed coordination of both
rescue and rehabilitation work.
Hardaway reported some looting.
Eighty National Guardsmen were
ordered to stand by.
An ornamental tower on the
Arena, scene of many of a world's
championship fight, was sheared
off and a top section of a televi-
sion tower fell in its parking lot
nearby.
The storm smashed into a build-
ing adjoining the Arena. There a
rolling skating rink was wrecked.
* * *
A newspaper vendor, Guy Gross,
62, was on the street to sell papers
in a night club area when the
storm struck.
“T saw a blue flash of light and
I heard a terrible roar,” he said.
“It shook the ground. There was
not any warning and the wind
seemed to stay forever.”
* * *
A brick chimney toppled at Mc-
Auley Hall,; a Roman Catholic
home for women workers where
about 150 persons were asleep. It
fell onto a separate structure to
men employed by the home.
Nearly all of the occupants of
the home slept through the storm,
ents. were missing, but the *hos-
days in Chicago, Pound Henry Vala has advised the city’s
dogeatchers that “‘it’s too. slip-
pery out there — when
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on Opens
Gets $$. ROMEO — The village council
last night heard two requests for
village funds—one to help support
the summer recreation program,
the other for the Romeo Peach
Festival Assn.
The Romeo Community Youth
and Civic Center Board asked the
council for $825 which would be the
Adult Education
Classes Periled Huron Valley School
-to Cancel All Sessions
If Interest Lag Goes On
MILFORD—Unless more people
living in the Huron Valley school
area show more interest in the
second term Adult Education pro-
gram, all courses will have to be
Caccectaee
x *
This was announced today by
high school Principal Gerald Ras-
mussen, after only 129 people en-
rolled last week in the 16 courses
offered. ?
He added that additional en-
roliments will be accepted from
now through Thursday and en-
roliment also is being extended
to these living outside the school
district.
All classes are to be held in the
new high school from 1:30 to
9:30 p.m. .
* * *
“On Tuesday nights, classes in
Beginners Sewing, Principles of
Radio, and Flower Arrangements
will be held.
Wednesday night classes in-
clude Be ginners Shorthand,
Woodworking, Women’s Recrea-
tion, Contract Bridge, Advanced
Cake Decorating, Advanced Sew-
ing, and Typing.
Classes for Thursday nights in-
clude Beginning Typing, Advanced
Shorthand, Beginning Cake Deco-
rating, Machine Metal Shop (in-
cluding welding), and Landscaping.
aw 2. ®
For further information, resi-
dents have been asked to call Prin-
cipal Rasmussen at the high
--school.
Women’s Club
to Launch Sale
of Crab Trees
ROCHESTER, — The Rochester
branch of the Woman's National
Farm and Garden Assn. will
launch the sale of flowering crab
trees, the village tree, beginning
Friday, Mrs. William C. Chapman,
member of the club's civic im-
provement committee, announced
today.
Club members will be at Mitzel-
field’s Department Store to take
orders from 1 to 9 p.m. Friday
and from 10 a.m: to 6 p.m, Satur-
day.
Mrs, H, 8. Freeman, 1600 E.
Gunn Rd., will accept mail or-
ders which must be accompanied
by a money order or check to
be made payable to the Woman’s
National Farm and Garden Assn.
Rochester branch,
Orders for the trees — being sold
at cost — will be accepted through
March 1, Mrs. Chapman said. A
dollar deposit must accompany
each order, she added.
The varieties of trees to be of-
fered during the sale include dolga
(white), bechtel (pink), floribunda
(pink) and hopa (red).
The Internal Revenue Service
said it refunded about three and
a half billion dollars on 1957 per-
sonal income taxes. In 1935, the
government's total tax receipts
were only three billion, 600 mil-
lion dollars. Romeo Council |
Requests
village contribution toward its sec-
ond- annual summer program for
children in the area.
A total of $1,100 is sought by
the board to cover the cost of
the community-wide project. The
Bruce and Washington Township
boards will be asked to share
payment of the remainder of the
amount needed to offer the pro-
gram again this year.
The Peach Festival Assn. made
its annual request for $750 to help
pay the expenses of the 27th annual
celebration, to be staged over the
Labor Day weekend, ;
Action on both requests was ta-
bled pending a recommendation by
the Village Ways and Means Com-
Feb, 23.
Bids on gasoline and fuel oil,
to be used in village-owned ve-
hicles and buildings, and insur-
ance bids were opened last
night, All bids were turned over
to Village Attorney J, Gerald
McLean who will report his find-
ings at the Feb, 23 committee
meeting.
Village President Joseph Rymill
appointed councilmen Fred C. He-
bert and Donald Payne to serve on
the election board and Stanley
Bluhm to act as dog warden.
Peach Festival
Head Named Herbert Miller Chosen
President of Romeo
Assn. at Meeting
ROMEO — Local businessman
Herbert A. Miller was elected
president of the Romeo Peach
Festival Assn. during the annual
meeting of the 15 member board
held last night in the Lions Club
Den here.
Other officers named to serve
with Miller this year were Robert
C. Inwood, vice president; Norman
L, Engel, secretary; and Wesley
new members
cancies and
plans for the annual Peach
Festival celebration this year.
The three-day evenf is sched-
uled annually over Labor Day
weekend and traditionally attracts
over 30,000 visitors to “the heart
of the fruit country.”
The first order of business will
be the appointment of a publicity
float chairman. It will be his job
to see that a. float is ready this
spring to advertise Romeo’s an-
nual celebration in parades in
neighboring communities.
Another early event will be the
contest to select Miss Romeo and
her two maids of honor who will
fide on the float in the parades
prior to the festival.
is
Gets Life Sentence
for Killing Woman
Life imprisonment is ahead for
Luther J. Green Jr. of Royal Oak
Township wi was convicted last
month of slaying a township moth-
er of four with a hunting knife
following a quarrel.
* * *
Oakland County Circuit Judge
Frank L. Doty imposed the man-
datory life sentence on the 28-year-
old Green after a Circuit Court
jury found him guilty of first-de-
gree murder Jan. 23.
* * *
Green of 20815 Woodside St. was
accused of killing Mrs, Ann Mos-
ley, of the same address, last
November. He later gave himself
up to township police.
Your PTA Is Planning
Clarkston Group to Hear
Talk on Reading Thursday
CLARKSTON—Dr. Robert Dodd,
director of language arts educa-
tion for Oakland County schools,
will speak at the Clarkston Ele-
mentary School PTA meeting at
7:30.p.-m. Thursday in the school.
terested, Nothing
Him” is the title of Dr. Dodd’s
_ A @iscussign period, to enable
parents to bring up any reading
problems they may have en-
countered in, theit children, is
scheduled to follow the talk.
The Sashabaw Elementary
School PTA in Clarkston will hold]
Founders Night at 8p. m. Thurs-
day in the school. -
6! A brief ‘‘Founders Report’’ will
be given by historian Robert
Stump. It will be followed by a
lecture, to be given by the Rev.
W. F. Bostick of Inkster, on
“Basic Attitudes in Rearing Chil-
dren,”
Refreshments will be served by
FOUR TOWNS—The Four Towns
School PTA has scheduled its
meeting. from 7:30 to 8 p. m.
in the school, when
evening.
inked veren:
speak on Waterford recrea-
mittee which is scheduled to meet
* |box in a Detroit bar during an
-|proved satisfactory to support the
da,
vs ro.
Me
OPERATOR'S NET
1930 . 1935 = 1940
DECLINE IN FARM FAMILIES — Steady decline in the num-
ber of American farm families is depicted in the above chart. The
6,814,000 farms of 1935 shrank to 4,754,000 by the end of last year,
according to the Department of Agriculture. ;
INCOME PER FARM
tee Gist Fes ee
FARM OPERATOR’S INCOME — From a recent-decade low
of $288 tn 1932, the average farm operator’s annual net income
has risen. A postwar high of nearly $3,000 dropped to $2,735 last
|<... YH PONTIAC PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1959
Lawmakers Are
Hostile to Plan _ Ike's Proposals on
Price Supports, Controls
on Production Due
testimony on the administration's
farm, legislative proposals.
‘President Eisenhower’s “Warm
message to Congress 10 days ago
gram, but placed the burden of
dealing with commodity surpluses
and price supports squarely on
Congress.
purchasing power was high.
In its stead he urged more dis-
cretion for Benson to peg price
supports to modern standards by
using as a yardstick the average
market prices for immediately
ment “an antifarmer message.”
But House Democrats had no im-
mediate alternate program of
their own.
over the legislative course to fol-
low.
Thief Gets $50,000
Adjourn Dismissal
Hearing in Oak Park
OAK PARK — Last_night’s hear-
ing on the dismissal of Police Lt.
Joseph W. Roberts from the force
here has been adjourned until Feb.
20 at 10 a.m. in the city hall,
Mayor Pro Tem R. J. Alexander
announced today.
Roberts was dismissed on the
night of. Dec. 12 after he allegedly
fired his service pistol into a juke
argument earlier that evening.
The ex-officer requested a
hearing by the mayor pro tem
following his dismissal by Public
Safety Director Glenford S&S.
ie
Three witnesses who said they
were in the bar at the time of the
incident testified at last night's
hearing, But their testimony would
not be released to the press today
by Alexander. He would not give a
reason for the adjournment at this
time either.
Rochester Unit
Clears Path for
Water Tower
ROCHESTER — The Rochester
Village Council last night passed
two motions which paved the way
for early construction of a new
elevated water tank just east o!
the village limits. :
*x* «*« *
Council action followed a report
by Village Manager Paul York
who said test borings of soil on the
site of the proposed tank had
structure.
The first motion gave village
engineers authority to advertise
bids on the water tower and
feeder mains, They will be op-
ened April 10,
The council then proceeded with
preliminary plans to finance the
water plant program. Members
voted to ask the Michigan Munici-
pal Finance Commission to grant
the village permission to issue
$280,000 worth of revenue bonds.
* * *
Miller, Canfield, Paddock and
Stone, Detroit legal firm, was au-
thorized to draft the ordinance un-
der which bonds would be issued.
Michigan Navy Man.
Found Dead in Ditch
EDISON, N. J. AP—Police are
investigatingthe death of a young
Michigan sailor who had planned a
three-day pass in New York but
instead wound up in a ditch. beside
a railroad track here.
The body of Malcolm D. Foster,
22, of Grosse Pointe Farms, was
found yesterday with his clothes
torn from his body, Police theor-
ized that he fell or was pushed
from a train, -
“There was,no reason for him
to have jumped, and I don’t un-
derstand how he could have fall-
his brother, Miller Fos-
i
en,’’ said
ter,
The sailor
Navel Medical Scl at Bethes-
-Md., and would have finished ave:
was a student at the! year, according to U. S. Department of Agriculture figures.
One Third of Students
Fail, Go on Probation
end of the last semester,
and 225 placed on probation. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Al-
most a third of the student body
at Bellarmine College was flunked
out or put on probation at the
The school had an enrollment
te 8 ee | ae ee From Grace Hospital
culture Committee today to open
did not spell out a detailed pro-|.
govern:
supports to the agricultural econ-
onmy of 1910 to 1914 — the “golden
years” of agriculture when farm
Congressional farm leaders
‘|themselves are sharply divided
"Years 1910 Through 191
—_
4=index of 100
PRICES RECKIVED AND PAID BY FARM-
ERS ~~ In recent years, farm production costs
have mounted steadily while prices paid the
farmer have shown a fluctuating trend down- 1955 1956
ward. The above chart illustrates
prices received and prices paid since 1952, using
the 1910-14 period as a base. Data is from
U. S. Department of Agriculture. ; index of farm
the e; i
For Rochester High School
totaling $30,000 to improve the
new athletic field at Rochester
Community High School have been
Township fo Install
24 Street Lights
PONTIAC TOWNSHIP — At last
night's regular meeting, the Pon-
tiac Township Board approved in-
stallation of 24 street lights in the
township.
*
This action followed recommen-
dation by the township lighting
committee which recently conduct-
ed a survey of locations where
street lights were felt to be needed
in the p.
to the board, a Pon-
engineers townshi;
In a letter
3
: eat! HU eeGE OK Athletic Field Bonds ROCHESTER — Revenue bonds, approved by the State Municipal
Set Walled Lake Parents Night —
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in Commerce Township |
1149 Oakley Park Rd., Commerce
Township, on Wed, Feb. 11 from
7:30 to 9 p.m, F
-echooling this suramer,
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_ THE PONTIAC PRESS. TUESDAY, FEBRUAR 2 a ae : =
6
F
Shady (RARETS reae\Affer Decline jeer tan. srt covering sales of locally grown
produce brought to the Farmer's
NEW YORK iAP) — The stock
market bounced back today after
@1969
Walt eeey Productions -~
World Rights Reserved - ‘
ig Lenawee Fears
State Wage Tax Beg lawmakers to An article by Leslie Gould, fi-
nancial editor, said “a grand jury
investigation, similar to that just
launched against. General Motors
Corp., is to be made, with two ,
main objectives: ,
“1. A regional divestment of U.S. Market by growers and sold by
them in wholesule package lots.
Quotations are furnished by the
Jan. 9 as the date for trial on
the misdemeanor and examination
on the indecency charge, a felony.
Both the trial and* examination
arraignment on the appeal in
cult Court next Monday at
9:30 am
He was freed after posting a $500
‘bond on each charge.
Mrs. Roosevelt May
Do TV Commercial
NEW YORK (®#—Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt is considering an of-
fer. to present commercial mes-
sages on television for an oleo-
margafine manufacturer.
Thomas L. Stix, a partner in a 4|Radio Corp., Raytheon and Sperry four straight sessions of decline.
Gains ran from fractions to about
1 point or more in early lively trad-
ing
Steel stocks were in the lead on
the advance, reflecting the high-
est operating rate for steel since
mid-April 1957. There were sub-
the rally, which came after a
sharp selloff yesterday on top
of three weak sessions. Brokers
felt the market was due for at
least a temporary rebound.
U. S. Steel and Republic Steel
raced ahead about 1 point. Lukens,
one of the few strong stocks yes-
terday, tacked on more than 2
points.
Haveg highlighted the electronic
shares, gaining 3 points on top of
a 4% point gain yesterday, Frac-
tional advances were scored by
Rand.
Metals were mixed. There was
some selling on lower copper
prices in London and a price re-
ducetion in the Belgian Congo.
Anaconda gained but Kennecott,
American Smelting and Interna.
tional Nickel stumped.
Trading was active in motors.
‘American was most favored, rising
more than 1 point while General
Motors, Ford and Chrysler were
ahead fractions.
3 Stand Mute |
in Bribery Case
2 Others Await Trial
in Circuit Court
Innocent pleas were entered yes-
Judge Holland allowed all three
men to remain free on §500 bonds
each, No date has been set for the
trial.
Arraigned were former patroi-
man Jess W. Quick, 43, of 602 KE.
Beverty Ave.; Charles B. John- talent and production agency which
represents clients in radio and tele-
| vision, said yesterday that Mrs.
: Roosevelt had appeared in experi-
F mental commercial films.
‘Popcorn in the Bag...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (UPI) Towa’s popcorn p was “just a
+ + average” last fall, a State College nd biggie ee on = a ony a
, 3 marketing expert has reported, but| joa) 5 om 2 + 3 ’ Hudson laundry and dry cleaning it's still enough to fill about ‘‘three
billion” bags of popcorn.
- Business Notes - » . The Pontiac: Life Underwriters
Association will hold its monthly
meeting tomorrow morning at the
Elks Temple. Guest speakers will
be William E. Hazel Jr. and Rich-
ard J. Selleck of Fidelity Mutual
Life Insurance Co. Both are na-
_ tional award winners,
' Hazel will talk on ‘‘Prospecting
>A Way of Life.” Selleck’s sub-
“ject will be “Prospecting in Your
Files.” He is a member of the 1958
Million Dollar Round Table.
~ News in Brief
— | ;
3 ~
BB son, 67, of 26 W. Kennett Rd.,
and Lealon S. Karnes, 63, of
8221, Baldwin Ave,
Quick is charged with taking a
$122 bribe from Johnson, allegedly
the operator of a gambling game,
to turn over to a Pontiac vice,
squad officer for ‘‘protection mon-
Named as co-defendant after he
refused to. testify against Quick
was Karnes, Quick was suspended
from the force following his ar-
rest last*September,
Wind Fans Flames;
Cleaning Plant Lost
BAY CITY «—Flames fanned
plant here.
Firemen estimated the damage
to the building and equipment at
$100,000.
The city’s entire fire fighting
force was called out to battle
the blaze. Firemen were handi-
capped by ice glazed streets as
well as high winds,
The. fire broke out at 5:45 a.m.
in the plant's boiler room and
quickly spread through the two- Detroit
Monday
Apples, Deliciows, bu. ....,-+-»
Heeta, to , bu SPRUCE EARDOOURTC Ss 5
stantial gains in motor and elec- Carrots, topred, bu. Sori acacaeae 1%
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tronic issues. Mersctediah, Ho. 1 pk. ..cccccscnes 308
Heavy early trading threw the/ Leeks, (behs.) dos. wig ee 2.00
ticker tape behind floor transac Paras Rote te ae 1 fo
shortly ri MD. nn woven eeeas eens «Be
tions after the opening. ‘ieee (Som 00 Ibe. ....s.cadeves et
quickly caught up. 4 Radishes ouse ibene.) GOR 1-00
f oe . he id. a
Brokers were not surprised by |Pirnipe topped, bu. .......0-. 118
able 1500,
noe trong prices #
on standard
pou
steers 23.75-26.50 wtility steers 21.00-
23.75; a cpattoming of good to low choice
heifers 26.60-27.60: utility and standard
aye 20.50-25.60 ;
Veaiers — . Saiable
steady to s ; @ seles of cholee
prime vealers 36.00-42.00; standard
26,00-36.00; cull and utility
ii * *
Shee Former City Policeman, |, see ho early trade
receipts
being held for afternoon sale.
sociated Press);
terday by Oakland County Circuit ; 20 i, of at no ue alias
Judge H. Russel Holland for three|piey aay ... 3061 1338 060 211.5
men, one a former Pontiac police-| Meet ego, Mae loo eet att? on ago a "i C
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Detroit Produce
FRUITS
< e
VEGETABLES
Poultry and Eggs
DETROIT POULTRY
DETROIT, Feb 9 (AP) — Prices paid
e = f.o b. Detrott, for No. 1 qual-
ty live poultry:
Heavy type hens 20-23; light type hens
jest sanene ttes under 6 fobs, 21; over &
Ibs. 26.
DETROIT EGGS
DETROIT, Feb. 9 (APi--Eggs f.0.b.
Detroit in case lots federal state
grades:
Whites—grade A jumbo 46; extra
large 40-42. wid. avg. 40%; large 39-41,
wi avg. 39%; medium 37; small 32;
rade i large 37-30, wid. avg. 37%;
3 rade A extra large 4; large
m 37: grede C, large 33;
30-35, wid. avg 31,
Commercially graded
Whites — grade A jumbo 40; extra
lerge 36-37; large 36-37, medium 34-36;
browns-~grade A jumbo 40; extra large
e368; large 36%0-36; medium J3'4-35;
grade B large 31-33%.
Livestock
’ DETROIT LIVESTOCK
DETROIS, Feb. 9 (AP)—Cattie—Gal-
Karly trade slaughter steers
a force trade,
to 60 ; full advance
6 grades; offering
is and down, cows active;
early sales, good to average
steers 1100 pounls and
; few loadsa of heifers active,
utility cows 19.00-
canners and dutters 15.00-19.00
160. Prices fully 50;
00.
p and latibs—estim 1000. Early
being held for afternoon sale;
400.
establich Hogs—Salabie
to Not enough early
trade, these also!
STOCK AVERAGES
NEW YORK—(Compiled by the As- .85\of Lenawee County, rich in agri-
%:igraduated tax or flat rate or what ‘Say It Isn't So’; but
Income Levy Looms
By ROGER LANE
ADRIAN (Anxious taxpayers
culture and industry and blessed
by distinguished representation in
the legislature, begged their law-
makers last night to ‘‘say. it isn’t
so.”’
of firing questions at Sen. Elmer R.
Porter (R-Blissfield) and Rep.
Rollo G. Conlin (R-Tipton), 400 of
them filed out in the foggy, rainy
darkness uncomforted.
“You think then it’s coming to
a state income tax?” asked
Duane Deloach, publisher of the
Blissfield Advance, toward the
end of the unusual countywide
town, meeting.
-t} think so,” answered Conlin,
House Taxation Committee Chair-
man and number one tax expert
in the legislature. ‘‘Although I
don't know whether it will be a
the form will be.”’
“If it's six per cent the state
will be getting more money out of
my business than I get,’’ the ques-
tioner protested.
Nearly everyone in the St. John's
Lutheran School gymnasium burst
into loud applause, as if to say
“amen.”
Earlier, Conlin told the home
folks he didn't think g four-cent
sales tax proposition ever would
clear the legislature and win
statewide voter approval.
Porter, Senate appropriations
“hief with a quarter century in the
legislature, pointed to the state
geneal fund’s $100,000,000 deficit,
and said:
“As long as you are getting the
same services you're getting now
you're going to have the same)
problem,” he said.
Mamie, Sister Ready
for Arizona Vacation
Eisenhower and her sister, Mrs.
George Gordon Moore, plan to
leave tonight for a two-week vaca-
Residents Are Scared
CANTERBURY, England
Low-flying airplanes and helicop-
ters spraying crops with insecti-
cides brought a rush of calls to
Kent police from residents who
thought the planes were crashing. uP— | March 11. tion at the Maine Chance health?!
and beauty resort near Phoenix,
Ariz. ;
The two spent a vacation there
last year, staying from Feb. 23 to
Their stay as paying guests this
year will include the period dur-
| ing which President Eisenhower
| will make an official trip to Mex-
‘ico. He is due in Acapulco Feb.
119 and 20. - But after two and one-half hours).
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mamie| a.
No..1TS A oma nt
NEED HIM. THEN
.
EST FOR “
HER SECOND BROOD.
BUT THEY NEEDN'T WORRY.
FATHER WILL STICK BY
THEM AS LONG AS THEY
RAISE THE SECOND: FAMILY.
210 Dist ributed by King Features Syndicate,
Ji4 WONDER :
| “Ig MOTHER
BUILDING A
HE'LL HELP < BLUEBIRD FLEDGLINGS Steel's mills where the company
has a major share of the steel
market,
“2, An end to the present system
of pricing.”
The journal said this is part of
the Justice Department’s new
drive against bigness in business,
“particularly where the enterprises
are successful.”
“The antitrust campaign is big-
ger than any ever attempted in
the past, including the days of
Theodore Roosevelt,’’ the Journal
said.
U.S. Steel had no immediate
comment.
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NEW YORK (NEA)—Within the
next 12 months, Americans will
lose $150,000,000 to phony stock
market operators.
Almost every sucker will be a
non-New Yorker; and almost every
|swindler will be a New Yorker.
The Attorney General of New
York and the federal government's
Securities Exchange Commission—
armed with law and force —
will make little progress against
what the stock market calls
“boiler room" operations.
These are the unhappy conclu-
sions of Albert C, Lasher, veteran
financial observer and reporter,
whose detailed and firsthand find-
ings in this swindle are soon to be
released.
“The only protection,” Lasher
said, “is an informed stock-buying
public. But from the looks of the
situation, the con artists in the
boiler rooms know that the public
will not be informed—does not want
to be informed.”
It is a_ logical conclusion.
Lasher’s report shows that the
people most often victimized are
doctors, dentists, clergymen,
businessmen—people who should
know better.
“And to make the picture black-
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ST. LOUIS, Mo, (AP)—"I was
in a tornado once before and I
knew this was one as soon as I
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wife, ‘Grab the kids and head for
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So Charles Tibbs described the
terrifying moment in which a tor-
nado roared through his block
near Buseh Stadium, the home of
the St. Louis Cardinals baseball
team.
“I grabbed one of ourrchildren
and my wife the othér,” he said.
“But we didn't make it to the
* * *
basement.”
The storm crashed through a
row of brick apartment houses
across the street from Tibbs’
home. It blew out the windows of
his place, None of his family was
story brick structure.
The laundry firm is owned by
Leigh Hudson and his son, Ralph.
In a three-hour battle, firemen
kept the, flames from spreading
to a nearby gasoline station and
residential properties,
But a two-story frame house only
four feet away from the plant was
|damaged by the intense heat.
Floyd Neveau and his family were
forced to move out until the fire
was controlled,
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seriously injured, only dazed and
shaken.
Police credited cab driver Bill
Purcell, who lives in the same
block, with saving the life of a
motorist by warning him to stay
in his car which was covered by
downed electrical wires,
Purcell said a car came along,
drove over the wires and they
curled around it like snakes.
“Boy, it was dark — but when
that car hit the wires it lit up
like a flare,” Purcell said. ‘I
yelled that if he got out he was a
dead man.”
* *
A policeman helped Purcell to
convince the motorist of his
danger.
Linemen arrived eventually and
made the area safe, The driver
went on. er,” Lasher said, ‘‘the phony op-
erators know they have a better
‘chance to swindle someone who
has been swindled, once before
‘without knowing it.”
HOW AND WHY
If there is any consolation in
knowing how and why boiler rooms
operate, Lasher’s report explains:
@ As more and more informa-
tion about the stock market is
published, and as more and more
people become stockholders, the
ground for sowing phony seeds
becomes more fertile.
®@ People are impressed with
long-distance phone calls and
will pay attention to what the
caller has to say; especially if
he appeals to their sense of
profit-making.
Building in Billions
ITHACA, N.Y. (UPI)—The New
York State Schoo] of Industrial and
Labor Relations at Cornell] Uni-
‘versity estimates the total value
of private and public construction
in the U.S. at 65 billion dollars. Gyps Take $150 Million Yearly
investments.
about 1,500 firms who specialize in
this kind of trade.
* * *
Given these premises, the boiler
room operators are in business.
The first step is sturdy name
and a Wall street address to lend
a front of dignity and stability to
the swindle. Behind the address is
usually a small ‘‘executive’’ office
for receiving and sending out mail.
BACK OF THE FRONT
The real operation is often in
another building in a lower rent
section of Manhattan.
“Here is a grubby room,”
Lasher said, ‘‘crowded with desks
on wheels—you never know when
you'll have to move. Each desk
has only a small card file of names
and phone numbers and a tele-
phone.
“The salesmen, usually stripped
to their undershirts because of the
heat of too mary people in. too
small a space, spend an entire
working day making one long dis-
tance call after another to people
they’ve never met—and never
hope to.”
* * *
Most often, Lasher says, the
pitch begins something like this:
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