The Weather V.s. Weather Bureau Ferecast Showers, ers. > eugued —_ " ES nith YRAR- cs. PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, J ULY 21, 1989 0 PAGES UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL | ASSOCIATED PRESS N scleay Vessel Awaits Launching JA 7 Bat Thor Launching a ‘Bust’ tlas ia as te ° '‘. 4 i F] ae ke FIRST NUCLEAR MERCHANT SHIP—GIlit- tering*in a shiny new coat of paint, the N.S. Savannah stands ready for the champagne bottle which was swung by Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower First Hal CAMDEN, N.J. (?—The launching of the first atom- powered merchant ship, Savannah, was hailed today as| a “bold and enterprising experiment in the daring and’ distinguished annals” of American science and sea- faring. and sent the ve ship, with its y: Acting Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller | ‘fore the 21,000-ton Savan- (nah slid down the launch- A k k Pay ‘ing ways. | itinguished President, Dwight D. Gullett, Fired by oy Eisenhower, and became a real- After Gambling Raid, ity through his leadership and en- led States."’ LaRue F. Gullett, former deputy | The President's wife was there Pontiac city treasurer, wants to! for the traditional ceremony of | ~-set forth that view in an 0 ( | 1 f 2 | laddress a few minutes be- | “This ship,” Mueller said, ‘‘was born of the inspiration of our dis-) |thusiasm translated into legisla- Seeks $4,500 Wages 'tion by the Congress of the Unit-| collect from the city approximately) giving the ship its name and 11 months’ back pay, estimated at! sending the Savannah into the New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, N. J. It will go into adi next year. Atomic Merchant ship. Nab ed at Launching Today Rack |method for coming home with Sunday inthe —Pontise—Northern bulging creels were in trouble with State Dept. officials today. Britton, Waterford Township, and Gerald) T. Janisewski, jlated |“‘fishermen that didn’t get away”: * ‘State Police May Change Uniform Style LANSING (UPI) — The Michi- gan State Police may change ‘their uniform style. Commissioner Joseph A. Childs brought two men into Gov. G. Men-; nen Williams’ office for a style| show today. He said he wanted Wil- liams’ opinion before deciding on the change. The present $4.25 visor cap would be replaced by a $14 stiff- brimmed, campaign hat of the style used in World War I. i | with 50 per cent synthetic fiber. | ‘The new shirt would be more | comfortable and would last long-| er,” Childs said. “We now ae nine shirts per man but would get by with just four with the new shirts.”’ The Michigan style would be | AP Wirephote State Police. ssel down the ways today. The acht-like bow, was built by the 600 Expected at AA Meeting Anglers Their Gl Benefits Senate debates today a bill: The light blue poplin shirt would|to give education, home) p jbe_replaced by a dark blue shirt}joan-ang other benefits to similar to the style of the Indiana |the Sen lalthough some amendments may } ~ ; ‘be adopted to restrict its effect.' would cost more than two billion | dollars. , ‘teri ‘ing the service between Jan. 31,| Public Invited to Attend 1955, the official termination daie| SAN FRANCISCO (W—After 17 First-of- Its- Kind Session |!" benefits under the Korean War years, the “Birdman of Alcatraz”’ Scores. Success Flight to Give ‘Cold War’ Vets| _ iSince Dec. 3, 1958. For two Home, School Aid |years before that he was as- WASHINGTON (?) — The, sistant secretary for domes- tic affairs. | He has been acting secretary isince Rear Adm. Lewis L. Strauss, ‘former Atomic Energy Commis- an estimated four million sion chairman, stepped out of the post-Korean veterans. ‘Commerce spot after the Senate ‘rejected his nomination. Strauss The Eisenhower adminis- ‘had been serving under a recess tration strongly opposes the | appointment made while Congress measure. |was not in session. A native of Grand Rapids, Muel- ler was born there Nov. 22, 1893. He was in the furniture manufac- turing business before entering government service. However, it is expected to pass ate and go to the House, The Veterans Administration | estimates the proposed program Famed Alcatraz ‘Birdman’ Sent to U. S. Hospital The bill applies to veterans en- p d bill of rights, and July 1, 1963,! has left the rock. et Down in Pontiac Sun ay ithe date the present draft law ex-| Robert F. Stroud, 69, was trans-| = | pires iferred from the maximum security| More than 600 members of Alco- + « *¢ ifederal prison in San Francisco Three nocturnal fishermen with ‘holics Anonymous are expected at} kts sponsors, including 26 sena- |Bay to the Federal Medical Center| a sure-fire! and jan area-wide meeting at 3 p.m. “heavy tackle” }High School. The meeting is open to AA mem- bers from eastern Michigan. The Police and Conservation * * * La mie Gerald W. Gravlin, 21, of 415%4|PUblic is also invited, it was an- Main St., Rochester, Claude w. /nounced. The first of its kind ever held in Pontiac, the meeting is the second in a series of large get- togethers for AA members in this part of the state, Main ‘speaker will be a Saginaw man who will discuss his recovery from alcoholism through the AA program. The Pontiac Alanon groups, com- posed of non-alcoholic relatives of AA members, announced an open house for out-of-town Alanon mem- bers at 11 a.m. Sunday at the AA clubhouse, 1143 Joslyn Ave. ® .&.# Alcoholics Anonymous is a fel- lowship of men and women banded 26, of 1065 Nakomis Way, 25, of 2813 Hartline St., Avon Township, waived ex- amination this morning .on a charge of unlawful fishing in Con- servation Dept, waters, West Bloomfield Township Jus- tice Elmer C. Dieterle released them on personal bond pending arraignment in Oakland County Circuit Court Monday morning. Pontiac Post Troopers Stanley Doubleday and Alfred Biland re- the following tale of the * * The trio met at a tavern late tors, call these the cold war vet-|@t Springfield, Mo. erans. | LISTS types of benefits: schooling or job training for each day of military service. tion grants would be: for a veteran without dependents, $135 if he has one dependent, $160 if he has more than one. | Stroud has known nothing but BENEFITS | the inside of prison walls since | soi - shen,| 1909 when he was sentenced to They would be eligible for three} 12 yours for kiling. 0 dencen, of | Alaska, bartender. 1. One and one-half days Educa- $110 a month a guard in a dining hall. He was) placed in solitary and stayed there until last October. He had a laboratory and 22 live! birds at Leavenworth and became! an authority on bird diseases. In the spring of 1920, President Woodrow Wilson commuted a death’ sentence to life in solitary. At Leavenworth, he wrote “Stroud’s Digest of Disease of Birds,”” regarded by many experts as the best work on bird pathology ever published. He was transferred to Alcatraz in 1942. Stroud, at Alcatraz, became fluent in French, Spanish and Greek. PRR GRE* 2 ERR IRE RRA: 2 2. Vocational rehabilitation training for veterans with sérv- ice-connected disabilities. 3. Veterans Administration guar- anty or indirect loans for pur- chase of homes, farmland, farm animals and machinery. Sen.- John 8. Cooper (R-Ky) proposes to offer an amendment to the bill te put the educational benefits on an interest-free loan basis rather than a grant. This has the support of Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass) among others. $4,500. | water. It is the country’s first ; . er to recover from alcohol- ’ GuHett, 41, of 301 Dick Ave., was non-military atomic srily yonday — eh Soe ape hai petioles and help others to Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D- In Today S P r €Ss fired last Aug» 29 when he, his os < anisewski said they had been Minn), a sponsor of the bill, «n- wife, Gladys, 35, and three others Louis E. Wolfson, chairman of fishing and were unhappy because |recover. nounced he would fight the amend- |