Th« Weather Warn, eiawcri (DatoOt rM« » THE PONTIAC PRESS Horn# Cditton ? VOL. 119 NO. 9T ★ ★ ★ PONTIAC. MICHIGAN. WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1961 —46 PAGES Uncle Sam Relents \Kenhedy Promises De Gaulle U.S. to Protect West Berlin BEARDED RESERVISTS »UKE READY-Four bearded members of Pontiac's 2nd Battalion. 333rd Basic Combat Training Regiment, are~ shown making final plans lor departure to (^p McCoy. WIs., Sunday. From left, sporting their specially permitted Centennial bnuhes, are M. Sgt. Donald Johnson, 16C Lakevlew Dr., Sylvan Wlage; Sp. 4 Ronald Klirimxk, 98B Emerson St.; Spec. 4 Dale Davis, 370 East Columbia Ave.; and M. Sgt. Homer Howard, 4S6 East Walton Blvd. Traffic Toll Hits Weekend High 457 U.S. Fatalities Set Worst Record Since July 4, 1950. Mark I From Our News Wires Traffic .............457 Boating: ............ 40 Drowning ......... 62 Misceilaneous .......116 Total ...............675 The 1961 Memorial Day weekend went intp the books today as the most deadly on record on the natkm'a highways and as the second greatest occasion of traffic death of any summertime holiday. Late reports pushed the total of traffle fataHfies far above the previous reeoid s( 4U for a llR-heur Memoriai hoBday. Tlw fn^ mer record was set la IWT. Only three states, Hawaii, Delaware and Rhode Island., and the District of Columbia went through the four-day period — Saturday through Tuesday — without a traffic death. ‘BRUTAL CARNAOr The only extended spring or summer holiday traffic ^ath toll .-to exceed the total this Memorial Day was the 491 recorded during the 102-hour July 4 observance in 1950. Howard Pyle, presideBt of the NatlonI Safety ConacU, called this weekend’s record “brutal Reserve to Preserve Whiskers at Camp By JOE SINGLETON Even the United States Army has gotten into the. spirit of Pontiac’s Centennial. It has waived one of its strictest rules to help area men celebrate the city’s 100th anniversary. As any man who has served a hitch can attest, Uncle Sam frowns upon fuzz of any kind growing under the chin or about the face.* -... Men have been put on KP or lost their weekend passes for such offenses. But to help Pontiac celebrate its Centennial, the Amy has allowed members of Ponitac’s 2nd Battalion, 333rd Baiic Combat Training Regiment, to participate in their annual field training exercises in Camp McCoy, WIs., beards and aO. This declsfsa did ast, however, eomo oaslly. K M Ow pee-Bistenee of the tad BattaHoa’s Conmaader, U. OsL PraakUa D. Thompaoa, to get aa okay to He said “It is absolutely imperative that every state in the union end . the delays that have blocked complete modernization of every clement in the administration of highway traffic.” o * * “This is not an impossible situation.’’ Pyle said. , "Tihe Ipnswers are known, but they must be activated. Thousands of lives can be saved, countless injuries avoided, and millions of dollars in accident costs made available tor mwe constructive uses.'’ Michigan Second in Road Deaths Across Nation By UattoA Press-Jntemattoaal Double shifts by law enfmTement officials, 200 National Guardsmen on patrol and a barrage of pleas for sane driving were no match for the bieautiful weather during the long Memorial Day holiday. Hie sunny skies of the first summer holiday weekend drew niil-lions of motorists onto state higli-ways in Michigan, and 31 persons died. The grim toN gave Mlchigaa the dubious claim to second place oa the nattoa’s death list CaHfondm counted 4g dead in lowed Miehigan with M highway the hMiday period and four died in other accidents to bring the tour-day toll to 38. FAR ABOVE IM The fantastic death pace on state lilgliways amounted to tme every three hours, 20 minutes. The tgll was far above that of Memorial Day 1960 when 21 persons died on state highways. ★ ★ ♦ In Lansing, Gov. Swainson asked the Slate S^ety Commission for a complete analysis of the weekend carnage. “It leaves me 'a great deal ssd-r dened to think that file beantifd weekend weather was marred by this record fatality coiait,’* Sw|^ aon laid..’’It should giv^ everyone pause to Uiink,” a... Predicts 1/.S. Will Be Forced to Invade Cuba DAUAS, Tex. « -> John G. Tower, the first RepuWean senator sent to Washington by Texas since reconstruction days, said the is near when the United “la our unit, ure have leading citizens of Pontiac and surrounding areas who take great pride in their city, who want to take A active part in the Centennial celebration, but also have the urge to serve their country by being a member of the aettw rea«ve forces',’’ says Lt. Col. Thompson. * ★ ♦ "Snee we will return encampment the same day that the Pontiac Centennial celebratian starts. June 17, these men wouldn' have any beards to qxvt during the celebration." Thompson wrote to the 333rd Basic Combat Training Regiment's Commander, Col. Joseph Daiek, and explained the situation. The commander approved the request, and the Pontiac unit will be perhaps the first Army Reserve to sport beards, at a military reservation. The Pontiac unit will leave shortly after midhight Saturday by train to the Wisconsin military reaervatkm where it will two weeks of strenuous field training exercises. ’Tower, elected Ssturday over Democrat interim Sen. William A. Blakely, laid before flying to the capital that “it Is inuntoent that the umted ^tea will at aome time militarily occupy Cuba.’ Tile Widiita Falli, ’Tex.. cbBegi protesior plana to spend three days in Washington, then return home await the official oertificatian d the vote June 13. Showers and Storms Scattered showers and thunderstorms are forecast for tonight with a low of near 55. LONDON (AP)-Sovlet Premier Khrushchev reached Csechoalo-vakia by train today en route to Vienna, Austria, to meet Pnesident Kenne