/ The Weather •A WMtlMr Iimu THE PONTIAC PRESS Wmm Horn# ii Edition / PONTIAC, MICHIGAN. MONDAY, APRIL 11, i960 —34 PAGES** mmreSli!SuTmriSMl,0*'u‘ WUlman Sure It Can City May Maintain Tax Rate Supervisors Set to Discuss Road Money County Officials Call Funds Nontax Surplus) Wanted for Townships City and township supervisors will continue their tug-of-war over $100,000 in hotly contested road funds tomorrow. The discussion «will be held in the Supervisors Room of- the County Office Building in Pontiac. The campaign will be part of the Board of Supervisors' annual organisation meeting. Election of 0 chairman and vice chairman, and receipt of the proposed 1*1 county budget, win be Overshadowed, however, by the tussle over the fund*. They are hem what eewsty of-fletale say are IMS nontax ear-pins tends and the Oeenty Rend a asked teat It be Snub Charged by Papers Increased Value Meg Getting Royal Run-Arounc/of Property Is Cited as Reason Would Be 3rd Straight Year Without Hike $13.27 Figure LONDON (UPD—Mase of Europe's royalty, announced today that previous engagements will keep them from standing Princess Margaret’s May S wedding to commoner Antony Armstong-Jones. London newspapers dunged they were snubbing me ceremony. The London Daily Herald said it had concluded die royal houses of Europe were "boycotting Princess Margaret’s wedding tor reasons other than mere incohvenience, prior engagements, or even protocol.'' The latest tern downs cents from Holland and from the pretender to the Spanish throne. At the Hague, a spokesman for the Dutch royal family said Crown Princess Beatrix will be paying a long-planned visit to Limburg on the wedding date/ Court circles said Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard also have a tight schedule that week, but they did not ride out the possibility that the prince might cone to London.' In Lisboa, a spokesman for Ike household of Den Jean, pretender to the Spanish throne, said Suaa and hie wife wenM net ge to the wedding even fheagh they were Invited. The reason, < City Charter Amendments Get Richmans Approval Administration of tht Pontiac Police. Department needs to be revamped, According to George Richman, president of the Downtown Merchants Assn. * Richman, a Pontiac voter, said he favored the two proposed charter amendments on the ballot in the gen- ie that many Spaniards visit Portugal lor ceremonies af the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima on May 13, and take advantage of the occasion to visit Don Juan. Dan Juan Is related Jo the British royal family through his motfc *r, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. The Daily Herald noted that dozens of imitations to the wedding had gone but to the royal houses of Europe, but so far only Queen Ingrid,, of Denmark has agreed to attend the affpir in Westminster Abbey. The series of polite rejections from the others has touched off i flurry of speculation here. In Oslo, the, newspaper Verdens Gang said Norwegian King Otav’i refusal to attend the wedding hac caused a sensation in the world press. It added bitterly that "the comments (about this) in the British newspapers are partly directly insulting to the Norwegian royal house and to other royal houses. Norwegian palace sources d< scribed as "sheer nonsense" n ports here that the Norwegian and Swedish royal families were staying away from the wedding because Armstrong-Jones is a commoner. They made no other Mm-ment:' " m City -Manager Walter K. Wi liman announced confidently today that the City Commission could maintain the $13.27 tax rate this year for the third straight year, thanks to a rise'in property values. The rise, as reported-by the Board of (Tax) Review was slight, but enough to provide the additional cash needed to support this year’s record $6,123,207 budget, said Willmah. culvert road improvement projects la Oakland towaakfpa. City aaprrvisore. who say their taxpayer! havtf helped accumulate the unused bQndle, insist therefore that townships aren't entitled to the money. Spearheading a drive to keep (he hinds from the Commission;; Femdale Superv«gp4toy F. Good-speed wlU corns to tomorrow's ton-] port ant session loaded wL_ . tics illustrating that citiet are already carrying more' than their share of rural road improvement coats. TswnsMp skpsrvlssrs — a ad thsy*re tutoamksnd IS to M — say Mr oaais are used Just as much by etty residents and (hoy therefore should help pay far With two dty supervisors approving the transfer, the Board’s Romls and Bridges Committee this morning voted S-l to support it ’’in the spirit ot fairness to all tax- psyw*-” ” Chairmaan Don R. MacDonald, whose dty of Sylvan Lake had aided, with Goodspeed’s stand, and L- Curtis Potter of Royal Oak voted with four township supervisor!. Dissenting was Thomas H. O Donoghue of Femdale! Supervisors tomorrow also will get another recommendation from (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) Utility Workers Return to Jobs Union Votes 2,675-870 to Accept 26%-Cent Consumers Hike Tuesday to Be 52T Some Sun, Windy Warmer weather with showers might and late Wednesday or Thursday is the five-day forecast for Pontiac and vicinity. Tonight’s low is expected to be near 41, rising to a high of 52 on Tuesday. Skies will be partly cloudy and winds will be from the south at 20 to 3B miles tonight, becoming northwesterly Tuesday. Temperatures tar the week will average two-'Or three degrees abeve the aomnl high of mid (As and normal lew e< mid Ms. Rainfall will total frem one-quarter Operating employes Of Consumers Power Co. in Pontiac and elsewhere in Michigan headed back to 2 p m. work today after approving a new contract 2,675 to 870. More than 200 Pontiac strikers returned to work at the beginning of the 8 a.tn. shift, reported Edward Karkau. district manager tor the gas and electric utility. Garland Bandera of PMnt^ president of the 8tate Executive CeaneH of the Utfitty Workers at vote last night ended the te-day strike, affecting 5,ISO employes. A company spokesman said that the new two-year contract provides a pay raise of 10 cents an hour tor one dass of empioyea and 11 emits tor another this year god a straight KVcent raise next year for both dassea. W a ■ a , Fringe benefits raised the total package la an estimated 96tt cent* an hour tor the two-yfcar period, the company iaid. Sanders said that Workers had averaged 82.79 under the old Union and company negotiators apparently compromised on Job curity, which the union called i major issue, but-details wen ' spelled out. The company maintained set the strike. The tax rate will not be officially established until after the Oakland County Tax Allocation Board completes its work .in Stay. . “But I have no doubt that the T etty can maintain Its rale of 81M7 for every ft.OM of assessed “ said Wllman. 'Drives Off' for Short Vacation TO TRY OUT NEW PUTTER - President and Mrs. Eisenhower walk in bright sunshine at Washington National Airport today " before departing by ‘ plane for a “few -days vacation at Augusta,, AT rhatolti Ga. California's Rep. J. Arthur Younger presented Ike with a new putter this morning. And the President is hoping to use it during his rest, after some very busy days in Washington. Vows to Continue Apartheid eral municipal election [TWA pj|crts Permitted next Monday. c . Richman skid he has been con- *® Eotln9 Spots j The city’s MOassessad value-1 cerned by the long history* 1 ^ha^aeceo^ ! th^boJdrt! and troubles within the department. | peache* S. Africa Gets New Boss prspssed In the charter |tbrt Hi pilot, should be 3BSKT5SSSi” amend- to explore the eating places of ngure of ^V'212'800' ■ JOHANNESBURG. South Africai The Rand Dally Matt salad tl of commasAu! f ncrease-eiflMcy. The Air Line Pilots Assn, had complained the pilots presently Couldn't eat at airline expense anywhere but at their hotels. News Flashes GEORGE RICHMAN “This would inci clarify responsibility and protect the public against another outburst of the kind of problems we've had in th£ past.'' ‘I * * * DETROIT IIMao R. Schrei- Richman believed that, the man- *"• * general manager of ager, armed with more control Ternstedt Division of General over' the police chief, could more Motors Corp.,. was found dead effectively root out the factional-I today to his apartment here. It ism that has divided die depart-! ment for so long. Winds this morning in downtown Pontiac registered 20 miles an hour from foe southeast. The thermometer reading was 35 degrees at 8 a.m., rising to 58 by I am going to Vole tor . the two dhatter amendments, and I hope others will, too,” he said. * * A ' The first proposed amendment would eliminate the department of public safety and raise the police and fire divisions to the departmental level, administrative!/, with the police chief and fire cjiief directly responsible to the man-ager. The second would reenact the PoUeo Trial Board at a precaution against its being declared Illegally constituted because of a technicality now being argued hi Circuit Court. But, at the same time, the second change would remove the police chief from the trial board’s protection and give the manager discretion to remove him from office “whenever, in hie opinion, such action may b#fnecessary.' appeared he Ml from a ladder In the bathroom of the apartment la Indian Village Manor. CASEVILLE CA-An Air Forre Jet plaae was repotted to have creaked Into Saginaw Bay to-Mj. ROME (ft—The 17 day old stopgap government of Premier Fernando Tambronl collapsed today. The M-yenr-old Christian Democrat hastened to present .« NEW YORK (UBI)—Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller today dls-associated himself from and deplored a “atop Nixon” movement begun by four Ney York Republicans known to favpr Rocke-the party’s presldentUh- The ments on real property at $144,-848,960; 'said Spence, and on personal property at 8136,284,250. During hearings concluded last week, the board knocked $1,020,950 off real property valuations recommended by City Assessor Edward E. Bloc and $10,400 off personal property. These cutbacks In reductions property last year and MUM Bevan Extends His Rest LONDON (UPI)—British Labor Lender Aneurin Bevan, 62, recuperating from a serious abdominal remove him from operation three months ago, will take a two-week holiday because of a setback in health. A breakdown showed values on e final board ‘of review figures are subject to further reductions by the State Tax Commission. .The commission last year granted only one, $i;000 reduction on the board’s 1960 figures. A A' A •. WUlman had told the City Com-liaskxi before hit recommended budget was adopted that it could be supported financially by the 813.27 rate if assessments held steady or rose slightly. Before the City Assessor had (Oonttaued on Page 2, Col..() In Todays Press Comles......... ......... 17 County News................ * Editorials .............. 4 Markets ...................$8 Obituaries ................ Q Sports .............. Js-ss Theaters ...,........ TV,* Radio Programs ..... a Wilson, Earl ........... S3 Women’s Pages ........ 14.17 (AP)—Paul Oliver Sauer, chief of Ithe Nationalist Party ‘in Parliament*., took over today as government Teader in place'of woundW ______ Minister Hendrik F. Ver- woerd. Sauer promptly {dodged to cany on VerWOSfd’S apartheid policies. Sauer, 62, is Minister of Lands in the Cabinet, He takes over the helm ss senior member of the Cabinet, but will not serve as actlng prime minister. Foreign Minister Erie Louw said. But Boner will preside it' Cabinet meetings. Sauer told Parliament the government will continue on Its reg-program and Verwogrd’s course, adding' “the -rest of the Cabinet will see that peace and order are mifntained.’’ A A -A As far as Parliament Is concerned there wiit-not be any deviations from the existing program as a result of what has hap-led,” Sauer declared. A A A // ; ’We don’t know how long Dr. Verwoerd will be incapacitated and when be will be able to re-is duties but Parliament wiU carry on its present program.”/ CRACKING DOWN Even as Sauer spoke South Africa’s white police and courts continued to take sharp action quell racial- strife and continuing Negro work boycotts against white supremacy laws. Verwoerd -continued to show progress in a Pretoria hospital from two head wounds inflicted Saturday by a wealthy white farmer. An antigovemment newspaper suggested he may have injured more severely than his doctors admit. state tor some time.” A medical bulletin said Verwoerd is still weak but making progress, adding: "Reassurance can be given that there is no .sign two bullets “may have caused damage which could impair his speech, his tease of balance, his of paralysis and, according to the progress made so far, paralysis is not expected.” A A A Verwoerd’s assailant, David Pratt, 52, had not appeared for noon. Legal authorities J ported to be debating V charges should be brought. Jewish Passover Will Begin Tonig Pontiac Jewi&iv community will join millions gf Jews throughout the worid tonight In marking the beginning of their eight-day holiday of Passover. . The Jewish festival is held to commemorate the successful battle waged by the Israelites for their freedom while slaves in Egypt during Biblical times. . A A A The 'chronicle* of the Exddus from Egypt will be recounted in home worship services called a Seder. Tables in 'Jewish homes are set with symbolical foods which recall certain aspects of-the Biblical story. Orthodox families hold such services for two nights, Reform families on only the first evening. Gifts to the poor are also part of the observance of this festival. Passover services at Temple Beth Jacob, conducted by Rabbi Nathan Hershfiekl, will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow and at the same time on April 18. ' , Congregation B’nai Israel services, conducted by Rabbi Israel Goodman, will be at 7 tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday; man-lag services at 7;* RABH) GOODMAN The Road to Faith by Will Pursier Answer the Disbeliever in Compassion Chapter Thirty-Five The voices of religious disbelief «re taunting, deriding, mocking. . Do we stop- up our ears? Shout tack in fury? Lash at thepi with whips? Order their amat as bin-ties? We rennet be me Judge ef anyone, we to our cloak ef faith, aid nr Rear* We are nat God, tat His chil- even these who ary out to us and aaak to tear Him from our lives. - A '"'it A Their cries, their denunctatkas, then- misunderstandings sad misinterpretations call for andweta. tori wn answer only in compassion, in the terms of the tern some far’ off; the erics of some . who fell or surrendered or nevpr dared, of some who tnrnad away in. hatred and momentary defeat and rage — and of those who for a handful of silver would seek to sell out God Himself. \ ’ A'' A A We bear the chatter of disbelief, a litany of the doubters, on endless Jabber that offers little or ' nothing but seeks to destroy what-. .ever we hive:1 dead. We’re a chemical accident.’* The «ioices and*their derisions and impieties claw at us. The' voices, are many. Their variety la diverse; each ia aura of itself fend each must deitroy us becaoto a true disbeliever ia a lonely man and needs to share his disbelief. WO on euly toll Mini that we do net know; no «s knows: that the ways ef the Almighty Greater Some of them voices seem a turning the ether cheek?" “f/s ta our minds. We create God hi the imagA and likeness of OUT father and mother, that’s what jlfgl'! T * “And hoar do you know there is anything, beyond? Yog don’t know. I say when you're dead, yoa'ra < A cry of pain comae out of the darkness. • “O- GAd,” a womafi pleads, “trite away fills pain. 1 will love you, God, if you will trim pda agony away. Dear God < What about fids agony of here? The voters chatter with their questions. What gbdut her petal Wh6 pot it there? Why doesn’t Gdo trite it away? Why does He iet .it .exist at all? ^ A thousand ansjrers have bean-made without resolving the issue. R is God’s punishment; when you suffer you are paying a penalty Imposed by Heaven. Pain Is | Iteto i_. . . , It is unreal and the product if wrong Jhtek-Ing, the Christian Scientist believes. . It is GOd’s wifi, the Jew declares. R is a wuy of teaching us, ~ of waning us,. of helping us to grow.,. "• ■<' ; It ik n matter of germs and nerve vfj^attata, the doctor states. . The voices around us persist. AAA .But the woman’s voice' is hushed; no cry of tain is heond. They say ■ she is asleep. Physicians have given her an injection and she sleeps, and feels nothing. A moment ago she was in pain and now she rests because doctors have injected a narcotic, . , *- soothe pain and heal? . If they do not come from God, then from Without i i, the doublers i us with their questions, that lands for truths k and positive { ices of do- . tags, the acta Istence of,pod. ■aj:; flw'h “ - Junior congregation services will be at 10 am. tomorrow and Wednesday. , r: «' * •; » ,(A A A Concluding services wiU ba. M 7 p.m. on April 17, and 19;* at 7;30 a.m. on Apra is and 19; and a memorial service at 8:30 am. April 18. TWO THE Fuss Brews — Law Cave's Pot One of Pontiac's beatnik coffee homes wee minus its special toffeemaking machine today. like gadget was confiscated at the "Cwe of the Ninth Oat" Saturday evening by Wo detectives from Detroit’s McGraw Precinct They had received a report that a stolen. frOMTIAC' PatSR MONDAY, APRIL 11. 1W» “It’s all a pretested Des agar ef the "Cave.' Lt. Thurmond MeKinney, commander of the McGraw Precinct detective bureau, said the potlee machine had been reported stolen by one ef the four owners of the Ode Colage, a Detroit coflee house which closed last week. * * * Jacob* said be had an agreement with one of hie employe*, a musician named Ray McKinney, to “use” the machine. He said McKinney, * tenner employe at the Detroit establish-meat, bed ’’picked ep’’ the ms-chine “a* seenrtty” for baek wages. "As earn as he was paid ett. n him ee be ndj give II baek,’ police gaoled Jacobs as aaylag. The coffee machine Is n "L Paloni" valued at $800 to $700 and makes "espresso* coflee. Detroit police traced it down when a serviceman reported a can about the coffeemaker. > J - . "There are only two like it In southern Michigan,’’ explained Po-liceman McKinney. ■ Despite the km of the machine, "Cave patrons were served up the “espresso’' brew night. "We made it by tend—it Just took a little longer. Jacobs said. ■ . “And we have e regular coffee machine, too.’y Officer McKinney said a conference to settle the tempest over the eoffeepot weald be held tomorrow. ^ "It's a confusing caw,” he said. "But I’m receiving an education. Did you know there are 41 different brands of coffee .. T SEEK UNION SUPPORT — Dr. Dank P. Whit-mer (left), superintendent of schools, and Monroe Osmun (right), vibe president of file Board of Education, yesterday took their campaign for a tax increase to Pontiac's labor force. GMC Truck Dr. Whitmer Gives Cold Facts IlmMu EARL A. MAXWELL To Head Fund Drive for Negro Colleges Truck, and Coach Division Personnel Director Earl A. Maxwell has been named Pontiac chairman of Michigan’s I960 United Negro College Fund Drive. * A The state goal is $300,000 and the national goal $2,350,000. The money is used to help finance 33 privately 'supported Negro colleges, all but one of which are located in (he South. ♦ His colleges provide low cost higher education to some 25,000 students, most of whom otherwise could not afford college training. The colleges receive no public tax The Weather n U S. Wilts,r Barca a PONTIAC AND VICINITY — tJTi_____ sod asTS aaal laauu. namln Mr aw calar. Saalharly lM N-N aillaa kcaaUaa aarthmtarly TaaaSay. lav laalikt, M. hl(k Tenter, it. Tabr ta FkaMai Unit Umpcratura pr.cadlnc I a m. Ifaao aata Tssster at fit a.m. See Rights Bill to Ike in April Houso. Leactera Expod ♦o Concur in Sonato Amendments and Goach Division Local SM possibly will officially endorse passage of the Board’s request on a May 9 ballot, according to Andy Wilson (center), local president Union to Support School Tax A large block of Pontiac's labor force yesterday pledged its support tq the Board of ■’Education’s request for a 2 J mill increase in toe operating tax rate for the city’s school system. The Board's proposal for additional millage, which would cover a 10-year span through 1999, is slated for/ May 9 ballot. Dr. Daaa P. Whitmer, sapor-latoadeat ef achaols, tad Monroe Osman, vice president of toe Board, carried their campaign ta the OM Truck and Coach Dlvi-■lea Local 564 and Poattac Motor Division Local MS of the LAW, AFL-CIO. Whitmer told them "there will be an erosion in the quality of education’’ if voters don’t approve the tax hike. It was the 10,008-member Local 653 that immediately pledged its Stand with the school system alter one worker took the floor and said, have a ion who is on the halfday system in Royal Oak. I wouldn’t want to see | in Pontiac.’’-VOTE APPROVAL The union passed a resolution, read by local president Bert Henson, "tost we go on record giving our endorsement aad wide circulation and publicity to the school board’s request foe additional m|l-age oa the May 9........... I school system." Whitmer told them that Pontiac ranks 29th in teachers’ salaries out of 53 school systems in the Detroit metropolitan area. "This is below average,” he said. "It makes it a hard wll for us. to attract the best. . The Day In Birmingham Seek Earlier Hearing on Woodward .Rezonin BIRMINGHAM - A request tori He was a sales engineer tor Shef- WASHINGTON (AP) - House leaders predicted today the civil rights bill Will bO on President Et-senhower’s desk before the end ef this month. They anticipated that after an Easter recefo the House will cur in Senate amendments to the original House bill. The Senate passed the amended bill 71-18 Friday night. ti W W While Chairman Howard Smith (D-Va) of the Home Rules Committee declined to I group would consider the amended measure, reliable sources said' Smith’s committee probably would taka action by April 30. Once the rules committee gives its approval, House leaders could call for a final House vote at any time. House approval of the Senate amendments would automatically send the bill-to the President. •* * * Because many memben may be out of town during the Easter son, a final House veto may be put off until the week of April 34. earlier hearing data on proposed rezoning of Woodward avenue property to permit construction of an 85-unit aportmont building heeds n heavy agenda feeing City Pommies toners at tonight's meeting. The apartmfert as proposed by the Wallace J. Newton Cb. would have throe or four stories. The property, north of Qok Street and south of Colonial Terraces presently is sdned for two-etory st “If the proposal shouldn't pass, We wouldn’t be able to maintain the excellent programs we now have. There would be on erosion in| the quality of our education. "This really isn't simply a question of money. Ybu are going to decide the educational welfare of your children." Charge Murder in Shooting Flynn Challenges Mayor on District 2 Bailoi Challenging incumbent Mayor Philip E. Rowston for the District 2 seat on the City Commission li a newcomer to politics, Robert T. Flynn. ‘ A* * ♦ #' Rowston and Flynn won a place on next Mondays ballot automatically because there was no third candidate at primary election lime. Rowston, 88, of 683 W. lro-tappenj quo!, Rd. Is seeking Ms third ; election to a two-year term oa Thera warn among the some MS Local MS members to the resolution vote. Approximately 100 of the rank and file of Local 594 gave Whit-mer’s speech a big ovation at yesterday’s meeting. Andy Wilson,- president of the local, said his Union probably would discuss the millage request and possibly vote On endorsement of it at the tfnion's next meeting. "We find ourselves la a bind.” Named to the Commlsion in 1955 to fill a vacancy, Rowxfott went on to win the District 2 seat in the 1956 and 1958 elections. ‘ elected raavorby his felpw-Com-missionerWHBctober 1998. An attorney who has practiced Pontiac since 1953, Rowston is a native of Pontiac and a graduate of Detroit College of Law. He has served several years on the Oakland Coanty Tax AOoca- both sessions. "Enrollment and the coat of living Is going up and our income from local taxes is goiag down. "This is a matter of whether Mir school district is going to provide the very best in education. This is really going to be a vote for boyi and girls ... for their opportunity." -The superintendent said that new school buildings' are evident, but that the educational programs have been "beefed up" also. ★ * * "There have been extensive improvement progremajwet the last five yean," said Whitmer. "We have to hire more teacher* and provide the matching dollan to participate in the National Defense Education Act (NDEA). The money»you vote us will be used for wages, NDEA matching funds and buying additional structional material. We must also take care of existing rehabilita- tion n Whitmer was asked 'What would happen if the proposal doesn’t pass in the May flection. “The schools wouldn't close doom," he said. "We aren’t tot-* taring oa the brink of disaster. But, w« wouldn’t be able to compete for toe very best teachers Copies of the $13,700,671 operating budget lor next ytejr will be (Attributed tomorrow hut supervisors will be asked ta study them tor a week.- They'D7 return for sgteW hutting Afnil 18 to see* .budget for tea The Bovd. tomorrow will asked to7approve HO,300 so that the County Planning Commission can make a study on comparativs of Oakland's and. other coun-fovernments across toe country. Mon Board, has Joined the ranks ef the Oakland County Board of Supervisors by virtue s( Ms position as mayor, and Is a member of a somber of Mirtani’s airport committee. Flynn, 41, of 13S Ogemaw Dr. has been active In insurance and real estate since coming to Pontiac in 1946. A native of Corunna, Flynn attended Cleveland College and University of Michigan. He to a past chairman of the Pontiac Area Chamber of Commerce Traffic Safety Committee and a past presMeat st the Poattac Co-op Rsal.Eoteln Assn. Flynn once was employed In the broadcasting industry as nouncer. He is presently an agent for a life insurance company. it * • ♦ Statements submitted to The Pontiac Press by the two candidates follows: Asst. Prosecutor Soys An order for a Ant-degree Murder warrant was issued today against a Clawson mother of five who has admitted the fatal shooting Saturday of her allegedly drunk-enraged husband. Mrs. Myra Godsey, 38, of 406 Bauman St., was expected to the charge sometime this afternoon when taken before Clawson Justice of the Peace Bristol Hupter. Assistant Prosecutor Robert L. pit ~ iPMB I K ' i V 11 m n morn tag after an autopsy showed five rather than foar stags lodged in Mrs. r.odsey't husband, fames Templin said! this showed the I housewife wanted to do more than otdJr ward off her husband after he returned .from a 12-hour drinking spree. Templin also said the charge of tor highest degree of murifea (premeditated) was settled on after investigation showed Mrs. Godsey took carefully prearranged steps to have her husband’s .23 caliber rifle negrby. 'It couldn't possibly be called a self-defense," Templin said. 7 (See earlier story on Page 2o7 Pontiac 4th in Sales for Month of March. Poattac Motor Division ranked fourth to sales la to* month of March, the trade oewsletter Word's PHILIP E. ROWSTON "During my tenure as Commissioner of District 2 I have strived for improved public services and facilities. We have successfully provided our city with modern buildings and equipment without ROBERT T. FLYNN "I have beep's lifelong resident of Michigan, living in Pontiac since 1948. I take pride in serving my community! . "Unfortunately, a small____ age of citizens take part in civic increasing the tax rate or bonded affair*. A democracy cannot (BP indebtedness. without (he complete parttci- comp** 2J? tration of the City Manager and Board of Review, the Commission maintained a sound, fiscal policy by lowering the to* rate and y#t providing an ambitious construction program vrach currently includes the main library and airport terminal both of which are scheduled for completion in 1960. starts with focal government. “We must have efficiency through economy. Pontiac cannot afford expenditures of tax monies for tow suits. .Tax levies are fee toe sole purpose of public Supervisors Ready . « . j., , '“The two 1 proposed charier for Cash Discussion (Continued From Page One) the tyfaya and Means Committee that a re-evaluation study be made £ county rffice needs preliminary vme ror corn amenomems so we incr“* may avert further unfavorable