\y- t The Weather 11.8. Weather Bvreea Foreeaet ^ Light Sn»w . ■ I . (Detaili Pafe ,S) '■ £M. PONTIAC PRESS ■A„v: Home Editior\ VOL. 121 NO. 2 Weighty Problem ' ★ ★ ★ ★ PONTIAC, MK UIGAN. SATURDAY, FKimi:ARY 9, lOO.-l —20 PAGES ASSOCIATED PRESS ' UNITED PRESS INTERl^TIONAt Loser Can't Win WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (/P)—A j Incorporation of Waterford will I ship north of Cass Lake. The veteran of 17 years military service has another .[ not be on the April l spring elec-|County Corporation Counsel’s of-90 days to lose 32 pounds in excess weight or * ^commended rectoulaUon face enforced discharge and loss oUllOTfOn rights. When petitions caliing for vote were filed Dec. 4, officials, hnp^d the issue could be placed otf the spriig ballot, thus avoiding approximately $3,000 in special election costs. Edward Maguire, 34, stands 5 feet 9 inches | tall and weighs 225 pounds. The Air Force^says £ his weight should be 193 pounds. The Air Force | said yesterday Ma- | Suire was ordered | last April to attain I ™ 1 193 pounds or be dis- | i charged under regu-j lations ruling him | I unsuitable for mili- | tary service. | Put, the map accompanying the petitions omitted an approximate half-,^quare-mile area of the town- EDWARD MAGUIRE After a week of medically prescribed 800 calories - a-day diet, Maguire dropped one pound He was ordered to do bet- He put himself on a i diet of 400 calories a ' day. He informed his |. superiors of his extra | effort and his deadline | for reaching 193 pounds w'as extended to Jan. 21. Under the strict diet, Maguire said, he collapsed at the wheel of his g I oar, so the medics put him back on the 800-cal-orie diet. the corporation counsel, then referred to the board’s boundaries committee. Ffhc su^rvisors ^riet -Jan. 15. nied Jan. 11. but the corporation counsel’s office was unable to check petitions between Jan. 11 and Jan. 15. This delay, coupled with the sparse schedule of Oakland Counr ty Board of Supervisor meetings at this time of year, washed out the possibility of a decision in April. Petitions are referred to the bo^rd after being checked by At best, it probably be tion, a decision on the incorpor- ation proposal would be stretched PROCESS PERIOD Petitions would have to be completely processed at the county level by Feb. 19 to allow an April 1 vote, and the supervisors have no February meeting scheduled. April before the board cap act on pe^tions. A special e|e&. out-»BtW Augtirfrf964r"‘ tion would be at learf 40 days after this. The boundaries committee of the supervisors confers with local officials on election plans makes a recommendation to the board on a desired date. The board may accept or reject the recommendation. If it is decided to wait until the next scheduled regular elec- ■ When the. issue does come before voters, they will not only ballot on the question of incorporation, but will also elect nine charter commission mem; bers. The charter commissionadrafts a charter. Then, usually in from six to eight months after the first election, the charter is either accepted or rejected at the polls. Incorporation does not take i place until the.ijharteeAradepted'’^^ |by wte of the people. The indefinite election date is hampering various civic groups such as the Greater Waterford Community Councfl 'and the Junior Chamber of Commerce wliich are ready to launch a public information program on the issue. This campaign would be based on information compiled in a five-month effort by a 21-menaiw her incorporation study committee named by the township board. Nikita Claiins Troops in Cuba Only Instructors Remarks to Canadian Publisher That Worry in U.S. Is Unjustified Unique Goal Set by MSUO Michigan State University Oakland has set a goal of continuing educational development of its graduates with a $60,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation. The grant was awarded todky when the Michigan — ^ - --------♦State University Board of No Trace Found of’Missing Ship Trustees met in Lansing. The project of building lifelong educational programs for graduates nas never been tackled purpose, before, according to Dr. Lowell Eklund, director of continuing ed-NEW YORK (i>)~A widespread ucation at MSUO. From Our News Wires MOSCOW — Soviet Pre-i Imier Nikita Khrushchev said today that Russian forces in Cuba were there as “weapons instructors” *and that American concern over them was not justified. The Soviet leader’s remarks: were made to Canadian newspa-j perman Roy Thomson, who had a two-and-a-half hour conversation with Khrushchev. Thomson said he had asked Khrushchev whether concern | in the United States over So- { viet troops and weapons still j In Cuba was justified. j ‘‘.'tbsolutely not,” Thomson! quoted Khrushchev as saying. | Khrushchev added, according -to Thomson, that Soviet fofeesi in Cuba were there to teach| Cubans the use of advanced! weapons with which tliey had' been supplied and for no other Rebel Firing Squad Kills Iraq Premier BEIRUT, Lebanon UPl — Rebel firing squads have executed Iraq’s overthrown Premier Abdel Kerim Kas-sem, and three of his top lieutenants, the Baghdad radio announced today. The executions took place after the capture of Kas-sem and his aides by army rebels who staged a lightning revolt Friday, the^~ WAITING FOR WATER - Construction worker Dennis Watton of 1940 Lakeville Road, Oxford 'fownship, is dwarfed by water pipes and equipment awaiting instailalion near the Pontiac Motor Division plant. A gigantic elevated water tank is being erected at Mont- calm and Wolfe streets to hold two million gallons of Detroit water when it arrives here in July. It's part of Pontiac's $3.2-million water system improvement project to be completed by June. Thorson Free on Bond search by Coast Guard planes produced no trace today of a sulphur-laden tanker and her crew of 39 missing on a run from Texas to Virginia. The search over thousands of square miles of the Atlantic continued, with the ship now two days overdue. The Coast Guard described the tanker skipper as a punctual man who ordinarily would report by —YadurifTltr ship were ilelayed: The tanker is missing some-v/here in the Soiflh Atlantic between the western end of the Gulf of Mexi p and Norfolk, the Coast Guard said.' The tanker’s course would have taken her through a severe Atlantic storm that battered the soul! eastern engineering graduates. The long - range plan* encyst with winds of 40 mile“s'perj visions adding to the university hour and churned up seas 14 feet! professional counselors 'Expanding knowledge has made life-long education so necessary that universities must lose no more time in providing it on a planned and systematic basts,” ne explained in applying for the grant. Dr. Kklund said his department plans to work closely with both the alumnus and his employer in developing an individual program design^ to improve thp grad’s professional compcn- tence and continue his cultural development. The grant will be u.sed to start with one professional counselor DETROIT W - Robert M.i (roit home Thomson, who was accom- ^ Birmingham, was Dec. 4. panied by other British business-, , ,.«cfpr I . men at the meetiniz with Khru.sh-r® yester-, xhorson’s bond was set by Re- T„"lhereaS Judge Joseph Gillis. Re- SHpILfilnn trial June 10 on a first-degree ,,,3, bon^ « first-degree murder charge in the brutal slay-'j„„rder case is rare in Michigan, chev, man British delegation. He quoted Khrushchev as saying that the Soviet leader was nclY satisfied with the state of current Russo-Amerlcan relations. Thomson said he asked how many Russian troops there were in Cuba, and the Premier replied he did not know the figure would have to look it up. ing of his mother-in-law, but not unprecedented. Thorson. 31, had been held in Wayne County Jail since his arrest Dec. 17. Ills mother-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Thomas, 62, was found bludgeoned and strangled to death in her Dc- thc morning of defendant could have posted hiS word, instead of money. Judge Gillis also denied a defense request that clothing taken from Thorson’s car on the day of the murder be ruled out as evidence on the grounds that it was unlawfully seized by police. Authorities said the cldtVing was stained with blood of the same type as Thorson’s mother-in-law. Gillis, while allowing Thorson to be free on bond, denied three other defense motions, one of which would hav€ had the judge setting personal bond so that the GERMANY THE CRISIS Khrushchev indicated, Thomson said, that the German prob-, lem was the most crucial prob-and assistants *q«alifted -R^-woi*^ thSr " with business administration and ^^^b its settlemeftt the cold war would largely end. ‘•He was adamant that the division of Germany must continue,’’ Thomson said. The 68-year-old newspaper and TV station owner said: "He left no doubt that he will not envisage any further settlement than the two Germanys. He envisages West Berlin as an island with the people living as they want to live.” Dry Humor qualified to work in all other areas covered by MSUO’s curriculum. Dr, Eklund said the program would be initiated with the school’s first graduates in April. “Ideally, they should want to pass into the alumni education phase as readily as they moved into college from high school,” he said. IN SEMen-VEX* I, During senior year, a student would work with a counselor in making tentative plans for his post - graduate curriculum based on his career interests. Recommendations from t li e prospective employer also would Thut'i th* question teenager Rudy Cowan must answer for himself when he s offered what looks like a Well-poying job. Should Rudy lake the job, or stay m /school and c 0 n’P1® education? CAPTAIN EASY tries to guide Rudy to tho right decision, in 0 sympo-thetic and interesting story about the school dropout problem oppearing doily in tho comic pages. Starts Feb. 11. Life s Little Laughs After the student’s graduation, the counselor would work with the appropriate divisions of the university, with the employer, and with the individual to continue to develop a curriculum suited to his needs. The alumnus wouldn’t necessarily come back to the Oakland campus. , He may be steered to appropriate courses at other or closer institutions, use correspondence courses and Inijservice tfaining programs provided by the employer. Alumni who, move out Of the area may get advice and counsel by nnail If they wish. (Continued on Page 2, Col. 8) Gillis also denied a motion to drop the murder charge. Thorson’s attorney argued thpt Thois son’s examination before Judge Arthur J. Kosclnski showed insufficient evidence to bind him over for trial. •S’ w ★ ' Jiidp Gillis said he proposed bail after denying the three defense motions because, he said, “the evidence is not great.” United States WASHINGTON (AP)-Debonair Igor Cassini, who writes of the Smart Set under the name “Cholly Knickerlwcker,” has been indicted broadcast said Earlier broadcasts by the new pro-Nasser regime had said Kas-sem was “destroyed” but gave no details of his reported death. It was believed by some that he could have fled from his besieged defense ministry and made ^ood his escape By boat on the Tigris River. Another broadcast today said that the bodies of two of Kassem’s lieutenants had been found by soldiers in the rubble of the bombed-out ministry. a as the announcer read liis statement, other voices were hejjrd-Shouting that the “mad dictator hr", met his death beneath the feet of the people. SEEK surpor.T Indicating that anti-Communist rebete may not yet have extended their supremacy everywhere, Other broadcasts urged people to report to recruiting centers and enlist to defend the revolt against Kassem’s supporters: Borders and airports remained sealed off from the rest of ,the world and Iraqis were warned that violators of a curfew would be shot. Syria, Iraq’s northwest neighbor closed its own borders and braced for possible trouble from the pro-Nasser new regime. The situation in Damascus, where pro-Nasser students had demonstrated against the government last months, was described as tense, TTurTceyron^ ® der, alerted its gendarmerie and air force units on the frontier. Prime Minister Ismet Inonu was quoted in the Turkish press as saying “my guess is Nasser has a finger in this affair.” The junta ord- ed a crackdown on Communists, accusing them of being “partners of the enemy of Goid, Kassem, in his cfTmes,” The Iraqi undci jroiind Communist party is powerful and well-organized. Abdel Salam Mohammed Aref,, aji outspoken supporter of President Nasser of the United Arab] Republic, will be president untilj the end of the transitional peri-^ od, said a communique bioadoa.st by the Baghd.ul radio. FINDLAY, Ohio 7Pi - An 18-year-old Findlay College freshman from Birmingham, Mich.. Tom Wood, is elaiming the world's record in the latest collegiate shenanigan-revolving inside an automatic laundry dryer. In a 41-minutc period early yesterday. Wood made 1,664 revolutions, according to the six witnesses on hand at an all-night self-service laundry. That figures to a bit more than 40 turns a minute. The dryer door was held open so it wouldn’t get too hot inside for Wood. After the stunt, he said he felt fine. He walked to an all-night restaurant and consumed a liamburger and a cup of coffee. J^tEWRCBT. Teno>JE-.mjrfiaiairm.thcjnQuntaia.balkd.oiv-e^^^ ....t^“Darlin’ Corey” might well have been written about Cocke County, as a publicity agent for the Do-| which Alcohol Tax Unit agents call the moonshine capital of the minican regime of the late Rafaelj Sorinklina SnOW [world. And thi.s time the “revenooers” are coming with a ven- Trujillo, j r a ' jgeance. The code of the hills has been broken. Sheriff Kin Holt says he ordinarily is not Interested in raiding or “cutting” stills, as he calls It, but when moonshiners shoot at revenue men, that's another matter. I State and federal agents moved into the country’s hill country —43 miles east of Knoxville—enmasse this week after moonshiners opened up on two State Revenue Department agents with rifle fire {Monday. Since then, 75 state and federal agents have brolfcn up 40 stills and poured 12,500 gallons of good corn mash out on the ground. Death Shatters Family Dream^. LOS ANGELES (iPi -Mrs. Marian Bibby expected her husband to be wai^g at the airport when she andN^e of their six children arrived fr^ Birmingham, Mich., to start a"new life in California. * -k ■*r But Harold Bibby wasn’t there. ir i( -k Mrs. Mary Dgvis' a friend, met the plane yesterday wi6] the tragic word that Bibby, of 1492 Hum-pl^rey St., had been killed in an automobile accident a few hours earlier. While the children were occupied elsewhere, Mrs. Bibby was taken to an office in the airline terminal and btformed of the tragedy. “I just talked to him last night,” Mrs. Bibby said between The youngsters are Flora, 13, Harold, 8, Bill, 7, Rosemarie 5, and Bobby 2. Another son, Dennis, had remained in Michigan. NEW HOME READY The family’s new home- Just completed, was waiting for them in suburban La Puente. Bibby, 34 had fpund ii job as a salesman for an automobile agency. ■k k k Tttter puf<3rasrflf ® Thursday night, he was driving to his temporary quarters in Pasadena when his car, rounding a curve, hit loose gravel in the center dtylderbf the Colorado Pre^ way. * . k k The car skidded broadside for 277 feet, flipped over twice knocked down two signs. BibBy, thrown from the car, was injunk fatally. “17 Calls the First Day” Says Mrs. G. M. “We wei'c very satisfied wKh ouf ad in The Pontiac Press. We linri 17 calls the first day (lie ad was In the paper. We sold our <‘ar on the ftrat call. you for your service." iMrcHffiVY a-DOOR ^ •■CYLim dor, with itandftrd »hllt. $100. Pontiac Press Classified will pi'(slnee tluj same resull.s for \'ou t tarnished j 17 hud^been taken Into custody. I Morgcnthaii. who will prosecute the case, s.iid the men wore charged with a single conspiracy to remove goods from U. S. Customs custody and control. ^ ' \ ^ I He said It was part of the conspiracy to deliver goods and receive payment for them at tjhe A. & R. Trading Co., 44 Eldridge of Iho Trujillo government The/period covered in the indictment is from June 19,59 to Noember 1961. Dictator Trujillo wfis assassinated in May 1961. Also named in two counts of Ihe St,, Manhattan. This was the trading company, he said, that goy- Indiclmcnl was R. Paul England- lernmont agents set up and operated. or, yiyear-old New York lawyer. Continued Cold Forecast for Area Cold temperatures with a sprinkling of snow is the area weather picture through Monday. The forecast for tonight and tomorrow calls for light snow or snow flurries along with a low of 12 for this evening and a high of 20 for Sunday. Little change is expected Monday. Today's east to southeast winds at 8 to 12 miles per hour will become southwesterly tonight and westerly to northwesterly at 10 to 20 miles pen hoim Sunday. The lowest temperature recorded in downtown Pontiac prior to 8 this morning was 6 above. By 2 p.m. the mercury hud moved up to 21. { In Today's Press FiflWS Kennedy’s AF ai^'ordered to take a long walk I -PAGE 11. Political Fire Romney raps Dems, meets criticism -on attl-tude-PAGE 12. 70 Years Auto development has provided some amusli iiicldcnt-PAGE 7. Astrology ........ 16 Bridge .............II Church News .......M Comics .............II Home Section . 13-11 I Obituaries .........26 < Sports............17-19 j Theaters .........fl-U TV & Radio Programs M j Wilson, Earl .......II j Women’s Pages ..... I j ^ . ■ TWO r TOE PONTIAC PHESg> SATURI)XY, FEBRIJAEY 9, 1968- 'Kennedy Confident Troops to Go Soon' HEATI\G UP HOOF - New York Iwlifemen Avefill Gill (left) and Warren King allow their mounts’ to linger injsrarm vapors escaping from manholes on a Manhattan street yesterday in bitter zero weather. _____^ WASHINGTON ^UPI) -'President Kennedy is confident that Russian combat troops will be out of Cuba by the end of March, according to a high Latin-Amer-ican official. ■ ★ The President was reported planning joint action with the organization of American States to deal with the situation unless the troops leave by then. The Latin - American officiai, ..who saw Kennedy recently but declined to be identified, said he shared Kennedy’s optimism. Othier sources said Kennedy was drafting a personal message to Soviet^remier Nikita Khrushchev prodding him to 9pe0d up withdrawal of the 17,000 Russian A Wary US: Testing Again WASHINGTON (UPI) -U.S. I disarmament chiief WilSam C. ; Foster headed for Geneva and -resumption of the 17-nation dis-' armament conference to' ★ ★ - ★ But the United States, wary of Soviet stalling, has already resumed underground nuclear tests. ★ ★ ★ Foster will refn-esent the United States at the opening , ^ session of the Geneva talks, re-- aiming Tuesday after a recess ; wits called just before Christ- * matl ■ He leaves one day after the „ United States set, off “several’ explosions at the Nevada testing grounds, the first since Dec, 12. FORM ‘SUBCOMMITTEE’ The United States, Britain s Russia form a nuclear test ban “subcommittee” of the larger conference on general disarmament. I Soviet Premier Nikita S. * Khrushchev raised hopes for a * nuclear test ban in December by agreeing, in a letter to President Kennedy, to a limited amount of on-site inspection hi Russia. But the “two or three” inspections a year Khrushchev offered were not considered enough. ★ ★ ★ Last month, while U.S.-British-Boviet test ban talks were going mh in New York, President Ken-i)edy ordered a delay in scheduled hnderground nuclear tests in Nevada so as not to interfere With the negotiations. But the., talks made no progress, and on Jan. 31 the Russians broke them off and troops the administration says are still in Cuba. NEW GOP BLAST These reports came as the Republican Congressional Committee fired a new blast at the administration estimate of the Cuban situation. It charged that administration supporters, in defending the State Department, the Pentagon and the COhtfal Intelligence Agency as reliable sources of intelli- vada tests to proceed so as not i can sources, have ‘attempt^ to to be caught up again in an un-i sweep under the politiOal rug proposed they be resumed.at the Geneva conference. Kennedy then ordered the Ne-jgence while denouncing Republi- his brother from Blame In the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, had blamed ttese same intelligence sources for insisting air cover for the amphibious landing would not be needed, thus dooming the invaders to imprisonment; “2. These are the same sources, which after a general house-cleaning by the administration, deniei-'the~ presence of Russian missiles in Cuba until such weaponry conveniently was ‘discovered’ by President Kennedy just before the 1962 congressional electimis.” The Republican newsletter also carried its own estimate of Red strength in Cuba, saying that it xl on reports from the U.S, government itself, representatives of foreign governmehts who maintain embassies in Havana, the various Cuban underground agencies “and other sources.” 40,000 TROOPS? It stated that Russian troops— at least 18,700, perhaps as many as 40,000, as charged^ by Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., including five Soviet generals. The newsletter also claimed lat there were.still 40 to*46 official testing moratorium, such the three-year one the Russians suddenly broke in September 1961,--- SEEK ADVANCE NOTlC&__^ At the Geneva talks, U.S. officials said, the United States will again press for measures to reduce the risk of accidental war, and will propose they be put into effect as a first step toward disarmament. These include arrangements to give advance warning of military maneuvers and faster communications between Washington and Moscow to avoid misunderstandings in time of crisis. ' The Atomic Energy Commission, in a brief statement, announced that several intermediate-range explosions were set off yesterday at the Nevada testing grounds. The yield of the tests ranged from less than 20 kilotons (20, 000 tons of TNT) up to one megaton (one million tons of TNT), the AEC said. two rather disturbing facts.” The conunittee’s weekly newsletter said they were this: “1, That Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, Just two weeks earlier in an attempt to absolve Italian Doctors Strike Demanding Higher Pay ROME (UPI) — Italian engineers and architects and many of the nation’s doctors went on strike today while factory workers were returning to their jobs from a 24-hour “general strike. The Weather Full U.S^.AVeatherBureau Report PONTIAC AND VICINITY — Increasing cloudiness and cold today. High 20. A little light snow or snow flurries tonight and Sunday. Not as cold tonight. l.