nd > s, Seana Hie: nr ft | \ ; # "THE PO f j “| ; i meee r cf i y i ¥ Z ee # 4 f i f { } ’ EK kkKe«ke PONTIAC, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957 —32 PAGES t ASBOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS PHOTOS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 4 ‘Berkle y. Youth Killed Fleeing in x * x & * x * ae * x ine’ After Rescue From Voters on Hospita 3 Vital Issues on Improvement Facing Pontiac Hospital Bonds, Parking, : Treatment on 6-Part Ballot Pontiac voters go to the polls Monday to decide on three vital city improve- ments, and to vote on funds to finance them. The proj- ects are: 1. Completion and fur- nishing of the General Hospital addition; ' 2. Providing a 300-car parking lot for the hos- pital; 3. New sewage treat- Number 1 most con- cerns voters. tt will. to Decide ~ xk *k * Six Proposals In laymen’s language, here are the six propositions facing voters on Monday’s special election ballot. After each proposition is described, there are listed. 1—who is eligible to vote; 2—whether a simple majority or a three-fifths majority is necessary for passage; and 3— whether the proposition is tied in with another. Proposition 1 The vital proposition. It would provide the money to pay for any or all of the bond issues approved. A “yes” vote lets the city levy additional taxes of up to $1 for every $1,000 assessed valua- tion. No more than 35 cents could be earmarked for the hospital addition and the parking lot. No more than 65 cents could go for the sewage treatment system. Only those bond issues approved could be financed. All registered voters. A majority. This propo- sition must be approved if either proposition 4, 5 or 6 is to be effective. ~~ x *« * ; Proposition 2 ‘This is one of two minor issues, allowing the city to bring its 1920 charter into line with recent state law governing the mechanics of issuing bonds. It would make things easier for the city, allowing more flexible financing by means of City Commis- sion resolutions, rather than by ordinance, which is the present method. All registered voters. A majority. Its passage would be convenient, its defeat would not, affect the other issues. * * * * Proposition 3 | The same story as proposition No. 2. A “yes” vote here would the wsual large interest rate at the beginning of the bond period. All registered voters.. A majority. Again, its passage would be convenient—and probably profitable. Its defeat would not affect * * * Proposition 4 The first of the three general obligation bond issue proposi- tions. A “yes” vote would allow the city to borrow $1,500,000. The money would go to complete and equip the new Pontiac Gen- eral Hospital addition. Registered votérs who are either property owners or spouses of property owners. A three-fifths majority. Can be effective only if proposition No. 1 is passed. * « * Proposition 5 | second general obligation bond proposition. A “yes” vote allow the city to borrow $350,000. The money would go towards financing a 300-unit parking lot at the General Mospital. Registered voters who are either property owners or spouses of | property owners. A three-fifths majority. Can be effective only if proposition No. 1 is passed. . x *« * -® Proposition 6 The third general obligation bond proposition. A “yes” vote would allow the city to borrow $2,700,000 by issuing bonds. The money would go towards partial financing of a new sewage treat- ment plant and expansion at the old plant. Registered voters who are either property owners or spouses of property owners. A three-fifths majority. Can be effective only if proposition No, 1 is passed. | Monday Paul Michalski Hit by Bullet Fired in Chase Pol Is Hurt in Crash; Officer Aimed Gas Tank During Pursuit - DETROIT (#}—A_16-year- old Berkley youth was kill- ed by a policeman’s bullet today while fleeing at 100 miles an hour'at the wheel of a stolen automobile. | A companion was in- jured critically when the car wrecked against a tree a mile further on. Killed was Paul R. Mich- alski, a Berkley High School student. Injured was Ger- ald E. Markey, also 16 and of Berkley. State Trooper Norman Lee said rescue shaft on a stretcher after SAFE ABOVE GROUND—Little Benny Hooper is carried from more than 20 feet deep. This picture was made just as he was being lifted from hole through which rescue work was carried out. Then: “Monny”, “Daddy” PY HOSPITAL BOUND — As his mother watches oxygen in ambulance after anxiously, Benjamin Hooper Jr, is administered well in which he was trapped AP Wirephote his dramatic rescue from a well Young Michalski left home early last night, telling his mother, he - (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) Business, Industry to Host 803 this year by its Committee, in | f re Ciurch News ........ , 1, Comics .......+ ate veniensié « County NeWS ......6s00005 Bditorials — .sccccvensscece Home Section ......... 11. ? | *§ 4 » 7 Wilson, Earl .......0000rs.. Women’s Pages oo 8, Cloudy and Warmer Is Sunday Outlook Pontiac's weather outlook for to- Long Hours At first the boy’s mother Frightened Paren ts Wait MANORVILLE, N. Y. (#—When he fell in, there was lots of confusion and haste and people rushing here and there. Then, for hours there was nothing to do but wait. g but later she was able to look down the well shaft at for Rescue was hysterical with fright, lowed up in fresh-dug sand. His father Called: “Ben- Ff * * * Little Berniny Hooper moved his arm as long as a 7-year - old could. He couldn't know the fear that clutched at his father’s throat when the arm moved no more. The treacherous sand: sifted her only son all but swal+— over Benny's arm and hand, blot- ting it from sight. After that, Benny's. mother sat a. staring out the win- They spread a-white sheet over the narrow well where her son had slipped out of sight—perhaps to eternity—Thursday night, Beyond the sheet, men machines . labored in a_ pit. (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) formal opening of the 1957 On Monday, nearly 400 A minister, a rabbi and a priest will .| Lt. Gov. Philip A. Hart will head the list of state officia in attendance. Michigan Week to Open } LANSING (—A noon religious ceremony Sunday on . weadens was the lead man the steps of thé state capitol.at Lansing will mark the Michigan Week celebration. communities will swap mayors End in Success — Trapped Child . ent, The sand really started com- First toReach Negro Worker Relates Bringing Boy Out Alive ‘Life’s Biggest Thrill’ MANORVILLE, N.Y. @~ “Bringing the boy out alive was the biggest thrill in my life.” Speaking was Sam Woodson, 39- year-old Negro construction er, who pulled little 7-year « Benjamin Hooper Jr. out of what apparently was to be his tomb, - Woodson said he was digging carefully when his shovel uncov- ered Benny’s red jacket, which had pulled up over his head as he slid down the narrow well hole, “I kept on scooping. away so I could get him out I heard him whimper. “Just then we started to cave sand and ing and I had to yank at him pretty hard. HEARD BOY CRY “Then I heard him cry. I the jacket from over his he looked ‘at me and the crew to Mion a be, tomeeieniy be: St ol en Car Shaft | Workers Dig for 24Hours = toSave Youth — : : i E : : iW L f ih F mh rail E e Ht a | : : REgErLi vy 4 begs § E $ F . fil i 7h i i pte dhit 1 ; Beteek. Whiley hilt me ‘to keep me from letting getting buried.” > lie} A (ae Ae Oklahoma Again ~ Girds for Floods | Area of Danger ‘Shifts _ to Eastern Part of State - as Downpours Continue OKLAHOMA CITY & — Okla- homa looked for its third straight day of floods today amid Weather Bureau forecasts of more rain. The dangér area shifted to the eastern part of the state with ex- peeted record flooding at Tulsa and the small town of Keystone. Creeks and rivers in southern Ok-) lahoma also poured out of their banks on the heels of rains rang- ing up to almost 8 inches in a a hour period. * * * Keystone is near the confluence of the Cimarron and Arkansas rivers. | The Cimarron ran through Do- ver early. Thursday, and dumped water into the small towns of Coyle and Perkins yesterday. Its crest Was expected to join the al- ready swollen Arkansas today. The flood peak of 26 feet is ex- pected to hit the south part of| Tulsa around 10 p.m. today. Flood) stage there is 19 feet. * * * | At least 1,000 persons have| evacuated homes on both sides) of the Arkansas last night, and| Tulsa officials warned all resi-| dents in the area to leave ‘‘before it's too late.” Roe a cuby. a low- ‘After Well Rescue land Tulsa county community, more than half of the 2,400 resi- dents: were being removed. The Tulsa River Forecasting! Bureau warned all areas down-| stream from Tulsa to the mouth) of the Verdigris river near Mus- kogee to prepare for a record flood. About 2,200 acres of land at Tul- Sa are expected to be inundated. | If predicted state-wide rains and showers materialize, the crest may be higher and come sooner, . the. bureau warned. Pontiac to Get $30,250 From State for Airport Pontiac will receive $30,250 in| matching state funds for its city airport under a bill passed by the| House yesterday. The measure, re- ‘turned to the Senate for concur- rence, allocated $585,750 for local airports. now Prue | STHE - el ather By E. H. SIMs ‘Can orfe foretell anything abdut the weather by carefully noticing the color of the clouds above? The. answer is that only very limited weather information can be detected from observation of cloud colors, The truth is, in fact, clouds have no color, It may be hard to believe but clouds are col- orless. Their apparent color results from reflection. The tiny particles of moisture in a cloud reflect so much light, at. so many angles, they give a white appearance. Take away the sun, and clouds become darker in appearance. And clouds can reflect the colors of * So, little can be learned from watching the apparent color changes in clouds. Dark clouds on hak sunny days in summer do cate a concentygtion of mois- as to blot out the The Weather Pull U.S. Weather Bureau Report CPF ae RY cloudy te ar ionight_ and to- temertow afternoon. an he as coe Sun rises Sunday at 8:07 a.m. day at 10:17 a.m. Moon rises Saturday at 11;49 p.m. BOM... cecee- + m.. 7 9 OM. .ccverss 42 Th, ces seesven> 49 CO ABiececee- tld 1pm 51 9 @.m..... 43 0 a. = - long. They fit nearly one | \} | } f / @ | a | nd, mi | | \e | Division’s exhibit at the Armed in the Detroit Arsental at Eleven GMC military ambulance at left, ARMED FORCES DAY—Nearly a half century of military vehicle production .is represented here in GMC \ k and Coach Forces Day show opening today and a Half Mile Roads. The old built in Pontiac in 1918, was the 4 Boy ‘Doing Fine’. (Continued From Page One) Hoopers’ Long Island home at 7:30 p.m, Thursday night. At 7:10 last night the rescuers broke through to his side, * * * The workmen clawed with bare hands through the last few inches of earth. In a few moments, Sam Wood- son, a construction worker, lifted the weakened child from the sandy trap that had held him upright and almost motion- less through a night and a day. The elated Woodson said: | “I was the happiest boy alive, when I saw his blue eyes.” | Hooper, a 33-year -* old truck driver, shouted: “He's alive, he’s alive!” jinary enemy. THE PONTIAC PRESS, SAT forerunner of the modern GMC In the background is-one of GMC's latest civilian trucks—an air suspension vehicle having air be springs. The free show is open to the public from 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. today and Sunday. | Armed Forces Day Slates enement Falls: Displays of Military Might . Demonstrations of ,the aga military might feature the Pon- tiae area’s observance of Armed Forces Day today. Forees Day will be in Washinton, D, C. kk & * At the Auburn-Opdyke road site, a Nike guided missile will be on the Army Reserve Training Cen-'. igth Anti-Aircraft Artillery Bn. ?. ter, 469 S. East Blvd. Guided) i,stanation near tours. and exhibitions of yarious weapons and pieces of equipment are offered to the public. * * * Rocheste Rounding out the day’s events will be a series of aircraft fly- overs scheduled for the Pontiac) jarea. The jets are scheduled to 1 | a. ene ee ae | six-by-six military truck at right, liows instead of conventional steel | Hurt, Traps 1 | 4 Other Tenants Sought | in Debris of Collapsed’ Open houses are being held at Gichiay. “It will be brought from, NeW York Building URDAY, MAY 18, 1957 | figs Safety Checked Volunteer Lanes Close, Gas Stations Continue to Issue Stickers Approximately 15,000 autos were safety checked this week during the 1957 May Vehicle Inspection Program. lane check campaign ended last night by chalking up a total of 8,174 autos which were inspected in the five areas set up throughout the city, according to Capt. Joéeph Koren, traffic and safety bureau of the Pontiac police, Of these, special warning cita- ‘| tiens were issued to 157 motor- ists during the week, They will have 72 hours to replace or re- pair defective equipment and then may obtain the desired safety check sticker. Motorists issued citations and fail to have the equipment. re- paired in the ‘specified time are subject to arrest. The tota] check lane figure was about 2,000 less than the autos checked in lanes last year Koren added. OVER 7,000 More than 7,000 autos have been safety checked at the 60 local gaso- paign, Koren said, Although the check lants closed yesterday, motorists will still be able to have autos checked at these stations until the"tnd of May. The committee's goal of 20,000 reached by then. * * * | NEW YORK (INS) — At least one person was trapped today tenement building which com- The big show is out on Opdyke 25, over Pontiac at 1 p.m., 2:37 thickly poBulated lower East Side. Rd. about a quarter mile north of Auburn Rd. A full-fledged mock battle will be staged, beginning at 1 p.m. The local National Guard unit, and a contingent from Port Huron, will tangle with an imag- The 703rd Tank Bn. from Pon- tiac is staging a 3% hour battle Then he dashed wildly for the house to break the news to Ben- * Hooper had just | after severa) days’ digging in the backyard of the modest ranch- | style bome 30 miles cat of Mar hattan, Pe ae He went to get g piece of piping | for the well. Then Benny tried to leap over foot-wide opening. He landed Hooper ran to shouted encouragement to his son and dropped him a rope. The boy tried to hold on, He couldn't. Hooper started digging fran- tically with his bare hands. Then the first rescue workers ran to the scéne. They began at once to dig a shaft a few feet from the well and parallel to it. An oxygen hose was into the well, Enough oxygen for three men continually poured down to, the boy. ° * * * Peering down into the pit, work- men could see the boy’s hands. They heard feeble cries. Then at 11 p.m. there was only silence. Rescuers feared the worst but they refused to give up. They toiled on under floodlights through the night and into the dawn. _ «§ & & When they tried to cut across horizontally from the rescue shaft to the spot where the boy was last-ditch maneuver. It might the- boy his life. ese * * *. But Jate in the diy they to their original plan, An ingeni- ous device furnished by the Atom- i¢ Energy Commission turned the trick. ray shields, each about 4 side the other and could be ex- panded and contracted like a col- lapsable metal drinking cup, The “cup” served as a tunnel through the treacherous sand to the boy. * * * attending physician, : es —~ S32esReEeaseciss; H ’ agony began as| Oe a evening. |also high on the list of struck water) at the Detroit Arsenal. p.m. and 2:41 p.m. Cit fo Vote Monday on 3 Vital Issues (Continued From Page One) add another dollar to the tax structure for the hospital and treatment plant costs. This prop- to Displays of special Weapons are attrac- tions, The Detroit Arsenal Show ‘will include the first showing in this area of the Navy's earth sat- ellite program, The only other dis- play of this - Frogs Begin Qualifying Heats in Jump Contest ANGELES CAMP, Calif. (® — Qualifyin nual Jubilee began today under a pall of rain clouds —’ suitable to the frogs, especially the foreigners. They always get here kind of de- hydrated.” * * * Some 20 frogs from 15 foreign countries are participating. The event is billed as an international frog Olympics. It commemorates Mark Twain's famous story of the “Jumping Frogs of Calaveras County.” Oldtimers are worried about a huge Canadian import, Miss As- signment, the Canadian Broad- casting Co.’s entry. The Canadian hopper “makes all other . entries look like pygmies, A foreign entry with hopes of surpassing the existing world rec- ord of 16 feet 10 inches, is Won Long Hop, the Free China cham- pion from Formosa, sponsored by Transport Claire A Freiich frog, Denise, from Seine, near Paris, was Ford Opens Big Plant in Indiana Capital _ INDIANAPOLIS — Ford Motor c 954 hospital bond vote. 3 % use ree ae TPSTITS ‘i Hi i I ag: | hed 7! 3? was approved then, but) .,|prayer from time to time. One injured person was removed, \from the building, which was [known to be occupied by five ‘tenants, and was rushed to the j hospital. The other tenants were un- accounted for an hour after the eccurred, The injured man was identified as Allan , 62, Officials at the scene said there \definitely was one person trapped lin the building, and perhaps more. | | [Hos ambulances and a Bellevue Hospital disaster unit were stand- n- ry ne by. the scene. Parents Wait Long Hours for Rescue _ (Continued From Page One) sat staring at the sheet for hours. Her lips moved silently as if in Benny's father couldn't sit like s life, Mrs, ‘Hooper didn’t know just clock ticked on, would soon be too late. Hooper the mounting difficulties and the clock wore him down too. As Benny's time in his sandy prison .ticked close to 24 hours, hope visibly drained out of every- one. knew what they wefe doing, but |p | “The inspection program is spon- jmobile Dealers’ Assn. The five-day volunteer safety The Day in Birmingham au * Ofticials Complete for Guest Mayors Monday BIRMINGHAM Mayor pro tem Dominic Vit- traino will represent Bloomfield Hills ‘at Auburn, . oo. The Battle Creek party co: here will include Mayor and Mrs. Russell V, Worgess, who will be greeted at the city hall by Carl! Ingraham and representatives of local groups in which Worgess is active at home. ‘A luncheon at Northwood Inn with other community leaders, tours and a dinner with City Com- missioners and their wives. will complete the day. — Mayor and Mrs, Frank Brown of Auburn will be guests of Hillis officials at a luncheon, to be fol- lowed by a tour of the city. Dinner at the Kingsley Inn will end the day’s activities, * ‘ Birmingham Rotary Anns will line and service stations, who are}meet Monday for a 1 p.m. luncheon participating in the May cam-'at the home of Mrs. J. H. Achten,| ; .|32065 Telegraph Rd. It will be the annual meeting and election. * * Members are asked to bring blue jeans, tee shirts, under- wear, bathing suits and pajamas —Battle Creek and Auburn are the destinations of: Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills city officials Monday when cities throughout the state change mayors, - Mayor William Roberts. will be accompanied by his son Billy, on plant and civic-center tours in Bat- tle Creek, ex- ‘Plans for children from 8 to 13 years. old, / These, in addition to a sum of money, will go to the group’s an- nual project of sponsoring a stay for crippled children at the Grace Bentley Camp. : * * * spring card party at the Commu- nity House Wednesday, Ali The afternoon p-ogram will in- sic. He is safety. checked autos is hoped to be Naming of Orion Man ‘Confirmed by Senate The U.S, Senate today confirmed) A native of Chicago, she was i in S0red by the traffic and safety the the ruins of a three-story brick|COmmittee of the Pontiac Area|chat, iChamber of Commerce, the Pon- Lake Orion. Weitschat was among pletely collapsed on Manhattan's tiac Police and the Pontiac Auto-jeight other nominees for the . po- |sition in various parts of Michigan. head, Mrs. Savage, 89, of 591 Smith St. died Thursday in William Beau- niont Hospital nomination of Arthur H. Weits- &ctive in Catholic affairs in the for the postmastership of Detroit area. She was a member of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church, Birmnigham. Mackinac Straits Straits of Mackinac now are bridged by steel. * * * But it still will be November Steel now reaches from shore to shore, five miles. But there still is no roadway hanging from the bridge’s giant suspension cables. Some three and a half years after they started work on the structure, engineers yesterday clanged a steel beam into the last gap separating land-based spans from the bridge's cable anchor pie rs—from which the giant suspension cables take off. So now, there is steel from each cable end to each shore. Bridged by Steel ST. IGNACE u — The stormy| is topped only by San Francisco's |" Golden Gate Bridge. Concrete anchorage gies nei Report 126,223 Cars jlarge as a city block and as tall ’ | First reports told of a gas leak|before anyone can drive a cafias a 10-story building they weigh) _|in the structure, but police saidjacross a 100-million-dollar bridge'145,000 tons and take the strains there was no fire, although two'that will cap a long, Jong dream off the thick cables. alarms were turned in and a fire|of linking Michigan's upper and The suspension will hang about yearns squad was dispatched to|lower peninsulas by highway. 155 feet above water. Rosary services will : tonight at Manley Bailey Funeral Home. Service will be at 10 a.m. piers reach Soft Drinks Stifle Fire Started by Sun's Rays Lost Parakeet Gives Finder Owner’s Number DETROIT (INS)—Gerald Kiwak Assembled in Week DETROIT #—This week's motor vehicle ‘output from U. S. plants Tot's Hand Crushed: in Hot Roller Iron 2 4 f ll ; rg i , % Fi At ht MEMO EE LOL LER ERA ELE EM TT I ie Ogg, rR. Nagi Ae tie A ee Og ai a Trade Mark + Except on Published from Tus Powrue Passs Hanotp A. . P. Seems. tee H, Prreera.o 1, Honace F. ARB Execu' President and end Savertising Director Manager ® Basesrt tion Manager Teeter Sane sop hfe Joun W. Prreczaste, W. Cuanuss Prins, Gaonce C. Classified Manager Entered at Post Office, Pontinc, as second class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press * entitled exctusively to republica’ weal news Med to tae Nh ge Ay Fy we isveasanne, Tus Powrne delivered 40 cents a Week: ~ i ot veilabie by Smal Ww ayh gy 12. 1 elsewhere in See 2 n the United States ef. All mail gubecriptions be rome in advance, MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRECULATIONS SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957 Early Morning Highway Patrol People who drive the Dixie High- way or other main roads in the early morning hours witness a winged patrol that is quite effective. That much maligned and gen- erally hated ebony colored member of the bird family, the crow, is doing ee ee eS Pe ee ae ed eo er Re 6 * RT eR & Foe ee ot oe ee i he a the other unknowingly quite bene- » ficial to mankind. * * * He (we are no judge of sex in crows) gets awing at the break of dawn to check the main roads for anything killed during the night. His eyesight is so keen that he easily detects dead animals and birds that were thrown off the pavement, but feasts first on those irf plain sight, lest they be removed in other ways. x * * If the prize is too large for his own » breakfast consumption, he will en- * deavor to drag it out of sight, or break it up and carry it away. Close observers of the crow’s hab- its claim that they divide up the mileage, and each bird is supposed to patrol only his own strip. You've seen them whirl and go © back at a road intersection or other _= marking, and to caw vociferously at another crow that might cross the line. “ee * es TEREAP HSE PEARS OTA SALETO TODA ae * * x After he gets a carcass hidden in the grass, he will go and get his mate to finish*the feast, and they'll jointly partake of what he had earlier found oujside of the general observance. In this manner, the crows are our most effective scaveigers, and probably do more good than the damage they do in pulling up the farmer’s young corn in order to eat the germinating seed. * * & You’ve probably seen birds or PT eT eee RRP TP PEE MeY TT EUR Ee SET Og E af = whose casualty list numbers far more = than those you saw. But you never = killed a crow that way. = You never saw a. crow take a = chance in any respect. He knows you 3 would not hesitate to kill him, and ® always takes wing long before he is _ Yclosely approached. ke & He may be picking over a juicy morsel beside the highway, and far out of reach of your car, but he'll take a circle in the air and resume the menu after you have — passed. In our opinion he’s the _ wisest of the birds; in fact, he’s so wise that he knows his life _Gepends upon his wisdom, Perhaps we're overstating the wisdom of the crow:, But check on him yourself. You'll see him An Oakland County farmer | tells me that the crows will con- gregate in a nearby woods, and quietly ‘watch him plant his corn, and in a few days return when. it is good pulling. ; ae eee, ee : They'll caw at him from the same = woods when he tries to frighten ‘away, and even roost on the has erected, but will TUCK LE 1 VERT RONEN TSS PUTED LE OOTREE SE EwOET ETA Re ae es ps Sapa 2 Saelt | stick in the shape of a gun. In ‘Michigan the crow doesn’t have a double duty, one purely selfish and © eat carrion or almost anything . else, including @ dead vulture. & we EX But it is claimed that crows are not cannibals — that they will not eat a dead crow. However, we doubt that they ever have a chance. - EEE OAS in Action In a 1906 arbitration by the King of Spain involving a dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras. over a coastal region, most.of the territory went to Honduras. Nicaragua never accepted the award but the two countries tacitly agreed to a hands-off policy until last week—50 years later—when traces of oil were found in the jungle. Hon- duras complained that Nicaraguan troops invaded her territory. The encounter was brief and was little more than a border skirmish in the Indian Village of Mocoran. x * * A five-man peace mission of ‘the Organization of American States (OAS) went into action immediately, The Honduran junta and President Somoza of Nicaragua now have agreed to .@ cease-fire while the mission attempts to create a buffer zone. Although this probably means a return of the region to its former status, it also means peace and time to work out an agreement without more bloodshed. The OAS again has come to the rescue. The People’s Business School Aid Idea GOP Fund-Juggling Plan Saves the Day in Lansing By ROGER LANE LANSING—The big break of the week in the school money picture was like a page out of a legislative fairy tale inserted in “Portia Faces Life.” . * * *« In the context of the problem, it was like finding 24 million dollars on the street. There was little question that the idea of advancing the distribution time fer the first primary interest most lawmakers by far their most un- comfortable moments of the session. MAJOR SOLUTION When the fund-juggling idea was sprung at a Senate Republican caucus Wednes- day noon, the drift appeared increasingly toward a “major” tax solution of the school problem. * « * Most likely, this would have been a levy of about 2 per cent on corporation profits —and the possibility remains although somewhat diminished. The increase in sentiment for a -major tax without delay was being fed to an important extent by the growing evidence that many school districts. faced real and imminent financial distress as the result of the scheduled cutback in May state aid checks. a And at the same time, the imperiding school money shortage and apparent necessity for borrowing in many districts accented the magnitude of the problem in terms of relief through imposition of new - taxes. 6 * * To some cana and representatives who had sized it up as a 15 or 20 million dollar tax ‘problem it begin to look more and more like a 40 or 50 million dollar protlem that would require heroic measures. GOVERNOR’S STAND . In general, this is the position Gov. Williams has taken all along. i One Republican senator who came to Lansing in January determined to “hold the line” had reached the point of debat- ing whether himself to offer a corporation tax amendment to the school aid bill, ot aa * ‘yuctremes the school ald issue suddenly was reduced Wednesday to what many lawmakers again regarded as pro- portions manageable by adoption of rev- enue measures for 20 million dollars or s0, In the og handling of the ‘situation, the Republican majority leadership, having hit upon the fund- juggling device a few weeks ago, had +e penny i when $0 em veil it; To do so after ‘sentiment for a major } THE PONTIAC PRESS, SATURDAY, 4 Days of All Faiths: “* AM THAT B LE we CHRIST THE LORD Living Loaf MAY Ja, 1957 | / f RD OF LIFE’. Nba) Sunday Is Jewish Lag Baomer By DR. HOWARD V. HARPER “And ye shall count,” said God to the Jews, in Leviticus, pter 23, verse 15. “Seven week’ shalt thou number,”’ He told them, in Deuteronomy, chapter 16 verse 9. And count they do. What they count are the 49 days fromthe second day of Passover to the Feast of As is always true when an old “holiday outlives its original pur- pose, Lag Baomer. has had new meanings attached to it. Two ef- forts have been made to connect it was with some event in Jewish history. One tradition says it is the day the manna on which the Jews fed in the wilderness began to fall from: heaven Another says it was the day on which a plague ceased among the pupils in the school of the famous Rabbi Akiba. Because of this latter explanation Lag Baomer is also known as “the scholars’ holiday.” it has no elaborate ritual of its own, and in fact, plays no im- portant part in Jewish life, Cer- tainly it cannet mean a great deal to modern city-dwelling Jews. . To the extent that ‘t is now ob- served, it is seen mainly as a remembrance of the time when Israel was an agricultural na- tion and as a promise of a future time when the Jews wil] again have woodlatids and a rural life of their own, PINCHED THE DEVIL It is a disturbing fact that peo- ple tend to remember picturesque legends about great men and for- get the important facts about them. That is what happened to St, Dunstan, greatest of all Anglo- Saxon saints, The famous and diverting legend about him js that once when he was working in his metal shop the Devil appeared in the form of a beautiful maiden and looked in the window, just to keep posted on what the good man was doing. England was just emerging into nationa] self-consciousness. From the time he was only 21 years old, first as Abbot of Glas- tonbury and finally as Archbishop of Canterbury, Dunstan's brilliant mind was behind the English Voice of the People - Residents Diseuss Issues Concerning City Hospital Letters will be condensed when neces- st eccompany lefte: will ig - published o =y writer so re- — unless the letter is critical in its nature. I agree with the editorial which said those who don't pay city taxes should have no right to our utilities, which taxpayers build and main- tain, unless they pay an extra assessment. I agree that many have moved program a four-point program and have all city employes move inte the city. I don't believe there’s another city this size where city employes are allowed * to live eutside. And they sure shouldn't come-under civil serv- ice living outside. I read about a man working for the City of Detroit who was fired because he didn't move into the city within six months, and he lived an eighth of a mile outside, _ J. D. B. How could you possibly say no to a sick baby, crippled oldster, half- dead accident victim or scared young mother? How does a small town like Milford, Walled Lake or Auburn Heights go about building a hospital? It's very selfish to deny these patients use of the hospital, for surely the prices they pay for services rendered are just and fair. Most hospitalization insurance companies expect hospitals to take each and every one of their.sub- scribers with no prejudice as to race, color, creed or home address. When these outfits blackball your hospital, you'll soon be wishing to get it back on the black side of the ledger. _ j “Chicago” Frank Why all the drain on property owners? Renters in this city use the hospital and send their chil- dren to school, while property own- ers have to pay school tax. What is the matter with asking renters to dig in their jeans and help raise some of the money needed for the hospital? Another “NO” Voter What would the taxpayer get if he increased the money for the hospital—four more cornerstones? Why bother the taxpayers? They paid their tax increase. You want the fellow with the big head and Dr. William Brady’s Mailbag: Lady Not Whole, but Wholehearted “You are the sie thing I've bumped into in a long time — preach you to all my friends—Un- fortunately didn't meet you until I had lost my spleen, part of my liver, 3 preg- nancies, oh, about everything one can have. Your suggestion on eating ba- nanas has helped too — (Mrs. M. F.)” banana suggestion should interest persons with so-called ‘“‘mucous colitis” (which is usually just colon derangement) or the constipation or interference habit. It is simply this: Eat half a dozen to a dozen well ripéned bananas every day. If you boggte at this, send me “Druggist’s wife had an ugly looking wart on her neck. My daughter got rid of a similar wart of long standing by applying castor oil every night for about two weeks. Druggist had no faith in it, but his wife tried it and: soon her wart was gone.” (Mrs, A, D. H.) Answer — All I know is that “Read the statement of some one who had been cured of fungus _ home made ear drops you suggest. for chronic’ ear, I have fungus infection of the feet. Please both years younger — he can do his work in comfort. Mrs. —” Answer — Thank you, ma'am. Few go to all that trouble to re- port how they are doing “unless they want further advice. The is food, not medicine) is de- scribed in the pamphiet Caicium and Rheumatizs and booklet Chronic Joint Disability. For both, send 35 cents and stamped, self - addressed envelope. “Is there a drug that is safe Signed letters, not more than one page or ike words rtaint i Lg ? nosis, or : Dr. William Brady, if a self- addressed env is sent to Pon- tiac Press, Pon Michigan, bright ideas—he came up skeleton, Now let him We need a hospital, lions in taxes. I say Governor of State _ Topic for Letters Ex-Republican says G. Mennen Williams will be in the White House in 1960. I have just one question. Suppose Reuther changes his mind? (When I say “his” I mean Reuther.) Ex-Democrat A writ ys Williams will be the next man in the White House. Farm Wite We and many others are just as tired as “Patriotic’’ of critical remarks by our Governor against our President. Both have been Doubly Patriotic Backs Everything on City Ballot As a taxpayer in Pontiac for a great many years, and havi the best interests of the city at heart, I am behind everything in Tues- day’s election 100 per cent. . . 4. L. Van Wagoner ‘What Becomes of Joneses Then?’ could get rid of ulcers by trying to “make a rich life and not just a rich living.’ Wouldn't the Joneses have a nervous breakdown if no one tried to keep up with them? as may ‘Day Dreamer’ Has Request Just once before I die, I'd like to see a government agency ask for less than last year's budget. Day Dreamer ‘Obscenity Law Needs Teeth’ The State of Michigan should ban obscene literature. ‘Hot’ items are still peddled. Let's put some teeth in our legislation that'll really bite. Walter ‘Difference Is What’s Taught’ A pain in the neck is the teacher or professor who claims he should “discuss communism in class so the pupils will know about it. “There's a ten thousand mile gap | between teaching what it ig and teaching it. That’s where the tax- payers are victimized, especially at the college level. Trate Pa Case Records of a Psychologist: Church Shouldn’t Be Slave to Past Russell Hirschman points out a classical case to show that churches are making progress.: But there are still a great many people who are slaves to the past, They have an “an- tique complex” and think EVERYTHING inherited from the past is sacred. That's a grave error, Jesus did not be- lieve in our being slaves to church ritual! Christ. wants open-minded, scientific follow- ers, not serfs! By DR, GEORGE W, CRANE “But some of the younger gen- eration had purchased some store ~¢lothes with buttons. The old folks quickly denounced ‘them and drove them out of the church. * * ®& “Well, these younger people bought a lot across the street and steadily marching onward, in the light of modern discoveries. Well, the field of religion is do- ing likewise. Some old standpat- they inherited from their parents. * * * So they act very unChristian and will still indulge in feuds and ac- P | ‘ / 43 4 : | ; 7 ; PONTI IAC PRESS, ' SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957, ; Ay of & : FIVE, ¢ ey | a * « has ong of the strongest math } / s Dr.; and Arley F. Harvey). son of clubs in the school, He expresses N EWS of|Service P creannel Mr, and Mrs. Aridy Harvey of 892 Love’ for Cottonwoods no regrets in his choice of his life's idee ad : Meritt Sty, Lake Orion, and hus-iQuickly Fades Away. _| Donaldson-Fuller ieensy: Inc. work, stating that one of the hard- band of the former Miss Jacquolyn | a est decisions of his life recently Personnelman erences ory Roger A. sear grandson of|L, Rosebush of Ortonville. aT — ere Burden s Aeliable INSURANCE Protection” was made when ‘he returned his; j ; omas “| 9 Mr. and Mrs, Ar-| ~ ove e giant cottonwood trees : contract for another year — un- Drake, son. of nold | H Trail " = his ree until - it to talking Phone FE 4-4565 signed, Me. and Mrs. of 177 Chamber. ouse Trailer, Annex © a.soil conservationist. pm oer He learned that each tree re- 147 W. Lawrence St. Manley Drake, 40 lain St., is\com- Damaged by Fire moves 600 gallon of water a day Pine Grove Ave.,|” recently received orders for trans- fer to the U.S.S. Albany (CA-123) at Boston, Mass. Sad weal Clothing: and furniture valued at from his drought stricken soil. tralatng ot Lack $150 were destroyed during a fire — land Air Force|*™ an uneccupied and condem Base, San Anto- — at 59 Garner St. yester- nio, Tex. | \48¥: r a Arsenic Spiked ’ Husband s Beer : : aon se Mal" age comple ding, Pigreamin pee saggeee It Was Only a Cure DRAKE wai ‘Air Station. HANEY he will be as-|Wooden annex, was almost com- for Dr inking Problem,’ Oceana, Virginia Beach, Va., and|signed to an Air Force technical ‘pletely destroyed. Cause of the fire expects to be home during the|training course of an advanced|¥@S unknown. Wife Tells Police month of July, basic training course leading to a) Owner of the building was James ae * * specialized Air Force job. Coleman, of 58 Beaudette St, ’ ANN ARBOR & — A womar? Recently qualifying as a para- x * * we jwho said she had been spiking} trooper at Fort sher husband's beer with arsenic-| Bragg N, C. aft- ALBERT STICKLE \loeded rat poison for the last four) ey graduating years “to cure him of the drink-| from the 82nd jing habit” wag held today on 4) Airborne Di vi- icharge of trying to murder him. | sion's Jump ' C 00 eye | of | Mrs. Lucy» Wireman, 30, of near-| School, was ‘ iby Chelsea, said she learned of! Army Sgt. Earle ‘ lthe “cure” in Kentucky. She) L. Petty Jr. denied she was trying to kill.her; Petty, whose a. ae aia Retiring Jul | 36-year-old husband, Oron. parents live at : “I didn’t want to hurt him,’’| 551 Chester St., ard L. Meyers of 3355 Curwood . ‘Mrs. Wireman said. ‘I just wanted! Birmingham, en. Saad §t., Drayton Plains; Frederick T.| Falls account for one-half all) North Branch Principal to help, I still love him.” tered the Army PETTY ee son ak gn ras neg osetia in acci-) Wireman was in St.- Joseph in March, 1953 and was stationed F. T. Collette. of (9 ing'dents in me | Served 37 Years; Will lerey Hospital here with a last at Fort Riley, Kan. His Wife, | .esssscmmenn ' Fish and Hunt 5 ‘severe case of arsenic ipoison- (Beverly, lives in Fayetteville, N.C. | ‘ NORTH BRANCH.Comaxing 3 37) Mrs. Wireman, ing.” * ~ * a mother of, Airman 3.C. Ronald A. Yoder, | son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon J.) years of teaching in the publig three, demanded examination : yaad sthools of Tuscola and Lapeer! when arraigned in Municipal Court, Yoder 4 i vee ne ‘on the charge yesterday. She was C®4rged trom the Michigan Air Na- e Ne! a Counties, Albert Stickle, Senior| ar under $2,000 bond. tional Guard. Clean Up! Paint Up! Pix Up Week! High principal of the North Branch) «+. Roy Tice of the Washtenaw| He now has joined the Air Force The greatest satisfaction I know is.a clean Area Schools, will retire at the | county Sheriff's Department said|and will be station ed at Lackland} yard. Winter leaves its tracks with terrible dose of this school term, terminat-| 4. Wireman told him she bought/Air Force Base, San Antonio, Tex.|] abandon; somehow cans aceumulate. Weeds Three Oakland County service’ Detroiter Gets 45 Days men recently completed recruit'. * training at the Naval Training Cen- in Oakland County Jail Ee eee ejervoing nine|;, 22% B: Russell, 27, of 8442 Ab- raduating after undergoing hinelington St., Detroit, pleaded guilty weeks of instruction in seaman-|to entry without permission Fri- ship, gunnery, life saving, sea sur-|day before Farmington Township) ™:\vival, boat handling, and the use| Justice Allen C. Ingle. He was sen- of small arms were: Richard A.|tenced.to serve 45 days in the Meyers, son of Mr. and Mrs. How- Oakland County Jail. Wherever you have a water problem FOR INTERIORS... ‘ ing also his 20th year in North the rat poison in Salyersville, Ky., for further training. | grow. Vicious winds tear and blast; paint pag be he * BAY Y VY wa . . : aT EX ; Branch schools. . lin 1953 when she and her husband |p-= _ —g | cracks, Screens rust. Shingles are missing. wal ay ch oan FOR EXTERIORS...; 3 Ke y After July 1, he will be at his|were visiting there. The Wiremans “° Pergolas look like the leaning tower of Pisa. . i Beca Bondex H 3 WEVa put home in Marlette. originally are from Kentucky. We're Proud of Outbuildings are drab. Fences ate askew. * & wenmaes nape phate tas gr ae —_—e* apes DUTY pene- =f i id ted. Boards . These ne most effective prod pane tside masonry " ; ' He*has planned some travel- Oron had a drinking problem, These Results — Posts are rot OB. are gone. ese eg Ses, Se Satfesee . .. pactecte aguinat weber are a few of the things tbat need your attention. Though little, a shabby house.I saw, has ing, and remarked, “expect to be | she said, “A friend of mine in builds a of eel hoes long-lasting able to do more hunting and | Salyersville told me if I gave , : pesado i, . Lae — ap pare of fishing in the future than I have | him the stuff it would cure his 99.9% . +. protects as it dec- wall surface. In white and smart been able to do in the past, and | drinking.” been transformed from drab into a jewel— | rates all porous masonry surfaces. _colors—sunfast and non-fading. " ad oh, yes, you guessed it—prob- | She told Tice she bought two] Uobetievadie but tree... » labora- |, with a fresh coat of paint. Debris, bottles, 5 z : _ ably a lot of substitute teaching |). 05 of rat poison and " “ed her| tery test made ter Sell Removal ot | cans were hauled away; leaves ripped from INSIDE AND OUTSIDE — BONDEX HEAVY DUTY gives double Aveloble wherever paiat in years to come.” _ inch rece GAO en cuneeeh tasked | trees were sent into corners; they were raked - protection, because it's made with the double waterproofed formula, ia sold. in 10 Bh. pale or husband's beer with it a pi . + Yes, % re oar Stickle was born at Kingston,/at a time. by 9 cepstebte tenting sbenstery - - up and burned. It is unbelievable what a — | s