I The Weather u. $. Wutlwr Buruu Fartcut Cold THE PONTIAC PRESS Home Edition VOL. 126 — NO. 281 ★ ★ ★ ★ PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 31. 1968 un i ted^pr^is^International —24 PAGES Gffl's 1968 Payrolls in Pontiac Set Record General Motors’ 1968 employe payrolls at the three Pontiac operations totaled $370.6 million, a record and nearly $49 million above last year. This .was announced today in a joint year-end statement by Martin J. Caserio, a GM vice president- and general manager of GMC Truck & Coach Division; John Z. DeLorean, a GM vice president and general manager of Pontiac Motor Division; and JohnF. Dudas, manager of the Pontiac Fisher Body plant. * h ★ GM’s 1968 purchases from area companies for goods and services added another $92.7 million to the Pontiac area economy. Combined GM employment during the year averaged 36,000. Local G M employes were awarded more than $1.2 million for ideas submitted in the GM S. Viets Free Yank Held 5 Years by VC SAIGON (AP) — South Vietnamese army troops sweeping a thick jungle in the Mekong Delta today freed a U. S. Army officer who had been a prisoner of the Vietcong for more than five years. A U. S. spokesman said the American, a first lieutenant in the Special Forces, was in “satisfactory” condition despite his long captivity. But he was reported emaciated and tired. ★ * * A South Vietnamese army officer was reported freed at the same time, and both were flown to hospitals. The American’s identity was withheld until his next of kin are notified. FOUND IN CAMP The U. S. Command said a patrol from the South Vietnamese 21st Division freed the American officer shortly after noon today. He was found in a camp in the wild, marshy U Minh forest about ISO miles southwest of Saigon. Possible -10 in Area Tonight The weatherman is predicting that the best-dressed New Year’s Eve revelers will be attired in mukluks and furlined parkas. A cold wave; is coming in, bringing with it some snow flurries and a drop in the mercury to as low as 10 below zero tonight. Winds, which were at 12 miles per hour this morning, were expected to accelerate, driving the freezing cold bone deep. The forecast for winds was 15 to 27 miles per hour today, diminishing some tonight and west to northwest eight to 15 miles tomorrow.. COLD TOMORROW Tomorrow’s temperature was expected to reach a high of 5 to 13. Variable cloudiness with a chance of snow flurries was predicted. Travelers’ warnings were issued today by the U.S. Weather Bureau throughout the state. Some early risers reported slick spots on well-traveled roads this morning due to the two-inch snowfall recorded last night. if it it The mercury, which rose to 33 degrees at 3 a.m. today, was 22 degrees at 8 a.m. and 17 degrees at noon. In Today's Press North Branch . Over, half of community stilj blacked out — PAGE A-4. Massive Fuel Thefts U.S. report details incidents in Thailand - PAGE A-12. International Scene Picture for 1969 does not ap- pear particularly bright — PAGE A-3. Area News .................. A-4 Astrology .................. R-4 Bridge ..................... B-4 Crossword Puzzle .........B-ll Comtes ...................... 84 Editorials A-8 Markets B-5 Obituaries ................. A-9 Sports B-l-B-3 Theaters A-lt TV-Radio Programs ........B-ll Wilson, Earl B-ll Women’s Page .......A-I6, A ll The U Minh forest has long been a Vietcong stronghold, and allied troops seldom penetrate it. There was no indication whether the South Vietnamese sweep had encountered any resistance. ★ ★ ★ The American lieutenant reportedly was captured in 1963 while serving as an adviser at a remote camp in the Mekong Delta south of Saigon. Little fighting was reported today, the second day of the Vietcong’s New Year’s cease-fire, although U. S. and South Vietnamese forces were patroling as vigorously as ever. 10 VIOLATIONS A South Vietnamese military spokesman said the Vietcong had shelled several government installations in 10 violations of its self-proclaimed ceasefire which began at 1 a.m. yesterday. He said three persons, including. one American, were killed, and two Americans and seven South Vietnamese were wounded. U. S. headquarters said North Vietnamese troops in bunkers in the Southern half of the demilitarized zone fired on a small U. S. observation plane yesterday. Marine fighter - bombers attacked the bunkers, destroying six of them and touching off a secondary explosion that indicated hits on ammunition stores, a spokesman said. OU's Handling of Nude Upheld State legislators from Oakland County yesterday supp orted Oakland University’s handling of the case involving a male student who disrobed while lecturing before a mixed audience. Most of the 14 senators and representatives who attended the three-hour meeting indicated that they believe the university is handling the situation in a correct and legal i One Edition Tomorrow The Pontiac Press will publish a single, early edition tomorrow so that employes may spend the holiday with their families. Regular editions will resume Thursday. Suggestion Plan... Six employes received the plan’s top |fward during the year. In addition, more than $8.6 million was invested by employes through payroll deduction in U.S. Savings Bonds. $731,266 TO PAUF General Motors and its employes contributed $731,200 to the 1968 Pontiac Area United Fund. Among the 1968 GM highlights in Pon- tiac was continuation of Pontiac Motor Division’s record sales performance. During the 1968 model run, Pontiac produced a record 910,977 cars, an increase of 94,000 units over the previous year. Shortly after introduction of the 1969 models, Pontiac added another milestone — the production of its 13 millionth car. * * * To, keep pace with Its tremendous sales growth, Pontiac has embarked on an extensive plant expansion program which has increased floor space by 2.3 million square feet. Included in the modernization program was completion of the first phase of construction for a new electric-melt foundry which virtually will eliminate all air pollution. At Truck & Coach Division, construction was completed on a new production parts warehouse, shipping building and vehicle-storage areas. BEATEN PUEBLO CREWMEN — Quartermaster 1/C from their North Korean captors. At right is Capt. Vincent Charles B. Law Jr. (left) and Radioman 2/C Lee R. Hayes Thomas, who presided at yesterday’s press conference. (Retell newsmen in San Diego of the beatings they received iated story, page A-2.) ABM Program Called Step in a Larger Missile Defense OU Chancellor Durward B. Varner told the legislators and school officials at the meeting that Lee Elbinger’s case was being handled through normal university channels. University officials indicated that Elbinger, who has completed all the requirements for graduation, might not receive the diploma he has earned. REPORTEDLY IN INDIA Elbinger, who is reportedly in India studying philosophy with a guru, might have to first appear at or be legally represented at a hearing on the charge that he conducted himself in an “unseemingly” manner and committed a serious breach of conduct. . The furor arose when Elbinger of Detroit stripped to give a 15-minute lecture on poet William Butler Yeats’ “concept of personal freedom.” He also ate an apple and passed out candy to his 40 classmates at an informal poetry session. State Sen. Robert J. Huber, R-Troy, demanded yesterday’s meeting to investigate the -university’s moral standards ill a telegram to the university after Elbingei"s lecture. Acoesaing to university officials, two telegrams were Huber's only contacts (Continued on Page A-2, Col. 3) By L. GARY THORNE Assistant City Editor-Suburban The Army’s Sentinel antibaWstic missile (ABM) program was characterized last night as the first step toward a so-called “thick” ABM system for the entire United States. This was the contention offered at a Royal Oak meeting by Wayne State University physicist Dr. Alvin M. Saperateln, one of the chief area spokesmen for an apparently growing number of opponents of the ABM system. * ★ * More than 100 adults and young people heard Saperstein speak at a meeting called by WOMAN (Women Opposed to Missiles and Nuclear Warheads). U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, was scheduled to speak at the meeting, but did - not appear. However, a representative from Conyers’ office was present. ‘PREPARING GROUNDWORK* Detailing the Army’s case as he understands it, Saperstein concluded that the military was actually preparing the groundwork for the much more ex- pensive and comprehensive “point" ABM defense and calling It a “thin” area defense system. A "point" defense could call Mr ABM protection of specific cities across the country and therefore the ABM sites would be located adjacent to the highly populated urban centess. ★ * ★ Army spokesmen have claimed the Sentinel system is merely to provide ABM protection against a relatively unsophisticated missile attack, such us might be expected of Red China. This is the so-called “thin” shield defense. The “thick" system has not yet been ruled feasible in terms of its cost and effectiveness. This sytem would be to counter an attack by Russia. ‘SEEMS FARFETCHED’ While never actually employing the word deception, both Saperstein and Dr. Roger Marz, chairman of the political science department at Oakland University, said they could reach no other conclusion. “It seems farfetched, hopefully it is,” said Saperstein of the alleged conclusion. The bearded WSU professor told the We'll Relieve U.S. in 1969 --Thieu SAIGON UH — President Nguyen Van Thieu said tonight that in the coming year South Vietnam will be able to take over part of the war effort from the United States and other allied farces. Thieu said: “We are ready and we have the ability to do so in 1666 because of the growth in size and the efficiency of the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam.” * * * Thieu told his countrymen that partly replacing the allied military effort “is our job and our responsibility toward friendly nations and their armed forces.” DISCUSSES MISSILES—Wayne State University physicist Dr. Alvin M. Saperstein speaks to an audience in Royal Oak last night on plans of the Army to locate defensive nuclear missiles in Oakland County. audience that there was still time to stop the projected Pontiac area location of a Sentinel site. The Army has announced that at least four potential sites qjre being considered in Oakland County for an ABM base and its related radar installation. Areas being considered include Avon, Orion and Pontiac townships and the city of Troy. Explaining that the “thin” defense system was “rammed" through Congress last spring as part of a larger defense appropriation, Saperstein said the Army has been given only part of the $5 billion necessary for the‘Sentinel system. Organizing ABM site opposition, a WOMAN spokesman last night urged those attending the meeting to send telegrams to their respective congressmen and to circulate petitions later to be sent to Washington. * w * Specifically formed to combat a missile site in this area, WOMAN is pressing for an open congressional hearing on the ABM sites. Sketching the background of the ABM program, Marz of OU said the ABMs were rejected at least four times in the past decs'*? at the civilian level of the Defense Department. ‘DOESN’T WORK’ “And tne reason for rejection,” said Marz, “is that there is no protection against a large-scale nuclear attack. It simply doesn't work.” Marz described the ABM program as a dangerous step with respect to in- ternational politics, contending the cold war has resulted in a workable status quo. * * * WOMAN is the first group to formalize area opposition to the proposed area ABM site since the possibility was disclosed earlier this month. The local controversy has centered on the safety aspects of locating nucleararmed missiles near areas of large population, although critics also question the merits of the ABM program. WOMAN, according to its spokesman, is to be an umbrella-type group to contact other groups to fight the site selection for the metropolitan area. Army spokesmen, while defending the ABM program as necessary and safe, have said a recommended site is to be picked by late January or February. The final choice must be approved by the House Armed Services Committee. Pay-TV Test to End HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A 6*4-year experiment in pay teltvision-the only one now in operation in the nation—is coming to an end. RKO General, owner of WHTC channel 18, which has offered subscription movies and other entertainment since June 1962, announced yesterday its service will end Jan. 31. In its place, the station plans to substitute regular commercial programming. In its 1969 model lineup, GMC Truck & Coach introduced a new heavy-duty series of ‘‘Astro 95” trucks. * * * The local Fisher Body plant completed the firsi of three phases in its plan to install new storm sewers on and adjacent to plant grounds. The remaining stages of the program are scheduled for completion in 1969. Israel Censure by U.N. Likely UNITED NATIONS, NY. (AP) -Security Council condemnation of Israel for its commando attack on Beirut International Airport appeared imminent today, but most members shunned Arab and Soviet demands for strong punitive action. Calls for sanctions and denial of landing permits to Israeli planes gained little support last night as the 15-nation council met in urgent session for the second time in 24 hours. The council adjourned at 1 a.m. after three hours of debate, and another meeting was scheduled for 3 p.m. * * * In Tel Aviv, the Israeli arniy reported that Arab guerrillas slipped into Israel from Lebanon early today, fired six bazooka rockets into a frontier settlement and escaped. The rockets damaged a water pipe and brought down an electric line, but no one was injured, an Israeli spokesman said. It was the first incident reported on the Israeli-Lebanese border since the Israeli attack on the Beirut airport Saturday night. 3 PROPOSALS Three proposals for Security Council action were being considered in private negotiations among, U.N. delegates: 1. Condemnation of Israel for the Beirut raid. 2. Condemnation plus economic sanctions, Including cancellation of landing permits for Israeli planes at airports of U.N. member countries. i 3. Condemnation and a threat of further action against Israel under provisions of the U.N. Charter dealing with threats to peace: if Israel does not halt its reprisal attacks. Legal Prostitution in Detroit 'Model' DETROIT (AP) — To meet today's federal deadline, the Detroit Common Council approved a $20.5-million Model Cities application yesterday, containing a recommendation from a 102-member citizens’ committee that prostitution be legalized. However, city officials said the proposal to extablish legitimate red light districts was not part of the recommendations to be implemented in the next five years, If ever. Sources from the citizens' committee, composed of persons Elected in the inner city neighborhoods, said the purpose of legalizing prostitution was to rid the area of organized crime control of prostitution and to halt the spread pi veneral disease. Thin Ice Perils Snowmobiles Three incidents Sunday and yesterday in which six persons on snowmobiles plummeted through thin lake ice have prompted a warning from Oakland County sheriff's authorities. All of the victims escaped injury — a fact described as “just plain luck" by Lt. Donald Kratt, head of the sheriff's department water -iigfcly. division^ _ W * * In the most recent mishap, two 13-year-old Waterford Township boys were pulled from Lake Oakland, Waterford Township, about II p.m. yesterday after the snowmobile they were riding broke through the ice about 200 feet from shore. Rescued were Greg Seeboldt of 4446 Letart and Steve Hogan of 3999 letart, according to deputies. Both boys were able to go home immediately after the incident. * * * Kratt described the ice covering near the center of North Oakland County lakes as unpredictable, due to weekend rain-(fall and the short time since freezing began. He warned all snowmobile operators and skaters to stay close to the shoreline and away from less-certain ice. y A—2 THE PONTIAC PRESS. TUESDAY, DKCKMHKR 31. FBI: Foreigners Prompt Radicals Pontiac Prtss Photo NEW DISTRICT JUDGES - Three judges for District 50 of the new court setup were sworn in by Pontiac City Clerk Olga Barkeley at yesterday's City Commission meet- ing. The judges are (from left) Maurice Finnegan, Cecil McCallum and James Stelt. New court procedures begin Thursday. Ex-RFK, McCarthy Dems Oil's Handling Eye District Chairmanship °f Nude .Upheld Supporters of Sen. Eugene McCarthy and the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in the 1968 primaries are among candidates for chairmanship of the Democratic organization in the 18th Congressional District, comprising the eastern half of Oakland County. Thus the race is provided with overtones of Democratic offshoots versus the party establishment. * * * * The district convention is scheduled for 8 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Board of Supervisors Auditorium in the County Courthouse. Democrats will name 135 delegates to attend the State Democratic Convention Feb. 1 at Detroit’s Cobo Hall, when the district committee will be selected from among them. State delegates from the 18th District also will be charged with selecting four members of the State Central Committee. THREE CANDIDATES Three candidates are running for the district chairmanship to replace Eugene Kuthy of Oak Park who is not seeking reelection. He reportedly is moving from the district. Vying for leadership are Allen Zemmol of Southfield, current vice chairman of the district and defeated candidate for Congress; G. Vernon Leopold of Huntington Woods, who headed district core support for Sen. Eugene McCarthy; and Martin M. Doctoroff of Royal Oak, a party regular who supported the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Zemmol. despite his vote for McCarthy at the national convention, is considered by many fellow Democrats as part of the party establishment. Leopold charac- (Continued From Page One) with the university about the incident prior to the meeting. “Sen. Huber did not, on Dec. II or any day thereafter, ask me or my representatives for any details of the incident, nor did he ask about the attitude of the university, nor did he ask about the action being taken. He did, however, turn to the public press, radio and television,” Varner said in a release given to reporters, who were not allowed at the meeting. terizes the “New Democratic Coalition," an off-shoot of the McCarthy campaign. Doctoroff reportedly is seeking the chairmanship on the basis of past service to the party. * * * Also to be elected in the 18th District are a vice chairman, two secretaries and 23 member* at-large who will comprise the district committee — a group largely determining the kind of -leadership the district will have. JOINT MEETING The 18th District Democrats are to meet jointly for a brief time Jan. 17 with the Oakland County Democrats of the 19th District (much of which falls iff Wayne County) for the county convention the same night. The Oakland Democrats will get together with their Wayne County counterparts at the state convention to elect their 19th District Committee. Aldo Vagnozzi of Farmington, who is 19th District chairman, said he had so far received no opposition to his can-dldacy for district chairmanship. The 19th District is considered by Democrats Apollo Pictures Examined a more moderate camp than the 18th ~ District. ’ After the meeting, Rep. Loren Anderson, R-Waterford Township, commented, “I see no point in crucifying the entire university just because one guy took his clothes off." Anderson added that he would hate to see the day when legislators run a university on the threat of financial penalty. * * * Rep. Bill S. Huffman, D-Madison Heights who also demanded the meeting, later said that the hearing was in no way an indictment against the university. WASHINGTON UP - The FBI says there has been an expansion of foreign influence in black extremist groups and Pueblo Sailors Tell of Beatings SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) — Beatings of USS Pueblo crewmen were stepped up when their North Korean captors learned that a widely circutatfed photograph — supposedly showing the U S. sailors in good health and spirits — contained gestures of contempt, two of the crew say. Charles Benton Law Jr., 27, a quartermaster first class, and Lee Roy Hayes, 26, a radioman, detailed a story of continuous beatings to a news conference yesterday. k k k As the two men spoke at San Diego Naval Hospital, Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford was ordering Secretary of Navy Paul Ignatius to conduct an inquiry into the crew’s treatment by North Korea. A few hours later, Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., said at Winder, Ga., that he felt the crew should have scuttled the intelligence ' ship rather than let its secret equipment fall into enemy hands. TREATMENT DESCRIBED Law of Chehalis, Wash., and Hayes, of Columbus, Ohio, described their treatment. “I was beaten with a two-by-two about four or five feet long,” Law said. “Hie guard was striking me across the shoulders and the back with it. His stick broke in half on one of the blows and he kept on using the two halves until it ended up in four pieces. ★ * ★ ‘He left and came back with a four-by-four.” 1 ■ In all, he said, he received between 250 and 300 blows. JAW WAS BROKEN Hayes, slightly built,, said he was pummeled with fists shortly before the crew’s release Dec. 22. His jaw was broken “about six or seven times,” he said. that the , “violence-prone” Progressive Labor party has made progress in in-filtrating the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, in the 1968 annual report of agency activities released today, said foreign influence in black extremist groups “continues to receive close attention.” “The growing number of black Extremist organizations throughout the United States represents a potential threat to the internal security of the nation,” Hoover’s report said, “and their growth has definitely added to the FBI’s work in the racial intelligence field.” The report also said what it called the Marxist-Leninist Progressive Labor party has concentrated its youth program largely toward infiltration of SDS, which the report said is at the core of the United States New Left. * ★ * “The Progressive Labor party has had considerable success,” the report said, “and one result of its Work has been the movement of a large part of SDS from an anarchistic outlook toward a Maoist-oriented Marxist-Leninist approach.” The report said a workshop on sabotage and explosives was conducted during the national SDS convention last June and “It was only a short time after this convention that the wave of bombing and arson occurred throughout the country.” In criminal activities, the report said, the. FBI set records in 1968 for fugitives located, stolen cars recovered and money saved or recovered by investigations. Savings and recoveries totaled some $335 million, an increase of $45 million over the previous year, the report said. It said more than 290 hoodlum, gambling and vice figures were convicted during the year compared to 206 in 1967, a total of 21,000 fugitives were located and some 27,000 stolen cars were recovered. Thieu, Bunker Meet SAIGON (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu met today for the second consecutive day to discuss the stalled Paris peace talks. Each meeting lasted about 90 minutes. A U.S. spokesman termed the meetings "normal consultations.” Two Oakland County residents are seeking election as state Democratic chairman to replace Sander Levin, who has announced his intention not to seek r e e I e c t i o n . They are former Congressman Billie Farnum of Waterford Township and James McNeeley, current deputy state chairman, formerly of Pontiac. The state chairmanship also will be determined at the state convention. Lunar Cracks Result of Quake? The Weather Full U.S. Weather Bureau Report PONTIAC AND VICINITY — Cold wave warning today and tonight. Mostly cloudy and much colder with falllhg temperatures and a chance of snow flurries tonight. Lowest tonight, 10 below to 3 above. Tomorrow variable cloudiness and very cold with a chance of flurries. Highs 5 to 13. Thursday: little change. Winds westerly 15 to 27 miles today, diminishing some tonight and west to northwest eight to 15 miles tomorrow. Probabilities of precipitation: 30 per cent today and 40 per cent tonight. SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -Cracks on the moon found in Apollo 8 pictures may be the result of quakes on the lunar surface, a geologist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said yesterday. John W. Dietrich said rilles on the surface of them “appear to be tension features,” caused by contraction of the delicate surface material. * * * “We see similar things on earth," he said. He compared the character of the rilles as like that of arroyos in the western United States. The three astronauts, Air Force Col. Frank Borman, Navy Capt. James A. Lovell Jr., and Air Force Lt. Col. William A. Anders continued to talk into tape recorders about their Impressions of the moon and their trip around it. Several space agency officials said a behind-the-scenes move is under way to have the moon mariners make their next public appearance in Washington,-possibly with a ticker tape parade and a meeting with President Johnson. Dietrich said a picture taken by the Apollo 8 crew of a large crater showed parallel faults ripping through it from one side to the other, a feature called “graben” on earth. ★ ★ ★ Dietrich said there were rilles that had the characteristics of meandering rivers or streams “at first glance,” but that scientists are divided about whether they were caused by water. i VI personally think that if water had any effect, it was only minor,” he said. DISLIKES EXPLANATION One explanation for the cracked features on the moon's surface, he said, TKiy In Pontiac Lowest tamporatura preceding 7 • r At • a.m.: Wind Velocity \T~rrvp.h H : Wl Midi Sun rim Wodn< ■ Moon toft Wednesday Highest and Lowott Temperatures This Date In tl Years S in 1173 3 In 1 Monday In Pontiac las recorded downtown) tighest temperature owest temperature Weather: Chance of snow Year Ago I iperaturr Mean temperature Weather: Snow Muskegon Oscoda Pellston Saginaw Albuouerqui Bismarck 28 It Denver M 3 Detroit St 33 94 Port Worth S« 39 17 Jacksonville 44 20 1 Kansas City 97 24 10 Los Angeles 74 34 29 Louisville 90 34 20 Miami Beach 75 29 4 Milwaukee 33 33 14 New Orleans 71 99 20 New York 34 27 II Omaha 4 31 17 St. Louis -11 -24 S. Pri 30 21 S St# S. Francisco 32 45 NATIONAL WEATHER—Snow is forecast tonight from the Pacific Northwest to the northern Rockies, and flurries are predicted for the Great Lakes through the Ohio Valley into the Adirondacks. Rain and sleet are forecast for much of New England. It will be colder from the plains to New England. APOLLO 8 VIEW OF MOON—This photo of a nearly full- moon was taken from Apollo 8 at a point above 70 degree* east longitude. Mare Crishim, the circular, dark-colored area near the center, is near the eastern edge of the moon as viewed from earth. Mare Nectaris is th circular mare near the terminator. The large, irregular maria are Tranquillltatis and Fecunditatis. The terminator (left side of the picture) crosses Mare Tranquillltatis and highlands to the south. The crater Langrenus is near the center of the picture at the eastern edge Of Mare Fecunditatis. Birmingham City Drafts NewLeasefor Refuse Site BIRMINGHAM — City commissioners last night drafted what they consider to be an acceptable lease to be presented to the Southeastern Oakland County Incinerator Authority for the use of city-owned property on Coolidge. The commission passed a resolution saying the land site was suitable to be used as a transfer station by the authority. The approximately 10-acre site is in Troy between 14 Mile and Maple. ★ * * The controversial proposal regarding the lease or purchase of the land by the incinerator authority has been studied by city officials for over a year. Two weeks before, the commission had directed the administration to make a comparison between the proposed lease submitted by the commission in August and a sale agreement proposed by the authority. DECISION DELAYED City commissioners had delayed making a decision on the proposal for the rubbish transfer station until they were assured that more stringent controls could be implemented and enforced, according to city officials. The authority wants to build a two-level enclosed structure on the property to hold rubbish collected in Birmingham and several surrounding communities. The rubbish would be transferred inside the building from collection trucks to large vans for hauling to a land-fill site in Avon Township. ★ ★ ★ Though the closest residences to the industry-zoned site are 1,400 feet away and separated from it by railroad tracks, Sheffield Estates and Pembroke Manor civic associations had objected complaining that odor, dust, rodents and traffic would depreciate property values. The city has written several restrictions into the lease, including that the capacity of the transfer station will be restricted to an average of 600 tons of refuse per day. WILL BE PRESENTED The lease will be presented to incinerator authority for approval, city officials said. However, other land use restrictions may be presented to the authority by Troy. is that they are caused by mud drying and separating. “I personally dislike that explanation," he said. The scientist said no explanation has been found for the faint color which has shown up in some of the Apollo 8 photographs of the moon which the space agency has released. Dietrich said the processing of the film has been eliminated as a source of the color, but it’s believed it could have come from a temporary coating of the spacecraft windows. ‘DIRTY BEACH SAND’ All the surface, he said, is probably like the “dirty beach sand” the astronauts described it. He said there was little that was surprising In the Hinar film brought back by the Apollo 8 astronauts. Blue Cross Ups Benefit to Agod DETROIT (AP) — A 10 per cent Increase In benefits for some 385,000 Blue Cross 65 subscribers was announced today by William S. McNary, president of Michigan Blue Cross. “The expanded Blue Cross benefits have been approved to offset increases in the medicare Part A (hospital coverage) deductible and coinsurance, as recently .announced by the secretary of 'health, education hndweifare” McNary said. * k k These amounts will rise by 10 per cent for medicare beneficiaries whose benefit periods start after the first of the year. ‘Michigan Blue Cross will automatically absorb these increases for our members,” McNary said. STILL A RATE DECREASE McNary said the new Blue Cross benefits will not force Michigan Blue Cross to change earlier plans for a 10 per cent rate decrease currently being implemented for “65” subscribers. McNary said the increased Blue Cross deductible from $40 to $44, change from 810 to $11 the new coinsurance for inpatient hospital days, from the 61st to the 90th day. The new coinsurance for each day of the medicare “lifetime reserve" of 60 days would be increased from $20 to $22, McNary said, and the $5 a day extended care facility coinsurance would be upped to $5.50 for the 21st to 100th day. Teddy Will Vie for Senate Post Held by Long WASHINGTON UPI — Supporters of Edward M. Kennedy privately give him little chance of winning the No. 2 Senate Democratic post ih| a bid that apparently is a first stepl toward a possible P 1972 run for the j White House. But win or lose in j the challenge he issued yesterday, the 36-year-old senator! from Massachusetts! seems likely to shed! at least partially his KENNEDY role as a follower of the leadership team and emerge as a new leader for Senate liberals. Politicians generally thought this was one of Kennedy’s objectives in seeking the job of whip or assistant leader now held by Louisiana's Russell B. Long who wants to keep it. USUALLY THANKLESS JOB Although a usually thankless job that mainly involves rounding up collegues for roll calls, the assistant leader has traditionally stepped up when the top post became vacant and has helped such previous whips as Hubert H. Humphrey and Lyndon B. Johnson. Kennedy said he has the support of Vice President Humphrey and of Humphrey’s running mate in the Nov. 5 election. Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine. jlif candidacy also won a quick pledge of suoport from Sen. Philip A. Hart of Michigan who earlier pressed Muskie to get into the race. 26 Aboard Aussie Jet Feared Dead in Crash SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — A chartered Australian airliner crashed in northwest Australia today, and all 26 persons aboard were believed dead. The pilot of a small plane reported he sighted the wreckage of the Viscount and saw no sign of any survivors. He said the burned wreckage was scattered over a wide area. The plane, with 21 passengers and a crew of five, was on a fught from Perth, the capital of Western Australia, to Port tied land, 800 miles to the north on the northwest coast. It crashed 15 miles south of Port Hedland. V THE PONiriAC PRESS, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 31, 196p> Printers Honored LANSING (AP)-Gov. George Romney has proclaimed Jan. as Printing Week In Mich- rA—9 ing your drum with Chieken Leg from: Chicken delight 1302 W. Huron - Call 682-3100 500 N. Perry - Call 334-4059 Delivery Available QUALITY REPAIRS ON ALL MAKE HEARING AIDS Locman Available PONTIAC MALL OPTICAL A HEADING AID CENTER Phone 682-1113 HEARING AID DEALER AMAZING NEW They a Lot Longer KMmonaunrr.nASHum TOYS, GAMES AND TRANSISTOR RADIOS MallorY All Sites on Sale SIMMS.m M N. Saginaw International Scene Will Be Fraught With Peril in '69 By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent Looking forward to 1969? If you are, you probably qualify as an incurable optimist. On the threshold of a year, the shape of Mother Earth looks something like this: Asia The Vietnam war goes on and on, despite seven months of talks in Paris. Dead cm both sides since the American phase began in 1961 now total well over a half million by U.S. reckoning; more than 30,000 were Americans. The talks bogged down in procedural wrangling over such matters as the shape of the negotiating table. ★ * * Hopes for peace in Southeast Asia are complicated by fears of what the peace may bring to other nations in the area. Might an American withdrawal from Asia’s mainland bring more sings, more guerrilla war, even more instability? Communist China, the enormous fact of Asian life with its 700 million restive people, has emerged as a nuclear power to be reckoned with, having just achieved its eighth nuclear explosion. It is a source of worry not only to the United States as a Pacific power, but to Peking’s onetime ally, the Soviet Union whose border with China is the world’s longest. What happens in China in the immediate future is also of primary concern to all its Asian neighbors, including the Indian subcontinent upon whose frontiers the Chinese apply frequent pressure. A TIME BOMB . Korea remains a potentiial time bomb.* Communist North Korea is stepping up warlike activities against South Korea, Whether this means a nee North Korean military thrust against the South while the United States is involved in Vietnam is anybody’s guess, but the Korean peninsula could easily emerge as the world’s next explosive spot. Middle East The story continues to be one of never-ending tension, aggravated by the fact that Israel, nestled in a sea of 30 million Arab enemies, occupies Arab territory taken in the lightning war of June 1967. Arab armies and Arab terrorists train and hope for the day when they will exact their vengeance. Israel has just demonstrated — with a massive raid on Beirut International Airport that she intends to respond to terror with punishing terror of her own. ★ ★ * The Middle East situation is complicated by Soviet-American rivalries in the Mediterranean area, and the complication is further compounded by sensitive political situations in Eastern Europe. Though both Soviet and American leaders’ gestures testify to an eagerness to keep the lid on a Middle East eruption, the tensions are such that it could blow up at any time. Africa The major concern In Africa for a watching world at the moment is Nigeria and its civil war which threatens to exterminate secessionist Biafra through a combination of military punishment and starvation. Big-power rivalries help confuse the issue and render more difficult any search for a way out. Hie rest of the African continent, with most of its people only recently independent, is full of built-in tensions such as those engendered by race problems in South Africa and Rhodesia and by colonial problems in areas like Angola, still held by Portugal. Europe Eastern Europe, historically a kettle for brewing conflict, once again provides a major source of worry, springing from the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia last August to snuff out a reform movement. The backlash of this generated tension in Yu- SALE City Owned Lend Pontiac, Michigan Tha City of Pontiac will receive sealed bids for the purchase of the site of the former incinerator building and former Parks and Recreation storage areo, consisting of approximately 6.49 acres at the southwest comer of Featherstone and East Boulevord, extending along the new route of Clinton River. The City reserves the right to a Water Main Easement on the property. The bids will be received until 2:00 P.M., Monday, January 27, 1969 ot the office of the City Clerk, 450 Wide Track Drive, East, Pontiac, Michigan at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Metes and Bounds description, Plats and desc rtptToh'of ■watA* ffflSTfiia**n»nrof Th«"prep*fiy™ are available at the office of the Department of Planning ond Urban Renewal, Room 206 City Hall, and may be obtained at no cost. Bidders will be required to submit a preliminary site development plan of the proposed use and an estimate of time when construction will start and be finished! A ten per cent (10%) Good Faith deposit is required with each bid. The unsuccessful bidders deposit will be returned after the determination of the successful bidder. The bids will be reviewed by the City Commission of the City of Pontiac and acceptance will be based on the highest and best use ( allowed by the present zoning consistent with the ‘ future development of the City of Pontiac. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any or alt bids, and to split or allocate frontage satisfactory to the bidders. Floyd IX Smith Purchasing Agent goslavia, whose maverick Communist regime skittishly eyes the Soviet Union for signs of her intentions. Romania, too, eyes the Russians, wondering when —or if—they will demand the right to station troops there. ★ ★ ★ The Czechoslovak episode laid down a new set ot rules for Europe so far as Moscow was concerned. Eastern Europe, it has said in effect, is its private sphere where it will tolerate no hint of Western interference. Communist-ruled nations have been told, by the so-called “Brezhnev Doctrine” enunciated by Moscow’s party chief, that the Kremlin calls the tune on the cultural, economic and political development of European nations under Communist which gives added weight to persistent Soviet complaints and veiled threats about the West Germans. West German participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization thus remains a center of tension for Europe and for Soviet-American relations. The status of West Berlin, isolated 110 miles inside East Germany, continues to be a potential center of crisis. ★ ★ ★ The Soviet attitudes toward Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania and Europe in general have impelled the NATO members to look to their organization for defense, dampening hopes held by many not long ago that the cold war might fade away. The Americas Latin America has been shaken by such events as a recent upheaval in Brazil and a military coup in Peru. Brazil has gone through a bloodless revolution and that largest of Latin-American nations is being run openly by a military-backed government. Its constitution has been virtually abolished. Peru has just been through a convulsion which has placed it under the control of a military junta. Cuba’s Communist regime has been relatively quiet of late so far as fomenting rebellion elsewhere in the region has been concerned, though it continues to propagandize the threat Czechoslovakia is the westernmost Communist nation in Europe. Its borders touch West Germany and Austria, a fact As 1968 clocks in, we wish you health, \ v wealth S happiness! HEMPSTEAD, BARRETT and ASSOC. Main Office 185 Elizabeth Lk.Rd. 39 Peninsula Pontiac, Michigan LakevUla Phonei FE 4-4124 Branch Office lie, Michigan i OA 8-3494 WHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thot the Hunting Area Control Committee, established in accordance with Act 159, Public Acts of 1967, Michigan Statutes Annotated, Sec ion 13,1397 1101), will conduct a public hearing at the White Lake Township Hall, 7525 Highland Road (M59), on Tuesday, January 14, 1969 dt 7:30 p.m. to determine the safety and well-being of persons or property and to prevent such persons or property from being endangered by hunters or the discharging of firearms or bow and arrows within the following areas of White Lake Township, to-wit: LAKEWOOD VILLAGE SUBDIVISIONS 1 thru 7, LAKEWOOD KNOLLS SUBDIVISION, THAT PORTION OF WHITE LAKE WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF WHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP, OAKLAND COUNTY, MICHIGAN, AND SUCH OTHER PETITIONS AS MAY BE RECEIVED ON OR BEFORE THE DATE OF THE HEARING. FERDINAND C. VETTER, Clerk White Lake Township PuMlihwl In Tim Pontiac Prill These are only a few of the world’s worries as the world enters 1969. Hardly a nation, from the most powerful to the moat humble, is without its uproar. Don’t Move.. IMPROVE! UTUSFWiSH YOUR BASEMENT As Low As *3” Per Week Here’s more room for tho kids ... or a bright now, doan and oomfortablo room for family recreation or entertaining. Lot us assist you in your homo beautification. ADD-A-ROOM NOW! Let ut a.ri.t you In planning a bright nnw and madam room lor your growing family. Thorn ato many now idaa* and wa m only tho finail material, and ciaft-monihlp. At e gge• a ns low A, ITT MONTH KITCHENS O DORMERS O OARAGES o R00FINQ EAVESTROUGHINQ o STORM WINDOWS e PORCH ENCLOSURES ALUMINUM AND VINYL SI0IN0 Frva Planning... Fran E.ltmnlM... Decora lor Sorvlca DAYS ... NIGHTS ... AND SUNDAYS CALL Construction (fa n 4-2597 \ember Pontiac Area Chamber of Commerce Super Stocking Stuffer The1969 Community Christmas Club. Help Santa out next Christmas by Joining the 1969 Community Christmas Club today. Just save a specified amount each week, and next November you’ll get a check that can fill the deepest stocking. For example: Save Weekly $ .50 1.00 2.00 5.00____ 10.00 20.00 You’ll Receive $ 25 50 100 - ...: . 250 ... 500 1000 Stop by one of the 20 convenient Community offices and join the club today. National I Bank Ofllcos in Oakland and Macomb Caunlios Bank at Community... Moil paopla do! 1 By KINGSLEY COTTON NORTH BRANCH -Christmas decorations are still up In this town of 1,000 north of Lapeer, but the colored lights are dark. Id Che wake of what a Detroit Edison Co. official termed the worst ice storm in- company history, all the village’s electric clocks stopped at 8:05 Saturday morning, silently marking the time when the power stopped. It was' still out this morning. *" ★ * Power was restored last night for a few hours, only to have other cables snap under the burden of heavy ice. Edison crews were called back on the job early this morning, but latest reports indicate over half the town is still blacked out. * * ★ North Branch was not the only community hard hit by winter's first real fury, since officials estimate the band of damage was 30 miles wide, stretching across Michigan’s Thumb from Lapeer County to Lake Huron. While utilities were restored in almost every other area, yesterday afternoon found the residents of this agricultural community enduring their fifty-fifth hour without electricity. ★ it ★ The storm knocked out 40,000-volt lines both north and south of North Branch, according to Keith Hunt, Lapeer district manager for the Detroit Edison Co. * * * Besides the common inconveniences of no lights or electric appliances, there was no water, since the village pump is electric. Most residents had no heat, since they have electric furnaces. Many residents have left town to stay with friends or relatives, according to village Mayor Gilbert O’Dell, 3819 W. Mill. HELP ONE ANOTHER However, the majority have stayed, joining together to help one another. “Although we’re all inconvenienced, I’ve received no official word of injuries resulting from the storm,” said Delbert Joslin, Chief and only full-time officer of the North Branch police force. * * " * , “Our biggest concern was not having heat and water, especially water,” he said. “The health and fire hazards were great, but we finally got water restored Sunday night by means of a portable generator connected to the village’s electric pump.”7"* Leo Naracon, 4288 Banker, a village councilman, is one of the many residents who have pitched in to run a relief center established at North Branch American post 457. The hall, located in the village's business district, has been the gathering place for persons unable to eat or sleep in their homes. FOOD, COTS PROVIDED . “The Flint Chapteir of the American Red Cross provided food and 4Q cots for us,” said Naracon. “We’ve hooked up a generator so we have heat, lights, and hot food here,” he continued. Naracon estimated that over 200 people were fed breakfast or lunch on Monday. He said that 50 per cent of the town’s population is retired, indicating that the problems are necessarily more complicated when dealing with file elderly., ★ ★ ★ Fred B. Smith, Adjutant of post 457, is in charge of the hall and its operation during the village’s dilemma. He also is 77 years old . “I was bom in ’91,” he said, “and I remember storms like this when I was a kid. Of course it didn’t cause a problem back then because we didn’t have electricity or running water in the first place.” FOOD MARKETS OPEN Although most businesses in North Branch are closed pending the return of power, the food markets are open. Wally Rogers, 4054 Huron is proprietor of Rogers Supermarket across from the VFW Hall. “I think I’ve got an obligation to stay open,” he said. * * * The temperature inside his store was 40 degrees yesterday, and* customers were shopping in the dark, although the meat counter was illuminated by a gas-powered camper’s light. * ★ * Rogers was in good spirits, but echoed the thoughts of most of North Branch’s residents when he questioned why some type of emergency power couldn't be provided after three days. “I don’t see why Edison couldn’t have brought in a generator for emergency power.” * ★ * “I have learned a couple of things from this,” Rogers added. “Between heat and water I'd rather have water. At least you’re safe from the health and fire standpoint.” “I’ll also appreciate electricity from now on,” he concluded. THE PONTIAC PRESS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 81. 11>«8 A—4 Urn News Temporary Relief Center at Legion Hall Provides Food And Shelter For Victims of Power Failure Chief Joslin and Councilman Naracon Walt For Electricity Fred B. Smith Recalls Ice Storms Back In The Nineties Ice Plays No Favorites In North Branch FMIMc Pr«* VMM ky MM R. IMM* Freezing Rains, Broken Trees And Downed Power Lines, Create an Eerie Winter Landscape THE PONTIAC PKESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1968 State Highway Office Move Protested The CSiy Commission pro* tested the removal of a State Highway Department district office from Pontiac at the commission meeting yesterday afternoon. The highway department recently announced its Intention of consolidating some of its operations and the commission learned tint the office at 926 Featherstone is to be combined with the Southfield office. The date of the move was not announced. Noted Racer Wants Marriage Annulled LOS ANGELES (AP) - Racing driver Craig Breedlove wants his Nov. 13 marriage to Carolyn Lords annulled grounds the divorce from his first wife wasn't final. He said Monday in a Superior Court suit that he obtained a Nevada divorce Nov. 13 from Lee Ann Breedlove, 31, married Miss Lords the same day. His first wife, who holds the woman’s land speed record filed for divorce Sept. 6 after six years of marriage. She accused Breedlove of cruelty and adultery. Under a temporary settlement, Breedlove is paying his first wife 3500 monthly support and 1050 a month in house payments. The commission drafted a resolution of protest mid will ‘ and it to the fit Ate Legislature. The resolution states the Pontiac area needs greater attention rather than Item. In another matter involving roads, it was announced speed ‘ is on Ptorry would be reduced slightly in some places. DANGEROUS FACTORS’ District 5 Commissioner Robert F. Jackson last week requested a check to see if the limits could be reduced because of what he termed dangerous factors. w * w The State Highway Department approved the following changes: between Gteawood and East Boulevard, from 40 m.p.h. to 35; from Eas Boulevard to Glddings, from 50 to 45; and from Glddings’ to the city limits no change, staying at 50. * * * A new salary scale effective tomorrow, was adopted for top city Jobs in accordance with an outline provided last July by a consulting firm, J.L. Jacobs Co. Salaries fa- the following positions were announced' city manager, $27,000; city attorney, $30,630; director of linance, $15,395; city clerk, $11,747. In other business, the commission referred to the planning commission a request for vacating streets to provide for the construction of the Human Resources Center southeast of City HalL . Streets to be vacated are approximately ode block in ail four directions from the in- TAKE YOUR CHOICE. ClARKE-GEE FUEL Oil tersection of Chandler Parkhurst. The Human Resources Center will consolidate area elementary schools and provide some community and adult education facilities when constructed the Pontiac Board of Education. ★ ★ The board is negotiating to tnty property in tjhe area and for several lots condemnation proceedings are expected to be brought soon in the courts, it and were sworn in by city clerk Mm. Olga -Rftfkeley. The three | serve the city, now known District 50, in the paw state setup which is replacing the former Justice of the peace sod municipal judge system. Ex-U.P. Couple Killed in Arizona State Tribes Will Be Paid Old Land Debt Permission to transfer tavern license from 404 Orchard Lake to 278 W. Walton was denied. District 4 Commissioner F. Jack Douglas voiced disapproval of the move and cited a petition with 3 60 signatures as proof ’‘they just don’t want another tavern in that area." JUDGES SWORN IN The city’s three new district Judges, Cecil McCallum, James Stelt and Maurice Finnegan ESCANABA (API - Michigan’s Chippewa and Ojibway Indians stand to split a kitty of up to $10.6 million for land taken by the government 132 years ago. But how much tribal members will receive has yet to be determined. The Ufi. Indian commission has approved outlay of the federal funds to compensate descendants of those who ceded their land to, the United States under an 1836 treaty. - 'it it * Last week the commission fixed the. land area Involved at 13,944,034 acres and its value at $10.8 million — or $0 cents an afire, the value in 1638. The commission has yet to determine, however, how much die Indians may already have been paid and other necessary adjustments. Thus, the final award Is likely to be consider ably less than the initial de termination, according to I commission spokesman. NO DATEWJET A date has not been set for a hearing on the adjustments. James Fitharris, an Escant ba attorney who represented the Indians before the commission, estimates there are 5,000 to 6,000 Chippewae and Ojibways In Michigan. •k ★ * In order to share In the scendancy from the original tribes which ceded their lands. Degree of blood relationship also will bfe a factor. Distribution will await a final determination by the commission on those entitled to share PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) — An elderly couple who formerly lived in Wakefield, Midi., died in an auto accident on Arizona 87, north of Phoenix, Monday. Dead are Harold William Marshall, 77, and Hilda C. Marshall, about 73. Driver Marshall had a Michigan driver' license, but papers gave his address as both Wakefield and Phoenik. The Marshall car ran Into a commit culvert, according to Arizona Highway Patrol investigators. ELECTION NOTICE TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF KEEGO HARBOR, OAKLAND COUNTY, MICHIGAN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that at a special election to ba held at City Hall, 2025 Baachmont, in said City of Keego Harbor, Oakland County, Michigan, an Monday, the 10th day of Fabraary, 1969, the following question will ba submitted to you: Do you favor the confirming of a franchise to THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY, granting permission to erect, construct, lay, operate and maintain, within the CITY OF KEEGO HARBOR, all needful and proper poles, towers, mains, wires, pipes, conduits, and other apparatus requisite for the transmission, transforming and distribution of electricity for public and private use, subject, however, to all conditions and restrictions of said franchise, as passed at a session of the City Council of said City, held on Thursday, the 19th day of December, 1968. A copy of said franchise is on file with the City Clerk, and It is open to the inspection of the electors of said City. At said election the form of ballot will be as follows: Confirming grant of franchise to THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY, for the purpose of the erection, construction and* maintenance of towers, poles, mains, wires, pipes, conduits, appartus, etc., requisite for the transmission, transforming and distribution for public and private use. YES □ NO □ The polls of said special eliction will be opened tit 7 o'clock a.m. and will i^maln open until 8 o'clock p.m. of said day of election. REGISTRATION NOTICE The Board of Registration will be in session at the City Hall, 2025 Beechmont on Friday, the ,10th day of January, 1969, from 8 o'clock In the forenoon until 8 o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of completing the registration of electors of said City. The City Cjerk will be at her office on Saturday, the 4th day of January, 1969, from 8 o'clock in the forenoon- until 5 o'clock in the evening, fpr the registration of electors of said City. Doted this 19th day of December, 1968. Josephine A. Ward City Clerk ! hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy of reso-lutions adopted by the City Council of the CITY OF KEEGO HARBOR, Ookland County, Michigan, at a special meeting held on Thursday, the 19th day of December, 1968. Josephine A. Word Ctty Clork Oakland Youth For Christ Lifeline Needs Your Help! Wo Need $30,000 for Bus and Equipment Help lIs With Delinquent Teens Send $1.00 To Rev. William B. 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If you don't have "CHECK-MATE," moke application now at any office of Pontiac State. Pontiac State Bank 12 Convenient Offlees to Serve You... Mein Office Ssginaw at Lawrence Span Daily t a.m. Meeiber Fatfaral Deposit Insurance Oorperatlon with Deposits Insured to $1B,600.M two-colors THE PONTIAC TUESDAY. DECEMBER 81, 1908 TWO COLORS THE PONTIAC PRESS 48 West Huron Street Pontiac, Michigan 48058 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1968 Secretary and Advertising Richard M. Fitzgerald Treasurer and Finance USSl Nine Parties Represented in Election For Americans who have long thought of their political system as a two-party establishment, there is disillusionment in the final tabulation of the November 5 election, which Richard Nixon won by 499,704 votes. Not two, but nine parties (including the democratic and Republican) had presidential cahdidates on the ballot in some if not all the states. In addition, Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., with no party affiliation, picked up 25,858 votes, mostly in California. After the total of 72,937,911 votes polled by the three major party candidates — Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace — the pickings for the remaining six were, of course, pretty slim. They ran up a combined vote count of 192,964. Of that total, the Socialist-Labor party was first with 52,588, while the Communist and Free Bal-lott party trailed with 1,075. The tabulation showed that a record 73,177,821 voters cast ballots. But equally significant is the fact that it represented but 60.2 per cent of the estimated 121.5 million Americans of voting age. Good government is, as never before, the paramount concern of every American. It can only be achieved and preserved by heightened interest on the part of the electorate in candidates seeking public office and by translating that interest into votes. Ups and Downs of Latin American Polities Venezuela has taken another heartening step forward in the art of democratic government. For the first time in the country’s history, the party in power is peacefully surrendering the reins of government to a political rival. As winner in a squeaker of an election which bore certain resemblances to our own recent presidential race, Rafael Caldera of the Christian Democratic party takes over from retiring President Raul Leoni of the Democratic party. Leoni himself becomes only the second freely elected ruler in Venezuela’s history to complete his constitutional term. ★ ★ ★ Like our own election this year, the one in Veneiuela also featured a third candidate and potential spoiler in the shape of former dictator Perez Jimenez. The once-imprisoned mid once* exiled Jimenez registered a landslide in Caracas and scored strongly elsewhere. The important thing is that the majority of Venezuelans rejected him and all Venezuelans kept their cool as, amid conflicting election return claims and rumors of an impending mijjtary coup, they waited more than a week for the official vote to be tallied. Meanwhile, south of Venezuela in Brazil, the old pattern so familiar in Latin America has again been repeated. There, President Costa e Silva has manufactured a crisis to justify his suspension of the Congress, arrest of opponents and press censorship. The two events in the two countries do not cancel each other out, however. ★ ★ ★ What happened in Venezuela is a positive gain for the cause of democracy for all of Latin America, despite the temporary retrogression into political barbarism now taking place in Brazil. 'Capitalistic’ Pollution Plagues Russia Russia, where the government owns all the means of production and where the social ills caused by capitalism aren’t supposed to exist, is apparently having as many difficulties in the matter of pollution as other less-enlightened industrialized countries. p The U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers has announced a seven-year pollution abatement campaign to try to clean up the Caspian Sea, with-stiff new regulations governing oil well operators, the shipping and fishing industries and community sewer systems. ★ ★ ★ At the same time because past directives have been ig- nored, it has adopted the weapon of public ridicule and scorn against these major sources of pollution. This is one page from the socialist book that might well be copied over here. ★ ★ ★ Antipollution laws are a vital first step, but we will not begin making real progress until the day arrives when an^ manufacturer or company or municipality that dumps its wastes into the common national air or water or landscape is considered to be as irresponsible and disreputable as the individual who dumps his garbage on the common highway. Nixon Sees Peace Role in Mideast By RAY CROMLEY NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON - Presidentelect Nixon's meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Moehe Dayan and William Scranton's Middle East factfinding trip underline the CROMLEY the Nlxond group placesl on early U.8.[ action to defuse I the ArabJsrae-11 confrontation. If this reporter reads the signs accurately, there is no area of the world that worries the Nixon men more. A sudden renewal of the Arab-Israell war could put the Nixon administration is an untenable position in its first months of office. * * * * There are strong differences within the Nixon group, Itself, as to the best courses of action. But certain things are clear. Nixon himself Is known to believe tbkt the United States must taka the leadership in securing a Middle East solution. But before Nixon can act as the honest broker In the Arab-Israell confrontation (either directly or through the United Nations) he must first be accepted on both sides. This means breaking the Soviet monopoly as adviser to Nasser and some other key Arab leaders. It is for this reason that Nixon puts a high priority on building Influence with moderate Arab leaders and with Egypt's Nasser, who, like it or not, may be the key to solving the current crisis. Nixon will approach Russia’s Brezhnev to lay it on the line, seek Soviet cooperation in reaching a settlement. MORE PROFIT? But there’s worry Moscow doesn’t want a solution, that the men in the Kremlin may figure they have more to profit from keeping things stirred up in the Middle East. If the Nixon negotiators find that to be the case, then it’s understood that Nixon will make It clear to Moscow the U.8. stake, in the area and push ahead firmly for a negotiated settlement with or' without Moscow. Meanwhile, the Nixon men believe Israel must b e assured of the arms necessary to keep from being overrun. The new administration’s strategists believe that for the long run, a way must be found to enable the Arabs to develop their economies. Nixon himself is known to believe the basic economic need is water. ENTHUSIASTIC He is enthusiastic on the possibility of Installing seawater desalting plants at key points through the Middle East. ♦ * * Nixon men hope the program would largely pay its own way and that financing would be International. Ring In The New! Voice of the People: Views of Senator Huber Have Support of Reader Senator Huber should be highly commended for his pretest of certain events occurring at Oak*" land University. It is regrettable that more of our• rJ| elected representatives do not feel compelled to y* protest and investigate the strange activities of our> tax-support colleges. Whenever a responsible andt • concerned man, such as Senator Huber, speaks out,, against moral or political anarchy, he is ruthlessly smeared by any number of far-left kooks. ★ ★ ★ One person assails JVfr. Huber for supporting a citizen’s right to hold and control private property and infers that this is immoral. Such “immor-ality” as the control of private property is one of the baric foundation stones of the United States Constitution. The right to hold and control private”, property is the number one target in the Communist program. The philosophy of collectivism cannot abide tile idea of property owned by individuals. Therefore, the Communists plan to abolish our right to private property in the United States. Levying.! property taxes so high they are impossible to pay : is, or could be, one step in this-direction. R. F. DOHNER 725 Gertrude ----_________ *Three Cheers for Support of Our Police’ “■ It’s about time somebody put his foot down and stood bv Best of Men Should Go to Moon ^ CONCERNED By DAVID POLING The Russians and - the Americans are waxing up their moon vehicles for a landing, next year. We’re supposed to be No. 1. I hope the two rockets don’t collide when they aim for the same parking space on the moon. Right now it looks as though the Pentagon will be selecting the astronauts and handing out the medals. Wiser observers of history -and human events are not content to see the military grab all the prizes for discovery. ★ ★ Norman Cousins, in his last book, "Present Tense — An American Editor’s Odyssey,’’ has a first-rate suggestion on who should go to the moon. “The journey into space is, or should be, a sublime experience. The selection of astronauts ought not to be confined to men in the military or in technology. Why not poets, philosophers or theologians who have demonstrated their capacity to think creatively and who have some convictions about the nature of man? TRUE PERSPECTIVE "A spaceship requires true perspective. This is nothing that can be imparted in a course on astronautics; it comes with (he responsible development of Intellect and Insight. A respect for the human spirit may be even more important than a knowledge . o f centrifugal force." Not a bad thought. In this hour of the scientific-military elite with their science-fiction national budgets, it is appropriate that poets and philosophers and theologians be given equal' time — in space as well as on the air. * . * * When you think about it, we have been put down too long by thinking, but not literary, types who have become very, very popular in this electronic kingdom. Couplns is right; "For when the astronaut returns to earth, his message should be more than an excited series of remarks on a fabulous Journey. 71)6 returning messenger should have the ability to impart a sense of great new connections that may transform life as we have known it." * * •* A long trjp is involved and Verbal Orchids Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Parlette of Berkley; 56th wedding anniversary. one would hope for a librarian aboard to make reading suggestions for those days of silence and peace. Reading, like time, is a great healer. Another participant on this space odyssey should be someone who can take good coin* pictures. And someone, a poet, .an artist, a musician who can write some songs of celebra- tion for the festive landing on the moon. Maybe a new fit-ternational anthem, with a rock beat, so that it has a universal appeal. Remember, the Japanese will be listening. For theologian, nominate Harvey Cox. He is coherent, humorous and not given to foolish statements about the death of God, Bob Considine Says: LBJ, King, Riot, RFK Vivid Memories of ’68 of Milford; 80th birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Martin C. Pooley of Bradenton, Fla., formerly of Walled Lake; S2nd wedding anniversary. r Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Dodd of 388 Russell; 54th wedding anniversary. Mrs. N. J. Axford of Rochester; 96th birthday. NEW YORK — Some fallout from a reporter’s notebook: I’ll never forget the look in the President’s eyes as he came to the routine ending of hia speech, that Sunday night March 31, and paused for the reading of his bombsheU —his decision not to seek re-election. CONSIDINE It was a look of many shades. It was his noblest hour, the look said, laced with the self-pity he has felt for several years, and with a trace of satisfaction over the fact that for once nobody had “leaked" the great secret to a Washington correspondent. Then, four days later in St. Patrick’s cathedral, the great church rattled with rarely heard applause as LBJ arrived for the ceremonies that elevated his friend Terence Cooke to succeed Francis Cardinal Spellman as archbishop of the archdiocese. it it It It was a high point in the President’* life. Cooke’s homily was spoken mainly to the man who has made a unique sacrifice. Head resting on chin, the President listened intently. Martin Luther King was assassinated later that day. The funeral at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, March 9, was, in Its way, a$ solemnly inspirational as any that had preceded it In this reporter’s memory. The TV close-ups of the widow behind her veil showed die features of a saint, a saint sculptured by Michelangelo himself. / . * * * The funeral procession through the streets to the burial ground — white and black following the creaky mule-drawn wagon — barely turned Its head as It passed the canitol in which Gov. Lester Maddox cowered and sulked. He had raised hell because someone in his gov-ernmant had ordered the city’s flags half-etaffed*. The wanton burning of Washington, D.C. by black hoodlums and their emboldened young followers. In some ureas the police retreated to apparently pre- planned positions and let anarchy ride. The scars remain. The faces of the mourners around the flag-draped coffin of Sen. Robert Kennedy In St. Patrick’s, each face fathqms deep in thought. I can still hear the ending of Ted Kennedy’s tribute to his dead brother, the sorrow of the strings Leonard Bernstein assembled, and the lone, stirring, unbearably moving "Battle Hymn of the Republic,” by Andy Williams. Question and Answer Why is gasoline in Flint selling 3-4 cents cheaper a gallon than in Pontiac—same brand and grade? GILBERT L. PRESTON 491 HIGHLAND REPLY Individual dealers are given a suggested price, but they may sell gasoline at any price they choose. While we found no oil company that would give' us an answer, Robert Jacobs, president of the Flint; Gasoline Dealers Association, admitted there has been a price war in Flint and prices have been fluctuating the past, four to six weeks. He says right now it-$ about 5 cents a gallon cheaper in Fliilf than Pontiac, but it°should equalize when the price situation stabilizes. When that will be, he couldn’t say. Question and Answer Could you please tell me In what city or town In Michigan die Iron Range Cable Company is located? WOULD LIKE TO KNOW REPLY Neither we nor the Michigan Manufacturers Association could find a listing for that company. We even checked some back issues of Michigan1 Manufacturers Directory to see if it may have been1 listed but no longer in business, but found nothing.-I Are you sure you have the correct title? You did not include your address, so we couldn’t reach you, but if you will send us more information—type of products, how you learned of it, why you need the information—perhapst we can be of more help. In Washington: New Cabinet a Bold Experiment By BRUCE BIOSSAT WASHINGTON (NEA) The viewers of the Washington scene have had „ their say about President - elect Richard Nlx-o n *s cabinet and other ap-p o i ntments, prising and fund amao-tally conservative. They appear to have missed the fonovatlv* aspects of what he(is undertaking. There are three principal developments that must be branded experimental. First off, the naming of Prof. Henry A. Kissinger as “foreign, policy adviser" has been much misunderstood. He is not intended to serve as a co-ordinator of military, diplomatic and foreign economic information in the same mold as predecessors McGeorg# Bundy and Walt W. Rostow. * ★ ★ It can be flatly stated that Kissinger has been hired not simply to provide specific advice but to review and analyse the National Security Council and all the other coordinating machinery established'in recent presidential regimes with an/ye to determining their true currant 'effectiveness in assisting the Not only Is Nixon’s interest in the foreign field paramount, but it is the inescapable preoccupation of any chief executive in this troubled era. He is not taking for granted the usefulness of the existing “in-house" instruments for coordinating foreign policy effort. Second, the choice o f urbanologlst Daniel P. (Pat) Moynlhan to head a new urban affairs council Is consciously designed by Nixon to determine whether some similar kind of institutionalized co-ordination j can now be brought to the. great domestic problem area — the cities wracked with racial strife, crime and campus unrest. ★ ★ * Very much as with Kissinger, Moynihan is seen as the inventive idea man, the pro-' poser of new approaches, the concetver of a coordinated attack upon urban problems. Ideally, from his work should emerge the outlines of the kind of machinery for aiding the President in this field which already exists la foreign affairs but needs new testing. But here, it should be noted, Nixon need not be dependant upon Moynihan for execution of policy. Despite the atrees of "conservative" tone of Ma cabinet, the new President can turn for action in the urban field to two committed progressives in such matters —Robert Finch, new secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Michigan Gov. George Romney, new of The President-elect thus is prepared to undertake experiment in the two broad areas of most sweeping con-: cem to Americans in 1968. No one can guess what the net product of all this will be, but . there is boldness In the planning and it renders incorrect the reading that Nixon has just done the "safe” thing in choosing his cabinet. His third piece of daring is in entrusting , much of his major political planning to a brilliant 28-year-old lawyer, John P. Sears, who will be his chief political aide in the White House. The easy comment is that Nixon in this instance has acted characteristically 1 £• selecting a man whom he trusts and who has been. helping him in poitUcs■; years. But that hnpraehm1 has a deceptively “surface" quality. * * * It Is Nixon’s intent to reorganize the national Republican party machinery in a big way, to move hard to improve the party’s basic image, to have a hand in the choice of candidates who will •wrist that process and, ultimately, to restore the GOP to majority status hi the Much of this huge end he will entrust to Sears, had never toadied na politics until two years Therein, again, lies bol which runs counter to broad judgment, most deserved, of Richard Nix the man who just don safe thing. High Court Is Asked to Hear 1-696 Suits LANSING (AP)— Seeking to concerned to agree upon a speed construction of 1-696, al-'route,” Romney said in his pe-ready delayed five years by lo-jUtion to the court cal opposition in South Oakland * * * County, Gov. George Romney The three suits, filed by Al-Monday urged the State Su- fred Di Matteo and the commun-! preme Court to take over three itjes of Pleasant Ridge and lawsuits which promise further Lathrup Village, all challenge! de‘*y- , I the constitutionality of a 1967 Construction of an interstate law designed to allow final sethighway in the area...is urgent-1tlement of the 1696 dispute, ly needed and has already been The law set up a three-mem-deUyai over five years by the tor arbitration panel which an-mability of the municipalities nounced Oct. IS its decision on I ' * the expressway route THE PONTIAC I’UKSS. 11 KSDAV, DKCK.MHKK '69 Brings In New Laws for Driving Safety through ■■ the populous Oakland County The-ihree lawsuits, all now before Oakland County Circuit Judge Arthur E. Moore, charge the 1967 arbitration law violates constitutional provisions giving local units control over roads WASHINGTON (AP) - Head and streets ““ter their jurisdic-rests to prevent whiplash neck r0"8-injuries and special latches to Romney told the Supreme keep doors and hoods fromi^ourt the constitutional ques-flying open are required on all!tion “is of such public moment U S. cars manufactured after 85 to require the earliest pos*j today. isible determination." Michigan! Federal safety standards ef- court rules allow the governor fective with the turn of the New to ask the high court to take Year also require windshield Jurisdiction over ipajor public m wiping and defrosting systems; Questions, that meet minimum federal per-j —— --------------- A—0 WHERE FIVE DIED — A lone fireman extinguishes the last flames from a blaze which claimed the lives of five members of the Marion Biddle family in Orland Park near Chicago yesterday. Biddle, 50, AP Wiriphoto three of his children and Biddle’s father were killed in the blaze. Three other children were burned. Biddle’s wife and eldest -daughter were not at home when the fire destroyed the two-story home. 3 Bodies Found3 Teens Beat> Are? Soldier atGeneseeSite OTISVILLE (UPlt-The bodies of two women and one man Rob Ex-Head of Burroughs DETROIT (AP) Killed in Viet Spec. 4 Richard C. Bachert, 19, of 4714 White Lake, White Deaths in Pontiac, Nearby Area: formance standards. All American cars also must! have vehicle identification tags permanently fixed inside that! can be read from the outside. I The new block of required auto safety features have been! imposed by the Department of. Transportation under the Highway Safety Act of 1966. The first! requirements, 45 Americans Are Listed as Killed in Viet Ida Cuthbertson were found yesterday in a home i S| fjSEjpg et r To,wnshiP;,wf kiWed Dec- At the outskirts of this (ipnpw « « , , , , , . 21 in Action in VietnAm. Bi me ouisKiris ot tms uenesee leader and retired board chair-, cprvirp u,in ho m m*™,,y's,s,e m it was a double murder and aldowntown Detroit. I . eu‘ , , v „ „ suicide.” said Corp. Wilbur! Eppert. 65, of 295 Lone Pine A™!?e<£ber 4*0® ^'!ed *$3 Bond of the Lapeer State Police!Court, Bloomfield Hills, was * n Katherine BarheH Post. “BUt we’re not going tojattacked when he was caught J? D°fvi^ir.K h e Bachert be able to say definitely until alone in the lavatory by the ai • ■ officers from the State Police'youths, police said. ' Also surv'v.ng are a sister. Crime Laboratory in Lansingi * a * Mrs_ RathenneRachcrt and a apt hpre ” ; „ . . brother, Donald, both of Harts'51 nere ! Eppert said he heard one say land. * * * “Let’s get him” and the three . Bond said the victims, a attacked him with their fists.] mother, daughter and father. [The industrialist suffered head were found in the basement of injuries when he was banged to’ their home by the family’s 19-'the floor, jyear-old son. Names were not! He was reported under inten-Ireleased. * isive care at Grace Hospital. ★ * * I Police said the three bandits! ers Court iurv found a 24 vear Bond said preliminary invest!-;^ Detroit man innocent gation indicated a shotgun hadfrom his^arm * f ck I Monday night of first-degree been'used. a murder charges in the death of |-----------------------i - * , *, * | a young Negro following a drink- O .. E?fert had r?t,^ed in l967 af ing party in Rouge Park in Z engineers Die ter 45 years with Burroughs, the jUne 1967 1 cn* » , • .p la8t nine as its chief executive The ruling came in the case SPA, Belgium AP) - Two officer. 0f Michae] polchlopek a former engineers were killed near here Burroughs Corp, is among the'gas station manager, accused of ess* Monday when their locomotive world’s leading computer man- slaying Daniel Thomas 24 who jsuffered a bullet wound in the Man Acquitted in Detroit Killing DETROIT (AP) - A Record- left the tracks on a bend and fell ufacturers. Ferry Mount Park Cemetery. | Mr. Fraser died Saturday. He into a ravine. The accident was . -----------------------— head while trying to fight off | Mr. Maginnis, a retired in-1 was a retired vice president of unofficially blamed on ice and In 1966, the United States had tormentors. Thomas and his Ida Cuthhertson, 54 Seneca,IfBriney Manufactur-iManufacturer’s National Bank snow which hampered the 2,396,550 reported fires, with a1 wife, Louise, 28, were attacked loss of $1.86 billion. near a park recreation building. died today. Her tody is at the in« Co” died yesterday. I of Detroit. Sparks Griffin Funeral Home. c , i D • Surviving are his wife, I Edward B. Morris | Henrietta U.T. Mrs. D. C. Desmond ' Memorial tributes may be | Service for former Pontiac made t0 the Michi {,egrt I Service has been held forresident Edward B- Association. _. former Pontiac resident Mrs. of Covina- Calif- was held *«•-imposed lastj Defense Denartment ha® Dorothy C.' Desmond, 71, of San terday were, year, included installation of; leased the names of « «ervir.«!!Pranoisco- Calif. Burial was at1 A former employe of the City shoulder harnesses in new cars. men killed in action in Vietnam. | Sa"ta R°sa’ Ca||f’, _ « Iff ""fcS thf 10akl?,nd | BRANDON TOWNSHIP-Serv brakes WASHINGTON (AP) NEEDED REST The need for head rests, Highway Administrator Lowell K. Bridwell said in announcing the requirement, ‘‘is strikingly apparent in that about four million rear-end crashes occur in the fih1 lH2an~U1, °Mr** United States each year ... and RmsTouri-wc. micdmi a substantial number of these “north dakota-i crashes produce ‘whiplash’ neck foh(o!1uhI*l» injuries.” The head rests, or high seats that serve the same purpose, are required for the driver and right front seat passenger. The list includes 16 men from the Midwest. , . Killed in action: j and a sister AWMII«m J. Pahr Jr., AAlCon mi WC‘ RuWl J* WiP KANSAS—Pfc. Ronald A. Jarvis, Nats Mrs. Clayton Justin of Pontiac and the Oakland Mrs Desmond died Dec 15. [County Road Commission, ‘a^«“