The Pontiac Press

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OU Libraries has completed digitizing a portion of the Pontiac Press newspaper, spanning August 17, 1953 to December 31, 1969. These digitized issues capture a transformative period in local history, covering Oakland County's rapid suburban growth and demographic shifts, as well as chronicling important developments in the history of our own Oakland University. In addition to offering a unique window into the social, economic, and political landscape of Oakland County, the collection includes coverage of the civil rights movement, automotive industry developments, and significant local history such as the Detroit Rebellion of 1967. This resource will be of particular interest to researchers interested in labor history, the automotive industry, and urban planning. The collection also contains classifieds, political cartoons, community events, and advertisements, providing a rich cultural snapshot of southeast Michigan.

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    The Pontiac Press: 1960-01-15
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    Blaming Suicide Bomb in Airliner Explosion ; West Works on Reds to Halt Arms Secrecy ; Williams Lashed for Requesting Heavy Spending ; Evidence Points to Victim With New Insurance ; Follow Our Leader -- Reds ; Car Hits Train, Arrest Driver ; Rain…Sleet...Snow Bring Load of Woe ; Famed Doctor Held in Killing ; To Get One Dollar Cuts Long-Hairs Will March ; Mild Influenza Creeps Into Country ; GM Plane Official Says: Must Desire Air Service
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    The Pontiac Press: 1960-01-16
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    Feared Death in Plane Scandal Near Bomb Suspect ; Finance Deals Tangled Up His Happy Life | 3 Face Treason Charges for Anti-Semitic Acts | TV Writers Strike May Halt Shows ; Youth Boasts of 'Nazi' Club ; Justice Clears 3 in RO Twp. ; State Officials Ponder Moore's Youth Proposal ; Scott Charges Own Union Behind Suit Against Him ; Knudsen Chairman of City-Plant Group ; Now's the Time to Get Cooking School Tickets ; Little Buddies Rest for Awhile ; Another Frigid 20-Degree Night Expected Here
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    The Pontiac Press: 1960-01-18
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    $4.18 Billion Bulge Ike Budget Calls for Surplus ; Judge Promises Fast Hearing on Trial Board ; Dr. Sullenberger Agrees to Take Hospital 'Rest' ; President Says It Can Help Bring Tax Cut ; Was Victim a Hypnotized Dupe? Death-Plane Mystery Darkens ; $500,000 in Surplus to Go Toward New Courthouse ; Ike Will Visit Russia in June ; Produces Atomic Electricity for Over a Year ; Japanese Premier Kishi to Ink Pact in White House ; Bus Strike Over in Kalamazoo: Silence Here ; Area Gets Heavy Snow Warning ; Don't Expect Hike on Mail or Gasoline
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    The Pontiac Press: 1960-01-19
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    Ex-Con Cracks, Reveals Grave in Commerce ; Leads Officer to Companion's Riddled Body ; Three From Michigan Dead in Airliner Crash Killing 50 ; Norfolk-Bound Capital Viscount Shatters on Hill ; Doctor Off for Hospital After Fire ; Light Snow, Colder Two-Day Forecast ; Ranges to Be Prizes at Cooking School ; Schedule Talks on Bus Walkout ; 6 Will Map Plans to Boost Griffin for Senate Seat ; Williams Backs Convention Call ; Last Michigan GOP Appointee to Leave Post ; Billie S. Farnum Named to High Democratic Post
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    The Pontiac Press: 1960-01-20
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    58 Persons Killed in 2 New Plane Crashes ; Ex-Birmingham Man One of Ankara Victims ; Straley Gets Full Power as Police Chief ; Would Have Stepped Down for $35,000 ; Seek Accord on Waterford Name Change ; Utica Patrolman Takes No Lip--He's Hard-Bitten ; Five Days of Snow Predicted for Area ; Hospital Hikes Wages, Rates ; Students Offer School Names ; Five Days of Snow Predicted for Area ; Straley Wants Defendant's Role in PPOA Suit ; Ike Foresees Gilded Future for America
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    The Pontiac Press: 1960-01-21
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    37 Lose Lives in Jamaican Airliner Explosion ; Only 9 Escape Flames, Capehart Kin a Victim ; Air Crash 'Dead' Man Still Alive ; PPOA Wants Straley AND Eastman to Quit ; Vandals Idle Holly Buses ; Spanish Envoy Blasts Fidel ; Cuba Boots Ambassador ; Demand State Extend Highway ; Winter, Brief Style, to Stay Here Awhile ; Russia Begins Pacific Testing ; Osteopaths Convening Here ; Cooking School Tickets? Sorry, They're All Gone ; U.S. Rocket Carries and Ejects Monkey ; Sale of Pontiacs Set a Record Pace Last Year
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    The Pontiac Press: 1960-01-22
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    Trapped in South Africa, Hope Fades for 400 Miners ; 2 Rock Slides Seal Pit Near Johannesburg ; Honored for 29 Years Service ; Spears' Wife Admits Contact 2 Weeks Ago ; Flu Outbreak is Possible, Health Director Warns ; Install World's Largest Carillon ; Chance Played Role in 'Kirk' Bell Story ; Sullenberger Off to Battle Creek ; Stoke That Fire Next Five Days, Near 15 Tonight ; Kremlin Reports 9 Cases of Smallpox in Russia ; Living Costs Drop Mile in December ; Hospital Finances Better ; Dr. Pauli Hospital Chief ; 'Xway Protest Hopeless Act'
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-09-02
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    Death toll soars in US from stifling heat ; Plane carrying 21 soldiers is missing in northwest ; It's no weather for people, let alone porkers ; Pair examined in Caruso death ; City posts $5,000 reward to spur rape-slayer hunt ; French plane crash kills 42 ; Detroit produce group indicted ; Death approaches for Gen. Wainwright ; 100 more Americans reach freedom in POW training ; China told to watch out if Commies strike again ; Bloomfield Hills educators call for estimate of costs on 26-student classroom school ; Supply of beer stays normal ; Stresses safety over weekend ; Trieste dispute grows calmer ; Birmingham notes 3rd polio case ; Kinsey report: Goat whistles please gal; She decides men are OK ; Soviet declines plan to ease German travel ; McCarthy links Reds to Army
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-09-16
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    28 die as American airliner crashes, burns ; Mock gets 15 years for bank robbery ; Missing British official's wife, children vanish ; Vishinsky to demand UN restudy vote on neutrals ; Pontiac renews city bus permit ; Adlai urges new proposal to Reds for non-aggression ; Cigarette seller convicted here ; Saginaw fights bock-wide fire ; Murder charged in bar killing ; 500-acre Troy dairy farm purchased by C.E. Wilson ; Kensington Park reports attendance of 1.2 million ; Birmingham school board purchases one new bus, orders bids on 2 others ; OK first reading of law to regulate use of water ; State Solon to call for car impounding ; Dem senator states party more unified ; Rubber workers to hear Williams
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-09-17
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    Dulles says Reds must ease world tensions ; Separate Louisiana Siamese twins ; Medical society president dies in auto crash ; O'Brian quizzed in Detroit death ; Report new Jewish purge ; Auto of missing envoy's wife found in Switzerland ; Hornsby fired by Cincinatti ; Sen. McCarthy to wed Sept. 29 ; Chrysler gets $50 million order for tank retrievers ; Definite plan for action in Pembroke school case pledged by city manager ; Ford division promotes three ; Jews prepare for Yom Kippur ; Begins probing Convair crash ; Oatis gets 10 year Red prison sentence after "trial" full of twisted testimony
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-10-19
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    2 perish, 25 survive as Constellation crashes: Eastern liner plunges, burns in Idlewild fog ; United Fund drive will open Tuesday ; Workers meet for breakfast at Boy's Club; N. W. Peterson dies on visit to Kansas City ; Roller coaster wild, injures 6 ; 15 state deaths over weekend ; Tuesday D-Day for hunters in southern part of state ; Mother, 5 tots perish in fire ; Hall's captors to be quizzed ; Vietnamese close in on Red rebel base ; Communists accept UN offer to meet at Panmunjom ; Ike, Cortines open Falcon Dam today ; Big 3 foreign ministers seek meeting with Russia ; Birmingham commission to hear fourth proposal on Troy Township land ; Postal suspect sought in east ; Birmingham church names new pastor ; Mideast clash faces council: Israel claims killings provokes by Jordan attacks ; Wayne facing stormy divorce ; Detroit Poles protest Red US consulates
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-10-20
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    $487,200 fund drive opens in Pontiac area: 200 hear pastor start campaign for 53 agencies ; Reds' walkout stalls progress on repatriation ; Rescuers rush to reach wreck of Mexican DC-3 ; Speak at United Fund breakfast today ; Clardy begins groundwork for Red hearings in state ; US suspends aid to Israel ; Nab mail theft suspect in east ; Hospital land sale contract canceled ; POW gets wish after 34 months ; Brake to run in primary, wants GOP governorship ; Seek to re-establish ruling on athletics ; Say ROK pilot deserts to Reds ; Alarm by student saves man inside blazing home ; Birmingham OKs Porritt land zone purchase: also will vacate stubs of roads ; UM man to address Dems at Birmingham ; Labor leader dies at age 79 ; Soapy's wife to chair Women's Day program ; UN birthday party planned in Birmingham ; UF sponsored contest opens at Birmingham ; Art Institute shares in Whitcomb estate ; Jack Dempsey seeks trainees for television ; Evangelist advises wife to be obedient ; Roy Cash, bride now residing in New Hudson ; Colerain PTA names officers ; 117 years are celebrated by Milford Methodists ; Set UN festival for Thursday ; Cass City Grange officers elected ; Eastern Star chapters plan officer installations ; Farm engineers to be in Lapeer
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-10-30
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    Gold names Ex-UN broadcaster as Red spy: Rosenberg aide points finger at New Yorker ; 3 die in bus-car collision: 10 more injured in M99 crash; Coach upsets ; Plane crashed south of Frisco, killing nineteen ; CIO leader dies of heart attack ; Bedside wedding gives quads father, new names ; Anti-Communist prisoners agree to interviews ; 2 plead guilty in Chaney killing ; 5 AFL officials to stand trial ; Area officials promise support for survey of new water sources ; Ask UN Action on Gl atrocities ; Annexation procedures for Porritt property, Troy triangle are not similar ; General Motors wants its TV show changed ; Officials favor sewer project ; U of M alumni open drive for members ; Start 2nd figure club ; Martin probing surplus agency ; Expert sees end to fishing for food ; Says US teachers afraid to speak out
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-11-23
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    Teamsters shout down Hoffa on trusteeship: Call on guards to keep peace at Sunday meet ; Floods forcing hundreds from homes in west ; Passenger car styling found in new GMC pickup ; 5 die in crash of small plane ; Weekend accidents claim twenty lives in Michigan ; More power, driving ease offered in new GMC trucks ; Denies knowing about ransom ; Thief rifles purses at church service ; 100 Pontiac mailmen to canvass in drive ; Summerfield says GOP brought peak production ; Union insurance fund probe set ; State students hail bowl choice ; Commission will seek second bond proposal for additional fire facilities ; Altrusa to hold charter dinner ; Virginia Ricamore succumbs suddenly ; Homes destroyed by $10,000 fire ; Disabled tots to see parade ; Queen, duke off today for long world tour ; Kindness brings smashed car and stiff necks ; Dickenson glad to be at home ; Civil rescue squad shortage still great ; Dallas engineer gets even with reporter ; Italy approves 5-power confab ; Jews from Israel find unwilling haven in Munich ; Plane crash kills two Sarnia men ; Missing child found in lake ; John Garner, 85, takes snooze after deer hunt ; Anti-Defamation League will honor Ike tonight ; Florida townsfolk clear wind debris
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-12-01
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    Ex-gov. Sigler, 3 others, die in plane crash: Political leader piloting craft, snags guy wire ; Ex-mental patient kills Detroit doctor ; County hunters literally bring home the bacon ; Dulles rejects harsh attitude toward allies ; Racket probers' counsel tells of political pressure ; Harrelson case in circuit court ; Pontiac remembers Sigler for aristocratic club probe ; 2 burn to death as cars collide ; Atrocity charge draws Red fire ; Gouzenko sees new war near ; Dockers' work stoppage protests 'clean-up' law ; All-State C and D 11s announced today ; 4 young brothers perish as flames destroy home ; Birmingham commission faces another problem with out-of-city property ; Comedy slated this weekend by Cranbrook ; Local utilities man to retire ; Noted attorney dies in hospital ; Williams ponders special election ; 2 midnight masses authorized by pope ; Bob Considine says: Again, Christmas cards have no room for Christ ; Two in conflict on T-H hearings ; Mosquitoes massed for sickness tests ; No relatives invited to Heady execution
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-12-03
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    McCarthy sticks by foreign policy criticism: Asks backers to let Ike know how they feel ; Selfridge airmen safe after crash: Jet wings lock 20,000 feet up, near St. Clair ; Time and tide creeps up on car ; Mexican Army career ended on a sour note ; Judge Webster dies suddenly of heart attack ; Tornado kills 8, injures twenty ; Prosecutor asks revision of sexual psychopath law ; Jenner accepts Gouzenko plan ; Traffic tickets leads to slips and night in jail ; Police seize 7 in raid here ; UN condemns Red atrocities ; Goodfellow sale to be Saturday ; Dutiful soldier may get commendation ; POW from Ferndale tells of death march in Korea ; Flags to fly at half mast in tribute to late judge ; 3-hour 'hunting season' on Monday in Birmingham as shops set men's night ; Volunteer cited by Red Cross
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-12-04
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    US jury indicts ex-state department official: Charged with falsely denying Red affiliation ; President arrives in Bermuda today: Churchill, Laniel, Crowd of 1000 welcome him ; Forgotten GI remembered - gets promotion ; Midwest snow, fall's biggest, turns to drizzle ; Kim Sigler being buried today ; Four reindeer to bring Santa ; 'Jenny' is coy in surprise; baby is only 50 lb. hippo ; McCarthy talk gets 500 wires ; Probers weigh spy evidence ; 55-mile winds buffet Pontiac ; Berle, fiancee get marriage license ; Jets crash, pilots survive ; McCarthy gets crate of Northern Spies ; Lovely gifts (under $5) are plentiful, for all people on your shopping list ; Birmingham city manager urges strong measures to solve sewage problem ; Group to voice parking views ; Three ancient coins submitted for auction ; Leaun Harrelson Jr. mute at arraignment ; Birmingham woman gets divorce, cash ; Propose to keep UN at 'ready' ; Business tax hearing slated ; Local Masons elect worshipful master ; 3 Yule trees won't see light of Christmas Day ; Tariff, subsidy effects argued ; Dollar worth 55.6 cents during past September ; Engineers believe they could fly barn door
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-12-07
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    President to plead for peace Tuesday at UN: Will ask Soviet for joint effort in disarmament ; More victims of tornado hunted: Vicksburg toll rises to thirty; debris combed ; State accidents claim 20 lives over weekend ; Only the Navy to mark Dec. 7 at Pearl Harbor ; Detroit worker escaped NKVD ; Air ticket for 'Grandma' brings joy to Harry Irwin ; Wires pile up at White House ; Demonstrations quelled in Iran ; Study filling Webster's post ; Hazel Park group seeks to nullify mayor selection ; Tax probers ask more jail terms for offenders ; Commission to consider request for new hearing in off-street parking issue ; Peace League speaker slated ; Rome church bells begin Marian year ; $2,816 collected by Goodfellows ; Widow drops plans to Marry Dempsey ; Crash on M59 hurts 3 from Rochester ; Wife has road paved despite husband ; Thunderjets crash; four pilots killed ; Santa and the flying pup
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-12-17
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    South Haven paralyzed by 24 inches of snow ; Board OK bid for bridge bonds: Syndicate offer of $95,858,000 accepted by all ; Firemen taken from fallen building: Two die as burning hotel falls in Chicago skid row ; Soviet reports Beria admitted plotting treason ; Larger Pontiac prices up $90 ; Chances 50-50 for having white Yuletide this year ; Ike order assures express deliveries ; Crippled B29 kills 17, hurts 14 ; Teamsters sign election petition ; 50th birthday of aviation celebrated at Kitty Hawk ; Hall only regrets failure, not boy’s brutal murder ; Birmingham commission decides revision of law will solve parking issue ; Chevrolet hikes engine power ; May call vote on Estes’ post ; Briggs is sued for $6,500,000
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    The Pontiac Press: 1953-12-19
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    Navy bomber crashes on Iceland glacier: 9 men aboard patrol plane; believe 3 alive ; lke, McCarthy talks may deal - with US Reds ; City hospital raises rates ; Indict officer in missing ransom money probe ; Child dying of blast wounds ; Single judge can run court ; Earl Phillips dies suddenly ; Pontiac driver dies in crash ; Winter to arrive officially Monday after record-breaking warm autumn ; Consumer sitting pretty in outlook for new year ; Birmingham churches plan special services for Christmas Sunday ; Won't support joint dog pound ; Iran‘s parliament ended, Shah asks new elections ; Flurry of color hits air waves ; C of C wage report brings union denials ; Dem Senate seat at stake ; Hannah to stay in Washington ; Ask annexation for Troy section ; Blaze causes $20,000 loss ; Tale of the simple porter shows love is finest gift ; Cranes edge ahead in survival battle ; Wilson, Dulles must explain jailing of GI ; Philly station first in nation with color TV ; Judge shames jury for decision in case