Ludington Daily News (Newspaper) - December 15, 1958, Ludington, Michigan Phone News and Ads to Sports Desk 33574 Society 34372 News Room 33576 Business 33324 Display Victor 33632 Classified 33324 VOLUME 34 THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS Newspaper Sewing Mason County and Surrounding Area DECEMBER 1958 The COLD PRICE SEVEN CENTS Ike Outlines Billion Spending tore Destroyed by Blaze e Is Set at WASHINGTON API Presi dent Eisenhower puts before Re publican congressional leaders to day a program expected to call for around SO billion dollars in next Eisenhower was ready to pre view domestic proposals which may include some controversial civil Chief interest among the GOP congressional leaders centered on how successful the President has been in efforts to hold down his for next fiscal year in the face of mounting military out lays and an anticipated deficit of abou 12 billion dollars this Federal spending during this fis cal ear is estimated at about with about 41 bil lion of that for Top Issue Eisenhower has made the bud gel one of the top issues of the approaching with its increased Democratic He did so his postelection criticism of Democratic spend ers he said were elected because the voters were apathetic on this GOP National Chairman Alcorn sharpened the issue with a weekend statement listing pro made by the Democratic Advisory Senate Demo cratic Leader Lyndon Johnson of the and Ameri cans for Democratic Al corn said these would boost the budget to more than 100 dollars if The Democrats have wasted no time in confirming the Republican campaign statement that an ava lanche of spending proposals would follow if the radical wing of parly succeeded in electing its many Alcorn On the other Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler said his party had received in the election a clear ami able mandate for positive and progressive action to put America once again on the road to progress The News Condensed MIDLAND with fro zen firemen battled a spec elevator fire here Flames destroyed the Cohoon grain its machinery and large quantities of rye and John who with his bro ther Dean owns and operates the said a preliminary check indicated a loss of between and north ern New York community meas ured a full to a week before the official be ginning of that A Weather Bureau observ er said 88 inches of snow had fall en here this The snowfall for all of last winter was 88 NEW YORK handful of in dividual issues moved ahead today in a mixed and fairly drab stock In early afternoon trading was running slightly ahead of Fridays snow pace but well behind the le vel of many previous Two Accidents Are Reported No one was injured in two acci dents reported during the weekend by Mason County sheriffs depart In an accident at Sun day three and a half miles north of on three cars were Officers said a car driven by Ralph of Ludington Route who applied his brakes struck the Lincoln River bridge abutment when he was blinded by a car going past him at a high rate of The Ruba which was traveling was struck by one driven by Lynwood Points of Cus tcr Route also going Gregory Kozlowski of Fountain Route going attempted to avoid the Ruba car and struck the Pointe The car was a total extensive damage to Cars driven by John of Route 1 and John of Branch Route 1 sustained minor damage in an accident at Saturday on the Cusler road a quarter of a mile north of Zimmer had assisted another driver out of a ditch and his car which was crossway of the road was struck by the Gudas Lud ington out for their Sun day never made it past the 100 block on East Ludington av enue where the Ben Franklin store was being out by a The above photo taken from he roof of the three right raying out a moving van is On Ihc far being loaded lory National Bank building shows with office from Uic second story offices in the Building which were at one time in They suffered smoke Daily News Photo and water CAIRO Undersecretary of State William left by plane today for Baghdad as all Cairo papers predicted another up in Rountree himself faced the threat of hostile demonstrations from the powerful Iraqi Communist Pays Fine After Pleading Guilty Clark of 704 Lud ington who pleaded guilty in municipal court to a charge of driving while tinder the influence of intoxicating paid a fine of and costs of Arrest was made by Ludington Ticket Sale Set Ludington high school Director Hal Madden an i today the pattern for j selling adult tickets for Fri days bas game to be played in Madden said that all season ticket holders may purchase their tickets beginning at 5 Tuesday at the ticket booth in Hawley Only two tickets to a customer will be At Mad any tickets that have not been sold to season ticket holders will go on sale to the general public and again only two tickets to a person will be Madden warned fans that there would be no general sale of tickets at the door in Marti gree on PARIS Reassured that the Western Big Three will against Soviet pressure on the North Atlantic Allies I timed today to critical dis putes within the Tin agreement Sunday on Ber lin by Ihe foreign ministers of j Accident of Ouster Michigan State reported i an accident at Friday i two miles east of Cusler on A car driven by Loo Brunek ol going at a high rate of struck the back Kru pinski portable mill driven by Krupinski of i i chest cuts and Both vehicles were damaged Severe Cold Grips Nation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Decembers spell of severe cold weather still clutched the Eastern twothirds of the nation There appeared little or no gener al relief The of arctic air from Canada pushing into the midlands and and dipping into Ihc Gulf Adding to the unseasonable cold was heavy snow throughout lie even in sections of the The cold and has plagued the Midwest for more than a winter officially start until next j like other had or below j MX the I of the cold It early marks in suburban The was con fined lo the upper and middle MisI Valley and western sec ions of he Great Lukes i Tempera were below and as low 10 to below zero ifar Kay as the ley air knifed into the II in pads of northwestern Montana lim in see of Alabama and The mercury reach at Cut Bank and A the same 1 at below and to degrees line it was 2f I New NO CEILING OR i after a major portion of the j they had just walked off the j Firemen pour water on what is left ceiling had A fireman I later roof caved j of ihc Ben Franklin The on the left descends a ladder after The heat from the fire was so hot j above picture was taken just sec TOWER FINANCE CORPORATION 123 Ludington Avenue VI 32535 Unaffected by Yesterdays OPEN FOR BUSINESS AS Open All Day Too HAVE INSURANCE WILL SELL SCHAFER CO 410 Ludington VI 33477 that it the glass in he The fire was not completely until 0 Daily News Photo Christmas Auction Sale WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1958 NEW MERCHANDISE NAME BRANDS Turn to Classified Section for List of Buy Your Christmas Presents at Auction and Save MAREK AUTO PARTS Don Auctioneer Manager ain dipped far in the nd through Georgia and northern flurries continued in the Northeast part of the mainly in the Lakes she Ohio Valley and New AN APPRECIATION I to thank all those good people who removed the equip ment from my office which was endangered by the Ben Franklin fire My office will be open for usual France and the United States led off a week of conferences vital to Western Eu ropes A communique the Big Three foreign ministers reaf firmed Iho of their to maintain their po sition and their rights with res to including the right of free The rejected the So viet to give the East German Communist regime con trol of Allied with West In the ruled suggestions that the West deal wilh the East Germans as agents of flic The three Sec of Stall John Foster Dul French Foreign Minister Mau rice de and Brit ish Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd gave no indication of what counterproposals they would make in reply lo the Soviet note of But they said they were agreed on Ihc basic to be covered in their They they would c o it s ii 1 I with Ihc other NATO allies in the NATO Coun cil meeting beginning Tuesday and then would formulaic their notes to the j Premier Nikita Khrushchev in I he Soviet note the j wen withdrawing from the four power occupation ol j proposed that miles behind Ihr Iron IK made a demilitarized frc The Russians said regardless what was worked on for they were giving the i Germans control of all within the city in six i The lo deal the East apparently left no but lore lo insure access to the city if the Russians go ahead with Ihc transfer of Firemen Battle 6 Hours to Save Other Buildings A fire completely destroyed the Ben variety here in a blaze that fora time threatened build ings HI either side of it in the heart of business The which turned into a raging inferno after 45 minutes of turned the store into n blackened hole and caused damage estimated at by Fire Chief Arthur The damage estimate was placed on both the building and the stores battling the stubborn blaze for nearly six managed to save Gibbs on the and the Wangen Building on the heroic actions on their As it the Daisy May Bakery and some of the offices on second floor of the Wangen Build ing received considerable smoke and water The offices of the Tower Finance were slight ly damaged by fire which spread to the buildings west Fire quickly extinguish ed the blaze before it could cause severe Slow Start The which broke out at didnt reach its height until about Up until that time the fire had been con mostly in Uie rear of the building on second The turning point of the Lange when the heat of the fire upstairs caused some windows to be blown giving the the draft it needed to spread Hugh operator of the told Lange was in the building for of hours be fore he discovered the Barn AND IT WAS Luding ton firemen are pictured above as battle Sundays blaze which destroyed the Hen Franklin lee can be seen forming on Uie of the firemen as they fought tlie fire in subfreezing weather amid Daily News Photo Mediator Joins Strike Talks NEW VoRK AF The na lions lop mediator formally joins today ifl an effort to end the newspaper strike that has cut off publication of the citys nine major Joseph national di rector of I ho Federal Mediation and Conciliation meets with representatives of the strik ing Newspaper and Mail Deliver trs Union the Publishers of New York City when con tract talks A publishers said the papers would not resume pub the re turned to The announce ment followed an offer from more than members of UK New York Typographical Un ion Local to return to Printers at the Daily News plant refused to cross a delivery mens picket line and the paper unable to run its Thursday morning All the papers publi cation after Thursday editions of three other morning the Herald the Mirror and the were The afternoon papers are the World and Long Island Daily Press and Long Island Star Todays Chuckle i You can never hope to become j a skilled conversationalist until in Minnesota prior to her you learn how to put foot through the television The Weather Northwestern Lower Mostly cloudy and continued cold tonight and Snow flurries today and tonight with occasional heavy snow squalls near Lake Snow flurries Tues Winds west to southwest 15 25 shifting to northwest 20 30 mph High today high Tuesday j Outlook for Wednesday Con cold with temperature i tie year ago Imlay this dale since in I in sun today at 5 and rises al The today at and Tuesday al at the observation Million hours ending at 12 noon minimum 8 SHOPPING DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS 1908 DECEMBER 14 27 a t or said he had been doing some work when he heard a sharp crack When he opened the door leading the upstairs store room he found it full of Banner immediately called the Lange said his first truck ar rived al the store minutes of tho At first the smoke rolling only out of storej s and said healer he couldnt sea a He heard she fire cracking Firemen tore out few panels from the ceiling under the second floor and immediately found the blaze already going Move Volunteers helped move a and some cash registers out of the store but by Lange ordered everyone out of tine build At that time the fire had begun to break ill rough the roof and from there it spread ingly Previous to that Lange sent out a call for more firemen and the Hamlin township fire unit an swered he four trucks and the one from along with battled furiously to confine the At 1 the ton air conditioner unit plunged from the carrying a mass of burning timbers with and spread the fire to the street level By of the roof had caved spreading the fire even Hundreds of people who gathered across the street to watch the fire saw windows melt and fall away from the Under Control By 3 the fire was brought under control and the surrounding buildings were out of Lange said he believed the fire started from a short in the air conditioning unit and that the fire along the stores No one was injured in the despite some risks by but the Ludington fire department did lose six each valued at which had been used earlier to protect merchandise from Lange said that once the fire broke from the had no time to get the tarps from the Please turn to Page Column 3 I I I l SULLIVAN NOTICE Due to on our portable feed mill will not be operating for ap proximately 10 Watch for announce ment of resumption of KRUPINSKI PORTABLE FEED AN APPRECIATION We wish to thank the fire the ington Lodge of Elks and all of those persons were so helpful in protecting our property to Sundays MAURICE TALLEFSON RICHARD GRAMS JOHN ROGER SULLIVAN EUGENE LEONARD GAVIGAN FRANK WILLIAM STAPLETON TOWER DOCTORS HOFFMAN and OSTRANDER l
