Ludington Daily News (Newspaper) - April 13, 1967, Ludington, Michigan An Independent Newspaper Serving Mason County and Surrounding Area VOLUME 136 APRIL 1967 PRICE lOc vv Lower Laker Of Year Enters Ludington Harbor The 588footlong Consumers Power ship entered the at the Dow Chemical Company with a full load of lime ington harbor early this morning to bring the first Dow The dark spots on the water are ducks taking off from ment of the The is shown here as she Pere Marquette Lake at 7 Daily News Photo GOP Efforts To Kill Rent Are Opposed WASHINGTON AP Con gressional Republicans trying to kill the administrations con rent supplement pro gram are facing an unfamiliar of the home build ing and financing Normally allied with GOP the builders and real estate boards have come friends of the program that House Republican Leader Gerald Ford has called a revolutionary gim With a hostile House Ap Committee about to consider a request for mil lion to keep it the pro gram needs all the friends it can Last year a ap propriation was approved by four votes in the House and one in the Since then licans have gained substantial particularly in the Many GOP members predict they will bring the program to a If they they will be chopping off a program that is just beginning to The idea of the program is to make decent housing available for fami lies without the institutional as or stigma of public housing by having the government help Escap es Red Asks Asylum In NEW YORK AP Chinese sources say that Ma a cultural leader and fled his Communist China homeland last January in jn u small tugboat later found from his refuge at his Manhattan near Hong The News Condensed Mail Ballots To Cherry Men LANSING AP Ballots have been mailed to cherry producers for a vote on a proposed cherry mar keting The mailed by the State Agriculture must be returned with a post mark date no later than April 24 to foe counted in the At a hearing in Lansing March most testimony from cherry growers favored the proposed Latin Chiefs Await LBJ Views PUNTA DEL Uruguay AP Seventeen can chiefs of state waited today to hear what suggestions Presi dent Johnson has for the eco nomic problems plaguing Latin Americas 280 million Johnson delayed his major policy speech to the ican conference until today in order to give the other presi dents a chance to speak their minds Republicans Oppose Seating Of Powell By CARL Richard WASHINGTON AP number of House Republicans were reported today to oppose seating Adam Clayton Powell pending conclusion of a Justice Department probe of his alleged While House leaders planned a meeting soon to decide what action to take in the wake of reelection Truck Fleet Rolling Again CHICAGO CAP Most of the nations truck fleet rolled across the highways today after the end of a but Chicago drivers and dock workers remained off the job and turned back trucks from other As a result of the nationwide tons of merchandise remained stacked up at loading docks and Spokes men estimated thousands of plant workers would remain idle the rest of the week before oper ations return to normal and de supplies are Ludington Man Is Injured Robert Neal of Lud Ington was reported in fair con dition in Hackley following a accident at 10 According to state Neal was driving on near when his car went off the went 400 feet off the road before He was taken to Hackley Hospital with head Warmer but wet weather is forecast for this area through The weatherman says it will be overcast with occasional rain or possible ers late this afternoon and to It will be warmer with a low in the low Friday it will be warmer with rain or and a high of about Saturdays outlook is for partly cloudy and continued temperatures for the past 24 hours to 11 Mini mum Maximum ECORSE a vote of voters have re a charter amendment that would have provided pen sion increases for retired police men and The proposed rate would have guaranteed minimum pensions of a Some retired policemen and firemen now receive as little as a Eastern Star Fish Fry April 22 Masonic Temple Serving to Everyone Welcome Clark Is Named Director Harry Clark has been appointed director of the Mason County Medical Care Facility by the Social Welfare it was announced who received his and MD degrees from gan the University of Michi was Professor Emeritus of Wayne State University where he taught bacteriology and clinical pathology for 30 years in the College of Medi He has been director of the laboratory at Paulina Stearns Hospital since Clark is a member of the Mason County Medical Michigan State Medical American Medical Michigan Society of American Society of Clini cal Pathologists and Founding Fellow of the College of Pleads Guilty In Court Teas ley of charged with driving while under the influ ence of intoxicating was sentenced to pay a fine and costs of and his drivers license was suspended for a period of 90 Mason County Sheriffs ers brought the FISH FRY Fresh Lake Michigan Perch Every Friday Night til WRENS ROOST Hamlin Lake Citizens Group Holds Sets Goals Chairmen of the Citizens Committee to study Ludington school problems day defining their goal and laying the groundwork for future William general chairman of the Citizens Com presided at the The group established as its goal an effort to conduct an in dependent survey of the Ludington school When the work is the committee will determine if recommendations should be made to the school Work will be conducted by five including com munity curriculum facilities and The committee extended an invitation to anyone wishing to make suggestions or offer con criticisms to contact the chairman of the The steering committee will hold monthly meetings on the second Wednesday of the month to coordinate their Chairmen attending day nights meeting were Nickel Allan Robert Robert Paul Marilyn Ruth Edna Nelson and Leonard Today s Chuckles Safety tip To drive a nail without smashing your either hold the hammer with both hands or get your wife to hold the said he has detected consid erable feeling among members that the House should await Justice Department I think the House would be well advised to wait until the department has completed its said secre tary of the House Republican Melvin Laird of Wis chairman of the GOP said he thought the House would seat Powell if members are assured ihe Jus tice Department plans to And Charles Mathias said mem bers are entitled to hear from the department about the validi ty of the charges against Pow ell before they to seat The select committee which investigated Powell but whose recommendation to censure and dock his pay was rejected by the House ac the Harlem Democrat of converting to his own use more than in salary illegally paid to his estranged who did virtually no House meeting Wednesday to discuss the state of court suit to over turn his were told it might get a Supreme A federal judge threw out the but attorneys carried the case to the Court of Speaker John said a strategy session would be held soon but declined to his take several months to final decision from the Central Names Athletic Director Cham a counselor on the faculty at Mason County Central high has been appointed athletic replacing Cyril Hemmer who is retiring this Chambers was appointed at Monday evenings meeting of the board of Carlson reported that the following teachers have indicated they will not be re turning next year Myrtle Vessie Emma Martha Janette Harley and Kathryn John chairman of the Professional Negotiations stated that the committee is still working with the MCC Education association committee on salary negotia The board passed a resolu tion to cooperate with of trustees of the Community college in conducting a survey of vocational and Technical Ed Ed junior high recommended next years eighth grade be divided into four to level class Addison that the board study the possibility of substituting written evaluation reports and two conferences for report cards in the first six This is in keeping with a trend in the development of the elementary child as a result of educational He suggested the adjustment be made over a period of one or more He Ask Addition also recommended that elementary made the amount of The whose escape was revealed Wednesday after he and his family were granted asylum in the United refused to comment on the re brothers Manhattan The Hong Kong sources with Nationalist Chinese contacts said today Ma was one of 12 es capees aboard the Communist tug and added they believed his was with his fa Mas wife and their daughter were understood to have taken a different route to according to the sources which refused to be quoted by name or Ma told newsmen Wednesday he fled after spending 103 days in a dreadful hideout for devils and demons and undergoing what is too painful to de scribe at the hands of young Red Guard There is no hope for people like me in said the 54 yearold He refused to talk about how he saying the safety of too many persons in Red China would be The Chinese sources said Ma and his son waited in hiding in Hong Kong until the wife and daugh ter got The sources were deliberately vague about the womens es cape and refused to say whether they sought asylum through Consulate officials in Hong Kong or made their way to Taipei and asked for asylum The painted with Commu nist Chinese was towed into Hong Kong harbor last 19 after it was found abandoned off Lan Tao First word of Mas defection came from Washington where State Department press officer Carl Bartch announced the es cape and the granting of Mas request for Ma told of concentration camps where he underwent thought reform and of the indignities which the Red Guard students and revolutionary teachers inflicted on his mind and Carlson Will Be Honored May 7 During Special Day The Mason County Central board of education has an an open house and re ception on May in honor of Superintendent Carlson at the high school gym This will be held from 2 to 5 with a program starting at 2 and the reception and refreshments to Carlson is retiring July 1 after 39 years of dedicated and devoted service to the Ma son County Central School Dis the community and the field of During the program proper recognition of these achievements will be Superintendent and Carl son have requested that there be no gifts of any kind and that any such forms of recognition by clubs or groups be in the form of donations to the school landscaping The school board has estab a qualified remedial reading teacher be employed under the states 75 per cent reimbursable This would release Title I funds which were used for remedial reading to be used to employ an high guidance He also announced that due to Title I funds being about one half of last years amount only remedial reading will be two sessions daily for a period of six To level the dis class he also reet Lindbergh stepped from the ported it would be necessary to raised her move some of the second and to her and threw a third grade pupils to the to her the man on ton school for the coming year for tne of eight only Richard Specks The board passed a resolu brother five sisters a tion levying the debt service at law were six mills and approved bills in Wednesday to testify as the de ihn amount nf 7fi1QfV7 such a fund so that the landscape architectural plan for the high school recently pay the It also permits tenants to stay on as their in come even if they no long er need any federal Public housing tenants face eviction if their income goes above specified levels often leading to falsification of In come a stifling of ini to improve ones and a housing hardship when the still relatively poor family must Another major aim of the pro gram and the reason the home building industry is be hind it is to bring private en into the monumental task of providing housing in urban Privately Owned All housing in the rent supple ment program is privately built and is owned and managed by either or cooperative organiza with the government fur mortgage insurance at market interest Two years after Congress vot ed to let the federal government pay part of the rent for lowin come only a handful are actually living in housing made available by the But far from being officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Develop ment hail it as the most suc multifamily program at this stage that the government has ever Its also the most misunder says a HUD thought we were just going to start handing out rent But this is a construc tion and it takes about two and a half years to get a project all the way To speed things the depart ment has approved several structure rehabilitation projects and is paying supplements for some elderly couples living in existing homes for the Only one project is actually un der construction at this point a 104unit apartment in As of April million had been allocated for 347 projects that will provide housing for The in various stages of ill vi completed may be are in 51 This plan may be seen at the jn every state except senior high The State Ne Savings Bank of Scottville is vada and acting as the collecting and contributions may be left there or mailed to the Carlson came to Scottville as a science teacher in 1928 after receiving his degree from Michigan State University and his degree from the Uni versity of In 1930 he became high school principal and in 1935 superintendent of a position he has held for 32 During this time he has been instrumental in guiding the district to its pre sent high level in the field of The board of education ex tends an invitation to all inter ested people to attend the recog Defense Begins Case For Speck AP fense opened its fight to save Executions On Decline Some 4 Await Death Penalty In US Prisons WASHINGTON AP About 400 men wait today in the death rows of state condemned to die for a Among them is Lester Morford II in scheduled to die April 19 for slaying a Among them was Aaron Mitchell executed in California Wednesday for killing a The number of executions in the United States has de steadily in recent There was only one last in Mitchell was the first this The big majority of states have carried out no executions for Many condemned men have gotten new chances because of recent court decisions prescribed new rules on the rights of Some governors have commuted sentences to and some have followed an undeclared moratorium on death by More state legislatures were discussing abolishing death penalty this year than in previous An Associated Press survey showed that bills to abolish capital punishment were introduced in at least 18 state legis They have failed in eight of these states and are given little chance of approval in five Bills still are considered alive in Tennessee and Just an Illinois House committee approved legislation calling for a moratorium on the Just a California Senate Committee killed a that would have abolished the death penalty in Califor acting about two hours after was Records of the Bureau of Prisons show that at the end of some 405 persons were under sentence of compared with 331 a year the life of the 25yearold drift The which has asked the seven men and five women jurors to find Speck guilty of the July 14 killings and set his penalty at rested its case Wednesday after eight days of The bodies of the nurses were strewn in four rooms of the South Side Chicago townhouse where they Lindbergh of Dallas ar rived with her children in a heavy The women pulled black scarfs around their faces to prevent photographers from seeing Carolyn the youngest member of the entered the courtroom sobbing and was asked only a few As left the room her eyes met the defendants and she covered her face with both Specks mother was the sec ond She appeared in a plain black dress with her gray hair fixed in tight The other members of the family called were and Eugene Thornton of Chica go Howard Speck and Made line Thornton of Shirley Jensen of and Erma Holeman of OBrian Faces Murder Charge In Grand Ledge GRAND LEDGE AP Po lice today sought a murder warrant against Donald an Ionia State Hospital escapee who Chief William Eveleth said told of strangling 10yearold Rona Eveleth said signed a written statement tell ing of the after under going a polygraph lie detector test at the East Lansing State Police Post He said OBrian told him things about the killing that on ly the slayer would have Police declined to The little Grand Ledge girls was found April 1 in shal low waters of the Grand An autopsy showed that she had been raped and police OBrian was held overnight a the Ionia County pending circuit court arraignment on a charge that he escaped confine ment as a criminal sexual psy That arraignment ten was set for Eveleth said OBrian told oJ the slaying and then signed a written Two police officers were present when OBrian made his state Eveleth The police chief said OBrian gave as a reason for the alleged slaying that he just had an He stated he had followed another girl and she went into a house and he happened 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