Herald Press, The (Newspaper) - May 17, 1954, Saint Joseph, Michigan SAVE THE LIGHTHOUSE THE REACHES THE HOMES IN BERRIEN COUNTY Weather Cooler Fair In the put 24 hours 70 at noon Sunday Low 54 at d TEN PAGES FINAL EDITION ill Wlr ST JOSEPH MICH MONDAY MAY 17 1954 I PRICE FIVE CENTS SEGREGATION OUTLAW ANXIOUS PARENTS WAITING Sightless Bridgman Baby Undergoes Eye Surgery BRIDGMAN May 17 Little Carole Lynn Jensen who has been blind since birth has undergone that delicate operation to give her Bight The baby is the fiaughter of Mr and Mrs Jensen who live on Browntown rd route 1 Thc parents took the child to University pital Ann Arbor where the tion was performed last Tuesday by Dr Bruce Fralich eve specialist ori the hospital staff While the is now over we still must wait for the time ment tell whether the is successful or not Jensen said He explained that it necessary to needle thc cataracts behind the eves which were the cause of the s blindness and ops n them up In time ire fo be dissolved bv tht chemicals Jensen was told He Dr happy with the results and satisfied with the opei and feels sure that the baby will soon begin to see To Of course the continued she will eventually have Ui be fitted for special glasses to enable her sight to be what it should be but we are that has had her chance and we thank everyone so verv much for kind and abundant help The parents did not their daughter wis bund Until she wis 5 months old After searching where for the doctor who could give them hope were finally told bv Dr Fralich that Carole would hive a good chance to live m a world of light instead of darkness if she son of a college president CAROLF SON OF HOPEf Charged With Bold Theft Of Church Collection Plates Of ZEELAND May 17 The HITS IKE COVER UP IN ARMY SIFT Calls Hearing Recess To Study Clamp Down On Parley Data WASHINGTON May 17 fAP A presidential order clamping recy on executive branch actions m the row brought a a denunciation from Sen as a cover up He proposed suspending senate hearings while the issue is threshed out Sen objected to halting the hearings even for the dav The senate investigations fell into argument over what course it would take In the upshot the group recessed at 11 55 a m to decide be- hind closed their course in view of what McCarthy denounced the Iron imposed by the president Public st were scheduled to be renewed at 3 p m EDT Newsmen asked McCarthy after the morning hearing whether he would go on with the investigation or walk out if the subcommittee the White house stand Takes Vo Stand HP he would have nothing to sav about that now also told porters that he would be at the closed meeting rha Mundt R SD said that the session would bo limited to members of the sub- committee and its special counsel said it might m Woman Injured In or other principals or their BREAK GROUND FOR SPORTSMAN'S CLUB L f former tv sheriff turns over first sod Sunday on start of county Sportsman's club house named in honor of her husband Pictured above from left to right are Bjers plaid member of the board of directors Joe Carver and John who along with ert headed campaign for club house funds Mrs Miller Henry president of Sportsman's club Miss Catherine Weber secretary of the club and Charles and Lowell Miller sons of Mrs Miller Ground breaking ceremony took place at Sportsman's Arden where the club house will be built W M Cunningham Benton Harbor past president of Sportsman's club was speaker for the event and stressed the value of park grounds to public as well as paving tribute to Mr Miller one of the outstanding men and leader in conservation Fund goal of for the club house is short but said construction would ceed and he expects renewed efforts will meet campaign goal photo MISHAP KNOCKS OUT B H COP counsel question them s thc Accident Involving Policeman Solon Zoning Hearing In ADVANCE PLAN Set Tonight FOR INDOCHINA two churches during services dav and out with in Start Fund Dme Vhf n thc problem of c loomed neighbors and in collection pave a benefit Hc ls n Lubbers Ji the current Tbp DT HPT order What exactly is involved in boring property owners op- night s Benton Harbor hall of commercial businesses hearing on the proposed Zoe Shaffer said the group in- f w eluded owners of 77 per cent of Harbor WTS cst Maln s West Mim property involved except policeman was Some Benton complin for Kmnev s They filed with the city U S Moves Ahead Again In Effort To Form United Front son of the Browntown school through tie thf dcrt of college His efforts of the Browntown Parent fath Lubbers Si said group The fund drive was Ls l MCK eri the sponsorship of th chu r A1 said Lions club and between his been under and was raised to meet the and Irm not Hc cost of the operation held for arraignment on i charge in Grand Haven circuit Bun Jr ac of the People returned all the tion of Benton Harbor was Bns surrendered at In charge of the A tor u convened and received a calm re- S it 12 p m a of which also slightly injured a 11 i f a simple one if taken step by step WASHINGTON May n HIGH TRIBUNAL UNANIMOUS ON SCHOOL ISSUE Declares Separate But Equal Doctrine Has No Place In Rights WASHINGTON Mav 17 CAP The supreni couit today mo stiuck down segregation in the nit ions public schools The bunil sud that a separate Negro and white pupils violates the con- guarantee of equal ol the Chief Justice Warren read the opinion which declared We conclude that in the field of education the doctrine of but equal has no place educational facilities are inherently unequal we hold that the Negro parents and ers similarly situated lor whom the action has been brought are by reason of the segregation com- of deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed the 14th amendment This disposition makes unnec- essary and discussion whether such segregation also violates the due process clause of the 14th ment Cml War Amendment The 14th amendment was jed after the civil war for the benefit of slaves freed by Lincoln It says no state may I deny any person due process and equal protection of the law nor abridge their privileges or S The cases today with the court s finding that tion is unconstitutional involved five states South Carolina ginia Kansas Delaware and the ception at the time ch charges But the ls that of use of his to form a united i dock for coal or lime storage front in southeast Asia are rolling might be unsightly and Big Crowd Scatters As Police Officer Pats Shell In Watery Grave 1.1 The pilotless pouce car veered Jirst a look at the physical mental to other property owners ertv involved It includes the lots I And they asked that the on both sides of West Mun st be- Benton Harbor commission do two the intersection of Sixth ETst Main sts Benton Haibor ci ishod Into a car waiting for tween Twelfth st and the St thing a light The driver State river for Consumers i Re Litowich Coal company s Contril dock Benton H rbor w not mju ed all of West Main and the river again alter weeks of confusion and hesitation during which little gress made lines of action are now con- probable member that Benton bor s for d k from its The injured both released after century-old ship caml runs 1 to com- A crowd of curious spectators at hospital were to West Main and 100 to 1 JO feet and his s home two hours cover lite yesterday Patrolman Louis Eisenh Bernen 2 box 225 St Joseph i noon 22 route i north of it This forms a nil low and Mrs strip of land that can either be used Should the first the thf its not as successful as is now hoped i Bold Thefts SM Victor Yost Ji laid a Elaine F Vantlin 33 794 for dockage or for out- second operation miv be Boss said lubbers told him he shell to rest in a s Benton Harbor nets cattering to busy Main st Jensen said left in walked into two churches irt was unconscious when Strip Of Land fund the is com- one in Grand Rapids and the other to be a 81 mm taken to 11 t but came to in John s Coil and the from m to take the from her blindness will be given to the under the of the ll of the IL took nerve him Bass rs u ls nen the banks a shoit time aid was back on the Co has operated a coil a th cieek on Washington job Mrs V complained extreme west end of the ship c inal Kov ilski who lives of an to her bark and West Main for veil Last hee ZONING Page 8 Bulletins Sgt said he was them this pist week end The will be a veir old in She has a brother George is 5 Edwin Ward said the October he bought a second nnal 369 feet of front ign Fot decides rited bv s a and Sawver Lions clubs fund foi blind the parents Both Mr and Mrs Jensen stayed Thp John of thf as to now the Kot to thc police cir was a fourth of the In Ann Arbor with last North Side Reformed where Kovalski i into the inter st gomr at to Twelfth st week and brought hi r home with of told police he A gathered speed of 15 miles an most of it had been bv had just finished his sermon when a ogt Yost examined i1 He when it collided with one driven by the Ireland Co T man walked to the com- Mld about three inches Mrs which had gone and gravel dock t ard took six 18 long ind had fins through i light and wis three weess ipo Kenn vs tin nc tul end It wis punted most through the intersection Consumers Co entered the ic The blown w s driving east lime business ind an estimated s uri he decided to drop Mrs Vantlin was leaded south tors of the Two dt icons followed the man into m which is about car w is waiting for a lock on its Centril doi k the room but he had left foui feet ne u thc Washington St0p hgh he west he begin tak ng thc w th him bridge When he picked up thf There uere no tickets issued I thought that a new deacon hid lhp crowd scattered It didn t dock to pas been assigned to take up the when it hit bottom Sgt Enterprise Cleaners WA torv the pasto said said ArK YORK Mav 17 AP Racketeer Frank was sentenced to five years in prison for federal income tax evasion and fined in talks with U S C Dougla Dillon at Paris is expected to present a proposition for American intervention in Indo- china f 2 Some of UN intervention in the situation has become much But segregation would affect a total of 17 states which have laws requiring separation of the races in schools plus three other having laws which permit but do not require segregation The court was told the 17 states and the District of Columbia had 70 pei cent of the nation's Negro population or 495 Negroes out of a 15 total States with pel missive segregation had an ad- one per cent States whose laws require gation were listed for the court u more likely than it was a week ago Arkansas Delaware There is thought here of getting the Arkansas Delaware Nations to send some kind of investigating group to Indochina Kentucky Louisiana Dulles has told the French that South one of the big problems of Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia can policy for Indochina is that the and West United Nations h is not concerned itself with the crisis States with permissive tion were listed as New Mexico WHIRLPOOL IN RECORD SALES Net Sales For First Quarter Of 1954 Net sales of Whirlpool tion were for the first three months of this vear a gain of over the corresponding quarter of 1953 the management re- Color TV pi OKI am 30 a m dun ped May 617 Broad 12500 tors of the white Simul hi and has not clarified what Dulles and as the moral issues In m to preclude 1 Plans for milita y talks nice leak of todays the United States Britain Fiance ront thc court took tne and other nations l ested in Southeast Asia ie gomr of withholding punted Adv again after having been of tne until it had sidetracked for a few davs The Iead m from tlle Ireland A Lestei Birlow s Cleaners Adv ck to the eas His twin moves Chicken pie spec Tues and Wed Astern and Austria an pages Zealand as well as Asian ni opinons to distribute the in VS MYSTERIOUS PURSUIT PUZZLES POLICE formed chinch n Grand Rapids There he calmly walked dawn the center arsle to another table where before the col- lection had been Ind Before the eves of the whole con- took the tion trav containing an estimated Rfred action by a group of noon at s Adv tions like Thailand and the tne courtroom just before the fv indo- ULP u wrote tne majority view and left The and an Injured B H Youth Faces Qui on Crash ported today in a letter stockholders assistant prosecutor were in the congregation A Benton Haibor aces police interrogation on a auto accident to the Boss said Lubbers had suffered Corning which sent him to nervous breakdown a year and a Community hospital with half ago Since tint time he lived with his wife and two dren at his fathei s home a possible skull fracture The victim Rudolph P Kerr 1897 Britain ave clashed at the outskirts of after he allegedly sued for nearly 12 miles Bernen county Deputy Ar- thur Johnson The other driver Charles Jr 39 a minister from Bay said Ken s car went out of control The Area Planning commission and mto a le dur report on public utilities will be re- y leased at a meeting to be held at 7 30 p m in the Rose room of the Vincent hotel Benton Area Planning Group Will Release Report On Public Utilities This rs the first time that the company has issued quarterly ments publicly Prior to this time it had released only semi-annual figures Net profit for the three months was Income taxes of reduce net earnings to Deducting an allowance for preferred stock dividends shows earnings on the common stock to be 41 a A year ago those earnings were 87 cents a share Elisha Gray company president said that the report does not take into account defense iness which is not covered by for- mal contracts with the government In 1952 the government issued ter which now total 029224 and against which the water systems in the area storm I skull fracture face and cuts J Harbor Announcement of the meeting was made by R A commission chairman ing the race could give no apparent reason for Keirs actions Head Smashes Windshield Kerr whose head smashed Jeffirs through the windshield was unable to be questioned Deputy Johnson The report deals with the said Reported in satisfactory con- ing and contemplated sewer and dition today Kerr has a possible has paid at the close of business on March 31 Cleaners store hours starting June 1 Mon through Thurs 7 30 a m to 6 p m Fri 7 30 a m to 7 p m Sat 7 30 a m to 1 p m Adv will grind valves and tune motor on Dodge Chrysler drainage problems and trash garbage collection stated All members of the Citizens Ad- committee and all public of- and other interested people are urged to attend the meeting Notice to bids on garbage tions The city of will take bids up to 7 30 p m May Whitcomb Gulf garage 101 State 24th 1954 for the collection of st see Art Ph YU Adv posal of the city garbage Copies of Deputy Johnson said a partial re- port of the accident was pieced gether from statements offered by Emrick who appeared to be ened said Kerrs car for no apparent chased auto from Benton Harbor Several times Kerr unsuccessfully tried to force from the road dunng the rare the report said At the proposed contract may be vliet Kerr's car careened out of Wanted girls and young men over cured at the office of the city clerk control after It clipped auto 18 to work at St Joe Auto Signed Bert Luth city clerk Adv in the rear Deputy Johnson said Theater and Bobs Drive-In After the Occident la penon between 12 noon 6 p m Cleaners YU towards when pines with the states be expected to take some part in tilks probably will be held in er Washington 01 London Michigan Move To Clean Out Elements be gins to read Thus several be determined how the court had dec ded the cases After reviewing a long line of decisions bearing on the rate but equal doctrine Chief tice We come then to the question presented Does segregation of in pub L schools solely on the bisis of rice even though deprive the children of the T T r ltv of education op- LANSING Mav 17 We believe that it gan locals of the Auto union too u joined in a fight whit elements n their union Nearly 500 delegates to a al meeting Saturday joined m pledging support to President George of tin American of Labor to eat off this cancerous growth The delegates came fiom St seph Jackson Battle Creek mazoo Benton Lansing Grand Haven Muskegon and istee 3 Candidates In Race For School Board Thiee candidates have entered the race for two seats on the St They adopted a resolution saving Joseph of education The that Lester Washburn has deadline for filing was 4 p m last as international union president be- and the election will take cause of the failure of the unions executive board to back up his ex- place June 14 Seeking on the board arc pulsion of John Di alias Robert T Herkner Milo Sprunger Johnny Dio and his revocation of and Milton L Dutenhaver the charters of Di er is running for election di locals in the New York area Ito hls full term of office He The delegates pledged support to a testified public accountant and thc incoming international dent Earl Heaton of Decatur 111 in cleansing the union of able elements at any level of our organization St Harbor It over Sunday morning front Kerr hli after It to Wa- in- a board appointee Sprunger 1918 Porres ave the place left vacant by Robert J Criddle Jr a Whirlpool corp who Is not seeking reelection Sprunger is office manager of the Stenographer wanted cxpeuenced Bros Paper Box Co girl wanted for sales dept Must Uke seeking election to the scat shorthand and Also girl vacant by Criddle is fd insurance clerk 2305 Langley tve who and Park B H Ph WA j eral manager of the Automatic Ots Ol IV
