Record-Eagle (Newspaper) - July 3, 1954, Traverse City, Michigan DAILY AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION 12 Ending March 31 ABC TRAVERSE CITY NORTHERN MICHIGAN'S GREATEST DAILY THE WEATHER cool and showers tonight and Sunday Monday cloudy warmer Information en Page I UNITED PRESS fUU LEASED WIRE SERVICE FOURTEEN PAGES TRAVERSE CITY MICHIGAN SATURDAY JULY 3 1954 FIFTY-SEVENTH PRICE FIVE CENTS Holiday Crowds Are Filling Vacationland Centennial Off to Good Start Dan McGrew got shot talent paraded whiskers were judged and two queens were crowned Friday evening In Suttoni Bay aa the village fired Its biggest guns in a centennial celebration The weather wai favorable and an excellent crowd was on hand to take part in and witness the first day ef the event This picture shows the queens and the prominent gentlemen who placed the tinseled on their heads On the left Is Auditor General John Martin as he placed the crown on the head ef Mrs Lilly pioneer resident who was selected as Centennial Queen Third from the left is Emma selected as Miss Suttons Bay a vivacious and beautiful miss who represented Buttons Bay In the Cherry Queen contest On the right placing he crown on her head Is Pat Cleary Michigan secretary of state The centennial show will continue over the holiday weekend Uncover Big New Scandal NKW YORK July The in n dispatch ui housing so HI put will overshadow thing yet uncovered In the Housing Lilt lo brent I he published in Hie New York Woi Sun siild the biggest round so fur In new phase of Hie housing Investigations Imie lo do with Wherry ni I housing for families o enlisted men on The will show that builders mid speculators mad is windfalls and other exorbitant Cits on nnd ing lor which guaranteed tho dispatch The Hint wore boosted members ul the armed forces plant employes nnd veterans who supposed to he beneficiaries of nient program The Mild of the repei of these politically und lo the ful contracting groups involved bus resulted in heavy pressure be- ing In ought on Sen Homer K and his tco to Keep them from digging into the military nnd defense housing situation For Fourth and Festival Ranked at one of the lop tourist Cherry Harvest and resort In the middle west j of early light this Grand Traverse Bay scheduled to gel under- land today was the target for Wily n orchards sands of visitors who are expected Traverse to throng this over the long continue their tusk Fourth of July holiday weekend of attempting to further pinpoint and the 1954 National Cherry tival In Traverse City next week The next week will be a big one leading off with the holiday end which extends through Monday the tonnage prospects First Imal report on picking today from A L who announced Is seeking mi pickers lo begin work Tuesday morning nl the To Open Tuesday Noted Speakers at Annual Symposium Chicago Darkened Storm Turns Day Into Night fell from central Illinois Into ern Wisconsin As the storm hit the Chicago metropolitan area the skies ened to thn blackness of night Winds with gusts up to GO miles nn hour pounded the city A smokestack atop a ing on Lake Shore toppled lower Lake Michigan Heavy rain over onto a three-story building It By United Press A severe storm Including a line of thunderstorms 160 miles long hit the today between hands of cool air over northern states and searing heat in the south The storm lilt on a linn from eastern Iowa across Illinois and Dead in State Death Toll Mounts Slowly But Surely fly Press Michigan's Fourth of July way death toll mounted slowly but lodny as thn 11 aid Into what was to Its holiday traffic jam In tory A Press check showed three persons killed In holiday fic nnd one drowning victim for a total of four Safely experts feared the toll would sharply when full of heavy traffic loads ure felt Police reported 25 traffic mishaps during the night In the Joseph area tilone Wilbur U Kuball 37 Bon I on Harbor killed three miles of his boine In a collision Involving two curs and a truck wife and two dren were in lured accidents wois expected lo start climbing today as of motorists set out for benches nnd spols The Safety council lias estimated 10 million cars will jam the ways dining Iho holiday Fair hot weather over much o Ilio country Dwelled the motorists ranks A wave baked the southeast from the river Into Alabama It was almost as hot in parts of the west and degree were common from I he Ft oik let In Appalachians nnd as far north ns northern Illinois A new federal ment Inn was expected lo cut down deaths and injuries caused by works holiday explosives had claimed n victim and caused arrests smashed stone a milk truck nnd unto damaged the building's roof lilt tho coast radio station at ill knocking out the slat Ion's A vicious storm lilt III south of A heavy rain lul by winds utility linos and The I S In said the seiles of storms in a long lino said heavy clouds rain and fog a haze gave the darkness in nn oerle effect second annual World Affairs Symposium which will tine a number of Internationally noted will open its session Tuesday at the Schools nl Glen Aibor Both the first session from July MO and the second from July will be bold on the school campus Theme of the symposium will bo A Wetter and in- persons arc invited to at- tend either or holb sessions Among the outstanding speakers who will address Hie group are H Davis American news editor of the Science Monitor Max K chief of tlie central news bureau Joseph overseas news editor for the Monitor William II Sti inner chief of the Washington news bureau of the Monitor living billiard bead of the St Louis editorial department Philip H Indiana attorney and son of the late Wendel tin I Walter Hastings noted alist Plenty of Jobs for Graduates July lob opportunities for Michigan State seniors this spring were about equal with those of best placement year college officials reported today Jack college placement bureau director said 436 firms with lobs available interviewed students this Of the six major fields ed In interviews veterinary cine the highest average starting salary of Other starting salaries included engineer Ing science and arts Jl business and public service and home economics DIES OF INJURIES July Two- Hudson died day of Injuries aim suffered I dny uhen run Into Iho path of u driven by Theodore Johnson Visit Taverns Three Killed Condition Serious Detroit Hoodlums Stab Young Athlete DETROIT Inly man Muller center on the St Joseph high school basketball learn was In Receiving hospital day with stab wounds he suffered when attacked by a gang of young hoodlums Muller 17 said between eight and 10 converged on him while he was on n street corner talking with two com- panions Friday night One of the youths asked Muller now n Belle Isle lifeguard If he ever was an usher at the Delthe theater When Muller snld he to work CUP of youths palled knite and him In Din abdomen Doctors naid he was In Muller said his assailant whom ho did not recognise accused him of once ejecting him from the ter It marked lie second limp this year n Detroit high school center stubbed by rowdies Hoss Do Hoskey IS of 111 nil school was by angry rival fans lasl Jan ifi after his team to victory over Central high De Hoskey suffered Ice pick wounds The incident re- In n bnn on future night and football games in the Motor City KANSAS CITY MO July A man and two women were shot to death early today ns they droie along n City and police the of one of Ibe admitted the killings The bodies were found shortly 5 in nn automobile flinch had plowed into a stone retaining wall bordering the site of an old reservoir One of the victims an attractive young woman was not Identified immediately The others weie ns Donald Knepp Jr 28 and his slater Mrs Levy 29 Polite quoted Cm I Levy a plumbing company as saying he killed the after a series ot arguments during a tour of spots here and In the county He could not Immediately recall the name ot woman who was with bis Knepp shot between the eyes sprawled over the wheel Tlin unidentified woman who been riding beside him had fallen part way out of the door She also had been shot in the bead Mrs Levy was In the rear seat She been shot once between the eyes and at least three times la the chest Whooping Crane Find Nesting Place of Vanishing Bird OTTAWA July nesting of one of America's rarest birds the spectacular whooping crane may have been found The government said that one of Its scientists possibly had It W A Fuller president in Wood Buffalo park for the department of affairs and sent n tele- gloom Fort Smith N W I reporting he hud sighted six of big birds Including their young So fnr as is known only 24 of the white cranes which stand four feet high are known to be In existence Vast numbers of the cranes Inhabited northwest fore the turn of Hie century Biologists of the Canadian Wild life Service here said they would have lo wait for a more detailed report from Fuller before com on bis telegram hoped however that he had foil IK the of their nesting area Tbe cranes spend the winter 01 the gulf coast of The U S Fish and Wildlife Service has hunt n reserve around spot to protect them In hope of Increasing when the cranes flj north they are lost In man One year an airplane used to try to follow them to their nesting place but they slipped Into hiding about the BOth parallel Two Hundred Dead French Slay Reds LY INDOCHINA July attacked Phil France's outpost on the delta today but withdrew with 200 and 200 wounded The attack was the first Com- munist thrust at shrunken French defenses since the French banded over half of the Red ilver delta to rebels earlier this week Thousands of crack troops from Communist divisions threw themselves against an outer French defense post south of the town at 6 In the first half hour of fighting GO enemy dead were counted on the battlefield Shortly after the Communists struck the French with lank and artillery support Twenty U bomber flow south from Hanoi to bomb rebel concentration across the Day river Phy i only 30 miles south of the capita No Paper Monday In order that Its employes ma join In the observance of the In dependence Day legal holiday o Monday the will no publish an edition on that day The next edition to be after today's issue will ba that o Tuesday July 6 nd following with the midwest's Traverse City annual fiesta to be staged I se ere next Wednesday nd Friday Weather threatened to cast a on weekend activities for ni living In the area kies were cloudy today and for maraschino processing will be Thursday I-a said estimating Hint th orchard will produce fiO and TO percent of last year's crop of sheets District Clarence stated today that Wednesday Night were In the low and j harvest is expected le forecast not promising get underway next week There he predicted con- lined cool and weather Ight nnd Sunday with a low of be ween 12 and -IS tonight ami a Igli Sunday Monday Is expected remain cloudy with moderate tires Despite miner fore- ast and were flocking Into the region was brisk on planes and and law lent reported fairly heavy highway traffic Friday No serious accidents were re- here as tho holiday weekend sot underway Traffic may be some Black Knights dark sweet cherries ready by next week he said but the picking of ripe sweet cherries will probably start following week Mr Mullen estimated that red tart cherry harvest will start during the period from July 15 to 20 In this area How much of n red tart crop this region will produce In is still a question Heavy frosts which struck In curly May hit the tart cherry crop bard At the first crop estimate report meeting held here June 15 growers present estimated that Grand Traverse county's 1964 red tart production will be only 19 percent of last year's tonnage Cards requesting crop estimate Information from Individual ers been sent out this week and il is expected that a report will he available by the latter part of next week Queen's Coronation Will Feature Music Two groups will be among Hie featured performers nt iho coronation ceremonies next Wednesday evening which will are operating on a dally bunch the 1954 National asis by police and sheriff's i cherry Festival here Chairman officers and city police coronation com- Tbe Influx of visitors Is expected o pkk up momentum next week as announced today rowds converge on Traverse City o witness the annual National Festival Three big days of will ho launched ncM night with colorful ceremonies at ield liv which Queen Call of Charlevoix will be rowned as ruler One of the will be the NEW 4-H AGENT MIDLAND MICH July Colling of Hay City is Mid- nnd country's new MI Club agent I was announced today Colling succeeds William I1 who goes o City as sle county's associate agricultural Pennsy Train Hits Empty Car State police ticketed the owner of n car which win struck by K freight train near depot nt Friday n Wit The car had been driven about p thousand feet up the trucks north of the depot and left on the tracks Investigating officers said where II was hit by the southbound train Howard Hoot of Lake owner of the car told officers he had left thousand Dow Chemical cur parked nl the depot employes gel automatic j he visited a tavern nnd hourly pay Increases Monday under driving ibe car up the tracks terms of n contract signed a year i He was Issued n ticket for not ago an operator's license GET PAY BOOST MIDLAND MICH July Festival Chorus composed of hers of the Traverse City Choral nnd combined church choirs This choral group of 40 voices will perform under the di- rection of John at ceremonies Wednesday evening Directed by Harry the Festival Orchestra will play during the coronation program day nnd the command ance of the coronation show day evening The orchestra includes student of the Traverse City high school orchestra and recent graduates The coronation ceremonies night Bl p.m will mark the crowning ot Queen Gall Marie of Charlevoix aa Festival ruler nnd usher in two big days of entertainment Thursday and day The coronation com- mand performance which will of- fer a change In program will presented Thursday night at p.m Doth events will be held at traditional file at Field on West Thirteenth street chorus and orchestra will seated directly In front ot huge stage at the west end ot the field he center of n beautiful ting arranged for spectacles Back From 4-H Meeting Is a picture of a group of local 4-H club leaders and they returned from test sing where they participated In 4-H Club Week activities Grand Traverse and counties were represented at the event The group was accompanied by Andrew Olson district club agent Memben who made the trip Included Ann Marie Engle Marie Strieker Sheila Lucille Nine Nancy Van Vorst Ruth Ann Lemcool Vivian Page Glenda Wilson Emily tarney Marilyn Tyge Anderson Barbara Weiler Jane Don Kenneth Carlisle Darwin Arnold Max Harris Arnold Wurm Tom Wood Wales Den Burry Elden Olson and Claude Collins
