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THE BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER AND NEWS 11 Saturday, March 26, 1960 Able to Buy, Inclined to Save, Consumer's Called 'Powerful7 is something positive," he said. "It is not merely a consequence of not spending, but rather of substantial, pressures directed toward achieving highly valued goals in life. Saving is considered most important and its absence is greatly regretted." By THE REV. PHILIP S. KRUG Rector, St.

Peter's Episcopal Church, Weston, Mass. HOW SURPRISED we would be to hear a friend say "Happy Lent!" to us. Even so, it would be a greeting in keeping with the first uses of this holy season. Lent, we must remind ourselves, points directly toward Easter. This is really how Lent began as an instruction period for baptismal candidates prior to Easter.

Any self-denial, prayer or discipline they undertook was in anticipation of celebrating the Lord's triumphal resurrection. They were spiritual athletes in training for the great battle of self-mastery. How could a disciple of Christ be gloomy? Had not the Lord himself said, "When ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance but thou, when thou fastest, annoint thine head, and wash thy face." Church scholars, both Protestant and Catholic, are recalling us to this earliest understanding of Lent, which reaches back to the 2nd century Christians. The English historian, Bury, once wrote that "the cheerful virtue of the Christian life" was, in his opinion, the great influence for converting the ancient world. May you find an inward radiance as you prepare for the festival of Easter.

i I The surveys also uncovered evidence that most Americans aren't interested in acquiring a fortune, but more concerned about protecting their families from financial disaster, and having a nest egg for retirement. Saving for these purposes is widespread. The great majority of those interviewed said inflation is bad, even though years of inflation proved to be good years, Katona said. However, most did not blame inflation on profiteering but on higher labor costs and sustained demand for goods. "The idea that price increases Hearing Set For Brockway are a chronic feature of our economy has gained adherents but has not become general, the economist said.

"The the ory that says unions, high gov Lnews ernment debt and spending in rt i i James A. Brockway, 20, of 722 North demanded an examination of a charge of involuntary manslaughter when he appeared yesterday afternoon before Bedford Township Justice Martha E. Hard. Brockway faces the charge in connection with the death March 15 of 19-year-old Henry T. Owen Jr.

of 138 Chestnut st. in the crash of a car driven by Brockway at high speeds during a chase by Bedford Township police. The crash occurred on the Halbert road, just east of the Waubascon road. Brockway was released on bond pending the examination, set for 9 a.m. April 6 at the Level Park Hall." clinations of Congress are enduring and make an inflationary age thus far has not entered into the thinking of the majority not even those in the upper-income bracket." ores Enquirer and News Photo.

Present at the ceremony were (left to right) Roy M. Dudlum, Dr. Roy H. Baribeau, II. C.

Holton, board chairman, and Dr. Sherwood B. Winslow. IN FACT, SAYS Katona, "creeping inflation has its ben Lt. Gen.

Lewis B. Hershey, national director of the Selective Service system, signs certificates of appreciation at a presentation ceremony yesterday for personnel of the local draft board who have served 15 years or more. eficial aspects because it helps Coleman, wife of Circuit Judge Coleman, will be given Sunday at the Hamblin Community Center at 4 p.m. The meeting is open to the public. This is the second of two articles reviewing several new economic ideas advanced by economist George Katona of the University of Michigan, in his book, "The Powerful Consumer," which was published this week.

The work is based on a 15year-study of American buyers made by the university's survey research center, which Katona directs. By PAUL EMERSON ANN ARBOR JP) The ability of American consumers to buy has become sharply divorced from their willingness to spend, a University of Michigan economist has found. Prof. George Katona, director of the University's Survey Research Center, contends that this significant post-World War II development has placed buyers in a position where they now exert a powerful influence over the country's economic weathervane. THIS IS ONE of the key points made by Katona in his new book, "The Powerful Consumer." The work is based on the largest single collection of basic data ever gathered on American consumers more than 50,000 interviews made by the research center over the past 15 years.

Katona said changing income patterns have created a broad middle and upper-middle income class which is in a position to spend money on things besides basic necessities. Buying on the cuff, he found, has become widespread, especially among middle income families, while two-thirds of all families have some kind of debt resulting from the now standard practice of credit buying. Neither the popularity of credit buying for automobiles or appliances or Jhe spread of collective insurance programs have sapped the basic willingness and desire of Americans to save, he added. Nor has inflation upset the nation's saving habits, Katona said. Most consumers feel the future is uncertain and savings in bank accounts and government bonds have fixed values, are not risky and do not require expert knowledge.

"FOR MOST people saving sustain certain attitudes essential for the creation of prosper Long Service to Draft Board Honored Divorces were granted here yesterday by Circuit Judge Al ous conditions. It may well be that a business recession causes more human suffering than creeping inflation." He said well over half of those interviewed flatly stated that nothing like the great depression could ever happen again. The idea that the little man is manipulated by big business has become almost non-existent. Most consumers, Katona con fonso A. Magnotta to Thelma L.

Ayers from Edward Avers, to Camilla Ruth Burdette from Ernest C. Burdette, to Paul W. Richardson from Marcena Richardson, to Judith Heine from John Heine and to Alleyne B. Drs. Hansen, Shipp and Verity were unable to attend the ceremony, held at the local draft board office in the Federal Center.

In awarding the certificates, General Hershey said: "It is devoted service such as you men have provided that the program has been able to function as well as it has. By ob servation of this type of service, it is easy to see that such an operation could continue if we ever reached a fractional situation and each unit was forced to operate as an autonomous board." Mrs. Elizabeth M. Ford, board clerk, was presented with a five-year pin and certificate. Parker from Robert Ellis Park er.

Divorces were granted in Marshall by Circuit Judge Creighton R. Coleman to Rita tinued, are convinced that com Marie Tenuta from Eugene petition between business forms Certificates of appreciation for "long and devoted service" were presented yesterday to personnel of the local Selective Service Board by Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director of the Selective Service system, who was here for a speaking engagement.

Awards of 15-year certificates and lapel pins were made to H. L. Holton, chairman of the board, and Roy M. Ludlum, a board member, both uncompensated personnel. Medical advisors also were similarly honored.

All have served more than 15 years. They were Drs. Roy H. Baribeau, Edwin L. Hansen and Lloyd E.

Verity, all 16 years; and Leland P. Shipp and Sherwood B. Winslow, both 17 years. Tenuta, to Margaret Louise exist and that it has worked to their advantage both in lower Roberts from Stuart Olds Rob Basfogne-Luzon VFW Post Elects prices and better production. erts, and to Helen Louise Gooding from Kenneth William Gooding.

Aiding the rise of the con John H. Miller is the newly-elected president of the Bas- sumer to his pinnacle of power, he said, has been the wide dis A 17-year-old boy suspected of stealing a $10 bill from a semination of economic knowledge through the centralized nature of news sources. Busi service station cash register early today was tracked in ness news, whether good or bad, Power Firm's Lights Broken; Man, 22, Jailed A shooting incident at a Consumers Power substation two miles north of Albion early today turned out to have no connection with the 26-day-old strike, according to County Prosecutor Noble O. Moore. Gary Hendershot of Parma, a draftsman who was manning the Rice Creek Substation, called state police at 1:30 a.m.

to report four or five shots being fired at the substation. George Spence, 22, of Albion, apprehended by troopers, admitted that, with two teenagers, he had fired at substation lights with a .22 caliber rifle. No damage was done. Spence pleaded guilty before Sheridan Township Justice Howard Dean this morning to charges of unlawful use of firearms and furnishing liquor to minors, and was sentenced to pay a total of $40 fine and costs and to spend five days in jail. STRIKE INCIDENT In Bay City, Edlore Pasant, 40, escaped serious injury yesterday when his car slammed through a Consumers Power Co.

picket line at high speed, bounced into the air at a railroad crossing and ended up in a drainage ditch. Pasant was employed by the company as an emergency worker. fresh snow by police, who found him huddled in a small build spreads rapidly and almost uni formly throughout the country ing in the Grand Trunk West Katona says most buyers to togne Luzon post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He and the other officers named last night will be installed April 16 in joint post-auxiliary meeting at the Prai-rieview School. Mr.

Miller will succeed Cecil era Railroad yard. Andrew L. day are generally optimistic prime World War II assignments being with the French police in Paris, helping to smash black market operations. He is employed in the installment loan department of the Security National Bank. Other new officers-elect are William Wilcox, senior vice commander; Roger Lawrence, junior vice commander; Roger Conway, quartermaster; Ivan Kirkbride, judge- advocate; Howard Wilcox, chaplain; and Arthur Fox, surgeon.

Named a three-year trustee was Otto Regauer. Selected to the club committee were Mr. Oberlin and Stanley Piasecki. Babick of 124 Third iden Most of them have never been tified by the station attendant, out of a job and only a third had a $10 on him plus eight Binder Park will not be open this week end, regardless of whether or not there is more snow, the Civic Recreation Department has announced. Election of officers will be held today at the annual meeting of the Calhoun County Blood Bank at 2 p.m.

at the Community Services Building. Mrs. Pearl S. Black, 73, of 66 Frelinghuysen fractured her right wrist when she fell in her kitchen Wednesday. She is now at home after being treated at Community Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Francis R. Thomas of the Hebble Funeral Home have returned from a visit to Chicago where they attended group meetings of the National Select Morticians held on Thursday and Friday at the Drake Hotel. Three, women arrested in a downtown hotel room were each sentenced to 60 days in the county jail after they pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of being disorderly by being occupants of a hotel room for immoral purposes.

They were Juddie Hallock, 26; Freda Downes, 30, both of 42 Whittier and Vivian Dillon, 33, of 30 Tompkins st. A police undercover team arrested them. The Southwestern Michigan branch of the American Society of Public Administrators will hold a dinner meeting Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the American Legion Clubhouse at Verona. Principal speaker will be Clarence Elliott, city manager of Kalamazoo, who will talk on "Municipal Problems in the 1960s." Dr.

Hymen E. Cohen of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization and president of the branch has announced that all interested persons may attend but that reservations should be made by Monday. Mrs. Francis Cushman Moon, 61, formerly of Battle Creek, died Wednesday at San Diego, of cancer. Born in Union City, Mrs.

Moon was employed here as a postal clerk and was well known in Battle Creek bowling circles. She is survived by her husband Samuel. They had no children. The funeral will be at San Diego. A talk on juvenile delinquency by Mrs.

Creighton R. of the unskilled workers said packs of cigarettes when police caught him. Initially Babick de nied stealing the money or cigarettes, but this morning ad they ever were unemployed. Three of four expressed satisfaction with their jobs and present income. mitted both thefts to officers.

The attendant at Frosty and Oberlin. J. H. Miller The new commander had a colorful Army career as a criminal investigator, one of his Cliff's service station, 371 Michigan reported the boy "WHAT WE HAVE is not good enough, even if it is not poverty but rather middle-class comfort, or compared to what was "hanging around" the sta Most of Germany is flat lands, a few mountains. 2nd Drunken Drive Brings $500 Fine George DeShong, 33, of Lansing, who had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of second offense drunken driving, was placed on probation for two years yesterday by Circuit Judge Alfonso A.

Magnotta, and assessed fine and costs of $500. During the. sentencing, DeShong agreed to seek the help of Alcoholics Anonymous and the guidance of the Family Counseling Service in Lansing where his probation will be supervised. DeShong was arrested April 25 last year in Battle Creek Township on the drunken driving charge. He was convicted the first time in 1957 in tion.

About 4:30 a.m., while the attendant was under the grease rack, he heard the bell on the we had before, even affluence. Only to move up and to acquire more and better things and cash register ring and saw Babick running from the build higher status satisfies us, Katona said, adding: "The postwar period has ing. A check of the cash in the register revealed the $10 bill Answers To How Smart Are You? 1. Iron Pyrites. 2.

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demonstrated that such sentiments represent the heart of SKATING PARTY Richland Skating Rink Richland, Mich. Admission 50c Everyone Welcome Sponsored by Bedford Rescue Squad Richard Fuller of Battle Creek was named a director of the psychological climate in which prosperity flourishes." the Michigan Ready Mixed Con crete Association at its second Business Notes Canadian National Railways, parent organization of the NEWSvw Recent Exercise Pvt. Gerald L. Tull, whose wife Patricia and sons live at Route 4, Coldwater, recently participated with other personnel from the 37th. Field Artillery in "Exercise Winter Shield" at the Grafenwohr-Hoenf els Training area in southern Germany.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tull of Route 1, Athens, he entered the Army in Sept. 1957 and was stationed at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.

before arriving overseas in May. Serving in France Pvt. Ronald A. Babcock, the son of Mrs. Grace M.

Babcock, 740 W. Van-Buren is a member of the 32nd Engineer Group in France. Pvt. Babcock entered the Army in 1954 and was stationed at Ft. Ord, before going overseas last September.

Local Man Honored Airman Harold R. Wilkey, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Wilkey of 51 Willow was chosen February "plane captain of the month" at Chase Field, Bee-ville, Tex. He joined the Navy in August, 1958, and completed recruit training at Great Lakes, HI.

He is a graduate of Rhea Central High School in Dayton, and will attend college upon completion of his enlistment this August. Democrats to Honor Local Recruiter Mrs. Ora Baird of 1000 Fris-bie will be honored tonight by Democrats at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Detroit for recruiting the most new Democrats in the Third Congressional District. Mrs. Baird, who obtained 115 new party members, was also named top precinct worker in the district.

Michigan's 18 districts each named its top winner for the honor tonight. Grand Trunk Western Railroad, has reported that a combina If your question is on tion of increased revenues and tight control of operating expenses brought a "modest im provement in its net financial result" last year. Operating revenues were $740.2 million annual meeting Friday at Lansing. Harold C. Foster of Port Huron was named president to succeed Roy Winters of Muskegon.

Other officers are Fred-ric J. White of Kalamazoo and Raymond Catsman of Flint. Other directors elected include George Parisian of Lansing, Charles Fellows and Donald Kurtz of Flint and Stanley Ernst Jr. of Warren. Holdover directors are Harold Scholten of Holland, William Harris of Taylor, R.

W. Meyer of Cadillac and Stephenson Smith of Menominee. Carl Buchanan, secretary-manager of the association, reported on the year's activities and predicted that "in 1961 there will be an all-out fight for new taxes." He also reported that "the highway department has in mind to increase the weight and fuel taxes next year." dollars, up 35.2 million from home repairs 1958, but the company still ended the year with a 43 mil Hospital Notes lion dollar deficit. The annual Marriage Licenses report placed emphasis on a program of capital expenditure and improved work methods to reduce expenses and increase efficiency of car use. Donald M.

Yates. 21. of 303 Perry Albion, and Lorene Puckett, 16, of Route 2, Tekonsha. Mrs. George Young of 421 Orleans ave.

is a medical patient at Community Hospital. Mrs. Phillip E. Abrell of 46 Woodward ave. is convalescing at the Sanitarium Hospital after undergoing surgery Friday.

Local Births I Free Ice Cream for the Kids with SUNDAY SPECIAL The Interstate Motor Freight System, which operates a terminal here, has reported all-time highs in operating revenues and net earnings for 1959. President L. D. Rahilly noted in a letter to stockholders that 1960 traffic handlid to date is "considerably more" than in the same period of 1959, but that "it is still too early to determine whether this increase can be maintained." Interstate's 1959 operating revenue was an increase of 41 per cent from the 1958 figure. Net earnings rose to $1,307,413, with per-share earnings of $1.60.

Interstate also showed a 35 per cent increase in tonnage carried, compared to 1958. Choice of Chicken or Steak Includes Soup Vegetables, -Coffee or Tea remodeling building decorating landscaping watch for and read the ENQUIRER NEWS home improvement section In tomorrow's edition Accused Boy Faces Armed Robbery Count Floyd Neal, 17, of 59 N. Kendall has admitted he struck a woman with a length of automobile axle during an attempt to steal her purse, will face an armed robbery charge. The warrant was authorized yesterday by the prosecutor's office. It is expected the boy will appear on the charge Monday in Municipal Court.

Neal is accused of striking Mrs. Veda Parker of 42 Cass st. Wednesday night near her home. LEILA HOSPITAL Mr. and Mrs.

1 i F. Schragg of 14540 11-Mile a son at 5:53 p.m. Friday. COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Mr. and Mrs.

Robert B. Fleming of 36 S. 23rd a daughter at 12:04 p.m. Friday. Mr.

and Mrs. Alvin O. Wood-ard of 23372 7-Mile a daughter at 12:23 p.m. Friday. Mr.

and Mrs. Philip R. Nye of 4713 drive a son at 5:38 p.m. Friday. Mr.

and Mrs. Willard F. Hib-bard II of 63 Saratoga a daughter at 6:44 p.m. Friday. Daily Luncheon A Take Phone WO 2-9633 27 E.

Michigan Ave. IIIIIIITTIIIIIIIIIIIj MLast Complete Show 8.07 p.m. k4 Mr. and Mrs. Fred J.

Brenner of 7555 drive a son at 1:05 TWO JOHNS1 LUNCH a.m. today. 182 AVE. A Mr. and Mrs.

Henry F. Lyko of 117 Starlight a son at TWINS: TWO BIRTHDAYS VANDALIA, 111. L4V The girl twins of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Von Behren of nearby St.

Peter have different birthdays. Marilyn Lou was born at 11:45 one night and sister Carolyn Sue at 12:15 the next morning. 5:24 a.m. today. OPEN SUNDAYS WO 4-1781 FEATURING THE BIGGEST HAMBURGER IN TOWN! Breakfast Served Daily from 5 a.m.

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from 1 P.M. NOW thru Tuesday! Features: 1:20 3:25 5:30 7:40 9:45 p.r, nHYNrUHIY At If Mill err I lit I 1 mrJiinnmm Mv -Of Roy N. Fleisher Roy N. Fleisher, 81, of 425 Orleans a former Athens' and Marshall grocer who had' lived here in retirement since 1947, died early this morning in a local nursing home where he had been a patient for two years. He was born in Wa-keshma Township, Kalamazoo County, a son of Benjamin and Lena (Phelps) Fleisher, and farmed for many years near Fulton.

He owned an Athens grocery from 1917 until 1922 and then ran a store in Marshall until returning to his farm in 1925. His wife, the former Grace Culp, died March 23,: 1947. Surviving are two daughters, Lila, at home, and R. G. (Pauline) Dexter of Deer-; field, a son, Clyde of 38 Wiltshire three grandchildren and a brother, Ira Fleisher of Homer.

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