Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 21

1 GENERAL NEWS COMICS THE STATE eJOUKNAL- SPORTS CLASSIFIED MARKETS ONE HUNDRED-SIXTH YEAR LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1960 THIRD SECTION PAGES 21 TO 32 City Gets Township Payment for Annexation IT'S NOT FUNNY Hay Fever Time Near 'Pollinosis' Symptoms First Described in 1565 Cedar St. Is Most Hazardous 10-Year Legal Hassle Ends With Receipt of Check for $14,098 More than 10 years after it annexed the Everett district, the City of Lansing finally has received payment from Lansing township for personal property assets involved in the merger. A check for $14,098.16 was received by the city treasurer last week first in a series of payments the towivship must make for subsequent annexations of most of its former area. pleasing to most may be injuri- his fellow patients felt the urge By DORIS JARRELL (Stat Journal Staff Writer) First of all, let's get one thing straight. ous to one.

Rose fever has been one of the names given to the affliction, but the experts say it was hay Increase in Accidents We don't think there's anything funny about it. The sight of a fellowman persecuted by poisonous to add welts on their arms to their already miserable existence. It took Blackley until 1873 to report on his findings, and, even then his advice was limited. He reported that in most cases he was convinced the "cure" was due to the patient's removal beyond reach of the cause (pollen), rto the dimunuation of the latter (pollen)." A sea voyage was highly recommended, and about 1860 the Conceivably, the future pay- 4 it) if ments required by law as the pollen is a sad sort of a sight-as any hay fever sufferer knows It's kind of like the late Dr fever 100 years ago, stilt is, but should be more properly called "pollinosis." Sufferers over the years have tagged hay fever with many names summer, autumnal and nervous catarrh; grass, pollen and ragweed fever and just plain June colds plus the unprint I Is Reported at 31 Intersections Five intersections on Cedar st. are the most hazardous for motorists, a mid-year report by Allen T.

Hayes, city traffic engineer, to the city council showed Tuesday. The report covered 45 interjections at which six or more ac Oliver Wendell Holmes said at the turn of the century when a city annexes township property and acquires a share of the township's cash and other personal assets could milk the township treasury dry. Actual figures of the pending property divisions are not hay fever patient asked him for able descriptions lavished on the disease by those who know it exodus to seaside and other resorts began. In 1874 the U. best.

cidents have occurred in the first yet available. Hayfever association was formed, six months of 1960. It showed increases in the number of acci History records the second reference of hay fever symptoms in 1819 by an English physician, Dr. Bostock, and shortly after with such illustrious members as Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Daniel Webster.

The organization had just one president but 72 vice presi came a report that a "superior" woman acquaintance of a Dr. El- liotson at London university dents, necessary, no doubt, to keep business moving despite its officers being mowed down "thought it was pollen" that caused her troubles. CLOUD OF POLLEN But it was in 1859 when Dr. by their affliction. For, even the fect at the time of the annexation should be used, despite the fact that the legislature later changed the law.

Settlement of the Everett an-nexation division of assets cleared the way for similar property divisions resulting from eight subsequent annexations of parts of the township by the city, Mr. Lavey said. MIDWAY MERGER Negotiations are now underway to divide assets as a result of the Midway merger in November, 1950. After that, one at a time, will come settlements on the Westchester and Colonial village mergers in November, 1955, the Horsebrook and Pleasant Grove annexations in June, 1958; the Frandor and Northwestern mergers in August, 1958, and the Frandor golf course merger in November, 1959. Each settlement must be done according to chronological order, the city each time receiving a payment figured out on the basis of the total township area divided by the area annexed.

But each time, of course, the "total township area" is smaller leaving less and less personal property to divide up on the next settlement. a remedy: "Gravel is an effective remedy. It should be taken about eight feet deep." NOT CURES Since those days, science has come up with considerable help for those with the malady injections, antihistamines, air conditioning but these are only reliefs, not cures. It seems that just as long as the highly mobile pollen floats around and meets the immovable (but susceptible) substances in body tissues or blood, we can chalk up another victory for nature over man. Symptoms of hay fever were first described back in 1565 by a Dr.

Bottalus of the University of Pavia in Lombardy. In telling of his own symptoms he referred to the "aroma" of roses as producing undesirable reactions, and issued a warning against use of perfumes, saying that "what is association's 1890 published list of remedies (56 medicines) didn't help much. ESSAY CONTEST Charles Harrison Blackley, also an Englishman, bumped into a bouquet of grass blossoms. The cloud of pollen that rose in the air caused Dr. Blackley to react as any good hayfever sufferer would he sneezed, his eyes wa The group did raise $100 for dents at 34 of the intersections, decreases at seven, and the same number as in a like period last year at four others.

Cedar st. inter sections at Grand River ave. and Mt. Hope aves. were the most frequent scenes of accidents (19 at each) with the Cedar-Kalamazoo corner marking up 17: Cedar-Saginaw 16 and Cedar-Hazel 14.

In the first two cases, the 1960 totals were six accidents higher than in the same period of 1959. Other accident-prone Cedar st. intersections are at Michigan ave. (11 accidents). Baker st.

(seven accidents), and Lincoln st. (six accidents). The intersection which showed the most marked increase in the number of accidents was Saginaw st. at VerLinden where 12 accidents have occurred this year compared to only three in the first six months of last year. Most improved intersection was Clippert st.

at Michigan with seven accidents this year compared to 12 in the first half of 1959. scientific investigation and the hopelessness of hayfever sufferers in those days is best illus Delaying the payment on the Everett annexation for more than a decade were several factors, including: 1 A circuit court decision on the settlement formula. 2 An appeal to the supreme court on the part of the city. 3 Illness and death of a former city attorney. 4 Pigeon-holing of the appeal case for four years while another attorney retained by the city to work on the case served two terms as a councilman and argue the suit.

A LEGAL MAZE The city's appeal, actually, was lost in maze of legal papers which Joseph Lavey, present city attorney, found when he was cleaning his office before moving it to the new city hall three years ago. The supreme court decision which resulted in the city gaining the $14,098 was handed down 1 a 1 13, and negotiations have been in progress ever since between city and township financial officials to arrive at the figure. Basically, the supreme court ruled that a formula for the personal property division in ef tissues, towels and handkerchiefs. Those who suffer from the disease can be stricken with sneezing, stuffy nose and watering eyes almost any time during the year but they view with greatest alarm the days "between Aug. 15 and the first frost.

(State Journal Photo) BLESS YOU Symbolic of all the hayfever sufferers in the world is Morris J. Green, 912 W. Lenawee who posed for The State Journal photographer in the agony of sneezing surrounded by standard equipment of hay fever victims i trated by results of an essay contest in 1886. First prize went to a Dr. Bish tered and he could barely breathe.

Thus began Blackley's 14-year experimentation, mostly skin tests on himself since none of op of Chicago who described hay fever as a "functional nervous disease." Second prize went to a Dr. Bell who wrote that "hay fever is not a functional nervous AT COUNCIL MEETING M. S. disease." In. the meantime, hay fever Crossing Work Asked Joint TV Use Upheld A threat to joint use of tele-WMSB and the commercial firm Council Studies patients irantically tried many and varied homespun remedies.

They took Turkish baths, ice- Street Closings Closing of two streets in the vision facilities by Michigan State UUC OlUC, pUggCU UU3U Willi The Jackson firm contended cotton and wore dark glasses at the arrangement violated a law! all times. city to eliminate traffic hazards were discussed by the city council Monday night. university and WILX-TV, a commercial station, has been dissolved by the state supreme court. prohibiting the university board! iney oeiiaaonna piasters to authorize a self-liquidating project without approval of the Councilmen referred to the public service committee a request from RL Rev. Msgr.

Michael Mleko, pastor of St Casimir school, that the dead end of W. Ask Limitation On Signal Light Residents living near the intersection of N. Jenison ave. and W. Willow st.

petitioned the city council Monday night to have the traffic signal at the intersection operate only during peak traffic hours. The petition asked that the In a 5-2 decision Monday, the high court upheld dismissal by Circuit Judge John Simpson of Rundle north of Barnes Jackson county of a suit to block construction. hour, occupants of automobiles are shaken up by crossing the tracks. ON REPAIR LIST Collins Thornton, public service director, said the New York Central railroad already has placed the crossing on its repair list and that it is the next one in the city scheduled for improvements. The Michigan Cab company asked to be assigned a cab stand in front of the Hotel Porter formerly allotted a now-defunct taxi firm.

The matter was referred to the committee of the whole. Mrs. II. Breeding, social chairman of the Churchill Downs Community council, asked permission to block off the east side of Jerree and Anson sts. for a family day program next Sat- Letters covering such varied items as garbage cans, square dances in the open air.

and bumpy railroad crossings were received by the city council Monday night. One communication from the city-county health department informed councilmen that Mrs. Mae Elliott, 6074 W. Michigan had been ordered to provide additional garbage cans for tenants in her apartment building. Councilmen earlier had been told there were only two cans for nine apartments and that garbage overflowed from them.

The East Side Commercial club asked the council to "do something" about the E. Michigan ave. railroad crossing, claiming that at even 20 miles per urday. Permission was granted. The Lansing Thunderbird Squares asked permission to hold an outdoor square dance July.

30 from 9 to 11:30 p. m. in a parking lot at Logan st. and Jolly rd. Permission was granted.

Marvin DeWald, 4806 S. Logan asked for a one-year waiver of a one percent per month penalty on his special sewer assessment on the grounds that he was not notified of the public legislature. Chief Justice John R. Deth-mers, who authorized the majority opinion, concluded the project was not self-liquidating since the board had funds to pay for all of it. Dethmers also disputed the The decision capped a two- year fight by Jackson Broadcast cipline," guaranteed to keep them from 1 1 in into the "sneezing habit," and wore finely ground amber in small bags around their necks to ward off the hay fever evils.

Doctors, without much hope of success, recommended quinine as an astringent for local treatment. And they prescribed cocaine with the result that they had dope addicts to cure instead of treating pollinosis! Total fasting was even suggested, but met with little success apparently even sneezing was See SNEEZE Pg. 26, Col. 7 ing and Television corporation to head off the operation, which claim that the agreement violat be closed during school hours. Councilman Lawrence Heller said his committee also would report next week on a previous request to close the block of Drexel rd.

between Durant st. and VerLinden ave. in the vicinity of VerLinden schooL The city owns vaacnt property on both sides of the street and there are other alternate routes nearby for motorists, he said. hearing on the assessment and light operate on a red-and-green cycle from 7:30 a. ra.

to 9 a. m. and from 3 p. m. to 5:30 p.

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