Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 26

10 Sec. Two THE BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER AND NEWS Sunday, May 22, 1966 Policeman Can Never Return to the Work He Loved wanted to help them. You know what he says about that girl who kicked him? He says "She didn't know what she was doing. If she had known me and known I was try ing to help her she wouldn't have done from his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles W. Davis Sr. and Jill's mother, Mrs. Lorena Gieske. Mrs.

Davis returned to talking of her husband and police work. "He was a good policeman. He liked people and room. "Ask some of the police about why they have quit. The pay had a lot to do with it but there are those, the men, their wives, who thought what happened to Chuck could happen to them and their families." One or more police officers drop by each day.

Chief Clifford Barney is a regular visitor. If Davis is awake and those periods are becoming more infrequent the visits are high spots of his day. So are the visits His trust in them is justified, as we know from the way they've helped us." She went on: "I can't understand how anyone can say his injury didn't cause this." She nodded toward the door to her husband's hospital SO a Norman Camera Co. FIRST TO INTRODUCE it The New FUJICA Instant Load Movie System continuing to receive a weekly paycheck granted those whose disabling injuries were suffered while on the job. Workmen's Compensation had not recognized there was any connection between Officer Davis' injury and the malignancy.

His paycheck today would be $120, before deductions. The city's insurance plan has taken care of a portion of the medical and hospital bills. More than a few hundred dollars are still owed. Mrs. Davis has already received letters saying the bills were being turned over to collection agencies.

For the daily necessities and the drugs needed while Davis was not hospitalized, help came from the police department and relatives. Fellow officers who had overtime work hours "in the bank" from which they could "withdraw" compensatory time off or pay, have given to Davis and his family over the months, 313 such hours which amounted to $939 in cash. The Police Relief Association, to which officers pay a monthly dues has provided another $2,630. The association is now providing what must be the last financial aid $50 a week for 12 weeks that will end July 1. The Fraternal Order of Police provided $300, half of the amount needed immediately when Davis entered the hospital at Ann Arbor for For each month worked, police officers are given one day which can be used for sick leave with pay.

Davis had accumulated 31 such days for which he was paid while hp was hospitalized or home ill. "Chuck loved police work and the police department. Special Factory Representative, Mr. Bill Harman, will be in our store all day tomorrow Monday, Sj May 23, to demonstrate this startling new advancement in home movies! Don't cheat yourself Be sure to attend this demonstration anytime from 9:30 A.M. until 9:00 P.M.

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He is a victim of a malignancy discovered 13 months aco after he was injured in the line of duty. The 27-year-old officer answered a family trouble call one October eveing in 1964. According to official police records, a mother had called for the police to deal with her 15-year-old intoxicated daughter. While Policeman Davis was trying to aid the girl she swung her foot, kicking the officer in the groin. A resulting painful, swelling was still with Davis when, the following February he was "kneed" by a man as Davis was assisting other officers in an arrest.

Tn April of 1S63, two weeks after the birth of the couple's third child he underwent surgery for removal of the in- 1 jured member. Tests revealed malignancy. He was taken to Ann Arbor for further surgery in an effort to stem the malignancy. After his release from the hospital he had daily cobalt treatments for a year at Ann Arbor. Fellow officers, on their days off, would drive Davis to the hospital each weekday for the treatment.

There were brief periods when he could return to work. PATROLMAN DAVIS There were periods of hospitalization here. Five weeks ago today he again entered Leila Hospital. He was given last rites. Davis, a short time out of the Air Force, went into the work in which he was interested on June 15, 1960.

He became a police officer at $8.1 a week for a six-day week. Two months earlier he and Jill Gieske had been married. After the death of their first child, there were to be three others: David, 1, Charles, III, 3, and Lorena, 4. The family home is at 89 Harrison St. Sitting for a few minutes outside her husband's hospital room, the 23-year-old Mrs.

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