Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 11

Make Bid For 'Roadeo' Mayor to Issue Invitation When Truck Association Governors Meet Lansing will officially invite the Michigan Trucking association hold its state championship in this city next year, it was announced Tuesday. Mayor Ralph W. Crego will extend the invitation at the October meeting of the association's newly elected governors. Chances are considered good that the board will to resume the state roadeo competition in 1955. The event was cancelled this year' after local committees had been formed and plans made for the championships at Capital city airport.

The roadeo, held here in 1951, 1952 and 1953, attracted leading truck drivers from all parts of the state and was opened with a huge transportation parade in downtown Lansing. At the trucking association's annual convention, which closed Sunday in Traverse City, the association's safety committee sumed next year. This mended that roadeo Piction must now be approved by the boarders, new governors. members of the board indicated they would vote for the roadeo. In view of the fact that Lansing was picked for the 1954 event it appears likely that this city again will be favored if the board O.

K.s the event. The association wanted to meet again in Traverse City next. year but had to select Grand Rapids for the 1955 convention because of the lack of an adequate auditorium for banquets meetings. Lansing was well represented at the meeting. Cadillac Publisher, Long Ill, Succumbs Thomas Oliver Huckle Once Fair Board Member CADILLAC, Sept.

21 (P)-Thomas Oliver Huckle, one-time newsboy and printer's devil who became one of Michigan's elder publishers, died last night. Huckle, president and editor of the Cadillac Evening News, died at Mercy hospital after a long illness. He would have been 73 years old Sept. 30. Despite an illness which tended to cripple him, Huckle was active almost up the last.

He worked from his hospital bed. A bone ailment had hospitalized Huckle in Detroit and Cadillac since August of 1953. He was injured last year when hit by a car in Detroit. The British-born Huckle devoted his entire career to newspapers in Michigan. He came to the United States as a boy.

The family, original Londoners, settled in St. Clair. His first job was as a newsboy in Port Huron. Since 1926 Huckle had headed the paper here. In that year he bought the old Cadillac News and Express.

Before that, he was a publisher in Reed City. He was also a copublisher with George C. Handy of the Ypsilanti Daily Press. He acquired an interest in the Coldwater Daily Reporter in 1942. Huckle and his son Earl operated the Cadillac Evening News together in recent years.

Another son, George, is a doctor in Madison, Wis. A former member of the state fair board, Huckle was also a Mason, Rotarian and Elk. He was a past president of the Northern District Fair association. Besides his sons, Huckle leaves his widow, Mae, and two daughters, Mrs. M.

F. Sullivan of Denver and Mrs. Frank Bignall of Milwaukee. There are six grandchildren. Hunt Grand Rapids Suspect in Slaying LOS ANGELES, Sept.

21 (P)- Police are seeking clues today in the slaying of a man and his wife while they were working in a rear of their ceramics shop. Shot to death yesterday were Robert P. Forbes, 49, and Mrs. Despine Forbes, 34. Forbes was a former emergency police officer with the Los Angeles department and the brother of C.

C. Forbes, veteran detective in the Hollywood division. Det. Lt. Tony Ruiz said police are searching for Mrs.

Forbes' exhusband, James Merkouris, 40, also known as James Merkery, of Grand Rapids, for questioning. The detective said a man of Merkouris' description had been seen in the vicinity of the ceramics shop recently. Police first theorized that Forbes and his wife were slain during a robbery, but later discarded this idea. When the bodies were found, a telephone was off the hook near Mrs. Forbes, indicating she may have been attempting to call for help.

Bloody footprints led from the room to a rear exit. Former Flint Mayor Dies FLINT, Sept. 21 (P)-George C. Kellar, 75-year-old former Flint mayor and alderman, died yesterday. Kellar, a real estate, man for 40 years, donated the land for Flint's Kellar park.

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Richard Branch was tostmaster. Superintendent of Schools William Dunavin, introduced the faculty and their families. They were welcomed Harry Silsby. The program was given by Mrs. Vern O'Dell, the Rev.

Charles Rodway, Eldon Ross of Ypsilanti, Harvey Schutt and Claud Gorsline of Williamston. One Killed, 2 Hurt In Berrien Crash BENTON HARBOR, Sept. 21 (AP) Chicago man was killed and two, verely mic injured when sisters their were auto- semobiles collided near here last night. Myron Gregory, 58, was killed. Berrien county sheriff's officers said Gregory's car swerved US-31 miles north of here and smashed into the women's car.

The injured women were identified tentatively as Mrs. Sally Gill, 66, of Huntsville, and Mrs. Henrietta Reese (age ungiven) of Frankfort, Ky. Mrs. Gill suffered scalp lacera-25, tions.

Mrs. Reese suffered a broken knee. Both taken to Mercy hospital. Car Smashes Entrance to Keeler Union (Special to The State Journal) MT. PLEASANT, Sept.

21-Keeler Union, Central Michigan college campus building, came off second best in an early morning tangle with Damages to the east entrance of the student center were estimated at $1,000 while damages to the car were estimated at $700. The driver, Thurman Price, 36, 1002 S. Franklin, was convicted by a municipal court jury on charges of reckless driving when brought before Municipal Judge James E. Ryan. When fined $75 plus $4.80 court costs Monday, Price told the judge he would appeal the case.

Nab Dearborn Man For Maine Police NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (P)-Forgery squad male detectives arrested a Michigan yesterday at the request of Portland, authorities. Paul Billings, 36, of 1430 Elm Dearborn, was taken into custody in the Essex house, a fashionable hotel on Central park. Police said a warrant issued in the Portland municipal court charged Billings grand larceny in connection with the passing of a bogus $1,000 check. I STATE JOURNAL (Lansing, Mich.) Tuesday, Sept.

21, 1954 11 on Oct. 31. Rev. Paul J. Foust, now of St.

Paul's Lutheran church pastor Milan and a native of Hillsdale, has accepted a call to the Albion church, succeeding Rev. A. G. Spiegel, who will retire after the new pastor's installation. Mr.

Foust attended Hillsdale schools and Hillsdale college before entering Concordia seminary in interned St. Louis, in 1939. He two years in Detroit and took his first pastorate in Seattle, in 1945. He assumed the Milan pastorate in July 1946 and has developed congregation of 300 as compared with 38 communicants at that time. The new Albion pastonds married a and has a three daughters.

Plans are for Mr. Foust to be installed Oct. 31. Mr. Spiegel originally planned to retire Aug.

31, but is continuing to live here and will direct parish activities until 'his successor arrives. About 350 persons attended a service of Thanksgiving at the church here Sunday night, commemorating Mr. Spiegel's 50th anniversary of ordination and his impending retirement. Rev. O.

M. Pastor at Albion Church 43 Years Will Retire ALBION, Sept. 21 St. Riedel of Jackson was in charge of Lutheran church of Albion will get a congratulatory program, in its first new pastor in years which several visiting clergymen participated. Four to Attend Clinton Parley Four members of the Lansing Civitan club, including Walter H.

Lewis, president of the Great Lakes district of Civitan International, will attend the district council convention Sept. 25 at the Congress hotel in Chicago. As president of district, Mr. Lewis will be in charge of the conferothers to attend from here are Herbert E. Lewis, secretary-treasurer of both the Lansing and district groups and Leslie T.

Hartlove and Robert Tibbetts, president and vice president respectively of the Lansing club. Police Here Hunt 2 Jackson Escapers Two men sentenced from Ingham county circuit court, who escaped from a Jackson prison farm Monday evening, were being sought by Lansing authorities Tuesday. The fugitives are Harlow Austin, serving three to 15 years for burglary and Jay Flannigan, 28, who had been sentenced to to 2 I years for habitual drunkenness. SUSPENDED ARMY CLERKMrs. Annie Lee Moss, twice suspended army clerk, left a civil service board hearing at Ft.

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