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'Auto Buy Now' Boosts Sales 50 Percent The Weather (U. S. Waathtr Buraau. Cast Lansing) Occasional showers Monday night ending Tuesday. Low Monday night 50.

High Tuesday 61. HOME EDITION THE TATE ONE HUNDRED-THIRD YEAR LANS INC EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1958 26 Pages INTERNATIONAL NEWS 8ERVICE PRICE SEVEN CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS Youth Cam After ISULILETriW gilt Drivers' Point Law Approved hootin Farmhand. N.Y. -Bound Airliner, Jet Crash; 48 Die LAS VEGAS, April 21 (A A huge airliner winging east in perfectly clear weather collided with a supersonic fighter-bomber high over the desert today, exploded and crashed. All 46 aboard were killed.

The jet plane was an F-100-F from nearby Nellis Air Force base, pilot training center. The craffs two occupants, on an instrument training mission, rode the craft to their deaths. Initial reports were that one or both had parachuted, but the chute sighted apparently was a drag chute from the plane. The collision was at 21,000 feet over a hilly desert area 15 miles southwest. Observers said there was a spurt of flame as the United Airlines transport exploded then went into a long death dive trailing flcmes, black smoke and debris.

The DC-7 was carrying 36 regular passengers, five airline employes and a crew of five from Los Angeles to New York via Denver, Kansas City and Washington. 3 Risk Death To Get Weapon Friends Help 2 Ministers Persuade Tcen-Ager to Give Up Gun Used In Shiawassee County Row By FRED OLDS (State Journal Staff Writer) MASON, April 21 Two ministers and a boy risked pmsibl-death from a shotgun blast to disarm a crazed teen-ager at highway M-99 and Columbia rd. west of here Sunday evening. Subdued was Douglas Martin, 16-year-old Eaton county probate court ward, sought in the shooting and wounding of a farm hand in Shiawassee county Sunday afternoon. Martin, after giving himself I Cutting Tax ove Waits fay 1- Yj Vi up, was removed to tne bniawas- see county jau at lorunna, where Undersheriff Earl Johnson said he spent a "quiet night." The trio who braved wounding or death to get the defiant Martin to surrender were Rev.

M. L. Schreffler, 23-year-old pastor of the Grace United Brethren church. Columbia rd. and highway M-99; Rev.

John Pruden, pastor of the North Aureiius church and Clayton Hayward, 17, of Eaton Rapids. Schreffler said Martin lived in the Grace church neighborhood prior to being transferred to a new home in Shiawassee county last February. Hayward said he was Martin's "buddy." ROW OVER CAR Congress Shows Little Inclination to Gov. niliams Also OKs Bill for More Lights At Airport Here By RICHARD MILLIMAN (State Journal Capitol Bureau) New laws establishing a point system for determining fitness of! problem drivers and to permit I more lights on the runway at Capital City airport were signed by Gov. Williams Monday.

The driver point system, enacted over the objection of James M. Hare, secretary of state, and some other traffic ex perts, provides that a driver who accumulates 12 points within two years shall be called in for an interview and possible license supension. After accumulating nine points within two years, the secretary of state may call in the driver for an interview, warning him he is getting close to the suspension line. COUNTING METHOD Points are given for various moving violations, including six points for manslaughter, negligent homicide, drunk driving, leaving the scene of an accident without identification, or reckless driving four or three points for speeding, depending upon the speed involved: three point for disobeying traffic signals or top signs or improper passing, and two points for all other moving violations. At present, the discretion for suspension proceedings is with the secretary of state, who oper ates on a demerit system some what similar to that embodied in the new law.

Hare contends that merits involved should be an ad ministrative and not a legislative decision. LAND TRANSFERRED The airport bill transfers about 140 acres of land now used by the department of health to the department of aeronautics. The department of aeronautics port. The land also could be used to extend ihe runwav in the future if nppds of T.nsing air travel demand, a department spokesman said. Roth measures take effect 90 Both measures take effect 90 days after the final legislative adjournment.

Nine other bills were signed by the governor Monday, including those to Amend the port district act, than the hoard of suoervisors alone when tax money is used fr repayment of borrowings. PENSION CHANGE auow a pension to aepenaenis 0f a. state policeman dying be- 1 Decide Major Question Before Hot Months By J. L. LIVINGSTONE WASHINGTON, April 21 Congress may delay until Junetne permission to change the de- or even July any decision on reducing taxes to fight the recession.

This view was put forward today by influential members of the Democratic-controlled house which originates tax legislation, in the midst of conflicting comments elsewhere that (a) the lump is leveling off or (b) that quick action by congress is i k- 1 Martin is accused of wound-1 was attacked by other ing Charles Fox. 35, a hired broadcasters before the federal hand at the Daniel Quicks farm (communications i ion in Venice township, Shiawassee Monday. county, where the court ward Rival applicants for the Chan-was boarding. 'nel 10 license charged that the Officers said Martin and Fox i shared time anangement would arriioH nuor th Wmpr's rfpmanH Produce a "mish-mash" of uni- 'needed on many fronts to Doost the economy. Tk.

njociKilifu nf taT flit plans to install additional ap-was still very much in the iights at tne east end of ture. Even if the economic slump the ruiway al Capital City air- til mm i ii ni i i.iii Eaton county farm field to end a three-county search following a shooting in Shiawassee county. (State Journal Photo). FINALE Sobbing Douglas Martin, 16, is led away on the arm of Sheriff Glenn Vandesande, of Shiawassee county, after surrendering in an proves to have slowed to a stop, some key members say a tax re-! duction still could be voted later, t0 speed UP recovery and get the economy off dead center ear- aer man nature was miuwcu take its course These views obtained in inter views witn lniiuenuai memoers were individual attitudes. They did not purport to reflect lead Air Crash at ership decisions.

But in the principally hv requiring the ap-words of one key house mem- pr0val of ihe electorate rather Ithaca Couple Walter Carr, Michigan depart- ment of aeronautics, told state Kills Der. 'BOOBY TRAP' "Tax reduction can be an eco nomic booby trap. This is one juuic uuimu you do and darned if you don't. Until we know where were retirement, but after 15 police the plane could have Eaton RaPds, Passed the (Special to The State Journal) icipal airport said Barkely land-ITHACA, April 21 A young; tne Plan there about 6 p. m.

couple was killed when theiriSaturday- They said he had taken plane crashed during a. heavy: a friend for a ride in the plane rainstorm six miles northwest of Sunday morning before taking here about 10:10 a. m. Sunday. off with his wife about 9:30 a.

m. ing, it would be foolish to jump years of service. Pension contri-into something like this." tuitions of state policemen dying A report of the Rockefeller before 15 years of service are brothers fund, prepared by a refunded to survivors. traveling about 200 miles an hour when it hit, embedding the engine deeply hi the eravel road nanpl nf hncinpmpn and prnnrt-1 r--' i aiaicu. ui me anu-recession uiannei iu Bid Fought Competing Rivals Claim MSU-Shared TV Time Would Not Work By ROBERT N.

BRANSON (State Journal Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON. D. C. April 21 Michigan State university's iplan to join with a commercial television firm in operation of iTV Channel 10 at Onondaga, versity highbrow programs and commercial "cops and robbers stuff." An FCC examiner, in an initial ruling last month, approved giving the license jointly to M. S.

U. and Television Corp. of Michigan. which runs radio station WILS in Lansing. HOURS SHARED Under the plan.

M. S. U. would build transmitter facilities at Onondaga and use Channel 10 for 38 hours a week, mainly during daytime hours. Television Corporation would operate 130 hours a week, including nights.

The three rival applicants for the license are Triad Television corporation of Jackson, Booth See BID Pg. 2, Col. 5 HighofS2 Predicted Hourly Temperatures a. 4.V 11 a. 7 m.

noon SI! p. a. ni Ml p. 7 1 a. i I', s.

UVather Bun-ail temprratnWMi Karombr reading 29. 7li Occasional showers which began here Saturday are expected to end Tuesday, and the soaring temperatures will be back down to normal. Low Monday night will be 50 and high Tuesday 62. The thermometer will stay in its normal range of about 40 to 61 for this area during the next five days. From one-fourth to lone-half inch of precipitation is forecast, with showers expected to fall again about Thursday.

News Highlights OLD GRADS TO MEET Lansing Sexton Central banquet coming. Page 2. VOTE ON COLLEGE BILL Record shows stands. Page 12. CIVIC CENTER TOPS' Lansing auditorium praised.

Page 16. PARKING PROBLEM Sched-' uled for studv. Page 16. LEGISLATIVE RECORD Things done an-i left undone. Page 12.

HEART SURGERY Scheduled for two Lansing tots. Page 13. MARTIN TROPHY Shared by area prbe-winning dogs. Page 2. Bedtime Stories 5 City in Brief 2 Comics 18-19 Crossword Puzzle 8 Daily Patterns 10 Dear Abby 10 Dollars and Sense 26 Editorials, Features 6 Eves of the World 5 Health Taiks 8 Markets 20 Postman 18 Radio, TV IS Senior Forum 17 Society 11 Sports 14-15 State Affairs 12 State Pages 9 Theater .19 Vital Statistics 2-9-20 Weather 1-20 Women's Features 10-11 ures available to the federal gov-' carrying vessels, ernment, tax reduction can be Reduced the potential liability effective in the shortest for false arrest in the case of This panel believes that a tax cut merchants who have acted rea-would help overcome the cur- sonably in stopping a person sus-rent recession and expand em-'pected of shiplifting.

ployment." Authorize out-of-state tobacco bed. POLICE NET DRAWN Carr said that condition of thej Learning the minister was with tanks indicated the plane was the fugitive, Pruden also went not out of fuel. into the field and stayed and USE HOIST talked with Martin. Hayward, -i 'coming from Eaton Rapids, fl rr nffi autnorltlfs joined the pair later. i 1 rif State police and sheriff's of fitting the cause of the crash.

cers Eat nam and itnesses who were on hand be- shiawassee counties had sur. fore police arrived said there: was no chance of life in the pas- See YOUTH Pg. 2, Col. 6 Killed were Duane Donald Barkely, 26, and his wife, Janet Elaine Barkely, 23. of Center i rtAn; l.i nr.

uuiiii ul Ajeiiuii. irniuica on Page 9). Officials estimated that the four-passenger Piper Cub was traveling 200 miles an hour when it slammed at a 90-degree angle into the gravel surfaced Tyler rd. It was several hours before state police, Gratiot county sheriff's officers, and the Ithaca civil defense unit could raise the (Pictures on Page 9) for the use of the hired man's car. Fox was shot in the shoulder and neck and Douglas fled in his car.

Fox was treated at the Corun-na General hospital where his wounds were reported not critical. Cornered in a field behind Grace church shortly after 8': p. m. Sunday, Martin shouted to officers he would talk to Schreffler, his pastor. He had lived with the Schrefflers briefly prior to being moved to Shiawassee county.

The minister, just closing a youth meeting, went into the fence corner and counseled with the fugitive as officers held their fire. During the conference Mr. fru- i aen- en roule 10 3 singspirduon church and halted, attracted Dy lhe horde of Pohce cars sur" rounding the place. Ionia Sift Disclosed Reformatory Employes Questioned Regarding Taking Equipment (State Journal Capitol Bureau) Charges that employes of Ionia reformatorv have misaDDronri- ated state Dronertv to their own at this time how many employes may be involved but that there "may be as many as four." Hej did not identify the employesj under investigation but said they are in custodial assignments and "various other positions on the; We are now in me miasi oi, the investigation, and we, hope! u.A it oKr(1v" Hurricnn! The Rockefeller report left the amount up to the administra-jof business in Michigan to be tion and congress "In the light! licensed in Michigan only if the Car Sales Soar Here Anln Riiv Now' Campaign A i I Credited Mltll rill Percent Increase Tansine car owners have caught the "you auto buy now cnirit. After a weekend of activity, dealers reported sales of new and used cars up more than 50 percent and prospects for deals piling up.

Dan O'Shaughnessey, chairman of the "Auto Buy Now" promo- tion said: It like a circus iu our showrooms. Prospective car buycrs are coming out in greater numoers man ai any uuk 1958 models arrived." "in almost everv instance," the cinno car drive leader said, "men and women shopping ior new cars tell us tell US that It naS been the 'auto buy now' push that influenced them to decide to buv an automobile now." Coupled with tne forecast spring surge in new car buying, "Auto Buy Now" is expected by dealers replacing gloom with boom creating jobs for men and u-rimpn in the automotive and inrf.i-tripV according to nsl tnl LV re Mr. Giving the "buy now" drive a big help most all business places, where telephone operators and individuals are reminding callers that "You Auto Buy Now." Rescues Boy from Rapids WASHINGTON, April 21 A 14-year-old boy stranded over night on a rocky crag in me Potomac river rapids was rescued by army helicopter today. He was identified as Roderick John Henderson. of Arlington, and taken to Suburban hospital in nearby Bethesda, for a physical checkup.

National Neivs Behind UNEMPLOYMENT fig and trends do not bear out the Eisenhower-M i 1 1-Weeks belief that April reports will reveal a slow but steady reversal of the downward economic movement. Congressmen returned to Washington from their Easter vacation, which many prolonged to canvass conditions on the scene, found that they were' far worse than they had imagined, in both the industrial and agricultural areas. Labor union leaders, who base their judgment on human effects rather than statistical charts, are extremely pessimistic. Both groups maintain that they have more accurate esti wreckage to remove the bodies, through the first three months State Trooper Ernest Shann0r 1953, sengers and that it was impossi ble to remove the bodies from: the debris without a hoist. thaca civil defense personnel used a recently acquired mobile rescue unit to lift the wreckage.

Gratiot county sheriff's officers and conservation officer Robert Curtiss aided in policing the accident. The bodies were taken to the Moody funeral home, Alma, and later to the Sparks Griffen funeral home, Pontiac. Barkely was a draftsman-engineer for an Indiana construction firm. His wife was a teach- er at an East Detroit junior high saia 11 was unuxeiy mai earKe-j iy wis auemiuuig iu inane a landing on the road because the plane came straight down. Also there are telephone lines Young Blue Cross In the Red Deficit of For First Quarter of 19.8 Reported DETROIT, April 21 Uft Michi- a .1 gan Blue cross reporieu luuay ii was $1,750,000 in the red' gjue Cross, a hospital-con trolled agency selling hospitalization insurance, said it will moot with r.ffiinlc nf itc 91(1 i th cof- and Ralph Hutchins, president of the Michigan Hospital association, in a joint statement Blue Cross said it paid hospitals 100.06 percent of its income ter and continued on in 1958.

See BLUE CROSS Pg. 2 7 Cat in wiarnrafi iiuuildge iat HfJlJllCdUit; tu ii- passenger ana ireigni jobbers not maintaining a place home state records similar cour tesies to Michigan jobbers. Provide hat when the bonds of the international bridge to See LAW Pg. 2, Col. 3 Painter, 57, Is Injured Rope Breaks and Scaffold Falls 10 Feet to liank Of Grand River David H.

Hunnell, 57. of 2415 Fernwood suffered a broken right le and hip injuries at 9:10 a. m. Monday when one end of a scaffold dropped 10 feet into (Picture on Page 20) shallow water of the Grand river on the east side of the old Montgomery Ward building in the 200 I block of East Michigan ave. He and another painter were; (adjusting the scaffold when the! snapped.

Hunnell rode his end of the planking down. He missed getting wet by inches. Unable to move because of the leg injury. Hunnell sat on the tilted scaffold until he was hoist- ed up by a rope and then dropped; into the police boat He was car-i ried across the river to the east bank where he was placed in an ambulance and taken to Edward W. Sparrow hospital.

His partner, Donald McKenzie, was on the roof of the building, making adjustments, when the accident occurred. Scores of passersby watched! the downtown rescue by police-j men and firemen. school. The couple, married 18 use are under investigation by months, had no children. i the state corrections department, Mrs.

Barkely was the daughter it was learned Monday, of Judge Clark J. Adams of Oak-j Gus Harrison, corrections di-land county circuit court Judge! rector, said he was not certain on one side of the road and trees in effort t0 find on the other, making it a wav t0 help sfem the ris. spot to attempt a landing, the ing tide of hospiul costs." trooper said. citing what it termed a "sharp Erwin Sette. R.

2. Alma, called upswing in the cost of hospital state police when he heard thecare and the number of admis-plane crash near his home. Sette! sions" this year. Blue Cross said said it sounded like the plane1 it dipped $807,000 in the red was in trouble, with the engine: during January and February sputtering, in the heavy rain and that preliminary figures in-and fog before the crash. Idicate the deficit hit $1,750,000 Officers said the plane was by the end of March, rented from the Milton Berz Fly-j "We feel this is the time for ing Service at Birmingham.

The Blue Cross and our member hos-Barkely couple was returning to pitals to redouble efforts to af-Birmingham after spending Sat- ftct every possible economy," urday night at ML Pleasant. said William S. McN'ary, Blue Officials at Mt. Pleasant Muni- Cross executive vice president. of the best information available when the tax cut is made." LONG RANGE PROGRAM For a long range tax program, the panel recommended revision of the income tax structure with lower and more equitable rates.

Also recommended was a change under which individuals whose income is subject to sharp year-to-year variations could average their taxes over a period of years. It urged moderation of the present high corporate tax rate which it said "Tends to distort and inhibit the vital contribution which business through the use and investment of its capital must make to our national growth." Observer the Day's iYeirs mates than the unemployment figures which result from the relatively limited spot checks made by the labor and commerce departments. They accuse the administration of "whistling in the dark." and still refusing to recognize the severity of the decline. MARCH EMPLOYMENT UP IN ONLY THREE LINES JJOTH President Eisenhower and Secretary Mitchell professed to find encourag-ment in their March reports, which showed an increase in employment of 323,000. But, under detailed analysis, it is evident that the gain occurred in only three lines agriculture, construction and services.

See OBSERVER Pg. 6, Col. 6 Adams is a former member of: the state supreme court, a one-j time legal advisor to Gov. G. Mennen Williams, an ex-state! representative.

1 Ilni if Rn-nsMtwl i nuiMLi jipui icu i lt AS LiOOKlllJJ I1C StrikervS Tic Up Meat in London LONDON, April 21 WV-Some during the first two months of 1.700 truck drivers went on! 1958 and needed 3.83 percent for strike today, shutting off the nor-j operating expenses, making it mal flow of meat supplies to 'necessary to dip into reserves London butchers. Tons of meat for 3 89 percent or $307,740. piled up around the big Smith- Blue Cross sad in a state" fipld market, center of London's nient: NEW YORK, April 21 w-For-i id mer President Herbert Hoover Another source, whose report was reported recovering satisfac-i was not confirmed by the directory today from his gall said a former inmate of the der operation. The 83-year-old reformatory had 1 a i ned former president is receiving tnat two guards diverted equip-nounshment by intravenous in- ment and supplies to their own jection. He also received a small use.

amount of antibiotics. His sons, Herbert Hoover Pretty Old and Allan Hoover, reported the ROME April 21 oPi Rome patient was "looking fine." celebrated its 2.711th birthday Scores of messages wishing today. Flags fluttered over the speedy recovery have been re-1 ancient citv. Streetcars and meat distribution network. Butch 1 The average cost of hospi-ers converged in fleets of private' tal care- whlch had been creas-cars but could carry onlv a at 5 Percent annually, rose 8 kle of their normal supply.

Percent last year. Th tnncnnrt anH 2 Admission rates per 1,000 workers union said the strike was' members whleh held unofficial. The drivers have been! eady througi most of 1957 askina a 15 Dercent increase in Jumped sharply in the last quar- ceived. It will be several days i buses were decorated with bunt-j before Hoover may receive visi-'ing. School children had a holi-tors other than members of the' day.

immediate family. According to tradition. Romu- Hoover had su'fered from gall lus and Remus, sons of the god: bladder trouble for several Mars, founded Rome in 753 B. C. tneir average basic pay pounds ($28) a week.

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