Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 13

THE STATE A RADIO TELEVISION FAMILY LIVING JOURNAL SECTION ONE HUNDRED-TENTH YEAR LANSING-EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1964 no By MIKE JONES Are you rudely jolted by the first glimpse of yourself in last year's bathing suit? The Michigan Heart Association suggests that the bulges and paunch you see represent calories you took in but did not work off during the winter. There, in front of the mirror, are the sins of months of hibernation. The French have a phrase for it: "A minute in the mouth; an hour in the stomach; a lifetime on the In a bathing suit, the bulges, paunches and flab show for what they are. Heart association officials are more specific. "Overweight means higher risk of such diseases as heart attack, stroke, diabetes and kidney ailments.

Life insurance premiums are higher for the fat man, too. "Take a look at your food intake." the association recommends. "Excess weight is usually the result of eating too much, eating the wrong kinds of food and getting too little exercise." IT STILL HURTS, GRANDMA Three-year-old Scott Stephenson, tears in his eyes, complained to his grandmother, Mrs. J. H.

Stephenson, Okemos, that he had been bitten by a butterfly. Later investigation revealed, however, that he was stung by a bee. SPARROW IN THE DRYER Mrs. Merl Greene, 1353 Haslett Road, Haslett, found more than lint in the lint trap of her' automatic dryer. Obstructing the flow of hot air from tumbler to vent pipe was a nest and four eggs carefully placed there by a sparrow.

"I'd noticed some grass in the Mrs. Greene reported, "but the nest was out of sight. We didn't see any birds. the bird left the eggs for the dryer to hatch." The Onlooker was reminded of a similar incident at Cadillac where burly truck drivers took a semi-trailer off the road when some, hatched some young 'uns on the axle. Before the discovery, the nest had been hauled several thousands of miles.

ALL FOR CHARITY Groups in 60 Michigan communities earned more than $45,500 for charity by helping motorists purchase their 1964 vehicle license tabs, Secretary of State James M. Hare reports. The volunteer system has resulted in more than a quarter of a million dollars for charity since it was started several years ago. The groups help fill out forms during the last few days of the annual license sale. Stroke Treatment Topic Of Sparrow Conference Cerebral vascular insufficiency-known to the layman as a stroke--will be the subject of day-long conference Thursday at Edward W.

Sparrow Hospital. Sponsored by the Rehabilitation Medical Center, State Department of Health and Michigan Heart Association, the conference will study aspects of a stroke, from the day it occurs through rehabilitation. Leading various panels will be Dr. Frederick C. Swartz, Richard L.

Schmidt of Michigan Department of Health, and Ethelbert Thomas Charles Pedrey and Dr. Dena Cederquist of Michigan State University. Also, Clyde K. Stephens Dr. John B.

Meade, Therapist Thomas, Occupational Therapist Mrs. Dorothy Julin and Mrs. Mary Lee Stapleman, R.N., of the rehabilitation center, and Mrs. Helen L. Goodwin, R.N., executive director of the Greater Lansing Visiting Nurse Association.

Mother of Local Men Dies at 88 Mrs. Margaret E. Timmons, 88, mother of two Lansing men, died Sunday at a Lansing hospital. Mrs. Timmons had been a resident of Oakley until recently when she resided in Lansing with her sons, Elmer and Earl Coy.

Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Inks of California and Mrs. Theta Ivester of Southgate; 14 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren; a brother and two half-sisters. Funeral services will be at 1 p. m.

Wednesday at the Walker-Martin Funeral Home, Chesaning. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery, Oakley. John P. Davis, the rehabilitation center's executive direcaltor, will welcome the partici-5 pants. question and answer period will follow the session.

Michigan Optimists To Convene Members of the Michigan district of the Optimist International clubs will hold their 23rd convention in Lansing Thursday through Saturday. The district convention will be preceded by a golf tournament Thursday and special entertainment Thursday evening. Ralph A. Balesky of is general chairman of the convention which is being hosted by all Lansing Optimists clubs. He said Friday morning will be for a life membership breakfast to be followed by the first business session.

An oratorical contest will be held Friday evening at the Jack Tar Hotel. Election of officers will be held Saturday afternoon and the gathering will end at the Civic Center with the Governor's Ball. S. Hunter Rentz, of Columbia, S.C., a director of Optimist International, will speak at the Friday luncheon. Local Woman Struck by Car Mrs.

Emma P. Price, 73, of N. Larch was struck by a car about 10:30 a.m. Monday at Turner Street and Grand River Avenue, police said. She was treated at St.

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PHONE NAVANT IV 4-7441 Cleaners and Shirt Launderers S. Cedar E. Michigan 5 Weekend Traffic Accidents Injure Six Persons in City Six persons were injured in five traffic accidents late Saturday and Sunday, city police reported. Linda Kelly, 16, of 3220 Ellen suffered mouth injuries Saturday night when her car struck a parked car in the 1100 block of Loraine Avenue. She was taken to Ingham Medical Hospital for treatment.

Mrs. Gail Weadel, 20, 2201 Lyons was taken to the same hospital for treatment injuries early Sunday car in which she struck a utility Hope Avenue and Street. 3-CAR COLLISION of leg after was riding pole at Mt. S. Cedar Mrs.

Emma Dachtler, 321. W. Hillsdale suffered head cuts land body bruises and her husband, Emil, 61, chest injuries in a three-car collision Sunday Lansing Couple Hurt in Crash Lansing couple and a Flint man were injured about 1:45 p. m. Sunday in a two-car crash on M-21 near here.

Clinton County sheriff's officers said cars driven by Emory Fizzell, 65, 2412 Stirling Lansing, Flint, and Donald Farrell, 42, collided when the Fizzell car made a left turn. No tickets were issued. drivers and Fizzell's wife, were treated at a St. Johns hospital. Man Is Injured When Jack Slips A 31-year-old Delta Township man suffered an injured left shoulder Sunday when he was pinned to the ground after a jack slipped on a car he was working on in his driveway.

The victim, Franklin Fell of 1534 Gunther Road, was reported in fair condition at Sparrow Hospital. Eaton County sheriff's officers said Fell had jacked up car without blocks and was trying to remove the drive shaft when the jack slipped. He was released by his son and a neighbor, Ronald Wilks. afternoon at Butler Boulevard, and Hillsdale Street. Both were taken to St.

Lawrence Hospital. Mrs. Dachtler was ticketed for failure to yield the right-of-way, police said. Ethel Orcutt, 74, of Benton Harbor, suffered a nose bleed when the car in which she was riding struck a utility pole at Saginaw Street and LaSalle Boulevard. The driver of the car, Mrs.

Zoe Sacia of 301 Cow- ley said she swerved to avoid hitting a cat in the road, police reported. Mrs. Orcott was taken to Edward W. Sparrow Hospital for treatment. CYCLIST INJURED Samuel Couthen, 8.

of 708 S. Pine suffered arm cuts when his bicycle struck the side of a moving car, at Townsend and William Streets Sunday afternoon. The boy was treated at St. Lawrence Hospital. DREAM COME TRUE-Through the efforts of hard working parents and school officials the dream of a school library has become reality at Valley Farms school.

Now in operation with volunteer parent help, the library serves more than 350 children from kindergarten through sixth grade. In foreground are pupils (left to right) Michael Corr, Kim Grammes and Cindy Kzeski. At second table are Robert Carpenter, Thomas Henderson and Mrs. Miles Merrill, a volunteer parent. At rear is Mrs.

William Lehtonen, PTA director of the project, with Sue Stephenson, a student. Parents of all children in the picture worked on the library planning. (State Journal Photo) Do-It-Yourself in Valley Farms Library Dream Becomes Reality A group of determined PTA and teachers at Valley Farms school have demonstrated that "do-it-yourself" is a slogan reserved for home owners. For years school officials and parents have discussed the need for a school library to replace the inefficient system of small collections of books for each room. But somehow the library idea never got off the ground because of money problems and lack of continuing interest.

Last fall some PTA mothers land school officials decided to get things moving and the result, after more than six months of work, is a shining new library stocked with more than 1,900 books for children from kindergarten through sixth grade. OCTOBER START By ROBERT STUART Journal Staff Writer Early in October the Board of Education made a room survey and found one classroom that could be used for library purposes. But the problem of plying shelves, repairing and purchasing books, cataloging, making cards a and finding a staff remained. At this point the PTA library committee, headed by Mrs. William Lehtonen, went into action.

An appeal went out for book donations and volunteer help. Mrs. Lehtonen said about 20 parents, mostly mothers, volunteered. With the help of a school librarian they learned the mechanics of cataloging, book mending, typing cards and all the other time consuming chores of library work. From January through March the parents worked in shifts during the week, including Saturday and some Sumdays.

Mrs. Lehtonen said the volunteers put in 20 to 60 hours a week during the heaviest work period until the job was finished. OUTSIDE HELP Meanwhile, Edward Remick, a Valley Farms resident and industrial arts instructor at Lansing C. W. Otto Junior High, volunteered to help construct shelves for the library.

Most of the shelf work was $200 Taken From Safe In Burglary Burglars opened one safe and failed in an attempt at another in two break-ins discovered this morning. Police said about $200 was taken from a safe at the Michigan Automatic Heating Equipment 1226 N. Larch St. The combination knob was knocked off a floor safe at Jack's Wonder Bar, 5008 S. Logan but it was not opened, detectives said.

Detective Martin Koenigsknecht said the heating firm was entered through a loading chute and the establishment ransacked. A combination filing cabinet and safe was ripped open, he said. The bar was entered through a rear door which was pried open. Koenigsknecht said the bar was also ransacked. Two vending machines were opened and some whisky was taken, he said.

He said whoever entered the building apparently drank some beer during the burglary. Police also reported that six offices were broken into and two vending machines looted at 419 the N. Lansing Capitol Community Sunday College, aft- ernoon. Nothing was taken from the offices and only the display portion of the vending machines was broken. The coin boxes were not opened.

A $60 record player was taken from the home of Mrs. Virginia Green, N. Logan while she and her husband were out of the house for 45 minutes Sunday night, police said. Lesson ARTESIA, Calif. (UPI) In a classic how-not-to-do-it for boatsmen, John Donaldson, 13, dropped a lighted cigarette into the gasoline tank of his outboard motor to see if there was any fuel in it.

He received burns on his face, hands and feet in the explosion that followed. C-C Spring Good-Will Tour Slated Wednesday It will be "all aboard" for Johns, Ithaca, Alma and St. Louis when Lansing wholesalers and distributors leave the Civic Center 8:30 a.m. Wednesday on their annual spring good-will tour. Roger I.

Butterfield, chairman of the wholesalers distributors division of the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Lansing, said a caravan of 15 cars would take about 75 members on the tour. Robert J. Kesler is the tour conductor. Committees of municipal officials and civic leaders will greet the Lansing businessmen and women on their arrival in each city. ST.

JOHNS FIRST STOP First stop at 9 a.m. will be lat St. Johns where the group will be met by City Manager Ralph Precious, Chamber of Commerce president and manlager Robert Prowant Percy Abrams, respectively; and lice Chief Everett Glazier. The Lansing group will be welcomed at 10 a.m. at Ithaca by Mayora Robert Brown, City Supt.

Peters, Police Chief William Davis and Ithaca Chamber of Commerce President John Stafford. Noon luncheon will be served at the Highlander Room on the Alma College campus. Brief talks and greetings are scheduled by Alma City Manager William McNaughton, Mayor R. L. Anthony, Police Chief Paul Mewainey, C-C Pres.

Philip Smith land C-C Sec. Charles Wise. The caravan will arrive at St. Louis at whiTe The reception committee composed of Dave Lockwood and Mrs. Peckinpaugh, president and secretary of the St.

Chamber of Commerce; Henneberger, Richardha city manager; and Herb Wolford, chief of police. I done by C. W. Otto students under Remick's direction and all, materials involved were purchased Valley school systenthe By mid-March most of the work was completed and school custodians finished off the final job of cleaning the new library. The library is now in operation three days week, staffed continuously by a school member assisted by 16 volunteer mothers who alternate shifts.

Mrs. Lehtonen said the school PTA plans to purchase another 500 books for the new facility and keep a growing supply in the years ahead. She said the library is "a dream come true" for most of the parents who have been pressing for years to get a school library in operation. Another school official said it had been found that lack of a regular library was a handicap to students moving from the elementary grades to secondary schools because they did not have previous experience in using cards and checking out books. Another advantage is that it gives students a chance to spur their reading interest.

dent, expressed his James S. Swift, superintend parents this week for an outstanding job. The Valley Farms School, located at 4700 Brook Road in Clinton County, an enrollment of about 350 students. Community Services Unit To Hear Civil Rights Talk Burton I. Gordin, executive director of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, will discuss new concepts in civil rights Thursday at the annual meeting of the Community Services Council.

The noon meeting at the YWCA, 217 Townsend will election of board members and presentation of service awards. Gordin came' to Michigan April 1 to head the new civil rights commission. He was formerly director of the Philadel-1 phia Commission on Human Relations. A social worker by profession, Gordin studied at Bryn Mawr College, graduating from the Department of Social Work and Tour Dates Posted at Libraries Ingham County libraries will mark Michigan Week with special tours through Friday, it was announced Monday by the county Michigan Week committee. The Michigan State Library, 735 E.

Michigan the second largest state library in the nation, will host visitors Tuesday from 2 to 5 p.m. The Ingham County Library, 145 W. Ash Mason, will be open for tours Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m." Michigan State University Library, with a collection of more' than one million volumes, be open Thursday from 10 a.m. till noon and 1:30 to 4 p.m.

Hours for tours of the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbott Road, will be Friday from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. The Lansing School District libraries, soon to move to new quarters at Capitol Avenue and Kalamazoo Street, has delayed its open house until after the move. Art Guild Slates Spring Exhibit The 12th annual spring exhibit of the Lansing Art Guild will be Friday through Sunday at the Scott Park Art Garden Center, 915 Townsend it was announced today. Nearly 70 paintings, including 15 of Michigan landscapes, will be shown in the Michigan Room from 1 to 9 p.m.

Awards will be made for oils, watercolors and best of the show. Tom Wallace, Michigan State University art' instructor, will judge the paintings. William Cushing is exhibit chairman. Research. He has a master's degree in community organization and administration and has worked in the field of human relations since 1949.

The 1 he on replaces the group's annual dinner program and is open to the public. Old Autos Will Mark Centennial An held in Lansing Sunday, June 7, to commemorate the 100th birthday anniversary of Ransom Eli Olds. The R. E. Olds Centennial rally is being sponsored by the Capitol City Old Car Club.

"We expect more than 50 antique, classic and other old cars from all over Michigan," said Hugh Smith, 210 Mill owner of 1929 automobile. Mike House, 1225 Edward 115 general chairman of the old car rally. Old car owners, who desire to participate, can register with Chairman House. Mayor Willard I. Bowerman Jr.

has proclaimed first week of June as R. E. Olds Centennial Week in tribute to I Lansing's pioneer builder of the "horseless carriage." "Old cars will assemble at the rear of the State Capitol on June 7, beginning at 10 a. m. The colorful parade will start at 1 p.

m. and proceed from the capitol to the Frandor area on Michigan Avenue. After the parade, the old cars will be on display at a nearby picnic grounds. Ex-Motor Wheel Employe Dies Frank H. Miller, 82, of 629 Emily died Sunday at a local hospital.

He had been a resident of Lansing since 1927 and was a former employe of the Motor Wheel Corp. Surviving are his widow, Addie; four daughters, Mrs. Beryl Knight of Lansing, Mrs. Lela Robinson of Charlotte, Mrs. Claribel Collins, and Mrs.

Lena Valo: three sons, Austin, Cecil and Frederick, all of Lansing; 23 children grandchildren, and 13 two step great-grandchil- granddren. Funeral services will be held at the Estes-Leadley Colonial Chapel at 2:30 p.m. Thursday with burial in Chapel Hill Cemetery. Buy Sell Trade WE GrandLedge Call George A. Barker REALTOR Phone 627-6727 For Your Home Financing See Capitol Savings Loan 112 E.

Allegan St. Lansing, Mich. 2119 Hamilton Road (Branch) Okemos, Michigan Telephone IV 4-1441 Beauty Finalists Will Greet City Visitors Tuesday Tuesday is hospitality day in Michigan. Lansing Jaycees will have 15 pretty girls--Miss Michigan finalists beauty contest -serving as hostesses at three service stations on routes leading into the city. will pass out apples, free Po-ert's Service Station on Saginaw coffee, and rolls at Ray HoeckStreet, Reed's Service on U.S.

27 and State a Road, and Davis McDaniel's Station on Cedar Street at the Interstate 96 exit. At Leslie, sheriff's deputies will stop out of state motorists and direct them to local restaurants for a free lunch. In Onondaga, Aurelius Baptist Church and the local Farm Bureau are cooperating to serve a pot luck Michigan food dinner to about 100 persons. At least one Mason restaurant will offer a menu of Michigan foods at a reduced price. How well we serve IS BEST TOLD BY THOSE WE SERVE ashy them LANSING'S FINEST FUNERAL HOME ESTES-LEADLEY We Invite Inspection Ilyd Elis Hay Lully Jab Stanley' Miles TELEPHONE IV 21651 OUR DELHI- HOLT CHAPEL TELEPHONE OX4-8211.