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News Phones News Room or 1M Sports Desk 92 Society 106 Business Office 21 Advertising Dept 83 VOLUME NO. 67, NO. 305 THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS An Independent Newspaper Serving Mason County and Surrounding Area LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1957 WEATHER CLOUDY PRICE SEVEN CENTS Teamsters Decide to Snub AFL-CIO Clean-Up Orders Bridge Opens WASHINGTON s'ers Union has decided to regard a clean-up order from the AFL-CIO Executive Council, and; iniicacl will appeal Die matter to: the AFL CIO convention next monlh. Defiance of the mandate to change its upper echelons pointed In almost certain expulsion of the i Teamsters by the full AFL-CIO convention which opens Dec. 3 in! Atlantic City.

Retiring Teamsters' President; Pave Beck told newsmen Thurs- day "I'd certainly be an optimist if I thought the appeal would do any good in averting the threat-j ened ouster of his union from the federation." Beck met ith reporters alter the Teamsters executive board! decided unanimously against do- I in; anything about the AFL-CIO! corruption charges against its leaders. The AFL-CIO council has suspended Hie big 1'v. million member union until it ousts officials accused of The suspcn-j sion from the federation was ex-j peeled to become expulsion at the AFL-CIO convention. Beck said that if necessary, the truckers are prepared to go it alone. Beck and other Teamster lead- USAF Reports Firing Missile WASHINGTON Wi The Pentagon has disclosed the test firing of an intercontinental guided the Cape Canaveral, range.

In an announcement Thursday night, the Defense Department reported the firing but gave no The Snark is an Air Force missile which is subsonic in flight but dives on its target at supersonic speeds, Thursday night's Snark announcement, followed by several hours a Defense Department report that a Jupiter-A missile, fired Wednesday night at the Florida base, was destroyed by a safety officer because of a malfunction. The Jupiter-A, an Army device, is classified as an intermediate range ballistic missile, in the category. Adm. Arleigh Burke, chief of naval operations, said yesterday the intercontinental ballistic missile does not make other weapons obsolete. It's a good thing we have many ways of getting to said in an interview after returning from an inspection of the 7th Fleet in the Pacific.

Among the other ways, he listed long range Air Force bombers, "all kinds of missiles, including Navy of course, Navy Air." In Baltimore Thursday night, the Air Force's Air Research and Development; Command said it has duplicated in a new wind tunnel the high temperatures, pressures and velocities encountered by missiles re-entering the atmosphere. crf including Presidnet-clcc! James been accused of misconduct and misuse of union funds by the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee. Federal Dist. F. Dickinson Letts last week temporarily enjoined Hoffa from taking over the union's presidency.

Letts decided the convention which picked Hoffa was stacked in his favor. The U. S. Court of Appeals has reserved decision on a union appeal that it modify Letts' injunction. Beck said he continue in office as long as the legality of Iloffa's election is being questioned in the courts.

Report Knight Seeks Senate Seat in SACRAMENTO, Calif. Renewed reports that Gov. Goodwin Knight would bid for a U. S. Senate seat instead of seeking reelection next year created fresh turmoil in California's hectic political campaign today.

San Francisco and Los Angeles newspapers, quoting Washington sources and "friends of the governor," said the ailing Republican chief executive senl that word from his out-of-state vacation hideaway. Such a decision would, in effect, hand the Republican nomination for governor to Sen. William F. Knowland and spare the GOP a bitter intraparty battle in next June's primary. Atty.

Gen. Edmund G. Brown is unopposed on the Democratic ticket. There was no direct confirmation from the 60-year old governor. He left for a three-week rest Monday on doctor's orders after saying he still intended to seek re-election.

Knight said then he had rejected overtures to run for the Senate. His press secretary, Tom Bright phoned the 1 a t. reports to Knight's secret retreat and quoted the governor as saying he had no comment. The absence of a firm denial was quickly noted here. Brown accepting the reports at face value, denounced Knight's asserted shift as "a cynical deal engineered by a grasping reactionary with eyes fixed on I he White House." CLOSE STATION SPRING LAKE (ffi The Grand Trunk Western Railroad station at Spring Lake closed Thursday, ending some 90 years of operation.

Spring Lake station business now will be handled through the Grand Haven depot, Today's Chuckle The noblest of all animals is the dog and the noblest of all dogs is the hot dog. It feeds Hit hand that bites it. WORLD NEWS SUMMARY Levels Charge MOSCOW Soviet navy newspaper charged today that attempts had been made to build up "one-man command in the army and navy. It reported a "decisive condemnation" of attempts to de-emphasize the. role of Communist parly organizations in the armed forces, but did not say who had condemned them.

The paper's report was published after informed sources here said a final decision has been reached in the case of army Marshal Gcorgi K. Zhukov and would be published shortly. fog Hits State By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An unusually heavy soup thick in southern Michigan during the Before lifting by mid-forenoon today it had slowed automobiJe traffic to a crawl in many places and halted all air and lake travel. One traffic fatality was blamed on the fog and state police reported many drivers sought help to get their cars out of ditches. The fog also extended into Ohio, Indiana and southern Ontario.

More than Ho lake freighters anchored between lakes Huron and Erie, with a dozen stranded in the Detroit River near Belle Isle. Red C'hief Rclie-vcd BKRLIN Germany's Communist regime announced today that Ernst Wollweber. chief spy hunter and revolt smasher, had been relieved for "health reasons." ADN. the official East German news agency, said that Erich Mielke had replaced Wollweber as state security minister. Allied officials were inclined to accept the health explanation.

It was understood the 59-year-old police chief was partially immobilized by asthma. Stock Market Sinks NEW YORK stock market went through a fairly sharp sinking spell today but trading vas moderate early this afternoon. The dip occurred from a two-week high on the average and was a logical level for profit-taking, brokers said. But the fact that the federal reserve system has maintained its credit restraint and tight money policy despite recent predictions to the contrary had a dampening effect on investor confidence. Today, Links Michigan's Two Peninsulas OPENS TODAY-Thc new.

$100,000.000 Straits of Mackinaw bridge was officially opened at noon today, completing the first solid link befwcen Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas for the first lime since the Glacial Age. Work began on the bridge in 195-1 and completed exactly on the day prc- i motorcade over the structure. dieted by the builders, Gov, G. Menncn Williams led the initial which is Ihc world's largest suspension bridge. (Daily News Photo.

Get Sneak Preview of New Mackinaw ridge Thursday ST. IGNACE a parent and teacher in the St. Ignace area had a sneak preview of the Straits of fiAackinac Bridge Thursday. Bridge officials let the barriers down to give area school children a free sight-seeing trip across the span. Prentiss M.

Brown, chairman of the Mackinac Bridge Authority, looked on the pre- opening crossings as a safety valve that he hopes will take some of the steam out of a monumental traffic jam building up for today's official opening. At first only school children in school buses were allowed across. But in the general holiday atmosphere, state police were instructed to let parents across in private they were carrying children. Navy Feels Able to Halt Aggression in Asia but Fears Communist Coup PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (JTt- The Navy's confidence in its ability to crush any new aggression in Asia is tempered by the strong hunch that, the manner and place of the next Communist move may rule out American military action. Both the confidence and the caution arc found and voiced in this Pacific command headquarters, which is the nerve center of the American watch on the Asian seaboard.

Voicing the demands for prompt decisive action against aggression were Adm. Arleigh Burke, chief of naval operations, and Adm. Felix Stump, commander in chief of Pacific Ocean area land, sea and air forces. They talked with visiting newsmen in Stump's offices on a hillside overlooking Peart Harbor. Stump brushed aside sugges- tions of timidity, saying: ''We arc not going to stop aggressions by being afraid lo risk war." Burke, fresh from a prolonged tour of the Western Pacific, put it even more bluntly: "If a nation aggresses, must be punished fast, and on the spot." But Stump, who commands a vast array of warships, planes and atomic weapons, also sounded the sobering note that "subversion Order Arrest of NAACP Officers in Little Rock LITTLE HOCK, Ark.

today had orders to arrest, all officers of the Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People they could find in integration- wracked Little Rock. The City Council'Thursday night voted unanimously for the arrests. Acting Mayor Lee II. Evans and seven aldermen agreed on the ac lion after the NAACP failed to obey a new ordinance which requires certain groups lo bare their confidential files.

Deadline for submitting Inc. information was Thursday. Only two local NAACP officers were known to authorities and one of them, Mrs. L. C.

was in New York. She is slate president 350 Children Participate in Hallowe'en Parade Here Over 3oO children participated in the Hallowe'en parade sponsored by Ludington recreation department in the city Thursday evening. The parade of children dressed as pirates, witches, ghosts, animals, hoboes, Ludington band led by C. Howard Harming and members of Mason County Saddle club, was led by four seniors of Ludington high school, George Foster, Steve Schoenherr, Ricky Laird and Gary Kuhlman. Robert J.

Marsh supervised the parade assisted by Explorer Scouts of Ludington and club representatives including Robert Sutton, the, Rev. Mr. John R. Hieftje, Elmer J. Nelson, Orville Coward and L.

P. Cooley. First prize in the class for children under seven years of age was by Buddy Schihl of 720 Maple street, who received second prize of $3 was given to Debra and Donna Davis of 709 East Dowiand s-treet and third prize of $1 to Richiard Cross of 216 East Melendy street. In the seven to 14-year-old section first prize of $5 was given to Kathy Kucaj of 406 Seventh street; a $2 prize was given to Maria and Marsha Petersen of West Ludington avenue, who were run- nersup for first prize; the $3 sec- jond prize went to Dede and John Focke of 102 South Washington avenue and Susan Mitchell of 108 South Washington avenue, and third prize of $1 was given to Beverly Timpy of Ludington Route 3. Judges were Jack Focke, C.

Dale Bannon, Donald Kinney and Mrs. John Campion. Spooks, ghosts, men from outer at the Hallowe'en party, given by Ludington recreation department for the 15-year-olds and over at Eagles' hall Thursday evening. Fitch's Starlighters provided the music for ihe dancing. First prize for the best costumes'went to Pam Mulligan and Carla Altrock, who were Mars and the Moon; second to Alice Jean Anderson and Valerie VorderLandwefar, who came as a Chines couple, and third to Irene.

Weinert and Delore.s Andrews, who were two little Judges were Dcnni-; Kelly, mayor of Ludington high school; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Madden and Mr. and Mrs. F.

K. Bourisscau, chaperones Presentation of the prizes was made by Mayor Kelly. Not. to be outdone by t.he young folk they were chaperoning, Mr. and Mrs.

Bourisseau were dressed as an Indian brave and his squaw. The Weather (U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast) Northwestern Lower Partly cloudy today and tonight. Saturday mostly cloudy with showers likely. Little change in temperature.

Winds southeast to south 8-15 mph. and Northwest high today 50-56, low tonight 33-43, high Saturday 47-53; Southwest high today 55-60, low tonight 42-46, high Saturday 57-63. Outlook for Sunday Mostly cloudy and cooler with scattered showers or snow flurries. FIVE-DAY FORECAST Temperatures will average near normal. Normal maximum 53.

Normal minimum 37. Mil'! Saturday. Cooling ami Monday, then warmer about midweek. Precipitation total about ono-quartcT Inch as showcrt Saturday night and Mon'iay and possibly High.T'il temperature "Ihun-ylay 53, low 45 temperature year ago today 7'), low 55. Highest temperature, this d.ite j.ince 1872, 81 in 1950; low, 21 jn 1879.

The sun today at 5:26 p. m. and rises Saturday at 7:06 a. m. i The moon rises today af 2:23 p.

rn and M'ts Ssturdy at 2:17 n. m. i Temperature at the U.S. observation station for 24 hours ending at 12 noon: Maximum 57, minimum 54. of the organization.

The oilier officer is Ihr. Rev. .1. Crcnchaw, pa.stor of the ML Pleasant Baptist. Church and pres- irlcnl.

of the LilUc Hock chapter of Ihc NAACP. Mayor Wood row WiLson Mann notified the NAACP and three Lit- Ue, Rock segregationist groups Oct. 15 that they would have to make their records public under the new ordinance. The NAACP this filed a petition in U.S. District.

Court, here requesting a restraining order to block enforcement of the ordinance and a hearing was set for Nov. 4. All Hirer of the segregationist, League of Central High Mothers, the Freedom Fund for Link: Rock and the Capital Citizens Uieir records to Uic city Thursday. Mann said after telling Uic four organizations lo file their reports that, he, considered all were contributing to racial tension at Little Roek. The deadlock over integration of nine Negro students at Central High School shows no of loosening.

Gun Accident Victim Is in Good Condition Patricia Skowron.ski, four, of Route 2 is reported in good condition following a gun accident at her home at 5 p. m. Thursday. Mason county department, officials, who arc investigating, said Ihe child apparently shot herself in the chest with a .22 calibre. riOc.

The accident happened in the hallway of her home. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Skowronski. Police said the bullet entered her chest, and, went through the right Jung.

Patricia, who was taken to Paulina Stearns hospital, u'as referred to Hackley hospital in Muskegon for treatment. might gel out of. hand" and "a Communist coup might occur" in Southeast Asia "before we could do anything about it." Burke narrowed tJhe more im- mcdiale danger areas to the smaller nations which lack strong alliances with the United In such places, right now, said Burke, "the Russians arc probably figuring how much hell they can raise without selling into loo A. 'sifting of the great, volume of reports cdmlng to Pearl Harbor from many sources in many Asian lands leads to the conclusion that Indonesia is one of Ihc prime targets for Communist, control and may he ripe for plucking without a shot. Dogged by internal dissensions and armed revolts, the government, of Indonesia has accepted so many favors from native Communists that the payoff hour may not be far off, these reports indicate.

Stubbornly neutralist, after breaking all lies with the Nether- l.inds, Indonesia rejected American offers of military aid. Because there is no alliance or even a mutual aid agreement, wilh the United Stales, any direct. American mililary intervention would he damned as imperialism and will be avoided scrupulously. Little Damage Reported Here Police reported little damage in Uie city by Hallowe'en pranksters, Greatest damage reported was the breaking of a large window at the SchrinJc residence, 408 East Filer street. A few street lights were broken, and many windows in Ihc businss section and car windows were soaped.

Mason county sheriff's department, re ported no serious damage in the county. Two geese were re-ported left in French school by pranksler.s. Plan Visitation Night Nov. 11 Ludington Junior high school will hold its first Visitation night ol the 1957-58 school year from to 0:30 p.m. Monday, Nov.

11, in observance of American Educa tion week, Nov, 10-16. James Reynolds, principal of the Junior high school, and the faculty urge, all parents to attend this first meeting of the school year "By establishing a close relation ship between the home and the school, the best interests of eacl child may br. Mr. Rcy nolds said. Faculty members will be in th.ej rooms eything j-eftdy-t meet parents and discuss the worl being done in respective classes.

A committee from the Junior High Parents' club will serve re frcshmcnls during the evening ant a I the close of the conference period teachers will join parent; during a hour. Williams Leads First Caravan Across Bridge if ST. IGNACE Michigan to- lay threw open the newest, and Costliest of the world's wonder mdges. II. is the Mackinac Bridge, which joins Michigan's two peninsulas or the first, time since the Glacial Age.

It cost JOO million dollars and stretches five miles across the Straits of Mackinac between Lakes Michigan and Huron. Its suspension span dwarfs -any other and the towers that support it to reach up 552 47 stories- above the straits. Gov. Williams led an opening i-aravan across the four-lane span in the formal opening ceremony, taking off from St. Ignace at the northern terminus around 11 a.

m. for Mackinaw City at the southern end. First public use was expected to begin around 2 p. following the caravan's return to the St. Fgnace side where Williams bought the.

first $3.25 toll ticket to symbolize there are no passes to anyone. Otherwise there was little ceremony and no lengthy speeches. Both these will come next June when the bridge is formally dedicated. With opening of the bridge, nanced by bonds to which tolls. arc pledged, service ended on the; Stale Highway Department's auto', ferries that had chugged across; the straits since 1923.

Ferry crews threw a farewell 1 pj.rty aboard the Vacat'iorJand for Williams, legislators and other dig-! nilaries here for the opening. Bridge construction began in! March, 1954. Today's openbig was; on the precise day forecast for It- then its Ipr? $. Drive Reaches of Goal Mason County United Fund ha; reached 30 percent of its quota $38,909, drive officials announced today. Ftelurn.s actually are.

just begin ning to be received at. the drive office in Hotel Stearns building, the officials snid. Receipts in the next few days should show a substantial increase in the contributions collected inasmuch as industry, commcrctnl and larger gifts arc just, beginning to come in. Scot.tvilli: shows 58 percent, of its $UW. In Ludinglon about.

30 percent of its $21,202 goal has been received. Very few townships have reported to date so there is little indication of how the drive is progressing in the rural areas. The United Fund office urges workers to conclude their solicitations and make their reports as soon as possible. The bridge employs S3 some of them; from the ferries that went out of business. Buses will carry' pedestrians across the five-mile span.

The trip will cost 50 cents arid a bus will leave each side every hour and a half, increasing trips in the vacation season. Five men lost their lives In the' four-year building of the bridge, which will cut an estimated hour and a half to five 100 to 400 off travel between the peninsulas. It took the ferries 55 minutes to cross the straits. Lineups of automobiles waiting to get across sometimes stretched back fpr miles. The ferries, loaded to capacity, could carry fewer than 500 cars each trip.

The bridge can handle 6,000 cars an hour and it takes only 10 minutes to cross. The bridge is a dream come true. In 1884 editor publisher Thomas T. Bates of Traverse City wrote that a "sure and permanent crossing at the straits" is vital if ,1 great through route from east to west across Michigan is to be achieved. Many others have dreamed similar dreams since, but not until Prentiss M.

Brown, authority chairman, ordered barriers down May did they become a reality. The bridge links U. S. 2, which sweeps across the Upper Peninsula, to U. S.

23, U. S. 27 and U. S. 31, which start atop the Lower Peninsula.

Says It Will Be Months Before U.S. Science Program Can Catch Russians CHICAGO A ranking scientific manpower authority said today it will be months before the government can even begin lo retool its scientific training programs to cope v. ith "events of the past three weeks." The three-week period cited by M. If. TrjUcn covers approximately the time in which Russia lofted its Sputnik and claimed to have perfected a hydrogen warhead for guided missiles.

Trytten added in a speech prc pared for a scientific and engineering education conference: "We know, that in spite of all we can do in the next few jcars Ihe shortage of high level researchers will remain and our relative supply in comparison to Ihe Iron Curtain countries will become worse over the immediate future measured in years." Trytten is director of (he Office of Scientific Personnel of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. Washington. The twin agencies arc nongovernmental hut work closely with the government. "The challenge which has bro- ken upon us." Tryltcn said, "is so: massive that it will be months before the various new programs and the rcoricntation of old ones can be analyzed for their manpower requirements." As to the present supply of scientists and engineers, Trytten said figures are "elusive and unsatisfactory." He estimated, however, that there are about 600,000 professionally qualified engineers in the country despite "some recent national enumerations which indicate up to 000,000." lie did not identify these, enumerations. Noting that engineering school graduations have begun lo rise after a dive in the early '50s and promise to rise further, he said "this is indeed hopeful but much ground needs to be recovered." OPEN IN DECEMBER NEWAYGO police said a Newaygo post will be activated early in December to cover Newaygo County and portions of adjacent areas.

The post is being constructed by the Newaygo Economic Industrial Fund and will be leased to state police. Use The 1 Classified Adi. OPEN HOUSE 407 North Emily Street See this new home Saturday, November 2, 9 am. to p.m. Sunday, November 3, 2 p.m.

to 5 p.m br by appointment. Elliott Agency, Inc. SEE Classified Ad ELKS! FISH FRY Lake Michigan perch Saturday, November 2 serving 6 to 9:3,0. Bring the kiddies. SPECIAL INVITATION to Ihe SQUARE DANCE CLUB Alex Lindquist and Harvey Nelson, Chairmen THE COTTAGE Dining Room 609 N.

Washington Is Now CLOSED for the Winter Months. However, we are open for private parties. Phone 2118 for Details Ed and Jeane Thurow GUN SALE More than 360 Nefo and Used Guns! Famous makes at REDUCED PRICES until. November 10. daily.

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