The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 6

ESCANAEA DAILY PRESS Efttablt'htd March Radio Station WLST RUSSELL PuhtUhtf WARD Pu 6 JEAN WORTH, Editor Very Valuable Citizen focanaba Council recently asked Dale Vin- chairman of the Escanaba City Planning Commission. for comment on a case before the council in which owners of properties in a city area were at about a zoning category. Attorneys for the disputants had been heard. Council asked Vinette for views. Vinette reviewed creation of a master plan for city development and described the objectives in city zoning.

The industrialist has been a member of the City Planning Commission for 14 years and has so informed himself upon zoning that he is an authority on the subject. As he talked to the council, there must have been many who reflected that the sort of service that Dale Vinette has given to the city is invaluable. Calm, judicious. he has been an excellent influence on city government in this important field of planning the growth. There is no pay for inette and his colleagues of the Planning Commission.

Their service would be no more helpful to the community if they were paid and their personal problems of judgment might be increased by remuneration. (American government could not function without the enormous volume of volunteer labors contributed to it.) The community is the beneficiary of this kind of devoted service and is greatly enriched by it. The way a community can encourage this sort of unpaid service is by understanding and appreciating it. By design and not by chance the Council appoints to the Planning Commission persons who form a cross- section of community interests. Vinette is proprietor of a metal fabricating industry.

James S. Davidson Jr. is a carpenter. Kenneth Christensen operates a retail business. Ralph Norton is in transpoliation management.

Joe Tvens is a teacher. Robert Hansley a lawyer, Arne Maki a bank official. Fred Breitenbach operates a grocery, and Art Westby is retired from his service station business. Not to be forgotten is the late Eldridge Baker, employe of Mead who served on the Commission for many years: and tireless Pomazal, electrical engineer transferred by Harnischfeger Corp. to Milwaukee.

Milton J. Embs. the administrative assistant, is Commission secretary. He has been with the city four years and his background is in industrial office management. The American city is a complex organization with many diverse elements at work in it.

Reconciling the differences into a working relationship is the job of government, problems are increased because it deals with free enterprise. Americans own property and they have wide privileges of usage of it. Where they are unrestricted in usage, one property owner may destroy the value of other properties by using his for purpose? not conforming with the character of the neighborhood. To attain conformity and set standards usage and protect property values and esthetic zoning is instituted. In Escanaba one of the major municipal problems for the Planning Commission headed by Vinette is to confine and preserve the character and quality of the business district.

Cities tend to deteriorate and then to abandon their blight areas and move out to new ground and build anew. like an Indian moving a teepee from a litter. This process is ruinous. It creates eyesores, depreciates property values so that taxes decline along with private investments, upsets the orderly organization of the community and is enormously expensive. The added cost comes in abandoning areas already supplied with streets and utility services and in proximity to service centers and building up new areas to replace them.

Port cities grow up along the waterfront and their oldest parts are the most valuable parts and the ones which deteriorate first. Urban renewal programs are underway to restore quality in Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Menominee and elsewhere. pioneering in this field cost it the aid that came to lagging cities which tackled it later. Planning and judicious acquisition of blighted properties enabled Escanaba to renew the east end of Ludington St. The Planning Commission has worked for years to halt the move westward on Ludington St.

abandon it; improve is its cry. Its success in the process is a community victory of great proportions, but this victory is never won, because the community is a living thing and ever-changing. Only while its people understand good for the city and support good is it safe. Leaders like Dale Vinette are essential in this process. Where the community interest conies in conflict with private interest they are to be found interpreting, accommodating change where possible, and giving guidance to the city government.

Fine cities just evolve from growth. That process can bring forth some dreadful results, planning that guides growth into impressive stature. ESCANABA DAILY PRESS, Escanaba, Michigan Inauguration in Venezuela Wednesday, December 11, 1963 CARE For Christmas The Christmas shopping season is at its peak, with a wealth of gifts for our selection. As we go about the happy task of remembering those dear to us. CARE asks us also to remember those who have the millions of people across the world who do not even have enough to eat.

Through its Food Crusade now underway, CARE appeals to Americans to send 6,000,000 packages, at $1 per package, to the needy and desolate on four continents. Foods are mainly U.S. donations of farm abundance. Combined with programs whereby local governments pay distribution costs, the packages will complete a year-long CARE plan to help feed more than 85,000,000 persons in 33 countries of Africa, Asia. Europe, Latin America.

after the holidays have passed, the gifts will be used in ways to nourish the hungry, give them health and energy to help themselves to a better life. Evify package is a personal expression of brotherhood, presented with the name and address of the donors who send their dollars to: CARE Food Crusade, Guardien Balding, Detroit 18226. Masterworks Turned Out As In The Middle Ages PHILADELPHIA There is no such thing stained glass secrets passed oo from father to son behind locked doors. But if anyone had any such secrets in this 800-year-old craft, it would be Dr. and Mrs.

Henry E. Willet. heads of the largest stained glass fiim in the United "It's said Mrs. Willet in the busy shop located in Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill section, is difficult to duplicate the deep of stained glass such as In France's groat cathedrals. Bin this is not because we I make the glass.

We can make any we want with modern methods "The unique color of ancient stained glass is gained I through exposure to the wind and dust of centuries The glass on the exterior develops microscopic chips and a patina around for a few tures and our windows in West Point Chapel. York's St. John the Divine or the National Cathedral in Washington vull look the same Mrs. Willet estimates the family business has duced thousands of glass tivity scenes since the founding of the company 6a years ago Hundreds of cen- say, New that pro- Na- adelphia varies little froin the glass works which supplied the decora tion for Notre Dame of Pans hundreds of years ago. still bend close to paper, working with and ink to make the preliminary sketches for.

what will become a giant rose window of a great cathedral. Master craftsmen then transfer the drawings to ac- tua 1-size patterns and se-lect the glass colors. Bewhiskered artisans, with the stroke of cutting tool, then slice into shape the thousands of pieces of glass with the precision and ease of a housewife snipping apart link sausages. Then comes the preliminary joining of the pieces, and another battery of artists goes to work directly on the glasc. which is then fused at 1.100 degrees in a kiln.

The final step comes with tiie individual segments nested into the immanent embrace of lead strips. Because, today as in the past, stained glass cannot be mass-produced, a fine window does not come cheap Prices tun as high as foot. Some a building will $100 a squali of in run to thousands of square feel. Nor will the deliberate artisans at Willet be hurried. Tlie factory for decades has been in the process of completing the glasswork at the Military Academy Chuini one dow each year since 1910.

longest continuing stained glass commission in the United States. Edson In Washington So They Say By PETER EDSON first test on President influence with Congress is shaping up on civil rights. The Johnson goal is simply to get the administration's civil rights bill cleared by the House Rules Committee before Christmas. for floor action early next year. Octogenarian Howard Smith.

D-Va chairman of the Rules Committee, has made a flat statement that he will not let the civil rights bill be reported out this year. He is supported in this by southern Democrats, the House Republican leadership and a House GOP caucus. President Johnson approved an effort by liberal Democrats to force the bill out of the Rules Committee for a floor vote. This can be done only by a petition signed by 218 of the 435 representatives According to House rules this petition was not to be placed in the well of the House for signing before Dec. 9 and cannot be considered by the whole House before Dec.

23 This makes it a battle against time Many congressmen want to adjourn the session for the Christmas holidays on Dec. 20 Some would like to push adjournment to Dec 17 oi even TVr 14 Congress would then reconvene on Jan. 2. Roy Wilkins. executive secretary of the National Association foi the Advancement of Colored People and chairman of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights thinks that the 218 signatures can be obtained NAACP and other Nesro organizations have counted congressional noses on this score often enough to know.

Rut Wilkins admits that he doesn't have absolute Diedges to sign and that after 200, the goins will be tough. So the outcome will be close and it could be failure. Rut Wilkins says: make a bow to Christmas vacation to get action this In other words, he Cong to right through the holidays Most congressmen sav a chance. Rut Wilkins, speaking only for himself and not for his organizations. says: is a crusade.

It be guided by eold realism. You have to believe in fairies and magic will be This is like believing there will be another Christmas miracle this year. The political question is what will happen if there a miracle. Wilkins promises retaliation at the polls in the 1964 elections Failure to sign the petition will place a congressman under suspicion, though it necessarily blacklist him. Rut he will have to have a good alibi.

Failure to vote for civil lights legislation on final pass- admitted ago will subject a congressman home care to NAACP opposition. Wilkins says that a moratorium on direct political action of thus kind has not speeded congressional passage of civil rights legislation in the past. demonstrations have sharpened appreciation of the he adds He refers to Terror, the persecution, the assassination of Medgar Evers in Mississippi. Treatment is the death of four little girls by a staff in a Birmingham Sunday School as an aecum- demanding i after Arto confis- properties. ulation of events faster action now.

24 hour: gentina threatened cate American oil there were demands in Congress that foreign aid be cut Wilkins points out. Congress can get that excited about he asks it do something about killing little From 25 to 50 Washington representatives of the 80 organizations in the Leadership Conference on Civil are being reinforced by 30 special legislative lobbyists from the United Steel Workers Union to pressure congressmen into signing the House discharge petition. These forces will be supplemented by volunteers from other labor unions, church groups and Negro organizations in a drive to get some House action on civil rights this year. It is admitted there is no chance to get Senate action before late spring or early summer. BARBS By HAL COCHRAN It depends on how many friends you have how many cures for a cold there are.

An airplane hostess lost a purse with $50 in it during a flight. Maybe through an air pocket We were fortunate Some of the other hotels got hit much harder. Douglas H. Boone, general manager of Chicago's Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, reporting that Mine. Nhu of Viet Nam left an unpaid bill of S200 on her visit to the city.

I wish I could get around more. I been able to go hunting Starkweather of Seattle. Wash on her 104th birthday. Behind all this dirtv job can be seen the hand of the newspaper I blaming U. S.

for ouster of Russian diplomats by the Congo I can't think of a minute when he doing something constructive speaking. writing, hiking or putting up storm Carol Douglas, 23. who says she takes vitamin pills to keep up with her husband. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.

66 the Holy Family carefully wrought let artisans, and been Resurrection of have been by the Wil- there have beyond counting Yet. because of the infinite variety of glass, each is unique. According to Mrs Willet. th workshop in Phil- Mrs. Henry L.

Willet Memory Lane Real love is man do as his what makes wife pleases. By J. R. LOWELL Ten Years Ago Jerry Gagner. 18.

son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gagner. of Kipling, has been injured in a mishap in a copper mine at Butte. Montana according to word received today by his parents.

Jerry is a student at the school of mines at Butte and has been working two days a week at a mine in order to gain practical experience. Work has begun on a sizeable addition to the Presbyterian Church at Manistique. The addition will house Sunday School and recreational facilities. It is now deemed practically certain that work on the Mackinac Bridge, connecting the two peninsulas at and Mackinaw City, next spring The Bridge Authority has The Doctor Says: Home Care Plan Cuts Costs By Dr. Wayne G.

If you were sick where would you rather home or in a hospital? Most of us would rather be at home. Recognizing this fact, hospitals in many communities have inaugurated home care plans whereby patients in some categories can be treated at home without any sacrifice of adequate medical care. Although the Boston Dispensary has had such a plan for 167 years, the plan has not yet been adopted by more than a small percentage of hospitals but the idea is becoming more popular as appreciation of its advantages increases. Some patients in hospitals who would otherwise have to remain there for a months are sent home under this plan but are still carried on the hospital records as patients for whom the hospital is responsible Others may be to the plan without entering the hospital at all. This type of service is parti- cularlv applicable to persons with chronic heart disease, paralysis, various kinds of rheumatism.

cancer 'after operation1 and some mental illnesses. This plan makes it possible for a hospital to extend its services to a larger number of persons without the necessity of building a new wing. still supervised doctor and the patients are attended by nurses, interns, dietitians, Brandstadt. M.D. physical therapists and laboratory technicians as the occasion demands.

The services vary with the hospital using this plan. Some are limited to making a diagnosis and providing drugs. Others add minor operations and consultations with staff specialists. Nurses may change dressings, give hypodermic injections or demonstrate to the family procedures for his care. The home atmosphere gives a distinct boost to the morale and in that way speeds recovery.

The presence of the patient at home also relieves the family of worry, allows them to share in his care and eliminates a sometimes difficult trip to the hospital. Also the cost of treatment is reduced to about one-fourth of what it would be were the patient in the hospital. Only those patients whose recovery will not be hindered by such care are selected. In some states where home care programs have been rapidly increasing in popularity the Blue Cross and other voluntary health insurance plans are extending coverage to recipients of home hospital care As the times change, methods of providing medical care change When such changes represent an improvement, they are received with enthusiasm as the home care programs of an ever-increasing number of hospitals have been The project rently is for the Museum of Science at the New York Fan This calls for 5.400 panels each measuring 2 by 3 feet of glass set in concrete. l4nd side by side, the would stretch miles.

While aware mf their tradition extending back for centuries. the Willed craftsmen have made at least one concession to the 20th century they are all members of a society with the name of Painters. and of America. St. Ignace will start Mackinac announc- ITnited Religion Center features a WWIet 4mm with raised exterior detail, signifying the af Zip Codes For Mid Peninsula ed that a buyer has been found for revenue bonds to make construction possible.

Twenty Years Ago Howard Dufour has been elected president of the Escanaba Figure Skaters' Club and Phil Sullivan has been named secretary-treasurer. Edward La Rose, a professional trapper living at Gulliver, trapped a Canadian lynx a few days ago that weighed 53 pounds. The catch was made near the Inland quarries. Sgt William Stromquist of Ensign has arrived safely in England, according to word received by here. He is co-pilot in the glider division.

Thirty Years Ago Funeral services were held Manistique today for Mrs. Albert Orr and her infant daughter Constance, who lost their lives in a fire at SauK Ste. Marie that destroyed a two- family home. Mrs. Orr was the former Erline Larson of Manistique.

Harry Kipke. coach of Wolverines, will address a testimonial dinner for the Manistique football team tomorrow evening These zip mail code numbers will help speed processing of mail if user! with addresses DELTA COUNTY Bark River 49807 Brampton 49810 Cornell ................................49818 Ensign ................................49828 Escanaba ............................49829 Favetts 49830 Garden ..............................49835 Gladstone ............................49837 Nahma 49864 Perkins ............................49872 Rapd River Rock ..........................49880 Schaffer ..............................49882 Wells 49894 MENOMINEE COUNTY Carney ........................49812 Cedar River 49813 Daggett ..............................49821 Harris ........................49845 Hermansville Ingalls ..........................49848 Menominee ........................59858 Nadeau ..........................49863 Perronville ........................49873 Powers 49874 Snalding 49886 Stephenson ........................49887 Wallace 49893 Wilson 49896 DICKINSON COUNTY Channing Felch Foster City Hardwood Iron Mountain Loretto 49815 49831 49834 .49844 49801 .49852 498M Norway Quinncsec 49877 Vulcan 49892 RAFT COUNTY Blanev Paik 49809 49817 ...........49840 Manistique 49854 Senev 49883 Thompson 49889 ALGER COUNTY Au Train 49806 Deerton 49822 Eben Junction 49825 Forest Lake ...........49832 Grand Marais ...........49839 Kiva ...........49850 Limestone 49851 Mumsing 49862 Shingleton Sundell ...........49888 4989(1 Trenarv 4989! Wet more 49895 MARQUETTE COUNTV Carlshend 49811 Dukes Forsyth ...........49831 Gwinn Ishpeming Marquette Negaunee Northland ...........49869 Palmer ...........49871 Princeton ...........49875 Republic ...........49879 Skandia ...........49885 Timely Quotes We have a mass of young people so deficient in mental and manual skills that no advanced society could provide them all with jobs, except on a charity basis. Their tragedy makes a mockery of our constant boast that we are the best educated, most literate people on earth. Vice Adm. Hyman G.

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