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The Hillsdale Daily News from Hillsdale, Michigan • Page 7

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rHE HILLSDALE DAILY NEWS Tuesday, June 11, 1963 7 tw -Jwy MONUMENTS TO THE PAST NEAR GRAND RAPIDS In a shady grove in Indian Mounds Park, near Grand Rapids, are these 17 mounds, monuments to the long forgotten past. The burial mounds contain remains, implements, art and jewelry of the Hopewell Indians, who built them 2,000 years before the first white man came to the area. This summer archeologists will open more mounds to learn more of the tribe. Indian Mound Diggings May Add To Early Michigan Lore GRAND RAPIDS Archeolo- £ists hope this summer to dig 2.000 years into the past just miles from busy downtown Grand Rapids. Seventeen Indian Mounds ranging from two to 15 ieet in height and 10 to 100 feet in diameter, have remained virtually undis- turbed for an estimated 20 centuries.

Now the Norton Indian pait of the Indian Mounds City I Park, are about to be tapped in! the first extensive archeological i operation performed on the remnants of an early American settlement. The University of Michigan, the Grand Rapids Museum Association. the city and the local Wright L. Coffinbury chapter of the Michigan Archeological Society are cooperating on the venture. U-M archeologists have called Press Agreement Ruled Illegal WASHINGTON A Nation Labor Relations Board trial examiner has ruler! the Detroit Newspaper Publishers Association and its members were in partial violation of the National Labor Relations Art in connection with a Teamsters contract dispute at the Detroit Free Press last year.

examiner Harold Summers Monday issued a recommendation to the full board that the association and its members, the morning Free Press and the aft-! ri noon Detroit News, be ordered to cease and desist in applying what he said was a joint agreement to suspend publication if one newspaper was struck by a craft union. finding said his recommendation applied only to joint suspension resulting from a strike by a union having separate contracts with both the News and the Free Press. Summers said suspension of publication by one paper when another was struck by a union having a joint contract with both was not in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. Spokermen for the association and both papers had no immediate comment on the finding which now goes before the full board. Summers finding was issued after a hearing on a complaint against the association, The Evening New.s Association, publisher of the News and Knight Newspapers, publishers of the Free Press, by 14 unions representing employes at both papers.

Michigan Second Vacation Choice AKRON, Ohio (AP) Michigan mnks second among the 48 con- inental United States in populari- cy among American vacationers, a private survey indicates. The Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. said 8 per cent of the persons surveyed named Colorado as their favorite vacation spot, with Michigan getting 7 per cent and Florida 6.8 per cent. In regional divisions, the Midwest was second to the South as the most favored vacation area in the survey, with Michigan rated the most popular Midwestern state. The poll indicates the average American vacationer will log 1,764 miles and Spent $514 on vacations this year.

These figures include mileage and eroenses of the Norton Mounds finest, most important example of Classic Hopewellian burial mounds in the Past efforts at excavation have been hampered by a lack of money. need at least said W. D. Frankforter, assistant director of the Grand Rapids Museum and chairman of the Indian Mounds Park Development Committee. The Grand Rapids Foundation has promised to give special consideration to the request for funds.

Hopewell Mounds, named for the owner of a farm in Ohio on which impressive mounds were found, are scattered over most of the eastern United States. Dr. James B. Griffin, director of the U-M Museum of Anthropology and director of the proposed Grand Rapids project, said he expects to learn nothing new from the project. But, he added: do want to add to the store of knowledge we already have about the Hopewell culture, to broaden The Hopewells were Indians and apparently active traders.

Mounds in Ohio have yielded copper from Lake and shells from the Gulf of Mexico. Arrow Error Claimed In Population LANSING iAP) State Rep. Joseph A Gillis. D-Detroit, is asking the Michigan congressional reapportionment bill go back to the legislature to straighten out an error in Wayne County's population. Gillis said the reapportionment1 bill adopted by the legislature last week did not count 31.000 persons listed in the census in the 15th District.

He asked Monday that this be corrected. could be accomplished by the Republican legislative leaders at a special session or by a veto (by Gov. George Romnev) of the enrolled Gillis said. "The office has acknowledged that some mistakes have been made in the 15th District. Gillis said it was knowledge in the Capitol last week that figures given by Republican leaders were In Washington.

U.S. Rep. John Dingell, Democrat of the 15th Dis! trict, said he was with the efforts of other Democrats to change redistricting, and urged party members to work for more legislative seats rather than bemoan unaifr reapportionment (Wayne County) is not the only significant Gillis said. errors in judgment and statistics appear outstate. For example, the figures for the new 4th District exclude the people of Barry Williams To Leave On Trip To West Africa WASHINGTON UR G.

Mennen Williams, assistant secretary of state for African affairs will leave Washington June 21 for a three week trip to West Africa, the State Department announced Monday. Williams, the department said will visit the Cameroon, the two Cangos, Gabon, Ghana. Liberia, and Nigeria. He also will visit Rio Muni and Fernando Po, two Spanish territories in Africa, at the invitation of the Spanish gov- heads found In mounds in the east were fashioned from rock from the Rocky Mountains. Grand Rapids reportedly lost some of its most impressive mounds to civic progress a hundred years ago.

Capt. Charles E. Belknap, Civil War soldier, mayor and congressman, wrote that mounds up to 50 feet high and as much as 200 feet in diameter were leveled to fill in low spots in streets. The mounds caused Grand first labor strike; immigrant Irish laborers refused to excavate the mounds wrhen they found bones in some of them. The dispute was settled, he said when the Irish workers were transferred to other jobs.

Boosters of the park hope to stimulate tourist and local interest with restoration of one of the mounds and a branch of the museum to house artifacts and exhibits. Speech By U.S. Nazi Stopped FARMINGTON (AP) George Lincoln Rockwell, self styled American Nazi party head, failed to finish a speech begun in the yard of a private home in this Detroit suburb Monday night. audience began hoot-, ing him when he had talked about 15 minutes and Police Chief Jos- eph G. DeVriendt ordered a halt Raising his hands DeVriendt i said Rockwell left a stand put up in the yard.

As he entered the house a rock bounced off the screen door behind him. Calls of your and should be had come fron the audience of about 250 people. Numerous state and local police were on the scene. Rockwell began by telling why he and followers are anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and anti-Negro. He said Sir Winston Churchill attributed the Russian Revolution to people of Jewish extraction.

Loud heckling began when he said television in the United States is under control of a Semitic About that time Chief DeVriendt called the halt. The home from where Rockwell spoke belongs to Russell Roberts, who calls himself head of the Michigan Nazi party. Briefings Set On Fiscal Reforms LANSING (AP) Educators and liquor dealers will be the first groups to receive a background briefing today on eight alternate plans proposed as a possible basis for fiscal reform in Michigan. Gov. George Romnev and his aides will outline assorted tax proposals to various groups meeting in his office this week.

The governor and his advisers will barnstorm the state the two following weeks to make the presentation- The citizen reaction is expected to help the governor and his fiscal advisers draw up plans for the tax reform legislative session this fall. First groups to meet with the governor this afternoon will include the Council of State College Presidents, the Michigan Education Association, Associations of School Boards and School Administrators and the Table Toppers Association, composed of retail liquor dealers. The school administrators are concerned with getting more money for education while the liquor dealers have been campaigning for cuts in the so-called nuisance taxes on liquor, beer and wine. Proposed in all about two of the eight plans was a state wide individual income tax ranging from two to three per cent. 50 Millionth Is Built By Chevy TARRYTOWN, N.

Y. (AP) Gov. Nelson Rockefeller drove the 50 millionth Chevrolet off of an assembly line here Monday. The ceremony at the Chevrolet and Fisher Body plants marked both a General Motors production milestone and near-completion of plant expansion at the Tarrytown site. John F.

Gordon, president of General Motors, said developments here symbolize the spirit of optimism that prevails in General Motors. Present business condition and robust public confidence point to another good year in 1963. a major international greater economic growth and industrial S. E. Knudsen, general manager of the Chevrolet Division, noted that the 50 millionth Chevrolet rolled off the assembly line less than four months after the 49 millionth was produced at St.

Louis. Voters Split On Water Traffic Problem Grows More School Tax (liu Associated Press Michigan voters were apparently about evenly divided Monday as to the necessity for increasing taxes for school operations and construction. A proposal to establish a community college in Oakland County still in doubt todaj) after 17 of 2b districts reported their tallies. The vote for establishment, according to unofficial and incomplete returns, was 10,741 in favor and 9,256 against, but a proposal to levy a one mill tax to support the college appeared to be losing, 10,062 to 9,233. Both proposals must pass for either to be effective.

The Plainwell School District, largest school district in area in the state, Monday voted down a proposal to increase the school tax by one mill. A record 1,800 voters turned out and proposal was defeated by 130 votes. The Otsego School District approved a one mill tax increase. A proposal seeking the recall of School Eoard President Albert J. Maisel was defeated in the Chippewa Valley District near Mount Clemens by a vote of 696 to 541.

A group of district residents petitioned for his recall after Maisel declined to identify a school board member who accused School Supt. Robert T. Kohloff of and in 1962. The board subsequently voted not to renew contract when it expires in two years. A $5.5 million bond issue for school expansion and a $300,000 bond proposal for an administrative center were rejected at Utica.

Voters also defeated a proposed increase of 4 Va mills for two years. Warren Consolidated School District officials got the go-ahead to issue $13 million in bonds to finance an expansion program. A millage increase also was approved. Ten millage increases were approved in Jackson County. They are Brooklyn, four mills; Clark Lake, two mills; Concord, two mills; East Jackson, three mills; Grass Lake, mills; Northwest, mills; Springport, one mill Vandercook Lake, mills; Western, seven mills; and Leslie, six mills.

Driver Killed As Car Hits Fallen Tree GRAND RAPIDS Ray E- Sidebotham. 33 of suburban Wyoming, was killed late Monday when his car struck a tree that had fallen across a Kent County road near M-44 northeast of Grand Rapids. men said the tree apparently had been toppled by high winds. LANSING lakes and streams of Michigan's water wonderland are now swarming with more than half a million power boats. is conceivable that we will have as great a problem regulating our watercraft traffic in the i next decade as we now have in controlling highway says Secretary of State James Hare.

Hare, as chairman of the State Safety Commission, also is concerned with the growing problem of water safety. The legislature showed its concern with the problem by passing a comprehensive boating law last year. Acting on the theory that education is the best means of accident prevention, the Secretary of office has issued a new publication on watercraft laws and Error Shifts Margin By One LANSING (AP) Uncovering of a one-vote clerical error has cut the margin of change in the recount of the April 1 vote approving a new state constitution to 399. The State Elections Division reported the recount ended Friday cut 400 votes from the original margin of 7,829 approving the new Constitution. The one-vote clerical error in the recount came from Osceola County, the Elections Division said, and occurred somewhere in the transferring of figures from the county checkers to the Lansing office.

safety entitled Every Boater Must The 32-page booklet is being tributed to sheriffs, watercraft en-1 forcement agencies, libraries and other information centers. General i public distribution will follow. The booklet covers everything from registration before the boat is I put into the water to notification i of the Secretary of office if the boat is sold or abandoned, Boat registration letters, for in-1 stance, must be at least three inches high to meet Coast Guard I specifications. Laws are stricter this year on life-saving equipment. All power boats must have one i Coast Guard-approved life pre-1 server, vest, ring buoy or buoyant cushion for each person aboard.

At least one fire extinguisher is required for closed boats less than 26 feet in length an 1 two for those up to 40 feet in length. A hand or power-operated whistle or horn, is required on boats more than1 26 feet in length. Only a power- operated whistle or horn is legal on beards over 40 feet in length. I The light requirements also vary with the craft. A lantern orj flashlight is legal for those of less i than 11 horsepower.

More elabo-1 rate lighting is required for boats of higher horsepower. The combination of drinking and driving is as illegal on the water as on the land. There are separate regulations for water skiing and for scuba and skin diving. The boat owner will find he is legally liable in a wide variety of possible accidents. He also is liable if another person uses the boat with his permission.

Boating is becoming more complicated and this new booklet will serve as a useful guide to the new rules of the waves. How To Hold FALSE TEETH More Firmly in Place Do your false teeth annoy and embarrass by slipping, dropping or wobbling when you eat, laugh or talk? Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. This alkaline (non-acid) powder holds false teeth more firmly and more comfortably. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not sour.

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28,367
Years Available:
1961-1976