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ESCANABA DAILY PRESS Editorial Offices, call 7 (Read By More Than 45,000 Daily) lailnrN OfflrMi Cftll 7M-2031 Hist Year, No. 32 14 Pages ENcanaha, Michigan 49829 Friday. April 1969 Auto Insurance Canceling Policy Is Investigated WASHINGTON A Senate probe of the auto insurance industry has resulted in a stream of complaints from car owners, charing their policies were canceled for odd. vague or flimsy alleged bad habits." In one instance a man was denied coverage on grounds he gii ll'led and raised gamecocks. Another policy was cancelled because: wife's reputation does not meet our underwriting The Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee will delve into such cases at a public hearing next month, with the centerpiece the troubles of Gerald D.

Huey of Strafford. Va. tive, received a cancellation notice which said is alleged that your house is A cab driver who lost his cy was told by the company: specific reason for refusal cannot be given as it is regarded as Another protest comes from a man at Big Stone Gap, whose son was involved in an accident. The other driver was ruled at fault. Both cars were insured by the same com any.

The father refused a settlement, and again rejected an offer of $750. Finally, the claim was settled for $1,500. Then, on Jan. 4, 1968, this notice arrived: automobile insurance is being terminated Huey learned Feb. 19 his poli- because of your lack of coopera ey would not be renewed by tion and assistance in settle- Royal Indemnity Co.

ment of your claim of unfavorable information we While reasons for cancellation have received concerning per- vary, investigators have found habits within your house- many are issued after a com pa- ny receives reports about the He got another policy, but It reputation or habits of a driver was canceled without explana- or his family, tion. of similar cases came to our said subcommittee Chairman Philip A. Hart, LANSING A resolu- D-Mich. Dean E. Sharp, assist- tion to investigate noise has been ant council to the panel, said the approved by the House.

It pro- complaints are still coming. poses a five man committee Several auto insurance can- be granted $2,500 to investigate collations stirred controversy in the possible threat to the general recent months. One man, whose public health of industrial, auto- home had been visited by an in- mobile, airplane, advertising or company representa- other noises. Noise Probe Trenary Satellite Of WFRV-TV Set In Fall In Office Four Months Lebanon Premier Quits without endangering security. Despite pressure from the 160,000 refugees in the country, the government generally has trie ri to avoid involve- ing.

The crisis threatened to cause a major split between Moslem and Christian communities, which are roughly equal in size and divided the posts of political leader- A GLASS DOOR at the Racine Police Department headquarters was broken by demonstrators Wednesday afternoon, shortly before Mayor Kenneth Huek imposed a 48- hour curfew on the city. At least three policemen and several other persons were injured in disturbances, centered on a new recreation center for Racine Negroes. About 22 persons were arrested. (AP Wirephoto) Move To Tack Parochiaid Issue To School Aid Bill BEIRUT, Lebanon Premier Rashid Karann met today with President Charles Helou and told newsmen afterward Hclou had accepted his resignation. He hedged when asked if the president would ask him to form a new Cabinet but he urged that a coalition government be formed.

Karami resigned Thursday night after four months in office, saying the country was split over whether Lebanon should become a base for Arab guerrilla action against Israel. Karami was asked after his visit to Helou if the president would tap him again. He replied: question the guerrillas is now more important than personalities. It concerns the future and fate of the entire country. There must be cooperation between all Demand Full Support With the country tense after WASHINGTON In the two days of rioting in which 16 face of Democratic charges of persons have been killed and weakness, wavering and confu- nearly 100 wounded, Karami sion, one of President told a special session of Parlia- top civil rights enforcers insists ment that some persons ad- I Southern resistance to school vised him to give unqualified I desegregation is weakening, support to the Palestinian! much less now.

In guerrillas. He said others had fact there is great wiU.nKness warned such support would fhip according to a detailed formula. Under Curfew Karami, a 47-year-old Moslem, was serving his eighth Bay NBC Outlet Gets FCC Okay For Channel 3 Segregation Is Weakening In South: Panetta ment in the Arab-Israeli light- term as premier. He took over in January from Abdullah Yati, who resigned under the storm of protest that followed attack on the Beirut airport. That attack was made in retaliation for an attack on an Israeli airliner in Athens by Arab commandos who Irael said were based in Lebanon.

Since then the government has kept a close watch on the Lebanese-Israeli border and refused to let its territory be used as a base for commando attacks. Beirut and other major cities were under curfew, and the army patrolled the streets and refugee camps. Police said 120 persons were under arrest after the riots, and that they were hunting leaders of banned leftist parties who were suspected of inciting violence. LANSING AP) A bill hiking Gov. William $844.58 million public school aid recommendation by $456,000 today awaited Senate action amid that the House might try to tack on parochiaid funds.

have no doubt that there will be an effort to attach rochiaid to school said Senate Minority Leader Sander Levin, D-Berkley. remains a 50-50 chance this Senate body will take parochiaid in any Speaker William Ryan, Lawyers Begin Sirhan Appeal LOS ANGELES Lawyers take the first step today in the extensive appeals process open to Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. Judge Herbert V. Walker granted defense attorneys a special hearing to argue for a one- week May their motions for a new trial and formal sentence on the assassin of Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy. A seven-man, five-women jury Wednesday condemned the 25-year-old Jordanian Arab to death in the gas chamber for first-degree murder. Walker then set May 14 for a hearing on motions and the sentencing. A multitude of legal avenues available to defenders could prevent the death penalty or at least postpone it. His chief defense counsel.

Grant B. Cooper, estimated Thursday that an appeal of the conviction and sentence would take at least a year. The trial lasted nearly 16 weeks. Meanwhile, Kenneth Hahn. Angeles County supervisor, said the case to date cost taxpayers $910.634.

The defense called his figures inflated. Detroit, an outspoken advocate of state aid to private and parochial schools, said, however, that a decision mfc adding chiaid to the state aid bill had not yet been made. Three Decisions Ryan said the House must decide: Whether to work with the Senate version of the school House proposed measure; how much money to include; and whether to try fen- passage of the separate parochiaid bill or hitch it to the school aid measure. have those three decisions to none have been made Ryan said. have to keep our options he added.

know which method is the Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Charles O. Zollar, R-Benton Harbor, meanwhile, said that if the House added for parochiaid to the school aid ball, take it the same reason we raise the level of school spending. We just don't have Ihe extra money." Differential Milliken hod urged a hold-the- line approach in his budget message, eaiiing for speedy passage of his suggested $85 million increase in school funds over the current year's spending. Mtlliken also promised to name a special study commission which would recommend education reform for the 6tate. The Legislature will act on such recommendations sometime after September, the governor said.

The appropriations committee proposal totals $845.041 million, an 11 per cent increase over the present year, Zollar said. The measure provides for an average pupil allotment of $377.50 for districts with state equalized value of $14,333 or more for each child and $549.50 in districts with less than that equalized value for each child, he said. The existing formula has four Chinese Red Congress Ends TOKYO (AP) The Chinese Communist ninth congress has ended in Peking with no surprises. Mao Tse-tung continues to reign as party chairman, and his chosen successor, Defense Minister Lin Piao, is still vice chairman with the added designation of heir. Some details of the 24-day meeting were broadcast by Radio Peking and the official New China News Agency after the close of the congress Thursday.

It was the first congress since 1956 and lasted about twice as long as the last one. Most of the time apparently was spent reshaping the top echelons of the party, many of whose leaders were purged during the so- called cultural revolution Mao launched in 1966. Of the 97 members and 99 alternates elected to the ruling Central Committee at 1956 congress, only a handful survived the purge in ranging from a low of $348 to $499.75 per pupil. basic formula pays more attention to the discrepancies between richer and poorer school than does the proposal, said Levin, a critic of the Milliken budget figure. still patchwork." But, Levin added, the Senate proposal cuts recommendation for remedial reading funds and lops $3 million off the suggested appropriation for special education.

Zollar said he expected Senate action on the school aid bill Monday. provoke Israeli reprisals. The rioters were mostly Palestinian refugees demanding that the government give full support to the Arab guerrilla organizations which have been raiding Israel. Karami said he had tried to help the guerrillas Boost Federal Highway Aid LANSING Michigan counties will receive nearly $1.5 million extra in federal aid for secondary highways in the next fiscal year, the State Highway Department reports. The additional funds will bring the county total to $6.91 million.

The state will receive $3.85 million from the $10.78 million allocated to Michigan for the year starting July 1. For One House Legislature Group Wants To Abolish Senate in mo6t said Leon E. Panetta. "In the period before I took over we were getting a lot. It crumble like everyone thought it Panetta heads the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare He also said since the initial action against five Southern school districts in February he has been subjected to no personal pressure from the one man widely said to feel betrayed.

Sen. Strom Thurmond, The 30-year-old lawyer, who looks something like a rimmed version of entertainer Danny Thomas, took over his post March 29, replacing Ruby Martin, a Negro who spurned Republican blandishments to stay on. She contended the en forcement program was vacillating. Panetta also said pipblems came from the widespread faiith that had grown up in the guidelines put out by the Johnson administration to explain the provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It is from this act that Panetta gets his authority to cut off federal funds to school districts failing to desegregate voluntarily.

Weather News In Brief By AuofliUI Prru SAIGON enemy troop withdrawals were reported in South Vietnam today while the United is stepping up its air war. LANSING A small group of Lansing-area taxpayers, working out of their homes and uning wives as clerical help, wants to abolish state Senate. The citizens of Michigan Tax Relief Committee now claims 120 dues-paying members. Co-chairmen are John Barany, a drug salesman, and Vincent Gieske, an insurance executive, both of Lansing. are a grass roots movement and entirely Barany said Wednesday.

which want to see if enough people are President Uu Shao-chi and otn- er were ousted. The ninth congress replaced the old committee with an expanded body studded with mili- interested in the idea of a unicameral tone State Assembly From this start, the group hopes to gather some Their proposed constitutional amendment would replace the present House and Senate with one house, to be known as the State General Assembly. The group proposes that the one house have a minimum of 70 and a maximum of 110 members, elected on a one-man, one- vote basis. Barany said suice the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision that both the Senate and House should be apportioned on the same one-vote basis, the Senate no longer serves a useful purpose.

Nebraska currently is the only state among the 50 to have a one-house system. Save Millions More than $2 milium a year could be saved in salaries now Tech Gets Grant WASHINGTON (AP) Michigan Technological University at Houghton. Mich has been awarded a $375,522 federal grant construction of a $1 9 million heating and power plant. The grant, authorized under the Higher Education Facilities Act, was approved Thursday by the Office of Education. lary leaders, old and young rev- 350,000 signatures on a pMid to senators and their aides, olutionaries, and to their proposal 1970 election ballot on the ESCANABA AND V1CINITY- Mostly sunny and a little warmer high ar 65.

Fair and not as tool tonight, low 44 Saturday mostly cloudy and mild with chance of showers, high 65. The highest temperature yestarday was 52 and the overnight low was 36. outlook: Mostly cloudy and mild with chance of showers. Westerly winds 10 to 20 mph today and tonight becoming west to southwest 12 to 22 mph Saturday. Precipitation probebtli- today, tonight, Sunday.

Upper and mild this afternoon, highs up to Aft Tonight will be mostly fair and cool, lows the Satur day will be partly cloudy west, fair east and mild, highs in the east. 60s west. Sun sets today at p. twee featuring at 4:44 a. m.

WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Edward M. Kennedy said today that rank and file Democratic party members should have the greatest role in planned party reform. WASHINGTON (AP) The House Ways and Means Committee has plana to include some limitation on the controversial oil depletion allowance in the next tax bill. Residents Flee From Train Fire Selfridge Plane Crashes In Field KINDE (AP) An F10A Jet on a routine training mission from Selfridge Air Force Base crashed in farm land just east of this Huron County community today after the pilot parachuted to safety. A spokesman at the Port Austin Radar Station said the pilot waa ai aonditioa 5 -gs: RICHMOND, Ind.

train wreck, explosions and fire sent about 400 residents fleeing from the community of East Germantown, 8 miles west of Richmond, today. No injuries were immediately. Sixty-two cars of the 110-car Penn Central freight train stacked up in three separate piles over almost three miles of tracks. A railroad spokesman said 39 of the cars caught fire. Flames, sending up a column of black smoke visible for miles, broke out in a pile of about 20 cars a quarter-mile east of East Germantown.

Firemen said the ink cars of liquid iietroleum gas, which burned within a few hours. Police said the small evacuation was due to noxious fumes coining from another of eight cars in the middle trf the community. There was no fire there but some cars of flammable substances were emitting gases. The tailroad asked the state fire marshal's help in recruiting local fire departments in east central Indiana to fight the blaze. Railroad officials brought bills of lading to the town to check the contents of the wrecked ears.

Most contained only harmless merchandise. I secretaries and other help, Barany said. of dollars could be saved by the duplication of effort in the House and he said. Barany said his group also Is to a new capitol that could up to $70 million when the interest costs are figured over a five-year consUuc- tion period. we get our first 5.000 petition Signatures," he promised, going to ask some court a restraining order to stop plans for going ahead with the new capitol figure twit why only one contractor was consulted and 13 foreign had to be visited to come up with the present capitol he added.

Today's Chuckle Grandpa saved the first dollar he ever earned in a 10- cent frame Today the frame is worth a dollar and the dol- tar worth 10 eenta. A- 1 Pi 'r GREEN BAY WFRV-TV has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission to construct a satellite station to serve the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with off-the- air NBC and local programming. FCC approval means that for the first time more than 50,000 homes in the Upper Peninsula will be able to view NBC and WFRV-TV programming without need for a community antenna system or private household antenna or booster systems. The new satellite station, expected to be in operation on Channel 3 in late summer or early fall, will provide service to Escanaba, Marquette, Iron Mountain, Munising and Manistique, with Escanaba as its base of operation. South Of Trenary WFRV-TV Vice President and General Manager Robert O.

Southard welcomed FCC approval, saying "It has long been our desire to provide off-air service to the residents of Upper Michigan and bring them NBC programming and local news." Harry Hill, WFRV-TV chief engineer, said the transmitter for the new Channel 3 Escanaba will be located 4.3 miles south of Trenary in Delta County. will erect a 1,252 foot tower," Hill said "and broadcast with 100,000 watts of video power and 20,000 watts of audio power." Hill said it will be necessary to erect a transmitter building on the site to house the transmitting equipment and to provide a staff of at least three engineers to man the station. $259,004 Investment Southard set initial cost of the new Escanaba station at $250,000. He said that equipment for the new station is being ordered immediately and that construction of the transmitter building and towar "will start as soon as we can get the contractors on the scene. And we will do everything in our power to get the station on the air just as soon as humanly possible." The satellite transmitter south of Trenary and one mile east off US.

41 will put a "city grade" signal into Escanaba, Gladstone and other nearby communities, said Southard. He said he expected availability of off-the-air (without cable or translator relay) National Broadcasting Co. TV programs from local transmitter at the satellite station would increase the use of portable TV sets "So the perents have to fight the and can watch two different TV shows at the same time. On Cable. Translators The NBC progrsms on the satellite will continue to be available to cable TV systems and translator stations in the area, Southard and should improve their offerings because the quality of the signal will be improved by the local transmission, especially for color programs.

WFRV-TV originate any programs at the satellite station. WFRV is an all-color TV station and has stringer photographers in the P. said Southard. He said he to increase their number to im- BELGRADE A prove coverage of the area, ule for the withdrawal of Sovie. They send their film to Green DeGaulle Asks Public Support PARIS President Charles de Gaulle recorded a seven-minute address to be broadcast to the tuition tonight in hopes of reversing the tide of public opinion threatening him with defeat in constitutional referendum.

He arranged bis affairs to that he will be at his home in Colombey-les-Deux-eglises i eastern France during the broadcast and during the balloting. This meant he would not have to return to Paris in the event of defeat. "Advantage to the said the headline on the report of one opinion poll. "Sounding Shows in the Lead," said another. It was the first time since De- Gaulle became president in 1958 that pre-election polls indicated he would lose.

The unfavorable indicators included two taken by traditional Gaul- list optimists the government and the conservative newspaper LeFigaro. Figaro gave the opposition 83 per cent but said 34 per cent of the voters were still undecided. De Gaulle's task was to counteract the apathy widespread among that group and bring the unconcerned or undecided out to vote for him. The official issue In the referendum is establishment of regional governments and removal of what little power the national has left. But the 78-year-old general made the vote into another plebiscite on his rule by saying he would quit if tive referendum proposals were voted down.

De big problem seems to be that many midd e- of-the-road Frenchmen no longer believe a whirlwind of confusion and anarchy would follow the old Soviet Troops To Withdraw SANDRA FLESZAR, 19- year-old sophomore at Eastern Michigan University and sister of Mary Fleszar who whs found slain Aug. 7, 1967, has written an letter to public "making a nal appeal, not only for myself but for all the young girls who are forced to live in this constant fear for their sister waa first of five perverted murders that have taken plate in the area within the past twv Ksass Wire- Vtaoto) troops from Czechoslovakia will be announced within the next weeks, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported today. Quoting well informed agency said the announcement wall be published simultaneously in Prague and Moscow prior to the world Communist conference set to open in Moscow June 5. The announcement would demonstrate Soviet support for the new Czechoslovak leadership and stimulate what Moscow calls of situation In the report added It added that announcement of prospective troop withdrawals is expected to improve the prospect Communist bl to the West. In Prague, the new leadership served notice today it will not tolerate opposition withm Hie Communist pasty Bay for processing and telecasting.

The process is very expensive, said Southard and works best with centralization. He said that WLUC-TV, Chanel at Marquette carries only "three or grsms a week and is basically a CBS station, although It carries all three networks. It uses more programs from ABC than from said Microwave Relay WFRV will construct a microwave relay system to move TV programs from its Green Hay transmitter to the Delta County satellite nesr Trenary. It uses a microwave system te bring the signal from kw to Green Bay Channel 3 had been allocated to Escanaba for a television tion. It has not been used for lack of a local ststion.

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