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Eight DAILY PRESS, Escanaba, Michigrtn Saturday, December SO, Safety Urged On Weekend By The Millions of motorists were on tii? move Friday night for 1-hc second long weekend of the T.inter holiday season. SafeN campaigners New Year's celebrators to refrain from driving after drinking. The National SafMv Conned between 430 and 530 oersons will be killed over the weekend. The figure covers the period between 6 p.m. and midnight of New Year's Day in each standard time 'one.

This is considered a three- day weekend although the span of the counting is 78 hours. hours of Friday are added to the three davc to account for motorists starting weekend trips after work Friday. Last weekend, the Christmas holiday. The Associated Pres- counted 565 traffic deaths over an identical time span This was one more than the highest toll on record for a New Year holiday period. In 1965 there were 564 deaths in a three-day observance.

23 Nations Ink Anti-Pollution Act WASHINGTON The United States and 23 other nations today were signing an international agreement aimed at preventing pollution of the world's oceans. The agreement absolutely prohibits the dumping of mercury and cadmium, such compounds as DDT and PCB, persistent plastics, oil, high-level radioactive wastes and chemical and biological warfare agents. In a Ifi nations were scheduled to sign the agreement while similar ceremonies were held in London, Mexico City and Moscow, The convention is the result of a recommendation by a conference held earlier this year in Stockholm. It noted that although such dumping comprises less than 10 per cent of the pollutants entering the oceans, this convention is significant because it demonstrates that international agreements can be reached to provide practical measures to control International causes of pollution. The convention is open for signing until Dec.

31, 1973. It will go into effect when at least 15 nations ratify the agreement. WITH MOM AND DAD lending an assist, this Escanaba youngster gets set lor some exercise on the ice skating rink at Webster Park this week. The city's rinks were closed Friday because of a snowstorm and warm weather conditions that rotted the ice. The city's rinks will be closed Sunday night kv New but once the weather improves the rinks are expected to buzz with activity, (Daily Press Photo) Tile elephant seal sheds its yellowish brown skin twice a year.

2 Michigan Men Traffic Victims On East Coast NEW CASTLE. Pa. Two Michigan men were killed and a third injured Friday when their car rammed into the rear of a tractor-trailer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, state said. Troopers identified the victims as Roy Lee Estep, 19. and his brother Hardy.

A third brother. Myron. 21. was seriously injured and underwent surgery at a nearby hospital. Authorities said the accident occurred when the Estep car failed to stop at a toll booth and hit the rear of the truck, which was stopped.

The men were on their way from their home in Detroit to visit their father in the Parkersburg. W. area, state po- lice said. This Was 1972 (Continued From Page JUNE 3 4 Upper Peninsula gather in Escanaba and Gladstone for the 50th annual District 10 Lions Convent on, 25 The petition drove to leasable marijuana in Michigan arrives at Ludington Park, where a picnic attracted several hundred young to the scene. 26 Two men died and a 20 year old girl seriously Injured as fire rips through upper two floors of the three- story Sherman Hotel, one of the City of landmarks JULY provement project at the municipal wastewater treatmmt 11 Ground was broken in Gladstone for a $1.637.000 implant.

Completion is scheduled for the fall of 1973 17-20 The E-canaba Country Club plays h- -t to the 40th annual Women's Golf Tournament, which was won by Mrs. Flossie Strong of Ontonagon. 20 A tornado through the community of Rock and causes heavy damage. H.gh wind damage was also reported in the Wilson area AUGUST 13 The new Escanaba Senior Citizens Center Is dedicated at its location in the old Hall Building at the corner of 33th St. and 1st Ave.

S. 15-20 P. State Fair Week. 16 Junior Beef Sale at the State Fair shatter' almost every record of its 20 year history, a 62 steers bring a price of $28.789. SEPTEMBER 9 Delta County law enforcement and federal narcotics agents ra.d a drus laboratory on the Stonington Peninsula and arrest two Illinois men in connection with the raid 12 After tunng down two millage proposals in June ai August, voters in the Escanaba Area Public Schocl District overwhelmingly approve a proposal to levy 110 mills for one year for operation.

15 Judge Marie Peters retires alter serving 16 years as Delta County Probate Juuge. OCTOBER 3 The Downtown Rest Center on the come: uf St and Ludington St. was dedicated durm? an The site for the center was donated to tlie by the Standard Oil Co. Mamstique's new National Guard Armory was dedicated in ceremonies which included Cong. Pnilip Ruppe as the guest speaker.

22 Pinecrest Medical Care Facility celeb, ates 4s 50th anniversary. NOVEMBER 8 Ejection Day and Sen. George McG pie's in Delta County although dent Richard Nixon woo nationally by a landslide. 15-30 Deer hunting season, 24 Santa-Claus arrives in Escanaba to mark the official opening of the Christmas shopping DECEMBER 13 Pwrtcards informing city residents of the market of their homes trigger an onslaught of question and aimed at City and thp Clemmsfaw Ai pr later filled City Council chambers on Dt 22 t- air their complaints. 25 Merry Christmas SI flippy New Year Pickets Delay Panax Corp.

Newspaper MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. of the Macomb Daily returned to normal Friday alter picketing by striking reporters from a sister newspaper delayed edition for seven hours, paper offeials said, Macomb Daily City Editor Mitch Kchctian said the paper did not go to press until 5 p.m. ii a after pressmen, printers and some editorial ployes honored picket lines put up by reporters from the Wayne Daily Eagle. The pickets were withdrawn after the Eagle management agreed to resume negotiations Jan. 3 the local chapter of the New; paper Guild of Detroit.

The guild said picketing was an attempt to stop use ot Macomb Daily supervisory personnel to publish the Eagle and its two associate weeklies, the Romulus Roman and Belleville Enterprise. The papers are among the 33 dailies and weeklies published by Panax Corp. in Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. Panax officials could not be reached for comment. The Macomb Daily, with a circulation of 56.000.

is the largest paper in the Panax chain. The circulation is about 12 000 Basil Stevens, editor of the Eagle, said publication has continued on schedule there. The strike began Dec. 19 in a dispute over an initial contract by the recently organized editorial personnel. Police Officers Push Capitol Punishment Plan PONTIAC.

Mich. The slaying of another Detroit patrolman has prompted the Police Officers Association of Michigan to urge capital punishment for the deliberate killing of any law enforcement officer. Carl Parsell, POAM executive director, said all law- enforcement officers are representative of the entire state of Michigan, when one of those officers is part of us dies with The shooting death of Patrolman Robert Bradford Wednesday was the second slaying of a Detroit policeman within recent weeks. In addition to the campaign to change Michigan law, POAM is asking Michigan's Congressional delegation to work to make the killing of law enforcement officers a federal crime, Parsell said. way or another some detcrent must be found to stop these senseless murders," he said.

Stock Market Comes lo Life On Final Day NEW YORK AP) The stock market suddenly came to life Friday, the last trading day of the year. The noon Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks was up 10.68 to 1018.36. Advances held a 889 to 435 lead over declines on the New York Stock Exchange, with 1.696 issues changing hands in heavy trading. The first volume of 7.71 million shares was the fifth largest on record. Analysts said that the market seemed to be resuming the bullish tone that sent the Dow Jones industrials up some 110 points from mid- October to mid-December, before the rupture of the Viet Nam peace talks.

The rally was unexpected, even though the Dow had made mild gains in the last three sessions, following four previous days of severe declines. Some said hints the Price Commission would ease profit ceiling guidelines was helping fuel the advance. prospects of the economy are excellent, and the es- sence of the stock market is the said Larry Wachtel of Bache Co. Most of the gains were in blue-chips and the stocks of "large cyclical companies firms whose profits rise and fall with the general economy. Auto stocks, propelled by record sales in mid-December, continued their recent strong showing.

General Motors was up to 4 Ford up 5s to and Chrysler up to 40 2 The New York Stock Exchange Index of some 1.400 common stocks was up 0.44 to 64.29. But on the American Stock Exchange, advances held only a slender lead over declines, and the price-change index was up 0.06 to 26.24. GETS BEFORE SENTENCING Judge Lawrence J. Rittenband presides over the marriage of Mike Gaxiola and Connie Marie Velo in a Santa Monica, courtroom. Moments later the judge sentenced Gaxiola to 15-vears- to life term on two counts of armed robbery, effective immediately.

Dep. Sheriff Herbert C. Webb acted as witness. (AP Wirephoto) State Legislators Did Accomplish Something Court Rakes Inequality In State Aid To Schools (Continued From Page state's school districts receive nearly equal total revenues from combined state and local school property he wrote. netjual The other two-thirds receive revenues that are grossly unequal, the Justice state.

the district property tax alone the richest district has almost 200 times the ability of the poorest school district to support its school he said. The opinion there is no fair or effective way of testing and enforcing our decision with respect to the present school district taxes just levied on the school aid formula already authorized, this court will stand ready upon adoption of a new school aid formula and bedore levy of school taxes to entertain, if that is in order, a petition to test the new com- ba.ed public school financing system, and, if appropriate, fashion suitable Extractor Causes Less Damage To New Babies LOS ANGELES A method of delivering babies widely used in Europe could eliminate the need for anesthesia and reduce the risk of injury to babies and mothers, a hospital study discloses. Dr. Richard Paul said Thursday that a recently completed study at the County-USC Women's Hospital here indicates that use of a vacuum extractor may be preferable to forceps in some deliveries. The extractor includes a cup that is placed on the head while still in the birth canal.

Air is removed from the cup to create pressure. Paul said a major safety advantage is that the extractor creates less pressure on the head than forceps. Another advantage, he said, is that paramedical personnel can use the extractor, while doctors are gem ally the only personnel trained to use forceps. Death Notices ROBERT LAWRENCE Robert Tache Lawrence, 71. of La Blanche died at 8:15 Friday morning at St.

Francis Hospital following a three month illness. He was born Sept. 17, 1901 in Powers. He had moved to LaBranche in 1929 where he owned and operated his own dairy farm. For the past three months he had resided in Powers.

He was married on May 19, 1929, to the former Mary Schermer of Perronville. Surviving are his wife; one son. Robert of Escanaba; one daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Jean Fazer of Spalding; and nine grandchildren: and one brother, Thomas, of Two Rivers, Wis, Friends may call at the Boyle Funeral Chapel in Bark River on Monday from 4 to 9:30 p.m. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m.

at the Boyle Funeral Chapel, the Rev. Calvin Rice of Stephenson officiating. Burial will be in the Spalding Township Cemetery. Fire Chief Hurt In House Blaze GAYLORD, Mich. Gaylord Fire Chief Ted Drcffs suffered minor injuries fighting a house fire which threatened to spread to several tanks at a nearby service station Friday.

Dreffs, cut on his right arm by window glass, was taken to Otsego County Memorial Hospital, but his injuries were not serious, hospital officials said. Gaylord firefighters, joined by a second unit from Johannesburg, fought the two-alarm blaze three hours before bringing it under control. No other injuries were ed. Cause of the blaze was under investigation. The home damaged by the blaze was on M-32 just east of here.

No damage was done to the gasoline tanks. MISS MAin DU BORD Miss Mary Dubord, 78, former Escanaba resident, died at Pinecrest Medical Care Center in Powers Friday afternoon at 3:30 following a lenghtly illness. She was born in Danforth on March 25, 1894 and was a resident of Delta County all of her life. Miss Dubord was a member of St. Thomas Church, Escanaba.

Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Eva Benoit and Mrs. Edna Pepin, both of Escanaba and a brother, Emil, also of Escanaba. Several nieces and nephews also survive. The body is at the Alio Funeral Home and friends may call on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m.

Parish prayers will be recited on Monday evening at 8, Complete funeral services will take place at St. Thomas Church on Tuesday morning at 9 and will be conducted by Rev. Henry' Mercier. Burial will take place in the Escanaba Township Cemetery. LANSING, Mich.

(AP) In between the uproars over Miami Beach trips of questionable public benefit and newly- built enclosures for newsmen in the Senate. State Legislators waded through a significant amount of business in 1972. The Republican governor, the Democratic-cont rolled House and the evenly-divided Senate labored, but not always Milliken praised the w'ork, then refused to let them start collecting full pensions at age 55 under the pig the lawmakers had speedily okayed for themselves. Earlier in the year, the legislature toiled with the partisan politics of congressional redistricting, but a federal judge finally had to settle the matter. A constitutional commission spent 10 months and S150.000 trying to redraw legislative boundaries.

But the State Supreme Court stepped in and adopted a plan angry Republi- cans claimed would assure I Democrats control of both 1 houses. Michigan became the seventh state to adopt a lottery and the legislature considered, but did I not approve, bills that would have legalized off-track betting and dog racing. Lawmakers did approve a bill legalizing bingo betting for charitable purposes. First, voters wiped out a 137- year-old constitutional ban on lotteries. Democrats were conj political patronage might go to the Republicans, with Milliken having the power appoint the lottery chief.

But a compromise bill establishing a public lottery was worked out w'ith an independent controlling agency running the show. chosen czar, Gus Harrison, was given the authority to Another Quake SANTIAGO, Chile. An earthquake Friday shook the city of Vicuna, 420 miles north of Santiago, but there was no significant damage, authorities Ruthenium is a rare metallic element belonging to the platinum group of It was by Russian Karl Klaus in 1844, has a melting point of about 4350 degrees and boils at about 8850 de- greet. China Had Good Year Of Grain TOKYO China had a good grain harvest this year of 240 million tons despite the worst drought in years and other natural disasters, the Hsmhua news agency reported today. A Hsinhua broadcast monitored Tokyo said 14 of 29 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, excluding Taiwan, reported excellent grain harvest.

Hsinhua said China this year suffered the most drought in several decades and some areas were also hit by flooding, frost, windstorms, hail and insects But. Hsinhua added, the Chinese people, in the great cultural revolution, deepened mass movement and displayed courage and heroism in battling against nature, greatly reducing the impact of the disasters and winning a brilliant Sales Higher Than Year Ago WASHINGTON A surge of holiday buying sent retail sales in the week ended Dec, 23 to a record volume of $12.72 billion. 26 per cent above the corresponding week a year ago. The Commerce Department reported the preliminary totals which far exceeded the expectations of economists and retail trade analysts. The sales volume was 16 per cent higher than the $10 93 billion of the preceding week.

Automobiles showed the greatest percentage gain from a year ago. 36 per cent. Auto sales totaled SI.67 billion, the department said. Food sales were 31 cent above the corresponding week in 1971, but the dollar volume figures reflected price Inflation as well as increased purchasing volume. For the year to date retail sales were 9 per cent ahead of 1971.

but for the past four weeks, retail selling was run- 15 per cent above last year's level. pick his own aides and drawings were underway by the end of the year. The bill to legalize dog racing bogged down with accusations of payoffs and free trips for legislators who would vote for it. Dog racing was put to sleep in the Senate when members refused to act on the bill. The House voted down an off-track betting bill, though that legislation was not under the suspicion the dog racing bill had been.

By the end of the year, House leaders were proposing horse racing, dog racing and off-track betting be part of a single private corporation regulated by the state. Opposition from horse racing interests who did not want competition was seen as one big reason for dog racing's defeat. Following a battle in the legislature waged along party lines, a Presidential primary was held in Michigan, the first since 1931. When it was over, there was talk of abandoning the primary again, as in 1931, brcause it cost too much money. said have it.

We had it. what it Sen. Charles Zollar, R-Bcnton Harbor, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said of the $2.25 million price tag. Democrats called for a social election of precinct delegates to comply with national party rules and Republic an legislators refused to help. The Democrats accused the Republicans of not wanting newlv- enfranchised young voters involved in the convention process.

The GOP retaliated with Milliken off ring a presidential primary along with the election of precinct Fearing the Republican proposal might siphon off votes from Democratic candidates, the Democrats, after much discussion, reluctantly assented, and Alabama Gov. George Wallace scored his stunning victory in the May 16 contest. In 1972. Michigan became the sixth state in the nation to pass an auto insurance reform law aimed at speeding up paymc ts to accident victims. The question of whether car owners would pay higher or lower rates remained unanswered.

The State Supreme Court will review the new law. expected to go into effect next Oct. 1. The governor originally proposed a no-fault program he said would cut the bite lawyers take from court settlements and the State Bar immediately assailed it was grave The plan eventually adopted leaves the door open for lawyers to represent clients involved in accidents resulting in property damage or fatal or serious injuries. Both the insurance industry and lawyer lobbyists made heavy campaign contributions to various legislators and Roy A.

Westran, president of the Michigan Association of Insurance Companies, said the lawmakers yielded to the of the State Bar and Michigan Trial Lawyers Association" by abandoning the no- fault principle. The plan promises unlimited medical coverage without question and automatically pays for damage to the own car. critics several years ago said he largely ignored highway construction and new housing in his economic strategy for the 1970s. A housing bill the governor backed cleared the legislature late in 1972, doubling the bonding power of the State Housing Development Authority to $600 million, a compromise from S800 million in an earlier ver- I sion. The Moitgage Bankes Association said the authority was cutting into its slice of the housing market middle-income families.

Black legislators from Detroit said the authority was bypasing low-income families. The authority insisted its critics were wrong. State officials expect the compromise package will provide 15,000 new houses in the next two years. The legislature approved a compromise version of Milliken's gas-tax mass-transit package, which means Michigan motorists will pay two (cents extra gallon of gasoline starting Feb. 1, a total of nine cents per gallon, one of the highest rates in the nation.

The package allows highway taxes to finance failing bus systems and construction. That idea was opixjsed by the Teamsters union, the roadbuil- ders and the Auto Club of Michigan, which spent time and money lobbying against diversion of highway money to non- hi uses. Backers of the package swung wavering House members into line, designating hundreds of miles of highway for widening or improvement in the districts of recalcitrant lawmakers. Sen. James G.

Fleming, the Jackson Republican ho is chairman of the Senate Highways Committee, bottled up the measure for months, refusing to put it on the agenda for discussion. A compromise amendment will let voters decide eventually whether a ceiling is to be placed on the percentage of gas tax going to mas transit. mass transit portion of the bill is basically a raid or the highway fund to help financially bankrupt bus systems," a still-dissatisfied Fleming complained when the package passed shortly before Christmas. The Escanaba Daily Press has 95 per cent coverage fhe City of Escanaba, 94 per cent in the City of Gladstone, 90 per cent in the City of Manistique and 83 per cent throughout Delta County. The Daily press is a welcome visitor in 10,400 homes daily in a five-county Central Upper Peninsula area.

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