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Page Six ESC AN AB A DAILY PRESS, Escanaba, Michigan Thursday, July 10, 1969 Phy Ed Building Out For College The Board of Trustees of Bay di' Noe Community College Wednesday night began consideration of alternatives for the physical education program alter Dr. Rich- fard Rinehart, college president, reported the Legislature had failed to appropriate pdanning funds for the proposed facility. A number of alternatives to armory scheduled for construction in Gladstone and the possibility of building a smaller building with local funds. The board rejected a suggestion that the college join the City of Escanaba and the Upper Peninsula State Fair Board in a joint facility because of the costs involved. A final decision on plans for the originally-planned build- physical education was post- Ing were including the possibility of using the new Hayakawa Now Fui President LOS ANGELES SI.

Hayakawa has advanced from temporary to permanent dent of troubled San Francisco State College with blessings was from Gov. Ronald Reagan. Hayakawa, a jaunty, soft- voiced language expert, left open the possiblity that he might seek the Democratic iOWed nomination for the U.S. Senate next year. Republican Reagan said of the 62-vear-old campus leader: is an example throughout ueVio vear the country of the relatively small group that have stood firm'' in college disorders Reagan and other state college trustees voted 16-2 Wednesday to name Hayakawa permanent San Francisco State president.

As acting president since last fall. Hayakawa called in hundreds of police to keep the cam- poned for further study. The Board also heard a report on the acquisition of equipment for the science technical building now under construction on the new campus and approved budgets for equipping the facility. Rinehart reported on the legislative appropriations for the coming year. He said appropriations are following a somewhat different pattern than previously developed for community colleges, following more closely a formula whi developed for four-year colleges and universities.

Previous appropriations were made on the basis of enrollment. similar to the plan fcl- in appropriations for public school districts. The Board also received a report on personnel recommen- No Reaction To Intentional Slip DETROIT A secret Man Admits Killing Two In Ann Arbor FLINT Police today code on a local Detroit television Questioned a 23 -yeai Tolcdo. news broadcast Wednesday night man who they said talked about killing two girls in Ann Arbor, a 73-year-old woman in Kentucky and a motorist in Michigan. Police Chief James W.

Rutherford of Flint identified the man as John Spirko, arrested early ing a concealed weapon. Rutherford said police in has failed so far to elicit a reaction from an anonymous letter writer who said he could name the killer of the six girls slain in the Ann Arbor area in two I years. Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter Krasny asked a WJBK-TV news- I caster to intentionally mispronounce the name of weather forecaster Jerry Hodak. pro' nouncing it as Kodak, to alert I the man who said he knew who the killer was. The man.

in letters to Krasny and the Detroit New burglars at her Covington home. program, asked that i Covington police were in Flint the $33.500 currently available in 1 today, seeking to extradite Spir- rewards be given to Detroit's ko. ther about the three other reported killings. He quoted Spirko as saying he killed a girl in the Ann Arbor area about four months ago and another girl in the same area about two and a half months ago. Seven young women have been slain in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Wednesday on a charge of carry- area in the past two An Ann Arbor man was charged earlier this week with the sev- SOAK1NG UP A FEW RAYS of sunshine that are so few are Chris Olaon, left, and Vickie Simoson, at the Escanaba Beach.

(Daily Photo) Stock Market Takes Tumble NEW YORK stock dations and scholarship awards market took a sharp tumble into lower territory early this afternoon. with the Dow Jones industrial average off more than 10 points and losses ahead of gains by a bit less than 500 issues. I Trading was fairly active Proposes Rules For Junkets New Television Station Named The Federal Communications I been Hill noted, "but Commission has granted the call the main portions are not due letters WJMN to Channel 3, Es- for shipment until sometime the canaba. now under construc- week of July tion to serve the central upper The tower, which will sup- peninsula of Michigan. port a 106 foot long, seven ton Announcement of the antenna, is being fabricated by Extradition Rutherford said extradition proceedings would be delayed until Spirko was questioned fur- John Cardinal Dearden.

He wrote that he would identify the man to Dearden in return for the money. The mispronouncing of Hodak name would be the tipoff that Krasny was cooperating. The experiment was run on the 6 p.m. broadcast Wednesday but apparently to no avail. Krasny decided to follow the instructions in the letter, one of ten or more he receives everyday with alleged information about the crimes, in a DETROIT that the man might Commission able to pick out the murderer.

He said he found the letter more interesting than the others. LANSING With summer recess and the action was made today by Robert O. Southard, vice presi- The DJI. which lost a total of dent and general manager of 24.50 points in this pre- WFRV-TV, Green Bay. which vious three sessions, was off will own and operate the new 10.21 at 851 41.

facility. Analysts said penetration of Southard said the letters Stainless, North Pa. The chief engineer also said that the footings for the transmitter building have been installed and the concrete slab will be poured in a week. Construction of the all-steel build- Cohodas Family Buys Local Bank From Page One) ington. had been hunting enth killing but the others have Spirko and have a warrant for remained unsolved, his arrest in connection with the Rutherford said Spiiko was July 3 killing of Mrs.

Myra Ash- "hazy about details of the sup- craft, who apparently was tied posed killings in Ann Arbor, and strangled after interrupting The police chief Spirko also claimed he robbed and shot a motorist with whom he had hitched a ride from Toledo into Michigan, Rutherford said Spirko asserted tnat he dumped the body in a woods near Ann Arbor and took the car to Bay City. Holdup Man Rutherford said that when Spirko was asked to describe waere the motorist supposedly as killed, "he said 45 minutes to an hour after the man picked him Witnesses to the armed robbery of a bar early Sunday ui bay City identified Spirko as the holdup man, Rutherford said. About (300 was taken in the roo- i bery. Police said a quantity of mon- FTC Probing Gas Price War A Federal representative is in Detroit now investigating the price war being waged among gas stations in the cv and money wrappers found in metropolitan area. Spirko hotel room at Flint was Robert Craft, the FTC at tor- believed to have been taken nev.

looking into chargej. filed Irom the Bay City tavern, by the Retail Gasoline Dealers When Spirko was arrested Association that the pr.ee war Wednesday, officers said they reflects action in violation of confiscated a pistol pus open through four months otf season loommg Legisfa- the 860 level by the DJI brought i are the initials oi Mrs. I mg wi 11 begin the last week in cnaiges Of U. lino An Vrtrtrtn i evi 11A nn oknnt violence, bombings police brutality and student vandalism. District Court William Winkle.

Madison Heights; and John and Thomas Riss, Evergreen. 111., were each found guilty on a charge of filling without a license. They were each fined $10. assessed $6 costa and a judgment fee of $3. William Hebert.

19. 917 Lake Shore Escanaba; Richard Anderson, 18. 809 S. 13th Escanaba; and Neal Hibala. 19.

080 S. 10th Escanaba: were each found guilty on a charge of killing non-game migratory The three youths were arrested recently Cornell Township by federal and state conservation officers. They were each ordered to pay a fine of $10, assessed $6 costs and i judgment fee of $3. Viet Action Kills Two From State WASHINGTON 'AP Two Michigan men were among 22 servicemen reported by the Defense Department Wednesday as dead in action in Vietnam. They were: Marine Pfc.

David R. Voren- kamp, son of Mr and Mrs. George R. Vorenkamp of Kalamazoo. Marine Cpl.

David Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Wright of Grand Rap- lds. Wright had previously been reported as missing in action.

ture. a state senator proposes to open Senate records of expenses w.de to public inspection. Sen. Brown. D-Highland Park, introduced a resolution Tuesday that would amend Senate rules to provide for special forms that would detail reports of expenses by committees, including travel and personnel costs.

Such would be printed in the Senate journal. Brown said he understood current practice involved record keeping at the office of State Administration Department Director George Washington. If a person wanted to know the costs of any Senate committee trip, for example, he would have to through the records Brown said. The the topic of what he termed an type newspaper story two years ago after a committee trip to the Canadian Northwest Terri- tor.es—said the proposed record system would any suggestion of regarding committee work. "It seems we would do far better to let the public he there are unreasonable expenditures, recognize The type story, he added, the work out oi beginnings in the Upper Peninsula, Cohodas Brothers Co.

and its affiliates expanded in "some selling by the chart- Jane Morton Norton, Louisville.1 July and take about two their interests until they de- w.th ists who regarded that level as, chairman of the board of weeks. a support area. WAVE, Louisville, which plans call for WJMN-TV the big thing behind this I owns and operates WFRV, sign on late summer in- and previous an an- Green Bay. In addition to the or eariy fan and provide off- alvst said, the credit crunch Green Bay and Escanaba sta- the-air television service to and the high interest rates re- tions, WAVE. also owns suiting from it.

It seems that and operates radio and televi- will carry the same NBC network and local programming as WFRV-TV, Green Bay. during an inflation-fighting per- sion stations in Louisville, and iod. the stock market takes it on Cedar Rapids. Iowa the felt we could pay Mrs. Brokers said: a lot Norton no greater honor than of cash around, but even with to request her initials as the prices down to what are con- call letters of the latest addition sidered bargain levels not to the WAVE chain of rushing in to buy.

A lot of these Southard stated, investors seem to be waiting for Construction on the new sta- some break for the better in tion is progressing at the ex- the adverse developments that pected rate, said Harry Hill, have been weighing on the mar- chief engineer for WFRV-TV ket, such as tight money and and the new WJMN-TV. Hill the concern over what happens said excavations for the tower to the income tax surcharge ex- footings are well underway at the site 4.3 miles south of Tre- The Associated Press 60-stock nary, east of U.S. 41, on Delta average at noon was off 1.9 at County Rd. 444. 304.9, with industrials off 3.9.

of the steel for the rails off .6. and utilities off .4. 1,146 foot tower already have Johnson Heads Rapid Board Stop ABM Group Visits Governor Chicago Prices POTATOES CHICAGO USD Potatoes arrivals 60. on track 220; total S. shipments 467.

supplies moderate; demand best good, others slow; California round reds demand good, market about steady California long Tei whites were 3.25-3 50 BITTER St CHICAGO EGGS unchanged; 93 score AA 67 644, 92 A 67 44, 90 66 Eggs: midweek demand slow to occasionally fair; 80 per cent or better grade A whites 45-47; medium white extras 32 33 LIVESTOCK CHICAGO AP U8DA) 225 lbs 26.5(V27 25; 1-3 195-2H) 26 00-26 50; 2-3 300-250 lbs 25 5026 00. 2-4 240-260 lbs 25.00-25 75; 3-4 260-280 24 00-25 00; sows 1-2 370-400 lbs 22 25-23 00; 1-3 400-500 lbs 21.50-22.50; 2-3 lbs 20.50-21.50. Cattle slaughter steers and heifers mostly 50 cents lower; slaughter steers prime 1.2005.350 lbs yield grade 3-4 33.5034 25; mixed high choice prime lbs 33 choice 950-1 350 lbs yield grade 2-4 mixed good and choice 31.00-32.00; slaughter 2-4 SO. New York Stocks NEW YORK is a sectioned list of stock trans- actions of the New York Stock Exchange at midday with net change from previous close. AlHed Ch 2814 Am Can Am Mot Am Tel Tel Beth Steel 31U hi Ches A- C.ties Sv 55 Consumer Pw 37 Con Can 65 1 4 Vi Det Edis Dow Chem l4 du Dort 13134 Ea st Kod 76 Eaton.

St 36 Ford Mot 4 Gen Fds Gen Motors 764 Gen Tel 35V4 Gerber Prod 3 4 Gillette 47 Vs Goodyear Inland St! 33 Int ur Macn 335 14 Int Nick 347 Irrt Tel Tel 51 V4 hr Man 3214 Kimb CM V4 gg At My 357t Mead Cp lm Northwest Ind Penney, JC Pf.zer H4 4 4 RCA Repub 40 Sea 4 Brand Std Oil 7 Std Oil Ind tJ 1 4 St a uff Ch 4 Jn Carbioe Oil 1 US Steel 4 Wn Un i fi 4 Westg E. Wk Other Stocks (From Edward D. A Ce.) Bid Ask North Centi al 64 7 Vi Harnisch feyer 29 Panax Corp. 2U Fowsr Co. 26 4 LANSING Marquette.

Milliken said he tive office and legislators were did not intend to take a po6i- visited Wednesday by some 50 tion on the question at this members of the Michigan Stop time. ABM Committee, opposed to the expressed myself in the antiballistic missile system. past as feeling that such an Thy left a letter for Gov. enormous investment means we William Milliken urging his sup- must defer many programs in port of state House and Senate country that are resolutions calling upon Con- Milliken gress to stop the escalation of a governor. hardly the nuclear arms race by re- a position to comment on the Military Sea Transport Service iecting the ABM system and military or other aspects of at Great Lakes ports instead allocating national re- this Program.

Therefore it is; Tlieir letter was made public sources to pressing social needs, for me to reply as a Sen. Joseph D. Tydings, D- Before he left for a meeting citizen on the kind of mforma-, one of the signers, with Upper Peninsula mayors which is available only to, It said: a time when i the president and his top, nonessential defense expendi- ----------------------------j advisors. I have the in- tures must be kept at a mini- 'formation or the facts I would mum, it is disturbing to read velop a nation-wide orgam- ,0 tion in the growing, process- dustry Small Fruit Business more than 50,000 homes in the I Sam Cohodas and his Broth- Upper Peninsula. The station ers wele operating a small fruit and produce business in the Copper Country at tne time of World War I.

Sam interrupted his business career to serve in the armed forces In 1919 he returned to Ishpeming after completing his military service, where Sam and his brothers expanded their operation into Marquette County. Sam had the vision to see the ultimate opportunity for serving on a nation-wide magni- At the Monday night meet- tude, and had both the creative ing of the Rapid River School imagination and endless capa- District the new officers of the city for work and organization board were elected and in- to put that dream into dimen- stalled. sion. For his fourth consecutive In 1930. he was director of term, Walden Johnson is presi- Western Fruit Jobbers, three dent.

The remaining officers years later ita presndent and are as follows; Loyst honorary life member. He vice-president; Beth Wilbee, helped merge this with other secretary; and John Miller, organizations to form United treasurer. Other members of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable As- the board are Gary Nieuwen- sociation, major organization of its kind in the country, and he served as its director for several years. In 1940 he became an officer in the International Apple Association and was or. the executive board.

In 1946 he was elevated to the presidency and in 1947 as treasurer and continued until 1960. The Cohodas Brothers Company prospered, too. Interesta Expanded The Cohodas Brothers since 1932, have been growers of apples and cherries in Michigan, and developed their growing interests to the Yakima federal anti-trurt laws O. Britton, executive director of the dealers association, who originally filed the charges the federal agency, said from him Police said 16-year-old girlfriend is being held in Toledo in connection with the Covington killing. Officers said the pair reportedly went to Kentucky to obtain a marriage beetle.

Rutherford said Spirko has indicated he would waive extradition in the Kentucky charge. the price war was the result of the creation of stations by th oil companies They initiated the price war by undercutting the prices of most other stations, he sa.d. The oil companies are sible because they created the mavericks by giving them stations temporarily rent free with gasoline credit allowances not granted to other dealers, said good dealers who have Officials of the Red Crose been in the business for a while Bloodmobile. 11 units short of and pay normal rates for their quota collections in Escana- station come down to the ba Wednesday, were hoping to prices the mavericks can make up the difference in the Bloodmobile Collects 98 hr Units Here charge he said Standard Oil started the war in earnest when it reduced its rates to its dealers by cents a gallon and the dealers to add another cent reduction. Standard spokesmen said at the time that the competition final day of the three-day viart to Delta County today.

A total of 98 were collected at the Hall Wednesday, reported Mrs. Edward Olsen, blood procurement chairman for the county. Bloodmobile officials said 21 from the mavericks was hurting 0t 36 persons kept appoint- some business seriously. Other dealers followed suit within a few days. kamp.

Pete LaBumbard and Floyd Roberts. Laird Urged To End Military Cargo On Lakes WASHINGTON Twelve Senators urged Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird Wednesday to discontinue the has the Cancer Society Elects Beck As President Jack Beck of Escanaba been elected proident of Delta County Cancer Society. Other officrs elected were David Mason, vice president; Mrs. Myrtle Anspaugh.

secretary, and Mrs. William Baum, treasurer. John LaBranch. crusade chairman, announced that the fund-raising drive has reached which is about 91 per nvents and there were 82 walk- in donors. Five persons were rejected.

The following awards were pre.vented W'ednesday: Wayne Courier, seven gallon pin; Charles J. Perryman and Robert Hupy (in Gladstone Tuesfiay), five gallon pins; Francis Sarasin, Stanley Jensen, Fern J. Dupey, two-gallon pins, and John D. Slapp, James M. Allen, Alfred H.

Troutt and Mary J. Couillard, one-gallor pins. Astromonk Died Of Heart Attack HONOLULU Bonny, the astromonk. died of a heart Valley of Washington State in cent of the announc'd goal. He attack probably brought on by asked that any workers who his lowered have not turned in their funds to do so this week.

In Copper Country HASS ELI, (AP) Some 100 growers will be host at the 21st annual Copper Country Strawberry Festival Friday and Saturday. The Chassell Lions Club, which promotes the festival to celebrate the that cool weather would not affect the supply of strawberries for sale and picking. A Friday night ball will follow choosing of the Strawberry Queen. events will include a kangaroo court to sentence a holiday-bound motorist to area hospitality and strawberry field tours. Strawberries, a quarter million dollar a year business in the Copper Country, were grown in the area since the turn of the century.

But the business tremendously starting in 1929 when the Michigan State University Extension Service encouraged it as a fitting crop that the Defense Detriment is operating a shipping service to the Great Lakes ports-ccotrary like to have on which to make a he said. The governor added he was hopeful there would be a economic good sense, allocation of funds are indicate that the desperately neded to face up Great Lakes area simply cannot to some of the problems in our, provide the Military Sea cities and 'port Service vessels with suffi- Rabbi Irvin Groner, chairman! cient cargo. The first ship sailed only two-thirds full and it is likely that the other vessels in- harvest, stated StoP nnttee, said too much money was being spent for an unproven system and the funds should better be directed to solving prohlerru of a social nature. Members of the delegation also met with House and Senate members asking action on the volved will do so also. We have been advised that in order to find sufficient cargo military traffic has been artificially routed through the St.

Lawrence Seaway from points as far away as Georgia and Maryland. Moreover, these ships may well re- 1942, expanding their interests there in growing, cold storage and sales. At the present time, Sam Cohodas is retired from Cohodas Brothers companies of Wisconsin and Michigan. His brother, Max, of Appleton, is board chairman; Harry Cohodas, Houghton, i r-vice-presi- dent and treasurer; Arnold M. Cohodas, Appleton, is president and Willard Cohodas of Ishpeming, executive vice-president.

Sam M. Cohodas, who is for the Boy Unhurt In Bike Mishap State Police issued citations Wednesday to Gerald Healy, Marquette, speeding; Robert Johnston, no Ipolice that license; Edward Eied- Jowpn Mayville, 323 N. 15th 210 N. 3rd Wells, St. injury illegal use of studded tires; and he drove his bicycle from Lawrence Gagmer, Kipling il- ttf wwti two parked cars and legal use of studded tires.

olJided with a car being driv- by Fay Berglund, 24, Rte. resolutions. Both resolutions are turn empty because retrograde rtill in committees and have cargo returning to the U.S. is not been acted on by either not moved inland." chamber. Frank Borman Ends Soviet Visit MOSCOW tAP) Astronaut Frank Borman left the Soviet Union for home after a goodwill visit he called a plete success and a personal pleasure Borman and hits family were seen off at tyevo Airport by Soviet officials, cosmonauts and thettr wives.

He blew them a kiss just before entering the Soviet commercial airliner taking him to New York via a brief stop in London. am leaving today with a very fine memory of a wonderful 10 Borman told an Briefly Told The Delta County Health Department announced that an Immunization Clinic will be condi- held Friday, July 11, from 2 until 4 at the Delta County Building. Students Tour Farm At Hyde body temperature, says a preliminary report issued following a six-hour autopsy by a dozen scientists. A final autopsy report on the monkey which died 12 hours after returning to earth is not ex- for months, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Dr. W.

Ross Adey. the space Escanaba poltee issued traffic tickets Wednesday to Rayne W. Labre, 809 S. 11 th Ea-j airport news conference. canaba, speeding; and Anna erywhere we went we were ie- More people get more news Rose Benoit, Rte.

2, Rapid Riv- from newspapers than all other i er, failure to yiedd light of aoibtaad. I way. ceived with warmth and friendship from in aU walks of Sixty-six lower elementary students from Webster and Leminer centers of the Escanaba Language Arts Development I Program recently toured the chief investigator said Clarence Dittrich farm in the fatal drop tem) perature may have been due to The tour included his immobilization in weight- spokesman for the family, has lloriH milking and other lessness and a too-cool capsule received a number of awards farm procedures. Read mg staff during the nearly nine-day and recognitions for his work supervised the trip, flight, in a wide diversity of activities. His interest in affairs of the Upper Peninsula has not diminished.

Otf ice walls covered with tributes and plaques attesi to the service he has given to a wide variety of constructive projects and programs. Many Sarasota, gave him the Israel Jerusalem Freedom Award for his continued Israeli support; his home city of Ishpeming honored him as Citizen at the Year; he has been cited for raising $250,000 for new homes for children at Bay Cliff Health Camp; Bell Memorial Hospital, Ishpeming, is grateful to him for spearheading a drive for $1,300,000 to construct a new hospital; he raised $50,000 for a Boy Sooui Council Camp. It has gone that way down the line. Name a community effort and Sam is on the board or the executive committee, giving of himself in variety of ways, to work for success of the project. Such a man has come to Escanaba to give leadership to First National Bank and Trust Co.

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