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News Phones Room ...92 or 1W Sports Disk 92 Socitfy Businm Office 21 Advertising Dept, 83 VOLUME NO. 67, NO. 228 THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS An Independent Newspaper Serving Mason County and Surrounding Area LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1957 PRICE SEVEN CENTS Guardians of Ludington's Swimmers Senate Passes Jury Trial Amendment. Ike Loses Fight LIFEGUARDS Ludington public beach lifeguards are doing a commendable job in patrolling the beach. So far this year the squad has made seven rescues and there has been no drownings.

Pictured above arc, Robert Garrett, upper left; Jerry Gilbert, lower left; John Strabel, lower right and Georgann Betlika, upper right. Robert Garrett, who is the beach supervisor this year, lives at 505 Qucvillon street. Last year he was a coach at the Ionia high school. This is Georgann Bcthka's fourth year his first year at the Ludington beach but he has had seven years' experience in such work. This is at the beach.

She lives at 313 East Ludington avenue and will be a senior at Western Michigan "college. John Strabel, who lives at 310 North Robert street, will be a sophomore at University of Mich- igan. This is John's first year in patrolling the beach. Jerry Gil bcrt, who lives at 304 North Hard son street, is in his second year at the beach. Jerry has attended Illinois Wcsleyan University.

(Daily News Photos.) Senate Racket Pro hers Resume Union Hearings WASHINGTON Senate Rackets Committee today called in a group of New York City workers to show how, they allegedly were hoodlum-run unions and cooperating" employers. Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) said in advance it would be shown that "sweetheart contracts" between the unions and employers gave the workers only the legal minimum wage. Today's hearings are a new phase of the committee's probe into New York area unions dominated by labor racketeer Johnny Dio, described as a close friend of James R. Hoffa, powerful Teamsters Union boss. Previous testimony has brought out that Dio got the unions started as part of the old AFL United Auto Workers, but since has switched them into the Teamsters Union.

McClelkn said Wednesday that Hoffa used Dio to help gain labor domination over New York and the Eastern Seaboard. The committee heard Thursday from Lester Washburn, 48-year- old builder and summer resort operator of Rhinelander, Wis. Washburn told how, as president of the old UAW-AFL (now the Allied Industrial Workers Union, AFL-CIO), he ousted Dio and suspended the Dio locals in 1954 He said those decisions were rescinded as he was bounced as the UAW- AFL chief. Washburn gave some surprise testimony about the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, whose President David Dubinsky has been considered a leader in efforts to rid organized labor of racketeers. Dubinsky is a member of the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee now considering rackets charges against" other unions, Washburn said Dubinsky gave him no help in ousting Dio, although urging him to do so.

Asked about Washburn's testi- mony, Dubinsky told newsmen "1 will not engage in a debate with Washburn." Dubinsky said he would be "glad to testify" if the committee wants to hcan-bim. Washburn also own union once assigned Dio to help organize a Roanoke, plant which the ILGWIJ hadn't been able to unionize otherwise. Dulles Places Western Plan for Disarmament Before UN LONDON S. Secretary of State Dulles, in a bid to revive lagging disarmament talks, placed before the U. N.

subcommittee today a Western plan to guard against surprise nuclear attacks. Officials had disclosed beforehand that it provided for a globe- girdling inspection system, linking a "limited open 'skies" observation plan with ground inspection posts in Europe, Russia and North America Primarily American in origin, it had been endorsed in advance by Britain, France and Canada, Western members of the five-nation U. N. subcommittee on disarmament. Russia is the other member.

The 69-year-old American Cabinet officer decided to present the plan personally in an effort to lend emphasis to the proposal. By replacing Harold E. Stassen, the U. S. delegate, at the subcommittee s.s i Dulles brought the weight of his own au- thority and that of President Eisenhower's to the table.

11 was a climax to a whirlwind five day visit to London ordered by the President. The "open skies" proposal for aerial inspection of each other's territory by Russian and American planes originally was made at the Geneva summit conference in 1955 by President Eisenhower. The idea for international ground inspectors at key ports, rail junctions, frontier areas and airports came first from Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. Before flying back to Washington tonight Dulles was to make a television and radio broadcast to Britain. Today's Chuckle "There's one thing sure about Eustice," said a luncheon club member after a long meeting.

"If there's nothing to be said, he'll always it." Two Injured in Accident Mrs. Mary Belle Scovill, age 67, of Scottvillc suffered severe facial cuts and injury to the left eye when the automobile in which she was ridingvW'is in ft with another car. The accident- occurred at the intersection of Lowell and Wythc streets in Pentwalcr at 7 p. m. Thursday evening.

Mrs. Scovill was a passenger in an automobile driven by Mrs. Ortha Bentley, also of Scotlville. The Bentley car was proceeding east on Lowell when it collided with another auto driven by Ralph Anderson, 18, of Zanesvillc, 0., which was traveling south on Wythc. With Anderson were Judy Bucanan of Zanesvillc, 0., and Dick Ardrey of Pcntwater.

Mrs. Scovill was rushed to a hospital in Muskcgon. Others in the accident were badly shaken but suffered no serious injury. Both cars received considerable damage which Village Don .1. Lamb, estimated at more than $600.

$3 Billion Fund Is Authorized for Road Work WASHINGTON government today earmarked nearly three billion dollars to be on the national highway program in the 12 months starting in mid- 1958. The $2,875,000,000 apportioned to the various slates includes two billion dollars to continue work on the network of limited access superhighways. These interstate highways will link 90 per cent of all cities with a population of 50,000 or more. The program calls for their completion in about 16 years. The Bureau of Public Roads apportioned $393,750,000 for the federal aid primary system.

This system, in existence for many years, includes almost all main routes used in inter city travel. Counting in the interstate system, it is 235,000 miles in length. For urban highways that arc extensions of primary and secondary systems into cities, the government apportioned $218,750,000, The current highway program was enacted in 195G. the apportionment for fiscal 1957 was $1,250,000,000 and for fiscal 1958 it was $2,550,000,000. Today's announcement covers fiscal 1959, starting next July Seven stales were apportioned more than 100 million dollars.

New York leads the list with $197,947,850. Texas will receive $167,977,005, California $103,409,763, Pennsylvania $148,236,048, Illinois $132,433,592, Ohio $119,338,559 and Michigan $102,096,687 Tries to Burn Hornet's Nest Ludington fire department was to extinguish a fire at the home of Owen J. Gavigan 801 Paul street, at 1:25 p. m. this afternoon.

Mr. Gavigan was attempting to burn out a hornets' nest in his basement window when the fire started in the basement. Damage was estimated at $25, Rocks Subway train PHILADELPHIA A blast rocked a six-car Broad Street subway train during the morning rush hour today, injuring scores and causing panic in the underground tube. The three hospitals to which the injured were taken said none had been hurt seriously. Many suffered cuts from smashed subway train windows.

Others were treated for shock. The Philadelphia Transportation Co. said the blast canle after the motor of the lead car on the passenger-jammed train short circuited, causing a circuit breaker to explode. The blast nnd minor fire in the lead car caused many of the passengers to smash windows in the subway cars and scramble out to the Eric Avenue platform. Many wandered to the street level and were given sedatives at nearby drug stores.

ONE KILLED SAY CITY L. Temple, 23, of Elkton, was killed and Robcrs, 20, of Bad Axe, was injured seriously today when their car ran off a curve on 47 north of the Bay-Saginaw County line and crashed into a tree. Rebels Batista's Army Holds Cuba Under Strict Military Rule HAVANA Fulgcn- i'io Batista's army held Cuba under strict military rule today after an anti-Batista demonstration in the pro-rebel city of Santiago dc Cuba. Comments on the demonstration and the situation in Cuba by Earl E. T.

Smith, the new U.S. ambassador, brought a fusillade of criticism from political leaders loyal to the President. Batista's Cabinet suspended constitutional guarantees for 45 clays and immediately directed the army to take control of Santiago, capital of Oricnte province and a hotbed of anti-Batista sentiment. A general strike had been called in the city to protest police ac- State's Highway Death Toll Down LANSING iff) highway death foil continued on the decline during July, statt police reported today. Provisional figures showed 122 persons were killed in traffic accidents during the month.

This represented a saving of 28 lives compared to the death toll of 150 in the same month last year. Except for June, when the toll was 115 both years, each month this year has reflected a reduction from last year. 14-Year-Old Killer Ordered Confined to Mental Hospital Fox, H-year'-oId boy who bludgeoned his aged step-uncle last Monday, was sent to a mental hospital Thursday. Shiawasscc County Probate Clark Shanahan ordered the youth confined at Pontiac State Hospital until the question of his mental respoonsibllity is settled. If Lorcn is judged sane, Shia wassce Prosecutor Jay Tarbush said, the only charge that could be filed against him is delinquency and if convicted he could be held only until his 19th birthday.

Lorcn has admitted fatally beating William Bentley, 81, of Perry, because he wanted to use his step- uncle's car. Farlow Bound over to Circuit Court William Farlow, 21, of North William street, charged with grand larceny, waived examination in Municipal court today and was bound over to the Oct. term ol Circuit court. Bond was xet at $500. Farlow has been held in the Magon county jail after admitting to sheriff's officers that he took 400 snow fence posts, valued at over $700, owned by the Michigan stale highway department.

He later sold who notified sheriff's department, the posts to county junk dealers, for $58. Michigan Tourist Council Receives Large Amount of 'Unusual' Requests WORLD NEWS SUMMARY By TOM SHAWVER LANSING travel and romance often go hand in hand, public tourist agencies have no call to foster international love affairs. Mainly for that reason, the Michigan Tourist Council was forced to send its "regrets" when a Turkish gentleman wrote to ask the council's help in arranging a marriage with an American woman, "preferably about 30 years old." But on a variety of other requests, somewhat less bizarre, council personnel have come through without batting an eyelash. To mark its opening day, a supermarket in Racine, asked for an ilcm displaying Michigan's colors. Though the state has no official colors, braided ribbons of purple and the dominant colors in the state flag, were sent I off.

to the supermarket manager. Partly as a result of the agency's efforts, some 9,750,000 tourists are expected to spend about 625 million dollars in Michigan this I year, ranking tourism with agri- culture and manufacturing as the 1 state's biggest industries. A major share of the council's $424,000 budget goes for advertising. Requests for descriptive literature on the state keeps staffers busy the year around. In June, one of the busier months, they PLEASE NOTICE We will be closed Sunday, August 4 because of the death of Reuben Graber.

CARL'S GROCERY 1323 S. Madison Street MOSQUITOES This time of the season is the most difficult time to control them. If you are bothered call us. The next two weeks are our last spraying for the season. I Scientific Weed and Insect Control Co.

Phone 670-M SATURDAY NIGHT DANCING FUN to Music of Hank Beyers at the OAK GROVE TAVERN IRONS handled 4,406 letters, nearly 2,500 queries and per- I sonal- calls at the office. Most requests to the council are for promotional materials, but offbeat queries frequently add humor to routine business. A Cover, resident wanted to know the population of India in 11357. A Louisville, girl wanted "information on glass and weather, both or one or the other." From the new Republic of Ghana in Africa came a letler this summer from a young girl attending a Methodist missionary school. "My father is a farmer and at the same time hunter, so I have i collected about six monkey skins," she wrote.

"If you send anything suitable for both you and me I will send you all the six, but if you send anything not from your heart, I will send only half of them to you, I. E. three." Council secretaries promptly mailed an envelope of descriptive materials on Michigan They're still waiting for the monkey skioa. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Killed in State Four persons were killed in separate traffic accidents in Michigan Thursday night and today. The toll included a vacationing Chicago man who died in a fiery two-car collision on the main streets of the Cass Counly community of MarcelluE.

Hofja Eyes Combine SAN FRANCISCO Teamster chief James R. Hoffa advocates a giant combine of transportation sea and air- he said here Thursday. Hoffa said that he is confident he will be elected Teamsters Union president next month to succeed Dave Beck. If he is, he says he will work for a merger of truck drivers, longshoremen, railroad and steamship employes and warehousemen into a giant transport union within the AFL-CIO framework. RAF Raids Rebels MANAMA, Behrain British warplanes carried out the biggest air raid of the campaign against rebel tribesmen in the sultanate of Oman and Muscat Thursday, the RAF announced today.

Low-flying aircraft shot rockets and machinegun bullets into a rebel encampment at Farq and destroyed tents and huts near the mud fort, a communique said. Market Trading Light NEW YORK MV-Cautipn and light trading continued to prevail in the stock market early this afternoon. Price changes among pivotal issues were very narrow for the most part. It was mainly a mixture of small plus and minus signs. A few key stocks moved beyond the range of a point.

Uncertainty as to the next definite trend of the market still keeping investors on the sidelines, broken said. lion in dispersing Wednesday's demonstration. Most places of business were closed, although po- ice forced some food stores to reopen. Port operations were halted nnd banks were shut down. A cafe near Santiago that had cmained open was hit by gun: irc and hand grenades hurled from two automobiles Thursday night.

Army reinforcements also were reported sent to Bueycito, another town in Oriente province, where a band of rebels was said to have burned an army post. Censorship again was clamped on local and incoming foreign newspapcis and radio stations and on outgoing news dispatches. Stories sent abroad were being dc- layed as much as six hours. Specifically banned was publication or transmission of news implying support for the rebels led by Fidel Castro. Also banned was news on work stoppages promoted by labor unions or employ crs.

Group to Study Deer Question LANSING Recommendations for "any deer" hunting seasons this year in 32 food shortage and crop damage areas will come before the Stato Conservation Commission at its Aug. 8-9 meeting. Conservation Department, proposals call for issuance of hunting permits and an anticipatcc kill of 18,540 deer of any ago, or sex during the special seasons. Senate Adopts Amendment by 51-42 Margin WASHINGTON Iff) The Eisen- lowcr administration lost the battle against the jury trial amendment, and Sen. Knowland.

3alif) said today the civil rights bill probably is dead for this session of Congress. But his pessimism was not shared by all the bill's supporters, possibility that some Southern foes of the measure may vote for it it a few more changes made. Knowland, the Senate Republican leader, told reporters he had "no alibis" for the 51-42 vole by which the Senate adopted the jury trial amendment shortly after midnight. "I just didn't have the votes," he said. Adoption of the jury trial amendment, he said, probably means that any measure the Senate passes will be tied up In a Senate-House disagreement.

The House had rejected any provision for jury trials. On the dramatic roll call vote, witnessed by spectators who crammed the Senate 1 party lineup was 39 Democrats and 12 Republicans for the amendment and 9 Democrats and 33 Republicans against it. This was a wider margin of victory for the jury trial advocates than had been, anticipated. But approval of the amendment had been, when, at mid afternoon Thursday, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas announced thai the vote might come at any Johnson had been working Ishly behind the scenes line up enough votes for the proposal.

innouncement was tab I feftbn 'jfowWUS by about aM tfoljld bo In addition to the tegular, buck kill in the regular Nov. 15-30 shooting period. In 1956, nearly. 61,000 buck were bagged during the regular season and 12,800 more by special season hunters in 22 areas. Five of the proposed special season for this fall would be in the Upper Peninsula, 26 in the northern Lower Peninsula and only one in the remainder of the state.

About 12,300 square miles of territory would be involved. A major change would establish concurrent Nov. 15-30 "any deer" seasons for permit holders in all five U. P. locations, and in 13 of the 26 special areas in the northern Lower Peninsula.

Dates from Dec. 1-8 were recommend for a crop damage area in Allcgan County, and special shooting elates Dec. 1-2 in the other locations. Ken Cherry Prices Dip in State TRAVERSE CITY iff) Cancella- lion of an Army order for 261,000 cases of cherries began to take its toll in prices today. Some firms cut their offerings from seven tp four cents down on a pound of cherries.

Most firms pay a certain price down to farmers, contingent on what the final selling price is. The difference is made up after the season when final prices are established. Two firms, Frigid Foods of Sutton Bay and the Pet-Ritz of Frankfort and Acme, still held prices at seven cents or better, the amount set by cherry growers and packers at the beginning of the season. The seven-cent price remained stable until the Army order was I cancelled. But most Traverse City packers today were paying five cents down and Packing Co.

offered four cents. Two Hart packers said.Wednes- day their prices had been reduced to five cents down. on thr call 'vote, They Sen. Neejy (D-WVaJ, who, Is the nearbi Bethesdf'Naval pilal, and Sen. Bridges (R-NJf recuperating in his, home from illness.

The for juty trials 'i'n criminal tempt cases arising from injunctions the attorney general would be empowered to obtain to enforce voting rights. It also would apply in labor cases and others involving federal injunctions. President Eisenhower had restated only Wednesday his opposition to any such amendment. Vice President Nixon said in a statement to newsmen, "This was one of the saddest days in the history of the Senate because this was a vote against the right to vote." But Russell, leader of the Dixie forces for whom the vote a second major victory, said, "The Senate was at its very best." "It renews my faith in repre-, sentative government to see men have the courage to above the pressures and vote their convic-' lions," he told reporters. 'i THE WEATHER Northwestern Lower Increasing cloudiness with scattered showers late this afternoon and tonight.

Cloudy and cooler Saturday. Southerly winds 10 to 15 mph. High today 85-90, low tonight 60-65, high Saturday 70-75. Outlook for Sunday Generally fair and continued cool. (U.S.

Wtithtr BurtiU Forecast) Highest temperature Thursday 83, low 62. Highest temperature one year ago 79, low 86. Highest temperature, thin date since 1372, 95 In 1930; low, 81 in 1927. The sun today at 7:60 p.jn. and rises Saturday at a.

m. The moon rises today at 1:18 p. at. and sets today at 11:39 p. m.

Temperature at the U.S. observation station for 20 ewdtrvg at 11 noon: Maximum minimum M. Fire Marshal Inspects Home In an effort to determine pos- 1 sibility of returning to use the closed Mason county convalescent home at 509 East Ludington avenue, Arnold Renner, chief of the fire marshal's division of Michigan State police, spent half an" hour inspecting the building Thursday afternoon. With him were Sgt. John Girocco of Traverse City and Sgt.

Tanner of Lansing. Renner will report his recom- mendations by letter. The convalescent home was closed by Mason county board supervisors at a special session Feb. 21 following receipt of a list of 30 recommended alterations to the building. The board, that complying with these recom- mendations would be too costly, ordered the home closed, effec-, tive April 1.

DROWNS SWIMMING MONROE L. Nelson, 60, of nearby North Shore Beact drowned Thursday while swl ming in Lake Erie in front home. Nelson was a foreman' Monroe Paper Products Co. AT THE Water ton beach.