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SECTION Tv70 14 Pages A Michigan's Biggest Buy For Reader And For Advertiser BENTON HARBOR, MICH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1959 higmt Seaway Impuci lf It hV IS ffT CJST Mm NAME CHAIRMEN Navy Orders Outlook For Lake States Is Unlimited CORN GROWS BIG AT EMC: Bernard Andersen, field crop superintendent at Emmanuel Missionary dollege displays an ear of corn from last year's harvest which gave the college the top award in Berrien county's 1958 DeKalb contest. A five-acre plot involved yielded 146.54 bushels per acre. 1 tidily iifp FOURTH TB1E Latest Type Destroyers Bay Gty Humming With Building, Jobs BAY COT, Jan. 15 (Special) Economic impact of the St.

rence Seaway in providing new Jobs and industry in the Great Lakes region has taken concrete form in this northeastern Michigan city. Scheduled for completion this year, the gigantic seaway project has opened up a new field for the shipbuilding industry of the Great Lakes, having already resulted In the awarding of a $68,000,000 navy contract to the DeFoe Shipbuilding company of Bay City. This one contract alone, not counting sub-contract and service Jobs, is providing steady employment for 1,450 workers and will keep them busy for nearly three more years. BUILD DESTROYERS Here in the sprawling DeFoe shipyards on the Saginaw river, five miles Inland from Saginaw bay, an arm of Lake Huron, construction work is progressing rapidly on two U. S.

Navy guided missile launching destroyers, the first of four such hips be built in Bay City. -According to Thomas J. DeFoe, president of the 53-year-old company, this la the first time that such large ocean going ships have been built on inland waters. They will measure 440 feet in length, and have a 4,500 ton displacement and a 47 foot beam. "Due to the scheduled opening of the St.

Lawrence Seaway before the date set for completion of the first of these ships, we were able to bid for and obtain this important contract from the navy," Mr. Defoe said The navy let contracts for IS of the missile launching destroyers, four to be built by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; three by the New York Shipbuilding Corpora- tion, of Camden, New Jersey, and two by the Todd Shipyards, of Seattle. Washington, all ocean ports, in addition to the four being built here, Mr. DeFoe pointed out. Cargo ships of greater length, such as the Edmund Fitzgerald, 759 foot ore carrier launched this year by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge, the largest carrier ever built on the Great Lakes, have been built on inland waterways, but it has been impossible to get deep draft ships such as the new navy destroyers out to sea through present channels.

OPENS NEW ERA "We have qualified to build larger ships but couldnt bid on this type of work because there was no water route to get them to the oceans of the world. Our coming DOUBLE MARKERS for the Detroit-Chicago expressway are displayed by state highway commissioner John C. Mackie. Both will be used until relocation is completed, then Interstate-94 will stand alone. Temporary Double Signs For High way Until the Detroit-Chicago expressway is completed, finished sections will bear two highway markers "Michigan, US-12" and "Interstate, Mlchlgan-94." When the re-location is completed, the former will be also apply to a northeast extension removed.

The No. 94 designation will of the expressway from Detroit to US-25. Mackle's office announced South Haven's Goal Is 500 Pints Of Blood SOUTH HAVEN, Jan. 15 Mrs. John C.

Kerr, route 2, South Ha ven, was named general chairman of the South Haven blood donors, clinic to be held March 16-17 at the First Congregational church. The annoucement was made Wed nesday by Miss Ruth Crum, preel- dent of the Chamber of Commerce women's division. Volunteers will be aiming at a goal of 500 pints, the quota reached at last year's clinic. Assistant chairman of the clinic will be Mrs. Harold Wolf.

Other chairmen named yesterday were Mrs. Mabel Anthony, publicity; Dr. Joseph Cooper, hospital staff; Steve Szarkowski, merchants; Robert Lee-ver, industry; Mrs. Farres Struble, PTA's; Mrs. Robert Flood, organizations; Mrs.

Frank Chaddock and Miss Gladys Winters, scheduling of volunteers; Mrs. Philip Patner and Mrs. Gladys Willwock, canteen; Mrs. Glen Capps, volunteers; Mrs. Milford Stevens, Casco; Mrs.

James Dlssette, Maple Grove. NO ELECTION For Irish DETROIT, Jan. 15 (AP) The Irish vote is heavy in suburban Roseville. With this in mind, Roseville's school board is going to change the date of an important school tax election. "We cant afford," said board at torney Raymond Cashen, "to get the Irish mad at us." Cashen said the board inadvert ently set the election for March 17, St.

Patrick's Day, requiring the closing of all bars under election law. Himself an Irishman, Cashen said "There are more Irish than usual on St. Patrick's Day, too." Pipestone Aroused By Relief Load Special Meeting Set Wednesday EAT CLAIRE, Jan. 16 The Pipe stone township board, aroused by mounting welfare applications called a special meeting Wednesday night to shape plans aimed at easing the burden. Discussion resulted in adoption of a motion that will require relief applicants to work a stipulated number of hours on township projects to be eligible for welfare.

The board noted that It paid out 1262.33 for Nobember welfore charges. This represented 70 percent of the total bill: which is the town ship's share. It covered relief for five applicants. However, the township now has 12 applicants, creating a strain on scanty township funds. The board expressed fear that the total will continue to soar unless a work program is carried out.

Plans are to offer applicants work through county offices on such projects as clearing drains and roadside brush. The board said its plan will be discussed further at the Jan. 24 meeting. Three Oaks Twp. Tuition Okayed THREE OAKS, Jan.

15 The Three Oaks township school district has been given approval for the collection of tuition for non-resident pupils enrolled in grades 9-12 for the year ending June 30, 1960. This decision was made by the depart ment of public instruction as the result of a review of the available data on their total school program. US-12 in Michigan will be completed or placed under contract this year. Today, 74 miles of the re-located route are open to traffic. This includes the 44 miles from Detroit to Ann Arbor, the 16 miles around the north end of Jackson's city limits, and 14 miles south of Kalamazoo and east to Galesburg.

Locally, the new by-pass around the Twin Cities and a projection through the Grand Mere from Stevensville to Sawyer and then south from Sawyer to an Waterway Means Great New Era ANN ARBOR, Jan. 15 (Special)- Greafr Lakes states have an oppor tunlty for future growth that can be matched or beaten only by the Far West, Dr. Richard J. Lund of the Battelle Memorial Institute declared here today. Assistant technical director of the Institute, Lund keynoted the annual conference of the Great Lakes Industrial Development Council at the University of Michigan.

He said Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin hold a "peerless position' in these important assets: 1. Their people; 2. Their central location in relation to industrial and consumer markets: 3. Their abundant supplies of fresh water, steel, coal, limestone and salt; 4. Their high farm income; and 5.

Their unmatched transportation facilities, especially inland water, which will soon be extended by the St. Lawrence Seaway. He said a sixth factor of equal importance business climate "varies so much between the states comprising the different regions that it is impossible to generalize in making brief regional comparisons. "Everyone has a mighty job on his hands to assist in strengthening the position of the Great Lakes region in this vital asset," he added. Other states and regions have been "far more progressive" in de veloping economic data useful in promoting industrial location in their areas, he continued." POPULATION LEADS Lund noted these facts on the future of Great Lakes regional development: As of 1955, the Great Lakes led all other regions in population.

By 1970, its population is expected to grow 32 per cent a rate second only to the Par West. The Great Lakes is well equipped with technical manpower needed in an age of science. In 1955, Great Lakes colleges and universities grad uated nearly a quarter of the na tlon's engineers, proportion equalled only by the Atlantic region. Between 1936 and 1950, Great Lakes institutions awarded about one out of every three doctoral degrees in science and engineering in the U. S.

Great Lakes reserves of basic in' dustriai minerals and coal assure ample supplies over centuries. Oil and gas reserves of the Southwest are bound to pass their peak and decline much sooner, possibly be fore the turn of the century. Vast reserves of coal in and near the Great Lakes assure supplies of rela tlvely low priced electricity for many generations in the future. The value of farm products sold in the Great Lakes region far ex ceeds that of the Atlantic, Far West, New England and Southwest regions. With no stretch of the imagina tion, we're capable of supplying the food needs of lots more people than are projected for the region in decades ahead," he commented.

"Moreover, as research leads the way to progress in greater in' dustriai use of farm products, these vast agricultural resources will add further to the region's economic and industrial growth." Rich assets of lakes, forests and rivers will supply the expanding recreational needs of a growing pop ulation. INDUSTRY GROWS So far as manufacturing is concerned, he noted the Great Lakes is well ahead of other regions in the value added to products by manu facturlng. But its rate of growth trails the national average. Durable goods like automobiles are much more Important in the Great Lakes than other regions, he continued. "Our industrial picture would be healthier if we displayed a somewhat closer balance between these two broad classes of industry." Approximately 200 experts from utilities, banks, real firms, Chambers of Commerce and similar organizations are attending the con ference, which closes Friday.

Injured Galien Farmer 'Fair' GALIEN, Jan, 15 Jay Frame, 52' year-old Galien man who was in jured in a farm accident Tuesday afternoon, was listed in "fair" condition today by aides at South Bend's Osteopathic hospital. Frame, who resides on a farm three miles southeast of Galien, received broken ribs, a punctured lung -and other internal injuries when a log fell from a log loader with which he was working and struck him in the chest. HOME FROM HOSPITAL THREE OAKS, Jan. 15 Mrs. Har ry Peters was brought to her home on East Locust street Tuesday evening, in the H.

B. Connelly, ambulance, from the St. Anthony hospital, where she was taken to undergo (, position on tne worms -eignwi sea Toastmasters Get Charter New Club To Meet On Wednesdays SISTER Jan. 15 The newly-formed Sister Lakes Toast masters club received its charter and installed officers for the first year at a ceremony Wednesday night at the Redwood Inn. The club, organized with 25 charter members, added three more to its roster last night as a schedule for meetings and speakers was set.

The charter was presented by Ray Frazer, area governor for Toast-masters clubs in southwestern Michigan. Reviewing the history of the Toastmasters, Frazer told the new club affiliates that more than 3,000 clubs have sprung up in the United States along since the organization's founding in 1914 in California. He said the clubs are forming at the rate of one a day and cover nearly all nations of the world. BABCOCK IS PRESIDENT The officers, all seated for one-year terms at Sister Lakes are John Babcock, president, and Bill Bur-nette, sergeant-at-arms, both of Keeler, and John Bartz, secretary, Joey Andrews, treasurer, Dick Lin-denberg, educational vice-president and Don Regan, membership vice-president, aU of Sister Lakes. The new club has scheduled its meetings for 6:30 p.

m. on the second and fourth Wednesdays at the Redwood Inn. A Ladies Night for members' wives is scheduled for March 25. Guests assisting Frazer in the charter presentation last night were three members of Club 1407 in Benton Harbor; Reinhold Petru-schke, past president; Ray LeaU, past president and James Lanner, president along with Hugh Munro, of Club 1410 in Benton Harbor and Gerry DeMlnk, of the Kalamazoo club. Loses Deed To House Harry Daisy, 315 Walnut street, complained to Benton Harbor police he lost an envelope yesterday afternoon containing a deed and land contract to his house.

He said he thought he tost it between the Farmers fe Merchants National bank and his home. Which Comes First? Plan, Curriculum? Paw Paw Group Tries To Answer Questions PAW PAW, Jan. 15 Should plans for new school buildings arise from masses of curriculum data, or from a hypothetical building plan mat may be altered as needs are discovered. For two hours Wednesday night, the Paw Paw citizens' study com mittee, formed to recommend a building program to the board of education, grappled with that problem, and ended with factions on both sides walking away with mut ters of "victory. The long-recognized problem came to a head Wednesday night when Paul Kaiser proposed all other work of the committee stop until currlcu lum needs are determined.

Heated objections were voiced by Lewis Williams, who warned the group that no building program will be feasible this year unless the com. mlttee stops talking in terms of teaching and starts talking in terms of building. Williams wanted the committee to form a tentative building program and hypothesis then, with some thing tangible in front of them all the time, they could alter the plans as they decided what ought to be taught. A compromise on the issue was reached when the committee voted to continue its curriculum study for two more weeks, then turn over its reports to a ten-man sub committee which would formulate the tentative recommendations Wil llama called for. Winter Is Back Again A brief spell of fairly mild weath er that sent the mercury up to 39 degrees here yesterday and melted some holes in the snow blanket was expected to end abruptly today un der a new cold blast.

Winter weather shoving In from the west today Is to be accompanied by snow flurries. The IT. S. Weather Buresa added in its forecast that occasional snow squalls are in prospect- today and tonight temperature of 7 to 11 degrees near Lake Michigan. A low is predicted for tonight, with a high of 10 to 15 tomorrow.

The new. hiass of Arctic air will envelop this area at least through Saturday, according to the fore cast. Mild weather here yesterday in duced heavy thawing of the snow cover, which has blanketed southwestern Michigan continuously since Dec. 7. The new cold wave moving In spread out of the Northern Rockies and across the Oreat Plains yesterday, shoving temperatures down about 30 degrees from the previous day.

The colder air dipped as far south as Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Highways west of Den ver were closed by snow drifts. along Maple lake. In the meantime, where he got permission from Mrs. EMC Farm Tops County Corn: Yields BERRIEN SPRINGS.

Jan. 16 An offiical yield of 146.54 bushels of corn, per acre won first place for Emmanuel Missionary college in the 1958 DeKalb, Zlve-acre corn-grow ing contest of Berrien county, re. ported Bernard Andersen, field crops superintendent. The 1958 prize-winning crop was grown on the same plot which yielded the second-place crop in the county last year. This year's yield was fourth highest for the entire state of Michigan.

Emmanuel Missionary college this year raised a total of over 11,000 bushel of the largest crop ever produced on the college farm, Andersen pointed out. The average yield on the college home farm was 102 bushels per acre, he said, while the averacre vield for the entire state of Michigan is estimated at 56 bushels per acre. During the last ten years the col lege has had the top place in Berrien county four different times. The prize-winning yields were 9121 bushels per acre in 1948, 111.31 in 1949, 133.36 in 1951, and 146.54 In 1958. These figures indicate the eral trend of yields and the Increasing difficulty of obtaining the top figure.

Students Of Bangor Rate High In Test FRED BALFOUR BANGOR, Jan. 15 Bangor school officials said eight of their 30 students who volunteered for the latest national Scholarship Qualifying test were ranked among the upper third of the students competing throughout the nation. Highest score among the Bangor group was made by Fred Balfour whose performance placed him among the top one per cent of the students in 10,000 schools who com pleted the exam. "We are very pleased with tne rating achieved by these students," declared Bangor Supt. Lewis Wood.

Results indicate that both Bangor students and the school system are able to compete favorable with any public high school across the nation in preparing students for college." Miss Mary Robinson, guidance co ordinator, explained that a high test rating does not assure a senior of a scholarship. She said it merely indicates that he will have a good chance of success in college studies. Howard Beyer, principal, administered the tests at Bangor. BOOKED AS DRUNK PAW PAW, Jan. 15 Mont Jones, a 43-year-old transient, was booked at the Van Buren county Jail Wednesday night on a drur charge, Port Huron which presently is called recently that the entire 219 miles of No.

94 includes the Golden Belt Buffalo. Report Is -Threat To Patients Van Buren Officials Fret Over Hospital PAW PAW, Jan. 15 Van Buren county authorities were at first startled, then unworried by a recent report of state health commissioner Dr. Elbert Heustls that could have direct effect upon the bousing of the county's indigent hospital patients. The patients were removed last month from the condemned Hart ford medical care facility to the American Legion hospital in Battle Creek.

It Is only with the publication of the Heustls report, however, that the county learned the Battle Creek hospital is actually a state institu tion under lease to the American Legion. Dr. Heustls, in his report to Gov. Williams, recommended that the lease with the Legion be term! nated and that the hospital be con verted to use as a mental institu tion. Such a move, say Van Buren off! clals, could mean the expulsion of the more than 30 Van Buren pa tients there.

SLIM CHANCE FOR REPORT There was little feeling, however, that the Heustls report would be accepted by the legislature. Two other reports to the governor dealing with the need to find hous ing for the state's mentally ill are also under scrutiny. A Williams-appointed study com' mission recommends that nearly vacant tuberculosis sanitariums be used to house mental patients. A report of the office of hospital sur vey and construction wants hospitals, such as the one at Battle Creek, to house mental, TB and chronic cases under one roof. Two Hurt In Crash At Niles NILES, Jan.

15 Two men were slightly injured in a car-truck accident Wednesday that resulted in extensive damage to the car. Niles state police said Peter Williams, 41, of 825 South 15th street, had slight bruises and a cut on the. back of the head. Norris B. Nevill, 23, route 3, also of Niles, had a cut on the lower lip.

Troopers said Wil liams halted his -truck in Wednes day's fog on M-40 at Mead road, 1 miles north of Niles when Nevill opens a vast new neia oi duswcss for our company and others located on the Great Lakes," Mr. DeFoe added. In 1957 Defoe completed two 315 foot destroyer escorts for the Navy and these were put to sea via Lake Michigan, the Chicago ship canal, the Illinois Rim, the Mississippi liver and the Gulf of Mexico. Contracts for the four missile launching destroyers were awarded In competitive bidding and are being built at a fixed price, Defoe pointed out. He said it is the Defense department's policy to disperse work to various areas to qualified contractors submitting the low-' est bids.

1 Michigan's industrial ambassa- Ann. enras of 200 leading indus- trial and civic leaders, who in then-travels about the country and abroad sell Michigan's advantages, hailed the project as a significant milestone in state's industrial Droeress and have scheduled their next meeting in connection with the launching of the first of the big destroyers next April 28. WEEKEND IN LANSING THREE OAKS, Jan. 15 Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Hoadley spent the week end with Mrs. Hoadley 's daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Don Bowker in Lansing. The birthday of Mrs.

Bowker was celebrated. Straits Mighty Indiana connecting link east of New Galien Caucus Dates Are Set GALIEN, Jan. 15 At this week's meeting of the Galien township board, caucus dates were selected for Republicans and Democrats for the April election. The Republicans wiU meet in the town hall on Feb. 14 at 2 and Democrats will meet Feb.

16 at 7 pjn. in the town hall. Burglars Hit Stores Again Take $35 From Cass Street Shop Burglars hit two Cass street stores for the second time in three nights, occording to Benton Harbor police. Reported missing from the Lynch Merchandising 448 Cass street, this morning was $35 in cash. Patrolman Robert Hoyt said the money was taken from three boxes that were in a filing cabinet.

Police found a window broken near the lock on the front door at the Twin City Radio Repair shop, 450 Cass street, at 6:35 ajn. today. Nothing was reported missing, police said. Both buildings were first burglarized Monday night. Two radios, valued at $110, were taken from the radio shop and $191 JO worth of merchandise was reported from the merchandising center.

2. Second largest area represented by out-of-state some 15 per cent, came from eastern Canada 3. Two of. three crossing the bridge from out-of-state came through the Lower Peninsula 4. Every county in Michigan was represented by one or more mo torist crossing the bridge.

Top counties were Wayne with 1,011 trips, Kent with 227 and Genesee with 148. 5. There were 1,825 trips northbound for Sault Ste. Marie, but only 157 of these were headed into Canada. 6.

Theer were 687 northbound cars nlannlno- on traveling the leneth of a i Bridge Tourist Proving Magnet Youth Flees Police Eost9 Caught In Doctor's Home LANSING, Jan. 15 The Straits of Mackinac Bridge has a drawing power that reaches from coast to coast, the State Highway department reported today. PAW. PAW, Jan. 15 A Kalamazoo youth was apprehended Wednes day in the home of a Paw Paw physician shortly after he fled the Paw Paw state police post.

Robert White, 17, had been taken to the post by Kalamazoo county deputies to undergo a polygraph test in connection with a case of rape and strong-arm robbery. Left alone in a second Traffic engineers established mat the bridge is a mighty big tourist magnet through a 24-hour origin and destination study. "The tremendous drawing power of the bridge is probably best 11- histrated by the fact that cars from 40 of the 49 states crossed the bridge in the 24-hour John C. Mackie, state highway commis- oiner, said. Mackie said driver of Si oer cent nf fh 43Q vehlclea crnssinff making the crossing came from outside of Michigan.

EXPRESSWAY LINK Mackie said that by 1962 the department will have completed an 'expressway from the southern bor der of Michigan to the bridge. He said he expects the expressway to increase traffic in the Straits area I by as much as 50 per cent. Other fin dines: I 1 fin mr rjnt nf th 'nn t-of -state story room Just before noon Wednesday, White slipped out of a window onto a garage roof, down the front of the garage and over the cement wall, according to the police. Minutes he was grabbed in the bedroom of the home of Dr. H.

C. A. Johnson, Jr. Trooper Leonard Bruder, who made the arrest, had to break down the bedroom door to apprehend White as the youth was again slipping out of a window. Bruder, discovering White's disappearance from the post, had tracked his footprints through the snow White reached the Johnson home Johnson to use the telephone.

When Bruder entered the Johnson home minutes later, he said White ducked into a bedroom and locked the door. the bridge were interviewed. It was traffic came from Wisconsin, Eli-j the Upper Peninsula into Wiscon-j drove his car into the rear of the surgery on her hip which was Si per cent of those Indiana and Ohio. jsin. i truck.

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