The Herald-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan • 39

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1967 PAGE THIRTY-NINE THE NEWS -PALLADIUM, BENTON HARBOR, MICH. 4' r. j. Four Millionth Teleph one Installed In Michigan Michigan Guard Strength Boosted Pentagon Revises Figures Of Last August LANSING (AP) The Department of Defense has increased the Michigan Army National Guard troop and unit strength over its Aug. 10 proposed realignment plan, State Adjutant General Clarence C.

Schnipke said New Milestone Reached Today AST: All 7: Somewhere In Michigan today, Michigan Bell Telephone Co. hooked up its 4 millionth telephone. Russell H. Engelhardt, Benton Harbor exchange manager. said it was not possible to determine in advance just where the installation would be made, as an average of 730 phones go in each day in the state.

It could be here, or it could be in some other area of Michigan. -This milestone comes 90 years after this form of communication was introduced in Michigan, Engelhardt related. The first telephone line In the state was installed in Detroit in Tuesday. 'f it: Maj. Gen.

Schnipke said the latest proposal, received from the department Tuesday, provides for an additional 510 men and 10 units for a total stale strength of 10,207 Army Guardsmen and 80 Army Guard units. The department's earlier proposal would have given Michigan a troop allotment of 9,697 Pair Arraigned In Shooting Of Youth Guardsmen making up 70 units. This would have been a reduction from the guard's present troop strength of 9,909 men. ROMNEY'S PROTEST Schnipke said be and his staff are studying the proposal and will make recommendations to Gov. George Romney, who had protested the department'! Aug.

10 proposed cutback plan. The earlier proposal did not provide an adequate command structure and troop strength to cope with civil disorders of the size experienced last July in Detroit. Romney, the Guard's commander in chief, had; charged. Romney also said increased I M'' A. intent to do great bodily harm and assault with a deadly weaponwere Willie Tate, 17, and Roswell Pittman, 19.

They were held at the Kalamazoo County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bond each Suspected Slayer To Face Trial 1877 just 16 months after the newly-invented telephone had transmitted its first intelligible sentence on March 10, 1876, in Boston Mass. It connected Frederick K. Steam's drug store to his laboratory a few blocks away. POSTWAR GROWTH It was in war-time 1942 that Michigan Bell reached its one millionth installation. In 1952 the utility put in its two-millionth phece.

In 1961 the three-millionth went in. Englehardt said 95 per cent of the households in the areas served by Michigan Bell have phone service. Phone users, he added, can call approximately twd million residences and nearly 260,000 businesses in the firm's territory. Not only has the number of telephones quadrupled in the past 25 years, but Engelhardt noted that Michigan phone users have become more talkative. For example, in 1942 Mich-igan Bell callers made about I to await examination set for Nov.

15. I A third youth, Kenrick Adams, KALAMAZOO (AP) Two Battle Creek youths demanded examination at their municipal court arraignment this week on charges in connection with the shooting of a Kalamazoo youth Saturday. John Hollin, 18, suffered a bullet wound of the neck and was reported In poor condition Tuesday at Borgess Hospital. Hospital officials said the slug was lodged in Hollin's neck. Charged with three counts each assault with intent to commit murder, assault with capability is necessary should FOR A GOOD GUY IN VIETNAM Members of the Junior Neighborhood Improvement club of Benton Harbor's Third Ward remember Spec.

4 William Morgan, of 657 Thresher avenue, as a good guy and pleasant neighbor. He'll be hearing from them about Christmas time when he receives this box of goodies held by (left to right) Regina Joseph, Beverly Burks and Annette Davis. Club members collected treats for Bill and mailed them in time to assure delivery before Christmas. Postal authorities say regular (surface) mail must be off by Friday and air mail by Dec. 12 for Christmas (Staff photo) i there be simultaneous outDreaici of violence in several Michigan cities.

Gen. Schnipke said the new: PONTIAC (AP)-Wilham G. Gravlin, 33, Of Troy, will be brought from a mental hospital to Pontiac to stand trial in the 1964 hatchet slayings of his wife, daughter and five stepchildren. A. A.

Birzagalis, medical superintendent of Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, informed Oakland County officials Monday that Gravlin is mentally capable of understanding the charges against him. Fifteen years ago when the two millionth phone was installed, only 10 per cent of the telephones in homes were ex five million calls a day an average of 303 calls a year per person. Today's phone users carry on about 20 million calls plan would require changes in unit composition, but he said Michigan cities that now have a Guard unit would continue to have a unit under the new plan. He added that all members of the Guard would be assured of the opportunity for continued service under the new proposal, i HEAT OFFENDER WASHINGTON (AP) Sidney J. Brown, owner of a 290-unit apartment complex, was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in jail for not providing heat to his tenants.

iu, or name creeK, was to De arraigned in Kalamazoo Municipal Court today on similar charges. He was arrested Monday night. Tate and Pittman were picked up in Battle Creek Sunday by officers from Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. Police said four other Battle Creek youths were apprehended Monday on suspicion of felonious ''OSfllllt. The- shooting of Hollin cli-nmed two nights of violence by youths on Kalamazoo's North Side.

It followed the Friday night football upset of Battle Creek Central by Kalamazoo Central. tensions. Now, 44 per cent of a day, and the average caller talks to someone on the phone the residence phones are exten- Gets Lawyer rn Mail Bomb Slaying Case 615 times a year. I slons, according to Engelhardt. Wednesday Night, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 50 Houses To Be Razed For Road Job 1 I TV (B Round Over In St.

Joe j. ii Vo 11 LANSING (AP) The State Highway Department has been given a go ahead by the State Administrative Board to demolish 50 houses on lands purchased for extension of I 96 freeway in Detroit. J. P. Woodford, representing the department, said housing is available for the people being moved out by the freeway construction.

Such certification and Administrative Board approval is needed before the houses can be MARSHALL (AP)- Attorney W. Reed Orr was appointed Tuesday to represent Enoch Chism, 44, of Marshall, charged in the Aug. 18 mail bomb slaying of Mrs. Nola Puyear, 49. Judge Creighton R.

Coleman of Calhoun County appointed Orr and said Chism's examination would be held Nov. 16. Mrs. Puyear was killed and her husband, Paul, 56, injured, when a bomb inside a package mailed to the couple's Marshall restaurant exploded when Mrs. puyear opened it.

Authorities traced the hand writing on the wrapping to Chism, who was arrested Oct. 11. on dDODodD SAW Two men were bound over to Berrien county Circuit court by St. Joseph Municipal Judge Maurice Weber yesterday. Earl Johnson, 325 Butternut, Benton Harbor, is charged with carrying a concealed weapon in an auto.

His $500 bond, which he had furnished, was continued. He was arrested in Pipestone township Oct. 22. Youmiller Campbell, Michigan City, was bound over on a larceny from a building charge. He was arrested Oct.

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