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ICC Rejects Railroad Plans To Abandon Straits Ferry LANSING (AP) The Interstate Commerce Commission has rejected railroad company plans to abandon Mackinac Straits railroad car ferry service and 288 miles of track in Northern Michigan, Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley said today. Kelley said he was notified Division 3 of the ICC has adopted all findings of its hearing examiner, Hyman J. Blond, who earlier had ruled against the Pennsylvania, Soo Line, New York Central and Central railroads.

A spokesman for Kelley said that while the railroads could petition for a re-hearing, the ICC decision virtually closed the lengthy case. Kelley called the announcement "a tremendous victory for all of Michigan. It is the result of many months of excellent cooperation between state agen cies, representatives of communities throughout the affected area, and representatives of industry and labor who expressed their vital interest in this matter." The Pennsylvania, New "York Central and Soo Line jointly own the railroad car Jerry, Chief under the name Mackinac Transportation Co. The Pennsylvania also sought to abandon 225 miles of connecting track between Grand Rapids Mackinaw City. The New York Central and Michigan Cen- tral sought to abandon 63 miles of track between Gaylord and Mackinaw City.

The ICC decision reiterated; the conclusion reached by' Blond: i I "The examiner's review of the entire record convinces him that I the ferry company and railroad applicants have failed to prove i that the present and future public convenience and necessity permit the proposed abandonment of the ferry and connect-1 ing lines of railroad." 1 Blond also had found that the; Upper Peninsula is experiencing substantial growth and expan- sion of its primary inn ore, copper and forest products contrary to railroad contentions that the Upper Peninsula economy is declining. He said economic expansion should bring additional traffic between the two peninsulas. Railroads first sought abandonment in January 1964. They contended traffic had dropped" Irom 15,000 carloads a few years ago to 7,000 carloads in 1964. At one point they were ordered to re pair the ferry and keep it in service until the case was settled.

Johnson Calls Champion Of 3IcNamara By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT Vincent McNamara, who once earned only nine cents an hour as a pipefitter, today was paid the respect and homage of the slate he served in the U.S. Senate for nearly 12 years. The 71-year-old Michigan Democrat died Saturday night after suffering a stoke at Beih- esda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md. He had been under treatment there since March 11 for a blood clot which settled in a lung. McNamara, chairman of the important Senate Public Works Committee, announced earlier this year he would not seek a Senate term.

His health was believed to have prompted the decision. An aide of the senator saiil funeral services would be 'nesday in Detroit's Holy N'unv i Roman Catholic Church' Burial i will be in Mount Olivet Cenie- Ury. i President Johnson and the leading figures of i joined in a tribute to McNimia- ra. I In a statement from the House. Johnson described Jam as "a man of good -generous instincts.

He served worthwhile causes with concern for those finable to help themselves, an-i ihe will be remembered as a champion of the people." In Lansing. Gov. George ney proclaimed a two-day period of mourning Michigan and ordered that US. and state flags be flown at lialf staff. Leaders in the race for Namara's senate seat, ex-Gov.

G. Mcnnen Williams and Detroit Mayor Jerome ar.agh. Democrats, and Kep. Robert P. Griffin, joined in the tributes.

Michigan law permits. but dees not require, Romney to point a successor lo Komney declined to discuss is plans until after the senator's funeral. Griffin svus thought a likely choice. The Evening Sault Ste. Marip MONDAY, MAY 2, 1966 Ste.

Marie OL. 66 NO. 85 14 PAGES PKICE 10 CENTS rocket missiles move past the reviewing stand on fop of Lenin's tomb in square Moscow during the May Day military review staged by the Moscow son. For the time three years no new military hardware was on display. (AP WirephotoJ During May Day Parade Soviets Display No New Weapons By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS May Day demonstrations around the world followed the usual pattern Sunday with calls for peace in Viet Nam sounding at most of them.

The Russians showed no new military hardware at their Moscow parade. Mao Tze-tung did not appear in Peking. And 7,000 South Vietnamese staged an anti-American demonstration in front of the U. S. Embassy in Saigon.

Navy Fighter-Bombers Demolish Missile Site By PETER ARNETT SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) U. S. Navy fighter- bombers demolished another antiaircraft missile site near the North Vietnamese city of Vinh, but in the South the lull in the ground war extended into a third week, the U.S. command reported today. American planes flew more than 300 sorties against suspected Communist targels in South bombs.

A spokesman said they destroyed everything within a 400-foot-square area, including two Soviet-built missile launchers. U.S. spokesmen reported (he loss of two more planes over North Viet Nam, raising the total shot down there to 227, but the pilots of both were rescued by helicopters. Four U.S. planes were lost over the North Friday.

Commenting on the lull in the near the Cambodian border. Although weather curtailed air missions over the Communist North, A4 Skyhawks and F8 Crusaders from the carrier Hancock saturated the missile! site 34 miles northeast of Vinh, on the North Vietnamese coast, with Bullpup air-to-surfacc missiles and 500- and 600-pound still pouring people in here from North Viet Nam at the rate of 5,500 a month. I don't believe they have supplies for support." The infiltration figure, however, represents an increase of 1,000 men a month over Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's estimate to the Senate two months ago. Reviewing a military parade in Moscow's Red Square, Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Y.

Maiinovsky accused the United States of waging "a foul bandit war against the heroic Vietnam-! ese people." "Together with the other Socialist countries," Maiinovsky said, "we support our Vietnamese brothers and arc rendering them and will continue to render them all possible assistance." Other Soviet leaders standing atop Lenin's Tomb in a cold rain reviewed the parade, which i included floats denouncing the U. S. presence in Viet Nam. Radio Peking said three mil- lion persons turned out for the celebrations in the Communist! Chinese capital, but Communist party Chairman Mao was absent. Mao, 72, has not been seen in public for more than five 1 months.

During the Peking rally, Premier Chou En-lai warned Ihe United States that "even more disastrous defeats are in store" if the Viet Nam war is expanded. He said U. S. efforts to set! up peace talks would fail. In South Viet Nam, the chant! "Da Dao My" Down with Americans resounded outside the U.

S. Embassy in Saigon 1 where Vietnamese troops faced 7,000 farmers, dockworkcrs and students demonstrating for peace. There was no violence, TODAY The News! By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY Pope Paul VI discussed the Viet Nam crisis today in a 40-mjjiute meeting wilh Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S ambassador to Saigon. The Pope and the ambassador conferred in the privacy of the library in the pontiffs apartment. Not even interpreters were present.

They spoke in French. MEXICO persons including three Argentines were indicted today for conspiracy to establish a Communist regime in Mexico. CLOUDY and wet skies hung over an area from southern New Jersey to Ihe Carolinas and south and central' Texas'today as several Texas rivers swirled over their banks. The Weather Bureau in Corpus Christ! reported rains of 3 to 5 inches in the watersheds of the upper Nueces and Frio rivers. Considerable flooding was expected from these rivers today and Tuesday.

MEXICO CITY An armed gang kidnaped a family of eight persons, killed seven of (hem and left the eighth seriously wounded in the southern state of Chiapas, reports reaching here today said. DAMASCUS, Syria An Iraqi report says 23 persons-died of suffocation and 49 were injured Sunday in a huge pileup during a religious procession near Baghdad. HIGHLAND PARK Members of the Highia lion of Teachers reportedly reached agreement WJ a boarc! of education today, averting the third day of a strike closed two schools last week. A TWO-CAR, head-on collision near Grand Haven in 'Ottawa County shortly before midnight Sunday claimed two lives, boosting the state's weekend traffic death toll to ten. The Associated Press tabulation began at 6:00 p.m.

Friday and. ended'at midnight Sunday. WORTHINGTON, Minn. Nick Piantanida was in critical condition today after a sudden equipment failure forced him to make a dangerous descent from his high-altiiude balloon. The failure ruined his third attempt lo break the world record for free-fall parachuting.

MENOMIXEE Authorization for issuance of $4.1 million in long-term bonds for school construction will be sought May 9 in a Menominee School District election. The bonds would finance a new high school, replacement of one elementary school and a 10-room addition at another. WASHINGTON President Johnson's budget gets further mauling today when the House votes on a higher education bill that his plan lo expand private financing of student loans. Where To Look Harbottlc Picked THAT 10-DAY rest the Montreal, Canadicns enjoyed the' conclusion of their Stanley Cupj semifinal scries with Toronto and the start of the finals against Detroit just might prove lo the deciding factor in this year's series, writes AP sportswriler Kennedy. Sports featured en pages 10 and 11.

"EVERYBODY LIVES a double life," remarked Lee J. Cobb, one of the great actors of his generation. Columnist Hal Boyle interview spotlights Cobb. Page 4. MAP OF INTERSTATE Highway system is featured on Page o.

For Construction, Equipping Laboratory Building 11.5 Million Gift For Mackinac College k'Af! 1SI.AVH A MACKINAC ISLAND A gift of $1.5 million for construe-1 lion and equipping of the main I classroom laboratory building of Mackinac College was an- nounced by the Board of Trus-! tees meeting here this weekend. The 75,000 square-foot, two- story, reinforced concrete! structure to be named at a later! date is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Van Alan Clark of New York, New York. Ground has' already been broken, with completion scheduled for 1967.

Clark is Honorary Chairman of the Board of Avon Products, Inc. He and Mrs. Clark became interested in the development and purposes of Mackinac College at the time its charter was approved by the Michigan Stale Board of Education in 1965. They discussed the need for an academic center with Dr. S.

Douglas Cornell, President of the College, on several occasions. The concept evolved of an arts and science center fully integrated with the College's existing Fine Arts facility. The new center will house 20 classrooms, 13 seminar study areas, a lecture hall seating 300, faculty offices, and laboratories for biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, and languages. Expressing the gratitude of Board of Trustees, Mr. Basil R.

Entwistle, Chairman of the Board, said, "On be- (See Photo On Page 8) half of the Trustees I wish to ex-press our greatest appreciation to Mr. and Mrs, Clark for (heir most generous gift. In the making of it they express their confidence in (he The Weather OfflrUI Report C. S. Weather ESSA MONDAY, MAY IJ6S Increasing cloudiness this afternoon; high temperature about 4-4.

Cloudy with some snow or showers tonight. Tuesday mostly! cloudy with showers probable, and no important change in tern- i peratures. Overnight lew temperature about 32. South to southeast winds tonight, becoming west Tuesday; velocities will range between 5 and 15 mph. SAULT TEMPERATURES Yesterday noon 39 Highest yesterday 41 Today at noon 41- Lowest last night 24 Warmest on this date was 82 in 1951.

Coldest on date was 21 in 1953. SAULT PRECIPITATION ability of Mackinac College to meet the greatest challenge in education today. Thai challenge is to (rain a leadership, bold, unselfish, enlightened and mature Ihe modernizing of man himself (o match (he unprecedented perils and opportunities of the age." Dr. Cornell, receiving the gift on behalf of the College, said, "Mackinac College has been cs- tablished to combine sound academic education in the liberal arts with the cultivation of clarity and selfless purpose in its students relative to the giant opportunities and profound is- with both the privilege of intellectual adventure and the challenge of moral responsibility for the world in which they live." The new arls and science center of Mackinac College has been designed hy the well-known architectural firm of Ginocchio, Cromwell, Carter, and NeyUnd of Little Rock, Arkansas, to harmonize with the existing buildings the College and with the wood, ed area of Mackinac Island where (he campus is located. Mackinac College is now enrolling its charter freshman sues (he modern world.

The; class, to begin their studies new building will provide in- Sept. 14. It is a privately dispensable in.slruclionnl facili- i ported institution, offering a Prccip.lal.on to ,:30 am. trace. I tics our classrooms, labora-1 yer.r liberal arts curriculum Jead Accumulated during tins month topics, and faculty offices.

The lo the Bachelor of Arts de .03 in. Departure from normal this month in. Normal since Jan. 1, 7.70 in. Total since Jan.

1, in: Sun Sets 7 4fl Sun Rises 5 2i College is deeply grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Clark, who through their great generosity arc playing a key role in the building of an institution of grce. Co-educational and fuily residential, the College is open to all qualified Plans call for a student "body of 1,000 when four classes are in rct Lakes Man T. F.

HARBOTTLE Capl. Thomas marine superintendent dor the 'Pittsburgh Fleet United States Steel Corporation, and a Lakes sailor for thp pasf 47 -'years, today -'glecie'd' Great Lakes Marine Ma'tf of. the Year for 19C5. Harbottle, "who has of continuous service. Pittsburgh Flett, lection of Great Lakes 'ari newspaper marine editors, a will be honored in the Sault June 2 at the 26th Annual rine Banquet.

He is the tentl Great Lakes mariner lo be honi ored as Marine Man of the Year. "We are pleased lo announce the election, of Capt. Harboltle to this distinguished position, because he epitomizes the traditional Great Lakes sailor through his many years of service and by his rise through the ranks to the highest fleet po-1 sition a steamship company canj said Coast Guard Com-! mander Julius J. Bnmk of the Sault Base, who heads this year marine recognition affair. A man born in Great Lakes service, Capt.

Harboltle is a son of the late Capt. Harry G. HarboUlc. Capt. Tom was serving on his father's ship the 1).

G. Kcrr at time of the senior Harboltle's death i 1920. During his 47 years on the lakes, Capt. Tom served only three years with ships of other lines and his assignment at the time lie joined (he Pittsburgh Fleet permanently in 1924 was as wheelsman on the A. V.

In the winter of 1924-25 he attended the Lake Carriers sociation Navigation School and received his first class license: as an was as second mate in t925'of the.old whaleback John one of the last two of thisr'-type of vessel to sail the; lakijsi Jle received his master's 'license in 1930 after attending Bother LCA school, and his jjiltlal assignment as a first jijjaie was on the William Fair- i next 12 years-he serv capacities on a of Pittsburgh's silver! and 1 in the fall of received his first' appointment as master when he was named skipper of the Samuel F. B. Morse. During the next dozen years he was master of another' 10 including the staunch old former flagship the James A. Farrell on which he served three years.

During the years the 5.1- year-old S. S. Farrcll developed as a "maker of skippers" as three predecessors of Har- bnttle as marine superintendent served on this ship. They were Capt. R.

Crawford. Capf. John Crcrar and Cnpt D. T. Whitlock.

In Capl. Harbollle appointed master nml in 1956 became assistant fleet captain, lie became fleet captain in 1958 and a year Inter u'ss named marine superintendent. Capt. llarbottle inaugurated Pittsburgh's program of training for fleet officers to establish their eligibility to take examinations to write for and secure endorsements for manning ships in the Seaway trade. He is a past chairman of the Lake Carriers Association Shore Captains Committee and was official observer for the LCA aboard the Coast Guard Ice Breaker Mackinaw from 1955 through.

1957. In addition lo his other duties Capl. Harboltle also has been wrecking and salvage master for Pittsburgh since 1959. He has seen service on 55 Pittsburgh Fleet ships, some of them repeat performances. A native of Cleveland, Capl.

llarbottle and his wife Agnes have a son and two grandchildren, lie is a member of the Propeller Club, Great Lakes Historical Society and the International Shipmaster's Association. i ni i jj i t3 Inghcr education lhat intends to deuce, with a student-faculty ra 'present young men and women tio of. fifteen to I) was a Capitol" cake cut by Mrs. Einar Eriandsen of Escanaba, io serve nearly 100 guests gathered to honor her husband, State Representative Einar Eriandsen of Escanaba (center) on his reaching his 58th birthday. Erlandcen, now chairman of the Ways and Means Committee has been in Lansing legislature for the past 18 years State Supreme Court Justice Paul Adams of the Saulf, (right) was guest speaker at the po.luck dinner the Sault Guard Armory.

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