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a a a a a a a a a AR Michigan Edition Michigan The South Bend Tribune Classified Edition Ads SECTION SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1970 15 SECTION TWO BERRIEN ACCIDENTS CLAIM THREE LIVES 00 FISHING IS FUN With summer vaca- to them. Thty are tempting the fish along the rapidly coming to an end, these four east bank of Island Park in the St. Joseph are making the most of the time left River at Niles. -Photo by Tribune Staff Photographer ARRESTED IN DRUG CASE Marijuana Charge After Rock Fest Fie Tribune's Special Service Eight young persons are being held in Cass County jail following their apprehension hereabout 4 a.m. today by Michigan State Police at the Post on a charge of possession of marijuana.

It was reported the eight were returning homes after attending. the rock festival at Goose Lake his weekend. Assisting in the apprehension re officers from the Dowagiac Police Department. Scheduled for appearance in Detrict Court in Cassopolis are Fuller, 22, of 1001 E. Donand Gregory Vogel, 20, 0 1501 1 Orkney both of South Bend Patti Bailey, 17, of 105 W.

High Dowagiac; Linda Thal-, heimer, 21, of 509 W. High Elkhart; Louise Ellison, 18, and Maier, 21, both of McOmber Dowagiac; John Doty, 20, of Rt. 4, Cassopolis, and Lawrence Penwell, 21, of 78 E. River Buchanan. the eight were apprehended in two autos parked outside the Mc0mber St.

address, home of Miss Ellison and Miss Maier. Armed with a search warrant, an State Police troopers reportedly 8 found about a pound of mariin the cars and in the house. BEST ARRANGERS Winners Show, sponsored by the Niles from left to right, Cheryle Kremkow AMERICANA DESTROYED IN MUSEUM FIRE Blaze Sweeps Acre Of Henry Ford Exhibits DEARBORN (UPI) Hundreds of valuable historical exhibits and antiques were destroyed in a fire which swept through a one-acre section of the famed Henry Ford Museum Sunday. Four early-American specialty shops in the west end of the huge museum also were destroyed and smoke damage was reported in much of the museum's eightacre main exhibit hall. More than a thousand persons escaped the blaze.

Four firemen were overcome by smoke but there were no other injuries. Items 'Priceless' Museum officials said they could not place an estimate of total damage but they several of the items destroyed as "priceless." The museum's most famous the original Model Ford and an extensive collection of vintage autos and airplanes were unharmed by the fire. The officials said they hoped to reopen the museum within two weeks. Surrounding Green-, field Village, a 260-acre tract historical exhibits and buildings which attracts 1.3 million visitors a year, will remain open as usual. Cause Undetermined Most of the valuable items destroyed were in the four shops, which included a textile store, a pottery ship, violin maker's shop and a gun shop.

Destroyed were several racks of early American clothing, hundreds of documents and magazines dating to the early 1800s and several colonial harpsichords and pianos. Cause of the blaze, which lasted for one hour, remained undetermined today. Auto pioneer Henry Ford said when he founded Greenfield Village and the museum in 1929 that "I am collecting the history of our people as written into things their hands made and used." "A piece of machinery or anything that is made is like a book if you can read it," he said. POPE REJOICES AT CEASE-FIRE CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (UPI) Pope Paul VI said Sunday he rejoiced at the Middle East cease-fire but difficult problems remained before permanent peace could be attained. A Vatican spokesman said there was no truth in Italian press reports that the Holy See played a part in getting Israel and Egypt to accept the truce, which was proposed by the United States.

JEWISH, BLACKS UNITE NEW YORK (UPI) An formation center on Jewish-Negro relations is being formed strengthen understanding develop a "working partnership" between the two groups, American Jewish Congress Sunday. Audrey Flood and James winners. Phote by Tribune Staff Photographer PEDESTRIAN, DRIVER DIE ON HIGHWAYS Coloma Resident Drowns Near Watervliet PENNY SCRAMBLE Scrambling in of Columbus annual family picnic. The prosawdust for hidden pennies is a part of the gram was held Sunday on the K. of C.

grounds program for the children at the Niles Knights west of Niles on the Niles- Rd. INDIAN HOMES UNFURNISHED Low Cost Housing 'Useless' When Empty WATERSMEET, Mich. (UPI) Their new homes are waiting, but the indigent Indian families for whom they were built move in because they don't any furniture fit to move or way to move what they do have. The 15 new low-cost homes were built by the Department Housing and Urban Development near this community in the western end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula about 70 miles west the L'Anse Indian Reservation. "It's too bad.

The Indian families here have waited for generations for decent housing that was always promised but never materialized before," says Albert Le Blanc, chairman of the InterTribal Councils of Michigan. "Now we've got 15 nice houses and nothing to go into them." Thirteen Indian families, with many children, and two low-income white families have been selected to move into the housing project. The Indians are among about 40 families who now live in scattered shacks remote wooded area near here. "Each of the new houses has stove and a refrigerator, but that's all," said LeBlanc. "These people could use every other kind of furniture and household goods.

"You know, if people have a decent place to live, it gives them an incentive to work harto get ahead," he said. "All these people need is a chance." Sewer Plan Under Fire In Petitions United The Tribune's Special Service EDWARDSBURG Petitions are being circulated in burg by taxpaying residents who in- oppose a sanitary sewage tem project without having a referendum vote of the people. to About 80 signatures have been and received today by persons circulating the petitions. the An informal petition without a said circulator's name or an affidavit reads, "We the undersigned who are residents and taxpayers of the village of Edwardsburg, couty of Cass, state of Michigan, do hearby oppose the construction and bonding of the 'sewer project' that was approved by the Edwardsburg Village Council without a vote by the taxpayers by referendum. The $693,000 bond issue to finance the sanitary sewage system would require a three-mill levy increase from the taxpayers based on state equalized valuation, a $9.50 monthly charge per unit, and an initial hookup fee per residential unit of $250.

The council stated last month that there is not time to allow a referendum vote as it takes 45 days for a referendum to be authorized. In order to qualify for the federal grants, the contract has to be signed by Oct. 1 before a reapplication for grants would have to be made. A 30-day extension has already been requested by the council. Already, two federal grants have been approved for the project totaling $347,200.

Total estimate of the project is $1,040,200. Salary Pact Approved by Niles Board The Tribune's Special Service NILES A new contract with union employees of the Niles Board of Public Works was approved by the board directors during a meeting this morning. Under the terms of the contract, members of District 50, Allied Technical Workers Union, will a nine per cent salary alinerease retroactive to Aug. land will receive another seven per cent increase as of Aug. 1 1971.

The vacation schedule was changed to provide two weeks after two years instead of after three years. At present a three weeks vacation is given after eight years. To this schedule will be added an extra day after 10 years and an added extra day after each the next four years. The schedule calling for four weeks of vacation after 18 years remains the same but added is provision that will give five weeks of vacation after 25 years. Under the new agreement Veterans Day will be added to the present list of holidays and the Board of Public Works will pay dependent hospitalization insurance premiums now being paid employees, Terms of the new contract were previously approved by the union but were not announced until today following works board approval.

LITHOGRAPHS TO BE SHOWN The Tribune's Special Service HILLSDALE -An exhibit of graphs will be displayed Aug. 17-20 and Aug. 23 in the Dow Conference Center of Hills- dale. College, according to Mrs. Harry president of the Hillsdale' County Historical Society.

The exhibit, arranged by her with the co-sponsorship of The Travelers Insurance Companies, Hartford, and the 0'Meara-Sumnar Insurance Agency, Hillsdale, displays 22 Currier and Ives prints dating between 1852-1881. The display is one of 13 collections of rare prints now being shown throughout the United States and Canada. YOUNG EVANGELIST As Sunday in the Park" gathering high school girl, with a bible in to a group at Island Park in -Preto by Tribune Staff Photographer EX- DIPLOMAT RAPS VIOLENCE: Michigan Graduates Hear Speech by Linowitz ARBOR, Mich. (UPI) has heard enough of the cries of violence," Sol M. former U.S.

Ambassathe Organization of AmerStates, told 2,500 graduates University of Michigan has come "to chart new direcof tions, to hear the true sounds man's creative genius." "If you can spark a construca tive program for the future, your success will show that peaceful revolution peaceful change can be the key to the future." There has been too. much "dissonance of conflict, angry rumbling of revolt, shrill cry of violenc and it is said the commencement speaker, who is chairman of the American Council on Education's special committee on campus tensions. "If there is one attitude you should take away from a college education, it is a passionate and recognition that your own commitment to free discussionideas may be wrong," he said. Also receiving honorary Doctor of Laws degrees were William McChesney Martin re- Washington attorney was at the summer comceremonies and an honoary Doctor of degree. He said the time cently retired chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and Edwin B.

Stason, former dean of the U-M Law School. Mina S. Reese, a mathematician, educator pure the first woman to be president of etcetera the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree. An honorary Doctor of Humanities degree was awarded to Roy E. Brownell, who has been secretary of the Charles S.

Mott Foundation since it was organized in 1926. a part of "A gathering was this barefoot lishing a communion her lap, talks nature." Niles. The The Tribune's Special Service ST. JOSEPH -Two persons died on Berrien County roads in separate accidents this weekend, and a third drowned near Watervliet. Kenneth Winger, 28, of Saw.

yer, was killed Sunday when his car slammed into the side of a freight train on Livingston near Sawyer. The train was standing at the crossing while the engineer and firemen put out flares to warn approaching motorists. Winger was pronounced dead at the scene. In a hit-and-run accident Saturday near Eau Claire, Willie Lofton, a migrant, was killed while walking along M-140. Berrien County sheriff deputies speculated that Lofton may have been struck by more than lone car and that he was dragged 200 feet beyond the point of impact.

The accident remains under investigation. The drowning occurred at Little Paw Paw Lake, near Watervliet, where the victim, Harvey Knowles, 21, of Coloma, was swimming with his two sisters. The Sheriff's Department Marine Division officers reported Knowles' sisters told them he was swimming a short distance off shore and did not re-appear after submerging in the water. ANN Society "shrill Linowitz, 1 dor to ican 1, at the Sunday. of The speaker mencement awarded Laws Parade Will Open Cass County Fair The Tribune's Special Service CASSOPOLIS -The Cass highlighted by the annual parade derby at the fairgrounds at 8 p.m.

Everyone may participate the parade which begins on Water St. a and travels down Broadway St. to School then east to the fairgrounds around the race track. All entries are to be in place by noon today and ready for the afternoon opening of exhibits and the midway rides. There will also be a live evaluation of swine carcass entries at 6 p.m.

Tuesday will feature swine judging at 9 a.m., lightweight and heavyweight pony pulls at 1:30 p.m., dairy judging at 7:30 p.m. and the LeRoy Van Dyke country and western show at 8 p.m. Wednesday will have youth horse and pony at halter judgling, sheep and beef judging, harness racing and pony hitches and another performlance of the LeRoy Van Dyke show. Thursday will be highlighted by youth horse and pony performance judging, farm and garden tractor pulls, harness racing, the annual livestock sale and a comedy swamper soccer game in the evening. Friday will feature a tractor pull, youth poultry and rabbit judging, the 4-H dog show, harness racing, pony races and the King Kovac Auto Daredevils at 8 p.m.

Saturday's schedule includes open horse show beginning at a.m., harness and quarter horse racing, the grand cavalcade and wrestling in the evening. in the Children's Flower Four Flags Garden Club, are, and Steven Ebontz, first ARTIST GUILD PUTS PICKETS AT DISNEYLAND County Fair officially opens today at 4:30 p.m. and the demolition BULLETIN The Tribune's Special Service DOWAGIAC -A second city patrolman has been suspended. Police Chief George Grady said today he suspended George MeLeod for 30 days and until an "internal investigation is completed." He said he would have no further comment on the suspension but indicated it was not connected with the suspension several weeks ago of officer Fred Foster. LONDON POLICE BATTLE BLACKS LONDON (UPI) Police battled black power demonstrators Sunday in the West London districts of Notting Hill and Paddington.

Nine policemen injured and 30 persons arrested." The demonstrators contended police had previously discriminated against residents of the two districts. Both areas are heavily populated by blacks from the West Indies. FIND DROWNING VICTIM OFFICER SUSPENDED FORT WAYNE (P- Edward Brooks, 24, Fort Wayne, who had been missing since Friday night, was found dead on the bottom of a swimming pool at an complex here Saturday. place girl and boy winners, and Flood, second place girl and boy of ANAHEIM, Calif. (UPI) About 20 members of the American Guild of Variety Artists maintained a weekend picket line in front of Disneyland to support demands for pay raises from the "Magic Kingdom." Penny Singleton, AGVA president, said the group had not heard from management.

Miss Singleton, a former actress who played Blondie in the Dagwood and Blondie movies, said the walkout was for "decent livable I salaries." The strike was called Saturday after two-month-old contract ne.gotiations broke down Friday. A Disneyland spokesman said the pickets affected certain live shows but had no impact on the park's operating hours or other attractions. TOKYO BEGINS SMOG WARNING TOKYO (UPI) Tokyo today began issuing sm0g forecast warnings in an attempt to reair pollution by factories and automobiles. City officials said it would be the first smog forecast to be issued by any city as long as a full day in advance. Air pollution brought concern after 43- high school girls were afflicted with burning eyes and breathing difficulty on July 18 since then, 9,870 Tokyo residents have reported such symptoms from smog.

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