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DAILY AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION 12,710 ABC Audited 12 Monthi Ending March 31, 1959 TRAVERSE CITY RECORD-EAGLE NORTHERN MICHIGAN'S GREATEST DAILY THE WEATHER Fair and cooler Detailed Information on Paga 6 7is to live if Michigan" UP! FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE SIXTEEN PAGES TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1959 SIXTY-FIRST YEAR--21181 PRICE SEVEN CENTS Death Toll Heavy in Georgia Explosion I A NEW I SCHOOL impressive i a i ceremonies were staged at the new senior i school Sunday a and a new flagpole, a i from the Pep Club, was unveiled. Here the flag is being run up for the first time. A tour of the i i was conducted i the dedication services. (Record-Eagle Photo) ft T.C. Educational Program Praised New Senior High School Dedicated Praise fur Traverse City's new two-million dollar high school which was "Iniilt to house a curriculum" was given by Dr.

Edgar L. i state deputy superintendent of pujlic instruction, the principal speaker at a dedication ceremony at the flagpole on the new school grounds Sunday afternoon. Dr. Grim said he was impressed by the fact that an expanded and improved i was planned i and then the buildings to house it. "A good sound program of education is the end, even wonderful schools are but the means." he stated.

"You have an educational c-li- niate second to none in the state." Dr. Grim said. "The Traverse City i story is a thrilling one." He eited the development of -Northwestern Michigan College as well as the high school, the outstanding teaching staffs, and ad- i i a i "Traverse City has learned how to identify its problems and work together to solve them." he said. The a i a program in Traverse City has been developed, rather a merely perm i to grow, he declared. Despite recent widespread pessimism as to education, "our educa- i a map is not out of date," the speaker a i a i He listed recent developments: Emphasis on i a i as well as a i of education: a i of curriculum committees by a hoards of a i a i a i a values i emphasize i a i i i i a differences a i a development: a Ike to Visit Soviet Exhibit in New York NKW Jinn- 2n President i makes a i i i to New York today for a i a look at new Soviet i i i and a possible meetiii'-' i one of (lie i top men.

There was a i a Sov i First Premier Frol Kozlnv. who opens the exhibit officially i may have flown from Moscow i new word from rremi' 1 i i a Khrushchev on the i impasse. Kozlov a i yesterday a an 11-hour i direct from Moscow aboard the pride and joy of Soviet aeronauts, the i TU- 111. world's largest commercial a i a opens the exhibition in the New York coliseum tonight ilh Vice President Richard Nixon looking on. The i i i will last 4n days.

month Nixon opens a similar American show in Moscow. Kozlov's i to York gained more importance upon the Midden a yesterday i i president would fly (o New York to visit the exhibit today. less fear of change by school ad. ministrations. i Dr.

Glenn fc. Loomis. superintendent of schools who served as master of ceremonies, pointed out in opening remarks a the new school is designed to provide small 'classroom i i a i i i large school i and a the school was built to i the cnrricu- lum. The theme was repeated by Bruce M. Graham, president of the school board, in his a accept; a of the i i a dedication.

A G. Engstrom. state representative and past board i reviewed the extensive i i program in Traverse City since i i i i a a as well as the new i school a been i He acknowledged the disma'. state fiscal picture, but was i a a new- tax a would be worked out by the legislature. A flag from the Capitol at Washington.

D. was presented by Les Ciederman. i i board member, to Dr. K. Rrownson.

also retiring from the board, who accepted it for the school. Girl Scouts Carol Kopus and a Authors New R-E Feature a Sue i creator of A I i appears in Record-Eagle, a i a lias for years been i in fields of fashion and charm. Once a model for i New- York stores, she has produced and Richardson the direction of Mrs. i i a and Sea Scouts Gordon and Tom Wysocki then raised the flag, after which the school choir and the audience sang "The Star Spangled Banner." i The pole and a i base, gift i of the school Pep Club, were pre: sented to the school by a i i Fisher, and accepted on behalf of the school by Dale A. Wares.

school hoard member. The school dedication was read in i by members of the i i zens Education Committee under the i i of Albert Raschi. i Novak, new school su- i spoke i about the plan of the new- high school and i i those present to visit it at the close of the ceremony. Most of those present toured the campus-type a i i i three academic i for sophomores, juniors and seniors; the electives i i i a audit i home economics, music and shop a a a i i a i offices, library (cen- tered on the commons) and the a i i Platform guests were introduced by i a H. Harwood.

board member, and school builders were presented by Robert S. McCoy, board member. The high school choir the direction of James Leonard sang several numbers. The i a i was i by Msgr. R.

J. Passeno of I a a Conception church, and the benediction by Dr. Howard R. Towne of the First Congregational Gov. Williams Issues Blast at Senate A SL'E I directed fashion shows in a parts of the She is also a frequent i to leading magazines.

Married for 2ii years. Airs. i ler loves to cook, to a in oils and to search for new ideas to present in A I YOU. Her husband. Albert G.

Miller, is a prominent New York playwright. Mrs. Miller is co-author of a book on charm that was selected by the Literary Guild and distributed to its i A a i and a on all things i i she i to readers of the Record-Eagle the latesl news in woman's world. A I 29 (CPO Governor G. Mennen Williams yes-i terday unleashed his strongest at-! tack to date on the Republican- controlled Michigan state senate.

In a speech for the Democratic i State Central Committee. Williams referred to the Republicans sen-! ators as "the most backward ele- meiits of the Republican party," i and claimed "they sold out i stock and barrel to a group lobbyists from big business and the Michigan a a Asso- elation" in a state tax fight. "Not content with a i the votes to block any tax- program they did not like." Williams a i "these blind Sampsons shook the i a of the state, driving it into a payless payday and harrying the state on the edge of bankruptcy enforce their will." William urged the Democrats to "stick to our guns," and said would try to "put up the best fight possible" this week on behalf of i his plans for a corporate and personal income tax. But the governor indicated he would he i i to accept the GOP plan for a penny boost in the use (sales) tax if Republicans accent some of his tax program. Elections End State Session of VFW Here Parade, Pageant Top Convention Features Fred K.

Mcbaniel. 30-year-old veteran of War II from Roseville. was elected unanimously as the 41st a commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Sunday as tlie overseas veterans group closed one of its most productive i in history. Others elected at the final business session held at high school were Harold L. 13arr.

Holland, senior vice a Zigmund J. i Detroit, i vice commander: i i J. a Lansing, a a A Mikesell. Ovid, advocate: Eldridge Poisson. I chap- a i and Dr.

i i a T. Detroit, surgeon. As top aides. a i appoiut- ed tbe i Clifford Bates. Sebewaiug.

chief of staff for tin second year in a row: James Tribbey. Lincoln Park, inspector; Leon B. Buer. Rockford. legislative officer: Joseph a Detroit, service officer: and Braun, adjutant.

Only two offices were contested as the four-day meeting drew to a close shortly after noon. Five men entered the race for i vice commander i Cybulski i i on the first roll call vote over Donald Roe and Victor Bocci of Detroit. Robert Kaley of Traverse City, and Volney i of Fruitport. Poisson WHS elected in a close race for a a i -Mrs. Henry Roche ot Detroit was elected state president of the Ladies Auxiliary.

Other top positions were voted to Mrs. a Sterling. Iron fliver. state senior vice president: and Mrs, Charles Gallagher, Detroit, i vice president. Saginaw was a a the HlliO state convention.

One of the finest shows ever seen in Traverse City more a li.500 persons to i Field Saturday to i the stirring drum and bugle corps pageant of the V.F.W. Only one i a i the a i a i i senior band from Lansing, was able to success- defend its crown. The Lansing i i a challengers from Muskegon Heights to win its eighth straight a title. Other champs i the Detroit Lamplighter senior drmr. and bugle corps: St.

Francis Home of Detroit in the i corps. Wayne Post 3323 senior rifle i team, Boyne City high school i band, and the Detroit Johnson Post 7S senior color guard section. Cash prizes and trophies were presented to uints and i i i a winners by state officials of the V.F.W. headed by out-going State Commander i B. Kirseh of Detroit.

Three contests were very close. In the junior band division, the Boyne City band edged i i high school by only of one per cent. The St. Francis Orphanage defeated the Green Hornets from Grand Radips by a scant l.ori. The Lamplighters, a colorful new i to V.F.W.

competition, outdistanced the Vanguard corps from St. Clair Shores and the Crusaders from a Rapids. Reed City i team was no a for the now drill team champs from Wayne. Tlie Johnson post hit the highest score of the night in edging out a close victory in the color guard section. As a feature i the pageant.

Dr. Glenn Loomis. retiring superintendent of i instruction, was presented with an award as citizen of tlie year by Cherryland Post i'7SO. The presentation was made on behalf ot" the poU by State Representative Arnell Engstrom. For a while Saturday night, it looked as if the rainy weather would chase the pageant indoors.

However, the weather turned clear just before the start, of the program and the show was held at its scheduled site. State Pageant Chairman Harold Harvey of Detroit termed the program the "finest in years." Missing Girl Butane Gas found Safe in Blast Kills jU.P.Woodlandsj at Bloodhounds Lead Searchers to Lost Child A IN A Otis Bigelow and Kay Coulter will play the resident company leads in "The Drunkard," which opens at the Cherry County Playhouse Tuesday night. (Bud Mover Photo) Playhouse Opens 1959 Season Tuesday with The Drunkard' IRON" i 2 1 1 A all-night search ot i upper i a 250 a woodsmen aided by bloodhounds was rewarded today when three-year-old Carol Van 1 of was found safe. I'he little blonde, blue-eyed tot was exhausted but otherwise unharmed. searchers came up- cn her on a roadway in the dense woodlands northeast of a Lake, she was i on a candy bar.

Carol disappeared a a i on a picnic i her mother and a Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Van Hnlla. at Norway Lake picnic area. She a a wandered a a i the woods.

The Dickinson county search and i rescue squad, headed by the county i and composed of experier.c-! 1 ed woodsmen and hunters, search; i ed throughout the night and took i up the search again this morning. A helicopter had been sent from Kinross Air Force Base to aid in the search. Bloodhounds which had trailed'. the girl to a treacherous i a area last night and lost the trail, picked it up again this morning. "The Drunkard." one of the most- played favorites in show business history, opens the i season at the Cherry Playhouse "ies- day at p.m.

and runs through Sunday, It promises to he one nf the happiest and gayest a a i of the season. Ike's Appeal Brings Truce in Steel Talks i NEW I I -Chances of a peaceful of the steel wage controversy brightened today, i tension be! tween the negotiators eased as a result of President Elsenhower's i i i i Taking a a a of a two 1 weeks' truce--which moved the strike deadline tomorrow mid. night until 12:01 a.m. July 15-. the four-man negotiating teams of labor and a a a agreed to step up their efforts to reach a settlement.

Beginning "Wednesday, when the negotiating teams resume their talks, the joint eight-man conferees will hold i and a sessions i notice. A i side shows any i immediate signs of a i major concessions, i i a i are that "realistic" collective a a i i I i take place in the near All a of steel mills a i i blast furnaces and a i other plans for a work stoppage died off after both sides bowed to Presi- dc-nt Eisenhower's appeal on Sat! a to bargain i interruption of i for another fortnight, if necessary. "The Drunkard" is an old-fashion- i ed morality play that takes a strong stand against sin and portrays the rewards of i as it used to be done when villains were all vil- i a i and heroes all hero and the a i maidens were glad of it. Otis Bigelow and Kay Coulter. resident, company leads, will a the roles of the drunkard, Edward Middlelon.

and his wife, Mary. The entire company at the Playhouse! will be backing them and the au-1 dience i recognize, too, grown Traverse City talent. In a i i to their roles in the play, each member of the cast will i do special in Gay 90's olio between-the-acts comedy, song and surprises. There will be saloon piano, popcorn, pink a and nightly prizes. Handiebar moustaches are free to everyone attending.

I The cast features the resident members of the company including Kay Coulter. Ruth Harriet Bigus. Otis Bigelow, Mason Wright, Ron Starr. Bill Morey and Carol Callison. a i in her second year i at the playhouse, has contributed i a i from her own i background with the Theatre Mart i a where she played the part of a in "The Drunkard" for Ihree and a half years.

In the language of the program, the producers a Miss Marion for her "inter- 1 mitiable recollections." The a was i i a written P. T. a by a minister who used the nom-de-plum of "Smith." i It had its first showing at the Bar-' mini Museum in Boston in 18-14: became at once a huge success and has been i ever since. They followed new trail northeast from Norway Lake and came across little Carol at the edge of a black-top county road i through the woods. The spot where Carol was found was very close to place where the body of four-year-old Scott, of Kingsford.

was found last November, lie had a off from his parents on a similar picnic, and was found several days later, dead from exposure. Carol was i the same woodland trail the Scott boy a a had followed. Low Bridge! SPARTA. June 29-- I A a curiosity brought him a couple of head cuts, but lie's not a i i Shaffer told police he had a couple of beers and somehow wound up asleep between the rails of Chicago and Western a i a A freight a i came along, and 20 cars rolled over Shaffer. He crawled out witli head cuts.

"I'd a been all right." he a i "hut 1 looked up to see what was happening." MELDRIM, June 29 -(UPI) Skindivers probed the murky depths of the Ogeechee River today for more victims of an explosion that sent flaming butane gas cascading down on a river playground Sunday afternoon. At least 17 were dead, some of them children who had been swimming, boating and fishing with their parents and friends at the popular recreation spot near Savannah. Scores were injured, some of them horribly burned. a persons were unaccounted for but it was impossible to coin- pile any accurate number. About a were at the spot when the accident happened.

The tragedy occurred as a mile- long Seaboard freight train rolled across a trestle crossing the river --a wooden bridge supported by long pilings. Twenty-five feet underneath were a bathing beach and fishing area, crowded with men, women and children taking respite from the south Georgia heat. Suddenly, between 4 and 5 p.m., catastrophe struck. There tvas what one witness described as "a noise" on the tracks above 'and the cars began to plunge from, the tracks. From ruptured butane cars gushed thousands of gallons of liquid cooking gas, washing in a flood that looked like white ground fog the recreation area.

i Some persons on the riverbank were too awestruck to even run. (Others fled from the woods. In a blinding flash the gas ei- iploded and turned the place into seething caldron of flames. A five-acre area was reduced in iseconds to a scene looking as though it had absorbed a direct bomb hit. Trees were blackened.

The fire was so intense that i young hickory nuts were loosened i a the ground was covered with The two gas cars, their shells asunder, still were burning i morning on the river bank. i attempt was made to put out the flames. The swift ourrent of the river a efforts to probe the i depths. I A BOND ISSUE I MAREiNE June is I I Voters in this St. Clair county community have approved a $1.300.000 bond issue to i a i construction of a new high school a elementary school.

The vote i was 300 to 400 in favor of the posal. Bulletin LANSING, June 29--(UPI) -The state administrative board today released funds to meet year-end payroll, welfare and university bills but another $56,900,000 in bills will go unpaid until stop-gap funds are provided. Where You'll Find: Radio Program TV Log Weather Comics Society Theatre Calendar Calendar of Events 10j 10 10 Sports Pages 12-13 Fair and (Ah!) Cooler KILLED BY CAR FLINT. June 29 I --Alois Karacsony. 49.

of Flint, was killed today when he "was struck by a car on Clio road in Morris township. State police said it appeared he jumped into the path of the car. Take a deep breath. Now ex- i hale. Take another.

Exhale. Tastes pretty good, doesn't it? The best breathing air in several days. I A i of things ahead came Sunday afternoon after that three-quarter inch rainfall. It turned a mite cooler but a i i mite. The big i return to Grand Traverse nor! mal weather came during the i Folks who had gasped! I and panted their ways through I three nights woke up a i i naturally and happily.

The weather had come. There may be more showers later today but these will jolt the thermometer down a few more degrees, down to the i 30s tonight. Tuesday fair and I cool with temperatures in the seventies. Scattered showers for Wednesday, but no heat wave. i A A A a all major posts of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Department of Michigan, i participated in the hour-long parade through the business district ol Traverse City Saturday afternoon.

Here massed colors, representing District 13, pass the reviewing stand. Bauds, marching units, floats, and individual entries gave color and variety to the event. (Record-Eagle Photo).