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DAILY AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION Ending Sept. 30, 195S ABO Pub Statement 12,489 fllltf with Audit Burtiu Circulitloni. Subjtct to Audit." TRAVERSE CITY RECORD-EAGLE NORTHERN MICHIGAN'S GREATEST DAILY THE WEATHER- Snow and colder Detailed Information on Page UNITED PRESS FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE TWELVE PAGES TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1956 FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR--20193 PRICE FIVE CENTS Junior Conservation Club Activities British Troop Transport Plane Crashes; 50 Killed 38 Marines Die in Plane Crash Two activities of the Junior Conservation club which prove most popular are small bore rifle shooting and archery practice. In the top photo are some of the shooters as they get ready for firing. Left to right are Bob Longcore, Biaine Kellum, Bob Adler and Tony Perszyk.

In the background are (left) Wally Sikorski and Paul Neuman. Lower photo shows club secretary Ed Flees and Ron Kelsey as they take aim at archery targets from tht 40-foot marker. (Record-Eagle Photos) By GORDON CHARLES Two years ago a group of Traverse i men decided to do something about the growing list of "hunting Occident" victims in northern Michigan A check of showed that boys under 20 years of age were most frequently 1'nohed in accidents i too often stemmed from ordinary carelessness. From this beginning came formation of the Traverse Region Junior f'onseriation club. To date, it hns provided teen-age bojs of the Traverse City area with not only safe pun a i training but i many of the i points of outdoor instruction designed to help them enjoy i i i and other oi'tdoor recreation in the right ay.

Although the original sponsoring group was of members o' the Region Oonserva-j tion club, an adult organization, other groups immediately ga-. a support to the pro- pram The Veterans of Foreign Wars volunteered the use of their hall each Wednesday night as a meeting place i be easy for the- to reach Bales of straw were in as backstops for a group a was interested 111 a i the finer points of archery steel backstops were provided for the large class which a to 22 rifles. Each boy in the club is given intensive training in the safest I way to handle a rifle before he is allowed to shoot on the range Bob Valleau and a Barton local sportsmen, began the program last year and are continuing it this year, although i new has been added. Some of the i older Juniors who proved very proficient last year are now a i i in the a i i of younger members this year. i Bob Kelsey, one of the region's i top archers, is going into his second year of instruction in the finer points of handling bow and arrows.

Bear Archery Company of Grayling recently heard of the program and pave the group six new bows, complete with arm guards and linger tabs. This will enable many of the bos to learn to shoot w'ith bow and arrows even though they may not own their own equipment. A typical activity night finds the i VFW hall divided into two sec-' tions i a barricade to anyone from walking Into the line of fire in either the .22 or archery section. Boys who are waiting their turn to shoot Titles often go into the archery section and shoot with bow and arrow. Although a bit noisy, the program is perfectly safe --and popular with the boys.

On alternate Wednesday nights, the group has a program involving some phase of conservation. It might be a movie on hunting or fishing, it might be a demonstration of new fishing methods, or perhaps a program by one of the boys Programs are kept short enough to allow boys to get in some rifle and archery practice each week, yet the place is locked up bv no in order to get the bos home early on a school night. To give each boy the feeling of flues of $1 per year have been voted by the groun. a of the boys go out and work at odd jobs to earn their dues the initial dues are paid. there are no expenses, a an occasional a i i project is carried out by the group Right now they are selling a pair of beagles i a been don a hy Bob Valleau The bovs to raise about from the sale and most of i i he for a i i in the safe gun a i program.

To date about 73 regional bovs taken part in the Junior club activities and it is expanding at a surprising rate. Boys who a been to one meeting keep com- ing back, which is pretty good proof of the success of the whole program. Neat But Not Gaudy This is the way the a shapes up for the weekend, a it could be sort of I Colder tonight with snow flunies. Cloudy Sunday i i snow a night. Snow or rain Monday turning colder with snow.

A low of 6 to 12 above tonight and from 2S to 32 Sunday. There it is. all wrapped up in a neat but not gaudy package. It isn't too good, but it isn't too bad. either Just like a February weekend should be.

Veto Made Gas Bill a Dead Duck Feb. IS--(UP) -Friends and foes of the hot natural gas bill agreed today that President Eisenhower's veto made it a cold dead duck in 193G. They said there Is 710 hope of getting the necessary two-thirds majority to override the veto -especially in the house which passed the bill by only six votes. Also, there appeared to be no inclination to start over with a new bill this year despite Mr. Eisenhower's statement that legislation on the same lines is "needed." Deep in gloom, supporters of bill raised a cry that the president vetoed the measure for "political" gain in an election year.

And a number of congressional leaders said publicly and privately that the president's action showed he is a candidate for reelection. The president saidjie vetoed the bill because of the "highly questionable" activities of some "private persons" in pressing for its passage. That was an obvious reference to circumstances surrounding the now-famous $2,500 campaign contribution from an oil company attorney rejected by Sen. Francis Case (R-S Mr. Eisenhower lashed out at "efforts that I deem to be so arrogant and so much in defiance, of acceptable standards of propriety as to risk creating doubt among the American people concerning the integrity of governmental process." The president said that he is in accord i the "basic objectives" of the bill which would remove pro-! ducers of natural gas from direct regulation by the federal power commission.

But he recommended that "any new legislation" besides assuring plentiful supplies by relaxing controls "should include specific language protecting consumers in their right to fair prices." NILES, Feb. 18--(UP) --Thirty-eight marines were killed yesterday when their four-engine transport plane smashed into a mist-shrouded wall of rock near Niles. A detail of navy enlisted men stood guard over the charred bodies of the five marine crewmen and 33 passengers until dawn today. No attempt to remove the bodies was made earlier because of the rocky terrain in an area which has claimed the lives of S5 other persons in two previous air disasters. It wag also the second military plane disaster in less than a day.

The plane, an R5D, was en route from El Toro marine base in southern California to the Alameda naval air station on San Francisco Bay. It was circling in a flight pattern for a i when it rammed the 1,300 foot ridge in southern Alameda county. Military authorities at El Toro identified the five crewmen aboard and one passenger who was making the flight to visit parents in San Francisco. The other 32 leathernecks from Camp Pendleton, were bound for overseas duty. A spokesman from Camp Pendleton said the names of the 32 men would be withheld until notification of next of kin.

He said the camp expected to release the names sometime tomorrow morning. The bodies will be taken to Oak Knoll naval hospital, Oakland, for identification. The marine transport plane crashed on the Elmer O'Connell ranch, about miles northeast of here at 1:45 p.m. PST. A hejasy pall of drizzling rain and mist blanketed the ridge as the craft plowed into it about 100 feet from the crest.

The crash occurred just after the pilot, Maj. Alexander Watson, 32, of Santa Ana, radioed the CAA tower he was making his approach to Alameda. The CAA said the plane was six miles off its course when it crashed. It was the second major plane accident in northern California in less than 24 hours. Late Thursday an air force B-52 jet bomber exploded in flight near Tracy, killing four the eight men aboard.

The Niles area is the same in which a United Air Lines DC-6B crashed in 1951, killing 44 passengers and a crew of six. Two years later, a Transocean Air Lines transport crashed near Hayward, about 15 miles from Niles, and killed 30 air force men and five civilians. Plan Regional Welfare Conference Here April 19 Traverse City will be the site of the Northwestern Michigan Regional Welfare Conference, to be held in Gilbert Lodge at the Twin Lakes 4-H camp on April 19, it was announced today. Plans for the conference were drafted Thursday. The one-day event is sponsored by the Michigan Welfare League, a statewide organization that provides a common meeting ground for the exchange of information on all phases of public and private social welfare, health and recreational problems.

It provides cooperative opportunities to individuals and organizations to advance progress in all programs dealing with human services. Mrs. Harold Titus of Traverse City, a. member of the board of the Michigan Welfare League, is chairman of the conference planning committee. Other members are Mrs.

Dorig Husby, Traverse City Child Guidance Clinic member; T. Kevin Glynn, supervisor, Catholic Service Bureau; Roscoe Scott ol Bellaire, Michigan United Fund; Lewis D. Knaggs, consultant, children's division, state department of social welfare; Mrs. E. L.

Soderberg of Traverse City, board member of the Michigan Children's Aid Society; Mrs. Jennie A. Arnold; Mrs. Elva Noll, county agent of Kalkaska county; Dr. John R.

Rodgers of Bellaire; Henry A. B. Gustafson, district supervisor of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, department of public instruction; Clifford L. Lindstrom and Ohmer J. Curtiss, director and assistant director of the social service department of the Traverse City state hospital; Dr.

Gerald Behan, tri- county health department director; Edwin Connine, area representative of the state department of social welfare, Mrs. J. G. Boursaw, women's committee of the Farm Bureau; Miss Mae Jordan, of Cadillac, field representative of the Red Cross; Mrs. Harold L.

Frier of Cadillac, board member of the Michigan Welfare League. Miss Teresa A. Farrell of Lansing, associate director ot the Michigan Welfare League, assisted in planning the conference. Theme of the conference will be, "Coordination, Cooperation and Communication, The Three C's of Comunity Planning." Local groups will be Invited to co-sponsor the conference. Attendance is open to anyone interested i.i building a better community.

Mrs. Soderberg is publicity committee chairman and Mr. Curtiss is chairman of the arrangements com- mittne. Roll Call KXOXVILLE, Feb. IS-(UP)--When an internal revenue agent explained to a Knox county farmer that he must list all of his dependents, the farmer replied: I'll have to ask my wife about that.

I haven't counted them recently." For Bus Fund Project 4-H Benefit Dinner March 11 The Grand Traverse County 4-H Club Leaders Association will sponsor a benefit dinner March 11 to raise funds the purchase of a new bus. The dinner, which will be held at the Twin Lakes 4-H Club camp, is to be served pioneer style. The sponsors boast the diner will be served all he can eat for the price of admission, $1.50. Winter Sports For the convenience at winter sports here Is today's report on local sporting facilities: SKIING: Hickory Hills open 10:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Ski meet today, open skiing following races. Sunday open 1:30 p.m. to dark. Holiday Hills open 10 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Open Sunday 10 a.m. to dark. SKATING: City rinks, West Front street rink open 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Sunday, West Front street rink open 1:30 p.m.

to 9:00 p.m. Holiday Hills rink closed. HOCKEY: Senior game at 8:30 p.m. Muskegon vs. Traverse City.

Sunday, senior game at 2:00 p.m. Muskegon vs. Traverse City. Open skating after the game Sunday. Special entertainment will be provided during the afternoon in the basement of Gilbert lodge.

The council has in mind a diesel- powered, 45-passenger bus that will cost $5,300. Since 4-H clubs have no income, the money muat be raised through donations and special events. The leaders association voted to purchase a newer bus than is presently owned, considering the possibility of breakdown on out-of-town trips and other general safety factors, a spokesman for the group said. Where You'll Find: Weather Page 2 TV Log Page 2 Radio Program Page 4 Society Page 5 Calendar of Events 5 Theatre Calendar Page 5 Sports Pages 8-9 Comics Page 12 At Airfield Hunting Dates on Malta VALETTA, MALTA, Feb. 18 --(UP)--A British troop carrier en route from Egypt to England with 50 homeward-bound troops and crewmen crashed on takeoff today, killing all on board, The scene of the accident was the airfield at Luqa, a lunchtime stopover point for the chartered four-engined York transport.

The war office in London said there were "no survivors." It announced "with deep regret" that it was so informing all next- of-kln. The plane had been chartered the war office from Scottish Airlines, of Prestwick, Scotland. There were 45 servicemen and five crew members aboard at the time of the fatal accident. It was the second crash of a military aircraft i high loss of life in the last 24 hours. Last night, a four-engine American transport smashed into a mist-shrouded wall of rock near Niles, killing 38 U.

S. marines. The Valetta crash was apparently one of the worst British military air disasters since the days of World War II. The 43 servicemen from Suez and all five crewmen aboard the York transport were taking off from this British island base on the homeward leg of a to England's Swansted airfield. The high-winged pot-bellied old Avro 685 York was just lifting off the runway when something went wrong.

It dipped and crashed with splintering impact. Here Unchanged Recreation A Test For Ike? THOMASVILLE, Feb. 18 (UP)--President Eisenhower's hunting and golf here may represent far more than mere recreation--a deliberate plan of self- testing before he decides whether to run for a second term. Weather permitting, his schedule today called for a resumption of quail hunting in the broom gage brush of Milestone Plantation, the estate of Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, the president's host here.

The president yesterday, for the first time since his Sept. 24 coronary thrombosis, played nine holes of golf at the Glen Arven country club, finishing with a rusty 47 that showed he was not putting full power behind his game. Senator John Minnema of Traverse City today assured sportsmen and businessmen of N. Michigan that dates for small game hunting "will be the same this fall as they were last year." Opposition to controversial House Bill No. 2 was so great that when it was sent to the senate, legislators there quickly killed the bill in committee, Minnema said.

The bill would have opened small game seasons in all of the lower peninsula on October 20, thereby causing a loss of revenue and three weeks of good hunting in northern Michigan. A similar bill being considered in the senate would have opened the lower peninsula season on October 15 but it was killed in committee at the same time. the deadline for introducing new bills has already been reached, there is now little or no chance that the old season opening can be changed during the present session. House Bill No. 2 was originally introduced by Representatives Walter Nakkula, Kenneth Trucks and Herbert Clements.

It was suggested as a law which would be popular with southern Michigan fanners who do not like the pres- ent split seasons in the lower peninsula, and as such, it passed the house with scarcely a voice in opposition. While trfe October 20 opening would serve io spread hunting pressure over the entire lower peninsula, it would have cut three weeks off the northern Michigan hunting season. The southern Michigan season is opened on October 20 in order to help farmers get their crops in but the split season throws an unwarranted amount of pressure on southern farms for the pheasant opening. Northern sportsmen, believe that this is strictly a local enforcement problem which should not be solved at their expense. Northern sportsmen stood to lose not only three weeks of ing for grouse, rabbits and raccoons, but practically all woodcock hunting, since woodcock ire early fall migrants.

It was pointed out that an October 20 small game opening would still mean an October 1 opening on waterfowl, as those regulations are set in Washington. This would have shifted all hunters to the duck marshes at a time when ducks could ill afford to be killed in wholesale lots. One-Man Rule Condemned Soviet Union Assails Policies of Stalin MOSCOW, Feb. 18 (UP) -The Soviet Union today condemned before its people and the world the one-man rule of the Josef Stalin era and denounced major political and economic writings of the late premier. Radio Moscow and all Soviet newspaper, including Pravda, organ of the Communist party, and Izves- tia, the government paper, carried details of the attack on "the cult of the individual" and Stalin's published works on history and economics by First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan.

Mikoyan's condemnation was made Thursday before the 20th Communist party congress but was not released publicly until today. The veteran party leader scored historians, economists, jurists and philosophers of the Stalin era and referred to two victims of the purges of the 3Q's as "comrades." Stalin's history of Communism came under fire and Stalin's last published work, "Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S was denounced as incorrect in the speech. Always Ladies CHICAGO, Feb. IS--(UP)--Women marines might wind up pretty stubborn, but they -will always be ladies, Chief Woman Marine Col. Julia E.

Bamblet said in a briefing for recruiters. "We don't make our women do anything unfeminine," she said. Miniature City Being Expanded Skilled artisans began work this week on one of Traverse City's greatest summer attractions, miniature city. Scheduled to be located in a new and more colorful setting, the tiny city will have a number of new homes and business 'buildings and all of the older structures will be rebuilt where necessary. A majority of the older models were constructed from tempered building board and other materials of similar nature.

The new ones are being built from clear pine and, according to the workmen, will last indefinitely. This picture was made at the city carpenter shop Friday as two of the carpenters put finishing touches on buildings. On the left Is Dean McMHIen with replica of the old Manistee and Northeastern Railway depot and on the right is Iver Johnson as he worked on a miniature of the old Milliken home. Record-Eagle Photo).