The Ludington Daily News from Ludington, Michigan • Page 1

News Capsules By The Associated Press Traffic and water accidents took a heavy toll among young people in Michigan this weekend. Twelve of the 18 traffic victims were 21-year-olds or younger, and four of the five water victims were in their teens. One traffic accident claimed the lives three youths, two aged 20 and one 21. HILLS. Mass.

A. lacocca, vice president of the Ford Motor says the United States has learned enough since 1929, the first year of the great depression, to keep business reversals from turning into disasters. GAUHATI, Ind. (AP) At least 780 persons are reported to have died in a two-month epidemic of gastroenteritis in the east India state of Assam. Officials say the disease is still spreading.

WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans plan to focus on the Midwest and West next year in i'a campaign they believe will recoup their 1964 losses in the House and give them three or more additional Senate seats. President Johnson's failure thus far to come up with a satisfactory farm program has given the GOP hope that it not only can hang on to the seats it now holds in Midwestern and Western states but can- make significant gains there. MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Communist party appears to be making a new drive for a showdown meeting on the split with j. Peking. The Chinese Reds have unleashed a new attack on the Kremlin's leadership.

ARBOR (AP) One American family in three has no savings, investments or "reserve funds in the form of bank deposits, bonds or stocks," the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center reports. HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) The mother of the Feyre quadruplets gave birth to her llth child Sunday in Providence Hospital at Holyoke. Mrs. Mary Feyre, 39, and the new baby boy were reported doing fine.

Coast Guard Aids Canoeist Ludington Coast Guardmen were called out at 5 p.m. Saturday to assist three men who were trying to help another man who a capsized his canoe. The mishap occurred in Lake about a half mile off of the State Park beach house. Frank Pullano of Ludington capsized his canoe and three other men in a canoe and a dinghy tried to assist but were unable to get him aboard. They were Gary Howe of Scottville, Roger Dains and Jerry Kimbell of Ludington.

Pullano, who was in the water about 45 minutes, was taken to Paulina Stearns hospital, checked and released. Ain't! Left to right are Rembrant, Degas, Rubens and really. Rather they are a group of high school boys enflamed with the glory of graduation, who set down their numerals in blazing colors. Punishment for their exuberence was to repaint the buildings and gate posts at Epworth Heights where they had first given vent to their artistic talents. After this project is finished the court has invited them to assist in the exterior redecorating of the city garbage trucks.

(Daily News Photo) Graduates Hear Chief Justice Earl Warren EAST LANSING (AP)-Chief Justice Earl Warren advised Michigan State University graduates Sunday to participate in government affairs as preparation for their responsibility in the 21st Century. The head of the U.S. Supreme Court told 3,185 degree-winners Retail Division To Meet Tuesday Retail division of the Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon Tuesday at tally's Dining Room. All members are asked to be present as important summer promotions will be discussed. What's In The News Today Area Briefs 6 Columns 4 Comics 5 Scottville 6 Sjports 8 Entertainment 5 FELLOWCRAFT CLUB FISH FRY June 26 at the FIN FEATHER TICKET DEADLINE JUNE 20 Mrs.

Switzer Dead At 94 Mrs. G. 0. Switzer, RN, 94, of 302 N. Lake Shore Drive died at 12:15 a.

m. this morning at Paulina Stearns Hospital after an illness of two weeks. Mrs. Switzer was one of the pioneers in the field of nursing in this area. She was the first registered nurse to serve in Mason and Oceana counties.

Anna B. Jensen, who was born July 23, 1870, in Pentwater, had dedicated her life to the promotion of the nursing profession and better health care for the community. She served on the committee that selected the site for the first hospital in Ludington and was the first president of the Ludington District Nurses' Association. Mrs. Switzer was also the oldest living veteran of the Spanish- American War in the state.

She volunteered for nurses duty in 1898 and served as a nurse during that war. Prior to her marriage to Dr. G. 0. Switzer in April of 1900 in Ludington, she taught school in Golden and Weare townships in Oceana County.

She was also a supervisor at the Illinois Training School for Nurses after taking her nurses training at Cook County and Presbyterian hospitals in Chicago. The couple moved to Ludington on Feb. 1, 1902 and until 1939 lived in the building on North James Street presently occupied by Dr. E. J.

Andersen and Dr. John Bleeker. Mrs. Switzer was a life member of the Order of the Eastern Star and was a member of the Disabled American Veterans. Her husband died in June of 1938.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Gordon M. (Lois) Kraft RN, of Ludington, a sister, Mrs. Laura Farrar of Los Gatos, six grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a son, Dr.

Lars W. Switzer in 1959. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday from Rye Funeral Home.

Owosso Man Held Prisoner In Car Trunk For 40 Hours iilllllllilllllllll The Ludington An Independent Newsjittpcr Srrvhig Mason County and Surrounding Arm VOLUME NO. 75, NO. 186 LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1965. PRICE 7c and an estimated 25,000 guests that the problem of living together dwarfs all others faced by the world's people. "There is an urgency today to finding a durable solution which surpasses the need of any other time," he declared, "'for the' powers of destruction are far greater than they ever were before." He warned against defeatism and said "the uniqueness of man is represented by his ability to reverse old forces and create new ones." Wind in Spartan Stadium blew Warren's academic cap from his head as he cited history from the Magna Carta to the Declaration of Independence and asked if "we always have been faithful to their promises?" "I hope that you," he said, will help to close that gap between our principles and practices.

One way of doing so is to take- part in the operations of your government." He called such participation "the hallmark of a truly educated person." "Too many people scorn participation in politics," he said. He warned that when this happened in the past, nations fell. "When the.year 2001 arrives you will be in the full vigor of your lives and will be at a stage where your leadership can be most effective," he said. "That century will therefore belong to you and you will be responsible for it. The time to start preparing for it is now." i Michigan State presented an i honorary doctor of laws degree i to Warren.

Smooth Sailing About To End For Congress WASHINGTON (AP) After more than six months of fairly smooth sailing, Congress is heading into shoal infested waters that may wreck its plans to adjourn by Labor Day. Voting rights, union shops, foreign aid, health care for the elderly, minimum wages, closing of some military bases, legislative reapportionment, excise taxes, the antipovcrty program and pay raises for military and civilian personnel are among the snags that lie ahead. Not even one of the dozen annual appropriation bills to finance the government for the fiscal year starting July 1 has been sent to the President, although most of them have cleared the House. Although publicly voicing confidence that all the necessary legislation can be disposed of by Labor Day, some congressional leaders already are considering a summer recess followed by a fall session. Such a recess is a distinct possibility for the House, which is legislatively in better shape than.the Senate.

Michigan Prepares For Space Heroes Arrival DETROIT (AP) The term "Space Age'' will take on a more personal meaning for thousands of Michigan residents who, starting tomorrow, will see America's latest space heroes accept the accolades of academicians, politicians and just plain folks. The Gemini 4 pilots, Cols. James A. McDivitt Jr. and Edward H.

White, will be feted by their alma mater, the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor to- tomorrow. McDivitt will go home Wednesday to Jackson where he will address the graduating class of Jackson Junior college from which he himself graduated. Their arrival in Michigan follows a tickertape parade scheduled for -today in Chicago. The astronauts will arrive in two special National Aeronautics and space Administration (NASA) planes tomorrow morning at Willow Run airport. They will be greeted by Gov.

and Mrs. George Romncy and U-M officials headed by Prof. Wilbur Nelson, chairman of the department of aeronautical and astro- nautical engineering. Romney has proclaimed tomorrow as White-McDivitt Day and Wednesday as James Alton McDivitt Day. The astronauts will travel by car to the U-M stadium where the school will confer brand-new honorary degrees, doctorates of astronauti- Paulina Stearns i Receives Grant I cal on the two men in a convocation set for 10 a.m.

The public is invited. Admiss- ion is free. I Both men graduated from U-M's aeronautical engineering Department in 1959. After the convocation, the guests of honor will be driven to i the North Campus for dedication ceremonies at the school's new million Space Research Building financed by a grant from NASA. After a 1 p.m., by-invitation- only luncheon in the Michigan Union, the astronauts will be I honored in the afternoon at a reception at Barton Hills Country Club to which some 1,700 guests have been invited.

On Wednesday, McDivitt will i deliver the commencement address at Jackson Junior College 2:30 p.m. Big Turnout Expected For Voting Today A heavy turnout of voters was expected in the Ludington Area School District, today, for the annual school election and a proposed bonding issue. Polls opened at 7 a.m. and will close at 8 p.m. All registered voters are eligible to vote for members of the school board and property tax payers are eligible to vote for both the school board members and the bonding issue.

There are three polling places i for the school district. The senior high school is the first precinct and all voters of the city's first and second ward vote there. Voters of the third and fifth wards vote at Oriole Hall and the voters from the fourth ward and Pere Marquette and Amber townships will vote at the fourth ward) hose house. Hanna Will Be Returned To Ludington Mason County Sheriff Wally Bentz and Undersheriff William Lange left this morning for the Northern Michigan Prison at Marquette, to pick up and return to Ludington, Charles Hanna, 31, of Chicago. Hanna was convicted in October 1958 of second degree murder in the death of a Ludington policeman.

A hearing will be held in Circuit Court Friday afternoon on a delayed motion for a new trial. Hanna is presently serving a 10 to 20 year sentence. Fair, Cool Weather Seen Fair and cool weather is expected to remain in the area at least until Wednesday. The forecast is for fair and i continued cool this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday. The low tonight will be in the 40's.

Tuesday it will be fair with a high in the 60's. Wednesday's outlook is for sunny and warmer. i (More weather on page 2.) The Paulina Stearns Hospital announced this morning the receipt of a grant from the Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, to underwrite, for a two year period, the cost of establishing a Hospital-Nursing Home Plan. Andrew Pattullo, director of the Hospital Division of the Kellogg Foundation, explained the offer is being made so that hospital approved methods of patient care can be provided in the Nursing Homes of Mason County. Since a pilot study will be made of this particular area of patient care, the University of Michigan School of Hospital Administration has been requested to review the program at periodic intervals.

The Paulina Stearns Hospital also announced the appointment of Mrs. Lucille Sundholm, R. N. of 805 E. Filer as nursing consultant of the H.

N. H. Plan (Hospital-Nursing Home Plan). A graduate of the Mercy School of Nursing of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Sundholm is a charter member of the Board of Directors of the Mason County Home Services and is a former Red Cross Nurses Aide Instructor.

This past week, Mrs. Sundholm has called on a number of the Nursing Homes in the area and all have expressed an interest in participating in the program. In addition to her duties as Nursing Consultant, Mrs. Sundholm will organize and maintain an Equipment Center for sick room equipment presently available in Mason County. She will also maintain a registry of the Nursing Homes for patient referral.

Acting as an Advisory Commit, tee for the H.N.H. Plan are: Mrs. Byron Elder, a member of the Board of Directors of Paulina Stearns Hospital; Mrs. Geneva Lindquist, Director of the Mason County Department of Social Welfare; and Dr. William J.

Morrow, of the Mason County Medical Society. The program has also been; endorsed by the Kellogg Founda- tion, the Mason County Depart-i ment of Social Welfare, the Ma-! son County Home Nursing Services, the Mason County Medical! Society, the Mason County Hospital Association and the Woman's Auxiliary of Paulina Stearns Hospital. Two Arrested After Accidents I Mason County sheriff officers arrested two drivers, over the weekend, who were involved in accidents. One accident is reported under the picture at the bottom of this page. The other occurred at 10:15 p.

m. Sunday on Campbell Road, seven miles south of Walhalla. A car driven by Gary Lee Cole of Muskegon struck trees on both sides of the road, The car was a total loss. Cole i was arrested for driving while under the influence of intoxicat- ing liquor. In Ludington Municipal Court; this morning Tenney and Cole pleaded not guilty and demand-.

ed a jury trial. Bond was set at $150 each. The trial date willI be set later. i Hitchhiker Robs Victim Before Locking Him Up FENTON (AP) "I was scared to death. I was ready to do almost anything to get, out," Howard Hamilton, 61, said Sunday in telling police of 40 hours in the locked trunk of his car, prisoner of a hitchhiker.

A knife-armed hitchhiker robbed him of $8 and forced him into the car trunk Friday morning, then drove around with him for much of the time, Hamilton said. Hamilton, manager of a transport terminal in nearby Owosso, said he escaped by loosening the lock bolts with a screw driver and pliers he found in the darkness of the car trunk. Shortly beforehand, Hamilton said, the robber had abandoned the car, two blocks from the police station in this southern Michigan community. That was Saturday. Hamilton freed himself about midnight.

During his hours of imprisonment Hamilton said his only food was two lozenges he scrounged in the trunk. He said he was able to judge the passing of was loo dark for him to read his by cooler night-time temperatures. Hamilton's wife, Mildred, reported to police when he failed to return home Friday night. At home, Hamilton described himself as a little sore and weak but refreshed from a good kitchen dinner. He described his captor aj a tall young Negro hi dark slacks and blue shirt and with long sideburns.

Rangers Find Remains Of 100 Slain Soldiers Beach Report The water temperature at the Ludington public beach at noon I today was 50. Swimming conditions: Coldi and windy. BIDS WANTED On Income Apartment House at 421 N. Gaylord Ave. Can be seen by appointment.

Ph. 843-4053. Bids to be sent to Martin Solander Box 367, Ludington. Bids to be received by June 25. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.

Set Dates For Registrations Paul Kalavitz, beach supervisor, announced that the Ludington beach is officially open-: ed. The life guards will be on; duty from noon until 8 p.m. Beach regulations are asj follows: i The use of flotation equipment as innertubes, rafts and etc. is prohibited in water over the waist. Swimmers not using flotation equipment are not permitted to, go out above their shoulders.

Registration for swimming lessons will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from noon until 3 p.m. each day at the Longfellow school in the main corridor. The fee for registration will be $1. An announcement will be made later as to when swim, mir.g lessons are to begin. SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) Vietnamese rangers combing a rubber plantation just north of the shattered town of Dong Xoai found the bodies of about 100 government troops today, the remains of the 7th Airborne Battalion, a U.S.

military spokesman announced. Dong Xoai was reported quiet but braced for more trouble from the Viet Cong. As the rangers moved through the French-owned Michelin rubber plantation a few miles north of Dong Zoai they found an assortment of grim relics left behind by the Viet Cong, among them the wreckage of a U.S. Army helicopter and a U.S. Army man's identification tag.

U.S. authorities announced "at the request of the Vietnamese government, elements of the 173rd U.S. Airborne Brigade have moved to Phuoc Vinh to protect the airfield and aircraft 1 Phuoc Vinh is the main airfield for the Dong Xoai area. The U.S. paratroopers had been expected to move from there into the Dong Xoai conflict but the Vietnamese commanders were reluctant to ask for them.

The Viet Cong mounted a number of attacks and ambushes in various parts of Viet Nam today, all the way from the 17th Parallel to the southern tip of the nation. Ninety American and Vietnamese palnes hammered targets in North Viet Nam in a series of separate raids. Today's Chuckle The modern parent has to spare Junior can ride in it. Truck Hits Bridge, Over This truck was declared a total loss by Mason County Sheriff officers following an accident at 5:40 p.m. Saturday on Jebavy Drive at the Lincoln River bridge.

Officers reported the panel truck shown on its top in the background and driven by Don- aid Tenney of route 3 Ludington struck the bridge and guard rail and then flipped over while going down the embankment. Donald Tenney and a passenger. Helen Tenney, received minor injuries. Officers arrested Donald Tenney tor driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. (Daily News Photo) Still Time to Back Our Bands with a Yes Vote On the School Bonding Issue LUDINGTON BAND PARENTS Polls Open Until 8 P.JVL For School Election Today.