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Free Press Telephones To Place Want Ad 222-6800 For Home Delivery 222-6500 City News Desk 222-6600 All Other Calls 222-6400 Insurance Dept. 222-6470 etoit iff ee Todays Chuckle A fool and his money are soon invited places. Friday, February 25, 1966 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A Blizzard of '65 Brings Back Flurry of Memories I 1 1 ftJU-cO-1 i m. a a ii 1 I a. -I 3 i -a TS i '5 t' I 1 l-r i.

is year; if V. City Stopped A Year Ago BY HARRY GOLDEN JR. FrM Prtu Stiff Writer What this town may need is one big fat blizzard. Remember the one that started at 1:20 p.m. a year ago Thursday? "Wow! What a storm!" everyone complained the morning after, and the morning after that, while enjoying both the storm and the complaining.

Like most of the truly good things of life, the blizzard left something to be relished for many years. A generation hence, people enjoying good fellowship will still spin their yarns of the snow of '65. At first, that Feb. 24, there were seemingly insignificant flurries that gave no hint of the wonders to come. But a magnificent 11.5 inches biggest accumulation in 36 years were dumped by 5:37 p.m.

Feb. 25 and flurries danced above for another five kiT- 1 "s- 3 itft fr 11- Sate- MM-ir1'3 "Yrt if.1, rr makes! tj jf --3 i-agaiuajiw vw II.MUI..W. SPECIAL LENTEN SERIES Need Tags Plate Due 500,000 Auto James 31. Hare l'4i 4 iWpsl Monday Deadline To Bring a Rush Motorists still sporting 1965 license plates can expect to run into a jam at Secretary of State offices by Monday night's deadline. Half a million of 3,000,000 expected sales hadn't been made by Thursday.

In Lansing, Secretary of State James M. Hare said he expected the "tugging match of the century" in the Teens Talk Religion In Inter-Faith Rally The Scriptures of the world had the oneness of mankind. With Lent comes a season of faith, with overtones of love and sacrifice that go beyond the theology of the particular faith that celebrates this special season of penitence. Lent is a season of healing. It comes now refreshed by a new ecumenical spirit in religion and a new dignity of man recognized in developments of world movements and organizations.

Tor Lent this year, 40 Detroiters of various faiths tell about their friends of OTHER faiths, and what they have learned from them, in living examples of the new inter-faith spirit of cooperation. BY JEANXINE OTIS St. Piul A.M.E. Zion Church The first ecumenical youth rally on the University of Detroit campus gave me an opportunity to meet teenagers of all faiths and racial backgrounds. We exchanged 4 Tots Buried A Simple Hymn Echoes Tragedy BY MARY ANN WESTON Frc Prtsi Staff Wrlttr "Jesus loves me, this I know "For the Bible tells me so.

"Little ones to Him belong; "They are weak, but He is strong." The organ played the simple, sweet strains of the children's hymn and brought the half-forgotten words hours. Oh, the men with stout hearts braved the rolling contours of that morn and felt so much better for the deed. The cowards were content to die another death. Besides, they were home snug as a bug In a blizzard, CHILDREN GOT two days off from school to scamper and roll and revel. Thousands of salaried workers got time off with pay.

One concrete benefit: Riding of the DSR was increased. People forced to ride the bus in the days after the great descent were surprised to find it convenient. DSR General Manager Lucas S. Miel said Thursday, "Riding was increased at a rate of five million passengers a year and we maintained that increase. We're going to wind np 1965-66 with 120 million passengers and, we hope, an extra $1.5 million-" Every silver lining has a cloud.

City Controller Richard Strichartz recalled, "I awakened to children's chortling, and tears rolled down my face as I saw a surplus die." The storm cost the City $750,000. LOSSES TO businesses were estimated in the millions. But people endured to buy another day, and business went on to a record year. City officials drew up an elaborate plan for alerting the public and providing for mass towing of vehicles if there's a next time. The weatherman said there's nothing in sight but flurries this Friday.

Fore! Detroit's sue municipal golf courses will open Tuesday. Courses will be open daily from 9 a.m. to dark. Larry said. He still had left after buying the bike and a $1 license for it.

EE HAD GONE downtown on a DSR bus and didn't think he could take the bike back on a bus. He didn't have enough money for a taxi. So he decided to ride the bike to his home at 2987 Chalmers. There was a hitch the tires were flat. He persuaded the Police Department to let him use their compressed air hose in the police garage and Larry was off and pedaling.

Attacked "Wll vi 5'S ifinal sales days The fine for operating a ve hicle with 1965 plates after midnight Monday is $2. ILARLEY L. NEIDEFFER, state director of branch operations, said branches will not be open Sunday. Longer hours, however, will be in effect Friday, Saturday and Monday. Practically all 51 branches in the three-county Detroit area will operate a full day Saturday.

The three civil service branches will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Neldeffer said most of the others, operated on a fee basis, plan to stay open as long as customers are coming. On Monday, the civil services branches will sell to all those in line at 9 p.m. closings of the others will vary.

THE LAST MTNUTE rush is intensified by a new state law requiring uninsured drivers to pay $35 into the Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Fund. Another certain side effect of the law is increased abandonment of aging cars. Uninsured drivers, for many weeks only 1 percent of the busi ness, have risen to 4 percent. Goodwill Holds Annual In-Plant Sale Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit will hold its annual "in-the-plant" sales day Friday. The sale, at the Goodwill Building, 6522 Brush, will be from 9 a.rn.

to 4 p.m., with attractive furniture displays, including antiques, and special selections of clothing, toys, appliances and other items at reduced prices. The annual sale, which many throughout Wayne, Macomb, Oakland and Washtenaw Counties look forward to each year, is designed to clear the factory and to give the public an opportunity to see how disabled people are trained to repair and restore saleable materials. Rifleman Robs Taylor Store Taylor Township police are hunting a rifle-bearing youth who got $415 in a raid on a party store. The robber Wednesday night pointed the rifle at Mrs. Marilyn Silver, owner of Stan's Party Store, at 23821 Eureka, Taylor Township, and told Mrs.

Silver's daughter, Linda, 12 the only other person in the store to get behind the counter. The youth, about 20, fled after ordering the cash register ideas and religious beliefs We divided into groups, and we started our discussion on the suggested questions relative to the theme. First, we discussed: "What Is the meaning of Christian unity?" We agreed that Christian unity is simply an awakening of Christians to the fact that no matter what your denomination is, your mutual interest is God. NEXT we discussed: "What are some obstacles to our really understanding each other." There was some disagreement, but we finally decided the main obstacle in understanding is general ignorance of each other's needs, both spiritual and material. One girl, Nancy, a Catholic from Detroit, who was equally as eager to learn the practices of my religion, impressed me.

Nancy had never heard of my denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. In fact, only one girl who was there, an Episcopalian, had heard of my religion. I explained the practices of my religion. Nancy's interest was sincere. Nancy had one quality that Free Press Photo bv ED HAUN It's auction time for City of Detroit of their house at 6729 John Troy, Tuesday morning when fire roared through the frame building.

Rescuers battled through the heat and smoke and found four charred bodies huddled in an upstairs bedroom. The Kirbys' only other child, Kris, 5, was at at school at the time. Thursday the ancient Irs. Weston and solace were said as the Kirby's friends and neighbors gathered to grieve with the young couple. "The Lord is my hep-herd, I shall not want.

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures The Rev. Finley Dafoe, of the John Bethesda Church, Troy, read the Pslam of David in a low, gentle voice. "God reached forth his hand and took these little ones into the eternal world, to adorn the diadem of God," he said. They were beautiful little girls," said Mrs. Kenneth Pickard, of 27324 Barrlngton, Madison Heights.

"I was like a grandmother to them. "The oldest one Debora she was like a little mother to the others. I had a swing in my yard, and they used to swing and swing." The Kirbys married young when he was 17 and she was 15. They were a devoted family, friends said. Tuesday was to have been a day of celebration.

It Wendy's first birthday and Kirby's first day on a new job after spells of unemployment. Thursday David and Theresa Kirby stood hand in hand, their heads bowed in grief, and said good-by to their four little girls. iinJ City Peddles 350 Bikes To Eager Little Cyclists Jeannine Otis made her outstanding in the discussion. That was a definite understanding of people in general. Her human interest became evident as our discussion continued.

She was quick to solve problems which were expressed in the discussion. Her devout dedication to the Catholic faith was also expressed. Altogether, Nancy was a person with a gift for understanding people. SATURDAY: A Jewish youngster tells of a Christian playmate. see many educational exhibits and obtain free literature on prevention of heart attacks and strokes.

Doors of the auditorium will open at 7 p.m. Visitors will be able to hear their own heart beats amplified and see the sound presented as an electric signal. Dr. James B. Blodgett, president, of.

the. Michigan Heart Association, will nerve as moderator of the program. "Your Heart and Heart Attack" will be the subject of the main speaker. Dr. W.

Proctor Harvey, director of the division of cardiology at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Dr. Harvey will also serve on the panel answering questions submitted by the audience. The other outstanding experts on the panel will be: Dr. Donald B.

Effler, chief to mind. The music filled the small, dim chapel In Hazel Park where four tiny white coffins waited amid fragrant bouquets of gladioli, carnations and camellias. The four little girls of Mr. and Mrs. David Kirby, of Troy, were laid to rest Thursday in services as simple as childhood.

DEBORA, Cathy Mae, Dianne, 2 and Wendy Kirby, 1, were playing In the upstairs Bill Bans Bias LANSING UP! Sen. Basil jBrown Detroit), Thursday 'introduced a bill to stop real I estate brokers and salesmen jfrom using any form of dis-I crimination in property sales or Time Tips of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, and one of the world's leading implanters of artificial heart valves. DR. PAUL M. ZOLL, cardiologist and clinical professor at Harvard University, who is famed as the original researcher into the use of electric shock to restart and retime stopped hearts.

Dr. Ross V. Taylor, cardiologist of Jackson, and president-elect of the Michigan Heart Association, who is an expert in factors which are associated with a greater risk of heart attack. The Heart Forum is arranged annually by the Heart Association, a Torch Fund Agency, to help Greater Detroit area residents to take the best possible care of their heart and arteries. It's Heart Forum Experts to Offer Tracy two-way wrist radio set.

The money goes to the City of Detroit. The items up for auction were confiscated by police or were unclaimed, lost or stolen goods. Some came prepared to spend only a little and left disappointed because they were outbid. Others managed to get bargains but found they had problems like 10-year-old Larry Burleson, who invested $3 in a bike. "I came here with a $5 allowance my dad gave me," 2 Women A bandit armed with a meat cleaver robbed two women of $365 early Thursday and twice eluded capture by men who went to the assistance of the victims.

Mrs. Edna Radford, 42, of 59 Seward, was attacked in front of her apartment building shortly after midnight. The bandit grabbed Mrs. Radford's purse, containing $6, brandished his meat cleaver at two men rushing to Mrs. Rad ford aid and fled on foot.

BY RICHARD BRAGAW More than 500 bargain seekers attended the Detroit Police Department auction Thursday. They listened to a corps of policemen-auctioneers for almost eight hours in the police gymnasium, and they spent more than $7,000. They bought 350 bicycles, and hundreds of TV sets, radios, clocks, baseball bats, fishing rods, typewriters, adding machines, dinner plates, fans, watches, skate boards and tires. AMONG THE unusual items: an automobile battery charger weighing about 100 pounds, an automatic antenna for a car radio, and a Dick Rights Meeting Called for April Michigan Civil Rights Commissioner Martha Wylie will head a statewide working con ference on civil rights problems, the Commission has announced. One hundred twenty community and civil rights leaders will be invited to the conference, to be held in April.

BY JEAN PEARSON Frtt Medical Writer Friday night's the night you can hear nationally-known heart specialists discuss how you can help your heart and arteries in their vital work. The opportunity will come at the free public Heart Forum, CO sponsored bv the Michi gan Heart Association and the Detroit Free Press, at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Auditorium. After a talk HEART FORUM on heart ai-tacks, the panel of experts will answer questions submitted by the audience. PRECEDING THE forum, early arrivals will be able to the same man attacked Mrs.

Mamie Swain, 65, of 140 Ford, Highland Park, at W. Grand Blvd. and Second. He knocked her down and took her purse containing $350. Melvin Ciastell, 42, who was leaving his job as a guard in 1 the nearby Fisher Building, grabbed the bandit.

But the thug waved his meat cleaver and Ciastell released the man, who fled on foot..