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Comic' Dictionary fishing A sport In which large tales" are often connected with small fish. Today's Chuckles Will the new Defense Secretary, who was president of a soap company, favor the Navy because it floats? Lyon Metal Friday, March 7, 1958 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3 am Gongumer ower Si!) Tin Jesus Loved Them Ruling Boosts State Tax Take High Court OK's Lew on Slocks Owned bv Out-of-Stale Firm JIMMY POOLER The East Is Best, It Says Article Rales It as 'Super BY OWEN C. DEATKICK Lansing Bureau Staff T.ANTCjrNm TVio "VfiVlirTO Ciinrnmn tm i J- i i I VJitV' if! I '1 sifV I i I HI HIM y-iiii 1 Iff- rrrmrl I I i jlJW C- Xv- 'h' A is lifer 34 i i lhursday ruled in a 4 -to -6 decision that stocks owned by a company doing business in Michigan are taxable, even though neither the stock nor its dividends are ever located in Michigan. Service Unaffected By Strike 5,400 Workers Stage Walkout Supervisory employes manned the Consumers Power Co. gas and electric plants Thursday because 5,400 workers went on strike shortly before midnight Wednesday.

So far, no interruptions in service have been reported. Company officials said none are expected. DETROIT is not served by Consumers, but thousands of Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw county residents get service from Consumers. Service plants are located in Royal Oak, Ferndale, and Birmingham. More than a million of Consumers home and business customers are served in 64 of the 63 lower Michigan counties.

There was no hint of an early end to the strike. Gov. Williams was waiting a report from the State Labor 3Iediation Board before any action. Gov. Williams late Thursday asked the Public Service Commission to meet with the company and union to determine what can be done "to insure the maintenance of essential public service." Peaceful picketing was reported Thursday by the strikers, who are members of the Michigan Utility, Workers Council (AFL-CIO).

THE NEGOTIATIONS which The case involved the Cleveland Cliffs Iron of whose parent corporation, in Cleveland, owns $81,497 546 in steel company stocks. OF THAT TOTAL amount, four justices ruled with the State that 34 per cent, or should be allotted to Michigan as the tax base share. The stock is held in a bank in Cleveland where the divi- -h Dismissal Of Nurse Upheld Cirniit Cnurt Ttinrsilav nrv held the firing of a Wayne, County General Hospital director of nursing but criticized the manner in which it was done. Judge Victor Targonski said testimony at the Civil Service i Commission hearing on the firing of Mrs. Marian E.

McPart-land, former director of nursing vision of the hospital, was full! of hearsay. Mrs. McPartland was dismissed Aug. 22 and the commission agreed to the decision last Nov. 1.

i THE GREEK WOMAN THREE JUSTICES held that HOriTAL Supt. Dr. Samuel wa not jn accordance Jacobson testified that Mrs.l.,(. a certain -woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of Him, and came ana fell at His feet Mark VII; 25 McPartland grumbled "bout direction and leadership in the They're on the Picket Line at Jackson nuismg Qfpmimrau Court. They agreed that be-She was charged with fail- cause the stock never was in ing to provide leadership, jMichigari, it could not be in-maintaining disharmonious eluded in the taxable assets of relations with the staff, jan Ohio corporation that does failing to make rounds of ja substantial amount of busi- SOS FREED AFTER 5 DAYS Dad Wins--Partly-- In Feud ivilh Laiv Kurt Eickhoff is a stubborn man.

And Thursday he won a part victory in his feud with Wayne County officials over the jailing of his son. jL HIS woman whose persistent faith was tested by Jesus and found to be based upon true conviction, is referred to by Matthew as "a woman of Canaan," and by Mark as "a Greek, a Syro-Phoe-nician by nation." As a matter of fact, the Jews referred to all Gentiles who spoke the Greek language and lived according to Greek customs and religion as "Greeks." Even as it does today, adversity the illness of her child led her to implore the mercy of God. No doubt she had already prayed and sacrificed many times to the many deities of the heathen pantheon, but without effect. Hearing of the Nazarene, she sought Him out and fell at His feet, crying: Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil." But Jesus did not immediately reply. Instead, He exercised her faith and her perseverance in belief.

His disciples wanted Him to send her away, for they said, "She crieth after us." the wards, failing to post nursing work schedules and refusing to employ available professional nurses despite staff vacancies. Targonski ruled that there! was ample evidence to back up I the firing. However, he criti-l cized the commission for pre-! senting a record in which there; was "an abundance of hearsay evidence." Youth Held In Slabbing Of Pol Alex Tarasebicus, 17, of 5932 Baldwin, was held at Chene Station Thursday in the stabbing of a 17-year-old companion. The victim, Joseph Luciano, of 7728 Conger, was in serious condition in St. Joseph Mercy Hospital with a four-inch knife wound in his back.

DETECTIVE Charles Enners said Tarasebicus admitted stabbing Luciano during a tussle in the front seat of a car. At first, both youths told police a stranger did the stabbing. Under questioning they admitted the tale was a hoax. BY JAMES S. TOOLER Free Prest Staff Writer You probably recall the story of the columnist who was going on vacation and had nothing written to cover the two weeks he'd be away.

Told the boss just to print the letters that came In. And then sat himself down and wrote a column about dog being man's worst friend half -savage, half-coward, who fawned on man for favors who bit such faithful servants as mailman and milkmen and smiled on burglars etc. And we can tell you that the mail poured in! NOW WE ARE not going on any vacation so we cannot be accused of any malice aforethought in for some mail to come in. But we do think that Holiday magazine knew what it was doing to "stir up the dogs" nationally when it came up with a piece called "The Effete East" in its current issue. A paean In praise of the wealth, culture, influence freneral superiority of New York City and New England.

AND SO, BEING gored in our local pride, we dashed into reading our complimentary copy of Holiday. To such things as: "The East is rich richer than the wildest dreams of Texas. The six states of the Effete East have almost 90 billion dollars tucked away in bank deposits more than 40 per cent of the national bankroll. "There is almost no theater in the United States outside a run-down 20-square-block area centered on Times Square. There's another kind of cultural leadership, by great established institutions in the music world, in museums, in libraries.

"There is a landscape of learning unmatched anywhere in the world a classical landscape peopled by scholars." The author, Roger Angell, declares that out of the benighted backwoods, the artists, writers, thinkers and other rebels have to flee to the "Effete East" to have an appreciative intellectual arm wrapped around such "regional" writers as John Steinbeck, James Farrell, Truman Capote, James Thurber, Tennessee Williams and earlier our Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Willa Cather and even, our Michigan-born, Ring Lardner. READ IT and then write. For here in Detroit, which put the world on wheels and was the "Arsenal of Democracy" only a part of the vigorous Midwest we can spot some pretty good "intellectual" quarrels with the influential East. Such as a progressive education which flowed out from there and kept a generation of school kids from learning to read and write.

And what New York, by hoarding the theater, has done to destroy it as an influential art. Mother Held; Babv Used in Holdup Bid A Detroit mother who used her baby as a foil in a holdup attempt was held Thursday. Mrs. Constance Mason, 28, of 1993 Virginia Park, admitted entering the home of Mrs. Hor-tense Taylor, 49, of 3191 Oak-man, Tuesday, on the pretense getting her baby a drink of water.

ONCE INSIDE, Mrs. Mason handed the child to her companion, Melvin P. Lindsey, 19, of 2797 Whitney, and pulled out a small gun. The holdup attempt failed Mrs. Taylor fled the house screaming.

The couple were picked up Wednesday on the description of Mrs. Mason's .1956 car, on which she is mak- ing 5125 monthly payments while, according: to police, col fleeting welfare assistance. i 7. zr-w, 2 'if V- 1 1 Wx Larry Eickhoff. 18, of 8137 Hanover, Nankin Township, was arrested at 1 a.m.

Sunday by State Police when a starting pistol was found In his car. BKOWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP Justice Stuart Humphriss gave him a choice Monday of paying a S30 fine or spending 20 days in jail. Larry said he couldn't pay the fine. So he stayed in jail. The father, Kurt, an unemployed constructi on worker, said he couldn't pay the fine.

And he wouldn't even if he could, he told officials. Eickhoff protested loudly to police and prosecutor officials here and in Lansing that his son should not have been allowed to buy such a pistol, if it was illegal. But it was all in vain, it seemed. He drew a blank, just as the pistols do when they fire to start a track event. ON THURSDAY, however, Humphriss announced that he had commuted the youth's sentence.

He announced his decision after, conferring with Prosecu tor Samuel H. Olsen. "I think the interest of justice has been served," he said. "The boy has spent five days in Wayne County Jail." The justice shook hands with the father in the parking lot across the street from the jail Thursday. Then Kurt, his wife, Wilm, and young Larry drove off in a 1957 Lincoln.

The Free Press lias moved from dends are Taid Under the- ruling, the State can collect an extra $63,000 from the Ishpeming office. Lawyers said it was one of 6. The bare majority of the Court, with new Justice Thomas M. Kavanagh not taking part because the case iwas argued before his appoint ment to the Court, held that 'Michigan's tax collectors could use the company's total stock holdings as its tax base, lilt incviuua 1 f- Michigan Supreme Court or the United states Supreme ness in Michigan. Lawyers and revenue officials said the decision would help to offset the prospective losses under the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line case in which the Court held that pipe lines in interstate commerce could not be included in the tax base used for doing business in Michigan.

"This is certainly a reasonable approach to taxation of a corporation domiciled in some other state and doing a great deal of business in Michigan," said Clarence Lock, deputy commissioner of revenue. JUSTICE Harry Kelly wrote the minority epinion holding the State could not collect the tax on the stock. He was joined by Chief Justice John Deth-mers and Justice Leland W. Carr. Justice Talbot Smith wrote the prevailing opinion.

He was joined by Justices Eugene F. Black, John Voelker and George Edwards. Robbed of $419 Sabri Ajluni, 2S. of 140S0 Cherrylawn, was robbed of $419 by a lone gunman in his store, Sam's Grocery, at 3701 Wabash Thursday. Data from U.S.

WttTHfR PUBfU 3Iichigan Forecast (V. S. Weather Bureau) Detroit Area: Partly cloudy, little temperature change. Northeast winds 12-20 mph. Low 26-30, high 38-42.

One year aro today: Low 24. hieh 34. Drecioitation 0. Homiditv Thursday? a. ro.

3. 1 p. m. 6.5. 5 o.

m. 70. n. m. 69.

TemDeratures March 7 since, 1873: Low 1 (II3. hieh 59 (18-81 ShiDDers' forecast: 5. 25. 15. 25.

AREA FORECAST SB and SW Lower Michigan: Partly cloudy and cold. Licht north winds. Low 23-30. hieh 35-40. 'K and VW Lower Michiean: Partly cloudy and cold.

Lieht nirthwest winds. Low SO-26. hieh 32-38. and loner Michigan: Partly cloudy and fold. I.ieht northwest winds.

Low 16-23, hieh 38-34. Saturday' ontlook! Cloudy with I snow In north, rain or snow in sooth. 0 I WAS the first time that a person who was not I broke down Wednesday night began early in January. The contract expired Feb. 28, but both sides then agreed to a five-day extension.

There are different versions on the reason for the deadlock in new contract negotiations. A company spokesman in Jackson said the big issue is a union demand that it be given veto power over management decisions on changes of methods of operation. The last strike in 1955 ended within 24 hours. The Governor appointed a fact-finding panel then, but he no longer has the power to force arbitration in a utility strike, as he did then. Joseph A.

Fischer, nation! president of the union, charged that the company "provoked the strike to help put over a new rate increase." This was quickly denied by a company spokesman. Gerald Sanders of Flint, president of the union, said the company wanted to take away from the union an agreement classification cnanges were desired. Some of the other contract issues al'-o are not settled. THE UNION is demanding a 25 cents-an-hour increase, while the company has offered i 7.2 cents. The present average wage is $2.40 an hour.

i Other fringe benefits also are sought by the union. Both union and company spokesmen said there was no prospect of resuming negotia-I tions in the immediate future. State and Federal mediators attended the closing negotia-i tions, however, and said they i might L.eek some more sessions. Japanese Airline Makes 1st Flight Japan Air Lines' inaugural flight between Tokyo and San Francisco leaves San Francisco International Airport at 9 a.m. Friday.

Aboard the flight will be newspaper and magazine editors from several American cities, including the Detroit Free Press managing editor, Frank Angelo. Estate Section Sunday to Friday Just Another One Of Th ose Days City Seeks Gas-Rate Rehearing Detroit will ask the Michigan Public Service Commission for a rehearing on the 6-million-dollar annual rate increase granted Feb. 6 to Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. Corporation Counsel Nathaniel H. Goldstick said the request was a formality.

"We still have to study the PSC order," Goldstick told Common Council Thursday. "Then we'll decide whether to drop the matter or continue it." GOLDSTICK SAID the city may want to challenge about 2 million dollars of the increase through an attack on the accelerated depreciation schedule granted by the PSC. Henry Tuttle, president of Michigan Consolidated, said he feared the rehearing move was preliminary to a court case. He said court action would jeopardize plans to refinance 30 million dollars in bonds to get lower interest rates. If Detroit challenged the PSC ruling, Tuttle said, Michigan Consolidated would file a counter action on more than 2 million dollars in items disallowed by the PSC.

U.S. Backs Slum Plan The Government has in- structed Detroit to proceed with final plans for another H-ast bide slum clearance program to cost $6,587,360. The urban-renewal project will be undertaken in a 31-acre region bounded by Gratiot, Lamed, Hastings and St. Antoine. The Government would bear i two-thirds of the cost.

Housing director Harry J. Durbin said work could begin after last-stage plans are com pleted in eight months. The area would be largely in stitutional in nature, with Wayne State University, hos pitals and public buildings as possible site users, Durbin said. I I a worshiper of the God of Israel had asked Jesus for miraculous aid. Was her faith real, or was it a request made as a last resort, a final mother's plea when all else had failed "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel," Jesus said, testing her further.

But this did not shake her belief in Him. Instead, she came and worshiped Him, saying: "Lord, help me." But still Jesus tested her sincerity and faith. "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and cast it to dogs," he said, using the familiar phrase of the time which referred to nations other than Israel as "dogs." "Truth, Lord," she replied in her humility, "yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." Whereupon, Jesus granted her request, at the same time commending her for her intuitive knowledge of God's mercy to all who recognize and respond to Him: woman, great is thy faith," He said. "Be it unto thee even as thou wilt So her daughter was made whole, and the woman found God through adversity. This special Free Press Lenten series is written by Omar Garrison and illustrated by Sam Patrick.

Rea 'fwi Skew HiK TmpvfM Iipt44 U.S. Temperatures (24 Honrs Enriprf at 8 P. Official Government Firnrea MICHIGAN Hieh Low Hieh Low C9 Jackson S7 33 DETROIT 4-1 3'J Marauet 35 2S Flint 37 32 S. S. Marie 35 29 Gd.

RaDids 41 33 Trav. City 37 29 MIIIWEST Bismarck 35 Kan. Cit- 44 Chicago 37 33 Milwaukee 3fl Cincinnati 48 43 Min'nolis 37 Cleveland 40 35 Omaha 39 Dulutrr 37 13 St. Louis 47 35 2S IS C8 37 EAT 35 Pittsburgh 42 35 Wash Hon 53 Fnsfnn 50 New York 47 3S 38 SOITH Tacke'ville 67 55 Miarnt 74 7f Memphis 68 51 X. Orleans 68 57 WEST 'Denver 50 phnenir P4 43 Ft.

Worth 5fi 49 S. Fr'cisco 58 45 L. Aneeles 54 48 Seatle 48 33 Son rise sets 6:20 D. m. See the Ml CIV SCCtlOFif tOflay!.