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i f. i i (s i. J. iu- -J I 4 -v Today's Chuckle Comic Dictionary GROUCH A man who, when he doesn't like the weather, acts as if his friends were to blame. Maybe we don't need to change the work week so much as some of the weak work." i Pine Chips Sunday, August 5, 19G2 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A FREE PRESS ASKS THE PEOPLE What Would You Do Got a Tax Cut? j( i If You $100 X' walk that needs fixing and $100 would about cover the job," he said.

"A tax cut that would give me $100 would save another government agency some paperwork because it looks like I'm going to have to get an FHA loan to fix the walk," he said. THE ONLY person polled who would save the money was Attorney David Nissen, 38, of 3000 Cortland, said he felt the money would be unexpected and should be used for something constructive. "I think the block club movement in Detroit is a tremendous thing and I would donate the money to a block club," he said. "These block clubs send children to camps and work for better citizenship so this would I Miss Grider Nissen them up and then maybe I could buy some things that I have needed." Miss Joyce Bigelow, 23, of 33953 Currier, Wayne, said it would be nice to get $100 but the amount wouldn't go very far with the current high cost of living. "I like clothes and I would buy new clothes.

But what can you get for $100?" she said. 1 The results of a Free Pres3 poll of Detroit wage earners showed $100 received in an income tax cut would not be used to line socks or mattresses. Most of those polled said they would spend the money. Miss Karen Grider, 25, of 11426 Melrose, Livonia, said, "It would get spent fast and on clothes. I've been dying for a cashr.iere coat and I think I'd use the money for that I even know where they have a sale on them now.

"I favor any kind of tax cut that will put money in my hand and maybe a cash- A hundred dollars. Rep. Martha W. Griffiths Mich.) is interested in the economic results of an income tax cut that could I give each worker an extra flOO a year. 1 To find out where the money would go if such a cut was made, the Detroit Congresswoman is conduct-ring a mail poll of 35J000 'people in her district, ashling them to tell her what they would do with the $100 if they got it.

Miss Bigelow Morgan I don't owe anybody $100 and there's nothing I need to buy right away. With it set aside in bonds, I know where it is when I want it." Azzarito "The first thing I would do is pay my bills," he said. "That ETOount wouldn't cover all my ill3 but it would help me clean Francis Pvt. Luke Azzarito, 23, of Utica, N. stationed at Ft.

Wayne. "I'd put the whole works in U.S. Savings Bonds I don't need the money for anything now," he said. be an investment in the future. LEROY MORGAN, 50, of 2735 Waterloo, was worried about unpaid bills.

a Million Voter LIVES IN PRESENT Is the Time Over Are l- ID) I xpected a A 'a. AA-kii-i 's i mere coat on my shoulders," she said. Lee Francis, 35, a State parole officer, had more practical plans for $100. "I've got a side whether I'm in church or not. Every night, every day.

"I'm resigned to God's will. I hope I can go to heaven. That's the big experience. "When you come, too," said Mrs. Baker, "I'll be waiting with a cherry pie." boat, Wendy, 4, Joan, and Robert Nelson, 12, were taken from the boat as its motor propelled it in circles in the middle of the lake.

Robin Nelson and Miss Enot, whose boat sank, also were rescued quickly. Washtenaw County skin divers, assisted by the Livings ton sheriff's office, recovered Cogan's body Saturday evening in the 30-fott-deep water. In another water accident Saturday, Robert Sisal, 18, of Ithaca, drowned while swimming in a pond near the east city limits of Ithaca. His body was recovered. AT 102, SHE Now BY JEAN SHARLEY Fi-m Press Staff Writer Mrs.

Lettie Baker, who will be 101 Tuesday, deals in the The fresh -picked flower. This moment's shaft of siuishine on her face. The good lunch. The kind touch. But the past is just under-f neath the years since 1861 and if prodded a little, she talks with humor jand gentleness i The second year of her "second century will begin in the Kendallview Convalescent Home, Farmington Township.

The first century began in a small lumbertown, Le Ray- ville, Pa. SHE REMEMBERS her mother's death when she was small the two-mile walk to school fox and geese in the deep white snow a boy named Arthur the day Abraham Lincoln died and her grandparents cried. She was prettier than she is now, she said, and auburn-haired. She and Arthur were 21 when they married in her father's house. He took her to New York.

For. 28 years, they operated a milk business and an ice cream parlor. She remembers the rides around Central Park in a horse and buggy. The baby boy who died at nine months her only child. Arthur died in 1914 and she never thought of marrying again.

For 40 years, she cared for all needed her, friends, relatives, children traveling to Utica, to Syracuse, to Oneonta and Canandaigua, N.Y., whenever she was asked. The last few years, she has lived with a half brother, A. Neill Canfield, 80, of 24459 West 10 Mile Southfield. In January, she moved to Kandallview. FOR HER birthday, she will come downstairs to sit in a corner rOcker and chat.

Some of the patients who live on the first floor will come by. "I want to see that old lady." said Mrs. Blanche MacPherson, 97. Mrs. Baker's pre-birthday message was meaty.

"You can't give people ad-' vice, everybody lives their own way. "If I'd tried to live any other way, I'd have made more mistakes than I did and I made lots as it was. I Mrs. Baker: She's started her second 101 How much is that junker in the window? Make an offer Cold Storage can't reckon which one was worse. Maybe not being kinder.

There are lots of things I might have done better if I'd had my senses. "I was born and raised a Republican and an orthodox Methodist. I always pray. Wreck Is Still Where It Landed in '61 She. said she would try to buy something different in the way of clothes but can't think of anything exotic I can get for $100." Candidates Make Final Appeals 3 Congressmen Face Challenge State Elections Director Robert M.

Montgomery pre dicted Saturday that more than a million votes will be cast in Tuesday's primary. Montgomery said that, despite a lack of primary battles for governor and most other state wide offices, hot local issues should produce a turnout above the 1.021,217 ballots cast in the 1960 primary, and far better than the 811,000 votes recorded in 1958, the last non-Presidential primary year. THE HOTTEST local race Samuel H. Olsen against challenger Joseph B. Sullivan.

In the only statewide race, all three candidates are predicting they'll be nominated lieutenant governor in the in the Republican primary. Rockwell T. Gust, Detroit lawyer and a Constitutional Convention delegate, and Senator John H. Stahlin, a Belding manufacturer, agreed that Clarence Reid is the man to beat. Reid, a Detroit attorney won the nomination two years ago.

Gov. Swainson and Georg-e Romney, his GOP rival, are unopposed for the top State post. IN DETROIT districts and in many outstate districts, where one party traditionally gets a lopsided majority, winners in Tuesday's primary are assured of election in November. There are contests in the First, 13th and loth congressional districts in Detroit and In the fourth district in southwest Michigan. Rep.

Charles Coles Diggs, in the 13th District faces a stiff test from challenger Mrs. Jessie P. Slaton, a teacher and lawyer, for the Democratic nomination. Democratic incumbents Lucien N. Nedzi in the First District and John D.

Dingell In the 15th District are strongly opposed by Detroit attorney Russell S. Brown, and State Rep. Frederick Yates. HOTTEST STATE Senate races in the Detroit area are in the First District of the Grosse Pointes, Harper Woods and Fast Detroit and the 21st District in southwest Wayne County. Heated contests extend all the way down to precinct delegate in the 14th Congressional District, where a slate of Republican candidates loyal to Richard Durant is pitched against an opposition slate seeking to oust the spokesman for the John Birch Society.

Sheriff Andrew C. Baird, Democrat, faces a field of 24 candidates in his attempt to be elected to an eleventh term as sheriff. Detroit voters also will decide whether to amend the City charter to abolish the City's Loyalty Commission and Loyalty Investigating Committee. Full Data On Electioii A complete rundown on all candidates for state and local offices in Tuesdays primary will be found on Pages 4B and 5B. Boater Dies, 5 Saved In Collision on Lake trol of the car, veered diagonally across Gratiot and hit another car before plowing Into the store.

Seldon has a 'for rent" sign on the store and will 2 Negro Candidates Yeggs Get 2 Tied Up Torch Is Used To Open Vault After tying up a guard and a janitor, two bandits burned a hole through the vault door of the Riley Stoker at 101 Walker early Saturday morning and escaped with about $5,000 in cash. The guard, Tom Archibald, 29. of 1031 Chalmers, told police an armed white man stopped him in front of the building. ORDERED INSIDE, he was told to get the janitor, Jose Fleming, 26, of 1910 Greyfriars, who was also held at gunpoint. The bandit was then joined by an accomplice and Archibald and Fleming were tied up with towels and their shirts.

Using an acetylene torch, the robbers opened the vault, took the money and fled. The two victims struggled free after two hours and called police. The man with the gun was described as in his mid-forties, about five feet seven, 190 pounds, with a ruddy complexion and a flattened nose. He wore black tape on his forehead, under his eyes and chin. He was dressed in a blue baseball cap, rust colored shirt, green denim trousers and soft shoes.

The victims did not get a good look at the accomplice, but told police he had a high-pitched, nervous voice. Nora Hits Japan TOKYO JP Floods from typhoon Nora caused death and destruction Saturday in central southern Kokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island. The floods, described as the worst in 35 years, killed 9 persons and injured 11. Amarillo 95 67 .001 Brnsvile 93 77 .00 Casper 89 63 .00 Denver 92 52 .01 El Paso 95 73 .00 FtWorth 100 78 .00 Galvestn 89 81 .00 Helena 75 59 .03 Seattle Spokane Wichita 60 51 45 52 94 72 CANADA Pre. Calgary 66 57 .00 Edmntn 64 56 .24 Regina 74 53 .22 Winnipeg 69 53 .00 Vanc'ver 65 54 .12 MISC.

Pre. Anch'ge 61 52 .12 Fairb'ks 71 51 .00 Juneau 57 51 .00 Honolulu 85 74 .00 LasVegas 99 74 .00 LosAngei 80 62 .00 OklaCity 97 75 .00 Omaha 83 65 .00 Phoenix 104 68 .00 Port. Ore 69 58 .06 RaDidCtv 97 59 .00 SLakeCty 94 73 .00 SanAntn 103 75 .00 SanFran 58 55 .00 THE WORLD (At 1 p.m. Saturday) Aberdeen 61 Vienna 86 Mex City 73 Dublin 56 Cpnhagen 63 Stockhlm 57 Athens 82 Madrid 88 Moscow 57 Csablnca 73 Tokyo 72 San Juan 85 Havana 87 Kingston 88 Nassau 83 Bogota 61 St.Thmas 87 63 iBrmnghm 63 Paris 66 I Geneva 79 Berlin 70 MICHIGAN: Partly cloudy with southeast winds 6-13 mph. ONTARIO: Thundershowers with variable winds 11-16 mph.

SUPERIOR: partly ciouay with east to southeast winds 16-22 mph. Heavens ECHO TIMETABLE: (Sunday) 9:30 p.m., south 19 degrees above horizon, movin9 southeast. PROMINENT MORNING Mercury (July 1-29), Mars, Jupiter; EVENING Mercury (July-29-31). Venus. a Glance DETROIT PRECIPITATION: 24 hours ending 7 a.m.

Saturday: none; total this month: none; normal this month: 2.62 total since Jan. 1: 17.13 departure from normal since Jan. 1: Diffe over Negro candidates for Democratic nomination in two Detroit Congressional districts had opposite reactions Saturday to charges of "racist" campaigns. Thunderous Interlude for Warm Day Temperatures U. S.

and Mich. The 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Saturday; others 4 a.n All infopnation from U. Weather Bureau Detroit area: Partly cloudy and warm with afternoon thundershowers. Southeast winds 6-12 mph.

High 83-87, low Sunday night 63-67. gladly move the wreck out a large back door if it can find a tenant. And Mrs. Kaminski can have the car or what's left of it anytime she's ready to settle up. Raci ism have tried to talk before white groups, and to campaign in white neighborhoods, but I've been rejected." Brown said he welcomed the support of the "Illustrated News," a Detroit weekly pub lication that has been urging election of "three plus one" three Negro congressmen and a new Wayne County prosecu tor "friendly" to Negroes.

The publication has "en' aorsed Yates and Brown their battles with white incumbents, and R.ep. Charles Diggs, a Negro Democrat who seeks re-election in the 13th District. THE PAPEK, which was started in October, 1961, and has coroistently taken a "racist" approach to political, educational and other problems in Detroit, also "endorses" Joseph B. Sullivan, who is white, in the Democratic primary for Wayne County prosecutor. The Michigan Fair Campaign Practices Commission condemned the papr Friday night for injecting racist issues into the campaign.

"There is no question but that these appeals (in the Illustrated News) are racist; that they descend to a level of; campaigning that has no place in the American electoral proc-j ess," the Commission said. Leaders of several Negro organizations joined the FCPC in condemning such practices. But a Negro organization called the Group on Advanced Leadership termed the FCPC's charge against the Illustrated News "baseless and BY DONNA CALVIN Free Press Staff Writer At 4:20 on a cold morning: in January of 1961, a woman forcibly parked her car inside a vacant store at 10981 Gratiot, near Outer Drive. In the process, she took most of the store and a lot of plate glass window with her. The driver Geraldine Meadows, now Mrs.

Robert L. Kaminski, of 6871 N. Lafayette, Dearborn Township was treated for cuts and bruises at Saratoga General Hospital and then went home. The car is still where it landed, THE OWNERS of the the Seldon Realty had the front of the building rebuilt with the pink and white convertible inside. The company is still awaiting to collect damages and while a completely wrecked automobile isn't much security, it's the best they've got.

Police said that Mrs. Kaminski, uninsured when the accident happened, lost con- Aquarama Will Tour St. Clair Flats I A trip that has long been a favorite of Detroiters up to the historic St. Clair Flats, will be offered aboard the I Aquarama Wednesday. The vessel, which usually plies between Detroit and Cleveland, will make two cruises, one in the daytime and one at night.

The first leaves the Aqua-i rama dock at the foot of W. Grand at 9:30 a.m. re-j turning at 3 p.m. The night i cruise leaves at 6:30 p.m. and returns at 11.

Each 60-mile cruise to the area includes the interesting Detroit waterfront as well as i the open lake and finally the favorite resort area where the St Clair River empties into 'Lake St. Clair. John A. Cogan, 24, son of a Detroit mounted policeman, drowned Saturday in Zukey Lake, 15 miles from Ann Arbor, in Livingston County. Four children and another boat passenger were saved after the mishap.

A MOTORBOAT piloted by Cogan, of 18592 Huntington, was towing water skiier Robin Nelson, of Novi, when it collided with a boat driven by Miss Joan Enot, 16, of 360 S. Gully, Inkster. Cogan was knocked from his boat and disappeared into the water. Three children in the same cloudy with afternoon thundershowers. Southeast winds 10-8 mph.

Low 54-60, high 74-82. A- and Upper Partly cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers. Southeast winds 10-18 mph. Low 52-58, high 70-78. Oofts tram U.S.

WiATHI (4MU SUNDAY Sunny warm weather Is called for over the bulk of the nation. A wide scattering of showers or thundershowers are likely from the Rockies eastward. Temperature will vary little compared to those of the day before except for some cooling in vicinity of the Northern and Central Rockies and a gradual warming through the recently cooled Pacific Northwest. MICHIGAN I Mpena 75 67 .51 BavCity 83 65 .38 DTROIT 87 66 .64 scanaba 76 59 .12 Flint 87 64 .04 GrRapids 83 6 .02 Houghtn 69 55 .00 Jackson 89 68 .00 Lansing 87 66 .02 Uarqette 62 56 .00 Wuskegn 79 70 .10 Milwakee 75 65 .03 MolsSt.P 83 56 .00 St. Lou is 91 68 .68 EAST Pre.

Albany 81 65 .00 Boston 82 65 .00 NewYork 80 68 .00 Philadel 82 68 .00 Pittsbrgh 90 64 .00 Port. Me. 76 60 .00 Washgtn 79 70 .00 SOUTH Pre. Atlanta 87 69 .00 "ellston 76 62 .24 SStMarie 74 60 .01 Yosilanti 92 65 MIDWEST Pre. Birmghm 92 73 .00 Charlstn 87 71 1.23 JacksvMI 94 74 1.29 Louisvill 93 64 .00 Bismarck 92 60 .00 Buffalo 88 61 .00 Chicago 77 70 .00 Zincnati 93 66 .00 Cleveland 91 59 Memphis 93 75 .00 Miami 91 82 .00 NewOrlns 91 75 .00 Columbus 90 62 .00 DesMoine 87 64 .00 Duluth 72 52 .00 Indaoolis 89 65 .00 KanCity 93 76 .00 Tampa 92 77 .00 WEST Pre.

Albrgrqe 93 63 .00 State Rep. Frederick Yates, who is seeking the nomination against incumbent John D. Din-gell in Tuesday's primary in the 15th District, said he disavowed a campaign based on an appeal to Negro voters. But Russell S. Brown, an attorney opposing incumbent Lu-cien M.

Nedzi in the First District, said he is conducting a racial campaign because he can get support only from Negroes. "I've told people myself that I wouldn't vote for someone just because of his color, and I wouldn't expect anyone to vote for me for that reason," Yates said. "I've got a lot of people working for me and some mav have hn rarrid 1 ates away. However, I have not authorized them, or asked them, to conduct a racial campaign. "I'ni calling everyone in to spell this out right now," Yates said.

HE NOTED, however, that "there are many groups supporting me and I can't control them." Brown said he has "sought the support of the entire community" but has obtained support only from Negroes. "Racism in America is an almost everyday part of our lives," Brown said. "Why should I not seek the help of those who will help me, or reject their help when it's offered? "I've been in politics a long time and have never received the endorsement of any white organization. I EXTREMES: HI, Imperial, California; 41, Redmond, Oregon. Belleville, Illinois reports 2.01 in.

of rain in a 6-hour period. MICHIGAN FORECAST SE and SW Lower Cloudy and warm with widely scattered thundershowers. Southeast winds 10-18 moti. Low 40-65, high 80-87. NE and NW Lower Partly ar BavthM Sunday NATIONAL SUMMARY A band of shower activity occurred from the Pacific Northwest across the Rockies into the Central Plains while another group developed in the extreme Southeast.

Severe storm cells containing hail and high winds were set off in vicinity of cold front curving across the Ohio Valley through Illinois and Missouri into Kansas and Nebraska. Isolated tornadoes were sighted over open land in Illinois, Nebraska and Missouri. 100 Lake Conditions LAKE ST. CLAIR: Thundershowers W'th southeast winds 8-13 mph. ERIE: Thundershowers with variable winds 8-12 mph.

HURON: Thundershowers and north to northeast winds 6-13 mph. In the FIRST FULL LAST Aug. Aug. 15 Aug. 22 Sun rises 5:30 a.m., sets 7:48 m.

Moon rises 10:18 a.m., sets 10:34 p.m. The Past DETROIT TEMPERATURES: Year ago Sunday: Low 64, high 80. Aug. 5 records since 1872: Low 51 (1951), high 96 (1881). Aug.

3 mean: 72; normal mean: 73; departure from normal: departure from normal since Jan. 1: 58. NEW Aug. 29 at The Weatherman Right or Wrong? SATURDAY'S PREDICTION: Partly cloudy with showers or thundershowers. Low 60-64, high 83-87..

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