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Dicfh O77C nonary 0m Todays Chuckle Doing housework for so much a week is domestic service, but doing it for nothing is matrimony. Bindery Talk TACT The art of putting your best foot forward without stepping on someone else's toes. Wednesday, March 21, 1962 TIIE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3 Favors Ml to Ford Canton Benefits Rule Senate Kill Measure Faces Swainson Veto Proposal Hikes Compensation, Increases Taxes to Build Fund Widow, 58, Is Found Strangled $900 Cache Missing In Thumb Slaying BY ROBERT DE WOLFE Free Press Staff Writers BROWN CITY A 58-year-old widow was found beaten and strangled Tuesday in her farm home two miles west of this Thumb community. The body of Hazel A. McArthur was found sprawled in a hallway between the BY RAY COURAGE Lansing Bureau Staff LANSING The Senate gave preliminary Tuesday to the controversial bill which would overhaul the unemployment compensation Supreme Court's Ford Owen Golke and his snuff I 1 1' I 1 1 'ii ir "-Mr i i iiimiT Up to Thousands of Detroiters Using The Stuff, Survey Shows BY JAMES S.

POOLER Free Press Staff Writer That gentle zephyr of a lady's sneeze! That "Kaboom" of a hearty masculine sneeze! That wasn't, necessarily, a niggling cold germ nudging some fellow Detroiter. It might have been a discreet Brigadier McMahon and Armstrong talked of life's balance SALVATION ARMY HOSTS 90-YEAR-OLD Trip a 'Dream' to Bertha BY WARREN STROMBERG Free Press Staff Writer It's sort of like a dream for 90-year-old Mrs. Bertha Armstrong. Last week, she was sitting in her small room in the Salvation Army's Eventide Home in downtown Saginaw. Then the invitation came and her Cinderella visit began.

SHE WAS transported by automobile to Detroit to be the guest this week of Brigadier Robert McMahon, manager of the Eventide Home at 2643 Park, and his wife, Beulah. "It's like being In a big hotel," Mrs. Armstrong states. "I was frightened at first. Now, I'm getting used to the bigness." The Army's Detroit Home for the Aging is 14 stories tall and has 200 residential rooms.

The building has a beauty shop, a billiard room and other comforts. It is celebrating its third anniversary this week. The Eventide movement in in its infancy in this country. law and overturn the Canton decision. The measure is virtually unchanged from the Republican-backed bill which was passed by the Legislature last year but vetoed by Gov.

Swainson. It proposes minimal increases in unemployment benefits; a substantial increase in taxes on employers to bolster the sagging benefits fund, and forgiveness of some $160 million in negative balances owed by "un stable" employers. THE BILL differs drastically from Gov. Swainson's unem ployment proposals, which in eluded expansion of coverage and higher increases. It probably faces another Swainson veto unless the Ford Canton language is separated In this 1959 decision, the high court ruled that Detroit-area Ford Motor Co.

workers idled by a strike of a supplier Ford facility in Canton, were en titled to benefits. Industry since has charged that this opened the door for labor to use unemployment compensation money to fi-nance a strike simply by striking only a small supplier plant which in turn would force shutdown of the main operation. General Motors Corp. last week charged that under the ruling it might be forced to foot the bill for $1,350,000 in unemployment benefits claimed by UAW workers who were idled in the two-week strike last Sep tember. Employers support the unem ployment compensation fund through taxes ranging from one- half of one per cent to 42 per cent on each employe's earnings up to $3,000.

THE CRITICAL condition of the unemployment compensation fund has brought increased pressure for action this year. Senator Farrell E. Roberts Pontiac), one of the bill's sponsors, said the fund now stands at $152 million. But a total of $195 million is owed the Federal Govern ment for an emergency loan and for repayment of the Federal temporary unemployment compensation program of 1958. Senator Philip A.

Rahoi Iron Mountain), arguing against killing the Ford Canton ruling, said neither the Democrats nor Gov. Swainson "can stand for that." Wayne Names Atwood Mayor James W. Atwood, a Wayne councilman for six years, was named mayor Tuesday night by his council colleagues. The council named Charles Crutiss as mayor pro-tem. son, school superintendent, said he would simply reassign McManigal where there would be no conflict with the National Anthem.

"We'll probably find him something somewhere in the elementary set-up as a music teacher," he eaid. "It is not that we don't uphold and respect the principles far which the Flag and the National Anthem stand we uphold them," McManigal said. 'We know the Flag i3 an image of the State and we look on it as an idol," he said. "Our respect is for the principle not the object. He eaid that he would get his contract and that "there reailv is no problem now." "It's kind of a load off my mind." McManigal never refused to teach the Anthem.

He simply refused to join in the singing or playing of iu hut has many branches in Canada and Great Britain, according to Brigadier McMahon. Mrs. Armstrong was the first guest in the Saginaw Home the first Eventide opened in the United States. This was in November, 1951. McMahon was the first manager.

"We had a pre-school nursery and other services in Saginaw," McMahon recalls "In going around town, I found many of the old persons living in hovels. "We received a gift of a mansion in Saginaw, acquired another mansion and put an addition joining the two at the rear. It houses 28 persons." "Now we have Detroit, a home in Asbury Park, N. and we're building in Flushing, N. MRS.

ARMSTRONG, who was born in Midland, will be the honored guest through a series of activities- this week culminating in a tea Saturday afternoon, with Gov. Swainson, Mayor Cavanagh and Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Brucker as invited guests. She has a musical background, and at one time directed a choir in Montgomery, Ala.

Her late father was proprietor of Becker's Haberdashery in Saginaw. She has a son. Fane Thomas Rogers, who lives near Pontiac. Beaten Mute Freed; Jailed for Call for Aid A deaf mute, jailed overnight because he turned in a fire alarm to get help after being beaten and robbed, was kitchen and a bedroom in the five-room frame bungalow. An autopsy showed that she had been dead since Sunday night, when an intruder strangled her with her own nylon stocking.

She had not been raped. was her purse, which relatives said contained $900 in cash. There was no sign that the house had been ransacked in a search for more money. Mrs. McArthur's body was discovered by Mrs.

Gladys Lamphier, a friend who lives near Imlay City, about nine miles away. A 50-year-old resident of the area was picked up by Lapeer County Sheriff Kenneth A. Parks shortly after the body was found, but was released after he was cleared by a lie-detector test. Mrs. Lamphier said sn.

called Mrs. McArthur Monday, got no answer and decided to drive over Tuesday and see her. A pane of glass had been broken in the back door, she said, and the door was slightly ajar. She said she walked in, found the body, and phoned a North Branch physician, Dr. Robert Porte.

Dr. Porte rushed to the home from North Branch, about 12 miles away, and when he saw that Mrs. McArthur was dead, called the sheriff. Parks said the killer broke the glass, reached in and un locked the door as Mrs. Mc Arthur got ready for bed Sunday night.

She was clad in a slip and underclothing when the body was found. MRS. McARTHUR had been beaten severely on the face and head but an autopsy at Lapeer General Hospital by Dr. Leon Barouch showed that she died of strangulation. The nylon stocking had been drawn around the neck so tightly that it w-as imbedded in the flesh.

Mrs. McArthur had lived on the neat farm since her late husband built it in 1950. It is located on M-90, just outside the Lapeer County line. Brown City is about 32 miles northeast of Lapeer and about 60 miles north of Detroit. THE DEAD WOMAN was born in the Brown City area and lived there most of her life.

Her husband, Floyd, died In 1956. He did some farming and worked as a maintenance man at the Pontiac Division of General Motors, in Pontiac. Parks said Mrs. McArthur was left "well off" after her husband's death. Her father, Owen Henn, who lived on the next farm west, died in February.

Parks said there was to be a settlement of the estate and the intruder may have thought Mrs. McArthur had some of the money in the farm house. However, the estate is still being probated. Among other close neighbors were Mrs. McArthur's two brothers, Frank and Ervin, who owned farms nearby.

THEY SAD3 they last saw her alive at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, the night she was murdered. The brothers told Parks that Mrs. McArthur told them Sun day that she had $900 in her purse but planned to put it in the bank on Monday. They said she had no ene mies and was well-liked by her neighbors.

Her friends described her as a pleasant person who seemed quite happy. She was active in local affairs and was advertising manager for the Lapeer County Farm Bureau monthly paper. She was a member of the Brown City Baptist Church and had been a Sunday school teacher there. Snuff the Speaker's Desk in Congress. "And do you know something else? Our jet pilots use snuff.

Coming down at terrific speeds their heads clog terrific pressures and they use snuff and a sneeze to get clear heads again." There's no need lor a jeweled snuff box today. The snuff is packaged in glass bottles three-quarter ounce size "which a lady can carry in her purse," four-ounce size and wow! 16-ounce size which could generate enough sneezing power to blow up the Penobscot Building. So, maybe, you can keep your eyes peeled to see if that's a real or an artificial sneeze. For Goike, who is the third generation of his family in the sneeze-producing business, said, "There's more snuff being sold In Detroit today than 50 years ago." Death Hurts State's Vote Fraud Case The death of its only witness has dealt the State a setback in its case against State Rep. Maxcine Young, accused of forging election petitions and inducing others to forge them.

The witness, Mrs. Selma Lit-tlejohn, 34. of 2048 Seward, died last Thursday, apparently of natural causes. The results of an autopsy are being studied. AT MRS.

YOUNG'S examination, Mrs. Littlejohn had testified that Mrs. Young gave her petitions for the nomination of Dr. Eugene C. Keyes as a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in the Aug.

2, 1960, primary. Mrs. Littlejohn said she signed "several names" for Mrs. Young. Chief Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Samuel Brezner said Mrs.

Littlejohn's testimony at the examination would be introduced when Mrs. Young's trial begins May 1. Cats to Primn At Cobo Hall More than S00 cats from the United States and Canada will be meowing in April in Hall of Cobo Hall. They will be trying for championships in the Motor City Cat Club Show from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, April 7 and 8. Admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Proceeds will go to the Michigan Humane Society and Leader Dogs for the Blind, Rochester. John Tjaarda Designer Tjaarda Dies at 65 Was Leader In Auto Field John Tjaarda, 65, who left his mark on the design of autos and kitchenware in Detroit from the 1930s until the 1950s, died Tuesday of cancer in Diamond Springs, Calif. Of his five children, a son, Pieter Jan, attends school in Michigan and a daughter, Mrs.

John Bones, lives in Birmingham. TJAARDA, born in the Netherlands, was a design engineer far ahead of his time. He held more than 50 patents and was credited with such developments as the first rear-engine auto in this country, the unitized steel body, plastic bodies, plastic transparent tops, independent wheel suspension, fully automatic drives, rubber suspension and turret tops. In the non automotive field, he designed cargo planes, radios, refrigerators, stoves, washing ma; chines, prefabricated homes and independent kitchen and bathroom units. The familiar square kitchen pan with rounded corners was his design.

As a young man, Tjaarda was a flight instructor in England during World War I and later helped organize the forerunner of the now giant KLM Royal Dutch Airline. In 1923, after helping design the Hispano-Suiza cars, Tjaarda came to the United States, doing automotive engineering work in California, with Due-senberg Motors in Indianapolis, and Indian motorcycles In New York before joining General Motors Corp. as a design engineer in 1928. FIVE YEARS later he moved to Briggs Manufacturing where he created designs for Ford, Nash-Kelvinator, Willys-Overland, Chrysler and Pack ard before setting up his own design firm In the Fisher Build ing in 1942. In 1950 he designed the Cor-tez, a 100-in.

wheelbase auto planned to give 45 mpg. Production plans never got off the ground, however, and Tjaarda went into semi-retirement. He filed suit against Briggs Manufacturing Co. In 1952 for 62 million dollars, charging failure to pay royalties due him. A year ago he joined Aerojet-General Corp.

in California. He lived there with his second wife, Mary. He and his first wife were divorced in Detroit in 1938. He was forced by illness to retire last year. Another son, John, lives In Zurich, Switzerland, while a third, S.

Thompson, Is in the automobile busines in Turino, Italy. Tjaardo's youngest daughter, Jessica, is a student at Sacramento State College. nip of snuff. For even if the satin waistcoat, the gold-buckled pumps and the jeweled snuff box have disappeared, Detroiters still use the stuff by the ton. SN UFF SNEAKED back in the snooze er, news recently when our City Fathers lifted an old embargo against "Japanese snuff" which had been on the books since 1912.

And even if nobody knows what "Japanese snuff" is they even suspect it might be a coy name for "itching powder" it doesn't mean Detroiters are unfamiliar with sniffing snuff. "Good gosh, no, there are thousands of Detroiters using snuff," said Owen Goike, manager of Goike's Kashub Snuff Co. at 5517 Grandy, said. "We grind and package three tons a month. About a ton and a half of it are sold a month in Detroit and its environs." That's 3,000 pounds a month and it isn't just Kashuhs "people half-rnl- lsh, half-German" who are stirring up the big sneeze in Detroit.

Who all? "Men, women, people from the old country, native Americans." Goike said. "Did you ever think about industry?" WHAT ABOUT industry? "Think of all those automo-biie plants with 'No Smoking signs," he said. "Think about all those jobs where it is dangerous to smoke around gasoline refineries, in paint factories, chemical plants. What does a confirmed tobacco addict do? He sniff 3 snuff. It's safe." Except for, maybe, sneezing Ing the paint.

And lots use. it just for the pleasure although women customers tend to have an excuse, "They say such things as they got sinus trouble," he said. "Not that snuff cures it I don't know about that medically but they say a good sneeze helps them breathe. I don't know why they need apologize. Their grandmothers and great-grandmothers used snuff.

And, for that matter, we've even got doctors who use snuff." In fact, he said, one doctor came back from Europe recently complaining bitterly about some Russian snuff he had bought "said it seemed to be made of half-dust, half-pepper" while our good American snuff is made mostly from burley tobacco from around Paducah, Ky. "BABE RUTH was a great user of snuff," Goike pointed out, "and it's in our traditions. There's a snuff box on released Tuesday by police Detective Sgt. Albert Schwaller said Cecil Lytton, 57, of 612 Brush, "feared for his life" when he pulled the alarm at Michigan and Abbott Mon day night. LYTTON WAS knocked to the sidewalk by a thug who went through his pockets.

A passerby intervened in the fight and Lytton ran to the corner and pulled the alarm. He was turned over to po PACT WITH BOARD REACHED Foe of Anthem lice by firemen and jailed for turning in a false alarm. The man who intervened in the struggle, Ronald McDonell, of 1036 Cass, was stabbed twice in the chest by the as sailant. He is in serious con dition in Receiving Hospital. A short time after the stabbing, Louis Gordon, 48, who lives at the Brooks Mission, Fourth and Labrosse, was ar rested and admitted the stab bing.

He is held for invest! gation of felonious assault Teacher worked out before the commission Tuesday, the board agreed to place McManigal, of 45252 Piatt, Sterling Township, in a teaching post where there would be no conflict with his religous beliefs. "That's the way I understand it, anyway," said McManigal. The school board had adopted a policy of dismissing teachers who refused to sing the Anthem or pledge allegiance to the Flag after they found that McManigal had told his students at Sterling Township High School that he could not, in good conscience, participate in "nationalistic" programs. An advisory opinion from the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office went against the board policy. Juste A.

Rosatl, attorney for the school board, said the agreement reached Tuesday did Reassign The Utica Community Schools and Charles McManigal, teacher and Jehovah's Witness, reached a settlement Tuesday in the offices of the Michigan Fair Employment Practices Commis sion. The Utica School Board voted last February not to renew the 27-year-old band and instrumental music teacher's contract after he refused, because of his religous beliefs, to direct his students in singing the National Anthem or pledging allegiance to the Flag. IN A CONSENT decree Gels 60 Days Joseph Rodgers, 26, of 99 Marston, was sentenced Tuesday by Recorder's Court Judge Elvin L. Davenport to 60 days in jail for stealing $3 from a newspaper delivery boy, Marion Cooney, 15, of 4630 St. Antoine.

not abridge either party's rights and that the board could still file charges under the State Tenure Law. HOWEVER, Fred M. Atkin Charles M. McManigal I ft.