Halted by Police; I T({)$60~L06 As Compiled by the Grosse Pointe News Donations Still Being Re- Ceived and AI! Residents
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ss • $ • '4 • • All the News of All the Pointes * * * Every Thursday rosse ews Morning Complete News Coverage of All the Pointes f1ome 01 the News J!:ntered as Second Class Matter 7c Per COpy VOLUME 23-NO. 25 at the Post Office at Detroit. Mich. GROSSE POINTE, MICHIGAN, JUNE 21, 1962 $4.00 Per Year 20 PAGES-TWO SECTIONS-SECTION I l::-:---:---:---:---:,..--:---:---:---:------:----.--~-----------------------------------------------------------«~ IIEADJ~INES !""'"'"--~----~~~?~;hl~~T~~.~e:~~~:.~~~~~~~~~~~,-~"<:!,,..,,-''''"~.~Burglar's Career 3~854Gifts 01 the Raise Total \VI~I~K Halted by Police; I T({)$60~l06 As Compiled by the Grosse Pointe News Donations Still Being Re- ceived and AI! Residents :. " Robs 300 Homes Are Urged to Con- Crimes Committed in Detroit Area Within Year and a tribute Half; Nine Break-ins Cleared in Pointe The Grosse Pointe War A 24-year-old Hamilton, Ont., man confessed to 300 Memorial's 1962 Annual burglaries in the Detroit area, including at least nine in Fa~nily Pa~ticipa~ion Cam- the Pointe. He refused to divulge how many he had palgn ar.:hleved Its neces- committed in Canada, except to say "many many of ,sar~r goal of $60,000 last them". 'week when $60,106.40 in Thomas G. White was ar- ~_-------_____ gifts were recorded from rested by Birmingham police \ 3,854 families. Gifts are still on May 2~, fou: .d~ys .atfte~ h~ Floods Put coming in and the Center's renewed hlS activl1les m MiChl- staff looks forward with gan, and 20 days .after he was C-t S confidence to passing the released from prison and de- t 4000 k' b f ported to Canada. y eVJers ' . may In num er a According to Birmingham U d, Stud famIly gIvers. Det. U. Mer! Holmquist, White n er y Undo~btedly. the buiiding ot admitted about 300 burglaries the Fries audito,ium and ban- in the Detroit area from Janu- qUel-bal1room addition was a ary 19, 1960, to July 14, 1961, Estimate 100 Basements major factor in attracting in- when his activities were brought Were Swamped Dur'lng creased support to the Center to a halt by police. this ~'ear. When the Fries Build- FBI Steps into Case Heavy Rain on June II; 50 ing opens in November, the The Federal Bureau of In- Calls Received Grosse Pointe War Memorial ve:;tig-ation assumed jurisdiction will have one o~ the most c~m~ and brought about White's con- An exceptionally heavy plele and umquely beautiful I viction and sentence on July . plan~s of an~' cultural and cOm- 21, 1961. The burglar was in nun on Monda!, June 11, munltY,.cent~r i:1 the w')rld. prison until last April 30, when I caused approxImately 100 '~Ill Fill. Many Needs he was released and deported. basements in the City of I: wlll be a Justly famous show The new castle jump will be the center of at~ est in the country, gets under way Thursday and runs Holmquist said that White . ?lac~, adaptable to any com- resumed his illegal occupation G~oss.e POInte to flood, mumty group .need. It will give tention in many of the events which will be held through Sunday, June 24. The center of this new on May 16, and on May 20, £01- I brmgmg the problem of re- all Grosse POlnters the benefit during the Annual Horse Show at the Grosse Pointe jump can be raised up to two feet as the competition I Hunt Club this weekend. The show, one of the larg~ requires. lowing a .burglary in Birmi~g- vamping the City's present \ ~~ ~~egeSUHPeorblak~thsl~tOresett~nf.g ham, WhIte was seen leavmg . - l' use Wl 1 S maglll 1- the scene of his crime. The wit- sewer system Into shar;? cent aura of the past and will be ness called authorities and focus. able to offer them in its ex- Many Honors Handed Ollt Durant Loses Oakland County police ~et u.p panded facilities programs of a road block and nabbed White Reporting to the Council, City major stature in the realm of as he tried to get away in his Manager Lawrence C. Savage tht ..arts a~d every field of edu- Battle With. car bearing Ontario plates. stated that his office an j the callon an~ cultural endeavor. Holmquist said that White police station received over 50 Speaking for the Board of DI. underwent extensive question- complaints of flooded base- rectors of the Grosse Pointe War From Grosse Pointe High'~ Candidates ing and admitted other burg- ments, mostly in the area south Mt'morial Association, Thomas laries flrior to beginning opera- of Kercheval, and especially on E. Groehr, pre sid e n t, and New Crop Brings Total Number of Alumni to I \,868; Judge Calls Move +0 Pre- tion on a bigger scale starting Notre Dame and Rivard. Thomas L. Munson, chairman of Principal Jerry Gehrich Presents Awards and vent Certification .as Co- with the January, 1960, date. Something Is Wrong th" drive, express to the many Reveals Scholarship Winners He said he committed burg- . I donors and the numerous volun- lossal Fly-Specking laries in the Pointe before and On the basIS of complamts teers who worked on the cam- Six hundred and ninety five seniDrs graduated from Expedition " after that date.' actually re~orted, the City paign the Association's very real R f d t C t Manager esUmated that about gratitude for this wonderful en Grosse Pointe High School last Thursday, June 14. The Supporters of Richard e ~se 0 oop~ra e 100 basements were under dorsement of their efforts - Construction on the new first graduating class in 1925 numbered only 24. Last Accordmg to the heute:-ant, water after almost five inches' .' . additions to Richard and week's crop of new alumni brought the number of Durant, vice chairman of White said he "pulled many f . f 11 . Cothe followmg donors whose many jobs" in Hamilton Ont' °h ratlD e. dlD ~ c~mp.aratlvel)' gifts we I' e received recently E£ownell schools has been graduates to 11,868. the Republican Congres- , ., s or peno, mdlcatmg that sincere th'. d . t' but would not cooperate with the CI.t ' t. h al1KSan appreCla lOn }'riday. June 15 delayed by a strike of Af:, commencement speakers ~----------- sional 14th district which . _. y s sewer sys em IS elt er is extended: PRESlDE~T KE::.i;\[EDY ycs- workers producing struc- Gregor McGregor and Ann ' Win Dictionaries includes Grosse Pointe, lost pollce of that CIty because that mad equate or not working prop- * * * Hock discussed "The WorIn of Monday in a fight to pre- department prosecutes on all erly tcrday asked Hepublicans to ttlfal steel. School officials Each senior in the top 5 per- cases cleared.' May 31 [arget pill'ty dif~c:ences a~d indicate a concern that the Challenge" in their addresses cent of the class scho,lastical1y vent certification of 29 op- In his breakings and en- Savage considers this sewer :\frs. A. J. Vervake, Mr. and "The Challenge to the Indi- support the AdmllllstratlOn ln d I . d' -. h received a leatherbound dic- position candidates for pre~ terings, White always used a situation one of Grosse Pointe :Mrs. Harry V. Wade, l\ir. and matters of "gr9at national im- I . e ay may Jeopar l.:,e av- vidual" and "The Challenge to ed tionary as a gift from the Moth- cinct delegate, City's prime problems. At pres- MI'5. Bertrar.t A. R. J. Sut- port," especially as regards the I mg the. planr: . extra our Society." Gregor stressed (Continued on Page 2) ent, the City has two sewer E .'s- ton, Mr. and Mrs. Norbert ers' Club. The winners were: Wayne County Circuit Judge united States economy. He also \'rooms avallable In tIme for the need for indiVidualism. ------ terns, one sanitary and ~ne Tesch. 1\'1r. l'homas J. Watson Andrew Balas, Carole Beers, James N. Canham in rejecting appealed to businessmen. tcll- classes next fall. "Our country's future de- storm. It would cost approxi- Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert G. Ann Bradley, Rob€rt Bray, Su- 24 of the challenges said, "I ing them to forget political Two classrooms are sched- pends on whether each of us mately a quarter of a million White. Mr. Arthu.r J. Williams, san Brey, Jennifer Clarke, will not be a party to a colossol Blame Accident labels long enough to recog- I uled for construction at Richard strives to be an individual," he Allen Crow, Kenneth Davis, doll-aI'Sto put in a new system, 1\1.]". and Mrs. David D, Wil- nize the need for a concerted I School. T~1Csewill relieve Over- said. fly specking expeditiQn. Let's John Ditzler, George Earl, Jane not attack people after they On Heavy Rain but Savage feels that, in view hams. Mr. & Mrs. Milton A. effort toward working out poli- ! crowding and largely eliminate In contrast to this Ann said Evenden, Prudence Frey, Ann of the present situation, such a Zuehlke. des to maintain America's: the need to use sub-standard 1ihat not only should we become circul'arte petitions unless there Garner, Cynthia Gilliatt, Judith is a showing of fraud." Heavy raIns which flooded llew system should be included * * * economy at an adequate rate of i rooms for classroom instruction. aware of individuality, but also Hammond, Richard Hart, Ann we must acquire the ability to It's Up '1'0 Voters East Jefferson near the City in any long-range projection of June 1 growth. i (Continued on Page 2) Hock, Allen Hyer, Susan La- park on Monday, June 11, are City planning.