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RECORD CROWD JAMS LOCAL POLLS Paper Is Requested Local Voters and the Scene of an Argument 12,500 Brave Rain to Change Name to Cast Ballots elcome to our 75th anniversary edition of your community newspaper. The Wwrap of the front section of this week’s paper celebrates the first edition of the *********ECRWSSEDDM**** Grosse Pointe News, published November 7, 1940. A special section in this week’s Residential Customer paper looks at many of the clubs, businesses, churches and groups 75 years and older. On behalf of owner, Robert Liggett Jr., and the entire staff of the Grosse Pointe News, thank you for giving us the opportunity to cover our community each week. Circulation The Grosse Pointe News will be circulat­ ed free to every r^ident o f the five Pointes for a limited trial period, following which only paid subscribers will receive papers. This edition totals 12,000 copies. Grosse Pointe News Complete News Coverage of All The Pointes Volume I - Number I THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7.1940 $ 1.50 Per Year - 3c Per Copy RECORD CROWD JAMS LOCAL POLLS Paper Is Requested Local Voters and the Scene of an Argument 12,500 Brave Rain To Change Name To Cast Ballots Commodore Couzens Files Complaint on Behalf of Final Tabulations Are Not Officially Completed Until Late Yacht Club to Use ofTitle of Its House Publication Following Afternoon, Despite Staff of More Than 200. The offices of the Grosse Dear Mr. Couzens; Grosse Pointe went to the Pointe News, a welter of The name for our new polls Tuesday, turning out Ladies and Gentlemen: hustle apdi^bustle trying to weekly newspaper in the the largest group of vot­ Do You Have Any News get out its first issue late Grosse Pointes was se­ ers that has ever balloted yesterday afternoon, was lected by those interested in this region, despite rain, The Grosse Pointe News realizes that many news thrown into a state resem­ some three weeks ago, wind and cold weather. sources have been over­ bling panic when the fol­ at which time none of us Out of the total of some looked in this, its first lowing letter was hand- had any knowjedge that 16,000 voters in the town­ issue, the news is most delivered; another publication with ship, more than 12,500 anxious to remedy this “Information has reached the same name was in went to the polls, estab­ situation just as quickly our Grosse Pointe Yacht existence. Since then we lishing an all-time record. as possible. It hopes its club that you are about to have brought out a dummy Afore than 4,500 new reg­ readers will help provide commence publication of issues of 1,000 copies, istrations were added to the the remedy. a periodical bearing , the which have been distrib­ voting lists of the township Churches, clubs, orga­ name ‘Grosse Pointer.’ uted freely in the Grosse during the primaries and nizations and individu­ “This particular name is Pointes and the city of final election. als are earnestly asked the name of our club pub­ Detroit. There has been More than 200 employees to bring or send any lication, which we have considerable talk about the were required to handle news items they may have to the office of the used continuously since new publication through­ the large vote, and the Grosse Pointe News the 14th day of May, 1936, out all the Pointes. An of­ last precinct did not make in the Punch and Jjudy for circulation not only as fice has been rented, phone its return until 2 o’clock' building on Kercheval a club bulletin, but also and light service installed, Wednesday afternoon. avenue in the Farms. It’s as a magazine intended to all under the name of The Tabulating' the township so easy to jot down your cover the social activities Grosse Pointer. ^ vote, which includes all notes, stick a stamp on of the entire Grosse Pointo Some ten .days ago the the Grosse Pointes except an envelope and drop it residential area. fact that the Grosse Pointe the city, was not completed in a mail box. “Furthermore, our name, Yacht club issued a small until 5 o’clock Wednesday We want to do the very “The Grosse Pointer,” has house organ to its members afternoon. best job we can toward printing all the news been registered with the under this same name, was Left: - Edsel Ford was one of the early birds at the polls Tuesday that occurs in the Grosse Library of Congress copy­ brought to our attention. morning, appearing at 8:30 to cast his vote. Upper right: - One of right office of the United As we were about to regis­ Pointes. We’d like the the signs which has so annoyed a Roosevelt place resident that' he GRDSSE PDINTE cooperation of every­ States of America, in ter this name, we consulted is suing the City of Grosse Pointe to have its name changed. one. Come in and see us, Washington, under serial with our lawyers. We were Lower right: - Mr. and Mb’s. Marion K. Kellogg of Fisher road, leaving the write us, or pick up your number Class B, 301-387, city booths, in the municipal building on Maumee. PUPILS TD GIVE told that in the first place, phone and dial TUxedo and the present reorganiza­ they could see no possibil­ 2-6900. tion of the club has duly ity of any conflict between MOTHERS’CLUB HELP mm succeeded to the rights of the two publications (With Roosevelt Place Students Get OpportunityTo turned over to Volunteers of the original registrant and which we agreed), and HELPS PLAYERS Leam Civic Responsibilities America. has duly continued the that if the club had not Clothing of all practical The Mothers’.Club project publication up to the pres­ registered the name in the Spits... Fumes As a means''of teaching types for adults as well as this year is in connection ent time. courthouse here, we were citizenship responsibili­ children is wanted. 'The with the Pointe Players, Action of Resident to Have Name Changed, “Your proposed adoption legally entitled to its use. ties Grosse Pointe Public Volunteers of America are The Grosse Pointe High Causes Quite A Lot of Comment by Fellow of,§)ich a similar name can­ There was no such regis­ Schools ' are co-operating equipped to repair and make School poup directed by Residents and Mayor not result otherwise than to tration and we thereupon again this year with the' De­ over garments to make them Donald Horten, is giving confuse subscribers, the had the name registered troit Community Fund, the usable, so that any article Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Roosevelt place, that tiny, blocking thoroughfare and reading public, as well as ourselves and went ahead Neighborhood Club, the Containing wearable' mate­ prize winning story “our busy little street which the I am not alone in opposing prospective advertisers, ■ with all plans for publica­ Thrift Shop, and the Vol­ rial will be helpful. Town” police consider a seques­ a pettiness of spirit which, and with so many other tion, with no intention, we unteers of America in car­ Discarded and broken toys Martha Scott a Detroit tered nook, but where, so if it prevails, will reflect names open and available assure you, of encroaching rying their campaigns for are wanted by the Thrift girl, had the leading role in say the residents, the cars disgracefully upon the Roo­ for your new publication, upon any rights or privi­ contributions into the class­ Shop’s substantial monthly the Hollywood production. race up and down at a pace sevelt name regardless of we must request that you leges of your club. too alarming for a narrow any attempt at ‘clarification, rooms. E.R. Van Kleeck, contribution to the Neigh­ desist the use of the name The curtain raises at 8:15 We wish most earnestly thoroughfare, is in a dither. amplification or ej(tension.’ superintendent, explained borhood Club. Grosse Pointer, or any that the club’s objection, p.m. on November 13 in One of its residents Lewis “Mr. Smart, in my opinion, this week. The public schools have name sufficiently similar the High School auditori­ which we still don’t un­ L. Smart of 327 is suing has long been subject to November 4-8 will be co-operated with the Thrift to raise the possibility of derstand, might have been um. Mrs. Raymond Moore to have the City of Grosse spells of emotional hyste­ known as “We Can Help” Shop and the Neighborhood confusion. lodged before we had a (Niagara 6877) is chair­ Week in all the public Pointe show cause why it ria. I surmise that he over­ Club for several, years in “1 am writing the let­ hand-drawn name and man of the ticket commit­ school rooms of Grosse should not be designated as subscribed to the Literary collecting clothes and toys ter before your first is­ mast-head executed, be­ tee. This is the first time the Pointe. Every child will be Theodore Roosevelt place, Digest four years ago, and for the use of the under­ sue comes out so that you fore we had set in type an Mothers’ Club has a direct urged to make his contribu­ just so there will be no mis­ more recently Galluped to privileged. The Community will be saved the expense entire paper of ads, news interest in the Pointe Play­ tion from their allowances understanding. a mistaken conclusion in a Fund drive was sponsored of making a later change arid editorial matter filled ers. All profits from the and savings, and discarded Mayor Mason P. Rumney similar situation. by the schools for the first of name. But in the event with the original name.
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