Home of the News Have You Donated To The War Memorial? ews let's Have 100% rosse Participation 99 Kercheval TU. %~8900 Pointes C.omplete News Coverage~ of All the 5c Per Copy VOLUME II~NO. 35 Entered as Second Class :Matter FuUy Paid Circulation at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich, GROSSE POINTE, MICHIGAN, AUGUST 3! I 1950 $2.50 Per Year • IIEADLINES Rent. Control .Public Schools Set His Proposal oj the Aired Before Is Greeted \VEEK T W l 6'00 With Silence As Compiled by the City Council 0 e come, 0 Grosse Pointe News Thinks Officials Should Be Many Expressions Heard On Pu\ Pl'ZS September 7 In+erested In Better and Thursday, Aug. 24 Both Sides; Council Post~ - . Cheaper Fire Protection ALL UNITED STATES pones Taking Action' Parents of Children -N-o-t-Y-e-t -E-n-ro-lled Urged to Have roads are facing a tie-up strike set for 6 a.m, next Mon- Pursuant to a r;solution Them Coniplete Enrollment This Weeki Clarence Blessed, the Pub~ day .. ,believed seizurf~ of the passed by the Grosse Pointe 24 New Teachers lie Safety Commissioner of roads by the President is inevit- City Council in July a publIc Grosse Pointe City, says he able .. , the U. S. strike, along hearing was held 'in the Coun- Grosse Pointe Public Schools will open for more than is growing discouraged over with the one now in its second cil chambers on Tuesday eve- 6,000 children on Thursday, September 7. All public school the civic apathy of the people day in Canada. would virtually ning, August 29, 'to give the offices have been open' for the enrollment of new pupils of Grosse Pointe and par- paralyze rail transportation on residents an opportunity to since Monday of' this week. School officials have urged ticularly with the attitude of the North American Continent_ discuss rent control pro and parents of children not enrolled in the Grosse Pointe Public the officials of the Pointe • con. Schools last June to enroll children during this week. toward suggestions for im~ TWENTY -THREE THOUSAND Under the rent' control law as Tomorrow, Friday, between the hours of 1 and 4 p.m. will be provement of the public SEVEN HUNDRED workers are it now; stands, incorporated mu- the last opportunity for this advance enrollment. service. now idled by strikes in Detroit nicipalities' have the right by 24 New Te~chers ~---------------I A few weeks ago he, made a plants, • • • councilmanic action or public Twenty-four new teachers will Ph. l suggestion that a general fire au~ REPORTED FROM London referendum to request the State thority should 'be set up in Housing Expediter to declare rent ,be on duty when the school year aroc la Grosse Pointe to take over the that Princess Margaret Rose will control terminated in that- COIn- opens for th.e public school staff Schools A Lso fire protection work for all of marry the Earl of Dalkeith. munity until December 31, 1950. on Tuesday, September 5. Eigh- the community, under one head. F . I Automatic Termination teen of these teachers will be in He says that since that time 'he REDS 0~~~'A~~;5attack on, In the absence of action by the elementary schools, three in the has not heard a single comment municipality, rent control auto- Open Sept ..7 on his idea fro::n anybody. Taegu from the northeast . _ ' 11 d Junior High Schools and three in His Proposal have driven South Koreans out Federalmatlca ycontrolterminateslaw onunthater date.the th e SeOlOr' H'Igh Sch00.,1 Three 0f Mr.., Blessed's proposal was on of their defense positions . ' . Municipalities may,' however, the new teachers are graduates Three in Pointe Expect Total a basis that not any of the pres- Reds have also moved a division by taking action prior 'Eto January of the Grosse Pointe High School. nro IImen t 0 f Ab OUt 2500 ; ent fire fightmg" force would be forward for all expected big 1. 1950, continue rent controls for Teachers along with all other Two Show Increase d'IStur bed,more th an th at some dr:ve in the South• towards• Pusan, six months longer, or until July I "II atte d m t' g :firemen wh0 are now prac flca11y emp oyes WI n ee m s at retirement age might be re~ A NEAR SCANDAL has been 1, 1951. and conferences at the Grosse Grosse Poi n t e ' s three tired. He says that hIS'plan would - . Meanwhile, Uncle Sam may, in raised in Milwaukee over t hem-I -Official Ail' Force Picture the face of war emergency, or Pointe High School Building on parochial schools will open for save money for the taxpayers ordinate fees collected by MII- From Wiesbaden Air Base in Germany comes this picture of CAPT. RICHARD what you will, take action as the Tuesday, September 5. The day's the 'fall term next Thursday, and at the same time give GrO!$se waukee doctors for their x-ray BODYC,OMBE a few minutes after he was sworn into the regular Air Forcr on August government sees fit on the rent program will be opened by re- Pointe a better fire service. examinations of men processed 15. He IS the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Bodycombe of Lincoln road, Grr.sse Pointe. Body- 1 d 11 Sept. 7, the same day set for Chiefs n:.'estioned . d t nter v contro i~sue, an a agree that marks and announcements by ~ .. throug h the In uc IOn ce . combe ent,ered the ~ervice as an aviation ca det in February 1943 and was commissioned if the war situation becomes suf- the opening of the public On its own responsibility the there . - . the dector charged a_secon.d lIeutenant m May 1944. He served a six months tour in the ET.0 flying with the ficiently. urgent, he will do that John R. Barnes, superintendent schools. An enrollment of NEWS ,sought the reaction of the ~ajd he haa. bid fc.r the work 1 th A F d d d' h th D' h 1 very thI"ng, of schools. This will be followed . fire chIefs to the proposal. The ' ;) ,If ofce an was ecorate WIt e ist1nguis ed F "in!! Cross, Purple Heart b t 2500 t d • throuah the Surgeon Genera I S d J ~ by an address by Dr. John J. Lee, a ou , IS expec e . I net result of this enquiry was o b "g an AIr Medal. He now holds the positions of fl"ing safety officer and assistant base Many Attend G 1 office . " . has een averagm _ J •• dean of the raduate Schoo, St, Ambrose, the largest of the I that Chief Rector of the Park Sl.l25 per day since the first d _o_p_e_ra__t_io_n_s_o_f_f_i_c_erat vViesbaden. There was a good sized attend- Wayne University.' Luncheon three expects an enrollment of thought it would be a wise pro- e month 1 ----------------------------------lm~mdiliem~ti~WM~~p- p~ns uekft ~ fue ~ti~ ~ ' v's'on' CI'f 0 '11 lIb f th . • I d' 'd d " t' t b t about 1100, whicb. would be an 11 , lle rVI e ga s.y 0 - d B -ld D l-t- fOld C tt y IVI e m sen Imen e ween individual staff members.. " the Shores, ,•..-hoacts as chief of Saturday, August 26 IFIn Ul ers emo I Ion 0 0 age property owners and renters. - To Show Film mcrease of,~bout 60 pup~ls over a combined fire and police de~ THE NAVY HOSPITAL SHIP II V- _ _ The renters, without exception, The afternoon meetings will be last year. Sister :Mary Giles, the partment, thought that if this Benevolence sank last night with I n lolatlon On LIttle Club Property wanted .rentcontrols continued; devoted to the topic of "For a principal, said Thursday~.s and could be done without working an estim~ted 505 persons aboard ' :J, the ov.[ners' of renting prop~rty Better Understanding of ,Chil- Friday's sessions would be only any injustice to the men now in after a collision with the freighter IOf' C -t L' ... B. ' N t I: ;,-,.,.'M' . · wanted controls taken .off, a very dren'." .This ~opic will be op~ned half a day each, with full day the fire service, ~t ~()uld ,prob. ~~~y ;;~~~e~beas~h~~ ~h~ecg~lcf~:; ',t' y 'aws rIngs os a glC-' ..entorles na;~:~ d~:~:iO::~ho~~~n~holly ~te;~~~h:~I:gu~cl~.r~.~~n~~il~ "se~si~ns starting on Monday, ~~l~t~ :r;~~i:m;e;;b~:t~htr Gate ... 26 dead and eight per- ------- irrelevant to' the subject and no dren" which will be followed by Sept. 11. No Comment sons are missing after the col. Concerns Told to Obey Or- Many' Persons in History of Pointe and Industrial life action was taken, by the Council. the entire teaching staff, meeting St. Paul About Same A more sigmficant comment lision. d' 0 B S b' t of Nation Lived in Building Now This will be considered at.a later in.' small. grou,ps to discuss the St, Paul will have an enroll. which rru,'ght have.come from the' • • • mances r e u lec t d th fil Th d d ts f th THE GOVERNMENT seizes the To Arrest and F',nes Being Torn Down meeting and the official opinion P?ms .ralse m e: m. ese ment of 232 in the high school n:~yors an. preSl en 0 e ________ of the council expressed which, diScus,slOn,groups WIll be under and 458 in fue grade school.