. i ~ ., fl More Than '.000 Families Read .The Grosse Pointe News ross~ ews Every Thursday flom. 0/ Ih. NeWI 99 Kercbeval TV. 2.&900 Complete News Coverage of All the Pointes 5c Per Cop~' Entered as Second Clasa Matter VOLUME I4-NO. 12 13.00 Per Yell. GROSSE POINTE, MICHIGAN, MARCH 19, 1953 at the Post Office at Detroit, Mteh. FuJly Paid Circulation Incineration HEAJ)LI~ES Architect's Drawing of Proposed Auditorium-Gymnasium Woods' Lakefront f)f the Called Best "T}:EK Park Assessed at After Survey' A$ Compiled by the GrO$U Pohzte N erN Engineers Make Exhaustive $95,650 for 1953 Study of All Methods of Thursda,Y, March 12 Solving Pointe Problem. EVEN THOUGH no diplomatic St. Clair Shores, in Which Recreation Site Is Located, break appears imminent. the Notifies City of New Assessment; Tax Bill Is $5,344.68 The Grosse Pointe-Harper United States weighed stiff new Woods Disposal Committee protests to Communist Czecho- slovakia, concerning the shooting The Iakefront park owned by the Woods and located will proceed with all possible down of an American F .84 Thun. within the City of St. Clair Shores, has been assessed at speed to establish an inciner';' derjet 15 miles inside American. $95,650, council members were informed at their regular alion plant to handle all the occupied Bavaria in Germany. meeting, Monday, March 16. ,~ refuse and garbage collected Shoot-back orders were issued to A letter to the Woods from d in the area, This decision has American pilots to counter any the st. Clair Shores tax assess- Spot Promote been reached after a thorough future hit-and-run attacks by ment office, notified officials that study was made to determine Red fighter planes in Europe. the 1953 assessed valuation of . the lake front property, owned the merits of a plan for com- Frida~', March 13 by the' Woods, has been set at posting the garbage for horti- GREAT BRITAIN prote~ted $87,400 fOI' the land and $8,250 on cultural use. the shooting down of a British the buildings, making the total Several weeks ago private in- bomber over Northern Germanv $95,650. terests announced they were pre- by two Russian jet fighters, i~ Sewer Raises Taxes pared to erect an incineration which five of seven crewmen The city tax rate for 1952 was and composting plant which were killed. The British claim i~ $21 pel' $1,000. An added 75 cents would preserve the garbage for was a deliberate attack within in debt service for installation fertilizer and would save the mu- the Allied air corridor through of a sewer interceptor raised the nicipalities involved from issuing the Soviet Zone. The Russians city tax to $21.75. .;'t'.,. bonds in the amount. of $900,000 said the bomber was shot down The county and school tax in 'fi,}«i/ to $1,000,000, the estimated cost after it flew 75 miles into the the district was $28.64 pel' $1,000. :~;Y;/frJiI of erecting the incineration plant. Soviet Zone, but the incident was South Lake School has voted an 'o/:e; 'j> Garden Groups Respond regrettable. additional six dollars for the year .tl.}~~~~;The idea received the support Saturday, March 14 of 1953, which will increase the W~il~)tof various garden grol,1ps and the IN STRONG TERMS. the rate to $34.64, making an esti.. .. ,NEWS has had letters from some Qualified electors will vote April 21 on a proposed school bond issue for $2,500,000 which would be spent to mated total rate of $56.39 per of the representatives of these United States and Great Britain. build a new Roslyn road elementary school building, this auditorium-gymnasium, and to purchase the Grosse Pointe in protesting the destruction of $1,000 for city, county and school organizations, expressing the Country Day School property adjoining the High School. This building would be built, if the propositions are ap- taxes for this year. This would hope that the composting plan a British bomber and an Ameri- make the Woods tax bill on the would be given every considera- can fighter-plane by MIG-15s, proved, partly on the Country Day School land. It would be joined to the boys' and girls' gymnasiums of the High School. It would cost $995,000. The proposed location in relation to existing structures is shown in a drawing on property $5,344.68. tion. called the Communists murderers Purchascd From Fords Everitt B. Lane, city manager page two of this issue. and liars. At the same time they The property, purchased by the MAJOR ALBERT J. HENRION of Grosse Pointe Park and chair. took steps to' minimize the risk Woods in 1946 and converted into whose family, Mr. and Mrs. Jo- man of the joint disposal com. oC undeclared all' warfare 210ng the Iron Curtain. Plan Joint Shores Residents Informed Vote Record r::~~~e~~~:tf~~m~~~;fi~a~f ~~~~~ ~~~~Ph~'liV~e~~i~~2 ~~rb~r~~I~~~ ~~~~~' ::V~~;s~~~\~;v:r:~~g~~~ Sunday, March 15 ~~r~~e estate of the late Edsel ~:j::C:~V:dh:S s~~;:~i';eO~i:n;~ situation. No New Idea UNITED STATES, British and f Necessity for Approving Brings Park Service for O It comprises 40 acres of land mand of the 6148th Tactical Con. The composting plan was not French high commissioners, in I joint protest note to Soviet Gen- eral Vassily 1. Chuikov, demand. Good Friday, Big Sewer System Pro].ect Recognition ~~td~so~e~~~f~I~~nhgaV~0~1e:~rgt~: ~~O;ra~~~a~~~~ (:i~~l'\:'a~~h8i;~ ~i~~s.toT~~~~~~~c~oa~er~~::See\?::.~ ed that the pilots responsible for ___ , State of Michigan. strip in Korea. possibility in the disposal lin~ the downing (If an American CHom,ldmfunityS'W °Crship to. Be' Tremendous Growth F-o-re-c-a-s-t-A-ft-e-r-Village Complies With I Two Awards to Be Present. B P--d----.- Major Henrion is flying an un- :~Ct~ s~~e ;~~~;e~6.b~cam~ s( fighter-plane and a British bom- e or Ixt h onsecuttve State and County Laws' Would End Pollution t C't t C ./ M t armed'T.6 type aircraft called 8 Last year the municipalitie! ber be punished, and measures d oy e estrlan Year in Woods Theater I ~ 0 d' y a H ounc' ee. "Mosquito" at dangerously low got together and decided tile time taken so that the act will not be Sh t b A __ Shores residents who attended a special meeting in the In Mon ay; onor L eague 0 y rrow altitudes over communist lines, had come for definite action to- repeated. They also accused the A gam. d'urmg th e L entcn Vernier S cool,h S aturday, MaJ;Ch 14, were in forme d t h at th e -'---- directing, fighter bomber strikes wards solving the disposal prob- Russians of deplorable departure Seas n .. t f f "II' d $495000 . t 't 1 t th Homer Fritsch, Ma.\,'or of William Roland, 13, or 5960 on close support targets. He has lem. Each of tllem contrl'buted from the standards of humanity 0., minIS ers a some 0 VI age s propose , , sewer proJec was VI a 0 e Hillcrest, Detroit, was taken to flown 97 missions and has been in fighter forays agai'nst three the Grosse Pointe churches growth and welfare of their community, Grosse Pointe Park, and Mrs. the Bon Secours Hospital by awarded two Ail' Medals and one to a fund to have an exhaustive Y B:itish aircraft in less than 12 and neighboring Detroit areas Village officials followed much <0,-----.-------.---- Bert Luther Lindzay, presi- Farms police, for a stomach D.F.C. s';1rvey madde tbh ficompetfenHten- . f h b th tt fIt d d t f th L g ( W gmeel'S, an e rm 0 enry hcurs. ta k e t Ime rom t e usy .e same pa ern 0 ec ures an in certain sections where sewer en 0 e ea ue a omen wound rcceived when he was ------ h' . dlspla of map and f Id t f P . t P k Byster Associates, Inc., was hired • • • sc h e d u Ies m. t elr respectIve ys s 0 en;, pipes may be well below the V a ers 0 G rosse 0111 e ar, shot by an arrow on Saturday, Sh0 t· V. t · I Monda~', ~Iarch If; churches to meet and lay as at the Februa~y 13 meeting, lake level. will receive illuminated copies March 14. 0 lllg Ie 1mI to handle the job. A DISCUSSION with a group plans for the Communit" b.ut added emph~sls to the be,:e- Outlines Master Plan of the Bill of Rights from 'the William was passing the Coun- Out of Dal1ger Visit Compost Plants of highly qualified scientists, . J fIts the communIty would denve .. A . H' F d tl Club I I . t - Durmg the survey, engineers S prompted a serious consideration er.vice to be held on Good I'Cthe pt'oj'ect met wI'th the ap- Village Superintendent Thomas mencan entage oun a-'y target ar, w'0 len ta s larpk h' pOlnb eaIt from the firm visited composting Fndav from to p.m. For proval of the voters. K. Jefferis traced the course of tion for their combined efforts 1 w s ruc IS e 1 . M' h" L by President Eishenhower to re- . 1 2:30 buckle and glanced off and in Robert McBride, 13, of 20734 P ants In IC 19an, on ong Is- ouest from 16 to 20 billion doll.