- - --- "';- • Home of ,h, News CIVILIAN DEFENSE NEEDS YOUR" HELP * * * CALL TU. 5-4600 ross~ ews AND VOLUNTEER 09 Kercheval TV, 2-6900 News Cqverage of' All the Pointes Entered as Second Class Matter VOLUME 12-NO. 16 5c Per Copy at the Post Office at Detroit. Mich. Fully Paid Circulation $3.()() Per YeaI 'GROSSE POINTE, MICHIGAN, APRIL 19, 1951 1\1ust Raise HEADI~INES Big Clean-Up Detroit Petitions oj the Drive Starts " •' $18,000 to \VEEK Meet Deficit AJ Compiled by the On Saturday To Make POlntes GrosJe Pointe News Whole Community Urged Increased Number of Partici- pating Residents Chief Thursday, April 12 To Cooperate to Make Campaign Successful Share Drain Costs Aim of Campaign SELECTIVE SERYICE has ad'i vised the nation's draft boards: to delay temporarily the induc-I Objectives for G ro sse Asks Modificaton of Consent Decree Entered Into By The Grosse Pointe War Clean-Up Week, April tions that had been planned for! Municipalities Back in June 193~ Memorial Association will were discussed and ------ conduct a fund-raising cam- May, • • _ I gathered momentum . The City'~f Detroit has filed in the Wayne County Cir- paign from May 4 to 21. The I ! when i:he sponsoring organi- cuit Court a petition for modification o~ the con~ent decree drive will haVe a two-fold NEWS of TRUMAN'S firing of i zation, Grosse Po~nte Garden entered into on June 30, 1938, under WhICh DetroIt proces~es purpose, A deficit of S18,OOO MacArthUr causes prices to tum-/ Club Council, met as guests sewage from the Park, City and Farms, The th.r~e mumc:- which has been incurred ble $1 to $2 on the New York I of the Municipal Employes at Stock Exchange. ipalities have been served with copies of the petltlo~ ~nd It through operations and maint- their monthlv luncheon on is required th;2t answers be filed with the court wlthm 15 enance of ,the last year, must - . - Wedn"esday, April 11, at the days of service,'~ be met. While raising this Friday, April 13 ' War Memorial Center. MICHIGAN HOUSE votes 68. In 193~Detroit sough~ to enj?in ICol A lZard amount, it is hoped to obtain Chairman of the day, Norbert the Pomtes from dlscharg1l1g •. additional participation which 24 to boost taxes on gasol inc 2 Neff, introduced men.bers of the sewage and water into the De- _ will build up a surplus to al':' cents per gallon for a total of 5 Garden Council and described cents. E x p e c t e d to raise I troit sys~~m, to require the local To .Serve"ln low an increase in the facili~ Clean-Up Week as a "concerted commumtIes to pay part of the I; h' h h $39.400,000 more taxes from. effort toward a better and clean- capital cost. of Detroit's system, D f P t ties and program w IC t e state's 2.500,000 motorists, H~use I er Grosse Pointe:' Memorial Center in Lake and to account ~nd pay for past OS Shore. road off.ers. also votes to mCl'ease weIght "Democracy In Action" use of the DetrOit system by the e ense taxes for truckers to bring in 'I Mrs. Frederick Schumann, ad- Pointe municipalities.' • Not Endowment Drive another estimated $5.400,000. visory chairman for Clean-Up Settlement Reached Hero Accepts AppOintment This campaign will be in no -Picture by Santee Studio Week, expressed thanks for the - - . .Municipal employees and leade,rs of t~e Grosse Pointe Garden Council groups spon- A settlement was reached at As Deputy Chief Air Raid '. sense an effort to increase the en- SENATOR ROBERT TAFT of i help received from municipal sonng the. annual Clean-Up c,ampaIgn whIch gets underway this Saturday, met at a employees in last year's' clean~ that time and the court in the I W d f A a I dowment of the Center. Such a Chio stated in a speech last night; consent decree reserved' jurisdic- . ar en _or re drive was conducte~ ?y I?ail and th1t the prevention of Worlri War! luncheon In the War Memo:lal Center last Wednesday to complete plans for the drive .. up campaign and :;aid, "It has tion for the purpose of enforce-! Lieut. Col. David \AT alter some p~rson.al sO~lcI~atlon last III cannot now be prevented i The two groups are cooperatmg to make the annual event a complete success. MRS. been' stated that 'if democracy ment and modification of any or Allard, one of the Pointe's y.:ar, With dlSappomtmg results. without waging an aggressive FREDERICK SCHUMANN, advisory chairman of the Clean-Up campaign,' left, MRS. at a local level dies, all democ- all ~~reements whenever new outstanding heroes World ~he p~rpose of t~e ~ay c~- war against Red China, HAROLD W. BAILEY, contact, chairman, and NORBERT NEFF clerk of the Citv of racy dies,' so Glean-Up Week o.f may b~ looked at ~s demQcracy conditIons rendered the agree- W II h t d th p_ palgn Will be t~ mamtam the ~n- . .. Grosse Pointe, look over one of the posters being used to stimulate the drive. v ment unfair. ar , as accep e e a terest and enlIst the iinancIal in action, offering the entire Saturday, April 14 community a chance to cooper- Detroit is now asking for a support of those who have al- modification of the decree, alleg- ! ready donated, and to greatly inw RED CHINESE make eight, t t t " strong counter-attacks in Korea, L- F P I d V 0 P a ~ther members of the Clean- ing it unfair on the grounds that: crease the number (SfPointe resi- lCenSe ees ara yze . e erans ay . Detroit's Allegatioos dents who are willing to help ~ay fo: them with 4,275 ~asualties i Up ~om~ittee who were present All d 1. The Farms and City are support and d~velop the be~u.ti,ful ~~ct\~~ng~:d~~~'ir~~;~/~i~~ ;::~' Change. Tribute to Pointe Women ~~~~:~e~~~~;cil~~~air~~~d~:~ pumping much lUore sewage into property and Its many actlvItles. the Fox Creek enclosed drain, To Canvass Every Home playa much .lar.ger role. By GP Ci.ty For Years of Great Service ~~~2,a~~a;~{JY~: ~~~f;:'~'n~uJ~ 2. The Fox .Creek' sewer' is The personal solicitation c.ar- Hunter Williams. being overloaded, causing sewage ried on last year was limited,to KAISER-FRASER CORP. re- ~----- Seek Concerte.d Effort. to back up through the Detroit seve,r~l hundred of the ~ealthler ports a loss of $13,260,000in 1950, N d U J M GI Add M H F. t b G t bringing the total loss for the last ew Or inance nanimous Y,rs. enn n t~rson an rs. enry orcler 0 e ues S In explaining the aims of the gravity sewers into homes in De- familIes of th,e communl~ who two years to $43.589,000. nearly Adopted by Council fof Honor at Testmonial Ditmer Next Monday Nigh't committee, Mrs, Marin pointed troit, requiring the building of had not co.ntl'lbute~ ~ythmg ~o relief parallel sewers, th~ Memonal AsSoc~~tlOn, In this $ RFC ------- out that, a concerted effort is balancing the 44,500,000the Affects All Businesses An outstanding tribute will be pa.I'd nex1', Monday' nl'ght being made to convince all resi- .. ., \ drIve an attempt WIll be made to loaned the company late in 1~49.: I 3. Floodmg of th~ Detro~t area . ,canvass every home in the to two Pointe women who.d, uring ',the last ,lQ,'.Y'ears. have T.en- dents, children and grown-ups Last December 4 an additiOnal,' T ' ~-.- d 'h' d d d' .,;, . h d' ,.' .,' .t" if" t aiid" '.' ..... hel . ,alilr~'ithat,:a.sPQtles!;ly clean,. south, 9f J~ff~fsQn I~ th~eat~ned..: Pointe. $25,000,000 was obtained from the h~ City CounCil Mon ay mg t .ere Is~JngUls. e serVIce ~n l!-pe,;€ or" ,~money"tiO" .P'co~muniti.e-ren'c!cfS;'?o:j"ae r ly' - 4.-"Pol~Utionof Detroit's',water To date only about.3,{)OO'of the RFC to help maintain auto out- \ llnanuTol°usl:y appro~ed a wh?le thousands of. dIsabled veterans and serVlcemen and, theIr 'm.:ffids'a.nd successful community supply IS threatened. homes in the community have put and allow the company to \nffcwthcthenSlfng~ord.manc~d w hlch wives and mothers. liv'ing. With education of all in Wants Case Reopened contributed to the development get "or defense work, a ec, s e .ees to ....c pal. yb .all A 't t' . 1 b t' b '. '" ready .. .... bUSinesses In -\he munlClpallty. cs Imonla. anque IS E!mg~-.-------------- view, a large-scale poster and Detroit wants the whole case and maintenance of the Center. - The new ordinance specifies held ir; the .D:troit Veterans' at camps and hospitals and window 'display campaign has reopened and asks an injunction This means that,some 7,000 fam- Sunday, April 15 only stores or places of business, ,Mcmonal BUlld,mg, 151 West brought outstanding s'tars such as been inaugurated, Mrs. Mann to keep the Pointes from pollut- Hies have not been donating to TWO MILLION Japanese give! but after its adoption the council Jefferson, honor1n~ Mrs. Glenn Bing Crosby and Bob Hope to said, largely. made, possible by ing the Fox Creek Open Channel the prop~rty and programs ~hich General MacArthur wee pin g ~requested th~t an ,amendment .be Anderson of Merrlw~ather road, help entertafn the wounded in the donations of interested peo- and the Detroit river.