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FINAL EDITION POUT HURON TIME RALD WEATHER SHOWERS, COOLER TEN PACES TODAY PORT HURON, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1954 VL XLV. No. HJ Entered as Second Class Mail Matter, Posloffice Port Huron Mien. Published Daily Sunday by The Times Herald Co. THB DAH KRAI D.

FOUNDED AUGUST 1. I00 PORT HURON TIMES. POtTT.IED MARCH 33. 1872 PRICE SEVEN CENTS (xfl ml n't) EnT As Ebwg Passes By CLARENCE E. RURKHOLDER Times Herild Manasing Editor 000 $25 Kresge Foundation Gift Will Aid YMCA A new Port Huron YMCA building will be built.

This was assured by the report of $109,324 more contributions, raising the total to $1, 012,650, at the victory dinner of the YMCA building fund campaign Friday night in the Hotel Harrington. Fred L. Riggin president of the Mueller Brass company, had the honor of announcing the gift which put th campaign over the top. At least $1,010,000 was needed to build the larger, modern building planned to serve the increased population of the district. MR.

chairman of the advance gifts committee and president of the Port Huron District Foundation, announced the Foundation had increased its $25,000 gift by 71(1 fro- a tfal tOftTIO U. Tr.i- i mi wie jji cv iuub gins re- ported, this put the building fund over the minimum sum 'f needed. nn-n T. i I partly hidden in the background: Westcott T. Smith, special gifts chairman; J.

Grant Moore, campaign treasurer; F. Bingham Fead, associate chairman for special gifts, and Clare R. Sperry. business groups chairman and president of the YMCA. (Times Herald Staff Photo) YMCA BUILDING FUND campaign leaders happily discuss that final figure chalked on the board $1,012,650 which indicates the successful conclusion of the campaign.

From left to right are Clifford J. Richards, back to the camera, completing the figure on the blackboard: Fred L. Riggin advance gifts chairman: George Y. Duffy, general chairman, SEBASTIAN S. KRESGE Surprise Grant Announced At Campaign Dinner The Kresge Foundation has granted S25.0OO to help build a new YMCA in Port Huron.

The gift was announced in a letter received Friday by J. Grant Moore, YMCA building fund treasurer, from Amos F. Gregory, secretary and a trustee of the Foundation, whose headquarters are in Detroit. The letter said the grant was i voted at the last meeting of the trustees of the Foundation. Mr.

Moore made the first public announcement at the campaign victory dinner Friday night in the Hotel Harrington. There gasps of surprise from fhe campaign workers and then applause for the welcome gift. 1 ucuisc Liny, geneiai campaign cnairman. announced the total and some 500 campaign workers jumped to their feet to applaud. The surprise announcement of a $25,000 grant by the Kresge Foundation was an important factor in attaining the goal Friday night.

J. Grant Moore, treasurer of the YMCA building fund. announced the gift. He read a letter received Friday from -f Amos F. Gregory, secretary of the Kresge Foundation, stat- ing that the Foundation had approved the gift.

Laniel Loses. Confidence Vote Probe Aides At Loggerheads WON'T GO IT ALONE DULLES Tells U.S. Conditions For Indo Action ivir. Moore and Clare R. Sperry.

president of the YMCA. had talked to Stanley S. Kresge. Detroit, president of the Foundation, about the need for the new YMCA building and of the campaign being conducted here to raise the needed funds. But He May Seek To Stay In Office Cohn Accused Of Voicing Threats I Washington.

June 12 AP Secretary of State Dulles returned to Washington early today to press for fulfillment of five condi-j he says are prerequisites for American intervention in! I MR. MOORE and Clare R. Sperry, president of the Port 'Huron YMCA, had discussed the After their first startled surprise the campaign roundly applauded the Kresge announcement. STANLEY S. I iBjTtnAsjornifdPrrss' Indochina.

Paris. June 12 The French Dulles' plane touched down at National Airport just a few: I By JACK BELL 'inadequate old YMCA building 'Associated Press Stall Writer) nere an(J the building fund Cam- "Washington, June 12 Acting paign which closed Friday night. Chairman Mundt (R-SD) called with Stanley S. Kresge, president National Assembly todav de- IUKlrs auer a ne-power comerence Aiiiea military leaders Assembly at tne rentagon. i l.

ieaieu iitimn wmti im tv, l- of the Foundation. i'tt num-ai i'i ui iidiii. runic, -rvusil A lief 1 1 a or 1 1 a vote of confidence, 306-293. The Nw Zealand and the United States had deliberated for a week'today fo1 an end to a feud be MR. DUFFY expressed the thanks of the campaign to the entire community for making the drive a success.

Expressing appreciation to the volunteer workers of the campaign, he said "The entire group should feel very proud of your efforts. But your thanks and satisfaction will come as you watch the beautiful new facilities being built and you will get increasing satisfaction as you see them in use over future Years." tween two Senate investigations Mr. Kresge recalled that the strategic situation in on i KRESGE Angry Simian Captured In Huron Chase Communist menaced southeast subcommittee aides which explod-Asia. The conference broke up ed in hot words Friday and without public announcement. threatened lo int0 next The Defense Department saidri i "Their conclusions will be trans-iweek McCarthy-Army mitted to their respective gov-' Roy M.

Cohn. chief counsel forj ernments." the Subcommittee and one of the! Dulles spelled out the five orincioals in the dispute between' conditions in a speech Fridav to c4 0 i i rf iSenator McCarthy (R-Wis.) and the I.ns Worm Affairs vote did not. however, make Laniel's resignation mandatory and it was not immediately clear whether he was going to try to remain in office. UNDER THE FRENCH Constitution, a government must resign only if it i defeated by an ab jwlu'e majority of all members Participated In Salk Test he was brought to Port Huron by his parents in 1899. when he was six months old, for the opening here of the second Kresge store.

The first store had been established shortly before that in Detroit. The success of the Port Huron store, which is still designated as No. 2 by the company, led to nationwide expansion by the S. S. Kresge company.

The company and the Foundation were founded by Sebastian S. Kresge. father of Stanley. The father, who began his career as See KRESGE. Page 2.

Col. 6 Bad Axe, June 12 Add re- He also thanked The Times Herald and Radio Stations WTTH and WHLS for their support of the campaign. THE CHAIRMEN of the campaign committees all expressed thanks and gave credit for the success of the campaign to the team workers and the generosity of the people of this district. Mr. Riggin said "I've been ama.ed by the work done by these committee chairmen and I know they will be happy about it and will remember it all their lives.

I think they have done a marvelous job in raising such a large sum of money." pi inn Army otticials. was accused i council, in was nis asi ston the Assembly. This majority is 313 votes. absolute officers nn a thrpe-flay speaking tour in by Robert F. Kennedy of threat- Deputy Sheriff Roy L.

Harder thp Wpft- lening in an after-session clash to to navios once more ruien out in invuir, sr i Miiifrui? iidt; any single-handed action bv the Sheridan Township when a resigned if put in a minority on Oakland Polio Victim Is Second Stricken United States in Indochina, 'get" Senator Jackson on a Communist issue. COHN DENIED this and said a vote of confidence, even if the monkey escaped from the exhibit es spelled out these live In announcing the additional gift from the Port Huron District opponents uo not raliv the abso- lute majority. An aide close to McTaggart operates i ides and, conditions which he said justify shows at fairs and carnivals. Kennedy, brother of Senator Kennedy (D-Mass.) and adviser to subcommittee Democrats, admit ted "hatred' toward him and other members of McCarthy's staff. Mundt, who said thp incident; escaped his notice when he re-' cessed the hearings for the week-! lansing June 12 The Foundation he said "The Foundation was organized about 10 years mother of the second child in a8 aS 3 resources group for things of this kind.

It was to motliei of the second tluld be sparkplug to get thjngs Its resources are the $10 a Michigan to be stricken with vear memberships and the funds which it solicits at the year-end. poliomyelitis after having parti- One thing you can do to help is to take a $10 membership in the cipated in Salk polio vaccine tests Foundation." also is in the hospital under ob-: The Founda'" nd the YMCA sponsored the successful building fund campaign and member of both organ-servation today. izations were active in the leadership of the drive. Mrs. Betty Brooks, 29, of Farm-j Hal Haylor of Beaver Associates, Chicago, directed the ington Township, Oakland campaign.

NYC Rail Empire In Young' Hands Laniel this morning said the Premier would follow this procedure. Pressures were bring put on him to remain. hoveer. President Rene Coty was reported to urging Laniel not to nnt forced to. Immediately after announcement of the vote, Laniel talked with President Coty for an hour.

He gave no inkling of his intentions, telling reporters simplv: THE CHATTERING animal rated across fields to the farm of a ncishhor. three-quarters of a mile away, and sought refuge first in the woodshed, then in an a'ltomobile. Harder, using a dip net, tried to snare the monkey, which angrily sought to avoid being taken, baring his claws and teeth. onH PViHav caiH in an interview-! (Associted Prm Staff Wnieri Ihe Mueller Brass company, which Mr. Riggin heads, gav the largest single contribution of $300,000.

'there is a' feud which has been! New York, June 12 The future County, was brought to the Sister Isoing on for a Ions; time between'of the nation's second biggest; Kenney Folio Treatment Center Kennedy and Cohn." (railroad, the New York Central, at Farmington. after her dai.gh-; THERE WAS AN air of suspense throughout the meeting Fri-jis in the hands of Texas born ter, Linda, 7, was reported by jav As the reports were made and chalked up on the black-financier Robert R. Young. the State Health Department as board, it was evident that some teams were exceeding quotas but 1 He won the bitter fight for con- having contracted non paralylic the tinal result was not apparent until the end. Every cent contributed for the new building will be needed.

trol by a margin of 1.070,000 polio. Clare R. Sperry, YMCA president, commented later as the plani 'shares out of the Central grand Two other children in the fam- for the building were trimmed to minimum requirements. "I don't know why and I don't care why," Mundt said. "It is something that has no pla.ee in the hearings and it isn't going lo have a place in the hearings.

They are imt pooping off and thev can stop it." i Whether Cohn would insist on following through on Monday was not clear from his statements on t- i i 1. An invitation ''from the present lawful authoiites," which presumably means the governments of France and the Indochinese states Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. 2. A clear assurance by France of complete independence for the three Indo-chinese states. A demonstration of evidence of concern" about the Indochinese situation by the United Nations.

Dulles did not exactly specify what he meant by this, hut possibly the fact that the UN Security Council has already voted to take tip the problem could be regarded as fulfillment of this conditioin. 4. Participation in "the collective effort of some of the other nations' of the area." 5. Avitiraute by the French government "that France will not itself withdraw from the battle until it is In the lerms in which he was speakuiE he presumably referred to the battle for "restoring tranquility" In total of 6,447.410. an authoritative 1 ntt ia.

nm Some of tne arger gifts were those of the pattern gifts corn- Is ou e. who declined to be 5 months, apparently are not at- mittee. Mr. Riggin announced the following gifts on behalf of Franl named, said Friday. lecien.

McCane, chairman of the pattern gifts committee: THE OFFICIAL results, which ALTHOUGH Linda participate mav varv slightly from thised with some 50,000 Michigan' St. Clair Rubber company Michigan Bell Telephone company Webb Coal company and the Hugh S. 6,000 arrival in u. km are to bp announced Mon- Whenever Harder placed the cam to inform the Piei- net ver the monkey, he would dent about developments in the promptly remove it. situation.

A cabinet meeting wiil Tne problem was solved when, be held. The Assembly will meet Harder quicklv placed a washtub asam at four clock." over thp monkev alter getting it Today vote of confidence was npt He then turned the a tricky and neSUyi proce- handle so that the animal was rfura! question Early Thursday hfl in rfr irornmg. the Deputies refued to The simian was borpp adopt a resolution mdomns gov- tnum back tn his ernment policy. This had gov- ernment approval and was in- tended to wind up the four-day BaCKS landers debate on Indochina policies. i Washington June 12AP- Senator Cooper (R-Ky.) S3itl AFTER HIS OWN resolution day that no matter what the out- had been rejected.

Lamelposed come of the McCarthy-Army dis- the confidence question on rejec- pute. it "will not settle" what he tton of three sharply critical op- called "an abuse of the investiga-position resolutions. By its vote tory power" by Senater McCar-oday. the Assembly asreed to thy. ahead and consider fhpsp reo- Cotper was the only lut'ors, azTnst rh government's so far to line up behind iH Senator Flanders (K-Vt.) children in the 10-county balk field test, it is not known whether she received the actual vac-; cine or got the useless injection' day bv the election inspectors at Albany, N.

where the count of shares has been in progress Webb familv 2,800 Mr. and Mrs. William Walsh 1,000 Port II mon District Foundation 3.710 Mr. and Mrs. Fred L.

Riggin Sr. (Mr. Riggin announced this gift as $10,000 I ing he never threatened to Kennedy he would "get" Jackson, and that Kennedy "is indulging jin a longstanding personal hatred 'of me." he had no comment on ih tliirU-iuiliipr' meeting' whieh wis piven to half the chil-: May 26. dren as a control measure. Such But there was no doubt aboutj information awaits a lengthy an-j the outcome.

In Los Angeles, jalysis of the vaccine records. i Young's wealthy Tex'as Earlier, Lenawee County re-; Clint W. Murchison. confirmed ported a similar polio case. the incident beyond a remark that "there's been enough fighting this week." Westcott'T.

Smith, special gifts chairman, reported $24,163 See YMCA, Page 2, Col. 4 the smashing victory. Earlv Brooks. 29, Linda's fa- Behind The Headlines HOWEVER McCarthy seemed It was Murchison who, with his ther. said his wife had symptoms to agree with Mundt's view whenjfellow Texan, Sid W.

of the disease, but polio has not questioned at Milwaukee, where bought the long-contested 800,000 yet developed, the Wisconsin Senator flew to shares which were the back-bone Linda was admitted to the Oak-start a round of weekend speech-; of Young's victory. land County Contagious Hospital i THE EISENHOWER administration's investigation of reported i vr. Mjk hn'o tho 'on. Aonrirot Tuna eovernment nousinx scaiiuais nas iruuie uy wmi ita mai iwi vi i iuun iviu ins ju? vlloCACa makincf 'audience that some nations had! he thought held back from creating a united too manyitral fight the Young group, that 4 She wa.s transferred to "windfall profiteers and more may follow. Housing chief had been'is," said Murchison, "It's in the Center that night.

Mrs. Brooks Albert M. Cole announced that a two-month inquiry has discovered ueiense in souuieasi oecause bag, even without those admitted to the Center apartment promoters who he said pocKetea nearly mmion brought up at the televised in quiry, McCarthy told reporters: Weather Map Page 2 FORECAST Port Huron Area Thundershowers and turning cooler late tonight with the probable low about 60 degrees. Winds shifting to the southwest 12 to 18 miles per hour tonight. Fair and cooler Sunday with the probable high about 82.

Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and armer. HOURLY TEMPERATURES they wanted to await the results 'of the Geneva Conference. Brit- shares. dav aonars in proms irom nuiaieu govei iniieiu-iuaincw umib Hahle Dioiects in 18 states and the District of Columbia. 'I do not intend to go into any i had taken that position.

Senator's background at these from the defeated Central board VHP iip ai th Den-irimnt senators ai inee in But the Communists, he eharg- hearings. think that we ought ed. practiced their usual dila- to finisn tne pertinent testimony headed bv Central president Wil- said 10 of polio were INFORMED OFMCIALS said today the united Mates enia-liam White Sd 1 tiv elv scheduled to call on Monday for a special conference of he tory tactics at Geneva, while in- ani pl hack to reguiar commit-1 reporieo in me pim wees, nemL(5pnere foreign ministers to take united action to quarantine their fighting in Indo- (ep b1lsinpss as soon 3ii possible." YtH'NG'S LIKELY choice This Redtin2ed Guatemala. In preliminary consultations, the American Hizhet Lowest cr (hs L-fi nuar whito irh nreti. Kpnnm rs nave a reanv asrepn jnanimi'UKiv nn iiib mnisnuiiiiv holding the conference probably around the end ot this month, stand when the recss came, anddent is Alfred Perlman.

51- Yesterday by Sec- year-old executive vice president 'WlfrO Finri It Cohn have denied charges ff 1 UIU 14 retary of the Army Steve tarv nf tne Srmv Stevens ty. one in Saginaw County, one iri fhrae in Wiyno 1 cm anri of thp Tlenvpr TJlo (TranrtP it Montevideo, Uruguay. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S top aide has dropped a hint Ihtt Tinmnnritin xrir-tnrv in the fait POn 9TPSsional plCtionS rollld i i I Western railroad. 1 1 HI Last April 14 White decla ha7e be. Deen d.n Llld a UtlUUVlOUI.

1 1 rwf i-otirino tn hie fiettvshlirc Pa farm 2pm 3 p.m. 4 p.m. 5 p.m. 6fi 65 65 he would resign as president if ii id rvc uiacuiiuTci vi v.j cases this year, compared to 101 Today 1 a 63 2 a 64 3 a.m 64 4 a.m 64. 5 a 64 6 a 65 7 a 69 8 a 75 9am 79 10 a.m Roll 01 after this four-year term.

UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG workers insured by state unem in the same period last year and 45 two years ago. Young won the proxy battle. Young's triumph ended an 85-year reign by the old banking o. Army counselor jonn j. Aoams District News 2 that they brought improper pres- Dr.

Brady 10 sure to bear to get favored Army Editorial 4 treatment for Schine a former Local News 2, 5 subcommittee consultant. (Modern Marriagee 4 Stevens and Adams have denied I Radio 10, the McCarthy camp's accusations Society 5 that they sought to use Schine as Sports 6 a "hostage'? to sidetrack a Mc- powers of the east over, the affairs of the Central system ai TnnnV ZnUCKl( 6 D.m 64 7 p.m 62 8 p.m 60 9 60 10 p.m 53 11 pm 53 Midnight, 33 ployment compensation laws dropped 112,700 to 1,966,000 during the week ended May 29 the lowest volume since mid-January. The Labor Department's Bureau of Employment Security reported it was the seventh consecutive work in which state-insured unemployment has declined. A year ago it was 880,300. in7lWT-miIp rnarl cerrvnd onlv to; The human race: A man with a woman chasing him.

iTplevision 10 Carthy investigation of alleged the Pennsylvania in revenues and lOjCommunists in the Army. ito the Santa Fe in route miles. Noon 92.

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