Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 9]

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~out the advantages. of remaining

Six Sign ~62

The Detroit Tigefs ahnouhced'|

the signing of nine players, including six picthers, to 1962 farm
club contracts

Right-handed hurlers signed
are John Smith, Penns Grove, N.
J.; Bob Wright, Warren, Mich.;
Bill Gardener, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and Everette Newman, South
Charleston, W. Va..

Southvaws among the newly |
acquired nitchers are Ken Avery,;
Taylor, Mich., and Bob Lazarewicz, North Tonawanda, N. Y.

Dick Reese, first baseman from
Deshler, Ohio: Ken Schultz, third:
baseman from Worthington. Ohio,
and Charles Lakeman, "C. gee!

from Spartanburg. S. C., are
others joining the Tiger fold in
1962. All are left-handed hitters.
Five of the eight have played
college ball, Avery at Michigan
State; Wright at University of
Detroit; Newman at South Carolina University; Lazarewicz at!1jnois State Normal, and Schultz at
Otterbein.

Lakeman is the son of Al Lakeman, manager of the Durham club
of the Carolina League in the
Tiger minor league organization.

Avery was signed to a contract
with the Knoxville club; Lazarewicz, Newman ard: Reese with
Durham; Lakeman and Gardener
with Montgomery, Smith and Schultz with Jamestown, and Wright
with Decatur.:

All will report for spring training next March at Tigertown,
Lakeland, Fla. |

Rejoice, and be exceeding
glad.~( Matt. 5:12).

Be glad today, Be glad for
friends who brighten your
way. Be glad for the comforts
of life which make for richer
and easier living. And be glad
for the life of God, which
sings its healing way through
your body. ~

YOUR
CAR
UNDER
~CONTROL

annu

tions, failure to
are driving errors fo
-|aecidents, they

dents if
\j-Only driving.,
Impatient drivers cause a majori ~
~atic accidents, according to traffic
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Speed too fast for condi~
yield right-of-way and following too closely,
und present in over half of ali traffie
say. In-a-hurry motoris se ee oes a
i by the insurance company since they can oe -
dents t only they curb their impatience, The company is ~
on conducting a major campaign in ~an attempt ~te: ducé.;

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the nation~s. 10,.
of the nalien's. mrag

Boy,:3, Names

The Keep Detroit Beautiful
Committee~s twin litterbugs finally have names. The orange and
black papier-mache~ bugs will now
be known as FLIP and FLING.

Timothy Jeffrey, age 3, of 18547!Schaefer, supplied the, winnihg

names in a recently conducted
contest held by the K. D. B. Committee. More than 6,000 children
entered the contest in the hope
of winning one of ninety-nine
prizes donated by civic-minded
Detroit merchants.

First prize won by Timothy Jeffrey is a Schwinn bicycle. Other
prizes included toys of all de
scriptions plus theatre tickets

and free trips to Bob-Lo.

The week long contest was conducted by CKLW~s Toby David
who, in his role of Captain Jolly,
reminded his young viewers of
the importance of keeping Detroit
clean and free from litter.

OURTES

Detroit Spotlite

By J. ~Alfred Butler

Registrations are coming in for
the Detroit Urban League~s annual ~Stay In School~ Conference
to be held Wednesday, Aug. 23

Mack.

Dr. Harold J. Harrison, educator and civic leader, will be the
keynote. speaker. Dr. Harrison
is one of the District Administrators of the Detroit Public Schools.

The Urban League~s Vocational
Services Department and Church
Guidance Council feel that every
effort should be made to point

in school to young people before they are influenced to drop
out.

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Atty. Frank R. Picone was recently appointed as an assistant

Wayne County: Prosecutor and
was assigned by Prosecutor Samuel Olsen to handle major felony cases.

He served as an assistant prosecutor under the late Prosecutor Gerald K. O~Brien from 1944
to 1946, and in 1949 and 1950.
He then moved to California,
returning here three years later.

Picone, 50, lives at 5444 Heather, Dearborn Township. He is
married and has two daughters,
16 and 19.

* * *. Attractive Joyce White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William

Hughes, is to be married to Mr. |~

Charles E. Williams and honored at.a reception Saturday August 19th, from 8 p.m. until 11
p.m. at 5557 Allendale street in
Detroit.:
i

Litterbugs

Mr. William G: Koerber, President of the Keep Detroit Beauti
ful Committee said that a large

group of volunteers from the committee served as judges in the
contest and worked well into the

termining the winner.. -

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~The heaviest load any man
ever carries on his back is
packing a grudge.~

=e tee
a 2 Fae

night one evening last week de
the Old tomer

- Metropolitan Beach along L
St. Clair~ near Mt. Clemens ~and
Lower Huron Metropolitan Park
near Belleville reported;recordbreaking attendance for the
month of July this year while
Kensington Metropolitan, Park
'near Milford reported its second
best July attendance on record.. This was announced téday by
Kenneth L. Halletibeck, director
of the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority, a five-county park
and parkway agency serving Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne Counties.

number of rainy days, seems to
be the reason for improved park
use during the month of July this
year, not only at Huron-Clinton
recreational sites, but at other

Hot weather, with a minimum |:

seven home games instead of the

UCLA, regarded as the Pacific

~ ss.Coast~s top team, September 30.

*hen on three successive Sat
s' urdays the Wolverines face Army,| All-Star
~) October 7; Michigan State, Oc
~tober 14 and Purdue (Homecoming), October 21. Duke will come
here November 4, to give the Wolverines their third intersectional
game, followed by Iowa, November 18 and Ohio State, November
25.

Gridders Invited

ANN ARBOR, Mich~Invitations
were mailed this week to 69 candidates for Michigan~s 1961 football squad, requesting them to
report for opening of practice at
Ferry Field, Friday, September 1.

Actually Coach Bump: Elliott
will assemble his squad Thursday,- August 31, at 2 p.m. for the
annual press photographers day,, with two-a-day official practice
| sessions scheduled to start the
following morning.. -

parks throughout Michigan..

To State Fair

mobile hearing testing trailer will
be back at the State Fair again
this year,~ reports Ralph Rupp,

Center, a Torch Drive Agency.

- ~The Detroit Hearing Center~s

Director of the Detroit Hearing

He announced this week that: arrangements have been completed
~| to provide the same free hearing
~| testing program for fair visitors
_| that was available last year.
Center staff tested 2055 people
_| with 48%. showing hearing which'
~| was below normal.

The Center is offering this public service~ and educational program in cooperation with the
Michigan Association for Better
Hearing which has loaned the

The

Hearing Test Available

Visitors
trailer for use by the local service agency.:

The trailer will be located just
outside of the northwest corner
of White Hall, and the testing
program will run from 10:00 a.m.
to 8:30 p.m. daily, September 1
through September 10.

The purpose of fhe testing program is to provide an easy opportunity for area residents to
check their hearing abilities. Mr.
Rupp reports that the actual hearing test takes only about two minutes. If hearing floss is found,
appropriate suggestions will - be
made to the person at that time.

Dr. A.. Bruce Graham,. President of the Center, states: ~Checking last year~s results, the men

BY
Outdoor

BOB BREWSTER

had more hearing difficulties than
did the women, for 57% of. the
men showed hearing. problems
while only 39% of the women de
-|,| monstrated hearing inabilities.~

Mrs. John P. Heavenrich, Chairman of the Center, Education and
Hearing Conservation Committee,
says: ~Hearing loss is one of the

| ing to find the answer.

itime and circumstance.

ee no real solution.

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Periodically a fisherman will,
in his secret heart, shout ~~~Eu_reka~ and proclaim to himself
|that he has found the answer,
~that fish bite because he is ysing the right bait and the right
method and is fishing at the
~right timé of the day.
WHA HOPPEN?

' But then he and his Mercury outboard come back
again; he repeats the exact for~mula and finds to his shock
that what~ was one day a
|Smashing success is the next
day a quite dismal failure.

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Do they solve the problem?
'Yes and no, depending upon

i And
perhaps it is this ~never-never-: land~ atmosphere to the thing
| that draws fishermen _ back
time and again~to a quest that_

to such heights of ess
and then dashes it ~ogg ong on
a rock wall of frustration? Is
it the way he holds his mouth?,

A partial answer

is probably
the best we'll~ ever ay x

have, and

gists in Minnesota have offered!
that. They found that catches
by anglers are directly related
to the fishes~ available food
supply, Cola a aes

Low food supply meant many
bites. High food supply ~ rad
bites. In this particular study,
the catch/~of bluegills fell off as
the summer advanced because~
the food supply for the Uittie|

darlings built
period. up * luring this

STRUGGLE ONWARD

The conclusion was that the
bluegills had so much salad by
Jate summer that they turned
the cold shoulder to the ang-|
~ler~s entree ~ the worm. Nobody: carries a sandwich to a
banquet, and the same is true/
in fish land, to the dismay of!
anglers who yearn for a trophy!
to gather dust over the mantle..
But perverse people that fishpoo are, oor continue
c ng.up Mercury outboards and struggling against)
they know not what. And,
luckily for them and for the
wives who await their return,
just as often as not they'll run
into a cranky bass with indigestion who will strike a lure.
out of spite, even though he
is bee pom with food.

ome they come, holding
the prize on high, convinced),

~Why? What carries his fishing

they have solved the problem |
of why fish won't bite.

IVE GOT TOGET IT.;
HOUSE BEFORE. THe a

Editor, Mer: fercury Outboards | ~_ |

Why fish won't bite is a prob- Me
lem that regularly assails one
| out of every four men in the
i United States, according: to sta| tistics. Those are the fellows
~ are out in search of sport
'and fun fishing the waters of,: this country, constantly seek
Is it the fish?-Or just what?!

some fish management biolo-:

major health problems. of.. this
feountry, and it affects more tha
12 million adults and three million children. Translating these
national figures to the local scene,
we would expect some 300,000
persons in the metropolitan area
to have some degree of hearing
loss, ranging from slight to -total
deafness.~

Mr. Rupp concludes: ~The early

is an important factor in preventing serious and handicapping
deafness. Modern testing equipment makes it possible to detect
a hearing loss in its early stages
and allows preventive measures
to be taken. Because hearing
loss frequently has a gradual onset, many people are unaware of
the impairment or fail to take
action until the loss is a handicapping one. For this reason, we
are urging visitors to the State
Fair to avail themselves of the
free testing service.~

As part of its continuing service program the Center maintains a screening hearing testing
program at its agency quarters.
For those unable to get to the
fair, an appointment may be made
for a screening hearing test by
calling the agency at FA 11436
If You Have A Hearing Loss,

Don~t Delay!
Check It At The State Fair ~
Any Day!

Tigers To Field
Winter League -
Team In Tampa

DETROIT~The Detroit Tigers

will operate a team out of Tampa
in the Florida Winter League this
year.. The announcement was made
jointly by James A. Campbell,
Detroit vice president, and Ralph
Chapman, chairman of the sports
committee of the Tampa Chamber
of Commerce, following a series
of conferences. '

The Tigers will be participating
or the first time in the Florida
Winter League, which was formed
four years ago for the purpose
of expediting development of outstanding prospects.

~The league season opens in
mid-October and runs for two
months. The other major league
clubs to be represented and the
|schedule of play will be announced: at a later date.:

The club to be fielded by the

iistial six, the sehedule opens with |

detection of slight hearing loss:

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1. Continuance of two annual
All-Star. games.

2. Desegregation at Florida
training camps and on the road.

On neither of these points did
the delegates take a firm stand.
On hoth they placated the club
owners to a point at which they
appeared to be trying to wheedle
concessions out of them. The players used to make demands. Now
they suggest.:

Bob Friend said the players
felt the public wants two games.
He also hinted strongly the players favored continuing the twogame setup. Friend pointed out
that with 20 teams in 1962, it
would be 20 years between AllStar games for fans in most big
league cities. oe

The magnate already have announced they will vote on the
dual system in Miami Beach early
in December. Chances are strong
that the second game will be

~_dropped.

On the Negro player issue, the
representatives left matters just
about where they were last spring.
With the Mets training at St.. Petersburg, and a Houston team also
entering the N.L. in ~62, the segregation situation may be worse
than it was last April.

The players drafted a letter to

ing that all possible means be
taken to alleviate racial discrimination in housing, particularly on
the west coast. of Florida, during
spring training.

Judge Robert Cannon of the
central office said. that of the 18
clubs now in the majors, seven
had made no headway on desegregation, seven had eliminated the
problem, and four were making
progress. ith ges

Frank Scott of the same officé
said, ~The players do not want
to make an issue of desegregation
at this time. If they hollered now,
they would hamper negotiations:

~We are not kidding on this or
the two All-Star games issue. We
want the club owners to express
themselves. Desegregation is not
merely a Negro problem.~

~This is the first time we are
doing anything on this collectively,~ said Friend.

~In fairness to the owners, let
me say that some Negro players
last spring were offered improved
housing, but preferred to remain
where they were,~ Scott said.

Bill White, who helped Bill
Bruton state the case for the
Negro contingent, said, ~I want
the opportunity to make by own
choice.~

Senators~ ~league representative
Gene Woodling admitted that he
was not completely satisfied with
what the clubs had done and said
that eventually there would be
complete solution.

Judge Cannon said, ~We are

everything humanly possible.
State laws and local ordinances
are not under control of baseball.

~Baseball has made large contributions these last two years toward desegregation. Talks now
are on between clubs and local
officials. The next few months
will alleviate the situation in the
St. Petersburg-Tampa area.~

It leaked out that some-of the
players had proposed that part of
the second-game receipts be given to charity. This received not
even lukewarm support.

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Substitute Ted Wright, of Detroit, blasted young Don Fullmer~s
dreams of following his brother
Gene~s middleweight title train
Saturday night by stopping Don
for the first time in his career
at the end of ~the seventh round.
because of a badly cut left brow.

Referee Harold Valan awarded
Wright a technical knockout _ vic
be sent to each club owner ask-|

satisfied that ~baseball~ has done |

at the suggestion of

It was a bitter defeat for Full--

mer, who would have fought former champion Sugar Ray in 7
son in the Garden on Oct. 14,

had he beaten Wright in the na--

tionally televised scheduled~ 10 -rounder..
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College football is in. the air
as: invitations have gone out for
fall practice at Universities
around the country. Michigan
State Coach Duffy Daugherty invited only 60 players to show
up, the smallest number in years.
Coach Bump Elliott sent out invitations to 69 players at Michi~gan, the same number that have
been asked. out Ky Joe Kuharich
at Notre Dame. Practice at all
schools will start Sept. 1 with the
traditional picture-taking day on
Aug. 31.

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Dr.. John Scopis retained his
city outdoor handball championship Sunday. by defeating Jim
Golden, 20121, 21-16, 21-13, at
Belle Isle. Cyril Demeulemeester
took third place by trimming Bob
Ambrose, 21-14, 21-33..: % % %

Former Detroiter Leon Wagner
of the Los Angels will soon be
answering to the call pop...'the
stork dropped a baby: girl at the

Wagner home last week.
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improved hitting to a bigger bat.
~Tm using a 36-36 now,~ Ellie
told eastern ball writers the other day, ~and just meeting the
ball. It helps not to have to swing
hard, the ball. just zooms off it
when I connect. But then, I guess
it oughta; I~m sure a 36-36 (36
inches long, 36 ounces heavy)
must be the biggest in use in
the majors... it is on the Yankees, anyway.~
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Washington Senators pitching
coach Sid Hudson thinks Bennie
Daniels could be one of the toughest pitchers in the American
League ~if he were a little more
eareless.~ According to Hudson,
who won 80 games for the Senators in an 8-year span in the
1950~s, Daniels is inclined ta become too cautious at times. ~He'll
get behind the batter, then start
aiming the ball. With that live
arm of his, and his wonderful
knack of keeping the ball low,
Bennie should just keep throwing. Once he does, the. other people are in for some real trouble.~

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The 35th annual national cham
pionships of the United Golfer

~Association will gessunderway at

Punkapoag Golf. Course, Canton,
Mass., just outside Boston; Aug.
21.

A field of close to 500 éetriss
is expected to~take part, according to tournament director-: Mrs.
Paris B. Brown. No entries will
be accepted after midnight Sunday, Aug. 20, Tournament,headquarters will be the Statler-Hilton Hotel, Columbus and Arling:
ton, Boston.

A minimum purse of $1,500 will

Plans for the tournament were
completed at the UGA conventien
in Cincinnati last March.

| support anything ~including
' statisticians.~ ee

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1961

THE 1962

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Elston Howard attributes his

go to the professional winner. -

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