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THE PLAIN DEALER CLEVELAND, OHIO D. 4C&145 SUf{. ?║33,828 FEB 12 1974 y|0Q@@GHIHD LnJraQS rOO.O Since its founding 20 years ago the Commerce Club, 711 Vincent Ave. NE, has the greatest number of openings I |Jfor new members. It was established by a group from the Oakwood Club in South Euclid who wanted a downtown branch, but years ago its trustees voted to discard that restriction and open its rolls to any male whose application is approved. Elmer J. Babin, the lawyer, who is a charter member, an original trustee and past president, said, when at ful strength, the club has 400 members. Why not open it to women? ?╟≤ * * Cleveland Club of Printing House Craftsmen will salute its honorary life, member David W. (Bill) Stock, who has not only served it in a variety of offices in the last 45 years but has attended more than 30 international conventions. A dinner for Stock is Feb. 21 at the Brown Derby in Independence. . , . State Rep. John D. Thompson Jr., D-15, is in St. Luke Hospital for back surgery.. . . The Rev. James. T. Burtchaell, Notre Dame University provost, will return to address the First Friday Club by popular demand at the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel Feb. 28. ?╟≤ ';?╟≤?√ß ?╟≤ Dr. Max Kaplan of the University of South Florida, here for a round of meetings, spoke yesterday at a private luncheon sponsored by Don Grogan, president of the Hanna Bldg. Corp. Dr. Kaplan urged flower power on Cleveland-' ers. He wants them to plant blooms uptown, downtown, in the streets and in windpw boxes. Pat Garling of The Plain Dealer wasi first to suggest window boxes . . . in office buildings. . . .A postcard mailed from New York to The Plain Dealer Nov. 16 arrived yesterday. The Pony | Express traveled four times farther in only 10 days. ?╟≤ * ?╟≤ James C. Albini, a deputy director with the defense Supply Agency here, already is working on his paper for the American Society for Quality Control's 28th technical conference in Boston in May.. . . Leon Gordon Miller, I the designer, has been appointed a fellow of the Morgan Library in New York. That is the one created by the j financier-art collector, the late J. P. Morgan. ?╟≤ * * Onetime Cleveland resident, Jackie Fields, a former world middleweight boxing champion, has joined the Sands Hotel in Xas Vegas as a casino host.. . . Mort Myers, the rotund president of a searchlight advertising firm, has been ordered to halve his 404 pounds tand has already lost 40. He misses most cake a la mode.. . . Feb. 27 the ^Friends of the Cleveland Public Library inaugurate a series of end-of-the-month booksales to benefit the library. Books will be priced a t a dime and a quarter.