Soothing Soak
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Mt. Clemens Mineral Products Company
turns the tide to the next phase.
`V Factor On The Rise
LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER
PHOTO BY GLENN TRIEST
others like it
when he pur-
chased the Park
Hotel in Mt.
Clemens and had
its well brought
back to working
order. It was in
1978 and Mr. Si-
mon had injured
his shoulder. Cor-
tisone wasn't
working, so he
made a trip to the
baths only to dis-
cover they had all
closed.
"Everyone had
gone to the baths
for their aches
and pains. I be-
gan to wonder, if
the minerals were
Max Simon: Owner, Mt. Clemens Mineral Products.
so helpful why did
this industry die?" Mr. Simon
said.
n the early 1980s, the disco
"We have a lot of members
Through research, he con-
band Village People claimed, with arthritis, so we figured we'd cluded that six economic reasons
'It's fun to stay at the YMCA." try this as a service to them. I've led to the demise: artificially low
Soon it will be pleasurable yet to take one of these baths my- rates due to intense competition,
to soak there, as well. At least in self, but those who have swear by the Depression, the discovery of
Mt. Clemens.
it," said Diane Schwartz, direc- penicillin and sulfa drugs in the
Max Simon, owner of the for- tor of sales and marketing for 1940s, fires (many bath houses
mer Park Hotel and the only run- CMI.
were built of wood), World War
ning mineral well in Mt.
The Department of Public II (no customers) and Miami
Clemens, is on the road to seeing Health recently approved the Mt. Beach (new hot spot).
a dream come true.
Clemens' YMCA's use of Mr. Si-
Following five years of study
As owner of Ache-Away and mon's minerals in public baths. and work with a chemist, Mr. Si-
the Mt. Clemens Mineral Prod-
"We know these minerals are mon named his product in 1983.
ucts Company, Mr. Simon has effective from letters from years He incorporated Ache-Away in
spent the last 14 years develop- ago and today. People have told 1987.
ing 20 muscle relief and beauty me they even use Ache-Away
Research and product devel-
products from the water of the creams on their animals and see opment continues along the lines
wells and the 30 natural miner- improved activity," Mr. Simon of toothpaste and dental aids. Mr.
als contained in it.
said.
Simon has offered his water free
In the files of Mr. Simon's Oak to Hillary Rodham Clinton for
"It's a healing effort. I've
brought an old activity to mod- Park office are stacks of letters testing with the Agency for Al-
touting the healing benefits of ternative Medicine, and to Jerry
ern times," Mr. Simon said.
For financial reasons, he hasn't minerals:
Lewis for his fight against mus-
"I had sciatic neuritis for five cular dystrophy. He has yet to
opened a bath house, so popular
for aches and pains in the early months, not suffering very much, hear from either.
through mid-1900s. Mr. Simon then was suddenly stricken with
"We don't know all the mys-
has focused primarily on his line the most excruciating pain that teries or the hidden pluses of
of mineral baths and liniments one could possibly have. I suffered these minerals, but I think the
which are available at health-food seven days and nights, could not potential for healing is limitless,"
stores and drug stores like Arbor move without pain. I came to Mt. Mr. Simon said.
Clemens with the aid of a friend
and Perry.
He speaks from personal ex-
With the growing interest in and two crutches. I managed to perience. When Mr. Simon made
holistic health care, Mr. Simon is get into the Medea Hotel and af- his first trip to Mt. Clemens and
discovering renewed attention to ter taking three mineral baths I found the baths closed, he
the work done with mineral wa- could walk without crutches. Af- brought home mineral granules.
ter taking eight baths I was en- He packed them up in gauze and
ter.
CMI Health and Tennis Club tirely well. Very truly Yours, for three nights applied com-
in Southfield purchases the wa- Doctor I.S. Lilly, Stanton, MI."
presses to his aching shoulder.
The letter is dated Dec 12,
ter to use in a chemical-free
"I haven't had any pain or
whirlpool. It has been in opera- 1921.
problems since," he said. El
Mr. Simon found the letter and
tion for about one year.
I
The Bank of Israel's "S," or
state of the economy indicator,
jumped 1.9 percent in March,
reflecting the significant ex-
pansion of economic activity in
the first quarter.
The preliminary figure fol-
lows increases of 0.8 percent in
February and 1.1 percent in
January. During the first quar-
ter of the year, the index rose
3.8 percent compared with 2.2
percent in the previous quar-
ter.
The U.S. dollar broke through
the MS 3 mark last week, sig-
naling the Bank of Israel's in-
tention to let the shekel devalue
after holding its value steady
since the beginning of the year.
Since the beginning of the year,
the dollar has several times
come a few thousandths of a
point short of breaching the
NIS 3 mark.
What may have tipped the bal-
ance at the central bank this
time is the realization that
keeping the exchange rate
frozen did not help keep infla-
tion down, said Jonathan Katz,
head of Economic Modeling and
Forecasting.
Breakthrough For The Dollar
Radios For The U.S. Army
Tallahassee Communications namics, will produce 11,369 sin-
Industries, a Tadiran sub- gle-channel ground and air-
sidiary situated in Florida, has borne radio systems (Sincgars),
been awarded a $57 million radios and associated equip-
contract to produce radios for ment.
the U.S. Army.
Sincgars is the new genera-
According to the agreement, tion of VHF/FM combat radios
Talla-Com, through a teaming in use by
agreement with General Dy-
the U.S. Army.
More Traffic At The Airport
The number of charter passen-
gers to and from Israel's Ben-
Gurion Airport during March
rose 82 percent to 83,000 from
45,000 over the same time last
year, according to statistics pro-
vided by the Civil Aviation Au-
thority.
Charter passengers consti-
RSL Helps Germans
tuted 17 percent of those pass-
ing through the airport, up
from 13 percent in March 1993
The statistics are particu-
larly interesting in view of the
recent decision to liberalize air-
transport policy and allow
greater freedom to charter
flights.
RSL Electronics of Israel has
RSL already has produced
signed a $4.72 million agree- temperature and diagnostic
ment to provide engine moni- monitoring systems for the J-
toring systems to the German 79 Phantom engines, manu-
Air Force as part of a Phantom factured by General Electric.
fighter plane upgrade program.
Last Call For Bottle Dispute?
The Scotch Whisky Association,
which represents most of Scot-
land's whisky manufacturers,
petitioned the High Court of
Justice in Israel to reverse a
lower-court order which re-
turns 1,600 whisky bottles to
an Israeli company.
The company, Nebo Agen-
cies Ltd., manufactures alco-
holic beverages whose label
contains the word "Scotch" and
a picture of a bagpipe player.
The association sued the
company in Tel Aviv Magis-
trates Court, claiming the la-
bel was misleading because the
beverage was neither real
whisky nor made in Scotland.
The court issued a search-
and-seizure order. As a result,
1,600 bottles were. confiscated
from the company. However,
the court later acquitted the
company of any wrongdoing
and ordered the bottles re-
turned.