Sunday Tribune, The (Newspaper) - December 9, 1962, Albert Lea, Minnesota THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE VOLUME ALBERT LEA MINNESOTA SUNDAY DECEMBER 9 1062 TWENTY SIX PAGES 15 CENTS Supreme Court In Spotlight on Vote Recount By ADOLPH JOHNSON St Paul Minnesota Supreme Court becomes the center of attention Monday when it is scheduled to hear arguments on a motion to move the governor recount case from Albert Lea to St Paul Attorneys for Gov Elmer L Andersen are expected to submit arguments to bolster their contention that the governor is entitled to have the matter handled in his home county of Ramsey Attorneys for Lt Gov ODC Karl Rolvaag who filed the r recount petition in County district court will offer oj that the has the right to pick the county The GOP motion has been ed by DFL charges promptly denied by GOP leaders that it is part of a calculated plan to de- lay the recount Unfamiliar Spot For Court The center of the stage is an unfamiliar spot for the Supreme Closes First Phase Of Council VATICAN CITY AP Pope John XXIII strained by illness but optimistic for the future recessed the Roman Catholic Ecumenical Council Saturday and announced his hope it would conclude in a year He looked back over the first two months as a good beginning He also looked to the future and said he was consoled by anticipation of benefits for The Roman Catholic ruler spoke for 22 minutes to the council fathers in St Peter's for the ceremonial closing of the first phase of their assembly Walks Unaided It was a new demonstration of the Pope's recovery from serious illness He walked unaided and left unaided He sat on a throne while he spoke His voice gained power midway through his speech but became hoarse toward the end Later he appeared at his ment window overlooking St Square and recited the noon Angelus prayer A crowd of about including hundreds of bishops knelt in the square Many of the council fathers planned to be on their way home within hours Ahead of them was a recess ending Sept 8 but it will not be a rest In the coming the Pope said the work will go on unflaggingly A heavy ty rests upon our shoulders but God himself will sustain us on the way Pope John then ventured thing he had never done possible target date for the conclusion Many prelates have said the council could last years at its present pace Pope Holds Hope The pontiff made clear he thought differently There is he said that the conclusion awaited by all our faithful children may be reached in the glory of the Incarnate Son of God in the joy of Christmas in the centenary year of the Council of Trent That centenary year would be 1963 The Council of Trent met from 1545 to 1563 The council patriarchs archbishops and hops assembled from around the most of their final session to a pontifical Mass by Enio Cardinal Marella archpriest of St Peter's Mayor Daley Offers Site for GOP Convention CHICAGO ard J Daley has offered the of McCormick Place mammoth lakeside con- vention hall for the 1964 lican national convention Daley says he also will invite the Democratic national tion to Chicago In a telegram to Rep William E Miller GOP national man Friday Daley We sincerely want to see you again As all leaders of your tion know Chicago has the ties and know-how to satisfy ery delegate and member of your party It is my privilege to ex- tend a most cordial invitation to the Republican party to hold the 1964 convention in Chicago Daley said he would send a for- mal invitation to John M Bailey Democratic national chairman Court While the court hears ar- several days each week in its handsome chamber on the second floor of the Capitol the spectator capacity of 32 is rarely taxed And while it deals with some 400 cases in an average year chiefly appeals from lower courts the high court operates in com- seclusion State ment's other two branches legis- and executive getting most of the public attention Only a handful of the 250 or so written opinions issued by the court in an average year attract much notice outside of the legal profession Usually several weeks elapse be- tween oral arguments before the judges and their decisions but the court has demonstrated that it can move swiftly if time is a factor Some decisions are announced within a few hours after the yers argue Election matters incidentally are among those which may be brought before the Supreme Court directly without first having been heard by a lower court Court's Make-Up Average age of the court's seven present justices is 62 with the eldest 75 and the youngest 48 Two have been nominees for governor and one is a former legislator Four are former district judges and one also is a former pal judge Five of the seven are native Minnesotans and five are ates of the University of sota law school The seven judges practiced law an aggregate of 126 years before becoming judges The chief justice receives an an- salary of associate justices Here in brief are the present members of the Chief Justice Oscar Knutson 63 in Superior Wis graduate of University of Minnesota law school practicing attorney ren Minn district judge appointed associate tice by Gov Luther W Youngdahl Concluded on page 2 Forecast Partly cloudy day with a few snow flurries ex- treme east High cloudiness occasional snow flurries mostly in Bus Rider Keeps Paying Ticket Tax WORCESTER Mass cutting is supposed to be a very popular action but a bus rider in Worcester takes the opposite view The unidentified man insists on paying the 10 per cent federal tax on his bus ticket to Fitchburg though the levy was dropped Nov 15 Each day the patron shoves the extra 12 cents across to the ticket seller saying only President had no right to take off the tax EMPTY STOCKING This famed painting by F S Manning has been a classic that tells the story of a child passed by on Christmas First many years ago thQ cartoon treatment is remarkable for its stark portrayal of heartbreak That no such scene as this be in this area is the sole job of the Substitute Santas Have you Rescue Team Sights Body CARMICHAELS Pa AP mine near this southwestern I which was headed toward the face Rescue workers recovered the sylvania town about 50 miles when the explosion ripped U.S body of one coal miner Saturday I southwest of Pittsburgh then pushed relentlessly ahead The body of Hurley C ward 36 others trapped in a i er 50 of Adah was recovered moth explosion more than two days ago j the face of the mine which is Discovery of the body however the point of the mining gave no indication of the fate of j tions the other miners caught 650 feet Stalmaker a 19-year mine Steel Robena No 3 mine Thursday afternoon A U.S Steel spokesman said a near a coal tram 3.900 feet from Coal train usually also is manned by a brakeman but there was no sign of any other bodies A funeral director reported earlier three underground by the blast in a eran was motorman of the train Worst Snowstorm in Years Storm Strands Thousands By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS With an army of highway men in the vanguard residents of northern Ohio and western sylvania tackled the tal job of digging out from one of the worst snowstorms in years At least 40 deaths were reported most of them resulting from heart attacks while shoveling snow or from fic accidents In Ohio alone at least 18 known deaths Thousands of motorists truck drivers and bus passengers were stranded by the storm that ed Thursday deposited up to 27 inches of snow and sent drifts as deep as 20 feet The fortunate found refuge in farmhouses or emergency Red Cross shelters set up in public buildings Others spent 24 or more hours in their vehicles On U.S 21 between Akron and Cleveland where the granddaddy of all traffic developed An- Kirsten Flagstad Former Met Singing Star 67 Dies KIRSTEN OSLO Norway AP Kirsten Flagstad the famed Norwegian Wagnerian soprano and former star Metropolitan Opera in New York died here day night She was 67 Director John Casper sen of the Oslo g o run hospital R i k said that she died there at 8 p.m She had been here for several he said He refused to give the cause of death Friends of the family said Miss Flagstad succumbed to a bone ailment Hip trouble forced her to bed after she returned home in January 1960 from a visit to the United States Born to a musical family July 12 1895 near Oslo Miss Flagstad started her singing career as a child with a part in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado She be- gan her operatic career when she was 18 A few years later New York banker Otto Kahn heard her sing Tosca in Oslo's National ter and passed the word to the Metropolitan that this was a singer worth watching Made Debut In 1935 She made her debut at the Metropolitan in 1935 as Sieglinde and 1 it up four days later as Isolde New York critics de- scribed her performance with such phrases as transcendentally beautiful Until 1941 Miss Flagstad was the leading Wagnerian so- prano She returned home to Norway during the war to join her husband Henry Johansen a wealthy lumberman He died in 1945 of a lung ailment before being brought to trial on charges of economic collaboration with the Nazis He had pleaded innocent to the charges When Miss Flagstad returned to the United States in 1947 for a con- cert tour pickets paraded outside halls in New York Chicago and Philadelphia protesting her con- duct during the war Denied Nazi Dealings She issued a formal statement after the tour saying that she had no dealings with the Nazis and did not support them in any way She said the only singing she did ng the war was in Sweden and Switzerland neutral countries She made other postwar ances at the Metropolitan and at New York's Carnegie Hall When she appeared in a farewell at the Met in 1952 in the itle role of Gluck's opera Alcestis she received 13 curtain calls The singer announced her final retirement from the opera in 1953 London She was quoted as ing sne wanted to retire while still able to sing her best Gory Airlift of Victims Tests Mayo Facilities ROCHESTER Minn A simulated airlift of bombing was flown here from neapolis Saturday to test how well they could be handled by Mayo Clinic and St Mary's Hospital personnel Five units of the Minnesota Air National Guard and Air Force reserves stationed at St Paul International Airport took part in the exercise Air Force reservists stationed here also took an impromptu part in the drill A transport with about 45 casualties supposedly ed from Washington touched down a few minutes be- fore 10 the men Air Force reservists from Minneapolis were products of the gory imagination of a theater makeup man Also on board were medical technicians and nurses of two Twin Cities reserve units Some 100 personnel from the clinic and hospital including tors nurses and technicians were pressed into service with little or short notice About 10 ambulances whined through town and sped to the port to bring back the mock victims Job of the local reserve unit was to sort out the patients at the airstrip by type of injury Besides the four Civil Air Patrol planes took part simulat ing fighter planes being dis- bursed because of a national emergency Marines Returning to West Coast WASHINGTON who were rushed from the West Coast to the Caribbean area ing the Cuban crisis are on their way home the Pentagon reports The Defense Department said Friday that some Marines will start arriving at West Coast ports next week beginning day It was the first official dis- closure of how many Marines had been funnelled into Guantanamo naval base and the Caribbean ing the Cuan crisis in late October The department said the first ships of the 5th Marine Brigade reached the ma Canal five days ago Kilauea Erupts HILO Hawaii Islands Scientists were alerted Saturday for unpredictable Kilauea volcano the mountain that belched fire three times Friday ders Anderssen of Bath Ohio a ruck driver told a reporter who came by with a Red Cross team hat brought food and I've here since p.m day and have gone exactly three miles You just sit and sleep There's nothing else you can do That was Friday night The Ohio Highway Patrol estimated vehicles were caught in that jam over a section of hilly road south of Brecksville Winds Pile Up Drifts The problem of highway crews was complicated earlier by strong winds that sent drifts across the by stalled vehicles and ater Friday night by a freezing rain Some persons were caught on the Pennsylvania Turnpike where a section was closed for hours Their vehicles were herded into service areas un- crews could get one lane of the open The section of pike was closed at p.m and and wasn't opened to new traffic until p.m In western Pennsylvania Mrs Gertrude Hixon 25 of 1 Scottdale gave birth to a er in an automobile stalled in the mow Near Moundsville W Va some 25 motorists and bus passengers spent 24 hours in farmhouses along U.S 250 before rescuers could plow through seven miles of snow to reach them Other States Hit Other states hit by the heavy snow and wind were New York Maryland and Michigan see Kentucky and Virginia also lad snow A layer of snow up to two feet deep covered southwestern New York as the aftermath of a storm that closed schools disrupted fic and brought three deaths In Ohio Cleveland was ly paralyzed with more than 15 inches of snow its worst storm in 12 years All schools and many businesses were shut down The Cleveland Electric ating Co worked to restore power to thousands of homes cut off by fallen power lines At the height of the storm homes were without power the company re- ported Small Town Isolated Brunswick a small community less than 20 miles southwest of downtown Cleveland was isolated With telephone service out Mayor Carl Miller declared a state of emergency and Fostoria in western Ohio also were declared states of emergency At Findlay south of Toledo Mayor William Carlin said the emergency was declared primarily because of stranded motorists At Fostoria 15 miles from Findlay Mayor Phil Concluded on page 2 Lesson in Blocking War U S Will Attempt To Sell NATO Point To Crisis in Cuba By ENDRE MARTON WASHINGTON ed States will try next week to sell its NATO allies on adopting a lesson from the Cuban lesson U.S officials believe could prevent some European crisis from turning into nuclear war j The Americans will urge that the North Atlantic Treaty alliance deploy greater conventional firepower against the Soviet force in Europe thus giving both sides a choice other than render or holocaust To reach this strength NATO Burglary Suspect Faces Trial A decision and judgment ing James Witter 20 of 905 E Main St to District Court on a burglary third degree charge was released by Judge A K ley Friday Witter charged with theft of a cash register from Bob's City Service Station Nov 8 had re- quested a preliminary hearing which was held Nov 15 He was bound over to the District Court the decision revealed The evidence shows that de- fendant in company with two er persons engaged in a prolonged drinking party that during this time they discussed breaking into a filling station that the group drove to a filling station in defendant's car where one of the group Dave Merifield 23 of Gary Ind who waved nary hearing in Municipal Court Nov 15 and was bound over to the District Court under a bond broke into a filling station and stole a cash register During the time the burglary took place Today's Good will be asked to achieve the sought goal of 30 divisions cording to officials here Arguing the American case be- fore the NATO council in Pans Dec will be a high-ranking team led by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of De- fense Robert S McNamara Others In Delegation The delegation will also include Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon Gen Maxwell Taylor chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff large Llewellyn Thompson Charles E Bohlen State Department counselor Walt W Rostow and Assistant of Defense Paul H The goal was set eral years ago but so far only 22 to 23 divisions including five full-strength American divisions are at the disposal of NATO's commander Beyond one further division pledged by West Germany for 1963 there is no immediate sign indicating that the other directly interested France and the Benelux in any hurry to bolster their forces in central Europe The U.S delegation does not plan to raise other problems at the conference described by State Department officials as a taking meeting and an opportunity for the ministers to make a level assessment of the Cuban crisis It will also give Rusk an to express U.S gratification over the unanimous support the United States received from the alliance during those dangerous days Rusk and his colleagues stressed have no intention to bring up the controversial issue of a nuclear force for NATO but the American contingent feels sure that the question will come up anyway Offers Polaris Subs The United States has offered er bodies had been spotted body first was sighted early Saturday morning but deadly methane gas prevented workers from reaching it until nearly eight hours later Progress Slow Our progress may seem slow but we are encountering gas which we must move and a few small said James Girod ant general superintendent in charge of rescue operations Girod said he could not say what the chances are of finding the er men alive Girod explained that the tion was progressing about 100 feet per hour and that workers must explore feet of headings for every 100 feet they push for- ward The tunnel where the miners are trapped is one of several running off the of Frosty Run Shaft The shaft goes down 525 feet from the earth surface and the tunnel slopes to 650 feet Adam Bronakoski whose son Albert 19 was among those trapped said the group received the information without visible re- action Still Hold Hope What could we he asked It's a temporary setback I still lave hope The discovery came in the third day of round-the-clock operations ay specially trained rescue units at the Frosty Run shaft of U.S Steel's Robena No 3 mine located about 50 miles west of Pittsburgh Probing cautiously with as much speed as possible in a desperate race against time the rescuers made good progress Friday night and today In one three-hour period Friday defendant was in the back seat submarines and -t t i 1 night they advanced feet Officials had pointed out that there was no way of telling where any of the trapped men might be in relation to the spot where the blast occurred White Funeral Conducted for Wilhelmina THE HAGUE Netherlands AP Wilhelmina Saturday re- the funeral she re- quested as a symbol of her faith that death is the beginning of life Eight horses drew the white hearse along the of his car parked at the filling aiso land-based mobile route from Th Hague range missiles to the alliance to the royal mausoleum at Delft vided the European nations can Holland's ruling monarch Queen agree on their control use This country officials said has Juliana and the four royal cesses were all dressed in white as station There is evidence to the effect that defendant was intoxicated to the extent that he did not know the theft was being committed The court is of the opinion that the above evidence is sufficient jn recent months that the U.S i band wore a general's uniform to present an issue as to whether nuclear deterrent is adequate and Among white wreaths carried on no intention to renege on these they followed in white carriages offers although it has made clear j Prince Bernhard Juliana's defendant took part in the glary and is sufficient to show sible cause that defendant is ty of the offense charged The defendant is bound over to that there is really no need for i carriage were floral duplication in form of nuclear force There is no sign that the Euro- a NATO i utes from President Kennedy Em- Hirohito of Japan European royalty Latin-American District Court Bail is fixed in the among themselves on this amount of Grinley con- tion than they were last spring peans are any nearer to and French President eluded Charles de Gaulle Wilhelmina died Nov 28 at the I when the council met in Athens age of 82 Local Indians Plan Project Page 6 Christmas Cooking Hints Page 10 A Dream Nears Realization Page 13 TRAVlt AT YOUR SAFETY FIRST Each day students of the School of Lyons Mich leave their school bus on one side of this bridge to get another bus on the other side The dilapidated span is closed to school bus and truck traffic NEA
