Mansfield News Journal (Newspaper) - December 21, 1963, Mansfield, Ohio Tama By NITA BRANSON Religion Editor The sacred drama of Christmas will be told in song and story tomorrow morning by field churches as children present versions of the Christmas story and pastors preach on the everlasting theme of Christ's birth In a number of churches Holy Communion will be administered emphasizing a closer communion with the Son of God whose ble birth in a stable has been the subject of countless words of praise and adoration throughout the past nearly years At the First Church of the Brethren the children's service will be presented at Children from eight classes kindergarten through junior high will take part and under the leadership of Mrs Lucille Kissel primary superintendent of the Sunday School will sing carols present readings and poems and mas exercises This will be followed by the traditional Christmas treat for the children A Christmas family dinner at noon will be held in the church basement It will be a ered dish dinner with friends invited to join in the fellowship During the 8 and services at the St Paul Lutheran Church the Holy Communion will be administered by the tor the Rev John R Long Both the Harmony junior choir and the Chancel choir will sing at the morning vices at the Park Avenue Baptist Church where Wind Through The Olive Trees by Licht will be sung by the juniors Members of the chancel choir will persent three This Good Christmas by Cain Sing Noel by Plank and the Hallelujah from Handel's The Baptism will be administered by the tor Dr W M Taylor during the service Children of Grace Episcopal Church with their parents and friends will observe the annual custom of A Birthday Party for at the family worship hour The fourth and last candle of the Advent wreath will be lighted and there will be a large birthday cake for the children The girls choir will sing as a processional the Advent hymn Lo He Conies With Clouds and for the recessional O Very God of Very God m Continued On Page 3 Weather Cloudy continued cold today and day See Page 2 MANSFIELD How Lausche Young Voted See Page 4 VOL 79 NO 290 PHONE MANSFIELD OHIO SATURDAY DECEMBER 21 1963 United Press International Associated Press SEVEN CENTS Compromise On Wheat Issue Forei Sna Freed After 64 Years In Prison SAN FRANCISCO AP Richard Honeck 84 had his first real look at life outside prison walls today after 64 years spent in Illinois The sprightly old man took a tour of San Francisco which he said I'm told is one of tlie most beautiful cities in the world Just think I'll be spending the rest of my days FORGOTTEN MAN FREED Stepping to freedom through the gates of Menard State Penitentiary in ter HI yesterday Richard Honeck left looks fully at the outside world a free man for the first time this century He was sentenced in 1899 Warden Ross Randolph and Parole Supervisor H W Shupback follow through the gates New Food Items Still Needed Today is the day for last minute tions to Mansfield's gram The Toys for Tots collection here Prison authorities believe Honeck just finished serving the longest sentence of any man alive in the United States He was released day first into the custody of an Associated Press reporter and then turned over to a an Associated Press reporter and then turned over to a niece Mrs Clara Orth Of nearby San Calif He walked out the gates of Menard Penitentiary an old brownstone prison near ter 111 on the Mississippi River shortly after noon A few hours later he was greeted at San Francisco's International Airport by his beaming niece AMAZED And the old man was bly amazed at the progress that had passed him by while he sat behind prison bars During a car trip from Chester to St Louis Honeck said Why we must be ing 35 miles an hour The driver Warden Ross dolph answered Actually Richard were going 65 Honeck went to prison for murdering a former school teacher four years before the first airplane was flown Be- fore Friday the only planes he had ever seen were those that flew above Illinois cannot accept new toys will be any used toys this late but gratefully received at either the Salvation Army Volunteers of America or at the toy collection warehouse in the Civil Defense building at 29 West Sixth St The Volunteers of America would welcome hams ens turkeys canned goods candies or cookies to add to the more than 500 baskets they will be distributing day and Tuesday to that many of the city's ate families This figure will probably go much higher be- fore Christmas arrives as needy families whose names were not submitted earlier make application for baskets AT THE Salvation Army also a agency food orders are given instead of which the baskets families of food can ex- ons change for groceries in kets of their choice Both the Volunteers of America and Salvation Army use additional funds for their annual Christmas grams The Christmas kettles and collection booths on town streets and at outlying shopping centers are not ducing the funds this year that they have in the past and these have been one of the principal sources of income for the Christmas programs of both agencies The Christmas program this year is showing every indication of being one of the biggest most ful in its more than 25-year history But there are far more families listed this year and most of them are large While many are fare cases others are victims of unexpected illness or sonal unemployment and in need of help Christmas Shoppers Rush Stores Downtown Mansfield chants were met with a rush of Christmas shoppers today setting tlie stage for the traditional minute shoppers on Monday and Tuesday Many of the stores opened as one merchant put it with a while others de- scribed last night's crowds as excellent and good The merchants were also calling Christmas 1963 a much better holiday season than last year 2 DAYS LEFT After today Mansfield area residents will have only two more shopping days left Stores in the downtown area will remain open Monday un- til and 9 p m and some until The municipal parking garage will continue operating from 7 a m until 10 p m Late late shoppers on Christmas Eve day will find the downtown stores ing their regular closing hours of 5 or p m Sub-Zero Readings Reported Below normal peratures prevailed around Mansfield though official readings today and tomorrow are expected to be higher than those of the past couple days Mansfield's low ture recorded at a m today by the weather station at Municipal Airport was minus four degrees Butler however reported 10 below zero Possum Run area had nine below and Clear reading was seven below HIGH OF 15 DEGREES Today's high in Mansfield should be about 15 degrees and a Sunday high of 18 de- grees is forecast This is still below the normal for the present period 21 degrees Partly cloudy skies ued cold and a few snow ries were forecast for today tonight and Sunday The three-month Pickpocket Brave Or Desperate ALBUQUERQUE N M UPI A pickpocket got brave or desperate or both Friday and picked the pocket of a federal judge U S District Judge II Vearle Payne said he ed his wallet and could not find it A in a down building found the a restroom the judge had not entered Russian Family Visits Supermarket In Ohio PORTSMOUTH UPI A Russian family of four visited a supermarket and kept busy on other sightseeing junkets today on a week-long visit to this Ohio River city JUST 2 DAYS TO FINISH MV V ily from for a Moscow typical was here American Christmas visit as an inter- national goodwill gesture sponsored by the Portsmouth Junior Chamber of Com- merce his wife Nina and their children Anatoli 17 and Olga 6 appeared to be enjoying themselves de- spite a busy schedule ped for them during the day visit They arrived here late Thursday night and spent the following day meeting cal citizens and attending a Chamber of Commerce lunch However a high school game the family was supposed to attend Friday night was postponed until night who cannot speak English was ed a key to the city at the lunch attended by more than 200 chamber members and other guests I hope this will be a key to the hearts of everyone in the Moscow auto worker replied through an interpreter Nadia May of Huntington W Va We are delighted to be in your great country and we feel lucky we were chosen to come here Dem Figure Dies PHILADELPHIA UPI Rep William J Green Jr 53 a power in national politics and boss of the Philadelphia Democratic organization died today at Graduate Hospital Green had been critically ill since he was admitted to tlie hospital on Dec 8 for emergency surgery He a relapse Friday and his condition deteriorated steadily until there was a complete loss of blood sure Death came at a m EST ADVERTISERS DEADLINE For the forthcoming Christmas holiday Display and Classified Display advertising deadlines will be as Monday Dec 23 5 P M for Friday Dec 27 Tuesday Dec 24 5 P M for Saturday Dec 28 and Sunday Dec 29 winter season starts at day but wintry snow and strong winds continued to plague most of the eastern two-thirds of the nation The frigid zone extended from the Rockies to tlie At- Coast and from the Canadian border to near the Gulf Coast Sub-zero cold stung Ohio and most of the Midwest and sections of the northeast Southern states were hit by freezing drizzle and sleet and around the country the son's longest spell of cold and snowy weather has been blamed for at least 30 deaths A three-year-old boy missing more than nine hours in ing weather at Molton Ala was found safe yesterday sleeping between two beagle hounds TRAFFIC HALTS All Mississippi River barge traffic between St Louis and Cairo 111 was halted day because of low water and ice conditions Slippery ways prevailed in the Texas East Berlin agenda Stepped Up ii i BERLIN AP The flow of West Berliners through the Red wall rose today So did the Communist effort to turn the Yuletide relaxation on border crossings to political advantage Welcome to democratic Berlin said the usually grim East German border guards as West Berliners held Out their one-day passes At the Friedrichstrasse tion visitors arriving by trains were met by ilar greetings blared from loudspeakers WELCOME Dear citizens of West lin we welcome you to the capital of the German cratic Republic In Moscow the official viet news agency Tass claimed the peaceful tive of the Red German for allowing West Berliners to celebrate Showdown Vote Nears WASHINGTON UPI Senate House con- ferees reached agreement today on the major stumbling block lo a compromise billion for- eign aid and set the stage for another down on the issue which could clear the way lo adjourning Congress a session lasting about eight minutes the conferees made a slight modification in the language which gives President Johnson dis- cretion in underwriting credit for grain sales to Russia and the Communist bloc The agreement followed all night that broke up after dawn It gave dent Johnson a chance to re- coup after a stunning back to his prestige in the early morning vote Tlie action capped what ready has been the longest session of Congress since Panhandle and Oklahoma Other weather ments brought a report from the Ohio Fuel Gas Co that it has delivered more natural gas to its customers during a 24-hour period which ended Friday morning than at any time in its history This was due to an average ture of zero throughout the state More fhan half the gas used by customers to heat their homes came from the company's underground age reservoirs around Ohio Car Drops 150 Feet CLEVELAND AP don L White 49 of Cleveland was killed when his car mas and New Year with their relatives in East Berlin Tass made no mention of the dreaded wall built by the Communists in August 1961 Even the calculated Communist propaganda fort West Berliners joyously welcomed the chance to see their relatives for the first time in more than two years The applications of West Berliners were ed by East German ties the East German news agency reported today This is nore than a quarter of the West Berliners eligible for visiting passes World War II The conference committee put a time limit on he President's report to Con- ress in such transactions Thus the House will have o vote on a slightly modified version of the language which t rejected by a 141 to 136 in the early hours his morning SATISFACTORY Sen John 0 Pastore D- I said the slight change was offered by House con- ferees and was positively to us Rep Otto Passman told newsmen that he will vote for the provision and urge its approval although I dislike it with a passion Asked whether in fact it was he who proposed the slightly modified wheat antee provision to the committee Passman re- plied that he would rather say it was the agreed action Tiros 8 Put Into Orbit CAPE Fla AP KENNEDY The Tiros of the ence crashed through the railing of the Clark Ave bridge and plunged 150 feet into the Cuyahoga River flats area on the near west side Wife Sues COLUMBUS UPI A damage suit was filed here by Mrs Jane Lausche wife of U S Sen Frank J Lausche for injuries suffered in a traffic accident here Sept 6 1962 The suit was one of three totaling naming Frances North Maxfield lumbus as defendant The woman ran a stop light at an intersection hitting a car in which Mrs Lausche was a passenger Technically ihc language is designed to end a controversy over whether the Export-Import Bank can guarantee credit arrangements in such sales to Communist nations as the proposed deal for U S The guarantee proposal has been controversial in both houses and the Senate will have to vote on the compromise if the Houss reverses itself and approves the slightly modified provision The wheat sale controversy for 24 hours has been the major hurdle to Hours 8 had completed one circuit o the earth the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration announced the satellite launching for a Delta rocket and the tenth successful launching without a miss for the space agency at Cape Kennedy in 1963 APT requires relatively simple ground equipment costing about a set Its lens was built to photograph an area of square about 820 miles on a when Tiros 8 faces directly toward the earth Inside Today's Edition I 8 weather satellite de- signed to deliver instant pictures of cloud to stations around the globe rocketed into a successful orbit today Ground monitors planned early tests of the satellite's new automatic picture trans- mission APT system which if successful would be major step toward a wide space weather ing network The first trial is scheduled when the package passes over the East Coast of the United States on the fourth orbit THE ELECTRONIC er man shot into space aboard a three-stage Delta rocket which blasted brilliantly into the pre-dawn darkness from Cape Kennedy at a m The wife of the former ernor claimed she still fers severe and excruciating I pain and discomfort 16 Pages 2 Sections Conflict Of Interest Controls Skip Congress Page 4 Johnson Shunned Desk Job While In Navy Page 11 Students Give Christmas Baskets To 170 Families page 9 Weather 3 What's Law 15 Abby 15 Classified 1214 Comics 13 15 Deaths Dr Crane Hospitals 8 Editorials Kilgallen 13 11 Leisure 10 Movies 10 5 Sports 6 7 A liquid that 13 Television 10 freezes slippery side up
