Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 5

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1956 THE REQISTER-NEWS MT, VERNON. laiNOIS $32,000 Changed Gino Prato's Life NotTheMan; Five Months Afterwards He's Still THE HAPPY SHOEMAKER COBBLER IX A $100 SUIT, GIno Pnito (center) lends hand (vlth the work In New York HIIOC repair ttliop. The quiz program winner was there In new rolo as heel-maker's envoy. ANOTHER NEAV ROLE FOR PRATO is appearances at many public (unctions. Here the happy shoemaker (rlpht) helps dedicate new stntiio of Christopher Columbus In-Columbus, Ohio.

By DICK KLEINER NEA Stuff CorrosponUent NEW months and $32,000 later, Gino Prato is stiU a happy man, "walldng ttiroUR a dream," still a shoemaker at heart. There've l)con changes in Prato's there have been no chanRe.s in Prato. He's a cobbler in a suit. He dines with mayors and governors, but still has no sink in his bathroom. He can't blldKV out of the house without bring bosiegod b.v RUtoRraph hounds, but ho lives In a fourth-floor walk-up flat.

He gets $10,000 a year and has an unlisted telertione, hut he thinks himself as a shoemaker alway.s. Tlie lie won on "Tiie 164.000 Question" is gone. "Most of it just he says. "1 don't know where. Thank God, I get it all set to pay the tax first.

Therest of you know. There are so many worthy charities." And so tt $100 here, S2S there, $5 to somebody else. "Some of it I have records of," Gino shrugs. "Some of you know. They need the money.

What can you do?" Nothing went on the Prato family. "They still live in the fpurth floor mother-in-law live upstairs, and she's 77. If she can walk up four flights, I can walk up three" and he has to shave in the kitchen sink. He thought about buying a car. "but whkt's the use I can't drive." After a wiiilc he did get an unlisted phone, mainly becaase his new American Biltrite Rubber could reach him.

His line was always busy. The suits and fancy handkerchiefs he siHjrts were gifts from the company. Not another penny went on personal things. Nowadays he's employed as a "good will ambassador" by the company, which makes rubber heels and soles, among other things. He goes around with the firm's divisional managers, meeting shoemakers, "building the morale." START Ol' A NEW LIFE for Prato was check he won on quiz show five muntlis love my work," he says.

I'll go back to it some day. What I'd like is a bigger store, but in same section. 1 like that section." He's a hired man to work the store now, but he goes in once In a while to keep in practice. "My hand is soft," he says. "I was in working the other day and I got callous.

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NEGRO STRIKE HURTS ALABAMA BUSJUSINESS Dispute Over Transportation Segregation Causes Rising Tension. MONTGOMERY, How much has the 10-week-old bus boycott by Negroes here cost the bus company and the comrau- nfty? Officials of the National aty Bus Lines aren't making public the company's loss. The cost in terms of the community is much more important, and that isn't measurable either, civic leaders say. But racial tension between white persons and Negroes has mounted. The Montgomery Advertiser recently put it this way; "Never before in Montgomery has the word 'nigger' been used as frequently as in recent weeks." The racial unrest in Alabama has pulled white persons and Negroes farther apart.

Thousands of Negroes attend boycott meetings here, an'd officials of the pro- white Central Alabama (Citizens Council say their membei-ship has jupiped from a few hundred to 12,000. The boycott began Dec. 5 in protest to segregated seating laws. On that day Mi-s. Rosa Parks, a seamstress, was fined $14 for refusing to move to the back of a bus.

Since then the Negroes have stayed off the buses in droves. Estimates of the boycott's effectiveness run as high as 95 per cent. About 65 per cent of the bus company's patrons were normally Negroes but the company claims it is now breaking even by hiking bus fares and curtailing service. Negotiations between white and Negro leaders for a compromise broke down completely after the first few weeks of the boycott. Now both sides are seeking legal means to end the protest movement.

Monday, Circuit Judge Eugene Carter charged the Montgomery County grand jui-y to determine if Negroes boycotting the buses are part of a conspiracy violating the law. The grand jury is composed of 17 SOMEBODY Mrs. Ruth Vale of suburban Cleveland, Ohio, studies ber "secret" wliich one of her friends Indiscreetly told the world. Some time during the early tog houDcs, this sign, revealing Mrs. Vale's age, was placed on ber lawn.

"I'm the last ooa 1 gang tB reach 30," she explains. have my suspicions as to who did this." white members and one Negro. Stiitutes Challenged On the other hand, five Negro women have filed suit in U. S. District Court cnallenging the constitutionaMty of the state and city statutes requiring separate seating facilities for white persons and Negroes on public vehicles.

Mayor W. A. Gayle recently that the commission was through "pussyfooting around" with the boycotters. Boycott leaders, many of them rinisters, have demanded bus seats on a "first come, first basis. They said Negroes would continue to sit from the rear toward the front but should not be required to stand if back seats aren't available.

But Gayle, pointing to the federal suit challenging constitutionality of segregated seating laws, said the Negro leaders vdll be satisfied nothing short of complete integration. Despite the growing tension, there have been few incidents of violence here and no injuries. Two weeks ago, small dynamite bombs exploded in front of the homes of two Negro leaders. A few buses were struck by bullets in the firet week of the boycott. Asks Civil Court To Nullify AWOL Charge By Astoclaicd Press CHICAGO A federal Monday refused to free a foimer sailor accused of going AWOL from the Navy nearly 12 years ago but said he believes the de- fendent is entitled to a decision in his favor.

U. S. Dist. Judge John U. Barnes said "a higher court than this should decide this question in favor of the defendent." Clarence R.

Dawes 29, of Decatur, 111., had petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus for release from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center brig. The Navy accused Dawes of going AWOL from the Naval Ordnance Test Center in Solomons, in August 1944 three months after he enlisted. Dawes was drafted by the Army in 1946 and served one year before being discharged. TTie Navy picked him up at worjc in Decatur Nov. 23, 1955.

His attorney asserted in court that Dawes was entitled to a civil courts trial because a recent Supreme Court decision nullified a provision of the Uniform Gode of Military Justice allowing the armed fordes to try discharged servicemen for crimes committed while in the service. In refusing the writ, Judge Barnes said 12 years have passed since Dawes' crime and that investigation might reveal he should be pardoned because' of his honorable Army service. However, Judge Barnes added, "on the basis of before the court I must deny.toe petition." Husbands! WIVK! Get Pep, Vini; YoMger ThOMsands of are wuk, mm-vvt, hamted just becauje l)ody taola tarn. Fof younger feeling- after 40, ty TableU. Contain iron tot pm; (upPMrnnN doses vitnminj Bi and Bj.

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