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1963 PRICE FIVE CENTS MINI HOME EDITION I mm mm mm IBB I MM Hi i Crush hoes rnckctt Allen, Mrs Mayorai I 'v" i 1 'Hrn 1 jlmjl Mishawaka I REPUBLICANS i-t" -1 vr a- MCIL CONTROL 7-2 Krueper Defeated By Record of Nearly 16,000 By JAMES CARROLL Tribune Political Writer Llovd M. Allen has car ried South Bend Republic cans to the greatest city election victory in history. With Allen leading the way in normally Demo cratic South Bend, the Re publicans won t.alljcity;wide races Tuesday- and captured seven of the nine seats on the South Bend Common Council. Allen's margin of victory over his Democratic oppon ent, Paul E. Krueper was close to 16,000 votes.

It was a margin that dwarfed the previous record set four years ago by the late Ed ward FLyoorde, Democrat Voorde won by 6, 801. The size of the victory had even Republicans gasping. They Picture Page; Other Stories Page of election pictures on 45. Other stories on pages 33, 38, 44 and 57. Mishawaka stories on pages 66, 67, and 68.

Other pictures on pages 20, 33, 38 and 44. watched in wonderment as Allen and his Republican ticket mates gained vote after vote in pre cinct afterprecincr. Carries 5 to Districts Allen carried five of the six city districts. His biggest win' GAIN COU 1- -4 r.i-j"w.r I Civ- I- COP. MAYOR-ELECT ALLEN ISCHEERED IN FORMER WEST DEMOCRATIC.

STRONGHOLD Republican Lloyd Allen, wearing hat and light-colored topcoat, receives enthusiastic cheers Tuesday night in Shires Tavenriir thVheart "'Of the West Side Polish-American area after he was elected mayor of South Bend by a landslide margin. Allen shakes hands with Stanley J. Kush, proprietor of Shires, a traditional site for Democratic victory celebfationsKush is a brother-in-law of Eugene J. Paja JosLihe of that primary apparently caused many of the Polish vote for Allen. Allen stopped at Shires to thank them.

ATTENDANT SLAIN FOR L00T0F $30 FillingStation Worker Found By Trucker Pictures page 13 By THOMAS JEWELL Tribune Stall Writer A 56-year-old South Bend service station attendant was murdered early today during what police believe was a robbery which pro--vided ihekiller with about $30 loot. The attendant," McElfish, 1015 College fatally wounded by a single bullet, died at 2:15 a.m. in Memorial Hospital. He was shot at the Pacer Oil Station, 3810 Western where a truck driver found him sprawled unconscious on the floor at 2 a.m: A telephone re ceiver, hanging off the hook, was dangling near his head. Police believe the killer may be the same man wanted in a series of recent armed robberies in the area.

McElfish had been working alone at the station beginning at midnight. The truck driver, Glen John son, 22, of 23417 Ardmore driver for Bud's Wrecker Serv-I ice, 2410 Western told po lice he drove into the station shortly before 2 a.m. and saw no I attendant. Fills Gasoline Tank After filling his" truck tank with gasoline himself, Johnson said, he went to the glass-en--xlosed station found McElfish lying face up on the floor near a door. "I didn't what might have happened," said Johnson.

"I thought he might have fallen asleep. When I nudged him and got no response I called police." Johnson said he loosened Mc-Elfish's bow tie and waited for police. Sgt. Edward J. Dudzinski, first policeman on the scene, discovered small slit in the front of the attendant's jacket.

Underneath the clothing, the officer found a small round wound in McElfish's chest. Police said the shooting apparently occurred at close range. Pistol Slug Found The wounded attendant was taken by police ambulet to the hospital, where a 32-caliber slug was found lodged in the muscle lining near Jiis spine, Police said ah autopsy "showed he died of severe internal bleed ing after Jhe bullet pierced laree blood vessel and internal organs. "The victim had only two 50- coins in a coin changer on his belt, police said. Otto Under ly 613 N.

LaFayette" the station manager, said the night attendant usually carries about $30 for making cnange "Imagine killing someoneifor about $30," Underly muttered, shaking his head. Check Merchandise Police Capt. Edward Hany-zewski said an accounting- is being made to determine whether any merchandise is missing from the station. The cash draw er still was locked when police arrivedand there was no indi cation that the station had been ransacked. The truck driver told police there was a car with a man in it parked at the gasoline pumps when he drove into me siauon motorist looked as though he were waiting for service but he drove off while Johnson was filline his truck, Johnson said, Although police have been un able to determine the exact time or spot at the station where McElfish was shot, they ihonri7id he made his way to the station office and then col 1 Berin Crisis Ends Republicans Tally Demos Lose Every Race By JOHN COXETER Mishjwaka Political Writer Mrs.

Margaret the widowed owner of a supermarket, scored Misha-waka's biggest election upset Tuesday when she led the Republican party to a clean sweep of all city elec tive offices. In doing it, she made his tory in more ways than one: She is the first woman to ever capture the city's chief executive office. And she did not just squeak in. It was nothing less than a landslide with Mrs. Prickett blastine incumbent Democrat Joseph M.

Canfield, 7,465 to 5,784, accord ing to unofficial results. Humiliating Defeat This margin set the pace for the most humiliating defeat for one Mishawaka party to ever Inflict on another. Never before has one party held every single elective office. For the GOP not only won the three city hall offices mayor, clerk-treasurer and judge but all seven council seats. Previously, city politicians followed a system in tne council races which guaranteed at least two minority members.

The new city leaders, who will take office Jan. 1, 1964; "and serve four year terms, are Mrs. Prickett; Wayne L. Tssell, clerk treasurer; and William T. Means, city judge.

Also, Harley L. Eckert, 1st District councilman; Philip weoer, Znd District; Robert A. Rhodes, 3rd District; Melvin J. Keiser, 4th District; Ernest J. Culp, 5th District; and Charles J.

McKinnis and Lowell C. Hat-fielaV at-large. Political Unknown The victory smashed com pletely Democratic hopes of extending their control of city hall to 20 years. Until they first took office 16 years ago, neither party had held the reins of local government for more than two consecutive terms. The history books also will remember Mrs.

Prickett as the political unknown who came literally from nowhere to whip a man who at one time polled the biggest vote, of any Mishawaka mayoral candidate, She completely turned the ta bles with her margin, one of the biggest wins for the Republicans since Mishawakans first began electing mayors in 1899. And she out-polled any Repub- blican mayoral candidate in history with the 7,465 totaLIn this is the second highest vote to ever go to a mayoral candidate here. Full of Surprises The record was the 7,510 votes Canfield rolled up in 1959jvhen he first took office. He won that Walter who garnered only 4,515 votes. -The election was full of sur prises, for not only did Misha waka voters turn the Democrats out of all elective posts some thing for which even the Repub licans hardly dared hope but they turned out in unequaled numbers to do it.

1 This record was written des pite decidedly adverse conditions a cold, unpleasant drizzle and a wet mist. The new unofficial votes Continued on pooe II, column I THE WEATHER "po and a little cooler niqht. Llaht vnrlaole winds. Low tonight High Thursday 59. Nov.

6 Sun rises, sets, 5:33 BEND TEMPERATURES (Recorded bv the U.S. Weather Bureau Office at St. Joseph County Alrportl Nov. S. 1963 TODAY 2 p.m.

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Noon 1 p.m. DJUr- 50 SO 51 52 .54 Maxlmum Jl -MMtrnum SO Peectpftatten during me hours end Ing of A M. today .09 -Inch. Monthly total .40 Inches Monthly normal 2.65 Inches. State-Wide Victory IRWIN J.

MILLER AP Political Writer Picture! on pages I and 1. Khrushchev slery en page 57 BERLIN wi Two days of crisis on the autobahn ended today INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Republicans stormed back to grab as the Russians lifted a blockade rolled grimly into West Berlin. a 62-49 majority of Indiana city was in the 5th District where he -picked up 5,600 more votes than Krueper. Allen's smallest wjn was in the supposedly-solid Democratic 2nd. In that West Side district, Allen topped Krue- per by about 150.

The 6th District went to Krueper by fewer than 500 votes. In 1959, Voorde carried the 6th by nearly 7.000. On the West Siderthe tradi- tional fountainhead of city Democratic strength, there was trouble for other Democrats. In District, Democrat wide victory which gave the GOP a running lead, for the 1964 struggle over control of traffic along the superhighway. waiter-m.

-bzymKowiaK managed to win a Council seat by fewer than 1,000 votes over his Republican George O. Frepan. Four years ago, Democrat won by 3,2 In the West Side's 6th District, Democrat Edward T. Zepka1" scored a win over Republican Calvin Dugas. In 1959,1 the 'Democratic margin ta-the district was 6,979.

GOP. Gains, Clear Control The other four Council dis- American Democrats to of a U. S. Army convoy and it Both sides claimed victory in the The blockaded U.S. convoy of 12 vehicles eached West Berlin from Marienborn soon after dawn.

It encountered no diffi culty at the checkpoint of Ba-belsberg just outside Berlin, where the Russians held up an American convoy last month. Commander from Florida Erect and unsmiling in the lead jeep was Jhe convoy's 25-year-old commander, Lt. John Lamb of Wewanitchka. A big crowd waited through a cold and foggy night to cheer the As soon as the convoy was safely through, the UrS. Army sent 56 more men onto the au tobahn, traveling Germany to West Berlin in four vehicles.

This convoy, unlike its prede cessorr dismounted for counting by the. Soviets at Marienborn on the western end of the lifeline highway. 2nd Convpy Clears The Soviets cleared the sec ond convoy quickly. With the autobahn tension at lest temporarily lifted, the Army reinstated a Berlin exercise which had been twice postponed. More than 5,000 Americans, the entire U.S.

brigade in Berlin, were ordered into their annual fall maneuvers to test city de fenses. British and French liaison units joined the maneuver to test Allied co-operation. Allied officials mulled over a variety of likely reasons for the Soviet blockade the third in less than a month and its sudden withdrawal. One theory was that the So viets wanted to force, the West em powers into negotiation on something which they have de clared negotiable, that is, iheir richt bv conauest to set their owrf rules for access to Berlin. Fholi by Tribune Stall Photographer halls Tuesday in a major state State Employees Get Wage Boost INDIANAPOLIS til Gov.

Matthew E. Welsh today ordered retroactive pay Increases for an estimated 9,000 state employees. The governor lifted the ban on regular merit pay boosts whjch.hejadjmpqsejl.jast. summer when collection of the 2 per cent sales tax was delayed by court action. Commissioner of Administration John T.

Hatched estimated the Increases will total between $500,600 and for" "the" perI6dthepay hikes were suspended. statewide advertising campaign apparently failecMo ccjpjfince the voters. Welsh's home town, Vin cennes, went from tne Demo cratic to the Republican fold, as did an impressive list of the major cities in the state. These included South Bend, Fort Wavne, Anderson, Muncie, Richmond, Elkhart, New Alba-Columbus and Mishawaka. 3 Way Race in Marion Marion also chose a Republi can mayor to wind up a three- way race in which Mayor Jack Edwards, elected as a Democrat, was running as an independent after losing out in last May's democratic primary.

Democrats went into the election holding a 71-37 margin in mayors as a result of their 1959 victory, which followed their 71-32 triumph of 1955. Three new cities chose their first mayors Tuesday East Garv and New Haven went Ctntlnu page 12. column I II CLOSE RAGES GOP- Gains Strength In Opposition's Strongholds. WASHINGTON UP) Demo crats kept control today of such keenly contested posts as the Kentucky and Mississippi governorships and the Philadelphia mayor's chair. But 'tallies from yesterday's elections were such as to lead the "GOP to speak of "dramatic inroads" into Democratic The blue grass state race was close down to the finish line.

Mississippi mount ing their first serious attempt on the governorship -since reconstruction, rolled up a considera- In Philadelphia. Democrats kept their grip on city Tiall by about 67,000 votes but this was their smallest margin in mayoral race in 12 years In all of these races plus some others the issue of civil rights figured, though in somewhat different ways. Politicians will be studying the tallies for 1964 omens to discover for example, whether a so-called "white backlash against the militant Negro drive for more and better jobs, freer choice of housing -and other aims, will hurt President Ken nedy next year, i GOP Pleased With Indiana Republicans could look with satisfaction on such states as Indiana where dozens of mayors -posts switched from Democratic to Republican. But the Indianapolis city hall stayed Democratic by a narrow mar gin. And in San Francisco, Rep John F.

Shelley, won out for mayor in an election officially billed as non-partisan. His opponent was Supervisor Harold Centinuet en pat lit column I tricts went iir" sweeping victories. elections. The triumph surpassed -the predictions of most optimistic Republican leaders and reversed two" consecutive Democratic sweeps of city elections in 1955 and 1959. Democrats took a little com fort from keeping the state's largest city in their fold as Democrat John J.

Barton won a close race for mayor of Indianapolis from Republican Clar-enciCrrayeiS But the toll of Democrats in the ma jor Hoosier industrial ci ties which the party has corneao regard as its own was shocking to its leaders. Demos Lose Whiting Even In Lake County's teem ing calumet lost Whiting. They, did hold Gary, Hammond and East Chicago, but elsewhere in the state their reest victories consisied of holding Ipdianapolis, Evansville and Terre Haute the first one barely. Republicans won-16 of the 23 largest Hoosier cities while Democrats took seven. Four years ago Kokomo was the only large city 'won by the Republicans.

A major factor, in the turnover was tne new 1 per cent state sales tax, unpopular particularly with the.Jabor voters in the big cities and blamed, by the average voter oh the Democratic administration of Gov. Matthew E. Welsh. Tax Reflects on Welsh The tax actually had 'bipar tlsan parentage but Welsh helped get it through the state Senate at the end of the legislative session last spring signed it into law and supported it through a court test. A late effort by the Demo era tic State Committee to hang it on the Republicans with The grave confrontation ended in the early morning hours after the British and French sent convoys onto the autobahn in a show of support for the U.

S. convoy. The Americans had been blockaded by armored vehicles since Monday at Mar-ienborn, western end of the 110- mile highway to Berlin. Reds Dispute Statement Western officials said the Russians dropped a for a head-count of the44 s6I- diers the convoy. This was disputed in a Soviet statement German Communist l'7iewsag- The American miltary per- sdnne "the "statement -said, "conformed to theestabli.shed control regulations "at 'the Mar-ienborn control and crossing point and after the processing based on themrthe column ton- tinued its march." The British and French con voys set out from Berlin at the opposite end of the autobahn from the blockaded Americans and were cleared through by the Russians without incident, No Soviet Checks Made The Soviet statement said the French and British Convoys conformed to Soviet instructions immediately and were allowed to pass.

This statement was described as a concoction by the official British spokesman in Berlin. 'None of the conyoys submit' ted to any Soviet instruction on dismounting, standing up to be counted or lowering tail gates or anything of this kind," he said "There was compromise whatever." In any case, the autobahn was open again and two more U.S. convoys, one eastbound, one westbound, traveled the length of the highway this morning, AUthree'Republicatr nominees for councilmenat-large eoasted to victory in the Allen triumph. The seven Republican council- men-elect gave the GOP its first clear control ofihe Council.since June 17, 1954. When Allen takes office Jan.

1, he will be the first Republican mayor since John A. Scott left office on Jan. 1, 1956. After his election, "Allen em phasized that he doesn't consid-e it solely a Republican triumph. "This was not a party.

victory," he said. "It was a vic tory that went beyond party le vels. It was a victory that has given us a grave responsibility to serve as the mayor of citizens of all political beliefs." New Faces In City Hall Allen's election will give City Hall more new faces than it has ever seen. Allen will be serving his first term as mayor. Philip Carlton Potts, the Republican who was elected city judge, will be holding his first elective of- Centlnued until lun 1 4.