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6 rm Indian apo TODAY'S CHUCKLE If most of us practiced what we preached, we'd work our fool selves to death. TAR WEATHER TODAY Fair And Wanner High, 80; Low, SO Yesterday High, 71; Low, SI "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty'9 II Cor. 3-17 "is ME 8-2411 FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1963 VOL. 60, NO. 3G0 7c Trodlno Area 10c Elwfwr 45c Pr Week Carrier Delivered mi mi1 mm IM1 JIBE dm For ay Influence Racers "esiQit Cami'it UBeflievc Hit' Mighty Offy Challenged By Lightweight V-8 By GEORGE MOORE If you can believe the record, when the mighty Offy meets the mighty anything else, the Meyer-Drake Offenhauser will emerge supreme.

That's what happened yesterday, but the victory had so many "gray areas" attached it simply is not possible to say the Meyer-Drake is going to win and that is that. Shatters Track Record With Hot 143. 1 3 7 A verage By JEP CADOU Sports Editor Parnelli Jones completed a clean sweep of 1963 500-Mile Race honors yesterday, shattering the record by nearly three miles an hour to win the world's greatest auto race before 250,000 dazzled speed fans. The 29-year old Torrance (Cal.) tornado pulled his Agajanian-Willard Battery Special into Victory Lane with a leaky oil tank after United States Auto Club officials shunned pressure to black-flag him as a safety measure. He finished 33.43 seconds ahead of runnerup Jimmy Clark, a rookie from Duns, Scotland, who drove a rear-engine Lotus-Ford.

The old four-cylinder met a shrill barking Ford V-8 yesterday, and it took all the skill of a wheel master to keep the Offy in front. ber. In fact, after 107 laps of gruelling speed, the right front and right rear tires still had 20 to 25 laps of wear left in them. The Lotus-Ford's success is expected to influence the future design of the Speedway cars even more than did the Cooper which was uianc maae a serious rup It also gave 31 other drivers about half a notion they were riding in the wrong kind of at Jones and got within six seconds of the leader with 25 laps to go. But the talented road race driver from overseas had to back off slichtlv anH driven here by Jack Brab ham.

give up the challenge in order to carry out his Dlan of finish And most Speedway me ing the race with just one pit chanics were of the opinion yesterday that next year will "vUj-fc A'-1 s. v. fx 1-- I Kri fl 1 11. tvf 1 -yiirk f- 2 I -'V inii in iiiiiiii in im ii in mm iTm mt iFtk i 1 1 r-: r'-rVT r- iTiiM-iiiii -i-wi -1 if i rr-m rn rim i -n- see more rear -engine auto mobiles, as well as lighter ones for those builders who wish to keep the engine up minutes of yellow caution light time. His elapsed time was three hours, 29 minutes, 35.40 seconds.

Clark's average was 142.752. There were 10 accidents and a couple of wild spins in the pits but no one was hurt. A. J. Foyt of Houston, the 1961 winner, finished third in a Sheraton-Thompson Special at Ward, the 1959 and 1962 champion from Indianapolis, was fourth at 141.090 In a Kaiser Aluminum Special.

Don Branson of Champaign, was fifth at 140.860 In the Leader Card Special. Jim Mc-Elreath of Arlington, sixth in the Bill Forbes special at 140.862, was the last man to shatter Ward's record. automobile, for if the American-built Speedway roadster is to continue to be competitive, then it must be as light and maneuverable as the equipment driven by Jim Clark to second place and by Dan Gurney to seventh. THE BASIC concept which Ford has utilized to build a successful automobile is less weight. And it will be the prime motivating goal of builders who will create automobiles for the 1964 race, and 500 classics after that.

The Lotus-Ford has embraced lightness with all the fervor of a zealot embracing his cause. With less weight, Clark did not need as much power. He did not need as much fuel. And he did not need as much rub front. The Meyer-Drake engine is not out of contention by any means.

The horsepower still was present for any chauffeur who wished to squeeze the four-cylinders hard enough. But it never seemed as easy for the Offy drivers to main tain 149 to 150 mph lap speeds as it was for Clark or stop. Clark raadb a runaway of the Rookie-of-the-Year contest. He will be a cinch to be elected when a Jury of newsmen and Speedway officials meet tonight just before the victory banquet. Several crews contended Jones was spilling a lot of oil from the tank of his racer after a crack developed.

But chief Steward Harlan Fengler refused to black flag the leader. "You can't take this race away from a man on snap judgment" said Fengler. He reminded questioners that some other cars besides Parnelli's were throwing oil. JONES AND HIS CAR won an estimated $150,000 out of a purse which is expected to be near $500,000, another record. The first six finishers all beat Rodger Ward's existing record of 140.203 for the distance.

Jones averaged a sizzling 143.137 despite about 49 Turn to Page 8, Column 3 ASTRONAUT 'ORBITED TRACK Crowd Had A ay Some Saw Race Other finishers in the top dozen were: seventh, Dan Gurney of Costa Mesa, in another Lotus-Ford at eighth, Chuck Hulse of Downey, in a Dean Van Lines Special; ninth, Al Miller of Roseville, in a Chevrolet-powered Harvey Aluminum Special at 139.524; 10th, Dick Rathmann of Roselle, 111., in a Chapman Special at 138.845; 11th, Dempsey Wilson of Hawthorne, in a Vita-Fresh Orange Juice Special at 138.574; 12th, Troy Ruttman of Dearborn, in an Auto-Cart Seat Belt Special at 138.244. Two other cars were run-Turn to Page 11, Columns (Star Photo By James Ramsey) TIIE JIKVES ROY GETS SWEET ACCOLADES I IV VICTORY LANE Mrs. Jones (loft), Car Owner f. Agajanlan, Queen Linda MutfjJ Greet Clin nip By DON G. CAMPBELL If the 33 drivers making up the heart of the 47th annual running of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's 500-Mile Race stalked each other yesterday with cold professionalism, the crowd, which is the pulse of the 3for Vanes it, 10, 12 Keeping Up With Joneses To Cost The Weather carnival, was the most wildly erratic in recent years.

In anticipation of the fastest race in the history of the Speedway, the early arrivals on West 16th Street Wednesday afternoon geared their beer consumption at the same pace and, during tiie pre-dawn hours, began exploding around the fringes of the Speedway grounds in scattered bursts of violence and wild good humor. BY THE TIME the gates swung open at 5 a.m., cooperating law enforcement officers running, by that time," on their exposed nerve-ends had made several dozen arrests in spite of more than 16 straight hours of patient tolerance for the revelers. Unlike the bulk of the crowd, which hit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Turn to Page 8, Column 4 By BOB COLLINS The price of keeping up with the Joneses jumped a few digits yesterday. Rufus Parnelli, 29 years old and too young to be so rich, was about $150,000 worth of race driver when he pulled into Victory Lane, surveyed his sun-parched, ivsinr; today's star POPE'S CONDITION IMPROVES Vatican announces turn for better; doctors caution, however, that he is still weak Page 2 PEACE TREATY, ARMS BAN LINKED East German Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht says major powers must agree on disarmament before German peace treaty can be concluded Page 13 CUBA JAMS BROADCASTS-Voice of America reports attempts to block its programs beamed at Cuba Page 19 Joe Crow Says: Parnelli seems to have proved the truth of that old saying the one about it's tough to keep up with the Joneses. ternal Revenue turns him into a working man again.

HOWEVER, money finds money, and by quenching his thirst with milk Parnelli picked up another check. With his need for liquid relieved and his tongue loosened, Parnelli started sounding like a guy who had just won the 500-Mile Race. "I love everybody." "I can't believe it. I just can't believe it." "I can't get it into my head you won the race, Rufus." Though the restrained Parnelli was trying to make up his mind whether or not it was true, nobody else in his entourage was having a bit of trouble. Owner J.

C. Agajanian was going into exuberant orbit. Parnelli's spouse, Grayce, was crying some very wifey tears, And a member of the crew was trying to entice "500 Festival" Queen Linda Lou Mugg into an impromptu twist. IT WAS a foregone conclusion this year that if everything went right and the machine stayed together, nobody could catch Parnelli. Young Mr.

Jones is one man who means it when he says "I'll be back in one minute," when he turns a lap at the Speedway. But that nasty black cloud, just like the one that knocked out his brakes when he had it in his pocket last year, started hanging around late in the race. The car developed an oil leak. With Scotsman Jimmy Clark pushing for the lead, Parnelli's crew was one worried bunch. Chief Mechanic John Pouelsen, said however, that the leak was in the top of the tank and the problem solved itself after a while.

SINCE PARNELLI was Turn to Page 1 1, Column 4 oil-splattered domain and stated, "I'm thirsty." True, he probably had some hot pipes after driving 500 miles to win Tony Hul-man's race. But it's a cinch Indianapolis and Indiana Fair and warmer today and tonight. Tomorrow partly cloudy and continued warm with scattered thundershowers in afternoon or evening. Amusements 18 Editorials 20 TV-Radio 21 Bacharach 17 Finance 31 Want Ads 32-41 Bridge 19 Food 7 Weather 16 Comics 24 Obituaries 16 Werner 20 Crossword 15 Sports 25-31 Women 6-7 he won't be hungry for a while. His payoff might reach 150 grand before In it! i Mi 4 i 1 Jikl im i '9 1 etiWm -y' (Fr3'o 8 Merit George) WHEEL LEAVES AS EIilUE SACHS I'HillTS TO IIITTI.

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