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3 2 Small lloals Racing Vraleniily Pays Tribute To Geome A mirk A I Finul Riles School Export Warns Against Federal Aid Drug Sin nggl lug-Ac Is Disclosed or TMI S' 0 WAIMIMOTON IIIHAU Washington An Indiana F'luration Labor Committee a month ago- that proposals fop ederal si I100I nid go t'l post Civil War times, expert on schools yesterday urged the Senate abor Public Welfare Committee to turn down ederal aid to education "Yet sim ISM when public as undesirable. education really began to expand the educational proc W. W. Hill 4142 Nor- ess has far surpassed tlt most advanced dreams of anyone," he said, noting this was accomplished without Federal cross Privc, Indianapolis, edu-cation research director of the College life Insurance Com SIRAGUSA SAID the sardine can conspiracy was set up in a meeting at Hamtramck, which brought together Ormento and John Priiola and Rafaele Qtiasarano, of Detroit, who have been named in the hearings as jukebox racketeers. The agent said the meeting was arranged by Detroit mobster Angelo Meli, who is a reputed silent partner in many Detroit jukebox racketeering enterprises.

He said Mcil introduced Ormento to the other two. pany of America, warned that aid. i i i Atlantic Trip Bentwaters, England (I'Pl) Two United States Air Force officers said yesterday they would try to cross the Atlantic in two small diescl-powered boats. l.t. Col.

Richard E. Willsie, years old, Long Beach, Cal said he would skipper a 41-loot former Royal Air Force rescue launch in the Atlantic crossing. He will have a crew of two enlisted men. MA J. HOWARD M.

Rey. nolds 37, Orlando, and three enlisted crewmen will make their try in what was a Royal Navy barge, 45 feet long. The airmen said they Federal aid would destroy de centralized and diversified HE Ori RED rebuttal to education. the arguments that federal aid would help less wealthy states "In return for Federal sup provide facilities for education. port, school authorities would eventually bo forced to re- "An examination of classroom construction by states reveals "UK unquisrt some policy decisions and control over education.

To that the less wealthy states have made about the same me this is not a fair exchange progress ns the wealthiest states," Hill told the senators. I can find nothing which convinces me that Federal sup Washington (AP) Charles Siragusa, a federal narcotics agent, has told the Senate Rackets Committee that international mobsters have been smuggling heroin into the United Slates hidden in sardine cans. With this system, he said, Italian based confederates were able to ship the illicit narcotics from Italy to Detroit and St. Louis, from where, he said, it was reshipped to major drug peddling gangs in New York and other big cities. Testifying before the committee, Siragusa charged that Detroit jukebox racketeers were involved deeply in the plot.

HE NAMED Salvatore Vit-ale and Frank Coppola, deported mobsters who he said have operated in most of this country's big towns, as the main contacts in Italy for mobsters in Detroit, New York and So. Louis. Vitale, the agent said, used many tricks to smuggle narcotics into the United Stales. "But the cutest one was the one where he bad it shipped to Detroit, concealed in legitimate shipments of sardines, Italian sardines," Siragusa said. "It was handled through the Peter Guadino Importing Company in Detroit." As Siragusa told the story, a key figure in the plot was Big John Ormento.

now awaiting a Federal court trial in New York on narcotics conspiracy indictments. port, advice and guidance will i 4 '4 ''( 1 1 planned to leave Lowestoft on strengthen our pujilic schools," 1 ho said, their journey in about two weeks. They plan to arrive in Florida six weeks "CONFIDENCE cannot be found in the fiscal structure later, He also said that Indiana, which Is an average state in population, enrollment, rate of growth, per capita income, pupil expenditures and teacher salaries "has only a few at the most and perhaps no school! which find it necessary to operate double programs for pupils. This has been accomplished without state grants and generally without unreasonable local tax efforts." of the Federal government. It seems to be worse than that "I guess there is an element of danger in the trip but you've got to be prepared to of any state.

It is not likely to be improved by the enact Ilaiivul Price Hike Deferred Indianapolis yesterday received a seven-week moratorium on a proposed increase in haircut prices enough time for most men to save 75 cents to $1. The potential price hike, which would up the present service to an all-time high of $1.75, will not be acted on until the May 2S meeting of Local 247, International Union of Journeymen Barbers, according to officials. Koy E. Rainey, president, foresaw the possibility that the new price schedule would be approved by a two-thirds vote. It only missed by two votes when first proposed, he stressed.

1 nient of legislation to assume responsibilities that can best be discharged locally." Hill, testifying as a spokes man for the council of state Bcttenhausen, Robert M. Bowes, Mike Petrovifch, Jack Beckley, Robert Soule and Henry Banks. (Star Photo) Carrying the casket of race driver George Amick to its final resting place ore (left to right) Joe J. Brooks, Tony Chambers of Commerce, re iterated what he told a House Veteran racer Tony Retten hausen, who yesterday numbly helped to lift the cas Joint Dinner Planned take risks to do the thing you want to do," Willsie said. HE SAID both craft have top speeds of about 20 knots, but the dicscl-powercd vessels will be held to about 12 knot's during most of the trip.

Normal fuel supplies will be augmented by four torpedo-shaped tanks attached to both boats. Willsie is married but has no children. Reynolds has a wife and four children Susan, 15; Candy, II; Howard M. Ill, and Saralinda, 1, His boat is named after Saralinda. A spokesman for the Air Force said the officers and their enlisted crewmen were acting on their own and their project was not sponsored by the Air Force.

ket to its resting place, last School To fivr Play The prize-winning television play, "Twelve Angry Men," by Reginald Rose, will bfl presented at 7:30 p.m. today by the Latin School of Cathedral High School in the auditorium of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church auditorium, 543 North Eastern Avenue. Tickets may be purchased at the door. The play takes place in a jury room.

A joint dinner meeting of spoke to Amick shortly be fore the race. the Indianapolis Medical So ciety and the Indianapolis As "George and I had promised each other that we wouldn't George Amick, who last year sped to second place in the 500-Mile Race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, once told his family: "If anything happens. I would like to be buried at Indianapolis." Yesterday afternoon, members of the Speedway racing colony stood by in somber, silent tribute at Crown Hill Cemetery to watch fulfillment of that fateful wish. The drivers, the mechanics. utV6 BETTER BV FAf? sociation of Retail Druggists will be held next Wednesday in the Athenaeum Turners take any unnecessary chances George didn't either." Club.

Amick's car was on the west turn when it started to slide It slid 300 feet and struck the guard rail on the outside of the track just at the start of STRAUSS SAYS: DOWNTOWN and GLENDALE W'TH A BRAND NEW CA the big car owners and a little knot of just pure fans earlier witnessed services at Conkle Speedway Funeral Home, only a square or tw-o from the oval of bricks where Amick rode to fame. GEORGE'S LIFE was simple, the Rev. Raymond Montgomery, officiating pastor, from Speedway Christian Church, said. "He was born to race." The pastor didn't have to tell his audience that auto racing Is dangerous they knew It and so did George Amick. In auto racing there is no such thing as absolute safety.

Death is a competitor. DEATH PASSED George last Saturday on a treacherously banked curve at the Daytona International Speedway. He was circling the last lap of a 100-mile drive. the backstretch. "LITTLE GEORGE," who vf was born 31 years ago at Corvallis, had set a world qualifying mark just five days Clendale is open Friday nights hi 9 before.

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