St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 17

FKFDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1968 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3B Horwitz Art Show J. R. McSkimming Dies; Alderman and Printer Joseph Kraft ullace Among the Workers FLINT, MICH. WALLACE NOISES HAVE BEEN coming out of blue-col-lar workers in all the great industrial centers of the country.

a Flint' Michi8an' the words nave been supplemented by deeds. And the deeds are fascinating because they reflect not only racism, but a challenge" to union authority that is apt to alter voting patterns for a long time to come. The pro-Wallace action in Flint ren. nv. -v it i i ji.vi I i Sin i I I i I if Uig-f ters on two huge locals at odds with the indorsement of Vice President Hubert Humphrey by the national authorities of the United Auto Workers.

At the Chevrolet plant here, Local 659, which with more than 20,000 workers is one of the largest in the world, has refused to indorse any candidate for President. At the Ternstedt plant which manufac-t such automotive hardware as door handles, Local 326, with more than 4000 workers, has indorsed Wal. By MARY KING Women and children with exaggeratedly large dark almond eyes, long thin noses and tiny mouths have a prominent part in a show of prints and paintings by Louise Horwitz at the new Little Gallery, 6250 Delmar boulevard. The show will be through October. The figures, occasionally equipped with, rubber -hose arms, as in "Maria," all tend to look alike, with the exception of two different prints made from the same woodcut block of a Jamaican woman.

This subject is observed with unusual directness and does not repeat stylistic preconceptions. It is therefore fresher and more arresting than the others. Her compositions with figures use the shallow space and the crowded but loose jigsaw fitting reminiscent Romanesque bas-reliefs. The few abstract works have the advantage of her sense of compositional coherence but without sentimentality or cliches. Particularly successful are a woodcut, "Abstraction," and an intaglio, "Flight." John R.

McSkimming, St. Louis Alderman and retired Post-Dispatch proofroom foreman, died today of emphysema at St. John's Mercy Hospital. He was 63 years old. Mr.

McSkimming, who lived at 4968 Thekla avenue, retired from the newspaper Feb. 1, 1966, after 38 years as a printer and proofroom 1 e. He was a Democrat and was elected to the Board of Aldermen from the First Ward in 1961. He was re-elected in 1965 and was chairman of the board's Resolutions Committee in 1964. In 1961, Mr.

McSkimming led a successful effort by residents of his ward against a proposal to build a new city workhouse on Riverview drive, south of the Chain of Rocks waterworks. It was learned that his wife would be recommended to replace him on the Board of Aldermen. His replacement, who will be named by the board on the basis of recommendation of the Democratic central committee, would serve out his unexpired term. Members of the Board of Aldermen stood for a moment of silent prayer today in memory of Mr. McSkimming.

Donald Gunn, board president, said he was revered by all the members of the board. A member of Typographical Union Local 8, Mr. McSkimming represented his unit at the International Typographical Union convention in 1942, 1D49 and 1958. He was secretary-treasurer of the Missouri Typographical Conference from 1950 to 1958. Surviving are his wife, Mrs.

Grinding Grain at Scout Exposition Four young Scouts being shown how to grind grain yesterday at the opening of the annual Scout Exposition at the St. Louis Arena, 5700 Oakland avenue. Den mother Mrs. Jene Mazuranic gave a demonstration for (from left): Glen Mazuranic, Denny Gearon, Terry Double and Paul Mazuranic. About 550 exhibits of Boy Scout and Cub Scout skills are on display at the exposition, which will be open until 10 p.m.

today and from I to p.m. tomorrow. (Post-Dispatch Photograph) John R. McSkimming; Mary Nash McSkimming; tw6 sons, Richard McSkimming, a printer at Post-Dispatch, and John McSkimming, two brothers. Dent McSkimming a retired Post-Dispatch sports writer, and Laurence'' lWc? Skimming, a Post-DispSR printer, and four sisters, Mra John Beck of New York City Mrs.

Mary Humphries, Mrs. Gerd Kehrman and Mrs. William Keough, all of St. LouisT Funeral services will be1 at 10 a.m. Monday in St.

Phillip Neri Catholic Church, 50T6 Durant avenue. Burial willolbfe in Calvary Cemetery. TWENTY-ONE WORKS by tllTFxr Fred Henze on religious themes SyillJJllOIlV A(I(IS I ll-l t- flllYKPli rfltin pertinent to the Jewish high ho I Concerts to Festival Series Up for Camelot Bidding lace for President. Wallace In addition, there was a revealing skirmish at one of the Fisher body plants here. After Local 581 unanimously approved the Humphrey indorsement, a couple of workers were able in less than two hours to collect hundreds of signatures on a petition to rescind the indorsement.

RACE TENSION, TO BE SURE, played a part in all these actions. About a quarter of Flint's population of 200,000 is black. A large number of the white workers are Southerners or sons of Southerners who migrated up from the Appalachian country and the Ozarks. Recent expansion of the auto facilities, notably at the and Chevrolet plants, has brought a large new influx of both whites and blacks from the Deep South. Thanks mainly to the new arrivals, there have been a number of racial incidents centering around schools and housing.

And these incidents were exploited by Southerners sympathetic to Wallace's stand on race in ways that partly influenced the decision against Humphrey at the Chevrolet and Ternstedt plants. But thanks to high wages and full employment, Flint has perhaps the best race record of any major industrial town in the country. It seems to be the only town that has passed a popular referendum in favor of open housing. But if the race issue is muted in the plants, there is another issue that is very much alive. A great many workers in Flint resent the union leadership.

In particular, they resent union stands being taken on behalf of political candidates and social issues without what they feel is adequate consultation of the rank and file. A GOOD CASE IN POINT is Clete Cooper, a young worker in the Fisher body plant who circulated the petition to rescind the unanimous Democratic indorsement. Cooper says he is for Wallace. He also says: "I'm sick and tired of having the unions indorse every Democrat just because he's a Democrat." It happens that Cooper's brother is running for state Representative on the Republican ticket. A good guess is that Cooper is using Wallace sentiment as a crowbar to break up the union's indorsement process so that eventually it would be possible to win union support for Republican candidates like his brother.

INDIRECTLY AT LEAST, that resentment of union authority plays an important role in the Ternstedt union's indorsement of Wallace and the Chevrolet union's refusal to make any indorsement. The head of the union at Ternstedt is nf himcpif and mavbe a little oartial to the Sister Josephine Dies; Teacher iu Area Sister Mary Jane O.S.U., argl four brothers, Frank, Ben, lp and Lawrence Budde, all Qf. the St. Louis area. A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m.

tomorrow et the Ursuline Convent. Sister Josephine Budde, a teacher in the St. Louis area for many years, died yesterday at the Ursuline Convent, 800 Monroe street, Kirkwood. She was 74 years old. Sister Budde was graduated be in St Peter' Burial will Cemetery.

For the true patio lover, however, Emerson Electric Co. will provide an electric outdoor lantern and Laclede Gas Co. is supplying a gas barbecue grill and two gaslights. Lammerts has donated a wrought iron dining table and four chairs, a wrought iron sectional sofa with two chairs, an end table and a coffee table. To i the proper surroundings, the Mallinckrodt Chemical Co.

is giving the auction a program of crabgrass-free-lawn care for one summer. The care would cover two acres cation, fertilization, pre-emer-gent control and weed treatment. To care for the i lawn. Outdoor Equipment Co. hasdonateda 30-inch rotary from St.

Louis University and Iidays are on display in the west lobby of Temple Shaare Emeth, 560 Trinity avenue. University City, through Oct. 4. The technique combines painted, enameled and sgraffito effects baked on terra cotta tiles. Often the tiles are subdivided into regular or irregular shapes and combined to form the whole.

In a figure of Moses, the irregular tiles of the figure are mounted on a red mosaic ground of uneven dimensions. There is also one complete mosaic, "Sun and Earth," in which the sun nestles into the hollows of the earth's undulating horizontals. It is rather banal and appears less felt than the others. But there is a certain folk-art charm to such bright pieces as "Creation" and "Drowning of Egyptians." "Valley of Bones" is a good example of 's penchant for sgraffito, which involves scratching through one layer of color to the color underneath. The areas of it here are skeiny and graceful, more so than in the seven smaller black and white pieces executed exclusively this way.

began ner teaching career in 1914. She taught at a number Take a five-ton load of Mississippi river sand, add 1000 patio bricks, a sack of Redwood bark ground cover and some spirited bidding and you have the ingredients of a do-it-yourself patio. The products will be available at Camelot, the super-auction for the benefit of the Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis. The bidding will be on the evenings of Nov.

1 and 2 when the auction will be held at Monsanto Lindbergh and Olive boulevards, Creve Coeur. The sand has been donated to the auction by the Mississippi River Sand and Material Co. National Brick Co. is supplying the bricks and Beckmann Brothers, donated the ground cover. Hundreds of firms and individuals have provided the auction with a multitude of exotic and practical items, ranging from a $60,000 home to bags of popcorn.

Many pieces of art, jewelry, clothing and interesting trips will also be up fur The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Sunday Festival of Music series has been expanded from eight to 10 concerts and will feature music of more popular nature than is played in the regular subscription series. The first program will be Oct. 13 in Powell Symphony Hall. The concerts will begin at 3 p.m.

Leonard Slatkin, the orchestra's assistant conductor, will direct works by Schubert, Mahler, Richard Strauss and Johann Strauss. Other programs will be on Nov. 3, Nov. 24, Jan. 12, Jan.

26, Feb. 9, March 9, March 23, April 20 and May 11. Season tickets are available at Powell Hall. Chess Expert Dies MOSCOW, Sept. 27 (UPI) Vladimir Simagin, one of the Soviet Union's top chess players, died of a heart attack yesterday, Tass reported.

Simagin, who held the title of interna-t i a I grandmaster, was 48 years old. CARPET INSTALLED WITH PAD of schools in Missouri and Illinois, including Marquette High School in Alton and the Ursuline Academy and St. Peter's School in Kirkwood. She retired in 1961. Surviving are two sisters, Miss Maty Frances Budde and ECONOMY CARPET AND FLOOR CENYint 10390 HI WAT tt TO.

6-021 7 Daily Drapery Service mower. The Reco Sales has given a six horsepower lawn tractor with a 32-inch mower. The final touch has been provided by Dinsmore Tree Service, which is donating a shade ENTIRE City and County; MOnGENTHALER'SS DRAPERY CLEANERS drapes taken doun. cleaned rehunt Set ms mbout jour tit ate' Financial Problems. Have yomr lawyer draw your will ST.

LOUIS UNION TRUST CO. tree or an evergreen. CE 1-5092 Republicans. Rather than lay bis own prestige on the line, he let the Wallace indorsement go through without too big a fight. The head of the Chevrolet local is apparently in trouble because of general mismanagement.

Though he personally supports Humphrey, he evidently did not want to force an issue that might build up enough resentment to cause his unseating as president of the local. What all this means is that for the immediate present the Wallace noises are probably being exaggerated by internal union considerations. A larger number of those now talking Wallace to spit in the eye of the union will probably not vote for him on election day. At the same time there is an increasing disposition to challenge union authority on political and social issues. In the long run, more and more union men are apt to cast off their automatic Democratic alignment and become ticket-splitters, and maybe even Republicans.

MTim 2m are tordudlif invited to vim enact ana eemmemi Tom Wicker The Search for H.H.H. SAN FRANCISCO VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT H. HUMPHREY arrived in California to find some of his most acute organizational problems eased. But most Democratic leaders here are no different from those elsewhere on one crucial point. They want Humphrey to demonstrate his independence from President Johnson, as the only means of salvaging a campaign dangerously close to disaster.

mm PMPMF MBME in eclat wit ft Sfteve viMen and feme dleadcwi Saturday 8:00 tc fi.m. and 2:30 fi.m. The Humphrey operation in has been incredibly lax. Leon Cooper, the Southern California Democratic chairman, has now been persuaded to become executive director of the Humphrey campaign here, and things may finally begin to move. But precious time has been lost the high and perhaps fatal cost of the Humphrey staff's single-minded concentration on convention politics in the pre-Chicago period, and of its inno- 0 rflfl) KPLR 'in You wouldn't use a five and dime frame on a Unrub cence of the valuable experience ot pri mary campaigning last winter and spring.

The normal Democratic majority in California is being torn into four parts those who will stick with Humphrey, those who are deserting to Richard M. Nixon and the Republicans, those who are jumping all this way to George Wallace, and those who in apparent disgust are not planning to vote for any presidential candidate this year. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS here think Humphrey's only chance is to motivate the stay-at-homes to vote for him after all. No one knows exactly how many of these there are, but the number is believed to be sizable. State Assembly Speaker Jesse M.

Unruh, for instance, is backing Humphrey, but he also has given his public blessing to a burgeoning write-in movement for Eugene McCarthy. Unruh reasons that the write-in campaign will get many Democrats to the polls who would otherwise stay home, and he desperately needs their votes for Democratic legislative candidates to keep the assembly out of the grip of Republican Gov. Ronald Reagan, who already controls the State Senate. Democrats who have so far washed their hands of the Humphrey campaign would be the prime target of those strategists Unruh is one who are insisting to the Vice President that he has to put distance and daylight between himself and Lyndon Johnson. THEIR PROPOSALS RANGE all the way from the far-out a resignation from the vice presidency to the obvious step of calling for an immediate halt to the bombing of North Vietnam.

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This year, Nixon dealt firmly with his "loser's image" by taking on all comers in the state primaries. If Hubert Humphrey cannot find the will as well as the way to meet his own unique crisis, Democrats here are asking, how would he cope with the greater and more dangerous challenges of being President? What they are seeking is neither a policy nor a performance but the truth about the man himself. Bankmark "FORSHAW" OF ST. LOUIS 825 S. Lindbergh at Conway Road WY 3-5570 Qudity since 187t 15.