Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 10

THE BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER AND NEWS Sunday, August 9, 1964 10 Aid All Schools if Any: Goldwater Board to Hear Salary Slate The Calhoun County Board of Supervisors will hear recommendations on salaries of county officials for the next two years" at its regular meeting Michigan there last Thursday. The aide, Edward Nellor, said Michigan politics in particular, and politics in general, were discussed in the meeting between Romney and the Arizona senator. Nellor did not elaborate. He said the meeting had not been announced at the time and no statements came from it. Romney figured in Republican presidential speculation prior to the GOP convention, which picked Goldwater as the nominee.

tomorrow at the County Building in Marshall. The report from the salaries committee is scheduled to be given by Supervisor H. vanden- Berg Hatch of Marshall, com mittee vice chairman, in the ab sence of Supervisor Harry A. DeMaso of Battle Creek Town ship, the chairman. would welcome an opportunity to make their position clear on the issue.

Earlier yesterday, Goldwater made a surprise visit in New York and met with former President Herbert Hoover and Francis Cardinal Spellman, Roman Catholic archbishop of New York. After flying in from Washington, Goldwater met first with Hoover in the Waldorf Towers suite where the former president will observe his 90th birthday Monday. He then visited with Cardinal Spellman in the rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral for about 30 minutes. Goldwater said he and the cardinal discussed general problems of the world, including the recent Harlem race riots.

"I've shaken hands with him before," Goldwater said of Cardinal Spellman. "But I wanted to talk with him. This is the first time I did that." He did not comment on his meeting with Hoover. He returned to Washington by plane after the brief visit. In the Capitol an aide confirmed that Goldwater had talked with Gov.

George Romney of "The cooperative effort of all citizens and groups is needed. Your contribution to the solutions of these problems through the American tradition of free discussion and debate deserves the support of all of us." Stuart Hubell, of Traverse City, the new president of the Citizens for Educational Freedom, read the telegrams to delegates during an address. Hubbell pointed out that the Citizens for Educational Freedom does not advocate or oppose federal aid to education, but believes that if the federal government extends aid to education it should go to all schools, public and nonpublic, on an equal basis. Hubbell also commended Goldwater for his position in support of equal treatment for children in nonpublic schools. He said the Citizens for Educational Freedom was disappointed that Johnson's telegram did not contain what he termed a clear statement of support for the principle of educational freedom and equal treatment.

He said, however, he was confident that the Democratic party and the President in their convention in Atlantic City, N.J., PHILADELPHIA (AP) Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential nominee, said Saturday night that if federal aid to education legislation were enacted, "it should go on equal terms to all nonprofit schools, public and private, secular and parochial." Goldwater made his views known in a telegram to the national convention of Citizens for Educational Freedom. The telegram said: "Your efforts to obtain equal treatment for all in the field of education are to be applauded. As I have stated on many occasions, I am opposed to all forms of federal aid to education. But if despite my opposition, such legislation should be enacted, it should go on equal terms to all nonprofit schools, public and private, secular and parochial." President Johnson also sent a telegram to the convention saying: "You are meeting as the 88th Congress is completing a record of support for education unmatched in our history.

But still more needs to be done to assure educational opportunity for all and to help raise the quality of education throughout our society. Also on the brief agenda are Hayes Hotel Due To Be Civic Center several items of unspecified business from Drain Commis sioner Paul E. Chamberlain and other committee reports. Supervisor Roy G. Lord of Emmett Township, board chair man last year, will preside at the meeting for Wilfrid E.

Taylor, chairman, who is out of town. I Ail JC VT VA Retirees Given Plaques For Service JACKSON (AP)-The Jackson Civic Center Hotel Corp. today announced plans for the purchase of the downtown Hayes Hotel here and ultimate conversion of the hotel into a key civic center building. The corporation was formed recently. It has an option to buy the 203-room downtown Jackson landmark from International Hotel Corp.

Jackson area business and civic leaders have been asked to help raise $350,000 for the purchase of the hotel. Don T. McKone and Nathan Feldmen, spokesmen for the Civic Center Hotel Corp. said plans call for the expenditure of another $400,000 in modernization of the Hayes. The corporation said ultimate plans call for use of the refurbished hotel as a key attraction for bringing conventions and tourists to the Jackson area.

Four retired employes of the Veterans Administration Hospital's physical medicine reha- habilitation service with a 'Hostess with the Mostess' To Be Dems7 Convention Darling combined total of 133 years of 1 government service were awarded engraved bronze plaques at a reception Thursday at the hospital. WASHINGTON (UPI) Famous party-giver Perle Mesta They were Earle C. Adams of 523 Avenue employed at the will win back her title of "Host She served as minister to Luxembourg when Truman was President. She added a new dimension to diplomacy by going into the coal mines and ess with the Mostest" hands down at the Democratic Nation also giving parties for the GI's Mesta, an Oklahoma oil heiress, who has sometimes swung over to the Republicans as she did in the last election when she campaigned for Richard M. Nixon.

She had wanted the Democratic presidential nomination to go to Johnson and was opposed to John F. Kennedy. Nor did she want Johnson to second spot on the Kennedy ticket. She felt that he was better off as Senate majority leader than as vice president under Kennedy. Lively Alarm Enquirer and News Photo.

CENTER OF ATTENTION Mrs. Lulu Brown, one of her grandchildren and three of her great-grandchildren examine the "free paper" and case carried by her father more than a century ago. Seated beside her is Mrs. Franklin J. Woodson of Washington, D.C., and standing are her children, from left, Michael, 8, Cheryl, 12, and Karen, 11.

A Great Grandmother, 96, Tells Her Flock About a Tree Paper' hospital since 1926; Elmer J. Dahlman of 156 Finley employed since 1930; Eferd Lynn of 283 Broadway employed since 1933, and Leslie M. Gibson of 252 Sharon employed since 1946. The men, all with prior service with other federal agencies, were commended for their long service by Harold J. Cole, assistant director of the hospital.

Each man has received Sustained Superior Service Awards in recent years. in Europe. She remembers the parties as "the most exciting" days of her life. She has had many suitors through the years but has shied away from remarrying. Asked why, she said: "I don't know I guess.

"I got independent. I wanted CAGLIARI, Sardinia (UPI) Three burglars apparently trying to break into a shop forced the wrong door and found themselves confronted by 15 shrieking girls in their nighties. The burglars promptly fled 'from the girls' college dormi to lead my own life. I don't tory they had broken into think a woman has to be married to accomplish things." Asked for an appraisal of Sen. Barry Goldwater, she said: "Goldwater is a charmer with the courage of his convictions which are antiquated." Mrs.

Mesta, a widow, was married to an ardent Republi al Convention in Atlantic City this month. She has a plush party planned for every night of the convention, with her biggest wing ding on Aug. 26th after President Johnson gets the nod to head the party ticket. Her smaller parties will run from 115 to 200 guests, with drinks and buffet before the start of general convention sessions each evening. These gatherings will be held at a plush home in Ventnor Place, a couple of miles from Atlantic City.

The imposing house belongs to broker Frank Sidoni, a brother of one of Mrs. Mesta's beaus. The biggest party will be held at a hotel with two bands tester Lanin and Chambers Rivers going full swing. It won't start until after 11 p.m. It'll be integrated and guests will include all of the party bigwigs and a number of Mrs.

Mesta's friends. Avid Johnson Fan President Johnson has no more ardent booster than Mrs. WALLPAPER 9c -19c -29c -39c Joa Bowling Center In Detroit Burns DETROIT (AP) Fire swept through a bowling center near Tiger Stadium today and the flames could be seen over television by cameras reporting the Detroit Kansas City baseball game. The five-alarm blaze broke out at the Olympic Bowling Center, which houses 17 bowling alleys and two bars. Firemen said no one was in the building.

The bowling center was destroyed at an estimated loss of $250,000, and an adjacent apartment house suffered an estimated $50,000 damage. can. George Mesta, who was much older than she. She said she "fussed' a lot with him about politics, and says of herself: I've always been a liberal." The daughter of a millionaire oilman, Mrs. Mesta has long been a member of eastern society circles.

But she also has a bent for public service and more of an interest in public affairs than the usual prominent hostess. er than a silver dollar. Its case is a folder of soft sheepskin, which shows the effects of having been carried by the owner everywhere he traveled throughout his life. "It served him like a passport," explained Mrs. Lucille Mitchell, Mrs.

Brown's daughter who now resides with her. "Since he always had it with him, he and his family never were treated like slaves or hunted as runaways." Mrs. Brown's father was given the "free paper" soon after birth, as was customary for children born to free parents. He was born somewhere in Virginia and in his travels about the country married a woman from Dowagiac. Mrs.

Brown, the youngest of 15 children, moved to Battle Creek some 40 years ago. She is the oldest member, in age, of the Second Baptist Church, in which she remained active until recently. She also has served in women's organizations. She still keeps an active interest in local and world happenings, reading the newspaper regularly. Her daughter, Mrs.

Mitchell, recently retired from a long career as a public heajth nurse to help care for her mother. A 1922 graduate of Battle Creek College, she served 29 years in Cleveland, Ohio, before coming here. As other members of the family joined Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Mitchell for the reunion yesterday, the younger children showed special interest in the crinkled "free paper," clustering eagerly around their great-grandmother's chair.

"This is a very, very important piece of paper," she began to explain to them: "Let me tell you all about it When some 30 members of the Brown family gathered here for a reunion last night, the center of attention was a small gray-haired woman and a faded yellow document she preserves in a worn leather case. The woman is Mrs. Lulu Brown of 363 Upton 96-year-old senior member of the Brown family in whose honor the reunion was held. The document is a letter handed down from her father from the era of Southern slavery, certifying that he was a freed man and entitled to all the rights and privileges this coveted status carried. The brownish, ink-written message still informs the reader that the bearer, William Jenkins, a man "about 21," with a physical description as listed, is not a slave but a free citizen.

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