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-Times Illinois News 2B Indiana News 9B 5 Section Thnrsday, March 28, 1968 Priest Mediates Strike letters Wednesday from Sister Thoma3 Miriam, the principal. The letter began, "We regret that a cooling off period has become a necessity al Elizabeth Seton High School It continued: "We regret that some teachers are on strike and are bringing pressure on your children Involvement of students in strike activities benefits no one the school, the teachers or the students themselves Union members denied accusations that they had encouraged students to participate in the strike. The school was first closed Tuesday when the administration heard rumors of a student SOUTH HOLLAND Elizabeth Se-ton High School administrators and representatives of the school's striking lay teachers met today in the office of the Rev. Robert Rcicher in Chicago. School was cancelled for today.

Ronald Sipowich, president of the Elizabeth Seton Chapter, Archdioccsnn Teachers Federation, said the meeting was called by Father Reichcr, who has been appointed mediator by Bishop William He is chairman of the Catholic Council on Working Life. Members of the union struck the school when the administration refused to recognize their union as the bargaining agent. School authorities are demanding an election in which teaching nuns would be eligible to vole. The union says they should nnl vole because their religious order owns the school and they have a vested interest. The school was shut down this week after bus drivers refused to cross the union picket lines.

School officials had broken off negotiations with the union and said no talks would be scheduled until the buses were allowed to enter the school grounds. They said safety of the students was endangered. Although a meeting was held Tuesday night no solutions were reached. Sipowich said he understood Father Reicher has some proposals to make. Parents of Seton students received gir lilliiilf 1 Bill Billy Signs Up Wednesday was registration period for next year's kindergarten youngsters at Lafayette School In Hammond, From the look of it, one might guess Billy Alamillo, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Alamillo of 1245 Summer wasn't all that charged up about it. Potesta Reversed On Survey Order Potesta said he felt the questionnaires might influence the school board election on May 7. Jerome F. Kutak, president of the chamber, is seeking one of the two seats to be filled.

His picture appears on the questionnaire. Potesta's term does not expire this year. INCUMBENT BOARD member Dr. Henry Eggcrs, the only one of four filed candidates who was at Wednesday's meeting, said he saw no reason why the questionnaires should not be allowed to be returned. Shrugging it off, Eggcrs said if any advantage was to be gained, it was already done.

Kulak is one of two persons with no formal organizational support seeking a school board post. The other is Michael S. Brici, 31, of 8 Highland St. and a teacher in the East Chicago system. Eggers and Alfred J.

of 6117 Hohman are being supported in the election by a self-appointed citizens nominating group. Eggers and Kuhn filed their petitions with the Lake County Clerk's office on Tuesday. The other seat up for election is held by Charles N. Scott. He announced Wednesday he.

will not seek re-election because of health reasons. Gock Stops HAMMOND Police are searching for someone without an alibi tor 11:55 p.m. Tuesday. Gregory Burge, 2818 177th told police someone unplugged the clock in his living room at that hour as they made off with his $400 television set. E.C.

Plans Housing For Aug. 1 EAST CHICAGO Low rent public housing for 22 large families will he ready for occupancy Aug. 1, the East Chicago housing authority director said today. Director Ben Lcsniak said construction of 212 low-rent units at six sites has begun. He said some duplex units are half completed.

The first units will be for large families and have four and 5 bedrooms, he said. After completion of the units at the Lincoln, Pennsylvania and Block Avenue sites. Lesniak said, other units are due for completion at six week intervals. LESNIAK SAID the August opening of the first units would give the authority places for some of the large families that have been difficult to relocate. Authorities indicate rentals in these units will average $50 to $65 monthly, depending on the income of the family involved.

Lesniak said a lease agreement with the Purdue Calumet Development Foundation has been approved. Under it, the housing authority will lease 150 apartments at the Cal-Vicw complex. He said the authority is now taking applications for this and other public a a A 10-STOIIY BUILDING for the elderly is scheduled for completion next February, Lcsniak said. Dean Swartzel, assistant regional administrator for renewal assistance of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, said the city administration "has taken a more vital interest in this situation." Whiting House Raked by Fire WHITING Fire caused extensive damage to a four-room frame house at 2827 White Oak St. about 6 p.m.

Wednesday. Firemen said the blaze started in the basement and spread up the stairwell into the kitchen. Origin of the fire is undetermined. The house is owned by Sam Tokoly, There were no injuries. all had a little of this Christian love in us.

I THINK THE greatest thing that could have happened to Christianity today has happened. We have realized our position and placed religion in an updated context. We now see God as a God of love, not a hcllfire and damnation. We are urged to actively participate in the celebration of the liturgy and to take God's love home with us, to really live what we say we believe in. I look at true Christian love as a cure-all.

It pleases God, makes me and people around me happy and assures me of getting to Heaven. What more could anyone want? 1 'V -V JON LEE Treasurer Can Wield Dem Whip Democratic leaders are running Into a time problem in trying to straighten out differences which could bring a major parly split. Candidates must be in or out of the running by midnight Thursday. After last week's "power house" meeting of party figures, movement ap- pears likely to be very slow. The big fight looms in the treasurer's race.

It appears the winner and his supporters will be in good position to assume party leadership, or have a major voice in policy matters. THE MAJOR candidates seeking office are Nick Angel of Munster, state representative; Anthony Dobis, of the Lake County Voters Registration Board, and Louis Karras, Gary city chairman. More important are the backers. Angel has the support of East Chi- cago Mayor John B. Nicosia and that of Hammond Mayor Joseph E.

Klen, who says he will go with Nicosia in this campaign. Dobis has with him County Clerk John Krupa, the county chairman; Treasurer Leslie 0. rruitt, who can't by law run again, and County Commissioner J. J. Forszt.

Karras has no open big-name support. ORDINARILY KRUPA, Forszt, Nicosia and Klen would be on the same team. The struggle between the Angel and Dobis forces may make it easy for a third, or yet a fourth party, to move in. The fourth party, in this case, is Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher. So far, Hatcher has been unusually silent on all the current maneuverings.

Reports coming out of last week's meeting were that Hatcher didn't want Dobis. More likely, Hatcher was just repeating his earlier position that he doesn't want Krupa. They appear to mean one and the same thing. HATCHER, HOWEVER, hasn't indi- cated who he wants. Rumors are that Hatcher is waiting for the last minute to file a slate of Ne- gro candidates.

It's very possible the way some of the races are developing that a Negro slate with solid Negro support could bring dividends. Although the county is predominantly white, a Negro with solid support could slip through a big field of white candidates. The most obvious spot for this is in the treasurer's race. Nicosia recognizes this situation and is trying to come up with a solution. But it looks like any hopes of a "settlement" is out.

AD parties concerned stood quite firm last week. Voter List Due Monday CROWN POINT A list of 2,949 registered Gary voters who failed to respond to a Lake County Board of Voters Registration questionnaire will be published Monday. Those named will have until April 8 to validate or transfer their registration. The registration board is following a U.S. District Court order to purge all Gary voters who registered between May and November last year and failed to vote Nov.

7. There were 4,053 such voters. Those voters who fail to report to a registration board will be taken off polling lists and will not be registered -to vote May 7, according to Anthony Dobis and Robert Rooda, both members of the board. A list of the purged names will be submitted to federal Judge George N. Beamer by April 15.

The preliminary list will be published in the Gary Post-Tribune. Fine ATHENS (AP) A spokesman for the ruling junta denied at a news conference Wednesday rumors that po-litical prisoners were being maltreated. Newsmen's requests to visit the prison islands of Lcros and Yioura again were rejected. L. M.

Boyd IN THE EYES of the scientists, a girl is adolescent from age 13 to 23! AM TOLD WE each lose 40 hairs a day. Is that possible? ONE OUT OF FOUR citizens who work in restaurants switches jobs yearly. HOW DO YOU FEEL about getting your hair cut, mister? No big deal, correct? Not correct, I'm advised, for some. A University of Virginia doctor claims numerous men suffer from an ailment called Barber Shop Phobia. Such fellows can't stand to be snipped upon by strange men.

They are said to be enlarging the market greatly for home barber kits. AM IN POSSESSION of a note that says Dean Martin's boy Dino has a beautiful Lamborghini. That's either a girl or a vehicle. Will check further IT IS A A RHONDA who docs not have at least three serious love affairs before she's 21 years old, says our Name Game man IF YOU COMPARE the weights of brain to body, women can be described as brainier than men. About four ounces brainier.

NOBODY TOSSES burnt bread into a glass of wine anymore before sipping same. Such was the custom, however, among our ancestors. Understand that little trick was thought to improve the flavor. Whether it did or no, it's where we got the toast. Clink! the United States marine corps organized in a beer That's right.

In the Tun Tavern on the corner of Water street and Wilcox alley in Philadelphia. It has become disorganized in a beer joint from time to time, too, I'm told Q. "IS IT TRUE a youngster grows more in the summer than in the winter?" A. So it's said. MOST TALENTED of lovers is he who thinks of his girl also as his best friend.

That is what a California client has concluded after some study. "Certainly it's possible to love a woman you don't like," he writes, "even as it's possible, obviously, to like a woman you don't love. But the lover who makes an art out of it, rather than a science, both likes and loves his woman, feeling about her much the same way a true Oklahoman feels about his coonhound." THAT SALESMAN who gives a kickback to a purchasing agent is now known among the business boys with savvy as "a white envelope man." 'THE TWO THINGS we need most," observed one E. Atkinson, "is for rich men to find out how poor men live, and for poor men to find out how rich men work." UNDER STUDY BY the medical men is that peculiar fact that there are an exceedingly large number of alcoholic Irishmen and an exceedingly small number of Alcoholic Italians. Why is unclear.

QUESTION RISES whether an experienced narcotics officer can spot an addict in a crowd. Yes, sir. That he can. Frequently. Further, oftentimes, he can look at said user and tell you what kind of stuff he's on, how long it has been since his last fix, and whether he's carrying any on him.

RAPID REPLY: (1) YES, SIR, YOU can figure about $1 out of every $5 of the cash you put into a new house goes for labor. Leaking Oil Fires Office LANSING Fire caused about $500 damage today to the garage, office and showrooms of Ridgeway Motor Sales at 18058 Torrence Ave. Fire officials said oil leaked from a furnace in a loft above the office in the front part of the building. The wooden floor of the loft caught fire, apparently from a backfire, a spokesman for the firm said. Fire damage was confined to the loft.

The office, garage and showrooms had water and smoke damage. Firemen, railed shortly before 7 a.m., snuffed the fire out in 30 minute3. 3rd driver IS SOUGHT HAMMOND Police are searching for a third driver who witnessed a Monday night accident at 165th Street and Kentucky Avenue. The crash injured two persons. The car has been identified as a 1966 Blue Ford Galaxie 500.

Police want the driver to come forward and volunteer information. Investigators said only the driver can tell exactly how the accident occurred. 3 Climb TV Tower ST. JOHN Three Lake Central High School students have tall tastes when it comes to pranks. The three students ignored darkness and 20 to 30 m.p.h.

winds and climbed 342 feet to drape a large white "flag" atop the WCAE television tower. The tower is behind the station's transmitter. Station director Louis Iaconetti said he is "extremely concerned" over the Tuesday night incident. He said the students easily could have fallen or received electrical burns if the transmitter had been on. Iaconetti said the high winds caused the upper lever of the tower to sway back and forth.

THE FLAG IS thought to be a bed sheet. "This not only involves the station hut the Federal Communication Commission and would come under close scrutiny by the FCC and other federal authorities," Iaconetti said. He said future incidents will be met with "extreme disciplinary action." Police were not notified by the station director, but the youths aren't getting off completely. Iaconetti said the estimated $50 it will cost to hire a professional climber to remove the "flag" will be paid by the youths. The tower is enclosed by an eight-: foot-high cyclone chain fence.

Ianconetti called the incident "a springtime prank." Gambling RaidsNetll HAMMOND Police seized 11 persons Wednesday in two gambling raids. The first occurred at 12:45 p.m. at State Recreation, 658 Slate St. Eight persons wore arrested on charges of visiting a gambling house. One was accused of keeping a gambling house.

Earl White, 6719 Colorado was named as the keeper. Another raid followed at 1:20 p.m. the Four Aces, 1111 112th St. There detectives arrested Nick Guzzino, 4619 Missouri for keeping a gambling house, and one visitor. Detectives confiscated scratch sheets and other betting materials.

The two keepers posted $200 bond each. The other nine posted $100 bond each. Drive Begins CEDAR LAKE Joseph McCarthy, president of the Cedar Lake Jaycees, has announced the launching of the group's membership drive which will be in progress Saturday through April 9. Men between 21 and 34 are eligible for membership in the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Christian Redemption, Creation Involve Love HAMMOND The school board Wednesday night cleared the way for 4,000 questionnaires circulated by the Chamber of Commerce to continue on their intended course.

The questionnaires were circulated among Hammond residents. They were asked to grade the city's strengths and weaknesses. Answers were held up in their return journeys to the chamber at the request of school board president Ralph Potesta. eation Plea Tabled HAMMOND A $12,000 request by the City Recreation Commission to implement programs at the new Morton and Spohn pools and gymnasiums was taken under advisement by the school board Wednesday night. It was announced that the school city, in a penny-pinching financial bind, must find about $465,000 to balance its 1968 budget.

An additional $12,000 allocation appears out of the question aV this time. The recreation commission comprised of five members representing the school board, park department, city council and two lay members said the new facilities cannot be made available without additional funds. THE MONEY. WOULD be used to defray the expenses of locker attendants, lifeguards and gym supervisors at each school. The Spohn and Morion programs would be held from 7 to 9 p.m.

on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday. The pools would be used throughout the year, with the gym programs lasting 36 weeks from November to April. The programs would be among those under the guidance of John Hig-gins, director of the Department of Parks and Recreation. At one point during Wednesday's meeting, it appeared the matter might be resolved at the expense of the school city's, summer ducation program, which has a similar budget.

A TOTAL OF $24,775 is budgeed for 1968 for the recreation program. The summer education program, which lasts six weeks and is directed and staffed by school teachers, was budgeted $24,110 for 1968. The recreation people sought $43,000 in their budget request for 1968 from the school city. George Carlson, member of the recreation commission and president of the city council, said he would explore the matter hut doubted if the civil city could offer any monetary solution. Union Word Is Awaited MUNSTER The Simmons Co.

strike continues today, with 1,300 production workers idle. Tad Harvey, plant general manager, said he was awaiting word on negotiations from 90 members of Local Lodge 209 of the Machinist and Aerospace Workers. The local struck the plant at midnight Tuesday. Harvey said the plant had stopped all production work and shipping. The 1,300 members of the International Upholsterers Union refused to cross the machinists' picket lines.

Four hundred office workers and engineers are at work. Reci Jon Lee of 7948 Northcote Hammond, is a member of St. John Bosco Roman Catholic Church. He is a graduate of Bishop Noll Institute and St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer.

He is a chemist for the East Chicago Sanitary District. He is an instructor in Confraternity of Christian Doctrine classes. By JON LEE If I were looking for a single word to describe my conception of religion it would have to be love. This is the reason for our creation and redemption. And it forms the basis for Christianity.

God's love for us is perfect and we should try to imitate it. He didn't have Times Lenten Series to create us but he did so that we-could share in his kingdom of heaven. After the fall of man He didn't have to suffer and die on the cross in reparation for our sins but He did. CHRISTIANITY WAS conceived In love. It is structured around God's love for us, and our love for God and fellow men.

There is little doubt that Christ considered a life filled with love the surest road to heaven. The gospels are filled with the recounts of His parables on love. The story of the Good Samaritan is a prime example. If Christ were on earth today I think He would be most hurt over the lack of love and brotherhood He would find' here. We seem to have kept the faith but lost the spirit.

Love is a simple thing but it is probably the most hard to give because it is unselfish. It is mind stretching to think of what life would be like if we.