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LIGHTER SIDE One temaget to another: "Oh, hefWs the place Mother told me to stay away from. 1 thought we'd never find it," ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Serving the Alton Community ior More Than 128 Years FRIDAY Ixm t2i High 92 (Complete Weather Pg, Established January 15,1836, Vol. CXXLX, No. 156 ALTON, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1964 40 PAGES 7c Per Copy Member of The Associated Press, Freedom Is His (Flight Plaiij i The Telegraph presents the first of 20 Instalments of a con. densatlon of another best-selling BARRY GOLDWATER: FREEDOM IS HIS FLIGHT PLAN by Stephen Shadegg.

In this series Is chronicled the rise of Barry Goldwater. Here will be shown the background, beliefs and caliber of the man who rose from obscurity to his present eminence as the conservative spokesman of the Republican party, in this first installment we see the results of his lonely stand against a labor bill he considered weak and Incomplete. By STEPHEN SHADEGG The 1960 Republican convention was for the most part a dull, listless the name of Barry Goldwater was operator, presented. Those in the hall recognized they were witnessing something entirely out of character for the practical politicians of the GOP wild enthusiasm for a possible presidential candidate who had never been considered by the party rulers. In 1960, not many of the nation's registered Republicans had ever heard of Barry Goldwater.

His name had been placed in nomination by the governor of his native state. The party hierarchy was solidly committed to Richard Nixon. In all the history of this republic, it is difficult to find a comparable figure. In midsummer 1952, the odds against Barry Goldwater getting a Senate seat were about five to one. Since 1912, when Arizona was admitted to the union, only one Republican had been elected, and that was during the Harding landslide of 1920.

But Goldwater, who had given no thought to a political career until age 43, grabbed this prize gold ring the first time he stepped on the political merry-go-round. His opinions are sought by members with double his of service; 700,000 persons have bought his primer on political philosophy, "The Conscience of a Conservative." Members of the liberal press are dedicated to his destruction, and yet their grand viziers concede that Goldwater followers are a force which may well represent the strength of the Republican party. The Goldwater name was distinguished throughout the state of Arizona, associated with its pioneer mercantile establishments. Barry Goldwater had served with distinction in World War II as a pre-Pearl Harbor volunteer. He was an acknowledged expert on matters pertaining to the division of Colorado river water, important to this water-short state.

His two terms on the Phoenix City Council were remembered wjth gratitude. A valuable Insight into Goldwater's character can be gained by studying him In action in the political arena. The date was Wednesday, April years after he had challenged apparently insurmountable odds to win his Senate seat. The Junior Senator was now at his desk on the Republican side of the aisle. His face was tanned and healthy; behind his horn-rimmed glasses there was a hint of weariness around the corners of his eyes.

In seven years he had come to know the body of men before Goldwater Chooses Miller SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-New York Rep. William E. Miller is Sen. Barry Goldwater's choice for vice president on the 1964 Republican ticket, it was announced today. Goldwater's press aide Ed Nellor said the selection of Miller would be presented at the Republican state chairmen's meeting today by California GOP Leader William F.

Knowland. been chairman of the Republican National Committee, is expected to be ratified speedily by the Republican National Convention. The convention dele- The choice of Miller, who has gates customarily follow exact- ly the wishes of the presidential nominee. Goldwater, who won the presidential nomination Wednesday night, talked with Knowland by telephone early today. Presumably the Arizona senator nailed down at that time the "decision lo have Miller, who is known as a tough political fighter, an advocate of private enterprise.

Previously, it had been made known informally that Miller was Goldwater's favorite for the No. 2 spot. It was understood a number of GOP leaders were talked with about the potential selection before the decision was finally made firm and Knowland was assigned to make the formal announcement. Grand Jury Indicts Buster CHICAGO (AP) Frank (Buster) Wortman, 69, reputed East St. Louis rackets chief, was indicted today by the Cook County grand jury which accused him of threatening a race track The true bill was reported voted Wednesday.

It was returned in Criminal Court today as an indictment. The indictment charged Wortman with intimidation which is defined by law as communicating to another person a threat to perform physical harm. Wortman was charged with telephoning George E. Day, 71, managing director of the Cahokia Downs track at Collinsville, and threatening to "break both your legs" and "blow up your plant." Witnesses said Wortman, who allegedly made the call from the track to Day in a Chicago hotel, was angered over track officials barring him and his brother from the track premises. Nearly Broke BELLEVILLE, 111.

(AP) Frank (Buster) Wortman, reputed Southern Illinois crime boss, has told a court he barely had enough money to buy food. Wortman made the statement Wednesday in a hearing on a separate maintenance suit filed by his wife, Sylvia in May. Mrs Wortman said she and her hus and had been separated since 22. Associate Circuit Judge Alvin tfaeys took the case under ad- isement. Mrs.

Wortman charged the re- uted representative of a nation- 1 crime syndicate with cruelty, ler attorney, Maurice E. Jone, asked that Wortman give er separate maintenance of 450 to $500 a month. Saul E. Cohn, Wortman's at- orney, told the court he be- leved $25 a month would be nough. Cohn said Wortman's ncome is only about $200 a month.

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) I nor. Goldwater Expected In Illinois By CHARLES WHALEN Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) II linois Republicans, who con tributed a hefty 56 votes to the GOP presidential nomination Sen. Barry Goldwater, began charting campaign plans todaj with the expectation the Art zona Senator will make severa appearances in the state. The Illinois delegates, wav ing placards reading, "Land Lincoln goes for and wearing white Goldwate hats, joined in the thunderin; demonstration Wednesday nigh when his name was placed ir nominaion at the national con vention.

They showed even more exu berance when he went over th top in the balloting. The only delegates who too no part in the activities wer Genoa Washington and Eucli Taylor, representing Chicago" South Side Negro distric Washington, who made one the seconding speeches for th nomination of Nelson A. Rocke feller, and Taylor cast thei votes for the New York gover ORDERED FREED Dr. Sam Shcppard, convicted as a wife slayer, was ordered freed from Ohio State Penitentiary by a federal judge. U.S.

District Judge Carl A. Weinman held Sheppard had been denied a fair trial. (AP Wirephoto) Republican Aim: Unified Assault By JACK BELL and HARRY KELLY SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Republicans, many binding their wounds, began forming today behind the victorious conservative banner of Sen. Barry Goldwater for a unified assault on President Johnson's Democrats. The Arizonan swept to the party's leadership Wednesday night when his relentless bandwagon rolled over moderate and liberal forces for a shouting, rafter-shaking triumph on the first ballot.

Gov. William W. Scranton, who had been the last hope of the "Slop Goldwater" forces, made the first move toward loyalty, urging the party to His Punch Only 'Tickled' 1 Larry Viernum is sore and minus $70, all because he forgot about law and order early this morning when he punched an Alton police officer in the nose. Adding salt to his soreness was the fact that the police officer punched by Viernum, Cpl. Orland Grills, said this morning that the bl only "tickled." Viernum, 21, of the 300 block of E.

8th Street, though on the delivery end of the punch, told Alton Magistrate George Roberts that he was not "tickled" by the incident, but instead was "sore." Roberts was "sore" about the whole matter, too, in a different way. He fined Viernum $50 and costs on a resisting arrest charge, and $10 and costs on a charge of intoxication. Viernum pleaded guilty to both. "This is the first time I've been hit on the nose since I've been on the job," Grills He added that the blow "sorta tickled." The incident began when police were called to the 700 block of George street to answer a complaint in which a woman said four young men had tried to break into her car. While patrolling the area, Grills observed Vier- num running from the direction of the 700 block of George street.

The police officer stopped Viernum and arrested lu'm for intoxication. Viernum then struck Girlls in the nose but. it was his last effort against the officer. He was subdued by Grills and Sgt. Leonard Schelbe, who was also in the area answering the same call.

Rebels Pose Increasing Threat to Duvalier Rule "emphasize its unity." Still to be finally settled is who Goldwater will have as a running mate; he already has said he is "favorably inclined" toward Rep. William E. Miller of New York, a pugnacious kind of campaigner that politicians call a gut-fighter. Bitter Struggle The fitful months of bitter struggle for the party's presidential nomination came to a scraming end in the vast Cow Palace when the roll call of states reached South Carolina. That Southern state gave the 55 year old Goldwater, the grandson of a Jewish peddler, all its 16 votes and put him over the 655 needed for the big prize.

At the end of the first ballot, the vole stood this way: Goldwater 883, Scranton 214, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York 114 and olhers 54. Scranton, his own drive crushed in the stampede, then motioned lhat the nomination be made gesture received with thunderous approval. But 25 of the 1,308 delegate votes held remain ing for Scranton, 3 for Rocke feller and 5 from New York ab staining.

In the midst of the tumult Sen. Thruston B. Morton Kentucky, the convention chair man, told a reporter he had been informed that Goldwater had offered Miller, retiring GOP national chairman, the vice-presidential nomination and that Miller had accepted. But Goldwater and Miller both appeared on television la ter to say that it wasn't quite as buttoned up as Morton had said it was. Goldwater convention In contrast to four years ago when, in withdrawing his name from consideration for the nomination, he urged conservatives not to desert the GOP.

This time, it was the party's loderates and liberals who had i march into the glaring lights the podium to urge their sup- orters not to take a walk. The endulum had swung to the ight in those four years. The single roll call, pursued to he end in the overcrowded Cow alace, showed the overwhelm- ng manner in which the Arizo- a senator had made his views opular with the 1,308 delegates. The count showed, Goldwater 83 and Scranton 214. At this point a chipper and By LOUIS UCHITELLE Associated Press Writer PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti guerrillas operating in a rugged mountain range southeast of Port au Prince are beginning to pose a threat to the regime of President Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier.

The two-week-old guerrilla movement already has lasted more than twice as long as any of the six other armed attempts to overthrow Duvalier since he came to power in 1957. Each day the band of insurgents hold out poses additional problems for voodoo dictator who last month was named president for life of the Negro republic. "The longer the rebels can hold out in the south," said one Haitian, "the more apparent will be the government's inabil ity to deal with the situation." Other such attempts have lasted from 12 hours to five days before being defeated or fizzling out. Since the new insurgency, Duvalier's police and militia have said he hadn' Barry Out Of Contest For Senate SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Sen. Barry Goldwater declared after winning the Republican presidential nomination that he will not run for re-election to the Senate.

"1 would not run for both places," the senator told reporters. Goldwater said he will write the secretary of state asking that his name be with drawn from the race for re- nomination to a third Senate term. arrested several hundred persons in Port au Prince and Jacmel, on the southeast coast. Those jailed have included whole families of persons the president thought were leading Lhe rebels. There are persistent but unconfirmed reports that Duvalier went to the notorious Fort Dimanche prison and personally executed 23 prisoners.

The rebel force is reliably reported to number between 50 and 100 well armed exiles. Reports circulate that another force of 300 exiles will land later to reinforce the guerrilla action. Pierre Rigaud, former ambassador to Brazil and Cuba, and the Rev. Jean-Haptiste Georges, Duvalier's education minister from 1957-1959, said last week in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, that they were coordinators of the rebel action. promised Miller to ask him accept second place on the tick et, as had been reported.

But added that he is "favorably inc lined" toward the upstate New York representative. Miller, also appearing on tele vision, said he thinks that afte a meeting of Goldwater wit state chairmen today some de finitive announcement on th vice presidential which he said he would would be forthcoming. The vie presidential nominee will be for mally elected at tonight's clo: ing session. Miller, 44 and a Roman Cath olic, would be calculated bring to the ticket a skille campaigner noted for his roug and tumble political battlinj Goldwater has designated hin as "a gut fighter." Episcopalian The new GOP presidentia nominee is an Episcopalian He still holds an interest swank retail clothing stores Arizona. The senator demonstrate I iron control of the party and th miling Scranton appeared dra- natically to walk the long ingth of the platform to the ostrum where, framed in the ghts and in the eye of the tele- ision cameras, he moved to lake Goldwater's nomination nanimous.

The hall burst at he seams with the thunder of African Chiefs in Boycott LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Moise Tshombe will boycott the African summit conference in )airo because an unwelcome sign has been put up for Tshombe. Kasavubu and Tshombe decided to stay home from the meeting of the Organization of African Unity after some African leaders vowed they would not sit at the same table with the former Katangan secessionist leader. Foreign ministers preparing for the conference declared Tshombe an undesirable Tuesday but did not oppose Kas- avubu's attending. Many African nationalists are still bitter about Tshombe's links with the Belgians during the Katanga secession and the slaying of leftist Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's first premier while in Tshombe's custody. In a move to further its goal of national reconciliation, Tshombe's government announced the release of Antoine Gizenga, Communist supported leader of the 1961 separatist regime in Stanleyville and self- styled political heir to Lumumba.

Gizenga had been detained for years on an island at the SEN. BARRY M. GOLDWATER Barry to Bar Personalities By WALTER R. MEARS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) With Republican unity his keynote, Sen. Barry Goldwater embarked today upon what he promised will be a vigorous but not a personal campaign against President Johnson.

The newly chosen Republican presidential nominee declared he looks "very favorably" on Rep. William E. Miller of New York as the man to share it with him. He offered the olive branch of who beat him. GOP unity to defeated rival Gov.

William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania. "It is my desire and I know it is yours to now unite for a drive to defeat Johnson in November," he wired the Pennsylvania governor whose bitter campaign charges had roused him to anger. Soon Scranton was making a midnight call to offer congratulations to the man mouth of the Congo River. I Washington.

Street Plan Opposed in Upper Alton Upper Alton Businessmen's Assn. voted Wednesday night to oppose plans of the city to make Washington Avenue and Main Street one-way in the Upper Alton business district. Henry Moore, president of the association, said the members felt that making the streets one- way would hurt their business. Moore said that other solutions to the traffic situation could be found. He mentioned re-routing Rte, 140 traffic around the business district as a possible plan.

The association will send a letter of protest to the mayor and to the city council, Moore said. In other action, the group re sumed consideration of a proposed parking lot along Merchant Street between Main and In the; word that, already has told Miller he wants him on the ticket and that Miller has accepted. Sen. Thruston B. Morton, the national convention's permanent chairman, said the same thing.

Goldwater denied it. "No, I haven't," he said. "I'm going to make some phone calls in the morning, must say I incline very favorably to Congressman Miller." As South Carolina put his delegate count past the nominating majority, the television set went fuzzy. Goldwater turned to screen behind him. "i "I want to see if Peggy cries," he said.

Peggy Mrs. Goldwater -i- didn't. Then the senator picked up the telephone that had linked him to advisers, aides and delegates during the convention's crucial hours. He wanted to thank the men who had helped him win the nomination. Goldwater's biggest political day was one of his longest, It began at 5:30 a.m.

and the door of Room 1525 closed behind him 20 hours later. Midway through his news conference, Mrs. Goldwater turned up, back from the Cow Palace. "Hi, honey," she said, hugged her husband in the glare of the television lights. "You didn't cry very much night," said Goldwater.

"Just wait iintil tomorrow," she said. Schoolmen Told to Hold Off on New Code EDWARDSVILLE Madison County school administrators were told Wednesday night to hold up implementing the state's controversial school safety code because some changes in the code will be forthcoming. The administrators met at the Holiday Inn motel with County Superintendent Wilbur R. L. Trimpe and three officials from the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Ray Page.

Trimpe said representatives of the Illinois Assn. of School Boards met with Page Tuesday to discuss the problems presented to school districts if they are confronted with complainace with the code. "So I got word from Page to hoid everything," Trimpe said, ackiing that a bulletin will be issued from Page's office and that some changes in the code will be announced. The chief concern expressed by school administrators is the problem of financing the safety specifications called for in the code. The Alton school district, or example, has estimated that compliance will cost upwards of $750,000.

An official of the a i City school system told the meeting that he had it on the word of three architects that Granite City's compliance will cost between $1 million and $1 and one-fourth million. The 5-cent tax levy to be spread over three years authorized by the statute will not begin to cover this estimated cost, he pointed out. Under the law, all school districts will be required to make surveys of their school buildings and must make adjustments of features which do not meet the new code. There were groans when one state official said that the cost of the surveys cannot be paid from the school district building funds, but only from the educational funds, and that the surveys also cannot be paid irom the authorized 5-cent tax rate. One county school official said that his educational fund is already taxed to the limit, so he wondered how he was going to pay for such surveys.

"Like you do any other payment," a state official replied, "with anticipation warrants." One school administrator demanded to know why so radical a change in safety require- ments was made. "Was it a lobby to produce more work, or what?" he asked. "It seems strange that meetings were not held in local school districts before the code was put into effect. Five years of work went into this and now we hear about it." Another school official said he estimated that 90 per cent of the state legislators who passed the code probably didn't know what was in it when the approved it. A state official said the code was drawn up because there had never been a building code in Illinois.

One school administrator from Madison, gave an example of the problems that could arise from the new code. He said they bad a school building in Madison which they had difficulty in painting because the paint would not stay on. In the midst of painting this building with enamel, he said, the school architect decided that enamel had too high a "flame spread" (safety code term) and that Latex paint should be substituted. The switch was made, he explained, but in the meantime i he school contacted the paint manufacturer for figures as to the "flame spread" which is the rate of travel fire will go on different materials of the paint being used. To get an analysis of the paint as to its "flame spread," the paint concern said, would cost $5.000.

"This is only one example of a little problem," the Madison official said. "Every specifica- tion in the code presents a ramification of another problem." Another administrator said he believed a mistake had been made in not contacting one school district in the state and using it for an example of what the costs of complaince would be. When discussion began on costs, one school official said he did not see how residents cf local school districts could stand the cost of complaince and that there would have to be relief from the state legislature. To this, Trimpe replied that he was not worried too much about financing complaince with the code and that he believed there will be some sort of relief from the legislature. "There will be plenty of pressure for it," he said.

It was the feeling of some that the state superintendent of public instruction should go to bat for the school districts in seeking financing aid from the legislature to implement the code on those items which the individual district cannot afford to change. Trimpe added that he believed the new code would work and that his office would work with each county school district on their problems in implementing the code. The county superintendent, it was pointed out, has the right to extend the time of complaince but not indefinitely. State officials at the meeting were Gene Hutson, attorney for Page, and Elmer Dalton a Kay Richardson, building consultants. INSIDE Today CRUISE A-J 500 boaters will open new "Illinois Water Trail." EDITORS A-S Wreath laid on grave of martyr.

EDITORIAL A-4 What about Goldwater? CQNSIPINE A-f Small town people wake Cow Palace show possible. BARRETT 7" 4-7 This is retirement? FAMILY 441 Alton couple bears ajuji- versary cwigratulaUuas from SPOUTS .814 Yaaks jfl driver's seat again..

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