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Partly cloudy today with showers In afternoon or evening High temperature in the low 80s with 15 25 mph winds iumi No 121 Florida's Most Complete Newspaper 52nd Year 216 Pages 20 Cents New Tax Credit Plan Faces Rough Sledding see story on Page 1 MIAMI TrMPfRATURES 7 rh 8am lam 10 a 1) a i 3om 4 5pm 4pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10 pm 11pm Sunday April 1 1962 Noon 71 Midnight 72 CITY EDITION High 79 Low 71 A Latin Amtrlcan Edition It Published Pally Frame Montes Murat Open Accord Reached 9 In Steel No Wage Hike In First Year i Killed as Twister i estate Town Result of Age May Be Wine-Sour Grapes This is the first in a series of articles on the problems of the aged in America The series is condensed from the booh Brighter Later by Houard Whitman copyright 1961 by Prentice-Hail Inc What They Say By HOWARD WHITMAN There is one minority group America the aged from none of us can escape About Aging More Than 75 Hurt In Milton Tornado Plunges Without Warning I sually Miss Is 24 Tornado's Revenge 64 Mind My Baby 64 MILTOX Fla fAP) A tornado plunged from a black cloud without warning Saturday killing 15 persons injuring scores of others and leaving widespread damage in this northwest Florida town The tornado was the second 1o h't the Florida Panhandla in recent months A twister slammed into nearbv Crest-view on Jan 5 claiming one life and causing damage estimated at two million dollars Nine white persons and six Negroes died in the twister which roared over the two ot 4 000 population 15 miles northeast ot Pensacola The Florida Highway Patrol estimated 75 house were destroyed and scores of others were damaged in varying de gree The injured were esti-mated at between 75 and 100 The tornado ripped through a mile long strip extending from the College Park residential area to the northwestern outskirts of this town It swirl-d on through an unpopulated area toward the small community Munson uprooting I trees and damaging isolated I structures Frame homes in Milton burst open from the tornadic blast Award-winning Edwin arra Jn the Col- led The Heralds sports depart-j Jpe Park srctlfm was hardest ment to the top of the awards jhit with at least 10 homes de-list again Satuidny in the Flon- stroved and 25 extensively da Sports damaged House Trailer Ripped Apart by Killer Tornado in Milton Fla twister caused two million dollars damage in state's panhandle A Grim flint From Havana Castro Divides Prisoners For Death Jail or Brainwash in which alive This minority group of the aged auffers from discrimina- tion and preju-dices just as bit-T terly as the most put upon minority group among us Yet there is a f-ference Many can sit complacently by viewing the problems of Whitman other minorities through the lorgnettes of indifference for three problems will never concern them directly But no one can be indifferent toward the problems of the aged for no one is detached from them This concerns all of us Each of us who stays alive must necessarily someday embrace this minority of old age as his own But Just ss we cannot with impunity wait until we are already old before we wonder where our savings are we cannot wait until old age is at hand before preparing to accept it With the first falling hair the first wrinkle life is sending us Its message loud and clear We are facing the basic inevitable: last of life for which the first was made" It has its own scale of values and Its own satisfactions its own joys and its own rewards But one must bring to the sixties and seventies the wisdom and philosophy and emotional growth of sue or seven decades of life I Otherwise he is simply a su- perannuated Johnny-come-iate- ly If he is unprepared old age may rest hard upon him He 1 may miss out on its glories altogether Do We Mellon? Or Grow Old? The actress Shelley Winters once remarked "The saddest thing In the world is to see someone get older and not grow up An old baby is a terrible thing to see" Often we speak of people "mellow ing" in old age What does it mean7 One of the dictionary definitions is: fully developed also made sweet or gentle by William Wordsworth alluded in his poetry to "mellow Mellowing is Indeed a process associated with increasing age But it does not always occur Years alone do not do the Job Just aa some people grow older but not wiser some grow older but not mellow Glades Bv STEPHEN TRUMBULL NcrtlS Half Wrltar South land speculation now has moved squarely inside the Everglades National Park and the park service doesn't like it A project covering more Shelley Winters' The saddest thing in the tcorld is to see someone get older and not grow Wm Wordsworth Found in advancing age the that bring the philosophic There are in fact two divergent paths of development: one toward mellowness and the other toward its opposite crankiness pettiness sourness all the qualities summed up in the adjective so often linked with old We have I am sure overworked the adjective "crotchety" until it has virtually become tattooed an old 8ge We have been laggard in noting the virtues which also are accentuated in later years The Rev Charles Crowe of Wil- Turn to page 20 A col 1 Child Echoes Mom's Words NEVADA Mo (API Fred Sanders manager of a department store noticed a woman and her little daughter shopping As they were leaving he handed the child some gum "What do you say?" the woman said to the girl was the reply PITTSBURGH (UPI) Union and management wrote a new chapter Saturday in the stormy history of steel contract negitiations with a agreement they hoped will halt the wage-price spiral The new two-year contract provides for no immediate wage increase but creates greater job security and grants increased fringe benefits It was hailed by President Kennedy and negotiators as non-lnflationary and establishing a in steel union-management relations The Improved benefits were said by the industry negotiators to represent an increase in labor costs offiboutJ? per cent or 10 cents per mahhmf(C The agieement covers 430-000 employes of 11 maior basic steel producers As in the past it will sene as the pattern for about 500 000 employes of other producers and steel fabricating firms It was the first steel contract reached without a strike since 1954 and it came three months before' the June 30th expiration of the present three-year contract The I'nltpd Steelworkers Union told its companv -level negotiators to get together with Jhe "Big 11" producers Monday and have the contracts signed sealed and delivered hv April 6 The com-panv-level union negotiators numbering 450 will meet with ISW President David McDonald today (or a briefing Although it does not increase hourly wage rates which average 5328 the contract provides for a reopening the second year on the issues of wages pensions and insurance upon 90 days notice served after April 30 1963 "I feel absolutely wonderful" McDonald said "The agreement is non-inflationary in every respect and well within the ability of the steel industry to pay We are proud of it The union the workers industry and the public cannot but help profit from Management was not as enthusiastic noting that the "terms of settlement cannot be said to fall wholly within the limits of anticipated gains in productiv efficiency Nevertheless management said the contract represented progress" In the history of collective bargaining in the industrv It said the union leadership showed a understanding" of Turn to Page 2A Col 2 Shot by Rebel ALGIERS (AP) Gerard L'Hote on the job only two days as a French government spokesman Algiers was wounded Saturday by a pistol bullet in downtown Algiers as he was driving to work The assailant escaped Today's Chuckle An antique shop has ths sign in the window: "You think it's junk? Come in and price Talk the sales have been made to Dade County Negroes By a federal act of July 2 1958 redefining park boundaries this big the doughnut" was not to be subject to condemnation "so long as it is used exclusively for agricultural purposes including housing directly incdent thereto or is lying fallow or remains in its natural state" In the belief that the present speculation removes the land from this "agricultural clause a belief sharply opposed by the prom iters of the acreage sales Park Superintendent Warren Hamilton is recommending "appropriate action" by the park service He defined this as "condemnation if there is no other DREAMLAND Estates Inc bought the land little more than a year ago througn a deed dated May 25 1961 The Turn lo Page 20A Cnl 4 Swim pool consultant Newt pools PL 1-2573 -Adv The Rev Robert Cowling rector of St Mary Fpi'copal Church and disaster chairman for the Red Cross said an aerial survey showel th area of damage was miles long Turn to Tags 6 A Col 1 i Castro's rebel armv headed the landing forces at the Bay of Pigs last Apnl 17 He was captured May 3 Carbo Havana newspaper editor befoie Castro takeover was one of 10 pnsoners allowed to come to the US last July to try to swap tractors for captives Carbo's wife evlled in Miami expressed fears of the refugee colony that the invasion leaders mav he condemned to death "I'm so concerned and she said "I can't think When the tractor negotiations failed Carbo and seven others kept their word and re- Writers Association contest The Herald won three of the five writing awards and two of these went Pope Herald jU assistant sports editor who only utwo weeks ago was named best in the state by the National Sportswriters and Sportscast- ers Association Two years ago he won The acclaim as No 1 ihe United States Luther Evans Herald football expei and veteran University of Miami observer won the spot news division with his story on UM's loss to Colorado last year Full results page ID By CH 4RLE WHITED Herald Staff Writer Prisoners on trial for the Bay of Pigs invasion aie being divided Into three groups marked for execution imprisonment or "political Havana Radio indicated Saturday It not clear just how many of the 1179 would fall into each category but estimates were about 20 may go before firing squads Meanwhile the government recessed the trial until Monday The somber turn of events came as AX FNGIVFFR and recently-arrived exiles Miami reported the Cuban government is converting the Isle of Pines into a virtual fortress with tanks trenches and concrete emplacements AA AN A RADIO identified 10 prisoners singled out from among their fellows at the court martial and said they have admitted the invasion was masterminded by the Central Intelligence Agency CONTENTS of a letter purportedly written by an Inva sion captive was released by the Castro government claiming the invaders we're given false and intelligence information In Miami relatives of the invasion captives were reluctant to express their views for fear of jeopardizing the lives of loved ones However Roberto Garcia Ser-ra a member of the exiles Relatives Committee and father of one of the captives said the broadcast bv Havana's Radio Progieso did not clearly specify how many prisoners would be shot He said he is not alarmed for the safety of the prisoners Two of the 10 captives singled out were top leaders of the ill-faled attack Manuel Artime and llises Carbo The radio listed the oiher eight as Santiago Omar Lincoln Yabur Rodolfo Diaz Hernandez Pedro de Aimas Joige Alonso Puiol Pablo Organ-ville Jose Martinez Suarez and the Rev Fermin Asia Polo one of the invasion chaplains Artime former lieutenant in 7- Homesites Rile Park Official Uelses Soars 16 -f John Irises first athlete to clear 16 feet in the pole taull indoors does it again outdoors with I6-J4 ID 40 Iniifrtd 1 KiHtd $2 000 000 Dtmogt or Jon 4 1942 CSSSTVIEW (V MNSCOUr If 1 is Killed 7S Inturcd Mhere Twister Hit BLCKLEY 2G Sec 1-29E Sports 1-12D Thompson Sun Mag TV Ratio 1 Sun Mag Wmchell 19B Notebook Travel Womens Kofoed Mo ics Mumc Notu las rB J9R 7G 13B Real Estate Sec I' Miami's Future'! Bite FRf MIAMI HOME SHOW opens today! 2 PM Dinner Key Auditorium turned to their Havana pns- Turn to Page 2 A Col 8 Americans Chase Halt Berlin Reds BERLIN (UPI) American military police Saturday night chased down and halted a Russian bus load of soldiers at the East-West Berlin border shortly after the Soviets cracked down on the US military liaison mission in Potsdam East Germany A The Russians threw an armed guard arouid the Army liaison mission and in effect placed its membeis under house arrest The Soviet high command said membeis could not leave without a Russian escort and banned irips outside the city without special Russian passes The action was (aken In retaliation for US Aitny restrictions imprsed on the Russian Unison mission in the American zone ot Germany Thursday The restrictions were imposed because Fast German Communist police shot up ar American mission automobile in Fast Germany Satuiday night a Russian bus carrying armed Russian I soldins tiled to evade American controls on the last-West Berlin holder bus vva1 detained for 30 minutes and 1 then allowed to pioroed to the Russian war memoual in the British sector Vic (CONFUCIUS) Polk say "all joke about pool is very wet" Adv THE articulate voice William Buckley Jr starts his new weekly Sunday column 3G AMATEIR and professional artists to exhibit 01k in the Beaux Arts annual Clothesline Sale at Lowe Galleiy Univeisity of Miami IE SURAEIS of newspaper and television are examined by John Knight in his Publisher's Notebook 2G than 840 acres and advertwed as "beautiful Dreamland has sprung up privately-owned 8 000-acre area inside the park This are is locally known as hole the doughnut The majority If not ail of For an invitation you want to misg see the Ferma Glaze ad in today's Home Show section Adv ft 3 Amusements Rooks Financial 16-19R 8J 13-19D Ait 7G Deaths Clans 1-27C Goren Crossword I Sun Itcg Sun Mag tonwcope 20D Farms Gar Jumble 20-21 Fl Sun Mist MIAMI HOME SHOW OPENS TODAY! 2 PM Dinner Key Auditorium Glorv Be! Admission free! Dreamland Hole in Doughnut surrounded by national park (striped area) JL Herald Photo Park Official Walk in Dreamland Itates 4 coconut sprout plantings at right C4m3' i- MIAMI HOME SHOW' OPENS TODAY! 2 PM Adv Dinner Key Auditorium Glory Be! Admission free! Drag (today)) Amelia Earhart Field'--Hialeah Highest for Diamonds 140 7 Adv I.

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