Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1963 — Page 2

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Middle Class Rise Feature In Mexico

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press International MEXICO CITY (UPI) - It is our pleasure today to have a chat With Senorita Isabel Valdez Ramirez, an attractive stenographer - translator for the Continental Emsco Co., distributors of oil field equipment Senorita Ramirez doubtless never thinks about it, but she is the end product of a series of revolutions in Mexico. Wars have been fought, presidents assassinated and the soil of Mexico soaked with blood to make it possible for her to have the job she holds, buy the things she buys and do the things she does. The outstanding development in Mexico in the last 30 years has been the rise of a middle class. Senorita Ramirez is a member of it. So are millions of other salaried employes, small- business men and union workers. Until the rise of the middle class Mexicans were either enormously wealthy—and there were precious few of them—or lived in grinding poverty. Modern Mexico can give as its birth date the day it became possible for girls like Senorita Ramirez to go out and get a job. Income Improving The per capita income of the Mexican middle class still is far below that of America. But it is getting better all the time and as it improves so do living conditions. Senoritz Ramirez earns $240 a month. Here is her budget: Clothes, cosmetics and beauty parlors, $120; lunches, S2B; transportation, $1.60; filter cigarettes, $1.92; ballet lessons, $7,20; Italian lessons, $8; income tax per month $1.28; rent, none because she lives with her parents; savings for vacation, Christmas etc., $72. In the romantic atmosphere of Mexico it s eemed ungallant t o ask Senorita Ramirez her age or why she spent half her income on clothes and beauty treatments. Suffice it to say that she is in

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her early twenties and matrimony is not excluded from her plans. The Spaniards conquered Mexico in the 16th century and began to mingle and inter-marry with the dark-skinned Indians. As a result there are three racial types in the nation today—Spaniards, persons of mixed blood and Indians. It is impossible to arrive at precise figures but the ratio in the present population is about this; Spaniards, 'ls per cent; mixed blood, 56 per cent; Indians, 29 per cent. No Mexican is handicapped because of his racial origin. One of the national heroes is Benito Juarez, a full blooded Indian who in 1855 led a reform movement that eventually was to change Mexico from a feudalistic state into a modern nation. Slow, Painful Transformation It was a slow, painful and bloody transformation. In. the process large estates were seized and turned over to the peasants, American oil property was expropriated, unions were organized

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and— only since 1953—women were allowed to vote. The result was a more equitable distribution of the national income and more jobs available. And more leisure time. The average Mexican embraced this joyously. There is no country in the world where so rpany different sports are played and watched. The Mexicans have bull fighting, jai alai, boxing, wrestling, tennis (very good, too), baseball, golf, horse racing, swimming, fishing, judo and two kinds of football—American and soccer. If all of these things should pall, a Mexican can invest 24 cents in a ticket on the proletariat national lottery and dream of winning $24,000. The government operates several types of lotteries, and in two blocks you are likely to encounter six persons peddling tickets. The government’s share goes to welfare projects. Proceeds of the national lottery have built a 32acre medical center and provided $4 million a year for breakfasts for school children. Many TV Sets One estimate, possibly too high, is that there are 500,000 television sets In Mexico City alone. Antenna sprout from almost every shack in the poorer sections of the capital. In any event the

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Mexicans are great fans for television and the radiQ. There is great interest in American TV. Perry Mason wins all his cases as easily in Spanish as he does in English. Paladin’s six-gun speaks the same language in Mexico as it does in the United States, but the words that come out of his mouth are Spanish. American TV is so popular that 500 Mexican actors have yearround work dubbing Spanish on the films. Rich or poor, the average Mexican is a neat fellow. You almost never see a man who needs a hair cut. The shining of shoes is a major industry and there are an average of three bootblacks to the block in the large Cities. It is mandatory to have your shoes shined once a day, but some Mexicans exercise the option of having it done once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When business is dull, the bootblacks shine each other’s shoes. The going price is one peso—eight cents. Neatness extends to your automobile and no Mexican allows much dust to settle on his car. Boys with buckets and sponges go up and down the Jine of parked automobiles doing a brisk business at 24 cents a car. Less Tense Than Yanks It probably is a dangerous generalization, but the average Mexican seemed to this correspondent to be happy and much less tense than Americans. Sergio Moreno Zavala, 48, owns a small carpenter shop and employs three helpers. He pays S2B a month rent for a two-bedroom apartment. His three sons are out on their own now and his 14-year-old daughter is living at home until she is old enough to go to secretarial school. The Zavalas go to the movies once or twice a week, listen to Mexican “ranch music” (Western ballads) over the radio, have beef steak twice a week and the head of the family likes to buy a general admission seat to baseball and soccer games. After he has paid his helpers and purchased lumber, Zavala has an average monthly profit of $l2O. He is not concerned because it is not larger and does not plan to expand his business. He is old enough to remember that it would have been impossible for his father to do what he is doing—be your own boss and run your own business. - . I r ? ‘ ~ wHte * ** B ' , ■■■l '■■ SENTENCED—WiIIiam Marlowe, 40, former policeman who touched off a Cleveland, Ghio, police scandal, was sentenced to 3 to 50 years on conviction of burglary.

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Predicts Annual Assembly Session

By HORTENSE MYERS United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A prediction that Indiana eventually will have annual meetings of its now biennial legislature came today from a veteran participant in future legislative planning. Miss Jean Clemons, secretary to the Indiana Legislative Advisory Commission since its activation six years ago, made the comment as she stood in the middle of her biennial office-moving job. The LAC, which functions as an interim body between sessions of the legislature, normally occupies the Senate post office, but becomes virtually inactive when the lawmakers are in session. “I’ll be at the front desk in the House either as a minute or journal clerk,” she said in an explanation of her duties for the 61 days starting with opening of the 1963 Legislature Thursday. Miss Clemons, a native of Indianapolis, who calls Rockville her legal residence, sits in on every meeting of the LAC and at many conferences of its subcommittees which make studies leading to new legislation. “The commission is very necessary and accomplishes much that could not be done during the session. Believed Wise Move “Personally, I think we eventually will see a fiscal session of the entire legislature, on the even years. Several leading people are thinking seriously that this would be a wise move,” she said. This would mean that the legislature. which now meets only on odd-numbered years, would meet annually but the “in-between” session would be a short one concerned only with budget matters. Miss Clemons said such an arrangement would permit Indiana

Former Local Man Is Plant Manager John F. Newhard, a Decatur high school graduate, has been named the new plant manager in charge of the entire operation at the American Screw Company in Wytheville, Va. Newhard has held a similar position at the Shakeproof division of the Illinois Tool Works for IQ years before moving to Wytheville recently. s A 1932 graduate of Decatur high school, Newhard is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Orie Newhard, 616 N. Seventh St., Decatur. His sister, Mrs. Jerry Ross, resides at 227 N. 16th street in this city. Newhard was born in Preble, and recently moved to Wytheville from Arlington Heights, Hl. His other positions include five years with the A. L. Smith Corp, in Milwaukee; a period of time with the Highway Trailer Co. in Edgerton, IH. He also spent five years with the U. S. Steel Corp, plants at Gary and in Pittsburgh. According to the Southwest Virginia Enterprise, Newhard is “a man extremely well qualified by training, ability and experience for the post.” He has been an active civic and church leader in Illinois. His wife is a native of Newman, Ga.. is a registered nurse, and also very active in the civic and church activities at Arlington Heights. They have two children,

to continue with its “citizen legislature" tradition. One of the main reasons Indiana has clung to its 61-days-every-other - year plan is because it wants the members of its legislature to be drawn from a wide range of occupations and not “professional legislators.” Annual pay amounts to SI,BOO a year. “The fact that it isn’t the salary which attracts our legislators means we get some excellent members who are interested in the future of. the state,” Miss demons believes. Career In Industry She came into legislative background work from a career in industry. “I worked for DuPont de Nemours at the Wabash River Ordnance Plant at Newport, and for Eastern Trucking Co. at Terre Haute. I’ve also worked fop a loan company and a lumber company,’’ she said. After her wartime marriage ended in divorce, Miss Clemons was interested in a different type as work and Warden Buchanan, Rockville, then Indiana Public Service Commission chairman, persuaded her to go to work tor the 1953 Legislature as a clerk. “I love it,” she said of the legislature. ‘'l hate these people who act as if the legislature is some form of a circus. These people who come here to make laws are a cross-section of our state. Most of them are leaders in their own communitis. “They are here to do what they think is best for the state, at least most of them are and I don’t like the attitude that he legislature is something to be endured for 61 days every other year.”

| Modern Etiquette | I By Roberta Lee • Q. In a home where there is no service, and where the serving dishes are put on the table, how are the dishes started around the table? A, Properly, the host by offering a dish to the woman on his right, and the hostess from her end of the table starts another dish on its way around the table to her right. Q. If the list of guests to be invited to a wedding is so small that engraved invitations aren’t necessary, how should the bride invite her guests? A. She should write each invitation personally. Q. When a man and woman are walking together in the rain, and both have umbrellas, does each one use his own umbrella? A. This usually proves too awkward. It is much better if both walk under the man’s larger umbrella. Q. Should a doctor be addressed in the salutation of a letter as “Dear Doctor Jackson,” oh merely as “Dear Doctor”? A. Neither Is correct. The word “doctor” should be abbreviated, the proper form being, "Dear Dr. Jackson.” John F., Jr., a spohomore at Ripon college, Wisconsin, and Nancy, 14, a freshman in high school. Newhard plans to move his famly to Wytheville near the end of January.

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Grand Jury To Study Charges Against Walker OXFORD, Miss. (UPD—A federal grand jury convenes here today to take up charges against 11 persons, including former Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker, arrested in connection with racial rioting at the University of Mississippi. The 11 face a variety of charges, including rebellion, insurrection and conspiracy to oppose the authority of the United States. The grand jury takes up the charges a day after Negro student James H, Meredith’s announcement that he will not attend “Ole Miss” next semester “unless definite and positive changes are made.” Meredith’s enrollment Sept. 30 sparked rioting in which two persons were killed and scores were wounded. Conditions Not Specified The 29-year-old Negro, under increasing pressure from slipping grades and shooting incidents directed at his family, did not specify the conditions under which he would remain in the university, but he said the changes would have .to “make my situation more conducive to learning.” He emphasized he was not Utting the school outright. “Rasher,

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my decision is not to attend the university next semester under the present circumstanees,” he said. The riot cases were not the only ones scheduled before the grand jury, and any indictments handed down probably would not come up for trial until next May when the U.S. District Court for Northern Mississippi begins hearing trial cases. — Appeals to Parties Meredith’s statement brought an immediate appeal from Atty. — Gen. Robert Kennedy, who asked that state and school officials meet the conditions. Kennedy said that if Meredith leaves the university “it would be a reflection” on the United States. He urged school and state officials to “make it possible for Mr. Meredith to continue his educa. tion without interruption.” The attorney general also urged Meredith to consider “hopes of many of his fellow citizens” before leaving school. University Chancellor John D. Williams Monday night strongly «. defended the school administration and said the school has “fully complied” with all federal court orders in the Meredith case. Williams said the university has “fallowed closely the counsel of practicing attorneys to make certain the compliance was complete, both to the letter and the spirit of such orders.” He said the administration and faculty “have doneaUthatwas reasonable and proper to insure the best possible education for all students.”