Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1963 — Page 11

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Passages Os Pope’s Diary Are Published

VATICAN CITY (UPI) - “At evening in Sotto il Monte my brothers come to keep me company, and this is more dear to me than the company of princes.” Angelo Roncalli, later to become Pope John XXIJI, wrote this in his diary Sept. 11, 1939. Today it was published for the Man Is Convicted Os Murdering Wife INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) -An eight-man, four-woman jury convicted Vederman Shack, 34, of Indianapolis, of murder Wednesday for the knife death of his wife. The Indianapolis Criminal Court jury returned the verdict and a death sentence recommendation after 45 minutes of deliberation. Judge Saul I. Rabb set sentencing for Monday. Defense attorney James G. Nedeff said he would file a motion for a new trial. Shack stood trial for three days with his public defense attorney in the July 25 death of Mrs. Sylvia Shack. Shack was the only defense witness. He testified he found his wife kissing another man before the slaying. Nedeft said Shack's emotions went out of control and reacted in a fit of passion. Police said the man slashed his own throat and was in critical condition when they found him after the slaying. Witnesses testified Mrs. Shack had talked of divorce plans. Others said they saw Shack sharpening a butcher knife on the day of the killing. Bottle Cleaning Baking soda and hot water, added to a bottle that has contained sour milk, will help cleanse it. Shake with vigor, and rinse in cold water. A pinch of baking soda in water will clean milk bottles or buttermilk glasses if allowed to stand tor a short time. Paint Spatters Even when paint spatters have hardened on your floor, they are fairly easy to remove if moistened with fingernail polish remover, allowed in for a few minutes, then rubbed off with a cloth and washed with warm suds. The paint usually disappears, no matter how long it has been there.

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first time along with scores of other passages from the diary, in the Vatican City newspaper Osservatore Romano. The extracts, showing a man of modest and simple ways, add up almost to an autobiography and are certain to provide a wealth of information for future chroniclers of the life of John XXIIL There is, for example, this passage written just after his election as Pope in 1958; “First thanks. To accept with simplicity the honor and the burden of the pontificate with the joy of being able to say to have done nothing to provoke it: really nothing: rather with accurate and conscientious study to not furnish on my part any attention to my person.” This was followed by: “Second thanks. To have had some ideas appear to me as simple and immediate of execution not at all complex but rather very simple, but of vast weight and responsibility toward the future, and with immediate success. The expressions are these: To accept the good inspirations of the Lord: simpliciter et confidenter (exciaimer) (simply and with •trust).” The diary also tells how the idea of calling an Ecumenical Council first came to the Pope: “Without having thought about it before, to put out in a first talk with my secretary of state Jan. 2ft, 1959, the word of Ecumenical • Council, of diocesan synod and of recomposition of the code of canon law, without having first ever thought of it and contrary to my every supposition or imagination on this point. “The first to be surprised by this proposal of mine was I myself, without anyone ever giving me indication of it. “And to say that everything then seemed to me so natural in its immediate and continuous development. “After three years of prepara- ! tion, continuous and also happy and tranquil work, here we are at the base of the holy mountain. . May the Lord support us and . lead all to a good ending.” The date on which these passages were written was not stated in Qsservatore, but the reference i to three years of preparation in- > dipate they were written in 1962, ■ sometime before the Ecumenical . Council opened.

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Rightist Pressures Trouble Churches

By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Right - wing pressures which threatened to disrupt American churches have waned during the past year. But the radical right is still causing trouble for churches in Some communities. And even in areas where its influence has declined sharply, church leaders are wary of a possible resurgence. These observations are based on a nationwide survey conducted by the National Council of Churches. It asked state and local church councils in all sections of the country whether they have detected any change in rightist pressures, such as the “Communistsin - the - clergy” charges which sowed widespread confusion and discord among U.S. religious bodies in 1962. Most Report Drop Os the 96 state and local councils responding to the survey, 52 reported a decrease in such attacks. Fifteen others said they never had experienced any serious trouble. Fifteen councils said things are about the same, and 14 felt there has been some increase in right-

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ist pressure during the past yearAmong the areas reporting a notable improvement were several communities in Southern California and Arizona, where churches were perhaps more seriously demoralized by controversy than an where else in the nation. In Phoenix, for example, several congregations which were split wide open a year ago are now reported to be reunited. In Texas, another main center of rightist activity, a church leader said extremist groups “are not as blatant now, and are working with less fanfare.” He cautioned, however, that “in a few sizeable communities, the extreme right remains a powerful force.” Many of the respondents said that rightist groups are trying as hard as ever to stir up distrust of the clergy and the National Council of Churches, but church members are not listening to the attacks as critically as they • once did. ! A report from Denver spoke of “a more sane and balanced view ' by many church lay people” as • the major factor in a generally calmer climate. A church officia : in Long Beach, Calif., said re : sponsible church members art • “'wiser now about right-wing tac ’ tics than they were a year ago.’ “More of the people at ths grass roots level are beginning tc see through the fallacies of these attacks,” said a report from Wichita Falls, Tex. “People in our churches seerr more willing to look at the over all picture for themselves rathei than take someone’s word as authority,” said a church leader ir Spokane, Wash. Not all of the reports were op timistic, however. Front Miami Fla., the word was: “Little changs here... Miami still remains a dan gerous place to mention ‘Nation al Council of Churches.’ ” In Atlanta a church leader saic that “right-wing elements reallj strutted their stuff” when a dele gation of Russian churchmen visit ed the city during" March. “The minute our council takes I stand on race relations or som< other controversial social issue the right-wing pressures are jus as strong as ever against us,' said a report from Oklahoma. NEW PRESIDENT—Mrs. Helen Wood Bauman, editor of Christian Science periodicals, was named president of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, at the annual meeting of members of The Mother Church in Boston.

Tough Adjusting To Life In Washington By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — Good solid citizen types who come ..ere to fill high positions often go through a difficult period of adjustment. Getting acclimatized to life in the capital isn’t easy under the best of conditions. For some, it is a series of traumatic experiences, not the least of which is meeting the Washington press corps. Such was the case of Eadd Plumley, an estimable Worcester, Mass., insurance executive who has just completed a year of service here as president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Plumley’s term of office expires this week and as a parting gesture he gave a lunch for a group of us newsmen who either had written something about his tenure or, as the invitation said, had “threatened to.” Most Pleasant Affair It was a most pleasant affair and was capped off by a short • speech by the host entitled “Plumley’s farewell to the troops.” As a sociological document, casting insight upon the tribulations of public figures, I think it ranks with another Plumley speech entitled “Cliches my ' grandfather taught me.” 1 There are, Plumley told us, 1 “two truly tense moments that - come to all Chamber of Com--5 merce presidents. “The first is when he meets 1 the press and tries to answer their questions as frankly as good taste and a decent sense of re- , sponsibility will permit. " “The second is when he tries to " explain to his friends that he didn’t really say it that way.” These denials, Plumley added, i “take a little more skill” when a the press conference is televisedRecalls Debut g Plumley recalled that “I made t my Washington debut early last year before the National Press

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Club, where I outlined the cham- < ber's position on such non- i controversial subjects as tax re- 1 duction, tax reform, foreign aid, medicare and federal aid to education.” “It was a memorable occasion,” he said, and “I came away impressed by your grasp of public affairs.” What impressed him most, however, was a question about his haberdashery. A reporter noted that he was wearing a hard collar and asked if it were detachable. “I assured him that it was, that I always wore bard, detachable collars, and that in Worcester they were considered most economical and not particularly newsworthy,” Plumley said. “That appeared to satisfy him but it left me permanently scarred—sort of choked by my

own choker. To this day, I have not had the courage to wear a hard collar in public. “In many ways, I regard this as the Washington press corps’ number one accomplishment.” Drug User Is Held On Forgery Charge COLUMBUS, Ind. (UPD—Mark Corbitt, 59, Bowling Green, Ky., who police said had been using narcotics for at least 29 years, was held here today on charges of forging prescriptions. Police said Corbitt forged four prescriptions in the Columbus area and 15 in Shelbyville. Shelby County Prosecutor Phillip Brown said he would file charges against Corbitt, now being held at the Bartholomew County Hospital. Corbitt was arrested Sunday in Columbus after a druggist became suspicious and notified police. Authorities said Corbitt had obtained narcotics from the same drug store Twice. Authorities said Corbitt wore a patch over tone eye and told druggists he used, the narcotics as pain killers. Police said Corbitt was a medical student and used his knowledge of medicine to write prescriptions on stolen blanks. They said he wrote the prescriptions for cocaine and morphine on slips obtained from a doctor’s office in Madison. Authorities said Corbitt obtained most of the forms from waste containers and garbage bins in back of the office. Police said they checked with physicians in Madison after Corbitt’s arrest and learned how he obtained the prescription slips. Improvised Bottle Cap When wax polish looks streaky If you’ve lost the cap of a bottle, you can protect its contents by improvising a cap from a lump of modeling clay in the approximate shape of the original cap, and pressing this firmly over the bottle opening to form an air-tight seal.

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Book On Gardening Is Great Adventure By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD — They laughed when I moved into the suburbs and announced my intentions to grow a garden. “He doesn’t even know which end of the hoe to use,” they said rakishly. But I showed them. I went out and bought myself a gardening book. It was one of the greatest adventures of my life. A gardening book is guaranteed to give you more information than you can cope with on every phase of gardening except the one you are interested in. For instance, the book I purchased was completely silent on the subject of which end of the hoe to use. But I found that if you follow its instructions to the letter, you don't even need a hoe. If you have a surveyor’s transit, for measuring drainage angles and that sort of thing, and a fully equipped laboratory in your basement, you can get by quite nicely. Remembering my own bewilderment when first introduced to the complexities of simple home gardening, I felt a twinge of empathy the other day upon reading an article in Roll Call, the Capitol Hill weekly. Read Garden Column A contributor to the paper, Bernie Yudain, reported that he had acquired a patch with a few rose bushes and had begun reading the garden columns to find out how to take care of them. “One gathers you either go to chemical warfare school or forget the whole thing,” he wrote. “A typical paragraph goes like this: “Mulch your roses and be sure to guard against thrip, aphids, leaf mould, parasitical fungus, black-winged thyroids, Luxembourg beetles, red spider and widow mites. Use a solution of fledermouserane, two parts to one part quadziller killer No. 2, depriathain and molerouzath-quag-myre. Spray every hour for three weeks, with a mixture of this, curare powder and phosgene. Don’t neglect roots; insert anathoroid compound No. 3, five gallons per root and spread surface with mustard gas, cyanide and a commercial solution of strontium 90. - If this routine treatment fails, . the gardener might try napalm treatments. This will burn your rosebushes to the ground, of course, but it’s guaranteed to get rid of those pesky insects.” Not Exaggerated Much You think Yudain was exaggerating? Well, the day after his parody appeared, a local garden column carried the following paragraph: “Repeated spraying may be necessary to control lace bugs effectively. When you see the first signs of injury, begin treatment at nee. Malathion gives very good control of lace bugs. Sevin also gives good control. But if you spray with sevin, better include dimite or delthane for spider mite control, because sevin kills the insects which feed on mites without killing the mites themselves, and the mites can do about as much damage as the lace bugs.”