Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1964 — Page 6

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Politicians In State Wooing City Mayors By EUGENE J. CADOU United Press International INDIANAPOLIS <UPI> — Although Republicans won 62 city halls to only 49 for the Democrats in the municipal election, there’s another side of tha story. The hard facts of that election are that the vote total of the Democrats was 430.652 and that of the GOP was 428.758. Thus it would appear that the two parties are entering the big election campaign year of 1964 with nearly equal voy i n g strength. The upshot may be quite close races for political

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offices. The chief advantage of the GOP is the fact that it will have more working political machines for this year’s campaign. Many more thousands of city hall employes will be available for the day-by-day political chores which are so necessary in a successful campaign. Hence, both Republican and Democrat aspirants for governor and other offices are wooing the mayors who control these municipal workers. Payrollers Active _ These payrollers will undertake such tasks as taking the polls, staging the morning coffee parties and making the arrangements for and comprising the bulk of the audience at the night meetings. The contribu tuions tambourine also will be shaken in front of them even as it is before the thousands of state employes. The lot of a municipal employe is not a happy one. Salaries are comparatively

low and job security is almost nothing, being dependent upon the turn of the political wheel. Then there are the many hours of campaign work after the city hall offices close for the day. It would seem that it would be difficult to recruit a staff to carry on city business. But such is not the case. Politics fascinates ‘ many otherwise normal persons, and they often vie for these precarious posts as moths are lured to the flame. Natives Restless The natives of the Statehouse are Restless these days because Gov. Welsh appears to be delaying his indorsement of a Democratic gubernatorial nominee. Many of the department heads and minor officials under them would like to line up with a candidate who seems likely to be a winner. The big idea, naturally. is to keep their jobs or even to acquire more important posts. The earlier a politico joins

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80-Year-Old Woman Is Busy Painter INDIANAPOLIS (DPI) — Eighty-year -old Lillie H. McMullen, a former art instructor at colleges in South Carolina and Kentucky, is, one of Indiana’s busiest portrait painters. The elderly woman, a native forces with a candidate the better will be his status if the man is a winner. ' 1 Therefore, a number of these state officials are likely to jump the gun on the governor, sometimes a dangerous procedure. A governor loses much political potency in the dying days of his administration. Nevertheless, it is believed generally that Gov. Welsh will have at least a veto power over any of the candidates because of his patronage organization.

of Columbia. S. C., is the daughter of one college president, the widow of a college professor and one of her three children also is a college professor. Mrs. McMullen now lives in Bloomington where her son. Dr. Haynes McMullen is an Indiana University professor. Despite her age and her full schedule in portrait painting, she took time to help with a new project which has brought many visitors to the Indiana Statehouse lobby. The new approach toward making art more popular is the Statehouse Art Salon for Hoosiers. A display of 85 paintings by members of the Hoosier Hills Art Guild, of which Mrs. McCmullen was the first member, is now showing, to be succeeded next month by another Indiana art group’s exhibit. The 80-year-old selected not a portrait — which probably would have little popular interest—but a still life called “Basement Corner” for her part in

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the Statehouse exhibit. Carl Mitchell, Bloomington, chairman of the salon, said that Mrs. McMullen’s “warm smile and willingness to share her talent have made her one of the most loved and respected of our local artists.” The Hoosier Hills guild included artists not only from Monroe County but also from Owen, Brown and other counties. • For her part, Mrs. McMullen observed that “my membership has acquainted me with many fine artists and their friendships have given inspiration to continue painting.” She began painting as a child and studied in New York, Sarasota, Fla., and Cincinnati. She taught art at Leesville College, S. C„ where her father was president at one time. Then for 16 years she was an instructor on the staff at Centre College, Danville, Ky., where her late husband was Bible professor. Many of her some 200 portraits hung in various homes and public places are of professional people, including college presidents, bankers, lawyers, doctors and teachers.

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Two Orthodox Leaders Call On Pope Paul VATICAN CITY (UPD—Two leaders of the Eastern Orthodox Church called on Pope Paul VI today to express the “joy and recognition” of Patriarch Atenagoras I for his meetings with the pontiff in the Holy Land. The two men spent a halfhour with the Pope in what was seen as another move toward healing the 900-year schism between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.

They were Metropolitan Maximus of Laodicea and Metropol itan Athenagoras of Thiatiron, who has the same name as the patriarch. It was Metropolitan Athenagoras' first meeting with the pontiff since the Pope’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he met the patriarch.

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The presence of Maximus at the audience, in the Pope’s private library, was unexpected. An “unofficial” Vatican communique..said he had been passing through Rome from Germany to Istanbul “and wanted to join with the metropolitan of Thiatiron in presenting his homage to the holy father.” The communique gave no other details of the talks except to say Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople (Istanbul) had sent the Pope his “joy and recrecognition” for their historic meeting. The pontiff presented Metropolitan Athenagoras with a liturgical calendar for 1964 and an album of photographs of his encounter with the patriarch. Conferred With Pope The metropolitan had conferred with the pontiff in the Holy Land on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6. But he also said he would discuss “some things” with Vatican officials. This was taken as a reference to recent moves toward the unity of Catholic and Orthodox beliefs that were in itiated by the pontiff and the patriarch.