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THE DAILY BANNER Famous Statue Going To Japan I’AlilS I'PT Shf^’s the most beautiful armless woman in the world, but the problem is she weighs a ton. So Louvre officials have decided the only way to get \ onus de \lilo on a slow boat to Japan will be to build a special crate for her Net Ions after Mona Lisa’s trip to the United States, France is sending another famous woman on a goodwill cultural mission. This time Venus de Milo, aged

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approximately 2,163 years, will Already Venus has been examtravel halfway around the world ined by experts and pronounced to make a personal appearance in good condition to travel. Less next -pi ing in connection with risk will be involved than was the 1964 Olympic Ganas in .la- the trip to Washington of Mona

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Lisa, or “La Joconde.” She had been painted by Leonardo Da Vinci on a fragil piece of wood that could have been harmed for-

pan.

The beauty has not made a voyage outside France since sh<

was installed in the sprawling ever even by a thange in tem-

Louvre museum shortly after her

discovery in

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THE CITY government cf Milan, Italy, will take care of funerals free of charge beginning next July. You can’t take it with you in Milan, either, but at least you can leave it. I ! ! ifilan fs a great Communist Stronghold Italy. Probably that's ichy the government announced, "We’ll bury you.’* Ill Free funerals should give the Milanese a great peace of mind. They won't care if it's later than they think. Ill Milan’s gratis funerals open tin new horizons for the Cham-

ber of Commerce. "Come to Milan to Die.” ! ! J Well, we’ve all got to go sometime, Put in Milan it's on a pass. ! ! ! Milan's free funerals will have ♦he comforting effect of increasing the number of mourners, too. All taxpayers. ! ! ! The high cost of dying has been the subject of critical comment in the U. S. With funeral bills the way they are, it’s no wonder our longevity rate is am the rise.

A FREE MAN FIRST TIME THIS CENTURY—Sentenced to prison for life for murder in 1899. paroled Richard Honek (left), known as the loneliest man in America, steps through the double gates of Menard State Penitentiary In Chester, 111, to freedom. Following him are Warden Ross Randolph and parole supervisor H. W. Shupback.

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CHAMPAIGN. HI. (UP) — There are more man 1U0 zoonoses, diseases common to man . u animals, says me University of Illinois School of Agriculture.

They include rabies, tuberculosis and encephalitis.

Americans consumed 16.06 pounds of coffee per person in 1961, according to a Census Bureau summary.

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in getting A ministry of culture official

her to Japan is her weight,” was said Venus will be insured for the ungallant but honest state- her tri P , ‘ for tho highest amount ment of the Louvre spokesman, awarded an art masterpiece.” He “She weighs a ton. She is made ackled that her value “is price-

of white marble, but fragile.” less.”

The specialists in shopping at '

the Louvre are making blueprints for a special box strong enough to withstand the lady with the three-foot waist and four-foot

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SACRAMENTO,, Calif. (UPIl The State Department of Agri-

hips. Inside, the 6.6 foot statue culture has supplied an answer will be fixed firmly by Braces so to the following riddle: What is it will not jiggle or touch the it than annually costs Californwood. ians $365 million a year even Then Venus will be whisked though they don t want it? under heavy guard to a French Give up? So do many Caliport and hoisted carefully aboard fornians, because the answer is a ship to Japan. Plans have not weeds. been made for a boarding cere- But never-say-die experts have mony, but it’s expected one will scheduled a state conference here be staged with Japanese officials, January 21-23 to try to figure out an honor guard and scores of how to cut the price Californians police to prevent any Venus must pay for their unwanted possnatching. sessions.

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WASHINGTON MARCH OF EVENTS

WASHINGTONIANS STILL FRET ABOUT SUCCESSION

AGES OF NEXT IN LINE PRESENT REAL PROBLEM

McCormack

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he’s elderly.

By HENRY CATHCART

Central Press W<ishington Writer TCTASHINGTON—Seventy-two-year-old House Speaker John \V McCormack is first in line to succeed to the presidency in event of the death or incapacitation of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Eighty-six-year-old Sen. Carl Hayden, president pro tempore of the Senate, is second in line. This practical application of the presidential succession law that was adopted following the death in 1945 of Franklin D. Roosevelt causes utmost concern in some serious-thinking quarters in Washington and around the nation. No one wants to be critical of either man, but there is deep conviction that neither could adequately discharge the duties of the presidency or withstand the pressures of that high office. These factors, plus realization that a further change in the succession law in time to remedy the situation is a practical impossibility, is what is causing all the seeking for quick

solution to the problem.

The simplest would be to have McCormack and Hayden resign their positions and have both houses of Congress replace them with younger men of broader scope. But congressional leadership reaction to this idea is sharp-

ly negative, and therefore must be discarded, for the time being anyway. Public pressure for change could revise this estimate. Another Johnson heart attack, for instance, probably would quickly cause the House to elect another speaker, regardless of McCormack’s personal determination not to resign the post. The fact is that a speaker serves only at the pleasure of the House. There are some indications that the White House itself is unhappy about the present line of succession. Whatever is done from that quarter will be done most privately, but Johnson has had a notable success in persuading Congress to go his way.

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• ONE JOHNSON CHANGE—President Johnson can be expected to rely much more heavily on his Cabinet than John F. Kennedy did. Under the late president it got so that almost the only time Cabinet members saw each other, other than at official functions, was when they took the initiative and arranged a

joint lunch.

Kennedy preferred to make his own decisions after working matters out with the officials of the departments or agencies particularly concerned. He took the position that the secretary of Commerce, for example, should not be asked to keep up on the intricacies of the Defense Department, or vice versa. Johnson, however, is more of a team man—more intent on getting all possible expressions of views before making a decision. Besides, Johnson needs the aura of the Kennedy administration around him.

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• HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT—One of the song hits from “My Fair Lady” is titled “On the Street Where You Live.” Rep. Carlton Sickles of Maryland received a complaint from a con-

stituent who bemoaned the destruction of some scenic suburbia to make way for a super-high-way. The complaint was in the form of a song— parodied on that song from “My Fair Lady.”

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“The petunias here always bloomed before. / There were daffodils at everybody’s door. / But we’ve come to grief,/And now a cloverleaf/Is all that blooms on the street where I live.” As the highway pregram develops across the nation, that sac refrain could become one of the hit songs of the decade.

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THE PALESTINE of Jesus' time Is shown on this map. Names of places are of that period. The Philadelphia on the midright, for instance, now is Amman, capital of Jordan. Indiana Youths Win National Honors At National 4-H Meeting in Chicago

Indiana has scored high again in claiming 10 of the 207 national and regional award recipients for 1963, according to

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the National 4-H Service Committee. Four of them announced at the recent National 4-H Club

Congress in Chicago are named here. Allan Goecker, 21, of Seymour, was among the 12 national winners in the 4-H Achievement program presented with scholarships by the Ford Motor Company Fund. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Goecker. Coats & Clark Inc. awarded a scholarship to Paulette LeCount, 17, of Wawaka. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul LeCount, she was one of 12 national winners in the clothing program. Douglas Norris, 20. son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Norris, of Manilla, was one of 12 national leadership winners. He received his scholarship from the SearsRoebuck Foundation. Miss Janis Lindsey, 16, of Columbia City, was one of eight champions to receive the General Motors 4-H safety scholarship. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Lindsey,

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A mine in Louisiana contains enough salt to supply the world’s needs for centuries.

900-YEAR SPLIT CLOSING?—The projected January meeting in the Holy Land between Pope Paul VI of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop Athenagoras I of the Eastern Orthodox Church will be the first confrontation by the heads of the two churches since they split in 1054 A.D. The Eastern Orthodox headquarters is in Istanbul, Turkey, which was ancient Byzantium, eastern Roman empire capital.

CENTENNIAL SCRAPBOOK The War for the Union 1861-65 in Pictures

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“A winter in tents is monotonous. Card playing, horse-racing and kindred intellectual amusements become stale when made a steady occupation. Visits to distant camps, long rides, leaping fences or chats with the Johnnies on their outposts fail to be exciting after a while,” Robert Stoddart Robinson, a young officer from Ohio, wrote from Meade’s Union Army of Potomac a century ago. December 1863 had brought a cessation of combat raids and light skirmishes; the major MILLIGAN’S PATENT MESS KETTLE cfttotfce* coos

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forces on both sides were holed up in camps the third winter in succession. “Beans were bet and won on all sorts of games, until beans palled on the sight, as they had long before on the taste ” Robinson continued. “For a time we amused ourselves with work. We found a dilapidated sawmill without saws and purchased saws. Soon we were sawing lumber to improve our tents and cabins.” ^ Two improvements much desired by tent- < dwellers were floors and box sides, for warmth and dryness. Chimneys or flues were devised of barrels, mud, d* what not, to enable the occupants to enjoy the comforts of patent stoves for heating and indoor cooking with elaborate mess kits [see examples at left] put on the market as the war lengthened, which home-folk could ship to the camps, or the soldiers themselves could buy from sutlers or wagon peddlers. Reading was the one wintertime occupation that never palled on the soldiers, it is indicated in contemporary letters. Books, magazines, comic-books (yes, they had them in 1863), newspapers were in continuous demand. The soldier whose Christmas box contained such solid reading matter as Scott, Cooper, Dickens, Thackeray, Shakespeare, had attention from a succession of borrowers or barterers. Confederate soldiers had a corresponding I hunger for reading matter, but Northern authorities did not systematically exploit this opportunity to distribute publication as a means of winning over Rebels to Northern promises and purposes. —CLARK KINXAIRD

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