1 THE SPRINGFIELD SUNDAY REPUBLICAN, SPRINGFIELD, DECEMBER 30, 1962 'I Brought Along a F. A SE TAX BUTGET DEFICIT CUTE CONCRE State and Local Topics A New Administration Endicott Peabody will take his oath of office as governor of Massachusetts from Senate President John E. Powers, Boston, Thursday at quarter past noon. At that time, he will formally start his administration with his inaugural address. The message will contain matters of deep interest to all citizens of the state, concerning facets in the lives of each of us.
Reference will probably he made to the fiscal condition of Massachusetts, but the major emphasis on that will be withheld a few weeks until the budg. et message is submitted. Gov. Peabody will have strongly Democratic House and Senate to give support to his program. But it is to he expected that he will not have easy' going with all of his program.
There are personality conflicts in each of the two branches which come from various events in previous turbulent campaigns. It is probable that the Republican minorities in both the House and Senate will have their eyes firmly fixed on the 1964 election. Parts of the Peabody program probably will be attacked in the hope that this will form the nucleus of antagonism to the new governor sufficient to switch some 2500 votes back to a Republican candidate for that office. Another obstacle of sorts will he the Governor's Council. Most of its members will be veterans of several terms in that body.
but in the coming two years there will be one Republican in that hody, a lady who won with the slogan based on her name, "We need a Heckler in the Council." Against this, it i is to be recalled that Peabody himself served in the Council and knows how it works from first-hand experience. To be the commissioner of administration and finance, the governor-elect has chosen William Waldron who brilliantly headed the former Baby Hoover Commission. Waldron is skilled in the operation of Massachusetts agencies. Highly persuasive and personable, he should prove to be a key figure in the administration of Gov. Peabody.
For other posts, Peabody has chosen men who have considerable experience in politics and who have demonstrated loyalty to him. As in the case with every new administration, there will be some jostling for position and for access to the gubernatorial ear among the staff members, but a few months will I cy in 1952 or in 1956. But as seen from this corner, he has been at his best at the United Nations and has grown better. As time has gone on, the attack on him in the Saturday Evening Post has been more and more discredited, as have its authors. We should still regret to think that the authors of that article were consciously lying.
But, as the facts in regard to it have been added up, it has been conclusively established that what they reported was not true. Springfield A a 0 Republican December 30. 1962 Seventy-Two Pages SUNDAY SUBSCRIPTION. RATES: ONE MONTH. 85 CENTS; ONE QUARTER, HALF YEAR, ONE YE.R, $10.
All Subscriptions Payable in Advance (Second-class postage paid at Springfield, Published at 32 Cypress Springfield, Mass. Tel. RE 2-3112 The Two-Term Amendment A strangely situation has developed in regard to the constitutional amendment limiting any President to two terms. The amendchiefly because Republican originally, adopted desire to eliminate the possibility of the recurrence of the four terms which had been won by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It is. however, a matter of record that Eisenhower repeatedly expressed the opinion that the amendment was unwise. Yet now comes President Kennedy expressing approval of the amendment. Regardless of what any President or ex-President about it, the amendment is not likely ever to be changed. As the situation stands, the question arises as to what President Kennedy will do with himself if he is re-elected in 1964 and leaves the White House in January.
1969 at the ripe age of 51. That is an age at which most past Presidents have just begun to think about running. Of course Kennedy could then occupy himself by campaigning for the Democratic party just as Eisenhower has been campaigning for the Republican party. It has often been suggested, however, that an ex-President be given a seat, with or without a vote, in the Senate. "The Great Illusion" In the first decade of this century "The Great Illusion," a bock by an English author, Sir Norman Angell, made so great an impression that it was lated into 11 languages.
Its thesis was that war had become no longer possible because war would cost too much. A few years later came World War I. It lasted nearly four years and was marked by abominable massacres committed by the Germans, which have been forgotten because overshadowed by the even more abominable massacres committed by the Germans and the Russians in World War I. Do we today rest upon another great illusion. the illusion that the cost of a nuclear war would be so great in human life on both sides that no nation so armed would dare to resort to war? The circ*mstances are not exactly same, vet the situation in the world today.
after the Russians' removal of their nuclear arms from Cuba, is enough like the first illusion to recall it and to raise the question whether the present illusion is any more dependable. Building Public Opinion In making use of able Republicans, President Kennedy has not vet gone as far as President Roosevelt did in World War 11 when he made Henry L. son secretary of war and Frank Knox secretary of the navy. over the protests of some reactionary Republicans who charged both Stimson and Knox with being deserters and revealed themselves as putting party allegiance above to the nation. But the use ident Kennedy is making of Christian A.
Herter, former resentative, governor of Massachusetts 'and then secretary of state under Eisenhower, is noteworthy. Herter rendered large service, as Eisenhower did also, in supporting the trade expansion act. That act, intended to enable us to take full economic advantage of our association with the European Common Market, has been called by some observers the most important piece of legislation that Kennedy has yet secured from Congress. Herter's continued service along the same line is now by making him of a commission to provide further support. Meanstime, the performance of former Gov.
Le Roy Collins of on a less formally yet highly important basis, as czar of the TV industry, by it, attracts attention and within the ranks of the industry itself. Collins has called on the industry to do less cigaret adver.tising during the hours within which teen-agers are assumed to make their chief use of TV and therefore to be most influenced by what they see and hear. This has taken courage fon the part of an Collins. element in There the seems to be industry which, because of the importance of cigaret Editorial Comment Post-Season Football Eastern college football goes unrepresented in the annual New Year's Day bowl games. In the whole post-season program, in fact, enthusiasts have been more nearly concerned with the appearance of Penn State (9-1), beaten only by Army and rated the region's top team, in the Gator Bowl and of Villanova in the Liberty Bowl, plus the participation of a few individuals in the East-West and North-South charity games.
As it is, seven of the eight entries in the holiday contests are from the South and West, and save for Oklahoma's 7-3 opening win over Syracuse none of them played an eastern eleven this year. Neither did Wisconsin (8-1), representing the Western Conference in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena against Southern California, the latter acclaimed the nation's loading college team for 1962. Badgers and Trojans met and defeated three common focs Illinois, Iowa and Notre Dame -by aggregate scores, respectively, of 94-28 and 61-16. On their records, the eight New Year's contestants are all among the national leaders. Southern California with 10 victories and Mississippi with nine are unbeaten and untied, while Texas, which takes on Louisiana State (8-1-1) in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, won nine but was tied by Rice.
Mississippi's opponent in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl will be Arkansas (9-1), while Oklahoma (8-2) faces Alabama (9-1) in Miami's Orange Bowl. Actually, eastern successes in post-season bowls have not been too numerous, though Penn State has done well in recent years. A few others have occurred here and there, but the last eastern triumph in the Rose Bowl was Pittsburgh over Washington back in 1937. First eastern win at Pasadena was Harvard, the Crimson shading Oregon, 7-6, in 1920, and the only other in many attempts was Columbia in 1934, 7-0 over Stanford. Ivy League restrictions forbid, but New Englanders would have relished a clash between Dartmouth's league champions, ranked second in the East, and an outstanding team from some other section.
Dartmouth, with King, Spangenberg and McKinnon in starring roles, won all nine games on its schedule, one more than the 1925 outfit paced by "Swede" Oberlander; only the Rose Bowl was open at that time, and Dartmouth didn't go. This year's title was Dartmouth's second in the league's seven seasons as a formal organization; only Yale has done as well. Team records over that period, incidentally, show Dartmouth in first place with 36 losses and two ties, followed by Princeton's 34-15-0. Yale with 26-21-2 and Harvard with 26-23-0 round out the first division. usual, the various bowlgame lineups include a number of popular All-America citoices.
With so many of the country's leading teams involved, these special engagements, as fans in the cold Northeast who look at, listen to or read about them will concede, afford a welcome bonus of excitement and exploit long after the regular season ended. During the past fall (has college football drew a record attendance of more than 000 spectators. International Whirligig By RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON Nikita Krushchev's recent statement that Russia should copy what is successful in "bourgeois capitalist' countries comes as no surprise to those who have been closely following economic conditions in Europe. "Learn From Khrushchev went so far as to tell the Central Committee of the Communist Party: should remember Lenin's injunction to he able, if necessary, to learn from the capitalistsimitate whatever they have that is good and profitable." "Profitable'? That's what he said. Earlier this year, O.
K. Antonov, a leading aircraft designer, that Soviet, industry was riddled with and inefficiency because it lacked what engineers term a factor provided by capitalism by market forces and competition." Under Stalin those remarks might have resulted in the shooting of some one. Faulty Production Antonov wrote that Russian (Continued on Page 1C) Reporter's Notebook By FRANK B. MURRAY That proposal has never received much visible support. The proposal that the beaten nominee in the presidential election be given a Senate seat has received even less support.
There are other possibilities. A "graduate" of two terms in the White House could run for a seat in the House of Representatives, as John Quincy Adams did. In the House Adams had a long and useful career which has come to be looked upon as more noteworthy than his. career in the White House. Ilis special service lay in upholding the right of petition.
Most of the petitions which he insisted on reading, in spite of the "gag rule" adopted to silence him, came from those opposed to slavery. In the end, 1 he simply wore down the upholders of slavery, forced them to rescind the "gag rule" and up held the right of petition as above challenge. There seems little doubt today that either Eisenhower or Kennedy, after two terms in the White House. would be elected to the House of Representatives if he chose to run. What will happen no one can foretell.
But it will be worth watching if it adds to the evolution of our form of government. ling to TV, is anxious to get rid of Collins. There is some similarity in that situation to the unfortunate and divided decision in New York not to make the requirement of a minimum age for those to whom alcoholic drinks are served 21 years, as it is in neighboring states, instead of only 13 as it apparently will remain in. New York for the mediate present. In all of these matters there is a call for public opinion to assert itself, either in continued but necessary support of what has already been accomplished or in support of what ought to be accomplished.
Error at the Bay of Pigs President Kennedy's admission that an error was made at! the time of the abortive invasion of Cuban refugees at the Bay of Pigs has now been followed by a repetition of that admission by his brother and clos-" est adviser, Atty, Gen. Robert F. Kennedy. This makes doubly necessary a clarification as to just what the admitted error was. On the one side are those who claim that it lay in not furnishing the expected air cover.
That is a view of Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce and of Adm. Arleigh Burke. Burke," former chief of naval operations. There are others who feel that the admitted error was in permitting the invasion to takc place, for which Preseident Kennedy honorably but necessarily accepted the responsihility, since he had been in office long enough to have stopped it.
Stevenson's Future at UN Debate continues over Adlai Stevenson's future prestige as our ambassador to the United Nations. Some observers, who are perhaps less objective than subject to their prejudices and party allegiances, seem confident that Stevenson's prestige will suffer as long AS he remains at his present post. Without violating the wisel saying that prophecy is the most gratuitous form of human error, it seems possible that Stevenson's prestige will grow stronger rather than weaker. Certainly it is a factor in his favor that Russia's deputy foreign minister, Ambassador Zorin. has been abruptly withdrawn from the UN without any explanation of his humiliating demotion.
It was with Zorin that Stevenson had his most striking exchange when he declared that he would wait "until hell freezes over" for a direct answer to his question whether Zorin was ready to concede that offensive weapons were being introduced into Cuba by the Russians. When Khrushchev himself conceded, in answer to President Kennedy's firm stand, that there were such Russian weapons in Cuba by withdrawing them, he cut the ground from under Zorin's feet and correspondingly exploited Stevenson. This newspaper did not support Stevenson for the The Springfield Fire Department lost one of its most able, dependable officers, and the men themselves 1 lost one of their finest champions, when Lt. Arvid G. Anderstrom hung 'up his red helmet for the last time at Armory St.
Station recently, ending 41 action-packed years of service. "Andy's" adult career began with service with Company of the old 2d Regiment on the Mexican Border in 1916. When World War I erupted, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy and served two years until 1919.
After the Armistice he worked for a time in Springfield in priindustry, then joined the Police. Department. But police work, and particularly the vice squad duty to which he was assigned, palled on him after a while and he joined the Fire Department as a private on Dec. 30, 1921. lIe was promoted to lieutenant on Feb.
17, 1917. In his 41 years as a fire fighter saw plenty of action. Ile was injured at the $100,000 New Court Ilotel fire which took eight lives on Dec. LT. ARVID.
ANDERSTROM ANDERSTROM the precedence firmly. In the final analysis, the new administration will succeed or fail in varying degrees and matters depending upon the vitality and intelligence of the governor himself. Choice of advisers, se lection of advice, judgment between opposing views, the decisions and the appointments are given practically exclusively to the governor, The days ahead for Mr. Peabody will be trying in so many ways that it is impossible to name them all. It is so for every chief executive of this state.
But with vision and work, study and intelligent effort, he can provide great leadership. The prayers of all responsible citizens go with him. Robert G. Jahrling Robert G. Jahrling, who died Thursday at the age of 78, was widely known and highly regarded as the owner and director for many years of the former Hotel Highland on Hillman which, under his expert guidance, had one of the most (famous restaurants in the eastern United States.
Quality was the kevnote of the Highland's table service under Mr. Jahrling's direction. His menus became so famous that the hotel drew patronage from a wide area. "Dinner at the Highland" was a highlight of the visit whenever notables came to Springfield, and was A recurring bright spot in the lives of local people who either patronized the restaurant regularly or as a treat on special occasions. Honored many times, both in this country and abroad, for his achievements, Mr.
Jahrling exemplified the traditional American principle that, under a system of free enterprise, success will usually come to those who work hard and faithfully, conduct business with integrity, and provide products of good quality. Although the old yellow-brick Highland Hotel with its distinctive round tower-like structure on one corner is now gone--re placed by a parking lot -the memory of its excellent meals, its good service and its general warm, comfortable atmosphere of old-fashioned hospitality, lingers on in the minds of many people. A Time to Be Careful Today, tomorrow and Tuesday are likely to be among the most dangerous days of the winter season, if the trends of past years are repeated, as they I probably, will be. The manifold risks associated with this period are well known to all, appeals for the exercise of due care and prudence are widely made by many official and unofficial tions, and all available police officers will be on highway duty in the usual attempt to prevent accidents by means of sidetracking careless drivers. But in the last analysis the question of whether or not the New Year's holiday season will be another tragic occasion must depend largely on each individual person.
The use of a A Fine Fire Department The three-alarm fire in the Shakour Building at Stearns Square on Christmas Day again provided a clear demonstration of the excellence of the Springfield Fire Department. The fire evidently had been building up for a long time before it was discovered, since on most full holiday's few people normally pass through that part of the downtown area. When it finally burst out, the blaze instantly engulfed the whole top three floors of the six-story building. The upper half of the building was flaming like a when the first fire companies arrived. The intense heat was almost too much for onlookers, even standing all the way across the square in freezing cold weather.
But the firemen went into action so rapidly and so efficiently that the great, roaring central part of the fire was knocked down in a matter of minutes, although the complete cleanup job took several hours. One of the most impressive parts of the whole operation, from the standpoint of spectators, was the way that firemen went right inside the blazing building. and up on the roof, so as to get at the heart of the fire as quickly as possible. Clouds of heavy, black choking smoke were so thick that the building was almost invisible, part of the time, but the fire men went directly inside, without even using masks. Among the shivering spectators, amazement was expressed at the way the firemen risked death or critical injury, simply to save a piece of property, since there w'ere no occupants in the building on a holiday, and consequently no lives were endangered, except those of the fire fighters themselves.
Some people who saw the firemen disappearing into the strangling smoke were heard to say that they, themselves, wouldn't do a job like that for any amount of money. Among the spectators, judging from comments that were heard, there were several from other parts of the country, who remarked that they never had seen such fast, intrepid and efficient fire fighting as was displayed by the Springfield department on this occasion. These out-of-towners could not know it, but this was only typical of the high quality of service that the local firemen give right along. For many years, ever since Chief Daggett's time at least, about half a century ago, our Springfield Fire Department has been one of the very best-trained, most efficient such organizations in nation. Regularly, day and night, the year around, in big fires and small.
the city's firemen are giving the local taxpayers one of the biggest dollarvalues of its kind available anywhere in America. sonable amount of common sense, both while celebrating and while driving, could easily prevent most of the unfortunate accidents that commonly mar this happy time. 26, 1931, and he was one of the scores of firemen knocked out fighters' local was in its formas by ammonia fumes one boiling tive stage, We have known him. afternoon in July, 1955, at the better in the last few years, Springfield Cold Storage Ware- when he has been assigned to house fire in Hillman St. the "Fighting Nines" at Armo He ha's responded to many ry St.
multiple alarms, including the While we can understand and Woods Clothing Store fire, both appreciate that he would prefer of the two fires in the Carlisle to avoid any ostentation conHardware building, and the Yale nected with his retirement, we Clothing Store fire, and virtually think that' it is only fair and every other major fire since the fitting that the men he served early 20's. five so well, so ardently, would want "Andy" has served under to show their appreciation of a chiefs, William H. Daggett, rather unusual guy. Wrenn, Herbert Rene Root, Patingre "'Big and Tom" Ed- The soft-spoken, mild-mankind ward of C. an Boyle.
officer He has who been could the grin would rather nered "Andy" with the friendly sit in a big, assign- easy chair and bury his head handle just about any a water com- in a good book than go to de- a ment, whether with But the men of the pany or ladder truck partment figure he'll have crew. party. plenWhile his fire-fighting experi- ty of time for that. On Jan. 10 ence was considerable, "Andy" they want to see him right cp became best known to the men there at the head table all where of the department as one of the they can bestow upon him so' pioneers in the organization of affection and appreciation he Local 648, International Asso- richly deserves.
He ciation served of Fire as its Fighters president in 1939. for ALONG THE RIALTO-Detective Lt. Dan Shea and Sgt. John 10 years. later he was Ligarski arriving, back in the poSeveral years lice garage one minute to instrumental Fire in Fighters of after a full day of convincing organizing the Associated as some characters that crime does Massachusetts and served agent not Michael Scibelli, one' president and legislative of Cathedral High's most stalfor this group for some years.
wart athletes back in the dayg He is a former president of Coach Billy Wise was when the Springfield Fire Department raven-haired, heading back to Privates Club and also of the his State Income Tax offices Firemen's Mutual Relief Asso- where he presides daily with his ciation. As Local 648's delegate chief, Joe Weldon. to Central Labor Union he be- Dist. Atty. Matthew J.
Ryan, came widely known and highly relaxing after an evening at the respected among the labor men movies with four of his small of the city. they looked so cute standIn 1942, while attending the ing there waiting for their National Fire Fighters Conven- dy to get up the cash to pay tion in Columbus, he started their way he work on a 48-hour work bill for fessed that he never had a more Massachusetts fire fighters harrowing "I'll bet which, after considerable spade- they spent running up and work by "Andy," Michael Mans- down the aisles for candy and field and the late Paul McDon- popcorn," Matty told ald, on Beacon Hill, was passed the time I spent on my hands by the State Legislature on June and knees groping in the dark 14, 1945. Springfield adopted the for hats or gloves or something 48-hour week the following year. else they dropped." Because of his work in shaping However, Matty should prethis bill and seeing it through pare himself. All the Ryans are its involved legislative stages, little now.
Wait until they get Lt. Anderstrom was designated to be teen-agers. Then he will as the "father of the 48-hour find himself trying to fathom the bill" by the state group. most unpredictable members of Another important piece of the human species. legislation that "Andy" pushed For example, the other night through, with the help of Mans- we came home and found a nofield and McDonald, was the tice typed by our daughter, sick-leave ordinance for all Christine, a junior at Cathedral members of the local depart- High.
It was a masterpiece of ment, which was adopted by the irony. In describing the family, City Council and is still in ef- it read: fect. "We come from a long line of In recent years "Andy" hasn't humble people, particularly on been so actively identified with our father's side. Our father is the fire fighters' organization, especially humble. Our mother although he watched its is quiet and never speaks a progress with more than usual harsh word.
We children are interest. He has preferred to let known as sweet little darlings. the younger fellows tackle the So here we are, just one big headaches. happy group of psycho In 1918 "Andy" married Miss Rose Sears of Holyoke and they Hummel, former pubhad three sons, Edward, Charles lisher of the West Springfield and Robert, the latter a fighter News, doing a little window shoppilot in the Pacific in World ping and looking a little bit like War II who was killed in 1954 Santa Claus himself in disguise when his Air National Guard still has a remarkable plane crashed in the woods of memory for details, and also a Granby. tremendous capacity for laughter Judge Abraham Smith studyWhen the 6 p.
m. bell ranging some files in the Registry at the Armory St. station on of although he has an his retirement day, "Andy" acute sense of humor, there is have preferred to hang no one who takes his job more would, helmet, rubber coat and seriously than the hoots, quietly say goodby to his will extend himself to the nth crew and, in his usually unob- degree to see that both parties trusive way, just go home. in a divorce litigation are treatHowever, the men had other ed particular inideas. District Chief William C.
terest, however, is in presiding to do Richards, with the who also formation had of the the kindliness and thoughtfulness plenty at adoption union back in the early days, of the man are very evident. is sparking a bang-up testi- An aging Jimmy Tuccolo, once monial to be held 10 at Way- "king of the newsboys" going side Inn at West Springfield for along Main St. on the old warrior. Robert Holcomb, the artist who He's receiving plenty of help, draws those historical sketches too, from such men as District of Springfield for The RepubliChief Robert Moriarty, Presi- can, against wrapping the chill himself December snugly Ident Victor Club, Rivard President Frank breezes after luncheon of the Priat the litvates Foster of Local 648. Capts.
tle restaurant at Maple and State Hammerstrom, Theodore Builder Jerry Spear's David Zachowski, Henning, imposing new Mulberry House Sheremeta, and Francis taking form green and Philip Lts. Ernest Han- white tile brick exterior glistens Stagnaro, Steve in the afternoon finsen, Maurice Walsh and ished, the building will be the Lawlor, and Fire Melvin Fighters Degon, equal of anything that New York Maurice J. Hoar, George can show. Harry Hallenstein, Steele, Norman James and White. Ronald One lady shopper gave poor Downie, and old Santa Claus quite a jolt, in known "Andy" since one of the stores.
There he was, We have used to report in to taking his ease, in his big chair the days he Union's editorial and hoping no more kids would The Springfield rooms, way back when the (Continued on Page 70).
