Airlift from Cuba Unites Ives and Exiles In

Today’s Edition the Herald’s Annual Gift to Its Newsboys V AYtimge Daily Net Press Ron The Weather For the Week Aided e^reeut of 0. 8. Weather Boieee DeoMBiMr $S> 196S Fair and eoM toalgM, leer II la 13,872 . It. Tomoirew laereaelBs etoadl* aeee aad e M wHh a ehaaee of Member of tbe Andlt Banaa of Obenlatlon m ow at nlcht. Htfta In the Me. Manchester— ‘A City of Village Charm TOL. LXXXn, NO. 72 (CleeaWled AdvertW ac oa Page 14) MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1962 (SECTEEN PAGES) PRICE FIVE CENTS Joy and SqrFdw JLA Shutdown M a r k Bounds ? Of Chris tmas Airlift from Cuba Unites By OEOBOB W. CX^NEXl, The festival has . many Binds Coasts faces. Some are sad. Some are funny. Some are loving and generous. Some, are cyni- NEW YORK AP — A^nedy's orders, ^ obtained the in' Jimctlon early last October to give cal. They are the faces of strike by longshoremen-^the Christmas. ives and Exiles in Joy the longshoremen 80 days to (^1 doek workers who load and off under provlsicxis of the Taft- By deeds and words, people m ioad ship cargoes and bag- HarUey Act. the enjoinder was traced their "imprint on toe oc- gage—^has tied up shipping issued after the ILA piiUed a four- casion. It was a mixed image, day strike. mirrored in litUe episodes here operations all along the At- Key issue is the ship owners’ and there, in attitudes, circum- lantic and Gulf coasts. stances and incidents. Ransom Is Presideiit Kennedy's plea to (Oonttnoed on Page Nine) ’They formed a varied tableau, postpone the walkout for 90 days breaking through the general went unheeded. mass mantle of decorations, Some 81,000 members of crowded stores, ringing carols, $53 MiUion the International Ixiqgshoremen’s No Herald holiday time off, bulging traffic Association (ILA), by estimate of and parties. the union’s president, sure in- Tomorrow There was the rushing- woman 111 S u p p l i e s Tolved in the strike, affecting ma* shopper in Waterville, Mains, who Jmr ports from Searsport, Maine, The Manchester Eve- piled armloads of gift purchases to Brownsville, Tex. in toe back seat of someone MIAki, FIa T” [AP)—Oper- The walkout began promptly at ning Herald will not pub- else's parked car, then drove 5 p.m., Sunday, the very ipinuto lish tomorrow, Christ- home in her own, a similar mod- ation Random roared into ac- an 80-day federal court strike in- mas Day. Merry Christ- el. tion this Cnmtmas Eve ‘to junction against the ILA expired. mas to all. A newspaper account of toe un- continue an amlift of 1,113 The government, acting on Ken- explained cargo of packages en- prisoners of CubA’s Commu- abled Mrs. Louis lârey to get them back. nism to freedom ah^ wildly In Providence, R.I., there was joyous family reunions on the buoyant and benevolent bus *Liked the Way You Managed^ % free U.S. soil. driver who veered off his route, All the indications were fo^- ,a in a burst of yuletide chivalry, to full-speed ahead to wind up thA ^ take passengers directly to their Job begun Sunday. The day’s first ’ Yuletide Cards to JFK destinations. planeload—109 more survivors of Most everywie aboard was the unsuccessful April 1961, Bay laughing as the bus rolled on its of Pigs invasion—touched down at zig-zag course, toe driver grandly Homestead Air Force Base at puffing a cigar. * 10:24 a.m. Praise Crisis Hwdling A pair of small boys, Peewee, ' It seemed possible toe whole Job age 7, and Patty, age 9, got them- would be completed in toe after- selves locked in a Cambridge, noon. WASmNG’TON (AP)—A delugeâs Hawaii and Tokyo. A 15-year- Mass., department store over- Today’s first flight brought the old Japanese gd^l sends a lovely of Christmas cards with greetings night, in a world of whirring toys total on free soil to 535. from the warm hearts of Ameri- cards on rice paper and a bit and goodies. The airlift brought 426 men te cana—and even from people in of poetry to “Dear President Ken- Next morning, toey were found Florida from toe San Antonio do other lu d s—has been pouring nedy.’’ j laden with treasures filled with los Banos military airport outside into the White House at a rate “A .merry Christmu, candy. One was clomping about Havana in the spectacular Sun- of l.BOO a day. A Joyous day, in a pair of huge new shoes. day operation before suspending They offer President Kennedy ’Then a year that’s happy There wasn’t only humor in toe for -toe night. words of prayer, confidence and In every way.” , Christmas countenance. ’There ’The halt was sudden and with- encougagpment. ’They give him In wor^ which a number of were also toe marks of sorrow, out explanation after toe last of thanks and praise. adults' echoed, A 14-year-<dd boy toe empty chairs at toe family four flights deposited its humans- Those from Important^, people— tables, and sometimes toe slim for-goods cargo on free soil. ’The and there are many—and a sam-; (Oonthmed on Page. Nine) fare. pilots of planes waiting in Cuba pling of those from ordinary peo- ' In Carmichaels, Pa., where 87 then decided, however, to spend ple have been forwarded direct men died in a goal mine explosion toe night there and resume, rest- to the chief executive At his holi- three weeks ago, 65 children are ed, in toe morning. day hideaway in Palm Beach, Baldwin^ Urges without their fathers this Christ- ’This meant toe vigil kept Fla. He doesn’t have the time to mas, and 34 - wives without their throughout Sunday by many -thou- see them all. Yet every one is husbands; sands of anxious, weary, prison- counted and catalogued at the Court Program Many of the families were go- ers’ relatives had to be faced White House. ing on, in their grief, with efforts again on Christmas eve. Let’s leaf through 50 pulled at to observe toe day. “Mom said All toe pent-up tension. of a random from thy, mowtato,^ Of $20 MiUion Dad would like it that way," said long, prayerful campaign to freo Christmas mail frmh Just plain Delcic Boyd, 13. toe 1,113 invasira survivors ex- people. In Vineland, N.J., it was a time ploded In a roartit);: storm of emo- They come from as fary away HARTFORD, Dec. 24 (AP)—A $20-million courthouse building of agony for Mr. and Mrs. Wil- tion as Cuban exiles got their first program to replace what he calls liam Jones Jr., -whose boy, Billy, glimpses of wan, tired young men the existing "horse and bugg(y’’ 3, clad in his blue <enow^t, dis- brou^t in by a spectacular Oper- appesu'ed Dec. 19. ation Ransom shuttle. News Blackout facilities is being proposed by Chief His gifts lay in the attic. There Justice Raymond E. Baldwin of D06’s supplied by Pan Ameri- will be Christmas for the two oth- can World Airways flew between the State Supreme Court of Errors. er small children. “ But I won’t Baldwin, eJ so chief administra- Miami amd Ha-vana carrying to Hits 17th Day bring down Billy’s gifts,” Mrs. freedom planeloads of men ex- tive officer of the Connecticut Jones said. Unless, unless—A judicial system, wants five new clumged by Fidel Castro’s regime NEW YORK (AP)—This city of In ^Philadelphia, a 16-year-old for $63 million worth of food and Superior Court buildings to re- boy will spend Christmas, som- avid newspaper readers appeared place the 14 existing courthouses medicines sorely needed In Cuba. headed today for *»the longest berly aware that on toe day aft- by 1974. erward, he will be confined in a The first pbuie landed at 6:06 newspaper blackout in its history. He also' recommends the addi- p.m., EST, Sunday, cturying 108 This is day No. 17. youth disciplinary house for an tion of seven Superior Court and indefinite term. pale, tired men who suffered Mt,- The. longest newspaper blackout ter defeat in their attempt to three Common Pleas Court Judges A court prescribed the pros- on record occurred at this time to ease the logjam of cases’; liberate their Island nation and of yâr in 1968, when a strike pect, because the boy had struck In a detailed preview of requests a school teacher. Sentence was repeated humiliations at the of ppWspaper mailers kept the he will make to the 1963 General deferred' .imtll after Christmas. nin^vâjor dailies off the stands Assembly, Baldwin said most of These are only examples of (Oonttnned on Pago Eight) 'for i9~^days, resulting in an* esti- the existing coutjihouses were "in- the admixture of distress that mated total of $30 udllion lost in adequate and ill-suited for the ef- comes, in many forms, in many advertising, circulatloh revenue fleient administration of Justice." places, even amid the festivities. and employes’ wages. Construction of the new court- But there, are other qualities, too. International ’Typographical Un- houses would be spread over 10 There is the large heart, the Bulletiiis ion Local 6 struck four of the pa- years under the Bald'wln proposal. bounty, and the tenderness. pers Dec. 8 In a contract dispute, Baldwin also proposed scrapping A ^ n Francisco woman, re- Called from AP Wires whereupon the other five, volun- the current system of eight Su- form s and married after years tarily suspended publication.

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