Benny (Kid) Paret
Succumbs After
10-Day Coma
NEW YORK UR — Benny (Kid)
P«ret died yesterday — 10 days
after his head was bashed 20 times
or more as he hung helpless in the
ropes in losing his world welter
weight boxing title.
He never came out of a coma
after being pounded senseless by
Emile Griffith in the 12th round
of their nationally televised title
fight at Madison Square Garden
March 24.
Doctors had held little hope from
the start that he ever would re
cover from the brain damage he
suffered in the battering that led
to hconerous criticisms of the fight
and of professional boxing in gen
erai.
Paret’s wife, Lucy, 23, who is
expecting a second child, was called
to Roosevelt Hospital when the
Cuban-born fighter died at 1:55
a.m.
“I’ve lost my man,” she cried.
“I want to go with him. Take me
along.”
Paret’s mother, Mrs. Maximo
Crespo, said tearfully she wanted
to take her son’s body back to his
native Cuba for burial in the fam
ily plot.
Griffith, learning of the death,
said: “I’m all cold. I don’t know
what I’m going to do now. I don’t
know whether I’m going to con
tinue in the ring. I can’t tell you.
This is the worst thing.”
Ruby Goldstein, the referee in
the bout, said: “I feel so sorry. My
sympathy goes out to the family.
All week long I’ve been feeling
terrible. I’ve prayed for his re
covery.
About stopping the fight when he
did, Goldstein commented: “I did
what I thought was right. What
can I say? Fve always had the
welfare of thei fighter first in
mind. It’s ironical I’m the guy
who’s been blasted for years for
supposedly stopping them too
quick.”
Paret, 25, had developed pneu
monia.
Paret’s manager, Manuel Alfaro,
asked where he put the blame—
said, “Circumstances.”
| The severe injuries suffered by
Paret led the New York legislature
to name a special committee to de
termine whether the state needs
new laws to regulate boxing, or
whether the sport should be out
lawea.
Esrly on the morning after &&
televised Saturday night fight,
Paret underwent a three-hour brain
operation to relieve the pressure of
two blood clots. Doctors said then
“all that can be done has been
done.”
Paret’s wife, who had urged him
to give up fighting after he was
knocked out by Griffith in their
first meeting a year ago, watched
the fatal fight on television.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller oi New
York ordered a full investigation
of the fight by the State Athletic
Commission.
There had been bitter feelings
between Paret and Griffith for some
time, chiefly because of. remarks
the Cuban had made about Grif
fith’s masculinity.
Griffith, a 24-year-old native of
the Virgin Islands, was in a venge
ful mood before and during the
fight. He went for the knockout
from the start.
“I didn’t mean him any harm,”
Griffith after the fight in his
high-pitched, clipped tones. “My
manager told me to keep hitting
him when I had him hurt and
that’s what I did. He called me bad
nAmes at the weigh-in and during
the fight. I was burping mad.”
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RUSSIAN WORKERS
OFFERED BONUS PAYMENTS
MOSCOW — Pravda, the
voice of the Communist party, came
out today for individual bonus pay
ments and incentives to workers to
speed up production.
This represented an almost re
volutionary change in Soviet work
ing conditions. It means the
scraping of the system of incentive
payments to work brigades and
other groups. Bonuses for the in
dividual worker have not been
general.
Incentive payments to groups
have been made to encourage team
spirit and collective morale.
The Pravda article, written by A.
Volkov, said this current leveling
of payments in many places was
uaa.
The article, in effect a directive
to get more production through in
dividual incentives, followed de
mands by Premier Khrushchev that
more pay be offered for more work,
especially on farms where harvests
have been lagging for three years.
As a matter of fact many fac
tories already have been paying
individual and group bonuses for
piece work, but these resulted in
draining off most skilled labor
from farms to cities.
ASTRONAUTS REJECT
$24,000 GIFT HOMES
WASHINGTON UP) — The na
tion’s seven astronauts yesterday
rejected an offer of $24,000 gift
homes in Houston, Tex.
The announcement was made at
a news conference at the National
Aeronautics and Space Administra
tion after the White House, NASA
and the Pentagon had taken a hand
in looking itno the propriety of the
offer. j |
“NASA has determined,” an of
ficial announcement said, “that
there is no legal bar to acceptance
of the offer. As a matter of policy
however, NASA has advised the
astronauts that acceptance of the
houses is not considered to be ir
the best interest of all concerned
At the same time NASA specified
that final decision should be made
by the seven men.
$5,200 for Planning
WASHINGTON UP) — The Com
munity Facilities Administration
has approved a $5,200 advance to
help Douglas, Alaska, plan improve
ments of water and sewerage fa
cilities, the state’s congressional
delegation was informed today.
Construction on the $311,000 project
is expected to start in September.
In Magistrate's Court
Three persons pleaded guilty to
drunk and disorderly charges;
Stewart Tocktoo, fined $50; Carrie
Beal, 30 days suspended; Catherine
Davis, $35.
Edward Randall is serving 30
days on a revoked previously sus
pended sentence, fined $250 and
given a 90 day suspended sentence
on a disorderly conduct charge,
involving the breaking of a mirror
in a local bar.
In Superior Court
The Grand Jury has brought in
two true bills; Clinton Gray for
assault with a dangerous weapon
and Charles Keller for sodomy.
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No Immediate
Changes Are In
The Works for ACS
By Fritz Wiiti
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON <*) — Plans are
being made to put the Army’s
Alaska Communication System un
der the Air Force, but no imme
diate changes are in the works.
Maj. Gen. E. F. Cook, Army
deputy chief signal officer, outlined
the situation in recent testimony
made public last week by a House
Appropriations Subcommittee.
The Secretary of Defense,” he
said, “has directed that plans be
developed to consolidate mainte
nance, operation, and administra
tion of all defense communications
system in Alaska under the De
partment of the Air Force.
“Whereas consolidation plans are
being considered, no change is con
templated at this time in the basic
method of operation of the Alaska
Communication System or of the
services being provided to the
people of Alaska.”
He also told the committee that
there has been no action by Con
gress on a proposal to sell the sys
tem to private interests.
“Should authority be granted by
this session of the 87th Congress,
2 or 3 years will be required to ne
gotiate the sale and accomplish
final transfer to the purchaser,”
Cook added.
“Have you tried to peddle this
to the great State of Alaska, this
operations?” asked Rep. Daniel J.
Flood, (D-Pa.).
“We have made no attempt to
sell the system at all, sir,” replied
the general.
“I take it for granted they have
sense enough that as long as Uncle
Sam is going to run it, what in the
world do they want with it; is that
it?” Flood continued.
“I believe, sir, you speak with
good reasoning. It is not a money
maker, sir,” Cook said.
In response to other questions,
Cook said a transfer to the Air
Force would have no effect on a
sale proposal and sale of the system
would hamper neither military nor
civilian communications services.
Rep. Gerald Ford Jr,, (R-Mich.),
asked if the prospects of a sale in
terferes with “any improvements
in the facilities that might other
wise be made.”
“Yes, sir, said Cook, “I am sure
if it was decided we were not going
to dispose of the system, the Army
would take vigorous steps. And, I
think we would be supported by
the Department of Defense and I
know we would be by the Air
Force, to materially improve the
system.
“Since about 1955 or 1956 we
have been running this thing on
quite an austere basis and some of
us are not so proud of it, sir.”
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BARKING DOG BRINGS
ABOUT CAPTURE OF
FIVE ESCAPED CONVICTS
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. UPl — A
housewife alerted by the barking
of her dog brought about the cap
ture yesterday of five convicts less
than 30 hours after they had made
San Quentin’s first over-the-wall
escape in 19 years.
Associate warden Dale Frady
said Mrs. Dorothy Worley prompt
ly telephoned the sheriff’s office
after sighting three of the fugitives
on a hill behind her home in Santa
Venetia, less than 10 miles north
of the prison.
Mrs. Worley saw the convicts
when she looked out her back win
dow to see why her dog was bark
ing.
“The dog deserves all the credit,”
she said.
Sgt. W. S. Harris and A. L. Snell,
San Quentin guards, sped north
through San Rafael and captured
the five chilled and unarmed fugi
tives less than 30 minutes after
Mrs. Worley’s call.
The convicts offered no resis
tance.
The five men went over the 40
foot wall of the prison’s industrial
area with a stolen ladder and a
cotton rope early Monday. They
worked in a midnight shift in the
textile mill.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NO. 62-4 P
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
SIDNEY CHAMPION, Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
undersigned, Robert W. Oliver, was on
the 10th day of March, 1962, by an
order of the above-entitled Court ap
pointed Administrator with Will An
nexed of the Estate of Sidney Champion,
deceased; that he thereupon qualified
as such Administrator in the manner
required by law; and all creditors of
and persons having claims against the
said decedent are hereby required to
present their claims, with the necessary
vouchers, within six <6> months from
| the date of publication hereof, to the
i undersigned at the office of his attor- ,
ney, Thomas J. Balone, Box 111, Nome,
Alaska, which office the undersigned
hereby designates as his place of busi
ness in all matters connected with the
said estate.
DATED at Nome, Alaska, this 13th
day of March, 1S52.
Robert W. Oliver
Pub: March 14. 21, 26, April 4, 1962.
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LAWMAKERS PROTEST
RAMMING TACTICS
JUNEAU UP) — End-of-the-session
jumps became apparent in the
House Tuesday when a number of
lawmakers protested what they
considered ramming tactics on a
certain bill.
The measure, HB492, would
amend the law which sets minimum
wages for laborers and mechanics
employed by contractors working
on construction projects for the
state or its political subdivisions.
The bill would include pre-con
struction workers, such as field
surveyors, under the terms of the
measure.
Rep. Mark Jensen started things
off by asking if anyone had been
called before the committee to
testify on the bill’s effects.
“This bill may have merit, but
I think interested persons should
be heard. In my opinion the words
“pre-construction workers’ is pretty
obscure.”
The bill was introduced by the
Commerce and Labor Committee
by request last Saturday. At the
same time it carried the committee
report that it do pass, signed by
four members of the seven-man
committee.
Rep.' C. M. Binkley, a member
of the committee, said that the
first time he had seen the bill was
Late Friday afternoon meeting.
“I was amazed when it appeared
on the clerk’s desk on Saturday
morning,” Binkley said. “It would
have been impossible for anyone
to make their feelings known to
the committee in that short a time.
“It’s not so much that Fm against
this bill, but I am interested in
finding out what it would do.
“And I resent this way of ram
ming a bill through.”
Committee chairman Frank
Cashel said that the committee had
decided to submit the bill for floor
action because time was getting
late, and adjournment was expected
shortly.
He added that the bill had the
approval of the Commissioner of
Labor.
Jensen then moved to table the
measure, giving lawmakers more
time to study it, and the motion
carried on a voice vote.
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