Successor of Pope John Will Be
Elected at Secret Conclave of Cardinals
VATICAN CITY Ufl — The suc
cessor to Pope John XXIII will be
elected at a secret conclave of the
cardinals of the Roman Catholic
Church.
With the death of the Pope, the
princes of the church will come
to Rome from all parts of the
Christian world. In two to three
weeks they will barricade them
selves in the Sistine Chapel and
the adjoining Vatican apartments.
They will not emerge from the
tightly guarded conclave area until
a new Pope — almost certainly
one of their own numbers, elected
by a majority of two-thirds of the
cardinals present.
There is no foretelling how long
the conclave might last. The elec
tion of Pope Pius XIII in 1939
took 20 hours. Pope John was elect
ed on the 12th ballot in a four-day
conclave in 1958. The conclave
that elected Prope Gregory X in
1271 took two years and nine
months—the longest on record.
With the election of the new
Pontiff—who will be regarded by
Catholics as the 262nd Vicar of
Christ on earth and a direct suc
cessor to St. Peter—a cardinal dea
con will appear on the central bal
cony of St. Peter’s to announce
to the great crowd in the square
below:
“Nuntia vobis gaudium magnum:
Hambemus papam—I announce to
you tidings of great joy. We have
a Pope.”
The cardinal deacon will an
nounce the name. Then the new
Pope will step into view, garbed
in newly tailored papal .vestments,
and slowly raise his hands in
benediction.
The method of electing the
Pope evolved over many centuries.
St. Peter received his mission
directly from Jesus Christ. During
the first three centuries of Chris
tianity the bishops of Rome, who
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are the popes, chose their suc
cessors, sometimes with the ad
vice of bishops of nearby sees.
From the time of the council of
Antioch in 341 until the 8th Cen
tury, synods were held to take
the vote of clergy and faithful,
which led the way to considerable
lay meddling.
Even after the cardinals won
the right to elect the Popes they
were subject to interference. They
also found the task difficult be
cause of their own differences. To
prod them, the Franciscan Monk
Bonaventure suggested in 1268 that
the cardinals be locked up and
given skimpy rations of food and
water until they made up their
minds.
In some conclaves of the past,
a rugged constitution was a dis
tinct asset for the cardinals. A sur
vivor of a conclave in 1241 wrote:
“They dragged us into conclave,
grabbing us by our hands and
feet and beating us as though we
were thieves.”
After 50 days, during which one
of the 10 cardinals at the conclave
died and two others fell ill, Pope
Selestino IV was elected. He died
12 days later.
A wing of the Vatican Palace
will be given over to the coming
conclave. With about 200 aides,
the cardinals will remain under
lock and key — virtual prisoners
— until they have chosen Pope
John's successor. Each cardinal
will have a small apartment of
three rooms in which he will live
with his conclave secretary and
personal servant. The apartments
will be outfitted with beds, tables
and chairs—little more.
The voting will take place in
the Sistine Chapel beneath the
famous fresco of the Last Judg
ment of Michelangelo. The cardi
nals will sit on little thrones, un
der silken canopies, along the
walls of the chapel. In front of
each will be a desk with silver
ink wells and quill pens. I
If the procedure remains un- j
changed from the conclave that
elected Pope John, the cardinals
will cast ballots twice each morn
ing and twice each afternoon until
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U.S. Threatens to
Increase Duties on
Goods from Europe
WASHINGTON Ufi — The United
States is threatening to increase
duties on goods from Europe if
the Common Market goes through
with plans to raise the tariff on
U.S. poultry.
The market intends to raise
poultry duties from 13 to 14Vi>
cents a pound. Christian Herter,
President Kennedy’s trade nego
tiator said Friday: “We are par
ticularly shocked by this action
since we have been working pa
tiently for a reduction rather than
a hike in tariff walls.”
The United States will seek bet
ter access for its poultry into the
market’s six nations, Herter said.
Failure to achieve better terms,
he said, “wrould call for our in
sisting on balancing compensa
tion elsewhere in our trade ex
changes.”
Such balancing could take the
form of raising U.S. tariffs on other
items imported from the Common
Market.
Purchasing U. S. Savings Bonds
on the Payroll Savings Plan is an
easy, convenient way of insuring
your money’s safety and growth—
and your Nation’s too.
a candidate achieves the required
majority.
Until the new Pope is announced,
the only clue to the progress of
the voting will be wisps of smoke
from a thin, round chimney thrust
through a window of the Sistine
Chapel.
According to a tradition which
has become accepted during the
past century, a puff of white
smoke is supposed to signal that
^ new Pope has been elected. The
smoke is. from ballots which are
burned in a small stove in the
chapel after each round of voting.
If a Pope has been elected, only
the ballots are burned. In no can
didate has received the required
majority, a little damp straw is
supposed to be added and the
smoke is supposed to come out
black.
The signal system hardly is fool
proof. Despite the addition of the
straw, great billows of white smoke
shot from the chimney on the
first day of voting in 1958. Vati
can radio announced erroneously
that a Pope had been elected.
The next day the cardinals added
a petroleum by-product to the
burning ballots to make sure the
smoke would come out black.
Three days later, Angelo Giusep
pe Cardinal Roncalli, elderly pa
triarch of Venice, received the re
quired majority from the conclave
of 51 cardinals. Then there was
a tiny wisp of smoke, but none
could say for certain whether it
was white or black.
The bustle of activity on the
balcony of St. Peter’s ended the
doubts.
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Hurricane Season
Starts June 15
MIAMI, Fla. Ut) — Hurricane
season starts June 15 and the
weather Bureau is ready with a
watchful eye—and names for de
veloping storms.
The season ends in six months
and during the June-November
period Air Force and Navy re
connaissance aircraft stand by to
keep tab on the storms, and con
ditions that could spawn them.
Here are the names that will be
applied to Atlantic tropical storms: i
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Edith, Flora, Ginnv, Irene, Janice, |
Kristy, Laura, Margo, Nona, Orchid,
Portia, Rachael, Sandra, Terese,
Verna, Wallis.
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Fairbanks Land Office
516 Second Avenue
Fairbanks, Alaska
March 20, 1963
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that George A. I
Sheppard, Sheppard Trading Co. of j
Mountain Village. Alaska, together with |
his witnesses Albert Beans, Mountain ]
Village, Alaska, and Doug Sheppard,
Mountain Village, Alaska, has filed Ap
plication to Purchase for his Headquar
ters Site, Fairbanks Serial Number
010995. for lands described as: Lot 2,
U.S. Survey No. 4011. Alaska, located
at Pilot Station, Alaska, containing 1.45
acres.
During the period of publication or
within 30 days thereafter any person,
corporation, or association having or
asserting any adverse interest in or
claim to the tract of land or any part
thereof may file in the Fairbanks Land
Office, under oath an adverse claim
setting forth the nature and extent
thereof; and such adverse claimant shall,
within 60 days after the filing of such
adverse claim, begin action to quiet title
in a court of competent jurisdiction in
Alaska, and thereafter patent shall be
issued in conformity with the final de
cree of the court.
Robert F. Hilton,
Chief. Lands Section
Pub: April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27, June
3, 10, 17, 24, 1963.
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Gertrude Reeser Elected
President of Federation
Business Women s Clubs
KETCHIKAN UP> — Gertrude
Reeser of Petersburg Saturday be
came president of the Alaska Fed
eration of Business and Profession
al Women’s Clubs at the organiza
tion’s annual meeting here.
Dora Sweeney of Juneau, a
member of the Alaska House of
Representatives, was elected first
vice president and Martha Bone of
Mt, Edgecumbe got the second
vice president’s chair.
Charlotte Fleek of Petersburg
was named secretary and Alice
Brusich of Ketchikan treasurer.
The convention ended Sunday.
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