European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Fag 6 the stars and stripes wednesday apr 24, 1963 probes say . Liquor scandal just getting started new York up investigator in the liquor slim Tel thai has rocked gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller s official family for the five months any the surface has Only been scratched. A grand jury investigation into in new York stole liquor authority Slathe Agency that Isth watchdog Over the Muli Mil lion Dollar private liquor business has returned one indictment and expects to return More shortly even before the first indictment the probe of graft and corruption resulted in three highly placed re publican figures in the Rockefeller administration losing Public office or facing removal. One Sla investigator died in n plunge under the wheels of a sub Way to Nln in the midst of the probe. Four other investigators refuse to waive immunity and testify and were promptly fired. The indictment was returned against Ralph Berger 57, a chicag Oreal estate and Public relations Man accused of aril not As pro be tween in a conspiracy to bribe atop Sla official with $50.000 to obtain a liquor License for new York s new Plush Playboy club. The Sla had turned thumb Down on the License then unexpectedly reversed itself and granted the License last december just hours before the club had its for Mal opening. Rockefeller embarrassed because the scandal has already touched men he appointed to i fill stat jobs has pledged his help to up Root any corruption. Appointees who have refused town Lac Constitution guarantees against testifying against them selves promptly found Rockefeller moving to have Thorn ousted from office. The investigation was begun i november under Manhattan s two decade Veteran District attorney Democrat Frank s. Hogan after reports wore heard that owners of bars restaurants and stores had to pay As much As$10.000 in gratuities to obtain liquor licenses. Hogan subpoenaed the Sla local records doling to Jan. 1, 1050, the Cony rocket Lucr took office. There Ore in the state about 22,000 drinking plan cars bars operating under Lironne. Plus 2.500 hotels and 1,700 clubs with liquor Lorr Seii. Plus about 4,400 pack arc stores. The slate liquor business is sold to be about $1.3 billion retail. In 1959, appointed Martin c. Epstein. B Republican recommended by a gop count Leader to the five Man authority and next year named him its $24,000-n-year chairman. Last no vember Epstein suffering a leg amputation As a result of diabetes refused to in leu immunity to fore the grand jury and was ousted by the governor. Epstein 70, went to Florida. In december l. Judson mor signals Kennedy Call is Start of fair in year Washington a Prosl dont Kennedy used a special Telephone Here to signal that the new York s world fair will Start a year said he will be there. Tho Telephone with touch tone dealing started a machine going on the fair site to count Down the Days hours minutes and seconds until the fair opens. To More than 1,000 people Gath ered in Flushing Meadow Park the site of the 1939-40 world s fair or. Kennedy said three Hundred sixty six Days from today i plan to attend your president predicted that close to 79 million people will see the fair and the exhibits of the United states end foreign coun tries showing what they have accomplished and what they might accomplish in a world of peace. Record Auto sales predicted for 63 by reporting firm Detroit Ward s Auto motive reports has predicted a record automotive sales year eclipsing the previous Mark set in 1998. Ward s forecast sales of 8.479million, cars and trucks including import. The volume the statistical serv ice said. Is 3.9 per cent above the 1963 performance. The record in1988 was 8.423 million cars and trucks. Ward 5 predictions included sales of 7.375 million cars and 1.1 million trucks during the year. The total includes 350.000 imported cars in the current year. Last year 8.16million cars and trucks were sold. Residents accuse of of polluting Stream Duluth. Minn. Up eight Home owners have petitioned Federal court for an order restrain ing Duluth air Force base from polluting a Stream which through their property. In the action the Home owners accused the air Force of dumping raw Teitge into Miller Creek causing Bod doors and contaminating Wells. Parking violators can Stop relaxing Baj sigh. A c. Up an emergency shipment of 6,000 parking ticket arrived Here forthe police department. Polloe have been without the ticket since the Long easter weekend when they exhausted their Supply. A department poke Amaji Bald More parking ticket Are expected. Out of Gas Tho a ill lion cubic foot 119,000 Pla tue balloon which Una to carry two men High in the Earth s atmosphere to study the stars lies deflated on the Dewart floor 120 Miles East of Holloman air Force base ., after wind Rar cure credited to . Sonc tory Church s sacred Earth draws swarms of sick Chimayo. . Up scores of discarded crutches and braces Ine the 147-year-old Adobe Walls of the Sanctuario of Chimayo for the faithful Symbol of mysterious heal ing Powers of the sacred Earth found there. The tiny Village of Chimayo 40 Miles North of Santa be on the Western slope of the a More de Cristo mountains off state High Way 70, normally does not attract the hordes of tourists who swarm to new Mexico. Al. Thousands of persons Ofuji Noti descent Comly from Colo Rado. Arizona Texas Mexico Andall of new Mexico go to the Sanc turn la each year. They do not come to buy souvenirs although chemo to s special weave Woolen Blanket juice attracted National fume. They do no come to Takt pictures. They come to be cured of afflictions. The Sanctuario was built in 1h1gon the spot where for years wonderful cures bad Bacn performed und credited to the strange Virtu of the soil. Today it is a shrine for the cur of Dix Euhe. Visitors come by limousine a Tigon Burro and by foot. Entire families often make the pilgrimage bringing an infant crippled from birth. They often leave crutches Casutt or braces behind. The Sunol Worlo was Bull by pious resident of Chi Inayo Ber Nardo Abi Yta the Fum i kill i is the properly of some of his descendants the Chaves family. In new Mexico it still is the Cus Tom to take a portion of the Earth Home of tar a pilgrimage. When a storm threatens a few grains of the Eurth arc thrown into a Blaz ing fire. The faithful believe the gesture will Cane the storm s fury. Two huge old cot ton Wood Trees come together to form on Apex atthe Sanc Lunario Entrance. Visitors pass Between them they then in Tran Adobe wiil cd family cemetery which contains about a dozen Groves. The Church itself contains huge murals painted by Early Day franciscan monks. They Are coveted Byne Vernl museum a but the owners of will not k to the up. The altar of the Church i graced with elaborately curve wooden sent of or religious Slutes. Had it away from its pad. The air Poire mid Bolt the Gondola with the equipment to the balloon blew accidentally pub ably Trljuk Trrry by italic , raving the let won and my on the ground. A photo director says of dropping balloon plan Chicago up the air Force will discontinue its Star Gazer manned balloon Effort reported or. Allen Hynek director of the project. He said that four years of work and j in air Force funds have gone into Star Gazer. In the Star in scr project manned big Loon with telescopes wus to be Bent up 100.000 feel above the Earth to observe the stars at in Altitude where the slam cease to twinkle. A Good four years of though and study went into this project which represents n tremendous amount of Effort Hynek said. They the air Force seem to be More interested in unmanned one of Rockefeller s closest in Laisers Relk nid As state re pub lean Chol Rynn. In january. Morhouse went be Ore t i Brand jury refused to a Iilva immunity and then re his j17.poo Joh As a state thru Way authority member and Elk non snarled Johns chairman of Park commission. For Playboy morhouse of attorney said his client and been Puld $10,000 in Okol services and $8.000 for pub Lic relations by Playboy enter Prises of Chicago which publishes he Mug Ziti and operates a string of private dining clubs Fea using scantily Tud Bunny Wai reuses. He said morhouse s work had nothing to do with the Playboy club in new York which got of cabaret License dec. 7 from the Sla after being denied one by he City License commissioner who said the bunnies clothing was Loo scanty. The Playboy club hit the news again last week when in unidentified Sla official Berger and two others were cited in o grand jury indictment in connection with the alleged $50.000 bribe. Ernest mom 39, a senior Sla investigator and Maurice l. Bern Stein 55, an investigator were fired in november for refusing to waive immunity and in january they were indicted on charges of shaking Down a tavern owner. Moss committed suicide under the subway train. Bernstein is awaiting trial to waive on april 10, Hymen d. Slegl for 27 years a Law associate of state atty. Gen. Louis j. Letko Waltz before the latter was elected in 1957, refused to waive immunity and testify on the ground he wet protecting attorney client relation ships. The chief assistant District at Torney. Alfred j. Scotti labelled this ridiculous and said Slege had been in tied n an investigation to determine whether a conspiracy to bribe n Public official or take unlawful fees Hotd existed. Lefkowtz had been a Well known lawyer handling liquor License mat ters before the Sla. Of excl said 96 per cent of his clients and never heard of Lefkowtz and denied he had inherited Lefkowtz a clients. Lam week a 1961 Rockefelle appointee. Judge Melvln h. Oiler Man. 60, of the state court of claims refused to sign a general immunity waiver but offered to sign a limited waiver under which a he would answer grand jury ques 1 Lions about his judgeship but not 5about Lis previous lawyer act of ties. He was excused. Rockefeller demanded he resign his $26,000post Osterman refused. The governor directed a court of the judiciary be convened to hear removal proceedings against the judge who had been a gop District Leader in Manhattan for 20 years before his appointment. On Tor Man was granted a 90-Dny leave of absence Pend ing removal proceedings. . Stockpile at $14 billion not Washington up the gov space flights he said. However. Instruments Are w., .m-./_,wan adequate sub Smul for u rement and $14 billion Worth of he sold. If instruments on Ade farm products and strategic a quote Why Don t we Send them to the Moon instead of a Man Tern is in stockpiles As of feb. A congressional Survey shows. Outgoing Apollo Bosi flays government pay Dallas. Tex. I a the m who is quitting is Boss of the Apollo Man on the Moon program says the United states must raise salaries if it is to attract and hold lop technical and management personnel in the space program. Charles Frick who bows out of the Apollo Job after lop priority program for 18 months turned Low government pay a very serious thing in the aerospace Frick gave salary n. The primary i he my his 8. reason for his return to his go Rulh a Lormor Job of a vice president Tor tin con \ air do Venlon or general dynamic s corp. In san Dileso Calif. When Bali Gilruth u trl Enil Anil the director of the manned spaceflight program asked me to take the Apollo Job. I considered i exciting a c h n 11 e n i took a $ i Jan reduction in pay to make the move he said. Ere in the $30-32,000 Range adding that the Span Agency has difficulty luring to technical and executive personnel or that pay Good people Are needed a said but the government Doest pay the Price to get them. Time und again 1 to Hoard people say that a Man has to be independently wealthy to hold an executive Posi Tion in the
