the San Juan Star
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SUNDAY Vol. I No. 230
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= ‘San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, August 1, 1960
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10,000 Attend Rally For PR Independence Cintron Says PDP (Munoz Raises Davis Primaries Rigged Labeled
Pope John
To Archbishop Pope
John
XXIII
has
By PEDRO
PONCE--Mayor
an-
nounced the elevation of the Most Rev. James P. Davis, bishop of San Juan to archbishop in a major reorganization of the Roman Catholice
Church in Puerto Rico. The changes are the following:
1. The San Juan converted into the
See
of
Puerto
diction over the Virgin
2. The
Rico
with
all Puerto Islands.
diocese
juris-
Rico —
of
was created from _4-helonging to the
*| Ponce
diocese was Metropolitan and
Arecibo
ares formerly San Juan and
dioceses.
3. Chicago-born Msgr. Alfredo Mendez Gonzalez, 53, was named bishop of the Arecibo diocese. 4. The Virgin Island prelature was created.
5. Msgr.
[
named
chief
here
force
in the race hours before
the selection of a mayoralty candidate took place.
Prominent was
Ponce
nominated
to
businessman
run
for
Juan
mayor
of
Luis
the
Boscio,
second
64,
largest
city in Puerto Rico on the Popular ticket. Boscio, with 137 votes, easily beat Generoso Mourifio with 64 votes and Blas Olivera with 28. Immediately Mourino him and
after the results
of the
angrily charged that elections called for an examination of
Cintron
had
issued
primary
were
announced,
had been “rigged” the primaries.
a prepared -statement
that
he
against
would
not
participate in the primary for mayor or for the House of Representatives because in his “judgement” the “procedures for selecting primary voters were not the best possible.”
Chances The
feeling
in
Ponce
Were
political
Poor
circles
was
that
Cintron
would
prelate
of
of the Ponce
Boscio, born merchants
and
served
the
police
in
in Cabo has
a
municipal
department.
Rojo
long
in
history
1896, of
government,
is one in
He was also president (See CINTRON, Page
dio-
announcement
of Ponce’s
government
work.
the
Senate,
of 21)
the
and
Ponce
leading He
has
in
the
Chamber.
Turncoat By
A.
W.
MALDONADO
The president of the Independence Party speaking yesterday before 10,000 Independence Party members at Sixto Escobar Stadium in San Juan, attacked Gov. Munoz
for
“selling
his
ideal
of Puerto Rican independence for
a bowl
Sen.
of
beans.”
Gilberto
Gracia,
founder
Concepcion
and
president
de
of
the Independence Party, attacked the governor before a spirit-
ed
crowd
for predicting
publicly
that the Independence Party will disappear as a major party after this election. “These words came from a leader who stepped on the flag of independence after he had
told that
the
the
people
of
independence
corner,”
the
Puerto
Rico
was
around
fiery
Concep-
cion charged. “These words are from a man who once in power, turned his back to independence in order (See INDEPENDENCE, Page 21)
ef,
is
as an effort..te rein-
the
structuré.-of
the
church in’ Puerto Rico where about 90 per cent of the population is Catholie. It is also seen
as
a
movement
tion
Reaches 220 On 213th Day
to place his name
,
seen
Traffic Toll
Ponce yesterday were rigged and declined
nomination,
cese.
ARCHBISHOP DAVIS +» «Rew jurisdiction
in
N.
|the Virgin Islands. 6. Msgr. Luis Aponte Martinez, native of Lajas, was named auxiliary bishop of Ponce under the Most Rev. James E. Mc-
Vatican
Cintron
primaries
50-
Y.,
The
Juan
party
Harper,
of
bishop
Carlos
Popular
Brooklyn,
Edward native
Manus,
the
have been an underdog if he had entered the primary. Cintron declined to state till the very end whether he would run for the
year-old
was
charged
ROMAN
within
tive-born
clergy.
Msgr.
Mendez,
can
towards
the
ancestry,
church
of
was
elevaof
na-
Puerto
Ri-
ordained
into
the priesthood. at the ty of Notre Dame in
Universi. 1935. He
served
Texas in Mex-
many
years
in
Two more highway fatalities}. communities predominantly ican. were registered over the weekend, (See DAVIS, Page 21) bringing the yearly total to 220
dead
in the
year. One..
Felix
first
4 victim
213 days
was
nine- year-old
Figueroa
Gonzalez
who was hit while oF of his home at
in front Saturday
near
Carlos
of the
Barceloneta.
Judge charged
Cruz and
Gustave Pas) Ruiz driver Angel Gonzalez
with
involuntary
set a $2,000
Another
bail.
traffic
Bernardo
Highway
2 near Vega
police
said
GOP. Farm Program’ MONTICELLO,” Iowa; . @— Launching ‘a vigorous attack on the
farm
Republican
Chevere
Sen.
Democratic
Lyndon
‘B,
nominee
for
Garcia
vice president, said yesterday the Democrats will push a program
at 7:30
to ‘‘use the produce of our farms and factories to help other people.”’
was
46-
tried to cross Baja
administration's
program,
Johnson,
death
year-old
who
homicide
Johnson Attacks
Johnson said the investment “of p.m. Friday. He was hit by a car driven by’ Carmelo Alvarez corn, wheat, cotton or other comCruz,
who-was
later
charged
involuntary homicide and (See "TRAFFIC, Page
with
held 21)
in
modities
would
be
returned
many
fold, together with millions of new (See JOHNSON, Page 21)
INDEPENDENCE RALLY—Independence Party members carry party president Gilberto Concepcion de Gracia on their shoulders to speakers’ stand at party rally yesterday.
(STAR
photo by José Garcia.)