Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 166.

Sen. Johnson Surprise As Running Mate J J I With John F. Kennedy

Local Scouts To Attend Jamboree - dp .? w BOY SCOUTS PLANNING to attend the national golden jubilee year camporee at Colorado Springs, Col., are pictured above in front of Decatur high school preparing to leave Pictured are. from left to right, rear, Thomas Maddox, son of Mr, and Mrs. Watson Maddox; Mark Frauhiger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Frauhiger; , front row, Daniel Durkin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Durkin; and Chuck Martindill, son ot Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Martindill. Not • pictured is Dan Heller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Heller, who was unable to attend the pre-encampment meeting.

The five Decatur Boy Scouts attending the golden national jambore at Colorado Springs, Col., left today for Fort Wayne, where they will camp for three days of training before leaving for Colorado. There will be 55,000 scouts from all parts of the United States and visitors from foreign countries. Sylvester Everhart, principal of the Southeast school, and Decatur scout worker for two decades, is tour director for • the entire Anthony Wayne council area, including Fort Wayne and vicinity. Boys Attending The boys attending are: Dan Heller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Heller, has been named assistant scoutmaster of troop 69 (the three troops from the council area have been designated troops 68, 69, and 70.) All of the Decatur boys will be in troop 69. In Decatur, Heller is a member of troop 61. Mark Frauhiger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Frauhiger, of route 2, has been named patrol leader of the Fox patrol. His group will camp in green tents. He is from troop 65 in Decatur. * Thomas Maddox, son of Mr. and .Mrs. Watson Maddox, is one of three Decatur members of the Tiger patrol. That group will use blue tents. He is from Decatur troop 61. Daniel Durkin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Durkin, is a member of troop 63 in Decatur. He is also in the Tiger patrol. Third member of the Tiger patrol from Decatur is Charles Martindill, son of Mr. and Mrs. C, S. Martindill. He Is from troop 62 in Decatur. Meet At Fort Wayne The group will meet at 6 ,p.m. today on the Central Catholic high school practice field in Fort Wayne. The group will wear work clothes in which it will be possible .to set up the camp. all of their luggage, their medical blanks properly completed, a dayold haircut, and a paper bag in which parents may take home the work clothes worn to set up camp. An open house for parents will be held Sunday from 4 to 5 p.m. Leave Monday Monday morning the boys will entrain for the 24-hour trip to Denver, Cplo. They tour Mountain national park in the morning, then drive to Colorado Spyings at 2:30 p.m. On July 21 they win enjoy a chuck-wagon dinner, and western entertainment at the Garden of

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the Gods. The jamboree will be held from July 22-28. On the 29th the group will leave Colorado Springs at 10:30 a.m., and arrive in Fort Wayne at>3:!s p.m. Saturday, July 30. The address Jbf boys going during the jamboree will be: Name Os Scout, Section 21, Troop 69, Boy Scouts of America, National Jamboree,, Colorado Springs, Colo. The telephone number is Melrose 5-8911, Colorado Springs, Colo. Dances Feature Os Sidewalk Sale Here Tom Garner, retail chairman, and Fred Kolter, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, announced today that a record hop and square dancing will be held in conjunction with Decatur’s third annual sidewalk sale to be held next Wednesday, July 20. » The record-hop will be held on Second street in front of the Decatur Sporting Center. Records i will be spun by Sam’s Big Beat, featuring John (Sam) Sheets and Joe McNerney, who h* v e been record-hupping for about six months in die Decatur area. The square dance will be held in front of Beavers Oil ‘Service and will feature Max Kreps as caller. Kreps is well known in the Decatur area and he has his own television show. Promenade 21, and also holds square dancing classes at the Youth and Community Center. Both the record hop and the square dancing will , begin shortly after 8:30, after the last free act is over. Hie merchants and public are again urged to dress in their "Gay Nineties" outfitsas part of the festivities. This is die third side walk sale in Decatur and promises to be the best ever. Deady Funeral Rites On Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Inace Deady, who died suddenly Thursday morning at Fort Wayne, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Fred Pflugh officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Saturday.

LOS ANGELES (UPD — Sen. John F. Kennedy’s surprise tfapice of Lyndon B. Johnson as his Democratic running mate pacified the South today but provoked cries erf double-cross from some liberals. Kennedy threw the Democratic National Convention into a turmoil of excitement by recruiting for second place on the ticket the 51-year-old Senate majority leader from Texas who had been his chief rival for the presidential nomination. The convention formally nominated Johnson for the vice presidency at Thursday night’s session. But the method of convention approval was almost as much of a shock to gelegates in the Los Angelas Sports Arena as was the choice of Johnson. He was nominated on a motion requiring a two-thirds vote. Gov. Leßoy Collins of Florida, convention chairman, declared it had carried by a voice vote although there was a loud chorus of noes as well as ayes when he put the question. Acceptance Speeches Tonight Both nominees will'deliver their acceptance speeches at tonight’s final convention session in the 100,000 seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Johnson, who had been hinting broadly all week that Kennedy was too young and inexperienced for the presidency, promptly declared himself “proud to stand beside and stand behind the next president of the United States, Jack Kennedy.” He promised to “stump the country from, cogst to coast” to help Kennedy defeat Richard M. Nixon in November. Hotel lobbies and corridors were . buzzing today with three questions : Why did Kennedy choose Johnson* What will be the political effect of the Kennedy-Johnson .ticket? t Why did the ambitious and sen- , sitive Johnson agree to take a t crack at a job which officially has , little but ceremonial trappings , when he already is safely entrenched in one of the most powerful political posts in the coun- ■ try? To Strengthen Ticket Kennedy’s move clearly was an ‘ attempt to cement in the party ' together and to strengthen the ! Democratic national icke in he South, which he gave little attention in his pre-convention campaign for the presidential nomination. Johnson was badked almost unanimously by Southern delegates for the presidential nomination. Govs. Ernest Vandiver of Georgia, Ernest F. Rollings of South Carolina and J. Lindsay Almond ’ of Virginia and Terry Sanford, • Democratic nominee for governor ’ of North Carolina, were among the 1 Democratic leaders whom KenneJ dy consulted Thursday on the vice 1 presidential choice. [ They urged the nomination of Johnson to help strengthen the i ticket in the South. Other South- • era leaders applauded the choice, ; although Gov. Ross G. Barnett of . Mississippi said he doubted that I Mississippi would support the par- > ty’s presidential ticket next No- : vember. When he announced the selecl tion, Kennedy told a news confer- , enee that he had consulted lead- ■ ers of all segments of the party. L “I have said many times that ( in these days of great chalenge, , Americans must have a vice presJ ident capable of dealing with the ; grave 1 problems confronting this nation and the free world,” the t Massachusetts senator said. ; ”We need men of strength if we are to be strong and if we are to prevail and lead the world on the road of freedom. Lyndon • Johnson has on ‘ many occasions his brilliant qual- ' ifications for the leadership we re--1 quire today." I Some Liberals Object Some of the liberals in Northern and Western delegations readily accepted Johnson but others objected strenuously. Some even cried that they had been doublecrossed by Kennedy, who won the , presidential nomination with their , support. . Gov. G. Mennen Williams 'ot , Michigan called the choice a "mistake." Some other members ; Os his Michigan delegation spoke more bluntly. Mrs. Elsie Smith of j Detroit called it a “double cross" (Continued on page 6)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 15, 1960.

■ -Rhk Jp •* a- i • 1 Harley J. Reef Harley J. Reef Dies Suddenly This Morning Harley J. Reef, 72, prominent retired farmer and former Adams county commissioner, died suddenly at 6 o’clock this morning at hto-home. five miles and two miles south of Herne. Mr. Reef suffered a heart attack at 1:30 a. m. and his condition was critical until his death. He was born in Jay county May l, 1888, a son of Martin and Mahala Cole-Reef, but had lived in Adams county tor the past 60 years, retiring from active farming three years ago. He was married Nov. 29, 1913. to Miss Sarah Ella Becher, who survives. Mr. Reef, who had served for 36 years as Democratic precinct committeeman in West Jefferson township, was elected Adams county commissioner from the third district in 1952 and served two terms before retiring. He was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Chattanooga, 0., and served for two years as .an elder of the church. . Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Don (Naomi) DeArmond of route 2, Rockford, 0., and Mrs. Walter (Imogene) Priebe of Bryan, O.; two brothers, Adam Reef of Decatur, and David Reef of route 2. Berne, and one sister, Mrs. Paul Butcher of Wilmington, O. , Mrs. William Ross, Decatur, was reared in the Reef home for four years. The body was removed to the Yager funeral home at Berne, where friends may call after 1 p. m. Saturday. Funeral arrangement* have not been completed, but services will be held at the Zion Lutheran church at Chattanooga, the Rev. Waldo E. Byers officiatnig. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Army Base Is Jarred By Twin Explosions FT. DEVENS. Mass. (URL — Twin gas explosions jarred this Army , base today, injuring 22 soldiers and demolishing a mess hall and two trucks. Five other buildings were damaged. None of the injured was seriously hurt. Two were admitted to the base hospital for treatment of mild burns and 20 were treated at a dispensary near the scene, of the explosions and released. The Army said a civilian truck was pumping propane cooking gas into a tank when a coupling parted- The escaping gas was touched off by a stove in the kitoben of the mess hall and the explosion blew a hole in the roof and set the building afire. A second blast occurred when one of the propane gas tanks on the trudk let go. This' Hast destroyed a 2%-ton Army truck parked nearby. Four barracks buildings and ap orderly room were damaged by flames.

Federal Spending Measure Is Signed WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower has approved gftulti-foillion-doflar spending programs for roads and public works in signing the last erf the bUls. Congress passed before it recessed for the political..conventions. StThe 65 bills Eisenhower signed Thursday called for more • than |4.5 billion in federal spending,’ including. $2.1 billion in federal aid for. roads, $1.5 billion for rivers and habors projects and $l5O million to extend home loans for World War II veterans. He killed two minor hills with pocket vetoes in disposing of the last of 118 measures that required action when he began a vacation at New Port, R.1., a week. ago. The veterans bill extended for two years the program of guaranteed home toans to World War II vets and direct home loans to Veterans of that period and the Koi rean Wa-f. Both were due to expire July 25. The road-building authorization continued for two more .years the present level of federal aid for primary and secondary roads and urban extensions. The government pays half the cost of these roads, which are separate from the 41,-pOO-mile interstate superhighway program. The public works measure, in Which most members of Congress try to include at least one project in their district, authorized 67 navigational projects, 43 flood control projects.

Situation In Congo Wor sens

I By WILLIAM J. FOX United Press International i The Soviet Union threatened today to take “resolute measures” : to cut short Western “imperialist aggression” in the Congo. Russia assured the Congo gov- , eminent that the Soviet Union would give any assistance “that ’ might be necessary for the victory of her just cause.” In the Congo itself, the wave of rioting, pillaging, looting and raping seemed at a temporary end. But the political situation was deteriorating rapidly, with an apparent split in the Congolese ’ government. Belgian troops patrolled the capital of Leopoldville and maintained order in other cities awaiting the arrival of the first U.N troops. Rattle Soviet Might The Soviet warning came in a message from Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Congo President Joseph Kasa Vubu and Premier Patrice Lumumba. It capped a campaign in the Soviet press to depict Russia as the true friend of the Congo and all Africa, picturing the West as colonialists trying to deprive the new nations of their freedom. Just as he did in the Suez crisis of 1956, Khrushchev rattled Soviet might with an implied threat of . direct military action unless the ; present Congo crisis is settled swiftly. Premier Lumumba called an emergency session of the Congolese parliament in Leopoldville this morning to discuss relations with Belgium, the arrival of the " U.N." forces anti The secesSion of the mineral-ich Ktanga Province. Without Katanga it would be virtually impossible for the Republic of the Congo to survive. Lumumba blames Foreign Min- ' jster Justin Bomfooko and Congolese Resident Minister to Belgium Albert Delvaux for calling in Belgian troops. Bomboko and Del- ' vaux have reproached Lumumba and Kasa Vubu for their antii Belgian attitude which they said i brought anarchy and to ■ their country. Belgian Cabinet Meets > The Katanga parliament met i Thursday night in Elisabethville to vote its independence. UPI

Most Hoosiers Pleased With Sen. Johnson LOS ANGELES (UPD — The nomination of Sen. Lyndon Johnson for vice-president will take the liberal curse off the Democratic national ticket in conservative Indiana. That was the general viewpoint of most Hoosier delegates to the national convention, who began leaving Los Angeles today, footsore,’ tired and weary. Sen. John F. Kennedy, the presidential nominee, is regarded by a - number of Indiana delegates as a bit too far to the left for this right-wing state. However, several delegates favored the nomination of Sen. Stuart Symington, including his Indiana managers former national chairman Frank E. McKinney, and Frank M. McHale, former national committeeman, both of Indianapolis. But Mic Kinney said: — “1 think Sen. Johnson’s nomination is terrific. It will help our ticket in Indianapolis and in the southern part of the state. Tith , respect to Negfo voters, we can capitalize on the fact that under Johnson's leadership two civil rights bills were passed.” Central Soya Board Declares Dividend The directors of Central Soya Company, Inc.. Fort Wayne, have declared a quarterly cash dividend of 27% cents per share on the capital stock of the company payable August 15 to stockholders of record at the dose of business, July 29, according to an announcement by Harold W. McMillen, chairman of the board. This is the fourth quarterly dividend of the current fiscal year and a continuation of the company’s record of cash dividends ( which has been uninterrupted since 1942. At the same time, a year-end 2% stock dividend payable August 16 to stockholders of record at the close of business, July 29, was also declared by the board of directors. This is the frmrth vtnr-ir dividend paid to stockholders since its inauguration in 1957.

correspondent Ray Moloney reported there was no vote because there was no quorum present. Moloney said the session broke up in disorder. But Katanga Finance Minister Jean Baptiste Kibwe said, “We do not need to have a quorum” to declare the region’s independence from the Congo, a move announced four days ago by Provincial Premier Moise Tshombe. In Brussels, the Belgian cabinet held an emergency meeting amid rumors that it was about to recognize the independence of Katanga. This move would make it easier to maintain Belgian troops in the area. The United Nations and the central Congolese government headed by Lumumba has ordered the Belgians to get.out. The Belgians are in agreement to this—but only after the arrival of U.N. forces to keep order. Belgian Premier Gaston Eystkens said in Brussels that speedy arrival of U.N. troops in the Congo is necessary not only to restore order but'to insure that the population is fed. U.N. Troops on Way The U.S. Air Force already was taking steps to meet these needs, with a double effort under way to move U.N. troops and emergency food supplies to the Congo. Hie first major U.N. troop contingent— 600 Tunisian soldiers — was due in Leopoldville tonight aboard U.S. 0130 transports, according to an announcement by the U.S. Air Force’s European headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany. The planes are flying out of Tunis. 1 Earlier this mornipg, an airlift Os emergency food supplies, including 400 tons of flour, began from a staging area at Chateauroux, France. Crowds in the streets of Leopoldville gave rousing cheers to the Ghana army commander general and his four African staff officers when they left their hotel there this morning to confer with Belgian and Congolese army officers. The Ghanian military representatives in the Congo were there for talks preliminary to bringing in the first Ghanaian troops as part erf the U.N. force.

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Red China Trade Mission In Cuba

HAVANA (UPD—A high-level Red Chinese trade mission.arrives today to do business with the Fi« del Castro regime and possibly prepare the way for Cuba’s diplomatic recognition of Peiping. Revolutionary authorities, air ready being pressed by other Latin American governments to slow down on their current flirtation with the Communist world, had kept the visit secret until late Thursday. . By Bay Sugar The 14-man Chinese mission, headed by Vice-Minister of Foreign Commerce Lu Hsu-chang, was expected to join Russia in buying substantial amounts of Cuban sugar left unsold by the recent U.S. quo(a slash. It probably will leave with an economic pact along the lines of the one Castro signed with Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan on his visit to Havana last February. Cuban diplomatic recognition of Russia followed soon afterwards.

Plan Entertainment I Fair Opening Night An entertainment festival will again be held the opening night of the 4-H fair at Monroe August 2, according to Robert Brown and Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, cochairmen of the event. The festival has been an annual feature of the fair for several years and will include entertainment from 4-H clubs and other participants. The festival is open to anyone who wishes to participate and acts will be divided into two categories, musical and non-musical. Length of acts should not exceed eight minutes and prizes will be awarded to the first five placing acts in both the musical and nonmusical categories. Deadline for entering the festival is July 23 and persons desiring entry blanks may get them from 4-H adult leaders, township extension representatives, or the county extension office, Decatur. The festival will be held at approximately 8:15 p. m. Auust 2, or immediaVly following the grand parade through Monroe. Elderly Couple Die In Two-Car Crash NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (UPD — An 85-year-old farmer and his wife died within less than two hours Thursday night in a River--vtew- Hospital here from injuries - suffered in a two-car collision at a rural road intersection near , Sheridan. The victims were Delt Devany, route 2, Sheridan, and his wife. Injuries Are Fatal To Greencastle Man BRAZIL, Ind. (UPD—EIi Aker, 46, R. R. 4, Greencastle, died today in Clay County Hospital here from injuries suffered Thursday night in a two-car collision in Ind. 59 two miles north of Cartoon. Aker was township trustee of Madison Twp. (Putnam county).

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The Cuban government was silent on Argentina’s formal appeal to it to renounce Nikita Khrushchev’s rocket-rattling promise of Soviet support for Cuba against the United States. .. 4.. . | Rejection Appears Certain A rejection of the appeal was considered certain. However Cuban Defense Minister Raul Casto said in Communist Czechosio.nM|k „ Thursday, that Khrushchev's support was df "tatm&nsir importance” to his country. In Havana Thursday Acting Foreign Minister Carlos Olivares brushed off another attempt by a Latin government to strike some reconciliation between the United States and Cuba and end the spectre of Soviet military penetration in the Western Hemisphere. Olivares called in ail Latin ambassadors to tell them that the revolutionary "regime * considered as “unfriendly" Peru’s request for an emergency meeting of hemisphere foreign ministers.

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