Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 167.

Kennedy Rips G.O.P. Record

LOS ANGELES (UPD — Sen. John F. Kennedy's first campaign speech was welcomed by victoryhungry Democrats today as a summons to a bare-knuckle fight against Richard M. Nixon for the presidency. . ‘ The youthful Democratic presidential nominee also stirred the party faithful with the Rooseveltian ring ofzhls “New Frontier” challenge to Americans to brace themselves for “more sacrifice instead of morp security.” Kennedy formally accepted (the presidential nomination, and delivered his first major address as a candidate, before an outdoor crowd of about 50,000 persons in the Los Angeles Coliseum Friday night. Ripping into Nixon with gusto, Kennedy made it clear that the prospective Repifolican presidential nominee cannot expect the relative immunity from personal assault that Dwight D. Eisenhower enjoyed during the past two election campaigns. — “Better Cut Cards” "Mr. Nixon may feel it is his turn now, after the New Deal and the Fair Deal — but before he deals, someone had better cut the cards,” Kennedy said in closing the 1960 Democratic National Convention. Despite the display of party unity at the closing session, which also featured Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson’s acceptance of thfe vice presidential nomination, party bruises incurred at the convention were still showing. Mississippi and perhaps other southern states were threatening to rebel against a four-year-old party rule requiring national committeemen to pledge their support to the national ticket. The showdown was expected at a meeting of the Democratic National Committee today. Kennedy scheduled his first news conference since winning the nomination. He will leave Los Angeles Sunday morning for a brief vacation at Cape Cod, in his home state of Massachusetts. Mixes Challenges, Attacks In his acceptance speech Friday night, Kennedy freely mixed soaring tphrases about the challenges of the future with verbal cuffing of Nixon, a tough battler, too, who will be nominated for president by the Republicans at Chicago in two weeks. Kennedy said the GOP in this centennial year of Abraham Lincoln’s first nomination would be invoking Lincoln’s name in behalf of Nixon. , And playing on words from Lincoln’s second inaugural address, Kennedy said this would be done even though Nixon’s career “has often seemed to show charity toward none and maltoe for all. He descrfoed Nixon as one who had spoken or voted on all sides of all issues. The 43-y ea r-old Democratic nominee said Nixon, who is 47, is a young man but that ‘ his approach is as old as McKinley. “His party is the party of the past,” Kennedy said. “His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge I’ » pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.” Republicans were quick to join the battle. GOP National Chairman Thruston B. Morton said in Washington he was shocked that Kennedy would “stoop to such low-level, malicious and undignified personal attacks” on Nixon.

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Bessie Patterson Is Taken By Death Mrs. Bessie E. Patterson, 82, a former resident of Adams county, . died Friday at Richmond. She was born at Wooster, 0., a daughter of Abraham and Samantha Brown, and had lived in Fort Wayne for 55 years. The family lived east of Decatur many years ago. Her husband, William E. Patterson, former Pennsylvania railroad engineer, died in 1942. Mrs. | Patterson was a member of the First Evangelical Vnfted Brethren church at Fort Wayne. Surviving are two sons, Maynard, retired Fort Wayne police officer, and Verl E. Patterson of Paulding, 0., and a brother, Cliff O. Brown of Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Monday in the Mungovan & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne, the Aev. G. T. Rosselot officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral .home after 7 p. m. today. Final Rites Sunday For Blimp Victim Funeral services will be held Sunday for Bruce O. Garrison, 22, Fort Wayne, one of the victims . killed in the crash of the U.S. Navy blimp off the New Jersey coast July 6. The Garrison youth was a grandson of Mrs. Martha Smith Kindell of Monroe, and a nephew and cousin of the Harvey Haggard and "Reuben Smith families of this county. . The victim, a radar technician, was born in Fort Wayne June 27, 1938, a son of Lee B. and Florence Smith-Ciarrison. Surviving in addition to his parents and grandmother are a brother, Wayne Garrison, at home, and a sister, Mrs. Richard Rohyans of Kankakee, 111. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Church of God in Fort Wayne, the Rev. V. O. Barnhart officiating. Burial will be in the ; Ell River cemetery at Churubusco. Friends may call at the Elzey home for funerals at Waynedale until 1 p.m. Sunday, when the bodv will be removed from the church. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Butler Carage, Inc. „ 5 Burk Elevator Co. 5 Bower Jewelry Store 3 Citizens Telephone Co. 3 Clark’s Drive In 3 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. 6 Decatur Drive In Theater 3 First State Blank of Decatur' 3 Fairway g Green Belt Chemical Co. 6 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home — 3 Haflich & Morrissey 3 Kent Realty & Auction Co. 5 Mies Recreation 3 Pike Lumber Co 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. 3, 5 Shell OU Co. » 5 Sears, Roebuck & Co. 5 Teeple Truck Lines 5 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc., „ 6 Zwick Funeral Home '4 Church Page Sponsors — 2

Indiana GOP Backs Morion As Nixon Mate INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Thq Republican vice - presidential boom for Sen. Thruston Morton, GOP national chairman from Kentucky, was bolstered by the Democratic nomination of Sen. Lyndon Johnson, Texas, in the opinion of Edwin W. Beaman, Republican state chairmen. The Democratic bid to retain the support of the disgruntled southern states through the nomination, of Johnson may be countered by the nomination of another southern to oppose him in the person of Kentucky Sen. Morton, according to Beaman. There is terrific backing in Indiana and among the GOP pros over the nation for Morton, Beaman said. Morton has talked often in 4 Indiana, his latest appearance being at the Indianapolis Press Club gridiron show in May when both he and Johnson were praised highly for their humorous but foreceful oratory in behalf of their respective parties. - ~ Lodge Strong Henry Cabot Lodge, U S. delegate to the United Nations and Massachusetts senator until he was ousted by Sen. John F; Kennedy, the Democratic White House nominee, seems to be Sen. Morton’s chief rival for the vicepresidential nomination, according to the politicos. - Beaman and other Hoosier delegates will be early arrivals at the national convention in Chicago. He and former Gov. Ralph F. Gates, national committeeman, and Mrs. lone Harrington, national committeewoman, wiU attend a meeting of the National Committee Tuesday. On the same day the two Hoosier members of the convention resolutions committee will go into action in Chicago. They are Douglass McDonald, - Princeton, and Mrs. Martha Wmtehead, Waldron, state vice chairman. The bulk of the Indiana delegation will arrive in Chicago next Saturday and Sunday with headquarters at the Palmer House. “Sen. Mouton look* better sos vice-president all the time.”- Beaman said. "Os course what Vice President Richard M. Nixon wants he will get for the secdnd spot on the ticket.” Nixon’s Support Nixon, who won the Hoosier presidential primary, incidentally surpassing Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee for president, by more than 50,000 tallies, will have Indiana’s 32 on the first ballot, regardless of any challenge by New Yorta Gov. Nelson JtocketfeUer or anyone else. Gw. Harold W. Handley, who was one of the first three governors of the nation to announce support for Nixon many, many months ago, will be chairman of the Indiana delegation. Local Lady's Father. Is Taken By Death P. H. Keateber, 84, of near Wabash, father of Mrs. Clarence Ziner of Decatur, died at 5:30 p. m. Friday at the Wabash county hospital of complications following a long illness. The widow, and two sons, three grandchildren, four great-grand-children, in addition to Mrs. Ziner, survive. Mr. Keafaber was a retired carpenter contractor. He was a member of the St. Peters Evangelical and Reformed church at Urbana. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Weir funeral home in Wabash.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 16, 1960.

Belgium Ignores Order G>, G7 4 From Congo’s Premier To Withdraw All Troops

Speech Clinic Will Conclude Next Week Next week is the final week of the speech clinic that has been held in Decatur and Berne for the. past five weeks. Miss Sue Petrie is in charge of the clinic which is sponsored by the Adams county crippled children’s society and the Psi lota Xi sorority. The clinic is held at the Berne high school from noon until 3:30 on Mondays and Tuesdays and in the Lincoln grade school in Decatur from 8 a. m. until noon on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Miss Sara Brunnegraff and Miss Diane Rhodes are doing group work which includes not only working with the children and different sounds but the playing of games to help the children know and understand the sounds. Individual Work Miss Petrie does the individual work, which is spending about 20 to 30 minutes with each child trying to help the child pronounqe the sounds that, are causing the trouble. She is assisted by Miss Karen Zimmerman and Miss Jean Conrad w,ho work with the other children and {day games with them while Miss Petrie is working with an individual. At present the children are working op notebooks with pictures that have to do with sounds. Usually a child isn’t at the clinic more than an hour and a half a day. • Parents Attend Next week is the final week for the 50 Decatur children and the 24 from Berne who are enrolled in the clinic. Notes have been taken home by the children to the parents requesting they come to the clinic with the child next week to see what is being done and what part they must continue to do to help improve the child. Suggestions will be given to the parents as to how they may carry on the work that the clinic has started. Miss Petrie stressed the importance of the children’s parents being present as she explained that the clinic is to help a child to know and understand the sounds and try to improve on them, but when the chnic ends the parents must continue to work with the child if he or she is to continue to improve. This is the eighth year of the clinic in Decatur and it has proven highly successful. The group

Seek To Avoid Cuban Blowup

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Latin American diplomats huddled privately far into the night in an effort to head off an explosive showdown today between the United States and Cuba. The Latin envoys sought to avoid a blowup at a council meet-, ing of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Peru’s appeal for an emergency Western Hemisphere foreign ministers conference on Russia's increasingly close ties with the Fidel Castro regime. The OAS session came less than 24 hours after Castro refused to disavow Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s threat to fire rockets at the United States if this country intervened in Cuba. In a note delivered to Latin American embassies in Havana and the OAS here, Cuba said “Any repudiation of the Soviet offer would open the door to U.S. invasion.” Latin American diplomats here were trying to persuade Cuba not to make a similar declaration at OAS meeting. The United States was reported to have prepared a mild statement supporting the inter-Ameri-can foreign ministers session and making no charges against Cuba. But if Cuba lashed out at this country, the United States was reedy to charge that Castro is playing into Communist hands by suggesting U.S. aggression.

Republicans Seek Rockefeller Change

CHICAGO (UPD—Republicans ! preparing for their national con--1 vention talked wishfully today of a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket but 1 (New * York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller restated he would not ac- ' fcept the GOP vice presidential 1 nomination. 1 Republican National Chairnfcfo ■ Thruston Morton, who arrives in i Chicago today to take charge of ■ convention arrangements, said he : would not bdgetr Rockefeller-into : accepting second spot behind ; Vice President Richard M. Nixon. t But the Kentucky senator said . “There are millions of Americans , throughout the length and breadth of this land who would like to see him on the ticket. If this I should develop it would make a l Very formidable ticket indeed.” Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.l, went even farther, saying a ’ Nixon-Rockefeller ticket “would ' sweep the country” against the ' Democratic ’Kennedy - Johnson ' 'slate. ' ’ Wiley likewise took note of 'Rockefeller’s refusals to accept ’ "anything but top spot on the ticket ■ but pointed out that Sen. Lyndon

j of 74 this year <is probably the .largest group that ha# ever enrolled in the speech clinic. ’Die Adams county crippled children’s society, of which Gail Grabill is the president, and the Psi Otes have put a lot of time and money into this clinic and it is hoped that the parents of the enrolled children carry on the work that the clinic has begun. Richmond Youth Dies In Auto-Cycle Crash RICHMOND, Ind. (UPD — A young Richmond man, home on leave from the U.S. Navy, died in Reid Memorial hospital here Friday night several hours after he was injured in a car-motorcycle accident. The victim was John Krone, 19. City police said the accident occurred when Krone’s motorcycle > slammed into the side of an auto driven by Lester Robinson, 54. Richmond, near the Senior high • school building. Robinson was i treated for severe shock.

i — —— : Mrs. Mary W. Parker Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Mary Wilhelmina Parker, 56, of 5925 Illinois road. Fort Wayne, and a former resident of Decatur, died at 12:30 p.m. Friday at the Lutheran hospital. She was a member of the Anthony Wayne First Church of God, the Women of the Moose, Demolay Mothers, Typographical union auxiliary, and Ben Hur lodge. Surviving are four daughter, Mrs. Loren Hill of Marion,. Mrs. Beatrice Lahrman of Columbia City, Mrs. Nadine Roach of Lake Everett, and Mary Ellen, at home; two sons, Ralph E. of Fort Wayne, and Richard, at home; 17 grandchildren, and three brothers, Arthur W. Bohnke of Parsons, W. Va., Vern Bohnke of Kingston, N.Y., and Frank Bohnke of Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home, the Rev. Paul Sago officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn memorial park. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

B. Johnson “said this twice too.” Rockefeller said through his press secretary at Albany, N.Y., Friday that “under no circumstance” would ty?. i£*come Nixon’s running mate. However, at least one leading Republican, New Hampshire Gov. Wesley Powell, said he believed Rockefeller would accept the vice presidential nomination if he were asked. “My opinion has been constantly that if Mr. Nixon and the convention were to propose acceptance of the vice presidential nomination by Gov. Rockefeller, he would accept as a duty to both his country and party.” Powell said. Draft Rockefeller committees were stepping up their efforts to win the top spot for the New York governor at the convention. Rockefeller has said he -4s not an active candidate but would not dodge a draft for president. The pre-convention spotlight wiH shift to him Monday when he arrives a full week before the convention opens.

Wheat Referendum Polling Places Set Polling places for the July 21 referendum on marketing quotas for the 1961 crop of wheat were announced today by James Garboden, chairman, county agricultural stabilization and conservation committee. Growers eligible to vote in the referendum will be those who will have more than 15 acres of wheat for harvest as grain in 1961 (except growers taking part in the feed wheat program). The wheat quota ballots may be cast Thursday, July 21, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the following places * Preble, Root, Union, St. Mary’s, Washington, Kirkland townships, at county office. Blue Creek, Monroe, French, Hartford, Wabash, Jefferson townships, at Berne town hall. Garboden points out that at least two-thirds of the growers voting in the referendum must approve the quotas if they are to become effective. Under quotas, marketing penalties will apply on “excess” wheat resulting from noncompliance with the farm’s wheat acreage allotment, and price support will be available on the crop at 81.82 per bushel. On the other hand, if more than one-third of the voters oppose the quotas, there will be no restrictions on wheat marketing, but allotments will remain in effect as a condition for price support at 50 per cent of parity, as directed by law. Wheat growers voting in a referendum each year have approved marketing quotas for the past seven wheat crops.

Four Hartford City Residents Are Killed TIFFm, Ohio (UPI)-Five persons were killed, four of them from' one lndlana family, and two children critically injured today in a head-on collision on U.S. 224 about 12 miles west of here, near Attica. The State Highway Patrol post at Fremont said four of the dead were in a car driven by Thomas Earl Brenner, 31, route 1, Hartford City, Ind., who was killed along with his wife, Joyce, 27, and two of their children, Sheril Lynn, 6, and Debra, 7. Also killed was the driver of another car, Arnold Joseph Miller, 22. Tiffin. Two of the Brenner children, Larry, 11, and Gary. 10, were listed in critical condition in Willard Municipal Hospital in Willard, Ohio. *

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo, (UPI) — Belgium ignored an ultimatum from Congo Previer Patrice Lumumba to withdraw ail Belgian troops from Congolese territory today. Long after the deadline set by Lumumba. Belgian paratroops maintained picket lines around the European sector of still - tense Paratroops also guarded the Belgian embassy where operations were continuing as usual in spite of the break in diplomatic relations by the Congo ment. * f J There were indications Sti goateed premier of the crisis-torn infant African republic would fly to Stanleyville to set up a new capital from which “to continue unceasingly to fight for our independence.” In Accra, Ghana, 73 American missionaries and their families arrived today from the Congo and told a tale of beatings and abuses at the hands of Congolese at the Sona-Mpangu mission 16 miles from Leopoldville last Tuesday. Donald Ellis, Indianapolis. Ind., said he and tiwo other American men were driven out of their houses at gunpoint by 13 Congolese soldiers. They were forced to lie face down on the ground while Mrs. Ellis and Miss Rhoda Nielson, 37, Cedar Falls, lowa, were beaten. Ellis’ 10 - year -old daughter, Dal# said “Then they beat up our ’daddies. They made them lie on the ground and marched all over them.” Local Congolese who remonstrated the soldiers and pointed out the missionaries were Americans were told, “So what, they’re still white.” Lumumba denounced Belgium and the United States in a speech before parliament. He gave Belgium until 1 a.m. e.d.t. today to pull all of its troops out of the Congo in a note handed to Belgian Ambassador Jean van den Bosch Friday. The demand coincided with the arrival of the first contingents of U.N. troops and receipt of an expression of support from Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. In a note to the Congo leaders, Khrushchev denounced “Western aggression” in the Congo and offered “any assistance” required by the Lumumba regime. Summer Field Trip Made By Students A total of more than 40 sociology and government class students of Lowell J. Smith and Deane T. Dorwin spent Friday in Allen county on a summer field trip. In the morning they were conducted on a tour of Concordia Senior College by Larry Neeb, son of the president of the college and a senior there. t * They then went to the Allen county historical museum at Sweeney park, and ate their lunch at the park. In the afternoon the group visited the weather bureau station at Baer field, and then toured the National Guard base there.

Mexican Students In Demonstration

MEXICO CITY (UPD—An estimated 2,000 students staged an anti-United States, pro - Castro demonstration in front of the National Palace Friday night under the watchful eyes of a . strong force of riot police. There’ wasviolence at the , raly although demonstrators later burned a newspaper delivery truck and broke most of the win- ; dows of the plant of the outspokenly anti - Communist newspaper Zocalo. r ■ The demonstrators cheered ' speakers who shouted “The Mexican people are against the American people.’’ They shouted, with boos and cries of “no, no,” when one speaker said: “The Mexican people are friends of the people of the United States.” The speeches were punctuated with chants of “Cuba yes, Yankees no.” Several hundred passersby who gathered around the fringe of the rally joined in cheers and applause when speakers demanded, Mexico sell oil to

Mrs. Gladys Bauman Dies Last Evening Mrs. Gladys Dulin Bauman, 25, of one and one-half miles southeast of Decatur on U.S. 33, died at 9:30 o’clock Friday night at the Irene Byron hospital after an illnes of two years of pumonary tuberculosis. She was born May 14, 1935, In West Liberty, Ky., a daughter of Floyd and Mary Legg-Dulin. She was fbrmerly employed at the Schafer Glove factory in Decatur until forced to retire because of illness. Surviving are one son, Steve, 3; her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. William Nickells of Decatur route 6; one brother, Billie, at home; three sisters, Mrs. Maxine Sharber of Portland, Mrs. Frances Gallogly of Decatur route 4, and Dollie, at home, and four stepsisters, Jean, Patty Ann, Peggy Sue and Linda Sue, all at home. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Nickells residence, and at 2:30 p.m. at the Riverside Mission church at New Corydon. The Rev. Burley Huff will officiate and burial will be in Gravel Hill cemetery at Bryant. The body will be removed from the Black funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. Strike At Missile Plants Is Settled PASO ROBLES. Calif. (UPI) — About 10,500 members of the International Association of Machinists returned to their jobs at Lockheed missile and space division plants Monday morning — their month-long strike at an end. The strike, which had hindered production of the nation’s Polaris underwater missile and Midas. Samos and Discoverer satellite programs, was settled Friday night by a 3-2 margin vote of 6,000 workers. The Lockheed offer provides a general 4-cent-an-hour pay raise this year and a 3-cent hike next year. It also has a “lock in” clause guaranteeing that a 6-cent cost of living increase granted earlier will not be rescinded. Three hundred employes will receive job and equity pay adjustments in addition to blanket increases, and workers at Lockheed test bases—at Long Beach. Santa Cruz. Vandenberg Air Force Base ; and Holliman AFB—will receive a “field rate” hourly increase of 50 cents. The company said it also offered a group insurance program and arranged to work out a severance pay program by next year.

the regime of Premier Fidel Castro. It was the second such demonstration this week. It was billed as a protest against Mexican riot police who broke up a meeting Tuesday night before the palace when the demonstrators burned a United States flag. * INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer tonight. Sunday partly cloudy andSSrarm with scattered thundershowers likely and turning cooler by night. Low tonight low 60s north to high 60s south. High Sunday mid 80s. Outlook for Monday: Mostly fair to cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers northern sections. Turning cooler in the southern sections. NOON EDITION

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