Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 264, Decatur, Adams County, 8 November 1960 — Page 1

Vd. LVIil. No. 264.

Heavy Early Voting In *' A ■■ ‘ ' - ----- - - — Decatur Follows Trend Throughout The Nation

Nixon In Chipper Mood While Voting

LOS ANGELES (UPD—A confident and optimistic Vice President Richard M. Nixon returned today to the scene of his earliest success to cast his ballot at 7:30 a.m. PST <9:30 a.m. CST) The vice president and his wife Pat smiled and waved at the crowd of 150 persons that had gathered in the early morning at the polling place in East Whittier, then entered the modest residence of Roger McNey to vote. The home was within a mile of where Nixon grew up. Nixon got to sleep at 3 a.m. and was up at 6 o’clock for breakfast before joining the motorcade to drive the 33 miles from the Ambassador Hotel. > Nixon shook hands with hotel guests and joked with his staff. Nixon's press secretary, Herbert Klein, said the vice president’s mood was very optimistic, he feels he’s going to win.” In Chipper Mood Mrs. Nixon also was in a chipper mood despite the lack of sleep. She put her arm around one staff member and commented, “We’ve all had a good time together.” Nixon carried his record 50srtate presidential campaign down to the wire, proclaiming he could sense the election tide running in his favor and vowing to keep it running “right through the last vote counted.” Bone-tired and hoarse, Nixon flew to his home state for a final election morning rally that climaxed 36 consecutive hours of campaigning that included an unprecedented four-hour television marathon. After casting his ballot, Nixon returned to his hotel to rest during the day then await the election results during the night at his suie. 'A big, post-midnight crowd at Ontario, near Nixon’s hometown of Whittier, was a warmhearted finale to the more than three months of campaigning when the plane carrying Nixon touched down around 4 a.m. EST. Nixon’s

Record Vote Over Nation

WASHINGTON (UPD — Americans in record numbers voted their choice today for a new president to lead the nation in the next tour fateful years. Early returns were too skimpy to indicate a national, trend either tor Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon or Sen. John F. Kennedy his Democratic rival. But from East and West and North and South came reports of a vitally interested citizenry moving to the polls in numbers certain to beat the 1996 record of 62,027,040 popular votes for president. With about 83 million Americans eligible to vote, it appeared likely that more than 65 mfllion would before the day was over. Here is a sampling of early returns: —■Five tiny communities in New Hampshire: Nixon 49. Kennedy 8. --Princess Anne, Va.: All seven votes tor Kennedy. —McCormick, SjC.: Bell’s Store precinct, all six for Kennedy. —Waynesville, N.C.: Cataloochee precinct, all eight tor Kennedy. A report from Albany, N.Y., said voting in most sections of the biazest state was early and heavy. Heavy Veto In South Early voting was particularly heavy in the South. Reports said: Texas, biggest in history; Georgia, heavier than expected; Louisiana, setting a record; Florida, heavier than the 1956 record. Voting records also were predicted in Vermont and California, Indiana and Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kansas. Bad weather in Illinois held down early voting in places, but

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first evening campaign speech was at Whittier on Aug. 2. On the long flight from Chicago, the Nixons dozed a little, and their daughters, Patricia and Julie, slept soundly in improvised bunks aboard the plane. Skyrockets burst overhead as the weary Nixons were introduced for their final campaign appearance. Police estimated the rousing Ontario airport crowd at more than 15,000, a figure that seemed a little high to some reporters. Finds Turnout “Inspirational” Nixon, hoarser than ever, termed the Ontario turnout “the most inspirational of them all.” “Nobody can say how an election will turn out. . .the decision is now in your hands," Nixon said. Nixon capped three months and 64,000 miles of campaigning with an election eve television appeal to voters to base their decision today on “not just personality or party label, but who can best serve America.” Nixon made his windup TV appearance from Chicago. He was joined on the program by President Eisenhower from Washington and GOP vice presidential nominee Henry Cabot Lodge from Boston. It was in a parking lot outside the Chicago television studios that Nixon said he could feel the election tide coming his way. He told a rally of 5,000 to 7,000 Chicagoans that “you can always sense the tide of an election on election eve. I sense the tide of this election. I’ve seen it running and we’U keep it running right through the last vote counted tomorrow night.” Later in the TV studio, Nixon showed little of the bare-knuckle, slashing attack that had characterized the final weeks of his campaign. He ended his last national campaign appeal on the high level note that “we need the best man continued on page three

1 in Chicago the word from the pre- * cincts was that balloting was ! somewhat heavier than 1956. Detroit and New York City got r off to a slow start, however. Snow ' and heavy winds plagued parts of 1 the West, particularly Wyoming. 1 The candidates, both smiling : and apparently confident, voted early. 1 Kennedy and his expectant wife, ’ Jacqueline, voted at 8:46 a.rti., in ’ Boston and then flew to their [ Hyannis Port, Mass., estate to await the verdict. Nixon and his wife, Pat, cast I their votes at East Whittier, Calif. 1 at 7:30 a.m. 1 Ike Waits to Vote President Eisenhower flew by helicopter at dawn from the White House to Barlow Township ’ firehouse in Gettysburg, Pa., to vote tor Nixon. He got there early 1 and had to wait five minutes to b cast a legal ballot. At Independence, Mo., former , President Harry S. Truman cast ’ his vote 15 minutes after the polls opened. ’ failed.UPl The voters also were electing 34 of the 100 members of the , United States Senate, all 437 . House members, 27 governors and thousands of other state and ’ local officials. A record turnout of between 65 and 70 million voters was expected. The weather bureau promised chilly but otherwise fairly pleas- ' ant weather for most of the country along with scattered showers > In the midlands. . Most pre-eleetion public opinion 1 Continued on Page Eight

Decatur voters joined with the general high-interest throughout the nation today and enjoying good weather until noon, had turned out in record numbers to cast ther votes for president of the United States, governor of Indiana and a large number of . state offices, and most of the county offices. All or me city precincts reported an unusually heavy vote by noon today, with some of them already exceeding their total primary ballots. Most of the precincts also reported that voting had been fairly steady, with the exception of the usual before-work rush from 7 to 8:30. Precinct Report Precinct 1-A reported voting was considerably heavier than u Or ?! a lL 1 * B had counted 129 voters by 11:30, and voting heavier than usual; 1-C had voted 100 registered citizens at 10:45, and also reported a heavy early vote for the precinct; 1-D had voted 154 of the 479 registered voters in the precinct by 11:30. P Business was booming at the court house, too, as 2-A reported 178 had reported to vote by 10:45 precinct 2-B was running about average with 106 voters reporting bX 11:45; precinct 2-C had a very heavy early vote, with 75 already marking their ballots by 9 a.m * to the northern part of the city, reported a little heavier than usual balloting with 126 voters by 11:50: 1» S workers toere repoS ed the count was twice the normal for that time of day; 3-B voters numbered 180 by 11:55, and that topped the total number of pri mai 7 voters, according to poll precinct 3-A had the “umber of voters already k n^ e foW ’ aS they counted 226 ballots passed out by noon. Wait F » Returns Afier the heavy voting, both in Decatur and throughout the country. citizens can sit back and nervously await the returns. The earjl®* “ lional stores are expected to be the state of Connecticut, and they should reach the Decatur area about 9-9:30 this evening. Local results should start trickling m about the same time. Several local races have developed considerable interest, along with the state and national contests. Many places in town will be open to furnish the latest results for eager voters. The Decatur Democrat will have a complete staff on hand, the usual tally board, precinct results on the windows, and telephone results in conjunction with the Citizens Telephone company over number 3-8171. Besides the newspaper, both party headquarters will be open lor members of the respective parties and also their local candidates. The Decatur Elks lodge also has a large tally board and a special line to the Democrat office to furnish the latest results on the local scene. Most of the area radio and television stations will have continuous news reports on the national returns. Advertising Index A&P Tea Co., Inc. 3 Ashbauchers’ Tin Shop 2 Arnold Lumber Co., Inc 2 Budget Loans 7 Burk Elevator Co. ..........11” 5 Bower Jewelry Store .... 3 John Brecht Jewelry 3 Cadillac ...... ’ 4 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. 2 Decatur Lumber Co. . 5 Evans Sales & Service 5 8.P.0. Elks 8 Eager Appliances 8t Sporting Goods ... g Fritz Faurote 5 Fasteeth ’* 4 Haugks 2 Husmann's Decorating House .. 8 Kohne Drug Store 4, 5 Kohne Window & Awning Co. .. 2 Ernie’s Auction 5 Masolite 2 J. J. Newberry Co. -I’IT 6 Northwest Schools 5 Parkway "68” Service .. 7 Petrie Oil Co. 2 Quality Chevrolet-Buick. Inc ”.’.' 8 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co „.... 3 4 5 Thomas Realty Auction Co 5 Teeple Truck Lines 5 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc 2

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 1960.

Kenned vs Cast Boston Votes

BOSTON (UPD— A. smiling Sen. John F. Kennedy and his expectant wife Jacqueline voted here today at 8:46 a.m. and then flew to their Hyannis Port estate to await the nation’s verdict. A crowd of about 300 had gathered at the Ward 3, Precinct 6 polling place — the West End branch library— when the Kennedys arrived from the StatlerHilton Hotel. Mrs. Kennedy, who expects a baby in three weeks, had motored from Hyannis Port on Cape Cod this morning to vote with her husband. When the Kennedys arrived they walked to a desk where two clerks, Mrs. Evelyn M. Hiltz and Mrs. Anna Levine, were seated with the registration list. Mrs. HiHz asked the voters for their names. The nominee replied, “John F. Kennedy, 122 Bowdoin St.” Mrs. HiHz looked up at Mrs. Kennedy and asked for her first name. She smiled and said, “Jacqueline.” No. 85 and No. 86 Mrs. Hiltz checked their names pn the list, and Mrs. Levine honded Mrs. Kennedy a printed slip with the number 85 on it and then gave Kennedy a slip with the number 86. Mrs. Kennedy went to one of the six voting machines while her husband whispered some instructions in her ear. Then she drew the black curtain and voted while he walked to another booth nearby. After posing for photographers briefly, Kennedy went into his booth and drew the curtain. It took Mrs. Kennedy 15 seconds and the nominee 30 seconds to vote. The Kennedys voted a few hours after the Democratic candidate spoke at a huge rally at Boston Garden Monday night. In his final dramatic appeal against the religious issue, Kennedy said that if as president he permitted his church or the Pope to influence him, he should be Impeached. The religious question was particularly significant in that it reflected the biggest question mark hanging over Kennedy’s chances for victory. Because of this issue, Kennedy and his aides added caution to the general feeling of confidence they have had for several weeks over the outcome of the election. May Visit Florida Regardless of today’s outcome, the weary campaigner hoped to get an extended rest at Hyannis Port. Prospects were that if he won he would remain there through much of the period before inauguration day Jan. 20, although he might spend some time at the Palm Beach (Fla.) home of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy. There was one important item on the agenda for Kennedy’s vacation period; his wife Jackie was due to give birth in three weeks to their second child. Kennedy wound up his campaign here Monday night amid a rip-roaring election eve sendoff from scores and scores of thousands of his fellow Bostonians, who blocked his cavalcade, roared their support for him and almost turned into an unruly mob. His last major speech was before more than 15,000 persons who gave him their loud acclaim in the Boston Garden. Later before a more sedate group of 800 persons at Faneuil Hall, he addressed his final message to the American people in a four-minute finale to a half-hour paid Democratic telecast. In an earlier 30-minute nationwide TV hookup from Manchester, NjH., following Vice President Richard M. Nixon's fourhour telethon, Kennedy made a final appeal to the American voters to judge him on the basis of “what my party stands for and what I stand for" and not on the basis at his Roman Catholic religion. Answers Protestant Doubts Seeking for "one last time" to

answer doubts among some Protestant factions about whether a Catholic should be president, Kennedy said: “If I am elected president of the United States, I will take the oath to defend the Constitution, which includes the separation of church and state, and includes the provision that there shall be no religious test for office. “If I permitted an improper influence to be brought to bear on the conduct of my public office, if I permitted my church or Pope to attempt to direct me in meeting my public responsibilities, my sworn responsibilities, I would properly be subject to impeachment. ... “But I don’t think any of my fellow Americans should have the slightest grounds for concern that if I were elected president, their future, their religious freedom, their freedom from any improper influence, would be wholly secure.” Kennedy met this issue in response to a question from his sister, Pat, (Mrs. Peter Lawford*, who queried Kennedy ar part of a panel also made up of the candidates* sisters Eunice (Mrs. Robert Sargent Shriver) and Jean (Mrs. Stephen Smith). The questions which also related to agriculture, Cuba, world peace, American prestige and other issues, were drawn from queries submitted by persons on various occasions during Kennedy’s campaign. * '•» ■ to Joint Meeting Held _ By Service Clubs Hilliard Gates, well-known sportcaster, related through film and colorful commentary his trip to the Olympic games last summer to a joint meeting of the Lions and Rotary elute, held Monday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community center. Gates, sports director and assistant manager of station WKJG, Fort Wayne, conducted an air tour of a group of area residents to the world famous athletic event held in Rome last August From the time the plane landed in London until its arrival in Italy, he tpok color motion pictures of the trip, which be showed to the service clubs. Scenes in London, Paris, Cologne, Heidelberg, Switzerland, the Rhine River and the picturesque Alps were projected and described in the newscaster's famous rapid-fire delivery. Many of the thrilling athletic completions were captured by the camera, and there were interesting shots of the crowds in the huge 100,000-seat stadium. One of the highlights was the RussianU.S.A. basketball game, which was won by the Americans. Gates stated that of the 4,200 spectators at the contest, 4,188 were rooting for the Americans. The Russian team, of course, was partial to their side, and the officials had to be neutral. In the question and answer period after the film. Gates said that while American athletes were still superior in most of the events, the gap was closing and competitors from other world powers were achieving a high degree of excellence in many sports. He also said the Russians do not have professional sports where athletes are paid, so they comb the country for the outstanding men and women and although they are subsidized while in training they come under the heading of amateurs. Dr. Joe Morris, head of Lions club, presided at the meeting and Rotarian Ftoy- program chairman.

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Mrs. Martha Burk Dies Al Age Os 94 Mrs. Martha E. Burk, 94, widow of George T. Burk, one of Decatur's best known residents, died at 3:30 o’clock Monday afternoon at her home, 228 South First street. She had been seriously ill for the past week. She was born in Montgomery county, July 15, 1866, a daughter of Lewis M. and Christina Bow-ers-Dunbar. She was married to George T. Burk May 7, 1884, and they came to Decatur in 1907. Her husband, founder OL the Burk Elevator Co., died April 12, 1941. Mrs. Burk, despite her advanced age, maintained a keen interest in church, civic and social affairs of the city. She was a member of the First Christian church, the Order of Eastern Star, and Decatur Woman’s club and the Decatur Garden club. Surviving are two sons, Avon Burk of Fort Wayne, and Sim Burk of Decatur; three daughters, Mrs. F. W. (Winifred) Holthouse of Louisville, Ky., Mrs. Wayne E. (Vivian) Beavers* of Evansville, and Mrs. H. W. (Mary) Sutton of Akron, O.; seven grandchildren; 19 great-grand-children, and one great-great-grandchild. One son, one sister and three brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Harold J. Bond officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Wednesday until time of the services. Miss Ruth Townsend Hurt At Fort Wayne Miss Ruth Townsend, daughter of Mrs. Linda Townsend of Decatur, and graduate of Decatur high school, was injured severely this morning in an automobile accident on the Bueter Road in Fort Wayne. The accident occurred when a car turned in front of the car driven by Miss Townsend, and her brakes failed to hold. — Miss Townsend, a nurse at Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne, was taken to that hospital for treatment. She was listed as serious, but other details are unknown as to the injuries, except that they are reported to be to the head and chest. Noted Organist At School Wednesday Kenneth Goodman, internationally renowned organist, will present an assembly program of classical, semi-classical, and popular music at the Decatur high school Wednesday afternoon at 1:10 o'clock. Goodman, a graduate of the Juillard School of Music in New York City, has spent a year in Paris on a fellowship for advanced study. He has played in France. Belgium, for Queen Juliana of Holland, in Germany and the Scandinavian countries. He brings his own Conn organ. School officials .expect many patrons of the school will attend as this will be the highlight •of the school’s assembly prog r arris.

Voters Throng To Polls Over State

By EUGENE J. CADOU United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Rains and sub-freezing temperatures in many areas failed to slow the heavy voting in Indiana’s hotlycontested election today. Record-heavy balloting continued as early clear skies yielded to downpours in Lake County, Goshen, Vincennes, South Bend, Terre Haute, Logansport and Sullivan before noon. All of these cities produced record voting, leading a number of forecasters to raise their sights on the two million vote total estimated earlier. Similar large numbers at the polls were reported from other cities which had no rain, including Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, New Albany and Evansville. At Gary, a Democratic citadel, 22,000 votes were recorded during the first three hours, compared to 17,700 during the same hours in 1956 and 20,000 in 1952 when President Eisenhower scored landslides in the nation. The Hoosiers were steamed into action by the spirited prdsidential struggle between Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy and the uncertain race for Governor between Lt. Gov. Crawford F. Parker, Republican, and former State Sen. Matthew E. Welsh, Democrat. Wilkie Campaigns Both gubernatorial hopefuls voted early in their home cities, New Castle and Vincennes. Parker then returned to GOP state headquarters in Indianapolis but Welsh remained in Vincennes. Philip H. Willkie, son <rf the late Wendell L. Willkie, was perhaps the most energetic orator of the campaign with a closing speech this afternoon before Purdue University students. Willkie is the GOP nominee tor State Supt. of Public Instruction. The religious issue reared its head to the profit o fVice-Presi-dent Richard M. Nixon at the Scaffoldlick Baptist Church near Scottsburg where a 24-hour elec-tion-guidance prayer service ended as the polls opened at 6 a.m., CST. The Rev. Dwight Kern, pastor, said he had not instructed his flock how to pray, but that he had prayed that Kennedy would not be elected. He added that a Roman Catholic should not be elected President. - “This is a time of Christian concern for all people,” the minister said. Scottsburg is in the 9th District, which was a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan in its heyday during the Twenties. The sharp contest tor Congress between the incumbent, E. Ross Adair, Republican, and Byron McCammon, Democrat, was reported to be responsible for a "pretty heavy to heavy” morning vote toll in Allen County. Many cities and rural regions reported milch straight voting with little or no scratching. This .condition expedited the balloting and reduced the time of waiting fort he persons in the long lines. U.S. Attorney Don A. Tabbert reported a record number ol complaints of election frauds from (Continued on page 8)

Seven Cents

Ike Too Early At Polls, Waits Liu a Mini it ac iIVC rilnUlCS GETTSBURG, Pa. (UPI)-Presi-dent Eisenhower voted today for Vice President Richard M. Nixon —but only after a lady election official forced him'to wait five minutes until the polls were officially opened. The chief executive flew from the White House to the Barlow Township firehouse by helicopter at dawn to cast his ballot in the presidential race. When Eisenhower showed up at the polling place. - Mrs. - Fred Swisher, an election judge, told him: “You have five minutes to wait.” Laughing at himself, Eisenhower replied; “I’ve got to make it legal —1 don’t want to come this far and lose my vote.” The President spent 45 seconds in the polling booth to mark two ballots—one. the list of candidates for president and other races and the second a referendum on school district consolidation in this area. A reporter asked the President if he would say how he -voted, j In reply, Eisenhower pointed to an unusual watch he was wearing It had a picture of each of his four grandchildren on the dial. “That’s who I voted for!” the President said with a smile. Monday night. Eisenhower said in effect that he preferred to put his grandchildren’s future in GOP nominee Nixon’s hands rather than let Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic candidate, run the nation for the next four years. Eisenhower capped an Intensive 10-day stint of campaigning for Nixon by making a nationwide television appeal Monday night for the vice president and his running mate, Henry Cabot Lodge. The White House said the President was making plans to insure an orderly change of administration no matter whether the Republicans or the Democrats win the presidential election. The Chief Executive himself planned to leave this week on an extended vacation in Augusta Ga.. that may last through the Thanksgiving weekend of Nov. 26-27. INDIANA WEATHER Rain changing to snow flurries tonight. Wednesday cloudy. occasional snow flurries likely and colder. Low tonight 29 to 32 north, 30 to 40 south. Sunset tojiay 5:36 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:22 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Considerable cloudiness north, partly cloudy south and eold with snow flurries mostly in northern portions. Low Wednesday night 20 to 30. high Thursday S 3 to 37.