Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 270, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 270.

Kennedy Jn Cabinet Study

PALM BEACH. Fla. (UPI) — President-elect John F. Kennedy explored with Vice President Richard M. Nixon the possible appointment otf at least two Republicans to cabinet-level jobs next year, it was learned today as the president-elect continued construction of a new national administration. The discussion of possible inclusion of top Republicans in the new admdnistraition took place Monday when Kennedy flew to Miami to talk with Nixon at the vice president’s vacation headquarters on Key Biscayne. Kennedy, according to Republican sources, did not ask Nixon’s approval of his plan. The presi-dent-elect also did not suggest that Nixon take a post in the new administration. These sources, however. said Kennedy did discuss specific names with Nixon and specific jobs, without the vice president agreeing to support the plan. Consults with Ribicoff Meantime, Gov. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut was on hand for consultation with Kennedy today. Ribicoff was one of Kennedy’s chief campaign advisers and has been mentioned prominently as a good bet for attorney general. Donal M. Wilson, acting Kennedy spokesman for press secretary Pierre Salinger who has gone to Jamaica on a holiday, also said Central Intelligence Director Allen W. Dulles would fly to Palm Beach for a conference with the President-dlect Friday. Kennedy was studying a lengthy report from Adlai E. Stevenson on probable trouble spots overseas in the relatively near future. Stevenson, the 1952 and 1956 Democratic presidential nominee, was a foreign policy adviser to the Kennedy campaign. There have been recurrent reports that Stevenson might be namd as the chief American delegate to the United Nations, the post held by Henry Cabot Lodge before he resigned to become the GOP vice presidential candidate. Kennedy returned to his father’s Winter home here immediately after his trip to Key Biscayne to conifer with Nixon. Nixon Role Unlikely Because of Nixon’s role as head of the Republican party, there was no discussion of some of the posft-e lection suggestions that Kennedy might offer him a role in has administration. Both leadens understood the political im-

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practicality of such an idea. In public statements, both men agreed only that they discussed the .problems of administration transition and the array of international problems confronting not only the incoming administration, but the remaining two months of the Eisenhower administration. Nixon said, “I think this was a very constructive act on the part of the senator, to initiate the meriting.” “I think,” Nixon added, "that certainly the conversation was one that was helpful both from his standpoint, and also, from my standpoint as ithe. leader of the opposition.” I Annual Student Day Sale Here Saturday Practically all Decatur merchants will have Decatur high school students working in their stores, stations, shops, etc. this Saturday as that is the date for the annual student day sale, which is sponsored by the senior class of Decatur high and the retail merchants of the city. Some of the students will be working two hours, some ten, but no matter what the hours they work, the money they receive from the merchants will be turned over to the senior class treasury. Miss Charlotte Vera, senior class sponsor, and principal Hugh J. Andrews, will meet with the students Friday to inform them of their assignments to the various business places. John Cowan, senior class president, is general chairman of the annual project. Assisting him are his class officers: Taya Erekson, vice president; Ann Arnold, secretary and Ron August, treasurer. Cowan also had a committee of 12 who assisted him by contacting the merchants. Those on the committee are: Monica Badenhop, Judy Brodbeck. Julia Ellsworth, Roger Harris, Mary Heller, Joyce Helm, Rebecca Jackson, Richard Lambert, Richard Morgan, John Patterson, Rosalyn Sommer and Sharon Sprunger.

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Rev. Oswalt Waech Is Lions Speaker Americans, living in a postChristian era with church attendance declining for the past three years, must choose between Christ or chaos, the Rev. Oswalt A. Waech told the Decatur Lions club Monday night Rev. Waech, executive secretary of the department of evangelism, Lutheran church-Missouri synod, and guest missioner at the Decatur Zion Lutheran church Sunday and Monday, was introduced by the Rev. Richard Ludwig, pastor of the church. Rtv. Waech is a native of Texas, tut now operates from the St. Louis, Mo., office of the church. The Trumpet Call Following a number of introductory stories, Rev. Waech said that his topic could have many titles—such as “trumpet call and battle cry,” “Christian missions fighting for their lives,” or "time is short." But all of the titles, and all of the subjects, would only call attention to the great challenges facing the Christian church in the world today. In Africa, ht pointed out, for every Protestant convert there are two Cathclic converts, five Moslems, and nine Communist atheists. Cniistians Losing Out “And in America the situation is almost as bad. The number of Christians has decreased from 37% to 29% of the population of the country in the past 25 years. In the last three years the total number of church members has been decreasing rather than gaining, yet the population is increasing ly“Last year the Moslems sent 2,000 additional missionaries to Africa—how many new missionaries did your church send,” he asked. “As the world grows smaller, as more people occupy our precious space, there is but one star of hope," he stated. “And that star is the star of Bethlehem, not the red and bloody star of world revolution and Communism. Pursuit of Pleasure ,Worldliness, s the pursuit, of pleasure as the highest good in our lives must be reversed. The materialism, church suppers, moheyraising schemes, and other peripheral piffle, must be taken from our Christian lives, and replaced with the spiritual values of Christianity. “If I seem discouraged, a midwife of calamity, you are wrong,” he concluded. “We were put here by God for just such a time. We must move forward, and see that every program of the church exists to teach Christ to a modern, forward-lookjpg world, with every member ready to work for the Master.” Stanley Baumgartner, of Geneva, zone chairman, called the attention of the group to the banquet honoring the district governor at Waterloo Saturday night. Ladies are invited, only entertainment will take place during the meeting, and the cost is $2.50 per person. Four Persons Dead In Michigan Fire MUSKEGON, Mich. (UPI) — Four persons died but 13 others escaped .when fire swept a twos Tory dwelling Monday. Preliminary investigation indicated an overloaded electrical circuit may have caused the fire.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 1960.

Nine States Gain Seats In House, 16 Will Lose In U. S. Reapportionment

Indiana Shows 18.5 Per Cent Growth Gain INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Census Bureau today set Indiana’s 1960 population at 4,662,498, an increase of 18.5 per cent over 1950, but the state failed to get an increase in its number of seats in Congress and its presidential electorial vote. - , The increase in population was 728,274 over the 1950 population of 3,934,224. The Indiana increase was almost identical, percentagewise, to the nation’s as a whole. Indiana’s House seats remain the same at 11 and its electoral votes the same at 13 for the next decade, thus preventing what might have been a red-hot congressional district reapport'onment battle in the politicallydivided 1961 Indiana Legislature. While nine states gained seats and 16 others lost seats, Indiana was one of 25 in which there was no change. Despite a healthy population gain, Indiana’s increase between the, 1950 and 1960 cencuses was more or less proportionate with the national average and therefore the state did hot qualify for any increasee. Failure of Indiana to merit an increase in House seals probably avoided a bitter battle in the po-litically-divided 1961 Legislature. Van Allen Funeral Services Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Andrew Van Allen, sister of Mrs. Doris Chilcote of this city, - who died Sunday at her home at Shriner lake, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne. The Rev. J. Frank Lansing will officiate, and burial will be in Fairview cemetery at Bluffton. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the serviws.

Rebellion Wave Is Reported Crippled

By DOUG ANDERSON United Press International Concerted action by the armies of four nations appeared today to have crippled uprisings they described as a Cuban attempt to “export revolution” to lands neighboring the strategic Panama Canal. In troops armed with flame throwers and rocketfiring bazookas were moving up for what authorities exlpected to be a decisive attack on Puerto Barrios, a big Caribbean port seized Sunday by rebels. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes announced Monday night that loyal troops had recaptured Zacapa, the only other sizeable Guatemalan center taken by rebels he described as “Communists. . .linked to the Fidel Castro government.” In Nicaragua, official announcements indicated organized rebel resistance ceased with the surrender at Diriamba of about 14 invaders who had been holding 300 school children as hostages for safe withdrawal from the country. Head For Border Nicaraguan tanks and troops were reported hunting down remnants of the rebel forces reported trying to flee across the border to Costa Rica. Reports from Costa Rica mentioned heavy firing on the Nicaraguan side of the bonder, indicating loyal troops might be battling a sizeable rebel force. Honduras rushed troops to its Guatemalan border to block any possible rebel attempt to flee across the frontier. Border guards

Jurors Drawn Here For Circuit Court Adams county clerk Richard D. Lewton has announced the names of the 12 grand jurors and 24 petit jurors drawn Monday for the November term of the Adams circuit court by the jury commissioners. Those drawn for the grand jury were: Paul H. Meyer, Donald E. Grote, Lyle Mallonee, Harold A. Moser, Rollie O. Wable, James L. McCullough, Helen J. Cowens, Ida I. Huser, Howard K. Teeter, Walter Peck, Warren Augsburger and Harold A. Runkel. Adams county residents drawn for the petit jury were: Edward U. Gerber, Cloyde E. Hamrick, Zelma M. Converse, Theron L. Dull, Martha Patch, Edwin Collier, Frederick E. Fennig, Harold Leeper, Ernest Bauman, Loretta M. Mattax, Raymond E. Ehrsam, Margaret R. Titus, Woodrow Reynolds, Donald P. Jeffrey, Roger Bentz, and Robert J. Christen. Also picked for the petit jury are: Mary P. Archer, Glen R. Zimmerman, E. Lucile Wechter, Billie W. Gaunt, Alvin E. Kennel Raymond Zehr„ Ralph R. Freels and Paul G. Lobsiger. The names were drawn, as prescribed by law, from a box “well shaken,” by the jury commissioners who are duly appointed and qualified by law. INDIANA WEATHER Showers, windy and mild this afternoon and tonight Wednesday partly cloudy northwest, showers and turning cooler elsewhere. Low from the 40s extreme northwest to low 60s soiith. High Wednesday 50s northwest, low 60s northeast, 65 to 72 south and central. Sunset today 5:30 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:31 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and mild with temperature near seasonal normals. Lows in the 40st Highs, in the 50s.

in Costa Rica had skirmished intermittently since Friday with rebels clad in the green fatigues of Castro’s Cuba who were trying to slip into Nicaragua. Authorities in Guatemala and Nicaragua charged Castro was trying to slip into Nicaragua. Authorities in Guatemala and Nicaragua charged Castro was trying to export his revolution to Central America to make it a safe base for “international communism.” Appeals For Aid In Washington, the Inter-Amer-ican Peace Committee agreed to investigate a Guatemalan appeal for “drastic action” against rebel activity which Guatemalan authorities said was aided by “the Communist government of Fidel Castro.” Guatemalan Foreign Minister Jesus Unda Murillo said his government and that of Nicaragua are prepared to present proof of their charges that Castro’s Cuban regime fostered the uprisings in the two countries. Unda said Guatemala will ask the United States to send ships and planes to patrol its east coast and adjacent waters as a precaution against possible invasion attempts. He said the rebels were trying to hold Puerto Barrios because it was d “place where they could receive aid from Cuba.” The Guatemalan government said the country was normal outside the area northeast of Guatemala City held by the rebels. It said domestic and international airline service was operating on regular schedules in other areas.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Nine states, led by California, will gain seats in the House of Representatives and 16 stakes will lose seats as a result of population changes in the past 10 years, it was announced today. California, whose population soared by 5.1 million in the last 10 years, will gain eight seats. Florida will pick up four, one each will be gained by Arizona, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Hawaii, Ohio and Texas. Losing seeks in the House will be Pennsylvania, three; New York, two; Massachusetts, two; Arkansas, two; and one each, Alabama, Illinois, lowa, Kansas. Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina and West Virginia. The changes will be effective for the 88th Congress, which will be elected in November, 1962. The reapportionment also will result in changes in electoral votes of these states, effective with the 1964 presidential election. Thus California’s electoral vote would rise from 38 to 40 as a result of the gain in House seats while New Yoric’s would drop from 45 to 43. Hawa<ii, the 50th state, admitted to statehood only last year, will have two House members. Hawaii and Alaska both automatically were allotted one member when granted statehood. Alaska will continue to have only one member. Hawaii’s 1960 papulation of 632.772 rankd it 441th in the nation. The announcement was made by Commerce Secretary Frederick H. Mueller, who also disclosed a final 1960 population count of 179,323,175—the nation’s population as of April 1, 1960. This was an increase of 28 million or 18.5 per cent over the 1950 population. The 179.3 million population figure did not include members of the armed forces and their families living overseas, crews of American vessels at sea or in foreign ports at the time of the census and American citizens residing in foreign countries. A Census Bureau spokesman said that when these persons finally are included the national total will exceed 180 million. Populations of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and other outlying areas under the American flag are excluded from the national population figures. California's population growth o( 5,130,981 over the decade was the largest in the nation. Florida was second, adding 2,180,255 inhabitants. Other states with increases of more than one million persons over the decade were Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Texas.

Mrs. Emma Gause Dies Monday Night Mrs. Emma Gause, 88, of 219 North Eighth street, died at 11:50 o’clock Monday night at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been a patient since Thursday. She had resided at the Berne nursing home for the past 18 months. She was born in Ohio June 22, 1872. a daughter of Jonathan and Lydia Spade-Bower. She was first married in 1894 to Christian Stalter, who died in 1895. She then married John N. Thompson in 1900 and he preceded her in death in 1931. Her third husband. Berlin Gause* whom she married in 1936, diedin 1952. MfS. Gause was a member of the First Methodist church. Surviving are two sons. Dorus Stalter of Decatur, and Forrest Thompson of Pontiac, Mich.; four grandchildren; seven great grandchildren and one great-great-grand-child. One son. one daughter, four brothers and seven sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. F. Hazen Sparks officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the-services.

Satellite Capsule Snagged By Plane

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (UPI) -An Air Force pilot whose plane fielded the longest fly ball in history arrived at nearby Moffett Naval Air Station today with the goldplated space capsule from Discoverer XVII. The 300-pound capsule, which traveled nearly one million miles in two days of space flight, will be studied and evaluated at Lockheed Missiles and Space Division here. The crew of an Air Force plane caught the capsule Monday 9,000 feet over the United States' “space ballpark’-’ in the Pacific. 500 miles northeast of the Hawaiian Islands. It had made 31 trips around the earth in two days. It was only the second time in history that a satellite capsule has been caught in the air. Another was recovered from the sea, and a fourth was sighted but lost in tuhbulent seas near Christmas Island. Almost Misses Chance The Air Force plane that made Monday’? catch was nearly “benched” because of mechanical trotfoie. However, repairs were made and the "Pelican II” Cll9 joined eight Other planes and two Navy ships in the recovery area. The pilot, Capt. Gene Jones, 39. of Walla Walla, Wash., and New York City, said the parachuting space capsule was sighted first by T. Sgt. Wilbur R. Brown, Milledgeville, Ga., at an altitude of 31,000 feet. Jones received the honor of fly- 1 ing the capsule from Discoverer

White Boycott On At Schools

NEW ORLEANS (UPD—A gang of chanting, teen-aged whites tried to follow four 6-yeer-old Negro girls Into two formerly all-white schools today, ’ but police drove them back. Police arrested at least seven persons. The four Negroes entered the two white schools—McDonogh No. 19 and William Franitz Elementary School—for the first time Monday. Less than 10 per cent of the normal white enrollment of the two schools was in classes today. The police encounter with the gang of white teen - agera today was flie nearest thing to violence since integration started. Hie demonstrators, who had walked out of their high school classes, marched on the William Frantz school after one Negro girl returned to classes there today. They were driven away by police. They apparently went on to MteDonogh, arriving half an hour after three Negro girls, escorted by federal marshals, returned to school there for the second day. Ran Around Barricades The teen-agers ran aground barricades erected across the street from McDonogh. But more than 100 foot police and half-a-dozen mounted police surged into the crowd as the teen-agers neared the school and drove them back. Police got a scare at Frantz when a man dressed in worn work clothes went into the building for his child’s school supplies, came out and Started making a speech on the walk in front of the school. When a policeman arrived, the man fled, but was cut off by five more officers, who pounced on him simultaneously. A Toy Pistol His child's books and pencils flew into the street, and out of the pile tumbled a toy pistol. No more than two dozen white pupils today attended Frantz, where normal enrollment is 576; and fewer than two dozen went to McDonogh, which has an enrollment of 476.

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XVII back to Sunnyvale, CaUf., in a Cl3O Hercules. Jones said he made a first pass at the capsule at 11,000 feet, but that he and his crew missed “just by a tick.” He made the next pass at 9,000 feet — and the capsule was snagged by nylon ropes which trailed from steel booms behind and below the plane. Allowed Two Tries By the rules of game, if Jones had missed his second try. Pelican II would have “struck out” — and another plane would have been sent “to bat." Jones is operations officer of the special recovery team and charged with training the recovery crews. He trained Capt. Harold E. Mitchell of Bloomington, 18., who made the historic first catch of a capsule Aug. 19. The Air Force said the capsule fell directly into the 250 by 50 mile “playing field," after it was ejected from Discoverer XVII an a signal from the ground. Decatur Man's Mother Dies At Age Os 102 1 Mrs. Provie Howe, 102, died Sat. unlay at a nursing home in Monmouth, Ore. Surviving are one son, Purl P. Howe of Decatur; 11 grandchildren, including Mrs. Robert McMinn of thic ity; 21 greater! McMinn of this city; 21 great-great-grandchildren. Services will be held Wednesday at Independence, Ore., with burial in Salem, Ore.

The three Negro girls assigned to McDonogh showed up moments after Classes began. But at the William Frantz school, federal marshals sped up to the school half an hour after classes started, blowing their car horns Steadily, and let out the one girl assigned to that school. School Board President Lloyd R&ttiner had predicted that school attendance would climb back to normal today. But most of the irate mothers who took their children out of classes Monday said they wouldn’t let tiiem go to school with Negroes. Christmas Seals Are Placed In Mails Robert J. Zwick, president of the Adams county tuberculosis association, announced today that the annual distribution of Christmas seals has been placed in the mails. Approximately 6,500 letters have been mailed to individuals, business Arms and organizations, all containing the seals. Persons receiving the seals are urged to make early returns of their contributions to the annual campaign. Zwick also announced that health bonds are also available for businesses and organizations preferring the bonds to seals. The letters were prepared by students of the Decatur high school commercial department, supervised by Maynard Hetrick, department head. Funds from the Christmas seal campaign are used in the fight against tuberculosis. The campaign includes the X-ray program, clinics, health education, rehabilitation and patch tests for school children.