Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 291.

Civil War GrßKps AppointedßyJudge

Judge Myles F. Parrish today i completed the Adams county Civil War centennial committee, as suggested by the Indiana state legislature. It will be the duty of the committee to supervise the county’s part in celebrating the 100-year anniversary of America’s war between the states. Cal E. Peterson, son of Civil War veteran Robert S. Peterson, has been named as the permenant chairman of the committee, and Gerald Durkin, of the county historical society, was named as permanent vice chairman. The remainder of the committee, represents every phase of the county. On April 12, 1861, Confederate land batteries at Charleston, S.C., opened fire on the Union troops garrisoned in Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, and the great American Civil War was underway. The most publicized surrender of the war, when Lee surrendered to Grant, occurred April 9, 1865. The four years in between furnished the United States with some of if greatest moments and greatest heroes. What part Adams county plays in commemorating those events and heroes is up to the centennial committee. —-77-7 Well Represented Most of the county’s organizations and institutions are represented on the committee. The judge has been in close contact with the Historical society and other interested people, and has tfiven the committee a good representation. The committee is also free to name any others to serve with them that they feel should or would be willing and able to help. The judge has secured some help in arranging for speakers for the centennial, as he contacted Indiana Senator R. Vance Hartke, • former I.U. classmate of the judge’s, and the senator has promised to give any help he could in getting a notable speaker here. Following is the list of those named to the committee, in addition to the chairman and vice chairman, by Judge Parrish: Cities and towns: Donald Gage, mayor of Decatur; Forrest Balsiger, mayor of Berne; Otis Burckey, Geneva town board president; Paul Lobsiger, Monroe town board ’ presideat - ■y 1« Members of general assembly : M Von A. Eichhorn, Rep. Burl wutiiioOll. *—- - • ' Township true tees: Wilbur Blakey, Union; Omer Merriman, Root; Robert M. Kolter, Preble; Theodore Heller, Kirkland; Robert Gay Washington; Lester Brunner, St. Mary’s; Frank Myers, Blue Creek; Silvan Sprunger, Monroe; Raymond E. Moser, French; V. Eugene Burry, Hartfoid; Floyd Baker, Jefferson; James Lybarger. Wabash. 8 Cowty newspapers: Decatur Daily Democrat, Dick D. Heller, and John G. Heller; Berne Witness, Menno Lehman and Simon Schwartz; Geneva Herald, Harold Mattox; Geneva Program, Earl DaWald; Adems County Oberver, C. H. Muselman and Arthur Muselman. School Leaden School administrators and teachers: Decatur — W. Guy Brown, Hugh J. Andrews, Bryce Thomas, Hubert Zerkel, Jr., Steve Everhart, Deane Dorwin, Jerry Mitchel, Charles Abel, Lowell Smith; Gail *— —- ■ . Um . -L.

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

I —-———— 1 Grabill, county superintendent; Adams Central — Hugh Tate, Herman Frantz, Robert Brown, Harvey Haggard, Frank Greem, William Anderson; Hartford CenterByron Bunker, Tom Agler, Rich1 ard Steiner; Jefferson — Edward Heimann; Root — Charles Rix, John Rosier; St. Mary’s — Gerald Vizard, Tom King; Geneva—Kenneth Van Emon, Doyle Igney, Richard Miller; Berne — E, M. Webb, Claren Neuenschwhnder, James Yoder, Woodrow Inks, Nancy Wasson; Decatur Catholic —Rt. Rev. Msgr, Simeon Schmitt, Sr. M. Almeda, Sr. M. Acuin; St. Johh’s Lutheran — W. E. Uffelman; St. Paul’s Lutheran — F. C. Schiemge; Zion Lutheran, Friedheim—Ernest Kolthoff; St. Peter’s Lutheran — Theodore Grotrian; Immanuel Lutheran — Richard Lewer; Zion Lutheran, DecaturSmith Snively. Adams county bar association— Robert S. Anderson, Howard E. Baumgartner; Judge G. Remy Bierly, John L. DeVoss, David A. Macklin, Hubert R. McClenahan, Mark Morin, C. H. Muselman, Severin H. Schurger, Lewis Lutz Smith, Robert G. Smith, Richard Sullivan, Arthur E. Voglewede. Veterans organizations — Mrs. Erwin Lochner, Daughters of American Revolution; John R. Parrish, Sons of Civil War Vets; Don Reidenbach, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Herman Bittner, Decatur American Legion; Morton Railing, Disabled American Veterans; Harry Martz, World War I Vets; Derryl Lehman, Berne American Legion; William Noll, Spanish-American War Vets. County Historical society—Miss Frances Dugan, Mrs. Eloise AnI drews, Lawrence Anspaugh; Richard Mailand. Clergy — The Rev. Robert Jaeger, St. Mary’s Catholic church; the Rev. F. Hazen Sparks, president of Adams county ministerial ’ association; the Rev. Edwin A. H. • Jacob. St. John’s Lutheran church. County medical society — Drs. Norman E. Beaver, Robert T, Boze, James M. Burk. John D. Carroll, William F. Freeby, Arthur H. Girod, Gerald J. Kotow, Howard M. Luginbill, Richard K. Parrish, Roland Reppert, Norval S. Rich, Joseph V. Schetgen, John B. Terveer, Harold F. Zwick.

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Fred Becher Dies At Hospital Today Fred W. Becher, 73, of route 1, Willshire, O„, died at 7:15 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been in failing health two years and hospitalized fort he past seven weeks. He was born in Mercer county, 0., Sept. 2, 1887, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Becher. His wife, the former Minnie Springer, preceded him in death in 1958. Mr. Becher, a retired farmer, was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Chattanooga, O. Surviving ere three sons, Louis Becher of Willshire route 1, Clifford Becher of Wheaton, IH., and Werner Becher of Van Wert, O.; e stepson, Lorraine Itskin of Columbus, O.; five grandchildren; and four brothers, Walter, Ernest, Albert and Roma Becher, all of Fort Wayne. One brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the Zion Lutheran church at Chattanooga, the Rev. Kuhn officiating. Burial will be to the Zion cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home in Berne after 1 p. m. Sunday until time of the services. $20,000 Awarded I To Injured Youths *. Richard Miller, of Decatur, was one of three young men whose guardians received a total of $20,000 from three gas companies for injuries which occurred from a gas explosion at the Lincolndale Drive-In theater near Fort Wayne June 9, 1959. The three ‘youths filed suit against the Blue Flame Gas Corp., the Phillips Petroleum Co., and the Warren Petroleum Co. and the settlement was made Friday in Allen superior court 2 and the Adams circuit court. The settlement, under the terms of a guardianship settlement, eliminated the three companies from further liability in the case. Under the terms, $6,000 goes to Miller and his parents, 84,000 goes to Kenneth Pancake of Fort Wayne and his parents, and $lO,000 will be the total received by Stephen Hathaway and his parents, also of Fort Wayne. The accident occurred when the three went to the men’s room at the Lincolndale and an explosion rseulted when Pancake lit a cigtrette. The trio received multiple burns over their bodies and other injuries. The suit charges that a cap was left off • gas pipe when a heater was removed from the men’s room. Hathaway has a $275,000 suit pending in superior court 3 against Bailey-Browning Drive-In Theaters, Inc., Chicago, and Roussel Brothers, Inc., Fort Wayne. 'lke Blue Flame Gas Corp., Bluffton, was a defendant in this suit also, but the settlement will now eliminate them. New Commander Os Base In Philippines WASHINGTON (UPD — Rear Adm. Charles K. Duncan, chief of the Pacific Fleet Amphibious Training Command, Friday was named commander of the U. S. Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, Dec. 10, 1960.

Cuban Government Pours Strong Reinforcements To Guerrilla-Held Area

Congo Whites Seek Refuge

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (UPD—White families, in fear of being beheaded If deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba is not released within hours by Congolese strongman Col. Joseph Mobutu, were reported today seeking protection of Ethiopian U.N. troops. I The black Ethiopian soldiers were under orders to use force if necessary to protect the 2,000 Europeans in Oriental Province, the Lumumba stronghold where troops loyal to the ex-premier were reported making a wholesale roundup of whites. The UN. command also was said to be constoering organizing an attttft to fly out the whites, including a handful of American missionaries. Bernard Salurmi. 31, a Moscowtrained Marxist who adzed control of the privcnotal capital of Stanleyville last week, warned the United Nations and <the Congolese military regime that. he would «r---rest ail Europeans and hold them , as hostages. He Mid that he , would begin cutting off the heads ’ of Belgians unless Lumumba was ’ freed. But * was bettered here that the pro-Lumumba. forces would ■ make little distinction between ; Belgians and other whites ts the (threat was carried out. Salumu first set a 48-hour deadline for Lumumba's -release. But later he was said to have out it back to 24 hours. That would make it sometime today but there were varying reponte on the exact time. Some said around noon (6 am., EOT), others said at nightfall. Dozens of whites were said to hare poured into Stanleyville to gain refuge dn « schoolhouse confiscated by the Ethiopians to shelter (them. There are about 1,000 whites including 800 Belgians, in Stanleyviße and about a smiliar number scattered throughout the province.

More Rioting On In Algiers

ALGIERS (UPI) —> Thousands of club-swinging ianti-De Gaulle demonstrators marched on the French .governors patace today and erected new (barricades to hold back onrushtag French army tanks. \ Between 4,000 and 5,000 organised demoustaatons smashed ‘through a cordon of .troops and headed toward the palace on the stopes of a hill high above the city. The palace is -the official residence of Jean Morin, (President Charles de Gaulle’s delegate-gen-eral for Algeria. The rioters for the first time wore goggles as protection against tear «as bombs hurled by sokuers and seuoarmes Tanks Move In The tanks, which had been held to reserve, were dispatched to toe heart of toe city. After .breaktag through toe first rtag of sotafens, the rioten heading for .the summer oaiace clashed with hastily assembled forces Os republican security pwnte. atoo wearing goggles. The security guards buried tear gas bosnta and nttactad toe demonstnattors with clubs The «»r fighttag signalled toe second ringght day of rioting by Witters against De De Gaulle, ignoring toe demonetaationt. began the second day of has tour by inspecting toe infantry school at CheraML *****

Roy Conrad Dies At Hospital Last Night t Roy Conrad, 58, who lived one and one-half miles east and onehalf mile north of Hoagland on i the Franke road, died at 5:05 ' o’clock Friday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient three ( days. He was born in Preble town- < ship Nov. 5, 1902, a son of Christ and Louise Middlekamp Conrad, ' and was married to Helen Schroe- ; der July 26, 1929. He had been employed as drill press operator at the Fruehauf Trailer Co. for 18 years. Mr. Conrad was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church. Surviving in addition to his wife ere two daughters, Mrs. Ralph (Irene) Grote of Union township, and Miss Donna J. Conrad of Hoagland; four sons. Cart H. and Alfred Conrad, both of Hoagland, Raymond Conrad of Decatur, and Pfc. Richard Conrad, serving with the U. S. Army in Germany; six grandchildren; two brothers, Henry Conrad of Preble township, and Edwin Conrad of Fort Wayne, and three sisters, Mrs. Williiam Koenemann of Hoagland, Mrs. Martin Boese and Mrs. Rudolph Eickoff, both of Preble township. . Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at St. John's Lutheran church. Hie Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until 1 time of the services. * I

80 mites west of Algiers. Groups of demonstrators, apparently under organized leadership, moved into toe center of -the two big Algerian cities shortly after daybreak. They forced shops and cases to rifpe. stashed or deflated bus tires and .threw naffls into the roadway (to cripple traffic. Outbreaks at Dawn Tanks patrolled toe streets of Algiers tarougbout the night which was Quiet. But when day broke, the demonstrators began a-ssembltag in beta cities that were blanketed by a mist. Much of Algeria was in the W of • general strike ordered by extremist European settlers so protest De 'Qgiß&ir plans for making -this country • semi-inde-pendent republic. The organisation, spenrhead of Algerian settler emnity toward De Gaiulte, hailed Friday’s violence that marked toe French president’s arrival in Algeria for a stx-day tour of .the embattled country. -But toe violence fatted to deter the wartime Free French leader who itianed jeers to cheers when he marched bareheaded into a crowd shouting antoGaullist slogans to -the Western Algerian town of < mMirwpytea&'gF-■ tag notten De Fautte fearlessly told them "the cries, -the ctamor signify nothing.” Then they cheered him «s he walked away.

HAVANA, Cuba (UPI) — The Cuban government today rushed strong reinforcements into the area along the North Central Cuban coast in an effert to crush organized resistance oy antd-Cas-.tno guerrilla®. * Government) troops attempted to capture the rebels’ leader, said to be one of Premier Fidel Castro’s former captains, but the guerrillas managed to elude their pursuers thus far. The size <s-4he rqbel forye was not known, but ami-government 1 sources said rthe band was made ' up of farmers who lived in the ’ Corralillo and Sagna Lagnande areas. "1 The guerrillas were reported < led by “Captain Campito,” be- ’ lieved to be the nickname of 1 Campos, an ex-Castro captain ‘ who fought soldtens of ousted “ President Fulgencio Batista in 4 the same area. The government radio reported t that Norberto Morales, chief of < the militia at Cantabena near t Rodas in Las Villas Province was 1 killed in a skirmish with counter- 1 revolutionaries. < Travelers coming to Havana .1 from Sa>gua Lagnande reported ' that (the roads in rthe area were loaded with troops and weapons ’ carriers. i They said it was reminiscent of the days when Castro Harassed ( Batista’s .troops who jammed toe i highways en route to the ligUlng < io the mountains. Trailer-trucks shuttled an estimated 2,500 .militiamen from Santa Clara onto toe area Friday. In Havana, a. doctor ait one mu- ; nicipad hospital said Cuban mlli- ' tiamen were being admitted by ■the scores. Most of them were suffering from fatigue, complicated by anemia due to malnutrition. Observers saad .this was apparently due to .the heavy schedule forced (upon .the militia. A dernonstraition Friday night by 1,000 Cuban electtrioal workers forced the Cuban Workers' Confederation (OTC) to postpone a purge of rthe union’s directors who have been accused of being counter-revolutionaries. Electrical workers, shouting, “Down with communism’* and "Russfa—rto,” marched to toe presidential padace to the first open labor demonstration against the Communists since Castro’s revolution. Another 1,000 workers remained on guard art union headquarters at toe orders of their leaders to prevent its possible seizure by toe government. ■j INDIANA WEATHER —- Mostly dandy with snow flurries likely tonight and Sunday. Low tonight IS to 21 north, upper 20s south. High Sunday 28 to 32 north, upper 30s south. Outlook for Monday: Cloudy and cold north, cloudy with occasional rain and not much temperature change south. Advertising Index Advertiser Page ’ Adams Theater 6 Adams County Farm Bureau Co-op 4 ] Allied Institute — 5 Beavers Oil Service, Inc — 5 ’ Bower Jewelry Store —_ 3 John Brecht Jewelry - 3 ( Burk Elevator Co. — 5 ■ Citizens Telephone Ob. 6 , Decatur Ready-Mix Corp 4 , Dierkes Implement Sales —4 , Evans Sales AService .......... 5 ' First Baptist Church 3 1 Fairway ............. 6 1 Gillig A Doan Funeral Home ... 3 J Gambles — - 6 New C. Johnson, Auctioneer- 11 Realtor 5 - Mies Recreation —— 8 1 J. J. Newberry Co. ..... 4 ’ Smith Drug Co. 3 , Stucky & Co. —— 3 \ Sprunger Implement Co 4 ( Teeple Truck Lines 5 . Uhrick Bros. 6 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc. .... 4 Home 6 Wurch Tage Sponsors s NOON EDITION

President Os Avilla Bank Is Robbed Friday AVILLA, Ind. (UPD—Police in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan today sought five robbers who kidnaped a bank president and made him open a vault containing $6,000. President Wilmer R. Weimer of •the Community State Bank was discovered by his wife at their home about two hours after the men fled in a late model green oar. They had returned Weimer at gunpoint from .the bank to his home and bound him with rope. Weimer told polioe the men entered has home whale his wife was out and held him hostage. He said they talked over plans far robbing the bank early this morning. But Weimer said he talked them out of that plan by persuading them they could be seen in daylight and would be running a greater risk. The men followed Weimer’s advice and staged the robbery Friday night. State polioe said .the side door of the bank 'building had been opened and the vault lock tampered with. Mrs. Wakner rushed to a neighbor’s bouse to call .pottoe here because toe Ova bondtoi lead ripped the .telephone out She alerted pottce chief Bernard Wllondek, who, in turn, called state police. Road blocks were manned tar about two hours but police tailed to catch the five bandits. The loot represented the day’s receipts, according to Weimer.

Kennedy Seeks To Complete Cabinet

PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPD - President-eleat John F. Kennedy today deliberated whether to call another new cabinet member to South Florida for public unveiling. While a blizzard of names ors possible cabinet appointees swept Washington, Kennedy flew south Friday night with his wife, Jacqueline, und their intent eon, John Jr. Their other child, Caroltoe, 3. has been here far a week. The future chief executive planned Ito spend the weekend with bts family, then speed back to Washington where he was expected to announce the big (three of the cabinet—state, defense and taeasury—next week. There was a possibility of a cabinet announcement in Palm Sfonday. Kennedy’s , Pierre Salinger, news conference rich time the outend appointments ore clear. staff ddd nothing a new wave of C. Douglas Dillon, of state in the ministration and a receiving strong or secretary of treasury. sadmger simply refused to confirm or deny reports about Dillon. Other segments of the Kennedy camp spoke highly of Robert S. McNamara, president of Ford Motor Go., as a prospect far treasury and possibly defense. A flurry of rumor? earlier .this week. fast Tbomate S. Gates Jr., the current defense secretary, might be retained in (the new edmintetration appeared to be without support. The pneataeot-etect has filled .three cabinet posts—-health, education and -welfare, commerce and interior—end in each case, he announced* the appointment with the selected official fa his side. Should he decide to name his fourth cabinet officer thia weekend, rthe appointee would in all probability have to make a quick trip to Florida. If Washington rumors were any imrl-tornftirgi L Kennedy was slow in rotating-vgrtas 'Stand' abtMfi'fflie'ttup spats. Dean Rusk, former assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs and now presii

Seven Cents

., Preferred License Tags Not Available Automobile owners Arho prefer particular license plate numbers may not be able to receive them for the 1961 plates, Mrs. LaVelle Death, manager of the Decatur license branch, said today. " Reason for the change in policy from preceding years, Mrs. Death stated, is due to the expected change in managers when Gov.elect Matthew Welsh takes office next month. A Democrat is expected to be appointed by Welsh to succeed Mrs. Death, a Republican. The present manager expressed the hope, however, that requests taken from now until Dec. 31, ranging in number to JA-1500 can be fulfilled. The above number was used as it is thought likely that license (dates to that number will be sold and distributed by the ’ branch before the new appointment is announced. License plates. Mrs. Death stated, must be sold in numerical number and can not be held out of line regardless of requests. Applications for registration received by motorists from the state, or last year’s registration cards, must be presented to the license bureau branch office no later than Dec. 31 for these preferred low numbers. Tax receipts, must also be presented, and plates will be picked up after Jan. 2. The 1961 plates, red with white numerals, will go on sale Jan. 2. The local office on North First street will remain open, Monday through Saturday, until 5 p.m., until further notice.

£ dent of the Rockefeller Founds* “ tion, and David K. E. Bruce, un--0 der secretary of state in the Tru- '■ man admintskraitaon, locked hfce * much more likely prospects for * secretary of state than the frea quently mentioned Sen. William J. FuJhrW, Mrk„ chairman of a the Senate Foreign Relations Com- * mibtee. When Kennedy flew to Florida e last weekend, be bed hoped to j* complete ids cabinet, selections K this week. Despite numerous reports of “virtual” selections, orie ginating with persons presumably 1 in the know, Kennedy has found a final decision mt always easy. fi i Governor-Elect And ‘ Party Heads Confer * WASHINGTON CUPD — Democratic Gov. - elect Matthew E. e Welsh of Indiana Friday conferred * with Democrat! cparty officials on ! hqw to coordinate his administraj tion with that of President-elect * John F. Kennedy. gpaaaaw^w^re^rtp———w Welsh met with Larry O’Brien, ' consultant on matters of patron- ‘ age. O’Brien was director of Ken- * nedy’s campaign organisation. J Welsh discussed the need for ’ economic improvement in Indiana. = _.., "We discussed no specific legisla- ‘ tion or specific names,*’ Welsh said. "It was an attempt to reach ] agreement on how to coordinate . activities of the administrations e and was most satisfactory.” £ Welsh said he had no intention , of seeking a change in the Louiss ville through Southern Indiana and > Illinois route of Interstate 64. k "If the Bureau of Public Roads has finally determined where the y road will go, 1 have no plan to n try to change it,” Welsh said. ‘‘My WStawir to get that rowUsBJ > as quickly as possible and chang? r ing the route would merely delay k the wort ”