Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX. No. 30.

Kennedy Calls For Stern Action Tomalt Overseas Drain Os Gold Reserves

Castro Seizes Water Company Serving Base HAVANA, Cuba (UPI) — The Castro regime put further strain on its relations with the United States during the weekend by seizing the water company that supplies the big U.S. Guantanamo naval base and by attacking the Kennedy administration. Prentier Castro's government “intervened” Sunday in z the Caimanera Aqueduct Co., which is the main source of fresh water. Although there was no attempt to shut the water pipes, the Navy made it clear that water would be brought in by tanker if necessary. The take-over of the Caimanera company was strictly a "paper” formality since the source of the water supply and the pumping station which carries it to the base have been under Cuban military guard for several months. In a speech in Havana. President Osvaldo Dorticos strongly criticized President Kennedy’s pledge to aid Cuban exiles in the United States, and said the aid offer “destroys the first hope” of better understanding between the two countries. Dorticos accused Cuban parochial schools of plotting “counterrevolution" with Kennedy He threatened to nationalize parochial schools because Catholic students had scheduled an antigovernment strike. Dorticos said in a speech to high school teachers that there was a "clear and significant coincidence” between the threatened strike and Kennedy’s pledge of aid to Cuban exiles.

Dean Rusk Urges New Congo Plan

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secretary of State Dean Rusk called today for a new United Nations plan to “bring peace” to the Congo, and give the people there a chance to work out their own form of government. He said the United States was consulting with other interested governments to see whether the U.N. mandate can be “clarified or strengthened” to give it the authority to carry out such a plan. Rusk told his first news conference that the plan must “preserve the integrity" of the Congo. He said the United States hoped —that new approaches to the problem being discussed would “uncover elements of consensus out of which more satisfactory answers can be found.” In both the Congo and strifetom Laos, Rusk said, the difficulty was to find a solution which would end the outside pressures on those countries which threaten to drag them into the East-West war as potential battlegrounds. On Laos, Rusk said the Soviet Union has not yet replied to a British suggestion to revive the old three-nation International Control Commission — consisting of representatives of India, Canada and Poland—to try to end the war and bring political order. He indicated that the United States was not in favor of a many - nation conference on Laos even if the Russians refused to reconvene the ICC. In his general endorsement of new U.N. efforts to solve the Congo crisis, Rusk said “the primary responsibility rests, of course, with President Kasavubu (President Joseph Kasavubu i and other Congolese leaders; the United Nations is there to help. The object is an independent and united Congo, an object which cannot be achieved if disorder continues or if the Congo is drawn into rivalries which originate elsewhere.” v

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The school strike, called by the Catholic "Student Directorate," would commemorate the first anniversary of the outburst when students tried to tear down the Soviet flag at the opening of the 1960 Soviet Exposition in Havana. Details Plans For Jobless Pay Boost WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy submitted to Congress today detailed proposals to extend unemployment compoenation benefits and provide federal aid for needy children of out-of-work parents. Kennedy requested swift enactment of the measures in letters to vice president Lyndon B. Johnson and house speaker Sam Rayburn. His request was accompanied by suggested drafts of the legislation and supporting statements by the secretaries of labor and health, education and welfare Kennedy previously ha d announced his intention to take this action as part of a broad - scale federal effort to relief the impact of the current recession. The documents sent to Congress were not immediately available, but Associate Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher said one bill submitted by the President provided for a temporary federal program to continue additional unemployment compensation payments to workers whose state benefits have been exhausted. The other proposed bill would authorize temporary federal participation in programs of state aid to needy children of unemployed parents. “The need for prompt enactment of this legislation is clear,” the President said in I.;j letters to Johnson and Rayburn.

Rusk declined to say whether the United States would agree, as part of the new U.N. approach to the Congo, to release imprisoned former Premier Patrice Lumumba. who has many supporters and is the favorite of the Soviet Union. ______ _ Rusk "said he would make absolutely no comment on the difficult problem concerning the release of political prisoners. He gave an implied endorsement to a “federalized” system of government in the Congo by saying the United States naturally believed this was a good system of resolving differences in a country extending over a widespread area. Blood Committee Will Meet Friday The district No. 3 blood committee will hold a meeting at the Youth and Community Center Friday, beginning at 12 o'clock noon. A total of six counties, including Adams, will be represented at the meeting. In addition to Adams county, Allen, Jay, Wells, Randolph, and the Union City chapters, will have representatives at the meeting. The meeting is of an important nature, as a chairman and vice chairman will be elected. The main topic for discussion will be “Preparing for the bloodmobile visit.” The discussion should prove to be highly interesting and it will be beneficial to all chapters in helping to avoid the “summer letdown." At least 13 people from the county have indicated they will atteid the meeting. Although the meeting is not strictly for the public, any persons are invited to attend, with a fee of $1.50 being charged for the luncheon.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy called today for stern action to slash American spending abroad and a bold drive to lure foreign funds here in order to halt the overseas drain on U.S. gold reserves. One of the chief weapons Kennedy proposed in a special message to Congress was to cut from SSOO to SIOO the amount of dutyfree goods American tourists could bring home from other countries every six months. The President also asked Congress to prevent American companies from using “tax havens” abroad as a means of escaping U.S. levies. But he also said he had ordered a check on whether U.S. tax laws might be driving “undue amounts" of American capital out of thfe country. These were among a score of proposals Kennedy made for keeping the dollar “as good as gold” by ending the 10-year-old balance-of-payments deficit which has resulted from more American money going to foreigners than has come back from them. Affects Many Kennedy’s program would have a wide impact on bankers, businessmen and tourists here and abroad. It also would limit spending overseas by American servicemen and their families, although Kennedy has revoked former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's order cutting the number of military dependents overseas. The first step, Kennedy said, is to revive the U.S. domestic economy. But beyond that, he said, much must be done with “maximum emphasis" placed on expanding U.S. exports. “Our costs and prices must therefore be kept low,” he said, “and the government must play a more vigorous part in helping to enlarge foreign markets for American tourists. “A return to protectionism is not a solution.” he said. "Such a course would provoke retaliation; and the balance of trade, which is now substantially in our favor, could be turned against us with disastrous effects to the dollar.” Hold Gold Price Kennedy reaffirmed his pledge to hold the official U.S. price of gold at $35 an ounce, to avoid trade and investment exchange controls, and to carry forward this country's national security and economic aid programs. “Those who fedr weakness in the dollar will find their fears unfounded,” he said. “Those who hope for speculative reasons for an increase in the price of gold win find thfcir hope* «in vain.” Among short - term proposals, Kennedy said U.S. banks should be allowed to pay higher interest on foreign-owhed than American deposits as part of "a maximum competitive effort to attract and hold dollar balances which might otherwise be converted into gold." He also said he would keep in effect Eisenhower’s ban against Americans holding gold abroad. The President placed “everyone on notice that those few Americans who are tempted to speculate against the dollar will not profit in this manner." Other Proposals The proposed reduction in dutyfree imports by tourists and ban on use of “tax havens” by American firms were among a series of long-term recommendations by Kennedy. Others included; ° —"Energetic” government leadership to help American industry and agriculture drive for more exports markets. —A “major new program to encourage foreign travel in the United States." —Steps to keep American goods "competitively priced” with those of other countries. —Placing American exporters “on a basis of full equality with their competitors in other countries” in obtaining credit from the U.S. Export-Import Bank. —Maintaining restrictions by which not more than 20 per cent of economic assistance and similar aid funds, which totaled $2.6 billion in 1960, can be spent outside the United States. —Pressing for prompt removal of the few quota restrictions which still exist against American exports to other countries, ,' —Urging “those Western European countries with strong (gold) reserve, positions to eliminate the _ continued on page three , ’

Decatur, Indiana,-Monday, February 6, 1961.

Major Storm Moving East

By United Press International A massive storm centered over the Gulf of Mexico stabbed the nation’s mid-section with heavy snow, rain and sleet today, while the East dug out from its fifth major onslaught of the winter. The new storm dumped up th eight inches of snow on Kansas, clogging highways, and a broad band of snow fell from northern Arkansas through Illinois into Minnesota. Rato and sleet hit the South. But the new storm lost pinch as it moved east from Kansas and was expected to calm down before reaching the Atlantic Seaboard, where cities tried to dig out streets and resume normal highway, air and train travel. United Press International counted at least 99 persons died to 22 states last week of weatherblamed causes including overexertion and exposure. Massachusetts led with 17 weather deaths. Illinois counted 11. Northwest Cold Front A cold front invaded the Northwest, bringing rain from California to Washington, and • rare shift of weather balance touched off 75-mfle-an-hour winds Sunday to Southern California. Winds and. blowing sand turned part of the San Bernardino freeway near Ontario, Calif., into a wind tunnel, damaging cars, trucks and trees. New England and New York faced the biggest job of digging out from storms of late last week. New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner said his executive ban on non-essential city traffic would continue at least until Tuesday to give street crews a maximum break to cleaning away 17.4 inches of snow that fell during 24 hours early in the weekend. . The city’s supermarkets braced for a rush of shoppers today. Many restaurants closed on account of the snow Sunday and apartment house larders dwindled while dairies stationed milk trucks at strategic corners to

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Status Os Sputnik Remains Mystery

MOSCOW (UPD—The status of Russia’s new 7.1-ton sputnik remained a mystery to Muscovites and to the Western world today amid speculation that its task was completed when it was launched. There was no official word on the satellite’s whereabouts or its radio frequency since it was put into orbit Saturday. This led observers here to believe that the new sputnik, man’s heaviest object in space, may have served its purpose merely by soaring beyond the pull of gravity, a success for scientists Interested primarily in launching a great weight on an “improved multi-stage rocket.” The observers said the world may hear no more about the satellite until it begins dropping back toward the atmosphere and bums up in friction, like a shooting star. (Observatories in Germany and Britain reported picking up signals which might have come from the sputnik but the Jodrell Bank station in England said the signals more likely were from America's Explorer Vn.) There has been no mention as to whether the satellite carried life. Prof. Ivan Shevylakov of the Moscow Planetarium said the sputnik’s life was expected to be short because it is orbiting so close to earth. It probably will burn in the upper atmosphere in a few days, he said. The satellite was said to be circling the ekrth every 89.8 minutes with its highest point 203 miles and its lowest 139 miles.

, supply hard-pressed families. East Coast air traffic moved gradually back to normal. New York's LaGuardia airport scheduled its first flight since Friday night. Newark Airport reopened late Sunday and Boston’s Logan Airport expected to resume full service by noon. The storm stranded hundreds of airline employes at Idlewild Airport over the weekend along with a dozen would-be travelers who spent the weekend watching runway snowplows from the observation platform and catnapping on couches. Disrupts Power In New England, thousands of families began the week without heat and electricity as the storm moved out to sea. A utilities spokesman estimated about 250,000 persons lost electricity for varying periods during the weekend and 40,000 were without heat late Sunday. the Weather Bureau at Boston said the 14.4 inch snowfall brought the season’s total to 50 inches, ’ highest since the 89-tach record to 1947-48. Boston’s fire department appealed to residents to clear rway snow around fire hydrants • and police backed up a temporary ban on parking with SSO fines and possible license suspension. At Quincy. Mass., giant ice cakes pounded away supports under part of the Squantum Yacht Club. In Maine, harbor ice up to 4 feet thick idled commercial craft and sent fish prices soaring. The Cape Cod Canal was closed. Water Mata Bants In Manchester, N.H., the cold weather burst a 30-inch water main. Escaping water promptly froze across a 12-block area. Cuttyhunk Island, Mass., with a winter population of about 100, was isolated and Coast Guard crews worked to free a path for a supply tug.

Calendar Is Fixed For County Schools i* • The school calendar for next year’s county schools was drawn up at Saturday's meeting of the county board of education, county superintendent Gail Grabill announced this morning. Very similar to that of the past few years, the calendar calls for a principal's meeting on August 31. On September 1 the institute for all teachers will be held, with a general meeting in the morning, and a meeting by schools to get organized in the afternoon. September 5, will be the first day of school, and May 25, 1962, will be the last.’ Christmas vacation will start Thursday. December 21, and end January 2, 1968. Easter vacation will be April 20-23. The county school board is composed of the 12 township trustee*. INDIANA WEATHER Snow probably beginning tonight, continuing Tuesday with 1 to 3 inches accumulation expected. No Important temperature changes. Low tonight lower 20s. High Tuesday 25 to 30. Sunset today 6:11 Sanrise Tuesday 7:47 a.m. Outlook* for Wednesday: Mostly cloudy j with (mow south. No imports* temperature changes. Lows 15 to 25. Highs 25 to 35.

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THEY STAYED AFTER SCHOOL—Apparently not minding it a bit, these junior and senior high school band members prepare to bed down in Fairfax, Va., high school gymnasium. About 300 boys and girls appeared for a musical get-together at Fairfax. They found themselves snowed in, and bedded down in sleeping equipment supplied by the Army. Girls stayed in the school cafeteria.

World Prayer Day Services Feb. 17 Friday, Feb. 17, will be the 75th anniversary of the world day of prayer, which started in 1887 and has grown into an international and interdenominational prayer day. The people of 145 countries now take part in it. On that day prayers will rise round the world in 60 languages and in more than 1,000 dialects. In America more than 22,000 communities will hold special services in which millions of men, women, and children will join in a prayer of thanksgiving and an appeal for a peaceful world. As the sun rises west of the international date line on the island of Tonga, a native queen will call her people to prayer. As the day travels over other islands, over continents with noisy cities and quiet villages, millions of prayers will be added until in die far north at the top of the world the Christians on 9t. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea add their amen to the great cycle est prayer. In Decatur as in other communities in the United States, services will be sponsored by united church women. This year the services will be held at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church on Winchester street. Children’s services will be held immediately after school at 3:15 p. m. as follows: for Lincoln school children at Baptist church; for Northwest school at Missionary church; for Southeast school at Church of God. The offerings from all services are used in extensive educational medical and religious work in home and foreign missions. This year tvyv important ,»ew projects are included: a training center in Africa and assistance for growing and new churches in Alaska. The expectation is that from all over the world more than $700,000 will be given to further this work. To emphasize this anniversary of the world day of prayer, churches with bells will be asked to ring them at 9 a. m. and 1 p. m. Operating Loss Is Shown By Hospital An operating loss of $6,952 for the month of January, which includes bills for the last part of December, was reported today by the Adams county memorial hospital. The operating deficit is the largest reported by the hospital in the past three years, although January traditionally operates at a loss. Last year’s loss was $4,902.07, and in 1959 the loss was $6,380.85. The hospital board increased the hospital charges slightly last month to try to offset the increased costs of running the institution. There was $13,431.57 operating cash on hand at the beginning of the month, with the bills totalling $12,430.03, and the payroll, $22,159.63, for total expenses of $34,589.66. ‘ Deposits for the month were $27,637.66, leaving a balance of $6,479.57. A total of 178 patients were admitted during the month, and 168 were dismissed. There were 52 adults present at the first of the month, and 46 at the end, with six patients dying during the month. A total of 53 babies, including 31 boys and 22 girls, were born during the month. Seven were in the hospital January 1, and 12 were there January 31, none having died during the month. A total df '-201 patients were treated in "the x-ray. laboratory, and emergency rooms.

Bank Robbed, Two Captured

ST. PAUL, Ind. (UPI) — Two bandits held up the St. Paul . branch of the Waldron State Bank here today but one was shot and both were captured less than an ‘ hour later with their loot, estii mated at $2,600. Trooper Richard H. Wilson, sta- [ tioned at a roadblock at the inter- . section of Indiana 3 and Indiana ' 46 at the edge of nearby Greens-; burg, saw a car answering the description of that used for the ■ getaway pull up at a truck stop. Wilson approached and one of ' the occupants of the car trained a shotgun at the trooper. Wilson ’ shot the alleged bandit in the leg. ’ He fell and was captured. The 1 other surrendered. 1 The men were identified as Mor- ! ris Goodwin, and Robert Loper, * 24, both of Greensburg. I Poice said Goodwin was shot t to the left leg. St. Paul is a small town in • northwestern Decatur county on the Decatur-Shelby county line. The men were seen driving ■ south out of St. Paul in a red and i white late-model car. Both wore dark sweaters. Both were darkhaired, witnesses said. ; Authorities said the bandits stuffed the loot into a blue and white striped bag. Police said after Goodwin and Loper were captured, officers searched their car and found the stolen money. It was Indiana’s secorid bank holdup in 10 days. A bandit held up a Gary branch bank on Jan. 28 and escaped with nearly $90,000. He was caught two days iter hiding out in New Castle. Resort Hotel Near Delphi Is Destroyed DELPHI, Ind. (UPI) — Fire destroyed one of the largest resort hotels in Indiana Sunday The Roth Park Hotel, located on Lake Freeman near Delphi, was destroyed at a loss of at least $200,000 by flames which began in the kitchen. Although the hotel does not have guests during the winter, its restaurant and bar facilities are open throughout the year. An employe living on the grounds discovered the flames and called firemen. The hotel was owned by former State Rep. Mahlon Kerlin and Stephen A. Young. | Mrs. Ada Harr Dies Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Ada M. Harr, 77, a native and former resident of Wren, 0., died at 2:20 o’clock Saturday afternoon at her home in Sand Springs, Chela. She had been in failing health for the past year, but her unexpected death was attributed to a heart attack. She was born in Wren, Jan. 26, i 1884, a daughter of Oliver and ; Lucinda Frisinger - Sheets, and .] was married to Perry Harr June j 7, 1905. Her husband preceded ; her in death in 1939. Surviving are one daughter, ] Mrs. Rhea Gaddis of Sand ] Springs; one grandchild; two ] great - grandchildren, and one brother. Dr. Oscar B. Sheets of 1 Forest Home, Calif. 1 Funeral services will be con- ! ducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at ! the Zwick funeral home, with bur- ! ial in Woodland cemetery, Van < Wert, O. Friends may call at the ’ funeral home after 2 p. m. Wed- ' nesday until time of the services, i

Seven Cents

90Day State Legislature Meet Favored INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Indiana House leaders of both parties today introduced a resolution aimed at more than doubling the length of time the legislature would be in session. Democratic floor leader Birch E. Bayh of Terre Haute and Ret publican floor leader Glen R. Slenker of Monticello proposed a , constitutional amendment extend ing the length of the biennial sessions in odd-numbered years from the present 61 to 90 days. In addition, they proposed a 45day session in even - numbered years devoted to budget matters. This would increase the number of days of legislative sessions from the present 61 every two years to 135 in a similar twoyear period. The resolution was among a flock of measures offered on the last day of introducing new bills without special permission. By noon, 58 new measures had come into the House. Bayh said in a statement in connection with the legislative expansion measure that it would enable the lawmakers “to have more time in which to deliberate upon the many bills which come before them.” Earlier, the legislature was asked to lead the way in a nationwide drive to change the method of electing U. S. presidents. Small Pump House Destroyed By Fire A small pump house on the Raymond Raudebush residence, route 5, Decatur, on U. S. 224, was completely destroyed by fire this morning. The fire department was called to the scene at 6:50, and hadfhe blaze extinguished by 7:45, al- | though they arrived too late to save the small building. Nothing else was damaged, and no estimate was given on the value of the pump house. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Adams Theater —3 A&P Tea Co., Inc. .... —— 3 Beavers Oil Service. Inc. 5,. r Bower Jewelry Store 3 Burk Elevator Co. 5 Cowens Insurance Agency — 6 Evans Sales & Service 5 Holthouse Drug Co 2 Holthouse Furniture Store —2, 5 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 4 The Little Elevator Co. —. 5 Methodist Youth Fellowship —- 3 Mvers Cleaners ----------------- 2 Northern Indiana Public Service Co. — • Phil Neuenschwander. auctioneer 8 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co 2, 3. 4 Schwartz Ford Co., Inc. ........ 8 Stucky & Co. -— — 8 O. A. Spiegel, C.D. —- $ Tony’s Tap .... r -——. 6 Teeple Truck Line .—4 5 * Zintamaster Motors •