Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX. No. 35.

Most Os Major Issues Remain As Legislature Has Only 22 Days Left

Urge New Law Be Enacted On Drunk Driving INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—An imposing battery of witnesses Friday urged the Indiana Legislature to enact a law which would give motorists suspected of being intoxicated a choice between taking a chemical test or temporarily losing their licenses. * The House Public Safety Committee heard testimony supporting the bill introduced by Reps. George W. Stocksdale D-Hunting-ton, and Kermit Burrous, R-Peru. which would provide that any applicant for a driver's license gives "implied consent” that he will take such a test under specified conditions. After a brief executive session, chairman L. Parker Bakerr RCicero, said the committee decided not to take immediate action on the bill but would probably vote at its next meeting Monday afternoon. No one appeared at the public hearing to speak against the measure, which was similar to one which failed to pass two years ago. Since then, additional safeguards against error in the conduct of the tests were added. Inventors Appear The inventors of two of the devices used in making the tests were among those speaking on behalf of the measure. They were Dr. Rollo Harger, professor emeritus of the Indiana University School of Medicine, who developed the drunkometer. and Robert Borkenstein, who invented a device called a breathalyzer and who now is chairman of the department of police administration at I.U. but for 20 years was head of the state police laboratory. Among others speaking on behalf of the bill were Prof. David Monroe, political scientist from the University of North Carolina; James K. Northam, chairman of the Indiana Commission on Uniform Laws; Dr. Robert Forney, state toxicologist, and E. Paul Weaver, Indiana Council of Churches spokesman. Harger told the group that use of chemical tests to determine the degree of intoxication in a human being “is in the same category as taking his fingerprints." He said

Kennedy, Top Experts Meet

WASHINGTON (UPD—One result of President Kennedy's conference today with his foremost experts on Russia may be a decision on whether to meet within the next few months with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. The purpose of the session was to chart what Kennedy hopes will be a more dynamic approach to the critical cold war issues dividing the United States and the Soviet Union. Summoned to the strategy conference were Secretary of State Dean Rusk and four Soviet affairs experts who have served as ambassadors to Moscow—Llewellyn E. Thompson, the present envoy; Charles E. Bohlen, special adviser to Rusk on Russia; roving Ambassador Averell Harriman, and George F. Kennan, ambassa-dor-designate to Yugoslavia. Witnesses Swearing-In Before the meeting, Kennedy planned to witness the swearing in of New York Negro Robert C. Weaver as federal housing administrator. The President was scheduled to fly by helicopter shortly after noon to his rented Glen Ora estate in Middleburg, Va., for a weekend rest. Kennedy was reported by his aides to be determined to move

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introduction of evidence in an Indiana court relating to the drunkometer dates back to 1938 when he gave the test to a woman who was charged with manslaughter in a car-pedestrian crash. "James Emmert who later became Supreme Court judge was the judge at Shelbyville Harger recalled. “He asked me if I forced the woman to breath into the drunkometer. ! said, no, she did her own breathing.” Testing Labs Ready Harger said there now are 150 laboratories over the state where tests may be run, most of them in police posts and stations, and 400 licensed operators. Forney said 90 counties have instruments to determine degree of intoxication and declared that such tests “often are the only way a driver can prove later in court that he wasn't drunk.” Forney said, however, that if the bill is passed, his department must have an additional $29,000 for the next two years to routinely inspect the testing equipment and license operators. He said his budget had been cut and that even if the bill were not passed he was badly in need of more money. Borkenstein said the safeguards written into the bill to require the state toxicologist to certify the equipment and operators was “a self-policing move" taken because attorneys objected to the danger of incompetent operators and faulty testing devices. 69 Per Cent Had Drink “We are not after the two-beer drinker,” Borkenstein said. “We don't stop people at random on the highway and say. ‘here? blow.’ ” He cited results of a survey of single-car crashes showing 69 per cent of the drivers had .05 of one percent alcohol in their blood and 49 per cent had .15. The latter is the minimum considered under Indiana law as intoxication. Northam said at least 26 states now have similar laws and declared that the laws do not violate constitutional guarantees against self - incrimination because “is limited to utterance.” Monroe said “there is nothing compulsory about the test.” He noted that the alternative — six months suspension of driving rights—could be appealed. Weaver said he spoke on behalf of the bill "because ministers are the people who preach the funerals" of the persons who get killed in traffic. He said nationally. 45 persons die every day because of crashes involving alcohol.

quickly to test Khrushchev’s professed desire to dampen explosive issues and calm world jitters. Some of the President’s advisi ers were said to have swung around to the view that an early Kennedy meeting with Khrushchev would be a good idea. President Favors Delay Kennedy and Rusk have indicated they feel a big two summit should be delayed until there is substantial progress on major world problems at lower diplomatic levels. But they have said they will not be “dogmatic” about any particular approach. An early opportunity for Kennedy to meet Khrushchev might be in April if the Soviet prerpier ; decided to attend the United Nations General Assembly session in New York City. Kennedy has pinpointed the Congo and Laos as two trouble spots where Russia and the United : States could start right away to • try to end strife and create sta- ’ bility. On longer-range issues, such as Berlin, Germany and disarma--1 ment, the President has asked 1 Khrushchev to give the new administration time to review its 1 policies. »

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Indiana’s lawmakers were at home today for what may be their last free Saturday until after the 92nd Indiana General Assembly closes March 6. With only 22 days of life remaining when they resume deliberations Monday, the legislators to date have come to grips with few of the major issues before them. The House passed on second reading Friday, and apparently will be able to advance to the Senate early next week, a bill representing the lower chamber’s compromise version of reapportionment. The resolution calls for reapportionment by the slow constitutional amendment route, rather than the “do it now" plan of Democratic leaders. It provides for a Senate composed of 92 members, one from each county, and a House of 100 members apportioned on a population basis once every 10 years. Such a plan appeared to give rural lawmakers a continued domination over the General Assembly. In fact, Rep. John Donaldson, R-Lebanon, who introduced the amendment which contained the compromise plan, said it would “tend to preserve what I think is a good thing — the rural influence.” Survives Twa Testa The resolution, which Speaker Richard Guthrie said probably would be on the Tuesday calendar for passage, survived two vote tests. One favored it by 6924 and the other rejected 57-37 a proposed replacement with a population basis for both chambers. The House earlier worked its way to a compromise plan on the budget and tossed it to the Senate. Senate Finance Committee chairman Robert P. O’Bannon indicated that the group would start reviewing the budget Monday, and said he hoped he could report it out in two weeks. The Senate is slated to consider final passage Monday a civil rights bill to assure equal accommodations in restaurants and housing. The bill was one of those supported by about 300 Negro demonstrators Friday. The group, wearing National Association for Advancement of Colored People badges, marched quietly through the Statehouse and then to Monument Circle where they heard speeches by Thurgood Marshall, national NAACP counsel; Roy Wilkins, national executive secretary, and Dr. Ford Gibson, Indiana NAACP president. Welsh Petition Expected Also on Monday, the Senate half of the special joint election probe committee is scheduled to meet arid probably will receive a petition c.i behalf of Governor Welsh to drop charges of fraud in his election. ihe House half of the commitFour Young People Hurt In Accident Two Ohio young men and two young girls who live near Decatur, are in the Adams county hospital this morning suffering from injuries received in an accident at 11:30 p.m. Friday, when the car they were riding in went out of control and struck a utility pole. Fred Tumbleson. 18. route 2. Ohio City, the driver of the vehicle, sustained cuts to the lower lip and left eye and bruises to both knees. The other male passenger. Charles Fisher. 17. Willshire, suffered broken ribs, a broken collar bone and a bruised left hip. Sandra Brunner, 17. route 3. Decatur, also suffered a broken collar bone, in addition to bruises to both knees. The fourth passenger. Sandra Feasel, 16, Pleasant Mills, suffered a possible separation of the left shoulder. The mishap occurred when Tumblesan was driving north on county road 26Mj. He failed to stop at the intersection with state road 124 and lost control of the car approximately 300 feet north of the intersection, skidding off the west side of the road and striking a utility pole. Sheriff Merle Affolder investigated the accident.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 11, 1961.

Goldberg Paints Gloomy Picture

DETROIT (UPD — Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg moved into recession-battered Detroit today with a warning that the nation must take emergency measures to slash unemployment or drift into a depression. Goldberg, acting as President Kennedy’s ambassador to the jobless, began the second day of his five-state tour of depressed areas by conferring on Michigan’s jobless problems with Gov. John B. Swain son. The auto capital of the world presented a bleak picture of Kennedy’s chief labor adviser. More than 1 million cars, are on dealers* lots —a new record — and • layoffs in auto plants have put 1 out of every 10 workers out of a job. i To Meet DiSalle Goldberg was, scheduled to discuss Ohio’s mounting unemployment with Gov. Mike DiSalle this afternoon before heading for Pittsburgh, last stop on his mission. The cabinet officer offered hope of jobs to idle workers Friday in fast-paced visits to Chicago, Gary and South Bend, Ind., all centers tee already has dissolved itself. I One of the petitions charges i that Welsh gained election through Lake County fraud and the other —filed on behalf of the Democrats —challenges the election of Republican Lt. Gov. Richard Ristine. A normally political topic—Fed-, eral aid—popped up in the House ; Friday. A House concurrent resolution which specifies that the fed- ! eral government begin no new 1 federal-aid program without the 1 request of 26 states, passed 52 to 39. Some Republicans voted i gainst it, apparently because op- i ponents stressed the trouble such resolutions had caused in Wash- 1 ington in getting flood control pro- 1 jects for Indiana. A third attempt to pass a group < of bills giving financial relief to railroads is slated for the House, possibly Monday. For the second j time Friday, the advance runner . of the group, which would require cities and towns to pay for new : crossings they wanted if their : own development, failed to pass. ( Amnesia Victim In Milwaukee Hospital MILWAUKEE (UPD — Hessel Rita Wright. 43, Bicknell. Ind., an amnesia victim, was under treatment today at Milwaukee County General Hospital. The woman, who wandered into a Milwaukee hotel last Sunday clad only in a light summer dress, was identified Friday through a fingerprint check with the FBI in Washington. “ Authorities said she still has not regained her memory and they have not learned why she came here.

£k I * : x.. 1l >1 VACCINATED HERSELF— She just wanted to kiss her cousin's vaccination "to make it well.” And Michelle Keith. 3,’ of Cleveland, Ohio, wound up with her own vaccination—on her nose. No harm done, except her parents are worried that she may be left with a scar on her face. <

of rising factory unemployment. He called for united support of Kennedy’s anti-recession program and pleaded for a no-politics approach to domestic economic problems during his 15-hour Midwestern expedition. “We are in a real recession in the United States,” Goldberg told a South Bend audience. “If we don’t take the proper action we’ll be in a depression.” Foresees More Jobs But he said he was confident that business, labor and government teamwork would pull the nation out of the slump and create more jobs. ’ ‘This administration is pledged to do everything within its power to reinvigorate the economy and take care of the needs of the labor secretary declared. But he was emphatic about Kennedy’s intention to stimulate the economy so private industry and not the government would provide job openings. “We don’t intend to create another WPA — let me tell you that!” he said in Gary. Ila Lift Veil Os Secrecy On Sputnik WASHINGTON (UPD — The Kennedy administration will lift a veil of secrecy shortly and disclose what it knows about Russia’s Sputnik VII. House government information investigators said today. There has been speculation that the week-old satellite carried a man. . The House investigators blamed the information gag on a combination of government red tape and a misunderstanding by several officials about how to handle space releases. Defense sources said earlier, however, that the apparent reason for the information blackout was the belief that America had given too much publicity to Russian space achivements. They indicated that this country had tracked Sputnik VII without difficulty. A furor about the lack of Western announcements on the Soviet spacecraft was touched off when L. J. Carter, secretary of the British Interplanetary Society, said the "confusion” showed a spy satellite could “whirl around the earth undetected." According to investigators for the House government information subcommittee, the first chapter in the Sputnik VII news blackout took place last Jan. 13, many days before the launching. At that time the Defense Department signed an agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Monroe Red Cross Solicitors Named Section solicitors for all of Monroe township have now been chosen, and they are ready to begin the Red Cross rural canvass by March 1, Chris Inniger and Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Yoder, co-chair-men of the Monroe township drive, announced today. Last year Monroe township raised $320.58, more than any other rural township. They will try to beat that record this year, Inniger promised. Water Safety W. Last year the Red Cross held 148,800 water safety courses, including several here in Adams county. Teachers for three courses were trained at Red Gross-spon-sored camps. More than 1% million swimming certificates were issued. The Red Cross is one of the many agencies supported by the people of Adams county which will be ready to help in case of any disaster. Hundreds of nurses and doctors are enrolled, citizens are trained in home nursing and first aid, blood is available through the Red Cross blood program, etc. You Make Possible All these services are possible only because the people of Adams county, and especially of Monroe township, generously support the Red Cross. The county rural drive this year is headed by two Monroe township men, Homer Winteregg and Silvan Sprunger. Solicitors are: Section 1, Herbert LaFontaine; 2. Rev. H. Rich; 3, Robert Isch; 4, Marie Christner; 5, Floyd Liby; 6. James Michaels; 7, Ray Ringger; 8, Vic Sprunger; 9 & 10, Leonard Funk; 11 & 12, Charles Workinger; Also, 13. Roger Bluhm; 14, Albert Amstutz; 15 & 16, Mrs. Claude Dennison; 17, Mrs. Melvin Liechty; 18, Mrs. Tilman Beer; 19, Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Bauman; 20, Mrs. Willis Sommer; 21 and 22, Mrs. Dan Striker: . Section 23 & 24, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Headington; 25 & 26. Arman Habegger; 27, Wilbur Nussbaum; 28, Joel Sprunger; 29, Mrs. Oti* Sprunger; 30. Mrs. Denver Yoder; 31 & 32, Mrs. E. Neuenschwander; 33, Kermit Yoder; 34, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Von Gunten; 35 & 36, Howard Teeter. Mental Examination Ordered For Martz Ralph T. Martz, who entered a plea of guilty Friday morning to a charge of assault and battery, in having touched a frightened 13-year-old girl, will be examined by two physicians to determine if he is responsible for his actions, Judge Myles F. Parrish announced today. Judge Parrish called Martz back to the courtroom about 2:30 p.m. Friday, and appointed Dr. John B. Terveer and Dr. Gerald M. Kohne to examine him. Hie 64-year-old Van Wert, 0.. man, formerly from near Berne, was represented by a Van Wert, 0., attorney. A more serious charge of assault on a minor female child was dropped. The doctors were asked to make their examination and report back to the court within two days. Martz was arrested by sheriff Merle Affolder several weeks ago. A young Monroe township girl, alone at home, opened the door to Martz who said he was a salesman, and she testified that he made improper advances; to her. Martz was held under $2,000 bond until the trial Friday. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday, not much temperature change. Low tonight 24 to 28 north, 25 to 33 south. High Sunday upper 30s. Outlook for Monday: Snow and a little colder north, partly _ cloudy with no important temperature changes south. Advertising Index Advertiser Adams Theater 3 Beavers Oil Service. Inc 5 Bower Jewelry Store ... 3 Burk Elevator Co ..... 5 Budget Loans 6 Bohnke Cabinet Shop ... 5 C.Y.A. - 3 Citizens Telephone Co 3 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp 4 Evans Sales & Service 5 First State Bank of Decatur;.... 6 Allen Fleming 5 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home — 3 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co 4 Ned C, Johnson, AuctioneerRealtor 5 Pike Lumber Co 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Smith Drug Co 3 Stucky & Co 5 Teeple Truck Line . 5 Mel Tinkham Insurance Agency 6 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc ... 4 Zwick Funeral Home 6 Church Page Sponsors 2 NOON EDITION

Decatur Lady Is Elected Chairman

Mrs. Cletus B. Miller, chairman of the Adams county blood program, and vice chairman of district three of the regional program for the past two years, was elected district chairman and a member of the 44-unit regional council at the district meeting held in Decatur Friday. Mrs. O. G. Sutton, of Bluffton, treasurer of the Wells county blood program, was elected vice chairman, and will also serve on the board. 10th Birthday Party Approximately 30 delegates from the five counties of the district attended the three-hour meeting at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, including 12 from Adams county, five from Allen county, three each from Jay and Randolph counties, and two from Wells county. This was the first of the districts to hold 10th birthday celebrations for the regional program, which will be ten years old Feb. 21. The event will be celebrated with an open house at the regional center from 1 to 5 p. m. Feb. 21. Mrs. Bauer Lights Candles Mrs. Ed Bauer, who headed the Adams county blood program during its early years, lit the candles on the birthday cake, and recalled what a miserable day, cold and wet, it was when the first bloodmobile visited Adams county, and how concerned the various people were who had never before taken part in such a program. She recalled that some 156 gave blood that day. Wilbur Petrie, president of the Adams county Red Cross, blew out the candles on the cake, which was then served as dessert to the group. Slides Shown Slides of the Nov. 29 bloodmobile visit to Decatur were shown to the group, and it was pointed out that locally-taken slides, in color, provide a very fine publicity program for other groups who may want to gain some knowledge of the blood program. A seven-page leaflet on planning for a bloodmobile visit was then discussed by Alfred O. Shell, Dr. Harry C. Harvey, and Mrs. Helen McCrory, explaining in detail how to have a successful prograjn. The next meeting will be held at Bluffton June 12. Adams County Leads By exceeding its goal for blood last year, reaching 104.6% of quota, Adams county ranked 9th of 44 units in the region, and led district three. Dr. Harry C. Harvey, director, mentioned. Fort Wayne-Allen county achieved 96.7% of goal, Jay, 78.3%; WeUs, 76.2%; Union City, 75.4%; and Randolph county, 63.4%. Collections have increased from 26,639 bottles in 1955 to 37,377 bottles last year. Os course, use of blood has also increased terrifically, as new methods require more use of the precious life fluid.

Expand Search For Lumumba

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (UPl)—Katanga troops and police scoured the bush country today for escaped former Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba, but there was widespread speculation that the leftist leader was dead. The news that Lumumba and two aides—Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito—had escaped from an isolated farm house detention spot by overpowering their guards electrified the Congo and spread fears of a civil war. The massive manhunt for the fugitives was centered in an area 40 miles north of Mutshatasha which was sealed off by authorities of secessionist Katanga Province after they located the car in which the three men were said to have fled. A Katangese plane flying low spotted the car lying in a ditch. Searching parties were dispatched into the jungle. Katangese Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo was reported heading to Mutshatasha to take charge of the search. Speculate About Fate The announcement of Lumumba’s escape Friday by the official Katanga radio brought into the open speculation that he had been killed or died in jail from ill-treatment after his arrest by army strongman Maj. Gen. Joseph Mobutu. It was Lumumba’s second escape from imprisonment. Leopoldville Province Premier Cleophas Kamitatu told United Press International he believed that Lumumßa had been killed.

Seven Cen

Little Summit Meet Is Ended In Paris PARIS (UPI) — The “little summit” conference of six European nations, called to work out a unified front to deal with U.S. foreign policy and cold war prob- , lems in general, was over today except for the formalities of goodbye. The delegates advanced a little way up the mountainside toward a summit of agreement, but most of their time was spent in the foothills. Discussion which lasted untit Friday night failed to produce accord on the major issue — President Charles de Gaulle’s plan for a European political confederation. No communique was issued because of the late hour the discussion ended. The foreign ministers scheduled a meeting today to draft an official report. Besides De Gaulle, the conference was attended by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany, Premier Amintore Fanfani of Italy, Premier Gaston Eyskens of Belgium. Premier Jean de Quay of The Netherlands and Premier Pierre Werner of Luxembourg. It was the Dutch who raised objections at the last minute that prevented a positive pronouncement of the future political attitude of “The Six,” as the nations are known. The Dutch objected to any sort of agreement that would cut all political ties with Britain. De Gaulle laid before the delegates his plan to make “The Six” a third force in the cold war. He envisioned a confederation of the nations which would be on the side of the West, a sort of pillar standing alone beside the other nations of the Western alliance. Adenauer has been cool toward that idea ever since De Gaulle first proposed it. He wants “The Six” to be completely integrated j into the Western alliance. : Indianapolis Man 1 Killed Under Train INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —Albert Karweik, 71, Indianapolis, a veteran Monon railroad employe, was killed Friday when he fell beneath the wheels of a train at the railroad’s yards here. Indiana Farm Price Index Increases LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPD — The Indiana farm price index increased four per cent from mid-Decem-ber to mid-January, Purdue economists said today. The United States farm price index droppd one per cent during the period. Purchasing power of Hoosier farmers climbed one per cent while that of U.S. farmers declined one per cent.

• Kamitatu said he was convinced > Lumumba would not try to es- ' cape in the Katanga which is the • stronghold of the deposed pre- • mier’s arch-enemy, Moise Tshom--1 be, president of the copper-rich province. I Mutshatsha is in territory inI habited by Tshombe’s own Lunda i tribe, and far from regions friendi ly to Lumumba. ; A similar opinion was expressed 1 by Alexander Quaison-Sackey, the Ghanian member of the United • Nations Conciliation Commission, i who said the escape announcei ment was “a coyer-up story.” Convinced Lumumba Dead “I am convinced they killed i him,” he said. He warned that if 1 this is true, there will be no peace jn the Congo for the next 20 years. If it turns out Lumuinba is l dead, observers feared it would touch off a blood bath in the Con- • go with his supporters slaughtering hundreds of political prisoners in reprisal. There was no further word from Mobutu, army commander-in-chief, who was reported assembling troop reinforcements and ammunition for a renewed offensive against soldiers loyal to Lumumba in Oriental Province. If Lumumba is alive and manages to reach his Oriental Province stronghold of Stanleyville, observers believed it certain he would rally his followers and offer strong resistance to Mobutu. mumbists control about a third of the Congo.