Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 93.

Fidel Castro Proclaims Destruction Os Invasion Force-More Executions

Routine Physical Checkup For Ike WASHINGTON (UPI) — Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower underwent a routine physical checkup today at the Army’s Walter Reed Medical Center. The ex-president, who entered the hospital Wednesday, was accompanied by Mrs. Eisenhower. Civil War Display At Public Library A Crvll War display, including reprints of Harper’s Weekly and the Civil War Times, highlights the Decatur public library’s display for national library week, Miss Bertha C. Heller, librarian, said today. “For a fuller, richer life, read,” is the slogan of library week, she stated. Every library in the nation is emphasizing the importance of reading good books to help supply a greater sense of purpose and meaning to modern life, she added. Limited horizons are dangerous to a free, democratic people. aa is mindless assumption of superiority or invulnerability. A better-read, better-informed America is a necessity, she said. Only a wide variety of reading can keep us abreast of what has * been, and what is, and train the imagination to forge ahead into what might be the future. The Decatur public library is Concentrating on the Civil War large picture of a soldier from largepictur e of a soldier from Co. K, Bth Ind. Inf., who was killed in service, is on display. Also, a collection of G.A.R. medals is being exhibited. In addition, more than 26.000 books on every conceivable subject are available, free of charge, to be borrowed for two weeks. Residents of Decatur or Washington township have only to apply for a library card. Other county residents, whose townships do not help support the public library with tax money, have to pay a -nominal sum for a library card. Every month many new books are added to the growing collection, which includes the latest fiction selections as well as current event topics and books on various nations. Even a few books in foreign languages, and language study books are available.

Castro Success To Have Heavy Impact

WASHINGTON (UPD AntiCastro forces appeared today to have lost the battle but not the long-term war to overthrow Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. This was the view of diplomatic officials seeking to appraise the repercussions of Castro’s apparent defeat of an invasion force after three days of heavy fighting in the Cochinos Bay area. These officials said Castro’s success was bound to have a heavy psychological and propaganda impact, particularly on the U.S. position in Latin America since this country openly sympathized with the invaders. President Kennedy discussed the Cuban situation with top officia 1 s, including congressional leaders of both parties, at a twohour White House meeting late Wednesday. None of the participants would comment. « Cancels Florida Trip The President also cancelled plans to spend the weekend watching training exercises by Atlantic Fleet units off the north Florida coast. The White House attributed the decision to the “press of business” in the capital. The Cochinos Bay invasion, according to sources here, was attempted with a shockingly small force of only a few hundred men whose effort was doomed to failure when uprisings and defections in Cuba failed to materialize. Authorities here said there was

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Huntington Driver Seriously Injured Robin Wall, 61, of Huntington, was seriously injured shortly after noon Wednesday, when the truck he was driving smashed into the bridge, just outside of Monmouth, on the Monmouth road. Wall, a Chesty Foods truck route driver, was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital and immediately rushed to the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne for major surgery. He suffered severe head injuries. including a torn face, and cuts and bruises to the left knee and left shoulder. Deputy sheriff Robert Meyer and state trooper Al Coppes, who investigated the mishap, explained that the Huntington man had just left the Monmouth school and was heading for Decatur, at 12:40 p. m. A box sitting on the seat beside him, fell on him, distracting him and he crashed into the bridge. Discuss Homestead Park Plans Tonight The Homestead park improvement committee will meet this evening with the Jaycee park committee at 7 o’clock in the city council chamber, James Cowens, president of the Homestead association, said today. Any Homestead resident who desires to meet with the group is welcome to attend the meeting, Cowens stated. Members of the Jaycee park committee are Dick Heller, Jr.. Ralph Smith. Jr., Eugene Ziner, Don Bieberich, and Bill Snyder. Others who have been invited to attend are members of the city park committee including Frank Braun, chairman, Carl Gerber. and Clyde Drake; city street and parks commissioner Adolph Kolter; and several interested local citizens. The meeting will be open to the public, but will deal only with the Homestead park. Those from other areas who desire to plan the improvement" of their park area are invited to contact a member of the Jaycee committee.

a bright side to the picture, however. They reported that in the course of the general disorder in Cuba, some 4,000 men had slipped into the Escambray Mountains to join anti-Castro guerrilla forces there.. These men presumably came from various parts of Cuba, although some might have gone ashore from vessels. American officials, while frankly dismayed by the apparent failure of the invasion attempt, predicted steadily mounting trouble for Castro from the augmented guerrilla forces which were said to have received additional war equipment. Gain Prestige But there was no attempt here to discount the fact that for the moment, at least, Castro and his Russian backers had gained considerable prestige and a propaganda victory. ' Many peasants and workers in Latin American still look upon Castro as a reforming hero and his success will be cheered by them as a victory against “forces of imperialism.” The anti-Castro revolutionaries, undertaking their operation against the advice of some of their American friends, felt they would spark a general uprising in Cuba, with defections from . tfee militia, which would wipe out tne Ctstro regime. Their expectations were not fulfilled.

By FRANCIS L. MCCARTHY United Press International Fidel Castro proclaimed triumphantly today the destruction of a Cuban invasion force and capture of its equipment including American - made Sherman tanks. He followed this with a new wave of executions to tighten his grip on the country. Havana Radio announced that seven persons including an American—the third in two days—were executed by firing squads at dawn in Havana today. It named the American as Diaz Benuom and said he led a plot to kill Castro. His home was not given. A communique read over Havana Radio early today said Castro’s regular army and militiamen overran the invaders’ Ist position at Giron beach on the Bay of Pigs at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. But he admitted his men suffered “tragic losses” along with the invaders. Exile groups in the United States insisted the move to oust Castro was far from over. They said there would be new landings and new supplies sent to the guerrilla forces in the mountains where Castro himself battled against Fulgencio Batista. Gunfire in Havana Despite Castro’s iron grip which prevented mass uprisings against his government, gunfire sounded today in Havana. A Havana Radio broadcast said a 13-year-old girl was killed and an 18-year-old girl gravely woundedjby gunfire from a speeding car near intelligence service headquarters in the Miramar suburbs. It appeared Castro had rounded up all possible leaders of any anti-Castro uprising and was terrorizing Cubans with new executions to keep the populace quiet. Announcement that seven persons died before a firing squad today brought the total in three days to 22. Thousands more were in jail and many of them were feared marked for death. Castro's communique said his own forces had suffered high casualties but finally “destroyed in less than 72 hours the army which was organized during many months by the imperialist government of the United States.” The communique said some of the invaders — whom he termed “ mercenaries’’ — tried to escape by sea but Castro’s troops equipped with Cofnmunist - built Migs, tanks and artillery, sank the ships. Says Rebels trapped “The remainder of the mercenary forces, after suffering numerous casualties of dead and wounded, dispersed completely in a swampy region from which noneh as any possible escape,” Castro said. At dawn, a few hours after the victory communique, seven more Castro foes were executed by firing squads, Havana Radio announced. It said they included a U. . citizen identified as Rafael Diaz Bencom and former Castro cabinet member Humberto Sori Marin who drafted the law that made firing squadexecut ions possible in Cuba. This brought to 24 the number of firing squad executions since the start of the invasion Monday. Revolutionary leaders in exile conceded Wednesday night their forces had suffered “tragic losses" but that many had joined up with guerrilla forces in the Escambray Mountains. They said the battle to topple Castro from power would go on. Exile groups in Puerto Rico, Miami, Mexico City and New York seethed with reports of new or imminent rebel landings. ' ■ tr • ► ' • ‘ . INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, windy and continued warm tonight and Friday with chance of scattered showrs or thundershowers late tonight or Friday. Low tonight 47 to 53. High Friday 68 to 75. Sunset today 7:28 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:59 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers. Cooler northwest a n d continued warm elsewhere. Lows, upper 40s north to 50s south. Highs near 60 northwest to 70s elsewhere.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 20, 1961.

Alfred Dowd Quits Reformatory Post

INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Alfred F. Dowd, a career man in prison administration, resigned today as superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory less than a month short of his 70th birthday anniversary. Dowd’s resignation was submitted this morning and accepted immediately by Governor Welsh, who appointed John W. Buck, superintendent of the Indiana Boys’ School, to succeed him. Welsh made no mention of the Indiana State Prison scandals case which broxe shortly after he took office earlier this year. Dowd was warden of the prison during the time guard officers were said to have traded contraband money for favors among prisoners at the institution. Denied Any Knowledge Dowd said previously he knew of no such act. He appeared before a LaPorte County grand jury investigating the case. The jury did not return any indictments against the guard officers. Dowd came to Indianapolis from Pendleton to hand in his resignation. He said it was voluntary and had no connection with the prison scandal. Dowd will be 70 years old May 15. In a statement announcing his resignation, Welsh said Dowd was “now past the age of retirement from active duty (and) has earned the opportunity to enjoiy a less demanding schedule.” “He has devoted many years of faithful service to the state and the federal governments in prison administration,” Welsh said. “He has served his state and nation well. His assistance to my administration during the difficult transition months is appreciated personally by me.” Welsh shifted Dowd from the Michigan City institution to the Pendleton institution shortly after he took office last January. 2 Take Buck Duties Welsh said Buck’s responsibilities at the boys' school will be performed “until such time as I name a superintendent” by Albert Kirk, assistant superintendent, and William Lee, business ma - ager. Dowd was appointed warden in 1957 by then Gov. Harold, W. Handley, although Dowd was a Democrat and Handley a Republican. He replaced J. Ellis Overlade. Dowd is a native of New Albany. He worked his way through the University of Louisville law school by working in the old state Advertising Index Advertiser Page A & P Tea Co., Inc. —3 Adams County ----- —6 Arnold Lumber Co., Inc. 7. 8 Adams Theater a— 8 Burk Elevator Co. 5 Bower Jewelry Store 3 J. M. Burk, M.D. — - 5 Chi Rho Class 1- 2 Decatur Music House C------ 3 Decatur Drive In Theater 8 Delta Theta Tau Sorority 3 D. & T. Standard Service -y----- 5 Equity — 8 Evans Sales & Service 5 Allen Fleming 5 Goodin’s I.G.A. Market 4 Heptachlor 6 Holthouse Drug Co. 2 H. & M. Builders, Inc. 2 P. N. Hirsch & Co. 6 Husmann’s Decorating House Paul Havens Chevrolet-Buick, Inc. 5,7 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. — — 4. 5,7, 8 Kunowich Piano-Organ Sales — -6 Lords 3 L. O. O. Moose .... 7 G. C. Murphy Co. 6 Model Hatchery 5 Mazelins - — 5 Niblick & Co. —- 2 Pleasant Mills Methodist W. S. C. S. 2 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer , 5 Sears Catalog Sales Office 4 Smith Drug Co. 4 Texaco. Inc 5 Teeple Truck Line 5

reformatory at Jeffersonville. He later worked as a state parole agent. When the Indiana Reformatory was opened at Pendelton in 1933, Dowd was appointed assistant superintendent. He became superintendent in 1938. In World War 11, he helped the U.S. government set up penal facilities in Jepanese occupation zones. Former Gov. Henry F. Schricker appointed Dowd as warden of the state prison in 1949 and served until, in a change of administrations, Pancake Supper 01 Decatur Lions May 1 The Decatur Lions club will hold its annual pancake supper Monday evening, May 1, from 5:30 until 7:30 o’clock Herb Banning and Frank Lybarger. co-chairman, announced today. Alva Lawson has been named head cook, and he will be assisted by grillmen Fred Corah, Deane Dorwin, Jack Gordon, Victor Port,cr. Lyman Hann, and Harry Schwartz. Jay Markley and Dr. Mel Weisman will be pancake battermen, and Jim Cowens and Norm Steury will head the coffee detail. Dick Mies and Byford Smith will organize the Boy Scout detail, while Ed Highland and Roger Gentis will be the ticket detail. Bob Worthman and Bill McColly will be on the serving detail, and Ralph Smith, Jr., and Carroll Schroeder will compose the milk detail. The grillmen have promised more grills and much faster service this year, without the bottleneck that held things up last year. Head waiter Herman Krueckeberg also promised the best of waiting setvices, with captains Roy Price, Robert Zwick, Noah Steury, Leo Seltenright, and Weldon Bumgerdner heading the five rows of tables. Kitchen details will report between 3:30 and 4 p.m.; ticket detail at 4:30; waiters at 4:45 and scout detail at 5 p. m. A list of waiters, row by row, will be given next week, Banning and Lybarger stated.

L. - -<W? I f '* 1 'l' '""T yyy F.'^J,. T•■ L ■ tHSI [I. ! F^ ; ' , r'^J. ,! ElM': - I p: 1 1 Clinriy- 1 | fIZ, ■ 'F |^r 7 r’W444^Ffe^W’ r P^^ ? i i* .|._. I ■ K ik iSF J t: >. 1 F-* t ■ <jew •'- —'^^ r 3B*si | v >AWI —--— f* '.. j^Ffc-1 ’I ■ ■ CHURCH PLANS NEW EDUCATIONAL BUILDING—The First Baptist church is planning construction of a new educational unit for the church, located on South Fourth street. The three-level structure, to be built near the present sanctuary, will provide the church with 30 SU!K The above drautog^was^madTly'jerold'w^LoteigVr.Secatuf architectural designer, employed by the building executive committee to design the structure Among Lobsiger’s designs have been the Med-Dent building, South Second street, the Elks lodge home °n North Second Street, and the Villa Lanes, bowling alleys, presently under has also had experience with numerous churches floors, concrete block and glazed tile walls, steel and aluminum casements and doors, ,and. inss thp Hpsionor has incoroorated such features as low upkeep, easy maintenance, a nearly soundproof and completely fireproof design. The three-level unit with a glass and brick exterior, will provide the church with facilities for 30 class rooms'and wiU be located to the rear oftoe presentsanctuary and parallel to the city alley extending from the rear of the Decatur high school to Adams street Folding walls will make it possible to divide the top floor into 10 classrooms or into an area 36 by 80 feet the overall size of the building. The expanse of this are Twill make possible large gatherings and can also be used as a recreational area for the young people of the church. Main entrance to the building will be gained through the second, or center level. Large restrooms and permanent classrooms are the feature of this floor, however, folding walls will be used to provide an area large enough to accomodate 50 to 75 persons. This may also be three^feet*above ground level will enable natural light to be used on the lower level. . With exception of the areas housing thP F hot water heatin" center and additional restroom facilities, this basement level can also be opened into a room large enough to accomodate several hundred persons attending the same meeting or gathering. Folding walls will make possible the use of nine claasr°°I Solidtation teams under the leadership of Bryce Daniels and Don Sliger, are now completing the financial drive to support the construction, and the executive committee, under the coordination of the Rev. Robert E. McQuaid, pastor. has plans to hold ground-break-ing ceremonies within the near future for the educational unit, which will be separate from all existing church facilities. . ' r ' . ■ 1 * /

Gross Income lax Increase May Be Needed INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Governor Welsh indicated Wednesday that an increase in Indiana’s gross income tax might be necessary to provide funds for additional state aid to schools. Welsh told a statewide conference of school superintendents that he believes local property taxes will continue to rise until the state takes over a greater share of school costs. “Our failure to do this in the past has foisted almost confiscatory rates on many local taxpayers and extremely burdensome rates on most,” Welsh told the educators. He noted that the 1961 General Assembly added sl2 million to the amount the State Budget Committee recommended for the schools but added that the amount was “that necessary just to maintain the present level of support.” Welsh said it was made possible by changing the distribution system for state aid from semiannually to quarterly but said that such a device “can be used but one time.” Welsh predicted there may be some “temporary financial difficulty for some school corporations” in the third quarter of the next fiscal year as a result of the change in the distribution system. “The difficulty is certainly not serious and I am reasonably sure can be overcome locally,” Welsh said. “If it is possible within the letter and the intent of the appropriation act, and within the ability of the state’s resources, to help this situation by advancing some of the fourth quarter payment for use in the third quarter, this will be given serious consideration.” Welsh said it was “unwise” for the 1961 Legislature to fail to appropriate state support to school short of the support level set by the 1959 Legislature. He also said it was “unfair” to shift more of the burden to property taxpayers. “By the time the 1963 Legislature meets, I believe the folks at home will have let their representatives and senators know that they want good education for their children and that they do not believe that almost three-fourths of the cost of this education should come from the property taxpayer,” Welsh said. House Passes Bill For More Judges WASHINGTON (UPl)—lndiana would get two new federal judges under the terms of a bill passed Wednesday by the House. The measure authorizes President Kennedy to appoint 70 new federal judges. . It would add one judge to each of Indiana’s two federal court districts. Each district now has two judges. The Senate recently passed a similar bill and a conference committee must iron out the differences between the two before the bill goes to Kennedy for his signature.

Sweeping Tax Reform Urged

WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Kennedy asked Congress today to curb “expense account living,” raise taxes on dividends and take other steps toward sweeping tax reform next year. In a special message presenting his seven-point tax program Kennedy said Congress also should enact this year proposed tax cuts for businesses which invest in plant and equipment. The President estimated this investment incentive would cost the Treasury $1.7 billion a year, but create 500,000 jobs. He said the revenue would be recovered through his other proposals, so that the federal budget would not be affected. Kennedy’s program would not increase taxes paid by taxpayers with income only from wages or a salary. Affects Millions But milions of Americans with stocks, sayings accounts and mutual fund shares would be as- 1 fected by his proposal for a 20 per cent withholding rate—effective Jan. I—on dividends and interest and his request that Congress repeal two provisions of the 1954 tax law which lowered taxes on dividends. To keep tax cheating from spreading, the President urged Congress to grant his request for funds to hire more Treasury agents to check tax returns and for authority to give each taxpayer a number. Kennedy also said he had directed the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department to make “a maximum effort” to crack down on tax evasion by gangsters — the method used to put the late Al Capone in jail. The President renewed an earlier request for extension of excise and corporate taxes due to decline or expire June 30. These included levies on whisky, beer, wine, cigarettes, automobiles, auto parts, passenger travel and telephone service. Charges Abuse Charging that “widespread abuses have developed through the use of the expense account,” Kennedy declared “too many firms and individuals have devised means of deducting too many personal living expenses as business expenses.” “Indeed, expense account living has become a byword in the American scene,” the Chief Executive lamented. “The slogan — ‘lt’s deductible’ — should pass from our scene.” He said Congress should disallow deductions for the cost of entertainment facilities, such as yachts and hunting lodges. It also should restrict deductions for gifts, business trips combined with vacations and “excessive personal living expenses incurred on business travel away from home,” he added. Treasury officials said the President had in mi d banning deductions for club dues, fancy “caviar and champagne” luncheons, and conventions at expensive, faraway resorts, or on cruise ships. The administration would like Congress to set a daily limit on

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out-of-town expenses — perhaps about $25, exclusive of travel. Plug Loopholes The President called on congress to close some of the tax loopholes enjoyed by Americans living abroad, notably movie stars, and by U.S. - controlled corporations doing business abroad. If Congress enacts the administration proposal on dividends, some 15 million Americans estimated by the New York Stock Exchange to be stockholders will have to pay higher taxes. The President asked for repeal of the exclusion from taxation of the first SSO of dividends received by a taxpayer each year and of the 4 per cent credit on dividends abot SSO. He said they cost the government $450 million a year. To encourage firms to install modern production equipment and to expand their factories, the President asked Congress to let • firm deduct from its taxes up to 15 per cent of its investment outlays but not more than 30 per cent of its tax bill in any one year. Pre-School Health Exam Here Tuesday The annual pre-school health examination will be given next Tuesday for all children in Decatur who expect to enter school for the first time next fall. This examination is sponsored annually by the Lincoln school parent-teachers association for the children of its patrons and those of the four public and parochial schools at the city, who win be five years fay Sept. 15 of this year. The examination win be given by local physicions, without any charge, starting at 8 a. m. for the girls and 9 a. m. for the boys. Dr. Harold Ewiek is chairman of the committee in charge this year, and he wfll be assisted by Mrs. Leo Feasel and a group of nurses and parents from the PTA. Parents should bring their children to the Lincoln school gymnasium to start the examination, and should bring a robe or towel for the children to wear during the examination. 15 Americans Die In Transport Crash HONG KONG (UPI) — British military doctors worked today to save the life of an American airman who was the lone survivor of the crash of a U.S. Air Force transport plane with 16 aboard. U.S. officials identified the survivor as Airman 1C Richard W. Ferron, Westbrook, Maine. He was described as being in “very serious” condition after pulled from the wreckage by two Catholic priests. Fifteen other Americans died Wednesday when the twinengine C 47 crashed into Mt. Parker in a misty drizzle.