Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1961 — Page 1

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Kennedy May Meet Nikita

PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) - President Kennedy today awaited word from Geneva and Moscow on whether it will be possible to meet informally with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev in Europe early next month. The Chief Executive and his wife planned to fly back to Washington this afternoon after a long Florida weekend. They were expected to take off in a government jet transport at 3:15 p.m., EDT, arriving about two hours later at Andrews Air Force Base outside the capital. A decision on the meeting with Khrushchev was not expected before Kennedy returns from Canada next Thursday. The Chief Executive and his wife fly to Ottawa Tuesday afternoon for a two-day ceremonial visit, their first trip to a foreign country since the inauguration. No Summit Meeting Kennedy, it was understood, is giving serious consideration to the possibility of meeting Khrushchev in Stockholm or Vienna shortly' after the President visits in Paris May 31-June 2 with French President Charles de Gaule. The final decision may depend on the progress of current Geneva negotiations concerning Laos, plus the success or failure of efforts to produce some signs of forward movement in the long-stalled nuclear test ban negotiations. Khrushchev has indicated frequently the desirability of a meeting with Kennedy. But the President has taken the view that summitry should be undertaken only after extensive preparations on the ministerial and ambassadorial levels. If there is a conference with Khrushchev, Kennedy would not regard it as a summit meeting, but an opportunity for a brief, informal exchange of views. It was understood that Khrushchev recently indicated in a conference with U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson that a personal talk with Kennedy might be desirable in the near future. Then the Soviet leader last week made a speech that was softer in his appraisal of East-West relations than some of his more recent and denunciatory utterances. No Policy Change From these circumstances stemmed Kennedy’s willingness to follow up on Khrushchevs suggestions* by exploring the possibility of setting up an informal meeting after he completes his talks with De Gaulle. It was understood that Kennedy s exploraAdvertising Index Advertiser A & P Tea Co., Inc - -- •’ Bower Jewelry - ~ ’ Burk Elevator Co ’ Bowers Hardware Co., Inc 4 Cowens Insurance Agency 4 Chic Dry Cleaning & Laundry — 5 Drive In Theater - 3 D. & T. Standard Service . 5 Evans Sales & Service 5 Gambles ® Holthouse Drug Co ‘ Haugks ---- “ Indiana & Michigan Electric Co 2 International College ... — 4 Kent Realty & Auction Co 5 Lincoln Service 5 Myers Cleaners 4 Maico Hearing Service Center - 4 Phil & Miz Auction Co 5 Petrie Oil Co - 6 L. Smith Insurance Agency. Inc 5 Smith Drug Co 3, 6 Teeple Truck Line .... 5 Tony’s Tap — 3 Zintsmaster Motors a— 6

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tions have been communicated to other Allied governments. In some quarters the President was represented as wanting an opportunity to convince Khrushchev face-to-face that a switch in American chief executives did nothing to alter America’s firm opposition to Communist encroachments. It was just one year ago that Khrushchev, in a towering rage over the U 2 plane incident, wrecked the Paris summit meeting with De Gaule, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and former President Eisenhower. & Freshmen's Parents Meet Tuesday Night A large crowd of parents of incoming freshmen is expected to attend the meeting at the Decatur high school auditorium Tuesday, evening at 7:30 o'clock. I This meeting, the third annual | of its—type, is designed to aid parents in understanding some of the transition from eighth grade to high school work. Academic profiles have been prepared for each parent, and parents are asked to give their names to students in the auditorium lobby, and the profiles will be handed to them for use later in the evening. Hugh J. Andrews, high school principal, and Deane T. Dorwin. guidance counsellor, will be in charge of the meeting. Class officers and several senior girls will aid in handling the event. A coffee hour will follow the meeting, and parents of all students who will be D.H.S. freshmen next fall are urged to be present. Mrs. Robert Helm Dies In Florida Mrs. Marguerite Helm. 53. wife of Robert Helm, former well known Decatur residents, died at 9:15 o’clock Saturday night at her home in New Port Ritchey, Fla. She had been in failing health for several years, and seriously ill for several weeks. Born in Fort Wayne "Dec. 12, 1907, she was a daughter of Eno W. and Rose Johnson-Lankenau. The family moved to Decatur when her father was named manager of the Decatur plant of the 1 General Electric Co. in 1912_. She was married to Robert itelm Jan. 30. 1927. The family moved to Florida in 1952, after Helm sold his interest in the Holthouse-Schulte clothing store. Mrs. Helm was a member of the Faith Lutheran church. Surviving in addition to her husband are her mother. Mrs. Rose Lankenau of Decatur: one son. James Helm of New Port Ritchey: one daughter, Mrs. Barbara Lou Haine of Dunedin. Fla.; one grandchild: three brothers, Walter Lankenau of Fort Wayne, Herman Lankenau of Decatur, and Robert Lankenau of Akron, 0., and two sisters, Mrs. Paul (Laura) Handler of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. William (Flora Marie) Spahr of 1 Holland. Mich. One brother and one sister are deceased. ■ The body was removed to the Duvall funeral home in New Port > Ritchey. Funeral services and I burial will be in Florida.

Damages Reported To County Property A childish prank, that could have easily resulted in the loss of lives, resulted in more than S7O damage to county property this past week, Lawrence Noll, county road supervisor, and sheriff Merle Affolder stated today. The county recently purchased 14 electric flares, which cannot be turned off or put out of commission without a lot of trouble. The flares were used to ligse up barricades where bridges have gone out. Flares Destroyed One such location, on Monroe street extended, was severely damaged, with the two electric Stares nearly /tjotally destroyed by a succession of heavy blows. This meant that the bridge barricade was without light, and that anyone driving down the road after dark was in danger of danger of going through the bridge. The lights are clearly visible from a great distance, providing maximum protection for drivers, Noll explained. Signs Twisted In addition, two stop signs on the road, and two yield right of way signs were also twisted out of shape and out of position. This could easily have caused more accidents, Noll stated. More of the damage this spring has been done in the near vicinity of Decatur, he added. The county is very proud of its electric flares. They are set on steel polesafixed in concrete, and the steel lights, which burn for 1,500 hours without attention, are tamperproof, unless someone really wants to destroy them. They have small dry cell batteries which are useless for any other purpose. Report Damages Anyone knowing of the circumstances of the damage, or any witnesses, are asked to report immediately to the county sheriff, or a member of the board of county commissioners. Each year more than $5,000 damage, or 1 cent on the county tax levy per SIOO valuation, occurs because of thoughtless vandals, who do not realize that it is their tax money, from the property and gas tax, that is being spent to repair the damage they have caused. The commissioners pointed out that a new* bridge, or an improved mile of road, could be built for what is spent on the repairs of needless, wanton vandalism. , The two electric flares are on ' display: in the window of the De- • catur Daily Democrat, so that I taxpayers may see the damage done. Historical Society Will Meet May 23 Paul E. Wolf, of HomesteacLl9, will speak on the life and character of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the May meeting of the Adams county Historical society, Gerald R. Durkin, president, announced today. y The meeting wall be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 23, in the Decatur public library, Durkin added. This will be the final meeting until September, and all members are urged to attend. The general public is invited. Wolf has visited extensively in Virginia. at Arlington, where Lee’s mansion is located, and the tidewater country’, and Washington & Lee university, of which the general was president. The program will include the introduction of Chalmer Lee, of 515 Line street, whose' greatgrandfather, William Lee, Sr., was a first cousin of Gen. Lee. • William Lee came to Virginia from England. > Wolf has with the I works of Douglas Southall on Lee. . with the editor of the Richmon Times-Dispatch, and a number of others on the subject. i INDIANA WEATHER ; Cloudy and cooler tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 45 1 to 50 north, 48 to 55 south. High Tuesday 64 to 69 north, 65 to 75 south. Sunset today 7:51 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:32 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Mostly sunny and i pleasant. Lows 45 to 55. Decntur Temperatures Local weather data for the 24. . hour period ending; at 11 a m. today. 12 noon 84 Midnight 70 i 1 p.m 82 1a m 70 , 2 p.tn. 82 2a m 70 3 . p.m 81 3 a m 66 4 p.m. 80 4 a.m 64 5 p.m SO 5 a.m. 64 . 6 p.m 84 6 a.m 64 i 7 p.m 78 7 a.m. '. 67 | 8 p.m 74 8 a.m.- 68 9 p.m 72 9 a.m. .... 73 10 p.m 71 10 a.m 72 > 11 p.m 71 11 a.m 71 Rain t Total for the. 24 hour period end- | ins: at 7 a.m today. .17 inches. The St. Mary's river was at 4.50 feet.

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United States Agrees To Seating Red Rebels But Laos Loyalists Refuse

New Downpour Os Rain In Indiana

By United Press International The flood-plagued Southwestern Indiana pocket area, fighting river crests that neared 1937 records, took it on the chin from the weather again today on the heels of a new downpour of rain totaling nearly two inches in only a few hours. Evansvile, where Pigeon Creek i flushed hundreds from their homes last week in a flash flood and the Ohio River swelled more than two feet above flood stage, measured 1.6 inches in thunderstorms late Sunday. Not far away, the White River crested at Hazleton while National Guardsmen and volunteers fought an around-the-clock battle of levee sandbagging to save the town of 500 persons from being inundated. Tornado threats harassed Hoosiers in virtually every area Sunday and early today but storm warnings finally were hauled down in the early morning hours with no damaging winds reported. City Caught Unprepared The latest Evansville rain, which added to more than 10 inches recorded in a four-day period last week, caught the city unprepared. Sewers struggling to handle the overflow from last week's rains were unable to absorb the latest concentrated showers and tons of water backed up around the city. Traffic was staled as water 2% to 3 feet deep covered streets in Evansville and police warned residents to stay home. Temperatures climbed to the seaton’s highest points ‘ during a warm, sunny weekend that contributed to five drownings and 12 traffic fatalities in the state. It was 85 at Evansville, 82 at Indianapolis and 81 at South Bend Sunday at peak points, and the mercury dropped only to the upper 50s and low and mid 60s during the night. Highs today will range from 68 to 78, lows tonight from 48 to 55 , and highs Tuesday from 63 to 73. as the showery weather produced a slight cooling trend. Showers Near Weekend 1 Showers were expected to end around the state by early afternoon today and no more were expected before Wednesday, if then. Most of the .75 to 1.50 inches of rain expected this week —heavier in the south than in the north—was due Friday or Saturday. Subnormal temperatures were expected throughout this week, averaging 4 to 7 degrees below normal. Cooler Tuesday w’ith little change the rest of the week was expected.. A Hoosier area north of a line

Nationalist China Elated By Johnson

By WILLIAM THEIS United Press International HONG KONG (UPD — Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson flew here today from Formosa where he elated Nationalist Chinese officials with assurances the Kennedy administration has' no thought of recognizing Communist China. Johnson planned a one-day stopover at this British crown colony to catch up on some rest and “very necessary staff work” before continuing on to Thailand. " Heavy, Enthusiastic Crowds On the first section of his 28.000 mile Asian tour he has run into heavy, enthusiastic crowds, almost a constant round of official functions and temperatures hovering in the 90’s. Before leaving Taipei this morning he stood beside President Chiang Kai-shek as the venerable Nationalist Chinese leader told newsmen about pledges of continued U.S. support for his regime.

from Kentland to Elkhart was in the path of a severe weather forecast Sunday afternoon and early evening which saw the possibility of “damaging winds and hail.” A Sunday afternoon severe weather forecast mentioning the possibility of “one or two tornadoes” was in effect for all points south of a line from Marion to Terre Haute. Later in the evening, a third tornado forecast was issued for all points west of a line from Goshen to Indianapolis to Bloomington. All Clear Issued An all-clear advisory was issued at 4:40 a.m. today. Rainfall during the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. today included 1.06 inches at Bedford, .60 at Petersburg, .50 at Hazleton, .41 at Scottsburg. .36 at Vincennes, .38 at Seymour, .48 at Terre Haute, .18 at Indianapolis, .05 at Lafayette and .07 at South Bend. • The White River crested at Hazleton at noon Sunday at 29.55 feet, more than 13% feet above flood stage. At one time, a crest as high as 31 feet had been predicted and volunteers and guardsmen had strengthened a levee with thousands of sandbags set up to protect the town against a crest as high as 31% feet. Hazleton is the last town on thQ White before it empties into the Wabash. The stream was falling all along its course. So was the Wabash except in the far south near its junction with the Ohio River. <e I Park Planner Will Speak Here Tuesday Hank Gilbert, park planning specialist of the Purdue extension department, will speak to the Decatur Jaycees on their park development program at 8 p. m. Tuesday. Gilbert was scheduled three months ago for the meeting, and will discuss the relative merits of various park programs. Anyone interested in attending the meeting and asking Gilbert questions may do so. The names of those elected by ballot to offices in the Jaycees will also be announced. Jaycees voted by mail on their officers during the past week. Gilbert examined the Decatur city’ parks with Frank Braun, chairman of the park committee, and Adolph Kotter, park superintendent, last fall.

He said Kennedy had promised to oppose the recognition of Peiping or the seating of Red China in the United Nations. Chiang said this definite stand will have “a great effect on boosting morale” among the Nationalist Chinese. Nationalists Were Worried Most Formosan government leaders had been extremely worried about the policies of the new administration as a result of the debate over defense of the Nationalist offshore islands during the U.S. presidential campaign. But dhe high Nationalist official said just before Johnson left that the vice president’s remarks during his one-day visit to Formosa were “reassuring to the republic of China and America’s other anti-Communist alies in Asia.” Before going to Formosa, Johnson visited South Viet Nam and the Philippines.

GENEVA (UPI) — The United States agreed today to permit seating of the Communist Pathet Lao rebels as equals at the 14nation conference on Laos. But the acting head of the royal Laotian government delegation said his group would not attend if the Reds and the “neutralist” group from his country are admitted on an equal footing. The formal opening of the parley was delayed again until at least Tuesday as the United States bowed to British and French pressure to permit the Laotian Reds to attend, only to have the proWestern royal regime reject his plan. Ngon Sanaikone, acting head of the royal Lao delegation, told reporters after a conference at U.S. delegation headquarters with Secretary of State Dean Rusk: “Our position has not changed. We are the only delegation of Laos. “If the other (Lao) delegations are admitted to the conference on the same basis, we will notcome.” Delayed since Friday Earlier, British Foreign Secretary Lord Home and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, co-chairmen of the conference, had informed Rusk that there would be no formal opening of the conference tonight. They also said there would be no communique this evening announcing just when the conference would start. It originally was scheduled to begin last Friday. Rusk earlier in the day gave in to British and French pressure and agreed to attend the conference even though the Communist rebel group is bging given equal status with the royal government and neutral delegations. U.S. Officials said President Kennedy “reluctantly” authorized Rusk to go along on this basis, rather than “wreck” the conference even before it begins. But the United States was preparing to issue a formal statement that its decision to enter the parley wih the Communist Pathet Lao and neutralist delegations from Laos did not mean it recognized their right to be there. The United States recognizes only the royal Laotian government group. U.S. officials said Rusk agreed to permit the Communist Pathet Lao rebels to attend the conference because if the meeting here fails, he wants it to break down “on substance rather than procedure.” Must Show Good Faith Rusk has told his delegation that now that the United States has agreed to this arrangement, it is up to the Soviet Union and Communist China to show good faith in working for an agreement to guarantee the neutrality of a fully independent Laos.

Begin Beaming Os Television Lessons INDIANAPOLIS (UPD - Educators today were elated over the success of the nation s first flying classroom” which began beaming lessons this morning to an estimated half-m ill io n schoolchildren via television. “I’m watching the television screen right now and the reception is perfect,” Dr. B. D. Godbold happily said at Purdue University at Lafayette. Godbold is executive vice president and general manager of the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction. “We're getting reports of reception from as far away as 200 miles, at Lorain, Ohio, and Berea. Ky., for instance,” he said. He said reports were also received of excellent reception from Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, Lexington, Lansing, and Urbana, ID. “We gave sample lessons in biology, science, Spanish, music, French, arithmetic, algebra, history and geography,” Godbold added.

Dozen Killed On Highways Over Weekend By United Press International A dozen deaths in accidents marred the Mother’s Day weekend in Indiana as Hoosiers hit the highways in the heaviest volume of traffic this year. Warm, sunny weather and a sentimental holiday which inspired homecomings of parents and their children contributed to a heavy flow of traffic and a resulting increase in accidents. The only two-death accident of the period killed a Martinsville mother and her 18-month-old son late Saturday. The victims were I Mrs. John Mann, 40, and her son, I Tommy. They were killed on a highway near Brazil. At Gary, Ronald Eggerson, 4, Gary, was killed Sunday when he ran between two parked cars into the path of a moving auto driven by William Turner, 42, Gary. Killed Near Princeton Louise Mochmeister, 75, R.R. 1, Boonville, was killed near Princeton Sunday when a car in which she was riding was involved in an accident while turning in heavy traffic at the junction of U.S. 41 and Indiana 68. Charles Schrimpf, 67, Winchester, died in a hospital there Sunday of injuries suffered Saturday in a two-car collision on Indiana 32 west of Winchester. Schrimpf drove into the path of a car in which Donald Kely, R.R. 1, Eden, his wife and their two children were riding. The Kellys were hurt. Philip Carl Willman, 17, Richmond, w s killed early Sunday when his car skidded out of control on a gravel'road near Richmond, was killed early Sunday side down in a creek. Joe Mike Orange, 26, Cedar Lake, was killed in a two-car collision near Gary Saturday night and three Skokie, 111., teenagers were injured, one critically. Cycle Crash Fatal James Rathbun, 23, Fremont, died Saturday of injuries suffered Friday night when his motorcycle collided with a car pulling a trailer at the intersection of U.S. 27 and Indiana 120 near Angola. Robert Meiring, 22, Kokomo, was injured fatally Saturday on U.S. 24 west of Logansport when his car sideswiped a gravel truck. Mrs. Elm Lee Fizer, 33, Hammond, was injured fatally Saturday on the Tri-State Highway at Hammond when a car driven by her husband smashed into a bridge. • William Deardorff, 20, Morocco, was killed Saturday when his car left Indiana 114 near Morocco and

Laos Rebels Stall Talks

BAN NAMONE, Laos (UPI) — The Communist Pathet Lao rebels stalled peace talks today by demanding that political discussions come before cease-fire debate. Representatives of the proWestern royal Laotian government agreed to discuss formation of a new government and composition of a joint Laotian delegation to the Geneva conference only if the question of a cease-fire is considered at the same time. A government negotiator told newsmen that rebel attacks are continuing in spite of the truce called 12 days ago. Col. Cudone Sananikona said “Our posts still are being attacked today. “Helicopters brought in several wounded to Vientiane today, from mines believed to have been newly laid,” he said. “Reports from (pro-government) Meo guerrillas in Xieng Khouang Province indi-

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struck an einbankment Mrs. Viola Gasser, 71, Evans* Ville, died Friday night of injuries suffered at Evansville when she was hit by a car while walking across a downtown street. Rev. Carl Weidler Dies Unexpectedly The Rev. Carl J. Weidler, 69, native of Adams county and member of a prominent family of this area, died suddenly of a heart attack, at 11 o’clock Sunday night at his home in Nashua, la. Rev. 'Weidler, pastor of the St. John’s Reformed church at Nashua, had not been ill and his death was unexpected. Born in Adams county July 13, 1891, he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Weidler. He graduated from the Mission House Seminary in Plymouth, Wis., in 1919. He held pastorates in Piopot, Saskatchewan, Canada, Medicine Hat, Saskatchewan, Canada, Abilene, Kan., and Dawson Neb., before going to Nashua. For the past 10 years he had been a member of the board of trustees of the Reformed church orphans* home at Fort Wayne. Rev. Weidler was one of the speakers during the centennial celebration of the Zion Evarigeli- , cal and Reformed church in this city last year, and was well known in Decatur and vicinity. Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Kenneth Linkler of Lincoln, Neb., and Mrs. Cordelia Sterling of Alaska; two sons, Oscar Weidler of Benton Harbor, Mich., and Mark Weidler of Oklahoma City, Okla.; seven brothers, Otto, Adolph, Oswald and Theodore Weidler, all of Decatur, Fred Weidler of Bluffton, the Rev. Victor Weidler of Waterloo, la., and Lt. Comm. Edwin Weidler, chaplain with the U.S. Marines at Quantico, Va., and three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Kirkpatrick of Tucson, Ariz., Mrs. Marie Preusser erf Fort Wayne, and Miss Catherine Weidler, a teacher in the Decatur high school. Funeral services will be held at Nashua Thursday afternoon. Col. James H. Bishop Killed In Accident CULVER, Ind. (UPD—Services will be held here Tuesday for Col. James H. Bishop, 68, Culver, a retired member of Culver Military Academy faculty and a wellknown tennis executive, who was killed in a traffic accident near Grand Rapids, Mich., Friday. Bishop’s wife, Mabel, 57, was Injured. Bishop was a member of the U.S. Davis Cup tennis selection committee for many years and was a past president of the U. S. Lawn Tennis and Western Lawn Tennis Asociations.

cate Pathet Lao artillery still is firing on Padong.” The Communist want the political questions to come first, so the talks between the Communist rebels, the “neutralists’* ot former Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma and the government delegations were at dead center for the time being. (According to the Communist New China News Agency, rebel delegates at Ban Namone submitted a five-point “peace” plan that ranged from formation of a coalition government to reviving the constitution to make the Laotian Communist party legal. The agency said the rebels also demanded an end to all ties with the West, abrogation of foreign aid agreements with the United States and the ouster of the newly formed U.S. military assistance group.)