Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1961 — Page 1

Vol LIX No. 141.

Two Bombs Exploded In Washington, Police Seek Four More Said Planted

Berlin Mayor Calls For Gigantic Rally

BERLIN (UPD — Mayor Willy Brandt today called West Berliners to a gigantic rally at city hall Saturday to show Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and the world they are not afraid of his threats. “A new round in the battle for our city and fatherland has begun,” Brandt said. “Tomorrow, we will show the world anew what the German people want and where Berlin stands.” Khrushchev warned Thursday night that the West must settle the Berlin question on Soviet terms or face the consequences. West Berliners were urged “to give Khrushchev his answer.” The rally has been planned for ( weeks, but Khrushchev’s speech spurred the effort to make the rally a demonstration that the city wants to remain a part of the free Wes. Saturday is the eighth anniversary of the day Germans throughout the Soviet zone revolted against the authority of the East German Communist regime. Only the use of the zone’s 300,000 Soviet troops crushed the revolt. West Berliners remained unruffled by Khrushchev's latest warning. Many West Berliners simply. shrugged it off as juat~ ariother speech — one of many they have heard since the Soviet leader first told the Western Allies to get out of the divided city on Nov. 28, 1958. They have refused to get excited with each new speech, no matter how tough or uncompromising it was. The Russian premier’s fireside chat was carried on the East German television and radio network and was seen and heard by many West Berliners. They felt Khrushchev appeared to mean business. When he mentioned Laos or disarmament, he spoke dispassionately. But on the Berlin and Germany questions, his 4 face took on a determined and severe look. Nevertheless, most of the city agreed with a statement by a West Bzrlin city governmznt spokesman who said: "There was nothing new in the speech that changes the situation. Nothing he (Khrushchev) said made the So-

Aid Plea Made By President

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy promised today to get rid of waste and bad management in the foreign aid program if Congress gives ipm the long-range borrowing authority which has encountered stiff Capitol Hill opposition. The chief executive, in a prepared speech, made a detailed plea for his long-range aid program at a lunch meeting of the National Conference on International Economic and Social Development here. His basic theme was that in the struggle with communism, freedom is endangered "all round the globe less by massive armies than by massive poverty and discontent." Aid for nations willing to help themselves is the most effective weapon against the Spread of communism, the President said. He referred to the so-called “wars of liberation” cited by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev as a proof of the movement of uncommitted nations to the side of communism. These, Kennedy said, could not be stopped by bombers, deterred by military guarantees or resisted for the most part "by American intervention in the absence of outside Communist intervention.” 5

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viet stand more acceptable.” West Berliners did not minimize the dangers they faced. Although they refused to get overly-excited, they knew that their mayor, Willy Brandt, was right earlier this week when he told them to brace themselves for trouble. They had confidence in President Kennedy's pledge that West Berlin would be defended. ’s. Temperatures Skid Far Below Normal By United Press International Temperatures skidded within 10 degrees of freezing in Indiana today as a wave of chilly weather invaded the state in a reversal of mid-June form. It was 42 at Goshen, 44 at South Bend and Fort Wayne. 46 at Indianapolis and 49 at Lafayette. Evansville’s low was 51. Despite the fact the mercury plunged around 15 degrees below normal over the entire state, apparently no records for the date were established. The Indianapolis low was five degrees off the alltime minimum record for June 16—41 degrees established in 1917. Another cool night was expected tonight, with lows ranging from 48 to 55. The chill night came after a cool day in which high temperatures ranged only into the 60s, around 20 degrees below normal for this time of year. Highs included 63 at Indianapolis, 65 at Lafayette. 66 at South Bend and Evansville, and 67 at Fort Wayne. Fair and warmer weather was on'the menu for the state today. Saturday and Sunday with highs today ranging from 68 to 75 and highs Saturday ranging from 75 to 85. There will be little change in temperatures Sunday. The five-day outlook called for temperatures to average 1 to 4 degrees below normal. A warming trend through the weekend will be followed by a leveling off in the northern third of the state and a slight cooling Tuesday or Wednesday in the central and south portions.

To move more effectively in behalf of maintaining as many free nations as possible, the President urged those who want to “do something” to channel their energies behind his new foreign aid program. r Kennedy said that without 'the aid program of the past decade, the territory and security of the free world would have been measurably reduced even without serious defects in the program. He acknowledged that too much money supplied by American taxpayers for the program had been “wasted or unwisely spent" and that to renew Confidence among congressmen would require elimination of waste, duplication and delay. The President said his proposal for a sihgle new agency to handle foreign aid instead of what he called “the present haphazard, overlapping structure” would permit specific emphasis on individual countries rather than operating from “a shopping list of rush jobs or daramatic monuments.” His emphasis, however, was on the need for long-term borrowing authority. He said it is needed to make orderly long-range commitments instead of appropriating and obligating new funds each year for unrelated projects.

New Assistant Al Si. Mary's Church —— * , t JfWmE Rev. Robert A. Jaeger The Rev. Charles J. Ueber, assistant pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Catholic church in Huntington since 1949, has been named assistant pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church in Decatur, in a number of clerical assignments, announced Thursday by the Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley, bishop of the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese. • Rev. Ueber will replace the Rev. Robert A. Jaeger, who will be transferred to assistant at St. Patrick church. Fort Wayne. Hie changes are effective July 1. Rev. Ueber is a native of Fort Wayne and was ordained Jan. 30, 1949, and has served as assistant at Huntington since his ordination. He attended the old Sacred Heart Seminary in Fort Wayne, and Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary in Cincinnati. Rev. Jaeger is a native of Fort Wayne. He attended St Jude grade school. Sacred Heart Seminary in Fort Wayne, Our Lady of Lake Seminary at Wawasee, and St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. He was ordained May 25. 1957, served as chaplain at the C. Y. O. summer camp at Lake Wawasee, and became second assistant at St. Mary’s church here Aug. 17, 1957.

Takes Bids July 6 On Berne Addition The Berne-French school will let bids at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 6, for the new four-room addition to the grade school, attorney Howard E. Baumgartner said today. The new SBO,OOO addition has been planned for some time. A total of $69,700 in bonds at 3% were sold June 6. and the money was received by the school board Wednesday. Details of the bidding will be found in legal advertisements appearing June 19 and 26. Cookout Enjoyed By Rotarians Thursday The Decatur Rotary club replaved its usual weekly dinner meeting at the Youth and Comtfiunity Center Thursday with a speci alcookout at the HannaNuttman park. George Auer was in charge of arrangements and no formal program was held. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and not quite so cool tonight. Sunny and warmer Saturday. Low tonight 48 to 55. High Saturday 77 to 82 north, 78 to 86 south. Sunset today 8:15 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 5:17 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Generally fair and a little warmer. Lows 52 to 60. Highs 80 to 88. Decatur Temperature* Local weather data for the 24-hx>iir period Ending at 11 a m. today. 12 noon 61 Midnight 52 1 p.m 61 1 a m 52 .i_.2 p.m. ....61 1 2 a.m. 50 3 p.m 62 3 a.m 49 4 p.m 63 4 a.m 48 5 p.m 63 5 a.m. 48 6 p.m 82 6 a.m 50 7 p.m. ..: 61 7 a.m 60 8 p.m. 59 8 a.m 66 9 p.m 56 9 a.m. — 70 10 p.m 55 10 a.m 74 11 p.m 54 11 a.m. Raia .Total for the 24-hour period endIng at 7 a.m. today, 0 inches. The St. Mary’s river is at 2.12 feet.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 16, 1961.

WASHINGTON (UPD—The second of two homemade bombs exploded in downtown Washington today and police began a block-by-block search for four more which a mystery caller said he had planted as a protest against integration. The first of the bombs went off a few blocks from the White House late Thursday night. The second exploded at a busy intersection during the morning rush hour today. No one was injured in either blast. White House police were alerted and told to be extra watchful for any suspicious individual carrying packages in the area of the executive mansion. - A spokesman said that other than this, there was no need for special precautions because the White House force is geared to watch for such emergencies. Police said the caller told them that he had planted the bombs in the city because the “freedom riders” departed for the South from here and he was against integration. The mystery man who also phoned the FBI after the first blast said he had planted a total of six bombs throughout the city. Police authorities said it was miraculous that no one had been maimed or killed by the blasts. The first bomb exploded in front of the Veterans Administration building only a few blocks from the White House. It blew apart a trash can and fragments flew more than 100 feet. * _ During the rush hour this morning a second bomb exploded in an outdoor telephone booth at the intersection of 15th and Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Glass blew across the street. Both bombs apparently were fashioned out of galvanized pipe. The one that detonated this morning was thought to have been about a foot and a half long and from two to three inches in diameter.

Strike Perils U.S. Shipping

NEW YORK (UPI) — Five major maritime unions struck U.S. shipowners in East, West and Gulf coast ports today and Longshoremen and Teamsters promised at once to observe picket lines wherever established. Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, acting as President Kennedy’s emissary, will attempt to get deadlocked negotiations back on course later today. His first try Thursday was unsuccessful. The first reported violence in the strike occurred near Camden, N.J., when an automobile carrying six men tried to pass through a line of 40 pickets blocking the main gate of a Texaco Co. plant. Police said pickets forced the driver of the car to stop and pulled two of the men out. The other riders jumped out and pickets and the riders, members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union, started swinging fists. One man suffered an aggravation of an old back injury. Four were arrested. Picket Pattern Spotty By mid-morning the pattern of picketing from Boston to New Orleans to Seattle appeared to be extremely spotty. In many ports there were no American flagships to picket because shipowners had seen to it that their vessels were on the high seas where strike action is forbidden. Spokesmen for the Teamsters Joint Council and the International Longshoremen’s Association in New York pledged 100 per cent cooperation in refusing to work picketed piers. The strike appeared to be effective at a half dozen piers in New York harbor. Longshoremen and Teamsters in other ports said they planned similar action. A complete boycott of struck piers might eventually idle as many as 400,000 workers.

Senate Passes Kennedy Plan On Highways WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate has passed President Kennedy’s plan to finance completion of the limping interstate highway system and added an anti-bill-board clause that the House had turned down. Democratic leaders shoved the $11.5 billion authorization bill through to passage on a voice vote Thursday night after a ninehour session. It carries new outlays designed to assure completion of the 41,000-mile road network by 1972. The measure now goes to a conference committee to work out differences with the House approved version. The chief difference in the bills is the Senate amendment to extend bonus payments for two years to states which restrict billboards along rural stretches of the interstate routes. President Kennedy had asked for extension of the % per cent incentive payments but the House and the Public Works Committee of the Senate had voted to let them expire June 30. The interstate building program has been foundering from lack of funds. To remedy this, Kennedy proposed S3OO million a year in tax increases on big trucks, tires, inner tubes and diesel fuels. The House and Senate sliced this tax hike request in half but voted to authorize annual fund transfers of $l5O million to make up most of the difference. The combination of new taxes and fund transfers would put tlyj final 11 years of construction’ oh a pay-as-you-go basis. ,

The strike of 82,000 officers and seamen will not affect the ships of more than 50 American shipping companies that already have reached new contract agreements with the unions. Nor will it affect foreign shipping firms that operate some of the world’s great luxury liners in and out of U.S. ports. Began at Midnight The strike began at midnight Thursday when the 37,000 member National Maritime Union headed by Joseph Curran carried out its “no contract, no work” threat on the expiration of its contract. The Seafarers International Union, Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, American Radio Association and Masters, Mates and Pilots followed suit. Two minor unions, the Radio Operators Union and Ship Officers Union joined the walkout, until they reach port. American shipowners worked feverishly in the last few days to get their vessels on the high seas before the strike deadline. Crewmen are forbidden to strike once a voyagfe is under way. As a result only a few ships were in port. The economic effects of a lengthy strike could be devastating especially along the Atlantic Seaboard which depends on tankers for its fuel stock supplies. _A long walkout also would hit the tourist business at the beginning of the summer cruise season. Goldberg arrived Thursday from Washington and spent the afternoon and night conferring with representatives of shipowners and the Shortly before midnight he said: “The situation rema in s unchanged. We do not have an (Continued on page eight)

"' *W •"•— ", » • JIB " MF * 'jy # t ,■ f j<«jk j Jfc ’ '.’i'- 3 '. >. b. * MONROE FACTORY GROUNDBREAKING, pictured above, shows members of the Monroe area Industrial development committee. Indiana-Michigan Electric Co., and the officers pf Owens Building and Mill Work, Inc. In the picture, as they got the ground ready to receive the forms, are, from left to right, Harry Crownover, secretary-treasurer of the Monroe committee; Ray Miller and Art Moeschberger, members; Mrs. Gromania Owens, secretary-treasurer of the corporation; Homer Winteregg, owner of the industrial site; Emmit Owens, president of Owens Building; Ed Hagan, Decatur area manager of I&M, and Martin Steiner, president of the industrial development committee.

New Business Expands Facilities At Monroe

A newly incorporated business, Owens Building and Mill Work, Inc., is expanding its present small office in Monroe and building a new plant on a 116 by 745 foot industrial site just south of the Monroe town limits, Martin Steiner, president of the Monroe area industrial development committee, said today. The new corporation builds prefabricated farm buildings, homes, and garages which are. marketed over a growing, six-state territory at the present time. Emmit Owens, president of Owens Building, stated today that he has purchased two acres off the south part of an industrial tract owned by Homer Winteregg, and has begun construction of a new building, 40 by 160 feet in size. The building will be constructed of cement blocks, and will have walls 14 feet high, with the point of the clear-span truss roof at 21 feet. Amos Wicky was awarded the contract to construct the building. Industrial Committee , , Members of Monroe committee, which was active in obtaining the site and the growth of industry in the town, are: vice president, Paul Zuercher; secre-tary-treasurer, Harry Crownover; Ray Miller, Glen Stucky, Art Moeschberger, Leo Strahm, and the Rev. Willis Gierhart. Closely working with the committee was Indiana-Michigan Electric company, represented by Ed Hagan, Decatur area manager. The Monroe development committee is the outgrowth of a Lions committee, and has been actively and quietly working for several years. This is the first of a series of industrial sites to be developed, Steiner explained. Corporation Officers C. P. Lupton, of Van Wert, 0., is vice president of the corporation in charge of sales. Mrs. Gromannia Owens is secretarytreasurer. The original site, started in 1946 as an individual enterprise, is located in Monroe, one block west of the town hall and fire station. In 1959 Owens began constructing prefabricated farm buildings, including such controlled environment buildings as poultry and farrowing houses. The new factory will also include the fabricating of five-room homes and optional garages. At present the business employs seven persons. Within six or eight months, the new facilities are expected to employ some 25 workers. Headquarters will be maintained at the present location in the town of Monroe. Sales Company All sales of the buildings manufactured by Owens Building are handled by Midwest Farm Housing and Equipment Van Wert, O. C. F. Lupton is ’president of this company, which now covers West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois. Plans are now underway to open up the Kentucky territory. Owens hopes to start manufacturing in the new building, as construction continues, within four weeks. At that time he will start moving in the new equipment, and setting it up. All shipping by the firm is now done by truck, with Frederick and Franklin Oliver handling the trucking. The product is taken directly from the factory to the job site.

The rear of the 745-foot-deep site faces the Pennsylvania railroad, and conceivably in the future, raw materials may be received in carload lots by rail. Three-Acre Option Owens Building also has an option on a three-acre tract just to the south, owned by Rpy W. Nidlinger. This plot is 174 feet across the front, and a little deeper. It will provide future expansion room tor the fast-growing corporation. • Between the new site and the town of Monroe is another 11-acre site, now owned by Homer Winteregg. It is 800 feet across the front along the tile mill road, and provides additional room for industrial expansion for the growing town. Winteregg, owner of the site, says that he has kept 3% acres, enough for him to continue raising a few sheep, despite the use of most of his land for industrial development. A retired farmer and salesman. Winteregg said he felt he would like to do something for the town, and if ‘ selling part of his. farm forindustrial development will help, he is willing to do it. Two Infant Girls Killed By Drags JOLIET, in. (UPI) — Two infant girls died Thursday from eating chocolate-covered drugs which fell into their playpen. Linda Sue Tynor, 2, and her sister, Gloria Ann, 1, swallowed pills designed for the treatment of high blood pressure. Their mother, Mrs. Dan Tynor of Kankakee, 111., said she and her daughters had brought the children’s grandmother, Mrs. A. W. McCarthy, to her home here after a visit to the Tynor home. Mrs. Tynor said she put the girls in a bedroom playpen for a nap before returning to Kankakee. The mother said the older girl apparently reached up and tugged at a dresser scarf, knocking the pills into the playpen. The mother and grandmother looked in on the girls later and saw the open bottle and pills on the floor. Mrs. Tynor said the girls showed no ill effects but she took them to St. Joseph’s Hospital as a precaution. Gloria Ann died shortly after she arrived at the hospital. died about two hours later. The girls* father, a high school teacher, was at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, where he was studying for a master’s degree. Meet To Reorganize "N Associated Churches A study committee to plan reorganization for the Associated Churches will meet Monday at the study of the Rev. J. 0. Penrod. The committee was appointed by the Associated Churches at the last meeting before summer adjournment. It will present a plan for reorganization at the first fall meeting. Committee members are Clifford Hoverman, the Rev. J.O. Penrod, the Rev. Gerald Gerig, and the Rev. Robert McQuaid.

Seven Cents

Harmon Geiger Dies Suddenly Thursday Harmon Geiger, 71, retired farmer of near St. Marys, 0., and it former resident of Decatur, died suddenly at 9 a. m. Thursday at Joint Township memorial hospital in St. Marys. He had been recovering well from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered four weeks ago and death from a heart attack was sudden. He was born in St. Marys township, Auglaize county, 0., Dec. 3, 1889, the son of William and Catherine Ewald-Geiger, and was married to Anna Easterly Feb. 4, 1913. He had farmed near Decatur and in Paulding and Auglaize counties and was also engaged in the dairy business. Mr. Geiger was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at St. Marys. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Norman Geiger of , Dechtur, and Frederick Geiger St. Marys; four grandchildren, and one brother, William Geigev of Anaheim, Calif. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Yoder and Long funeral home in St. Marys. The Rev. A. J. Prange will officiate and burial will be in Elmgrove cemetery in that icifcr. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p. m. today. State VFW Convention Opens At Fort Wayne FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) - The 40th annual convention of Indiana Veterans of Foreign Wars opened here Thursday, with about 2,500 members and delegates to conventions of two auxiliaries expected to attend Advertising Index Arnold Lumber Co., Inc. 4 Bower Jewelry Store 3 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. _—— 6 [Burk Elevator Co. 5 ICarling’s Black Label Beer —— 7 Chevrolet 7 Cowens Insurance Agency 4 John C. Carroll, M.D. — 3 Decatur Sport Center 8 Drive In Theater - 8 Evans Sales & Service 8 East Liberty E.U.B. Church — 8 Allen Fleming 6 Gooding Amusement Co. 4 Holthouse Drug Co. 3 Haugks 4 Habegger-Schafers 1 Paid Havens ChevroletBuick, Inc. 5 Kohne Drug Store — 2 Lengerich Awnings & Railings 5 Linn Grove Racing Ass’n. .— 7 Model Hatchery I Niblick & Co. .... 8 New Bremen Racing Ass’n, -— 7 Pure “5” Points Service ——7 Riverside Garage 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Stucky & Co. 5 Schwartz Ford Co., Inc. — 8 Sheets Furniture — 8 Sonotone of Eastern Indiana .. 8 State Gardens 7 Lewis L. Smith 5 Teeple Truck Line .— 5 Win Rae Dirve In Walter Wiegmann, Auctioneer— 8 Zintsmaster Motors 8 Zwick Funeral Home — 8 Ziner’s Culligan Water Conditioning Sales k Service 8 Rural Church Page Sponsors .. •