Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 156.

Fourth Os July Weekend Sets Deadly Record Os 892 Accidental Deaths

Erie And Democrat Plan Weekend Tour

Plans were announced today by the Erie-Lackawanna railroad and the Decatur Daily Democrat for a bargain summer weekend tour to New York City, August 4-7. The tour will leave Decatur at 2:22 p.m., Friday, August The Erie-Lackawanna's. “Lake Cities will arrive in Hoboken at 8:45 a.m., Saturday, from whence the entire party will be transjjpred by motor coaches through tfie ijncolirTwnnel under the Hudson river to head; quarters at the Hotel Governor Clinton, 7th avenue and 31st street. For toe return trip to Decatur, vacationers will leave the Hoboken station at 7:50 p.m., Sunday, August 6, arriving at the local station at 12:55 p.m., Monday. Included in the cost of the tour are the hotel accommodations, continental breakfasts on the train both Saturday and Monday mornings, luncheon Saturday at the Rockefeller Center, motor coach fare to various places, and tips for these services. Fare Covers Extras Cost of the entire trip is $53.25 for adults, and $36.25 for children between the ages of five and 12. This price includes round trip railroad coach fare, continental breakfasts, and room accommodations. Hotel accommodations include five singles, five doubles, and 15 twins. For those requiring single room accommodations there will be an extra charge of $2.50. In cases where accommodations are used three-in-a-room basis, an extra bed will be provided in a room with Former Decatur Man Is Taken By Death James Westveld, 75, former Decatur resident, died at 4 a.m. Tuesday at the Grand Rapids, Mich., hospital following a long illness. He had been hospitalized for the past four months. A native of Zeeland, Mich., Mr. Westveld came to Decatur with Will Kramer to open up the Holland-St. Louis Sugar factory. A chemist, he stayed here until toe sugar factory closed. He then moved to Grand Rapids, where he opened a drug store. Mr. Westveld was married at Decatur to Miss Marie Patterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Patterson, who preceded him in death in 1949. One daughter, Mrs. Robert Laug, four grandchildren, and one brother, Robert Westveld, survive. Funeral services win be held in Grand Rapids Thursday afternoon at toe Evangelical and Reformed church there.— —— s —— Graveside rites win be held at the Decatur cemetery at 2 p.m. Friday, with the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with occasional showers or thundershowers through Thursday with rainfall amount one-half to one inch. Not much temperature change. Low tonight 60 to 66. High Thursday in 70s north, low 90s southwest. Sunset today 8:16 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 5:23 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Scattered showen or thundershowers southeast, warmer northwest. Low Thursday night 60s north to low 70s south. High Friday mostly In 80s. Decatur Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending- at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon IB Midnight 64 1 p.m. 68 1 a m. ... 64 2 p.m. ~7.70 2 a.m 64 3 p.m 712 8 a.m 64 4 p.m- 71 4 a.m. 64 5 p.m 71 5 a.m 63 6 p.m 70 6 a.m 62 7 p.m 68 7 a.m. 64 8 p.m 67 8 a.m. 66 9 p.m. 65 9 a.m 72 10 p.m. 65 10 a.m72 11 p.m„...i. 64 11 a.m. 69 Rain Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 ai. m. today, .81 Inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.12 feet.

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a double bed- .. . After lunch at toe Down-Under Case and Restaurant in Rockefeller i Center Saturday, the group will embark on a yacht for a three-hour guided sightseeing cruise around the Isle of Manhattan. &tiihliiy fare iS optional for toe sightseers, However, special arrangements have been made for all who wish to get together in the evening for infor--TSal entertainment and a full at the International which features top talent ana revue. Other tourist Coney Inland, an intemationafij*known playground on the Atlantic Ocean, with five miles of oathing beach, boardwalk and amusement area; Freedomland U.S.A., where visitors can see the Chicago fire re-enacted, watch the San Francisco the streets of Little Old New York as they were in 1850 among other things; or attend broadway theatrical productions currently playing ; on the Great White Way. Sunday Activities Sunday morning is free for church, sleeping-in, or other free activity. After lunch, tour members will take in a complete guided tour of New York City. Among the things to be seen in lower New York are Times Square, toe Empire State Building, Little Church Around the Corner, the Bowery, Saks and Macy’s. From there the tour proceeds to upper New York and Harlem where travelers will view Central park, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Columbia University and Grant’s Tomb. Motor coaches will make a brief stop at Battery Park tor a waterfront view of New York Harbor and toe Statue of Liberty, and also visit toe Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the United Nations headquarters. Further information and reservations for the tour can be obtained either at the Democrat or at toe Erie-Lackawanna station. The usual $lO deposit for reservations is required and the balance paid on or after July 21, but not later than Monday, July 31. A coupon for making reservations will appear in the Democrat later. Elmer D. Schnepp Dies Al Fort Wayne Elmer D. Schnepp, 65, of 303 .Esmond -street. .Eort Wayne, died Monday at the Veterans hospital in that city, where he had been a patient since April 26. He was born in Adams county but had lived in Fort Wayne since 1918. A veteran of World War I, he was employed at the , General Electric Co. until retiring four years ago. Mr. Schnepp was a member of the American Legion. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Lytle of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Gertrude Lytle of Decatur. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. today at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne. Burial will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in Bradner, O. ■■ l -4-■. ■ LATE BULLETINS MIAMI BEACH (UPD—Nearly 2,000 delegates to the Teamsters union convention unanimously rejected all corruption charges against union President James R. Hoffa today and gave him a full vote of confidence. S-* BRASILIA (UPD—President Janio Quadros has received a message from Cuban Premier Fidel Castro asking him to mediate toe U.S.-Cuban dispute, informed sources said today.

I By United Press International The long Fourth of July weekend set two deadly records today. Never before had so many persons died in accidents over a holiday and never before had traffic accidents killed so many persons during a summertime holiday. Final United Press International and National Safety Council tabu- ■ lations showed the four-day Indepenednce Day holiday still go into . the record books as “one of the ■ most tragic weekends in our hisI tory.” The two records for the 102-hour • holiday were: — ' —an over-all accidental death i toll of 892, surpassing toe previous : record of 883 set during the 1956 Christmas weekend. [ —A traffic death toll of 519, topi ping the previous summertime ; highway slaughter mark of 491 set during the 1950 July 4 weekend. The accidential death breakdown the holiday: • TSaJfic 519 Drowrttogg 232 : Planes 9 *’*’•*►*, > Fireworks 3 ■ Miscellaneous 129 Total 892 *'• - > The figures covered toe period ; between 6 p.m. Friday and mid- • night Tuesday. Only a dramatic . change in toe traffic death pace r during toe holiday’s last 12 hours kept the toll from climbing much higher. George C. Stewart, executive , vice president of the safety coun- ; cil, said “We have just passed ’ through one of the most tragic weekends in our history.” He paid thanks to toe “constant 1 barrage of safety messages issued i by the nation’s press, radio and television” for holding down the ' late traffic death Count. . “During those last hours the 1 traffjc fatalities dropped to half 1 the previous rate,” Stewart said. “The traffic toll was 50 deaths less than it might have been had , toe earlier strong trend continued. “We believe that this was in ' part due to a greater concern ex--1 hibited by drivers during the last 1 hours for toe necessity of extra care to meet the extra danger of holiday traffic." California led the traffic death parade with 48 fatalities. There were 33 in Texas, 28 in Ohio, 24 in New York state, 21 in Florida, 19 in Arizona, 18 in Illinois, 17 in both Alabama and Missouri, 16 each in North and South Carolina, and 15 in Minnesota. 1 The toll represented 149 more ' persons dead on the highways than the 370 fatalities which would have been normal for a comparative non-holiday period. The record toll continued the year’s deadly pattern that began a month ago with 462 traffic death? during the Memorial Day weekend. The previous summer holiday record of 491 traffic fatalities was set on a Fourth of July weekend in 1050. The. all-time high foraKoTiilay weekend was set at Christmastime, 1956, when 706 persons were killed in traffic. Advertising Index Arnold Lumber Co., Inc 7 A & P Tea Co., Inc -C r - 3 Margaret Braun’s Religious Store 3 Burk Elevator Co 5 Bowers Hardware Co., Inc ----- 5 Burke Standard JJervice 7 Cowens Insurance Agency ------ 3 Drive In Theater — 2 D. & T. Standard Service 7 Evans Sales & Service 5 Erie-Lackawanna R.R. — 2 Fasteeth — ——- - -—-j? -® Allen Fleming 5 Gerber’s Super Dollar Market — 8 Arthur' H. Girod, M.D. 5 Holthouse Drug Co — 5 Habegger-Schafers 2 Haflich & Morrissey - t — 2 Krogers -- 6 Kiddie Shop - —' 2 Emerson Lehman, Auctioneer -.5 Model Hatchery — T „■— — 5 National Tea Cd., Inc 4 Standard Oil ..._...\. — 7 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Smith Drug Co —2, 6 Thomas Realty & Auction Co ... 5 Temple Truck Line — — 5 Walt’s Standard Service 7 Win-Rae Drive In 2

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 5,1961.

U.S. Shipping Resumes 1 oday

NEW YORK (UPD — American flag ships, freed by federal court ordfr from the grips of a strike, ‘ begin sailing in increasing numbers today. Activity increased in the sprawling port of New York, where ships were readied for sailing. At least five American ships, mainly tankers, managed to clear New York between mid-afternoon and late Tuesday night despite holiday - induced delays. Ships also put out from several other American ports. United States Lines, which had to postpone scheduled sailing of the luxury liner America from to ( day until Thursday because It could not round up enough engineers, expected a full crew on board today. It takes 20 hours to Daniel Wemhoff In Peace Corps Project Daniel Wemhoff, son of Mrs. and Mrs. Bernard J. (Pete) Wemhoff, of Grosse Pointe, Mich., has been selected to enter toe final selection and training program for the peace corps-CARE joint project in Columbia, South America. Wemhoff, a graduate in journalism from the University of Detroit, has recently completed his six-months active service in the' Army. He is a mason and carpenter, also, and will serve in this capacity. His father is the editor and general manager of The Automotive News, and is a native of Decatur. Now At Rutgers He reported to Rutgers University June 26 to begin eight weeks intensive instruction in Spanish, refresher courses in technical skills, Colombian area studies, studies in United States history and democratic institutions, review of world affairs, physical conditioning, health and safety courses and orientation about the purpose and policies of toe peace corps. About 150 are how undergoing training at Rutgers, New Brunswick, N. J., and from these, 64 will be picked for the Colombia project. Those who successfully complete the course but are not picked will be placed in the peace corps reserve for additional projects now being negotiated. They will get a quick opportunity to serve. Rural Improvement As the candidates arrived at the center, they were interviewed and received a physical exam. Each is carefully observed by teachers and the administrative staff during toe period. In September those chosen will arrive in Colombia, where they will work in rural areas to improve agricultural methods, farm buildings, animal husbandry, and feeder roads. They will get four weeks on-the-job training there. A total of 3,540 took entrance tests for toe peace corps May 27. Fron a very thorough examination of the applicants* references, written test results, personal data and educational and practical experience and skills, those selected are believed to have the background, ability, technical skills, and proper motivation required to undertake the tasks awaiting them in the Colombian communities. The 64 final volunteers will work with trained Colombians in community development work in small communities under the Colombian government’s community development program. They will assist in activities such as construction of access roads, building village schools, and small farm buildings, digging wells, raising small farm animals, fa r m improvement work,

- -<ire the boilers prior to sailing. I The Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA), one of ; the two major “hold-out” unions in the strike that started June 16, : blamed the holiday for not being able to alert members to man ships. • The marine engineers union has declared it would challenge the federal court order halting the strike. Two other unions, the Masters, Mates and Pilots and the Seafarers International Union, also said they planned challenging the order. Judge Sylvester Ryan granted the temporary restraining order under the Taft-Hartley Act. He scheduled a hearing for Friday to determine whether the injunction i should be extended for the full 80day “cooling off” period provided under toe labor act for strikes found endangering the nation’s health and safety. Differences between the shipowners and unions is believed to be minor, except in the case of the marine engineers. The latter - still are insisting on rights to ors ganize crewmen on American--1 owned ships operated under fori eign flags. t . Erhard Bleeke Is Found Dead Monday Erhard Bleeke, 24, was found dead at 6 o’clock Monday evening at his home, 6111 Southcrest drive in Fort Wayne. E. N. Mendenhall, Allen county coroner, ruled the death a suicide. Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Erich Bleeke of Monroeville; three brothers, Harold, Robert and Lorenz Bleeke, all of Monroeville; a sister, Hildegard, of Monroeville; a grandfatoer, Henry Franke of Monroeville, and a grandmother, Mrs. Theodore Bleeke of near Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Klaehn funeral home, the Rev. Erwin Tepker officiating. Burial will be in Concordia cemetery gardens. 12 Volunteer Blood For Heart Surgery Twelve persons have responded to an appeal for blood donors for Mrs. Lores Lehman, who will undergo heart surgery in Indianapo- . lis July 28. Also, one station wagon has been offered for use of the donors. Only four more volunteers with type A positive blood are needed to fill the quota of 16 donors necessary for the operation, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, head of the Adams county Red Cross, stated. One station wagon and one car for the standbys who must make the trip the day of the operation are still requested. Mrs. Lehman will undergo open heart surgery at Robert Long hospital at Indianapolis, during which a heart-lung apparatus will be used to keep blood flowing through the body during surgery. Only fresh blood can be used in the machine and, in Mrs. Lehman’s case, it must be type A positive. Those who have offered to aid Mrs. Lehman by giving their blood are Herb Banning, Bill Snyder, Dick Wertzberger, Mrs. Randolph Brandyberry. Thomas Hickernell, Arthur Suttles, Merlin Lister, and Carl Gerber, all of Decatur, and Robert Moser, Dellis Herschy, Mrs. Cal Nussbaum, and Mrs. James Moser, all of Berne. .... Ned Johnson, Decatur, has offered the use of his station wagon as transportation for the donors. ■ ■' 'V ■

» !*««-*-• \WS-'-HWIw A z’*’ 1 * Mh&LJIA xF >• l : r* r^''-."t/flillw^iHf f* w^Bn l ffiDECATUR HOSTS 34 EXCHANGE STUDENTS from 21 countries; Wilbur Petrie, right, and Herb ning, left, of the American Field Service local committee, a Community Fund organization, welcome four of the students to Decatur Monday evening as they arrive at the Decatur Youth and Community Center about 4:30 p. m. Pictured with the Decatur men, from left to right, are: Elnora Pamplona, of the Philippines, "daughter’’ of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Krueckeberg for the three-day visit: Miss Linah R. Babbab, of Lebanon, ’’daughter’’ of Mr. and Mrs. F\rris Bower; Bernard Huguenin, of France. “son ’ of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gay; and Vai Arandela; of the Philippines, “daughter” of and Mrs. Harry Schwartz. HA* .«

Decatur Host To Exchange Students

Decatur residents opened their doors and their hearts to 34 foreign exchange students, just completing their year’s stay in the United States and now touring the country, for the past three days, and learned more from their “students” than they expected. Representative youths from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, as well as Iceland, toe Philippines, Japan, Pakistan, Cambodia, were among the group. Young men and women from Netherlands, Italy, Lebanon, Great Britain, Portugal and Spain exchanged views with their Decatur “parents,” as did . neighbors from South and Central America, from Argentina, Panama, and Costa Rica. Different Types Tiny young -ladies from the Philippines, about 4 feet eight inches tall, as well as Danish, Nordic, and Swedish girls, well over 5% feet tall, were among the group.

Miss Sue Fremdling and Ron Cooper, both from Southern California, and both college students, chaperoned the busload of traveling students, who are on their way from lowa to Washington, D. C., and New York. Cooper, a flrst-year dental student, is a veteran of a bus trip last summer. The two chaperones had not known exactly what to expect in Decatur, but according to their information the American Field Service was new here, and had never had a bus trip. They were very well pleased at their reception here, and surprised that toe city was so ready for them. Visit in Decatur After their arrival, about 1% hours late because of bus schedule trouble from Chicago (toe bus company told them they could drive it in four the young men and women? met their Fourth-of-July “parents,” “brothers” and “sisters," and got acquainted. On the Fourth, about half of the J. Edwin Reynolds Dies At Bluffton J. Edwin Reynolds, 86, prominent retired Bluffton businessman and well known in Decatur and Adams county, died at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton following an illness of several months. Mr. Reynolds founded the Progress variety store in Bluffton in 1899 and operated the store until retiring in 1955. He was a member of the First Baptist church, the Masonic lodge and a charter member and past president of the Bluffton Rotary club. Surviving are a son. Deane Reynolds of Bluffton; a daughter, Mrs. Robert H, Dreisbach of Fort Wayne; a sister, Mrs. Aria Poland of Bluffton; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was an uncle of Pete Reynolds of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the First Baptist church in Blufftor. with burial in Fairview cemetery. Friends may call at the Mcßride fpneral home after 7 pm. today until noon Friday. 1 ’0 I “

group were guests at the annual Homestead picnic, for baseball and volleyball games, and the others were guests of the senior Girl Scout troop 212, at Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Girod’s home. Today the group was unable to tour all of Central Soya because of the rain, so they settled for a color movie on soybeans, and toe Central Soya Company. At lunch they were interviewed by TV and the Fort Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette while having cafe-teria-style lunch as the guests of the Decatur General Electric plant, which they will tour this afternoon. At 6:30 this evening they will attend a dinner and dance at the Community Center, before their final night in Decatur. The group will leave for Willoughby, Ohio, at 8 a. m. from the Community Center. Different School Levels During the Fourth of July picnic and afternoon of games and

i swimming at Dr. Girod’s home ■ south of Decatur, interviews with , the young people from various ■ countries showed that the visit in ■ this country had certainly stimulated their minds and helped them develop many new ideas. While most of the students are , 17 or 18 years of age, when they return to their own countries, they , will range from having two more years of high school to complete to being ready to enter the second year of college. Most of them will have at least one more year of high school. Argentine Visiters Two very interesting girls were Maria Cristina Laje-Povina and Estela Maria De Arriba, whose Decatur parents were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kalver. Maria, a blueeyed redhead, pointed out that the American notion that all South Americans are “dark” isn’t a bit true—as many as 50% of the Argentine people come from northern Spain, or Italy, or Germany, and are quite light in color. This young lady is from the smallest state in Argentina, lives on a sugar cane farm of several hundred acres. Many of the older Spanish customs, such as a duenna accompanying young couples, are still practiced in her state. Not so in Cordoba, on the edge of the great Argentine pampas, said Estela, the daughter of a lawyer in that city of half a million people. There the old customs have pretty well died out. Many of the people now have autos, too, just as they do here. In fact*, the Kaiser, a car once familiar here, is produced in that country, and 85% of the cars there are that brand. A tall, thin young lady, Estela hopes to return to the United States to go to college. International Romance With so many active young people traveling together, it is only natural that two or three "bus romances” have appeared, crossing international boundaries in a way that diplomacy could well study. Germany and France, mortal enemies two dr three times each century, can be found arm-in-arm on bus 35. Two of the girls, Linah Habbab of Lebanon, and Farida Ayub of Pakistan, are of the Sunni Mohammedan faith. They explained that the difference between Shi-ite

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and Sunnite Moslems is very slight, the Shi-ites following religious leaders, such as the All Khan, who are spiritual descendants of the prophet. Different Customs '•■-tj . While; Moslems eat no pork, which is considered unclean, Moslems do not necessarily wear a veil, as Americans usually picture them, they explained. In Pakistan of the people dress rather distinctly, having a national dress, « just as the Bavarians do. But it is not a religious custom. Moslems in Lebanon never dress in that fashion. Anniken Saxrud, of Oslo, Norway. told of her own country, which was quite different from Pakistan — cold and mountainous, the young people learn to ski at an early age. Fiords cut deep bays between the mountains on the coast, and provide good fishing : ports for the sturdy Norwegians. Anniken's father is business manager of Norway’s largest newspaper. the Aftin Posten. Most of the young people had - traveled quite a bit in foreign countries, especially those from Europe. Giri Scouts Help The Girl Scouts, led by Mrs-.-? Girod and Mrs. Ben Eichenauer, < cooked quite a dinner for the students at their afternoon party, and

» served it cafeteria-style in the i guest house. Those who were able ; to be present from the senior Girl i Scout troop were Cynthia Cravens, - Alice Schroeder. Mary Lou Lengei rich, Cherri Bollenbacher, Margaret Cook, Patricia Powell, Mary > Rickord, Mary Frances Beckman, ' Theresa Haines. Mary Eichenauer, ' and Melissa Mayclin. Others, in- > eluding Linda Michaels, Katy > Smith, Cindy Collier, and Marilyn L Knudson, assisted but were unable i to attend. Views Os U.S. The students for the most part admitted that their views concernk ing the United States had changed [ greatly since their arrival nearly > a year ago. I The United States is a wonderful . country, they said, but it, too, has . many faults. For example, while i they talk about democracy they t practice isolation and segregation. . In any foreign country the poorest . and most ignorant people listen , every day to foreign news, and know what is going on. \ > But here in the United, States, I they pointed out, many people are 1 too busy pleasuring themselves to ■ pay attention to would Few i understand them, and few care . about them. All of them felt that there were many things in their own countries ■ to be done, also. For example, in Pakistan, where democracy is just now beginning to be tried. Here the people elect the local councils, but the councils elect the higher officials, and finally the head of state is chosen, who in turn appoints his cabinet. This system is quite similar to that used tn the U.S. 180 years ago, when the state legislatures chose the U.S. senators. Schools May Suffer State Fund Cut-Back INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — State ' Budget Director John Hatchett said today he expects to be able to tell local school officials by mid-August whether they will get a cut-back in state funds. ' ♦ Hatchett said both the July and Augustdistributions to school officials from the state general fund —totaling about SSO million—will be made on schedule. The cutback, if it does come, will be in January. I ’ a