Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 163, Decatur, Adams County, 13 July 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 163.

Says Panic In East Germany

BERLIN (UPI) — West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said today that there is “panic” in Communist Germany. The 85-year-old Adenauer made his comments at a news conference shortly before returning to Bonn after a one-day morale-boost-ing visit to this beleaguered city in the heart of Communist-control-led territory. “There seems to be a panic in the Soviet zone,” he said. “Pressure of the regime has been stepped up and many still wish to get to freedom as quickly as possible.” As Adenauer wound up his Berlin visit there were these other developments in the East-West dispute over the city: — In Washingon it was reported that the forthcoming U.S., Briish, and French notes will reject Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s Berlin demands and restate the West’s wishes for a long-range solution based on free elections and reunification of Germany. Discuss Western Defense — West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss headed from Bonn to Washington to discuss the Western defense set-up in Europe with U.S. officials. Informed sources in Bonn said he probably would call for a general speed-up of the NATO alliance's military power, with a commensurate increase in fire power on the European continent. — In Longon, NATO Secretary General Dirk U. Stikker said the alliance must above all try. to prevent a crisis over Berlin. But he said it must be made “abundantly clear” to Khrushchev that the West is “united and stand resolved together,” and if he starts anything, “we will be there.” — French President Charles de Gaulle lined up solidly with his American and British partners and said flatly that there is “no chance” the West will yield to the Kremlin pressure for a change in the status of Berlin. Talk With Moscow . Adenauer declined to discuss Western plans to meet the increasing Soviet threats against Berlin, but he predicted the Wesern Al- 1 lies “soon” would talk with Moscow leaders about West Berlin and Germany. “It is dangerous and undiplomatic to discuss in public what one plans,” he said. He said he would be back in Berlin again and said there probably soon will be discussions with the Soviets following delivery of Western Allied notes on Berlin and Germany. The notes are scheduled to hit Moscow next week. In saying he would return, Adenauer threw a chalenge into the teeth of the Communists. They have been saying his present trip would be his last, because a Soviet peace treaty would be signed with East Germany ending Western Allied rights here. The visit of the 84-year-old statesman, whom the Reds call “the cold war apostle,” was marked by new Communist charges against his government

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and a record number of East German defections to West Berlin. Defying the Communist threats, Adenauer displayed West Germany’s confident mood at a formal and glittering reception Wednesday night. The reception followed Aenauer’s tour cm die city and talks with Mayor Willy Brandt, his opponent in the September national elections. The two leaders reaffirmed their faith in the city and the basic principles of Western rights in Berlin. The joint statement of Adenauer and Brandt paralleled an assertion by French President Charles de Gaulle Wednesday night that the West will not yield to Soviet pressures on Berlin. De Gaulle said in address to his nation that the Russians will be responsible for the “grave consequences” that may develop from their threats. While Adenauer was in Berlin—his first visit to the divided city in 18 months — his government released the contnts of a note to the Soviet Union stating that any peace conference on Germany is pointless until the Kremlin “permits tree elections in the entire country.” The note, which answered a memorandum from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev last February, declared that “the German people continues to exist as an entity and there is only one German people.” Police Chief Warns On Bicycle Thefts Local police chief James M. Borders has issued a warning to potential bicycle stealers, that the city police department is going to crack down on anyone found to have “swiped” a bike. Four bicycles, with a total value of $165, were taken from the city swimming pool Wednesday afternoon. None was found as yet this 1 morning. It has been a habit of a few for a number of years, to ride someone’s bicycle home from the pool. These people walk to the pool or ride in a car with their parents, a friend, etc., and when they are ready to leave, they are too tired to walk, so they grab a bike and ride it close to home, leaving it about a block from home. The same situation also occurs at Worthman Field many times during a baseball game. While one of the boys is playing, someone decides he doesn’t want to walk home, so he hops the player’s bike and rides. Borders explained this morning that this sort of problem will be tolerated no longer. Anyone found stealing a bicycle, even if it Is just for a ride home, will be in serious trouble, the chief warned.

Welsh Repeats Gloomy State Income Figure INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Governor Welsh said today that new figures indicate Indiana’s gross income tax revenue would be a little greater for the 1961 fiscal year than he previously had estimated. But Welsh indicated the revision made no significant difference in the gloomy economy picture he painted a month ago when he imposed stringent economies on the operation of state government including reduction of personnel and postponement of construction projects. “We now have available the preliminary figures for the entire 1961 fiscal year which show that gross income revenue is $7.7 million below the estimates on which the budget is based,” Welsh said. “In my earlier statement I pointed .out that preliminary indications were that revenue would be $8.3 million under estimates.” “Total general fund revenues improve this situation only slightly. Here the year-end figures for all general fund revenue is $6.1. million below forecasts.” Welsh reiterated his earlier promise that “drastic cuts in most areas of state government will be made." And he warned again that the situation “threatens erty tax rates because the ability erty tax rates because he abiliy of the state to meet its educaional commitments fully is jeopardized.” Slate Traffic Toll Increases To 505 By United Press International Indiana’s 1961 traffic fatality toll rose to 505 today when a South Bend teenage girl died from injuries suffered in an accident Wednesday night. Tonya McCammon, 17, died in Memorial Hospital in South Bend early today five hours after she was thrown out of a car which went off a road at the west edge of South Bend and crashed into three trees The driver oi me car, Michael J. Norris, 19, South Bend, was not hurt. Police said apparently the steering mechanism failed, causing the car to swerve off the road. In a two-car collision at a suburban Indianapolis intersection today Shirley Ann Hussang, 20, Indianapolis, was killed outright. The driver of the other car waS taken to General Hospital in Indianapolis. Two children were among four persons killed Wednesday. Both of them»were struck by cars. Laura Kwilinski, 7, Middlebury, died Wednesday night in Elkhart General Hospital from injuries suffered earlier in the day when she was hit on Indiana 13 by a car driven by Velma Hostedler, 58. White Pigeon, Mich. The driver said Laura was standing beside a small bridge over a creek. She said she sounded the car horn and slowed down but the girl became confused and ran in front of the vehicle. A Fort Wayne boy was killed while crossing the street in front of his home. Michael McDowell was injured fatally when he was hit by a car driven by Gerald Mungovan, 22, Fort Wayne, as the lad was enroute to a playground. His body was tossed 45 feet by the impact, but police said Mungovan. the son of a local undertaker, would not be held. The speed limit was 30 m.p.h. McDowell died about four hours afterward at Lutheran Hospital. Mrs. Lelair Hinds, 57, Jamestown, Tenn., was killed and seven persons injured, two critically, Wednesday in a car-truck crash on U.S. 421, about three miles south ot Versailleg. A car driven by George Johnson, Jr., 29, Muncie, crashed into a Ripley County Highway Department truck parked along the side of the road. Police said part of the truck was on the highway. The driver, of the truck, Walter H. Ryan, 60, Versailles, was across the highway talking with his boss, state police said. In critical condition at Kings Hospital at Madison were Mrs. Hinds’ son Lloyd, 16, and Mrs. Zenara Johnson, 37, Muncie. Also hospitalized were Mrs. Hinds’ husband, Grady, 66; Johnson; Linda Jackson, 2, Muncie, and Lanni Johnson, 2. Muncie. All were passengers in the car. W. S. Webb, 52, Osgood, a passenger in the highway department truck, was injured slightly but did (Continued on page eight)

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 13,1961.

Mammoth Two-Year Road Construction Program Is Unveiled By Welsh

Kennedy,Khan Conclude Talks

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan today invited President and Mrs. Kennedy to visit Pakistan. Kennedy said he hoped he could arrange it. The two presidents disclosed this much of their final round of talks as they emerged from the White House shortly after noon. The White House announced that a final communique would be issued at 3:30 p.m. CDT. “We had a very fine talk. We! covered all the ground,” Ayub said. The Pakistan-India dispute over Kashmir was the main announced item on the agenda at the one hour and 30 minute session. Ayub wants the United States to intervene, using its influence with India either to submit Kashmir’s future to n plebiscite or to ■ negotiate a settlement guarantee ing Pakisan's economic and milii tary interests there. < I Kennedy was reported deter- : mined to stay out of the quarrel, i at least publicly, despite Ayub’s ■ pressure for ’more proof that it 1 pays to be an American ally. After the White House confer-

Western Reply To Russia Next Week

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The long-awaited Western diplomatic salvo on Berlin is scheduled to hit Moscow next week unless further complications arise. The U. S., British and French notes will reject Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s Berlin demands and restate the West’s desire for a long - range solution based on Lee elections and reunification of Germany. The Western powers will categorically turn down Khrushchev’s proposal aimed at squeezing the British, French and American forces out of Red-encircled Berlin. The Allied notes originally were scheduled for delivery Friday but have been delayed by Allide consultation. Ask NATO Endorsement Some officials said the trouble arose because the French wanted stiffer wording in the U. S. memorandum. Other authorities said the delay was to give all members of the 15-nation NATO Council, which is being asked to endorse the notes, more time to consult their home governments. The NATO council always is consulted on <J. S. notes on the Berlin issue because members of the alliance are committed to act together against any threats to allied position in the former German capital. The U. IT. note will be a detailed reply to Krushchev’s June 4 memorandum to President Kennedy demanding an immediate German peace conference on Russian terms. Otherwise, Khrushchev threatened to conclude a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany and isolate West Berlin. Reject Russian Proposal West Germany sent its own communication to Khrushchev yesterday, rejecting a five-month-old Russian proposal for bilateral , Soviet-German peace talks. The ' West German note said nothing could be done until Khrushchev ■ permitted free elections in East Germany. The American memorandum firmly rejects Khrushchev’s pro- ’ posals and denies his charges that I the West is delaying a German settlement. However, it leaves the way open for further discussion

ence, the blunt-spoken field marshal was to address the National Press Club and meet’ with' the Senate Foreign Relations Commitee. Tonight, he will entertain the President and Mrs. Kennedy at a dinner. The Pakistani president was scheduled to leave Friday for New York. He planned to fly to Gettysburg, Pa., Saturday morning to meet former President Eisenhower before starting a week- ' end'visit with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and other officials at Johnson’s Texas ranch. Officials said Ayub already had obtained most of his objectives here. He wanted and got reassurance that the Kennedy administration intends to furnish the economic aid Pakistan needs to proceed with is development plans. Ayub’s straight-talking speech to ’ Congress Wednesday produced an ■ unexpected dividend for Kennedy. 1 Congressmen agreed that his speech increased support for Kennedy’s embattled foreign aid bill.

with Russia on the problem. It renews Allied proposals for a board solution of the Berlin problem within the general framework of German reunification on the basis of “self determination” — free election in East as well as West Germany. Case On Hoffa Ruled Out On Technicality ORLANDO, Fla. (UPD—A federal judge threw out of court on a legal technicality today the government’s mail fraud case against Teamsters' union President James R. Hoffa and two associates. The case charged Hoffa. James Lower and Robert E. McCarthy Jr. with using the mails, telegraph and telephone lines to defraud union members by promoting a real estate development on Florida’s east coast. It was charged that Hoffa and his two associates misused about $500,000 in union funds on Sun Valley, Inc., a real estate development near Titusville. Fla., which went bankrupt. Federal District Judge Joseph P. Lieb of Tampa dismissed the suit on grounds that the grand jury which indicted the three men Dec. ' 7, 1960, had been selected im- . properly. In Washington. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy indicated the govl resubmit the ease In a 13-page decision, Lieb said i the grand jury had been chosen J from lists that specifically exclud- ’ ed women and persons not regis- ’ tered to vote. This violated a 1957 Florida statute, he said. “Dismissal of the indictment i does not necessarily terminate the ■ prosecution of the defendants < charged.” Lieb said. “The gov--1 ernment, if it so desires, can ! again present the matter to a pro--1 perly constituted grand jury.”

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Gover-nor Welsh today unveiled a mammoth two-year Indiana highway construction program estimated to cost $268,305,000. The project takes in 540 miles of new highways arid 294 bYidgeS; Included are about 163 miles of interstate routes at a cost of $151,896,000, about 213 miles of primary roads at a cost of $54,789,000, about 52 miles of urban roads costing $41,473,000, and about 112 miles of raadsovrting $20,147,000Welsh said the program is in addition to the total of $21,610,000 for 88 miles of roads and 49 bridges included in the bid lettings of March, April, May and June this year. He said it is in addition to work already under way around the state. “We have selected for priority construction the projects included in this two-year program on the basis of engineering studies of trafifc and road conditions,” Welsh said. Modern Roads Needed “It is my determination to put the Indiana highway program Into full gear to get for our state the modern roads sorely needed.. We are giving particular emphasis to ’ interstate highways because in ’ this area we get the most from each dollar spent, we create the ’ safest, most modern highway* “ known today, and we improve Indiana as an attractive place for ’ businesses to locate.” . The interstate highway program . covered many bridges and pavement stretches on Routes 64, 65, ' 69, 70, 74, 80, 94, and 465 in Posey, Floyd, Clark, Jackson, Bartholomew, Marion, Allen, Dekalb, Vigo, Wayne, Decatur, Shelby, Franklin, Ripley, Dearborn, Lake, Porter arid LaPorte Counties. A highway, spokesman at Welsh’s news conference said no changes had been made in the previous highway program of former Governor Harold Handley. “The governor and the highway commission have been very careful to follow through with the previous program,” George Foster, executive director of the highway department, said, “Highways must cease to be political chessmen,” Welsh added. The governor said the highway program must continue uninterrupted from administration to administration. This is necessary, he said, to continue “the momentum built up by the commission, and to discourage the practice of political highway construction.” Draft Call Issued For 8,000 Draftees ' WASHINGTON (UPD-The Defense Department isued a call J Wednesday for 8,000 draftees next month for the Army. The August quota is the largest I since last December, when 8,000 ' men were drafted. The Army i draft call for this month was 6,000. ! Advertising Index ' Advertiser Pa <* i Arnold Lumber Co., Inc. 7 Burk Elevator Co ’ Begun’s Clothing Store -— 8 Bower Jewelry Store 2 ; Decatur-Kocher Lumber. Inc. .. 4 Decatur Drive In Theater 8 Ehinger’s —— 3 Evans Sales & Service- 5 Erie-Lackawanna Railroad —— 2 . Allen Fleming 5 . Habegger-Schafers — < - Hammond Fruit Markets, Inc, --2 [ Paul Havens Chevrolet-Buick, Inc. — 5 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 6 . Itch-Me-Not 7 r Model Hatchery - r -— 5 David A. Macklin, Attorney .... 5 Niblick & Co. —— 3 t New Bremen Racing Ass’n .... 7 > Pioneer Drive-In 2 s Smith Drug Co. ——--- 2 . Stewarts Bakery 6 i Teeple Truck Line —5 . Elmer Wendel — 5 Win Rae Drive In-- 3

Says Kremlin Not " "-•■■’l WT” P Ready r or VV ariare

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, just back from a European to«!A>aidtoday internal not ready to go to war. Humphrey said Russia I*-inter-nal problems include “food shortages of staggering proportions.” The Minnesota Democrat, who is the Senate’s assistant Democratic leader, told a news conference that “the most important thing for the West to understand is what its strength really is — and it is immense ” Humphrey, chairman of the Senate Disarmament subcommittee, also said he was convinced that Russia is trying to goad the United States into resumption of nuclear weapons testing because “the Soviet Union wants to test very badly, and can’t.” He suggested that Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev “is stirring up the Berlin situation as part of ! the effort to counteract problems * that confront his rather wobbly 5 empire.” Other congressional news: Antitrust: Two congressional 1 committee chairmen have agreed to sponsor a bill which would stiffen the antitrust laws and pin responsibility for price-fixing on top corporate executives. The measure is being introduced in the Senate by Chairman Estes Kefauver, DTenn., of the Senate Antitrust subcommittee. In the House, it is being introduced by Chairman Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y., of the House Judiciary Committee. The bill grew out of recent congressional investigations of pricerigging in the electrical industry. Polution: The House was expected to enact legislation giving the administration broad powers to crack down on pollution of lakes and streams that supply the nation’s water. t The measure also would authorize sharp hikes in federal grants to help build sewage disposal plants. A compromise between differing House and Senate versions, the bill was to come up for a -vote first in the House. The measure would empower Basil F. Banta Dies Wednesday Evening Basil F. Banta, 56-year-old farmer, died suddenly of a coronary occlusion at 5 p. m. Wednesday at his home, three miles east of Willshire, 0., on highway 81. He had been ill for the past two weeks but his death was unexpected. He was born in Willshire Jan. 29, 1905, a son of James D. and Mary Catherine Exline-Banta, and was married to Rachel Evans April 5, 1931. He graduated from high schools at Willshire and Ohio City, 0., and attended Ohio State University. Mr. Banta was a member of the Willshire Masonic lodge No. 667, and the Bethlehem chapter of the Order of Eastern Star; Surviving in addition to his wife are three sisters, Mrs. Roy (Iva) Hook and Mrs. W. O. (Hazel) Finden, both of Willshire, and Mrs. R. C. (Emma) Lund of Warrensville, W., and a sister-in-law. Miss Helen Evans, who maker - her home with the Bantas. One brother and two sisters are de ceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William Powers officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services. Masonic services will be held at 8 p. m. Friday at the funeral home.

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the fetferal government to start court action against any city or industry pointing any of the couriry’s 26,000 lakes and streams, if state authorities approve the federal action. Federal authority now is limited to the 4,000 water bodies which cross state boundaries and only where pollution also crosses state lines. This authority would be retained without required state approval of any federal move. Other congressional news: Elections: The chairmen of the Democratic and Republican national committees told a Senate subcommittee they favored some changes in presidential eletcion laws. GOP Chairman William E. Miller endorsed a proposed constitutional amendment under which ail but two of each state’s electors would be chosen by district, raher than statewide as at present. Democratic Chairman ! John M. Bailey favored an . amendment to require presidential r electors to vote for the candidate on their party ticket. Bases: The House Armed ServI ices Commitee ordered a subcommittee to study the proposed closing of six of 52 military installa- ’ tions the Defense Department says no longer are needed. Undpr study are Laughlin and Harlingen Air Force bases in Texas and arsenals at Raritan, N.J.; Rossford, Ohio; Mt. Rainier, Wash.; and Benicia, Calif. Eight Electrocuted By Lightning Bolt CLINTON, N. C. (UPI) — A bolt of lightning struck the door of a tobacco barn Wednesday and electrocuted eight persons who had taken shelter from a sudden thunderstorm. The bolt struck at the door of the small red barn and leaped around the inside on metal stoves used in curing green tobacco leaves. The victims were leaning and sitting on the metal curing equipment. ] Three persons in a shed adjoining the barn and another person in the barn survived without serious injury. Two women in the shed raced screaming to a nearby farmhouse occupied by Joseph Cottle and shouted “All those people in the barn have been shocked. They need a doctor.* The victims included Cottle’s son, Oscar Lee Cottle, 27; Oscar’s wife, Mrs. Annette Cottle, 21; William Keel, 13; and field workers Samuel Newhittc, 16; Mary Morisey, 70; Joyce Ann Matthews. 13; Ludiw Matthews, 18; and Earl Bell. 15. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with scattered showers or thundershowers tonight. Friday partly cloudy. little temperature change, chance of scattered thundershowers. Low tonight 62 to 66. High Friday 78 to 83. Sunset today 8:13 pan. Sunrise Friday 5:28 a.m. Outlook — for Saturday: Partly cloudy and warm. Widely scattered thundershowers likely south. Lows 55 to 63. Highs in the 80s. Deeatar Tentperaturea Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 88 Midnight ...70 1 p.m. 85 1 a.m. *2 2 p.m 84 2 a m. 64 3 p.m. 82 3 am. M 4 p.m. 80 4 a.mß2 5 p.m. ... 77 5 a.m. ®2 8 p.m 78 6 a.m. 83 7 p.m. 72 7 a.m. 84 8 p.m. 75 8 am.; 73 9 p.m 73 9 afjn. 72 10 p.m 66 10 aim. 70 11p.m. — 71 11 a.m. 74 . Raia Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a. m. today, .17 inches. The St. Mary'e river was at 1.38 feet v '