Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1961 — Page 1

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Astronaut In Tip-Top Shape

8.W.1. (UPI) — Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, dunked in salt water following his ride into space, I was toasted with champagne and pronounced in “tip-top” shape by doctors. The American astronaut, brought to this steaming pinecovered missile range island for ~ a debriefing, was scheduled to un- f dergo continued checks by a team of physicians here as a precau- 1 tionary measure. ’ It was disclosed the space age test pilot controlled the positioning I of his craft for re-entering the ' earth’s atmosphere Friday. J Doctors planned to give him an- I other- thorough going-over today < and hoped to find him fully recuperated from his struggle in the i ocean at the end of a rocket ride f that carried him 118 miles high t and 303 miles down range from c Cape Canaveral. They were cer- J tain that a little rest was about all he needed. ii Four fellow astronauts and Wai- 5 ter Williams, launch director of f the federal space agency, headed a here today to add their congratu- j lations. Grissom was expected to t be flown back to Cape Canaveral 0 during the weekend. If Grissom was bothered any by y a swirl of speculation over the r loss of his “Liberty Bell 7” cap- h sule, he did not show it here. He emerged in checked Bermu- ]- da shorts and tan T-shirt late Fri- 0 day from the tracking station’s r gleaming little metal hospital. v He headed for the base social v club with fellow astronauts John a Glenn and Walter Schirra for a round of champaigne-popping and a a party in his honor. He didn’t c remain long. ji Grissom—showed some fatigue but put it down to his flounder- e ing in the Atlantic for long min- 0 utes in his bulky space suit be- s fore a Marine helicopter fished t] him out. d Grissom’s space flight was marred only by loss of the space- n craft. b The capsule flooded with seawater and slipped to the bottom when the pilot’s hatch, located on the water line, was blown free by . explosive bolts. Grissom scram- v bled through the hatch into the t • ocean before the capsule sank. s Teacher Hired For : tl Elementary Grades « -Gary Giessler, a 1960 graduate of 0 Ball State Teachers College, has c been hired by the Decatur school board as an additional physical education teacher for the elementary grades. - Giessler graduated from North Side high school in Fort Wayne, and has had one year of teaching experience, in the sixth grade at Auburn. A native of Fort Wayne, Giessler married a Decatur girl, the fnfmwMarian Rashara, last sum- — mer. Mrs. Giessler will teach the first grade at Adams Central dur- J ing the coming school year. z' Giessler will play an important part in the Decatur public school’s plan to make better use of the existing time and facilities for the younger school students. It is hoped that a better body- t building program can be develop- 1 ed over the next few years that will be of more benefit to the to- ii tai student body. fl

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Peebles Jury Fails To Reach Verdict GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UPI) —A jury that couldn’t reach a decision had J. Otto Peebles back in jail today, waiting for a new murder trial in the death of his wife, Louise, 41. The 41-year- old Grand Rapids businessman came within two votes of both acquittal and conviction of manslaughter Friday before Judge Fred N. Searl ordered a mistrial. Peebles, part owner of the Service Extrusion Die Co. in Rockford, now faces trial in the September term of Kent County Circuit Court, this time before Judge John H. Vander Wai. Peebles shot his wife March 18 in the home of Mary Catherine Voss on Silver Lake. He began firing after seeing Mrs. Peebles and Roy Staples, 43, Columbus, Ind., executive, locked in an embrace. Staples was wounded by one of the shots. Defense attorney Harold S. Sawyer entered a plea of innocent by reason of temporary insanity for his client. But two of the jurors could not be swayed and after the trial others indicated the only compromise they could apparently reach was guilty of manslaughter, a verdict jury foreman Vai Watts announced in mid-afternoon. However, the jury was polled and one of the women said she could not unconditionally agree to The jury went back into deliberations and finally Watts came out and said that it "was the considered Opinion ofthe L whole jury that they cannot reach a verdict.” Judge Searl then declared the mistrial and announced that Peebles would be tried again in September. Correct Road Sign With Latest Census It has been reported that the state highway department has changed the city limit sign on road 224 at the west side of Decatur. Despite several censuses to the contrary, the old sign had Decatur’s population listed in the low 5,000’5. The actual population of Decatur, according to the last census, was 8,327. INDIANA WEATHER - Mostly cloudy, occasional —showtjxs mui thunders how crs and not much temperature change tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 64 to 70. High Sunday mid-80s. Outlook for Monday: Continued warm and humid with late afternoon and evening thundershowers. Local weather data tor the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 90 12 midnight .... 71 1 p.m as 1 a.m 2 p.m 87 2 a.m 72 3 p.m 87 3 a.m 72 4 p.m -88 4 a.m-• 72 5 p.m 80 5 a.m. 74 6 p.m. 80 6 a.m,.70 7 p.m 76 7 a.m. 72 8 p.m 76 8 a.m 80 9 p.m; 80 9 a.m 85 10 .p.m 79 10 a.m. 87 11 p.m. 79 11 a.m 92 Raia Total for the 24-hour period ending at 7 a. m. today, .39 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.75 feet.

Mrs. Charlie Teeple Dies Lass Evening Mrs. Margaret Teeple, 83, of 504 North Second street, prominent in church and civic activities here for many years, died sudden- . ly at 8:30 Friday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital shortly after being admitted. She had not been ill and death was unexpected. Mrs. Teeple was the widow of Charlie Dailey Teeple, who was engaged in the men’s clothing . business for many years before . his death Jan. 12, 1951. " She was born in Washington township April 19, 1878, a daughter of Simeon B. and Mary Ellen ’ Brandyberry-Fordyce, and lived here her entire life except for 3 five years when she resided at St. 5 Joseph, Mich. She graduated • from the Decatur high school in f 1897, and was married May 27, - 1898. Mrs. Teeple was highly .active - in all groups of the First Presby- - terian church, and was one of the - first women in the state to serve - as an elder. She taught in the * Sunday school for many years. She was also a member of the j Order of Eastern Star and was a , past president of the Shakespeare j club. , She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Theodore T. (Alta) Mc- ’ Clintock of Cincinnati, O.; three , grandchildren, Mrs. William Black of Wheaton, 111., Mrs. John P. Halstead of East Aurora, N.Y., , and Lt. Andrew Fordyce McClin- , tock of Ft. Jackson, S. C., and three great-grandsons. Funeral services will be conl ducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the ‘ Zwick funeral home, the Rev. ’ Lazio Polyak officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. ‘ Friends may call at the funeral ’ home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services. k - Save-Dunes Group Opposes Purchase FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI)-Of- . ficials of the Save - the - Dunes . Council, opposed to construction . of an Indiana seaport at Burns Ditch in Porter County, said today they believe the use of taxpayer money for land purchases in the area is illegal. State officials announced after a meeting with steel company representatives Indiana has . agreed to take up an option to i buy 68 acres of land along Lake ! Michigan for $144,000. “Ulis is a desperate move.. .to , salvage selfish interests before the turning tide of public opin- > ion,” said council attorney Leoni ard Rutstein, Chicago. He said the council would press legal action in a suit against Governor Welsh and other state officials, charging illegal diversion of state funds to the Indiana Port Commission, and a breach of the sta t e constitutional prohibition against state indebtedness. Council officials said two million dollars set aside for the seaport by the 1957 Legislature was appropriated in an “Overtime” omnibus bill, and a “storm of protest” has dogged the action ~ ever since; —-—- — —— “There isn’t a bonding house in the nation which would not touch . a Burns Ditch issue,” said Rut- ■ stein, “and an illegal grab for i the public’s money will destroy ; what little stature the state adi ministration retains.” ; The council is sponsoring a tour . of the dunes area Sunday. NOON EDITION ■ ,e ,

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 22, 1961.

French Troops Pound At Arab Quarter Os Bizerte To Stamp Out Resistance

Parts Os Indiana Struck By Storm

By United Press International Tornadoes and thunderstorms swept through portions of Indiana Friday night, causing considerable property damage. , , At least tw'’ f jured. Twisters were sighted early ’ Friday night northwest of Attica, ’ near Hedrick in Warren County near the Illinois border, near ‘ Monrovia and near Cloverdale. Some touched the ground and the one near Cloverdale destroyed a rural home. Lightning late Friday started a fire in an elementary school at Bedford, and the damage was estimated as high as $50,000. The blaze was brought under control quickly, but two firemen were injured. Authorities said the Cloverdale twister first touched near Eminence, cutting a path 60 feet wide and one mile long. The home of Fred Williams, 23, rural Clover- , dale, was demolished. Williams, his wife Wanda, 19, > and their infant son escaped in 4 ■ jury. : In Warren County, a twister ‘ was reported to have touched ■ down at the Bertha Hunter farm near Hedrick, then skipped over to the Kenneth Deßord farm about 10 miles away. A barn on the Deßord farm was torn off its foundation. Injured in the Bedford fire were William Dalton, 35, and Donald Sanders. The violent storms occurred during a severe weather forecast issued by the Weather Bureau for portions of western Indiana. At the height of the storms, Lafayette soaked up 1.29 inches of rain, South Bend nearly one inch. Indianapolis, hit by a thunderstorm late Friday night, had .77, Fort Wayne .22. Forecasters had little change to offer for the weekend. They said thundershowers in all portions were possible through Sunday, and the menu for Monday wasn’t any better. It called for continued warm and humid with late afternoon and evening thundershowers. Afternoon temperatures today may climb to the 90s in the southern portion, lows tonight will be in the middle 60s or low 70s, and not much change was seen for Sunday. Highs Friday were in the middle and high 80s arid overnight temperatures ranged from 68 at South Bend to a sticky 71 at Fort Wayne. New Automation And Manpower Analysis INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana Employment Security Division has announced that a new automation and manpower analysis unit will be used shortly to keep close tab on the state’s economy. Director Lewis Nicolini said the unit’s continual study and appraisal will help, Indiana benefit in the utilization of manpower resources. Advertising Index Advertlßer ~ Page Burk Elevator Co. 5 Citizens Telephone Co. 3 Decatur Drive In Theater 6 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. 4 Decatur Karting Ass’n. — 6 Evans Sales & Service 5 First State Bank of Decatur — 4 Allen Fleming. 5 Fairway — j — 6 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home — 3 Jjabegger-Schafers -— 3 H. & M. Builders, Inc. 6 Kent Realty & Auction Co. 5 Ray’s Mobil Service- 6 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug C 0....---..———. 3 Stewarts Bakery - 3 Teeple Truck Line 5 Win Rae Drive In 3 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc. 4 Church Page Sponsors — 2 8

U.S. Move On Tunisia Faces r ' Veto Threats 1 UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) t —United States efforts to cool off . the battle of Bizerte between . France and Tunisia ran into oppo- , sition from both sides today. Informed sources said both France and the Soviet Union, the latter currently acting as Tunisia's champion, threatened to vei to a resolution drafted by the • United States. 1 As a result, the U. S. draft was ! held up pending consultations with • the French and Tunisians and other allies , " The U.S. draft would have call«jLed tor an immediate cease fire, withdrawal of troops to their origr inal positions and direct negotia--1 tions between the French and Tu--1 nisians. The 11-member Security Council i was called back into session today 1, to try to end the bloodshed around ! the French naval base in northern Tunisia and clashes between . the two sides on a strip of the Sahara at Tunisia’s southern border. Friday Tunisian delegate Mongi Slim brushed aside an offer from French Ambassador Armand Berard of a “cease fire without reservations” to be followed by direct negotiations on Bizerte. Kennedy Working On Radio-TV Message HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (UPI) — President Kennedy worked at his seashore home today on the radio-TV message in which he will announce Tuesday what must be done to strengthen U. S. defenses against Soviet threats on Berlin. For a relaxing interlude, he hoped to go boating aboard his family’s 52-foot motor cruiser, the Marlin, in Nantucket Sound, nils would give him a chance for several peaceful hours with Mrs. Kennedy and three-year-old Caroline, with whom he has gone yachting on prior weekends at Hyannis Port. — This was Kennedy’s fourth consecutive weekend at Cape Cod. He had ample homework to do, in the form of drafts of his Tuesday address to the nation. , Even though Kennedy and the National Security Council made decisions Thursday on a firm stand in the Berlin crisis, there still were some questions to be ironed out and language to be refined. One pending problem was to pin down exactly how much authority the President now has, and how much he must request from Congress next Wednesday, to carry out the defense steps he will propose. Beaten To Death In Argument Over Dime NEW YORK (UPI) - An 18-year-old youth was beaten to death Friday night in a Brooklyn playground in an argument over a dime. Police said Judge Sanders intervened in a dispute three youths were having with Sanders’ cousin. Police said the three turned on Sanders and beat and kicked him. Police arrested Melvin Smith; 17, and George McVay, 16 and sought a third suspect.

TUNIS, Tunisia, (UPl)—French troops backed by planes and tanks pounded the Arab quarter of Bizerte today to stamp out last-ditch Tunisian resistance. There were indications the fighting may be nearing an end. (In Paris, high French military sources said the major objectives had been secured and that military operations were “practically” ended.) Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, in a news conference here expressed willingness to negotiate the future of the huge naval-air base at Bizerte. It was Bourguiba’s blockade of the base in a bid to force the French out of Tunisia that touched off the fighting Wednesday. "Although we do not surrender to force,” Bourguiba said, “we remain ready to discuss the prob--1 lem of the evacuation.” France earlier had urged a • cease fire to be followed by direct negotiations with Tunisia on the controversial base. Bourguiba expressed regret at the stand taken by the United ■ States and Britain on his dispute i with France. “It is painful and extremely Ir- : ritating and that Washington and ‘ London, for known movites, in line I with Paris, do not say what is just and conforms to the U.N. charter" ■ he said. . He saW that ts U.N. Security - Council did not give- Tunisia stais- - faction he would take the case to ■ the General Assembly where Tunisia would “triumph.” * The Tunisians were reported to ' have suffered heavy casualties in 1 the fighting today. At least three regiments of 1 French paratroops and infantry, battle-hardened by the Algerian campaign, were pouring a rain of fire into Tunisian positions 24 hours after the battle began. The French were backed by tanks, planes, self-propelled howitzers and armored half-tracks. The Tunisians fought back with incendiary grenades and gasoline bombs that turned streets into flaming rivers. French tanks, roamed through the streets with hatches closed pouring shells into buildings suspected of hiding Tunisian troops. Even as the battle was going on, President Habib Bourguiba told the nation in a radio speech: “The essential is that the resistance continues and will continue so long as the war has not been settled on a political level. UPI correspondent Peter D. Robinson witnessed the battle and traveled 40 miles to Tunis to file the story because communications between the two cities had been cut off. Bodies littered the sidewalks. Most of them were Tunisian. The death toll could be in the hundreds. French troops rtioved into the city center late Friday night and battled the Tunisians for key points. They seized control of the channel that runs through the city from the Mediterranean into Lake Bizerte after an eight-hour battle. But in the Casbah —the Moslem quarter—the battle continued from rooftop to rooftop and street to street French planes armed with rockets patrolled the Bizerte - Tunis highway against any Tunisian attempt to reinforce the city. Nervous Tunisian troops and civil volunteers guarded the road near the capital. French Corsair fighter planes made a game of. swooping low over the highway, forcing the guards to dive head first into ditches for cover. But the planes held their fire. . . . The semi-official Tunisian Press Agency reported there had been a seesaw battle for control of the Bizerte governor's headquarters, with the French finally capturing it at dawn. The shell-pocked building was reported to have changed hands five times between midnight and dawn with the French finally gaining a firm foothold. The fighting for the building boiled for hours after the French commander of the Bizerte naval and air base announced his men (Continued on page three)

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’ WASHINGTON (UPI) - A special panel of scientists has given . President Kennedy a report on » whether Russia has been testing » nuclear weapons in secret. r The study by 11 scientists will . be a major factor in the Presi--1 dent's decision on whether to f break off the stalled nuclear test - ban talks, end the testing moratorium and resume U.S. atomic f tests. The report was Relieved to set . forth the scientists’ conclusions on whether Russia has been setting , off nuclear explosions in secret, t and if so, what kinds of weapons , it might be working on. The group, headed by physics t professor Wolfgang K. H. Panofl sky of Stanford, gave Kennedy ; their conclusions at a White House meeting Friday. White House Press Secretary 1 Pierre Salinger said he expected > the report would remain secret. t He said Kennedy asked the sci- > entist for additional information on several points, and told them y to discuss the report with the Dej_ sense Department, the Atomic Eno ergy Commission and the Nation1. al Security Council. The scientists began work on 3. the report June 30, although Ken--1 nedy did not disclose their names until the day before they gave f him their report. He announced , on June 28 that he was setting 1 up the group in light of the stalled t Geneva talks. I The United States, Britain and Russia agreed to a moratorium on nuclear tests in October, 1958, ■ when the Geneva negotiations began. Many administration and congressional leaders have said there was no way to tell whether Russia was abiding by the voluntary test suspension. Pressure has mounted on 4 Kennedy to resume U.S. testing. Some experts fear Russia may be developing a neutron bomb, which could wipe out the population of entire cities but leave buildings and factories intact. The Geneva talks foundered on Russia’s demand foF a veto over any apparatus to investigate possible cases of cheating.

Algeria Peace Talks Stalled

LUGRIN, France (UPI) — The second round of peace talks between French and Algerian Moslem negotiators appeared today to be as hopelessly deadlocked as the first. Although both sides fought desperately to end the stalemate in an attempt to end the 6*6 yearold war in Algeria, they were making little headway. French and Algerian representatives arranged to meet later this morning, but neither side was opThe first round of talks at nearby Evians - les - Bains collapsed when the French and Algerian representatives failed to get tre talks past the preliminary stages. The same thing apparently is happening at these talks. French delegation chief Louis —Joxe Friday proposed a new procedure as away of finding a breakthrough. Instead of continuing to confront each other with their wellknown positions on the Sahara question and other basic issues, Joxe suggested that the conference be divided into four special commissions to examine separate problems. But Algerian delegation spokes-

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U.S. Ready To Aid Refugees Flee Cuba WASHINGTON (UPD — A U.S. airline was ready to start flying 20,000 refugees out of Cuba today at the expense of the U.S. government, but there was no indication whether Fidel Castro would let them go. The State Department announced Friday night that it would pay the expenses of the proposed airlift —about $350,000 —for 20,000 Cubans who have U.S. visas or have been issued waivers on or before July 21, 1961. But State Department officials said that the Cuban government requires exit permits to leave their country. The officials said they did not know how many - if any -of the refugees had such permits. State Department press officer ’ Lincoln White said Pan 'American ’ Airlines has made arrangements to operate IQ extra flights a day between Miami and Havana to bring Cubans to Florida.. White said the department hopes “it will be possible for the Cdbans to depart from Cuba at a rate ot at least 1,000 per day for about three weeks ft no obstacles" intervene beyond their control dr that of the U.S. government. He said the operation would ba a “humanitarian thing.” Two-Stage Rocket Launched By Japan TOKYO (UPD—Japan launched a two-stage rocket to an altitude of 100 miles Friday, its seventh successful space observation shot. a The rocket, launched by the Tokyo University rocket research team on the north coast, was Japan's contribution to world rocket week, which began July 16. The Kappa-8 rocket is more than 35 feet long and weighs about one and one-half tons. It traveled more than 150 miles during its flight of six minutes, 50 seconds.

man Rheda Malek told a news.> conference Friday night that dividing the conference into working groups would be a "waste of time” unless a general agreement was first reached on the major issues involved. The rebels proposed instead that the two delegations get down to the “essence” of the major problems, starting with the Algerian claim to the entire Sahara. Parade Features Os Legion Convention PARADE FEATURE OF Z2Z22. INDI AN APOUS (UPU — Hoosier Legionnaires struted through the downtown business district today. one of the highlights; of their 43rd annual state convention. Business sessions were second- - ary today as die parade wound through the hearjof the city. To* night, the 1,400 delegates and other members planned to see a baseball game. The three-day convention ends with another business session Sunday, including election of officers. . ■>