Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX. No. 190.

Single County Unit Os Schools Studied

The county school study committee, which has been studying the reorganization of school districts in Adams county for the past two years, and which has not yet submitted its plan to the state so that it could be submitted to the people for a vote, is giving more and more consideration to a single county unit organization, August Selking, president of the group, said following Saturday’s meeting. Since groups from both the south and the north districts of the proposed three districts in the county have objections to the present division, some substitute may be worked out. Several Advantages Selking pointed out several advantages for a county unit, which of course deals only with the organization — it would not mean just one school, or one high school. Just as Decatur now operates four schools in one unit, and Fort Wayne operates three high schools, so an Adams county school unit could operate as many schools, and as many, high schools, as is desired. In addition, it could provide Freedom Riders In Missisippi Court JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) —About’ 170 convicted “freedom riders,” cheered as heroes by more than 1,000 Mississippi Negroes Sunday night, were scheduled to make a mass court appearance this afternoon under police protection. The riders arrived here from throughout the nation Sunday to appeal breach of the peace convictions. Cheering, singing, shouting Negroes hailed them at a “freedom rally” later in the evening. Set for call were 182 cases in which riders were arrested after ignoring segregation customs in travel facilities, convicted of breach of the peace and later released on appeal bond. At least 170 had shown up Sunday night and more were expected to be on hand today. James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and himself a convicted rider, told the crowd at the rally that the movement had about “run out of steam’ but Mississippi officials saved it by demanding that the riders appear together in court. “We can always count on the state of Mississippi to help us out,’ he said. “' ne freedom rid

East Germans Halt Workers

BERLIN (UPI) — Communist East Germans today barred more than 50,000 East Berliners from going to work in West Berlin, cut communications between East and West Germany, and suddenly closed the Brandenburg Gate, the city’s main crossing point. Only a trickle of refugees managed to make their way from the Red-held East into free West Berlin in the face of the border closing ordered by the Communists Sunday and enforced by East German soldiers and police backed by tanks and machine guns. Communications from West Berlin to West Germany were not affected by the latest Communist move. The Red regime years ago cut all telephone communications between East and West Berlin. But, until today, it had been possible to telephone from West Berlin to East Germany. Close Gate Temporarily The East German Interior Minister said the Brandenburg Gate was being closed “temporarily” because of Western “provocations,” a reference to West Berliners’ demonstrations against the travel ban. The Berlin developments had widespread repercussions. Among them: —President Kennedy flew back to Washington from his weekend vacation retreat at Hyannis Port, Mass., to consider further American moves in the situation. —West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano and the American, British and French ambassadors met for an hour in Bonn and agreed that the new Communist border moves in Berlin were “very serious.” —The United States, Britain and France were reported preparing to file a sharp protest to the Soviet Union against closing the Berlin borders, where the number of crossing points was cut from 80

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better adult education, vocational shop, home ec., and agriculture, speech therapy, and other phases, even possibly junior college activity in the distant future. Selking stated that O. L. Kohlmeyer, the state secretary, told him today that 45 of the proposed units from 90 counties are county units, including such nearby counties as Jay, Allen, Huntington, Whitley, Grant, Howard, and Madison. New 3-Unlt Plan The board, with just five of its nine members present, also gave consideration to a plan that would include three units, but Preble, Root, and Union would be in the Adams Central unit, balancing it in size with the north and south units. This was proposed by a representative of the group from Preble, Root, and Union townships. It will be September at least before Ball State Teachers College will be able to report on the south district, and they have already submitted a bill for S4OO for the preliminary work, Selking added, ers now must continue no matter how much it costs.” The rally was held in a private auditorium in the Negro section but several police stood guard as the racially mixed riders and the Negro audience moved in and out of the building. Most of the riders were lodged at nearby Tougaloo Christian College for Negroes where they held a planning session prior to the rally and received instructions TO" stay clear of further arrests. Farmer said CORE had estimated that the weekend trip to Jackson would cost as much as $45,000 They will have to return again for their trials, which will be held before a jury, two a day five days a week beginning next week. CORE attorneys were denied permission to appear in place of the riders today for setting of the trial dates Four Fishermen Are Rescued From Lake CHICAGO (UPI) — Four fishermen were rescued from Lake Michigan today more than an hour after their 16-foot outboard motorboat capsized in choppy water a mile offshore. Authorities identified the owner of the craft as Fred Holloway, 41, Chicago, and his three companions as Lonnie Moore, 36, Wayne McCord, 35, and Charles Sorrells, 36, all of Gary, Ind.

tto 12. —A number of members of the West German parliament flew into Berlin to study the situation first hand and to decide whether to call a special session this week on the crisis. Three Water Cannon Before the Brandenburg Gate was closed, the Communists had wheeled up three water cannon and redoubled their show of armed might there. But hundreds of angry West Berliners surged forward, whistling and shouting “Swine,” “Why don’t you dig potatoes,” and “The Vopos (East German people’s policemen) must go” as the Red reinforcements came up. Restraining ropes broke under Hie pressure. West Berlin police squads pushed the crowd back to prevent a major incidentThe 11,000 American, British and French troops in the Berlin -garrisons were placed on full ajert. The Communists shut the border between East and West Berlin early Sunday morning, but they missed some holes. Western officials announced shortly before 11 a.m. that from Saturday afternoon to 8 a.m. today, 5,299 refugees registered in West Berlin. Os these, 3,700 registered before Sunday afternoon. That left 1,599 who somehow had escaped the Communist cordon since the clampdown. How They Did It A 29-year-oki bus conductor said he visited a borden cemetery, pretended to decorate a grave and scaled a glass-covered wall behind the backs of two Communist 'guards. An East Berlin truck driver said he simply walked to an unguarded section of the border, lifted his two small daughters over a barbed wire barricade, helped his wife over and then scaled it himself.

U.S. Pledges Quick AidTo Latin America PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay, (UPI) — A pledge by the United States to make $1 billion in quick emergency aid available to the “alliance for progress” today assured the success of the InterAmerican Economic and Social Conference. The U. S. delegation yielded Sunday to Latin American demands for concrete pledges pf immediate financial assistance when it co-sponsored the resolution to provide funds by the end of next March. The United States also promised to take “rapid action” on requests from the hemisphere’s neediest nations for emergency crash spending. A high U. S official said, “It seems to us all significant issues at this conference have beeh solved. As we see it now, the key problems have been managed and there is general agreement.” The official said it remains to be seen what Cuba — which is ineligible for alliance funds — will do about signing the final declaration of Punta del Este. Cuba’s decision to ratify or reject the final document could have political significance and perhaps give a hint of Fidel Castro’s future role in hemisphere affairs. Although Cuba has repeatedly attacked the alliance as “an imperialist scheme for extending U.S. domination over Latin America,” Cuban! Finance Minister Ernesto (Che) Guevara has taken the most active part of any delegate at this conference, hopping from one committee meeting to another. The last of the important problems of the conference was settled Sunday night, leaving only the formal drafting of the final conference declaration for the next two days. The “Declaration of Punta del Este,’.’ together with the resolution spelling out the machinery for putting the S2O billion “Marshall Plan for Latin America” into operation, will be signed on Wednesday. Five Drowned Over Weekend In Slate By United Press International Five persons drowned in Indiana over the weekend, three of them Chicago residents drowned in two separate Lake Michigan accidents. George J. Thompson 11, 14, and Robert H. F. Hornung, 28, both Chicago, drowned Sunday afternoon at Dune Acres on Lake Michicagn. Hornung was drowned while trying vainly to rescue the boy. Thompson’s body was recovered a short time later and a covered a short timz later and a search continued for Hornung’s body. Nicholas Korbus, 13, Chicago, drowned Saturday while on a Boy Scout outing at Indiana Dunes State Park The boy disappeared while swimming with a group of companions in Lake Michigan. An unidentified swimmer found the body in two feet of water several hours later. A buruise on the victim’s forehead led authorities to believe he may have struck his head on the bottom of the lake. Joe Rogers Durden, 26, Fort Wayne, drowned Sunday while fishing at Cedar Dam on the St. Joseph River. Authorities said he apparently dropped some fishing tackle into the river and stepped into a deep hole while wading after it. A resident of the area recovered the body. Donald Gerking, 24, Greenwood, drowned Sunday while swimming in Cataract Lake. Witnesses told state police they thought a hydroplane had passed over him just before he went down. The body ■ was recovered Sunday night and i taken to an Indianapolis funeral home for examination by police laboratory experts. I ■ • ..J Gov. Welsh Calls On Pres. Kennedy WASHINGTON (UPI) — Governor Welsh hoped to promote In--1 diana’s proposed Lake Michigan ■ seaport today. Welsh was scheduled to pay a courtesy call on President KenneI day and confer with members of I Indiana’s congressional delegation i in connection with the Burns i Ditch. Ind., seaport project. After a round of talks, Welsh ; was expected to return to Indianapolis Tuesday.

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Decrease Os One Cent Is Proposed In Tax Rate In Adams County Next Year

Rusk Warns Os More Crises

WASHINGTON (UPI)-Secretary of State Dean Rusk told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that the United States must continue to seek world disarmament “because our very survival may depend on it.” Rusk said the nation must expect ever more dangerous political and military crises to rock the world. “The possibility exists that some mistake or miscalculation may create the spark which could . plunge the world into a disaster,” , Rusk said. But Rusk said the recurring global troubles should not prevent the United States from seizing any opportunity to press for disarmament with imagination and patience. Rusk urged fast approval of President Kennedy’s plan to set up a U.S. disarmament agency under the secretary of state’s con-1 trol. • Other congressional news: Aid: Both the House and the Senate debated foreign aid legislation, with leaders hoping to complete action on President Kennedy’s program by the end of the week. The House began debaite on its $4.5 billion bill, while the Senate resumed consideration Os its $4 3 billion version of the same measure. The President’s request for five-year borrowing authority to finance foreign loans was the most controversial aspect of the bill in both houses. Berlin: Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield called for calmness and careful action in the wake of the Berlin crisis. Mansfield told reporters, “We had better move deliberately and carefully, keep out shirts on and recognize the constitutional fact of life that the conduct of foreign policy is under the President.’ Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, Hl., said Soviet moves in Berlin "indicate that they are going to play hard and whether they will play hard to the breaking point remains to be seen.” Unemployment: Labor and manin Berlin “indicate that they are industry disagreed over why foreign steel producers are capturing an increasingly larger share of the world’s steel market. R. Conrad Cooper, a U.S. Steel Corp, vice president, told a House subcommittee high wages paid to American workers are a major factor. Mayer Bernstein, international affairs director for the United Steel Workers of,America, argued that the “real trouble in steel is . . business conditions at home.” He referred to automation and the slackened rate of economic growth. The subcommittee is studying the effects of imports on the American employment. Advertising Index Advertiser A & P Tea Co., Inc. —— 3 Dr. R. E. Allison —-5 Burk Elevator Co. 5 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 3 Bowers Hardware Co. Inc. 6 Budget Loans 6 Cowens Insurance Agency — 4 Drive In Theater | 6 Decatur Record Store —- 3 Evans Sales & Service - 5 Holthouse Drug" Co. —- — 2 Haugks — 4 Hammond Fruit Markets, Inc. „ 2 I & M Electric co 2,3, 4,5, 6 Myers Cleaners 2 Kent Realty & Auction Co. 5 L. Smith Ins. Agency, Inc. -51 Smith Drug Co.- 3, 6 Stewarts Bakery -— — 4 Thomas Realty & Auction Co. ... 5 Tpeple Truck Line — 5 Win Rae Drive In 3 Zintsmaster Motors - 6

IK w ■ ARRESTED — Oscar Vicente) Cor res, one of the leaders of the planned revolt against the Argentine government, is shown after his arrest in Buenos Aires. More Blood Donors Needed Wednesday More blood donors are urgently needed to meet the 125-pint quota set when the bloodmobile visits Decatur Wednesday. Approximately 185 donors need 'o be scheduled to meet the quota. Walk-ins are always encouraged at any time, according to Mrs. Ferris Bower, who is blood drive chairman. They are urged especially to come between the hours of 10 and 12 o’clock in the morning and 2 and 3:30 o’clock ’in the afternoon. Those in need of transportation can call on the services of the Welcome Wagon. Tuesday, they may call the Red Cross office at 3-3106 for transportation, or 3-2520 Wednesday. Volunteers have been contacting all possible donors for the past week and will continue to do so until Wednesday. Additional persons helping to contact donors include Mrs. Joe Hunter, Mrs. Josephine Neireiter and Mrs. Laures Meyer. Man Is Electrocuted In Airport Mishap SOUTH BEND. Ind. (UPD — Dennis Michael Bourdon, 24, South Bend, was electrocuted Saturday while working at the Municipal Airport. Authorities said the fatal shock apparently resulted from a short circuit in a floor scrubber he was operating in the airport boiler room. The accident occurred while Bourdon’s wife was attending a funeral in Illinois and his parents were at a funeral here. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little warmer tonight. Tuesday fair and warm, turning cooler late in day or at night. Low in 60s, high Tuesday 84 to 89. Outlook for Wednesday: Mostly fair and mild north, partly cloudy and warm south. Low Tuesday night 55 to 65, high Wednesday mostly in 80s except upper 70s extreme north. Decatur Temperatureii Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. IS noon 79 12 midnight .. 66 1 p.m. 79 1 a m 66 2 p.m. 79 2 a.m. 65 Bpm 78 3am 64 4 p.m. 78 4 a.m 64 5 p.m. 76 5 a.m 64 6 p.m. 74 6 a.m 64 ‘ 7 p.m. 72 7 a.m. 73 8 p.m 69 8 a.m 78 9 pm. 68 9 a.m 80 10 p.m. - 68 10 a m.'. ... 83 II p.m. .67 11 am. .... 85 Rain Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 am. today. 0 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.30 feet.

The county rate will be down 1 cent to $1.26, according to . the proposed county budget for 1962, county auditor Edward F. Jaberg said this morning. The county revenue rate, proposed at 73 cents, and later cut to 67 cents, for this year, was cut to 57 cents for next year. Part of this is due to the removal of part of the reassessment expenses from the budget. Reassessment has asked for $30,000 for next year. / A new fund, the ditch improvement fund, was established at 7 cents. The fund which raises the money to repay the bond and interest on the hospital addition was up from four cents to six cents. It was originally established at eight cents several years ago. Other Rates Same All other rates were continued the same: cumulative court house, 2 cents; county welfare, 13 cents; cumulative bridge, 15 cents, county wide school tax, 24 cents; hospital furniture and equipment, 2 cents. For the third consecutive year no amount was asked for the hospital operating fund, which last collected tax money in 1959. Salary Increases County clerk Richard D. Lewton has again asked for a third deputy, however, he did not request the $250 annual raise for deputies, asking for 3 deputies at $3,300, while other offices with two deputies asked for $3,500 per deputy. Those offices were the county auditor, county treasurer, recorder, and surveyor. The' assessor’s office asked sor 1 a SSOO increase for his deputy, to $3,500. The county superintendent of schools, with a S3O decrease to $9,000 for the new county superintendent, most of which is paid by state funds, asked for a SIOO a year raise for the secretary, to $3,100; a S2OO a year raise for attendance officer, to $4,350. Comity Agent TTie county agent’s budget asked for a S4OO raise to $3,600 from county funds, part also coming from state and federal funds; a full time assistant at $2,400 with S7OO for mileage: a S2OO a year raise for the home agent to $2,700 from county funds; and a SSO raise for eacn secretary to $3,300. In the court budget, a S2OO a year raise was requested for the court reporter, bailiff, and probation officer, bringing them up to $4,300, $3,800 and $2,200, respectively. The court house janitor was raised to $3,900, a S3OO raise, the matron to $1,320, a $l2O raise, and the jail matron SI,BOO, a S2OO increase. County Highway The county highway supervisor. Lawrence Noll, was raised SIOO a year to $5,000, while his clerk got a SI,OOO raise, to $4,250. The county highway workers recently got a slight raise when the county decided to pay their health insurance, which is not done for the other county employes, who have requested cash wage ’ncreases. In the welfare department, each of the workers was raised about $l2O a year. The director will receive, under the new budget, $5,040 a year, the three visitors will receive between $3,600 to $3,780 a year, and the clerical-i stenographic help will receive $2,700 to $3,300 a year. A total of- $5,500 is Included in the general fund budget for zoning during the coming vear. A total of SIO,OOO is still included in the general fund for bridges, although a snecial tax rate of 15 cents per SIOO is also levied. Rates Compared Amounts to be raised in 1962. with the present 1961 figure i* narantheses, bv the proposed rates, are: cotintv revenue. 57<* $272,175 ($306,811); cumulative court house. 2<* $9,550 ($9,158): welfare. 13#. $62,080 ($59 530): cumulative bridge. .15#. $71625 48WSWK): school tax. 24#. $114,600 <«109.89R) : hosnital bond. 6< S2B - 650 <518,316): hospital eouinment. 2#. $9,550 ($9,158): ditch improvement. (Continued on page three)

Mikoyan Arrives On Visit To Japan

TOKYO (UPI) - Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the most important Russian to visit Japan since the turn of the century, called on Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka today and immediately denounced the JapanUnited States security treaty. Mikoyan termed the pact aggressive toward the Soviet Union, Kosaka disclosed in a news conference following their 80-minute meeting. The meeting, unusually long for a courtesy call, ran about 25 minutes over the scheduled time- : — Mikoyan, one of the Soviet Union's "super salesmen.” arrived here today on an unofficial nineday visit. Japanese police provided him with one of the heaviest security guards in history. Trade and Industry Minister Eisaku Satu turned down a Mikoyan offer for a 10-year Soviet--1 Japanese trade agreement in ■ which the Russian promised to de- ■ liver coal, oil and iron ore. Sato t withheld agreement to buy Soviet 1 oil, and said that it would have r to be refined in Japan. , The Soviet official came here despite warnings by Japanese. J ‘leaders that his presence might incite violence. A planned trip to Japan by President Eisenhower ' last year was called off because Japanese officials feared for his safety. About 50 rightists and ultra-na-tionalists showed up at Tokyo’s International Airport for Mikoyan’s arrival. But the police guard was so heavy, there were no serious incidents. Although the ultranationalists have been unable to generate mass demonstrations as have the leftists, some of their outbursts have been more fanatic. Shortly after his arrival aboard a Soviet turbo-prop Ilyushin-18 airliner, the grey-haired Russian leader promised to work to promote better economic, political and cultural relations between the two neighboring nations. Japan and the Soviet Union have signed an agreement ending World War II hostilities, but have never signed a peace treaty. ' Mikoyan came here as an unofficial visitor to open a Soviet trade fair in Tokyo Tuesday. $7,191.53 Grossed At 4-H Food Tenl Some final figures have been released on the total receipts and amount of produce sold at the 4-H dining hall during the recent three-day 4-H fair. On opening day, total receipts amounted to $2,279.45. The second day’s figure stood at $2,454. 55, while the final day grossed $2,457.53. The grand total of $7,191-53 was ust S2O less than the amount grossed la§t year. Nine hundred and fifteen pies were registered during the three days, or 4,575 pieces sold. Over 1.000 dozen sandwich buns were used, figuring out to around 12,000 sandwiches put across the counter. In making sloppy joes and chili, approximately 800 pounds of hamburger were used and about 600 pounds of ham went into sandwiches. Three hundred pounds of wieners were consumed and 75 chickens were used in chicken noodle soup. Acting as chairmen for the dining hall during the 1961 fair were Mrs. Ed Gerbers and Mrs. Orville Neuenschwander, who represented the Farm Bureau, and Mrs. Dan Striker and Mrs. Noah Habegger, Home Demonstration representatives.

Continue Crackdown <4f On Sunday Business By United Press International Seven persons were arrested in Hammond in Lake County’s crackdown on violators of a 1905 Indiana law forbidding operation of non-essential businesses on Sunday. For the first time since the crackdown began in Gary, several of the places previously raided remained closed Sunday. The arrests brought to 78 the number so far in Hammond, Gary, Highland and Schererville. Meanwhile, Allen County Prosecutor J- Byron Hayes announced Saturday he was warning Fort Wayne area businessmen they face Immediate prosecution if they violate the law. He told the closing session of the convention at the Indiana Prosecutors Association at Fort Wayne that those who have been violating the law will be called to his office this week and directed to obey it. “If they refuse, we’ll begin an immediate and strict crackdown, "he said. Prosecutor Patrick Brennan of St. Joseph County said there may be a similar crackdown in the South Bend area. He said sentiment in the area seemed to be growing in favor of such a move. Both Hayes and Henry Kowalczyk, chief deputy prosecutor of Lake County, told the association the 1905 law was “half-hearted” and said the Legislature should either repeal it or put teeth in it. The law penalizes store employes but not the owners and carries only a $lO fine. Traffic Takes Six lives In Indiana By United Press International Trafic crashes killed at least six persons in Indiana during the weekend, hiking the 1961 toll to at least 593. Stephen Eugene Westell, 16. Jndianapolis was killed late Sunday night when a car crashed into a tree stump at a city street intersection. Two other teen-agers were injured, j They were enroute to the Marion County Fairgrounds when the crash occurred. Also killed Sunday night was John E Back, 79, address unknown, when he walked into the path of a car on U.S. 52 northwest of Lafayette. Police said Black was attempting to cross the highway- when he saw a car approaching. When. he tried to avoid the first car, he stepped into the path of a vehicle driven by Russell Hockema,, 34, R.R. 8, Lafayette, Black was killed instantly. Mrs. Wilma Watson. 53, R.R. 3, Tipton, was killed Saturday night when she drove into the path of another car on a rural road in northern Tipton County. Her husband, Cash Watson, 54, was injured. Dallas White. 20, Elkhart, and Nancy Warmouth. 19, South Bend, were killed Saturday when the car in which they were riding on U.S. 20 went out of control and struck a tree- Two other occupants of the car were injured. Terrence Rapp, 25, Farmersburg, was killed Saturday morning in a two-car collision on US. 31 near Sullivan.

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