Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 216.

Big Four Allied Foreign Ministers In Conference On Crisis In West Berlin

Refugees Return To Flooded Homes

GALVESTON, Tex. (UPl)—Refugees returned to battered and flooded homes along the Gulf Coast today and were urged to take shots to prevent an outbreak of typhoid. Even as they streamed back, searchers were finding more victims of Hurricane Carla. The death toll was expected to reach 31. Bodies of 28 persons had been found. The U.S. Navy lent its services to the many relief workers in the area. Two ships were standing off the coast and others were due in the storm-hit areas later today. A search party Wednesday found eight more victims of Carla’s fury. Die In Storm Twelve members of two families had tried to ride out the shrieking wind at a house in Angleton, Tex., inland from Freeport. At least eight of themhwere killed in the howling storm. Rescue workers expected to find more bodies in the area today. The dead were identified as R. W. Dunn, 52; four adopted children, Walter Allen, 10, Wallace Royce, 9, Carl Theodore, 5, and Viola Eunice, 4; Joseph John Drvar, 54, uncle of the Dunn children; Floyd Gaylon Ham, 14, and Bobby Joe Ham, 11, Drvar’s step-sons. Robert Dunn, 15, clung to the roof of the house when it collapsed and drifted away on flood waters. He made it to dry ground and wandered into a home in the Bastrop bayou area. He was hungry, cut and bruised. Missing were Mrs. Drvar, 52; Mrs. Dunn, 50; and Ted Allen Ham, 15. Orders Quarantine Mayor Ed Tarrant ordered the island city of Port Aransas and Mustang Island quarantined. He said anyone leaving or entering the area will be given typhoid shots. . ~ , The Galveston- County Medical Association said facilities for jiving typhoid shots will be established all through the county. An late bulletins MOSCOW (UPl)—The Soviet - - vernment said today that "foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko “is ready” to talk with U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk on the German problem. GALVESTON, Tex. (UPI)—A wooden porch at American Red Cross headquarters in Galveston —a city already hit by hurricane Carla, mountainous tides, and a tornado—collapsed today under the weight of a crowd of storm refugees standing on it. Advertising index Advertiser zJMI Page Arnold Lumber Co., Inc 7 Beltone Hearing Service 4 Bower Jewelry Store 4 Burk Elevator Co 5 Decatur Drive-In 3 Equity Dairy Store 8 Evans Sales & Service — 5 Allen Fleming — — 5 Gambles >. 6 Habegger-Schafers 2,4, 7 Haflich & Morrissey Shoes 3 Haugks J. 6 Pauline Haugk Real Estate ... 5 H & M. Builders, Inc. 7 P. N. Hirsch & Co. u„ 2 Holthouse Drug ----- 3 I & M Electric Co. ----7 Kaye’s Shoe Store 2 Myers Home & Auto Supply -.8 Glenn C. Merica. Auct. 5 Model Hatchery ___i — 5 New Bremen Speedway 7 Niblick & Co 3 Smith Drug Co. 3, 6 Leland Smith Insurance Agency 5 Sheets Furniture 8 Stucky Furniture Co. —5 Teeple Truck Lines ____ 5 Win-Rae Drive-In 3

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inoculation center was set up for Texas City and Lamarque. Floods were still a threat. Nine Texas rivers rose and some surged into lowlands. Cities still closed to an estimated 400,000 refugees were Texas City, Sabine Pass, High Island, Bolivar, Gilchrist, Groves, Port Acres, Matagorda and Freeport. The Department of Public Safety declared 19 cities along the coast open to refugees. Galveston was among those cleared for return. Horse Show Sunday, Parade On Saturday Decatur will thrill this weekend as the sound of horse’s hoofs invades the main street to lead off with a big parade Saturday night advertising the fall horse show of the Adams county posse Sunday afternoon at 12:30 o’clock at Bellmont Park. Sixteen big events, ending with the daring, break - neck - speed chariot race, will fill the afternoon with entertainment for those who attend. Benny Prescott and Billy Glunt of Union City are already among those who have signed up for this daredevil event. -- -•-- Events Listed The opening parade will include ! five places, with a prize of S2O for first place in western equipment. Junior horsemanship for those under 14 years of age will draw 1 another crowd, with prizes from ; $5 to a ribbon for sth place. 1 Speed and action, western plea- \ sure open, keg bend, barrel race, obstacle race, flag race for 12 1 years and under—4 B-inch ponies, the mail bag race, half-mile pohy ’ race, horses and ponies under i harness, five-eighths mile race, ' Appaloosa costume, open flag 1 race, quartermile race, complete ] the 16 events. The presentation of the high-point trophy completes . the afternoon show. Charles Smith and his Palomino parade horse, Skipper, of Montpelier, a consistent blue-ribbon winner over the state, is entered. Indian Race | Ted Fuller and Rex Munson of Bluffton, and Bob Everett and Phil Adams of Decatur, are among those entered in the Appa- ■ loosa costume race. Dressed like Sioux Indians, the entrants ride ' into the arena at full speed, 1 whooping and yelling like the real < Indians. 1 Mike Burke and his pleasure : horse, Pat, will be entered from Decatur, as will Paula Strickler 1 and her- new Palamino pleasure 1 horse, Rebel. Many other well-known riders 1 have already entered, and more I are expected on Sunday. < The ladies auxiliary of the sheriff’s posse will serve lunch. ; i — — —— . INDIANA WEATHER j „ J Partly cloudy aid much j cooler tonight. Friday partly . cloudy and continued cool. Low tonight 45 to 54. High Friday , in the 60s. Sunset today 6:56 p.m. Sunrise Friday 6:26 a.m. , Outlook for Saturday: Clear or partly cloudy. Lows 40 to 50. Highs 60 to 70. Decatur Temperature* ‘ Local weather data for the 24 ( hour period ending at 11 a.m. today, t 12 noon 82 12 midnight .. 66 1 1 pm. 82 1 a.m. -c 66 1 2 p.m 82 2 a.m 66 > P.M, - 82 3 a.m 66 ' 4 p.m. 80 4 a.m 66 6 p.m 80 5 a.m 66 i 6 p.m 80 6 a.m 65 7 p.m 80 7 a.m 65 < 8 p.m 77 8 a_m. 66 . 9p m ... 76 9 a.m. - -66 , 10 p.m. 69 10 a.m 64 11 p.m 66 11 a.m. 63 , Rain Total for the 24 hour period end- 1 In* at 7 a.m. today. 0 Inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.12 feet. 1

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secretary of State Dean Rusk and German Foreign Minister Heinrich Von Brentano met here today to initiate a three-day round of conferences by the Big Four Allied foreign ministers on the Berlin crisis. Brentano, British Foreign Secretary Lord Home and French Foreign Minister Couve De Murville gathered in Washington for the talks. They met against the background of President Kennedy’s suggestion of “serious talks” with the Russians when the United Nations General Assembly convenes next week. Rusk and Von Brentano met at 8:30 a.m. EDT. Lord Home was to lunch with Rusk. Late this afternoon, Rusk, Lord Home and De Murville were to get together for the first formal session of the conferences. Friday and Saturday, all four will hold discussions. They were seeking a diplomatic formula to. ease the peril of nuclear war without making damaging concessions to the Soviet Union. They also planned to blueprint further strengthening of Allied military defenses while waiting for some sign of Soviet willingness to negotiate a meaningful settlement of the Berlin crisis. Kennedy sparked a glimmer of hope for a breakthrough in the Berlin stalemate when he declared. lata that toe presence in New York next weex of high American and Soviet officials would provide an opportunity for East-West exchanges on critical issues. In a statement issued after conferring with Presidents Sukarno of Indonesia and Modibo Keita of Mali, Kennedy noted that Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko both would be at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. He added: “This will provide an opportunity for serious talks about Germany and other problems if the Soviet side proves willing. The channels of diplomacy are always open if the Soviet side proves willing.” Kennedy made no direct mention of a possible summit meeting in his statement, but privately he made it very clear to Sukarno and Keita that an unprepared top-level meeting could not be considered because it would offer no chance for success. Final Performance Os Minstrel Tonight A well-pleased crowd of about 350 saw the initial performance of “Step Right Up,” the Jaycee-spon-sored minstrel show at the Decatur high school gymnasium Wednesday evening. The final performance of the show will begin this evening at 8:15 o’clock. The two-hour show, which features a little of everything, was well received by the audience. They were surprised and pleased with the professional quality of the home talent show, and gave evidence by their generous applause. — The cooler weather which arrived in Decatur during the night is expected to boost the attendance for tonight. The Tri Kappa sorority is managing the refreshment stand so that the audience can avail themselves of soft drinks and popcorn. Ralph Smith, Jr., provided one of the biggest laughs of the evening as he emerged from a real bathtub on stage and made his grand exit with his entourage of attendants. The end men, Ted Hill, Jack Petrie, John Eichenberger, Gene Ziner, Floyd Mcßride and Dick Galbreath, keep up a continuous line of chatter, and always try to “put one over” on Mr. Interlocutor, J. J. Baker. — Both Bettyjean Settle and Terry Dellinger did fine jobs in their original interpretive dances, and all of the soloists sang very well. The two-hour show ran a little overtime due to a bit at trouble with one of the Janitors, but it is felt that the problem will be solved by this evening.

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y ———— East German Reds Holding Americans

BERLIN (UPI) — U.S. author ities held out little hope today of helping two Americans held by the Communists on charges of trying to smuggle an East German girl to the West. The East German Interior Ministry identified the Americans as Victor Searles Pankey and Gilbert Page Ferry, both 20, of California. The ministry said both were caught trying to smuggle the East Berlin girl through the Friedrichstrasse crossing point in the tfunk of their car. The East Germans at the same time announced the arrest of a Briton, Bernard Joseph Colett, 30, of Birmingham, and a Dutchman, Henri Johnannes Petrus Marie Pierrot, 56, of Leyden, on similar charges. —.—" - U.S. officials knew knothing more about the Americans. The East German News Agency ADN said all four had been turned over to East Berlin courts, but did noff say when or where trials would be held or what the exact charged were. M The United States onoot ' directly with East German authoirites because there are no diplomatic channels between the two. The Communists would interpret any such moves as recognition of their regime. A U.S. spokesman said it was uncertain whether the Soviets in

Step Pressure To End Strike

DETROIT (UPI)— The federal government stepped up pressure for a quick settlement of the United Auto Workers strike against General Motors today with Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg urging a return to full production at GM by Monday. Goldberg said he was speaking on behalf of President Kennedy in asking the union and GM to “set their own deadline” of Monday for an end to the four-day old strike that has idled more than a quarter of a million workers at nearly 100 GM plants. The company and the union, Goldberg said on a national television program (NBC's Today), have an “overriding obligation to make an expeditious settlement” since the country is just emerging from a recession and cannot afford a prolonged strike in a major industry. Meanwhile, the company and the union reported new progress on negotiations at the plant level, with settlements reached at 55 of the plants represented by the UAW and the International Union of Electrical Workers which also is bargaining on a new contract. Some of the plants where agreements have been reached are still not back in operation, but GM said today that more than 60,000 of its 310,000 workers were back on the job today. GM, which said not a car had been produced this week, laid off a total of 10,000 workers today. Another 75,000 were still working but faced layoffs if full agreement is not reached soon. UAW president Walter P. Reuther and GM vice president Louis G. Seaton worked through the night and until early today in an effort to settle the 10,000 local plant problems which triggered the strike. Both sides reported a “productive” bargaining session with two “significant” agreements. ' One was at the main Oldsmobile plant at Lansing, Mich., and the

East Berlin would admit responsibility for helping American civilians not attached to the official U.S. mission or garrison here. In the past, the Russians have helped obtain the release of U.S. soldiers or official civilians held by East Germans. U.S. authorities did not know why the arrested Americans were in Berlin, if, in fact they were. They checked lists of troops staitioned here and of civilians living here, as well as tourists who have checked in with the U.S. mission. Many tourists never bother. Funeral Held Today For Rorick Infant Graveside rites, conducted by the Gillig & Doan funeral home, were held at the Catholic cemetery this afternoon for Mary Ann Rorick, stillborn Wednesday at the Adams county memorial hospital. Hie Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt offidSurviving are the parents, Norman and Phyllis Braun-Rorick, 1104 West Monroe street; one brother, Thomas, at home; the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Bernadette Rorick of New Haven, and the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary E. Braun of Decatur.

\ 1 1 other at a key stamping plant at 1 Mansfield, Ohio. Both were expected to set patterns for other 1 plant agreements from coast to coast indicating the log-jam blocking full scale back-to-work movement might be broken. 1 : i, Denies New Trial In , Apportionment Suit j John F. Linder today overruled a motion for a new trial of a suit 1 to force reapportionment of the 1 Indiana Legislature. ■ Linder previously had declared ; the legislature unconstitutionally : organized because general assem- - blies since 1922 had failed to comply with an Indiana Constitution provision calling for enumeration of men and reapportionment of the . legislative branch of state government every six years. The motion for a new trial was { filed last spring by Sen. Melville Watson, D-Greenfield, one of the defendants named in the suit in Linder’s Marion Superior Court 5. . J Watson could take an appeal to ' the Indiana Supreme Court. >1 Sen. Nelson Grills, D-Indianapo- ; lis, outspoken proponent of. reapportionment, filed a suit for in- i junction in Linder’s court Wednes- 1 day to prevent State Auditor Dor- i othy Gardner from paying the ’ present legislators because of i their failure to reapportion. ] Granting of the injunction would ; cost 150 legislators their $450 pay • checks for the last quarter of 1961. i Meanwhile, Federal Judge Wil- i liam E. Steckler said today that < trial of another reapportionment . suit filed in U.S. District Court here some time agohby the Indi- < ana Civil Liberties Union probably : will be postponed until after the 1 U.S. Supreme Court acts on a sim- 1 ilar case from Tennessee. i

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Heavy Damage By Floods In Carla's Wake KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)-The flood crisis caused by Hurricane Carla eased today but wide areas of Kansas and Missouri, and Kansas City itself, suffered heavy damage from a series of flash floods spawned by the storm’s rains and wild winds. National Guard troops stood a vigil in Kansas City under an edict from Missouri Gov. John M. Dalton to prevent looting in suburban residential areas where streets ran a sdeep as 12 feet with the swirling, muddy waters of the rampaging Blue River. The American Red Cross estimated that 1,800 persons in the greater Kansas City area were left homeless by the flash floods, triggered when Carla’s push up from the devastated Texas Gulf Coast touched heavy 18-inch rains in some areas of north central Kansas. The floods claimed five lives in Kansas. There were no deaths in Kansas City. f.nrfifr~ ~ ~~~ Kansas City received almost six 1 inches of rain Wednesday, enough to send the Blue River 19 feet above flood stage—its highest level since 1928. Kansas City was under martial law, declared by Dalton after Mayor H. Roe Bartle sought state assistance for what he termed “the greatest disaster since the 1951 floods.” The mayor was referring to an inundation ten years ago that flooded the city’s central industrial district and caused $1 billion damage. Police and guardsmen, aided by Air Force helicopter pilots, rescued an estimated 375 families from their flooded homes and house - trailers. Others were I trapped in cars stalled in deep water. In Merriam. Kan., a suburb southwest of town, water ran 12 feet deep through the business district. Highways were blocked, railroad trucks were washed out, and power was cut in some rural com- | munities. Two raging creeks claimed the five lives in Kansas. The Eldon Ackerman family, of Waverly, was wiped out when his car was swept away by a creek in Coffey County. _ Kileld with the 37-year-old Ackerman were his wife and their two children, 8-year-old Linda and 9-year-old Mark. Another motorist, Pete Delaney, 38, of Topeka, Kan., drowned near Fort Scott, Kan., when his car was caught in another torrent. George B. Strahlem Dies Last Evening George Brinton Strahlem, 66, who recently moved to a new home on Big Long Lake, LaGrange county, died at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday in McCray hospital, Kendallville, soon after admittance. He suffered a heart attack while bowling at the KendallviUe bawling center. He was a retired 1 railroad ticket agent, a veteran of 1 World War I, and formerly lived in Fort Wayne. Surviving are his wife, the former Hattie Kern, a niece of Mrs. Robert Garard of this city: one son, Major George Strahlem, stationed at Travis Air Base, Calif.; 1 and two daughters, Katharine of San Diego, Calif., and Joanne of 1 Johnstown, Pa. — Funeral services will be held at 4 p. m. Saturday at the ChalfantPerry funeral home in Fort ! Wayne, where friends may call from Friday afternoon until time of the services. . »

Community Fund To Aid Stricken

The Decatur Community Fund, in its effort to keep Decatur a one-drive dty, voted Monday to meet Decatur’s share of the disaster caused by hurricane Carla and being met by the Red Cross in Texas and Louisiana, from its present funds. The decision was made in its meeting Wednesday noon. Berne had already voted to meet Its share from its Community Chest. 306,600 Homeless Deane T. Dorwin, president of the Decatur Community Fund this year, explained that in emergencies like hurricane Carla, which had, by Monday morning, sent 300,000 people from their homes, the ordinary Red Cross funds just didn’t meet the needs. Thus, it was usual to conduct a special emergency drive to help the people in the area. However, Decatur is too far from the devastated area to send in food and blankets—the cost of shipping exceeds the value of the goods collected. So only cash donations are solicited in Red Cross chapters this far from the scene. Oae Drive Only Since it is the Community Fund’s job to raise the money needed for the agencies operating in the community in one consolidated drive, the board believed that it was better to pay Decatur's share from Community Fund money than to conduct a special drive at this time

Dorwin explained that anyone interested in making a special contribution to help the people in the flooded area should send his contribution to Mrs. Robert Boch, executive secretary, Community Fund, 228 Limberlost Trail, Decatur, Ind. No contributions will be solicited here, but none will be turned down, if someone wants to give especially for that purpose. Red Cross Helps Damage from the hurricane will total hundreds of millions of dollars, and already more than 150,000 people have been temporarily housed by ’he American Red Cross, which rushes both volunteer and paid workers to the scene at once. If Decatur ever suffers such a disaster, national Red Cross will immediately speed to its aid, so Decatur, in turn, helps out in other disaster areas. Food, clothing, and medicine will be purchased with the money sent from the local Red Cross chapter. _

Recalls Visit With 'Birdman' Rodgers Preble, and now living temporarily with his son-in-law, Ralph Straub in Peterson, recalled vividly today how he got to talk with C. P. Rodgers, the “Vin Fiz” man, when he stopped in Adams county during his first trans-continental airplane flight in 1911. As Werling recalls, Rodgers landed at Bobo Sept. 28, 1911. He was followed across the country by a train, as he was flying along the Erie railroad. He wanted to return to Huntington that evening for a banquet, so the train ran from Bobo to Huntington that evening. •— ■ It was sidetracked briefly in Preble that afternoon while “old No. 8” went through that town. During that time Dr. John Grandstaff wandered up to the depot platform, and started talking with the pilot. Werling, who was momentarily expecting the birth of a son, was rushing around town looking for the doctor. He finally cut through an alley, and spotted him on the platform. He says he doesn’t remember exactly what he got to say to the famous pilot, but he does remember how thankful he

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wds to find the doctor. About October 1 William N. Fleming will be through Decatur, re-enacting the famous flight of 50 years ago! and is interested in getting first-hand accounts of what happened. Fleming’s address is 59-61 Westervelt Place, Passaic, N.J., if anyone has an original memory, picture, or card that be would loan him for publicity purposes. Werling, who plans to leave soon to visit with a daughter in Grenada, Miss., also had a “Strange as it seems” clipping which mentions that the first coast-to-coost flight across the U S. took 49 days, and the plane, flown by Galbraith Rodgers, cracked up 15 times and required enough new parts to build four planes.

Readings In 40s Forecast Tonight By United Press International The most persistent hot spell of Indiana’s 1961 summer was chased away today by a mass of cooler air heavily laden with rain. Readings in the 40s were due tonight. Showers borne by stiff winds swept across Hoosierland and routed a string of warm and humid days that dated back to the last week in August. Rainfall by 7 a.m. included 1.01 inches at South Bend, .47 at Indianapolis, .13 at Evansville, .50 at lafayette and .08 at Fort Wayne. The rain was expected to end by this afternoon. Temperatures began falling in the early morning hours. It was 84 in Indianapolis at 7 o’clock this morning, lowest point the mercury had reached since Aug. 30. Forecasters said temperatures would continue to fall steadily and that highs today would range from 58 to 66 northwest to the mid 70s downstate. The mercury will plunge into the 40s and low 50s tonight, perhaps as low as 45 in the northwest and upper 40s in the central portion. Highs Friday will range from the low to upper 60s and Saturday will be a little warmer. Highs Wednesday ranged from 84 at South Bend to 90 at Indianapolis. It was the sixth day in a row Indianapolis had readings of 90 or 91, and the eighth time in nine days that those highs were recorded. The average temperature thus far in September at Indianapolis

was 79,1 degrees, more than 12 degrees above normal for the entire month of September. The dro p in temperatures started in the western areas of the state and spread eastward. At 8 a.m. it was 59 at Evansville and Terre Haute and 60 at Lafayette. But at that hour it was still a muggy 72 at Louisville, fl at Gin- — cinnati and 67 at Fort Wayne. Tornado and severe thunderstorm alerts existed for several hours Wednesday afternoon for southwestern areas of the state, but no damaging winds were reported as the remnants of Hurricane Carla brought the low pressure area into Hoosierland and sent the barometer falling. Dillin Nominated For Federal Judge WASHINGTON tUPI) — President Kennedy today nominated Sr. Hugh Dillin, Petersburg, Ind.. to be federal judge for the Southern District of Indiana. Sen. Vance Hartke, (D-Ind.,) said he was notified by the White House that the President has signed the nomination and that It j was enroute to the Senate.