Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 223.

Rusk Urges Immediate Appointment Os Acting UN Secretary General

Hurricane Esther Drifting To Sea

BOSTON (UPI) — Hurricane Esther, reduced to nothing more than a small storm, drifted harm- - lessly to sea today leaving behind relatively little damage along the northeastern coast. The vicious storm, which once packed winds up to 150 miles an hour, suddenly disintegrated late Thursday after touching the Eastern Seaboard from New Jersey to Cape Cod. But it left some 65,000 homes on Long Island still without electricity early today. The Cape Cod area, braced for the full force of the storm, was hardly bothered as the hurricane died south of Nantucket Island. Damage estimates, though incomplete, already exceeded several millions of dollars. But this is almost nothing for a major hurricane. Causes Four Deaths Four deaths were blamed on Esther, three of them on rain slicked highways. The Weather Bureau explained that the storm slowed down and began to disintegrate once it moved beyond the Gulf Stream -into colder waters. This sapped the storm’s energy and it gradually was pushed eastward by outside winds and pressures. About 4,000 .persons, including President Kennedy’s two children, sought safer shelter as the storm approached New England Thursday. Almost all, including Caroline Kennedy, 3, and John F. Jr., 9 months, had returned to their homes today. The Kennedy youngsters, who are still at the summer White House in Hyannis Port, were taken to Otis Air Force Base along with six Kennedy cousins when the Cape seemed to be directly in the storm’s path. Disrupts Utilities Telephone service and power failures were widespread, especially in the Long Island area, but officials expected a return to near normal today. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said the storm knocked out service to 46,000 subscribers in New Jejsjy- New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. About 11,000 of these phones were restored to service early last evening. Long Island suffered about $1 million damage to crops, homes Advertising Index Advertiser Par * Beavers Oil Service, Inc ' Bill’s Barn ’ Budget Loans 1 Burk Elevator Co £ Burke Standard Service — 6 Cadillac ---- „ Carling’s Black Label Beer 7 Drive In Theater •» Decatur Music House 8 D. & T. Standard Service 6 Ray Elliott, Auctioneer 8 Evans Sales & Service 5 Allen Fleming , ® Federal Land Bank Assn » Paul Havens Chevrolet-Buick, 1 W 5 - ’ Haugks - “ Hammond Fruit Markets, Inc — 8 Husmann’s Decorating House -- 3 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co 2 Kohne Drug Store * Model Hatchery — % Phil L. Macklin Co • Niblick & Co -2, 3 Ruffy Twins 2,4, 8 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Smith Drug Co 3. 8 Andrew Schrock 5 Stewarts Bakery 8 Ford Co., Inc — 5 Standard Oil 6 Studebaker - Lark 8 Teeple Truck Line 5 Uhrick Bros 7 Villa Lanes 2 Walter Wiegmann. Auctioneer — 6 Win Rae Drive In .... 3 Walt’s Standard Service 6 Zwick Funeral Home 2 Rural Church Page Sponsors — 6

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and pleasure yachts. Connecticut and Rhode Island apple crops were also hard hit. Officials in Connecticut said damage would probably total somewhat more than $500,000. Kennedy Gives Congress Green Light To Quit WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy today gave Congress a green light to quit for the year after congressional leaders assured him the lawmakers could reconvene in 24 hours in case of an international crisis. The leaders reaffirmed plans to adjourn the first session of the 87th Congress late Saturday. A deadlock between House and Senate on the big foreign aid money bill could upset these plans, however. Rep. Otto E. Passman, D-La., chief House negotiator on the aid bill, said the House-Senate conferees were deadlocked and that he had no plans for further talks today. Passman had led the attack when the House cut $596 million from the foreign aid bill. The Senate restored most of this money at the urgent request of Kennedy, who warned that major reductions would weaken this country in the Berlin crisis. In a related development, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the nomination of New York attorney Fowler Hamilton to head the new all-in-one foreign aid agency. Senate leaders cleared away one major snag Thursday when they agreed to jettison if necessary a bill providing tax relief for Du Pont stockholders. That would put off this issue until next year. The aid conferees were faced with the problem of agreeing on a figure somewhere between the $3,657,000,000 approved by the House and the $4,196,000,000 voted by the Senate. —- - — - Other major measures remaining were the public works and final supplemental appropriations bills, and legislation creating an arms control agency. These were not expected to cause any delay in adjournment, however. Final congressional approval was given Thursday to the bill putting Kennedy’s Peace Corps on a permanent basis as both houses drifted through a day marked more by speech-making than legislating. — Other congressional news: Inquiry: A newly created Senate subcommittee may call Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker to testify on charges that the Defense Department hampered efforts ot military officers to warn of the Communist threat. Defense: Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, charged in a Senate speech that the United States had played into Russia’s hands by downgrading its nuclear power. She called on President Kennedy to stand firm on Berlin. Tests: Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., told the Senate there were “convincing reasons to suspect’ that Russia conducted extensive secret nuclear tests before resuming open experiments on Sept. 1. Sen. Styles Bridges Suffers Heart Attack CONCORD. N. H. (UPI) — U. S. Sen. Styles Bridges, 63, hospitalized after suffering a heart seizure Tuesday, was reported in “satisfactory” condition today.

NEW YORK (UPI)— Secretary of State Dean Rusk today called for the immediate appointment of an interim secretary general for the United Nations to “fill the void” left by the death of Dag Hammarskjold. Declaring that the leaderless United Nations is “at a critical crossroads,” Rusk said “events cannot permit drift and indecision” to peril the effectiveness of ‘ the world organization. Rusk’s demand came in the course of remarks prepared for delivery later at a lunch meeting of the Foreign Press Association here. A 13-nation group of uncommitted nations was preparing a resolution to have the General Assembly appoint an “interim administrator” to succeed Hammarskjold. Need World Leader Rusk said “an outstanding world leader should be named immediately to perform the functions of the office of the secretary general for a temporary period” while efforts are made to fill the post permanently. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko already has made clear that Russia is insisting on abolition of the post of secretary gen- , eral, with executive powers transferred to a three-nation presidium subject to Communist veto. I Rusk told Gromyko Thursday that the United States would never accept this Soviet “troika” plan and expressed confidence the Communists could not push it through the United Nations. ■ Rusk found, during a long session with Gromyko Thursday afternoon, no “give” in the tough Russian demands aimed at forcing the United States and its Allies out of West Berlin. The session lasted four hours and 25 minutes. Gromyko made it clear, too, that at the United Nations the Soviet Union intends to press to the limit its drive to change the executive structure of the world organization to give the Communists a veto over all its operations. However, Rusk was described , as neither optimistic nor pessimistic at this point, believing several more meetings would be necessary to determine whether there may be some honorable basis for negotiations on Berlin and other problems. Meet Next Week 1 The secretary and Gromyko are ' expected to confer again next 1 Tuesday or Wednesday at the Russian’s headquarters here. Gromyko renewed without a sinr gle change the “Heads win, tails you lose” choice Khrushchev ’ is trying to impose on the Western powers: —Get out of West Berlin and permit it to become a defenseless “free city” deep within Communist territory, or —Stay there with Western access routes at the mercy of the Communist East German government, unrecognized by the West, upon wham the Kremlin intends to confer sovereignty in a sepa- ! rate peace treaty. President Kennedy has said that war-won Western rights in — and access to — Berlin will be defended at all costs, by force if necessary. And he has termed Khrushchev’s peace treaty proposal totally unacceptable as a ‘ basis for negotiations. Seeks Broad Basis Rusk’s task is to see if the negotiating basis can be broadened j to offer the possibility of a peace-' I ful solution on terms acceptable , to the West. Rusk was understood to have stated the President’s position to Gromyko in emphatic terms. Despite the extremely stern position taken by each side during Thursday’s session, the talks were described as “friendly and busi- • nesslike” in an official American ■ statement. Officials said the at- - mosphere was relaxed and serii ous with no shouting or tablethumping.

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Michigan Woman Is Held In Kidnaping

DOWAGIAC, Mich. (UPI) — A 35-year-old farm wife, her husband ill with cancer and her two children in need, was in jail today after she tried to kidnap the 7-year-old son of an attorney for $15,000 ransom. “I just want to get it over,” mumbled Mrs. Marjorie Craft as she was charged with kidnaping 7-year old Tommy Hoff. The charge carries a mandatory life sentence. Early Thursday afternoon, a woman called Tommy’s mother, Mrs. James Hoff, wife of a local attorney and mother of four children. The caller said she was taking a school survey and asked questions about the Hoff children. At 2:30 p.m., Mrs. John Downey, secretary at the Patrick Avenue School where Tommy is a second grader, got a call from a woman who said she was Mrs. Hoff. The woman said she would pick up Tommy at 2:55 p.m., five minutes before school was out, to take him to the dentist. Called Boy’s Father Tommy was let out of school and the woman, Mrs. Craft, drove two blocks to a public telephone booth and called Hoff at his office. “Listen very carefully. I have your boy. Go to the bank and get $15,000,” the woman told Hoff. Hoff said he “shook with fear.” Hoff stalled and signalled his

Nikita Ready To Negotiate

MOSCOW (UPI) — Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today that Russia is ready to negotiate with the United States “at any time, at any place and at any level.” The threat of war has perhaps never been as great in the postwar period as it is now, Khrushchev said. Governments of the Western powers are intensifying military preparations in every way, he said. Khrushchev made the statement in a letter to Indiana Prime Minister Jawharlal Nehru. It was the Soviet premier’s answer to a message sent him by the non-aligned nations after the recent Belgrade conference. He sent similar letters to other neutralist leaders. “The Soviet government is ready to participate in talks which are really directed toward the speediest solution of urgent international questions,” Khrushchev said, “particularly a peace conference on concluding a German ■peace treaty and the normalization of the situation in West Berlin.” “The sooner such serious talks, the better.” , Loan Office Robbed Os $250 Thursday INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - FBI agents and police today sought a well-dressed bandit who robbed Insurance Savings and Loan here of $250 Thursday afternoon. j Sophia Engle, a clerk at the office near the heart of downtown, said the man entered the office, asked for change for a $5 bill, drew a gun and ordered her to empty the cash drawer. She said he took the money and fled in a blue and white, latemodel car. She said she was unable to see whether there was anyone else in the car.

law partner, Lewis James, who ran across the street to the telephone office and had the call traced. To reassure the boy, Mrs. Craft drove to the dentist’s office, went inside for a moment, returned to the car and drove toward Twin Lake, a rural lakes community north of here where she and her Husband, Carl, 30, and their two sons reside on an 80-acre farm. Left Boy at Station When she reached a gas station, five miles north of there she let Tommy out of the car and watched him walk to the station. She drove off and station attendants notified police. From her home, Mrs. Craft twice more called Hoff, demanding the $15,000 ransom. Hoff, knowing the boy was already free, said she'd better make sure his son was all right. Hoff then advised police to go back to the service station, hoping Mrs. Craft would go there to check on Tommy. p as Mrs. Craft drove toward the > gas station, a police car picked ■ her up and followed. She was stopped and arrested near the gas station. “I just wanted the money so my husband could get off the farm and get well,” Mrs. Craft said. “I was going to call the father and tell him to just forget it.”

Urges Improvement In Library Service INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Gover-nor Welsh said today that more than 20 per cent of Hoosiers do : not have direct access to a public library. “Almost a million persons—as many as live in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and Evansville combinedare without library service,” Welsh said in remarks prepared for delivery this afternoon at a conference he had called for the 1 improvement of public library service in Indiana. Welsh called the library “the 1 least expensive, most democratic, most independent source of information, education, re-education and continuing education that man ’ has yet devised.” “A library is like a bank; a bank of knowledge whose merchandise is ideas, research, facts, pleasure and broader horizons,” Welsh said. “Good library service is needed by every citizen of Indiana.” The librarians and library trustees who attended were to be told of the new Library Services Act, a federally - financed program [ which Welsh said would be adi ministered by Indiana agencies I with “neither federal nor state '■ interference of any kind... as long as I am governor.” * Welsh cited figures showing , that there were 7,644,058 volumes , in 247 public libraries in Indiana , last year and the average book > was used almost three times during the year. I But he said that 48 per cent of • the state’s 1,009 townships “are - still totally without library serv- ; ice” and 63 are “only partly served.”

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THE WORLD FOCUSES IN— Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andre! Gromyko attend session of the U. N. General Assembly before meeting privately on the Berlin problem. j . . . , ...... f—, —,

Brief Session Is Held By City Council The Decatur city council held a short meeting in the city hall Thursday evening, adjourning at 9 o’clock. The meeting was the regular semi-monthly meeting of the council, but had to be postponed from last Tuesday when "most of the council and officials were attending a municipal league meeting. The main item of business was a discussion of sidewalks at the Northwest elementary school, as Cecil Shaffer and other members of the Northwest P.T.A. appeared at the meeting. Petition Presented Shaffer, chaiman of the P.T.A. committee, had presented a petition to the council at the last ' meeting requesting sidewalks be constructed along 11th street, as > the children have to walk down I the street on their way to school. Mayor Donald Gage had explained that the cost of the sidewalks would have to be assessed against the property owners, and last evening, Shaffer stated that almost everyone was in agreement with the plan. The mayor related that city engineer Ralph E. Roop has been busy setting specifications, etc., for the new Grant street sewer, but he would begin surveying the property for sidewalks as soon as possible. The council adopted a resolution, giving its approval and recommendation to the interstate commerce commission on a proposed unification of the operations of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Co., the New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railway Co., and the Wabash Railroad Co. Resolution Adopted The council has received a letter requesting that they give their approval to this unification, and the resolution was adopted. Melvin Baumgartner, a Fourth street resident, appeared at the council meeting and explained that his neighborhood had been having trouble with a “wild” dog that was barking at night, and other such nuisances. Mayor Gage told Baumgartner that the council- would attempt to have something done about the dog. A few other minor items were discussed by the council, and the various council committees. One of them was that the piping for the city swimming pool was becoming a problem as they are better than 25 years old. The council tentatively decided that new piping would have to be put in, but first the sidewalk in front of the pool would have to be torn up so that a contractor could see what he was bidding on. More Gas Permits Granted To Area INDIANAPOLIS (UPD - T h e Northern Indiana Public Service Co. today was authorized to provide increased gas heating service in Allen, Adams, Wells, Whitley, and Huntington counties. The PSC said the utilities could add up to 1,500 more customers. NIPSCO reported that as of July I it had 2,584 unsolicited applications. Deratnr Temaera»ure« Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at ll a.m. today. 12 noon .. ... 73 12 midnight .. 61 1 p.m 74 1 a.m 60 2 p.m 74 2 a m. 60 3 p.m 74 3 a.m. — 60 4 p.m 70 4 am‘s9 5 p.m. ..... 68 5 a m. 59 6 p.m 66 6 a.m. ... 58 7 p.m 65 7am. . 64 8 p.m 64 8 a.m 70 9 p.m 64 9 a.m 75 10 p.m 63 10 a.m 78 II p.m 62 11 a.m. 79 Raia Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a m. today, 0 Inches. The St. Mary’s river was at .83 feet.

Adams County Man Is Killed

Maynard Rex Pursley, 30, of hear Pleasant Mills, was killed instantly at 5:10 o’clock Thursday evening in the collision of two autos at the intersection of East Washington Blvd, and University St. in Fort Wayne. Traffic investigators said the Adams county man was thrown from his car and his head struck a steel sewer grate at the edge of the street with such force that his skull was crushed. Arthur M. Rudek, 29, of Fort Wayne route 6, driver of the other car, sustained abrasions to the right elbow and knees. He was released following treatment at • St. Joseph’s hospital. ’ Authorities said Pursley, who 1 was traveling south on University, e apparently failed to stop at the s intersection and his car struck the “ Rodek auto broadside, spinning ‘ both vehicles around in the intersection. ‘ Pursley was a millwright at the ! B. F. Goodrich plant in Fort t Wayne. Formerly Lived Here The family formerly lived at the Simerman trailer court on i Mercer avenue, moving to Pleasant Mills about three months ago. The accident victim is survived by his wife, the former Janice 1 Kaufman; two children, James Dale and Teresa Ann. at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Caroll Pursley of Ossian route 2: four brothers, Hal Pursley of Fort Wayne, Ivan and John Pursley of Ossian route 2, and Robert Pursley of Macon, Ga., and two sisters, Mrs. Robert Wilson of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. James Woods, of Dover, Del. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton, the Rev. Francis Huffman officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a. m. Saturday. The casket will remain closed. Mrs. I. C. Smith Is Speaker At Rotary Mrs. T. C. Smith, immediate past president of the Indiana American Legion auxiliary, urged incressed patriotism at the Decatur Rotary club’s meeting held Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Her husband, T. C. Smith, was program chairman. Mrs. Smith had recently returned from the American Legton convention at Denver. She reported a sense of urgency there concerning the world situation and America’s part in it. She said that an inner strength was urgently needed. “The auxiliary has been called ’flag wavers’ and we hope we deserve the name,” she said. The speaker explained that child welfare work and interest in Latin America were two important phases of the auxiliary’s program. She was concerned over the softness of youth. She also suggested more emphasis on civil defense. Mrs. Smith said that there were many changes during the past 25 years but that fundamentals were the same. Individual liberty seems to have lost its luster and has been exchanged for security. The speaker concluded her remarks by suggesting that love of God and love of liberty were still important in this country. W. Guy Brown invited the club to participate in the Chamber of Commerce golf outing next Thursday afternoon. He asked that members purchase their tickets soon.

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Seek End To Disputes In GM Plants DETROIT (UPl)—Twenty-six local plant bargaining teams from General Motors and the United - Auto Workers, summoned to meetings in Detroit today, tried to set- > tie disputes holding up the end of • the General Motors strikes which e still idle 144,000 workers. e The local negotiators normally 8 bargain in their plant cities, but were called here by UAW President Walter P. Reuther when it ■ became clear they were delaying 1 a final settlement on a new contract for all 310,000 UAW workers at 118 GM plants. ; Although national portions of a new three-year contract have been settled, local problems at one time during the 12-day-old strike closed nearly 100 plants and 1 idled a quarter-million workers. Fifty-five of the UAW-represented plants are still closed. Disregard Orders Twenty plants where local agreements were reached also remained on strike despite union orders to reopen, and several others were shut down because of lack of parts from struck plants. The key unsettled local situation was at the West Mifflin, Pa., stamping plant. Its president, John McCarrell, drove here early today for the bargaining session after earlier refusing to attend the session of the UAW’s national GM council which convened Wednesday. The 280-member council Wednesday night approved the national contract but then called for a nationwide strike over the local issues. The UAW’s executive board however, refused to go along with the council and successfully proposed as an alternative to bring local bargainers here to work out their problems with international UAW and top GM officials. New Approach Reuther called it a “sensible new approach” designed to expedite the settlements. The plan apparently also was aimed at quelling rebellions by locals determined to continue the strikes. GM Vice president Louis G. Seaton said the whole thing "represents the failure of the union to deliver” on a promise to end the local strikes when the national agreement was reached. But, said Seaton, Reuther “couldn’t control” some of the dissident local leaders and the Strikes continued despite the understanding. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and mild tonight with chance of thundershowers extreme north. Saturday partly cloudy with chance of showers, turning cooler northwest. Law tonight 62 to 70. High Saturday 76 to 90. Sunset today 6:43 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:33 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly coudy and continued warm south, mostly cloudy and cooler north. Scattered showers or thundershowers likely south. Lows 60 to 72. Highs 70 north to 80s south.