Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 11 October 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 239.

Four-Cent Cut In County Rate

Four cents was recommended to be cut from the county levy this morning, as the work of field representatives of the state board of tax commissioners began. This afternoon the township poor relief rates, libraries, schools, and cities and towns will be considered. Several township rates were cut this morning, also. General Fund Cuts The recommended four-cent rate cut was made to reduce the general fund by SIO,OOO, requested for bridges additional to the county bridge rate, and for some SIO,OOO anticipated state revenue additions. In other words, the county will get about SIO,OOO more from state revenues next year than anticipated at budget-mak-ing time. French, Kirkland, Monroe, Preble, and Washington were unchanged in the recommendations, which will go to the full board for consideration. Additional cuts will be made in many of the township rates at the state level, it was pointed out, if the state is able to distribute 100% of the school distribution authorized by the state legislature this past year at the request of Governor Matthew E. Welsh. Regardless, state distribution will be up considerably. Some of the township and school units which carry low balances will not get any additional reductions—others, like Hartford township, will get an additional 6 cents off the levy if it goes through. Township Cuts Hartford township already has had a four or five-cent cut today, regardless of the state distribution; other township cuts are: Root, six cents; Union, six cents; and Wabash, 12 cents. All rates will be cut by four cents, because of the county-wide reduction; other rates may be cut additionally by cuts in the township rates, poor rates, school rates, or library rates. They will be announced Thursday. All other county rates were left alone. State Soybean Crop 82,389,000 Bushels WASHINGTON (UPI) —The Agriculture Department Tuesday estimated the Indiana soybean crop this year at 82,389,000 bushels, down slightly from the Sept. 1 estimate of 83,810,000 bushels, compared with 65,205,000 bushels last year. The department estimated the national soybean crop at 710,475,000 bushels, compared with 720,356.000 bushels Sept. 1 and a 1960 crop of 558,771,000 bushels; First Day Fund's Collection $1,860 A total of $1,860 has been turned in to the Decatur Community Fund from the first day’s collection in all divisions, Ed Hagan, drive chairman, said this noon. The goal is $24,862. Hagan asked that all workers see their contacts as soon as possible, and keep their captains informed of how they are doing. Captains, in turn, are asked to keep their co-chairmen advised, and co-chairmen are asked to call in each morning with their corrected total. The large sign, used the last few years on the courthouse lawn, will not be placed this year, as it has not been painted and corrected to inc 1u d all ten agencies.

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PICKET FORD PLANT— Picket line set up outside the Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford Motor Co. in Detroit is aimed at stopping salaried personnel from working.

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Underground Nuclear Test Fired Tuesday WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States exploded another nuclear device deep in the earth Tuesday, the third shot the nation has announced since it resumed tests Sept. 15. A one - sentence announcement from the Atomic Energy Commission said the blast was of low yield, meaning its force was measured in thousands of tons of TNT. h - It was detonated underground at the AEC’s Nevada testing grounds, site of announced tests Sept. 15 and 16. President Kennedy ordered the current test series, designed to perfect small battlefield atomic weapons, after Russia resumed nuclear tests Sept. 1. It was not known whether the United States has set off any atomic tests since Sept. 15 without announcing them. In announcing the first test, Kennedy said some explosions might not be made known. Broom, Light Bulb Sale Monday Night Workers were named today for the annual Lions club broom and light bulb sale next Monday from 5 until 10 p. m., or until their territory is completed, Dr. Joe Morris and Frank Lybarger, cochairmen of the project, announced this morning. Nine Areas Decatur has been divided into nine areas, and a driver and three members will be with each car. Ed Highland, Herb Banning, Frank Lybarger and Bob Frisinger will lead and check the crews. Each driver is responsible for contacting the other members, and seeing that they meet, pick up their brooms, and light bulbs, I at 1718 W. Monroe, Dr. Morris’ j home. Loads will be ready to pick up at 5 p. m. Teams Listed The teams, with the driver listed first, are: Roger Gentis, Weldon Bumgerdner, Alva Lawson and Thurman Drew. Francis Ellsworth, Gordon Hooper, Roy Price and Russell Acker. Clark Smith, Clyde Butler, Milt Spence and Glenn Mauller. Bill McColly, Leo Seltenright, Noah Steury and Bill McFarren. Russell Owens, Richard Sullivan, Richard Mies and Dick Heller. Kenneth Shannon, Roh or t Zwick, Rev. Richard Ludwig and Herman Krueckeberg. Clark Mayclin, Alan Michels, Ron Parrish and Harry Knapp. Norman Steury, Merritt Alger, Jack Gordon and Carroll Schroeder. Dr. Joe Morris, Kenneth Earhart, Fred Corah and Earl Cass. The expediting crew will consist of Larry Anspaugh, Bob Worthman, Rev. Underwood, Jim Cowens, Hugh J. Andrews, and Vic Porter. For several years this has been one of the principal fund-raising projects of the Lions club.

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Dr. Robert A. Cook Is Banquet Speaker

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Dr. Robert A. Cook

Dr. Robert A. Cook, Wheaton, 111., experienced church and Sunday school leader, will be the featured speaker at the banquet of the Adams county Sunday school convention, to be held Monday evening at the First ’ Mennonite church in Berne. Dr. Cook will speak on “Let’s get serious about the Bible.” A graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Wheaton College and Eastern Baptist Seminary, he served churches in Philadelphia, LaSalle, 111., and Chicago. He also served as director of Chicagoland Youth For Christ for nine years before heading International Youth For Christ for nine years, during which time evangelist Billy Graham was vice president. A film, “The Great Challenge,” will be shown following Dr. Cook’s address. Price of the banquet is $1.50 per plate, and reservations are to be made by Thursday with Earl Chase or Don Sliger of Decatur, and Miss Frances Burkhalter of Berne. The opening convention session will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Geneva Evangelical United Brethren church. Qualified speakers will discuss Sunday school subjects. The second session will be at 7:30 P-to. Sunday at the First Mennonite church, with Dr. Paul L. Kindschi, prominent Sunday school speaker, speaking on “What is that in thy hand?” Sunday school helps and materials will be on exhibit throughout the convention. Local Lady's Mother Dies At Huntington Mrs. Dorothy M. Lootenn, 47, of Huntington, died Tuesday morning at the Huntington county hospital after an illness of several months. She was born at Summitville May 10, 1914, a daughter of John and Clara Haas-Becker, and was married to Bernard H. Lootenn May 11, 1935. Mrs. Lootenn was a member of Ss. Peter and Paul church at Huntington and its Rosary society. Surviving in addition to her husband are three daughters, Mrs. Ronald Loshe of Decatur, Mrs. Roberta Frybarger of Huntington, Victorine, at home; one son, John, at home; three granddaughters; two brothers and one sister. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ss. Peter and Paul church, with burial in Mt. Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at the Kroeger funeral home in Huntington, where the rosary will be recited - at 8 o’clock this evening. 12 PAGES

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 11/1961.

American Soldiers Take Part In Alert To Test "‘'— r i — West Berlin Defenses

Gromyko Pledges To Seek Solution

LONDON (UPl)—Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko flew off to Moscow today with a pledge that his government will “do its best” to find a peaceful Berlin solution. British Foreign Secretary Lord Home said in a speech shortly afterward he believed Gromyko has been convinced that a war over Berlin “must not be allowed to arise.” Despite the optimistic statements, British officials indicated there had been no concrete progress toward a definite solution but that both sides had agreed to keep trying. Lord Home, speaking to the Conservative party’s annual con; vention in Brighton, made it plain the West will not back down from what he called the “crisis of communism” in Berlin. “If there was interference with Allied access to West Berlin a fight would start and no one could say that it would not end in the ultimate disaster of nuclear war,” Home said. , “I think that we succeeded in convincing Mr. Gromyko that thqt situation must not be allowed to arise.” ment, cold newsmen the talks he Gromyko, in an airport statehad with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Tuesday “made certain contribution in the right direction over the Berlin question.” The Russian diplomat added that the Soviet Union’s “No. 1 choice” was the conclusion of a German peace treaty together with the Western powers. “Only in the case that there is no agreement” will Russia sign a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany, he said. “We do not think an interim settlement would be good. We think a peace treaty must be concluded and signed.” Gromyko stopped in London after talks with President Kenkedy in Washington last week. Diplomatic sources said the United States and Britain will begin a new round of talks with Russia later this month on possible negotiations for a Berlin

Sam Rayburn Now Critical

DALLAS, Tex. (UP)— Cancerstricken House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 79, developed pneumonia today. The chaplain at Baylor University Medical Center said he is in a coma. r~-" His condition is now considered critical. Physicians, trying to prolong the life of the speaker with a new, experimental drug, had said earlier that they feared a sudden infection. ‘‘Mr. Sam Rayburn’s immediate condition has grown more serious during the night,” a bulletin issued by his doctors at 11 am. said. ‘‘He has developed left lobar pneumonia with pleural effusion.” His lungs were filling with fluid and draining. ‘‘This diagnosis was made from X-ray examinations completed at 9:30 this morning,” the bulletin added. Because of this condition, he is now considered critical. The change was sudden for Rayburn, though doctors had never doubted that his cancer would be fatal. They had hoped, however, that the new drug being given to him, “5 fluore-uracil,’ might slow the progress of nis

settlement. The consultations will be conducted by the Western envoys in Moscow immediately after the Communist party congress which opens Oct. 17. The congress is expected to last about ,10 days. Six Are Killed In Army Copter Crash STUTTGART, Germany (UPDA brigadier general and a colonel commanding U.S. missile installations in West Germany were among six persons killed Tuesday when a U.S. Army helicopter exploded and crashed at Hohenfels, Army officials revealed today. Seventh Army officials identified the two officers as Brig. Gen. Henry M. Spengler,, commander of the 32nd Air Defense Brigade, and Col. Zverett Light, commander of the 10th Air De-' Jena* Group. *Tht?y were killed 'When the big helicopter exploded and crashed in an isolated part of the huge Hohenfels maneuver area.There still was no information on the other four men. Army officials declined to elaborate on the helicopter’s mission and called it a “routine flight.” Both Spengler and Light were in command of missile installations for Hawk and Nike rockets facing the Communist frontier. Decatur Temeprntnre. Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending- at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon .... .. 74 12 midnight .. 52 1 p.m. 74 1 a.m 51 2 p.m 72 2 a.m 50 3 p.ni. .’. 70 3 a.m 48 4 p.m. . 72. 4 a.m. <. 48 5 p.m 70 5 a.m. 48 6 p.m. . 64 6 a.m. 48 7 p.m. 60 7 a.m. 48 S p in. 58 8 a mSO 9 p.m 57 9 a.m 60 10 p.m 54 .. 10 a.m 60 11 pin 53 11 a.m. 61 Hain Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, 0 Inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.15 feet.

malignancy and extend his life weeks or. months. Physicians were talking hopefully Tuesday of being able to improve his condition sufficiently with 4he new drug to enable him to spend his last days at his Bonham, Tex., home. Rayburn has been ailing about a year. Three months ago his back began hurting him severely. He had to leave Congress in session in Washington and return to his Bonhamhhome. He thought he had lumbago. But suddenly on Oct. 2, his Bonham physician ordered him to Baylor hospital for exhaustive medical tests. Last Thursday, examination of a lymph gland taken from his groin showed that he had a faradvanced cancer/probably in his pancreas, and that it had spread through half his body. President Kennedy flew a 3,100mile roundtrip Monday to spend 15 minutes with Rayburn. He was still talking Tuesday about Kennedy's trip to his bedside, ncludes Early

BERLIN (UPI) - More than 1,000 American soldiers today took part in an alert designed to test the Army’s defenses in this isolated Western outpost. Troops of the Ist Battle Group, 18th Infantry, rushed from Andress barracks this morning in trucks and jeeps and took up battle positions in the U.S. sector of Berlin. One of three battle groups stationed here, it was sent to Berlin by President Kennedy to reinforce the garrison after the Communists saled of the East-West Berlin border Aug. 13. An Army announcement described the alert as "a routine operational "readiness test which is part of normal training. The test is designed to evaluate the unit’s ability to react to various situations.” On the barricaded East - West Berlin border. Communist police again opened fire on fleeing East Germans attempting to escape to the West. West Berlin police said a Communist policeman late Tuesday night fired a shot at a 22-year-old East Berliner who scaled the Communist wall at Heidelberger Strasse to the American sector district of Neukoelln. He was not wounded. The youth was one of 14 refugees who escaped during the night. Two were Communist poI licemen, West Berlin police reported. The United Htatos to atoctopOW semi - automatic rifles for West Berlin border guards despite Communist protests against strengthening Berlin’s military defenses. U.S. officials said shipments of the weapons to Berlin have been sent for several weeks. The move was taken following heavy pressure from both the West Berlin press and police officials here for better armed border guards. West Berlin’s 12,500 policemen have been carrying only pistols on patrol of the divided city’s borders. Communist patrols are equipped with sub-machineguns and other automatic weapons. Informed sources said the U.S. government would prefer to have West Berlin police patrol the borders and felt they would be able to handle any incidents if they were properly equipped for the job. ■ 7“ One source said the main mission U.S. forces have here is to counter any Soviet or other Communist military threats and not worry about handling water fights and tear-gas grenade attacks by Communist police. The East German Communist regime Tuesday protested to the Allies against the planned transfer here of West German traffic police. “The (East German) government points out that the plan to transfer West German police troops to West Berlin is an act of aggression, which the German Democratic Republic will oppose in the interests of security and peace,’* the protest note said. Charges By Castro Are Branded False WASHINGTON (UPD — The State Department has branded as completely untrue Premier Fidel Castro’s charges that the United States was preparing another invasion of Cuba. COMMUNITY FUND Collected previously .... $ 0 Collected Tuesday — 1,860.00 Total to Date 1,860.00 Goal -I- 24,862.00 Still Needed ----- 23,002.00 How much is mercy worth? Have you given your share? Ten agencies, and share: Little, Pony Leagues, $2,000; Crippled Children. $1,200; Red Cross, $5,876; Youth Center, $5,000; Mental Health, $850; Salvation Army, $1,320; Girl Scouts, $2,525; Boy Scouts, $3,278; American Field Service, $1,500; U. 5.0., $513.

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Protest Handling Os Negotiations

DETROIT (UPI) — About 100 United Auto Workers union members jammed into a downtown hotel today aad demanded to see UAW President Walter P. Reuther to protest. the handling of negotiations with the strikebound Ford Motor Co. After refusing several police requests to leave the hotel, the striking UAW members finally dispersed after getting assurances company officials would meet with them this afternoon to discuss their grievance. The strikers aid not get to see Reuther. But they were told by his administrative assistant, Irv Bluestone, that company officials would meet with them this afternoon at the Rouge plant, -h Police summoned by the hotel management had asked the strikers to leave but they had refused until Bluestone talked with them. “We’re going to stay right here; we want to see Reuther; we’re not satisfied with what they’re giving us.” the strikers shouted at fourth floor of the Detroit Leland Hotel, headquarters for the negotiations between the union and Ford. The strikers said they were objecting to an agreement Reuther reached on a local issue, the farming out of tool and die work to outside firms. “We don’t want jobs farmed out as long as Ford workers are laid off,” the strikers complained. The incident came as the union's executive board was scheduled to meet here tonight to examine the status of negotiations at Ford—where a strike has been in progress since Oct. 3. The board also will make a decision concerning rejection of the union’s agreement with American Motors by a local at Kenosha, Wis. Only two national issues remained unsettled at Ford and UAW President Walter P. Reuther has set Thursday as a target date to end the strike against the nation’s second largest automobile producer. The “historic” American Motors pact was plunged back into the limelight Sunday when AMC’s largest local, Local 72 at Kenosha, Wis., voted not to ratify the agreement. In making their decision concerning the AMC contract, three alternatives face the 24 - member board. It can decidethe contract has been ratified because the majority of AMC workers approved it; it can decide it was rejected, or the board can call for another vdte on the contract. An American Motors official indicated Tuesday the company expected a new vote to be taken. Reuther said that this is the first time the UAW has ever faced a situation where the majority of the locals approved the contract but the largest turned, it down. At Ford the problems holding up settlement of the national pact were production standards and union representation. However. 31 Ford plants still had unresolved local problems. Local contract differences set off a two-week strike at General Motors last month. The 120,000 Ford workers went out Oct. 3. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and a little coolertonight. Thursday fair and mild. Low tonight 48 to 58. High Thursday in the 70s. Sunset today 6:12 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 6:52 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Fair to partly cloudy and mild Lows 47 to 56. Highs in the 70s.

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Yankee Troops Returned To France Today CHERBOURG, France (UPD— The Yanks returned to France today. Two thousand serious - faced American soldiers arrived at this historic port through which passed tens of thousands of doughboys of World War I and GI Joes of World War 11. They were the vanguard of 40,000 troops President Kennedy has ordered to Europe to beef up America's five battle - ready divisions facing the Red army in Germany and the vital communications lines that support them. Five hundred of them came 1 ashore from the 19.000 ton UK V Army Gen. Simon i I ner when it docked at Cherbourg's . maritime station. The ship was due to leave later in the day taking the other 1,500 to Bremerhaven, Germany. The soldiers—first from America to land at Cherbourg since 1945—lined the rails as the graypainted transport eased slowly into the dock. It was a clear and sunny fall day with scarcely a ripple on the water of Cherbourg roadsteads. As the transport docked, a French band played first the, “Star Spangled Banner” and the “Marseillaise.” Many of the soldiers, who had been laughing and kidding, became suddenly serious. The anthems seemed to bring home to them that this was not a pleasure cruise, not-a.junket but something that could be deadly serious—the realt hing. Everything was quiet, smooth and businesslike. There were no flags on the dock, no large cheering crowds. Just a small waiting official delegation and perhaps a couple of score of spectators—local Frenchmen who watched in sober but friendly silence. Lay Cornerstone Os New Church Oct. 22 The Rev. C. E. Lykins, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. announced today that a special service for laying of the cornerstone for the new church office will be held Sunday, Oct. 22. Building operations on the new structure, located at Seventh and Marshall streets, are moving ahead of schedule, the pastor said, enabling holding the cornerstone service earlier than had been anticipated. The congregation has raised $20,000 since March 1, 1959, on the regular channels of giving the building project, in addition to which have amounted to more than $15,000 annually. A new parsonage was purchased last July at 603 Stratton Way. Rev. Lykins stated that with the completion of the new church, the total property value owned by the congregation will exceed SIOO,000. A book is to be sealed in the cornerstone, containing the names and addressess of all who participate in purchase of the sound system for the ' new building, and also other items, including a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat.