Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 279.

Three Slain In Indiana By Desperadoes In Gary And Brownstown Today

Chiinp Scheduled For Orbi t Flight

CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) — U.S. scientists today put the finishing touches on a 93-foot rocket scheduled to hurl a chimpanzee three times around earth this week. The shot, which could come as early as Wednesday morning, is the final “rehearsal” flight planned for an attempt to send an astronaut on America’s first manned orbital voyage within a few weeks. The official word on the S4OO million Mercury man-into-space program is that, if the chimp test is successful, an all-out attempt will be made to orbit an astronaut before the end of this calendar year. However, sources close to the program said privately that the chances for a manned orbital flight before the end of this year “are mighty slim—all but nonexistent.” Early Next Year Most predicted the mission probable would come sometime around mid-January or February. A full sucess with the chimp shot is a prerequisite. The ape, reported to be a baby female, will be installed inside a bell-shaped Mercury capsule and sent soaring into space about dawn Wednesday, if all goes according to plan. The schedule calls for a 4%hour voyage three times around earth—roughly 81,000 miles—before the animal and the capsule, . are brought «baek to a parachute landing in the Atlantis Ocean about 1,000 miles southest of Cape Canaveral. The silvery Atlas-Mercury rocket was poised on its launching pad today, undergoing the final checks needed to make it as safe as possible for the chimp. Study Effects In space, the animal will have a series of comparatively simple tasks to perform to give scientists at ground tracking stations an idea of how the crushing weight of blast-off . and the weightlessness in orbit affects a living creature. The shot also will be a full scale test of the vital “life support” system designed to provide oxygen for the astronaut. Mercury scientists will keep tabs on the flight at a series of tracking stations girdling the globe. Plans call for the capsule to be within radio range of at least one station at all times during the voyage. Monroeville Man Is Killed In Accident By United Press International A Fort Wayne area man was killed in an Indiana traffic crash today, continuing a rash of highway fatalities that claimed 18 lives over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Ray Bacon, 35, Monroeville, became at least the 958th traffic victim in Indiana this year, compared with 1,002 this time last year. Two other persons were injured when their car went out of control on Indiana 14 about two miles east of New Haven. They were identified as Richard Boyles, 26, and Edward Sholl, 20, both of Fort Wayne. Authorities said Bacon was hurled from the car, which overturned three times. . Two infants were killed in separate traffic accidents Monday west of Plymouth and in Speedway. BULLETIN BRAZIL, Ind. (UPI) —lndiana State Police report that a military jet plane, believed to be an F- 84 based at Hulman Field at nearby Terre Haute, crashed northwest of Staunton. First reports said at least one person was killed

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Final Session Held By County Council The Adams county council, in its final regular meeting of the year, allowed all but one additional appropriation and/or reductions Monday morning in the Adams county courthouse. A total of six appropriations were allowed, with one turned down, and six reductions were also approved by the council. There were no remonstrators. All Transfers All of the appropriations were transfers of funds, and none came out of the general fund. Some of the various county offices had a surplus of money in one fund, and transferred amouts to other funds which were running short, or were needed. Appropriations included: $550 to the county surveyor for instruments; $320 to the county assessor for reassessment mileage; $250 to the Adams circuit court for law books, $250 to the Adams circuit court for operating expenses; $1,500 to the county commissioners for expenses of inmates at state institutions, and S3OO to the county commissioners for tuition of welfafe department ctiildfen. Reductions Allowed The reductions, or the money which was taken for the appropriations, included: S2OO from the county surveyor transportation fund; $350 from the county surveyor operating expenses fund; $l5O from the county board of education superintendent salary; $320 from the county assessor reassessment personal services fund; SSOO from the circuit court pauper attorney fund, and SI,BOO from the county commissioners expenses of patients at Irene Byron hospital fund. The appropriation that wasn’t allowed was $l5O to the county board of education for the secretary's salary. This was the sixth and final meeting of the county council, unless an emergency comes up, and a special session would have to be called. The Adams county commissioners held a short meeting before and after the council meeting, with only some minor items discussed. The commissioners also spent some of the day inspecting various bridges and ditches. Decatur Temperature* Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a m. today. 12 noon . 34 12 midnight .. 20 1 p.m 32 1 a m 19 2 p.m 39 2 a.m 18 3 p.m. .... 33 3 a.m .... 18 4 p.m 29 4 a.m 17 5 p.m 28 5 a.m 17 6 p.m 26 6 a.m. 17 7 p.m 24 7 a.m 18 8 p.m . 23 8 a.m, 20 9 p.m. 23 9 a.m 26. 10 p.m 22 10 a.m 28 11 p.m 21 11 a.m 28 Rnln Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, 0 inches. The St. Mary's river was at 1.86 feet.

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Two Men Slain By Ex-Convict At Gary Today GARY, Ind. (UPI) — A khakiclad ex-convict dishonorably discharged from the Marine Corps went on a two-county .shooting spree early today, killing two men and wounding a third, police said. t Shortly after daylight, authori- , ties found the body of the second ’ victim, Robert Caldwell, Gary, south of Hobart, Ind., Porter ’ County sheriff’s deputies said. Caldwell’s body lay along Baier Road near a clump of bushes in . front of the home of Frank BleI mel, rural Hobart. Police said , Caldwell had been shot in the k head by a 38 caliber bullet. Blemel said he reached his home, which is about 10 miles northwest of Valparaiso, about ! 2:30 a.m. and failed to see the ■ body, which was discovered at f 6:54 a.m. i Earlier the body of Deputy I Sheriff Edward Blakely, 47, father i of two grown children, was found k along Indiana 130 near the Valparaiso University campus, four miles west of Valparaiso. i The wounded man, who was ■ first to be shot, was Michael ■ Tomasich Jr., 50, Gary, who was > wounded in the arm by a 38 calir ber revolver outside a Gary tavt em. c. Police were holding Paul Ken- ; nedy, 20, who was arrested at the . home of his brother-in-law in Gary. Witnesses identified. Kennedy as the man who sat with Tomasich outside and shot him. Tomasich’s car was taken and abandoned at the Caldwell home. Car Found Abandoned Caldwell’s car was found abandoned near the spot where Blakely was slain. Blakely’s patrol car was found wrecked in Gary. Blakely was killed when he went to investigate a report of a suspicious car along Indiana 130, about 25 miles from the scene of the first shooting. (Continued on Page Six) Some Train Tickets Are Still Available Ticket chairman Ferris Bower reported at noon today that although some retailers had given out all of their tickets, others still had a limited number left, especially for the late train. Last year there were a few seats available on the 4. p.m. train. Parents are urged to try several retailers if unsuccessful on their first attempts. Retailers wishing to purchase more than their original allotment of tickets may phone the Chamber office where a limited reserve was still available late this morning on a first come basis. Bower again urged parents to write the ages of the children on the tickets. Parents who have tickets which will not be used due to illness or a, last minute change in plans are asked to turn them in at the Erie depot Saturday so that others may use them. Last year about 25 children who otherwise would have been disappointed were made happy at the last minute because of returned tickets. Tickets are different colors and are valid only for the times for which they have been issued. Added Feature Radio station WOWO’s “Big John’,’ will be an added feature on the morning and early,afternoon trains. He Is the new WOWO personality who arrived at Smith field last Friday to be in the tri-state area for the Christmas season. He is a big northwest woodsman who knows all about forests and pine trees and is well acquainted with Santa Claus land. He will , make tape broadcasts with people on the train, in the station and i around Adams county all day Saturday. He will alio distribute ] goodies and gifts to the children.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesd ay, November 28, 1961.

More Forged Checks Passed In County The sheriff’s department and the Indiana state police are continuing their investigation of a rash of forged checks that have been passed recently in Adams county, with a fourth bad check turning up in Decatur Monday. A store on 13th street received a check for slightly over S2O either Friday or Saturday, and it was exactly the same type forgery as has appeared in three other stores in Adams county. Names Are Same The check was made payable to a John Collins and signed by Jacob E. Schwartz. Two bad checks were passed recently in Berne and Monroe with the same names, and a Geneva clothing store received a check with the same pair of names Saturday. State detective Walter Schindler and sheriff Merle Affolder are conducting the investigation along with other members of the sheriff’s department, and the various law enforcement officers of the towns. The check passed in Genevg Saturday was for $35, about the same amount that was used on the fraudulent checks passed at Monroe and Berne. The man who passed the check at the Geneva clothing store was described as about 5 feet, ches tall, and between the ages of 26-28. This matches the description of the check forger at Monrpe, but varies from that of the man who passed the bad check at Berne. ■— - Fictitious Name The name John Collins is of course fictitious, at least as far as the checks are concerned, but Jacob E. Schwartz resides on a farm east of Beren. His name has been forged to each of the four checks that have been passed. The authorities investigating the rash of fraudulent checks are attmepting to locate the man from the descriptions, etc., but haven’t been successful as yet. All Adams county merchants are warned to be on the lookout for forged checks with the above names, and are urged not to cash checks for strangers.

Kennedy Blames Dangers To Peace On Soviet Russia

MOSCOW (UPD — President Kennedy blamed the dangers to peace on the- Soviet Union’s efforts “to communize the world,” the government newspaper Izvestia said in an exclusive interview published today. The interview with Kennedy was obtained by Izvestia editor Alexei Adzhubei, Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s son-in-law, at Hyannis Port, Mass., last Saturday. According to Izvestia, Kennedy told Adzhubei: “I consider that the Soviet Union and the United States must live together in peace In our opinion, the difficulties arise as a result of the efforts of the Soviet Union in a certain sense to communize the whole world.” Then Kennedy added: “If the Soviet Union only tried to • defend its own national interests', to defend its own national security and allowed other countries to live as they like, to live in peace, then I suppose the problems which now cause so much tension would disappear.” Kennedy, whose interview formed the main dispatch on page one and was continued through the back pages of the afternoon newspaper, went on: '• “We should like for the Soviet people to live in peace and want the same for our own people.

Woman Killed By Desperado, Husband Shot BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (UPI)—A desperado once treated in a mental hospital barged into a private home with a shotgun today, blasted a woman to death and critically wounded her husband, a’ state highway engineer. After holing up in the home, cordoned off by state police and deputy sheriffs, the gunman threw up his hands and surrendered—only a few hours after he vowed he would not be captured alive. State troopers and Jackson County sheriff’s deputies captured Jack A. Cockrum, 29, Brownstown, after they surrounded the home of James H. Rice. Cockrum shot and killed Rice’s wife, Marilyn, 31, and wounded Rice, 37, police said. Rice was standing in the door to his bedroom when Cockrum walked in and shot him, authorities said. Mrs. Rice locked herself in the bathroom, but Cockrum shot the lock off the door and blasted her in the head from close range. Rice crawled from his house toward a neighbor’s house. He collapsed in his own yard, but the neighbor, Noel F. Fosbrlnk, saw Rice and notified police. 1 *' The shooting incurred shortly after a filling station attendant said Cockrum forced him to refuel his car at gunpoint. Police said Cockrum, who has a police record dating back to 1954 for robbery and assault, broke into a hardware store at nearby Ewing Monday night and stole a 12-gauge shotgun and ammunition. He later forced a filling station attendant to fill the gas tank of (Continued on Page Six) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and cold tonight. Wednesday fair to partly cloudy and warmer. Lows tonight 22 to 27. Highs Wednes day 35 to 43. Sunset today 5:22 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:45 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Considerable cloudiness and warmer. Low Wednesday night 28 to 38. High Thursday 40s north to 50s south .

“The efforts to spread the Communist system from one country to another represents, in my opinion, a great threat to the cause of. peace. If the Soviet Union pursues only its own national interests and tries to secure a better life for its people in conditions of peace, then in my opinion there would be nothing which could darken the relations between the Soviet Union and the United States.” Adzhubei replied that the Soviet Union does not want to communize the world. “We are against the export of revolution, but we are also against the export of counter-revolution,” he said. The interview appeared frank and open. According to Izvestia, Adzhubei opened it by sayingr “ “I am very glad to get this interview. Quite frankly, your election to the high post of President of the United States was greeted in our country with great hope. I would like in this connection to ask the following-ques-tions...” To this, Kennedy replied: “Permit me to say that I greatly appreciate your trip to the United States. I also value the possibility to talk to the people of (Continued on Page Six)

™<W <W ; i fli ■ Aitf ■ IPHM | T J BERNARD DOLNICK, second from left, superintendent of the Fort Wayne State School, where 2,300 persons with various degrees of mental retardatio n are trained in reading, writing, arithmetic and a trade, so that they can be well adjusted citizens in society, is shown here giving a mental health leaflet to Clark Mayclin, president of the Decatur Lions club. On the left is Hank Wilhems, district representative for the Indiana association for men tai health, and to the right is M. J. Pryor, president of the Adams county mental health association, a Community Fund project in Decatur.

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Although mental institutions in Indiana are 100% better today than they were just a year or so ago, they still have only onefourth the staffs needed to do the basic minimum care that a patient needs, largely due to the apathy of the voting public, Bernard Dolnick, superintendent of the Fort Wayne state school and hospital, told the Decatur Lions club Monday night. In a normal hospital, for example, Dolnick pointed out, there are about two employes for every patient. (The Adams county memorial hospital has a staff that runs as high as 100, with an average patient load of about 45.) At Fort Wayne state school, on the other hand, there are 2,300 pa- ' just 735 employes. More People Than Berne ' This huge school, which reha- • bilitates mentally retarded peo--1 pie from age 6 to 92 (one male patient came to the school when it was built in 1888, learned the ' brick masonry trade, and stayed , on to help build the other 55 buildings that make up the school campus,) not only maintains regular hospital facilities for t those who cannot progress, but also has regular school and vocational training programs, and is actually a city of more than 3,000, larger than Berne, in itself. Dolnick was introduced by M. J. Pryor, president of the Adams county mentcl health association. Pryor also introduced Hank Wilhems, the district representa- .

tive of the Indiana association for mental health. Other Reports Roger Gentis reported that a special letter will be mailed out to each member concerning the Christmas tree sale. Norman Steury and Lyman Hann are in charge of publishing the Lions Club Head-Lioner for the month of December. Dolnick, a graduate of the University of Chicago, who worked In Illinois for the Stevenson administration in mental health, was hired in Indiana b ,F Gov. Living Costs Went Higher In October WASHINGTON <UPD — Living costs crept up slightlv in October, hitting a record high for the fourth time in five months, the Labor Deoartment reoorted today. An increase in new car prices as dealers trimmed discounts lifted the deoartment’s consumer price index by one tenth of 1 per cent to 128.4. This meant that goods and services which cost $lO in the 1947-49 base period would have cost $12.84 last month. The department also reported that the take-home nav of factorv workers and its buving power also rose to_ a new high. The average worker with three dependents found $84.12 in his weekly nay envelope last month. SI.BO more than in September. Settlement of auto strikes figured prominently in this increase. On the basis of the October index, about 930.000 workers wil get cost-of-living wage boosts. mo«t of them one cent an hour. Maior auto and farm eouinment firms emnlov about 825.000 of these workers. Another 75.000 work tn aircraft and missile plant.

—... , A George Craig, and continued by Governors Handley and Welsh, explained that he was a career administrator, vitally interested in both government and mental health. More Funds Needed Additional expenditures to bring the state up to minimum levels of rehabilitation in the mental health field would actually save the state from four to ten times what it spends, Dolnick predicted. This is true because of the lost work-hours, the breaking up of families, the effect of worry about mental illness of a loved one on a worker’s productivity, the juvenile delinquency that results in children who feel hurt or neglected because a brother or sister is mentally ill or retarded The problem of retardation is complex, he explained. First of all, 60% of the retarded pupils have hearing defects; other organic problems, such as seeing, feeling, or degrees of sensitivity, are often involved. Retarded Students Second, a retarded person has a lower '‘threshhold” of resistance to mental illness, and at the same time often has great pressures put on him by his parents or school mates to “speed up” far beyond his capabilities. These pressures create mental illnesses in those who are already mentally retarded in their progress.

Paris Is Near To Ghost City

PARIS (UPD—Paris became almost a ghost city today when public utilities and transportation were cut — a nationwide strike of a half-million French workers. Railway workers began a 24hour strike at 4 am. Parisian metro (subway) and bus employes walked out an hour later. Gas, electrical and water services were cut off at 6 a.m. The strike, suported by all three major trade unions, was aimed at forcing the government to end its freeze on wages and prices. Street lights, shop signs and all other lights suddenly went out before dawn. The famous Les Halles Market was plunged into confusion. Describes Effect “I have never seen anything dike it,” said UPI reporter Jean Bernard, who was on his way to work. "I was lucky to get a taxi because most of them have joined the strike. “Suddenly, at six o’clock everything turned black. It was mysterious: There were just a few people on the street and the cars had to slow down and then switch on lights to go ahead.” At Les Halles Market workers struggled in the darkness with fruits, vegetables and flowers. Many French employers notified their workers not to report for work. In the UPI Paris office, staffers were forced to rely on candles for light and emergency generators were used to send out dispatches.

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This means that the Fort Wayne state school is as much a hospital as it is a school. Therapy. learning, and vocational training are all needed. Two main problems have retarded the “cure” of these patients—first, lack of understanding on the part of the public, j This is one of the great fields which the Indiana association for mental health is courageously attacking—informing the public, Dolnfck pointed up. 830 In Decatur One out of every ten persons in Decatur will at some time or other be under mental treatment —more than 830 persons. This means that nearly every other person will have a close family member affected at one time or other. This lack of understanding of the seriousness of the problem, (Continued cm Page Three) Buys Health Bond RflhtTß Use Christmas Seals The Catholic Ladies of Columbia have voted purchase of a $5 health bond, officials of the Christmas seal campaign in Adams county announced today. AU proceeds from the annual sale are used in the fight on tuberculosis and to provide clinics and otherwise carry on the fight against the “white plague.”

Follows Two-Year Effort The strike followed a two-year effort by French state employes to get wage hikes that would bring their incomes more in line with workers in private industry. The government did not plan any move to break the strike. Also out on strike were the butchers, who were protesting a new government price-ceiling on beef. Air France ground crews at Orly Field in Paris, garbage collectors. postmen and white-collar workers at suburban city halls. Adveitisinq Index Advertiser Page Arnold Lumber Co., Inc. 2 Ashbauchers’ Tin Shop ........ 2 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. -7 Burk Elevator Co. ..... 5 W. H. Brown & Sons 8 Central Soya Co., Inc. 8 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. 2 Decatur-Kocher Lumber Inc. — 2 Evans Sales & Service .. 5 First State Bank of Decatur . — 8 Dr. H. R. Frey —— 5 Fasteeth 6 Ford i 7 Pauline Haugk Real Estate —.5 Habegger-Schafers —. 2,3, 8 Kohne Window & Awning Co. — 2 Kane Paint & Wallpaper 2 Petrie Oil Co. . 4 Phil-Miz Auction Co. ... 4,7 Rambler ........ .... 8 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. 3 J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer — 5 Andrew Schrock 2 Teeple Truck Line 5 Uhrick Bros. 3, 4