Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX Ho. 303.

Scheduled Peace Parley Os Three Laos Princes Breaks Up In Failure

County's Judging Contest On Today t Decatur high school’s five-man dairy judging team, which includes three girls, will buck up against the national invitational champions, Berne FFA, in the Adams county judging contest today, William Journay, team coach, stated. Last year the Decatur team edged the Berne. team in county competition, but in the district competition, Berne placed third, and Decatur, fifth. Only the top three went to the state fair, and there Berne placed second in FFA judging, was invited to the national invitational, and won it, in Virginia. Eligible Again Because they won only second in the state, they are eligible to try again this year, and are the favorites in the county meet tof ■«, day. But Decatur, Adams Central, Geneva, and Hartford have *— not given up. All four have entered teams in the dairy judging competition. Adams county is known as one of the top dairy i counties in the state, especially . in quality. All five teams will visit three farms in the morning: the Paul Nussbaum farm, in Monroe township, where Guernseys will be judged; the Ivan Steury farm, also in Monroe township, where Holsteins will be judged: and the Fred Duff farm, in Hartford township, where Jerseys will be judged. Oral Reasons ——— In the afternoon, each of the

Buoy Hopes Os Congo Peace

ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga, The Congo (UPD—Twenty Katangese delegates were set to fly to Leopoldville today for constitutional talks Tn a possible prelude to peace in the bloody feud between Katanga and the central Congolese government. If the 20 delegates board the, personal plane of United Nations Congo military commander Gen. Sean McKeown, they will be taking the first step toward Katanga’s compliance with the pact President Moise Tshombe signed with Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula at Kitona last week. (In Brussels, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said Belgium and the Congo resumed diplomatic relations today after a 17-month break. Belgium and its former colony had broken off relations when Belgian troops intervened to protect Belgian citizens from the Congolese ffttny mutiny that followed the Congo’s independence June 30, 1960.) — 'Die riew actlonf together with, the impending trip to Leopoldville" of the Katangese delegates, buoyed hopes that a peaceful solution to the Congo crisis will be found. i The DC6 flew here Tuesday after the United Nations agreed to meet Katanga’s three demands for the delegates’ safety. The demands included the security of the delegates en route to Leopoldvill and during their stay there and also the right to return here whenever they want. “We are able to give all three guarantees,” said\ George Ivan Smith, U.N. civilian chief in Katanga. Smith said he had contacted Tshombe by letter two times and had a “long, polite” telephone talk with the president of the secessionist province Tuesday. The Kitona agreement recognized the central government’s supremacy and Katanga’s role as a province—not a separate state.

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five will be asked to give orally the reasons for his or her placemen tof the animals at each farm. This is the first year for Results should be totalled by oral summaries of reasons. this evening, for publication in Thursday’s newspaper. Decatur’s team members are: Denny Bollenbacher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Bollenbacher; Larry Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ermal Johnson: Kathy Bischoff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Art Bischoff; Margaret Azbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Azbell; and Rita Spence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milt Spence. This is also the first year that the county judging contest has been held during free.time, rather than during school time, at the request of several participating schools. A . Good Fellows Club Previously reported $519.91 Eastern Indiana Production Credit Association 10.00 Decatur Rotary Club 25.00 A Friend 5.00 Decatur Elks Lodges2s.oo Mr. & Mrs. Waldo Eckrote . 5.00 Mr. & Mrs. Carl J. Lose ... 10.00 Suzanne & Arthur Teimer . 2.00 Dr. H. F. Zwick Family .. 10.00 Briede Studio 5.00 Boots .< .50 A Friend —25.00 Mr. & Mrs. Louis A. Jacobs 5.00 A Friend, 2.00 Mr. & Mrs. W. Guy Brown . 5.00 A Friend. 2.00 A Friend 2.00 Mr. & Mrs. W. E. Petrie 10.00 A Friend ........u. 20.00 A Friend 2.00 Change in boxes .65 Total $691.06

Craigville Telephone Asks Certificate INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The Craigville Telephone Co. today petitioned the Indiana Public Service Commission for a certificate of authority to serve an area near Bluffton. The section does not include Bluffton. But it includes, Craigville. Vera Cruz, Curryville and Honduras. One Man Killed As El Train Derailed PHILADELPHIA (UPD — One man was killed and 38 persons injured, none seriously, Tuesday night when a four-car elevated train was derailed as it rounded a curve near a North Philadelphia station. The cars left the tracfe but did not crash to the street. • Guard rails bent under their weight. but held. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Adams Theater 3 A & P Tea Co., Inc. ... 2 Burk Elevator Co. ...... Cowens Insurance Agency .... f D. A. V 7 Evans Sales & Service, Inc. ..5 Gerber’s Super Dollar Market 8 Holthouse Drug Co. 3 Paul Havens ChevroletBuick, Inc. .5 Habegger-Schafers 7 Kroger ... 6 Masonic Lodge 4 Model Hatchery i 5 National Tea Co., Inc. ........ 4 Niblick & Co. 3 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Schmitt Meats 3 Smith Drug Co. . 3 Teeple Truck Line 5 Villa Lanes 3

VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI) — A scheduled peace meeting between the three princes of Laos broke up in failure today and brought the country closer to resumption of civil war. After a 30-minute preliminary session that brought together Communist-backed Prince Souphanouvong, neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma and pro - Western Premier Princes' Boun Oum plans for a coalition government seemed to have collapsed. “I have nothing more to tell them,” Boun Oum said afterwards He added that the agreement to attempt negotiation of a coalition regime, reached in a previous conference in Zurich, Switzerland, no longer is valid. Soupahnouvong and Souvanna Phouma arrived here by chartered plane from their headquarters in the rebel-held Plain of Jars earlier in the day. But Souphanouvong said as soon as he arrived that the pro-Western government is carrying out the plans of “American war-mongers.” Planned Talks Off Then he and Souvanna Phouma paid a 30-minute “courtesy call” on Boun Oum. It was after this that Boun Oum, whose regime is backed by the. United States, said the planned talks were off? “I see no' heed for further meetings of the three princes,” he said. His decision seemed to torpedo any hope for a coalition government, presumably headed by Souvanna Phouma, that could end the long months of warfare In this Southeast Asian land. “Zurich is finished,” Boun Oum said of the agreement on forming a coalition regime which the three princes reached last June in the Swiss city. He insited he had never agreed in the first place to a meeting here of all three prince?. He said he had intended only that Souvanna Phouma, already selected to be premier if a coalition government was. formed, should come here to hold consultations with potential cabinet members living >n Vientiane. “He can stay here as long as he wants,” Boun Oum said in claiming that Souvanna PhQuma had come here for just such cabinet selections rather than for a princely conference as everyone had been led to believe. Rebel “neutralist” and proCommunist Pathet Lao troops returned peacefully to Vientiane Tuesday and promptly began distributing leaflets calling on the Laotian army to revolt against Boun Oum’s government. Arrived In Trucks The 220 rebel troops who will guard the safety of Souvanna and his half-brother while they are in the administrative capital were brought in from Vientiane airport in trucks. Mimeographed leaflets fluttered from the vehicles as they drove to the downtown conference site. The leaflets urged the royal Laotian army to mutiny and oust the pro-Western government and also drive American officials out of the country. According to One rough translation, the rebel leaflets called on the royal Laotian army to murder its officers and, by implication, the “American imperialists.”

Courthouse Offices Close Early Saturday The Adams county court house ! will close at 10 o’clock Saturday 1 morning, two hours earlier than ■ the usual noon closing. The early i closing is to enable officials to ' make up and balance their yearly ’ reports. The court house will rei open at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. U ■ ■ ■ INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and colder with snow flurries continuing i through Thursday. Low to--1 night aero to 15 above nofth, i Bto 15 south. High Thurs1 day 17 to 23. Sunset today I 5:27 p.m. Sunrise Thursday i 8:05 a. m. Outlook for FriI day: Partly cloudy and I slightly warmer. Lows 8 to 15. Highs upper 20s north to I lower 30s south.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 27, 1961.

Valuable Dredge Is Abandoned By Crew

BOSTON (UPI) — A skipper, who reluctantly abandoned his valuable dredge in the stormy Atlantic, and nine crewmen were aboard the Coast Guard cutter that rescued them today headed for this New England port. One member of the Grew i was seriously hurt. Merlin T. (Cotton) Robinson, 47, of Harrisburg, Miss, was reported “apparently dead” when first taken aboard the cutter Acushnet 230 miles east of Nantucket Tuesday. But he" was revived and his condition had improved Tuesday night. Capt. Adley Le Blanc of Memphis, Tenn., skipper of the dredge Cartagena, agreed to abandon ship apparently on the insistent urging of his crew. The powerless dredge had drifted brazily since Christmas dawn in hurricane wind gusts and 30foot waves. The seamen feared the buffeting would snap the Cartagena’s 80-ton crane and break the stern. Crew’s Efforts Fall Le Blanc and his crew fought almost 48 hours to save the ship. Three times the Acushnet fired a tow line to the vessel but in each Instance the line broke. Water poured in three smashed portholes but the crew managed to pump out the water. Efforts to secure the swinging crane were not successful. The commercial tug Foundation Vigilante, which had been towing the Cartagena from Halifax, N.S., to Baltimore when the tow line snapped, stood by today to try fixing another line if the weather improved. Le Blanc changed his mind about abandoning the ship after he and his men were taken aboard the cutter. He wanted to return but the crew apparently refused, according to the Coast Guard. Tug Stands By The unidentified skipper of the tug said he planned to stand by the Cartagena, valued at several million dollars, until it sank or a tow line could be put aboard. Le Blanc apparently wanted to . stay aboard to prevent the Cartagena from becoming a salvage prize. However, an authority on admiralty law in Boston said that abandonment is a matter of the intent of the owners and has little to do with the crew or captain staying aboard. The ship is owned by Standard Dredging Corp, of New York City.

New Kuwait Crisis Appears Brewing

LONDON (UPD—A new Kuwait crisis appeared to be brewing today following warnings by the British Defense Ministry of "increased tensions” infcthe Middle East arid London newspaper reports of air and sea alerts for British servicemen. One newspaper, the Daily Mail, said Iraqi troops were massing on the Kuwait border and reported that 7,000 British troops in the Middle East had been alerted for a. possible crisis. The moves coincided with Tuesday’s statement by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hashim Jawad that it would be an “unfriendly act” against Iraq for any nation to establish diplomatic relations with Kuwait. Jawad said such recognition “constitutes a denial of Iraq’s rights and is an injury to its vital interests.” Reports Military Buildup The Daily Mail reported from Beirut that Iraqi Premier Abdul Karim Kassem is massing troops, planes and armored vehicles on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti frontier. Thesituation appeared to be a possible prelude to a repetition of the Kuwait crisis of last summer when Kassem announced plans to

The Coast Guard identified the other crew members as: Elvi Tranham, 47, mate, of Lafayette, L».; John Sawyer, 22, of Chatham, Ont.; Winfred Goforth, 36, first engineer, of Lecells, Ala,; L. Z. Goforth, 40, of Memphis, Tenn.; John Phillip Smith, 23, second engineer, of Wallaceburg. 'Ont.; Vaughn V. Slack, 27, of Wallaceburg, Ont.; Daniel Yelko, of Tazewell. Va., and A. O. Mosley, 55, of Greenville, Miss. Total Unemployment Under 100 sh Area Total unemployment, both regular and extended, was under 100 in Adams county for the second consecutive week, Richard P. App, mahager of the Fort Wayne office, Indiana Employment Security Division, said today. A total of nine new regular claims, and 52 continued claims, for 61 regular claims, were filed during the week ending Dec. 22 in Adams county. This compares ■'With nine new. 65 continued, and a total of 64 the previous week. Regular claims have been under 100 in number since Nov. 10, when there were 105 reported. , , - No new extended coverage claims were filed for the second straight week, and 10 extended coverage payments were continued, compared to 14 the previous week. Extended coverage claims have been 30 or under since Nov. 10. apparently reflecting recalls in local industry, and the beginning of the Christmas rush. Total claims last week were 71, compared with 88 the previous week. These are tjie lowest totals since the new federal extended coverage program started last spring, and the lowest since the Fort Wayne office started sending weekly reports to the Decatur Daily Democrat. .. The ... IESD figures cover only those employes in industries or jobs protected by unemployment compensation insurance, and do not include figures from smgll businesses. Also, applicants are not listed by county boundaries for application, and many here are from Outside the county, while some in parts of the county apply elsewhere, if it is more convenient for them.

assume “protection" of Kuwait, which had won its independence from Britain only two weeks earlier. . jKuwaiti Sheik Sir .Abdul-. lab As-Saiim..As-Sabbahl-appealed to Britain, involking a British guarantee of military aid. British troops were rushed to the tiny oil-rich sheikdom to guard against a threatened Iraqi attack. But the attack never materialized and most of the British troops, have now been, replaced by an international Arab League force which Kuwait’s independence. Rift Smolders The Iraqi threats against Kuwait—and the Arab League’s rebuff of Kassem’s claim to the sheikdom—caused a still-smolder-ing rift in the league, which has admitted Kuwait to membership. The British Defense Ministry said Tuesday night that “increased tension” in the Middle East forces it to take “certain small-scale precautionary measures.” The ministry said certain key troops of the Strategic Re serve—a trouble-shooting branch based around the world—had their leaves canceled. But the ministry did not elaborate.

Three Killed By Hofei Fire In New York NEW YORK (UPD—Fire in a fashionable residential hotel overlooking Central Park killed three persons early today. Nine o ther persons, including seven firemen, were injured in the blaze at the 17-story Mayflower One unidentified resident was listed in Roosevelt Hospital in “grave” condition. The dead included a fireman and two residents—-an elderly unidentified woman and Murray Wyzell, a song writer who was reported to have worked once for Perry Como’s TV show. Firemen ordered more than 30 persons to leave their apartmentrooms on the Bth, 9th and 10th floors, and many other hotel guests also fled their rooms for the lobby. The hotel houses about 400 persons, according to firemen. Starts In Bedroom Officials said the fire started in Wyzeil’s bedroom on the ninth floor of the 578-room brick hotel on Central Park West It spread to the hallway but did not reach other rooms. Smoke poured onto other floors, leading firemen to believe the flames were widespread. Persons dressed in pajamas, nightshirts, undershirts and bathrobes and many women wearing hair curlers crammed the lobby of the hotel which advertises “country living in the heart of New York.” But none of the guests was forced to go out into the 32-degree cold. One woman said she was in her bathrub putting cold cream on her face when notified to leave her apartment. Cause of the blaze in Wyzeil’s bedroom„ was not officially disclosed. Thefire was brought under control after an hour’s fight. Flame Leaps Out Officials said the firefighter casualties occurred when seven firemen walked up the stairwell from the ighth floor and opened the door to the ninth-floor hallway. A sheet of flame leaped at them. The dead fireman was identified’as John King, 27. The other injured hotel resident was Charles Ross, 51, listed .in satisfactory condition at Roosevelt" Hospital. Mrs. Beatrice Cohen, who lives on the 10th floor, first discovered the smoke and telephoned the switchboard. The fire alarm was sounded on every floor, the fire department was notified and guests were called on the phone. Mrs. Cohen said that in the turmoil her purse containing s7swas stolen. Mrs. Erma Lewton Is Taken By Death Mrs. Erma M. Lewton, 65, a native of Adams cou’nty. died shortly before noon Tuesday at Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne, where she had been a patient one and one-half days. She lived at 939 East Berry street. Mrs. Lewton. who had lived in Fort Wayne for 36 years, was a charter member of St. Luke’s Lutheran church and had been organist at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church for the past seven years. She was general chairman of the women's circles of St. Luke’s church and a member of the New Haven Home Demonstration club. - - Surviving are a son. Ronald Lewton, teacher at Fort Wayne North Side high school; a daughter, Mrs. Doris Schlotterback of Decatur route 1; 10 grandchildren,- and one sister. Mrs. Thelma Gilliam of Dowagiac. Mich. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. ...Friday ..-aj C. M Stoan 4-Sons-funeral homo, the Rev. Reno R. Frobenius and the Rev Allen T. Wallace offiicating. Burial will be in Greenlawn memorial park. Friends may*tall at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. Ilerntur Trmpernftirrx Local weather <lala for the 21 .hnur period ending at 11 a m today 12 noon 32 12 midnight 28 1 p rn 33 lam 28 2 p.m. . -. 33 2 a m. 27 3 p.m 33 3 u m. ■ 27.. 4 p.m. 32 4 a m'' —lft 5 p.m. 31 5 a m 2ft 6 PHU* ’O' am 2*. 7 p.m. 3<t 7 a.m ■-—'74*' 8 p.m. 23 8 a m 23 !• pm. 23 S a.m • 22 TO p m 10 a.m. 23 11 p.m. "f 28 11 a m 26 pewlpltatlnn Total for the 24 hour period end ing at 7 a m. today, .08 inches. The St Mary’s river wax at ) 64 feet. BULLETIN PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPD —A hack specialist today reported President Kennedy in /'excellent general health” and in stronger shape than he was last summer.

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Top Officials Visit Kennedy

PALM BEACH, Fla. <UPD — President Kennedy took a final look today at the budget for fiscal 1963 and top administration officials converged on the temporary White House for pre-Congress conferences. Secretary of Treasury G. Douglas Dillon was- to Join the' conferees late tins aftemoont’xt the chief executive’s rcsidericeTto continue Talks started here Tuesday. ’Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman arrives Thursday. The President this morning went to St. Mary’s Hospital to visit his seriously ill father, former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. Kennedy dr;ove himself in a white, top-down convertible with his wife, Jacqueline, beside him in the front seat. A Sgcr.et Service agent rode in the rear seat. Dillon has been vacationing at nearby Hobe Sound, Fla., and was called into conference here primarily for consultation on the State of the Union message. This also was the reason for Freeman's trip to Palm Beach. The budget has been in virtually final shape since earlier this month and Kennedy’s final approval will enable the government to “lock up" the massive document and prepare it in printed form for submission to Congress in late January. Estimates on the over-all total ranged from $92 to $93 billion. Kennedy still intends to present a balanced budget, the balance depending on continued improvement of the domestic economy. The largest item will be the defense budget, expected to be about $50.8 billion, $2.8 billion higher than the 1962 or current budget. The actual defense total for 1963 may be as high as $51.6 billion because Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has asked that S7BO mib lion, appropriated this year and not spent for 852 and 870 bombers and the Dynasoar project, be added to the 1963 figure. The - condition of; the President's father, suffering from a -stroke and—pneumonia-,—-rt-mamed ■—rm---ehangedv Mother Josephine Marie, administrator of the hospital, said he spent a "satisfactory night.” The President also had a date with a doctor for the, year-end checkup on his back. Dr. Preston Wade, the New York specialist I who treated the President’s back I ailment last June, was scheduled to have ,examined Kennedy Tuesday. but had difficulty with his -plane schedule from . New York. He arrived Tuesday night and will examine the President some time today. During the late afternoon Tuesday. the President conferred for three hours with a group of key advisers and administration ex* perts on relations with Congress, the national economy and federal ■ spending. ... ’ I The group consisted of Theo-1 dore C. Sorensen, Kennedy’s spe-I cial counsel; Myer Feldman, deputy to Sorensen; Budget Director i David E. Bell; Chairman Walter Heller of the President’s Council j

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l of Economic Advisers and LawIrence F. O’Brien.- special presidential assistant or congressional liaison. Their conference dealt with the early framework of Kennedy's . State of the Union Message, as . well as the virtually wrapped-up e budget for fiscal 1963. McGeorge . Bundy, special assistant for national security matters, may join the group later. sTheir talks With the President are t expected to extend over several . days,.__ .. .” - - Blanket Os Snowfall » . ■ 0 ■, In Central Indiana __ By United Press International ■ Temperatures tumbled to the ■ teens and'the 20s and headed for ’ zero in Indiana today in the wake of a hew winter storm which , dumped up to four inches of snow , on midstate areas deprived of a ’ white Christmas. Most of the snow fell in the . <>arly morning hours It hit hardest I in the central area a”nd tapered off to scarcely a -trace in the far south and an inch or less in . the north, where a blanket ,of white I had laid since just before Christmas. — — ■ 1 The mercury fell from 2 "t?T 6 ’ degrees during the forenoon hours 1 despite sunny skies which followed the snow at some points. By 11 ' am. it was down to 17 at Lafayette. 20 at Indianapolis. 21 at South Bend. 23 at Fort Wayne and ’ ?7—al—Evansville. , Ixws of zefo to 15 above were forecast for tonight. By dawri. Indianapolis had two I inches and the depth tapered off . southward to traces at Evansville. ■ Louisville and Cincinnati. Upstate areas had new snow but it did not add materially to a blanket rang- ’ ing from an inch at Lafayette to ' four inches at Fort Wayne and’six. Z. inches m ~t~Ke Chicago area which ’ fell a couple of days earlier. : The new’ snow added hazards, to , motorists and was blamed for at least one traffic death. Manuel Darstein, 77. St. Petersburg. Fla., ; was killed on U.S. 31 near Peru i this morning when his car | rammed into a state highway • snow plow as he tried to paSs it ' on a snow-covered road surface. Forecasters expected the snow * to continue into this afternoon, with accumulations of 2 to 4 inches-- in the central portion of the state and 1 to 3 inches in the south A lighter fall was expected in the north. Temperatures which reached a peak of 53 at Evansville and 43 at Indianapolis in a Tuesday warmup plunged below freezing all i around the state this morning and still were falling in some areas I after dawn. While Chicago recorded a low of 11 above zero. Lafayette’s low was : 19 above. South Bend 24. Fort Wayne and Indianapolis 26 and j Evansville 31.