Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1962 — Page 1

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OFFICIALS AND SPEAKERS at the Decatur Boy Scout week banquet, honoring the organizations and men behind the Boy Scout program, and including meals for all the scouts, hundreds of whom attended in uniform, are pictured here after the meeting Thursday night. They are, from left to right, Ed Bishop, Limberlost area scout executive, Ed Kaskie, assistant Anthony Wayne council executive; Wally Post, outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds and speaker for the meeting which drew some 250 people; and Oran Smith, council executive and leader of the more than 9,000 scouts and 3,000 scouters in the 14-county council.

Scout Banquet Is Held Last Evening

“Getting along with each other, as learned through Boy Scouts or Little League, is our most important lesson and task,” Wally Post, outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, told a group of more than 250 Boy Scouts and men from the s ,v sponsoring units Thursday night. Clarence Ziner, Decatur merchant and businessman, and longtime scout leader, was master of ceremonies for the event. The Rev. William C. Feller gave the invocation. Rotary president Tom Allwein and Lions club president J. Clark Mayclin were introduced following the dinner, served by the Presbyterian ladies, as well as the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt, of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rev. J. O. Penrod, of the Trinity EUB church, Frank Lybarger, representing the Decatur Elks, and Robert Raudebush, representing the American Legion, Post 43, all heads of organizations sponsoring Boy Scout or Explorer Scout units. Scout Executive Oral Smith, council executive, spoke briefly, asking the questions, “Are we weak? and if we are. what can we do?” Smith thanked the sponsors and the adult leaders, especially the scoutmasters who devote days of time to scouting each year. “We have the right to be successful, the right to opportunity, if we grasp it, the right to build, dream, fail and succeed, we face the challenge of life without the opiate of state sponsorship. “If our country is morally

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SYLVESTER (STEVE) EVERHART, principal of the Southeast school, was honored Thursday night by all the Boy Scouts and Explorer scouts of Decatur, with a 30-year citation. It was pointout that through the work of Everhart the Decatur scouting program has been carried through lean times, as well as good times, and that he has kept the program on an even keel, always pitching in when the chips were down. Herman H. Krueckeberg, vice-president of the Anthony Wayne council. Boy Scouts of America, made the presentation to the popular Decatur school teacher. Two generations of boys remember him for his active leadership and help, not only in organization, bat in camping and in leading life by the Boy Scout law.

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sick. The Boy Scouts and their leaders are one part of the cure, and each must do his part,” he concluded, with the following ten-word, one syllable each, quotation, '‘lf it to be, it is up to me.” An award to David Teeple, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Teeple, for best scout in troop 64, and to Sylvester Everhart, for 30 years of outstanding work in Decatur scouting by the Decatur scouts, were then presented. Post' Chen spoke for about half an hour, and answered questions just as long. Although he lives only six miles from the Indiana state line, this was his first speech in the Hoosier state, he said. Little League—Scouts Dwelling on the importance of the Little League program, he explained that it teaches boys to get along with their fellow men, teaches them to cooperate among themselves, and gives them a goal and a desire to get ahead by winning. . “Little League ball today is safer to play than it is to remain on the streets, he said. With batting helmets and rubber cleats, it is unusual for a boy to get hurt. "Boy Scout sponsoring units, as well as Little League sponsors. should show interest and pride, and it is most important that parents take a deep .sincere, lasting interest in these outside activities to develop the boy emotionally. Let Leader Lead “The team manager, or the scoutmaster runs the ‘club,’ and

spends hours and days of time doing it. The best thing a parent can do is- cooperate, but to let the 'old pro’ run the show. “Scoutmasters and managers must be dependable persons, and must set a strong moral example for their boys. While there is often too much stress on winning the game or the competition, boys should learn to appreciate the importance of just participating. It takes nine ball players, not one star, to win a game, and it takes a full group of scouts to win the scout competitions, also. “The pressure was really on the Reds this past season, when they won the National league championship in a 120-day season. Spring training, like the tenderfoot or Webelos period in scouting, culls out the misfits. It also teaches them to cooperate or play together. “This past year infielding for the club was lousy,” Post said, “just like sometimes the troop breaks down in its operation. It takes three weeks to get the team into shape, just as a troop regroups each fall when school starts. Overweight players are like “soft” boys who had no woodlore and camping during the summer in a scout troop. “A defeatist attitude hurt the Reds, just like a ‘we cannot do it’ can hurt a scout troop.” Following the program a number of very good questions were asked and answered, and all present seemed to enjoy the base-ball-scouting presentation. Local Lady's Sister Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Margaret S. Kindley, 96, died shortly before noon Thursday at her home, 1143 Hugh street, Fort Wayne. She had been seriously ill for five days. She was born in Seneca county, ( but had lived in Fort Wayne for 60 yea. s. Mrs. Kindley was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church in Fort Wayne, its Rosary and Altar societies and the Daughters of Isabella. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Laura Ufheil of Huntington, Sr. M. Magdala, SSND, a teacher at Central Catholic high ~school in Fort Wayne, and Miss Margaret Kindley, at home; three sisters, Mrs. Lena Lange of Piqua, 0.. Mrs. Kate Murphy of Decatur, and Mrs. Mary Baker of Roy, N.M.; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Services will be held at 8:30 a.m. Monday at Mungovan & Sons mortuary and at 9 a.m. in St. Mary's Catholic church in Fort Wayne. The V. Rev. Msgr. J. Nicholas Allgeier will officiate, and burial will be in the Fort Wayne Catholic cemetary. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Saturday. McGath Funeral To Be Held Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle Miller McGath, who died Thursday morning after a long illness, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home. The Rev Carey Knittie will officiate and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. i Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 o’clock this afternoon until time of the services.

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French Government Seeks To Prevent Repetition Os Thursday’s Bloody Riots

Red Cross Drive Is Opened With Rally

“Too many of us are selfishly creating problems, and too few of us are unselfishly trying to find part of the answer, but Red Cross work and especially fund raising, is a part of the answer to world tension,” Dr. Frederic A. Doppelt, rabbi of the Reformed Jewish Temple in Fort Wayne, and national vice-president of the Red Cross in charge of fund raising in Indiana, told the kick-off rally of the northern half of the county Thursday night. Any worker who missed the films, which explain Red Cross and how to collect funds, or who missed Rabbi Doppelt’s inspiring speech, is invited to attend the kick-off meeting and rally at Berne at 8 ( p.m. next Thursday, Silvan Sprunger, chairman for the south half stated. Kolter Chairman Robert Kolter, of Preble township, chairman for the north half of the county in the fund drive, presided at the meeting, and every township was represented, with only the Washington township chairman absent. Packets were passed out following the meeting, and workers were asked to get to work just as soon as they receive their packets. They may return them to the township chairman, to either county cochairman, or to the Adams county Red Cross office, But all were asked to turn in any completed section packets just as soon as they are finished, so that a constant stream of publicity concerning the drive can be published. Kolter called upon the Rev. H. E. Settlage, of the Magley United Church of Christ, who gave the invocation. Then each township chairman, and each worker, was introduced. Kolter asked Miss Selma Bernstein, field representative for this area, to introduce the speaker. Rabbi Speaks Rabbi Doppelt opened with several humorous stories, and then stated that while the modern world has more of everything than its parents and grandparents, it still has continual strife and unhappiness., .. This is, he pointed out, due, as Rev. Harry Merson Fosdick once said, to the fact that too many people are busy creating problems, and not enough people are busy trying to solve these problems. “This creates a very bad’ situation of imbalance, spiritually, and the world is in a turmoil. Morality Needed “Now look at the world,” he said. “What causes all this strife, clash, conflict in the crucible of human misery? Isn’t it the fact that we as a whole human race, have lost Shift Tourney Draw To Tuesday Morning INDIANAPOLIS <UF»I) — The IHSAA announced today pairings for the 52nd annual Indiana high school basketball tourney will be drawn next Tuesday if the scheduled orbital space shot of Lt. Col. John Glenn is not postponed by next Monday evening. IHSAA Commissioner L.V. Phillips said a 6 p.m. (EST) deadline was set. If by that time Glenn’s space trip has been put off, the pairings will be made next Wednesday morning, as previously scheduled. Phillips said the decision was reached following consultation with the IHSAA Board of Control. The board is in charge of the pairings for the four-week tourney. Should the drawings be made Tuesday, exactly the same schedule as previously announced will prevail, Phillips said. The routine process would begin at 8 a.m. (EST), and the pairings will be released through news media as quickly as they are processed.

our moral conscience?” \ To illustrate this point, he mentioned how “we can sit down to the breakfast table, read about revolts #in South America, thousands killed in earthquakes and disasters, about plane, train and ear wrectas, and never bat an eye.” “The moral development of man has taken a long time to develop, and it is still developing. Christ advanced moral conscience with his ministry and sacrifice. It just seems like the Second World War, the atomic bomb explosions, have blasted the moral purpose out of us. Communism “Our second great problem is I that of communism. The great thing about our country is that we are allowed to do so many voluntary things, because our philosophy is based on the fact that people can and will originate and support ideas without the state telling them they have to. “Democracy is opposed by totalitarianism, left and right, which concludes that mankind cannot think for itself, that it will not voluntarily help others, or organic to do so, and that all ideas must be imposed from above. “In fact, in countries like Russia and China, the Red Cross is one of the first groups banned — because it illustrates the lie of communism. “Now, of course,” the rabbi pointed out, “the Red Cross and other democratic institutions, even the churches and temples, make mistakes — in fact, we accept that all things except God make mistakes and of course we believe in limited regimentation, paying taxes, supporting schools, and military service. “But we deny that this means that all things must be so regulated, and this is the big difference between our system and communism or Fascism. We aren’t trying, in any one group, to be all the answers, just a part of the answer. Service is Sacrifice “Actually,” he concluded, Red Cross means service, and sendee is a deeply moral and religious word, related to the worship service idea. “If we help serve others, by taking part in the Red Cross’ great crusade to help others — in service, in civilian life — to swim, to practice first aid. home nursing, (Continued on Page Three)

West Defies Traffic Ban

BERLIN (UPI) - An Allied spokesman disclosed today that the Western powers defied a Soviet attempt to restrict traffic in the three air corridors into West Berlin Thursday and today. Earlier, the Soviet commander refused an American request to show his identity card and turned back from an attempted crossing into West Berlin. Soviet Commandant Col. Andrei V. Solovyev, was on his way to a meeting with Maj. Gen. Sir Rohan Delacombe, the British commandant, this morning when he tried to enter West Berlin through the Friedrichstrasse crossing point. When an American military polideman there asked him if he was Colonel Solovyev, the Soviet commander ordered his car turned around and drove back into East Berlin, ignoring the MP’s question. A few hours later, the Allied spokesman said that Western planes ignored a Soviet warning against flights in the corridors at certain altitudes because Russian planes would be flying there at the same time. ——— Informed sources said the Russians were trying to limit Western

PARIS (UPI) — French police searched today for a young student relative of Premier Michel Debre, feared kidnaped by the outlawed secret army organization (OAS). Marc Andre Schwartz, 19, a cousin of Debre, disappeared Thursday after having received kidnap threats from the OAS. The government, meanwhile, cracked down on the Communist and leftist press in hopes of preventing a repetition of Thursday night’s left-wing riots, in which eight persons were killed and at least 260 injured, including 140 policemen. It was the worst rioting since 1934, when street fighting, also Communist-led, killed 18 and injured 300. All French unions today protested the bloodshed in the rioting, which was followed by the explosion of 11 plastic bombs aimed mainly at Communist organizations during the night. Such bombs are a favorite OAS weapon. Call for Demonstrations Students walked out of classes at noon in Paris, with the national students federation calling for demonstrations throughout the country. Orders to strike were issued to subway workers, bus drivers, and employes of banks and offices. The walkout was backed by France’s three big unions — the Communist CGT, Catholic CFTC and the Socialists. The strike brought normal work throughout Paris to a standstill. Subways and buses ground to a halt for an hour. Staffs of banks and some stores ceased work. Throughout the city, small groups INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy through Saturday, a few snow flurries likely tonight and Saturday. A little colder tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 14 to 20 north, 15 to 25 south. High Saturday 25 to 32 north, 28 to 38 south. Sunset today 6:14 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 7:44 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and warmer. Low Saturday night 15 to 30. High Sunday 30 to 40. Decatur Temperatures Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 26 12 midnight .. 27 1P tn 27 1 a.m 27 2p m 30 2 a.m 26 3 P-m 30 3 a.m 25 4p m 30 4 a.m 24 5P m 29 5 a.m 24 6p m 28 6 a.m 23 7p m. 28 7 a.m. 22 8 P-m 28 8 a.m 22 9 p m 28 9 a.m 21 P-m 28 10 a.m 21 11 p m 27 11 a m 23 Precipitation Total for the 24 hour eprlod ending at 7 a.m. today, .01 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 5.00 feet.

rights in the aerial corridors and were “probing” to see how the West would react. -- — ~ They found out. The West flew more planes than usual. The Allied spokesman said the Russians told the Western Allies that today two of the three 20-mile-wide corridors over East Germany “would need to be reserved” for Soviet military transport planes up to a height of 7,500 feet from 8:50 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. Thursday, the same demand was made for one of the corridors up to 7,000 feet from 9:05 a.m. to 12:25 p.m. The American, Bri ti s h and French controllers at the fourpower air safety center rejected the Soviet demand. Eighteen Western military aircraft u sed the corridors today and Thursday at the forbidden heights. This was said to be much higher than usual. Both military and commercial transport planes flew the corridors without incident in that time, the spokesman said. The American, British and French commercial pilots did not report sighting any Soviet aircraft, the spokesman said.

of demonstrators marched through the streets without incident. Blonde, curvaceous actress Brigitte Bardot was among the 200 movie workers who walked off the job and demonstrated at suburban movie studios. Organised by Reds 'Die government accused the Communists of organizing the riot, which pitted an estimated 15,000 persons against police, gendarmes, and security guards in the Bastille section, birthplace of the French Revolution. It banned the Communist newspaper L’Humanite and the leftist Liberation, which have combined circulation of 350,000, for printing calls for new demonstrations. The Communist press in the provinces also was seized. Liberation also had printed a front-page picture of 4-year-old Delphine Renard, who was wounded Wednesday in an OAS bomb blast aimed at Minister of Culture Andre Malraux’s apartment building. The riot began as a demonstration against the OAS. Elderly men and women were knocked down in the charges. Young rioters used vegetable crates as helmets. Protest Bombings It was a strange battle because the demonstration was organized as a protest against a rash of terror bombings by the rightwing Secret Army Organization (OAS) which has vowed to keep Algeria French. The government itself pledged to stamp out the OAS but it said the demonstration could only hurt this cause. Interior Minister Roger Frey charged the riot was inspired and directed by Communists. “Rarely has one seen a band of rioters so well organized?* he said. “Three or four thousand rioters maneuvered in order to encircle the forces of order and rained down on them pieces of castings, grills, bolts and even the luggage racks of cars.” Orders Probe He ordered an investigation to determine the ringleaders. Frey said the Communists inadvertently aided their rightwing enemy by provoking a riot at a time when public opinion ,was “completely against” OAS terrorism and violence. Auto License Bureau Will Close Monday Mrs. Bernadine Heller, manager of the Decatur auto license bureau, announced today that the bureau will be closed all day Monday, which is Lincoln’s birthdayThe First State Bank and the court house will also be closed Monday, bitt the post office will be open and other business places are expected to be open, as usual.

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Waller W. Koos To Seek Renomination

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Walter W. Koos, of North St. Mary’s township, announced this morning that he will be a candidate for renomination and reelection to the office of county assessor, subject to the Democratic primary May 8. Koos has completed two fouryear terms in the office, but the assessor's office, judge's office, prosecutor’s office, and county surveyor’s office may be held as many terms as the candidate can be elected. In 1954, Koos was nominated over two candidates, running about 400 votes ahead of his nearest rival. He was elected over Dale Moses, 4,5914,030. In 1958, he was opposed in the primary by Robert Lane, and defeated him, and in the general election defeated James M. Teeple of Hartford township, 5,328 to 3,466, by 1,962 votes. Koos explained that his job of county assessor kept him very busy right now, because of the reassessment of real property, first in ten years, and the tons of paperwork associated with it. If his many friends do not see him as often as before, it is because of the long hours he is putting in on the reassessment problem. A lifelong Democrat, and a charter member of the Adams county Jefferson club, he is a member of the Decatur chamber of commerce, Calvary E.U.B. church, where he serves as financial secretary of the church and Sunday school. He is a retired General Electric employe, and lives on his own farm in St. Mary’s township with his wife. They have several married children. Mrs. Koos is a former vice-president of the Adams county Jefferson club. ' Lincoln Day Dinner Here Next Tuesday True M. Andrews, chairman of the Adams county Republican central committee, today urged all interested voters of Adams county to attend the Lincoln day banquet, which will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Tuesday. -y 7 ~~ ™ - The evening program will open with a carry-in supper at 6:30 o’clock. Members of the Young Republicans club and the county Republican Women’s club are especially urged to attend, each bringing a covered dish and table service. Any persons' unable to attend the supper are invited to hear the speeches, which will get underway at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Dorothy Gardner, of Fort Wayne, Indiana state auditor, will be the principal speaker. Mrs. Gardner is Indiana’s first woman auditor. Cong. E. Ross Adair, fourth district congressman, will also speak on topics of general interest, and Robert Gates, fourth district Republican chairman, will also speak.