Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1962 — Page 1

Vol. LX. No. 51.

All 95 Persons Aboard Jet Airliner Killed In Crash At New York City

Will Resume Nuclear Tests

WASHINGTON (UPD—Administration sources said today that President Kennedy has decided to resume U.S. nuclear tests in the atmosphere and plans to make the announcement in a day or two. Kennedy reluctantly concluded, these sources said, that renewal of atmospheric tests was necessary for the security of the United States and the free world. The President was said to have based his decision on the results of an exhaustive analysis of the apparent gains made by Russia in its massive series of air tests test fall. To Broadcast Decision Officials said plans called for the President to inform the world of his decision on a radiotelevision broadcast, possibly Friday night. He was expected to emphasize that Russia’s action in breaking a three-year moratorium on atmospheric tests left him no choice but to order another series of U.S. experiments. At the same time, the President was expected to underline U.S. willingness to halt tests whenever Russia agrees to a workable tert ban with adequate inspection and control arrangements. Studied Bed Blasts Kennedy’s decision was based on a long scientific study of the massive test series of over 50 atmospheric explosions set off by the Soviet Union last year. The White House attempted to keep a tight secrecy lid on the timing of the President’s decision which undoubtedly will add to diplomatic stresses between the United States and the Soviet Union. An 18-nation disarmament con-

Grote Estates Are Sued By Railroad The Erie-Lackawanna railroat filed suit Wednesday in Fort Wayne against the estates of Alfred H. Grote, 62, and his son, Wilmer, 31, who were killed in a car-train acident near Wren O„ on the evening of January 4 . - The railroad seeks SIIO,OOO to cover damages to the freight train and tracks which were damaged as a result of the mishap. The Grotes were riding with struck the Erie-Lackawanna train' three other men. when their car at a crossing one mile east of Wren about 8 p.m., the night of Thursday Jan. 4. A total of 22 cars of the train were derailed as a result. The railthat the Grote car, driven by Wilroad company charges in its suit mer, was traveling too fast for the foggy conditions which existed at the time of the accident. The train traveled approximately a mile after the Grote car crashed in between the 23rd and 24th cars in the string before it jumped the tracks. The wheels of the train car that was struck the hardest, were knocked from the tracks. As the car came over a switch just near Wren, the car left the tracks, taking along with it the 21 other cars. The track was badly tom up for a hundred yards or more and the Cars piled up accordion fashion. Decatar Temperatures Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending; at 11 a.m .today. 12 noon 26 12 midnight .. 11 1 p.m 28 1 a.m 10 2 p.m. 27 2 a.m 10 3 p.m 26 3 a.m. 9 4 p.m. — ;.“7 24 t "'X 5 p.m ... 24 5 a.m. 8 6 p.m SO 6 a.m 8 7 p.m 16 7 a.m 6 8 p.m 16 8 a.m ~ 7 9 p.m. = 14 9 a.m 11 10 p.m. 14 10 a.m. 18 11 p.m 12 11 a.m 16 Preetpltatioa Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, 0 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 18.20 feet.

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ference is scheduled to open at Geneva March 14. In any case, Kennedy has said there would be no testing at the British-owned Christmas island in the Central Pacific before the Geneva meettag begins. Mrs. Shelby Vance Is Taken By Death Mrs. Lulu Vance, 86, former resident of Blue Creek township, died at 2:55 p.m. Wednesday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Alton (Vernal Blccm, 3803 Anthony Blvd., Fort Wayne, where she had made her home for the past 10 years. She was a native of Adams county and a daughter of Joseph L. and Lorine Kiess-Mann. Her husband, Shelby L. Vance, preceded her in death.* Mrs. Vance was a member of the Union Evangelical United Brethren church in Blue Creek township. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Bloom are another daughter, Mrs. Adrian (Wildus) Lenhart of Traverse City, Mid).; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; a brother, Dr. Frank C. Mann of Rochester, Minn., and a sister, Mrs. George Sprague of Decatur. One son, Dr. Walter Vance, is deceased. Friends may call at the Klaehn 11 a.m. Friday. The body wil Die funeral home in Fort Wayne until in state at the Union E. U. B. church from 1 p.m. Friday until services at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. Earl Cogan will officiate and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and continued cold tonight, Friday partly sunny and continued cold. Low tonight 5 below to 5 above north. Sunset today 8:87 p.m. Sunrise Friday 7:17 a.m. Outlook for 12 to 18 south. High Friday 15 to 20 north, 26 to 35 south. Saturday: Increasing cloudiness with chance of rain late afternoon or evening, continued gradual warming. Lows 15 to 25. Highs 38 to 40.

Arabs Defy French Curfew Over Oran

ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI) — Thousands of screaming, chanting Arabs defied the French government’s early morning curfew in Oran today and clashed with police patrols during a protest demonstration. The Arabs hurled bottles, stones and other objects at the embattled police squads that were forced to open fire to cover their retreat. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The demonstrations began after five violent explosions rocked the Moslem quarter before dawn in the vicinity of Wednesday's deadly blasts that claimed 30 lives — most of them women and children. The Algerian mob surged through the city shouting antiEuropean slogans. The European quarter of Oran was awakened this morning by the shrill cries of Arab women who chanted “you-you-you” — which is the mourning wail of the Algerian - - - European settlers began demonstrating against the Arabs, beating rhythms on pots and pans end shouting their own slogans. The demonstrations lasted about three hours. The violence followed two holdups which netted the robbers an

NEW YORK (UPD — A Los Angeles-bound American Airlines 707 jet plane crashed and exploded on the takeoff at Idlewild Airport today. Police and fire department spokesmen reported all 95 persons aboard were believed to have died instantly. Only an hour before astronaut John H. Glenn’s arrival at another airport for a gigantic New York welcome, the big jet wavered in its takeoff, plunged into a swampy bird sanctuary at toe edge of the Atlantic Ocean, and burst into flames. The plane flipped over after the impact As rescue crews rushed into operation, police units assigned to the astronaut parade were suddenly switched to the disaster scene. A Coast Guard helicopter, one of the first units on the scene, radioed back: “There is no sign of life.” Boeing Aircraft Co., manufacturers of the 707, reported this was the first fatal crash in the United States for a 707 carrying passengers in commercial service. This also was the worst singleplane accident in commercial service in the United States. The previous high for fatalities was 79, killed in a TWA constellation crash in Chicago Sept. 1, 1960. One of the passengers on today’s plane may have been W. Alton Jones, chairman of the executive committee of Cities Service Co., who was a close friend of former president Dwight Etaen- ; bower. Jones had a reservation for the flight, bitt It was he* known at once whether he actually was aboard. The plane was American Airlines Flight No. 1, a luxury nonstop daily flight leaving New York at 8:45 a.m. CST and due in Los Angeles at 2:15 p.m. CST. A spokesman for American Airlines said the four-jet craft carried 89 passengers and eight crewmen. For such a flight the plane was fully loaded with fuel and its impact was explosive. Wreckage was flung in an arc half a mile wide. “Fire very intense,” fire department units radioed back. A two-alarm call was sounded for emergency equipment. Coast Guard helicopters and small craft joined fireboats, police patrol boats and land units in a dash to the area in hopes a rescue could be carried out. The scene was the swampy shore of Jamaica Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean which cuts in between the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens

estimated $320,000 in new French francs. Police said $200,000 was stolen by 15 armed masked men who tied up 13 postal employes and four policemen in an Oran postal center around midnight. The second robbery wa s at a finance house. Police suspected Ihe unknown bandits were collecting battle funds for the right- wing secret army organization (OAS). Right-wing extremists greeted the announcement of Frenchrebel peace talks Wednesday by setting off two time bombs in a crowd of Arab women and children. Thirty persons were killed and about. 50 wounded In one of the worst acts of terrorism in Algeria this year. The bombs, concealed in a oar and a truck, went off in mid-afternoon when the streets were jammed with veiled women shoppers. The terrorists apparently drove the vehicle into the streets and then slipped off, leaving the time bombs set to go off minutes later. A total of 65 persons were killed Wednesday and 110 injured throughout Algeria. It brought the toll for the first two months of the year to 1,241 dead and 2,090 injured.

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at the west end of Long Island. Idlewild’s main runways end at the edge of the bay. La Guardia Airport, where Glenn was landing, lies on the opposite side of Long Island in Queens. Ironically, the plane which crashed as the city was preparing to welcome the nation’s first astronauts was named “Astrojet.” It was a clear, chill day as the plane crashed. A spokesman for American Airlines said the 707 had made an altitude of about 1,500 feet and was turning when something happened. A team of Civil Aeronautics Board investigators left Washington immediately en route to the scene. Coast Guard headquarters said toe main section of the wreckage was lying in about two feet of water,. Coming off the runway, planes arc out over the Atlantic to gain altitude before turning back on their westward course.

Not far from toe crash is toe small Queens community of Broad Channel. There was no immediate report of any damage to structures on the ground. The first persons aboard toe plane to be identified were toe crew—all from the Los Angeles area. American Airlines identified the pilot as James H. Heist of Rolling Hills, Calif. There were four .stewardesses: Betty Moore ot Santa_ N&ijca, Stalgy Los ’Angeles, Lots Kelly of Santa. Monica, and Rosalind Steward di Los Angeles. American said toe accident happened so quickly that Heist apparently did not have time to radio back his actual liftoff time. Friends and relatives of passengers were still in toe big new American terminal at Idlewild when news of the crash came back. Hiey were taken to hangar 10 to await further word. While there was still hope of survivors, city authorities swiftly switched manpower from the Glenn parade to rescue duty. One police bus picked up 50 officers from Broadway and raced to Queens. Other policemen were pulled out of a narcotics enforcement class and dispatched to toe scene. Former Notre Dame Professor Is Dead SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD—Frneral services will be held Saturday morning at Sacred Heart Church at the University of Notre Dame for the Rev. Robert J. Sheehan, 62, former head of the university’s biology department. The priest died here Wednesday. 24 Persons Ki I led In Collapse Os Hotel CAIRO, U.A.R. (UPD —Officials said today at least 24 persons have been killed in the collapse of a three-story hotel at Assiut in upper Egypt. Cairo newspapers, however, carried unconfirmed reports that 40 persons perished when the hotel collapsed Wednesday. Advertising fnder Advertiser Page Adams Theater 8 Arnold Lumber Co., Inc. 7 Burk Elevator Co. 5 Cozy Inn 7 Evans Sales & Service, Inc. 5 Estes Bakery 2 Equity Dairy Store ..... 4 Allen Fleming 5 Gambles 5 E. F. Gass Ladies Shop ... 3 Habegger-Schafers 5 Haugks .....” 4 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 6 Kelly Dry Cleaners ...... 8 Lengerich Awnings & Railing .. 5 G. C. Murphy Co. 2 Model Hatchery 5 Mies Recreation .TT Mazelins Coin-Op Laundry ..... 3 Niblick & Co .... 3 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Store 4 Orville Sturm, Auctioneer 4 Teen Togs 2 Teeple Truck Line — 5 Villa Lanes : '.. 7

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Robert E. Lane

Robert E. Lane is Named Head Os State Park Robert E. Lane, former Decatur businessman, and presently employed in the reappraisal of real .apposed, superintendent of Ouabache state park, at Bluffton, the first Decatur man ever to head the park since it was established in the 1930’5. The appointment is effective next Monday, Lane succeeds Loren Sprunger, of Berne, who has been acting super intendent since the resignation of William G. Scott, who is now a candidate for sheriff of Wells county. Sprunger is the first Adams county man to head the park. Lane had formerly announced that he was going to be a candidate for county assessor, but he wil not file for that office. He learned that he would be ineligible to hold the office, if elected, because he has not owned real estate in the county for the past four consecutive years, having sold his home here in 1960. He was a candidate for assessor in 1956, and ran a very close race with the incumbent, Walter Koos, who was running for his second term. Lane has three married children and three grandchildren His wife is the former Bertha Gibson, of Bear Creek township, Jay county. Mrs. Gayle E. Ainsworth, of Decatur, a Central Soya employe, is a daughter. He is a member of the First Methodist church of Decatur, the Decatur Blue Lodge and the Scottish Rite. He was president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce in 1948. The Lanes will move to the Wells county park, and live in the accomodations provided there. They are presently residing in a trailer here in Decatur. Ouabache'pronounced Wabash) state park was created Jan. 1 as the 22nd Indiana park. It was originally a state forest and game preserve. Three File Notice Os Candidacy Here Three more candidates filed in the county clerk’s office since Wednesday noon, as the filing for nominations in the May primary continues. All three of the latest filings were on the Democratic ticket. Theodore Heller, route 2, Decatur, filed his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Kirkland township trustee, and Robert E. Gay, Homestead 44, filed for Washington township trustee, a position which he now holds. Robert C. Butcher, 1062 Russell street, filed his candidacy for precinct committeeman for Decatur 1-A on the Democratic slate. bi-

French Press All-Out Drive On Extremists PARIS (UPD—The French government pressed an all-out drive against right-wing extremists today in an effort to head off increasing violence triggered by developments toward an Algerian cease-fire. Special measures taken by the police were directed primarily at the outlawed secret army organization (OAS) which opposes President Charles de Gaulle’s plan for giving Algeria independence. The government announced after a cabinet meeting Wednesday night that more than 60 terrorists of the OAS has been arrested in the past week. — “The police are now engaged in an all-out struggle against the OAS.” cabinet spokesman Louis Terrenoire said. The cabinet met soon after the Algerian rebel government - inexile announced in Tunis that it had been given a free hand to bring peace talks with the French to a conclusion and to proclaim a cease-ffre in the seven-year-old Algerian war. Most sources in Paris felt that a cease-fire could not be declared until a bout March 15, although toe French once hoped for a settlement by next Monday. Terrenoire said toe coming peace talks would be “public” — that is, the site will be announced. Previous negotiations between toe French and rebel leaders have been at an undisclosed location.

Broad Conservation

Plan Is Proposed

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Kennedy asked Congress today to think of the “numberless generations” of toe future and enact a faMeaching conservation program flhanced in part by A those • * USB the nation ’y rtjtre* {atis.S> Kennedy said his recommendations would help “to repay oui debt to toe past and meet oui obligations to toe future.” To pay for toe costs of tot program, toe President askec Congress to set up a 3500 millior land conservation fund. Kennedy devoted toe majoi part of his message to outdooi recreation resources. He noted that there were 341 million visitors to federal land and water areas in 1960 and that toe figure was expected to double by 1970 and increase five-fold by the end of toe century. Need Is Immediate “The need for an aggressive program of recreational development is both real and immediate,” Kennedy said. The President proposed spending $ 500 million over toe next eight years to acquire land for recreational purposes. Money would come from toe land conservation fund, which would gather its revenue from: —A User fee to be charged visitors to federal recreation areas. —An annual charge placed on recreation boats. —Receipts from the sale of surplus non-military lands.

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NEW FIRE TRUCK — The representative from the state fire marshal’s office is shown near the cab of the hew Decatur fire truck, as a three-hour inspection was held Monday afternoon at Greeijwaters in the northern part of town. The new truck, which holds 200 gallons of water, was pumping* better than 1,000 gallons of water a minute for two hours, and then was set to pump varying less amounts the final hour of the test.

Glenn Honored By New York

NEW YORK (UPD — Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, who rode the sky alone in space, got a down-to-earth hello and godspeed today from millions of New Yorkers. The celebration that turned heroes’ canyon into astronaut alley was muted by an airlines tragedy. About an hour before Glenn and his six fellow astronauts landed here, an American Airlines jet transport crashed on takeoff from a nearby airport. All 95 aboard were killed. The news of the tragedy spread by word of mouth through the massed crowds just as the tickertape and confetti began its blizard on lower Broadway. The crowds were hunched in overcoats in the icy wind. “What a terrible thing to happen on a day like this.” one woman said. , “A Great Day” “This is a great day for New York and America.” Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson said in a keynote of the celebration just before the Glenn motorcade began. The New Yorkers massed along toe storied “Canyon of Heroes”—a %-mile stretch from Bowling Green to city hall—gave full - throated backing to that statement. Their cry of greeting echoed off toe old spires and toe new glassfaced walls of skyscrapers that showered twinkling tickertape and confetti like spacedust. The paper (Continued on Page Eight)

—Diversion from the highway fund of refundable, but unclaimed, taxes paid on gasoline used in motor boats. To prevent “costly delay” in 1 starting toe acquisition program, Kennedy' PtoPpsejl that Cafcress I authorize toe fwteral to borrow' toe SSOO million from toe Treasury. This would be re- • paid over the next eight years from the land conservation fund. Kennedy also called for a pro- . gram of matching grants to toe 1 states to d evelop plans for nonfederal outdoor recreational pro- ' grams. Three-Year Study Much of what toe President proposed was based on a report by toe Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission. The specially-appointed group, after three years of study, pointed to toe growing need for recreation areas in and around America’s urban centers. Kennedy expressed concern over toe land that is now and will be available for recreation. “With each passing year prime areas for outdoor recreation and fish and wildlife are pre-empted for suburban growth, industrial development or o toer uses,” he said. The President said toe nation was compelled “to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.” Kennedy also asked for approval of more money to buy recreation sites in cities, and for pas-

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Devastating Fire Shown Optimists

Community problems of an entirely different nature that those confronting Decatur were presented to the Decatur Optimist club this morning as Ra»ph Gordon presented colored slides of the Bel Air suburb of Los Angles, Calif., which was recently devastated by fire. Final preparations were discussed for the charter presentafioh banquet which will be held next Tuesday evening, and possibilities for two youth projects were also discussed. President Ralph Habegger noted that practically every member of the club has already purchased tickets for the charter banquet. A host of members from the sponsoring club, South Side Optimists of Fort Wayne, .will be on hand as well as the district governor. The speaker for the evening will be “Bish” Thompson, noted journalist and speaker from Evansville. Representatives from the Fort Wayne club also presented the possibility for the Decatur club to sponsor a boy in the Optimist speech contect by assuming the responsibilities for one of the Fort Wayne boys. Due to training qualifications, it would be impossible for the Decatur Optimists to sponsor a local boy this year. The speech contest will be held in the latter part of March. Mod Slide Area Youth project chairman Tom Schlotterback also received a suggestion that the March winds be harnessed for a space project "for young men in the community. It was suggested that a home made kite contest be held, with future astronauts getting into the fringe of space with their feet still on the ground. Gordon’s slides, taken by his son-in-law and himself, gavo vivid wit- " n’essTo Mtb,the destructiveness of the Bel Air fire i and thfe reasort excessive rains ih the area Save ; caused the recent mud slides. In addition to leveling almost 500 ■ homes in the swank residential ■ area, the fire left the steep hillsides completely bare of vegetation. Due to the steepness and dryness of the area which has an annual rainfall of five inches on the average, a greasewood scrub is about the only vegetation that will grow in the area.. This brush gets extremely dry, and if a fire starts, it moves so rapidly as is fanned by such diverse winds up and down the various valleys that it is almost impossible to extinguish. The excessive rain falling on the barren inclines has softened the ground to such an extent that the deadly mud slides follow. sage of legislation to preserve national wilderness areas. He asked for measures to conserve the nation’s water supply, and said his administration would seek to provide low cost power to all consumers. Noting the heavy pressure on recreation facilities in urban areas, the President also asked (Continued on Page Eight) —