Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1962 — Page 1

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Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Allison A. Van Wormer, Pleasant Mills Baptist Church) PhU. 2:5 The world Is continually bidding for our thinking moments. Manufacturers constantly endeavor to make us product minded. Satan through the world makes another bid for our thinking. Prestige, power, riches, glamour with no thought on how we acquire or how we use them. We see deceitfulness, graft and corruption on every side and we have come to accept it as a part of life. We do not consider ourselves mature until we can look at poverty and misfortune and be emotionally unmoved. We. witness the good interest of many and construe it for evil. Those that would be friends and benefactors we treat with mistrust. In most of our life phases we find the conformity of worldly thinking taking over our conscious moments. Christ also is bidding for our thinking moments. Paul tells us "Let Christ be your example as to what your attitude should be." The mind of Christ, what peace, what purity of thought. When we can look at the ugly and see beauty: at the starving and needy and feel pity, the sinner and the lost and feel compassion; then we are only in part thinking with a Christ-like mind. Paul tells us “Whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely and good report virtuous and praiseworthy, think on these things.” "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.

Steel Policy Group Meets

PITTSBURGH (UPI) — The United Steelworkers (USW) Wage Policy Committee today was expected to ratify a basic steel contract drawn up by top-level negotiators from union and industry. USW President David J. McDonald planned to go into session with the 170-man contingent at 11 a.m. EST to outline provisions of a two-year pact covering 430,000 basic steelworkers. Sources in Washington who unveiled the agreement Wednesday said it called for no immediate wage increase but provided for 10 cents an hour in fringe benefits and a wage reopening clause the second year. The USW’s 34-member executive board was to be briefed on the basic settlement shortly before the policy group convened. ’ Approval Expected Several circumstances pointed to approval of the contract by the policy group. High on the list was President Kennedy’s expressed wishes for “responsible” union leaders to reach a final agreement within a few days. Kennedy was instrumental in getting the two sides together for two weeks of bargaining which ended without an agreement March 2. When the bargainers indicated talks might not be resumed before the beginning of May, Kennedy suggested .that both sides reAdvertising Index Advertiser Adams Theater • Ashbachers' Tin Shop * Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 5 Burk Elevator Co-----» Chic Dry Cleaners & Laundry -.6 Citizens Telephone Co. - 3 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp 6 Evans Sales & Service, Inc. —— 5 First State Bank of Decatur —.6 Allen Fleming —5. Fairway Restaurant 3 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home .... 3 H. & M. Builders, Inc—— 4 Joys B-K Drive In ® Ned C. Johnson, AuctioneerRealtor 5 Joe G.-Kasler, Auctioneer —5 Mies Recreation 6 Petrie Oil Co. 6 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. ...—— 3 Sutton Jewelry Store 4 Dr Ray Stingely 5 Sheets Furniture .A 3 Teeple Truck Lines Villa Lanes 6 Zesto6 Church Page Sponsors----- 2 NOON EDITION

CITIZENS THREE—Triplets, from left, Kami, Kimberly and Kelli, 3, pledge allegiance to the flag after they became citizens of the U.S.A. The Korean girls were adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Ben Manzano, Lodf, Calif., as babies in 1959.

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turn to the bargaining table March 14. Responded To Call Cooper and McDonald brought their respective teams together at that time and began working on issues of job security and a money difference which was reported to have stalemated the first round of talks. Another indication favoring ratification was McDonald’s order for 450 union negotiators to attend a mass meeting here Sunday The move presumably was to brief the USW bargaining teams prior to their expected sessions Monday with their industry counterparts to resolve issues on a company level with the “big 11” steel firms. The new pact includes substantially the terms laid down by the policy group early in Februaryimproved supplemental unemployment benefits, improved job security and pension and vacation plans. Leßoy H. Jones Is Found Dead Friday Leßoy H. Jones, retired school and college teacher, was found dead about noon Friday at his home in Middle Point, O. Death was to natural causes. Bom in Columbia City Oct. 26, 1884, he was a son of Edgar B. and Hattie J. Petitt-Jones, and was married to Mary Frances Mallonee. His wife preceded him in death in 1948. Mr. Jones taught in schools St Middle Point and Ohio City, 0., and was also professor of speech at Taylor University and University Park College in Oscaloosa, la. His wife was also a professor at Taylor U. He Was a member of the Methodist church at Middle Point, where he served as Sunday school teacher and as president of the Senior Citizens club. Surviving are one brother, Frank L. Jones, of Oceanside, Calif., and one sister, Mrs. Mildred Dunlap of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Middle Point Methodist church, the Rev. Frank Sanderson officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert until 11:30 a.m. Monday, after which the body will lie in State at the church until time of the services.

lowans Battle Flood Waters On Two Fronts Flood emergencies sent National Guardsmen and volunteers back to the dikes and residents fleeing their homes in two lowa communities today. Dry weather in the East brought threats of more forest and brush fires. In Dixie, Alabama was whipped by hail and heavy rain Friday. With one battle against flooding rivers over in lowa, two more began. Weakened dikes held against the cresting Floyd River at Sioux City Friday. But work crews in that beleaguered city toiled through the night to erect a 3,006foot earthen dike along the rising Big Sioux River. Some 600 volunteers were joined by 150 National Guardsmen for an all-night patrol of dikes at Waterloo, lowa, where the Cedar River is expected crest for more than six hours today. About 200 families were ordered from their homes in the northern section of the city, where dikes showed signs of weakening. In Sioux City. authorities warned the 900 persons evacuated from their homes in the face of the rampaging Floyd not to return to their home as there was still danger of seepage through dikes. But the Big Sioux rose toward a crest predicted for Monday and expected to top that of the 1960 flood by more than a foot. There should be fairly widespread precipitation east of the Mississippi today, the Weather Bureau said, while the western half of the country can expect fair to partly cloudy skies.

Workshop Held Here On Kite-Building Twenty-nine interested youngsters and parents attended the Decatur Optimists’ Jdte-buflding workshop held at the Schlotterback woodworking shop Friday evening. Plans were made to hold another workshop in the same place next Friday at 7:30 p. m. It was also announced that during the Optimist kite-flying contest, the best kite from Decatur will be engaged in a kite-site with the kite judged the best in the Fort Wayne kite-flying contest, which will be held today. Mr. Ison, head of the Fort Wayne park department, attended the workshop, and assisted in the plans for the kite-site. A traveling trophy, symbolizing kite supremacy, will be awarded after the kite-site, which will become an annual affair. There is. a possibility that other communities will enter the kite-site in future years.

Second Workshop The workshop, which began at 7:30, was still going strong at 9:30, as youngsters were busy building kites and getting tips on both construction and flying. These young flyers will have the coming week in which to test and perfect their kites for the flying contest which will be held Sunday, April 8. In case of inclement weather, the kite-flying contest will be held Sunday, April 15. The second worskshop will also be featured by advice on construction and flying of various types of kites, as well as free materials for any prospective flying contest entrant who needs them. Many prizes and trophies have been obtained through Optimist funds and the cooperation of local manufacturers and merchants, and these wlil be awarded following the contest. Printed rules and kite plans have been obtained, and are available for youngsters who wish to participate in the contest. The contest is open to any public or parochial grade school student in Adams county. The kites must be home made, but adults are allowed and encouraged to assist in the construction. Martin R. Carmack Dies At Fort Wayne Martin R. Carmack, 69, retired Fort Wayne construction worker and a native of Adams county, died at 2:45 p. m. Friday at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne. Survivors include his wife, C. Margaret; two sisters, Mrs. Martin Waguei us Fort Wayne, and Mrs Harry McDowell of Coldwater, 0. Services will be held at 9 a. m. Monday at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home, with burial at Macedon, 0. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 31, 1962.

Armed French Soldiers Patrol Major Cities Os Algeria; Fear Terrorism

Cuban War Trials

Recess To Monday

HAVANA (UPI)— The govern-ment-controlled press reported to 4 day that Premier Fidel Castro’s? government will not resume its trial of 1,179 captured invaders' until Monday. The five-man court martial trying the prisoners adjourned its second session Friday afternoon. At that time, a spokesman for the pro-government organ Revolucion said the trial would resume today. Later, the pro-government paper La Tarde hinted that there might be a night session Friday, but none materialized. There was no immediate explanation of the apparent contradictions in scheduling. Today’s accounts merely said the trial would resume Monday. The pro-government papers reported that 11 defendants testified Friday, “confirming Yankee participation” in last April’s attack. Official announcements Friday said all the defendants had pleaded guilty and waived a defense in what might be the largest mass confession since the Soviet purge trials in the early ls3o’s. Relatives of the prisoners said, however, that they had rejected the services of a court-appointed defense attorney and were in effect challenging the legality of the proceedings by refusing to plead. Most of the defendants were charged with being “mercenaries” who invaded Cuba on orders from “U.S. imperialism." But references in the government-con-trolled press to the three leading invaders — Jose Perez San Roman, Erneido A. Oliva Gonzalez and Manuel Artime Buesa — indicated they had been accused of “betraying” Premier Fidel Castro’s revolution. (Havana broadcasts heard in Miami indicated that the prisoners had been divided into three categories — one group apparently slated for execution, a second group which would be imprisoned and a third group which would be subjected merely to “political indoctrination.” (It was not clear, however, how many prisoners fell into any of the three groupings.) Feed Grain Program Deadline Extended WASHINGTON (UPI)- Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman today announced a two-week extension of the spring deadline for farmers to qualify under the 1962 feed grain and wheat stabilization programs. The extension will be effective in 24 states where extreme weather conditions delayed the signup or recently adopted legislation affected “summer fallow” farms. The spring sign-up deadline for corn and grain sorghum and for barley and wheat was extended to April 14 in these states: Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Deeatwr Temperatnr** Local weather data for the period ending at 9 a.m. today. 12 noon ... 40 12midnight .. 34 1 p.m 44 1 a.m 33 2 p.m 44 2 a.m 32 3 p.m. .. ~ 46 3am. _—. —31 4 p.m. 47 4 a.m. ... 29 5 p.m 46 a a.m 29 6 p.m 46 6 a.m 28 7 p.m. 44 7 a.m. 28 8 p.m 42 8 a.m. 28 9 p.m. 89 9a m 28 10 p.m. 86 11 p.m 86 Raia .Wotal for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m .t oday, 0 inches. The St. Mary's river, was at 3.67

Willshire Resident Dies This Morning Mrs. H. Elizabeth Schumm, 76, a resident of Willshire, O„ for the past 50 years, died at 4 o’clock this morning at the Van Wert county hospital, two days after suffering a coronary attack. She was bom in Dublin township, Mercer county, 0., Aug. 23, 1885, a daughter of Ira and Katherine Coil-Boroff. She was married twice, and both husbands, Edwin Smith and John Schumm, preceded her in death. Mrs. Schumm was a member of the Willshire Methodist church and the Pythian Sisters at Willshire. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Leone Passwater of Willshire and Mrs. Delores Shady of Fort Wayne; one son, Donald W. Schumm of Fort Wayne; nine grandchildren; two great-grand-children, and one sister. Mrs. Ida DeVore of Continental, O. » Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Willshire Methodist church, the Rev. William P. Powers officiating. Burial will be in Tomlinson cemetery in Mercer county. Friends may call at the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert after 2 p.m. Sunday until 10 a.m, Monday. The body will lie in state at the church from 11 a.m. Monday until time of the funeral.

24 Sections Report On Red Cross Drive A total of 24 sections reported collecting $319.88 for the rural Red Cross fund drive in seven townships, with SSO coming from H. H. Stoner, 222 Jefferson St., Decatur, and $2 from the Merry Matrons Home Demonstration club, Robert chairman for the campaign, reKolter and Silvan Sprunger, coported Friday afternoon. Sectional workers are urged to report in just as soon as they complete their sections, Kolter and Sprunger said. Townships and the number of sections not yet reported are: Blue Creek, 15: French, 3; Root, 10; St. Mary’s, 5: Union, 4: Wabash, 20; Washington, 19: and Monmouth and Linn Grove are the two towns not reported as yet. The SSO by H. H. Stoner was the largest amount turned in the latest report. . i Other donors were: Union section 16, Theodore Bleeke, $9; 4, W. G. Teeple, $7, a 100%; section 6, Dan Lehrman, $9; 30, Erwin Fuelling, $4, 100%; 33, Mrs. Kenneth Nyfiler, $6.38, 10, Robert Plumley, $4; and section 20, Mrs. Herman Bleeke, $lB 100%. St. Mary’s, section 15, Mrs. Donald Dick, $7.50; section 11 Mrs. Donald Hakes $6. Blue Creek, section 5, $6, Mrs. Kenneth Parrish. Preble, section 22, Richard 9, Edwin Reifsteck, $5; 11, Mrs. Scheumann, $7; Erwin Buuck, $26; Ervin Schuller, $10; 16 , Arnold Scheumann, $9, 100%. sfection 14, Walter Zimmea£t*n, $4, 100%. Washington, Bellmont Park, Mrs. Fred Isdi, $9; section 16, Herbert Lengerich. $32. Root, section 20, Mrs. Earl Caston, $8.50; 17, Lois Scherer, sls; 10, Herbert Boerger, $11; 25, Mrs. Orland Miller, $13.25; 26, Otto We idler $7.75; 5 Mrs. Martin Braun, sls; 388, Leroy Walters, $10; section 30, Norbert Selking, $8.50, 100%

ALGIERS, Algeria (UPD—More than 75,000 armed French soldiers and gendarmes patrolled Algeria’s major cities today to head off a new wave of European terrorism that was triggered by the installation of the Moslem-domi-nated provisional executive. The month of March, which saw the end of the 7%-year Algerian war and Friday’s organization of the territory’s provisional executive, threatened to go out in another orggr of bloodshed and bombings. At least 26 persons were killed and 35 wounded in attacks by the European Secret Army Organization (OAS) Friday, bringing the terrorism toll for 1962 to 3,335 dead and 7,183 wounded. Friday’s slaughter, coming after a comparative lull in recent days, led authorities to fear the OAS may make a major weekend increase in guerrilla attacks against European liberals and try to provoke Moslems into bloody reprisals against troops and Europeans. Members of the new 12-man provisional executive were hard at work in Rocher Noir, their heavily fortified capital near here, on plans for an 80,000-man special force to keep order here until independence. The executive, headed by Moslem nationalist Abderrahmane Fares, is to run the country for the six months or so until independence. The OAS has sworn to do everything possible to drippie it. Fares made his first public address Friday night. In a radio and television speech in French and Arabic, he condemned the OAS and asked for European cooperation to build a new Algeria. The OAS did not sabotage the broadcast, as they had blacked out several broadcasts here by French President Charles de Gaulle. But shortly after Fares finished speaking, 13 plastic bombs rocked Algiers and nine more exploded in Constantine and Philippe ville. Sentenced To Death For Killing Officer

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Michael T. Callahan, 37, was under death sentence today in the fatal shooting of Marion County Deputy Sheriff Edward G. Byrne, 23. A Marion Criminal Court jury i Friday night convicted Callahan of first-degree murder and murder while committing a felony and recommended the death penalty on each count. Callahan, an ex-convict, displayed no emotion when the verdict was re ad to the crowded courtroom or when Judge Richard ( Saib imposed the death sentence. Saib set Aug. 1 “before sunrise” for Callahan’s execution in the electric chair at the Indiana State • Prison in Michigan City. The jury received the case at mid-afternoon Friday and deliberated about 5% hours, including a : two- hour supper break, before 1 reaching the guilty verdicts. Defense attorney Joseph T. Mazelin indicated he would appeal the . verdict to the Indiana Supreme ■ Court. 1 Byrne, a rookie officer, was shot to death last April 16th while investigating a tavern burglary on the city’s east side. Two admitted participants in the burglary, Ralph E. Dußois and John Walker Jr., testified that Callahan shot I Byrne while the deputy was questioning them on the street near the tavern. , * I Dußois’ common-law wife, Jean Dußois, testified that Callahan • was with her at the time of the slaying and that Dußois and Walk- , er were trying to frame the de- ■ fendant. ——■ ■■ —— INDIANA WEATHER * Cloudy with Chance of some light snow or rain late tonight > and Sunday. Continued cool, i Low tonight 28 to 34. High Sunday low 40s. Outlook for Monday: Cloudy and cool with occasional rain likely.

White Named To High Court

WASHINGTON (UPI) -u President Kennedy Friday night appointed Deputy Atty. Gen. Byron R. (Whizzer) White to the U.S. Supreme Court. The 44-year-old former AllAmerican football star and Rhoses scholar will succeed Justice Charles Evans Whittaker, who is retiring. Kennedy said he chose White because of his “character, experience and intellectual force.” Key members of Congress agreed with Kennedy. The appointment, which must be con-' firmed by the Senate, appeared destined for smooth sailing. There was, however, some negative reaction. It was the high point in a meteoric rise which brought White from hoeing beets and waiting tables to get through college to get through college to glory on the gridiron and a Rhodes scholarship. It was not immediately clear how the appointment would tip the present balance of a liberal-con-servative conflict on the court, although White was generally felt to be more liberal than his predecessor. Whittaker, who has been ailing for some time, officially leaves the bench Sunday on the advice of his doctor. The appointment, Kennedy’s first to the high court, would mean that it would be made up of six Democrats and three Republicans. White would be its youngest member. In Denver for speaking engagements, White said “I’m very honored.” Sen. James O. Eastland, DMiss., chairman of the Judiciary Committee which must confirm the appointment, said there were many areas of disagreement between him and White but he would make “an able Supreme Court justice.” He said White was “an able lawyer, honest and conscientious. I will support him.” White, All-American back at the University of Colorado and later an all-pro player who reached the

Plans Attempt To Force Integration

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Justice Department plans to attempt next week to force integration of all schools receiving federal aid to educate the children of servicemen and government workers. The Federal Court suit to be filed in Florida would be the follow-up punch to Friday’s announcement by Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham A. Ribicoff that the administration will act on its own next year to cut off a small part of the socalled “impacted areas” aid to some segregated schools. The court action originally was scheduled this week, but was held off, according to congressional and administration sources. Ribicoff said the suit was under active consideration but gave no other details. The govefhnfent is expected to pump more than S3OO million this year into 4,000 school districts in all 50 states which claim overcrowding caused by nearby military bases and other federal installations. Os this total, 11 southern states with varying degrees of classroom segregation would get about SB3

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Football Hall of Fame, also had the warm support of the American Bar Association sot the $35,000 a year position. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., said he “could not be any happier” with the appointment. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 111., said White is “one of those solid people” who makes a decision and stands by it But Rep. George Meader, RMich., said Kennedy had appointed “a totally unqualified political minion.” He said the President had “shown his contempt for the Supreme Court, the law, the legal profession and the people of the United States.” Met in London White and Kennedy have been friends for 20 years, ever since they met in London while Kennedy’s father was U.S. ambassador there. The President, in announcing the appointment, told newsmen that White had “excelled in everything he has attempted.” In 1939, White, an Episcopalian, went to Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and later took his law degree from Yale. He played professional football - with the Pittsburgh Pirates (now the Steelers) and the Detroit Lions before becoming an inteligence officer in the Navy during World War 11. He worked behind the Japanese lines in the Solomons and won two Bronze Stars and seven battle stars on his Pacific theater ribbon. After the war, be was a law clerk to then Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, and then joined a Denver law firm. He was national chairman of the Citizens for Kennedy during the 1960 campaign, and after the election, left the law firm to be deputy attorney general. His wife, Marion, at home in Washington with their two children, Barney, 8, and Nancy, 5, said she was “thrilled to death” and “tremendously excited” over the appointment.

million. The Justice Department lacks authority to step into segregated school districts financed solely by state and local funds. But it will sue in Florida on the ground that the government’s contributions to impacted districts give it the same kind of standing as a private citizen who claims his children are being discriminated against The suit was repotted to have been personally approved by the President. - The Ribicoff ruling, to take effect in the 1963-64 school year, would affect only those segregated school districts getting federal aid to educate children of parents who. both work and live on federal property. For the most part,«this means the children of servicemen and civilian workers at military bases. In 1961 fiscal year, the government paid about sls million on behalf of about 53,000 federally connected children going to school in the. 11 principal segregation states. Some of these already are attending desegregated schools, both on and off government property.