Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1962 — Page 1

VoL LX. No. 96.

Urge President Kennedy To Trade Surpluses In Bulging U. S. Stockpile

U. S. Atomic Tests Slated

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States plans to fire a Polaris missile with a live nuclear warhead from a submarine during the atomic tests expected to start in the Pacific this week. Well-informed sources said that a new type anti-submarine weapon with an atomic warhead also would be tested in an underwater shot as part of the contemplated tests. The new U.S. tests, including atmospheric blasts, will go ahead unless Russia agrees to a test ban with adequate inspection. The U.S. tests tentatively have been set to begin Wednesday. If the present plans are carried out, the Polaris warhead and the antisubmarine device will be the first missile-carried nuclear weapons tested by this country. 1,200-Mile Range The Polaris missile has a warhead equal in destruction force to more than 500,000 tons of TNT. The missile has a range of 1,200 miles, but this will be greatly shortened in the Pacific tests exploding the warhead at a higher altitude. It was believed that the Polaris and underwater shots may be the only two in the series designed to proof-test actual weapons. The other tests in the atmospheric shots are expected to be aimed at gathering knowledge on effects of nuclear explosions, especially in the area of missile defense. There will be at least one explosion, under present plans, several hundred miles high. Scientists want to know the heat, ionization, electro-magnetic and other effects of such explosions. They Suit For Damages To Trial Tuesday A total of 12 additional names for petit jury duty have been called for by Judge Myles F. Parrish for a trial at 9 a. m. Tuesday in the Adams circuit court. Some of the original 24 petit jurors drawn for duty were found to be unable to serve, due to sickness, etc., and will be excused Some of the jurors were over 65 years of age, and according to law, a person may be excused from duty if over 65, if it is his or her wish. The jury case involves the Rev. David J. Jenkins of Fort Wayne, vs. the city of Fort Wayne, on a complaint for personal injuries. Jenkins was injured in an acci- ' dent October 27, 1957, when struck by a police car in Fort Wayne. He received a compound fracture of the left leg, lost two teeth and suffered internal injuries. Leg Amputated Following the surgery on his leg, his complaint alleges that infection set in the leg, and it was amputated below the knee. Jenkins is the minister of the Eliza street Church of God in Fort Wayne, and states in his complaint that he was in the hospital until April 3 of 1958. Jenkins is requesting a judg- : ment of $250,000 in the case, which will begin at 9 a. m. Tuesday, * The case was venued from the < Allen superior court June 20, 1958, to the Adams circuit court. The 12 new jurors dr a4m for jury duty include: Herman C. Bulmahn, Root; Francis Ellsworth, Decatur; Raymond Crist, Monroe: Ivan Booher, Geneva; Daniel Bertsch, Berne: Ralph K. Eckrote, Hartford; Albert Ewell, Preble; Luther W. Burry, Berne; Robert L. Dudgeon, Jefferson; Nolan G. Ginter, Decatur; Leia ' Arnold, Monroe, and Alvin P. Hawkins, Union.

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also want to study in particular the effects that ionized particles would have on defense radars. Penetration Aid Another purpose is to find out whether a nuclear burst in space or high* in the atmosphere could serve as a “penetration aid/’ blinding warning radar and paving the way for missile attack. The first new American test may be a hydrogen explosion over Johnson Island, a dot of land about 800 statute miles from Honolulu. Or it could be staged over Christmas Island, a British possession about 1,300 miles south of Honolulu in the South Pacific. Altogether, this country is ex?, pected to set off perhaps two dozen nuclear blasts over a twomonth period, some of them fairly big ones but none comparable to the Russian shot Oct. 30 which yielded 58 megatons —a force equal to 58 million tons of TNT. Postpones Hearing un Keappomonmeni INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A hearing on a suit to force legislative reapportionment in Indiana was postponed today until May 14. Judge John Linder’s action in Marion Superior Court 5 brought protests from State Sen. Nelson G. Grills, D, Indianapolis, when he heard about it. Grills sought to force reapportionment before the May primary, but Linder’s action on a motion by Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers delayed the hearing until six days after the primary. *T was not notified of the continuance and I will oppose it,” Grills said later. “It’s extremely unfortunate. It places the primary election in jeopardy.” Grills had sought to require the state election board to handle the election of 1963 lawmakers and to prevent the board from holding the nomination and election of those lawmakers under the present setup by legislative districts which Grills says are illegal due to the fact the legislature has not been reapportioned since 1920. although the Constitution requires it every six years. Four Persons Killed In Illinois Crash NASHVILLE, IU. (UPI) — Mrs. Lena McCord, about 50, and her son, Charles, 18, Winslow, Ind., were among four persons killed in a two-car collision near here Sunday. Mrs. McCord’s husband, Royal, was injured criticallyRadioactivity Drops Slightly Last Week Radioactivity dropped slightly in Adams county last week, according to the weekly reading taken by Milt Spence. The reading registered .06 milliroengtens per hour which is one-one hundredth lower than the previous week’s reading. Spence takes a reading in a different part of the county each week ,as part of his duties with the U S. department of agriculture. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday. A little cooler tonight and a little warmer Tuesday. Low tonight 34 to 38 north, 46 to 48 north, in the 76s south. Sunset south. High Tuesday 57 to 65 today 7:31 p.m. Sunrise Tues day 5:55 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair and a little warmer. Lows 43 to 53. Highs 75 to 85.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Senate investigators today urged President Kennedy to trade surpluses in the nation’s bulging stockpile of strategic materials for military hardware. Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., chairman of a special Senate subcommittee looking into reported over-supplies of strategic materials, made the recommendation at the opening of hearings into the government’s huge surplus store of crude natural rubber. An official of the General Servives Administration testified the government held 1,091,936 long tons of rubber as of the end of last year. The surplus, figured on the basis of need for a three year war, was 341,936 long tons. In dollar terms, he said, the surplus was $216,377,660. The GSA official, George K. Castro, said under questioning that sales from the stockpile had been limited by protests from Far East rubber producing countries. Directives to sell by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization were modified, he said, to “pacify” rubber product in g nations. Symington said the subcommittee would offer legislation to permit domestic barter of the “tremendous inventories” of critical and strategic materials. Under the subcommittee proposal he explained, Defense Department contractors would ,be paid in part from surpluses in government stockpiles, “Handled in such faahtan” Symington said, “there would be no fall in prices comparable to what would happen if these materials were disposed of in distress sales on the open market.” Under the Symington plan, stockpiled items to be traded would be. limited to those needed by defense contractors to fill orders for military goods. Adams County Youth Is Injured Saturday Donald Wayne Martin, 16, route l, Geneva, was hospitalized in the Bluffton Clinic early Saturday evening, after a one-car accident on state road 116, 1.8 miles south of Linn Grove. Martin suffered a broken left arm and a concussion, in addition to cuts around the left eye, in the mishap which totally demolished the 1960 model oar he was driving. The mishap occurred at 6:30 o. m. Saturday as Martin was traveling north on 116. According to investigating officers, he was traveling at a high rate of speed, when a tread came off a snow tire on the left rear of the auto. The vehicle went out of control, slid off the berm and rolled over twice completely, before coming to rest in an angle position against an I & M pole. Martin’s auto traveled a total of 60- feet from the point where the tread came off the tire. Martin was thrown some 82 feet north from the spot where the car came to rest, and one of the car’s doors was found 250 feet north. Martin did not apply his brakes while on the road, as there were no ’’skid marks to determine the rate of speed he was traveling. State trooper Alan Coppes and deputy sheriff Charles Arnold investigated the accident. Decatar T«mp*ratarea Local weather data for the 48 hour period ending at 11 a m. today. SATURDAY SUNDAY 12 noon SO It midnight .. 54 1 p.m 60 J a,tn 55 2 p.m 62 2 a m 56 3 p.m S 3 3 a.m 56 4 p.m. 64 4 a.m 56 5 p.m 64 5 a.m 56 •6 p.m 62 6 a.m .56 7 p.m — 60 7 a.m 56 8 p.m. t 58 8 a.m. 63 9 p.m 56 9 a.m. ; 66 ■lO p.m —56 10 a.m 70 11 p.m 54 11 a.m 74 SUNDAY MONDAY 12 noon 74 12 midnight 52 1 p.m. 74 1 a.m ~...50 2 p.m 73 2 a.m 48 3 p.m 70 3 a.m 47 4 p.m 60 4 a.m 46 5 p.m 60 5 a.m 46 6 p.m. 60 6 a.m 46 7 p.m 59 7 a.m 45 8 p.m A...... 68 8 a.m 48 9 p.m 56 9 a.m. 56 10 p.m 54 10 a.m 58 11 p.m. 52 11 a.m. , 68 I Raia Total for the 48 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .13 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.45 I feet

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 23, 1962.

. — 4 Orders Michigan To Reexamine Decision

WASHINGTON (UPD—For thet ’ second time this session, the Su-J preme Court today directed a' , lower court to re-examine a , involving a city vs rural voter , dispute over apportionment of a ! state legislature. ' Today’s order was directed to . the Michigan Supreme Court which in 1960 dismissed a suit , challenging an apportionment provision of the state constitution. I The brief order said the state l tribunal should examine the case in the light of the U.S. Supreme - Court’s precedent-setting Tennessee reapportionment decision of March 26. The high court ruled then that ' federal tribunals have power to : hear such cases although it did not set any guidelines as to what constitutes fair apportionment. Justice John M. Harlan wrote a dissent to today’s action as he did in the Tennessee case. He said his colleagues were being less than forthright with the Michigan trilx* unal. Justice Tom C. Clark, joined by i Justice Potter Stewart, disputed Harlan’s view. Clark noted that Ute Michigan court had rated tate s fore the Tennessee decision had ' been made. The Michigan case was started by August Scholle of Detroit, president of the state AFL-CIO. Since then a convention has been called to revise the legislative districting and apportionment sections of the state constitution. George Romney, Republican candidate for governor, has played a leading role in its deliberations. Several changes have been proposed but Democrats, including Gov. John Swainson, contend they are insignificant. Scholle attacked a 1952 amendment to the state constitution which, with two exceptions, froze the voting districts for the Michigan Senate as they have been since 1925. Previously there had been a requirement for realignment of senatorial districts every 10 years but nothing had been done. Unlike the Tennessee situation, the Michigan amendment was submitted to the electorate and approved by a vote of 1,269,808 to 975,518. Michigan’s convention was called by popular referendum. In Tennessee, only the legislature can call a constitutional convention. —

Judge Bars Rail Strike

CHICAGO (UPI) — A federal district court judge today issued an injunction barring a nationwide strike of conductors against the Pullman Co. Judge Michael L. Igoe issued the injunction against the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen (ORCB). His order replaced a temporary injunction which had barred a walkout which had been scheduled to start April 12. The injunction was requested by the Pullman Company. Railway spokesmen had said a strike could tie up the nation’s passenger rail system. ORCB attorneys indicated they would appeal Igoe’s ruling. A temporary restraining order, which was extended until today, prevented the union from striking on Pullman facilities serving most of the nation’s railroads. Igoe issued the temporary injunction while conducting hearings to determine if the restraining order should be made permanent. The union, second oldest railway labor organization in the

t The result of the 1952 amendIment was 34 permanent districts, each of which sends a senator to the legislature in Lansing. Scholle sued Secretary of State James M. Hare, asking a court order forbidding further senatorial elections under the 1952 amendments and their invalidation as a violation of the federal constitution. The state court dismissed the suit by a 5-3 vote. Two Boys Escape Death From Train Two Decatur boys, aged 8 and 13, narrowly escaped death Saturday afternoon when they were playing on the Erie-Lackawanna railroad bridge over the St. Mary’s river, just east of the railroad crossing on Mercer Ave., and a train passed through the bridge. City police chief James M. Borders said that the two youth* were returned to their homes and •their parents advised of the incident. W. T. Agler, Huntington, the train’s engineer, saw the two youths as he was approaching from the east, at 3:12 p. m. He immediately applied his emergency brakes, risking the buckling of the train cars for the lives of the two boys. Jumped To Safety The two boys jumped onto the concrete foundation between the tracks, which supports the bridge, and waited there until the train passed. Agler radioed ahead to the depot, who in turn called the city police department. Patrolmen Grover Odle and Victor Strickler immediately went to the bridge, finding the youths safe on the foundation. The train had a total of 176 cars. Agler told the investigating officers that the train missed the one boy By approximately five feet before the youth jumped, and that if he had been going any faster both boys would have been hit. Agler said the train was traveling 35 miles an hour when he noticed the two boys ahead. The railroad bridge mentioned above is, like others, private property of the railroad. Anyone caught on it could be arrested for trespassing.

I " ~ [ United States, recently authorized > strikes on Pullman sleeping and ■ parlor cars, beginning with the Milwaukee Road April 12." J Other strike dates on Pullman -facilities were for trains operat- ’ ing in and out of Chicago, on April 17; trains running to and 1 from St. Louis, on April 20, and 1 against all other railroads throughout the nation, April 20. r But the Milwaukee Road [ reached an agreement before the [ strike deadline with the conductors and granted them a shorter, , or 180-hour, work month and job protection. The April 17 and April 20 deadlines were covered by Igoe’s temporary injunction. • There was no indication what '■ the union, headed by Louis Wag- • ner, might do if Igoe should re--1 fuse the Pullman motion. But it seemed likely that the brotherhood probably would meet and re-set strike deadlines, while attempting to settle the dispute through negotiation.

French Troops Are Ordered To Shoos On Sight ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI) — French security forces with orders to “shoot first” today patrolled Algiers and the western port city of Oran in search of terrorists of the Secret Army Organization (OAS). Major proOAS demonstrations suddenly erupted in two major cities in eastern Algeria. A series of 10 plastic bomb explosions rocked Philippeville Sunday night and early today. Reports said there was heavy damages but no casualties. Three bombs also were exploded in Algiers during the night but there was no immediate report on casualties or damages. Separate street shootings in Algiers this morning killed two Moslems. The bomb attacks followed a night of noisy demonstrations by Europeans in Philippeville and i Constantine in support of the OAS and its new commander, • renegade ex-Gen. Paul Gardy, Europeans in the two cities in ! eastern Algeria banged pots and pans, shouted “French Algeria” slogans and placed phonographs playing martial tunes on their windows as a demonstration of backing for the outlawed extremist organization. Most of the OAS strength previously had appeared to be concentrated in Oran and Algiers. French troops in Oran and Algiers were under orders today to shoot OAS terroists on sight. At the same time, units of the new 40,000-man Algerian “local force” — mostly Moslems — prepared to move into the Moslem quarters of the main Algerian cities to guard them against attacks by the OAS. The moves were part of the stepped-up offensive against the outlawed European extremist organization which has boasted it . can still strike “where we want, i when we want and whom we . want." The shoot-on-sight order became effective at midnight. Europeans - in Algiers and Oran also have ’ been arned to stay tff balconies ! and rooftops lest they be mis- ! taken for OAS commandos. The terrorists stepped up viof lence over the Easter weekend to f show that the OAS is still a force to reckon with despite the capture of its top commander, ex-Gen. ' Raoul Salan. They struck with bombs and bullets in Algiers, Oran and other i major Algerian cities. On Satur- * day, 23 persons were killed. Sunday-first anniversary of the abortive “generals revolt” led by I Salan and three other former ■ generals—terrorists killed 17 peri sons and wounded 22. i The weekend toll raised the known terrorist casualty toll since the first of the year to 3,859 dead and 8,174 wounded. High Temperatures Mark Easter Sunday By United Press International The weather paraded its best spring finery for Easter in Indiana,with sunny skies and the season’s warmest temperatures prevailing. Showers later in the day took the edge off the holiday weather conditions, but most Hoosiers agreed it had been a long time since a more pleasant Easter morning. The mercury soared to a season’s high of 86 at Evansville Sunday and stopped in the 70s at other Indiana points, including 70 at South Bend, 77 at Indianapolis and Lafayette and 79 at Fort Wayne. Saturday highs also were warm, including 73 at Fort Wayne, 74 at South Bend, 76 at Indianapolis and 77 at Lafayette. Cooler weather filtered into the state after showers late Sunday recorded .23 of an inch precipitation at Indianapolis, .16 at Lafayette, .07 at Fort Wayne and a trace at Evansville. Overnight lows were generally in the 40s except in the extreme south. Highs today will range from the 50s to 68, lows tonight from 38 to 48, and highs Tuesday from 63 to 75. , . • V The five-day outlook called for abnormally warm average temperatures and little if any rain this week. Temperatures will average 4 to 10 degrees * above normal. In the north, one-tenth inch or less of rain was expected and in central and south "little or no” precipitation was forecast.

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GUARD HEADQUARTERS—LoyaI soldiers guard headquarters of War Secretary Enrique Rauch in Buenos Aaires. Army Commander Lt. Gen. Raul Poggi made bid to oust President Guido, but was foiled by loyal troops.

81 Candidates For D. H. S. Graduation

Eighty-one seniors of the Decatur high school are candidates for diplomas at the commencement exercises of the school Thursday night, May 24, according to an announcement by Hugh J. Andrews, school princinpal. The commencement exercises will be held in the school auditorium, also the site of the annual baccalaureate services Sunday evening, May 20. Candidates for diplomas are as follows: Donald Edward Aeschliman, Linda Lou Aeschliman, Dennis Lynn Ahr, Pamella Kay Anderson, Larry Wayne Andrews, Janeen Ann Augsburger, Margaret Ellen Azbell, Katherine Irene Bischoff, June Carol Blakey, Dorothy Jean Bleeke Dennis Lee Bollenbacher, Judith Katherine Burk. IsabeU Ruth Can- ! emo, Daniel Lee Christen, Richard Franklin Collins, Donna Kae Corey, Isabel Costello, Dianna Rose DeBolt, John Joseph Dierkes, Mary Janice Dyer. Max Allen Eichenauer, James Alien Elliott, Marla Jean Estes, Janelle Rae Everhart, Edward Leßoy Feasel, Gerald Alan Feasel, Virginia Kay Foor, Frederick Allen Frauhiger, Charlotte Kathryn Fuelling, Sandra Kay Grote, Janet Marie Habegger, Sally Jo Commission To Permit Use Os War Memorial INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana War Memorial Commission retreated today from a showdown with Governor Welsh over use of the World War Memorial by the Civil Liberties Union. Clarence R. McNabb, Fort Wayne, president of the commission, notified Welsh by letter that the dispute over use of the memorial was “a tempest in a teapot” and the commission will defer to the wishes of the governor as to what organization may use the state-owned building. The Indiana CLU, which was denied use of the building for tneetings since 1953, promptly applied for use of the building May 2 and Welsh said he had accepted an invitation to be the speaker at the meeting. ' Welsh suggested to McNabb that the rules of the commission be changed to permit any locally constituted public or private organization not on the U.S. attorney general’s list of subversivegroups to use the building. Risk Invites Welsh Welsh then announced that he had accepted an invitation from Dr. Robert Risk, chairman of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, to speak on May 2 before the group. The ICLU executive secretary, Mrs. Harold Persky, formally applied todayfor authority to use the auditorium on May 2. Jack Trowbridge, secretary of the commission, who had said last week he was instructed by the commission to reject any application from the ICLU, said today he tentatively was reserving May 2 for a meeting for the ICLU. Trowbridge said he gave Mrs. Persky the application which asked the name of the speaker and his subject but that the form had not yet been returned to him. McNabb said in his letter to Welsh that “the memorial com-

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• Hahn, Larry Leßoy Hamilton, Ernest Leroy Hanni, Shirley Ann : Harden, Sydney Eugene Hawkins, Malvrey Patricia Hill, James Harold Hoffman, Rex Leroy Huss, Larry Erman Johnson. Suette Johnson, Jerrel Wayne i Jones, Nan Louise Kelly Ronald Herbert Kleinknight, Rudolph Albert Kleinknight, Jerry Wayne Knavel, Ruth Ann Koenig, Gerald • Franklin Krick, Alice Jean Lillich, Karen Audrey Lough, Bobby Frank McKinnon, Joseph Hunter McNerney, Charles Herbert Magley, Steven Charles Marbach, Monica Elisabeth Marklund (exchange student), Susan Kathryn Mayclin, Richard Ervin Mffler, • Harry Wayne Nicodemus, David i E Ortiz, Dinna Lee Parker. 1 David Allen Ross, Allen Leroy ■ Scheiderer, De vkt George Schiaferl stein, Cheryl Ann Schackley, > Michael Charlyle Shannon, Kath- • leen Ann Shoaf, Ruth Ann Soliday, r Sonja Sue Strahm, Paula Jean Strickler, Sharon Kay Sudduth, i Glenn Thomas Suman, Karen Sue Thieme, Burt Allison Townsend, I JUdy Kay Tutewiler, William Edward Underwood, Trinidad Vergara, Kathleen Kay Walters, Robert G. Walters, Jr., Earl Dale Wass, Michael Dailey Worthman, Ronald Alan Zimmerman. mission is an agency appointed by the governor and has been, at least all times since I have been Identified with it, deferentia to the wishes of the chief exective.” The letter called the controversy “a tempest in a teapot”. Critical of Trowbridge “I fear that the ‘tempest in the teapot’ may be attributed to the thoughtlessness and inexperience on the part of Jack Trowbridge in making statements to which the newspaper reporters attached altogether too much importance,” McNabb wrote. “As a result, they have endeavored, to create a public issue that may result in embarrassment to both your office and that of the memorial commission." 75-Year-Old Man Burned To Death LOGANSPORT, Ind. (UPI) — Harold Parkman, 75. was found burned to death in his bedroom Sunday night after fire swept the two-story frame house at Georgetown where he v.as staying alone. Advertising Index Advertiser ’ Page Adams Builders Supply, Inc. ....2 Adams County Shrine Club7 A & P Tea Co., Inc. 3 Ashbauchers’ 'Hn Shop 2 Adams Theaterß Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 5 Burk Elevator C 0.... 5 Budget Loans 7 Hugo Boerger 8 Cowens Insurance Agency 7 Decatur-Kocher Lumber, Inc. 2, 5 Decatur Music House... 3 Evans Sales & Service, Inc. .... 5 Holthouse Drug Co. 7 Haugks 2 Happy Humpty Drive-In 8 International College 8 Kent Realty & Auction Co 5 Kohne Drug Store 6 Kohne Window & Awning Co. .. 2 S. E. Leonardsonß Myers Cleaners 4 Northern Indiana Public Service Co. 6 Niblick & CO. 2 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. 2,3, 6 Roger Singleton 4 Dr. Ray Stingely 5 Billy Mack Smith — 4 Teeple Truck Line 5