Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 21 May 1962 — Page 1

VOL. LX NO. 120.

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Kennedy Appeals For Medicare Bill

NEW YORK (UPI) — The American Medical Association (AMA) was set to slug back today at the Kennedy administration’s Sunday punch on the hot issue of medical care. President Kennedy and other top administration officials threw the punch Sunday at giant rallies across the nation on behalf of his plan to finance medical care for the aged through the Social Security program. Kennedy, in a speech to 22,000 persons in New York City’s Madison Square Garden and a nationwide television audience, went over the head of the AMA to appeal directly to doctors to support his program — the King-An-derson bill. The AMA, bitter opponent of the administration plan, an - nounced it would reply to KamecCrat^pufcTCOTron-* nationally televised program (Your Doctor Reports — NBC-TV). Issues Statement Dr. Leonard W. Larson, AMA president, Said in a statement on Sunday night that giant ra Illes could not conceal that the administration measure “would force an immediate 17 per cent payroll tax increase on workers earning $5,200 or more and their employers. These taxes would be used to provide health care for millions of others financially able to take care of themselves.” Larson said the administration plan would give the federal government ’ ‘dangerous power to control medical practice in hospitals. The quality of medical care would suffer.” He said the medical profession is “forth e Kerr-Mills law to help those who need help.” The Madison Square Garden rally where Kennedy spoke was one of 3 3 held throughout the country. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and several Kennedy Cabinet members spoke at the meetings. Appeals To Doctors The President asked physicians to write directly to him for information about the administration- I backed bill rather than rely on the AMA for it. He said he could I Advertising Inctex Advertiser Par ® Ashbauchers' Tin Shop ‘ A & P Tea Co., Inc. 3 Adams Builders Supply. Inc 2 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. •> Burk Elevator Co- 3 Bower Jewelry Store - 3 Cowens Insurance Agency ’ Fred Corah Insurance < Decatur-Kocher Lumber, Inc. - 2 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. 2 Decatur Music House 3 Ellenberger Bros. Auctioneers - 5 Evans Sales & Service, Inc. —- 5 Fager Appliance & Sporting Goods ® Holthouse Drug Co.— * Haugks o Happy Humpty Drive In -» International College 7 The Kent Realty & Auction Co. .. 5 Kohne Drug Store —— ® Kohne Window & Awning Co. „ 2 Kelly Dry Cleaning —— 4 Myers Cleaners ® Myers Florist 3 Northern Indiana Public Service Co. — 3 Niblick & Co 3 Pine Lake • L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. -— 2 Teeple Truck Line - 3

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not recognize the bill as explained by the AMA Journal. Kennedy rejected the idea that medical care financed through Social Security taxes would sap the traditional American quality of self-reliance. He said that nothing could possibly d estroy s elf-reliance m ore than the burden of massive medical bills being passed on from patients to other generations. “Nobody will be getting a n y - thing for nothing,” Kennedy said. “They will be paying for it.” Lobbies Against Bill Kennedy said that a “busy organization” was lobbying against the bill. He cited a heavy volume of mail against the measure that has been received by Congress and the White House. But Kennedy, often interrupted by shouts and cheers of encouragement, said the people will support the bill, “one by one, thousand by thousand, million by million.” The President also dismissed the threat of a group of New Jersey d octors to refuse treatment for persons hospitalized under the government plan should it become law. Kennedy was another way of opposing the King-Ander-son bill, but he was also confident “not a single doctor is going to refuse to treat any patient if this ill becomes law.” Otherwise, he added, the New Jersey physicians would not ’ have become physicians in the first place. His speech, sponsored by the Council of Golden Ring Clubs and the National Council of Se ni or Citizens, was Kennedy’s most eloquent and extensive public argument i n behalf of the medical care program to date. Miss Anna Adler Dies Unexpectedly Miss Anna Adler, 84, a resident of Decatur for more than 40 years, died suddenly at 10:30 o’clock Sunday night at her home, 349 Winchester street. She was born at Linn Grove Oct. 13, 1877, a daughter of John G. and Barbara Huser-Adler. and had lived in Decatur since 1918. Miss Adler, a seamstress, was a member of the Bethany Evangelical United Bretheran church and the W. S. W. S. of the churchSurviving are one brother. Edwin M. Adler of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Lena Harruff of Decatur. A brother Henry Adler, died April 11 of this year. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesdav at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Fuhrman Miller officiating. Burial will be in St. John’s cemetery at Fort Wayne. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. News Conference By Kennedy Wednesday WASHINGTON (UPI) =r President Kennedy will hold a news conference Wednesday at 4 pm. EDT, the White House announced today.

Europeans Jam Transport To Flee Algeria ALGIERS (UPI) — Europeans jammed docks and airports today in a headlong rush to get out of Algeria. It appeared to be the beginning of a long-expected mass exodus to France despite efforts to Secret Army Organization (OAS) terrorists to stop it. The steamer Ville De Marseille docked this morning and found the heavily guarded Quai Fort de France packed with anxious, waiting passengers. Many had vainly tried to board the ship before it left for Marseille Friday. ‘fte apparent flight Europeans came as a police communique today reported that 12 persons were killed and 100 wounded Sunday w hen OAS c ommandos shelled a Moslem qua rter o f Oran. Terrorists killed another three persons and wounded two others in scattered attacks early today, raising the unofficial casualty toll for 1962 to 4,841 dead and 8,894 wounded. East of Algiers, long lines of automobiles were queued up behind gendarmerie barricades on the road to the Maison Blanche Airport. Extra flights were ordered Sunday to handle the crash. “We’ve never seen anything like this.” said one gendarme. “We asked these people yesterday to go home until Tuesday but none of them wanted to go back to Algiers. They’d rather wait here.” The Republican security guard post on the. road to Maison Blanche was turned into a makeshift nursery for mothers and babies. People slept on the ground or in their cars and heated meals in cans on camping stoves. French authorities closed the road to the airport Sunday until passengers already jamming the terminal could be flown out. “They don’t know where they are going as long as it’s someplace in France,” said one airline official. Twelve Air Algeria and Air France flights were scheduled out of Maison Blanche today instead of the normal nine or ten. Sixteen left for France Sunday. The OAS has threatened death to any European who leaves Algeria but. Europeans have lived with death for so long in Algiers now that it didn’t seem to matter to some of them. BULLETINS WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy asked Congress today for an additional $210,800,000 for the Atomic Energy Commission next fiscal year, partly to reimburse it for funds being spent on Its current test series. WASHINGTON (UPI) — James L. Kunen, a part-time consultant to the Office of Emergency Planning, was fired today because he was involved in an “apparent conflict of interest* ’in 1955 and' 1956. ’ I

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, May 21,1962.

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Urges Leaders Help Economy

WASHINGTON (UPI) — PresL, dent Kennedy appealed today toj leaders of organized labor, busi-4 ness and the public to forget i party or organization labels and? help the administration get the economy going at “full blast.’’ The Chief Executive, opening a White House conference on national economic issues, said he needed pupport from every group to make the United States a “model for the world.” The Chief Executive told about 200 delegates to the conference that this country’s task is to try to match recent ecnomic growth achieved by France, West Germany and Italy and still avoid inflation. He specifically asked the conference to propose ways to halt the flow of gold and dollars resulting from the U.S. balance of payments deficit. Kennedy said the nation needed advice on how to make a free economy work at full capacity. Kennedy said that much of the squabbling between labor unions and management m collectrAf bargaining could be eliminated if the country’s economy was expanding at a faster rate. “If we can operate the economy at full blast,” he said, slicing up the economic pie into wages, profits and dividends would be much simpler.

6 Convictions Are Reversed

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court ruled today that six witnesses who defied congressional investigations of Communist activities were illegally convicted o f contempt because of faulty indictments. In reversing the convictions, the court declared grand jury indictments in contempt of Congress cases must pinpoint the subject being investigated when the witness is questioned. For the majority, Justice Potter Stewart said; “In each case, the i ndictment returned by the grand jury failed to identify the subject under congressional subcommittee inquiry at the time the witness was interrogated.” In recent years, the court has held that congressional committees must clearly spell out the purposes of their investigations. Stewart pointed out in today’s rulings that the court had never before decided whether a grand jury indictment must do the same. Stewart pointed out that many contempt cases previously decided by the court have pointed up the impo rtance of determining whether the question addressed to the witnesses were pertinent. Stewart then developed the importance to an accused individual of an indictment by a grand jury. He said this is basic in common law going back to the 12th Century. “The vice which inheres in the failure of an indictment (under the contempt statute) to identify the subject matter under inquiry is . . . the violation of the basic principle ’that the accused must be apprised by the indictment, with reasonable certainty, of the nature of the accusation against him . . .’ ” the opinion asserted. The vote on the sixth case was 4-2 with Justice William Brennan joining Frankfurter and White as a non-participant. The witnesses, nene of whom invoked the se If - incrimination privilege, were:

i Problems crop up, he said, l when plants are operating at 70 (per cent of capacity and management differs with labor over the division of income. Kennedy addressed the conference shortly after returning to Washington by helicopter from an overnight stay at his Glen Ora estate near Middleburg, Va. He had gone there Sunday night immediately after returning from New York where he appealed for support of his Medicare plan at a big rally, addressed a Democratic fund-raising affair and dedicated an apartment project. In his address here, the President said he had asked the Business Council, a group of top-flight executives, to come up with a proposal on taxation of overseas investment. Existing U.S. policy, he said, has not yet “given us a guarantee” that the balanee-of-payments deficit can be brought under control. ’ “If we can operate the economy at full blast," he said, “ft would be much simpler to divide the A economic 'pie betwerii wages, profits and other items.” The Chief Executive appealed to the business and labor leaders to stop taking hard positions on such critical problems as automation, wages and prices, collective bargaining and keeping U.S. goods competitive in world markets.

—Norton Anthony Russell, a Yellow Springs, Ohio, engineer, called be fore a House subcommittee on un-American activities Sept. 15, 1954, at hearings in Dayton, Ohio, as part of an investigation into Communist activity in the Dayton-Yellow Springs area. Later he appeared before a subcommittee in Washington and refused to answer questtong. He drew 30 days in jail and a SSOO fine. —Robert Shelton, copy editor of the New York Times, called by the Senate Internal Security subcommittee in January, 1956, when the group was investigating alleged Communist infiltration of the press. He had been sentenced to six months in jail and a SSOO fine. Alden Whitman, copy editor of The New York Times, who appeared before the same Senate subcommittee in January, 1956. He drew a suspended six-month prison sentence and a SSOO fine. —Herman Liveright, form er program director of TV station WDSU, New Orleans, called before the Senate subcommittee on March 19, 1956, when it was checking testimony of a previous witness on Communist infiltration into communications. He was sentenced to three months in jail and fined SSOO. —William A. Price, former New York Daily News reporter, summoned by the Senate group on, Jan. 5, 1956, during an inquiry into Communist infiltration of the press. He was sentenced to three months in jail and fined SSOO. —John T. Gojack, Columbus, Ohio, trade unionist, who appeared before the House subcommittee on Feb. 28 and March 1, 1955. At the time he was an officer of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers (UE) and president of UE’s District 9 with headquarters in Fort Wayne, Ind. The group was investigating party activities in this union. Gojack was sentenced to nine months in jail and fined S2OO.

Linda Sue Thompson, seven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burns Thompson of near Craigville, became the first drowning ' victim irt the history of Pine Lake Sunday afternoon, when she was found floating underwater by a Decatur youth. The youngster, who would have , been a second grade student at , Lancaster grade school in Wells . county, was found underwater by Dan Lose, a sophomore at Deca- , tur Catholic high school, about 3 p. m. Sunday. Leonard Gould, 24, of Berne, one of the certified lifeguards at , the lake, located about five miles west of Berne, and Mrs. Glen . Scholer, wife of the manager of Pine Lake, applied mouth to mouth artificial respiration, and the Berne fire department was called with its resuscatator. Rushed to Clinic The little girl was rushed to the Clinic hospital in Bluffton but to no avail, as she was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital by Dr. Norman Beaver of Berne, and Dr. Max Gitlin of Bluffton. Respiration was administered the girl throughout the trip to the hospital. A search was already began for the girl when she was found by the Decatur Catholic student. Lose, who was unaware of the search, reportedly was swimming underwater when he bumped into the body of the young girl, Mrs. Thompson had brought the girt end her three brothers to the lake for the afternoon. When she first noticed the youngster missing, she didn’t become overly alarmed. But when she wasn’t seen in a few minutes, she began checking the refreshment stand, etc., and the full-scale search soon began. The search lasted about ten minutes before Lose found the girl’s body. Estimated 2M The lake was jammed full of swimmers and sun-bathers on the hot Sunday afternoon, with an estimated 200 people at the lake. The little girl was found in water near a cement raft, where the water was only about three and one-half to four feet deep. The Adams county sheriff’s department and county coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., weren’t informed of the drowning until much later, and since the girl was pronounced dead in Wells county, the jurisdiction and any inquest will be handled by Dr. Charles Caylor. The Thompson family resides in Lancaster township in Wells county, on a farm about two miles north and a mile and one-half east of Bluffton. Funeral Services Among survivors are the parents, Burns and Agnes Thompson, and three brothers, Edward, Larry and Michael. The girl was bom Feb. 18, 1955 and was a member of the First Church of Christ church in Bluffton. She had just completed her first grade year at Lancaster grade school. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton, the Rev. William Dunshee officiating. Burial will be in the Fairview cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services. Decater Temperatarea Local weather data for the 48 hour period'ending at 11 a m. today. SATIBDTY SUNDAY 12 noon 84 12 midnglht .. 66 1 p.m 88 1 a-m 65 2 p.m 82 2 am 64 3 p.m 81 3 ».m 63 4 p.m— 80 4 a.m. 62 5 p.m. — 78 5 a.m... 62 6 p.m 78 6 a.m. .-. 70 7 p.m *.. 75 7 am- 72 8 p.m 72 8 a.m. 76 9 p.m._. 70 9 a.m- 82 10 p.m. 68 10 a.m 84 11 p.m 67 11 a.m 84 SUNDAY MONDAY 12 noon 82 12 midnight .. 60 1 p.m. 82 1 a.m 59 2 p.m 82 2 a.m 58 8 p.m. 80 8 a.m57 4 p.m. 79 4 a.m 56 5 p.m. 78 5 a.m. .... 56 6 p.m 76 6 a.m— 58 7 p.m. i 72 7 a.m. ....'. •• 8 p.m. 70 8 a.m. ... 68 9 p.m 68 9 a.m. 74 10 p.m. 66 10 a.m 77 11 p.m 62 11 a.m 79 Mala Total for the 48 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 tnchaa. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.43 feet.

Seek Federal Funds | In County Planning An ( application fqr $13,210 in fed- ■ eral aid, which Will save Adams county $3,484 on it? planning costs, was submitted today- to the department of community planning by the Adams county planning commission, David A. Macklin, attorney for the group said today. The federal aid will not only save the county nearly one cent on its prtqierty tax levy; it will also mean a much more complete and valuable plan, with more copies available. Saves Money The county originally appropriated $13,000 for the planning commission’s basic plan. But then the federal program was discovered Under this plan, the county will pay only $9,516, and the fedeal government will pay $13,210. The county has already expended $2,900 of its share to Metropolitan Planners, fie., Harry C. Sheridan, president. The Adams county plan will bd the first submitted from a county rather than from an urban area, but the law provides for county planning, too. , A baste research study, into the ’ history, natural resources, eco- ; nomic structure, population, exlsting land use, objectives of planning in Adams county, and a preliminary report from the first part of the exhaustive study. Land utilization, thoroughfares, and public facilities will be studied in a second report. Final Master Plan The final proposal, in the form of a master plan for future development, with elements ot the plan, public works projects, and the plan of execution, will Include 100 copies, so that each official in the area can study the plan before it is adopted. Included with the application were numerous copies of the order of the county commissioners which created the plan commission, a description of the work to be done, the resolution of the commissioners calling for a master plan, and the resolution of the plan commission asking for federal aid, as approved by the eom-

600 Are Made 111 By Food Poisoning

COLUMBIA, S.C. (UPI)—A lively Armed Forces Day dinner for 4,000 Ft. Jackson visitors and servicemen Sunday apparently brought violent illness to about 600 persons treated for food poisoning. It was a fried chicken dinner served in 94-degree weather which Columbia doctors believed hospitalized almost 200 persons in the area. In fact, the hospitals in the capital city area were so crowded treating food poison patients that at least one bus load of sick persons received a state highway patrol escort 65 miles. There were no deaths reported from the food poisoning. Many doctors who treated the victims diagnosed their illness as food poisoning but one military official denied it. “There is no evidence of food poisoning,” said Col. Thomas G. Faison, hospital commander at Ft. Jackson, after 112 persons had been admitted to Army medical facilities. Hundreds of others had been treated by Army personnel and then released. “It appears to be a combination of heat exhaustion, over-exertion and over-indulgence of food and drink,” he added. - f Doctors Disagree However, while military author!-

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' i Baccalaureate Rites Held Sunday Night ' “The Successful Life” wls the topic spoken on by the Rev. Richard C. Ludwig, minister of the Zion Lutheran church in Decatur, at the annual baccalaureate services held in the Decatur high school auditorium Sunday evening. Rev. Ludwig spoke to 81 high school seniors for whom commencement exercises will be held Thursday night in the school auditorium. After the seniors had entered the auditorium to the processional march, “Triumphal March,*’ by Sergission, the Rev. W. C. Vetter, pastor of the Immanuel Lutheran church of Union township, gave the invocation. Following Rev. Vetter’s invocation, the hymn, “Now Thank We All Our God,” was sting. Singing of Choir The Decatur high school choir sang “the Gate of the Year,” by Gillette, and “The Lord Bless You and Keep You,” by Lutkin, following the scripture reading and prayer given by Rev. Vetter. Following Rev. Ludwig’s sermon, toe hymn, “Beautiful Savior,’’ , was sung. Rev. Vetter pronounced toe ■ benediction, and the services r closed with the recessional, “Jubilate Deo,” by Nolte. >—-— - - - - Music selections were under the directum of Miss Helen Haubold, supervisor of music in toe Decatur public schools. Commencement Rites Commencement exercises will begin at 8 o’clock Thursday evening In the school auditorium, with Dr. M. O. Ross, president of Butler University, toe graduation speaker. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly doudy, scattered showers and thunderstorms likely tonight and Tuesday. A little warmer Tuesday. Low to night 55 to M north. C 2 to 70 sooth. High Tuesday 75 to 84 north, M to 91 south. Sunset today 7:58 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:25 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy aad continued warm with afternoon or evening thunderstorms. Lows 60 to 70. HlgiwW to

ties were examining further into the illnesses, many local physicians said they were definitely treating food poisoning.

“We called it acute gastroenteritis (inflammation of die living membrane of the stomach and the intestines) and our patients have been violently ill in some cases,” said one doctor who treated a number of patients at Baptist Hospital. Mrs. Martha Dickson, a lab technician at Baptist Hospital, was one of the 4,000 to go through’ three cafeteria lines which were set up on the reviewing field at Ft. Jackson, the Army’s infantoy training center. Expects Trouble “None of the food was iced,** she said. “I was expecting somebody to get sick.” The food, prepared at mess halls, included fried chicken, potato salad, stringbeans, coffee, grape juice, rolls and butter, brownies, and ice cream. The meal was eaten both outside and in huge Army tents and was served about 11 a.m. The first cases of food poisoning were reported about 3 p.m. and then there was a steady stream of patients all with die same symptoms; nausea, vomiting, weakness and In a few cases, blackouts.