Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1962 — Page 1

VOL. LX NO. 135.

si BEGINS SENATE FlGHT—Edward F. (Ted) Kennedy huddles with campaign workers at the Massachusetts Democratic preprimary convention in Springfield, in showdown with Edward J. McCormack for party’s Senate nomination. Russia Warns Over Berlin

MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet government officially warned Britain today that it will take “the necessary measures” if West Berlin police continue to open fire to protect East Germans fleeing- into .West Berlin. tin London, the Foreign Office said similar notes were sent to the United States and France, which with the Soviet Union make up the four powers governing Berlin.) The Soviet news agency Tass said the warning came in a Soviet note handed to the three Western embassies in' Moscow Thursday. . The note specifically protested incidents of May 23, 24, 26 and 27 in which West Berlin and East Berlin police exchanged fire. It singled out the incident of May 23, when West Berlin police, in an attempt to protect an escaping East German, shot and killed an East German frontier policeman named Goering and gravely wounded another border guard. Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper which also published the note today, confirmed that the Americans and French received notes “analogous” to that sent to Britain. New Trial Motion Under Advisement Adams circuit court Judge Myles F. Parrish took under advisement today a motion for a new trial in the case of David J. Jenkins vs the City of Fort Wayne. Local attorney Richard Sullivan and Dick Ver Wiebe of Fort Wayne, representing Jenkins, and Robert Hines and Max Hobbs, associate city attorneys representing the city, each presented arguments today on the motion for the new trial. The arguments were finished shortly after noon today, and Judge Parrish stated he will take the motion under advisement. New Witnesses Jenkins’ attorneys had filed the motion for a new trial, for several reasons, including two witnesses who have turned up since the jury trial in the case ended. A 12-member jury found for the defendant, the city of Fort Wayne, April 27 of this year. Jenkins had requested a judgment of $250,000. The Negro minister, suffered extensive injuries in an accident In Fort Wayne Oct. 27, 1957, which later involved the amputation ipf his leg. The traffic accident involved a city police car and an auto operated by Jenkins. 7 Venued Here The court action was venued to the Adams circuit court in June of 1958. The trial opened Monday, April 23, and the jury ruled on the case April 27. Michael H. East, and wife Jean C„ witnessed the accident, as they were following the police car, according to the motion for the new trial. Kast and his wife, of Fort Wayne, have stated they did not know of the damage suit, and thus did not appear as witnesses at the earlier trial.

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Bluffton Rotarians Speak Here Thursday Ware Baker and Fred Arend, Bluffton Rotarians, through words and pictures gave a graphic description of last year’s Rotary convention in Japan to the regular meeting of the local club held in the Youth and Community Center Thursday evening. A recent attendance contest was held between the Bluffton and Decatur clubs, the loser to furnish one evening’s entertainment. Inasmuch as Decatur won the contest the Bluffton men were here to fulfill their part of the bargain.. Rotarian Baker spoke first and told briefly of their trip and conditions in Japan. The said that their Japanese guide informed him that the war was the best thing that ever happened to his country as it brought them progress politically, economically and educationally, and created current prosperity. The communist riots which brought about the cancellation of Eisenhower’s trip were led and inspired by former prisoners of war who had been brain-washed and indocrinated in Russia. He told of the great task of providing food for 94,000,000 people living in an area about the size of Montana. General MacArthur brought about land reform following the war and broke up the huge estate into parcels not larger than seven acres each so that the farmers can make a bare living. The religion of the country is divided equally between Shintoism and Buddhism, with about 100,000 Christians. Like Americans With 400 clubs in Japan the institution of Rotary is regarded and venerated almost like a second religion, the speaker asserted. His Rotary button was a magic symbol that took him everywhere, even through customs without inspection. Before arriving in Japan he was apprehensive of his receiption due to the war but he found that the United States is now well liked by the Japanese. They welcome Americans warmly and are more and more copying U. S. customs and way of life. There are 23,000 Rotarians from all over the world attending the convention, said to be the largest in the history of the organization. Baker said that it was a tremendous good-will project for the United States, and their friendship toward this country was everywhere in evidence . Rotarian Arend followed Baker’s talk with a group of beautiful colored slides showing a pictorial history of their trip. His interesting running commentary gave his listeners a complete story of the 1961 Rotary convention. / Ed Hagan was chairman of the program. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered showers or thundershowers likely tonight or Saturday. Not much change in temperature. Lows tonight 58 to 62 north, 62 to 68 south. High Saturday 78 tn 84 Sunset today 8:11 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 5:17 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and mild with scattered thundershowers. Lows in the 665. Highs 76s north to Bto south.

Senate Passes $4.6 Billion Foreign Aid WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate has approved a $4.6 billion foreign aid Wil that includes a provision for giving surplus food to Communist countries such as Yugoslavia and Poland. It voted in favor of the measure Thursday, 61-23, and sent it to the House. The Foreign Affairs Committee there has approved its own version of how to spend almost the same amount of money. Before it passed the $4,662,000,000 bill, the Senate toned down an amendment that would have banned assistance to Communist dominated nations. The action would have affected Yugoslavia and Poland. It agreed, 56-34, to an administration - backed amendment by Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont, and GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 81., to exempt shipments of surplus farm products from a total ban on aid to Communist countries. The ban—approved Wednesday — was softened under pressure from President Kennedy and far-state congressmen. The President expressed pleasure that the Senate had modified the ban. Final Senate approval of the authorization measure came after Republican Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, lowa, dropped his plan to reduce the bill by S4OO million. He said he would postpone his move until Congress considers appropriating the actual money. Voting for the bill were 38 Democrats and 23 Republicanfs. Opposed were 10 Republicans and 13 Democrats. President Voices Cooperation Hope WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy has told business executives he would like government and business to re-examine their roles toward each other. The President expressed a hope for greater cooperation in remarks to the Brookings Institution's public policy conference for business executives and their public affairs fellows Thursday night. The text of his remarks was released today. Kennedy voiced concern that communication between the government and business "has not been as successful in recent months as perhaps it should be.” “.. . What I would like to see is a more satisfactory and basic discussion on what are the rather sophisticated and technical questions of keeping our industrial society moving,” Kennedy said. "We have to talk, therefore, rather than in the simple slogans, about what our debt management policy ought to be, our tax policy and how we can maintain full employment. .. "Some of the (current) conversations sound like old records played from 1933, ’34, ’35 and ’36, when the political struggle was different and when the issues were different, when we had no foreign problem and our major problem was domestic.” 14 Refugees Make Escape From Reds BERLIN (UPI) — Eight East German crewmen of a driver excurson boat got their captain and engineer drunk o| champagne, beer and schnapps early today and then escaped to West Berlin with five women and a child under a hail of machine-gun bullets fired by Communist guards aboard pursuing patrol craft. When the captain and engineer awoke from their drunken sleep, all 14 refugees had reached safe'ty uninjured. West Berlin police helped the refugees escape by shooting back at the Communists. The captain of the cruise ship and his engineer then took their 50-ton craft back to East Berlin under Communist police escort West Berlin police said apparently no one was wounded on either side in the gun battle. One of the refugees, identified only as "Peter C.” because of relatives still in East Germany, said they got the captain and engineer drunk before seizing the boat. Communist border police began firing when they saw the excursion boat make a ‘wide sweep in the River Spree and head for the mouth of the Landwehr Canal into West Berlin.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 8,1962.

Legality Os Indiana’s School Reorganization Law Is Challenged Here

Huntington Plants Destroyed By Fire

HUNTINGTON, Ind. (UPI)-Of-ficials of a company which lost its plant in a multi-million dollar fire here Thursday met today to plan reconstruction of the structure, one of three destroyed by the blaze. The fire, of undetermined origin, left 260 persons jobless and eliminated another 200 potential new jobs for this city of 16,500 population. , The blaze, which began in an unoccupied building scheduled for renovation into an automobile battery factory, burned out of control for two hours and threatened several other buildings including many homes in an industrial and residential area six blocks east of the city’s business center. More than 30 families evacuated their homes at the height of the blaze and city officials rushed trucks into the area to help the householders remove their belongings. The fire threatened for £ time to spread to an Erie-Lackawanna Railroad storage tank containing 80,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Sparks from the blaze also set fire, to the roof of the railroad’s local depot and office building but firefighters extinguished the blaze. The fire began in an unoccupied 225,000-square-foot building owned by National Battery and Ceramics Co., leaped across a narrow street

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Kennedy Plans Cut In Taxes

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Kennedy plans to ask Congress to cut personal income and corporate taxes effective next Jan. 1, but the question is: How much? The President told his news conference Thursday that a comprehensive tax reform bill calling for across-the-board tax reductions would be offered for action in the next Congress. But he shied away from giving any figures on the size of the proposed cut. He said work on the bill should be completed later in the summer and “at that time I think we can discuss it in more detail.” There have been reports that the reduction might amount to $5 billion a year. Responsible sources consider that figure the maximum and point out that the final decision will depend on the state of the economy and the government's finances. Studies Rate Cuts One idea that has been looked at in the Treasury is lowering the bottom tax rate from 20 per cent to 15 per cent and slicing the top rate from 91 per cent to 65 per cent. Similar cuts could be made in the rates in between. By itself, such a 25 per cent average, cut in rates could lop more than sl2billibn a warfrom Treasury revenues — more than the administration would be willing to sacrifice. Such rate cuts would be offset in part by broadening the income tax base and making other revisions to bring in revenue. Most corporations now pay 52 per cent on profits. A reduction to 48 per cent has been mentioned but this is by no means certain to be proposed. Leaves Door Open Kennedy did not rule out the possibility of asking Congress to cut taxes this year. While he said the present judgment was that reductions would not be needed until next year, he added that “if circumstances brought a new situation, then we would have to make other judgments.”

and swept through the three-story plant of Utronics Corp, and the one-story plant of Caswell-Runyan Co. The blaze destroyed all of the unoccupied building except for a small portion protected by a fire wall and all of the other two buildings. Firemen from nine communities managed to save the office building and a new addition being constructed for Utah Electronics Corp., a Utronic subsidiary. President Frank Pyle Sr. of Utronics, who called today’s meeting, estimated his firm’s loss at $2 million, including $1 million in electronic parts. A. H. Schenkel, president of Caswell Runyan, said he was unable to make an immediate estimate. There was no damage estimate from officials of National Battery and Ceramics Co. Residents of the area began returning to their homes Thursday i "Hight after the fire was brought . under control but Fire Chief Wil- : liam Burman urged that they remain out of the houses overnight l while the fire smoldered. I Utronics, with its subsidiaries • which manufacture radio and hi-fi parts and dryers, employed 225 persons while Caswell-Runyan, manufacturer of radio and television cabinets, employed 35 persons.

The income tax cut was one of five tax proposals Kennedy said he had made to spur the economy. Three are pending before Congress and the fourth will be put into effect by the administration within 30 days. He said the administration, within the next month, would revise the internal revenue guidelines on the economic life of depreciable assets “to make them more realistic and flexible in terms of actual replacement practices.” He said this would make more than $1 billion in added cash reserves available for business investment. Asks Early Action Kennedy urged Congress to complete action on these three tax proposals he has made: —A $1.3 billion tax credit of 8 per cent on new investment in machinery and equipment. This is provided in the House-passed tax reform bill now in the Senate Finance Committee. Kennedy said, “I think it can have a most stimulating effect on new plant investment this year.” —Standby authority for the President to cut taxes in periods of recession. Kennedy said “this tool could be used instantly and effectively should a hew recession threaten to engulf us.” The measure is tied up in the House Ways & Means Committee. —Repeal of the 10 per cent transportation tax on train and bus travel and a reduction in the tax on airline tickets from 10 per cent to 5 per cent. This bill, passed by the House Wednesday, also is pending in the Senate Finance Committee. '• — BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPD — The Senate Appropriations Committee today approved a record peacetime $48.4 billion defence spending bill including the full $491 miDion sought by the Air Force for the controversial RS7O warplane.

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A complaint for an injunction and a restraining order has been filed in the Adams circuit court, in an attempt to halt not only the North Adams community schools plan, but the South Adams community schools. Apparently, the group from the northern part of Adams county, who are opposed to the school plan, have now banded together with those in the southern end of the county who are opposed to the school plan there. Hie complaint, filed at 2:30 p. m. Thursday by Clarence R. McNabb and Thomas D. Logan, Fort Wayne attorneys, names not only the members of the school study committee, but newly-appointed members of the North and South Adams school boards. Defendants Named Named as defendants are August Selking, G. M. Grabill, Harold V. Schwartz, L. Luther Yager, L. A. Mann, Randolph H. Everett, Elmer D. Johnson and G. W. Vizard, members of the school study committee; Clarence Bultemeier, Louis Krueckeberg, Herb Banning and James M. Burtc, recently appointed to the North Adams school board; and Fredrick Fosnaugh, Robert Lehman, Leslie B. Lehman, Harold D. Sprunger and Walter Muth, recently appointed to the Sbuth Adams school board. 'The TOntalns io paragraphs and a total of ten pages, most of which are devoted to grounds , why the injunction and temporary restraining order should be granted. Judge Myles F. Parrish said this morning that as yet, he has not set down a date for a hearing on the complaint. The judge was busy most of the morning with a motion for a new trial in the case of Rev. David J. Jenkins vs the City of Fort Wayne. Entire Procedure Void After giving various reasons why the injunction and temporary restraining order should be'granted, in previous paragraphs, the twentieth paragraph declares all the work done of school reorganization thus far, is unconstitutional. The final paragraph also states that “the said school reorganization Act of 1959, as amended, is wholly unconstitutional and void to the extent that said Act has been applied so as to cause or attempt to cause there to come into being a North and South Adams school corporation, for each of the following reasons:” The reasons given are that the act is “so indefinite and uncertain as to render it void,” and that it causes and creates “a delegation of legislative authority to the judge of the Adams circuit court.” Illegal Authority Two other reasons why the school reorganization act is unconstitutional, according to the complaint, is that it gives an illegal delegation of authority to legislate to the county committee, and gives an illegal delegation of authority to legislate to the state commissidn. ' Listed as plaintiffs in the action are Robert J. Rice, Elbert J. Fuhrmann, Robert F. Carr, Russel Fleming, Leo Workinger, Walter Hildebrand, Otto Boerger, Martin Bulmahn, Ervin Fuelling, Everett Singleton, Fred Bieberich, Myron Simjnons, Thomas Rhoades, Gail Runyon, Grant Lindsey, H. D. Moser, Theodore JWilhpite,., Malcolm Banta and Wayne Derrickson. The r complaint requests that the court immediately issue a restraining order restraining the defendants from engaging in any action whatsoever concerning the establishment of the proposed community school corporations to be known as North and South Adams Community schools, and from taking any steps to cause or permit to be caused or Created, the community school corporations. j- Hold Appointments Also requested is that the restraining order be issued and restrain any of the defendants from making any further appointments to the school boards, or any other action they might take. The complaint further states that a permanent injunction be issued to each of -the defendants

to the same effect as the temporary restraining order, and “that upon final determination of this cause said proposed North and South Adams school corporations be declared not properly formed, void and of no legal force and effect, and that any election concerning the same be likewise declared illegal, void, and of no legal force and effect, and that said school reorganization act of 1959, as amended, be declared unconstitutional, illegal and void.” The other grounds on which the complaint was filed, appear to be the same on which a previous complaint tor an injunction and restraining order was filed. The previous request tor an injunction was turned down by a special judge, Judge Btlrl Whiteman of the Jay circuit court. Joint Certificate To Phone Companies INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana Public Service Commission Thursday issued a joint certificate to two telephone companies for the same territory. The case involved separate petitions from Craigville Telephone Co. and Adams-Wells Telephone Co. for certificates of territorial authority. The claims overlapped, and the PSC found that within the disputed area, Craigville was serving 105 subscribers and Adams-Wells 22. Each got a certificate for its own exchange, plus a certificate tor a portion of the area in dispute, with joint certificates being issued for the remaining small portion. "The commission finds that the community of interest in this particular area is in a state of disorder,” the PSC explained in making the joint award. In addition, Craigville was authorized to borrow $75,000 for an improvement program and to raise rates whenever the program is completed. A one-party residence phone will cost $5 under the new rates, a one-party business $7. Four-party urban residential service will be $4 and multiparty rural $4.25. Deeatur Temperatures Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 1(2 noon ... 68 12 midnight .. 52 1 p.m 67 1 a.m. — 52 2 p.m- 67 2 a.m 52 3pm 66 3 a.m 50 4 p.m 68 4 a.m 50 6 p.m66 5 a.m 49 • p.m. 64 6 a.m— 48 7 p.m 62 7 a.m. 54 8 p.m 60 8 a.m. 61 9 p.m 57 9 a.m 68 10 pm 56 10 a.m 68 11 p.m 54 11 a.m 74 Kata Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St. Mary'e river was at 1.12 feet.

June Distribution Os Taxes Detailed

The June distribution of tax funds, totaling $1,238,495.23, to state and county taxing units was announced today by Edward F. Jaberg, Adams county auditor. The distribution is from taxes paid in the spring, installment to to the county treasurer, William Linn, as this year’s payments were the largest in the county histoyr. Property tax collections totaled $1,225,311.27, and bank tax totaled $13,183.96. The distribution breakdown is as follows: State tax $ 2,195.18 State fair board 901.48 State forestry 1,674.19 Total state 4,770.85 County revenue $123,634.11 Special judges 122.00 ... r A County total 123,756.11 Welfare $ 30,908.50 Cumulative courthouse 5,151.41 Cumulative bridge 38,635.60 Hospital bond. tot 15.454 27

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Mrs. Lottie Baxter Is Taken By Death Funeral services win be held Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Lottie Baxter, 75, of Wren, 0., who died at 12:50 p.m. Thursday at the home of a son, James C. Baxtes, at Wren. She had been in failing health for the past 10 months. She was bom in Harrison township, Van Wert county, O„ Aug. 22, 1886, a daughter of J. W. and Lois King-Callow and spent most of her life in Harrison township. She had made her home with the son son tire past 10 years. Mrs. Baxter was a member of the Pleasant View Baptist church. Surviving are four sons, Carl Baxter of Decatur, Clifford Baxter of Fort Wayne, Herbert Baxter of Uniondale, and James C. Baxter of Wren; three daughters, Mrs. John (Helen) Stilwell and Miss Hazel Baxter, both of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Loren (Irene) Hagen of Chicago; 18 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Esther Young of Decatur. One daughter is deceased. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Pleasant View Baptist church, the Rev. O. B. Turner officiating. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery at Van Wert. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 p.m. today. The body will lie in state at the church from 12 noon Sunday until time of the services. Mother, Son Drown At Private Beach FRANKLIN, Ind. (UPI) - A vacatloning Scottsburg woman and her son drowned Thursday at a private beach 15 minutes before it was to have officially opened. No lifegard was on duty when Mrs. Hazel Gardner, 30, Scottsburg, and her son, Tiff, 5, drowned at Hilltop Beach, 11 miles west of here on the JohnsonMorgan County line. Several members of the Gardner family were spending an outing at the beach and were awaiting its noon opening when the boy climbed on a diving board and fell into 15-20 feet of water. Mrs. Gardner jumped into the lake after her son but went under seconds before a boat reached her. A lifeguard who reported for work shortly after the accident recovered the bodies.

Hospital turn., eqp. 5,151.41 Ditch improvement 18,029.98 Poor relief 24,671.45 Blue Creek Twp. 17,296.02 French Twp. 1,211.93 Hertford, Xwp.. 29,623.10 Jefferson Twp. 19,198.41 Kirkland Twp. 1,432.81 Monroe Twp. 2,209.15 Preble Twp. 26,578.36 Root Twp. 45,376.41 St. Mary's Twp. 27,344.94 Union Twp. 22,205.58 Wabash Twp. 74,886.82 Washington Twp. 2,282.82 Adams Central School 143,090.64 Berne-French School 112,156.06 Decatur school 240,459.30 Berne civil 41,686.96 Decatur civil 131,369.09 Geneva civil 7,133.42 Monroe civil 3,818.54 Berne library 6,298.75 "* Decatur library 14,900.06 Geneva library 1,346.48 Total $1,238,486.®