Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1962 — Page 1

Vol. LX. No. 158.

Miss Lois Folk To Purdue U. Position

Miss Lois Folk, county home demonstration agent, will assume the position of extension clothing specialist at Purdue University J during the latter part of August. She will be replacing Mrs. Lottie Sumner, who is well-known throughout Adams county. As extension clothing specialist, nearly one-half of her time will be spent in traveling over Indiana. The purpose of this travel is to give clothing lessons to home demonstration clubs. The remainder of her tithe will be devoted to radio and television work. She will also be writing radio and TV scripts, as well as bulletins. New Programs Begun Miss Folk has been a home demonstration agent since August 15, 1957. She assumed her position in Adams county October 15 of that same year. During these five years two new programs have been started. The largest and most extensive one is the “young homemakers’’ program. This provides classes on “time energy*’ and "money management” for all women under 30 years of age. . . -‘‘Clothing schools” have also been initiated throughout the county. It has been possible to make these programs the success that they are due to the volunteers who help and even take over what the home demonstration agent begins, according to Miss Folk. Since the programs are ever changing, she feels that the work always has a challenge to present. Her time here has been enjoyable, she says. The number of home demonstration clubs has increased from 21 to 25 in the past five years. Also, there have been six home demonstration agents 'in training under + , Miss Folk. These girls are Mary Wilder, Phyllis Shirey, Linda

Admit Payoff From Estes

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Two former Agriculture Department field service employes confessed today that earlier sworn statements were false and that they received $1,640.80 from the Billie Sol Estes enterprises. Louis N. Dumas, until recently office manager for the Mclntosh County (Okla.) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, and Arthur D. Stone, the office i performance supervisor, acknowledged this publicly before the Senate investigations subcommittee. Their testimony was in direct ' conflict with their prior sworn statements portions of which had been read to the subcommittee. The pair, both career men with the department’s field service who have served since the 19305, said they have resigned. Dumas and Stone admitted receiving money after the transaction had been outlined by Alphonse Calabrese, investigator for the subcommittee, and Parnell Biggerstaff, a one-time Estes employe. Dumas testified today he had received the money and that he “gave one half of it to Stone.” Stone acknowledged o he had received the payment. According to Biggerstaff, the two Oklahomans were paid the money for helping with data to guide him to farmers who were interested in transferring their cotton allotments. Dumas said he thought it was permissible to give but the information to the public. The Senate group is also seeking to find out what Texas officials did about a 1960 memo stats ing that cotton lease - sale con- ‘ tracts used by Estes violated the law. Testimony at the outset was to feature a memo sent in December 1960 by H. L. Manwaring, then deputy administrator for production adjustment of the Agriculture Department’s Commodity Stabilization Service (CSS). Water Pressure Off Two Hours Saturday Ralph E. Roop, superintendent of the city water department, announced today that water pressure will be off throughout Decatur Saturday morning from 8 until 10 o’clock. A 12” cross will be installed in the water main at this time, necessitating cutting off the water. Customers are warned to draw l r enough water before 8 a.m. to satisfy needs for the two-hour perod.

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' 1 I - zAA , >1 l Miss Lois Folk Gould, Julia Wilson, Delores Spence and Ann Thompson, who is in training at the present time. No Successor There is no successor for her at the present. A new home demonstration agent must be approved by the extension committee and the home demonstration council. They can be approved only after they have graduated in home economics. The agent’s salary is paid from federal, state and county funds. Purdue University’s extension department administers the home demonstration departments in the counties, and Purdue will actually assign the new agent here; the local extension committee will work with the Purdue head of home demonstration agents in making the selection. (

The memo said the lease-sale .contracts employed by Estes were a scheme and a device in violation of the law. The subcommittee planned to question officials of the Texas CSS committee to find out what treatment was given to Manwaring’s memo and to qp earlier memo which, in effect, gave approval to another, unrelated allotment transfer arrangement. There were echoes of partisan politics today in the Senate’s week-old investigation of Estes. Sen. Karl E. Mundt, RIUPDS.D., announced that because Estes was a Democrat and a “big Democratic contributor,” it will hurt the Democratic cause in this fall’s elections. Sen. Edmund Mustoe, D-Maine, also a subcommittee member, retorted that any major electionyear investigation has “political overtones.” He said there is no basis at this stage for finding “either the Democratic or Republican party clearly culpable.” Police, Soldiers Keep Order In Rio RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI) — Police and soldiers backed by tanks kept order today in the Rio de Janeiro area, where mob violence set off by a government political crisis brought death and destruction Thursday. Authorities here set the death toll at 7 and the injured at 600 in the rioting, shooting, looting and fighting that swept four Rio suburbs. Os those injure|l, 100 were reported in serious condition. Earlier, Elmo Braga Miranda, police chief of Sao Joao do Marity Township, said 40 were killed and' 1,000 injured in the riots. The city and its surrounding areas were absolutely quiet today, with police and about 1,000 soldiers in firm control. The rioting and looting by an estimated 5,000 persons was set off by resentment against a general strike called by labor unions in support of President Joao Goulart in his struggle to retain power against strong congressional opposition. TfieTniilal resentment was over lack of transportation to jobs in the capital, but it grew into anger over the shortages of rice and beans. Mobs broke into stores and private homes.

Wm. Faulkner, Nobel Prize I Winner, Dies I OXFORD, Miss. (UPD-Author I William Faulkner, one of the I great writers of the 20th Century, I died of a heart attack today in I this little Mississippi town he I made famous with his literary I genius. „ - t I The Nobel Prize-winning author I died at 2 a.m. with his wife, I Estelle, at his bedside. I His death fallowed by just a lit- | tie more than a year the passing I of another American literary I giant—Ernest Hemingway, who J died July 2, 1961. Faulkner, a bourbon - sipping j southern gentleman who frequent- | ly rode to the hounds, fell from I his horse in the woods near his I home about three weeks ago and 1 had been in poor health since. J In recent years Faulkner had spent much of his time at the University of Virginia where he . was an Emily Clark Balch lecturer on American literature. He 5 and his wife maintained a home 5 in Charlottesville. They returned last May to Oxford, a community of about 8,000 t which Faulkner used as home - base throughout his career. i Faulkner’s works included such 1 well-known books as “The Sound . and the Fury,” “Sanctuary,” r “The Unvanquished,” and many ? others. His latest novel, “The Reivers,” ! was published this year and won wide critical acclaim. ! He was. awarded the Nobel , Prize in 1949 for a series of novj els in which he created his own ' “Yochnapatawpha County” in north Mississippi. He used these I surroundings for the settings for f his saga of decadent sophisticates, 1 greedy landlords, and shrewd and brutal tenant farmers. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his - literary efforts in 1954, and was awarded the National Book Gold Medal in 1950 for his volume, "Collected Stories of William Faulkner.” In addition to his widow, other survivors include his daughter, Mrs. Paul Summer of Charlottesville, Va., and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held in Oxford Saturday. Faulkner was born Sept. 25, 1897, in New Albany, Miss. 1 ! Rev. Ezra Glendening I t Dies Last Evening The Rev. Ezra J. Glendening, 81-year-old retired Methodist minJ ister, died at 5:30 p. m. Thursday ’ at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Vaughn Heller of Berne” route 1, ; following an extended illness. ’ Rev. Glendening became a [ member of the North Indiana . Methodist conference in 1923, and served a number of charges in Northeastern Indiana until his re- ’ tirement in 1946. He is survived by his wife, j Mary; two daughters, Mrs. Vaughn Heller of Berne route 1, . and Mrs. Lloyd Heller of Cincinj nati, O.; three sons, Wilbur Glen- , deriing of Hammond, Melvin Glendening of Elkhart, and Paul Glendening of Fort Wayne; one brother, Perry Glendening of Geneva; 10 grandchildren and six great- 1 grandchildren. Funeral services will, be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the Geneva Methodist church, Dr. Thurman Morris officiating, assisted by the ■ Rev. Howard Cress. Burial will be in Six Mile cemetery. The i body was removed to the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva, : where friends may call after 7 I p. m. today. The body will lie in state at the church from 12 noon to 1:30 p. m. Sunday. I INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday north; scattered thundershowers south. Not much temperature change. Low tonight 64 to 72, high Saturday 83 to 88. Sunset today 8:16 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 5:24 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy, continued warm with widely scattered thundershowers. Low Saturday night 64 to 73, high Sunday 83 to 93. DKCATUH TRMPBRATITRES Local weather data for the 24 ■ hour period ending at It a.m. today. ; 12 noon 75 12 midnight .. 58 1 p.m. —.....74 1 a.m. 68 >2 p.m.. 74 2a .m. ....?, 57 3 p.m. 3 am. 56 4 74 4 a.m 58 5 p.m.? 76 5 a.m 54 6 p.m73 8 a.m. 62 7 p.m 68 7 a.m. 68 8 p.m<.;... 66 . 8 a.m..... 70 9 p.m 63 9 a.m. 74 i 10 p.m. ...j. 62 10 a.m 79 . 11 p.m. 60 . 11 a.m 78 — Raia \ i Total tor the 24 hour period endi ing at 7 a.m. today, .0 Inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.08 feet.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 6,1962,

Mightiest Nuclear Blast ' < < 1 / '.**•’■* e ’ <’ Ever In United States Rocks Southern Nevada

Clark Smith Heads Adams Central Board II ■ Clark W. Smith Clark W. Smith, of Washington township, was elected president of the Adams Central community schools board at the first organization meeting of the newly-form-ed school unit this week. Other officers are Edwin C. Coil, secretary, and Martin Steinet, treasurer. The board took ofe ’ flee July 1, under the school reorganization setup which Was voted in at the primary election in May. The Adams Central unit is not directly affected by the litigation which has at- least temporarily halted organization of the North Adams and South Adams school units. The Adams Central board, in other action at its first meeting, signed Herman Frantz, superintendent, to a new contract; selected the First State Bank of Decatur as the depository of school funds; set regular board meeting nights as the second Tuesday of each month, and determined to receive bids for fuel oil July 24. Frantz announced this morning that the school teaching staff has been completed with the signing of John Rosier as social studies teacher. Rosier has been on the Monmouth staff for several years. Other new teachers for the next school year include Carl Honaker, Montpelier, basketball and baseball coach; Mary Williamson, Bluffton, Spanish teacher; Tom Kirchhofer, Berne, art teacher, and Norma Jean Wilson, Pleasant Mills, elementary teacher. September's Draff Call Set At 5,000 WASHINGTON (UPI) - — The Defense Department today issued a call for 5,000 draftees to be inducted into the Army during September. The same monthly quota previously was established for July and August. The June draft was 6,500 men, and the rate for the three previous months was 6,000 each, compared to a peak of 25,000 during the Berlin crisis last September. The department said 16.300 recruits will be needed by the Army during September, but-more than two thirds qf them are expected to be provided by voluntary enlistment. The September inductions will bring the total draft since the start of the Berlin build-up to 156,500 men for 12 months. The total draft since September, 1950, will be 2,759,450 men. More than 150,000 reserves and national guardsmen now on active duty will be returned to civilian life during August. Their demobilization is to be accompanied by a sharp cut back in total Army strength. The ground forces are scheduled to average 960,000 men, during the current fiscal year, compared to 1,066,000 during the 12 months which ended July 1.

— 11.1. New Officers Are Installed By Rotary Thursday night’s meeting of the of the Decatur Rotary club marked the beginning of the new Rotary year and saw the new officers for the 1962-1963 year take over ; the reins of the local club. President Tom Allwein thanked ! the members for their support dur- ! ing the past year and turned the ; gravel over to the new president, Dave Moore. Moore, on behalf of the membership, thanked Allwein for the fine year the club has enjoyed under his leadership and prei, sented him with the past presidents pin. Other new officers are: George Auer, vice president; Lowell Harper, secretary; Gene Zinj er, treasurer; and Pete Krick, Bob j Cook, and Tom Allwein, directors. The new president reveiwed the \ plans and objectives of his administration in the areas of ati tendance, bulletins, programs, membership scholarships, and youth. He also expressed a deteri mination to follow through on the f! plans for suitable roadside signs I in conjunction with other service I clubs, and among new plans men- . tioned a permanent photo record of exchange students who have been sponsored by the Decatur ‘ Rotary club. , . President Moore also announced ■ that the board of Directors, in a . recent meeting, had determined ) that in the interest of reverting to the true Rotary concept, namely, the cultivation and encouragement ' of individual rather than group , projects, the Decatur club will henceforth refrain from donations of any kind to charitable organizations and drives, but will instead give full support to such efforts by encourageing members as individuals to give their services and financial support. The club then had the privilege i of hearing a recorded talk by the new president of Rotary International, Nitish C. Laharry of Calcutta, India, given before Rotary’s 53rd annual convention last month in Los Angeles. President Laharry’s inspirational message outlined the challenges for the new Rotary year to Rotarians around the world. Next week the Decatur Rotary club will be honored by the annual , visit of the district Governor, Joe Roe of Columbia City, and the of- . ficers are expecting an outstanding attendance for this important meeting. Cyclist Escapes Serious Injury Maryonna E. Kimler, seven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ramsey, 1121 Patterson street, escaped serious injury Thursday evening when struck by an automobile on Adams street. • The girl was treated by a local doctor for bruises on the back, knee and right arm, and was later released. The mishap occurred when the girl was riding her bicycle east on Adams street at 7:45 p. m., in front jof a car driven by Harold Vincent DeVor. 57, 521 S. 13th street. -’As DeVor started'to go around the girl, she cut across the street directly in front of the DeVor auot. Witnesses stated that DeVor was only traveling about 15 to 20 miles an hour when he struck the bicyclist. The impact of the collision threw the girl and the bicycle a distance of 25 feet. z Former Governor Os Illinois Is Dead ST. LOUIS <UPI> —John Stelle, 70, former American Legion national commander and governor of Illinois, died in a hospital _ Thursday night. Stelle, a Democrat, had various business interests. He was chairman pt the board of a tilp rnanufacturing firm in Brazil, Ind., where his two sons, John and Russell, operate the concern.

NEVADA TEST SITE, Nev. (UPl—The mightiest nuclear blast ever in the United States rocked the southern Nevada desert today in the first known detonation of an H-bomb type device in this country. Today’s explosion, deep beneath the sandy floor of the test center, was the first in a historic set of back-to-back atomic tests. The giant thermonuclear blast—which shot a towering spiral of dirt and sand high into the sky —came as a prelude to the first atmospheric test in the United States in nearly four years. The low altitude shot is tentatively scheduled for Saturday morning. The explosion today came with a deep-trroated rumble at noon CDT. It had a yield of 100 kilotons or more (a kiloton is the equal of 1,000 tons of TNT). A gigantic, open-faced crater—measuring roughly 300 feet deep and nearly a third of a mile in diameter—was chewed in the rocky, sandy soil by the atomic force. The shot was dubbed “Project Sedan.” It came as another step in the Plowshare program, designed to determine whet h e t atomic explosions can be used to dig harbors, canals and other useful excavations. The powerful device was set off 600 feet deep. When it exploded in a cloud of rocks and dirt, it first opened a hole equally as deep. But it was quickly filled to the 300 foot mark with the falling desert debris. i Largest previous test here was i a 74.3 kHoton shot suspended from a 1,500 foot high balloon July 5, 1957. The last atmospheric detonation, also from a balloon, Was a comparatively small 1.25 kilotons Oct. 30, 1858. The Atomic Energy Commission, in announcing the blast, discounted any radiation or fallout dangers. It said the shot was a relatively clean thermonuclear device in which fission contributed less than 30 per cent of the explosive yield. An estimated 95 per cent of the radioactivity produced was trapped underground. Newsmen witnessed the firing from a hilltop several miles distant from the test site. They were forbidden to enter the proving grounds for a close up look at the blast. Award Os Honor Is Received By Decatur Donald Gage, Decatur mayor, announced today that this city has received an award of honor from the Indiana Traffic Safety Foundation*‘lnc., in recognition of the city’s traffic death free year in 1961. The award was presented to city police chief James M. Borders Thursday afternoon by Albert E. Huber, executive director of the foundation. The foundation is a business financed safety group organized on a state-wide basis to support official efforts to reduce traffic losses. Chief Borders expressed his appreciation for excellent citizen cooperation with official efforts to reduce traffic accidents in the community. This is the fourth such award the city has received since 1956. In 1957, 1960 and 1961, similar awards were made to the city by the Indiana Traffic Safety Foundation. . - - Monroe Boy Scouts Plan Paper Drive Tuesday, the Monroe Boy Scouts will conduct a paper drive. They will collect paper from Monroe and the rural area, Anyone who is interested in having old papers picked up should call 6-6866. Excessive Speed Is" Blamed In Rail Wreck EFFINGHAM,”Src. (UPl(—AtlanticCoast Line district superintendent O. P. Dowling Thursday blamed excessive speed for the derailment of the Havana special which wrecked Wednesday, killing the engineer and fireman. Eleven of the train’s 50 passengers were injured. >

Sidewalk Sale In Decatur July 18 •_ . "

Arrangements are being completed for Decatur’s annual ‘'funday”—the sidewalk sale, to be held Wednesday, July 18. A committee of six members of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce is handling arrangements for the annual event, which will feature a crowning of “Miss Gay Nineties” this year. Plans are being readied for this year’s sidewalk sale which promises to top all other such events in the past few years. As usual, local merchants will be in the streets displaying their wares, and many bargains are to be found by the shoppers. Miss Gay 90’s The main feature of the event will be the crowning of “Miss Gay Nineties,” sometime that evening on the streets of downtown Decatur; ’ Prizes will be awarded to the lucky young lady who is crowned during the evening ceremonies, and to the runner-up in the contest. A well-known Tri-State araa personality is expected to be present to crown the winner. Monday, July 16 is the final day for entering the contest, and the only qualification for entering is “'that the' entrant be single.

Tax Cut Study Is Promised

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi-' dent Kennedy plans to watch the nation’s economic barometers “over the. next months” to decide whether he should change his plans and ask for a tax cut this year. But in the meantime, the President said at his news conference Thursday, he will stand by his intention of waiting until next year to ask for a general tax reduction. The AFL-CIO promptly replied that “President Kennedy is dead wrong in not asking for an immediate tax cut. The economy is not responding as it should. Everything looks bad and nothing looks good.” Sticking To Schedule Kennedy said he would recommend a reduction this year “if we feel that the situation in the economy warrants it.” But he said the administration has planned its tax cut requests for next year and “would prefer to maintain that schedule.” He said the recommendations of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, which along with other organizations and many members of Congress have been pressing hard for an immediate cut, “should be very seriously considered by the. executive as it is by me, and by the Congress. Among the things the administration will watch in deciding what to do about the tax cut, Kennedy said, will be pending tax credit legislation and tax depreciation schedules for industry. Plugged Two Bills Kennedy also put in strong plugs at the news conference for two administration bills—his $4.9 billion foreign aid program and medical care for the aged under Social Security. He appealed for bipartisan support for the aid bill, which comes tip in the House next week. The Senate has already passed a $4.7 billion version, and the House was expected to approve a somewhat smaller bill next week. As for medicare, Kennedy urged strong support of the bipartisan compromise now before the Senate. He said it was strong and would meet the health problems of elderly persons. Kennedy, who returned Thursday from the presidential retreat

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The contest is open to anyone in the Decatur; Adams county, and nearby area, and entries should be mailed to the Decatur Daily Democrat in care of Bob Shraluka. Entries Open Entries should include name, address, whose clothes the entrant will be modeling, and the name of the sponsor, if the entrant has a sponsor. Judging will be on the miss who “is best dressed from head to toe for the Gay 90’s era.” Contestants will appear in their Gay 90’s dress, and will be judged sometime during the evening. Time and place of the crowning, and the judges, will be announced later by the committee. The committee consists of John Rawlinson, chairman; Bonnie Warthman, Bill Sweere, Henry Husmann, Kay Boch and Ferris Bower. - ■ There is no cost to entering the contest, and entrants may or may not have sponsors. It is believed that many local merchants wOl 1 sponsor contestants. “Now is the time to start hunting tn the attic,” 'Rawlinson explained, “and to see 'if grandmother’s old clothes will fit.”

at Camp David, Md., plans to go with his family this- weekend to : Hyannis Port, Mass. The White : House was not sure when the i Kennedys will leave. Other developments in his news conference: —Elaborating in response to a question on his July 4 speech re- ; garding a future alliance between t the United States and a United Europe, Kennedy said the first step was for European countries I to tighten their ties through the I Common Market and political steps. He stressed that a U.S.European alliance should be helpful to under - developed na- ; tions. “We do not want this to become a rich man’s club," he said. —Kennedy was asked whether • he favored proposals to suspend ’ “equal time” requiremnts to permit radio-television debates by : leading candidates for governor : and senator this fall. Kennedy replied that he favored this in i principal but would want to examine any legislation before maki ing a final commitment. —Asked if he thought his visit i to Mexico impaired the U.S. posii tion on the Castro regime in Cuba, ; Kennedy replied with a blunt 1 “No.” —Asked about his promise at the outset of his administration to • end racial discrimination in gov-ernment-aided housing. Kennedy ■ said he would make the move at • a “useful and appropriate time.’* He said he would sign such an ; order before the end of his termin effect, he would sign it when he felt it would have the best chance of accomplishing its purpose. Off Duty Policeman Hit By Stray Shot FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD—An off-duty policeman was shot in the back Thursday night by a stray bullet fired by a neighbor who was target practicing. The rifle bullet narrowly missed the four-year-old daughter of Fred Koverman, who was taking a walk . with her fath&. Koverman, 40, ■ was hospitalized in good condition. Edward Frantz, 41, who told authorities he was shooting blackbirds in a vacant lot, was chuted with firing a gun within the city limits.