Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 11 August 1962 — Page 1

Vol. LX. No. 189.

Russians Launch Third Man In Orbit Today In Vostok 111

MOSCOW (UPl)—Soviet Russia launched a 32. year-old former lumberjack into space, aboard its third manned spaceship today and apeared to be lanning top keep him there for days if all went well. Two hours after the announced launching of Maj. Andrian “Nikolayev at 4:30 a.m. EDT.it was officially reported that the cosmonaut had withstood the blast-off without ill effect and was “feeling well.” At 9 a.m., 4 1 /z hours later, there had ben no announcement of ho w many orbits Nikolayev may have completed. But at the given orbital speed he would at that hour havp been starting on his fourth circuit of the earth. As usual, the Russians gave no indication of where the spaceman was launched, or when or where he would be landed. It was apparent, however, that the launching was another step by the Russians toward future deep space probes and an eventual trip to the moon. The official Soviet news agency Tass said Nikolayev’s flight was intended t o study man’s work capacity in weightless conditions and to make observations of space flight for “further inprove. ment of spaceship systems, means of communications, control and landing.” “Seems All Automatic” In Washington, authoritative U.S. sources said there were indications Nikolayev’s Vostck 111 capsule was being controlled from the ground rather than by the cosmonant. The sources said the flight “seems to be all automatic.” Nikolayev, bom of c ollective farmer parents on Sept. 5, 1929, is a bachelor—the first bachelor among all seven Russian and American spacemen to date. According to Soviet announcements, Nikolayev’s spaceship was taking 88.5 minutes to complete each circuit of the globe, traveling 156 miles above the earth at its highest point and 113 at its lowest. At 156 miles, Nikolayev was flying 46 miles higher than either previous Russian spacemen, Maj. Yuri Gagarin or Maj. Gherman Titov, who had an apogee of 110 miles. But both American astronauts went higher—Lt. Col. John Glenn to 160 miles and Cmdr. Scott Carpenter to 164 miles. Expect Long Flight Although there was no official announcement as to how many orbits were planned for Nikolayev, there has been free predic. tion in Moscow for months that the next Soviet spaceman would aim for a longer flight in space than Maj. Gherman Titov. A year ago this month, on Aug. 6-7, Titov made 17 orbits of the earth in 24 hours and 59 minutes. Informed Moscow opinion was that, barring complications, efforts might be made to keep Nikolayev aloft as much as three days. “Cosmonaut Nikolayev feels well,” Tass reported. “According to objective data received via the telemetric and television systems, he withstood satisfactorily the boost period and the transition to weightlessness.” The Russian man-in-the-street was jubilant at the news of the latest Soviet space accomplishment. Transmission signals from

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QUEEN CONTESTANTS for the Socidad Latina Americana De Decatur are pictured above. Front, left to right. Cookie Canciano, Decatur; Margaret Cepeda. Monroeville; Amelia Zamoar, Decatur and Carmen Lopez, Decatur. Rear, Trinidad Vergaar, Decatur; Alice Villagomes, Decatur; Mary Lou Martinez, Garrett. Absent when photo was taken, Lydia Robles, Fort Wayne.

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the capsule were picked up in London, Tckyo, New York and Bochum, Germany, which reported it heard a voice saying “Greetings to all.” In New York, Radio Corporation of America reported it monitored "very strong” beeps when Vostok 111 passed over the Western Hemisphere. Nikolayev is the seventh man who has been launched from earth in the brief history of space flight. Os these, four were Americans and three Russians, but two Os the U.S. flights were suborbital. The news of today’s launch came as citizens throughout the Soviet Union were ending their Saturday work and preparing to head for the country. Today was “Physical Culture Day” in Russia. Radios in parked cars attracted crowds of listeners. The Moscow radio announcement also could be heard through the open windows of apartment houses. “Excellent! excellent! As a citizen of the Soviet Union I am proud and satisfied,” said a Russian journalist. “I am very proud of our new victory,” said a pretty young girl, listening intently to her radio. In downtown Moscow, there was a noticeable drift of Russians toward Red Square, traditional scene of Soviet celebrations, although no festivities of an official nature were expected there before Nikolayev's return. The official announcement said Nikolayev was circling the earth once every 88.5 minutes at alti. tudes ranging between 113 miles and 156 miles. The orbit was inclined at an angle of about 65 degrees to the equator. Tass said the flight was intended "to study man’s wofk capacity in the weightless condition, and to make scientific observations by man in space flight conditions for a further improvement of spaceship systems, means of communications, control and landing.” Tass reported shortly after 11:30 a.m. that “all systems on board the spaceship are functioning normally.” Moscow television immediately began a special program devoted to the space shot, repeating the official announcement. “The Soviet onslaught into the cosmos (space) continues," said the announcer. Observers in Moscow expected that Nikolayev would get a recep. tion similar to those accorded Titov and Gagarin. If he is brought back safely, he probably will spend a day under medical examination, then be flown to Moscow for a triumphant airport welcome, a rally in Red Square and kisses from Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Tass said Nikolayev was transmitting on frequencies of 20.006 and 143.625 megacycles. It said a transmitter operating on a frequency of 19.995 megacycles also is installed in the ship. “Reports on the further progre?s the flight will be transmitted by all radio stations of the Soviet Union,” Tass said Nikolayev’s photo, flashed on Moscow television screens at 1:30 p.m. showed him in uniform, with a winning smile and a thick crop of hair. He locked not unlike Gherman Titov, although perhaps a bit older. He is 32 to Titov’s 27. ...... - ■ ' —- -- '. — - - r —:

100 Tractors In Preble Contest Thousands of spectators are expected to crowd Preble next week for the tenth annual tractor pull contest, which annually includes more than 100 tractor - participators, Fred Bieberich, head of the Preble fire department, announced today . Hugo Bulmahn of north of Preble, is heading the committee to provide for the arrangements. He is aided by Walter Hildebrand, Marcus Dchueler, Richard Longenburger, and Eugene Weber. Earl Arnold started the tractor pull 10 years ago, and interest in it has grown every year. For the previous years it has averaged more than 100 entrants each year. A new pulling method will be used this year, Bulmahn explained. Every entry must pull in a 3’A mile per hour gear, or higher. This will test the power. Tractors will be timed with a timing devise made by Bulmahn from a car rear axle, tractor governor, and car horn. The horn sounds when speed is up to 3*6 m.p.h. The tractor will then be ready for the pulling lane. Weight will be added until the tractor is stopped. In past years, the tractor would pull in creeper gear where not much power is needed, and the tfactor would slip out of gear and dig holes. Proceeds from the event will go toward the maintenance of fire fighting equipment. Soblen Still In London LONDON (UPD — Israel today thwarted Britain’s fourth and most specific order in a week to fly bail-jumping spy Robert A. Soblen to the United States. The British government eaj'y today ordered Israel’s El Al Airline to place the 61-year.old Soblen aboard a flight that was to have left Tel Aviv today en route to London and New York. Barely two hours before the flight was to have left Israel, El Al officials in Tel Aviv announced without explanation that it has been canceled. They said there was no indication any other El Al flight would leave Israel today. El Al officials here said the cancellation was caused by “maintenance trouble.” The next scheduled El Al plane from London to New York, flight 251, would leave here at 3:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. EDT) Sunday. British officials here refused comment on the cancellation. A Home Office spokesman had said earlier, however, that an order to deport Soblen might be issued “if all else failed.” He declined further comment. The Israeli government clamped a news blackout on the Soblen afffair, but reports from Tel Aviv said behind-the-scenes negotiations were in progress in an effort to find an “acceptable formula” for settlement of the dispute. Home Secretary Henry Booke, after a midnight conference with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, told El Al to put Soblen aboard that airliner and fly him back to the United States, where he has been sentenced to life imprisonment for spying. Soblen, facing life imprisonment in the United States, won a reprieve again Friday night when El Al ignored Brooke’s order to get him out of the country by midnight. — Judge Stewart Dies; Democratic Chairman LEBANON, Ind. (UPD—Ernest R. Stewart, 76, former Boone Circiut Court judge in the late 1930 s and early 19405, died Friday. Stewart also was a former Boone County Democratic chairman. Woman Receives $4,437 For Employe Suggestion ANDERSON, Ind. (UPD—Alice S. Harpster, Andersno, received $4,437 this week in the employe suggestion program of DelcoRemy division of General Motors Corp. Company officials said it was the highest award ever made here to a woman employe.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 11, 1962.

Jim Cochran In Hospital Jim Cochran, local city policeman, was returned home from Rome City Friday evening and placed in the Adams county memorial hospital, after becoming sick Thursday. The Cochrans were winding up a two-week vacation at Sylvan Lake, Rome City, and the Decatur patrolman had been feeling sick throughout the past week. Thursday his condition was worse, and Friday his wife Janet called a doctor, who arranged for a Kendallville ambulance to return Cochran to Decatur. It was learned Cochran had been hemorragging internally since Thursday, and Friday evening he was given two blood transfusions. X-rays were to be taken today to determine the nature of the illness. Showers Will Bother Weekend Showers tonight or Sunday threatened today to break up Indiana’s honeymoon with pleasant weather. Forecasts called for scattered thundershowers tonight in the north and west portions of the state and over most of the state Sunday, ending by Monday. Temperatures which ranged down into the chilly 50s Thursday and Friday nights were expected to warm up to more like normal levels. Hi«h» Friday ranged from Indianapolis to 84 at EvansVilTe, and overnight lows this morning from 50 at Fort Wayne to 57 at Indianapolis. Other lows were 53 at Lafayette, 55 at Evansville and South Bend. The forecasts called for highs today ranging t hrough the 8 os, lows tonight in the 60s, and highs Sunday in the 80s. Space Capsule Ground-Guided WASHINGTON (UPD— There are indications that Russia’s new manned space capsule is being controlled from the ground, rather than by cosmonaut Andrian, Nikolayev, unofficial but authoratative U.S. sources said today. The sources did not disclose what led them to this conclusion but said they believed Nikolayev “is not flying the craft at all—it seems to be all automatic.” One part of the official announcement by Tass of the launch seemed to lend support to this belief. The announcement said Nikolayev was transmitting o n fre-. quencies of 20.006 and 1 43.625 megacycles and a third transmitter was operating on a frequency of 19.995 megacycles. The Moscow report said only that the third transmitter was installed in the space ship. One U. S. source theorized this third frequency could be for a “command transmitter” control, ling the spacecraft from the ground. Some other sources said, however, the third frequency could be used for a number of purposes, including television transmitter if the spacecraft was large enough to carry one — or a biomedical transmitter. The latter would keep a ground control post informed about the cosmonaut’s physical condition during the flight. Eli Lilly Company For U.S. Drug Regulations WASHINGTON (UPD — Eli Lilly & Co., one of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical firms, has thrown its support behind proposed stricter government regulations for testing of drugs. Eugene N. Beesley, president of the Indianapolis firm, told Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony J. Celebrezze in a letter Friday that his company “fully endorses the objectives” of the new rules. Beesley said medicines for “clinical trial should be as safe n s science can make them.” He said the government’s proposed tightening of drug testing regulations will help insure this.

Adams Central Board Gives Transfer Rule The Adams Central school board today authorized a five-point policy statement concerning the alltime enrollment anticipated this fall, Herman E. Frantz, superintendent announced this morning. The following statement was authorized: The Adams Central School Board has announced the following policy concerning attendance at Ad a m s Central. With the enrollment approaching an all time high of approximately 1100 students some restrictions have to be made because of limited space. 1. It is impossible to accept the transfer of students from the north part of Washington that has been excluded from the Adams Central District. 2. It is therefore impossible to take transfers from any other district excluded from the former Adams Central District. This would be the south part of Monroe Township. 3. In order to save transportation costs all students from the north five miles of Blue Creek Township will be asked to come to Adams Central unless they provide their own transportation to Pleasant Mills. 4. Students of parents who havebeen paying a cash transfer from Pleasant Mills to Adams Central or from Adams Central to Pleasant Mills may continue to go where they went last year. This involves only three students. 5. It is understood that seniors may remain in their former school as was recommended by the school reorganization committee. A. L. Tallman Dies Friday A. L. Tailman, Berne, Dunbar furiture cabinet maker from Berne, died at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Adams county memorial hospital of a coronary occlusion. Born in Adams county in May 31, 1880, his wife preceded him in death. He was a member of the Cross United Church of Christ. A daughter, Mrs. Ralph Fellers, of South Gate, Calif., and two sons, Clarence W., of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Richard J., of Fort Wayne, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren survive. Friends may call at the Yager Funeral Home in Berne ofter 11 a.m. Sunday. Funeral services will be held at Monday, the Rev. Harry Reiners the Yager Funeral Home at 2 p.m. officiating. Burial will be in the MRE Cemetery. IU Honors 15 County Students Fifteen Adams County students have won mention on the Dean’s Honors lists at Indiana University for the past semester as a result of individual scholastic achievement. Steudents in the Junior (freshman) Division are so honored by earning a “B” grade average. Sophomores and upperclassmen must earn an everage of nearly “B” plus, or 3.3 out of a possible 4. Those selected to the Dean’s Honors Lists are invited to participate in the annual Founders’ Day Program in May when the University marks its birthday with tribute to scholastic excellence. Folowing are the names of local persons who qualified the last semester: Decatur — Constance Baxter, 403 N. sth; Michael Carr, R.R. 3; John Cowan, 126 Porter Vista; Elizabeth Kocher, 434 Johns; Mary Kocher, 434 Johns; Carol Norquest, 138 Harvester Lane, and Noel Scherry, R.R. 2. Berne — Eugene Liechty, 766 N. Sprunger; Gerda Mazelin, 665 Sprunger; John Rumple, R.R. 2; Jerry Sprunger, 423 High St., and Alan Yoder, 785 Lehman. Geneva — Stanley Augsbprger, R.R. 2; Jerry Mosser, Marrison St., and Daniel Stahl, R.R. 1. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and a little warmer today. Increasing cloudiness with showers likely tonight west Sunday partly cloudy and warmer with scattered showers and thundershowers. High today in the 80’s. Low tonight low 60’s. High Sunday in the 80’s. Outlook for Monday Partly cloudy with showers ending.

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TRUMAN LEADS HAPPY BIRTHDAY for former president Herbert Hoover’s 88th birthday celebration as they proceed to West Branch, lowa, for the Herbert Hoover library dedication.

Group Leaves Sunday On Japan-China Trip

After months of preparation, the. Wayne Rothgeb agricultural Indiana Goodwill People-to People tour' to the orient is ready to leave at 10:05 a.m. Sunday from Baer field with 10 tour members, including M. and Mrs. Dick Heller, Jr., of .Decatur. s • The tour name to almoot as the 20,000 'riffles that will be covered by the group during their 23-day, five-country, Alaska and Hawaii trip. Despite many setbacks, sidelights, and much humor, everyone got their shots, tickets passports and visas, packed their one 44pound suitcase, crammed everything else in a small green air lines travel bag, loaded their cameras with fim, and prepared for an interesting time. Tour Members In addition to Rothget and the Hellers, the tour includes: Mr. and Mrs. Dale Schinbeckler, of route one, Kendallville. He is vocational ag teacher, and she is president of theh county home demonstartion council. Max L. Bawchelor, of route 3, Angola, one of the ten top Jersey cattle breeders in the United States. J. Preston Moody, of route one, Fremont, a member of the state school reorganization committee. Roscoe Emily, of route one, Roanoke, who made one of the two Russian agricultural tours with Rothgeb. Jesse E. Bandelier, 1135 E. U.S. 30, New Haven, a retired farmer. Walter G. Schuman, route 6? Columbia City, farmer. Purpose of Tour Meetings, interviews, visitations and receptions are scheduled throughout the tour as the Indiana citizens take part in meeting with U. S. and foreign government authorities and meet representatives of their occpationai counterparts in the Orient. The purpose of the visit is to learn, in person, the methods, working conditions, and cultures of the people visited, and bring a picture of these things back to the American people of our communities. The group is part of the broad people-to-people task of improving understanding between America and the people of the Orient. In which Countries The group will spend Sunday night in Seattle while visiting the world’s fair, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Anchorage, Alaska, Aug. 16-20 at Tokyo, Aug. 21-23 in Formosa, at Taipei and Taichung; August 24-26 at Manila; Au.gust 27-30 at Hong Kong; and Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 in Honolulu. From the personal aspect, preparing for the trip has been almost as exciting as making the trip itself. First of all we were given a preliminary itinerary, and got, our shots, passports, etc., and sent our passports in for visas. Everyone has been most anxious to help; and to put us in contact with friends and relatives along the way. In fact, with all of the visits

scheduled, it will be a miracle if we can contact all of our friends j along the way. Classmate in Seattle In Seattle, Wash., we have a former classmate at Decatur high| school, class of 1947, to look, up, i I Mrs. Lawreace Scott, the former I Virginia Rash, sister of Joe Rash. ' Mrs. Heller will call up a former roommate during nurses training. 1 In Anchorage we will visit with the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Foreman, of 757 Parkview! Drive, Decatur. Mrs. Robert Bell is the former Jean Foreman, of Blue Creek township. Mrs. Heller will visit with the sister of nurses training roommate. In Tokyo, Japan, we will visit with Yuichi Nishimura, who visited the late with Jack Dailey here two summers ago. Also, we will meet Miss Kiku Ishihara, a letter friend of mailman Jay Martin. On the island of Taiwan we have been given the names of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lehman, formerly of Berne, and now running a mission station at Hsin Ying. Rev. Thomas’s Son Mania is the scene of our meeting with Ralph Thomas, who is working in the peace corps there. In Hong Kong, we will meet Rev. Millard Moser, of Berne, who is working with the Mennonite program there. In addition, at each stop Sen. R. Vance Hartke, according to a wire received, will have the American embassies provide an escort for us, and have them assist us in all possible ways. The Church World Service has been alerred at Tokyo, Taiwwan, Manila, and Hong Kong to assist us in getting stories and pictures of church aid to the people of the countries to be visited. UPI Correspondent The United Press International offices in each city will also greet us, and show us around the spots frequented by UPI reporters who daily cover the fronts of the world for the news service used by the Decatur Daily Democrat. Press passes have been arranged for the group for the Worlds Fair in Seattle, also. All of this is in addition to the meetings with agricultural officials, embassy staffs, tours of farms and factories, etc., arranged by “People-to-People,” which is headed by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Subject To Change Os course, as the itinerary says — “Special Note — all arrangements throughout your trip are subject to last-minute rearrangement according to local conditions and the demands of time of U. S. and local authorities and agricultural representatives. Details will be announced upon arrival by each local host.’ We will try to get one letter back each day, but of course there will probably be days when none will be received. The editor has 25 rolls of colored film, each holding 20 slides, and 24 rolls of Polaroid film, to send back local pictures each day, if possible.

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Society Naming Latin Queen Voting for the queen of the Socidad Latina Americana De Decatur is now underway, with eight girls vieing for the title of queen. The winner will be announced at a dance at Hessen Cassel the evening of Saturday, Sept. 8. The queen will be announced at midnight that . night. The eight contestants are: Carmen Lopez, Decatur; Cookie CanI cino, Decatur; Margaret Cepeda, I Monroeville; Amelia Zamora, Dec. atur; Trinidad vergara, Decatur; Alice Villagomes, Decatur; Mary Lou Martinez, Garrett; and Lydia Robles, Fortr Wayne. The girls sell votes for 25 cents I apiece, and the girl with the most votes sold will be announced as queen the evening of Sept. 8. The queen and her court will reign at the 152nd Independence Celebration at Sunset Park, south of Decatur, on Sept. 16. Red Cross Blood Program Praised Dr. Hary C. Harvey, M.D., directory of the Fort Wayne Regional blood program, today congratulated the Adams county Red Cross blood program chairman, Mrs. Ferris Bower, and her more than 100 co.workers, for the outstanding record they compiled for the past fiscal year. Adams county has a record of 129.9%, the highest record it has ever completed, and for three years has run well above its quota. “You have done well for the past several years, but this is the best ever,” Dr. Harvey added. “Your percentage of replacement donations is excellent and you had very good support from the women of our area,” he added. “The number of people deferred was a little larger than usual, but it is one of the problems that we have every summer.” There were only 86 people schedule, but 141 came in, and there were 16 rejections, more than 10%. Also, 10.6% or 15 were first time ~ donors. A total of 54.4% gave replacement blood. Women numbered 46, or 36.8%, while men numbered 79, or 63.2%. A total of 125 pints were collected, which was exactly the quota. —The next visit to Decatur will be January 9 of next year, and the next visit in the county win be in Berne in October. National Guard Leaves For Two Weeks Training INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —Pleasant weather greeted about 10,000 members of the Indiana National Guard 38th Infantry Division today as they headed for Camp Grayling, Mich., for two weeks of summer training. Convoys of not more than 10 vehicles each moved northweard in a pattern aimed at preventing major interference with heavy weeeknd trafifc . J’..i; ■ , ■- , NOON EDITION