Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1962 — Page 1

Vol. LX. No. 197.

Living In Alaska Highly Expensive ■ jj .< v & JJ/JLOL H ■ Hl F k / E, < ’F/ ji MH ■ MR. AND MRS. ROBERT BELL, daughter and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Foreman of Decatur, are pictured here in their living room as they look at a map of Alaska, planning future exploratory trips for their weekends. They are making the best of their year in Alaska, but they find that the extremely high cost of living, as explained in the story, eats up the high wages paid up here. _

By Dick Heller, Jr. 11:10 p.m. Tokyo Time Thursday Evening August 16, 1962 Tuesday evening in Anchorage we had a chance to find out just what living in Alaska is like from some former Decatur folks who have been there four month. While the rest of the group went bowling Tuesday, I took a taxi out to the southern part of Anchorage, about half-way to the airport in a suburb addition called Tunagain by the Sea. This area has just been absorbed into Anchorage, and new sewers are being stalled in the streets, so things are pretty torn up. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bell Just off the main highway, I located the apartment of Robert and Jean. Bell. Mrs. Bell is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Foreman, of Park View drive, and she at’ended school at North Ward, and was graduated from Pleasant Mills. Last April I® they decided to leave Decatur and Fort Wayne, and try a year in Alaska. They packed their 1100 pounds of personal effects in their two automobiles, and started in driving for the Alcan highway at Seattle. Alcan Highway The Alcan highway is a wide road, gravel most of its 1,500 miles to Fairbanks, Alaska, with a spur to Anchorage. They took their time, arriving in Anchorage May 2. Only the first 80 miles of the route is paved in Canada, but the Alaska part is paved. However, one of our bus drivers told us that the paved spots are rougher than the unpaved, because of the heaving of the frost under the bituminous roads. No concrete has been used, as they can t get a good enough foundation. The Bells were very happy to see someone from home, and we talked at length of their new home, and the wonderful experience they were having. The Bells stated that it was just that, a wonderful experience, but that at present they didn’t think they’d like to stay. The high cost of living makes it necessary to live up your entire income no matter how much you make. They plan to stay one winter, however. Housing Expensive Housing in Anchorage, while adequate, is not close to the standards in the Decatur-Fort Wayne area. The Bells have a very snug and adequate little apartment .which might rent for SSO a month in Decatur; they have to pay $l6O a month. Homes of the type now being erected on Park View Drive in Decatur cost about $30,000 in Alaska, with a monthly mortgage payment of $250. This is more than the cost of housing in Decatur and Fort Wayne. Mrs. Bell is working for the real estate man who is developing the area of Turnagain; they have built and sold some 245 homes there so far. It is considered the elite housing district of Anchorage, r , Last weekend the Bells drove out on the Kenai peninsula and panned for gold; on other weekends they have visited an old gold mine, gone fishing, etc. Each wekend they pick a place to drive nearby. Os course, nearby fn Alaska is a relative term, and the big problem is distance. Airplanes Common One out of every 146 Alaskans has an airplane, and this is the ideal way to get around the immense country. We had visited the airport for ‘‘float’’ planes, or pontoon planes as we call them, and saw some of the hundreds of bush-type aircraft. These give their ownets or charterers access to best fishing and hunting regions

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-*w , I But it is very expensive. In fact just living is expensive in Alaska. Milk is 45 cents a quart; bread, 47 cents a loaf for regular, 52 cents for sandwich loaf. Some other prices are: Tbone steak, $1.79 a pound; turkey, 59c a pound; tomatoes, 35c a pound; broccoli, 39c a pound; watermelon, 7c a pound; cantaloupe, 17c a pound; lemons, 3 for 29c; bananas, 39c a pound. Soft drinks, like Coke and 7-Up, are sold by can only, and cost 15c in machines, x>r 8 for $1 at the store, for a 12 ounce can. After talking until 11 p.m., the Bells brought me back to the hotel and came up to see our room, and meet my wife, Jane; then the four of us came downstairs for a Coke in the dining room. Flies Over North Mr. Bell works for the FAA, and gets to fly around over the 49th state (seeing the country). Just this last week, for example, he flew over the little Eskimo village of Anatuvik, 600 miles north, which came into state wide focus Tuesday, election day, because the village has sighted a herd of caribou a week before, so they all voted, mailed in their votes, and left to hunt! Unfortunately, the state has no such absent voter law as yet! Moose and other wild game are quite common near Anchorage, and the Bells see them about every weekend, especially a large number of moose. In fact, the one train that runs daily to Fairbanks, 12 hours away, states plainly in its schedule, ‘‘Not responsible for delays due to moose on track.” More than 400 moose were harvested last year by the train, which will obligingly stop and let you off at any creek, and then when you want to return you stand on the track and wave your fishing pole, and they stop for you. That is one reason it takes 12 hours to get to Fairbanks, 300 miles or so up the track. (Continued on Fi.ge Six) Portland Girl Wins Limberlost Contest The winners of the 1962 Limberlost talent contest Saturday evening in the windup of the Gene Stratton Porter Days were Sue Gillespie, of Portland, with her tap dancing; Rose and Mary Ann Dawson, of Ossian, second, with their acrobatic act; and Dian Collier, of Berne, third, with her baton twirling. Other contestants were Ann Sprunger, Decatur; Judy Hakes, Decatur; and Mary Jane De Armand, Rockford, O. The judges were Mrs. Ron Ross, Lester Zimmerman and John Poorman. The judges commended all the contestants on their outstanding performances. Ron Ross, former announcer at radio station WOWO, Fort Wayne, who is now running for congress, served as master of ceremonies. The Geneva civic Progress association has set Friday, August 16 and Saturday, August 17, as the dates for the 1963 Gene Stratton Porter days in Geneva. The association intends to make Gene Stratton Porter days an annual event in Geneva and is taking the necessary steps to secure all legal rights to the event the same as is done for such special events through out the United States. Upon the basis of this year’s experience the association has aleady set these goals for ’63: triple the size of the parade; greatly expand the talent contest; and study the possible of adding some water sports at Rainbow Lake.

13 Are Dead, Nine Missing In Air Crash RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI) — A Brazilian DCB jetliner with 104 persons aboard ran off the runway at International Airport here Monday night and crashed like a fiery rocket into Guanabara Bay. Airline officials reported that 13 persons were killed, and 9 were listed as missing. The known dead included 12 passengers and 1 crew member. Eighty-two others survived the crash, the officials said, and are now in hospitals or homes. So far as was known there were no Americans among the 93 passengers and 11 crew members aboard the giant multi - milliondollar American - made four-jet airliner that was taking off for Europe. A spokesman for the Panair do Brasil Airline, operator of the wrecked plane, announced the known casualties early today. The big four-jet airliner, appar-1 ently crippled by engine failure,, screeched down a runway at the ■ airport, smashed over a low wall. iat the end of the runway and hurtled into the bay. ! Witnesses said the fuselage i "sailed like a rocket” over the • waterfront drive. The wall i scraped off the plane’s landing ■ wheels and one of its engines. The jetliner’s most prominent i passenger, Brazilian congressman Josue de Castro, made his way . to safety on a life raft thrown to him by airmen. His daughter swam ashore, but De Castro’s ' young granddaughter was believed to have perished. “It was terrible,” sobbed de Castro, who is a former head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Contract Talks Are Resumed Here Today Contract negotiations were rel sumed at 10 o’colck this morning i between the Central Soya Co. and t the United Mine Workers of Ameri- > ca. Since the last meeting, a hear- > tag was held on the unfair labor l practice charge filed by the com- . pany against the union. No deci- . sion has yet been received from the NLRB. Following that hearing, however, , Robert Chappuis, labor relations director for Central Soya, received a letter from Ralph Courtley of the Union, stating the union was willing to bargain for the appropriate unit as determined by the spokesman said, that the union NLRB. This means, a company will ont bargain for the agricultural employes who wark on the old and new farms. i

Special Session Is Possible-- Welsh

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh said today that a special session of the Indiana Legislature to work out reapportionment is “a serious possibility.” Welsh discussed this morning with Lt. Gov. Richard Ristine and Indiana Republican state chair- • man Thomas Gallmeyer a reap- • portionment plan worked out by s Republicans last week which calls f for a constitutional amendment ' changing the Senate from 50 to 60 i members. i Welsh said at the close of the conference, “before I give you a ■ firm answer I want to talk it over with our leadership in the House i and Senate —the Senate particu-. , larly.” “I do have a feeling,” Welsh ( said, “that the counties not repre- . sented at such a session would re- ( sent it materially. But I wouldn't . want to say the door is closed.” "I don’t want in any sense to , bar the door. You will have my full cooperation in trying to work ’ this out,” Welsh said. j The governor said he would talk to Democratic party leaders who attend a reception he is giving for ‘ them tonight at the executive resi- ' dence. Welsh indicated there is a prob--1 ability the Democrats will hold a ’ conference such as the one held ■ by the GOP candidates and legisL lators last Friday. , ■ Welsh said he expects to have an answer on the special session 1 request “in two or three weeks.” 1 The governor at first proposed that a special session of the 93rd ■ General Assembly, to be elected ' Nov. 6, be held after the election t and before the date of the regular - session to consider reapportion- ’ ment. He said he would give “serious consideration” to such a special

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 21, 1962.

Public Schools Will Register Next Week; Opening September 5

Registration of students in the four Decatur public schools will be held next week for the 1962-63 school year, according to an announcement today by the school 1 principals. The principals are Hugh J, Andrews, high school; Hubert Zerkel, Jr., Lincoln school, succeeding the retired P. Bryce Thomas; Floyd Reed, Northwest school, sue- ( ceeding Zerkel; and Sylvester Everhart, Southeast school. All public schools will open Wednesday, Sept. 5, with the annual meeting of all teachers with Gail Grabill, city school superintendent, Tuesday, Sept. 4. I Registration will be held next 1 week according to the following , schedule: Lincoln School Children are to report for room assignments and book rental information according to the following schedule: Eighth grade — Monday, Aug. 27, 8:30 a.m. Seventh grade — Monday, Aug. 27, 9:30 a.m. Sixth grade — Tuesday, Aug. 28, 8:30 a.m. Fifth grade — Tuesday, Aug. 28, 9 a.m. Fourth grade — Tuesday, Aug. 28, 9:30 a.m. Third grade — Tuesday, Aug. 28, 10 a.m. Second grade — Wednesday, Aug. 29, 9 a.m. First grade — Wesdnesday, Aug. 29, 9:30 a.m. Kindergarten — Thursday, Aug. 30, boys - 8-9:30 a.m.; girls - 9:3011 a.m. — Grades 1-8 are to use the main , entranee on Fifth street and proceed directly to the auditorium. Parents of children who wish Jo. enter kindergarten should register their children according t o the above schedule. The $4 registration fee should be paid and the child’s birth certificate should be shown at this time. To enter kindergarten, a child must be five years old on or before Sept. 15. Kindergarten pupils are to use the main entrance and proceed to the principal's office. All students are requested to arrive at the stated times and not come early. Students who must be transferred from Lincoln to the Northwest or Southeast schools will be notified by mail by the end of this i

session call because of his desire that the normal woifc of the coming session not be hampered by a reapportionment battle. Welsh said death and resignation have left several counties without a senator in the 92nd General Assembly which met in 1961 and ceases to exist the day after the election. Newsmen figured that 10 coun- . ties are without senatorial reprei sentation and that the membership of the upper chamber would stand equally at 23 for each party, i assuming Jesse Dickinson, who took a federal appointment but > did not resign as senator, could figure away around the Hatch Act. i Agree On Speed . “My objection to having the spe- . cial session prior to the election t is that several counties would not ' be represented on such a basic i and vital revision of our legisla- ' tive process,” Welsh said. “But I : am in complete agreement with you that reapportionment should : be moved along as rapidly as it > can.” • Both Welsh and Ristine noted . that if the legislature does not soon take action on reapportion- • nftent, which has not been done i since 1921, the federal courts will 1 intervene. Ristine and Gallmeyer urged that the special session of the leg- ! islature be called before Nov. 6 so i that the requirement of passing a ’ constitutional amendment through 1 two separate sessions of the legis--1 lature could be met. I “There will be less of a feeling i of bitterness because some coun- : ties are not represented than if - some court comes in and does it to us,” Ristine said. He said res apportionment “has gone so much 1 (Continued on Page Eight)

week. Northwest School Pupils at the Northwest school will report to receive room assignments and rental book information under the following schedule: Sixth grade — Monday, Aug. 27, 9 a.m. Fifth grade — Monday, Aug. 27, 9:30 a.m. . Fourth grade — Tuesday, Aug. 28, 9 a m. Third grade — Tuesday, Aug. 28, 9:30 a.m. Second grade — Wednesday, Aug. 29, 9 a.m. First grade — Wednesday, Aug. 29, 9:30 a m. Kindergarten — Thursday, Aug. 30, bpys — 9-10 a.m.; girls — 1011 a.m. The $4 registration fee should be paid and the child’s birth certificate should be shown at this time. To enter kindergarten, a child must- be five years old on or before September 15. Southeast School Pupils at the Southeast school will report to receive room assignments and rental book information under the following schedule: Sixth grade — Monday, Aug. 27, 9 a.m. Fifth grade — Monday, Aug. 27, 9:30 a.m. Fourth grade — Tuesday, Aug. 28, 9 a m. Third grade — Tuesday, Aug. 28, 9:30 a.m. Second grade — Wednesday, Aug. 29, 9 a.m. First grade — Wednesday, Aug. 29, 9:30 a.m. Kindergarten — Thursday, Aug. 30, boys 9-10 a.m.; girls 10-11 a. Install Flashers At Peterson Crossing The Adams county commissioners signed two contracts during their Monday meeting . One con+ract was with the state highway department for installs tion of flashing signal lights on the railroad crossing at the south edge of Peterson. Federal aid will pay 50 per cent of the cost the county 40 per cent and the New York, Chicago and St. Louis will bear 10 per cent of the cost, which is estimated at $14,100. The commissioners have appropriated $5,640 for the installation of the crossing flashers. Another contract, with Indiana livestock sanitary board, was signed by the commissioners, for brucellosis testing in Kirkland and Jefferson townships. Cost of the testing is $320.25. Temperalure Hits 101 Al Fort Wayne By United Press International Temperatures hit 101 at Fort Wayne and 100 at Evansville Monday at the height of a brief record-setting heat wave that was Indiana’s hottest of the year. The mercury boiled to new season’s highs all around the state and left Hoosiers gasping for breath in the wake of readings in the upper 90s and warmer. At Indianapolis, a high of 97 was the warmest temperature in nearly eight years, since Sept. 6, 1954. It was 99 at Lafayette, 94 at South Bend. A high of 101 at Cincinnati was the hottest Aug. 20 in history. The simmering temperatures faded into the 60s during the night over most of the state, Evansville’s 73 being an exception. Overnight lows included 63 at South Bend, 66 at Fort Wayne and Lafayette, and 68 at Indianapolis. Highs today will range from the low 80s north to the upper 80s central and 89 to 94 south. Lows tonight will range from 62 to 69, and highs Wednesday will range from the‘Bos to 95. Scattered showers and thunderstorms were expected in the southern third of the state today. No sain was on tap for Wednesday, but there was a chance of isolated afternoon showers Thursday with* a warfnup in “temperatures. A little rain fell during the 24hours ending at 7 a.m. today. La- ■ fayette measured .03, Indianapolis t .02. A thunderstorm near Frankt fort may have produced a light - ning bolt which destroyed a farmi house and killed two elderly women asleep there.

m. The $4 registration fee should be paid and the child’s birth certificate should be shown at this time. To enter kindergarten, a child must be five years old on or before September 15. High School Decatur high school students will register under the following schedule: Seniors — Monday, Aug. 27, between the hours of 9 a m. to 3 p.m. Juniors — Tuesday, Aug. 28, between the hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sophomores — Wednesday, Aug. 29, between the hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Freshmen — Thursday, Aug. 30, between the hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Locker keys will be issued at the time of registration and the book rental room will be open for the distribution of books. Resident Os Wren Dies Last Evening Mrs. Lutitia A. Bowen, 80, a resident of Wren, 0., most of her life, died at 5 o’clock Monday evening at the Van Wert county hospital, following a serious illness of four months of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was born at Ohio City, 0., Oct. 27, 1881, a daughter of John and Mary Harshman Tickle, and was married to Alexander Bowen Sept. 13, 1899. Her husband preceded her in death in 1942. Mrs, Bowen, a telephone operator at Wren for 15 years, was a member of ttue Wreh Evangelical United Brethren church and the Maccabee lodge. Surviving are two sons, Russell Bowen of Camden," Mich.. arid Harry Bowen of Wren; one daughter, Mrs. Alda McClure of Wren; fiv£ grandchildren and 11 greatgrandchildren. One sister is deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert, the Rev. George W. Bailey officiating. Interment will be in the Wren mausoleum. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

West Berlin Police Erect Barricades

BERLIN (UPI) — West Berlin police threw up barbed wire barricades and massed hundreds of men on the Western side of the Berlin wall today to head off further anti-Communist rioting. More than 450 riot police were stationed at key points around the crossing point known as “Checkpoint Charlie,” manned by the U.S. Army, the biggest concentration of Western force at one spot since the riots started three days ago. The police were backed by two water cannon and four American military policemen in steel helmets. Checkpoint Charlie has been the scene of the most bitter violence, since it is the place where a Soviet bus carrying Red army troops to the Soviet war memorial in the British sector passes from East to West Berlin. West Berliners have vented their anger at the Communists by stoning the buses and battling with their own police trying to stop them. Discuss Berlin Siuation A British spokesman announced that the United States, British and French ambassadors met in Bonn this morning to discuss the general situation in Berlin, j At the same time, Mayor Willy Brandt conferred with the Big Three Western Allied commandants to discuss the crisis and seek means of preventing future outbreaks of violence by West Berliners incensed over the Communist shooting of East German refugees. - The conference considered a city. government proposal that Western Allied soldiers, especially medical men, enter East Berlin to aid refugees shot * trying to escape. While such a step would appease the West Berlin rioters, observers said it would cause clashes with the Soviets or East Germans who might consider

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MOSCOW (UPD—Russia’s twin . astronauts disclosed today that > they came within three miles of each other in their record-breaking flights through space and floated back to earth by parachute. But they said there was no attempt , and no plan to link up their fivet ton space ships in orbit. Maj. Andrian Nfeolayev, who made 64 orbits of the earth, and . his “space tiwn,** Lt. Col. Pavel a Popovich, who completed 48 or--1 bits, gave details of their tandem e journey at a joint news confer- — ence at Moscow University. The j marathon conference lasted three , hours and 43 minutes. Nikolayev told the 1,500 news-1 men and observers at the televised session that r efcno-rockets first slowed the speed of his space ship, Vostok 111, while it still was in orbit more than 100 miles above the earth. Then he said he was “separated in a capsule” from the instrument compartment of the ship, making a blazing re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere safely inside. At an undisclosed height, he said he then was ejected to float to earth

such mercy missions as Allied “intervention” and “violation” of Communist territory. West Berlin newspapers called for an end to the demonstrations. The riots raged up and down the Communist-built anti-refugee wall until past midnight and for the first time since they started Saturday they spread back from the border to the center of West Berlin. An estimated 10,000 West Berliners took part. West Berlin police said at least 15 rioters and 9 policemen were hurt, and 10 rioters were arrested. Police used clubs and water cannon to drive the mobs back. Situation Termed Grave An allied spokesman called the situation “grave”, and a Moscow Radio commentator said Berlin “threatened a conflict in the center of Europe.” Thousands of howling, jeering West Berliners stoned and pursued Soviet army vehicles and clashed with their own police in bloody street fights along the wall dividing the city. Two Red soldiers were left bleeding from head and hand injuries. Brandt and Western officials separately sought measures to calm the emotional outbursts and bitterness against Communist at-' acks on East Germans trying to flee o the West. Shooting Triggers Riots The four days’ of demonstrations were triggered by the Communist shooting last Friday of a teen-age construction worker, Pe(Continued on Page Six; Jaycees Will Meet Here This Evening The Jaycees will hold a very im- . portant general membership meet- - ing tonight. They will meet at 7:30 > i p.m. in their regular meeting t room above the bank. All members r; are urged to be present.

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by parachute, landing near Karaganda in Kazakhstan, 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow. Landed 124 Miles Apart Popovich said he also came down by parachute from his ship, Vostok IV, and said he and Nikolayev landed about 124 miles apart. Previous announcements had said they came down within six minutes of each other in the previously planned landing area. 1 7 s oovich added that the two 1 1 spi. e ships at their closest were ■ i about five kilometers or 3.1 miles - apart. He put the weight of the ’ I craft at “about five tons.” The (space ships used by Russia’s first two space men, Lt. Col. Yuri Gagarin and Maj. Gherman Titov, were about 4% tons. Popovich, answering a question by one newsman, said there never had been any plan to link up ths two space ships in flight. Such a possibility had been suggested by Britain’s Sir Bernard Lovell, head of the Jodrell Bank radio-tele-scope station, and others. No Military Threat Nikolayev and Popovich both insisted under questioning that there was no military threat in their flights, but Nikolayev made it clear that there could be. “The Vostok 111 carried no nuclear weapons and there is no need for such things,” he said. “(But) if need be, we have missiles which are splendidly capable of delivering nuclear warheads to any point.” Both men stressed the peaceful aims of Soviet space experiments, and Popovich urged greater international cooperation in space and eventual group space flights of ships belonging to different nations. “I feel sure that if two spacemen make a flight for purposes of peaceful exploration of space,” Popovich said, “they will always find a common language and be able to manage perfectly without translators.” Both spacemen said they had carried out their duties without any problems due to weightlessness or other reasons. See Light Particles Both men spoke, as have all previous Russian and American spacemen, of light particles flying past their ships. The Russians said these particles were exhaust from the engines. Popovich ducked a question on when the next Soviet space flight (Continued on Page Sixt INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight. Wednesday - generally fair and warmer. Low tonight in the 60s. High Wednesday 83 to 89 north, 84 to 92 south. Sunset today 7:33 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:01 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and warmer with isolated thundershowers. Low 70s. Highs in the 90s. DECATIR TF.MPKRATI KES Local weather data for the 14 hcuir period ending at 11 a.m, today 12 noon .. 94 12 midnight 78 1 P m 92 .1 a m.-. . “74 2pm 91 2am *4 3 p.m .... 92 3 a.m M 4 p.m. 92 4 am, so 5 P-m. .... 91 5a m is 6prn ~ XS Bam 44 7 p.m. Xfi 7 a.m I 4 SjMn. ju... . 64 x am. ,70 9p m SI 9 a.m ...... 14 10 p.m. SO in u rn. ... fa 11 pm. 7H 11 am . I 4 Hain Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a in. 'oday, .0 Inchon. The St. Mary’s river wan at a7O feet. , ■ *