Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 242, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1962 — Page 1

VOL. LX NO. 242.

Two-Day Storm Plunges North, Oregon Hardest 1 Hit In State’s History

Two Decatur Girls Given Commendation

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Misses Cynthia Cravens and Rita Norquest, Decatur high school seniors, have been honored for their excellent performances on the national merit scholarship qualifying tests taken last spring. — Hugh J. Andrews, school principal, announced today. Both young ladles, endorsed by their school, received formal letters of commendation, signed by their principal and the president of the National Merit Scholarship Corp. Another Decatur high school senior, David Swickard, is one of some 11,000 semi-finalists who will be given additional tests in December to establish further their eligibility to receive merit scholarships. John M. Stalnaker, president, of the corporation, stated: “About 28,700 students throughout the country are being awarded letters of commendation in recogni- • tion of their excellent performance on the qualifying test. Although they did not reach the status of semi-finalists in the current merit program, they are so capable that we wish to call attention in this way to their achievement and academic promise. “Hie semi-finalists and commended student together constitute about two per cent of all high Veronica Lantz Dies Early Today Mrs. Veronica Lantz, 81, of Berne, died at 12:30 a. m. today at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been a patient one day. She had been 111 for the past three weeks She was born in Ontario, Canada, Feb. 20, 1881, a daughter of Adam and Mary SchaefferSchlotzhauer. Her husband, Ezra preceded her in death sev* era! years ago. Mrs. Lantz was a member of the Evangelical Mennonite church. Surviving are three sons, Glenford A. Lantz of Fort Wayne, and Earl C. and Dale D. Lantz, both r; of Berne; one daughter, Mrs. Jeannette McCune of Bluffton route 2; 10 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren, and two brothers, Noah Schlotzhauer of Van Nuys, Calif., and James Schlotzhouer of Port Huron, Mich. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the Yager funeral home, the Rev. Alvin Becker officiating. ’ Burial will be in the Evangelical Mennonite cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 P. m. Sunday. NOON EDITION

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school seniors. This certainly signifies noteworthy accomplishment , by all of these bright youngsters. ( “We earnestly hope that the commended students will continue their education,” Stalnaker continued. By doing so they will benefit both themselves and the nation. "'Hie letters of commendation provide tangible recognition to their high ability. We urge the students honored to make every effort to attend college, and to develop to the fullest their promise of achievement.” To increase their opportunities to obtain financial assistance if they need it, the merit corporation sends the names, home addresses, and test scores of all commended students to the two colleges they indicated as their preferred choices at the time they took the qualifying test. Other special services are also performed by NMSC in an effort to increase the scholarship opportunities of commended students and semi-finalists. The commended students were among the high school juniors who took the NMSQT last March. The tekt is a three-hour examination that covers five separate areas of educational development. It was the first step in the eighth annual merit program. Three Townships Study Organization Between 80 and 100 residents of Preble township attended the meeting of the Preble community center Thursday evening to hear facts on reassessments and the organization of a metropolitan . school district composed of Prer ble, Root and Union townships. Robert Kolter, Russell Fleming, Clarence Bultemeier and Robert . J. Rice reported on their meeting last week with the secretary of > the state school reorganization board, who advised them to go . ahead and form a metropolitan school board for the three town- ' ships as a first step in reorganization. A petition to effect this was cir- • culated at the meeting, and will , be circulated throughout the town- » ship. The petition is addressed . to the township trustee, and asks him to join the other two trustees > of the north three townships and pass a resolution forming the dis- . trict under the acts of 1949. If the trustees so act, the three trustees would serve as the school board until the next primary election, in 1964; at that time, five school board members would be elected. The entire school district would have a common school rate. /V ... ————

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — A two day storm which caused what Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield labeled “the worst catastrophe in the state’s history" plunged north today after (tilling 27 persons and doing millions of dollars in property damage. The storm, which twice roared across the Pacific and a cross three states, centered its fury in Washington and British Columbia today, but appeared to be losing its steam as it headed north. The death toll broke down to 9 in Oregon, 14 in California, 3 in Washington, and 1 in British Columbia. Most of the deaths occurred when trees crashed down on people and cars or when cars went off rain-slicked streets in blinding storms. Many persons also suffered fatal heart attacks in the storm, but these were not included in the tally. Hardest hit was Oregon, where Gov. Mark Hatfield declared a state of emergency, called out National Guard units in Portand to prevent looting, and telegraphed President Kennedy that he might need help. “Damage west of Cascades incalculable at this moment," Hatfield telegraphed the President. "This will serve to alert you to possible requests for declaration of disaster area. Number dead not known, power facilities in major communities out, communica- ' tions mi nimum. Advise quickest contact point your office should further emergency request be desirable.” Assistance Considered A spokesman for Sen. Maurine Neuberger, D-Ore., said the White House told him “immediate consideration” woud be given to any request from Oregon for assistance. The weatherman had good news for drenched Northern California and Oregon, but not for Washington, when it was predicted that the storm would turn north today and that rains would ease up in California and Oregon by nightfall. Baseball fans in San Francisco were hoping that the rains would stop soon enough so that the oncepostponed sixth game of the World Series between San Francisco and New York could b e played today. Fair Closed Down The storm roared full-blast ihto Washington about midnight, forcing the Seattle World’s Fair to close down. The famed Lake Washington floating bridge was closed to traffic after storm-lashed waves had washed over the span. U.S. Highway 99, the state’s main northsouth thoroughfare, was blocked in at least two spots. Power went out at Olympia Friday night as winds hit 78 mph. At Portland, Ore., more than 40,000 phones were knocked out and the city looked as though it were in a World War Two style blackout when power went out for an hour Friday night. Police Chief David Johnson asked for 250 National Guardsmen to be on the alert against possible looting. The Bonneville Power Administration reported that 50 per cent of its total load of 4 million kilowatts was knocked out of service. BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)— Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick today postponed the sixth game of the World Series for the second day in a row because or torrential rains which inundated Candlestick Park. DECATUR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for theperiod eliding at 9 a.m today. 12 noon 70 12 midnight .. 48 1 p.m 88 1 a.m 47 2 p.m 73 2 a.m 46 3 p.m 74 3 a.m. 45 4 p.m 74 4 a.m 44 5 p.m 70 5 a.m 43 6 p.m 68 6 a.m 4'2 7 p.m 64 7 a.m 43 8 p.m 60 8 a.m 48 9 p.m 56 9 a.m. 46 10 p.m;.. 52 11 p.m 50 Rain Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St. Mary's river was at 0.94 i feet.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 13, 1962.

V i r- ■ ; Vote Dispute At Council

VATICAN CITY (UPI) — The Ecumenical Council recessed suddenly today after only one hour of its first working session following a dispute on voting procedure. As 3,000 Council fathers filed out of St. Peter’s Basilica, the council presidency of 10 cardinals remained behind to try to solve the disagreement before the next general session scheduled for Tuesday morning. The suprising development came as Pope John XXIII was receiving nearby in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel more than 800 representatives of the world press, including Russians. He admonished them “there are no political machinations afoot" in the Ecumenical Council. Newsmen left the audience to be confronted by a flood of reports of a “revolt” in the council led by Francis Achile Cardinal Lienart. The council, in a press statement, said: “At the beginning of the voting, Cardinal Lienart, the bishop of ■ Lille, requested permksetow -'--w speafc and he was seconded by Joseph Cardinal Frings, the archbishop of Cologne, in presenting a motion adjourning the voting because of the necessity of special consultation among members of the various ecclesiastical regions in making possible better knowledge of the candidates. “As a result of this mo tion, shortly before 10 a.m. the assembly broke up. “Immediately after, the council presidency met in the council hall.” The presidency includes Lienart and Frings, and cardinals Eugene Tisserant, French-born d ean of the college, Francis Spellman of New York, Bernard Jan Alfrink of Holland, Norman Thomas Gilroy of Australia, Enrique Pla y Deniel Lodge Appeals For Use Os Slickers As national fire prevention week comes to a close, the Decatur Moose lodge issued an appeal to the public today to assist in the lodge’s fire safety sticker project. Operation of the first safety sticker project is exceedingly simple but very effective. The initial step has been taken by enlisting the cooperation of the fire departnymt and police department in posting the stickers in windows where they are needed. Fire safety stickers should be placed upon the windows of the bedrooms or sleeping quarters of every aged or inform person, convalescent and invalid. These are the persons most suspectible to home fire hazards. —— — When the fire department answers a call to a home, the firemen will immediately flash lights on all windows of the house. When this red reflector sticker is observed, the firemen will investigate the room to determine if evacuation is required. Any person knowing of any one who should have a sticker should send the name and address to the Loyal Order of Moose, 108 Jackson street, or phone 3-4113, so the stickers can be placed as soon as possible. A lodge spokesman said, “fire can be both a friend and a foe. In the cases where fire destroys our forests, our schools, our factories and our homes, it is definitely qpr foe, but the Moose lodge can be very helpful in prventing fire from taking its toll of human lives through the Moose fire safety 1 sticker project.”

». ■ of Spain, Ignace Gabriel Tappouni of Syria, Antonio Caggiano of Argentina, and Ernesto Ruffini of Italy. Achile Cardinal Lienart, archbishop of Lille in France, was reported leading a group protesting a suggested list of candidates , drawn up by the Vatican. The nominations should be open to all the 3,000 council “fathers,” Lienart told the council in latin. Voting was suspended while a supervisory commission of 10 cardinals, including Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, tried to mediate the dispute. Russians Included While the discussion continued in St. Peter’s, closed 4o the press, Pope John received 807 journalists from all over the world in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. They included representatives from the Soviet news agency Tass the Moscow government newspaper Izvestia and the Communist party journal Pravda. Two Russian# also in St. 1 Peter’s. They were Archmandrite Vladimir Kotliarov, 33, and Archpriest Vitali Borovoi, 46, of the I Russian Orthodox church who were in a special tribunal for some 50 non-Catholic o bservers an d guests to the council. Speaking in French, Pope John urged newsmen to give him “your loyal cooperation in presenting this great event to the public in its true colors. Dr. Lloyd Knox Is Convention Speaker fISD - ■ HL Kb j gU I w| IB I Dr. Lloyd Knox Dr. Lloyd Knox, of Winona Lake will be featured speaker at two of the sessions of the annual Sunday School convention October 27-28 Earl Chase, county president of the Sunday school association, announced today. Dr. Knox is president of the national Sunday school association that is at present holding its national convention in Denver, Colo. He is well-known in evangelical cir- , cles for his work in Sunday schools. At present, Dr. Knox is head of ■ the Light and Life Publishing Co., of Winona Lake. This is the Sun- . day school publishing house for the . Free Methodist church. Dr. Knox will speak in Decatur at the Community Center Saturday evening, October 27. Tickets are ; priced at $1.50 and all Sunday i school superintendents in the coun- ■ ty have tickets. ; He will also speak at the closing • session Sunday evening at the First : Mennonite church in Berne, October 28 . , Reservations for the banquet ■ must be in by Monday, October 22. -.44——- ——

More Gas Heating Permits Are Asked Decatur, Bluffton, and Columbia City, as well as Fort Wayne, will receive mnre_gas space heating permits if the Gas company’s' petition, which goes before the public service commission of Indiana Monday, is accepted. ® Northern Indiana Public Service c Co., which serves this area, is 1 asking to serve 4,000 more space- ' heating customers in this division. * It also requested the present limi- s tation of 250,000 BTU hourly input ' be raised to 500,000 BTU’s per hour. This would allow NIPSCO * to serve larger space-heating in- , stallations. , Harley W. Jenson, the Gas com- 1 pany’s Fort Wayne division man- s ager, said today that additional gas supplies will enable his company to serve more customers, and serve them better. He noted that during the past three years the utility has been able to issue more than 10,000 space-heating permits because of additional gas supplies and expanded facilities. The most recent issue was for 3,000 permits last January. "This is tangible evidence," Jenson said, “of our unceasing efforts to provide the people of Fort Wayne, Decatur, Bluffton, and Columbia City and the surrounding areas with dependable natural gas." Garage, Automobile Destroyed By Fire A garage and a 1959 model car were completely destroyed by an early evening fire at the home of William Klickman, 927 N. Fifth St. Friday. The garage was completely ruined by the flames, in addition to the Klickman automobile, which was parked in the garage. A lawn mower and other items in the garage were also destroyed. The local fire department received the call at 5:57 p.m., and battled the blaze until nearly 7 o’clock in a futile attempt to save the buflding- The -sarage was nearly destroyed by the time the depart* ment arrived. 6 The Klickman family was at home when' the blaze broke out. but was unaware of it for some time. A nearby resident gave the fire department the first call on the fire, which could be seen for quite a distance at one time. Fire chief Cedric Fisher said this morning that the cause of the fire was still undetermined, but an investigation would be continued. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Chance of some isolated thundershowers late today or tonight. A little warmer Sunday. Low tonight in the 50". High Sunday mid 70s north, upper 70s south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy, little temperature change.

I & M Completes Program

This week marked the completion of a $2-million rehabilitation program undertaken by Indiana & Michigan Electric company after purchase of the electric system in this area from the city of Decatur. During the 27-month period since July, 1960, when I&M began operations here, a new substation has been constructed, all rural and city lines have been rebuilt, all electric meters changed and checked for accuracy, a new office built, a new fleet of vehicles purchased, and an addition constructed **at the diesel power plant to house equipment. Ed Hagan, I&M’s district manager here, said the rehabilitation took approximately six months longer than expected. This was due, in part, to the fact that the company decided to rebuild and increase voltages oh more lines than originally scheduled. “We feel that Decatur now has the best distribution system available,” added Hagan. _. Ample Reserve “There has been sufficient reserve built into the present system to handle all the city’s requirements in the foreseeable future,” said Hagan, “and as new developments are introduced in the industry they wil be adopted in Decatur. It is important for our own interests and those of our customers to keep this system modern and up to date in every respect.” I&M began its $2-million rehabilitation program as soon as

Kennedy Steps Up Campaign

PITTSBURGH (UPI) — President Kennedy, in a fighting mood, 1 campaigned for New Frontier ! Democrats in Western Pennsyl- 1 vania today wth a stepped-up at- ' tack on anti-administration coin- ' servatives in his own party as : well as Republicans. His itinerary called for a motor- ' cade from this city through the heavily industrial Monongahela Valley with speaking stops at McKeesport, Monessen and Washington, Pa. This afternoon, he will fly to Indianapolis for a speech and then go to Louisville, Kyi, for a rally tonight. Without using the term “Southern Democrats” as such, these obviously were the lawmakers Kennedy had in mind when he lumped his own party’s conservatives into the s ame “anti-prog-ress” mold he has reserved mainly for Republicans in his campaigning for Democratic congressional and statewide candidates. Hard-Hitting Address Kennedy did this in a speech before a whoop-it-up throng of some 8,500 Democrats Friday night at the University of Pittsburgh’s Field House. It was one of the President’s hardest-hitting addresses in two weekends of fall campaigning and climaxed a day of exuberant crowded receptions for him in Newark, N.J.; New York City, Pittsburgh, and some suburban areas around each of those populous places. The President led into Friday night’s address by saying a“distinguished Republican,” whom he did not name, had asked in a letter why Kennedy’s Pennsylvania appearances wrren’t confined to non-partisan o ccasions when he could “represent all the people.” “I am here because it is a responsibiity of the President of the United States, and some Repubicans have not always ha d I this view of the presidential responsibility.. .to have a program' , and to fight for it," Kennedy told , the cheering Pittsburgh crowd. Shouldn’t Be Confined 1 He-said he did not think that in this critical and dangerous time “that Presidents, or anyone ; else, should confine themselves ’to ceremonial occasions, orna- ’ menting an office at a time when : this country and the world needs ; all of the energy and the action and the commitment to progress that it can possibly have. “The record of the Republican party in the past two years, in the Congress of the United States, is written so large that all of the speeches that candidates can make in October of this year cannot wipe out that record of blind opposition to everything we tried to do,” Kennedy asserted. This was along the line of his usual anti-GOP attacks, sometimes couped with references to a “handful of Democrats” who also have fought his program...

it took possession of the property. The first step was building three 33,000-volt transmission lines into Decatur from It & M’s network of high-votage lines serving northern and east'eentral Indiana. The construction of a $340,000 substation just south of the diesel power plant on Seventh street made it possible to close down the Decatur steam plant.. Within .four months after I&M began operating here, the city was receiving all its power from the company’s large generating stations located ’ on the Ohio river at Lawrenceburg, and on the Wabash river south of Terre Haute. Lines Rebuilt As the company was speeding completion of its transmission . lines into the city, contract crews . were busy rebuilding the distribution facilities. “This was the most time-consuming portion of our rebuilding job,” said Hagan, “and, while it was one of the first jobs tackled, it was also the last job finished.” Most of the rural lines . were rebuilt and converted from 2,400 volts to 12,500 volts. The distribution circuits in the city were enlarged to a standard 4,000 volts with some lines feeding industry raised to 12,500 volts. More than $1 million was spent rebuilding lines. • Within eight months after com- : ing to Decatur, I&M had built a new office at 216 W. Monroe Street ■ to house the administrative and ; customer accounting offices for . .^.:-.-.-,^-..- .

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But this ti me Kennedy went a step farther, in urging support for pro - administration Democrats even though “history is against us” in his effort to gain more seats or even retain the number his backers have in an off-year election. Must Not Sit Still “If we sit down in October and early November o f 1962,” he warned, “every proposal that we have., .will be in the control of a dominant Republican-conserva-tive Democratic coalition that will defeat progress on every single one of these issues.” Kennedy ticked off his big legislative issues in that regard, medical care for the aged, aid to education, tax revision an d others. “These are the issues,” Kennedy said. “This is not a party or a political dispute. This is a question of what your view is of the responsibility of the United States in 1962.” Hobby And Antique Show Here Sunday A hobby and antique show, sponsored by the 39’ers club, will be held at the Youth and Community Center Sunday afternoon from 1 to 4 o’clock. Any one may exhibit a hobby. Articles may be taken to the center Saturday evening or Sunday before 12 noon. There will be antique dishes, fancy work, rocks, coins, old guns, fine quilts and many exhibits of roses and other flowers. There i» no charge for entering exhibits and no admission will be charged for the show. Last year’s show was well reL ceived and considerable interest has been evidenced in Sunday’s ’ show. t The 39’ers club is an organiza- > tion for people 39 years old or ; older, and is really a senior citi- ; zens group. Jack Benny, who “stays” 39 years old, is a charter member. The club meets twice monthly at the center. The first Tuesday is a luncheon at 12:30 p. m., and the third Tuesday is a 6:30 p. m. dinner meeting. A 25cent donation entitles a person to membership. Club programs are kept short, in order to have time for fellowship. Some members play checkers, dpminoes, cards, and other games, others enjoy television programs on a set donated by a—- — sorority. One of the club’s most interesting programs was an obedience school for dogs. Many Boy Scouts and other interested persons •watched this training.

the newly-formed Decatur district. This office, heated and coolby an all-electric heat pump, has a community room which is available for use by organizations in the area and is offered as an added service by I & M. New Buildings During its first year in Decatur, I & M also built an addition to the diesel plant building on. Seventh street to house the company’s rolling stock and other equipment. I &..M has invested $135,000 in new building construction here. To ensure reliability of service, I & M has spent more than $60,000 on new rolling stock alone to take care of routine maintenance and expansion. Hagan said, “Our aim is to provide our skilled employes with the gest equipment available to maintain the system and restore service as fast as possible when storms and other interfer-' ences cause an interruption in our service." J. Calvin HUI, manager of I & M’s Fort Wayne division, upon completion of the rehabilitation, commented that I & M made many promises to the people of Decatur and he is pleased to be able to anounce that all these promises have been fulfiUed. He added, “Our investment in the Decatur ■ ire a has not passed the $4-million mark. We are proud to be a part ; of the Decatur community and trust we have been accepted as good citizens.”