Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 244, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1962 — Page 1

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Radio-Active Debris Falls

HONOLULU (UPD—Joint Task Force 8 announced today that "a number” of small pieces of radioactive - contaminated lebris fell back on Johnson Island Monday night after the rocket-borne nuclear device was destroyed in flight. A spokesman said that because of rigid safety rules no hazard to personnel was anticipated. No injuries had been reported and cleanup measures were under way on the island 800 miles southwest of Hawaii. The biggest piece of debris found was no more than two by eight inches, the spokesman said Most of it was contaminated by alpha substance which he said was the least dangerous of radiation materials. Alpha radiation is dangerous only when it is breathed or ingested into the system by eating, he said. It won’t penetrate the skin unless there is a cut. Discovery of the fragments was not expected to substantially affect plan ned operations, the spokesman said. Monday night’s failure was the fourth in five U.S. efforts to explode a high - altitude nuclear device over the Pacific. The only successful test was a spectacular megaton blast 250 miles above the islands July 8. The task force said the initial announcement that no debris had fallen on Johnston was based on a radar screening of the area. A later investigation proved this to be wrong. A malfunction in the 'ghor rocket forced the safety officer to de liberately destroy the rocket and its iow-yield device. No nuclear Take Barnett Case Under Advisement NEW ORLEANS (UPD —The U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today takes under advisement the contempt case of Mississippi Gov. Ross R. Barnett and Lt. Gov. Paul B. Johnson. Attorneys for the two Mississippi officials, in an 89-page final brief filed Monday, contended the presence of Negro James H. Meredith at the University of Mississippi automatically purged Barnett and Johnson of contempt charges. The Justice Department urged that Barnett be fined at least SIOO,OOO. Lawyers for Meredith pressed for imprisonment of both Barnett and Johnson in other briefs filed before the 5 p.m. CSTdeadline. Mississippi attorneys argued that the appeals court no longer has jurisdiction in the case. Action must be taken on the question of jurisdiction before the judges can consider whether Barnett and Johnson have purged themselves. Attorneys for Barnett and Johnson said the government has no right to intervene as a party because it entered the suit as a “friend of the court.” They also argued that “any claim or cause of action by* the United States against the state of Mississippi must originate in the U.S. Supreme Court or in a federal district court,” whereas the original case was field in a district court and the government did not enter the case until it got in the appeals court.

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blast resulted from the action, which took place just minutes after the rocket lifted off the pad at 2:15 a.m. CDT today. The spokesman said earlier their Would be no hazardous levels of radioactivity in the ocean. Report Decline In Wages, Salaries WASHINGTON (UPD — Wage and salary payments declined slightly in September, the first dip since January, according o the Commerce Department. Government economists have been predicting that the economy will remain on the upbeat for the rest of 1962. The department said Monday that other types of personal income posted mode r ate gains. These included dividends, interest and unemployment insurance payments. As a result, the national total of individual incomes held steady at the record annual rate of $443 billion set in August, the department said. Wage and salary payments, considered the most important single influence on consumer spending, dipped by S6OO million to an annual rate of $297.5 billion. The statistics showed manufacturing payrolls down for the second month in a row. The September shrinkage, SSOO million on an annual basis, was spread among “nearly all major types of manufacturing,” the department said. It mentioned primary metals, machinery, petroleum, food, textiles and paper industries. Charlie Courtney Dies In Michigan Charlie Courtney, a former resident of Decatur, died Sunday at his home in Kalamazoo, Mich. Burial services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Gravel Hll cemetery at Bryant.

Russia Opens Test Os Space Rockets

MOSCOW (UPD — The Soviet Union, aware of President Kennedy’s challenge to a race to the moon, today began a six - week period of test - firing new space rockets into the Pacific Ocean. The rockets were to be fired from Soviet soil to two target areas 7,000 miles away in the Pacific, one close to the area where the United States failed in an attempt to fire a nuclear test device today. The official Soviet news agency Tass announced the shots Monday as including “new variations of multi-stage carrier roewets for cosmic objectives.” Such tests in the past have preceded new Russian space achievements, although Western experts here said the rockets could also have military significance. Issues Warning Tass warned all foreign ships and airplanes to stay out of the two target areas from today through Nov. 30.

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U. S. Bomber Is Shot Down By Guerrillas SAIGON, Viet Nam (UPD — Communist Viet Cong guerrillas today shot down a U.S. Air Force T2B fighter-bomber flying cover over the wreckage of an American miitlary observation p lane which crashed Monday, a U.S. spcfcesman reported. Three airmen w ere killed in the original crash but the pilot and lone occupant of the T2B survived and was rushed to a military hospital at Tan Son Nhut airport near Saigon. The observation plane was flying reconnaissance for troops of the South Vietnamese 23rd Division in operations against the Viet Cong in the mountains north of Banmethuot. Killed in the crash were a U.S. Army special forces captain, an Air Force captain and an Army sergeant. Their names were withheld pending notification of next of kin. The T2B was flying cover over the crash site—febout 170 miles north of Saigon—when guerrillas hit it with ground fire. The pilot rode the T2B to the ground where it exploded and threw him clear. The plane burned within about 400 yards of the first wreck. A team of U.S. Air Force officers hurried to the scene to try to determine if the first plane had been shot down too and what weapons had been used by the guerrillas. A little more than a week ago a U.S. Marine helicopter crashed along the east coast north of Saigon, killing seven of eight persons aboard. DECATUR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 78 12 midnight .. 68 1 p.m 82 1 a.m 70' 2 p.m 84 2 a.m 68 3 p.m 83 3 a.m 68 4 p.m 82 4 a.m 72 6 p.m 82 5 a.m 68 6 p.m. — 79 6 a.m 69 7 p.m 72 7 a.m 68 8 p.m 70 8 a.m 75 9 p.m 69 9 a.m. : 76 10 p.m. ....• 72 10 a.m 78 11 p.m 69 11 a.m 79 Rain Total for the 24 hour period emiIntr at l a.m. today, .13 Inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.03 feet.

One area, about 100 miles square, is about 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii and 500 miles from Johnston Island, the U.S. nuclear testing site. This is the same general target area used by the Russians for previous tests. The second target area is located in the northern Pacific, about 600 miles northwest of Midway Isand. It is rectangular, measuring roughly 200 by 400 miles. It has not been used before. Fourth Time The announced tests mark the fourth series over the Pacific Ocean by the Soviet Union. Russia previously tested long - range boosters in January and July, 1960, and September of last year. Tass reported a high degree of accuracy achieved in each test series. Tass said the multi-stage rockets in the current series will not fire their last stages.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesd ay, October 1

Governor Unveils New Interstate Highway Construction Program

World Series Finale Today

SAN FRANCISCO (UPD — The sun shone brightly and a brisk breeze blew at Candlestick Park today as the seventh game of the World Series was about to start. The New York Yankees and the San Francisco Giants, with the odds even, were set to square off in the final game, with Jack Sanford pitching for the Giants and Ralph Terry for the Yankees. Groundskeeper Matty Schwab, after an early-morning inspection of the rain-lashed park, said the infield would be perfect and the outfield “70 per cent” good for the battle. Both managers Alvin Dark of the Giants and Ralph Houk of the Yankees, have predicted that they’ll win. After the Giants, who ha ve been coming off the floor all season despite be ing counted out, won Monday’s game, 5-2, to tie the Series at three games all, Dark said: “The only way to beat the Yankees in a World Series is fir' seven games and I’ve got the ball club to do it.” Houk, on the other hand, said: “We’re going to win. They ought to fire me if I didn’t thin»k so.” ‘Rated Even The odds, makers were not taking any sides. They said it was “pick ’em.” Neither manager claimed an advantage. “We’ve been winning the ones we had to win all year,” asserted Dark, adding that Sanford was the key man in many of them. “We know what we have to do and up to now we’ve always been able to do it,” countered Houk. “Now’s no time to change that pattern.” Fair weather was forecast tor this payoff game, scheduled to start at 12 noon PDT (3 p.m., EDT). Even the soggy outfield at Candlestick Park, which was a key factor in the sixth game, promised to be bacfc in shape. Third Meeting It marked the third time in the Series that Sanford and Terry opposed each other. They first met in the second game here —Friday, Oct. s—and Sanford won it, 2-0, dealing Terry his fourth straight World Series; defeat. Roy 0. Shoaf Dies Unexpectedly Today Roy O. Shoaf, 63, Washington township farmer, died suddenly early this morning at his home three miles east and one and onehalf miles north of Monroe. He had not been ill and death was unexpected. He was born in Kirkland township Nov. 30, 1898, a son of Ambrose and Rosetta Snyder-Shoaf, and was married to Martha Hanni , Jan. 1, 1920. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Earl K. Shoam of Monroeville route 2, and Richard W. Shoaf of Decatur route 6; one daughter, Mrs. Frank (Winifred) 1 Conn of Van Wert, O.; seven grandchildren; one brother, Floyd M. Shoaf of Pleasant Mills, and two sisters, Mrs. Gilbert (Goldie) Strickler of Decatur, and Mrs. Floyd (Ada) Shirk of Fort Wayne. - Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. , Burial wil be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at , the funeral home after 7 p. m. Wednesday until time of the . services.

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But when they met in the fifth game, back in New York, last Wednesday, Terry finally won his first Series game, beating Sanford, 5-3, on rookie Tom Tresh’s eight-inning three-run homer. During the season they both were outstanding — Sanford winning 24 games for the Giants, Terry 23 for the Yankees. But all that is behind them—• including the fact that Sanford won 14 regular season games in Candlestick Park while losing only one and then captured his only Series start here. Today those statistics mean nothing. Go All Out “It’s every man for himself,” said the grim Sanford, a real take-charge guy when he goes out to that pitching mound. “I’ll be trying the best I can," said Terry. “We all know we’ve got to do it today.” Both managers said they would have all their other pitchers in the bullpen, including Monday’s winner, Billy Pierce, and the loser, Whitey Ford. Houk planned no lineup changes, but Dark had some. He put lefthanded hitting Willie McCovey in left field and Tom Haller behind the plate and decided to keep big Orlando Cepeda at first base. Cepeda won the job by going 3-for-4 Monday, breaking out of an 0-for-12 slump to lead the Giant offense. Rail Walkout Cut Income, Revenue CHICAGO (UPD—The Chicago and North Western Railway, shut down for 30 days by a strike, today reported steep drops in income and operating revenues for the third quarter and first nine months of 1962 from a year ago. Operating r ev en ue s for the three months ended Sept. 30 fell to $36,896,918 from $60,089,924 for the comparable period of last year. Net income amounted to $2,153,282, including special credits of $450,039. This compared with earnings of $ 4,924,435 a year ago which included special credits of $46,480. A spokesman said the declines “almost totally” were attributable to the system-wide shut down stemming from a strike of telegraphers. The stoppage began on Aug. 30. For the fir st nine months of 1962, the railroad reported totaF operating revenues of $143,882,692 against $163,862,504 a year ago. Operations in the period resutled in a net losStof $1,600,562, including special credits of $1,277;393. A year earlier, the ro. d reported a net income of $3,5 1,908 including $1,549,460 in credit . 90 Make Tour Today Os Central Soya Co. Approximately 90 salesmen and dealers of the Central Soya Co. and McMillen Feed Mills, who are attending the industry’s annual sales convention in Fort Wayne, were take on a tour of the Decatur facilities of the company today. The men, most of them from the eastern part of the United States, toured both the old and new research farms, visiting 26 different points in the research department. The tour was conducted by Dr. W.W. Cravens, head oft he research department, and his staff. A similar tour of 90 more men will be conducted Friday. Most of these visitors will be from the midwest area.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh today unveiled a comprehensive two-year interstate highway construction program for 1965-1967 covering 251 miles and costing $203 million, and Indiana road officials said the state moving confidently toward completion of the system by the 1972 target date. “This is a long step toward building highways where they are needed instead of where they are politically expedient,” Welsh said at a news conference at which the program was announced. Chairman David Cohen of the State Highway Commission said the interstate system is now completely programmed except for parts of Interstate 64 and 74 and part of Marion County around Indianapolis. t Welsh disclosed the state held back a contingency fund and did not sink all available highway monies into the 482-mile $279 million program plan. The contingency will be used for roads around the Lake Michigan port area if the port plan develops. The interstate highway construction represented more than half the mileage and more than twothirds of the construction dollars involved in the entire program. Welsh said the program also included 151 miles of primary roads costing $33 million, 20 miles of urban roads costing $25 million, and 59 miles of secondary roads costing sl6 million. Interstate highways contained in the program included 1-64 in Posey and Vanderburgh Counties; 1-65 in Marion, Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Bake, and Newton Counties; 1-69 in Marion, Hamilton and Madison Counties; 1-70 in Vigo, Clay, Putnam, Morgan, Hendricks, Marion, Hancock, Henry and Wayne Counties; 1-74 in Montgomery County; 1-80 in Lake; 1-465 in Boone, Marion and Hamilton Counties. The 1-64 construction to be included in the biennium program would stretch eastward from fourtenths of a mile east of the Indi-ana-Illinois state line in Posey County to one-half mile east of U.S. 41 in Vanderburgh, a distance of 25.1 miles. 1-65 construction would run from two-tenths of a mile northwest of Indiana 25 in Tippecanoe County northwestward to a mile south of Indiana 2 in Lake County, a distance of 66.69 miles. 1-69 construction would include 18 miles from 1-465 near Castleton to half a mile south of Indiana 38. The 1-70 program would run from the Terre Haute area to the Richmond area, completey across the state except for a few miles in Vigo County. It would include 108.1 miles. 1-74 construction would total 5.4 miles, all in Montgomery County, and 1-80 would include 10.2 miles all in Lake. The 1-465 mieage in the circumburban highway around Indianapolis connecting most of the other interstate roadways would run 17.7 miles on the northern Also included in the interstate prograncj; were 232 bridges over creeks, livers, railroads, and roads. These -included 100 and 1-70, 55 on 1-65, 33 on 1-465, 25 on 1-64 and 9 each on 1-74 and 1-80. The remainder of the program included: PRIMARY Porter Co.—Bridge over Hutton Ditch on Ind. 2. Henry—s.s miles Ind. 3, including bridge, 1-70 to Ind. 38. Delaware—6.s miles Ind. 3, Muncie bypass. Jennings—.3s mile Ind. 7, North Vernon to Ind. 3. Hancock—lo.l miles Ind. 9, Greenfield to Madison-Hancock line including Sugar Creek bridge at Eden. Madison —2.8 miles Ind. 9, Mad-ison-Hancock line to Ind. 67 including Lick Creek bridge. Grant —5 miles Ind. 18 Marion to 1-69. Wabash—Bridge over Wabash Railroad on U.S, 24. Cass —Bridges over Wabash Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad and Crocked Creek on U.S. 24. White —Bridge over Hoagland (Continued on Page Six?

Vatican Council Casts Votes Today

VATICAN CITY (UPD — The more than 2,500 “fathers” of the Ecumenical Council cast ballots today for members of 10 vital commissions that will determine whether the strongly Italian Vatican administration will dominate the grea tconclave. Tien they adjourned unti Saturday. The balloting signaled an end to the deadlock in voting procedure that had marked the opening session last Saturday when a liberal group of cardinals urged a postponement then so that the delegates could be come more familiar with candidates. The council cardinals arhchbishops, bishops and abbots filed out of St. Peter’s Basilica one hour and 20 miriutes after they had convented. One of the bishops told United Press International “The work was achieved.” “The council fathers voted for 10 commissions, filling out 10 separate ballots with 16 names on . each,” he said. I He said he unaerstood the gen’leral congregations of the council ’ will be postponed until Saturday I to allow time for vote counting. ( The next general congregation . originally had been fixed for Thursday. The delegates elect 160 of the ! 240 members of the 10 commissions. Pope John appoints 80 — eight for each commission. An American bishop said he understood the Pope is holding up his nominations pending the outcome of the balloting. “What the Holy Father is trying to do is avoid a breakup of delegates into national groups,” the bishop said. A simple majority of 50 per cent of the vote can elect. After two unsuccessful ballots, a plurality is sufficient. The debate in the secrecy of the council chamber promises to be free-swinging and lively. The Break In Heat Wave Forecast In State By United Press International Forecasters indicated today that the Hoosier honeymoon with midsummery weather will be over in a matter of hours. But whether a predicted slide from highs in the 80s, which have marked much of the first two weeks of October, to maximum readings in the 60s will be more or less p ermanent wasn’t contained in the latest Indiana forecasts. Highs ranging from the upper 70s to the mid 80s were forecast for this afternoon. But a cool-off beginning this afternoon upstate and washing southward to envelop the entire state by tonight was forecast. This would bring highs Wednesday ranging from near 60 north to near 70 south. Highs in the 60s will prevail again Thursday. This was the seventh day of the current hot spell in Indiana. At Indianapolis, the average temperature for the first 15 days of October was 65.3 degrees. Normal for the entire month is 63.4. Highs Monday included 82 at Indanapolis, 83 at Fort Wayne, Evansville and Louisville, 84 at South 'xjßend and 88 at Chicago. Overnight lows this morning were in the upper 60s all around the state. A little precipitation was registered during the 24 hours ending at-7 a.m. today, including Evansville .28, South Bend .09 and Fort Wayne .01. Scattered showers or thundershowers were expected today and tonight, after which it will clear off and remain fair to partly cloudy at least through Thursday.

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Vatican City newspaper Osservatore Romano said; “It is natural that inside ecumenical councils there should develop what in parliamentary parlance are called parties of the center, of the right, of the left, according to their moderate or stiffer positions, and that there should be talk of opposition.” Achille Cardinal Lienart of France, who abruptly brought a suspension of Saturday’s first working session by questioning the method of selecting c andidates, coincidentally presided today. The presiding post alternates among 10 cardinals of the council presidency. Following a Mass which began shortly after 9 a.m., the cardinals, partiarchs, archbishop and bishops got down to work behind the barred bronze gates of the Basilica. Their discussions are secret. I With 430 bishops the Italians have the biggest contingent at the . council. 1 ' Richmond Bank r Branch Robbed Os $20,000 RICHMOND, Ind. (UPD — A branch of the Second National Bank was held up by two masked men today and officials estimated they fled with about $20,000. It was the first holdup at the East Main St. branch of the bank, in operation since 1953. E. G. Crawford, substituting for the vacationing bank manager, said the two men drove up to the bank about 9 30 a.m. “One of them jumped over the .counter while the other held a gun,” said Crawford. “They seemed nervous—not like the professionals.” Crawford said the bandit who jumped over the counter told the tellers to “get down,” then scooped up the money from two cash drawers into his arms and both fled. A two-door car answering de- ’ scription of the getaway car was 1 later seen heading south on a Henry County road, State Police • said. Crawford said the bandits 1 warned, “Don’t anyone come out 1 for a little while,” as they fled. ; The branch bank is located on ’ busy U.S. 40 on the east edge of this city. Three customers were at the bank at the time of the holdup. r Paul B. Myers Dies At Minneapolis, Minn. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in Minneapolis, Minn., for Paul B. Myers, native o fAdams county and a graduate of the Decatur high school. He was a son of Charles M. and Dbra Acker-Myers, He was a veteran of World War I. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Christine Myers of Fort Wayne; a daughter, Mrs. Leia Catherine Magill of Hopewell, N. J.; two grandchildren; three sisters and two brothers. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and much cooler tonight. Wednesday fair and cool. Low tonight lower 40s north, 48 to 56 south. High Wednesday mostly in the 60s north. 67 to 75 south. Sunset today 6:05 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:57 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair and turning a little warmer. Lows 42 to 52. Highs hl the 70s- v..