Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 255, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1962 — Page 1

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TANKER INTERCEPTED— Defense department photo shows Soviet tanker Bucharest during interception, part of the U. S. quarantine of Cuba. _,'’’t - —

Decatur Lady Killed As Train Hits Auto

■—— — — — Funeral services for Mrs. Marie H. York, killed Saturday afternoon in a car-train accident in Allen county, will be held at 9 a. m. Wednesday at the St. Mary’s Catholic church. Mrs. York, 57, a w_ell-known Decatur lady and a resident of 936 Harrison St. In this city, was killed at 4:06 p. m. Saturday when her auto was struck by a speeding passenger train on an Allen county road. The Decatur lady was northbound on the Minnick road, when the mishap occurred at a Pennsylvania railroad crossing, three miles south of New Haven, Manhattan passenger train No. 55, traveling at 79 miles an hour, struck Mrs. York’s auto in the middle of the one-track crossing, shoving the auto an estimated three-quarters of a mile along the tracks after the impact. Failed To See Investigation revealed that Mrs. York apparently failed to see the approaching westbound train, and drove onto the tracks into the path of the speeding train. 4 There were no skid marks ,or other evidence to indicate that she had attempted to stop. Engineer Jack Zolman, 61, of Fort Wayne, stated to police that he saw the automobile nearing the tracks and sounded the train whistle, but the car failed to stop. The force of impact sheared off ■= -~the entire front of the vehicle and the engine of the train was embedded halfway into the passenger side of the car. G. E. Employee An employee of the General Electric in Decatur, Mrs. York died of multiple injuries, including a fractured skull, broken neck and compound fractures of both arms and both legs. The body was taken to the E. Harper & Sons funeral home in New Haven, and later removed to the Zwick funeral home. The railroad crossing is marked only by a cross-arm signal, one of two such crossings on the Minnick road. State trooper Don Smith, sheriff Custer Dunifon, and Dr. Edgar N. Mendenhall, Allen county coroner, investigated the mishap. Funeral Wednesday The accident victim was born in Decatur July 11; 1905, a daughter of Andrew and Mary Keller-Foos, and was a lifelong resident of this city. She was married to Paul York May 26, 1927, and her husband preceded her in death in 1958. Mrs. York, a graduate of the Decatur Catholic schools, was a member of St. “Mary’s Catholic church, the Rosary society, and the Catholic Ladies of Columbia. Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Mary Foos of Decatur; four daughters, Mrs. Louis (Patricia) Ferber of Taipie, Formosa, whose husband is serving with the U. S. Air Force; Mrs. Richard (Joann) Devine of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Thomas (Marjorie) Meier of New Haven, and Miss Mary Lou York, at home; one son, John York, at home; six grandchildren; three brothers, Fred and George Foos, both of Decatur, and Herbert Foos INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy through Tuesff.y, no important temperature changes. Low tonight around 40. High Tuesday near 60. Sunset today 5:47 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:11 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Generally fair with little temperature change. Lows in the 30s Highs in the ste.

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> of Linton, and two: sisters, Mrs. Ralph (Martha Jane) Kriegel and Mrs. Jerome (Betty) Reed, both of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Wednesday at ! St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the ; Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m today until time of the services Recitation of the rosary will be at 8 p. m. Tuesday. 16 Killedln State Traffic Over Weekend By United Press International f Four double-fatality accidents helped send the Indiana weekend traffic death toll soearing to 16 and raised the state’s toll to 965 for the year compared with 854 ' this time last year. The victims of the double-death ; wrectes were a South Whitley . mother and her 2-year-old son, two Evansville teenagers, a Fort : Wayne couple and two young brothers from LaCrosse. Mrs. Jane Hullinger, 26, and her • son, Kris, 2, South Whitley, were killed and Mrs. Bullinger’s husband, Kenneth, and their 4-year-t old son, Kim, were njured critically in a crash Sunday night on Indiana 13 four miles north of Middlebury. The accident hap- “ pened, police said, when a car , driven by Andrew Kemp, 17, Con- ’ stantine, Mich., pulled out to pass [ another car and smashed headon into the Hullingers. Neither Kemp nor Kenneth Yoder, 17, White . Piegon, Mich., riding with him, . was hurt seriously. Kentucky Trucker Dies ' The last reported death was that of Ronald Lee Byrne, 29, a truck driver from Valley Station, • Ky. Byrne was killed Sunday night 1 when his truck jackknifed on U.S. 150 a mile west of Palmyra. Police said Byrne was thrown from 1 the rig, and it ran over him and crushed him to death. > George W. Lawrence, 85, Indis anapolis, was killed Sunday when I a car driven by his son, Indian- ■ apolis Police Sgt. Douglas D. Lawi rence, 30, became involved in an accident on Indiana 7 in Jefferson • County near Madison. Police said i the Lawrence car crashed into an- : other car which had gone out of I control and was spinning in the middle of the highway. The sec- . ond driver was Robert Stackhouse, • 17, R.R. 1, Dupont. i Perry Ramsey, 78, Tipton, was > killed Sunday when he drove his . car into the path of another car , on U.S. 31 four miles west of Tipton. The second driver was John r Long, 24. ; Error In Listing Decatur Precincts 5 Three Decatur voting precincts were mistakenly identified in a legal notice in Friday’s Daily Democrat. Three B precincts were erroneously changed around. Decatur 1-B precinct .is the Decatur Canning Co. and not the Coffee residence; Decatur 2-B is the fire station and not the Canning Co.; and Decatur 3-B is the Coffee residence and not the fire station, as was reported in Friday’s paper.

De Gaulle Is Winner French Vote On Sunday PARIS (UPI) — President Charles de Gaulle won the backing of French voters in a national referendum approving his plans for the popular election of future presidents. But the narrowness of his majority signalled trouble ahead for France’s Fifth Republic... Premier Georges Pompidou said the results gave De Gaulle no cause to resign. The 72-year-old president had threatened to quit unless he ,’eceived a heavy majority. ; De Gaulle’s proposal for popular election of presidents received 61.76 per cent of the ballots cast, but this represented only 46.44 per cent of the total electorate., It was his lowest total in four referendum votes since returning to power in 1958 and the first time less than 50 per- cqnt of the elfectorate backed a De Gaulle proposal. The president could not be reached for a statement, even by his own government ministers, so Pompidou spoke without consdlfing De Gaulle. “The president took the stand that the majority in his favor must not be either mediocre or indecisive,” he said. “I do not think these adjectives apply in this case.” The vote totals showed 12,808,848 in favor of popular election of presidents and 7,932,399 against. This represented votes ; of 77.25 per cent of the electorate, i The existing method of choosing the president had been a vote by about 50,000 local politicians acting as an electoral college. Cecil C. Bess Dies After Long Illness Cecil C. Bess, 56, a native of Adams county and resident of De- ; catur much of his life, died Friday night at Glasgow, Mont., following a lengthy illness of compli- ■ cations. He was born in Adams county ’ Dec. 25, 1905, a son of Thomas and Dora Bess. He was a veteran of World War II and employed as a carpenter. Surviving are one brother, Guy Bess of Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. Floyd (Lulu) Smitley of Decatur, and Mrs. Marie Lundin of Lake Hamilton, Fla. 1 Funeral services will be held ‘ at 1 p. m. Tuesday at the Gillig r & Doan funeral home, the Rev. Robert R. Welch officiating. ’ Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the . services. — DECATFR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the 48 hour period enldng at ll._a.m. today. 1 Saturday Sunday 12 noon 50 12 midnglht .. 5G 1 p.m 53 1 a m 52.. 3 p.m 55 .3 a.m 54 4 p.m 58 4 a.m 52 5 p.m54 5 a.m. 52 6 p.m 53 6 a.m 54 7 p.m 52 7 a.m 55 8 p.m 50 8 a.m. .„ 56 ’ 9 p.m 50 9 a.m. 68 i 10 p.m. 50 It-w . 59 , -11 p.m. 50 11 a.m.’.... 60 Sunday Monday 12 noon 62 12 mldngiht .. 46 I p.m 62 1 a.m 44 2 p.m 64 2 a.m 42 3 p.m 62 3 a.m 41' 4 p.m 60 4 a.m 40 5 p.m 58 5 a.m 40 6 p.m. 56 6 a.m. 40 7 p.m 52 7 a.mL_..- 89 a p.m SO s a.m. ... . 39 9 p.m. 40 9 a.m 39 10 p.m 49 10 a.nk 40 II p.m 47 11 a.m 40 Rain Total for the 48 hour period endin* at 7 a.m. today., 0 Inches. She St. Mary's river was at 0.#7 feet.

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India, Appeals For U.S. Arms To Fight Chinese; Military Aid Is Pledged

Soviet Press Hails Khrushchev’s Move

MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet press and radio today portrayecr Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s decision to dismantle and withdraw his Cuban missile bases at an overwhelming contribution to world peace. The Communist party newspaper Pravda said Khrushchev’s “peaceful step” had evoked a “lively response in the hearts of millions of people.” At the same time it quoted a Soviet worker’s warning, “Let nobody take our peacefulness as a sign of weakness.” Front Page Play Khrushchev’s message to President Kennedy Sunday received front page play along with the text of Kennedy’s statemertt of Saturday offering assurances against an invasion of Cuba. I The newspaper massed favorable reaction from abroad under such headlines as “Reason must triumph’’ and “Mankind approves the peace-loving proposal of the Soviet Union.” Pravda reprinted without comment Cuban Premier Fidel Castro’s declaration from Havana demanding the evacuation of U.S. naval base at Guantanamo. However, there was no mention of the fact that a Khrushchev proposal for the liquidation ofAmerican bases in Turkey was not a part of the conditions which now have been ’established to reduce the Cuban crisis. Await Chinese Reaction Just what effect the Soviet premier’s action will have on the rest of the Communist bloc nations was a matter of speculation here. A dispatch from Tokyo report- ' ed that Communist Chinese news- ' papers published Khrushchev’s 1 order for the dismantling of the Cuban missile bases without immediate editorial comment. Red China has involved itself both actually and emotionally with Fidel Castro’s regime and traditionaly takes a more belligerent public attitude than does the Soviet Union in the EastWest cold war. At home, Khrushchev seemed in no danger of losing his pub- . lie image as a peacemaker but veteran Western diplomats in Moscow considered it certain there would be a deep reappraisal of Soviet policies among the whole Kremlin leadership. Terrorists Blow Up Venezuela Stations CARACAS, Venezuela (UPI)— Terrorists blew up four U.S.-op-erated power substations in the . Maracaibo oilfields Saturday night in the heaviest blow so far in the Communist campaign against President Romulo Betancourt. (U.S. officials in Washington i said the bombers may have act- , ed on orders from Fidel Castro’s Cuban regime.) First reports said the dynamiting of the power stations would temporarily halt a sixth of Venezuela’s oil output, but a ment spokesman said later that it would have no effect on production. The spokesman said the power stations were merely damaged, not destroyed. “Whatever the purpose this bombing—whether it was meant to cripple or diminish the defensive capability of the West or to intimidate Venezuela — it has failed badly,” Interior Minister Carlos A. Perez said. Perez told--newsmen the Maracaibo oilfields have been declared a zone of military operations, with marines on hand to deal with any further attempts at sabotage.

'Mrs. Kallenberger Dies Early Sunday Mrs. Margaret Kallenberger, 84, of Blackcreek township, Mercer county, 0., died at 5:30 a. m. Sunday at the Van Rue hospital in Van Wert, 0., following an illness of two years. She was born near Willshire, 0., March 26, 1878, a daughter of Jacob and Christine Meyers-Mil-ler. Her husband, M. J. Kallenberger, preceded her in death March 4, 1952. Mrs. Kallenberger was a member of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church at Chattanooga, O. Surviving are one son, John A. Kallenberger of Willshire route 1; a foster son, Wesley Kallenberger of Decatur; a foster daughter, Mrs. James (Ardella) Hamrick of Wren, O.; 21 grandchildren; 15 great - grandchildren; two brothers, John Miller of Goshen, and I Carl F. Miller of Willshire route .: 1, and two sisters, Mrs. Howard I Caffee and Mrs. W. J. Reef, both of Willshire route 1. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral borne, the. Rev. Arnold J. Green officiating. Burial will be in the Zion Lutheran cemetery at Chattanooga. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. Sally City Water To Many Residents A freak accident, a once-in-a-lifetime sort, resulted in salty water for many Decatur residents over the weekend, Ralph E. Roop, city engineer, said this morning. Friday night, sometime after midnight and before 7 a. m., and probably about 1 a? m. Saturday, a four-inch pipe in front of the number 3 filter at the water plant broke. A hole three inches long and an inch wide occured. It happened that at this particular time filter number 3 was automatically cleaning itself, and the brine pipe was open, with salt water flowing in. This happens infrequently. Pressure Opens Valve The hole in the entry pipe lowered the pressure, which in turn automatically diverted the salty water into cistern holding treated water. When the water department people arrived on the scene Saturday morning, the pipe was immediately repaired. About 12 feet of salty water (running about 1%, although it tasted more like 100%) had to be dumped from the cistern. Mains Still Salty But worse than that, all the water into a cistern holding treated water mains in town were full of tern was bypassed Into the sewer, many people got plenty of salty water Saturday and Sunday. In fact, the longer mains to Homestead and Stratton Place still have some salt in them, but Roop said he hesitates to flush the water mains on Monday, as that is wash day, and the water would ruin many laundries. Roop is keeping a- close check on the situation, and will open the mains late this afternoon if the salt taste continues. Because of the continuing reports on saltiness, he has the men constantly checking the pipes for additional leaks, and cleaning all of the valves to make sure they are in working condition.

NEW DELHI (UPl)—lndia ap-. pealed for U.S. arms to help battle invading Chinese Communists today and announced it has lost up to 2,500 troops killed and missing in 10 days of fighting. Disclosure of the first over-all casualty toll came shortly after the U.S. embassy here announced that India had asked for U.S. arms to help battle the Chinese Red invaders and the United States immediately agreed to supply them. Shortly afterward, an Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman confirmed that the Americans had offered to “assist in any way they can” in sending supplies to aid India’s defense effort. In announcing the toll of dead and missing Indian troops, a spokesman said: “It is estimated that Chinese casualties are much higher.” “It is our estimate that in the last 10 days in all areas there have been between 2,000 and 2,500 dead or mis si n g,” the spokesman said in reference to Indian casualties. The announcement came shortly after U.S. Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith met with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and gave him a letter from President Kennedy expressing “full sympathy and support by the United States for India’s present situation.” t Indian troops were moving up f from throughout the country to reinforce the border battlefront in the undeclared war with Red China. Indian forces on- the border appeared to be at least slowing the Communist advance for the first time since the fighting started. Informed sources said they expected urgently needed infantry equipment would begin arriving from the United States by the end of this week. The State Department in Washington had no immediate comment on the reported arms agreement. It was understood Nehru was making similar requests of the British, French and Canadian governments. V. K. Krishna Menon, who has been under fire for allegedly mishandling India’s military preparedness as defense minister, was reported to have told a meeting of the ruling Congress party this morning that “We are in better position now to meet Chinese aggression than a few days ago.” Nehru was said to have told the same meeting he was not contemplating breaking off rela- ■ tions with Communist China de- ; spite the border conflict. ; Several cabinet ministers were ; reported demanding that Krishna Menon be dismissed from the defense post but his suporters were beginning to rally behind him and it appeared he would . stay. Latest reports said fighting was raging in the southernmost tip of Ladakh, where Red Chinese troops posed a serious threat in the flat and relatively indefensible terrain. -• About 900 miles to the east, the Indians were reported well dug in along a natural defense line on the Northeast Frontier Agency (NEFA) border high in the Himalaya Mountains. Military observers believed India was capable of holdings its own in this area. An Indian Defense spokesman announced —Sunday night that Chinese troops opened a new campaign Saturday with an attack in the Damchok region of southern Ladakhn. The spokesman said the Indi- ’ ans threw back two or three at- ■ tacks amid "fierce fighting” in 1 the area but lost a military outpost and had their supply lines [ cut by infiltrators. ■ Only action reported along the ! NEFA border was the ambush of f a retreating Indian-party by Chi- • nese troops in the Siang area. ' The Indians reportedly fought off I the attack and suffered only two casualties. The Defense Ministry i said the Chinese had 20 casualties. t

i McCloy Heads Cuban Group

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi- ' dent Kennedy today named former disarmament adviser John J. McCloy to head a three man U.S. coordinating committee to handle developments involved in “the conclusion of the Cuban crisis.” The committee will be involved in discussions at the United Nations and will concern itself with implementation of the points raised in recent communications between Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. The other two members of the committee are Undersecretary of State George Ball and Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric. Ball and Gilpatric left for New York today to join McCloy. The latter has been at U.N. headquarters as a special adviser to U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson on the Cuban situation. J U.S. Maintains Guard ( i Kennedy’s announcement eame t as the United States maintained [ its guard in the Caribbean until there is verification of the Russian .premise to withdraw missiles from Cuba. The U.S. naval blockade and aerial surveillance of the Cuban sites was to continue until U.N. Secretary General .Thant could make arrangements for inspection of the removal of the rockets. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov has arrived in New York from Moscow to join in the negotiations. Ball and Gilpatric attended today’s one hour meeting of the executive committee of the National Security Council, the key policy-strategy group which has met daily with Kennedy to survey developments in the missile crisis. White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said the NSC group would “continue meeting for a period of time.” Remain in New York The coordinating committee will remain in New York during the period of U.N. discussions on settlement of the Cuba crisis and for whatever time it takes to carry out the points made by Kennedy and Khrushehv, Salinger

Castro Lists Five Demands

MIAMI (UPI) — The Castro : brothers have demanded the sur- • render of the U.S. naval base at ! Guantanamo, Cuba, and dared the ’ United States to invade their So- ! viet-infiltrated country. Premier Fidel Castro started the ball rolling Sunday with the ! publication of a five-point demand for guarantees against aggression ' shortlyafter Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced Russia will dismantle its Cuban missile bases. However, he did not repeat his earlier declaration that United Nations observers never would be allowed' in Cuba. Castro’s program included a demand that the United States get out of the $76 million base, on which it has a 99-year lease, and return it to Cuba. The -premier’s brother Paul, chief of Cuba’s armed forces, toned down the demand somewhat in a bitter anti-American speech at a mass meeting in Santiago Sunday night which included a challenge to the United States to invade Cuba. Raul asked for “peaceful re-

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said. Khrushchev changed the crisis picture suddenly Sunday when he announced he had ordered his missile bases in Cuba to be dismantled, the weapons crated and shipped home. The Russian leader informed Kennedy the removal could be verified under U.N. supervision. The President, after a Sunday conference with the National Security Council (NSC) executive committee, quickly saluted Khrushchev’s move as “statesmanlike.” “We step back from danger,” said Kennedy. This was polite understatement. Until Khrushchev’s Sunday message, the United States was moving rapidly toward military action to nullify the ready-to-fire medium range (1,200 miles) ballistics missiles stationed and manned by Russians in Cuba. Military Remains Ready Military strenght to undertake this action remained in readiness. The southernmost Florida Keys bristled with weapons and men. Kennedy was to meet again this morning with the NSC group. Secretary of State Dean Rusk Sunday night called in Latin American ambassadors for a secret briefing on the latest U.S. evaluation of the Cuban situation. Khrushchev in his Sunday note to Kennedy made no mention of having consulted Cuban Premier Fidel Castro on the missile removal. In Havana Castro tried hard to avoid becoming a forgotten figure in the big league power play. The Cuban leader took to the broadcast waves Sunday to inject his own list of demands, including U.S. abandonment of its Guantanamo Bay naval base. Thant planned to fly to Havana Tuesday for talks with Castro, obviously about plans to send U.N. observers to Cuba to oversee missile dismantlement and shipment. Thant met twice Sunday at U.N. headquarters with U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson who delivered a private message from Kenndy.

turn” of the base. U.S. spokesmen, however, said there was “not a chance” that America would give up the installation. Fidel's five conditions for settlement of the Caribbean crisis were: —The United States must "retire from the Guantanamo Naval Base and return aIT the Cuban territory (it) occupies.” —The United States must end all “violations of Cuban air and naval space by U.S. aircraft and warships.” —"Pirate attacks from bases in the U.S. and, Puerto Rico” must be halted. —All subversive activities .., (including) the landing of arms (in Cuba) by air and sea, the organization of mercenary invastons.theinfiltrationuf _ Spiesand saboteurs .. . from U.S. territory and that of some accomplice countries” must come to an end. —The United States must end its “economic blockade and all other pressure and economic measures it is exercising against our country in all parts of the world.”