Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 265, Decatur, Adams County, 9 November 1962 — Page 1

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U.S. Navy Intercepts Five Russian Vessels; Some Technicians Leave

Recount Looms As Inevitable In Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPD— Republican Gov. Elmer L. Andersen and his Democratic challenger today were locked in a near dead-heat, awaiting the outcome of county canvasses in Minnesota’s closest election of the century. A recount seemed inevitable as Andersen led Lt. Gov. Karl Rolvaag by only 45 votes in unofficial returns. Andersen had 619,622 votes to 619,577 for Rolvaag, a political protege of Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman running as a Democratic - Farmer - Labor party candidate. The official returns will not be known until Nov. 20 when the state canvassing board meets in St. Paul. A recount could take about two more weeks. Andersen, although “encouraged,” said he would have no further comment until “all the precincts have been reported and tabulated by the news services.” Rolvaag was not available for comment. A third candidate, William Braatz, running on the Industrial Government party ticket, polled more than 6,000 votes and kept the eventual winner from gaining a majority of ballots cast for governor. The election climaxed the most bitterly fought campaign in the memory of veteran observers. The candidates both asked that guards be put on the ballot boxes to prevent tampering with .votes. In the final week of the campaign, Rolvaag had charged that a stretch of interstate highway contained faulty construction because Andersen ordered a speedup, allegedly to have it completed before the lection. Andersen denied the charge and federal investigators launched an Investigation. Receive Bids Today For Street Lights Bids were to be received at 3:45 o’clock this afternoon by the board of public works and safety, on the second step in the relighting program in Decatur. Bidders will bid on the labor, or the material, or both, the second phase in the re-lighting. The new lights will be erected along Mercer Ave., from Five Points to the city limits, and along Monroe street, beginning at Third street and running west to I 13th street.

Mrs. Roosevelt Is Eulogized In U.N.

UNITED NATIONS (UPD—U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson eulogized Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt In the General Assembly today as an inspiration and “cherished friend of all mankind.” Stevenson and the 110 - nation assembly, where Mrs. Roosevelt once served as a U.S. delegate, led the world in mourning the deatir of the former first lady. “I do not think it amiss to suggest that the United Nations is, in no small way, a memorial to her and to her aspirations,” Stevenssn said in an emotional sevenminute speech to the delegates. “To it she gave the last 15 years of her restless life.” Stevenson, a close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, said he had lost “an inspiration.” "She would rather light candles glow had warmed the world," he said. . „ United Nations Acting Secretary General Thant reflected the sorrow felt around the globe by stating simply Thursday that Mrs. Roosevelt was “truly the first lady of the world.” Apostle of U.N. The assembly set aside its business at the opening of its morning

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Veterans Day Will Be Observed Here Adams Post 43, American Legion, will observe Veterans Day Saturday, according to an announcement today by Dr. Richard K. Parrish, post commander. Veterans day, Nov. 11, falls on Sunday this year, and the legal holiday is Monday, but Legion officials determined to hold their observance Saturday. The regular 11 o’clock ceremony will be held Saturday at 11 a. m. at the flagpole in the Legion yard. Salutes will be fired by the firing squad and the post chaplain will offer prayer. A dinner for all members will be served from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m., with the food prepared by the Legion auxiliary. The observance will close with entertainment starting after the dinner. The legal holiday will be observed Monday with federal, county and city offices closed. The courthouse will be closed and all city offices and departments will observe the holiday. There will be no mail deliveries Monday, except special delivery, and the First State Bank will be closed all day. The Decatur Daily Democrat will publish its usual edition. Romney Denies Any High Office Hopes LANSING, Mich. (UPD — Gov-ernor-elect George Romney went into a series of closed meetings with Democratic office holders and legislators of both parties today after again denying he has presidential ambitions. Romney said just prior to his breakfast with five of the Democratic administrative board officers, “I am not stirred or motivated by any of this national talk." Asked if he would state flatly that he would not run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964, Romney said, “I will not be a candidate for president in 1964.” A meeting was planned later with the 81 Republican lawmakers. The breakfast was held behind closed doors after Romney told reporters, “I think they (the Democrats) should have an opportunity to meet me in a more informal situation than is possible in public." Such meetings would not be an earmark of his administration, Romney said, “but you can’t always do everything in public.”

session to pay tribute to the widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who became a working disciple and worldwide apostle of the United Nations. Mrs. Roosevelt, who had sat in the United Nations as a delegate as well as working its corridors as a columnist, died Wednesday night at her New York City home. Assembly President Muhammad Zafrulla Khan of Pakistan opened the assembly ceremony with a brief statement, and then asked the delegates To stand for a moment of silence. Stevenson said the United Nations has meaning and hope for milions thanks to Mrs. Roosevelt’s labors, her love, no less than to her ideals. Her duty, he said, Was to the world — “to peace. "The United States, the United Nations—the world—has lost one of its great citizens,” Stevenson said. “Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is dead; a cherished friend of all mankind is gone.” To Be Buried Saturday Mrs. Roosevelt will be buried Saturday in the rose garden of her Hyde Park, N.Y., home beside the late president.

WASHINGTON (UPD—The U.S. Navy has intercepted five Russian ships, three of which apparently were carrying ballistic missiles back to the Soviet Union from Cuba, the Defense Department announced today. Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester said the U.S. government was “satisfied from what we’ve seen” that the metalencased objects on the decks of the ships were missiles. The first interception took place at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, Sylvester said. The fifth occurred at 9:30 a.m. Today, he said. Fragmentary information received from Navy destroyers and helicopters, and relayed by Sylvester to newsmen,—appeared to indicate that some Soviet technicians also are leaving Cuba on the ships. Four Others Due Sylvester said four other Soviet freighters are expected to be examined today or early Saturday. He gave no hint that any Americans had actually boarded the ships they examined. U.S. destroyers pulled alongside and helicopters flew overhead. The Pentagon spokesman said that the Russians gave their inspectors a friendly reception. One Navy helicopter reported that the Russian ship Alapayevsk, intercepted late Thursday, proffered a tie clasp and bottle of vodka to the Americans. The inspection of Soviet ships leaving Cuba was carried out under an agreement reached by U.S. and Russian officials. U.S. officials announced Thursday night that all known bases for Russian offensive missiles in Cuba had been dismantled and the equipment was being returned to Russia. Washington officials also confirmed that Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev had sent a new private note to President Kennedy concerning the Cuban crisis. But they declined to give the details, saying the note concerned a “technical matter.” At the same time, the White House announced that Kennedy’s scheduled 10 a.m. meeting with the National Security Council executive committee has been moved to sometime later today with no definite hour set.

Known Bases Dismantled The Defense Department announced Thursday night that all known bases for the Russian offensive missiles in Cuba had been dismantled and the equipment was being shipped from the Island. Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester said the dismantling of the bases and removal of the missiles had been confirmed by U.S. air surveillance. The actual contact and visual inspection of Russian freighters by U.S. Navy units at sea was provided for under a Soviet-Amer-ican agreement. Khrushchev has said 40 missiles were sent to Cuba. The contact at sea was designed to confirm that this number was being shipped back to Russia. Sylvester said the American warships would make “close alongside observation” of the Soviet vessels. This indicated there would be no actual boarding of the ships. Some Technicians Leave Officials said evidence that the Soviet technicians also were leaving Cuba came from observation of personnel' collecting at dockside points, apparently to board passenger ships bound for Rus-jj sia. The officials said the Technicians presumably were operators of the medium and intermediate range missile sites. Other Soviet technicians sent to train Cubans to operate defensive weapons were expected to remain on the island, the officials said. DECATUR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for tTite- 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon S 3 12 midnight 1 p.m. 64 1 a.m. 58' 2 p.m 64 2 a.m 68 3 p.m 64 3 a.m.', 58 4 p.m 64 4 a.m 58 5 p.m 60 6 a.m 68 6 p.m 60 6 a.m 58 7 p.m. 68 7 a.m 59 8 p.m 58 8 a.m 59 9 p.m 58 9 a.m 60 10 p.m. 58 10 a.m 60 11 p.m 58 11 a.m 58 Ruin Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 Inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 0.93 feet.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 9,1962.

No Budget Cutback For State Schools

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The presidents of Indiana’s four taxsupported colleges and universities and the two top spokesmen for public schools have advised. Governor Welsh they cannot reoommend any cutback in budget requests. The meeting was a report session on an earlier request by Welsh for a coordinated and close scrutiny of the educational spending program from first-grader to graduate college student. Welsh made the request Nov. 1 in a meeting with the six men in his office. Presidents Elvis Stahr jr., of Indiana, Frederick Hovde of Purdue, Raleigh Holmstedt of Indiana State and John Emens of Ball State, together with Indiana School Supt. William E. Wilson and Robert Wyatt, executive secretary of the Indiana State Teachers Association, all came back again Thursday for a verbal report. The gist of their report—as summarized today by Welsh’s news secretary, Richard Martin—was that their original budget estimates were valid. “They said they could not, in 'Back To School' At High School Tonight “Back to School Night” will Be held at Decatur high school this evening, and all parents are urged to attend, principal Hugh J. Andrews said this morning. The affair will begin at 7:30 p. m. in the school auditorium, when the fresh’man-sophomore choir, the high school choir, and the school band will perform for those attend ing the program. The program is designed to offer parents an opportunity to visit with the faculty members of the school, and also to observe the new addition to the school which houses the cafeteria, the music and art rooms. Persons will also be given the opportunity to purchase their season basketball tickets this evening. Tickets will be on sale >n Andrews’ office from 7 to 7:30 p. m., and after the program.

Refreshments will be served in the new cafeteria for those who remain after the performances in the auditorium, and the music and art rooms will also be open for inspection by the parents. In addition to the singing by the two choirs, the girl’s double trio will also sing a selection, “I Feel Pretty,” from the West Side Story. The entire program is open to the public, and there is no admission charge for the choir and band performances. Complete Figures On Indiana Races INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Unofficial complete returns from all of Indiana’s 4,380 precincts in state ticket races: Secretary of State—Hendricks R 875,857,. Davis D 867,088. Auditor — Gardner R 878,620, Farina D 862,126. Treasurer—Hughes R 877,889, Smith D 861,657. " School Supt.—Cast R 856,539, Wilson D 881,760. Courts Clerk—Bond R 874,648, Whitecotton D 860,833. Supreme Court—Arterburn R 875,243, Ax D 859,559. , Supreme Court — Bobbit R 863,885, Myers D 870,398. Supreme Court — Landis R 877,616, Rakestraw D 857,234. Appellate Court, Southern District—Carson R 872,184, Clements R 870,213, Faulconer D 860,727, Tegart D 860,987. Appellate Court, Northern Dis-trict-Hunter R 875,522. Mote R 869J00, Bierly D 857,940, Bretz D 860,942, '

good conscience, recommend any cut in their budget estimates, which represented what they feel to be the needs of the higher institutions of learning, and the best judgment of what the state should pay for public schools,” Martin said. Those figures call for $228 million for the colleges and universities in operating and construction money in 1963-65. The statusquo budget request for public school support from the state is $293 million—for a total of $521 million. However, the Governor’s Committee on Public School Finance has recommended that this support be hiked to $507 million—a total of $735 million which is more money than Indiana expects in revenue during the same period. The higher public school figure would represent an estimated 40 per cent share of the total costs and lessen the burden on local property owners. Welsh had asked also for a long-range survey of the entire problem of financing education during the next decade. No target jiate for this report was given. INDIANA WEATHER

Considerable cloudiness tonight, becoming partly cloudy Saturday. Occasional rain east tonight, probably ending Saturday. Lows tonight 35 to 42. Highs Saturday in the 40s north, 46 to 54 south. Sunset today 5:35 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 7:24 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair and pleasant. Lows 32 to 38. Highs 52 to 56. Society Negligence Blamed By Lawyer LIEGE, Belgium (UPI) —Blaming “society’s own negligence” for the death of a week-old armless girl, a defense lawyer said today her father was merely a bystander when his wife killed their child. Lawyer Jacques Paulus told the jury members they would have to decide whether Jean Van de Put, 35, was guilty of conspiracy to murder “because of his inactivity. . .legally speaking he might perhaps be considered an acomplice although I strongly contest this.” ”Mrs. Suzanne Van de Put, 25, who said she took thalidomide during pregnancy, has admitted killing her daughter last May with barbiturates. She is on trial for murder, and her husband, mother, sister and family doctor for conspiracy. Paulus charged the baby, Corine, died because of “society’s own negligence by letting a dangerous drug like Softenon (thalidomide) into this country without any control.” He said “no actual fact can be laid to the charge” against Van de Put, who was nothing more than a “bystander.” Jean Derwael, the first of six defense attorneys to speak, begged the all-male jury Thursday “to consult their conscience rather than the articles of the penal code.” Derwael’s plea came after prosecutor Leon, Cappuyns demanded a sentence of guilty for all five defendants. “If one can decide in a few seconds over the death and life of another human being, then that person is guilty of murder,” Cappuyns said. Kennedy To Attend Army And Navy Game WASHINGTON (UPI) — The White House announced Thursday that President Kennedy plans to attend the Army - Navy football game in Philadelphia Dec. 1. He went to the game last year.

Gallmeyer To Quit Post As GOP Chairman

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A call for a special meeting of the Indiana Republican State Central Committee is expected to be issued early next week —probably Tuesday—for the purpose of changing leaders. Thomas A. Gallmeyer, Fort Wayne attorney, who took over the chairmanship of the GOP early in 1961, has indicated he will resign in order to return to his law practice. Gallmeyer had said for some time that he would like to give up the chairmanship, and the Tuesday defeat of the party’s veteran senator, Homer E. Capehart, was no inducement to stay. Lt. Gov. Richard Ristine, who becomes the top man on the GOP totem pole with Capehart’s upset, pointed a finger in the direction of H. Dale Brown, Indianapolis, veteran 11th District chairman, as Gallmeyer’s successor. Ristine said he felt the party needed a “full-time chairman” and Brown is the only one of 11 district chairmen now serving as a full-time political party chief. Brown said if he became charman he wanted both Ristine and Rep. Charles A. Halleck, the House minority leader, to back him. Halleck is the veteran among the seven Republican congressmen from Indiana. Although Brown occasionally is tagged as a tyrant by his party foes in Marion County, he consistently has produced victory for the GOP in the Hoosier capital. He said he was not seeking the chairmanship, but if elected, would serve in the post full-time, as he has in the 11th District. Robert E. Gates, Columbia City, the 4th District chairman, has been pushed by some of his friends for the state chairmanship. But like Gallmeyer, he is an attorney with a growing law practice in the northern end of the state. The change in GOP leadership Is not expected to affect the status of Mrs. Esther Guthridge, Fowler, the vice chairman, since Gallmeyer is not being forced out. However, a vacancy is expected in the central committee because the 10th District vice chairman, Mrs. Jean Bond, Liberty, was elected clerk of the Indiana Supreme and Appellate courts. This job will mean a move to Indianapolis.

Auburn Man Indicted For Wife's Murder AUBURN, Ind. (UPI) — Freddie James Back, 27, Auburn Junction, was held today pending trial on a second-degree murder charge in the fatal shooting of his wife. A DeKalb County grand jury indicted Back Thursday. He is charged with shooting his wife, Beatrice, 25, to death Sept. 27 at their home. Police said he. then shot himself three thimes in an attempt at suicide. Back has been held in jail here since his release from . a Fort Wayne hospital several days ago. Decatur Library To Continue Story Hour Miss Bertha Heller, Librarian, has announced that the story hour will continue through December 8. Between 30 and 35 children gather every Saturday in the children’s library at 1:30 p.m. to hear the stories Mrs. C. S. Martindill and Miss Marilyn Knudsen have prepared for them. This Saturday the children will hear “Who Is At The Door,” by Eberstadt, and “Charley The Horse,” by Palazzo, among other.

A film strip is also planned to show the children. Boys and girls who are almost five and those already in kindergarten and the first grade are invited to come hear the story hour lady. Continue Probe Os Break-in At Berne Investigation is continuing of a break-in at the Berne Locker and Storage, in Berne, that occurred sometime in the early Thursday morning hours., The thief, or thieves, entered building by climbing through an unlocked window. Between S3O and $35 in change was taken from a cash registerand several other drawers were rifled, although nothing else was taken. The unlocked window was located in the southwest corner of the building. Sheriff Roger Singleton, deputy sheriff Bob Meyer, state trooper Gene Rash, and Berne chief of police Don Grove, are continuing their investigation into the burglary.

Arms Buildup By Red' China

NEW DELHI (UPD — Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said today Communist China may have an atomic bomb “in a year or so,” but that it will be three or four years before it is useable. Nehru made his statement in Parliament as the Communist Chinese concentrated tanks in the area near the vital Indian supply center of Chusul in apparent preparation for a renewed attack into India’s northwestern frontier region. Nehru repeated his pledge that India has no intention of using nuclear weapons of its own in the undeclared border war with Red China. He added nothing further on this subject, but blasted Red China and said its surprise attack on India Oct. 20 was similar to the actions of “Hitlerite Germany.” He said China has been at war for 30 years and has a “war mentality." As he spoke, a Defense Ministry spokesman disclosed the Communist Chinese armor buildup in the northwest. “In the Chusul area in Laaakh some enemy tanks have been seen near Spanggur Lake” in the southern part of India’s Ladakh border region, the spokesman said. Elsewhere along the fronts in Ladakh and the North East Frontier Agency about 2,500 miles to the east in the Himalaya Mountains, the spokesman said the situation had returned to patrol activity and little actual exchange of fire. I Warmer Weather Is Forecast In State By United Press International For the first time since early October, the weatherman is predicting above-normal temperature averages in his five-day outlook for Indiana. The state has been in the midst of a sub-normal cool spell since mid-October, with temperatures ranging from the 20s and 30s to the 40s most of the time. Today’s five-day outlooks for the period running through the weekend and into the middle of next week indicated temperatures will average 4 to 7 degrees above normal central and south and 5 degrees above normal north. This would mean highs ranging from 50 to 62 and lows ranging from 32 to 42.

Temperatures which crested Thursday between 43 at South Bend and 49 at Evansville will creep upward to the low 50s Saturday, and the outlook for Sunday is “fair to partly cloudy and pleasant.” The five-day outlook said It will be mild most of the period and little or no rain will mar the enjoyment of an overdue autumn warming trend. A drizzle this morning may continue through part of the day but it will vanish by tonight and pave the way for partly cloudy conditions likely to prevail Saturday. Overnight lows ranged from 29 at South Bend to 42 at Indianapolis. Lows tonight will range from 33 to 40.

Chinese Attack On Party Is Assailed

, BELGRADE (UPI) — The official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported from Sofia today that a Chinese attack agaihst East European party policies has been “received with uneasiness” at the eighth Bulgarian Communist congress. Simultaneously, the official Yugoslav weekly magazine International Potki accused Communist China of spreading “hypocrisy and lies” about Yugoslavia- to divert attention from its own “vital inner problems.” - Tanjug reported that Thursday’s speech by Vu Siu Chuan, chief of the Chinese delegation, terming Bulgarian treatment of outcast Albania as “one-sided” was “in contrast with the general atmosphere and spirit —prevalent at the congress.” Tanjug said the Polish. Czech and Romanian delegates “did not approve of the Chinese comrade’s criticism” believed to have been an attempt by China to improve Albania’s position in Eastern Eu--1 rope. Albania has not fallen in line with the Russia-sponsored deStalinization program. The attack in the magazine was

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Mrs. Roy Kalver Is Reelected Chairman Mrs. Roy Kalver, of Decatur, was reelected chairman of the Adams county chapter of the National Foundation at the annual meeting of the chapters held Thursday night at the Kalver home. Mrs. Richard Huffman, of Geneva, was elected as vice chairman. Other officers reelected are Mrs. Jerome Keller, Decatur, secretary; Mrs. Chalmer Deßolt, Decatur, treasurer, and Herman H. Krueckeberg, Decatur treasurer of the annual fund campaign. Mrs. Huffman was also named as chairman of the fund campaign through the county, and Peter G. Sotile, Decatur, was again named chairman of the drive in Decatur. Mrs. Fred Corah will head the Mother’s March. Bert Talbott, Indianapolis, state representative of the National Foundation, attendee last night's meeting and spoke briefly, particularly stressing the need for more funds to increase the research into birth defects. He pointed to the excellent work being done at the Clinic on birth defects at Indianapolis, noting that several Adams county children have been given treatment at the clinic. The National Foundation, originally organized by the late Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, widened its field several years ago to research and treatment of birth defects and heart disease, after the development of polio vaccines had brought about a dramatic decrease in polio incidence in this country and throughout the world. Only Undetermined Senate Race Close PIERRE, S.D. (UPD— 1 The nation’s only undetermined Senate race was closer than ever today. Former Food for Peace Director George McGovern, trying to unseat Republican incumbent Joseph Bottum, held a 144-vote lead. It was 128,703 to 128,559, according to unofficial returns. As revised tabulations cut into McGovern’s margin, the Democratic hopeful asked Justice Department and Senate investigators to come to South Dakota to prevent any tampering with ballots. McGovern ran with the blessing of President Kennedy, while Bottum sought to win his first full term. He has served four months as the GOP replacement for the late Sen. Francis Case. County canvassing boards will report official results within 13 days. South Dakota has had only one recount in its history. Bottum may ask for the second one. He called a strategy meeting of supporters Thursday night to discuss the situation. McGovern conferred with Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy by telephone and wired Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Chairman .Howard Cannon of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections about the investigators.

. one of the strongest to date in the r long ideological dispute between t Peiping and Belgrade. It charged . there was a lack of Freedom in > Communist China, and it refuted . Peiping’s criticism of President Tito’s relatively liberal economic — . policies. ' • “In these perpetual and mali- ■ cious commentaries on Yugoslav - economic problems and difficul- > ties—as if there weren’t any coun- - tries with certain economic problems and if the Yugoslavs them- - selves were not aware of this — , they (the Chinese) do not shy , from the crudest lies and the f most blatant forgeries," the mag- ’ azine said. “This is merely a clumsy at - tempt so divert attention from . - their own vital Inner problems," i it added. t- The magazine did not refer di- > rectly to reports of famine on the i Chinese mainland or its release : of industrial workers for the - farms. > It attacked China’s disregard -for peaceful coexistence, without direct mention of the Chinese ini vasion of India.