Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 270, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1962 — Page 1

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’ 1 \ MH -—~ fIHHMHI TOP STUDENTS— Shown above are fifteen of the best students of the two Decatur high schools who were guests of the Decatur Optimist club this morning at the Fairway restaurant. From left to right are: Richard Doty, David Swickard, Tom Baxter, James Becker, Daniel Heimann, Patricia Beam, Fred Schurger, Michael Reynolds, Carol Hoverman, Jerome Geimer, Dan Lose, Susan Thieme, Thomas Weisman, William Bolinger, Tim Singleton. Cynthia Cravens, Decatur high school senior, was unable to attend.

Top Decatur Pupils Guests Os Optimists

Fifteen of the top high school students from the two Decatur high schools heard Deane T. Dorwin speak on “VOMISC” at the Decatur Optimist club meeting at the Fairway restaurant this morning. The students were among the top students from each class of each high school, and were honored as such by the Optimists during Optimist International’s youth appreciation week, which coincides this year with American education week. The young scholars, two from each class in each high school were picked by the administrators of their respective schools. Representing Decatur Catholic high school were: seniors, Jerome Geimer and Thomas Wiseman; juniors, Fred Schurger and Daniel Lose; sophomores, Michael Reynolds and James Becker; freshmen, William Bolinger and Daniel Heimann. -4* From Decatur high school, the following student's were selected: seniors, David Swickard and Cynthia Cravens; juniors, Tom Baxter and Richard Doty; sophomores, Timothy Singleton and Patricia Beam; freshmen, Susan Thieme and Carol Hoverman. Miss Cravens was not able to attend the. program because of illness. “VOMISC” Dorwin, guidance and counseling director at Decatur high school, was introduced by Jack Heller, general chairman for the morning. Heller noted that Dorwin has a complete background for an overall knowledge of the educational program in Decatur because of his background in the various phases of Decatur high school. After expressing the appreciawho. apply themselves in the area tion of all educators for the recognition being given to young people of academics, Dorwin announced his coined subject title,/'VOMISC”. Each of the letters of the “word” represents a quality that observation has shown is present in a top student. These qualities will carry the students into society and make them top citizens. The V represents verbalization, ’ which is so necessary in every phase of life. Dorwin pointed out that what a person knows is effective and productive in proportion to the degree he can communicate that knowledge to others. 0 stands for organization, more personal than social. The counselor stated that more and more of the.

Attend Red Cross Disaster Meeting Ralph R. Habegger and Hal Teeter attended the Red Cross council meeting on handling disasters, held in Fort. Wayne Wednesday night. Habegger, second vice chairman, and Teeter, of the disaster committee and a board member, reported that six counties were represented. Those present were given the problem of an airplane crash near Arcola; they were divided into thfee gioups, and asked-to for-_ mulate plans for handling this type of disaster. Clothing, shelter, medical aid, traffic, etc., all had to be taken into consideration in handling the problem. The two men suggested on their return that the Adams county Red Cross chapter take a serious look at its disaster preparedness program, and begin to prepare for a modern type disaster, so that the county will be ready if it ever occurs.

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better students are organizing their academic lives in order to obtain the education that will permit them to achieve the goals they have in life. Motivation is next in the group of top-students qualities. This is the. fuel that makes the motor run, a spark that some students are not able to find. I represents integrity with one’s self, the Divinity, school and community. This develops an honestv with society and causes an individual to develop God given talents to the highest degree. Club Appreciates Teachers Social competence is next in the list as the young student develops those social niceties that not only show good manners but also permit the individual to live and work with others in the community. The final letter, C, represents curiousity Which pushes the better students inta a deeper study than required. The yolrtig person who will read an extra book, volunteer to give a report, or do an extra experiment is the one who will, because of a natural curiosity, develop into a better student and a better citizen. Following Dorwin s talk, the uptimist club expressed its appreciation to all of the teachers and educators in the Decatur area who devote so much of their lives to the improvement of young people.

Scout Units Half Way Toward Goal Adams county Boy, Cub, and Explorer Scout units passed the half-way mark in the “go” roundup, led by Col. John Glenn, the astronaut, but they still haw a long way to go to reach the 104 new boys pledged by Dec. 15, Wifliam Spice, Limberlost council executive, announced this morning. Berne PTA cub pack 3067 has now exceeded its goal of 24 new members, and has 27 registered, to take over the lead in total numbers from Judge Myles F. Parrish’s Cub pack 3061 at Lincoln school in Decatur, which has 15 new members reported, well over its goal of six. David Mac Lean and Dr. Mel Weisman, leaders of the Elkssponsored Explorer post 2062, have reported six new members, over the goal of five. These three units are the only ones to exceed their goals so far. Spice pointed out that these figures represent just those already processed at Scout headquarters in Fort Wayne, and several local units have some new boys that they haven’t yet reported. Among the Decatur Boy Scout troops, only Trinity EUB troop has turned in any new boys—two of them, towards the goal of seven. None oftjre other local troops has reported any as yet. Jerry Reed, cubmaster of pack 3064. reports' five new boys towards the goal of eight in the pack sponsored by St. Mary’s Catholic church. This means that a total of 55 new Scouts, Cubs, and Explorers are now members of Adams counon the way toward the goal of 104, set by totaling the individual pledges of the various units. Held Far Cashing Four Stolen Bonds SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPI) — William D. Gregory, 32. North federal grand jury here WednesWood, lowa, was indicted by a day on a- charge of endorsing and fraudulently cashing four stolen $1,600 U. S. Savings Bonds.

Birch Bayh's Final Margin 10,944 Votes INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)-Official returns have confirmed the election of Birch E. Bayh Jr., two other Democrats and 10 Republicans on the Indiana state ballot in the Nov. 6 election. The returns, audited by the State Board of Accounts after they were collected by the secretary of state’s office from the 92 county clerks, showed Bayh won a six-year term in the U.S. Senate by beating Sen. Homer E. Capehart, R, by 10,944 votes, 905,491 to 894,547. They also gave State School Supt. William E. Wilson, D, a 31,824-vote plurality over former GOP State Chairman Alvin C. Cast, Kentland, 901,379 to 869,555, and Walter Myers Jr., D, Indianapolis, exactly a 10,000-vote margin over incumbent Indiana Supreme <'ourt Judge Arch N. Bobbitt, R, 888,116 to 878,116. 5 Incumbents Triumph The 10 Republicans elected included incumbents Secretary of State Charles O. Hendricks, Auditor Dorothy Gardner, Treasurer Robert E. Hughes and Supreme Court Judges Norman Arterburn and Frederick Landis. Hendricks beat Russell E. Davis, D, Richmond, by only 6,863 votes to win a second term and keep the state election machinery in technical control of the Republican Party. His victory also meant that the GOP candidates will be listed on the left side of the ballots in the 1963 election, a much-sought political advantage according to the experts. The narrowest squeak on the ballot was Donald Mote’s. Mote, of Wabash, was one of two Republican candidates for two seats on the Indiana Appellate Court from the Northern District. Under the law, one does not run against another from the opposite party. Rather, the two Republicans run against the two Democrats and it is possible for a Democrat and a Republican opposite each other on the ballot to both be elected. Wins By Only 2,236 Mote’s total on the Republican ticket was only 2,236 votes higher than that of Democrat W. Dan Bretz of Evansville. Besides Bayh, Wilson was the only winner to score more than 900,000 votes. He trailed Bayh’s total by only 4,112 votes. Mrs. Gardner also was a heavy vote getter. She received 92 votes more than Capehart, the only Republican on the ballot to outscore the veteran senator as he sought a fourth term. The total vote cast in the senatorial race was a record 1,800,038 for an off-year election. Here is the official certified vote for state ballot candidates: U.S. senator—Bayh D 905,491, Capehart R 894,547. Winning margin 10,944. Secretary of state—Hendricks R 889,643, Davis D 882,780. Winning margin 6,863. Auditor—Gardner R 894,639, Farina D 878,232. Winning margin 16,407. Treasurer —Hughes R 891,563, Smith D 879,209. Winning margin 12,354. School superintendent—Wilson D 901,379, Cast R 869,555. Winning margin 31,824. Courts clerk—Bond R 888,818, Whitecotton D 878,042. Winning margin 10,776. Supreme Court —Arterburn R 888,749, Ax D 876,816. Winning margin 11,933. Supreme Court—Myers D 888,116 Bobbitt R 878,116. Winning margin 10,000. Supreme Court—Landis R 891,051, Rakestraw D 874,344. Winning margin 16,707. Appellate Court, Southern District—Carson R 884,296, Clements R 884,541, Faulconer D 879,938 Tegart D 878,670. Carson and Clements together defeated Faulconer and Tegart. Appellate Court, Northern District— Hunter R 888,145, Mote R 881,977, Bierly D 875,560, Bretz D 879,741. Hunter and Mote together defeated Bierly and Bretz. Christmas Plans Are Announced By Decatur Retailers Christmas shopping store hours were announced today by the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Formal opening of the Christmas shopping season will be"Triday, Nov. 23. Stores will be open Thursday afternoons, starting Nov. 29, and Christmas lights will be turned on Nov. 30. Hie annual Santa Claus train rides for the youngsters will be Saturday, Dec. 1. Stoles will be open nights for convenience of shoppers beginning Monday, Dec. 10, and continuing for the full two weeks before Christmas.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 15, 1962

Indian Troops Launched On Strongest Campaign Since Invasion By Reds

Discussion Os Situation In Cuba Continues

WASHINGTON (UPD — The i White House today said there has been “continuing communication” between Washington and Moscow on the Cuban situation including the question of U.S. demands that IL2B jet bombers be withdrawn from the island. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger made this comment* when asked about reports of a new exchange of letters between President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. “There is continuing communication between Washington and Moscow,” he said. “I don’t want to identify any particular letter.” Salinger made his comments amid reports that Kennedy was somewhat optimistic that his stern warnings to Moscow would lead to early removal of the Soviet bombers from Cuba. He was understood to have sent word to Khrushchev within past 48 hours that the plane issue could not be permitted to drag on indefinitely. Kennedy also is said to have told the Soviet leader that until Russia agreed to remove the approximately 30 bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons, there could be no consideration of easing the American quarantine or giving any pledge against a U.S. invasion of Cuba. Salingbr said that “certainly” the issue of the IL2Bs had been the subject of some of the recent communications between the United States and Russia. There have been reports that Khrushchev has suggested a series of action which should be taken before actual removal of the IL2B bombers from Cuba. They reportedly cell for the United States to first meef Cuban and Russian demands for a lifting of the blockade. Salinger declined to be. specific, Do's and Don'fs On Mental Health Gifts The Adams county chapter of the mental health association, in another appeal for Christmas gifts for patients in Indiana’s mental hospital, listed today a number of do’s and dont’s in connection with the gift collection. 1. Do remember to take a gift to one of the collection depots—the Gas Co. office or E. F. Gass store in Decatur, Zurcher Mobil service in Monroe, Yager furniture J store in Berne, and the Dorothy Larue gift shop in Geneva. 2. Do remember to fill out the tag supplied <at the depot if you haven’t one) in every detail. This tag supplies information necessary for distribution of a gift to the right patient. How disappointing to receive a size 12 when a size 40 is required. 3. Don’t send anything sharp, breakable or dangerous in any way. Do send plastic containers. 4. Don’t seal the package in any way. Scotch or other tape. 5. Do send money if it’s easier. All monies received are used for gifts. A check made out to Adams Co. Mental Health Association and mailed to Mrs. Roger Schuster, route 5, Decatur, will be spent for gifts which will be wrapped and tagged by the committee. 6. Do remember the Nov. 30 deadline. Tri Kappa sorority is the first group in Decatur to supply a large number of gifts as an organization. Several merchants have also contributed a goodly number of gifts, including Brecht Jewelry store, Jani Lyn shop, Bower jewelry and Begun’s clotihng store. 7. Do follow their example.

however, on the contact between Washington and Moscow. He also declined to comment on a Radio Moscow report that the talks at the United Nations between the United States and the Soviet Union are ranging to subj jects beyond Cuba. Administration officials said there were indications that Khrushchev was convinced of the President’s firmness on the bomber removal but that as of early . today, no definite assurances had been received from the Soviet ■ premier on the issue. According to government , j sources, Kennedy did not give . Khrushchev any specific deadline , for- pulling out the bombers but [ made it clear the United States . would not permit the Kremlin to stall too long before firmer measures were taken. Implicit in the WS. warning, al- , though not actually put in- the form of a threat, was the intenj tion to tighten the blockade unless the issue is resolved. Officials said one step would be cutting off petroleum supplies to the Castro regime. Direct communications between Washington and Moscow were undertaken to reinforce the position being taken by U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson in his talks in New York with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vassily Kuznetsov, officials said. Diplomatic sources said Kennedy told West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer during their talks here Wednesday on the Cuban situation that he was hopeful Khrushchev soon would agree to take the bombers out of Cuba but had no firm assurance as yet. Sources Confirm Response This also was the response early today from government sources when asked about a report that Kennedy had received a message from Khrushchev definitely promising to pull out the IL2B’s. Officials said the Russians now admit that the bombers are still under their control and have not, as Cuban authorities claim, already been transferred to Fidel Castro’s regime. These officials indicated that there had been reassurances on this point in Khrushchev’s replies to the White House, along with promises that the bombers would I not be put into operation while negotiations were being held. Harmon Roth Dies After Long Illness Harmon Roth, 82, retired farmer who had resided in Wren, 0.. for the past 23 years, died at 4:25 o’clock Wednesday afternoon —at the Lawton nursing home in Fort Wayne. He had been in failing health for five years and seriously ill for the past four weeks. ■ Born in Van Wert county, 0., Oct. 26, 1880, he was a son of Frederick and Tracy BittnerRoth, and was married to Mandy Krick April 8. 1903. Mr Roth was a member of the Wren United Brethren church. Surviving are his wife; one son, Ivan Roth of Decatur; two daughters, Mrs. Vilas Riley of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Frank (Geraldine) Everett of Wren; 10 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Amelia Standiford of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Zwjck funeral home, with burial In the Monroeville IOOF cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services.

NEW DELHI (UPI) — Indian troops have launched their strongest attack against the Communist Chinese since the Reds started their invasion in force on Oct. 20, it was announced officially today. An official spokesman said the attack was launched by a “strong patrol” against a Chinese position northwest of Walong in the eastern portion of the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) near the Burma border. He said the fighting still wasgoing on when latest reports were received Wednesday night. “In the Lohit Division (of the NEFA) our troops yesterday launched an attack on one of the Chinese-held positions a few miles northwest of Walong,” the spokesman said. “When reports last came in, fighting was still going on.” In the western portion of the NEFA near Chinese-held Towang, the spokesman added that “a small Indian patrol raided a village held $y the Chinese aggressors a few miles from Jang village and, in a clash, killed some Chinese soldiers and returned to base without loss to themselves.” This was the only other action reported today except for some Communist Chinese firing with automatic weapons in the Walong sector. At the same time, another spokesman disclosed that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had sent another letter to Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai. It was delivered to the ehinese embassy in New Delhi Wednesday night for relay to Peiping. The spokesman said it was a reply to Chou’s letter of Nov. 4 in which he offered a cease fire and negotiations if troops of both sides were pulled back to their 1959 positions. This would give India control of all of the NEFA but leave the Communist Chinese in possession of 10,000 to 20,000 square miles of northeastern Ladakh on the western end of the disputed border between the two countries. The spokesman declined to comment on the contents of Nehru’s letter other than to say it ran three pages. The spokesman announced that 59 countries now have signified their “sympathy and support” in letters to Nehru and had “condemned the Communist Chinese aggression.” He named Afghanistan, Ghana, Brazil, the United Arab Republic, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia as some of the nations now added to the original Ijst of 40 which had been announced previously. Pakistan, Nepal, Russia and Yugoslavia still are not included. However, the Soviet Union appears to be taking unusual measures to establish itself as a friend of India despite this nation’s undeclared border war with Communist China—a Soviet ally. Tass news agency reported from Moscow Wednesday that a contract had been signed Wednesday for the delivery to India of Soviet-made equipment for gas and oil exploration and research. The agency also announced that Russia had permitted India to open a consulate in Odessa because of growing trade, business and cultural relations between the two countries. Turkey is the only other nonCommunist nation to maintain a consulate in the Soviet Union. It is located at Batumi on the Black Sea. Earlier this week Prime Minister' Jawaharlal Nehru disclosed that the Russians had given assurances they would, carry out agreements to supply India with MIG jet fighters and a plant to | make them. Nehru told parliament Wednesday that the Soviet attitude has been “consistently friendly.” “They have been put in a difficult position because they are an ally of (Red) China,” Nehru said. “We don’t expect them to break that alliance. But we have their good wishes, "even recently, and that is a consolation to us.” Although the Soviet aid commitments to India were made before border war-*broke out, it was considered significant that the Russians are going through with them.

Greek Freighter In Flames In Atlantic

NEW YORK (UPI) — The captain and 24-man crew of the S.S. Captain George abandoned shiptoday in the stormy Atlantic after the explosives - laden Greek freighter caught fire. The Coast Guard here said the Liberian tanker Virginia radioed that it was alongside the Captain George and wbuld take the crew aboard. The Coast Guard said the seas at the scene 300 miles northeast of Bermuda were running up to 30 feet and that gale force winds, 40-50 miles per hour, hampered the operation. “ The Coast Guard also reported that the cutter Mendota was speeding to aid another ship, the 65-foot schooner Curlew, 90 miles northwest of Bermuda, after the curlew reported it was taking on water. The Curlew radioed the Coast Guard that the six persons on board were “temporarily abandoning” the yacht in a 20-man liferaft. The Mendota reported it was ‘very close” to the Curlew. The SS Captain George, bearing an arsenal of explosives, sent out a distress call Wednesday night after being rocked by » fire-igniting explosion. The freighter was bound for Port Said, United Arab Republic. In addition to a cargo of highly volatile sulphur taken on at New Orleans, the Coast Guard said the ship also had picked up a low grade explosive, nitro carbon nitrate, at the Louisiana port and dynamite at Kings Bay, Ga. For awhile it looked as if "the ship would not survive the night as it nearly foundered in mountainous waves. A Coast Guard plane, hovering,

Adenauer And Kennedy Agree

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arranged today to discuss revised and up-dated contingency plans for dealing with any sudden Soviet move against Berlin. The President and the chancellor were reported to have agreed Wednesday that any new Western proposals about Berlin would be untimely now because of the Cuban crisis. But the contingency plans for meeting any new Russian threat there headed the list of topics -Adenauer was discussing today with Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Adenauer was scheduled to meet Rusk at 10 a.m. EST, address the National Press Club at 12:30 p.m., and hold a final meeting with Kennedy at the White House at 4 p.m. A communique was to be issued after the conference. West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder made a /last minute change in plans so he could see Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon sometime during the day, apparently to discuss matters connected with the European Common Market. Defense questions and particularly the scheduled overhaul of NATO’s -organization dominated the working dinner Rusk-gavetor Adenauer Wednesday night. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was present for discussions with the chancellor. Adenauer and Kennedy, according to U.S. and German officials, agreed in two talks Wednesday that the Cuban situation would not permit the West to attempt new initiatives aimed at settling other cold war issues, including Berlin. But the two leaders agreed they must keep up-to-date proposals to be made when the time for new negotiations is ripe, and

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over the burning vessel, reported flames sweeping across the decks and 30-foot waves crashing over the sides and through the hatches. "Her situation is desperate,’’ a Coast Guard spokesman here said. But during the night a Liberian oil tanker, the Virginia, was located about 100 miles from the SS Captain George. Turning off her scheduled course, the Virginia began steaming toward the disaster scene. By dawn, the ship was “still holding her own,” the Coast Guard spokesman said, even though the blaze continued to spread through the vessel- and huge waves buffeted her from all sides. "We are not abandoning until absolutely necessary,” the unidentified captain of the freighter said in a radio message to the Coast Guard. In addition to a cargo of highly volatile sulphur ta»ken on at New Orleans, the Coast Guard said the ship also picked up a low grade explosive, nitro carbon nitrate, at ■ I the Louisiana port and dynamite r at Kings Bay, Ga. ► The first distress signal was received at 10:38 p.m. EST when r the ship reported its radio anten- ■ na had burned off. One of the last clear broadr casts from the freighter said: “Smoke in 'radio shack, can’t stand it much longer. Expect ex- ' plosion to go up in any minute. ! Please help.’’ Since then? broadcasts have been sporadic, but reports filter- ■ ing through made it clear the ’ flames were spreading and the danger ci sinking continued to

the contingency plans for meeting any new Soviet-inspired crisis. Citizens Telephone Asks To Intervene INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —The Citizens Telephone Co., Decatur, today filed two petitions with the Indiana Public Service Commission asking to intervene in requests filed earlier by General Telephone Co. to buy two. neighboring exchanges. The petitions said subscribers at Hoagland and Poe had requested Citizens “to intervene for the purpose of securing authority to serve them."’ General has petitions before the PSC asking to buy the Hoagland exchange and the Poe Farmers’ Mutual Telephone Co. ' DECATTH TEMPEH VTI REN Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 14-a.uu today. 12 noon ...62 12 midnight .. 6u 1 pm 66 1 a.m. 66 2 p.m 66 2 am. 61 3pm......—.68 3 a.m. 60 4 p.m 67 4 a m. 59 5 p.m 66 5 a.m59 6 p.m 63 6 a.m ’>B 7 p.m. 62 7a m. 58 8 p.m. .. 60 8 a.m. 64 9 p.m 60 9 a m>.... 65 10 p.m. 60 10 a.m. 68 11 p.m 60 11 a.m 70 Hain , „ Total for the 24 hour period end-trrg—-a4—7—am.—tndajL_o inches. The St. Mary’s river wtitf At I.s9t—feet. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and mild tonight. A few sprinkles likely. Friday rain likely and a little cooler. Low tonight in the 40s north, 50s southwest. High Friday 55 • to 62 north, 60s south. Sunset today 5:30 p. m. Sunrise Friday 7:30 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Cloudy and mild, showers ending. Lows in the 40s. Highs mid 50s north to mid 60s south.