Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 271, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1962 — Page 1

VOL LX NO. 271.

Saturn Super Rocket Fired

CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) — The United States today launched its third Saturn “super rocket’’.— believed the largest and heaviest object ever lifted off the face of earth. ~ The 162-foot Saturn, the mightiest rocket ever built in America and probably the world, roared into action at 11:45 a.m. CST. The 540-ton rocket laid down a thick blanket of flame and smoke on its launching pad. It rose agonizingly slowly taking 10 seconds to climb only 300 feet. White Vapor Trail Then faster and faster it soared, streaking into space toward a peak altitude of 104 miles. As it hit high altitude layer of clouds, it laid a thick white vapor trail across the sky. About 2Vfe minutes later, its engines cut off and the huge rocket disappeared into the blue sky. The Saturn, a model known as "C-l," is destined to carry threeman teams of U. S. astronauts into space in another two or three years. But its task today was much simpler — to exercise its booster muscles and prove that two previous successes weren’t flukes. What scientists have been working toward for months was to be compacted into 2Vis thunderouse|ninutes — the time that Saturn's 1.3 million pound thrust engines would operate. The rocket was scheduled to fly 104 miles into space and 275 miles across the Atlantic Ocean at a speed of 4,000 miles per hour. As a “bonus,” scientists planned to blow up the rocket in space and release the 95 tons of water it carried as ballast. Rocket Awesome Sight The Saturn was as awesome as the ringed planet for which it was named. The rocket loomed 162 feet tall, measured nearly 22 feet across the bottom and weighed 540 tons on the launching pad. When the Saturn C-l becomes operational in another two years — including the first and second stages — it will be able to put payloads of up to 10 tons into orbits 300 miles above earth. The best that Russia has done officially is seven tons. The Saturn is scheduled as the keystone of America’s ambitious plans to land men on the moon before the end of the decade. That task actually will fall to a more advanced model — the Saturn C-5 — but the C-l will have the job of sending trios of “Apollc” astronauts into earth orbits lor preliminary teats. Earl D. Walmsley Dies At Saginaw Earl D. Walmsley, 83, of Saginaw, Mich., died Thursday afternoon while being taken from his home to St. Luke’s hospital in that city. He was born at Decatur, 111., Jan. 30, 1879, and was married in *• 1928 to Miss Elizabeth Schneider of this city. Mr. Walmsley was employed for many years as superintendent of installation for the telephone company in Saginaw. Surviving are his wife and a number of nieces and nephews in Decatur and vicinity. The body will be brought to the Gillig & Doan funeral home in this city for furneral services and burial. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. ——M—ll■ IT lur Y mini———

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Union Service On Thanksgiving Day At 9 a.m. Thanksgiving Day, the annual union Thanksgiving service will be held in the First Presbyterian Church, Mercer and Five Points. Sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, the service is open to the public to unite in acknowledging God as the generous giver of lavish gifts and abundant blessings to His children, and especially to Americans. Bringing the Thanksgiving message this year is the Rev. Gerald Gerig, pastor of the Missionary church. He will be speaking on the topic “The Commonness of Ingratitude.” The Rev. William Feller, president of the Decatur ministerial association, will read the Thanksgiving proclamation. Assisting in the service will be the Revs. Robert Crabtree, J. O. Penrod, Kenneth Angle, Wilmer Watson, and Elbert Smith, host pastor. Special Music will be offered by Jerold Lobsiger, who will sing the solo, “Thanks be to God.” As before, the offering has been designed for the Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP), which collects the funds used by Church World Service to provide food for the needy all over the world. One dollar given to CROP will send 300 pounds of food overseas. The committee arranging this service includes the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., the Rev. Fuhrman Miller, and the Rev. Elbert Smith. Kickoff Rally Held Thursday For CROP Approximately 75 persons attended a kickoff rally at the Adams Central school Thursday evening for all CROP solicitors and Other interested people. Wayne Rothgeb, farm director of television station WKJG-TV, was the main speaker for the event. Rothgeb showed slides of his trip to the Orient this summer, where he, saw refugee work in Hong Kong, Taiwai , Philippines, Macao, and Japan. The slides showed in great detail the many ways CROP products are being used and distributed. Jesse Bandelier, a New Haven resident who was also a member of the trip to the Orient, spoke on a visit to a noodle factory he had seen where flour, milk and other CROP products were being used to make noodles to be distributed among the refugees. For every $1 donated to the CROP program, 300 pounds of American surplus are sent overseas. During the CROP campaign, which opens next week, farmers will be solicited in each township for an amount of grain which will be sold for cash. The money will then be used to purchase specific items needed in aiding the world’s many needy persons. It was announced earlier this week that the First State Bank of Decatur and the First Bank of Berne will once again this year sponsor victory dinners in their respective halves of the county, following the CROP campaign.

Churches To Gather Blankets For Needy Adams county churches were asked today to help the Protestant churches of the United States gather some 650,000 blankets to save thousands of Algerians from freezing to death this winter as cold weather approaahes. The appeal went out today from Church World Service, the overseas relief agency for American Protestant and Orthodox churches, from Hugh D. Farley, executive director. Additional Efforts These blankets are urgently needed in addition to the more than 11 million pounds of food and other relief supplies already sent as a result of the efforts of CROP, the Christian Rural Overseas Program. Adams county ranks second in the state of Indiana in donations to <’ROP. Jan Van Hoogstraten, director of CWS activities in Africa, has reported on the desperate plight of the Algerians. An additional 600 million pounds of U.S. surplus wheat is also being rushed to the area. Describes Conditions Van Hoostraten described the conditions he found in Algeria on a four-week field trip, including the critical need of blankets. "More than a million Algerians in the areas of Constantine and Bathna alone lack any protection from the severe cold they will face in the next few months,” he stated. “These Algerians are bound to suffer in an even greater degree from the cold, because it comes at a time when they lack sufficient food,” he implored. “It sounds incredible to us, but more than half the population of Algeria—that is, over fivemillion persons—are today suffering from hunger.’’ Church Help Asked Each county is asked to set up a special blanket station for donations of blankets during the next two Sundays in each cooperating church. Contributors are asked to give 25 cent with each blanket to help cover the cost of preshipment processing. Blankets from this area will be received at the Church World Service center at Nappanee. Saturday Deadline For Train Tickets Saturday is the final day for Decatur merchants to make reservations for their tickets for the Santa Claus train, it was announced this morning by the members of the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce committee, which is in charge of the affair. Louis Jacobs heads the retail division’s committee, wtih Ferris Bower in charge of the tickets, Herbert Banning in charge of the arrangements, and Roy Kalver, publicity head. Local merchants are urged by the committee to place their orders for tickets either today or Saturday. Tickets may be reserved by contacting the Chamber of Commerce office, or Ferris Bower. The Santa Claus train rides will be held December 1 this year, with three trains again leaving from the Erie railroad depot in Decatur. Tickets will be distributed by the merchants November 27 for the sixth annual Santa Claus train. Further details and plans will be announced next week, Jacobs explained today.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 16, 1962.

Fidel Castro Threatens To Shoot Down American Planes Flying Over Cuba

Red China Proposal Rejected By Nehru

NEW DELHI (UPI) — Indian newspapers reported today that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru rejected Communist China's latest conditions for a cease-fire and negotiations in a note delivered Wednesday. Nehru’s three-page letter was said to have stated again that there will be no talks until the Red army pulls back or is driven back to positions it held before launching its attack on five places across the McMahon Line Oct. 20. In some places the Chinese have driven as much as 16 miles south of the line which India regards as its northern border. Dispute Red Demands Peking, in letters of Oct. 24 and Nov. 4, called for a ceasefire and withdrawal of both sides 12 miles “from the line of actual control” to be followed by negotiations. Newsmen returning from a tour of forward areas of the Northeast Frontier Agency reported that if the Indians agreed, the Chinese would retain strategic high ground positions while the Indians would, in some places, have to withdraw 60 to 80 road miles to new defensive positions. - *’’• Nehru’s letter was delivered at the same time Indian troops were engaged in what appeared to be their biggest offensive of the undeclared border war. A defense ministry spokesman said Thursday that a “strong patrol” had launched an attack on Chinese positions northwest of Walong near the Burma border. At latest reports the fighting still was going on. Small Village Attacked The only other action along the Henry Schoeneman Is Taken By Death Henry Schoeneman, 67, of Fort Wayne route 8, Lower Huntington road, died Thursday morning at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient one week. Mr. Schoeneman, a veteran of World War I, was a poultry dealer and a member of Mt. Calvary Lutheran church. Surviving are his wife, Ruth; two daughters, Mrs. Franklin Crosby of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Karl Schroeder of Decatur; five grandchildren; a brother, William Schoeneman of Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. Otto Holle and Mrs. Irwin Hegerfeld, both of Fort Wayne. Funeral rites will be held at 1:30 p. m. Sunday.rat the Mt. Calvary Lutheran church, the Rev. Hr H. Backs officiating. Burial will be in St. John’s Lutheran cemetery. Friends may call at the Elzey home for funerals atWaynedale from 7 p. m. today until noon Sunday, when the body will be taken to the church to lie in state from 12:30 p. m. until fimp of the services INDIANA WEATHER Rain this afternoon, probably becoming mixed withe a Uttle snow before ending late tonight. A little colder tonight. Saturday cloudy and rather cold. Low tonight mostly in the 30s north, 43 to 42 south. High Saturday 36 to 44 north, 38 to 47 south. Sunset today 5:29 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 7:32 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly cloudy and colder. Lows in the 20s. Highs upper SOs north — to low 40s south. DKCATt R TKMPKRATIRKS Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 72 12 mldnißht .. til 1 p.m 73 1 a.m til 2 p.m 70 2 a.m 61 3 p.m 72., 3 a.m 61 4 p.m 72 4 a.m - 62 5 p.m 70 6 a.m 60 S p.m 70 6 a.m 60 7 p.m 66 7 a.m 60 3 p.m 65 8 a.m. .! 60 9 p.m 64 9 a.m 60 10 p.m 62 10 a.m 62 11 p.m. 62 11 a.m. 62

2,500 mile border was reported in the village of Jang near the Bhutan border. An Indian patrol was said to have attacked an unidentified hamlet held by the Chinese and ‘ killed some Chinese” without loss to Indian forces. V. K. Krishna Menon, ousted from the government for allegedly mishandling India’s defenses, offered his services to his successor, Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan. “Such services as you ask of me as a private citizen are always at your disposal,” Menon said in a telegram congratulating Chaven. Appreciation Dinner Held By Democrats The symbolic meaning of victory, and an exact accounting of all campaign funds spent by the state, was given to the more than 2 0 0 Democrats who attended the appreciation banquet at Democratic headquarters Thursday night, by Mrs. Mabel Striker. State vice-, chairman. Dr. Harry H. Hebble,, Democratic county chairman, said today. A carry-in dinner, with the vicr torious county candidates bringing, the meat, coffee, and rolls, preceded the speeches. Judge Bierly Speaks Judge G. Remy Bierly, of the Indiana appellate court, who missed re-election by a narrow 6,417vote margin, told the group how glad he was for the election of the three Democrats on the state ticket who made it, and that he would always be available and appreciative to the Adams county Democratic party for counsel, advice, and help. Judge Bierly received 875,560 votes indicating that more than 40,000 people failed to vote for appellate, court judge who voted for U. S. senator. /. Mrs. Elmer C. Beer, county vice chairman, was mistress of ceremonies for the meeting, and she introduced Mrs. Striker, former Adams county recorder who has been state vice chairman for more than a year. / Mrs. Striker Explains Mrs. Striker explained the symbolic meaning of victory — V standing for votes, I for integrity, C for candidates, T for teamwork O for organization, R for rights, and Y for youth. She then went on to give a detailed accounting of expenditures on the state level, and how funds from the state committee were returned to the districts, counties, and even townships and percinets to help bring the story of the Democratic party and its candidates to the voters. All of the county candidates were introduced, and made short victory speeches. The crowd was one of the best to ever attend the appreciation banquet, Dr. Hebble stated. 85,167 Placements In Non-Farm Jobs INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana State Employment Service made 85,167 placements in non-farm jobs between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31, an increase of more than 3(| per cent over the placements in the same period of 1961. Director Lewis F. Nicolini said the 10-month figure was nearly 10,000 higher than the entire 1961 total. ~~ & BULLETIN Frank Earl Fisher, 78, former Decatur Lumber Co. employe, died at 1:05 o’clock this afternoon at his home, 116 South Ninth street, following an extended illness. The body was removed to the Winter-egg-Linn funeral home, where friends may call after 10 a.m. Sunday. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

UNITED NATIONS (UPI) — Premier Fidel Castro served notice today that U.S. surveillance planes over Cuba will be met with the full extent “of the firepower of our anti-aircraft weapons.”

In a letter delivered to U.N. Acting Secretary General Thant late Thursday by Cuban Ambassador <’arlos Lechuga, Castro darkened hopes for a peaceful and speedy settlement emerging from extended U.S.-Soviet crisis negotiations carried on directly and through the United Nations. “If the United States sincerely desires—as we ourselves desire—to take steps toward the solution of the present problems,” Castro said, “it should begin by respecting these elementary rights of our country. . “We wish to give warning that to the extent of the fire-power of our anti-aircraft weapons, any warplane which violates the sovereignty of Cuba, by invading our airspace, can only do so at the risk of being destroyed.” No Official U.S. Reply Castro’s threat, relayed to Washington through U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, brought no immediate official reply, but administration officials said the United States was prepared to send heavily armed airplanes to protect its reconnaissance aircraft over Cuba, determined to shoot, if necessary. There was some feeling in Washington that Russia would be able to prevent the Cuban situation from flaming into a new crisis. High sources here said Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan would leave Cuba today. Diplomatic sources looked for Mikoyan to plunge into the running secret negotiations here with a possibility of averting a Washington - Havana shooting showdown. Castro’s letter said little new beside the threat to shoot down U.S. surveillance planes whose photographs, he said, were aiding underground sabotage activities in Cuba.

It played down the bearded leader’s five-point demands for a crisis settlement, chief of which was for U.S. evacuation of the Guantanamo naval base. Referring to his demands in passing, Castro said: “Violating Our Territory” “The United States, resorting to the law of force, is constantly violating our territory through the use of air forces based in various parts of the Caribbean and on aircraft carriers which it is employing against us. “We- have given proof that we are ready for a worthy peace. We have put forward five points as guarantees, the minimum which any sovereign nation can ask for.” He again rejected international inspection of Cuba although Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev had promised President Kennedy that Soviet missiles would be dismantled and shipped back under U.N. observation. The only observation so far has been of Soviet ships by American naval vessels after they have left Cuba. Muncie Man Held In Series Os Burglaries MUNCIE, Ind. (UPI) —Harry R. Paine. Muneie, was held here today in connection with a series of burglaries. —Police said Paine, a parolee who was caught in the act of burglarizing a tavern early Thursday, had admitted staging 10 recent burglaries. He told officers he took mostly money, cigarettes and whisky in the burglaries. Shoplifting Ring Is Smashed At Muncie MUNCIE. Ind. iUPI» Muncie policeT said Thursday a shoplifting ring here had been smashed with the arrest of 25 persons ranging in age from 15 to 33. Officers said several thousand dollars worth of merchandise, mostly clothing, was recovered from homes following the arrests. Five persons arrested in the case already have pleaded guilty in City pourt. Four of them drew fines and prison sentences while the fifth, a girl, was placed on probation.

Permanent Tax Slash Favored” By Conference INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - The Indiana School Boards Association went on record today in favor of a 1963 law establishing a single tax levy for school support in Lake County. By a vote of 37-8, the delegate assembly approved submitting a bill in the 1963 Legislature which would distribute the wealth of Lake County equally among all 21 school corporations. Kennth Knight, a Crown Point attorney and school board member, presented the proposal which he said had the support of school boards of Gary, Hammond and East Chicago and some smaller and poorer corporations. Lake County, which has one of the wealthiest and one of the poorest school districts in the state, rejected a proposed one-unit school reorganization plan at a Nov, 6 referendum. \ The Knight proposal in effect is a compromise of the one-unit plan. It would leave undisturbed tha present school districts, each i governed by its own board, but I financially the setup would be the j same as if the one-unit reorganized plan were in effect. The plan called for a county school tax rate of not more than $3.65. Many of the delegates abstained from voting on the issue, presumably because it had no general effect on the state. However, some observers said the plan if enacted into law for Lake County could set a precedent vchich might handicap the school reorganization program. Delegates also adopted by a 43-29 vote a proposal for a state law making it illegal for any school corporation to enter into a contract with a teacher after Aug. 1 if the teacher was already under contract to another school, unless written release was obtained. Penalty for violation would be loss of license. ■ The ISBA called for establishment of a state board of education made up of laymen. A major item in the legislative program adopted by delegates at the opening session of the group’s annual convention was replacement of the present three state commissions on education by a board which would function much like local school boards in Indiana

Scour Atlantic For 18 Missing Seamen

NEW YORK (UPI) — Two U.S. Coast Guard planes took off from Bermuda today to lead a search for 18 seamen tossed into the stormy Atlantic Ocean and swept out of sight when their lifeboat capsized— just moments before rescue was at hand. The 18 victims were part of a 25-rrVan crew that was forced ter give up a heroic struggle to save a Talazing Greek freighter when raging flames cut deep into ttie ship and threatned to ignite a cargo of high explosives. For 18 hours the courageous crew fought searing heat, blinding smoke and a vicious Atlantic storm before abandoning the stricken vessel in lifeboats Thursday night. Seven Picked Up Seven survivors from the 422foot SS Captain George were quickly picked up from the swirling sea and taken aboard —twofreighters that had steamed to the rescue scene. 340 miles northeast of Bermuda and 500 miles east of New York. But the 18 others were sent crashing into the mountainous waves when their lifeboat capsized only yards away from rescue. Seamen aboard the rescue ships helplessly watched the men, clutching life jackets and trying to cling together, as they bobbed and thrashed in the stormchurned water. Then they van-

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communities. Delegates representing about 80 school boards also called for a constitutional amendment to change the method of choosing the state superintendent of public instruction who is now elected by the people. The amendment would provide for a superintendent hired by and responsible to the new board of education. The ISBA also called upon the 1963 Indiana General Assembly to provide at least SIOO million more in state funds for local schools during the next biennium than the amount appropriated by the 1961 Legislature. Dr. Lorin Burt, executive secretary of the ISBA, told the opening session of the convention which will continue through Saturday, however, that reorganization of the State Department of Public Instruction was even more important than additional money for the schools. Heart Attack Fatal To Edwin T. Moset Edwin T. Moser, 63, retired employe of the Dunbar Furniture Co. at Berne, died of a heart attack at 12:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon at his home in Geneva. He was born in Monroe town--1 ship March 11, 1899, a son of Peter J. and Jennie McßrideMoser, and was married to Elma Kneuss Feb. 9, 1920. Mr. Moser was a member of the Geneva Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Dale Moser of Columbia City, and Gordon Moser of Geneva route I; four daughters, Mrs. Helen Roop of Marshall, Mich., Mrs. John Shawver of Sessner, Fla., Mrs. Russell Shawver of Portland route 3, and Mrs. Janean Grogg, at home; 22 grandchildren; two great - grandchildren; five brothers, Willis Moser of Woodbum, Dennis of Bluffton, Amos E. of Berne, Tillman of Berne and Ivan W. of Bluffton, and two sisters, Mrs. Harry Eckrote of Berne, and Mrs. Howard Amstutz of Geneva route 1. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Geneva E. U. B. church, the Rev. Armour Keller officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery at Berne. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home in Berne after 7 p. m. today until time of the services.

ished from view, swallowed up by a towering gush of waves. A Coast Guard spokesman at search and rescue headquarters here said there was little hope the men could be found unless the storm subsides. —- The men apparently were not equipped with, flashlights. Flares dropped —from—a —Coast Guard plane by parachute Thursday night to illuminate the pitch black waters disclosed fio trace of the missing seamen. . One Plane Leaves The flare-dropping plane was forced to leave the rescue scene because it was running low on fuel, but another Coast Guard aircraft remained in the area until relieved by the two planes which tocfc off from Bermuda early today. The two fresh planes were scheduled to begin a criss-cross search -at- dayhgtit~bT"a 20-by-30 mile area around the scorched freighter, which was still afloat ?nd still burning early today. The Coast Guard here reported that the two rescue freighters gave up the search and left the area at 3:28 a.m. <EST today because the turbulent seas and gale force winds were endangering their safety. ‘ A third rescue vessel, the submarine Torsk, remained at the scene to search for the missing seamen.