Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 273, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1962 — Page 1

VOL. LX NO. 273.

De Gaulle Is Easy Winner

PARIS (UPD — President Charles de Gaulle, easy winner in France's general election struggle has decided to ask Premier Georges Pompidou to form a new government, authoritative government sources said today. De Gaulle's victory in Sunday’s election made his Union of the New Republic (UNR) the nation's largest political party—a position that had been held by the Communist Party since World War 11. The Communists slid into second place. De Gaulle flew back to Paris this morning from his country home at Colombey - Les - DeuxEgiTses in eastern France where he east his ballot Sunday. He planned to confer with Pompidou later today. Pompidou resigned after he was overthrown by the rebellious National Assembly Oct. 5. But De ■ Gaulle, virtually ignoring the 1 resignation, asked Pompidou and his entire government to carry on until the elections. De Gaulle was expected, however, to wait until after the run I o r s balloting next Sunday before officially asking Pompidou to form the new government. The final makeup of the new National Assembly would decide whether Pompidou would make many changes or would carry on with more or less his present cabinet. De Gaulle scored a major vic- , tory in the first round of parliamentary general elections Sunday. In so doing, he crushed an attempt by rebellious leaders of France’s old-line political parties I to curb his powers and emerged more clearly than ever as France’s “strong man” president. De Gaulle scored an overwhelming upset victory in parliament seats, crushed an attempt by opposition party chiefs to curb his power and came out more clearly than ever as the strong man of France. Wins 45 Seats The Int e ri or Ministry announced that the UNR had received 31.9 per cent of the popular vote as against 21.78 per cent for the Communists. The UNSR won 45 of the 96 seats decided, more than three times the total of its nearest rival, the Popular Republican party (MRP), which received 14. Two former premiers lost their seats in the Gaullist tidal wave. They were 84-year-old World War II Premier Paul Reynaud and milk-drinking Pierre MendesFrance. The voting Sunday was the first of two rounds under the French electoral system. Only the 95 candidates who won an absolute majority in their constituencies were elected outright. In the 369 other constituencies in metropolitan France, run-off balloting will take place next Sunday, when a mere plurality will suffice. Results Decisive The elections were the second and probably decisive phase of De Gaulle’s battle with the oldline parties. It started this fall when he de-

DECATUR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the 48 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. Saturday Sunday 12 noon 57 12 midnight .. 54 1 p.m 57 1 a.m. 54 2 p.m 55 2 a.m 53 3 p.m 55 3 a.m 53 4 p.m 54 4 a.m. 63 '5 p.m. . 54 5 a.m. ■. 54 6 p.m 54 6 a.m 54 7 p.m 54 7 a.m 58 8 p.m 54 8 a.m 55 9, p.m. . 54 9 a.m 58 10 p.m 54 10 a.m 59 11 p.m. . 54 11 a.m. 58 Munday Monday12 noon 'SB 12 midnight .. 52 1 p.m 58 1 a.m 5.2 2 p.m 57 '2 a.m 52 3 p.m 56 3 a m 62 4 p.m 56 4 a.m 51 5 p.m 54 5 a m. 52 6 p.m 50 6 a.m 52 7 p.m 51 7a m 51 8 p.m 50 8 a.m 50 9 p.m 52 9 a.m 52 10 p.m 52 10 a.m 54 11 p.m 52 11 a.m 54 Hain Total for the 48 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today. .02 inches. —The_St. Mary’s river was at 1.48 feet. ~ ~

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cided to change the 1958 constitution so that his successors would be elected by direct popular vote of the whole nation instead of by a limited college of 50,000 "grand electors." He submitted the proposal to a referendum vote of the nation, bypassing parliament. The old-line parties, ranging from the Communists to the extreme right, denounced the procedure as unconstitutional and charged de Gaulle with trying to set up a regime of “personal power.” Christmas Savings Reach Record High The First State Bank of Decatur, today mailed out Christmas savings checks totaling $166,885.75, which represents the total of 2,115 accounts. This is the largest total of Christmas savings since the plan was organized at the local bank in 1917. Acording to Christmas club, a corporation, Christmas clubs reach ed a new all-tme high for the nation, totaling $1,573,861,900. This figure is estimated to top the 1961 record by about four per cent. Tnis was accamplished by 13,711,000 members. Surveys made by the Christmas Club, Corp., show that the total monies saved will be used in the following manner: Christmas purchases, 30 per cent: savings and investment for future use, 42 per cent; taxes, 17 per cent; year-end bills, five per cent; and miscellaneous, sx per cent. New Christmas clubs for 1963 opened today at the First State Bank, and are available in seven amounts, 25 cents per week, 50 cents per week, sl, $2, $3, $5, and $lO a week. The plan runs for a total of 50 weeks. Jeffersonville Man Is Fatally Burned JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind. (UPD —Jesse Craven, 60, died Sunday in a fire which destroyed his small frame home here. The badly burned body was identified several hours after firemen extinguished the blaze which was believed touched off by a faulty kerosene stove.

Cuba Diplomatic Couple To Leave

NEW YORK (UPD — A Cuban husband and wife diplomatic team accused of supplying a three-member sabotage ring with weapons will leave the United States this afternoon, it was announced today. A spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations said Jose Gomez Abad, 21, and his wife, Elsa, 20, members of the permanent Cuban mission to the United Nations, will leave aboard an Aeronaves De Mexico flight at 5 p.m. EST. Government legal experts said another Cuban, United Nations attache Roberto Santiesteban Casanova, 27, was the leader of the ring and would be brought to trial for espionage. Santiesteban was held in $250,000 bail. He and two others, Jose Garcia Orellana, 42, and Atononio Suerio Cabreara, 22, were arrested by the FBI Saturday on espionage and conspiracy charges. The government said they planned to plant bombs in Manhattan department stores during the busy Christmas season and touch off fires at oil refineries in northern New Jersey.

More Effort By Reds Is Urged By Khrushchev MOSCOW (UPD — Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today that Russians have never had it so good but things could be better with more effort and some reorganization of the Soviet Communist party. Khrushchev said the seven-year plan of 1959 to 1965 is being “overfulfilled.” He painted a generally glowing picture of the economy. 'Die Soviet premier delivered the keynote speech at the opening session of the party’s 330-member Central Committee called ostensibly to study the nation's managementof industry and farming. The session was secret but Khrushchev’s remarks were distributed by the official news agency Tass. Favors Heavy Industry Khrushchev said the Soviet Union would keep emphasis in the years ahead on development of j heavy industry over consumer goods. But “we must take additional measures to ensure that the production of consumer goods proceeds at faster rates,” he said. Khrushchev said the “time is ripe” for party reorganization to guide the national economy. “Now the old organizational forms are becoming, to a degree, a drag on the party’s guidance of production,” he said. “We must take radical measures to ensure more concrete and systematic guidance of all branches of production by party organs.” Defends Cuba Policy Sunday night, Central Committee Secretary Boris Ponomaryev sternly defended Khrushchev’s Cuban policy against Communist Chinese charges of “retreat and begging before the imperialists." In an article in the Communist party newspaper Pravda, Ponomaryev said such charges disrupted the unity of the antiimperialist front and those battling for peace and socialism. Referring to Cuba, he ,said the main task was to strengthen it and “not to place it under the military blow of imperialism or draw it, the entire socialist camp and the whole world into a rocket nuclear war.” The Ponomaryev article was seen by Western observers as a possible indication that the Central Committee supports Khrushchev’s Cuban missile withdrawal.

Cuban diplomats ■ worked feverishly to gain Santiesteban’s release. He arrived in the United States Oct. 3 under a diplomatic passport as an attache on the mission. At the time of his arrest, however, his diplomatic papers were still being processed by the State Department. U.S. legal experts said because of this Santiesteban could be brought to trial. Cuban U.N. Ambassador Carlos Lechuga refrained from making a formal protest to the United Nations. The United States demanded the recall of Gomez and his wife by Cuban officials. Their possessions were removed Sunday from a two-room flat on Manhattan’s upper West Side, placed in a station wagon with diplomatic Ijcense plates and taken to an airport for shipment to Havana. Garcia and Sueiro were identified as officers of the Casa Cuba, a West Side key club which antiCastro refugees say is a front for the “26 De Julio” movement which Castro headed during his struggle for power.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 1% 1962.

Chinese Reds Capture Bomdila, Gateway For Assam Plains In India

Drive Tonight For Muscular Dystrophy J?-" £ I r .' ■ - wsf

Members of the Moose lodge of Decatur, and the city’s volunteer j firemen will make a house-to-house canvass in the city tonight in the annual campaign for funds in the fight on muscular dystrophy. The drive will open at 6:30 o’clock this evening, and residents wishing to donate to the fund are asked to turn on their porch lights. In the above photo are shown . victims of the disease, for which intensive research is now underway through funds contributed in the annual campaign. Canisters have also been placed in many business houses throughout the county, and citizens are urged to make their donations. Checks may be mailed to M. D. in care of the local postmaster. — Adams county has been hard hit by muscular dystrophy, and funds are urgently needed for research as well as to help those afflicted. Many of the victims in this county have been invalids for many years. < Six Decatur Girls Injured In Accident Six-Decatur Catholic high school girls suffered injuries in a one-car accident Sunday afternoon, although none was injured seriously. The girls were injured when a car driven by Miss Anita Clare Zintsmaster, 16, route 3, Decatur, went out of control at a T intersection of county roads 8 and 36. The Zintsmaster girl received bruises to the right leg and a bump on the head. Nose Broken Jane Baker, 15 , 226 Stratton Way suffered a laceration to the nose, and X-ray revaled that her nose was broken. Anita Schirack, 15, 240 Limberlost Trail, received a slight concussion and was held overnight at the Adams county memorial hospital for observation. Jane Tricker, 15, 813 Russell St., suffered a bruised lower right leg and strained neck muscles, while Karen Andrews, 16, 436 SFirst St. received burises to both elbows. All six girls received treatment at the local hospital. Loses Control The mishap occurred at 4:30 p. m. Sunday, when the Zintsmaster girl was traveling west on county road 8, three miles west of Decatur. As she approached the T intersection of county road 36, she ; applied-the brakes of thejftfto. The vehicle went out of control on loose gravel, and shot across 36, and broke off a corner post at the Bob Braden residence. Deputy sheriff Harold August, who investigated, estimated $250 damages to the 1953 model car, and $lO damage to the fence post. Beard Now Status Symbol In Havana WASHINGTON (UPD — Robert McNeil, a National Broadcasting Co. correspondent just released from a Cuban jail, said Sunday a beard has become a status symbol in Havana. —r~ ‘

Historical Society Will Meet Nov. 27 “The Northwest Territory” will be the topic of the next Historical society meeting to be held Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 8 p.m. at the Decatur public library. David J. Schwartz, of Berne, will present the program, with special attention to the ordinance of 1787. ■Chis document established three stages by which each of the territories'was to become a state. In the first stage, the governor, secretary and three judges were named by congress. <• In the second, when the adult male population of a given territory reached the nurpber of 5,000, the territory was to have an elected legislature, a council of five, and a delegate to congress. In the third stage,, when the territory reached 60,000, it could frame its own constitution and apply for admission into the Union. Also, the ordinance contained a bill of rights much like that which was later added to the constitution. Preceding the talk by Schwartz, the group will be entertained with a selection of readings by Miss Barbara Wechtel - , a student at Adams Central high school. She has had a part recently in 4-H talent programs as well as in other -meetings tn the county. The general public is invited and there will be no admission charge, Gerald R. Durkin, president, stated.

Mrs. Lula Myers Dies Last Evening Mrs. Lula Myers, 88, a resident of Adams county most of her life, died at 7:50 o’clock Sunday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill for the past three years and hospitalized for the last 10 days. She was born in Adams county June 21, 1874, a daughter of George and Cordelia MathewsonThomas, and was married to Slone Myers May 28, 1892. Her husband preceded her in death March 14, 1947. Mrs. Myers had lived in Decatur since 1943 until three years ago, when she moved to the home of a daughter, Mrs. Robert Miller of Decatur route 3. Surviving are four sons, George W., Hugh T., and David S. Myers, all of Decatur, and John W. Myers of Fort Wayne; two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Margaret) Miller and Mrs. Winfred (Miriam) Gerke, both of Decatur route 3; 19 grandchildren and 23 greatgrandchildren. One daughter, two sisters and four brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Elbert Smith officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services. East, West German Guards In Exchange FULDA, Germany (UPI) — Several East German army officers exchanged cigerattes and gossiped with West German border guards Sunday along the barbed-wire frontier barriers. It was the first such confrontation Westerners could recall for at least 10 years. ’•The Communists usually are aloof and refuse all overtures. There have been recent gunfire incidents in the same general area. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and chilly, some light snow possible mixed with rain tonight Tuesday light snow or rain ending in morning and partial clearing afternoon. Low tonight lower 30s north, 32 to 40 south. High Tuesday 39 to 44. Sunset today 5:27 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:35 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy with little temperature change. Lows 33 north to near 40 south. Highs in the 40s.

BULLETIN NEW DELHI UUPI) — Chinese Communist troops have captured Bomdila, gateway to the Assam Plains, In the biggest victory of Red China’s fast-moving drive into India from the northeast frontier, it was announced tonight.

NEW DELHI (UPD — Chinese Communist troops have leapfrogged 32 miles through Indian defenses on the northeast frontier arid are battling in the outskirts of Bomdila, gateway to India’s strategic Assam Plains, it was announced today.

An official spokesman said the Chinese Reds had cut the key . road from Se La to Bomdila only , a few miles north of Bomdila, and ( most important administrative r center in the western area of the North East Frontier Agency s (NEFA). The new deep thrust into Indian , .lines followed capture of the Red Chinese of key positions on three , fronts along the border slashing human wave attacks'Wy tens , of thousands of Communist troops Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru announced in Parliament today the Reds had seized the key northeastern anchor town of Walong along with its airfield, near the Burmese border, and had taken Se La Pass, a two-and-one-half-mile high mountain pass 300 miles to the west near Bhutan. The Walong drive punched a hole at least 12 miles deep in Indian positions. -- Biggest So Far Nehru said the Reds, in their biggest drive since the border war started Oct. 20. had also advanced on the northwest in the Ladakh area, where they were shelling the Chusul Airport runway, only landing strip in that region of Kashmir. An official spokesman said the Chinese, in their advance of Bomdila, had cut off Indian troops who were pulling back from the ’ Se La Pass. “Our troops from Se La are trying to link up with our forces ' in Bomdila,” the spokesman said. Bomdila lies just 25 airline miles from the Assam Plains. The Chinese Reds’ massive leap , forward was part of a “wide outflanking movement” during which the force must have marched over the Himalayan jungle wilderness and one mountain range, the spokesman said. Their ability to attack following the march meant they had arrived in large numbers. The spokesman would not specify the flanking route but said it was likely to be toward the east. The spokesman said the Chinese also had opened a new attack in the central area of the North East Frontier Agency approximately 25 miles southwest of Longju. Nehru said one forward Indian post had fallen near Chusul but the defenders were holding a second against a Communist Chinese (Continued on Page Six/

Community Fund Is Near Year's Quota The Decatur Community Fund is just $355.76 short of its $25,510. goal, Richard Schauss, drive chairman, reported this morning. Every effort is being made to reach the full goal, so that all of the funds requested and needed by the ten local participating organizations can be furnished to them during 1963. Little League, Pony League, Boy Spouts. Girl Scouts, Mental Health, Red Cross, Salvation Army, American Field Service (exhange students), U. 5.0., youth center, and Crippled Children program are the groups which receive what they have requested from the Decatur Community Fund. “If you have promised to give, but have not sent in your check, do so immediately” Schauss asked. “Just send it to Decatur Community Fund, c/o Dick Schauss, Decatur, and it will be delivered." Schauss pointed out, “it would be a shame to come so close to the goal, and yet not make it. So many workers have dedicated so much of their time to make this drive a success.”

Court To Rule On Union Agreements

WASHINGTON (UPD — The Supreme Court agreed today to rule on two lower court decisions . banning “agency shop” union agreements which require workers to contribute to collective bargaining cost but do not compel them to join the ,union. At issue in the two appeals were “right to work” statutes in Indiana and Florida' as well as a j compromise interpretation of the Taft-Hartley law. About six out of every 100 existing collective bargaining agreements now contain the agency shop provision. Accepted by the court today ' was an appeal from a decision handed down by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Indiana case last June 8. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which has upheld the agency shop as valid, brought the appeal in this case. The other ruling against the | agency shop was made by the Florida Supreme Court on April 25, 1962. The appeal was brought by the Retail Clerks International Association, Local 1625 (AFLCIO). In other actions today, the Supreme Court: —Agreed to look into the gradual desegregation plans for recreation facilities being pursued at Memphis, Tenn. Lower federal courts have refused to issue a permanent injunction that would force immediate desegregation of the city’s parks and other public facilities. —Left standing a court order prohibiting the city of Jacksonville, Fla., from selling two municipal golf courses in order to keep them segregated. —Denied a hearing to three New Englanders convicted of fraud against the federal government in. a Massachusetts highway ' land evaluation scandal. The three unsuccessful appelants were Charles H. Lawton Jr., of Pawtucket, R.1.; James S. O’Connell of Boston, and Francis L. Harney Jr. of Wellesley, Mass. In the agency shop cases, the Supreme Court will hear arguments later this term, then hand down its decision. Two other kinds of “shops" are common in labor language. One is the “closed shop," where a worker has to be a union member even to get a job. The Taft- ' Hartley labor law makes it illegal ’ for any collective bargaining agreement to contain such a clause. 1 The Taft-Hartley law does per- ’ mit a “union shop” provision, un- ’ der which an employe must sign ! up after a certain period of time or be fired. But states are permitted to outlaw the union shop and 19 have done so under right-to-work laws. Unions want a union shop so

Expect Early Break On Cuba

WASHINGTON (UPD — Admin-1 istration officials today appeared to expect an early break — one way or 4 the other —in Xhe. SovietAmerjcan deadlock over removal of jet bombers from Cuba. On the whole, they appeared optimistic that Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev was on the verge of agreeing to pull out the more than 30 IL2B aircraft which Presidenl Kennedy considers “offensive weapons.” However, if Khrushchev stalls much longer, they said, the President cannot delay the imposing of tougher pressure — presumably a tightening of the U.S. nival blockade around the island. The bombers and other Cuban crisis issues were understood to have been discussed by special ptesidenfiial representative John J. McCloy and Soviet Deputy

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that they can collect dues from all the workers for whom they bargain. The plan eliminates "freeriders” — the employes who are not union members but still benefit from union - negotiated wage increases and other contract provisions. Many employers, on the other hand, are reluctant to force their workers to join an organization or get out. The agency shop has been regarded in some labor circles as a reasonable compromise. The worker contributes to the cost of collective bargaining but does not align himself with the group. Brewery President Is Taken By Death SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UP) — Rudy A. Moritz, 68, president of Drewry’s Limited, Inc., a brewing concern since 1954, died Sunday in his home after an illness of several months. Moritz was a former Chicago and Davenport, lowa, advertising man. He joined Drewry’s in 1941 ’as vice president and general ■ manager and helped build the concern into one of the top 10 ■ breweries in the nation. Christmas Gifts For Mentally 111 Adams county association for mental health, working with the Indiana association on a statewide basis, is now conducting its annual campaign for Christmas gifts for thousands of Hoosiers in state hospitals. Gifts are distributed at parties sponsored by mental health associations and many other organizations during mia-December. An early collection of gifts is mandatory since processing of thousands . of gifts is quite time-consuming. Each ward attendant contacts every patient for whom he is responsible and obtains a list of items the patient really wants. The : mental health volunteers then try • to find among the items contribut- ■ ed the specific item requested by 1 the patient. ! The deadline for receiving the i gifts is Friday, Nov. 30, in order to have to have ample time for wrap- • ping and distributing the gifts. Five collection depots have been 1 set up in Adams county. They : are the Gas Co. office and the E. ■ F. Gass store in Decatur, Zurcher ’ Mobil service in Monroe, Yager ‘ furniture store in Berne, and the Dorothy Larue gift shop in Geneva.

Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov during their five-hour lunch _ meeting Sunday at Russia’s Glen . , Cove estate on Long Island, N.Y. The impression that the administration expected Khrushchev to give in was reinforced by the tact U.S. officials were making no effort to build up an air of grim expectancy speh as that which proceded Kennedy’s Oct. 22 announcement of the blockade and other steps which forced the removal of 42 Soviet medium range missiles from Cuba. Officials emphasized that pulling out the bombers would still leave two critical items in Khrushchev’s pledge to be carried out—international verification that all "offensive weapons’’ were gone and reassurance given that they would , not be reintroduced.