Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1962 — Page 1

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Russia Agrees To Remove Jet Bombers From Cuba; Naval Blockade Lifted

Lifts Censorship On Military Data

WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Kennedy Tuesday lifted the voluntary censorship placed on military information during the Cuban crisis. He said his recent information policies might have prevented a disaster. Much of the President’s news conference Tuesday night was devoted to the government’s handling of information during the Cuban crisis, and new information policies in the state and defense departments. Kennedy said it would have been “possibly disastrous” if news of the Russian buildup in Cuba had “dribbled out” prematurely. And during the days following the announcement of the missile threat, he said, restraints on information were necessary to have the government “speak with one voice.” Lifts Press Order He said the 12 points "that we made to the press in regard to voluntary restraints on the movement of troops and so on” would be lifted immediately. Kennedy also said “there will be a change, I think, in the State Department policy directive” requiring all officials to make reports on their conversations with newsmen. He indicated no change in a similar directive at the Defense Department. “The need” at the DECATUR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 60 12 midnight .. 61 1 p.m 61 1 a.m 61 2 p.m 61 2 a.m 61 3 p.m. . 61 3 a m 62 4 p.m 60 4 a.m. 60 5 p.m 60 5 a.m 62 6 p.m 59 6 a.m 62 7 p.m 59 7 a.m 61 8 p.m 58 8 a.m 62 9 p.m ... 60 9 a.m 63 10 p.m. 60 10 a.m 64 11 p.m 60 11 a.m 64 Rnln Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, -.0 inches. The St. Mary’s, river was at 1.69 feet.

State Legislators Name 1963 Leaders

INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Newlyelected Republican and Democratic leaders of the 1963 Legislature began immediately trying to burden each other with the blame for a probable tax hike. The first news conferences Tuesday also showed that the minority Democrats are counting heavily on sufficient defection in GOP ranks to prevent a constitutional amendment leading to reapportionment on the federal plan from being enacted. Republicans re-elected House Speaker Richard Wayne Guthrie, Indianapolis, in a race between him and Dr. Otis Bowen, Bremen, who lost in a 35 to 20 vote. Earlier Tuesday, Sen. D. Russell Bontrager, Elkhart, was unanimously picked as president pro tern of the Senate. The GOP also picked Rep. Charles Edwards, Spencer, for majority floor leader after the 1961 leader, Rep. Glenn Slenker, Monticello, wit h d rew. Another Monticello man, Sen. Roy Conrad, was named GOP caucus chairman of, the upper chamber. The GOP picked Rep. Owen Crece 1 i u s, Crawfordsville, as House caucus chairman in the longest-batUe of -all., four organ-, ization sessions. Crecelius defeated Reps. M. Maurice Goodnight, Lafayette, and Kermit Burrous, Peru, in four ballots. Final vote, after Burrous withdrew, was 31 for Crecelius and 23 for Goodnight. Choice Unanimous The Democrats, as predicted, unanimously picked Sen. Marshall Kizer, Plymouth, and State Rep. Robert Rock, Anderson, as floor leaders in their respective .houses. Sen. William Christy, Hammond, and State Rep. Charles Kirk, Floyds Knobs, were named caucus chairmen. Guthrie announced that the

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State Department, he said, “is somewhat different from what it is in the Defense Department.” The Defense Department, he said, deals with “very sensitive intelligence and the methods by which that intelligence is received.” He said his only interest in establishing such policies was to prevent release of military information “extremely inimical” to the national interest. He indicated he was mainly concerned with the possible leakage of intelligence information. Favors Talks As for areas not involved with intelligence, Kennedy said, "I would be delighted” to talk with Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester, who issued the order, “and with representatives of the press and see if we can get this straightened out so that there is a free flow of news to which the press is entitled.” On other subjects, Kennedy said: —He and his family will spend Christmas in Florida this year if the situation permits. In a reference to the Cuban crisis that provoked hearty laughter, he said “I hope it will not be too dangerous in Florida this year.” —The Democrats d1 d better than expected in the congressional elections, but he is afraid the situation in the House may be about the- same as it was in the 87th Congress — in other words, hard going for much of his legislative program. 8,550 Copies A total of 8,550 copies of today’s Decatur Dally Democrat were printed and circulated in Adams county, including approximately 4,000 sample copies to residents not now receiving the newspaper.

House Ways and Means Committee, which has the job of presenting a budget to the 1963 Assembly, will be headed by the 1961 chairman, Rep. John Coppes, Nappanee, and will include 10 Republicans and 5 Democrats. “Finance is the Number 1 problem of the legislature,” Guthrie said. He said he hopes to name the full committee so it can begin almost daily sessions on the budget by Dec. 1. “We want to give the budget a study like it never has been given before,” he said. Guthrie said former State Budget Director William Hardwick, Martinsville, also will be a member of the committee. The speaker declined to express any opinion on the need for a tax hike, and earlier Bontr ager had charged that Governor Welsh has been “ignoring” his constitutional responsibility. “The Republicans know nothing about the need for added revenue except as the governor has reported it. It is my hope the governor will rise to his responsibility and tell us what we need.” Says GOP Responsible But Kizer, at his news conference, declared that “the Constitution provides every tax measure must originate in the House,” and that it was up to the GOP which controls that chamber 56 to 44, to produce a workable budget. Rock said at his conference that he will ask Guthrie to give the Democrats seven places on the 15-member House Ways and Means Committee, instead of five. “We feel that we have 44 per cent of the House seats and should have an equivalent representation on Ways and Means,*’ he said.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy says Russia’s agreement to take its jet bombers out of Cuba ends the immediate peril of East-West hostilities, but "difficult problems remain” in the Caribbean. Kennedy opened his news conference Tuesday night with the dramatic statement that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had agreed that all of the IL2B twin jet bombers "now in Cuba will be withdrawn in 30 days.” Thus, the President said, he was ordering the naval blockade that has ringed the island since Oct. 24 removed immediately. Defense officials indicated that a few destroyers would be kept in the general area of Cuba to carry out the inspection of the bomber removal on outward bound Soviet ships. They said the inspection would be made at agreed-upon rendezvous points. Because of their superior speed, the destroyers might be able to leave from U.S. East Coast ports to make rendezvous after the Soviet ships have left Cuba. Formal oraers embodying the President’s blockade lifting decision were sent the ships in the quarantine zone from fleet headquarters in Norfolk, Va. Kennedy’s announcement that the fuse had been removed from the explosive Cuban crisis came just four weeks and a day after his disclosure that Soviet medi-um-range missiles were poised on the island, aimed at the United States, and that the bombers were being uncrated. Shifts Pressure The President shifted his major pressure from. Khrushchev to Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, who still refuses to permit international inspection to prove that his island no longer contains a nuclear threat. U.S. aerial and other surveillance will continue, Kennedy said, until he is satisfied that Cuba no longer is an offensive threat and that offensive weapons such as long-range missiles and bombers will not be slipped back to the island. Kennedy described the present times as “climactic.” He said a peaceful solution of the Cuban question “Ihight well open the door” to Soviet - American progress on Berlin and other critical cold war issues. Lists Three Steps Administration officials said pressure on Castro to permit inspection would include: —Continued close U.S. surveillance of the island by air and other methods. —Efforts to get the Russians to force the Cuban leader into line on the issue of verification. —lntensification of work through the Organization of American States (OAS) to isolate Cuba even more completely in economic and diplomatic matters. “There is much for which we can be grateful as we look back to where we stood only four weeks ago,” Kennedy said. Khrushchev, he said, told him the bombers would be removed and could be “observed and counted as they leave.’’ “Inasmuch as this goes a long way towards reducing the danger which faced this hemisphere four weeks ago, I have this afternoon instructed the secretary of deFormer Local Man Dies In Florida Word was received here Tuesday evening of the sudden death of Kenneth J. Wittwer, 36, former rei&ieat. of at. in Sebring, Fla. Mr. Wittwer who had been a barber in Sebring for the past four years, suffered a heart attack at 3:30 a;nf Tuesday at his home. While residents of pecatur, the Wittwer family liked on Master Dr., and Mr. Wittwer was employed by the Central Soya Co. Surviving include his wife, the former Rosella Fisher; three children, Tenny, Jack and David, and eight brothers and sisters, including Miss Phyllis Wittwer of Berne. Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Stevenson funeral home in Sebring, with burial in that city.

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sense to lift out naval quarantine.” ' Indicates Confidence The lifting of the blockade before the bombers actually had been removed < indicated Kennedy’s confidence in Khrushchev’s intentions. The Pentagon said later that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara had ordered Atlantic Fleet headquarters at Norfolk, Va„ to end the blockade “forthwith” and return the ships to their normal duties. The blockade has been In force since Oct. 24, with the exception of two days when it was suspended for negotiations in Cuba between Castro and United Nations Acting Secretary General Thant. Leonard D. Schnepp Dies This Morning Leonard D. Schnepp, 71, of 333 Grove St., Fort Wayne, a native of Adams county, died at 6 o’clock this morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had a patient since Sept. 3. He was born in this county and had lived in Fort Wayne since 1950. He was a plastering contractor until retirement. Mr. Schnepp was a member of the Riverside Interdemonational church at Fort Wayne. Surviving are his wife, Margaret: one grandchild; one greatgrandchild r two stepbrothers, Earl and Dallas Schnepp, of Montgomery, Ala.; a half-sister, Mrs. Mae Herd of Canada, and two stepsisters, Mrs. Milane Radford and Mrs. Dorothy Davis both of Montgomery, Ala Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home, the Rev. O. O. Murrell officiating. Burial will be in the “IOOF cemtery at Monroeville. Friends may call t the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. Fallout Shelters In Decatur And Berne Fallout shelter supplies will be supplied to two shelters in Adams county by the department of defense, it was learned today from the office of Robert S. Bates, state civil defense director. The two shelters to be stocked Were reported at first as both being in Decatur. A re-check in the state department of civil de-, sense office, however, revealed that one shelter is located in Berne, and the other in Decatur. Special survival items, including food, water containers, medical and radiological defense supplies are being delivered for placement in the basement of the Adams county memorial hospital, and for the basement of the Berne Witness, Inc., 117 E. Main street in Berne. Protect 300 These shelters will protect nearly 300 persons, with a capacity of 203 at the local hospital and 96 at the Berne Wittness, for a total of 299. All stocked shelters have the maximum protection factor, and were located through a survey recently completed by the corps of engineers under the direction of the department of defense, office of civil defense. Other Possibilities The survey also indicated, a total of 135 possible shelter spaces in six buildings in Decatur. The Adams county civil, defense organization is continuing nqgotiations with additional building .owners«to. -contract“--fon -shelter ■ space. Shelter are as designated by the survey provide protection from radioactive fallout during nuclear attack. Shelters will be marked with a standard yellow and “black” fallout shelter which indicates the shelter capacity. License Office Closed Thursday And Friday Mrs. Bernadine Heller, manager of the Decatur auto license bureau, announced today that the office will be closed all day; Friday of this week, as well as Thanksgiving Day.

Union Thanksgiving Services Thursday Rev. Gerald Gerig Decatur Protestants will attend union Thanksgiving day services at 9 a.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian church, Five Points, to hear the Rev. Gerald Gerig, pastor of the First Missionary church of Decatur, speak on “The Commonness of Ingratitude.” The offering to be taken will go to the needy ,of the .world through the annual CROP drive now in progress', which furnishes Church World Service with funds for transporting surplus food, buying food not in surplus, and sponsoring self-help programs amongthe needy in India, Hong Kong, PhilJippines, Alegria, and many areas of the world. Has Visited Abroad Rev. Gerig who is president of the Associated Churches of Decatur, is well qualified to speak on the world’s need 1 . About three years ago he visited a number of mission stations in Central and South America. In 1951 he was in Europe for an international Youth for Christ rally. For about the past four years, Rev. Gerig has served as general secretary of the Missionary church association of the United States. The group has churches over most of the country. Pastor of the Decatur Missionary church for the past six years, he previously served a church in Dodge City, Kansas, where he jokingly admits that Matt Dillon was the president of his church board. A graduate of Fort Wayne Bible College, he is a native of Woodburn. His wife, Coyla, came from Flint, Mich., and her mother now lives in Fort Wayne. The couple have three children: Kurt, a fourth grader; Marcial a second grader; and LuAnn, 2%. Other Pastors Assist The Rev. William Feller, president of the Decatur ministerial association, will read the Thanksgiving Proclamation. Assisting in the service will be 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 1 Re tn Cinrf ” The committee arranging the service includes the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., the Rev. Fuhrman Miller, and the Rev. Elbert Smith. To Draw More Names On Grand Jury Here More Adams county persons will have to be drawn to serve on the grand jury, -it was 168 meet seven persons checked for duty do not qualify. Deputy sheriff Robert Meyer is polling these 12 drawn today, and thus far, one person has been found to bc ~80 years of age. two are deceased, and the' other four do not reside in Adams county at present. Persons selected must be local residents, and anyone over 65 years of age does not have to sit in on jury duty. More names will be drawn for grand jury duty soon by the jury commissioners. THREE SECTIONS

City Awards Contract For Street Lights The Weikel Line Co. of Fort Wayne was awarded the contract for new street lights along Mercer Ave. and Monroe St., following approval by the city council at the council’s regular meeting Tuesday. A total of 85 new fixtures, similar to those constructed this summer, will be erected along the two streets by the Weikel company, which also received the contract for the construction of the new lights on Monroe and Second streets. A total of four bids were received by the board of works and safety Nov. 9. Bids were received from the M. G. Gilbert Corp, of Muncie, Protective Electric Co. of Fort Wayne, and the National Mill and Supply Co. of Fort Wayne in addition to Weikel. The Weikel company had submitted a bid of $14,408 for both labor and material in constructing the new lights. After much study, the light committee determined that the bid was actually lower than any of the other three, two of which were for material only. 85 Lights The new fixtures, the second phase of the re-lighting program, will be 175 watt mercury vapor, 7,000 lumen lights, and will be erected on wooden poles. The new fixtures will be installed from Five Points to the city limits on Mercer Ave., a total of 50 lights, and on Monroe street, from Third street to 13th street, a total of 35 lights. The council authorized city attorney Robert S. Anderson to draw up an ordinance creating no park ing zones on four streets in Decatur. The action was taken following discussion at a previous meeting with fire chief Cedric Fisher on certain fire lanes that were “crowded” by parking on both sides of the street. ( Four Zones The ordinance to be drawn up /will call lor no parking on the east side of Third street, from ' Jefferson to Adams; on the east " side of Line street, from Adams 1 to the Erie railroad crossing; on ’ the east side of. Seventh- street, 3 from Monroe to Nuttman Ave.; ' and on the west side of Russell ’ street, from Rod street to Winchester street. The council had discussed the f no parking zoneo n third street, . beside Decatur high school, and i on recommendation from superin- ; tendent Gail M. Grabill, decided . the no parking zone should be on L the east side of the street. The council had also previously . discussed a possible no parking zone on one side of Washington street where employees of the I Wayne Novelty Corp, park on both sides of the street. ' A letter from Robert W. Bradt- ’ miller, president, was read at the " Tuesday evening meeting. Bradtmiller explained that in his opin- ' ion, oblique parking on the south 1 side of the street would work to 1 greater advantage. Install Blocks ! Bradtmiller also explained that his company would handle the • expense of installing small blocks • for parking stalls, such as those i on the west side of the I & M ofr fice. The council gave its ap- ■ proval of the action. » l A certification was read from the First State Bank, stating that a total of $625,000 in electric utility revenue bonds, issued in 1951, . had been paid by the city and . cremated. City engineer Adolph Kolter reported to the council that the ice , s'kating rink has been constructed on the North Ward playground, on Fifth St., and was ready for use. Kolter said that he was attempting to secure some flood lights to erect for nightime skating, and following a discussion, the council decided that the lights on the bath house at the city swimming ’ pool would be ideal, and gave Kolter authorization to use those lights. Following the reading and allowing of the bills, the council adjourned until the ber 4 meeting. i : 27jd I SHOPPING F*4 4 ; UTS LEFT Tg i w| i nrlsms sens Figtiti | ZiMMi § IGmrwgsWmil 5 S r, O JL> c <o .c <oW a c <k. " ®ljo s sBL a- < —-—Jj

Survey Decatur For More Street Lights

Mayor Donald F. Gage explained this morning that a total of $5,777 remains from the original appropriation of $33,000, for erecting certain individual lights throughout the city. The first step to “re-light” Decatur saw lights erected on Second street, from Marshall street to Adams street, and ori Monroe street, from Third street to the east entrance of the St. Mary’s river bridge. The Weikel Line Co. was contracted to erect the 31 fixtures of 21,000 lumens, at a cost of $12,715, which left $20,285 from the original appropriation of $33,000 for installation of new lights. Get Second Contract The Weikey company has also received the second contract for the new lights on Mercer Ave., from Five Points to the city limits, and from Third street west to 13th street, on Monroe street. The 85 new lights will be installed at a cost of $14,408, which leaves $5,777 from the original appropriation. The new fixtures will be 7,000 lumen lights and will be erected on wooden poles, explaining the lower cost for the second phase of the re-lighting program. Mayor Gage explained that he had talked with Wayne McDonald, foreman for the Weikel Line Co., who had informed the mayor that individual lights could be erected at an approximate cost of $l3O each. Approximate Cost With the $5,777 remaining from the original appropriation, approximately 44 single lights could be erected in various locations for which Decatur residents have petitioned the council. The mayor also said that some of the poles which will be taken out on Mercer Ave. and Monroe street, for the new lights, may be used, to further cut the cost, and enable the city to erect a few more individual lights. Mayor Gage and councilman Lawrence Kohne were authorized] by the city council Tuesday evening to conduct a survey in the next few weeks to decide what locations are in most need of the Rev. Angle Speaks At School Assembly Rev. Kenneth Angle, pastor of the E. U. B. church, gave the annual Thanksgiving talk to the students of Decatur high school Tuesday afternoon assembly program. Rev. Angle spoke on the spirit of Thanksgiving, and the various ways that different people interpret that spirit. He pointed out to the students that there are individuals who are thankful for the smallest of blessings, while many others are not grateful for even extraordinary deeds. Some see beauty in everything, Rev. Angle explained, while others see only evil. Steve Gause, a member of the senior class and a speech student, introduced Rev. Angle. Principal Hugh J. Andrews presided over the program.

Chinese Reds Push Onward

NEW DELHI (UPI) — Chinese Communist forces smashed through the ranks of retreating Indian defenders today and were reported within a few miles of the Assam Valley only a few hours before their scheduled cease-fire. A Defense Ministry spokesman disclosed that Indian forces in the North East Frontier Agency have fallen back 80 miles southof Wa long only a short time after Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru indicated he may reject Red China’s cease-fire bid. Nehru told an angry Parliament that India does “not propose to negotiate” with Communist China until its troops are pulled back to -positions they held last Sept. 8. Bid, he,refused . reject .the 9«er flatly until he saw an official text of the note from Peking. Cease-Fire Hour Near In a surprise move the Chinese Communists had announced early today that they would put the cease-fire into effect at midnight (10 a.m. CST;, but they continued to roll forward as the deadline neared. Only Tuesday, the Indian troops were reported holding defensive positions only 14 miles south of Walong. Since then, they have retreated 64 miles in one day. The retreat by the Indian forces was disclosed after the spokesman had said that "in the Kameng division of the NEFA sporadic

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individual lights. The mayor and the councilmen also agreed that many local residents are under the impression that “nearly all the money from the sale of the light plant has been spent.” This is definitely an error, the mayor explained. Roughly, more than one million, 250 thousand dollars is still in bonds, and collecting interest. The electric utility was sold to Indiana & Michigan for slightly over $2 million, and of that money some $600,000 was used to pay off electric utility bonds that were issued when the light plant was built. Thus, slightly more than one million, 400 thousand dollars remained from the sale of the utility. Os this, Mayor Gage stated, only about $150,000 has been spent, which mcjjins that over one million, 250 thousand dollars is still in bonds. The mayor said that he had heard, as many of the councilmrn had heard, that the new street lights, much street work around the city, the new water towers, the addition to the fire station, the new fire truck, etc., were financed through the funds received for selling the light plant, which is incorrect. Mrs. Fred C. Myers — Is Taken By Death Mrs. Mary E. Myers, 79, wife of Fred C. Myers of Blue Creek township, PA miles southwest of Sailem, died at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been a patient for five months. She was born in St. Mary’s township Aug. 19, 1883, a daughter of Henry and Rebecca Miller-Teeple, I and was married to Fred C. Myers ,| March 21. 1903. They celebrated .1 their 59th wedding anniversary - last March- » Mrs. Myers was a member of the Salem Methodist church. Surviving in addittMi to_her hus- n band are four sons, Guy L. Myers of Louisville, Ky., John H. Myers of Mercer county, 0., Frederick A. Myers of Blue Creek township, and p James E. Myers of Decatur; four ■ daughters, • Mrs. Paul (Dellsen) ’ Brehm, Mrs. Eli (Ruth Marie) Hirschy, and Mrs. Otis (Betty) Sprunger, all of Monroe township, and Mrs. Gerald (Mary Lou) Haggard of Monroe; 24 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren, and three brothers, John Teeple of Bellefontaine, 0., Oscar Teeple of Blue Creek township, and Albert Teeple of Elida, O. Funeral service swill be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Salem Methodist church, the Re v. L. A. Middaugh and the Rev. Joseph Gibson officiating. Burial will be in the Tricker cemetery. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 p.m. today. The body will lie in state at the church from 12:30 p.m. Friday until time of the services.

j fighting is in progress in the , mountains some miles south of ; Bomdila.” * j During a question period that , followed, he added that “There is I some enemy breakthrough toward the foothills.” , The spokesn|an refused to pin- , point the breakthrough, but this J was the first mention by the Inj dians of- the foothills area just . north of the Assam border. , It meant that the Chinese had 1 cut ruthlessly through the high Himalayas and were on the point of breaking free into the plains of > Assam and possibly into the heart t of northeastern India. > Near Rich Oilfields . -From-the foothills the Chinese t the Assam plains with their rice paddies, great tea plantations and the Digboi oilfields. The Commu- > nists also woijld be within easy r reach of Tezpur, headquarters-for—-j the military forces defending the t NEFA, which is only 30 miles I away by road. 1 INDIANA WEATHER ’ Partly cloudy and a little i cooler tonight and Thursday. south. High Thursday 43 to 48. Low tonight 28 to 35 north, 40a ; Sunset today 5:25 p.m. Sunrise l Thursday 7:37 a.m. Outlook for r Friday: Partly cloudy and a little cooler. ■■