Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1962 — Page 1

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HF * _ —JM - JKJ leOm wwgS.. ' *-7 M UL HAPPY GAL — Karen Spitzer, 13, of Pleasant Plains, Hl., is a mightly happy gal as she hugs Master Eileenmere, her yearling which won the junior grand championship at the 1962 International Live Stock exposition in Chicago. Exhibitors are made up from 36 states and Canada.

Decatur Man Killed In Fall From Horse

William. N. (Bill) Baxter, 25, a resident of the Simerman Trailer Court in this city, died at 9:30 o’clock Sunday night at the Adams county memorial hospital from injuries suffered four hours earlier when he was thrown from a horse. Baxter was riding the high spirited horse along state highway 124, between Monroe and Coppess Corners, when the horse suddenly bolted and ran into a telephone post near the Harvey Smith home. The accident occurred about 5:30 p. m. and efforts to save Baxter s life were futile. Elmer Winteregg, Jr., Adams county coroner, said death was caused by a fractured cervical vertebra — The local man was riding a horse which he had leased recently from Palmer Schwartz of route 1, Monroe, when the fatal mishap (occurred. \ His nephew, Ronnie ISmith, had been riding with Baxter on the horse, but at the time of the accident, was running some distance behind the horse, and did not witness the l actual cause of the horse throwing Baxter. Believe Hit Pole Investigating authorities, who included county coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., and deputy sheriff Robert Meyer, believe that Baxter was thrown into a telephone pole, causing the fatal injuries. Apparently, the horse was running toward the telephone pole, as tracks at the scene show, and stopped suddenly, throwing Baxter into the pole, as the horse veered to the left of the pole. The last hoofprint was heavily embedded in the ground, giving reason for the belief that the animal braked suddenly. Baxter was riding the animal along state road 124, about 1,500 feet east of the U. S. 27 intersection, when thrown. The telephone pole was splintered, and deputy sheriff Meyer was to check with the Citizens Telephone Co. today to find out whether or not there was any report of the pole being damaged previous Ao the accident. Aid Summoned The nephew quickly summoned aid, and Baxter’s brother, Bobby Baxter, secured the Monroe fire department's resuscitator and was giving his brother oxygen when the ambulance arrived. “Good Horseman’’ Baxter had ridden horses for sometime, and was described as “a good horseman.” Exact details are still somewhat sketchy as there were no witnesses to the mishap with the exception of two girls. The two girls had told someone at the scene that they had been operating an automobile some distance from the accident, but in the confusion no one obtained their names. Meyer, who was not called until Baxter had been taken to the hospital, has requested that , anyone who witnessed the fatal mishap contact the Adams county sheriff’s department. The victim was born in Monroe March 14, 1937, a son of Floyd and Florence Snow-Baxter. His mother died May 3, 1945. The young man, who spent most of his life in and near Decatur,

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was employed by the Laßrado Bros. Construction Co. at Fort Wayne. He lived for six years at Richmond and was a graduate of the Richmond high school. He served in the U. S. Marines Corps from May 21, 1956 until May 2, 1958, and was a member of the Marine reserves. Mr. Baxter was a member of the First Baptist church at Richmond. Funeral Wednesday Surviving are his father, Floyd, of Monroe; one brother, Bobby Baxter of Monroe; one sister, Mrs. Harvey (Wanda) Smith of Monroe; 10 nieces and nephews and one grandnephew. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p. m. Wednesday at the Winteregg-Linn funeral home, the Rev. W. F. Badgett of Richmond, and the Rev. C. A. McCallister of Monroe, 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. -1 Junk Yard Case Is Set For December 8 City court Judge John B. Stults today notified the parties and attorneys involved in the “junk yard” case that the hearing has been set for Saturday, December 8. at 10:30 a. m. Miss Eleanor R. Wemhoff, an Eighth St. resident, who signed three affidavits in the case, is represented by city attorney Robert S. Anderson, while the defendants are represented by Custer and Smith. The three affidavits signed by Miss Wemhoff have been filed with Judge Stults. One affidavit is against Lawrence and Arlene Gallogly for allowing “junk” to be deposited on their lot on N. Eighth St.; while the second ’s against Edward Imel for dumping the “junk” on the lot; and the third is against all three for conspiring together to allow a violation of a city zoning ordinance to continue. Miss Wemhoff, who resides with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wemhoff, at .309 N. Eighth St., on the west side of the street, facing the alleged “junk yard” on the east side of Eighth street, signed the affidavits Friday afternoon. Zoning Ordinance The ordinance allegedly violated is general ordinance 1-149 of the zoning ordinance, which says that no junk storage shall be dumped except within a closed building or a lot with a solid, eight-foot fence around the lot, within 300 feet of a residential district. The city of Decatur had filed similar charges against Mr? and Mrs. Gallogly and Imel last summer, but the case was continued in city court when the defendants informed Judge Stults that they would discontinue dumping certain items on the lot and would also clean up the area.

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Prison Inmate Killed Aiding 16 Hostages FOLSOM, Calif. (UPD — A deeply religious Folsom prison inmate died Sunday in a futile attempt to stop three other prisoners from kidnaping and holding hostage members of a church choir who had come to sing for them. Conrad N. Becker, 41, serving time for ’burglary, was stabbed three times with a makeshift knife. He died without knowing that the three convicts released their prisoners unharmed after negotiations with prison authorities. The stabbing occurred in the prison chapel of the maximum security prison just as the 16member Bethel Choir from nearby Scaramento finished its first hymn of the afternoon services. Becker noticed the three convicts, all armed with some sort of weapons, walking purposefully up the aisle toward the choir. He screamed, “Praise God,” and attempted to tackle one of the men who turned and stabbed him repeatedly. Serving Life Sentences The convicts, all serving life sentences, hustled six of the startled choir members and the prison chaplain into the chaplain’s seven-by-seven foot office. Then they began negotiations for release with Warden Robert A. Heinze, and Richard A. McGee, director of the California prison system. Discussions were carried on through a window of the door which one convict smashed. “They wanted us to open the gates, and we just don't open gates,” said Heinze. “It’s possible that these fellows just wanted to give it a try to see ff it would work.” After three and a half hours the convicts, Farrell Fenton, 29, Edward W. Maher, 27, and Edward Caugh, 29, released their seven hostages. The inmates then were questioned and placed in solitary confinement. Death Penalty Mandatory McGee, called to the prison from Sacramento, said later that he promised the men he would ask the district attorney not to prosecute them under a state law which makes the death penalty mandatory for a lifer convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. Neverthless Asst. Dist. Atty. Oscar Kistle sfid he would ask the Sacramento grand jury for murder indictments against all three. Becker was described as a man with deep religious covictions. He attended Sunday choir sessions whenever possible in order to take part in the group singing. The members of the choir held prisoner were identified as Frank Dotson, Howard Hooker, Naaman Hall, Joseph Crike, Herschel Dean, and their leader, the Rev. Frank Mapes. Prison chaplain Heath Owry also was held. * Officers Elected By County Council The Adams county council met for the final time in 1962 this morning, electing new officers for 1963, and approving certain additional appropriations and reductions. The council met at 10 a. m., and adjourned shortly after noon today. Leon Neuenschwander was elected president of the county council, and Frank Bohnke was chosen vice president. The two councilmen, both at-,, large members of the board, served in the same capacities this year. A total of 32 additional appropriations in the county general fund, for various county offices and departments, were approved, and five additional appropriations for the county highway department were approved. A total of 18 reductions were also approved in the county general fund, as were six reductions in the county highway department. All additional appropriations requested by the various offices and departments, and all reductions requested, were approved by the council as they were submitted. A legal notice appeared in the November 23 Daily Democrat, carrying the entire list of additional appropriations —and reductions. Members of the county council, in addition to Neuenschwander and Bohnke, are Winfred Gerke, Ist district; Julius Schultz, 2nd district; Floyd Meyer, 3rd district; Chris Stahly, 4th district; and William Kruetzman, at-large.

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United States Appeals To Disarmament Parley For Nuclear Test Bans

Crush Revolt In Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY (UPD— President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes personally directed loyal army troops Sunday in squelching a three-hour air force uprising he said was directed by agents of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. Two civilians were killed and scores injured during the battle between strafing air force planes and army ground units using anti-aircraft batteries and machine guns. The number of military casualties was not known. Five Mustang fighters and three twin-en-gine medium bombers made repeated passes over the presidential palace, infantry garrisons and police headquarters, raking them with rocket and machine gun fire. A statement from the presidency said anti-aircraft guns shot down one of the fighter planes. Police headquarters was reported destroyed. The revolt collapsed when army troops backed by mortars and artillery surrounded the Aurora International Airport south of the city and forced ai»-force-infantrymen to surrender. The airport was the center of the revolt which started shortly after 9 a.m. and was snuffed out by ' noon. The government said rebellion was confined to a Jew officers in the capital and did not spread to the interior. The presidency announced that three leaders of the revolt — all air force colonels — had fled by airplane, probably to El Salvador. Ydigoras told reporters that their fellow officers had asked him to permit the escape as a “favor.” (In Washington, Guatemalan Ambassador Carlos Alejos identified the colonels as Carlos Marroquin, Jose Gonzales Batres and Manuel Asturias Sobral. He said they did not have any left-wing affiliation. The State Department in Washington said one United States citizen received a flesh wound from falling shrapnel during the brief battle. She was Mrs. Phillip F. Snare, wife of a political officer of the U.S. Embassy, whose home was near the bombed installations.) Probe Burglary At Linn Grove Store The sheriff’s department and the Indiana state police are investigating today a burglary that occurred at the Linn Grove Hardware store sometime late Sunday night or early this morning. The theft was discovered about 7 o’clock this morning, and sheriff Roger Singleton, deputy sheriff Harold August and state detective Walter Schindler spent nearly the entire morning investigating. Listed among the stolen articles are two shotguns, a 20 gauge and a 12 gauge; a case of shotgun transistor radios, 17 watches and a shells, approximately 20 boxes; two night lantern, plus two cartons of cigarettes. The stolen items were valued at approximately $4 0 0 total value. The thief, or thieves, entered, the building by breaking a glass in a rear door, and unlocking the door. The investigation is being continued. BULLETIN Albert Colchin, 75, of 422 Fornax street, lifelong resident of Decatur, died at 2:47 p. m. today at the Adams county memorial hospital. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home. Funeral arrangeihents have not been completed.

Native Os Decatur Dies In Michigan Word was received here today of the death last Wednesday at Lansing, Mich., of MederiC T. Miller, 64, a native of Decatur, but a resident of Michigan most of his life. Mr. Miller had been an inspector for the foods and standards division of the Michigan state department of agriculture since 1948. He was formerly a food retailer. He was born in Decatur and graduated from the Grand Rapids, Mich., high school. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of St. Casimir church at Lansing, where he had lived for the past 25 years. Surviving are his wife, Mary L.; two brothers, Wayne Miller of Roseville, Mich., and Clare Miller of Newport, Mich., and one sister, Mrs. Betty Schultz of Grand Rapids. Mich.” ” Funeral services and burial were held at Lansing, Mrs. Della Parrish Dies This Morning Mrs. Della May Parrish, 83, of 2019 Webster street. Fort Wayne and a former resident of Decatur, died at 6 o’clock this morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Death was caused by complications. She had been hospitalized for the past four weeks. Born in Adams county May 15, 1879, she was adaughte rof Josiah and Mary Bargis-Engle, and was married to Homer F. Parrish November 10, 1919. Her husband preceded her in death several years ago. Mrs. Parrish was a member of the Bethel Brethren church, east of Berne. Surviving are two sons, Robert A. Parrish of Fort Wayne, and Kenneth L. Parrish of Elmira, N. Y.; two daughters, . Mrs. Richard (Mary Ellen) Garner of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Lawrence (Ruth) Pearson of Dayton, O.; 16 grandchildren and 18 gyeat-grandchild-ren. One son, three daughters and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick Funeral home, the Rev. A. Hunter Colpits, pastor of the Crescent Ave. E. U. B. church in Fort Wayne, officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery at Berne. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Tuesday until time of the services.

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GENEVA (UPD — The United! States told the 17-nation disarma-I. ment conference here today that i recent events which took civilization close to the abyss of nuclear | war have brought a new sense of urgency to the conference’s work. U.S. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean appealed to the conference to demonstrate a will to resolve differences as the disarmament negotiators met for the first time in months to start a concerted drive toward a nuclear test ban by Christmas. The conference resumed in a shadow cast by reports the Soviet Union was continuing nuclear weapons tests—at a rate of one every two days. Dean read a message from President Kennedy appealing for early completion of a test ban. “We are all familiar with recent events that brought civilization so close to the abyss of nuclear war, a war which many have talked about but which must be viewed even more soberly and responsibly as a result of recent events,” Dean said. “These have left somber lessons for our work here.” The U.S. ambassador said the Cuban and Indian crises mean that “we must devote ourselves with a renewed sense of urgency and purpose to this unfinished business—the strong inventive to halt the arms race continues.” “Whatever may have induced Chairman (Soviet Premier Nikita S.) Khrushchev to initiate the events of recent weefes, thereafter wise statesmanship has been displayed on both sides in subsequent efforts to resolve the crisis and the world has been given a dramatic demonstration that the earth’s two great military powers can reach agreement based on reason when a sufficient inventive to reach agreement exists on both sides,” dean said. .

“It is for us here to demonstrate that the will to resolve differences can forge agreements even in the absence of the catalyst of acute crisis.” Dean pledged the United States to seek, in every reasonable way, to overcome the admittedly serious differences that do exist with respect to all of the issues that go into the subject of general and complete disarmament. “Let us talk with and not at each other,” he said. On the question of a test ban the American representative said the West would continue to press for adoption of one or other of the two draft treaties submitted to the conference Aug. 27—even though they have already been rejected by the Russians because they contain provisions for international on - site inspection of suspected underground nuclear tests. Zimmerman Infant Dies This Morning Roxanne Zimmerman, infant daughter of Avon and Eileen Han-ni-Zimmerman, 1221 North Second street, died at 5:01 a. m. today at the Adams county -memorial hospital, 10 minutes after birth. Surviving in addition to the parents are the grandmothers, Mrs. Gregg Zimmerman and Mrs. Opal Zimmerman. Graveside services, conducted by the Zwick funeral home, will be held at 10 a. m. Tuesday at the Decatur cemetery, the Rev. Huston Bever officiating.

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Santa Claus Train Tickets On Tuesday

Decatur merchants will begin distribution of Santa Claus train tickets Tuesday to all Decatur and area children, for the train ride Saturday, Decatur 1. Local merchants were to receive their tickets today, and the tickets will be given free of charge Tuesday. The tickets must be obtained by adults. The retail division of the Chamber of Commerce is once again handling arrangements for the Santa Claus train, and have requested that parents pick up tickets for their children at' Decatui- stores. Adult tickets will also go on sale Tuesday, and may be purchased at the office of the Chamber of Commerce, located at 227 N. Second St., only. Three trains will leave the Erie railroad depot at three times Saturday, the. sixth annual Santa Claus train rides. Three Times Trains will leave at 10 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and the last train will leave the depot at 4 p.m. A large crowd of children and parents are expected to make the short excursion. Once again, the main guest all three rides will be Santa Claus

Cuba Rejects U. S. Demand

HAVANA (UPD — Cuba declared today that it would allow U.N. on-site inspections on its territory only if the United States would agree to similar U.N. supervision of the dismantling of “training camps bf mercenaries, spies, saboteurs and terrorists” on U.S. soil. The effect of the declaration by the Castro government was to reject the U.S. demand that Cuba permit inspection by the United Nations to verify that Soviet missiles and other weapons have been removed from Cuba. The official statement, printed in the government press declared also that Cuba “reserves the right to acquire arms of any type for its defense and to take the steps it deems pertinent to strengthening its security.” This also was in retort to President Kennedy’s news conference statement of last week noting that “no lasting safeguards” had yet been established against the reintroduction of offensive weapons to Cuba. The statement, as published in the newspaper Revolucion, said: “The United Nations must verify on- the continental soil of the United States, Puerto Rico and other sitfes where aggression is being prepared against Cuba, the dismantling of training camps of mercenaries, spies, saboteurs and terrorists, centers where subversion is being prepared and bases from which pirate ships embark against our coasts.” • The statement was released hours before Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan was scheduled to return to New York after a 24-day visit to Cuba. Mikoyan made a farewell address to the Cuban people Sunday night over a nationwide radio and television hookup, pledging that “the cause of Cuba is the cause of the Soviet Union." Mikoyan has been invited to dine with U.N. Acting Secretary General Thant in New York. Mikoyan did not disclose 7 the results of his talks with Premier Fidel Castro and other Cuban government leaders during his visit which started Nov. 2. Castro had said before his arrival that Cuba wanted to discuss So-

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who flies in from the North Pole each year to ride the train named after him. The retail division’s committee in charge of the trains is composed of Herb Banning, Ferris Bower, Roy Kalver, and Louis Jacobs. Weldon M. Bumgerdner, Erie railroad agent, has worked with the committee in setting up plans for the Santa Claus trains this year. Local merchants who are distributing tickets may be identified by signs in their windows or stores. To Parents Only The tickets will be distributed to parents of children only so as to make sure that everyone receives tickets and the opportunity to ride one of the three trains. In the past, tickets have also been given to children, but this will not be the case this year, as children in the past have taken more tickets than are needed by them. The Santa Claus train rides have proven highly enjoyed by Decatur and area children, in the past, and one of the largest crowds ever is expected to ride the trains next Saturday.

viet-Cuban “differences” on a basis of equality. Mikoyan did make an indirect reference to the Soviet decision to withdraw missiles and bombers from Cuba by hailing “the wisdom of the policy of avoiding a thermonuclear war.” He said Russia was “helping the Cuban people achieve their independence” and “construct a new social order under comrade Fidel Castro together with comrade Raul Castro and comrade Carlos Rafael Rodriguez.” Rodriguez is a top Cuban Communist who currently heads the Agrarian Reform Institute which shapes all of Cuba's land and agricultural policies. Mi'koyan said the armed forces of Cuba are ready to fight and die “but Cuba is not going to die. Rather, its enemies are going to die.” In a warning to the United States and other “enemies” of Cuba, Mikoyan said “they must understand that Cuba is ready to defend itself and that standing behind Cuba is the Soviet Union and the other socialist nations.’’ In an apparent reference to the Soviet missile and bomber withdrawal, Mikoyan spoke of “difficult times for Cuba and for our people” but he said Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was "the closest friend of the Cuban people who did much for them and who played an important role" in settling the crisis peacefully. As in former statements, the Soviet deputy premier backed Castro’s five demands for a settlement of U.S.-Cuban tension, including American withdrawal from the Guantanamo -naval base. INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness and not quite so cold tonight. Tuesday cloudy and mild with chance of light rain or drisxle. Low tonight 33 to 38. High Tuesday lowers 50s. Sunset today 5:23 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:43 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and mild. Lows upper 30s. Highs in the 50s. -X.