Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1962 — Page 1

VOL. LX NO. 280.

Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Struck; Study Invoking Os Taft-Hartley Measure

Former Queen Wilhelmina Dies Today APELDOORN, Holland (UPD— Former Queen Wilhelmina, who ruled The Netherlands for 58 years and became a symbol of strength against Nazi aggression, died in her sleep early today of a heart ailment complicated by old age. She was 82. At her bedside in the wooded «estate of Het Loo Palace were her daughter, Queen Juliana; Prince Bernhard, Juliana’s husband; and two granddaughters, Princesses Margriet and Marijke. Heiress presumptive Princess Beatrix was summoned home from Hong Kong, her latest stop on a world tour. Princess Trine was flying back from London. "Ulis nation of 11.4 million was plunged into deep mourning for the beloved Queen Mother who had lifted its spirits and bolstered its courage during the d arkest days of World War 11. Flags w ere lowered to halfstaff. Holland’s two radio networks interrupted their programs to broadcast news of the death and then observed 10* minutes silence, followed by mourning mu- ■--- sic. —■- In accordance with her wishes, Wilhelmina will be "buried in white ' like my beloved husband, Prince Hendrik” in the Delft Cathedral. He died in 1934. The tombs are near that of William the Silent who founded Holland in the 16th Century. Wilhelmina, who escaped Nazi dive bombers May 13, 1940, and ..... ..fled-, to a wartime axUe to -Eng-. land, had been ailing for several weeks. Medical bulletins were issued at her own request. She had ruled from the throne longer than any other member of the House of Orange, ascending at the age of 10 in 1890. She was officially crowned 8 years later. ' She stepped down from the throne Sept. 5, 1948, in favor of Juliana. A queen’s household spokesman said Wilhelmina’s funeral “will not ta'.ce place before next Wednesday,” allowing for the customary eight - day mourning period. The body is expected to lie in state in the Delft Cathedral beginning next week. Both houses of Parliament met to commemorate Wilhelmina’s death.

Living Costs Show Decline

WASHINGTON (UPD—The cost of living declined .1 per cent during October, the first decrease since December, 1961, the Department of Labor reported today. Another slight decline is antic* ipated in the November index, according to Arnold E. Chase, director of the price division of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The decline, however, is not exdrop probably would not have occurred at all, Chase said, if the index had not risen .6 per cent in September. That hike was at-' tributed to the. National Farmers - ©rgtalzafioh’s Withholding of live-’ stock from the market The strike was over by October and lower meat prices brought the index down. "The slight decline was a reaction to a sharp increase in September,” Chase said. The index for October stood at 106 per cent of the 1957-59 average. Despite the sllght decllne, it was 1.3 per cent higher than a year earlier, mostly because ot steady increases in food and

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Community Fund's Quota Is Exceeded | The Decatur Community Fund goal of $25,610 has been exceeded, and $25,733.74 has already been pledged or turned in, Richard Schauss, drive chairman, reported today. This is the first time in several years that the drive actually went over the top By reaching the goal, Schauss stated, the hundreds of devoted workers, who gave their time and effort, and the thousands of donors, assured that all ten local agencies will get their share in 1963 of the approved budgets. David A. Moore, president of the Community Fund, also announced that the fund expects to be able to pay 100% of this year’s payment, the final payment being due next month, because of the fact that the drive is going over the top this year. Any additional donations this year will continue to help make up the past deficits, he explained, and assure the orderly running of local charities. Schauss and Moore, speaking for the drive chairmen and board, and for the agencies, thanked all of the workers and donors for their great efforts this year. The following agencies are helped by the Decatur Community Fund: Crippled Children’s fund, mental health, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, pony and little league, Red Cross, Decatur youth center, USO, Salvation Army and American Field Service (exchange program). Civic Music Concert Heres Thursday Nigbt The second concert of the Adams County Civic Music Association will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. The guest artist will be Betty Allen, noted mezzo-soprano. . DECATI'R TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at It a.m. today. noon 60 IS midnight ...51 1 P-m 62 1 a.m 50 2P m 63 2 a.m 49 » P-m 64 3 a.m 49 < P-m 63 4 a.m 48 “ P-.m 60 5 a.m 48 6 P-m 58 6 a.m 48 7 P-m. 56 7 a.m. 48 ? P-m 54 8 a.m 48 » P-m 52 9 a.m 54 10 P m 52 10 a.m 57 11 P-m 52 11 a.m 58 Hain Total for the 24 hour period endln£.at„7 a.m. today, .0 Inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.21 feet.

services. Meat prices, despite their decline after the strike, remained high. Chase said the price of beef was expected to continue at a high level during the winter because farmers were expected to keep cattle on the farm and feed them with low-cost feed rather than take them to market. Other f actors contributing slightly to the October decline were a drop in the price of gasoline and movie admissions, Chase said. Most other items, were up. ■ ' ■', ■ . ■ . , Underground Nuclear...... WASHINGTON (UPD — The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) touched off another underground nuclear blast in Nevada Tuesday. The AEC said the test, yielding power equivalent to less than 20,000 tons of TNT, was its 57th announced test since the series was started in September, 1961.

Decatur Stores Now Open Thursday Afternoon

Resume Search For h. Air Crash Victims

LIMA, Peru (UPD — Search parties set out at dawn today for the stark granite slopes of Las Cruces Hill to resume the grim task of collecting the bodies of 97 persons killed in Tuesday’s Brazilian airliner crash. At least 15 of the dead were American. Fifty-six bodies had been recovered at nightfall Tuesday, when darkness forced suspension of the search. The only remains identified immediately were those of Maj. Gen. Jesus Melgar, agriculture minister in Peru's military junta government, and his wife. Fifth Recent Crash The crash brought the five-day, world-wide toll of air crashes to 179 dead. The other 82 perished in crashes in Maryland, Brazil, France and Portuguese Africa. The plane that crashed Tuesday, a 707 jet operated by Brazil’s Varig Airline, was on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Los Angeles. Lima was to have been its first stop. The giant jet was only tour minutes from the Lima Airport when it slammed into the side of Las Cruces Hill, which rises 2,000 feet from the coastal desert 12% miles south of here. There was no immediate explanation for the cause of the crash. The pilot had reported nothing amiss when he was in radio contact with the field shortly before the plane struck the hill. The dead included an 11-man delegation from Cuba which was returning from an international

Band Parents Form Association Here 1 The parents of Decatur public school children have organized a city-wide Decatur band parents association, and elected Mrs. Kenneth Singleton as their first president, it was announced today. In a meeting held Monday evening, the group accepted a new constitution, set of bylaws, and elected officers. The group will meet twice a year, once in the fall, once in the spring. Four Purposes Purposes of the new group are four: 1. To arouse and maintain interest in the various phases of the instrumental music department of the Decatur public schools. 2. To lend support, both moral and financial, to the general instrumental music program in the Decatur public schools. 3. To cooperate With the Decatur school board and music instructors to keep the department at the highest possible degree of efficiency. 4. To build and maintain an organization which will help promote the general activities of the instrumental music department of the public schools. Other Officers Membership_is .limited tothe parents and guardians of pupils in the instrumental music department, supervisors of the department, and school administrators. New officers, in addition to Mrs. Singleton, are: ... Vice president, Mrs... Elbert Smlffi; "secretary, Mrs. Carl Baxters treasurer r =Mrs. Arthur Beeler. Three standing committees will be named by the new organization: a finance committee, a band uniform committee, and a publicity committee. Qffleersr fiuui now on, will be elected at the spring meeting, and take office September 1. Officers will Serve until then, or until their successors are duly elected and : qualified.

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conference in Rio. The chief delegate was Raul Cepero Bonilla, president of the Cuban National Bank.

Americans Identified Reported American victims of the crash were: —Manhattan accountant and Mrs. Sidney Burdick of Croton-On-Hudson, N.Y. —Oil executive Paul A. Best, 51, of 440 Hale St. Palo Alto, Calif. —Varig sales representative and Mrs. Robert Morris of Menomonee Falls, Wis. —Walter C. Gardner of New York City, (Standard) Oil Company aviation operations analyst. —Columbia University student Wolfram Arendt of Monmouth, N. J. —Bromwell E. Freeman, who lived in Latin America. His son lives in ,1108 Bryn Mawr Rd., Baltimore. —Eulogio Ripoll of 430 W. 119th St. New Yoifc City. Walter H. Echtenkamp of 730-9 N.W. King, Seattle. —William J. Bayless of 13 Simpson Rdd., New Brunswick, N. J. <i —Katerheine A., Katherine, David T. and Roberto M. Rock, members of an American family living in Latin America. Also on board the ill-fated plane were Henrik D. Schouten, a Dutch citizen who represented the McGraw-Hill (publishing) Co. in Brazil, and Francisco Garcia, a man of unidentified nationality who lived in Miami. Benjamin Mazelin 5-Acre Corn Champ Benjamin Mazelin, prominent Monroe township• farmer, has again been named the winner in the senior five-acre Adams county corn contest, having the top yield of 179.3 bushels per acre, Leo N. Seltenright, county agricultural agent, announced this morning. The junior winner was Ronnie Lee Mosser with a yield of 179.6 bushels per acre. In the fiveacre soybean contest. Hugo Bulmahn was the winner with a yield of 45.9 bushels per acre. Rose gold winners in the senior corn contest, in addition to Mazelin, were: Theodore Kipfer, 178.2 bushels; Ernie Isch, 173.6; John Kipfer, 171.6; Franklin Steury, 170; Dan Striker, 169.2; Martin Habegger, 167.3; Martin Kipfer, 167.2; Holman Egly, 165.4; David Schwartz, 164.3; Claude Striker, 164; Joe Isch, 162.7; Rona'.d Rhoades, 162.2; Eli Schwartz, 162.2; Hugh Mosser, 161.8; Dan Fiechter, 161.1; Reuben Schwartz, 159.8; Catherine. Mosser, 159.1; Ben Gerke, 158.9; Delmas Bollenbacher, 158.2; L. Bollenbacher, 155.6; Dwight Moser, 152.6; Marcus Luginbill, 151.5; Merle Kuhn, 150.1. Green gold winners were: Harold Moser, 146.8; Henry Heimann, 146.4; Doyle Lehman, 143.6; Irvin Worthman, 142.7; Elmer Isch, 141.2; Edison Lehman, 141.1; Claren Lehman, 136.6; Sylvan Habegger, 135.2; Mrs. Claren Lehman, 134; Robert Plumley, 133.5; Ervin Schuller, 132.7; Hugo Bulmahn, 129JJ; Edward Marbach, 125. The gold winner was Richard Scheumann with 105.7 bushels per acre. ■ ■ ■■■. Junior rose gold winners were: Ronnie Lee Mosser, 179.6; Ronald Habegger, 176.4; Richard Schwartz, 157.7; Roy Mazelin, 156.9; Gerald Bulmahn, 151.4. Junior green gold winners: Perry Isch, 145.9; Ron Schwartz, 137.2; Larry Plumley, 134.4. Soybean yields were: Hugo Biilmahn, 45.954; Ben Gerke, 35.778; Marcus Luginbill, 35.155; Ervin Schuller, 31.095; Robert Plumley, 30.182. . ■

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The government is considering invoking the Taft-Hartley Act to bring a halt to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp, strike, the Defense Department said today. President Kennedy would have to invoke the act, which requires a 80-day “cooling off” period. Members of the International Association of Machinists struck Lockheed facilities in Florida, California and Hawaii early today. A Defense Department spcfcesman said “ope of the things that is being considered” is whether the. Taft-Hartley Act should be invoked. Meanwhile, the union machinists were picketing Lockheed’s production plants and missile bases in a widespread strike affecting some 55,000 employes from Cape Canaveral to Hawaii. The strike was called at midnight by the International Association of Machinists when negotiators said they still were hopelessly deadlocked on the crucial union shop issue which had stalled mediation attempts. Federal mediator William Simkins said he would return to Washington to make a report to President Kennedy on the status of the deadlock. The President may order an 80-day cooling off period under the Taft - Hartley Act to end the walkout. The Lockheed installation at Cape Canaveral was struck first at midnight EST and West Coast members walked off their jobs *three hours later. One man was arrested at the Sunnyvale, Calif., facility when he apparently refused to get out of a street intersection near the plant. Police said Richard Carson, 22, was charged with “obstructing lawful duties of an officer.” Several cars were turned back by pickets at the Sunnyvale site and some vehicles had tail lights broken or fenders kicked. Lockheed’s research laboratory picketed. Several hundred spectators milled with 40-50 pickets at the main gate of the major installation here of the California division that produces the FlO4 Starfighter and P3A Orion anti-sub-marine patrol planes. Lockheed Vice President John Canaday said all plants are open and the firm was determined to “make every effort to minimize the effects (of the strike) and continue operations.” The California division employs 24,000 workers here and at Palmdale, Calif. The missiles and space division employs some 31,000 persons at Sunnyvale, Van Nuys, Santa Cruz, Rye Canyon and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and at Honolulu and the Cape. Another 20,000 employes of Lockheed divisions at other locations, including Marietta, Ga., were not affected by the walkout. Negotiations were broken off here Tuesday night and pickets then tock up placards and began chanting “The strike is on” as they marched at the gates. The pickets remained orderly and there was no sign of violence although police details remained on duty. At Vandenberg and Point Arguello, launch sites for the Discoverer, Midas, Samos and other major space efforts, pickets concentrated on roads leading to the bases. A picket at the Burbank plant told United Press International, “This could go on forever, Final Rites Friday For Morris Snyder Funeral services forA/2CMorris Snyder, of Geneva, whodied unexpectedly Monday night at Langley Field, Virginia, will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva. The Rev. Howard Cress will officiate, and burial will be in the Westlawn cemetery at Geneva. — Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Thursday. Mr. Snyder was a member of the Geneva Methodist church and the Masonic lodge at Geneva.

Appreciation Dinner Os Scouters Monday o J. A. Brunton, Jr. Joseph A. Brunton, Jr., chief scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America, will be the speaker at the annual appreciation dinner for all local scouters at the coliseum in Fort Wayne next Monday. About 2,500 adults active in scouting, as cubmasters, scoutmasters, explorer advisors, scout committee members, or institution?) representatives, will be honored at the meeting. Special awards will be announced and presented, including the Silver Beaver to four area men whose service through the years to boyhood through Scouting has been outstanding. The Anthony Wayne area council includes more than 9,000 registered scouts, and more than 3,500 adult scouters. There are 313 scout units in the area. The speaker was assistant chief scout executive for three years prior to the retirement of Dr. Arthur A Schucfc in 1960, when he was unanimously elected Chief Scouter. An Eagle scout himself, he was born and educated in Pittsburgh, Pa. He has been a scoutmaster, assistant scoutmaster, and neighborhood and district scout comTraditionally, -the -Limberlosl district, which includes Adams ; Wells, and Jay counties, is the best-represented of the five districts in the nine-county area.

Plan Study Os ' - ? j - . . i'll .11 1. I 'nj'l* J-----’- ..I < ni»> ~JQ|4I i I jTUWrrtri State Budget

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The most important committee to function in the 1963 Indiana Legislature —the House Ways and » Means Committee which must : cope with top-ranking financial problems of state government—was appointed today. House. Speaker Richard W. Guthrie, R-Indianapolis, appointed Rep. John Coppes, R-Nappanee, as chairman and Rep. William H. • Hardwick, R-Martinsville, ranking member. Coppes is a veteran member of the State Budget Committee and Hardwick, a freshman lawmaker, is a former state budget director in the administration of former Gov. Harold W. Handley. Among the minority Democrats named to the committee was Rep. Wayne Townsend of Upland, recently appointed to the State Budget Committee. Other members are Republicans Otto Bonahoom of Fort Wayne, Ellsworth Peterson of Ligonier, Charles Howard of Noblesville, Ralph Dunbar of Osgood, Joseph Cloud of Richmond, Walter Barbour and Edward Madinger of Indianapolis and Fred Moss of Logansport, and Democrats Richard Bodine of Mishawaka, William Sebree of Anderson, Hilary Seng of Jasper, Fred Hinshaw of Muncie, and Paul Hric of Hammond. Coppes said the committee of JUL Republicans and six Democrats Would meet for a week beginning Dec. 17 to discuss budget requests and then would hold a three-day joint session with (he Sen.ate group .the start of the. assembly’ session. The three-day meeting will be devoted to hearings on the fund requests. The Republicans, who control both the House and Senate, originally intended to hold 11 of the places on the House Committee for themselves but agreed to an increase in the Democratic representation at a conference between Guthrie and Minority Leader Robert L. Rock, D-Anderson. Purpose of the pre-legislative conference, being, held for the sec- | ond time,Us to give the legisla-

Highlight Meeting Held Here Tuesday

Central Soya and Bag Service employes heard a report Tuesday night from Harold W. McMillen, Central Soya chairman .and Dale W. McMillen, Jr., president, at the company’s annual highlight meeting at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Harold McMillen reported a new high in sales and a substantial improvement in earnings compared to operations last year. "We manufactured and sold ~a record tonnage of Master Mix feeds,” he said, "purchased and processed a record volume of soybeans, continued to be extremely active in grain merchandising, and made significant improvements in our chemurgy products and markets.” He emphasized that Central Soya’s net worth of 68 million dollars means two things to its nearly 4,000 people — "future growth and future opportunities.” The board chairman pointed out that future growth and opportunities depend partly upon production economics such as were put into effect at all plant facilities during the year. “These economics have helped to improve our cost and growth potential picture this year,” he said, and "we must continue to achieve more efficient production if we are to carry our growth potential into the coming years.” Expansion Program President Dale W. McMillen, Jr., told of several expansion programs that were completed or begun during the past year, such as the new three-million-gallon soybean oil storage tank at Decatur, and the 500-ton-per-day feed mill at Indianapolis, which was officially opened in August to serve Master Mix customers in central and southern Indiana . He described the growth that has occurred in the firm’s chemurgy division, including increased Promine production facilities in Chicago and expansion of both staff and equipment at chemurgy’s application research laboratories. He called attention to the construction of a new Promosoy plant at Gibson City, 111., which gives Central Soya a second location for the production of protein concentrates

tors an advance look at the problems which will come before them during the 61-day session. It also allows the legislators to get some of the preliminaries out of the way before the start of the session, thus saving valuable legislative time. The session got off to a fast start Tuesday with a report by Governor Welsh on the state’s financial needs above and beyond those embodied in his “balanced budget” to be outlined today by State Budget Director John Hatchett. While trying to digest Welsh’s figures, the legislators whipped through a series of tentative changes in their own jules, leaving themselves open to introduction of a flood of bills during the session. The major change eliminated restrictions on th© number of bills each member can introduce. There were indications, however, that a limit of some sort would be imposed at the start of the session. Thirteen study committees, many of them suggesting increased state spending, presented reports to a joint session of the House and Senate which, heard themwithout discussion and with few questions from the floor. Thirteen more reports were scheduled for presentation today. Most of the fund requests were in reports from educational study groups but a committee studying emotionally disturbed juvenile delinquents asked for $500,000 to be.gi11,... work on a treatment center for such children. The committee noted that the 1961 General Assembly authorized establishment of five such centers, with priority to one in Vanderburgh County, but did not appropriate any funds for the centers - The committee asked that the $500,000 be included in the construction budget of the State Department of Mental Health. Several of the study committees recommended that permanent groups be established to continue their work.

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for the food industry. i . President McMillen mentioned the acquisition of the Bellevue, Ohio, plant, with a soybean processing facility and storage for three-and-a- half million bushels of grain, to which a two milion bushel storage unit has since been added. Other grain storage expansion has occurred ati Red Wing, Minn., and at Evendale, Ohio, where a three million bushel elevator Was purchased. He spoke of the purchase of several additional facilities, including feed production facilities at Monroe, N. C ; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Mendenhall, Miss. The president also emphasized the importance of the people connected with the company’s operations, and described some of the research and service personnel, who are back of the company’s products and progress. He closed by describing Central Soya’s growing export operations, such as the Western Hemisphere export department office at Coral Gables, Fla., during the past year, and marketing activities in Europe which, “through our offices in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and our Central Soya-Ser-iom association in Milan, Italy, show 1 an exciting potential.” >

Some Train Ride Tickets Available Although most uptown merchants had given away their Santa Claus train tickets by noon Tuesday, other businesses in the outlying areas still had a limited number of tickets available at noon today, Ferris Bower, ticket chairman, explained. Parents have been urged by Bower, and other members of the retail division's committee handling the affair, to try several retailers if unsuccessful in their earlier attempts. Bower also said that a limited number of children’s, tickets are still available to merchants at the Chamber of Commerce office. Retailers who still have customers needing tickets may pick up additional tickets in any amount until every seat on the trains is used. Three Times The sixth annual affair, the Sanrailroad depot at three times Saturday, 10 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 4 p.m. “Railroad regulations require that every single individual must have a ticket to ride the train,” Bower said. “The Chamber must have someone to underwrite each ticket that is given away in order to meet expenses,” Bower stated, “and additional sponsors who sign up later will still have their names listed in the Santa Clause train news.”. Insert Ages The committee has requested that parents write the ages of the children on each ticket. Tickets are of different colors and can be used only for the train for which they were issued. W. Guy Brown, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, said that last year one sponsor reported tickets still remaining on the final day which someone had requested. Thus, parents should check the complete list of merchants participating and inquire at different stores if they need tickets. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, not much temperature change tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 30 to 35. High Thursday 45 to 50 north, 55 to 63 south. Sunset today 5:22 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 7:45 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Mostly cloudy and mild. Lows in the 30s. Highs in the 50a. ~ ~ - ~, ;■ i- 5 TWO SECTIONS a * * ' r— ———1 SHOPPIES Vj? jl|Crwriagsj>'l S ■■■■■■■■■ 0 linmi 111 .1 < '