Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1962 — Page 1

VOL LX NO. 306.

Kennedys To Salute Cubans

PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) — President Kennedy and his wife fly to Miami by helicopter today for a solemn salute to the Cubans who survived the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and subsequent months of imprisonment by the government of Fidel Castro. The Chief Executive and his Spanish-speaking wife were to fly from the Palm Beach Country Club this morning and land in front of the Miami police station. Then they will motor a short distance to the Orange Bowl stadium where the Chief Executive will inspect men of Brigade 2506, the Cuban volunteer outfit decimated by Castro troops in the abortive invasion of April, 1961. About 1,100 members of the brigade were released from prison in Cuba and flown to south Florida this week in return for ransom of money, food, medical supplies and credit mounting into the millions of dollars. 4' -'"'V President Plans Speech Possibly to repay a debt to the courageous invaders, and also, keep alive the hope of a free Cuba within the foreseeable future, the President, in addition to reviewing the brigade, planned to speak for about ten minutes in the stadium which can accommodate 80,000 persons. Mrs. Kennedy, fluent in several languages, will make one of her rare appearances before a mass audience. White House officials said they expected her to say a few words of greeting in Spanish. After the ceremony, the Kennedys will return quickly to Palm Beach. The Chief Executive, after a busy three days of conferences with key departmental and White House officials, planned no business meetings here until after New Year’s Day. Meets Budget Experts ’ His round of business meetings for this week wound up Friday night in a session with his budgetary experts and chief planners Local Man's Mother Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Elizabeth Reinick Blume, 77,. wife of Daniel H. Blume, 2625 Thompson Ave., Fort Wayne, died Friday at the Lutheran hospital, where she' had been a patient three days. She was a native of Junction, 0., but had resided in Fort Wayne since 1929. She was a member of the Apostolic Christian church. Surviving are her husband; three sons, Jessie Blume of Decatur, Arthur J. Blume of Fort Wayne, and Melvin R. Blume of Wauconda, Ill.; three daughters. Mrs. Ray M. Grote of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Levi Pfister of Gibbon, Minn., and Mrs. John Hathaway df ’Chicago; a brother, Eli Reinick of Bluffton; two sisters, Mrs. John Kaehr and Mrs. Mary Dotterer, both of Bluffton; 35 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the D. O. McComb and Sons funeral home and at 1:30 p.m. in the Apostolic Christtlon church, Norman Stoller officiating. Burial will be in the Apostolic Christian cemetery, southwest of Decatur. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

New International Furor Over Skybolt

WASHINGTON (UPI) — An overenthusiastic information release was blamed today for new international furor over the Skybolt missile. The controversy flared up again over an Air Force test of the rocket — which the administration has ordered scrapped—in the Atlantic missile range Last Saturday. The Air force issued a statement at the time claiming a complete success. Hut Informed sources said that although the test was as successful as could be expected under the - circumstances, the Air Force statement was misleading. . The Air Force said at Cape Canaveral last Saturday that the Skybolt “impacted in the target area” and was a “fully guided test missile.” Pentagon sources said this was misleading because: —Since the missile carried no protective nose cone, it was expected to—and did—burn up like a meteor in the atmosphere. But they said the word “impacted” implied that the missile actually struck the target area. —The Skybolt carried full guidance equipment, but it had no

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■ for the 1963 congressional session. > The late afternoon meeting had ’ brought together Chairman Walt- . pelger of die council of econo- ’ mic advisers; Kermit Gordon : who was sworn in Friday as bud- > get director; plus the upper echelon of the White House staff, Theodore Sorensen, Lawrence F. O’1 Brien, Kenneth P. O’Donnell and ’ Myer Feldman. i Before this meeting, the Presi- . dent conferred at length with An- ; thony J. Celenrezze, secretary of health, education and welfare. Kennedy made several sugges- ’ tions to Celebrezze, some of these ’ involving a new approach to medicare and federal aid to education. , The administration has not changed the basic design of these ’ controversial plans, but hopes to , win greater congressional support. [ Both basic plans were killed in , Congress last year. Auto License Sales • To Open Wednesday I [ 1963 license plates will go on . sale at the Decatur license bureau Wednesday, January 2, Mrs. Ber# [ nadine Heller, local branch man- • ager, said this morning. 1 License plate sales are expected 1 to surpass all previous sales this 1 year, as it -is expected that 6,000. dr more plates will be sold in ’ 1963. / ' Decatur license plate prefixes will be at the head of the list this I year, as the new prefixes go into effect. Prefixes this year will be ' a number, beginning with 1, plus a letter, replacing the two-letter system. The numbers will identi- , fy the county, and the letter the ‘ city. Decatur plates will carry a 1A . prefix, Berne a IB prefix, and Geneva IC. On Sale Wednesday Mrs. Heller explained that her > office will go to work Tuesday on the ne& plates, readying - plates that have already been sold. Nearly 400 plates have already been -paid- for by personswhowishto keep the same numbers they had for 1962. ; It is hoped that this work L be completed and out of the way , by the time the new plates go on sale Wednesday. Friday was the final day for persons who have requested the same number as last year to have [ paid for their plates. If not paid for Friday, they will go on sale with the rest of the 1963 plates. 6,000 Expected Sold A total of 5,906 1962 plates werd sold by the Decatur branch, Mrs. Heller explained, which causes expectations for over 6,000 plates to ’be sold next .... 4 * The ld6al license bureau has received 6,000 plates for this year, with the Berne branch receiving 2,300 and the Geneva branch a total of 1,300. Mrs. Heller explained also that there are only two prices on the 1963 plates, the price "depending on horsepower of the vehicle. Last year there were six prices, ‘depending °on horsepower and weight. NOON EDITION

thrust reversal, which shuts off the power when the missile is on the proper course. For this reason, it had been expected that the missile would overshoot its target by 66 miles. As it turned out, if the missile had not burned up in the atmosphere, it would have* overshot the target by 100 miles—34 more than expected. The latest interpretation of the radio-telemetry data from the Skybolt indicates it flew on course for 957 miles after a 852 bomber fired it from ao«. altitude pf 40,000 feet. « The test was an obvious embarrassment to the Kennedy administration. It came only two days after President Kennedy agreed with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to cancel the Skybolt program and furnish Britain with Polaris missiles instead. . —- Britain had counted on Skybolt for its prime nuclear deterrent. Macmillan came under heavy criticism at home for agreeing to the missile swap and the announcement of the successful test heightened the pressure on him.

Report Revolt By Dominican Peasants Ended SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (UPI) — The Dominican government early today announced the suppression of a peasant revolt near the Haitian border reported to have killed about 30 persons,, Troops trained in guerrilla warfare were reported pursuing about 400 of the rebels in the mountains around the scene of the revolt, the town of Palma Sola, about 160 miles west of here. (In New York, an aide of Dominican P r es i de n t-elect Juan Bosch, who is now visiting the United States, said the revolt was not a political action aimed at Bosch’s new government, which was elected Dec. 20, in the first free voting in more than 30 years. (He said it was "a breach of the peace” by a handful of witch doctqrs. Bosch, he said, had been assured in a telephone to his armed forces commander, Gen. Vinas Roman, that the situation was under control.) The casualties wdre reported to include 25 rebels killed and more than 50 wounded. An additional 673 rebels Were captured. Reports from the scene of the revolt were contradictory. Some said the rebel force which attacked government troops Friday was made up of “several thousand peasants belonging to a Strange religion.” said the rebels had connections with the police forces of slain dictator Gen. Rafael L. Trujillo. Trujillo’s long dictatorship ended with his assassination in May, 1961. Interim governments have ruled since then, and Bosch, when he takes office, will be the first freely-elected head of government since the 1920’5. Five Men Killed In Excavation Collapse GEENBELT, Md. (UPl)—There was- a nimble grid d ; "cf4§H arid then it was deadly quiet. Five men lay dead under tons of red mud. Eleven other persons were injured when one side of an excavation for a shopping center department store collapsed Friday. Crumbling in huge chunks, the red clay swept away a 16-foot high wooden form used for pouring the concrete walls and buried the workmen. The search continued today in ankle-deep mud for other possible victims, but authorities said they believed all the victims had been accounted for. John Floyd, 24, of Baltimore,, was working on top of toe wooden form when somebody cried “look out!” /“I never heard anything until it hit,”. Floyd said. “It came too fast to do anything. I rode it down and the next thing I knew I was in the bottom of a pier hole.” Another man said he was working in the pit when he heard a “rumble and a crash. I looked around and saw what happened. It was terrible.” He said the wood and steel reinforced forms collapsed as soon as the slide hit them and, other workmen closer to the edgerif the excavation had no time to run clear. Maryland state investigators speculated that toe clay might have been weakened from the alternate freezing and thawing weather of the past few days. Authorities identified the dead as Edgar Allen Poole, 57, of nearby Takoma Park, Md.; Lester Dowell, 33, Robert Washington, 37, Mel Smith, 23, and Raffer Hend-' rix Jr., 29, all of Baltimore. Gilliom's Suicide Note Is Reported INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—A suicide note left in his office today cleared up the mystery surrounding the death of a prominent local attorney. A brother of.Elbert GißionvAp,; file victim, reVealea late Friday he had a note Gilliom left on his desk saying he planned to take his life. Gilliom, a member of the Indianapolis School Board and former state official, was found dead on a sidewalk in front of a downtown office building Wednesday and police theorized he was a hit-run -victim. Authorities later indicated evidence showed he died in a plunge ’ from the building. Richard Gilliom, the brother, said the suicide note was found by office workers who turned it over to him.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 29,1962.

United Nations Jet Planes Attack Katanga Airbase, Ground Fight Continues

Leadership Course Opens Here Jan. 15 Sponsored by the industrial division of the Decatur Chamber ot Commerce, a course in “Leafio ship and Human Relations” will be held in this city, with the first class scheduled for Tuesday, January 15. G ’ A number of men from four local industries have already been signed up for the course, with more expected within the next week. The class will be taught by Kenneth M. Loughmiller, of the industrial relations center of Indiana Technical college in Fort Wayne. The industrial division members have been contemplating the course for some time, with Loughmiller speaking at a recent luncheon meeting, which laid the ground work for the start of the course. Ten Week Course „ Classes will run on Tuesday nights for a period of ten weeks, from 5:30 to 7:30 o’clock each i evening. The classes will be held in the Electra room at. the local Indiana & Michigan office. , W. Guy Brown, executive secretary of th i Decatur Oamtw, is the co-ordinator for the course. The four industries which have I enrolled, at»least one member of their staff in the course, are*.,.the ’Casting Co., Decatur Bag JService, Gilpin Ornamental Iron. *and Indiana & Michigan. Brown explained this morning that vacancies remain open for further enrollment in the course, and he may be contacted at the Chamber of Commerce office, 3-2406, for further enrollment. Aim of Course The aim of the “Leadership and Human Relations” course is “to develop a basic understanding of people, of problems in supervising individuals and work groups, and of human relations principles in supervision; to develop mangerial skills in applying Jthese principles In the work sftuatfori.” Covered in the 10 sessions will be such items as leadership patterns and practices; understanding others; dealing with behavior on the job; understanding and handling frustration on the job; how to motivate others more effectively; and others. Case Funeral Rites Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for Isaac J. Case, Os Monroeville, who died Thursday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Marquart funeral home in Monroeville. Burial Avill be in the IOOF cemetery at Monroeville. Friends may call at the home after 1:30 p.m. today until time of the services.

Sudden Ban On Cuba Refugees

HAVANA (UPI) — Thousands ,of relatives of the Cuban invasion prisoners today awaited further 'word from Premier Fidel Castro’s. •.< government on - die sudden ban imposed on their departures for the United States. Between 5.0Q0 and 6,000 relatives of the 1,113 released prisoners have filed petitions to join them in the United States, according to informed sources. Castro already has permitted 922 relatives,, to do so.* ’ \ But Friday, a government spokesman announced without warning that no more relatives Would be permitted to leave Cuba, No reason was given for the ban, but at the same time, the gov-ernment-controlled Cuban press , and radio bitterly attacked President Kennedy for honoring the re-

New Cold Wave Drops Mercury ~ In Midwest By United Press International Rain fell along the east and west coasts today and a new cold wave plunged temperatures in the Midwest. . The start of the New Year’s Day weekend brought rain from Florida to the. Virginias and snow fell northward into New England, z Rain was expected to move down from the Pacific Northwest to the San Francisco Bay area with snow falling inland to the northern Rockies. Safety officials hoped the adverse' conditions would prompt drivers to use caution during the dangerous New Year’s Day weekend. , Locally heavy snow was predicted for the Montana mountains. » Temperatures in much of the Midwest today were 30 to 40 degrees lower than Friday as the newest invasion of arctic air took hold. > y > . > ° v i Forecasters said the cold air mass could sweep all the way to the Gulf .of Mexico weekend. A full-fledged Canadian blizzard accompanying the cold wave died out as the frigid air hit the Montana border. However, scattered snows and gusty winds were expected with the cold wave. Temperatures dropped to zero or below during the night across Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, and northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Livingston, Mont., Friday had wind gusts to 89 •' miles an hour before the cold air moved in, and Cutbank, Mont., reported winds of 50 miles along with blinding snow. „ • The . official Ip w.. temperature Friday 'was 15' below zero at Craig, Colo.‘For the fourth straight day, Florida basked in 80-degree warmth, with South Miami reporting an 83 reading. Gov. Welsh To Speak At Founders Program TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPI) — Governor Welsh will be principal speaker at Indiana State College’s 93rd Founders Day program Jan. 8. Clinton Man Dies After Sled Mishap CLINTON, Ind. (UPI) — Raymond Musial, 37, Clinton, died Thursday night of injuries suffered when his toboggahhit a tree stump and he struck his head.

. r • » ; „ ; turned prisoners. The CommOnist newspaper Hoy, in an editorial that was also read pver Havana radfcT,’ s d'i d' the President’s greeting to the prisoners was ‘‘a new act of aggression.” It also attacked the President’s plans to review the prisoners at Miami’s Orange Bowl tqday. “By receiving his invasion agents, Kennedy is proclaiming a so called ‘right’, of United States imperialists to promote, finance, and arm"the counter-revolution,” it said. \ In additiohto- the relatives, there are about 1,000 other Cubans with permission to leave the country who have been , stranded here by the disruption of air service since the October crisis.

Mrs. Paul Hawkins Dies This Morning— Mrs. Evelyn Hawkins, 37, wife of Paul Hawkins, died at 4:10 o’clock this morning at her home, 721 South Hendricks,, Berne, following a year’s illness of ,a bone tumor. She was born in French township May 12, 1925, a daughter of Edwin E. and Orpha WintereggMoser, and. was a lifelong resident of the Berne area. She was married July 3, 1947, to Paul Hawkins, former Decatur resident. , , Mrs. Hawkins was a member of the West Missionary church at Berne. Surviving .are her husband; her parents, also of Berne; one daughter, Sondra Kay Hawkins, at home; three brothers, the Rev. Dale Moser of Hula Vista, Calif., James Moser of Fremont,, and Leroy J. Moser of Berne, and one sister, Mrs. Walter (Joan) ■Graber of Fort Wayne. Funeral serivces will be con-, ducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the West Missionary church, the Rev. Armin C. Steiner officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home after 11 a.m. Sunday until time of the services. CROP Donafionin County Is $8,660 Adams county has now turned in $8,660 to the Indiana Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP) drive, and still leads the state, with a $2,000 increase over its 1961 -effort; Rev. Gei-aiff L.Wilsoh’re-’ ported as of Dec. 26. Wells county was still in fourth place in the state, with $6,300 turned in, compared with $6,353 last year. Elkhart county, which traditionally ranks first in the state, has not yet reported complete. Final, date for reporting on this year BrnexfJ ’Rev- Wilson cautioned, and all money received after that date will be credited to. ward the 1963 drive. So far, 17 counties have exceeded their 1961 totals, and $105,307.14 has been remitted toward the goal of $162,000. Undesignated funds donated to CROP are expended through Church World Service for (1) shipping and distributing U- S. surplus foods overseas, (2) purchase of foods not in surplus for oyerseas shipping, (3) self-help programs, tjuch as buying tools and seeds, for help in overseas areas. If donors designated that the money should be used through a separate agency, such as the Catholic world relief, Lutheran relief agency, Mennonite central committee, Friends committee, Association of Evangelicals, etc., the entire amount so designated is forwarded from the national office in Elkhart to that agency.. ; Five Persons Dead In Indiana Fires By United Press International Five persons—four of them children —perished in fires that swept homes in Marion and North Manchester Friday. Seven-month-old James • ( Laypoole and his brothel, Michael, 6, died of smoke inhalation at their trailer home at Marion in a fire believed spa.rked._by .an ’’oil "stove . Mrs. Evelyn Laypoole, mother of the boys, -was visiting her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Spencer, at-the time and saw the smoke. She dashed to the burning trailer and dragged the boys out, but rescuers were unable to save them. Early Friday, a mother and two of her three children died in ? a fire which destroyed the twostory frame house in which they had an apartment. The victims were Mrs. Phyllis Plew, 39; a son, Kenton, 8. /and a daughter, Christine, 2. Another son, Steve, 14, was saved and admitted to nearby Wabash County Hospital in critical condition.

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo,. (UPI) — United Nations jet I planes today attacked the main I Katanga military airbase at Kolwezi, destroying Katangese planes and setting fire to a hangar and fuel stores. The air strike took place as ground fighting ’between U. N. troops and Katangese gendarmerie continued around Elisabethville. A U.N. report received here said that Kolwezi airport, 150 miles west of Elisabethville, was attacked by a force of U. N. jets which were continuing their action. The action today was a followup of fighting at Elisabethville on Friday in which U. N. troops captured the gendarmerie headquarters. U.N. officials said the action was maken to secure freedom of movement for U. N. forces around Elisabethville after negotiations with Katanga President Moise Tshombe failed on getting removal of Katangese roadblocks. Diplomatic sources said U. N. troops and Katangese gendarmes resumed fighting around Elisabelhville this morning after a lull most of the night. At the same time, Indian light infantry units of the U.N. force pierced south to reach the road to Kipushi, a small mining center on the Rhodesian border where Katanga President Moise Tshombe was reported to have fled Friday. Heavy fighting also was reported on the road to. JadotviUp, in- ' diedfing' 'U. £l. forces were advancing in that direction. Jadotville is about 70 miles northwest of Elisabethville... - . Latest U- N. casualties were listed as six Ethiopian killed and about eight wounded. Several Katangese prisoners . were -taken.— —— —. The heavy fighting led many observers to believe the long-expect-ed showdown perhaps was at hand between Tshombe’s Europe-an-trained gendarmerie and the U. N. forces pledged to restore the breakaway Katanga Province to . the centfal government in Lqo- ■ Wvilir , DECATUR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the 24 ho.ur period ending at 11 a m. today. 12 „ 29 .12 midnight .. 32 1 p.m. 30 1 a.m 33 2 p.m 30 2 a.m 34 . 3 p.ln 32 3 a.m 36 4, p.m- 32 4 a.m 37 , 5 p.m .30 5 a.m. .37 6 p.m 26 6 a.m 37 7 p.m. 28 7 a.m 37 8 p.m 28 '8 a.m. 37 9 p.m. 28 9 a.m. 37 10 p.m 29 11 p.m ... 31 Precipitation Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St. Mary's river was at 1,25 feet. - .. '

End One Obstacle In Dock Walkout

few YORK (UPI) — Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz, over one obstacle to ending the vio-lence-marked strike that closed docks from Maine to Texas a week ago, separate talks with longshoremen and shippers tpday. > Wirtz said both parties in the Contract dispute agreed to submit the issue of work gang size to a study group. — I “We mean business,” Wirtz said in announcing the agreement after Friday’s joint ' meeting between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA and the New York Shippers Association ' (NYSA).„ * “The interests involved just do not justify the closure of the East and Gulf Coast ports. We are goifig to try to get a settlement without any further delay.” “The, main issues,” he said, “are two— wages and related fringe benefits, and- the length of the contract.” The secretary said the NYSA, bargaining group for 145 stevedore contractors and steamship companies, pas offered a nine-pent hourly *wage increase in a one-year contract. The ILA whose 75,000 members struck last Sunday, wants a two-

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i Deane T. Dorwin To Attend Conference Deane T. Dorwin, guidance counselor for the Decatur hjgh school, has been invited to attend a 'midwest regional conference on improving school-college communication of student information at Indiana University Jan. 6,7, and 4. The Decatur counselor is one of six from Indiana invited to the conference, along with six from each of 10 other mid western states. iTfae three-day conference, spun-— sored by I. U. and the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N. J., will, focus on a number of exrperimental projects designed to improve the communication of student information between schools and colleges. These pilot projects are the outgrowth of several years of experimentation and research. Two-year pilbt projects have been underway in five states, including Indiana, and results will be studied at the conference. The conference will open with registration at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, followed by a. reception at 5 p. m., and a dinner meeting at 6:15 ’ p.m., with the welcoming address by Elvis Stahr, president of Indi- ' ana University. The keynote ad- : dress will be delivered by Harlan White, of Purdue University. Dorwin On Panel The Monday morning sessiotrwwll * - open at 9 o’clock, with addresses . by Wesley W. Walton and John : E. Dobbin of ETS. The afternoon session will open with six sample comprehensive student reports to be presented to the audience for reaction on their guidance value from the vantage point of educational, vocational guidance, college admission, financial aid and employment. Dorwin will be a member of a panel on ‘‘Action Programs in Progress” at 2:45 p.m. The moderator will be James Lochary of I. U. Other panel members, in addition to the Decatur counselor, ’ will be G. C. Wilson, .University of MichigfinT' ‘ RblSiid ’ Michigan association of secondary school principals; Russell Baker, East Grand Rapids high schools, Mich , and Maynard Wolf, Noblesville high school. The dinner meeting at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday will featur ean address Tuesday will feature an address A panel on a review of conference highlights, will feature the 9 a.m. session Jan. 8, with Wesley W. Walton, of ETS, as moderator. Following the panel the conferees will be organized into state groups for various discussions. The closing session will be held Tuesday afternoon

year contract. At one point in negotiations, the union demanded an hourly wage boost of 25 cents 4he first year and 15 cents the second. A spokesman for the NYSA, which wants work gangs cut from 20 to 17 men, said the length of the study of their size had not been determined. He said membership on the manpower utilization and., job security study committee would be left “more or less in Writz’ hands.” The.committee’s recommendations would net be binding The ILA has refused to negotiate the size of the gangs. It claims the shippers proposal would throw 5,000 men out of work. 4 INDIANA WEATHER Clearing this afternoon and evening north, rain and snow mixed south and central. Windy and colder, much colder tonight. Scattered snow fhuTieo in lake areas through tonight. Sunday fair and colder. Low tonight near five north, near 12 south. High Sunday near 18 north, 25 south. Outlook for Monday: Mostly fair and a IHtie warmer.