Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1963 — Page 1

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■ Peru’s Military Junta T Government Proclaims Nationwide Siege State

Make Survey Tuesday For Wildcat League

A survey on the possibility of Wildcat League baseball in Decatur will begin Tuesday, January 8 throughout all six city schools. Survey blanks will be distributed to the following schools: Lincoln, Southeast, Northwest, Decatur high, Decatur Catholic high and St. Joseph grade, and the Lutheran grade school. The blanks will be taken to the schools by Warren Dreutzler, personnel manager of the Central Soya Co. in Decatur; Bill Bower, president of the Fort Wayne Wildcat league; Terry Coonan, commissioner of Wildcat baseball, and Carl Braun, who Is heading the survey for the Decatur Optimist club. Students will be asked to take the blanks home, fill them out, and return them to their teachers byFriday. They also may ask Bower or Coonan any questions concerning Wildcat baseball. Only Cansidering The survey blank explains briefly how the Optimist club is considering Wildcat baseball in Deer tur, etc- Children are requested to fill in their name, parent's name, date of birth and address. Future plans for Wildcat base-

Problems Pile Up On Kennedy

PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) — President Kennedy, near the end of his winter holiday here, today found foreign policy problems piling tip rapidly. He called a high-level meeting to discuss ways and means of selling smaller Western Allies on staying out of the nuclear arms field. There was a possibility he would examine secret intelligence reports from the Congo in a separate meeting with John A. McCone, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Kennedy also faced the task of quickly selecting s successor to Arthur H. Dean, the chief U.S. disarmament negotiator whose resignation was accepted Friday. The 18-nation disarmament conference reconvenes at Geneva Jan. 15 and presumably the White House would want the new delegation chief to be chosen by that time. - McCone was due sit the President's oceanside villa_at 9:45 a.m. EST. At 10:15 a.m?, Kennedy planned to start the major meeting of the day, a conference with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Thomas K. Finletter, U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Council. Under the broad heading of U. S. policy in NATO, the conferees were expected to review decisions and plans made al Kennedy’s recent Nassau meeting with British ' Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, consider this week’s message to the Chief Executive from French President Charles de Gaulle and discuss projected establishment of a multilateral nuclear deterrent within NATO. <s - whether McCune would’participate in the Rusk-Finletter conference remained to be seen. The CIA director’s meetings with Kennedy seldom are announced, and only rarely do the topics of their discussion come to light. McCone sees Kennedy with some frequency in Washington, but it is a little out of the ordinary for him to meet with the President out of town, particularly when Kennedy is about to return to Washington, himself. Kennedy, his wife and probably their two children, Caroline and John Jr., were scheduled to fly back to Washington next Tuesday afternoon. ! NOON EDITION

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ball in this city will depend on the results of the survey. If favorable, financing will be arranged by the Optimists to support the league. The survey will determine for the Optimists whether or not there is enough interest among local boys to support such a league. Ages 8% - 15 Wildcat League baseball is for boys between the ages of 8% to 15, and is held for a nine-week period during the summer months, with daytime playing only. Team instruction is under the direction of a professional coach, trained for this type of work. He will have the assistance of college and high school students. One of the main rules of Wildcat baseball is that every boy Ei in every game in which ais participates. 7 . The Optimists stress that if a Wildcat league is formed, it will not interfere in any way with the Little and Pony league programs already set up in Decatur. The Wildcat league would be made up of boys who are not chosen for a Little League or Pony League team.

Three Youths Face Court Arraignment Two of three young men charged with grand larceny and second degree burglary for burglaries in Monroe and Decatur last weekend, are expected to enter pleas in the Adams circuit court Thursday afternoon, January 10. Stephen L. Brandenburg, 21, and Larry D. Christianson, 22, will enter their pleas to the two charges levied against each of them in the Thursday afternoon session. Brandenburg, a local resident, and Christianson, of Bluffton, are represented by Richard J. Sullivan, local attorney. Larry Harve Butler, 21, of Decatur, the third person involved in the thefts, is represented by Hubert R. McClenahan, who was appointed pauper attorney for Butler. Butler is also expected to enter a plea next week in the Adams circuit court. All three are charged with second burglary and grand larceny. The trio allegedly broke into four stores in Monroe and the Fager Sporting Goods and Appliances store in Decatur early last Sunday morning. They netted more than an estimated SI,OOO in merchandise, including 15 firearms, valued at over SBOO, at the Fager store. Butler is the only one of the three still being held in the local jail. Brandenburg was released on a $4,000 property bond following arraignment proceedings Monday afternoon. Christianson was released Friday afternoon, also on a $4,000 property bond. DECATUR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the period ending at 11 a.m. today. ■l2 noon 35 12 midnight .. 3* 1 p.m35 1 a.m. — 34 2 p.m 35 2 a.m- 33 3 p.m. — 35 3 a.m. 33 4 p.m 35 4 a.m. 33 5 p.m 35 sam 33 6 p.m. 84 6 a m. 33 7 p.m 34 7 a.m- 32 ■8 p.m 34 8 a..m.32 9 p.m. 34 * kin. -33 10 p.mß4, - ’’ 11 p.m 34 Preetpitatieß Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St. Mary's river was at UT .feet. ,

LIMA, Peru (UPD—The military junta government proclaimed a nationwide state of siege today to combat a “vast plan of agitation and violence” intended to set Peru up for a Communist coup d’etat. Police raided the offices of the pro - Communist National Liberation Front (FLN) and the Castroite Social Progressive Movement (MSP) and jailed at least -lOQ leftists. . - ' ” 'i. J Forty army trucks were kept | busy shuttling prisoners from local collecting points to the headquarters of the security police. Guards surrounded the home of Maj. Gen. Cesar Pando Egusquiza, president of the FLN. It was not certain immediately whether Pando was in the house. A communique said leftists financed from Moscow and aided from Prague and Havana had planned a campaign of disorders and guerrilla violence aimed at an eventual seizure of power. The official announcement said the plotters planned to augment arms smuggled into the country with home-made bombs and weapons which were to have been stolen from army garrisons. Hie plan also called for bank robberies and student riots to ’ maintain tension throughout the country, the communique said. Contact Lost With Mariner 2 Voice k ’ ■ ’ ■ • ' • ... ... WASHINGTON (UPD — The tiny voice of Mariner 2, which whispered to men some of the secrets of space, has faded away forever. U.S. tracking stations on earth lost contact with the little spacecraft Friday. Its last signal came from 54.3 million miles away, more than twice as far as radio signals were ever successfully beamed before. T At that point, sensors on the spacecraft which kept its directional antenna beamed toward home could no longer see the earth. So Mariner 2, a 447-pound spacecraft that looks like a miniature oil derrick, sped to a perpetual orbit around the sun today Ski th its radio signals aimed the wrong way. Scientists had expected this to happen. Mariner 2 achieved the climax of its mission Dec. 14, when for half an hour it told mankind more than it ever knew about cloudshrouded Venus. --- The spacecraft was launched Aug. 27, and it took 109 days of dramatic flight through space to reach a point 21,500 miles from Venus. ——7 • . At that moment, scientists on earth turned on special equipment aboard die craft to observe the mysterious planet. Among many other things, it reported that Venus apparently had no magnetic field observable from 21,500 miles. Herbert S. Lachot Dies In Arizona Herbert S. Lachot, 75, a native of Decatur, died at 8 o’clock Thursday night at Tucson, Ariz., where he had resided for several years. Mr. Lachot was former owner of the Lachot Pharmacy in Feit Wayne, where he lived from 1919 until 1949, when he accepted employment as a pharmacist in Tucson. While a resident of Fort Wayne, he was a member of the Third Presbyterian church and Sol D. Bayless lodge 359, F. & A. M Surviving are his wife, Coral; a daughter, Mrs. Martha Carpenter, and a son, Jay F. Lachot, both of Fort Wayne; a sister, Mrs. Lilah Weisenberg of Winter Park, Fla.; two brothers, Dwight Lachot of Fort Wayne, and Dr. Noble Lachot of South Bend, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be Wd gt 3 p. m. Tuesday at the Klaehn funeral home in Fort Wayne, the Rev. Robert Briber 1 officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 noon Monday.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 5,1963.

Unlikely To Break Disarm Deadlock

WASHINGTON (UPD — The jik trnmieijr tt> orea.k the deadlock ! in the 18-nation East-West disarmament conference in Geneva. The United States and its Allies still refuse to gamble their security in anything less than inspected arms reduction. They are even more confirmed in this belief as a result of the Cuban missile affair. But the Soviet Union remains as adamant as ever in its rejection of any international verification of disarmamet. When the conference reconvenes on Jan. 15, the United States will be represented by a new chief negotiator, to succeed veteran cold war diplomat Arthur H. Dean whose resignation after two years on the job without pay was revealed Friday. ( Russia probably will replace Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin in the disarmament job, as he was also replaced as chief of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations. Zorin left New York for Moscow Friday. Early Settlement Unlikely The present conference in pe., neva began in 1961 after President Kennedy took office and it is the administration’s hope that it can remain in being until significant disarmament is achieved. But at the moment there is little hope of early agreement on even pre-disarmament measures such as /a treaty to continue to keep: space free of nuclear weapons. Eight neutral governments are participating in the Geneva conference but have little influence on its course, which is decided ter the two nuclear giants who also act as premanent co-chairmen. Dean and Zorin, both of whom have represented their govern-

Bunche Probes Congo Crisis

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (UPI) — Dr. Ralph Bunche arrived on a trouble-shooting mission to the Congo late Friday night and indicated United Nations troops would drive on to Kolwezi and two other strongholds of Katanga President Moise Tshombe. U.N. forces were reported regrouping in Jadotville to resume the offensive. Bunche, U.N. undersecretary, flew in from New York and was met at the airport by U.N. civilian chief for the Congo Robert K. Gardiner of Ghana. In a hand - written statement issued as he got off the plane, Bunche said the capture of Jadotville Thursday had been “part of the plan” of the United Nations to gain freedom of movement in Katanga Province. He said he hoped the same objectives would be achieved at “Kolwezi, S'akania and Dilolo.” Rallying Forces Tshombe was believed to be rallying his forces in Kolwezi. A spokesman for him in New York said the Katanga leader had told his people to prepare for “total war” against U.N. troops. “■ ■ Bunche’s statement appeared to contradict previous reports that the U.N. forces had advanced on Jadtoville in defiance of orders by Secretary General Thant. Bunche was sent to the Congo on what was officially described as a mission to invsstigate a “serious breakdown in effective communications and coordination betwee U.N. headquarters and the Leopoldville office.” The Belgian government said Friday night that Thant reported to Brussels that U.N. forces in Katanga had exceeded their in-' structions in taking Jadotville. Part of Plan But Bunche said this was part of the plan to achieve freedom of movement for the United Na-

ments in difficult situations for -many years, have negotiated in 'Geneva during the last two years without substantial progress. Dean has been identified with the Anglo-American “hard line” on test ban inspection, a position which the Soviets have rejected. It was felt in Geneva that a new negotiator would begin new efforts for a test ban treaty with a psychological advantage. Fisher Mentioned Adrian Fisher, deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, has been mentioned as possible successor to - Dean. - ; .L — Reports that Dean may be on the way out as part of a compromise to get the disarmament talks going have been circulated in Geneva for several weeks. The neutrals present have been of use to the United States mainly as a means of getting at world public opinion in the uncommitted portions of the world. The Cuban affair, American disarmament experts believe, has made it less likely that the Russians will accept disarmament in . the near future. The combination ’ of Soviet defeat to the Cuban affair plus the Moscow-Peking feud makes it apparent Russia will be reluctant to strike any sort of arms reduction agreement with the West. I INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with snow flurries mainly near Lake Michigan, and colder tonight. Partly cloudy and a little colder with some snow flurries near lake Sunday. Low tonight in the 20s. High Sunday 29 to 34 north, upper 30s south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and a little colder.

tions throughout Katanga. “But the task is not completed,” he said. “The United Nations cannot fully discharge its mandate in Katanga until its freedom of movement extends throughout both North and South Katanga, including, of course, Kolwezi, Sakania and Dilolo. “This will be achieved and, as the secretary general has indicated in his statement of Dec. 31, 1962, before long. For time has become very short.” Kolwezi is 80 miles northwest of Jadotville, which in turn is 65 miles northwest of Elisabethville, Katanga’s capital. Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will meet Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock in the parlor of the Zion United Church of Christ. Devotions will be given by the Rev. Fuhrman Miller, of the Bethany E. U. B. Church. Sakania is on the Rhodesian border, 100 miles southeast of Elisahethville Dilolo is on the Angola border, 350 air miles from Katanga. Final Auditions For 'Music Man 1 Monday Final auditions for “The Music Man”., will be held Mondaiy evening at 7:30 in the music room of Decatur high school. Auditions were held Thursday and Friday nights of this week, with the final night slated Monday. The Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsored production will be held in. the latter part of March. Wayne Roahrig of Indiana & Michigan is chairman of the Jaycee committee handling the production. Reid and Evelyn Erekson of Decatur are directors for the production.

Some Os State Leaders Oppose Welsh Proposal INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Indiana Republican leaders, and at least some Democrats, have declined to go along with Governor Welsh’s proposed increase in cigarette taxes to finance an industrial development program. Welsh proposed doubling the present 3-cent cigarette tax Friday to provide about $36 million over the next biennium for the program. Much of the money would be used to finance construction of the Indiana port on Lake Michigan and two toll bridges on the Ohio River. Republican leaders, at a meeting of the House and Senate GOP policy committees here Friday, endorsed the development program but refused to endorse the increase in the cigarette tax. Senate Democratic leader Marshall Kizer, Plymouth, said he would not support the port proposal, which he claimed was aimed tit benefiting industry, unless Hoosier industries agreed to pay state income taxes on business done outside the state. “Why should we help the big industrial concerns when they don’t pay their fair share of tax es?” Kizer asked. GOP leaders, headed by Lt. Gov. Richard 0. Ristine and Senate President Pro Tern D. Russell Bontrager of Elkhart, said there was no basis for the governor’s claim his suggestion was of a nonpartisan nature. “President Kennedy only has td say the word for Indiana to receive federal money for the port,” Ristine added. Ristine said that while the GOP group endorsed the idea of expediting the port and building the toll bridges they took no action on a Welsh suggestion that part of the money also be used to aid the state conservation department. House Speaker Richard Guthrie, R-Indianapolis, said there are many state needs as grave as those for the port, bridges and the conservation department and that the “entire picture” must be studied. He said he referred to schools, mental health Wr»d ■.property tax relief. Bontrager said that federal aid would make it possible to complete the port by 1969 and that it could be accomplished only three years early by spending state money. He also expressed concern about the possibility of reimbursement from the federal government if the state went ahead on .its own. Bontrager also said that President Kennedy had made a preelection promise to expedite federal funds for the port. Ristine said he believed that because the vote in Cook County, 111., played a major part in Kennedy’s election the President had listened to Illinois opponents of the Hoosier port. The three GOP leaders praised Welsh for “finally suggesting some method of taxation” but said they believed a cigarette tax would be politically inexpedient. Mrs. Lulia Walters Dies Friday Night Mrs. Lulia M. Walters, 86-year-old Decatur lady, died at 9 o’clock Friday night at the Adams county memorial hospital following an illness of 90 days of complications. She was born in Adams coumy March 20, 1876, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Smith, and was a lifelong resident of the county. She was married in 1896 to Delbert H. Walters, who preceded her in death. ■ "" Mrs. Walters was a member of the Calvary , Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are twb daughters, Miss Margaret Walters and Mrs. Paul (Opal) Liliich, both of Decatur; two sons, Raymond Walters of Decatur, and Staff Sgt. John J. Walters, with the Marine Corps at Warrenton, Va.; 12 grandchildren and nine great - grandchildren. Four sons are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. W. R. Watson 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. Richmond Lineman Is Electrocuted Friday RICHMOND, Ind. (UPD — Leon Faidley, 39, Richmond, an employe of Richmond Power & Light Co., was electrocuted Friday when he came in contact with a line in which there was supposed to be no power. Fellow workers administered mouth-to-mouth respiration and a physician massaged Faidley’s heart in a vain attempt to revive him. ' A 4 -17'77 ' ’ ' ■

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Rev. Joseph G. Wick Is C. C. Speaker i I Rev. Joseph G. Wick, pastor of the First Christian church in Lafayette, will speak on the “Therapy of Laughter/’ xt'the annual Chamber of Commerce, Lions and Rotary club banquet. The banquet will be held at the Youth and Community center Monday, January 14, beginning at 6:30 ,p.m. The banquet..will..fee..a “ladies'"night” affair. Public Invited The public is invited to attend the banquet, and tickets may be purchaced for $2.50 at the First State Bank, Holthouse Drug Co., Hothouse on the Highway, or the local Chamber of Commerce office. Deadline for reservations for the banquet is Thursday, January 10. Born in Washington, Ind., in 1919, Rev. Wick graduated from Washington high school, and later from Texas Christian University with a liberal arts degree. He was a firststring guard on the T.C.U. basketball team in the 194344 season. He graduated also from Christian Theological Seminary. Indianapolis, with a bachelor of divinity degree, and also did graduate study in Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland. He was elected to the international society of Theta Phi, a scholastic honor society in religion. Rev. Wick has served as minister of the First Christian church in Lafayette since 1958, after he had been selected to serve as a fraternal minister for the Christian Churches of America for the British Churches of Christ from 1955 through 1958. Resided In'Glasgow—— During the time he served as fraternal minister, he resided in Glasgow for the three years, and while there had an opportunity to travel in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. From 1949 to 1951, Rev. Wick Red Cross Workers Listed For Tourney ■ * *- - ■■ .-h. . Physicians, first aid workers, and standby ambulances for handling any emergencies that might occur during the Adams county tourney next week were announced today by Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, secretary of the Adams county Red Cross chapter. One physcian. two first aid workers and an ambulance will be on hand at all three sessions of the tourney, which will be held at the Adams Central gym. Gierald Durkin is chairman of the first aid volunteers and also will serve as alternate volunteer. Serving during the Thursday night session will be Dr. H. F. Zwick, Mrs. Robert Johnson, Mrs. Glen Ehrsam and the Zwick ambulance; Present at the Saturday afternoon session will be Dr. George Donnally or Dr. C. Franklin Andrews, Mrs. Glen Ehrsam, Walter Stoppenhagen and the Gillig & Doan ambulance. For the Saturday night session will be Dr. Arthur Girod, Darrell Brown, Harold Schlagenhauf and the Win-teregg-Linn ambulance.

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served as campus minister at Purdue University for the Christian churches, and from 1951 to 1955, he was pastor at the East Side Christian church in Evansville. In 1954 he received the Evansville Jaycees’ young man of the year award, becoming the first, and only, miniater in Evansville to ever receive the award. Law Enforcement I ■ Leaders Meet Here A meeting of all law enforcement officers of Adams county was held Friday evening at the Adams county jail. In addition to the local police and sheriff’s department, city police from Berne, town marshals of Geneva and Monroe, and the state police officers assigned Adams county attended the meeting. Severin H. Schurger, prosecuting attorney of Adams county, presided at the meeting, which was called to assist all county law enforcement officers in coordinating their duties and responsibilities. Adams circuit court Judge Myles F. Parrish was Invited to explain juvenile courts and jurisdiction, with particular emphasis on the definition of a “delinquent child” and the purposes and proceedures under the juvenile laws of the state of Indiana. Anyone Under 18 Judge Parrish explained that the words delinquent child, as stated in the statute, “shall include any boy under the full age of 18 years and any girl under the full age of 18 years, who:” “Commits an act which, if committed by an adult, would be a crimes or is beyond the control of his parent, guardian or other custodian; who is habitually truant;, who engages in an occupation which is in violation of law; who uses intoxicating liquor a beverage; or who wanders about the streets of any city, or in, on, or about any .highway or any public place, between the hours of 11 p. m. and 5 a. m. without being on any lawful business or occupation, except returning home pr to his place of abode after attending a religious or educational meeting or social function sponsored by a church or school.” Main Discussion The main topic of discussion centered around the definition concerning children under the full age of 18 years who are rioi at their home after 11 p. m. ."or who are found wandering about after 11 p. m. It was pointed out that, in the vernacular of today, if a child under 18 years of age in an automobile, not in the custody of his or her parents, says he is “messing” around, or just wandering about, he or she comes within the specific definition of wandering about and could in such event be charged as a juvenile delinquent. In SUch an event, it was pointed out, it would be lawful for an officer to take the child into his custody and immediately inform the parents or guardian, who would then sign a custody receipt pending further action by the juvenile court. Those in attendance agreed that the meeting was a “good” meeting, and another such meeting concerning law enforcement is being planned for the near future.