Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 9.

New Congress Is In Recess

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Action in the new 88th Congress moved backstage today with House Democrats and Republicans feuding separately over key committee and leadership posts. Outcome of their intramural squabbles could bear heavily on the fate of some of President Kennedy’s legislative proposals including his controversial plan for hospital care for the aged. After a fast, furious takeoff on Wednesday, followed by routine talkfests and no action Thursday, the new Congress was in recess today until Monday when Kennedy will deliver his State of the Union Message to a joint HouseSenate session at 12:30 pjn. EST. At private huddles all over the newly refurbished Capitol and its associated array of office buildings, speculation centered on who will fill two Democratic vacancies on the House Ways & Means Committee, which will handle not only the medicare plan but the President's plea for a tax cut Landrum Is Favorite Rep. Phil Landrum, D-Ga., appeared to be a favorite for one of the two posts, with the other to go to either Rep. Ross Bass, D-Tenn., or Rep. Pat Jennings, D-Va. Landrum has made no public commitment on medicare. Bass and Jennings are reported ready to support the President’s plan. The committee is so closely divided a difference of one or two votes could be crucial. "Meantime “young Turk” Republicans, who Tuesday ousted their old guard caucus chairman and installed a younger man of their own, kept a watchful eye on pending GOP committee assignmets. Some of the younger Republican members were said to entertain hopes of upsetting one key leadership choice made Thursday by a GOP committee on committees—reassignment of Rep. Leslie C. Arends, Hl., as party whip. Actually, such an upset seemed unlikely, though one of the “young Writ" spsbssmHi said both Arends and GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck, Ind., now were on notice that the youngsters wanted a more effective voice in Republican affairs in the House. Briefing Scheduled In the Senate the only activity scheduled today was a briefing on the world situation for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and two other committee hearings. The first Senate fireworks will come late Monday or Tuesday after Kennedy's State of the Union address when the senators plunge into the first round of the battle over changing anti-filibuster rules. The struggle over tightening curbs on debate could last for two weeks or even longer. Nor Senate legislation will be passed until the issue is cleared up and there probably will be no major committee action either. In addition to his State of the

Midwest Is Warned Os Prolonged Cold

By United Press International Blinding snow whipped out of the north Thursday night in an Arctic storm that dropped temperatures as much as 40 degrees. The storm triggered heavy snow warnings as far south as Texas and cold wave warnings from the Rockies to the Mississippi Valley. A special weather bulletin termed the blast “an immense and intensely cold surge of Arctic air.” It warned midwesterners to brace for “a prolonged spell ot quite severe midwinter weather.” A 847 jet bomber crashed upon takeoff during a snowstorm at Wichita, Kan., Thursday night killing the pilot and injuring two crewmen. The bomber was assigned to Lincoln Air Force Base, Lincoln, Neb. The plane had been diverted to Wichita because of bad weather earlier. Seven persons were presumed dead at the Kodiak, Alaska, Naval Station after a P2V Navy patrol bomba* touched down on a rain-slickened runway and apparently started to skid. The field had been closed for two days because of bad weather. A rabbit hunter was found dead Thursday near his abandoned pickup truck on the windswept plains of South Dakota. Some 200 volunteers had joined the search for Paul Overacker, of Faith, S.D., whose death was attributed to a heart attack or exposure in the storm. - Hopes dimmed for six persons aboard two light planes missing since Wednesday and believed

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Union Message on Monday, Kennedy will submit his new federal budget to Congress next Thursday and send his annual economic report to the legislators a week from Monday. These messages will outline the pattern of the President’s program for the coming year. Still later this month, the White House said, Kennedy is expected to send Congress a special message on Taxes. Mrs. Sherman Byrd Dies This Morning Mrs. Lutha Byrd, 87, of Wren, 0., died at 2.50 a.m. today at the Castle nursing home in Van Wert, 0., where she had been a patient nine years. She was born in Pickaway county, 0., Sept. 25, 1875, a daughter of Luther and Rebecca Long-Clif-ton, and was married to Sherman S. Byrd Dec. 16, 1894. Her husband preceded her in death Sept. 25, 1948. Mrs. Byrd was a member of the Wren IT. B. church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Herman (Genevieve) Smith of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Ora 'Arlene) Dunlap of Continental, 0.; two gens. Willard Byrd of St. Cloud, Fla., and the Rev. Homer Byrd of Fort Wayne: 12 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchild-den. Six daughters and four sons are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Homer Byrd officiating. Burial will be in the Ridge cemetery at Van Wert. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Saturday until time of the services. Local Lady's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Andrew Brewer, 83, mother of Mrs. "S. E. Leonardson of this city, died Thursday at ther home in Conneaut, O. Mrs. Leonardson has been at her mother’s bedside for the past week. Mrs. Brewer’s husband died about 18 months ago. Funeral services and burial will be held at Conneaut Saturday. INDIANA WEATHER Windy and colder tonight with snow accumulating to 2 to 4 inches north portion, haxardous driving conditions south and central. Saturday continued cloudy and cold, with snow likely. Sunset to- = day fctl p. m. Sunrise Saturday 8:06 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Continued cold with snow likely. Lows 15 to 25. Highs in the 20s.

down in the Colorado Rockies. The storm stymied search efforts Thursday. Sub-zero temperatures returned to the northern states during the night after unseasonably warm readings the night before. Laramie, Wyo., reported 25 below at midnight. Twety-four hours earlier the temperature was 22 above. Drummond, Mont., reported 35 below. The snow, swirled in spots by 40 mile an hour northerly winds, covered the, heart of the nation from Texas apd Oklahoma into lowa and the Great Lakes. The temperature at Superior, Wis., slid to 6 below last night. lb the south of the storm, freezing rain and glaze warnings were issued for parts of New Mexico, Texas, Kansas and Missouri. Rain fell ahead of the Arctic front from southern Missouri through western Pennsylvania with thunderstorms in Tennessee and Indiana. The northwestern corner of the nation was the only part of the country with fair to partly cloudy skies prevailing. However, temperatures plunged sharply with continued cold forecast. Forecasts were for the mild weather to continue over the southeast, but colder readings were forecast from the Southwest to the Atlantic Coast and northward into the New England states. Snow, freezing raip. and rain were to cover the nation from the southern Rockies to the East Coast.

Enters Guilty Plea To Charge In Court Larry Harve Butler pleaded guilty to a misdemeaner charge in the Adams circuit court this morning for his part in the looting of five stores Dec. 30 that involved over $1,500 in merchandise. Prosecutor Severin H. Schurger . submitted an amended affidavit . this morning against Butler charging him with second-degree burglary, grand larceny, and third-de-gree burglary. 1716 third-degree burglary charge, only a misde- . meanor, was added to the original affidavit. Butler entered a plea of guilty, through his attorney Hubert R. McClenahan, to only one charge —the misdemeanor. He did not plead to either of the other two charges, both felonies, and they were not mentioned as Judge Myles F.' Parrish ordered a pre-sentence investigation report be prepared by probation officer Chris H. Muselman. Misdemeanor Charge Third degree burglary, the misdemeanor charge, js punishable by a maximum fine of *SOO and one year at the penal farm. Stephen Lee Brandenburg and Larry Dewayne Christianson, who along with Butler were charged with looting the five stores, requested and were granted their second continuance within less than 12 hours. All three were to enter pleas to charges of second-degree burglary and grand larceny at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Following a conference of nearly an hour among the two attorneys, prosecutor and judge, at 2:20 p.m., the hearing began. McClenahan and Richard J. Sullivan, representing Christianson and Brandenburg, requested continuances until 9 a m. today, which were granted. Continuance Granted The hearing opened at 9 a.m. today, and prosecutor Schurger submitted the amended affidavit. Riitlpr nlradpd ffuiltv to the misdemeanor charge, Sullivan requested a continuance until Thursday, Jan. 17, before entering a plea for his clients. * The trip was quickly apprehended a matter of hours after the thefts early Sunday morning, Dec. 30, by local law enforcement authorities. They signed statements, admitted looting four Monroe stores of watches, razors, foodstuffs, radios, etc., and then coming to Decatur and burglarizing the Fager Sporting and Appliances store on Second St. A total of 15 guns, rifles, pistols and shotguns, estimated at over $l,lOO in value, were taken from the Fager store. <4 Seven Men Missing In Alaskan Crash KODIAK, Alaska (UPI) — A Navy patrol plane with 12 men aboard crashed and exploded on a mountain side Thursday night • while trying to land at the Kodiak Naval Station. Seven men were missing and presumed dead. . Five survivors were taken to the Navy hospital here. Die plane touched down on the rain-slickened runway, apparently skidded, and then crashed when the pilot tried to regain altitude. “After it touched down, the pilot gunned his two engines and pulled up and crossed overhead at about 500 feet,” said Harry Ardinger, passenger agent for Pacific Northern Airlines at the field. The field had been closed for two days because of bad weather conditions but a Pacific Northern plane landed safely shortly before the crash. About 200 Navy personnel combed the crash area under the glare of portable floodlights on Old Woman Mountain about one miles northwest of the field and a Navy housing area. The P2V Navy patrol bomber was on its way from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, north of Seattle, Wash., with replacements for Navy personnel here. Two survivors were found about 200 yards from the crash scene. They were - suffering from burns on their hands and feet. Two i other survivors were found about 150 yards from the crash. - BULLETIN Clarence L. Weber, 65, for many years owner and operator of the Black funeral home before its sale last summer, died shortly before noon today at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient since Monday. Mr. Weber had been in failing health for some time. The body was removed to the Winteregg-Linn funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday , January IT, 1963.

Welsh Issues Bipartisan Appeal To Legislature To Boost State Development

„— ■7T ‘ -Ji Kc ! - IB 5 • JT’*®** ’ * Jb] ,Ty » «. . SOME FUN—Jimmy Boggess, March of Dimes poster boy, feeds cake to a friendly Hama at the zoo in Baltimore, Md.

Children, Teachers • .a ‘ I 111 Os Food Poison

HOLTON, Ind. (UPD—Approximately 279 children and 13 teachers became ill, several of them severely, Thursday after eating chicken salad at the Ec ton school. \ Township trustee Wilfred Harrell closed the school until Monday and the Ripley County nurse, Mrs. Gladys Gay, went to Holton from Versailles today to investigate. — - The poisoning was attributed to the chicken salad served at noon lunch because about 25 pupils who did not eat it did not become ill. Mrs. Airiest Harrell, the trustee’s wife and a teacher at the school, said all the teachers became ill. The 279 children comprised about two-thirds of the Holton . pupils. She said the symptoms of the poisoning, stomach cramps and vomiting, first started to appear near the close of the school day. She said most parents took their children to doctors Thursday night. About 52 persons, including three teachers and a school cook, were treated at the North Vernon Clinic west of here, a spokesman said. One of the victims, Mrs. Mary Bultman, Holton High School home economics teacher, was rushed to the clinic by ambulance. Another 100 pupils and teachers were treated at Parker Clinic in Versailles. Others were taken to hospitals and clinics in Batesville, Greensburg, Madison and Osgood. They were told to remain in bed today. Several of the pupils were hospitalized, but none was in serious condition, authorities said. Most of the cases had cleared up by early today, attending doctors said. They added, however, that patients were left in an extremely weak condition. Former Local Doctor Is Named To Board Dr. Palmer Eicher, of Indianapolis, formerly of Decatur, is one of eight physicians named to the medical advisory board of the Indiana chapter of the national multiple sclerosis society. Dr. Eicher was named at a recent meeting, at which V. L. Tatlock, of Terre Haute, was elected chairman of the state society 'for 1963) succeeding Clay Conner, who has been chairman for the past five ysarsi

Top Priority To Surveyor Project LOS ANGELES (UPI) — The Surveyor space craft has been given highest priority to take television pictures of the moon and pave the way for landing U.S. astronauts on its surface. Dr. Abe Silverstein, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Lewis Research Center at Cleveland, Ohio, said Thursday the government feels it is “very urgent” to get the unmanned spacecraft on its moon mission—set for early 1965. Silverstein said the Surveyor project, now under development, had been given “DX” priority, “the most urgent priority that exists in the nation’s aerospace prograrns.” “Ground testing on Surveyor engines will begin next year with flight expected early in 1985,” Silverstein told a news conference in reporting on NASA’s stepped up space efforts for the coming year. He said “much heavier grounds tests” would be given Centaur, designed as the upper stage of the Atlas rocket that will launch Surveyor. “These grounds tests will be the most intensive ever used in any space program before,” the NASA official said. • Silverstein said Centaur is important to the nation not only as the vehicle which, along with. Atlas, will carry the Surveyor spacecraft to the moon, but also as a pioneering effort in liquid hydrogen fuel technology. Liquid hydrogen fuel offers a higher thrust value than present rocket fuels, and is needed for later inter planetary manned flights. . Silverstein also said thrust was being increased on the M-l engine, being developed to power future astronautical vehicles beyond the moon,' from , 1 .million pounds to 1.5 million pounds. Methodist Church Service Cancelled The Rev. A. C. Underwood, pastor of the First Methodist church, this afternoon announced that tonight’s scheduled final meeting in the special sermon series, has been cancelled due to the extremely hazardous driving and walking conditions.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Governor Welsh issued a bipartisan appeal to the 1963 Legislature today for giant strides in economic development to move Indiana to greater heights of prominence among the states. Welsh’s biennial gubernatorial “state of the state’’ message to lawmakers called for mammoth progress in the adequacy of the Hoosier educational system, highway construction, scientific research and technology, industrial expansion, employment, and civil rights. Most of the 150 legislators and a filled gallery of spectators sat in thoughtful silence throughout the governor's long address. Welsh candidly told the legislators he believes Indiana has lost ground in some facets of its economy and has failed to develop adequately in others. — ‘"Die state of our economy is such," lie said,’“the demands of a rapidly changing technology so great and the penalties in human terms for failing to meet our responsibilities so severe that any effort to approach this broad problem of economic development in any way except as a bigpartisan effort is a violation of our responsibilities.” Warrinir WmilH Damncm x ” Ulull JzßnlßgU Welsh warned of “severe damage” which could accrue' to the state if toe relatively even political division of the legislature were permitted to bring about £ ”Togefhe- il we o^accomplish much,” he said, adding that "I will work wholeheartedly with both parties” in seeking enactment of measures “that will make a positive contribution to improving Indiana.” Welsh devoted his entire message—2s typewritten pages—to the - economy. He mentioned neither taxes, budgets, revenues nor reapportionment, the thorniest issues facing the lawmakers as they launch a 61-day every-two-years session. He said the session could turn into a stalemate with “maneuver- , ing for partisan advantage” but it ’ “can mean the opportunity for both parties to lay claim to credit [ for helping Indiana advance” if they worked together. Fail to Keep Pace f Welsh outlined many areas of [ the economy in which he said the state has not kept pace with its . population growth. The population has increased at ■ a rate of more than 70,000 a year t since 1953, he said, yet “the num- ■ ber of jobs in Indiana this past year was almost exactly the same ■ as the number in 1953.” “Indiana has not been creating enough hew jobs to provide em- . ployment for its growing popula- . tion,” he said. “This is a serious situation that, if it continues, can . produce for us severe problems that will be felt in every aspect . of Hoosier life.’’ Welsh cited figures showing that the unemployment rate among ■ Negroes is about twice as high as among whites and “severe economic, racial and behavior problems can be the only result from ■ a continuation of this situation.” He said that while only 6 per cent of Hoosiers are Negroes, they , receive far more than that per cent of all township relief, they comprise 25 per cent of the inmates at state penal institutions . and represent 48 per cent of all persons receiving Aid to Dependent Children under the welfare program. Behind In Technology “If we sow the seeds of unconcern, we will reap the whirlwind of economic- and social problems : that surely will follow,” he said. Welsh also told how Indiana and the Midwest have fallen behind in their contribution to advanced technology. “We are still falling behind, in the basic resource: professional engineering and scientific personnel employed,” he said. Welsh said when Indiana and the Midwest “fall behind other • areas of the nation in our facilities and manpower for research and development, we can expect that our loss of -future contracts will accelerate, unless we do something about it.” The chief executive was especially emphatic about Indiana's indifference to the tourist business. (Continued On Page Three)

[Cast Is Selected I | For 'Music Man’ | The cast for Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man,” sponsored by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce, was announced this morning by chairman Wayne Roahrig and Reid and Evelyn Erekson, directors for the production, and Bill Snyder, auditions chairman. The production, sponsored by the Jaycees through special arrangement with Music Theatre, Inc., 119 W. 57th St.. New York, will he presented Friday and Saturday, March. 29 and 30, in the Decatur high school auditorium. Jerold Lobsiger of Decatur and Audrey Waldron of Markle were annuonced by the directors and chairmen this morning as selected for the leading roles in the production. Cast Members Lobsiger will portray professor Harold Hill, while Miss Waldron will play the part of Marian Paroo. ... The entire cast is as follows Harold Hill , Jerry Lobsiger; rnarian muiey wvikictxi, 1 Euiat Dunlap, Larry Merriman; Oliver Hix, Lauren Arnold; J. C. Squires, Winston Seitz;' Olsin Britt, Charles Kester; Mayor Shinn, Tom Sefton; Marcellius Washburn, Charles Stonestreet; Mrs. Paroo, Wilma Jacobs; Amaryllis, Marcy Gensie; Winthrop, Mike Gage; Alma Hix, Janet Evans; Maud Dunlap, Barbara Lesh; Mrs. Squires, Beverly Gensie; Constable Locke, Lyman Hann. The parts of seven traveling salesmen will be filled by members of . the Jaycees. The parts of Ethyl Tofflemeier, Charles Powel, Tommy Dzilas, Zaneeta Shinn, and a conductor are not filled as yet, and - persons wishing , auditioning for one of these parts in the produtipn are asked to contact Mrs. Erekson, Roahrig or Snyder. Selections for the chorus will be anounced at a later date, when a choral director is chosen. Persons who have been selected for the chorus will be contacted soon. Book, music and lyrics for the production are by Meredith Willson, and the story is by Willson and Franklin Lacey.

U. N. Forces Set For Drive

ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga, The Congo (UPI) — United Nations forces today were reported poised for drives on the two remaining centers of resistance by supporters of Katanga’s President Moise Tshombe. One U.N. force was in the area around Sakania, near the northern Rhodesian border, where Katangese Interior Minister Godefroid Munungo was believed heading a large Kataligese group. Another UN force was reported west of Jadotville, about 80 miles southeast of Kolwezi, a mining center and major Katangese air base. The United Nations earlier this week pinpointed Sakania and Kolwezi as two spots that would have to be cleaned up to give its forces freedom of movement in the operation to reunify the Congo. Tshombe Returns Tshombe himself returned to Elisabethville Thursday night after a tour of his supporters in the Mokambo area near the Rhodesian border. He apparently has been given freedom of movement provided he does not incite hostility against the United Nations or promote destruction of property. The Katangese president was said to have made a pledge to

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FinalAirliff Os Supply To Cuba Delayed MIAMI (UPI) — The final airlift of ransom supplies to the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba has been postponed until Sunday without official explanation. The flight had been scheduled for today. Sources said the delay was requested by the Swiss Embassy in Havana to allow time to arrange for part of a group of some 250 Cuban-Americans in Havana to fly to the United States aboard the empty Pan American Work! Airways DC6B. Pan American announced Thursday night that the flight, scheduled for this morning, had been put off until 9 a.m., EST, Sunday at the request of the Red Cross. But a Red Cross spokesman, Stuart Queen, would only say that the plane would not take off as scheduled this morning. Neither he nor Red Cross officials in Washington would explain the delay, or even confirm that the flight had been re-scheduled for Sunday. The plane will toe the 15th and last ransom flight to Cuba. But an estimated two more shiploads of ransom goods still must be sent to Fidel Castro to put the full $53 million worth of medical supplies and foodstuffs in his hands in return for the invasion prisoners, who were airlifted to Miami Dec. 23 and 24. The full value of the ransom goods, including labor and transportation, will be about S7O million. The DC6B will carry more than 15,000 pounds of supplies to Havana, and will bring to more than 338,000 pounds the amount of goods flown to Cuba in the prisoners exchange. DECATtIH TEMPEXITVBKI Local weather data for the 21 hour period ending: at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 58 12 midnight.. 36 1 p.m 56 1 a.m, 35 2 p.m 55 2 a.m 34 3 p.m 46 3 a.m. 34 4 p.m 42 4 a.m 34 •5 p.m 40 5 a.m 32 6 p.m. 40 6 a.m.—32 7 p.m 397 a.m 32 8 p.m 38 8 a.m 32 9 p.m — 37 9 a.m. 32 10 p.m 36 10 a.m—... 32 11 p.m 36 11 a.m. 31 Precipitation Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today. .29 inchea. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.18 feet.

British consul Derek Dodson that he would call off his “scorched earth” policy. Earlier this week Tshombe threatened that his forces at Kolwezi would blow up valuable mining installations If U.N. forces attacked the town. The threats led to U.N. action to restrain Tshombe from “further irresponsible acts.” Tunisian U.N. troops were placed around Tshombe’s palace Wednesday, but were withdrawn Thursday morning. U.N. officials said the matter had been due to “a slight misunderstanding.” Conferred With Aides ' Shortly after the Tunisian guard was withdrawn, Tshombe drove a triumphant 110 miles southeast to Mokambo to confer with his top aides. He made at least 12 stops en route to tell crowds of cheering followers to end their opposition to the U.N. demands for reunifying the Congo. Right behind the Katangese leader sped a U.N. armored column, apparently heading tor Sakania, a border town 22 miles southeast of Mokambo. The column met with no resistance. Hie expected drive on Sakania would be aimed at opening communications between Elisabethville and Northern Rhodesia.