Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 21 January 1963 — Page 1

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■y f jeEz- iglßft tEHe *?■'" V HEAD TOWARD WELCOME—Here to stay, football and all, Edouard Garcia and his brother, Ernesto Jr., are followed by their father Ernesto Sr., as they head toward a welcome after arriving in Bethlehem, Pa., as part of a group of 30 Cuban refugees from Florida.

Wintry Blast Chills State

By United Preu International Temperatures ranging from zero to 18 below gripped Indiana today from the Ohio River to Lake Michigan as the season’s coldest weather and a treacherous coating of ice and snow contributed to many Hoosier deaths. The 18 below zero temperature was recorded officially at LaPorte. More below zero weather was forecast for tonight, and no appreciable letup in the sub-normal cold spell was expected this week. Icy roads contributed to most of the 13 traffic fatalities recorded during the weekend, eight of them in four double-fatality wrecks Saturday night at the height of the slippery road conditions. Weather also was blamed in two ’ fatal fires at Lawrence, near Indianapolis, and at Connersville. And at Indianapolis, the frozen body of a man tentatively identified as Orville Huddleston, about 65, Indianapolis, was found on a sidewalk where he apparently fell and died in 8-below-zero temperatures early this morning. South Bend recorded 14 below. An eight-inch snow drifting much deeper on country roads forced the closing of rural schools throughout St. Joseph County. Schools also were closed in LaPorte County. It was 11 below at Fort Wayne, Kokomo and Lafayette, 10 below at Marion, 8 below at Indianapolis, 6 below at Bloomington and Terre Haute, 4 below at Cincinnati, zero at Evansville and 1 above at Louisville. The Indianapolis mark was the coldest this season. Forecasts called for warmer

Mrs. Nina E. Adams Dies This Morning Mrs. Nina E. Failing Adams, 83, of 316 Mercer avenue, widow of Judge Earl B. Adams, a prominent Decatur attorney, died at 7:30 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. Her death followed an illness of several months of complications. Mrs. Adams, who had been prominent in church, civic and social activities for many years, had lived in Decatur for 57 years. She was born in Flint, Mich., July 7, 1879, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Failing, and was married to Earl B. Adams Sept. 14, 1905. Her husband, a graduate of Decatur high school and the University of Michigan law school, was a practicing attorney in Decatur for many years and also served for several months as judge of the Adams circuit court. Mrs. Adams was a member of the First Presbyterian church, the Order of Eastern Star and the Shakespeare club. There are no near surviving relatives. One daughter, Dortha, and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Winteregg-Linn funeral home, the Rev. Elbert A. Smith 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.

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readings tonight. Ice Causes Wrecks A treacherous coating of ice from freezing rain and light snow fashioned death-traps for motorists on Hoosier highways Saturday night and was blamed for die bulk of 13 weekend traffic deaths. In addition, an overheated stove at Indianapolis today caused a fire which killed Mrs. Ida LaMar, 81. and destroyed her home. Schools were closed in other parts of Indiana, mostly in the north where the weather was the coldest. Snow, slippery country roads and heating plant troubles resulted in school closings. Brisk winds made the cold seem colder, but the breezes were diminishing today. A few additional snow flurries were forecast for today and Tuesday, with more snow likely Wednesday. Temperatures at high points Sunday ranged from 10 at Lafayette to 22 at Evansville. Highs today will range from zero to 8 above north to 8 to 17 above south. Lows tonight will range from 2 below to 6 above north to 3 to 10 above south, and highs Tuesday from near 15 to the lower 20s. The five-day outlook indicated it will be a cold week. Temperatures will average 15 to 20 degrees below normal north and 10 to 14 degrees below normal central and south. Precipitation will range from one-tenth to threetenths of an inch north and around one-fourth inch elsewhere as snow around the middle and end of the week. The 8-below reading in Indianapolis this morning came within two degrees of matching the alltime minimum for Jan. 21, a mark of 10 below recorded in 1924.

Industry Division Meets At Luncheon The industrial division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce held their first luncheon of 1963 at noon today, but without a speaker due to the adverse weather conditions over the state. H. J. Kintzele, Jr., of The Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America, a Michigan City resident, was to be the guest speaker, but was “snowbound" today and unable to make the journey to Decatur. He was to speak on the proposed railroad merger. President Ed Hagan told the group that the maximum of 20 persons have enrolled in the industrial management class sponsored by the industrial division, and presented by Indiana Institute of Technology. The class began Tuesday, with nine more sessions to follow. A total of 15 of those enrolled are from Decatur, and five from Berne. W. Guy Brown, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, read a short poem to the group, entitled “Calf Path,” written by Sam Walter Foss. The poem dealt with the daily routine persons follow, and how they allow themselves to get into a “rut.”

Three Are Injured In Freak Accident Three persons were injured in a freak three-car accident as a result of the icy road conditions Saturday evening. Rev. John Van Dyke, Fort Wayne, was admitted to the Lutheran hospital in that city following the accident, and was reported as still in a “dazed condition* this morning. A passenger in his car, Mrs. Clyde Lalman, Fort Wayne, was admitted to the Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne, where she was being held today for treatment of back injuries. Rev. Van Dyke’s wife was also admitted to Lutheran hospital for treatment, but was released a short time later. Hie freak mishap occurred at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, six miles north of Decatur, on a very slippery U. S. 27. A car driven by Doris Jean Morgan, 34, Fort Wayne, was northbound on 27 and she lost control of her vehicle, and the car went off the road on the left side. As the car was sitting off the side of the roaa, the Van Dyke car, also northbound, went out of control on the same icy area, and veered off the west side and struck the Morgan vehicle. The force of the impact threw the Van Dyke car back onto the highway, into the path of a southbound car operated by Ray Meyers, 57, 369 Stevenson St., of this city. There were no injuries in either the Morgan or Myers vehicles. Sheriff Roger Singleton and state trooper Alan Coppes investigated the crash, estimating damages at S9OO to the Van Dyke car, SSOO to the Meyers auto, and $l5O to the Morgan car. Poor road conditions were also the cause of a one-car accident on U. S. 224, two and one-half miles west of Decatur, just 15 minutes after the three-car mishap. Jesse Howard Hunnicutt, 27, Huntington, was westbound on 224 when he lost control of his auto on the icy pavement. The car went into a skid, left the right side of the road, and knocked down some wooden fence and a galvanized water tank, before coming to rest against a bam on the residence of Mrs. Julius Brfte. Deputy sheriff Warren Kneuss, who investigated, estimated a total of SSOO damage to the Hunnicutt car, and S9O to the property on the Brite farm. $

Leo Thieme Home Destroyed By Fire The farm home of Leo Thieme, located in Union township, near the Indiana-Ohio state line, was completely destroyed by fire this morning. The house was considered a total loss, as it was completely burned to the ground. The Thieme family was home at the time the blaze broke out, shortly before 7:30 a. m. today. The Decatur fire department and Wren fire department were called to the scene, but were unable to halt the blaze. Started on Roof The fire started on the woodshingled roof of the home and, fanned by a gusty wind, quickly spread over the entire home. The entire upstairs of the house was engulfed in flames when the local firemen arrived at the scene at 7:30 a. m. The Decatur department fought the blaze until 10 o’clock this morning, but were unable to save the home due to the strong winds and the head start the fire had. Some of the household items were saved from the blaze, including a stove, refrigerator, television set, and some furniture, but many other iteihs were destroyed, along with the building. Second of Year This was the second rural fire of 1963 for the fire department, and both caused severe losses. Last week the Richard Schieferstein home, located along U. S. 27, north of Decatur, was entirely destroyed on the inside by a blaze. Both fires came under the new fire protection plan adopted recently by the Decatur city council, with Root. Union, Washington and St. Mary’s townships. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and not so cold tonight. Tuesday light snow and not so cold. Southerly winds 16 to 18 miles per hour tonight, increasing to 15 to 25 m.p.h. early Tuesday and shifting to northwest late Tuesday. Low tonight zero to 5 below northwest, sero to 10 above south. High Tuesday 18 to 25 north, 10 to 18 south. Sunset today 5:52 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 8:01 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy agnd very cold again with snow flurries north. Lows 5 below to sero. Highs sero to 10 above.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, January 21,1963.

Pres. Kennedy Forecasts Moderate Business Gain, Appeals For Cut In Taxes

State Revenue Plan Outlined

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Sen. Jack H. Mankin, D-Terre Haute, outlined a comprehensive revenue plan to the Indiana Senate today with a graduated gross income tax rate adjusted to state needs as the keystone of the program. Majority Republicans promptly labeled the six-point plan as that of Governor Welsh, who has steadfastly refused to suggest any ways of raising nearly half a billion dollars he considers necessary in the 1963-1965 biennium beyond anticipated revenues. Senate President pro tern D. Russell Bontrager responded to Mankin’s outline by saying “We have finally learned the governor’s tax program—at least we assume it’s the governor’s.” “I am disappointed he did not have the courage to present it himself,” Bontrager said. Mankin said he was talking only for himself. “The governor has more direct ways to let the world know, not through me,” Mankin said. Other Republicans, including Sen. Earl Landgrebe of Valparaiso, Sen. Kenneth Brown of h&incie and Sen. Keith Fraser of Portland also criticized the Mankin plan. * * “We are creating needs instead of trying to economize,” Landgrebe said with reference to the record budget. Mankin said Goveror Welsh had given his blessing to presentation of the plan as a means of "getting something on the fire” but did not express himself as for or against the plan. Mankin proposed a sliding scale for gross income tax rates ranging from 2 to 5 per cent. The rates would be geared to size of income of die individual taxpayer but they also would go up or down in accordance with the state’s revenue requirements from year to year. The six-point plan also included: —Changing the present SI,OOO gross income tax exemption to SSOO for an individual to $2,000 for a taxpayer with three dependents. —Levying a privilege or use tax on out-of-state business.

Nuclear Test Ban Hopes Increased

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Cautious hopes for a nuclear test ban agreement with Russia were raised today in the unexpected change of position by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. The Soviet leader, in a Dec. 28 letter to President Kennedy made public Sunday night, offered to accept limited international inspection on Soviet territory to check against sneak nuclear tests. —~ He also said he would permit “foreign personnel” to place up to three unmanned, automatic monitoring devices, called “black boxes,” on Soviet soil, provided measures were taken to insure that such trips were not used for espionage. Khrushchev offered to permit “two to three” inspection teams a year to visit Russia to check on earth tremors which are hard to distinguish from underground nuclear tests without on-the-spot inspection. Leads to Talks This was actually a return to a position Russia abandoned in November, 1961, when it suddenly refused to discuss any inspection at all. But his Dec. 28 letter, a reply from Kennedy Dec. 28, and a further Khrushchev letter Jan. 7—all released Sunday night — led to U.S.-Soviet test ban talks in New York last week. These talks will be moved to Washington Tuesday with Britain also taking part. Though US. officials were “encouraged” by Khrushchev’s move, they cautioned that Russia has many times in the past come fiarly close to a test ban agreement without actually getting

—Levying a 2 per cent sales tax on hotel and motel income. —Relieving property taxes by assuring a greater share of state i support of local schools, perhaps about 40 per cent of the total cost instead of the present 25 per cent. —Raising the state cigarette tax ; from 3 to 5 cents a pack with the extra 2 cents going to a dedicated fund for distribution to cities, ■ towns and counties. Meanwhile, the House met ■ briefly, received a few bills, and moved past second reading without debate a constitutional amendment to remove the two-term i limit for county sheriffs. This amendment must be defeated be- : fore an amendment on reapportionment can be introduced. Previous indications that sub- : zero weather might interfere with the timetable for resumption of the legislature after the weekend recess failed to materialize. The House had a quorum at 10 a.tn. and the Senate at 11 a.m., the hours set for resumption when the lawmakers went home last- Friday. 'Music Man' Chorus To Meet Tuesday Chorus directors for the Jaycee sponsored production of “The Music Man” have requested anyone in the chorus, or interested in having a part in the group, to attend a meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the music room of Decatur high school. Chorus directors are Richard . Collins of Decatur high school, Edward Heimann of Decatur Catholic, and Kenneth Thornell of Pleasant Mills high school. All three are music directors at their respective schools. Final chorus arrangements will be made at the Tuesday meeting, and anyone in the chorus is stronger ttged to attend. Also, the direci fora have invited anyone who > would like to sing in the chorus to attend the meeting. Parts in the chorus, which is singing only, are open to anyone of any age in the surrounding area.

l there. , The Soviet Communist party i newspaper Pravda printed all . three letters in today’s edition. In London, the British Foreign I Office described Khrushchev’s ac- , ceptance of the principle of on- ' site inspection an “obviously im- . portant development.” “The time has come now,” Khrushchev said, “to put an end : once and for all to nuclear tests.” i He added that “a certain relaxation of international tension” since : the Cuban missile crisis should > “facilitate this.” President Kennedy, in his Dec. 28 reply to Khrushchev, said, “I am encouraged that you are pre- : pared to accept the principle of i on-site inspections?” - i Not Enough i But Kennedy said two to three • inspections a year would not be ; enough. Khrushchev had said that U. S. officials earlier had mentioned two to four inspections. i Kennedy said Khrushchev seemed ■ to have “some misunderstanding” ■ about this. The only figure prei viously mentioned by the United States, he said, was eight to 10. Kennedy also said Khrushchev’s • proposal on unmanned monitoring . stations was “helpful but it does i hot seem to me to go far enough.” The President said the locations ' Khrushchev proposed for the black ' boxes—Kokchetav for central Asia Bodaibo for the Altaian region and Yakutsk for far eastern Russia, were all outside common earthquake areas. In his reply on Jan. 7, Khrushchev offered to relocate two of ; the stations.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy today forecast moderate business gains this year and appealed to Congress to give the economy an added stimulus by cutting taxes. The President said in his annual Economic Report that he wants his proposed reduction in individual income taxes to take effect next July 1. He also asked the lawmakers to cut corporate tax rates from 30 to 22 per cent on the first $25,000 of income, retroactive to Jan. 1. A bigger corporate tax reduction will be proposed later. As he did in his State of the Union and Budget messages, Kennedy emphasized his tax cut plan. Without it, he suggested, there might be a recession and the $11.9 billion deficit projected for fiscal 1964 might go even higher. Reaction Split Initial congressional reaction to the Economic Report generally was split along party lines, with Republicans accusing Kennedy of fiscal irresponsibility and Democrats praising his proposals. House Republican Whip Leslie C. Arends, 111., said cuts in federal spending could be made “without damaging national security.” Rep. Gerald Ford, R-Mich., leveled the charge of irresponsibility and said domestic spending should be cut back to the 1962 leveL I Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, Mont.; hailed Kennedy’s program as necessary to continue economic recovery and avoid another recession. Senate Democratic Whip Hubert H. Humphrey, Min., said the tax cut would stimulate purchasing power and thereby employment. The President’s tax cutting proposal — as a device for stimulating economic growth — has generated considerable congressional criticism. In his message today, Kennedy appeared to be trying to reassure the skeptical, convert the adamant and whip up more support from the man in the street. Supports Program Chairman Walter W. Heller of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers said a 1963 tax cut would be “insurance” against a recession. He said that while the President’s forecast of moderate business expansion in 1963 was not contingent on tax reduction, it could be affected by it. Heller told a news conference that a tax reduction this year could speed up the growth rate of the economy in the final months of 1963 and result in a better record than Kennedy forecast.

If Congress turned down the tax plan, Heller said, “the letdown that would come might be so strong that it would heighten the chance of a recession.” The President argued in his report that the July 1 tax reduction would pump a needed blast of vitality into the economy. He said it would increase by $6 billion the annual rate of disposable aftertax income in the last six months of 1962. The net effect, on a halfyear basis, would be $3 billion. Predicts Gains Kennedy predicted the nation’s total of goods and services produced this year — the gross national product (GNP) — would rise to a record $578 billion. This would be about sl6 billion more than in 1962. “The outlook for continued moderate expansion in 1963 is now favorable,” he said. (Continued On Page ’Diree) DECATUR TEMPERA TIRES Local weather data for the 48 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. Saturday Sundny 12 noon 24 12 midnight .. 23 1 p.m. 26 1 a.m 22 2 p.m 27 2 a.m 20 3 p.m ... 28 3 a.m ; 20 5 p.ffif’T.......... 28 5 a.m. 20 6 p.m 29 6 a.m 20 7 p.m. 28 7 a m 18 8 p.m. 24 8 a.m _... 16 9 p.m. 22 9 a.m. ... 15 10 p.m 23 10 a.m 20 11 p.m 24 11 a m 24 Sunday Monday 12 noon .. 22 12 midnight .. 2 1 p.m' 18 1 a.m 2 2 p.m 18 2 a.m 2 3 p.m 16 3 a.m. 2 4 p.m 14 4 a.m 2 5 p.m 14 5 a.m 0 6 p.m 10 6 a m -2 7 p.m 8 7 a.m -2 8 p.m. 6 8 a m -2 9 p.m. 4 9 a.m -2 10 p.m. ..j. .. 4 10 a.m............ 8 11 p.m. ..: 4 11 a.m 10 Precipitation Total for the 48 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St. Mary's river was at 1.69 feet.

Boss Night Banquet Here Tuesday Night Douglas F. LeMaster, associate professor of botany and head of the department of biological sciences at Huntington College, will be the main speaker at the annual boss’ night banquet of the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evening at the Four Seasons dining room of Villa Lanes. The banquet will be featured by the presentation of the Jaycee’s annual distinguished service award. Recepient of the award has been chosen by a committee of eleven local men from various fields, but will not be announced until the banquet Tuesday night. Jack Heller was the winner of the D. S. A. award last year. Banquet At 6:30. A social hour will be held at 6 p.m., with the banquet scheduled' to begin at 6:30 p.m. A graduate of Purdue University, LeMaster has received an advance degree from the University of Michigan, and has also had additional graduate studies and research at Indiana U. and Purdue U. JHe has been a teacher and professor for 21 years, and was a national science award winner in the University of Michigan in 1958-59. He is listed in “Who’s Who in American Education.’ Research Studies He is currently engaged in research to determine the toxicity of chemicals used in the treatment of Dutch Elm disease in wildlife. Professor LeMaster was raised on an Indiana farm and is owner and manager of a 200-acre farm in Wells county. He is also owner and manager of the Agrarian Carrier Co, in Markle, a grain brokerage firm. The D. S. A. award will be presented to a Decatur resident be-

Longshoremen Agree To Board's Offer

By United Press International Longshoremen accepted a presidential board’s recommendations in the long, costly Maine-to-Texas dock strike late Sunday, but there were no solutions yet in other major labor disputes. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) accepted a proposal for a 39-cent package increase over a two-year period. But the New York Shipping Association said the waterfront employers would make no decision until after its members meet Tuesday afternoon. More than 100,000 longshoremen and maritime workers have been idled since the lengthy dispute erupted into a walkout 29 days ago. It was reported the longshoremen originally asked a 55cent wage increase and were offered a 23-cent package. Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore.. chairman of the presidential panel, hinted strongly that Congress would be asked to pass antistrike legislation if the recommendations were rejected. Alexander Chopin, chairman of the New York Shipping Association, said the package proposal would cost $25 million “for the Port of New York alone.” News Blackouts Continue The six-weeks-old newspaper strikes in Cleveland and New York continued. In Cleveland, the 320-member Photo-engravers Local 24 voted Sunday to seek permission to enter the strike against the Press and the Plain Dealer newspapers. Secretary Treasurer Charles Thomason said the local win ask the international today for permission to go on strike. The Pho-to-engravers would be the third union to join the strike since the walkout began Nov. 29. Negotiations between the Newspaper Guild and the publishers were to resume this afternoon.

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tween the ages of 21 to 36 who has contributed the most to his community during the past year. Fred Shoaff and John Eichenberger are co-chairmap of the Jaycee D. S. A. committee. Local Man’s Father Dies At Fort Wayne Reuben Lord, 88, former resident of Decatur, died at 6:50 a. m. Sunday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been • a patient for two days. He was born at Monmouth Dec. ' 15, 1874, and lived in Decatur until moving to Fort Wayne about 40 j, years ago. He was a former carpenter and retired in 1940 from the ’ E. R. Ellerman Co. 1 He was married in 1895 to Miss Rosina Neuenschwander, who died ! in 1940. He was later married to Mrs. Lola Shoppman, who proceeded him in death in 1961. Since ’■ that time, he had made his home as a paying guest at the Allen county home. Mr. Lord had been a member of the Red Men lodge of Decatuf for 55 years, and the lodge will hold services this evening at the funeral home. Surviving are two sons, Lawrence Lord of Fort Wayne, and Solomon Lord of Decatur; ona daughter, Mrs. Estel (Naomi) Dull of Orlando, Fla.; four grandsons i will be held at 10 a. m. Tuesday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home, Fort Wayne, the Rev. Willard Zinke officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn memorial park, Fort Wayne, Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today. Cold Weather Closes Pleasant Mills School Pleasant Mills high school was the only Adams county school closed today due to the cold weather, although Decatur Catholic schools did not have classes today because of St. Agnes feast day.

Talks with the Teamsters were in recess indefinitely. In New York, it was expected ' the negotiations would not re- ' sume before Tuesday. Nine major New York newspapers have _ been shut down since Dec- B. The printers held their monthly business meeting Sunday and the Newspaper Guild scheduled a . mass meeting tonight. A spokesman said the International Typographical Union’s ’ strike fund, reported to contain more than $1 million when the strike began 45 days ago, was “quite low.” The printers were expected to make known their position Tuesday on a new proposal offered by the publishers Friday. The publishers have offered the printers a S2O weekly package increase over two years, and the union wants a $37 package. Studies Union Proposal In Philadelphia a federal medi- , ator said the Transport Workers Union had made a “significant proposal” which the company was going to study in the city’s six-day transit strike. Another negotiation session was scheduled for this morning between the union and the Philadelphia Transportation Co. However, company president Robert H. Stier said he was unwilling to consider a rate of fare which would be necessary to meet union demands that included an hourly increase of around 60 cents. International union president Michael J. Quill said the union also was insisting on a no-layoff clause for the 5,600 operation and maintenance workers. More than -a million Philadelphia commuters have had to find other ways to get to work because of the bus, trolley and sub-way-elevated shutdown.