Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 18.

Way Cleared To Submit Legislation To Amend Reapportionment Laws

I DeVoss Chosen As |'Junk Yard'Judge | John L. DeVoss, local attorney, was selected, by the process of striking, this morning as special judge in the city’s “junk yard” case. City attorney Robert S. Anderson informed city court Judge John B. Stults that he had struck the name of David A. Macklin, leaving DeVoss as special judge. DeVoss, however, must qualify before assuming jurisdiction of the “junk yard” case. Robert Smith, representing Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gallogly, had previously struck the name of Mark A. Morin from the panel of three lawyers established by Judge Stults. Whether or not DeVoss will qualify was not known at noon today. , Second Time This is the second time a special judge has been selected by the striking process to hear the case. After Smith had filed for a change of judge in the action. Judge Stults named a panel of Richard J. Sullivan, Hubert MeClenahan and Lewis L. Smith. Lewis L. Smith and McClenahan were struck from th« list, leaving Sullivan to serve as special judge. Sullivan, however, disqualified, due to the fact that he had represented Lawrence Gallogly in the past and was representing him at that time in another matter. Name New Panel This necessitated naming a new three-attorney panel and the striking process began again. City attorney Anderson is acting on three affidavits signed by Miss Eleanor Wemhoff a resident of Eighth St. across the street from the alleged junk yard, between Monroe street and Nuttman Ave. One affidavit signed by Miss Wemhoff was against the Galtoglya, owners of the Eighth St. lot, for allowing the dumping of the alleged junk; another was against Imel for dumping the alleged junk; and the third against all three for violating a city ordinance.

Compromise Is J Offered de Gaulle

PARIS (UPD — West German ’ Chancellor Konrad Adenauer appealed personally to President J Charles de Gaulle today not to i provoke an open breach in the 1 Brussels talks on Britain’s pro- < posed entry into the European Common Market. German sources i said De Gaulle promised to “think 1 it over." . < Adenauer offered De Gaulle a 1 face - saving compromise under which the Brussels negotiations 1 would be suspended temporarily i while the Common Market's exec- 1 utive commission draws up an 1 “inventory” of points on which Britain and the six Common Market nations still are deadlocked. Adenauer told De Gaulle, ac- < cording to German sources, that s “ West Germany still believes Brit- 1 ish membership in the Common i Market is desirable. i De Gaulle has sought to break < off the negotiations, refusing to i consider special treatment for i British agriculture and Common- < wealth trade as a condition for Britain's entry. 1 Agree sa Treaty i Adenauer was in a favored po- < sition to exert pressure on De c Gaulle. The two have agreed to < an historic reconciliation of their i nations — traditional enemies 1 whose quarrels have drenched Europe and the world in bloody i wars dating back a thousand s years. , * The treaty will bind the two na- c tinns closely in the fields of poll- 1 tics, defense, education and cul- I tore. It will be signed tonight or t

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Henry Stoppenhagen Is Taken By Death Henry Stoppenhagen, 83, of route 2, Harper road, New Haven, died at 2:20 o’clock Monday afternoon at his home after an illness of six weeks. He was born in the Friedheim I community in Adams county, and had resided in Jefferson township, Allen county, since 1930, moving there after living in Fort Wayne for 19 years. Mr. Stoppenhagen was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Gar Creek and the Lutheran Laymen’s league. Surviving are his wife, Marie; two sons, Walter Stoppenhagen of Decatur, and Lawrence Stoppenhagen of New Haven route 2; four grandchildren; one great grandchild; three brothers, Carl of New Haven, Martin of Wharton, Tex., and Edwin of Fort Wayne, and a sister. Mrs. Amelia Kiefer of near Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the E. Harper & Sons funeral home in New Haven and at 2 p. m. in St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Gar Creek. The Rev. Albert Schlegel will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today .until time of the services. Freight Car Derailed East Os Kendallville KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (UPI) — One car of a New York Central Railroad freight train was derailed two miles east of here Monday, but no injuries were reported. Railroad officials blamed a burning journal on one of the cars for the derailment. DECATFS TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the 24 hour period endinc at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 11 12 nddnlght .. IS 1 p.m 11 1 a.m 18 2p m. 14 2 a.m 20 8 p.m 14 1 a.m. It 4 p.m It 4 a.m 24 8 p.m. 11 t a.m. 24 6 p.m. ... 12 6 a.m. .-.28 7 p.m. 12 7 a.m 27 8 p.m 10 8 a.m. 28 9 p.m. 12 1 a.m 80 10 p.m 14 10 a.m22 II p.m 18 11 a.m 34 Precipitation Total for the 14 hour period end. Inc at 7 a.m. today, .03 inches. The St. Mary'e river was at I.SB feet.

Wednesday. French Foreign Office spokesman Claude Lebel sought to assure the rest of Europe that the treaty was not aimed at any other nation. “On the contrary, it must be regarded as the first, indispensable step leading toward the unity of Europe for which both sides hope," he said. The treaty will be submitted to both national parliaments for ratification. It will be accompanied by a joint statement by the two leaders. Main Provisions Its main provisions are: —The heads of state and government will meet at least every six months. Their foreign, defense, education, youth and sports ministers will meet every three months and their chiefs of staff every two months. Three high officials from each government will meet monthly as a sort of watchdog committee. —There will be exchanges of troops for training, joint maneuvers, joint use of training camps and joint research in arms production, except in nuclear weapons. There also will be joint studies of strategic and tactical problems. —There will be alignment of university degrees, increased study of each other’s language, exchanges of scholarships and coordination of research, except in the nuclear field. West Germany has pledged itself by treaty not to manufacture nuclear weapons.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The way was cleared today for introduction of legislation to amend the Indiana. Constitution’s reapportionment provisions when the House killed a pending amendment removing the two-term limit for county sheriffs. By a 55-41 roll call vote, the House killed a resolution which passed the 1981 Legislature and would have amended the Constitution only after passing this session and being approved by voters in a 1964 referendum. It wasn’t that the House had anything against the sheriff amendment. But the Constitution prohibits having more than one amendment pending at the same time. Avoid Federal Action With the 1963 lawmakers facing the necessity of doing something about reapportionment to avoid having federal judges step in and do tit for them, it was kill the sheriff amendment or forget about a constitutional reapportionment measure this year. The GOP reapportionment plan involves a constitution amendment. The sheriff resolution needed to be killed by only one of the two legislative houses. To make the action even more final, a move was made by prearrangement to bripg the measure back for reconsideration immediately after it was defeated. But the motion by Rep. Owen Crecelius, R - Crawfordsville, was tabled by voice vote On motion by Rep. Charles Edwards, RSpencer. Democrats had talked of walking out of the House to prevent a quorum when the measure came up for a final showdown. But they did not do so. The 55-41 vote was strictly on party lines with 55 Republic ns voting against passage ant 4 l Democrats voting for it 4 van to Vote Four not voting were Speaker Richard Guthrie and Reps. William Brighton, D-Terre Haute; Burl Johnson, D-Decatur, and Robert Speckner, D-Seymour. The HPTI was chosen as showdown site because the GOP had a better majority there than the 2544 edge in the Senate. Shortly after the House acted, hart, withdrew the sheriff amendhart, withdrewthe sheriff amendment measure from the Senate. This has the effect of giving Democratic minority leader Sen. Marshall Kizer control on the subject of reapportionment in the upper chamber. Kiser, Bontrager Confer Kizer and president pro tern D. Russell Bontrager, R-Elkhart, scheduled another “secret” compromise conference on reapportionment. Republicans caucused late Monday and afterwards Sen. Roy Conrad, R-Monticello, caucus chairman. said that a comparative (Continued on Page Eight)

Dance Proceeds Go To March Os Dimes Tickets for the March of Dimes dance to be held Friday evening at the American Legion home are on sale at six places of business in Decatur, it was announced today by Mrs. P. G. Satilek, chairman of the event, which is being sponsored by the four chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority. They are: E. F. Gass store, Holthouse Drug Store, Smith Drug Store, Holthouse on the Highway, American Legion and Elks club. All members of the sorority are also selling tickets and they will be on sale at the door. The contribution is $1 per person, all money going to the 1963 March of Dimes. The dance will be held from 9 to 12 o’clock Friday evening and continuous music will be furnished without charge by fourteen members of the Decatur local of the American Federation of Musicians, of which Bob Rice is president. The Decatur post of the American legion is furnishing the use of the club house without charge. Tickets in the Geneva area may be purchased from Mrs. Richard Huffman, who is county drive chairman for this year’s fund-raising cam. paign.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, January 22, 1963.

Voter List Purging Is Underway Here Purging of the voter list in Adams county is now underway, Adams county clerk Richard D. Lewton said this morning, and many reinstatement applications have already been sent out to county residents. Adams county voters who did not vote in either the 1962 primary or general election will be purged from the registration list, Lewton explained, and will not be eligible to vote unless they respond to an application for reinstatement within the next few weeks. It will be very important that voters respond to the applications for reinstatement with the city election coming up this year. Lewton saio. w A voter who fails to fill out and mail back the half of the card required for reinstatement, he or she will be required to re-register prior to April 8 if he or she expects to vote in the 1963 city election. Return Immediately The county clerk has requested that an persons receiving the reinstatement applications return them to his office immediately after they are received. Voters who cast ballots in either the primary or general election j in 1962 have not jeopardized their voting privilege unless they have moved from the address at which they were last registered, which win necessitate a transfer prior to April 8. The cards being sent out are in double post-card style with one portion directed to the voter and the other that portion that is to be returned to the county clerk’s office. The postage for the return card is prepaid. '

Resume Talks On Test Ban

WASHINGTON (UPD — The United States, Britain and Russia planned to resume nuclear test ban talks here today, apparently closer to agreement in principle than ever before. Yet, though President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev narrowed the issues in an exchange of letters published this week, there were still key issues and dozens of details in dispute. a The t alks, latest in a series which began in October, 1958, in Geneva, with preliminaries going back to 1955, were due to begin at 3 p.m., EST, at the State Department. Here is how the two camps lined up in advance of the meeting: The United States and Britain are ready to sign an agreement ending nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, outer space and under water. They believe this would not require on-the-spot inspection. But they insist on inspections for Ta treaty which would include unnderground tests, since these are hard to distinguish from earthquakes. Russia has ruled out the partial test ban, insisting on all or nothing and thereby making the inspection issue the key one. Much earlier in the talks, Russia accepted the principle of international inspection teams visiting each country to check on possible underground blasts. Then, in November, 1961, the Russians suddenly refused even to discuss on-site inspection. Premier Nikita Khrushchev has now again accepted inspection teams in principle. He agreed to permit two to three trips a year in Soviet territory. The United States says this is not enough. U.S. officials., have mentioned eight to ten trips, but this may

Berne Man Is Named To Beverage Board Herbert L. Burdg, of Berne, was appointed to the Adams county alcoholic beverage board and Charles L. Morgan was appointed to his first full term as superintendent of the county farm, by the Adams county commissioners in their weekly meeting Monday. Burdg was appointed for a oneyear term, effective February 1. He replaces Harold Teeter of Decatur whose appointment expires Feb. 1 of this year, and he has resigned from the board, effective that date. Burdg will serve on the board as the county commissioners’ appointment. Other members are Charles Zimmerman, appointed by the Decatur mayor, and John Blakey, appointed by the Adams county council. Morgan received a four-year appointment as superintendent of the county farm, efective March 1. of this year. First Full Term Morgan has served as superintendent at the county farm the past year, as he was appointed to fill the remaining year of Frank Kitson’s four-year term when Kitson resigned the first of last year. A representative of the surveyor’s office in Van Wart aountir-nfc-tended the meeting, and explained to the commissioners that they would metre than likely be petitioned very soon for cleaning an interstate ditch. i The ditch runs from Van Wert county into St. Mary’s township, and the board of commissioners in the Ohio county expects to be petitioned soon for cleaning the ditch in that county. The local commissioners will then be petitioned for cleaning the portion of the ditch in Adams county. There was no action taken on the matter of an appointment for a trustee from Hartford township by the commissioners Monday.

be flexible. The makeup of the teams has not been settled. The Russians also have implied the teams could only visit areas of Russia where earthquakes commonly occur. The West wants this broadened. The West started out demanding internationally manned “control posts” in each nuclear country which would monitor for explosions. More recently, the West said these posts could be “nationally manned” — that is, in Russia, manned by Russians. The West says these posts must be “internationally supervised.” It has never publicly spelled out how this would be done. The control posts would report seismic data to an international commission, which would supervise the over-all inspection system. To supplement inspections, both camps are talking about placing a number of unmanned seismic reporting stations, known as “black boxes,” in each country. Khrushchev has indicated he would accept three such devices. Kennedy has sought more. The West has proposed that the United States, Britain and Russia first sign a test ban agreement, then negotiate with France and eventually with Red China to join it. The treaty proposed by the West would provide that if France or other nations conduct tests, any of the three original signers would be free to back out. The Russians have indicated they would not sign any treaty unless France joined it at the outset. If Russia does insist France sign initially, this could greatly complicate reaching final agreement, since French President Charles de Gaulle is bent on developing his own nuclear weapons system.

Need 'Parents’ For Exchange Student The need for a Decatur family to volunteer as “parents’ for a foreign exchange student starting next fall was the principal topic for discussion at a meeting of the board of directors of the Ideal chapter of the American Field Service held Monday evening at the Community Center. An appeal was made more than a week ago through the columns of the Daily Democrat but as yet there has been no response. Next fall a student will enroll at the Decatur. Catholic high school and a host family is needed to accept this boy or girl into their home and treat him like one of their own during the nine months’ stay in America. It was hoped that a Catholic family would accept the responsibility and the pleasure of this experience, and the individual members of the board will begin making contacts among local residents. At an election of officers, Roy L. Kalver was named the new president of the organization, W. E. Petrie, vice president, Mrs. Nelson Doty, secretary, and Herb Banning, treasurer. The new officers will assume their duties on July 1. Lowell Smith and Ned Johnson were new members named to the board. The other directors in addition to the officers are: Dr. James Burk, Dr. Harry Hebble, Robert Gage, Don Gage, Mrs. Harry Dailey, Mrs. Robert Heller, Mrs. Ronald Parrish, Hugh J. Andrews and Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt. Jt was suggested that anyone interested in becoming “parents” to a foreign exchange student next fall contact any officer or member of the board. The time is growing short and the sooner the applications are in New York, the more choice the local family will have as to sex of the student and country or origin. It was again pointed out that the prospective “parents” must be at least 37 (Continued on Page Eight)

Dead Sea Scrolls ' Defailed Io Lions The Dead Sea scrolls, their meaning and discovery, were ex- ; plained to the Decatur Lions club Monday night by Dr. Eric Malte, of Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne. Accompanying his lecture with a ■ film strip on the discovery, he ■ described how a young wandering 1 herdsman in the hills of Judea on the banks of the Dead Sea discov--1 ered the first cave in the spring of 1947. Some 2,000 Years Old These scrolls have now been dated between 150 B.C. and 68 A. D.. with fragments of more than 600 scrolls discovered, including a manuscript of Isaiah which is 1,000 years older than any previously discovered Hebrew manuscript of that book. Fragments of all books of the Bible, and many of the Apochrapha and Pseudopigrapha, except the Biblical book of Esther, have been discovered. The Wadi Qumran monastery has been identified as the source of the manuscripts through the ink still found in the scriptorium of the monastery, and is believed to be one of the principal centers of the Essene sect of Judaism. Five Main Areas The new finds are still being researched, but definite light is already thrown by them on: 1. The life and work of John 1 the Baptist. 2. Life and words and phrases of the early Christians in Acts. 3. Words and phrases of John in his writings. 4. Words and phrases in writings of Paul. 5. Historical background ” and literature of the Old Testament. At least 11 or 12 caves have now produced manuscripts, with hundreds of thousands of fragments still being identified. It will take scholars decades, he pointed out, to relate the discoveries to Biblical and other disciplines. Catholics, Jews, Protestants, and Orthodox are joined in the search for more accurate understanding of the scriptures, he added. An international team of eight scholars has been appointed to prepare and publish many of the manuscripts. The methods of dating the finds, first by subject, then by carbon 14 and related test methods, by type of pottery, by coins, by style of writing, and many, many other tools used by archeologists have pretty well fixed the dates during which the scrolls were collected originally, before storage 1900 years ago in the caves where they have been found. The finding of the scrolls alIqws a much deeper knowledge of the Essene group, formerly known only through the writings of three contemporary historians, Dr.- Malte concluded.

W gj . Richard J. Sullivan

Bierly, Sullivan Form Law Practice Two Decatur attorneys announced today that they are forming a new firm for the practice of law under the title of Bierly & Sullivan. G. Remy Bierly, formerly judge of the Indiana appellate court, and former city judge Richard J. Sullivan made the announcement jointly this morning. The firm office is located at 107 S. Second street. Sullivan, a native of Indianapolis. came to Decatur in December 1958 after Judge Bierly was elected to a four-year term on the appellate court in Indianapolis. Judge Bierly, a native of Harrison county, a graduate of Marion normal, Indiana State Normal and Indiana University, with graduate study at the University of Chicago, is a former county clerk, prosecuting attorney, and member of the state house of representatives. He is a member of the Adams county, Indiana, American and Indianapolis bar associations. He is a past member of the Anthony Wayne Parkway commission and the state constitution centennial commission, the Decatur Lions club, Loyal Order of Mbose,

Welsh Opposed To Increasing Share

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh said today he is "opposed to the principle” of a proposal to increase the share of motor vehicle tax revenue distributed to local governments. Welsh told a news conference he feels the proposal, backed by the Indiana Municipal League, would be “the most extravagant possible means” of affording financial relief to counties, cities and towns. He noted that every dollar taken from the state for distribution to local governments would cost the state an additional $9 in federal highway aid. The proposal, introduced in the Senate last week, would change the distribution formula to give the state 50 per cent, the counties 33 per cent and cities and towns 17 per cent. The state currently keeps 53 per cent, counties 32 per cent and cities and towns 15 per cent. Never Taken Seriously Welsh said similar proposals have been made in most recent legislative sessions but “they have never been taken seriously.” Welsh said he also opposes a municipal league proposal for increasing the state cigarette tax | from 3 to 7 cents a pack with half the revenue going to local governments. He said he felt there were several possibilities for a surtax to give local governments more revenue, relieving the burden on property taxpayers. He said he also believed such a tax should be levied only following a referendum. Welsh noted that the cigarette Two Runs Are Made By Fire Department The Decatur fire department was called to two fires Monday, in addition to the fire which destroyed the Leo Thieme home in Union township. At 4:50 p.m., the department was called to extinguish a car that caught on fire along the Piqua Road, five miles from Decatur. The auto, owned by Robert Kelly, route 1, Willshire, 0., caught fire while Kelly was driving. No estimate of damage was given. A short in the wiring at the Bill Cravens home, 710 Marshall St., resulted in a call at 7:05 p.m. cabinet in the bathroom of the Cravens home, and damaged the A wire shorted behind a medicine medicine cabinet and the wall slightly, but did no further damage. The local firemen were at the scene until 7:35 p.m.

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G. Remy Bierly

Knights of Columbus and Indianapolis Press club. He also holds an honorary Kentucky colonel commission, and is a grand sagamore of the Wabash. He is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity at Indiana University and Phi Kappa Theta social fraternity there. He is also a winner of the John W. Foster prize at I. U. Sullivan is a native of Detroit, Mich., a graduate of Cathedral high school in Indianapolis, and Indiana University school of law. He is a member of the Decatur Jaycees, Jefferson club, Decatur Lions club, Knights of Columbus and Decatur Elks. He resides in Root township. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, snow flurries and snow squalls near Lake Michigan and taming much colder tonight. Wednesday mostly cloudy and very cold with snow flurries likely. Low tonight zero to 8 below north, 7 below west central to about 10 above southeast. High Wednesday 5 to 12 above. Sunset today 5:53 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 8 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Cloudy and cold. Lows 12 below to 5 below. Highs aero to 5 above.

and motor vehicle tax proposals contain no provisions for a referendum and that the money would be distributed to local governments without regard for need. Some Need No Relief “There are some local governments in Indiana that do not need property tax relief,” he said. Welsh repeated earlier statements that it is up to the legislature to decide what taxes it will enact to bring in additional revenue to meet state needs for the coming biennium. He said his main desire is that any plan enacted should raise sufficient money. Welsh said he has not discussed with Sen. Jack H. Mankin, DTerre Haute, details of a six-point tax program which Mankin outlined in a Senate speech Monday. He said fre has not studied Mankin’s proposals and has not taken any stand on them. Republican senators had claimed that Mankin’s proposal actually was Welsh’s tax program. Both Mankin and Welsh denied it. Turning to the subject of reapportionment, the governor said he hopes that members of both parties will reach “an ultimate agreement” on a means of carrying it out. Evening Art Class Opens January 31 An evening art class will be given at the Decatur high school starting Thursday, Jan. 31, according to an announcement today by Hugh J. Andrews, school principal. The class is designed to develop basics in drawing, charcoal, chalk, and watercolor techniques. Hubert Feasel, Decatur high school art instructor, will conduct the class, which will meet on Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 9:30 o’clock for 12 weeks. Feasel is a graduate of the Fort Wayne Art school and holds a bachelor’s and masters degree from Ball State Teachers College. Before coming to the Decatur school, Feasel taught for several years in the Adams Central schools. The instruction fee and material costs for the class are S2O. The class will be limited to 20 members. Those interested in the art class should register before Jan. 31 by calling either the school office or Feasel.