Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 26 January 1963 — Page 1

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' • '■ -■< b . . ( , wlv: w F ■ B CHOW LlNE—Mayor Donald Gage, city attorney Robert S. Anderson, city councilmen Lawrence Kohne, Clyde Drake and Carl Gerber, and Dr. Norval Rich, are shown above as they received their noon meal In the Decatur high school cafeteria. A number of Decatur and Berne city officials and professional men ate lunch in the new cafeteria Friday noon.—(Photo by Mac Lean)

Republicans Oppose Welsh's Port Plan

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— A plan backed by Governor Welsh to get started on construction of a proposed Lake Michigan port this year, using state funds, apparently will be blocked by majority Republicans in the Indiana Legislature. GOP leaders of both the Senate and the House held a conference late Friday with emissaries from i two steel companies which are building or planning to build mills at the port site at Burns Ditch. John Van Nuys, representing> Midwest Steel Corp., and James Chester, attorney for Bethlehem Steel, asked the GOP leadership what position the party would take on Well ih’s economic development! fund bflV which is scheduled for introduction next week in the leg"We are tor the pert, but not far spending state funds oc it as proposed by Governor Welsh,” ’ was the answer. Welsh had urged the legislators to join him in a bipartisan move to create a $36 million development fund, and suggested doubling the present 3-cent state cigarette tax to raise the money. Welsh proposed that about $25 million of the total be used for outer harbor construction and dredging work without waiting any longer for federal action. Fan Position Clarified The Republicans had declined to get on the bandwagon but the full extent of their rejection of the plan was not disclosed until Friday's meeting in Lt. Gov. Richard Ristine’s office. Attending in addition to Ristine. Van Nuys and Chester, were House Speaker Richard Guthrie, House majority floor leader Charles W. Edwards, Senate president pro tern, Russell Bontrager and Senate caucus chairman Roy Conrad. Conrad said afterwards that the steel comapny spokesmen “didn’t try to sell” the plan of using state funds to get the outer harbor work under way. "They just wanted to know how Desperate Search On For Missing Airmen GREENVILLE, Maine (UPD — Ground and air rescue teams, threatened with more snow, battled 20-foot drifts, subzero temperatures and precious time today in a desperate hunt for five airmen missing following the crash of their 852 jet bomber in the trackless 'Wilderness of Northern Maine. Two of the nine - man crew aboard the $8 million Stratofortress were found alive and not seriously injured. The bodies of two others were located just before nightfall near the spot where the eight-jet plane crashed in flames late Thursday. Officials at Walker Air Force Base, Roswell, NM., identified the dead as Lt. Col. Joe R. Simpson Jr., 42, of Jackson, Miss., a pilot, and Maj. William W. Gabriel, 45, a navigator instructor of Indianapolis, Ind. Both were stationed at Walker and were on detached duty at Westover Air Force Base, Mass. Walker AFB said the men were "listed as dead” but officials at Westover and Dow Air Force Base, Bangor, Maine, said the victims had not been positively identified. Crew Commander Lt. Col. Dante E. Bulli, 40, of Cherry, Hl., and Capt. Gerald L. Adler, 31, of Houston, Tex., a navigator, were picked up before noon in a dramatic rescue by arctic-trained paramedics. Both were hospitalized in good condition.

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to proceed with their plans,” he said. The Indiana Port Commission long has planned to construct the land portion of the port by a bond issue and had expected that the work in the lake would be done by the U. S. Army Engineers with a $25 million federal appropriation. The Army Engineers approved the port last year but the Budget Bureau so far has failed to report to Congress on the recommended $25 million expenditure. Clinton Green, Welsh’s admini istrative assistant and secretarytreasurer of the port commission, has spent weeks in Washington trying to convince White House staffers of the importance of the port to the Indiana economy. At the same time, Chicago and Illinois officials have done all they can to prevent the Hoosier port from being built. “I have no doubt that Governor i Welsh would like to see the Indiana port started during his term, but if he wants it, why doesn’t he get his President to approve the $25 million? It seems like Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago has more influence with President Kennedy than either of the two Democratic senators from Indiana,” Conrad said. Conrad said he feels Indiana can afford to wait until the 1965 session before deciding to spend money for the outer harbor work "which is being done with federal money in other places.” He said 1968 is the deadline by which Indiana must either build a public port or sell back the 328 acres purchased from Bethlehem and Midwest so the steel companies can proceed with a private port. GOP Reapporttonment Victory Earlier at a news conference staged by the GOP leaders, Guth rie predicted that his party’s plan for reapportionment would triumph over the various Democratic plans in the House. He said the Republican - sponsored constitutional amendment would pass the House by the end of next week or early the following week. Guthrie added, however, that he could not predict what might happen in the Senate, where the GOP has only a 25-24 edge. Since the GOP can’t pass any legislation without Democratic help, Guthrie said it might be “the final 10 days” before the Senate passes a reapportionment bill. Bontrager said, however, he hopes to hold a hearing by his reapportionment committee Tuesday. Ristine predicted that the Republican budget bill being worked , out by the House Ways and Means Committee will be ready “in about two weeks.” Guthrie agreed. Edwards said he has found “considerable sentiment” for a plan to allow counties to levy special taxes subject to a referendum, as ' a means of providing property tax ' relief. A tax plan which Democratic minority leader Sen. Marshall Kizer said has “substantial” party 1 support is slated for introduc- ! tion in the House Monday. It 1 would repeal the gross income tax ' and replace it with a net income tax, combined with a franchise tax j on corporations. 1 I NDIANA WEATHER Provisional snow wanting > tonight. Cloudy with occat atonal snow north today, possibly becoming heavy tonight with accumulation of 4 inches or more by Sunday morning. Warmer tonight. Sunday snow diminishing and probably endl tag by afternoon and taming f colder. Low tonight 10 to 15 north, 15 to 18 south. High Sunday 10 to 15 north, 20 to 25 I south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and much colder.

Below-Zero Is Continuing In North Indiana By United Press International Below-zero temperature plagued upstate areas of Indiana again today, but southern sections got relief from the winter’s worst weather. Overnight lows included 6 below at Fort Wayne, 4 below at South Bend and 2 below at Lafayette, while Terre Haute and Indianapolis recorded 3 above. But down south, the minimum was a relatively mild 20 at Evansville and 19 at Louisville. New snow accumulations of 1 to 4 inches throughout the state ' which were predicted by toe Weather Bureau for late Friday and early today, failed to materialize. However, this morning’s forecasts called for occasional snow in the northern third of the state, “possibly becoming heavy tonight with accumulation of four inches or more by Sunday morning.” Elsewhere, scattered light snow was predicted today, tonight and Sunday morning, although no specific depths were forecast. Temperatures crested Friday at points ranging from toe teens above zero to 21 at Evansville and 22 at Louisville. Highs today will range from 17 to 32, lows tonight from 10 to 18, and highs Sunday from 10 to 25. The outlook for Monday was disappointing for Hoosiers who have had their fill of winter weather during toe crrent cold wave. It was “much colder.” School officials all around the state were hopeful that weather conditions would improve during toe weekend to the point where classes could be resumed Monday. Hundreds of thousands of pupils have had weather-imposed vaca--1 tions ranging from 1 to 5 days this week because of toe cold and drifting snow. The toll of weather - related deaths in Indiana climbed to at least 42 as a result of accidents ‘ at Evansville and near Angola, and a fire at Butler. ■ Clarence Browning, 13, Evansville was killed when his sled hit a truck on an Evansville street Friday, and Alice Allman, Montpelier, Ohio, was killed in a two- ■ car collision on slippery U. S. 20 near Angola Friday. At Butler, Charles G. Bishop, 1 79, suffocated in a fire which ; swept his daughter’s home. Retail Division To i Meet On Wednesday i All members are urged to at- : tend a general membership meeting erf the retail division of the ; Decatur Chamber of Commerce ■ Wednesday. ' The meeting is scheduled to be- ’ gin at 7:30 p.m. and will be held J at the First State Bank. Promo ■ tions for 1963 will be discussed. k Webb To Retire From Berne School Post E. M. Webb, superintendent of the Berne - French schools for many years, has announced his retirement, effective July 1. He has been in the Berne school system for 34 years. Claren J. Neuenschwander, high school principal at Berne for the past seven years, win succeed Webb as superintendent next foil. Neuenschwander has been granted a leave of absence, effective Monday, to use foil residency at Indiana University to complete his doctor of education degree.

Decatur, Indiana, Sahtr day, January 26,1963.

Longshoremen Return To Work; Other Strikes In Nation Are Breaking Up

Refugees Tell Os Cuba Unrest

MIAMI <UPD—Nearly 1,300 Cuban refugees arrived here by ship and plane Friday bringing stories of open sabotage and growing bitterness against the Communist regime of Fidel Castro. “I am free at last,” screamed a woman as she stepped into toe arms of her husband. The oldest refugee, 95-year-old Balderno Beloso Acosto, who arrived with his 75-year-old wife, said “they took away my eight cows, my two teams of oxen and my horse. I had nothing.” The refugees told of terror in Cuba—of disappearing friends, executions without trial, corrupt officials, disintegrating support for toe government and open sabotage by peasants who once formed the backbone of Castro’s support. Fear Police “Everybody fears toe police,” said Aurora Margarita Piedra Vasquez, “and you must be careful you don’t make enemies. For talking against the regime they torow you in jail" - “The sabotage and toe turning of sugar cane fields around my town of Jovellanos (Matanzas Province) is terrible,” said Jose Paz, a 29-year-old cane worker. “It has reached the point where there simply won’t be any sugar harvest worth anything.” He said authorities fight sabotage by executing suspects without trial. “Four days before I left Havana to get on toe boat they shot three sugar workers accused of sabotage,” Paz said. “There was no trial.” Vincent Meneses, who brought his wife and young son with him, said, “The secret police took two of my neighbors eight months ago. That’s toe last their families or anybody else ever saw of them.” Meneses said toe only way to get enough food was to bribe neighborhood “defense committees.” “If you don’t bribe them they simply take it all for themselves,” he said. Losing Support Several refugees said Castro was losing support daily. They said toe people would revolt if they could be sure of success. “They fear if they revolt and lose they will be massacred just like toe Hungarian freedom fighters,” one said. Many of toe refugees said toe government “invited” them to

Warn Cold Relief —~ Is Only Temporary

By United Press International The eight-day killer freeze finally broke today, but moderating temperatures created fresh snow storms from the Rockies to New York state. More than 200 deaths were attributed to the bitter, recordsetting cold since last weekend. Despite the break in temperatures, the weather bureau in Washington warned that relief was only temporary, and that the current cold wave, churned by an abornmal circulation of air over the northern hemisphere, would regain its strength. Hazardous driving warnings were posted for southern Illinois, where three inches of new snow was expected; eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas, here roads were glazed by freezing drizzle, and parts of Tennessee and Indiana. Freezing drizzle caused hazardous driving conditions in Alabama, Georgia and Eastern and southern Missouri. Snow, whipped into high drifts by strong Winds, fell over the central and northern Rocky Mountains. ' - The cold spell set all-time low temperatures throughout the Ohio Valley and in parts of the Mid west.

leave simply because government or military officials wanted their property. The $lO million freighter Shirley Lykes brought 1,170 of toe shabbily dressed refugees to Port Everglades, 20 miles north of here. Later in the day a chartered airliner brought 109 refugees on toe return trip of a flight that took more ransom goods to Castro for his release last month of the 1,113 Cuban invasion prisoners. FPC Commissioner To Leave Position WASHINGTON (UPI) — Federal Power Commissioner Howard Morgan will leave when his term runs out because of FPC decisions which he felt were more in toe interest of private industry than toe public. Morgan. in an unusual letter to President Kennedy, said “ordinary men” cannot withstand toe “pressures generated by huge industries focused with great skill onand against the sensitive areas of government.” He urged Kennedy to appoint exceptional men to toe federal regulatory agencies and warned against the danger of “abandonment of toe public interest.” . Several of his reasons for leaving, he said in the letter to Kennedy, were “clearly visible” in his frequent dissenting opinions on FPC decisions. Morgan, vice chairman of the agency, said he will not seek another term after his present one expires June 22. He was named to toe commission in March, 1961. A native of Tillamook, Ore., Morgan is a former chairman of the Oregon Democratic party and for two years was Oregon public utility commissioner. He told a news conference Friday he had advised western senators of his decision before informing Kennedy. By tradition, he said he would be succeeded by a westerner, and by law his successor will be a Democrat or an independent. Morgan said his remarks were not intended to “depict or describe” any individual, including the other four FPC members. NOON EDITION

A new snow storm piled a fresh layer of white on Wattertown, N. Y., already buried under 54 inches of snow. The Jefferson County board of ■supervisors declared a state of emergency in the fight against “the snowstorm of the century.” Temperatures climbed from a record lows of -19 in Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio, into the teens and from a record -14 in Casper, Wyo., to 20 above. But 19 of the weather bureau’s 64 major reporting stations still registered temperatures below the zero mark. Gigantic. ice jams and frozen streams stalled navigation of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and threatened to halt river traffic on a section of the Ohio River. A United Press International count showed 206 deaths blamed on the cold snap and storm. Indiana listed 39 deaths, Illinois 23, New England and Texas 15 each, Ohio 14, Michigan 12, Georgia nine and Oklahoma, Wisconsin and New York eight eacjr Pennsylvania, Georgia and Kentucky each had seven deaths, Missouri six, Colorado five, lowa, Tennessee and North Carolina foureach, Minnesota and Alabama three each, Nebraska and Montana two each and Mississippi one.

By United Press International West Gulf Coast dock workers , fell into line with an International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) back-to-work order today as a string of strikes across toe nation began to break up. Union negotiators met past mid- | night at Galveston, Tex., before announcing that “in the interest of the country and of organized labor” the Gulf Coast strike was ended. The ILA Friday ordered all of its 75,000 members to return to work despite toe fact that negotiations continued at Gulf Coast points. Local unions from North Carolina to Texas had refused. The Galveston agreement came after Assistant Labor Secretary James Reynolds urged the local union to come to terms because President Kennedy was “pretty fed up.” The agreement called for a 39cent wage increase and a study of the gang-size dispute which had held up negotiations for two days. Doesn’t Like Settlement Ralph Massey, president of toe West Gulf district of the ILA, said his committtee “did not particularly like the settlement” but that “in the interest of the country and of organized labor and at the insistence of Sen. (Wayne) Morse and Secretary of Labor (Willard) Wirtz, we ended toe dock strike.” Texas dock workers may be back on the job Sunday. In other labor developments: —As many as 22,000 longshoremen today were called back to work in the port of New York to handle cargo aboard 263 ships —believed to be the greatest number of ships riding at anchor in the bay and tied up at piers since World War II convoy days. —Longshoremen at Miami, Fla., and Mobile, Ala., continued to hold out against toe ILA back-to-work order. A management negotiator at Miami said talks were “at a standstill.” A 161-day, violence-scarred strike against toe Shell Oil Co.’s Roxanna, Hl., refinery by 2,100 members of 13 unions came to a tentative end. M. D. Harmon, president of toe oil workers council, said it was hoped normal operations could* be resumed Wednesday. Shell apparently won its battle to keep workers accused of violence from returning to work. Issues Restraining Order —A federal judge, at toe request of President Kennedy, issued a temporary restraining order Friday stalling a threatened strike by machinists at the Boeing Aircraft Co. in Seattle, Wash. The strike, set for 12:01 a.m. today, would have idled about 40,000 workers across the nation and halted Boeing’s defense and space work. Kennedy called for toe injunction “to remove a peril to the national safety.” —Mayor Robert Wagner entered negotiations in the 49-day New York newspaper strike today and said he is “always an optimist.” The dispute has idled 20,000 newspaper employes and closed nine metropolitan papers. —1716 11-day transit strike affecting one million Philadelphia commuters remained in effect today after management rejected a tentative contract agreement Friday. The pact had been ratified by 5,600 transit employes. —Negotiations in toe nineweek Cleveland newspaper shutdown were recessed until Monday with no sign of a break in toe issue of union security. No progress was reported Friday. Rochester School Is Damaged By Vandals ROCHESTER, Ind. (UPI) — Police sought today to learn the identity of vandals who broke into Rochester high school early Friday and caused $3,000 damage by squirting water from fire hoses on three floors of toe structure. DECATVR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the period ending at 9 a.m. today. 12 noon 19 12 midnight .. 18 1 p.m 21 1 a.m 17 2 p.m 22 2 a.m 16 ! 3 p.m22 3 a.th 15 4 p.m. 20 4 a.m. 14 5 p.m 20 5 a.m. IS 6 p.m, 18 6 a.ml2 7 p.m. 18 7a m. Bp.hr..-.18 8 am 10 9 p.mlß 9 a.m 11 10 p.m 18 b 11 p.m, 18 Precipitation Total for the 24 hour, period ending at 7 a-m. today, .03 Inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.53 feet.

I DeVoss Declines To I Accept Jurisdiction Decatur’s “junk yard” case is back where it began this morning—without a judge. Attorney John L. DeVoss, who was selected through the striking process by the attorneys involved, informed city court Judge John B. Stults Friday afternoon that he was declining the special judgeship in the case. DeVoss declined to comment on his reasons for declining his selection as special judge in the matter. Judge Stults explained Friday afternoon that he “will try once more,” before undertaking a new process in an attempt to find a special judge to hear the case. New Panel The city court judge said that he would name another three-man panel of lawyers Monday morning, and if a special judge was not obtained this time, he would try ‘ something new.” DeVoss was selected from a panel of three local lawyers, which included Mark A. Morin and David A. Macklin. Robert Smith, representing Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gallogly and Edward T. Irnel, struck Morin’s nam», and city attorney Robert A. Anderson struck Macklin from toe panel. Anderson is acting as city attorney on three affidavits signed by Miss Eleanor Wemhoff. Second Time This was the second time an attorney was selected and failed to take the case. Richard J. Sullivan previously disqualified himself as special judge, after he was selected from a panel which also included Hubert McClenahan and Lewis L. Smith. Thus, with Stults naming a new panel Monday, it will be the third panel to be named, and toe strike ing of names process will begin for the third time in the case.

Cuban-Bound Ships Watched

WASHINGTON (UPD — Senate foreign policy experts had toplevel assurances today that each Soviet-bloc ship bound for Cuba is being subjected to the closest possible surveillance. The word was given, according to informed sources, by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and John A McCone, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. They testified Friday before the Senate Foreign - Relations Committee’s panel on Latin American affairs. According to one informed sources the two- top-level administration spokesmen said “every conceivable means” of surveillance is being employed to acquaint U.S. authorities with the nature of cargoes arriving in Cuba. The comments on the extent of U.S. surveillance since the abandonment of the Cuban quarantine were made behind closed doors.. After the session there was agreement among participants on a point which may have been obscured by the withdrawal of offensive planes and missiles by the Russians: The Russians have, in the last six months, moulded their forces in Fidel Castro’s island empire into a powerful military complex which doubles as an important base for political subversion in the hemisphere. In a related development, diplomatic sources reported that Rusk had advised Argentine Foreign Minister Carols M. Muniz that action to counter Communist subversion in Latin America may be recommended soon to the Organization of American States (OAS). The administration has nearly finished an appraisal of subversion throughout the hemisphere and of the support it gets from Cuba. The appraisal is part of a long-range policy plan to deal with Cuba. Three hours after the foreign relations subcommittee concluded

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Italy To Replace Jupiter Missiles ROME (UPl)—Premier Amintore Fanfan i announced today that U.S. Jupiter missiles will be withdrawn from Italian soil and replaced by a sea-based Polaris striking force. Fanfani made the announcement during a Communist - inspired no-confidence debate in the Chamber of Deputies. The debate is expected to end late this afternoon in a vote which the Italian premier will almost certaihly win with a solid majority. The Fanfani announcement foL lowed a similar disclosure by President Kennedy in-Washington. Kennedy said the land-based missiles in Italy and Turkey will be replaced by submarine - borne Polarises. There are a number of missile bases scattered throughout Italy. Most of them have jupiter missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads as far as Moscow. In an hour-long speech, Fanfani said the submarines carrying the Polaris missiles “will not operate from Italian bases.” He did not say when the Jupiter-Pol-t laris changeover would take l place. ’ In reply tc communist leader , Palmiro TogliattFs demand that Italy refuse any nuclear weapons, the Italian premier said To- . gliatti should “invite other coun- , tries, far better equipped with . missiles than we are, to set a good example.” He added that it was “an ele- , mentary duty” of any govern- « ment to look after the defense of its country. The Fanfani speech touched on a number of points, Including the premier’s recent visit to Washing- ’ ton.

« its briefing session Sen. John C. ■ Stennis, D-Miss., a guest at the t proceedings, announced that hearings on the Cuban build-up will : be held as soon as possible by the Senate preparedness subcommittee, which he heads. Stennis said he has had reports that the Russian build-up in Cuba “is rapidly converting Castro’s forces -into the second most powerful military power in this hemisphere.” - $75,000 Fire Loss At Elwood Friday ELWOOD, Ind. (UPD — An explosion and fire that caused an estimated $75,000 damage to a half-block 0 long paint shed and threatened neighboring homes here Friday afternoon was'ignited by a janitor who dropped a lighted blow torch. Elwood Fire Chief Clarence J. Dever said George Shaw, 58. was perched atop a ladder trying to thaw frozen water pipes when he tipped over in the vicinity of fifteen 55-gallon drums of highly explosive lacquer. ■Hie one - story concrete block building, owned by the Ventoura • Corp., a house trailer manufac- ; turer, was destroyed. Fire companies from Elwood, ; Tipton, Alexandria, and Madison . and Pipe Creek Twps. laid a curtain of water between the burning building and nearby homes in the predominantly residential area. Dever said about 500,000 gallons of water were pumped on and around the building in the four i hours before the fire burned out. Company officials said there were no other employes in the . building when an explosion sent balls of fire shooting skyward, badly scorching a- nearby garage L and littering the area with debris.