Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 26.

Farm Message Proposes Subsidies For Cotton; Voluntary Output Curbs

House Pushes GOP Proposal

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A bill containing the Republican plan for legislative reapportionment by constitutional amendment successfully hurdled a roadblock in the Indiana House today. The "Indiana Plan” bill passed second reading and will be eligible for a final House showdown Friday. It survived Democratic minority efforts to sidetrack it. Rep. Frederick M. Hinshaw, DMuncie. sought to have the measure recommitted to committee, but his motion was tabled by a 54-43 vote on strict party lines. Then Rep. Robert L. Rock, DAnderson, tried to amend it to make it conform to the Democratic plan for immediate reapportionment on a population basis. But his amendment motion was tabled 55-43 on a party-line ballot. A few minutes earlier, a minority Democrat proposed a joint session with the Senate within 24 hours to thresh out a compromise agreement on the reapportionment issue. But House Speaker Richard W. Guthrie referred the resolution of Rep. Otto Poxgay, D-South Bend, to a Republican-dominated committee which obviously killed any chance it would be adopted. Pozgay had proposed the two houses meet jointly Friday morning. "I maintain we can work together," he told his colleagues. About the same time, Reps. John Donaldson, R-Lebanon, and Charles Edwards, R-Spencer, inCivil War Program Scheduled March 13 A program commemorating the Civil War will be held in the Ad- . ams Central gymnasium Wednesday, March 13, it was announced this morning by G. W. Vizard, superintendent of county schools. The program will be held from 1:15 to 2:30 p.m. under the auspices of the schools, the Indiana Civil War centennial committee and the Adams county Historical society. Students as well as the general public will be invited to attend. Essay Contest Last year’s essay contest was an unqualified success. Vizard explained this morning, and it is hoped that entries will be received from each school this year, the second year for such a contest. Manuscripts should be sent to the Adams county school superintendent’s office no later than February 28. Participating classes are to be junior high American history students and junior history students. The contest will be held this year under a divided competition system. The divisions are: high schoool juniors; eigthth grade students; and seventh grade students. English, social studies and history teachers will screen the essays and each school may have two entries in each division. The essays are limited to 500 words, and a complete bibliography is to be included. Prizes Awarded The manuscripts should not be signed, but a card should be attached and indude the student’s name, grade, teacher’s name and the name of the school. Judging will be under the direction of Miss Frances Dugan, and prizes will be awarded. Adams county furnished over 700 soldiers during the Civil War, Vizard said, “and it seems most fitting that a special study should be made at this time of the great events of that period. Even a brief study of the conflict will give persons an appreciation of the sacrifices that were made to uphold the union of the states,” Vizard related.

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troduced a resolution requesting Congress to amend the Constitution to specifically deny that the federal government has any jurisdiction over state legislatures on reapportionment. Meanwhile, reapportionment by constitutional amendment was scheduled to take on a bipartisan flavor for the first time. The Democrats, whose allegiance has been to immediate reapportionmet by enactment of a law this session, surprised the Republicans by disclosing at a Senate legislative apportionment meeting late Thursday they, too have a constitutional amendment to effect reapportionment. Minority leader Marshall Kizer, D-Plymouth, said the resolution embodying a formula for reapportionment will be introduced in the Senate either today or Friday. It calls for a 50-member Senate to be reapportioned once every 20 years. Sen. Paul Hatfield, D-Evans-ville, offered the Republicans the opportunity to co-sponsor the reso-i-.Ai a- »— »■ »»r AVi-L luiion, explaining i ininK we can sell this plan to you. I think you probably will accept it. It does not overload any one section and does a pretty good job of balance.” The offer was directed to the Republican caucus chairman, Sen. Roy Corrad, R-Monticello, but he did not immediately indicate whether it would be accepted. GOP Plan Discussed The. Republican constitutional amendment, which was only briefly discussed at the Senate committee meeting, is expected to be the center of a losing battle in the House today. The plan, which calls for a 80-member Senate and a 100-member House, is scheduled for second reading today and passage Friday. Democrats are expected to try again to amend the resolution or roadblock it, but since a previous attempt lost by a 58-41 vote, the plan appeared sure of gliding through the House and into the Senate where the need for compromise exists. The majority GOP lacks enough votes to enact its own plan. Bontrager observed during the committee hearing “if either party takes a firm party stand on reapportionment, nothing is going to pass.” Hatfield and Sen. William Christy, D-Hammond, Democratic caucus chairman, said they were unwilling to accept the 60-member Senate proposed by the GOP. "Increasing the number of senators is not going to help us get any better government and would increase the cost to the taxpayers,” Christy argued. Waler Main Break Is Being Repaired A break in a water main caused a large amount of Water to flow onto Grant and Bush streets Wednesday afternoon, but the trouble is expected to be repaired today, city engineer and water department supervisor Ralph E. Roop said this morning. The main broke at the intersection of a two-inch main which runs south on Bush St., and a six-inch main on Grant street, just east of the Nickel Plate railroad crossing on Grant St. The break occurred around 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, and the city water department worked until approximately 16 p.m. before being able to greatly alow down the flow of water from the broken main. Roop said today that quite a bit of water flooded out onto Grant and Bush streets, as it took water department employes about two hours to dig deep enough to reach the source of trouble. The department men are working further on the trouble spot today in making a complete repair of the break in the main.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy sent Congress today a consumer-flavored farm message proposing federal subsidies to spur cotton sales and to encourage voluntary production curbs on feed grains and milk. Kennedy said his program, including direct government payments to the cotton trade, cotton growers, and producers of milk and feed grains, would lead toward a stable farm economy and lower consumer prices. An administration official estimated that the proposals could tito 8300 million to 3500 million off toe taxpayers' outlay for farm supports and 10 cents a pound off the retail price of butter. In a 4,200-word message, the President also called directly on wheat growers to accept a tight new control program for their 1964 crop in a referendum scheduled for this spring. He said the alternative would be unlimited production and “depression conditions for the 1964 crop.” He warned that it would not be “feasible” to get a substitute wheat support plan through Congress if the referendum failed. Income Improves Kennedy said that the past two years have produced “substantial improvement in farm income, a substantial decrease in government holdings of (surplus) agricultural products, and a substanpayer for carrying farm surpluses without increasing the consumer’s burden.” He said the rise in farm income had generated added business for rural industries and farm communities, adding at least 200,000 jobs to the national economy. Nevertheless, he added, farmers still can produce more than markets will take and further progress is needed. The proposals for new cotton, feed grain, and dairy legislation —the feed grain plan to take effect next year — were laid out in general terms with Congress invited to fill in many of the key details. The request for voluntary-con-trol plans for milk and feed grains was a conciliatory retreat from past administration proposals for mandatory controls. Congress rejected the mandatory plans after a bitter partisan fight last year. In addition to the three major commodity bills, the President proposed a number of other measures including expansion of a land-use conversion program and authorization for a federal loan insurance program to expand rural housing credit. Separate Programs For cotton, Kennedy proposed two separate federal payment programs, one to the cotton trade on a two-year trial basis and the second directly to growers. These payments would cut domestic market prices to levels competitive with prices paid by foreign mills, while scientists seek to help farmers cut production costs through moves like elimination of the boll weevil. When costs come down, Kennedy said, price supports to growers could be reduced. The President urged approval of new cotton legislation before the end of February so it could apply to planting of the 1963 Crop. He recommended that farmers be allowed to grow cotton above their basic 1963 acreage allotments for export at the world price. He said that in 1963, the extra planting at export prices—about 8.5 cents below present domestic supporte —- might be, permitted at up to 20 per cent above the already announced 1963 acreage allotments. For feed grains, Kennedy proposed continuation of the voluntary acreage-reduction programs which Congress approved for 1961, 1962, and again for this year. He pointed out that if no new legislation is enacted this year, the current farm law will allow unlimited feed grain production and price supports will come down from this year’s 81.25 per bushel, on corn to a “disastrous low” of about 80 cents. Production Cutbacks For dairy products, Kennedy recommended payments for production cutbacks. He said the (Continued on Page Eight)

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 31, 1963.

Talks Continued In Newspaper Strikes

By United Press International Negotiations in the New York newspaper strike reached settlement on some issues after a marathon session today, but talks were bogged down in the Florida and Philadelphia transportation strikes. Mayor Robert F. Wagner said several important issues had been resolved in the 55-day-old New York City newspaper strike, but two critical issues remain unresolved. Meanwhile, miners at the U.S. Steel Robena mine complex in Pennsylvania and 130 employes of the St. Louis Street Department stayed off the job. Wagner, who initiated marathon contract negotiations at city hall last Saturday, reported the first progress in the newspaper strike following an 18-hour session with publishers of nine dailies, newspaper unions and federal, state and city mediators. In calling for a day’s adjournment, Wagner said he decided to afford the parties an opportunity to reflect on and reconsider their positions. But, he emphasized, the two sides “are still a longway from settling this dispute.” Wagner gave no details about the issues resolved. The two sides remained separated by a package gap Os 824.23 per man per week. The publishers have offered a 810 raise and the union has demanded a 834.23 package. The Cleveland Press unit of the American Newspaper Guild reversed itself and voted to continue negotiations on the key issue of union security. Guild members at the other Cleveland paper, the Plain Dealer, accepted the publishers proposal for a maintenance of membership clause with a seven-day escape period. The two papers have been struck since Thanksgiving.

Britain Asks U.S. For Help

LONDON (UPI) — Britain rebounded from a French blockade of its path to Europe today and sought help from the United States and other free world nations to bolster its sagging economy. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, bitterly denouncing the “folly” of French President Charles de Gaulle, called Wednesday night for a speed-up of trade and tariff consultations with Washington, the Commonwealth and Britain’s six partners in the European Free Trade Area (EFTA). Macmillan accused France of deliberately torpedoing the Brussels negotiations on British membership in the six-nation European Common Market. Without directly naming De Gaulle, he said the French government is “looking backwards, not forwards.” In a 10-minute television speech to tite nation, Macmillan said Britain’s efforts for economic resurgence would be made within the concept of a united Western alliance which looked outward toward partnership with the United States — not inward, as envisioned by De Gaulle. Aceaaea GauHe The British leader accused the De Gaulle government of placing the entire Western alliance and the U.S.-inspired postwar reconstruction of Europe in jeopardy. “What folly it is for anyone to try to put all this at risk,” he said. i There was no immediate official reaction in Paris. But a sharp surge of critical comment in France was given new impetus by Jean Monnet, often described as the “father” of the common

The strike of the Transport Workers Union against the Philadelphia Transportation Co. entered its 17th day with talks scheduled at the state Capitol in Harrisburg. A- company spokesman said the major issue now was the financial package. Negotiators agreed on a 33-cent package two weeks ago, and the union accepted .but the firm rejected it. Another key issue was union demands for retaining a no-layoff clause. The week-old Florida East Coast Railway strike threatened to turn into a statewide tieup of railroad operations. A federal judge ordered the Jacksonville, Fla., Terminal Co. to accept about 2,000 rented freight cars from the railway, beginning today, despite the threat of immediate picketing. If the Terminal was closed by pickets, all rail service through Jacksonville, which serves a major part of Florida for mail, fruit, package express and tourist transportation, would be halted. A union leader said in court Monday workers would picket the terminal if it handled railway cars. —• Striking —miners near Carmichael, Pa., said they wanted a safety dispute at Robena complex settled before they returned to work. The dispute broke out Tuesday after a lampman refused to leave his post to go to another part of the mine and he was dismissed. The union said if the lampman had gone to another part of the mine he would have violated a safety rule. St. Louis streets director Alfred H. Beck said he would not seek an injunction against 49 city employes engaged in a sympathy walkout. He said the men would return to work in an emergency. Some 23 men were fired Monday after they refused to work on a salt pile in sub-freezing weather. Hie 49 walked off in protest to the dismissals.

market. He called the situation very serious “because the mutual confidence indispensable to all common agreement has been smashed.’’ De Gaulle, who feels Britain is not ready for Common Market membership, was said to be unmoved. Authoritative sources in Paris said the 72-year-old French leader plans to let tempers subside before pushing ahead with his “grand design” for a Europe independent of the United States. Aides quoted De Gaulle as saying Wednesday “in a few months, when the present uproar has died down, they will see I was right again.” Washington Isn’t Bothered The breakdown of the Brussels talks caused no unusual excitement in Washington. U.S. officials felt the development might slow down but not divert the present U.S. drive to promote free trade in the West. The view still was prevalent that Britain eventually will be accepted in the Common Market. The collapse of the Brussels talks led to the immediate cancellation of British negotiations to enter the European coal and steel community and the European ’Afotnic Community (Euroatom). Officials said the three communities form a single grouping and there could be no membership in only one of them. The French veto also brought about a boycott of the other five Common Market members—West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg —of a French-called meeting of financial ministers scheduled for Bad-en-Baden, Germany, Friday. The French had announced they (Continued on Page Eight)

Mercury Skids To 16 Below At Fort Wayne By United Press International The coldest January in 23 years in Indiana was on the fringe of bowing out today in a bitter blast of sub-zero temperatures which surprised even the weatherman. Temperatures plunged to 16 below zero at Fort Wayne and almost as low at points throughout the northern half of Hoosierland, spawning a flurry of costly fires at Lafayette, South Whitley and Aurora. ‘X. Predictions had called for lows of only 2 degrees below zero confined to the fat north and abovezero readings elsewhere. Instead, the lows included 9 below at Lafayette and Terre Haute, 8 below at South Bend, 6 below at Indianapolis, zero at Cincinnati, 3 above at Evansville and 11 above at Louisville. Ninth Sub-Zero Day It was the ninth straight day of sub-zero readings in Indiana and the 12th day of a historic cold wave which sent the mercury skidding to 34 below zero in the state early Monday, within one degree of the all-time Indiana record. At Indianapolis, where the latest low was only two degrees off the record for the date set in the bruising winter of 1936, the month closed out with an average temperature of 19.5 degrees, nine degrees below normal and the coldest since the record January of a 14.2-degree average in 1940. Firemen in the pre-dawn hours of sub-zero temperatures fought a 8200,000 blaze which destroyed a house trailer manufacturing plant at South Whitley near Fort Wayne and a fire in a paint shop which spread to adjoining buildings including a movie and the telephone exchange in downtown Lafayette. A lumberyard at Aurora was destroyed in another fire Wednesday. 52 Weather Deaths connected deaths climbed to 52 since a snow-storm spread over the state Jan. 19 and set off the cold wave. The latest to die was Mrs. Dorothea Steinbeck, 46, Markle, whose car skidded on a snow-covered road at Fort Wayne Wednesday and crashed into a truck. Warmer temperatures were scheduled to feature the first days of February. The outlook for Saturday—The day the groundhog is supposed to predict whether we’ll have six more weeks of winter—is partly cloudy and warmer with some snow likely in the north.

Boy Seoul Banquet Here Monday Night The annual Boy Scout banquet, sponsored by the Lions and Rotary clubs of Decatur, will be held Monday, February 4, at the Youth and Community Center. The annual affair will begin at 6:30 p. m., and will be held during national Scout week. A total of 161 Boy Scouts, Explorer Scouts and adult leaders will hear Fred Martin, former major league baseball player, who will be the featured speaker. Martin, a veteran of 25 years in the hard-ball sport, pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals for four years, served as manager of the Dallas team in the American Association, and is currently serving as a coach with the Chicago Cubs of the National League. With his long experience in the game, the former left-handed hurler promises to present an interesting talk to the Scouts and members of the Lions and Rotary clubs present. Herman Krueckeberg will emcee the program, and Oral Smith, chief executive of the Anthony Wayne council, will also be in attendance. Local Man's Father Is Taken By Death Everett C. Shaw, 64, of Red Oak, la., died suddenly at 10:30 o’clock Wednesday morning while at work in Atlanta, la. Survivors include a son, Ellis H. Shaw of Decatur. Funeral services and burial will be held in Red Oak Friday afternoon. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness and not quite so cold tonight. Friday cloudy and a little warmer. Low tonight 2 below to 5 above north, 5 to 15 above south. High Friday 15 to 22. Sunset today 6:03 p.m. Sunrise Friday 6:53 a.m. Outlook for Saturday:. Cloudy, with no important temperature changes. Lows 5 to 15. Higbs in the 20a.

Opfimists Back Wildcat League The board of directors of the Decatur Optimist club has voted to officially adopt the Wildcat Baseball League as a club project, president Dan Freeby announced at the weekly Optimist meeting this morning. -— All interested persons will have an opportunity to learn more about the Wildcat League in Decatur at a town hall-type meeting April 4, Freeby explained. A motion was made and seconded and the members of the club voted to adopt the project of the Wildcat league at this morning’s meeting. Dr. C. William Freeby announced that he has a club youth project that he would like the Optimist club to sponsor, a Boy Scout counseling service. No action was taken on the matter. Space Film Shown Dean Boltz was instrumental in securing a film on “The Mastery of Space,” which the club viewed this morning. The film dealt with the recent flights into space by the Mercury 7 capsule and the difficulties encountered by the astronauts in flight. The sensation of weightlessness was described, along with the detailed work involved, such as custom fitting each pilot with a seat that conformed perfectly to his body contour. Other aspects of the flights, one of which was the extreme hot temperature experience in Col. John Glenn’s space ship, were also detailed. The film is in two parts, with the second portion to be shown at next week’s meeting. At the February 21 meeting of the club, Harry Miller of the social security office in Fort Wayne will be the guest speaker. Anyone with questions or problems is invited to attend. Enters Guilty Plea To Evading Taxes INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Federal Judge William E. Steckler here ordered a pre-sentence investigation Wednesday following Robert Garrett'sguilty plewto charges o fevading income taxes. Garrett, 40, is a former Lake County deputy procesutor under Metro Holovachka. The government charged him with evading 82,453 in taxes on $20,000 income. He said he wasn’t aware, he owed the money since he paid withholding taxes.

Port Construction Plan Is Submitted

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —Governor Welsh’s go-it-alone port construction program came into the Indiana Legislature today and the ‘‘bill’s author declared the port backers are “not going to give up.” Sen. Robert O’Bannon, D-Cory-don, offered the measure to create a 836 million economic development fund, about 825 million of which would be used for outer breakwater construction at the Burns Ditch site on Lake Michigan. “There are still many citizens who see great economic opportunity in this port and they are not going to give up,” O’Bannon said. “The issue is now in the climactic stage.” The bill came in two days after Welsh announced that a public port may never be built unless the state tackles it without federal help or federal promises. A similar bill will be introduced in the House, along with a companion measure doubling the state cigarette tax to finance the fund. Two bills to carry out the program had been scheduled for introduction today in the House. However, a spokesman for Welsh said late Wednesday that revisions in the bills, probably would delay the introduction until Friday. Richard Martin, the governor’s news secretary, also said plans had been changed to call for introduction of the bill creating the economic development fund in both the House and Senate. The cigarette tax measure will be introduced only in the House. Cigarette Tax Doubled Martin said the tax bill would double the present state cigarette tax of 3 cents per pack and the bill would be written in such a way to make the tax deductible on federal income tax returns. Federal tax laws allow deduction of only. jce£tain types of cigarette taxes and the present Indiana tax does not qualify for deduction. Legislative opposition already had arisen to the port provision of the development fund and the proposal for doubling the cigarette tax for this use came under heavy fire Wednesday from a group of mayors in a conference with Welsh--..: Welsh told the mayors that the cigarette tax bill to be introduced

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Engineers To Reestablish Indiana Port WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Army engineers will reestablish the economic feasibility of the Indiana port at Burns Ditch, if Indiana can supply proof—such as a legal contract—that an integrated steel mill will be built there. A spokesman told UPI Wednesday the state or its port commission would be expected to “furnish assurances that a normally prudent man would expect—something akin to a legal contract,** before the engineers will endorse the deep-water harbor. The Army engineers, in a report filed a year ago, said a port at Burns Ditch would be economically feasible if a fully integrated mill were there. Governor Welsh has said the conditions laid down in the January, 1962, feasibility report barred any federal funds for the port for about 10 years, until the mill was completed. Congress could require the mill actually be constructed before appropriating money for the port, but the engineers’ report last year did not require this. Rep. J. Edward Roush, D-Ind., author of a bill to give congressional authorization to the multimillion dollar project, said reasonable assurances of an integrated mill is all Indiana is required to supply. This condition has existed for the last 12 months, he said. “Nothing has changed, and there is no inclination on my part nor on the part of the governor to abandon our present fight for authorization. “I will follow that with a request for planning funds,” Roush said. Roush contended the situation has improved since the engineers issued their 1962 report. ises and investigation ot the Midwest Steel Co., which has a rolling mill at the site, and what it planned to do,” he said. "Since then, Bethlehem Steel has come into the picture and indicated it’s going to sink three-quarters of a billion dollars in the port area.

Friday does not actually specify the use to be made of the revenue and that the money would go into the general fund if there were no other legislation to specify its use. Welsh also told the group, representing the Indiana Municipal League, that his suggestion to use the money for the development fund “doesn’t preclude you from talking to the legislature. I am not wedded to the cigarette tax.” Welsh Opposes Cutting Gas Tax However, Welsh warned he actively opposed the league’s proposal to give the counties, cities and towns a greater share in gasoline tax revenue at the expense of the state. He said such a step would curtail highway construction and would also cut down on the amount of federal highway money available to the state. The mayors tentatively agreed to drop their request for more of the gasoline tax money and push instead for the increased cigarette tax and for a new ad valorem tax on all other tobacco products. Indiana does not currently tax cigars, smoking or chewing tobacco or snuff. Mayor Joseph Canfield of Mishawaka, vice president of the league, estimated the various tobacco taxes would bring in about s2l million a year for local governments. Charts prepared by tax experts indicated the new tax would mean a one-third increase in the price of cigars and other tobacco products. The mayors said they understood legislative sentiment was growing in favor of a compromise cigarette tax increase by which the cities and towns would get 2 cents of the increase and 1 cent would go for conservation purposes. ’ • •- - decaTur temperatures Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon i2B 112 midnight .. 16 1 p.m 24 1 a.m 12 2 p.m 28 2 a.m: 1# 3 p.m 28 3 a.m.' 8 4 p.m 27 4 a.m 8 5 p.m. .... 26 5 a.m 4 6 p.m 22 ■ 6 a.m 4 7 p.m 22 7 a.m. 3 8 p.m 20 8 a.m. ’ 2 9 p.m 20 9 a.m. 6 10 p.m 18 10 a.m 18 11 p.m 18 11 a.m 18 Precipitation Total for the i 24 hour period end- ■» Ing at 7 a.m. today, .05 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.52 feet.