Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 28.

Leaders Os Britain And ' ' ■■ - A . . , . ' ■ (I . . .. Italy Seek Formula For Preservation Os Unity

Major Bill Still Missing In Assembly

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The Indiana Legislature with 684 bills in its craw, heads into the lawmaking period next week with one major measure still missing. Missing is the Republican plan for financing the budget which the GOP-dominated House Ways and Means Committee is forging in daily sessions. The committee, headed by Rep. John F. Coppes, R-Nappanee, is expected to have its budget ready for presentation possibly by the end of next week or the beginning of the next. The committee is using the $1.6 billion budget prepared by Governor Welsh and the State Budget Agency, as a base and looking for places to cut. The biggest slices to date included tentative removal of 50 extra troopers sought by the Indiana State Police, and $60,000 from the Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources CommiMinn _/ Marssfof In Jeevnady Indications are that a $2 million Oat may be made in the Conservation Department budget, including the department’s magazine “Outdoor Indiana.” But all the paring the Ways and Means Committee can do is not likely to bring the two-year spend, ing program down as low' as the $1.2 billion “balanced budget’* which Welsh first presented as his recommendation if no new revenue sources were created. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles M. Maddox has suggested that the Republicans might come up with a $1.5 billion budget and be offered a plan which he said was his own—not that of his party. The Maddox plan called for doubling the gross income tax on wages and salaries and adding a sales tax of 2 per cent on motels, hotels, restaurant meals and clothing items costing more than SSO. What generally is referred to as the Democratic plan already has been introduced. It would junk the gross income tax in favor of a net income tax ranging from 2 to 10 per cent, and combine this with a franchise or privilege tax on business.

Arms Buildup In Cuba Told

WASHINGTON (UPD — Russia has nearly 600 anti-aircraft missiles, 400 tanks and 2,000 pieces of artillery in Cube, according to the Defense Department. The department revealed the intelligence figures in a dispute with Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., who said his sources reported much more equipment on the island. The Pentagon said there is no evidence of Soviet offensive weapons or nuclear warheads in Cuba. Some of the estimates Thurmond gave, a spokesman said, are at “wide variance” with official intelligence. Thurmond said “informed sources” told him Russia had an “air army” of 30,000 to 40,000 troops in Cuba, rather than the 17,000 reported there by President Kennedy. , , “If Sen. Thurmond has proof of any kind to support the information he has released which differs with official intelligence,” a spokesman said, “the Department of Defense would like to receive the evidence.” ’ . . Many Differences bi addition to the troop figures, the senator and the Pentagon differed on a number of points. Thurmond claimed there were about 600 tanks on the island, while the Pentagon put the figure at less than 400. Thurmond said there were more than 2,000 artillery pieces in Cuba, and the Pentagon said there were less than 2,000.

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This plan has the backing of Sen. Marshall Kizer, Democratic minority leader, and apparently of most other Democrats. However, Sen. Jack Mankin, D-Terre Haute, has another tax plan consisting of a modified net income plan, a cigarette tax hike and an excise tax on hotels, motels and restaurants, as a means of hitting transients. The Indiana State Tax and Financing policy Commission still has under study an inclusive tax plan which would hike gross income taxes one-third, and make possible a local non-property tax which could be voted into being by referendum. A device for keeping property taxes from going any higher also is part of the measure. The commission hung onto the measure at a meeting this week and decided to wait until Feb. 6 to vote on recommending it When Lt. Gov. Richard Ristine was asked if this particular bill might become the “Republican plan” he declined to commnet. Ristine said that at this time he could not even say whether there would be a “Republican plan” offered. No Shortage of Plans While there may be a lack of full representation on tax plans, there is no shortage of plans for reapportionment the other crucial problem confronting this legislature. President Pro Tern D. Russell Bontrager, who also heads the Senate Legislative Apportionment Committee, will have the Housepassed Republican plan in his hands Monday. The constitutional amendment calling for a 60member Senate, in place of the present 50, and a 100-member House, passed 5642. Bontrager said he would hold a public hearing, maybe Tuesday. He already has had one committee meeting at which Dr. Karl O'Lessker, Wabash College professor, explained the plan which he worked out under instructions from Welsh. Since then, a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment was in(Continued On Page Three)

According to Thurmond there were more than 1,000 mortars, but the Pentagon said there were less than 800. Thurmond said there were almost a thousand anti-aircraft missiles in Cuba, but the Pentagon said the figure was less than 600 surface-to-air missiles. And the senator said Russians had nuclear-tipped FROG missiles with a range of 300 miles, but the Pentagon said the missiles have a range of only 50 miles, and there is no evidence they have nuclear warheads. No Evidece Thurmond said he had reports of “100 to 200 ballistic missiles with a 1,100-2,200 mile range in underground facilities.” The Pentagon said it had no evidence of such missiles. The Pentagon spokesman did not challenge Thurmond’s claim that Cuba has 150 cruise missiles, presumably for use against ship- : ping, and that Russian submarines are “resupplied in Cuba and call frequently" at the island. “The information contained in Sen. Thurmond’s weekly newsletter,” the Pentagon spokesman said, “is at wide variance with > carefully evaluated data collected by US. intelligence from continui ous surveillance and other sources. “The information obtained by ■ our intelligence is being made , public to the extent it does not s compromise intelligence sources,” he added.

ROME (UPD—The leaders of Italy and Britain today sought a flexible European lineup that would preserve unity without French domination. Premier Amintore Fanfani and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan scheduled their second meeting in two days to discuss ways of repairing the European links broken by France’s veto of British membership in the Common Market at this time. Macmillan arrived Friday for a threeday visit. Informed sources said the goal was to tighten relations among Britain, the United States and their friends in the six-nation European community without wrecking the Common Market. The drive was based cm the assumption that calm, concrete action would, in the long run, induce French President Charles de Gaulle to reconsider his “lone wolf’ position. De Gaulle’s rejection last Tuesday of Britain’s bid for Common Market entry caused a deterioration of Western unity and produced alienation of France’s market partners — Italy, West Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. De Gaulle, who claims Britain is not ready for membership, wants an “inward-looking" Europe independent of the United States. He insists cm an independent nuclear force for France, and rejects . President Kennedy’s plan for a multi-nation Western nuclear defense ■ gainst Communist aggression. Italian sources said Fanfani and Macmillan, in their talks Friday, studied the possibility of a permanent forum for exchanging views. The aim is to leave the door open to France rather than isolate De Gaulle's government and split the Common Market. The sources said efforts will continue to get Britain into the trade group, and the lineup will be solidified by common acceptance of the Kennedy plan for multilateral NATO nuclear force. Macmillan and Fanfani discussed the nuclear project Friday in the light of recent talks the two statesmen have had with Kennedy. The British leader’s agenda called for an audience with Pope John XXIII after his morning talks with Fanfani. Tonight he will be host to Fanfani at the British Embassy. Macmillan will leave for home Sunday afternoon. Cold Wave Warning Issued For Indiana By United Press Interational A new cold wave howled toward Indiana today, threatening the state with more sub-zero temperatures only hours after a historic January wintry spell abated. Forecasters hoisted cold wave warnings for this afternoon and tonight, anticipating readings zero to 8 below by Sunday morning in the north, 2 below to 8 above in the south and zero to 5 above in the central. The new cold headed this way just after the mercury climbed above freezing Friday for the first time since Jan. 22, and set off a slow melting of 2 to 16 inches of snow which blanketed the landscape. .-77- 7~ Temperatures reached 50 at Evansville, 37 at Fort Wayne, 36 at Indianapolis and 35 at South Bend Friday at their high points and dropped during the night only 3 or 4 degrees. The plunge was expected to continue steadily throughout today, however, falling into the teens above zero by evening and changing rain or drizzle to snow flurries. There will be little recovery Sunday, with highs scheduled to range from 5 above to 15 above. The outlook for Monday was “continued very cold.” The cold wave warning took the edge off the fact this is Groundhog Day. Forecasts showed almost no indication the animal would see his shadow and crawl back into his burrow for six more weeks of winter. NOON EDITION

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 2, 1963.

Elmer E. Flicker Dies In Florida Elmer Edward Tricker, 72, former well known resident of Decatur, died Friday morning at a hospital in Clearwater, Fla., where he and his wife had been living since Nov. 1. He was born in Decatur March 31, 1890, a son of Manuel and Elizabeth Wallter-Tricker, and was married to Grace A. Coffelt Dec. 25, 1912. Mr. Tricker moved from Decatur to Sturgis, Mich., a number of years ago, and operated a tire recapping firm in Sturgis until his retirement. The deceased was a member of the First Presbyterian church in Sturgis. Surviving in addition to his wife are one son, Richard H. Tricker of Bloomington; two daughters, Mrs. Sharon Kline of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Mrs. Betty Colchin of Kalamazoo, Mich.; four grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Roy Young of Geneva, and Mrs. Winnie Warner of Muncie. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home in this city, the Rev. Elbert A. Smith officiating Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Tuesday until time of the services. Auburn Junction Mun Sentenced To Prison AUBURN, Ind. (UPD —James Back, 27, Auburn Junction, who shot his wife to death and then turned the gun on himself in a suicide attempt, was sentenced Friday in DeKalb Circuit Court to 2-21 years on manslaughter charges. Back was indicted on seconddegree murder charges in the slaying of his estranged wife, Beatrice, 25, last Sept. 27. Heart Attack Fatal To Clarence Miller Clarence Miller, 62. former Adams county resident, died suddenly of a heart attack Thursday night at his home near Chicago. Surviving in addition to his wife and children are a brother, Herman Miller of Palm City, Fla., and a sister, Mrs. Ed Winans of Fort Wayne. The deceased was a son of Lewis and Florence ParrishMiller. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the Warren funeral home in Cary, 81.

Search Ruins Os Turk Homes

ANKARA, Turkey (UPD -Salvage squads searched the ruins of shattered homes here today for victims of Friday’s two-plane crash, which took the highest toll of ground-dwellers in peacetime history. More than 200 persons were killed or injured when a propjet airliner of the Lebanese-owned Middle East Airlines and a Turkish air force transport collided and crashed into downtown Ankara during the noon rush. An official announcement said all 17 persons aboard the planes, including five Americans, and at least 61 Turks on the ground were killed. Thirteen of the 138 injured were listed as “hopeless cases.” Turkey’s highest officials, including President Cemal Gursel and Premier Ismet Inonu, toured hospitals here today seeking firsthand accounts of the dual crash from injured survivors. The collision- happened in fog at 6,500 feet, two minutes before the Viscount airliner coming in from Lebanon was to have landed. Seconds earlier, the airliner’s British pilot had reported “flight normal.”

Refugees Tell Os Shooting At Airport MIAMI (UPD—One hundred and seven refugees from Cuba arrived here Friday with stories of a Berlin-wall shooting scene at the Havana Airport. Witnesses aboard the fifth planeload of Cuban-Americans to arrive in the U.S. since Jan. 1, said they saw Castro militiamen open fire with machine guns at two men running toward a Cubana Airlines plane. They said the men fell down, were captured and quickly hustled off in a car. The refugees said they could not tell if the men been wounded. A source here said, however, the Cuban guards were firing at one political prisoner who escaped as he was boarding a plane for the Isle of Pines maximum security prison. One witness said he saw two men dressed in rebel army uniforms running toward the (Cubana) plane. Bullets HU Plant ’* “When the firing started, they hit the ground. The bullets hit the wing of the plane and gas started to out on the ground. “I don’t know if the two men were hit. But they were quickly seized by the militiamen and put into a car," he said. Most of the refugees reported hearing the chattering of machine gun fire either while they were still in the terminal or after they boarded the plane. The Pan American World Airways DC6B, which was used to take more ransom goods to the island in exchange for 1,113 Bay of Pigs prisoners, also brought back stories of growing numbers of Russians in Cuba. “There are more Russians in Cuba today than there were ‘before the Cuban blockade last October,” said Jose Vega, 31. “In my opinion, Cuba is occupied militarily by the Russians.” , Quit His Job Nicholas Mohedano, a mechanic who worked in a coffee urn factory, said he quit his job after . they put a Russian in charge of the operation. “I’ll take orders from a Cuban,” he said, “but not from a Russian.” Vega said the naval hospital in East Havana is now “exclusively for Russians.” He said the whole hospital staff is Russian.

The Viscount, virtually cut in half by the collision, crashed in flames into the noonday crowds in busy Ulusa Square, the “crossroads of Ankara.” The air force C 47 slammed into the Citadel in old Ankara, hurling flaming wreckage into nearby homes. Fires started by the airliner crash tempo rarily trapped clerks and customers in two banks on the square and about 30 stores, restaurants and coffee houses. A dozen parked cars were destroyed. It took firemen three hours to bring the flames under control. Traffic jams blocked the paths of ambulances and commandeered private cars carrying the dead and injured to overcrowded hospitals.,. The army threw troops around central Ankara and assigned details to break up the street-clog-ging crowds. Every available doctor and medical technician, including members bt the staff of the American hospital, turned out to help. ' -.-r '•« ■ The crash was the first in the history of Middle East Airlines; the firm which owned the Viscount. ’

Huge Damage Inflicted By Pacific Storm By United Press International A drought - breaking Pacific storm disintegrated over the Northwest today leaving a multimillion dollar swath of destruction from flooding and mudslides. Fresh cold waves bore down on the northern Rockies, Plains and Midwest. Texas sizzled in record-breaking 90-degree temperatures. The three-day onslaught of rain in California and Nevada left swollen rivers, flooded lowlands, and highways clogged with mud. Nine persons were dead and 800 homeless. The storm was temperated by an unexpected high pressure area in Southern California. Reno, Nev., was a mudhole, flooded by the Truckee River, but the fortune wheels at the gambling paradise spun on undaunted. Another surge of arctic air bore down on the Plains, dropping the temperature at Lewistown, Mont., from 36 to 6 degrees below zero. Cold wave warnings were issued from Montana to Indiana after midwesterners experienced their first “mild” day of the new year Friday. The lower Rio Grande Valley and the Texas Panhandle Friday steamed in record breaking temperatures which reached a high of 99 in Cotulla, Tex. Amarillo’s 88 degree reading was the highest ever recorded there in February. Parts of Colorado, Kansas and Southern California also had readings in the 80s. The rain storm which lashed California and Nevada moved into the Pacific Northwest today but could generate no more than a light drizzle. Almost two feet of water filled the streets of Reno; three major trans-mountain - highways were covered with mudslides and water; the Napa River in northern California poured over four dams, forcing 200 persons from their homes, and washed three houses into the Yuba River. . Thirty fomtttoa . to toave their homes as five streets in the sawmill town of Chester went under water. High waters closed schools in six Idaho towns. Snowball Throwing Incidents To Court Cases are now in preparation to turn over to the juvenile court concerning snowball thowing in- ; cidents, it was learned from the city police department. One group involving six boys . have been apprehended by the ' city police and will be turned over • to the juvenile court, fbF their ■ part in just a portion of the snowball throwing that has been occurring the past few days. In the past two nights a truck . window and a car windshield have ■ been broken by snowballs made of f ice, it was learned. Friday evening, a local lady was ' driving her car home from the ’ basketball game when a number i of boys began pelting her vehicle ’ with snowballs. She became ■ frightened, left her car, and immediately contacted 1 the police, who picked up the youths. It was also reported to the po- ’ lice Friday evening that a group of unidentified boys injured a local girl white throwing snowballs. One struck the girl in the face, causing the injury. With the melting conditions the past two days, snowballs are no longer snowballs, but much-harder iceballs, and can cause serious injury or damage to cars, trucks, etc, police said. _—'• B - . .-. . . 77 ‘.agi.'s . ‘ Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday , The Decatur ministerial associa- . tion will meet in the parlor of the Zion United Church of Christ Monday at 9:30 a.m. Devotions will be given by the Rev. Wilmer Watson. A representative of Merill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith, Inc., of Fort Wayne wil speak to the group briefly. All ministers are urged to attend.. Miss Ruth Ann Beery Homecoming Queen Miss Ruth Ann Beery, Monmouth high school senior, was named homecoming queen at ceremonies following •'the MonmouthWoodlan basketball game at Monmouth Friday evening. Miss Beery has been a cheerleader for the basketball team the past three years. Other candidates were Janice Franz, senior; Dianne Miller and Kathy Rafert, juniors. The homecoming queen was selected by a recent vote of the student body.

M lb a**'’* 4 « I \ '' w a HEART MOTHER-OF-YEAR—Mrs. Lorraine Nicoli of Belmont, Mass., is the 1963 Heart Mother-of-the-Year. With her sons, Paul Jr., 12, and John 4, she calls on a neighbor in preparation for the Heart Fund Drive on Sunday, Feb. 24. An operation on Mrs. Nicoli 25 years ago marked the begihning of modern cardiovascular surgery.

Sorority Party To Aid Hospital

The Adams county memorial hospital, largely refurnished in 1958 by help from local orgaizations, will again be aided this year by the purchase of a muchneeded heart machine, if Decatur people respond to a civic project now- underway, Thurman I. Drew, hospital manager, announced today. Tri Kappa sorority will aid the Adams county memorial hospital as the result of a forthcoming project, it was announced this morning. 7 Plans are now being made for the sorority’s annual card party, which this year will include a showing of spring fashions from the E. E- Gass store, February 26. The event will be staged at the Elks lodge this year, with all of the proceeds being donated to the hospital for the purchase of an external cardiac defribillator. If more than the S2OO needed to buy the instrument is donated, several other smaller items, which are badly needed at the hospital, will be purchased. Co-Chairmen Named Mrs. Richard Mies and Mrs. Kenneth McConnell are co-chair-men of the affair, to which all of Decatur’s card clubs, sororities and other women's groups are invited. Tickets are now available from any Tri Kappa member, at Margaret’s Beauty Booth or at Villa Lanes. Tables will be provided at the Elks, but each group of four attending is asked to bring cards for the particular type of game they intend to play. Members of the associate chapter of Tri Kappa, as well as the local chapter of Psi lota Xi, will attend the fund raising party as their social event for the month of February. It is hoped that several other organized groups will do likewise. Merchants Helping More than a dozen local merchants have donated valuable doorprizes to be jtiven during termission, with several more expected to be contacted in the near future. A complete list of merchants aiding the party will be DECATUR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for ‘the period ending at 9 am. today. 12 noon 28 12 midnight .. 36 1 p.m 32 1 a.m 37 2 p.m 32 2 a.m 40 3 p.m 32 3 a.m. 40 4 p.m. 5 p.m 32 5 a.m 40 6 p.m 34 6 a.m 40 7 p.m 34 7 a.m 38 8 p.m 34 8 a.m. 38 9 p.m. 34 9 a.m 38 10 p.m 34 r- —\ 11 p.m. 36 Precipitation Total for the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .01 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.52 feet. INDIANA WEATHER Cold wave warning today and tonight. Temperatures falling to aero to 8 below north, aero to 5 above south by Sunday morning. Drixale changing to snow flurries. Partly cloudy, snow flurries near Lake Michigan and very cold Sunday. High Sunday near 5 above north, 10 to 15 south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and continued very cold.

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announced the early part of next week. « A check of Tri Kappa's records by Mrs. Pred Smith, SO-year member of the sorority, showed that Alpha Sigma was among the first to provide funds to furnish a room at the local hospital when it was first buiit in 1923. In 1934 the club purchased several bedside tables for the hospital, and the following year spent more than S6OO on a diathing machine. Two of baby incubators was donated to the hospital by Tri Kappa. In 1942, another incubator, eight small beds, a dressing table, a cabinet and screen and two metal chairs were given to the institution. That same year, a future Tri Kappa and a son of a Tri Kappa member were the first to use the new beds — little Rebecca Maddox, daughter of now associate Mrs. Watson Maddox, and Ronnie Highland, son of Mrs. Ed Highland. Another incubator was presented in 1944, the same year the sorority donated many many hours making bandages, compresses etc. to lighten the burden of the busy hospital staff. A large refrigerator and electric hot plate were purchased and installed in the room next to the nursery in 1948. Nursery scales were also given for the new addition to the hospital. The active and Associate departments joined together in 1958 to give SSOO for the purchase of new furniture for the new addition to the hospital. The sorority now has plaques on two dpors of the hospital telling of its donations. As the result of the card party held last year, the sorority was able to purchase some fracture equipment and other needed articles for use in the emergency room of the hospital. Two Persons Killed In Illinois Wreck GREENVILLE, 111. (UPI) — Larry Hackney, 18, Indianapolis, died early today In a hospital here several hours after a car in which he and a 14-year-old Indianapolis boy were riding collided with another, killing an Oregon woman. Mrs. Cathryn Carter, 20, Brookings, Ore., was killed and her husband, Don, 23, was injured. Hackney was riding in a car apparently driven by the 14-year-old, identified as Ralph Lancaster, when it collided with the Oregon auto in U S, 40 about six miles west of here. Authorities said the car the youths were driving matched the description of an auto stolen at Indianapolis Friday which was being pursued at the time of the accident by an Illinois state policeman. The police were chasing the car because, they said, it matched the description of a car which sped away from a filling station at Vandalia, 111., leaving the attendant without money in payment for gasoline.

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