Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1963 — Page 1

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Mrs. R. H. Everett Honored Saturday

Mrs. R. Herbert Everett, the former Bertha Dauer, was honored Saturday night by more than 125 of her friends and neighbors at the Pleasant Mills school on the occasion of her retirement after more than 40 years as postmaster of the Adams county town. Mrs. Everett was succeeded Feb. 1 by Mrs. Shirley Johnson Everett. Luther Sovine, president of the Pleasant Mills Lions club, which sponsored the event, opened the meeting and Gerald W. Vizard, county superintendent of schools, acted as master of ceremonies as Mrs. Everett’s life was unfolded in pictures and slides. The Rev. Joseph Gibson gave the invocation for the meeting following the singing of America and the pledge to the flag. Following dinner, there was a musical interlude with Gayle Foor playing a piano number, and Vicki Everett singing “Young at Heart,” accompanied by Kenneth Foor at the piano. * Pictures Projected 'Die first picture projected by an opaque projector was a baby picture taken shortly after Mrs. Everett entered the world Jan. 28, 1893 at Hoagland, the daughter ot Henry and Jennie Dauer. Pictures of her grade school class were shown, and a picture taken while she was attending International Business College in Fort Wayne. She worked at International Harvester four years, and then was a private secretary at Hoffman Brothers for seven years. During the latter employment, R. H. Everett entered her life, and at the same time her sister, Frances, was seeing Herb’s brother, Harve. Before Harve went overseas in World War I, he and Frances were married. Army Service Herb, too, was in the army, and was later stationed in France. A letter from him was shown. When Herb returned, be wrote Henry Dauer asking permission to marry his daughter, which permission was granted by return letter, and the wedding took place at Christ’s Evangelical Lutheran church in Fort Wayne. At this point, Mrs. Elmer Freiburger, who was maid of honor .at the wedding, and who now resides in Warsaw, was introduced. Move To Monroe The Everetts’ first home was in Detroit, Mich., where Herb was employed, but in about a year

Democrat Move On Tax Loses

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Major-ity Republicans in the Indiana Senate today defeated by a bare 26-23 margin a Democratic move to impose a tax on out-of-state sales of Hoosier-made products beginning immediately. Sens. Melville Watson, DGreenfield, and Dewey Annakin, DTerre Haute, introduced a concurrent resolution and proposed that It be adopted immediately. Watson’s suggestion stirred up considerable debate over his proposal that the State Department of Revenue begin collecting a three-eighths of one per cent tax on the out-of-state sales effective without further ado if also adopted by the House and signed by Governor Welsh. Sen. Russell Bontrager, president pro tern, opposed the measure and contended it could not be handled through a concurrent resolution. first Test es Issue It was the first legislative test of the traditional Democratic proposal to tax out-of-state sales, a principle firmly opposed by Republicans and such organizations as the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce on grounds manufacturers already are heavily taxed and such a new levy would jeopardize industrial expansion in the slate. Earlier in the Senate, Bontrager asked the legislature to delay until a special session next year any action on the proposed Lake Michigan port at Buras Ditch. Bontrager said he wants to be sure .»» the project is feasible before the state spends or starts collecting money to finance the construction. In the House, a majority report of the Ways and Means Committee calling for passage of the proposed biennial operating budget bill with $l6B million dollars slashed from Welsh’s “statement of needs” was adopted by voice vote after a minority report to substitute the original bill and restore the cuts was defeated 53-42 on roll call vote following party lines. -. ;>■ ' . Budget Session Thursday House Speaker Richard Guthrie said he will call down the bill for

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they moved to Adams county, where Herb worked for his uncle, John Everett, in the Enterprise store at Monroe. 'Soon Mrs. Walter Steele offered the general store in Pleasant Mills for sale. Thinking this would be close enough so Herb could look after his parents, they purchased the store and moved there. Commissioned Aug. 30, 1922 Herb was acting postmaster until a commission was received Aug. 30, 1922, for Mrs. Everett. Vizard recounted how he had been present as a young boy when the store was sold at r.uction, how when the test was given for postmaster the two took turns waiting on customers while Mrs. Everett completed the test and how everyone in town came down to the store to meet the four passenger trains a day, even the early morning train arrived before daylight. Other Duties In addition to her post office duties, Mrs. Evejett clerked in the store, and on April 14, 1925, her first son, Richard was born; in a few more years, Donald and Jean Marie completed the family. Mr and Mrs. Herbert Dauer, now of Indianapolis, brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Everett, were then presented. Church Work The Pleasant Mills Metohdist church has played an important part in the lives of the Everetts. Mrs. Everett joined her husband’s church when they moved to Pleasant Mills. Rev. A. E. Burk, retired, now of Monroe, who baptized Jean Marie, was introduced. In 1934 she began teaching a primary Sunday school class, where “I will make you fishers of men" was sung. The song was then sung by two grandchildren, Gwen and Debbie. She also had charge of the Junior League, a grade-school group that met Sunday evenings, and when Mrs. Joe Schaffer directed the first daily vacation - Bible school for the community, she was again a teacher. Daring Robbery Some of the excitement of bygone days was recaptured as Vizard told of hanging out the mail lacks early in the morning, us- : laily by Herb, while Mrs. Everett took care of the later sacks. On 1 March 8, 1934, Putnam and Davis, 1 wo armed bandits who had plagu'd small post offices in Ohio and (Continued on Page Eight)

second reading with the House sitting as a committee of the whole Thursday, a session which may require many hours and occupy the entire day. The cuts fashioned by the GOP majority on the committee were mostly from public school aid, colleges and universities and mental health. Bontrager said he is introducing a bill today calling on the Indiana Port Commission to proceed with a pilot study to be carried out by Army Engineers, to be sure winds would not fill up the harbor with sand and silt as opponents have charged. The Elkhart Republican also urged that Clinton Green, secretary of the commission, appear Tuesday before a joint meeting of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees to “clarify the confusion which has resulted from charges and denials regarding alleged secret agreements." “Washington Be Damned.'* “If when the pilot model tests have been conducted and after the construction plans and specifications have been completed, the President of the United States and the Congress under the leadership of the troika composed of Douglas, Hartke and Madden, are still sitting on the money that rightfully belongs to us, the bill tells Governor Welsh it is the concensus of this legislature that the governor should then call a special session to find the means to finance the port—and Washington be damned,” Bontrager said. Bontrager said “we Republicans certainly don’t want to see Indiana deprived of its part” Wray E. Fleming's Son Dies In Fire INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—William Fleming, 31, son of a prominent attorney and former news executive, was killed today in a fire at his far north-side home. Fleming’s father is Wray E. Fleming, a consultant and former general counsel of the Hoosier State Press Association.

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Calls For End To Debate On : Cuban Crisis ’ WASHINGTON (UPI) - A high administration official has called I for an end to public debate over i Cuba following a weekend of new , charges and counter-charges on j the issue. 1 Undersecretary of State George W. Ball said Sunday night that it was “a little bit extraordinary • that we keep on hectoring one I another over this Cuban problem.” I Ball spoke out after members 1 of Congress unleashed a new bar- ’ rage of statements on Cuba. Re- ■ publicans demanded a harder line ' toward the Castro reime, and a : Democrat accused the GOP of ■ trying to push the United States > into World War 111. Ball, appearing on a television ; program, said the administration had been as "candid and as open” with the American people , about Cuba as the national interests allowed. “I think now is perhaps an occasion when we ought to stop talking so much about this and let the situation be watched as it is being watched on a day-do-day basis, but let it develop,” he added. On The Table Ball, No. 2 man in the State Department, said “the facts are on the table” and they had been told “as completely as they could have been told” by President Kennedy. "If anyone gets any evidence that there is some offensive buildup in Cuba or the presence of offensive weapons, or some change in the military situation, the Defense Department is ready to receive that evidence, to subject it to the critical test of the whole intelligence community and to evaluate it and give it some informed judgment as to whether it makes any sense or not,” Ball said. “But all these voluntary intelligence gatherers who would rather makespeeches Qian turn the information over to the government where it could be seriously considered, I don’t think they serve the National interests very well.” Ball said that Secretary of State Dean Rusk had talked Saturday with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin about the continued presence of 17,000 Russian military personnel in Cuba. “This is a matter of some continuing communications between ourselves and the Soviet government,” Ball said. “We will see how things develop.” Subject Os Discussion Over the weekend the Cuban situation was by far the most popular subject discussed by members of Congress, especially Republicans, in newsletters and interviews. Sen. Hugh Scott, R-Pa., appearing on a weekly radio-television program with Sen. Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa., said the administration had failed to tell the truth about Cuba until “forced to do so” by disclosures he and Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R-N.Y., had made. Clark replied that President 1 Kennedy was engaged in a ; “sound method” to get the Russians out of Cuba, “but he’s not i going to throw this country into the kind of war which.. .you and < Sen. Keating.. .are trying to push ' us into.”

Avalanche Warning Issued In Europe LONDON (UPI) — Authorities throughout Europe today warned of avalanches and landslides after a snowslide in St. Lary, France, killed two persons and injured a dozen skiers. Police in St Lary, a small Pyrenees Mountain resort, said Andre Jean and Jeannet Maarcheix were crushed under tons of snow Sunday. They said Jean was operating a ski lift when the avalanche struck. Elsewhere in Europe a brief thaw in the eight-week Siberian cold wave ended and snow fell again in Britain, France, West Germany, Austria, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The cold wave, bringing one of the worst winters in European history, is blamed for nearly 1,600 deaths since Dec. 23. The freezing temperatures and deep snows have caused untold millions of dollars’ damage to roads and crops. The brief weekend thaw with heavy rains melted the deep snow and caused flooding in Britain, France and Yugoslavia. In Britain 20-foot drifts oh the southwest moors melted and together with heavy rains overflowed the River Exe and flooded thousands" of acres over the weekend. New snows struck the areas Sunday, piling up new drifts and freezing rivers again.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 11, 1963.

Geneva Woman Killed In ■' I p ' . ' ' . <• ... Crasji Sunday Morning In Which Four Others Killed

4 Executed By Rebel Regime

BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — Iraq’s new rebel regime executed two generals and two other officers today but travelers arriving here from Baghdad reported “dead quiet” in the capital far the first time since fighting erupted Friday. West German member of Parliament Rudolph Werner said streets were empty and only a few shops were open. Tanks and armored cars moved through the streets continuously. “Yesterday, there was firing all over the city as troops smoked out Communists, but today I did : not hear any shooting,” he said. “Everything was dead quiet today, almost frighteningly so.” 1 Werner said that the people of 1 Baghdad appear to show no signs 1 of joy over the end of Kassem’s i four and one-half years of rule 1 and his replacement by pro- i Nasser military leaders. They’re indifferent and though i there was no shooting today, the i whole place does not smell good,” i he said. Other travelers reported pic- 1 tures of the new leaders are now Deiiig o istr loured out lew*Traqprv'’ are putting them up. In other developments, shipping : resumed on the Shatt- El - Arab i River for the first time since the ! revolt, and tankers and barges jammed in its channels began 1 moving out. ] The military governor general 1 of Baghdad was reported to have c relaxed the curfew hours. It is t now in effect from 8 p.m. to i 6 a.m. j (Britain today became the sec- < ond major power to recognize the new Iraqi regime. Earlier today, West Germany extended its rec- < ognition.) * \ One eyewitness estimated about c 1,500 persons were killed in the c initial day of the revolt. No offi- t cial figures were avilablelx Baghdad Radio in a broadcast t heard here said the four “crim- I inal traitors" were shot and killed because they “violated the peo- t pie’s rights and lived in corrup- ; tion.” i The four executions were the t first announced by the rebels since Kassem and three of his t “henchmen” were shot by a fir- c ing squad Saturday. I Informed sources said the four ( officers had testified against pro-

Hopes For Ending Paper Strike Dim

NEW YORK (UPI) — Mayor Robert F. Wagner sent newspaper publishers and striking printers home today from marathon bargaining sessions at City Hall without scheduling any future talks. Hopes for settlement of the city’s 66-day-old newspaper dispute dimmed this morning when Wagner dismissed the publishers and printers after 19% hours of nearly continuous contract talks. Walter M. Thayer, president of the New York Herald Tribune and spokesman for the Publishers Association of New York City, said he would not characterize the talks "as having broken down.” “We’ve been here a long time and we have not reached agreement,” he said. “We are somewhat discouraged.” Bertram A. Powers, spokesman for the strikers, said he would not say “the talks have broken down.” “We are on call," he said. “We are waitig further developments.” Thayer said the publishers expected to meet later today, but Wagner did not schedule any definite time for renewal of his talks with them. He said any further talks would be up to the mayor. Observers saw no tangible rea-

Nasser defendants at trials held by Kassem in 1959. The officers were identified as Brig. Gen. Abd Al Majid Jalil, Brig. Gen. Dawud Al Janabi, Col. Husayn Khidr Al Duri and Lt. Col. Ibrahim Kazim Al Musawi, all retired. The communique on the executions was signed by Rashid Musleh, new military governor of Iraq. Military units and armed student bands were reported hunting down and wiping out pockets of resistance in Baghdad to the new rebel regime. Fighting Erupts Reports reaching Tehran said fighting had erupted in the big port city of Basra in southeastern Iraq, which is considered a Communist stronghold. The which could not be confirmed, spoke of heavy casualties. Most of the steadily dwindling resistance in Baghdad also was said to be coming from Communist opponents of the pro-Nasser Iraqi forces who launched the bloody revolt last Friday. Travelers reaching Beirut and ■other Middle. East capitals from Baghdad said intermittent fighting still was going on in several sections of the Iraqi capital late Sunday. All agreed that the forces loyal to the new Iraqi rebel regime appeared in complete control in Baghdad. They said a dusk-to-dawn curfew had been imposed and that groups—of students armed with submachine guns were helping troops to maintain control. Roots Out Reds Edward Fowley, an American engineer from White Plains, N.Y., who reached here Sunday on one of the first planes to leave Baghdad since the revolt began, said the new regime claimed it was determined to “root out at least a half-million Communists in Baghdad.” A Dutch businessman who flew to Tehran estimated about 1,500 persons were killed in the fighting which raged through Baghdad when the revolt flared on Friday. The businessman, who asked that his name be withheld because of his business contacts in Baghdad, said he believed the Communists “will continue to (Continued on Page Eight)

son for optimism but the feeling was that a “show-down” atmosphere had permeated peace talks in the city’s longest and costliest, newspaper strike. Before the start of negotiating sessions Sunday Wagner reported that he had told the parties he wanted them “to get down to the final serious business.” “All the areas have been explored and ' re-explored. We can’t keep this thing going forever,” Wagner said. Walter N. Thayer, president of the New York Herald Tribune and a spokesman for the New York Publishers Association, said Sunday when he arrived for negotiations: “There is no reason why this can’t be completely wrapped up today if the parties really want to. It will probably be a long day and night.” The dispute began Dec. 8 when Local 6 of the International Typographical Union (ITU) struck four papers; four others immediately shut down and another cut off its New York City circulation. The nine papers reached a daily readership of 5.7 million. The dispute idled more than 17,000 workers, from the ITU, the New York Newspaper Guild and the other eight unions affected by the deadlock.

Mrs. Walter Doctor Dies Last Evening Mrs. Helen W. Doctor, 48, wife of Walter J. Doctor, of 2502 Tillman road, Fort Wayne, died at the Adams county memorial hospital, following an illness of three years. She was born in Marion township, Allen county, March 14, 1914, a daughter of Henry W. and Louise Kukelhan-Fuelling, and was married to Walter J. Doctor Sept. 4, 1948. The family moved from Adams county to the Tillman road residence nine years ago. Surviving are her husband; her mother, Mrs. Louise Fuelling jot Root township; two children, Betty Lou and Robert, both at home; two brothers, Wilbert W. Fuelling of Decatur, and Lawrence Fuelling of Root township. Another brother, Harold, was killed in 1944 in the Phillipines during World War 11. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Suburban Trinity Lutheran church, of which she was a member. The Rev. L. J. Fuchs 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. INDIANA WEATHER Variable cloudiness with occasional snow fuilies tonight and near aLke Michigan Tuesday. Colder tonight and continued rather cold Tuesday. Low tonight 7 to 13 above north, 8 to 16 south. High Tuesday low 20s. Sunset today 6:16 p. m, Sunrise Tuesday 7:42 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and little temperatur echange with a few snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Lows 7 to 14. Highs mostly in the 20s. DECATBB TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the 48 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. Saturday Supday 12 noon 28 12 midnight .. 28 1 p.m 30 1 a.m 28 2 p.m 32 2 a.m 28 3 p.m 32 3 a.m 28 4 p.m 34 4 a.m 28 5 p.m..'.... 32 5 a.m 30 6 p.m 31 6 a.m. 30 7 p.m 30 7 a.m 29 8 p.m. 30 8 a.m. ~.. 29 9 p.m 29 9 a.m 30 10 p.m 29 10 a.m 30 11 p.m 28 11 a.m 32 Sunday Monday 12 noon 33 12 midnight .. 34 1 p.m 34 1 a.m 32 2 p.m 38 2 a m 30 3 p.m 37 3 a.m 30 4 p.m 37 4 a.m 30 5 p.m 36 5 a.m 29 6 p.m 36 6 a.m. ...r. 28 7 p.m— 35 7 a.m 28 8 p.m.'. 35 8 a.m 26 9 p.m 34 9 a.m 26 10 p.m 34 10 a.m 28 11 p.m.... 34 11 a.m. 30 Precipitation Total for the 48 hour period ending at 7 am. today, .07 inches. The St. Mary's river was at 1.36 feet.

» i ' r J 13 ■ IK s Hll I 'Hr ■ I '* as?' K ' wfegg?. ' I It ■ <r ' ft / ■ ft? | ■ W.... w ■ /? . * B FOUR DECADES OF SERVICE stand behind Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Everett, of the Pleasant Mills general store. Mrs. Everett was honored Saturday night at Pleasant Mills when 125 of her friends and neighbors turned out for a dinner at the local school gym to honor her with the story of her Hfe in pictures and slides. County superintendent Gerald M. Vizard was master of ceremonies. Mrs. Everett was appointed postmaster at Pleasant Mills August 30,;1922, by postmaster general. Hubert Work,! under President Warren G. Harding, and served 40 years'apd five mdntps; until Jap. e . — (Photo by mac Lean)

Employe Os Local G. E. i Plant Killed : A Geneva lady, a sister of Mrs. Noble Lobsiger of Decatur, was one of five persons killed in a twocar accident Sunday morning, a- | bout 10 miles northeast of Nobles- , ville. Mrs. Miriam Meyer, 54-year-old 1 wife of Edward R. Meyer, of Genel va, was killed as a result of the crash, which also claimed the lives ' of four Noblesville residents. ) Mr. Meyer 56, taken to the Elwood hosiptal and later transferred to the Ball hospital in Muncie. He was listed as critical for sometime, but is now expected to recover. He is suffering from muliple injuries, including a believed crushed hip and pelvis, which may result in the loss of one leg. Both Mr. and Mrs. Meyer are employes of the General Electric in Decatur. Five Killed Also killed in the mishap were Mrs. Ocie E. Leeman, 41, route 2, Noblesville and three of her children, Sally Kay, 3; Carl Phillip, 5; and Henrietta June, 17. The eldest child died five hours after the crash. ? Two other children, Sandra, 14, and Charles Howard, 4, were hospitalized with multiple injuries. Sandra was listed as critical and the boy as serious. The mishap occurred as the Meyers were enroute to Indianapolis to visit a daughter of Mrs. Meyer. The Leeman family was enroute to church in Elwood, when Mrs. Leeman lost control of her auto on Indiana 37. The car went out of control on fresh snow, skidded sideways on a curve, and the Meyer’s car slammed broadside into it. Auto Ripped Open The force of the impact ripped the side of the Leeman auto off, opening the vehicle on the side. Funeral services for Mrs. Meyer will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva, with the services conducted by Rev. Armour Keller. Burial will be in the Riverside cemetery near Geneva, and friends may call at the funeral home after noon Tuesday. She is survived by two daughters, in addition to the husband, Mrs. Robert Cook, Indianapolis; and three sisters, Mrs. Noble Lobsiger, 521 Madison St., Decatur; Mrs. Gene Stuffer, Bryant; and Mrs. Ted Meyer, Geneva, and Mrs. George Sipe, Monroe. One brother suffered fatal injuries in an automobile accident, and one son died in infancy.

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William Kenney Dies Suddenly Sunday William E. Kenney, 40, truck driver for the Teeple Truck Lines, died suddenly at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at his home, 903 West Monroe street. A native of Jefferson township, he was bom June 22, 1922, a son of Stephan and Jessie EyansonKenney, and was married to Mary Crosby Feb. 25, 1946. He moved from New Corydon to Decatur in 1943. Mr. Kenney served three years during World War II as a gunner in the Air Force and spent nine months in a German prison camp. He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans. Surviving are his wife; six children, John W., James M., Patrick E., Kathryn Anne, Julie and Laura, all at home; his mother, Mrs. Jessie Kenney, who made her home with her son; and two sisters, Mrs. Roman Falter of Tiffin, 0., and Mrs. Don Eierman of Madison, Wis. One brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery, with military services conducted by the D. A. V. Friends may call at the funeral home as- ' * ter 7 p. m. Tuesday until time of the services. The rosary will be recited at I p. m. Wednesday. Local Man's Brother Dies At Fort Waymi Floyd Rinaker, 72, of 8806 Old Trail road, Fort Wayne, died late Friday night at his home. A native of Mercer county, he had lived in Fort Wayne for the past 47 years, and was employed by William Didier & Sons Printing Co. Mr. Rinaker was a member of the First Missionary church, its ..men’s fellowship, and the Pressmen’s Union. Surviving are his wife. Myrtle; two sons, Otto F. and Justus O. Rinaker, both of Fort Wayne; two daughters, Mrs. Ardella Winteregg of Englewood, 0., and Mrs. Maxine Bailey of Phillipsburg, O.; one brother, Alva Rinaker ot Decatur; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Funeral rites will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the First Missionary church, the Rev. Cornelius Vlot officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery at Rockford, O. Friends may call at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home until 10 a.m. Tuesday, when the body will be taken to the church.