Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 36.

Pres. Kennedy Appeals For Test Ban Treaty; Soviet Counter-Demand

Protest Over Budget Cuts

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Letters, cards and telegrams piled up in lawmakers’ mailboxes at the Indiana Legislature today as part of a program of public pressure to gain restoration of budget cuts in education and mental health. The pressure was aimed at restoring the cuts Thursday when the House is scheduled to sit as a committee of the whole to review the operating budget for the next two years. Sen. Marshall Kizer, D-Plyrn-outh, minority leader in the Senate, and Rep. Robert L. Rock, D-Anderson, his counterpart in the House, told newsmen at a conference late Monday there will be “an all-out battle to undo the reckless action of the Republicans in the Ways and Means Committee," .. - — ■ J The budget, as reported out by the committee, contains a cut of $137 million in state aid to public schools from the figure recommended by Governor Welsh. Also cut was sls million from the recommended budget for state-sup-ported universities and colleges and $9 million from the mental health recommendations. Teachers To Meet ...I The Indiana State Teachers Associatton plans to conduct a briefing Wednesday for teachers from I throughout the state. Many of those attending the briefing are expected to make personal visits with their hometown legislators in an effort to persuade them to restore the cuts. Rock stressed that unless the state support to public schools is returned to the full recommendation, there is “no hope for local people to have property tax relief.” The ISTA was not the only association with a planned program for getting a larger appropriation than what the Ways and Means Committee recommended. The Indiana Association for Mental Health and its local chapters also was urging their members to seek restoration of the $9 million cut. A lively meeting of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees was scheduled

Resume Efforts To Avert Rail Strike

United Press International The government’s chief mediator resumed efforts today to avert a long-threatened railway clerks strike against the Southern Pacific system. Federal judges either halted or headed off strikes against the Monon Railroad and the Terminal Railroad Association in St. LouisElsehwere on the nation’s labor scene, the second of 13 unions without contracts came to agreement with Cleveland's newspapers, and New York publishers appeared resigned to a “long test of economic strength” with striking printers. Frank O’Neill, chairman of the Federal Mediation Board, reported “some progress” in talks with the railway clerks and Southern Pacific. But he said he did not want to be “unduly optimistic.” The 11,000 clerks have threatened far more than one year to strike against Southern Pacific, which runs between Texas and Oregon, in a dispute over job displacement resulting from automation. The union has postponed the strike on a day-to-day basis since last Wednesday. In St. Louis, U.S. District Judge John K. Regan ordered 300 locomotive engineers back to work moments after their strike started Monday. He set a hearing on a permanent injunction tor Feb. 21. An association spokesman said the strike came as a "complete surprise.’’ The engineers have asked additional pay for operating radio-telephones on locomotives. In Chicago, U.S. District Judge Joseph Sam Perry ordered the

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for this afternoon on U.S. Army Engineers’ projects in Indiana. Aim of the meeting was to discuss such projects as flood control and water resources, but the Hoosier port also has been injected into the meeting. President pro tern D. Russell Bontrager proposed that Clinton Green, Welsh’s administrative assistant and sec-retary-treasurer of the Indiana Port Commission, also should attend. Bontrager said he felt Green’s presence was needed to answer several questions about the proposed public port on Lake Michigan near Burns Ditch. New Port Developments Two new turns in the port situation developed late Monday. Governor Welsh made public three telegrams from members of Congress which Welsh termed an effort to intimidate Bethlehem Steel Co. and dissuade the firm from constructing a $2-billion steel mill in the state. Two Republican lawmakers introduced a toned-down version of Welsh’s economic development fund, which he had proposed primarily as away of raising $25 million for construction of outer breakwaters and dredging of a harbor at Burns Ditch. Welsh suggested a three-cent cigarette tax increase. Sens. Martha Burnett and Russell Townsend, Indianapolis Republicans, offered a bill calling for a 1%-cent hike in the cigarette tax, with sl4 million to go to die port. Grand Forks Named Top Missile Base WASHINGTON (UPD — Grand Forks, N.D., Air Force Base will be headquarters for control of the 150 Minuteman missiles requested in President Kennedy’s new defense budget. When completed, Grand Forks will be the sixth Minuteman base. The Air Force then will have 950 intercontinental ballistic misiles.

railroad trainmen not to strike against the Monon line until the Supreme Court rules on “antifeatherbedding” work rule changes involving all the nation’s railroads. The brotherhood had threatened to call out 175 Monon employes unless the railroad provided insurance for employes against damages while driving from one place to another. Monon operates between Chicago and Louisville, Ky. The Florida East Coast Railway strike, now in its 21st day, showed no signs of breaking. The 1,200 members of 11 non-operating brotherhoods are seeking a 10.23 cent increase. ——— New York newspaper publishers, shut down for 67 days, said “no appreciable progress” has been made during the 16 days Mayor Robert F. Wagner has mediated. “We have reached the conclusion that a settlement through normal processes of collective bargaining with the typographical union will be extremely difficult if not impossible," the publishers said. A 19%-hour marathon meeting, in what was to be a “showdown session,” broke up Monday without a new contract. Both sides admitted discouragement. The printers are asking a $34 package, and the last reported offer of the publishers was $lO. In Cleveland, the paper-handlers joined the pressmen in ratifying a contract with the Press and Plain Dealer, which have not published since November. Neither was on strike.

GENEVA (UPD — The United States resumed the 17-nation disarmament conference today with a hopeful White House plea for progress on a nuclear test ban treaty. But the Soviet Union countered with a demand that the United States abandon its overseas nuclear bases as the price of such a treaty.-—5? William C. Foster, director of the U.S. arms control and disarmament agency, read a personal appeal for a test ban agreement from President Kennedy. In it, the President said he felt the chance for agreement had improved because of the Soviet Unicm’s acceptance of the principle of on-site inspection. Foster added that "I believe there is some reason to hope that test ban agreement may be on the way.” He said he felt it was time for the Russians to come down to “hard facts” and abandon their propaganda maneuvers. But Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vassili V. Kuznetsov asked the conference to adopt a Moscow declaration renouncing the use of foreign soil for stationing the means of delivering nuclear weapons, including Polarisequipped submarines. This Soviet plan said that to reduce the risk of war, a number of steps must be carried out. It would include dismantling of foreign bases tor nuclear and rocket-armed submarines and forbidding these vessels the use of foreign ports, and the withdrawal from foreign bases of all airplanes armed with nuclear weapons. ■ ' »»»■»**•'< Such moves would wipe out the overseas bases the United States has set up for its nuclear-capable Polaris-equipped submarines and the bases used by its long range bombers equipped with nuclear bombs. The Soviet plan also would withdraw from foreign ports aircraft carriers bearing nucleararmed planes, and the dismantling of foreign rocket installations and the return home of long range rockets. These points would hit U.S. Navy fleets in the Mediterranean, the Far East and elsewhere, as well as American nuclear rocket bases abroad. Kuznetsov said adoption of the Soviet declaration would open the way for disarmament. But he gave no indication that file Soviet Union was softening its bargaining position on a nuclear test ban—a position Foster called too stiff. In his message, the President called on the conference to apply new energy and a genuine willingness to negotiate in the search for a test ban treaty. The President issued a special statement as the delegates resumed their work here, with Foster replacing the resigned Arthur H. Dean as chief American representative to the talks. The President asked the negotiators “to reverse the present dangerous trend of the arms race,’’ and said the conditions for (Continued on Page Five)

Mrs. Cora B. Mamma Dies This Morning Mrs. Cora Barber Mumma, 83, of Warren, Ohio, passed away early this morning at her home in that city. Mrs. Mumma suffered a stroke about a year ago and had been in failing health since that time. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Barber, and was married to Charley Mumma in Adams county, in 1900, who survives, with three daughters and two sons, all of Warren. Mrs. Frank Brandyberry and Mrs Charles Andrews of this city are sisters, also Mrs. Robert Garard is a sister-in-law. The funeral will be at 1:30 p. m. Thursday in Warren. Mrs. Mumma had visited in this city quite often with her relatives. INDIANA WEATHER Variable cloudiness with occasional periods of light mow or snow flurries tonight and Wednesday. Not much temperature change. Low tonight 5 to 12 above north, 10 to 20 south. High Wednesday in the 20s. Sunset today 6:18 P-m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:40 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and little temperature change. Lown 10 to IS. Highs mostly in the 20s.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 12, 1963.

60-Year-Old Gas Main Is Replaced A gas main in excess of 60 years old is being replaced along Monroe street, Richard Reetz, manager of the Gas Co., said this morning. Gas Co. employes had dug down to the main when a leak developed last week, and since the main is more than 60 years old, it will be entirely replaced. The old main runs along Monroe street from the intersection of First street to the Second street intersection. A leak was discovered in the main last week, and gas was coming into the basement of the Uhrick Bros, store at 130 W. Monroe street. Frost causes quite a bit of trouble, Reetz explained, as it prevents any small leak from seeping out. When the leak was discovered. the workmen dug down to the main to allow the gas to escape. After digging down, it was then decided that since the main was over 60 years old, it would be replaced. Reetz said today that “we want to keep things in a good and safe condition.” Dr. Louis A. Warren Til SfiAftk MdVcll IX i Dr. Louis A. Warren, of Fort Wayne, will be the principal speaker at the program commemorating the Civil War, to be held at the Adams Central school gymnasium Wednesday afternoon, March 13, from 1:15 to 2:30 o'clock. Announcement of the speaker was made today by ‘ Gerald R. Durkin, president of the A d a m s county Historical society. Dr. Warren is director emeritus of the Lincoln National Life foundation, a position which he held for many years. He is nationally recognized as a student of Abraham Lincoln and as an author of numerous works concerning the great war-time president. Dr. Warren will be preceded by a local speaker, who will give a description of the Civil War battles of 1863, as this is the centennial year for these battle. Durkin also stated that letters of invitation have been sent to the various schools and officials concerning the essay contest. Reports have been received from several sources that students are busy in preparations for this event, which was so successful last year.

Diefenbaker To Meet Cabinet

OTTAWA (UPD—Prime Minister John Diefenbaker today meets his rebuilt cabinet after drawing first blood with Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson in an election campaign which will take them across Canada by April 8. Diefenbaker was expected within a day or two to announce more appointments to his cabinet, which had split on the nuclear weapons issue and anti-Americanism. Today he discusses with his cabinet further measures to bolster the government for the election. Although the official start for the two party leaders in the campaign is not scheduled until the end of the month, both gaye major pre-campaign speeches. Diefenbaker, shaken by his government’s defeat and three cabinet resignations, faced 1,900 businessmen and financiers in Toronto. He failed to win more than scattered applause as he tried a “wait and see’’ defense policy on nuclear weapons that triggered his government’s defeat. In Happy Mood In Ottawa, Pearson was in an exhilarted mood largely touched off by the misfortunes of Diefenbaker and the Conservatives. He told 800 cheering party supporters

16 Civics Clubbers Visit State Capital Sixteen members of the Mary’s Catholic Civics club experienced a never-to-be-forgotten trip to the Indiana state capital Monday. Leaving for Indianapolis early Monday morning, the clubbers enjoyed an eventful and interesting day. The local club was chaperoned by former appellate court judge G. Remy . Bierly, Carl Braun, Harold Baker, Mrs. Donald Heimann, Mrs. Ed Heimann and Miss Rosemary Spangler. First stop on the agenda was the state house, where the group was shown an educational film depicting the many phases a bill goes through before becoming a law. Tour Statehouse Following was a tour of the statehouse, viewing the two chambers of the capital where the group was introduced to representative Robert Smith of Portland, who later addressed them and answered their questions on Ingiana government and politics. The senate was the next stop on the tour, and here the clubbers were introduced to senator Von Eichhorn, who spoke briefly to the group. The students enjoyed the talk he presented to them. Winding up the the 'to many of the students, was the meeting with Governor Matthew Welsh. In addition to posing with the governor for a picture, each shook hands with the governor of Indiana. < New Cafeteria The entire group ate lunch in the new cafeteria of the state house, where many elite Hoosiers were also eating. The state museum was visited following lunch. The museum is located in the basement of the capitol. Much enriched and much wiser, the Civics chib members and chaperones departed from Indianapolis at 5:30 p. m., with appreciation of those persons responsible for the trip. Club members making the trip were: Baraba Kelley president; Sharon O’Shaughennesy, newspaper editor; Nancy Ehinger, photographer; Donald Lengerich, vice president; Lupe Briones, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, Darlene Hurst, Nancy Heimann, Nancy Ehinger, Joan Baker, Marjorie Loshe, Brenda Cochran, Patricia Braun, Richard Deßolt, Mike Wolpert, Mike McGill, and John Heimann.

at a banquet sponsored by the party's national council that his announced policy to acquire nuclear weapons was developed to fulfill the commitment made by the prime minister in 1959. Pearson also warned Canadians not to be misled by “demagogic” emotional appeals on the antiAmerican issue—expected from the prime minister ever since the U.S. State Department two weeks ago publicly contradicted Diefenbaker’s nuclear weapons views. Fills Cabinet Posts Monday, Diefenbaker appointed Senator M. Wallace McCutcheon trade and commerce minister, moved Gordon Churchill from veterans affairs to defense and gave Churchill’s post to former Commons Speaker Marcel Lambert. Churchill replaced Douglas Harkness, who quit last week in disagreement with the prime minister’s nuclear weapons policies. The position of associate defense minister still has to be filled after the Saturday resignation of Pierre Sevigny, who gave reasons similar to those of Harkness. McCutcheon, * former right-hand man to Toronto tycoon E. P. Taylor, takes over from energetic George Hees, who quit Saturday mainly on the weapons issue.

■' I ■' • ■ i - »’ ‘-V WF i SOMETHING TO CACKLE ABOUT—Southern California’s 300-day drought came to a wet end as heavy rainstorms hit the area. Jim Shaw holds a chicken that he, Stanley Dearing and Bill Shaw, rear, rescued from the floodwaters in Los Angeles.

Industry Division Hears Mayor 6age Mayor Donald F. Gage presented his “annual” talk to the industrial division of the Chamber of Commerce at their monthly noon luncheon Monday at the Youth and Community Center. Mayor Gage has spoken at the division’s luncheon during the early part of each year for the past three years, talking on what the city administration has done during the past year and what some of flie plans 15r this year are that the city is contemplating. Hie mayor explained some of the work that is going on at the Mercer Ave., and the new 18-inch water main on Elm street, for which plans and specifications are being drawn up by city engineer Ralph E. Roop. Location Questioned He explained the possibility of renovating city hall and building a new police station. He said that now the question on building a new station is where to locate it, as some complaints have been re- ' ceived about building the station on the city parking lot area. He stated that the police station at present is generally a “confused situation,” with the work that! is being done in such cramped quarters. Now in his fourth year as Decatur mayor, Gage clarified what has happened to the money from the sale of Decatur's electric utility. The utility was sold for approximately $2,073,000, to which some funds already owned by the city were added. From this, roughly $700,000 was used almost immediately to pay off the bond issue on the utility and state taxes. $1,302,705 Remains Quite a bit of the money was invested, and has returned over $102,000 in interest. The mayor explained that a new street sweeper, a fire truck, an addition to the fire house, street improvements, and other items, werepaid for from this sale money, the funds already owned and the interest. A total of $1,302,705.16 now remains, the mayor said, which is almost identical to what remained of original sale money after the bonds and taxes were paid. He further explained how the money has been transferred to various funds for “protection”, so that the money does not revert back to the general fund, and- then it would be lost as the city could not collect taxes. Various other functions of the city government were explained, and the mayor also discussed the various frozen water services around the city in the past few weeks. He said that the city is purchasing a new machine to thaw pipes, at a cost of about $2,000. A question and answer period was held, with several other questions concerning work and plans by the city being answered. DECATUft TEMPERATURES Bocal weather data tor the 24 hour period ending at 11 a m. today. 12 noon 34 12 midnight .. 20 1 p.m 34 1 a.m 19 2 p.m 34 2 a.m. 18 3 p.m. 34 3 a.m. 18 4 p.m 32 4 a.m 18 ■5 p.m 30 5 a.m 18 7 p.m. .; 26 7 a.m 18 8 p.m 24 8 a.m 20 9 p.m 25 9 a.m2o 10 p.m 24 10 a.m 32 11 p.m 21 11 a.m. 34 Precipitation Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St- Mary’s river was at 1.35 feet.

Local Lady's Nephew Heart Poster Boy Mitchell Howard, 2%-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Howard of Fort Wayne, has been selected as Northeastern Indiana and state heart fund poster boy for this year. Hie child is a nephew of Mrs. David Helmrich of Decatur. The boy was born a blue baby and had to undergo surgery. After 10 and one-half months of fairly normal life, he suffered a stroke that paralyzed his left side. May 29, he was admitted to Riley hospital in Indianapolis and again underwent heart surgery. 1 one week later. ’ Although Mitchell functions near- ’ ly normally, he does not have complete use of his - left arm and leg. He was expected to be paralyzed indefenitely, but now plays actively with neighborhood youngsters. Home therapy by his parents keep the limbs on his left side from becoming stiff. They exercise his left arm and leg each morning before he goes to nursery school and nightly before going to bed. The exercise has paid off. / At one year old he weighed only 13 pounds but now weighs a near normal 26 pounds. Surgery is not over for Mitchell : Sometime before becoming an adult he must undergo the danger- ■ qus open heart operation, : April 14 Proclaimed Pan American Day WASHINGTON (UPD — President Kennedy Monday proclaimed April 14 as Pan American Day, marking the 73rd anniversary of the inter-American system estabi fished by the American republics.

Urges Resumption Os Cuba Blockade

WASHINGTON (UPD — Sen. John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky., has called for resumption of the U.S. blockade of Cuba if diplomacy fails to get Russian troops off the island. . The former ambassador to India said Monday he was confident President Kennedy would use “diplomatic means” to have Premier Nikita Khrushchev order the troops back to the Soviet Union. But Cooper told the Senate that if these negotiations fail “the President, supported by Congress, should take the same firm measures that he took last fall. ..” “I do not believe the Soviet Union would risk a confrontation and nuclear war on this issue,” he said. Cooper said that once it was established the United States would not tolerate a Russian base in Cuba, “we can maintain it as a policy for the Western Hemisphere.” Says Facts Withheld In the House, Rep. E. Ross Adair, R-Ind., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that “there is uncertainty that the full (Cuba) story hasn’t been told the American people.’’ Adair, who has been a frequent critic of the administration’s Cuba policy, said “the feeling persists that there is a mighty

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Welsh Charges Intimidation In Port Case INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Four members of Congress have tried to trick Bethlehem Steel into dropping plans for a giant plant at Burns Ditch by saying the proposal for an Indiana port on Lake Michigan is dead. Governor Welsh charged Monday. Welsh, at a special press conference, called the action an “attempt by prominent public officials to intimidate Bethlehem" and said at least two of the lawmakers had “incomplete information” about the project. Telegrams, sent to Chairman Arthur B. Homer of Bethlehem, urged a meeting between the firm’s officials and officials of the National Park Service at the office of Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, Welsh said. The meeting would be to confer on the fate of the Indiana dunes being displaced to make room for the plant. The telegrams were sent by chairman Clinton P. Anderson, D-N.M., of the Senate Interior Committee; chairman John A. Blatnik, D-Minn., of the House Rivers & Harbors Subcommittee, and by Sen. Paul H. Douglas, D--111., and Rep. John P. Saylor, R-Pa., co-sponsors of legislation for a 9,000-acre National Dunes Park in northern Indiana. Welsh said Blatnik and Anderson had been given incomplete information about the port, and he urged immediate action on a bill to enable Indiana to build the outer breakwater for the public port. Once this was done, he said, the pressure against Bethlehem would cease. Indiana has been thwarted in efforts to get federal aid for the port, and Governor Welsh has proposed an economic development fund financed by a cigarette tax for the project. Indiana’s congressional delegation has been unanimous in its support for a port, but there has been some argument about its location. It is planned for Burns tri-city area of Lake County. Bethlehem has estimated that the cost of the plant it is clearing ground for at Burns Ditch eventually will amount to $2 billion. Welsh said the Bethlehem and Midwest Steel projects would make Indiana the foremost state in the union for steel production. “Those wires tell Bethlehem to stop construction and get out,” Welsh said. “I do not believe the people of Indiana will allow this to happen.” Funeral Wednesday For Mrs. Doctor Funeral services for Mrs. Walter J. Doctor, of Fort Wayne, who died Sunday night at the Adams county memorial hospital after a long illness, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 p.m. at the Suburban Trinity Lutheran church. The Rev. L. J. Fuchs will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

military machine in the hands of Castro and that sooner or later this menace must be dealt with.” Rep. Ed Foreman, R-Tex., said Cuba was making moves to set up armed camps in other Latin American countries. Two ships steamed out of the Cuban port of Mariel last week “loaded with arms destined for British Guiana,” and guerrilla bands also have been sent into Venezuela, he said. Charges Politics Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., called for less “partisan politics” and more interest in “the national need to be constructive and to come forward with the kind of assistance which any president needs at any crucial period in our history.” Mansfield said New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, who criticized U.S. policy on Cuba in a weekend speech, “has in his own back yard, so to speak, in New York City, a microcosm of the immense problems of poverty, human neglect and inequity which are at the root of the ills of Latin America.” v Senate Democratic Whip Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn., said it was important that unsubstantiated charges “do not find thenway into this chamber or into the media of public communication.”