Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 38.

Seek Bill To Set Districts

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — An Indiana legislative committee which finally hammered out a compromise version of a constitutional amendment for reapportionment, today began work on the much more difficult assignment of producing a companion bill setting up the new districts. The Senate rate Wednesday accepted on first reading a report from the Legislative Reapportionment Committee recommending passage of a House joint resolution which the committee had completely amended. The resolution would achieve reapportionment on a piecemeal basis, and if the proposed companion bill did not become effective, a fully reapportioned legislature would not be seated until 1975. Despite the compromise label on the measure. House majority leader Charles W. Edwards, R-Spen-cer, said he doubted if it would be acceptable to his GOP colleagues. The problem of absent voter ballot abuses also confronted the Senate today as it prepared to ballot on a measure to eliminate nearly all absentee voting. Only servicemen would be allowed to vote by this method. Considers Election Laws The House—whose consideration of the budget has been delayed until Friday — turned to Re-publican-sponsored bills to change election laws which set off a floor fight Wednesday. The Senate version of a constitutional reapportionment amend-' met would have a 50-member Senate compared to the 60 Senators in the House version. Each county would be apportioned onefifth of a Senator, which would be approximately one-third of the 50 seats. The remaining two-thirds of the seats would be allocated by population. The 100-member House would be apportioned on the basis of population with the reapportionment to be done by the Senate. No minority report was returned by the committee but at least two members—Sen. Robert Brokenburr, R- Indianapolis and Paul HaffieM. D-Evansville, said they would vote against the resolution. President pro tern D. Russell Bontrager, R-Elkhart, the committee chairman, said the reapportionment resolution would be ready for second reading either Saturday or Monday. Bontrager said ®at while the reapportionment bill on which his committee is working today, would be based on the 1960 federal census, the constitutional amendment is written to use the 1970 census. After the meeting. Bontrager said every committee member seemed to have a different map. “We barely got our teeth into the problem and will meet again Friday," he said. Referendum in 1966 Bontrager said that if the constitutional amendment resolution passes the 1965 legislature, a special referendum of voters could be held in 1966 to determine if the constitution should be amended. Those senators elected in 1968 BULLETIN John Vales, 54, es Berne route 2, died at 9:45 a.m. today at the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne following a long illness. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

r Bg£ AI.T.WFTN RECEIVES FLAG—Tom E. AHwein, plant manager of Central Soya in Decatur, is presented the United States flag which had previously flown over the nation’s capital, by fourth district repre-" sentative E Ross Adair in the above picture. The flag was presented in ceremonies Wednesday morning Dr J. Krider, Mayor Donald Gage, Ada ir. All wein, police chief James M. Borders and fire chief Cedric Fisher are shown left to right. A number of office and other employes witnessed the ceremonies.’—(Staff photo) _ ...

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ould draw by lot to determine which 25 would serve only two years and which for four years so as to get the upper chamber back on its present staggered term schedule. The seating of an apportioned Senate would not come until 1973 under the constitutional amendment and 1975 in the House. However Bontrager said - if- the bill calling for immediate reapportionment is enacted and survives a court test, it would be partially effective in 1964 and completed in 1966. Bontrager said he did not know how the House Republicans would react to the compromise achieved by the Senate. “We have kept the House informed and furnished them with a copy of every preliminary draft but they have made no commitments to me,” he said. Poll Visiters Limited The House Wednesday passed 51-43 a bill limiting the number of. persons allowed in polling places during election hours. Speaker Richard Guthrie, R-Indianapolis, was forced to cast his first deciding vote to gain a constitutional majority for the measure which would limit the number of persons within the polling place to three for each voting machine in use. Two other bills on elections were on the House calendar for third reading today. They include a measure setting the legal time in a county as the time for operating the polling places and one restricting the number of persons allowed to vote after the closing of the polls. The Senate Wednesday defeated a measure which would allow a physician to testify about his patient in civil actions such as damage suits without threat of a counter -suit. 'lhe 16-28 vote came after Sen. Jack Mankin, D-Terre Haute, charged it would be “a very serious infringement of the confidential doctor - patient relationship." The Senate also passed a bffl 42-0 which would allow city courts to handle cases carrying a penalty of not more than 8500 fine and six months imprisonment and another requiring county clerks to issue hunting, trapping and fishing licenses, 37-2. First Bill Signed By Governor Welsh INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Governor Welsh has signed Ids first bill as a result of action taken in the 1963 Legislature. Welsh late Wednesday signed into law a bill permitting temporary loans to be made to school cities and towns immediately after Jan. 1 of each year. The law thus allows schools to borrow on taxes due in May. It was occasioned by an emergency situation in Gary. DECATUR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 32 12 midnight 24 1 p.m 32 1 a.m 24 2 p.m 32 2 a.m. 24 3 p.m v 3<2 3 a.m. 24 4 p.m 30 4 a.m. —. 24 5 p.m 28 5 a.m 23 6 p.m 2-6 6 a.m 23 7 p.m 24 7 a.m 22 ■8 p.m 24 8 a.m 24 9 p.m 24 9 a.m 24 10 p.m24 10 a.m 26 11 p.m 24 11 a.m 27 Precipitation Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.33 feet.

Annual Report Submitted By Highway Dept. The Adams county highway department report for 1962, a very elaborate and detailed report, was submitted to the Adams county commissioners recently. Hie commissioners approved the report. The report showed, among other things, that the highway department of this county started the new year with a balance of 834,116.24, in addition to an inventory of trucks, machines, equipment, materials, etc., amounting to 8134, 981.48. The highway department balance as of January 1,1962, amounted to 839,355.81, more than 85,000 higher than the balance the first of this year. Actually, the highway department began 1962 with a total beginning balance, including receipts, that amounted to 8422,016.33. Included in this figure was the balance, plus 8375,731.46 from the state motor vehicle highway distribution refunds; 84,211.45 received from oiling in front of homes; and 82,717.61, received as payment for buggy licenses, road crossing permits, etc. 834,116.24 Balance Total disbursements during the year amounted to 8387,900.09, which left the balance of 834,116.24, as of January 1. Some of the larger disbursements were: heat, light, power, water and sewage, 81,719.82; garage and motor supplies and repairs, 838, 903.14; spraying material, 81,762; stone materials, 894,372.87; gravel materials, 841,573.71; bituminous materials, 858,305.77; insurance, 88,031.88; ditch assessments, 81,588.95; county’s share of social securtiy, 83,080.06; trucks, 819,059.50. The cumulative bridge fund had a balance of 875,225.29 as as January 1,1962, which added to total receipts of 871,662.63, gave a b&_ ginning total balance of 8146,887.92. Bridge Costa Total disbursements during the year amounted to 853,861.16, leaving a balance of 893,026.76, beginning this year. During the year, construction and reconstruction of county roads amounted to 874,585.35, a total of 8.3 miles at an average cost of 88,986.19. A total of six bridges were constructed or reconstructed during the year at a total cost of 828,440.06, or an average cost of 84,740.01. Acording to the report, total costs of repair and maintainence of blacktop roads amounted to 888,819,78, an average cost per mile of 8504.80 for the 175.95 miles repaired and maintained. A total of 532.45 miles of gravel and stone roads were repaired and maintained during the year at a total cost of 8138,102.64, or 8259.37 a mile. A total of 8616.56 was spent on repair and maintenance of 12.50 miles of unimproved roads, for an average of 849.32 a mile. Repair and maintenance of eight bridges in the county during 1962 amounted to 811,615.67, an average cost of 81.451.96 per bridge. A general summary of proposed construction, reconstruction and repair for this year was included in the summary. Indicated were 57 miles of bituminous roads to be sealed; 11.75 miles of new road construction; 8.30 miles of reconstruction; 2.25 miles of unimproved road changed to gravel or stone roads, and 2.50 miles to be resurfaced with a hot mix. Also, a total of eleven bridges are to be repaired this year, according to the report.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 14, 1963.

United States Installs Satellite In A Hanging Orbit, Contact Is Lost

Youth Corps Is Proposed

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi-. dent Kennedy asked Congress today to set up a youth conservation corps with 15,000 members and create a national service corps similar to the Peace Corps operating abroad. In a special youth message keyed to the theme of serving young people better so “they will serve their nation better” Kennedy also proposed an expansion in the overseas Peace Corps. The proposed conservation corps would provide work and training for 15,000 youths in national forests and recreation areas. It would resemble the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) of the 19305. The national service corps would be a domestic peace corps, composed of volunteers of all ages willing to serve in hospitals, menrtal health centers, schools, on Indian reservations, and in city slums or poor rural areas. Cites Homefrent Needs Kennedy said his proposals were designed to reduce ployment among youngerArtrerrcans, boost the economy and permit citizens of any age to help meet the need for homefront services. “Chronic world tensions have tended to distract our attention from those problems which have long-range rather than immediate consequences,” he said. “But each passing month makes it clearer that our past failures to identify, understand and meet the many problems relating to our nation’s youth cannot be countenanced any longer." The President called for early congressional passage of his proposed youth employment act. This would set up a 8100 million program for establishment of the youth conservation corps and also provide for federal payment of half of the wages and 7 related costs of youths employed on nonprofit, community services. These local projects would include hospitals, schools, parks, settlement houses and similar establishments. Asking 8100 million

Continue Probe Os Everglades Crash

MIAMI (UPD — Government investigators today examined the twisted metal to determine if a jetliner was spinning out of control or falling in pieces when it crashed into the Everglades Tuesday, killing 43 persons. Charles Collar, chief investigator for the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), would not concede that the Northwest Orient Airlines 7208 jetliner was in pieces before it smashed into the spongy swamp during a rainstorm. “You jump to one conclusion like that, and then you get to a theory right away,” Collar said after viewing the crash scene. “Pretty soon, you’re looking for evidence to back up that one theory. We want open minds at this stage. We’re looking for any sort of evidence.” While seven teams of investigators divided up the work at the scrash scene 43 -miles west of here, an FBI team had a grimmer task—identifying the bodies of the victims. Late Wednesday, hearses began bringing the victims of the crash, most of them in shapeless, zippered rubberized blankets, to the county morgue at Jackson Memorial Hospital here. Identification Goes Slow There, the FBl’s fingerprint experts sought to make positive identification. Hie work went slowly, a morgue assistant said, and By. Wednesday night less than 10 positive identifications had been made. In Chicago, authorities said they had asked the FBI in Miami to make certain that Dr. Herman

for the first year of the program, Kenedy estimated it could employ 40,000 youths. As for the domestic peace corps, the President recommended starting with “a small carefully selected volunteer corps of men and women of all areas working under local direction and professional personnel.” Bigger Peace Corps His proposal to enlarge the overseas Peace Corps would bring its strength to 13,000 volunteers by September, 1964. It started this year with 4,350 members in training or in service in 44 countries and Kennedy estimated it would have 9,000 by the end of this summer. I —r The President also requested extension of the juvenile delinquency act for another three years, and reiterated his recommendations for increased family welfare appropriations, education, child care and a supplemental appropriation for a comprehensive nationwide medical immunization proUnderlying Kennedy’s recommendations was his concern for the status of millions of young Americans, particularly those between the ages of 16 and 21. Unemployment among younger workers is two and a half times the national average. During the school months of 1962 there were on the average 700,000 persons in the 16-21 age group out of school and out of work. The President also was displeased that juvenile delinquency cases brought to court more than doubled in the past decade; that too many children were not as physically fit as they should be; that while infant mortality has levelled off in the past 10 years, it still runs higher than that of other countries such as Sweden. Kennedy said it behooved “the world’s most powerful and economically advanced nation” to join at every level of government —federal, state and local—in promoting the interests of children and youth.

E. Wells, listed as one of the 35 passengers aboard the Chicagobound flight, was actually aboard. Wells, 69, was to have appeared in court in Chicago Wednesday on abortion charges. Wells, who had a home at Delray Beach, Fla., was not among the first victims identified, the morgue reported. The Cauley and Martin Co., which sells insurance to departing passengers at Miami International Airport, reported the passengers on the doomed flight purchased only $45,000 worth of insurance here, not including any that roundtrip passengers might have bought before leaving their home cities. The company said there was no purchase over $5,000 for a single passenger, although a maximum of $225,000 is allowed for an individual. Study Impact Marks At the crash scene, nine miles from the ■ nearest road, the investigators measured distances between main parts of the wreckage and studied impact marks. The main section of the fuselage, burned out and smashed to a twisted hulk, was found about a half-mile from the cockpit. Nowhere was there a furrow to indicate the plane skidded in, or that the big jet was in one piece when it hit - The plane hurtled from the sky in a streamer of flame reported by a group of fishermen who said the fire fell from a thunderhead that was part of a squall line in the area, and was followed by an explosion on the ground.

CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) — The United States installed its new Syncom communications satellite in a difficult “hanging” orbit above earth today, but lost contact with it. The 150-pound Syncom, designed to relay radio and telephone conversations between North America and Africa, rode into the sky aboard a three-stage Delta rocket launched at 12:35 a.m. EST. But more than five hours later, the first signs of possible troubles appeared. At that point, a small rocket inside the satellite itself was fired to stabilize Syncom in an orbit about 22,300 miles above earth. The maneuver itself apparently was successful, according to early information, but within 13 seconds thereafter tracking stations on the ground suddenly lost radio contact with Syncom. That was at about 6 a.m. Scientists managed to get a reading from a radio beacon on board Syncom about one hour later. Then they lost contact again. Four hours later, ground stations were still trying to reestablish the vital link. Syncom’s orbit, about 22,300 miles above earth, left it in a position where its forward speed almost matched the rotational speed of earth. The net effect is that, to an observer on earth, the Syncom satellite appears to hover more or less in one spot in the sky ’ instead of actually circling the globe in customary satellite fash- ’ ion. Syncom reached the 22,300-mile peak about five hours or so after it was launched. At that point the rocket was fired to stabilize the satellite at this altitude. Scientists said information radioed from the satellite indicated the rocket was fired at 5=42 a.m. EST, and that it performed “as planned.” It was the halfway point in one of the most ambitious space experiments ever attempted by the United States. Still ahead, however, was two weeks of maneuver--1 ing the small satellite to a final • “resting plaee” high above the Atlantic Ocean between the Americas and Africa,

More Os Near-Zero Weather Predicted By United Press International More snow fell on Indiana today. Near-zero temperatures were predicted. Brisk winds bore the flakes into the state, and if the snow had been a big one there obviously would have been considerable drifting. As it was, however, the fall was generally light and did little more than create some traffic hazards as it fell in below-freezing temperatures. Flurries and occasional snow were expected today around the state, but skies will clear tonight in most areas, paving the way for two days of mostly fair weather with a slight warming trend Saturday. Snow forecasts indicated the possibility of an inch or two around Lake Michigan’s southern tip but no appreciable accumulations elsewhere. Forecasts called for lows tonight ranging from zero to 8 above north, 5 to 10 above central, and 8 to 14 above south. Highs Wednesday ranged from 21 at Lafayette to 36 at Evansville, and overnight lows ranged from 16 at South Bend to 27 at Evansville. Highs today will range from 18 to 34 and highs Friday from 18 to 32. Heavy Fire Damage At Packing Plant INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Fire swept a warehouse of the Stark Wetzel & Co. meat oacking plant Wednesday night, causing damage estimated at $400,000 to $500,000. The two-alarm blaze broke out in the two-story structure shortly after 7 p.m. Firemen controlled it within 90 minutes after concentrating part of their efforts on spraying water over an area around a naphtha tank .

New Fighting On In Iraq

first serious outbreak of fighting since Sunday erupted today on both sides of the Tigris River which runs through the heart of this Iraqi capital Newsmen could not check out details of the fighting because of a curfew which restricted their movements, but it was believed to be between the newly installed revolutionary forces and diehard Communists who oppose them. Bursts of automatic weapons fire and the crack of rifles could be heard distinctly on both sides of the Tigris in what appeared to be a renewal of the bloody conflict that started last Friday. The outbreak came shortly after Col. Abdel Salam Ares, the revolutionary government’s provisional president, held his first news conference —a session that ended in a near riot. Foreign Minister Taleb Hussein Chabib also met newsmen Wednesday and had assured them tiat all resistance had ended. He added that total casualties were believed to be “very small" since the revolt started and overthrew the regime of Premier Abdel Karim Kassem. The premier was given a drumhead courtmartial and shot, along with several aides. However, several hours later, the sound of gunfire echoed through several parts of the city. Search for Reds Baghdad appeared to be returning to normal until the new fighting developed. Its calm had been disturbed only by occasional rifle shots, fired by young trigger-hap-py civilian “national guardsmen.” These youths had codncted a house-to-house search for Communists and had systematically eliminated them. Communists also were reported hunted down in other cities. Chabib noted that the Communists had tried to oppose the revolution, and added grimly: “Any force standing in our way will be punished quickly and severely.” The Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda published in Moscow a statement by the French Communist party claiming that hundreds of “patriots” had been killed or thrown into prison in Iraq. It indirectly accused the new regime of carrying on “bloody repression” under the banner of anti-communism.

Two Persons Die In Peoria Hotel Fire PEORIA, Hl. (UPD — A half-million-dollar fire destroyed the Mayer Hotel in downtown Peoria today. At least two persons died. Eight persons were injured, according to Fire Chief Lester Menace, who made the damage estimate. Two bodies were found on the fifth floor "of the hotel. They were not immediately identified. Many of the 130 hotel residents fled in their night clothes. Others were taken from the five-story brick structure by ladders. The fire raged out of control four hours after it began. Police and firemen ran through the 200-room hotel and crashed in doors trying to evacuate the guests, but Menace said they were driven back by the flames which erupted in the northwest wing of the fifth floor. An adjoining motel, The Sands, also was evacuated, and owners of surrounding buildings stood on the roofs of their stores and watched the wind-driven sparks. Firemen said a change in wind direction probably saved other nearby buildings. Fire departments from five suburbs were called to Peoria to man the other fire stations. A $35,000 aerial ladder truck caked with ice tipped over as its ladder was being swung aroiind. The truck was heavily damaged, firemen said, but no one was injured in the incident

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Pravda made no comment on the situation in Iraq, but it often has used such publication of other parties’ criticisms to register its own stand. The Soviet Union already has recognized Arefs regime. Arefs news conference ended in a shambles with his bodyguard at one point aiming and cocking their submachine guns at newsmen who were shouting for answers to their questions and crowding close to hear Arefs words as they were translated from Arabic into English. Kassem’s Last Honrs Ares, who helped Kassem overthrow the regime of the late King Feisal on July 14, 1958, only to fall out with him later, be condemned to death and then pardoned, said his former co-revolu-tionary partner had “begged for his life” before he was executed in the battered Defense Ministry building on Saturday. Kassem had held out there through Friday night. “I spoke to him triephanically several times during the night,” Ares said. “He begged for time, seeking to use our old friendship to his advantage in seeking mercy. But this was only a trick.” Ares, who repeatedly refused to answer many questions, summed up the attitude of the new regime by saying: "The day of one-man rule in Iraq is finally gone.” g! Since the new regime is considered strongly in favor of President Gamal Abdel Nasser and his United Arab Republic, Ares was asked if he still favored union with Egypt, as he had in 1958 after the overthrow of Feisal. “I am in favor of Arab unity,”— he replied. “There are no Arab states. There is ohly a single Arab nation.” Kassem’s armed forces were equipped almost entirely with So-viet-made equipment, including tanks, artillery and planes. The Kremlin also was reported to have provided Kassem with shortrange missiles although this had not been confirmed. The rebels turned the Sovietmade weapons against Kassem and his supporters last Friday. Waves of Mig jet fighters pounded into ruins Kassem’s defense ministry stronghold, leading to his capture and execution. Western experts pointed out that withdrawal or expulsion of the Soviet technicians would leave the regime with the major problem of maintenance of the Rus-sian-made equipment. Communist bloc economic and technical missions also came to Iraq at. Kassem’s request. They were believed to have taken shelter in their embassies during the fighting.

Local Lady's Aunt Dies At Dayton, 0. Mrs. John Morgan has received word of the death of her aunt, Mrs. Catherine McAdoo, at Dayton, O. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning. Mrs. Morgan also received word that her only sister, Miss Thelma Norris, is seriously ill with the flu at her home in Greenville, 0., and another aunt, Mrs. Ella Flayler of Ansonia, 0., is in the Greenville hospital after suffering a stroke. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair, a few snow flurries near Lake Michigan, and colder tonight. Friday partly sunny, chance of snow flurries near lake and continued cold. Low tonight 5 above to 5 below north, 5 to 14 above south. High Friday 12 to IS north, in the 2to. Sunset today 6:20 p. m. Sunrise Friday 7:38 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Mostly fair and a little warmer. Lows 5 to 1* above. Highs 25 to IS.