Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 15 February 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 39.

Indiana Tax Program As Disclosed By Republicans Includes Sales Tax Levy

3 Per Cent Sales Tax Is GOP Proposal INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — House Republicans unveiled today a comprehensive Indiana tax program which includes a 3 per cent state sales levy, a corporate franchise tax and a permissive local surtax on the gross income tax. The majority members of the lower house also agreed at a Thursday caucus, the results of which were announced by caucus chairman Rep. Charles Edwards, R-Spencer, to boost the state biennial operating budget by $62 million above the amount recommended by the GOP - controlled House Ways and Means Committee. The House met in a potentially long session as a “committee of the whole” today to consider the budget on second reading — the point at which amendments can be made. Edwards said the gross income tax rate now in effect would be retained but there would be exemptions for some real estate sales, a *9 a year credit for individuals to cover that portion of the sales tax which would be paid at food 'and medicine purchases. The franchise tax on corporations would be 4 mills per SIOO net worth. The personal property tax on household goods would be repealed, and a property tax rate lid of 110 per cent of the present rate would be imposed. Local governmental units could impose a surtax of one-third of one per cent on the gross income tax if approved at referendums. Speaker Richard Guthrie, R-In-dianapolis, said at a news confer-

Primary Mission To Ease Red Subversion

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy has set the task of lessening Communist subversion from Cuba and other parts of Latin America as “our primary mission for the hemisphere this winter.” The President told his news conference Thursday that Cuba has been shipping men and perhaps money to other Latin American countries for subversive purposes. Kennedy said that 1,200 students from Latin America went to Cuba last year. He added, “I am sure a good many of them were politically indoctrinated; some of them obviously were given training in more direct forms of political action." In response to a question the President said he was sure some of the Russians in Cuba were helping to train Cubans in sabotage and subversion, and political penetration of other countries. Anxious To Stop Flow “That is why we are anxious to stop the flow in and out of those who may be the beneficiaries of those studies,” he said. But, Kennedy added, the problem was to get the cooperation of other Latin American countries in limiting the movement of students and others. “I don’t think we should regard, however, the Communist threat as primarily based on Cuba, the Communist threat to the hemisphere,” the President said. “There is...local Communist action unrelated to Cuba which continues and which feeds on the hardships of the people there, northeast Brazil and other places. So that Cuba is important, but even if we are able to stop this kind of traffic, we will still deal with the native Communist movement.” Other comments by Kennedy at his news conference included; «Chance of Recession —ls Congress does not approve a tax cut, it will substantially increase the chances of a recession, bringing increased unemployment and an even larger budget deficit.

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ence called Thursday night to unveil the budget proposals and a tax program to finance them, he hoped to get the sl.l million budget for the 1963-65 biennium through second and third readings today. He indicated it would depend upon how much cooperation the GOP obtained from the Democrats in suspending the rules to allow the house to complete action in one day. The 56 Republicans need some help from the 44 Democrats in order to suspend the rules, a step that requires 67 votes. The timetable also could be upset by a lengthy Democratic fight to restore even more of the $l6B million the Ways and Means Committee cut from the original budget recommended by Governor Welsh and introduced in bill form by Rep. Robert Rock, D-Ander-son, House minority leader. Demos Promised More The Democrats promised earlier they would seek to restore the funds cut from Welsh’s recommendations, particularly the $162 million cut in the three fields of public education, higher education, and mental health. That stand, coupled with the new GOP position, paved the way for a flood of amendments from both sides of the aisle today as the bill was considered by the House sitting as a committee of the whole. The new Republican proposal would add $6 million to the committee's recommended appropriation for mental health and a total of $56 million to state aid to public schools. The caucus did not recommend any increase for the four state-supported colleges and universities and majority leader Charles Edwards, R-Spencer, said the caucus felt the four institutions could raise their fees to meet additional needs. Part of the money proposed for addition to local school aid is aimed specifically at reduction of property taxes and Edward said the budget bill also would include (Continued on Page Eight)

d —The United States has withdrawn some support troops from . Europe but there is no present . plan to bring home any U.S. com- , bat units. The six U.S. combat divisions there will remain "until there is a desire on the part of drawn.” —He definitely plans no economic or political reprisals against French President Charles de Gaulle for his opposition to U.S. Europeans that they be wlthpolicies. —ls U.S. proposals for a multi1 lateral European nuclear force do not satisfy everyone, the United States would be prepared to consider other arrangements. He hopes a multilateral or multinational system could be worked out to assure European countries that nuclear weapons would be handled properly and with care. —He hopes his youth program will be among the first measures considered by Congress. The program is “urgently needed" to help jobless young people. Backs Roosevelt —He thinks Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. would be a “good” undersecretary of commerce. Critics of Roosevelt’s nomination also “questioned the qualifications of his father to be President.” —No decision has been reached on whether to resume exploratory talks with Russia on the Berlin situation “or whether the conditions would be such that they would have some hope of advancing the common interest.” csss —He shares a “suspicion” that Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York wants to be the Republican presidential candidate in 1964. As for Rockefeller’s attacks on him, "criticisms can be very useful, but I feel that we should put forward some alternative proposals.” —No U.S. dollars are going into Ute United Nations fam aid project for Cuba, which this country has opposed. He also thinks “we are going to survive” a proCommunist booklet published by another U.N. agency.

Protest Move By Democrats Thought Ended INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Minority Democrats in the Indiana Senate indicated today they consider ended the threat of a billblocking strategy move designed as a protest to treatment of a few pet bills by majority Republicnas. Sen. William Christy, D-Ham-mond, minority caucus chairman, said GOP chairmen of committees in which 6 of 7 bills lay inactive had promised to bring them out to the Senate floor for consideration. “Our feeling is the stalemate is over,” Christy said. Democratic help is needed to pass any bill because of a 25-24 party division. The threat was imposed after bipartisan good will which permitted the Senate to function for the first 36 days of the 61-day session turned sour. Hie bills were relatively minor, which prompted majority leader Sen. Russell Bontrager to say “none of them is worth tying up the Senate over.” But minority leader SEN. Marshall F. Kizer said: “We feel that the other major issues are getting consideration but that these seven bills will never come out and next week the budget will be over here and if we don't get these little bills out now we will never get them out.” The longest calendar the Senate has faced—a total of 64 bills and resolutions—waits for action. The lawmaking machinery halted Thursday afternoon under Democratic threat to vote against all Republican bills unless certain measures now held Ln GOP-domin-ated committees xra released. As a result, no bills were called down. , The Senate consists of 25 Republicans and 24 Democrats. Twenty-six votes are needed for passage of a bill. The brewing discontent of the Democratic minority erupted into a four-man controversy in front of the rostrum shortly after the Thursday afternoon session began. Lt. Goy. Richard Ristine called a recess while President pro tern D. Russell Bontrager, GOP caucus chairman Roy Conrad, Democratic minority leader Marshall Kizer and his caucus chairman, William Christy argued. Demo Leaders Balk The reporters ringing the four leaders heard Kizer warn “If we can't get something on that list, we won’t vote on anything. We’re not passing any House bills until we get our bills out of committee.” Christy earlier had handed Bontrager a list of seven bills which the Democrats thought should have been reported out of committee by now. Conrad pointed out that “one (Continued on Page Eight)

Approve Lower Rafe On Electric Heating Indiana & Michigan Electric company has been notified by the public service commission of Indiana and the Michigan public service commission that both regulatory bodies have approved the company’s application to reduce electric-service rates to customers living in total-dectric homes. R. E. Doyle, Jr., I&M vice president and general manager, said today that the reduction in rates for qualified customers will become effective on customers’ bills mailed starting March 1. The effect of the rate is to reduce the cost of electric heating by 20 per cent. , I&M made application for the rate decrease with both state commissions last January 8. Doyle termed the reduction as “designed to reduce the cost and extend the benefits of all-electric living to all of our customers, to increase the usage of electric energy, and thus to stimulate business expansion in the area served by I&M.”

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Peril Os Recession c Cited By Kennedy

WASHINGTON (UPD — PresL. dent Kennedy is raising the specter of an economic recession in his campaign to persuade voters and Congress that income taxes must be cut this year. This tactic, which the President used in a nationally televised news conference Thursday, represented a marked change in the tone of Kennedy’s sales pitch for a tax cut. Answering critics who have argued that a tax cut cannot be justified in the face of his proposed record high spending and near record budget deficit, Kennedy stressed repeatedly that tax reductions are needed to safeguard against economic recession. Chance Os Recession “If we don’t have the tax cut," he said, “it substantially, in my opinion, increases the chance of a recession, which will increase unemployment, which will increase the size of our deficit.” Twenty five days ago the President stressed in his economic message to Congress that the “urgent case” for income tax reduction was based on need for stimulating a sluggish economy, “not fear of recession.” “I do not expect a fifth postwar recession to interrupt our progress in 1963,” he assured the lawmakers on Jan. 21. Similarly, in his tax message to Congress Jan. 24, Kennedy said he was “not motivated by any threat of imminent recession.” The key word here was “imminent.” Kennedy’s political aides have made it clear all along that they feared that unless taxes were cut this year, Kennedy could be faced with a politically damaging economic recession during his campaign for reelection in 1964. Raised Possibility Kennedy Thursday did not go so far as to say that an economic recession is imminent. But at one point he did raise implicitly the danger of a recession before 1964, unless taxes are cut. He said the administration’s

Soviet Union Rejects Plan

GENEVA (UPI) — The Soviet! Union today turned down President Kennedy’s plan to guard/ against accidental war which included a “hot line” direct telephone link between the White House and the Kremlin. At the same time, chief Soviet delegate Vassili V. Kuznetsov gave the 17-nation disarmament conference a take-it-or-leave-it choice of accepting the Kremlin’s farms for a nuclear test, ban or risk getting no treaty at all. Kuznetsov said the Kennedy plan would just make espionage easy. The proposal to guard against the start of war by accident was emphasized in a message the President sent to the conference Tuesday when it reconvened after an eight-week recess. The Kennedy proposal would set up special observation teams, establish instant White House-to-Kremlin communication and carry through other measures designed to prevent war by "accident, miscalculation or failure of communication.” Kuznetsov also told the conference that Russia Insists on acceptance of its terms for such key treaty points as the number of. on-site Inspections for policing any ban agreed upon here. He coupled his take-it-or-leave-it test ban offer with another call for the conference to adopt his declaration opposing foreign nuclear forces—a declaration designed to strip the United States of its overseas nuclear might. Kuznetsov focused on the United States* growing fleet of nuclear powered submarines carrying rocket-firing Polaris missiles. He

tax reduction program was “our plan to prevent a recession this year and the years to come.” The President acknowledged that Americans were concerned about the $11.9 billion deficit he had budgeted for the fiscal year starting July 1. He said he, too, was concerned about heavy redink spending. “But what I am most concerned about,” he said, "is preventing another recession.” Ladies Entertained At Rotary Meeting Thursday night the Decatur Rotarians entertained their wives during their regular weekly meeting. Program chairman, Chalkie Winteregg, introduced the Adams county chapter of the SPEBSQSA, Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop quartet singing in America. The group was as follows: Ist tenor: Winston Seitz, Kent Girod; lead tenor: Lawrence Arnold, Robert Baumgartner, Dan Foreman, Ed Ewell; baritone: Don Sprunger, Tom Rumschlag, Milt Hoffman; bass: Paul Rich, Erv Ewell, Ray Snyder, Harold Scherry, director Larry Merriman. Their program included these familiar songs: “I Love Those Dear Old Songs,” “After Dark,” “Down Our Way,” “Dear Old Girl,” “Shine On Me,” “Just A Weary,” “Now the Day’s Over,” “Little ’Liza,”- “I Love You,” and “Keep America Merry Singing.” The president of the group, Ed Ewell, stated that the Adams county chapter was organized October 11, 1962 and holds weekly meetings on Thursday evenings in the Decatur high school He extended an invitation to all men of Rotary and in this area to join if they are interested in singing barber shop harmony.

[ said their presence in the Mediterranean “disturbs the balance of power between the United States and Russia.” President Kennedy, in citing reasons for the recent U.S. naval blockade of Cuba, said Soviet offensive missiles there were upsetting the balance of power between the United States and Russia. Kuznetsov then attacked the NATO grouping, calling it an alliance of aggressors and saying that it was speeding up the arms race. U.S. delegate William C. Foster replied that Kuznetsov was “completely inaccurate.” A Western spokesman said Kuznetsov dropped Kennedy’s antiaccidental war plan with one hand and with the other produced the Kremlin’s own version. British delegate Joseph Godber, who termed the Soviet test ban position “a take-it-or-leave-it offer,” urged Moscow to compromise. ■ But Kuznetsov, after making his speech in the conference hall, told a news conference: “It is not far from the truth to say there is no basis for negotiations” between the Soviet Union and Britain here. Earlier, neutral participants in the conference sided openly with the West in calling for non-stop nuclear test ban negotiations between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union. >j.“ Brazilian delegation chief Alfonso Arinos de Melo Franco said:“It seems to us of prime importance that the talks between the nuclear powers should continue here non-stop.”

Flu Epidemic Continues On Sweep Os U. S. By United Press International An epidemic of the flu continued its sweep across the nation today, jamming hospitals and cutting into school attendance and the work force. Physicians recommended ample rest, exercise and diet to prevent the disease —and plenty of rest and quiet for those suffering from its effects of headaches, sore throats, aches and nausea. Health officials credited largescale immunization for preventing an even greater epidemic of the respiratory ailments. But they said it would not be enough to get a vaccination now—it takes at least two weeks before protective antibodies are developed. Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York was confined to his mansion with a “slight fever.” Abe Saperstein, owner of the Harlem Globe Trotters in Chicago, one of the communities where the disease was particularly prevalent, was hospitalized with pneumonia. The U.S. Public Health Service said in Washington the influenza outbreak continued in epidemic proportions along the Eastern Seaboard. It said a siege usually lasts three to four weeks in a community. The sickness generally affects an individual for three or four days. Asian flu, which swept the country in 1957 and 1960, was spotted in at least a dozen states. Mrs. Eula Marie Coffman, 35, Prince, W.Va., and her newborn child died from Asian flu. Nearly 9,000 persons were absent from Louisville schools, including Supt. Samuel V. Noe. It was Louisville’s worst outbreak in 13 years. Southwestern Ohio was hard hit, especially Cincinnati. List Candidates For Academies Fourth district representative E. Ross Adair announced today his appointment of candidates to the Air Force, Military and Naval academies for the school year beginning July 1, 1963. The fourth district has two vacancies this year at the Naval Academy, and Kenneth E. Hill of Decatur was named as fourth alternate for one of the vacancies. Hill is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis F. Hill, of 105 S. 13th Stand is a senior at Decatur high school. Ryan D. Liechty, of 875 Columbia Drive, Berne, a senior at Berne-French high school, was named as one of 11 to compete for this year’s principal appointment to the Air Force Academy. Larry R. Webb, a senior at Geneva high school, was named as third alternate for one of two appointments to West Point. Names Listed Those appointed by the congressman to compete for the principal appointment to the Air Force Academy in addition to Liechty are: David Brumm, Fort Wayne; Douglas D. Cochard, Auburn; James W. Long, Auburn; Michael Murphy, Fort Wayne; Thomas Walsh, Fort Wayne; Maurice Marshall, Fremont; Francis Thompson, route 1, Grabill; Benjamin Dow, Fort Wayne; Larry G. Ganter, Fort Wayne; and Jeffrey S. Clark, Fort Wayne. Principal candidates for the two Naval Academy vacancies are Thomas E. Cross, Fort Wayne, and William Blodgett, New Haven, while Kenneth Shuttleworth, Auburn and Gail Ross, route 2, Pierceton, were named first alternates. Second alternates are David Esterline, Fort Wayne, and Stephen L. Galloway, Ligonier; third alternates, John F. Tone, Fort Wayne, and Robert A. Goodwin, Fort Wayne; fourth alternates, Hill and Michael J. Sanders, Fort Wayne. Principal West Point candidates are Richard D. Franck and Tom Schoenherr, Fort Wayne. First alternates are John L. Pion and Elwood Erne, Fort Wayne, and second alternates are Jerry R. Lash and Robert J. Ely, both of Fort Wayne. Webb and James M. Still of Fort Wayne are third alternates. Rev. Clyde A. Myers Is Taken By Death * The Rev. Clyde A. Myers, 57, a former Decatur resident and graduate of the Decatur high school, died Wednesday at his home in Paoli. Survivors include his wife, Margaret; one daughter, Jane, at. home, and a: half-sister, Mrs. Frank Lynch of Decatur. Funeral services were held this morning at Paoli, with burial in the Masonic cemetery at Crawfordsville.

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New Satellite Still Missing

CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) — America’s new Syncom satellite was still missing today, and the chances that it would ever be found grew dimmer by the hour. Syncom, a first-cousin to the famed Telstar communications satellite, vanished mysteriously in space about five hours after it was launched into orbit Thursday aboard a three-stage Delta Rocket. It hasn't been heard from since. Tracking stations around the world today searched the skies for the little drum-shaped moonlet. But nearly 36 hours after the launching, there was no indication of exactly what had happened. Scientists were baffled and downhearted. There was a growing concern that, even if Syncom were found again, it probably would be hopelessly damaged — a useless piece of debris in space. Scientists had hoped to put Syncom in an orbit so high that it would appear to hover in virtually one spot in the sky. This required installing the satellite in orbit 22,300 miles up, where its forward speed would match earth’s rotation speed. No one is sure what happened. There were two leading possibilities: —That Syncom reached its planned orbit all right, but suffered some sort of damage that left it mute, unable to answer Velez Funeral Rites Saturday Morning Funeral services will be held Saturday for John Velez, 54-year-old Stock buyer of Berne route 2, who died at 9:45 a.m. Thursday at the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne following an extended illness. He was born in Pittsburgh, Okla., Oct. 28, 1908, a son of Jesse and Andrea Velez, and had been a resident of the Decatur area for many years. Mr. Velez was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church in this city and the Holy Name society. Surviving are his wife, Arbye; one son, Theodore Velez, at home; two daughters, Mrs. Ruby Short of Marion, and Mrs. Phyllis Bixler of Monroe; six grandchildren; three brothers, Jesse and Fred Velez of Fort Wayne, and Leo Velez of Wabash; a half-brother, Joe Jauregui of Decatur, and five sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Neito of Chicago, Mrs. Audrey Lee of Monroe, and Mrs. Dolores Ramirriz of Texas. Services will be conducted at 9:15 am. Saturday at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial, will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home until time of the services The rosary will be recited at 8 o’clock this evening. Woman Found Dead In Burning Home JASONVILLE, Ind. (UPl)—Mrs. Eva-Bernt, 72, a widow, was found dead today in her burning home and a coroner’s report said death was due to smoke inhalation. Mrs. Brent apparently died because she chose to try to put out the fire instead of escaping to safety.

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calls from earth. —That the satellite did not remain at the 22,300-mile altitude as planned, but instead embarked on a wildly elliptical course ranging from a hundred miles or so to several thousands miles above earth. The experts leaned toward the latter possibility as the most likely. Ground stations around the globe trained radio and radar gear toward the sky in the search. But by early today, they had drawn a blank. Seek Gas Service For Berne, Geneva Northern Indiana Public Service company filed an application today with the public sei-vice commission of Indiana 'for a certificate of convenience and necessity to provide natural gas service for additional rural and suburban areas in seven northern Indiana counties. The communities of Berne and Geneva are included in the petition which will bring natural gas to an estimated 2,500 customers. NIPSCO’s chairman and president, Dean H. Mitchel, said that obtaining the rural certificate from the public service commission is the first step in bringing gas service to the people of Berne and Geneva. The company will then file a petition with the federal power commission seeking approval of a new tap and additional supplies of gas from the American Louisiana Pipe Line company which will serve the Gas company" in that area. Construction of Geneva's distribution system is scheduled for NIPSCO’s 1963 program. Berne’s system will be installed in 1964, at the bequest of the Berne city council so that construction of the community’s new sewer system can be completed. Mitchell said that more than sl,300,000 will.be invested in natural gas transmission and distribution facilities to serve the various areas included in the petition. Also included in the proposed construction plans for 1963 are rural and suburban areas northwest and southwest of Fort Wayne in Allen, Whitley and Wells counties, as well as areas in Jasper, Miami and LaGrange countries. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cold tonight. Saturday cloudy and not so cold. Low tonight aero to 6 above north, 10 to 18 above south. High Saturday 15 to 22 north, 23 to 32 south. Sunset today 6:21 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 7:37 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Considerable cloudiness and warmer with chance of light snow north. Lows 10 to 20. Highs 25 to 32. DECATUR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 28 12 midnight .. 11 1 p.m 26 1 a.m 11 2 p.m 24 2 a.m. ....; 10 3 p.m 24 3 a.m. ...i....... 10 4 p.m. 22 4 a.m 10 5 p.m 20 5 a.m 8 6 p.m 18 6 a.m 8 7 p.m. 18 7 a.m 8 8 p.m 14 8 a.m— 10 9 p.ml'4 9 a.m 20 10 p.m 13 10 a m 26 11 p.m. .... 12 11 a.m 87 ' PrecipHattoa Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. ■5 The St. Mary's river was at 1.88 feet. —