Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 19 February 1963 — Page 1

VOL LXI NO. 42.

Showdown On State Budget Is Postponed

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A second Indiana House showdown on the $1 billion-plus proposed operating budget for the state for the next two years was postponed today because of a wave of illness which swept the chamber. Speaker Richard W. Guthrie said he would not call down the operating budget bill for second reading as planned previously, due to the absence of at least nine of the 100 House members. The budget bill was on the calendar .as prepared Monday, and i Democrats were set to try to re-j store more of the $l6B million which the Republican - controlled Ways and Means Committee cut from the “statement of needs” budget of Democratic Governor Welsh. nowever, the roll call this morning showed that seven Republicans and one Democrat were absent. Reduction of the Republican majority from 56 to 49 would have made it impossible to pass any partisan bills and risky for the GOP to tackle the budget meas. ure with any hope of carrying out the majority plan to restore some of the committee cuts but not nearly so many as the Democrats want to do. At least four of the House Republicans absent were known to have influenza, and a fifth has pneumonia. Others absent with no explanation of the reason were Reps. James Allen, R-Salem, and John Donaldson. R-Lebanon. Two Democrats, minority floor leader Robert Rock of Anderson and Rep. James V. Stagg, D-Ev-ansville, reported for duty but said they were ailing. Rep. John F. Coppes, R-Nap-panee, was home with pneumonia, and Reps. Robert Borst of LaPorte, Otis Bowen of Bremen, Eldon Lundquist of Elkhart and Edward Madinger of Indianapolis were ill with flu. Bowen, a physician, was reported confined to the Indiana University Medical Center as word came that action on the budget bill had been delayed. The bill was scheduled for second reading today, and Democratic leaders were ready with a sheaf of amendments aimed at providing more state funds for local schools, higher education and mental health. Republicans added about $62 milliqn to the amount recommended by the committee during a marathon session Friday as the lower chamber met as a committee of the whole to consider the bill. However, the GOP used its INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight. Wednesday considerable cloudiness and a little colder north. Low tonight 25 to 35. High Wednesday mostly in the 36c north, 34 to 42 south. Sunset today 6:26 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:31 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and cooler. DRCATVR TEMPERATURES Local weather data for the 44 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 58 12 midnight .. 40 1 p.m.. 56 1 a.m 89 2 p.m. 54 2 a.m 28 3 p.m. 54 8 a.m 88 4 p.m. .... 54 4 a.m 38 5 p.m 50 5 a.m 37 6 p.m. „ 48 6 a.m 36 7 p.m. 44 7 a.m36 9 p.m 41 9 a.m 38 10 p.m 41 10 a.m 42 11 p.m 41 1.1 a.m. 44 Precipitation Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 1.84 feet.

■lol Ml SWALLOWED UP—-Driver of car in background was waiting for a light when a broken water main caused the collapse of this New York City street. Car in foreground was parked at curb but rolled into the hole.

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- 56-44 control of the House to beat i down systematically the Democrat- ■ ic attempts to add more. k In Friday’s session, the Demoi crats offered amendments to restore almost every penny the committee cut from the spending ■ program recommended by Gover- > nor Welsh. But their strategy toI day was expected to call for con- , centration on the three major II areas of public schools, state-sup- ' ported colleges and universities ■' and mental health. . The Republican leadership had ,' hoped to complete House action on [ the bill at Friday’s session but ; the Democrats refused to go along with a proposed suspension of . rules to allow immediate second and third reading. Their stand gave them another crack at the bill today. There was little doubt, however, that the bill would pass the House on third reading Thursday in much the same form it was in after Friday’s session. Chairman Charles Maddox, R-Ot-terbein, of the Senate Finance Committee was so confident of the outcome of the House debate that he planned to begin committee study of the bill tonight without waiting for final House action on the measure. The funds which the Republicans added to the bill Friday were included over the objections of Rep. John Coppes, R-Nappanee, Ways and Means chairman, who tried unsuccessfully to cut even more from the amount recommended by his committee. Coppes was stricken with pneumonia over the weekend and is expected to miss all of this week’s sessions. Rep. William Hardwick, R-Martinsville, ranking member of the commitee, presided Monday as the group began its study of the $56 million construction budget for the 1963-65 biennium. Auto License Bureau Open Longer Hours Mrs. Bernadine Heller, manager of the local license bureau branch, announced a change in hours this morning, for the remainder of February. The bureau will be open until about 5 o’clock Thursday afternoon of this week and until 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The bureau will remain open to 5 p. m. Thursday, February 28, the the final day for purchasing new plates, also. The usual “last minute rush” is expected to start next week, and in attempting to avoid this condition, the bureau will be open additional hours Thursday and Saturday. The license bureau opens at 9 o’clock each morning, Monday through Saturday. All vehicles must have 1963 license plates on beginning Friday March 1. Mrs. Heller reminded local residents. It is hoped that persons who have not yet purchased their plates will do so yet this week to avoid the rush the last week. “If you don’t want to stand in line, “the branch manager said today, “you had better start coming this week.”

Brazil Vessel Is Headed For Hijacked Ship BELEM, Brazil (UPD—A Brazilian naval vessel headed for the mouth of the Amazon River today under orders to escort the hijacked Venezuelan freighter Anzoategui here for formal surrender fay its rebel crew. A spokesman for the Brazilian Foreign Ministry in Rio de Janeiro said political asylum would be granted the pro-Communist Venezuelans who seized the freighter last week in the Caribbean, en route to Houston, Tex. The Anzoategui was reported anchored in Brazilian territorial waters Monday night in the north channel of the Amazon River mouth, about 50 miles from Macapa, capital of the northern territory of Amapa. Wilmar Medina Rojas, second mate and leader of the nine men who seized the ship, wired news agencies in Rio that he planned to make port upstream at Macapa this afternoon, rather than continue the 200 miles to Belem. “I lack navigation charts for the Belem zone,” he said. Requests Meeting Earlier, Medina Rojas sent a message to territorial authorities at Macapa, asking them to meet him aboard the Anzoategui at its river mouth anchorage. A port official and the territorial police chief left Macapa in an outboard motorboat, heading for the Anzoategui. Authorities in Macapa declined comment on whether the freighter might head there to surrender. Jose de Sa Almeida, a top Foreign Ministry officer, left Rio Monday to accept the surrender and grant asylum at Belem. It appeared the naval vessel, a corvette, would lead the Anzoategui through the dangerous waters between Macapa and Belem. Destroyer Makes Port The Venezuelan destroyer Nueva Esparta, which failed to catch (Continued On Page Three)

Royal Miller Dies As El Paso, Texas Royal W. Miller, 55, native of Adams county and a former St. Mary’s township farmer, died at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon at his home in El Paso, Tex., following an illness of three years. He was born in St. Mary’s township Oct. 5, 1907, a son of Willilam W. and Etta L. SpringerMiller, and lived in that township until moving to Texas in 1948. Mr. Miller attended the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are two brothers, Lee T. Miller of Biluffton route 1, and Roland J. Miller of Portland route 4; three nieces and four nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Argo Sudduth officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 11 a m. Thursday until time of the services. Kickoff Dinner Held On Red Cross Drive The kickoff dinner for the rural drive for funds for the Adams county chapter of the American Red Cross was held at the Adams Central school Monday evening, with 45 workers in attendance. The drive in rural areas of the county will officially open Friday, March 1, and will continue throughout the month of March, Robert Koltar, chairman of the campaign, stated today. The rural quota is $2,925. The balance of the county’s quota, $10,847, was provided from the Community Fund drives in Decatur, Berne and Geneva. Kolter presided at the opening dinner last night, which was . attended by the district fund chairmen. township fund chairmen and co-chairmen. Hie invocation was pronounced by Earl Caston. Miss Selma Bernstein, district field representative for the eastern area of the Red Cross, spoke briefly, and Wilbur Petrie, a director of the Adams county chapter, discussed highlights of the chapter’s program. Kolter, in outlining plans for the fund campaign, said that the goal is to meet the quota 100 per cent, in observance of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Red Cross. The slogan of the Red Cross for these 100 years has been “Always there—with your help.” In meeting the county quota, Kolter stressed the need of 100 per cent determination, 100 per cent enthusiasm, 100 per cent participation, 100 per cent effort, and 100 per cent support.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 19, 1963.

Soviet Russia Refuses To Budge From Stand On Ban Treaty Conditions

Reds To Pull Cuba Troops

WASHINGTON (UPD — The Soviet Union has informed the United States that it plans to pull out “several thousand” of its military forces in Cuba by March 15, diplomatic sources said today. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's intention to withdraw the troops was disclosed in a communication from the Kremlin received here Monday through Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin. The Soviet promise gave no indication what was meant by “several thousand” troops and it was said more specific information would have been welcomed by the Kennedy administration. However, the promise was seen here as a useful and constructive move which would help lower some of the tension in the Caribbean. Hold Secret Meeting The Soviet message, relayed from Dobrynin to the White House by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, sparked Monday night’s secret White House meeting at which President Kennedy, tali congressional leaders of the Russian promise. There are believed to be about 17,000 Soviet troops in Cuba, including 6,000 organized into combat units. The promise to remove at least part of them was not a personal message from Khrushchev but a Foreign Office communication sent through regular diplomatic channels. High official sources flatly denied speculative reports that Khrushchev might be seeking a parallel withdrawl of U.S. forces from some touchy point on Russia’s boundary in return for removing his combat units from Cuba. Two administration officials who joined in the meeting—ClA Director John A. McCone and Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara — were scheduled to appear today at closed sessions of congressional commitees. McNamara was slated to brief the Senate Armed Services Committee on U.S. military strength and McCone had an appointment witfi the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Members of he House committee said they would ask McCone for his assessment of Communist subversion in Latin America, much of which stems from terrorists trained in Cuba. Chairman Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., of the Senate armed services group, has said he hoped the Cuban controversy could be kept out of the defense hearings, but there was no assurance it would be. Accet On Cuba Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., said after the White House meeting that “the accent was on Cuba.” He said the session included “a gen-

County Treasurer Mails Statements William Linn, Adams county treasurer, announced today that his office is beginning the mailing of the 1963 tax statements. The spring installment this year is due on or before May 6, while the fall installment is due on or before November 4. Any assessments that have been changed on appeal to the state tax board are being made and will be mailed as soon as corrections are made, Linn said. He further explained that charges will be made as returns are received from the state board and that those not received in time to be made on the spring installment will be made on the fall payment. The state tax board has approximately 10,000 appeals to check and it is not known when they will fill be completed, Linn stated.

eral intelligence summary” by McCone and an up-to-date briefing on Cuba and other foreign policy issues. Mansfield described the conference as part of “routine” procedures followed by the President to keep congressional leaders informed on foreign affairs. The White House had no comment. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk joined in the White House meeting. Other congressional participants were Sens. Everett M. Dirksen, R-111., Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., John Sparkman, DAla., John Sennis, D-Miss., Leverett Saltonstall, R-Mass., George Smathers, D-Fla., and George D. Aiken, R-Vt., and Reps. Charles A. Halleck, R-Ind., John W. McCormack, D-Mass., Carl Albert, D-Okla., Leslie Arends, R-111., Carl Vinson, D-Ga., Thomas E. Morgan, D-Pa., Frances Bolton, R-Ohio, George Mahon, D-Tex., and Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich. McCone was the second administration official called in the House subcommittee's three-week Inquiry into Red subversion fostered by Premier Fidel Castro’s Cuban regime. Trained As Guerrillas Assistant Secretary of State Edwin M. Martin testified Monday that as many as 1,500 Latin American students went to Cuba last year and returned home with "training every good guerrilla should have.” Martin said more of the students came from Venezuela than any other country. He added that “we do not consider it sheer coincidence” that Venezuela has been hard hit by a wave of Communist sabotage. (Continued on Page Three) To Draw Up Plans For Courthouse Work Representatives of two architectural firms met with the Adams county commissioners Monday, and made a routine study of the courthouse for possible remodeling or expansion, and installation of an elevator. Represented were Max Pullmeyer and Associates and Martindale and Dahlgren, and their representatives said they would draw up preliminary plans and submit them to the commissioners at a later date. Two other architectural firms are now working on preliminary plans for both remodeling and expansion to give the commissioners a better idea of what may be done at what cost. A group of five Kirkland township residents were at the meeting requesting the blacktppping of county road 39, between county road 10 and state road 124. Appearing at the meeting were Herman Aescchliman, Ralph Steffen, Frederick Kaehr, Emil Steffen and Daniel Lantz. No definite action was taken. Hie commissioners designated depositaries for county, clerk, sheriff and recorder funds at their Monday session. Three Share County The First State Bank of Decatur was designated as depository for funds of the sheriff, clerk and recorder, while the Decatur bank, the First Bank of Berne and the Geneva bank will each receive a share of the county funds. Mr. Hyser from Springfield, 0., talked with the commissioners, and submitted a figure of $1,256, for which he would have the courthouse clock repaired and cleaned. No action was taken on the matter, however. The commissioners were notified of a hearing at 10 a. m. April 16 in the Van Wert county commissioners’ office on the interstate ditch that is in both Van Wert and Adams counties. A petition was recently submitted in the Ohio county for cleaning and repairing the ditch.

GENEVA (UPD — The Soviet Union refused to budge today from its take-it-or-leave-it stand on conditions for a nuclear test ban treaty. American, British and Soviet disarmament negotiators gathered at a private lunch for what their spokesmen called a “social” meeting. It was their first joint meeting since the 17-nation disarmament conference resumed here last week after a two-month recess. * Sen. Hubert Humphrey, DMinn., who was present, told United Press International afterwards that it was a “fruitful discussion but there was no sign of any significant shift.” Humphreys’ remark seemed to crush cautious hopes for some break in the nuclear deadlock that had been raised earlier as a result of the lunch get-together. Humphrey said he found the Russians courteous, but "I do not think there was any particular sign of a new move.”

“There was nothing new,” the conference spokesman said. Hie United States and Britain, as well as delegates of the neutral nations attending the 11-month-old conference, have been trying to get the Russians to resume nuclear test-ban bargaining among the Big Three. But the Russians have stuck to their position of offering a treaty on Kremlin terms only. With the conference in recess until Wednesday, leaders of the eight neutral delegations held consultations aimed at a compromise which would serve as a basis for concrete East-West negotiations. Hie nuclear issue has stalled the disarmament talks, which resume a week ago after an eightweek lay-off. The Russians refuse to negotiate a test ban treaty unless the West accepts the Kremlin’s terms on policing a ban. The neutrals — Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden, and United Arab Republic — have voiced growing disappointment and impatience over the delay, and have decided to take a firmer initiative. They asked last week that the nuclear question be given top priority. The neutralist initiative received some encouragement from favorable Western reaction to a U.A.R. appeal for compromise Monday. The U.A.R. urged the nuclear powers to put aside their present demands and start negotiating anywhere, even at the summit level, and set a time limit for agreement. The proposal mentioned four or five policing inspections as a compromise between the West’s insistence on 8-to-10 and Russia’s refusal to permit more than three. C. Sumner Mumma Is Taken By Dealh C. Sumner Mumma, 92, former Adams county farmer of northeast of Decatur, died Monday at a hospital in Evansville, where he had undergone surgery. He was born in Union township and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Mumma, and moved from this county about 35 years ago. Mr. Mumma served for a number of years as custodian of the United Brethren College in Huntington. For the past six years he had made his home at Evansville with a daughter, Mrs. Arnold (Lilah) Espich. Also surviving is another daughter, Mrs. Clyde (Mabie) Meadows of Chambersburg, Pa., whose husband is the Rev. Meadows, bishop of this U. B. conference. There are a number of relatives in Adams county. Funeral services will be held at the Bailey funeral home in Huntington at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday. BULLETIN Mrs. Dortha Knittie, 55, wife of Greg Knittie of Decatar route 5, died at noon today at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Michael Cote, 216 North Fifth street. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Volunteers To Aid Heart Fund Drive

Sunday, Feb. 24, will be Heart Sunday in Decatur and throughout the nation. In Decatur, volunteers will visit their neighbors to call for heart fund contributions and to distribute health-saving information, beginning Thursday and continuing Friday, Saturday and Sunday. At each home, volunteers will leave pamphlets telling how to get latest information about heart attack, stroke, rheumatic fever, high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries and other heart and circulatory diseases the heart association fights. “In addition to this educational purpose, Heart Sunday has another important objective,” Mrs. Joseph Kitson, Heart Sunday chairman pointed out, “it gives each citizen an opportunity to play a personal role in the crusade against the nation’s No. 1 health enemy by giving to the heart fund which makes possible the local crusade against the cardiovascular diseases . • “Your gift, which you can seal in a Heart Sunday envelope the volunteer will hand you, will strike a blow at the heart and blood vessel diseases which took more than 925,000 American lives last year—more than 54 per cent of the total number of deaths in this country,” Mrs. Kitson explained.

Seeking Agreement On Reapportionment

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —A conference committee on Indiana legislative reapportionment may be named as early as Thursday to seek agreement between two widely differing plans, one already passed by the House and the other expected to get Senate approval soon. The Senate Legislative Apportionment Committee Monday afternoon reported out a bill calling for immediate reapportionment, intended as a companion to a proposed constitutional amendment scheduled for second reading today. At the time it passed the House, the constitutional amendment was the so • called “Indiana plan” adopted by the GOP last November. But it was revised drastically in the Senate to become a compromise plan acceptable to most of the Senate Democrats. The bill calling for immediate reapportionment is a companion to the resolution, and President pro tern D. Russell Bontrager predicted both would pass the Senate with about 40 votes. “I expect the resolution to pass Wednesday or Thursday and predict a conference committee may be named on tlie resolution by Thursday. We will try to keep the bill traveling right along behind the resolution,” Bontrager said. The immediate reapportionment bill as it came out of committee Monday called for the 100 House members to be elected at large at the next election following its effective date. It spelled out a new Senate map, containing some changes from all previous ones, to achieve a formula by which onethird of the senate seats would be on the basis of geography and twothirds on population. GOP Rift Broadens Hie outlook on reapportionment appeared to be part of a developing pattern likely to grow more pronounced during the remaining 21, days of the legislature. The rift between the House Republicans, with a robust 12-vote advantage over the Democratic representatives, and the Senate GOP, with only a one-vote advantage, broadened visibly Monday. Hie subject matter then was the 3 per cent sales tax which House Republicans approved in caucus last week as the means of bringing in additional money for

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Heart Sunday marks the peak of the heart fund campaign which the Adams county heart association began Feb. 1. Proceeds from the drive make it possible to expand the research, education and community service programs against the heart and blood vessel diseases, Mrs. Kitson 'said. Mora than 75 million heart fund dollars have been channeled into research in the past dozen years. Other millions have been spent to bring to the nation’s physicians, through medical journals and scientific meetings, the new knowledge developed through research. Heart Sunday volunteers will leave pre-addressed envelopes for families that are not at home so they may readily mail their contributions to Mrs. Leroy Walters, Heart chairman, and First State Bank, or to Mrs. R. C. Hersh,, county heart chairman, 344 S. First St., Decatur. The solicitors who will make tha house-to-house canvass will ba Mrs. Daniel Emenhiser, Mrs. Sephus Jackson, Mrs. Eugene Braun, Mrs. Jim McGill, Mrs. Donald Miller, Mrs. Wilbur Reynolds, Mrs. Herman Colchin, Mrs. Donald Smith, Mrs. Otto Spiegel, Mrs. Ruth Railing, Mrs. Charles Ehinger. Mrs. G. Medford Smith, Mrs. Richard Gehrig, Mrs. Raymond Shackley, Mrs. Joe Kitson and helpers ....

state expenses. Some GOP senators let it be known “there was little sentiment for a sales tax” on their side of the Statehouse. As a result, both House Speaker Richard Guthrie and House GOP majority floor leader Charles W. Edwards descended upon their party leaders in the Senate during the Monday afternoon session. They left without getting much reassurance. “We in the House are tired of formulating a program and then having the Senate Republicans run out from under after gauging public reaction to it,” Guthrie said. Edwards said there had been a change in the rapport between the Senate and the House Republican leaders in the last few days but that he would reserve his fire until “I see what further action is taken by the Senate Republican caucus.” Senate caucus chairman Roy Conrad said a caucus would be held today. Senate-House Differences “I am beginning to wonder whether the Senate is in favor of any plan proposed by the House,” Edwards said. He was asked if he referred to the differing reapportionment plans as well as apparent difference in methods of raising revenue. Edwards replied that he wanted to give the Senate GOP leadership a further chance to continue on "a friendly and open basis” with the House before he answered that query. The Senate version of reapportionment became clear Monday when the Legislative Apportionment Committee, headed by Bontrager, reported out an amendment to a bill which at the time of introduction carried the names of two Democrats, Sens. Paul Hatfield, Evansville, and Walter A. Baran, Hammond. Hie completely revised bill sets up new districts for the Senate, based on what now is being called the “Brontrager Plan.” This is a new map drawn over the weekend which sets up districts for the 50 Senate seats. Withdrawal Expected Hatfield, who said he opposed the Bontrager plan, is expected to withdraw as an author of the amended reapportionment bill, and the name of a Republican will be substituted. (Continued On Page Three)