Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1963 — Page 8

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Nation’s Capital Is City In Trouble

(EDITOR’S NOTE* Washington, D.C., is a city in trouble. Thia is the first of three dispatches reporting on the racial tensions, rising crime rate, school problems and governmental confusion that have contributed to what President Kennedy calls “a very bad situation” in the capital city that belongs to all Americans.) By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International WASHINGTON <UPI) — Last Thanksgiving Day, more than 50,000 football fans crowded into the District of Columbia’s new stadium to watch two high school teams battle for the city championship. One team represented a predominantly white Catholic school, the other a predominantly Negro public school. During the closing minutes of the game, which the Catholic school wen, 20-7, a fight broke out on the playing field. Tension quickly spread to the crowd in the stands. Sensing trouble, many larents bundled up their children and headed for the exits. But it was too lata. Violence erupted in the stadium the moment the game was over. Roaming gangs of Negro youths attacked white spectators in the stands, at the exits and in the streets outside the stadium. More than 300 persons were injured before police were able to restore order. The stadium melee was the nearest thing to a race riot which Washington has experienced in many years. It threw a profound scare into residents of the community, both Negro and white. They recognized that it was not - just a fight after a football game, but a symptom of ugly social tensions which have built up in this outwardly calm capital.

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President Notes Situation President Kennedy spoke the mind of many Washington residents when he told a news conference on Jan. 24 that the sta- - dium riot "highlighted a very bad situation in the District of Columbia.” There are. as the President noted, many contributing factors. Like nearly all big cities, Washington is plagued by a rising crime rate traffic congestion, overcrowded schools and inadet quate housing for low-income - families. ’ Unlike any other city in Amerij ca, however, Washington is hand- ‘ icapped in coping effectively with its own municipal problems. Although it is the capital of the world’s greatest democracy, its ’ citizens do not have the right of self-government. For its laws, taxes and anpropriations, Wash- ‘ | ington must look to a U. S. Con- ; [ gress which has not always been ! i particularly sympathetic to its 1 needs, and to the executive 1 branch of the federal govern- ' ment, which in the past has tend--1 ed to pay more attention to crises in far corners of the globe than 1 to the explosive problems accu- • mutating around its own door- ’ step. Fastest Growing City ’ Underlying and complicating all ’ of Washington’s problems is the , rapid growth and unusual racial distribution of its population. , Washington is by a wide margin ’ the fastest growing city in the ( East. Its metropolitan area popuI lation has doubled since 1940. It stands today at about 2,200,000, which makes it the nation’s 10th ’ largest urban center. The 69-square-mile District of ’ Columbia, which many Ameri- ’ cans think of as being synonymous with the city of Washington, actually constitutes only the inner city of the metropolitan I area. Nearly two-thirds of the I population now lives outside the , District of Columbia in the Mary- ’ land and Virginia suburbs. The racial composition of the total metropolitan area has undergone little change in the past | 10 years. It is three-fourths white, one-fourth Negro, approximately the same as in 1920. But the white population is now heavily concentrated in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs, while the Negro population is confined largely to the inner city. As a result, the District of Columbia has become the only major US. city

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with a Negro majority. Its population is 54 per cent Negro, 46 per cent white. If present trends continue, the District of Columbia population will be 72 per cent Negro by 1970. Because white families with school-age children have moved to the suburbs in disproportionate numbers, the racial imbalance of the district’s public schools is .even greater than that of its general population. About 85 per cent of j the students enrolled in D.C. public schools this year are Negroes. Shifts Segregate Schools The Washington schools, which were desegregated by Supreme Court order in 1954, have been virtually “re-segregated” by population shifts. Washington’s Negro community includes many middle and upperclass families who live in handsome homes and send their children to the best private schools and colleges. But it also includes a vastly larger number of poor, uneducated and unskilled people who have moved from rural areas of the South into an urban environment with whose complexities they are ill-equipped to cope. Census studies show that 75 per cent of the Negro adults in the District of Columbia have less than a high school education. One out of ten is illiterate. One-fourth of the Negro families live on incomes of less than S6O a week. Social unrest among the newly urbanized Negroes has been heightened by resentment of racial barriers. Although all of Washington’s public facilities—schools, buses, restaurants and theaters—are desegregated, Negroes still encounter “white only” policies in many sectors of private employment and housing. “Some progress has been made in recent years in opening up job opportunities for Negroes especially in retail and service trades,” said Sterling Tucker, executive director of the Washington Urban League. “But qualified Negro jobseekers still are being turned down by many private employers. And Negro youths find it impossible to get into the apprentice- | ship programs of many skilled trades in the building industry and elsewhere.” Can’t Get Decent Housing In their search for decent housing, Tucker said. Negroes are “hemmed in” by their’ inability to obtain homes or apartments in the rigorously segregated suburbs, and

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- are forced to pay “outrageous” 3 prices for the housing that is I available to them in the black a [ ghettoes of the inner city. 1 While frustrations and resentments have built up on one side » of the color line, fear and suspi- ’ cion have been at work on the - other side. Many Washington f whites are terrified by the steady 1 increase in the inner city’s Ne--1 gro majority. They blame Negroes f for the rising wave of yokings, • muggings and other assaults that have made it unsafe to walk the streets of the capital at night. 1 They regard the stadium riot as : a warning that serious racial dis--1 turbances may break out at any - time. The consensus of more than two ' dozen Negro and white leaders interviewed in the preparation of these dispatches was that Wash- ’ ington is not trembling on the j verge of a major race riot. It ! still has time—although perhaps ’ not a great deal of time—to al- ■ leviate the social pressures that ’ are building toward an explosion. But there are few people in Washington who would quarrel ; with President Kennedy’s solemn warning in a special message to Congress last month that “the problems of the district have become so critical as to challenge the national government to redouble its understanding of and interest in its capital city.” Tuesday— Washington’s erftne problem. J , David A. Macklin, Attorney ESTATE NO. 5734 ■ NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS INI TERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF FRANKLIN H. FRUECHTE. In the Circuit Court of Adams County. _ " , February Term. 1963 In the matter of the Estate of I Franklin H. Fruechte, deceased. Notice Is hereby given that Dale , E. Fruechte as Executor of the above named estate, has presented . and filed his final account In final settlement of said estate, and that 1 the same will come up for the ex- - amination and action of said Adams I Circuit Court, on the 14th day of March, 1963, at which time all per, . sons Interested In said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause, if any there be, why said account . should not bb I approved. And the heirs of sal* decedent and all others interested ' are also required to appear an*, make proof of their heirship or claim to any part of said estate. Dale E. Fruechte , • Personal Representative , Myles F. Parrish. Judge v Adams Circuit Court > 3/18, 25. k i ......

Permit G.l.'s To Fire First In Viet Nam SAIGON, Viet Nam (UPD—The United States has decided to permit its soldiers to shoot* first in the Vietnamese guerrilla war without waiting to be fired on by the Communists, it was reported today. The move is aimed at checking the mounting U.S. casualty rate in the undeclared jungle war, according to informed sources. Another American died Sunday. A young machine gunner was killed when two U.S. Army H2l helicopters were downed by Communist Viet Cong ground fire. The machine gunner, a private first class, was not identified. His death brought to 52 the number of Americans killed in combat since the United States began its military buildup in South Viet Nam in 1961. May Open Fire Informed military sources said the new “rules of engagement” will permit the U.S. Army’s new HUI gas turbine helicopters to open fire on “positively identifed” guerrillas without waiting to be fired on first as heretofore. The sources said the effectiveness of the heavily armed craft, known by their crews as “Hueys,” in protecting the more vulnerable H2l troop carrying helicopters is expected to increase under the new rules. The Hueys now will be able to precede the H2l’s into a troop landing zone and keep the guerrillas busy while the troop-carry-ing helicopters unload assault forces and then get away. U.S. military observers in Saigon feel that if the Hueys had been able to follow this procedure during the battle of Ap Bac last month, the Viet Cong would not have been able to shoot down so many helicopters. Two Americans were killed and several others were wounded in the process. U.S. officials denied press reports that the United States might withdraw its Air Force combat units from South Viet Nam. Not Under Consideration The reports claimed the withdrawal was under consideration because of charges that heavy government air strikes against villages suspected of harboring Viet Cong were turning the population against the government. U.S. diplomatic and high-ranking military officials, including military assistance command chief Gen. Paul D. Harkins, said to the best of their knowledge no such decision was under consideration. Gen. Emmett (Rosie) O’Don-, nell, U.S. Air Force Pacific commander, indirectly denied persist-

LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING •" Public Service Commission of Indiana Docket No. 29909 APPLICATION OF NORTHERN INDIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY FOR A NECESSITY CERTIFICATE TO RENDER GAS DISTRIBUTION SERVICE IN RURAL AREAS IN ALLEN, ADAMS, JASPER, LaGRANGE, MIAMI, WHITLEY, AND WELLS COUNTIES, INDIANA. Notice is herby given that the Public Service Commission of Indiana will conduct public hearing In this cause In the Rooms of the Commission, 908 State Office Building, Indianapolis, Indiana, at 1:00 P M.. CBT. Which is 2:00 P.M, EST, on Tuesday, March 19, 1968. Public participation Is requested. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF INDIANA BY Allan- RaehLer. Secretary Indlanapdtls, Indiana February 18, 1963 NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Estate No. 5810 In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana, Notice Is hereby given that Robert S. Anderson was on the 23rd day of February, 1963, appointed: Administrator with will annexed of the estate of Royal W. Miller, deceased. All persons having claims against said estate, whether or not now due, must file the same In said court within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Dated at Decatur, Indiana, this 23rd day of February, 1963. Richard D. Lewton Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court for Adams County, Indiana. Robert S. Anderson, Attorney and Counsel for Estate. 2/25, 3/-4, 11. NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice Is hereby given that the Board of Trustees of the Adams County Memorial Hospital, Decatur, Indiana, will until the hour of 8 o’clock P.M. Friday, March Ist., 1963 receive sealed bids for the following: 6 car loads of Indiana oiltreated stoker coal or the equivalent thereof, delivered as requested to the Hospital. Each truckload must be accompanied by a weight slip and signed by proper authority when delivered. Blds must be submitted on forms prescribed by the State Board of Accounts and must be accompanied by a bidder’s bond or certified check in an amount equal to 10% of the bid price. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all blds. By order of the Board of Trustees of the Adams County Memorial Hospital. Thurman I. Drew Business Administrator 2/18. M. - • ' NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Estate No. 5806 In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana, Notice is hereby given that Violet Siogdlll was on the 9th day of February 1963, appointed: Administratrix of the estate of Clara Seesenguth, deceased. All persons having claims again.st said estate, whether or not now due, must file the same in said court within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Dated at Decatur, Indiana, this 9th day of February, 1968. .Richard D. Lewton Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court for Adams County. Indiana. - -Robert S. Anderson, Attorney ano Counsel for Estate. t/H, 18, 25.

ent reports that many Innocent civilians are being killed in air strikes against the Viet Cong. O’Donnell said Vietnamese air Mail Service Plan Will Be Expanded WASHINGTON (UPD — Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced today that the Accelerated Business Collection and Delivery (ABCD) mail service will be expanded to include another 214 cities before the end of the year. The service, which was launched at Lansing, Mich., Aug. 14 and has since spread to 59 other cities, provides for delivery by 3 p.m. of any letters mailed in the downtown business district before 11 am. Day disclosed the plans to expand the service at ceremonies for the mailing of the first letter under the new service in the nation’s capital. The capital area is the first in which the ABCD service will be carried on in a complete metropolitan area. The service went into effect simultaneously today in downtown Washington and the business sections of suburban Hyattsville and Silver Spring, Md., and Alexandria and Arlington, Va. Day said the service has been a “proven success” in the 59 cities which have it. He said it has proved to be of particular value to business communities, especially where the cities are seeking to revitalize their downtown business areas. But he said the service also has proved valuable to those who live in suburban areas. For example, he said, a man can mail a bank deposit in the downtown mail box on his way to work and be assured of delivery the same day. Midwestern cities which already have the service are: Battle Creek, Mich.; Chicago; Des Moines: Detroit: Evansville, Ind.; Flint, Mich.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Kalamazoo, Mich.: Kansas City, Mo.; Lansing, Mich.; St. Joseph, Mo.; South Bend, Ind., and Springfield, 111. Day said the nam-s of the cities which will yet .he service in the next yeti will be announced locally. But he released a list of the number of post offices in each state which will have the service by the end of the year. It included: Illinois, 10; Michigan, 16; Indiana, 6; Minnesota, 6; North Dakota, 2; South Dakota, 2; Wisconsin, 7; lowa, 10; Missouri, 2, and Nebraska, 3.

KENNEDY (Continued from Page One) tional budget deficits will be kept proportionately lower than the increase in our gross national products, and the real burden of the federal debt will be steadily reduced,” he said. The President said “every effort will be made to continue the present downward trend in our balance of' payments deficit, and the present stable levels of our wholesale and consumer prices.” He added: “No budget will be submitted by this administration which does not continue our persistent and ting costs, increasing efficiency and weeding out obsolete activioften unpopular program of cutties.” ...

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Seek Compromise On Reapportioning

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A conference committee of Indiana senators and representatives was expected to begin work this week on threshing out a compromise legislative reapportionment plan. The Senate passed a reapportionment by constitutional amendment resolution lata last week, but the House promptly and emphatically rejected amendments Saturday and forced the issue into a joint committee. House Speaker Richard Guthrie today named the two House members on the committee—both from predominantly rural areas. They were Rep. Lowell Smith, R-New Castle, and Rep. Joseph Bruggenschmidt, D-Tell City. The committee will have the sobering duty of finding an area of agreement so some sort of plan can be approved by the 1963 Legislature, thus avoiding the threat of federal court action to apportion the lawmaking body in the absence of a plan worked out by the legislators themselves. The House Republican on the conference committee also will have five colleagues as advisers. Guthrie appointed Reps. Keith Bulen of Indianapolis, William Berning of Fort Wayne, Ray Marr of Columbus, Otis Bowen of Bremen and James Allen of Salem to work with Smith. The Burns Ditch port issue also was likely to come up during the week. On Saturday, Republican senators voted unanimously in a caucus to postpone state financing of the cost of the port pending a voter referendum in May, 1964. The referendum proposal was the suggestion of Sen. Roy Conrad, R-Monticello, the GOP caucus chairman, as an alternative to a go-ahead authorization of the current legislature in response to Governor Welsh’s appeal for a $25 million economic development fund to get the outer harbor work started. But Welsh termed Conrad’s proposal unsatisfactory. He said it would mean a “fatal delay in creating a public port,” and constitute an admission of indecision whereby the GOP senators tell the public “you will have to make the decision you elected us to make.” Sen. Marshall F. Kizer, Democratic minority leader, called it a “dilatory tactic” aimed at taking away from the Welsh administration the credit for start of construction. Trade in a good town — Decatur.

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Postmaster Exams At Pleasant Mills The civil service commission announces an examination for fourth-class postmaster for the post office at Pleasant Mills will be open for acceptance of applications until March 19. The postmaster job pays $2,457 per year. Mrs. Shirley Everett is the acting postmaster. Applicants must actually reside within the territory supplied by the Pleasant Mills post office, and must have reached their 18th birthday on the closing date for acceptance of applications. TTiere is no maximum age limit, but parsons who have passed the age of 70 may be. considered only for temporary renewable appointments of one year. Complete information forms may be obtained at the Pleasant Mills post office. Application forms must be filed with the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. and must received or postmarked not later than lhe closing date. Trade in a good town — Decatur.

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