Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 48.

Minority Democrats In Senate To Vote Against Reapportionment Measure

PROMOTED —The promotion of Hersei Nash, above, to senior electrical engineer in its Fort Wayne office has been announced by Central Soya. Nash, who joined the company in 1943 at the Decatur plant, was steam-power superintendent at the time of his promotion. He was formerly assistant maintenance and repair super in-' tendent, electric supervisor and assistant engineer. Mr. and Mrs. Nash reside at 1003 Master Drive, Decatur. Films Scheduled On Cancer Crusade A schedule of films, to be shown in conjunction with the upcoming cancer crusade, was announced this morning by Mrs. Robert Krueckeberg, chairman of the Adams county cancer society. Three films will be shown Thursday, Feb. 28, at 1:30 p. m. in the Electra room at Indiana & Michigan’s Monroe street office. The films to be shown are, "Hope,” "Breast Self Examination,” and "Time and Two Women.” The three films last a total of about an hour, and the public is -• invited to attend their showing, Mrs. Krueckeberg said. Two films are scheduled to be shown Monday, March 7, at 7:30 p. m., also at the I 4 M building. ’ The films are, 'The Otter City," and a cartoon, "Sappy Homines.” Monday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m., “Cancer of the Colon and Rectum” and "Life Story,” will be shown, and on Thursday, March 14, "Life Story” will be shown at 1:30 p.m. At 7:30 p. m., Monday, March 18. three films will be shown, entitled, “Hope,” “B. S. E.,” and “Time and Two Women.” At the March 18 meeting. Dr. Hughes, pathologist from Van Wert, will be present as a guest speaker.

To Spell Out Cuba Campaign

WASHINGTON (UPI) — A Senate leader said today he expected President Kennedy to spell out the U.S. campaign against Castro’s Cuba at the Central American presidents’ meeting in Costa Rica next month. Senate Democratic Leader Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn., asserted that he looked for the President “to document fully our antiCommunist, anti-Castro effort at the Costa Rica meeting." L . "I think he will give any clarification that is needed,” Humphrey said in an interview. Kennedy will confer at San Jose, March 18-20 with the presidents of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Panama. Humphrey’s remarks came after these other developments on Cuba: —Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont, backed up a report by GOP leader Everett 5 M. Dirksen, DL, that four Ameri- • can civilian pilots were killed in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion in 1881. Mansfield said the Americans, who were not identified,

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Plans Meeting On Volunteer Services The Adams county assosiation for mental health will sponsor a public meeting on volunteer services, according to Mrs. Sherman Stucky, president of the chapter. Scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Thursday, the meeting will be held in the director's room of the First Bank of Berne. Residents at the county interested in knowing more about volunteer services at Fort Wayne State School are invited to attend. Mrs. Stucky will outline the programs ot the Adams county chapter and explain how the association assists the mentally ill a n d retarded and their families. Paul C. Messplay, Indianapolis, associate director of the Indiana association for mental health, will speak on the subject of hospital volunteers and show a film, "Someone Cares” which was filmed in Indiana hospitals showing the actual services performed by mental health Gold Ladies and Gold Men. James Myers, director of volunteer services at Fort Wayne State School, will explain what duties the volunteers perform at the schoool and how -the residents of Adams county can help make life a little happier for the patients at the school. The chairman of the volunteer committee for Adams county, Mrs. Roger Von Gunten, will accept applications following the meeting. Local Lady's Aunt Is Taken By Death Mrs. Ella Flayler, 81, of Ansonia, 0., aunt of Mrs. John Morgan, 310 South 11th street, died Sunday at the Darke county hospital at Greenville, 0., after an illness of several weeks. One son, one grandson, and one sister and one brother surivfve. Funeral services will be held at the Oliver funeral home in Ansonia, with burial in the Versailles cemetery. OBCATVR TEMPRRATVRKS Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 32 .12 midnight .. « 1 p.m 30 1 a.m t 6 2 p.m. 28 2 a.m S 3 p.m 28 3am 5 4 p.m. 28 4 am. ——'. o 5 p.m. —22 5 a.m 4 fi p.m 18 8 a.m 4 7 p.m. 18 7 a.m. .... 3 8 p.m 12 8 a.m 4 S p.ml2 9 a.m. 10 10 p m 10 10 a.m 16 11 p.m 8 11 a.m 18 Predpltattoa Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today. .04 Inches. The St. Mary's river was at 2.18 faet, —t ■

flew as volunteer substitutes for exhausted Cuban pilots. —Czech Ambassador Milanov Ruzek delivered to the State Department a note from Cuba denying that Cuban MIGS attacked an American shrimp boat last week. The note, in reply to a U.S. protest, countercharged that the United States had attacked Cuban fishing vessels. —State Department spokesman Lincoln White said the Cuban note was “obviously not responsive to our note and seeks to further becloud the issue by gratuitously making self-serving allegations of a propaganda nature,” But he said the incident was closed except for Kennedy’s orders for U.S. forces to take action against future attacks. —A congressman who visited the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, over the weekend said intelligence experts were convinced that Cuban pilots have replaced many of the Russians flying MIGs over the island. The congressman declined to be identified.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Minor- - ity Democrats in the Indiana Sen- • ate indicated today they will surrender eventually to the powerless Republican majority and help pass an immediate reapportionment bill they dislike. But they decided in caucus that they will not give up this afternoon when the GOP measure comes up for third reading and a final showdown as a special order of business. Democratic caucus chairman William Christy of Hammond skid , the minority agreed to vote against the bill today. Assuming at least 24 of the 25 majority Republicans vote for it, the measure will fail to pass and this will give the Democrats extra time to try to press for an acceptable Senate redistricting map. Democrats disapprove of the GOP map because they contend it contains some "gerrymandered” areas favorable to the Republicans. Christy and Sens. James Spurgeon, Brownstown, and Robert Peterson. Rochester, members of a bipartisan subcommittee which tried Monday night and early today to work out a compromise, agreed that “the Democrats do not intend to kill reapportionmant.” Christy said his party "still sees room for negotiation” during a waiting period before the bill could be called down again for a second attempt to pass ft, if it fails to pass this afternoon. Sen. Earl Landgrebe, R-Val-paraiso, was expected to bolt the majority to vote against the bill, thus creating a 25-24 vote, one less than the 26 votes needed either to pass or kill any bill in the Senate. Spurgeon, who earlier had said he would work to get Senate Democrats to help pass the measure this afternoon to keep reapportionment from being a "dead duck,” agreed in the later caucus to vote against it today but for it later, even if the Republicans fail to make any changes. “In good faith we want to try to get reapportionment accomplished,” > Spurgeon said. “We want to send Governor Welsh something he can sign.” Spurgeon said during the long Democratic senators on the subcommittee spent trying to fit the pieces of the reapportionment jigsaw puzzle into an acceptable pattern, “we kept coming up with 51 senators.” This is one more than the 50 seats Democrats and Republicans have agreed the Senate should have. Republicans on the subcommittee were President Pro Tern D. Russell Bontrager and caucus chairman Roy Conrad. The bill and a constitutional amendment resolution which already is in the hands of a conference committee represent the hours the two Republican and two Senate’s compromise plan tor reapportionment. However the plan came unglued. Democratic minority leader Sen. Marshall Kizer charged late Monday the districting involving Jay, Randolph, Wells, Adams, Blackford, Marshall and Kosciusko Counties was unacceptable. Senate-House Committee Wait The Senate-House conference committee which has the reapportionment resolution plans to wait until its gets the bill before it starts deliberating. But the Senate was on a peace and harmony kick Monday when it unanimously passed and sent to the House a compromise plan for financing a port on Lake Michigan. In addition, the upper chamber also passed and sent to the House three of the seven bills which were on a list for special attention the Democrats gave the Republicans Feb. 14. The 24 Senate Democrats in effect told their 25 Republican colleagues at that time they would stalemate all proceedings unless they got “the majority” of the seven bills out of committee. Five of the seven bills now have been not only reported out of committee tee, they have been passed with substantial GOP support. A Senate leader confirmed the obvious conclusion—the agreement last Valentine’s Day for reporting the special bills out of committee also included an agreement to pass them. Buddy Han Resulted The bipartisan buddy plan re(Continued on Page Two)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 26,1963.

Record-Shattering Cold Wave In State

By United Press International A record-shattering cold wave bore into Indiana today with temperatures plunging as low as 22 degrees below zero. Lafayette officially registered that chill reading and only the far south areas of the state failed to receive similar sub-zero treaty ment as the coldest winter in 92 years of Weather Bureau history continued an assault that started the first week of December. Other lows early this morning included 10 below at Fort Wayne, 6 below at South Bend and Indianapolis, and 2 below at Terre Haute. Southward the situation was less severe. Evansville’s low was 10 above, Louisville 9 and Cincinnati 3 above. Another cold night was in store before the mercury heads for more moderate levels, promised by official forecasts for Wednesday and Thursday, the last two days of February and the threemonth period generally considered as the winter season. The Indianapolis low of —6 broke all records for Feb. 26. The old mark-was —4 established in 1950. It also assured that me.

House Studies State Budget

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The Republican - controlled Indiana House beat back a Democratic move today to include Governor Welsh’s proposed $33 million economic development fund in the construction budget. ...The move failed as the. House sat as a committee of the whole to consider the $57.39 million construction budget recommended last week by the Ways and Means Committee. The motion by Rep. James V. Stagg (D-Evansville) was tabled by a vote of 54-37, with two Lake County Democrats voting with the GOP—Paul J. Hric of Hammond and Ben Lesniak Jr., East Chicago. One Republican, Rep. Ralph H. Waltz (R-Hagerstown), voted with the Democrats. Welsh’s proposed fund includes $25.5 million to start construction of a deep-water port at Burns Ditch and $75 million for toll bridges at Cannelton and Mauckport. The bill reported out by the committee last Friday was some $1.3 million above the amount recommended by Governor Welsh and there appeared little likelihood that House Democrats would seek to increase it further. Speaker Richard Guthrie, R-In-dianapolis, said the operating budget for the 1963-65 biennium, which has been on the House calendar for second reading for a week, probably would be delayed again. “We’ll probably wait and take them both up together,” he said. House GOP leaders also had indicated Monday they would prefer to wait until after hearings on a net income tax bill backed by Governor Welsh before taking further action on the operating budget. A public hearing on the net income tax is scheduled tonight before the' Ways and Mens Committee. Majority leader Charles Edwards, R-Spencer, maintained that the net income tax would fall SIOO million short of meeting the budget as it now stands and that it might become necessary to make further cuts. The Ways and Means Committee trimmed $l6B million from Welsh’s recommendations for the operating budget' but House Republicans later added $62 million in the committee of the whole. House Democrats tried unsuccessfully to add even more to the budget and plan another attempt to increase the spending on second reading. They claim the net

December - through - February average temperature will be the lowest ever recorded since weather statistics were kept beginning in 1871. It was the 21st day this winter that the mercury had dropped to or below zero in Indianapolis. Lows have ranged down to —lB. The cold night came, with adequate warning from the forecasters, on the heels of a chilly day when temperatures climbed no higher than 20 at South Bend to the upper 20s in the southern portion of the state. Highs today will range from 8 to 20 above zero, lows tonight from 5 below to 5 above north to near zero central and 5 to 12 above south. Highs Wednesday will range from 18 to the upper 20s, and the outlook for Thursday was warmer with snow or rain likely. The snow which fell the last three or four days faded away and the next two days were expected to be fair. But accumulations still on the ground included 11 inches at South Bend. 8 at Fort Wayne and Lafayette, 5 at Peru, <3 at Chicago, 2 at Indianapolis.

income tax would more than meet the total spending program recommended by Welsh. Tonight’s hearing also is expected, to delay a committee report on a five-bilf package to carry out the tax program recommended by the House GOP caucus. Based on a 3 per cent sales tax it would bring in an estimated $284 million in new revenue during the biennium. School Musicians Entertain Lions The Decatur Lions club held its weekly dinner meeting Monday evening at the Youth and Community Center, with Richard Mies presiding in the absence of the president, Norman Steury. Milton Spence, program chairman, introduced Mrs. Kenneth Singleton, president of the Band Boosters club of the Decatur high school. Mrs. Singleton explained that the club had recently been formed, with the primary purpose of helping the band and instructors with both moral and financial support. The immediate problem, Mrs. Singleton asserted, is to raise money for new uniforms, and to this end the club is planning a tag day at an early date, when all will be given an opportunity to contribute. Following her brief talk, Mrs, Singleton introduced Richard Collins, band director of the Decatur high school, who presented his high school dance band. After solos by Allen Zerkel, Tom Baxter, Rita Spence and Margaret Kocher, the band played several numbers by well known composers. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cold tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and wanner. Low tonight 8 below to 2 above north, 5 above to 5 below south. High Wednesday 15 to 24 north, in the 20s south- Sunset today 6:34 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:22 a. m. Outlook tor Thursday: Snow and a Httte wramer. Lows 5 to 15 above. Highs 23 to 33.

Below Zero Is Recorded From Montana-Maine By United Press International Pplar air pushed temperatures below zero from Montana to Maine today. Up to four inches of snow fell in Tennessee. The mercury plunged to 27 degrees below zero at Hibbing, Minn.; Stevens Point, Wis.; and Pellston, Mich. A low of 6 below at Indianapolis, Ind., broke all records for the date and assured Hoosiers of the coldest winter since 1871. A 1-below reading at Chicago tied the record in 1888 and was the 24th day of sub-zero temperatures this winter, one day short of the record for this century. —- Heavy rains fell in the Pacific Northwest. Tatoosh Island, Wash., reaped 2.28 inches of rain in 24 hours. The Weather Bureau warned that a “vigorous” storm was developing off the Atlantic Coast. Another storm center was deepening off the northeast Gulf of Mexico. Heavy snow warnings were issued for central and western Virginia and the eastern parts of West Virginia. Three inches of new snow fell early today and schools in 12 Virginia counties closed. Nashville, Tenn., had 3 inches of snow today, boosting their winter total to 2% times normal. Cold wave warnings were hoisted as far south as Georgia and Alabama and freeze warnings extended across Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. The latest blast of arctic air threatened to cover Lake Superior with ice for the first time this century. Ice on the Great Lakes was the worst ever recorded and was expected to make the opening of navigation this year late and difficult. Snow-clogged New York state reported roads still closed today. Snow was swept into 8 and 10 foot drifts in some areas by 50 mile per hour winds. Southeast Escapes Cold Light snow fell across the Appalachians during the night and hazardous driving warnings were posted for most of Tennessee, where dropping temperatures changed rain to snow. Only the extreme Southeast escaped the effects of the newest siege of cold air. Rain swept the West Cost from northern California to the Canadian border during the night. Nearly % inch of- rain was dumped at Bellingham, Wash., in six hours. The Canadian consulate at Chicago said that Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water in the world, was almost completely frozen over except for a few acres of open water near Isle Royale. ; Greatest Freese-Over Canadian Department of Transport reconnaissance units kept close check on the Great Lake ice cover and reported the lake system had "the greatest degree of freeze-over” ever recorded. Lake Michigan ice was the worst this century. Lake Erie was mostly ice covered six weeks ago.

Annual Elks Cancer Party On Saturday The Decatur Elks lodge will hold its 16th annual cancer party Saturday night, March 2, at the lodge home on North Second street. This annual event is supported by all merchants and some individuals in Decatur, who make donations of gifts which are awarded during the evening as prizes. All money raised from the annual party is turned over to the Indiana Elks cancer fund, where it is used for research. In the past 16 years, the Decatur lodge has raised more thah $9,000 from these cancer parties. The party will start at 7 o’clock, and immediately following entertainment, there will be a dance, with music by Dick Brown and his orchestra. Tickets for the party, priced at only sl, may be obtained from any member of the Elks lodge, and are also on sale at the lodge’s clubroomos. The public is invited to attend, as in past years.

Roger Black, esteemed loyal knight, and Willis (Bill) Cook, esteemed lecturing knight of the lodge are general chairmen of mittees have been working for the party. The following comseveral weeks on plans for the annual event: Julius Baker and Dick Sullivan, callers; Bill Cook, Sherman Koos, Gary Gicsler, Joe Schultz and Glenn Rambo, prizes; Tom Lutes, Larry Elliott and Jack Petrie, chairs and tables.

Study Combining Voting Precincts

The Adams county commissioners devoted nearly their entire • meeting Monday to discussion of ’ possible combining of several vot- , ing precincts in Adams county. Included in the discussion were the two precincts in each of Union, ] Preble, Kirkland, St. Mary’s. Blue • Creek, Hartford, and Jefferson J townships, Ceylon and N. Wabash. The commmissions are of the ' opinion that an ideal precinct includes between 450 to 550 register- ' ed voters, and all of those mentioned above fall quite short of those figtfres. . There are 223 registered voters ■ in East Union and 195 in West 1 Union, and combined would give a J total of 418 registered voters. • There are 229 registered in North Preble and 266 in South Preble. ! The combination of these two would amount to 495. ./ North Kirkland takes in 224 registered voters and South Kirkland 135, for a combined total of 359. North Blue Creek takes in 198 registered voters and South Blue Creek 135. These two combined would mean a total of 333 registered voters. Other Combinations Combining the 331 voters in North Hartford With the 161 in South Hartford would give the combined precinct 492 voters, an d combining the 137 in East Jefferson with the 173 in West Jefferson would mean a total of 310. The commissioners were also thinking of combining Ceylon’s 171 registered voters with North Wabash’s 205, for a total of 376. St. Mary’s township's two precincts were discussed, but may not be included in the precinct renovation plans. North St. Mary’s has a total of 255 registered voters and South St. Mary’s 310, which would mean a total of 565. These two will in all probability not be combined. Os the above figures of registerElks Scholarship Winners Announced David A. Swickard and Miss Cynthia Marie Cravens, both members of the senior class at the Decatur high school, were announced today as winners ot the Decatur Elks lodge scholarship contest for Adams county. Brochures of the two students will now be entered in the state contest, where top prizes are S6OO scholarships, and the right to compete in the national foundation scholarship program sponsored by the fraternal organization. Anouncement of the awards was made by George F. Laurent, chairman of the local lodge’s scholarship committee. Swickard and Miss Cravens will each receive a $25 government bond. Jerry Fosnaugh, of Berne-French high school, will receive an additional award, in addition to the souvenir gift which each entrant receives. Members of the judging panel were Gilbert Smith, athletic director of the Van Wert, 0., high school, scholarship chairman of the Van Wert Elks, and member of the Ohio Elks scholarship committee; his wife, Mrs. Virginia Smith, an instructor at the Marsh Foundation school at Van Wert; Gordon Farrell, English instructor at Van Wert high school, and Mrs. Paul Resor, director of women’s activities at the Van Wert YWCA. ( Swickard is the son of’Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Swickard, Miss Cravens is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Cravens, and Fosnaugh is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Fosnaugh of Berne route 1. Ten winners at the state level will be entered in the national contest,, where there are 142 awards, 71 for girls and 71 for boys, totaling SIIO,OOO, with the top award of $1,500. The local awards will be presented to the three outstanding scholars at a time to be announced. Members of the Elks scholarship committee, in addition to Laurent, are Deane T. Dorwin, co-chair-man, Robert F. Mutschler, Richard Sullivan and Pete Reynolds, publicity. Jacob C. Heimann Funeral Thursday Funeral services for Jacob C. Heimann, who died suddenly Monday morning, will be conducted at 9:15 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary’s Catholic church. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt will officiate, and burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. The rosary will be recited at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Pallbearers will be Hubert Lengerich, Herman Rumschlag, Art Heimann, Eugene Heimann, Richard Geimer and Ed Heimann.

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ed voters, all, of course, did not vote in the last election. Os the 418 in the Union precincts, only 321 cast ballots; of the 495 in Preble, only 347 voted; of the 359 in Kirkland, only 243 voted; of the 333 in Blue Creek, only 220 voted; of the 492 in Hartford, only 333 voted; and of the 310 in Jefferson, only 209 cast ballots. Only 297 ballots were cast out of the 376 registered in Ceylon and North Wabash previncts. Cat Corts Cost per precinct each year is $129 when a voting place is not rented. If a polling place has to be rented, the cost goes up to about $149 for the precinct. The seven combinations of precincts, not including the two in St. Mary's township, would cut down expenses by nearly SI,OOO, and would also mean more ideal or practical precincts. No definite action was taken by the county commissioners, but the change may possibly take place before next year’s primary election. In their meeting Monday, the commissioners also met with a representative of the Plans Coordinate Co. of North Manchester, one of the companies that is drawing preliminary plans for remodeling of the courthouse, and the installation of an elevator. Local Lady's Sister Is Taken By Death Mrs. Irene Hesse, 60, of Mendon, 0., died Saturday night at St. Marys’ county hospital at Celina, 0., after a two and one-half years' illness of cancer. She had been hospitalized since suffering a broken hip in a fall on her 60th birthday last August She was born in Auglaize county, 0., Aug. 11, 1902, a daughter of Andrew J. and Viola Bevans-Cas-person, and was married to Russel Hesse on Thanksgiving day in 1920. WW Surviving are her husband; one son, Larry Joe, Hmm; three grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Violet Venis of Decatur, Mrs. Madeline McLain of Columbus, O:, and Mrs. Bernadine Grissom of Dayton, 0., and three brothers, Syivanus Caspersen of Long Beach, Calif., Vernon Casperson of Middletown, 0., and Louie Casperson of Columbus; O. Funeral services win be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Bethel Methodist church at Mendon, of which she was a member and a Sunday school teacher for 40 years. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Dick funeral home at Celina, 0., until time of the services.

World Prayer Day Services On Friday The World Day of Prayer service, sponsored by the United Church women, will be held in the Zion United Church of Christ, Third and Jackson streets, Friday evening at 7:30. This year’s service was written by the Christian women of Korea. Always observed on the first Friday in Lent, it has a meaningful history of more than 75 years behind it. Prayer and giving for the world-wide mission of the church have been its primary purpose. It has traditionally brought people together across denominational, racial, national and cultural boundaries to pray for the needs of the world, and to make an offering for carrying out the church’s mission across the world. This mission includes helping to support Christian colleges for women in many different countries, welcoming foreign students to the U. S., providing Christian literature for women and children in other lands, establishing Christian centers for the study of non-Christian religions, helping in the migrant ministry, and work among the American Indians. This World Day of Prayer is truly world-wide in character. Basically the same service is used by groups in approximately 150 countries. The churches responsible for planning the local service are the First Christian, First Methodist, Union Chapel E. U. 8., and Zion United Church of Christ. The public is invited to this service of meditation and prayer. A film on Africa will also be shown. There will be a children’s service at the Nuttman Avenue U. B. church, immediately after the close of school until 4 o'clock, and a junior high service at the same time in the First Baptist church. A special offering will be taken at all of the services.