Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1963 — Page 8

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- Former Cuba Prison Inmate Tells Story

Editors Note: Living in the isolated Cuban prison on the Isle of Pines literally is like living on a huge bomb. The pris-. on is mined. A former inmate, who was there 29 months as a political prisoner, smuggled out a diary of his experiences, on which this series is based. The author, who was educated in the United Staes, is a member of one of Cuba’s best known families. By EDDT SUAREZ RIVAS Written for UPI MIAMI (UPI) — The Isle of Pines is Fidel Castro’s "Devil’s Island," where his foremost political foes are sent, if they are not earmarked for the firing squads. It is a place of living death. I know it well. For 29 months I vegetated there with some 6,000 other anti-Castro prisoners including Americans held by the Cuban regime. I was prisoner No. 25871. My dismal, desperate confinement there ended suddenly and unexpectedly when I was released and returned to Miami last Christmas Eve with the ransomed Bay of Pigs invaders, among whom were my two brothers. The Americans, too, soon may be freed. They are quartered in buildings that have been mined with at least 10 tons of dynamite, ready to be detonated upon command of the Communist warden. But, in one sense, that is the least of their plight. They suffer physical and psychological tortures that only a warped mind could devise. Once a Wonderland Their situation is all the more hellish when contrasted with the fact that the beautiful Isle of Pines, 40 miles off the southern coast of Cuba, once was a tourist wonderland and a place of gaiety. Castro converted it into the locale for his most isolated orison. There is no escape from this Cuban prison. The sharks make that impossible without a boat. They are Castro’s silent sentinels, always on duty. Despite the tremendous odds, many prisoners have tried to escape. I know of only one who got nut and he traveled by plane in the company of the prison warlien, who also fled Jorge Sotus, a former captain in Castro’s army, flew out with the warden in 1960 and reached Miami by boat from Havana. Less than two years later he was killed in an accident in Miami.

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The warden who helped Sotus escape, Ramon Padilla, died a violent death—a reported suicide —last month in the Brazilian Embassy in Havana where he had received political asylum. Buildings Circular The Isle of Pines prison consists of four circular buildings, each six stories high. In each of these buildings, known as ‘ circulars,’’ there are 93 d'ells on each floor with a minimum of two men in each cell. Hie cells are hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Solitary confinement in “punishment paviliions,” with beatings, cold water dousings and a starvation diet, is what those who attempt to escape can expect—at the very least. For example, Reynaldo Blanco, a political prisoner, actually got out of the prison in 1960 but the militia caught up with him in a short time. He spent the next 91 days in solitary confinement. Demonstrations in political prisons anywhere behind the Communist Iron Curtain are rare and Cuba is no exception. But the men on that island succeeded — just once—in defying their guards last May. They staged a weeklong strike, “the big strike,” as I think of it—a prison revolt. That was the m ost inspiring thing I saw during my imprisonment —from Aug. 31, 1960 to Dec. 24, 1962. We succeeded in forcing the authorities, briefly, to meet our terms. No mean trick for men sitting atop 20,000 pounds of dynamite. Next: Strike demands and retaliation. Five-Year-Old Boy Drowned In Cistern BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (UPI) — Five-year-old Raymond Allman drowned Sunday when he fell into a cistern filled with muddy water. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Allman of Brownstown, was dead on arrival at Schneck Memorial Hospital at Seymour. Relatives told authorities he was playing around the yard of his home and apparently removed wooden slats which covered the cistern. Volunteer firemen were caled and one of them found the body in the 10-foot cistern. It you haw something u sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

Open House Held By Lincoln Cub Pack OPEN HOUSE HELD Lincoln Cub pack 3061 held its "open house” and "new parents in Cub Scouting” pack meeting Thursday evening at the Lincoln school, with a record attendance. The meeting was opened with the group repeating the pledge of allegiance, led by Judge Myles F. Parrish, Cubmaster. The Cubs and their parents then sang one of their favorite songs, “Hail, Hail the Gang’s All Here." Den 7, under the direction of Mrs. Kenneth McConnell, gave an interesting skit, “On the Meaning of the Blue and Gold.” Den 5, under the direction of Mrs. John C. Bassett, den mother, gave an authentic one-act play entitled “The Alamo.” The play was well presented and depicted the historic struggle for freedom by the defenders of the Lone Star Republic, later the state of Texas. Chairman Kenneth Erhart gave a short talk on re-registration and the Cub Scout program. Exactly 100 per cent of the eligible Cubs of the pack re-registered and three new Cubs were presented with bob cat pins and were received hy the pack. The new Cubs are Michael Alexander, Tom Frisinger and Richard Aeschliman. Awards Given A number of awards were presented by Erhart and Judge Par-: rish, going to the following Cubs: | Charles Merriman, denner badge! and one-year pin; Richard Butch-1 er, wolf badge and one-year pin; Howard Jones, wolf badge and I one-year pin; Keith Sharpe, assist-1 ant denner and one-year pin; Brett Colter, gold arrow and one-1 vear pin; Joe Spaulding, wolf badge, gold arrow and silver arrow; Roger Everett, wolf badge and one-year pin; David Christen, wolf badge and one-year pin; Richard Aeschliman, bob cat pin; Rickj Zoss, denner badge; Bill Martin-1 dill, assistant denner and silver ar- - row; John Cravens, wolf badge and silver nrrow; Robert Stokke, wolf badge and a gold and a silver arrow. Also receiving awards were: Steven Spence, wolf badge and gold arrow; Tom Frisinger, bob cat pin; Kim Erhart, gold and silver arrows; Michael Allison, wolf badge; Grant Porter, assistant denner and bob cat pin; Stuart Bauman, wolf badge; Kevin Birch. I wolf badge; Gary Marbach, wolf; badge; Tim Mayclin, wolf badge: i Robert Ruby, Jr., wolf badge, Jeffrey Smith, denner badge; My-' ron Brown, assistant denner, bear badge, silver arrow and gold arrow; Terry Parrish, denner bad®c; and Kevin Affolder, denner badge. Skating Party Judge Parrish closed the meeting with the announcement that the “Get Acquainted” skating party will be held at Miller’s Rink Friday evening, April 5, between 1 the hours of 7 and 10 p. m. All cubs, parents, brothers and| sisters of the cubs are invited to attend the skating party and get; acquainted with every Cub in the pack. Tile next pack meeting will be held at Lincoln school Thursday, May 2, at 7:30 p. m., and the Cubs will have their “Cub Scout Circus” and field day at the Boy Scout cabin at Hanna-Nuttman park Saturday, May 11, between 2 and 4 p. tn. Judge Parrish explained that the pack will have a limited-activi-ties program during the summer months. The field day and picnic will be the last official pack meeting for this season.

Hospital Admitted Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, Decatur; Mrs. Nellie Gould, Decatur; Master Dennis Thieme, Decatur; Mrs. Toridis Cortez, Decatur; Chancey Sipes, Bryant; Mrs. Charles Bumgardner, Hoagland; Paul Gause, Decatur; Miss Marilyn Coyne, Convoy, 0. Dismissed Mrs. Lillian Bond, Denver; Mrs. James Golden and baby boy, Hoagland; Master Michael Crosby, Decatur; Mrs. Joe Corral, Jr., Chicago, Hl.; Mrs. Ada Lawer, Decatur; Mrs. Raymond Gambill and baby boy, Bryant; baby Tommy Jones, Berne; Mrs. Edgar Swager and baby boy, Willshire, O; Mrs. William Shoaf, Decatur; Mrs. Fred Lehman and baby girl, Berne; Mrs. Millie Myers, Keystone; Mrs. Ed Roe, Decatur. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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Two Accidents Are Reported In County Two accidents occurred in the county this morning, within a span of 15 minutes, and one remained under investigation by the sheriff’s department. Still under investigation is a mishap involving cars driven by Allen Lee Freels, 20, route 4, and Lester Leon Strahm, 41, 704 Walnut St., that occurred at 9 a.m. on county road 10, two miles south and six and one-half miles west of Decatur. Both were westbound and Freels had stopped in the middle of the road, and his auto was struck in the rear by the Strahm car. The road was slick from falling snow at the time. Deputy sheriff Warren- Kneuss investigated, estimating S3OO damage to the Strahm car and $l5O to the Freels auto. A car operated by Madelin Faye Anderson, 27, New Lebanon, 0., received an estimated SSOO damage when it struck the St. Mary’s river bridge on the Monmouth road, just north of Decatur, at 8:45 a.m. The Ohio woman lost control of her car as she was traveling south. The auto went out of control on the slippery pavement and crashed into a guard railing in the bridge, on the east side. Luckily the auto did not go over the bridge and into the water. Deputy sheriff Kneuss investigated, and estimated the bridge damage at SSO.

Publishers, Union Meet In New York NEW YORK (UPI) — Publishers meet with officials of the Newspaper Guild today in an effort to dispose of the remaining obstacle blocking termination of the 94-day-old newspaper shutdown. The publishers, in line with their agreement with the striking printers, are asking the Newspaper Guild to extend its current contract five months beyond the present expiration date of Oct. 31, 1964. This would provide a common expiration date for all 10 newspaper unions, a main objec-; tive of the International Typographical Union’s (ITU) Local 6. Officers of the Guild, representing editorial and commercial employes, have indicated they expect to gain improvements in their contract in return for extending the pact. The Guild has not announced specific demands. Printers and management negotiators cleared up the last minor details of their agreement in three hours of talks Saturday. The publishers said the strikers would get full 1962 and 1963 vacations despite their lengthy walkout. The ITU has stated it will call for a.... rank-and-file vote on the contract settlement soon after the contract date issue is resolved in the Guild - management talks. If no hitches develop the eight dailies now missing from New York newsstands are expected to return by next weekend. The new two-year contract would date from the day it is signed. In addition to meeting with the Guild, publishers also planned negotiating sessions today with the ITU - affiliated mailers and the stereotypers, on strike along with printers. Federal mediators said they expect these unions to accept terms “within the general settlement area” of the printers’ contract. The agreement between publishers and printers was announced Friday by Mayor Robert F. Wagner, who proposed the settlement terms. It called for a $12.27 weekly wage package increase, including a $4 boost in the first year and $4 in the second; a secondyear reduction in the work week from 36% hours to 35 hours; two additional sick leave days, and job protection against automation. Births At th** Adams county memorial hospital: Friday at 12:47 p.m., Kenneth and Barbara Borror Pancake, 304 north Ninth St., became the parents of a baby boy, weighing 5 pounds and 8 ounces. Norman and Asazalia Curry Arnold, Berne, are the parents of a baby girl born Sunday at 1:28 a.m. The baby weighed 6 pounds and 9% ounces. b A baby girl was born today at 4:28 a.m. to Ralph and Nancy Newcomer Haines, Geneva. The baby weighed 8 pounds and 6 ounces.

NIPSCO Planning Expansion Program

A $76 million investment in new plant and facilities by Northern Indiana Public Service company in 1963 and 1964 was announced today by Dean H. Mitchell, NIPSCO chairman and president, in the utility’s annual report to shareholders. Mitchell said the multi-million dollar construction program was designed to keep ahead of the rapid growth and development taking place in the northern third of the Hoosier state. “It is tangible evidence,” he said, “of the confidence we have in the dynamic future of the territory we serve.” The utility’s 49,000 stockholders were told that recent studies by city planning organizations, educational administrators and health authorities indicate that the population of Indiana will increase 78% between 1960 and 1980, with a 40% increase occurring between 1960 and 1970. Studies indicate, the utility chief executive said, “that if we are to meet the projected growth anticipated in this area in the next 20 years, we must continue to invest large sums in new facilities to serve the needs of customers.” Included in the $76 million construction program is about $26 million for the connection of new gas and electric customers; $27 million for electric production, transmission and distribution facilities; sls million for the continued development of underground storage facilities and gas transmission and distribution lines; and $8 million for general plant—land, buildings, transportation, communication facilities, tools and equipment. Some of the larger projects in the two-year program include a tie-in with the Indiana & Michigan electric company’s 345,000 volt line near Monticello; the stringing of larger sized copper to increase transmission capacity between the Bailly generating state and Aetna substation; the building of a new operating headquarters at Monticello; the extension of a 138,000 volt line from Warsaw to the northeast substation near Goshen; and the expansion and development of gas underground storage facilities at Royal Centre and Lake of the Woods: Other projects include the construction of gas transmission and distribution tines to serve the Nipscoland communities of Demotte, Lake of the Woods, Woodland, Wyatt, Wolcottville, Rome City, Brook, Morocco, Brookston, Chalmers, Mexico, Howe, Millersburg, Benton, Leesburg and Geneva. Mitchell said that NIPSCO is continually conducting studies to improve sendee to customers, Increase operating efficiency, lower costs, and find better ways to Young Half-Sizer Printed Pattern Wwm // it Uw®/ If I\ LU 1 ’X. y o/X j ' -j/ o I \ /’AXnVM V X / AL 0 e // /v ft/ o 110 if , I v k % °n ’l°l fl / 9271 I" J SIZES | ‘ 12%—22% Lovely in airy cottons or soft silks —a dress that’s a joy to wear on warm days. Paneled skirt glides smoothly over hips into rippling flare. Printed Pattern 9271: Half Sizes 12%, 14%, 16%, 18%, 20%, 22%. Size 16% requires 3 yards 39-inch fabric. FIFTY CENTS in coins for this pattern—add 15 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing and special handling. Send to Marian Martin, Decatur Daily Democrat Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th 8t„ New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly Name, Address with Zone, Size and Style Number. FREE OFFER! Coupon in Spring Pattern Catalog for one pattern free—anyone you. choose from 300 design ideas. Send 50c now for Catalog.

build and operate gas and electric properties. He said the same imaginative planning and aggressive program of expansion and modernization that has enabled the company to serve the growing needs of customers efficiently and economically in the past will play an even more important role in the future. “We are one of the first in the nation to have the IBM 1410 electronic data processing system, which includes the very latest developments in data processing equipment, he reported. It is expected that all customer accounting will be converted to this system by the summer of 1963.” According 'to the report, gas sales in 1962 reached a new high of 132 billion cubic feet, up 21% over the previous year. New gas customers added during 1962 totaled 14,799 and natural gas was brought for the first time to the communities of Cook, Westville, Toto, Star City, Lagro and Jimtown. From these groups and from among NIPSCO’s old customers, 24.987 space heating installations were made. By year’s end, NIPS* CO was serving 323,979 residential and commercial gas customers. OL-this number, about 56% were using gas for space heating. “At our present rate of growth,” Mitchell said, “it is anticipated that a space heating saturation above the 70-75% range will be realized within the next few years.” On December 12, 1962, the utility set a new firm gas send-out record of 569,282,000 cubic feet. This was more than 100 million cubic feet above the peak day send-out the previous winter. The report indicated the utility's underground storage facilities at Royal Centre, have proved so successful the company plans to extend the field to its full estimated capacity of 50 billion cubic feet* Development of a second underground storage field at Lake of the Woods, near Plymouth, is well under way. According to the report, NIPSCO’s daily firm gas supply now totals more than 457 million cubic feet per day. In 1962 the utility received an additional 65 million cubic feet of gas per day for its northwest system and another 15 million cubic feet per day is on order. In the Fort Wayne area, an additional 12% million cubic feet per day was received in 1962 and another 6 million requested for 1963.

The report noted that in 1962 NIPSCO customers used almost 4% billion kilowatt hours of electricity, up 10% over the previous year. During the year 3,332 naw electric customers were added, and the maximum demand on the utility’s electric system which occurred on December 12, 1962, totaled 787,776 kilowatts, 6% above the 1961 peak. On November 30, 1962, the company's Bailly generating station went “on the line” adding 183,000 kilowatts of net capacity to its electric system. NIPSCO provided more than 527 millinn for taxes in 1962, equivalent to $3.08 per share of common stock and an increase of $464,000 over 1961. Stockholders . were told that NIPSCO continued to achieve new high levels of accomplishment throughout its 50th anniversary year. Operating revenues totaled $154,366,000, an increase of 12% over 1961. About 51% of the utility’s revenue was derived from the 'sale of gas and 49% from the sale of electricity. The report stated the company’s net income in 1962 was $20,546,000 Earnings per share of common stock were $2.06 per share on the 8,797,328 shares outstanding at the end of the year. This compared with earnings of $1.85 per share on 8,777,874 shares outstanding the end of 1961. Dividends paid or the common stock in 1962 totaled $1.23 per share compared to SI.IS per share in 1961. The current an nual dividend rate is $1.32 pei share. December 19, 1962, . NIPSCO’: common stock was listed for trad ing on the New York Stock Ex 92% of all U.S. prescriptions are filled for $6 or less. The average price last year was only $3.25. This proves that modern prescription drugs are your best health value. They bring about such fast recovery that your total cost of illness usually is reduced. We feature uniformly fair prices always for all prescriptions filled here. Holihouso Drag Co.

Driver Is Arrested Following Accident Two accidents were Investigated ! by the Decatur city police over the J weekend, with one driver arrested, j Charles Michael Drake, 20, 1334 1 High St., was arrested for reckless ’ driving, following an accident on ' Adams St., at 4:10 a.m. Sunday. Drake made a left turn off Tenth St. onto Adams and struck a park- ' ed car dn the north side, and his auto then careened over to the south side’ of the street and struck a lamp post. Drake’s auto suffered $l5O damage, while the parked car, owned by Jerry Wayne Keller, ' Bluffton, received an estimated $175 damages. The light post was estimated'at sls damage. In the other mishap, only one vehicle of two involved was damaged. The accident, incolving a car and truck, occurred at 8:19 a.m. Saturday. - Bernard Collins, 22, Yager, W. Va., was stopped for a red light on 13th St., and backed into a car behind the truck which was driven by William Moulton, 20, 521 S. 13th St. Collins had backed the truck, which was not damaged, to give more room to a truck which was making a turn off Monroe St. The Moulton car suffered an estimated $45 damage. XOTICK OF ADMINISTRATION Estate No. 6.10 In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana, Notice la hereby riven that Robert S. Anderson was on the 2Srd 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 win be forever barred. Dated at Decatur, Indiana, this 23rd day of February, 196.1. Richard D. Dewton 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 Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana, will, until the hour of 2:00 P.M. on Monday, March 18, 1963, receive blds for the construction of the following: Structures No. 61-A over Conrad Ditch in Kirkland Township on County Road No. 39, lit miles south of Magley. consisteing of one 12 ft. C. M. Arch with 62 cu yds. reinforced concrete footings and end WEllls Plans and specifications therefore are on file in the office of the Adams County Auditor, Court House, Decatur, Indiana. Bids must be submitted on Form 96 as prescribed by the State Board of Accounts, accompanied by a Bidder’s Bond for not less than the amount of bid or a certified check for not less thon 10% of the bid price. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all blds. By order of the Board of Adams County Commissioners. EDWARD F. JABERG, Auditor of Adams County. 3/6, 11. change under the ticker symbol N. This was an important milestone in the growth and progress of the company.

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Patterson's Brother To Make Pro Debut NEW YORK (UPI) — Ray Patterson, brother of former heavyweight champion, Floyd, makes his professional debut against Duke Johnson of Paterson, N. J., in a four-round bout at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night. The fight will be a preliminary to the Cassius Clay-Doug Jones heavyweight scrap. John Barnum Wins In Jamaica Open KINGSTON, Jamaica (UPI) — “Maybe life does begin at 50 after all,” John Barnum conceded today following his two-stroke victory in the Jamaica Open. Barnum, 51, posted a two-under-par 70 in Sunday’s final round to finish the 72-hole tournament with a 274. Charles Sifford, the U. S. National Negro champion, was second with a 276 total while Bob Brue and Ed Rubis tied for third with 2775.

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