Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1963 — Page 1

VO|.. LXI NO. 63.

Hopes Dim Os Compromise On State Tax Plan

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Gover-nor Welsh said today he believes the legislative leaders who are threshing out budget and tax problems during a special session recess “will eventually reach an agreement.” Welsh told newsmen he was “glad to see" the leaders “are continuing to negotiate seriously.” “This was something that was not done during ‘the regular session,” he said. “They should and they will eventually reach, an agreement.” Welsh reaffirmed his Tuesday speech to the lawmakers in which he urged them during the special session to “vote your conscience rather than your caucus,” a reference to the many party conferences held during the session in which majority decisions reached there bound the bulk of the legislators. “There will be a feeling on the part of the members that they will vote their individual feelings. They will do this unless they are prevented by caucus action,” the governor said. “I hope they will be voting their individual feelings.” Chances Appear Dim But despite Welsh’s expression »f optimism over an agreement, the chances appeared dim that a compromise program would be settled on before the recess ends Monday afternoon. Leaders of both parties in the House and Senate met for the third consecutive day today in their attempt to reach an agreement on the fiscal problems which forced the special session but remained sharply divided on the question of how to raise some $257 million in additional revenue. The major difference appeared to be betwen the House and Senate and House Speaker Richard Guthrie, R-Indianapolis, said late Thursday that he saw little chance for an early agreement “unless - there’s < big change m the attitude of some senators.” Guthrie and House majority leader Charles Edwards. RSpencer, said they felt it might take another week or 10 days to reach an agreement. House minority leader Robert Rock, D-Ander-son, said he was hopeful that something might develop at today’s session. Floor Fight Seen Senate minority leader Marshall Kizer, D-Plymouth, said he felt that if there was no agreement by today it would be necessary to “fight it out on the floor” and that the special session, which began Tuesday and immediately recessed until next Monday, might s ' go almost to the full 40-day limit. While the legislative leaders attempted to work out a compromise, there was talk in some quarters of seeking a federal court injunction to bar any legislative actum until Governor Welsh calls a special election to fill the vacancy created by the death Dec. 1 of Sen. Richard Newhouse, R-Morristown. The vacancy left the Senate Republicans one vote short of a constitutional majority and was a major factor in preventing passage of a budget and tax program during the 61-day regular session which ended early Tuesday. Sen. Keith Fraser, R-Portland, admitted he had ben approached about such a step but said he felt any such action should be taken by the GOP chairmen in Shelby, Rush and Fayette Coun-

Railroad Unions Ask Resumption Os Talks

CHICAGO (UPD—Five operating unions today asked the nation’s railroads to resume “meaningful" negotiations over featherbedding. The unions said the talks should take up again to avoid shifting responsibility to “those outside the industry, to a busy labor department or an already heavily burdened Congress.” Railroad representatives walked out of bargaining sessions only 80 minutes after they resumed Wednesday in the long, bitter dispute over the elimination of jobs. The brotherhoods — representing the firemen, engineers, trainmen, conductors and brakemen, and switchmen—have indicated in the past they would strike if the railroads imposed the modernizing work rule changes. Both sides indicated they expected President Kennedy to head off any immediate crisis for at least 90 days by appointing an

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ties, the three Newhouse would have represented. Agree On Budget By Thursday afternoon, the legislative leaders appeared to be in general agreement on the budget approved by the Senate Finance Committee with the addition of another $lO million for state aid to public schools. Such a budget would require approximately $237 million in new taxes plus another S2O million to restore the general fund surplus expected to be depleted by June 30 when the current biennium ends. Guthrie and Edwards said the House Democrats and Republicans were "working real well together” on tax matters, but Rock declined to say whether the Democrats had agreed to accept the general sales tax favored by the House Republicans. He said he felt that the various possibilities should be more fully explored before reaching any decisions. Kizer said flatly he would not go along with a general sales tax except as part of a package which would include a net income tax to replace the current gross income tax. He said he might accept an adjusted gross income tax if it included high exemptions. Disapproves of Plan Kizer said, however, he did not approve of the adjusted gross income tax which Sen. William Christy, D-Hammond, Senate Democratic caucus chairman, said he would recommend to the caucus Monday. The plan calls for doubling the present gross income tax rate to 3 per cent and giving each taxpayer a S6OO exemption for himself and each dependent up to a total of $2,400. Christy said he felt that was the plan most likely to be accepted by the Senate. Guthrie and Edwards insisted, however, that there was ‘“little likelihood” of any compromise which’ hid not include the general sales tax. , With the exception of Finance Committee chairman Charles Maddox, R-Otterbein, no Senate GOP leaders took part in Thursday’s talks. Sen. Roy Conrad, RMonticello, GOP caucus chairman, also failed to show up for a meeting with Christy to discuss the legislative reapportionment issue which also must be solved during the special session. A GOP-backed bill for immediate reapportionment is awaiting action by Welsh with the possibility that it will be vetoed. A resolution for a constitutional amendment to carry out long-range reapportionment was still in a House-Senate conference committee when the regular session ended. - Legion's Birthday Dinner On Saturday The American Legion birthday dinner, the 44th, will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, at the American Legion home, Edward Kirchner, entertainment chairman, announced today. All Legion members and auxiliary members, husbands, wives, and sweethearts are invited to attend. Miss Billie Fisher will entertain at the organ during the dinner hour, providing dinner music as a background for a fine evening. After dinner at 8 p.m. there will be special entertainment, and dancing will follow. Price is $1.25 for the entire evening.

emergency fact-finding board. However, Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz said to Washington Thursday night the dispute over work rules “must ultimately be settled by the parties themselves.” Earlier in the day, White House News Secretary Pierre Salinger said he did not expect any White House announcement on the dispute before Kennedy left today for Palm Beach, Fla., and Costa Rica. The brotherhoods’ three - page letter to the railroads carried no hint of a strike action. It criticized the rail representatives for walking udl of the negutiattocs and called upon them to “awaken to your obligation.” The unions said they were ready to negotiate the elimination of the jobs of thousands of firemen. one of the main parts of the work rule revisions.

Adrian Wemhoff Is Mayor Candidate Adrian Wemhoff Adrian Wemhoff, proprietor of Wemhoff Memorials, announced today that he is a candidate for mayor of Decatur, subject to the Democratic primary May 7. He is the first candidate to announce for mayor. The Wemhoff family has been in the memorial business in Decatur since 1867, and Wemhoff has followed in the line of his father, George Wemhoff. His son, Theodore, is the fourth generation to work in the monument business. A native o r Decatur, he is a graduate of the Decatur Catholic school system. He also studied civil engineering at Purdue University extension in Fort Wayne. He was formerly an auditor with the department of the Navy in Washington, D. C. Four Points Wemhoff stated that he would wage a four-point campaign: 1. Water is Decatur’s number 1 problem, and an adequate water reserve, utilizing a reservoir, should be planned now. 2. Manufacturing should be encouraged to Decatur so that young people can be employed and prosper. "We have remained static too long, and need leadership that wta -bring absut the expansion ofour resources by using our manpower and retail know how. 3. “I will lead my party in such away as to keep the tax rate low, and to see if we cannot have a re-appraisement to lower assessments. |4. “If chosen to lead my party, I will give full-time to the office of mayor. I believe in cairying out present city ordinances, or removing them from the books. I believe that a committee of representative citizens of Decatur should be called to study and make recommendations for a better city.” Wife Teaches School Wemhoff is married to the former M. Agnes Kauffman, who .teaches the second grade at Lincoln school. They have three children, all married: James, of Lafayette; Theodore, Decatur; and Mrs. Dorothy Wagler, Bloomington, ni. An active member of the Knights of Columbus, Wemhoff is a member of St. Marys Catholic church. This is the second time he has presented his name as a candidate for mayor, having run in 1959 in the primary. Bertha McMichael Dies Last Evening - Mrs. Bertha B. McMichael, 72, a resident of St. Mary’s township, Decatur route 5, died at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been in failing health for some time and hospitalized for the past eight days. Born in Van Wert county, 0., Aug. 26, 1890, she was a daughter of James and Sarah Cramer-Maul-ler, and was married to Austin E. McMichael, March 18, 1915, to Van Wert. Her husband preceded her in death June 21, 1962. Mrs. McMichael was a member of Mt. Tabor Methodist church at Bobo, and the St. Mary’s Home Demonstration club. Surviving are two foster children, Harry McDermott of Decatur route 5, and Austin R. Krick of Piedmont, S. D., and one grandson, Harry Leo McDermott. Six brothers and sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be eonducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. A. C. Underwood officiating. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery at Van Wert. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Saturday until time of the services.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, March 15,1963.

Reapportionment Bill Is Vetoed By Gov. Welsh As Violating Constitution

-- ■ - - - TLk ' * ‘ Cgfw PRINCIPALS AT NEWS MEDIA QUIZ — Waiting their turns to testify before the House Judiciary subcommittee hearings on concentration of ownership of news media are, from left: Prof. S. Chesterfield Oppenheim, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Prof. Jesse W. Markham, Princeton, N. J.; Arthur B. Hanson, Washington attorney, and Stanford Smith, New York City, general manager, American Newspaper Publishers Association. Lenten Meditation „ iiilliM I (By Rev. A. C. Underwood, pastor, First Methodist Church) ‘■Our Scripture, Romans 7:18 — “For I know that mostly good dwells within me, that is my f lesh. I can will what is right but I can not do it.” Facing up to one’s shortcomings is not pleasant. Admitting one's failures is a real test. St. Paul, it is not too much to say, bared his soul in this verse. He felt himself to be a split person; schizo-phrenic is the technical term now. Like two persons inside his skin, pulled in two directions; always one self looking over the shoulder of the other self to accuse, to nag, to harp, to criticize. A divided man, a walking civil war. Paul has wirtten all this in the seventh chapter of Romans to emphasize one thing; something all of us know and often forget! The limitations of human resolutions. “I know what I ought to do; why don’t I do it?” he cries. St. Paul’s experience of defeat is not uncommon, too common in fact. But Paul doesn’t stop with confession. He not only admits our human situation! He goes on to triumphant affirmation. "Who will deliver me from this body dominated by sin?” Then he answers his own question, for himself and for us.” Thanks be to God thru Jesus Christ dur Lord.” In our human situation we can yet be healed and redeemed.

INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness and not so cold tonight. Saturday cloudy, occasional rain likely and not much temperature > change. Low tonight in the 30s north, 36 to 44 south. High Saturday 47 to 55 north, 54 to 62 south. Sunset today 6:52 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 6:56 a. m. Outoolk for Sunday: Cloudy with showers or thundershowers likely. Lows in the 30s. Highs mostly in the 40s. Guadalupe Cortez Dies Last Evening Mrs. Guadalupe Huerta Cortez, 74, of 834 North 12th street, died at 9:48 p. m. Thursday at the Adams county memorial hospital following a lengthy illness of complications. Mrs. Cortez was a member of Mexico, Dec. 1, 1888, a daughter of Alberto and Mercedes RamirezHuerta, and had lived in Decatur for the past 30 years. She was married to Toribio Cortez in 1928. Msr. Cortez was a member of St. Mark’s Catholic church and the Rosary society. Surviving in addition to her husband are two daughters, Mrs. Eliza Esperza of Decatur, and Mrs. Celia C. Cantu of Pontiac, Mich., and 13 grandchildren. Three children, Antonia, Rosario and Fidel, and two brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral rites will be held at 9:30 a. m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home after 3 »>.- m. Saturday. The rosary wBl be recited at 8 p. m. Sunday.

Fund-Raising Drive For Band Uniforms The recently - formed Decatur Band-Parents association has initiated a fund-raising drive as the first step toward its ultimate goal to purchase new uniforms for the members of the Decatur high school band. The association has begun mailing letters to all businesses, professional people, clubs, etc., asking for contributions •to establish a fund for the purchasing of the new uniforms. Money for the uniforms may not be allocated from the school budget, as tax money may not be used for this purpose, Mrs. Kenneth Singleton, president of the association, explained this morning. Students and parents will be working together to reach this goal, and any contributions will be received with gratitude, Mrs. Singleton said. Students Aid Drive Members of the band and their parents have already been able to start this fund by passing advertising for a local super market. “The high school members do not,” Mrs. Singleton stated, “want to ask for donations without trying to work for the cause themselves.” As a future project being planned by the organization, Tag Day for the Decatur high school band will be held early in May with the members of the band kt uniform, selling tags to everyone who has civic pride in the high school band. The association’s finance committee is composed of Charles Houk,, chairman, and Nelson Doty and Don Whitaker. Donations jfiay be mailed to Mrs. Singleton, 821 N. Second St., Decatur.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Gover-nor Welsh today vetoed an immediate reapportionment bill passed by the Republican-con-trolled Indiana General Assembly as part of a two-pronged program to stall off federal intervention in the state’s legislative redistricting issue. Welsh also vetoed a bill authorizing the appointment of special prosecutors to investigate crime and racketeering in counties where law enforcement appeared to have broken down. Either veto can be overridden to the legislature’s special session, to be resumed next Monday, by a simple constitutional majority to each the House and Senate. Action No Surprise Welsh’s veto of the reapportionment measure was not unexpected. His Democratic party leaders had expressed the hope he would do so because they felt some of the districts set up in the bill adjusting the seats for the 1965 session represented GOP “gerrymandering.” They also protested Lt. Gov. Richard O. Ristine’s ruling that the Senate had accepted a conference committee report on the bill, contending that a quorum was not present at the time a voice vote on the report was taken. In his veto message, Welsh said the reapportionment bill was “to gross violation of the Indiana Constitution, requiring apportionment on a population basis!” —"Thr"purpose"trY " ■WjayportiiHii ment is to provide equitable representation among the Citizens of Indiana. This bill does little or nothing to accomplish this end,” he said. The second part of the GOP program, a resolution to amend the Constitution’s sections on reapportionment, failed to pass to the regular session. Indiana has had no reapportionment since 1921, although the Constitution requires it every six years on a population basis. Os the special prosecutor bill he vetoed, Welsh said it contained “a concept foreign to our county system of government and fraught with many perils.” Means Not Justified “The offenses with which the act deals,” Welsh said in his veto message, “involve monstrous evils challenging government’s power to protect the people. The act is intended to meet this challenge by shoring up the local county forces of prosecution against alleged racketeers, gamblers, dope peddlers and corrupt public officials in counties where prosecution has failed. “However admirable the act’s ends, the means employed cannot be justified. Our supreme court is improperly enlisted to aid the prosecution and is given inquisitorial powers usually reserved to grand juries and prosecuting attorneys to our legal system.” The bill was believed aimed at corruption to Lake County where governmental scandals have resulted in prison terms for several former officials. • In his reapportionment bill veto message, Welsh said thelegislators have “one mor opportunity” in the special session “to enact a just and equitable reapportionment," “The leaders of both parties have indicated their intention to review the action of the regular session on this subject by placing the matter on the agenda of new legislation to be considered,” Welsh said. “Failure to reapportion must lead inevitably to intervention by the federal courts.” “I remain hopeful,” the governor said, that the members of the General Assembly will live up to their responsibility to achieve this most fundamental requisite of sovereign self-government.” Alfred Lehman Rites Sunday Afternoon Funeral rites for Alfred Lehman, who died suddenly Wednesday evening while on a business trip to Grinnell, la., will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the First Mennonite church to Berne. Burial" will be in MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home after 7 p. m. today.

Russia Appears To Be Removing Troops

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Russia appeared today to be keeping its promise to remove “several thousand” military personnel from Cuba by mid-March, but the great bulk of the Soviet forces remained. U.S. officials said almost 2,000 Soviet personnel had been pulled out during the past month, and a ship now loading appeared capable of carrying nearly 1,500 additional. They acknowledged this would barely meet the accepted idea of “several thousand.” American officials indicated some uncertainty as to whether the Russians leaving included any of the 5,000 men to four combat battalions. The United States estimated a month ago that there were 17,000 Soviet military personnel in Cuba. Stands By Declaration The United States, while welcoming the departures to date, still stood by President Kennedy’s declaration that the presence of any Soviet military personnel in the western hemisphere could not be tolerated as a “normal” condition. However, it was considered unlikely the State Department would press the issue immediately. Os- , W»tod to get a more

Pres. Kennedy To Costa Rica

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy flew to Palm Beach, Fla., today for a rest-and-work weekend in preparation for a Central American “little summit” conference in Costa Rica next week. Until early Monday, Kennedy will rest at the residence of C. Michael Paul. The President planned to divide his time between poolside relaxation and studying papers pertaining to his San Jose conference with the chief executives of Panama and five Central American republics. The presidential party will depart from Palm Beach at 7:45 a.m. EST Monday for San Jose where Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and key Democrats and Republicans from the House and Senate Foreign Affairs committees will emphasize U.S. support for Central American economic integration. —*■ Before leaving the White House today, the President arranged a meeting with Chairman Thomas E. Morgan, D-Pa., of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Morgan will be a member of the U.S. delegation in Costa Rica. Kennedy will fly back to the United States late Wednesday Rotary Club Visits Duo Boat Company The Decatur Rotary club visited the new facilities of the Duo Boat company Thursday evening during their regular weekly meeting. The plant tour was conducted by president Vic Porter and vice president Neil Hesher of Duo. Porter stated that Duo started manufacturing catamarans in 1958 in a building behind the fire station. Since that time the company has concentrated its production on the more conventional boats, limiting their boats to a price range under SI,OOO. Porter also said that the Duo has 125 dealers located primarily east of the Mississippi. Approximately 40% of the Decatur plant’s production will be sold within a radius of 900 miles of New York City. The remainder of the sales volume will be sold in fifteen states in the eastern part of the* country, according to Porter. Currently Duo has 40 employees on its payroll. If sales warrant an increase in production, the work force could be expanded to a twoshift basis.

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accurate idea of just what had come out. US. officials acknowledged that a key point would be whether the men being removed included the combat troops who have represented Russia’s on-the-spot ability to help Cuban Premier Fidel Castro to event of a rebellion. Assistant Secretary of State Edwin M. Martin said to testimony released Thursday that the United States was ready to send military help to any Latin American nation threatened by a Communist takeover if aid were requested. Censored Copy Released Martin’s statement was made before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee during its investigation of Cuba-directed subversion to the hemisphere. A censored copy of the testimony was released by Chairman Armistead Selden, D-Ala. Martin, the State Department’s specialist in Latin American affairs, said U.S. policy was to help any government that asked help under the Punta Del Este agreement of 1961 in meeting collectively the threat of Communist

night and report on his Central American mission at a televised news conference the following afternoon, March 21. Rev. Stauffer Dies At Tennessee Home Die Rev. Emmanuel Stauffer, 72, former resident of Fort Wayne, died Thursday at his home in Smithville, Tenn. He helped to rebuild Harvester Missionary church and several other churches while in Fort Wayne. Surviving are his wife, Marian; four children, all in Smithville; three brothers, John and Christian Stauffer of Fort Wayne, and the Rev. Joshua Stauffer of Owosso, Mich., and five sisters, Mrs. Hulda Steiner and Miss Christine Stauffer, both of Huntertown, Mrs. Vernon Riley and Mrs. William Zurcher, both of Monroe, and Mrs. Lester Sommer of Montpelier. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Smithville. Decatur Temperature Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 46 12 midnight .. 36 1 p.m 48 1 a.m 34 2 p.m 44 2 a.m. ... 34 3 p.m 44 3 a.m— 34 4 p.m 42 4 am. 32 6 p.m 40 6 a.m 32 6 p.m 40 6 a.m. 31 7 p.m 38 7 a.m 30 8 p.m 36 8 a.m 32 9 p.mr....... 36 B a.m. 34 10 p.m 36 10 a.m 42 11 p.m. 36 11 a.m 46 Precipitation Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 9.22 feet.

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