Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 66.

Kennedy, Six Central American Presidents Into Session On Cuba

Russian Planes In Passes At Carrier

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Four long-range Russian reconnaissance planes made nine passes over the huge aircraft carrier Constellation in the Pacific March 16. The Defense Department announced the episode Monday. The “snooping”—the third such case reported recently—took place 600 miles west of Midway Island. The carrier’s radar spotted the long-range Bear reconnaissance planes when they were more than 200 miles away. Jet interceptors from the Constellation carried out a “routine aerial intercept” about 100 miles from the ship. First In Pacific The incident was disclosed two days after the report that Russian planes penetrated U.S. air space over southwestern Alaska March 14. Before that. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara had announced that Russian reconnaissance planes flew over carriers of both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets in January and February.

Decafur Lions Hear Official Os Komets Colin Lister, business manager of the Fort Wayne Komets hockey team, currently leading the International league, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Lions club Monday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Lister, introduced by Ralph Smith, program chairman, stated that as the Komets are a winning team this season, the attendance figures are very gratifying to the team management, with about 6,400 paid admissions at least Sunday’s game at the coliseum. The speaker also pointed out that interest is not confined to Fort Wayne, as a spot check of license plates in the parking lot showed 45 per cent of the fans at that particular game were from out of Fort Wayne, and 20 per cent from out of state. Lister also pointed out that his organization sponsors a youth league for young hockey players, similar ao the Wildcat league in baseball. This league enrolls boys who are interested in playing hockey, coaches them and supervises their games. In this league, as in Wildcat baseball, every boy enrolled gets a chance to play in every game. March 30 and 31, the U. S. Midget hockey tourney, for boys 14 and 15, will be held in Fort Wayne, with teams form over most of the midwestern and eastern states. The speaker also described the puck used in hockey, which is of hard vulcanized rubber. The pucks are frozen before the game and kept in a bucket of ice during the game, as a warm puck Will not slide. Following his talk, Lister showed a film, narrated by Hilliard Gates, showing the various plays in hockey and also excerpts of several Komet games.

- Lenten Meditation (By Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon M. Schmitt, Pastor, St. Mary’s Catholic Church) “And when he (Christ) had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungry,’’ (Matt. 4-2) Why Lenten meditations? Why Lent at all? The word Lent is derived from tue anglo-saxon “lencten” meaning spring. It is a season of penance set apart each spring since the early days of Christianity, in memory of the forty days’ fast of Our Lord in the desert, as a means of personal sanctification for the individual Christian. It begins on Ash Wednesday, 6% weeks before Easter, and includes 40 days (not counting the Sundays) of self-denial and prayer, to atone for our own sins. Serious sin is recogrfized as spiritual death to the human soul; but the soul ran be revived by God’s grace, which is obtained by sincere repentence. “Prayer is good with fasting and alms, more than to lay up treasures of gold’* (Tob. 12-8) Just as the physical nature around us awakens to a new life in the spring-time, throws off the shroud of winter, and blossoms beautifully for Easter, so our souls can be rejuvenated during the Lenten season by the practice of penance, so that we can experience a spiritual rebirth at Easter with Him who said “I am the resurrection and the life.”

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The overflight of the Constellation was the first time the longrange Bears have surveyed navy ships in the Pacific. Other such flights were carried out by short-er-range planes nearer to land. The Bear has a range of perhaps 8,000 miles. The Constellation was en route from Pearl Harbor to Subic Bay in the Philippines at the time. Make Two Passes The Bears made two passes at 24,000 feet and seven below 3,000 feet. The 10 aircraft sent up from the Constellation escorted the Bears in their overflights. The Pentagon said the Constellation was in international waters and the Russian planes had a “legal right to be in the air over these waters.” On Feb. 22, the Bears exhibited their great range by flying over the carrier Forrestal southeast of the Azores. The flights must have meant 7,000 mile round-trips from the nearest Russian bases.

New Street Lights In Use Here Soon. The city's new street lights, on Monroe street and Mercer Ave., have all been erected and it is hoped that all will be in use within the next two or three weeks. Most of the lights on the south side of Monroe street have been wired and may possibly be on by the end of this week. Those on the north side and those on Mercer Ave. have not yet been wired, as weather has been hampering the Weikel Line Co. workmen, contractors on the job. Hie new lights have been erected on Monroe street, from Third to 13th Street, and on Mercer Ave., from Five Points south to the city limits. In addition to the weather conditions, numerous trees on both streets have hampered the wiring of the new lights. Some of the old lights on Monroe street have not been burning in the past few weeks. In addition to the work being done by the Weikel Co., the local Gas company has been working in that area. Some of the Indiana & Michigan lines have been severed, causing the shortage of lights in certain areas. It is hoped that the new lights on the south side of Monroe can be in use by the end of this week to save needless repairs on the old lights. , This is the second step in the city administration’s re-lighting program. Last fall new lights were erected in the downtown area, on Second and Monroe streets. Lawrence Kohne is chairman of the city council’s light committee.

SAN JOSE, costa Rica (url)— President Kenedy went into closed session with six Central American presidents today to thrash out differences over Cuba and find answers to the “harsh challenges” facing the Alliance for Progress. Promptly at 9:30 a.m. (10'30 a.m. EST), with escort sirens screaming, presidential limousines began drawing up in front of Costa Rica’s national theater for the meeting which is expected to end with a “declaration of San Jose." Kennedy, who captured the hearts of Costa Ricans on his arrival Monday, was to interrupt the day’s talks with a visit to the huge El Bosque housing project built with Alliance help to provide housing for 8,000 persons by next October. Before going in to today’s formal meeting of the heads of state. President Kennedy stopped briefly at the historic Cathedral of San Jose, where a special mass was being celebrated in honor of the feast of St. Joseph, for whom this capital is named. He did not enter the church, but greeted a large group of children of the parish who carried large white banners asking him to return again to Costa Rica, and “next time bring Jackie with you.” The small White House motorcade then proceeded into the city. It was a warm and sunny morning and the President rode in the back seat of his open touring car which was brought in especially from Washington. In Monday’s speeches opening the historic three-day conference, Kennedy said he hoped for progress here in his plan for vast economic development in Latin America. Though he said Monday that the Soviet Union, “through its Cuban puppets,” seeks to spread communism in Latin America, Kennedy was expected to resist a wish for an early meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS) to plan tougher and quicker action against Fidel Castro’s Cuba. In addition to Kennedy, presidents attending the conference represent Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama. The President set the U.S. Position on Cuba in his own opening day address in the ornate National Theater. “Wall Around Cuba” “I am hopeful,” he said, ‘‘that at this meeting we will again increase our capacity to prevent infiltration of Cuban agents, money and propaganda. “We will build a wall around Cuba — not a wall of mortar or brick or barbed wire, but a wall of dedicated and determined men to protect their own freedom and sovereignty.” With this tack, Kennedy reject(Continued on Page Eight)

, Local Lady's Brother • Dies At Fort Wayne ; Glen R. Johnson, 60, brother of . Mrs. Leia Britzenhofe of this city, , died Monday morning at his home, 314 West Douglas Ave., Fort Wayne. He had been in since Feb. 5. Born in Wells county, he had lived in Fort Wayne 35 years. He was employed as a machinist for 33 years at the International Harvester Co. until his illness — Mr. Johnson was a member of the First Baptist church, the Moose lodge, and American Legion post in Bluffton. He was a veteran of World War 11. Surviving in addition to the sister in this city are his wife, Gertrude; two daughters, Mrs. Harold Voght of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Earl Huss of Bluffton; a stepson. Tech. Sgt. James E. Kline, with the Air Force in Key West, Fla.; 10 grandchildren, and hjs mother, Mrs. Pearl Johnson of Bluffton. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Wednesday at the Chal-fant-Perry funeral home, the Rev.. Phillip C. Philbrook officiating. Burial will be in St. Paul’s Lutheran cemetery at Uniondale. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p. m. today.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 19, 1963.

Nuclear Testing By France Is Confirmed

United Press International ALGIERS (UPD—The Algerian government announced officially today that France exploded a nuclear device underground on Algerian territory in the Sahara Monday. Algeria lodged an “energetic protest” against the move, and reliable sources said as a result it would demand a revision of the Evian agreements with France which ended 7*4 years of war and gave this country its independence. The official Algerian announcement was made after the cabinet met in special session with Premier Ahmed Ben Bella to discuss the situation. It said that an emergency session of parliament has been called for Wednesday at which Ben Bella will make an “important declaration.” The sources said this will include a demand for immediate changes in the military clauses of

Drops Pfan To Impeach Welsh

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)-A Republican lawmaker today abandoned plans for trying to impeach Governor Welsh on grounds he ignored a constitutional mandate to fill a Senate death vacancy. Rep. Ralph Waltz, R-Hagers-town, said his impeachment resolution was drawn up and ready to introduce this morning in line with his plans revealed Monday when- a special session of the Indiana Legislature resumed. But Waltz said after talking with House Speaker Richard W. Guthrie this morning, he bowed to Guthrie's opinion thatlf ire introduced the resolution it would break an agreement of legislative leaders which limited the subject matter of measures offered in the special session. Guthrie told him, Waltz said, that introducing the resolution would open the floodgates for introduction of bills and resolutions on a wide variety of subject matter whereas the leaders agreed on a very limited agenda of topics. Reapportionment First Waltz’s decision came as priority treatment was given the subject of reapportionment, with efforts to settle this issue before a budget and tax program. Rep. Lowell H. Smith, R-New Castle, called a special House apportionment committee into session late this morning after the House met briefly in mid-morning and recessed until afternoon. Smith said he would present the rough draft of a reapportionment’ plan basing House proposed districts on population of townships as well as counties. Such a plan would be unique in Indiana legislative history with legislative districts following township lines rather than county lines as they now do. In the Senate, tempers flared when the two top party leaders— Republican Sen. Russell Bontrager and Democratic Sen. Marshall Kizer—exchanged remarks on and off the floor. Kizer told Bontrager “it’s obvious to me there’s going to be no agreement among the leadership so let’s fight it out on the floor.’’ ‘ Later, during a recess, Bontrager was heard to say angrily to Kizer: “I’ve had about all your pressure I can stand and I have a perfect right to give you some of my lip if I want to.” Reapportionment also was dis-' cussed informally among Senate members. Guthrie, Smith and House GOP majority leader Charles Edwards met briefly with Welsh in a conference on reapportionment late Monday. ~ Near-Agreement Seen Smith, chairman of a newly-

France continued possession of the nuclear testing sites in the Sahara for a specified time. France’s test shot, aimed at perfecting a trigger for the French hydrogen bomb, had been expected for several weeks. But Algeria warned France last Saturday that it could not tolerate nuclear tests on its territory. First news of the French nuclear explosion actually came Monday night in a communique issued by the cabinet of King Hassan of Morocco in Rabat. But until the Algerians confirmed it today, it was considered possible the Moroccans had been misinformed. A communique said France informed Algeria of the latest nuclear blast. The Evian accords were signed a year ago today, but the new tension over French nuclear testing marked observance of the anniversary. the agreements which gave

named seven-member House committee given the job of achieving an acceptable plan, said afterwards, “We went over some problems with the governor. I believe we are within sight of agreement.” President Pro Tern D. JRussell Bontrager,BJ_J?WlOß— called a meeting of the Senate legislative apportionment committee after adjournment Monday, and some of the House members joined in the session. Bontrager said “in the long run, reapportionment is more important than the budget.” — Bontrager and Democratic minority leader William Christy, DHammond, said the meeting did not come to any specific agreements on new House and Senate districting maps but found both parties anxious to get this longignored problem settled before the federal courts intervene. Named with Smith on the House committee to work out a reapportionment agreement with the Senate were three other Republicans —Reps. Keith Bulen, Indianapolis; Otis Bowen. Bremen, and Ray Marr, Jr.,. Columbus, and three Democrats — Reps. Charles W. Kirk, Jr., Floyd Knobs; William J. Brighton, Terre Haute, and Joseph G. Brufgenschmidt, Tell City. Welsh Silent On Censure Waltz’s disclosure that he had drawn up a resolution seeking to censure Welsh was a fitting finish to a day that saw a resumption of the adjective-hurling which featured the regular 61-day session. Welsh had no comment on the report and did not seem perturbed. (Continued on Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Rain ending and turning cooler tonight. Mostly cloudy and cooler Wednesday. Low tonight in the 30s north, 35 to 44 south. High Wednesday in the 40s north, 46 to 55 south. Sunset today 6:56 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:49 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair to partly cloudy and warmer. Lows 34 to 45. Highs 53 to 63. Decatur Temperature Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 44 12 midnight .. 38 1 p.m. 4 6 1 a.m 34 2 p.m. , 48 2a m 84 3 p.m. 49 3 a.m. 33 4 p.m 50 4 a.m. , 33 ■5 p.m 48 5 a.m. ...„ 34 6 p.m 46 6 a.m. .... 36 7 p.m. 46 7 a.m 38 8 p.m 44 8 a.m 39 9 p.m. ..- 42 9 a.m. ; 40 10 p.m. ........... 40 10 a.m 40 .11 p.m 40 11 a m 40 Precipitation Total for the 24 hour period ending at T a.m. today, .52 inches. TheS t. Mary’s river was at 8.26 feet.

Plane Hauling 84 Persons Is Landed Safely HILO, Hawaii (UPI)—A Navy Constellation carrying 84 persons, including 9 children,' - flew for nearly six hours over the Pacific today with two of its four engines disabled before landing safely with only 13 minutes of fuel remaining. The Military Air Transport Service aircraft touched down at Hilo Airport at 11:32 a.m. (EST) after turning back just short of the point of no return between Honolulu and San Francisco. Aboard were eight Navy crew members, 62 military' personnel (mostly Army) and 14 dependents, including five wives and nine children. The flight originated in Japan and had left Hickam Air Force Base near Honolulu, Monday night bound for Travel AFB north of San Francisco, 2,142 miles away. The piston-engine aircraft was flying at 11,000 feet in good weather at 5:45 a.m. EST when the right inboard engine “froze,” meaning its oil ran dry. Minutes later the right outboard engine began running wild. The aircraft commander, Lt. Cmdr. Robert L. Eklund, feathered both propellers. By then the aircraft was 1,000 miles out from Hickam, but the pilot chose to turn back to Hilo, which is 150 miles closer. Dropping to 3,500 feet, the Constellation was escorted by a Cl3O Hercules and C 124 Globemaster back to Hilo Airport on the big island of Hawaii. The planes carried para-medics who were prepared to jump with life rafts if it had been necessary. The Air Force said most of the passengers boarded at Tachikawa Air Force Base, Japan. Six got on in Hawaii. Bridge Contract Is Awarded By County A bridge contract was awarded to Baker & Schultz of Decatur by the Adams county commissioners in their regular weekly meeting Monday. The contract was for construction of a bridge over the Conrad ditch in Kirkland township, No. 61-Ar located one and one-half mileafcfouth of Magley. Baker & Schultz won the contract over two other bidders. The local company submitted a low bid of $3,997.68, while Yost Construction Co. submitted a bid of $4,552.68, and Co-State Construction Co. a bid of $5,262.00. A group of four men, Jess Edgell, Ray Miller, Doyle Rich and George Strickler, appeared at the meeting and requested blacktopping of county road 12, one mile west of the Valu-Mart on U. S. 27, just north of Monroe. Several homes are being built along the road and a petition had been submitted previously. No action was taken by the commissioners. Drainage Problem Roger Christener, a resident of Winchester St. extended, just north of the city limits, discussed a drainage problem at his home with the commissioners. Later in the day the commissioners examined the problem, and are planning some work to relieve the situation. The commissioners studied the

plat of Roe Acres third division, which includes eight lots, in Root township. They will give formal ecceptance if the development meets the specifications of Indiana & Michigan. Will Make Survey Joe Anderson and Louis Jacobs, representatives of the Limberlost Lake Assn* requested that the commissioners take over the maintenance of the road around Rainbow Lake. The commissioners decided to have Walter Gilliom make a survey of the road and if it meets certain regulations they will then accept the road as one of the county’s. A representative of the Houghton Elevator Co. met with the commissioners, and gave them an estimate of $13,500 for a hydraulic elevator. The price includes installation of the elevator, which would have a capacity of six to eight persons, eight persins. The commissioners, who had requested the estimate on a hydraulic elevator at their previous meeting, took no definite action on the matter. Arson Is Hinted In La Porte Plant Fire LA PORTE, Ind. (UPI)—A fire at the Industrial Pattern Works Monday caused only S6OO damage but authorities investigated the possibility of arson because it appeared inflammables had been splashed over work benches and set afire.

ai il TBR L... • ” 2 m 1 B Ji a I S Bui 0 E KENNEDY IN COSTA RICA —Costa Rica’s president, Francisco Orlich, welcomes President Kennedy to Costa Rica upon his arrival at San Jose airport.

Deception Os Public Alleged In Cuba Crisis

WASHINGTON (UPI) — News publishers, editors and broadcasters accused the government today of deceiving the American people during the Cuban crisis. They warned this imitates communist techniques. The news media representative told the House Government Information Subcommittee that the ' goverment has no right to lie to the public in any situation short of all-out war or unless national security is vitally involved. They said the Kennedy administration went beyond those limits in the Cuban crisis. A spokesman for the American Newspaper Publishes Association (ANPA) demanded “complete categorical repudiation” of the theory that the government can lie to the public. ANPA vice president Gene Robb, publisher of the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union and Knickerbocker News, said “telling the truth is the highest and most desirable expression of our government’s policy.” Robb was among 10 news media spokesmen who took part in a panel discussion after subcommittee Chairman John D. Moss, IlCalif., opened the hearing on federal “news management.” Moss called for guidelines which will make clear to the press and the public what to expect during periods of crisis. Robb said in a prepared statement that government news management has been “among our foremost views-with-alarm” since the Cuban crisis. There were these other prepared remarks: —Charles S. Rowe, editor of the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star and chairman of the Swickard Winner In Talent Search

David Swickard, Decatur high school senior, is one of six Indiana winners in the 1963 Indiana high school talent search, completed over the weekend at Indianapolis. Os the 11 national honors groups in the 26 finalists in the talent search conducted last week, only six winners were chosen, with Swickard among the six. The finalists exhibited their science projects at the junior scientists’ assembly at the Indiana Uniersity Medical Center at Indianapolis Friday and Saturday. They also were interviewed by a committee of scientist, who selected the top junior scientists. Swickard’s project was “Chromatographic analysis for total xanthophyll and carotene content." Hide were mure than 100 entrants from Indiana high schools in state contest. The Tri Kappa sorority of Indiana pays the cost of the search, including expenses of the finalists and their teachersponsors at the assembly. . Swickard’s sponsor is Harry D. Dailey, science instructor in the Decatur high school.

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Freedom of Iniormatlon Committee of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association charged that “in its effort to deceive actual or potential foreign adversaries, the government has also deceived the American peopL” —Howard W. Bell, vice president for planning and development for the National Association of Broadcasters, said “manipulation and control of news must not be tolerated in time of peace or in time of crisis — and deliberate falsehoods should not be tolerated at any time.” —Walter B. Potter, publisher of the Culpeper (Va.) Star-Exponent, and co-chairman of the Legislative Committee of the National Editorial Association, said “the grass roots press” which his group represents “most emphatically does not agree that ‘news is part of the overall weaponry’ of the government.” Rowe and several of the other panel members criticized the “lie-if-necessary” concept in a nuclear crisis Which was raised last December by Arthur Sylvester, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. In accusing the government of “deception of the American people” during the Cuban crisis, Rowe raised two points. In each case, he said, the government could simply have said “no comment” instead of: —“denying on Oct. 19 and 20, 1962, that there were offensive weapons in Cuba, when in fact the government at that time had hard evidence that such weapons were present.” —Reporting a scheduled amphibious exercise had been postponed because of a hurricane when actually "the ships were needed in the blockade and in a possible landing.” “If we should accept a premise that the government has a right to lie to the American people under one set of circumstances, there is -a serious danger that this repugnant philosophy will be extended to more and more circumstances and we will find ourselves being lied to with increasing frequency,’’ Rowe said. “In the battle of democracy vs totalitarianism, let us not imitate the tactics of our adversaries. Let our weapon be the truth, not the lie.” (Continued on Ff.ge Six) w 20 Words—3 consecutive days, $2. See page 5.