Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI, NO. 70.

President Warns Nation Os Recession Danger If Tax Cut Is Not Approved

Salinger Strikes Back At Criticism

WASHINGTON (UPI) — White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, striking back at critics of the administration’s information policy, has accused unspecified editors of publishing false or bias stories amounting to “news management in its purest form.” For the most part the news “is being managed fairly by the news organizations,” Salinger told the Women’s National Press Club. But he said there had been many lapses recently. Salinger, a former night city editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, suggested a study to determine “whether news is being ‘managed’ in the public interest” by the pressReplies To Editors The statements were in reply to charges by a group of editors, publishers and broadcasters who told a House subcommittee Tuesday that the administration lied to the press during the Cuban crisis. The chairman of that subcommittee, John E. Moss, said he had no doubt that some editors “take great liberties” with the news. But he said this was not within the scope of his information subcommittee, nor any other congressional committee. Salinger said that “we in government are neither stupid enough to believe we can fool you or clever enough to do it if we wanted to.” “We do not want to nor win we deceive the American people. We hope that you, as journalists, will uphold your vital function in the role of telling the American people the facts.” Government Didn’t Lie Salinger said the government did not lie to the public. “The activities in Washington and around the world are too closely covered by the press to make this possible,” he said, “even should an administration have such a desire —and I assure you that has not been and never will be the policy of this administration.” He said his denial applied to even the worst phase of the Cuban crisis. “We did not lie to the American people,” Salinger said with respect to the Cuban crisis. “We did not deprive the American people of any information except that which, for the highest national security, had to be withheld from our adversaries.” INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight Sunday mostly sunny and mild. Low tonight 35 to 40. High Sunday 63 to 73. Outlook far Monday: Partly cloudy to cloudy with scattered showers. Cooler north.

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Cuba Reports Three Rebel Groups Slain HAVANA, Cuba (UPI) — Government armed forces were reported today to have wiped out three groups of anti-Castro rebels in Matanzas Province which lies to the;east of Havana. Morning ' newspapers here reported that “units of the Cuban armed forces found, encircled and annihilated three counter-revolu-tionary bands in Matanzas province Friday.” The newspapers said one of the “counter-revolutionary bands was led by Jpan Jose Catala Coste, nicknamed “Pichi.” They said Catala Coste, reported among those killed, had been named by the United States Central Intelligence Agency as chief of the “counter-revolutionary forces” in Matanzas. The word “counter-revolution-ary” is used for opponents of Premier Fidel Castro’s regime. The news dispatches said Catala Costa’s band was the one which killed two children, 10 and 13 years old, and gravely wounded their mother and two sisters near the village of Bolondron in Matanzas on Jan. 25. Also caught in the raids, carried out by the armed forces in cooperation with the state security system, the dispatches said, were Luis Leon, alias “Leoncito,” and Eulogio Garcia Mirabal, alias "Roco,” alleged leaders of the two other anti-Castro bands. The government said the wiping out of the three bands marked a “hard blow against the subversive plans of Yankee imperialism.” Earlier, a Cuban refugee who arrived in Miami, Fla., from Havana Friday said anti-Castro rebels had ambushed a militia unit in Las Villas Province last week and killed 130 men. The rebels lost 36 men in the engagement which occurred March 12 in the city of Sancti Spiritu, said the refugee, who declined to permit use of his name The government losses were roughly four men for every antiCommunist guerrilla killed, he said. He arrived here with 95 other Cuban-Americans on a Pan American DC6B which had carried 12,000 pounds of ransom supplies to Havana. Reports of increasing rebel strength and activity were confirmed by other refugees in the group.

CHICAGO (UPI) — President Kennedy warned today that the nation may face 10 years of recession and chronic economic woes unless Congress passes his $lO billion tax cut this year. This was by far his most somber appraisal of what might happen to the American economy if Congress fails to give him the tax cut and other legislative tools with which to combat unemployment and provide work “for the tidal wave of men and women now flooding our labor market.” His stern economic prospectus —also, a major pressure move in behalf of his legislative program —highlighted a whirlwind presidential visit to Chicago. His announced purpose in coming here was to dedicate the vast O’Hare International Airport. There was a brief airport speech, but the President reserved his high voltage talk for a civic lunch which followed the O’Hare ceremonies. Praises Airfield In his prepared airport speech, the President praised the field, which has become the most active in the country with airline arrivals or landings on an average of every 43 seconds. His topic in the prepared lunch speech was “the tide of manpower,” reasons for the burgeoning American labor supply and what, in his opinion, had to be done about it ranidly to avoid dire economic i emits. Calling “jobs for the sixties” the “number one domestic concern,” the Chief Executive said if the rising tide of available manpower “continues to flood our labor markets with pools of idle men, then, I must warn you, this nation faces a decade of chronic trouble and recession—characterized by the economic waste and the human tragedy of unemployment, by higher welfare payments and weaker consumer markets, by recurrent problems of crime and delinquency and unstable labor relations.” Job Issne Large He thought the issue of jobs loomed as largely today as it did durihg the nation’s worst depression of the 19305. “This administration intends to press ahead with its efforts for government economy,” he said, “but we must also expand the private economy to find jobs for all who are willing” “No single magic solution, will solve all of our manpower problems,” he said, in getting to the urgency of his tax plan. Kennedy said $lO billion in tax savings placed in the hands of consumers and investors would be “multiplied many times in new markets, new equipment, new jobs, new payrolls and then still more consumption and investment.” Evelyn Gudakunst Dies Last Evening Mrs. Evelyn Gudakunst, 48, wife of Ervin Gudakunst, of near Hoagland, died at 6:30 o’clock Friday evening at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where she had been a patient two weeks. She was the owner and operator of Evelyn’s Beauty shop. Born at Ossian June 8, 1914, she was a daughter of Alva R. and Etherl Roberts-Melching, and was married to Ervin Gudakunst Sept. 6. 1941 at Plymouth. Mrs. Gudakunst was a member of the Hoagland Methodist church and taught in its Sunday school. Surviving are her husband; her mother, Mrs. Ethel Chandler of Fort Wayne; two sons, Charles at home, and Howard, serving with the U. S. Army in Turkey; a daughter. Miss Rita, at home, and two brothers, Robert A. Melching of Ossian route 1. and Dr. William A. Melching of El Paso, Tex. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Hoagland Methodist church, the Rev. Richard P. Cesler officating. Burial will be in Oak Lawn cemetery at Ossian. Friends may call at the Elzey funeral home in Ossian after 7 pin. today. The body will lie in state at the church from 1 p.m. Monday until time of the services.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 23,1963.

; Speed Negotiations ) In New York Strike

’ NEW YORK (UPI) — Negotia- ’ tions permitting eight shut down , newspapers to return to the stands ’ Monday or Tuesday were expected to be completed today. The 106-day-old dispute came a 1 step closer to settlement when Local 1 of the Paper Handlers ’ and Sheet Straighteners Union came to terms early today with ’ publishers. All necessary negotiations to return the papers early next week 1 could be completed today, in par- ■ leys with the striking photoengrav- ! ers and the pressmen, a nonstriking union. Both met with publishers until early today, then recessed until 1 p.m. EST. Mayor Robert F. Wagner pledged to tie up loose ends in the ! dispute today. “It is our sincere ■ hope that we can have the newspapers back on the stands by 1 very early in the beginning of ■ next week,” he said. ! “The only stumbling block” in ■ negotiations with the photoengravI Hugo Merkle Dies After Long Illness Hugo H. (Dutch) Merkle, 53, of 506 East Crawford, Van Wert, 0., died at 8:35 p.m. Friday at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne following an illness of two years. He was born in Willshire township Nov. 3, 1909, a son of Charles and Clara Schumm-Merkle, and had lived in Van Wert for the past 10 years. He was employed as a cabinet maker. Mr. Merkle was a member of the Emmanuel Lutheran church in Van Wert. He served in the Seabees during World War 11. Surviving are his second wife, the former Mrs. Mvrtle Custer: his father, Charles Merkle of Willshire township; three daughters, | Mrs. Mary Ann Salway of Ohio i City route 1, Mrs. Norma Kelier of Columbus, and Miss Martha Merkle of Van Wert: six stepchildren, Gerald, Edmond, Doyt and Glenn Custer, all of Van Wert, Forest Custer of Indiananolis, and Miss Agnes Custer of Van Wert: I six grandchildren; 10 step-grand- | children; eight step-great-grand-children, and five sisters, Mrs. Velma Etzler. Mrs. Rosie Baker, Mrs. Leah Merkle and Mrs. Louise Peters, all of Willshire township, and Mrs. Edna Hofmann of Pleas- 1 ant township, Van Wert county. Funeral services will be held at Cowan & Sons funeral home in Van Wert, the Rev. C. H. Matthias officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery at Van Wert. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Sunday. Mild, Sunny Weekend Predicted In State By United Press International The rare prospect of a mild, suny weekend dawned on Indiana today. If the forecasts are fulfilled, Hoosiers couldn’t ask for nicer weather than that predicted for today and Sunday. First of all, fair skies were scheduled to dominate the picture throughout the period. Secondly, temperatures will range from 53 to 66 today and advance to a range of 63 to 75 SundayThe weather was bound to attract many thousands of winterweary residents to the highways and byways ‘for their first 1963 weekend jaunts, picnics and other forms of outdoor activity. NOON EDITION

ers,- according to that union’s president, is the issue of a work week reduction to 35 hours. A formidable obstacle looms jSunday, however, when the printers meet to reconsider a contract proposal they rejected by a slim 64 votes last Sunday. Bertram Powers, president of •Printer’s Local 6, has recommended that the membership accept the pact this time. Elmer Brown, international president of the union, has threatened withdrawal of strike benefits if the local does not end the dispute. This was the situation of the other unions as the blackout entered its 16th week: —Mailers and mail deliverers: Both unions hold ratification meetings Sunday on contract offers. Both are expected to approve their pacts. —Machinists and electricians: Both are without contracts, but have agreed to go back to work if the other unions settle; they can come to terms later. b Newspaper, guild stereo'typers': Both have ratified new contracts with the publishers. The paper handlers will not hold a ratification meeting on their pact until a week from Sunday, but Wagner said that if the other unions settled they would go back to work early this week. John B. Stulls Is Candidate For Judge ' J*- _ ' W ■ John B. Stolts John B. Stults, former Decatur mayor, announced this morning that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for city court judge, subject to the May 7 primary election. Judge Stults was appointed by Gov. Matthew E. Welsh as city court judge Jan. 18, 1961, to fill the unexpired term of Richard J. ■Sullivan, who was elected in the 1959 election. The unexpired term expires Dec. 31 of this year. Born in Decatur, Judge Stults has resided in this city his entire life, and attended Decatur elementary schools here before graduating from Decatur high school in 1915. The former Decatur mayor has been active in civic life of both Decatur and Adams county. He served six years on the board of trustees of the Adams county memorial hospital, and served five years as president of the board. Judge Stults was elected mayor in 1943, and served in that position for a five-year term, from 1944 to 1948. During that time he was judge of the mayor’s court, which qualifies him to serve as city court judge. He operated Ms own grocery and meat market on Second St. for more than 20 years. The city court judge is married to the former Alma Brown, and they reside in their own home at 305 Adams St.

Clarence Ziner Is Council Candidate r Clarence Ziner Clarence P. Ziner, owner of the Culligan Water Conditioning sales and service, Third and Madison streets, announced this morning that he will be a candidate for city councilman from the first district, subject to the Republican primary election May 7. Ziner filed his candidacy in the county clerk’s office this morning for the city council post. Democrat Carl Gerber is presently serving as city councilman from the first district. Quite active in civic affairs, Ziner has served as president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce; as a director of the Chamber of Commerce; as president of the Northeastern Indiana soft water association; and as secretary of the same association. Rotary President He is a past president of the Decatur Rotary club and is also past district governor of district 654, covering the northern one-third of Indiana, of the Rotary. He also served as a director of the Decatur Rotary club, and as group representative of district 654. chafrmTn* oT?s*Adams Boy Scouts, and as an executive board member of the Anthony Wayne Scout council. Ziner was a member of the board of directors of the American Red Cross. Ziner is now serving as chairman of the good roads committee for the Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Indiana motor truck association and the international soft water association. Zoning Chairman He was one of a group that gathered plans and made preparations for the city planning commission and the zoning ordinance two years before its adoption, and served as chairman of the board of zoning appeals through its inception in 1949 until 1957. The well-known local man also served as county chairman of the scrap rubber drive for this county under the civilian defense program during World War 11. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church and served as trustee, deacon and two terms as elder, and at present is president of the men’s council. He is also a member of the Masonic lodge of Decatur, the Fori Wayne Scottish Rite, the Mispah Shrine in Fort Wayne, and the Elks lodge in Decatur. Ziner and his wife, Miriam, reside in their own home at 416 W. Adams St. Decatur Temperature Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 44 12 midnight .. 35 1 p.m. ...... 44 1 a.m 34 2 p.m 46 2 a.m 34 ? P.m , 46 3a m 34 ’ P-n> —46 4 a.m 34 5 P-m 44 5 a.m 34 6 p.m _42 6 a.m 84 IPm 40 7a m 34 8 p.m. 40 8 a.m 40 » P-m 38 9 a.m 46 10 p.m 35 11 p.m 35 PreHpltarton Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 Inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 7.81 feet.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. W. R. Watson, pastor, Church of the Nazarene) Then said Jesus unto his disciples, ‘lf any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me /’—Matthew 16:24 The cross of Calvary casts a big shadow! The wood rotted away long ago; its rugged form no longer intercepts *the sun’s rays. But it’s shadow remains! And it reaches around the world. Its outstretched arms beckon all to the place of forgiveness. “Whosoever will, let him come ... !” Thank God! But, wait! What’s this business about “denying” yourself and “taking up your cross” to foltow Him? Strikes hard at our “easy come, easy gb” philosophy of religion, doesn’t it? You see, you not only start to heaven byway of Calvary, but you continue there by the Calvary route. And that means you carry a cross! You don’t just sit on a cushioned church pew and glibly sing: “Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone’’; you get out on the hectic highway of life and take a firm grip on your splintery cross and heft it to your shoulders! Nor do you merely engage in phOny acts at pious but meaningless religious exercises for a few Weeks before Easter; you unashamedly take your stand year ’round for the One who died for you! You live as He would have you live! You literally deny self” to serve Christ. A big shadow, isn’t it? And it touches you!

Assembly Is At Stalemate

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—A clash of pesonal and political differences which halted efforts to produce a tax program in the Indiana Senate late Friday was replaced today by a familiar device for legislative progress — the conference committee. The four-man committee, headed by Sen. Charles M. Maddox, R-Otterbein, will discuss possible changes in the two budget bills, now totaling $1,434 billion. They will be advised by an auxiliary committee composed of eight lawmakers. However, only Maddox, Sen. Robert O’Bannon, D-Corydon, and Reps. John Coppes, R-Nappanee, and Richard Bodine, D-Mishawa-ka, will have a vote on what the budget conference committee will recommend to the House and Senate. Maddox said no final decisions will be made today. The committee is hampered ,by the fact that although it has a budget which requires new taxes, it has no tax program. The Senate set itself Friday to produce such a bill and was part-way to success when a new outbreak of conflict developed in the chamber. Playground Fight To spectators, the scene looked and sounded like a playground fight between two gang leaders. , President Pro Tern D. Russell Bontrager, R-Elkhart, and Democratic floor leader Sen. Marshall Kizer, D-Plymouth, exchanged some extremely uncomplimentary remarks and shook otf some of their own party members who appeared to be taking the role of peacemaker. Actually, the exchange, which preceded the afternoon session, was further indication of deep and fundamental differences that exist in the legislature and in the entire Hoosier state on not only the subject of taxation but also of reapportionment. , w field marshal tor the Republicans, Is opposed to . any drastic change in the present gross income tax system and to enactment of any tax which might drive industry out of the state. He also is fighting for a moderate reapportionment plan, giving consideration to geography but is blocked by quite a few Democrats and some of his own party’s met-

Three Dead In San Jose Blast

SAN JOSE, Calif. (UPI) — The J.C. Penney building, overlooking San Jose’s major intersection, was a hollow shell today after a violent boiler explosion which claimed three lives, left 10 critically hurt and injured 63 others. Police and firemen, searching through the rubble that was once the building’s basement, warned that “more bodies may still turn up.” The blast, which occurred at 4:51 p.m. Friday in a sub-base-ment, tore upward through the Thrifty Drug Store and Penney’s Department Store, co-tenants of the four story building at First and Santa Clara Sts. Window Glass Shattered Die interior of the building was wrecked. Every window in every floor shattered, raining glass on the packed street and sidewalk below. The explosion threw store window mannikins out into the street, many of them lying in puddles of shattered glass in a bizarre footnote to the tragedy. The dead were identified as Vernon P. Hinton, 41, San Jose; Mrs. Marie Straight, 55, of suburban Campbell, a clerk in Penney’s basement; and Mrs. Florence Caballero, 45, of San Jose, a shop-

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ropolitan legislators who want th® federal courts to reapportion the state. The spark which ignited the outbreak was a question « whether a second tax bill would be called down as a vehicle for a 4 per cent adjusted gross income plan prepared by Kizer. The plan calls for exemptions of $1,500 per single person plus SSOO per dependent rather than the present SI,OOO flat exemption and 1% per cent rate for individuals. A bill calling for a one-third increase in the present gross income tax was called on second reading and had survived three amendment efforts when Ristine asked if there were any more amendments. None was offered and Bontrager called for suspension of rules to advance the bill to final reading. Kizer called for its defeat Bontrager then charged, when the senators returned from lunch, that Kizer had broken an agreement to advance the tax bill. A huddle of helpful Democrats said there was a misunderstanding but Bontrager snapped, “If this were the first misunderstanding since Jan. 10, it would be different. He’s broken his last agreement with me. We’ll be here until the ’snow flies. Kizer accused Bontrager of “impugning his motives” and said “I’m not going to speak to you again.” When Democratic minority caucus chairman William Christy, D-Hammond, attempted to serve as peacemaker, Kizer said to him: “Go ahead and take the leadership. That’s what you’ve been trying to do.” Lt. Gov. Richard Ristine finally ended the exchanges by calling for adjournment until Monday but even that action required a roll call. The vote was 24-24 to adjourn which rneaat ljiytine had to cart the deciding ballot. Thus the legislature wOI return to the 14th day of its special session Monday afternoon with an incompleted tax program facing it. The bill as it stands would produce about $l5O million in additional revenue whereas the budget before the conference committee wnt to work on it would require $227 million.

per in Thrifty’s whose body was pulled from the wreckage five hours later. An eyewitness said the blast tore a hole 20 feet wide in the middle of the Thrifty Drug’s main floor, and shattered the ceiling for 50 feet in all directions. In the adjacent Penney’s store, the concussion blew down a 30 foot section of a wall. Most of the merchandise in both stores was ruined, and the basement was flooded by water from broken mains. Thrown Against Wall Kenneth Ditrich, relief manager of the Thrifty store, said he was thrown five faet against a wall by the force of the blast. He estimated that there were 50 people shopping in Thrifty’s at the time. But he said that had the explosion occurred a half hour later, his store would have been full of persons eating at the counter, part of which was demolished. Immediately after the blast, all available ambulances from throughout Santa Clara County were rushed to the scene. The fire department sent out three alarms, although this was mostly a precautionary measure since there was practically no fire from the blast. All off-duty San Jose policemen were recalled to duty and the area was barricaded for one block in all directions. This sent rushhour commute traffic at a snail’s pace through side alleys. A 20 Words—3 consecutive days, $2. See page 5.