Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1963 — Page 6

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B EVELYN EREKSON, left, and Kenneth Thorne!! are shown above during a recent rehearsal sor 1 The Music Man” production, sponsored by the Decatur Jaycees. Mrs Erekson and her husband, Reid, a e directors for the show, while Thornell is the chorus director. —(Photo by Mac Lean _

First Production Os "Music Man" Friday

Rehearsals will be held each night this week as the cast and company of “The Music Man” begin final preparations for the show, to be presented Friday and Saturday. The rehearsals have been held throughout the month of March for the cast of 65 characters and company of nearly 100 associated with the production. The production, sponsored by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce through Music Theatre International, will be presented at 7:30 p. m. each evening. The doors will open at 6:30 p. m., and tickets, if any remain, will go on sale at that time. “The Music Man” is a musical comedy that takes place in River City, lowa, in 1912, and the show’s opening scene, featuring eignt Jaycees, explains the situation. Band Salesman” Prof. Harold Hill, portrayed by Jerry Lobsiger of Decatur, is a' fast talking confidence man who poses as a salesman, a band salesman. However, when he gives lowa a try, a turn of events pre- 1

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i sents a hilarious comedy and a I happy ending. Kenneth Thornell, music instruc- , tor at Pleasant Mills high school, ■ is the chorus director for the show. Thornell, who resides in Van ' Wert with his wife, Pat, and their ■ two daughters, is a native of Con- . voy, 0., and taught at the Bud Creek school in Paulding Co., 0., and Wren, before taking his present position at Pleasant Mills. A graduate of Huntington College, with a B.A. degree, Tharnell has taken part in many high school and college productions and has directed numerous plays and musicals. Graduate Work He also attended Indiana University and did graduate work at Bowling Green University, and previously did instrumental work with a Lima, 0., radio station. Tickets for the show have been ‘selling rapidly”ancT all reserved'' section seats have been sold. General admission and children’s tickets are still on sale, however, and may be purchased from any member of the Junior Chamber of Com--1 merce.

Karl Rolvaag Finally Wins In Minnesota ST PAUL, Minn. (UPD—Minnesota has a new governor and a big problem today. The incoming governor is Democrat Karl Rolvaag. The big problem is how much he will un-do of outgoing Republican Gov. Elmer L. Andersen’s last two months in office. Rolvaag, four tedious months after the polls closed, finally won the governor’s chair Saturday when Andersen chose to waive his last possible chance to hold the seat. Rolvaag immediately was faced with the problem of whether to draft a new budget program and attempt to make a whole slate of new appointments to state jobs. State law provides that a governor shall continue to serve until his successor qualifies and is sworn in. So, during the long official canvass, recount and various court trials, Andersen continued to act as governor. - The legislature was in session, so Andersen submitted a budget

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Takeoff For Moon To Be Breathtaking

By ALVIN B. WEBB JR. United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL < UPD—The time is early morning. On a towering platform stand three men, their silvery suits sparkling in the chill glow of brilliant spotlights. Ahead of them is a metal walkway. “T-minus-240 minutes and counting!” the stark monotone voice from the countdown box never seems to change, no matter what the day or the occasion. The figures on the platform move. The walkway is 68 feet long. For the three men now striding across, it becomes that "longest walk” when the mind fills with thoughts titanic and trivial, rolling one upon another. Simply add the eerie background music, and the entire scene would seem like something out of an awesome science fiction movie. The difference is that this is science fact—or it will be, hopefully, in' another five years or so. The three men will be astronauts and their goal will be to land on the moon. This is how that epic flight will start- (There could be minor variations, such as a midday launching. Most people here prefer to think it would take place at night.) Breathtaking Scene It is easy to predict the scene will be breathtaking. The 68-foot walkway will lead into the top of the Saturn-5 towering more than 300 feet above the ground—a rocket so tall that four Atlas missiles stacked one upon the other could not reach its top. The monstrous Saturn-5 is the very symbol of the man-to-the-

proposal and sent over a large number of appointments for confirmation. Neither house has taken final action on Andersen’s program. At the start of the session in January, Andersen told the legislature Minnesota could enjoy slOl million in new state spending for the next two years without increasing taxes. He said a more vigorous economy and Minnesota’s share of the proposed federal tax cut would pay for the increased spending. However, Rolvaag indicated Andersen didn’t propose enough spending in education and welfare, and if more revenue is needed In these areas, it should be suggested to the legislature. While workmen carted away Andersen’s personal papers and mementos of two years in office, Rolvaag worked on an inaugural message which he hopes to present to the legislature Tuesday or Wednesday.

Rolvaag also said he may present several other messages to the legislature. He also sought a judge to administer the historic oath of office and officially end Minnesota’s longest, bitterest election on record. Rolvaag thus won Minnesota s first, four year gubernatorial term, giving the Democrats both U.S. senators and the governor in the traditional Republican Gopher'state; —

New Specialist Air Force Program The Air Force has initiated a specialist program to procure from civilian sources apprentice machinists, as by-pass specialists. This program will be initiated April 1, and will remain in effect until September 30. The maximum number of individuals who may be enlisted under this program is 132 for this entire area, which covers three states, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, according to Sgt. Bert Crosby, local Air Force representative. Applicants for enlistment under this program must possess the following qualifications: a. An AQE mechanical aptitude score of 40 or higher. b. Have general knowledge of the principles, procedures and techniques of machining and hand working various types of ferrous metals, and non-ferrous metals and materials used in fabrication and modification of mechanical parts. Knowledge may be as a result of training received in a technical high school, vocational or trade school, technical institute or through apprentice training in industry. To provide an enlistment incentive for this program, qualified applicants are authorized to be enlisted and receive tile first stripe or promotion immedaitely upon enlistment, with the second stripe or promotion authorized immediately upon completion of basic military training. This immediate promotion upon enlistment is a decided advantage and credits a young man with the training he has received through his schooling. Young men interested in this program are urged to contact Sgt. Crosby, at the selective service office in on Mondays, as soon as possible, as this is a limited program. If you have something to aeU or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

moon project. There is nothing small about Project Apollo. There is the cost —at least S2O billion. About 10 times the cost of the World War II crash program to build the first atomic bomb. There is the manpower that the federal space agency’s Rocco Petrone, one of the sharpest men in the business, said would involve “the most extensive concentration of the nation’s scientific and technical talent ever devoted to a single undertaking.” And there is the gigantic dream itself now beginning to take on reality amid the swamps and sands and scrub brush on the north and east edges of Cape Canaveral — the launching facilities for the moonflights. Everything A Superlative Nearly everything will be figuratively and physically a superlative. Petrone, in one of the most detailed outlines ever presented of the Apollo launch operations plan, describes some of the more immense: The vertical assembly building, where the Saturn-5 will be put together, will rise 524 feet, far and away the tallest building in Florida if not in the southern United States. —An umbilical tower, 350 feet tall, for servicing the rocket and Apollo capsule will make earlier towers look like matchsticks. —A crawler - transporter weighing 5’4 million pounds and driven by two diesel generators providing 5,600 horsepower will carry the entire rocket from the assembly building to the firing area at a top speed of one mile per hour. When the astronauts reach the end of that walkway, they will step aboard the most powerful piece of space machinery ever built. It will be filled with liquid oxygen and hydrogen, high-grade kerosene and nitrogen tetroxide—all explosive. Short Time Away The Saturn-5 will leave the ground with about 5.4 million pounds of fuel aboard —enough to blow a good-sized hole in Cape Canaveral or anywhere else. The unsung part of America’s program to put men on the moon is the part that will stay right here on the ground. The engineering that must go into it puts the Egyptian pyramids, Hoover Dam, and earlier “marvels” in the tni-ker-toy class. Petrone, in something of an understatement, calls it “an extremely challenging technical program compressed into a specified time limit.” . J The time limit is about five years, and if that seems like a long time, just recall how much 1 an impossibility those comparatively simple manned orbital flights of today seemed in 1958— five years ago- Things change fast. State Police Head Resigns Position INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana State Police Supt. John J. Barton today asked Governor Welsh to release him from that position so he may run for mayor of Indianapolis. Welsh “reluctantly” agreed, backed the career law enforcement officer in his political bid, ; and predicted his nomination and ’ election. Barton announced his decision to seek the Democratic nomination . for mayor of the state capital and ' Indiana’s largest city in a news ‘ conference. At the same time, ' Welsh issued a statement of sup- ’ port ’ "Col. Barton has requested me ’ to release him from his assign- ’ ment as the state’s chief law enforcement officer so that he might seek election as mayor of Indian- ■ apolis,” Welsh said in a prepared statement. “I have reluctantly agreed to release him.” [ “I am sure," the statement 1 said, “that Col. Barton’s fine adl ministrative ability and police ex- ; perience will be used effectively 1 for the benefit of the citizens of i his home community. He has served his state well for many years. He will serve Indianapolis i equally well in the years ahead.” I There was no indication as to whom Welsh might pick to suci ceed Barton. Barton was elevated from exec- ■ utive officer of the state police I force when Welsh took office in 1961.

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THE NORTH AMERICAN COMBINE CENTER of Massey-Ferguson Limited, Toronto, Canada, was visited March 21 and 22 by some 250 farmers and their dealers from the states of Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio. Pictured here is the group that arrived by charter Trans Canada Airline from Indianapolis, Ind. Sponsored by local Massey-Ferguson dealers, like Dierkes Implement, the group received an allexpense trip to Toronto and to world-famous Niagara Falls. --— -

Typhoid Fever Is Spreading In Resort

GENEVA (UPD — The tinkling of sleigh bells does nothing to still the fear in the ski resort of Ze-matt, now haunted by the threat of spreading typhoid fever. Even the bells themselves are heard less oftenFewer and fewer people appear on the streets each day. This is giving the village, with its smart hotels, decorated shops and festive eating houses, something of the air of a deserted Hollywood movie set. Very few guests range the echoing corridors of large hotels which are operating with abso-lute-minimum staffs. The dining rooms are almost empty and guests beds go unmade until late " Alive At Night Only at night does the village come alive, when the few undaunted skiiers dance and drink. This appears to be a forced gaiety, as the faces reading the skimpy medical bulletins become more serious each morning. Several shops have closed “for reasons beyond our control.” At first many tourists—particularly the young — did not understand the seriousness of the situation because of the lack of restrictions on people coming into the village, which is cut off from the world by towering mountains except for one small railroad. < Local authorities appeared not to understand either, apparently confusing early typhoid fever cases with victims of an influenza epidemic also raging at the time. Many foreign visitors told this correspondent they believed the authorities tried to obscure the situation to lull tourists into a sense of false security—thus cutting the already severe financial loss to the hotel industry from which Zermatt earns its living. Demand Investigation Local authorities indignantly deny this charge. They say they took all precautions as soon as it became necessary. The local medical association charged Sunday night, however, that “insufficient and inadequate” action by authorities aggravated Jerome W. Lehman Completes Exercise VICENZA, Italy (AHTNC) — Army PFC Jerome W. Lehman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewellyn A Lehman, Route I, Berne, Ind., took part in King Neptune 111, a ten day field training exercise, with other members of the Southern European task force (SETAF) near Vicenza, Italy. The maneuver ended March 17, SETAF’s mission is to provide missile support for NATO’s Allied Land Forces, Southern Europe. Italian Army elements committed to NOTA also participated in the exercise. Lehman, assigned to firing Battery of the 80th Artillery’s Ist Missile Battalion in Vicenza, entered the Army in April, 1962, and completed basic combat training at Fort Knox, Ky. He is a 1954 graduate of Berne-French high school and a 1955 graduate of DeVry Technical Institute in Chicago, HI.

the typhoid-fever outbreak, which has caused 2 deaths and sent more than 100 persons in the United States and Europe to bed. Zermatt’s doctors demanded an investigation by the Swiss Medical Association. Returning vacationers carried the fever to the United States, Britain, West Germany, Holland and France. Many of those staying on have received anxious cables from relatives at home urging them to leave at once. Mercury Wall Switch If you find, upon installing a new, quiet-working electric mercury wall switch that it does not work — turn it around. This type of switch will not function properly if installed upside down.

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MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1963

Delay Arraignment Os Alleged Slayer FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD—The arraignment of Robert Huggins, 22, a Fort Wayne drive-in restaurant cook, on a first-degree murder indictment in the slaying of a former telephone operator March 5 was postponed today when he asked for a pauper attorney. Huggins told Judge W.O. Hughes in Allen Circuit Court that he had insufficient funds to hire an attorney to defend him against charges he killed Miss Sally Jo Wisenberg, 21, whose body was found in a ditch near Baer Field. Miss Wisenberg was nearly beheaded by a killer who raped her and slashed her throat with a butcher knife, police said. Hughes deferred making an appointment until next Monday. Meanwhile, sheriff’s deputies confiscated a gruesome photograph of the death scene which they said had been circulated around a local industrial plant.