Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1963 — Page 1

VOL LXI NO. 72.

Two Conferees In Favor Os Broad Public Hearing On Indiana Tax Program

Renew Stormy TFX Inquiry

WASHINGTON (UPI) - Senate investigators resumed their stormy TFX airplane inquiry today with a warning from Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara that the hearings would result only in “tremendous harm to many individuals.” Witnesses for today’s closed session included the admirals and generals who made up the source selection board which recommended the contract go to the Boeing Co. The board was headed by Maj Gen. R. G. Reugg of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Civilian Pentagon officials announced Nov. 24 that General Dynamics Corp, was the contract winner, not Boeing. Eventual cost of 1,700 of the supersonic NavyAir force fighter planes may exceed $6 billion. toPewteHnrt — In testimony released Monday by the Senate Investigations subcommittee McNamara said the politically explosive inquiry had resulted in bitter accusations that have hurt people both in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. “I assume that the committee staff has been irritated at times. God kniws, we have been,” he said. “I am not suggesting quitting. I am just being realistic. I think there is going to be tremendous harm done to many individuals as a result of this hearing.” The remarks were in the tranTrio Hurt Slightly In Accident Monday Two Geneva young men and a third from Berne suffered injuries, none seriously, in a two-car accident at 509 N; 13th St. Monday afternoon. Darrell Hendricks, 605 High St., Berne, suffered a cut on the top of the head, and other lacerations to the top lip and left side of the face, while Leland Sprunger, Geneva, received two lacerations on the right side of the forehead. Both were ridihg in a small sports car driven by Eugene Dale Newcomer, 20, of Geneva. Newcomer was treated for shock, but was not injured. All three were treated at the Adams county memorial hospital, following the 4:09 p.m. mishap, and later released. Newcomer’s car slammed into the rear of an auto operated by Jerry Thomas Winans, 20, an Adams St. resident, as both were southbound on 13th street. Winans had stopped in the line cf traffic, and was struck in the rear by the Newcomer auto. The Geneva driver was arrested for reckless driving and will appear in city court at 9 a. m. Monday. Damages were listed at S4OO to his car and S2OO to the Winans vehicle.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Elbert A. Smith, Jr., First Presbyterian Church) —: ; “The Lord is the stronghold of my life; —~~ h of whom shall Ibe afraid?” Psalm 27:1 b. What is the stronghold of your life? Is it a system of doctrine? Is it business by which you profit off the underpaid employes? Is it a choice club of cronies dr a closely-knit clique of influence without which nothing is allowed to move in particular areas of the community? Is it just to make a comfortable living while others also assume their responsibility for keeping the community functioning? Is it your family with which nothing important can interfere? Or is it yourself that self-reliant, independent, rugged individual, beholden to no man? Are these really strongholds? Or are they merely the untenable skirts behind which we hide because faith in God demands we stand up to be the man we were intended to be? Faith in God takes all comers because God is the bastion of meaning for His world. The last trick is always in his hand. Is he utterly reliable or is our religion a comforting opiate that deadens our nerve to complete trust in the God of all? The psalmist experienced God as the living and true. God who helped him to grasp hold of himself, acknowledging -with, utter realism that with his God he was equal to meet any enemy that would storm his mind, soul or person. Only those who have found this refuge can say, “The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?” Have you found him so?

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script of McNamara’s testimony before the subcommittee Thursday afternoon. They were made public for the first time Monday night. Describes Popular Image The secretary said the investigation into his decision to award the contract to General Dynamics has left the impression "that I am either subject to political influence, self-interest or stupid, and I call that harm." McNamara described his popular image as that of a cold, impersonal cabinet official who made decisions from electronic computer data. Apparetly upset over, what he considered a challenge to his personal integrity, he said: “Last night when I got home at midnight after preparing for today’s hearing, my wife told me that my 12-year-old son had asked how long it would take for his father to prove his honesty.” Crying Called “Nonsense’’ The Pentagon later described as “nonsense” a claim by an anonymous source that McNamara shed tears at this point. McNamara also told the Senate committee he tried to suppress a controversial Air Force memorandum “leaked” to the press which accused subcommittee staff aides of “abusing” Pentagon witnesses in long interrogations. Chairman John L. McClellan, D-Ark., said that the subcommitte believed that Col. Donald Passel, an Air Force liaison officer, wrote the memo- _■ ■ McClellan made public the Air Force memo which accused the investigators of “oral abuse” and “pressure tactics” on two Air Force civilians. The document charged investigator Thomas Nunnally with “unprovoked emotional rantings” during one question period. Lee Amerine Dies At Michigan Home Lee Amerine, 54, a native of Decatur, died Saturday afternoon at his home in Mt. Clemens, Mich. He was born in Decatur, May 26, 1908, a son of William and Rose McClure-Amerine. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Rose Amerine of Mt. Clemens; one brother, Ray Amerine of Fraser, Mich., and two sisters, Mrs. May Almond of Mt. Clemens, and Mrs. Eva Uplegger of Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Frank Fisher, of Decatur, is an aunt. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Fuhrman Miller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Joday until time of the services.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Two of the four members of an Indiana legislative conference committee were described today as favoring broad public hearings on a tax program before the special session decides on a solution. Sen. D. Russell Bontrager, RElkhart, Senate president pro tern, said he favors listening to "anybody with a tax program.’’ He said Sen. Robert O’Bannon, DCorydon, agrees with him. “I feel we would benefit by getting the thinking of people who have worked out tax programs,” said Bontrager, adding that during the regular session the only real public hearing on taxes was a House committe hearing on a net income tax proposed by minority Democrats. Bontrager’s opinion would not necessarily be adopted by the conference committee, but he is an influential lawmaker and with O’Bannon sharing his views, he obviously would be in a good position to see that the senators’ views were carried out. This would indicate a further delay in legislative solution of the financing policy facing the state in the light of the prospects of an increased biennial budget adding perhaps $227 millions more than existing revenues could produce. m the Fred M. Hinshaw, D-Muncie, appealed in a floor speech for the budget conference committee to write into the budget the $35 million economic development fund asked by Governor Welsh and the 3-cents-a-pack cigarette tax increase the governor requested to finance it • “It will relieve millions from general fund spending and relieve pressure on our needs for additional taxes,” Hinshaw said. And the Sentate advanced from second to third reading without debate or amendment a House bill pending from the regular session which would increase the 3-cent cigarette tax by one cent with half the estimated $6 million annual revenue going to cities and towns and half for construction of two Ohio River toll bridges. The fact that-tax, budget and reapportionment bills were in conference committee improved the chances of ending the special session within a couple of weeks. The Senate late Monday passed 28-21 a bill which would hike the present gross income tax rates one-third, and also would increase the exemption, now SI,OOO per person, to $3,000. The House declined to concur in amendments and it went to a conference committee. Unfortunately, the hybrid bill, a product of Democratic and Republican compromise, would bring in only S9O million extra revenue during the 1963-65 biennium. The Senate-passed budget would require at least $227 million. The newly named conference committee for the tax program thus will need to work closely with the budget committee, named last week, in producing a balanced spending and revenue program for the next two years. Indiana’s constitution bans the state from going into debt and this year a surplus which piled up during war years finally neared depletion. Named to Committee House Speaker Richard Guthrie, after the House refused to concur in the Senate gross income tax hike, named Ways and Means Committee chairman John Coppes, R-Nappanee, and Rep. James V. Stagg, D-Evansville, to the tax conference committee. Coppes, along with Rep. Richard Bodine, D-Mishawaka, and Sens. Charles M. Maddox, R-Otterbein, and Robert O'Bannon, D-Corydon, were named last week to a budget committee but halted work Sunday until a tax program had been passed through the SenateThe adoption of the one-third gross income hike, which means a 2 per cent rate instead of 1% per cent for individuals, came after Democratic floor leader Marshall Kizer of Plymouth, brought out two other tax plans for Senate consideration. Both were rejected by party-line votes. The first plan was one which Kizer had been trying to get considered ever since the regular session opened l Jan. 10. It called’’fer a graduated net income tax, ranging from 2 to 10 per cent, somewhat ‘ like that in effect in New York, and Kizer predicted it would have brought in $660 million (Continued On Page Three)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesd ay, March 26,1963.

•-- - - , Favors Cut In Military Bill

WASHINGTON (UPI) — House Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Vinson today proposed a $l3B million cut in a pending $l.B billion military construction bill. Getting the jump on GOP economizers, the Georgia Democrat also suggested that Congress refuse to allow proposed military acquisition of nearly 16,000 acres of land. Vinson said the armed forces have gotten rid of more than 274,000 acres of surplus land in the past two years. He said he would bend “every effort” to see they continue to shed land they no longer need. Vinson put forth the suggestions at the opening of hearings on the latest installment of a continuing construction program at Army, Navy and Air Force bases in the United States and abroad Vinson set aside, for as much as several weeks, a military pay raise bill that got snagged on the Republican economy drive. [ Other congressional news ■. Aid: Backers of foreign aid fear the aid program may be headed for a record cut. Some key lawmakers who strongly support the program have ben warning White House aides to be. ready for a whopping cut. President Kennedy Enter Guilty Pleas To Burglary Charge James Wheeler, 20, and Paul Barany, 17, both of Fort Wayne, entered pleas of guilty to charges of second degree burglary in the Adams circuit court this morning. Hie youthful Fort Wayne residents requested Judge Myles F. Parrish for the opportunity to change their plea, which Wa? granted. They had entered not guilty pleas to the charge on March 14. Hie pair were charged ..with second degree burglary for the robbery at the Linn Grove Hardware in February, when they and a third Fort Wayne youth obtained over SSOO in merchandise. John J. Rahrer, Jr., 18, had previously entered a plea of guilty to the charge, and is now serving a six-month's term at the state penal farm. Judge Myles F. Parrish ordered probation officer Chris H. Muselman to prepare • pre-sentence investigation reports on both, before the judge hands down any fine or sentence. Spring Rains Over Eastern U.S. Area By United Press International Spring rains and thundershowers today soaked the warm eastern half of the nation. Rain threatened to worsen the already serious flooding in southwestern Wisconsin, where the spring thaw has caused the Kickapoo River to spill over its banks, closing highways and schools. Boston baked in a 78-degree heat wave~~Mdnday, only one degree lower than Miami’s high of 79. The reading tied a 53-year record in Boston. , Three small Texas towns had 90 degree marks Monday, while much of Arizona, Louisiana, Arkansas and Virginia sunned in 80degree weather. Vandalia, 111., measured more than one inch of rain during the night. Half inch amounts fell in parts of Arkansas, Aalabama, Wisconsin and throughout the Ohio Valley. The warm weather has quickened the melting of ice on the Great Lakes, the Detroit Weather Bureau said. Large open water areas were reported over southern Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. The western half of Lake Erie is almost opqn.

is expected to send his foreign aid message to Congress later this week with a figure about S2OO million lower than the $4.9 billion figure he recommended in his budget. Economy: Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen said Monday President Kennedy is being “tearful and fearful” about the nation’s economic future, but is pushing programs that will create no new jobs. “The lament of this . . . new frontier over the future might better be supplanted by some words from the administration and some action which is calculated to inspire faith, not fear, confidence not concern, hope and not despair Dirksen said. Dr. Joe Morris Is Lions Club Speaker , Dr. Joe Morris presented hi* slides taken on a trip to several European conutries last fall at the Lions club meeting Monday evening. Lion Morris was introduced by program co-chairman for the month of March, international counselor Lion Roy L. Price. He spoke briefly of bis visit to Paris, Switzerland, Stutgart, Austria and Italy, but most of the slides were of scenes taken in his visit to Greece. Greece is an extremely mountainous country and little of the land is suitable for agriculture. One of the principal crops are olives, however. Many vineyards were noted on the terraced hillsides and some orange and lemon greves were in evidence. Sheep and goats are the principal animals produced there, while, very few cattle are raised. Os the 8,000,000 inhabitants of the country, 2,000,000 reside in the principal city of Athens. One of the principal sources of income is from the thousands of tourists who visit this historic land each year. Many of the slides were of the ruins of the buildings that made Greece famous generations ago. The streets are very narrow and many comunities do not have electricity or modern plumbing. In many of the villages, water is obtained from a central source and carried in various types of containers to the homes of the residents. There is little manufacturing and wages are very low for the people employed. The people welcome visitors and are honorable and trustworthy. Luggage is safe and theft rarely occurs. There are few tractors and automobiles in the country and the principal means of travel is by bus, motorcycles, bicycles, donkey cart and on foot. The main roads are of black-top material but are narrow and wind around the hill sides and are rather dangerous to travel by car. Some modern buildings are being constructed and the people 1 are very appreciative of the assistance extended their country by , the United States. Price spoke briefly of the district convention held recently in Arcola. President Norman Steury < and secretary Gordon Hooper ( were also in attendance j . J Decatur Temperature J Local weather data for the 24 , hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 67 12 midnight .. 54 1 1 nm It 1»m M 2 p.m-6v 2 am 54 . 3 p.m 62 3 a.m. 54 1 4 p.m 64 4 a.m 54 ] 5 p.m 60 5 a.m 52 6 p.m 60 ' 6 a.m 52 ’ 7 p.m 60 7 k.m. 52 1 8 p.m. .56 * BUm. 62 ; 9 p.m. 56 9a m 51 10 p.m 56 10 a.msß 1 11 p.m 54 11 a.m..._ 52 , Precipitation ‘ Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .10 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 6.24 feet. 1

Governor Bans Red Meeting In Rio De Janeiro RIO DE JANEIRO (UPD—Gov. Carlos Lacerda ruled Monday night that the Communists cannot hold a scheduled “hate America” meeting in Rio this week despite the willingness of the federal government to permit it. Lacerda charged that the meeting had been organized with the help of foreign elements to incite the Brazilian people to rise against the governmentThe ruling apparently took the organizers of the "solidarity with Cuba’’ convention by surprise. J. Conzaga Leite, principal promoter of the meeting, could not be reached immediately for comment. Although no alert order had been issued to police Monday night, a government spokesman said authorities here are prepared to deal with “any agitation that might result” from Lacerda’s order. Celebrating Anniversary When the governor’s order was issued, Rio’s leading Comhfunists were at the headquarters of the Brazilian Press Association celebrating the 41st anniversary of communism in Brazil. The convention was to have been operated on a “road show” basis, opening tonight in Rio and moving on to Sao Paulo and other Brazilian cities later in the week. Although Lacerda presumably can prevent the holding of the meeting in Guanabara State — meaning Rio and an inner ring of suburbs—there was no indication that it would be banned in other cities. Draws Few People A preliminary meeting held Monday night in a burlesque theater in Sao Paulo drew only about 500 of the more than 13 million people who live in the southern state. It started 40 minutes late and ended nearly an hour early. Political analysts were interested by a demand presented as part of the “theme” of the meeting, calling for the conversion of Latin America into a “union of soviet socialist states” similar to Russia. The federal government, which Monday received a promise of U.S. aid that may amount to $625 million this year, has announced it will permit the meeting provided they are orderly.

To Study Official Censorship Plans

WASHINGTON (UPI) — A congressional committee investigating government information policies made plans, today to study official censorship operations which would be put into effect if the United States went to war. The study is one of the next items on the agenda of a House subcommittee on government operations, headed by Rep. John E. Moss, D-Calif. In the past two weeks the committee looked into charges that the Kennedy administration “manages” the news. Monday they heard disclaimers from two of the government’s top spokesmen, Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester and Assistant Secretary of State Robert Manning. To Supply Information Both agreed to supply information for the subcommittee’s check into the field of censorship policies. Sylvester said the Defense Department had plans “for armed forces censorship and field censorship in case of war.” Manning was less definite about what the State Department had in mind. A subcommittee spokesman said Moss hoped to have the censorship guidelines made public. The spokesman said it might be two months before the subcommittee is ready to issue a final report oh its inquiry into the government’s news operations. Moss said Monday that he believed the basic problem was not “news management” but “that of access to information, to facts.” Questioned Closely As a result, both Manning and Sylvester were closely questioned about directives which ordered the substance of an official’s Conversations with a newsman to be relayed to the public affairs office These reporting practices were put into operation during the Cuban crisis. The State Department since has dropped them. The Defense Department has not. Sylvester said that despite complaints by newsmen, he knew of no specific instance whep the controversial rule inhibited a reporter from getting the information he wanted. Subcommittee questioning also centered around Sylvester’s con-

"wW Hri /- Am. ' ■ if IBBHHBI SLEEPING SCHOLARS— Mario Bellini supervises snoozing students • busy learning their lessons via tape recordings in San Vincenzo school, Bergamo, Italy. It’s an experiment, under medical superi vision, to determine whether students asleep under hypnosis can absorb information heard. Findings to date are said to be favorable. 1

_________»__________-■____ ; Sign Contract For Elevator r At Courthouse f

' The Adams county commissioners have signed a contract for installation of a new elevator in I the county court house! The commissioners signed the t cotract with Martindale and Dahl- ! gren, architects, of Fort Wayne, ! for the construction of a new > elevator and stairway in the court house. The elevator will be a hydraulic t type mechanism, and is expected to cost between $30,000 and $35,000. , The cost of the installation depends : on various items, such as the type . of elevator and how much i strengthening of the basement and f walls will be required to stand the i support of the weight. I A representative of Martindale • and Dahlgren attended the commissioner’s meeting and signed

troversial remark last December ■ that a government has an. inhpr- ' ent right to lie to save itself ’ when confronted with a nuclear ‘ disaster. Keep Lip Buttoned Manning, when asked about : this, said a government official should either tell the truth or kep his lip buttoned. Sylvester declined to back ’ down on his remark, made at a ' dinner meeting of Sigma Delta ‘ Chi, the journalism fraternity. He said it was a “brutal answer to a brutal question,” but insisted that he was talking just about the Cuban crisis and not overall government information policy. “Obviously there is no right for a government to lie or for any member of that government to lie,” he said. But he insisted that any government — as duly elected and representing the people—had the right to take whatever measures it thought necessary to save a nation from nuclear disaster. He said he felt the government had this right “when faced with a nuclear holocaust, and that is what this government was facing - in the Cuban crisis.” CaUs It “Hog Wash” Sylvester, who like Manning spent two hours before the subcommittee, characterized talk about news management as “hog wash.” Both he and Manning, however, agreed that the government faced a conflict of what information to release in times of great national peril. Sylvester said that: “The necessity for enlightenment of our people is tempered by the necessity to preserve our government and to protect our people. Our Communist adversaries are beneficiaries of our free institutions. Consequently, in time of crisis information which ordinarily would be made available to our citizens must temporarily be withheld in order to deny it to our enemies. I am sure that we can all agree upon these fundamental princii Pies. “It is my belief that truthful, factual information must be the basis for the U.S. government’s information program in relation to the American people.

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the contract, as did the commis--1 sioners. Plans Drawn s He explained that his firm would begin drawing plans and specifica- , tions within the next two weeks, f and would submit them to the t commissioners at a future meeting, for letting of bids for conl The contract will be in what . was termed as one lump sum, for ; installation of the elevator and > stairs and all the various other i items. Contracts will not be let 1 separately, such as for electricity, » concrete, etc., as is sometimes deme. i The hydraulic elevator will be a ■ four to six passenger affair, which ! seems practical for use in the courthouse. Four or five passengers could stand in the elevator without being overly crowded, and a sixth could be added in an emergency. Judge Myles F. Parrish had mandated, or ordered, the county commissioners Friday, December 14, to have an elevator installed in the courthouse. The circuit court judge’s order came about after the Adams county bar association had petitioned him to take such action, on the grounds that justice was being impaired in the local court since . Aged or disabled persons could not climb the long stairs to the courtroom. The courtroom is located on the second floor of the courthouse, presenting quite a lengthy climb for anyone to reach the courtroom. Following the submission of the petition, a hearing was held, at which time Judge Parrish ordered installation of an elevator in the building. Since that time, the commissioners have talked with various firms on types of elevators, various costs, underpinning that will have to be done in the courthouse, etc. Citizens Asks To Borrow $300,000 INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Citizens Telephone Co. of Decatur today asked the Indiana Public Service Commission for authority -to borrow $300,000 for a construction and renovation program. INDIANA WEATHER Light rain becoming- mixed with a little snow before ending late this afternoon or early tonight. Colder this afternoon and tonight. Wednesday fair and warmer. Low tonight lower 30s. High Wednesday 55 to 62. Sunset today 7:03 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:38 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Mostly fair and warmer. Lows 35 to 40. Highs 63 to 66. A artjwork! 20 Words—3 consecutive days, $2. See page 5.