Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 97.

Urge Soviet Russia Keep Peace In Laos; Harriman May Fly To Russia Soon

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DICK SCHAUSS, head of the 1982 Community fund drive, is pictured here receiving an award from the Community Fund board for going over the top in the November drive. Mrs. Leo Curtin is making the presentation. This was Schauss’ first year as chairman of the drive. The community fund board met Monday evening to elect officers and to hear the annual report of the member agencies. — (Photo by Mac Lean)

Plan Rewriting War Claims Act

WASHIINGTON (UPI) — The Senate Appropriations Committee today was expected to approve a plan for rewriting the Philippine War Claims Act to bar big fees for Washington lobbyists. An appropriations subcommittee decided to include the proposal in a catch-all $1.4 billion supplemental money Dill. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted unanimously to change the law and make the $73 million lump sum paymet to the Philippines. The present law, passed last year, provides for payments to individual claimants through the U S. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. Senhte action on the Housepassed measure appeared likely next week. The revised approach was sponsored by Chairman J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., of the foreign relations group following disclosures that lobbyists for Philippine claimants stood to reap huge fees from the present law. Money for the original $73 million claims program was appropriated last year. If approved by the Senate and retained in the bill by House-Senate conferees, the new provision would redirect the amount to the Philippine government instead of to the claims commission. No additional funds would be needed. Other congressional news: Medical: House leaders were faced with fights over civil rights and student loans in efforts to get the administration’s medical school bill passed. The bill would spend $175 million over three years to help build and renovate medical, dental and other “health profession” schools. It also would provide s6l million over the same period to finance a loan program for needy medical, dental and osteopathic students. Rep. Abner Sibal, R-Conn., said he would introduce an amendment to bar allocation of funds to schools that practice racial or religious discrimination. A move to knock out the loan feature from the program was believed to stand a good chance of winning House approval. Communications: Sei). Albert Gore,D-Tenn., questioned whether the Senate had the constitutional right to confirm officers of the Communications Satellite Corp.

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Gore said it would be unprecedented for the Senate to give its “advice and consent” in a situation involving a ‘‘private corporation organized and chartered for profit.. ” His remarks were prepared for the opening of a Senate battle over the 14 prominent business and rofessloiiai leaders named by President Kennedy as incorporators to set up the new space company. Decatur Temperature Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending- at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 40 12 midnight .. 28 1 p.m. 38 1 a.m 28 2 p.m 40 2 a.m 28 3 p.m 40 3 a m 28 4 p.m, 40 4 a.m 28 5 p.m 39 5 a.m 29 38 ~ tT'armr:: 30" 7 p.m. 36 7 a.m. 34 8 p.m. 34 8 a.m ........i.... S 8 9 p.m 32 9 a.m 42 10 p.m 32 10 a m 42 11 p.m 30 11 a.m 42 Welsh Disappointed At Lack Os Funds MONTICELLO, Ind. (UPI)— Governor Welsh Tuesday night said he was greatly disappointed in the legislature’s failure to provide state funds for The Indiana Port on Lake Michigan. “The greatest disappointment to ihe in the General Assembly, and the greatest blow to the economic development of the state, was the failure of the legislature to appropriate sufficient funds for the construction of an outer breakwater of the Port of Indiana,’’ he told a dinner meeting of the Chamber of Commerce here. He lauded the lawmakers for providing for grade and secondary education and thus keeping property taxes in check. But he said they failed by not appropriating enough funds to expand higher education facilities of state-sup-ported colleges and universities. Welsh said the port would have given a tremendous boost to jobs for the future. However, he said the legislature did help -the state’s economy t>y voting ’money for the toll bridges on the ’ Ohio River, opening the long suffering southern Indiana economy to expansion.

LONDON (UPI) — U.S. Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman may fly to Moscow in the next 48 hours to urge Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev to help keep the peace in Laos, American sources said today. The sources said no final decision had yet been made on the possible mission to Moscow. Harriman, meeting with British officials in London, was consulting with Washington on the matter. The purpose”!* ?uch a Moscow trip, the sources said, would be to remind Khrushchev of his commitment to President Kennedy to maintain a neutral, independent Laos. Khrushchev made the commitment in a meeting with Kennedy at Vienna less than two years ago. British Foreign Secretary Lord Home, meanwhile, warned that the 1962 Geneva agreement on a neutral Laos was in jeopardy and called the situation very “serious." He accused the Soviet Union of hampering efforts to solve the crisis in that Southeast Asian kingdom. Home made a crisis report to the House of Lords as British and U. S. diplomats sought new ways of getting the Soviets to help restore peace in Laos. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko Tuesday charged the United States was reponsible for the tension there. He refused to cooperate with Britain, which shares with Russia the co-chairmanship of the conference that established Laos’ neutrality. “It is a blow to our ability to help in the situation in Laos that Mr. Gromyko has failed to agree to our proposals in a joint communication,” Home said. A Laotian settlement, he added, “has been put in grave jeopardy.” Informed sources said Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman planned further meetings with British officials, emphasizing the need for strong diplomatic pressure on the Kremlin and the opposing sides in unsettled Laos. Harriman consulted with President Kennedy by telephone. There was some talk that Harriman might be sent on to Moscow to discuss the problem with Kremlin leaders. He has been conferring in Paris and London to align the Western powers behind neutralist Laotion Premier Souvanna Phouma. Four Criminals In Escape In Michigan JACKSON, Mich (UPD-State police 'dogs, a Navy helicopter and a police plane joined the search today for four hardened criminals, including two killers, who escaped from the nation’s largest walled prison Tuesday. Three prison guards were suspended after the escape was discovered at Southern Michigan Prison. A fourth faced questionig and possible suspension. Recently appointed Warden George Kropp said the guards were slack in their duty and should have seen the escape or discovered the men missing earlier. The escapees were James Hall, 40, Battle Creek, Mich., who was serving life for murder; Robert L. Gipson, 31, Chelsea, Mich., serving life for murder; Richard E. Mauch, 40, Lansing, Mich., life for attempted murder, and Elmer J. Crachy, 35, Chicago, serving 20-30 years as a habitual criminal. Prison officials said the escape was well-planned. The men had to saw through a series of bars, remove window panes and get through locked steel doors as well as cut through a hurricane fence surrounding the prison walls. They had camouflaged the sawed bars with tarpaulins painted to resemble the bars. TWO SECTIONS

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Offer Plan On Ban Deadlock

MOSCOW (UPD—The U.S. and British ambassadors met with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev today and were reported to have offered a compromise Western plan to break the deadlock over the number of on-site inspections under a nuclear test ban treaty. Reliance sources said the United States and Britain were understood to have proposed that a total of 30 inspections be held over a seven-year period to prevent cheating under a test ban. This would average out to slightly more than four inspections a year. The Russians hqve consistently refused to go above a two or three inspections a year on their territory. The West had refused to agree to a nuclear test ban agreement that called for less than seven inspections a year to determine if any underground clandestine tests had taken place. U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler and Britain's Sir Humphrey Traveleyan handed the Western joint proposal to Khrushchev in an, extraordinary Kremlin conference that lasted 90 minutes- The meeting was shrouded in wartime-like secrecy. The meeting was held at Western initiative after Khrushchev had hinted Monday that the Russians might even withdraw their offer of a maximum of three onsite inspections yearly.

No Killing Frost Reported In State By United Press International Frost poked an icy finger into the lush green vegetation of Southern Indiana today, but apparently it failed to reach killing proportions because temperatures barely fell below freezing and then only briefly. Lows were 30 at Evansville, Cincinnati and Fort Wayne, 32 at Lafayette and Indianapolis, 36 at South Bend, and 39 at Louisville. Forecasts had indicated temperatures as cold as 27 degrees might be recorded, cold enough to hurt some tender greenery of the spring growig season. Although a little warmer weather was expected tonight, forecasts called for a chance of scattered frost in east central and southeastern sections of the state. Temperatures reached high points Tuesday ranging from 41 at South Bend to 60 at Evansville and 75 at Louisville. Highs today will range from 48 to the upper 50s, lows tonight in the 30s and highs Thursday from near 60 to 72 in a warming trend which was expected to continue at least into Friday. The five-day outlook indicated temperatures will average near normal for the period ending next Monday with a slow warming trend north through the period and a warming Thursday reversed by a cooler trend over the weekend and another warming the first of the week. Rainfall will be light the next five days. There was a chance of showers south Friday but generally speaking precipitation will range from one-tenth inch or less north to less than one-fourth inch elsewhere-, mostly over the weekend or Monday. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight. Partly cloudy and warmer Thursday. Low tonight mostly hi the 30s north, 35 to 43 south. High Thursday 60 to 65 north, 63 to 72 south. Sunset today 7:32 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 5:54 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Chance of scattered showers with little tomitorature change- Lows in the 40s. Highs in the 60s north to the 70s south.

Skunk Killed Sunday Found To Be Rabid A skunk, killed Sunday in the Rudy Wietfeldt front yard just across the Adams county line in Allen county, died of rabies, the Indiana state board of health reported today. This was the second rabid skunk, out of three sent in, so far this year from this area. The Wietfeldt children were playing in the front yard, and were chased inside by the skunk, which charged at them. The father went outside, and the animal ran at him, too, but he was able to kill it. No one was injured by the skunk, but it is not known if the skunk injured and infected other animals in the neighborhood. All persons were warned to keep their dogs, cats and farm animals tied up, or inside or gway from peaces where wild ammbls infected 'with rabies could possibly bite them. Parents were also warned to tell thei rchildren not to pick up any sick, injured, strange, or baby animal of any kind, nor to tease or chase them. Rabies, or hydrophobia, is 100% fatal when the slow-moving virus has entered the nervous system, or when any symptoms are present. It can only be prevented by shots immediately after a bite form a possibly infected animal. Whenever a dog or cat, or other animal bites a person, it should be kept tied up or penned for a week to see if it develops rabies. Stray dogs prevent a particular danger because of their mobility and because they cannot be watched later to see if the ywere rabid. Portage Bank Robbed, Man Held Suspect PORTAGE, Ind. (UPI) — A branch bank was he’d up with a toy »gun today and a suspect was caught in a yellow foreign car a few minutes later. The bandit got $6,908, manager Warren Larson, one of two persons in the bank at the time, said. The robbery occurred at the Portage branch of the Chesterton State Bank. Shortly afterward two police executives stopped a car answering the description of one seen speeding from the bank and arrested without resistance a man they identified as Marvin E, Weil, about 30, Niles, 111. Weil was caught 11 minutes afte rthe holdup occurred. Police sai dhe had a toy gun in his possession and an undetermined amount of money they said was the loot from the holdup. The holdup occurred two minutes before 11 a.m. EST. Witnesses saw the bandit jump into a yellow car (Renault) and speed eastward on U. S. 20. A few minutes later, Portage Police Chief Robert Riebly and Police Commissioner Charles Meyne stopped a car answering the description on Airport Rd. about 2 to 3 miles south of Portage They arrested the lone occupant and took him to the Portage Police Station. FBI agents and state police sped to Portage to set up roadblocks and aid in the investigation. It was Indiana’s ninth bank robbery of the year and the second in a week.

Merit Scholarship Is Awarded David Swickard

David A. Swickard. son.of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Swickaid of 528 Limberlost Trail, a senior at Decatur high school, has been awarded a national merit scholarship in nationwide competition. The amount actually given depends upon the student's need, but will run a minimum of SIOO a year to a maximum of $1,500 a year, for four years. The average amount is about $845 a year. Most merit scholarships include a grant to the college the student attends. To Attend I. U. Swickard intends to major in either chemistry, pre-mcdicine or pre-law at Indiana university. He is undecided as to which he will enter at the present time. The national merit scholars are chosen by the NMSC selection committee, a panel of educators skilled in academic selection. Selections,, which are made separately for each state, are based on a full evaluation of a variety of information about each finalist. MNSC is an independent non-pro-fit corporation. Its chief purpose is to discover and recognize exceptionally talented young people, and to encourage and assist them to obtain a college education. NMSC also provides services to corporate and other sponsors who wish to underwrite their own merit scholarships. School Activities A list of Swickard's honors and activities in high school include the following: National Science Talent Search — Honors Group, 1963. Indiana Science Talent Search — Winner, 1963. NSF Summer Science Institute,

King Hussein Is Struggling To Keep Order AOMAN, Jordan (UPI) — King Hussein’ struggled to maintain order today in the face of repeated demonstrations by hundreds of pro-Nasser students defying heavily armed government troops. Bedouin soldiers loyal to the 27-year-old monarch fired on demonstrators in the heart of the capital Tuesday, killing 12 and wounding 60. according to diplomatic sources. Hussein, vowing he will never relinquish his throne, drove through the heart of Amman in a white convertible Tuesday evenig and waved at rioters throwing rocks at troops guarding the American Embassy. The rioters, apparently stunned at the sight, stopped throwing rocks. As the king drove on through the streets, he was greeted by cheering crowds. His action and a heavy rain brought a halt to the demonstrations favoring an end to Hussein’s regime and unity with the new United Arab Republic (U.A.R.) led by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Hussein pledged he would never abandon his desert kingdom, strategically located between Israel, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. He scoffed at reports from Cairo Radio that he was preparing to flee Jordan. He insisted that he was “ready to make any sacrifice, if I am obstructing the unity of the country.” “But so long as I feel I am needed, whether as king or as an ordinary person, I will remain,” Hussein said. May 3 Is Deadline On Absentee Ballot Any Decatur resident wishing to vote by absentee ballot in the primary election Tuesday, May 7, may make application to do so no later than Friday, May 3, Adams county clerk Richard Lewton said this morning. The final day to make applications is May 3, as the ballots must be sent out no later than May 4, Lewton explained. Persons who will be out-of-town May 7, may make application and vote at the same time in Lewton's office beginning Saturday, April 27, through Saturday, May 4, according to the clerk Anyone unable to vote’ at the polls that day due to sickness or disability, must get an application form and sign it before a notary public, and a physician must also sign the application, before it is turned back to the clerk’s office. Such applications must also be returned by Friday, May 3.

David A. Swickard Purdue University, 1962. Fort Wayne ACS Chemistry Contest—Honorable Mention, 1962. Regional Science Fair— sth in Chemistry division, 1962. Varsity Football team, threeyear letterman. Varsity track team, four-year letterman. Delegate to the Indiana Youth Assembly, as a member of the Governor’s Youth Advisory Committee. Member of the Advisory Committee of local AFS Club. State Winner in 4-H Forestry Contest, 1961. National Poetry Anthology, Special Mention, 1961, 1962, 1963. County Historical Society Essay

Truth, Freedom In Government Urged

NEW YORK (UJ?I) — The President of the American Newspaper Publishers Association .called today for “an authoritative and clear-cut assurance” from the Kennedy administration “that there is no place on its program for the use of the lie as an instrument of national policy.” The press is looking to the democratic weapons of truth and freedom at a time when government seems to insist more and more on secrecy and constraint, Irwin Maier told the 77th ANPA convention in the annual address of the president. Always Dilemma “Two years ago,” he said, “President Kennedy rightly pointed out the existence of a ‘dilemma’ because of the present need for ‘far greater public information’ along with the need for ‘far greater official secrecy.’ I make no judgment as to the gravity of the dilemma at that time or at this time. There will always be that dilemma, or tension. “But the dilemma will not be resolved by administration officials who assume the government’s ‘right to lie’ to its own people. ‘‘Aside from the moralty of the matter, if a government, for whatever motives, begins to deceive its citizens, it has begun to corrode their trust. And once that corrosion begins, the viability of selfgovernment is gravely in doubt.” Maier, who is publisher of the Milwaukee Journal and Sentinel, addressed the opening of general sessions in the third day of the four-day meeting. Government attitude toward “controlling the flow of public information” is one of the circumstances which confront the press in its duty to inform and explain, he said. Another is the incidence Local Lady's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Isabelle Black, 75, mother of Mrs. John (Winifred) Spaulding of Decatur, died at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning at the home of her son, John Black, in Hobart. She Was a native of Hobart, where she was born July 27, 1887. Her husband, Walter G. Black, preceded her in death Jan. 23, 1958. Mrs. Black had returned to Hobart only recently, after spending the winter months with her daughter and family in this city. Surviving in addition to the daughter and son are five grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Mabel Butler of Hobart. Two brothers, and three sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at the Bartholomew funeral home in Valparaiso. with burial in the Valparaiso cemetery.

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Contest — Ist, 1962. Treasurer of Youth Fellowship, Zion United Church ct Christ,Eagle Scout, Gad and Country Award. Active in Choir, Junior Class Play, and Editor of school yearbook. A record number of more than 1400 merit scholars were named today, an increase of about 350 over 1962. About 875 outstanding students received four-year merit scholarships sponsored by 175 business corporations, foundations, colleges, unions, professional associations, trusts, and individual!. There are 30 new sponsors. Soya Is Sponsors Central Soya company is one of many companies with -local ties supporting the national merit program; others include the AFLCIO, and many gas and insurance companies. Approximately 540 merit scholars received their awards from the national merit scholarship corporation. NMSC conducts the annual year-long merit program in cooperation with h'gh schools throughout the country. The amount of each award is based on individual financial need. Stipends range from S4OO to $6,000 for the four years of college. Most of the scholarships are accompanied by a supplementary grant to the college the student has chosen to attend. The total value of the awards for 1963 is estimated at more than $5 million. In addition to the stipend-bear-ing merit scholarships awarded today, approximately 225 students (Continued on Page Six)

|of “long and punishing” strikes. | he said, with particular reference to those during the last 12 months at Minneapolis, Cleveland, and New York. Proposes “Labor Court” One alternative to the strike problem being discussed among publishers, Maier said, is a nostrike, on-ockout agreement by both sides, combined with a “labor court” consisting of management, labor, and a “third force” representing the public. The court would have power to settle disputes that could not be resolved by the parties involved. Discussing the need to furnish citizens with a comprehensive written record of contemporary history, Maier quoted a recent address by Charles E. Scripps of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers: “People learn about good government at home, and I imagine that people who tolerate secondrate government in their cities and states will tolerate it in Washington. Our local, regional journalistic functions is basic. It is a responsibility that we alone can fulfill and it is thep lace where our greatest talent and excellece should be concentrated.” Summer School To Open Here June 3 Hugh J .Andrews, principal of the Decatur high school, anodneed today that the annual summer school session will open at the school Monday, June 3, and continue for eight weeks until Friday, July 26. Andrews stated that a current survey indicates more than 300 students wil be enrolled from next year’-s four high school grades, plus several post graduates. This summer's schedule is the most extensive ever offered in Adams county for a summef school. There are still some openings for Decatur area youth, and any students interested are asked to contact Deane T. Dorwin in room 206 at the high school building. During the summer school, two credits can be earned in academic areas. Courses offered include: Incoming freshmen — Algebra I, physical science, and auto mechanics. Sophomores — Typing I, drafting, physical science, and auto mechanics. Juniors — Civics and sociology, typing I, drafting, and atito me- r chanics. Seniors — Speech, civics and sociology, typing I, drafting, and auto mechanics. r Andrews also stated, “if there is sufficient demand for other courses or more than one class in the areas listed, we shall endeavor to arrange for additions, as needed.”