Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 98.

Harriman Takes Appeal From Kennedy For Help In Laos To Khrushchev

Crash Tax Program Launched By State

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Indiana's state administration launched today a crash program aimed at placing in operation within a few short weeks the new tax system enacted by the legislature last weekend. Part of the program goes into effect June 1. On that date, the tax on a package of cigarettes rises from 3 to 4 cents, a hike designed to take in about sl2 million extra revenue in the next two years. The remainder of the program becomes effective July 1, coinciding with the start of the 1963-65 biennium. Governor Welsh held the first of several planning sessions Wednesday to get the new system functioning. The first meeting set in motion a number of other meetings to be climaxed by a recapitulation session of department heads next Tuesday. Meanwhile, State Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney planned to meet with spokesmen from the Federation of Tax Administrators and the Public Administration Service to discuss what additional personnel is needed to administer the new tax setup, Welsh and Courtney told a news

Living Costs Hit New Record High

WASHINGTON (UPD—The cost of living rose .1 per cent to a new record last month despite a drop in food prices, the Labor Department reported today. Arnold Chase, assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said increases in prices of used cars, clothing and certain housing items offset a drop of -4 per cent in food rices. "Die result was a rise in the March index to 106.2 er cent of the 1957-59 base period. This meant it took $10.62 to buy the same goods and services that could have been purchased for $lO during the base period. The food index stood at 104.6 per cent, compared with 105.0 in February. This meant a market basket of food that cost $lO during the 1957-59 period now costs $10.46. The average weekly earnings of workers rose more than 50 cents during March, however, taking some of the sting out of the increased cost of living. Chase said the housing index rose .3 per cent in March to a level 1.1 per cent higher than a year ago. Costs of home ownership were up, as higher real estate taxes were reported in several cities. An increase in water rates was Exchange Underway In Parking Meters Decatur motorists, worried about all the activity around the parking meters today can rest assured * that no special new “terror” is in store for them — it’s just that they are being exchanged for new models! Parking meters, like automobiles grow “weary in the service,” and need replacing. So, work started on Second street today, and will continue all. week, an replacement. Officer James Cochran, usually in charge of the meters, is being assisted by officer Don Liechty, and by Dick Todd, of the McGeeHale Parking Meter Co., of Jackson. Mich. The old heads will be removed, the posts painted, and the new heads installed. There will be 90 new one-hour meters and 124 hew two-hour meters, the latter on side streets. '

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conference following their staff meeting that a “substantial” number of new employes will be needed in the Revenue Department. The department must administer .the new 2 per cent sales tax, the 2 per cent adjusted gross income tax, the 2 per cent corporation tax and the cigarette tax. Welsh said the expanded personnel will be hired on a bipartisan basis. Courtney said examinations will be held May 10 at the Purdue University Center here for new jobs with the audit division of the department. Forms for registering retail merchants and for cigarette dealers must be returned to the state by June 1 and June 15 deadlines. Welsh and Courtney said the experience of other states with a 2 per cent sales tax will be studied before regulations are adopted to implement the collection of the new tax in Indiana. “We concede that Indiana is changing from a relatively simple tax to a sophisticated or complex one,” Welsh said Although a crash program is needed to get the tax program off the ground, Welsh said he and Courtney “do not foresee any unsolvable problems.”

reflected in a jump of .4 per cent in household operation costs. An increase of .3 per cent in household furnishings reflected a return to regular prices following special sales during February. Residential rents, fuels and electricity were unchanged on the average. An advance of 2.3 per cent in used car prices boosted transportation costs by 2 per cent. New car prices dropped .8 per cent as dealers offered higher concescessions and sales continued at near record levels. Lower prices for meats, fresh vegetables and eggs contributed to lower food prices. A continuing increase in the price of fresh fruits more than offset the drop in vegetable prices, however. TWO SECTIONS Four Youths Unhurt In One-Car Accident Four Decatur boys, three under the age of 16, escaped injury in a one-car accident Wednesday afternoon, after they had taken the car of one of the families and gone for a ride, instead of returning to school. Driver of the car was Jack Lee Affolder, 15, 122 S. 16th street, and passengers in the auto were James Michael Berry, 15; Steven Morgan, 14; and Dennis Morgan, 16. None of the four had a driver’s license. Affolder was westbound on county road 714 at a high rate of speed at 11:20 a.in., and was unable to make the turn at the Tintersection of county road 36, three miles west of Decatur. The auto went into a skid as Affolder attempted to turn, skidded 66 feet, and went off the west side of road 36, tore down 20 feet of fence arid struck a telephone pole. Sheriff Roger Singleton and state trooper Alan Coppes, who investigated, estimated damage at $450 to the car, $75 to the fence on the Bob Braden property, route 4, Decatur, and sls to the pole. The case ia still under investigation and charges may be filed in juvenile court

MOSCOW (UPD—U.S. Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman arrived in Moscow tonight with a personal appeal from President Kennedy to Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev to help set tie the crisis in Laos. Harriman said he was “hopeful” that agreement could be reached to end the new flare-up of fighting in the Southeast Asian kingdom. • The President’s special envoy said he was certain he would meet the Soviet leader. He said he saw “no reason to believe that ’ Mr. Khrushchev does not intend to carry out the agreement” guaranteeing the neutrality and independence of LaosThe 72-year-old State Department trouble-shooter arrived from London aboard a Soviet TUIO4 jet airliner on his urgent “save-the-peace” mission. Harriman told reporters at Moscow’s airport that Khrushchev had indicated to President Kennedy in Vienna two years ago that he intended to keep neutralist Laos free. “This is one subject on which the President and Mr. Khrushchev agreed in Vienna —on the independence and neutrality of Laos,” Harriman said. Harriman was met at the airport by U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler at whose residence Harriman will stay during his two-to-three day mission to Moscow. In addition to carrying a special White House message to Khrushchev, Harriman also planned to have talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Harriman told newsmen at London airport he considered as “most insulting” and “utterly incorrect” the inference in a recent Soviet note to Britain on Laos that the United States was at fault in the Laotian crisis. “I think the Russians are trying to curry favor with Red China and put in the accusation on their insistence,” Harriman said. “Let’s get it clear—that government (which accused the United States) was not the U.S.S.R., but Red China.” - ■¥■ Plans Are Revealed For State Hospital INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh announced today that construction will begin possibly this year on Indiana’s first state hospital for emotionally disturbed children. The hospital will be located at Evansville. Welsh was flanked by Dr. Stewart Ginsberg, Indiana commissioner of mental health and State Sen. Paul E. Hatfield, DEvansville, at a news conference in which plans for the hospital were announced. Ginsberg pointed out the re-cently-concluded legislature appropriated $500,000 for construction of a 60-bed residential treatment unit for emotionally disturbed children“It will be the first -of five authorized by the General Assembly,” Ginsberg said. “This is a major contribution to our program because Indiana has more than 25,000 children who are emotionally disturbed, yet we have only one special treatment unit for children and it is part pf another hospital.” Hatfield said he hoped the first unit will be part of a children’s center in Evansville. “Other units could include a facility for retarded children, deaf and hard of hearing, and a unit for the study and treatment of unusual children’s diseases,” Hatfield said. Hatfield, who had campaigned in the legislature to get funds for the Evansville center, said none of the money would be used to buy land. “There is enough state or cityowned land around the present Evansville Hospital,” he said. “I don’t know if you realize it or not, but Wesselman Park, which was given to the city by the state, is adjacent to the state hospital. In addition, Evansville Hospital has more than 100 acres which could ha iicarl ’*

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Decatur, Indiana, Thurs day, April 25, 1963.

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JFK Defends Cuban Policy

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Kennedy says he is doing everything possible to combat the Communist regime in Cuba except take steps that would trigger violence and bring “worldwide difficulty." ... The President challenged critics of his Cuban policy Wednesday to be more precise in their proposals and to stop “sidesteping” the issue of whether the United States should go to war over CubaKennedy discussed the Cuban situation at a wide-ranging news conference, his first in three weeks. He also dealt with Laos, a nuclear test ban and birth control among other subjects. Lists Anti-Castro Action Asked if he would like to answer criticism by former Vice President Richard M. Nixon and other Reublicans of his stand on Cuba, Kennedy listed steps he said had been take against the Castro regime. He said free world trade with Cuba had been cut from SBOO million to SBO million in the past three years, Castro had been “almost diplomatically isolated” in this hemisphere and steps were being taken to cut off guerrilla activity from Cuba. “It would seem to me,” he continued, “that we have pretty much done all of those things that can be done to demonstrate hostility to the concept of a Soviet satellite in the Caribbean except take these other steps which bring int heir wake violence and may bring a good deal of worldwide difficulty.” Harriman Goes to Moscow On other subjects, Kennedy made these points: Laos—He was sending Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman to Moscow today .to discuss the Laos crisis. Harriman carried a “short message” from the President to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Test ban—He and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan have suggested new proposals to KhrushINDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, chance of light showers early tonight. Warmer tonight. Friday partly cloudy with little temperature change. Low tonight 40 to 45. High Friday 56 to 64 north, low 70s southwest. Sunset today 7:3$ p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:52 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy to cloudy and a little warmer with chance of showers late in the day. Lows in the 48s north and the 50s south. Highs in the 60s north and the 70s south.

chev in an effort to break the deadlock over a nuclear test ban treaty. But Kennedy was not overly optimistic about prospects for an accord. Summit—There are no plans for him to meet with Khrushchev and it did not seem that such a conference “would be useful unless we were in agreement upon a test ban, which we are not now.’’ Birth control—He favors increased government support of basic research on human reproduction. But he declined to take a definite stand on a Catholic doctor's proposal that the federal government underwrite a massive research program aimed at developing new methods of* birth control acceptable to all religious groups. Local Man's Father Dies At Fort Wayne Elmer C. Frane, 52, of Maples, was dead on arrival at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. He suffered a heart attack while at work as a carpenter for Peppier Construction Co. He was a native of Jefferson township and a lifelong resident of Allen county. Mr. Frane was a member of St. John's Lutheran church in Flat Rock. —- Survivors include his wife. Myrtle; three sons, Eugene Frane of Fort Wayne route 7, Donald Frane of Decatur, and Gary Frane of Fort Wayne; a daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Lothamer of Fort Wayne; six grandchildren, and five brothers. Francis, Virgil and Manford Frane, all of Fort Wayne, Cletus Frane of Convoy, 0., and Wilmer Frane of Springfield, O. Friends may call at the E Harper & Son funeral home in New Haven after 7 p. m. today. Annual Local Artist Exhibit On May 9 The annual local artist exhibit sponsored by the Color Wheel club of Decatur high school will be held May 9 at the high school gymnasium from 6:30 until 9:30 p. m. All local artists are invited to exhibit their work and should contact Hubert Feasel, art instructor, as to the title and type of work to be shown. This contact should be made before Monday, April 29. An exhibit of high school art work and mechanical drawings will be also on display for that evening.

School To Present Annual May Concert The annual May concert, one of the highlights of the spring season. will be presented by the Decatur high schoool music department in the school auditorium at 8 o’clock Friday night, May 3. Five music organizations of the school will be featured on the program, under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold, vocal music director, and Richard M. Collins, band director. The five organizations are the junior high school band, the fresh-man-sophomore chorus, the high school dance band, the high school choir, and the high school band. The complete program for the concert will be announced next week. An added feature of the concert will be the first appearance of the 60-voice high school choir in their newly-purchased choir robes. The robes are beautifully fashioned in iridescent peacock blue, with moonglow stoles. The admission charge will be 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for grade school students. Band and choir members are selling tickets for the concert.

Corwin E. Judge Dies Early Today Coriwn Edward Judge, 45-year-old farmer, died at 12:05 o’clock this morning at his home in Union township, four miles east of Decatur, following a year’s illness. He was born in Paulding Co., 0., Dec. 31, 1915, a son of Noble and Hazel Corwin-Judge, and had lived in Indiana for the past 25 years. He had never married. Surviving are his father, Noble Judge; five sisters, Mrs. Chris • Phyllis) Neidermeyer of Columbia City, Mrs. Robert (Alice) Hough of Cedar Lake, Mrs. Edgar (Virginia) Sapp of Griffith, and Mrs. Richard (Bessie) Kraner and Mrs. Richard (Violet) Adams, both of Glenmore, 0., ■ and one brother, William Judge of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Argo Sudduth officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m, today until time of the services. Charges Are Filed Against Local Youth A 15-year-old Decatur girl filed charges of rape and assault and battery with intent to commit a felony against a 19-year-pld Decatur youth Wednesday. The two charges were brought against James D. Durham, 19, who resides with his wife at 206*4 S. Second St., by Joyce A. Uhrick, 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.'Elmer L. Uhrick, 910 S. 13th _ street.’ Durham was arraigned in the Adams circuit court this morning by Judge Myles F. Parrish, and was given further time to consult with his attorney, Richard J. Sullivan. Durham is currently being held in the Adams county jail under bond of $5,000. Alleged April 13 According to the complaint signed by the young Decatur girl, the alleged rape and assault and battery occurred the evening of April 13. Durham was apprehended by the Adams county sheriff’s department Wednesday evening, a short time after leaving work in Fort Wayne. The parents of the young girl had signed affidavits earlier this week against Durham, charging him wtih contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and furnishing alcoholic beverages to a minor, which allegedly occurred March 25. Durham was advised of his rights in the local court Tuesday morning on those two charges, and was given further time to secure legal counsel. Out on Bond He was released following the hearing Tuesday morning, after he posted bond of SIOO. The rape charge is known as statuatory rape, whereby a female who is under the age of 16, by law cannot give consent. The charge is punishable by 2-21 years in prison, and the assault and battery with intent to commit a felony charge is punishable by 1-10 years in a reformatory or prison.

93 Candidates For Diplomas

Ninety-three seniors of Decatur high school are candidates for diplomas at commencement exercises next month, it was announced this morning by Hugh J. Andrews, principal. Commencement exercises will be held in the school auditorium Thursday night, May 23. Baccalaureate services will be held in the same auditorium Sunday evening, May 19. The 93 candidates are 10 more than last year, when 83 seniors were candidates for graduation. Candidates for diplomas are: Larry Dale Affolder, Donna Joyce Allison, Robert Leon Andrews, Russell Walter Augsburger, James Lee Bailer, Harold Nelson Ballard. Delbert Lewis Baumgartner. John Derrall Bedwell, David Lee Beery, Donna Sue Bixler, Roger Lee Bixler, Sylvia June Bleeke, Cherly Sue Bollenbacher, Frederick Michael Brecht, Sheri Lynn Brodbeck, 110 Marie Brown, Daniel Judson Butcher, Kathleen Louise Call, Thomas Hugh Carpenter, Bette Jean Castle, Sandra Lee Clifton, Cynthia Susan Collier, Benjamin Colter, Roger Lee Conrad, William Roger Conrad, Thomas Lynn Cowans. Cynthia Marie Cravens, Arthur Gerald Crozier, Shirley Ann Cummings, Thane Douglas Custer, Jerry Lynn Davis, Larry Wayne Davis, Kenneth DeWayne Dawson, Fotini Doxastaki, Joanna Sue

Election Polls Open On Standard Time

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana Supreme Court ruled today that the standard of time as set by the Interstate Commerce Commission shall prevail for . the opening and closing of election polls. — - __ -. The high court upheld Johnson Circuit Court which had ruled that Marion County Clerk Edwin McClure and the clerks of 42 other counties of the Eastern Standard Time cohid use EST as the standard for determining the hours polls would De open and the hours they would close. Thus the high court disagreed with the State Election Board which held that all 92 counties should use Central Standard time even though the ICC divided the state into two time zones effective in 1961. Judge Norman Arterburn, who wrote the opinion, said Indiana at this time has no statute fixing any standard time. Code Not Certain “Since the Indiana election code is not certain and specific as to the applicable standard time, it is incumbent upon the judiciary to interpret the statute,” Arterburn said. "In making such an interpretation, the courts are not infringing upon the jurisdiction of another department of the government but rather are performing a critical judicial function by making an interpretation of a doubtful statute.” The opinion said that while some legal authorities “urged that the State Election Board is the one that has the jurisdiction and authority to make such interpretations, we find no authority in the statute that gives that board the function of making a final interpretation of a statute of the legislature.” | This means that the 43 eastern Indiana counties officially in the EST zone will open polls at 6 a.m. and-close- them at 6 p.m. EST. while the remaining counties in the official CST time zone will open and close at 6 o’clock CST, even .though many of the latter counties actually observe EST time on an unofficial basis. The ruling meant that for the May 7 primary elections. 43 eastern counties will open and close polls at 6 o’clock, while the remaining 49 counties will open and close polls at 7 o’clock since they will be observing Eastern Standard, or Central Daylight Time as Decatur Temperature Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at I'l a.m. today. 12 noon 43 12 midnight .. 31 1 p.m 44 1 a m 30 2 p.m .44 2 a.m. —.... 30 3 p.m 45 3 a.m 29 4 p.m 41 4 a.m. — .. .. 28 5 p.m. .. .. . 42 5 a.m 28 t p.m. . 42 S a.m. ...:. 28 7 p.m4o 7 a.m. .... ... 32 8 p.m. 38 8 a.m 10 9 p.m 36 9a m 48 10 p.m—.34 10 a-m. J 57 11 p.m 32 11 a m 58. Kain Total tor the 2T*hour period"ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St. Mary's river was at 4.11 feet.

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Drake, Mary Jane Eichenauer, Paul Alan Feller, Richard Alan Fravel, Diana Rose Gase, Steven Thomas Gause, David Earl Gay, Nancy Kay Gephart, Karen Darlene Grice, Carl Harrison Hakes, Gloria J.ean Harvey, Dale Louis Hawkins, Daniel Henry Heller, Kenneth Eugene Hill, Leonard Paul Hilyard, Diana Sue Hueston, Steven Earl Jacobs, Marcia Anne Jessup. Candance Diane Johnson. Ronald Allen Johnson, Colleen Rosalind Kelly, Alison Gayle Kuck. Robert Merrill Ladd, Alyce Ann Lankenau, Sandra Kay Liby, Pamela Kay Lister, Richard Arlan McClure, Robert Alan McClure, Thomas George Mclntosh, Thomas Watson Maddok, David C. Magley, Betty Marbach, James Reginald Martin, Melissa Anna Mayclin, Carmen Mary Mendoza, Doyt Miller, Kay Arlene Nern, Rita Mae Norquest, Shirley Ann Painter, Ralph Thomas Peterson, Donald Harold Poling, Janet Kay Pugh, Anthony Franklin Reiff, David Al Riehle, Gary Lynn Ross, Nola Catherine Schieferstein. Marilyn Sue Scott, Alice Jane Schroeder, Kathleen Beryl Smith, Evelyn Dale Snyder, Rex Elbert Strickler, Edward Arthur Suttles, David Alexander Swickard, Ronald Wayne Thieme, Michael John Tussing, Helen Marie Walters, Robert Louis Wolpert, Homer Olen Whetstone, and Zane Robert Zwick.

is their usual custom during the warm months beginning the last Sunday in April. Justices Walter Myers, Jr-, Frederick M. Landis and Harold concurred in the Arterburn ruling, and Justice Amos Jackson concurred in the results. The appealed ruling was given last year by Circuit Judge Robert B. Lybrook at Franklin where the suit of McClure was sent on a change of venue from Marion County. Losing parties in the suit include Governor Welsh, who is ex officio chairman of the State Election Board; Secretary of State Charles O. Hedricks, and the secretaries of the Democratic and Republican State Central Committees. Panel Discussion At Meeting Friday State legislators Von Eichhorn and Burl Johnson will be opejfato discussion on Indiana’s new tax laws, including the two per cent sales tax, during the pre-primary Democratic dinner Friday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Eichhorn and Johnson will serve on a five-member panel during the “town hall” meeting, fallowing a fish supper at 6:30 p.m. The panel discussion is expected to begin around 8 p.m. Other members of the panel are Bob Heller, Decatur realtor and former state representative; May- . or Garland Stickler of Columbia City and Mayor Charles Decker of Bluffton. A number of questions are expected to be asked of Eichhorn and Johnson, concerning the new tax laws. Ross Emcee Dr. Karl OLgssker. legislative assistant to Governor Matthew E. Welsh, will be the featured speaker for the affair, and Ron Ross prominent Fort Wayne Democrat, will serve as emcee. ~ Delmas Bollenbachcr, a member of the county commissioners board, and Robert Kolter. Preble township trustee, are co-chairman of the pre-primary meeting. Miss Rosemary Spangler, couhty recorder, is ticket chairman. Ticket Sales Tickets mav be purchased from any member of one Os the four sponsoring organizations according. to Dr. Harry H. Hebble. - Democratic county chairman. Sponsoring organizations are the Democratic central committee, the Democratic Women's club, the Young Democrats. All Democratic candidates from both Decatur and Berne, will be introduced at the dinner meeting. Dr. O’Lessker is a native of Philadelphia now residing in Crawsfordville, where he is professor of political science at Wabash College. He has served as legislative assistant to Governor Welsh since last June.