Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1963 — Page 1

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State Board Action Pushes School Plan

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Action by the State Board of Education to close all high schools with less than 100 pupils has had a “noticeable effect” in advancing school reorganization but the clean-up years may drag past the 1965 Legislature. Dr. J. B. Kohlmeyer, director of the Indiana School Reorganization Commission, observed today that the "remnants of counties” in which most schools already have been included in a reorganization program will be the most difficult to complete. “We have 20 counties in which school reorganization has been completed and another 40 with partial reorganization,” he explained. "There are 115 new school corporations, and this covers about 47 per cent of our school children ” Kohlmeyer said the ruling adopted by the State Board of Education. recently, which will have the effect of eventually closing under-100 pupil high schools, has prompted “a number of township officials to come in and inquire | about school reorganization laws.” Alternates Available He pointed out that in addition to the methods provided by the 1959 law which created the School Reorganization Commission, there are 1947 and 1949 laws which offer alternate methods. The 1959 law sets up county committees which are mandated to produce organization plans. The earlier laws call for local school action in working out a socalled metropolitan school district. Kohlmeyer said these 1947 and 1949 laws are coming into increasing use, particularly where the chances of getting agreement on a

Restore Part Os Postal Cut

WASHINGTON (UPl>—The Senate Appropriations Committee today restored $60.5 million of the $92 million cut by the House from the Post Office Department’s budget for fiscal 1964. However, the committee trimmed $lO million from the S6O million recommended by a subcommittee in operating funds for the department. It is this fund that finances the cost of mail deliveries. The committee balanced off the $lO million reduction in the operating fund recommendation with restoration of $lO million for the facilities postal fund —money for construction of new post offices—The Post Office Department had said it might have to halt Saturday mail deliveries if a S7O million House cut in operating funds was not restored. It said it could get by with the S6O million recommeded by the Senate subcommittee. There was no immediate indication whether the cut to SSO million would change matters. Other congressional news: TFX: Chairman John McClellan of the Senate’s investigating subcommittee endorsed the Boeing Co. challenge to General Dynamics Corp, for a contest to see who could build the best TFX fighter plane. McClellan said such a runoff ’competition would be in the piublic interest. Marines: Congressional sources indicated there will be no general inquiry by lawmakers into the To Enroll Lutheran Pupils Next Week It was announced today that Zion Lutheran school, 1022 W. Monroe street, will enroll pupils for the 1963-1964 school term Monday, May 6, between the hours of 4 to 6 p.m., and Tuesday, May 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. Pupils will be enrolled for grade one, plus any not previously enrolled in grades two through eight. Parents who cannot be present either date may enroll their child by calling the school office, or the principal.

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county-wide plan are dim. "The commission knows of eight counties in which reorganization plans are pending under the 1947 or 1949 laws," the director said. “There is a great deal of activity on the part of people who say they can get something done this year.” Kohlmeyer said such reorganization moves are pending in Boone, Monroe, Ripley, Shelby, Benton, Kosciusko, Warren and Noble “that we know of.” Majority Sufficient Under the 1947 law, voting on the locally-initiated plan is by component parts and the plan must carry in all the areas involved, while under the 1949 law, the majority of all those voting in the total proposed district is sufficient. “One plan failed in LaPorte County last week when there were about 11 votes more against the plan than for it in one place,” Kohlmeyer said. “The majority of ! votes for the plan in the whole 1 district was about 500 but they were voting under the 1947 law so the plan failed.” Kohlmeyer said that certain changes expected to go into effect soon on minimum standards for a school district in a reorganization plan should make the task easier in some parts o fthe state. The commission plans to hold a hearing May 14 on the proposed new standards which will remove a requirement that the district be a “natural-social and economic community” and which would change the attendance figures used in determining the minimum from those of 1959 to the latest figures available.

ousting from the Marines of four officers involved in covering up the slaying of a suspected Castro agent at Guantanamo Naval base. One source said the feeling after a secret Capitol Hill meeting Thursday among Navy, Marine and congressional leaders of both parties was that the case is closed and that everybody would be .better off if it stayed that way. Freeman: Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman denied during Senate questioning that he was trying to influence the result of a forthcoming referendum among farmers on whether to adopt wheat controls for the 1964 crop. . Education: Congress may be asked this year to provide sls million to a proposed solution of the bitter church-state dispute over federal aid to schools. Chairman Adam C. Powell, DN.Y., of the House Education and Labor Committee is preparing a bill to permit federal help in building classrooms for science, mathematics and foreign language instruction of public, private and parochial school students alike. He said this “shared time” concept already was in successful operation in a number of areas, notably Allegheny County (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and in Connecticut. Farm: Sen. Frank Carlson, RKan., introduced a bill designed to tighten import controls on farm and forest products. The bill would hit especially at imports of lumber, plywood, and dairy products. Its provisions, giving the secretary of agriculture control over imports of a wide range of products, were drafted because “controls under present law hove not proven adequate,” Carlson saidTFX: The president of Boeing Co., in closed testimony at a Senate hearing, challenged General Dynamics to a runoffr contest to see who could build the better TFX warplane. But it was- unlikely anything would come of it. General Dynamics already has the contract.

Sub Teachers Keep Anderson Schools Open ANDERSON, Ind. (UPD—Anderson city school administrators hired substitute instructors today in an effort to keep classes in session at schools hard hit by a growing strike of organized teachers. The number of members of the American Federation of Teachers off duty in a controversy over salary negotiations with the city school board increased to about' 190 this morning. About 130 failed to show for duty Thursday morning, and 20 or 25 additional teachers walked out of classes later in the day. An additional 35 or 40 who taught on the first day of the walkout missed classes today. An administration spokesman said 27 substitute teachers were hired in an effort to narrow the gap and permit classes to coni tinue. South Side Junior High was hardest hit with 35 teachers out and only 15 left on duty. Classes without teachers held assembly periods in the school gymnasium to work on assignments. Meanwhile, no resumption of salary negotiations was scheduled. The negotiations broke off after the board presented a second salary proposal to the teachers’ salary committee Wednesday night. Some classes were - dismissed early. Thursday afternoon. because of the teacher shortage. The school board met in a emergency session when the teachers failed to show up for AFT meeting Thursday but board AFT meting Thursday but board president Fred Matthews said officials took no action to replace the striking teachers. Carroll Helvey, president of the local, said the teachers went on strike “because of the school board's refusal to negotiate the details of an acceptable salary schedule ” Helvey said the teachers felt the refusal to negotiate was a violation of an agreement reached last September to head off a threatened strike at that time. A compromise agreement averted a walkout before schools opened although a few members of school coaching staffs missed the start of pre-school football practice. The strike was called a few hours after the Wednesday night meeting at which the school board presented to AFT representatives a salary schedule calling for increases which spokesmen said would cost $370,000 a year. The proposed schedule called for a $5,000 minimum for beginning teachers with bachelor degrees and $5,200 for those with master degrees and tops of $7,550 and $8,750, respectively. The number of teachers absent from classes ranged from none at some schools to 29 of 60 at South Side Junior High. One Anderson High School teacher, Don Barnett, remained away from classes during the day but returned to school in the afternoon for his duties as a member of the baseball coaching staff.

INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and mild tonight and Saturday. night in the 50s. High Saturday in the 70s north, 77 to 85 south. Sunset today 7:41 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 5:42 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Showers. Cooler north, continued warm south. Lows in the low 50s south to low 40s extreme north. Highs around 50 extreme ’ north to near 80 extreme south. z Decatur Temperature Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 60 12 midnight .. 44 1 p.m 58 1 a.m 43 2 p.m 58 2 a.m 42 3 p.m. 5'9 3 a.m 42 4 p.m59 4 a.m. 42 5 p.m 58 5 a.m 40 6 p.m 57 6 a.m. 40 7 p.m. ™.. w. 56 7>m 44 8 p.m. .'. 52 8 A.m... 54 9p'.m. 49 9 a.m 56 10 p.m. ....: 48 10 a.m. 57 11 p.m 46 11 a.m 62- " Rnln Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 2,57 feet.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 3,1963.

Dominican Republic Asks Inter - American Action On Haitian President

750 Negroes Are Arrested

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPD — Police arrested more than 750 Negroes here Thursday in the largest mass demonstration protesting segregation ever held in the United States. Jamie Moore, chief of police in this Deep South industrial center, said a Negro leader had warned him officers could plan on arresting 4.000 Negroes today. At least 2,000 Negroes were milling in the streets at the height of the protest which apparently was triggered by the command of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the best-known civil rights leader in the nation. Authorities said none of the Negroes posted bond and all spent the night in jail. Wave after wave of singing and chanting Negroes, many of them hooky-playing juveniles, converged on the downtown area. Election Workers Named For Tuesday Election Worker’s'’for* the primary election Tuesday were released this morning by county clerk Richard D. Lewton. Election workers for all but one ■ precinct have been turned into the county clerk. The only precinct without Democratic workers named as yet is Decatur 2-C. Republican workers have already been selected for 2-C. Democratic election workers are as : 1-A — Beatrice E. Melchi, inspector; Lucille A. Kallenberger, judge; Magdalene E. Butcher, clerk; Dorma Levy, sheriff. 1-B*— Eloise J. Hoffman, inspector; Helen Cowens, judge; Marcia L. Manley, clerk; Mathias Mine!), sheriff. 1-C — Francile Mclntosh, inspector; Mary V. Baker, judge; Flo L. Reynolds, clerk; Elizabeth Hersh, sheriff. 1-D — Martha F. Rawley, inspector; John R. Eichhorn, judge; Alvera T. Massonnee, clerk; Edward Borne, sheriff: 2- — Margaret M. Braun, inspector; Joseph Koors, judge; Virginia D. Baker, clerk; Melvin F. Gallogly, sheriff. 2-B — Fred Hancher, inspector; Edra Dellinger, judge; Anola Crist, clerk; John Beineke, sheriff. 3- — William H. Barber, inspector; Cecil Ehiger, judge; Rose Nesswald, clerk; Charles A. Weber, sheriff. 3-B — Alvyßuffenbarger, inspector; Flossie Bogner, clerk; Katherina Ochsenrider, clerk; Charles Beineke, sheriff. 3-C — Ethel Foor, inspector; Clifford Steiner, judge; Kathryn Summers, clerk; Josia Sheets, sheriff. Decatur - Root — Edith Walters, inspector; Dorothy Sheets, judge; Ruth Nicodemus, clerk; Augustus Daily, sheriff. Republican workers are as follows: 1-A — Melvena Inez Eady, judge; Marjoria-__Daniels, clerk; Kathryn Bonifas, sheriff. 1-B — Charles Burke, judge; Shirley Eloph; clerk; William Clark, Sr., sheriff. 1-C — Fanny B. Hite, judge; Alvera Eady, clerk; Virginia Ann Hackman, sheriff. 1-D — Nida Deitsch, judge; Norma Lord, clerk; Forrest Brown, sheriff. 2-A — Charles C. Langston, judge; Jennie Edwards, clerk; Arthur Overmeyer, sheriff. 2-B — Mattie Fisher, judge; Fay Ahr, clerk; Thomas Andrews, sheriff. 2- — Josephine O. Andrews, judge; Frances Border, clerk; Curtis F. Hill, sheriff. 3-A — Lola Gould, judge; Edythe I. Lankenau, clerk; Carl V. Gattshall, sheriff. 3-B — Agnes E. Sprague, judge; Hilda I. Staley, clerk; Lessie O. Foreman, sheriff. 3- — buey Daniels, judge; Fern Augsburger, clerk; Harry Young, sheriff. Decatur - Root — Mary Christen, judge; Pauline Beery, clerk; Ernst F. Rekeweg, sheriff.

The Negroes were herded into school buses when officers ran out of paddy wagons and were hustled off to city jail which already was crowded with Negroes arrested in earlier and smaller demonstrations. Motorcycle patrolmen at one point raced their vehicles over curbs and onto sidealks to run down and arrest a group of marchers who had attempted to flee. There were no reported incidents of violence. Although police obviously had been tipped of the demonstration, they apparently were unprepared for a protest of the size that developed. Police were still booking demonstrators past midnight. Four busloads of demonstrators were still waiting to be charged at midnight. Citizens Will Take Over Adams-Wells INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The Indiana Public Service Commission Thursday authorized the Citizens Telephone Co., Decatur, to take over the-Adams-Wells Telephone Co. and to carry out a program of improved serivce. Citizens asked to consolidate Preble, Toscin and Magley with part of Decatur and convert to dial. Toscin will be linked in one area with Bluffton and Preble with Decatur and Monroe, and rates would be the same as Decatur.

All Parking Meters Now In Operation The city’s ‘new’ parking meters have been installed and are now in working order, city parking meter officer James Cochran explained this morning. Actually the meters are not entirely new. Each meter head was removed and new mechanisms installed, with the old posts remaining but given a new coatmf paint. The old meter mechanisms were approximately 15 years old, and were causing numerous repair bills. Cochran had been spending much of his time, and days off, on repairing the meters. The constant repairs were allowing less time to Cochran for making his rounds on the meters throughout the downtown area. The city council voted approval of a contract with McGee-Hale of Oklahoma City, Okla., March 19, for installation of the new heads. Each new mechanism was purchased at a price of $39.95. Pay By Month The city will pay for the new mechanisms $1 per metes, per month, according to the contract. McGee-Hale was- the company that originally installed the meters. In all, there are 214 meters in the city, all of which have had new heads installed. There are 90 meters which give one-hour service, and 124 which give two-hour service. Two-Hour Meters The one-hour meters are located on Second street, with the twohour meters on the side streets. None of the old meters gave twohour time limits. Dick Todd, a representative of the McGee-Hale company’s Jackson, Mich., branch, assisted Cochran in installing the new heads. City patrolman Don Liechty also assisted. With Cochran able to devote more time to making his rounds — more tickets are forthcoming to nieter violators. No “favorites” are played by Cochran, as evidenced this week when he was observed slapping a yellow envelope on the window of an auto of a law enforcement officer.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (UPD — Presidet Juan Bosch, threatening to invade Haiti if it commits any new aggression against the Dominican Republic, today sought collective inter-Amer-ican action against Haitian President Francois DuvalierBosch called Duvalier "a mentally sick man” Thursday night and cited a statement Wednesday by the Haitian president that only God could remove him from power. A fact-finding team of the Organization of American States (OASt flew to Santo Domingo from the Haitian capital of Port au Prince Thursday, leaving behind a country gripped by fear that Duvalier would resume a violent campaign against his enemies. May Not ait Bosch told- foreign correspondents in his presidential residence Thursday night that the Dominican Republid would not wait for OAS action in the event of renewed Haitian aggression. “The next time Haiti commits aggression against us, we will tell the OAS what our course of action has been, not from the Dominican capital but from the capital of a neighboring nation,” he said. Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Bosch’s statement indicated Dominican forces would invade Haiti and try to crush Duvalier’s autocratic regime. Warns Against Aggression The Dominican president said he would act if Haiti Committed “any aggression against any Dominican citizen, interest or place, a plot against our governmet —any activity dedicated to prejudice the Dominican Republic, its interests or its nationals.” He said his government will ask the OAS for a collective break with Haiti under provisions of the Rio Treaty of Inter-Ameri-can Defense which already has been invoked by the OAS in sending the fact-finding team to Haiti | to study Dominican charges. | “We will make the request as I soon as the investigative commitI tee reports,” Bosch said.

Object To Use Oi House For Voting A decision was expetced this afternoon on whether or not voters in Decatur precinct 3-B will vote Tuesday at the Coffee residence, where voting has been held for a number of years. „ County aditor Edward F. Jaberg was informed this morning by Mrs. Christoph Jemueller that she and her husband do not want balloting held in the front room of the home. Mr. and Mrs. Jemueller just recently moved into the residence at 261 N. Seventh St., and are renting the home from Mary and Rose Coffee, who have moved into a home on Third street. Apparently, the Jemuellers were not informed previously that the home was used as a voting place for precinct 3-B, until learning today from Alva Buffenbarger, 3-B inspector. No Final Answer Mrs. Jemueller contacted Jaberg and explained that they did not want the home to be used next Tuesday as a voting precinct. She did, however, withhold a final decision until she had discussed the matter further with her husband. A final answer on whether or not the home may be used was expected to be received by Jaberg later today. As of 1:30 p.m., the county commissioners were not yet" informed of the problem, but would be contacted immediately, Jaberg said, if the Jemuellers said no. It the answer is no, then apparently the only remaining course of action to be taken by the commissioners is to set up a temporary voting poll, possibly by using a house trailer for the day. The Coffee residence has been used for a number of years as the voting place for the precinct 3-B,

Armed Satellites In Orbit Urged

WASHINGTON (UPD — Rep. James G. Fulton, R-Pa, said today that the United States should put a series of nuclear-loaded satellites in orbit around the earth to act as a deterrent to war. Fulton, ranking Republican member of the House Space Committee, said the satellites would serve the same purpose as present land-based missiles — to act as a deterrent and to be fired if this nation were attacked. "I know it sounds wild,” he said in an interview. “But so did Air Force men sitting in (missile) silos sound wild 10 years ago.” Fulton said testimony of defense officials at closed hearings had convinced him that the Pentagon was shying away from a military role in space. Says Realities Ignored Fulton accused civilian Defense Department officials of ignoring the realities of the space age and overruling the wishes of the military chiefs. "The Defense Department is not space minded,” Fulton said. “It comes to the edge of space and then its projects die on the

Three Major State Projects Given Approval INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Three major construction projects, whose ultimate cost will be approximately S3O million, were given a shove toward realization by the Indiana Budget Committee Thursday. In addition, the committee, in a daylong session, authorized numerous repair and improvement projects at state institutions and turned down or deferred 13 other requests. In some cases, the money involved would revert to the general fund if not utilized in the current biennium ending June ~30r — The three big undertakings will be: —An adult hospital to be located at the Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, costing between $lO and sl2 million, of which $6 million is in state funds. The committee approved only $250,000 for preliminary planning, but indicated it intends to approve the remainder of a $2 million 1961 appropriation and a $4 million 1963 appropriation later Also approved was $195,000 for purchase of more land near the LU. medical center. —New residence halls for 880 students at Indiana State College, to be financed by the college out of its own funds at an estimated cost of $4,950,000. —A new intermediate penal institution, known as the Indiana Youth Center, to be located near Plainfield--and which is expected ultimately to cost at least $lO million or more and to include a diagonstic center for all male felons The committee Thursday approved $1,762,750 for the first phase. Other construction and repair projects approved by the committee, subject to further action by the Indiana Budget Agency, were: —Construction of a new National Guard armory at South Bend, for which the state’s share would be $102,000. —Seven projects at New Castle State Hospital totaling $69,043 and including rehabilitation of boilers, laundry addition, additions to cottages, and other repairs. Rejected was a $20,000 garage addition and a $17,000 item for detention screens was deferred. —Three projects at Madison State Hospital, totaling $20,600, including floor, roof and sewer work.

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vine.” ' For example, he said, the Pentagon was phasing out, the Xls rocket plane program and the Dyna-Soar space glider project Fulton said the United States should move quickly to develop offensive and defensive weapons in space. He said there were indications that the Russians already were doing so. Inspect Soviet Satellites As one defensive space weapon, Fulton suggested the United States should put manned satellites in space to inspect Soviet satellites in orbit to see if they contained bombs. Fulton believes the surface-to-surface missile concept soon will be outdated. He contends that the Defense Department has not recognized this. "They’re still thinking about artillery and planes,” he said. Fulton discounted a Pentagon claim that it already was fulfilling a mission in space. “They list their mission as being composed of communication satellites, weather satellites, ICBM’s and IRBM’s,” he said. “Those aren’t missions, they’re sidelines.”

—Other smaller repair projects at Logansport, Norman Beatty and Southern Indiana Tuberculosis hospitals, Indiana Schools for the deaf and blind, Indiana Soldiers Home, Soldiers and Sailors Childrens Home, Indiana State Prison, Reformatory, Women’s Prison, State Farm, Boys' School and Girls’ School. Cite Fire Danger Among these were rewiring at the reformatory and the women's prison which had been urged by the state fire marshal to remove “a constant danger of fire.” A request for SB,OOO to remove old brick walks at the Women’s Prison and replacement with cemet ones was rejected with the comment from some of the members that asphalt would be cheaper. The Indiana Girls’ School request for SIO,OOO to replace a present warning system whereby a light shows on a panel whenever a cell door is opened also was deferred. Rep. John Coppes, RNappanee. suggested most girls probably were smart enough to fix the buttons on their cell doors in such away they wouldn’t signal anyway. Purdue University was authorized to spend $275,035 to complete a civil engineering building under construction and $84,354 to remodel the enginceding administration building. Indiana State College gained approval of $57,143 repairs to several buildings, and Ball State Teachers got a green light for similar work up to $47,219. Monroe Community Days Aug. 14-17 Monroe-Community sponsored by the Monroe firemen, rural firemen, and Lions club, will be held August 14-17, it was announced today. The P & J Amusement Co. of Massillon. 0., will furnish seven different rides, including some of their latest novelties. Tickets good for three nights will be sold in advance. The three-day celebration will begin with a parade Wednesday night. On Thursday there will be a contest for medidm weight tractors in pulling. The heavyweight contest will be held in the evening. The Miss Adams County contest will start Friday night with the talent part of the-contest. The queen will be crowned Saturday night, and she will represent the county at the Bluffton street fair. The profit made from the community days celebration go for fire-fighting equipment and for the betterment of the community-