Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 106.

Martial Law On In Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPD —President Francois Duvalier’s embattled government imposed martial law on this tense capital Friday night and decreed a ninehour nightly curfew, from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. These emergency measures appeared to be designed to curb the activities of night-prowling terror bombers and to eliminate the possibility of over-eager troops firing on foreign diplomats moving about the city after dark. Although tight censorship veiled most details, there are known to have ben frequent skirmishes between supporters and foes of Duvalier in recent weeks. Bomb Set Off A bomb was set off Thursday night at a reservoir near the Brazilian Embassy, causing neither casualties nor notable damage. A Texaco station in Port au Prince’s Beau Boeuf district was burned Wednesday night and a number of persons are believed to have been killed in a clash between dissident militiamen and members of Duvalier’s secret police. Travelers from the provinces say firing was audible nightly from Thursday through Saturday last week near the northern port of Cap Haitien-

< MT Pamela Mulligan Name Class Leaders ; At Hoagland High Miss Pamela Mulligan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Mulligan of Hoagland, has been named valedictorian for the 1963 graduating class at Hoagland high school. Her four-year average was 95-5%. Salutatorian is Miss Margetta Gottschalk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Gottschalk, of Hoagland. Her four-year average was 94.8%. Mis’s Mulligan is president of the National Honor society; vice president of the Future Teachers of America chapter; vice president of the science club and secretary of the senior class. She will attend Ball State Teachers college this fall, where she will major in elementary education. Sporn Loan Fund Al Indiana Institute Establishment of a $50,000 “Phillip and Sadie Sporn loan fund" at Indiana Institute of Technology, Fort Wayne, was announced jointly Friday afternoon by Philip Sporn, of New York City, and Dr. Archie T. Keene, president of Indiana Tech. Sporn is the retired president of Indiana & Michigan Electric company and its parent firm, American Electric Power company, and presently serves as chairman of the system development committee of AEP. The $50,000 loan fund was made available by the Philip Sporn educational trust to deserving students at Indiana Tech, both present and future. The trust had been created from initial gifts totaling SIOO,OOO from almost 9,000 employes of the seven-state AEP system, including 2,200 employes of I & M, and from the company itself on the occasion of Spom’s retirement as president December 1, 1961. Announcement of the new loan fund was made when Sporn spoke Friday afternoon at a meeting on the Indiana Tech campus. The $50,000 fund is similar to funds established by the Philip Sporn educational trust last December at the engineering schools of Columbia University, Sporn’s alma mater, and Cornell University.

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(In nearby Santo Domingo, authoritative sources told UPI correspondent Henry Raymont that U.S. Marines would land in Port-au-Prince to protect Americans and other foreigners if there is a major outbreak of violence. Navy Stands By (A U.S. naval task force, carrying planes and a sizeable Marine landing force, has been lying just outside Haitian waters since April 26, when political unrest in Haiti reached the boiling point. (Dominican President Juan Bosch declared Friday night that his army will invade Haiti if the lives of Dominican citizens are threatened. He was said to have proposed the formation of an international Latin American force to restore order in Haiti if violence breaks out.) Duvalier’s difficulties assumed international dimensions when the Dominican government protested an alleged violation Os its embassy here by Haitian troops and threatened to attack unless the troops were removed. Haitian authorities have granted safe conducts to 15 of 22 opponents of Duvalier who have sought asylum in the Dominican Embassy, but the building is surrounded by Haitian troops.

Mfl Margetta Gottschalk Miss Gottschalk is a member of the National Honor society, treasurer of the Future Teachers of America Chapter and treasurer of the yearbook staff. She was awarded a county PTA scholarship and plans to attend Purdue Cen- ■ ter in Fort Wayne, where she will > major in elementary education. Senior activities at Hoagland high school for the month of May will include the alumni banquet May 4 at the school, and the jun-ior-senior prom at Cutters Chalet May 18. Baccalaureate services will be held in the school auditorium Sunday, May 19, at 8 p.m. Rev. Cesler of the Hoagland Methodist church will deliver the address. Commencement exercises will be Monday, May 20, at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium. Dr. George Davis, former head of the department of adult education, Purdue University, will give the address, “How smart are you?” Martha Schamerloh Dies This Morning Mrs. Martha Schamerloh, 76, wife of Adolph Schamerloh, 1010 West Monroe street, died suddenlv at 8:20 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been a patient one day. She had been ill for the past year but death was unexpected. Born in Root township April 2, 1887, she was a daughter of Fred and Anna Schroeder-Bultemeier, and was married to Adolph Schamerloh Oct. 23, 1910. Mrs. Schamerloh was a member of the Zion Lutheran church. Surviving in addition to her husband are one daughter, Mrs. Robert (Margaret) Ashbaucher of Decatur; two sons, Fredrick Schamerloh of Decatur, and Arthur Schamerloh of Fort Wayne; six grandchildren; two great-grand-children; five sisters, Mrs. Martin (Ida) Aumann of Decatur route 1, Miss Louise and Miss Emma Bultemeier, both of Decatur route 1, Mrs. Paul (Marie) Reiter of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Edwin (Sophie) Schamerloh of Decatur route 5, and two brothers, Martin and Henry Bultemeier, both of Decatur route 1. . _ _ . * . The body was removed io- the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p. m. Sunday. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Frank B. Snider Drowned Friday At Marble Lake Frank Boyd Snider, 77, of 916 Russell street, a retired farmer, was accidentally drowned Friday afternoon at 3:45 o’clock while he and his wife, Jennie, were fishing in Marble Lake at Quincy, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Snider, who own a cottage at the lake, and have spent the past several summers there, were fishing at the south end of the lake when the accident occurred. Mrs. Snider in some manner fell out of the boat and her husband apparently drowned while attempting to rescue her. Mrs. Snider was saved from the lake by other fishermen. The drowning victim was bom at Poe, June 9, 1885,. a son of Preston and Mathilda Felger-Snider. He was married in 1905 to Mabie Stewart, who died in 1942. He was then married to Jennie Miller Aug. 6, 1947. Mr. Snider attended the Bobo United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to his wife are three seas, Wendell and Alvin Snider, both of Fort Wayne, and Chalmer Slider of Celina, O.; eight grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Lucius Sommers of Hoagland. One daughter is deeased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Richard Cesler officiating. Burial will be in the Poe cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. Change Location Os 3-B Precinct Voters in the Decatur 3-B pre- . cinct will vote Tuesday in' the site of the new barbershop built recently on Nuttmaii Ave., between Eighth and Ninth strets. The new voting place is located west of the former voting site of the former Coffee residence at 261 N. Seventh St., and west of the Pennsylvania railroad tracks on Nuttman Ave. County auditor Edward F. Jaberg, acting on authority from Hugo Boerger, head of the board of county commissioners, secured the new building owned by Frank Hebble Friday afternoon, after it was learned that the former voting place was no longer available. Hebble recently finished work on the new building, which will house his barbershop. Signs Will Direct Jaberg explained this morning that signs wil be erected at the former voting poll directing persons in the 3-B precinct to the Hebble, building, and that signs will also be erected to mark the barbershop as the balloting building. The problem arose Friday morning when Jaberg was informed by Mrs. Christoph Jemueller that the former site would not be available. Mr. and Mrs. Jemueller had just recently moved into the Seventh St. home, and had completed their “spring cleaning.’’ They did not know the home was used for voting purposes. The Jemuellers had rented the house from Mary and Rose Coffee, who formerly resided there, and who had allowed the home to be used for voting. News Service Back In Operation Today The Decatur Daily DemocratCitizens Telephone Co. news service, over telephone number 3-2171, is back in service today after a week’s “vacation”. An electrical circuit to which the recorder-transmitter was plugged became shorted, and smoked heavily early in the week- This was fixed today, allowing news to again be given over the telephone number, through a taped recording, from 5 p.m. until 8 a m. daily, and all day Saturday and Sunday. Decatur Temperature Local weather data for the period ending at 10 a.m. today. 12 noon 71 12 midnight .. 54 1 p.m. 70 1 a.m. —52 2 p.m 70 2 a.m 50 >5 p.m 69 3 a.m.... 50 4 p.m 68 4 a.m. ..—6l 5 p.m 66 5 a.m. 51 6 p.m 66 6 a.m. 50 .7 p.m..„ .64 7 a.m.-.54. 8 p.m 62 8 a.m 60 9 p.m 60 9 a.m. 64 10 p m 56 10 a.m 74 41 p.m 54 Bala Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 inches. The St. Mary's river was at 2.37 feet.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 4,1963.

Six Children Die, Five Others Injured When Fire Burns Home Os Retarded

Wildcat League's Fund Over $2,700

The Decatur Wildcat League fund, to provide organized baseball for boys 8%-15 on an every-player-plays basis, went over the $2,700 mark today, with $2,737.42 received toward the goal of $3,600, Arthur Heimann, association treasurer, said this morning. A total of $2,163.42 has been received in cash, with $566 outstanding in pledges. Sign-up In Two Weeks ' Junior Lake, president of the Little League, announced today that his league would try to make its by May 15, so that the Wildcat League would have time to survey the school children before the end of school, and find out just how many boys would be interested in signing up for the league. The Little League also voted to drop its morning league program at Worthman field, Lake stated. This meant that the Little League would be giving up its farm system ,but each team would still have a list of boys from whom it could call those needed during the regular season. Wildcat League boys will be released at any time to the Little or Pqny_lea-|

I (We) wish to be a co-sponsor of the Decatur Wildcat League to provide training in citizenship and baseball for boys who do not make the other teams. I (We) hereby subscribe and enclose $ to this worthwhile project. Signature

Franklin Liechty Is Taken By Death Franklin Liechty, 62, of Berne, employed as a fireman at the Wayne Novelty Co. in Decatur, died at 4:15 p.m. Friday at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton. He had been hosiptalized for the past two weeks. He was born in Adams county Feb. 2, 1901 a son of Jacob J. and Regina Luginbill-Liechty, and was a lifelong resident of the Berne community. ~ Mr. Liechty was a member of the Evangelical Mennonite church. Surviving are his wife, the former Gladys Wittwer; three daughters, Mrs. Harold (Gyneto) Mishler of Middlebury, Ind., -Mrs. Joe (Shirley) Lehman and Mrs. Norman (Doris) Hains, both of Berne route 2; nine grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Robert Sprunger, and four brothers, Hiram, Oswald, Elmer and Clifton Liechty, all of Berne. One brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Evangelical Mennonite church, the Rev. Alvin G. Becker officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at toe Yager funeral home in Berne after 11 a.m. Sunday until 12:30 p.m. Monday, when the body will be removed to the church. Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will meet Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock in the parlor of toe Zion United Church of Christ. There will be a report from the nominating committee and the election of officers. Rev. J. 0. Penrod will give the devotions. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight with some scattered thundershowers. Cooler tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and cooler,. Low tonight upper 40s to low 40s north ,upper 50s south. High Sunday low 60s north, upper 70s south. Outlook for Monday. Partly cloudy, rather cool north, mild south.

l — . gues whenever they want them, . Carl A. Braun, Wildcat president, . promised. I Applications for Director Several applications for director . have already been received and blanks are available at the Dei catur Daily Demrocat office for . those interested. Applications must be received by May 10 for consideration, as a director must . be chosen, and the program lined ■ up, as soon as possible. New donors include: Zwick fun- . eral home, Mr. and Mrs. Mayi nard Hetrick, Charles J. Leonard, Kenneth Erhart, Holthouse Drug ; Co.. Harold Nash, Evans Grocery, . Mel Tinkham, and Ron Gerber. ■ Please Pledge Anyone desiring to pledge an amount, or make a contribution, is asked to do so immediately, Braun stressed this morning. The following form should be filled out and submitted with a check, to Decatur Wildcat League, Box 4, Decatur, Indiana. Please enclose check and mail • to Decatur Wildcat League, Box . 4. Decatur. Indiana. Braun added.

Three Persons Hurt In Accident Friday * Gerald Ray Shelton, 31, a resident of Sixth St., was one of three persons seriously injured in a twocar accident at the intersection of U. S. 224 and state road 101 at 11:30 p.m. Friday. Shelton is in the Adams county memorial hosiptal today with severe lacerations to the face and head and a fractured right leg, in addition to minor cuts and bruises. Babis Barton, 20, of Fort Wayne, driver of the other automobile, suffered an injury to the right knee and lacerations to the face. A passenger in the car driven by Barton, John Romany, also of Fort Wayne, owner of the auto, suffered a broken right leg, and a possible skull fracture, in addition to lacerations to the face and injuries to the chest. Both Barton and Romany were transfered to the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne. Still Investigating The mishap is still under an investigation being conducted by deputy sheriff Harold August and state trooper Gene Rash. It is known that Barton was traveling south on 101, and Shelton was westbound, traveling to Decatur, on 224. Barton’s auto was struck broadside by the Shelton car, but on the right side. Barton was in the path of Shelton’s vehicle on 224, but had the car pointing north, since the Barton car was struck on the right side, and not the left .side. Pinned Beneath The force of the impact flipped the Barton car into the ditch on the northwest corner of the intersection. Barton was thrown from the vehicle and was pinned underneath the car, which came to rest on its top. Romany was not thrown from the auto, but was hurled into the back seat and through the rear window of the auto. August and Rash estimated both cars, a 1961 model driven by Shelton, and a 1953 model operated by Barton, as total losses.

ROCKVILLE, Ind. (UPD- Fire swept through a home for mentally retarded children here Friday night, killing six children and injuring five others, one critically. All of the dead were between 3 and 10 years of age. The operators of the home were not present at the time of the fire but said a “friend” was caring for the children at the time. Two teen-age boys were also in the building along with the 11 younger children when the fire broke out. Bodies of the dead children were taken to funeral homes here and the six injured were rushed to the Vermillion County Hospital at ClintonWilliam Johnson, who operates the home with his wife, Betty, identified the dead children as Muriel Johnson, 3, Gary; Bryant Smith, 8, South Bend; George Spurgeon, 6, Columbus, Ind.; Linda Landrigan, 5, Greenwood; Pamela Taylor, 10, Indianapolis, and Tamara Wallace, 5, Illinois. He said the injured were Jerry Ray Day, 6, Vanderburgh County; Patsy Jones, 4, Gary: Clarence Foley, 4, Columbus; and Tommy Jones, 7, South Bend. Reported Critical The Foley boy was reported in critical condition. Rockville Fire Chief Bernard Lee said the fire apparently resulted from an explosion in an electric clothes dryer. Fire companies from Rockville and Clinton rushed to the two-story e wooden building just east of the main « square on U.S. 36. The fife, which broke out at about 8:40 -p.m. (EST), destroyed the building and left only the shell standing. Johnson said he and his wife were not in the building when the fire started. “We had just walked up to the Legion Post, a half-block away,” he said. He said a friend, whom he described as “an adult” but declined to identify, was with the children at the time. Returned Immediately Johnson said he and his wife “returned immediately when we learned of the blaze.” He said “one of the boys” told them of the fire. The boys were Daryl Cottrell, 16, Mrs. Johnson’s son, and a friend, Gary Shay, about 15. Both Cottrell and Shay were taken to the hospital but doctors said they were not injured. “When we got back to the house it was pretty well gone up,” Johnson said. He said firemen would not let him into the house. Four of the children were dead when taken from the structure, a fifth died enroute to the hospital, and the Wallace girl died at the hospital, authorities saidTwo of the bodies were found in a front bedroom on the ground floor, two others were found in an adjacent bedroom and the fifth was found in a playroom at the rear of the building. Lee said the building was a mass of flames when his men arrived. "It was fire all over when we got there,” he said. The dead and injured children represented the entire number of patients living in the home, which Mrs. Esterh Remley, Parke County welfare director said was inspected and approved only two days previously. 2 Help Save Lives Two men who were walking near the home when the flames were discovered were credited with probably keeping the death toll from being higher. Keith Spencer, 31, a radio and television shop owner, was talking with a friend, Melvi Davis, 51, Shelbyville High School industrial arts teacher, only a few feet away when they saw the fire. Davis, who was visiting in Rockville, said he hurled a chunk of concrete through a window, reached in and pulled a child out through the broken pane. Spencer said he ran into the smoke-filled house and removed three children from cribs, one of whom was badly burned. The Rev. Henry Gardner, pastor of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Shurch, said by the time he discovered the fire he could not enter the house because of the flames. He said a rear door which he tried to open was locked. NOON EDITION

School Problems Convention Topic

Herbert Banning and Richard Macklin, Decatur school board members, and G. M. Grabill. superintendent of schools, returned Friday from Denver, Colo., where they were among 5,000 persons from all sections of the nation attending the 23rd annual convention of toe national school boards association. Theme of this year’s meeting was: “School Boards In A Changing Society” and speakers covered the full range of school problems from keeping abreast of the latest developments in teaching techniques and school design to finding adequate financial resources to pay the skyrocketing bills for modern education. The convention opened April 28 with NSBA president Cyrus M. Higley of Norwich, N. Y„ telling board members they live in a world dominated by change and growth. In describing the educational change that is taking p 1 ace. Higley said: “the powerful force of national goals has already reshaped the curriculum of the 1960's so that it bears little resemblance to what we knew in the years immediately following World War 11. And from all toe evidence, it seems clear that the momentum of change has just begun to build. The latter years of this decade will show us a far different America than we were familier with just a few years ago. This will be reflected in our schools as much as in any other aspect of our society.” Higley charged school board members with the responsibility of being more than sideline spectators to this change. “We have a stronger obligation to participate in shaping this change in order to serve the goals of toe nation and of our local schools.” In doing this, the NSBA president said that boardmen may even be called upon to “buck the tide of popular opinion in order to safeguard some of the traditional aspects of our schools.” Boards of education also have a leadership role to play in making certain that their educational programs are paid for, Higley asserted. “This means that securing improved levels of support from state and local sources for educational programs must become their first order of business.” Higley reminded his audience that the changes called for in the balance of this decade are costly. “It is always cheaper to do a little more of the same thing than it is to revise methods and materials for an entirely new approach. But the old curriculum which served us well will not do anymore,” he concluded, “and the new curriculum comes high.” NSBA is a federation of the 50 state school boards associations rperesenting school board members responsible for the education of 95 per cent of toe students enrolled in the nation’s public elementary and seconday schools. The national school boards as-sociation-elected an experienced team of officers and directors to guide it through the coming year, at its twenty-third annual convention. The five men and four women named to office during the three-day convention of the NSBA all have long records of service on their local boards of education, in addition to experience in statewide and national educational affairs. New president is Mrs. Fred A. Radke of Port Angeles, Wash. Mrs. Radke has been a member es her local board of education since 1948 and is now serving as president. Mrs. Radke, who is also a member o fthe Washington state board of education, just completed a term as NSBA first vice president. In addition, she has served as second vice president, as chairman of NSBA’s federal aid survey committee in 1961-62, and as a member of several other association committees. First vice president is W. L. Robinson of College Park, Ga. Robinson has been a member of the Fulton County, Ga., board of

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l • ; 1 education since 1949 and president since 1959. In addition to just hav- : ing completed a term as NSBA second vice president, Robinson is 1 a past president of the Georgia school boards association. Stepping into the second vice president’s spot is Mrs. Fred L. Paul of St. Paul, Minn. She has been a member of her local board of education since 1951, a member of the Minnesota school board association, and a former NSBA treasurer. Re-elected treasurer was Keith M. Lesh of Anchorage, Alaska, Lesh was Alaska’s first representative at an NSBA convention in 1956. Two years earlier, the Alaska association of school ’ boards was organzied with Lesh as a charter member and its first secretary. Five directors were elected to ■ fill positions from the five regions of toe nation on NSBA’s board of directors. From the northeast reE gion, Mrs. Ruth Mancuso of Glass- ’ bore, N. J., was elected to a three- * year term. She is currently presi- ’ dent of toe state federation of Dis- " trict boards of .education of New • Jersey. ' ’ " Elected from the central region ‘ was F. E. Phillips of Fort Dodge, ■ lowa, a member of his local board ! of education and president of the lowa association of school boards. J From the southern region, Brown Mahn of Greenville, S. Car., a past ‘ president of the South Carolina association of school boards, was . elected. ! To round out the board membership, Mrs. Carter Goodpasture of Wichita, Kans., was elected to represent the western region. Mrs. ' Goodpasture is currently president ' of the Kansas association of school boards. From the Pacific region, Dr. H. C. Willett of Los Angeles, Calif.,, was re-elected to his second ’ three-year term as an NSBA direc- ' tor. Native Os India Is Speaker At Rotary The Decatur Rotary club had as its guest speaker" Thursday Ravi Bothra from Calcutta, India. Bothra received his bachelor of science degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Calcutta and currently is studying mechanical engineering at Indiana InStiUte of Technology in Fort Wayne. Bothra gave an extemporaneous talk covering a broad range of subjects concerning India’s development and culture. He stated that the Indian government has been following a five-year plan and presently they are in the process of completing their third five-year program. The first five-year plan started in 1951- with the construction of a fertilizer plant. This plant would serve as the springboard for increasing Indian agriculture production ability. The main source of income to the Indian economy is through agriculture. The second five-year plan started in 1955 when two steel mills were constructed. The third project was the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the north central part of the country. The water coming from the dam supplies water to three states, pips electrical power. The Indian policy of peaceful co-existence with Reo China, according to Bothra, is no longer feasible. The people are not satisfied with the current situation and are preparing themselves. As an example of the next two-year budget of $4 billion, $1.3 billion has been allocated for defense which is completely opposed to previous Indian policy. Os local interest, Bothras’ father is the largest exporter of jute in India. The Bag Service company buys a portion if its burlap supply through the firm.