Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1963 — Page 1

YOL. LXI NO. 107.

City Primary Here Tuesday

Two contests on the Democratic ticket feature the city primaryelection in Decatur Tuesday, as a dull spring campaign reaches its climax. Top race in the Democratic primary is for the party’s nomination for the office of mayor. This contest matches Carl D. Gerber, owner of Gerber’s Supermarket, against Adrain F. Wemhoff, operator of Wemhoff’s Memorials. Gerber is completing his eighth year as a city councilman this year, while Wemhoff was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic mayoralty nomination four years ago. The other contest is for council-man-at-large, in which Lgyvrence Kohne, oil station owner, and present councilman, is opposed by James Kortenber, a Democratic precinct committeeman. Unopposed for Democratic nominations are Mrs. Laura Bosse, incumbent clerk-treasurer; John B. Stults, incumbent city judge; Clyde E. Drake, incumbent city councilman from the fourth dis-

Voters Reminded Os 3-B Change County auditor Edward F. Jaberg today reminded voters in the Decatur 3-B precinct of the change in their balloting place for the primary election Tuesday. Voters in that precinct will cast their ballots in the new barber shop built by Frank Hebble, which is located between Eighth and Ninth streets, on Nuttman Ave. Voters in 3-B formerly voted in> the Coffee residence at 261 N. Seventh St., but that home was not available this year. Jaberg explained Saturday morning that signs will be erected at the Seventh St. home directing voters to the ’hew balloting place. Signs will also be erected to mark the barber shop location as an aid to the voters Jaberg, acting on authority from the county commissioners, secured the Hebble building Saturday morning for voting purposes. Mr. and Mrs. fhristoph Jemueller had recently moved into the home at 261 N. Seventh St., and informed Jaberg Friday morning that the house would not be available for use. The Jemuellers recently rented the home from Rose and Mary Coffee, owners and former residents, and had not been informed that the house was used for balloting during elections. Class Tuesday For Gray Ladies, Men Those interested in taking Gray Lady or Gray Man training will meet Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the I & M building for the classes, Mrs. Leo Sheets, chairman of the American Red Cross Gray Ladies for Adams county, said today. Because of the growth of the Gray Lady service in Adams county, more men and women are needed to. help. Rare or unusual qualities are not required, but certain specific qualities are needed: a liking for people, sympathetic understanding, poise, patience and tact and cheerfulness. Gray Ladies and Gray Men participate tn a program dedicated to the comfort and recovery of the sick, the injured and the handicapped. Trained volunteers can help provide the extras that lift the patients' morale and thereby speed recovery. Gray Ladies and Gray Men pre and placed in assignment and a high degree of service and satisfaction can be expected. Mrs. Jean Green, Gray Lady instructor from Fort Wayne, will be in charge of the Gray Lady Instruction class for the Red Cross Tuesday afternoon. Anyone may attend the meeting who is interested in Gray Lady service and Red Cross activity. County Attendance Officer Reappointed Mrs. Mildred Foley was reappointed as county attendance officer by the A<ianis county board of education Saturday. The appointment is for a oneyear term. Mrs. Foley first served as the county’s attendance officer when she was appointed in the spring of 1952 to fill the unexpired term of her brother, Albert Cop* pess The following year she received her first full appointment.

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trict; Dr. Ralph E. Allison, council/ first district; Chalmer H. DeBolt, council, second district, and Harold B. Miller, council, third district. Republicans Unopposed Mayor Donald F. Gage, serving his first term as mayor, heads the Republican ticket, where there are no contests. No Republicans filed for the offices of city clerk-treasurer, city judge or council, district three. G. O. P. candidates for council are: Clarence P. Ziner, first district; Charles H. Stonestreet, second district; George D. Mac Lean, fourth district, and Mrs. Winifred L. Spaulding, at large. Both parties filed complete slates of candidates in the Berne primary, but no contests developed n either party. County offices, the auto license bureau, and the First State Bank will be closed Tuesday because of the election. Also, all taverns must remain closed while the polls are open, which will be from 6 a. m. until 6 p. m.

New Proposal □ Is Offered In School Strike ANDERSON, Ind. (UPD—The Anderson School Board today presented striking members of the American Federation of Teachers a new salary schedule in hopes of ending their dispute. The federation’s salary committee took the latest proposal to a teachers’ meeting at the union hall of the United Auto Workers for study. The new package deal, for the 1963-64 school year, provided for salary increases totaling $385,000, officials said, about $15,000 more than the original school board proposal. It also gave the federation the privilege of adjusting the salary schedules, as long as they remain within the maximum limits of the proposal, subject to review and approval of the school board. The latest schedule called for a starting annual salary for teachers with bachelor degres of $5,000 and a maximum of $7,550, those with masters degrees from $5,200 to $8,750. While the striking teachers studied the latest proposal, school board members stood by. ready to meet again for the second time within a few hours and minus an ailing member. School Board President Fred Matthews said classes continued in the public school system, although nearly half of the city’s 412 teachers went on strike late last week to protest proposed salaries for the 1963-64 school year. No progress was reported at a meeting Sunday night in attempts to settle .the walkout. Matthews said the school board felt a counter-proposal by Local 519 of the AFT, which would cost an additional $50,000 in salaries, was more than it could afford for the next school year. John Childes, a school board member, collapsed with a cere bral hemorrhage shortly before Sunday night’s meeting and was rushed to a hospital. He was scheduled to undergo brain surgery today Officials said earlier increases in salaries for public school teachers as proposed for the next year would total $370,000. Matthews said the original proposal was returned to the AFT for a review. Parents’ Night At D. H. S. On Tuesday Plans have been completed for the fifth annual parents’ niglft, for the parents of incoming freshmen, at the Decatur high ■ school Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Hugh J. Andrews, principal, and Deane T. Dorwin, guidance counselor, will be in charge of this eighth grade parents’ night program, which is to provide information to the parents on various school aspects and an exchange of ideas for both parents and faculty. Tables will be placed in the gym lobby, where parents may pick up information for use later : n the evening, when the group will be divided into sections. All parents “of incoming freshmen, including those from Union township, have been invited to attend. A coffee hour will be held following the meeting.

■jy * wMHwKi AT THE DISTRICT 4-H and FFA judging contest in Kendallville Saturday the above team won first place in forestry. Pictured are William Journay of Decatur high school, who coached this (earn; Richard Doty, who had an almost perfect score, and David Swickard, who had a perfect score.

Operating Profit Shown By Hospital The Adams county memorial hospital showed its first cash gain in April, reporting $4,723.04 to the good, Thurman I. Drew, hospital administrator, said today. A total of $37,829.63 was deposited for the month, with an operating cash balance of 6,314.35 at the start of the month. Bills and payroll totaled $33,106.59 for the month, leaving an operating cash balance of $11,037.39. There were 323 outpatients treated in emergency surgery, laboratory, or x-ray facilities, up slightly from 302 in March. A total of 186 patients were admitted during the month, and 50 babies were born, compared with 220 patients and 63 babies in the previous month. Four patients and one baby died, 180 patients and 42 babies were dismissed. There were 50 adults and three babies in the hosiptal at the beginning of the month, and 52 adults and 10 babies at the end of the month. In March, there were 53 patients and seven babies at the first of the month, and 50 patients and three babies at the end. Hosiptal authorities have stated t h a t ’the hosiptal should' about break even when it averages 45 patients a day. Cash payments are always behind admissions, however. The hosiptal, with just one profitable month out of four this year, is carrying a $2,700 deficit in actual collections, but this is smaller than in many previous years. In 1962, the cash gain for April was $3,242.18; in 1961, there was a deficit of $1,438.23; in 1960, a cash gain of 2,466.00: in 1959, a cash loss of $1,483.07. May 15 Deadline To File Returns Taxpayers were reminded today that May 15 is the deadline for filing personal property assessment returns without the $lO penalty and 10 per cent interest charges. Any taxpayer who has not recevied the proper form may secure one from his assessor. The Washington township assessor’s office, Monroe and Third streets, is open daily for any taxpayer needing help in filing his return.

Dominicans Ready To Invade Haiti

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (UPl)—President Juan Bosch prepared openly today for a possible invasion of Haiti to topple the autocratic regime of Francois Duvalier. The Organization of American States (OAS) stepped up its efforts to head off a war between the two nations which share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, only 55 miles from Cuba. President Duvalier vowed in Port Au Prince he never would step down under pressure, he told his people: “I am a revolutionary in every sense — not a sentimental type but one of the hard kind. ..1 have for my compaion my rifle.” In Washington, the OAS scheduled an emergency meeting to hear a report from three members of the fact-finding mission it sent to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The mission members expressed doubt that Bosch would move against Haiti while the OAS was trying to solve the crisis.. S' Move Into Position But Bosch moved troops, tanks and warships into position for an invasion, spurred on by a plea from Haita political refugees in asylum in Port Au Prince to save them from “savage assas-

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, May 6, 1963.

Margaret Marshall Dies In Florida Mrs. Margaret Marshell, 88, former resident of Decatur, died at 2:35 o’clock Sunday morning at the Moosehaven home in Orange Park, Fla., where she made her home. Born in Tipton county March 24, 1875, she was a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth DisßroBrown, and was married to Orlon S. Marshall in August of 1891. Her husband preceded her in death in 1949. Mrs. Marshall was a member of the Methodist church and the Women of the Moose. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Raymond (Dora) Ray of Columbia City, and Mrs. John (Pauline) Beery of Decatur; one son, Otto Marshall of Hudson, Mich.; 11 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchil-dren; six great-great-grandchil-dren; and one sister, Mrs. Noble (Effie) Smith of Liberal, Kan. Several brothers and sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Win-teregg-Linn funeral hofoe, the Rev.' A. C. Underwood officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body-will arrive in Decatur late Tuesday night,, and friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Wednesday until time of the services. Decatur Temperature Local weather data for the 48 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. Saturday Sunday 12 noon .... ... 74 12 midnight .. 62 1 p.m 74 1 a.m 52 2 p.m 74 2 a.m 52 3 p.m 74 3 a.m. .... 53 4 p.mJ. 72 4 a.m— 53 5 p.m 70 5 . a.m. 52. 6 p.m. 7 p.m 66 7 a.m 53 8 p.m 64 8 a.m 52 9 p.m 62 9 a.m 50 10 p.m 60 10 a.m 48 11 p.m 54 11 a.m 48 Sunday Monday 12 noon . 50 12 midnight .. 42 1 p.m 54 1 a.m 42 2 p.m. 54 2 a.m 42 3 p.m 54 3 a.m 40 4 p.m 55 4 a.m 39 5 p.m 55 5 a.m 38 6 p.m 55 6 a.m 38 7p m. 54 7- .....44 8 p.m'.. 52 8 a.m 48 9 p.m 48 9 a.m 52 10 p.m 45 10 a.m. 60 11 p.m 44 11 a.m 62 JRaln Total so rthe 48 Tiour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .33 inches. The St. Mary’s river was at 2.17 feet.

sination” by Duvalier’s police. Although no formal ultimatum was issued, Dominican officials hinted the attack could come at any time and might be preceded by heavy aerial bombardment of Duvalier’s palace. U.S. Marines aboard a Navy task force within 30 miles of Port Au Prince were alerted to move in to evacuate 1,000 Americans in the Haitian capital if fighting broke out. The Navy said it was ready to move on 10-minutes notice. British Frigate Stands By he BRITISH SENT A Royal Navy The British sent a Royal Navy frigate to international waters just off Haiti and the Admiralty in London said the ship would remove British residents if that became necessary. A Four Dominican warships moved into the Gonave Channel off Haiti’s west coast, according to Dominican government sources. Combat-ready Dominican troops with tanks and artillery took up offesive positions along the Dominican side of the Haitian border. Three Psl Mustang fighter planes armed with rockets and 20 millimeter cannon stood ready at San Isidro Air Base near Santo Domingo.

Lewis L. Sheets Dies In One - Car Accident Sunday

Thousands Os Hoosiers To Polls Tuesday INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers go to the polls Tuesday to vote in Indiana’s municipal primaries from which the nomines will be chosen for the election next November of 111 mayors and a host of other city officials. The primaries featured some knock-down-drag-out fights in a few larger cities for the mayor, highlighted perhaps by the tussle in Terre Haute involving Mayor Ralph Tucker and State Sen. V. Dewey Annakin for the Democratic nomination. Tucker, loser in the 1956 gubernatorial race to Republican Harold Handley, sought an unprecedented fifth term. Annakin drummed up considerable support as Tucker’s major opponent. The support came from civic organizations and the arty organization, pained by a 1959 international gambling syndicate trial scandal and a slick magazine article in ,1961 tagging Terre Haute as a '"city of stn.” -> i ; ’’ Lake County Interest Major battles also shaped up in Gary, Hammond, East Chicago and Evansville. Nearly two-thirds of the present 108 mayors of Indiana cities ranging in size from little over 1,000 to near half a million populated Indianapolis were in the running for new terms, and 21 of them were unopposed. Thirty-four mayors did not seek renomination, 74 did. There were 497 candidates for 222 nominations for mayor, and additional thousands running for city council, city clerk-treasurer and city judge nominations. Three new cities—East Gary, New Haven and Scottsburg—will choose candidates to vie for the honor of being first mayors of their cities. It appeared certain the weather would provide no discouragement for voting. Forecasts called for fair and mild throughout the day. Apathy In Cities Apathy was expected to play a part in holding down the vote to only a fraction of the potential, however. In 17 cities, the Democratic and Republican mayor candidates were unopposed and thereby nominated automatically. The largest of these was Kokomo, the only city among Indiana’s 25 largest with a GOP mayor. The city primaries involve voters from a population segment representing a little more than half of the total head count in Indiana. While perhaps 1.1 million voters were eligible to cast ballots, most observers believed fewer than 50 per cent actually would do so. At Gary, where the mayor’s office went to City Controller John Visclosky last December when Mayor George Chacharis resigned and went to prison in a contract kickback scandal involving federal income tax evasion, City Judge AMartin Katz was an organization favorite in a nine-way Democratic race. Other candidates included two former city councilmen, a township trustee and a township assessor. Vies Against Jeorse At East Chicago, Mayor Walter M. Jeorse sought a fourth term with Dr. John B. Nicosia fighting him for the Democratic nomination. Mayor Edward Dowling's bid for the Democratic renomiriation at Hammond was opposed by former city controller Joseph E. Kle. Former Mayor H. O. Roberts’.ef Evansville sought the Republican nomination with radio newscaster David Hoy, 32, his chiefppponent, and Mayor Frank McDonald the favorite in a four-way Democratic race. / Mayor Ralph Fetguson of Anderson had strong opposition from Anderson Twp. Assessor Wayn Dean for >tne Democratic nomination.

Resident Os Near Decatur Crash Victim Lewis L. Sheets, 34-year-cld resident of Decatur, route 5, suffered fatal injuries Sunday morning in a one-car accident near Payne, 0., as he was returning home from taking a fellow worker to bis residence. Sheets was pronounced dead on arrival at the Van Wert hospital, where he was taken following the 7:45 a. m. crash on Ohio 49, five miles south of Payne, O. The Adams county man, whose parents and two brothers reside in Decatur, suffered a crushed chest, fractured neck and legs, and other injuries, as his auto crashed into a concrete bridge railing. Returning Home Sheets was a four-year employe of the International Harvester, in addition to being a farmer. He had taken a friend to his home in the Payne area, after leaving the Harvester, and was returning to his home five miles northeast of Decatur in Union township, when the fatal crash occurred. Ohio highway - patrolman Stan Scott stated Sheets Apparently fell asleep at the wheel of the pickup truck he was operating. 7716 truck crashed into the concrete bridge railing, totally demolishing the truck. Reports stated that the engine of the vehicle was shoved into the seat of the truck from the force of the impact with the bridge railing. Survivors Survivors include the parents, J. E. and Addie V. Woods Sheets, 957 ■Walnut St.; his wife, Mary Lee; two sons, Jesse, 12, and Thomas, six; two daughters, Vicki, eight, and Julia, two; two brothers, Lester, 322 N. First St.; Lloyd, 1020 Master Drive; two sisters, Mrs. Miles (Delise) Nishiyama, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Mrs. Lendall (Helen) Milheim, of Tecumsi, Mich. A brother, Leo Sheets, preceded in death. The accident victim was born July 3, 1928, in Adams county, and was married June 28, 1947. He was a member of the Moose lodge in Decatur and attended the Union Chapel E. U. -B. church. Funeral services will be held.at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the' Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. in the Union Chapel church. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today. Rev. Kenneth Angle will officiate. The Moose will hold memorial services at 7:30 p. m, Tuesday. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. 'Son 01 U-Name If Friday And Sunday Decatur Catholic high school students will present “Son of U-Name-It." an original play, in the school auditorium Friday and Sunday nights at 8 o’clock. The production has been conceived, written, presented and' “misdirected" by students of the school, who expect to derive no profit because of the “expensive costumes and lavish scenery.” As the “directors” stated, “it is an unorganized laugh riot from start to finish. See championship golf on our stage, attend an ancient Roman news conference, see unexcelled talent explode during dinner at the supper club. “See the ‘stumble-bum’ collide with reality, see and hear General Sherman’s statement to Dracula, watch a real-for-sure flea circus. “Add a number or two from the D. C. H. S. hand and you have 75 minutes of carefree entertainment for 75 cents. “Prices are 75 cents or adults and 35 cents for students. Do yourself a favor, have a laugh, and help make up the deficit. Tickets may be purchased from any band or chorus member, or at the door Friday and Sunday nights.”

Political - Religious Movement Spreads

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (UPI) —A political-religious demonstration against Missouri's refusal to provide public school bus transportation for parochial students spread to urban and metropolitan areas today. The orderly demonstrations, which today centered in the St. Louis area and in Jefferson City, also moved from the elementary school to the junior high school level. Similar demonstrations failed to develop as expected, however, in the Kansas City metropolitan area. In Jefferson City, the capital, a total of 447 Catholic school students enrolled in public schools —362 in elemetary schools and 85 at Simonsen Junior High School. In the St. Louis metropolitan area, children waited with their parents in line for erollment at Combs Elementary School in suburban Florissant. In nearby Washington, most of the 1,200 Catholic school students enrolled in the city’s public schools, doubling the public school enrollment. •Coat Will Increase State Education Commissioner Hubert Wheeler said that if all did enroll in public schools the cost of education in Missouri would increase by $66 5 million per year. He said this would cause “financial disaster” to the state’s school system. But Gov. John M. Dalton said today the state had the responsibility of providing education “for the children of Missouri.” “They have a right to attend the school of their choice,” said Dalton. “And they have a right for peaceful protest. “It’s a good safety valve to be able to protest.” There were scattered demonstrations last Wednesday and Thursday which grew and widened Friday. Suburbs of St. Louis and Kansas City expected heavy enrollments today and some 1,500

More Protests Are Planned By Negroes

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPl)—Negro leaders, encouraged by the first march on city jail in a 34day campaign that did not result in mass arrests, planned more protests for today while federal officials sought to ease the explosive racial situation here. More than 2,000 singing, chanting Negroes Sunday marched six blocks from a Negro church to a park across from the city jail. They were permitted by police to hold a 15-minute demonstration aimed at bolstering the spirits of more than 1,200 Negroes who remain in jail for previous demonstrations. Keep Close Wateh - Burke Marshall, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division and considered the chief racial trouble-shooter of the Kennedy administration, met with local officials during the weekend in efforts to ease racial pressures. Both sides remained tight-lipped about the negotiations. U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy canceled a weekend trip to keep an .eye on the tense situation in this Deep South industrial center. Negro leaders predicted students who began skipping school by the hundreds last week to take part in the drive would play hooky en masse today to participate in the protests. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who predicted complete success for the protest movement in a sermon in Atlanta Sunday, was back here today to Spearhead the drive. Comedian En Route Negro comedian Dick Gregory, atcive in a recent® Greenwood, Miss., Negro voter registration

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Catholics said they would enter public schools today in this state capital town. Kill Bus Measure The Missouri House had a bill before it which would have extended school bus privileges to private and parochial schools. The House Judiciary Committee voted 19-8 Tuesday to kill the measure. There had been heated hearings concerning the proposal, but when the bill died the protests exploded. The Roman Catholic Church has not sanctioned the demonstrations. Some leaders said it was the right of the individuals to protest and others said they were dead against it. The main lobbyist for the bill, James Cox of Jefferson City, said there was no advanced planning in the demonstrations. Parents at the tiny town of St. Martin, nine miles west of here, started the demonstration erollments which spread rapidly. Other Catholic parents said they planned to enrdH their children in public schools nnxt fall because “we can’t afford to keep on voting ’ bond pffbTic scliddls and paying parochial tuition too.’’ May Reconsider Proposal Capitol sources said the House of Representatives may reconsider the proposal today, in light of the demonstrations- One legislative leader said it was the type of issue that “you can’t win” by voting for or against. Tuesday is the deadline for reconsidering the measure. Dr. Stanley I. Stuber, executive director of the Missouri Council of (Protestant) Churches, indicated that his organization would oppose reconsideration of the measure. He said “this emotional pressure action is something very dangerous." Gov. John M. Dalton said he had no authority to deal in legislative matters and left the burden of the proposal on the shoulders of the lawmakers.

drive, was to arrive later today by plane- — Police Commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor had police keep a tight rein. on the march Sunday and set up barricades complete with fire hoses around the park, but the demonstaation was not broken up. Leaders in the campaign were elated over the march, the nearest thing to a victory in the campaign that has brought more than 1,500 arrests including many young children. Schamerloh Rites Tuesday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Adolph Schamerloh, 1010 West Monroe street, who died Saturday morning, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran church. The Rev. Richard C. Ludwig will •’officiate, with burial in the Immanuel Lutheran church cemetery in Union township. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Fair with little temperature change tonight. Tuesday fair and warmer. Low tonight low 40s. High Tuesday 68 to 74. Sunset today 7:44 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:39 a.:m. Outlook for Wednesday: Clear to partly cloudy with rising tempertures. Lows in the 40s. Highs 70 extreme north to near 80 extreme south.