Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 115.

Astronaut Cooper On Trail-Blazing Mission

Flawless Leap Into Space By Astronaut; Attempts 22 Orbits

Racial Tensions Easing In South

By United Press laternattonal Racial tensions eased in Birmingham, Ala., and Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday but flared again in North Carolina's capital city of Raleigh. More than 800 Negroes staged a “freedom march” through downtown Raleigh Tuesday night to back up desegregation demands. Police arrested 34 demonstrators. There were no incidents during the march but there were some tense moments whe the demonstrators passed street corners crowded with white youths. Police charged 15 of the arrested group with assault against Leslie Ferguson, assistant manager of a cafeteria. who was "put in a state of fear*’ during a sit-in attempt Ministers Back Desegregation A N-raeial committee held a two-hour meeting to Raleigh Tuesday and bank official Victor Bell Jr. said “I think we made good progress in understanding each other and the problem ” Earlier the Raleigh ministerial Association voted 42-1 in favor of desegregating business facilities. Birmingham was relatively quiet Tuesday and federal observers said the city’s racial atmosphere was “improving." They added, however, that federal troops would remain at nearby military bases because of the chance of “trouble developing quickly.” Alabama Gov. George Wallace sent another telegram to Presi-

INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer with occasional thundershowers tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 47 to 53. High Thursday 70 to 70. Sunset today 7:52 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 5:30 a. tn. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and warmer with chance of showers or thunderstorms. Lows in the 50s. Highs mid 70s north to low 80s south. U.N. Seeks Way To Meet Huge Deficit UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD —The United Nations General Assembly today turned to its budget committee to seek ways to make up a SIOO million deficit and avoid threatened bankruptcy. In the second day of a special session convened to discuss the financial burdens of U.N peacekeeping missions in the Congo and Middle East, the 111-nation administrative and budgetary committee scheduled at 3 p.m. EDT meeting. The 111th nation was added to the committee and the assembly Tuesday with the admission of Kuwait as the latest U.N. member. The budget committee was called to hear a report of the unsuccessful efforts of wroking group of 21 countries to agree on a financing plan for peace-keep-ing efforts. Best bet for approval was a British “three-bite” plan which calls for the first $lO million in peace-keeping costs for the last half of this year to be apportioned on a regular scale of assessment. Secretary General Thant estimates these costs will total $33 million. Underdeveloped countries would receive- -h- -50- per cent reduction from all-• ■costs over the $lO million figurd.-'This would leave a about nine per cent to be made ‘up by voluntary contributions — notabli from the United States. ”

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dent Kennedy demading either the removal of the troops or publication of “the true fact of your military operation...’’ Wallace said the presence of the troops was an “open invitation to a resumption of street rioting by lawless Negro mobs, on the assumption they will be protected by federal military forces.’’ Some Optimism Noted The President was reported to be “cautiously—optimistic” he would not have to use the 3,000 troops rushed to military bases at Montgomery and Anniston following racial rioting on Birmingham streets last Saturday night. Kennedy was said to be “very hopeful and very desirous that this matter can be settled on a local level.” - Administration sources in Washington said that white Birmingham citizens who took part in working out a desegregation agreement with Negro leaders have been threatened with violence. These sources said the bombings of a Negro house and motel which touched off the rioting were aimed at destroying the agreement. < Negro students at Nashville, in the face of opposition from their own leaders, called off a planned demonstration in the Tennessee capital Tuesday night. Negro leaders later met with Mayor Beverly Briley who said “we have made progress in areas of understanding the problems of the community.”

Trial Os Durham Is Delayed To May 24 The trial of James Durham, 19, of Decatur, who is charged with rape and assault and battery with intent to commit a felony, was continued in the Adams circuit court this morning when two out-of-state witnesses failed to appear. The trial, without jury, was continued until Friday, May 24, and will open at 9 a. m. that date. Two area residents, who reside in Ohio, were to appear on behalf of the defense. 1 They contacted Durham’s pauper attorney, Richard J. Sullivan, Tuesday evening, however, and said" they would be unable to appear. Out-of-state residents are not under any jurisdiction of Indiana law, and thus they cannot be forced to appear by subpeona, or held in contempt if they had failed to appear. Support Alibi Since the witnesses are needed to support the alibi filed by Sullivan, by reason of which Durham entered a plea of not guilty, Judge Myles F. Parrish had no other course but to continue the trial. Sullivan will now attempt to get deposiions, or written testimony, from the pair, to enter into evidence in the event that they do not appear on the May 24 date. Pleaded Not Guilty Durham, through Sullivan, bad pleaded not guilty to the charges by reason of alibi on May 2. The alibi, which the two witnesses are needed to support, will be used by Sullivan to establish Durham’s presence from midnight to midnight the day of April 13, when the alleged offense occurred. The charges were brought against Durham by Adams county prosecutor Severin H. Schurger, as a result of affidavits signed by a 15-year-old Decatur girl. Durham was returned to the Adams county jail, where he is being held under $5,000 bond.

CAPE CANAVERAL (UPD—L. Gordon Cooper made a flawless leap into the sky today on a trailblazing space mission designed to carry him 22 times around the earth in some 34 hours. The purpose of the 36-year-old Air Force major's planned 575,000 mile journey was to smash all previous U.S. space records and to get information crucial to success of moon flights to come later in this decade. Cooper’s gleaming Atlas booster rocket rose from the launch pad at 9:04 a.m. EDT. At 12:06 p.m., when he completed his second trip around the globe, ground controllers reported: “All systems are in a ‘go’ condition. The pilot is very, very comfortable.” Cooper himself so reported, adding: “In fact, I had a little nap.” He is not scheduled to grab a full eight hours of sleep, however, until he enters his ninth orbit tonightOne of the astronaut’s first remarks after his roaring climb into orbit was, “It felt real pretty." At Least 7 Orbits At the end of the > first offlft, clocked at 10:38 ajn. EDT, his mentors on the ‘ground told the blue-eyed, 147-pound astronaut he could go on for at least seven orbits. , If he is getting along all right at the end of 7 orbits, he will go on for 17, then for the full mission of 22 circuits. Completion of the planned flight would bring him down. in the Pacific about 100 miles southeast of Midway at around 7:20 p.m. EDT Thursday. After two orbits, the space agency recalculated the speed and flight path of Cooper’s Faith-7 capsule as follows: Peak velocity: 17,546 miles an hour. Low point of orbit: 100.2 miles. High point: 165.8 miles. Time for one circuit of globe: 88.45 minutes. > Orbital path: 32.5 degrees north and south of the equator. This figures out at about 2,275 miles on either side of the earth’s middle line. Uses Television Camera Cooper busied himself checking his own condition and the condition of his 3,000 - pound Faith-7 spacecraft. He also, for the first time in U.S- space history, turned on a television camera which can monitor his performance and also take pictures of the earth below.

to Ms first dash around the earth the temperature in Cooper’s silvery space suit got, up to a warmish 92 degrees. But he reported no difficulties. Asked over Point Arguello, Calif., on his second orbit how he felt. Cooper replied: “I do feel comfortable, in fact very comfortable ... in fact I had a little nap.” A few moments after he began his second orbit in his flight through alternate days and nights, the blue - eyed, brownhaired astronaut began reporting again to the Cape Canaveral control center. He “Sounds Good” The center reported he “sounds good. He is working up there as a very competent test pilot.” ■ ■ The countdown—with only one four-minute hold—and blastoff for Cooper’s flight were so nearly perfect that a space (agency spokesman said, “It is Slmost unbelievable.” Among Cooper’s first remarks was a fervent agreement, in response to a question from the ground, that riding a rocket into orbit “sure is” great sport. For the first time in U.S. space history, Cooper’s copdition was being monitored at intervals by a television camera abo ar d his spacecraft. The first pictures, relayed from Grand Canary Island 14 minutes after liftoff, were a bit fuzzy on home television. At the start of his second orbit, Cooper turned on the television camera again First reports were that the transmissions were (Continued on Page Six)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 15, 1963.

Millions View Space Flight On Television By United Press International Astronaut L Gordon Cooper had a worldwide audience for his trip into orbit. Millions of Americans, including President Kennedy, watched on television when the Atlas rocket boosting Cooper into space flamed away from Cape Canaveral. Other millions in Europe heard direct, live radio broadcasts from the cape at blastoff time and later were to see the launch on television — beamed over-ocean by the Relay and Telstar satellites. A 12-nation European television network stretching from Spain to Finland and including four Communist countries, awaited the first pictures of Cooper's flight. The first useable pass of Relay wps scheduled from 12:25 to 12:31 p.m. today. Another transmission will follow between 6:55 and 7:17 p.m. Telstar was not scheduled to be in useable position until 8:42-9:22 p.m. Pictures of Cooper’s flight are to be transmitted via the AT&T satellite to Europe and a return broadcast featuring European reaction was scheduled. Whe Cooper was lifted into space today, his Faith-7 capsule carried a tiny television camera which flashed back to earth pictures of the cockpit and the eerie world beyond the earth’s atmosphere. The trasmissions were primarily for scientific purposes, but a two-continent audience hoped for glimpses of what it’s like to circle the globe at 18,000 miles an hour, 100 miles up. First pictures from “Faith-7” were relayed by NASA over America’s three commercial networks but they were indistinct. Cooper’s space helmet was the only distinguishable object. It was hoped that later pictures would be clearer, possibly showing the astronaut's facial expressions and scanning views of the earth from space.

Two D.H.S. Seniors Are Among Top Ten Two Decatur high school seniors placed among the first 10 in the annual chemistry contest sponsored by the Northeastern Indiana section of the American chemical society, according to word received by Harry Dailey, science instructor at the high school. Paul Feller placed fifth and Tom Mclntosh ninth among the 103 contests in the final examination, held at the Indiana University Center in Fort Wayne April 20. More than 1,000 chemistry students from nine counties in the Fort Wayne' area took the preliminary test. Margaret Kocher, Decatur high school junior .also scored well in the contest, finishing in a threeway tie for 13th place. The first 10 students will be honored at the annual awards banquet of the American chemical society Friday evening. Mrs. Rhodie Gilbert Dies This Morning Mrs. Rhodie F. Gilbert, 84, widow of William M. Gilbert, died suddenly at 5 o’clock this morning at her home, IQI4 Patterson street, She had been under a physicians care for some time but her death was unexpectedThe body was removed to the Winteregg-Linn funeral home. Funeral arangements have /not been completed.

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Duvalier Holds Haiti Control

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (UPD — President Francois Duvalier remained firmly, in control of Haiti from within his heavily fortified palace today despite the 'arrival of ''an annatmced deadline for his assassination. Rumors circulated outside the country, however, that he planned to fly to European exile today via the Dutch island of Curacao. A Haitian exile leader in Santo Domingo, capital of the neighboring Dominican Republic, charged Tuesday night that Dominican authorities blocked preparations for an invasion of Haiti today by raiding rebel headquarters near the border and taking arms away from 67 men. “We planned to invade Haiti early Wednesday when constitutional government ends, but now we are forced to postpone it,” Jacques Cassagnol said. In New York, a spokesman for Pan American World Airways said Tuesday night that “a party of four registered in the name of Duvalier” had booked passage on a Pan Am flight from New York to Paris tonight. The spokesman said there was no indication the “Duvalier” on the passenger manifest was the Haitia president. Both Pan Am and the Dutch airline KLM have direct flights to New York from Willemstad, Curacao, about 500 miles southeast of Haiti off the coast of Venezuela. All indications in Port Au Prince were that Duvalier, whose legal six-year presidential term ended today, was still inside the massive white presidential palace in downtown Port Au Prince with his wife and two teen-aged children. He has been seen out of the palace only once since April 21, when Haitian exiles announced in pamphlets air-dropped on Port au Prince that they would remove him by May 15. The palace was guarded by all five of the army’s tanks, the palace guard which is believed to be fanatically loyal to Duvalier, and about 2,000 troops from the nearby Dessalines barracks. Selective Service Sends Contingent The Adams county selective service board sent a contingent of man to Indianapolis this morning, four for active induction into the armed forces, and seven for physical examinations, including two conscientious objectors. Those sent for induction were Arthur Duane Schindler, Kenneth Wayne Linker, David Michael Kitson and Glen Leroy Haines. Taking physical exams were Wayne Leland Bollenbacher, Winston Thomas Lehman, Garry Elwood Sheets, Chester Elvin Bercot and Terry Duane Jones. Conscientious objectors were Paul D. Neuenschwander and Levi C. ChristnerTWO SECTIONS

Two Persons Hurt. In One-Car Crash Two persons were injured, one seriously, in a one-car accident Tuesday afternoon on county road 37, three miles west and two miles south of Decatur. Most seriously injured in the 4:37 p.m. mishap was Clifford L. Garwood, 19, route 1, Willshire, 0., who was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital and then immediately transferred to the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. « Garwood was a passenger in an auto operated by Mary Frances Beckman, 17, a resident of 310 Ninth St. He suffered multiple lacerations to the face, many of which were very severe, and lacerations to the right knee. Miss Beckman received lacerations to both knees, abrasions to the chest and bruises to the left eye. She was admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital for treatment. No License Ihe Decatur girl was arrested for failure to have an operator’s license. No date of appearance in court was set. She was operating a vehicle owned by Delmar Garwood, route 1, Willshire, south on the county road, when the auto went out of control on loose stone. The auto traveled some 480 feet out of control, crashed into an Indiana & Michigan pole and traveled another 81 feet before coming to rest. The 1957 model car received an estimated $575 damage. Fire Started The,force of the impact snapped the pole, causing lines to come down and putting out electric service in the area for about an hour. Three trucks and five workmen were dispatched by I&M to repair the damage. One of the hot wires started a small grass fire, which was quickly extinguished. Deputy sheriff Harold August investigated the accident. Flight Statistics CAPE CANAVERAL (UPD — Statistics on L. Gordon Cooper’s space flight: Liftoff: 9:04 a.m. EDT. Orbit: 910 a.m. EDT. Orbital speed: 17,544 miles an hmr i nme of orbit: 88.7 minutes per orbit. First Polio Cose Reported In State INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Indiana’s first polio case of the year was listed today on State Board of Health records. » The weekly morbidity report showed a case in Washington County, but the onset date was unknown.

Rescinds Ban On Sales Tax

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — AN order temporarily restraining Indiana from setting up machinery for collecting a 2 per cent sales tax was rescinded today by Marion Circuit Judge John L. Niblack. The order was imposed last Friday, the day Dallas Sells, representing the Indiana State AFLCIO and its Committee on Political Education, filed a suit seeking to enjoin the state from enforcing the tax law effective July 1 and prohibiting it from setting up enforcement machinery. Niblack lifted the temporary order and permitted the state to resume preliminary arrangements for collecting the tax shortly after a pre-trial conference with attorneys for Sells. Niblack also ordered Atty. Gen. Edwin K Steers removed as a defendant along with Governor Welsh and State Revenue Commissioner James Courtney. He set May 22, previously a hearing date, for another pre-trial conference and said the trial would be held a week or 10 days after that conference. Earlier, a report showed that the state stood to lose $250,000 for each day of delay in getting the new plan in operation. im of the conference was to expedite the case which late Tuesday produced a new batch of motions filed by the state seeking to dissolve a temporary restraining order issued by Niblack May 10. That order had brought all advance preparations to get the tax into operation to a halt. Accompanying the motion to dissolve the restraining order were affidavits signed by Courtney and by Acting Budget Director Jack E. Booher, which contained some disquieting information, particularly to local school officials. * Aid Reduction Necessary “It will be necessary to reduce the amount of distribution of state aid to local school units to be made on or about July 1 in a sum deemed proportionate to the probable loss of revenue,” Booher said. Booher said he could not estimate the amount of eduction in state aid to schools. However, Courtney in his affidavit had pointed out that “the amount collectible will not be less than $250,000 daily and the state of Indiana will suffer damage in such amounts daily after July 1 for such number of days as the state is restrained or enjoined from executing gross retail tax.” Courtney went on to point out that each day of delay in setting up the administraive organization and procedure will result in a loss of most of the daily tax receipts, since the state has done almost nothing toward getting the tax into operation and has not yet even determined the brackets to which it will apply. Courtney also argued that the vital preliminary work towards setting up the sales tax machinery actually involves the expenditure of only about $23,000. He cited a contract the state has with the

‘Beautiful,’ Says Astronaut’s Wife

TAYLOR LAKE VILLAGE, Tex. (UPl)—“Beautiful,” Mrs. L. Gordon Cooper said today of her husband's faultless flight into space. Mrs. Cooper sent the one-word description of her reaction out by Dave Schwartzl if - public affairs officer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, almost an hour after her husband's journey started She said she would have no more to say for the time being. But Schwartz reported that Mrs. Cooper had a big smile on her face. Mrs. Cooper and her daughters, Camala, 14, and Janita, 13, went into a bedroom by themselves to watch the liftoff on a television set. Schwartz was in the living room. The family wanted to be alone at a moment when they might have watched Cooper die. Instead, Cooper’s wife and daughters saw him safely soar into space. Schwartz said Mrs. Cooper and the girls stayed in the bedroom about 15 minutes. Then Mrs. Cooper came o ut, smiling. Cooper telephoned about 30 minutes before the launch. Mrs. Cooper let the .family cat. Buttons, out shortly after she and the girls arose. Buttons climbed

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Public Administration Services for the services of four out-of-state tax experts who were to have gone to work this week in getting the tax operational. Transfer Planned Courtney said that he had planned also to transfer 25 persons from his present staff to new duties on the sales tax and added “with the exception of the contract with Public Administration Service and incidental printing expense no money is being spent by defendants other than those previously appropriated for administration of existing tax laws. . j The entire business and commercial life of the state also is being tossed into chaos as a result of the restraining order, Courtney declared. "The Indiana Department of Revenue is being constantly besieged by numerous and sundry inquiries. Many of such queries involve the position of bids on public contracts to be performed after July I,’’ he said. “Such contractors cannot know their liabilities for such tax until the department can answer such questions which it is now forbidden to do under the temporary restraining order.’’ Reasons For Action Steers cited four reasons for urging the restraining order be lifted. They were: —No emergency exists for the granting of the restraining order “for the reason that irreparable harm will be done to the State of Indiana and to its taxpayers and not to the plaintiff if this restraiing order is allowed to stand. —‘‘The temporary restraining order presumes the unconstitutionality of the state Gross Retail Tax Act, which presumption is contrary to law- ’ —“The bond of si,ooo set by this court is insufficient... in that the damages which may accrue to defendant by reason of said order is of such magnitude that they are incapable of being idemnified. —* This action for injunction and temporary restraining order is contrary to law” because statutes provide that no injunction may restrain or delay any collection of a tax due under this act. Steers also filed a motion asking Niblack to remove him as a defendant in the suit brought by the labor union. Defendants named in the suit were Governor Welsh, Courtney and Steers. Steers pointed out that he is not in an administrative position as are the governor and the revenue commissioner. Steers also disclosed the state has been named defendant in another suit brought in Lake Superior Court by a taxpayer who also is seeking to have the sales tax declared unconstitutional. A copy of the complaint was served on the attorney general showing he has until June 3 to reply. The complaint itself was filed last week by Thomas Fadell against Welsh and the Indiana Gross Income Tax Division.

to the top of the chimney where he was when his master soared into space. _

“Just a disappointment,’’ Mrs. Cooper said Tuesday when the first attempt to put her husband intospace had To be postponed. His mother, Mrs. Hattie Cooper, said in Tecumseh, Okla., that she was glad the space agency had decided to try again so soon Cooper’s two grandmothers, as well as his mother, followed his flight into space by television and radio in Oklahoma. The success of his flight meant that his daughters got a couple of days off from school. They stayed at home Tuesday with their mother. But as soon as she learned that the first attempt to launch had been scrubbed because of a bad radar system she rushed the girls to Webster Junior High School. Cooper told his wife and daughters before he left for Cape Canaveral to say nothing to reporters tin til he has made his flight and is safely down. Mrs. v Copper, returning from taking the girls to school, said three words — “just a disappointment” — before running into her home and shutting the door Tuesday.