Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 116, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 116.-

Cooper Whirling Through Final Orbits Os Nation’s Greatest Flight In Space

Race Demonstration In North Carolina

By United Press International Negroes staged another big demonstration in North Carolina Wednesday night in a protest against segregation at restaurants and theaters. —? . At Birmingham, Ala., a group of businessmen urged citizens of the racially tense city to accept an agreement with Negro leaders to desegregate downtown stores. Mayor Art Hanes called for repudiation of the agreement. Biracial committees at Nashville, Tenn., and Raleigh, N. C., continued working toward a solution of racial problems in those capital cities. An estimated 1.500 Negro college students marched at Greensboro, N. C., in attempts to integrate restaurants and theaters in that textile city which gave birth to the sit-in movement against lunch counter segregation. There was no violence Arrest 200 Demonstrators Police arrested 200 demonstrators on trespass charges. Some of the Negroes were carried bodily to paddy wagons from the establishments after they refused requests to leave. Two white girls and two w hH. eyoyths J&e arrested with the Negroes at one cafeteria when they blocked a serving line. More than 800 Negroes had marched t hrough Raleigh Tuesday night to back up desegregation demands. Police arrested 34 of the demonstrators. The previous day, a similar march at Nashville touched off fighting with white youths. Officials of both cities began negotiations with Negro leaders to ease the situation. The “senior citizens” group at Birmingham said its agreement with Negroes to desegregate business “violates no law. It binds no one in the white community except the businesses involved.” It urged Birmingham citizens “to

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appraise the cost of him or her of more thoughtless irresponsibility, violence or hate.’’ Hanes, however, told some 600 persons Wednesday night to "do everything in your power” to resist desegregation. He called the citizens committee “a g r o u p of fuzzy minded liberals, pinkos and Reds . . .” Plans Court Action Gov. George Wallace said Wednesday he would go to court in an effort to get federal troops removed from Alabama. He accused the government of illegally sending the troops into the state. President Kennedy dispatched more than 3,000 soldiers to military bases near Birmingham Sunday following six hours of racial rioting in the steel city. There were these other developments' —Three Negroes ask a federal court in Birmingham today to order their admission to the allwhite University of Alabama. —The U. S Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans Wednesday released the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from an injunction prohibiting its members froth making ‘‘freedom rides” to MdComb, Miss. —A federal judge at Richmond, Va., was asked Wednesday to rule that’- southern communities must accept desegregation alopg with government aid to schools serving military dependents. —Four integrationists Wednesday picketed the Gadsden, Ala., jail in protest against the arrest of 10 “freedom walkers” early this month. The "walkers," however, had been transferred to the state prison at Montgomery. —City officials in Jackson, Miss., planned to meet with local Negro leaders today or Friday to discuss the racial situation in Jackson where plans for a desegregation drive were announced.

CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) — • L. Gordon Cooper whirled through the final orbits of America’s greatest space flight today toward splashdown in the Pacific this evening. The 36-year-old Air Force major long since had logged more hours and miles in space than all of his American predecessors .combined. Shortly after the 147-pound astronaut started his’ 19th orbit at 11:45 a.m. EDT— less than five laps from his goal — flight controllers reported that weather conditions in his Pacific recovery area were “pretty good.” Cooper ended his 19th orbit and started on the 20th at 1:13 p.m. As he flashed over Florida on his 20th orbit, Cooper received a radioed “good luck and godspeed” from Air Force Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert and Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force chief of They called his flight “a dramatic advancement to aerospace exploration.” Shortly after that Cooper said “I am going over Miami — and right now I am over Miami Beach.” As of 12:30 p.m. EDT, the space agency said, everything set for a triumphant conclusion of the 22.9-orbit flight whi ch Cooper began with a flawless liftoff at 904 a.m. Wednesday. Said an agency spokesman: “Recovery forces, weather, and all our people in those areas are go.” Ships Are Watting Waiting to pluck Cooper and his Faith 7 spacecraft from the sea about 100 miles southeast of Midway Island were the aircraft carrier Kearsarge, with 2,156 men aboard, and two destroyers. “We are sure he will get a warm welcome,” said Lt. Col. John A. (Shorty) Powers, spokesman for the Mercury man-in-space program. Cooper himself, refreshed after the first 'long sleep ever taken by an American in space, had been described as in “very good shape” as he soared at more than 17,500 miles an hour toward the climax of a trail - blazing flight for U. S. moon journeys of the future. End Mercury Project? Already the question was being raised as to whether Cooper’s flight would wrap up the SSOO million Mercury project, which is to be followed by the two-man Gemini and Apollo moon programs. Space officials said it was too early yet to say. But the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had stated previously that a successful mission by Cooper would wind up Mercury. D: Brainerd Holmes, director of NASA’s office of manned space flight, put it this way: “We’re up to this time delighted —the flight’s not over yet—we’ll Ido our cheering when he gets back.” NASA officials estimated that braking rockets on Cooper s 3,000pound spacecraft would fire about 170 miles southeast of Kyushu, Japan, toward the end of his journey to pull him down from orbit. That would put his splashdown in the Pacific recovery area at about 7:20 pm. EDT. Cooper has elected to st a y aboard his spacecraft until it was hoisted aboard the Kearsarge rather than let himself be lifted aboard a recovery helipopter. Cooper completed his 18th orbit and began his 19th at 11:45 a.m. No. 3 Astronaut At 10:23 a.m. he had become the No. 3 astronaut of the world. At that moment he surpassed the 25-hour 18-minute flight of Soviet cosmonaut Gherman S. Titov who flew 17 orbits Aug. 6-7, 1961. Cooper’s full mission of more than 34 hours would not, however, come close to the 71-hour and 95-hour Russian flights of last August. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and a little warmer tonight. Friday partly cloudy with little temperature change, chance of scattered thundershowers. Low tonight 50 to 56 north, 56 to 64 south. High Friday 68 to 73. Sunset today 7:53 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:29 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Showers ending to morning- Gradual clearing and mild. Lows in the 50s north to 60b south. Highs in the 70*.

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Senate Meets Early In Drive For Grain Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) — Democratic leaders called the Senate into session early today for the second consecutive time in a drive to crush stubborn GOP opposition to passage this week of President Kennedy's feed grain bill. * Senate Democratic Whip Hubert H. Humprrey renewed his forecast that the measure would be passed by late tonight and sent to the White House for the President’s signature. But Sen. Bourke B- Hickenlboper, R-lowa, leading the GOP drive against the bill, said the debate—which began Monday—may drag on into Friday or Saturday. “Or it may take until next Tuesday—l just can’t tell,” Hickenlooper said in an interview. The feed grain bill would extend into 1964 and 1965 a modified version of an existing program under which farmers who voluntarily curb planting of corn and other feed grains qualify for price supports and acreage diversion payments. - The bill already has passed the House. Senate Democrats want to pass the House bill without amendment so it can be enacted into law before next Tuesday, May 21. This timetable is keyed to the fact that on May 21, wheat farmers will vote in a referendum on adoption of Kennedy’s hotly controversial wheat control program for 1964. Passage of the feed grain bill would activate provisions of an earlier law granting more flexible acreage control provisions to both wheat and feed grain growers. Democrats Wednesday began voting down a series of GOPsponsored amendments to the bill, defeating half a dozen by handy margins before quitting. Another long series of GOP amendments faced the chafing Democratic leaders today. The Democrats served notide they would oppose all amendments so the bill could be enacted without time - consuming Senate - House conferences. “They’ve got orders from on high to vote down all amendments. . .apparently for political purposes,” Hickenlooper said.

Stale Legislative Commission Named INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Fourteen inembers of the new Indiana Legislative Advisory Commission, the interim body of the state legislature, were announced today by Lt. Gov. Richard O. Ristine and House Speaker Richard W. Guthrie. Noticeable by their absence were two Democratic leaders who had been members of the previous commission. Sen. Marshal F. Kizer, Plymouth, Senate Democratic minority leader, and Rep. Robert L. Rock, Anderson, House Democratic leader, were members of the 1961-62 commission but were missing from the new list. Ristine named the following senators to the commission: D. Russell Bontrager, Elkhart; Charles Maddox, Otterbein; J. R. Rees, Columbus, and J. Russell Townsend Jr., Indianapolis, all Republicans, and Von A- Eichhorn, Uniondale; David Rogers, Rogers, Bloomington, and James W. Spurgeon, Brownstown, Democrats. Guthrie named the following representatives to serve on the commission: William A. Berning, Fort Wayne; Charles W. Edwards, Spencer; Edward madinger, Indianapolis, and Lowell H. Smith, New Castle, all Republicans, and Richard C. Bodine, Mishawaka; Charles W Kirk Jr., Floyd Knobs, and James V. Stagg, Evansville, Democrats.' . Ristine, Guthrie and the head of the State Legislative Bureau serve as ex officio members.

160 Vehicles Pass Through Safely Check A total «of 160 vehicles used the safety check lane Wednesday evening for a mechanical check, in a two-hour period of 5 to 7 p. m. The Decatur Jaycees and the Adams county sheriff’s department are conducting the safety check this year, and check lanes will be provided each day until and including Sunday, May 26. A check lane will be open this evening from 5 to 7 o’clock, and will be located on Mercer Ave., near the Adams county memorial hospital. Os the 160 vehicles checked Wednesday evening, a majority passed the test without any defects and received a safety check sticker for the vehicle’s window. Parking lights was the most numerous defect, as 14 vehicles were found to have faulty parking lights. The second most major defect was turn signals, with nine vehicles found to have faulty signals. Six vehicles had headlight failures, and five had faulty brake lights. Exhaust systems on three vehicles were faulty, and two had poor tires. One vehicle had no horn, and another had no operating windshield wipers. 18 Seat Betts ‘ Os the 160 checked, 18 vehicles were discovered to have safety belts, and of the 18, the occupants of 12 had the seat belts in use. Also, six vehicles were found to have the latest safety device, a running light on the front of the car. Deputy sheriff Harold August and Jaycees Jack Petrie, Bill Snyder, Ron Gerber, Ted Hill and Bob Shraluka conducted the check. Petrie is the Jaycee project chairman. Petrie stressed the fact that every driver is welcome to use the safety check to discover any faulty mechanical devices on his or her vehicle. There are no arrests and no warning tickets issued, in the check lanes conducted by the Jaycees. The actual purpose of the check lanes is to discover defects that the driver is not aware of on the vehicle. An out-of-town driver was quite pleased when he was informed Wednesday evening that the brake lights of his auto were not working. He was enroute to Cleveland, 0., and had no idea the lights were not in working order. Check lanes will be set up Friday in front of the Youth and Community Center from 5 to 7 p. m., and on 13th street Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 3 p. m. both days. —

John Zizelman Dies After Long Illness John Zizelman, 67, retired farmer, of Monroeville route 2. died at 6 a. m. Wednesday at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne following an illness of two years. He was born in Celina, 0., July 29, 1895, a son of William and Matilda Sutton-Zizelman, and was married to Aria Mutter March 10, 1921. _ Mr. Zizelman was a veteran of World War I, serving 11 months in France and Germany with the 32nd division. He was a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran church in Harrison township, Van Wert county, O. Surviving are his wife; one son, Jack Zizelman of Harrison township; one granddaughter, Sharon Zizelman; five brothers, Christ and Richard, both of Celina, Frank of Rockford, 0., and Charlie and Albert, both of Mendon, 0., and two sisters, Mrs. Ralph (Mary) Schaffer of Rockford, and Mrs. Floyd (Alena) Mihm of Celina. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Bethlehem Lutheran church, the Rev. Marlin Drake elating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery at Rockford. Friends may call at the H. D. Smith funeral home in Convoy, 0., after 7 p. m. today.

Rev. Robert Content Leaves Local Church

Rev. Robert Contant The Rev. Robert W. Contant .assistant pastor at St. Mary’s Catholic church since July, 1951, will be reassigned June 1 to St. Paul, Fort Wayne, where he will be diocesan director of the confraternity of Christine doctrine. * The Rev. Eugene A. Fekete, newly ordained, and a native of Hungary, will be assigned here as assistant, replacing Rev. Contant. Rev. Contant succeeds the Rev. Ralph Larson, and will conduct his new office from the offices in the Catholic Center. A native of Fort Wayne, he attended John S. Irwin and St. Patrick grade schools and Central Catholic high school there. He also attended St. Joseph College, Rensselaer, St. Gregory Seminary,, Cincinnati, and Mt. St. Mary’s Norwood. Rev. Contant was ordained by Archbishop John F. Noll Sept. 21, 1946. Before being assigned to Decatur, he served assistant pastorates at St. Vincent, Elkhart, and at St. Patrick, Fort Wayne. From 1951 until about 1955, he served as athletic director, and has taught religion as well as performed many other duties at the local church. He has been wellknown and liked throughout the city of Decatur by both members of his parish and other Decatur citizens. Rev. Fekete is a native of Budapest, Hungary. He attended Seton Hall Prep and Seton Hall University, South Orange, N. J., St. Bonaventure University, Olean, N. Y., and theological College of Catholic University of America, where he was ordained in February.

Dean Boltz Speaks To Optimist Club Dean Boltz, of the Zwick funeral home, presented an interesting talk on the rehabilitation of retard- . ed children at the weekly breakfast meeting of the Decatur Optimist club this morning. Boltz, who was instrumental in the founding of the Johnny Appleseed training school for retarded children at Fort Wayne, described the start of the school. From a small beginning with an enrollment of eight children and an unlicensed teacher with a salary of $2,600 per year, the school has grown into a modern training center with a full staff of teachers and a director, Owen Wemhoff, a native of Decatur. The speaker reported that each child is given an elementary education until the age of 15, then is transferred to the training department to be taught a trade to enable him to be self supporting in later life. “A retarded child can be taught to do jobs that would prove far too tedious for the average factory worker. The school attempts to secure sub-contracts from various industries for jobs that can be done in the training center.” Boltz closed by stating that larger cities, such as South Bend, have training centers with complete facilities, such as dormitories where the handicapped may live and not be a burden on their families, but rather self supporting citizens. Final Rites Friday For George Squier Funeral services for George H. Squier, who died early Tuesday morning, will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the Winteregg-Linn funeral home. The Rev. Matthew Worthman will officiate and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. Pallbearers will be Charles Stonestreet, Ed Jaberg, Meldron Kreps, Richard Eichhorn, Cal Peterson and Robert Krick.

Resume Work On Sales Tax

INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Efforts to get Indiana’s new 2 per cent sales tax into operation by July 1 zoomed back into high gear today after a circuit court judge lifted a temporary restraining order. Indiana Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney immediately rescheduled a canceled public hearing on the question of brackets at which the tax will apply. He set it for Wednesday, 10 a.m. in the House chambers, Statehouse. The same panel which had agreed to serve previously will join Courtney in hearing testimony by interested groups and individuals on the level at which they think the first cent of tax should be applied and the point at which additional pennies should be added. , They are Mrs. Jean Pilot, Hammond: Dr. George Pinnell, Indiana University, and Dr. James Papke, Indiana State Tax and Financing Policy Commission. Debate Not Allowed Courtney warned again that he does not want the hearing to turn into a debate on the value of having a sales tax, but expects to get a clear idea from the persons most affected by the tax about the brackets to be set by him under terms of the lawOne of the problems left in Courtney’s lap by the lawmakers was to determine how much “extra tax” the retailer should be allowed to collect as reimbursement for the trouble of being a state tax collector. This is why the price at which the first cent of tax is applied is important. “The lower the tax begins, the more the retail merchant retains” Courtney pointed out. Originally the lawmakers who

Space Return Tough Problem

CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) — The great blanket of life-giving air that encircles earth paradoxically presented the major danger to astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on his planned return from space today. — Hie tricky problem of nosing a space capsule back into the atmosphere at a speed of 17,500 miles an hour is one of the most difficult an astronaut faces. At that speed tremendous heat is generated from the friction of air around the capsule. The temperature can build up to as much as 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit—far above the melting point of iron. The task facing the astronaut on re-entry is to maneuver his capsule so it comes in at the proper angle and in the proper position. An error one way or another could spell a flaming death. Cooper was scheduled to begin slowing up Faith 7 by firing three solid-fueled “retro” rockets over Shanghai, China, about 34 hours after the start of his spectacular flight from Cape Canaveral. At that point, the capsule had to be faced with its blunt end forward. The blunt portion of the bellshaped capsule was protected by a shield made of special materiGilbert Funeral Rises Saturday Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon for Mrs. Rhodia F. Gilbert, 84, of 1014 Patterson street, who died Wednesday morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Paul Wietfeldt, 1020 Patterson street. She was born at Ossian Jan. 4, 1879, a daughter of Samuel N. and Margaret Ann Shuey-Smith, and was married to William Gilbert Jan. 10, 1905. Her husband preceded her in death in 1944. Mrs. Gilbert was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Paul (Viola) Wietfeldt of Decatur, Mrs. William (Clarice) Yake or Sturgis, Mich., and Mrs. Harve (Marcella) Sudduth of Orland: one son, James Gilbert of Ossian; 16 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. One son, one brother and one sister are deceased. •

Services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday at the WintereggLinn funeral home, the Rev. J. O. Penrod officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until 12 noon Friday, and from 3:30 p. m. Friday until time of the services.

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worked on the sales tax had specified that the retailer should get 2 per cent of the total tax he collects as “pay” for collecting it. However, this clause was knocked out later in favor of having the decision made administratively. Os the eight states which have a 2 per cent sales tax, five start collecting at the 25-cent purchase level, two at 18 cents and one at 14 cents. Tax Experts Busy Also today, the four out-of-state tax experts hired under a contract with the Public Administration Service to aid Indiana in setting up its new tax program, started to work. They had been advised not to come until after the restraining order was lifted by Marion Circuit Court Judge John L. Niblack, who had slapped the order on last Friday at the request of the Indiana AFL-CIO. Albon Slattengren, a permanent PAS employe, was on duty beginning today, fulltime. He will be joined later today by James Luckett, former commissioner in charge of revenue for Kentucky, who also is to work for about four months, and by Clayton Stewart, chief of the sales tax division of Kentucky, and William Forst, assistant Kentucky commissioner, who will work part-time. Printing of some of the forms needed for the sales tax and also for a corporation tax and a 2 per cent adjusted gross income tax also resumed today. Courtney said he was doubtful whether the machinery for getting the new tax system into operation by July 1 would be functioning full-force by then but added: “We will try.’’

als to carry away the increasing heat, thus protecting the astronaut inside. But, should a space cabin reenter at too steep an angle, even the heat shield might not suffice. Thus it was important that Cooper have the capsule slanted in just the right direction before triggering the reverse rockets. From start to finish, the reentry takes about 20 minutes. During this time, the astronaut runs into “G forces” that run his apparent weight to. nine times or more above normal. The hottest point is around 37 miles up. After that, it is a “downhill drag.” When the capsule is sufficiently slowed, a drogue parachute is employed, generally at 40,000 feet. A main chute comes out still later and then it is a matter of waiting for the capsule to hit the water—slowed by now to a fall of a few feet per second. Cooper’s capsule is designed to float, and is equipped with radios and beacons to aid recovery forces in locating and getting to him as quickly as possible Cooper’s Family Awakens Early TAYLOR LAKE VILLAGE, Tex. (UPl>—Gordon L. Cooper and his wife awoke at the same time today, Cooper streaking above the earth at 17,546 miles-an-hour in his Faith 7 space capsule and Trudy Cooper at the family home. Cooper arose at 4:45 and roused her two daughters an hour later. She planned to try to monitor her husband’s voice again today over a radio receiver borrowed from Walter Schirra’s Sigma 7 capsule. —----- . It was the third straight day of pre-dawn rising for Mrs. Cooper and daughters Janita, 13, and Camala, 14Mrs. Cooper got a call from Dr. Charles Berry, chief of medical operations at the manned spacecraft center, assuring her that “everything looks fine” for her husband’s continued flight Trudy Cooper said Wednesday’s reception of her husband’s voice transmissions was poor. But she said she did hear her husband’s voice. “It was very comforting to hear,” she said. Mrs. Cooper will not talk to reporters until her husband is safely down from his flight. But Dave Schwartz, public affairs officer for the national space agency, said, “with this textbook light, they couldn t be less than pleased.”