Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 17 May 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 117.

Space Officials Laud Cooper's Record Flight

U. S. Space Leaders Praise Magnificent Flight By Astronaut

Shadow Cast Over Birmingham Truce

By United Press International Disagreement over a desegregation pact between Negro leaders and white businessmen today cast a shadow over Birmingham’s racial truce. Integration strategist Martin Luther King Jr. indicated. that demonstrations would be resumed in the Alabama steel city unless the ‘misunderstanding" was ironed out. There were demonstrations in Greensboro. N.C., and Richmond, Va., Thursday night and rumblings of further racial discontent at Jackson, Miss. Human relations committees were formed at Nashville. Tenn., and Anniston, Ala., to consider racial problems and Knoxville, Tenn., began a program which would eventually ban official segregation Claims Misuvderstandinr King Jold a news conference Thursday the version of the agreement announced by a group of white businessmen did not go as far as Negroes understood it would. The announcement said one Negro clerk would be hired by a downtown department store and that some lunch counters would be segegregated 90 days after the state Supreme Court untangles Birmingham's city government controversy. “We expect clerks and upgrading (of Negro employes) in all stores," not just one. King said. Lunch counter desegregation should come 90 days after the end of the demonstrations, he said, not at the end of a court battle between two groups claiming to be the legal city government. Sidney Smyer, head of the businessmCn’s committee that nego-

Rev. Eugene Fekefe New Decatur Priest fli w -oo W ''ll Rev. Eugene A. Fekete A native of Budapest, Hungry, newly-ordained to the Catholic priesthood, has been assigned as assistant pastor to St. Mary’s church here. He is the Rev. Eugene A. Fekete, who has been assigned to St. Mary's to replace the Rev. Robert W. Contant, transferred to Fort Wayne. The appointments, effective June 1, were announced by the Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley, Bishop of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Catholic Diocese. Father Fekete was ordained February 9 of this year in Washington, D. C., while completing his seminary studies at the theological — college of the Catholic University of America there. He earlier attended Seton Hall

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tiated the agreement, said the differences should be resolved by further negotiation, not in the press. King agreed, and expressed hope the issue could be settled without further racial demonstrations. Scores Mayor’s Policy There were these other racial developmentsAt Jackson, Miss., the National Association for the Advancement pf Colored People (NAACP) accused Mayor Allen Thompson of picking Negro “yes men” to meet with city officials to discuss racial problems. Mississippi NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers said plans are being formed for posshble boycotts, demonstrations, picketing and other measures to force desegregation of public facilities in Jackson. —A federal judge ordered the University of Alabama dean of admissions, Hubert Mate, to appear in court next Tuesday to explain why he should not be held in contempt for failing to enroll three Negroes. —The Georgia Synod of the Presbyterian Church of the US.A. recommended that its religious and educational institutions abandon segregation. —An official of the Civil Rights Commission revealed in Washington that the commission is investigating police handling of Negro demonstrators in Birmingham. —Dr. Marshal Scott, retiring moderator of the United Presbyterian General Assembly, said at Des Moines, lowa, there was just as much racial discrimination in hundreds of all-white suburban communities in the North and West as there was at Birmingham.

Preparatory School and Seton Hall University, South Orange, N. J., aand St. Bonaventure University, Olean, N. Y. Born in Budapest April 1, 1937, Rev. Fekete came to this country as a child and attended grade school in New York City. His mother, Mrs. Helen Wilhelm - Fekete currently resides in Roselle, N. J. and his father is deceased. Rev. Contant, who has been a# sisting the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon M. Schmitt, St. Mary’s pastor, since 1951, has been named director of the rapidly expanding confraternity of Christian doctrine program in the 14-county Fort Wayne - South Bend diocese. New Students Visit Al Adams Central Students from the top six grades of the Pleasant Mills school, who will, attend classes at the Adams Central schools next fall, were guests of the Adams Central school system this week. High school and junior high students from Pleasant Mills will attend Adams Central, beginning with the 1963-64 school year. The original plan of th« Adams Central school board was to close the entire Pleasant Mills school this month, but this plan was later revised to retain the school, at least tor the present, for the first six grades. The seventh and eighth grade students from Pleasant Mills visited Adams Central Wednesday, the ninth and 10th grades Thursday, and t he 11th and 12th grades today. The Pleasant Mills pupils were guests at luncheon all three days and were conducted on tours of the Adams Central school building and school procedures were (Continued on Page Eight)

ABOARD USS KEARSARGE (UPI) — Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, back to earth from a “magnificent” space flight, today intensive medical tests and questioning to reveal what a 575,000-mile trip through space does to a man. The tests were scheduled to continue through Saturday aboard the Navy carrier USS Kearsarge, which picked up Cooper and his Faith 7 space capsule Thursday after a bulls-eye landing in the Pacific. Preliminary medical examinations indicated the 36-year-old Air Force major was in fine shape after experiencing a day and a half of weightlessness on America’s longest space flight to date. The medical examinations and technical questioning of Cooper were expected to concentrate primarily on man’s ability to withstand the rigors o fa flight to the moon and back. Praise for Co-workers Cooper, who landed his capsule by manual control after his automatic control system failed, offered his praise to all who took part in the project. In a special message to Carl Huss of the National Aeronautics and Space administration’s flight dynamics office, he said: “Looks like you did a fine job on caluclation for retro weight. You must have even figured in that one second. Thanks.” Cooper lost seven pounds but apparently suffered no ill effects from the prolonged period of weightlessness while whirling around and around the world at 17,544 miles per hour, according to Dr. Richard Pollard, space agency physician. " Had Dtay Spell “Gordon is in good spirits but tired,*’ Pollard said. "He had a dizzy spell when he first set foot on the deck and this was exactly as we expected. His first words to me were "Dick, I don’t feel too good ’ “However, he quickly recovered as we began to walk across the hangar deck and I am certain he could have made the walk without assistance.” The 36-year-old Oklahoma-born test pilot made America’s most ambitious space flight to date — traveling 575,000 miles, or more than enough for a round trip to the moon. From the moment he blasted off from Cape Canaveral on the tip of an Atlas missile at 9:04 a.m., EDT Wednesday, until 7=25 p.m., EDT Thursday when a red and white-striped parachute lowered his capsule into the Pacific, Cooper was in the air 34 hours, 20 minutes and 30 seconds. Eescribing the flight over 100 nations, islands and possessions, Cooper said “I agree with the other fellows—wow!” “Faith 7 did well,” he said. "I had'a few little problems, but noth‘ing major. It’s a pilot’s airplane." Viewed More Serously At Cape Canaveral, however, space officials took a more serious view of the malfunction on the 20th orbit that required Cooper.to grab the controls and manually put the capsule in the proper position to descend through the atmosphere. The braking retrorockets also had to be fired manually instead of automatically. Walter Williams, director of Mercury operations, said the flight was “a textbook flight” in that “in the last five hours we used every page in the book.” Williams said Cooper was “v£ry much on top of the situation . .. this guy shined.” „ Alan B. Shepard, America’s first man in space who worked in the control center during Cooper’s flight, said Cooper had turned in “a magnificent performance. . it is a tribute to his pre-flight training.” Williams agreed with a suggestion that Cooper’s performance proved that the astronaut on board was “absolutely essential.” He was referring to Cooper’s ability to analyze and handle the (Continued on Page Bight)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 17, 1963.

Gallogly Reported , In Good Condition Lawrence C. (Bing) Gallogly, 34-year-old route 3, Decatur, resident, was reported' in “good” condition at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne this morning, after suffering electrical burns from a 7,200 volt line Thursday afternoon. Hospital officials told Edwin Hagan, manager of the Decatur district of the Fort Wayne division of Indiana & Michigan, this morning that Gallogly had spent a “comfortable night” Thursday and was listed as “good” today. Jack E. Reiff, of 120 Umberlost Trail, Decatur, who was working on the same crew with Gallogly, was credited with probably saving the life of Gallogly. Reiff applied a technique known as “pole-top resuscitation” just seconds after Gallogly received the electric shock while on top -of a pole. When Reiff first reached Gallogly the injured man was not breathing according to reports. Revived Atop Pole The artificial respiration applied by Reiff revived Gallogly and he was brought to the ground and rushed to the Lutheran hospital. Gallogly suffered third degree burns to both hands, Iris right hip and left forearm. He is in the constant-care ward at Lutheran hospital, and it is expected to be approximately 48 hours before the actual extent of the electric burns will be known. Upon admittance to the Fort Wayne hospital Thursday evening, Gallogly was initally listed as in “critical” condition. He was listed as fair around midnight, however, and in good condition this morning. No Amputation Hospital officials said this morning there has been no amputation of any limbs, rumors were heard this morning to the effect that one hand had been amputated, which is untrue. The mishap occurred about 2:35 p.m. Thursday while the I & M crew was working on Eighth St. in Roanoke, repairing lines. Gallogly’s right hand came in contact with the 7,00 volt line. Will Investigate I & M officials were planning an investigation into the details of the accident this afternoon, in an attempt to discover how Gallogly came in contact with the “hot” line. He was one of four men on the crew working at the time of the mishap. Officials have talked with Gallogly but he had no memory of the mishap and how it happened. Hagan said this morning that pole-top resuscitation is a technique practiced often by Indiana & Michigan workmen. It was the first accident involving an employe of the utility’s Fort Wayne division since October of 1960. Gallogly has been employed by I & M since the Decatur district started, and has worked for the electric utility in Decatur since October 18, 1947. BULLETIN HAMMOND, Ind. (UPI) — A private plane crashed into a generating plant smokestack on the edge of Lake Michigan today and at least two persons were killed. Ptdice said it was possible that more persons might have died in the smashup of the four-seater craft. One of the bodies flew into the lake and was being sought by the coast guard. Um other fell to the roof of the Commonwealth Edison generating plant.

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Heavy Demand For Wildcat Applications More than 300 Wildcat baseball • forms were distributed at Decatur 1 schools Thursday, with many of • the schools running out of application blanks, for registration and measurement Saturday, George Waning, Wildcat League director, said today. All boys, those who have the blanks, and those who still want to pick them up, must “sign up” i officially Saturday from 9 a.m. un- ■ til 3 p.m. at the Community Cenj ter, Waning stated. ‘ , 8-15 Years Old Any boy, 8 years ‘old on Jan." ’ 1, 1963, and who will not be 16 before Aug. 1 of this year, is invited to sign up, regardless of his experience, or where he lives, or what school he attends. His parents are invited to accompany him to the signup Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Community Center. In a meeting Wednesday night, the director and his co-workers, perfected their methods for handling registration, for purchasing needed instructional equipment, bats, balls, T-shirts, caps, etc. Fitter Saturday Every boy will be fitted for a cap and T-shirt for his league play, and every boy will be expected to be in uniform for each official practice and game. The cap and T-shirt will cost $1.50 for each set, and each boy is expected to pay for his own, even if he has to earn the money. No boy will be turned away if he cannot earn the money independently, but will be allowed to "work it off” at the field. Play will be provided on a 40hour basis during the day, since volunteers for night work with boys who do not understand baseball fundamentals are -not available, and since there are not enough fields with night lights for such play. ’ At least two, -possibly three, field sites will be used. Arrangements for using the fields when they are not used by Little League and Pony League are now in process. , All boys signing up will get to play 'in every game, and will be trained to advance to the other teams, where the best players and best competition will be. Gilbert Funeral To Be Held Saturday -Funeral services for Mrs. Rhodia F. Gilbert, who died Wednesday mornings will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Winteregg-Linn funeral home. The Rev. J. OPenrod 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 Curtis Hill, David Wynn, Virgil Andrews, Don Cochran, Herman Haggerty and Vernon Hill. Six-Year-Old Girl Is Dead Os Burns INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) ■— Jacqueline Bourn, 6, Greenfield, died in a hospital here Thursday of burns suffesfd May 7 when a spray can exploded in a trash barrel fire as she played at the rear of a garage at the home of a friend.

Honaker Principal. As Adams Central 1 WML .*! jif Life Car! Honaker Appointment of Carl Honaker as principal of the Adams Central high school was announced today by members of the Adams Central school board. Honaker has been head athletic coach at the Adams Central school for the past year, having come to the consolidated school from Montpelier. The new principal will succeed Philip Souder, who was recently named superintendent of the Adams Central schools, succeeding the late Herman Frantz. The appointment of Honaker, 34, will be effective with the opening of toe new school year next fall. The new principal is a native of Connersville and attended Taylor University, where he received his B.S. degree in 1955, majoring in physical education, with his minor in business. He received his master's degree in 1962, at Ball State Teachers College, and will complete his qualifications for principal this summer. Honaker was head coach at the Montpelier high school for seven years before accepting the Adams Central coaching position last fall. The new appointee, his wife, Linda, and three children, Mark Allen, Brooks Carl, and Jama Sue, reside ,at 809 Mercer avenue in this city. They are members of the Monroe Methodist church. Auto Safely Checks Are Continued Here Jack Petrie, chairman of the Decautr Jaycee safety check project, reminded local and area -residents today of the check lane this evening that will be set up in front of the Youth and Community Center. This makes a total of 263 vehicles checked in two lanes that have been open a total of four hours the past two days. The check lane this evening will be open from 5 to 7 p.m., and all drivers are invited to drive in and have- their vehicles checked for any mechanical defects. A check lane will be open from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday on N. 13th St., and Sunday’s lane will be set up on S. 13th St., also from 1 to 3 p.m. Os the 103 vehicles checked Thursday evening, 94 were approved. one of which was a return from Wednesday night with repairs made. Only nine vehicles were rejected Thursday night, with headlights the major cause. Six defects were found in head lights, two in rear (Continued on Page Eight)

Americans Joyful At Cooper’s Feat

By United Press International American hearts swelled with joyful pride today at the space conquering feat of astronaut L. Gordon Cooper. “Wonderful. . .fantastic. . .tremendous. . .amazing. • .terrific . . .Perfect. . .darned fine” were the words used to describe his 22.9 orbit flight and safe return. They waited and watched and prayed while Cooper whirled alone in his Faith 7 capsule. A hush fell on gatherings across the land as Cooper, startee his reentry. And then they cheered. From the throats of more than 5,000 persons gathered in cavernous Grand Central Station in New York burst a roar like the rocket that blasted Cooper into space. It echoed throughout the land. Perhaps a little child said it best. f “I feel so happy,” squealed Christine Louis, 10. one of the crowd in Grand Central. "I’d like to visit the moon myself sometime.” Her feelings were mirrored in Salt Lake City, Utah, by policeman Wayne Kuehne, who said: “It’s still amazing- Now in time we can expect to go to the moon.” University of Utah geologist Dr. William Hewitt called it “a most amazing achievement for all the people in the world,” and added,

Reception For Hero Tuesday

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The White House announced today that a Washington reception for astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., originally planned for Monday, had been put off until Tuesday to give the 22-orbit pilot “some breathing time.” Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said the astronaut would be received by the President with full military honors in the White House rose garden at 11:15 a.m. CDT Tuesday. Kennedy will send one of the Air Force jet transports normally assigned to the White House to Cape Canaveral to pick up Cooper and his family Tuesday morning. Salinger said Cooper will meet a previously set schedule for a news conference at Cape Canaveral Sunday, then have a day of rest before coming to Washington. The president will present Cooper tiie National Aeronautics and Space Administration distinguished service medal- The same decoration was awarded Cooper's predecessors in space among the Mercury astornauts. Plans for a parade through Washington and an appearance by the astronaut before a joint session of Congress were being worked out by NASA officials, congressional leaders and the city officials. In discussing the 24-hour delay in the Washington tribute to Cooper, Salinger said that after re-examination of the astronaut’s schedule, government officials felt that it was “just too tight.” “NASA and the White House felt he should have some breathing time,” Salinger added. A far more spontaneous tribute, to Cooper’s heroism and skill was evidenced late Thursday when Kennedy and millions of other Americans kept a prayerful vigil as the astronaut’s space capsule developed automatic control trouble. “This was one of the victories for the human spirit today,” Kennedy told a nationwide television audience shortly after Cooper’s safe landing. Within minutes after Cooper was plucked from the Pacific and brought aboard the USS Kearsarge the Chief Executive delivered his personal congratulations to the astronaut for making the most hazardous and longest U.S. space flight. | Acting with the same promptness, the House and Senate passed by standing ovation, resolutions of congratulation. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and AirForce Secretary Eugene Zuckert dispatched telegrams of praise for Cooper’s space feat. Cooper, who in a space sense “flew by the seat of his patns” in bringing his capsule Faith 7 back to safety, received the prais-

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“Fifty years from now his flight will look as cumbersome to us as the Wright brothers airplane does today.” In the tiny Colorado mountain town of Carbondale most of the 612 inhabitants staged a parade on main street to celebrate the flight of the man they consider a home town hero. The Cooper family owns a ranch near Carbondale. At Denver, Gov. John A. Love sent Cooper a telegram with an invitation to a western welcome. “We want to show our great admiration for you and your courageous family as soon as you can return home,” Love said. In San Francisco, hotel employe Bernard Burke called it “a damned fine job. We should be proud of him, especially the way he brought in his capsule all by himself.” “Fantastic, a tremendous thing,” said Charles Fagan in Wellesley, Mass. “And I worried, of course, on his getting down.” “It’s wonderful, wonderful,” said Virginia Hancock of Boston. “I said a few prayers.” Janet Crouse said Cooper’s flight disrupted the routine at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center where she is a student nurse. “It was absolutely perfect,” she said. “There was quite a trit of excitement around the television set.”

es with laconic modesty. In his brief phone conversation with Kennedy, the astronaut remarked: “Thank you, sir. It was a good flight. I enjoyed it” Kennedy, who followed Cooper’s re-entry progress through the crucial closing stages, also called Mrs. Cooper at Houston, Tex., to congratulate her. Talk On Hawaii Is Given Rotary Club Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Murray o Decatur, presented a color slide talk on Hawaii Thursday night to the Decatur Rotary Club. Mrs. Murray wore a green and white mumu, a type of Hawaiian dress, for the occasion. Mrs. Murray opened her talk by defining “aloha” as a greeting, or farewell, a salutation, kindness, affection or best of all, “I love you.” She described . Hawaii as the only state that continues to grow due volcanic activity. Some of the volcanoes are still active and when they erupt the-lava spills wer and enlarges the size of the island. The 50th state is a group of seven islands that are actually volcano tops. The islands are spread over 700 miles of blue Pacific Ocean. Englands’ Cook first discovered the islands but in 1900 the English gave up the property to the United States. The total population of the island group is approximately 600,000 30% Japanese, 20% mixture of OrientoT and Hawaiian, and the remainder a mixture from all over the world. Mrs. Murray said this is probably the only place where a Chinese restaurant advertises home made pizza pie. The principal sources of income are sugar cane, pineapple, cattle and tourists. The sugar cane crop covers over 2,000 acres and pineapple production is rated at 6 million annually. Cattle production is rated at 33,000 head per year. The tourists are shuttled between the mainland and the islands by 200 flights and two ocean-going ships per week. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and a little cooler tonight. Mostly fair and a little warmer Saturday. Low tonight 48 to 52. High Saturday around 70 north, 66 to 74 south. Sunset today 7:54 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 5:28 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Cloudy and turning cooler with chance of showers. Lows 45 to 55. Highs in the 60s.