Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1963 — Page 1

VOL LXI NO. 128.

Exempt Purchases Under 50 Cents From New Sales Tax Effective On July 1

J* LIGHT FANTASTIC— NeIa Park’s “Son et Lumier” (sound-and-light spectacular) is believed to be the nation’s first dramatization of the heritage of a business establishment. Water on the roadway reflects some of the hundreds of tiny lights strung in elm trees during the 50th anniversary celebration of General Electrit’s-Cleveland Lamp Division.

Holiday Traffic Toll Is Mounting

By Untied Press International

Americans went into the second day of their long Memorial Day holiday today with the grim warning that a record number of persons may die in traffic accidents. Death came at a faster rate than in either recent years or i the National Safety Council estimate of between 450 and 500 deaths for the 102-hour weekend. “It appears at this time that if it continues, it will set a new record high for Memorial Day,” a safety council spokesman said. The worst accident happened near Cornwall, Conn., when a sports car skidded out of control Mrs. James Stevens Dies At Van Wert Mrs. Viola F. Stevens, 46, wife of James Stevens, 118 South Lynn street. Convoy, 0., died at 11:45 a m. Wednesday at the Van Wert county hospital, where she had been a patient since May 5. She was born in Dixon, 0., July 24, 1916, a daughter of Wilson and Pearl Whitt-Heath, and was married to James Stevens Aug. 7, • 1936. 1 Mrs. Stevens, a practical nurse, was a member of the Walnut Grove Nlethodist church in Tully township, Van Wert county. Surviving in addition to her husband are Jier parents, who reside at Dixon, two daughters, Mrs. Donald (Jtnella) Lovellette and Mrs. Larry (Sharon) Morton, both of Decatur: four sons, David and Donald Stevens, both of Van Wert, and Gayle and Gary Stevens, both at home; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Bobby (Mabel) Gibson of Duncansville, Tex.; seven grandchildren; two brothers, Lloyd E. Heath of Payne, 0., and Floyd Heath of Dixon; two sisters, Mrs. Dale (Ruth) Purk of Dixon, and Mrs. Corless (Wilma) Welker of Van Wart, and a grandmother, Mrs. Florence Whitt. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the H. D. Smith funeral home in Convoy, the Rev. Wliliatn Myers officiating. Burial' will be in the Convoy IOOF cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

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and crashed into another auto. Seven persons died. Accidents in Missouri and Utah claimed five lives each. A United Press International count at 9:30 a.m. CDT showed 166 traffic deathes since the weekend started at 6 p.m. local time Wednesday. _. The breakdown: Traffic 166 Drowning 32 Boating 6 Plane 6 Miscellaneous 18 Total 228 New York took the lead in traffic deaths with 23. California had 20 traffic fatalities. The final toll for the 102-hour Memorial Day weekend in 1961 was 462 deaths. Lowered Dividend Rates Are Planned CHICAGO (UPI) — A move to lower dividend rates to savers is gaining momentum among savings and loan associations across the nation. Between 20 and 25 associations have announced plans to cut their rates, according to Norman Strunk, executive vice president of the U.S. Savings and Loan League. Most of the associations said the reductions will become effective July 1. “There will be quite a few more in the next several months,” Strunk said, “but it is impossible for anyone to say at this moment how many." The reason for the rollback in rates is something of a paradox. Because of the high dividends they have been offering savers, many associations have found themselves swamped with money, Strunk said. The mortgage market, main outlet for most S&L funds, has failed to keep pace, putting a squeeze on the earnings of many associations. The move began in late March when several S&L firms in Miami Beach and St. Petersburg, Fla.,' said they would cut their dividend rates from* 4,4 to 4 per cent Re d P<o tri on s have been announced then by several associations; in Washington, D.C., California, Arizona, Alabama, Chicago, Cleveland and Newark, N. J.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana State Revenue Board, which includes Governor Welsh, •voted unanimously today to exempt all purchases of less than 50 cents from the state’s new 2 per cent sales tax effective July 1. Welsh, Who previously sided with State Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney and a panel of advisers in a proposal to exempt only purchases of less than 25 cents, went along with State Auditor Dorothy Gardner and State Treasurer Robert Hughes to apply the first penny of the tax on 50-cent sales. “I vote with them but I am quite concerned about it,” said Welsh. Mrs. Gardner and Hughes, both Republicans, took issue with the Courtney proposal and, in effect, sided with the state AFL-CIO which had sought a substantial exemption to ease the impact of the tax on lower income buyers who might make many small purchases. The resolution adopted by the revenue board does not become effective, however, until a public hearing is held. That hearing has been set for June 11. Under the terms of the resolution, the first penny would be collected on all sales ranging from 50 to 99 cents, and the second penny on sales of $1 to $1.49. Welsh said that “ifafter the hearing, evidence indicates we should change the resolution, we can start over again or do nothing.” In order for the resolution to : become effective, the board must again approve it following the i public hearing, without making • any substantial change, and it i must be approved by the attorney general and governor and filed 1 with the secretary of state. Mrs. Gardner, who made the motion which Hughes seconded for 1 the 49-cent and 99-cent breaking points, asked if the board has the ’ power to recommend that retail- 1 ers not have to pay any tax on sales under 50 cents. 1 Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers answered that in his opinion “the < board has no authority under this act to exempt sales under acer- 1 tain level. I think it only can be > done by the legislature.” Mrs. Gardner also expressed j concern that her motion changing 1 the brackets from those previously < adopted by Courtney might delay 1 collection of the tax so that schools would be deprived of 1 funds. 1 Commissioner John Hatchett, who 1 sat in on the meeting, said that if ' the income from the sales tax is i held up for any reason the state might be unable to make the full i October school payment. 1 Welsh said he feared “we are 1 subject to challenge by the retailers.” He said that while it 1 might be possible for the state to i continue collecting the tax during 1 a legal battle over the brackets 1 he would hesitate to spend such 1 funds collected under protest until after the case was settled. i Hughes asked Ingram what would happen if a family drove into the drive-in and bought five f soft drinks costing 50 cents. In- < gram replied that if the soft ) drinks were all on one ticket 1 there would be a tax but if on < separate tickets they would be i considered separate transactions. I The meeting was the first of three scheduled on the future of < the sales tax. I 1 Mrs. Sarah J. Light : r Is Taken By Death Mrs. Sarah Jane (Jenny) Light, 3 76, a native of Adams county, died 1 Thursday morning at a hospital in Findlay, O. She had lived for 1 a number of years at Benton Ridge, O. Bom in St. Mary’s township 1 Nov. 2, 1886, she was a daugh- j ter of Daniel and Amanda Helm, ( and married to Forest Light May 17, 1903. Her husband preceded . her in death March 24, 1960. Survivors include seven daugh- < ters, four sons and two sisters, ] Three children and three sisters ' preceded her in death. < Funeral rites will be held at 3 i p.m. Saturday at the Calvary Evangelicl United Brethren church i at Benton Ridge, O. Burial will ; be in the Benton Ridge cemetery, i

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 31, 1963.

Pope John Is Near To Death

VATICAN CITY (UPI) — Pope John XXIII’s life ebbed away today and he was given the Roman Catholic Church’s last rites for the dying. Pope John himself seemed to sense that the end was near as he requested the administering of the rite of Extreme Unction, the final anointing with oils of Catholics before death. Shortly after 5:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. EDT), Fdther Ilarino da Milano, a Vatican priest who is close to the Pope, tqld newsmen at the Vatican press office after he visited the pontiff: “The Pope looked as if he had only a few minutes to live.” Perhaps his final act was to be a secret consistory which Vatican sources said he might hold at his bedside this evening to reveal the names of three princes of the church he had created on March 28, 1960, but whose identity has been held secret. The 81-year-old spiritual leader of the world’s half billion Roman Catholics took a sudden turn for the worse during the night and his condition became “critical.” Up to that point, he had been reported improving in his battle with a stomach tumor that medical men say is cancerous. The Vatican had announced he had “spent a tranquil night.” Suddenly Turns Worse Then, with stunning suddenness, the Vatican announced: “Tlier e has been a sudden worsening of the condition of the holy father.” Dr. Luciano Casimirri, head of the Vatican press office, made the disclosure shortly after midday. His words were echoed by broadcasts of the Vatican radio, which said: “After twe days of steady improvement, the condition of his holiness worsened following a sudden crisis that took place during the night.” Doctors and nurses were at his bedside. Cardinals in Rome rushed to the "papal chambers as though to pay their fest respects. The Vatican radio went on special alert. The Pope’s three brothers and a sister hurried by car and plane from their homes in northern Italy to be at his side. Prof. Antonio Gasbatrini, the official papal physician, who had returned to his home in Bolpgna from Rome only Thursday, returned to the Vatican when he heard of the new crisis. “The situation is very grave, perhaps desperate,’’ he said. World Offers Prayers Crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square to watch and pray. Catholics and non-Catholics around the world offered their prayers for the Pope of peace, whose last days were complicated by severe internal bleeding, anemia and a prostate condition. As the day wore on, one unconfirmed report shortly after 3 . p.m. (10 a.m. EDT) said the Pope had been placed in an oxygen tent. But a Vatican press office official said he was “unable to check” this report at the time. The Pope was reported dozing but not in a coma. The director of the Vatican press office. Prof. Raimondo Manzini, was besieged by newsmen for details of the Pope’s condition. “The death of the Pope is not a matter of hours,” he said. New Serious Crisis But an official Vatican bulletin released shortly after 4 p.m. (11 a.m. EDT), said the Pope had been stricken by a “new serious crisis” around midnight.” It - added: "This crisis is continuing.” The bulletin said the Pope had spent a “quiet and serene evening” talking with Gustavo Cardinal Testa and conferring with Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Vatican secretary of state. Then the new crisis stfuck at midnight. Its nature was not described, but may have involved a recurrence of severe hemorrhag-

tag. At 6:30 this morning (1:30 a.m. EDT), Pope John listened as mass was celebrated in his nearby study and received Holy Communion. Summon Papal Doctor Shortly afterwards. Prof. Pietro Valdoni, one of the Pope’s doctors who has been staying close to his bedside in the Vatican, was summoned. Valdoni examined the pontiff, determined the seriousness of his condition, and informed his patient of his condition. At this point, the Vatican bulletin said, “the august pontiff ... ready as always to fulfill the Divine will, asked to receive the sacrements for the sick immediately.” He then talked with Msgr. Alfredo Cavagna, his confessor, and summoned Cicognani again. He greeted the pwal secretary _o£ mtfe wiSi words of Psalms 121 which, in English, were: “I have rejoiced in what I have been told’ We shall go mto the house of the Lord.” Knew He Was Dying This was his way of saying he knew he was dying and was prepared. At 11:15 a.m._(6:15 a.m. EDT), Msgr. Cavagna gave the Pope Viaticum—Holy Communion for the dying. Immediately afterwards, at the Pope’s express wish, he was given Extreme Unction by Msgr. Peter Carriaius van Lierde, sacristan of the papal palace. He then invited Msgr. Cavagna to remain near his bedside. “With clear and firm voice, the holy pontiff pronounced his profession of the faith, confirming his great love for the church and to the souls and renewing the offer of his own life for the good results of the (ecumenical) Council and peace among men,” the Vatican bulletin said. In the course of this homily, the Pope several times expressed his hopes for the success of the council in its aim of bringing the church into step with modern times and his ultimate goal of reunifying all Christians in one church. After that, his doctors and attendants could only wait as the day wore on. People Mingle Quietly Outside the Vatican, dark clouds scudded across the Roman sky as tourists and pilgrims mingled together quietly on the cobblestones of St. Peter’s Sauare. The hours ticked away for the Pope of peace, who probably would go down in the annals as one of the greatest leaders of the church. ♦••• Born the son of poor peasants in the northern Italian village of Sotto il Monte, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli went on to become a priest, bishop, patriarch, cardinal and finally Pope in 1958. As such, he held out the hand of friendship to all other Christians and sought to bring them all together in one church. The second Vatican Ecumenical Council which met last year and is due to reconvene in September was a major step in his plan to implement this aim. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and not so cool tonight. Saturday partly cloudy ..and warmer with chance of widely scattered thundershowers north portion late afternoon. Low tonight 53 to 58, High Saturday 75 to 83. Sunset today 8:06 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 5:19 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers or R—danhlwen afternoon and evening. Lows 53 to 63. Highs mostly in the 88s.

Memorial Day Services Are Held Thursday “Let us therefore on this Memorial Day again highly resolve that we shall never forget those fallen heroes and patriots who have given their all that we might live.” Judge Myles F. Parrish told a large crowd gathered at the peace monument Thursday morning for Memorial Day services. The services were held jointly by the local American Legion Post, the Disabled American Veterans and the Veterans of Foreign Wars organizations, and concluded with the Adams circuit court judge speaking on “Lest We Forget.” “On this 'glorious occasion we come to pay honor, respect and tribute to the veterans of all wars, who have given their all that this nation might live, and that we might enjoy freedom,” Parrish opened, “and we have come to bow our heads in reverence to those patriots who have gone to their eternal reward.” Cemetery Services The joint memorial services began at 9 o’clock on a sunny Memorial Day, with the Legion post conducting services in the Catholic cemetery. The V. F. W. then held services in the Decatur cemetery. Following, a parade was formed, with Severin H. Schurger as grand marshal, and moved through town to the St. Mary’s river bridge on Monroe street, where the D. A. V. conducted services. - - ■ The parade then returned to the peace monument in the southwest section of the courthouse yard, where Judge Parrish spoke. Long And Arduous The judge said the road to victory in war was long and arduous, and the path to peace is certainly no less difficult, and the position of the United States has been made clear to the whole world, which he explained as follows: “We seek to dominate no other nation, in that we ask no territorial expansion, we oppose imperialism, and that we desire reduction in world armament. We believe in democracy, we believe in freedom, and we believe in peace, so we offer to every nation of the world the hand clasp of the good neighbor—let those who wish our friendship look us in the eye and take our hand.” Judge Parrish explained aspects of the monument, and also talked on the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the two World, Wars and the Korean conflict.

At Least 50 More Blood Donors Needed At least 50 more blood donors are urgently needed for a successful bloodmobile visit Monday, Mrs. Ferris Bower, Red Cross blood chairman, said today. Because of the high percentage of summer rejections, the Red Cross must schedule at least 180 persons to meet their 125 quota, Mrs. Bower explained. The following times are still open for scheduling: 11-11:45 a. m., 12-1 p. m., 2:45-3:15 p. m. The bloodmobile will be located at the Decatur Community Center, and will be open from 10 a m. until 4 p. m. Anyone between the ages of 21 and 60 may give; many of the donors are women. Those between 18 and 21 years of age may give with their parents’ written permission. Any person who has never given, but who would like to find out about the program, should call the Red Gross for information, or come to the Center Monday to see how it is done. The canteen volunteers are scheduled as follows: Mrs. Lee Fleming, chairman; Mrs. Harold Messick, Mrs. Harmon Kraft, Mrs. L. E. Archbold, Mrs. Woodson Ogg, Mrs. Edgar Reinking, Mrs. Walter Bauer, and Mrs. Charles Beineke. _ Pleasant Mills Lions Install New Officers Richard Mailand, of St. Mary’s township, has been installed as president of the Pleasant Mills Lions club by international counsellor Roy L. Price. Other new Lions, club officers aie. first vice piesidenl. Raymond Ehrsam; second vice president. Donald Holloway; third vice president, Jack Bebout; Lion tamer, Donald Everett; tailtwister, Glenn Everett; secretary, A. J. Davison; treasurer, Paul Sowards; twoyear directors, B. P. Johnson, Robert Ross; holdover directors, Richard Byer, Robert Riley.

Racial Flareup In Philadelphia

By United Press International Two policemen were slashed and several persons were injured .today in a new flareup of violence at a Philadelphia construction site where hundreds of Negro demonstrators protested alleged job discrimination. One patrolman was slashed on the wrist and another on the arm during a fight which broke out when Negro pickets refused to move to permit workers to report to their jobs. ■» Five other policemen and about 200 pickets were cut and bruised in the melee. The workers got through to the school construction site which had been the target of protests for a week. It is located in a largely Negro neighborhood in North Philadelphia. The violence broke out two hours before agreement was reached to end the mass picketing and employ Negroes in skilled jobs on public construction projects in Philadelphia. It called for the immediate hiring of a qualified Negro plumber, steamfitter, two electricians and a sheetmetal worker at the school site. In the South, authorities at Jackson, Miss., were prepared to arrest racial demonstrators by the thousands. Two large buildings at the state fairgrounds were set up as temporary jails. The city of Durham, N.C., announced it would open its municipal swimming pools on a desegregated basis,a move taken earlier in the week by Atlanta. Cecil Moore, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) branch in Philadelphia, said the picket protests would continue until more Negroes are employed in skilled trades at the school site. He pledged to assemble 4,000 pickets today to carry on the demonstration. Authorities in Jackson were taking no chances should new demonstrations break out in the Mississippi capital city. Wire was strung around two exhibit buildings at the state fairgrounds and Jackson Mayor Allen Thompson said the prisoner compounds could confine 10,000 persons. Negro leaders said they would step up their segregation protest campaign. At Tallahassee, Fla., 220 Negroes were ordered to appear in court today to answer charges of disobeying an injunction against demonstrations. Two Negroes and a white man picketing a segregated restaurant at Charlottesville, Va., were beaten Thursday. In Washington, the Defense Department said it has transferred 150 troops of the 101st Airborne Division at Ft. Campbell, Ky., to Ft. McClellan, Ala., to replace 150

Annual Tri Kappa Award To Swickard The annual Tri Kappa scholarship has been awarded to David Swickard, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Swickard, and a graduate of the Decatur high school last week. v . This scholarship of SIOO is offered annually to seniors of both Decatur high schools. This year, 10 young people took the test offered by the local sorority. There were five students from each high school who took this year’s test. The runnerup to Swickard was Tom Mclntosh, also of the Decatur high school. Swickard has enrolled at Indiana University. Last year's winner was Miss Theresa Buckley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Buckley, and a 1962 graduate of the Decatur Catholic high school. She is now attending Barat College of the Sacred Heart, Lake Forest, 111. Two More Candidates File Election Costs Democratic mayor candidate Carl D. Gerber filed his expense statement Wednesday, showing primary election campaign expenses amounting to $80.64. Mrs. Winifred Spaulding, Republican candidate for the city councilman-at-large post, has also filed her statement’ showing no campaign expenses incurred previous to the primary election. All candidates in the May 7 election must file expense statements, with Thursday, June 6, the final day for filing. All candidates, whether or not they incurred expenses, must file. A few of the primary candidates have not as yet filed their statements with county clerk Richard Lewton.

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infantrymen. The department said the shift was not connected with the removal Thursday of about 400 troops from the Birmingham, Ala., area where President Kennedy sent troops following racial violence on May 12. Jackson police Thursday broke up a campus demonstration by 500 Negro high school students, some of whom threw rocks, bottles and bricks at officers. Three policemen were reported slightly injured. Two persons were arrested at the school and 25 more demonstrators were arrested in downtown Jackson. Get Riot Training Highway patrolmen from throughout Mississippi were moved into the capital and put on standby alert at patrol headquarters where they underwent not control training. Thompson and two city commissioners warned Thursday that violence would support demands of civil rights leaders that federal troops be sent to Jackson. Negroes later in the day requested that Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy intervene “to prevent further unlawful arrests and harassment.” Police at Tallahassee Thursday arrested 257 persons for staging two brief racial demonstrations in the Florida capital. A crowd of about 200 white persons cheered and applauded when police moved in on Negroes picketing a segregated theater. Bbl officers had to use tear gas to break up another demonstration by about 85 Negroes. One girl fell to the ground in the bluish smoke, but was picked up by a fellow demonstrator and apparently was not hurt. Three Pickets Beaten The three men at Charlottesville were protesting segregation in a restaurant when they were attacked by two white, men who beat them with their fiste. Police arrested all five men and charged them with assault. The Rev. H. F. Johnson, head of the Charlottesville branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was hospitalized with undetermined injuries. There were these other racial developments: —A biracial committee at Nashville, Tenn., said Thursday it has completed its organization and had “launched immediately” into racial problems facing the Tennessee capital. —Three Negroes tried unsuccessfully to enter three downtown theaters at Chattanooga, Tenn., Thursday. —An NAACP official said at Radnor, Pa., Thursday that demonstrations at a school construction site in Philadelphia were the start of a nationwide drive against segregation in unions.

Johnston Funeral Services Saturday Funeral services will be held Saturday for Mrs. Mabie Johnston, 65, wife of Floyd H. John% ton of 540 Yale Ave., Alma, Mich., who died at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Ypsilanti, Mich., state hospital, following an illness of five years. She was born in Adams county May 30, 1897, .a daughter of Samuel and Christine Luginbill-Hirs-chy, and was married to Floyd H. Johnston Sept. 4, 1921. Mrs. Johnston, a registered nurse, was a member of the Presbyterian church at Alma, and Victorian chapter 290, Order of Eastern Star, at Redford. Mich. Surviving in addition to her husband are one son. Dr. William R. Johnston of South Haven, Mich.; one daughter, Mrs. J. D. Patrick 11, Ft. Lewis. Wash.; eight grandchildren; one greatgrandchild; two brothers, William Hirschy of Berne, and Gilbert Hirschy of Decatur, and two sisters, Mrs. Barbara Habegger of North Newton. Kansas., and Mrs. Elmer (Dora) Winteregg of Berne. Services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Win-teregg-Linn funeral home, with the Rev. Fuhrman Miller officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery at Berne. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today until time of the services. The Decatur Order of Eastern Star will hold memorial services at 8 o’clock this evening. Decatur Ministers, Wives Meet Monday The Decatur ministers and their wives will have a dinner meeting at the Decatur Community Center Monday evening. The dinner will be at 5 o’clock. Entertainment will be furnished by Mr. and Mrs. John Paul McAhren.