Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1963 — Page 1

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Pope John Is Hovering Between Life And Death; Regains Consciousness’

Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur Monday

“We hope everyone is considering giving blood in order that the regional blook bank will be prepared and able to assist accident victims and surgical patients in the warm summer months ahead,” Mrs Ferris Bower said this morning in reminding Adams county residents ot the bloodmobile visit to Decatur Monday. The bloodmobile will be stationed at the Youth and Community Center from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday, Mrs. Bower, county blood program chairman, reminded city and area residents. “Many persons who have never done so before are considering giving blood,” Mrs. Bower said, “and many regular donors have some unanswered questions about the blood program.” She brought out several questions which are prominent in the minds of donors, or prospective donors, and listed answers to the questions, which are as follows: 1. Is my blood donation needed? Yes — and urgently. Every year, medical science discovers new uses for blood in the fight against injury and disease. The need is constantly increasing, and the only source for blood is donations by people like yourselves. "2. How is Hood used? Whole blood is used in surgical operations to combat shock, in cases of severe burns, for auto accident victims, or other injury. Blood derivatives made from the whole blood which you give, is used for a great variety of purposes — among them, as a precentative medicine for measles, infectious hepatitis, for victims of hemophillia, and others. “3. Can Ibe sure that my Hood donation will be used? Yes —No blood is ever wasted. If it is not used for a transfusion within 21 Congressman Walter Dies Last Evening WASHINGTON (UPD — Rep. Francis E. Walter, D-Pa., one of the most powerful and controversial members of the House, died of leukemia Friday. Walter, 68, died at 6 p.m. EDT after being in a coma most of the day at Georgetown University Hospital. He had been hospitalized for about four months. He was chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the judiciary subcommittee on immigration, and coauthored the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. Adding to his power, he was chairman of the Democratic Patronage Committee, which dispenses Capitol jobs. Since 1961, he had been chairman of the House Democratic caucus, a prestige position. President Kennedy, who visited Walter recently, said “when I saw him on my recent visit...he was facing the future with the same faith and courage he had shown throughout his life. He will be greatly missed in the House of Representatives and all of his friends mourn his passing.” Funeral arrangements for falter were incomplete. He will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Considered an expert parliamentarian, Walter often presided when the House debated its most intricate bills. He was a trusted confidant of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, who told a friend 10 years ago that he wanted Walter to succeed him. BULLETIN Dale W. McMillen, Sr., 81, Is reported in excellent condition following major surgery Friday at Parkview Memorial hospital in Fort Wayne.

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days, it is made into blood derivatives which keep indefinitely. “4. How much blood am I asked to give? One pint. There are approximately 12 to 15 pints in the human body, depending on your weight “5. Does it take long? No, less than an hour. The actual donation takes about five “6. What precautions are taken for my protection? Before you are allowed to donate, doctors and trained nurses will check your temperature, pulse, hemoglobin, blood pressure and medical history. “7. How long does it take the body to replace the pint donation? The fluid blood is replaced within a few minutes. The iron content requires several days for replacement through food. “8. How many blood types are there? There are four matin groups, A, B, AB, and 0. Each is either Rh negative or positive. “9. Do patients pay for Hood? No. Since the Fort Wayne regional Red Cross Hood program originated Feb. 21, 1951, no one has paid for Hood supplied in this area. (Hospitals do make a charge for supplies, and for administering the transfusion.) Moreover, residents of this region can receive Hood without charge even in other areas if the hospital will accept blood from a Red Cross Hood center on a one-for-one replacement basis. “10. Am I eligible to give blood? Yes — If you’re between 18 and 59 years of age and pass the physical check-up. Written permission of a parent for unmarried person under 21 is required. Blood can be donated at eight-week intervals, but no more often than five times a year. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair wtth little temperature change tonight and Sunday. Slight chance of a few widely scattered thundershowers tonight and Sunday afternoon or night. Low tonight 55 to 60 north, 58 to 65 south. High Sunday lower 80s. Outlook for Monday: Continued fair and mild. Wilbert Luginbill Dies Last Evening Wilbert Luginbill, 74, of 355 West Center street, Berne, prominent retired furniture salesman, died at 6:20 p.m. Friday at the Adams county memorial hospital. Death was attributed to coronary thrombosis and followed an illness of six months. Born in Monroe township Dec. 16, 1888, he was a son of Jerry and Barbara Lehman-Luginbill, and was married to Lovina Nussbaum, June 14, 1914. Mr. Luginbill began his career as a furniture salesman for Bierie & Yager in 1910, and retired in 1960 from the Yager Furniture Co., successor to Bierie & Yager. He was a member of the First Mention ite church. Surviving are his wife; two sons Dr. Howard M. Luginbill of Berne, and James E. Luginbill of Portland; one daughter, Mrs. Clinton (Helen) Liechty of Loudenville, O.; 10 grandchildren; one brother, Noah Luginbill of Berne, and one sister, Mrs. Louis J. Habegger of Berne. Two brothers and two sisters are deceased. / Funeral services-will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the First Mennonite church, the Rev. Gordon Neuenschwander and the Rev. Marvin Zehr officiating. will be in MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home in Berne after 7 p.m. today until 12:30 p.m. Monday. There will be no viewing at the church.

VATICAN CITY (UPD — Pope John XXIII regained consciousness for a second time today as doctors gave him “pain-killing injections” to ease his last hours. He hovered between life and death, consciousness and coma, but one Vatican source said death probaHy would come before nightfall. Twice the 81-year-old pontiff has slipped into a coma, but twice he has regained consciousness. The latest period of consciousness, the Vatican press office announced, came at 3:40 p.m. (10:40 a.m. EDT). Previously, he had returned to consciousness from a coma at 2:45 a.m. (9:45 p.m. EDT Friday) when he was able to drink coffee, chat with those in his bedroom and recognize his relatives. He blessed them “individually.” Then he lapsed back into a coma about five hours later. ' Blesses Those Present As he regained his senses the second time, the official announcement said, “The holy father blessed those present and offered once again his own life for the church, for the (ecumenical) council, and for peace.” Present at the time in the third floor bedroom of the Vatican palace were Vatican Secretary of State Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Fernando Cardinal Cento, Msgr. Angelo Dellacqua of the Vatican secretariat of state, members of the pontiff’s family and his confessor, Msgr. Alfredo Cavagna. As the stout heart of the peasant-bom Pope refused to give up the fight for life, a sudden afternoon thundershower drenched thousands of pious and curious gathered outside in St. Peter’s Square to pray and await news of his ebbing bittie with death. Remains Near Death Despite his moments of consciousness, Vatican Radio said “the holy father remained on the treshhold of this life and the next.” Other sources quoted the pontiffs principal official physician. Prof. Antonio Gasbarrini. as saying he hoped Pope John “will live until this evening.” However, the director of the Vatican City newspaper said he did not think the failing Pope would last that long. TTie Pope moved inexorably toward the end. He dramatically regained consciousness during the night, but slipped back into a coma early today. The Vatican offered no explanation of the injections at a time when the pontiff was in a coma, but it was presumed that he was experiencing moments of consciousness. The 81-year-old pontiffs breathing was slow. His temperature had risen to 100.4 degrees and he was being given oxygen. Give Pain Killers Then, at 1:45 p.m. (8:45 a.m. EDT), the Vatican radio said in a German language broadcast that the Pope’s doctors administered the pain-killers early this morning. This was the first mention of sedatives. The broadcast added that the Pope’s general condition remained “stationary." “His face is quiet and relaxed,” the announcer said. “He is still fighting with death. His pulse is entirely normal, his breathing slow and broken. Still Grave Situation “Summing up, the situation is stationary but still very grave . .. the death agony can still last hours.” A few minutes later, a press office spokesman confirmed that the Pope had been receiving pain-kill-ing injections. Earlier, Dr. Raimondo Manzini, director of the Vatican City newspaper Osservatore Romano, said after a visit to the Pope’s bedroom that he did not think the pontiff would last until evening. When the Pope regained lucidity during the night, Msgr. Oddone Tacoli, a ceremonial official, told him: “Holy father, you seem to be resurrected.” “I could observe my death step by step,” the Pope replied. “Now I am gently moving toward the end.” Ended Long Coma .. .; ' Pope John, who is suffering a stomach tumor said to be cjm- f cerous, caused a flurry ot excite-; ment shortly before 3 a.m. when he dramatically regained con(Continued On Page Three)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 1,1963.

Record Death Toll Feared

By United Press International Americans today raced toward a record traffic death toll for the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend. Fair weather across much of the land lured more motorists onto the highways. The National Safety Council said the old holiday record of 462 deaths would fall if the current pace of highway carnage con- . tinues. l A United Press International count at 730 a.m. CDT showed 270 persons killed in traffic accidents since the holiday period , started at 6 p.m. Wednesday, A breakdown of the death toll • showed: [ Traffic 270 > Drowning 52 Boating 7 Plane 7 All IB Association Officers Reelected Robert Zwick, Decatur funeral director, was reelected president of the Adams county tuberculosis association at the annual meeting Friday night. Also reelected were Charles Fuhrman, vice president; John B. i Stults, secretary, and Tom Allwein, treasurer. Executive board members include Hugh J. An- , drews, Dr. James Burk, Mrs. Ernest Reicheldeffer, and W. Guy Brown. Directors Elected Directors are Mrs. J. Ward Calland, Fuhrman, Mrs. Nellie Coppess, Helen Kenney, E. M. Webb, Mrs. Xariffa Walters, Mary Schlagenhauf, Stults, Andrews, Dr. Burk, Mrs. Reicheldeffer, Mrs. Floyd Byerly, Mrs. Eli Graber, Mrs. Carl J. Kohn, Dr. Norman E. Beaver, Robert J. Zwick, Gail Grabill, Theodore Grotrian, Harvey Haggard, Mrs. Murray Holloway, Bernard Schultz, Allwein, Richard Lewer, and Brown. The Rev. Robert Contant, who is leaving the city, resigned from the board. The operating expenses of the association included $1,243.50 for health education; $25 for TB clinic; $1,764.05 for case findings; $lB7 for rehabilitation; $24.50 for statistics and fact-finding; S6OO for medical and social research; $202.47 for milk for undernourished children at schools; $313.05 for administration, and $819.58 for the Christmas seal campaign. Survey Results During the past year, 1,920 Adams county children and 14 adults received the patch test. There were 22 reactors, and each was then x-rayed. The survey included all public and parochial schools of the county and school officials gave 100% cooperation, Mrs. W. Guy Brown, executive secretary, stated. The county health nurse, Mrs. Gail Grabill, did the follow-up on the patch test work. During the week of July 23-26, 959 people were x-rayed by the mobile x-ray unit, in cooperation with the state board of health. Two cases were found, and 22 cases of other pathology, and these were reported to the physicians of the people x-rayed. The week of Jan. 14-18, another survey was made, with 1,267 people x-rayed, with 4 tuberculosis cases found, and 30 of other pathology. Mrs. Brown is also county visitor for the Irene Byron hospital, where there are two Adams county cases; one case is at the Rock-, ville hospital. f 3 Adams county ranked fifth in "Indiana in the per-capita amount Wied in the Christmas seal campaign, which brought in $6,327.50, a gain of 9%, or $521.85 over the previous year.

Miscellaneous 47 Total 383 California led the nation in traffic deaths with 32. New York recorded 28. Texas had 15, Ohio 13, . and Pennsylvania had 11. Ohio, which had its first death- . free Memorial Day in the memory of traffic experts, saw its toll ac- , cumulate quickly Friday with 12 dead. The safety council’s pre-holiday . estimate was that between 450 I and 550 persons would die on the ■ highways during the 102-hour I weekend. “The way it looks now,” a I spokesman said Friday, “it will run toward the high side of our maximum of 550.” The existing record of 462 deaths for a four-day Memorial Day weekend was set in 1960. Edward J. Roe Dies Early This Morning Edward J. Roe, 87-year-old Monmouth resident ,died at 5:11 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient for 10 weeks. He was born in Washington township Nov. 13, 1875, a son of Isaac and Sarah Jane Smith-Roe, and was married to Retha Haggard Dec. 12, 1895. Mr. and Mrs. Roe homesteaded in North Dakota in 1905, making the trip in a covered wagon caravan. They returned to Indiana in 1923. Mr. Roe, a retired farmer, was a member of the Church of the Nazarene . Surviving in addition to his wife are fiive sons, Lawrence, Albert W. and Irvin C. Roe, all of Fo rt Wayne, and Leo H. and Lloyd A. Roe, both of Decatur ;two daughters, Mrs. Austin (Blanche) Tarr of Cincinnati, 0., and Mrs. Dick (Frances) Alverson of Decatur; 24 grandchildren, 47 great-grand-children, and two great-great-grandchildren. One daughter, two brothers and five sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Church of the Nazarene. The Rev. Wilmer Watson will officiate, and burial will be •in the Ray cemetery at Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Sunday until time of the services. Mrs. Lillie Thomas Is Taken By Death t. Mrs. Lillie Thomas, 89, died Friday at the home of a son, Ray, six miles northeast of Geneva, of complications from a broken hip suffered in a fall Nov. 1. Also surviving are two grandsons; a brother, Ben Utterback, and a sister, Mrs. Hugh Grimes, both of Sharpsburg, Ky. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva, with burial in Alber son cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 p.m. today. Munster Man Killed When Plane Crashes SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD — Harris L. Clark, 33, Munster, was killed instantly Friday when a World War II vintage fighter plane plunged into a cornfield near here. The P-51 Mustang fighter dug a crater eight feet deep in the field about five miles southeast ot here. The pilot’s body was pinned, incrumpled wreckage at the bottom' of the hole. Other bits of the plane were strewn over an area about 120 yards in diameter. , 1

Common Market Is Facing New Crisis Today BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPD — The European Common Market faced a new crisis today over French refusal to permit expanded British contacts with the sixnation economic community. Diplomatic observers said the situation was dangerously similar to the disunity following France's veto of British Common Market membership last January and it could get worse. Friday, France refused to per- ■ mit Common Market ambassadors of the other five nations from holding periodic meetings with the British ambassador. Backed by the power of veto, French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said that present contacts through the British mission to the community were sufficient. In return West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg—known in Britain as . the “friendly five”—are threaten- . ing to delay action on important agricultural policies France considers vital. They wanted the ambassadorial r contacts to narrow the economic . policy gap between themselves > and Britain, thus facilitating British entry into the Common Marr ket sometime in the future, j The five will attempt to take , up the problem again at a minp isterial meeting June 17 but their proposal appeared to have little j chance against French obstinacy. I The Common Market dispute r with American poultrymen remained unresolved today. 5 The ministers flatly refused to , give U.S. exporters lower tariff rates into the community on broiler chickens than their Danish ■ competitors despite the fact the Danes receive government subsidies. America’s share of the European chicken market has dropped from 70 to 10 per cent because of price-cutting and increasing production efficiency in the Common Market countries. L — ' Master Mix Dealers Meet Here Tuesday Avon and Sim Burk from Burk Elevator Co. plan to attend a Master Mix dealer day program which , Central Soya and its McMillen ’ Feed Division will hold at the company’s Decatur plant Tuesday. Nearly 1,000 feed men, representing Indiana, Michigan and Ohio feed dealerships served by Central Soya’s Decatur plant, are expected to attend. Highlighting the program will 1 be tours of the recently remodeled feed mill and of the nearby feed research farm. Guests will also see soybean processing and grain merchandising operations at the plant. At an informal program following a barbecue luncheon, Central Soya president Dale W. McMillen, Jr., will speak on the “Future of ' the Feed Industry,” and Harold W. McMillen, Central Soya board chairman, will discuss, “Foodpower by Central Soya.” Central Soya was founded at Decatur, by Dale W, McMillen, . Sr., October 2, 1934. Its first order of Master Mix feed was sold January 23, 1935. Since then, the company has grown steadily and now has major plants in a dozen states and extensive feed research facilities at Decatur. NOON EDITION Speeder Is Nabbed I Here Early Today A regular “Mack Sennett” chase at speeds up to 120 miles an hour, : led to the arrest of a Poneto man for speeding on highway 224 Friday night the city police reported today. -- The arresting officer was near the intersection of Thirteenth street and Nuttman, when he saw a 1936 pick-up truck cross the intersection and head west at a high rate of speed. He followed, at speeds up to 120 miles an hour, and finally caught the speeder at the county line. James L. Noble, 26, Os Poneto, for speeding, and charged with was arrested at 12:35 a.m. today '65-miie-an-hour zone. He Will appear Monday at 7 p.m. before justice of the peace Floyd Hunter. _ ———_—

Proposed Tax Setup Fought By Retailers

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Indiana’s new 2 per cent sales tax, scheduled to go into effect July 1, appeared headed today toward a second law suit even before it gets into operation. The Indiana Retail Council, through its head, Charles Van Nuys, served notice that if the brackets recommended by the Indiana Revenue Board Friday are formally adopted, the council will ( begin legal action upon behalf of 3,750 member retail stores. Governor Welsh, a Democrat, joined two Republican state officials, Auditor Dorothy Gardner and Treasurer Robert Hughes, in adopting a resolution calling for all purchases under 50 cents to be exempt from the tax. , Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney and a panel of tax experts Monday had adopted a recommendation that the tax start with 25-cent purchases, and Welsh at the time had not objected. Van Nuys, whose group had urged that the first cent be collected with 15-cent purchases, charged that the Revenue Board’s action was “fantastic, incredible. It is an injudicious act by an administrative board to put the tax liability on the agent of the state instead of the purchaser. If this bracket stands, we will take court action.” Hearing Set June 10 The sales tax law already is the object of a court suit filed by the Indiana AFL-CIO which alleged it is unconstitutional. A hearing, and probably a formal trial, are set for June 10 on this suit in Marion Circuit court. The law makes retail merchants the agents of the state in collecting the tax and specifies that “notwithstanding the amount of state gross retail tax or use tax collected from purchases, the retail merchant shall be liable for and shall remit 2 per cent” of his gross income to the state. Intentional failure to pay the 2

421 Negroes Taken Into Custody Friday

By United Press International Anti-segregation leaders today organized more demonstrations for the weekend in at least two southern cities while a Dixie governor prepared to take his arguments for racial barriers north. Above the Mason-Dixon line, Negro spokesmen and contractors in Philadelphia had reached an agreement ending protests against job discrimination that led to a battle between pickets and police. In Washington, the Justice Department worked on new civil rights legislation which President Kennedy is expected to propose to Congress next week. And in New York, fresh pleas for integration were issued by the World Council of Churches and the president of a huge restaurant chain. Some highlights of the racial situation: Jackson, Miss.: Police arrested 421 Negro demonstrators late Friday and drove them in trucks to makeshift prisoner compounds on the state fairground. Most were students ranging in age from 12 to 21 who met a human blockade of helmeted officers on a march toward the downtown section. They were charged with parading without a permit. More demonstrations were imminent. , Tallahassee, Fla.: Negro students, fresh from a court victory, stayed off the streets of the state capital Friday night but planned to resume picketing of all-white theaters today. A circuit court judge dismissed contempt charges against 220 students arrested on Thursday night for such picket ing, and gave them permission to continue demonstrating—in limited numbers. “This is a great and sweeping victory for the Negro,” an attorney for the integrationists said. Montgomery, Ala.: Gov. George Wallace, pledged to block the enrollment of two Negroes at the University of Alabama June 10, flies to New York today for a television appearance Sunday. The fiery Wallace also continued to play a cat-and-mouse game with U.S. marshals, who want to serve him with a subpoena for a federal court hearing Monday aimed at preventing him from interfering with integration at the university. State troopers Friday

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per cent tax on the part of the merchant is a crime punishable in the same manner as any theft. Van Nuys called the plan to make all sales under 50 cents exempt from the sales tax “a tremendous shift of the tax burden from the consumer to the merchant. The purpose of the law is to put the tax on the purchaser, not the agent.” He said that he and many other representatives of retailers would be on hand for a June 11 hearing set by the Revenue Board as a necessary step toward formal adoption of a regulation setting the tax brackets. Merchants Would Lose “Everybody can sit down in their own living room and figure out that you can’t apply this bracket if you are a merchant and not end up paying part of the consumer’s tax for him,” Van Nuys declared. He said that even at 25 cents, many merchants would be unable to collect enough tax to cover the amount they must pay to the state. Mrs. Gardner, however, appeared to be having some second thoughts about the 50-cent beginning bracket today. She said that if the evidence presented at the June 11 hearing convinces her the bracket is too unfair, she will vote to drop her resolution. Neither Mrs. Gardner nor Hughes were included in the earlier hearing conducted by Courtney and complained that they did not have access to the evidence presented then. If the Revenue Board should fail to go ahead with the formal procedure for legalizing the bracket resolution then most experts say the brackets prepared by Courtney would prevail. One of the new taxes enacted by the 1963 Legislature, a one-cent increase in the cigarette tax, went into effect today. The tax increased from three cents a package to four cents.

formed a human chain around Wallace to block serving of the subpoena. Philadelphia: .Two .policemen were stabbed and six pickets were slugged with blackjacks during a melee Friday at the construction sites of two schools. None were seriously hurt. After 200 policemen quelled the disturbance, officials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, unions, contractors and the school board announced that an agreement had been reached for hiring five Negro workers at the sites and organizing a committee to map a program for hiring more. Washington: The Justice Department continued work on two measures aimed at speeding up desegregation of schools and reducing racial barriers at most public business establishments. The other would empower the attorney general to initiate suits on behalf of Negroes, thus reducing the time spent on litigation. The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to resume hearings Wednesday on civil rights bills. Sacramento, Calif.: A group of whites and Negroes, protesting lack of legislative action on a fair housing bill, spent the night inside the state Capitol and expected reinforcements for their sit-in. The demonstration started Wednesday. Memphis, Tenn. ■ A federal judge hears motions today calling for the immediate desegregation of schools i n Jackson, Tenn., and Madison County, Tenn. Athens, Ga.: The first two Negroes to attend the University of Georgia line up with other graduating seniors to receive theirdiplomas today. Eight-Year-Old Boy Is Dead Os Burns ANDERSON, Ind. <UPD—Steven Swart, "8, died in a hospital here late Friday, several hours after he was burned in a fire which swept his grandparents’ home. His sister, Rena, 5, and their uncle, David Duffey, 19, remained hospitalized today with burns suffered in the blaze at The'home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Duffey.