Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 132.

President Kennedy Says Military Power Tied To Political, Diplomatic

Police Station ! Plan Complete

. The city council, in its first June I meeting Tuesday evening, learned from architectural designer Jerold Lobsiger that plans for the new city police station are ready to be sent to the state board for its final' approval. Lobsiger attended the meeting Tuesday night and discussed a few minor details on the plans and specifications for the police station and the renovation of city hall. He explained that the police station plans are completed and the city hall plans will be finished today or Thursday. Both will then be sent to the state board in Indianapolis for the approval of the state fire marshal, state board of health, etc. When approval is granted, and it is expected to be, the board of works and safety will then be free to let bids for both the construction of the new station and the renovation of the city hall build- . ing. - _ L. Other Remodeling Lobsiger was also requested by the council to investigate the remodeling 4 work that ig being done at the old steam plant building to provide a suitable headquarters fcr the street department. An addition to the building is being planned, along with ins’allation of a heating plant, a retaining wall, and other items. Lobsiger will check over the building for ■preliminary plans and specifications so that the board of works may let bids on the work to be done at the site. Discussion was held on a sewer p-oblem that exists in the area of High street, just east of the Homestead addition. Tom Miller and Vic Porter, who recently purchased kind on the east side of High street, south of the Nickel Plate railroad traces, attended the meeting and discussed the problem with the council. Miller and Porter have tentative plans for building a lake in the area, and are now planning to construct their homes there also. Sewage Problem A copy of a letter sent to Dr. Norman Beaver, Adams county health officer, by the state board of health, was read. The letter explained that an unsanitary condition existed. The state board had received a similar complaint in 1962 about the sanitation problem Notices Mailed On Unpaid Assessments Letters -were mailed Monday to al local residents who have unpaid sewer assesments and have not made arangements to pay the charges, it was revealed at the city council meeting Tuesday evening. At its May 21 meeting, the council, on a recommendation from the board of'works and safety, voted to shut off sewer facilities to any residents who have not cooperated in paying sewer assessments. It was explained at the previous council meeting that many persons have not paid their assessment charges in full, but have made arangements to pay the bill in installments or by some other arrangement. The ones, who will be contacted concerning the unpaid assessments are those who have not paid their assessments or even attempted to make arangements to pay it. Some 10-Years-Old It was brought out at the May 21 meeting that some sewer assessment charges were 10 years old* Each time a new sewer is bulit those people whom it services are

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I in that area. Mayor Donald F. Gage explained that residents on the east side of High street, when they built their , homes, could not tap onto the sewer that services the Homestead, and thus tapped onto a storm drain. The storm drain empties into a cesspool on the land purchased by Porter and Miller, which they would like corrected so that work in the area may begin. After some discussion, the matter was referred to the street and sewer committee of the council for j further study, along with city engineer Ralph E. Roop, in an attempt to find a solution. A supplement to an agreement with Indiana & Michigan for electrical power for the city’s street lights was submitted, and the council approved and signed the agreement. Councilman Bernard Clark said that the state highway commission would round off the northeast corner of the Monroe and 13th street intersection if petitioned by the council. The council approved the action and authorized city attorney Robert S. Anderson to draw up a resolution for petitioning the state department, which will be adopted at the next city council meeting. , New Lights Overhead traffic lights were recently installed at the intersection, and removal of the did lights will allow cutting the northeast corner which has posed a problem, especially for truck drivers, for years. Mayor Gage told the councilmen that the new Patterson street sewer has been completed and has met the requirements of city engineer Roop, and that Yost Construction Co. has started work on the new 12-inch water main on Film street. Fire chief Cedric Fisher told the council that the recently-purchased tank truck, used for carrying additionaol water supply to rural fires, is now in service, after being tested fully. The fire chief said the tank truck is nearly ready for painting and that he and other members of the department were quite pleased with the vehicle, whiof will allow the department to carry more than 1,000 gallons of water to rural fires. charged a sewer assessment. The assessment money goes into the revolving sewer fund, which is used to build new sewers. At the rate the unpaid assessments are building up, however, the revolving sewer fund will soon be depleted and there will be no funds available with which to construct new sewers. Each person who is contacted by letter will be supplied the bill owned the city, and if that is not paid in 30 days from Monday, June 3. the sewer service will be shut off. The letter explains also that it the service is shut off and then reconnected later, both the the disconnection and connection charges will be assessed the property owner. City clerk-treasurer Laura A. Boose informed the council last night that many of the unpaid assessments have been paid since the previous council meeting. Benn Funeral Rites Thursday Afternoon Funeral services for Arthur FBenn, who died Monday at his home in Fort Wayne, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Tom Mungovan funeral home, with Wilbur Monnot officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

I COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. [ (UPD—President Kennedy said , today the Cuban crisis last fall • demonstrated that military policy I and power must be tied cloaely |to political and diplomatic decisions in the future. “Whatever the military motives and implications of that reckless attempt to place offensive missiles on the island of Cuba may have been, the political and psychological motives and implications were equally important,” Kennedy said. The chief executive flew to Colorado Springs on the first leg of a five-day western inspection and speaking trip which the President extended at the last mipute to include Hawaii. In a commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy stadium here, Kennedy told the Young Air Force-officers that the nation would need military commanders “who can foresee the effects of military moves pn the whole fabric of international power.” Cope With Challenge “We need men who can cope with the challenge of new political situations as well as new enemy weapons — who can keep their forces flexible as well as reliable, and alert without being trigger happy,” he said. “For we live in a world where the principal problems are not susceptible of military solutions alone.” In his prepared remarks Kennedy attacked the suggestion that an Air Force career was “mor•taged to an obsolete weapons system, the manned aircraft.” The President said there was no truth to the forecast that Air Force officers of the future would be “nothing more than so-called I ‘silent silo sitters.’ ” Fly Fastest Planes “Some of you will fly the fastest planes, reach the highest altitudes and lift the heaviest payloads of any aviator in history,” he told the graduates. “Some at you will hold in your hands the most awesome destructive power that man has ever conceived. “Some of you will work with the new leaders of new nations which were not even nations a few years ago. Some of you will support guerrilla and counterguerrilla operations that combine the newest techniques of with the oldest techniques of the jungle. “And some of you will help to develop new planes that spread their wings in flight, detect other planes at unheard of distances, deliver new weapons with unprecedented accuracy and survey the ground from incredible heights.” Thus the President pictured what he called the “onrush of technology’’ which he predicted would lead to a constantly expanding role for the U.S. Air Force. Kennedy also said the greatest value of “these new weapons of massive retaliation” lay in their ability to deter the very war which would require their use. Importance Not Diminished But he pointed out that the deterrent factor did not diminish the importance of new devices as weapons. “Nor wfil national security in the years ahead be achieved simply by piling up bigger stocks of bombs or burying our missiles under bigger piles of. concrete,” the President added. “For in an imperfect world — where human failures and follies have too often been the rule instead of the exception—the surest way to bring on ‘the war that cannot happen’ is to sit back and assure ourselves that it cannot happen.” The President said the existence of mutual nuclear deterrents could not be shrugged off as a mere stalemate. “For our national security, in a period of rapid change, will depend on constant reappraisal of accepted doctrine, on alertness to new developments, on imagination and resourcefulness and new ideas,” he said. After his speech the President toured the academy and then went to the North American Air Defense Command for a classified briefing before leaving for the White Sands, N.M., missile range.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 5,1963.

Thousands Mourn At Bier Os Pope John

VATICAN CITY (UPD — By the tens of thousands mourners filed through St. Peter’s Basilica today in final tribute to Pope John XXIII. Even as the people of Rome lined up in the rain awaiting their turn to pass through the great doors of the basilica to view the body of their beloved Pope, the Vatican announced the College of > Cardinals will meet June 19 to begin selection of his successor. A steadily-flowing river of hu. i mamity passed by the red-draped • catafalque in Christendom’s larg- : est church where the body of the ) 81-year-old pontiff lay in state. Some prayed, some cried, some simply stared as they passed the body under the scaring dome of Michelangelo. The doors swung open to the assembled throng at 8 a.m. (3 a.m. EDT, and within four and a half hours an estimated 135,000 persons had entered the church. Sei Conclave Date In another part of the Vatican, the church’s great task of selecting the next man to sit on the throne of St. Peter began with a meeting of 36 of the 82 cardinals ; who set the opening day for the . meeting of the College of Cardinals. The high church dignitaries will assemble June 19, and the first vote for a new Pope will take place the next day. The conclave will continue until one of the candidates receives the necessary two-thirds vote. Possibly as many as 10 of the cardinals will not be able to come to Rome because of illness or other reasons. The file of humanity into St. Peter’s ran 20 abreast in a line that stretched the entire, length of the vast St. Peter’s square and beyond the boundaries of Vatican City into Rome itself. In the church before the main altar Pope John lay on an ornate catafalque. Flanked By Columns The tilted catafalque, the height Juvenile Hearings In Court Thursday Thursday might be termed “juvenile day” in the Adams county juvenile court, as a full day of juvenile hearings is scheduled on the court docket. Seven juveniles are charged with illegal possession of alcoholic beverages, three will appear for violation of curfew, and the remaining two for breaking into the Girl Scout cabin at Hanna-Nuttman park last week. Summons have been issued to the parents of all the juveniles involved, and all are expected to appear with their children for the juvenile hearings. The juvenile hearings will take up the entire day of juvenile court Judge Myles F. Parrish. Continue “Crackdown” City and county law enforcement officials are continuing their “crackdown” on the curfew, which, contrary to belief, is a law of the state of Indiana and not just an Adams county law. Numerous young men and women have appeared In juvenile court since the first of the year fgr violating the curfew law. The state-wide curfew law is as follows in paragraph 10: “The words delinquent child shall include any boy under the full age of 18 years or any girl under the full age of 18 years who . . . wanders about streets of any city, or in (on) or about any highway or any public place between the hours of 11 o’clock p. m. and 5 o’clock a. m. without being on any lawful business or occupation, except returning home or to his abode after attending a religious or educational meeting, or social function sponsored by a church or

of a man, was flanked by the huge, twisted bronze columns stretching up toward the towering dome of the basilica. The lights of 20 candles played on the red and gold pontifical vestments and the gold mitre on the pontiff’s head. The catafalque was the same one used for Pope Pius XII in 1958, but this time it was inclined more to permit a better view of the body. The body was held in place by bands of silk. Sixteen guards in the various costumes of the Vatican service stood by the catafalque. Officials expected several hundred thousand persons to pass through by the time the basilica closes Thursday afternoon. The silent stream of mourners moved slowly through the huge church, 10 abreast, and then out into the rain-soaked square again. Measure Os Affection It was a measure of their affection for the Pope that few left when the rain began to fall on the waiting line. Umbrellas blossomed above the crowd and soon were glistehing wet. Inside the church, everyone tried to stop as long as possible before the body of the pontiff, but attendants kept them moving. In an action unprecedented in modern times, the Vatican ordered the church opened all night tonight to allow the crowds to file past the body of the peasant’s son who captured the world’s affection and admiration in his reign of scarcely four and onehalf years. The Pope’s body will remain on view continuously until 5 p.m. (12 p.m., EDT) Thursday. Then Vatican guards will clear all outsiders from the basilica and the Pope’s remains will be interred temporarily in a vault in the ancient grottoes below the church. The body will be removed for permanent burial in the Basilica of St. John Lateran. school.” Out on Bond Ernest Leland Eckrote, 30-year-old Fort Wayne resident, and a former resident of near-Decatur, has been released from the Adams county jail after posting bond. Eckrote, who was arrested early the morning of May 25 with five juveniles in a car in which beer was found, is represented by a Fort Wayne attorney, and is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. J. C. Installation Banquet Saturday The Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce’s installation banquet will be held Saturday, at the Elks home. ~~ All Jaycees are asked to make reservations for themselves and their wives or dates immediately. The affair will begin at 6 p.m. with a social hour, followed by dinner at 7 p.m. and dancing at 9 p.m, Owen Wemhoff, former Decatur resident and past president of the Fort Wayne Junior Chamber, will be the installing officer at the installation ceremonies. Newly elected officers of the local Jaycees are: Fred Shoaff, president; Mike Murphy, external vice president; Ralph Bigs, internal vice president; Bob Shraluka, secretary; Wayne Roahrig, treasurer; Karl Kolter. Don Bieberich and Bill Zwick, diiectors. TWO SECTIONS

llt I 1 '' . ‘ JB J 'BBFwfll HEAR BOARD CHAlßMAN— Pictured here is a portion of the crowd of some 700 persons. Master Mix dealers and their guests, listening to the address of H. W. McMillen, chairman of the board of Central Soya Co., during the tour of the Decatur facilities of the industry Tuesday.—(Photo by Mac Lean)

Brunner Child Dies Tuesday Afternoon Norma Jean Brunner,' 10-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ; Clarence Brunner, died at 3:50 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at her home, 104 South Eighth street. The child was born in Decatur 1 July 28, 1962. a daughter of Clarence and Mary Jane VanHom- ’ Brunner. Surviving in addition to the parents are three sisters, Ruth Ann, Darlene Kay, and Marie Dianne Brunner, all at home, arid the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Linder of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Winteregg-Linn funeral home, with the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 ' p.m. today until time of the services. SIIO,OOO Damage Suit In Third Day A SIOO,OOO damage suit trial involving the estates of two Union township residents entered its third day in federal court in Fort Wayne today before Judge Jesse E. Eschbach and a 12-member jury. The Erie-Lackawanna railroad company has filed a damage suit asking SIIO,OOO against the estates of Alfred Grote and his son, Wilmer Grote, who were killed January 4,1962, when they drove their automobile into the side of a speeding Erie train east of Wren, O. The railroad company is suing the estates of the Grotes on the grounds of negligence in the operation of the automobile on the damp and foggy evening of the accident. There were no warning lights at the crossing. Cars Derailed The Grote auto struck the 31st car in the string of 68 cars and the Erie-Lackawanna is suing for damages to the cars and their contents. Numerous care were derailed. Robert S. Anderson and David A. Macklin, Decatur attorneys, are the attorneys for the Grote estates. Anderson represents the estate of the father and Macklin represents the son’s estate. Numerous witnesses have testified in the past two days. The Monday session adjourned about 4:30 p. m., but Tuesday’s session lasted until about 6:30 p. m. Cross-Complaints Allen C. Grote is administrator of his father’s estate, and Annie Grote is the administratrix of her husband, Wilmer’s, estate. They have filed cross-complaints asking $2,324 and $1,871, respectively. Three Adams county men are serving on the jury for the trial, including an employe of HabeggerSchafers in Decatur. Wendell J. Seaman, route 3, Decatur, an employe .of HabeggerSchafers, is a member of the jury, as are two Berne men, Carl Muselman and Archie Parr. Muselman is manager of the Economy Printing Concern in Berne and Parr is a sales manager of Dunbar Furniture in the same city. Fort Wayne Strike Settled Last Night FORT WAYNE, Ind (UPD —Acceptance of a two-year contract ended a two-day strike against the Sheet Metal Contractors Association Tuesday night.

Dealers Are Guests Os Central Soya Co.

1 Some 400 Master Mix feed dealers and their guests, a total of nearly 700 people, spent most of . Thursday morning and afternoon touring the Central Soya plant and research farm as part of Central Soya's Master Mix dealer day. The meeting was attended by feed dealers from Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, who are served by Soya’s Decatur plant and was intended to acquaint dealers with current changes in feed mill operations and with research developments. After a noon meal of barbecued beef and chicken,' served on the grounds near the research farm, the dealers attended a 45-minute program. Following an opening song led ,by Joe W. Seabold, McMillen Feed's sales promotion manager, and an invocation by the Rev. Elbert A. Smith, Jr., pastor of the Decatur Presbyterian church, the dealers were welcomed by To m H. Allwein, Soya’s Decatur plant manager. McMillen Speaks Master of ceremonies Edward Reynolds, a McMillen Feed vice president, then introduced Dale W. McMillen, Jr., Central Soya president, who spoke on the future of the feed industry. To the dealers he stressed the need which specialized farmers have for “a responsible *and local source of service for feed, production-management techniques, marketing assistance and the hundred-ond-one other items an aggressive dealer can supply.” He also pointed out the difficulties facing the midwestern farmer and told the dealers that their challenge was to do everything

Second Negro In Ole Miss

Gov. Ross Barnett, who twice personally turned away Negro James Meredith from the University of Mississippi, today decided against a personal confrontation with'a second Negro entering the university. Barnett’s Office in Jackson announced that the governor would make a television appearance about 215 p.m. EDT, about the same time Cleve McDowell was to enter the university, to explain his stand. In Birmingham Ala., a federal judge granted the Justice Department’s request for an injunction to block Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace from carrying out his pledge to bar the way when three Negroes seek to enter the University of Alabama Monday. Wallace declined comment but an aide said there wpuld be ‘‘ah l solatbly gover- ■ nor’s stand despite the injunction.” There had been reports Barnett might fly to Oxford, Miss., to try and persuade McDowell not to enroll. McDowell and Meredith both were registering for the summer term at "Ole Miss” where bloody rioting broke out last fall when federal marshals escroted Meredith onto the campus. An estimated 300 federal troops, the last of the more than 25,000 called out last fall, remained on duty in Oxford. The campus was quiet but bustling with hundreds

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I possible “to keep our midwestern farm customer efficient, profitable and growing.” After this Harold W. McMillen, Central Soya board chairman gave a brief talk on American “foodpower.” He explained the importance of the nutritional developments fostered by the feed industry and said, “with each contribution toward the productive efficiency of our meat, milk and egg producers will come an even higher standard of living for the U.S. food consumer.” Plant Toor During their tour of the Soya plant the visiting dealers were shown the various feed-mixing and soybean-processing areas of the plant. They were also escorted I through several testing laboratories, plant offices and the farm supply warehouse. v Charts and diagrams demonstrating plant processes were supplemented with explanations given by company employes conducting the tours. There were also displays of the by-products of soybean oil. At the 200-acre research farm, the dealers were shown research being conducted with hogs, beef, dairy calves, chickens and turkeys. At the swine unit they were shown areas where studies are underway on slotted and concrete floors, management systems and feeding programs. In the beef and dairy calf barns they were shown stock which are being used in study programs in feeding and disease. In the poultry houses they saw experiments in chick growing, disease research, breeding pens, nutrition, feed formulation and cage layer and broiler houses.

of white students preparing to register. Elsewhere in the South, an estimated 10 Negro students enrolled for the summer school graduate session at the University of Chattanooga. It was the first integration at the school. Further racial demonstrations were expected today at Jackson, Miss., where at least 32 demonstrators were arrested Tuesday to boost the number of such arrests within the past week to around 500. Federal Judge Sidney Mize of Biloxi, Miss., Tuesday formally ordered the admission of McDowell, 21, to the "Ole Miss” law school. McDowell joins Meredith as the only Negro students at the university at Oxford, where 300 soldiers still guard against any - possible violence to Meredith. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued watm and humid tonight and Thursday. Chance of isolated thundershowers. Low tonight in the 60s. High Thursday upper 80s. Sunset today 8:09 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 5:17 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Continued warm and humid with afternoon and evening thundershowers. ~Xow in the 60s. Highs mostly in upper 80s.