Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 133.

Kennedy Calls For Education System Os Equal Opportunity

Graduation Friday I At Catholic High

Commencement exercises for the Decatur Catholic high school will be held in the school auditorium Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Names of the 34 graduates and the graduation speaker were announced today by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt, superintendent, and Sr. M. Almeda, C. S. A., principal of the school. Names of the 78 eighth grade graduates of the St. Joseph elementary school were also announced. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas L. Durkin vicar general of the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese, and a native of Decatur, will deliver the commencement address. Msgr. Durkin is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Durkin of Decatur. He attended St. Joseph grade school and one year at the Decatur Catholic high school, then transferred to St. Joseph’s at Rensselaer, then to St. Gregory's Seminary in Cincinnati, O. He also attended Mt. St. Mary's, Norwood, O. He was ordained in 1936 and raised,to the dignity of monsignor, a title conferred for exceptional service to the church, in 1955 * Msgr. Durkin’s first appointment was as assistant pastor of St. Peter's church in Fort Wayne, then to Immaculate Conception in Auburn. He started the Sacred Heart parish in Fort Wayne, and from there was made rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Fort Wayne, where he is now located. The Rev. Robert Contant, assistant pastor of St. Mary’s here for 11 years until his recent transfer, has been invited to attend and present diplomas to the graduates. The Rev. Robert Jaeger, also a former assistant here, has also been extended an invitation to attend. High School Graduates The D.C.H.S. graduates, 11 boys and 23 girls, are as follows: Michael Baker, Robert Boch, Elias Cancino, John Carroll, Gerald Geimer, Jerome Geimer, James Kaehr, Kenneth Miller, ..Thomas Wiseman, Ronald Louis

State Traffic Toll Increased To 464 By United Press International Six deaths recorded Wednesday and today raised Indiana’s 1963 traffic fatality toll to at least 464 compared with 438 this time last year. The latest victims included two children struck by cars and three out-of-state motorists. Paul Regler, 43, Fairborn, Ohio, was killed this morning when his car struck a railroad embankment near Blountsyille on U.S. 35. Regler was identified as a cement salesman. William Florer, 77 N Hammond, died Wednesday in a Hammond hospital from injuries suffered Tuesday night when he was struck by a car while crossing a Hammond street. Dennis Lewis, 6, Indianapolis, ' died Wednesday night in General Hospital there of injuries suffered Saturday morning when he was hit by a car in front of his home while enroute to a grocery on an errand for his mother. The boy’s death raised to 23 the number of fatalities recorded in Indiana during the 102-hour Memorial Day weekend, matching exactly the toll recorded in the same holiday period of 1962. Seven-y fear-old Jon Schooley, Goshen, was injured fatally Wednesday when he darted into the path of a picktip truck in front of his home. William Owen, Elkhart, was the truck driver.. Jon was getting the family mail when the accident happened. The driver of the vehicle which had just delivered the mail said he warned the boy to watch out for

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Braun, Larry Joseph Hake. Mary Frances Beckman, Judith Cook, Janet Gase, Joyce Geimer, Patricia Gerardot, Agnes Terese Hain, Iris Hebble, Martha Kable, Mary Kable, Ruth La Fontaine, Myrna Laker, Mary Lou Lengerich. Rose Marie Loshe, Sharon Miller, Maria Morales, Nancy Murphy, Margaret Rickord, Mary Schurger, Judith Selking, Sarah Sutton, Carol Tricker, Joyce Vian, Loiuse Wilder. Eighth Grade Graduates Eighth grade graduates, 41 boys and 37 girls, are as follows: David Alberding, Ronald Andrews, Daniel Baker, Michael Baker, John Becker, Thomas Blythe, Philip Braun, Lupe Brion Blythe, Phillip Braun, Lupe Briones, Richard Deßolt David Eugia, Frank Eugia, Ralph Geels, Donald Geimer, John Gerber, George Gordon, Daniel Hake, John Heimann, Jerry Jackson, Charles Jauregui, Daniel Kable, Richard Kuhnle. Donald Lengerich, Erwin Lengerich, Gregory Litchfield, Thomas Lose, Daniel Loshe,. Michael McGill, Gary Meyer, Michael Meyer, Dennis Miller, Leo Miller, Peter Miller, Thomas Miller, Gerald Omlor, David Peterson, Joel Salazar, John Schultz, Leo Schurger, Michael Ulman, Thomas Vian, Michael Wolpert. Elena Alanis, Mary Alberding, Gretchen Andrews, Jean Baker, Joan Baker, Nancy Braun, Patri-j cia Braun, Patricia Brite, Rosemary Clark, Brenda Cochran, Dorothy Coyne. Nancy Ehinger, Marta Faurote, Katherine Geimer, Barbara Grove, Nancy Heimann, Darlene Hurst, Barbara‘Keller. Charlotte Laurent,*- linda LenCharlotte Laurent, Linda Lengerich, Mary L. lengerich, Mary Lichtle, Marjorie Loshe, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, Sharon O’Shaughnessey, Janet Rickord, Patricia Rousseau, Karen Schirack, Barbara Schultz, Theresa Schultz, Mary Spangler, Sandra Sutton, Virginia Snyder, Susan Walter, Jeanine Wilder, Ilene Zamora, Mary Ann Zitftsmaster. — ■

the oncoming truck. Jon died in Goshen General Hospital about eight hours later. Joseph Stall, 18, Harrison, Ohio, was crushed \o death Wednesday night when a car in which he was riding in Dearborn County near the Indiana - Ohio state line swerved out of control, hit a pole and rolled over on him after he was thrown out. The driver, Gerald Griffith, 18, Harrison, was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Cincinnati suffered from a leg fracture. Dick Dunaway, 18, Harrison, also in the car, did not require hospitalization. Two big semi-trailer trucks collided in U.S. 31 about five miles north of Columbus this morning, killing Claude Crews, Jr., 36, Marion, Ala. Crew’s was pinned in the wreckage and died of a broken back. Harold Senterfert, 33, Louisville, Ky., the other truck driver, was not hurt seriously. Police said Senterfert was making a left turn in the four-lane highway directly in front of Crews and Crews’ truck smashed into the side of the other. Indiana State Police Lists Promotions INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —George Everett, acting superintendent of the Indiana State Police, Wednesday announced the promptions of three men in the department. First Sergeant Charles W. McCarter, Nashvillel, was advanced to lieutenant in the traffic safety office and.. Trooper Norman N. Pierce, Columbia City, wall be promoted to detective sergeant. At Lafayette, Radioman Willard R. Cupka; Lafayette, will move to Radioman 2nd class in that district. The promotions are effective June 16.

| SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UPI) — President Kennedy today called for an education system which I would guarantee equal opportunI ity for a Long Island banker’s I son and the offspring of an Ala- ' bama Negro sharecropper. i « • :.“Our goal must be an educational system in the spirit of independence, a system in which all are created equal—a system in which every child, whether bom a banker’s son in a Long Island mansion, or a Negro sharecropper’s son in an Alabama cotton field, has every opportunity for an education that his abilities and character deserve,” the chief executive said in an address for commencement exercises at San Diego State College where he also received an honorary degree. Kennedy flew here this morning, from El Paso, Tex. After the college ceremony he planned to embark on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk for an overnight cruise off the coast of Southern California. Mindful of a new civil rights I crisis building at the University of Alabama where Gov. George Wallace has vowed to block the court-ordered entrance of Negro students next Monday, the President said it was time the nation ‘‘faced up more frankly” to such questions as “whether every American child has an equal chance for a good education.” Lack Equal Opportunity He said the truth was that American children do not yet enjoy equal educational opportunities for two primary reasons: “One is economic and the other is racial.” “If our nation is to meet the goal of giving every American a fair educational break,” .the president said, “we must move swiftly ahead in both areas. We must i put more resources into the undernourished sectors of our educational system. “And we must recognize that segregation in education —and I mean the de facto segregation of the North as well as the proclaimed segregation of the South —brings with it serious handicaps to a large percentage of our nation’s population.” Plugs For Program The President renewed his call for action on his educational legislative r e c o m mendations pending in Congress. The program includes federal aid for college construction, expanded-- student -loans,- higher teacher salaries and federal assistance in construction of additional public secondary and elementary school classrooms. “I am well aware of all the objections which have been raised for more than 50 years to any kind of federal effort in education,’’ he said, adding that he was referring to objections involving states rights, civil rights, race and religion. “But the time has come for the American people of every party and section to realize the immensity and the necessity of this challenge,” he added, “to realize that no solution will please everyone — and to mobilize their aroused support behind a program such as the one I’ve sent to the Congress.” Red Dairy Experts Visit Purdue U. LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI) — A team of Russian dairy experts was here today to see American knowhow in action while they toured dairy farms, processing and marketing concerns. The tour also includes inspecting equipment, manufacuring and educational facilities. The five-member group is visiting the U.S. under State Department auspices. An exchange American team will leave for Moscow in J ul yINDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and Friday with widely scattered thundershowers mostly, in afternoons and evenings. Low tonight upper 60s. Highs Friday 84 to 90. Sunset today 8:10 p. m. Sunrise Friday 5:17 a. m. Outlook for Saturday:.Continued warm and humid with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Lows at 60-70. Highs 86 to 90.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 6, 1963.

Ten Juveniles Are Put On Probation Ten youths under the age of 18 were found to be delinquent in the Adams county juvenile court this morning. All ten of the under-age youths were placed on indefinite suspension by the court, and warned to strictly follow the terms of their probation by Judge Myles F. Parrish. The judge warned all ten that any violation of their probation could result in their being sent to i the Indiana boys’ school. Seven of the juveniles appeared in the juvenile court as a result of being discovered in possession of alcoholic beverages. Five were involved in one incident and the other two in a separate incident. Three other juveniles appeared in court this morning as a result of being taken into custody for a violation of the Indiana curfew law, which states that no child under the age of 18 shall wander about the streets, highways or public places, between the hours of 11 p. m. and 5 a. m. taken into custody the morning of May 25 when they were found In a car with Ernest Leland Eckrote, 30, of Fort Wayne There was beer in the car at the time the Eckrote car was stopped by the city police, Eckrote Charged Eckrote was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, but as yet has had no date for entering a plea to the charge. The same Eckrote was fined re-' cently in justice of the peace court in Bluffton for permitting a 16-year-old Decatur boy to operate his automobile. I He had allowed the boy and three other Decatur youths to borrow his car March 24, and the 16-year-old driver had lost control of the auto on state road 1 south of Petroleum and the car rolled over several times in a ditch. sters were'injured in the accident and hospitalized in the Bluffton Clinic for treatment. Another juvenile matter, involving two boys who broke into the Girl Scout shelter house at HannaNuttman park, was slated for hearing this afternoon in juvenile court. Space Leader Cool To Project Mercury WASHINGTON (UPI) — Space agency Director James E. Webb today was reported unreceptive to Project Mercury officials' pleas for a space flight of about 100 hours. The chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the officials presented a persuasive argument for one more flight under Project Mercury. But Webb said he would prefer to end the Mercury program and go ahead with the Gemini project, which calls for putting two men into orbit in a single spacecraft in about 18 months. However, Webb indicated he had not yet made a decision on the Mercury officials’ proposal. The proposal for a flight reaching up to 100 hours was laid before Webb by Walter C. Williams, deputy director of NASA’s Manned Spacecraft center and operations director of Project Mercury. They hepe to top the record space flight of Russian cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, who orbited four days last August. The results of Cooper’s flight convinced Mercury officials that the little Mercury space capsule, with, some modifications, would be capable of orbiting for more than four days. Williams argued that such a mission would advance both the Gemini and the Apollo lunar landing programs.

Sa SAFE ASHORE — Coast Guardsmen bring injured sailors of the abanodaned Japanese ship Kokoku Maru ashore at San Francisco. The vessel was badly damaged in collision with the U. S. Military Sea Transportation Service refrigerator ship Asterion, 35 miles off San Francisco’s Golden Gate.

Refuse Boost In Profit Tax

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy lost a congressional fight today to gain $135 million in new revenue by boosting the taxes on profits from oil and gas. The House Ways & Means Committee rejected the administration’s plea in a closed-door session. Under the Kennedy plan, the new revenue would largely come from tightening the rules governing the 27% per cent depletion allowance which the industries are allowed in computing their taxes. Kennedy said the present law gives the mineral industries an “undue tax advantage.” The committee did not see it that way. It refused to make any change in the law. The committee contended that a heavier tax on the industry would harm the national interest by discouraging exploration for oil. The action was taken as the committee started an item-by-item rundown on the! administration's $lO billion tax program. Other congressional news: Civil Rights — Senate Democratic Whip Hubert H. Humphrey praised the other side of the aisle today. He commended Senate Republicans for pledging to back “appropriate” civil rights legislation. For their stand Humphrey virtually promised the GOP con- _____ Band Parents Plan Barbecue On July 4 The Decatur Band-Parents association will hold a chicken barbeque and band concert on the Fourth of July, it was announced this morning by publicity chair..man. .Mrs... Marion Brandyberry. The old-fashioned barbeque will be held at Sunset park, and will be another of the Band-Parents association’s projects to raise funds for the purchase of new uniforms for the Decatur high school band, which have now been purchased. The affair, which will feature a concert by the band, will be held at the park, located southeast of Decatur on U.S. 33, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. July 4. Tickets will go on sale soon and may be purchased at Holt-house-on-the Highway. Other plans and details of the affair will be announced later. Mrs. Kenneth Singleton, president of the association, said today that the new uniforms have been purchased and will arrive sometime after the beginning of school next year. At present, the funds for. the new uniforms is $2,000 short of its $5,000 goal, but local residents are cointinuing to cooperate with their contributions to the fund. “We have purchased the new uniforms before the goal was reached,” Mrs. Singleton said, “in order that the youngsters and adults who have worked so hard on this project may see its results as soon as the goal is reached.*’ Mrs. Singleton said that contributions are still most welcome. Latest donations have been received from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the auxiliary of the Disabled American Veterans. Seven-Year-Old Boy Dies From Injuries INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —Dale A. Walker, 7, Beech Grove, died Wednesday in a hospital at Glasgow, Ky., from injuries suffered Sunday in a traffic accident near Horse Cave, Ky.

sultation with President Kennedy on the civil rights, program. Sugar — Undersecretary of Agriculture Charles E. Murphy said ’ today the Treasury Department gained $37.4 million dollars in premium payments for sugar that formerly went to foreign nations. In testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Murphy said • the windfall was a result of the controversial Sugar Reform Act • passed last year by Congress. He said eventually the Treasury should get about S2OO million in payments when all premium payments are eliminated. Pesticides — Congress was told today that scientists are growing more concerned about the effects of pesticides on the nation’s wildlife. The statement came from Rachel Carson, author of “Silent Spring,” a book on pesticides. Miss Carson told the Senate Commerce Committee that the scientific alarm was centered particularly on marine and fresh Water environments for wildlife. She said fish and qther marine life magnify the amounts of chemical poisons they take in as the substance passed through the food chain. Because of this, she said, there is no “predictable safe level of application" of pesticides “once poison has entered the food chains.” Gov. Welsh Speaks » Al Oil Conference WICHITA, Kan. (UPD—lndiana Gov. Matthew E. Welsh said today he is convinced that the states are capable of continuing to regulate oil industry conservation practices. “ Welsh, chairman of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, spoke at a conference of the Midwest Association of Railroad and Utility Commissioners. He told the conference that both the oil industry and state regulation are on trial He said criticism of state regulation leads to the danger of federal intervention in the oil industry. “No state wants this. The oil industry would not greet this step with enthusiasm and the national government does not actively seek added responsibility in regulation,” Welsh said. “I am confident that both the states and the oil industry will meet their responsibilities to the national interest without creating the necessity of federal intervention,” he said. “Our record proves we can and the national interest demands that we must.” The Hoosier chief executive, who is also chairman of the Interstate Oil Compact, flew to Kansas from New York where he met Wednesday with Bethlehem Steel Co. officials to discuss relocation of a portion of U.S. 12 near the firm’s new plant now being built at Burns Ditch in Porter County, Ind. The Governor and his administrative assistant, Clinton Green, flew to New York from Indiana for the" meeting at the company’s executive offices. i Green is also secretary-treas-urer of the Indiana Port Commission. The commission hopes to construct a deep-water port adjacent to the Bethlehem plant on Lake Michigan. Welsh’s Friday schedule includes a trip to Frankfort, Ky., for a governors’ conference on human rights and a speech at Lexington for a meeting of the Kentucky Oil and Gas Association. His office said he was expected to return to Indiana late Friday or early Saturday.

Huge Crowd Honors Pope

VATICAN CITY (UPI) — A steady flow of humanity streamed past the bier of Pope John XXIII all night and into today in numbers that were expected to go well beyond a million. Some said the figure would approach two million. As the throngs paid their respects at the rate of more than 30,000 an hour, the last will and testament of the late Pope was disclosed. In it, he wrote that he had awaited “simply and happily the arrival of sister death” and asked that his final burial place be in the Basilica of St. John in Lateran. He also left “what little goods that with His (God’s) help I managed to accumulate" to the three surviving brothers and a sister. As the final hours of the lying-in-state period neared their end, the crush of the crowd was tremendous. Promise Last Glimpse The throngs who came to see the body of the late Pope and were not able to enter the vast basilica before its close at 5 p.m. (12 noon EDT) were promised an opportunity for a last glimpse. About a half hour after the doors close, the red and golddressed remains were to be brought out to the steps of St. Peter's b efore being placed in the grottoes below the church for interim interment. Following the last display outside, the body was to be taken back inside the huge basilica and then encased in three caskets — the first of cypress, the second of lead and the third of elm. As the hours dragged by, the flow of faithful, tourists and just plain curious did not slow down, but continued -in the seemingly endless procession that started when the doors of the huge basilica first swung open Wednesday morning. Increase Viewing Rate In fact, during this afternoon, police said the rate of movement through the basilica had been stepped up to give as many as possible a last glimpse of the remains of the 81-year-old Pope John lying on a red-draped catafalque. Even as the moment of burial in the grottoes under the basilica approached, members of the Sacred College of Cardinals continued their planning for the conclave that will elect a new Pope,

Alabama Governor Defies Authority

By United Press International Alabama Gov. George Wallace appeared determined today to defy federal authority over the admission of three Negroes to. the University of Alabama. At Oxford, Miss., the second Negro ever to attend the University of Mississippi begins classes today. Wallace told Alabamans in a statewide telecast from Montgomery Wednesday night that he would try to preserve segregation at the university “regardless of whatever risk I must take.” He appealed for law and order, however, and said anyone attempting to create violence at the univeraity during the Negroes’ appearance next Monday would be arrested promptly. Federal Judge Seybourn Lynne Wednesday issued an injunction prohibiting Wallace from physically blocking the Negroes’ admission, but a Wallace aide said the order would “make absolutely no changes in the governor’s stand.” Negro Cleve McDowell was accepted without incident Wednesday at “Ole Miss” in marked contrast to the rioting that claimed two lives last fall when “James H. Meredith integrated the institution. The reception was so peaceful that McDowell said he did not “hear even one rude remark.” Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett said in Jackson that the state was “yielding to the armed might of the United States” in not resisting McDowell’s enrollment. There were these other racial developments: Chattanooga, Tenn. — A Negro (minister was arrested arid three Negro youths were struck by a white man Wednesday when 20 Negroes tried to enter a downtown cafeteria. Danville, Va. — About 100 Negroes entered the municipal building Wednesday, singing and waving antisegregation placards. Two ministers and a Negro girl were arrested and later freed on bond. Jackson, Miss. —- Nine Negroes carrying small American flags were arrested in downtown Jackson Wednesday and charged with

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the 262nd supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Friendly Signs In Moscow, in a sign of Russian friendliness to the late pontiff, an American priest was allowed to say Mass in the city’s only Catholic church for the first time in three years, and the Russian Orthodox Church announced it was sending three prelates to the papal funeral. Father Joseph Richard, resident priest for the diplomatic corps in Moscow, said the Mass in the Church of St. Louis des Francais. The Russian Orthodox Church announced its delegation would be headed by Bishop Vladimir of Zvenigorod. The cardinals of the church were carrying on the affairs of its vast administration pending selection of another pope. They decided Wednesday to begin their secret conclave June 19 to choose ■— a successor for Pope John, who died Monday night of a stomach tumor believed to be cancer. They will begin balloting June 20 and are expected to take about four days to decide. Pope John’s coffin is expected to remain there for months—perhaps even years — until its removal to the Rome basilica of St. John in Lateran, its final resting place. Tomb Not Ready The tomb in St. John’s, named after two of the Pope’s namesakes, John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, is not yet ready to receive the coffin. ' The crowds filling St. Peter’s and the broad square outside were proof — if any was needed —of the position the pontiff occupied in the hearts of the world’s half billion Roman Catholics. The fact that non-Catholics joined the church members in the mourning was a tribute to the Pope’s efforts at reaching interfaith understanding, as best expressed by the Ecumenical Council interrupted by his death. It took three to four hours to make one’s way from the end of the line to the catafalque, and a number of women fainted in the cruch. But there were no serious injuries reported. Shoulder to shoulder, men, women, and children were backed up in a line 14 abreast that stretched nearly a third of a mile from the basilica.

. parading without a permit. The j arrests brought to 617 the num- , ber of persons arrested since a j campaign of antisegregation dem- ' onstrations began last week. 1 Spartanburg, S.C.— Most down- ’ towm lunch counters and restau--5 rants desegregated their facilities Wednesday and Negroes ate in t several of the plapes without incident. Columbia and Greenville , earlier lowered racial barriers in i public eating places. E Savannah, Ga.—Police arrested eight Negro teen-agers Wednes- ’ day for refusing to leave a pri- ’ vately-owned restaurant. They ; were charged with trespassing and released under SIOO bond I each. Birmingham, Ala.— Around 400 ■ Negroes have sought to register ’ as voters so far this week, ac- , cording to the Jefferson County ’ Board of Registrars, which said • only a few white persons applied during the same period. Winston-Salem, N.C. — A biracial committee said Wednesday ; that a majority of the city’s motels, hotels and restaurants would . open their doors to members 7S all races immediately. Negotiations to desegregate theaters still ; were in progress. Richmond, Va. — The state Pu- ’ pil Placement Board Wednesday assigned 15 Negroes to white schools in Culpeper County and said it would meet later this , month to consider requests by 97 Negroes for transfer to segregated schools in Prince George County. Washington— Sen. John C. Sten--1 nis, D-Miss., Wednesday accused the Civil Rights Commission of “activities. . .calculated to foment strife, turmoil and bitterness” 1 throughout the nation. Stennis 1 spoke at a hearing on a proposal • to extend the life of the commis--1 sion. . i TWO SECTIONS 1—