Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 137.

Gov. Wallace Defies JFK

BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy today federalized the Alabama. National Guard and authorized Defense Secretary Robert S. McNaamara to use any .Army troops he may need to enforce admission of two Negros to the University of Alabama. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. <UPD— Defiant Gov. George C. Wallace stood adamantly in a doorway today and refused to admit two Negro students to the-University of Alabama. The two were taken to their assigned dormitories to await an attempt to formally register later in the day. Wallace, spuming a last - minute order from President Kennedy to "cease and desist,” strode into the bright sunshine and in a clear voice read a proclamation barring the two Negroes. Then, in an apparent last-min-ute change of strategy by the government, the two Negroes—Vivian Malone and James A. Hood —left the scene of the historic confrontation and went to their dormitories, assigned earlier by the university. Wallace, standing in the doorway of Foster Auditorium where the Negroes normally would register, three times refused a Justice Department attorney’s request to admit them. Miss Malone and Hood sat quietly in a car a few feet away as the drama was enacted. U.S. Deputy Atty. Gen. Nicholas ' Katzenbach told Wallace the government intends to register the students later in the day. A Aaits Three Times Katzenbach asked Wallace three

Protest Plans On Indiana Sales Tax

ip**?®** . INDIANAPOLIS < UPD — A steady .stream of witnesses, most of them members of ’the Indiana legislature which enacted the 2 per cent sales tax law, protested today the plan of the State Revenue Board to apply the tax only to purchases of 50 cents or more. Sen. Wilfrid Ullrich, D-Aurora, proposed that Governor Welsh call a special session of the legislature to reconsider the sales tax. “We closed shop too soon.” said Ullrich as he testified that the tax brackets proposed by the revenue board would cost him more than SI .300 a year to act as a tax collector for the state at his drug store. "I do not want to pay so much for so dubious a privilege,” he said. Rep. Maurice Goodnight, R-La-fayette, said the 50-cent starting bracket would cost him more than $2,000 a year at each of his two Lafayette drug He ..said most retailers would be forced to raise prices as much as a nickel an item to make up the loss. Chain Stores Hit The most comprehensive picture of leged losses to be expected from the 50-cent starting point for application of the tax came from Irvin Latz, Fort Wayne department store executive and vice president of the Indiana Retail Council. , Latz said the council’s 3,750 members want a “fair” tax application and “not a windfall.” But

Annual Flag Day Services Friday Annual Flag Day services, jointly sponsored by the 8.P.0. Elks lodge, and local posts of the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, will be held at the Elks lodge home on North Second street Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. C. Byron Hayes, prominent Fort Wayne attorney, will deliver the Flag Day address. The service will open with the “Star Spangled Banner,” played by the Decatur Catholic high school band, directed by Edward Heimann. Introductory exercises will then be presented by Ralph Bollinger, exalted ruler of the Elks and his staff of officers. Prayer will be offered by Elks chaplain Earl W. DeWeese, followed by the reading of the history ot the flag by Bernard Hain, past exalted ruler of the Elks, and the response by Frank Lybarger, immediate past exalted ruler. The Elks altar service will be conducted by the lodge officers, followed by the address by The service will close with “America,” by the band and assembly. The public is invited to attend the service on Flag Day.

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times to reconsider his determined position and allow the ■students to enter because, he said he carried a proclamation from the President of the United States calling for obedience to a federal court decree ordering the two enrolled. Wallace refused to (judge. He said he was on hand—as he had vowed he would be for weeks —to ‘‘prevent the entrance because it is illegal and unwarranted.” Kennedy signed a proclamation in WashingtomV’ll a.m., commanding the Alabama governor “and all other persons engaged... in unlawful obstructions of justice, assemblies, combinations, conspiracies or domestic violence in that state Jo cease and desist therefrom." Fifty-two minutes later Wallace showed up on the campus to make his defiant stand and carry out his pledge to “stand in the schoolhouse door” to thwart integration in Alabama public schools. Kennedy’s- proclamation was a final technical step required before the President could use federal troops, if necessary, to enforce the court order for desegregation of the university. Kennedy had made an earlier plea for Wallace to stay away from the campus and “leave these matters insthe courts of law where they belorig.” Wallace had replied: “My presence here guarantees the peace.” The two Negroes arrived in Tuscaloosa at 12:29 p.m. They were taken to an Army Reserve armory prior to making the short trip to the campus where Wallace was waiting.

. ~ ; ; — — he said that instead of a windfall ' the 50-cent start would cost dhain stores with many outlets in Indiana thousands of dollars a year. Latz said losses would amount to $170,000 for S. S. Kresge stores, $150,000 for Woolworth, $125,000 for G C. Murphy, $94,000 for L. S. Ayres, $65,000 for Sears stores. Rep. Samuel Rea, R-Fort Wayne, said it was the intent of the legislature that the full burden of the. tax be borne by the consumer with the retailer serving only as a collector and partly compensated for his trouble. Concurring with Rea’s opinion were Reps. Lawriri Dagley, DClinton; Joseph Cloud, R-Rich-mond, and William Hardwick, RMartinsville, chairman of the House-Senate conference committee which adopted the tax program. Also testifying was James C. Courtney, state revenue commissioner, who before the revenue board proposed die 50-cent starting point suggested a 25-cent starting place. Courtney said “a general price increase" would result from the higher bracket and “the worst of it is perhaps that the. consumer is led to believe he is getting a break whereas he actually is taking on an additional burden.” Scout Honor Court ■ Held Monday Night

A court of honor for the Lions club Boy Scout troop, and a tour .of the Duo Marine building in the Decatur industrial park, were enjoyed Monday night by the members of the Decatur Lions club. Roger Gentis was program chairman for the evening, and invocation was led by Alva Lawson. The Boy Scouts of the Lions troop led the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Scotty Maxwell, Thomas Miller, and Byford Smith were guests of the club. Following the dinner a court of honor was held under the direction of Bill Spice, professional scouter of the Limberlost district.. Mike Martindill, Rob er t Schwartz, Ed Cravens, Mike Curtin, Chuck Martindill, and Danny Strickler received various awards. Following the court of honor, the entire group accepted the invitation of Lion Victor Po r ter to tour the new Duo Marine plant. Each step in the manufacture of the popular fiberglass boats was explained by Porter and Miller, the sales manager. Die tour gave the Lions members an insight into the new industry and just how the boats are constructed, step by step, and processed to a finished product.

Nine Scouts, Three Others Die In Crash ESCALANTE, Utah (UPD— School was over, and early Monday two truckloads of jubilant Boy Scouts headed into the Utah mountains on a vacation expedition. Their leaders, including two university professors, accompanied them, along with a woman reporter. The first truck reached its destination without incident. Late ■Monday, on a primitive mountain road in “No Man’s Land” 35 miles southeast of here, tragedy struck the other vehicle. Nine Scouts, the two professors and the reporter were killed as the truck plunged down a precipitous mountainside, throwing them from its open bed. The other 34 Scouts and leaders in the truck were injured. Rolls Backward The Utah Highway Patrol said the truck was heading up the sin-gle-track road when the engine failed. Then the brakes gave out. The vehicle rolled backward and off the mountainside. The fatalities included seven Scouts from Provo, Utah, and one each from Ogden, Utah, and Salt Lake City. Most of them were members of the (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (DS). The terrain, which ranges in altitude from 4,000 to 9,000 feet, is barren and mountainous, with rocky escarpments thrusting through the sterile soil. The road from Escalante to Hole* in-the-Rock, the Scouts’ destination on the Colorado River, is nothing more than two tire tracks cut out by Mormon pioneers nearly a century ago and improved little since then. The most seriously injured youths were taken to Panguitch Hospital, about TOO miles from the accident scene. The facility is equipped for only 10 patients; the less seriously hurt were sent to the closest hamlets. Two Brigham Young University professors, both Scout leaders, were among the victims. Merlin ■J. Shaw, 51, an assistant professor of religion and bishop of the Manabu LDS Ward, was in charge of the Provo contingent of Scouts. H. Darrell Taylor, 45, chairman of the BYU language department, was explorer adviser. Dorothy Hansen, 24, a reporter for the Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegram, also was killed. Miss Hansen, who started at the News five years ago as a copy girl and had worked into a position as a staff writer, was combining her vacation and a story assignment on the trip. The Boy Scouts from Provo were identified as Gordon Grow, Bill Creer, Randy Miller, Gary Rasmussen, Joe Erickson, Lynn Merrell and Gary Christensen. The Scout from Ogden was Randy Hall and the boy from Salt Lake City was Robert Cook.— - —

Agreement Reached For Work On Ditch An agreement was worked out Monday between the Adams county commissioners and the Mercer Co., 0., commissioners on cleaning and repairing of an inter-state ditch, part of which is in St. Mary’s township. Several interested residents of Adams county attended the hearing on the ditch, held in the local commissioner’s meeting place in the office of the county auditor in the county courthouse. The ditch, known as the Sipe ditch, is tile drain in Ohio and open ditch in Indiana, and an estimate of sl.lO per acre was given as the approximate cost of the cleaning and repairing. Herman Moellering, county surveyor, was placed in charge and authorized to secure bids for con? tracting the work. Cost Rises The commissioners were notified during their regular meeting that the cost per patient at the Irene Byron hospital in Fort Wayne has increased 50 cents per day, from $8.50 to $9 per day. The commissioners were also informed that the price of Marathon gasoline has increased one-quarter of a cent per gallon. Three carloads of coal were purchased, two from the Burk Elevator company. The two purchased from Burk were at a price of $13.49 a tod, while the third carload was purchased from the Adams county Farm Bureau Co-op at $12.50 a ton. Not only cost but the type of coal governs toe purchasing of the carloads, and the Burk coal Is a larger size than that from the Co-op. The commissioners also signed and sent a check to the state highway commission totaling $2,400.05 for federal aid roads.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 11, 1963.

Powerful Winds Inflict Damage In Decatur And State Monday Afternoon

Vicious Storms Wreak Heavy State Damage By United Press International Vicious storms lashing Indiana on the wings of a fast-moving cold front caused or contributed to at least three deaths and left a vast trail of property damage and personal injury today. The weather violence included squalls with unofficial tornado desighations, one flurry sweeping northeastern in the early afternoon Monday and another swooping southeastern in the early evening. Delbert Zumbaugh, 51’, Argos, was killed by a lightning bolt as he crouched beside a farm building where he took shelter while returning from milking chores in the barn on his farm. Benjamin Ritter, 54, New Augusta, was killed at the height of a storm at the northwest edge of Indianapolis when he drove into the path of a railroad train at an unguarded crossing. Authorities said visibility was reduced by rain and strong wind. Howard Peyton, 59, R.R. 1, Danville, fell dead of a heart attack While operating* a saw to clear storm debris from a road near Brownsburg. Peyton was working for the Hendricks County Highway Department. ■ Many persons were injured and dozens of cities and towns and wide rural areas felt the brute force of tornadic winds before the violent weather subsided and left! a gigantic expanse of cooler air j in its wake to end a 10-day hot spell featuring high humidity. Great Property Loss There were many injured, and property damage mounted into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, mostly in the northern two-thirds of the state. Porter County on the southern rim of Lake Michigan was among the hardest hit areas. Residents reported sfeeing a black twister leap and spin through Valparaiso, Kouts, Lake Eliza and Hebron. The storm ripped the rooT off a factory in Valparaiso and leveled three walls of a supermarket that escaped a storm Saturday in which the fourth wall was flattened.

Mrs. Allen Jain, 37, and her 14-year-old daughter, Norma, were injured in downtown Valparaiso when a tree fell on their car. At New Castle, a tree fell across a car driven by Larry Hall, 16, New Castle, and he was hurt. Four members of the Kenton Worrell family of Campbellstown, Ohio, were hurt when their car crashed into a bridge near Richmond as the driver tried to dodge a flying tree limb Falls From Tower Three turtle hunters were caught by the storm near Richmond. Norman Clevenger of Union County, one of the three, apparently had climbed a high-tension power line tower on a dare, lost his grip in the shreiking winds and fell 100 feet. He was injured critically. Earl Adams, Richmond, was injured and pinned in his car by a tree near Richmond. Daniel Isabell, * 56, was injured when a bolt of lightning jarred him from a farm tractor he was driving to his home in Burrows after working in the fields. He was taken to a hospital in fair condition. The storm uprooted a huge oak tree and blew it across a mobile home owned by Gertrude Hartwig, 70, Lake Eliza. The trailer was destroyed. Charles Hartley, Jr., Lake Eliza, reported “the fastest and blacketst tornado I ever saw.” Winamac, Camden and Delphi were hit by the early afternoon storm. Delphi, which was observing “clean-up, fix-up week,” reported the city was littered by debris including glass from shattered storefront windows, .20 uprooted trees, store awnings and television antenna. Bolts Cause Fires Numerous fires at Richmond during the storm were reported touched off by lightning bolts. (Continued on Page Eight) ,

Tricker Home Badly Damaged As Tree Felled

Powerful winds, mixed with rain, belted Decatur and the surrounding area shortly after 2 o’clock Monday after noon in what some persons claimed was “the worst storm we have had in some time.” Fortunately there were no injuries resulting from the storm, and damage, with a few exceptions, was considered light. The clean-up task, however, for both the city street department and local residents, will not be light—rather quite lengthy. Numerous portions of trees, -many large, even more small, were scattered about the city in the streets, yards, alleys, etc. Several trees that fell and many of the larger branches will have to be sawed so that they may be removed. Streets were blocked in several plages througput the city, but all -■were tspent within a few hours after the storm, as the city street department went right to work following the storm to remove’ those blocking streets and sidewalks. Swirling Clouds Luke Majorki, manager of the local golf course, said that the ;:ky in the northwest was a reddish color before the storm. Majorki said that as he was making his way to the clubhouse, after warning golfers on the links*of the approaching storm, he looked at the sky above and saw clouds “swirling about” overhead. The only damage at the course, according to Majorki, were a couple small trees that were broken by the wind. The largest amount of damage occurred at the home of Jesse O. Tricker, 343 Mercer Ave., between Rugg street and Five Points, where ' 3 huge tree snapped ' and slammed into the side of the house. The quite-large and quite-old tree snapped near its base and crashed into the south side of the home and the roof on that side, before clammering to the earth. Heavy Damage The side of the home was damaged quite heavily, and the roof on that side was also torn up in several places. The impact left a gaping hole in the side of the home. * Tricker and a granddaughter were home at the time the tree smashed into the house, and had to run for the kitchen toward the rear of the building when the tree was heard cracking and beginning its downward flight. Damage inside the home was not nearly as bad, as only some plaster was knocked off the wall and a fish bowl near a window that was broken was knocked to the floor. No estimate in dollars and cents was known today.

The same falling tree broke a window in the rear of the home of Leon Seiger, 337 Mercer Ave. The Seiger home is located just north of the Tricker residence. Two Autos Two automobiles were damaged by falling portions of trees, with one owned by Robert E. Hammond. 216 N. Second St., receiving a heavy blow to the roof. Hammond’s car was parked In front of his home,-just south of the Standard market, when a tree in the front yard of Fred Fullenkamp, 311 N. Second St., fell across Second St., the top portion falling across Hammond's 1957 model station wagon. The tree also knocked down utility lines and held up traffic, for a short time until I & M could shut off the “hot” lines and repair the damage, enabling the street department to the tree. Less than half a block north. Just past the Marshall St. intersection, a tree on the residence of Mrs. Edna Werst fell across Second St., blocking traffic there

The other auto damaged was owned by Bill Fullenkamp, 928 Walnut St., and was parked at the corner of Fifth and Marshall Sts., on the west side of Fifth street. Several large limbs fell from the tree and struck the front of the Fullenkamp car, denting the hood and cracking the glass of the windshield. A large tree in the yard of Kenneth L. Barker, 903 Schirmeyer St., was blown over by the powerful winds, and as it fell, it knocked down electrical lines nearby. — The fire department was called to the scene, at 2:15 p. m., and kept watch until Indiana & Michigan repairmen arrived. Home Not Downed A report that the newly-con-structed portion. of the home of Richard Schieferstein, route 1, Decatur, located north of Decatur on U. S. 27, was burned, was proved to be false. (Continued on Page Eight) Jaycee Project For Youth Is Underway “Project J. C. (Jobs Coordinated)”, a form of a youth employment service organized by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce, is now underway. All business firms, merchants, or other persons desirous of hiring part-time summer employment are asked to consult , the youth card file at the Decaiur Daily Democrat in order to secure the work they are in need of for the summer. > Employment cards were passed out at the local high schools before the close of school, and more than 75 cards have been returned by high school students seeking employments for the summer. “Project J. C.” has been established by the Decatur Jaycees in an attempt to aid high school boys and girls between the ages of 15 and 18 to secure summer employmeht. 15-18 Year Old A student must be between the ages of 15 and 18 to be eligible to file an application in “Project J. C." Jaycee president Fred Shoaff explained in making the announcement of the project last week that the Jaycees are not acting a placement agency, nor does tfie organization intend to interview students. “The project is intended merely to get together the summer jobseekers with those persons needing part-time or full-time summer assistance,” Shoaff said. — Now Open The student file is now open to merchants, firms, etc., who need summer employment, and it is hoped by the Jaycee group that local employers will respond to "Project J. C.” and make full use of the service. All employers consulting the student card file are asked to sign the “Employer’s Roster,” which will be provided, giving the name and address of their firm, specific nature of the work available, and how many boys or girls are needed. Additional application cards are available at theh Daily Democrat for those students who would like to be listed in the card file.

MJ ! . 4i ’ THE DAMAGED HOME of Jesse O. Tricker, 343 Mercer Ave., is pictured above, showing the extensive damage to the south side of the house and the roof, caused by a huge falling tree. The violent winds snapped the tree in half, and it came hurtling down against the house. Damage to the interior of the home was light and no injuries resulted.—i Photo by Mac Lean)

: One-Day Strike At Fort Wayne's 6. E. , FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD—k About 450 production and mainj tenance workers at three General Electric Co. plants here went on . strike today in what a union ’ spokesman described as a “oneday legal protest demonstration” over a grievance. * Cecil R. Onion, president of Local 901 of the International Union ' of Electrical Workers AFL-CIO, 1 said the strike was authorized by • a 4-1 margin by the membership at a meeting Saturday. He said the grievance on which the strike ’ was based was only one of 24 on which strike authorization was ! given. ‘ The walkout began with picketing at-5 a.m. and affected operations at the Broadway, Taylor and Winter St ( , plants. A company spokesman sgid ( “our only information about the strike has come from, union handbills distributed to employes." Swimming Pool To Open On Thursday Hubert Zerkel, Jr:, head supervisor of the local swimming pool, said today that weather permitting the city’s pool will open Thursday at 1 p.m. Pool hours, rules and regulations appear in an ad in today’s Daily Democrat. - INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 46 to 50 north, 47 to 55 south. High Wednesday 65 to 72 north, low 80s south. Sunset today 8:13 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:16 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair and mild. Lows in the 50s Highs 75 north to 85 south. Jaycee Leaders To Meet This Evening AU _past officers and newly-in-stalled officers of the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce are urged to attend an important meeting this evening at 7 o’clock in the Jaycee meeting room above the First State Bank.

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Gray Ladies Meet Here Monday Night The Gray Ladies of the Adams county chapter of the American Red Cross met Monday evening at the Indiana & Michigan building in Decatur, with Mrs. Leo Sheets, chairman, presiding. Several reports were presented. Mrs. George Anderson reported on the recent trip to the Red Cross center in Fort Wayne, explaining that the Gray Ladies in that city are doing services similar to the Adams county chapter. Mrs. Frank Braun reported on the hours of service of the individual Gray Ladies to the present time. The statement of agreement between the Gray Ladies and the Adams county memorial hospital was read by Mrs. Sheets. Things the Gray Ladies may do include: bedside feeding under hospital supervision: make friendly visits, add" personal ’services as letter writing, reading, arranging flowers, •distributing mail and flowers to the patients, grooming, hair combing, manicuring, etc., visit in the children's ward and assist patients to the sun deck, under hospital supervision. A visitor’s card system will be started Shortly in the hospital, of which the Gary Ladies wiU be in charge. This will permit only a certain number of visitors at one time in a patient’s room. This system is for the walfare of the patient, who might otherwise become overtaxed or upset from too many visitors at one time in the room. Budget Explained The new budget for the Gray Ladies was explained for future use on needed expenses. It was decided to use pictures slides during July for the social afternoons at the Adams county home. The date of July 28 was also set for the picnic for the residents of the home. The last Monday of each month was establisned for the regular monthly meeting night. The meeting closed and refreshments of coffee, soft drinks and cookies were served.