Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 139.

Press Hunt For Evers’ Slayer

JACKSON, Miss.'(UPD—Police pressed one of the most intensive investigations in Mississippi history today for the killer of Negro civil rights leader Medgar Evers. A price of more than $22,000 was placed on the head of the sniper. Detectives worked around the clock on several leads including a “good” fingerprint from the apparent murder weapon. Mourning Negroes who had been led by Evers in months of integration demonstrations were called on Wednesday night to start a month of black armband mourning, fasting and abolition of all downtown shopping. Demonstrators Arrested Following the slaying, which President Kennedy called an “act of barbarity,” 160 Negroes were arrested during spontaneous marches in this tense capital city. There were sporadic incidents of violence, including the stoning of a police car Wednesday night in the Negro section. The vehicle was damaged but there were no injuries or arrests. Evers, field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Ruling Friday On Sales Tax

INDIANAPOLISS (UPD—lndiana Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney planned today to formally issue a directive establishing the purchase brackets to Which th? state’s new 2 per cent sales tax will apply if it becomes effective July 1. In addition, Marion Circuit ' Judge John L. Niblack announced he will issue a ruling at 9 a.m. EST Friday in a suit in which the Indiana State AFL-CIO sought to have the tax declared unconstitutional. Courtney originally said he would issue the "bulletin'’ setting the starting point for collection of the tax at 25 cents Wednesday afternoon but he later said he "just plain didn’t have the timet’ to do it. He said he would study the minutes of Tuesday’s State Revenue Board meeting this morning and then issue the necessary order to put the brackets which he recomWeather Warmup Is Forecast In State By United Press International Temperatures in the 40s were reported in Indiana today for the second morning in a row but warmer nights may be expected from now on. It was 46 at South Bend, 47 at Fort Wayne, 48 at Lafayette, 51 at Indianapolis and 58 at Evansville in the pre-dawn hours after highs Wednesday ranging from 64 at South Bend to 81 at Evansville. Highs today will range from the 70s to 85, lows tonight from 54 to 64, and highs Friday from the 70s to 85. Scattered showers and a few thundershowers were predicted for this afternoon and tonight in the northern third of the state, with a chance of thundershowers this afternoon and the likelihood of more of the same tonight over the re- —- - maining-two-thrds -of the state. - The outlook for Saturday was partly cloudy and mild. ®

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(NAACP) in Mississippi, was cut down at the age of 37 early Wednesday by a single bullet from a .30 caliber sporting rifle. Evers apparently had some premonition that he might pay with his life for his militant civil rights stand in the Deep South. Widow Speaks At Rally His grieving widow and mother of his three small children told a tearful memorial rally Wednesday night that her husband talked with her briefly Sunday night, saying that if he had to die he would rather be killed in the midst of a fight for his people “than to sleep away” to death. “I don’t want his death to be in vain,” Mrs. Evers said from the pulpit of a church crowded with more than 900 Negroes. "That would be as a big a blow as his death.” Evers was shot, at close range as he walked from his car to his neat one-story home following a civil rights rally. The bullet pierced his body, entered the house where his wife and children were awaiting his return and richocheted off a refrigerator. The bullet was found on a kitchen table.

mended earlier into effect. Courtney’s recommendation was to become effective through failure of the board to formally adopt a regulation setting the starting point at the 50 cents which it tentatively approved a an earlier meeting. Following a - public hearing on that proposed regulation Tuesday, the board voted 2-1 to let Courtney's earlier recommendation take effect subject to later change following a study of the results of various possible tax brackets on retailers, who will collect the tax, and on the taxpayer?. Courtney said Wednesday that instructions for retailers regarding collection of the tax were being drawn up and would be sent out early next week. Takes Overdose Os Aspirin Tablets A near-Decatur resident was rushed to Adams county memoriial hospital by ambulance shortly before noon today, after taking an overdose of aspirin tablets this morning. Being treated at the Adams county hospital is Rubin Hess, route 5, who resides east of Decatur in what is known as Uniontown, on U.S. 224. Hess had taken a full bottle of aspirin tablets about an hour or two before noon today. Whea found, he was rushed immediately by ambulance to the local hospital. He is expected to recover from the overdose of aspirins, but likely will be quite sick for a few days. Hess had filed a missing persons report on his wife with the city police Tuesday evening, and was known to be quite depressed of late. When he filed the report, he gave, the information that his 19-year-old w'ife, Diana, had been missing since 6 p.m. Tuesday, when she was last seen walking along U. S. 224 toward Decatur. I

Third Negro Registered At U. Os Alabama HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (UPD—David Mack McGlathery, a mathematioiep ip the nation’s space program, today registered without incident as the third Negro student at the University of Alabama. McGlathery walked unescorted through a front door of the university’s extension center here to register for the summer term. He was the first Negro to be accepted for the center which has about 700 white students. There were no incidents. A few policemen stood by as the slightly built 27-year-old Negro walked into the extension center to register. There were no students present on the campus, where classes are conducted late in the afternoon or in the evening, but five white students were inside registering when McGlathery entered. He sat down with the five—three girls and two boys—to complete the application of registration forms, then went to another room to discuss his courses with a counselor. McGlathery is an employe of the Marshall Space Flight Center at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal, center of much of the nation’s rocket development. "We do not expect trouble,” said Mayor R. B. Searcy. “And we’re going to see that law and order is preserved.” Gov. George Wallace, who blocked the admission of two Negroes to the main university campus at Tuscaloosa Tuesday until federalized National Guardsmen forced their entrance, said Wednesday he would not come here today. Wallace indicated further attempts to block university integration appeared useless because of the “illegal and unwarranted military occupation” of the university campuses by troops. There were no troops in evidence on the 330-acre campus here, but the local 1169th Engineer Company was among those federalized by President Kennedy Tuesday and was on standby alert at the armory.

Church Conference Head Isieeleded Dr. Marshall J. Chambers of ’616 Glencairn Avenue, Fort Wayne, was re-elected conference superintendent for another fouryear term at the opening session of the Indiana Conference North, Evangelical United Bret hren Church, being held at Oakwood Park, Syracuse, through Saturday. Dr. James Sutherland, who has served under appointment fpr the last two years as director of Christian education, was elected to that office for a four year terrft. Other conference officials elected on the opening day were: Rev. William Peterson of Wabash, conference secretary: Rev. Fuhrman Miller of Decatur, secretary of stewardship: Rev. Donald Abbey of Elkhart, secretary of social action; Rev. Maurice Bonecutter of Bourbon, conference historian; Rev. Kennard Robinson of Syracuse, secretary of Board of Missions; Rev. O. E. Bradford, of Fort Wayne, secretary of evangelism, and Rev. J. 0. Penrod, of Decatur, director of ministerial recruitment. The first item for consideration of the conference today will be voting on ratification Os charges in constitutional law made at the denominational general conference, ' which was held at Grand Rapids, I Mich., last October.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thurs day, June 13, 1963.

President Kennedy Lays Urgent New Civil Rights Program To Party Heads

Sales Tax Clinic Thursday, June 20 Decatur merchants and other interested businessmen will have the opportunity to obtain information on requirements of the new Indiana gross retail sales tax at a meeting to be held at the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce building next Thursday evening, June 20. The meeting will be one of 11 area “sales tax clinics” currently seheduledi through! arrangements of the Indiana department of state revenue, the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, and the Indiana retail council, with the cooperation 1 of local Chambers of Commerce. Speakers at the meeting will be representatives of the state revenue department and other tax specialists A dinner meeting will be held at 6 p. m. sharp, with the dinner priced at $3.50. This first meeting will cover requirements of the adjusted gross income tax as it affects corporations, partnerships and individuals. Special emphasis will be placed on alternate tax computations for corporations doing business in inter-state commerce, and on new rules which will apply for partnerships, sole proprietorships and individuals. Must Have Tickets The second meeting, at 8 p. m., is open to the public without any charge, but admission will be by ticket only. This session will detail all phases of the new sales tax. The question of tax brackets should be settled prior to this time, and methods of collection and payments set. There will be a question and answer period at each meeting. Those having special questions are asked to submit them in writing prior to the time of the meeting. Decatur businessmen planning to attend either or both meetings are urged to notify W. Guy Brown, executive secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, immediately, in order that proper reservations may be made.

House Rejects Expanded Aid To Depressed WASHINGTON (UPD — The House has handed President Kennedy his biggest legislative defeat of the year, perhaps the first payment of a big price for his tough new civil rights stand. The unexpected upset came Wednesday night when the House defeated by a five-vote margip the President’s bill to expand federal aid for communities suffering chronic unemployment. Some southern Democrats who had been counted on to support the administration bill voted instead with its Republican foes. The Southerners’ votes would have swung the decision to the administratiorf; but the tight party line stand the Republicans took also contributed to the defeat. Voting for the bill were 189 Democrats and 15 Republicans. Voting against it were 57 Democrats and 152 Republicans. Democratic leaders had counted on about 20 Republican votes. The defections among southern Democrats was most noticeable in the Georgia delegation, which has splidly supported the administration for the most part this year. But this time, four of the state’s 10 Democrats voted against the bill and one was absent Two of the Florida lawmakers, who two years ago voted to start the program, voted against expansion. Hie administration expected that it? tough civil rights stand would cost some vital southern votes, and possibly result in the loss of some of the President’s other high priority legislation.

Hearing Monday On j Courthouse Fund ; A hearing-will be held Monday, June 17, which time the Adams 1 county commissioners will con- 1 sider a proposal to establish a new 1 cumulative courthouse building • fund. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m., < and will be held in the Adams county courthouse, county auditor Edward Jaberg’s office, where the county commissioners meet week- . !y. Hie commissioners have proposed to raise the cumulative building fund of the courthouse from the present two-cent rate to five cent on each SIOO on all personal and real property within Adams county. If the proposal is approved, and then approved by the state board of tax commissioners, the new rate would commence with the 1963 taxes, which wil be payable in 1964. Present 2 cents The new five-cent levy would re- ■ place the old two-cent levy, which ’ was established on June 15, 1959. The reason for raising the rate would be to secure enough funds to i install an elevator in tM court-1 house. An estimate of cost of an elevator in the building was given the commissioners by Martindale and Dahlgren, Fort Wayne architectur- ; al firm, and amounted to $42,000. ' Over Funds j The commissioners had planned 1 to use funds in the courthouse i cumulative building fund to install the elevator, which they have been : mandated to do by circuit court Judge Myles F. Parrish, acting on a petition submitted by the Adams 1 county bar association. The cumulative building fund, however, will total only about i $34,000 by the end of this year. Not < wanting to borrow the necessary < funds, the commissioners decided j on a proposal to raise the two-cent ■ levy to five cents. 1 If the raise is approved in time : to be included in the fall budget, 1 the money would then be available J for the elevator installation in the ’ distribution in May next year. If ' not, the money would not be available until one year from next . January, or January of 1965. ' All taxpayers and interested • persons are urged to attend the ■ Monday meeting to voice their opinions on the proposed raise.

Rites Friday For Vickie Faye Smith Funeral services for Vickie Faye Smith, stix-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith, Jr., who died Tuesday night after a long illness of leukemia, will be held' at 2 p.m. Friday" at the' First Methodist church. The Rev. A. C. Underwood will officiate, and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the Winter-egg-Linn funeral home until 12 noon Friday, after which the body will lie in state at the church until time of the services. Pallbearers will be Kenneth Jennings, Dick Heller, Jr., Charles Stonestreet and Norman Steury. Flag Day Services Here Friday Night The public is invited to attend the annual Flag Day services at the Elks lodge home on North Second street Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The service is sponsored jointly by the Elks, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans. J. Byron Hayes, prominent Fort Wayne attorney, will deliver the Flag Day address, and music wifi be played by the Decatur Catholic high school band, directed by Ed Heimann. The service will be conducted by Ralph Bollinger, exalted ruler of the Elks, and his staff of officers.

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Kennedy laid his urgent new civil rights program before congressional leaders of both parties today but apparently won no immediate consensus on his proposals. One participant said the President’s program, which is not expected to go to Congress before next week, will put weight behind school desegregation, equal public accommodations and easier voting requirements—but not a fair employment practices proposal. “FEPC is definitely out,” this member told a reporter. Key Republicans, whose support is vital if Congress is to approve the President's still-tenta-tive new legislative proposals, planned a news conference later today to discuss their position. The White House meeting lasted an hour and 40 minutes and was another in a series of sessions the* President has been holding both with legislative leaders and top officials in business and other fields. A Democratic source said no commitments were sought by the President and no consensus was reached. ' —. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., told reporters the White House conference reviewed the President’s civil rights program in “general terms.” He said the President’s program “possibly” will go to Congress -next week, but there were indications there might be some further delay to permit wider consultations with community and business leaders. Kennedy also arranged to meet at the White House later today with former President Harry Truman. He conferred on the racial problem Wednesday with another former president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Kennedy also planned another major civil rights meeting this afternoon with about 250 national and state union leaders. He hoped to enlist their help in wiping out job discrimination, a major complaint of Negro groups. Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and House GOP Leader Charles Halleck had scheduled a joint news conference for 11 a.m., EDT but postponed it until 2 p.m. to attend the White House session. Also there were Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, Speaker John W. McCormack and House Democratic Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma. Other participants included Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., Sen. George A. Smathers, D-Fla., Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, R-Ind., Rep. Hale Boggs, D-La., Rep. Leslie Ahrens, R-111., and Rep. Gerald Ford, R-Mich.

Optimists See Film On Communications A film, “Global Communications,” was shown at the weekly breakfast meeting of the Decatur Optimist club this morning, with Dean Boltz, program chairman, in charge. The film, produced by General Telephone Co., deals with the communications of the future. Today’s methods of‘ voice transmission such as long and short wave radio and underwater cable will soon be considered obsolete in comparison. Communications with overseas nations will be accomplished by means of satellite relay stations at an altitude of 22,300 miles. The satellites, three in number, will maintain a fixed position over a designated area although still travelling over 6,000 miles per hour. A long distance ’phone call from New York to Paris will be first placed through 1 control center, then to the satellite which selects the proper channel and the call is completed. It will fake only 3/10ths of a second for a human voice to be transmitted 50,000 miles. Hie natural echo that results from such long distance transmission will be silenced by means of an automatic muffler. The charge for such a call will be automatically computed electrically.

Macmillan Battles For Political Life

LONDON (UPD — Prime Minis- - ter Harold Macmillan fought for his political life at a crisis meeting of his cabinet for the second time in two days today and political observers said the next 24 hours might determine the fate of his government. The 69-year -old Conservative party leader made it clear to his ministers — including three or four reported to be considering resigning — that no matter what they did he would seek to lead his regime through the crisis caused by the Profumo sex scandal. Cabinet members filed grimly out of the meeting, most of them returning curt “no comments” to questions. Minister of Health Enoch Powell, reported in both national afternoon newspapers to be “on the brink” of resignation, hurried away, his face set and unsmiling. Political observers said one major resignation — such as Powell’s — might make it impossible for Macmillan to hold together an administration already under fire not only from its opponents but from “the establishment,” a term which covers the church, professional class and aristocracy from which it drew much of its strength. Gives Cart ReplyAsked whether the government would remain together, Minister of Science Lord Hailsham snapped “You find out.” Minister of Housing Sir Keith Joseph, who earlier had denied that he planned to resign, said “Every minister is concerned by the moral issues," a comment echoed by Deputy Prime Minister R. A. Butler. Although the Labor party has forced a parliamentary debate Monday on the security aspects of the Profumo case, it appeared many political figures and the public at large were more concerned with what the bishop of Southwark called “the smell of corruption in high places.” Patrick Gordon Walker, who would become foreign secretary in a Labor government, returned from Moscow saying, “It is time to clean things up in Britain.” He called for Macmillan’s resignation. Stresses Security Aspect Gordon Walker said, however, that Labor would concentrate in the House of Commons Monday on whether there was a security

Report Big Steel, Union Near Pact

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Govvernment officials were pleased today over reports that the nation’s biggest steel firms might be nearing agreement with the United Steelworkers union on contract changes. ■ — ~ Usually well-informed sources said it appeared virtually certain that the revisions—including an extended vacation plan—would be presented for approval to the union’s Executive Board and Wage Policy Committee next week. If so, this would allow the current agreement- due to expire July 1, 1964, to be modified without a formal re-opening that would raise the threat of a strike. Officials who ddal with labormanagement relations said that an accord in the steel industry was doubly important this year. For one thing, they said, it would remove the possibility of a crippling shutdown of steel plants this year that could upset the economic advance. And there is a good chance that a new agreement would extend the contract for one or possibly two years. That would mean a long strike-free period in the troubled steel industry running through mid-1965 or 1966. But administration labor offi-

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risk in the fact resigned War Minister John Profumo shared the favors of party girl Christine Keeler with Capt. Eugene Ivanov, a suspected Russian intelligence agent. » Outspoken Sir Cyril Osborne, a Conservative member of parliament, said: “There are too many pimps and prostitutes in high places. I have said this before and I stick to my views.” Kinni Zilliacus, a labor member, said: “I have heard more juicy details. I don't see how Macmillan can possibly survive. Either he knew all about this and covered it up or he didn't know and is unfit for the job.” Widespread discontent was reported among the Conservative party’s rank and file in Parliament. Backbenchers regarded the sex and security scandal a deadly blow to their party already reeling under other security lapses and declining prestige at HR polls. Powell, who often is considered the guardian of the Conservative. party’s right-wing conscience, declined before the cabinet meeting to comment on reports he would force a showdown. Others Believed Involved Press reports said three other cabinet ministers were considering rebellion also. They were named as Housing Minister Sir Keith Joseph, Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle and Home Secretary Henry Brooke. Brooke and Joseph denied the reports before the meeting and Boyle, who quit a government post over the 1956 Suez crisis, merely said “no comment” Today’s cabinet meeting was the second in which Macmillan sought to rally his forces. Wednesday, in a two-hour session, the prime minister was said to have convinced his ministers that there was no security breach while Profumo was sharing Miss Keeler’s favors with a suspected Russian agent, Capt. Eugene Ivanov, former assistant naval attache at the Soviet Embassy. Profumo resigneo last week after admitting to Macmillan that he lied in the House of Commons last March when he said there was nothing improper about his acquaintanceship with Miss Keeler. Rumors had been circulating for weeks that Profumo was carrying on with the girl.

cials regarded the method used to reach a settlement as the most important factor in the steel picture. __Both sides bargained through a human relations commission that worked quietly for months on proposals to revise the contract. TTiey were able to operate without the pressure of a contract deadline and away from the ballyhoo that has marked steel negotiations for the past 25 years. ________ Government and private experts regard this type of “continuous consultation" as a new departure in bargaining that may provide an alternative to strikes and lockouts in many key industries. INDIANA WEATHER Scattered thundershowers and a few thundershowers ending tonight. Friday mostly fair and pleasant. Low tonight 54 to 60 north, 58 to 65 south. High Friday 68 to 75 north, 77 to 85 south. Sunset today 8:14 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:16 a.m. Outlook for Saturday; Fair and mild. Lows 55 to 65. Highs low 70s north to low 80s south.