Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1963 — Page 1

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Gov. Welsh Announces State Will Not Appeal Sales Tax Invalidation

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NEW SOVIET SPACEMAN— Soviet cosmonaut Lt. Col. Valery Bykovsky, 28. is orbiting earth in spacecraft Vostok 5.

Nikita Recalls Test Ban Offer

MOSCOW (UPI) — Premier Nikita Khrushchev today withdrew his offer of three annual on-site inspections of a nuclear test ban and demanded that President Kennedy act as well as talk about peace. — - — - : - ■ Khrushchev’s statement, contained in a long interview with the Communist party newspaper Pravda, was considered a brusque reply to Kennedy’s speech last Monday to graduates of American University. In that speech, Kennedy announced a U.S. moratorium on nuclear tests, said new Anglo-American-Soviet “high level” discussions on a test ban would open here next month and called, for new East-West attitudes to ease the cold war. Speech Circulated The Communists permitted Kennedy’s speech to be widely circulated here—a rare occurrence. Khrushchev said today it had made a “favorable impression.” But the Soviet premier’s statement .indicated an abrupt stiffenning of the Kremlin’s position on •- the test ban Issue and appeared to bode ill for next month’s tflilksKhrushchev said he was withdrawing his offer ot three on-site inspections because “our proposal was not properly appreciated by the partners in the talks.” Khrushchev said Kennedy’s speech did not necessarily mean that the President wants to eliminate the causes of the cold war. “It is necessary to emphasize most resolutely that the conclusion of a German peace treaty cannot be evaded,” he said. “This question must be settled and will be settled. We would prefer to have it settled by agreement with the Western powers.” Withdraws Offer But most attention focused on Khrushchev’s withdrawal of his previous offer to allow foreign teams onto Soviet soil three times a year to inspect possible test ban violations. The Soviets have long claimed that any foreign inspection teams would be nothing but spy rings. They have said that seismographs are now sophisticated enough to pick up the rumbles of an underground nuclear test, even one held in another nation or thousands of miles away.

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The West has disputed this, challenged the'* Russians to prove their claims and has been pressing for seven on-site inspections annually. Khrushchev's reply today seemed to pull the rug out from under neutral nations at the 17nation disarmament conference in Geneva. The neutrals have been trying to narrow the gap between the Western and Communist positions. Western observers here said the premier’s new attitude indicated no general test ban can be expected to come from next month’s meeting. , Rev. Edgar Johnston Is Taken By Death The Rev. Edgar L. Johnson, 69, of Winona Lake, retired Methodist minister, died Thursday at the Murphy medical center at Warsaw . Rev. Johnston, who retired in 1960, served as pastor of the Decatur circuit of. the denomination from 1932 until 1935. He had also served pastorates at Geneva, Coesse, Hamilton, Kimmell, Orland, and Maples circuit. Surviving are his wife, Faye; two sons, James R. of St. Louis, Mo., and Ray of Columbia City; four grandchildren; four brothers, James and Luther of Allen county, Perry of 'Noble county, and Robert of Hamilton, and eight sisters, Mrs. Faye McComb and Mrs. Josephine McCullough, both of South Bend, Mrs. Cleo Lane of Lawrence, Mich., Mrs. Blanch Smith, Mrs. Grace Smith and Mrs. Helen Henry of Allen county, Mrs. Neva Kruse of Spencerville, and Mrs. Ellen Bligh of Terre Haute. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the ChalfantPerry funeral home in Fort Wayne, with Dr. Robert Yunker, superintendent of the Warsaw district, and the Rev. Donald LaSuer of Warsaw, officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery at Fort Wayne. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —Governor Welsh said today the state will not appeal the court ruling holding that Indiana’s two per cent sales tax is unconstitutional. Welsh made the statement shortly before he met with department officials to study Friday’s ruling by a circuit judge—a ruling which could plunge Indiana into a financial crisis. - “We are going to move cautiously,” said Welsh upon his arrival from New Orleans. “Attorneys agree we have no chance on an appeal—we won’t appeal.” Although the governor’s statement flatly rejected an appeal, he invited attorney Leo Gardner to attend the conference —presumably to study the state’s next move. Gardner, Indianapolis, previously handled some state business for Welsh. The ruling by Marion Circuit Judge John L. Niblack Friday that the sales tax is “unconstitutional, null and void” could force a reduction of $94 million in general fund spending for the fiscal year beginning July 1, most of it at the expense of state aid to public schools. Welsh, who was presiding at an Interstate Oil Compact Commission meeting in New Orleans at the time of the ruling, cut short his stay and arrived here by plane at 5 a.m. (EST), five hours before the meeting. Purpose of the meeting was to decide on the next course of aetion to be taken, a course of action complicated by the opinion of Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers that Niblack ruled correctly and that the state “is not in a good position to defend the act further.” Okayed Special Counsel Steers told Welsh by telephone that he did not feel he could “conscientiously make any further efforts in defense of this sales tax act” and he gave the consent required by law for Welsh to appoint special counsel to carry out any further legal action in the case. The first step for the special counsel presumably will be to represent Welsh, Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney and the Indiana Revenue Board at a hearing June 19 to show cause why Niblack should not issue an injunction against collection of the tax when it goes into effect July 1. The Indiana State AFL-CIO requested the injunction in its successful suit to have the tax declared unconstitutional but Niblack deferred action on that portion of the AFL-CIO complaint. He could allow the state to proceed with collection of the tax but such a step was considered unlikely. The next course for the state would be to ask for a new trial and then to appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court in the event Niblack denied the request. Such a process would delay a final decision on the legality of the tax at least until early next year. Special Session Seen The only apparent alternative to the lengthy process of an appeal appeared to be a special legislative session to either revise the sales tax law or replace it with another revenue-raising measure. Niblack said in his opinion that there was no doubt of the right of the legislature to enact a sales tax if it were properly written with the amount of the tax and the types of exemptions specified. He said, however, that the act passed in the closing hours of a 40-day special session earlier, this year did not meet that test. He said the act included unconstitutional delegations of authority to set tax brackets and grant exempt tions and was written in language “impossible to decipher.” Inability of the state to collect the sales tax and the resulting cut in aid to local schools would mean an almost certain sharp increase in local property tax rates. Many Hoosier school boards have granted teacher salary increases in anticipation of the added state funds and have executed teacher contracts for next year. Without the state funds, the school boards will have to fall back on property taxes as the only other source of- revenue to meet the salary increases.

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Kennedy Calls Rail Management, Union

BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPI) —Rail union and management negotiators agreed today to keep bargaining until July 10 without any railroad shutdown in response to an appeal by President Kennedy for “one last major effort” to resolve their dispute. . WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy summoned railroad labor and management to the White House today to try to prevent a threatened nationwide rail shutdown. The shutdown could start anytime after midnight Monday, when the railroads will be free to put into effect a series of new work rules. The unions said they would strike against the new rules. A Labor Department spokesman said the meeting at the White House “grew out of’ Friday night’s meeting between labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz and the railroad labor and management negotiators. The spokesman refused to disclose any other action taken during the two-hour meeting Friday night at the Labor Department Wirtz worked all Friday afterLutherans To Open Convention Monday More than 1,000 persons are cx.pected to attend the 78th and final convention of the central district of the Lutheran church-Missouri synod, which convenes at Concordia Senior Cellege, Fort Wayne, Monday through Friday. The Rev. Richard C. Ludwig, pastor, and Earl M. Caston, layman, will represent the Decatur Zion Lutheran church. The 1961, convention delegates, representing more than 300 congregations of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, voted unanimously to divide into two districts in 1963. The convention agenda has been so planned that all delegates will meet in plenary session to transact the necessary business for the official dissolution of the central district, and then meet separately to adopt constitutions and by-laws and elect officers for the two new districts. Presiding at the plenary sessions will be the Rev. Dr. Ottomar Krueger, Akron, 0., president of the central district. The new Indiana district, with 105,000 baptized members, will comprise Lutheran congregations of the Missouri synod in Indiana and Western Kentucky. The new Ohio district, with, over 70,000 baptized members, will include Ohio, Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. The opening convention service, with the celebration of holy communion, will be conducted Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock in Holy Cross Lutheran church, Fort Wayne. The Rev. Oliver R. Harms of St. Louis, president of the Lutheran church-Missouri synod, will deliver the sermon on the convention theme, “The Word of the Lord Endureth Forever.” Historically, the central district is the last of the four original districts formed when the growth of the Missouri synod necessitated the division into districts in 1854. Today there are 34 districts in North America, with a baptized membership of almost 3 million. John W. Ripley Is Illinois Graduate John W. Ripley, of route one, Monroe, received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Illinois at the annual commencement exercises this morning at Urbana. Ripley was one of 2,850 students receiving degrees.

noon with the disputing unions and the railroads just to get them to sit down together at a night session. The union ranks broke earlier because two unions objected to being left out of a television program about the controversial work rules issue Wednesday night. Neil P. Speirs, president of the Switchmen’s Union, had threatened to withdraw his union from the united front which the labor organizations had presented up to this point. Speirs had said hi s union would negotiate alone. Louis J. Wagner, president of the Railway Conductors and Brakemen, did not actually say he would split with the other unions, but said he was “fed up” with the negotiatfons. _J — Wirtz and Reynolds met with Speirs and Wagner for about 1% hours, then huddled with J. E. Wolfe, chief negotiator for the railroads. After a series of secret Labor Department meetings, a source said Wirtz and Reynoldshad healed the breach between the unions “at least to the point that they are willing to sit down with each other.”

Plan Citizens Band Radio Organization Sheriff Roger Singleton announced today that he is making preparations for a county-wide citizens band radio organization. The sheriff said he would like to form an organization with 12 to 15 Adams county men who are members of the county citizens band club to be used in the event of an emergency or disaster. A citizens band radio is installed at the jail, and by forming the group of operators, a program could be worked out to be used in the event of an emergency or disaster. Sheriff Singleton plans to set up the organization whereby each township in Adams county would have one operator ,to be used when additional help is needed. “The organization would more than likely not be used very often,” the sheriff said, “but if such a group is set up it would then be available if and when it is needed,” Anyone interested in being a part of such an organization is requested to contact either Howard Affolder, route 2, Berne, or Leo King, Jr., route 1, Decatur. If enough response toward the organization is received, the sheriff explained, plans will be further esabllshed 'for setting up" the organization. Kennedy Accepts Nehru Invitation ~ NE WDELHI (UPI) — Premier Jawaharlal Nehru said today that President Kennedy has accepted an invitation to visit India. He speculated that the President might come here late this year or early in 1964. NOON EDITION Gary Mayor Loser In Vote Recount EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (UPI) — Dr. James B. Nicosia was certified Friday as winner over Mayor Walter M. Jeorse in the May 7 primary election for Democratic nomination for mayor of East Chicago. Jeorse demanded a recount after he received 9,696 votes to Nicosia's 9,803 in the original election. A recount commission gave its tabulation as 9,798 for Nicosia and 9,698 for Jeorse.

Julia Ellsworth On Mediterranean Tour Miss Julia Ellsworth Miss Julia Ellsworth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Ellsworth, 135 Limberlast, Decatur, left Thursday from Indianapolis on the start-es a 33-day “physi-cal-economic-cultural field study” tour of the Mediterranean area. The tour is sponsored by Ball State Teachers College, where Miss Ellsworth, a Decatur high school graduate, will be a junior next fall. Mediterranean area cities to be visited on the tour include Gibralter, Madrid, Barcelona, Cranada, Tangiers, Marseilles, Genoa, Pisa, Rome, Naples, Pompei, and Athens. The tour will intersperse sightseeing with lectures and group discussions. A group of 25 is making the tour which is being conducted by Dr. William E. Dooley, assistant professor of science at Ball State. Miss Ellsworth flew to Europ via Bermuda. The groups’ travels in the Mediterranean area will be made by both bus and ship. Students making the trip can qualify for academic credit upon their return by making a report on their travel and study.

Ex-President Herbert Hoover Seriously 111 NEW YORK (UPI) — Former President Herbert Clark Hoover lay seriously ill at home today with anemia and intestinal bleeding, but physicians said that for his age, he was in “reasonably satisfactory” condition. Hoover, 88, who underwent an operation for removal of a cancerous tumor last summer, has been in serious condition in his Waldorf Towers Hotel suite “for the past week,” his doctors revealed in a medical bulletin Friday. Hoover, a Republican who served as the 31st president from 1929 to 1933, has lived longer than any other ex-chief executive in U.S. history. He bid an official farewell to the party at the 1960 GOP National Convention in Chicago that brought a loud chorus of “noes” from the delegates. “Unless some miracle comes to me from the good Lord, this is it,” he said at the time. Hoover again referred to his waning years on Aug. 10, 1962, his last birthday. At the dedication of the Herbert Hoover Library in his hometown of West Branch, lowa, he spoke “as the shadows gather around me.” Ten days later on Aug. 20 he entered the Columbia-Presbyter-ian Medical Center here for what was first described as a routine checkup. Shortly thereafter the tumor operation was performed by a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Rudolph’ N; Schiilliiiger,' Who later reported ' the malignant growth had been removed and “no recurrence is anticipated.” The brief bulletin on his latest illness, issued at a news conference in —his suite, said Hoover “has been ill for the past week, due to anemia, secondary to bleeding from a gastro-intestinal tract. Within the last 24 hours there has been diminished evidence of bleeding. Although his condition is serious, it is, for his age, reasonably satisfactory.” Hoover was reported to be under the constant care of teams of doctors and nurses at his apartment on the 31st floor of the midMarihattan hotel, where he has lived for years. Indiana & Michigan Seeks Bond Issue INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. Fort Wayne, Friday petitioned the Indiana Public Service Commission for approval to ’issue $45 million in first mortgage bonds. The firm said it would use proceeds from the bonds to retire outstanding bank loans and to pay for extension and improvement of its facilities.

Russians May Try Spaceships Link

MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet news agency Tass hinted today that Russia may try to link up two spaceships in orbit as the first step toward the stablishment of a “flying laboratory" in space. Tass indicated this project may already have begun with the blast-off of Lt. Col. Valery Bykovsky, who was launched Friday on what is expected to be an eightday orbital flight around the earth. . There had been speculation for some time that Russia’s next “space spectacular” would be an attempt to bring two spaceships together in orbit. Informed sources said the second ship in such a mission might be “manned” by the world’s first spacewoman. These sources said Russia is delaying the launch of the “cosmonette” to spare her the ordeal of a possible week in space. Starting Point Tass science correspondent Vyacheslav Arsentyev said Bykovsky’s flight represents “the starting point for a new stage of space research.” “This future research will be organized by scientists from ob servation stations orbiting our planet,” Arsentyev said. “These will be complete flying laboratories with most diverse instru-

Racial Tension At High Pitch

By Uriited Press International Negro and white leaders planned to resume negotiations toward easing racial tensions today in Cambridge, Md., where National Guardsmen with fixed bayonets enforced a “limited martial law.” Racial tension also was at a high pitch in Fayetteville, N. C., where about 150 demonstrators were arrested Friday night, and Negroes in Jackson, Miss., were expected to turn out in great numbers for the funeral of Medgar Evers, murdered civil rights leader. Racial unrest continued in Danville, Va., and in other cities both North and South. Maryland Gov. J. Millard Tawes said that after a threehour meeting Friday in his Annapolis office Negro and white leaders in Cambridge agreed to resume negotiations which collapsed when violence broke out Flag Day Service Held Las! Evening ’ J. Byron Hayes, prominent Fort Wayne attorney and former Allen county prosecutor, told a group of about one hundred people ‘that the world and America are on fire today,” and that “youth is the hope of America” in the address which he gave Friday night during the Flag day program at the Decatur Elks home. The program was sponsored jointly by the Elks, the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The program was called to order at 7:30 p. m. by exalted ruler Ralph Bollinger of the Elks. The Decatur Catholic band, directed by Elizabeth Rumschlag, then played the .Star Spangled Banner, after which Bollinger and the other Elks’ officers ceremoniously described the purpose of the evening’s activities and the history of the American, flag. A red, white and blue floral liberty bell was constructed by the officers during the ceremonies. As each part of the bell was put in place its symbolism was described by one of the officers. Elks officers who participated in the bell ceremony were Jack Petrie, esteemed leading knight; Bill Cook, esteemed loyal knight; and Joe Schultz, esteemed lecturing knight. Chaplain Earl DeWeese delivered the invocation for the evening and Bernard Hain read the history of the flag. The response to Bollinger’s talk on the purpose of the flag was given by Frank Lybarger. Delegations from the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans and the Veterans of Foreign Wars were present for the ceremony. Heading these delegations were Ed Kirchner, command-er-elect of the American Legion, Jerome Heimann, senior vice commander of the Disabled American Veterans and Ellis Shaw, comfnander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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mentation, attended by highly qualified specialists." The Tass correspondent said such a space station would have to be assembled in orbit, and added that the simultaneous orbiting of two Soviet spaceships last August made Russian scientists confident that a link-up in space is possible. The two space ships involved in the August operation approached within about five miles of each other. Feels Fine Bykovsky was reported “feeling fine” Friday, a few minutes after blast-off, with “all systems” working. He was reported in a mildly elliptical orbit that took him 139.8 miles from the earth at the farthest point and 108.7 miles at the nearest point. He completed an orbit of the earth every 88.27 minutes. It was believed that Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich tried to rendezvous in space on their “twin flight” 10 months ago, but they got no nearer than five miles from each other. If Bykovsky stays in space for eight days, he will become the world’s first 100-orbit spaceman. Nikolayev was up four days and completed 64 orbits, covering 1.5 million miles.

earlier this week. Impose Curfew National Guardsmen, called out Friday, clamped a 10 o’clock curfew on the city at night. A crowd of about 100 irate Negroes finally dispersed without any action by the troops after their leader begged them to ‘think rs your women and childf'bn’* and go home quietly. A teen-aged white youth was slightly wounded Friday night in Jackson when he rode by a group of Negro youths. Police said Mac McGee, 19, received a minor wound in his right shoulder from a 22-caliber bullet while riding with some friends through a “borderline neighborhood.” He was treated at a Jackson hospital. Warrants Issued Police in Danville continued their search for Negro leaders on whom warrants have been sworn out charging them with violation of a new get-tough ordinance against mass demonstrations. About 300 Negroes attempted to desegregate spme restaurants and, hotels in Fayetteville, N.C., Friday night and police arrested 150 for violating the city’s antitrespass laws, obstructing traffic and disobeying law enforcement officers. There were these other racial developments: CHARLESTON, S.C. — Police arrested 82 Negroes attempting to desegregate a hotel and several restaurants. Savannah, Ga. — The chamber of commerce asked businessmen to desegregate downtown facilities and Negroes called off demonstrations “for several days” to see what happens. Atlanta — The Atlanta public schools accepted 86 of 191 applications of Negroes to transfer from all-Negro schools to predominantly white schools. Stamford, Conn. — Former, baseball star Jackie Robinson sent President Kennedy an urgent pea to provide federal protection for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who will attend Evers’ funeral. s Jackson, Tenn. — A federal judge ordered officials of Jackson and Madison County to submit plans for classroom integration by next month. Charlottesville, Va. — The city council announced the appointment of an inter-racial committee to work toward improving race relations. Detroit—Negro leaders mapped plans for a “walk to freedom” through downtown Detroit June 23, hoping for a turnout of 100,000 persons. Gov. George Romney declined an invitation to participate, but said he would send a representative.

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Partly cloudy and a little warmer tonight. Sunday considerable cloudiness with a few showers and not much temperature change. Low tonight 57 to 62. High Sunday mid-70s north, low 80s south. Outlook for Monday: Mostly fair with little temperature change.