Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1963 — Page 1

VOL LXL NO. 143.

Governor Orders End To Racial Discrimination In Any Place Under License

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Private Law Firm Is Hired By Gov. Welsh

INDIANAPOLIS <UPD—Governor Welsh today announced appointment of a private law firm to represent Indiana only 24 hours before an important hearing in a legal battle over the validity of the state's two per cent sales tax law. _ Welsh cancelled a Washington trip in order to devote more time to discussion of the financial crisis on the eve of the hearing. The governor sent a two-sen-tence letter to Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers, who earlier had told Welsh he believed the tax law unconstitutional and would decline to carry the state's legal battle any further. “In the light of your statement that you cannot continue to represent this office in the matter,” Welsh wrote Steers, “please be advised that I have employed the - law firm of Barnes, Hickam, Pantzer & Boyd of Indianapolis to do so as special counsel.” “I have instructed them to appear for me as governor and as a member of the Indiana Revenue Board and also to appear for James C. Courtney, commissioner of the Department of Revenue," -- - the letter said.- — • Welsh was scheduled to attend an Interstate Oil Compact Commission hearing in the nation’s capital but remained at home to map state strategy in his efforts to save the tax law from death in the courtroom of Marion Circuit —2 Judge John L. Niblack. The tax law is scheduled to become effective July 1, only 13 days away. But Niblack last Friday ruled the law unconstitutional and set Wednesday for a hearing on whether an injunction should be issued ,to prohibit the state from imposing the tax. The governor’s problems in connection with the hearing were great. z , Agrees With Nibiack First of all, Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers served notice last Saturday he would withdraw from the case because he agreed with Niblack the law was unconstitutional. This, left Welsh with the problem of finding special legal counsel to push the state’s bid to keep Niblack from issuing an injunetSdh that would prevent the state frbta starting collections aimed'At raising about $lO3 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1.

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On top of this, Welsh apparently will get no support, moral or otherwise, from the two Republican members of the three-member State Revenue Board. Mrs. Dorothy Gardner, the state auditor, said she was advised by party leaders and business executives to stay out of the controversy. ■ State Treasurer Robert Hughes said he has “no intention of join ing in on an appeal.” “My feeling is that Judge Niblack heard the evidence and had good grounds for ruling as he did,” Hughes said. “I consider Ed Steers my legal adviser and if Ed feels that the sales tax law is legally unsound it ill behooves me to disregard his advice ” Office Will Cooperate “I have told the governor my office will cooperate in providing statistics or reports, but I do not see how I personally should be involved,” Mrs. Gardner said.

INDIANA WEATHER Fair and not so cool tonight. Partly cloudy and warm Wed- — nesday, chance of widely scattered thundershowers north portion late afternoon or at night- Low tonight 57 to 65. High Wednesday in the 80s north, 84 to #3 south. Sunset today 8:16 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:17 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and warm with chance of widely scattered thundershowers mostly north. Lows in the low 60s. Highs 84 to 93. Defy Court Order On Loading Grain CHICAGO (UPD—Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Monday defied a Federal District Court order and refused to load grain aboard a Canadian ship. Officers of the ILA urged union members to load the vessel, the Howard Shaw owned by Upper Great Lakes Shipping Co. Ltd., Toronto, but 28 members and two officials refused. They face possible contempt citations.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh today ordered an end to racial discrimination in taverns, restaurants and all Indiana places of public accommodation licensed by any state agency. Welsh issued an executive order directing equal opportunity and access, regardless of race, to all places of public accommodation supervised or licensed by agencies of the state government. The order was a follow-up companion order to one in 1962 in which Welsh directed an end to discrimination in employment by firms doing contract business with the state. The far-reaching order placed responsibility for seeing that discrimination is ended upon the departments or agencies by which the various places of public ac. commodation are supervised. Welsh directed such departments and agencies to make a report to the Civil Rights Commission within 60 days from the effective date of the order, which is July. The range of public accommodation supervised or licensed by the state is wide. It includes not only taverns and restaurants but beauty shops, barber shops, nursing homes, funeral homes, public camping facilities and others. i The order said that “denial of equal opportunity in and access to places of public accommodation because of race, color, creed or natiortal origin, is unfair, unjust and inconsistent with the public policy of the State of Indiana." Welsh’s order said “I hereby direct all departments and agencies in the executive branch of the state government, insofar as their functions relate to providing, supervising or licensing persons or organizations to do business in this state as a place of public accommodation, to take all action necessary and appropriate to prevent at all times discrimination because of ace, color, creed or national origin.” Welsh decreed this includes public parks, state forests, museums, libraries, meeting rooms, health services and other public facilities owned or operated by the state government. The order actually appeared to affect every retail merchant in the state—about 150,000 of them—since they are required to receive certification from the state under tax laws. — The Civil Rights Commission was meeting in Anderson today at the time the governor issued the order. Reports on the results of Welsh’s order last year on discrimination among state contractors generally have indicated compliance — at least, there is not record of action on formal complaints against any contractor for failure to comply.

Wage Scale Board Appointee Named Governor Matthew E. Welsh has Informed city attorney Robert S. Anderson of the gqvernor’s appointment to the wage scale board for the construction of the city police station and renovation of city hall. Anderson received a letter from Governor Welsh concerning the appointment by Welsh of Robert F. Weisenourger. Mayor Donald F. Gage has already appointed Russel E. Owens, 322 N. Fifth St., retired General Electric plant foreman, to the board. A third appointment is to be made by the state federation of labor. In his letter, Governor. Welsh informed Anderson that Weisenburger will contact Decatur city officials soon. The governor’s appointee, Owens, and the appointee of the state federation of labor will then meet to establish the wage scale for the construction of the new police station and remodeling of city hall. After the wage scale is established, the contractor who is awarded the bid on the job will then have to pay his workers that wage by the hour while constructing the new building and/or while renovating the city hall building.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 18,1963.

Record Set By Red Spaceman

MOSCOW (UPl)—Soviet cosmonaut Lt Col. Valery F. Bykovsky broke all time and distance records for manned space flights today and sped onwards around the earth.” There were indications, however, that his space mate, the world’s first space woman, was preparing to end her historic flight. Radio moni to rs in London overheard her reporting to Soviet control stations: “This is Chaika (Sea gull), . .1 am ready to record data on manual descent.” Chaika is her code name, Hawk is Bykovsky’s. Bykovsky zoomed into his fifth day in space at 3 p.m. (8 a.m. EDT). He already had surpassed the record of 94 hours and 22 minutes set last August by fellow cosmonaut Maj. Andrian Nikolayev. Bykovsky in 66th Orbit The 28-year-old jet pilot then was in his 66th orbit and had covered more than 1,625,000 miles, Tass said. „ Bykovsky was fired into space bn Friday. He was joined in the cosmos on Sunday by Valentina Tereshkova, 26. By 3 p.m. (8 a.m. EDT) today, Valentina had completed her 34th orbit and covered more than 869,000 miles, Tass said, eclipsing the top American performance of 22.9 orbits by Maj. L. Gordon Cooper last month. Tass gave no indication of when Valentina or her space partner would be brought back to earth. “The flight continues,” it said, adding that conditions in both Vostok V and Vostok VI were normal and that both space travelers felt well. The official news agency Tass said Bykovsky, 28, a married jet pilot, and Miss Tereshkova, a brown-haired, dimpled bachelor girl who likes parachuting, slept soundly for seven hours Monday night and that all systems in their space ships were working perfectly. Official reports said the space couple were “feeling perfectly well.” Soviet physician Jonuson Hazen

Supreme Court Puts Brake On Bank Mergers WASHINGTON (UPD—The Supreme Court has handed the Kennedy administration its biggest antitrust victory a means of stemming the recent wave of bank mergers. • — ——— - In a landslide of opinions and orders ending the 1962-63 term, the court Monday approved the use of a 1950 amendment to the Clayton antitrust law in application to a bank merger. The statute outlaws acquisitions “where in any line of commerce in any section of the country, the effect . . . may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.” Because of the wording of the law, the “acquisitions” can be bank stock only, not assets. The 5-3 ruling strengthens the government’s hand in cases already in court. _ZL_Affects Philly Merger The test case concerned a merger of two huge Philadelphia banks, the Philadelphia National Bank and the Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank. The consolidation was part of ■ a trend which saw more than 1,500 independent banks with combined resources of more than $25 billion 1 disappear in the decade ending in 1960. The reasoning behind the administration’s lawsuits to brake :

told Tass Monday cosmonette Tereshkova likely will be followed into space by other women. He •aid her flight aboard the spaceship Vostok VI was a “logical development” in view of earlier flights by men. Bykovsky Monday exceeded the 48-orbit flight by his fellow Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, who made a tandem flight with Nikolayev last August. The “group flights” are designed to achieve eventually a link-up of several spacecraft which would form a platform for launching flights to the moon and the planets. Bykovsky’s flight, according to the original information, was taking him around the earth once every 88.4 minutes at an of 65 degrees to the equator. The orbit was between 110 and 147 miles above the earth. One Second, Faster Miss Tereshkova was moving one second faster at the same angle to the equator along“ a path between 114 and 146 miles ifiove the earth. Both were traveling about 17,400 miles per hour. It was not considered almost certain the two space adventurers would not try to link up. Authoritative sources said Monday Soviet scientists had no such plans for them. The official news agency Tass said the two craft came within five kilometers (3 miles) of each other during Miss Tereshkova’s first orbit Sunday. Moscow was rife with speculation on what might come next from the Soviets, who today opened a meeting of the Communist party central committee to discuss ideological affairs. One unconfirmed report said a third space vehicle might be launched before the two now in orbit were brought down. The twin flight was expected to set off a heavy round of propaganda in the central committee meeting. One of the meeting's main themes was the supremacy of the Communist way of life over the Western approach.

this movement is that commercial banks are the key to other business activity. They control loans, credit and commerce in general. The more outlets there are, according to the government view, die more money will be available at advantageous interest rates. Charge Antitrust Violation The government also charged the Philadelphia banks with a violation of the Sherman antitrust law, which forbids combinations in restraint of trade. Monday’s majority opinion by Justice William J. Brennan Jr., did not even go into the Sherman Act_ aspects, of the . case because the decision turned wholly on application of the 1950 amendment. Brennan said “there is no indication in the legislative history .». . that Congress wished to confer a special dispensation on the banking industry ...” In a case concerning the Sherman Act question, the court agreed to hear arguments next term on the legality of the merger of the First National Bank and Trust Company with the Security Trust Company in Lexington, Ky. As a result of the Brennan opinion, the Justice Department is in a much stronger position to fight bank merger cases now pending in Chicago and New York. In other action the court: —Gave California until Sept. 16 to ask for reconsideration of the June 3 decision in favor of Arizona on the distribution of Colorado River water. —Ruled 8-1 that the Singer Manufacturing Co. joined with Swiss and Italian firms in a conspiracy to exclude Japanese competitors in household zigzag sewing machines from the American market.

Rites Thursday For Drowning Victim John Fritz Schrader Funeral services will be held Thursday for John Fritz Schrader, six-year-old Decatur boy who was drowned last Saturday afternoon while swimming in Woods reservoir near Winchester, Tenh. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the First Baptist church, with the Rev. Robert E. McQuaid officiating, and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the WintereggLinri funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until 12 noon Thursday, after which the body will lie in state at the church until time of the services. The boy was born in Tell City July 10, 1956, the son of Helny and Mary Eva Polk-Schrader. Ihe family moved to this city while the father was serving as foreman on construction of the two new city water towers. They reside at 651 Mercer avenue. After school closed last month, the family went to Tennessee to be with the father while engaged in construction work. Mrs. Schrader, who was riding in the ambulance with her son who was being rushed to a hospital, suffered a crushed vgrtebra in her spine when the ambulance was involved in a traffic accident. She will be confined to the hospital for at least six weeks. The drowning victim is survived by his parents; one brother, Robert Louis Schrader, at home; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schrader of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Stella Waller of Engle, and John Polk of Decatur. The boy was a member of the First Baptist church.

58 Jobless Pay Claims In Area The Fort Wayne office of the Indiana employment security division reports that there were seven new claims and 51 continued claims for unemployment compensation in the week ending June 15 in the Decatur area. The office also released the employment and payroll figures October-De-cember of 1962. One year ago there were only 31 claims for compensation. Seven of these were new claims, 22 were continued and two were continued claims for extended coverage. Two years ago there was a total of 149 claims. Nineteen of these were new claims, 13 were new claims for extended coverage. 73 were continued claims, and 44 were continued claims for extended coverage. The Adams county employment and payroll figures are four firms who pay unemployment compensation insurance. They show employment figures of 4,390 for October, 4,41 for November and 4,354 for December. Total payroll for Adams county during that time was $5,145,679 and the average weekly earnings in manufacturing was $94.22. Employment figures for Jay county for the same period were 4,400, 4,452 and 4,312, with a total payroll of $5,443,962 and an average weekly manufacturing wage of $100.50. For Wells county the figures were 3-347 , 3-155 and 3,194 for the three-month period, with a total payroll of $3,728, 937 and an average weekly manufacturing wage of $98.25. These figures give a reasonably accurate picture of employment and unemployment in Adams county, but they are not completely accurate since they do not include many small businesses who do not pay unemployment compensation insurance. BULLETIN Mrs. Arflla Krick, former resident of this city, died at 10:15 a.m. today at Cutt’s nursing home at Crawfordsville. The body will be returned to the Winteregg- Linn funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed-

City School System Detailed By Grabill

Gail M. Grabill, superintendent of Decatur public schools, outlined the city's public school system and its plans for the future, in the final noon luncheon meeting of the summer for the industrial division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Chairman Ed Hagan announced that this would be the final meeting of the industrial committee until October. Grabill elaborated on the three basic items of a school system, teachers, curriculum and facilities, listing them in that order of importance. He explained that teachers are the key to any school system, and that any system that has teachers is able to put on a formal education program. He said that of the present faculty of the public system in Decatur, which is over 70, 50 per cent have a master’s degree or the equivalent of one. Another 20 per cent are working on an advanced degree, Grabill said, and for a school system the size of Decatur’s this "is very good.” He detailed the curriculum of Decatur high school and also added that the school administration is attempting to enrich its elementary curriculum. Concerning the summer reading program in its second year, Grabill said the results are “very, very good.” Four Buildings Talking on the facilities of the local school system, Grabill explained that there are four buildings, Southeast with 270 pupils,

Macmillan Under 4 Pressure To Quit

LONDON (UPD — Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was under increasing pressure to resign today despite a parliamentary vote of confidence in his handling of s the Profumo scandal. Political observers and the press predicted it was only a matter of time before the 69-year-old Conservative party leader steps down for “a younger man.” Some sources believed he would bow out some time this summer. Macmillan survived a crucial House of Commons confidence vote Monday night, but the 321-252 result fell far short of the Conservatives’ over-all majority of 93. The usually “Unflappable Mac,” his face white and drawn, left the chamber to cries of “resign, resign” from the opposition Labor party. It was considered almost certain, however, that Macmillan would make no move prior to the visit of President Kennedy here June 29-30. Kennedy is coming to London ostensibly to discuss the broad aspects of Western strategy against the Communists. Expects Investigation As a follow-up of the debate. Macmillan was expected to move for a full investigation of the Profumo affair. Monday night George Brown, deputy leader of the Labor party, asked for a select committee of the House of Commons to do the job and “rescue from this terrible story some better system for the future.” During the debate, the Laborites accused Macmillan of handing Russia a “triumphant success" in its efforts to smear British security in the eyes of the United States.

No Objections To Increase In Fund No objection was heard Monday in a hearing held by the county commissioners on the proposed three-cent raise of the cumulative courthouse building fund. > The commissioners have proposed to raise the cumulative building fund of the courthouse from ths present two-cent rate to five cents on each SIOO on all personal and real property in Adams county. At Monday’s hearing, no remonstrance was given against the proposed increase, and no citizens appeared at the meeting that were concerned with the proposed raise. With that approval received, the proposed increase of three cents ' will go to the state board of tax commissioners, and if approved there, will commence with the 1963 taxes, payable in 1964. j Two Cents Now J The present two-cent levy was 1 established June 15, 1959. ITie en- 1 tire five-cent raise may not be ] approved, but any increase approv- i ed by the state tax commissioners i will go into effect in 1963. The increase was proposed for :

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Northwest with 440 pupils, Lincoln with 690 students, and the high school building with 505 students. In the 67 total classrooms of the four buildings, there are about 1,900 students in kindergarten through the 12th grade, the superintendent said. Showing the rate of growth of the system, Grabill said that in 1952 there were 1,245 students in kindergarten through the 12th grade, as compared to the 1,903 in 1962, for an increase of 51 percent. Grabill also talked on the proposed two per cent sales tax and said that “it was our hope that we could have affected a local property tax relief of 25 to 30 cents this year.” Sales Tax He said that if the sales tax does not go into effect, and if no supplement, sales tax to raise funds for the school corporations ia found, it will affect the local property tax rate by a raise of about 55 to 65 cents. Concerning the future plans of the school board, Grabill said that more than likely by next year there will be no school city indebtedness, and that " we hope to pay for any new facilities as we go.” He said that the school officials need the help of the community in making decision on the curriculum, and they then may construct facil“We hope your wants and philities to fit them if the option on the Reppert land east of town is taken, osophies will be made known,” the superintendent said. ,

The bitter, often incisive sixhour debate Monday left no doubt that Macmillan’s government had suffered greatly as the result of the sex and security scandal which forced War Minister John Profumo to resign. Twenty - seven of Macmillan’s own party members of Parliament abstained in the vote, reflecting their fears that the scandal will harm their chances at the polls in the next election. The scandal added to the decline of the Conservative party’s prestige among the public. Heavily Criticised The British press heaped criticism on Macmillan today. Perhaps typical of the comment was the statement by the pro-Tory Daily Mail that the debate marked the beginning of the end for Macmillan. Members of his own party and the Liberals as well as the Laborites called for his resignation during the debate. Considering that every effort had been made by Conservative leaders to whip the rank and file into line, the result of the vote was a disappointment to the prime minister. The majority was the second smallest of Macmillan’s six-year tenure in office. The scandal was triggered on June 5 when Profumo, 48, resigned after admitting he lied to the House of Commons about his friendship with Christine Keeler, a 21-year-old party girl. Profumo, a married man, stated in Commons March 22 that there was ' nothing improper" about his relationship with Miss Keeler, but later it was disclosed he was having an illicit love affair with her.

the purpose of raising enough funds to install an elevator in the county courthouse, which Adams circuit court Judge Myles F. Parrish has mandated toe commissioners to do. Fund Short ■ ■ An estimate from Martindale and Dahlgren, Fort Wayne architectural firm, amounted to $42,000, and at present only $34,000 will oe in the cumulative building fund at the end of the year. If approved, the raise will be included in the fall budget, and will be available in the distribution in .May next year. The Fort Wayne firm has drawn up preliminary plans for construction of the elevator, and expects to have final plans completed in about a month, at which time they will meet with the commissioners to go over the plans. $170,000 Project At Post Office Approved The Decatur Daily Democrat received a telegram this afternoon from Sen. Vance Hartke and Sen. Birch Bayh, announcing that the post office department has approved a $170,000 fund for expansion and modernization of the Decatur post office. The wire stated that bids will be accepted at a later date.