Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 146.

Cardinal Montini Named

Pope Paul VI, Supreme Pontiff Os The Church

Steel, Union Agree On Pact

PITTSBURGH (UPI) — The steel industry and United Steelworkers union jtepped forth today as the epitome of collective bargaining. Climaxing six months of informal negotiations, the parties announced agreement Thursday on a 21-month contract which features a unique extended vacation plan the union says will create up to 25,000 new jobs in the industry. And for the second consecutive year the steelworkers passed up a straight wage increase for job security.. The contract becomes effective Aug. 1 of this year. It can be reopened upon 120 days’ notice anytime after Jan. 1, 1965. thus assuring labor peace in the industry during" the presidential year of 1964. The union said contracts should be signed by next week. * In Washington, White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said President Kennedy was “gratified by the early agreement in’ steel.” He deferred further comment. The vacation plan will become effective Jan. 1, 1964, for half

Commandos Join Anti - Castro Men

MIAMI (UPI) — Exile commandos were believed to have joined up today with anti-Castro forces in Cuba where a multipoint landing successfully penetrated the island’s Communist defenses. Miami’s huge Cuban refugee colony, still throbbing with excitement over Thursday’s surprise announcement by the Cuban Revolutionary Council, were eagerly waiting radio reports from the commandos. A radio broadcast from Cuba late Thursday night reported that militiamen fought with a group of eight heavily armed anti-Cas-troites in the vicinity of “El Camino.” The broadcast did not say if the rebels were of the invading Commandos or guerrillas operating in the mountains of Qriente. Las Villas and Pinar Del Rio provinces. The broadcast said the antiCastroites opened fire without warning late Thursday afternoon and were repelled with submachine gun fire. There was no report on casualties. Government radio messages picked up by the UPI monitoring center here announced that three air force jets — presumably So-viet-built — had been ordered into the air and told Cuban military and naval installations . to maintain “permanent vigilance.” The State Department, however, announced it had “no confirmation” of the landings and the Pentagon in Washington said it was unable to substantiate the council’s communique. The landings were made in open defiance of: _,> —The United States’ “ nor a id’ policy on Cuba. —Soviet warnings against further outside exile activity. —Premier Fidel Castro’s threat to attack any exile bases operating in the Caribbean. Authoritative council sources emphasized that “relatively few” men were involved in the landings. There is “no truth” to reports that as many as 500 men landed, the sources said. The landings followed by only 10 days an attack on tire northern coast of Cuba by an exile group which captured two Castro, militiamen and brought theirs here. Government authorities;.! are still trying to decide how.nto return the militiamen to Havana as they have requested. b

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the industry’s 423,000 workers. Under the setup, workers at each of the respective “big 11” steel companies ranked on the upper 50 per cent of the seniority list will receive 13 weeks vacation every five years. This is in addition to their regular vacations. Those workers retiring before the plan takes effect will receive a comparable cash payoff, a bonus week and their regular vacation time pay. The other 50 per cent of the workers will also benefit, getting up to three additional weeks of paid vacation in the next five years. The USW has a similar plan with the can industry which goes into effect at the same time. The bargaining agent was the Human Relations Committee (HRC), a union-management body appointed following the record 116-day strike in 1959. Its goal was informal periodic negotiations to reach contract accord without deadlines and strike pressures. The successful conclusion marked the first time in the union's history it achieved a contract without formal bargaining or a strike..

Third Appointee To Wage Scale Board The wage scale board for the construction of the city police station and renovation of city hall has been completed with the appointment made by Dallas Sells, president of the Indiana state AFL-CIO. Sells has informed city attorney Robert S. Anderson that he has appointed Harry Rodenbeck to represent labor on the board, which will predetermine wage ’rates for the project. Rodenbeck is a business agent of the Carpenters Local Union 232, and resides at 2418 Central Drive in Fort Wayne. His appointment fills the wage scale board. Mayor Donald F. Gage previously appointed Russel E. Owens, 322 N. Fifth St., retired Decatur Genex al Electric plant foreman, to the board. Governor Matthew E. Welsh recently appointed Robert F. Weisenburger, of Indianapolis, as his representative. Set Wages The three appointees will meet soon and establish the wage scale for the construction of the new police station and remodeling of city han. Plans and specifications for both projects are currently being checked in Indianapolis by various state offices, including the state fire marshal, state board of health, and others, for their approval. Jerold Lobsiger, architectural designer handling the job for the city, informed the city council Tuesday evening that the plans were in Indianapolis, and word on them is expected any day. Bids To Follow When, and it is expected, the plans are given approval, and once the wage scale is set, the city board of works and safety will then be able to let bids for contracts on the projects. A total of $17,500 has been appropriated for construction of the new police station, and another $17,500 for renovation of the city hall building. The new police building will be constructed ’bn the old steam plant area. Its exact location on the lot has not yet been determined.

VATICAN CITY (UPD-Giovan-ni Battista Cardinal Montini was elected Pope Paul VI today, the 262nd supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. The 65-year-old Archbishop of Milan, a slight, dark-eyed prelate and noted intellectual, is known for his “liberal” tendencies and was a favored candidate to succeed the late Pope John XXIII. The Sacred College of Cardinals chose the Communist-battling prelate to head the world’s half billion Catholics on the second day of balloting in secret conclave in the fabled Sistine Chapel of the 16th Century Vatican Palace. From the moment he pronounced the traditional Latin “Accepto”—l accept—when he was asked whether he would take on the honors and tribulations of the papacy offered him by vote of the 80 cardinals in the conclave. Cardinal Montini became the supreme head of the church. Takes New Titles At that instant he became, in the eyes of the church, “The Vicar of Jesus Christ, successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Patriarch of the West and Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Province of Rome and sovereign of the state of Vatican City.” The world first knew that Catholicism had a new Pope when a billow of white smoke gushed forth from the long, thin chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at 11:20 a.m. <6:20 am. EDT).

The Vatican Radio, presumably informed by a newly installed electric light signal system between the chapel and its studios, confirmed the visible smoke signal with an official announcement a few minutes later. A crowd which swelled to 70,000 and more gathered in St. Peter’s Square and responded to the news with wild cheers, applause and joyful laughter. Appeared on Balcony Within an hour, after the new Pope received the obeisance of the cardinals and was grabed in the robes of his high office. He appeared in gleaming white on the balcony outside the papal apartments overlooking St. Peter’s Square to make his first appearance. Up to that point, the world knew there was a new Pope, but did not know his name until Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, senior cardinal deacon, preeded him to the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to proclaim to the throng below in Latin: “I announce to you tiding of great joy, we have a Pope, the Most Eminent and Reverent Lord Giovanni Battista, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church Montini, who assumed the name of Paul VI.” The vast crowd roared back with emotional cries of “Viva il Papa”—“Long Live the Pope.”' But when Pope Paul VI appeared, a great hush settled ov?r the crowd and there was a sudden and dramatic silence. Most fell to their knees as the Pope intoned his first blessing “Ad urbi et orbi”—To the city of Rome and to the world—and gave his benediction to the throng. Chanted Response

Two swallows swooped over the ■ dome of St. Peter’s as voices in the crowd chanted the Latin responses to the Litany which began . with “blessed be the name of the Lord.” The Pope’s voice broke slightly with emotion as he made the sign of the cross and invoked the blessing “In the name of the Father, of the Son and the Holy Ghost, Amen.” Pope Paul remained on the balcony about 3% minutes. Then, with gentle waves of his hands, he withdrew inside the papal pal-, ace. Within hours, the new Pope started things mov i n g in his reign, during which he is expected to order continuation of the Ecu- ’ menical Council convened last year by Pope John. One of his first acts was to con. 1 firm Amleto Cardinal Cicognani in his post as papal secretary of state. Cicognani, 80, was secre+nrv - is+n+a — nnHnr Tnhn 1 having been appointed after his return from 25 years as apostolic delegate to the United States. Radio Message Saturday | Vatican sources also reported i that the new Pope would deliver his first radio message to the

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NEW POPE — Giovsnni Battista Cardinal Montini today was elected Pope of the Roman Catholic church. He chose the name Paul VI.

world Saturday morning, at an hour yet to be fixed. The world promptly hailed the new Pope, with many persons voicing optimism and hope that he would attain the goals of the late Pope John—whose aims encompassed a reunification of all Christianity in one church and included friendly overtures toward the Communist world. Just what Pope Paul’s international attitudes would be still were to be disclosed. But, if his record as a fierce anti-Communist battler in his archdiocese of Milan while he was a cardinal is any criterion, it was considered likely he would move actively into the domestic Italian political and social picture. The cpronation of Pope Paul VI probably will be held within the next 10 days.

Red Men's Fair To Open Monday Night Vernon Hebble, general chairman of the Red Men street fair, which will be held in Decatur’s district all next week, announced today the midway will open Monday at 6 o’clock, although the official opening is set for 8 p.m. Hie formal opening will be featured by the ribbon cutting by Dr. Harry Hebble, parade marsfidl. The parade will follow promptly at 8 o’clock and will proceed through the midway from Five Points north on Second street. The parade promises to be bigger and better than ever, led by the Decatur CathoKc high school band and the Red Men float. High school bands from the area area will appear at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, with Adams Central Tuesday, Decatur high school Wednesday, Monmouth Thursday, and Berne-French Friday. Rides To Feature Top amusement features of the fair, as always, will be the various rides, provided by the Gooding Amusement Co. The rides will be headed by the traditional merry-go-round and ferris wheel plus several new type rides, including a complete portable “kiddieland” with rides designed for the exclusive patronage of the “small fry.” The Red Men lodge has donated 1,000 books of tickets for the rides to be distributed by the welfare department and township trustee to underprivileged children of the community. These tickets will be good only at Wednesday's matinee. There will also be a Saturday matinee, when ticket prices will be reduced. Every evening during the fair, Indian headgears will be given to the first youngsters, under 12 who come to the Red Men tent. The Red Men extend an invitation to residents of Decatur and surrounding communities to attend the fair, which will close Saturday night. All members of the lodge are asked to meet ’ at the Red Men tent at 6 p.m. Monday.

Point System For Contest Winner The point system for judging the “Miss Roaring Twenties” contest was * announced today by Bonnie Warthman, in charge of arrangements for the affair. The annual “Old Fashioned Sidewalk Sale and Wing Ding” will be held Wednesday, July 17, this year. George Litchfield has been named general chairman of the affair by Morris peguii, retail cha#tnan. The special feature of the daylong affair, in which Decatur mertjfiants will be displaying thenwares on the streets and sidewalks of the downtown area, will be the crowning of “Miss Roaring Twenties.” Flapper Era The 1920’5, of Flapper era, was chosen this year to folow the “Miss Gay Nineties” contest held last summer, which was won by Miss Debbie Bultemeier of Decatur. The contestants, according to Mrs. Warthman, will be judged on the following point system: 1. Clothes must definitely be from the 1920 era, 2. They must be original and not made just for the occasion. How complete the outfit is will be judged. 4 .Hair styling and jewelry will also be judged. 5. The neatness of both the clothing arid the girl. 6. The grace and poise of the entrant. Not Beauty Mrs. Warthman stressed that beauty will be in no way be judged, only the neatness and appearance of the girls entering the contest. Prizes for the contest will be announced at a later date, according to Mrs. Warthman.

Entries are now being received and should be mailed to Bonnie Lou Warthman at the Commercial Print Shop in Decatur. Entries must be received no later than ■ Wednesday, July 3, and forms will be mailed to each entrant. Milton Spence Is Speaker At Rotary Milton Spence, work unit conservationist of Adams county, presented a talk to Rotary Thursday evening on the recreation problems in the United States. His remarks were based on a survey completed in 1962 by the outdoor recreation resources review commission. The commission, headed by Lawrence S. Rockefeller," was given the task of finding the answers to the following questions: 1. What are the recreation wants and needs of the American people presently and in the years 1976 through 2000? 2. What national recreational resources are available to meet the needs? 3. What policies and programs should be recommended to ’insure that the needs of the present and future are adequately and efficiently met? The survey of the commission revealed that there are 24,000 publicly owned non-urban recreation areas covering 283 million acres in the United States. The management of the areas are as follows: 84%, federal government; (Continued onPage Eight) George F. Laurent Taken To Hospital George F. Laurent, personnel manager of the Decatur General Electric plant, suffered a heart attack at his home early this morning, and was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital about noon when his condition worsened* slightly. — Laurent is allowed no visitors, but is riot in oxygen. While his physician believed he suffered a heart attack, there had not been time to confirm this by electrocardiagram readings and other tests.

Janelie Everhart In Beauty Contest L ,yl Janelie Everhart Miss Janelie Everhart of Decatur will be sponsored in the “Queen of Lakes” beauty contest during the 1963 Mermaid festival at North Webster, by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce, it was announced this morning by Jaycee president Fred Shoaff. A recent graduate of the advanced finishing and modeling course at the Fort Wayne Finishing School, Miss Everhart is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Everhart, 227 S. Third St. The “Queen of Lakes” beauty contest is a feature of the annual Mermaid festival at North Webster. The contest is open to any unmarried young lady between the ages of 16 and 26, inclusive. Judging will be by expert judges on a point system of 1 to 10 on ten classifications. Jaycees Sponsor A 1962 graduate of Decatur high school and a student of speech and drama at the Fort Wayne Bible College, Miss Everhart will be sponsored by the local Jaycees, the first time the - organization has sponsored an entry in the beauty contest. Tentative plans call for Miss Everhart to attend the Mermaid ball 'at 8:30 p. m. Saturday. Contestants gather at the North Webster school from 4 to 6 p. m. Friday, June 28, to dress and receive instructions. At 9 p. na. June 28, the “Queen of Lakes” beauty contest will be held and the selection of seven Mermaid princesses will be announced. " ■ > ; At 10 p. m. Saturday, June 29, the selection of the winner will be made known, and the coronation ceremonies will be held. Reign For Year

The 1963 queen will reign for one year and will preside over the 1964 Mermaid ball and queen’s contest. She will have possession of the beautiful rhinestone Mermaid crown during the year and will receive a beautiful trophy, SIOO in cash, and a beautifully engraved wrist watch as her prizes. Each contestant will ride in a decorated convertible or float in the Mermaid parade Friday, June 28, in the evening. The auto is furnished by the contestant’s sponsor, and prizes are awarded for the best decorated cars. Miss Everhart recently attended the national models convention in New York, as the guest of Models Association of America. Struck By Train, Boy Hurt Slightly . ■ A two-year-old Decatur boy narrowly' escaped serious or fatal injury Thursday afternoon when knocked under a backing Pennsylvania railroad train. Manual Rios, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Manual L. Rios, of 919 Harrison St., was treated by a local doctor for only minor bumps and bruises, after being knocked under the train at 3; 40 p. m. Thursday. The little boy was standing on the track when the Pennsylvania switch engine began backing up. The engine struck the boy and knocked him down between the railroad tracks. It was reported that threefourths of tile switch engine passed over the prone body of the boy between the tracks. After the train stopped, the youngster! emerged from underneath crying, but only bruised, he mishap occurred 20 feet south of the Washington street crossing. INDIANA WEATHER Clear and continued cool tonight Saturday stmay and a little warmer. Low tonight around 50. High Saturday in the 70s. Sunset today 8:16 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 5:17 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Sunny and pleasant. Lows in the 50s. Highs upper 70s and lbw 80s.

Welsh To Cut State Costs

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh’s administration intends to sharply slash the expenditures for state government the rest of this year and make every effort to give local schools the full amount of state aid promised by the legislature. Commissioner John Hatchett of the Indiana Department of Administration made it clear today the state will try hard to keep faith with local school officials for at least the last six months of 1963. Hatchett made the statement as the state worried through a financial crisis stemming from a judge's ruling the new two per cent sales tax enacted by the 1963 Legislature is unconstitutional and cannot be collected beginning July 1. $592 Million Expected Hatchett said the 1963-65 general fund revenue minus the sales tax is expected to total $592 million, about $6 million more than the amount appropriated for general fund expenditures by the 1961 Legislature for the 1961-63 biennium now ending. However, since the revenue for the present biennium did not live up to expectations, the new general fund revenue estimate is $64 million more than actually came into the state’s coffers the last two years. Hatchett said cash on hand as of July 1 is estimated at about $49 million. He said the scheduled July school distribution would require S4O million of this and the state would be hard-put to hold down all other expenditures to $9 million. , ) Schools Behind 8-Ball Howeer, Hatchett said, the state feels an obligation to make the full amount of the state aid appropriated by the legislature at least through 1963 because local school officials who counted on larger distributions and have made plans accordingly, will have no opportunity, until after next Jan. 1 to get/money from other sources. The schools were scheduled to get S4O million in July and $32 million in October. Since the state will be short an estimated $266,666 a day in anticipated revenue for each day the sales tax is not in effect after July 1, for the state to meet the promised school payments would mean some drastic spending revisions on a state government level. Hatchett said if the state is able to make the full appropriated distributions, both payments may be later than usual. “This is a very real financial crisis,’’ Hatchett said. ‘’Our* surplus is practically depleted, and it is difficult to operate without a surplus because you have to keep postponing payments.” Meanwhile, at South Bend, House Democratic minority leader Robert L. Rock of Anderson predicted a special session of the legislature would not enact a Sales tax again because “the people resent the’fesales tax being heaped on top of the adjusted gross income tax.” Political Implications Meanwhile, observers found that the financial crisis facing the state has some puzzling political impli-

Scattered Protest Marches By Negroes

By United Press International

Negroes staged another demonstration in racially tense Savannah, Ga., Thursday night but there were no incidents. More than 1,000 Negroes emerged from a rally and marched singing through a Negro neighborhood. They dispersed peacefully. Negro leaders at the rally accused police of brutality in quelling a riot Wednesday night with tear gas. Earlier Thursday, a riot squad arrested 30 Negroes for demonstrating in a downtown Savannah park. A crowd of about 500 whites and Negroes marched in St. Louis_, Mo., Thursday night to protest alleged school segregation. Four whitd hecklers were taken into custody by police but released later. Negroes had predicted around 5,000 persons would participate in the rush hour demonstration. Around 80 demonstrators were arrested at Albany, Ga., Thursday during a series of scattered protest demonstrations. The arrested group included 16 of 24 merpbers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s southwest Georgia staff. At Jackson. Miss., Negroes voted at a rally to accept the desegregation proposals of Mayor Allen Thompson. Negro leaders said they would turn their attention now to a Negro voter regis-

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cations. The bi-partisan efforts of both Democratic Governor Welsh and Republican Lt. Gov. Richard Riatine were essential to passage of the new multiple and broad-based revenue program of which the 2 per cent sales tax was an intended segment. Bus after Marion Circuit Judge John Niblack, a Republican, declared the sales tax unconstitutional, three other elected Republican state officials washed their hands of the matter and left Welsh to defend the tax alone. The job of appealing to the Supreme Court from Niblack’s ruling was undertaken by Indianapolis attorney George Zazas, after Republican Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers withdrew as legal counsel and GOP Auditor Dorothy Gardner and Treasurer Robert Hughes pulled out as parties to the defense. Prepares Appeal Zazas today was preparing an appeal to the Supreme Court. The path for the appeal was cleared quickly Thursday when Niblack obliged with denial of a new trial the same day Zazas’ petition for a new trial was presented. Simultaneously, Welsh and his Democratic administration took their first belt-tightening step in expectation of reduced income during the first half of the fiscal year, beginning July 1. Commissioner John T. Hatchett of the Department of Administration announced that “due to the critical financial condition the state of Indiana is currently facing, requests for salary increases will not be considered until further notice." The memorandum was addressed to all state agencies and Hatchett said the restriction would, apply to every type of increase including both merit and longivity. Hatchett also conferred again late Thursday with Eldon Crawford, state school finance expert. Welsh already has said that state support to local schools may be cut in half from that planned by the 1963-65 budget adopted by the legislature. Property Owners Hit This cutback in intended state aid—amounting to $172 million—puts the school burden more heavity than ever upon the property owners to whom both Democratic and Republican party leaders had pledged relief. Hie Democratic-backed appeal upon behalf of the sales tax will go before a Supreme Court which consists of three Republicans and two Democrats. If this Republican-controlled court decides the sales tax is unconstitutional, Welsh has indicated that the big money headache resulting from such a ruling will be tossed right back to the same people who gave it to him— the legislators. If and when the 93rd Legislature is called for another special session to solve the problem of who pays for education, both the House and Senate apparently will be GOP controlled. Welsh has said he will call for elections to fill the two Republican vacancies in the Senate and the one Republican vacancy in the House.

tration campaign. There were these other developments : Gadsden, Ala. — State troopers dispersed 46 Negroes Thursday after they marched silently in pairs through the Etowah County courthouse. There were nd incidents. Negro leaders said integration leader Martin Luther King Jr. would arrive here today to lend support to desegregation efforts. Charlotte, N.C. — The Charlotte Medical Society (Negro! demanded that all city hospital facilities be desegregated. However, most of the society members indicated they did not favor a boycott of the city’s Negro hospital if their demands are not met. Cambridge, Md. — White leaders conferred on the legal problems of meeting Negro desegregation demands and negro leaders said they expected the city’s racial troubles to be solved within “the next several days.” AUanta — Fqurteep__rnajorn}o-_ tels and hotels announced they are now accepting conventions with a “limited” number of Negro delegates. Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. said the dining facilities at the establishments will be open to Negro delegates identified by convention badges.