Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 153.

Kennedy Overwhelmed At Reception From Ireland; To Meet With Macmillan

Civil Rights Fate In Hands Os GOP

By United Press International Two Negro leaders indicated Friday that the fate of President Kennedy’s civil rights legislation rests in the hands of Republicans. Integration leader Martin Luther King Jr. said at Norfolk, Va., that if the program is defeated “we can blame certain sections of the Republican party...only the Republicans can save it.” In Washington, Rep, Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y., said Republicans will defeat Kennedy’s public accommodation bill unless it is watered down. In its present form, the measure which would force desegregation of privately owned business establishments, doesn’t stand a chance, the Negro congressman said. The stage was set at Savannah, Ga., today for a resumption of racial demonstrations following a truce period this week for talks among Negro leaders and city officials. Negroes have demanded the release of six jailed demonstrators or they will start demonstrating again. The city has refused. Attorneys for 200 jailed Negroes at Gadsden, Ala., Friday asked that a court injunction against demonstrations be dismissed and charges against the prisoners dropped. The Alabama Circuit Court recessed until Monday without acting on the motion. Elsewhere in the nation: New York — The National Council of Churches announced a drive to eliminate racial discrimination in the hiring of workers on Protestant church construction projects. This would be achieved, a council commission said, through the action of national church groups that finance the projects. At the same time, a Presbyterian group said members of that church would start participating directly in civil rights demonstrations throughout the city. Oxford, Miss. — The Justice Department asked in a suit Friday for the rfelease of 45 Negroes arrested on breach of peace charges in LeFlore County. The suit said the charges—filed in connection with a march by Negroes—were unjustified. Lexington, N.C. — Three Negro

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youths will stand trial in connection with the June 6 race riot here in which one white man was killed and another wounded. Davidson County Court Judge Charles E. Williams Jr. bound the trio over to the Aug. 19 term of Davidson County Superior Court Friday. • Columbus, Ga. — The newly formed youth council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has lashed back at a statement made by seven Negro ministers protesting the appearance of outside integration crusaders. “The top Negro and white leaders have coupled in a conspiracy to keep Columbus segregated and conservative,” the NAACP said. New Orleans — A hearing date was set for July 8 by the U.S. sth Circuit Court of Appeals on a motion ordering desegregation of Mobile; Ala., public schools next September. St. Augustine, Fla. — The St. Augustine City Commission Friday night assured Negroes that it has integrated all city facilities and the facilities will remain integrated. Gulfport, Miss. Gubernatorial candidate Charles Sullivan told a rally Friday night there would be a soldier in every school in the state before Mississippi’s segregated school system is abolished. Memphis, Tenn. — Federal District Judge Marion Boyd ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering immediate desegregation of Memphis parks and recreational facilities does not apply to the school system. Montgomery, Ala.. — Gov. George Wallace said Friday he would make a “forceful stand” at any public school in Alabama earmarked for integration. He did not elaborate. Ala. — Negro student James Hood of the University of Alabama said he was not against all racial demonstrations, just those which lead to violence. He said his earlier statements ap> parently were misconstrued to, place him against any form of I protest demonstration.

GALWAY, Ireland (UPD—Four times as many people as usually are to be found in this beautiful town on Galway Bay turned out today to give President Kennedy a roaring welcome to the land of his mother’s people. Kennedy, who left Dublin with a big kiss for the Irish President’s wife and cries of “Don’t go away, Jack!” ringing in his ears, found 80,000 cheering Irishmen awaiting him when he drove into Galway. The normal population of the town is. only about 21,000. There were nearly that many people jammed into the town’s central square today. At the end of the Galway visit, crowds broke through police lines and surrounded Kennedy’s car. Along the route, the President shook hundreds of hands thrust at him despite the futile pleadings and shovings of police and security men. President Overwhelmed “Come back, Jack!” yelled the crowd. Thp delighted and slightly overwhelmed President grinned and waved and shook more hands. Today is the last day of Kennedy’s three-day visit to Ireland, and Galway made the most of it. Kennedy received the freedom of Galway to a huge cheer. Ninety minutes later, he flew on to Limerick to receive the freedom of that city in a ceremony at Green Park Race Track outside the town. He was to stay there only 15 minutes and not eater the town. The stopover was a last-minute addition to his schedule. Then he was to go to Shannon Airport near Limerick for his flight to England’s Atwick Airport and weekend talks with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Proclaimed Freeman * Lord Mayor Patrick Ryan, proclaiming Kennedy a freeman of Galway, spoke in Gaelic. “We have granted this freedom from our hearts,” Ryan said. “President Kennedy has honored us.” Western Ireland is the home territory of the Fitzgeralds, Kennedy’s family on his mother’s side. His maternal grandfather,John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, was born near Limerick. Leaving Dublin, the President walked to the helicopter with Irish President Eamon de Valera and External Affairs Minister . Frank Aiken. Suddenly he reI membered he had not said goodContinued on Page Six

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Decatur, Indiana, Satur day, June 29, 1963.

Peace Corps Worker Visits In Decatur

Ralph Thomas, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Ben J. Thomas of North Manchester, formerly of Decatur, and a 1956 graduate of Decatur high school, visited in Decatur, Friday after returning Monday from two years in the Philppine Islands with the U.S. Peace Corps. Thomas, who was a coordinatior for some 40 peace corps teachers on Mindanao island, south of Manila, for his last year, returned to the U.S. byway of Singapore, Malaya, Indonesia, and other Southeast Asian areas. This was a personal trip at his own expense. To Washington Thomas will proceed to Washington, D.C., where he has been hired as a liason officer to work out of Peace Corps headquarters. He will be liason with five projects now underway in Southeast Asia, and will help orient and train persons in the Peace Corps headed for that area. Thomas was assigned to the Peace Corps originally as an English instructor in the Philip-, pines, but actually spent most of his time in cadre coordinating staff positions. Happy To Return He stated that he was very glad to return to the U.S., especially when he saw his parents and relatives at O’Hare Field in Chicago Monday. He felt something like a foreigner, though, and caught himself staring at “white Americans” when he returned, because he had seen so few while in southern Mindanao. Thomas had to turn in his Indiana driver's license when he got his Philippine license, and never got it back, so he had to return to Decatur to get his new Indiana license, where he was known to have previously had one. His job in the Philippines entailed covering two small “states,” and visiting all of the American peace corps teacher-trainer-workers in the area. Problems There, Too In talking about the work over there, Thomas recalled many interesting incidents. The Filipinos have color prejudices, but they are based on the shade of darkness; children in the same family who differ in darkness will ridicule the darker members. In fact, they try to marry in such away as to have lighter children. Os course, all of the “Americans” who were Peace Corps workers in the Philippine area were not white — several were of colored or Mexican descent. One boy of Mexican descent had Right-Of-Entry To Property Granted Problems concerning right-of-entry to land adjacent to the new Pleasant Mills birdge site were settled Friday. Right-of-entry had previously been denied on a lot owned by Mrs. C. L. Custer, mother of Burdette Custer of Decatur. Custer, state representative Burl Johnson and county commissioners Delmas Bollenbacher and Hugo Boerger journeyed to Indianapolis Tuesday to see if the approach to the bridge could be slightly relocated so that there would be enough space left on the lot for Mrs. Custer’s house trailer. Since then state highway department officials have inspected the site and Custer reported that the plans for the original approach, which would• have cut diagonally across the lot, have been amended. The state has now agreed to take 15 feet less ground which will leave room for the trailer. In the light of this development, Custer said, right-of-entry to the ground had been granted, so that the plans for the birdge can be completed and bids let in July.

a great-grandfather who ha< fought with the Texans against the Mexicans at the battle of the Alamo. This was very hard for the Filipinos to understand. Other Problems The Negro girls were also occasionally embrassed because they were much darker and different from the dark Filipinos, and had kinkly hair, which really surprised the Filipinos, so much so that they would even reach and touch suj,ittjt.hQdlV& reach and touch it, just to see what it was like. Blonde were also sometimes frightened by over-zealous Filipino men or women who had never seen a light-haired person; others had never seen a white person with hair on their arms, and would brush against the young men or women just to see what it felt like! Thomas stated' thjat he felt that the people-to-peoplfe approach, on the local level, was quiet helpful in mutual understanding, and that he greatly appreciated ’his oyerseas experience, and hoped «iat the cumlative effort of the eace Corps proves significant in the cold-war struggle with Communism. Edward C. Buuck Dies At Fort Wayne Edward C. Buuck, 84, of 1645 Spy Run Ave., and a native of Adams county, died at 7; 30 a. m. Friday at the Lawton nursing home in Fort Wayne. He was a former detective sergeant for the Wabash railroad, retiring in 1935 after 15 years of service. He lived on the west coast for many years and since 1952 had lived in St. Petersburg, Fla., until moving tp the nursing home three months ago. » Mr. Buuck was a member of the Redeemer Lutheran chufch in St. Petersburg. Surviving are one son, Walter C. Buuck, owner of the Lawton nursing home; one grandson, Walter E. Buuck of Los Angeles, Calif.; three other also of Los Angeles; one Herman H. Alspacher of Fort Wayne; two stepgreat-grandchildren; one brother, Rudolph Buuck of Friedheim, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Monday at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home, the Rev. Clarence A. Mueller officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p. m. today and from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. Sunday. ’’ l ■ . . Urbano Torres Dies Friday At Bluffton Urbano Torres, 75-year-old retired farmer of Craigville route 1, died at 10 o’clock Friday morning at the Wells county hospital in Bluffton, where he had been a patient one week. He was born in Gudalajara, Mexico, May 29, 1888, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian Torres, and had lived in this community since 1932. St Mr. Torres was a member of St. Mary’s, Catholic church and the Holy Name society. Only near survivors aretwo cousins, John Jaurigue of Willshire, 0., and Russell Jaurigue of Craigville. Funeral services will be held at 9:15 a. m. Monday at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr, Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home after 7 p. m ,tdday until time of the services. Rosary services will be held at 8 p. m. Sunday.

July 1 Deadline To Enter Contest Wednesday, July 3, is the final day for entries in the “Miss Roaring Twenties,” Mrs. Bonnie Warthman, in charge of the affair for the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, reminded all girls in the Decatur trading area. All entries for the contest, which will be held during the annual old-fashioned “Sidewalk Sale and Wing Ding” Wednesday, July-47, must be in no later than Wednesday of next week. Entries should be sent to Bonnie L. Warthman at the Commercial Priiit Shop in Decatur. The “Miss Roaring Twenties” contest, to select a queen of the 1920 flapper era, will be the feature o fthe annual sidewalk sale, displaying their wares on the in which local merchants will be sidewalks of the city. The contest is open to all single girls living within the Decatur trading area, prizes will be awarded the winner and other contestants in the contest. • $25 Top Prize The girl selected as “Mi?s Roaring Twenties will receive" $25 cash award from the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce as part of the “spoils’ She will take as winner of the contest. Miss Debbie Bultemier, winner of the “Miss Gay Nineties’ contest held‘during last year’s Sidewalk afair, will crown this year’s contest winner in ceremonies the evening of the big day. Point System Entrants 'in the contest will be judged on a point, sysem, and clothes must definitely be of the 1920 flapper era and not made for the occasion. How complete the outfit is will be considered, as will hair styling and jewelry. of the clothing and of the contest Will be judged, as will grace and poise. Beauty is not judged in the contest. Judges will be named at a later date. Cordelia Townsend Dies Friday Night Mrs. Cordelia I. Townsend, 91, of 136% West Monroe street, died at 8 o’clock Friday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been a patient one day. Born in Adams county March 11, 1872, she was the daughter of Augustus and Lucy Woodruff-Greg-ory,. and was a lifelong resident of the Decatur area. j Mrs. Townsend, a retired hotel employe, attended the Methodist church. Surviving are two cousins, Mrs. Alva Baker of Decatur, and Mrs. J. J. Walters of Columbus, 0., and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Greg-, ory of Morocco. Funeral fifes will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, with the Rev. Robert E. McQuaid officiating. Burial Will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funcral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services. Agreement Is Made For Phone Service All persons formerly on the Poe and Hoagland telephone exchanges who have re~d service from the Citizens Telephone Co. of Decatur will receive it, local attorneys Robert Smith and D. Burdette Custer explained this morning. A story from United Press International appearing in Friday’s Daily Democrat explained that the Indiana public service commission had dismissed petitions filed by the Preble and Root township, of Adams county residents, for telephone service from Citizens instead of General Telephone co. of Indiana, and that the dismissal was at the request of the petitioners. Custer and Smith, who represent the petitioners, said that morning that the reason the petitions had been dismissed wtas that Citizens and General have reached an agreement. The agreement has established a bpundary line and all who have petitioned for Citizens company service will receive that service, according to the agreement. ' r. The petitioners numbered about 20 previously on the Poe exchange ijind approximately another 20 on the Hoagland exchange. Custer and Smith stated that the new service agreement will go into effect as soon as line changes and other adjustments are made. NOON EDITION

Chinese Reds Score Russia

TOKYO (UPD — Communist China charged today that the Soviet Union had taken the “unprecedented" and “unreasonable" action of demanding the recall of five Chinese from Moscow. Peking Radio, the official Red Chinese radio, said the Kremlin had branded the five men unwelcome becatise they had distrib. uted a Chinese letter denouncing the Kremlin’s stand in the widening rift between the two countries. Diplomats considered the Soviet move the most spectacular overt evidence of the Communist world’s ideoldgical quarrel. It came just a few days before the Sino-Soviet showdown talks scheduled to begin in Moscow July 5, In an apparent peace move, the Chinese said they would not retaliate to the Soviet move. Says Demand Unprecedented Pekin Radio quoted a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying, the Soviet demand was "unprecedented in the history of the relations between the two countries.” The spokesman said he felt justified in asking “whether or not the Soviet government is deliberately trying to undermine SinoSoviet unity, vitiate the relations between the two states and create obstacles to the talks between the Chinese and Soviet parties?” The Peking broadcast was monitored in Tokyo. The report 'also was carried by the official New China News Agency, monitored in London and Tokyo. The radio said Russia had declared “persona non grata” and demanded the recall of Mei WenKang, Lu Pei - Hsin and Wang Yao-Tung, members of the Chinese Embassy in Moscow, and Liu Tao-yu, a Chinese graduate student, and Yao Yi, an “institute functionary.” Calls Action Unreasonable The Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Soviet action was “unreasonable” and added “its excuse untenable.” , The radio said the demand for the withdrawal was delivered to the Chinese Embassy Thursday. The Chinese letter which the five men were said to have distributed was sent June 14 to the Soviet Communist party. The letter listed at least 25 issues which the Peking regime wants discussed at the coming Sino - Soviet talks on the political and ideological differences between the two Communist giants. The 67-page letter reaffirmed Peking’s tough-line stand toward the West as opposed to Moscow’s policy of peaceful coexistence. The Chinese demanded that the letter be published and circulated in the Soviet Union so Russians could know both sides, of the quarrel. Describe Letter Offensive Kremlin leaders refused to publish the Chinese letter, describing it as highly offensive. They said it would only add to the “polemics” between the two countries and aggravate the rift. The Chinese spokesman, Peking Radio said, expressed his government’s hope that the Soviet gov-

Storms Lash Eastern U.S.

By United Press International « Rampaging thunderstorms lashed the eastern half of the nation today but did little to dent a simmering heat wave which has plagued many communities with water shortages and fire hazards. , Hot and humid weather was expected to continue across the East despite a series of damaging storms which brought high winds and heavy rain during the night. A squall line ripped across lowa with 75 mile an hour winds, leaving a trail of topbled power poles, shattered windows and damaged crops. At least seven persons were killed and 26Jnjured in a collision on a rain-wet highway in Rutherford, N.J., involving a bus and three cars. An Air Force sergeant died when a storm-tossed tree limb fell on his compact car at DES Moines. Aboyt 50 per cent of the plate glass windows at Marshalltown, lowa, were, broken and the streets were littered with refuse cans, paper and glass. A thunderstorm dumped nearly 2% inches.of rain on Biloxi, Miss., and 58 m.p.h. winds flayed central Missouri with half-inch hail. A man was killed by lightning when a squall hit Litchfield, Minn., at 80 m.p.h. Franklin, Ind., streets were flooded with eight inches of water after a rain storm struck the city

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ernment would take no further “rash” steps detrimental to SinoSoviet unity, but would work with'* Peking to strengthen the unit of the Communist camp. Program Is Urged On Young Democrats Indiana Young Democrats need a three-point program to strengthen them, and prepare for the 1963 and 1964 campaign, John D. Bottorf. of Seymour, told Adams county Young Democrats in a meeting held at the Decatur license bureau Friday night. f Bottorf called for: 1. Improved communications between the state Young Democrats and the county Young Democrats. 2. Place the college Young Democrats in a separate section, like a 12th district, in the state organization, so that they can participate more effictively in conventions and coordinated college work, as was formerly done. 3. Set up different programs for the different age groups within the 18-36 Young Democrat classification. This would allow those in the 18-21 group to have different interests from those 30-36. State Prexy Candidate Botorf, vice-president of the national Vending Insurance Co., Indianapolis is candidate for state president of the Young Democrats at the state convention July 12-13. He was introduced by the Adams county club president, Jay DeVoss. Fourteen delegates were named to the state convention, including Rod Schwartz, Larry Macklin, Ron Myer, Pete Schug, Harry Hebble, Jr., Neuen, Roger Harris, Diannfe 'Linn, Jerry Heimann, Severin G. Schurger, Jay DeVoss, and James Heimann. District Meeting The fourth district young Democrats will meet Monday evening, and the Adams county delegates are expected to propose that the fourth district back Bottorf’s candidacy for state president. Following the state convention, a new district president will be chosen, and it is possible that the honor may come to Adams county. The next meeting of the Adams county Young Democrats will Be held in August, and will include election of officers. A city-wide rally, similar to the one sponsored for the Democratic candidate for congress in 1962, will be held in September. Berne Construction Work Is Underway Construction work began yesterday on new sewage treatment facilities at Berne. Fate Construction company of Fort Wayne, which has the contract to build the sewers, began .moving equipment to the site yesterday morning and work began in the afternoon.

and caused nearly a dozen traffic accidents. Half of Bloomington, Ind., faced a fire threat today with water pressure reduced by a ruptured main. Trash burning and lawn sprinkling were banned. Water rationing went into effect across the heat-seareS northeast. The Stamford, Conn., Water Cp. imposed a limit on the outdoor uses of water for the first time in its 93 year history. Lightning struck a warehouse at Johnstown, Pa., and caused a general alarm fire with damage running into the thousands of dollars. An 18-year-old McKeesport, Pa., boy’ drowned when his raft broke up in the Youghiogheny River. The Weather Bureau said cooler temperatures will cover the northern Rockies and central plateau today.. Fair skies across New England and the rest of the East will keep the lid off rising temperatures. , e,. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly sunny and warmer today. Chance of local afternoon or evening thundershowers. Mostly fair and continued quite warm and humid Saturday night and Sunday. Low tonight 67 to 73. High Sunday 88 to 95. Outlook for Monday: Scattered thundershowers likely late Sunday night and most of Monday. Turning cooler Monday.