Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 157.

18 Reservations Are Made For Tour

Eighteen of 45 reservations for the Decatur Daily Democrat-Erie-Lackawanna bargain summer weekend tour to New York City August 2-5 hav.e been filled. Cost of the trip is $54.75 for adults and $37.75 for children between the ages of 5 and 12. Those who have' made reservations are Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Eckrote, 737 Mercer avenue; William Lister, Preble; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lister, 642 Mercer avenue; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ehrsam, route .4; Mr. and Mrs. Niland D. Oshsenrider, 214 Oakridge Pl.; Armilia, Helma and Ludella Conrad, route 1: Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Alger, route 3; Mr. and Mrs. James J. Strickler, 363 Stevenson street; and Mrs. Lyle Mallonee and daughter, Kathy, 316 Stratton Place.. The tour includes all items of expense, tips, etc., with the exception of some of the meals which have been purposely left out so that tourists will have opportunity to visit the dining places of their choice. Friday Departure The tour will leave Decatur at 2:12 p. m. Friday, August 2. The group will travel all night in the air-conditioned, reclining seat ErieLackawanna coaches, with pillow service provided for comfort. Continental breakfast in the dining car while traveling through the scenic Pocono mountains and Delaware water gap is provided as part of the trip. At 8:45 a. m. the group will arrive at the Hoboken., New Jersey station, where they will transfer to waiting motor coaches and will ride through the Lincoln tunnel under the Hudson river to the Hotel New Yorker, 34th Street at Eignth avenue. ' They will check into the hotel, and rooms with bath will be assigned. ‘ At 12:15 p. m. the group will meet in the lobby of the hotel for a visit to Rockefeller Center Observatory, 70 stories high, for a panoramic view of the entire metropolitan area—Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island, Staten Island and New Jersey. Saturday Luncheon A special luncheon will be served in the Down-Under restaurant, located in the Radio City area, immediately after the visit to the observation floor. At 1:40 p. m. the group will leave by bus from the 49th street side of the RCA building for Pier 83 on the Hudson river. There they will embark on a threehOur yacht sightseeing cruise around Manhattan island. The yacht tour, with interesting details furnished by a public % address system, includes the,Statue of Liberty, the financial district, the East riVfer, Governor’s island, Hell Gate, the Hudson river, Brooklyn Navy yard, Yankee stadium, the Polo Grounds, the New Jersey Palisades, George Washington bridge, Riverside drive, the Empire State building, and the United

Plan For Improving Local Post Office Plans for extensive modernization and improvement of the post office in the federal building... in Decatur, were announced today by postmaster general J. Edward Day. “This impjfcvemeht, to be undertaken by tile general services administration, will carry out the post office department’s objective or more efficient postal service, better working conditions and a pleasant atmosphere for the public.” Day said. • “Contingent upon the availability of funds, we are going ahead with the modernization of postal space in federal buildings: At the same tjme we are re-assessing our lease construction program to determine whether existing buildings can be suitably altered or remodeled to meet the needs of an ever increasing volume of mail. “Hie construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction.” The project at Decatur Is part of the department’s program to modernize and improve existing gov-ernment-owned facilities. It will , include building and driveway extensions, a new loading platform, air conditioning, new lighting and painting., and miscellaneous interior remodeling amounting to approximately $170,000. As soon as detailed plans have Ibecn completed, the general services administration will advertise for bids to remodel the post ct’fice ’and will be reimbursed from the post office department’s appropriated funds.

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Nationa. At 5 p. m. the group will return by bus to the hotel and the evening will be free for dinner and private sightseeing. Meals are available at restaurants of choice or at automats at moderate price. Among the things which can be visited during the evening are Coney Island, Freedomland, USA, or Radio City music hall. Places To See Coney Island, the internationally known Atlantic Ocean playground, features five miles of bathing beach, boardwalk and amusement area, plus numerous restaurants, stands and carnival-type recreation. At Freedomland, visitors can see the Chicago fire re-qnac>to, the San Francisco earthquake, Old New York, New Orleans Mardi Gras and the opera house, as well as ride a stage coach, a space ship or a sternwheeler. Radio City music hall offers the world famous precision dancers, the Rockettes, and America’s only resident ballet, the Corps de Ballet. Tickets for Broadway theatrical productions may also be obtained for the evening. Tickets are usually procured by " writing direct to the theater but special arrangements have been made with Leßlang’s Theater Tickets, Inc., 224 W. 47th street, New York 36, New York. Those taking the tour may write to this agency, mentioning the tour,- And secure tickets. ' . ■ Sunday Schedule Sunday morning will be left open for breakfast, luncheon and church services. The first scheduled event for Sunday is a 1:15 p.m. bus sightseeing tour of downtown and uptown New York. Among the places seen on this tour will be Times Square, the Empire State building, the Little Church Around the Corner, the Metropolitan Opera House, Greenwich Village, Washington Square, Macy’s, Saks, Gimbals, Herald Square, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Fish market, Chinatown, the Bowery. Wall Street stock exchange, Ellis Island, Central Park, Fifth Avenue, St. Patrick’s dral. Tiffany’s, the Metropolitan museum of art. Columbia University, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Grant’s tomb, the Hayden planetarium and the United Nations. Brief stops will be made at Battery Park for a waterfront view of New York and the Statue of Liberty, and also at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and United Nations headquarters. At 5:15 p. m. the group will return to the hotel, pack, eat and leave at 7 for the Hoboken station to begin the journey home. Continental breakfast will again be served on the train Monday morning. Decatur arrival time is 12:53 p. m. Included In Cost Included in the $54.75 cost is the round-trip railroad fare, pillow service in the coach, two breakfasts on the train, bus transfer from Hoboken to tlje hotel, room with bath (two in a room) in hotel for two days and one night, bellboy tip for handling luggage at the hotel, the visit to Rockefeller Center ol> servatory, luncheon in the DownUnde? restaurant with tip included. lectured motor coach sightseeing trip of downtown and uptown New York, yacht tour, bus transfer from hotel to the Hoboken station and pillow service on the return trip. ',

Funeral Saturday For Ex-Congressman Funeral rites will be held Saturday for Dr. George W. Gillie, 82, of Fort Wayne, former fourth district congressman, who died Wednesday morning at Parkview hospital where he had been a patient since last November. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Plymouth Congregational church, the Rev. Lawrence Fairchild officiating. Burial will be in the Lindenwood cemetery. Friends may call at Klaehn & Son funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. today. Dr. Gillie, prominent veterinarian, was elected on the Republican candidate as fourth district congressman in 1938 and served five consecutive terms. He also served as Allen county sheriff from 1916 to 1918, and was elected sheriff again in 1928 and 1934. A graduate of Ohio State University, he was Active in Masonic Circles. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Elon L. Marquart of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. John T. Strawbridge pf Salt Lake City. Utah; a sister, Mrs. Joseph Pearson of St. Raul, , Minn. ; two brothers, Harold Gillie of Camden, Mich., and James Stuart Gillie of Fort Wayne, and two grandchildren.

Barbara Conrad Is I Contest Entrant fl I ii I ■ Barbara Conrad Miss Barbara Lynn Conrad, 16-year-old Decatur high school junior, was announced this morning as one of the entries in the “Miss Roaring Twenties” contest. The contest ,to name a queen from the 1920 flapper era, will be held during the old-fashioned “Sidewalk Sale and Wing Ding” on the Decatur streets Wednesday, July 17. Miss Conrad is the daughter of Mr. and James C. Myers of 221 Water St., Dectur, and will be sponsored by the Commercial Print Shop, where she is employed She is a member of the Zion United Church of Christ and an officer in the youth fellowship. She flings in the church and school choirs, and was a member of the cast of “Music Man,” presented in March by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce. School Cheer Leader She has been a majorette for her school band during her freshman and sophomore years, and will be a cheerleader next year. She is also a member of the Order of Rainbow for girls. Miss Conrad will be wearing clothes owned by Mrs. William Kruetzman. which were worn by Mrs. Kruetzman during her wedding in 1923. The “Miss Roaring Twenties” contest will be one of the main features of the annual sidewalk affair, which, promises to be bigger and better than ever this year. Contestants in the contest will be featured in a parade through the downtown area of Decatur the evening of the yearly event. The parade will form at 8:30 p.m., with the contest to follow. Antique Cars George Litchfield, general chairman for the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, said this morning that another feature of the parade will be a number of antique cars. has contacted representatives of antique car clubs in Fort Wayne and Huntertown, and they have agreed to bring a number of the autos to drive in the parade in the evening. The two clubs are quite well known in the area and have numerous antique autos which have been given special care through the years, and are now considered to be very expensive autos. Area Owners Litchfield has extended an invitation to all owners of antique cars in 1 the area to join in the parade. Anyone interested in driving an antique vehicle in the parade is requested to contact Litchfield to make arrangements to drive it in the parade the evening qf the sidewalk We." Plans for driving the queen contestants are still being made. If enough antique cars are entered by area residents, other than the clubs, who would drive one of the contestanta, such will be done. If enough are not secured, then the other . extreme will be used, with the girls entered in the contest riding in 1963 convertibles in the parade. ' Numerous other items were also mentioned by Litchfield as a part of the day-lang festivities, including barbergshop, singing, go-kart exhibitions,, a square dance and a teen-age dance, a. rummage sale, an old-fashioned Hootenanny and many, many more.

INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and a little warmer through Saturday. Chance of scattered thundershowers Saturday. Low tonight 57 to 64, high Saturday mostly in 80s north, 83 to 92 south. Sunset today 8:16 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 5:23 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy with little temperature change, chance of scattered afternoon showers. Low Saturday night 58 to 64, high Stmday 86 to M.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, Ju|y 5, 1963.

Wirtz Urges Management And Union Heads Submit Dispute To Negotiation

Government To Reduce Defense Fund To State INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The federal government cracked down on Indiana today because Governor Welsh refused to fire State Civil Defense Director Robert Bates, who was found guilty of violating the Hatch Act. Welsh was advised today in a letter from Warren B. Irons, executive director of the U.S. Civil Service Department, that since Welsh declined to fire Bates, the state will lose $16,200 in federal funds- . The money represents about one-fifth of the federal funds which toe state CD department had expected to receive. At the time the Civil Service Department found Bates guilty of political activity in violation of the act last Jan. 4 and requested his dismissal, Welsh declined to do so. ' Today, Irons wrote since “Mr. Bates was not removed from his employment with the State of Indiana within the 30-day period provided by statute, the Civil Service Commission directs the Department of Defense to deduct $16,200 from loans or grants which would otherwise be paid by it to the State of Indiana.” The Hatch Act violation charged against Bates referred to the fact that his Assistant accepted contributions to the Democratic Party and delivered them, to the state party headquarters. Also cited in the hearing last year held by the Civil Service Department was the fact that Bates served briefly as treasurer for the North Side Democratic Club of Indianapolis. Bates said he does hot know how the deduction will affect operation of his department until after a conference next week in Chicago with other CD officials. Bates estimated the $16,200 was about 10 per cent of total annual budget. . Department of Administration Director John Hatchett said he does not know how the loss of the federal money will affect the state CD department until after he knows how the fund will be deducted. Hatchett said he understands the deduction could be made over a period of time. - - A similar case is pending against Conservation Director Donald Foltz. Should Indiana be penalized double the amount of Foltz’s pay—as was done in Bates’ case—the loss would be about $22,000. Youth Injured By Sky Rocket Blast Daniel Butcher, 17, a resident of 1062 Russell St., is recovering from injuries to the face and neck from a skyrocket explosion. Butcher is in room 351 at the Adams county memorial hospital,. The Adams county sheriff's department revealed this ’morning that it is now confirmed that the exploding mechanism was not thrown into a car driven by Raymond Cook, 518, route 5, Decatur, Tuesday evening as first reported. Investigation revealed that Butcher, Cook, and three Dgcatur girls had stopped along the PiquA road Tuesday evening about 10:30 p.m. and set the sky rocket in the road and lit it. It failed to go off in a short time, and .Butcher had gone to look at it when it exploded. He suffered severe burns and lacerlions to the left side of his face, ahd his ear drum. was damaged from the explosion. The youth nAd originally said that a firecracker had been thrown into the window qf the automobile in which they were riding. U '

Holiday Death Toll Below Predictions By United Press International The National Safety Council hoped today it could scrap its predictions of a possible record for highway death during the Independence Day weekend. Despite perfect driving conditions and heavy holiday traffic in almost' all sections of the country, the traffic fatality count was running behind expectations. Close to 200 persons had died since the start of the 102-hour weekend. But barring a deadly spurt on the highways, it appeared the council’s pre-holiday estimate of 550 to 650 traffic deaths by midnight Sunday would not be reached. It was even possible that the total would fall below 500. '' The traffic death record for a summer holiday was set last Memorial Day weekend when 525 fatalities were counted. The high mark for an Independence * Day weekend is 509, set in 1961. A United Press International ■ count at 1130 a.m. CDT showed 178 highway, fatalites since 6 pm. Wednesday. The breakdown; Traffic 178 Drownings \ 80 Planes . .1 Fireworks ' '1 Miscellaneous 27 Total 1 287 California and. Pennsylvania shared the worst holiday death totals with 18 each. There were 12 in both Indiana and New York state and 10 in both Ohio and Texas. ’ ‘ . ' ' ' - , Don K. Lutes Dies After Long Illness Don K.Lutes,' 71, of South Winchester Street. Well known retired florist, died at 4 o’clock this morning at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne foDbwing an extended illness. Mr. Lutes, formerly employed with Northwestern Steel & Wire Co. at Sterling, 111., established Lutes Florist in 1940 and operated the business until his retirement in 1959. 1 He was born at Carmel June 20, 1892, a son of Mr. anc| Mrs. E. W. Lutes, and was married to Ruth Hammell Jan. 24, 1926. Mr. Lutes was a member of the Christian church at Indianapolis, Masonic F & A M No. 571, the Scottish Rite. Mizpah Temple and the I,oyal Order of Moose. Surviving are his wife; one son. Diomas K. Lutes of Decatur; one sister;. Mrs. Marah Shaffer of Indianapolis, and two grandchildren, Kip and Brett Lutes of Decatur. Funeral' sendees- will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Elbert Smith, Jrr, officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery, with graveside services by the Masonic lodge. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a. m. Sunday until time of the servicas. Moose memorial services will be held at 7:30 p. m. Sunday. Forest Tucker Quits Farm Bureau Co-op Forest Tucker, 366 Columbia street, Berne, announced Wednesday his resignation as manager of the Adams County Farm Bureau Co-op, a position he has held for the past 12 years. The resignation is effective July 31. In, announcing his resignation Tucker did not reveal his future plans. His successor has not yet been appointed. Tucker came to Berne from Albion Before becoming manager of tne co-op he served several years as assistant manager of the firm. He and Mrs. Tucker are the parents of two children His affice is at Monroe where headquarters or the co-op are located.

WASHINGTON (UPD — Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz today urged the railroad management and union leaders to submit their strike - threatening dispute to a unique procedure of binding negotiation on two major issues. Wirtz asked both the railroads and the five railroad unions to notify him by 4 p.m., EDT Sunday whether they would accept his proposals for settling the snarl over makeup of rail crews. The labor secretary asked the parties to negotiate for 20 days on both issues with Assistant Labor Secretary G- J. Reynolds participating. Reynolds would have the power to assure a settlement.* The railroads announced earlier that they would put new work rules into effect next Thursday—and the unions said if this were done, they would strike. Question Os Firemen The main issues in the dispute are whether firemen are needed on modern diesel engines and on the makeup of track crews. These are called the firemen and crew consist issues. Both of the issues would be settled on the basis of recommendations 1 ? made by an emergency board, which President Kennedy appointed earlier in the dispute. The settlement would be in effect for two years during which time there would be continuing negotiations oni more "'bermanent settlement of the issues. The labor secretary said he recommended the two proposed settlements and urged their ac ceptance because both sides hac indicated acceptance of the inevi lability ofeither a nationwide railroad shutdown or the possibility of legislation by Congress to end the dispute. Wirtz "Said he could not accept only these two alternatives. 1 He said a shutdown would damage thp, national economy to an extent it could not afford and legislation would result inevitably in weakening free collective bargaining. Wirtz emphasized that the proposals did not constitute compulsory arbitration But he said Reynolds would have the responsibility for “suggesting a solution' if the parties are not able to reach one by themselves and to see that a settlement is reached.” No Comment Yet Before announcing his recommendations publicly, Wirtz said he presented them to a joint meeting of officials of the railroads and the rail union s, He said no commitment was solicited or obtained from either side during the meeting. In their own news conference immediately after Wirtz's, the unions said they had~not had time to study the proposals and therefore could not say yet whether they would go along. Die labor secretary said Thursday after a 30-minute Independence Day conference with President Kennedy that emergen <y> legislation may be requested from Congress to avert the strike if the opposing parties cannot find a solution themselves, As Wirtz put it wen asked whether CbftgTT3T^- j wo-tt44«.«be. brought into the four ; year-old dispute: “That possibility is certainly imminent.” He declined to speculate b n what action President Kennedy would request of Congress. But he acknowledged there has been talk of legislation permitting compulsory arbitration,-seizure of the railroads, or a combination o f both. Wirtz described the situation as “deadly serious” and said a strike would “involve the shutting down of our country’* eeonomica Uy. A nationwide strike would idle about 700,000 rail workers and cause layoffs ip other industries cut off from supplies.' It would halt about 43 per cent of the nation’s freight shipments and 25 per cent of passenger service on 217,000 iniles of rail lines. The issues at stake-,are crucial to the rail unions representing 200,000 members who operate 95 I>4r cent of I 'the nation's railroads. The changes.the rail lines are ready to install would cost tip to 37,000 jobs of diesel firemen, plus others later. Diey would also change pay scales for those who kept their jobs. The dispute has gone through two presidential investigating commissions and all the way to the Supreme Court, (Continued on Page 8)

Kennedy Answers Khrushchev Note

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. <UPD —President Kennedy told Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khruschchev today that he shares the Russian leader’s expressed des ire to “move forward with understanding" toward solution of East-West problems. “The world has long passed that time when armed conflict can be the solution to international problems." Kennedy told the Soviet leader. His remarks were in a message cabled to Khrushchev Thursday, and made public by the vacation White House .today. It was a reply to the premier's message to Kennedy congratulating the United States on its July 4 celebration of the 187th anniversary of independence. "The American people are grateful for your message of good will,” the President told Khrushchev. I He said the American .revolution “was based on the desire of outpeople to build a free nation in a world of peace.'’:--“Today that desire for peace is more urgent- than ever,” he asserted. Commenting then on hov war can no longer solve interna tional disputes, Kennedy tol< Khrushchev: sire, expressed in your message of today, that we move forward with understanding toward the solution of those key. problems which divide us. I am hopeful that world peace, and lasting,

Negroes Stage Demonstration . • ■ •.. ’ - ~ Over Holiday

By United Press International Negroes by the thousands Thursday staged antisegregation demonstrations and rallies in at least eight cities from New York to California. - Arrests were made in three of the cities. Baltimore. Md., Hempstead, N.Y., and Chapel Hill, N.C. The 283 demonstrators taken into custody at Baltimore, where "freedom riders'' from New York and Philadelphia sought admission to a segregated amusement park, included the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, head of the United Church to .toe USA . A biracialgroup of 45 pickets was*-arrested, at Hgmpstead when it attempted-Jo. blocky traffic to Jones Beach Tn a prl'ilcst against alleged discriminatory hiring at the state park beach Arqund 450 persons marched through jChapel Hill, home of the University of North Carolina, to city hall where they sang "free dorn songs." Police arrested three persons. ' — — Mayor Richard J. Daley led a “freedom march" of thousands of Negroes through Chicago but. h,e later was booed from the-speaks er s stand at Grant Park. The event climaxed the 54th annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People JNAACP)., A singing crowd of about 250 persons, mostly. Negroes, marched through downtown San Diego. Calif . and was greeted by Mayor Charles Dail in front of the Civic Center. Dail promised that the city’s biracial Human Relations Committee would seek sincere solutions to racial problems. Elsewhere in the nation: . Charleston, S-C. More than 100 Negroes paraded in the downtown area in a protest against segregation practices in this historic port city. Savannah, GA. — About 400 Negroes marched to the Chatham

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can be achieved." Khrushchev’s message to Kennedy. made .public in Moscow, was similar in tone but stronger in wording than Kennedy’s. The Soviet leader told the U.S. President : "In our age, the age of harnessing nuclear energy and penetrating the depths of the universe, the maintenance of peace has indeed become a vital need for all mankind.' "We are convinced that if the governments of our countries . • . with the governments of other states which have displayed a realistic approach, firmly take to the road of elimination of of international tension and of exjiahsion of businesslike Cooperation. the peoples everywhere will acclaim this as a great contribution to Jhe strengthening of uni- —“ " versa! peace ” The President, settling into the easy pace of a holiday weekend, planned to cruise aboard his "yacht for the first time in several I months. Retail Directors Meet Monday Hight Mrs. Kay Bocjj^,,,aawly-efecied chairman of (hie retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, has requested that all members of the board of directors meet I in the Chamber office at 8 o’clock Monday evening for an important meeting.

County jail Thursday night and serenaded a young Negro leader jailed last week for. participating in a demonstration. The demon's frat inn broke tip peacefully. Danville, Va. — Negro leaders met Thursday to, plan strategy for the resumption of racial demonstrations in this tense city. They said they expect Southern integration leader Martin Luther King Jr. to arrive next week to aid in the campaign Philadelphia — Vice President Lyndon Johnson said Thursday Tthv™fWHaration of Independence must apply to every citizen. The document's meaning needs no further interpretation® he said, “it needs to be implemented." Miami Sen. George A. SmadwS3sjna.T said Thursday that legislation more important to Negroes thah“ciyir~flghts would be a tax reduction bill to. .improve their economic situation. i' Chicago — Clyde Kennard, a Negro who once tried to attend the UnTvmttyof Southern Mississippi, died Thursday of cancer. Kennard, 36, was released from !a Mississippi prison in January th* receive treatment in Chicago. Knoxville, Term. — The city’s Committee for Peaceful and Orderly Desegregation said Thursi day about 50 “leading restaurants and cafeterias" would begin serving Negroes today, Vicksburg. Miss. — Gov. Ross R | Barnett issued a call for "all true, red-blooded Americans to take a s.tand and save \ this nation, from destruction.” He charged “high federal authorities of our’ government are tearing the very heart out of the declaration of independence." Prichard. La. — Gov. George Wallace' said Thursday night trips he recently took to other sections of the country have convinced him people around the nation were joining the South in its fight for states' rights.