Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1963 — Page 1

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Welsh Pat On Keeping Bates

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Governor Welsh will stand pat on his refusal to fire Lt. Col. Robert S. Bates as Indiana civil defense director although the refusal will, cost the state $16,200 in federal funds. _ \ Welsh was notified by the U.S. Civil Service Commission Friday that the Department of Defense had been directed to cut that Start Os Vacation Ruined By Accident A vacation trip ended abruptly 1 this morning in a two-car acci- j dent on U.S. 224, two and onehalf miles east of Decatur at the . Uniontown service station, with four persons suffering minor injuries. Willis F. Bulmahn, 28, route 2, Decatur, and Leroy K. Bulmahn, 30, route 2, Decatur, and their wives, had just left Decatur for a vacation to New York and the New England states when the twocar mishap occurred at 8:17 a.m. today. Willis Bulmahn, driver of the car, suffered a laceration to the chin, upper lip and over the left eye, while his brother, Leroy, received a laceration to the chin left knee and right hand, in a collision that was nearly headon. Barbara Jean Bulmahn, 25-year-old wife of Leroy, suffered abrasions to the left ankle and contusions to the left side of her face. Mrs. Willis Bulmahn escaped without injury. Fourth Hurt Carl A.<- Vantilburg, 48-year-old Rockford, 0., resident, driver of the other auto involved, 'suffered a laceration to the arm* left eye and abrasions to the left shin’“3hd right arm. Leroy Bulmahn was released following treatment this morning, but the other three injured persons remained in the Adams county memorial hospital. The mishap occurred when Vantilburg. traveling west, started to turn into the Uniontown service station, but began his turn in the path of the eastbound Bulmahn car. Near Head-on The two vehicles collided nearly head-on, just four feet from the south edge of the highway. Bulmahn's auto skidded over 53 feet in «an attempt to stop in time to avoid the collision. The Bulmahn brothers were rid* ing in the front seat of the auto, and both were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash, which in the opinion of the investigating officers saved them from more serious injuries. Sheriff Roger Singleton and deputy Warren Kqeuss and state trooper Alan Coppes investigated, estimating both the 1955 model Vantilburg car and the 1958 model Bulmahn auto at total losses. Vantilburg was arrested and charged with making an improper turn, and is scheduled to apepar in Justice of the Peace court next Saturday.

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amount from funds due the state. The commission found that Bates had violated the Hatch Act which prohibits political activity by federal employes or by state employes paid in whole or in part with federal funds. A commission hearing examiner found Bates guilty of allowing his former assistant to collect Democratic party contributions from CD employes and of serving briefly as treasurer of a neighborhood Democratic club. Welsh said at a news conference Friday that he will stand by a letter he wrpte in February, following the examiner’s findings, in , which he said he felt it would be I “in the best interest of the state | of Indiana and the Civil Defense program as it relates to Indiana to retain Lieutenant Colonel Bates , in his present post as Civil Defense director for the, states,” Names First Negro Welsh also told his news conference that he had nominated a member of his staff as Indiana’s first Negro conservation officer. He said Glenn Woodard, Indianapolis, would resign as a messenger in his office to join a class of 25 conservation officer candidates. /Welsh noted that “although 65 per cent of the fishing licenses are purchased by Negroes in Indiana, no Negro ever has been a conservation officer.” The 25 members of the class are expected to be assigned to game warden duties after completion of the training course. Welsh said nearly all of the 25 candidates are Democrats and “it will take nearly this many to bring the bi-partisan ratio for the conservation officers up to a 50-50 level. None has been hired since I took office.” Welsh shared his news conference with Dr. Carl Biehl, international president of Youth For Chrjsi, and Bruce Love, who directs some 110 youth camps in the United States and other countries for the religious organization. Hundreds Benefit They told Welsh that about 1,300 “potential delinquents" will benefit from summer camping experience under a joint endeavor by the state and the church group. Youth For Christ is sponsoring youth camps at facilities provided by the state at Muscatatuck and Indiana Dunes state parks. Biehl and Love said most of the boys attending the camps were recommended by probation officers, juvenile court judges and welfare workers. They praised Welsh for making the facilities available for the first program of its kind in the nation and made him an honorary member of Youth For Christ. Love said he had met with the governors of Tennessee, Michigan and Oregon to discuss arrangement for a similar program* in their states. Youth For Christ, which bears the expense of the program, hires college students or recent college graduates to staff the camps and then to work with the boys after their return home. ~ wson~edition ~

■•-- - - . ■ South Adams School Board Is Organized Walter J. Muth, of Geneva, was elected the first president of the South Adams community school board at its organizational meeting Wednesday afternoon. The board met, all members took their oaths of office, the board organized, and passed a resolution of organization, taking notice of the laws, election, etc., which created them. » Fred Fosnaugh, of Linn Grove, Hartford township, was elected secretary of the board; Leslie B. Lehman, of Berne, was named treasurer; and Harold Sprunger, of Berne, was elected vice chairman. The fifth member of the board is Robert Lehm,an, of Jefferson township. The board set next Tuesday night as its next meeting night. The South Adams area includes Hartford, Wabash, and Jefferson townships, Berne, and parts of Blue Creek, Monroe, and French townships. South Adams community schools was voted into existence May 8, 1962, but formation of the school board was halted after appointment of the board members by a group of taxpayers in the area who opposed formation of the new district. According to the Berne Witness, “The ' transferring of Hartford Center junior high and high school students is not expected to be changed in any way, with the students likely to be allowed to go to either Berne or Geenva. However, the policy of operating : the new school system will be up to the new school board.” Organization of the North Adams community schools board is expected to take place next week, and will include the selection of a fifth member, from Decatur. • w Roberta Kunkel Is Second Contestant imi. .JTA j / liuiuwiuiu. 1 ■ ■. 'iliWlMJ;J h|li<,.,,, Roberta Kunkel A Monmouth high school sophomore has been announced as the second entrant in the “Miss Roaring Twenties” contest a feature of the annual old-fashioned “Sidewalk Sale and Wing Ding,’; Wednesday, July 17. Miss Roberta Kunkel, 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kunkel, residents of route 1, Decatur, will be a contestant in the event, Bonnie Warthman, in charge of the affair revealed this moring. • . ” ■ She will be wearing clothes owned by Mrs. Mary Jane Runyon of Decatur in the contest. Miss Kunkel is engaged in 4-H club work and is a member 6f the summer band at her school. She attends the Zion Lutheran church. The young lady will be sponsored, in the contest by Joy’s B-K root beer stand, where she is employed. She is the second contestant to be announced, as M is s Barbara Conrad of Decatur was named previously. The "Miss Roaring Twenties” contest will be one of the m a i n features of the annual sidewalk affair .which will produce not only fun and frolic, but/ numerous values from Decatur merchants who will be the sidewalks through the downtown area. A parade will be held at 8:30 p.m. through the area and the contest entrants will be included in the parade. . j Antique automobiles from antique auto clubs from Fort Wayne and Huntertown will also be part of the parade. Anyone in the area owning an antique auto' which he would to drive In the parade is asked to contact George Litchfield retail division general chairman for the sidewalk sale. “Miss Gay Nineties” of last year’s contest, Miss Debbie Bultemeier of Decatur, will crown this year’s queen.

> Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 6,1963,

Credit Secretary Wirtz _ ■ -s —_ With Improving Chances Os Railroad Settlement •--- _ r • ■

Big Counterfeiting Case Is Spreading HAYWARD, Calif. (UPD-One of the biggest counterfeiting cases in U.S. history spread to Alameda State College Friday when a suspect told authorities he printed about $4 million in bogus bills on a school printing press. Police said the suspect, Donald J. Carothers, 21, a press operator, made the admission shortly after being arrested. He was the fourth suspect to be picked up by Secret Service agents and 10-1 1 cal police. v Five more men were sought in connection with the operation, which Secret Service area chief Tom Hanson called the largest in the history of the service. Agents already have recovered some $2.4 • million in counterfeit money printed at the school. Hanson said another $500,000 in bogus money is somewhere in the San Francisco area. Carothers told police he had a key to the campus press “to work at night on overtime jobs.” Dr. Fred Harcleroad, the college president, expressed shock When told the bills were printed on the campus. “No one at the college had any knowledge or indication that anyone or any facility on the campus was being used for other than normal use.” he said. Harcleroad described Carothers as “a nice young fellow” and “a hard worker.” Another college employe was arrested Thursday in connection with the case. He is Eugene AL len, 36, a laboratory technician. Allen, Guy J. Smith, 29, Oakland, Calif., and Joe Memoli, 40, also of Oakland, were. arraigned Friday in San Francisco before U.S. Commissioner Donald H. Copstine. , Secret Service agents found plates and negatives, used in the printing. of the phony money, in Allen’s possession. The bills were printed in $1 to SSO denominations and were described by agents as “near perfect.” None of the four men arrested so far have police records, but investigators said the five men being sought were well known to the law.

Gunman Kills Two, Surrenders Meekly

NEWARK, N. J. (UPD - h Linden, N.J., truck driver, who fatally shot his wife and sister-in-law, wounded three other persons and terrorized a family of eight, surrendered /meekly to police early today./C Ari~ 18-year-olclabducted by the fugitive and released after several hours reported to police that Richard /Teddy) Coleman, 32, a Negro,/' sexually assaulted her. Doctors at Elizabeth, N.J., General Hospital said examinations confirmed the possibility of rape. The girl, Mary Kaminski, who is white, was the second eldest daughter of a family which Coleman had held at gunpoint for four hours.after the shootings. She was released on an Elizabeth highway at about 3 a.m. today, and hailed a passing police car. A roadblock near Newark Airport halted the automobile in which Coleman was fleeing a vast police hunt. An officer who 'helped in the capture said, “we came up to his car. He stepped out and threw up his hands. That’s all there was to it.” Find two Pistols On the seat of the car was a loaded 38-caliber pistol, and in Coleman’s pocket, according to police, was a .25-caliber pistol/ These were the weapons with which the slendec 1 Negro allegedly created a bloodbath in his home community Friday afternoon. Coleman's rampage was traced to a aeries of quarrels with his

Hospital Patients Receive Paper Daily Some 30 local merchants and organizations are presently preserving a kind practice which was ttarted in Decatur more than 20 ago. Each night, patients at Adams county memorial hospital receive copies of the Daily Democrat which have been supplied by these merchants. The papers arrive each day just before the evening meal, so that while patients are reading them hospital personnel have a little extra time to prepare meals. The practice was started in 1936 and has been carried on since them. Every night a Democrat carrier boy, Bill Hain, delivers 30 copies Os the paper to the hospital. Each paper has a small stamp attached bearing a getwell message and the name of one of the contributing merchants or organizations. The contributing establishments are Prices Men’s Wear, Sheets Furniture, Leland Smith insurance agency, Smith Milk company, Stucky Furniture, Suttles Insurance, Wolf's Produce, Yost Construction, $ Gerber's Supermarket, Bolthouse drug, Indiana and Michigan Electric company, Jani Lyn women’s store, Krick-Tyndall company, Lengerich butchering, the Moose lodge, Home Dairy products, Northern Indiana public service company, Dick’s diner, Ideal dairy products, the American Legion, Anspaugh Studios, Burk Elevator company, Citizens Telephone, Burke’s Standard service, Commercial Print Shop, Cowens Insurance agency, the Decatur Democrat, the Rotary club, the First State Bank and Dr. He R. Frey. Each of the merchants furnishes a one-year, subscription to the program. The get-well stamps are provided by the Democrat and put on the papers by the carrier. Hospital personel distribute the papers to the patients. The businessman who originated the idea of supplying the newspapers for hospital patients is no longer in Decatur, but the idea has been maintained by office personnel at the Democrat” Some of the merchants are long-time subscribers.

... wife. A young man who had been held at gunpoint by Coleman quoted him as saying that he killed his wife ‘‘because she was no good.’’ Brought before newsmen after his - capture, Coleman said he was tired and sat listlessly.” Under questioning, he said, “I'm sorry about the whole mess, I’m sorry about the whole thing.” Police said Coleman, who was on vacation, had stayed away from home Thursday night after a dispute with his wife, Millie, 37. Friday afternoon he returned and found her seated in the kitchen with Betty Ann, 15, one of their four children. ) Shoots Wife Coleman shot his wife, police said. Then, leaving his daughter unharmed, he raced into an adjoining house occupied by his brother and sister-in-law, . Harry and Ruby Coleman. He killed his sister-in-law and wounded his brother, then ran from the house. Leaping into hjsr 1962 station wagon, Coleman started to drive down the stret, then suddenly stopped and went toward the home of Mary Ann Kube, 28, shooting the woman as she ran out to protect her eight-month-old son. , A neighbor. Leroy Edwards, was outside his house preparing to wash his called him over and shot him. All the injured were taken to Elizabeth General Hospital.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz' lastditch effort to settle the nation's railroad dispute was credited today with improving chances of avoiding a nationwide strike. ■Sources close to the long and I fruitless negotiations said the odds still “are about 80-1 against acceptance’’ of Wirtz' proposals. "But they wbre a million to one against reaching a- settlement before, so there definitely has been improvement in the sitation," one party said: Wirtz proposed Friday that both I sides agree to engage in binding negotiations for 20 days with Assitant Labor Secretary James Reynolds sitting in as sort of an arbitrator. Would Direct Talks Reynolds would be authorized to prescibe procedures to insure final settlement of the two major issues in the dispute—role of firemen on diesels and makeup of track crews. Before hearing Wirtz’ plan for "breaking the deadlock in the socalled “featherbedding" dispute, union and management spokesmen indicated there had been no change in their positions. Afterwards, a union leader said Wirtz’ idea would have to be studied before the unions made any comment, .. The railroads have • said they will put job-eliminating and pay scale changes into effect at 12:01 am., EDT, Thursday, and the five operating railroad brother- ‘ hoods representing 200,000 workers have promised to strike when they do. Requests Reply Wirtz proposed that the 20 days of negotiations confined to the 1 two main issues begin on Sunday, and he asked for a reply from • both sides by 4 p.m. Sunday. If they do not accept, Wirtz said, he will make his final report Monday to President Kennedy. The President has indicated he will react ’ by-asking Congress to pass legislation to prevent a railroad' strike from paralyzing a large part of the nation's economy U. S. Employment Over 70 Millions WASHINGTON (UPD — In 1945 a prediction by then Commerce Secretary Henry A. Wallace that the American economy could provide 60 million jobs drew derisive hoots of skepticism. Friday the Labor Department announced that 70.3 million Americans had jobs in June—the first time in history the 70-million mark was ’ broken. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz said the-employment figure "on the face of it,: seems like a good record,’’ but he added a “but.” He noted that the June jobless figure of 4.8 million was 1.8 million more than for the same month 15 years ago and said: “We realize that the record is not good enough.” "Fifteen years ago. June, 1948, was when Wallace’s prophecy of 60 million jobs came true for the first time. However it wasn't until 1951 that the annual rate of employment reached a steady 60 million. The employment increase for this June jumped 1.3 million, the government’s report showed. But this was about what was expect l ed for the early summer season On the other hand, 'joblessness went up by 800,000 to a total of 4.8 million because of the influx of teen-agers and college, students seeking work. This was about 400, more than in June,' 1962.# INDIANA WEATHER , no important temperature - change through Sunday. A few thundershowers likely north, scattered showers thundershowers through Sunday in central and south portions. Low tonight in 60s, high Sunday dear 90. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy with scatrt?red thundershowers and lit- * tie temperature change.

~~ • ' ‘ :: :__ '• ■ ~ —— Southern Governor Urges Conference

By United Press International Integrationists jnarclVed throiigh 1 streets and courtrooms from ‘ Georgia to Maryland Friday and 1 a southern governor said the time 1 . has come to end “the injustices 1 ' and indignations long suffered by ’ the Negro race.” •' , < Gov. Terry Sanford of North t Carolina urged an historic state- i wide “sumrnit" meeting of about .< 300 mayors, city managers and 1 their representatives ’-‘to display wisdom and courage and to understand that every child of God ' on earth desires a chance for life 1 and human dignity.” ; But Sanford said the state i would not be intimidated by mob i action. , “I don't intend to dance to the ; tune of extremists on either side < of any questions,” he ‘said. Singers Aid Campaign , A folksong “hootenanny” sea- ; during well-known ' singers was i scheduled today at Browning, Miss, to aid a voter registration campaign in the* Mississippi Delta. A spokesman, for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating CommitteeTSld the integrated "freedom . folk song festival” would feature! i Pete Seeger, Theodore Bikel and! Joan Baez. A Negro boycott of white mer-1

China - Russia Parley Opens

MOSCOW <UPI) — Russia and Red China, with formal niceties out of the way, settled down today' to the 'Crucial business of thrashing out the ideological and political differences that have divided the Communist camp. The atmosphere for the talks was decidedly chilly, with no apparent easing of the tension that has pushed the two Communist giants close to a formal break. The Peking regime added still another attack to the flurry of bitter charges and counter-charg-,es that set thq stage for the open ing of the talks Friday. The New China News Agency, in a commentary monitoried in Tokyo, charged that the recent international women's conference in Moscow was “dominated,' and manipulated” by the Soviet .Union. It claimed the Russians had rigged the conference against Red China. The controversy between Moscow and Peking oyer Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence policy •is the Foot of the rift. The current discus-Much-Needed Rain Forecast In State *1 By United Press International Thy weatherman did ah aboutface today and indicated the remainder of the Fourth of July holiday weekend in Indiana will be I mostly on a dismal note: in the form of scattered showers and thundershowers. While this was sad news 'for j thousands of mid-summer vacatibners to Hoosierland's resort) areas, it was welcomed by farm-i ers who earlier this week reported| general moisture shortages due to) a prolonged, drought. Frota Lafayette south, the Weather Bureau reported general rain, including the Louisville-Cincinnati | areas. Lafayette soaked up .58 of an inch of rain in the 24 hour period ending at 7-a.hi.. Indianapolis had .41 Respite the rain, temperatures were expected to hit the 80s today ! and Sunday, with overnight lowsl mostly in the 60s.

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chants was scheduled to go into effect at Savannah. Ga., today. A thousand, cheering Negroes roared their approval of the move Friday night, and then marched to the city hall for the second consecutive night of anti-segregaiidn demonstrations. The demonstration was orderly and there were no arrests. Earlier, white demonstrators picketed integrated establishments in the city. Hundreds Arraigned In • Baltimore, girls ' chanting “freedom songs” led a parade of hundreds of integrationists before a weary police magistrate. The integrationists were being arraigned in connection with their massive attempt to desegregate an amusement park on’lndependence Day. All the demonstrators were pleading innocent and requesting a jt’iry trial. White and Negro pickets marched outside the court. In Chicago, youth leaders of the National Association for the Advancement’bl Colored People shouted their approval of a rebuke delivered to James Mere dith, the Negro who integrated the' University of Mississippi. I Meredith, appearing at the organ- ) izatlon’B convention, had chided I his listeners for the “childish ha- | ture” of their activities.

l' —----- ———— stems of this question could deter- ’ nunc the future course of the international Communist movement; The Chinese delegation to the secret talks arrived Friday to a chilly reception from Soviet negotiators. The two sides met for nearly two hours Friday night. The initial session was reported devoted to polite preliminaries and discussion of the agenda for the “working" meetings that are expected to last at least a week. Highway Death Toll Shoots Towards 300 By United Press International Spectacular highway accidents sent the Fourth of July holiday weekend death., .toll shooting to>ward 30U today, but the National -Safety Council said the toll was lagging behind early predictions?-— An apparently brakeless truck careened into a car at a Lansing. Mich , intersection Friday night, killing five occupants. Five West Virginia residents were killed when their car ran , a <ty<P sign near Mechanicsburg. Qhw. and smashed Into the side of a. sgpii trailer truck. A head-on collision'- near Holbrook,' Ariz.., | killed five persons. Four New>. Yorkers died when their car struck a., -coal train near Horsei heads, N.Y. A United Press International I count at 3:30 am., EDT. showed lat least 25k i>ersons had died j since the 102-hour holiday weeki end started at 6 p.m., local time , Wednesday, The breakdown: r Traffic 258 Dro.wnings. 99 Boating 3 } I Planes 2 | Fireworks 1.• - 1 Miscellaneous' 49 < ’ » , Total 412 California and Pennsylvania led 'the nation with 25 traffic deaths 'jcach. Ohio had 17 deaths, Michi* - gan 16 and Texas 15. New York j recorded 14 fatalities - and ln- ) diana 12.