Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 160.

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State Aid To Schools Cut

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Already I overburdened property taxpayers finally got the word for which they had been bracing—they will be ’ expected to pay SB7 5 million more I in school costs than had been ; anticipated for the first six months of 1964, and possibly $165 million more for the entire year. Governor Welsh and his Department of Administration Commissioner John P. Hatchett late Monday released the revised estimates of how much of the 1963-64 educational budget the state, expects to provide. The story was a happier one for the four state-sup-ported colleges and universities than for the public schools and property taxpayers. The colleges and universities will get their full operating budget of $79.8 million but will lose most of their construction money.. The schools, Indiana, Purdue universities and Indiana State and Ball State colleges, issued a joint statement late Monday commending the decision but hoping the construction funds would be made available in a few months. ' “It is clearly in the best interests of the state that the governor has made it possible for us to stand by the commitments already made in good faith to faculties and students and one has only to contemplate the alternatives to recognize this,” the statement Features Added For Sidewalk Sale Day Further plans to make the anr.ual “Sidewalk Sale and Wing Ding” the biggest and best ever, were announced today by George Litchfield, general chairman of the affair for the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. The annual sidewalk day is to be held Wednesday, July 17. Litchfield explained this morning that the Adams county chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America! will provide ■ music during the festivities. ' ' In addition, members of the Fort Wayne and Union City chapters of the SPEBQSA have been invit- . ed to attend and sing as Quests of the local chapter, and have accept.cd the invitation. of the oldest in the organization, which is international. . Exact times of the. barbershop performances have not yet been set up by Litchfield. Go-Kart Show Also being planned is a go-kart exhibition, with karts from the Decatur Speedway, located south and west of Decatur, being featured. The exhibition will.be held on one of the side streets. A “Hootenanny" is also being planned as a part of the annual old-fashioned sidewalk sale, and a dance.' for the teenagers will be held at one end of the street and a square dance, called by Max Kreps', at the other end of Second street. Kiddie rides will also be set up for the youhgsterx of Decatur and the area near Beavers Oil Service station, at Jefferson and Second streets. Other features of the annual affair which have already been an-». nounced are the “Miss Roaring Twenties” contest, and the parade preceding the contest in which a number of valuable antique automobiles will participate.

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read. Superintendent of Public Instruction William E. Wilson was advised since collection from the two per cent sales tax as assumed by the 1963 lawmakers is not possible “local schools should prepare their budgets for 1964 anticipating a possible reduction of $87.5 million dollars in the previously expected distribution of $177,179,292. The bulk of the $89.6 million distribution for the 12 months be ginning with this July will be paid (Continued on Page 3) Station Wagon And Truck Bids Awarded Sealed bids for a pickup truck and a station wagon were accepted and read at the meeting of the Adams county commissioners Monday. Low bidder for the sale of the pickup truck was Evan's Sales and Service, with an offer of $1,580. lliree other firms bid for the sale of the truck. The deal included a trade-in of a used county truck. The other bidders were Decatur Equipment i 51,625), Schwartz Ford ($1,650) and Phil L. Macklin company ($1,919 89). Only two firms submitted bids on the station wagon. The Mackline company bid $2,547.11 and Schwartz Ford bid $2,520. The commissioners accepted the Macklin bid because of their preference for the warranty stipuations accompanying it. State representative Burl JohnSon and Wendell Macklin appeared at the meeting to discuss the possibility of temporarily repairing the old Pleasant Mills’ bridge. They reported Uiat the state has offered to pay up to SI,OOO to repair the biidge and said that they believed -the bridge could possibly be repaired for that amount, but expressed doubt as to whether or not the state would approve the type of repair that could be done for SI,OOO. It was then pointed out that the specifications— for the bridge permit the contractor to close the road to the old bridge on September 3 and thqg, that even if it were repaired, would soon be closed. The commissioners also reviewed the rates for the county home and s.et. them. a.L the same. _ JeyeL $43 per month, for the next year. This rate is for those residents of the home who are supported by township funds. A representative of the Houghton Elevator company of Fort Wayne, J. A. Kennedy, appeared at the meeting to inquire if specifications for the courthouse elevator were prepared. The commissioners informed him that the bid for the elevator would probably be let as part of the general contract for its installation. The commissioners also decided to get an estimate for repainting all the metalwork on the exterior of the courthouse building, including the roof and steeply. BULLETIN PITTSBURGH (UPD—Three p-disenger cars and a bus collided in a violent and fiery crash on the Penn Lincoln Parkway today. Witnesses reported five or six persons burned to death in the flaming wreckage of one car. One of the dead was a 5-year-old boy.

Adams County Plan Commission Meets The Adams county plan commission met Monday afternoon and mapped out its budget for the forthcoming year. The budget, which must be. submitted for approval by early August, made provision for the establishment of a county director’s office which Will probably be necessitated if the county master zoning plan is approved this fall. The planning commission was established in the fall of 1961 and by 1962 the commission had retained the Metropolitan Planners, Inc., of Indianapolis, to draw up a master plan for the county. At the same time the cities of Decatur and Berne retained the company. Decatur hired the company to update its zoning and planning program, established in- the late 1940’5. Berne hired it to establish a program. The base maps for the master plan are nearly completed and will be returned to the company for minor corrections after they have been checked by the county surveyor and the county extension agent. When the plan is completit will be considered by the county pian commission and then public hearing will be held on it. If the plan commission approves it it will be submitted to the county commissioners, who will decide whether or not to make it a county ordinance. If the plan is made an ordinance, a county planning director’s office will probably be established. The master plan, when completed, will include not only maps but will be a comprehensive study of Adams county history, natural resources, economic potential, land use and population. Public utilities and similar facilities will also be included in the study. The preliminary study which has been submitted with the base maps includes data on some of these areas. The master plan study being conducted by Metropolitan Planners costs more than $19,200. Twothirds of this expense is being paid by a grant from the federal government. North Adams Board Meets This Evening The North Adams community schools board will meet this .evening at 8 p. m. at Decatur-high’ school, it was announced this.rfbon. The four board members, two from Decatur, Dr. James Burk and Herbert Banning, and two rural members, Clarence Bultemeier and Louis Krueckeberg. will select their fifth board member as first order of business. If the four cannot agree on a fifth member, then Judge Myles F. Parrish will appoint the fifth member, who must come from the Decatur area. Hie first "fifth” member of the board, Warren Nidlinger, Jr., was named, but the board was enjoined or restrained from acting during his entire period of appointment. As second order of business the board will pass a resolution of organization, select a superintendent, and arrange for the transfer of funds. School board meetings, like all official governfnent board meetings, are open to the public.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 9, 1963.

Kennedy Calls On Union, * " ’ .. Management To Submit To Goldberg’s Arbitration

New York Police Quell Race Riot

By United Press International - Police today patrolled a racial hotspot in New York City where a major incident between whites and Negroes was narrowly averted at a teen-age hangout, scene of several violent clashes this week, r Demonstrations, peaceful biracial meetings and more court action — all aimed at furthering integration — were scheduled in almost every region of the nation. Four-hundred riot-trained patrolmen and detectives were rushed Monday night to the Bronx diner, a gathering place for teen-agers, to quell racial rioting. The scene of picketing by integrationists for several days, the diner and the pickets have been under attack by crowds of whites sometimes ranging to more than 1,000. A Negro was taken into custody Monday night when he fired a shot in the air after stones allegedly were hurled at his car. He identified himself as the owner of a detective agency, and police said he had a gun permit. The 400 police were moved onto the scene when a “riot call’’ was issued and several patrolmen were stoned at the diner. A biracial meeting was scheduled in Beverly Hills, home of many Hollywood stars, to achieve peaceful integration of the famed community and its surrounding areas. Actors 'Burt Lancaster and

INDIANA WEATHER Fair through Wednesday, little temperature change. Low lower 50s, high Wednesday 75 to 84. Sunset today 8:15 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:26 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair and mild. Low Wednesday night mid-50s, high Thursday near 80. • Democratic Women's Picnic On July 15 The picnic of the Adams County Women's club will be held Monday, July 15, Mrs. Roger Singleton, president, said this morning. Monday’s Daily Democrat had erronously listed the date as July 25. Mrs. Rose Alberding Dies Monday Night ’ ■I. - Mrs. Rose V. Alberding, 88, well known Adams county lady, died at 9:45 o’clock Monday night at her home, Decatur route 1, following a long illness: She was the widow of John G. Alberding, prominent Adams county farmer, who preceded her : n death March 13 of this year. Born in Remington, Feb. 17, 1875, she was the daughter of John and Eva Eck-Ulm,' and was married to John G. Alberding April 27, 1897. She had been a resident of this community since 1904. Mrs. Alberding was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rosary society, Third Order of St. Francis, and St. Ann Grandmothers club. Surviving are four sons, John, Herman and Leo Alberding, all of Decatur, and Edward Alberding of Columbia City; five daughters, Sister Eva, O. V. M., of Austin, Tex., Mrs. Mary Fenker and Mrs. Marcella Hilger, both of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Lucille Favery of Monroeville, and Mrs. Dorothy Miller of Decatur; 43 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Maggie Porter of Remington, and one brother, Charles Ulm of Miama, Fla. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:00 a, m. Thursday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Jit. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Glllig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p. m. today. The Third Order of St. Francis will, meet at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, followed by the Rosary society at 8 p. m. A .

Tony Franciosa were to be among those participating in the meeting to push integration. More demonstrations were fexpected in Cambridge', Md., scene of bloody race rioting last month. State troopers with police dogs stood by to control any demonstrations. The nation's racial rundown: Savannah, Ga.: About., 500 singing Negroes marched on the city hall and their leaders pledged a “black tornado” of stepped-up racial demonstrations would “hit Savannah as; it’s never been hit before.” New Orleans: Three federal judges were to begin deciding if desegregation, of Mobile County, Alabama, public schools should begin in September or be delayed a year. Pine Bluff Ark.: The school board announced it will desegregate the first and second grades this fall “in the best interests of the Pine Bluff schools." Jackson, Miss.: Byron De. La Beckwith pleaded innocent (luring his arraignment Monday on a charge of shooting a Mississippi Negro leader from ambush. Omaha, Neb.: A biracial committee working out desegregation of facilities in the city ran into a snag when Mayor James Dworak fired a Negro member for I leading a demonstration while the | conference was taking place.

Young Democrats In State Convention The 13th biennial convention of the young Democrats of Indiana will be held at the Claypool Hotel July 12 arid 13. General chairman of the convention is Miss Marcella Mason of Hebron, vicepresident of the Young Democrats of Indiana. Distinguished personages from Indiana who will participate in the convention according to a joint, release by Robert Boxell of Muncie, president of the Young Demos of Indiana, and Miss Mason include: Senator R. Vance Hartke, who will speak at the conventioh banquet; Senator Birch E- Bayh, Jr., who will address the group at the governor's breakfast; Governor Matthew E. Welsh, who will be honored at the breakfast and a speaker at the banquet; and Congressman J. Edward Roush,, who will give the prindipal address at the breakfast. Dick D. Heller, Jr., of Decatur, e will be toastmasTer of the banquet, while Robert T. Dorsey of Evansville will be toastm&ster of the breakfast. Chairman of the banquet is Marvin Schmitt of Evansville and ■ chairman of the breakfast is 7 Mrs. Gerald Armuth of Columbus. Robert PStcrson, state senator from Rochester, will serve as permanent chairman of the convention, while Robert Pastrick /of East Chicago will be temporary chairman. ,J Patrick Endsley, of .Indianapolis will be parliamentarian, Henry Walker of East Chicago will serve as roll call clerk, and Miss Mary Worrell of Terre Haute, will be convention secretary. Co-chairmen of a reception and dance in. honor of the ngw officers to be Elected Saturday twill be Ed Jordanich of South Bend and Mrs. Pat Robertson of Indianapolis. Other highlights of the convention will include an oratorical contest and a beauty contest. Winners of both contests will be announced at the convention banquet. Approximately 1500 Youngs Democrat delegates will attend the convention to elect new officers at the general session of the convention Saturday afternoon. Guests in addition to those mentioned above will be representatives of the Young Democrats of Illinois and officers of the Young Democratic clubs of America.

WASHINGTON (UPD—In an extraordinary move. President Kennedy today called on the nation’s disputing railroads and unions to let- Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg arbitrate their long dispute over “featherbedding.” i . The railroads indicated they would go along with the proposal, as they have with previous government suggestions for heading off a strike threatened for 12:01 am. Thursday. The five unions involved said would give it “every consideration” but implied they were opposed. The unions have rejected all earlier proposals that arbitration be invoked to settle the long, drawn-out dispute over elimination of what the railroads claim are unneeded jobs. Decide All Issues The President proposed that Goldberg, a former labor secretary and one-time union attorney?' be authorized to decide all issues in the complex dispute and make binding recommendations for settlement, according to J.E. Wolfe, chief management negotiator. Goldberg is the newest member of the Supreme Court. He did not] participate in a decision several months ago in which the high tribunal held that the railroads were free to put the controversial I I new work rules into effect.I The White House meeting lasted I only a little over- 15 minutes, i There was no indication •’Whether I Kennedy mentioned the possibility of emergency legislation calling for one-shot arbitration of the dispute if the two sides did not agree to his 11th hour proposal. Union Grim-Faced After the session, union leaders were grim-faced. Both sides were asked to advise Kennedy by 9 a.m. JCDT Wednesday—only about 12 hours before the threatened nationwide strike—if they would accept. o A union spokesman said the brotherhoods would “give any word from the President serious consideration.” But he pointedly reminded reporters: “These organizations have been traditionally opposed to compulsion or to arbitration in lieu of a negotiated settlement." The President read a statement to the nyjnagement and union leaders saying it was obvious the two sides could not reach agreement before the deadline for simultaneous imposition of the work rules and the strike. An Extraordinary Situation He then said a rail strike would be so crippling and "this situation is so extroardinary" that he had decided on the unusual procedure of recommending that a Supreme Court justice step in to settle "it. Kennedy noted that this had been done in the past only in rare cases—such as the Nuremberg trials of German war criminals and the mquiry over the responsibility for the Pea r 1 Harbor disaster. ' “I believe this situation is extraordinary, in terms of its ini, pact on collective bargaining, its relationship to the whole problem of technological unempfoy. ..meat and the jjptential effects of the nationwide rail strike on our economy, oiir defense efforts and our citizenry,” Kennedy said. Goldberg was a long-time top attorney for the AFL-CIO United Steelworkers Union before becoming labor Secretary in Kennedy’s Cabinet. He helped settle many sticky labor disputes before becoming a Supreme Court justice. Wolfe said Kennedy’s plan called for Goldberg to announce his decision in the dispute before the Supreme Court opens its fall term. The five unions representing some 200,000 men who work aboard trains have insisted ' they will strike immediately if the railroads go through with their plan to impose the new work rules. Wolfe said, however, the rules would not be promulgated if both sides accept the suggestion that Goldberg’ spend the summer arbitrating the issues. The main issue is whether the railroads will be free to replace up 19 37,000 firemen on diesel locomotives in freight or yard service. Tfie carriers contend the I workers! are not needed.

City Police Station Plans Are Approved

Plans for the construction of a’ new city police station and reno-' vation of city hall have been approved by the Indiana administrative building council, and are now ready for the letting of bids for the work. The city received official notification of the approval of the plans and specifications of the new construction and the remodeling today .and legal notices concerning the letting of bids by the board of works and safety are expected to appear in the Decatur Daily Democrat shortly. The approval was signed by Bert J. Westover, director of the state’s administrative building .council, and also by Robert W. Heider, director of the division ] of engineering of the state board of health. The notice of approval also, ini eluded , the approval of the state fire marshal. Meet Standards I According to the letter notifying the city of the approval, the plans and specifications for the con-. struction of the new police head-1 quarters, and those concerning the . ing, meet with all existing rules and regulations. Jerold Lobsiger, local architectural designer, who drew up the plans and specifications, will be notified of the approval, and will make several copies of them for use of contractors who will want to bid on .the job. . f The next step will be for the city council to decide on the exact location of the city jxdice

Chinese Reds Suspend Talks

MOSCOW (UPD—Red Chinese negotiators have suspended their talks with the Soviet Union temporarily pending fresh instruction from Peking, ■ authoritative Communist sources said today. The sources said there was a recess -in the ideological talks following an exchange of documents Monday outlining the positions of Moscow and Peking in the bitter ideological controversy between the world's two Communist giants. According to the Communist Sources, the Chinese planned to resume their talks with the Russians Wednesday after getting the new instructions from Peking leaders. The sources denied there had been any Chinese fled walk-1 out. The same sources said the So-, viet and Chinese delegations maintained contact today al-1 though there was no formal meet i mg. . Warn of Consequences The interruption in the talk i came as the Soviet Union ac-' cused Communist China of trying to undermine the negotiations and warned 'thiscould have“ “darig erous conscqdences.” ~ The attack, latest in a series of bitter exchanges, was printed in today’s edition of the Communist party newspaper Pravda shortly after Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henry Spaak reported that Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev was anxious to ease relations with the West. Spaak, Who conferred with Khrushchev in Kiev Monday, returned to Brussels today and told newsmrin that Khrushchev “remains a . convinced advocate of peaceful co-existence” Spaak said he and Khrushchev discussed relations between the Western world and the Communist world." But he refused to give details ori "grounds that it was a "personal tail*?- — The new developments gave further evidence that the Sino-Soviet negotiations were not likely to

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building. The new station will be built on the site of the old steam plant and the city swimming pool, but the exact location on the lot is not definite as yet. South End It is almost, certain that the police station will be built on the south end of the lot. facing Park St., but where is not yet definitely established. The council is debating whether or not to have the budding constructed between the water tower and an old garage building on the 7 south end of the plant building, or to tear down the garage and build the station in that area, centering it between Fifth and Third streets;— Lobsiger has studied the area and recommended at the last council-meeting to tear down the garage and center the police station. -It is also" thought that the -old building would detract from the appearance of the new police station. I Let Bids \ When the council decides on the J exact location of the police building., bid notices to all contractors ! will appear in legals in the Daily . Democrat. It is believed that contractors will be able to bid op cither construction of the police station, or the renovation of the /.city hall building, or bid on both jobs together. - The city administration is attempting to work as quickly as • Continued on Page 8)

close the political and ideological split that has widened between Moscow and Peking. Tlie negotiating teams have been fneeting in secret, and no information on their talks has Been made public. The Soviet" press has all but ignored the meetings. Defy Kremlin Still another factor clouding the atmosphere was the defiance of the Kremlin by Chinese students in Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad in distributing anti-Soviet literature ■ ' . ' - ■ , ■■■■ The Soviet government last week expelled three Red Chinese diplomats and. two students for distributing a long statement denouncing the Kremlin's poaitioH--in the dispute. Monday the five ousted Chinese were given solid support at a mass rally in Peking. -7... “ The new Soviet attack published in Pravda today condemned the Peking rally-as an effort to shatter Sino-Soviet friendship and aggravate the current negotiations In Moscow. "The 'mj’ressiqn. .is. created -that - a deliberate campaign is being carried on to aggravate seriously the Sovief-Ctpnese relations, disregarding the dangerous consequences of this policy,” the Pravda statement said. Confers With Khrushchev Spaak, former secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and a champion of'West European unity, returned to Moscow Monday night' after" rtonferring with Khrushchev in Kiev on East-West problems. The Belgian statesman expressed confidence that relations between the West and the I Russians" would improve. He quoted Khrushchev as saying he wants a "detente” with the West. Spaak disclosed no details about his talks* with the Soviet premier except to say they did not touch on the coming nuclear test ban talks in Moscow or the Sino-So-viet quarrel.