Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1963 — Page 1

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MOB PRESlDENT— President Kennedy mops his brow as a White House policeman tries to clear a path for him. He was mobbed by 2,560 foreign high school stcdents whom he greeted on the White House lawn. 1 Q ■

Americans To View Eclipse Saturday

By United Press International For a fleeting moment Saturday afternoon day will turn into night in a narrow path across the Atlantic and part of North America ' when the moon moves between the sun and the earths For most Americans the eclipse will be partial; the moon will obstruct only part of the sun. For a few, mostly in Maine, it will be total. The most zealous of these will be astronomers in jet planes and 20 teams of scientific observers perched atop Cadillac Mountain in Maine. The airborne observers, traveling at nearly twice the speed of sound, will pursue the shadow as it speeds across the face of the globe at 1,750 miles an hour. They will not catch up to it, but they will be able to see the total eclipse for longer than the 59 seconds it will be visible to teams on the ground. Above Earth’s Atmosphere More important, they will be above much of the earth’s atmosphere, and thus able to take clear photographs of the rare event and study it with precision. For non-professional astronomers across the ( land, the warning is clear: Do'not look at the eclipse. Don’t even peek. Experts advise that even one second’s exposure to the full rays of the sun can cause permanent damage to the eyes. Because the sun is partially obscured, no pain is felt, but in-

Soviet Leader Rebukes China . . .Jr.-*

MOSCOW (UPD—Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in a stinging rebuke to Red China, said today that only cowards seek war and warned the Chinese Communists their attempts to force him from power in the Soviet Union would be “futile. Khrushchev challenged anyone geeking to overthrow his government to visit any factory or plant in Russia and see how firmly the Soviet people are behind him. “Futile are the attempts of those who are trying to change the leadership in our country,” I. Khrushchev said in a Kremlin speech that was considered perhaps the toughest language ever fired, by the Soviets against the Red 'Chinese in the widening breach between the two Communist giants. Khrushchev lashed out at the Peking regime for insisting on “the necessity of unleashing a world war to dispose of the destinies of peoples.” He reaffirmed the Soviet stand of peaceful coexistence with the West and said despite what the “cowards” thought, communism will conquer capitalism without a war. Probable Death Knell The Soviet leader’s remarks, delivered as Russian and Chinese Communist leaders met once more to try to settle their ideological differences, was seen as probably a death knell for the already chilled efforts to seal the rift betwen Moscow and Peking. Some diplomats considered Khrushchev’s remarks almost an ultimatum to the Chinese Communist delegation currently in Moscow either to toe the party line or clear out for home. ■* Khrushchev said "imperialism” —which the Peking Communists want defeated by war if necessary —"trembled,” before the strength of socialism. . *’■ "So why be in a hurry to go to war at all?” he asked in an ob-

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visible ultraviolet and infrared rays do their damage. Surgeon General Dr. Luther Terry says this: ‘‘Watch it on television.” For those who shun the video approach, this is recommended: Punch a pinhole in a piece of cardboard: then, with your back to the sun, hold the cardboard above one shoulder and let the "Sun’s image reflect on another piece of cardboard held in front of you. The 60-mile wide belt of the total eclipse will cut across Alaska, Canada and central Maine. The moon will begin passing in front of the sun at 4:35 p.m. EDT and move away at 6:45 p.m.; totality at Bar Harbor, Maine, is expected at 5:42 p.m. Beautiful Event Those who view the eclipse will see a strange and beautiful event: Stars glowing in the afternoon, the shimmering halo of the sun radiating from behind the moon, and “Bailey’s Beads”—bits of sun light which glint through valleys and mountain peaks on the surface of the moon. A team from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will study comets in the area of the eclipse. Another scientific group will examine the sun’s corona, or halo. Other scientists will try to see what this natural disruption does to life on the earth, studying the effects on herring, mosquitoes and other wildlife.

vious jibe at Peking. “Those who are bitten by the bug of war are not motivated by bravery, but by cowardice, by their lack of faith that socialism can win in peaceful competition with capitalism.” In a warning directed apparently as much at the Western powers as at the Chinese, Khrushchev told a Hungarian friendship meeting in the Kremlin: “If all the nuclear weapons were exploded, they would contaminate the atmosphere and how would people live: This is the question. “We did not need a revolution for war, we need no war.” Khrushchev departed from his prepared text to make these remarks at the very moment the three-power Moscow nuclear test ban talks entered their fifth session, with optimism high for a partial nuclear test ban agreement between East and West. Khrushchev was welcoming Hungarian Communist party chief Janos Kader to Moscow. Pointedly shaking his finger, the Soviet leader said the socialists who could not convert words into deeds were nothing but “jabbermouths.” Khrushchev made his remarks a “digression" and returned to his prepared speech reviewing Hungarian history. He said some persons believed “there must be revolution, there must be war and society would be built on corpses.” — “Do these fanatics know,” Khrushchev asked, “that if all nuclear means were used, those who survived would perhaps envy the dead?” While Khrushchev spoke, Soviet and Chinese delegates met in another round of their talks after a 24-hour recess called to enable the Peking team to get new instructions from home, Communist sources reported.

15-Year-Old Boy Is Accidentally Shot A 15-year-old resident of near Decatur was listed in “fair” condition at the Parkview hosiptal in Fort Wayne at noon today, after being wounded in the back in an accidental shooting Thursday afternoon. Vernon Heckman, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Heckman, of route 1, Decatur, underwent major surgery late Thursday afternoon for a wound suffered when a gun being carried by his brother shot him in the back. The youngster was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital and rushed immediately to the Fort Wayne hospital, where the surgery was performed. He is in room 747 at Parkview,’ and as yet no visitors are allowed. The shooting occurred about 2:45 p.m. Thursday as Vernon and his younger brother, Dale, nine years of age, were playing along the St. Mary’s river on the edge of their farm. Discharged when Fell The younger brother was carrying a single-shot .22 caliber rifle as the two were running. The youngster tripped and fell and the gun discharged, with the bullet froth the gun striking the victim in the small of the back. The boy was not in a great deal of pain and he walked up to the house from where he was driven to the hospital. He was still not in a great deal of pain upon arriving at the local hospital, but examination showed the wound to be serious and he was transferred to Parkview. Deputy sheriff Harold August investigated the shooting and sheriff Roger Singleton said this morning that investigation revealed the mishap to be a clear case of an accident. Cooling Trend Is Forecast In State By United Press International Thunderstorms rumbled across Indiana today and dropped new moisture that added to the discomforts of a July hot and humid spell now in its fifth day. Mid-morning forecasts called for some storms producing “strong gusty surface winds and the chance of hail” and additional showers of various types probably through the weekend. But the warm spell, which sent the mercury at lehst to 90 in the five main state weather stations Thursday, may ease its sting Saturday. Forecasts called for a cooler trend generally during the weekend, first in the north, then the central and then the south portions. Highs Thursday included 92 at Evansville, 90 at Indianapolis, South Bend, Fort Wayne and Lafayette, 86 at Louisville and 85 at Cincinnati. The night was the hottest of the summer. Lows ranged from 70 at South Bend to 75 at Lafayette.

United States, Mexico Settle Border Dispute EL PASO, Tex. (UPD — Four hundred and thirty-seven acres of El Paso lacked only the approval of the U.S. Senate and the Mexican Congress today before formally becoming part of Mexico. Presidents Kennedy and Adolfo, Lopez Mateos simultaneously disclosed Thursday that- Mexico would get a net of 437 acres in settlement of the 99-year-old El Chamizal (The Thicket) dispute.. Mexico, in a complicated swap, would get 71 acres more than it originally claimed in the Chamizal. The area, between downtown El Paso and the border, has 3,700 residents. The settlement was greeted with a few jeers in El Paso and a few cheers in Juarez, El Paso’s sister city across the border. —The United States would transfer 366 acres of the disputed Chamizal zone and 264 acres east of Mexican-owned Cordova island to Mexico. —For the 193 island acres gained the United States, 193 acres would remain in Mexico. Mexico would get a net of 437 acres. —The United States and Mexico would divide the cost of relocating the Rio Grande and line the bottom with concrete, so the channel cannot change again. —A private Mexican bank would pay the United States $4,760,000 for the 382 buildings in the area. —The U.S. government would reimburse American citizens for land and improvements 'in the Chamizal, a total of about $21.7 million.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday July 19,1963.

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4th District Backs Hartke

lutuw vusuiuv dinner for Sen. A. Vance Hartkeat the Fort Wayne coliseum, attended by more than two dozen Adams county Democrats, turned into a “reelect Hartke” meettoA booming the popular Evansville senior senator for reelectioin In 1964. Sen. John O. Pastore, D-R.L, was the main speaker. Pastore, a former lieutenant governor, governor for three terms, and presently starting his third senate term, was reelected iast year when Sen. Hartke was chairman of the senate election committee. 600 Attend More than 600 people attended the dinner, which lasted from 7 p. m. until about 9:30. Paul F. Roembke was master of ceremonies, and following the singing of the national anthem, the Rev. Dr. Arno C. Scholtz, Bethlehem Lutheran church, gave the invocation. J. Byron Hayes, newly elected Allen county Democratic chairman, succeeding Alex Campbell, was introduced and kidded about his weight. He pointed out that, among other things, Sen. Hartice was responsible for bringing $23,473,000 to International Harvester, $73 million to Magnovox, and another $73 million to other smaller area plants. , r Senator Pastore Campbell, still national committeeman from Indiana, then introduced Pastore, a well-known liberal senator, who serves as chairman of the joint atomic energy committee, and serves with Sen. Hartke on the senate sub-commit-tee on communications, and on the commerce committee. He is responsible for the communication satellite program. Sen. Pastore then pointed out tnat he had been privileged to observe the first hydrogen bomb explosion, when an atoll IVt miles long was hit with one bomb, and measurements afterward found the highest remaining point to be 1/6 feet under water! He flew from 1 there to Hiroshima, Japan, where in August, 1945, a city of some half a million population, three times the size of Fort Wayne, had been utterly destroyed, losing half its population in one small bomb explosion. The senator stressed the responsibility that lies in the president’s hands when he considers full-scale war, or an act that might lead to it. knowing full well that the U. S. and Russia between them have the nuclear capability to completely destroy the entire world. “A senator,” he said, “can risk calling for war with Cuba, or China, or some other country, but the president has the responsibility of releasing forces that can only end in total world destruction.” The president, he continued, urgently needs the support of men like Sen. Hartke in congress, and in conclusion, called for his renomination and reelection. Plaque, Petition Presented Following Sen. Pastore’s remarks, Mayor Paul M. Burns presented Sen. Hartke with a plaque from the fourth district. James Koons, district chairman, then presented a petition, from all eight county chairmen and vicechairmen, calling for Hartke’s renomination ancl reelection. The presentation was taken as an indication as to how the fourth district felt toward the possibility that Gov. Matthew E. Welsh might be seeking Sen. Hartke’s seat and might try to be nominated in the convention next summer Sen. Hartke kicked off his renomination bid at the Young Democrat state convention last week, passing out Hartke buttons with a large “64” on them. From Adams County

Dr. Hebble was a member of the appreciation day committee, and Carl D. Gerber, Democratic candidate for mayor of Decatur, was .on the honorary reception

committee. Attending from Adams county were Judge G- Remy Bierly, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Striker, Dr. and Mrs. Harry Hebble, John Boch, Mi’s. Shirley Everett, Edward F. Jaberg, Martin Gallmeyer, Menno Augsburger, Dick D. Heller, Jr., Floyd Baker, G. W. W. L. Linn, Mr. and Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker Delmas Bollenbacher, Wendell Macklin, Miss Mildred Niblick. Robert Kolter, Burl Johnson, Bernard Clark, Gail Grabill, C H. Muselman, Richard Lehman, Dwight Schnepp, and Mrs. Maynard Rich. Hartke Remarks After thanking the Fourth Dis-' iiric Democratic dfganization for its endorsement, the first in Indiana, Hartke said, “Up until this time it has been possible to hate and kill. Now we, in this world, are going to have to live together or die together.” Hartke added, “If this meeting has been worthwhile and after listening to Sen. Pastore, all of ■yea people will visit) with your neighbors and tell, them why it is important that we get along with others in this world. What are we going to leave for our children? Somebody has to go out and visit with the people and tell them,” Hartke concluded. The benediction was given by the Rt. Rev. ,Msgr. Joseph Crowley, Huntington, editor of Our Sunday Visitor. As the crowd filed out of the coliseum, Senator and Mrs. Hartke were at the door and greeted Rail Fact-Finding Committee Reports WASHINGTON (UPI) — A special fact-finding committee handed President Kennedy a 12-page report today on its week-long investigation of the railroad rules dispute. Informed sources said the report showed union and management representatives were still far apart in the four-year old controversy that could lead to a nationwide rail strike on July 29. Panel members declined to comment on the report or their discussion with Kennedy. Meantime, one source said private efforts by panel members resulted in some new concessions by the unions. It was not immediately known how the railroads would react to this development. There were no - details of the changes. Government officials close to the dispute said that efforts to achieve a settlement would continue over the weekend. The President, who will be at his Cape Cod -summer home this weekend, has promised to ask Congress for legislation to dispose of the dispute if there is no agreement by Monday. Both sides have agreed to hold off until July 29 any action that might trigger a nationwide rail shutdown. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz, chairman of the President’s panel, was said to be hopeful that the board's summary of the pase might point the way toward possible agreement.

INDIANA WEATHER Thunderstorms likely tonight. Locally heavy r ahifall amounts likely north portion. Saturday thunderstorms endin* in mornin*, beoomin* fair and cooler in north in afternoon. Low tonight 65 to 74. High Saturday 80 to 85 north, 84 to n south. Sunset today 8:10 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 5:33 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair and pteaaanL Lows In the 80s. Highs 80 to 85.

MOSCOW (UPD — Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev today renewed an earlier proposal that would permit international control teams inside the Soviet Union to reduce the risk of surprise attack. Diplomatic sources said the Soviet revival of the offer originally made by the Russians in 1958 might signal a breakthrough in negotiations between the United States and th% Soviet Union. Khrushchev revived the plan in a speech in the Kremlin at a “Hungarian friendship” meeting. On Parity Basis “We hold it expedient to set up in definite control spots, both of the Soviet Union and other countries, ground control posts at airports, railways, junctions, highways and major ports,” he said. “Os course all this must be done on a parity basis.” The 1958 Soviet control team proposal died on the yine because the West at the time felt that the Soviets were not really interested in cutting the risk of accidental war. In reviving the plan today Khrushchev said: "Such a measure does not in itself guarantee the maintenance of peace, but it would be a step forward toward prevention of a surprise attack.” Khrushchev’s renewal of the Soviet proposal came less than a week after American and British negotiators arrived in Moscow for nuclear test ban talks. It also came as the United States and the Soviet Union were preparing to set up a “hot line” direct communications link between Washington and Moscow to prevent an outbreak of war by accident. Hie test ban negotiators today were discussing a limited agreement in an optimistic atmosphere. Khrushchev said in his Kremlin talk that there is "now a hope" of concluding a partial test ban, barring a radical change in the position of the United States and Britain. » The Soviet premier also: —Called anew for an East-West non-aggression pact between NATO and the Communist Warsaw Pact Alliance. —Defended his denunciation of the late dictator Josef Stalin at the 20th party congress in 1956 and again attacked the “personality cult” of Stalin’s regime. —lnsisted, despite Peking coun-ter-charges, that Lenin supported the policy of co-existence in peace. —Said settlement of the German problem would be a very good thing but could come only through signature of a German peace treaty. As they came to today’s negotiating session the Soviets ignored a warning from Communist China against negotiating with “sinister, fraudulent” Amer, leans. , ’’ Western sources said the Soviet and Allied negotiators, finding no obstacles to agreement on a partial test ban, were going on to discuss other cold war issues such as Berlin. US. Undersecretary o f State W. Averell Harriman, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and British Science Minister Lord Hailsham met in the fifth session of the big three talks as optimism continued high in Moscow on prospects for success. ■» China Claims “Fraud” Even as the three-power negotiators met In Moscow, a warning; came from Peking that Red China would not be bound by an atomic test ban agreement. Communist China, which is known to be pushing development of its own atomic weapons, accused the United States through its official newspaper, the People’s Daily, of perpetrating “fraud”, and of planning to use a partial test ban agreement to continue to stockpile nuclear weapons. ' But in a speech that Western observers saw as ariother snub of Communist China. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said only cowards seek war. Khrushchev said that even without war “imperialism” trembles before "the strength of socialism.” “So why be in a hurry to go to war at all?” he asked in a speech at the Kremlia.

White And Neg ro CJ Youths In Scuffle

By United Press International White and Negro youths scuffled briefly in a public playground at Columbus, Ga., Thursday. No one was hurt. Police moved in quickly and broke up the fight between about a half-dozen teen-agers, part of groups of 45 Negroes and 75 whites which had squared off at the park in a predominantly white neighborhood. Four Negroes were arrested and police ordered the park closed. At Thomasville, N. C., where officers had dispersed rockthrowing crowds of whites and Negroes Wednesday night, a bullet shattered a window of a church where nearly 150 Negroes were holding a rally Thursday night. The bullet smacked harmlessly into a doorsill, and the meeting broke up without further incident about 20 minutes later. Police bodily carried nine demonstrators and a girl hunger striker from the offices of the Chicago Board of Education Thursday. Officials said the eightday anti-segregation sit-in was “bordering on anarchy” and placing the school board “under siege.” Leaders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) called for new mass picketing of the school board offices today. A state judge at Charleston, S. C., Thursday refused to lower the bonds of 68 Negroes charged with rioting during a demonstration Tuesday night, and 130 Ne-

Parking Ticket Fine Paid This Morning

County surveyor Herman Moellering has paid a parking ticket which has caused a recent furor; it was learned this morning. Moellering paid city court Judge John B. Stults the fine of $1 and costs, a total of SB. A hearing date had been set for July 29,, at which time Moellering would have been fined $lO and costs, hairi he not paid the fine by then, amounting to approximately $lB. Moellering was ticketed in June for failing to put a penny in the parking meter. He left a note for the city policeman, telling him he would refuse to pay more meter money, since he had been promised the space in front of the delivery approach to the' court house. This spot was occupieu by other parkers, and he thus had to park in front of a metered spot. He then failed to pay his 25 cents fine, and 48 hours later was notified that he was to appear and pay a $1 fine He failed to do this, and was sent an official letter by the city attorney, notifying that unless he paid, a suit would be filed against him. When the suit was filed, he went to the county commissioners. and they called in Mayor Donald F. Gage, who then went before the city council and asked that Moellering be officially assigned two spaces, one for himself and one for his assistant. - The city council has not yet passed an ordinance setting up the parking apace, nor has the space been marked as private parking, surveyor onlv. Numerous people have approached members of the city administration, pointing out that the surveyor needs the space no worse than anyone else, and that it is up to the county commissioners to provide off street parking for officials if it is necessary. Funeral Held Today For Mrs. Ora Mumma Funeral services were held at Haviland, 0., this afternoon for Mrs. Ora Mumma, widow of Clarence Mumma, who died Wednesday at her home in Haviland. There are a number of relatives in the Decatur area.

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groes marched in protest down Charleston streets. They heeded police orders to remain orderly, however, and dispersed at a Negro church. Other developments: Savannah, Ga. t- A spokesman for a biracial committee said the group’s almost daily sessions on racial problems were making “very promising” progress. Cambridge, Md. — Negro leaders telegraphed President Kennedy Thursday they were “deeply shocked and concerned" over his remarks at a news conference that local demonstrations had created “an increasingly dangerous situation.” Hollywood. Calif. — NAACP leader Herbert Hill said “selective buying campaigns” will be organized against sponsors of television shows that are offensive to Negroes. Jackson, Miss. — Attorneys for Byron De La Beckwith, who is accused of slaying Negro leader Medgar Evers, said they may ask the state Supreme Court to call off Beckwith's scheduled psychiatric examination. A state judge Thursday ordered mental I testa for the former Marine Gadsden, Ala. — Negro leaders said they would make another attempt, possibly today, to enroll more than 50 Negro children in all-white schools. Two such attempts failed Thursday — one because of a school regulation technicality, and the other because a deputy sheriff blocked the Negroes' way.

Three New Members Inducted By Rotary The Decatur Rotary club formally inducted three new members, heard one of its high school scholarship winners tell of her education plans, and listened to an interesting account of Hoosier Boys State at its meeting Thursday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Alan Kalver told the club he very much enjoyed his participation as one of 950 youths attending Hoosier Boys State on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington last June. He said the affair displayed brotherhood and fellowship for all races and creeds. Each participant had a choice of attending one of five schools in either law, speech, legislation, |K>lice or government. Sports included softball, basketball, or volleyball. The boys were given an opportunity to learn about political activity. Kelver said he ran for county surveyor but lost the elector: only to be appointed as deputy coroner. Miss Shirley Painter thanked the club for the Rotary scholarship which she had won. She plans to attend International Business College in Fort Wayne and will study professional accounting. Miss Cynthia Collier, who was also a winner, was unable to attend because of a class which she is attending at Fort Wayne. W. Guy Brown outlined the objects and program of Rotary. New members jyho had been in Rotary for several months but who had not yet been formally received were Richard Reetz, William Lose. Jr., and Karl Kolter. Each was given a Rotary pin, a book entitled ‘‘Service is by Business.” and a 4way test plaque. Rhodes Funeral Services Saturday Funeral services for Claude H. Rhodes, of Fort Wayne, who died Thursday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital after a brief illness, will be held at 10 30 a.m. Saturday at Mungovan & Sons mortuary in Fort Wayne. Burial will be in the Fort Wayne Catholic cemetery.