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NUCLEAR TALKS ADVANCE — W. Averell Harriman, right, chief United States nuclear test ban negotiator, poses with Soviet Premier Khrushchev in Moscow, where observers see an initialing of a partial test ban agreement as imminent.

No Early Decision On School Action

No official opinion can be expected on the North Adams community school for about 30 days, according to word received here from Indianapolis. An official opinion has been requested, through the state superintendent of schools, from the at-torney-general. The question is, did Warren Nidlinger, Jr., serve his term during the year that the school board was enjoined from acting, and should the new school board member be chosen from the Decatur area by the other four board members? Call Indianapolis Last Thursday, following a meeting Wednesday between the attorney general’s office and state school head William E. Wilson, Gail W. Grabill, superintendent of Decatur schools, and secretary of the county school reorganization board, called the superintendent's office, and learned that he would be out of town until this week, and that the request was on his desk and had not yet' been forwarded to the nttomey-general’s office for action. The deputy superintendent stated that he had no authority to forward the request for an official opinion until Wilson returned. Meanwhile, a check with the at-torney-general’s office disclosed that they, were surprised that an

Agreement To Halt

Cambridge Strife

By United Press International Negro leaders from strife-torn Cambridge, Md., pledged today, to halt racial demonstrations indefinitely under a five-point agreement worked out between City officials and Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy, in Washington, announced settlement of the sometimes violent integration dispute in the eastern shore city where National Guardsmen had been sent several times to impose martial law. The attorney general said the agreement provides for desegregation of the first four grades of school by September; a low-rent public housing project for Negroes; hiring of a Negro in the Cambridge office of Maryland’s Department of Job i " Security; appointment of a bi - racial committe including four Negroes; and united opposition to a referendum that could change a charter amendment providing for desegregation of public facilities. In New York, police today arrested 73 demonstrators at two construction sites and city officials sought ways to satisfy Negro demands for a larger share of building trade jobs. The leader of sit-in demonstrations in Chicago offered to resign today because he thinks there has been too much picketing and not enough negotiating in that city's civil rights campaign. , _ “I’m sick of sit-ins and picket lines,” said Sam Riley, chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. “I prefer to plan and to negotiate.” The Cambridge agreement was worked out in a meeting in Washington led by the Justice Department’s top civil rights troubleshooter, Burke Marshall. In New York, police arrested 233 persons who blocked the path of cement trucks at a construction site in Brooklyn Monday. The demonstrators were protesting alleged job discrimination. Some of the arrested demonstrators were ministers and children. Twenty-nine demonstrators pro-

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official opinion was being sought, since an unofficial opinion, over the telephone, from that office, was given to the effect that Nidlinger’s term had expired, and that the new member should be elected, acording to the approved plan, from the Decatur area. On Vacation However, the deputy attorneygeneral who writes die official opinions on school matters, will be gone for a week on his vacation, and it is expected to take a week or two of research and writing on the question before the official opinion is released. An official opinion must include a number of quotes from the law, and from previous decisions, each of which must be carefully checked, and this takes considerable time. Meanwhile, time was running out for the north group opposed to the new school district to appeal the decision reached at Huntington to the appellate or supreme court of Indiana. This will be a costly affair, necessitating a much larger bond, if it is pursued. The four township trustees, and the school city of Decatur, have had to prepare budgets, just in case, however, and will have them ready so that the schools will be able to run normally during the 1964 school sessions.

testing school segregation tried to stage a sit-in at the offices of the Chicago Board of Education Monday but were turned away by police: A 19-year-old Negro girl fainted during a pushing struggle with officers. A federal judge at Columbia, S.C., Monday refused to reconsider his order that a Negro girl be admitted this fall to the University of South Carolina, the last segregated state university in the South. The mother of Henri Monteith, 18, said the girl definitely would enroll at the university in September; * *T“* —• New Bern, N.C.— Negro leaders asked the Defense Department Monday to declare New Bern and Havelock off limits to servicemen because segregation practices in the two cities were violating the constitutional rights of around 600 Negro Marines at Camp Lejeune. New York— Five Negro leaders said on a national educational television prograrn Monday night that .President Kennedy’s civil rights proposals don’t meet the country’s needs in the fight against segregation. Seattle— More than 125 demonstrators showed up at a meeting of city council Monday to protest the makeup of a new human rights commission that included only two Negroes. Trenton, N.J.— A day camp owner charged with violating the state’s anti-discrimination law said Monday he rejected the application of two Negro boys because their parents and the state had pressured him to accept the youths. York, Pa. — Negroes plan to march on city hall Wednesday to protest alleged racial discrimination and the use of police dogs to disperse crowds. New Orleans— A federal appeals court Monday denied a request by Birmingham, Ala., school officials for a rehearing on an order to desegregate Birmingham public schools this fall. But the court refused to order the immediate integration of schools at Jackson, Leake County and Biloxi, Miss.

County Budgets Under Study By Commissioners > The Adams county commissioners met Monday and spent most of the day working on budgets for their department and for .the county home, the county jail and the courthouse. -I . All work done yesterday on the budgets was tenative and none of the estimates has yet been officially approved. One part of the 4-H budget was cut from $4,800 to $1,500, since, as the commissioners all pointed out, improvements and buildingj at the 4-H fairgrounds have been completed. County extension agent Leo Seltenright appeared at the meeting and was asked by the commissioners to have the fair board executive committee consider the proposed cut and notify the commissioners of their views on the matter. ~ Also tentatively written into-the budget was a $250 item for a clerical employe to aid the board of review for the time it is in session. The commissioners also discussed raising the per diem salary of the members of the board of review. Under the present law the amount is set by the county council, but it must be included in the commissioners’ budget. The commissioners wrote a sl4 per diem into the budget. County home manager Charles Morgan and county sheriff Roger Singleton appeared at the meeting while the commissioners were discussing the budgets for the home and for the county jail. A number of items were raised on the pr> posed budget for the county home. Sheriff Singleton asked the commissioners to consider the possibility of purchasing a new lawnmower and stove for the county jail. To Repair Bridge The commissioners also heard a report from county highway supervisor Lawrence Noll. Noll said that Saturday’s rains had caused a twenty-foot abutment in a Winchester road bridge to slip down the enbankment. The bridge is' located about four and one-half miles from Decatur. Noll said he plans to repair the bridge by extending the arch with concrete pipe and building up a shoulder, rather than pouring a new abutment. Noll also said that several road signs and markers have been stolen on county roads recently. Yield the right of way signs were stolen from intersections on the Piqua road and road closed signs were stolen from the area of the Piqua and route 224. Other signs, Noll said, “were“ Stolen from the Monmouth road. He pointed out the extreme danger in such thefts, which could cause serious auto accidents. The question of funds 1 for the proposed courthouse elevator was also discussed. A request for a three-cent tax increase for the cumulative courthouse building fund has been submitted for state approval but no reply has yet been received. If that request is approved funds for the elevator will be available by July 1, 1964. If it is not approved sufficient funds will net be available until December, 1964. The possibility of borrowing money to construct the elevator was also discussed. No decision was made, since the reply from the state board of tax commissioners is still pending. The commissioners also approved bonds of SI,OOO for three Adams county hospital employes, Pauline Clark, Crystal Elzey and Berneta Omlor, all of Decatur. It was announced as the meeting closed that a representative of a painting and roofing firm will be present at next week’s meeting of the commissioners to five an estimate on needed painting and repairs at the courthouse. Woman Killed Near Churubusco Monday By United Press International Indiana’s traffic fatality toll for 1963 stood at 660 today compared with 618 a year ago. Mrs. Marie McLallin, 68, Kimmell, was killed Monday in a head-on collision of two cars in U.S. 33 north of Churubusco in Whitley County. Mrs. McLallin’s car skidded on a curve and collided with one driven by James Mason, Fort Wayne. Utility Lineman Is Electrocuted Monday CHESTERTON, Ind. (UPD — Jerry Hahney, 24. Hobart, a Northern Indiana Service Co. employe, was electrocuted Monday when he brushed against a live wire while installing a pole at the north edge of Chesterton. Porter county coroner Arthur Olson pronounced him dead at the scene.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, JuFy 23,1963.

Big Three End Historic Talks On Test Ban; To I *•'.., ■ . .. ■ \ ■ Sign Pacts Wednesday

Plan Migrant Ministry Work

More than one dozen Decatur area churches sent representatives, totaling 34, to a migrant ministry meeting at the First Methodist church Monday night. A general picture of the migrant situation that is expected this year was given by Wilbur Rittenhouse, staff worker. Hit- 1 tenhouse has been visiting the canneries and contract farmers this past week, and he had located approximately 20 camp sites, where some 300 workers are expected. Situation May Change However, Rittenhouse pointed out, this is extremely tentative. The farmers have been so busy wit htheir crops that most of them are not even certain of how many workers they will need. The migrants, on the other hand, while they will not be needed here until the middle of August, have already started to filter in, because of the 90% crop failure in Michigan where cherry and peach picking is their last stop before coming to Adams county. Last year about 700 migrants, working from 33 camps, came to Adams county; this included men, women, and children, some of whom do not work. This estimate was based on last year’s staff worker reports, and may be a little high, Rittenhouse stated. Who Is Your Neighbor? The meeting was opened by the host pastor, Rev. A. C. Underwood, who read the parable of the Good Samaritan. When asked by a lawyer, “Who is my neighbor?”, Jesus replied with the parable, in which a local man is beaten, robbed, and left lying naked in a ditch by thieves. A priest and a Levite pass by, and do not help the man. But a lowly Samaritan, much hated and looked down on by the people, saw the man, and took compassion .and took him to an inn, binding his wounds, and seeing that he was cared for until he was recovered. Ten slides, showing some of the work done by the migrant ministry last year, were then shown. Slides of families working in the fields, several pictures of migrant worketrs' homes, and pictures at one of the outside day nurseries were shown. Previous Work x The group then moved into a large circle, and the Rittenhouses told a little about themselves, and their experiences in working for two years in a migrant workers’ permanent camp in Florida. They pointed out that migrant workers are actually disfranchised, because they never remain permanently in any one community, and even when they have “camps” for six months or so, they are not considered residents, and do not even get to vote for president and vice-president, not to mention congress or the senate. Pamphlets and memoes on the migrant ministry in Indiana, and different things that can be done, were then passed out. Purpose of Meeting The purpose of the meeting, it was explained, was to find out what churches or groups were interested in helping, and getting some preliminary information in the / hands of those most interested. Discussion soon indicated that most of the interest of those present lie with the Spanish-speaking migrants. Two church groups represented at the meeting, the Assembly of God (Spanish-Speak-ing) and the St. Mary’s Catholic church, have substantial numbers of Spanish-speaking members. J Two families who had worked witff the migrant tninistry last year while it was getting started pointed but that they had been very well received .even though they could not speak Spanish, and were able to get over the point that they were making the migrants feel welcome to the com-

munity. A smile can be understood in any language, they pointed out. Similar Meetings This week, and Monday and Tuesday of next week, similar meetings will be held at Monroe, Berne, and Geneva, to see what churches are interested there. Meanwhile, the Rittenhouses are completing their surveys of migrant worker camp locations. Next week, it is hoped, the county committee can meet again, and make arrangements with the individual churches. Each church will have complete autonomy and choice of programs in the camps or camp assigned to it. Where requested, two or more churches may work together in a camp. Two things were stressed by the > Rittenhouses: the main purpose of the migrant ministry is to make the migrant workers feel at home, and to offer to them the resources of the churches of the community. Do Not Offend Some of the migrants will be members of a particular Church, and it would be offensive and in very bad taste for one church to attempt to instruct or proselyte members of other churches. Many, however, will be either totally inactive or never members of any church. The first job will be for the migrant ministry volunteers to become acquainted with their particular group of migrants as they arrive. The volunteers should then work with the migrants, and find out their needs or desires. Then the two groups can set up a program to meet the specific needs of those involved. Active church members can be directed to the church of their choice, and others may be made acquainted with local churches. Last year shuttle buses were run into town for attendance at some churches. Other Programs In other camps, day schools for non-working or pre-work-age children, were run. Short evening programs, arranged in advance for entertainment and education, were sponsored. Visits were made by members of the churches to various camps, and the camp members invited to attend local churches. Following the meeting, which adjourned about 9 p.m., the Rittenhouses remained to answer the questions of those who were interested in further discussion. Groups Represented Among those churches which sent representatives were: First Presbyterian Church, First Christian Church, First Methodi st Church. Zion United Church of Christ, Salem United Church of Christ, Union Chapel EUB, St. Mary’s Catholic church, Assembly of God (Spanish-Speaking), Lutheran church, Missouri synod; Nuttman Avenue United Brethren in Christ; Decatur Evangelical United Brethren, and the Pleasant Dalp Church of the Brethren. Baker Funeral Rites Thursday Morning Funeral services for Fred Baker, Jr., well known painting contractor who died Monday morning, will be conducted at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary's Catholic church. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt will officiate and burial Will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home until time of the services. The Holy Name society will recite the rosary at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus will post an honor guard at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and will also serve as honorary pallbearers. **

MOSCOW (UPD — The United States, Russia and Britain today ended historic talk§ that diplomatic sources said sealed final agreement to end East-West nuclear tests in space, in the atmosphere and underwater. The major nuclear powers were expected to initial the agreement Wednesday, just as East European Communist leaders convene for a summit conference designed to close Red ranks against Communist China. The East-West talks that diplomatic sources said might prove to be one of the major disarmament breakthroughs in the post war period ended at 4:30 p.m. (8:30 a m. CDT). The negotiators plunged immediately into additional discussions on other topics that could thaw the cold war. Presidential trouble-shooter W. Averell Harriman, Britain’s Science Minister Lord Hailsham and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko dismissed their advisers and discussed “other matters of mutual interest.” Although Harriman and Hailsham came to Moscow with authority only to work out agreement on a nuclear test ban, the informal discussions which followed their formal bargaining could lead to talks settling additional issues. President Kennedy was reported to have asked Harriman to sound out the Soviets on Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s proposal that East and West exchange observers who would report from strategic areas to cut the risk of surprise attack. Gromyko also as expected to sound out privately the private views of the two key Western Allies on Khrushchev’s call for talks that could lead to a full treaty of non - aggression between the Western Alliance and the Communist Warsaw Pact nations. As the negotiators wound up the nuclear talks sources in Washington said Secretary of State Dean Rusk plans to fly to Moscow with a bipartisan delegation of congressional leaders to initial personally the agreements. A communique issued after the three men met for a total of four hours Monday said they achieved “further progress” on a partial treaty banning tests ’ underwater, above the ground and in space. A ban on the fourth area of underground testing has been put off for later talks, the sources said. The sources said the principals still had some minor negotiating business to clear up before they place their initials on the draft. The initialling ceremony could come later today, or perhaps on Wednesday, according to the sources. Following ratification by the U.S. Senate and the British government, the agreement would come into force. It would represent an historic step in the pres, ent easing of East-West relations. No problem of Soviet ratification can arise once Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev approves the agreement. Indiana’s Surplus Fund Is Depleted INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana had an unappropriated surplus of $14,206,597 at the end of the last fiscal year June 30, State Auditor Dorothy Gardner announced Monday. Deputy Auditor Allen Lindley, who had estimated 12 months ago the revenue for the fiscal year would be $266 million, was happy about the final figure announced at $273,635,115. • However, he said a comparison with the surplus now and a year ago is discouraging. That is $4,632,032 compared to $28,019,000 in mid-1962. The unappropriated surplus as of June 30 was higher, thanks to reversions—money which was re* turned by departments and agencies as appropriated but not spent The $14,206,597 unappropriated surplus was, Lindley said, “not as bad as I had feared but not as good as I had hoped.” A committee of outside experts had estimated the revenue for the year to be $268 million, so by its figure, Indiana was ahead $5 million.

Seek Approval Os Rail Plan

WASHINGTON (UPD — Democratic congressional leaders shid after a meeting with President Kennedy today that “every effort will be made” to get approval of his proposal to break the railroad impasse before a threatened strike materializes. The leaders shied away from any forecast of when the bill might be approved but Senate Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., said “prospects look favorable” for passage of the legislation to turn over the dispute to the Interstate Commerce Commission for binding determination. Mansfield told reporters at the White House that he hoped the Senate Commerce Committee, which plans evening hearings if necessary, will approve a bill before the end of this week. Rail unions have threatened a strike next Tuesday. “We will act as expeditiously as possible," Mansfield said. Speaker John W. McCormack agreed with Mansfield’s assessment. * McCormack said the consensus at today’s weekly breakfast conference of legislative leaders with Kennedy was “that every effort will be made to have as early action as possible — to have speedy action.” i While Democratic leaders lined up behind the proposal by the President to allow the ICC to impose no-strike rail work rules for two years, Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 111., also backed it with some reservations. But other lawmakers, including Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. , attacked the measure as thinly disguised compulsory arbitration and rail unions indicated they would fight its passage. Moving swiftly on the proposed legislation, the Senate Commerce Committee scheduled hearings for 2 p.m., EDT, today with Labor

Annual Moose Family Picnic Next Sunday The annual family picnic of the local Moose lodge will be held from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. p.m. at Sunset park, southeast of Decatur. A free dinner will be served, after which there will be hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream and pop available during the afternoon. Games and pony rides will be available for the kiddies and a record hop will be held for the teen-agers. Moose members and their families, only, will be admitted. Annette Rumschlag Dies This Morning Annette Marie Rumschlag, three year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Rumschlag, died at 11 o’clock this morning at her home, Decatur route 6. The child has been ill since birth . The girl was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church. She was born in Decatur Aug 16, 1959, a daughter of Jerome and Lois Geimer-Rumschlag. Surviving in addition to the parents are seven brothers. Michael, Sam, Philip, Leo, Harold, Paul and Gerald Rumschlag. all at home; three sisters, Elizabeth, Pamela and Barbara Rumschlag. all at home; the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Lewis Rumschlag, and the maternal grandfather, jo* seph Geimer, both of Decatur. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after' 4 p.m. Wednesday. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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Secretary W. Willard Wirtz as the leadoff witness. Hearings Start Wednesday Chairman Oren Harris, D-Ark. t said the House Commerce Committee would open its hearings on the emergency bill Wednesday. The Senate is due to act on the bill ahead of the House. Spokesmen for the nation’s railroads indicated they might not place strike-triggering work rule changes into effect Monday midnight if Congress is about to enact a law disposing of the four-year-old dispute. But the deadline still stood as consideration of the President's proposals began. Kennedy asked for a law to empower the 11-member ICC to approve, veto or modify new work rules demanded by the railroads over union protest. Union demands also could be submitted to the ICC for similar action. Unions would be barred from striking over these issues or over ICC-imposed rules during a twoyear period. Any labor-manage-ment agreements on the rules would nullify the ICC’s action. The measure would require the ICC to act within 120 days if possible on the two major issues in dispute—use of firemen on diesel freight and yard locomotives and the makeup of train crews. Other issues, chiefly the railroad proposal for lowering wage rates in an overhaul of the pay system, could be taken to the ICC for settlement after expiration of a 60-day period set aside for renewed negotiations between unions and management. Kennedy called for prompt action to head off "widespread economic chaos’’ he said would result from a nationwide rail tieup. Unemployment would mount to 6 million and food shortages would threaten cities if a strike lasted 30 days, he said.

John Eichenberger Resigns As Teacher John Eichenberger, sixth grade teacher at the Southeast elementary school the past four years, has resigned to take a position in an elementary - school In Tucson, Ariz, Eichenberger, his wife Phyllis, and their three boys, Jeffrey, Stephen and David, will leave Decatur the 19th of August. Their home at 1116 W. Monroe street has been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Larry Nevil of this city. A native of Berne and a graduate pt Berne-French high school, Eichenberger has taught the past four years at the Southeast school and had taught at Adams Central for two year* previous to teaching in the DeCatur school System. He graduated with a B. S. degree from Heidelberg College, Tiffin, 0., in 1954, and received his master’s degree from Ball (State Teachers College in 1961. his family are members of the Zion United Church of Christ in Decatur. Tuscon, a city Os about 200,000 population, has 53 elementary schools, to one of which Eichenberger will be assigned, eight high schools. junior high schools. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair through Wednesday although ' chance of some scattered thundershowers this evening. Not much temerature change. Low tonight in the 60s. High Wednesday in the 80s. Sunset today 8:07 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday W: 37 a.m. Outlook for Thursagy; Mostly fair and continued warm. Lows in the 60s. Highs upper 80s.