Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1963 — Page 1

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Dr. Stephen Ward Is Growing Weaker

BULLETIN LONDON (UPI) — Dr. Stephen Ward, key figure in Britain’s sex and security scandel of the century, died today at 3:50 p.m. 9:50 a.m. CDT. LONDON (UPI) — Dr. Stephen Ward, key figure in Britain’s six-and-security scandal of the century, is “slowly dying,” a hospital bulletin said today. Hie 50-year-old society osteopath lay in a coma for the fourth straight day as a result of an overdose of drugs he took Wednesday in an apparent suicide attempt. His condition was steadily growing worse. “The doctor has just said from Gase Infan! Dies At Hospital Friday Kevin Eugene Gase, seven-week-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gemard F. Gase, 1911 W. Wallen road, Fort Wayne, died at 9:30 o’clock Friday morning at the Riley hospital in Indianapolis. The parents are members of the St. Vincent Catholic church. Surviving in addition to the parrents are two brothers, Michael and Gerald, both at home; three sisters, Nancy, Arlene and Annette, all at homl; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hoffman of Monroe, and the parental grandmother, Mrs. Catherine Gase of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home, and at 10 a.m. at St. Vincent’s Catholic church. The Rev. Lawrence J. Fettig will officiate, with burial in St. Vincent Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home-after noon Sunday. Benefit Auction To Be Held August 10 The Decatur circuit chapter o the Valparaiso University guild completed its plans and committees for the auction which will be conducted by the students of the Reppert school of auctioneering Saturday, August 10, across from the court house, begining at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Dr. Roland Reppert and Miss Grace Lichtenstiger are working with the guild committee to coordinate the activities of the students and the, 100 ladies from the ten Lutheran congregations in this area . Together they hope to make the auction an outstanding opportunity for the community to see the 70 to 80 students from all parts of the county and Canada develop into first class auctioneers in their three week term of schooling here. Mrs. Herman Steele and Mrs. Edgar Thieme are co-chairmen of the charity sale, and report that a very large vaiity of goods can be expected, with the ladies from so many congregations participating. The Reppert school is donating all the proceeds from the sale to the project fund of the guild which will be used for vital additions on the campus at Valparaiso University. Mrs. Steele and Mrs. Thieme are being assisted by Mrs. Edwin Reinking, Mrs. Rudolph Seddlemeycr, and Mrs. Louis Jacobs.

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the bedisde that Dr. Ward is slowly dying,” the latest hospital announcement said. Brother at Bedside St. Stephen’s Hospital Secretary W. Mayne Butcher, in making the announcement that Ward’s life was slowly ebbing away, told newsmen that the,. playboy doctor’s attorney-brother, Peter Ward ’ was at the bedside, j Asked if the stark bulletin meant there had been a marked deterioration in Ward’s condition, | Butcher said: “I don’t think so. The progress has been quite normal.’' 7 However, it was the first time , the hospital spokesman had said Ward was “dying.” Ward has not regained consci-

Heavy Storms In Lakes Area

— — rnmmmjmmrn ' By United Press International Heavy thunderstorms roamed , the Great Lakes region today with high winds and hail. The toll of dead and injured in two ' days of storms continued to rise. The rain storms, which trig--1 gered accidents and fires across ' the Midwest, Friday, were expect--1 ed to diminish during the day. Winds nearly 100 miles an hour ‘ lashed Wisconsin Friday, shred- ■ ding county fair tents, downing trees and toppling utility poles. ■ Scattered thundershowers soaked parts of the Southwest and Gulf , Coast. ; A funnel cloud was spotted near • Joliet, 111., and hailed piled an i inch deep on the ground east of • Rockford, 111. An inch of rain hit ; Fort Myers, Fla., and observers . at Key West reported several waterspouts. Nearly an inch of rain and hail fell at Memphis, Tenn., during the night. Flagstaff, Ariz., was soaked with 1% inches of rain, Douglas, Ariz., had iy 4 inches and more than an inch fell at Grand Canyon. At least 20 persons were injured when a city bus collided with another vehicle on rainslicked streets at storm-battered Chicago. Six persons were killed and another was seriously injured in the head-on collision of a pickup truck and a station wagon on a mountain highway near Silver . 69 Persons Make Trip To New York Sixty-nine person boarded the Erie-Lackwanna east-bound shortly after 2 o’clock Frday afternoon 1 and embarked on their long-await-ed weekend t-ip to New York city. The trip, sponsored by the Decatur Daily Democrat and the Erie Lackwanna railroad, offers transportation, hotel reservations, several meals and New York sightseeing excursion to the travelers for only $54.75. The group which boarded the train yesterday was in a jovial 1 mood and traveling light—most of its members earned only one suitcase. A handful of people were present to bid the travelers farewell as they boarded the two coaches which were to carry them to the far-off city. 1 The train rolled in just a few minutes late, the travelers boarded hurriedly and with little fanfare, 1 and they were off, all in less than ■ five minutes. They will return to Decatur early Monday afternoon.

ousness since he was found in a coma at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, in the apartment of Noel Howard Jones, a friend, where he had spent the night. Tdok Overdose of Drugs He had taken an overdose of sleeping drugs, according to doctors who have be#n fighting since with a mechanical breathing device, injections, and other means to keep Ward alive. Ward still does not know that several hours after he apparently tried to kill himself a jury of 11 men and one woman found him guilty on two charges of living off the immoral earnings of call girls Christine Keeler, 21, and Marilyn (Mandy) Rice-Da vies, 18. Butcher said this morning’s announcement was “by far the most serious bulletin” on Ward’s condition so far. In Friday night’s bulletin, Butcher reported “there is some manifestation of heart weakness” but added that Ward might live for three or four days.

Plume, Colo., during a driving rainstorm. Storms- along the mid-Atlantic Coast were blamed for two lightning deaths and two boating deaths Thursday. The first hurricane of the season, Arlene, moved across the Caribbean at about 14 miles per hour during the night. The weather bureau said winds were 100 m.p.h., near the center of the storm, located about 1,000 miles southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Police Manpower Shortage Relieved Cityi patrolman Tom Hoffman has returned from two weeks summer camp with the U. S. Army, relieving a manpower shortage on the city police department. During the past two weeks, three of the regular uniformed officers have been off work, forcing chief James Borders and radio operator Pat Nelson into working 19 consecutive days on the “day trick.” Hoffman was unexpectedly ordered to summer camp earlier this summer, and attempts to correct the situation failed. The officer had spent two weeks at camp the two previous summers, which was all that was in his obligation, according to Hoffman. He had taken his summer vacation before the unexpected orders arrived. Patrolman Ray Seitz is currently on vacation, and with patrolman Jay Minch in the Parkview hospital, Hoffman’s camp duty left the force three uniformed officers short of its normal capacity. 10 OMoen Hie city police department normally has ten uniformed officers, including the chief and parking meter officer Jim Cochran, and radio operators Pat Nelson and George 9tults. The absence of Hoffman, Seitz and Minch dropped the force to six uniformed officers, Cochran and the two radio operators, however. Borders and Nelson were thus forced to work the past 18 days without relief, in order that at least one uniformed man and a radio operator were on duty during the "day trick” from ft a. m. to 4 p. m. each day.

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47 Persons Arrested In Chicago’s South Side As Racial Trouble Continues

Urgent Appeal Out For Blood Donors Monday “Blood saves lives — be a don. or Monday as your contribution of blood ks urgently needed,” were the words of Mrs. Jean Bower, chairman of the Adams county Red Cross’ blood program, this morning in a final plea to the population of Adams county. The Adams county goal for the bloodmobile visit Monday is 125 pints, and at least another 100 donors are neeced to assure this county will top its quota once again. The bloodmobile will be at the Decatur Youth and Community Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, and anyone between the ages of 18 and 59 may give blood during the six-hour period. Persons between the ages of 18 and 21 must have their parents release slips, which may be picked up in the Red Choss office, unless they are married or in the armedforees. --—— Caßtapt Bfflafc. - , #. umam Anyone who has not been contacted and wishes to be a donor may contact the Red Cross office, 3-3106, and set up a time for Monday. Persons who have not contacted the Red Cross office by Monday, may still “walk-in” and donate. Mrs. Wanda Orlberg, executive secretary of the Red Cross, said earlier this week that all previous donors had been contacted and that another 100 donors are still needed, if the goal of 125 pints is to be reached. “The support of all Adams county resident is urgently needed Monday,” Mrs. Bower explained, “as many regular donors are out of town on their vacations, and several others have reached the age of 60.” At least 180 persons are needed to be scheduled for assurance of the 125 pints, as each time some donors are turned down after a checkup prior to their donating. Need New Donors A large group of new donors are needed for Monday’s bloodmobile visit, to replace the pints that will be lost by the absence of regular donors who are vacationing, and some who have gone over the 59year age stipulation. Mrs. .Bower exclaimed last week that the Red Cross needs “new blood” to reach its quota Monday. “Every minute of every day more than eight bottles of blood are used in this country to treat the ill and injured,” Mrs. Bower said, "and nearly five million bottles are used in a year's time.” “This blood comes from hospital blood banks, community blood centers, and Red Cross blood programs,” she went on, "and the Red Cros program supplies nearly two and one-half million of the total pints of blood used All Types Needed All types of blood are needed. It is hoped that Monday’s work will net approximately 25 pints of O-positive blood, 25 pints of Onegative, 25 pints of A-positive, 25 pints of A-negative, two pints of AB positive, and two pints of AB negative. The following volunteers will be helping Monday; Mrs. Earl Fuhrman, Miss Fan Hammell, Mrs. Idabelle Alton, Mrs. Francis Ellsworth, Mrs. Joe Rash, Mrs. Elbert Smith, Mrs. Richard Green, Mrs. Herman Kruekeberg, Mrs. Robert Zwick, Mrs. Merlin Siding, Mfs. Arnold Ostermeyer. Transportation will be furnished by Mrs. Richard Macklin. "We of the Red Cross hope that Adams county residents will raise up aqd meet the challenge Monday, |nd once again meet their goal,” Mrs. Bower said.

Roger Pyle Champ In Dairy Judging Roger Pyle, a member of the Monroe Boosters, was named grand champion showman of all breeds in the dairy project judging, the last major project to be decided, Thursday at the 4-H fair. Class winners were as follows: Brown Swiss breed; grand champion. Dean Beer; reserve champion, Diana Beer; showmanship award. Paul Ehrsam; senior champion. Dean Beer; junior champion, Diana Beer; senior female, Diana Beer; senior female yearling, Earl Kennel; two-year-old cow, Bob Kirchhofer; age cow class. Dean Beer, Earl Kennel and Paul Ehy,sam. Ayrshire breed: Grand champion and junior champion, Dougins Bauman; showmanship award, Bauman; junior male class, Douglas Bauman; senior female, Douglas Bauman, Kathy Bauman; junior female yearling, Kathy Bauman. Douglas Bauman. Holstein breed: Senior and grand champion, Ned Liechty; reserve Champion, Loren Caffee; showmanship award, Jim LeFever; junior male calf, Lonnie Caffee, Ned Liechty, Nancie Habegger; senior mile calf, Ronnie Habegger, Mdx ■Rjbinhart; junior female calf, Ned ■ Tfcchty, Phil Wdllimah, Jolanda Sue Becker, Terry Steury; junior female calf, Linda Wulliman, Dennis Caffee, David Wulliman, Richard Wulliman: senior female calf, Ned Liechty, Rosetta Liechty, Lyle Kaefir, Karen Steury: junior female yearling, Rosetta , Liechty, Stan Steury, Gretta Wulliman, Fred Yoder; senior female yearling, Ron Schwartz, Jim LeFever, Carol Schwartz, Diana Beer; junior female champion, Ron Schwartz; two year old cow, Loren Caffee, Dean Beer, Bruce Tricker; aged cow class, Ned Liechty, Loren Caffee, Phil Wulliman, Diana Beer. Jersey breed: grand champion, Roger Pyle; reserve champion, Glen Marckel; shownmanship award, Roger Pyle; senior champion, Roger Pyle; junior champion, Glen Marckel; junior male calf, Glen Marckel; Ronnie Mosser, Glen Marckel, Diana Lindsey; junior yearling male, Kenneth Pyle; two-year-old male, Ronnie Mosser; grand Champion male, Ronnie Mosser; reserve champion male, Kenneth Pyle; junior female calf, Ronnie Mosser, Kenneth Pyle, Roger Pyle, Ellen Kay Lindsey; senior female calf, Roger Pyle, Kenneth Pyle, Judy Mosser, Ailen Mailand; junior female yearling, Glen Marckel, Kenneth Pyle, Roger Pyle, Don Burke; senior female yearling, Glen Marckel, Roger Pyle, Kenneth Pyle, Mary Ann Duff; two-year-old cow, Larry Aspy, Connie Aspy. Tim Steury, Judy Mosser; aged cow class, Roger Pyle, Ronnie Mosser, Mary Ann Duff, Judy Mosser. Guernsey breed: grand champion, Jerry Moses; reserve champion, Danny Moser; showmanship award, Danny Moser; senior champion, Jerry Moses; junior champion, Danny Moses; junior female calf, Shirley Brehm, Arnold Hirschy; senior „ female. Shirley Brehm, Cindy Moser; junior yearline female, Danny Moser, Cindy Moser; senior yearling female, Cindy Moser, Shirley Brehm, Danny Moser, Jerry Moses, Patricia Ann Huffman; two-year-old. Jack As Py; aged cow class, Jerry Moses, Shirley Brehm, Danny Moser. Red Poll breed: junior and grand champion, Sandra Kohne; showmanship, Sandra Kohne; junior female, Sandra Kohne, Patty Kohne. NOON EDITION 1963 Graduates To Hold Picnic Sunday The 1983 graduating class of Decatur high school will hold a picnic reunion at the Pokagop State Park beach on Lake James, at noon Sunday.

United Press International White youths, many of them wearing swastikas, roamed through a recently integrated neighborhood -on Chicago’s troubled South Side Friday night, throwing bricks and bottles and taunting police. Forty-seven members of the group were arrested when they refused to move along, bringing to 180 the number of persons arrested since racial disorders broke out in Chicago Monday. A Negro youth also was nabbed by police when a group of Negroes overturned a white man’s car. Earlier Friday, a group of integrationists staged a “lay-down’’ in mud and driving rain at a South Side Chicago mobile school site to protest alleged classroom segregation. Massive civil rights demonstrations also continued in New York City Friday where alleged job hiring discrimination is being protested at city construction projects. Police arrested 34 persons on charges of disorderly conduct or resisting arrest at Brooklyn’s downstate medical center construction site, raising to nearly 700 the number of arrests at the site. In the South, the racial situation was relatively quiet, and Negro leaders hailed a major break through at Charleston, S.C., where 87 merchants gave in to desegregation demands. Integra- , iionists also hinted that a similar agreement was near at Savannah, Ga. Elsewhere in the nation: Farmville, Va. — Prince Edward County, Va., Negroes indicated Friday night they would stage their 10th consecutive racial demonstration here although they have been denied a city parade permit. Montgomery, Ala. — A Montgomery Negro leader has questioned the merits of Negro plans for a mass march on the nation's' capitol later this month to pressure Congress into approving, the President's civil rights legislation. The Rev. Solomon S. Seay, president of the Negro Montgomery Improvement Association, said the march could backfire and cost civil rights proponents some loss of support among northern congressmen. New York — Civil rights lead- 1 ers meet in Harlem today to complete plans for the massive Aug. 28 demonstration in Washington. The demonstration is expected to bring 100,000 persons to the nation’s capital. Birmingham, Ala.— Four white men arrested for demonstrating against integration of lunch counters here were fined and sentenced to jail Friday in Recorder’s Court. Clarksdale, Mias. —Five Negroes staged this Delta city’s first “sit in" Friday as civil rights leaders made plans for further anti-segregation protests. Eighty-six Negroes have been arrested since the series of antisegregation protests started Tuesday. Previous demonstrations here were marches and pickets. Arlington, Va. — Republican candidate for the Virginia state Senate. Robert Corber of Arlington, urged Gov.* Albertis S. Harrison Friday to call out the Na-‘ tlonal Guard to protect northern Virginia against possible violence Aug. 28. Negro leaders have called for a full-scale civil rights march in Washington on that date. , Greenwood, Miss. — The Commission on Race and Religion of the National Council of Churches provided cash bonds to have four Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers released from the state penitentiary, SNCC workers said Friday. Thirteen of Negroes arrested at the Leflore County Courthouse here June 25 and 28 during mass voter registration attempts still arc held at the penitentiary. Washington — Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., asked Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to revoke his directive banning on-base and off-base discrimination. He accused McNamara of “perverting" the mission of the armed forces by the directive.

Secy. Rusk To Moscow Today

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secretary of State Dean Rusk was flying to Moscow today with a bipartisan group of senators to sign a partial nuclear test ban treaty which he said "we hope will be the first of a series of steps toward peace.” Rusk, understood to be carrying a personal message from President Kennedy to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, will sign the treaty formally in Moscow Monday. It was initialled by Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman and still faces a Senate debate over ratification. Rusk and his party, which also included U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, was due in Moscow about 11 a.m., EDT. The secretary said in a brief statement as he boarded the Air Force jet transport Friday night that the treaty was an “importstep” toward easing world tensions but he said “we don't know whether other steps might be possible at present.” President Kennedy said Thursday at his news conference that an East-West non-aggression pact might be worthwhile if it provided stronger guarantees for the security of West Berlin and this was considered a likely discussion topic in Moscow. The Soviets have proposed a

State Assessment Os Utilities Drops

The state assessment of 24 utilit-| ies operating in Adams county de-f creased to a total of $146,910, according to figures released this | morning by .county auditor Eldward F, Jaberg. The state assessment totals $5,104,240 this year, as compared to last year’s county-wide tntul of $5,256,220. Although the total assessment was down from last year, seven of the 23 taxing units showed gains, including both DecaturWashington and Decatur-Root Decatur - Washington gained $4,330, from $1,124, 160 in 1962 to $1,128 , 460 this year. DecaturRoot shoWed an increase of $550, from $121,350 last year to $121.900 this year. The entire gain in the two Decatur taxing units thus totaled a sum of $4,880. s , Other (Jains Monroe - Washington showed an, increase of $240, and other increases were listed in South Blue Creek,, $340; S. Monroe, $16,370; S. French, $1,950; and Jefferson, $1,250 Berne showed a loss of $1,070, from $126,380 in 1962 to a total of $125,310. Berne - Monroe showed a loss of $8,940, while Berne- Wabash showed a gain of $7,870 Berne - Wabash, however, was not a taxing unit last year, thus the reason for the increase. One of, the reasons for the coun-ty-wide decrease was a $110,520 drop in the valuation of the three railroads operating in Adams county. Railroads Loss The Pennsylvania Railroad showed a loss of $35,630, while the Nickel Plate showed a loss of $32,750. The Erie-Lackawanna railroad showed the largest loss of the three, amounting to $42,140. This includes only the state's share of the assessment, and does not 'include the assessment of perconal property belonging to the utility. Citizens Telephone Co. showed a net gain of $50,000 from $497,280 in 1962 to $547,350 this year. Indiana & Michigan showed a loss

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non - aggression pact between NATO powers and the Communist Warsaw Pact powers. The United States and Britain have promised to discuss the idea with their NATO allies but it was considered unlikely such a pact would come about. Rusk at Gromyko’s request, will remain in Moscow for three or four days after signing the treaty and is expected to meet with Khrushchev. Rusk will confer with British Foreign Secretary Lord Home and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who also will sign the treaty. Rusk said at his departure he was "especially happy" to be doing with the Senate group "because when the treaty is signed it will be submitted to the Senate . . . then they'll have to make their judgment.” INDIANA WEATHER . | Thundershower* ending this t' afternoon and becoming mostly t sunny and turning cooler. Fair and r little cooler tonight. Sunday fair and less humid. Low tonight In the 80s. High Sunday i 80 to 88. Outlook for Monday: MosUy fair with near normal temperatures.

!at $91,750, from $1,379,420 last year to $1,287,670 this year. The Northern Indianu Public | Service Company was up $53.640, this year, coming from $479,470 to $533,110. These figures too include only the state's share of the assessment, and not the personal property. Unit 1962 1963 + or - Union $ 93,490 $ 90.580 - $ 2,910 Root 599,550 573,550 - 26,000 Preble 493,420 477,190 - 16.230 Kirkland 391,710 385,610 - 6,100 N. Washington 399,050 392,130 - 6,920 S. Washington 206,980 186,870 - 20,110 St Marys 586,170 557,760 - 28,410 N. B. Creek 64,090 62,810 - 1,280 S. B. Creek 3,480 3,820 + 340 N. Monroe 283,550 257,120 - 26,430 S. Monroe 95,290 111,660 4 16,370 N. French 65,780 57.910-- 7,870 S. French 13,980 15,930 + 1,950 Hartford 158|060 144,990 - 13,070 Wabash 301,710 292,060 - 9,650 Jefferson 33,210 34,460 i 1,250 Dec.-Wash. 1,124,160 1,128,490 i 4,330 Dec.-Root 121,350 121,900 4 550 Berne-Monroe 126,380 117,440 - 8,940 Berne-Wabash 7,870 + 7,870 Geneva 62,970 58,680 - 4,290 Monroe-Monroe « " 23,440 21,840 -1.60 Q Monroe-Wash. 8,400 8,640 4-. 240 TOTALS 5,256,220 5,104,240 -146,910