Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1963 — Page 1

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Delay In Sales Tax Ruling Seen Likely

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A 15day delay in determining the legality of Indiana’s two per cent sales tax law appeared likely today after the Indiana AFL-CIO asked for an extension of time for filing a brief? Deadline for the brief was Aug. 15. However, Lloyd DeWester, Jr., attorney for Dallas Sells, president of the labor organization, filed a petition asking for an extension of 15 days. The petition listed the six “friends of the court” which asked to file briefs in support of the sales tax. “By reason of the numerous briefs,filed and to be filed on behalf of appellants, it is impossible for appellee to properly answer the new matter raised in each brief within the time allowed,” the petition said. The suit was filed against Governor Welsh and Indiana Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney in Marion Circuit Court last June. Judge John L. Niblack ruled the tax law unconstitutional. An ap-

Chicago Cops Halt Disorder

By United Press International Chicago’s racially troubled South Side had another outbreak of violence Sunday night but police quickly restored order. A crowd oi white teen-agers gathered at an intersection following reports — which authorities discounted — that a Negro family planned to move into the block. Police attempted to break up the gathering and youths scuffled with the officers. Police arrested 35 youths for disorderly conduct and the other teen-agers dispersed. There were demonstrations by white crowds most of last week in a predominately white neighborhood of South Chicago into which several Negro families had moved. Three thousand Negroes marched through downtown Indianapolis, Ind., Sunday in support of President Kennedy’s civil rights program. There were no incidents. More than 200 Negroes Sunday held a prayer vigil outside a Gadsden, Ala., jail where hundreds of Negroes, arrested during a demonstration Saturday, being held; More than 600 demonstrators were arrested Saturday but many women and all children were released. Other developments: Nashville, Tenn. — Two previously segregated high schools were to open their doors today to sixteen Negroes. The action in both cases is strictly voluntary, but results from the fact there are no Negro high schools in the area. Farmville, Va. — Negroes ended a daily series of racial protests in their Price Edward County town Sunday but demonstrations were expected to resume today. Clarksdale, Miss. — Aaron Henry, Negro civil rights leader jailed for participating in an Antisegregation demonstration, was free on an appeal bond Sunday after spending six days in jail. Montgomery, Ala. — Three Negro women will be hired by the police department to supervise traffic at crossings near Negro schools. Commissioner Lester B. Sullivan said the women would be chosen from a group of 25 who took examinations last week.

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peal was filed with the Indiana Supreme Court July 11. Attorneys for Welsh and Courtney filed briefs July 16 and supporting briefs were filed thereafter by the Indiana Farm Bureau, Indiana Retail iana State Chamber of Commerce, Commission on General Education of Indiana, Indiana State Teachers Association and Indiana School Boards Association. DeWester said he was asking for only 15 days extension because he was “cognizant of the great import of this decision on the finan-i cialcondition of the state.” The sales tax was scheduled to be collected beginning July 1 as a result of the 1963 Legislature’s passage of the bill. But Niblack’s ruling postponed the effective date, and as a result state aid prospects for public schools in 1964 have been severely reduced, sending prospective tax levies for local school units soaring to record heights that may make the $lO tax rate for property owners commonplace next year.

New York — The social Action Council of the United Church of Christ urged 15,000 ministers and lay leaders Sunday to participate in the scheduled mass civil rights demonstration in Washington Aug. 28. Chicago Girl Drowns In Lake On Saturday Joyce Mrozinski, 8, of Chicago, who had been visiting with relatives, the Edward Meyer family of Decatur rural route, drowned Saturday evening in Lake James. The Chicago girl was playing with a cousin, Kathy Meyer, in front of a lake cottage when a ball got away from her. She went after it and went into a drop-off 20 feet deep. The victim’s body was recovered about 11:45 p. m. Saturday, four hours after the tragedy. The Angola fire department recovered the body after draggirig the area for four hours. Other units assisting in the search were the Fremont fire department, the Pleasant Lake fire department, the state conservation department, the state police and the Steuben county sheriff’s department. The little girl, daughter of Edward Mrozinski," lived at 3905 Plainfield street, Chicago. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at the Schielka funeral home in Chicago. Funeral Held Today For Rauch InFant Karen Sue Rauch, seven-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Rauch of Monroe route 1. died at 2:30 p.m. Saturday while being brought to the Adams county memorial hospital. The child had been ill for a week. Surviving are the parents, one brother and four grandparents. Funeral services were held this morning at the Yager funeral home in Berne, with burial in the Decatur Catholic cemetery.

Negroes Stage Demonstration At Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Negroes staged one of Indiana’s largest racial demonstrations Sunday, parading through downtown streets chanting the word “freedom.” The rally, sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Poeple, was staged in support of President Kennedy’s proposed civil rights program and to draw attention to employment problems besetting Indiana Negroes. Police reported no incidents. But when 3,000 assembled at University Park to sing and hear speeches, they clapped approval for Gov. Welsh and Mayor Albert Losche, who spoke of efforts made by their administrations to bring equality to all citizens. Losche Neighbors Negro Welsh commented on his recent executive order banning racial discrimination from all places of public accommodation licensed or supervised by the state. Losche told how he has continued to live in a neighborhood that has become populated largely by Negroes over the “This progress,” said Welsh, “has been accomplished through the orderly processes of government and through broader understanding and good will among the citizens ot Indiana.” She said 53 per cent of Indiana’s employed in low paying unskilled and semi-skilled jobs and that half of the state’s Negroes did not go to high school. She called for city ordinances insuring equality in housing, the same type of “open occupancy ordinance” defeated twice by the Gary City Council. “The barriers of tradition in settlement and subtle practices of realtors either contain or extend the Negro ghetto,” she said. Speakers at the rally included representatives of all the major religious faiths. Mass Followed Rally Following the rally, many of the Sunday - dressed Negroes and whitds attended an outdoor Pontifical High Mass celebrated at the all-Negro St. Rita’s Roman Catholic Church by Laurian Cardinal Rugambwa, the first Negro cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. The sermon was delivered by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, of television fame. He called for a sharing of the blessings in America with the world and an awakening by the American people of the rest of the world. Cardinal Rugambwa, 51, was in Indianapolis in connection with the 48th annual convention of the Knights of St. Peter Claver, a Catholic Negro fraternal organization similar to the Knights of Columbus. Earlier, the Knights of Columbus were urged by an Indianapolis diocese newspaper to open its membership to Negroes. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with showers or thundershowers and locally heavy rains possible tonight and Tuesday. Not much temperature change. Low tonight 65 to 76. High Tuesday lower 80s north, 83 to M south. Sunset today 7:54 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:48 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy, little temperature change. Chance of showers. Lows <3 to 73. Highs in the 80a except low Ms extreme south.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 5,1963.

United States, Britain And Soviet Russia Sign Historic Test Ban Pact

Further Meetings Over Rail Dispute

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Railroad industry and union representatives met through the weekend with Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz and scheduled further meetings today in a renewed attempt to settle the work rules dispute with collective bargaining. •*. ' Sources cautioned, however, against hope for a quick settlement arising from the activity that quickened Friday night when Wirtz advanced “suggestions” for settlement of the dispute that has threatened a nationwide strike. A railroad spokesman said hi. termittent meetings were held at Labor Department headquarters on Constitution Avenue Saturday and Sunday. The spokesman said both sides “exchanged proposals but he did not indicate whether these contained any noteworthy, concessions. Another industry spokesman cautioned against expecting the activity to break the impasse which now has less than four weeks to run under what probably is the industry’s last postponement of the imposition of work rules that will eliminate socalled “featherbedding” jobs—and touch off a strike. The railroads have taken the position that only legislation can solve the dispute. President Kennedy has proposed tq Congress that the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) be made the arbiter but in testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee, which concluded hearings last week, labor witnesses belabored the proposal as compulsory arbitration and argued that collective bargaining still could save the day. American Army Patrol Trades fire With Reds ALONG ,THE TRUCE LINE, Korea (UPI) — An American Army patrol today exchanged fire with Communist North Korean troops in the demilitarized zone near the scene of last Monday’s Communist ambush that killed two Americans, the United Nations Command (UNC) announced. No casualties were reported on either side in today’s clash. The UNC said the shooting took place far south of the central demarcation line Communist troops are forbidden to cross and just across the boundary of the demilitarized zone from South Korean territory. It was the first shooting exchange reported since the last of three fatal skirmishes si x days ago,although UNC troops have fired at suspicious objects along the truce line since then without drawing return fire. A UNC announcement said a patrol of the first cavalry division met a Communist party at 5:02 a.m. today about 1,000 yards east of the spot where a U.S. Army Ninth Cavalry jeep was ambushed one week ago. “The location was just within the southern tape boundary of the demilitarized zone,” the announcement said. “There were nd reports of casualties.” A UNC spokesman said “there was an exchange of fire” between the two sides but said no further details were available. Four North - Korean soldiers, three American soldiers and one South Korean policeman were killed in the skirmishes last week.

Former Local Man To Be Sentenced A former Decatur resident and an Ohio woman will be sentenced Wednesday in Noble county circuit court for what has been described by police as a series of home burglaries in three states. Donald Robert Fair, 31, formerly of Decatur, and Anna Marie Marburger, 20, of Dayton, 0., are to be sentenced on charges of felonious entry, which carries a penalty of 1 to 10 years in prison. Both pleaded guilty to the charges in the Noble court Wednesday. A 16-year-old boy who was arrested with the couple in a car near Brimfield on July 22, has signed a statement admitting 60 to 100 burglaries in the past three months in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Fair has been listed as an Ohio parolee with a police record since he was 14 years of age. The woman was recently paroled from a federal prison where she was serving a sentence for auto theft. The youth was released to the custody of an uncle in Pontiac, Mich. Operating Profit Shown By Hospital Deposits exceeded expenses by $4 ,135.61 at the Adams county memorial hospital in July, hospital manager Thursman I. Drew said today. This places the hospital in a cash position $5,429.68 better than on January 1 of this year. The hospital has not had to have an operating tax levy for several years, being able to operate on the amount which It takes in each year. Bills And Expenses During July, $38,124.85 was deposited, bills totalled $11,863.69. and the payroll for more than 100 employes was $22,125.55. The cash balance at the end of the month was $19,368 26, compared with $15,232.65 at the month's start. During the month, 212 adults were admitted and 63 babies were born. Five adults and two babies died. There were 47 adults and seven babies in the hospital on July 1, 216 adults and 61 babies were dismissed, and there were 38 adults and seven babies in the hospital on July .31. A total of 408 outpatients were treated in laboratory, x-ray and emergency room treatments, the highest number ever treated. For 1963, the outpatient load has averaged well over 300, never falling below tht-t number; in 1962, more than half the months saw fewer than 300 outpatients treated, and before 1962, in many months the number fell beloW 200. Beat Since 1961 In cash position, this was the best July recorded at the hospital since July, 1961, when $4,289 was realized, which was the alltime high for July. It was the third best month so far this year, with only April and June showing better collections. The rate schedule for the Adams county memorial hospital is arranged so that the hospital will maintain Its cash position as long as it averages 45 adult patients each day. The 212 admissions and 63 births compares with 166 admissions and 53 births a year ago; 184 admssions and 64 births in 1961; 175 admissions and 61 births in 1960, and 145 admissions and 41 births in 1958.

MOSCOW (UPD — The United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union today signed an historic partial nuclear test ban treaty which they hailed as an initial step toward ending the cold war and guaranteeing peace. With a quick signing of names in St. Catherine’s Hall of the Kremlin the three nations agreed to the first major control pact between East and West since the end of World War 11. ’ Secretary of State Dean Rusk signed for the United States, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for the Soviet Union, and Foreign Secretary Lord Home for Britain. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. beaming with satisfaction, joined in the drinking of champagne toasts that followed the signing. Hopes for Future After the ceremony the three signers voiced their hdpes for the future in these words: Rusk—“A good first step. . if collectively we and other nations pursue a course to insure that the forward momentum of the agreement is maintained ,by further steps, man’s long hopeful quest for peace will cease to be only a dream and will begin to acquire solid reality.” Gromyko—The treaty "may pave the way for the solution of other, more important, international problems, including the problem of disarmament.” Home—The treaty is "an important breakthrough in the arms race. Now there is a chance to employ our great resources to produce a more abundant Rfe." Although joining in the expressions of hope for the future, Rusk pointed out that the treaty does not end the threat of nuclear war. “It does not reduce nuclear stockpiles,” he said. It does not halt production of nuclear weapons. It does not restrict their use in time of war. "It is therefore not possible for us to guarantee what the significance of this act shall be. History will eventually record how we deal with the unfinished business of peace " Senate Must Ratify The treaty bans all nuclear tests except those underground. Before it becomes binding on the United States it must be ratified by the Senate. Ratification is believed almost certain. The signing of the agreement today sharpened still further the split between the Soviet Union and Red China on ideological issues. A complicating factor in reaching further agreements is bound .to be the determination of both France and Communist China to achieve their own nuclear forces. The signing of the historic document took only a few minutes, with three copies of the treaty being passed around for signature. After each signature was affixed to the treaty which was bound in. vellum, an attendant carefully blotted the signature. There was barely time to establish a television hookup Wtween Moscow and Western members of the Eurovision network. The signing started even before television transmission began. Large U.S. Delegation United Nations Secretary General Thant and the large American delegation—which included four Democratic and two Republican senators, as well as U. N. Ambassador Adl a i Stevenson—were among the observers. After the signing, there was a general round of handshaking. A round of applause and handshakes had followed each signature. Khrushchev said last week the treaty “should ’contribute to a general relaxation of international tensions” and Rusk said on arrival Saturday he hopes it will be a "turning point” in the cold war., The foreign ministers will begin talks Tuesday to find other issues on which settlement might be reached. Attacked Treaty Opponent* Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky attacked Communist China and American "wild men” for opposing the treaty. But highlevel American sources here warned that the United States does not intend to relax its vigilance in dealing with tfoe Soviet Union because, _Qf the split between Moscow and Peking.

Pressure To Ease Wheat Price Drop

WASHINGTON (UPl)—Pressure is building up on the administration to ease next year’s drop in wheat prices despite President Kennedy's attitude that the farmers asked for it when they voted down his price support program in a referendum. Among those urging second thoughts are a number of farm state Democrats, including Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn., assistant Senate majority leader. Humphrey is drafting a new wheat bill and predicted in an interview before leaving for Moscow to witness signing of the nuclear test ban that "there’ll be some rethinking on this question in the administration within a month.’.’ A number of legislators ‘of both parties have introduced various bills aimed at softening the price decline despite the expressed belief of administration farm spokesmen that Congress will not act: Opposed Administration Plan Wheat growers voted May 21 against the administration plan for mandatory production controls with high price supports for the' 1964 crop. This meant that, with no new program, wheat price supports will drop from $2 a bushel this year to $1.25 next year. Even the reduced support price will be available only to growers who voluntarily comply with planting restrictions. A number of Republicans, headed ’by Reps. Albert H. Quie, Minn., Robert Dole, Kan. and Don L. Short, N.D., have pro-

Seven Are Drowned In Indiana Waters By United Press International Seven persons drowned in Indiana lakes, rivers and streams over the weekend, including three youngsters and a kidnap suspect attempting to flee police. James Williams, 22, Cairo, 111., drowned in the Little Calumet River at Gary Sunday when he and another man wanted in connection with the abduction of a young woman fell into its oil-filled waters after running from a state police trooper who stopped their stolen car on the Indiana Toll Road. Williams was swept away by the swift current but his companion, Marion Tabor, 18. also of (Jairo, grabbed a tree limb extending over the water and was rescued by |x>)icc. Randall Spears, 16, Indianapolis, frowned in a gravel pit at the northeastern edge of the city Sunday where he and friends were attending a swimrping party. He was the second Indianapolis resident to drown within four hours. The other victim was Karl Fashbaugh, 21, who drowned hen he apparently suffered a cramp while swimming in Fall Creek. His body was recovered by a friend in eight feet of water. Carl Richard Tampke, South Bend, was wading with his brother at Pinhook Lagoon in South Bend when he apparently stepjx“d into deep water at a drop off Sunday. His father, Paul Tampke, said he was watching the boys when his attention was diverted momentarily. When he looked Carl was missing. His body was recovered later by a South Bend patrolman. Joyce Mrozkinski drowned Saturday while trying to retrieve a ball from Lake James.. The girl was vacationing with relatives at the resort town and was playing a game of catch when she fell in trying to get thew ayward ball. The body of Merlin Moorse, 56, Walkerton, was recovered Sunday after he apparently fell from his boat in Koontz Lake near Walkerton. Charles Potter, 58, Dugger, apparently drowned, although there was a possibility he suffered a stroke Saturday at a pond south

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posed a program modeled on the existing plan which offers acreage-diversion payments and price supports to farmers who cut feed grain plantings. Sens. Spessard L. Holland, DFla.; George D. Aiken. R-Vt., and others have sponsored the American Farm Bureau Federation’s plan to abolish all wheat-feed grain controls, set supports at comparatively low levels and set up a voluntary program of payments for' non-use of acreage. Proposes Voluntary Program Sen. George D. McGovern, DS.D., recently proposed converting the acreage-limitation plan rejected last May 21 to a voluntary program with no cash mar. keting penalties for farmers who choose to ignore it. Humphrey's bill would be based in general on the existing program and would offer price supports above the currently scheduled 1964 level to farmers who voluntarily convert wheat acreage to other uses. The Minnesota Democrat believes legislation to head off the drop in prices is urgently needed before the 1964 crop of winter wheat is planted this fall. He said a sharp drop in .wheat income could damage the farm credit structure—and Democratic election prospects in farm states. “We cannot content ourselves with doing nothing,” he said. "The government has a responsibility because the prices of farm products are directly related to the general prosperity of the nation.”

of Dugger. He was sitting on the bank when he slipped in. No autopsy was ordered. Only the quick work of a fireman saved the life of an Illinois man Saturday when he failed to come up after diving into Koontz Lake in Starke County. M. R. Nelson, 52, of Bannock Burn, was revived by the unidentified fireman after being dragged from the lake unconscious. Five Kansas City Policemen Charged KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPD — A veteran police sergeant faced charges today of leading four patrolmen. on a $5,000 burglary spree of businesses on their beat. Chief Clarence, M. Kelley said seven men. including two civilians. were charged in connection with the burglaries of shops in the exclusive Country Club Plaza and Brookside shopping centers. Kelley said the investigation was continuing, but he believed the case was solved. He* said "most of the 80 men Stationed at the Country Club station" had been grilled about the crime wave which lasted less than a year and hit 26 businesses. Sgt. Robert L. Cox, 47, a 23year police veteran, masterminded the burglaries which were staged while the officers were on duty patrolling the area. Kelley said. "They all showed remorse,” Kelley said. "The apparent ease with which it appeared it could be done ..and financial gain" prompted the burglaries. Officers charged with burglary and stealing were Cox; Ralph E. Lamb, 29; Donald P. Denning, 26; Randolph K. Burton 26, and Hormr Wayne Martin, 24. John Strong. 24, a roommate of Martin, was charged with ttirg. lary, and Robert Boyce Rogers, 32, a motel bellhop in Kansas City, Kan., was charged with receiving stolen good*. "Statements have been,, taken from Burton, Martin, Strong and Lamb,” Kelley said. "Rogers, Denning and Cox deny the allegations and have not made statements.”