Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 187.

TwoCentllike In City Levy

The 1964 Decatur city tax levy may be two cents higher than the present rate of $1.75 if the newly prepared city budget is approved by the council at its special public budget meeting August 26. If approved at that meeting the budget requests will be passed as an ordinance and become the city’s financial blueprint for the coming year. Clerk-treasurer Laura Bosse said this morning that the twocent raise, which moves the rate to $1.77, has been apportioned into two departments in the budget request. An 11-cent rate has been requested for the park department, which last year had a 10 cent rate, and a raise from five cents to six cents has been requested for the police pension fund.. The new assessed city valuation is $14,356,000, as compared to last year’s figure of $14,331,000. There is a difference of only about $25,000. General Fund The city budget is subdivided into sixteen accounts. Eleven of these are general fund accounts and the others are separate accounts. The eleven general fund accounts are: mayor’s office, clerktreasurer, city judge, city attorney, police department, fire department, city engineer, city hall, department Os health, sanitation, common council. The general fund Jevy is $1.41. The other accounts are: street department, park department, recreation, police pension fund, firemen’s pension fund. The mayor's office budget request was $5,540, exactly the same as last year. The clerk-treasurer’s department budget request was $9,338, $142 more than the present budget of $9,196. The raise is chiefly due to an item in the budget for the purpose of extra office equipment. The city judge is marked for $2,530 in the new budget, $345 more than the present budget. The raise includes a $250 item for the purchase of furniture, fixtures and office equipment and a SIOO increase for office supplies. The city attorney is budgeted for $2,298, exactly the same as last year. Police Budget The police department amount, $72,117, is $7,169 more than the present police budget. The raise is attributed to plans to add one more man to the force ($4,5741, furniture for the new police station ($1,000), maintenance for the new building ($730) and additional ■clothing allowance ($275.) The budget request for the fire department is $45,724, $5,325 more than last year, The raise is due to provisions fefr a new fifrnaee ($2,100), rental fees on equipment ($1,225) and volunteer clothing allowance was increased as required by law ($475.) A provision for $1,900 worth of new equipment raised the city engineer’s budget request to $12,300, as compared to this year’s figure of $10,400. The city hall’s budget is unchanged from this year’s figure of $6,235. The department of health budget is $3,322, sllO more than last year’s figure of $3,212. The raise is due chiefly to a SIOO allotment for the printing of health regulations. The sanitation budget is $24,962. This is $8,560 more than last year’s budget of $16,312. The raise is chiefly due to a $7,000 item for a possible land fill contract for disposal of garbage and trash. An additional $650 has also been budgeted for repairs. The common council budget request is $70,978, $875 more than the present budget of $70,103. Actually, a sizeable increase is represented here since the present budget

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VISITS SON— President Kennedy leaves the Children's Medical Center in Boston after a visit to his infant son, who died early this morning.

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included the $5,100 cost of las year’s city election and the hew one does not. The raise is attributed to a $3,500 proposed addition to the street light and power fund and an additional item calling for $2,000 for city hall furniture. Other Accounts The total rate for the other acX®unts comes to 36 cents. This is divided among the accounts as follows: street department, 9 cents; park department, 11 cents; recreation, 9 cents; police pension, 6 cents; firemen’s pension, 1 cent. The street department ras requested $77,881, $1,321 more than its present budget. The raise is due to minor increases in the requests for several sections of the street budget. The park department has requested a $4,340 increase which would raise its budget to $17,765. The increase is due to a request for additional equipment funds ($2,400) and materials ($800). The recreation department has requested $45,255, $1,300 more than the present budget. Besides a S4OO equipment account increase the raise is due to an increase in the “contractual services” figure for preliminary work on a tennis court. There is a request for $14,956 for the police pension fund, 51,281 more than last year. The increase is for contingencies. The firemen’s pension request was $2,565, only sls more than last year. None of the above figures become official budget amounts until approved by the council and passed as an ordinance. The total general fund amount this year is larger but the rate, $1.41, is exactly the same. This is because there was a good general fund balance at the first of the year and there has been some increase in revenue. Present operating balances are at or above the required level and most of them are about die same as last year.

House Group Okays Reduction In Taxes

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Ways and Means Committee today approved reductions of 16 and 20 per cent in the taxes individuals must pay on profits from sales of stocks and other property. This completed final committee action on all of the structural revisions in personal income taxes recommended by Kennedy except his request for elimination of the preferential tax treatment of income from stock dividends. The committee next week is expected to approve a compromise version which would apply tougher tax treatment only to dividends received by large stockholders. It also is expected to approve across-the-board reductions in individual and corporation tax rates, thereby completing action on the big, tax bill. Key committee Democrats have tentatively agreed on the broad outlines of a formula that would result in a net tax cut of almost $lO billion, staged over two years. Other congressional news: Aid' The House Foreign Affairs Committee served notice that it was prepared to recommend a cutback in U.S. aid to India and Pakistan if they do not do something to resolve their bitter wran-

Geneva Observance Saturday. Sunday The program for Gene Stratton Porter dhy’s which will be observed Saturday and Sunday, August 10 and 11, at Geneva has been announced by Earl Da Wald, who is chairman of the annual event sponsored by the Geneva Civic Progress Association, Inc. Saturday’s schedule includes judging of uptown window decorations at 10 a.m. and a Gene Stratton Porter memorial dinner at Kozy Korner. The contest for Freckles of 1963 will be decided there and speeches will be made by G„ Remy Bierly, former judge of the Indiana appelete court, and M. B. Hale of the Indiana department of commerce and public relations. At 7:15 p.m. a talent contest win be held on Decatur street near the town hall with David Neuen of radio station WAJC, Indiartapolis, acting as master of ceremonies. There will also be judging of a gay nineties costume contest for men, women and children. Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock a historical tour of Gene Stratton Porter’s birthplace in Wabash county, 'including the Hopewell church and cemetery, will be made. The tour will also include other scenic and historic spots and will assemble at the Limberlost state memorial. There is no charge for the tour. Tickets for the memorial dinner are $1.75 for adults and 85 cents for children below school age. All proceeds from the event will be used to promote Geneva’s Limberlost heritage. Bermuda Is Hit By Hurricane At Noon HAMILTON, Bermuda (UPI) — Hurricane Arlene hit Bermuda at noon today with 80 m.p.h.. gusts of wind and torrential rains. The island was on storm alert for the big blow, the season’s first hurricane. The Weather Bureau said Arlene was moving swiftly northeast about 100 miles offshore and predicted its violence wpuld subside within hours. * The Weather Bureau said the storm was no threat to the U.S. mainland.

gle over Kashmir. The committee said in a report on the administration foreign aid bill that members felt the quarrel held back economic progress which the U.S. aid is intended to stimulate. Braceros: Senate Democratic leaders postponed until next week floor action on a bill to extend for one more year authority for importing Mexican migrant laborers for work on American farms. Research Center' Senate Democratic Leader Hubert Humphrey today gave his backing to a SSO million space research center for Boston. Humphrey indicated, however, that he did not think one center was enough. The Minnesota lawmaker said perhaps “two or more” would help the space effort. Debt: Administration forces anticipated little trouble today in a drive to persuade the Senate to accept a House-passed bill to keep the legal ceiling on the national debt from falling below the actual size of the debt. Unless the bill is passed, the limit on the debt will drop on Sept. 1 from $309 billion to $285 billion. This would block federal government activities because the Treasury Department would be barred from selling new bonds.

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Infant Son Os President And Mrs. Kennedy Dies 39 Hours After Birth

Rusk Confers With Nikita

GAGRA, U.S.S.R. (UPI)-4Sec-retary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev I met at this sunny Black Sea re-| sort in an atmosphere of shirtsleeved informality today for hard-headed talks aimed at easing cold war tensions and guaranteeing the security of West Berlin. The Soviet premier, in obviously good spirits, introduced Rusk and his party to members of his family and even suggested that they take a swim in his heated pool before getting down to serious discussions. Khrushchev’s relaxed mood was evident when he gave orders to let startled newsmen enjoy themselves on his estate. “Let the correspondents go as they like, go for a stroll or go bathing—or anything they want,” he said. A surprised aide put the bathhouse and other recreation facilities at the disposal of the newsmen. The Americans fanned out on the estate to see as much as possible. After the morning session oH talks, Khrushchev hosted a lunch for the Americans on the porch of the main house. Rusk, who flew here Thursday from Leningrad with a short stopover in Moscow, was returning to the Soviet capital later today. Diplomatic sources in Moscow said Rusk planned to “cover the waterfront” in his talks with Khrushchev. They said Rusk’s discussions may range from major cold war issues to the question of freeing an imprisoned American. Rusk, who came to Moscow to sign the nuclear test ban treaty, has remained to hold talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Khrushchev on possible further progress in easing the cold war. He flew Thursday to Khrushchev’s holiday villa near the Black Sea resort of Gagra and was due back in the capital lat-„ er today. Both sides have expressed the hope that the treaty banning nuclear tests in the air, outer space, and under water is “only a beginning” of steps to ease tension between East and West. But there appear to be differences over what step to take next. Khrushchev has pressed for a non-aggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw treaty alliance. The United States is more concerned with the security of Berlin and with the Soviet suggestion that means be found to guard against surprise attack by either side. Berlin has taken on new importance in the thinking of the American delegation, which also includes Ambassador Foy D. Kohler and the former ambassador Llewellyn D. Thompson. This is because of fears Khrushchev’s non -aggression treaty plan might pose new dangers for Berlin’s security. Rusk will fly to Bonn Saturday to discuss these and other implications of the East-West talks with West German officials. The Bonn government has been reluctant to sign the test ban treaty, fearing it would imply recognition of Communist East Germany, and opposes the non-ag-gression treaty for the same reasons.

INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warm with ahowen or scattered thunderstorms endinc early tont<ht, becomlnr fair and cooler late tonight. Saturday mostly fair and pleasant. Low tonight lower Ms. High Saturday 78 to M. Sunset today 7:48 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 5:52 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly fair and mild. Lows low Ms. Highs low and mid 80s.

Early Approval Os Nuclear Ban Asked By JFK WASHINGTON (UPD — Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen said today he believes President Kennedy is “fully prepared” to show that the nation’s security is safer with the pending nucleajtest ban treaty than withou it. Hie Illinois Republican’s statement indicated he expects the President to produce Pentagon witnesses who were reluctant to endorse a full test ban but are ready to accept the all-but-under-ground test ban proposal. The Big Three treaty went to the Senate Thursday with the President’s plea for its swift ratification. Dirksen said in an interview he did not know exactly what the military will say. But on the key question concerning protection of U.S. security, which has troubled the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the past, Dirksen said: “I presume that the President is fully prepared through necessary witnesses to fortify the agreement that our security, instead of being impaired, will be enhanced by the provisions of the treaty.” Morton Forecasts Approval Dirksen declined to join Senate GOP Campaign Chairman Hiruston B. Morton in forecasting a strong vote of approval for the pact. Morton told United Press International he expects a vote of 79 to 15 for the treaty, with only about six Republican votes of the 15 against it, figuring an average of six absentees. “This treaty will assure the security of the United States better than continued unlimited testing on boh sides,” the President said in his message to Congress urging ratification. Earlier this year. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara testified that the Russians had narrowed the nuclear weapons gap in their last series of nuclear tests after they violated this country's test suspension. But he emphasized that the U.S. was still ahead and it would be better to freeze nuclear weapons development to hold the U.S. lead. Underground Ban Missing The pending treaty bans tests in the outer atmosphere, above ground and under water. Its advocates contend that readiness to resume this kind of testing — if Russia cheats and resumes testing — can be preserved by continued underground tests. But there is concern in Congress on this point. Some members think test readiness, particularly through loss of scientific personnel unwilling to remain partially idle, will be hampered inevitably. But the President stressed that "it is rarely possible to recapture missed opportunities to achieve a more secure and peaceful world.” He added: "To govern is to choose; and it is my judgment that the United States should move swiftly to make the most of the present opportunity and approve the pending treaty.” Fisherman Drowns As Boat Overturns SANDUSKY, Ind. (UPD —Robert kirk, 29, Adams, drowned Thursday night while fishing at a Decatur County farm pond a few miles north of here. State police said Kirk and an unidentified companion were fishing from a boat when the craft overturned. The companion reached shore safely but Kirk drowned. His body was recovered about two hours later.

BOSTON (UPD — Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, infant son of President and Mrs. Kennedy, died today 39 hours after his birth, his heart exhausted in the struggle with a respiratory ailment. The president was with the tiny infant when the end came at *O4 a.m. EDT in a giant pressure chamber at Children's Hospital Medical Center. He lived just 39 hours and 12 minutes after his birth by Caesarean section at 12:52 p.m. Wednesday. White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, in making the somber announcement of the child’s death, said: “The struggle of the baby to keep breathing was 1 too much for his heart.” The grief stricken President, red-eyed and his face swollen apparently from crying over the death, arrived at Otis Air Force Base, Mass., at,9:28 a.m. to comfort his wife Jacqueline. Kennedy, wearing a dark blue suit, literally leaped up the hospital steps. His brother, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, bounded right after him. The formal announcement of the death had been made by Salinger in Boston 5 hours, 23 minutes earlier. Unable to Breathe Salinger told newsmen the child simply could not stand the strain put on his 17-inch-long body by the inability to breathe properly. The pressure chamber was a final effort by pediatricians to ease this burden and for a short time it seemed to be working.•<* - The official cause of death given by the hospital was prematurity and hyaline membrane disease. The disease is a coating of mucous within the lungs. Oxygen is prevented from getting into the lungs of the child in sufficient quantities. Arrangements are being made for the baby's funeral to be held Saturday the White House said. “The exact time and the place of the funeral, which will be private," will be announced later today,” Salinger said. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy had not been notified of the death as of the time of Salinger's 4:30 a.m. EDT announcement, the press secretary said. The First Lady has been in excellent condition at the base hospital since the birth, 5 weeks premature, of her son Wednesday But the infant had struggled all the way. Within hours of his birth, the child had to be taken by ambulance to the Boston hospital where facilities were trfieved available to handle his breathing problem, known technically as idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome. The boy's condition seesawed during his 34 hours at the hospital. Kennedy Called*Back Thursday morning, doctors had noted “some encouragement” but Kennedy was summoned back from Cape Cod, where he had been visiting his wife, in the early afternoon because of a decline in the infant's condition. The child's breathing improved after he was placed in the huge pressure chamber which provided needed oxygen for his tiny lungs. But at 2:10 a.m. EDT, the President was awakened in his fourth floor room at the hospital and advised to go to the chamber on the ground level. Six From County Are Enrolled At Purdue Six Adams county students, including two from Decatur, have enrolled for the fall term at Purdue University. Miss Cynthia Susan Collier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Collier, Homestead 43, and LaVren Bertsch, route 4, Decatur, are among the six Purdue enrollees from Adams county. Also enrolled are Earl Wayne Kennel route 1, Berne; Marvin Lee Jor ay, route 1, Geneva; Joanna C. Wheeler, route 2, Geneva and Keni DeWayne Ringger, route 1, Monroe.

Train Robbery Loss IsOver $7 Million LONDON (UPI) — Confirmed bank losses in Britain’s “great train robbery’.’—the largest robbery in history—soared today to a staggering $7,005,600. Estimates of the final total ran as high as $8.4 million. Most of the loss was in cash believed to be untraceable, and there still was more to be accounted for in gems and other valuables. As Scotland Yard detectives and post office security agents scoured the country for the robbers who stopped and looted the Glasgow-London mail train in predawn darkness Thursday, the nation’s banks began to learn what they had lost in the stickup. Most of the money was in old bills due to be destroyed and none of it—as far as could be determined—was recorded by serial numbers to be easily traced. But reports said the mail train also was carrying diamonds for the London market. Postmaster General Reginald I Bevins said the robbery, which I occurred on a deserted section of ! track near Cheddington, smacked of "an inside job.” Rewards totalling SIOO,OOO were offered for clues leading to the i capture and Conviction of the gang, thought to number between 20 and 30 men. It was hoped members of the gang might fall out over their immense booty and give police a chance to pick up a lead. Most of the stolen bills were believed untraceable.

Plan Monroe Days August 14 To 17

Planning for the 1963 edition of Monroe Days, to be held this year August 14-17, are now well underway and several entries have already been received for the Miss Adams County contest, which is decided each year during the event. Fair chairman Stanley Arnold said that the P and J amusement company of Massilon, Ohio, has been contacted to supply rides for the fair. The midway will be set up on Main street in Monroe and will feature a large and varied number of rides. Chicken barbecue dinner will be Monroe town hall and fire station. The fair is being jointly sponsored by the Monroe city and rural fire departments and the Monroe Lions club. The opening parade for the four day celebration wil be held Wednesday evening, August 14. Candidates for the queen title will be ridnig in the parade, which will feature floats, equipment and several county high school bands. The rides and concessions will be opened that evening and on every evening of the fair. Thursday, the tractor pulling contest will be The lightweight contest is scheduled for 10 a.m. and the heavyweight contest is set for 5 p.m. ' Talent Contes Friday evening the talent contest for the queen candidates will be held, and each of the young ladies vieing for the title will be putting fortn her best efforts in the show. Saturday evening the results of the queen contest will be announced and the winner will be crowned. One of the girls in the contest will also be elected as “Miss Congeniality” by her fellow contestants. ... ’. The winner of the contest will receive a S4OO scholarship and a watch. The runner-up will receive a luggage set Dee Byerly and Bob Baxter, co-chairmen of the queen

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Willard Jackson - Dies Unexpectedly Willard A. Jackson, 62, of St. Petersburg, Fla., a former city and rural mail carrier at Portland, died unexpectedly at 11:10 p. m. Wednesday at the Wayne hospital in Greenville, 0., after an illness of only one hour. Mr. Jackson was employed at the Portland post office for 37 years, and then served as driver examiner for the Indiana license bureau for five years until his retirement in January of this year. He and his wife had been visiting in this area for the past two months. He was born at Salamonia, July 4, 1901, a son of Delbert and Prudence Wehrly-Jackson, and was married to Georgia Martin Dec. 12, 1928. Mr. Jackson was a member of the Christian church at Portland. Surviving in addition to his wife are one son, Robert L. Jackson, with the U. S. Air Force at Panama City. Fla.; one daughter, Miss Suzanne Jackson of Indianapolis; three grandchildren: four brothers, E. W. Jackson of Gary, Lester Jackson of Elkhart, Arthur Jackson of Gary, and Guy Jackson of Pittsburgh, Pa., and one sister, Mrs. Elvta Gorsnch of St. Petersburg, Fla. Two brothers and one sister are deceased. Private funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Paul Temple officiating. Burial will be in the cemetery at Salamonia. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 p. m. Saturday until 1 p, m. Sunday.

contest, said that the contestants will be judged for talent, persanality, poise, charm and general ability. To date seven candidates have registered for the contest. All are high school seniors, as the rules of the contest require. The contestants are: Seven Candidates Miss Judy Hirschy, a senior at Adams Central and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hirschy of route 4, Bluffton She is sponsored by Decatur Ready Mix. Miss Lois Ann Long, a senior at Geneva high school and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Long of Geneva. She is sponsored by Stucky's Gass and Appliances, Geneva. Miss Dianne Miller, a senior at Monmouth high school and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Miller of route 5, Decatur. She is sponsored by the Co-op Lumber company of Monroe. Miss Kathy Rafert, also a senior at Monmouth and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Rafert of route 3. Decatur. She is sponsored by Yost Construction company of Decatur. Miss Patty Railing, a senior at Monmouth high school and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Railing of route 3, Decatur. She is sponsored by Beavers Oil Service of Decatur. Miss Debbie Smith, a senior at Adams Central and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Smith of route 4, Decatur. She is sponsored by Zurcher Mobil of Monroe. Miss Shery Yoder, a junior this past year at Hartford high school and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Yoder of Linn Grove. She is sponsored by Meuhberger Brothers Stone corporation. Byerly and Baxter said that entries can still be taken for the contest and urged all interested girls to enter.

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