Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 191.

Test Ban Pact Security Aid

WASHINGTON (UPD — The : chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission assured senators today that the nuclear test ban treaty would permit U.S. antimissile weapons development and should improve, rather than jeopardize, American security. ( Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, testifying Fin behalf of the pact to outlaw all but underground testing, said i this country “already has" a number of nuclear warheads eligible for use on anti - missile missiles. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who discovered plutonium, said that if Russia broke the treaty the U.S. Could resume atmospheric “proof tests” of nuclear weapons in “perhaps a month." Development tests would ■ take three montAs to start and ■ effects tests would take from three to six months, he said. But Seaborg emphasized that this .country might “not want to test that soon" because it has 18 years of experience and has made “hundreds of tests.” Some Minor Risks Appraising the over-all military effect of the pact, Seaborg told the three-committee group considering the treaty: “There are some risks but they are minor. In the balance, I think Fit is in favor of improving the ' security of this country if you approve the treaty.” Politically, be said he believed that “the people of the United ‘States want a treaty of this sort” and that they “regard it as a step along the road toward seasing tensions and slowing the arms race.” Seaborg said he hoped the United States, Britain and Russia “would seek ways of modifying the treaty” in the future to make way for above - ground peaceful uses of nuclear energy. In weapons development, Seaborg said the treaty limits “only the complete development of new types of very large weapons above several megatons in yield.” He said such development would be “very difficult if possible at ah." But he said this country already has tested weapons as large as a yield of “about 15 megatons.” This compares with Russia’s development of a nuclear device above 50 megatons. Good Small Bombs Seabord said he agreed with others that a larger number of smaller bombs can “do the job better” against an enemy than

Rail Dispute Talks Collapse

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The touchy railroad work rules dispute appeared today to have been dumped back in the lap of a reluctant Congress. Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz announced Tuesday night the collapse of collective bargaining talks he had been holding with union and rail negotiators. Both Senate and House Commerce committees, which had been considering President Kennedy’s proposal that the work rules impasse be settled by the Interstate Commerce Commission, suspended action, pending outcome of Wirtz’ attempt to get the parties to settle it themselves. Collapse of the talks indicated pressure would be back on Congress to step into the situation. Accuse Each Other Both the railroads and the group of five rail unions involved accused each other of failing to bargain realistically. The situation sounded considerably like it did late last month when the railroads agreed to postpone for 30 days imposition of new work rules that would eliminate socalled “featherbedding” jobs and practices and touch off a strike. The moratorium on work rules changes ends Aug. 29. Hearings by the committees produced bitter union reaction to the administration propasal, which the railrodas have endorsed. It was this politically explosive reaction and sugsequent comment from congressmen that more collective bargaining was in order that prompted Wirtz to organize the new talks more than a week ago. The unexpected breakdown of the talks came as the railroad firemen's union assembled 140 members of its policy - making committee here at the request of Wirtz so they would be on hand to accept any agreement reached in the talks. The group would have to decide at a meeting today whether to stay around in

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single super bombs of upwards of 100 megatons, the highly touted Soviet maximum. - Two Cabinet officers previously gave strong support to the treaty. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara assured the senators the treaty, which bars all but underground tests, would not scuttle development of an anti-missile missile system. Warhead design for such a weapon already has been adequately tested in the atmosphere, he testified. He said the United States, with “tens of thousands” of atomic warheads, is “manifestly superior” to Russia in nuclear power and risks little in ratifying the test pact. Like Secretary of State Dean Rusk, he said the treaty is secu-rity-safe and a “first step” worth taking. Sharp Questioning Seaborg, a former University of California physicist, faced sharp questioning on the scientific possibilities of underground testing, and on how the treaty limit will affect the “Plowshare” program of peaceful atomic uses. Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, lowa, ranking Republican senator on both the Senate foreign relations and joint atomic committees, questioned “what the peaceful use handicap is” in the treaty. He said in an interview he also is interested in the technical details of underground testing as the only form left open to the nuclear powers if the treaty is ratified as expected. “The record ought to be as clear-cut as possible on the things we can do and can’t do,” he said. Says Pentagon Approves McNamara told the foreign relations, armed services and joint atomic committee members that all senior Pentagon military and scientific advisers back the treaty with its present safeguards. The first testimony on the treaty by a military chief was set today before the preparedness subcommittee under Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Miss. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies behind closed doors. The concern over anti-missile missile development was voiced Tuesday by Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., an armed services member. Air Force Reserve general and presidential prospect. , Goldwater charged in a Senate speech the treaty may be “opening a possibily fatal gap in our defenses” because of its possible effect on anti-ICBM development.

hopes the new deadlock could be broken or return home. Appeals To Both Wirtz appealed to both sides to consider again changing their positions and said prospects of settlement depended entirely on one side or the other making a concession. But J. E. Wolfe, chief railroad negotiator, said flatly that “a negotiated agreement is hopeless.” H. E. Gilbert, president of the firemen’s union, said Wolfe was ■saving “no settlement on other than our (railroad) terms.” If Wolfe’s statement is final, Gilbert said, the five unions have no choice but to prepare for a nationwide walkout the minute the work rules are posted. Wolfe said the railroads had agreed in imposing the new work rules to “protect those now working" and to accept the principle that kibs would be eliminated by attrition — normal retirement or resignation — but charged that the union would eliminate jobs at a rate lower than attrition. A union spokesman charged that the unions answered Wirtz’ request for a fresh statement of its views during. the talks but “we didn’t get anything back from the railroads.” Pre-Enrollment At Adams Central School All students planning to enroll in the junior or senior high school at Adams Central this fall are to come to the school to fill out their enrollment cards, pick up and pay for books and handle any changes in their class scheduling. The dates and times are as follow: freshmen, 8-10 a.m. Monday, August 28; sophomores, 1.3 p.m. Monday, August 26; juniors, 8-10 a.m. Tuesday, August 27; seniors 1-3 p.m., Tuesday, August 27; seventh grade, 8-10 a.m. Wednesday, August 28; eigth grade, 1-3 p.m. Wednesday, August 28,.

Four Escape Serious Injury In Accident A local family fortunately escaped serious injury in a freak one-vehicle accident near the entrance to Stratton Place Tuesday afternoon, in almost the identical location of the fatal mishap Monday evening. Kenneth Fisher, 23, route 5, Decatur, and his wife,. Sharon, escaped the accident with minor injuries, as did their daughter, Kay E. McMillen, five-years-of-age, in the 2:19 p.m. accident Tuesday. A second child, Mark S. McMillen, was not hurt in the acaident. Fisher suffered bruises to the leg and shoulders, and his wife received a bruised leg. The young daughter suffered bruises and shock, and was held at the Adams county memorial hospital for observation. Brakes Out The accident occurred as Fisher was operating a pick-up truck, designed for camping trips, toward Decatur on 224. As he came into the curve at the entrance to Stratton Place, he applied the brakes as a car was traveling in front of his vehicle. The brakes, however, completely failed and Fisher attempted to turn into the Eastside Texaco station to avoid crashing into the unidentified auto in front of him. It was reported that Fisher said he was going to attempt to drive into the station lot, go between two autos parked there, and out into a field at the rear of the station. Turns Over Tom Garwood, 428 S. First St., was working under one of the autos and he was climbing out from under when the truck came into the lot. Fisher swerved to avoid Garwood, and the vehicle turned over on its right side and skidded approximately 30 feet into the auto on which Garwood had been working. The Fishers and the two children were rushed to the hospital. The two children were riding 'inside the cabin portion of the pickup. Damages were listed at 1500 to Fisher’s vehicle, SSO to the car on which Garwood was working, v(hich was owned by Charles A. Fisher, 310 Winchester St., and S3O to another parked car owned by Warren Demond, 124% S. Second St., the station manager. A car jack, which was holding Jhe Fisher car, was ruined by the force of impact, and valued at $l5O. The city police and Adams county sheriff’s department investigated the mishap. Accident Victim's Funeral Thursday Funeral services for Daniel Mark Alford, four-year-old Selma boy was was killed in the cartruck collision east of Decatur Monday evening, will be conducted at 10 o’clock Thursday morning at the Zwick funeral home in this city. r Dr. Thurman Morris will officiate, and burial will be in the Gardens of Memory cemetery at Muncie. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. The child was born at Angola Feb. 8, 1959, the son of the Rev. Reginald and Flora Adams-Alford. The father who is pastor of the Methodist church at Selma, and a brother, William, 11, are still confined to the Adams county memorial hospital with injuries suffered in the crash. Surviving in addition to the parents and brother are a sister, Linda Susan; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Adams of Oxford, N. Y., and Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Alford of Lake Placid, N. Y. Kent D. Steiner, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Steiner of Upland, who was also riding in the Alford car, is reported still in critical condition at Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. His mother was uninjured, and two brothers and one sister were not seriously hurt. All were riding in the Alford station wagon. Charges of driving to the left of center were filed against Bradford Laird Rogers, of Kirklin, driver of the truck involved in the crash, near the entrance to Stratton Place, east of Decatur.

INDIANA WEATHER Fair and quite cool tonight. Thursday sunny and a little warmer. Low tonight 48 to 55. High Thursday 75 to 82. Basset today 7:43 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 5:57 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Mostly fair and a little warmer. Lows mid 58s north to upper 50s south. High in the lowwr oUs.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 14, 1963.

Probe Deeper Into Troubles At State Farm PUTNAMVILLE, Ind. (UPD —A prisoner in a stupor from swallowing pills taken in a raid on the Indiana State Farm hospital drug room during a riot of 500 inmates Sunday night was rushed today to Indianapolis for medical treatment. State correction commissioner Arthur Campbell identified the prisoner as Oliver Heath. He said Heath was “in a stupor but was reviving” after taking the drugs. He was taken to the Indiana University Medical Center’s Robert Long Hospital. ■ Campbell returned from Indianapolis after an overnight rest to probe deeper into th,e troubles at this minimum security institution which houses 1,434 prisoners. Six of 14 who escaped during and after the riot remained at large today. Five inmates who escaped earner gave themselves up to guards and state police Tuesday but three others walked away from the fenceless minimum security institution. The latest escapees were identified as Edward Lee Hepley, 23, Ronald Melvin Alder, 20, and Robert Wayne Lee, 21. The five recaptured Tuesday were among seven prisoners who escaped from the institution at the height of the Sunday night riot touched off by the death of an inmate in the prison farm hospital. They were Samuel Crouch, 26, Robert G. Stith, 19, Bill Taube, 36, and George A. Quinn, 21, all of Muncie, and Wendell Raines, 22, Anderson. Still at large were the other two who escaped Sunday along with the three who fled Tuesday and one of the four who escaped Monday. The riot and series of escapes have led to a large-scale investigation by Governor Welsh and Correction Commissioner Arthur Campbell said following two conferences Tuesday with Welsh. He and Welsh both said, however, they wanted to get all the facts before making the changes at the , institution now being guarded by 15 riot gun-carrying state troopers. Campbell said he had ordered a special guard for the farm hospital which was a major target of the rioters after the death Sunday from pneumonia of Paul Farfell Hobbs, 18, Indianapolis. Three troopers were detailed to the hospital, occupied by several prisoners injured in the riot. Campbell, who served a stretch of guard duty himself Monday night, said officials received a tip of a new riot that night but that a two-hour shakedown of dormitories apparently stymied the plans. He said the only contraband discovered during the search consisted of some cigarettes. Campbell indicated that one of the planned changes would involve the replacement of Dr. Herbert Dester, 75, as physician at the farm. He said he had been searching for a successor to Dester, who has asked' to resign, for several weeks prior to the riot. He said the salary allowed for the post was a factor in his inability to replace Dester. One Os Siamese Twin Boys Dies LOS ANGELES (UPD — One of the Siamese twin boys born to a 16-year-old Glendale, Calif., motherlast Saturday died early today from an infection oif the blood stream. Daniel Bartley was separted from his brother, David, Sunday in a three-hour operation at Children's Hospital. David, who has not shown symptons of the infection which took his brother’s life, was reported still on the critical list but “holding his own.”

House Group Votes Income Tax Cuts

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Ways and Means Committee voted, 19-4, today to cut everybody’s income taxes starting Jan. 1. The tax rate reductions — recommended by President Kennedy —would average 20 per cent and cost the Treasury $9.5 billion in revenue when fully effective on Jan. 1, 1965. The net tax relief would average less than 19 per cent. Savings for some taxpayers would be reduced by tax-tightening provisions. This probably would hold the net revenue loss from individual tax relief below $9 billion. Still facing the committee were showdown votes on the President's recommendations for reductions in corporation tax levies. Kennedy’s over-all tax program is de-

North Adams School To Operate Both At Decatur, Monmouth

Policies Set At Meeting Os School Board The North Adams community school board *in its most productive meeting to date, decided to continue operating both Monmouth and Decatur high and grade schools tor the coming year, set attendence policies, transportation routes, registration dates, let coal and oil bids, etc. No word has ,yet been received on the fifth member of the board, but the four presently serving functioned during the meeting. No chairman or vice chairman has been Selected, but Clarence Bultemeier is serving as temporary secretary of the board, and Herbert Banning is serving as treasurer. Records Turned Over The exchange of records and funds is practically completed, Gail Grabill, superintendent, stated. Decatur school system, Washington township, Preble township, and Union township have completed their records and turned over their assets, and Root township has practically completed theirs. k The general policies necessary to start this fall were decided, and they may be modified at any time by the board, if the situation warrants, AU Teachers Kept All written and verbal contracts by the former school corporations, will be honored. All school teacher contracts this spring for both schools had the same standards of pay, so they will remain the same. All school bus drivers contracted by the township trustees will be kept. Only Senior Transfers This will affect 20 students who formerly transferred to Hoagland, Monroeville, or Adams Central. Since they will be paying taxes to run five schools in their taxing area now, transferring is no longer necessary. Minimizing transfers was part of the purpose of school reorganization. No School Changes All students from grades one through 12 will attend the schools that they have been attending within the school district, except any high school student who desires to transfer to Monmouth or to Decatur because of curriculum needs will be allowed to do so. Requests should be made to the present high school principal. Transportation routes will be similar to those in previous years with modifications necessary to pick up those students formerly transferred to schools not in the present district, or to pick up new students. Registration dates for new students will be announced by the principals of the various schools in the near future. (Continued on Page 3)

signed to provide net reductions of $10.6 billion for both individuals and corporations. In today’s committee action on individual tax rates the closest vote came on a Republican move to make the second stage of the two-stage tax reduction contingent upon the size of the national debt on July 1, 1964. This motion was defeated, 13-12. When fully effective in 1965, the tax rates would range 14 per cent to 70 per cent. Rates now range from 20 to 21 per cent. The 14 per cent levy would apply to the first SSOO of taxable income received by all taxpayers. The top rate of 70 per cent would apply to taxable income in excess of SIOO,OOO, $200,000 for married couples filing joint returns.

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SECOND ANNIVERSARY, THE BERLIN WALL —Second anniversary of erection of the Berlin wall Is marked by Dr. R«*ner Bartzel, left, a West German minister, who lays a wreath on the memorial to Guenther Liftin. Liftin was the first refugee to be killed while trying to escape from East Berlin after the wall went up.

Annual Monroe Days Open This Evening The annual Monroe Days celebration, sponsored by the Monroe Lions club and the Monroe rural fire departments, begins tonight with the opening parade. The event runs from today until Saturday. Featured in the parade will be the several candidates for Miss Adams county, plus floats, farm equipment and bands from county high schools. Rides provided by the P & J amusement company of Massilon. Ohio, and consession booths and sidewalk stands operated by Monroe residents and merchants will also be open this evening. Chicken barbecue dinners will be served each evening at the Monroe town hall and fire station. The midway will be set up on Main Street in Monroe. Thursday the tractor pulling contest will be held. The lightweight contest is scheduled for 10 a.m. and the heavyweight contest is set for 5 p.m. Friday evening, the talent contest for the queen candidates will be held, and each of the young ladies vying for the covented crown will be competing in the show. Saturday evening the results of the contest will be announced and the winning girl will be crowned. One of the girls in- the contest will also be elected as “Miss Congeniality” by her fellow contestants.

Red Cross Chapter Is Congratulated

The Adams county Red Cross chapter, its volunteers in the blood program, and all those who gave blood in 1962-63 were congratulated today by Dr. Harry C. Harvey, director of the Fort Wayne regional blood center, for collecting 104.3% of the assigned quota in 1962-63. The record made by the chapter indicates "excellent work on your part,” Dr. Harvey wrote the chapter. In addition, Dr. Harvey "Thank you all for the excellent blood collection made on Monday, August 5. Our nurses report that you provided good volunteer help and that things went along well ■ A total of 156 came in, and 146 bottles of blood were secured for general use. There were 23 firsttime donors, 14.7%, and 37% of the donors, 54 of them, were females. “You have fine percentages of both replacements and women donors,” Dr. Harvey continued. "Your total collection is wonderful, and gave us the ‘lift’ that we needed after a very ‘sick’ weekend. We have had a difficult time all through July and so far in August, due to (Continued on Page 3)

Racial Skirmishes Continue Over U. S.

By United Press International Defiant integrationists sat atop power poles, lay down on railroad tracks, fought police and were arrested by the dozens Tuesday in demonstrations in Chicago and Elizabeth, N.J. The demonstrators promised to return for more action today. The racial skirmish in Chicago’s South Side saw integrationists tangle repeatedly with police. At least 41 were arrested and many of the integrationists were carried bodily to waiting paddy wagons. At one point an estimated 1,000 persons concrcgated and jeered police. * ■' $ ” The squabble centers around the use of mobile classrooms in the Negro neighborhood, scene of racial quarrelling for the past several weeks. The integration ists claim the use of the mobile classrooms perpetuates alleged de facto segregation of the city's public schools. Climb Power Poles During the height of the melee a young Negro man and a teenaged Indian girl from Wisconsin climbed up two power poles and stayed aloft for several hours in the rain. Another demonstrator chained himself to a pipe Six girls lay down on the railroad tracks near the moblie class rooms. Three women dived underneath one classroom trailer and had to be dragged put. At Elizabeth, civil rights pickets and a squad of police fought it out in. three clashes at the construction site of a $5 million courthouse annex, and later at the site of a 15-story apartment building. Police arrested 46 demonstrators. It was the most fierce outbreak of violence since demonstrations began eight days ago in the city against alleged job hiring practices. On Other Fronts Related developments across the nation: ‘ Houston, Tex.: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking to a meeting of southern city officials warned that local governments will only have self-rule in proportion to the amount of civil rights they are willing to guarantee. Chicago: The American Bar Association's house of Delegates censured civil rights demonstrations that intentionally violated laws, and public officials who try to maneuver around court desegregation mandates. Pittsburgh i An estimated 300 Negroes picketed the offices of the Duquesne Light Co. Tuesday protesting alleged discriminatory hiring practices. Five persons, were arrested in the. second consecutive day of picketing of the utility firm. Los Angeles: The presidentelect of the American Medical Association MAMAI” said the organization is making an effort to end

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i discrimination against Negroes in 1 the practice of medicine. Manassas, Va.:. Sixteen restaurants in the greater Manassas area were desegregated following talks between restaurant operators and a biracial group of the local chamber of commcr©, Washington: Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N. ¥., announced that his Senate office would close Aug. 28 while he and his staff take part in a mass civil rights demonstration. Columbia, 8. C.' Henri Monteith a 17-year-old Negro girl, was notified that her application for adI»1 |cU' 14 tax izv iltA T —I £S tilths ton to tnc university of South Carolina next month has been approved. Rev. Jacob Wendel Is Taken By Death The Rev. Jacob D. Wl-ndel, 75, of Ridgeville route 2, retired pastor of the Church of God at Salamonia. died at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Pleasant Dale nursing home at Grand Prairie, Tex., after suffering a stroke Sunday. He was born in Adams county July 29, 1888, a son of Phillip and Margarent Emerick-Wendel. Surviving are his wife. Hallie; a stepdaughter. Mrs. Bill Marie Archer of Dallas, Tex., with whom Rev. and Mrs. Wendel had resided since March; one stepson. Buddy of near Dallas; one sister Mrs. Mary A. Kable of Willshire. O.; one brother, Lewis P. Wendel of Chattanooga. O.; a half-brother Leslie Wendel of Bryant, and many nieces and nephews. Five brothers and sisters preceded him In death. Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Middleton funreal home in Ridgeville. Kent Steiner Still In Critical Condition Seven-year-old Kent D. Steiner, a resident of Upland, remained in critical condition at the Park view hospital in Fort Wayne today. Hospital officials reported at 1:15 p.m. today that the youth is still listed as “critical.’ The youngster was seriously injured in the fatal car-truck on U. S. 224 Monday evening near the entrance to Stratton Place. The mishap glaimed the life of Dan D. Alford, 4, the son of Rev. and Mrs. Reginald Alford of Selma, near Muncie, in Delware county. The Steiner boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Steiner of Upland, and the grandson of Rev. E. G. Steiner, former pastor of the Evangelical Mennonite church in Berne.