Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 202.

City Council Okays Budget

The Decatur city council Monday night approved the 1964 budget without making any cuts or additions and passed the necessary ordiance to set the 1964 city tax levy at $1.77, two cents higher than the 1963 rate of $1.75. Responsible for the raise was an increase from five to six cents in the police pension fund. Set Below Last Year’s City attorney Robert Anderson pointed out to council members after the meeting that the new budget is actually lower than the one they approved last year at this time. That budget was set at $1.89, but the state tax board cut it to the present $1.75 level. The city budget is divided into 16 accounts — 11 general fund accounts and five separate accounts. The eleven general fund accounts are: mayor’s office, clerk-treasur-er, city judge, city attorney, police department, fire department, city engineer, city MH, department of health, sanitation, common council. The general fund portion of the tax levy is $1.41. The other five accounts and the portion of file total levy which they represent are: street department, 9 cents; park department, 11 cents; recreation, 9 cents police pension 6 cents; flymen’s pension, 1 cent. The total levy for these accounts is 36 cents. - Higher Amount — Some Rate The total general fund amount for next year is higher but the rate, $1.41, is exactly the same as at present because there was a good

Order Embargo Over Freight

WASHINGTON tUPI) — Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield called on management and unions today to keep the nation’s railroads operating until Congress can deal with the dispute. The Montana Democrat’s appeal came as both sides announced preparations for a nationwide strike scheduled for 12:01 am. Thursday. The carriers showed no immediate sign of budging from their plan to put in to effect at that hour new work rules which would idle about 700,000 rail workers, including both those on strike and those affected by the walkout. Shortly before Mansfield made his appeal, the major railroads announced an embargo on all height effective Wednesday midnight. But they promised to try to get to their destinations any travelers on trains when the strike deadline rolls around. For their part, the five rail brotherhoods involved in the four year old dispute said that instructions will be given tonight to about 150 union officials who will act as strike captains in the event of a walkout. Mansfield said he was “hopeful, but doubtful” that the Senate could complete action tonight on a bill that would put the dispute in the hands to a sevenmember board to arbitrate major issue in the dispute. But he said the responsibility of the carriers and rail brotherhoods was clear. He then declared: “Pending completion of action by the Senate and Congress, I would expect that the carriers will not put into effect the changes in work rules which are scheduled for 12:01 a.m. Thursday and which will precipitate a strike. “The Senate and the Congress will legislate as fairly and as promptly as possible. But the Senate will not legislate under pressure." Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 111., promptly declared that he hoped the postponement “admonition of the majority leader will be taken to heart.’’ A railroad spokesman said the embargo action means the carriers will not accept freight for loading, transporting, interchange or reconsignment after Wednesday midnight. The spokesmen also said most railroads also will not schedule passenger trains’ which would not be able to reach their final destination by the strike deadline. But he said “every effort will be made to move passenger trains already en route to points from which travelers miy conveniently arrange alternate transportation.” The announcements came as the Senate headed toward its first test vote on legislation to settle the four-year-old dispute over work rules changes and block the threatened walkout.

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general fund balance at the first o the year and because there has been a slight increase in assessed city valuation. The new assessed city valuation is $14,356,000, as compared to last year’s figure at $14,331,000, a difference of about $25,000. The amounts requested for the general fund accounts were: mayor’s office, $5,540, the same as the present budget; clerk-treasurer, $9,338, $142 more than the present budget; city judge, $2,530, $345 more than the present budget; city attorney, $2,298, the same as the present budget; police department, $72,117, $7,169 more than the present budget; fire department, $45,724, $5,325 more than the present budget; city enginer, $12,300, sl,900 more than the present budget; city hall, $6,325, the same as the present budget; department of health, $3,322, sllO more than the present budget; sanitation, $24,962, $8,560 more than the present budget; common council, $70,978, $875 more than the present budget. The total amounts requested for the other accounts were; street department, $77,881, $1,321 more than the present budget; park department, $77,881, $1,321 more than the present budget; park department, $17,765, $4,340 more than the present budget; recreation department, $45,255, $1,300 more than the present budget; firemen’s pension, $2,565, sls more than the present budget; police pension, $14,956, sl,281 mote than last year.

The decision was to come on an amendment designed to make the Senate bill conform with a measure approved Monday by the House Commerce Committee, thus speeding the legislative procedure. The House bill was scheduled to come before the rules committee today for clearance to the house floor where leaders hoped final approval could be voted Wednesday. Chairman Warren G. Magnuson, D-Wash., of the Senate Commerce Committee predicted Senate approval by tonight. Hopes For Time But Magnuson held out hope that the railroads would postpone iniposing new work rules that would touch off a strike if Congress is unable to act before the 12:01 a.m. (local time) Thursday (Continued on Page 8) Juries Are Drawn For September Term County clerk Richard D. Lewton announced today that the grand and petit jurors for the September term of the Adams circuit court have been chosen. The jurors’ names were drawn at a meeting of Lewton and jury commissioners Edward F. Berling and Clarence Ziner. > The twelve grand jurors arc; Roman Liechty, Berne; Leonard Johnston, Monroe - Washington township; Robert M. Braden, Kirkland township; Carl Mentor, Preble township; Howard Kennel, French township; Carl E. Amstutz, Jefferson township; Carl Dick, De-catur-Root township; Lloyd Cowens, Decatur-Washington township; Gerald Cook, Washington township; Richard D. Clark, French township.The 24 petit jurors are: Clyde Butler, Decatur - Washington township; Charles Cloud, Decatur-Wash-ington township; Jack Mcßride, Washington township; Robert J. Baker, Root township; Derwood Marker, Root township; Marvin Hart, Geneva; Albert Erxleben, Preble township; Woodrow Kelly, Jefferson township; Calvin Bauman, Root township; Frederick Haugk, Washington township; Richard LaFontaine, Monroe township. Dent Baltzell, St. Marys township; Leonard Liechty, Preble township; Ramond Gelmer, St. Mary’s township; Richard Eringer, Decatur-Washington township; Merle Foor, Blue Creek township; Erwin F. Fuelling, Union township; Gerhard Bultemeier, Preble township; Virgil Haines, Wabash' township; Ralph Loshe, Washington township; Milo Fuchs, Blue Creek township; William R. Gass, Root township; Raymond Eckrote, Hartford township.

Spence Promoted To Evansville District

Milton Spence

Milton Spence, U. S. soil conservation service work unit conservationist in Adams county tor the past four years, has been promoted to conservationist in the Vanderburgh county SCS office, with headquarters in Evansville, Johnston Craig, area conservationist, announced this morning. Spence, who has been a member of the official board of the First Methodist church of Decatur,, and an active member of the Decatur Lions club, came to Decatur as conservationist in 1959, succeeding Cletus Gillman, who was transferred to Jasper county. The Spence’s live at 421 Stratton Way. To Native Area Spence and his wife both came from southern Illinois, and the promotion will place them about 300 miles closer to their homes. While Spence will have the same title, the Vandtrburgh county job is rated higher because of the watershed projects involved in the district. The transfer will be effective either September 1 or 15, and the Spences plan to move the end of this week to a temporary location in Evansville. Spence left early ivionaay - iiiOinifijg Twr* wk and will be there until late Wednesday. The promotion interrupted his annual vacation. Interim Expected Craig stated that he will meet with Hugh David Mosser, chairman, and other members of the Adams county board of supervisors for the local soil and water conservation district. He stated that it may be some time before a successor is named to succeed Spence. Meanwhile, Sam Bell, Adams county technician, will be in charge of the work program here. The clerk, Mrs. Al Lindahl, will continue to handle the requests as before, and handle file work tot the county district. The county district has continued to increase by some 40 cooperators each year, and hss reached 507 this year. In addition, some 30 group projects have been (Continued on Page 8)

Lodge Meets With Viet Nam Leaders

SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPD —U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge conferred here today with President Ngo Dinh Diem’s brother and chief political adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, who was reported to have taken over most of the power in South Viet Nam in a quiet palace coup. The meeting took place shortly after Diem, currently embroiled in a crisis with the country’s buddhists, postponed National Assembly elections until further notice. The elections had been scheduled for next Saturday. It was not known what Nhu and Lodge discussed but the ambassador was Relieved to have made clear to the President's brother the strong American views on the crisis in this Southeast Asian nation that is a recipient of heavy U.S. aid. The meeting was the flrat >•» tween Lodge and Nhu since thn new U.S. envoy arrived here last Thursday on hurry-up orders from Washington. It followed a two-hour and 10 minute meeting Monday between Lodge and Diem. Informed sources said Diem did most of the talking. But they said Lodge did make it clear to Diem that the U.S. “deplores” the sacking of the Buddhist pagodas and toe mass arrests of Buddhists and other dissidents since martial law was proclaimed here last Wednesday. Other sources said there are persistent, although completely unconfirmed, reports reaching Saigon that soldiers in Vietnamese ranger units stationed near the towns of Danang, Phan Thiet and

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 27, 1963.

Two Joyous Coal Miners Are Rescued Early Today After Trapped Two Weeks

Lights For Safely Program On Holiday Adams county has been asked to join the rest of the state in a far-flung promotion of a “Lights On For Safety” traffic program for Hoosier motorists during the 78-hour Labor Day weekend, according to plans of sheriff Roger L. Singleton. Sponsored by the Indiana traffic safety' foundation, all motorists, whether on city streets or rural roads, will be encouraged to turn on low beam headlights at aU times during the period from 6 p.m. Friday, August 30 threugn Monday, September 2. In the special survival drive, all law enforcement agencies, as well as government and civic groups, will be enlisted to give heavy impetus to the crusade to create an extra awareness in motorists to the *need for extra caution throughout the holiday period. Sheriff Singleton stated that the featured program will terminate the 78-day state-wide vacation Bate driving emphasis between Memorial day and Labor Day. “Last year 19 persons perished in Indiana during the Labor Day period,’ the sheriff stated. “This year we will do all we can to prevent these needless crashes in qur county.” He added that drivers should make sure that thehlights are on low beam. He stated that full cooperation would be given to state police and municipal officers. “This experiment in safety can serve as a constant reminder of the existence of hazardous conditions to all who travel during the 4-day holiday.” Sheriff Singleton stated that the “Lights On for Safety” plan will support his department’s efforts to encourage full compliance with traffic laws and regulations. South Bend Man's Death Accidental SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD—A coroner’s ruling Monday listed the death of George Gooding, 38, South Bend, as an accident. Gooding was found unconscious Friday night in a supermarket parking lot. His motor scooter Was across his legs. He died the next day.

Hue. have been fighting among themselves in the past few days. Observers said the outcome of the explosive dispute which has threatened the government could hinge on whether the country’s Buddhist majority heeds the advice of Buddhist leader Thick Tinh Khiet. The government-controlled Viet Nam press agency said Monday that Khiet had offered his full backing to the government in a letter to President Ngo Dinh Diem and had urged all his followers to trust the president. *Ol6 aging priest, the agency said, had empowered four superior monks to settle peacefully the dispute which stemmed from alleged government discrimination against the Buddhists. Khiet, injured in the government’s raid on Saigon’s main pagoda last week, was in a hospital and unavailable for direct comment Reliable sources said U Van Mau, who resigned as foreign minister and shaved his head in protest against the government's anti-Buddhist crackdown, had been arrested. The sources said the foreign minister was under house arrest. There was a police cordon around his home. Diem refused to accept Mau's resignation submitted last week, but granted him three months "vacation." Just who was in control of the government was open to question. It was believed generally that Diem wks functioning as president in name only and that his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, was actually wielding most power.

SHEPPTON, Pa. (UPD — Two joyous coal miners, one singing and the othel dancing a jig, were rescued early today from a cold, dark chamber more than 300 feet uunderground where they were trapped for two weeks. Henry Throne and David Fellin were in high spirits as rescue workers lifted them slowly through the 18-inch shaft drilled 309 feet through dirt, clay, rock and coal; They were flown to' hospital by helicopter and were in “good” condition. Throne, 28, said he would go into the mines again. Fellin, 58, said he was not scared throughout his long ordeal. Fellin was singing “I’ll be coming around the mountain” during his slow ascent. Throne danced a little jig when he reached the surface and saw humans other than Fellin for the first time since Aug. 13. Week In Hospital At the hospital, Dr. Peter Saras, Throne’s physician, said: “Throne still feels in good condition. He has some complaint about the bruises on his right hand and complained about a tingling on the bottom of his feet, which disappeared once he began walking around the room.” Dr. Anthony Fedullo, Fellin’s physician, said: “Fellin is feeling very good. Right now he’s taking a tub bath. He is in a good humor, smiling, glad to be safe. He keeps mentioning ’At no time was I seared.’ tehas complained about a numbness in his toes. There is some swelling, which is subsiding.” Throne and Fellin will be kept in the hospital at least one week, the doctors said. One Miner Still Trapped Shortly after their rescue, H. Beecher Charmbury, state secretary of mines, started efforts to reach Louis Bova, 42, a third miner trapped about 18 feet from Fellin and Throne by the same cave-in. Workers began drilling a 12%inch hole . about six feet east of a six-inch' communications shaft drilled earlier. They plan to expand the hole to 17% inches in an attempt to rescue Bova, whom Fellin believes is still alive. No response has been heard from Bova for seven days. Bova’s 32-year-old wife, Eva, wps taken Monday night to Locust Mountain State Hospital at Shenandoah suffering from shock. She was resting comfortably. Throne was the first to be rescued. He was wearing a football helmet and to cheering men and women on the surface he looked like a grimy astronaut who might have been plucked from a space capsule. Fellin was brought to the surface minutes later. Fellin and Throne donned para-shute-type harnesses for the ascent. It took 15 minutes to bring up Throne and only eight for Fellin, ending an operation that required more than a week of preparation. Saras said all laboratory tests undergone by Throne — blood count, sugar content, urinalaysis and electro-cardiagram — are normal. Asked how Fellin and Throne appeared psychologically, he said. “Perfect — both men. Throne told me he would go down into the mines again. ‘There’s a lot of coal down there,’ he said.” . Saras said, however, that neither of the men had a good night's sleep and explained they probably were “jittery.” INDIANA WEATHER Mostly sunny with pleasant temperatures through Wednesday. Fair and continued cool tonight. Low tonight upper 50s north, 56 to 65 south. High Wednesday near 80 north, in 80s south. Sunset today 7:24 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:09 a.m Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy, showers likely west. Low Wednesday night 57 to 65. High Thursday 75 to 85. No News Parley By Kennedy This Week WASHINGTON (UPD - President Kennedy will not hold a news conference this week.

IF ■■ x I > ' -A, k ■ ■ - I ■ xgflflMl iwKmpw ' ■ - - ON THE MERCY FLIGHT LINE — Two Marine helicopters stood by at rescue site to transport two trapped miners after their entombment some 300 feet deep near Hazelton, Pa.

Lutheran School To Open September 4 -It WM announced today that a pupils new to Zion Lutheran school, 1022 W Monroe Street, not previously enrolled or having attended, will be enrolled Tuesday, September 3;“from 9 am. to 12 noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Book, lunch, and other fees will also be collected on that day from all parents. . Classes for pupils begin Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 8 a.m. with an opening service in the church. Thereafter classes will be held daily from 8:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and from 12:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Zion school is operated for the benefit of the children of Zion church, plus any other families desiring a Christian education for their children. Teaching grades one and two will be Mrs. David Ebeling. Miss Barbara Rutter will handle grades three and four. Grades five and six will be taught by Richard R'iemer, while Smith Snively, the principal, will have grades seven and eight. Trio Sought For Convoy Robbery Three men, riding in an auto with Indiana license plates, are being sought by authorities of Convoy, 0., and Van Wert county for the robbery at the Duds & Suds laundromat at Convoy early Monday morning. The men obtained between $175 and S2OO in the robbery. Homer Murphy, Convoy marshal, who was making his nightly rounds, was near the Hall Lumber Co.- when he observed a man in the laundromat, which is owned by Roy Sinn. As Murphy approached the laundromat, two other men emerged from a rest room and ran. However, oneof the trio, carrying a lead pipe, came to the marshal’s car and as he pulled his gun and started to get oq.t of the car, he was. shoved by the thief. Murphy lost his balance and fell, and the trio fled after taking the marchal's gun. The man who took the gun was described as weighing between 155 and 165 pounds, 5-8 in height and had black hair. The marshall said their car bore Indiana plates but he was unable to obtain the numbers. Van Wert county sheriff W. L. Clay and deputy Wayne Pollack were called to aid 'in the .search. Wreck Victim Niece Os Decatur Resident Mrs. Virginia Rice, of Dixon, 0., who was fatally injured in an auto accident Sunday morning in Ohio, was a niece of Lase Swygart of Schirmeyer street in this city. There are also several cousins residing in this area.

Huge Civil Rights March Wednesday

1 t By United Press International Planning for Wednesday’s masi sive civil rights march on Washington pushed racial developments elsewhere in the nation I into the background, but schools lat Danville, Va., recently the scene of racial violence, integrated without incident Monday. Seven Negroes were enrolled in four previously all-white schools and four other Negroes were were scheduled to be admitted later this week. The school desegregation came as a result of action by the state pupil placement board and was not achieved by the racial protests which started in Danville May 31. Negro leaders said demonstrations would resume in Danville, and it was hoped local Negroes would be aided in a ’'inarch on Danville” Thursday by Washington demonstrators returning to their homes. At New Orleans, civil rights leaders were expected to appeal a federal judge's refusal to dissolve an injunction prohibiting racial demonstrations in Plaquemine, La., another of the nation’s racial hot spots. Racial developments elsewhere in the nation: Birmingham, Ala-: School Superintendent Dr. Theo Wright was expected to reveal soon the names of Negroes and schools involved in court-ordered classroom desegregation Sept. 4. Nashville, Tenn.: Negro Turvillus Hall has become the first of his race assigned to the U.S. Dept, of Labor’s Wage and Public Contracts Division in Tennessee. Mobile, Ala.: The Mobile County School Board today continued to process transfer applications under a 12th grade desegregation plan —-■■■:-' ——— ■ ■ — New York: The National Council of Churches goes into the catering business Wednesday to provide 80,000 box lunches for the march on Washington. Ht. Louis, Mo.' The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has called for a citywide boycott or public schools to protest alleged segregation. Chicago: New York banker Earl B. Schwulst told the National Association of Real Estate Brokers Monday that "the mere fact that a Negro moves into a white neighborhood does not compel the white man to associate with him." High Point, N. C.: Police arrested 15 Negroes Monday night after they locked arms in front of the Center Theater in protest against segregation. New York: James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), will remain in jail in Louisiana rathei than participate in the civil

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| rights march on Washington, the CORE National Action Couns" cil said Monday night. *" Farmville, Va.: Five Negroes were convicted Monday on chargn e& resulting from a. sit-in demons stration at a restaurant July 27. e . . — Orangeburg. S. C.: About 60 young Negroes staged a march u Monday on Mayor S. Clyde Fair's s office to protest the jailing of 14 e demonstrators arrested Saturday j during a sit-in demonstration. ft .

» ■ . ■ County Board ; In Study Os Levee Repair 1 Consideration of repairs for the • Weidler levee in Wabash township ■ and the possibility of paving the • south three miles of road 39 in ■ Kirkland township were the chief items of discussion at the meeting of the Adams county commissioners Monday. 1 The commissioners took time out from their meeting to drive to the levee site and inspect the work that needs to be done thdre. The levee was built several years ago to protect about 1,000 acres of farmland from the overflow of the , Wabash river. A pumping station I was built on the protected side of the levee to pump accumulated storm water toward the river. The . pumping station was designed so that the river overflow could not back up into the protected acres. County Belongs To Association A county road runs across the levee and when the levau and pump station were built the*cbunty joini ed the levee association and paid part of the cost of construction because several county ditches drained into the area. The water from these ditches also has to be pumped out and into the river. Recently the 60 inch pipe which runs under the levee and through which the water is pumped to the river began to collapse and several members of the association appeared at a commissioner’s meeting to request that the county repair it. After inspecting the site yesterday, the commissioner were of the opinion that the repair work was the responsibility of the levee association and not of the county. They told the members of the association to formally petition either the commissioners or tht circuit court. Then a decision would be made as to who was responsible for the repair of the (Continued on Page 3)