Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 204.

Senate Committee Votes Approval Os Nuclear Test Ban Treaty By 16-1 Vote

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OPTIMIST PAST PRESIDENTS Dan Freeby, left, and Ralph Habegger, right, were awarded plaques commemorating their terms in office this morning by Tom Sefton, incumbent president, at the early morning meeting.

Rail Strike Is Averted

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Lastminute action by Congress and President Kennedy kept the nation’s railroads operating today and prevented a strike over the bitter work rules dispute. The House overwhelmingly approved and Kennedy signed into law Wednesday night legislation providing for binding arbitration on the two key issues — firemen’s jobs and composition of train crews. The legislation removed the threat of a railroad strike for at least six months. After that period, it would be possible for a walkout to take place over other issues such as pay schedules and job jurisdiction. It was the first time in memory that Congress had ordered arbitration in a peacetime labor dispute. The railroads hailed the action, but the rail tunions termed it a “regrettable and backward step” that could affect labor-management relations. . Signs Bill Quickly The President, who signed the bill 90 minutes after the House approved the Senate-passed measure, said it reaffirmed “the essential priority of the public interest over any narrower ‘inter-

Contract Proposals By General Electric The General Electric Co. announced contract proposals in New York Wednesday for a nevy threeyear contract replaceing one that expires Sept. 29 to IUE and UE members. Negotiations are now in progress in New York with the IUE and UE. Employes of the Decatur plant are members of the UE. Talks began with informal subcommittees which met some 30 times between May 2 and Aug. 5, when formal negotiations opened. The company said it also is making proposals to about 100 other unions with which G. E. bargains locally and to patternmakers nationally. The G. E. proposal offers two pay increases 18 months apart, each ranging from five cents to more than 10 cents an hour. The wage increases would be effective Sept. 30, 1963, and April 5, 1965, and would average seven cents ah hour each company wide. In addition to wages, the company proposal offers a five-year contract on vacations, insurance and pensions, which G. E. says includes 20 improvements. The company is also proposing to shorten the number of years of service necessary for longer paid vacations from 15 years down to 10 for three weeks of vacation, and four weeks of vacation after 20 years of service;

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Kennedy said that free collective bargaining was preserved. The railroads had threatened to put into effect at 12:01 a.m. today new work rules that would eliminate 37,000 firemen’s jcbs. The unions said they would strike if the rules were imposed. When the House completed congressional action with the strike deadline only eight hours away, the railroads promptly pulled down their notices of the rules changes and the unions cancelled their strike orders. Sets Up Board The new law authorizes creation of a seven-man arbitration board, made up of two members from each side and three public members, to rule on the firemen’s and train crew issutes within 90 days. Strikes or lockouts are prohibited during the two-year life of the panel’s decisions. Pay schedules, job jurisdiction and other secondary issues would be left to collective bargaining, with a strike banned for 180 days. Both sides indicated after passage of the bill that they were ready to start ta'lks immediately on these issues.

Closing 4*H Events Today At State Fair INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Charcoal smoke and the odor of barbecued chicken floated over the Indiana State Fairgrounds today as 19 amateur chefs competed for the state cook-out championship. The contest drew 10 entries in the junior division and nine in the senior division. Today’s program also marked the fair’s final tribute to the state’s 4-H boys and girls with adult competition scheduled to begin Friday,. Final events for the 4-H members included a tractor driving contest, parade of champions and dress review. The fair had its biggest crowd so far Wednesday with 35,617 persons passing through the gates. The attendance was boosted by the 7,000 musicians who participated in the annual high school band contest, won by Madison Heights of Anderson after several years of finishing near the top. Madison Heights finished just two points ahead of perennial champion Rest Davis of Marion County, which won the event three years in a row until Vincennes Lincoln claimed the crown last year. The contest, which drew 97 bands, was a triumph all around for Madison County schools. Anderson finished third and Anderson Highland tied the defending

United Press International , WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today approved the limited nuclear test ban treaty by a vote of 16-1. Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., was the lone dissenter. The committee voted to send the .pact barring all but underground nuclear tests to the Senate floor for consideration starting Sept. 9. The committee meriibers agreed that their written report would contain “understandings and interpretations” regarding continued U.S. test preparedness. ,- s Chairman J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., said the committee members made the “usual” reservation that they would.be free to vote for or against the treaty on the floor, regardless of their vote in committee. No formal reservation to the treaty were proposed in committee but three procedural motions were offered and rejected. One by Sen. Bourke B.*Hickenlooper, R-lowa, defeated by a 10-7 vote, would have requested President Kennedy to furnish the committee copies of his treaty correspondence with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. A second by Sen. Karl E. Mundt, R-S.D., proposed delaying the treaty vote until 48 hours after the printed record of the hearings was available. This was rejected by an 11-5 vote. The third motion, by Sen. Frank J. Lausche, D-Ohio, proposed that the Armed Services and Joint Atomic Committee members — who sat in on the three weeks of hearings on the pact—be invited in for discussion before the Foreign Relations Committee members voted pn the treaty. This lost on another 11-5 vote. Sen. George D. Aiken, R-Vt., offered the formal motion that the tieaty be reported to the Senate without reservations. It was adopted on the 16-1 roll call vote. One “understanding or interpretation” to be set forth in the formal report, Fulbright explained, will be a statement that the treaty will not prevent the United States from using nuclear weapons in wartime. Concern on this point was voiced by former President Eisenhower, as well as by some other witnesses. Other statements will cover the administration’s assurances that “safeguards” demanded by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to make certain U.S. test readiness is maintained will be carried forward. Sen. Frank Carlson, R-Kan., was voted by proxy for the Hickenlooper motion and for reporting the treaty. He was not voted on the Mundt or Lausche motions, Fulbright announced.. Sidewalk Curbs In Block Are Replaced Sidewalk curbs in the 300 block of South First street, from Adams to Rugg streets, are being replaced in preparation for resurfacing of the street. i champions for fourth place. Two other Madison County schools finished in the top dozen. *• Francis E. Barker, who directed the Madison Heights band in what he called an “interwining twist step" which swept the judges off their feet, gave part of the credit to a withered four-leaf clover he wore in his lapel. “I knew this one coaldn't miss,” he said. “My kids gave me this two years ago when we finished fourth and when we came in second last year I put it in the refrigerator for safekeeping.” Crown Point and Southport tied for sixth, Selma was eighth, Columbus ninth, Alexandria and Monroe Twp. tied for 10th and Elwood, Zionsville and Salem tied for I2th. Other placing? included Princeton 15th, Lafayette Jeferson, Lebanon and Noblesville tied for 16th, Pendleton 19th, New Carlisle 20th, Fort Branch, Franklin and Carmel tied for 21st and Knightstown, West Vigo and Worthington-Jef-ferson tied for 24th. Wednesday’s program also brought the windup of the 4-H dairy contests with Steve Bachelor, 18, Angola, winning the showmanship award.

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Civil Rights March Pushes Negro Cause

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The greatest civil rights march in U.S. history, hailed as a huge success by its backers, gave new impetus today to the American Negro’s centuries-old struggle fo;r racial equality. A vast throng, estimated by Police Chief 'Robert V. Murray tr> have numbered more than 200,000 at its peak, converged on the capital Wednesday for the rally —which resembled more a revivalist camp meeting than a militant civil rights demonstration. At the end of a long and weary day, with words of praise from President Kennedy and Washington officials, they streamed out of the city by bus, train, plane and auto in the same disciplined manner that prevailed throughout the “march for jobs and freedom.” The President, who met with the 10 march leaders for more than an hour, declared that the march had advanced the cause of the nation’s 20 million Negroes and of all mankind. He said he could not help but be impressed with the “deep fervor and the quiet dignity” of the gathering. He pledged to push for new civil rights legislation, and to continue efforts for more jobs “and to eliminate discrimination in employment practices.” Predicts Other Marches The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a Baptist preacher wh o was one of the leaders of the Birmingham, Als., civil rights battle, said the march would “inevitably lead to an outbreak of little Washingtons all over the country.”

Pump Oxygen Into Utah Potash Mine

MOAB, Utah (UPI) — Rescue workers pumped oxygen into an explosion-charred potash mine today in hope that 15 men who were trapped Tuesday behind a deadly barrier of carbon monoxide were still alive. The operation was aimed at providing life-giving oxygen for the 15 men if they were still alive and at making it possible for rescue crews to work 3,000 feet underground. Twenty-five men were originally caught by the explosion Tuesday afternoon. J> - Two men were rescued from the mine. But eight other men were known to be dead. The body of one, too mutilated for immediate identification, was brought to the surface early today. That left 15 men unaccounted for among the 25 who were in the mine when the explosion occurred. At least 5 were known to have been alive at mid-day Wednesday, but rescuers could not reach them because of the deadly carbon monoxide caused by the explosion. Pump in Oxygen State Mine Inspector Steve Hatsis said the major effort of rescuers today was to pump oxygen deep into the mine and drive the carbon monoxide out so rescue teams can go in. This, he said, may take from 12 to 24 hours. Hatsis said the mine’s regular ventilation system had been repaired as much as possible and rescuers were pumping the oxygen through it on the assumption that it was reaching the critical areas where men were believed to be trapped. - - “We should have followed this program 24 hours ago,’’ Utah Industrial Commissioner Casper A. Nelson told a news conference today. two men came out fflive, and we thought if they could come out, we could go in." Two survivors, lifted out of the charred shaft Wednesday afternoon, said at least five other men were alive and attempting to' avoid deadly gas fumes behind a

“I shall propose a civil rights march through the South that will go straight into the Black Belt ot Alabama and Mississippi this year and in 1964. We must provide ‘little Washingtons’ everywhere so that the Negro in the cotton field who can’t get to Washington can have a chance to express himself,” he said. Floyd McKissick, newly elected chairman of the board of the For —Racial Equality 'CORE', described the march as “the end of the Negro protest and the beginning of the American protest.” To 74-year-old Negro labor leader A. Philip Randolph, tired and drawn from the weeks -of planning for the march, it was “the greatest demonstration for freedom in the nation's history.” Plan Early Meeting The march leaders will meet in New York within the next 10 days to map further plans. These will include possible continuous “counter-filibuster” demonstrations in the capital should a southern talkathon threaten President Kennedy’s civil rights legislation when it comes up for concessional action later this year. Chief Murray estimated that about 10 per cent of the marches were white; other estimates by newsmen and other observers ranged as high as 30 per cent. Josephine Baker, the 60-year-old Negro expatriate who flew here from Paris, told the demonstrators they were “together as salt and pepper, just as you should be. You are a united people at last.” i

barricade of rubberized cloth. However, four < rescue-, workers said they covered a “substantial part” of the mine Wednesday night without locating the barricade—but found eight bodiis scattered ,near the shaft mouth and down the east drift. This left 15 men unaccounted for. General manager Frank Tippie said a crew started down at 12 55 a m.. MST (3:55 a.m., EDT> and planned to work through the east drift in a diesel-powered vehicle. He said the crew could bring the five possible survivors to the surface, “regardless of whether they are fouijd dead or alive.” Tippie said today’s crew would have better and safer working conditions. Hampered By Water The crew which descended into the 2,712-foot vertical shaft Wednesday night was hampered by. water leaking into the shaft “like a hard rain.” A water pump station at the edge of the "hole” was knocked out by the explosion which trapped the 25 construction workers Tuesday afternoon. The pumps were repaired shortly before midnight. Tippie said Repairs also were made on the oxygen-providing equipment, and air was being pumped ift t o the 3.300-feet-long east drift where any more survivors likely would be found. Utah State Industrial Commissioner Casper A. Nelson, who is coordinating the rescue operations, said the explosion occurred in the 2,500-feet-long West drift. “I don’t hold much. ipojM* for those on the explosive side,” he added. He said the men in the west drift would not only have had to survive the blast, but would have had to barricade against the prison methane gas which apparetly was ignited by a dynamite detonation. “That's very unlikely,’’ he said.

Five Persons Hurl In Head-On Crash Five persons were injured at 10:30 Wednesday morning in the second head-on collision in this area in .less than 24 hours when a car driven by Thomas C. Martinez, Jr., age 14, of Dubbck, Texas, collided with a car driven by Peggy Brotherton, 26. route 1, Celina, Ohio. The crash occurred six and one-half miles east of Geneva on the Adams-Jay county line. The accident was caused when Martinez, traveling east-on 116, swerved directly into the path of the westbound Brotherton auto in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid hitting a dog. "Die dog was killed as the vehicles collided. Injured in the accident were Martinez, who suffered abrasions to the left hand, shoulder and chest, and his passenger Ernest Solis. 14, Lubbock. Texas, who received multiple facial cuts, a severe laceration of the lower eyelid, a possible fracture of the left wrist and a Severe laceration of the left hand., Mrs. Brotherton'suffered a lacTT~ ated knee and chest injuries. Carl B. Brotherton, 27. a passenger in the car, had lacerations of the face and hands and Jackie Brotherton, 10, received lacerations of the head and left knee. Two other Brotherton children riding in the car were uninjured. The injured persons from the Brotherton vehicle were taken by ambulance to Jay county hospital in Portland. Martinez and Solis were taken by friends to the cinic in Geneva. It was necessary for bystarfders to catch the Solis boy, who went running down the road with blood streaming from his arm. Both cars were ta tolly demolished. State police officer Dan Kwasneski. Adams county sheriff Roger Singleton and the Jay county sheriff’s department investigated the accident. The investigation is continued and Sheriff Singleton said this morning that charges will probably be filed against Martinez.

Oratorical Winner Heard By Optimists Bob White, 16, Dayton, Ohio, district winner of the Optimist oratorical contest gave his awardwinning speech at this morning's meeting of the Decatur Opitmist club. Entitled 'Youth's Approach to World Forces,” the speech dealt with the probcms today’s youth faces in dealing with Communism and other forces that threaten world security. "A good moral background. and a strong belief in God are the best guarantees of living a sound and useful life,” was White's concluding statement. During a short business meeting, handsome walnut plaques with bronze Optimist emblems were presented past presidents Ralph Habegger and Dan Freeby in a|>preciatidn of their contributions to the club. School Buses Stolen And Wrecked By Boys INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Two teenagers with a taste for off-beat racing stole two .Lawrence Twp. school buses Wednesday night and wrecked the S7,(MX) vehicles on a Hamilton County road. One of the buses, a 66-passenger 1962 model, smashed into an iron .guard rail on a bridge and ripped out 50 feet of another iron pipe rail. The* frame was believed to be a total loss, but the body may be salvaged, Frdd A. Keesling, superintendent of the Lawrence Twp. Schools, said. The body of the second bus was damaged when it sideswiped the first, forcing it into the bridge. Keesling said the school corporation will be in a bind with school o]H»ning Tuesday and the two big buses out of commission. “They were two of the largest and .two of the best we have,” he said. . , Melvin Mahurin, R.R. 12, Indianapolis, who is in charge of the buses, said the boys broke into a boiler room where the keys to the corporation’s 29 buses were kept. The keys to the wrecked buses were found in them but the other 27 are missing. * Two boys were seen walking near the wreck scene shortly after the accident. First Negro Takes Labor Board Office WASHINGTON (UPD — Howard Jenkins Jr. topk office today as the first Negro member of the National tabor Relations Board. Jenkins 48, is a former law professor and a speciaist in the fields of labor and administrative law.

Nor th Adams Faculty List Is Announced

The faculty list of more than 100 teachers and secretaries for the 2,325 pupils in North Adams Community’ schools shows additional services for the pupils, Gail M. Grabill, superintendent, announced today. A guidance department with Deane T. Dorwin as director, has been added, and it will function for all five schools in the North Adarps area. Dorwin, who formerly headed the guidance work as a part-time job connected with his teaching of speech and history at Decatur high school, has been re- , leased from teaching assignments,, “and will take full-time responsibility for the testing, interviews, counsel, and guidance necessary. The up-grading of guadince is necessary to meet North-Central qualifications. Dorwin will be assisted by Mrs. Dorothy Schnepf on a part-time basis; she will continue to have some classes in English. Mrs. Anna Catherine Alton has been hired as secretary for the department, which will be across the hall from the administrative offices for the department. Also in accordance with newly effective North-Central rules, the Decatur high school librarian, Miss Pumphrey, will spend full time as librarian, and will not be in charge of the study hall. Other teachers will be assigned duties as study hall superintendent. Each teacher will have five class periods and two preparation periods. Speech and Hearing A new .service which will be available for all schools in the district will be speech and hearing therapy, administered by a new i instructor in the system. Miss Nancy Bennett. In addition, the system will have its. own school nurse, as do the other new school districts, Mrs. Catherine Grabill, who was formerly county school nurse. A total of 19 new teachers have been hired, and a 20th teacher,for industrial arts at Monmouth, is still being sought. Starting Time, Lunches Classes will start at 8 a.m.' Tuesday at Decatur high school, Lincoln school, Northwest ElemenI tary, and Southeast elementary, and at 8:30 a.m. at Monmouth school, subject to minor adjustment to meet bus schedules. School will be in session all day Tuesday September 3, and lunches will be served at all schools. The prices for lunches wil be $1.25 a week or 30 cents a day for first through fourth grades, and $1.50 a week or 35 cents a day for fifth through 12th grade. Books, Buses Students at the Monmouth school will get their book list, all books and workbooks at the school. Students riding to any of the schools should be ready at least one hour before school starting time the first morning. All bus routes will be comparable to a year ago, but bus routes havq been slightly modified to pick up new students, omit those no longer attending, and to accomodate former transfers. < _ . . Parents of any children missed the first day should call either the Monmouth school, 3-4114, or the North Adams administrative office, 3-3300. Monmouth Kindergarten Kindergarten students attending Monmouth school will attend from 8:30-11 for the morning session, and from 12:30-3 for the aftern«x>n session the first day. Further instructions will be given at that time. Transportation for Monmouth kindergarten students will be provided to school.in the morning, and home from school for the afternoon session. Parents will be responsible for making transportation arrangements to pick Up the morning students, and to bring the afternoon students, as in the past. North Adams Administration The department of administration of the North Adams community schools include: Grabill, superintendent; Hugh J. Andrews, principal, Decatur high school; Hubert Zerkel, Jr., principal, Lincoln school; John E. McConaha, principal, Monmouth school; Floyd Reed, priclnpal, Northwest elementary; Sylvester Everhart, principal, Southeast elewmtary Dean Dorwin, director orguidance; Marlene Bittner, secretary. Special Teachers Special teachers include Kathryn Kauffman, elementary art; Helen Haubold, high school and elementary music; Clint Reed, elementary band and vocal music; Gary Giessler, elementary physical education and wrestling coach;

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Bernadine Van Skyke, elementary physical education; Nancy Bennett, speech and hearing; Jerry Leitz, relief teacher and Lincoln indue- ” trial arts; Catherine Grabill, R.N., school nurse. Decatur High School The 24 teachers and two secretaries at Deactur high school are: Merritt J. Alger, math; John Butler, English; David Clayton, math; Richard Collins, band; Harry Dailey, Science math; Hubert Feasel, art; Maynard Hetrick, commerce; Phyllis Houk, vocational home economics; William Journay, science, biology; Amos Ketchum, industrial arts; William McColly, commerce and coach; M. Eleanor Pumphrey, librarian: Lowell J. Smith, social studies and audio-visual; Charlotte Vera, Latin and French; Dorothy Schnepf, English and guidance; Catherine Weidler, English and German; Rebecca Worthman, physical education: Robert Worthman, athletic director; Robert Scheidler. Latin and English; Harry W. Yeoman, social studies and coach; Tony Kelly, speech and English; 'Rose Marie Turza, English; Stephen Brandenburg, physical education and coach; Ruth Rawlinson, commerce (’-i time); Vera Doty, secretary; Anna Catherine Alton, secretary. Monmouth School Jesteen Cole, kindergarten: Roxann Gump, grade 1; Vera Harris, Grade 2; Marjorie Fifer, Grade 3; Gloria Nelson, grade 4, Robert Banks, grade 5; Earl ’Dawald, grade 6, Agnes Yager, commerce, - Latin, German: Clark Kolp, social J studies; James T. Robinson, Art, 5 library; Bri,ce B. Smith, science ; and math; Sherman Arnold, comI merce and English; William Mull, 1 Jr., high math. English; Robert Shoemaker, science; Jane Reed, 1 vocational home economics; Diana Linn, English: Don Elder, social > studies and coach; Bradley DuckJ Worth, band and vocal music; Betty Ripley, secretary. Lincoln School Helen.Zwick. kindergarten; Josephine Mclntosh, kindergarten; Madeline Snell, grade -4+ Ruth Petrie, grade 1; Mary Jo Hoffman, Grade 2; Mary Agnes Wemhoff, grade 2; Kathryn Dorwin, grade 3, remedial reading; Magdalena Johnson, grade 3; Claudia Caston, grade 4; Paul Liechty, grade 4; Audrey Bleeke, grade 5; Veronica Linn, grade 6; Stewart Schnepf, grade 7, social studies; John Clark grade 7, math; Harold Mumma. grade 7. English; Roberta Chronister. Grade 7, Science; Emily Engle, grade 7, English; Jerry Mitchel, grade 8. social studies; Charles Swales, grade 8. math; Eloise Andrews, grade 8, English; Thomas Torsen, grade 8, Science; Charles Abel, Grade 8, science; Annis M. Brown, Secretary. Northwest Elementary Janice Schroeder, kindergarten; Marian Giessler, grade 1; Helen Fetters, Grade 1; Carol Bieberich, grade 2; Mary Helen Moran, grade 2; Evelyn Detter, grade 3; Marnell Shephert, grade 3; Irene Friedly, grade 4; Leona Feasel, grade 4; Glennys Roop, grade 5; Vera Van Buskirk, grade 5; Robert Doan, grade 6; Dorothy Eichenauer, grade 6; Justine Everhart, secreSoutheast Elementary Mildred Kocher Robinson, kindergarten; Ruby Swickard. grade 1; Margaret Schnepf, Grade 2; Joyce Iliff, grade 3; Kay Daugherty, grade 4, remedial reading, Wilma Andrews, grade 5; Raymond Lehman grade 6; Barbara Lou Augiist, secretary. NO PAPER MONDAY The Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Monday, Sept. 2, which is Labor Day. Most business will be suspended in the city, including federal, state, county and city offices, the post office. First State Benk and the Decatur public library. Exceptions to the closing will be the theater, taverns, and some restaurants, confectioneries and service stations. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight. Friday mostly cloudy and cooler with chance of a few showers In the morning. Low tonight 55 to 64. High Friday in the 70s. Sunset today 7:21 p.m. Sunrise Friday 6:11 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and a little cooler. Lows 55 to $3. Highs In the 70s.