Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 206.

Vietnamese Government Seeking Popular Support As U. S. Showdown Near

Brief Filed In Sales Tax Case

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A new brief filed in opposition to a two per cent Indiana sales tax alleges there is no such law or any other 1963 legislation because there was no legal legislature. The argument came from former State Sen. Nelson G. Grills, D-Indianapolis, who filed a brief with the Indiana Supreme Court Friday night. Grills during his years in the Senate and since has campaigned for legislative reapportionment which has not been carried out in Indiana since 1921. )“The persons purporting to act as members of the General Assembly were without authority to adopt legislation," the brief said, referring to a Marion Superior court ruling in a case he won. Grills referred to a decision by Judge John Linder which held that legislators were without legal authority because of their failure to reapportion. The decision was not appealed. "Unless either the decision of the court is reversed by an appellate court or the judge through granting a new trial, changes his decision, we are without a legisHigh Speed Blamed In Traffic Deaths By United Press International Two traffic crashes apparently caused by high speed killed three persons in the first few hours of the Labor Day holiday weekend in Indiana, pushing the state-wide highway death toll to 831 compared with 754 a year ago. Robert McClure, 32, Winslow, was killed late Friday night when his car went out of control at a high rate of speed along Indiana 61 north of Winslow and overturned twice. State Police said McClure was thrown out of his car, which rolled over him. Two Elkhart men were killed early today when their* 9 car car crashed out of control, also apparently at high speed, and wrapped itself around a tree along U.S. 20 west of Elkhart. They were Raymond Algee, 22, the driver, and James E. McCain, 18. Authorities said both men were pinned in the wreckage.

‘Mystery’ Body In Mine Only Debris

SHEPPTON, Pa: (UPI) — Highspeed drills today were expected to finish reaming out a rescue hole to the presumed location of missihg miner Louis Bova. A volunteer- may go down to investigate. Bova, 52, buried in an Aug. 13 cave-in along with David Fellin and Henry Throne, has not been heard from since Aug. 20. The other two were rescued early last Tuesday. A tense silence descended on this dusty valley Friday and on the men who have tirelessly probed the ground for Bova when H. Beecher Charmbury, state secretary of mines, reported that a television camera lowered Into on escape hole had picked up what seemed to be the forrri of a man. That silence lasted until late in the day when Charmbury emerged from a tent after a conference with Andy Debrito, who had been lowered into the hole to investigate. Charmbury reported to a crowd of more than 100: Concrete Plug "It was a concrete plug, along with a piece of rope. It could easily give the appearance of a body--.we are very proud that we have men like Andy who are willing to go down there and look around." Debrito walked off, and the

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lative branch of government in Indiana,” Grills said. Grills also took a strong slap at Lt. Gov. Richard O. Ristine, a Republican. “Clearly for the president of the Senate to authenticate a statute by signing his name to the statute when as presiding officer, he knew it was not passed by a majority, is so manifestly wrong and prejudicial to the public interest as to create a conviction that it was a result of fraud and a plain disregard of public duty,” he said. Ristine case a deciding vote in adoption of the sales tax law in the form of a committee report on which the vote was 24-24. A constitutional majority for passage of a bill is 26. Grills represented two Lake County organizations as a friend of the court. They are the North Hammond Businessmen’s Association and a group called Hoosiers for Good Government. It was the second brief filed Friday. The first, also opposing the tax, was entered by Dallas Sells, president of the Indiana AFL-CIO, who filed the suit which resulted in Judge John L. Niblack’s ruling the law was unconstitution 1. Another brief is scheduled to be filed next Tuesday by Marvin Sedgwick, Valparaiso, official of a coin-operated vending business. Sedgwick mailed the brief Friday but the statehouse will be closed for the Labor Day weekend until Tuesday morning. Larry Macklin Head Os Young Democrats Larry Macklin was elected president of the Adams county Young Democrats at an election meeting held Friday night at the John L. DeVoss home. Macklin succeeds Jay De Voss, who was not a candidate for relection. Other officers are Miss Dianne Linn, Vice pregident; James Heimann, treasurer, and David Eichenauer, secretary. A membership drive will be conducted within the near future, and the Young Democrats also plan to work with ttie county Democratic central committee in the fall campaign in cities and towns of the county. Other plans will be made following a fourth district meeting.

drills which had been silent all day suddenly went into dperation again, filling the night with the whining that meant Louis Bova, alive or dead, still was to be located deep in the earth. When Charmbury first saw the television image, he had reported excitedly that it seemed to show "a minder’s hat, head, shoulders, arms, legs, and boots. The body appeared to be in a sitting position against a post.” Hope Is Revived The picture had been taken in the 305-feet-deep hole through which Fellin and Throne were rescued, and though they reported no communication with Bova since Aug. 20, it was believed the third man might have crawled into the chamber after their escape. When Bova's brothers Daniel and John saw the image and reported “it’s possible, It’s possible,” excitement mounted at the lonely mine here. Shortly the number of s began to grow. More television pictures were to be attempted today, and the drilling continued unabated, but the chances for the survival of Louis Bova were privately considered slim by almost all observers here.

SAIGON, Viet Nam (UPD—Vietnamese gathered in downtown Saigon today at a government rally called 'in support of the crackdown on Buddhists and imposition of martial law. The government-controlled Viet Nam press agency said 200,000 persons jammed city hall square in front of the U.S. information office. Unofficial sources put the crowd at about 30,000. Reliable sources said the rally was organized on orders of Ngo Dinh Nhu, the powerful brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, to demonstrate support for the government’s policies in a time of crisis. The government’s play for popular backing came as diplomatic sources said U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge probably will meet with Diem within the next few days for a showdown on the Buddhist crisis. The sources said Lodge is expected to demand the removal of Nhu as the only way to end the crisis and press ahead with the government’s drive to wipe out the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas. Nhu, who heads South Viet Nam’s secret police, is thought to hold most of the real power following the government’s raids on Buddhist pagodas and mass arrests of opposition elements last week. About 10 government-controlled organizations participated in the rally. Most of the crowd appeared to be civil servants or soldiers in civilian clothes. Speakers of the various organizations praised the government’s decision to impose martial law 11 days ago and denounced Buddhist leaders as “political speculators.” They urged all Vietnamese to “give all-out support to President Ngo Dinh Diem, the people’s only leader.” Diplomatic sources interpreted the government’s removal of gold and foreign exchange from Saigon banks to the presidential palace ar a precaution against a headon clash with the United States over current policy. The sources said the withdrawal of the currency is in preparation for shipping it out of the country. Hie sources said Lodge will deliver to Diem the demands outlined in a Voice of America broadcast to Viet Nam — but later repudiated by the State Department. The demands, accompanied by a threat of reduction of the U. S. aid to South Viet Nam, were believed to include these: —Outster of the secret police officials responsible for carrying out last week’s raid on Buddhist pagodas and the arrest of thousands of Buddhist priests and nuns. —The resignation of Nhu and the removal from influence of his outspoken wife, Madame Nhu, who has called the Buddhist leaders Communists and referred to their protest suicides by fire as “barbecues.”

NOON EDITION

Burglary Suspect Nabbed In Chicago Alfredo Martin DeLeon, a suspect in the June 16 burglary of the farm home of William Harvey, has been apprehended by the FBI in Chicago. Adams county sheriff Roger Singleton received word of DeLeon’s arrest today from Calvin B. Howard, head of the Indiana division of the FBI. DeLeon is wanted in county on charges of first and second degree burglary and grand larceny. The FBI, when given his description by local authorities, managed to find a photograph of him and began searching for him in several cities throughout the United tSates. They found him working in a restaurant in Chicago, arrested him and turned him over to Chicago city police, who. are holding him now. Sheriff Singleton has dispatched a warrant to Chicago and jwill go there some time next week to pick up the prisoner. He said this morning that there is a possibility that some more of the loot from the robbery might be recovered.

OHLY DAILY NEWSPAiy IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturdcw, August 31, 1963.

List More Winners Al Indiana's Fair The latest list of winners from the Indiana state fair includes the name of four Adams county residents who were blue ribbon finishers. The four are: David Clark, route 4, Decatur, garden and fruit exhibit; Dan Nagel, route 2, Berne, garden and fruit exhibit; Nancy Brehm route 1. Berne, 4-H foods; Judy Mosser, route 2, Geneva, 4-H foods. There were serveral other Adams county ribbon winners. Four-H foods: Debbie L. Barger, route 2, Decatur, white ribbon; Decatur, red ribbon; Jane Lehman, 419 Main street, Berne, red ribbon; Diana Dennison, route 1, Monroe, red ribbon; Linda Conrad, route 2, Decatur, red ribbon; Barbara Conrad, route 1, Monroe, green ribbon. Entomology: Rex Journay route 3, Decatur, pink ribbon; Kenneth Strouse, route 1, Decatur, pink ribbon; Dan Seltenright, 1009 Highland Park, Decatur, pink ribbon. Garden and fruit exhibit: Michael Isch, route 1, Berne, red ribbon.' NFO Gives Warning Os Withhold Plans ST. PAUL, Minn. (UPD—The National Farmers Organization may start Tuesday to withhold marketing corn, soybeans and sorghum in 19 states, the group’s president has warned. Oren Lee Staley Friday told about 200 farmers at the Minnesota State Fair they will be asked to store the grain during the action. Several test holding action in Illinois which caused the price of soybeans to r ise from 7 to 12 cents over the market price were behind the scheduled action, Staley said. Meanwhile, NFO officials in Indiana said 300 Indiana and Kentucky dairymen were urged to boycott the Kyana milk shed in Evansville, Ind., if the cooperative fails to consider NFO contracts. The farmers, representing 35 Indiana and Kentucky counties, voted unanimously to sell their products directly to bottlers and handlers if Kyana doesn’t take definite steps t oward the contract proposals.

Hot Line To Moscow Goes In Operation

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Washington-to-Moscow hot line has gone into operation as a safeguard against nuclear war by accident, the Defense Department said Friday. The" hook-up of the long projected project came in an lit word announcement from the Defense Department. — “The direct communications link between Washington and Moscow is now operational’’ it said. The new tieline between the two nations will allow President Kennedy and Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev to exchange messages in a matter of minutes. The Cuban crisis dramtically pointed up the need for the hot line. At the height of the crisis, Kennedy and Khrushchev were forced at times to resort to open broadcasts to avoid delap. The hgt line consists of a wire and cable hook up running through London, Copenhagen. Stockholm, Helsinki, and Moscow. In operation 24 hours a day, the cost to the United States is expected to be *IO,OO monthly for leased circuits and about $15.00 for four sending and receiving machines. Russia will pay about the same.

Naming Os Rail Board Members To President WASHINGTON (UPI) — President . Kennedy today took on the unwanted job of naming three neutral "middlemen” to an arbitration bohrd that will decide the key issues in the four-year-old railroad work rule dispute. 'Die problem was tossed back to the White House Friday when rail union and management failed to agree on selection of the neutral members for the board. Under the terms of the rail legislation passed by Congress last Wednesday, the President was to pick the three members if the unions and management deadlocked over the issue. One of the middlemen chosen by the president will act as chairman of the seven-man arbitration board. The union-management impasse came as no surprise. Government officials already were considering possible appointees when union and management pfficials announced Friday they not reach agreement. Among those mentioned as possible chairman were Milton S. Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimre, brother of the former president. Other reported under consideration were Harvard President Nathan S. Pusey, retired federal judges E. Barrett Prettyman and Harold Medina, and former Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton. Also mentioned for possible appointment to the board were James Healy, Harvard business school professor, and James J. Reynolds, assistant labor secretary. The railroads have chosen J. E. Wolfe, who headed their negotiation team in the stalemated lalks, and Guy W. Knight, a vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, as their board members. The representatives of the five rail unions involved were expected to be H. E. Gilbert, president of the Firemen’s Union, and Ray McDonald, vice president of the Trainmen’s brotherhood. SIO,OOO Reward Is Posted For Slayer NEW YORK (UPD — A SIO,OOO reward was posted Friday night for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the "killer of two young women who were slashed with butcher knives in their East Side Manhattan apartment. The funds were offered by Newsweek magazine, the employer of one of the victims, Janice Wylie, 21.

Miss Wylie, an aspiring actress and niece of writer Philip Wylie, and Emily Hoffert, 23, daughter of a prominent Minneapolis physician, were found stabbed and tied together in the bedroom of their four-room apartment Wednesday night. They were slain earlier in the day. The investigation of the case took a new turn Friday when police noted there were "striking similarities” between the slayings here and the killing last May of Beverly Samans, 26, in Cambridge, Mass. Moreover, police said that Miss Hoffert, who was planning to become a school teacher, once had lived in an apartment near where Miss Samans was killed. All three young women were stabbed repeatedly with butcher knives, police said, but none of them had been raped. In addition, they said, an apparently deranged man had made obscene and threatening telephone calls to Miss Samans, as one had to Miss Wylie, shortly before their deaths

Two Os State Agencies Clash On Port Costs INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A new blot appeared today on the Indiana Port Commission’s horizon and it came not from Sen. Paul Douglas, D-111., but the Indiana Department of Conservation. The four-member Conservation Commission and Conservation Director Donald E. Foltz met Friday afternoon with Secretarytreasurer Clinton Green of the Inaiana Port Commission and James R. Fleming, port commission chairman, to discuss what amount the commission should pay for sand. At times the discussion became heated but it ended inconclusively. Green and Fleming refused to accept a S3OO price per acre asked for the fill land created with sand which is to be taken from a proposed port site on Lake Michigan at Burns Ditch. A quorum of the Port Commission was not present, but Green and Fleming took the position that since the Conservation Department had charged the Midwest and Bethlehem steel companies only sllO per acre for the sand they dredged, it should not try to hike the price on a state agency. Study Alternative Green said plans for the port have not yet reached the stage at which a deal must be completed for sand removal. He said an alternate plan is being studied which would reduce the amount of sand which would have to be dredged. Under the previous plan, as much as 300 acres would be involved, so the S3OO an acre price asked by the Conservation department would mean $90,000.

"We are not arguing about the price, but about the principle" Fleming declared at one point in the long discussion. John A. Hillenbrand, Batesville, who was the most vocal member of the Conservation Commission, charged that the sllO per acre price had been too low and was accepted previously only because of a "gentlemen’s agreement." Fleming suggested that the "great Conservation Department could exercise a little generosity” toward the Port Commission, which badly needed its funds. Foltz, who like Green is considered an unannounced candidate for Democratic nomination as governor, declared at one stage that if it had not been for the sand money from the steel companies last year “we would have had to close some state parks." Get No Cooperation

Members of the Conservation Commission declared they are getting “no cooperation” from the State Farmers Bank at Valparaiso, in determining what the Mary Construction Co. and the Mission Dredging Co. owe the state for sand removed from the port area and used to extend the Northwestern University campus. "Don’t look to us for help,” Green snapped. "You should police your own contracts.” The agreement was to pay five cents a yard, but Hillenbrand and Foltz said they haven’t been able to get an accounting on the cubic yards of sand moved. Foltz said the commission was “trying to protect the natural resources of the state:” Fleming suggested the Conservation Department give some consideration to the economic future of the state, which he said would be improved by construction of the port. After the unproductive session ended, one newsman remarked: “With the Conservation Department around, who needs Douglas?” The Illinois senator has been a principal blocker of the Indiana port in Congress.

Covered Bridge To Be Razed Tuesday Adams county will lose the Pleasant Mills covered bridge next Tuesday, and anyone who would like to take a last look had better do so over Labor Day, the contractors charged with tearing it down warned this morning. The bridge, which has' already had the siding tom off, will be closed to traffic Tuesday, September 3, and torn down as work continues on the new bridge. A 20 mile-an-hour speed limit is now in force. During the construction of the new bridge, which will last some time, traffic will .be routed on 224 to Decatur and back out to Pleasant Mills on 33. Yost Construction company has the bid on building the new bridge, and tearing down the old one. Only oge other covered bridge exists in the county, the Ceylon bridge just north and east of Geneva. - k

Churches Os County Helping Migrants

More than 18 Adams county churches are working together to bring a message of Christian fellowship into the lives of the migrants here to pick tomatoes, Wilbur Rittenhouse, director, said today. A total of 21 different farms have migrant help this year, and the type of work done with each group varies from camp to camp. Most programs have been planned by the migrants and church groups together. Some Programs Some oft he things happening are: Afternoon fun with 30 children in one camp including, clay, finger painting, "keeping house,” story books, Bible story, flannel graph and refreshments. A family night program including visiting, two films from the library and a worship on a Spanish record. A Sunday afternoon recreation program including children from camp and church. A story hour for children making use of books from the publib library and including the help of a college student training for kindergarten work. An adult Spanish Sunday school class at a church with 15 attending the first Sunday. Sixteen children and teen-agers attending worship services at another church. Two families attending Evening services at still another church. Besides the churches there are two staff persons visiting migrants, and farmers and helping churches to plan their program. This ministry with migrants is directed by the Adams county migrant committee of the ministerial association. Work Slow Work in the tomato fields is slow this year. Because of the freeze some fields were replanted. The cool, rainy weather has helped to keep the tomatoes from ripening. The freeze also hit fruit crops in Michigan. Some of the pickers i went back to Texas or Missouri bei tween crops. The pickers (about 450) in this county arrived about i two weeks ago. They will be pickt ing tomatoes for five different canneries (not Decatur). Much of the money they make will be spent in the county’s food and clothing stores. At least 50 children were planning to attend school but the parents said with a short season -in tomatoes and little work yet there is no money for books and fees. The committee is working with the school superintendents in trying to make school a possibility for these children. Two groups have already returned to Texas. There was sickness in one and they wanted to go to the hospital at home. Nineteen of the 21 groups are Spanish Americans, most of whom come from the R!o Grande Valley in south Texas. “If you are interested in working with migrants contact your pastor. If your church does not have a program and you are interested call Berne 2-2202 and leave your name." , Churches Working Farms and ’the churches working with the migrants there are: Daniel Fiechter, Dwight Troxel, Walter Koehr, Monroe Methodist and Monroe Friends; Ezar Kaehr, Zion Lutheran; William Ringer, Church of the Brethren and Decatur Presbyterian; Szra Kaehr, Zion Lutheran; William Ringger, Assembly of oGd; Mrs. Mabel Kopfer, Ist Christian Church, Decatur;

Home Guarded By Troopers

By United Preu International Statg, troopers today guarded the home of a Negro family in a previously all-white neighborhood al Falcroft, Pa., to prevent further demonstrations by angry whites. A force of 60 troopers Friday night pushed back a crowd of 500 whites outside the home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Baker, who moved into the house Friday afternoon. Several persons were injured by stones thrown by white teen-agers and a news photographer was punched in the mouth. Police cleared an area 150 yards deep on either side of the Baker home and set up roadblocks around the area. Falcroft is a community of 7,800 about two miles southwest of Philadelphja. State u-oopers also reinforced local police at Williamston. N.C., today to help preserve order in the event of renewed racial demonstrations. Around 400 Negro students hurled soft drink bottles' at police Friday when officers! turned back an attempted march]

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Martin Kipfer, Ist Christian Church Decatur: William Ringger, West Missionary, Berne, Ist Missionary, Berne; William Ringger, Preble Lutheran: Elmer Isch, Decatur Church of Christ; Delmas Bbllenbacher, Ist Mennonite, Berne; Ralph Bollenbacher, EUB — Berne and Cross United; Robert Stuber, Church of Christ; Naas Foods, Decatur EUB and Methodist; no migrants; Raymand Fickert, Geneva EUB; Geneva Cannery, volunteers; Curtis Tonner, Evangelical Mennonites, Berne; Dave Ringger, Decatur Church of Christ. James, Paul Kohne State Fair Winners INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Two Boone County roosters named Harry and Jack crowed their way to preliminary victories in competition at the Indiana State Fair Friday, and a housewife from the same county won the pie baking contest. Harry's 37 crows in half an hour bested Jack's 30 to bring joy to the heart of Jack Patterson, 18, Thorntown, who owns both the bads. A contest is held daily with a grand championship to be decided next Wednesday on the final day of the 12-day fair. Mrs. Robert L. Spencer, wife of the Thorntown postmaster, won the pie baking sweepstakes with a custard culinary masterpiece picked from among 11 pastries she entered along with 375 brought in by other bakers. Top livestock prizes in open competition Friday included animals shown by Thomas Hendricks, Cloverdale, OIC boar; Oren A. Wright & Sons, Greenwood. Dorset ram; H. V. Caldwell, Logansport, Columbia ram and ewe. Winners in open competition gold medal bull breeding classes included Russell B. Edwards, Winchester, shorthorn; Gerald I. Clodfelter, Greencastle, polled shorthorn; Fairlea Farms, Peru, Hereford; Huber Ranch, Schneider, polled Hereford; Wonderland Farms, Chrisney, Aberdeen Angus; C. Forgery & Sons, Camden, milking shorthorn, and James and Paul Kohne, Decatur, red poll. In the Western horse show, the Palomino stake was won by Don McCulloch. New Albany; the girls barrel race exhibition by Jeannette Smith, Frankfort; the equitation stake by Judy Graves, Fort Wayne.

Library To Change Schedule On Tuesday The Decatur public library, which will be closed all day Monday, Labor Day, will return to its regular fall and winter schedule Tuesday. Hours for the library, according to Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, will be 10 am. until 830 p.m. every week day except legal holidays. INDIANA WEATHER , Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few thundershowers north tonight and Simday. Low tonight sf> to 64. High Sunday 74 to 83. Outlook for Monday: Variable cloudiness and mild with a few lettered showers.

on downtown Williamston. Police Chief Lloyd Banks said none of the officers struck was seriously hurt but that a Negro k»«> rvtetveti■ severe nrceratton on the head from a thrown bottle. Elsewhere in the nation: St. Louis, Mo. — 80 Negro and white demonstrators surged into a bank Friday and hampered teller service despite a court order barring disruptive protests. Plaquemine, La. — A small group of Negroes picketed stores as a prelude to more street demonstrations in the racially troubled town. Birmingham, Ala. — A 100-car motorcade bearing petitions signed by 30,000 Birmingham residents protesting the scheduled school integration was to leave for Montgomery today. Chicago —Delegates to the Second Methodist Conference on Human Relations recommended Friday that church funds be withheld from any Methodist school or college which practices racial discrimination.