Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 209.

One Negro Is Killed In Rioting In Birmingham After One Home Bombed

Council Makes Four - Cent Cut

The Adams county council wound up its two-day session Wednesday after setting the proposed county tax rate at $1,561 — 14.1 cents over last year’s rate of $1.42. Four cents was cut from the proposed levies. Budgets of the various county departments, approved or decreased during the session, will go before the seven-member county tax adjustment board next Monday morning. The board will consider the county budgets along with 12 township trustee budgets, two city budgets, two town budgets, three school budgets and three library budgets. The tax adjustment board is made up of the mayor of the largest city in the county, Donald Gage of Decatur; an appointee of the township trustees, Bob Gay of Washington township; an appointee of the county council, Frank Bohnke of Decatur; and four other appointees, two Democrats and two Republicans. The four other appointees are Republican Menno Lehman of Berne, Republican Charles Langston of Decatur, Democrat Louis Reinking of Preble township and Democrat Joseph Anderson of Geneva. Nine cents of the 'increase in the total rate is concentrated in the general fund, which was boosted from last year’s 66 cents to 75 cents. The cumulative bridge fund was raised from two cents to five cents and the county school tax was raised 3.1 cents by the state — from 25 cents to 28.1 cents. The hospital bond and interest fund has been upped one cent. The hospital fund is one cent lower than last year. The county welfare fund, which was advertised at 11 cents was cut by the council to ten cents. The ditch improvement fund are uncumulative bridge fund and the changed at 20 and seven cents, respectively. The 75 cent proposed general fund levy represents a cut of three cents from the advertised figure of 78 cents. Actions By Council The departmental budgets and the action which the council took

Funeral Friday For Genevieve Leonard Miss Genevieve A, Leonard, 77, of 311 Williams street, Fort Wayne, was pronounced dead on arrival Wednesday morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Miss Leonard, a 50-year resident of Fort Wayne, was employed in the dining room service at the Lutheran hospital. She was previously employed for 30 years at the old Boston Store In Fort Wayne, and had at one time been a housekeeper for the Christian Brothers. She was born in Omaha, Neb., Oct. 14, 1885, a daughter of Thomas and Alice Boze-Leonard. She was a member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the Rosary society, Third Order of St. Francis, Daughters of Isabella, and the Ben Hur club, all of Fort Wayne. Surviving are three nieces, Mrs. Delores Myers and Mrs. Mary K. Gage of Decatur, and Mrs. Eloise Ehinger of Portland, and two nephews, Charles and Ray Leonard of, Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:15 a. m. Friday in St. Mary’s Catholic church, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home,- where friends may call until time of the services. The Third Order of St. Francis will recite the rosary at 7:30 o’clock this evening, followed by the Rosary society at 8 p. m.

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on them are as follows: County clerk: cut $950 from $20,110 to $19,160. County auditor: cut $350 from $19,530 to $19,180. County treasurer: cut S2OO from $18,550 to $18,350. County recorder: cut SIOO from $12,810 to $12,710. County sheriff: cut from $29,680 to $29,480. County surveyor: cut $3,700 from $15,660 to $11,960. The $3,600 salary of one deputy was taken out of this budget. County prosecuting attorney: unchanged at $3,230. County assessor: cut SIOO from $13,640 to $13,540. County board of Education: unchanged at $17,910. County agricultural agent: cut $4,100 from $20,610 to $16,510. Included in this cut were a salary allowance of $3,000 and a traveling expense allowance S7OO for an assistant county agent. County coroner: unchanged at $1,700. County health officer: unchanged at $1,166. Circuit court: unchanged at $20,790. County courthouse: cut S4OO from $17,970 to $17,570. County jail: unchanged at $15,730. Washington township assessor: unchanged at $6,470. Registration of voters: cut S3OO from $1,780 to $1,480. County election board; unchanged at $18,422. County home: unchanged at $33,770. County plan commission: cut $4,500 from slß,llO to $13,610. Included in this cut were $2,200 from the director’s salary, SBOO from the secretary’s salary and SSOO from attorney fees. County commissioners: cut S2OO from $97,478 to $97,278. County highway department: cut SIO,OOO from $424,590 to $414,590. This SIO,OOO change was not actually a cut since the item had been included 'in the budget only for bookkeeping purposes. County welfare department: cut $3,624 from $53,705 to $50,081. This cut represents the difference betweeen the originally proposed 11cnt levy and the 10-cent figure set by the council .

Chas. Merkle Dies Wednesday Evening Charles Merkle, 94-year-old retired farmer of Willshire, 0., route 1, died at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Van Rue Geriatric center at Van Wert, O. He had been in critical condition since suffering a cerebral hemorrhage 10 days ago. He was born in Willshire township Jan. 8, 1869, a son of William and Elizabeth Merkle, and was married to Clara Schumm Pietrich Nov. 26. 1908. His wife precede him in death in 1936. Mr. Merkle was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Schumm, 0. , Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Henry (Velma) Etzler, with whom he resided; four stepdaughters, Mrs. Walter (Rosa) Baker and Mrs. Ervin (Louis) Teeters of Willshire, Mrs. George (Edna) Hofmann and Mrs. Leah Merkle of Ohio City, 0.; two brothers, George and Ernest Merkle of Ohio City; six grandchildren; 11 stepgrandchildren; eight greatgrandchildren, and 20 step great-grand-children. One son, two brothers and,one sister are deceased. Funeral rites will be held at 10:30 a. m. Saturday at the Zion Lutheran church at Schumm. the Rev. Elber W. Braun officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van I Wert after 7 p. m. today.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) — City police today surrounded three desegregated pubMc schools, closed at the request of Gov. George Wallace following rioting that claimed one life, to prevent students from entering the buildings. Police took the stations to head off any possibility of trouble in the event some students had not heard of the closing and gathered at the schools. Some of the more than 200 state troopers sent here by Wallace Tuesday were seen at the schools, but it was not determined whether they were on duty or merely observers. City policemen refused the offered assistance of the troopers Wednesday night during rioting by 1,000 Negroes enraged by the bombing of a Negro attorney’s home three blocks from one of the desegregated schools. Birmingham School Board attorneys were expected to go into federal court today to seek a stay oi the federal court order desegregating West End and Ramsay high schools and Graymont Elementary School. Two Negroes attended Graymont Wednesday and three others are cleared for admission to the two high schools. Close Three Schools The school board “acceded” to Wallace's request early this morning and ordered the three schools closed temporarily. Classes had been scheduled to resume this morning. Wallace had dispatched the state troopers here in an expected effort to block the integration Wednesday but he backed down and made no attempt to interfere with school procedures. There was scuffling between policemen and segregationists at Ramsay and Graymont schools Wednesday. The bombing of the home of a Negro civil rights attorney, Arthur Shores, Wednesday night sent 1,000 Negroes into the streets in a wild demonstration that left one Negro dead and at least 19 persons injured. The victim of the rioting was John D.. Coley, 20, who was struck in the neck with a bullet. It was not determined how he was shot. Three other Negroes suffered gunshot wounds. Four Policemen Hurt The injured included at least four police officers who were Continued on Page 6)

Decatur Optimists Hear Grid Mentor “Education comes first. We don’t want to neglect that. And after education comes football.” These were the words of Decatur high school’s head football coach Wally Yeoman in the talk he gave this morning at the meeting of the Decatur Optimists club. Yeoman outlined the Decatur high athletic program and discussed this year’s football prospects. He pointed out that this year a new style and theory of play was introduced to the football team and that it will take three or four years until the results of the new program will be in full bloom. He said that he is stressing winning to the team and that he does not want the team members to be content with giving less than the total effort needed to win. He commended the members of his coaching staff, the school administration, the community and the players themselves for the support they have given him since practice began. He also stressed the importance of both mental and physical conditioning. “The day of the dumb football player is past,” he said; explaining that the brand of football played today requires both quick thinking and the “ability to beat the other man physically.” In explaining the Decatur high sports program he expressed the belief that the school has the highest percentage of participation in its sports program of any school in the state. The program includes eight sports—football, cross country, basketball, wrestling, track, golf and baseball. In closing he said that the prospects for a winning season are very good and that he was pleased with the performance of the team Tuesday night at Bluffton.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 5, 1963.

Safeguards To Pact Proposed

WASHINGTON (UPI) —Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., proposed a nuclear test ban treaty reservation today which would require Russia to remove all Soviet missiles and military forces from Cuba. The front - running GOP presidential contender said in a prepared Senate speech that without this safeguard the treaty “is a’ potential peril to peace rather than a step toward it.” His proposed recommendation would put off effectiveness of the pact until Russia complied with the Cuban removal step. “This proposed test ban treaty cannot be a first step toward peace if it must stumble over Soviet missiles and troops in Cuba,” Goldwater said. “Its risks cannot be justified if we are only to give in and get nothing.” Goldwater also endorsed former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s recommendation that a “reservation” be made that the treaty would not impede U. S. rights to use nuclear weapons in defense of its security. Would Oppose Treaty The GOP senator said that while he is confident the President would not be inhibited from defending “this nation,” it should be made “perfectly clear” that nuclear weapons could be used to defend freedom in Europe or Asia “as well as. on or at our own doorstep.’’ Goldwater's statement appeared to indicate that if the Cuban reservation that he said he would offer later is not adopted he would vote against the treaty. Should the Senate adopt any reservations, the limited test pact would have to be renegotiated. In discussing the pact, Goldwater said: “The Soviets gain from the treaty an immobilization of our great nuclear lead, a breathing space in which to put to productive use the data gained from its own unique series of highyield nuclear tests, a breathing space in which to consolidate its

Double Dealing Is Charged To United States SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPl)—Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu’s charges of double dealing by the United States indicated today that the South Vietnamese government has no intention of backing down under any pressure from Washington in the present crisis. Mme, Nhu, the powerful and beautiful sister-in-law of President ’•Ngo Dinh Diem, said Wednesday that President Kennedy apparently has the wrong conception of the Diem regime’s parallel struggles with the Buddhists and the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas. She suggested at a news conference the United States withdraw some of its civilian aid personnel because she has the “impression” some of them are U.S. intelligence agents. Referring to American aid to South Viet Nam and press charges that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in a plot against the Diem government, Mme. Nhu said: “I have the impression that with one hand America pats and with the other it strikes,’’. She said it appeared to be a “double policy” which she could not understand. Mme, Nhu’s husband is Diem’s brother and chief political adviser. He is head of the secret police, and is believed by many diplomatic observers to have en-

political position around the world. “They want the treaty; they say they want the treaty; they need the treaty. Well, we need something, too; we need deeds to replace doubts.” Gaining Support Over-all, the treaty appeared to be gaining bipartisan Senate support for ratification. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 111., all but declared his- full support for the pact after Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield threw his full prestige behind the pact which would ban all but underground tests. Goldwater said the Cuban military withdrawal “could be complied with in a few months” and “could make the treaty proposal perfectly acceptable even to its harshest critics.” His proposal called for on-the-spot inspection to determine Soviet compliance. He concluded: “For, as the treaty now stands, devoid of hard and fast safeguards and clarifications, and devoid also of advan- ; tfige to America equal to the existing advantage to the Soviets, it is a potential peril to peace rather than a step toward it.” < Describes Reservation He described his proposed reservation this way : f “That the effectiveness of the treaty be deferred 1 until the U-S.S.R. has removed all nuclear weapons, all weapons capable of carrying nuclear warheads, and all military and military-technical personnel from Cuba and until arrangements have been made for international inspection within Cuba to determine and such removal.” Goldwater insisted that the Senate has an obligation to strengthen the treaty and make it “acceptable beyond any doubt.” He said its "ambiguous drafting" was understandable since there was no “broadly experienced international lawyer” or military representative present during its drafting.

gineered the nationwide crackdown on Buddhist opposition which included raids on pagodas and massive arrests. The raids brought the Diem government into open dispute with the U. S. government, which expressed strong disapproval of the strongarm methods used against the Buddhists. The charges leveled by Mme. Nhu came at a time when U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge ds involved in diplomatic maneuvers to clarify Washington’s position regarding both the crackdown bn Buddhists and the struggle against the Viet Cong. The United States, which considers the safety of South Viet Nam vital to the security of all oi non-Communist Southeast Asia, is spending more than $1 million a day and has committed 13,000 men to help wipe out the Communist guerrillas. Zuercher Funeral Held At Orville Funeral services were held at 2:30 this afternoon at the Kidron Mennonite church, Orville, Ohio, for Nelson D. ZuerCher. an Adams county native who died Monday at Dunlap hospital in Orville. He was employed as custodian at. Orville, junior high school. Surviving are his wife, the former Eva B. Sommer; a son, Homer Zuercher of Woostefv Ohio; a grandson, Howard; a great-grand-son, James; a sister, Mrs. Fred Bachman of Visalia, Calif.; two half-sisters, Mrs. Jeff Rauch of Decatur and Mrs. Wilbur Beer of Bluffton three half-brothens. Edward Zuercher of Palm Dale, ? Calif., Calvin Zuercher of Fort Wayne, and Elmer Zuercher of Ossian.

Rules Nidlinger's Term Has Expired The term of Warren Nidlinger, Jr., one the North Adams community school board has officially expired, according to a ruling handed down this noon in Indianapolis by Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers. Steers, in his ruling, held that although a court may enjoin a school board from fulfilling its duties, the terms of the members expire on schedule, and that the board of trustees of the corporation “came into being” on July 1,1962, and an appointment to the board for one year would therefore have expirecf .on July 1, 1963. “You cannot enjoin the passage of time,” Steers wrote. According to the ruling, which was requested by the North Adams board, “The fact the appoipted member was unable to occupy such office, would not result in an extension of the term of office.” Attorney Hired The North Adams board hired attorney Severin H. Schurger Ijst Friday to obtain a declaratory judgment from circuit court Judge Myles F. Parrish on its fifth board member. The judgment from Judge Parrish was to be used to determine whether or not the fifth member should be elected from the county area or the city area. Rural board member Clarence; Bultemeier had previously refused to accept a letter from the state superintendent of schools William Wilson. Wilson's letter, which quoted an "unofficial” opinion from the state deputy attorney general, stated that the term of the fifth member had expired during the litigation. This meant that Nidlinger's term had expired, Bultemeier had stated that he would not accept this as conclusive legal statement but that he wanted to see t legal brief or a written community school corporation opopinion. Thus, the North Adams ened classes this week with only four members on its five-man board.

Outlines New Law On Road Warnings A red flag or a flashing red light must be 10 to 12 feet off the ground on a “farm tractor, road tractor, or horse-drawn vehicle implement,” sheriff Roger Singleton and state trooper Dan Kwasneski noted Wednesday afternoon. "Vlhe sheriff said that many persons driving such vehicles or pulling implement.machinery, are not aware that a red flag or flashing red light must be at least 10 feet from the ground. The two law enforcement officers explained that under a new Indiana law that just went into effect, this does not apply to federal or state highways alone, but to all roads in Adams county or any other county in this state. The previous law concerning the flag or flashing light was for vehicles traveling only on federal or state highways. Under 20 MPH Singleton and Kwasneski explained too that the law concerns only “farm tractors, road tractors, implements or horse-drawn vehicles,” that are traveling at a speed of 20 miles per hour or less. According to the officers many persons are not aware that the flag or flashing light' must be at least 10 feet off the ground. This is set out in order that a truck or automobile following such a vehicle will not blot out a flag or light from other traffic to the rear In many cases, a truck has been following a tractor, buggy, etc., and caused the driver of a vehicle approaching the rear of the truck to be unable to see a flag or flashing light that was only a few feet from the ground. Rear of Two They pointed out also that on ’a combination of vehicles, such as a tractor and implement, the red flag or flashing red light must be on the rear vehicle. Lights are needed for the abovementioned vehicles one-half hour after sunset or one-half hour before sunrise; flags are no longer lawful between those periods of time. & Violation of this law carries a maximum fine of SIOO and a violator may also be given a jail sentence of not more than 10 days. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight. Mostly sunny and a little warmer Friday. Low tonight in the 50s. High Friday mostly in the 70s. Sunset today 7«10 p.m. Sunrise Friday 0:17 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair and mild. Lows in the 50a. Highs 75 to 82.

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Governor Explains Sharp Tax Boosts

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI >—Governor Welsh warned Wednesday night that if revenue measures enacted by the 19G3 Indiana Legislature "are not supported then the sharply increased school tax rates advertised in every county in the state last month will become a fact and Indiana will, in my opinion, have taken a long step backward." Welsh said, in a statewide radio and television address, that in that case "many children simply will not be educated according to today’s standards.” *■ The governor made the speech to explain the sharp increase in local property taxes which followed a thus far successful court challenge of the 2 per cent sales tax enacted by the legislature. Welsh, a Democrat, defended the "responsible and courageous" Republican leaders of the legislature for their part in enacting the I controversial tax and indirectly took a slap at Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers who opposed the tax. Steers, a Republican, had used lhe term “fraud” in a brief to the Indiana Supreme Court in which he attacked the method in which the sales tax was passed by less than a constitutional majority of the State Senate. Reviews Hisory Reviewing the history of school financing in Indiana for the past 30 years, Welsh said that when the -1963 Legislature met “it was agreed overwhelmingly by members of Ixith houses, regardless of party, that the major question to be resolved” was that of school financing. He said, “The unthinkable alternative >vas to cut back on schools and school terms, double up on classes, hold split sessions and otherwise slash our state's educational system to what could well have become a fourth-rate custo-

School Officials Abandon Coalmont

JASONVILLE. Ind. <UPI>—Shakamak school district officials today abandoned at least temporarily the Coalmont school where picketing parents shut down c lasses and announced all pupils would be educated in two other buildings which angry patrons called “unsafe.” Mrs. Odema Rotman, president of the board of trustees of the district, said the board voted at _a_. special meeting Wednesday night to hold school in the Midland building for grades 1 through 5 and junior and senior high school at Jasonville. “The action was taken to insure the protectkin of the children of the district,” Mrs. Rotman said in a prepared statement. “It was considered - necessary be c a.u s e C<ay County law enforcement officers failed to give assurance nf protection of the law. We are assured of protection by the Greene County law enforcement officers and the Jasonville city police.” Authorities reported that classes under the revised schedule began at Midland and Jasonville at 8 a.m. with conditions normal and no disturbances or picketing. However, one bus from the Coalmont area arrived at Jasonville with only 10 or 12 children. At the Coalmont building, about 150 parents were on hand for a third day bf picketing, but there was nothing to picket. Charge “Death Traps” Coalmont, where parents blocked buses with wagons and trucks Tuesday and Wednesday,

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dial operation.” He noted that on the next-to-last day of the 40-day special session, a tax package developed by a bipartisan House-Senate conference committee was adopted by both houses. He said it contained elements of both the Republican and Democratic tax proposals. “The final decisions were agonizing for the men and women in the legislature who had to make them but they were responsible and courageous decisions designed in the public interest and not for personal or partisan gain.” Welsh said. “To label such action as a fraud or ill-considered is in my judgment unfair and uninformed.” Defends GOP Proposal Welsh noted the irony of the fact that he and his revenue commissioner, both Democrats, are now the sole defenders before the Indiana Supreme Court “of a revenue measure which was the principal tax proposal of the Republicans in the House of Representatives.” He said he had undertaken the defense of the measure because "it is my duty as governor to defend and protect the integrity of Indiana's financial position.” Marion Circuit Judge John L. Niblack, acting iik a suit filed iby the Indiana AFL-CIO, ruled the tax unconstitutional. An appeal filed by Welsh and Revenue Commissioner James Courtney is now pending before the Supreme Court. The two Republican members of the State Revenue Board. State Auditor Dorothy "Gardner and State Treasurer Robert Hughes, refused to join Welsh in the appeal. Welsh noted that it is not unusual for new tax measures to be? tested in the court.' He said the 1933 gross income tax law was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and was the subject of litigation for several years.

I is in Clay County. Jasonville and Midland are id Greene. The three areas were combined in a school reorganization project which drew the ire of many parents who charged the Midland and Jasonville school buildings are “death traps” and that one structure has been condemned since 1929. School Siipt. Donald Padgett ’ and several school board members went to Indianapolis Wednesday to ask Governor Welsh for state policd" help in opening the schools. They were told that the situation is a’ “local matter.” Welsh is vacationing in New York but Jack New. his executive secretary, met with the school officials and told them it would take a request from “responsible local officials," such as the sheriff, prosecutor or judge to get state police help. He said slich a step would mean a breakdown in local law enforcement. Prosecutor Sees No Need New said he had conferred with Clay County Prosecutor John M. Baumunk who said he saw no need for state police intervention | since the demonstrations at the schools were peaceful and there ' had been no sign of violence. “You can't go around beating a ' bunch of farmers on the head just ! because they’re sitting on the schoolhouse steps,” New said. He said Baumunk told him he was wlUinß 1° discuss possible trespass * charges against the picketing parents and expected to meet with school officials. New said he also planned to Continued on Page 8)