Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1963 — Page 1

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Governor Wallace Throws Ring Os Troopers Around Four Huntsville Schools

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TOUCHES OFF RlOT— Attorney Arthur L. Shores stands on the front steps of his Birmingham, Ala., home after the second bombing of the structure in two weeks.

Bank Interest Rate Increase Rejected

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Indiana’s bank interest rate on savings—already the lowest in the nation—will remain that way according to a 3-2 vote Thursday by the board of the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions. The close vote came at the end of a three-hour hearing at which 38 Indiana bankers and financial experts testified with 22 of them favoring an increase in the present 3 per cent rate for time deposits to a new maximum of 4 per cent. The ceiling is permissive, not mandatory. The remaining 16 witnesses testified in opposition to any change and their comments gained the heaviest applause from the crowd of nearly 200 attending the hearing. The question has been a bitterly debated one in Indiana with well known political and financial personalities testifying on both sides of the argumerit. The vote was the fourth taken by the IDFI in the past two years on the question? of increasing interest rates on savings. Benton Earl Gates, Columbia City, son of a former Indiana governor and brother of a potential gubernatorial candidate, was one ol those favoring the continuance of the 3 per cent ceiling. Gates, speaking for the Committee of Independent Hoosier Bankers. presented a poll made among all banks in the state. The committee received replies from 361 of the 443 banks and the results showed 85.1 per cent wanted the rate unchanged, 11.2 per cent favored an increase and the remainder had no opinion. Gates told newsmen later that he was disregarding an anonymous letter which was mailed to news, media in support of a rate hike and which asked: “Can Bob Gates overcome this handicap if he decided to run for Governor?” Robert Gates, Earl’s brother, has been mentioned as a GOP candidate for governor. Earl Gates quipped: "I’m so reactionary I think Barry Goldwater is a liberal.” He charged also that if a bill in the 1963 Legislature to take away interestsetting powers from the Department of Financial Institutions, had passed "you would have had chaos in the banking industry.” s However, several witnesses favoring the increase warned that if the ceiling on interest rates for savings were not increased, either Cqngress or the 1965 Legislature might remove this power from the state agency. Chairman Frank Moore, Indianapolis, did not vote when the sixmember board balloted on the proposal to hike the rate for time deposits. The questionbf increasing the rate for passbook savings was not brought up this time, but undoubtedly would have been had the time deposit increase gone through. Moore at first said the board

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would withhold the individual vote, but when newsmen objected, the board conferred again, then announced that Milton Maidenburg, Marion, the public member on the board, and H. L. Lyon, Madison banker who is father-in-law of Jack New, Governor Welch’s executive secretary, voted to hike rates. Those composing the slim majority were George Baron, Munster; Willard Jordon, New Castle, and Paul J. Sweeney, Vincennes. Some of the comments made by the witnesses during the hearing were: Philip Willkie, Rushville banker and son of a former Republican nominee for U.S. President —“This is using the power of government to keep Indiana banks from doing what banks in the 49 other states are allowed to do. Are we afraid of competition?” S. E. Lauther, president of the Irwin Union Bank, Columbus —“It is absolutely impossible to govern the operation of all banks at the state level and is quite unfair for the state to usurp authority which rightfully belongs with the hometown board of directors.” Dean Thomas T. Murphy, University of Notre Dame college of business administration—“By applying the average growth rate of time deposits in neighboring states to Indiana’s present level of time deposits, it is obvious that nearly a quarter of a billion dollars was drained off the savings potential of Indiana in 1962. This investment potential belongs in Indiana.” Donnelly P. McDonald, Jr., Fort Wayne bank president—“lndiana may be the only state not allowing its banks to pay higher rates but Indiana also is the only state requiring that its banks maintain standards of liquidity so high they can’t possibly pay higher rates.” Deane Walker, Culvet banker and former state school superintendent—" That one per cent rate would cost our bank $177,000.” Walter Schlechte, Evansville banker—"l’m against any change in the present ceilings. It eventually will lead to higher savings rates.” Ed Miller, Sellersburg—"We have done everything except give trading stamps to keep money in our town. If we had that 4 per cent rate we Could keep the money in our town.” F. G. McWhirter, Indianapolis banker—“ Let’s stay on 3 per cent and sell safety and availability.” John Nagle, Gary—“ There is a bill now in Congress to take the entire interest rate limit off of banking. I believe if we do not have action on 4 per cent certificate deposits, we will have action across the board on all kinds of deposits.” , . • • Blaine Wiseman, Corydon banker—“ The failure of the Department of Financial Institutions to increase rates has perverted the intent of the legislature.”

Gov. George C. Wallace today threw a ring of state troopers around four Huntsville schools and turned away two Negroes and hundreds of white students, but promised not to interfere with the opening of classes Monday. The presence of the troopers around the schools angered parents of the white students. They shouted angry protests a t the troopers: “Go home where you belong.” A group of students shot around the line of troopers at one elementary school. “We’re open as usual,” the principal announced. Formal classes begin Monday. Early today Wallace, in a surprise move, ordered the so ur schools closed and the troopers moved in to back up the executive order. City officials went ahead, however, in an unsuccessful effort to integrate the schools in Huntsville —center of the U.S. space research activities. In Mobile, two Negro students scheduled to enter Murphy High —the state’s largest high school—failed to show up for classes. In Chicago, a civil rights truce —already shaken—collapsed and Negro parents began a sit-in outside the office of the principal of one school and 75 more pickets marched at smother. Wallace’s use of troopers at Huntsville was the second time in five days that the governor has closed schools in the state to thwart integration. Negroes in Birmingham, scene of a bloody race riot Wednesday night, planned to ask federal court to order the reopening of three desegregated schools. Birmingham school officials acceded to Wallace’s request to close the schools following the rioting which claimed one life and injured at least 19 persons. Wallace sent state troopers Thursday into Huntsville and Mobile, apparently to halt desegregation of schools there. The schools in the two cities were scheduled to desegregate Wednesday but local officials, acting at the request of Wallace, postponed the opening until today. Huntsville officials late Thursday turned down another request by the governor to further delay the opening of four schools. At Hammond, La., hundreds of Negro students demonstrated on the steps of city hall Thursday but there were no arrests. The demonstrators dispersed when Mayor John C. Morrison told them he would meet with their representatives. There were these racial developments elsewhere in the nation: Chicago: Police put two children and three protesting adults into paddy wagons in Chicago’s controversy over alleged de facto segregation in the public schools. Statesville, N.C.> City council, facing a possible recall election, meets today to consider protests of a council-approved plan to desegregate two qublic swimming pools. Savannah, Ga.: Negro leader Hosea Williams was convicted of contempt of court Thursday for calling a court action a “mockery of justice.” He was sentenced to five days in jail. Farmville, Va.: Negro leader Francis L. Griffin said Thursday three retail stores have agreed to lower racial barriers in h iring sales personnel. Chester, Pa.: Forty-eight of the 69 pupils at the all-Negro Thaddeus Stevens School boycotted classes Thursday because of alleged de facto segregation. Englewood,. N.J.i Six Negro mothers were arrested Thursday when they sent their children into classrooims of predominantly white schools and staged a sit-in in school corridors. Boston: A group of Negroes staged a demonstration inside school committee headquarters Thursday to protest alleged de facto segregation in the Boston school system. Columbia, 84?.: Clemson College announced Thursday the second Negro student to enter the school will be Lucinda Brawley, ,17, of Hopkins, who plans to major in mathematics. New York: Five civil rights demonstrators who chained themselves to cranes at a construction site to protest alleged hiring discrimination were arrested Thursday after police cut them loose.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 6,1963.

Contract For Street Lights Is Awarded The Weikel Line Co., of Fort Wayne, was awarded a street lighting contract by the board of works and safety, following the receiving of bids Thursday afternoon. Four bids for a new truck for the water department were taken under advisement for tabulation. Weikel, the company which has installed lights in the first two phases of the city council’s street lighting program, was awarded the contract for its low base bid of $8,200 for installation of 44 street lights on 13th St., between Washington streets and the Krick-Tyn-dall entrance on 13th. The same company submitted low figures for other street lights contemplated by the city in various locations, at a figure per light. There were two other bidders, Bernard Construction of Montpelier, 0., and Mutual Electric of Fort Wayne, whose base bids were $8,600, and $10,513.40. The Phil L. Macklin Co., Schwartz Ford Co., Decatur Equipment Co., and Bill Zoss ChevroletBuick submitted bids on the water department truck. These wore taken under advisement and will be tabulated by city engineer and water superintendent Ralph E. Roop In order to determine the low bid. George Earl Ladd Is Taken By Death George Earl Ladd, 79, retired neon sign company employe at Toledo, 0., former resident of Convoy, 0., was dead on arrival shortly before noon Wednesday at St. Vincent’s hospital in Toledo. He was born in Putnam county, 0., April 2, 1884, a son of George and Rosina Beery-Ladd. He was a member of the Eagles lodge at Toledo. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Mabel Eyanson and Mrs. Ruby Rambo, both of Decatur, and Mrs. Naomi LeFevre of ..Fort Wayne; two sons, Melverd and Rolland Ladd, both of Decatur; one sister, Mrs. Esther Hullinger of Long Beach, Calif.; 23 grandchildren and 45 great-grandchil-dren. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a. m. Saturday at the .Abels funeral home in Toledo, with burial in Memorial park cemetery at Toledo.

Child Is Killed In Fall From Tractor John Charles Van Buskirk, 7, great-grandson of John Van Buskirk of this city, was fatally injured Wednesday in a fall from a tractor at the home of his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Lowell Van Buskirk of Sullivan, O. No further details of the accident have been received here. The child was born in Sullivan April 18, 1956, a son of Lowell and Ruth Mendel Van Buskirk. Surviving in addition to the parents and the great-grandfather, are a brother, Loren, and two sisters, Susan and Karan, all at home; the paternal grandparents, Ms. and Mrs. Voris Van Buskirk of Sullivan, 0., and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.* Albert Mendel of Grafton, O. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. xp. Saturday at Lodi, 0. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and not so cool tonight with chance of showers toward morning. Saturday partly cloudy and a little cooler, chance of showers in the morning. Low tonight 55 to 62. High Saturday in the 70s north, 75 to 84 south. Sunset today 7:09 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 6:18 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly fair and cool. Lows in the 50s. Highs in the 70s.

Two Are Hospitalized After Fire Thursday Two Decatur men were still being held for observation at the Adams county memorial hospital this morning, after each was hospitalized Thursday afternoon with smoke inhalation received in a small fire at the home in which they reside. Clarence Stevens, 71, former city light department employe, and Harrison Jack, 81, were suffering from smoke inhalation, although neither case was reported very serious. The fire broke out in the second floor of the home of Mrs. Charlotte Ladd, at 403 S. Fifth St., just south of the Erie railroal. The two men reside in the upstairs rooms of the home. The fire apparently started when an ashtray full of cigarettes was knocked to the floor and onto a pair of pants owned by Stevens. Burning Pants The smoldering pants sent a large amount of fumes through the upstairs portion of the home, but -nothing else was burned by the fire. Firemen took Stevens from the bed in which he was lying and laid him out a window onto a porch roof until they could extinguish the pants and bring him ’down the ’stairs. Jack had gone downstairs but Stevens refused to leave the room. City police officer Tom Hoffman, fire chief Cedric Fisher and other firemen finally got Stevens downstairs. Jack, who had rushed downstairs and was given oxygen, then began continued efforts to return to the upstairs portion, and the two men caused quite a bit of confusion for a short time. , Both were finally convinced they should go to the hospital since each had received a good dose of smoke inhalation. The fire department had received the call about 10 minutes to 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon.

Rotarians Hear Os Air Force Academy D. Burdette Custer, retired colonel of the U. S. Air Force reserves, and liaison officer for the new Air Force Academy, described this newest service academy to the Decatur Rotary club at — its weekly meeting Thursday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Robert Ashbiucher was program chairman. The Air Force Academy, located between Colorado Springs and Denver, was constructed at a cost of $169 million. Its purpose is to train officers for the Air Force. It now has 2,554 students. About 775 new students are selected each year out of nearly 10,000 applicants. Their activities begin with a vigorous nine-week summer session starting in June. This includes a rugged survival program on limited rations in the mountains. Between 100 and 110 during the first year are lost due to attrition. Custer said the academic curriculum is well balanced between the humanities and sciences and is considered one of the toughest in the country. The faculty-student ratio is one to 14. An honor code is administered .entirely by the students themselves. Graduates receive a bachelor of science degree and a second lieutenant rating. A film “At the Ramparts" showing life at the Academy, and another "Breaking the Language Barrier," showing precision flying by Thunderbirds over Japan, were viewed. Miss Cynthia Collier, one of this year's Rotary schoalrship winners, spoke briefly to thank the club for its award. She plans to attend Purdue University, where she will be taking dietics and nutrition.

Take Bids Tuesday On Roof At Center The recreation board of the Decatur Youth and Community .Center will receive bids Tuesday, for completion of the ropf repair on the building. - . The bids will be received and read in the office of Community Center director Bob August at 12 noon, Sept. 10, by the recreation board. The work involved includes furnishing labor and material for repairing that portion of the roof which is west of the auditorium in the building. The portion of the roof above the auditorium was recently repaired by C. L. Schust Co. of Fort Wayne. Bidders are to furnish a 20year bond, guaranteeing the installation of the roof. New Roof Used The city council appropriated a sum of $6,000 a few months ago to have the roof repaired. Actually, the work consists of repairing the old roof, taking out air bubbles, etc., and then a new roof is laid on the old roof. This eliminates costly removal of the old roof, and actually gives some extra protection, in that both the old roof which is repaired and the new roof are used.

The same method was used by the Schust company on the portion of the roof above the auditorium. i

ASC Election Is Slated Next Week James Garboden, chairman of the agricultural stabilization and conservation committee urges Adams county farmers to take part in the election of their local ASC community committees. Garboden reminds farmers of the dates of their respective meetings: Monday, Sept. 9, French township at the Election school; Hartford township at the Hartford school; and Monroe township at the Adams Central school; Tuesday, Sept. 10: Blue Creek township at the Adams Central school; Preble township at the Magley school; and Union township at the Emanuel Lutheran school; Wednesday. Sept. 11: Hoot township at the Monmouth school; Wabash township at the Geneva town hall, and Washington township at the ASCS county office. Thursday, Sept. 12: Jefferson township at the Jefferson school, Kirkland township at the Adams Central school and St. Mary’s township at the Pleasant Mills school. Nominations will be made orally at the meeting. The election will be by secret ballot and plurality vote. The present ASC community committees will tabulate the ballots and announce the results immediately. Garboden points out that this annual election is one in which all eligible farmers have an opportunity to select the best man available for this work as ASC committeemen. The ASC community committee to be elected consists of three regular members and two alternates. The chairman, ■vice-chair-man, and regular member of the elected committee will serve respectively as delegate, alternate delegate and second alternate delegate to the county convetion where the ASC county committee will be chosen. A person Is eligible to vote in the community election is he is of legal voting age and is? a farm owner, tenant, operator, or sharecropper, and is taking part or is eligible to take part in one of the farm programs administered by the committee. Also eligible is a person not of legal voting age, who is in charge of the farming operations on an entire farm. In the case of joint ownership by two or more individuals, each is an eligible voter. In the case of a partnership farm, the vote may be cast by either partner, and a corporation's vote may be cast by an authorized officer of the corporation. However, there are other limi tations on voting. If a voter has an interest in a farm or farms, in more than one community in a county, he may vote in only one community of the county. Voting by proxy is not allowable. Because of the vital part that lhe ASC community and county committees play in farming affairs of the county, Garboden said, ‘‘it is important that each farmer give serious consideration to the men elected to these posts. It is highly desirable that the committeemen be currently active farmers who are best qualified for the committee work and who will be representatives of the various sections and types of agriculture in the community.” All information concerning the elections may be obtained by contacting the ASCS county office.

Catholic Schools' Enrollment Higher

Enrollment in the Decatur Catholic schools went over the 900 mark for the first time in the school’s history this week as the 1963-64 school year got underway. A total of 945 students hads/becn enrolled in the schools as of early Thursday afternoon, accoridng to figures released by Sr. M. Julienne, C. S. A., principal of the Decatur Catholic high school and the seventh and eighth grades, and by Sr. M. Vera. C. S. A., principal of the first six grades of the St. Joseph school Total enrollment last year in the parochial school was 897, meaning a net increase of 48 students. Principal increase is in the high school, with 251 enrolled, a boost of 37 over last year. By classes, the high school enrollment is: seniors, 41; juniors, 64, sophomores,

Chinese Reds Assail Russia

TOKYO (UPD — Communist China, in a harsh new attack divulging innermost secrets of the Sinp-Soviet quarrel, charged today that Russia in effect k idnaped thousands of Chinese in an apparent plot to overthrow a regional regime near the Soviet border. The Chinese' said the border trouble occurred in April and May of 1962 in the Hi region of China’s Sinkiang Province. They' charged the Soviets with carrying out large-scale subversive activities. Hi is nestled in the Borokhora mountain range about 25 miles from the Soviet border. The Peking attack said Soviet actions have forced relations between Red China and Russia to “the brink of a split” and carried differences in the international Communist movement “to a new stage of unprecedented gravity.” — The Chinese accused the Russians of “lying” in their ideological and political dispute, and said it was time to set the record straight. They contended that Peking had made concession after concession to Moscow in hopes of keeping the rift from widening. Note “Last Straws” Peking inferred that the "last straws”' in Moscow’s anti-Chinese campaign were the Kremlin’s signing of the partial nuclear test ban ticaty with the United States and Britain, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s recent visit to President Tito of Yugoslavia. The attack. as broadcast in English by the New China News Agency, said Peking, was not vying for leadership of the Communist movement, and it accused Khrushchev of being “patriarchal arbitrary and tyrannical.” The Peking regime presented

Steers’ Tax Stand Scored

INDIANAPOLIS < UPD—Governor Welsh’s special counsel today accused Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers of "running with the rabbits and barking with the dogs" in his position on Indiana's 2 per cent sales tax law. They said Steers was right the first time when, his office defended the tax as constitutional. George Zazas and two other attorneys, representing Welsh in an appeal from a lower court ruling holding the tax unconstitutional, filed a reply brief today with the Indiana Supreme Court to the brief by Steers as an individual party in the case. Zazas took advantage of the attorney general's early appearance on behalf of the tax and used his own words against him in answering his later dissenting brief. The second brief was filed as an individual petition and not as the attorney general. “Because the attorney general in this case has tried both to run 1 with the rabbits and bai‘l< with the dogs, the answers to his argument come largely from his own earlier briefs,” the reply said. The answer to Steers runs for 56 pages, an indication of the importance the proponents of the tax are giving to the ease. Steers first defended the tax when president Dallas Sells of the Indiana AFL-CIO filed a suit challenging its constitutionality in Marion Circuit Court. However, Steers later withdrew and advised Welsh he felt the tax was not constitutional. Welsh then hired Zazas and two other members of an Indianapolis law firm to represent him and Indiana itevenue Commissioner

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72; freshmen, 74. The enrollment by grades in the St. Joseph school is as follows: 'Grade one, 99; grade two, 81; grade three, 102; grade four, 94; grade five, 72; grade six, 68; grade seven, 97; grade eight, 81. The grade enrollment totals 694, an increase of 11 over the 1962-63 school year. Registration of the high school students was held Tuesday and Wednesday, with classes opening Thursday morning for a half day and a full day of classes today. All grade school students, except the first grade, attended classes Wednesday morning, all grades Thursday morning. The first six grades had classes only until noon today, while the seventh and eighth grades, as well as the high school, had a full schedule today.

the detailed account of its side oi the quarrel in a massive article in the Chinese Communist party newspaper, People’s Daily, and its theoretical journal, Red Flag. The article is the first of a series titled “The Origin and Development of Differences between Ourselves and the- Communist Party of the Soviet Union.” It is in answer to a Soviet letter of July 14 in which Moscow claimed the Chinese Reds were trying to split the world on racial lines and set up a new world Communist headquarters in Peking. Says Return Refusal Referring to the alleged border ■ trouble, the article said Soviet i personnel in the Hi region “en- • ticed and coerced several tens of - thousands of Chinese citizens into i going to the Soviet Union.” It - said Moscow has refused to return them despite many requests from - Peking. The disclosure was the first 1 firm confirmation that the disI pute between the two Communist ■ giants had brought them into open confrontation along their vast common border. The Chinese claimed that the dispute did not start in lsM>o as claimed by Moscow, but began seven years ago with the 20th Soviet party congress at which Khrushchev.denounced former'die-" tator Josef Stalin and pronounced his policy of peaceful coexistence. Khrushchev’s peaceful coexistence policy, which rejects nuclqar war as a means of defeating Western capitalism, is the core of the Sino-Soviet dispute. The Chinese Reds advocate a more militant policy, reject friendly contacts with the West, and do not exclude war as a means of spreading communism.

James C. Courtney in a legal battle to get the lower court verdict reversed, so the tax could be collected. The sales tax was intended by the 1963 Legislature for local School support. Zazas said his reply to the main brief filed by Sells will be shorter and • probably will reach the court clerk Sept. 13. “It is a unique proceeding in which counsel /in this court are required to respond to a brief filed by the attorney who represented their client in the court trial," Zazas said, “The charge that the act was not regularly adopted and the allegation that fraud was committed in connection therewith, are arguments which depend onevidence outside the act itself," the brief said. The brief said Steers, while “properly performing his statutory duties,” .objected to evidence conctrning the less-than-constitutional majority vote bn the sales tax bill in the Senate. The brief maintained .since Steers was successful it: ‘blocking Sells from testifying about the 25-24,,v0te, he could not now cornplain “that the court below committed error at his instigation.” Decatur Lions Club To Resume Meetings The Decatur Lions club will resume its weekly meetings Monday following the summer vacation. The service club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Youth and Community Center. Members unable to attend must check out by 11 a.m. Monday by calling I & M, 3-2118.