Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 7 September 1963 — Page 1

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School Authorities And Alabama Negro Leaders Plan Opening Os Schools

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Nuclear Weapons Not Thoroughly Tested

/WASHINGTON (UPI) — Gen. Thomas S. Power, head of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and an outspoken opponent of the nuclear test ban treaty, has disclosed that the United States has “never completely tested any of the nuclear weapons in SAC’s arsenal.” , In closed-door testimony of Aug. 19, released Friday by the Senate preparedness subcommittee, Power said none of the different nuclear weapons in his control “have been tested operationally from stockpile to detonation.” “I think this is a mistake ’ he said. “I think they should be tested. The only way you can prove a weapon system is to take it out of the stockpile in a random pattern and let the tactical unit take it out and detonate i . . . We have no tested any of j. the operational warheads in our inventory. That includes the missiles and the bombs.” Power’s judgment that the limited test ban treaty is “not in the best interest of the United Sates” and that it should be rejeced was made public at the time of his appearance. But in the testimony released Friday he made it clear that he would oppose the treaty even if test readiness safeguards urged 'l>y' the Joint Chiefs of Staff are provided. The Joint Chiefs endorsed the pact on this condition. Power is the only top current military leader to take’ a firm stand against the treaty. Power also testified that: —The “surest way to cause a war, nuclear war or any war, is to disarm.” —lt is not true that the United States accomplished as much as Russia did in atmospheric nuclear test's. Power said:. "I don’t agree with that statement. We discovered things, but one of the most important! hings I think we discovered js the great void in our knowledge.” —He thinks the nuclear balance would shift in Russia’s favor if only underground testing is permitted. The United States would lose its advantage in lowyield weapons, and could not “catch up” with the Soviets in high-yield weapons. The reason there has been no war is "disgustingly simple” — U.S. military superiority. Power said this country has maintained its position "not because people like us . i . They are afraid to attack us . . . This is a worthwhile position to maintain.” >, —There are, /in his opinion, "too many unknowns” about the survivability of a Minuteman missile silo —'hence his plea for freedom to test in the atmosphere.

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—People who claim the United States has an “overkill “power in nuclear weapons now “do not necessarily know what they are talking about.” Power stressed: “Not every bomb is going to arrive at the target. Many of them will be ■ destroyed ont he ground before they are launched. Many will be destroyed by enemy action. Some will be duds.” —He is not convinced that the Soviet-China split is a persuasive reason for the treaty. “It could be, but I believe the differences between China and Russia are more or less like the arguments that I gangsters have, and they have strong differences even leading to shooting,” he said. "But that doesn’t necessarily mean they are going to fall out.”

George H. Dellinger Is Taken By Death George Henry Dellinger, 77, a resident of Willshire, 0., for the past 25 years, died at 5:30 a. m. Friday at the Van Rue Geriatric center at Van Wert, following an illness of two years. Born in Blackcreek township, Mercer county, €>., April 4, 1886, he was a son of Andrew and Barbara Sheller-Dellinger, and was married to Elizabeth Roop Jan. 31, 1909. Mr. Dellinger, a retired farmer and carpenter, was a member of the Willshire Methodist church and a former trustee of the church. He was employed at the Willshire Lumber Co. for 15 years. Surviving in addition to his wife are one daughter. Miss Mary Dellinger, at home; and two brothers, Samuel and Floyd Dellinger, both of Willshire. Three brothers and four sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the United Brethren in Christ church at Willshire, the Rev. Mark Rutledge and the Rev. James Maxwell officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert after 2 p. m. today, and at the church after 1:30 p. m. Sunday until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight. Sunday mostly sunny and mild. Low tonight in the 50s. High Sunday mid and upper 70s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy with no important temperature changes.

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By United Press International School authoriteis and Negro leaders in Alabama , currently the nation’s hottest racial trouble spot, today made separate plans aimed at re-opening integrated schools closed by» segregationist Gov. George Wallace. School officials in Birmingham hoped to re-open three desegregated schools Monday. The schools were closed Thursday, a day after a race riot that resulted in one death and 19 injuries. Negro leaders go into federal court next week in an effort to keep Wallace from interfering with the operation of schools in Huntsville and Birmingham. Desegregated schools in Mobile and Tuskegee also remained closed. At Huntsville Friday, Wallace ringed four desegregated schools with state troopers and turned away students who tried to enter. City officials protested the presence of the troopers sent in by executive order. About 150 state troopers left Mobile Friday and local officials said schools would be 1 open Monday, including desegregated Murphy High. By agreement, Negroes . assigned to Murphy did not appear this week. Racial developments elsewhere inthe nation: Boston* Fresh replacements of Negroes and whites moved in Friday on the second day of a marathon sit-in in the Boston School Committee building. At least two demonstrators were on a hunger strike. Chicago: Police broke up a “lie-under” at a Mobile classroom site Friday, and Negro parents and children staged sit-ins at an all-Negro school in a determined campaign to force a white principal to resign. Malverne, N.Y.: Civil rights leaders in this Long Island community Friday announced a plan to boycott alleged racial imbalance in public schools following the arrests of seven sit-in demonstrators. Little Rock, Ark.: Two white students Friday enrolled in a previously all-Negro elementary 'school in Little Rock, the first reverse integration since Little Rock school desegregation in the 1957 crisis at Central High School. Englewood, N. J.: About 65 Negro children continued sit-ins Friday at three predominantly wtiite schools, but parents withdrew under prodding from Gov. Richard J. Hugues. St. Augustine, Fla.: Nine Negroes convicted ot trespass during recent racial demonstrations were fined SSO or 60 days in jail at a closed court session here Friday.

American Turncoat To Return To U. S. HONG KONG (UPD — Scott L. Rush, 31, a former American Army sergeant who spent a dozen years in Communist China following the Korean War, returned to the West today and said he had made a mistake. Rush, formerly of Marietta, Ohio, showed up at the Hong Kong border shortly after noon accompanied by his Chinese wife, Helen, and their 14-month old daughter, Betty Jean. Rush, who was 18 when he refused repatriation as a prisoner of war, said he had made a “foolish decision,” but now was “anxious as hell" to get back home to the United States. The turncoat told a news conference at a Hong Kong hotel that he had become disillusioned with communism. He also said there was growing hatred for Russia within Red China. Asked why he chose to stay behind the Bamboo Curtain after being cap, tured, Rush said: “I made a mistake. I was too young. It was a foolish decision.” The former combat photographer said his mother was now living in Tuscon, Ariz. Asked if he had a message for her he said: "Just tell her that aU three of Us (his wife and child) will get home soon. Take good care of yourself. As soon as we complete procedures, we’ll get home. I’m anxious as hell.”

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G. E. And Union Sign New Pact

« The General Electric company and the UE, the union which represents the workers at the Decatur General Electric plant, signed an agreement late Friday afternoon on a new contract, George Auer, plant manager, said today. The contract is for three years on pay, IEA plan, holidays, etc., and five years on vacations, insurance, and pensions. The agreement included a slight modification of the arbitration clause, as offered by the company. The agreement includes: Two pay increases, one Sept. 30, and again in 18 months on April 5, 1965, each ranging from five cents to more than 10 cents an hour. Many incentive workers will get more than 10 cent an hour in-

Rydell Heads Drive For Community Fund Mrs. Leo Curtin today announced that Gene Rydell has been appointed chairman of the Community Fund drive for this year. Cochairmen are Mrs. Mabel Murray and Norman Steury. Theft Is Reported At Coin-op Laundry A theft at the Mazelin Coin-op laundry, 633 N. 13th St., was reported to the city police at 5:45 a.m. today by John F. Brown, route 2, Decatur, who discovered the robbery. ~ , Brown reported that he had found the theft when he had entered the laundry. A coin changer machine, a cigarette machine and a juke box were broken into The loss was undetermined as of today. Anderson Man Drowns In Canadian Lake ANDERSON, Ind. (UPD— Huston M. Gossett, 55, Anderson, and a Missouri man drowned Friday in a fishing accident at Eagle Lake near Kenora, Ont., relatives here learned today. Gossett, a former examiner for the Indiana Insurance Department and a clerk in the 1951 session of the House of the Indiana Legislature, was vacationing with his family when the accident happened.

Arbitration Board To Meet Next Week WASHINGTON (UPD—A sevenmember board, set up to arbitrate the two major issues in the four-year-old railroad work rules dispute, will meet next week to decide when and where to begin. Ralph T. Seward, who was named chairman of the panel by President Kennedy, met with Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz and rail union and management officials Friday to set the stage for the new and unprecedented collective bargaining procedures. Union - management negotiations on the secondary issues will be held concurrently during the' board’s hearings on the two key issues. Seward said the board would meet Wednesday to decide when to begin hearings in Washington. Wirtz is confident the bargaining will succeed this time, 'rhe complete collapse of the talks two weeks ago brought the-nation to the verge of a nationwide rail strike, which was narrowly averted by emergency arbitration legislation. The two major issues are the elimination of diesel locomotive firemen’s jobs, and changes in the makeup of train service crews.

creases. The average of each increase is about seven cents an hour. Vacation will be 33%-50% bettor, with four weeks at 20 years, and three weeks at 10 years, plus choices of using extra vacation for sick pay, personal time off, extra income at layoff, makeup for short, work weeks. Six improvements were offered in the insurance program, seven in the pension program, more income protection during the layoff, time off for death in family to include mother-in-law and father-lri-law, an eighth paid holiday where there are now only seven, 25 '.’o increase for holidays worked times normal pay.) * ■ \

Miss America Will Be Crowned Tonight ATLANTIC CITY. N- J„ (JLJPI) 1— It’s all over but the crying today at the Miss America contest, and the tears will fall tonight. The big heartbreak comes over nationwide television somewhere about midnight, EDT, for 51 lesser beauties when No. 52 is named Miss America of 1964 at Convention Hall. Selectron of the new beauty queen will cap a week of determed optimism by 52 young Women who pitted their talent, beau t y and personality one against the other for the prestige and profit of being considered America’s most desirable girl. Who she will be nobody knows because the pageant officers — with 36 Miss America contests behind them — have arranged the scoring so that it is impossible to figure the winner. As it stands now, two girls lead the herd in that part of the scoring that is made public. They are Miss Alabama, blonde Judith Short, and Miss District of Columbia, both of whom have won the talent and bathing suit contest each, which is a rarity. Generally, a contestant will win one or the other, but not bdth. But under the scoring system they still could fail to gain even the semifinals tonight, since the personality and evening gown winners, are not made public and could have built up a lead before them unawares. Each girl is scored from five through zero in each of the four categories. John Beeler Dies In Van Wert Hospital Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday for John Beeler, 82, of Rockford, Ohio, who died Friday tnorning in Van Wert hospital, where he had been a patient for three weeks. He was the stepfather of .Mrs- Thurman Wolf of Monroe. A son of William and Mary Beeler, he was bom in 1881 in Elida, Ohio. His first wife, Mary Catherine Bice, died in 1951, and in June, 1954, he married Nellie Shaffer, who survives. He was a member of the Olive Branch Church of God. Surviving with the widow and Mrs. Wolf are four other stepchildren, Mrs. Vera Cook of Lima and Mrs. Irvin Williams, Virgil Shaffer and Richard Shaffer, all of Rookford; two brothers, Clarence Beeler of Elida, and Arthur Beeler of Lima. A sister and two brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at the Ketchum funeral home with the Rev. James McKenzie officiating. Burial will be in Rockford Riveraide cemetery.

Army Engineer Says Indiana Port Feasible 1 WASHINGTON (UPD — The ' Army Corps of Engineers is con- i vinced that Burns Ditch, Ind., is > an economically feasible site for a federal deep-water port. But a corps official, testifying before the House Public Works * Appropriations subcommittee, has indicated the same may be said also about Hammond-Whiting-East Chicago, Ind., some 20 miles away. An edited version of the closeddoor testimony of Col. Leonard J. Goodsell, assistant director of the corps’ civil works in the Midwest, was made public today. Goodsell testified in favor of the $25,000 requested in the President’s budget for the survey of the Tri-City site. The corps is studying the possibility of connecting the present breakwaters at Calumet Harbor and Indiana Harbor, thus forming a single large harbor in the Lake Michigan area. “This is a project which some people have connected with the Burns Ditch project,” Goodsell said in what was considered an understatement. Burns Ditch advocates waged a bitter losing fight last year to prevent approval of the original $50,000 appropriation needed to launch the $150,000 survey. Goodsell said a favorable report on the Burns Ditch site by the chief of engineers, the second such endorsement by the corps, is under study by the Budget Bureau. In the corps’ opinion, the harbor is needed to handle traffic which will be generated there, he said. Under questioning by the subcommittee, Goodsell said various harbor projects along the south shore of Lake Michigan have been considered. But the engineers never, to his knowledge, have studied the specific proposal for the TriCity project, he said. “The Hammond- Whiting - East Chicago project would be a harbor which would benefit not only the existing industry there, including steel mills, but also the local people, the trans-shipment of coal, the general cargo trans-shipment, and things of that sort.” Goodsell said. “At least, in our studies we looked into all these possibilities for traffic through a possible harbor.” He said the study is not complete enough to estimate the "general magnitude” of costs for the Tri-City port. "But the idea is that this would be an additional harbor on the south shore of Lake Michigan,” Goodsell said.

Lyndon Johnson Is Cheered In Finland HELSINKI. Finland <UPD — A shouting, laughing throng of Finns broke through police lines today to get a glimpse of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson as he opened the annual “America Days” celebration here -in Finland’s first ticker-tape parade. About 10,(XX) persons lined Alexander Street to see the vice president, his wife Lady Bird and daughter, Lynda Bird, drive through downtowh Helsinki, Then, as he began his speech at a street intersection, _an estimated 500 or so broke through police lines and almost engulfed the Johnson harty. The mob scene climaxed a: busy morning in which Johnson sang "Happy Birthday to You” to an aging fishmonger in the Helsinki market, met oldtime track star Paavo Nurmi and talked for an hour with President Urho Kekkonen. At the "America Days” celebration, Johnson cut a ribbon to open the fair, then set out in one Os his patented hand - shaking, autograph-signing tours. Reporters, including old-timers here, had never seen anything like the welcome that the Finns gave Johnson today. It was a friendly mob, and Johnson responded to it, shaking hundreds of hands, smiling at children, and handing opt autographed cards. It was with some difficulty tfiat the police got him into hi# hotel at noon. "I’ve traveled in more than 30 countries," Johnson told reporters once he got back into his hotel, "but I’ve never had a friendlier reception than I’ve had here in Helsinki.” It ajso dwarfed all public displays during tire just conclftded Swedish visit, according to reporters following the tour. Earlier Johnson, sporting a red carnation in his lapel and having “a tonderful time,” talked to Kekkonen for an hour. NOON EDITION

Hundreds Os Youths Are Jailed In Saigon

SAIGON IUPI' - Troops and police carted hundreds of screaming, stone - throwing teen - agers fiom Saigon’s high schools off to detention camps today for demonstrating against the government. Reliable preliminary reports estimated the number of youngsters arrested at about 800, 600. of them girls. They were aged 13 to 18. Three hours after the demonstrations began, police trucks were still carrying students away from five Saigon high schools, and the total number arrested was expected to rise as the day wore on. Police also broke up a small student demonstration in the centi al market place; but there were no reports of arrests there. Police manhandled some youths. but no serious injuries were reported. The demonstrators massed in schoolyards and inside buildings a; two boys’ and three girls' high 3 schools. Police and Americant rained “special (counterguerrilla* forces" troops 1 surrounded the schools and rounded up the demonstrators en masse. Earlier, it was reported that Tran Kim Tuyen, former chief of the government’s leading intelliI gence agency, is being shunted oft to the post of consul general in Cairo because he fell into disfavor with Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, sister-in-law of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Competent -sources said Tuyen's

Parents Maintain School Picketing COALMONT, Ind. (UPD— Protesting parents maintained their picket lines today around an empty school here and said they would keep up the picketing ail weekend. The parents, protesting a school reorganization plan which is sending some of their children to schools at Jason Vite and Midland, said they planned an around-the-clock watch to “protect” the unused school here. The Shakamak District School Board decided early Thursday to bypass the school here and consolidate all pupils in the schools at Jasonville and Midland in neighboring Greene County. Original plans for the reorganization had called for all high school pupils in the district to attend school here with elementary classes at Midland and junior high Classes at Jasonville. A group bf local parents protested. however, and claimed that the 62-year-old Jasonville school was "unsafe” and a “death trap." They prevented opening of the local school when the new term began Tuesday and have picketed the building since then. The parents also indicated they would attempt legal action to prevent implementation of the 1 consolidation pending construction of a proposed new school building at Jasonville. State Fire Marshal Ira Anderson’made a personal inspection of th< Jasonville school Friday. He said his formal report would not be ready until next week but indicated that he found no serious violations of fire or. safety regulations.

Key Senators Oppose Treaty

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate's two leading authorities on military affairs have come out against the nuclear test ban treaty, indicating that ratification of the pact ma y be bpposeff more by Democrats than Republicans. Administration hopes for minimum opposition to • the treaty were dimmed Friday by the announcements of two key southern senators that they would vote against it. The Senate takes up the treaty Monday. Both Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., chairman of the armed services committee, and Sen. John r C. Stennis, D-Miss, who heads the preparedness subcommittee, said concern over possible military disadvantages of the treaty b'fbjtapted their derisions. A UPI poll of, other members of the armed services committee showed two senators in favor of ratification, three undecided and one undecided by leaning toward ratification. Sens. Stuart Symington, Do-Mo., and Stephen M. Young, D-Ohio, were In favor of the treaty: Sens.

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troubles began when he gave the president's brother, Nhu, chief of the secret police and husband of Mine.* Nhu, a report saying her reported influence on the government was damaging it politically. Attempt To Prevent Strike By Teachers NEW YORK' (UPD — Emergency talks broke off temporarily early today in the attempt to avert a strike by public school teachers on Monday when classes start for" more than 'one million pupils. The wage discussions between a three-man mediation panel and officials of the city board of education and the United Federation oi Teachers 'UFT' ended on a note of optimism arid were scheduled to resume later in the day. Simon H. Rifkind, a former federal district court judge and one of the mediators, said progress bad been made In the meeting and that a settlement of the-dis-pute -could be reached.' Mayor Robert F. Wagner appointed the panel and said its recommendations would be nonbinding but "most persuasive to ah concerned." - The UFT. official bargainer for the city's 43,000 school teachers, has threatened to call the walkout to enforce its contract demans. About 8,000 teachers met in an outdoor stadium Friday night and voted overwhelmingly to support a strike. By voice vote, they rejected the board of education's latest contract offer after it was explained to them by UFT president Charles Cogen. Cogen said the offer included a S3OO-a-year pay boost over a two-year period — but none of it to be effective immediately.

Defense Business In Slate Increases INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Sen. Vance D-Ind., said today that defense business in Indiana is still fncreas fng. _ Speaking at the state convention of the International Association of Machinists, Hartkc said that major defense contract spending is up some 17 per cent for the fiscal year which rccently_£nded. "In the year ending last June 30. figuring only contracts of a million dollars or more. Indiana received over $371 million worth oi defense work," Hartkc said. He said that defense spending ii. the state had "just about tripled" since January. 1901. and that he was "pleased to have had a hand in this effort.” In a speech Friday night at South Bend. Hartke urged support of the nuclear test ban treaty -as a means of “preventing our air from being poisoned by deadly rays.” "We can continue tests underground and be prepart'd for alt kinds of tests." JHartke said. "But' there must be no further pollution of air. It’s that simple." He added. "We have nothing to lose by suspending tests of the bomb in the atmosphere. . .but our children and their children have a great deal to lose.”

Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N. C„ Howard W. Cannon, D-Nev., and J. Glenn Beall. R-Md., said they had not made up their minds yet, though Beall said he planned Io announce Ins stand next week. Sen. Clifford P. Case. R- N. J., said he wanted to hear all the closing arguments on the question before making a final decision, but added he had heard nothing so far to cause him to vote against the treaty. Stennis’ fellow Mississippian, Democrat James O. Eastland, said he also would oppose the treaty, which bans all but underground nuclear tests. But Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, D-Gg., Russell’s junior colleague, told United Press International he had, not yet made up his mind on the matter. Two other .southerners. Sens. J. Strom Thurmond, D-S. C., and Russell Bi Long, D-La,, also are expected to oppose the treaty. Long cast the only vote against it in the foreign relations committee but said he reserved the right to change his mind.