Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 9 September 1963 — Page 1

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Alabama Troopers Turn JL • Away Negro Students In New Wallace Showdown

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DEFECTOR RETURNS— Former U. S. Army Sergeant Scott L. Rush. 31, of Marietta, Ohio, enters Hong Kong hotel with his wife Helen and their 14-mcnth-old daughter, Betty Jean, Rush defected to China after the Korean war : _ 1 _: . ' i

Cabinet Post To Gronouski

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Wisconsin Tax Commissioner John A. Gronouski Jr., believed to be the first Polish-American ever named to the Cabinet, today was named by President Kennedy to be postmaster general. The 43 - year -old Democrat, whose nomination is subject to Senate confirmation, will succeed J. Edward Day whose resignation took effect a month ago. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who announced Kennedy’s choice of Gronouski, was asked if it was a “nationality appointment.” Salinger replied, “No, sir.” Gronouski, a former university professor as well as a tax ex_pert, has been active in Demo-

Kennedy, Leaders Confer On Treaty a/

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy agreed today to send a special letter to the Senate this week pledging that ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty with Russia will not hamstring future U.S. atomic developments. He agreed to the move at the request of Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., and Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen who conferred with Kennedy at the White House. At the end of the meeting, Dirksen publicly announced that he would vote for ratification >of the pact. The GOP leader said the Kennedy letter, expected Wednesday or Thursday, would be “extremely helpful” in allaying any fears held by some senators that the treaty might work to Russia’s military advantage. * ’ Dirksen’s endorsement, which came minutes before the Senate began its treaty debate at noon, was expected to give a significant bipartisan boost to chances for ratification. Both he and Mansfield predicted it would be approved by the neded two-thirds margin. w According to Dirksen, the President’s letter will emphasize what the United States ‘’’proposes to do in the thermo-nuclear field in the future.” He did not go into details. The GOP' leader said he had considered offering a-special resolution by which Congress would express its own views on the future U.S. atomic needs but decided against the move lest it bog down the pact in a parliamentary snarl. He told newsmen he decided in-

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cratic politics. He concedes cheerfully that he doesn’t remember his own ZIP mailing number. —i— His wife, Mary, said that Gronouski—like most husbands—has “been carrying my letters around for two days without mailing them.” The announcement confirmed reports which had been eminating from Wisconsin since Sunday. Gronouski has been commissioner of taxation in Wisconsin since he was appointed to that post by Gov. Gaylord Nelson in January, 1960. Prior to that, he was research director for the state Tax Department and executive director of a special tax study set up by Nelsen.

stead to suggest that Kennedy write the special letter “since there still must be assurances from the President himself on the kinds of points I had in mind.” Both Dirksen and Mansfield predicted that the treaty will receive the necessary two third vote for ratification although neither would forecast the size of the margin. The Senate preparedness subcommittee issued a formal report today challenging the treaty as a step which could create “serious and perhaps formidable” military disadvantages to the United States. The report, adopted by a 6-1 vote, said the limited test ban would “affect adversely” future U.S. weapons development. The group made, no recommendation but the report said: “These disadvantages, in our judgment, are not outweighed or counterbalanced by the claimed military advantages. At the sathe time, we are not convinced that comparable military disadvantages will accrue to the nuclear weapon program of the U S.S.R.” However, in a prepared speech, Chairrpan J. William Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned that it would be “unwise and irresponsible” if the Senate attached any reservations to the treaty. , Any reservations adopted -by the Senate would force renegotiation ol the pact. Fulbright, whose Foreign Relations Committee recommended ratification by a 16-1 vote, termed the treaty “indeed both safe and wise.”

Operating Profit Is Shown By Hospital Cash income exceeded expenses by $5,404.68 in August at the Adams county memorial hospital, Thurman I. Drew, hospital administrator, said today. . This was the best month for the hospital this year, and the best month, except for December of 1962 and 1960, since at least 1958. In December, the year is closed out before all the bills are in, which means that December usually shows a good profit, and January, a loss. The hospital is well ahead for the year so far. Deposits for August totalled $40,002.04, well over the $35,000 average for the past year or two. The operating balance was $19,368.26 on August 1, and $24,772.94 on August 31. Bills for the month totalled $12.811.73, and the payroll was $21,785.63, for a total of $34,597.36 in expenses. There were 186 patients admitted, and 37 babies born this August, compared with 212 and 63 in July, and 174 and 53 a year ago. This was the smallest number of births in a number of years in any one month. Five patients and two babies died, the same total of seven as last month, and a year ago there were only three deaths in August at the hospital. A total of 181 patients and 39 babies were dismissed during the month, with 38 patients and seven babies on August 1, and 38 patients and three babies on August 31. There were more than 50 patients in the hospital over the past weekend, however: the hospital rate is based on a minimum load of 45 patients to provide operating funds. The hospital rate for new furniture was cut in half, to one cent, this year, by action of the hospital board; the fund is used to help refurnish the rooms, and buy new eauipment. A gift of SSOO from the Nina Adams estate was also received this past month. ' There were 373 outpatients treated in the labatory, x-ray and emergency rooms in August, down slightly from the 408 outpatients in July, but still the second highest In the hospital’s history. A year ago 286 were treated as outpatients. Os the 37 newborn babies, 13 were boys, and 24 were girls. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool with some scattered fog likely tonight. Tuesday fair and continued mIW. Low tonight 56 to 64. High Tuesday 75 to 80. Sunset today 7:04 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:21 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Mostly fair with no major temperature changes. Lows 55 to 60. Highs 78 to 86.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) — Gov. George C. Wallace ringed white schools in three cities today with armed state troopers who turned away Negro students to set the stage for another “schoolhouse door” showdown with the federal government. Two Negro teen - agers were turned back by the armed troopers at Mobile’s Murphy High, the state’s largest, and a young Ne.gro boy, his mother and two attorneys were turned away from one school in Birmingham. By 7:30 a.m. Wallace’s helmeted highway patrolmen were in position around three schools in Birmingham, one in Tuskegee and Murphy in Mobile. White students were permitted to pass. By the time classes were to have started, 13 Negroes had not appeared at Tuskegee’s only white school. Three Negroes had not appeared at Ramsay and West End high schools in Birmingham. Wallace seemed bent on forcing the federal government to force the entrance of the Negroes, possibly with troops, and his first step was to turn away the Negroes. The young Negro boy, accompanied by his mother and two attorneys, tried to enter Ramsay High School in Birmingham. The youth was told by a state trooper, “The governor has ordered that this school not be integrated. He sent me here to see this order followed.” Attorney Ernest Jackson of Jacksonville, Fla., who accompanied the youth, asked state trooper T.L. Payne again for entrance. Payne said, “I, have to turn you away again under orders of the governor.” Jackson, attorney for the NAACP, asked, “is this an official act of the governor?” Payne replied, “Yes, it is.” Then the four Negroes turned and walked to their car. Jackson said his next step would be to “go back to court and get an injunction.” At Mobile, Maj. Joe Smelley of the state troopers, turned away the two Negro students scheduled to enter Murphy. 1 Wallace issued three orders—each identical — saying he would I not permit desegregation as ordered by the federal courts in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile. -» Coalmont Parents 1 Transfer Students Coalmont, ind. ents transferred their children : from the Shakamak School Dis- 1 trict to nearby Clay City schools today as a picketing of the high 1 school here entered its seventh ’ day. ' School officials at the Jasonville 1 and Midland schools, which parents say are “fire traps and un- ( sanitary,” said attendance of ele- 1 mentary and junior high students 1 was “about normal but high * school student absence is increas- ’ ing.” . Officials would not comment on 1 a rumor that books at the block- 1 aded Coalmont school were never * transferred to Jasonville and stu- ’ dents are “being taught from memory.” < An unidentified janitor at Coal- ’ mont said, “I think they came J around trying to get the books ’ over the weekend but the parents 1 wouldn’t let them in.” Principal Alex Moody of Clay ’ City schools said “about 15” students from Shakamak paid fees ranging from $250 to $350 to trans- 1 fer into his district. “I’m not taking sides in this ‘ thing,” he said. “But if the par- . ents want their children to come ! to our modern facilities here, they’re perfectly welcome. We have room for about 75 more without cramping our operation or 1 enlarging our staff.” ( North Adams Board Meets Tuesday Night i The North Adams community > schools board will meet at 8 p.m. < Tuesday at the Decatur high school building for their regular 1 monthly meeting to allow salar- ( ies for the month. The . meeting 1 is open to the public. 1

Troops Battle Red Soldiers In Vientiane VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI) — Troops loyal to rightwing leader Gen. Phoumi Nosavan battled pro-Communist Pathet Lao soldiers in the streets of Vientiane early today in a sudden upsurge of fighting. The short, sharp battle with I rifles, grenades and mortars cli- > maxed a deteriorating situation in this "neutralized” Southeast Asian kingdom. —- The fight continued for two hours. By 8 a m. the streets were relatively quiet and almost every door was bolted shut from the inside. Rightwing troops surrounded the headquarters- building of the Fathet Lao, blockaded a main intersection outside it, and threatened to shoot anyone who ignored their orders to stop when told to do so. Unconfirmed reports said two pedestrians were wounded by soldiers guarding roads and intersections, The number of military casualties was not disclosed. The rightists posted three light tanks at intersections near the hemes of Communist military leaders and political chiefs. A reliable source said the rightists planned to disarm the Communists. “Anything can happen if they resist,” he said. Associated Press correspondent Antoine Yared was arrested for undisclosed reasons while covering rightist movements in the city. —-—7The Associated Press said in New York that Yared was released by the rightists six hours after his arrest. Eight Persons Die In Weekend Traffic By United Press International At eight persons were killed this weekend and two elderly men died in hospitals Sunday from injuries suffered in separate Labor Day auto wrecks. The 10 deaths raised Indiana's 1963 highway toll to at least 871 compared with 789 last year. Sunday’s only reported fatal accident claimed the life of Donald Ray Caudill, 22, Kendallville, who was killed in a car-train crash near his home. Sidney Sartell. 65, Jeffersonville, died Sunday in the Veterans Administration Hospital at Louisville, K.v., where he had been taken in critical condition after a Labor Day accident near Jeffersonville. Ralph Green, 70, Bluffton, died in a Fort Wayne hospital Sunday from injuries suffered in a twocar wreck in Whitley County, also on Labor Day. Paul Morton, 39, Flat Rock, died Saturday night in W.S. Major Hospital at Shelbyville from injuries suffered early Saturday when his car hit a bridge on Ind. 9 near his home. Mrs. Loretta Reed, 47, Kokomo, was killed Saturday afternoon in a two-car collision near Wabash. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Marshall. Aurora; 111., was injured fatally early Saturday in a car-truck crash in Ripley County. His parents were reported in critical condition at Louisville hospital. Floyd Brewer. 52. Vallonia, was killed Saturday in a two-car collision on Ind. 135 near Brownstown. Carl Frank, 63, Evansville, was killed in a two-car crash Saturday on Ind. 231 near Chrisney in Spencer County. Arden Lieter, 48, Pierceton, was killed Saturday when a car tie was jh ran off a road near Columbia City and overturned. The weekend’s first traffic victim was Donald Morgan, 14, New Castle, who was killed Friday night in a car-train accident in Henry County, " ~

House Group May Cut More Foreign Aid WASHINGTON (UPD — A House group may chop an additional S7OO million from President Kennedy’s foreign aid program, already whacked sharply by Congress, according to informed sources. These sources said that a House appropriations subcommittee headed by Rep. Otto E. Passman, D-La., hoped to inflict the new cut when it acts on the foreign aid money bill next month. Any further reduction is sure to heat up the fight between the administration and foreign aid foes in Congress. A spokesman for the aid agency said a S7OO million slash would cut the program's effectiveness to the “danger point.” Kennedy was termed “shortsighted. irresponsible and dangerously partisan” cuts previously made in the aid program by the House, which approved an authorization bill $1 billion below his original request. The House last month approved an authorization bill of about $3.5 billion. The new cut proposed for I the appropriations bill that would j provide the actual funds would I reduce the program to $2.8 bil- ; lion. ■ Other Congressional news: Pollution: Sen. Abraham A. | Ribicoff, D-Conn., urged approval lof an air pollution control bill, Ribicoff told a public works subcommittee- that the bill was needed to put an end to “sewers in the sky." Ribicoff urged that the federal government give both leadership and financial help to communities battling air pollution. Clark Sen. Joseph S- Clark, D-Pa.. said Congress will pass a tax bill this year, but he predicted that “it will be too little." Clark said he felt the tax program should be taken up before the Senate gets to civil rights. “Once we get into civil rights, there is going to be almost no end to it,” he said. Howover.'hfe said if the Senate does take up 1 the $11:1 billion tax cut, it will pass if. Former Local Lady Dies As Van Wert Mrs. Jerrtina (Mina) Delilah Bell, 71, former Decatur resident, ’died at 6:10 a. m. Sunday at the Van Wert hospital following an illness of three years. She had made her home for the past 13 years at 308 South First street. Van Wert. She was born in Pike county. 0.. June 12 .1892. a daughter of Newton and Minnie Miller-Sharp. Her husband, William Bell, preceded her in death in 1948. Mrs. Bel], who livel in Rockford. 0., and Decatur prior to moving to Van Wert, was formerly a member of the Mt. Olive Church of God at Rockford. Surviving arc one brother, David Sharp of Rockford; and three sisters. Mrs. Anna Butler of Van Wert, Mrs. Mae McVay of Westerville, O . and Mrs. Grade Pontsler of Ohio City, O. Two brothers and two sisters are deceased. V Funeral services will be hold at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert, the Rev. Edwin L. Endicott officiating Burial will he in Riverside cemetery at Rockford. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. . William Schinnerer Dies As Fort Wayne William G. Schinnerer. 70, of 4037 Fairfield Ave.. Fort Wayne died at 1 p.m. Sunday at . the Lutheran hospital, where”he had been a natient one month. A native of Willshire. 0., ho had resided in Fort Wavnc for 40 years. He retired in 1956 after working 30 years -for the General Electric Co. Mr. Schinnerer was a member of Peace Evangelical Lutheran ohunrch and the G. E. QuarterCentury club. Surviving are his wife, Martha; a brother. Fred Schinnerer, and a sister. Miss Lydia Schinnerer. both of Willshire, and several nieces and nephews. ..» Funeral rites will be held at 2 pm. Tuesday in Peace Lutheran church, the Rev. Hartwig Schwehn officiating. Burial will 1 be in' Greenlawn memorial park. Friends may call at the ChalfantPerry funeral home after 4 p.m today until 11:30 a m. Tuesday when the body will b: taken to the church.

Students, Police . 1 I Battle At Saigon

SAIGON (UPD — A student mob battled more than 1.000 heavily armed police and troops in a wild, fist-swinging, rock-and-furniture throwing brawl at the Chu Van An Boys’ High School here today. Students at the school slammed and barricaded its heavy gates about- 8 a.m., shortly before classes were to have begun, and began shouting anti - government slogans. When police showed up, the students pelted them with rocks and bricks for nearly an hour before police got authorization to smash their way into the schoolyard. When police broke down the gates and swarmed into the yard, the* 5 students held them back for a time with a barrage of chairs, desks and stones Police forced their way into the yard and began rounding up the rioters..wrenching their arms behind their back or in some cases dragging them by the hair as they rushed them to waiting trucks. Students who resisted were clubbed or kicked. An estimated 400 to 500 students were carted away to a de-

Senate Opens Treaty Debate

WASHINGTON (UP!) - Chairman J. William Fulbright, DArk., of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned today .that any Senate reservations to the nuclear test ban treaty “would be unwise and irrespon- — — Fulbright made the statement in a speech prepared for the . opening of formal Senate debate > on the treaty. Supporters were confident* they could get the two thirds Senate vote required foi > ratification. * . Assuring his colleagues that the i pact was "indeed both safe and wise,” Fulbright said "there arc risks in this treaty but they are lesser rather than greater risks, and the |<olttreal opportunities -outweight the military risks.” Fulbright's speech came as the Senate preparedness subcommittee sharply criticized the treaty and as .President Kennedy arranged to meet with Senate Democratic Leader- Mike Mansfield, Mont., and GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 111., to discuss the pact. Fears Serious,, Harm The preparedness subcommittee, in a report signed by six of its seven members, said the United States might suffer serious, even formidable, military disadvantages if the treaty is ratified. i The subcommittee, which heard 21 military and scientific witnesses in closed sessions on the treaty, made no direct recommendation on. whether the Senate should ratify it. But the group, headed by Sen. John Stennis. D-Miss., concluded that the Russians would be able t( hold or make weaixms gains under the treaty while the United States would be inhibited in its development of nuclear weapons systems. The pact bore a 16-1 endorsement from the foreign relations committee, the all-out backing of the administration, and the support of many top-level scientists and other experts. . But against it were such powerful figures as Stennis and chairman Richard B. Russell. D-Ga , oi the armed services committee. The treaty also has been criticized by some military leaders and scientists, with Dr. Edward Teller, so-called father of the H-bomb, leading the opposition. Outlaws Testing The three-nation pact signed at Moscow by the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union outlaws nuclear testing in the atmosphere, in outer space and underwater. It has since been signed by scores of non-nuclear nations. In his speech Fulbright reviewed at length the testimony given his committee and senators on the armed services and atomic energy committees. He said the overwhelming weight of the testimony lay on the side of ratification. “The treaty as it stands is a sound and constructive document,” Fulbright said. "The*attachmeijt of any reservation, whether on .matters covered by the treaty itself or on any of a, number of extraneous issues of the cold war, would be unwise and irresponsible." Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., who supports the ban, has suggested that five "understandings” be written into the ratification

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tentipn camp in the second such mass roundup in three days. The number of students in custody is believed to' be well over 1,000. As the rioting died away, a lone sign in English on a second-floor balcony dramatized the students I protest against the government of : President Ngo Dinh Diem. “Help us," it read. “We are in I danger.” Earlier, the government had hinted the U. S. Congress should ■ investigate American officials I and agencies which it says are ■ "misleading” President Kennedy i about conditions in South Viet Nam. • High school students who dem- . onstrated against the government ■ Saturday— and were arrested by . the hundreds — carried placards bearing such slogans as “U. S. • government helps Diem—Do not ‘ help Diem” and “Tell President ■ Kennedy students do not like • President Diem.” ; Parents of the arrested stuI dents voiced similar criticisms Sunday. They gathered outside “ the police stations where the teenagers were being held and mut- ■ I tered bitter anti - American -1 remarks.

- resolution. Sen. Barry M. Gold- - water, R-Ariz,, a critic of the - pact, has proposed a reservation f to make the treaty effective only □ when Russia removes its arms y and troops from Cuba. t I Courteous Driving e Campaign Underway )r Courteous driving will pay off in cash, as well as fewer acciI dents. for the next two weeks in j Decatur, thanks to the 18th anI nual courtesy campaign, sponsored by the Decatur Daily Denio2 erat and the Chicago Motor chib. The Chicago Motor club, through its Huntington district assistant ' manager. Lloyd H. Snyder, was host to a luncheon for city and service club leaders this noon at -the Fairway to explain the purpose and history of the courteous , driving program. Unusual Approach The courtesy campaign is an unusual approach to the safety problem in driving, emphasizing the positive. Snyder explained The Chicago Motor chib safety and engineering department points out that by emphasizing the positive, the courteous, thing to do, driving habits can be improved, and driving can be more fun for all. To prove this, for the next two weeks, eight different drivers, will be selected by prominent local judging teams. They may be auto drivers, bicycle drivers, truck drivers, etc. They will be picked some place in Decatur, but may be from any place in the area. "I am sure you gentlemen Will agree." Snyder continued, “that we could have twice as many local and state policemen as we now have and could still not foreq people to be better drivers. Lack of Courtesy “The main reason for many accidents, however, is lack of courtesy. ‘ he continued." and wrong attitudes. For that reaft son we feel this courtesy campaign is very effective. Courtesy is like a smile — it 'is catching." Courteous drivers will be stopped' by the team, and informed that they have been chosen, and then taken to the newspaper office for an official photo of the presentation of the $5 award Pictures and stories on the award will be run each day in the newspaper. as soon as the first courteous driver is located by a team Safe Driving Pays Courteous driving also, pays off all year long, Snyder emphasized, but for this special two-week period. it will pay off in money, too." Attending the meeting were Ro- • tary president George Auer, Lions president Dick Mies. Optimist president, Tom Sefton. Chamber of Commerce president Gene Rydell, chief of police James Borders, publisher Dick Heller, ministerial association representative Rev. Robert E. McQuaid, city judge John Stults, fire chief Codric Fisher, sheriff Roger Singleton, and Snyder. ~ “