Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 214, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LIX NO. 214.

Kennedy Assures Senate w U.S. Security Protected Under Nuclear Ban Treaty

Community Fund Drive October 7

Gene Rydell, president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and treasurer and assistant general manager of Bag Service, Inc., Decatur, has been appointed drive chairman for this year’s Decatur Community Fund drive, The drive is scheduled to open Oct. 7. Mrs. Mable M. Murray, office manager of the Citizens Telephone company, and Norm Steury, sec-retary-treasurer of Decatur Industries, are Rydell’s co-chairmen for the annual drive. A native of Rankin, 111.,. Rydell has been with the Decatur Bag Service operation since 1947, when he was transferred here from the company’s Paxton, 111., plant. He is a graduate of Illinois Commercial College, Champaign, 111., and a v'eteran of four years’ service with the Marine Corps in World War 11. He is an elder of the Presbyterian church and a member of the board of directors of the Anthony Wayne council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is also a member of the Rotary, the Elks, the American Legion the Fraternal Order of Police. He has served Ofl ihe. Community Fund board for three years. Rydell, his wife, Helen, and their three children, Judy, 17, Barbie, 16, and Bill, 14, live two miles northeast of Decatur..™,. .. Division chairmen and the budget for this year’s drive fund will be announced soon, Rydell said. The 1962 drive budget was $25,-

Five Negroes Attend School

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) — Five Negro students returned to classes today at three Birmingham schools, triggering another rowdy demonstration by white students at West End High School. It lasted little more than an hour, however, and by 10:30 a.m. CDT, the jeering, flag - waving students had broken up into small groups and left the area, boycotting their classes. Attendance at West End, where two Negro girls enrolled Tuesday, was down sharply. All was calm at Ramsay High and Graymont Elementary schools with attendance down at both. About 60 white students trooped out of Ramsay shortly before classes started. White groups of twos and threes straggled out of Ramsay during the first hour of classes. A 16-year-old Negro boy was among the students inside. Two Negro boys who entered Graymont, where attendance was about one third of the normal 300, were sent home because they were wearing short trousers, apparently forbidden by school iules. They returned wearing long pants. Thirteen Negroes quietly returned to classes with a dwindling white student body at Tuskegee. A strong move was under way in the rural area 50 miles northeast of Montgomery to set up private classes for whites. In Mobile, the third city to lower the school racial barriers for the first time Tuesday, attendance was up at Murphy High School. Two Negroes and 2.897 whites went to classes today. This wais a jump of more than 100 in the number of’white students. This made a total of 20 Negroes in five schools in the three cities following Gov. George C. Wallace’s failure Tuesday to halt the court-6rdered integration. Four Negroes also returned for

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I I I 1 mmSm * nHhv m M Gene Rfdell ’ 510 and the drive netted slightly more than that amount. Last year , was the first time in several campaigns that the quota was exceeded. ; Ten agencies were included in last year’s budget. The agencies and their budget requests, which [ the drive was able to mee, were: Boy Scouts, $3,718; Girl Scouts, i $2,553; Salvation Army, $1,500; American .Field Service, $1,500; U. 5.0., $513; Mental Health, $850; Youth Center, $5,000; Red Cross, $5,876; Crippled Children, $1,200; Little and Pony Leagues, $2,000.

their third day of desegregated classes in Huntsville. Wallace made no move Monday to halt integration there. Mississippi was left standing as the only state without racial integration in its schools below the college level. “I can’t fight bayonets with my barehands,” Wallace said several hours after President Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard, the last line of resistance Wallace was planning to use in his struggle to maintain segregation. The National Guardsmen were not on duty at the schools. Local police maintained order at all of the schools. But at West End, scene of a wild two-hour demonstration Tuesday following the admission of two Negro girls, another boisterous protest broke out outside the school. Several hundred white students formed near the school, marched 10 abreast waving Confederate flags and chanted: "Two, four, six, eight. We don't want to integrate.” Birmingham police were in firm control of the situation although the students spilled over onto lawns of surrounding homes. Attendance was down sharply at West End. One white youth ignored the demonstration, however, and walked inside. "I came here stupid three years ago. I ain’t going away stupid,” he said. The two teen-age Negro girls were escorted into West End by a Negro man under the watchful eyes of about 40 policemen on duty at the building. At Mobile, two Negroes returned to classes for the second day at Murphy High. * Police at Ramsay persuaded a group of about 100 white students to break up a protest march and enter the building but the officers at West End were ignored by the chanting students.

WASHINGTON (UPI) -r President Kennedy, in a special letter, today gave the Senate his “unqualified and unequivocal assurances” that U.S. security will be protected under the nuclear test ban treaty. His assurances were givep the Senate by GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen in a prepared speech in which he declared his own support of the pact and his willingness as a Republican to“go the second mile” for peace. The President emphasized that he believed the Senate already had received “fully adequate” statements from top administration officials assuring it of safe- ! guards for security under the treaty. But he said he agreed with Dirksen and Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield that it is “desirable to dispel any fears or concerns” among senators on the point. To Allay Fears It was Dirksen who suggested that Kennedy send a letter to the Senate to allay any fears or doubts as debate on ratification 1 ol the limited test ban pact began this week. The President cited eight areas in which preparations would be maintained to protect the United States and the free world under the treaty which would ban all but underground testing. Kennedy particularly assured the Senate that if Cuba should be used “either directly or indirectly to circumvent or nullify this treaty, the United States will take all necessary action in response.” This was aimed at the treaty reservation of Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. who proposes that its effectiveness be deferred until Russia’s military base has been removed from Cuba. The other assurances given by Kennedy covered underground nuclear testing, readiness to resume atmospheric tests, expansion of detection facilities, freedom to use nuclearweapons for defense of the United States and its Allies, non-recognition of East Germany, maintenance of a “strong weapons laboratory,” and continued development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes. “Hope for Peace” Kennedy concluded: “It is not only safe but necessary, in the interest of this country and the interest of mankind, that this treaty should now be approved, and die hope for peace which it offers firmly sustained, by the Senate of the United States.” Dirksen recalled that in the past he had voted for “more and more billions” for defense and nuclear development. He told the Senate he would now “like to do one little thing at least— take one little step with some hope and some faith to make a start toward a new and larger hope that there will not be another Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” “This step could be it,” he said of the treaty. “If not, we shall always remain a strong nation, but we must abide history's judgment if the step was in error. Time alone will tell that story.” Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, termed the pact a ‘first step back” from nuclear disaster. Jaycees Hold Fall I Stag Next Tuesday The Decatur Junior Chamber o Commerce will hold its annual fall stag next Tuesday, at Clark Smith’s residence, one and onehalf miles south of Decatur on U. S. 27, it was announced this morning by president Ralph Biggs. The stag affair will begin at 8 o’clock in the evening, and Warren Druetzler is scheduled to be the main speaker. Druetzler will talk on his past experience in the Olympic games. There will be no admission charge to Jaycees members Biggs explained, and all members are urged to attend. Final plans for the meeting were made at a meeting of the officers and directors Tuesday evening. A door prize will be awarded and other interesting special events will mark the evenin’s program. \

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday September 11,1963.

Coalmont Mothers Protest To State

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—A Coalmont mother told Indiana officials in a Statehouse conference today that she had to borrow money to pay $1,610 tuition to send her five children to classes because buses bypassed her home in a school reorganization dispute. Mrs. Howard Grindle told William E. Wilson, state superintendent of public instruction, the buses failed to travel through Coalmont apparently because residents picketed the school there in protest to an order sending their children to “unsafe” schools at Jasonville and Midland. The 10-day blockade at Coalmont resulted in a march on the Statehouse this morning by 35 mothers who had appointments with four top state officials, including Governor Welsh. Mrs. Grindle said if her children had not been transferred to Clay City schools where they had to pay tuition, they would have had to walk four miles daily to catch a bus. She said the objectors apparently were being penalized by being denied bus service. Mrs. Dwight Everhart of Lewis Twp. protested that her little girl spends three hours a day riding 50 miles to school and 50 mites home again in a bus with a long route as a result of changes maije when one township in Greene and another in Clay Counties were joined in a reorganization. Wilson told the mothers his office had only an “advisory” relationship to the dispute. He said denials of transfers by local authorities at taxpayer expense were appealable when turned down, as they were in the Coalmont area But that did not mean the denials would be reversed. About two-thirds of the mothers said they had voted against reorganization in,a referendum. Wilson told them “a school reorganization is something like getting married, and maybe you got a bad husband.” The parents said the Jasonville and Midland school plants, both in use about a half a century, were unsafe and “rat infested.”* The mothers called State Sen. Kenneth Reagin, D-Cory, and for separate meetings with Governor Welsh, Lt. Gov. Richard Ristine, Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers and Public Instruction Supt. William E. Wilson. All accepted. Classes at Coalmont high have been closed since the beginning of the school year a week ago last Tuesday. Classes at the two disputed schools, closed at the beginning of the dispute, were reported “at quite normal levels” Tuesday. State Fire Marshal Ira Anderson, who made a complete fire Monroe Lions Club Installs Officers New officers were installed and committees were appointed at the first fall meeting of the Monroe Lions club Tuesday night. President Roth, vice-presi-dent Bill Kershner, secretary Howard Habegger and treasurer Russell Mjtchell took office at the meeting. The committee oppointments were as follows. Agriculture: Luther Engle, Agriculture: Luther Engle, chairman and Harry Bowers. Citizenship and patriotism: Mel Liechty, chairman, Lewis Landrum and Harmon Kraft. Civic improvement and community batterment: Hirman Wittwer, chairman. Myron Hart, Martin Steiner, Herber Fruchte and Willliam Brandenberg. Education:, Leo Strham, chairman, and Martin Steiner. Health and welfare: Gerald Haggard, chairman, Eli Schwartz and Elmer Inniger. Safety: Harry Raudenbush, chairman, Luther Brokaw and Orval Lenhart. Sight conservation and blind:

and ’ safety inspection of the schools during the weekend, said “if we were to close all Indiana schools for the same minor violations we found in the Shakamak District, we would bankrupt the state.” A coordinated report by the fire marshal, an electrical engineer and Reagin was released Tuesday and listed eight safety and fire j violations at Jasonville and six at | the Midland school. i i The fire marshal said all were “minor but still important’ and he ordered officials at Midland to remedy one of the findings immediately. That order told them to remove all third grade pupils being taught in a basement classroom to another location because of insufficient fire escapes in the area. He also requested an additional outside exit be added to a first-story room. “Surprisingly enough, we found a number of violations at the brand-new Coalmont building.” Anderson said. “The major problems at the older schools were brought on by a lack of simple housekeeping and newer ones are not exceptions to the rule.” compared his personal observations with those of Reagin which were released Monday. “We saw pretty much eye to eye on this. I sure would like to hire the senator as one of my inspectors,” he said. Officials at Midland were also required to: « —lnstall exit directional lights in all hallways. —lnstall distribution panels and cover all exposed wiring at main and secondary switchboxes: —Clean the attic and remove scuttle holes in an entrance door. —Date and recharge all fire extinguishers. —lnstall green and white exit lights above all outside doors. Jasonville school officials were required to: —Replaee circuit covers and cover all exposed wiring. —Replace a refrigerator electrical line. —lnstall exit directional lights over all exits. —Check fuses for overload due to loose connections. —Make all stairways one-hour fire resistive. —Give attic general . cleaning and secure against birds. . —Secure ceiling in boiler room against sagging. —Maintain strict maintenance and good housekeeping habits. The report also included a request that directional and exit fire lights be installed at the Coalmont School. Ray Miller, chairman, and Kenneth Mitchel. Attendance: Dick Everett, chairman, Earl Harmon, Howard Habegger, Wayne Wittwer and Floyd Engle. Constitution and by-laws: Harry Crownover, chairman, John Battzell and Earl Harmon, chairman. Convention: Howard Habegger, Finance: Russell Mitchel, chairman, Gale Cook, John Baltzell and Wayne Hirschy. Lions information: Ray Miller, chairman, and Orval Neuenschwander. Membership: Chris Inniger, chairman, Larry Wittwer, Harry Kerschner, Otto Longenbcrger, Verl Lautzenheiser. Program and entertainment: William Kerchner, chairman, Jim MpCullOuogh, Leo Strhm .and Kenneth Mitchel. Publicity: Stanley Arnold, chairman, and Rev. A. E. Buck. Commissioners To Meet At Van Wert Adams county commissioners will mee* October 14 with Van Wert county officials to discuss work on the 27 Mile Ditch, an interstate drainage ditch which runs between Adams and Van Wert counties.

Warner Marschand Is Taken By Death Warner H. Marschand, 67. of Churubusco route 1, a native of AdamiT county, died Tuesday in the Whitley county hospital after suffering a heart attack. He was employed by the Essex Wire and Structural Steel in Fort Wayne and worked at the G. I. j Case Co., Churbuseo, prior to retirement in 1961. Surviving are his wife, Cloe; two sons, Warner, Jr., of Fort Wavne, and Vaughn of San Francisco: two stepsons, John Win“ningham of Peru and Rexford Winningham of Elkhart; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Virginia Davenport of San Antonio, Tex., Mrs. Evelyn Highton of New Orleans, La., and 'Mrs. Maxine May of Churubusco; three brothers, Homer of Fort Wayne, Harry of New Haven, and Earl of Lincoln: five sisters, Mrs. Earl Preiffer of Grabili, and Mrs. Glenn McDonald, Mrs. Mead Dougherty, Mrs. Marvin Logan and Mrs, Lillian Brnndyberry, all of Fort Wayne; 25 grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Sonday & Sheets funeral home at Churubusco, with burial in Fairview cemetery, Huntertown. Friends ma y -call at—the funeral -home after 7 p.m. today. i Plan Sale Os Old t i i Bobo School House The board of the Adams Central community schools has voted to sell the old school house at Bobo, it was announced this morning following the board's meting Tuesday evening. • I The board will appoint three St. I Mary’s township residents within I the next few days, who will appraise the building. The legal work will be handled by Custer & Smith, attorneys for the Adams Central community schools. The property will be sold at a 1 public sale, and legal advertising will begin soon. 1 It is hoped that the Bobo school 1 building will be sold sometime during the month of October. The Adams Central board voted to sell the building at the meeting last night. Only other business conducted by the board was giving its approval to the new nickname and colors for the school, which were selected by a committee of four students from each high school grade. The Bobo school, a two- class room school, was last used in the 1959-60 school year, at which time approximately 64 students attended the grade school. When the school was closed, those students Iranss ferred to Pleasant Mills. The building is located pn two acres of land near the east edge of Bobo. r Retired Farmer Is First Safety Winner An 80-vear-old retired farmer became the first winner 'in the safe driving courtesy campaign today. Charles Bowers, of near Preble was presented a five dollar check shortly after 10 o’clock this morning when he yielded his own right of way for another driver at the , Five Points intersection. Bower has been driving since 1919, when he was 36 years old. He also makes regular trips to Decatur. Bowers works on a farm which he and his son own five mites west of Decatur and a mile south of Preble. The farm was also his birthplace. The check was presented to him by Rev Robert E. McQuaid. The courtesy campaign is being eo-sponsored by the Decatur Daily Democrat and the Chicago Motor Club and aims to emphasize positive courteous driving habits. Courteous drivers are stopped by members of the judging team, informed that they have been chosen and then taken to the -Daily Democrat office for a photo of the presentation of the award. TWO SECTIONS INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with some showers or thundershow- * ers Hkely this afternoon and early tonight, becoming partly cloudy later tonight. Thursday partly cloudy, windy and cooler. Low tonight 58 to 66. High Thursday 65 to 72. Sunset today 7:01 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 6:23 a.m. Outlook for Friday; Fair and cool. Lows In the 50s. Highs In the 70a.

Dick Macklin Is Elected To School Board

, 7* . Richard Macklin, Homestead 24, was elected the fifth member of the North Adams Community Schools board Tuesday night, following acceptance of an official opinion from the attorney general ruling that the term of Warren Nidlinger, Jr., had been completed. Macklin will serve four years, starting last July l. He was elected by a 3-1 vote over Harry Schwartz. Herbert Banning was elected president of the board, Louis Krueckeberg was elected vice president, Clarence Bultemeier was elected secretary, and Macklin, treasurer, as the board got down to business. Dr. James Burk is the fifth member of the board. Bus For Monmouth The bus routes were discussed, and it was decided that as soon as an extra bus is available, after the arrival of three new buses to replace two borrowed buses and an older bus. the extra bus will be 1 assigned to the Monmouth school, to alleviate a long route and a I crowded bus. Several buses, for I shirt distances, have more than 70 pupils on a bus designed to hold 48. Some have to sit four in a scut, or stand. Because of a quirk in the 1963 school bus law, the school corporation is prevented from maintaining medical coverage for passenI gers in the buses. It was unnni- | mously approved to raise each driver's salary the amount of the ! cost of the insurance, about $5.40 a year on a bleet basis, and require that every driver carry the insurance. Blue Cross Insurance coverage was extended to cover al cafeteria employes at Monmouth, as well as all bus drivers, maintenance employes, and teachers. Oil Bids 1 As the Gladieux Fuel Oil Co. had - failed to add transportation costs in its low bid for fuel oil Tor the North Adams schools, and since this would put the cost up over that amount to be received from the school, the oil company asked that its bid be withdrawn. It had been low bidder, and had been accepted. The next lowest, and only other bid, that of Industrial Fuels, a combination of most of the Fort Wayne oil companies, was then accepted. It had been providing fuel for all schools in the district. The desirability of getting bids from other areas to make the fuel bid more competitive was brought up by Bultemeier, and discussed by the rest of the board. The bid accepted was 9.69 present, with a high of 10.19 cents. Gail Grabill,! school superintendent,' pointed liuf that Industrial Fuels was a combination of all of the major oil handlers in Fort Wayne,- and others wouldn't bid against them. The necessity for carefully cheeking the meters on tanks at the schools was discussed; John McConaha stated that this has always been carefully checked at the Monmouth schools. Two tanks of oil will be needed at the present time for the entire system. Second Tuesday The board set the second Tuesday of the month as its regular stated meeting. Officers of the board proposed to meet at 11 a m. today to sign the necessary transfers at the bank, and secure the bond for the new treasurer, transferring the lo_ck box to his name. The officers will also meet, Friday to sign the payroll cheeks, and the entire board will meet Tuesday at 8 p, m. to allow a large number of bills that have accumulated, the

m m i «~* j'jjfijflEK^ra^BSnSplHgfil AyMMII. ju| f -I SPtSAFETY CHECK — Charles Bowers, eighty-year-old retired farmer from near Preble, receives a five dollar check frdm Rev. Robert McQuaid. The check was presented to Bowers for the courteous driving ability which he displayed this morning while being observed by a judge of the courtesy campaign safety drive.

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my yT s | _ Dick Macklin school district being unable to pay bills for the past six weeks because it was not organized. '~~ The meeting started promptly at 8 p. m. with the reading of the minutes of the last two meetings by acting secretary Clarence Bultemeier. Banning moved the acceptance of the minutes, seconded by Krueckcberg, and they were accepted unanimously. Report By Schurgcr Dr. Burk then mentioned that , Severin H. Schurgcr, attorney, was i present, md he was called on to report. Schurgcr recalled that, on August 30 Banning and Bultemeier , had requested that he take action , to secure a decision on the expira--5 ton of the term of Nidlinger, and when the school district came Into being, either by an official opinion from the attorney general, or by j declaratory judgment from circuit s court Judge Myles F. Parrish. .' Schuler .pointed out that if he y filed for a deelatorv judgment, he • would have to name a defendant, i which would be Nidlinger, and the other four board members would be the plaintiffs. Instead, he drew up plans to ask the court for instructions. Meanwhile, he called Thomas Webber, of the attorney general's office, and after two protracted calls found out that the official opinion would be forthcoming shortly. On September 6 he received the copy from the attorney general, as printed elsewhere. Macklin, Schwartz Nominated At this point, the board members and those others present, took time to read the four-page opinion. Krueckcberg stated, well, this is ~ exacHy“wfiat we asked for, and Bultemeier concurred. Dr. Burk then nominated Dick Macklin to serve as fifth member of the board. Macklin had been appointed by the city council, Decatur appointing authority, to the former Decatur board, and had had experience, Dr. Burk mentioned BtiUe-mcicr then nominated Harry Schwartz, owner of the Schwartz Ford Agency, which seemed to come as a surprise to the other members of the board. All seemed to agree that both nominees were fully qualified, and fine men for the office. Dr. Burk then asked if Schwartz realized that his company would no longer be able to bid on school buses, or receive payment for drivers training vehicles, or service, or receive any pnv from the school district, and Bultemeier replied that he did. Banning then pointed out that (Continued on Page Three'