Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1963 — Page 1

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SECOND WINNER — Kenneth Gaunt presents a $5 check to Mrs. William Hitchcock, the second driver selected for the award in the courtesy campaign safe driving program.

One Man Lost As Navy Boat Upsets

PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. (UPI) —A small Navy launch returning 21 sailors to their ship after a night ashore capsized in windswept Long Island Sound early today. All but one man were rescued. Fifteen sailors clung to the overturned fiberglass launch for two hours before they drifted to shore. Three managed to swim to the ship, the U.S.S. Hazelwood, a destroyer. Two others were picked up by the Hazelwood’s other launch. Coast Guard helicopters continued to search for the missing man in the fog and intermittent rain. Chief Machinists Mate Ralph L. Nelson, Middletown, R.1., a veteran of 24 years in the Navy, said the 26-foot launch “just turned over.” “We hung onto the boat,” he said. “We stayed in the water about two hours, drifting to shore. Most of the men held out pretty good. There was absolutely no panic.” Roy Witz, 22, Richfield, Minn., one of the men who clung to the launch, said Coxswain John Getshell of Portland, Ore., the pilot of the boat, swam to the Hazelwood for help. “He had a lot of guts, especially for a guy who just got married,”

Viet Nam Coup Feared ByNgo

SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) — The South Vietnamese government today was reported quietly picking up persons who might act against the regime should the United States decide tc back a coup d’etat. Suspicion between high Vietnamese officials and Americans deepened with the increased pace of charges over the handling of the Buddhist crisis and the struggle against the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas. Informed sources said President Ngo Dinh Diem, angered over advice given him by U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, fears a U.S.-backed coup and is enforcing security precautions against the possibility. Arrested Professor The sources said government agents had arrested a Saigon University professor and a prominent lawyer in their round-up of persons suspected of strong opposition to the Ngo family regime. Diem and his powerful brother and chief political adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, showed no signs of following Lodge’s advice that Nhu be dismissed from his position of high authority. The U.S. government is known tc consider Nhu as the engineer behind the crackdown on Buddhists which has brought widespread popular protests. The Kennedy administration in Washington fears that a government including Nhu would lack sufficient public support to wags a successful fight against the Viet Cong rebels. Lodge conveyed Washington’s position to Diem Monday, and pointed out that continued aid to South Viet Nam is encountering increasing opposition from some members of Congress who seek reforms here. Support Anti-Communists The United States is the principal support for the years - long effort to wipe out the Communist guerrillas infesting large a r eas of South Viet Nam. On the theory that a Communist takeover of the country would also endanger the security of nearby non-Communist nations. Washington has committed $1.5 million daily and 13,000 military men to

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Witz said. A helicopter spotted the men on the Port Jefferson beach and picked up five at a time, making three trips. The pilot, Coast Guard Lt. John Wypick from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, deposited the men at nearby Oldfield Point. They were taken to a firehouse at Setauket in ambulances and police vehicles. One sailor, was taken to Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson suffering from exposure. His condition was listed as good. The men boarded the launch at 2:20 a.m. after spending about eight hours ashore. The launch was equipped with “floatation chambers” to prevent it from sinking. When it capsized, it turned keel up, enabling most of the men to cling to it The launch was between 200 and 300 yards from the destroyer when it started “shipping water,” the Coast Guard said. The water was rough and the men were hampered by rain and fog when the tiny craft suddenly capsized. The wind was 18 to 20 miles per hour, tossing up three-foot waves. “I was washed off once," Nelson said, “but got back to the boat. Everybody was in good spirits.” Nelson said the tidal current brought the launch to shore.

the anti-communist struggle. (At his news conference in Washington Thursday, President Kennedy said the United States would support “what helps win the (anti-Communist) war” and would oppose whatever interferes with the war effort. Informed sources said Washington is reviewing its aid program and all other activities in South Viet Nam.) Will Attend Slate School Board Meet North Adams Community schools superintendent Gail M. Grabill, and Herb Banning, president of the school board, will be among 400 Indiana school board members and superintendents from throughout the state attending the 14th annual convention of the Indiana school boards association next week. Grabill and Banning will definitely attend, and there is the possibility that one or all of the other members of the North Adams board, Dr. James Burk, Louis Krueckeberg and Clarence Bultemeier, may attend. The convention will be held at the French Lick-Sheraton Hotel, opening Thursday evening, and running through Saturday. Banning Moderator Banning will serve as moderator for a panel discussion entitled “Staff members for the superintendent—what they do,” which will be held at 3 p. m. Friday. The theme of the convention, according to Ralph Weston of Brazil, ISBA president, will be "The school board and the teacher.” Board members and speakers will delve into many difficult school problems during the course of the convention, which will open with registration and opening of exhibits at 4 p. m. Thursday, and conclude at noon Saturday. Milton Marx, ISBA vice president for regions one through six, is the convention chairman. Marx is a Huntington insurance executive and veteran member of the school board.

Lady Driver Second Winner In Campaign The second courtesy campaign driving award was presented to Mrs. William Hitchcock, 121 Parkview Drive, Thursday afternoon shortly after she picked up her daughter and another youngster at the Lincoln school. A member of the courtesy campaign judging team observed Mrs. Hitchcock exercising extreme caution as she drove to pick up her daughter, Jennifer and Jeff Lehman. She was driving west on Adams when first observed, carefully watching out for a number of school children who were walking and riding bicycles. After picking up the children she drove south on Fifth street, then down John street to Mercer and out Mercer to her home on Parkview drive. Throughout the drive she used turn signals and observed speed limits and traffic signs. After reaching her home the surprised Mrs. Hitchcock who has 20 accident-free years of driving experience, was informed that she was the day’s winner of the $5 safe driving award sponsored by the Decatur Daily Democrat and the Chicago Motor club. Boycotts Os Schools Keep Tension High By United Press International Birmingham students planned another motorcade today to protest classroom desegregation. Their apparent objective was to force the city’s high schools to close. At Tuskegee High School, only 13 Negro pupils remained in school in a student body of 569. White students have completely boycotted the school. School boycotts in Birmingham and Tuskegee and student arrests in Mobile kept tension high Thursday in Alabama’s school desegregation crisis. Mobile school officials tried to decide what disciplinary action to take against 54 white students arrested in a demonstration protesting their school integration. About 300 students left the Mobile High School campus Thursday chanting, “Two, four, six, eight, we don’t want to inte grate.” ( At Chicago, hundreds of Negro and white demonstrators picketed the Chicago base of Senate Republican Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen in a chanting, signwaving protest against the Illinois Republican’s stand on a civil rights measure before Congress. The demonstration took place while Dirksen was on his way to a loop hotel where he was a featured speaker at a meeting of Republican women. Racial developments elsewhere in the nation: • New Oreans: The U.S. sth Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved a federal court injunction against racial demonstrations in Baton Rouge that had been in effect since 1961. Columbia, 8.C.: Negroes attended classes Thursday at the formerly all-white University of South Carolina for the first time in 86 years. Richmond, Va.« A federal judge Thursday ordered 15 Negroes admitted to predominately white Hopewell schools in a ruling that affects other communities under the court’s desegregation orders. Albany, N.Y.: The New York State Supreme Court today hears arguments on racial imbalance in public schools •in the Malverne (Long Island) school district. • , * Regional Bankers Meet September 19 Region one of the Indiana bankers association will convene for its 53rd annual meeting Thursday Sept. 19, at Cutter’s Chalet in Fort Wayne Attending from the First State Bank of Decatur are president T. F. Graliker, William Lose, Art Heimann, Don Bieberich and Justin Bleeke. The meeting is slated to begin at 2:30 p.m. with a uniform commercial code workshop. Registra tion begins at 4:30 p.m. followed by a social hour at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. with the program immediately following. Presiding at the meeting will be Dale Strickler, region one president 'and president of the Indiana Lawrence Bank and- Trust company of North Manchester Region one consists of Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Huntington Kosciusko, LaGrange, Miami, Steuben. Noble, Wabaah, Wells and Whitley counties.

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Six Students Are Ejected From House Committee Hearing On Cuba Travel

Soil Conservationist I is Rotary Speaker Johnson Craig, area conservationist for the 12 northeastern counties of Indiana for the United States repartment of agriculture, tqld the Decatur Rotary club Thursday night that “soil conservation is human conservation” and explained his interesting experiences with foreign students and visitors in his Kendallville home. Virgil Krick was program chairman. Craig began by explaining that to convince a landowner that he should practice good conservation it was first necessary “to change his heart.” In the same manner, people need to change their hearts toward human understanding of the other races and cultures in the world today. The speaker said people in a nearby watershed which included two counties in Indiana and two in Ohio have been arguing 60 years about drainage even though they speak the same language and are neighbors. He urged patience with the United Nations where problems are much more difficult to solve. During the past ten or twelve years, the Craig family has had interesting house guests from India, Iraq, Indonesia, Pakistan, West Germany and Jamaica. An organization, experiment in international living, is seeking homes for these people with the hope Os creating a better image of America when these guests return to their native lands, often to occupy high places in government or industry. President George Auer reported that the Decatur Rotary club was .represented at the district Rotary institute held Wednesday at Warsaw by W. Guy Brown, John Boch, and George Auer. The district governor will visit the Decatur club Oct. 3 and each committee chairman is to have a report prepared. Thursday, Sept. 26, the club will not meet, so that members may participate in the annual Decatur Chamber of Commerce golf outing. Khrushchev Policy Assailed By China MOSCOW (UPI) — An abusive personal attack by Red China on Premier Nikita Khrushchev was viewed here today as a last-ditch attempt by the Peking regime to capture control of the world Communist movement. Diplomatic observers said relations between the Communist parties of the Soviet Union and Red China, as opposed to state-to-state relations, apparently had reached the end of the roar. They regarded the personal attack Thursday as a final effort to unseat Khrushchev. They said' it opened the way for a final break between Moscow and Peking in their ideological and political dispute. The attack on Khrushchev and his policies was published in the Peking People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist party. It used such terms. as “renegade,” “opportunist,” “despicable” and “schemer” to describe the Soviet leader and his role in leading the deStalinzation campaign. While diplomatic ties J between Peking and Moscow still were being maintained, observers said, the attack meant the severance of “diplomatic relations” between the Communist parties in both states. The feeling among knowledgeable observers was that the nese appear to be skating danger-' cusly close to provoking the Soviets into breaking off diplomatic ties, but that the Kremlin would prefer not to take sueh action. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and quite cool tonight. Sunny and warmer Saturday. Lows tonight 39 to 44. Highs Saturday 68 to 75. Sunset today 6:57 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 6:25 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair and warmer. Lows in the 40a. Highs mid 70s north to mid 80s south.

U. S. Reviews Aid Program To Viet Nam WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States is reviewing its aid program and all other activities in South Viet Nam to meet the “test” laid down by President Kennedy that they must help the war effort against the Communists. “What helps to win the war we support,” Kennedy told his news conference Thursday. “What iriteferes with the war effort we oppose.’’ He added: “Any action by either government which may handicap the winnings of the war is inconsistent with our policy and our objectives.” Kennedy said this was the “test” that would be applied to “all of our actions” in Viet Nam "and we shall be applying that test in various ways in the coming months.” Views Clearing Time He would not say how, but he told newsmen that U. S. views “will be made more clear as time goes on.” A full-scale review of all U. S. relations with the South Vietnamese government is being conducted in the State Department, foreign aid agency, Pentagon, and White House. One segment of the $1.5 million-a-day U. S. aid program for South Viet Nam to which Kennedy’s statement seemed particularly to apply is assistance to various military units set up to fight the Communists but being used to control demonstrations in Saigon. U. S. officials said the problem of applying Kennedy’s “test” to parts of the aid program could become extremely complicated. For example, some Marine and paratroop units have been used against Saigon students while others are fighting the Communists. Officials indicated that aid projects such as food for villagers and economic aid in general were considered part of the battle against the Communists. Question Is Confused The questions of possible aid cuts for Viet Nam has become somewhat confused. A week ago officials were openly discussing the aid review. But Kennedy said Monday in a television interview that an aid reduction would not be helpful at this time and might, cause collapse of the government and a Communist take-over. Officials said this was not intended as a blanket promise to the Vietnamese regime that the United States would continue its massive aid come what may. They indicated the administration might decide upon aid cuts at a future time if conditions warrant. Paul Kohne Reelected Committee Chairman Paul Kohne was reelected chairman of the beef project committee at the meeting last night at *he county extension office, reports Leo N. Seltenrfght, county extension agent. Wilbur Lengerich was reelected secretary and Hanry Rumple will represent the committee on the county extension committee. Other members of the committee are Wilbur Stanley, Roger Bentz, Robert Isch, Bob McKean and Dwight Schnepp. 4-H beef club rules were reviewed. They determined that ciasses will remain at lightweight at 950 pounds and heavyweight 951 pounds up; however, classes may be changed, by the committee, as needed for the show. In the event classes are changed, two animals may be shown in a class. Also 4-H members will be limited to two animals sold through the auction. The committee will follow the state 4-H rule - on college and short course attendance. This is that if a member is attending college or short course while a 4-H project should be in progress he may jaot participate in that project.

WASHINGTON (UPD—Six student demonstrators were ejected from a House committee hearing today in a renewed flare-up of violence over an investigation into illegal student ravel to Communist Cuba. Two of the six, kicking and struggling, were bodily hustled from the room. The other four went without much of a struggle as Chairman Edwin E. Willis, DLa., of the Committee on UnAmerican Activities stood and shouted to police: “Throw them out!” Two of the students ejected were teen-agers. They identified themselves as Tad Lauer, 16. Bloomington, Ind., a special student at Indiana University, and Mark Brody, 17, a City College of New York student. One of the others said he was Clifford Metzler, 21, Long Island City, N. Y., a Hunter College student. All three were bodily carried out of the building and deposited on the sidewalk. They said they had applauded a statement, of the witness. Phillip A. Luce, 26, New York City, one of more than 50 students who defier! a State Department ban and visited Cuba during the mer.The new outbreak, which followed a pattern set at Thursday’s opening session, came as Willis objected to applause when Luce said he considered it his “duty” to break the travel ban. “There are certain rules and regulations that must be broken," Luce declared. Luce also compared his trip to Cuba with the civil disobedience used by Negroes and others in the South in civil rights matters. At this, a .group of students started clapping and demonstrating and Willis gave the order for the removal of their leaders. The names of the other ejected spectators were not immediately available. The atmosphere had been tense but restrained both inside and outside the hearing room until William Massie. 28, a dishwasher from New York City, began loudly objecting to being blocked from entering the hearing. Eight policemen subsequently carried him out of the building as he -contihued to shout epithets. Massie yelled that there was more freedom in Cuba than in Washington. Shortly before noon, Willis recessed the hearing until afternoon. Luce was the first witness today and even before giving his name and address launched into an attack on the committee, deploring its “despicable conduct” in barring sympathizers of the illegal junketeers from the hearing. But Willis cut him short and told him to answer questions and stop making a speech. Police Thursday dragged hecklers — some of whom screamed "fascists,”’ and “racists’” at committee members from the hearing room after they ignored repeated demands by Willis for silence. Kennedy To Address U. N. September 20 NEWPORT. R.I. (UPll—President Kennedy will address the United Nation’s General 'Assembly next Friday, the White House announced today. The Sept.. 20 timing was announced by Acting Press Secretary Andrew T. Hatcher, who said Kennedy would be the second speaker to address the 18th session of the world body. Kennedy will appear during time that had been allotted to Canada’s representative. Hatcher said the President had telephoned Canadian Prime Minister Lester B Pearson to thank him for this courtesy. Hatcher would not comment at this time on the substance of Kennedy’s planned speech. The President, at his news conference Thursday, said he would be making the address but did not specify the time. Kennedy did say, in response to a question by a Soviet newsman, that "one of the central matters” he would discuss would relate to strengthening the U.N. as an instrument’of peace and cooperation among nations.

Sen. Jackson Backs Treaty

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., a key figure in congressional nuclear and military affairs, announced his support today for the nuclear test ban treaty. Sen. Frank J. Lausche, D-Ohio, who had been considered “doubtful,” also indicated he would vote for the pact following a new appeal by President Kennedy for its ratification “by the widest possible margin.” - The President asked for overwhelming Senate support of the treaty to let all mankind "breathe easier," and to prove to the world America’s leadership in the quest for peace. Kennedy told his news conference Thursday that only “grudging" support from the Senate would mean that “the nation cannot offer much leadership or

A S C Committeemen Selected In County

Election of corfimunify committeemen for the Adams county agriculture and stabalizaWon and conservation committee have been completed, the ASC office has announced. The elections were conducted this week by the incumbent county committeemen. The community committee chairman, vice chairman, and regular member, automatically become the delegate, alternate delegate, and scond alternate delegate, respectively, to the county convention, where the ASC county committee will be elected. This county convention will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 23, at the county ASC office. County and community farmercommittees are in charge of local administration of such national farm programs as the agricultural conservation program the feed grain program, the wool program, the sugar program, acreage allotments and marketing quotas, commodity loans and farm storage facility loans. Committeemen Listed Farmers elected to the committees are: Blue Creek — chairman. Berber! E. Myers; vice chairman Junior A. Huser; regular member. Milo Fuchs; first alternate. John Burkhart; second alternate. William White. French — chairman, Elmer J. Isch; vice chairman, Truman Gerber; regular member, Chester Isch; first alternate, Jackie G. Meyer; second alternate, Donald Moser. Hartford — chairman, Richard Leßoy Fields; vice chairman, Harry Moser; regular member. Joseph T. Glendening; first alternate, Gail Runyon; second alternate, David Alberson. Jefferson — chairman, William H Rumple; vice chairman. Floyd Baker, regular member, Holman Egly; first alternate, Darrel Kuhn; second alternate, Marvin Muhlenkamp. Kirkland — chairman, Paul Arnold; vice chairman, Dwight Troxel; regular member, Floyd Barger; first alternate, Harold Henschen; second alternate, Arno Girod. Monroe — chairman. Eli Ml Schwartz; vice chairman, Edward VonGunten; regular member, Harold V. Schwartz; first alternate. Henry O. Wagley; second alternate, James Nussbaum. Preble — chairman, Vernon Macke; vice chairman. Walter Hildebrand; regular member. John Gresley; first alternate, Harold Scherry; second alternate, Gerhard Werling. Root — chairman, Richard K.

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hope for the future.” The Chief Executive repeated his belief that the treaty would curb the spread of nuclear weapons, slow down the worldwide arms race and "offer a small but important foundation on which a world of law can be built” without impairing U.S. security. Jackson, one of the President’s closest friends but severest nuclear critics, said he thought the pact a “loose commitment” rather than a treaty, but its risks were "tolerable.” Lausche said he still had “grave apprehensions" about the military aspects of the treaty but the fact more than 90 nations have signed it at U.S. solicitation "impels me to support it." Jackson announced his decision in a speech prepared for Senate delivery.

Moses; vice chairman, Harman Franz. Jr.; regular member, Richard Schieferstein; first alternate, Lawrence Beckmeyer; second alternate, Clifford Mann. St. Mary’s — chairman. Lyle T. Bailey; vice chairman. John Johnson; regular member, Wayne Riley; first alternate. Lester Backhaus; second alternate, Albert Davison. Union — chairman. Ivan V. Barkley; vice chairman, Richard J Geimer: regular member, Donald E Grote; first alternate, Wilbert Thieme; second alternate, Chis Bohnkc. Wabash — chairman, Ray AYfolder; vice chairman, Loren Affokier; regular member, Jerome Hawbaker; first alternate, Robert I-ong; second alternate, LeYoy Bieberstein. Washington — chairman, Harry Kershner; vice chairman. Richard Martin; regular member, Verl Lautzenheiser; first alternate, Bernard Staub; second alternate. Russel Stump. Otto Fuelling Dies Early This Morning Otto C. Fuelling, 74, of 264 East Franklin street, Berne, died at 3:30 o’clock this morning at the South View nursing home at Bluffton. He had been in tailing health for six months and a patient at the nursing home foi- three weeks. Born in Adams county Nov. 26, 1888. he was a son of Clamor and Louise Reinking-Fuelling. and was married to Elsie Schulz April 8, 1920. Mr. Fuelling, who retired from the Pennsylvania railroad in 1948, was a member of the Zion Lutheran church in Decatur. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Lawrence Fuelling of Montebello, Calif., and Carl F. Fuelling of West Wood. Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Leßoy (Lenorel) Moser of Berne, with whomhe had resided for the past 10 years, and Mrs. Larry (ShirleyK Lehman of Font Wayne, and sbe grandchil- . dren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Richard C. Ludwig officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery at'Berne. ’Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m: Saturday until time of the services.