Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 217, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1963 — Page 1

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U. S. Will Inspect Antarctic Bases

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States, in an unprecedented move, will inspect the Antarctic buses of the Soviet Union and half a dozen other nations to make sure they are of a peaceful nature. State Department officials here could recall no previous instance of U. S. inspection of a Russian , installation. They declined to say whether any objections to the coming action had been received. Officials said the inspection was not the result of any suspicion that the Russians, or any other nation maintaining an Antarctic base, had violated a treaty provision calling only for peaceful operations in the south polar region sometimes known as “Little America.” The inspection will be carried out under terms of an Antarctic treaty signed by 12 nations, including Russia and the United States, in 1959. The pact gives signatories the right to conduct such inspections if they see fit. The treaty, which stipulates that antarctica “shall be used for peaceful purposes only,” was one of the first involving the United States and Russia since the start of the cold war. It was the first

GOP Attacks Tax Cut Bill

WASHINGTON (UPI) —Assailed by Republicans as “morally and fiscally wrong” in proposing a tax cut while the government runs in the red, Democratic tax writers readied a counter-claim today that cutting taxes now is the best way to get back in the black. Republican members of the House Ways & Means Committee made public a surprise plea Friday night for House rejection of an sll billion tax cut approved by the committee on a 17 to 8 vote last Tuesday. Earlier, the GOP members had indicated they would fight for an amendment tieing the second stage of the two-phase tax cut to specified curbs on government spending. The Democrats were taken off-guard by the minority report, signed by 9 of the committee’s 10 Republican members. Take Unyielding Stand The minority group took an unequivocal stand against cutting taxes in the face of continued heavy red-ink spending by the Kennedy administration. The GOP report called the proposed tax cut “a time bomb” ’of inflation, and said it* would add at least SSO billion to the national debt in the next five years. The Democratic majority was tc make public today its part of the committee’s customary report to the House, which will take up the bill Sept. 24. It was anticipated that the report would claim tax cuts are a “must” if business is to get the extra push required to keep he economy climbing. In the end, the majority was expected to say, this is the best route (toward higher tax revenues which, coupled with efforts to hold down government spending, can bring the budget back into balance. Says Relief Small The minority said the tax cut Berne Tax Rate Is Highest In County The total tax rates for Adams county units were published Friday in the Daily Democrat in legal form, as compiled by the county auditor. Hie rates were recently approved by the county tax adjustment board. They will now be examined by representatives of the state tax board before they become final and there may be some cuts in some of the budgets and rates;? If the rates are approved as published yesterday residents of BerneWabash will face the highest tax in the county, $9,031. Berne-Mon-roe residents will pay the next highest rate, $8,871. Root township is lowest with $5,171. Other rates are: Decatur-Wash-ington, $7,121; Decatur-Root, $7,081; Monroe-Monroe, $6,861; Mbnroe-Washington, $6,921; Geneva, $7,921; North Washington, $5,281; South-Washington, $5,281; North Blue Creek, $6:241: SfttHh Blue Creek, $6,571; North French. $5,321; South French, $6,651; Hartford, $6,701; Jefferson, $6,621; Kirkland, $5,261; North Monroe, $5,201; South Monroe, $6,531; Root, $5,171; Preble, $5,331; St. Mary’s, $5,361; Union, $5,341; Wabash, $6,751.

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international treaty providing for inspection, which is the key stumbling block in disarmament negotiations. The State Department said in announcing the inspection that the action was “not based on any anticipation that there has been treaty violations by an signatory power.” Officials said the principal purpose was to exercise the right of inspection in order to establish a precedent for such action. Special teams will conduct the inspections during the Antarctic summer season, from November through March, the State Department said. Ten nations maintain active stations in the Antarctic: The United States, Australia, Argentina,’ Belgium, Chile, France, New Zealand,' South Africa, Russia and Britain. Two other nations, Japan and Norway, have had stations but they are presently inactive. U. S. officials said the bases of “sixJ or seven countries” including Russia would be inspected. The full list will be announced later. Officials here said the United States also would welcome Soviet inspection of U. S. Antartic bases.• ..1. .~2

would give the average wageearner only about $1.50 to $2 a week in tax relief — the equivalent of “cigarette money.” The moral question raised by the proposed cut, the Republicans said, was whether “the American people are so anxious for ‘cigarette money’ they will pass or to their children and to their grandchildren $lO billion of additional federal debt each year. We think not.” In attacking the bill, the Republicans aligned themselves against an unusual coalition of business and labor groups. Both the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO have endorsed house passage of the tax cut. Ponder Appointed As G. E. Engineer The appointement of Quentin D. Ponder as manufacturing engineer at the Decatur General Electric plant has been announced by G. W. Auer, plant manager. Ponder will succeed Charles E. Gable, who recently accepted an assignment on the new form G 2 motor program in Fort Wayne. Ponder has been associated with G.E. since 1954, and is a graduate of Southwest Missouri College. He has graduate degrees from Tulsa and Columbia Universities. He has been employed as a manufacturing engineer in the Linton plant. Ponder, his wife. Barbara, and son, Stephen, plan to move to Decatur in the near future. Gable was appointed manufacur ; ing engineer at the Decatur plant in May of 1958. The Gables and daughter, Cindy, plan to move to Fort Wayne soon. Gladys Fosnaugh Dies Last Night 1 Mrs. Gladys Fosnaugh, 55, of Bluffton route 3, died at 9:55 o’clock Friday night at the home of ; her son, Jim L. Lehman, Bluffton. ' She had been in failing health with . a heart condition for the past 10 : years. , She was formerly employed at the General Electric plant in Decatur and at Magnavox in Fort ’ Wayne. Born in Nottinghman township, Wells county, April 16, 1908, she was a daughter of Charles and ’ Lucinda Gottschalk-Dubach, and was married to Forrest Fosnaugh . in 1943. Mrs. Fosnaugh was a member of the Old Salem Evangelical . United Brethren church. "Also surviving are five grandchildren. One brother is deceased. [ Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Yager . funeral home in Berne, the Rev. Robert Bonewitz and the Rev. , Fuhrman Miller officiating. Burial , will be in Fairview cemetery at , Bluffton. Friends may call at the , funeral home after 2 p.m. Sunday.

Says Cambodia Is Conspiring At Overthrow SAIGON (UPI) — The Times of Viet s Nam, an American-edited newspaper which • often reflects official Vietnamese views, charged today that Cambodia is conspiring to overthrow President Ngo Dinh Diem’s government. The newspaper said Prince Sihanouk, the Cambodian chief of state hopes to line up “neutralist” support for a plan to bring South Viet Nam’s internal troubles before the United Nations. The Times, quoting “informed foreign diplomatic sources,” said the Cambodians will try to force the U. S. government to end its support of the Diem regime by threatening to include the United States with South Viet Nam in its U. N. protest. Early indications are that the campaign is not enjoying much success, the Times said. The newspaper said Sihanouk plans to further his campaign by setting up a Vietnamese “government in exile” in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. The lineup of the “government” would include such refugees as Pham Huy Co, a resident ol Paris who makes frequent trips tc the United States to seek support; former paratroop Col. Chanh Thi, a participant in the abortive 1960 coup d’etat, and expremier Tran Van Huu, the Times said. At the same time, the official Viet Nam press agency assailed U. N. Secretary General Thant’s recent comment that condition in South Viet Nam are “chaotic” and that the Diem government lacks the virtues of democracy. The agency noted that in Burma, Thant’s homeland, the army has seized power and imprisoned members of the elected government, “probably because the virtures of democracy hindered the Burmese march toward.” It added that Thant appeared not to be aware that “so-called democratic elements” and" “foreign adventurers” had hatched a plot here to “overthrow the dulyelected government of Viet Nam by force.” Four Persons Killed On Indiana Highways By United Press International Four persons were killed on Hoosier roads during the first 9 hours of the w'eekend, raising Indiana’s 1963 highway death toll to at least 888 compared with 802 last year. A man lying in the middle of a Scott County road was among two persons killed in separate accidents early today. Frank Calvert, 27, Lexington, was killed when a car bumped over him on Indiana 356, ironically as a result of another motorist’s attempts to stop him, police said. The driver, Dwight Montgomery, 17, Scottsburg, said he was temporarily blinded by the flashing headlights of another car which had pulled to the side of the road after seeing Calvert slumped on the pavement. Authorities said the unidentified motorist was blinking his headlights in effort to warn oncoming traffic. It was not learned immediately why Calvert was in the road, police said. Edward Lee Ostermeyer, 21, Columbia City, was killed early today when failed to make a curve on UK 33 near Churubusco and crashed into a tree. Rubin Carr, 38, Summitville, was killed Friday night and five youngsters were injured, including his four daughters, when his panel truck overturned on Interstate 65 two miles south of Seymour. Authorities said Carr was crushed when the truck rolled over him after striking the rear of a car which swerved Ip—front of him as he attempted to pass it. Injured in the wreck were Carr's daughters, Joyce Ann, 15: Lana Fay, 12; Dorothy Louise, 10; and Carolyn, 8; and a sixth occupant of the truck, Carlean Wix, 17, Hartsville, Tenn. All were hospitalized at Seymour. The driver of the car. Clyde Martin, 44, Brookston, was not hurt, police said. Mrs. Carletta Vailes, 27, East St. Louis, 111., was injured fatally Friday night in a car-truck accident in LaPorte County. She died shortly after the car she was in was rammed by a big truck at the entrance to the Northern Indianh Toll Road. The driver of the car, Roosevelt Brown, 33 r East St. Louis, was hospitalized in fair condition. Truck driver William Beck, 29, Michigan City, was not hurt. NOON EDITION ,

— Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 14, 1963,

Quintuplets Are Born In South Dakota; Reported To Be In Good Condition 1- ■ '■ -‘Io ‘ - ' ■

I r— I * W "W® I ts' 1 ' J W l PRESENTATION— Homer Brubaker, Cleveland street, is given a $5 check for his driving conduct as observed Friday by fire chief Cedric Fisher, left, and city judge John Stults, right. The courtesy campaign safety program is co-sponsored by the Decatur Daily Democrat and the Chicago Motor club.

Homer Brubaker Is Courtesy Winner Homer Brubaker of Simerman’s Mobile Home-Court Cleveland street, Friday became the third winner in the courtesy campaign safety program being conducted 1 by the Decatur Daily Democrat and ’ the Chicago Motor Club. 1 Brubaker was presented with a $5 check after city judge John B. Stults and fire chief Cedric Fisher observed his driving conduct for several blocks. Brubaker first attracted their attention when he yielded his right of way at the Five Points intersection, then proceeded through the business district where he stopped for the red light at Monroe and Second streets. He then signaled for a left turn, then went west on Monroe. He stopped for the red light at Monroe and’ Fifth streets, signaled for a right turn, .then went north on Fifth street where he signaled before turning left onto Indiana street and stopping at the Ervin Elzey home. During this time he observed all posted speed limits. Jewelry Store Is Robbed Os SIOO,OOO FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., (UPI) — Police hunted in waterways and at boat ramps today for two combat-garbed gunmen who stormed through the front window of a jewelry "store, scooped up SIOO,OOO to $200,000 in gems, and roared off in a car to a getaway boat. Investigators said the two robbers who struck with precise timing at the shopping center jewelry store Friday night probably had two accomplices, one who drove the car and the other who waited in the boat. In their getaway, the bandits fired once and stopped a couple who witnessed the robbery by chance- and tried to chase the fleeing car in a sports car. Police waited for a complete] inventory from the store to determine the exact loot, but estimated it was between SIOO,OO and $200,000. The robbery was similar to one at Pompano Beach more than two vears ago, in which a store of the same jewelry firm was robbed of $1.7 million by bandits who also escaped by boat. But they we re captured later. Rev. Flueckiger To Be Installed Sunday The Rev. Jerry Flueckiger, whose home church is the Cross United Church of Christ of Berne, will be installed Sunday at pastor of St. Peter’s church, Van Wert, O. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and wanner tonight. Sunday mostly sunny and warmer. Low tonight 45 to 52. High Sunday 75 to 75.. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and a little warmer.

Approves Expansion In Social Studies INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana General Education Commission Friday approved an exI panded social studies program in public schools but delayed action on a plan to make three years ’mandatory for graduation, instead of the present two. Such action would have involved hiking the minimum number of credit hours required for graduation from the present 32 to 33 and the commission felt it wanted to consider this step more thoroughly. It was agreed to reach a decision at its next meeting Oct. 10-11 at the Indiana Young Conservation Work Camp at Harrison State Forest. If the vote is in favor of making three ypars of social studies a requirement for a high school diploma, then a public hearing would have to be held later. The revised social studies program from kindergarten to high school senior resulted from three years of study by a curriculum Revision committee headed by Lewis W. Gilfoy and Charles Engelland. They told the commission the “hard and conscientious work of hundreds of teachers" throughout Indiana went into revising the program. They urged “some permanent mechanism should be created so that school systems and our colleges and universities can continue to work together to build quality social studies program.” The pattern approved for grades 1 through 7 called fur these dourses—living in a new environment, living in homes and schools, living in our own and other neighborhoods, living in our own and other communities, Indiana in a regional and world setting, the U.S. and Canada, Western Europe and Latin America, and for the seventh graders, selected areas of the non-West. Near-Record Low Is Recorded In State By United Press Internationa] Near - record low temperatures hovered over Hoosierland this morning—a premature taste of fall weather. At New Castle, the thermometer at the water and light plant dropped to 38 degrees. It was 40 at South Bend and Indianapolis, just one degree of, the all-time low for this date set in the Capital City 61 years ago. .. Fort Wayne had 41, Lafayette 42 and Evansville 49. Lows tonight were expected to be somewhat higher, following a generally fair and warmer trend that will push afternoon readings into the 70s. Highs Sunday may reach 80 in the southern portion. Temperatures around Indiana Friday failed to get up past 70. It was 70 at Indianapolis, but most other cities logged daily by the Weather Bureau had maximum readings in the middle or upper 60s. -

ABERDEEN, S.D. (UPD-The wife .of a $76-a-week grocery clerk today gave birth to quintuplets—four girls and a boy—in a small hospital in this South Dakota prairie city. If they live, they will be the first set of quints to survive in the United States. The quints were born prematurely to Mrs. Andrew Fischer, 3G, mother of five other children, and her‘husband. 38, who works for a wholesale grocery firm and a small term two miles outside of town. The proud but duntbfounded father saw his five new children and then hurried home to milk the cows. Mrs. Marguerite Dorman, head nurse at St. Luke’s Hospital, the only hospital in Aberdeen, said the quints were “holding their own" a few hours after the predawn birth . Inherent Dangers She warned “there are dangers inherent in such births.” The quints were six to eight weeks premature. Mrs. Dorman indicated the dangers attending their birth were similar to those of the son of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, who died last month after a premature birth. The family doctor. Dr. James Berbos, had believed for days that five babies were coming. Mrs. Fischer had been in the hospital since Wednesday. The first baby, a girl, was born at 1:58 a.m. CST (3.58 a.m. FDT). A second girl came at 2:03 and a third at 2:14. The boy arrived at 2:39. The last girl was born at 3 01, making her one hour and three minutes younger than the quint. Their weights ranged from 3M> pounds on down. Fischer, red-eyed from sleeplessness, said “Well, I’ve never been so shocked in my life.” “I just don’t know what to think," he said. “You never expect something like this to happen so close to you.. .you just don’t expect something like that to happen around here. “And when it does—well—you just can’t think. “I had been down to the hospital earlier last night.” he said. “I came home and was just ready to go to bed when the phone rang. It was the hospital and they told me I’d better get down there right away.” Afterward he said, “I came home because I’ve got to milk my two cows. They've got to be milked in the morning and the evening.” Fischer said his wife “couldn’t believe it .. . she’s really happy about it, though.” “I’ve never seen her so surprised when she found out about it,” he said. A Natural Birth It was a natural birth, without anesthetics. Mrs. Fischer saw some of her children split seconds aftef they were born. The red-haired mother. Mary Ann. was reported in good condition as she rested after the multiple birth. Tentative plans were made to wheel her to the nursery to look at her five babies later in the day. The babies were placed in isolettes in the-general nursery of the 235-bed hospital. Isolettes are a form of incubators and were used in the birth of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy. There are only three authenticated cases of surviving quintuplets born in the Western Hemisphere — none of them in the United States. The most famous quints were born May 28. 1934, in Callander, Ont. — Annette, Emflie, Cecile. Marie and Yvonne Dionne. Their births caught the imagination of the world. There was sadness throughout Canada when Ernilie Died Aug. 6. 1954. — ... Last Sept. 8, five boys were born to Mrs. Ines Maria Cuervo de Pierto, a 34-year -old grandmother, in Maracaibo, Venezuela. They are in good condition. —. Also surviving, are the Diligenti quints of Argentina, three girls and two boys. The 10 - year- old Diligenti quints, whose father is one of Argentina’s wealthiest men were born July 15, 1943. At Aberdeen, a city of 25,000 close by the North Dakota border, there was a feeling of pride for (Continued on Page Three)

Says Beatniks Are Red Dupes

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Chairman Edwin E. Willis of the House Committee on Un-Ameri-can Activities today labeled as Communist dupes the bands of beatnik-style youths who battled police in a wild two-day protest against the committee hearings on student travels to Cuba. The committee's public hearings came to an end Friday as more than 100 polide cleared at least 35 shouting youths from the house office building. Seventeen of the demonstrators were ushered from ''the committee hearing room amid shouts of “Nazis" and “police brutality.” Fifteen youths had been ousted from the hearing Thursday in a similar wild melee. Called Red-Inspired Terming the demonstration an “ugly episode,” Willis said it was Communist-inspired, but he added that the demonstrators themselves were not Communists. “The big boys who don’t show up are the Communists.” he said. When the demonstrations erupted Friday, police moved in quick--1 ly. Six persons were arrested; • five were members of the protest band, and one was a member of toe so-called American Nazi party. The disturbance broke out when a throng of student sympathizers, angered at being barred from the committee hearing room, ignored police orders to move.

Negroes Plan Mass March In Memphis

By United Press International Negroes planned a mass march through downtown Memphis, Tenn., today to protest shift attendance at five Negro high schools. More than 500 Negroes participated in a similar march two weeks ago in the largest racial demonstration in Memphis history. School officials claimed that limited classroom space dictates the ixjlicy of sending students at the Negro schools and one white high school to classes in shifts. Negroes charge the policy is designed to retain segregation. Memphis has desegregated the first four grades in a gradual desegregation program. The school integration crisis in Alabama appeared to be easing off. White students staged another noisy motorcade through Birmingham Friday in an attempt to whip up support for a mass boycott of public schools. Birmingham Mayor . Albert Boutwell told the students Friday to return to classes and let him fight integration in the courts. Elsewhere in the nation: Richmond, Va. — A federal district court has scheduled another hearing Oct. 2 on attempts to place two Negro youths into Powhatan County’s only predominantly - white school. Washington — The Army will release the 75 Alabama National station at Tuskegee frpm federal service at midnight tonight. The reduction in federalized troops leaves approximately 570 Alabama Guardsmen in federal service at Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. East St. Louis, 111. — An estimated 75 Negroes staged disruptive marches at City Hall and a food market in protest against alleged discriminatory hiring practices Friday. '-v Los Angeles —. Eight hungerstriking Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) members began a ''sit-in” Friday to protest asserted de facto segregation, and were locked up for the weekend in a public building when they declined to go home at closing

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Scuffling and shouting broke out. The police moved in, and drove the demonstrators down three flights of stairs to the sideGirls screamed as they were carried out. There were shouts of “This is the way the fascits operate," and “There’s more democracy in Cuba than in Washington.” More Probes Planned Willis promised further investigations looking toward legislation to tighten laws governing travel. He said that the student, trip to Cuba was a "clear violation of the law, and that the two days of hearing showed "he difficult and changing techniques of the Communist conspiracy." Under Willis’ orders police had barred likely troublemakers from the hearing room, blit twice he stopped testimony to clear the room of applauding sympathizers . who ignored his demands for silence. r One witness, Philp E. Luce of . New York City, accused the edm- - mittec of “absolutely despicable" - conduct. He said he considered ; it his duty to break the State t Department’s ban on travel to f Cuba. The audience responded with applause. Willis stood up and ordered police to throw out the demonstrators. Luce jumped on a chair shouting, “This is something you can get away with in Louisiana or Virginia, but I can't stand it here.”

time. Gadsden, Ala. —A county grand jury has rejected charges that a rural grocery operator, Floyd Simpson, killed crusading Baltimore postman William L. Moore on a civil rights hike last April. New Orleans — Federal Judge Robert A. Ainsworth Jr. heard arguments Friday for a preliminary injunction requiring Francis T. Nicholls State College to admit Negroes. He did not say when he Would rule on ' the motion. High Point, N.C. — Negro leaders and city officials came to an understanding Friday about the duration of their truce. The agreement is which it was agreed tha demonstrations will not be resumed until at least Dec. 6, provided a human relations commission was established immediately to replacj; the city's temporary bii.-u ial committee. Kansas City. Mo. — City council Friday voted 11 to 2 to enact an ordinance to halt discrimination in all public accommodations in the city except barber and beauty shops. Columbia. S.C. — About 50 young Negroes Friday Remonstrated for the fourth day this week against alleged racial discrimination at downtown theaters and hotels. Berne Pastor Heads County Ministers The Rev. Harry Reiners, pastor of the Cross United Church of ’ Christ, Berne, was elected president of the Adams county •ministerial association at the association's meeting this week. He succeeded Rev. Robert L. Cox. Rev. Fuhrman Miller of the Bethany E. U. B. of Decatur was elected vice president and Rev. David Holstein, pastor of the Berne Church of the Nazarene, was elected secretary-treasurer. New director of the migrant worker committee will be Rev. Armour Keller of the Geneva E. U. B. church.