Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 218.

Quintuplets Reported ‘Squalling’ Normally

(EDITOR’S NOTE: United Press International assigned a three-man reporting team and a staff of still and movie photographers to Aberdeen to cover the first days of life for the Fischer quintuplets. The team report is by H. D. Quigg of New York, Richard McFarland, Minnesota state manager, and Ray Serati, South Dakota State manager. ABERDEEN, S. D. (UPI) — r Five bundles of kicking and soualling, bawling humanity with heads the size of large oranges and crinkled hands not much larger than a silver dollar — the Fischer quints — were ready today for their first tipping of the nursery scales. Dr. James Berbos, their physician, said he would probably weigh them for the first time today — if they behave themselves. The pink-skinned, 18-inch-long babies are unusually healthy for prematures. A statute of the infant Jesus looks down from the St. Luke’s Hospital nursery wall at the end of their row of “isolette” incubators. A staff of nurses watches over them constantly. Not once has one of them had trouble taking, or holding, the four, cubic centimeters — less than a teaspoon —of sugar-wat-er which each gets every two hours. The feeding, by tube through the nose, began Sunday morning when the quints — born six to eight weeks prematurely — were entering their second day of life . Another First Another first for them today was the probability that the doctor would put them on some kind of milk formula. Meantime, he said, they’re “getting along fine’’ on the glucose-water intake, by plastic tube which runs down nearly to their tiny stomachs. Fine, too, was ‘their mother, reddish-haired Mary Ann Brady Fischer 30, a native of the nearby community -of Hecla, S. D., who has been up and walking about in her room. She probably will go home by the middle or end of the week, Berbos said. As for the father, Andy Fischer got up early, as usual, and milked his two cows, a Jersey and a Guernsey, in the big blue barn behind his farm house, two miles outside town, which he rents for $55 a month. Sightseers are common now on the road in front of the five-bedroom stucco house, occupied by the Fischers and their five other children. The three oldest Fischer children, Danny, 7; Charlotte, who will be 7 Wednesday; and Julie, who was 6 Sunday, start the fall term today at the Sacred Heart School along with 715 other children. The two youngest Fischer children, Evelyn, 4, and Denise, 3, are staying with their maternal grandparents in Hecla. -Doctor Foregoes Fee “I don’t think 11l charge them anything,’’ Berbos said of the Fischer family. “I always said if there were triplets, I wouldn’t charge them anything, but I’ve never delivefed triplets.” He added, “I understand the hospital isn’t going to charge them anything either.” But a hospital spokesman said Fischer had said he would pay charges anyway because he has hospital insurance. Berbos was asked whether he had any other deliveries since the quintuplets. “No, they’ve all been scared off,” he said. TTie original five Fischer

ANOTHER WINNER — Lawrence Bradtmueller, 79, of 442 Bollman street, Decatur, was selected today as a winner in *the courtesy campaign safe driving program by Decatur chief of police James Borders and Mayor Donald Gage. Gage and Borders selected Bradtmueller after he yielded the right of way to their car and a pedestrian as he was turning on to Court street. Bradtmueller has been driving for more than 40 years.

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chilren were extremely happy at the arrival of Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary, and James Andrew — the quint girls so far have only the common nanle, and Fishcer said Sunday he is working on picking first or middle names to combine with the Marys. “Each of the kids at home has picked a quint for their own,” said Fischer, a crewcut, sandyhaired, blue/- eyed, 38 - year -old shipping clerk for a wholesale grocery who says his take-home pay runs about $75 a week. Neighbor Visits “I came over here and set with Andy while he milked his two cows yesterday,” said Elroy Harrington, 68, who lives on six acres across the road and owns the 160 acres which contains the house he rents to Fischer. “What did he have to say? Just about the same as always.” “I don’t think he quite realizes.” But what he must realize, real good by now, is that if the quints live — the danger zone through which they now are passing should last for 72 hours or to 3:01 am.. Tuesday— he will be father of the first set of quints to survive in the United States. Retains Attorneys He has retained a couple of lawyers, Joseph H. Barnett and Stan Siegel, and there was brisk bidding going on with them for picture rights to the already famous five Fischers and their mamma. Fischer was asked at a press conference: “If you could do it all over again, what would you do?” “You should have asked me that seven months ago,” he replied evenly. Berbos said the quintuplets probably would be in the isolettes for two months. They are so active already that they sometimes wriggle crosswise in their incubator cells, which are designed to control heat, humidity, and oxygen. They have not been getting oxygen. The boy is the largest quint— Berbos said he looks to be about fcur pounds and the girls about 3%. They “somewhat resemble each other,” he said, and their hair is “sparse.” Two portholes on each side of each isolette allow nurses to handle the babies. By state department of health rule no visitor is allowed on a maternity floor except husbands. The press is forbidden to go to the third - floor nursery here and peek through the window. Town Wakes Up This college town (Northern State Teachers College) of 25,000 was just waking up to what had hit it. Church-goers were all smiles Sunday at the harried influx of reporters, photographers, and television men in the streets around Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, where Fischer attended 10:30 a.m. Mass with his three oldest children and his mother, Mrs. John Fischer. “We think it is wonderful,” a woman churchgoer summed up town opinion. Both mothers-in-law have been staying at the Fischer home, caring for the children. “Mrs. Fischer was a farm girl,” said Harrington, “and she tended every bit of this garden while she was pregnant-planted and hoed it—and she put up 100 quarts of dill tickles. “I said that if Andy wanted to put up a new home that I would donate an acre for it. He has always liked it so much out here.”

Decatur Stores Fall Opening Wednesday Sept. 18

World Renowned Aberdeen is a farming community in northeastern South Dakota, county seat of Brown County, a Democratic stronghold in a Republican state. It is sometimes called “The Hub City” because five separate railroad lines once served it. It is, world renowned as a pheasant hunting center (The birds live on the corn, which is now being harvested). The courthouse stands at 'the head of Lincoln Street, dirty brown, with a columned bell tower, topped by a white - faced clock with black roman numerals under a green arched dome, surmounted by a statue of a woman who appears to represent civic virtue or maybe justice. The explosion that shook the “Hub City” and sent a shock wave around the world began when that clock stood at 1:58 a.m., central standard time, in the cool, overcast pre-dawn of Saturday, Sept. 14. The first quint was born then and the fifth was delivered at 3:01 a.m. by Berbos and two doctor associates. Nearly Faints Mrs. H.I. King-said that when her brother-in-law Dr. Bernard King, one of the delivery room associates, was told by Berbos that it was going to be quints “he almost passed out.” This used to be Sioux Indian country around here. It’s flatland and the season’s second crop of alfalfa is greening big patches of it. The Fischer home has three or four ducks and chickens wandering around the yard, three bicycles lying by the house, swings, a tricycle, and out in back a tremendous garden with a variety of vegetables. Fischer has four cars: a 1922 Model T Ford that still runs and in which he takes the children riding; a pickup; a Mercury; and a Plymouth. There’s a TV aerial on his blue, gabled roof. Inside there are crucifixes on living and dining room walls. The rooms are sparsely and sparingly furnished. The kitchen is small. There are five rooms upstairs, five down. As you drive into town from the Fischer place, you encounter a city limits sign announcing “City of Aberdeen—ordinance enforced on all noisy mufflers — and speeding.” On the other side of town, at the airport terminal, there is another sign, a white cardboard onep laced, Saturday afternoon under the bronze plaque telling the airport was dedicated in 1950. The new sign says: “Chamber of commerce PRESS ROOM, Alonzo Ward Hotel.”

Harlke In Plea For Proposed Tax Cut PLYMOUTH, Ind. (UPl)—Automation is wiping out new jobs as fast as they are created, Sen. Vance Hartke, (D-Ind. said Sunday in a plea for a proposed tax cut. Hartke is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which will soon begin consideration of the administration’s tax reduction bill. “Although we do indeed have prosperity, we also are in a state of change," he said. “Automation is wiping out jobs about as fast as they can be created.” Hartke said the proposed tax cut “would give a new lease on life for our economy and would provide us with recession insurance." He said tax concessions made last year to businessmen was proof that the money lost through a tax cut “would be returned manyfold as the economy expands.” Hartke said he would back a House-attached amendment to the tax bill which specifies that “when the additional revenues start coming in from this expected upsurge in economy, this money will be used to cut the national debt.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight with considerable fog again late to- , night. Tuesday partly cloudy continued mild. Low tonight • 57 to 62. High Tuesday 77 to 84. Sunset today 8:53 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:28 a.m.’ Outlook for Wednesday: Fair to partly cloudy, warm and humid. Lows in the 60s. Highs low 80s to low 90s.

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Birmingham Tense After Church Bombing, Street Violence Take Six Lives

Cases Slated In City Court Are Continued Three of four cases slated to be heard in citycourt this morning were continued, with no future dates set for the cases to be heard. Richard J. Sullivan, acting judge for regular judge John B. Stults, who is on vacation, was informed upon arriving in court this morning by prosecutor Severin H. Schurger that the three cases had been continued. Apparently the cases were continued sometime last week, as two pf the defendants did not appear this morning. Roy Allen Litchfield, 23, of 128 S. Fourth St., was slated to appear on charges of reckless driving, public intoxication, and not having a valid driver’s license. Litchfield was arrested at 3:15 a. m. Friday, Sept. 6, by the city police, and was scheduled to appear in city court last Monday, Sept. 9. He was given a week’s continuation as he was working Sept. 9. Attorney Appears Since that time, however, IJubert R. McClenahan entered an appearance for Litchfield, and asked for a continuance, which was apparently granted by Judge Stults. Litchfield was jailed after his arrest, but was released the following day after he posted SSO bond. Edward Brite, 17, route 1, Decatur, arrested recently for reckless driving, was also scheduled to appear this morning, but Sullivan was informed that his case, too, has been continued, with no future date set. Donald Dale, 28, 928 S. 13th St., charged with assault and battery, appeared today but the prosecutor informed Sullivan that his case was to be continued. Three “Pending” Litchfield already has threes cases which are pending in justice of the peace court, as there has been no disposition, or ruling, by J. P. Floyd Hunter in any of the three. Litchfield was arrested Sept. 25, 1960, and charged with running a red light. He was* arrested by the city police. May 4, 1963, he was again arrested by the city police, and this time charged with reckless driving. As in the previous case, McClenahan entered his appearance for Litchfield and there has been no disposition on the case as yet. A third case against Litchfield in justice of the peace court was an arrest made by the Indiana state police. He was arrested October 15, 1961 by trooper Alan Coppes, and charged with improper passing. He posted a $25 bond and there has been no disposition on this case either. If there were any dispositions in the three cases against Litchfield in J. P. court, the arresting officers were not notified, as they are in other cases. Others “Pending” ? Several other cases are pending in the two courts, one of which concerns the arrest of two youths for public intoxication. David Lee Hamilton, 19, route 2, Decatur, was arrested March 13 and charged with reckless driving and public intoxication, while Steven Lynn Holloway, a passenger in the car driven by Hamilton, was charged with public intoxication. They were released the next day after each posted bond of SSO. According to the March 18 edition of the Daily Democrat, “Hubert R. McClenahan entered an appearance for David Hamilton, 19, route . 2. Decatur, and Steven Holloway, 22, route 1, Monroe, ... the court set April 22 as the trial date.” Attorney McClenahan entered his appearance for the defendants, however, and the case has not

Jerome Wellman, Sr. Is Taken By Death Jerome Wellman, -Sr., 71, well known retired farmer and tile ditcher of east of Bryant, died -Sunday morning in the Jay county hospital at Portland after an extended illness. Mr. Wellman was a member of the Holy Trinity Catholic church at Bryant. Surviving are his wife, the former Agnes Krieg; nine sons, Alfred. Jerome, Jr., Richard and Francis Wellman, all of Wabash township, Leroy and James Wellman of Coldwater, 0., Eugene Wellman of Pennville, the Rev Paul Wellman, C.P.P.S.. of St. Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, and Carl Wellman, at home; five daughters, Mrs. Edna Hayng of Coldwater, 0., Mrs. Martha Kipler of Los Angeles, Calif., Miss Helen Wellman, at home, Mr s. Rita Heimann of Decatur, and Sr. Mary Paula, C.P.P.S., of Alameda, Calif.; a brother, Joseph Wellman of Bryant; two sisters Miss Anna Wellman of Richmond, and Mary Frances of Detroit; a half-brother, Fred Wellman of Ogallala, Neb., and a half-sister. Mrs. Edward Schindler of Julisburg, Colo.; 38 grandchildren. A solemn high mass will be held at Holy Trinity Catholic church at Bryant at 10 aun. Wednesday, with the Rev. Paul Wellman, the Rev. Francis Reyburger and the Rev. Francis Uecker officiating. Burial will be in Holy Trinity cemetery. Friends may call at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva after 6 p.m. today. Recitation of the rosary will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Queen Elizabeth To Have Fourth Child LONDON (UPl)—Queen Elizabeth is expecting a child due to be born next year, Buckingham Palace announced today. The queen is 37 years old. The last of her three children, Prince Andrew, was born Feb. 19, 1960, With the announcement, it was stated that all of the queen's engagements were being cancelled following the end of her current holiday at Balmoral, Scotland, next month. The announcement gave no indication of the date beyond the fact that child’s birth was expected next year. If the child is a boy he will rank third in line of succession to the throne, behind the Prince of Wales, Charles, who is 14, and Prince Andrew. 3. If a girl, the child will rank fourth, with the royal couple’s only daughter, Princess Anne, 13, taking precedence. come up since. Another case which has not been ruled on as yet concerns a charge of receiving stolen goods against Salvador Romero, 921 N. Tenth St., in which three other men connected with the case were sentenced to terms at the penal farm. ' Three Sentenced ___ Richard Kiser, Harold Hirschy, Jr., and Stanley Prater, all local residents, were charged with petit larceny for the theft of half a beef from the Schmitt Packing Co. They were fined and sentenced to 90 days at the penal farm on June 12, and were to be released this week. Romero, however, who was charged with purchasing stolen meat has not yet appeared in court. According to the June 12 edition of the Daily Democrat. "Hubert R. McClenahan, Romero's attorney, posted a S3OO bond and Romero was released from the Adams county jail Tuesday evening . . . As yet no date has been set for a court appearance for Romero.”

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) — A force of 1,400 policemen, state troopers and battle-equipped National Guardsmen were poised for action today in the aftermath of a church bombing and street violence that claimed six lives. In the charged atmosphere created by Sunday’s dynamiting in this racially-scarred city, three public schools were scheduled to begin their second week of integrated classes today. The s.chools — West End and Ramsay High and Graymoitf Elementary — admitted Negro students for the first time under federal court order last Wednesday, touching off resentment that erupted into the bombing Sunday ol the 16th Street Baptist Church. Hurled from a passing car, the dynamite - stick bomb shattered the church, filled with 400 worshipers. and killed four Negro girls in a basement Sunday, school class. At least 20 persons were treated for injuries at hospitals. Crowd Hysterical A crowd of 2,000 hysterical Negroes swarmed from their homes after the explosion, and police struggled and fired rifle shots in the air for two hours before dispersing the group. Shootings and stonings broke out through the city and continued late into the night. During one of these incidents, police shot to death Johnny Robinson, a 16-yeas-old Negro, who was hurling rocks at whites’ cars , and ignored orders to half after , he fled down an alley. At about the same time, seven hours after the explosion, Virgil . Ware, a 13-year-old Negro, was shot from ambush while riding a bicycle with his brother in a residential area 15 miles away. Two white youths seen riding a red motorcycle in the area were ' sought by police. Officers arrested 19 Negores in the vicinity of the bombed church on a variety of charges including refusing to obey an officer, drunkenness and carrying concealed weapons. Police Chief Jamie Moore, fearing a repetition of the rioting that followed the bombing of a Negro attorney’s home Sept. 4, called all available members of his 600-man force to duty. Mayor Albert Boutwell appealed to Gov. George Wallace for help. Wallace dispatched 300 troopers and alerted 500 National Guardsmen in thg city, where racial tensions have ebbed and flowed for months. President Kennedy was notified immediately of the incident, and Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy dispatched his chief civil rights troubleshooter, Burke Marshall, to Birmingham. Also rushed in were at least 25 FBI agents, including bomb experts from Washington. Wallace vowed to use the "entire forces of the state.. .to maintain law and order in Birmingham and throughout Alabama." Boutwell, tears streaming down his face, said “it is just sickening that a few individuals could commit such a horrible atrocity.” Wallace added ss,ooo'to reward money totaling $57,000 for apprehension of the persons responsible for recent bombings in Birmingham. The church bombing was the first to cause death; None have been solved. Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr. wired President Kennedy that unless "immediate federal steps are taken. . the worst -racial holocaust this nation has ever seen" will occur in Birmingham and Alabama. King later came here from Atlanta to urge Negroes to “remain non-violent." He went into conference with Negro leaders. Police Inspector W. J. Haley said as many as 15 sticks of dynamite may have been used to make the bomb. Witnesses saw a car speed away from the twostory brick and stone church. The bomb apparently exploded in an unoccupied basement room and crumbled a wall onto a children's Sunday School class. Killed were Denise McNair, 11, Carol Robertson, 14, Cynthia Wesley, 14, and Addie Mae Collins, 10.

Woman Saved After Nine Days At Sea

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPD — “I had no food or water for n week, but I don’t remeber being hungry or thirsty." Mrs. Lorna Slade was relating her experience aboard a slowly sinking cabin cruiser which drifted nine days in the Atlantic Ocean while she tried to signal for help. Her husband, retired Canadian Naval Commander Stuart L. Slade, died after six days. The spunky Mrs," Slade was picked up Saturday by the tanker S. S. Perryville and brought here Sunday night. Smoking a cigarette nervously, the tiny, grey-haired native of Lincoln, Neb., told of the ordeal which began as an island-hopping jaunt through the Bahamas and which took on a tragic note when the engine fai l ed and her husband, suffering a leg infection, became delirious and died. The cabin cruiser, The Crystal, sank with her husband’s body as an 82-foot Coast Guard cruiser prepared to tow it back here. Sunburned And Emaciated Mrs. Slade wearing black slacks and a colored blouse, appeared sunburned from spending most of the time on deck painting "SOS” signs and lighting makeshift flares. She was emaciated from a week without food ro water. She said she and her husband, after spending time in California after his retirement from the navy, decided to come to Florida to buy a deep sea fishing boat. They bought one and decided to take the trip to the Bahamas. Mrs. Slade, who was rescued

Treaty Debate On In Senate

WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate today opened its second and what leaders hoped would be the final week of debate on the limited nuclear test ban treaty. Senate leaders spoke in terms of a vote on ratification by Thursday or Friday, Approval is expected. Sen. John J. Sparkman. D-Ala., said in a prepared speech today that if the treaty fails, the result could be nuclear war. The quintuplets born in Aberdeen, S.D., Saturday vVere brought into the debate by Sen. George S. McGovern. D-S.D. McGovern said he would support the treaty as a "concrete gesture” to protect the quints from radioactive fallout. Opposition to the pact was expressed by Sen A. Willis Robertson, D-Va. He said that if the Russians were the first to perfect an anti-missile missile system they could subject the United States to "terrifying blackmail.” Other congressional news: Birmingham: Both Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate denounced the bombing of a Negro Church in Birmingham Sunday. They called the violence a national disgrace and said there should be swift punishment. Sugar* Rep. Joseph M. McDade, R-Pa., blamed the administration for the recent skyrocketing of sugar prices. A member of a House banking and currency subcommittee studying the situation. McDade said the administration’s sugar policy had cost American families S6OO million in inflated sugar costs. Foreign Aid: Congress was told that foreign aid was a key tool io building a world of peace. The opinion came from President Kennedy when he submitted his annual report on the aid program

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about 120 miles north of here, said she spotted four fishing boats during the ordeal, but they apparently thought “we were fishing," She said she and her husband left Miami aboard the 30-foot cabin cruiser Sept. 5, and only several hours later the engine conked out and they began to drift up the Gulfstream. Husband Grows Worse And then her husband, already “not feeling good,” began to get worse. As the hot hours passed and the food and water supply dwindled and then disappeared, he became ill, then "delirous." “He was irrational,” she said. “He kept asking‘for water. We ran out of food and water after about three days. . .we drank all the water and then the water from the life jackets. Then h« was gone.” A storm came up after several days, she said, opening a seam in the boat. The Crystal began to sink slowly. "First I bailed every five hours, then every three hours, and then every hour,” she said. “I had a big U.S. flag which I flew upside down. ..1 had some white paint and painted HELP’ on top of the cabin in case a plane should see us. I used sheets and towels as flares. . .tied them to brooms and chairlegs and soaked them in gasoline as flares when a ship came by,” she said. The master of the Perryville, Capt. R. A . Ryder, from BaltiI more, Md., declined to discuss I the actual rescue.

to the lawmakers. Kennedy, hoping to convince tile Senate to restore House cuts in the aid program, said the future of the free world depends on programs like the aid proposal. Refugees: The Senate Refugees subcommittee will hold public hearings at Minneapolis, Minn., and Grand Rapids. Mich., chairman Philip A Hart, b-Mich., announced today. Hart said the hearings will take testimony on the cities' programs for resettlement of refugees. Union City, N.J., and Boston also are being considered for additional sessions. Hart said. Kennedy To Address Nation Wednesday WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy will speak to the nation on radio and television at 6 p.m. CDT Wednesday in an effort to rally public support for his big tax reduction program, the White House announced today. Kennedy will appear on all major radio and television networks for what was described as a presentation of “his views on the tax bill as it comes up for action in the House.’’ The President’s request for aif time was a new step in the administration drive to have Congress enact hip sll billion individual and corporate tax cut plan this year so it can take effect in 1964 and 1965 Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said he thought the President’s address probably would run about 15 minutes.