Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXL NO. 221.

Quintuplets’ Gifts Near To $200,000

ABERDEEN, S.D. (UPD —The thriving Fischer quintuplets added a SIOO,OOO home today to their bonanza that already is worth nearly $200,000. And in South Dakota, that’s really a lot of house. The quintuplets . themselves were “getting along good” in the fifth day of their lives. Their doctor paid them a midnight visit and said he had increased their milk formula again. The promise of a new home was the biggest item on a growing gift list for Andrew Fischer, 38, a $76-a-week grocery clerk, and his wife, Mary Ann, 30. The Curtis Publishing Co. announced it had bought publication rights to pictures and stories of the Fischer family. Live On Outskirts The Fischers and their other five children have been living in a five bedroom two-story stucco house two miles out of Aberdeen. Fischer also has rented some barns and a few acres so he could keep two milk cows. The promise came from the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce, which has been acting as a headquarters for handling gifts to the Fischers. Officials indicated the money and land would come from local residents. Dr. James N. Berbos, the general practitioner who delivered the quints, told newsmen' after his midnight visit that he has not decided when Mrs. Fischer will return home. He said earlier that she was being held in the hospital because of the excitement and hectic activities that surely will surround her when she does leave. “The quints are all getting along good,” he said. “Their milk formula has been increased. The boy (James Andrew) is very hungry and is getting nearly two teaspoons of formula and some sugar water. “Mary Catherine and Mary Margaret also are very hungry,” he said. “They get a little less than a teaspoon.” Boy Most Active E. C. Pieplow, president of the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce and a family spokesman, said in a news conference Wednesday night that James Andrew was

Stronger Role Urged On U.N.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) —Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson called today for a strengthening of the United Na tions’ political, military, and economic roles in order to make the most of the easing of the cold war. Pearson in a speech prepared for delivery to the General Assembly this morning, warned that “when the United Nations fails, its member governments fail. When it succeeds, the people, the plain and good people of all the world succeed.” Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was scheduled to follow Pearson in the first day of policy speeches to the 18th General Assembly, which- convened Tuesday. President Kennedy will address the assembly Friday. Offers Proposals Pearson, a former assembly president who won a Nobel Prize for the idea of sending a UN. peace force to the Middle East after the 1956 Suez crisis, offered specific proposals for a stronger United Nations. He said all of them were designed to increase the United Na- ■ tions’ chances of benefiting from the improvement in the international climate brought by the East-West nuclear test ban agreement. Pearson noted that the prewar League of Nations was 18 years old in 1938 — “the, year of ap peasement, of unawareness, of failure of heart and nerve.” “The 18th year of the United Nations begins with a better balance sheet in a better climate,” he said. “This is the assembly oj opportunity. It could be the assembly of achievement and action—action for peace.’’ Lists Two Steps Pearson said these steps should be taken to strengthen the U.N. role: —Appointment of a team of military experts to advise Secretary General Thant on .peacekeeping operations, and cooperation by member nations in having forces ready to move at the secretary general's request. “This could lead to a pooling of available resources and the development in a coordinated way of trained and equipped collective forces for U.N. service to meet possible future demands for ac

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the most active of the five. “He really lets you know he’s a boy,” Pieplow said. “He got his foot caught over a plastic partition in his isolette. It was nothing serious. “Baby *B’ (the second-born, Mary Magdalene) turned over on her stomach on her own accord. This was a muscular feat.” Pieplow said he has had offers of land, blueprints, work, lumber and other materials and interior furnishings for the new house. It will be built to the Fischers’ specifications. “We have an architect who has donated his services,” Pieplow said. “He said he cannot estimate the cost until he talks with Mr. and Mrs. Fischer. He wanted to know whether we thought SIOO,OOO would be a large amount. The committee didn’t think this was a large amount, if the Fischers needed it.” At least four persons offered to donate land to the Fischers if they would build their house on it. Many of the gifts have been cash ranging from $5 to SSOO for each of the quints. The gifts included college scholarships, home appliances, use of a car for a year and a bedroom suite. The Fischers’ attorneys said they have not set up a trust fund as yet for the gifts which have been offered, but they hope to do so shortly. South Dakota law requires the establishment of a trust fund when gifts are donated for minors. In Washington, Internal Revenue Commissioner Mortimer Cap Im assured that the Fischers won’t have to pay taxes on the gifts. He pointed out that such gifts are not taxable Don Schanche, managing editor of the Saturday Evening Post, told the Aberdeen news conference the pictures and stories of the Fischer family would be printed in the Post and the Ladies Home Journal. He said the agreement also covers use on radio and television. He declined to discuss the price, which was reported, to be more than $50,000, and the period covered by the agreement, other than to say, “it’s not in terms of 10 or 20 years.”

tion under the blue flag of the United Nations,” he said. —Enlargement of the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council to better reflect the assembly’s composition. At the same time, he urged modification of the Security Council's functions so that it will be “the main arena for political decisions on questions which require urgent action.” INDIANA WEATHER Becoming cloudy and turning cooler north with scattered showers likely later this after noon or evening. Showers or thundershowers likely north portion tonight and Friday. Low tonight 58 to 66. High Friday in the 70s north, 76 to 85 south. Sunset today 648 p-m. Sunrise Friday 6:30 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy, mild north, warm south. Lows 55 to 65. Highs 74 to 85. Democrats To Open Quarters Saturday Cleaning and painting work .is underway at the Democratic party headquarters, Monroe and Second streets, in preparation for the 'opening for the fall municipal campaign. The building, on the southwest corner of the intersection, for years housed the Boston Store, then Ehinger’s and until a few weeks ago Bob’s Sewing Center. The headquarters will be open from 1 o’clock Saturday afternoons until 8 o’clock Saturday nights for registration of voters and for transfer of registration. A formal opening of the headquarters, is planned in the near future, with the formal date yet to be determined. An active campaign is planned for the November municipal elections in Decatur, Berne, Monroe and Geneva. Pete Gallogly will again be in charge of headquarters and is supervising the work now underway at the building.

GOP Headquarters Will Open Saturday 's Ojfc Judge Donald H. Hunter Republican headquarters in Decatur will open Saturday evening, with Indiana appellate Judge Donald H. Hunter present, it was announced this morning by Herman (Red) Lankenau, Republican city chairman. Republican -readquarters is located in the former coffee shop of the Rice Hotel, 103 N. Third St. The headquarters will open at 7:45 o’clock Saturday evening, and free refreshments will be served. Lankenau said that everyone is welcome to attend the opening. Judge Hunter will speak a short time after the 7:45 p.m. opening and Robert S. Anderson, city attorney, will be master of ceremonies for the evening’s affair. The Republican candidate for city offices will also be introduced as a feature of the program. Circuit Court Judge A member of the house of representatives from Madison county in 1943, Judge Hunter was judge of the LaGrange circuit court from 1948 until January of this year. He is presently an Indiana appellate court judge, and is a former deputy attorney general and former legislative officer for the Indiana department of Veterans of Foreign Wars. Married and the father of two adopted' children. Judge Hunter is a member of the Plato Methodist church, LaGrange larger parish, and is also a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the LaGrange Masonic lodge and the 40 and 8 Garrett Voiture. Committee Member The appellate court judge is an advancement chairman for the Boy Scouts of America and a judicial member of the state-wide committee for revision of adoption laws. He has also served on the advisory committee on probation and parole for the Indiana citizen's council. His service record shows a combat infantry badge, combat medic badge, bronze star, purple heart. Belgique Fouragerer, four presidential unit citations, five campaign stars. He served with the 9th Infantry division ETO. Jay Martin Chosen For Rural Carrier Jay Martin, of Washington township, a city mail carrier, was chosen Wednesday night to be nominated as the new rural maA carrier for Decatur route 5, Dr. Harry H. Hebble, Democratic county chairman, said today. Precinct committeemen rfrom the area served by the Decatur post office selected Martin over five other candidates on the third ballot. Other candidates included William Brown, Norbert Bleeke, Carl Thieme,. Tom Noll, and Harold Thieme. There were 38 precinct committeemen and women voting. The first two ballots e) ! minated three rural candidates and apparently most of their votes went to Martin. Brown and Bleeke were still in the race when Martin received a majority. Noll was said to be leading for the rural route carrier appointment on route one, Monroe. If both Martin and Noll are recommended and appointed, it will leave three carrier vacancies and one clerk vacancy in the Decatur post office. At the recent civil service test in Fort Wayne, more than 30 Decatur men took the test, and those who pass will be listed on an eligibllty list, with disabled veterans and veterans having first choice over non-veterans.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 19, 1963.

Governor Welsh Appeals To State Supreme Court To Spare State Sales Tax

J Efl io WHERE FIRE STARTED — A fire which gutted the interior of the Elmer Uhrick home, 910 S. 13th St-. Wednesday afternoon, broke out in a closet toward the rear of the home and quickly spread to the upstairs. Fireman George Rentz examines the starting point of the blaze (marked by arrow) through a window on the south side of the home.—(Photo by Mac Lean)

Decatur Home Badly Damaged By Flames

The Decatur fire department had a busy afternoon Wednesday, with three fires within a period of an hour and a half. By far the most damaging fire was the one that gutted the interior of the Elmer Uhrick residence at 910 S. 13th St., near the south edge of the city limits. The blaze completely gutted most of the downstairs portion and much of the upstairs of the two-story house, * and left the Uhrick family without any clothing, with the exception of what they were wearing. Mrs. Wanda Oelberg executive secretary of the local chapter of the American Red Cross, issued a plea this morning for clothing for the' two girls, two boys and Mr. and Mrs. Uhrick. Clothing Needed Mrs. Olberg explained that the two girls wear size seven and nine petite dresses, and the boy’s pants are 28-30 and 28-32. Uhrick wears 34 pants and 15*4 shirts, and Mrs. Uhrick size 18 dresses. Clothing or any other articles which local residents might wish to contribute should be brought to the Red Cross office on Madisoh St. Most of the household articles, such as furniture, chairs, etc., were destroyed in the blaze, including a new living room suite. Fire chief Cedric Fisher said at the scene that it was almost positive that the fire broke out in a closet toward the rear and on the south side of the Uhrick house. What started the fire, however, is unknown. Spread Rapidly The blaze quickly spread to the upstairs portion through the walls and was well underway when the firemen reached the home about 2:30 p.m. The upstairs had just been remodeled by Uhrick and he was in the process of remodeling the ground floor. Firemen said that the remodeling was one reason the fire spread so rapidly, due to some open walls. Firemen battled the blaze for an hour and finally chopped away

enough of the wall by the closet to extinguish the blaze inside. No one was home at the time the fire broke out, and a neighbor seeing the smoke coming from the home, contacted the fire department. Mrs. Uhrick had left to pick up the children from school, just a few minutes before the smoke was seen coming from the home. 3 Trucks Needed Three of the department’s four trucks were at the scene, due to a lack of water. The department's new tank truck was rushed,to the scene a few minutes after the first truck arrived, and later another truck carrying 300 gallons of water was brought to the fire. A city water department truck was also standing by in event the water supply of the trucks would be exhausted. The Uhrick home is in the area which was discussed by the city council just Tuesday night. The water main on the south end of 13th street stops at the Sudduth Market, where the last fire hydrant is, and residents of the area have petitioned the council for an extension of the water main. The fire truck had just pulled up to the station driveway when the fire call at the Uhrick home was received about 2:30 p.m. Other Two The truck was returning from a fire on the south side of the Adams county memorial hospital, which was called in at 2:10 p.m. An old elm stump Was being burnt out, and the fire spread to the grass in the area, although nothing was damaged. .After returning from the fire at the Uhrick home at about 3:30 p.m. the fire department received another call, this one at a farm near Bobo where a large field caught fire. The third blaze was on the Walter Koos farm, located approximately one mile east and a halfmile south of Bobo. A large field had caught fire and a large amount of it had burned, before firemen arrived. Nothing else was damaged.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh today asked the Indiana Supreme Court to spare the 1963 state sales tax law, even if it finds certain portions unconstitutional. Welsh appealed through his special counsel, George Zazas, for survival for the two per cent sales tax although some sections may be found unlawful as Marion Circuit Judge John L. Niblack ruled the entire law to be. Zazas fought for preservation of as much of the act as possible as he and opponents of the law spent two hours making oral arguments before the high court which must decide whether to affirm or reject Niblack's ruling. Lloyd DeWester, attorney for Indiana AFL-CIO President Dallas Sells, whose suit prompted the Niblack ruling, raised major questions concerning the right of the legislature to exempt farmers’ machinery and produce from the tax. " ~ “Why should a farmer purchasing a tractor be exempt if a salesman buying an auto is not?” DeWesteF asked. DeWester also opposed Zazas' conclusion that the severability clause could prevail and that the court could outlaw portions of the act without destroying it completely. Chief Depuy Atty. Gen. Lloyd Hutchinson urged the court to settle all questions raised. "If this is not done, the attorney general’s office will be faced with other suits to determine if there are violations,” he said. “Look at all the points raised in order to prevent a multiplicity of suits.” Zazas told the court that it was the “manifest intent of the legislature'to save as much of this act as is not stricken down by the court.” Three of the five justices, interposing questions for Zazas as he led off with the oratory in defense of his briefs, indicated they felt portions of the law were unconstitutional. Observers evaluating the questions and answers believed the way might have been paved for declaring certain sections illegal but overruling Judge John L. Niblack on the constitutionality of the remainder of the law. Presumably, such a ruling would permit the state to start enforcing the two per cent sales tax which the 1963 Legislature had intended to be collected beginning last July 1 but which Niblack's ruling postponed. Zazas defended the law as plainly worded, in contrast to attorneys for Indiana AFL-CIO President Dallas Sells who in seeking the injunction in Niblack's court had called it impossible to interpret. . Judge Arterburn asked Zazas what about the brackets which would discriminate against merchants selling items for less than 25 cents whose liability would run into the thousands of dollars because brackets set by an administrative agency exempted the small sales. , "This is an incidental unfairness.” Zazas said. "No tax measure can be completely fair.” But Zazas added that the State of Texas had construed a similar law as meaning the merchant was not required to remit taxes or sales which were exempt from the tax. Arterburn brought up the question of whether, if the court ruled unconstitutional a section requiring merchants to collect the tax without compensating them for their trouble, he “severability clause" would prevail which would allow the remainder of the law to become effective. Zazhs said he believed it would. Judge Harold Achor said he did not “have as much confidence in solving the question of taking something without compensation as you seem to have.” Achor referred to requiring merchants to keep on the tax without being paid for their efforts. • "The federal constitution says you can't take property without due process of law,” Achor said. “I am concerned where we might be leading ourselves." “If there is just one man the law takes property from, that is one'too many," Arterburn said. Zazas’ appearance opened two hours of arguments.

Kennedy Appeals To \alien On Tax Cut

WASHINGTON (UPD — Presi dent Kennedy has appealed to the nation to back his proposed sll billion tax cut bill, a measure he claims will stimulate the economy and erase the threat of a future recession. The President made his plea for the bill he described as “the most important domestic economic measure to come before the Congress in 15 years” in a nationwide radio-television speech Wednesday night. Shortly before his speech, in a fcur-line note to Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark., chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. Kennedy pledged to forego government pump-priming outlays if Congress enacts the tax cut. He agreed that the two roads of pump-priming and tax reduction cannot be traveled at once. But as far as Republican con gressional leaders were concerned his pledge and his entreaties fell on deaf ears. Press For Showdown They accused him of ducking the issue of heavy federal spending and pressed for a major showdown on a House GOP move to harness the ‘ tax cut. Republican National Chairman William E. Miller also sought equal time from the networks to reply to Kennedy’s speech. The President voiced particular concern about the GOP move to sidetrack the bill unless his administration attains specific economy goals for the next two fiscal years. “Let us not be petty or partisan on matters Such as this,” he said. "We arc not talkfflg politics —we are talking about more jobs and fewer recessions." "The nation needs a tax cut hew—not a tax cut ‘if—not a tax cut ‘when’—not a tax. cut in the future nor a tax cut for the few," he said. "This nation needs a tax cut now that will benefit every family, every business and every part of the nation."

Mrs. Lydia Aschliman Dies Lasl Evening Mrs. Lydia Aschliman, 71, of Decatur route 4. died suddenly of a heart attack at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home of a son, Harry L. Aschliman, of Decatur route 4. She v/as born in Wells county July 14. 1892, a daughter of Daniel and Rose Hartman-Reinhard, and was married to William Aschliman Dec. 27, 1913. Her husband preceded her in death June 1 of this year. Mrs. Aschliman was a member of the Apostolic Christian church. Surviving are two sons, Harry L Aschliman of Decatur route 4, and Alfred A. Aschliman of Bluffton route 3; one daughter. Miss Elsie Aschliman of Fort Wayne; six grandchildren; one brother, Ezra Reinhard of Bluffton, and two sisters, Mrs. Henry Reinhart and Miss Mary Ann Reinhard, both of Bluffton. Four sons and one daughter are deceased. Funeral rites will be held at 1:30 p.m Saturday at the Apostolic Christian church, the Rev. Samuel Aeschliman officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Goodwin funeral home in Bluffton after 7 p.m. today until 12 noon Saturday, when the body will be removed to the church. Auto Is Damaged By Hit-Run Vehicle A car owned by Leona M. Bienz,. 49, of route 5, Decatur, received an estimated $45 damage when hit by an unidentified vehicle Wednesday. The auto was parked at 508 N Second St., on the east side of the street, and was damaged on the left side. The vehicle that hit the Bienz car left the scene.

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Pledges Economies At the same time Kennedy declared he would not tolerate any wasteful or inefficient federal ac tivities. He said his administration was pledged to a balanced budget within a balanced economy. Replying to critics he said had accused the administration of waste, the President said there was greater waste in having four million persons unemployed. The government, he said, is attempting to rid itself of any waste that exists. Kennedy said the higtv wartime and postwar taxes paid by Americans are no longer necessary and are harmful to the economy. He blamed them in part for the 1958 and 1960 recessions and said they could cause future recessions unless Congress goes along with his proposals. History of Recessions “I do not say a recession is inevitable without a tax cut or impossible with one. But, excluding war years, ye have had a recession on the average of every 4~ months since World War 11—or every 44 months since World War I—and by next January, it will have been 44 months since the last recession began. “Recession means high unemployment and high budget deficits. Os all kinds of waste they are the worst. We need a tax cut to keep this present drive from running out of gas,” he said. Kennedy said that 10,000 new jobs must be created each day just to reduce unemployment to a more acceptable level. He said the tax cut would provide more jobs and open up new markets for American business equivalent to the entire output of goods and services of both .Canada and Australia. Kennedy said other points in favor of the tax cut would be high er family income, larger business profits and. eventually, a balanced federal budget.

Historical Society Will Meet Tuesday The Adams county historical society will open its fall series of programs at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening at the Decatur public library. Earl E. Dawaid, of Geneva, a teacher in the Monmouth school, will be the guest speaker. He will describe the Gene Stratton Porter historical tour which was held last month. The speaker .directed the tour, which was taken through the Rainbow bottom country, the covered bridge, Bluffton, the covered bridge at Dora, and the city of Wabash, where the famous author attended high school. He then led the group to Hopewell and other points of interest back to Decatur, where the author started housekeeping. Dawaid, a trustee of the Histor-t ical society, received his master of science degree in education at Indiana University the past summer. He had previously received an L. L. B. degree in law at Valparaiso University. , Guests are invited to Tuesday’s meeting, for which there will be no admission charge.. Van Horn Funeral Services Friday Funeral services for Robert E. Van Horn, of MSnroeville route 1, who died Tuesday evening at Parkview hospital, will be held at 9 am. Friday at the Marguart funeral home in Monroeville, and at 3:30 a.m. at St. Louise Catholic church at Besancon. The Rev. Fred Cardinal! will officiate, and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. The Holy Name society will recite the rosary at 7:30 p.m, today.