Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 234.

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Czech Archbishop Freed From Prison

VATICAN CITY (UPD—Prague Archbishop Josef Beran, freed from 14 years of Communist confinement in Czechoslovakia, may come to the Ecumenical Council, high Vatican sources said today. The news of Beran’s release came Thhrsday night out of the Vatican and then out of Czechoslovakia itself. It spurred hopes that the other famous churchman still in Communist confinement—Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary—eventually may leave his exile in the U.S. legation in Budapest and go to the West. Along with the 74-year-old Beran, the Czechs announced the release of four bishops — the last churchmen of that rank still held in Czechoslovakia after a campaign of repression that began in 1948 after the Communists seized power. Franziskus Cardinal Koenig of Vienna, who has played a major role in Vatican negotiations with Communist governments in the past seven months, told United Press International: “I hope the bishops will come to Rome. It will be best for them ” At present there are five Czech

To Ask Early Tax Payments

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh said today he will ask the state’s major withholding agents to make their quarterly remittances immediately to help provide funds for the October distribution of state aid to local school corporations. He said letters will be mailed early next week to 700 firms which regularly make the largest payments on gross income taxes withheld from -their employes. In the letter, Welsh will tell the firms that the state’s cash position “is such that it will be necessary for us to reduce substantially or delay the October distribution to local school corporations.” “This will cause serious hardship in several cases and additional and unnecessary expense for school corporations in others,” he said. Welsh will tell the companies that if they make their remittances immediately instead of waiting until the Oct. 31 deadline “we may be able to increase the state’s cash balance sufficiently to offset serious difficulties for any local communities.” The remittances cover taxes withheld for the last three months and the firms already have the cash on hand to make the payments. Schools were put on notice Thursday not to expect immediate financial relief as a result of the Indiana Supreme Court ruling upholding the constitutionality of the two per cent sales tax law. Commissioner John Hatchett of the Indiana Department of Administration said money earmarked for the schools by the 1963 General Assembly probably would not be forthcoming before next summer. Hatchett said the court’s decision would not affect the October distribution of state school aid funds since the earliest any sales tax revenue could be expected would be late November. Part of the October distribution, expected to be about $32 million, would be delayed until November and the January and March distributions would not be for the full amount, he saidHatchett said the State Budget Agency and the Department of Public Instruction expect to make a partial distribution during October but that it would be several days before the amount was

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bishops at the Ecumenical Council, including one who was liberated earlier this year — Msgr. Frantisek Tomasek. AU came here with the approval of the Czech government. The release of Beran is one of the most dramatic developments in the thaw in Vatican-Commu-nist relations that began more than a year ago. Msgr. Josyf Slipyi, 71, metropolitan of the Ukranian Catholics, was released by the Soviet government last December after 18 years in prison and came to Rome in February. The four bishops released with Beran are: Msgr. Karel Skoupy, 76, of Brno, arrested in 1953 and listed by the 1963 Vatican yearbook as “held in unknown locality.” Msgr. Jan Vojtassak, 85, of Spis, sentenced to 24 years in 1951 and listed in the year book as “in jail for the faith.” Msgy. Stanislav Lzela, 70, of Olomouc, arrested in 1950 and given 25 years. Also listed as “in jail for the faith.” Msgr. Wladislaw Hlad. The yearbook gives no information on him.

known. “We may be able to give them as much as 50 per cent in October and then make up the rest in November but we don’t know for sure,” Hatchett said. As for the January and March distributions, Hatchett said, “I don’t see how we can distribute the full amount. We’ll be able to make it up eventually but we just won’t have the money at the time the distributions are due.” He said he was hopeful the full amounts could be distributed by the end of the fiscal year June 30. Governor Os Rotary Visits Local Club 1 The Rotary club of Floriano, Brazil, is to be the sister club of the Decatur Rotary club for the 1963-64 Rotary year, according to an assignment made Thursday night to the local club by John M. Kissinger of Elkhart, district governor, on his official visit. "Rotary has the machinery and manpower to do great things. Each day this old world of ours shrinks and technological, scientific, communication and transportation advances make things easier and the world smaller by the minute. International understanding and cooperation becomes increasingly important.” Kissinger, who is a native of Columbia City and an Indiana University graduate, was introduced by George Auer, local club president. Local officers had conferred with the district governor at a meeting held before the regular 6:15 dinner meeting. Referring to the “Rotary in the Space Age” program of Carl F. Miller, president of Rotary International for 1963-64, Kissinger said "Our district has been 'matched’ with district 449 in Brazil as a means of furthering better understanding and friendlier relations between Rotarians of the two countries" AU Rotary districts have been similarly matched. There are many ways through which contacts can be made. Rotary is the most international in scope of any at the service clubs with over 1,400 more clubs char-

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (UPD—The armed forces which deposed and departed President Ramon Villeda Morales today named Col. Osvaldo Lopez. Arellano as a one-mai( junta to rim jhe through executive decree. He was former chief of staff. •• ' , . . ; Lopez put the country under a stats of siege—partial martial law —and dissolved the chamber of deputies. He called on all government workers to return immediately to their jobs. Military leaders said the only remaining resistance to Thursday’s coup, in which, officially, more than 30 persons were killed in clashes between troops and loya’ civil guards, was in the foothiUs around Tegucigalpa. They said some Villeda Morales supporters had taken up guerrilla warfare in the outskirts and were under siege by the army. City Is Normal Tegucigalpa was outwardly normal today and ai;my leaders said the same condition applied elsewhere in the country. Business houses reopened and the streets were heavy with vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Public and private schools and colleges were told they could reopen Monday. A military communique emphasized anew that Thursday’s coup had no political connotations. Villeda and Modesto Rodas Alvarado, government candidate for president to the election that was to have been held a week from Sunday, were flown into exile in Costa Rica late Thursday. Radio stations in Tegucigalpa were silent for undisclosed reasons, but the army was broadcasting from at least three provincial points. Army broadcasts described the coup as a purely military action, meant to eliminate the civil guard and halt Communist infiltration of Honduras. They said the army had no political motives. The broadcasts promised that the coup eventually would produce a “just electoral law” and a coalition “government of national unity.” There was no immediate report of the formation of a military junta regime. Man In Charge Col. Osvaldo Lopez, the army commander, appeared to be the man in charge. The military seizure of power was Latin America’s second in eight days, following the coup that deposed Dominican President Juan Bosch a week ago Wednesday. (In Washington, the State Department said the two coups may bt only the start of a series. Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and El Salvador were mentioned as other countries where the army might seize power.)

tered outside of the United States than in this country.” Die Fariano club is located in a town close to the equator in Northern Brazil. It has 31 members. It was suggested that club buUetins be exchanged although the South American club's buUetin will be in Portuguese. Perhaps a set of sUdes wiU be prepared to show Decatur to this club. Club rosters are to be exchanged and individuals in various occupations or professions will be encouraged to correspond. Several Rotarians from this district are. expected to attend a conference of their sister district in Belem, Brazil, in February, 1964. Kissinger concluded his address with the hope that Rotarians have the vision to see the opportunity, faith to believe in the abUity to do the job, and the courage to do something* about it. Twenty six committee chairmen along with club officers met later in a separate meeting to discuss the local club’s program. Die governor was highly complimentary of the local club, which has had 46 years of experience in Rotary. Clarence Ziner, chairman of the committee which recently erected the new signs announcing meetings of all Decatur service clubs, presented one of the old signs completely repainted to be hung in the meeting room. Next week the club will have its fall steak-out at Hanna-Nuttman park. •

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October 4/1963.

Flora Bears Down On Cuba

SAN JUAN, P.R. (UPD—Hurricane Flora bore down on the southeastern tip of Cuba today, near the big U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, its 140-mile-an-hour fury unabated by a slash through the rugged mountains of southern Haiti. Untold destruction was left by Flora, which smashed across Haiti’s Tiburon Peninsula Thursday night, flinging its full force against the flimsy houses of coastal towns and the remote mountain regions. The area was battered for hours by gale and then hurri-cane-force winds of 75 miles an hour as the storm churned relentlessly toward the coast. Cable companies reported that telephone and telegraph communications were out with Hatt, the impoverished land of voodo legends. A hurricane that struck the same peninsula area in 1954 claimed an estimated 10,000 lives. The San Juan Weather Bureau located Flora’s center at 3 a.m., EDT, near latitude 19.4 north,

Prepare Area For Horse Show Oct. 13 * “The grounds are looking nicer all the time,” was the word today from Ferris Bower, committee chairman for the Benefit horse show sponsored by the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. A crew was again hard at work Thursday afternoon on the Bellmont park grounds, were the show will be held Sunday, October 13, and, according to Bower, the area has been mowed now and is becoming quite beautiful. The fence between the track and the bleachers and part of the fence around the show ground in front of the grandstand is now up. Next Thursday afternoon will be the final clean-up day, and Bower and other committee members have urged every available person who can help out at 1:30 p.m. to attend and learn what their job for the show will consist of then. Week From Sunday The benefit horse show will be held a week from Sunday, starting at 12 noon, with the following Sunday set as the rain date. The show will be held on the Bellmont park grounds along east Monroe street extended. Admission for the show is only 50 cents for adults, with children under 12 admitted free, parking and free camping on the horse show grounds. For Xmas Lights The show is being sponsored by the retail division to raise funds to,purchase new Christmas lights for Decatur, to which proceed# will go. Yesterday’s working crew consisted of Bower, Mrs. Kay Boch, Doyle Rich, Morris Biberstine, Morris Begun, Phil Adams, Carl Braun, Bob Brown, Ed Gerber, and Larry Mankey. A disc and tractor were furnished for the work by Don Boeder; a truck by Dick Macklin of the Phil L. Macklin Co., and a mower and tractor by the Paul Reidenbach Equipment Co. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little warmer to night and Saturday. Low tonight 42 to 50. High Saturday 73 to 80. Sunset today 6:23 P.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:45 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair and mild. Lows upper 4(to Highs near 80.

longitude 73.9 west, or in the Gulf of Gonaives north of the western tip of the peninsula and about 115 miles west-northwest of Port Au Prince, Haiti’s capital. This position was slightly more than 600 miles southeast of Miami. The western mainland of Haiti and a shorter peninsula to the north still were taking a beating from hurricane-force winds and gales on the “strong” northeast side of the hurricane as Flora moved on toward the mountains ol Cuba’s Oriente Province, birthplace of Fidel Castro’s revolution. Guantanamo Bay is on the underside of Cuba near the eastern extremity of the island, on the weak side of Flora but probably still subject to a buffeting by fringe gales and heavy rains. Although weathermen said it was too early to be sure, south Florida appeared to be in the jclear barring an unexpected Awerve„to the west by Flora after it grossed the tip of Cuba.

Is Taken By Death Walter Bultemeier, 74,, retired farmer, and lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 4 p. m. Thursday at his home ill “Root township, seven miles north of Decatur. He had been in failing health three years and bedfast for the past five months. He was born in Preble township March 18, 1889, a son of Christian and Sophia Wefel-Bultemeier, and attended school at Preble. He was married to Clara Miller, May 7, 1916. The family moved to Root township in 1920. Mr. Bultemeier was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church. Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Wilbert (Alvina) Reinking of Hoagland route 1, and Mrs. Gerhard (Malinda) Bieberich of Decatur route 2; four sons, Edgar of Fort Wayne, Oswald of New Haven, Alfred of Fort Wayne, and Norvin of Decatur route 1; 15 grandchildren; two brothers, Martin of Allen county, and George of Preble: two half-brothers, Edwin of Hoagland, and Theodore of Preble township, and two halfsisters, Mrs. Fred (Edna) Selking of Hoagland, and Mr£ Walter (Lena) Neff of New Haven. One son, four brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 at St. John's Lutheran church. The Rev. E. A. H. Jacob will officiate, and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services. Albert Minger Dies Thursday Evening , Albert Minger, 83, of Geneva, a native of Switzerland, died at 7 p.m. Thursday at' the Adams county memorial hospital. Four daughters, 17 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren survive. The body was removed to the Hardy St Hardy funeral home in Geneva, where friends may call after 7:30 p.m. today. D. W. McMillen, Sr. Nominee For Award Dale W. McMillen, Sr., was announced Thursday as the Fort Wayne Jaycee candidate for the national fitness award — part of a national campaign to honor persons who have made significan contributions to city, state or national physical fitness efforts. McMillen was unable to attend the Jaycee meeting because of illness. A delegation of Jaycees called on him at his home and informed him of his nomination for the award.

i |UM| < MISSIONARY CHURCH INTERIOR after redecorating and additions completed, shows the fine structural quality of the main church building, the lighting, and the room for an average attendance of more than 200 each Sunday. While the new addition was being completed, the growing Missionary Church continued to send SSO each month to the Fort Wayne Bible College for missionary training; SSO a month tq the Loomis Missionary Church in Loomis, Mich., a small church; S9O a month to support Rev. William Gerig, a missionary to Africa, and additional funds for the general missionary fund of the church. The Rev. Gerald I. Gerig is pastor of the church; Mrs. Edward Summers, church secretary; Darrell L. Gerig, minister of music; Mrs. Mervin Rupp, organist; Mrs. Ralph Myers, plan-.. rst; Mervin Rupp, .custodian; Lester Strahm assists the pastor in his job as chairman of the official board; Darrell Gerig is board secretary, and Ralph Myers is board treasurer. Deacons are ZOarl McClure, Sr., Donald Sprunger. Robert Reynolds, and Mervin Rupp; trustees are Jack Rayer, Harry Gibson, and David Brown; Myron Hart is Sunday School supervisor.—(Photo by Mac Lean)

Youth Sentenced To Stale Boys' School A 16-year-old Decatur youth was sentenced to the Indiana boy’s school at Plainfield in a juvenile court hearing Thursday afternoon. Kenneth Linn Vore, of 515 W. Adams St., was sentenced to the boy’s school until he reaches the age of 21, after he was found to be a delinquent child by Judge Myles F. Parrish. Vore was taken into custody ■■ Wpl - xftor he had stolen an automobile in Decatur the preceding Saturday and driven to Michigan and later returned to Decatur. He drove the auto to Centreville, Mich., abandoned it there and later, when in Sturgis, Mich ,-stole a jeep truck and drove it back to Centreville. He then picked up the car owned by Homer Fickert. 437 Bollman, which he had stolen here, and returned in it to this city. He was picked up by city police a short time after abandoning the car on the Winchester road. He was in the custody of his parents when he made his weekend escapade, as a juvenile petition had already been filed against him in the-local juvenile court Less than two weeks before the car theft. Vore had been apprehended for the theft of an engineless bike from a local service station, and an engine from a piece of machinery in the garage of a Decatur resident. The matter was filed in juvenile court and he was released to the his parents, only to later steal the automobile,

Decafur Optimists Visit Gilpin Plant Members of the Decatur Optimist club were given a tour of the Gilpin Ornamental Iron plant yesterday after their regular weekly meeting, Thursday. Leading the tour were Hubert and Max Gilpin. The visitors were shown throughout the plant and the contsruction details of the iron-working process were explained. The company is now in its fourth location and twenty-sixth year of operation. Its work is partially seasonal and, depending on the time of the year, it employs between 10 and 35 workers. Peak production is reached during the summer work Special machines, some of them designed., by the firm, are used to bend and twist the iron bars and straps to the intricate shapes and twists used in the railings which (ho company produces ~, The company also manufactures mailbox stands and snowshovcls Its outlets are building materials jobbers, hardware jobbers mail order houses, pre-fab home builders and chain stores. Corydon Publisher Fatally Stricken CORYDON. Ind. (UPD —Robert C. Watson, 49, editor and publisher of the Corydon Republican a weekly newspaper, died Thursday in a hospital following a heart attack.

Dedicate Church Additions Sunday

Two additions recently completed at the Decatur Missionary church will be dedicated in a special service Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Speaker for the occasion will be the Rev. Tillman Habegger, president of the Missionary church association. Other features of the day will be a special general assembly of all Sunday School departments at 9 a m. when plans will be announced for a special six-weeks attendance crusade to begin one week from Sunday. At 10 a m. the Rev. Herald Welty former pastor of the local church, will bring the morning message. "Rev. Welty is presently serving as registrar of Fort Wayne Bible College. At 7 p.m. Sunday, a set of colored slides will be shown of the entire building project from its beginning to the completion this past week. The Missionary church began in Decatur in the fall of 1942, when a few people gathered together to hold services in one of the store buildings uptown. The average attendance reached a high of about 16 during the first two years of existence. Two years later the church moved to the library where services were held for some time. In the year of 1947, the church undertook its first real step of faith by purchasing lots in the north end of Decatur, across from the General Electric company. There they erected a basement church in 1947. In 1951 the group took another step and made plans for the erection of the superstructure. A bond Issue was then held and about $26,000 worth of bonds were sold to build the auditorium. In 1956 the congregation saw the need of building a parsonage for their minister and family. A home was built, just south of the present church at a cost of about $15,000. In November of 1960 the first letters were written to prospective architects for the planning of the new additions which have just been completed. Egrly in 1961 the firm of Martindale and Dahlgren, architects of Fort Wayne, was chosen to drawup the plans for the new additions. July 8,1962, groundbreaking serv ices were held following the. morning worship hour. The first spade of dirt was turned over by the chairman of the building committee, Lawrence VonGunten. In late July of 1962, work began by the Sol Schwartz Construction Co. in the building of the additions Work included the building of a Sunday school wing, 52’ x 43’, with a 20’ x 20' new entranceway to the north. The Bunday sc’iiool wing is two floors with 13 new classrooms, a nursery, two restrooms and a janitor's supply room. The south addition includes a 35* x 46’ addition with increased auditorium space, a new platform area Including a baptistry, and the basement housing two offices, a choir room, a classroom, and two new restrooms. The Sunday schoool department now has 23 classes with an average attendance of over 225. The morning worship hour averages over 200 and the Wednesday night prayer meeting

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averages over 100. The church has had four pastor; in its history. The first pastor was the Rev. Charles Glenn, who is now serving as a missionary. The second pastor was the Rev. Lyle Steiner, who is now pastoring in Cleveland, Ohio. The third pastor was the Rev. Herald Welty, who ministered in Decatur for ; nine years. The present pastor is the Rev. Gerald I. Gerig, who is now serving in his eighth year in Decatur. _ The building committee responsible for the erecting so the additions included: Lawrence VonGunten, chairman; Donald Sprunger, secretary; Robert Reynolds, treasurer, and Myron Hart. Harold Myers, Darrell Gerig, and Lester Strahm. The public is invited to attend the services Sunday. Max Schafer Dies After Long Illness Max Schafer Max Schafer, 76, former well known Decatur resident, died Thursday afternoon at a hospital at Terre Haute. Death i followed a lengthy illness of cancer. The family resides on route 6, Terre Haute. Mr. Schafer moved to Decatur in October of 1941 following his appointment as labor relations director for the Central Soya Co. in this city. While a resident of Decatur for a number of years, the family lived at the Homestead. " ffis' witte- served "as exeasttfi secretary for the Adams county chapter of the American Red Crossfor several years. Surviving are his wife, Juanita; two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Grantham of Beverly, N. J., and Mrs. Norman Leonardson, 830 North Noble street, Greenfield; one son, James Sdhafer of Terre Haute; nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday at the Thomas funeral home in Terre Haute.