Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 247.

Kennedy Asserts Nation Must Continue To Seek All Pathways To Peace

Plan Special Rules On Tax Problems

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — All governmental units, from the town board up to state agencies will be required to obtain a registered retail merchant’s certificate from the Indiana Department of Revenue to make purchases after the sales tax becomes effective. Deputy Revenue Commissioner Alex Ingram said today such certificates will be needed by all government, religious and fraternal organizations in order to be excempt from paying the tax in making purchases. The law provides they are to be exempt —but the law does not spell out the exact procedure. Ingram said it was decided a method whereby exempt organizations would obtain a number to be used by the seller was the best method. “I urge anyone making a purchase under an exempt transaction to apply for a registered retail merchant’s certificate,” Ingram said. “They can' then purchase freely without difficulty. It gives them the authority to issue an exempt certificate with a number. Suppliers will be wanting that number. Cites “Trouble Spots’’ “Such a number gives the seller more authority with which to support exempt sales, so this is what he looks for to protect himself.” Ingram said a number of “trouble spots” still remain to be worked but before the tax goes into effect Oct. 23—or as soon after that date as the Indiana Supreme Court verdict upholding the 2 per cent tax is certified back to the trial court. Ingram has asked for a ruling by the Indiana Attorney General on whether or not purchases made by welfare recipients on orders from the Welfare Depart-

U. S. Drought Is Worsening

By United Press Internationa} A severe, multi-million dollar drought stretching from Maine to Texas worsened today with little hope for immediate relief. The Weather Bureau said it appeared to be the worst drought in Ohio in 80 years. Hundreds of fires broke out, and 826 bombers from the Korean War were used to battle the flames in Arkansas. The Agriculture Department extended disaster designation to more Missouri counties. The bee industry faced financial ruin in Ohio. Scattered rain fell in some places, but sos the most part it only delayed the danger of fires for a few hours. The heaviest fall was 1.39 inches in Des Moines, lowa, just on the line .between the severe and moderate areas. The weather bureau said “severe” conditions stretched in a triangular shape from Maine through Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. To the north, from Michigan to the Dakotas, lay a “moderate” drought area; Woodlands were closed to the public in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Kentucky. Hunting and fishing were banned in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, and was curtailed in Minnesota and Tennessee. The Agriculture Department permitted farmers in Missouri to graze and take hay from soil bank acres. Fourteen fires burned 229 acres in Arkansas, and state forester Fred Lang said a wind “could put us in real trouble.”

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ment should be tax exempt. He pointed out he personally felt such welfare order purchases probably should be exempt, and that the number given to the Welfare Department on its registered, retail merchant’s certificate could be used to support the exempt sale. ; Another big worry—affecting most manufacturers and railroads, among others—apparently has been, solved by creating a new certificate to be called a “direct payment permit.’’ “Many manufacturers, railroads and others do not know at the time of purchase whether a certain purchase will be used in a taxable or an exempt way,’’ Ingram said. He gave as an example a drug-producing firm, which might use part of a purchase in manufacture of another item, and might use part of it for direct sale. Other Problems Seen Ingram said although a municipality is exempt from paying the tax for its purchases, any municipal utilities it operates must pay the tax and get a retail merchant’s certificate, under present interpretation. Ingram said the Revenue Department is trying to work out another problem—The door - todoor salesman—by having his wholesale supplier or the company he represents collect the tax for the future sale at the time the salesman buys the merchandise. Ingram said he felt progress toward putting the tax into effect was good. He said that within a few days special rules concerning contractors, florists, physicians and surgeons, restaurants and general retailers will be ready for distribution and will answer many of the questions now pouring in.

Physicians attending the Indiana State Medical Association convention said the drought may have been causing an unusual wave of respiratory infections. Bee Industry Threatened State tree nurseries in Ohio withheld shipments of reforestration stock. Ohio was in its 37th day without substantial rain, and apiarists said they faced disaster because the wild aster plants had stopped producing nectar for the bees. In Kentucky, Flemingsburg was down to one month’s supply of water with the town’s major industry facing shutdown. Firemen in northern Kentucky were plagued by brush fires, some of which appeared to have been set by vandals. The western Tennessee fire danger was 94 on a scale of 1 to 100, and 117 fires burned more than 1,200 acres of woodland in the state during the past five days. The Pennsylvania Forest Industries Committee said the drought and fires could affect 68,000 persons with an annual payroll of S3OO million in the timber industries. About 80 forest fires were burning in Pennsylvania, but all were believed under control. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and mild today with scattered showers and thundershofvers. Fair with little temperature change tonight and Sunday. Low tonight in 50s, high Sunday upper 70s. Outlook for Monday: Fair to partly cloudy with no important temperature changes.

ORONO, Maine (UPD—President Kennedy said today that the United States must continue to explore every possible pathway to peace but he warned that the road ahead “is long and hard, and full of traps and pitfalls.” The Chief Executive, who flew here from Washington earlier in the day, spoke at a special University of Maine convocation during which he received an honorary doctor of laws degree. “In times such as these,” Kennedy said, “there is nothing inconsistent about signing an atmospheric nuclear test ban, on the one hand, and testing underground on the other; about being willing to sell to the Soviets our surplus wheat while refusing to sell strategic items; about probing their interest in a ■ joint lunar landing while making a major effort to master this new environment; or about exploring the possiblities of disarmament while maintaining our stockpile of armaments.” * Have Single Goal He said all of these moves “and all other elements of American and allied policy toward the Soviet _Union, are directed at a single, comprehensive goal—namely, convincing the Soviet leaders that it is dangerous for them to impose their will and their system on other .unwilling peoples, and beneficial to them, as well as all the world, to join in the achievement of a genuine and enforceable peace.” Hie President said that the" “small advances” made in recent months toward relaxation of cold war tensions should not be interpreted as meaning that the Soviets “are abandoning their basic aims and ambitions” which are wholly different than those of the United States. “Nor should any future, less friendly Soviet action—whether it is a stoppage on the (Berlin) autobahn, or a veto in the U.N. Or a spy in our midst, or a hew trouble elsewhere—cause us to regret the steps we have taken,” he said. Works For Improvement Kennedy said that the United States could not maintain “the leadership and the respect of the free world” if it did not make “every reasonable effort to improve relations.” “Without our making such an effort, we could not convince our adversaries that was was not in their interest. And without making such an effort, we could never, in case of war, satisfy our own hearts and minds that we had done all that could be done to avoid that holocaust of endless death and destruction,” he said. The prepared speech, which he himself described as being given in “a context of calm and caution,” was his first since the Russians twice temporarily blockaded the Berlin autobahn, prompting fears, of a new cold war crisis. “It is clear that there will be (further disagreements between ourselves and the Soviets,” Kennedy said, "as well as further agreements. There will be setbacks in our nation’s endeavors on behalf of freedom as well' as successes. “For a pause in the cold war is not a lasting peace—and a detente does not equal disarmament,” he said. “The United States must continue to seek a relazation of tensions—but we have no cause to relax our vigilance.” NOON EDITION Appointed Pastor At Hoagland And Poe The Rev. Duane E. Spiers has been appointed pastor of the Methodist churches at Hoagland and Poe, and will preach his first sermons Sunday morning. Rev. Spiers, a native of Denver, Colo., has served Methodist churches in Muncie, Walton and Montmoenci, and spent the past summer in San Diego, Calif., where he was clinical supervisor for the pastoral counseling center.

' Decatur, Indiana. Saturday, October 19, 1963

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Telephone Head Is Optimists Speaker Charles Ehinger, manager of the Citizens Telephone company, gave a talk entitled “Communications” to the members of the Optimist club of Decatur this week. His talk dealt with the beginning and expansion of the company. He said that there are over 2,300 “independent” phone companies in operation in the United States as opposed to the erroneous public conception of two or three; large monoplies. He also pointed out that .the Citizens company • is active in radio, T. W. X. and teletype transmission systems operated in conjunction with it telephone service. The local company had its start in a hotel at the present location of the American Legion home. In 1894 the hotel proprietor installed a telephone line to the Erie passenger station for the convenience of his guests. From this beginning the system expanded to surrounding areas. Berne and Monroe joined the operation 'in 1917, and Pleasant Mills and Linn Grove came in shortly thereafter. The company now services 10,400 stations in various communities including Nappanee and New Corydon. Toll free dial service will be expanded to Wells county in 1964. Enters Guilty Plea To Theft Os Auto John Jesse Mendoza, 20-vear-old resident of 909 N. 12th St., pleaded guilty to a charge of auto theft before Judge Eschbach in federal court in Fort Wayne Friday. Mendoza was charged with interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle on August 23, after he had stolen a car owned by Jerry Kohne of Decatur early the morning of Sunday, August 18. A 16-year-old Decatur youth with Mendoza at the time of the auto theft wps turned over to juvenile authorities here. The two youths were apprehended after investigation by F. B. I. officer Don Birdwell and the Adams county sheriff’s department. They had stolen the Kohne car in Ohio around 2 a.m. and drove it to Indiana. The car was driven into a creek bed and heavily damaged, approximately SSOO. on county road 7, north of U. S. 224 in this county. Decatur Optimists At State Meeting The Decatur Optimist club was represented early this week at the state Optimist board meeting held each quarter at the Severin hotel in Indianapolis. James Cain, governor of the fifth district, was the main speik er at the noon banquet. Awards were given for outstanding accomplishment in the Optimist program. The local chapter placed second in zone 3 in total points accumulated. Decatur Optimists attending the meeting were Bill Baumann. Mel Tinkhani and Tom Sefton.

Cow Killed By Auto Early This Morning No one was injured but a cow was killed in a pair of accidents investigated by the sheriff's department and state police Friday evening and early this morning. A car driven by Max T. McNeal, 22, route 1, Monroeville, struck a cow owned by Oscar Wietfildt, on state road 101, four and one-half miles north of U- S. 224, at 12:45 a.m. today. McNeal was northbound and fDwted when he saw the cow in the roadway he applied the brakes of his vehicle. 1116 car skidded 210 feet and hit the cow, and continued on, carrying the animal on the front of the car, before leaving the road on the right side. McNeal’s 1963 model automobile suffered an estimated SI,OOO damage, while the cow was killed in the crash. Deputy sheriff Harold August and trooper Dan Kwasneski are continuing investigation of the crash. Car - Truck Crash At 6:45 p.m. Friday, a car and a truck collided at the city limits of Berne on U.'S. 27. Kenneth H. Spay, 20, of Tipton, was northbound and when he slowed to attempt a turn, his truck was struck in the rear by a northbound auto operated by Lana Lee Dubach, 22, of Linn Grove. Deputy sheriff Warren Kneuss, trooper Kwasneski and Berne police chief Don Grove, investigated, estimating damages at S2O to the truck and S3OO to the Dubach car. Benefit Horse Show Report Announced The final report on the retail division's benefit horse show, held last Sunday at Bellmont Park, was released this morning by general chairman Ferris Bower. According to Bower, the park grounds have been cleaned up and * all the horse show equipment stored away. again for their generous help which made the show one of the best of the season, according to mariy of our guests,” Bower said. He also extended his thanks to the “faithful to the end” who helped until the final clean-up task was completi>d, among them Joe Murphy. Morris Begun, Carl Braun, Chuck Stonestreet. Joe Spellman, Bill Sweere, George Litchfield and Doyle Rich. The Christmas light committee has already made arrangements to meet with respresentatiVes of a company in order that the new lights may arrive in time for the Christmas season, The committee . corßists of of Ralph Habegger, Phil Strickler, Carl Gerber, Herman Krueckeberg, Ed Hagen and Ferris Bower, who is chairman. New Elkhart County School Head Named GOSHEN, Ind. (UPI)' — The Elkhart County School Board Friday named Nelson C. Eaton, 49, to succeed the late Clyde Sutton, who died Oct. 2, as county -school superintendent Eaton has been principal at Wakarusa High School since 1948.

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New Cabinet Formed Today By Lord Home LONDON (UPI) »- Foreign Secretary Lord Home, a Scottish peer with a title three centuries old, was appointed prime minister today by Queen Elizabeth. The announcement of Home's royal appointment meant that he had managed to form a government despite dissension in the Conservative party ranks over his selection by retired Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Home announced he would resign his earldom and run for election in the House of Commons as Alexander DouglasHome. “We are going to work together and win the next election,” he told the crowd outside No. 10 Downing St. on his return from the palace. Home was expected to announce his cabinet by Monday. Home consulted party leaders Friday and today before forming a government and returning to Buckingham Palace, where he had been named as prime minister-designate Friday. Almost exactly 23 hours after he was asked by the queen to form • a new government, he sealed the appointment with a formal kissing of the queen’s hand, a tradition ’followed for hundreds of years. Home apparently overcame the resistance of three of the cabinet members he had edged out in the competition to succeed Macmillan. They were Deputy Premier R.A. Butler, Science Minister Lord Hailsham-, and Chancellor - of the Exchequer Reginald Maudlmg. The 60-year old Home, who served three years as Macmillan’s foreign minister, was opposed by many in the party because of his lack of practical political experience. But in a series of talks Friday and today, he apparently convinced the party powers that Macmillan was right in selecting him to lead the Conservatives in general elections which must be held in the next 12 months. Home spent more than an hour this morning with Butler, who had been the favorite to succeed Macmillan almost to the end. Butler's support was the key to Home's success in forming a cabinet. William W. Caston Dies Last Evening William W. Caston, 83, retired farmer of Ossian route 1. died al 5:45 o'clock Friday evening at the Davis nursing home in Bluffton, where he had been a patient one year. He had been in failing health for 18 months. Born near Poe Nov. 9, 1879, he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Caston. His wife the former Clara Fclgcr, preceded him ir. death in 1956. Mr: Caston was a member of St. Mark’s Lutheran church at Yoder. Surviving are three sons, John Caston of Fort Wayne, Earl Caston of Decatur route 1, and Frank Caston of Ossian route 1; 20 grandchildren, and a halfsister, Mrs. Harry Russell of Fort Wayne. Funeral serviced will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at St. Mark's Lutheran church at Yoder, the Rev. Robert Drew officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Elzey home for funerals at Waynedale after 7 pm. today until 12 noon Monday. The body will lie in state at the church from 1 p.m Monday until time of the services.

Decatur Catholic Senior Commended

One of the seniors at Decatur Catholic high school has been honored for his high performance on the national merit scholarship qualifying test *( NMSQT) given last spring. Each student, who is endorsed by his school receives a formal letter of commendation signed by his principal and the president of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Sister Julienne, the school's principal, has announced that the commended student is Frederick Schurger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Severin Schurger. John M. Stalnaker,( president of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation stated: "About 32.(XX) students throughout the country are being awarded letters of commendation in recognition of their outstanding performance on the qualifying test. Although they did not reach the status of semifinalists in the current merit program, they are so capable that we wish to call attention in this way to their achievement and academic promise. “The semi-finalists and commended students together constitute about two per cent of all high school seniors. This ceritainly signifies noteworthy accomplishment by all of these bright youngsters." The National Merit Scholarship Corporation gives recognition to two groups of students who achieve high scores on the NMSQT. The semifinalist group is composed of the highest-scoring students in each state and in U. S. territories. Some 13.(XX) semifinalists take a second examination to establish further their eligibility to receive merit scholarships. "We earnestly hope* that the commended students will continue their education." Stalnaker continued. "By doing so they will benefit both themselves and the nation. "The letters of commendation

Renew Fight Along Border

ALGIERS (UPI> — Algerian and Moroccan troops have resumed fighting along the disputed border between their two countries in the Sahara Desert, reliable reports said here today. They said the latest firing, was in the Tinnjoub and Hassi Beida region about 1,000 miles southwest of here where hostilities began last week . No further information was available immediately and there was no news of_ the situation near the village of Ich, 560 miles north of the original battlefront, where Morocco accused Algeria Friday of opening a new front. Algeria denied Moroccan charges of opening a new front in the week-long border dispute and moved to line up international moral support. President Ahmed Ben Bella sent his chief negotiator, Mohammed Yazid, to New York for a meeting with United Nations Secretary General Thant and talks with U.S. government officials in Washington. ,‘‘l am. going to the United States—to New York, the United Nations, and- to Washington—on a mission of explanation and information on the AlgerianMoroccan events," Yazid said during a stopover in Paris Friday night.

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provide tangible recognition of their high ability. We urge the students honored today to make every effort to attend college, and to develop to the fullest their promise of achievement." To increase their opportunities to obtain financial assistance if they need it, the merit corporation sends the names, home addresses. and test scores of all commended students to the two colleges the indicated as their preferred choices at the time they took the qualifying test. Other special services are also performed by NFSC in an effort to increase the scholarship opportunities of commended students and semi finalists. The commended students were among the high school juniors in approximately 16,500 schools who took the NMSQT last March. The test is a three-hour examination that covers five separate areas of educational development. It was the first step In the ninth annual merit program. This year’s program will conclude about April 3, 1964. with the naming of students who will receive four-year merit scholarships to the colleges of their choice. The commended students and the semifinalists who do not win for certain other scholarships that fnerit scholarships are considered are offered through the facilities of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. The annual merit scholarship competition is open to all high schools in the United States and its territories. There are more than 4.000 merit scholars currently enrolled in about 400 colleges and universities. Nearly 7.500 merit scholars have been appointed to date. Scholarship awards are made from the resources of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and through sponsoring business corporation, foundations, colleges, unions, trusts, professional associations, and individuals.

Early Morning Rain Reported In State By United Press International A new round of scattered showers and thundershowers hit drought-stricken Indiana today. Early-morning rain was reported in South Bend, Lafayette and Kokomo amid indications many other points will get bad-ily-needed precipitation before the day is over. But no additional rainfall was predicted for Sunday or Monday. It was the third day in a row that scattered rain hit Indiana, but it was too early to tell whether it signaled the end of a record drought period that started in the middle of August. For the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m., the Chicago area reported .43 of an inch precipitation, South Bend .16, Fort Wayne .04 and Lafayette .11. Temperatures Friday soared to the mid-SOs, with Evansville reporting 85. then dropping 43 degrees to 42 there. Elsewhere around the state overnight lows were mostly in the 50s.