Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 249.

Aerial Ferry Underway For 16,000 Troops For ‘Operation Big Lift’

Vote Registration Lower In Decatur

There are 4,290 persons registered to vote in November’s city election .more than 300 less than were eligible to vote in the city election four years ago, according to figures released this morning by county clerk Richard Lewton. In 1959, 4,624 were registered to vote in the city election, which is 334 more than were registered for this year’s city election, Tuesday, Nov. 5. This year’s total of registered voters is also 547 less than were registered to vote in the fall election of 1962. Berne has 1,609 registered to vote this year, 39 less than were registered for the 1959 city election. 1-A Highest 1-A foas the highest total of registered voters in the city’s 11 precincts and nearly 100 more than the next highest. 'This precinct includes Park View Drive and the Faurote addition and Bollman streets. The 1-A precinct has 579 registered to vote Nov. 5, and 2-A is the next highest with 484. Precinct 2-A include Stratton Place. Three other precincts have more than 400 registered to vote, which are 3-B, 459; 3-A, 455; and 1-D, 425.

Award Contract For Ceylon Bridge Work

Sol Schwartz Construction company, of Bluffton, was awarded the contract for repair of the Ceylon covered bridge at Monday’s meeting of the Adams county commissioners. The company was the only bidder for the repair work, which includes new roofing and aiding for the old bridge. Its bid was $4,990. The specifications for the repairs call for all work to be done “so as to conform as nearly as possible to the original lines and general appearance of the original structure. Sheriff Roger .Singleton appeared at the meeting to discuss with the commissioners to purchase of a new squad car for his department. The commissioners gave their approval and the specifications for the car will be legally advertised in the near future. Bids w*ill be received and opened Tuesday, November 12, at the commissioners’ meeting. The 1960 Plymouth which the department now has will be traded in on the n£w car. Singleton requested a car of “at least 300 horsepower” because on occasion speeders have been able to outrun the present car. A special electronic siren will also be installed on the new car. Singleton also secured the per* mission of the commissioners to put 35 mile per hour speed limit signs on the Bellmont road and to post “no shooting" signs in the vicinity of the Lewton bridge about five miles northwest of Decatur. The commissioners spent part of the day in an unsuccessful search for a polling place for voting district 1-D. None was found, although several possibilities were uncovered. The commissioners and county auditor Ed Jaberg set November 12 as the meeting date for a special session of the county council. At that time the council will review the requests of any county departments which wish to have additional appropriations or fund transfers. A petition from the Northern pair of the Sherry ditch and brush clearing and repair of the Reinhart ditch was forwarded by the commissioners to county surveryor Herman Moellering. Both ditches are in the Preble area. A petition fro mthe Northern

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The six other precincts and the persons eligible to vote in each are as follows: Decatur-Root, 371; 1-B, 328; E-C, 316; 3-C ,302 ; 2-C, 288; and 2-B, the lowest, with 283 registered. Just One Up The 1-A precinct is the only one of the eleven that shows an increase in registered voters from the 1959 general election for the city offices. Its increase is a big 113 over four years ago. 3-A shows the largest decrease from four years ago, 76, and 2-B shows a decrease of 72. Others decreasing were: 1-B, 37; 1-C, 55; 1-D, 54; 2-A, 53; 2-C, 26; 3-B, 12; 3-C, 37; Decatur- Root, 25. Following are the registered voters for each precinct, listing this fall, the fall election of last year and the fall election of 1959: 1963 1962 1959* 1-A 579 565 466 1-B 325 403 365 1-C 316 364 371 1- 425 499 479 2- 484 578 537 2-B 283 338 355 2- 288 310 314 3- 455 Jl2 531 3-B 459 501 471 Dec.-Root 371 452 396 TOTALS 4,290 4,837 4,624

Indiana Public Service company for permission to lay a gas line in the vicinity of “county road 600" caused some consternation at the meeting, since Adams county roads are numbered only as high as 40. A couple of long distance phone calls and a few questions disclosed, however, that the work site was actually in Wells county, which uses a different numbering system. Gus Mann, of near Geneva, appeared at the meeting to request paving of sections of county roads 35 and 24 near his home. He sai<| that the residents on those roads would be willing to bear the cost of blacktopping if the county would pave the road. The commissioners agreed to consider paving the road next spring as part of the dust-control program, wherein landowners bear the paving expense of about 14 cents a foot. A petition 'to pave one mile of county road 30 between road 20 and state highway 118 was presented by Marcus Luginbill, Howard Teeter, Kenneth Beer, and Alvie Teeter, all of route 2, Berne. Th petition was signed by 82 persons. Paving of the road was requested because the Maple Grove church is located on it. The county has always tried to furnish rural churches with a blacktop road wherever possible The commissioners took the petition under advisement. Surprise Farewell For County Agent A “surprise” farewell party was held this morning in the county extension office for Leo N. Seltenright, Adams county agricultural agent, who recently announced his resignation to take the job of county agent for administration in Elkhart county. The party was an open house affair for all county office workers, held by Seltenright’s co-workers in the extension office at Court and Third streets. . The surprise party turned out to be just that as Seltenright was reportedly completely surprised Coffee and doughnuts were served. Seltenright’s resignation is effective Wednesday, Oct. 30. The Adams county extension Committee is still searching for a new agent to fill the vacancy.

BULLETIN FRANKFURT (UPI) —The first C 135 jet transport of Operation Big Lift landed at 5:35 p. m. (12:35 p. m. EDT) today at Frankfurt’s RhineMain, U. S. Air Force Base after a 5,600 mile flight from Bergstrom Air Base in Texas. FT. HOOD, Tex. (UPD—Sleek military jetliners and barrelbellied transports streaked across the turbulent Atlantic from Texas to West Germany today in an aerial ferry for 16,000 Gl’s, including an entire armored division, that was working “like clockwork.” Within six hours after the first jet thundered off a runway at Bergstrom Air Force Base at Austin, Tex., the Army, Air Force and Military Air Transport Service (MATS) had started 1,863 troops of the 2nd Armored (Hell on Wheels) Division on their way to Frankfurt in exercise “Big Lift.” It was the biggest transatlantic aerial armada of troops ever attempted. Six C 135 jet transports, four Cl3O prop-driven transports and 18 C 124 Globemasters were in the vanguard. Platoons of planes were leaving every hour from four bases in Texas. Each plane carried an average of 84 persons including 72 soldiers, 9 crewmembers and 3 newsmen. "Very Well Pleased” The start of the 72-hour operation “went like clockwork,” a spokesman at Ft. Hood command headquarters said. “We are very well pleased with the way things are going right now, everything is on schedule,” he said. The 13,000 men of the 2nd Armored (Hell on Wheels) Division from Ft. Hood, Tex. and 3.000 supporting troops from Ft. Sill, Okla., Ft. Benning, Ga., and Ft. Campbell, Ky., began flying out from four Texas air bases at 157 a.m. EDT as part of Exercise Big Lift. Planes took off hourly through the night and into the day. Destination: Frankfurt, Germany, 5600 miles away, Gl’s wearing winter uniforms against the chill of October in West Germany despite the sum-mer-like temperatures in central Texas piled aboard planes with duffle bags, rifles and helmets. An Air Force band tooted a farewell at Bergstrom AFB in Austin as the lead plane, a military version of the 707 Boeing jetliner, thundered off the runway with division commander Edwin H. Burba and Gen. Paul D. Adams of Mac Dill AFB, Fla., the “strike force” over-all commander. Taking 73 Hours The entire operation was to take 73 hours, with planes leaving from Connally AFB at (Continued on Page 5) . Pearl Henneford Dies In Michigan Mrs. Pearl Henneford, 78, of Vera Cruz, died Sunday at Grand Raoids, Mich. She was born in Wells county April 21, 1885, a daughter of Emanuel and Martha Heller-Heche. She was married in 1911 to Martin H. Henneford, who preceded her in death in 1947, Mrs. Henneford was a member of the St. John’s United Church of Christ at Vera Cruz. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Orval (Marjorie) Schorey of Grand Rapids, Mich.; a son, Don Henneford of Yakima, Wash.; two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Richey of Bluffton, and Mrs. Charles Studler of Fort Wayne; four brothers, Roland Heche of Yoder and Hobart, Harry and Laverne Heche, all of Lake Webster, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton, the Rev Robert Oleson and the Rev. H. H. Meckstroth officiating. Burial will be in Six Mile cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 22, 1963.

Negro Pupils Boycott School

CHICAGO (UPD—Negro children boycotted Chicago public school by the thousands today in a “freedom day” protest against alleged de facto segregation. A throng of 10,000 persons was scheduled to demonstrate in the city’s Loop during the evening rush hour as part of the daylong protest against the Chicago school system and its controversial superintendent, Benjamin C. Willis. Pickets were in force at the Board of Education downtown building early today, carrying signs denouncing Willis. Extra police squads patroled South Side areas where violence has broken out between white and Negro youths during the past few days. Mrs. Irene Turner, speaking from the South Side boycott headquarters, said there were more than 30,000 children reported participating in the boycott. Mrs. Turner said her organization had received reports at that hour from 40 schools, less than 25 per cent of the 181 participating schools listed where participation was expected. “We heard that there was no Black Sambo Read in Class.” School,” Mrs. Turner said, “and at* Wadsworth School there were three children out of an enrollment of 1,600.” An official at DuSable, however, said: “There are pupils in school.” Then he hung up the telephone, refusing to comment further. Other school officials conceded that their classrooms were all but emptied. Children who boycotted the jjublic schools were urged to go to “freedom schools” instead. At the “freedom schools” children sang “freedom and were taught history lessons which dealt primarily with Negro figures in American history such as Cris pu s Attucks, George Washington Carver and Harriet Tubman.

City's Water Wells In Good Condition Ralph E. Roop, city engineer and water superintendent, said this morning that this city’s nine wells are in “good shape,", despite the continued drought. There are seven wells pumping, according to Roop, and two that are kept in reserve. Wells 7, 8. 9. 11, 12, 13, and 14, are pumping, while wells 10 and 15 are reserves. There are no devices to measure the levels of the water in the wells, but a close check is kept on the seven pumping ’each day and any problems would be noticed immediately, Roop stated. Each day the wells are checked for pounds of pressure, amount of chlorine, etc., and a report made on each. Million A Day The veteran water department head said that Decatur’s wells pump nearly a million gallons of water per day, as evidenced by September’s report showing 27.416,700 gallons pumped. The report on the first three weeks of September shows 6,357,400 gallons were pumped the first week. 6,516,500 the second week and 6,361. 500 the third week, or nearly 7 million gallons a week. Each of the nine wells is 400 feet deep, or thereabouts. Roop said, and the static level of each varies from 32 to 36 feet under normal conditions.

At the downtown Board of Education offices, 40 Negroes of high school age picketed carrying placards reading “WillisWallace — What’s the Difference?” and “No More Little Black Sambo Read in Calss.” The students said they were members of the Students Advocates of Negro History and planned to attend “freedom schools” after their demonstration. A spokesman, Harold Jones, said “we are petitioning for the rewriting of social studies textbooks so that the Negro is included. Then and only then will whites be able to shed their feeling of false superiority.” At the center of the controversy was Schools Supt. Benjamin C. Willis, the second highest paid public official in the nation. Willis resigned his $48,-500-a-year post and then withdrew his resignation in a storm of criticism. .. Lawrence Landry, Boycott leader and co-chairman of the Chicago Area Friends of the Student Non - Violent Coordinating Committee, said the retention of Willis by the School Board was “conceived in ignorance and dedicated to the proposition that cynical politics shall reign supreme.” The school board, he said, “has issued an overt and public insult to those of us who seek high-quality, integrated schools in Chicago.” The call to action by civil rights groups came on the heels of two new developments in the city’s uneasy racial situation. More than 60 youths— most of them Negroes — were arrested Monday in connection with an outbreak of violence against whites near a predominantly Negro high school on Chicago's South Side. Fourteen of those arrested were held overnight in jail. On the legal front, 20 Negro parents resumed a v court battle Monday to force racial integration of public schools. *

Ladies Speakers At Lions Club Meeting Mrs. Patsy Leaders, county home demonstration agent, and Mrs. Merl Kuhn, president of the Adams county home demonstration clubs, spoke to the Decatur Lions club in their weekly meeting Monday evening. The meeting was held at the Four Seasons restaurant, with Dick Mies, president, presiding. Roy Price was the program chairman. The two ladies!' reviewed the history of the home demonstration program, which was organized in 1923, and explained there are now 26 clubs with over 600 members in Adams county. Mrs. Leaders arid Mrs. Kuhn said that information helpful to young mothers and homemakers is presented at- the meetings, ; of each home demonstration club, and everything done by the clubs is of an educational nature. They also discussed other functions of the home demonstration clubs, and their duties as agent and president of the clubs. All Schools Close Thursday, Friday All Decatur and Adams county public and parochial schools will be closed Thursday and Friday to enable teachers to attend the annual state teachers’ conventions, which will be held on those days. Most Adams county teachers are expected to attend the Fort Wayne convention, but some will attend the meetings in other cities in the state.

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Await Petition For Rehearing On Sales Tax By Union Head

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana Supreme Court chief justice and the Marion County clerk were expected to stay on duty past the usual quitting time today to expedite the effective hour for collection of the state’s new two per cent sales tax. But indications that Chief Justice Wajter Myers, Jr., will remain in his office beyond normal closing time did not mean the tax is certain to become effective at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. It all depends, it appeared today from the guarded comments of Myers, on what is contained in a petition due to be filed around 3 p.m. with the court by the Indiana AFL-CIO. The petition will ask for a reMrs. Calvin Caston Reported Improved A report late Monday afternoon on the condition of Mrs. Calvin Caston was that she had “taken a turn for the better.” Earl Caston, assistant "cashlbr at the First State Bank, said about 5 o'clock Monday afternoon that his daughter-in-law had taken a turn for the better earlier in the afternoon. Caston had returned to Decatur from the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis for the funeral services for his father in Waynedale. Robert Beery, father of the injured local woman, also returned, but both were to return to Indianapolis today. Their wives remained at the hospital. The young Castons, married Friday Friday evening, were injured in a car-truck accident Sunday morning in Indianapolis. Internal Injuries Mrs. Caston, the former Ruth Ann Beery, suffered spleen, fiver and other internal injuries, a fractured pelvis and other broken bones. Her husband received a compound fracture of the jaw, among other injuries. Caston was conscious, and his bride had regained consciousness Monday afternoon when doctors said she had “taken a turn for the better," ■ The couple had left for a short honeymoon to southern Indiana Friday evening and were enroute back to Decatur for the funeral services for his grandfather Monday when the accident occurred. HR Broadside The mishap occurred when Caston made a left turn into a restaurant. An auto in front of him had turned also, but stopped upon entering the restaurant lot, forcing Caston to stop also, only ip the middle of the street. A pick-up truck, whose driver apparently did not see the Caston car. smashed it 'broadside. The truck had a wench on its front bumper, and tore the Caston car wide open. Mrs. Caston was pinned in the wreckage for some time, and when finally freed was rushed to the Indianapolis hospital for immediate surgery.

hearing on the court's ruling that the sales tax law is constitutional. Myers would say only that he probably would be “working a little late today.” Asked if an opinion would be prepared or a denial quickly issued. Myers said “We can't say. We’ll have to see if it raises any new questions.” i Marion County Clerk Edwin McClure said he will “stay open until midnight if necessary” to handle the legal requirements for speedy certification of the high court’s ruling after the AFL-CIO petition is filed. Indiana AFL-CIO President Dallas Sells said that whenever the Indiana Supreme Court denies the rehearing, the case will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. However, Sells has indicated no effort will be made to stop collection of the tax while waiting for word from the U.S. court. Meanwhile, the Indiana Revenue Department, which has worked full tilt ever since Marion Circuit Court Judge John Niblack's injunction against the tax was lifted by the state court’s ruling, continued answering -thousands of questions about the tax ‘ Tax Questions Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney said these were the questions most often asked and the answers: Q—When does the tax go into effect? A—At one minute past midnight Wednesday; providing the Indiana Supreme Court comes to a rapid decision concerning a rehearing and certifies it back to the Marion Circuit Court. If not, then 12:01 a.m. the day after certification. Q —How is a retail merchant supposed to keep track of the under 25-cent sales which are not subject to the tax? A—ls you have a business with many sales below the tax threshold, it is advisable to keep , accurate - records during an adequate test period then a latio can be worked which will be useable in the future. Q —What is considered an adequate test period? A—The Department of Revenue suggests two weeks out of each three months for a year. Why Exempt Q—Why should farming, manufacturing. transportation and newspapers be exempt from the

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tax? A—This is to prevent pyramiding of the tax. For example, it a farmer were to pay tne tax when he buys tomato plants, the cannery when it buys the tomatoes from the farmer and the food broker when he buys the catsup produced by the canner this would make the tax finally collected from the consumer by the grocery, eight per cent in1 stead of two. i - Q—Why should an exempt, person or organization be required to obtain a certificate? A—So they would have no difficulty making purchases. The certificate provides the seller the official number he needs to justify his exempt sales. Q —What is to keep someone from falsely, claiming exempt statue? A—Prosecution for perjury, Rule of Thumb Q —ls there any rule of thumb to determine on what transaction the tax should be collected? A—ls a tax upon tangible property and is collectible from the ultimate consumer. For example. a beauty shop would not collect a tax for a shampoo and set but would collect it upon -a lipstick or can of w»ve - set. . Q —Will the tax be collectible upon the commercial sales of exempt organizations such as governmental units, churches, schools, fraternal organizations and scientific groups? A—Yes, if the sale is competition with taxpaying retail merchants. Q—Where are the definitions for wholesale, retail, exempt and other terms used in the sales tax law to be found? A—They are in the 1933 gross income tax law which was amended by the sales tax and has not been repealed. Court decisions on the 1933 law are still pertinent to the present law. f WEATHER Fair tonight. Wednesday continued fair and unseasonably warm. Low tonight In the 50s. High Wednesday 78 to 87. Sunset today 5:58 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:93 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Mostly fair and continued unseasonably warm. Lows in the 50s. Highs in the 80s.

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