Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 250, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1963 — Page 1

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Deny Rehearing Os Sales Tax Ruling

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Operation Big Lift Ahead Os Schedule -< <

FRANKFURT, Germany (UPI) — Despite/ fog and rain, operation “Big Lift” was reported running several hours ahead of schedule today in carrying more than 17,000 American soldiers to Europe. As some West Germans expressed skepticism about the effectiveness and aims of the massive aerial transport exercise, a murky autumn fog closed down the field at Thein - Main U.“S. Air Force base from midnight to noon. But the Air Force diverted five of six C 135 jet transports to Ramstein Air Force Base here in Germany, and sent a sixth to Mildenhall Air Base in England, , When the Rhein-Main base reopened at noon (7 a.m. EDT), another C 135 landed smoothly. By this hour, about 2,500 men of the 2nd Armored Division had been flown from Fort Hood, Tex., to Europe. Plans call for the entire 14,500 man 2nd Armored Division and about 3,000 supporting troops from other posts in the United States to have completed their transatlantic aerial journey by midnight Thursday. The U. §. Army at Ft. Hood said by 8 a.m. EDT today 145 huge air transports had left Texas for Germany carrying 10,855 troops. The last takeoff of the giant aerial armada will be made at 4 a.m. EDT Thursday. Ahead Os Schedule An Air Force spokesman said that, despite the fog that shut down Rhein - Main for some hours, the airlift still was running ahead of schedule. • West German Defense Minister Kai Uwe Van Hassel was TWO SECTIONS Local Man's Father Dies At Fort Wayne Charles E. SCastle, 86, of 1642 Sinclair street. Fort Wayne, died Tuesday morning at the Parkview memorial hospital, where he had been a patient five days. Mr. Castle, a lifelong resident of Allen county, was employed as a conductor by the Pennsylvania railroad prior to his retirement. He was a member of the First Missionary church and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railroad Conductors. Surviving are a daughter, Dorothy, with whom he resided; five sons, Charles D. and William Castle, both of Fort Wayne. Glenn A. Castle of Decatur, Frank B. Castle of Stanton, Mich., and George E. Castle of Big Rapids, Mich.; a sister, Mrs. Ida Nichols of Wichita, Kan.; 21 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Funeral rites will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the D. 0. McComb & Sens funeral home, the Rev. Cornelius Vlot officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

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flying from Bonn to inspect, the complex Rhein-Main landing operation. He was to be accompanied by U. S. ambassador to West Germany George McGhee. Hassel and McGhee then were to fly to Ramstein and Kaiserslautern to observe the “link - up” between arrived troops and their heavy Weapons and vehicles. Hassel has expressed keen interest in Big Lift, whose effectiveness and aims are being closely questioned in West Germany. Anxiety persists that the air mobility demonstration is the forerunner to reduction of U. S. forces on the continent. In Bonn, the government has asked for official clarification of U.S. intentions about future troop deployments. Concern was spurred by state- 1 ments of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara ahd Deputy Secretary Roswell L. Gilpatric about how Big Lift illus- 1 trates U.S. ability to project military power overseas in a hurry. Over 17,000 Troops In Big Lift, the 14,500 - man 2nd Armored Division, plus about 3,000 support troops, is being flown into West Germany in three days. Extensive maneuvers will follow. Success of- the operation, it is commonly supposed, could point the way to methods where by the United States could hus- ( band more of its forces at home and rapidly deploy them whereever trouble develops about the globe. At Fort Hood, Tex., marshalling area for the exercise, and at Rhein-Main Air Base, main landing point in Germany, U.S. Army and Air Force generals have seemed puzzled, if not dazed, by the persistence and forcefulness of foreign correspondents’ questions about troop reductions. Usually, the officers have retreated behind the line that those were political questions—that they were simply showing in Big Lift how fast they could “reinforce” U.S. and Allied forces abroad. The criticisms have taken these main lines: • Prelude To Withdrawl —Big Lift is the prelude to American withdrawl of forces on an as yet unspecified scale that would permit President Charles de Gaul(p of France to say "I toki you so” to those who opposed his determined efforts to create national nuclear forces. —Even with the speed of transocean air mobility being illustrated in Big Lift, American troops might arrive too late on the outbreak of a big war in Central Europe. They might find no bases to land on. —ls the troops are to be kept in the United States and flown here in vast numbers every time there is international tension, such an act would have the effect of raising tensions rather than easing them. Some American answers have .been that it is premature to see a connection between Big Lift and troop reductions, that air mobility is for “reinforcement” rather than substitution for overseas forces, and that there is usually a slow build up of tensions that enables troops to be moved into trouble areas. «a * «

Horse And Chickens Killed In Accidents . A horse was killed in a Tuesday evening accident and several chickens in another mishap a short time later. Alvin C. Christner, 17, route 2, Berne, was arrested for failure to have a license plate on his buggy,- following an accident at 7 p.m. two miles south of Berne which involved the buggy, a car and a truck. Christner was driving his buggy south on U. S. 27 and was struck in the rear by a car driven by Frank Simon, 47, of 255 N. Jefferson St., Berne. Simon said he did mt-see the buggy until it was too late to Stop in time to avoid hitting it in the rear. After the crash, which demolished the buggy, the horse was scared and ran on down the highwav and a mile and a half away and ran head-on into a semitrailer truck driven by William G. Mills. 43, of Lima, O. Millls was northbound and said he did not see the horse until justbefore it ran into the front of the truck. The horse was killed from the impact, which caused an estimated SBOO damage to the truck. Deputy sheriff Harold August investigated the accident, which saw the buggy driver escape without injury. The Simon car received approximately $250 damage . At 9:50 p.m. Tuesday, a creteload of chickens were spilled onto the St. Mary’s river bridge on the Monmouth road and into the river below. Paul Allen Springer, 32, of route 2. Grabill, was southbound on the Monmouth road just north of Decatur. He said a car parked along the road had its headlights on and blinded him, causing him, not to see the bridge until he was upon it. He swerved the truck, which was loaded with live chickens, and missed the bridge with the exception of a crate which caught a corner of the north end of the bridge. The crate fell off and the chickens were spilled all over the bridge and some down into the water. Deputy sheriff August investigated again, and said the truck received about SIOO damage from the. slight impact. A third accident occurred at 6:15 this morning on the Piqua road seven miles south and east of Decatur. HaroM M. Swygart, 39, of route 5, Decatur, was traveling west when he failed to see an approaching curve due to the poor visibility at that time of the morning. His auto failed to negotiate the curve and instead went into a driveway at the William Workinger farm, route 5, Decatur. The auto, struck a farm wagon and elevator shaft, damaging both. Deputy sheriff Warren Kneuss investigated, and estimated damage to the Swygart car at $l5O. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and continued unseasonably warm tonight and Thursday. Ixrw tonight 48 to 60. High Thursday in the 80s. Sunset today 5:55 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 7:05 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Continued fair and unseasonably warm. Lows in the 50s. Highs 78 to 88.

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State Sales Tax To Become Effective At Midnight Tonight

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana Supreme Court today turned down two petitions for rehearing of its decision the state two per cent sales tax is constitutional and paved the way for collection of the tax at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Chief Justice Walter Myers, Jr., announced that the entire court studied “carefully” both petitions presented by Dallas Sells, president of the Indiana AfL-CIO, and Indiana Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers. Myers said the judges “have come to the conclusion there are no new questions that we would need to go into.” “The petitions are denied and the earlier ruling is affirmed,” Myers said. “The lower court is directed to dissolve the injunction.” The reference to the injunction was an order issued last June 14 by Marion Circuit Judge John L. Niblack who ruled the tax law enacted by the 1963 Legislature was Uncon- ■ stitutional and prohibited the state from collecting the tax beginning July 1, as the legislature had intended. Niblack ruled in a suit brought by Sells, who recently announced he would carry the case to the U.S. Supreme Court it the Indiana Supreme Court rejected a rehearing petition. Myers said the certification of the constitutionality of the tax law would be delivered to the Marion County clerk’s office early this afternoon, giving Clerk Edwin McClure plenty of time to make it official and permit the collection of the tax 24 hours later than originally was planned. When the high court ruled on the constitutionality Oct. 2, it ordered the state, to hold up enforcement of the law for 20 days to await petitions for rehearing. Officials had planned to begin collecting the tax early this morning, but Sells elected to wait until the last minute to file his petition Tuesday afternoon, and Steers entered a surprise petition half an hour later, thwarting the court’s obvious intentions to clear the legal hurdles before nightfall Tuesday and permit the tax to be collected as planned originally. Steers, who was a party in the sales tax battle which led to a ruling of constitutionality by the Indiana Supreme Court Oct. 2, had said at first he did not plan to ask for a rehearing. But Tuesday he filed one, about a half-hour after the Indiana AFLCIO had filed theirs, and told newsmen he felt there were two major questions which should be settled in a rehearing opinion by the high court. The court was in session when union president Dallas Sells filed his request, which it was expected to deny, and appeared to be about ready to announce a decision when Steers dropped his bombshell. Presents New Questions After Steers filed his request. Chief Justice Walter Myers Jr. told newsmen that it “presents some new questions” and said the judges would study the petitions overnight and try to meet again this morning. Myers also noted that other parties in the case had until midnight Tuesday to file requests for rehearing and that it was possible briefs in support of the requests could be filed by the deadline. No such briefs were filed, however. The sales tax was scheduled to go into effect at 12 01 am. today but it cannot until the high court denies a rehearing and certifies its action to Marion County Clerk Edwin McClure. State Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney has said that the effective time of the tax • will be 12:01 a m. on the day following certification by the court. That means thQ earliest the tax will go into effect will be Thursday. The epurt’s indecision Tuesday appeared to be based on the major questions raised by Steers and not those mentioned by Sells. Two Questions Steers questioned whether a bill can legally become law if less than 25 members of the Senate voted for it and whether

retail merchants are entitled to keep part of their tax collections as compensation for their work as collection agents. The AFL-CIO petition alleged the sales tax violated the state and federal constitutions. The petition was planned as a basis for a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme - Court if the state court again upholds the validity of the tax. Sells already has announced such an appeal will be made if the state court denies the rehearing. He said, however, that no attempt would be made to prevent collection of the tax

Alert Florida For Hurricane

MIAMI (UPI) — Florida’s East Coast from Cape Canaveral to Fort Lauderdale was placed on a hurricane watch today for Maverick storm Ginny which showed no signs of turning its 75 mile an hour winds away from the mainland. “There is a possibility that hurricane conditions may affect a portion of this coastal area (watch area) within 24 hours”, the weather bureau warned in an 41 a.m. advisory. Persons in the watch area were urged to keep posted on weather reports “consider precautions and safeguards and be ready for quick action if hurricane warnings are issued later today,” the advisory said. The hurricane was centered about 155 miles east of the nation’s big missile center at Cape Canaveral. It was moving toward the southwest at 8 10 Bands March In Halloween Parade Ten bands, including those from the two Decatur high schools, will march in the Callithumpian parade Halloween evening, it was announced this morning by general chairman Kenneth Shannon. Eight of the bands will be competing for three cash prizes to be awarded by the retail division, as the Decatur high and Decatur Catholic bands are not eligible to win the prizes. Four other high schoolls in Adams county will have bands competing, Monmouth, Geneva, Adams Central and Berne. The other bands come from Parkway Local high school, Rockford, O.; Hoagland high schoool, Ossian high school and Southern Wells high school in Wells county. Two Junior Bands In addition, Berne ahd Adams Central have said their junior bands will also march in the parade, although they will not be competing for the cash awards. A SSO first prize will be awarded by the judges, who will be named later, with $25 going to the runner-up and sls to the third place band, The high school bands will be' only one feature of the annual Callithumpian parade. Others will be floats, 1964 and antique automobiles, implements and masked ghosts, skeletons, hobboglins and other Halloween creatures. Record Hop Planned Shannon also announced that plans arh underway also for a record-hop to follow the? parade, probably on Second St. Further details will be announced shortly. The parade will begin at 8 o’clock Thursday evening, Oct. 31, starting from the jail and wending its way down Second street before the usual turnout of hundreds of local and area residents. All floats, bands and masked characters have been requested ■ to be at the Adams county jail at First and Jefferson streets no later than 7:30 p.m.

pending such an appeal. The AFL-CIO originally challenged the tax in Marion Circuit Court and Judge John L. Niblack ruled in June that it was unconstitutional. That ruling, appealed by Governor Welsh and Courtney, blocked the original July 1 starting date for the tax. The Indiana Supreme Court, however, ruled earlier this month that the major part of the tax was constitutional although the court knocked out some portions of it. Following that ruling, Courtney set today as the effective date for the tax.

m.p.h. Cape Canaveral began battening down for a big blow. Emergency crews at the $1 billion launching center lashed down giant rockets standing on their launch pads and other equipment that could be tossed about by high winds. “Hurricane Ginny is expected to continue toward the sotfthwest at the same or slightly slower rate this afternoon and early tonight," weathermen said. “This will result in increasing winds along the Florida East Coast. Unless a change in course develops, the center will reach the middle or lower east coast Wednesday night and Thursday morning.” The Red Cross placed its Florida chapters on full alert and dispatched 85 disaster wprkers to such key centers as Miami, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville to prepare for the storm should it smash into the coast line. / Ginny, seventh hurricane of the season, was located in an 8 a m. advisory about 160 miles east-northeast of Cape Canaveral. This was about 280 miles northeast of Miami. The storm continued to move on a southwesterly‘course at 10 miles per hour. - Gale warnings flew from Jacksonville south to Palm Beach and residents along the coast were urged to keep in touch with future advisories on the storm. At Cape Canaveral, the 15.000 acre space center was placed under weather “condition-2”— an alert that a hurricane was within 24 hours of possibility hitting the area. A thick haze covered the horizon as the emergency crews went methodically about their work of securing the equipment and 'missiles. At least one missile —a Titan-2 intercontinental ballistic missile poised to fly in a few days—was taken from its pad and put in a hangar. "It’s all a precautionary measure right now,” one spokesman at Cape Canaveral said. "Nobody's running around in a panic." Ginny’s highest winds were estimated at 75 miles an hour and a Miami Weather Bureau spokesman said the hurricane’s large eye would mean that points far from the center v/ould get high winds. Gales extended out 400 miles to the north and 175 miles to the south of the center. Ginny sprung up Sunday off the North Carolina coast and, after stalling off the coast most of Monday, began a slow southward backtrack toward Florida, raising the first real threat to the .U.S. mainland .this season. Forecaster Paul Moore said it was impossible to say with certainty that the storm would hit the Florida East Coast. But he added: "A continuation of the present movement could make it necessary to issue hurricane warnings for some section of the middle or lower east coast later today." Moore said the hurricane tjas a large "eye" which would mean that points considerably away from the exact center could get high winds.

REDDY FEATHER SAYS: AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE "TODAY'S DECATUR BOY SCOUTS < COMMUNITY FUND TOTAL IS girl scouts K $12,136.74 CRIPPLED CHILDREN SOC. LITTLE & PONY LEAGUES The Goal Is u ** °* fiß $28,993 SALVATION ARMY MENTAL HEALTH r Y °? R e j Community Fund COMMUNITY CENTER Wl Still Noods AMERICAN RED CROSS $16,856.26.” Give Tha United Way U.S. Assails Ship Strafing

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The ; United States today investigat- 1 ed the "most serious” incident . yet involving Cuba and an American vessel — the strafing attack by a lone plane on an i unarmed ship flying the Liber- i ian flag 13 miles off the coast of Cuba. i The State Department denounced the incident as an unprovoked attack on a vessel operating in international waters. The ship, identified as the U.S.owned ore-carrier SS J. Louis,, was strafed by a 'Single plane,, for 61 minutes shortly after midnight Tuesday—the first anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. The State Department said that the attack plane was presumed to be Cuban and that the investigation would determine whether a protest should be made. A spokesman termed the incident the “most serious so far" of three similar shooting scrapes involving U.S. ships in Caribbean waters. Two Previous Attacks On Feb. 20 four Cuban MIG jet fighters fired on a 67-foot shrimp boat, the Ala, about 80 miles southeast of Key West, Fla. On March 28, two Jets fired on the merchant ship Floridian. Neither vessel was hit. and in the case of the Floridian the Castro government apolgized and said its pilots had been in error. No casualties were reported about the 669-foot J. Louis, but the ship’s captain, Gerhard Krause, radioed that the superstructure and hull were dam-

Record October Heal Starts Monday

Continues In State By United Press International . Indiana's record-breaking October heat and mark-shattering fall drought continued a relentless march today which threatened to run into the outer fringe of this month. Bone-dry Hoosierland went another day without rain and the nearest prospect was for the weekend, with the northern third scheduled to get a more favorable fall than the other areas. Fair skies were expected at least through Friday from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River But the five-day outlook for the period ending next Monday, four days before the end of October. Indicated one-half to one inch of precipitation in the north portion in scattered showers or thundershowers "possible" Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Downstate, however, there was a gloomy outlook. For the central and south portions, only one-fourth of an inch or less was expected with a "chance” of showers most likely over the weekend. Considerably less than half an inch of rain has fallen in some central areas of the state, including Indianapolis, since Aug. 19. September was the driest month in history and October may well be. Meanwhile, high temperatures prevailed and no reversal of, this pattern was expected through the five-day period except for a cooler trend in the north about Sunday or Monday. Temperatures will average 10 to 15 degrees above normal through the period. Highs Tuesday ranged from 'B2 at South Bend to 90 at Evansville, where for about the third day in a*row the warmest reading ever recorded so late in the season was established.

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aged and that a resulting fire took two hours to bring under control. j Krause radioed the owners: “Under heavy airplane gunfire attack with 16 passes counted causing damage to superstructure, hull above waterline quarters. Fire under fo’c’sle. After two hours fire fighting now under control. No casualties." Ordered To Scene U.S. jet fighters were ordered to the scene from Key West when first word of the attack was received, but the attack plane had left before they arrived. The American planes are on standing orders to retaliate against any attack over international waters in the Caribbean. In Havana, the Cuban Armed Forces Ministry issued a communique several hours after the attack stating that Cuban air force planes “intercepted and attacked two V2O pirate launches as they attempted to disembark arms and infiltrating saboteurs on the south coast of Pinar Del Rio. The two launches were being transported by a mother ship which catne from Florida and was stationed 2*£ miles off the coast . . . (it) was also attacked. Effect of the attack could not be determined with exactitude." The communique made no mention of the strafing of the J. Louis nor did it attempt to link the incident with the action against the “pirate launches,” an apparent Cuban exile raid. Pinar Del Rio province is Cuba’s westernmost province.

Local Lady's Father Dies At Fort Wayne « William H. Pinkston, 71, a resident of Fort Wayne for 20 ye,ars, was found dead Tuesday morning at his home. 3616 Lindburg Drive. Mr. Pinkston, a native of Cave City, Ark., retired in 1957 as a machinist for the U.S. Rubber Co. He was a veteran of World War I. Surviving are a son, J err y Pinkston of Fort Wayne; four daughters, Mrs. Lester Ballard of of Decatur, Mrs. Boyce Sade of Churubusco. Mrs. Patsy Halcomb of Chicago, and Mrs. Celie Ring of Cave City, Ork.; 13 and one greatgrandchild. Friends may call at the Einkenberrh funeral home in Fort Wayne from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. The body will then be taken to the McGee funeral home in Cave City for services and burial Thursday,