Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 253, Decatur, Adams County, 26 October 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 253.

Ginny Heads For Open Sea

WILMINGTON-, N.C. (UPD— Hurricane Ginny, which bullied almost 4,000 persons from their homes along the Carolinas coast and then turned away, headed into the open sea today but another storm built up behind her. All except gale warnings were lowered on the mainland as Ginny whirled toward the area off the North Carolina coast here it was spawned six days ago to begin a circling course that threatened four states with battering winds. Even —as coastal residents sighed in relief, forecasters turned their attention to the season’s eighth tropical storm, Helena, moving up the Caribbean. A hurricane watch was ordered for the Caribbean islands

Negro Parents Ask School Injunction

By United Press International Negro parents went into federal court Friday to press for an injunction against de facto segregation in Chicago public schools. An attorney representing the parents asked for a hearing next Thursday on his request for an order that would wipe out Chicago’s traditional neighborhood school district system. Negroes contend the system perpetuates de facto segregation by carrying over into classrooms the “ghetto” characteristics of Negro housing in the city. There was no immediate indication whether an early hearing would be granted by Federal District Judge Abraham L. Marovitz. At Chattanooga, Tenn., a federal court was asked to order school officials to assign principals and teachers without regard to race. Desegregation of Chattanooga public schools is in its second year and reaches Vera Cruz School Appeals For Funds Officials of the Vera Cruz opportunity school have issued an appeal for funds to help construct a large, much needed addition to the school, which has. an enrollment of 40 retarded children from Adams. Wells and fiuntington counties. Ten Adams county children are in the school. The addition will cost about $25,000, of which $15,000 is on hand. The state does not assist in financing the building but does give some help in operating the school, a part of the BlufftonHarrison metropolitan school area. Churches, Sunday schools, business houses, clubs, civic groups, industries and other groups are invited to make donations. Checks or cash may be taken to the First Bank of Berne, or sent to Elmer Isch, Bluffton route 4. Frank Nussbaum, Berne contractor, has donated 15 yards of concrete, and Yost Constrution Co., Decatur, has promised a similar gift. Andrew Schrock, contractor for the 40 x 80 addition, has started work on the building, with the foundation already poured.

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of Guadeloupe and Dominica, Boasting 60 mile per hour winds that were expected to intensify during the day, Helena was located about 400 miles southeast of San Juan, Puerto RICO, at latitude 15.5 north, longitude 610 west and moving west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. “Squalls will continue along the southeastern North Carolina ooast this morning,” the advisory said. “Tides will be one to four feet above normal and seas will continue very rough.” The Weather Bureau said gusts up to 35 m.p.h. were reported at Wilmington early this morning and the Coast Guard ■station at Oak Island, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River, experience winds of 55 to 65 m.p.h.

into the first four grades. Elsewhere in the nation: Jackson, Miss.: The Rev. Seth Granbury, pastor of the Capitol Street Methodist Church, told a federal court Friday Negroes were not welcome in his church, Granbury said in an affidavit the church’s official board had “expressed their wishes that this church remain an all-white congregation.” Tallahassee, Fla.: The Tallahassee City Commission was told Friday it can ask the Dec. 2 county grand jury to investigate the racial activities of Florida State and Florida A&M universities. Jackson, Miss.: Gov, Ross Barnett and Mayor Allen Thompson Friday accused Ralph Bunche, United Nations undersecretary of slandering Jackson and the state of Mississippi. Bunche was critical of the city and state Wednesday night in a talk at Tougaloo Southern Christian College near here. . Tuskegee, Ala.« .Workshop sessions featuring addresses by three U.S. government officials were scheduled to conclude the “conference on disadvantaged Americans” being hosted by Tuskegee Institute here today. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with little temperature change tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and cooler north portion. Low tonight in the 50s. High Sunday low 70s north, low 80s south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and mild. Gennusa Funeral Is Held In Texas Funeral services were held Wednesday in Pasadena, Texas, for Ben C. Gennusa, former Decatur resident and brother-in-law of Mrs. Robert Butler of Decatur. Mr. Gennusa died in Pasadena last Monday. He was a member of St. Pius Catholic church there. Survivors include the wife, Mrs. Mary Gennusa, and daughter, Carol Gennusa, who will return to Decatur next week with Mrs. Butler, who is in Houston, Texas, for the funeral with Miss Jean Weaver. The daughter, Carol Ann, will be a student at Northwest school.

Westinghouse And IUE Sign New Contract PITTSBURGH (UPD — The Westinghouse Electric Corp, signed a basic three-year contract with the International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) early today to climax three weeks of bargaining. The Westinghouse conference board of the IUE, representing 36,000 members in 28 locals in nine states, approved the contract during an early morning session with union negotiators. The negotiators, who received the new proposals Friday from the firm, recommended acceptance of the pact. The agreement calls for an average wage increase of 13% cents within 18 months, longer vacations and improvements in insurance coverage retirement benefits and weekly layoff income benefits. The basic agreement is for three years while pensions, insurance and vacations are covered under a fiveyear agreement. Calls Pact Excellent Robert D. Blaster, vice president of industrial relations at Westinghouse, called the pact “an excellent one for our employes and one which is wholly within the value of the original proposal made Sept. 23 by Westinghouse to the IUE and the other three unions with which it bargains nationally.” Blasier referred to the United Electrical Workers (UE) the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Federation of Westinghouse Salaried Employes. The 6,000-member UE, which meets with the company today, and the 12,000-member IBEW, with a contract which runs to Oct. 31, were expected to follow the lead of the IUE. The UE, like the IUE, passed up an option to strike at midnight, Oct. 14, in favor of day-to-day bargaining. Talks were stepped up Oct. 18 when federal mediators entered IUE negotiations. The salaried workers already have reached an agreement covering 15,000 workers at Westinghouse, which employs 110,000 persons in 61 plants across die nation. The firm has about 47,000 workers not represented by unions. Praises Contract Gains Robert Nellis, chairman of the lUE's conference board, said that “while a number of problems were raised and fought for at the bargaining table, the gains we made during the 1963 negotiations will have a great impact on the 36,000 employes we represent and their families.” Nellis praised the gains in the contract, but warned that the company must “show new spirit in equitable adjustment of grievances, or face continuous court tests on arbitrability of unresolved co m - plaints.” He also urged the firm to “work with the union in seeking remedies to job and security by sub contracting and automation.” , Workman Is Killed By Sewer Cave-in INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Harry Robert Bailey, 30, Indianapolis was killed here Friday afternoon in a cave-in while digging a sewer. Authorities said Bailey and another man were working on a sewer in front of house in northwest Indianapolis Halifax Dr. when the soft earth gave way, burying Bailey.

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Merchants Ordered To File Reports On Sales Tax Collections Oct. 31

Order Smoked Fish Destroyed

WASHINGTON (UPD — The nation’s housewives were urged today to destroy all smoked fish known to have been caught or processed in the Great Lakes area. Commissioner George P. Larrick of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) ordered the emergency measures into effect Friday night in a move to stem new outbreaks of the deadly tvpe-E botulism poisoning. Larrick said the “destroy” order was aimed at smoked fish products that are “packaged in sealed plastic wrappers and those that are sold in bulk without any package.” Canned fish products are not involved, he said. Study Recent Deaths Larrick issued the order after receiving a report from FDA scientists and from an advisory panel of experts who made an independent study of seven recent deaths traced to botu-lism-E and stemming from smoked whitefish processed by the H. J. Hornbos & Bros. Co. at Grand Haven, Mich. In the course of the investigation, the FDA said, traces of botulism-E were found in at least three other fish processing plants in the Great Lakes area. The emergency measures proposed by the panel were adopted “with modifications,” Larrick said, pending development of more complete infor-

Winners Are Named In 4-H Grain Show The 4-H grain show held Friday at the 4-H fairgrounds had three grand champion winners according to Leo N. Seltenright. county extension agent. They were Dean Beer, shelled corn: Roy Mazelin, ear corn; and Leroy Scheumann, soybeans. Kenneth Bulmahn was first in both wheat and oats. There were a total of 95 exhibits in the four grains: judged by Gerald Bayless, Wells county seed producer. In shelled corn class II the premium winners were Dean Beer, first and grand champion: Richard Yoder, second; Jim Selling, third; Jerry Selking, fourth; and Bill Hawbaker, fifth. Class I winners were Blair Brown, first and reserve grand champion; John Sipe, second; Phil Wulliman. third; Jim Brown, fourth and Kenneth Selking, fifth. In ear corn Class II the premium winners were Roy Mazelin. first and grand champion; David Scmmer, second; Ron Bollenbacher, third; David Griffiths, fourth, and Ronald Habegger, fifth. Class I winners were Scheumann, first and reserve grand champion; Leonard Rekeweg, second; Mark Fletcher, third; Phil Isch, fourth, and Russell Fuhrman, fifth. In sovbeans Class I the premium winners were Leroy Scheumann, first and grand champion;' Mitchel, second: Dennis Bailey, third; Robert Morrison, fourth; and John Sipe, fifth. Class II winners were Larry Plumley, first and reserve grand champion; Dean Beer, second; Roy Mazelin, th'ird; Wilfred Morrison, fourth; and Richard Schwartz, fifth. In oats, the premium winners were Kenneth Bulmahn, first; Larry Sipe, second; Bill Kirchhofer, third; Blair Brown, fourth and Ronnie Mbsser, fifth. In wheat, the premium winners were Kenneth Bulmahn, first: Gary Clouse, second; Bill Hawbaker, third; Blair Brown, fourth and Dean Beer, fifth? NOON EDITION

mation on the sources of contamination. He said the FDA’s investigation of the botulism hazard was continuing. In a notice to wholesalers, retailers and processors, the FDA urged that all , supplies of smoked fish products made from Great Lakes fish or processed in the area also should be destroyed. Some May Be Retained Larrick said that some of the fish could be retained if it could be established with certainty that: —The fish was heated immediately after it was packaged in a manner that would assure a temperature of at least 180 degrees for at least 30 minutes in the coldest part of the fish. —The fish was frozen immediately after packaging and has since been maintained 11 continuously in a frozen condition. Larrick admitted the independent panel did not “restrict its recommendation to Great Lakes smoked fish.” He said its report was modified by the FDA, however, because “all of the known botulism outbreaks of smoked fish in the United States in recent years have been traceable to products from the Great Lakes area.” ‘ Larrick said evidence indicated that the poisonous type-E botulism is limited to the Great Lakes area.

John Custer Wins Oratorical Contest John Custer, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Burdette Custer and a halfback on the Decatur Yellow Jackets football squad. was selected as a winner in elithina.tions for American Legion oratorical contest conducted Wednesday at Decatur high school. Custer, who gave a , talk entitled “O u r Constitution — A Document For the Ages," is now entitled to proceed to the county contest, scheduled for November 7. Selected as first alternate was Miss Marilyn Knudsen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Knudsen. The title of her speech was "Constitutional Growth.” Thirty-four students participated ‘in the contest at the high school and six were selected as finalists to present their speeches to the civics class. Craig McEwan, Nancy Gerber, Alan Kalver and Tom Baxter were the other finalists. Betsy Schnepf was contest chairman. Four faculty members, Deane Dorwin, Dorothy Schnepf. Dave Clayton and Stu Schnepf, were the judges. Rules of the contest, sponsored annually by the American legion. call for an eight to ten minute speech illustrating the importance of the American constitution to the citizen and showing the responsibility which the citizen has to the constitution. Miss Loretta R. Wass Is Practice Teacher Mtss Loretta Rose Wass of Monroeville, is serving as a practice teacher at Perry East junior high schoql, teaching physical education. She is a senior at Indiana Central College. Working one semester under an. approved critic teacher in an accredited school is one of the requirements for a teaching license after graduation. ' Miss Wass, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Dale Wass, rural route 2, Monroeville, was graduated from Decatur high school in 1960.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— State revenue department officials changed signals today and ordered merchants to file reports on collections of the new Indiana sales tax for die last eight days of October as a “test run’’ ot the system. Originally, the order was to combine the October report with that of November, with merchants reporting early in December on the entire 38-day period. However, Deputy Commissioner Alex J. Ingram said a lastminute change in plans was made. He said the requirement would ask merchants to file a separate report for Oct. 24-31 as “we will get a test run on our system and will get this short period out of the way.” “This is not for money alone,” Ingram said. “We are complying with the law by requiring a report for October.” Merchants are required to remit monthly reports on the tax they have collected according to the sales tax law. Payments of tax are due to the state within 30 days from the end of the month in which collections were made. Ingram said if the separation of months had not been made the department would have been in the position of ignoring the words in the actual tax law. According to theory, the end of October will produce slightly more than $2 million. Ingram said he had no idea how much tax would be collected during the short period. The collection of the sales tax was delayed twice by court battles which are still in progress -but finally got underway Thursday. Confusion accompanied the clink of pennies in cash register drawers across the state. A total of 87,600 retail mer'chahts out of .nearly 140,000 listed in the state had received their collection certificates from the department by Friday. A special application center opened in the State Office Building for merchants who need certificates was doing a booming business Friday thanks to hundreds of last-minute efforts by merchants from throughout the state."” Forms on which merchants report the two per cent sales tax receipts for Oct. 24-31 will be mailed Nov. 4, Ingram said. f" a Indiana And Purdue Increase Charges By United Press International Indiana and Purdue Universities Friday announced fee increases which will boost undergraduate tuition charges and also raise charges in profession?’ al, graduate, summer and extension programs. The board of trustees at both schools made the announcement following a set of similar increases made this fall. The fees, in most cases, were to take effect at the beginning of the 1964-65 school term. Both universities will charge undergraduate students who reside in Indiana S3O more a year. Non-residents at Indiana will pay an additional $lO5 and at Purdue SIOO more. The new fees at Indiana total $330 for residents and SBIO for out-of-state students. At Purdue the similar totals are $330 and $950. President Elvis J. Stahr, jr. of Indiana University said the board also approved partial fee (emission scholarships for summer sessions to offset increased financial burdens created by rate raises at I.U. Increases in summer session fees for each semester hour were: From $9 to sll for undergraduate Hoosier students .and from S2O to $27 for out-of-state students. From $9 to sll for all graduate students, except law and business. From $9 to sl3 for Indiana graduate business and law students and S2O to $27 for non residents.

REDDY FEATHER SAYS: AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE "TODAY'S DECATUR BOY SCOUTS v COMMUNITY FUND V TOTALIS GIRL SCOUTS K $15,100.32 CRIPPLED CHILDREN SOC. IWi LITTLE & PONY LEAGUES /lA The Goal Is u s ° $28,993 SALVATION ARMY L&gjj MENTAL HEALTH WW r Y °? R B . VqHw Community Fund COMMUNITY CENTER Wj Still Nwda ! AMERICAN RED CROSS ' $13,892.68.° Give The United Way

Rydell Optimistic Over Fund Drive

“I think we’re probably ahead of last year's drive — in money and lime—but we’re not 15 per ci nt ahead and that's what it’s going to take to reach the goal.” This is how Gene Rydell, chairman of the 1963 Decatur Community Fund drive, summarizes the drive s progress to date. As he says, the money for the community fund, now in its twentieth year in Decatur, is coming in at a rate comparable to last year. The difficulty is that this year’s goal is about <ls per cent higher than last year and contributions up- -to to«"’to are not ex(‘ceding the 1962 figures by that much. Despite this, Rydell is optimistic about the progress of the drive and believes that the $28,993 goal, highest in the history of the Decatur drive, will be met. He has hopes that the drive will be completed by Tuesday, October 29. “There's a meeting of the community fund board on that day,” he explains, “and I’d like to have it all wrapped up to give them by then.’’ Rydell said that anyone who wishes to give to the fund and who has not yet been contacted may mail their donations to: Decatur Community Fund, Inc., Decatur, Indiana, or drop them off at the Citizens Telephone building. “By today?' he said, “we should have contacted everyone we had or our lists, so if there’s anyone we've missed we'd certainly appreciate getting their contributions in the mail or at the telephone office.” , Rydell explained that some, divisions are running far ahead of others in reporting with their contributions. “The section of the n tail division headixi by Ferns Bower and the professional group are doing very well,” he said. Bower said that is division’s total now stands at more than $2300, considerably higher than last year. Bower praised two fnms, the First State Bank and the Decatur Daily Democrat, for their contributions. “The bank, alone has already contributed nearly $1400,” he said. “This is an average of more than $45 per employe.” Another division which has been reporting substantial contributions is the industrial section The employ<*s of 15 Decatur firms have signed up for the payroll deduction plan, agreeing to contribute a certain amount from each w eekly pay check The employers handle the bookwork for the deductions. Ken Gaunt is head of the industrial division of the drive. The local firms which are on the payroll deduction plan are Central Soya, Decatur Industries, General Electric, Bag Service. Decatur Casting, Wayne Novelties. Krick-Tyndall, The Gas company, . Gilpin Ornamental Iron, Citizens Telephone, Shaffer company, Indiana and Michigan electric company, Duo-Marine, Teeple Trucking,..and Gage Tool and Engineering company. Rydell is very enthusiastic about the payroll deduction plan. “It's the easy way of giving,” he says, “and it always produces more for the drive. It’s much easier for the contributor to give from fifty cents to two dollars

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out of his weekly check than to try to make a ten or fifteen dollar outright donation.” Rydell also has some very definite thoughts about the development of the community fund idea. “I think we re really missing the boat by not having a county drive.” he said. ’ Tire days of rural residents being sep- . mated from the towns are past For instance, about 65 per cent of the fund is for youth work. I live in the country, but my boy belongs to a scout troop and later on he’ll be using the youth facilities at the community center. But Iff be asked to contribute to the support of these organizations. That's why we should have a county drive.'” Starts Monday OttAK J pxvM I I BSSfi 111 li l| Delay Approval Os Soybean Meal Sale WASHINGTON (UPD — The Commerce Department is holding back approval of a proposed sale of soybean meal to Communist Hungary because of fears that supplies for regular customers might be tight next year, congressional sources said today. The proposed sale is relatively small: 5,000 tons. By comparison, total U.S. exports in the year ending Sept. 30 were about 1.5 million tons of soybean meal plus about 180 million bushels of whole soybeans. An Agriculture Department official, conceding that the department has so far opposed the Hungarian sale, said soybean meal supplies for the 19631964 season are more than adeouate for domestic needs. But when exports to normal U.S. customers abroad are added, he said, the result will be a total demand leaving carryover stocks at a rock-bottom minimum by the time the next ft soybean crop is harvested in 1964.