Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1963 — Page 1

OL. LXI. NO. 256.

Indiana Supreme Court Turns Down Motion For Ji Rehearing On Sales Tax

.. -- i Wjfcrrf’u / WORK IN PROGRESS— The new Decatur police stat ion is coming along rapidly and will be completed in about three months. Operations will be transferred to the new building before it is finished. The radio unit Will be. installed as soon as the radio room is completed and the department will operate from that room while work on the rest of the station progresses.—(Photo by Mac Lean) - ■

Two Arrested On Spy Charges

ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (UPD—FBI agents arrested an American engineer and a Russian chauffeur Tuesday night on charges of passing classified data to members of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations. The American, John William Butenko, 38, and the Russian, Igor A. Ivanov, 33, today were ordered held under SIOO,OOO bail each on espionage charges. Both men pleaded innocent at their pre-dawn arraignment. Two members of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations also were detained, but released because they had diplomatic immunity. The four men were seized at the Englewood railroad station together with a brief case full of Air Force contract secrets. The FBI said their meeting at the parking lot of the railroad station was the last in a series that went at least as far back as April 21, 1963 All were observed by FBI agents. Top Secret Clearance Butenko, of Russian parentage, had top secret clearance giving him access to highly Six Are Arraigned In Juvenile Court Six local boys appeared in juvenile court this morning, with most of the parents of the boys also attending the juvenile session. Juvenile Judge Myles F. Parrish took the matter under advisement, saying he would rule on the morning of Nov. 23. Five of the under-the age of 18 boys were appearing on charges of being minors in possession of alcoholic beverages, with three of the five also being charged with illegal possession of a firearm. • A sixth appeared on the firearm incident. The five youths had been picked up recently on a county road by the sheriff’s department, with two cases of beer found in the auto. Before they appeared in juvenile court for this incident, three wqre involved in the episode with the gun, along with another youth. The possession of the firearm charge came about when Larry Bauman. 19. of Monroe, signed an affidavit against the four as he claimed they pointed the guif at him from an automobile. In court this morning. Judge Parrish had sheriff's officers pour the remaining contents of the confisated beer into a bucket in front of the six youths.

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classified information about an Air Force contract with his employer, the International Electric Corp, of Paramus, N.J. His $14,700-a-year job was to maintain a master schedule concerning the contract. The bespectacled - electrical engineer complained at his arraignment before U.S. Commissioner Theodore Kiscaras in Rutherford about photographers snapping his picture. “They took enough, haven't they?" he said to federal officials. “If they keep on taking pictures they’re going to ruin my life.” But Ivanov, showing an initialed tattoo on his left hand, posed willingly. When FBI men , seized the Russian’s car after his rendezvous with the engineer had ended, they found Butenko’s brief case in the rear seat. They also found a camera equipped to operate from the car’s cigarette lighter. Detained Briefly Yuri A. Romashin, 30, the third secretary of the Soviet U.N. mission, and Gleb A. Pavlov, 39, an attache at the mission, were detained briefly after they joined the engineer and the chauffeur at the railroad station. Romashin had failed in his role as a lookout. The FBI told of four previous meetings, all in Bergen County suburbs. During each, it said, • Butenko’s brief case passed from his car to the Russian’s. The first occurred on April 21 in Butenko’s car in the parking lot of a food store in Closter, the second of May 26, a Sunday, in a Closter restaurant, the third the following day at a restaurant in Fort Lee, just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan, and the fourth on Sept. 24 behind a hamburger stand in Paramus. Another Russian mentioned by the FBI as taking part in the earlier meetings was Vladimir I. Olenev, who lives at the Russian mission in New York. Butenko, a bachelor, was graduated in 1949 with honors from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., where he was born. He lives in Orange, N.J., with his> Russian-born father, William, a naturalized citizen. His mother, also born in Russia, died in 1957. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness tonight and Thursday. Not so cool tonirtit. Low tonight 36 to 44. High Thursday 60 to 66. R’-nse* today 5:46 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 7:12 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Mostly cloudy, little temperature change, chance of some light showers. Low 35 to 45. Highs In the Ms.

Busche Speaks To Historical Society L, Martin Busche of-W. Lafayette, a former Purdue University professor, was the principal speaker at the meeting of the Adams county Historical society Tuesday night at the local library. The speaker was presented by Gerald W. Vizard, following the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting and tommuirications. Busche described his trip of last summer through several European countries. He visited relatives in Germany and admired their beautiful rolling country, a continuous parkland with winding narrow roads, as he described it. He observed no corn or soybeans and even few weeds, as the main crops are potatoes, oats and wheat, with beets for the hogs and cattle. The speaker explained that part-time farming is a custom going back many generations. Small Farms Busche also explained that the farms are small, from five or six acres each up to 25 acres, but that the yield per acre is ahead or America’s. The research program in Germany is privately financed, he said, and results are " slow in reaching the ordinary farmer. He told of the self-propelled combines which also baled the straw, that he had noticed with special interest. The speaker also commented on the Berlin wall, Venice. Rome and London. A question and answer period followed his talk. The subject for the next meeting of the Historical society has not been chosen, although several programs are in the course of preparation. Correct Errors In School Tax Article Three errors appeared in Tuesday’s school tax story, including the final Tates in Decatur-Wash-ington, North Washington, and Union township, a check of the records shows today. Word concerning the new school rates came too late for a recheck of figures in the complicatted totals, thus accounting for the errors. The final Decatur-Washington rate is $5.79, not $6.79, as reported. This compares with $6.66 of ’ last year, and shows a substantial reduction. The final North Washington rate i is $4.24, not $4.31. It is higher 1 than last year’s $3.20, when the 1 area was not part of a school < district, but had to transfer its pupils. < The Union township rate will 1 be $4.31 instead of the $4.21 re- i ported. This is up for the same 1 reason as North Washington. <

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Decatur, Indiana, Wed nesday, October 30,196 3.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The Indiana Supreme Court today today turned down a motion by Indiana State AFL-CIO president Dallas Sells for a rehearing of the two per cent sales tax case. In a three-page ruling which also denied Sells the right to file an amended petition, the court said that two sections of the Indiana Constitution “conflict to some extent.” It said it does not intend to decide the question of whether the tax law passed the Senate of the 1963 Legislature constitutionally. ITie court on Oct. 2 ruled the tax law constitutional. To consider the method by which the bill passed the Senate “would have required that we overrule the precedent of a long-standing line of cases to the contrary going back nearly a century,” the court said. The issue was whether the tax bill passed the Senate constitutionally since the vote was 25-24 with Lt. Gov. Richard Ristine casting the deciding vote to break a tie. Sells contended the constitution requires a constitutional vote of 26 to pass a bill. The tax matter was part of a committee report adopted» by the Senate. One section of the constitution seems to require 26 votes of senators to pass a bill, but another appears to - give the lieutenant governor as presiding officer the right to decide whether a bill passes or is defeated, by his tie-breaking vote. “There could never be a case where the lieutenant governor voted in a tie and the majority of members elected voted in favor of a bill,” the court said. “The constitution has to be read as a whole and not as a part. The solution of this question is not as simple as some people untrained in the law and unfamiliar with the Indiana Constitution may think.” The ruling on a petition filed only six minutes before collection of the sales tax began last Thursday at 12:01 a.m. apparently ended Sells’ last recourse in state courts to block the tax. Sells previously announced he would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court within 2 or 3 weeks after today’s ruling. Ask Jail Driveway Kept Open Thursday Acting police chief Grover Odle and Callithumpian parade general chairman Kenneth Shannon, today requested that anyone bringing children to the jail yard Thursday evening not to pall into the driveway. In recent parades, parents of children have been driving into the jail driveway to let the children off there for the formation of the parade. This has proven quite hazardous, however, and parents, or anyone, letting someone off at the jail yard Halloween night is asked to stop on Fir't St., and continue down the street, without pulling ihto the driveway. Numerous children, bands, and other persons will be flooding the jail yard before 7:30 p. m.. when the parade marshal, Bill Bowers, will begin formation of the parade. Anyone who will be in the parade is asked to be at the Adams county jail, at First and Adams streets, no later than 7:30 p. m. Thursday. Vehicles in the parade will lineup on Winchester street beginning at 7:30 p. m. 30 Per Cent Os State Corn Crop Harvested LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPD — About 30 per cent of the Indiana com crop has been harvest' ed, agricultural statistician Robert E. Straszheim reported tor day. Straszheim said in his weekly crop report that less than five per cent of the soybean crop remains for harvest and only 10 per cent of the winter wheat crop -remains to be harvested. *7

living Costs Leveled Off In September WASHINGTON (UPD — The government said today that a steady rise in the cost of living slowed and leveled off in September, largely because of lower food and transportation costs. The consumer price index remained at the August figure of 107.1, the Labor Department said in its monthly-report. This meant that it cost $10.71 to buy the same goods and services that could be purchased for $lO during the 1957-59 base period, Arnold Chase, assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said that the September index was nine tenths of 1 per cent higher than for the same month of last year. And he said some of the drops were due to seasonal adjustments: Chase said several types of consumer goods and services increased in price during September. Food prices dropped slightly because of seasonally lower prices for fresh fruits and vegetables. Transportation costs dropped four tenths of one per cent in September, largely because of lower prices for gasoline and new cars. But residential rents, fuel prices, housing upkeep, and textile house furnishing all moved up. Clothing prices climbed eight tenths of one per cent during the month, but were only slightly higher than last year. The cost of services continued to increase and was 1.9 per cent higher than a year ago. The food price drop was six tenths of one per cent. This was largely because of seasonally lower prices for fresh .fruits and vegetables. Chase said 102,000 workers would receive pay increases based, on the increased cost of living over periods ranging from three months to one year. He said 80,000 of these workers would get increases of one or two cents an hour based on the national price index while another 22.000 would receive hikes based on the indexes of New York City, Los Angeles, and Baltimore. Chase said there was little prospect of any major change in the index on all items next month..

Clarify Sales Tax In Schools

INDIANAPOLIS (UPH — The Indiana Department of Revenue today ruled that sales of items not part of the required curricula of all publie- and private schools and colleges are subject to sales tax. The clarification eliminated confusion over sales in school cafeterias and bookstores and at extra-curricular events such as sports contests. Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney said the ruling affects public and parochial, elementary and high schools and tax-supported and private colleges and universities. Here are some points covered in the ruling: —Sales by school cafeterias to other than students, teachers end school employes are subject to the tax. —Sales by school bookstores of books, supplies and merchandise not required as part of the school curriculum are subject to the tax. —Sales at athletic events and other student functions ordinarily will be subject to the tax,

C. C. Member Drive Opens This Morning The annual membership drive of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce opens today, it was announced this morning by president E. E. Rydell. The membership drive was officially opened with a kick-off breakfast at the Youth and Community Center, attended by about 30 workers, who will be soliciting new members. A three-man membership committee heads the drive. Bryan Trout, of Sherwin-Williams paint store, heads the committee, and is assisted by Norman Steury of Decatur Industries and Al Beavers of Beavers Oil Service. Trout explained the local Chamber of Commerce has a total of 197 members at present and "our goal for the drive is 25 new members.” The chairman has asked that if anyone is missed, and is, interested in joining the Chamber of Commerce, he may contact the Chamber office at 227 N. Second St,, or phone 3-2604. Explains Chamber Rydell explained a Chamber of Commerce as follows: “A Chamber of Commerce is the business community working together. It is the. central agency that corrals the forces of the community for its improvement and development in business, in industry, and in the professions. Together, the Chamber does what no one person can do by himself.” The board of directors of the Decatur Chamber is elected by its members, and sets the policy for the Chamber. The board members, representing business, industry and the professions, serve for three year terms without pay. The board of directors meets the third Monday of each month at 8 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce office. Units of Chamber The" Chamber of Commerce is broken down into smaller units, such as the retail division which meets at the Chamber office at 8 p.m. the second Monday of each month; the industrial development committee, which meets at noon the last Tuesday of each month; the industrial division, which meets at noon at the Youth and Community Center the second Monday of each month; and other committee groups. "The committees are the lifeblood of the Chamber,” executive secretary W. Guy Brown said, “as their functions include development of industry and trade, handling civic activities, publicity, and public relations for the community, and many others." Chamber Services The Chamber of Commerce welcomes newcomers, visitors and all others making inquiry about the community, as one of the specific services it offers. Other services include maintaining a library of directories, reports, surveys, maps, tourists and travel folders community functions and events for the use of its members. The Chamber does all this through personal 1 interview, use of the telephone and regular correspondence. The Chamber is financed pn the basis of single and multiple membership fees. TWO SECTIONS

where such functions are conducted on a regular basis. Courtney praised Ball State Teachers College at Muncie for its handling of the tax collection and suggested other schools might use the plan he observed functioning there in the dining room. He said identification cards issued to students, teachers and school employes were used to differentiate them from visitors buying meals. Courtney said picking out the taxpayers from the non-taxpayers in a big college union building would’ be difficult without some regular procedure. He said under ’these rules all of the items Sold ip bookstores, except textbooks, would be subject to the tax. Programs sold at sports events and numerous other items by various schoolrelated groups to raise funds all are taxable. Books purchased by a parentteacher group to .establish a school rental system would be taxed, Courtney said.

Russians Give Up Moon Race For Food

LONDON (UPD— The Soviet Union dropped out of the moon race with the United States because it must put "food before rockets,” sources said today.* The agricultural crisis that forced Russia to buy millions of tons of grain in the West cannot be solved without huge investments and there simply is not enough money at Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s disposal to finance both this program and the moon shot, the sources said. , One alternative would be to cut military spending, but Khrushchev is believed determined to keep this at a high level until agreement can be reached with the West on arms reduction. Billion Dollar Savings Khrushchev’s statement last weekend getting Russia out of the competition to land a man on the moon was believed to portend a multi - billion dollar saving. "-- - The Soviet budget for the coming year is now under study. It will be presented in December. British experts said all signs point to the fact that there is "just not enough" to cover the costs of the moon program and to meet industrial and consumer needs. A high Communist source in London frankly conceded that the money saved from giving up the moon race would be put into the chemical fertilizer industry to step up food output. A figure, of $4.4 billion has been mentioned as required to build enough - fertilizer plants to permit Soviet production to equal that of the United States. Ends Aren't Meeting s Information has been reaching the West for some time that the Soviets are having hard going with the demands of high spending for defense, space, and domestic needs. It is considered significant here that the Soviets are pushing reciprocal arms budget cuts with the West as a measure to ease the cold war.

Political Address By Kennedy Tonight

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Kennedy tests his political potency tonight by speaking at a SIOO-a-;plate Democratic dinner in Philadelphia five days in advance of State and city elections. Kennedy invited Philadelphia's Democratic Major James H. J. Tate to ride with him in a motorcade through the city during the evening rush hour in an obvious effort to clinch Tate's reelection Tuesday. ,Tate; is being 1 challenged by James McDermott, 37-year-old Republican attorney who has received strong backing from Pennsylvania's Gov. William W. Scranton, a GOP presidential possibility. The quick trip also gives Kennedy a chance to guage public reaction to his triumph in getting House Judiciary Committee B[)proval of a compromise civil rights bill. Philadelphia is the type of big, industrial city with a large Negro population where such legislation is considered most popular. Plans Motorcade Kennedy was due to leave nearby Andrews Air Force Base at 4:30 p.m. EST for the 30minute flight to Philadelphia International Airixirt. A motorcade to the downtown section of the city, a reception and private dinner were to precede his appearance at convention hall (about 8 45 p.m. EST). He planned to return to Washington immediately after his speech. The President, who received Pennsylvania's .29 electroaf

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The Soviet defense budget is listed at $15.4 billion this year, but hidden costs are believed to make it much more. The scientific budget of $5.2 billion is belived to cover many defense items. There has been no price tag , placed on the Soviet moon program, but President Kennedy said in 1961 that the U.S. effort to land a man on the moon before 1970 would cost an estimated S4O billion. Killing Frost Over State During Night By United Press International Indiana's first general freeze and killing frost of the season brought a maiden taste of wintry weather to a drought and heat-baked countryside today. Temperatures spun into the upper 20s all around the state and frost coated the landscape, egged on by clear calm conditions. South Bend, where skies were on the partly cloudy side, recorded a 32-freezing low for the warmest overnight reading. Elsewhere, lows included 26 at Lafayette, 27 at Fort Wayne, Indianaixilis and Evansville, 29 at Terre Haute. Cincinnati's 25 was even colder than the Hoosier temperatures. The Indianapolis low was the coldest reading the capital city since last May 1. and the first freezing temperature recorded in one day short of six months. A moderate warmup was due to end the cool wave within hours, but no return to the familiar September - October highs in the 70s and 80s and over-night lows in the 50s and 60s was expected. Highs today and Tuesday will range no higher than the 60s. Lows tonight will range from the mid 30s to 44. No rain was predicted before Friday, when widely scattered showers may occur in the northern third of the state.

votes in 1960, apparently was tiying to preserve Democratic control of the state's biggest city to keep the Keystone State in his column in 1964. Kennedy carried Pennsylvania by a majority of 116,000 in 1960 and rolled up d 330,000vote margin in Philadelphia. In 1962, however, Scranton carried the state by 480,000 in the gubernatoral race against former Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth, Rep. William J. Green Jr., D-Pa., boss of the Democratic party in Philadelphia, has predicted an "impressive victory’ 1 for Tate “in preparation for a Kennedy victory in 1964." Miller Disagrees But Rep. William. Miller, RN. Y., Republican national chairman, has said the GOP National Committee has given a great deal of attention to the Philadelphia situation and added: "I understand we may just elect a mayor.” Some observers believe the elections in the “City of Brotherly Love" may test the depth of white voters' resentment over militant Negro protests on civil rights issues. McDermott questioned whether government was going too far if it interefered with an individual’s rights to choose his neighborhood * and schools for his children. Tate immediately charged that this was a play for "white and the Philadelphia leader, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) accused the GOP contender of being "anti-Negro."