Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 258, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1963 — Page 2

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Z INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Major c.isasters in Indiana over the past 100 years included: Oct. 1, 1869—Boiler explosion, Indiana State Fairgrounds, IndiLuther Engle Wins In 'Corn' Contest Luther Engle, of Monroe, has been—adjudged- the- winner in -the—third annual “com" contest spon- ... sored by the Fairway restaurant in this city. Engle's ear of corn entry measured 14Vi inches, the longest entered. Leo Seltenright, Adams county agricultural agent, served as judge of the contest. Mrs. Theodore Heller, of Decatur route 2, was second place winner, and Erv Ewell. 358 Stevenson street, Decatur, was third. There were 33 winners in the contest. The remaining winners follow. Edward Kirchher, Preble; John Staub, Decatur route 2; Ronald Selking, Decatur route 2; Leßoy Bohnke, Decatur route 5; Ervin Bienz, Decatur route 5; Larry Baumgartner, Decatur route 3; Martin Bleeke, Decatur route 5; Walter Hildebrand. Decatur route 2; Leßoy Bollenbacher, Willshire, 0., route 1; Chris Bohnke, Decatur route 5; Winfred Gerke, Decatur route 3; Charles Morri-, son, Decatur route 3; Wilfred Morrison. Decatur route 3; Norvir. Thieme. Decatur route 5; Roger Bollenbacher, Wiltshire route lj Harolti Bulmahn, Decatur route 1; Robert Morrison, Decatur route 3; Mrs. Florence Willson, Monroe route 1; Mrs. Leonard Liechty, Decatur route 4; William Macke, Decatur route 2: Marleen Willson, Monroe route 1; Elisha Merriman, Monroe route 1; Elmer Bultemeier, Decatur route 1; Rickey Bollenbacher, Willshire route 1; Jim Willson, Monroe route 1; Mrs. Charles Fisher, Decatur; Charles Fisher. Decatur; Walter Timmerman, Decatur route 2; Mrs. Luther Arnold, Decatur route 2; Mrs. Henry Schuller, Hoagland route 1.

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anapolis, 30 killed. March 17, 1890—Bowen-Merrill Co. fire. Indianapolis, 12 firemen killed. Jan. 21, 1892—Allen Surgical Institute fire, Indianapolis, 19 killed. Oct. 31, 1903—Purdue football train collision, Indianapolis, 17 killed including 16 players. Sept. 21, 1910 — Interurban crash. Kingland, 42 killed. Margh 23,-1913 — Tornado, Terre Haute to Indianapolis, 21 killed. March 11, 1917—Tornado at New Castle, 26 killed. ‘March 23, 1917—Tornado at New Albany, 46 killed. March 28, 1920—Tornado in Northeastern Indiana. 39 killed. April 18, 1922—Tornadoes in northwest and southeast central portions of state, 14 killed. Feb. 2, 1924—Interurban collision. Fortville, 21 killed. Feb. 20. 1925—City Coal Co. mine explosion, Sullivan, 51 killed. March 18, 1925—Tornado in Posey, Gibson and Pike Counties, 70 killed. Dec. 9, 1926—Francisco Mine No. 2 explosion, Gibson County, 37 killed. Oct. 24, 1927—Interurban-truck collision, Indianapolis, 21 killed. Jan. 29, 1931—Little Betty mine, Sullivan, 29 killed. July 15, 1937 — Baker mine, Sullivan, 20 killed. May 22, 1941 — Panhandle mine, Bicknell, 14 killed. Sept. 14, 1944—Train wreck, Terre Haute, 29 killed. Feb. 18, 1947—Train-bus collision, Michigan City, 13 killed. March 26, 1948—Tornado at Coatesville, 20 killed. July 27, 1948—King’s Mine, Princeton, 13 killed. May 21, 1949—Tornado at Shelburn, 14 killed. Aug. 10, 1950—Bus accident, Bloomington, 16 killed. April 28, 1951—Plane crash, Fort Wayne, 11 killed. March 17, 1960—Plane crash, Tell City, 63 killed. March 2. 1961—Viking Coal mine. West Terre Haute, 22 killed. Jan. 2, 1963—Meat packing plant explosion, Terre Haute, 17 killed.

—2'T* - - \ S' •'* - H ■ -- ■P' ‘ . s . 'KLIJ’W HRp' THE WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN as the way is cleared for the new clubhouse at the Decatur golf course. The old clubhouse’, a former farm dwelling, was razed Wednesday morning, to make way for the new building, which will be built this'Winter. Lee Fleming operated the tractor which pulled down the old buildipg.—( Photo by Mac Lean)

Final GOP Meeting Scheduled Saturday A “good old-fashioned get-to-gether” will be held by the local Republican party at headquarters in the Rice Hotel Saturday evening, it Was announced this morning by city chairman H. L. Lankenau. The meeting, which will be the 13,st big meeting before the election. will begin at 8 o’clock Saturday night. All the candidates, 'including G. O. P. mavority candidate; Donald F. Gage, will be present and the general public has been urged and invited to attend and ask questions. Also, all of the council candidates; Winifred L. Spaulding, Gerald G. Strickler. Charles Stonestreet. Clarence Ziner and G. D. Mac Lean, will be present an d give their views on specific issues. Mr. and Mrs. David Campbell, headquarters, reminded the people of precinct 1-D this morning that the voting place has been changed from the Psi Ote trading post to the Glen Rambo home garage, 404 S. Fifth St., 6n the south side of the ErieLackawanna railroad. Campbell also anhounced that anyone desiring an application for*absent voter ballot should call the headquarters? 3-2427. Mrs. John M. Doan said there terest among women voters this has been an unusually heavy inyear sjnee the GOP ticket has the first woman candidate, Mrs. Spaulding, for the city council in the history of Decatur. Mrs. Doan also said that refreshments would be served after the Saturday evening meeting. Dry Salt If your salt shaker clogs up because of rainy or humid weaather, or because your cabin or camp is too close to the water, invert a tumbler over the shaker when it is not in use. and this will usually insulate the salt “from the atmospheric dampness.

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U.S.NotTo Reduce Europe Combat Forces WASHINGTON (UPD— Presß dent Kennedy has given flat assurance that U.S. combat forces in Germany will remain there at present strength. Moving to calm West German jitters caused by reports of a U.S. troop reduction, “Kennedy told his nows conference Thursday: “We .intend to keep our combat forces in Germany as they are today: that is, more than six combat divisions.’’ Kennedy said that as part of a reorganization of the Army’s European logistics (supply) forces, there are plans for some reduction of “non-com-bat” personnel. "But we do not,” he said, “intend to bring back any units or personnel whejse return \yould impair the military es- , fiectiveness of our forces in Germany.” Pentagcjn spuroeg indicated some combat reductions had «at one time been proposed, but were overruled in the face of strong West German objections. Earlier Thursday reports from Europe had predicted return of 5.000 or more men, including an armored cavalryl regiment from Germany. Kennedy told newsmen that nqt only would the six U.S. Army combat divisions stay in Germany, but also six additional combat units sent in during the. 1961 Berlin crisis would remain “as long as there is a need for them.” The combat divisions and additional combat units total some 106.000 men. With their necessary support units they involve, over-atl, about 212.000 men. ’

Water Resources Program Slowed WASHINGTON (UPI) — The corps of army engineers has applied the brakes to development of water resources in the Wabash River Valley, according to Sen. Birch E. Bayh, Jr., DInd. He wrote Maj. Gen. Jackson Graham, chief of civil works for the corps, of his disappointment over the slow-down. The'xorps’ Louisville, Ky., office, which has jurisdiction over the valley, carries a heavy work load. Bayh said. He suggested this difficulty could be overcome by establishing another district office, responsible only for the Wabash Valley, in the valley itself, and suggested Terre Haute as a likely location. Meanwhile, fie asked Graham to speed up the writing of feasibility reports on the Lincoln Reservoir south of Charleston. Hl.. Clifty Creek and Ellsworth Reservoir projects in Indiana. The final reports should be submitted to Congress by next . April. Bayh said. January, 1965, should be the deadline for feasibility reports on Richland Creek, Spencer and Big Walnut Reservoirs in Indiana, and on Wilcox Bridge 'Reservoir south of Clay City, 111., he said. “The Museatatuck Reservoir project, on which work has been suspended, should be reactivated immediately,” Bayh wrote. Recent drought conditions in that area prove the serious need for the 'project, he said. Bayh also called for a faster pace on processing feasibility reports' on the Big Pine and Lafayette Reservoirs so that Congress can consider them early next year. When Packing Ties The next time you pack a suitcase, place your necktigs over the center page of a magazine. then close the magazine and pack it flat, and this will prevent mussed or creased ties.

Police Scatter Negro Bands In Philadelphia By United Press International Police dispersed roving bands of Negroes Thursday night in a Philadelphia neighborhood that was the scene of rioting earlier this week. About 200 officers, directed by police Commissioner Howard R. Leary, kept Negroes from congregating on various streets in a new protest against the slaying of a Negro theft - suspect by a white policeman. Patrolman John Tourigian, who said he fired in self defense when the Negro lunged at him with a knife Saturday night, has been suspended during an investigation of the shooting. Elsewhere in the nation: New Orleans— Police arrested 25 Negroes in City Hall Thursday. The Negroes had- entered the City Council chamber, the cafeteria, and the mayor’s reception" room to emphasize their desegregation demands. Jackson, Tenn. — Four Negro college students were arrested Thursday during sit-in demon-sti-ations at a number of restaurants. They later were released. Americus, Ga, — Five civil rights workers were to begin testimony today in a federal court Rearing into state charges of insurrection against four of them. Jackson, Miss. —A state court Thursday recessed until Dec. 17 a hearing on the city’s request for a permanent injunction against racial demonstrations. Memphis, Tenn. — The International Association of Fire Chiefs, meeting here, said Thursday firemen should not'' be used to aid police in quelling riots and mob demonstrations. Richmond, Va. — A federal appeals court Thursday overruled a lower court and ordered that a desegregation order against the Arlington County school board remain in effect. * Montgomery, Ala. — A new appeal attempt by a Negro woman held in contempt of court for demanding to be addressed as “miss” while on the witness stand has been turned down by the state Supreme Court. Washington — President Kennedy said Thursday he hoped U.S. Steel Corp., the biggest employer in Birmingham, Ala., would work toward racial harmony in that troubled Deep South industrial city. Trapped German Miners Rescued PEINE, Germany (UPI) — Three men trapped more than a week in a flooded iron mine rode a steel capsule one at a time to the surfape today. Officials said they went directly into a decompression chamber on top of the mine to prevent them from getting a case of the “bends” following their long ordeal under high air pressure. Rescue worker Paul Syska went down in the capsule first through a 262-foot escape shaft punched through to the miners by an American - made drill early today in a precision operation. He helped them into the 10-foot-long capsule and they rode to the surface one at a time. Emil Pohlai, 34, was the first of the trapped miners to be rescued. followed by Fritz Leder, 36, and Gerhard Hanusch, 43. Eliminates Early Pumpkin Is Thrown Through Screen Door The city police are investigating a vandalism incident that occurred Halloween night, one of 'Th? few reported in the city during the past Halloween season. Richard P. Stimpson, of 241 N. Sixth St . reported at 8:06 p.m. Thursday that a “gang of boys” had thrown a pumpkin through a screen door at his home. The incident occurred at approximately . 8 o'clock Thursday night. The continuing their investigation of the vandalism act today. ’ '

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Four Accidents In Decatur Thursday Four accidents occurred on city streets Thursday, two in the after? noon hours and two in the evening, with a bicyclist the only person injured. John A. Rickord, nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Rickord, of 716 Walnut St., complained of a sore right thumb as the only injury he received when he rode his bicycle into the rear of a car driven by Opal Leah Chronister, 61, of 716 N. Fifth St. The auto was westbound on St. Mary’s street at 3:35 p. m., and had stopped for an auto traveling north on Walnut St., when the boy bicycleHntb' the rear of ~ the car. ___■_ .. . A parked car owned by Earl Harmon, 50, route 6, Decatur, received an estimated SIOO damage when struck by a car driven by Dorris. M. McCrory, 37, of Berne, at 7:30 p. m. Hit in Rear The Harmon car was parked on the west side of Mercer Ave. when struck on the left rear by the southbound McCrory vehicle, which suffered approximately S2OO damage. Only minor damage was done in a rear-end collision at Monroe and Third streets at 7:04 p. m. Thursday. Carol Louise Wable, 20, route 5? Decatur, was eastbound on Monroe street and had stopped in a line of traffic at Third St., when struck in the rear by a car driven by Leonard George Schug, 17, of route 1, Monroe, who was unable to stop in time. Damages were estimated at S6O to the Schug car and S2O to the Wable car. Two Trucks A truck was damaged in a twotriick mishap in the warehouse parking lot of the Central Soya at 1:55 p. m. Thursday. A panel truck which had been parked by Herbert R. Stratton, j 24, of route 4, Portland, was struck by a truck driven by Sherman D. Richardson, 37, route 6, Huntington. The panel truck, which suffered an estimated S4O damage, was struck by the larger truck as it was backing. The Richardson truck was not damaged. Garden Tool Care Keep your garden tools in A'-l' condition by coating . them with ’ the silicone non-squeak preparation sold in aerosol cans for automobile use. This dries to a film that provides protection from rust.

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No Sales Tax On Federal Military INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana Department of Revenue has given up its idea of collecting the state’s 2 per cent tax on sales made on federal military reservations. The department, which originally held that such sales were taxable, revised its decision Thursday after receiving an informal opinion from Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers. Deputy Revenue Commissioner Robert Hale said he felt a 1947 federal law cleared the way for collection of the tax on sales at such places as post exchanges; officers’ clubs and commissaries. - rs- r—• — — Steers and Asst. Atty. Gen. Lloyd Hutchinson said, however, that it appeared the tax could be collected only if such facilities were operated for profit by private concessionaires. The 1947 law to which Hale referred specified that there should be no exemption from sales or use taxes levied by any state but Hutchinson noted that this was superseded by a 1954 law. The later law provides specific exemption from state taxes for sales by "commissaries, ships’ stores or voluntary unincorporated organizations of personnel of any branch of the armed forces of the United States.” Hutchinson said he realized that the Revenue Department was concerned that exempting sales at military establishments might lead to non-military personnel finding means of pur- , chasing merchandise without paying the sales tax. However, he said, he felt that if military personnel began buying large amounts of merchandise for civilian friends that merchants in the area would call it to the attention of the military installation commander.

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