Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 270, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1963 — Page 1

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CROP Kickoff To Be Held Tuesday

More than 300 CROP workers and their township chairmen are urged to attend the kickoff meeting Tuesday for the county CROP drive to raise $9,000 for overseas Christian relief projects, such as feeding 10,000 starving school children daily in Hong Kong, Brice Bauserman, county CROP director, announced today. The meeting will be at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Farm Bureau Co-op building in Monroe. Ohio Lady Speaks Speaker for the occasion is Miss Margaret Brugler, of Columbus, 0., co-director of the Ohio state CROP drive. Each worker who attends will receive his regular section kit, and will be able to find out the answers to many questions which people will ask him as he goes from farm to farm. Each township chairman has lined up his section workers, and turned in his Isit of workers to Mrs. Elmer C Beer, Berne. All Workers Invited All workers and people interested in CROP are invited to the meeting. Township chairmen for the north half of the county in- , elude: Rev. H. E. Settlage, Preble; Henry Getting, Root; Theodore Bleeke, Union; Emil Steffen, Kirkland; Howard L. Hebegger, North Washington; and Martin Sprunger, St. Mary’s. For the south half, township chairmen are: Menno'Augsburger, French; Amos H. Habegger, Monroe; Harry Mazelin, Blue Creek; Wayne Dubach, Hartford; Ervin Bauman and Thomas A.

U. S. Officials Boycott Meet

MOSCOW (UPD—U.S. officials today boycotted a ceremonial “friendship meeting” with, a group of Russians, including Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev, as American officials failed in another attempt to win release of Yale Professor Frederick Barghoorn. None Os the American Embassy staff members attended a well-publicized meeting a t “friendship house” near the Kremlin to mark the 30th anniversary Saturday of resumption of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union after the 1917 revolution. The reception in the farmer mansion of a pre-revolutionary millionaire began at 6 p.m. (10 a.m. EST) beneath crossed American and Soviet flags. This was little more. than an hour after U.S. Embassy Consular Chief Thomas Fain telephoned the Soviet Foreign Ministry and repeated for the seventh time strong American de-mands.-for. Barghoorn’s . jmme-. diate release or immediate access by American officials to the 52-y ear-old scholar, who was accused of being a spy. Russian authorities, who have been holding Barghoorn for 15 INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and warmer tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 32 to 40. High Saturday In the 50s north, 55 to 83 south. Sunset today 5:30 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 7:30 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and continued mild. Lows in the low 40s. Highs upper 50s to tow 60s. Three Youths Dead In Ohio Accident PAULDING, Ohio (UPD— Three seniors' at a Fort Wayne. Ind., business school were killed and a fourth was injured critically Thursday night in a cartruck collision near Paulding. All four victims were scheduled to be graduated next month from International Business College, and they were reported to have driven to Findlay, Ohio, to inquire about job openings. Police identified the dead as William Scott Raypole, 20. Winamac. Ind.;. John Ross Mapes, 19. Kendallville, Ind.; and John David Reamsnyder, 21, Findlay. Ohio. The girl, Dee Ann Dunbar, 19, Delta, Ohio, was reported in critical condition at a hospital in Van Wert. The Ohio Highway Patrol said the accident occurred when the car, driven by Raypole, ran a stop sign at the intersection of Ohio 113 and Ohio 127 and drove into the path of the tractortrailer 'driven by Raymond S. Teffeteller, 34. Maryville. Tenn. Teffeteller was not injured.

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Sullivan, Wabash, and William Alni andinger, Jefferson. Gordon Liechty, a member of the state CROP speakers bureau, is acting as coordinator for the south half of the county. Gave $8,670 in 1962 Last year Adams county people gave $8,670, and ranked second in the state; in 1961 the county gave $6,632. The 1962 year was the best since 1948, when the county gave $9,607. This year’s drive could equal that one, if every worker pitches in, Bauserman stated. Since 1948, Adams county people have given $46,175 through JROP to help starving, homeless men, women and children gat a new start in life overseas. Every Dollar Worth $4 Since CROP is able to ship surplus foods, every dollar given provides nearly four dollars in relief overseas. All food given is transported overseas in U. S. government' vessels, stored in U. S. warehouses staffed by church world service or Catholic relief agency personnel, and distributed through regular Christian relief people, rather than through foreign government channels. The help given is strictly on the basis of need; it goes to nonChristians and Christians alike. For many this is their first exposure to Christian love. Travelers abroad have returned with high praise for the work of CROP. It is considered the most effective weapon America has in fighting the spread of Communism in underprivileged areas.

days, said there was nothing new to report in his behalf. The Soviets told an American Embassy official Thursday that the Russians would reply to U.S. inquiries about the Yale professor as soon as possible. Baghoorn has been held incommunicado. since . Oct.—-31. Since his arrest was disclosed by Soviet authorities, the U. S. Embassy has made six demands tor his release. President Kennedy’s statement that Barghoorn was “in- ~ nocent of any inteligence mission” and his strong demand that he be freed gave rise to ' some cautious hope here. The concurrent cancellation of new ’ cultural exchange talks — which the President said would be “hopeless” under the circumstances — also was believed a factor. But diplomats urged caution. They said that although the official Soviet news agency Tass carried a report of Kennedy Is charge that Barghoorn’s arrest was “unwarranted and unjust,” it also attacked the State Department for putting an “Iron Curtain” around a Soviet cultural delegation now visiting Washington. Steinbeck took pains to thank his Soviet hosts for his visit and said "I have profound feelings of respect for the Russian people.” At a news conference Thursday, Steinbeck called the Soviet action “irresponsible” and said “such irresponsibility is too damned dangerous.’’ He was joined in the criticism by another cultural exchange, playwright Edward Albee. U.S. Embassy Counsellor Walter Stoessel went to the Soviet Foreign Ministry Thursday to deliver the sixth protest against Barghoorn’s arrest and demand anew a chance to talk to him. U.S. officials said “no concrete results” were obtained. 71-Year-Old Woman Is Burned To Death MUNCIE, Ind. (UPD — Miss Lurena Taylor, 71, burned to death early today when fire destroyed her 7-room frame house about nine miles southeast of here. Authorities said the blaze may have started when a kerosene lamp was knocked over. Miss •Taylor's body was found 'in the debris of her basement. Linton Residents To Cast Votes On Time LINTON, Ind. (UPD —Linton utility customers will vote in a mail ballot on whether they wish to stay on Central Standi ard time or switch to Eastern: Ballots will be sent with utility bills due. Dec. 16. Councilman Lester Bailey said the council will follow the wishes of the majority.

Girl Indicted For Murdering Mother COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (UPD —Linda Ann Miller, 20, Fort Wayne, was held on a formal first-degree murder charge today in the fatal shooting of her mother. A Whitley County grand jury indicted the girl Thursday on a charge of shooting her mother to death a week earlier at the family’s farm home near here. The indictment was read to the girl in her cell at the county jail. No date was set for arraignment. Kenneth Miller found the body of his wife, Florence, 45, slumped over a sofa in the living room of their home when he returned from work in the barn. She had been shot in the back of the head with a rifle. State police said the daughter, who lives and works in Fort Wayne, admitted under questioning that she killed her mother after sneaking into the house. They said the girl told them a “long-time resentment” caused the shooting. She told officers she borrowed a car in Fort Wayne, drove here, walked across a field and slipped into the house where she shot her mother as the older woman watched television. Official Os India Is Speaker For Rotary Sunie K. Roy, consul general for India for the eastern half of the United State, spoke on “India Today — Problems in prospective” at the Decatur Rotary club’s international ladies night held Thursday night at Cutter's Chalet in Fort Wayne. W. Lowell Harper had arranged the program and presided at the meeting. Roy, who impressed his audience as being unusually well informed on world affairs, said that when the British first came to India it was the richest and most comfortable society in the world. * “Columbus was looking for a short cut to India urban he discovered America.” India was was known then as the greatest exporter of luxury goods in the world of that time. It had made several important cultural contributions also. However, at the time India finally gained her independence in 1947, it was the poorest country in the world. At that time 50% of the children died before their sixth birthday. One fifth of the world’s rural population lived in India and the yield per acre there was the lowest in the world. Since that time, an amazing improvement has occurred although there is still much that needs to be done. Fifteen years have already been added to she liffe expectancy. Literacy has been tremendously increased and by 1965 it is hoped that 100% of the children will be in graded school. A land reform program has made it possible for a larger percentage now to own land, improved roads now make 'it possible for the villagers to market their products, and even the villagers have a little money to spend on better clothes, food, and bicycles. Roy defended India’s foreign policy of no-alignment" by explaining that India’s problems were so great she had to accept aid from all sources. “India never had a choice of guns or butter,” he said, “she was still needing bread.” The speaker explained that a totalitarian system might have been faster at handling India’s many problems, but he was confident the free society system would be more stable. The audience liked the question and answer period during which Rov was especially interesting with quick responses to some touchy questions. He said America’s image was much improved when she promptly helped India during the border dispute with Chrna. The untouchables have some dignity now that they have a vote but it may take time to cover long term prejudices. The 7,000 students who study in America return with high praise for her. Agricultural help has been a great help but peasants are somewhat conservative to accept change. Mr. and Mrs. Roy were the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harper. Roy visited Bag Service, General Electric Co,, DuoMarine, and Central Soya Co. He commented that it was pleasant to see life in a small town as compared to big city living which he usually sees. A short reception was held last night before the dinner meeting, so that Mr and Mrs. Roy could meet all of the Rotarians and their wives,

Decatur, Indiana, Frida y t November 15, 1963.

President Kennedy Calls • ■ ■ ... . . V ■ • • For Prompt Passage Os sll Billion Cut In Tax

■ — ■ ■■<■ —>—; ; ; < Kills Move To Speed Tax Bill

WASHINGTON (UPD — The Senate Finance Committee today crushed by a vote of 11 to 1 a motion to speed up hearings on President Kennedy’s sll billion tax cut program. This apparently killed once and for all any faint hopes for action on the bill this year. The vote came unexpectedly but only the margin was surprising to any degree. The sponsor of the speed-up motion, Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind., said earlier he had little hope that the move would succeed. As it turned out, Hartke was the only member who voted for "it ' ■ z The tax cut bill has been passed by the House but appears to be tied up in the Senate committee until at least the Christmas vacation. Hartke’s motion called for closing out the month-long pubShip Involved In Collision Sinks Today BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. (UPD — The crippled tanker Dynafuel, rammed Thursday by a Norwegian freighter, sank stem first off Cape Cod today with a chunk of the bow protruding above water. The sunken vessel was declared a hazard to shipping. The 315-foot Dynafuel sank and capsized in 30 to 40 feet of water after the two locked ships parted. The collision had imbedded the freighter into the coastal tanker. The Coast Guard said the-.Dy-nafuel was a danger to shipping and turned the wreck over to the supervision of the U.S. Army Engineers Corps which operates Cape Cod Canal. The crash occurred a few miles outside the canal. All 62 men aboard the two ships were rescued after the vessels collided in haze and burst into flames. > The underside of the Dynafuel’s bow remained exposed after it rolled over and sank. Die stern rested on the ocean bottom. The Fernview under its own power pulled away from the Dynafuel to break the death grip while three Coast Guard cutters and a tug boat stood by. The Fernview was in no danger and proceeded to port. The two vessels collided in haze at daybreak Thursday in Buzzards Bay, 10 miles from the west end of the cangl and about 10 miles south of New Bedford. All 62 crewmen were rescued, but (five received minor injuries. Both ships were set afire. The bow of the 510-foot freighter Fernview, <yit of Oslo, Norway, sliced into me Sun Oil Co. tanker Dynafuel just behind the pilot house and nearly cut off 40 feet of the tanker’s stern. SUH Drifting The stricken vessels dropped anchor Thursday night in an attempt to keep them from being tossed around. But the choppy North Atlantic still.. caused them to drift. Three Coast Guard cutters put lines aboard the ships and held them steady. A skeleton ergw pf Coast Guard firefighters remained aboard the Dynafuel throughout the night spraying water on red-hot metal plates to prevent a reflash of the fire. They also manned salvage pumps to keep the ship afloat.

lie hearings as quickly as possible and starting of draft work on the bill. Chairman Harry F. Byrd, DVa., assailed the move as a “publicity stunt.” The one-sided vote, in effect, was notification to Kennedy that the finance committee would not heed his urging of Thursday to finish work on the measure this year. Kennedy conceded at Thursday’s news conference that the outlook was bleak for enactment of the tax legislation this year, but said it still was possible for the Byrd gnoup to finish its job. Byrd insisted today that the committee was not stalling. He contended the committee had “worked industriously” and that there had been “no effort” to delay action on the measure. Christmas Seals : ’ftaced h Maik- - Robert J. Zwick, president of the Adams county tuberculosis association, today announced that the annual campaign for Christmas seal funds for the association has been launched, with 6,100 letters to individuals and organizations placed in the mails Friday. The Christmas seal sale provides the only funds which the k association uses in its campaign against tuberculosis. Os the total amount contributed, 80 per cent remains in the treasury of the local chapter. In addition to the seals mailed, organizations and business establishments which prefer may purchase the health bonds, which are in denominations of $5, $lO, $25 and SSO. ~ ,z‘. Mrs. W. Guy Brown, executive secretary, reported that the local association X-rayed without charge 2,442 persons during the past year in industry and at various public stations. Nine sus J peeled TB and several cardiovascular and other pathological cases were found. In the public and parochial schools of the county, 1,934 children were given the patch test and 22 reactors were found and X-rayed. The association also participates in health education, helps finance research projects, cooperates with Irene Byron hospital, and assists in the rehabilitation of tuberculosis patients. Tuberculin testing is now underway in all the various school .units in Adams county, and the free X-rav Clinic will be held here Jan. 13-17 of 1964. Student Day Sale Here November 23 The Decatur high school senior class will hold its annual student day sale Saturday, November 23. it was announced this morning by principal Hugh J. Andrews Approximately 115 business establishments in Decatur will participate in the annual affair. Proceeds from the student day sale are turned over to the treasury of the senior class. Os the over 100 business houses participating, many use students to work for them during the day, .. while some make a contribution. Each student salesman is paid $2 50. Students on the committee m charge are Rick Doty, Tom Baxter, Tom Macklin. Janet Fugate, ' Dick Landrum, Maurice Alexander, Robert Jaurique, Larry Relnking, Carolyn Crone, Jonn Bookout, Bill Hullinger. Kathryn Wiedler, Connie Teeple, Gary Schultz, Alan Kalver, Shery Price and Kay Bowman.

NEW YORK (UPI) - President Kennedy called today for prompt passage of his sll billion tas cut proposal as toppriority "insurance against recession" in 1964 and said it would create 2 to 3 million more jobs. Kennedy described Senate adoption of the House-approved tax cut legislation as the most important single step that could be- taken to reduce high unemployment. The tax bill provides for lower tax rates on corporate and individual incomes effective Jan. 1, 1964. It is pending before the Senate Finance Committee. The President said in a speech prepared for the sth biennial convention of the AFLCIO that the need for more jobs and economic security was the overriding domestic issue in the United States. The business recovery may be running out of steam, he warned. Unemployment “Waste" Kennedy who said that he would not have been elected without AFL-CIO support, termed existing unemployment an “intolerable waste" that should be attacked by slashing tax rates. “Last year's loss of manhours, in terms of those willing but unable to find full time work, was a staggering one trillion work days lost, equivalent ahuWnx down .Us aotir* economy with no production, no services and no pay for over three weeks,” he said. “That is an intolerable waste.’’ The AFL-CIO Executive Council has demanded government action to deal with heavy unemployment which has leveled off at 5.5 per cent of the labor force in recent months. The labor federation supports ■ the Kennedy tax cut bill. “This bill will build consumer markets, build investment demand. build business incentive and thereby build the need for more jobs and more workers," Kennedy said. Generate More Goods “It will directly generate trie : additional production of billions worth of eonsutnw goods and • services — and these in turn will generate more wages, profits, and income—and these too will be spent in more job-cre-ating demand —for a total addition of some S3O billion in demand,"" he added. Kennedy, spelling out changes since his administration came to office, said the average factory worker-is taking home $lO a week more and 2.5 million more jobs have, been created since 1960. Labor income, he noted, has increased by nearly SSO billion in three years. “In Short, we do have this nation moving again — and our working men find women are moving with it,® he said to the ■ union audience.’ “But while we can take some satisfaction with this record of past achievement, we cannot be satisfied with present conditions." Kennedy sent his Labor Secretary, W. Willard Wirtz, to the first session of the convention Thursday to sell the sll million tax. cut as the prime means of stimulating spending which could result in an estimated two to three million new jobs. Wirtz didn’t go far enough to please AFtoCIO President George Meany, and officials of 130 unions in the giant federation. Wirtz frankly downgraded organized labor’s demands for a . 35-hour work week, describing it as a “half measure,"and indicated that the administration does not favgr expanding its public works program’ to provide more jobs. He also advised labor not to be , “afraid” of automation because the nation “can u& all the things and services all the machines and all the working men and women can produce." Wirtz’s reassuring words to the 1,200 delegates were strongly in contrast to the tone of Meany’s opening address in which he described automation as a "real threat" that could result in “national catastrophe."

* ’ ~ I i ■ ■ ■■ MME. NUq JOINS CHILDREN — Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu docs some shopping in Copenhagen With hot daughter. Le Thuy. right, during a stop at Kastrup Airport on her journey to Rome to visit her three other children. The former first -lady of South Viet Nairi holds a sweater tip for Le Thuy’s approval at a tax-free shop at the airport. — — — - . — —, — Foreign Aid Funds Trimmed By Senate

WASHINGTON (UPD — A heated sideshow battle over underwriting grain sales to the Soviet bloc loomed today as the major remaining hurdle .to Sendate passage of the long "delayed foreign aid bill. The beleaguered Senate aid measure was trimmed again Thursday to what sec-med to be its final figure: $3.7 billion. This was SSOO million less than the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended and more than SBOO million below President Kennedy’s request. But it was still S2OO million more than the House voted. The bill would authorize another year of economic and military aid programs overseas. President Kennedy. Thursday mounted his sharpest attack to date on. the Democrat-controlled Congress when he told his news conference the lawmakers striving to cut and alter the aid program were "severely limiting” his ability to protect the national interest. All but demanding the program as ... an' .indispensable foreign policy tool;- "the President said that he — not Congress—would be blamed if country after country fell to communism. He sflid some lawmakers apparently did not realize the aid program's importance. “It's a very valuable arm in foreign

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policy,” Kennedy said. A final showdown vote in the three-week battle over the aid bill seemed almost in sight Thursday* night, but the Senate cogged down in stormy wrangling over an amendment authored by Senr Karl E Mundt; R-S. I). It would forbid the ex-port-import bank to guarantee privately financed grain sales to Communist bloc nations. The Democratic leadership, s|>earheaded by party Whip Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn., was arrayed for an all-out fight against the proposal before the final vote on the aid bill. Humphrey said he was confident both issues could be settled by late today. Children Story Hour At Library Saturday The classic story that will be told the children attending the story hour Saturday will lx* ‘‘Red Riding H<xxi.” Mrs. Martindill will use' the book with pop-up illustrations while telling this story. Another of the new series of film strips will be shown the children and they will hear "The Blueberry Pie Elf,” by Jane Thayer. This hour of children’s stories starts at 1:30 in the children's section ■of the Decatur public library.