Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 20 November 1963 — Page 1

VOL, LXI. NO. 274.

18 Are Killed In Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela (UPD The worst outbreak of violence in the two-year Castro-Commu-nist campaign against President Romulo Betancourt transformed the slums of Caracas into a virtual no-man’s-land early today. At least 18 persons were killed and 73 woUfided in the first day of an allout effort by the Reds to impose their will on the people of Venezuela through bullets, bombs and burning. The government clamped modified martial law' Tursday night on the Guarataro district, scene of the worst bloodshed in the early hours of the Communist terror drive. Armed troops stood guard elsewhere in the city. Caracas was the principal target of the Reds’ initial attack. but violence also was reported in the “oil capital” of Maracaibo, where the U.S.owned Dupont paint warehouse

REDDY FEATHER SAYS: AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE "TODAY'S DECATUR ray erm itc V COMMUNITY FUND BOY SCOUTS V . TOTAL IS GIRL SCOUTS Hk $26,402.00 CRIPPLED CHILDREN SOC. £» LITTLE & PONY LEAGUES The Goal Is J s ° $28,993 SALVATION ARMY MENTAL HEALTH Community Fund COMMUNITY CENTER JL Still Needs „ AMERICAN RED CROSS $2,591.00.” Give The United Way

Professor Says Spy Charge Was Framed

WASHINGTON (UPD A “youngish looking” stranger outside the Moscow thrust a roll of newspapers, into the hands of the startled American. “Unwittingly, foolishly,” said Yale Prof. Frederick C, Barghoorn, “I took it and put it in my coat pocket. . .almost simuP taneously a couple of men grabbed me and took me to an auto.” . Thus, with the oldest and crudest" form of espionage “frameup”, began Barghoorn’s 16-day ordeal in a Russian prison. He told the story to newsmen Tuesday after reporting it in detail to the State Department. In view of the, incident, U.S. officials said they were still undecided when cultural exchange talks could be resumed with Russia in the absence of a Soviet agreement on treatment of arrested persons. . But Barghoorn told newsmen, “I hope that this experience that I have had will not destroy the possibilities of continuing these exchanges.” Recollection Is Fuiiy The 52-year-old head of Soviet studies at, Yale told newsmen he remembered little about the young man who stopped him in front of Moscow’s Metropole Hotel about 7:25 p.m. Oct. 31 and asked, “are you an American citizen?” He half remembered that the man spoke in English, but he wasn’t sure. He recalled that as he accepted the papers he thought they must be some kind of propaganda material.

1 ■ IF- ■- < a w jit * * ■> : x .- iWiin WELCOME HOME! — Yale professor Frederick C. Barghoorn listens to the Yale Chorus during a massive rally and welcome home celebration held at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

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was burned down by Communist arsonists. Labor Minister Alberto Aranguren Zamora said in a radiotelecast speech Tuesday'. , night that the rest of the country was quiet. The terrorists are trying specifically to prevent the Dec. 1 election —a goal set for them by Cuba’s Premier Fidel Castro in speeches broadcast from Havana. They began by ordering a nationwide general strike, and resorted to terror when most Venezuelan ’ workers ignored the strike call. More than 100 persons were arrested, among them Victor J. Ochoa, youth leader of the ex-treme-leftist URD party. The Interior Ministry said a number of stolen army uniforms and a banner of the Red FALN terrorist organization were found in Ochoa's possession.

Barghoorn said he was handcuffed and taken first to a police station and then to prison. Soviet officials confronted him with the papers and said they contained ’ “military secrets." Some of the contents “looked like photographs,” Barghoorn said, but he didn't understand what they were about because “I’ve never had any military service.” He was told that the “young stranger” had also been arrested, but he never confirmed this and never saw the young man again. Why had it happened? 21 Always Taking Notes “It is true,” the professor said, “that I go about talking to people and taking notes. In fact I have some of the notebooks in my pocket right now.” “The definition of intelligence in the Soviet Union,” he said, “differs widely from the definition of intelligence in the United States.” He explained that he had been interviewing Russians on such subjects as political indoctrination; which the Russians might consider "sensitive.” Also, he said, there had been a period between 1949 and 1951 before the death of Stalin when he had done “intelligence” work for the State Department, interviewing Russian refugees in Germany. Barghoorn made trips to Russian in 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961 and twice in 1963. He said the Russians wanted to discuss all of this past travel so “there was quite a lot to talk about.”

Installation Os Street Light Is Debated ’ ■.. .’ . . .. .- Discussion of a streM light installation on Oakridge place highlighted Tuesday night’s city council meeting, with, two residents of the street appearing to present the pros and cons of the issue to the council. 1116 discussion began when Mrs. Chalmer Barkley, 8 Oakridge place, presented a petition to the council. The petition had 26 signatures requesting that the street light scheduled to be placed on the street be put on the island which stands in the middle of the street. The other half of the petition had about ten signatures requesting that the light not be put on the island. The “island” in question stands in the middle of the street and was designed to slow down traffic along the street. Traffic is routed along either side of it, making the street slightly wider at that point. Franklin Detter, 10 Oakridge place, argued against the placement of the light on the island. Detter contended that it has never been definitely decided that the island will be retained when the city paves Oakridge place and that installing the light on the island and then having to remove it and reinstall it elsewhere would incur considerable expense. He also said that it was his opinion that at the point where the street is wider it juts onto private property. City attorney Robert Anderson pointed out that an easement was given to the county for the area in question and that the city took over the easement when - it annexed the Oakridge area. Detter said the easement was only temporary. Anderson said it was not. “The residents should be informed to the cost of maintaining the island,” said Detter. “A meeting should be held to explain to the people the cost of maintaining .it.” The Oakridge residents have agreed to bear the original cost of paving the street and Detter said that it would be more expensive to paye around the island than to take it out. He also said that he did not want the light placed on the island because it wduld shine through his bedroom window from that point. Detter questioned the validity of the petition which Mrs. Barkley submitted and said that several of the signatures were not valid because husbands had signed for their wives dt vice versa. He asked the council not to accept the petition, but it was accepted and made a matter of record. Despite Anderson's statement that the city owned the right if way, Detter said that he believed that the road presently extends into private property, -including his own front yard and that the island should be removed. “You’d better be sure you’ve got a right to put it (the light) there,” he told the group, “because if jt’s not legal I’ll try to stop it.” Detter was then instructed by the council to call a meeting of the residents of the street to determine where the majority wished to have the light placed. He was told that it would be necessary to make a decision by Friday, because the light-installation crew would be in town only this week.

Mary J. Speakman Dies At Fori Wayne « „ ♦ Mrs. Mary J. Speakman, 61, wife of Rolla E. Speakman, died at 4:20 p.m. Tuesday at her home, 1807 Cramer avenue, Fort Wayne, following an illness of one week. ' She was born 1n Hawkins county, 0,, but had resided in Fort Wayne for 32 years. Surviving in addition to her husband are three sons, William A., Dwight L. and James D. Speakman, all of Fort Wayne; six daughters, Mrs. Raymond Sunderland of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Floyd Hitchcock and Mrs. Ferd Reynolds, both of Decatur, Mrs. Oscar Busche of Kimmel, Mrs. Myron Nine of Fort Wayne, and Mrs, William Goldner of Preble; 28 grandchildren; two great-grand-children; four brothers, Joseph, Pearl, James and Melvin, all living in Ohio, and three sisters, Mrs. Emma Smith, Mrs. Glayds Burchedt and Mrs. Evaline Speakman, all living in Ohio. Funeral rites will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the D. O. McComb fc Son funeral home, the Rev. William F. Russell officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn memorial park. Friends may call at’the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

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Legislative, Judicial Branches Os Government r ... . ■ .. . • • ; Are Blamed In Disaster

Teachers To Attend Guidance Institute • Teachers from all schools in the North Adams area will attend a guidance institute at St. Francis College Saturday, with the school district guidance instructor, Deane T. Dorwin, taking part in the program. The role of the teacher in guidance is theme of the first annual guidance institute. Dr. Edward C. Roeber, professor of education at the University of Michigan and past president of both the American personnel and guidance association and the national vocational guidance association, will be the first speaker at 9:30 a. m. “The need for. guidance in our schools: elementary, secondary, college,” will be his topic. Dr. Virginia H. Love, professor of education and psychology at Austin College, Texas, will speak in the afternoon general session on “The teacher’s function in guidance.” Hearing the two noted educators from North Adams community schools will be two representatives from Monmouth school, and one each from Decatur high school, Lincoln school, Northwest elementary and Southeast elementary. At 10:30 a. m. the participants will divide into discussion groups, with two sections in each primary, intermediate, and junior high, and one section each for the high school and college, and for administrators. Teachers, guidance and counselling personnel, administrators, and all those interested in the field of guidance from the area are invited to take part. Mrs. Nellie Reynolds Dies Last Evening Mrs. Nellie Reynolds, 86, died at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home of a granddaughter, Mrs. Leo Ulman, 509 Stratton Way, with whom she had made her home for the past two years. She had been in failing health for two years and seriously ill for the past two weeks. She was born in Jewell, 0., July 2, 1877, a daughter of Elijah and Anna BercamFatten and was married to Ernest Reynolds March 10. 1898. Her husband preceded her in death Aug. 31, 1948. Mrs. Reynolds was a member of St. Peter’s English Lutheran church at Holgate, O. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. James (Florence) Wilson of Monroe route 1, and Mrs. George (Lee) Ritz of Toledo, O.; one brother, C. E. Patten of Toledo; one sister, Mrs. Eva Marsh of Avon Park, Fla.; seven grandchildren: 11 great-grandchildren, and seven great-great-grandchild-ren. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Snyder funeral home in Holgate, 0.. the Rev. Robert G« Binkley officiating. Interment will be the Forest Hill Mausoleum at Napoleon, O. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home in this city after 7 p.m. today, and after 7 p.m. Thursday at the Snyder funeral home until time of the services. Police Station Paint Job To Emenheiser The city board of works received proposals Tuesday night for painting work on the new police station. The work was awarded to Daniel Emenheiser, who submitted 1 1 h e low proposal of $1,395. f Central Soya Fund Donation $4,540.10 The Central Soya company con- , tribution to the Decatur Community Fund was completed Tuesday. Community Fund chairman Gene Rydell reported that the total Central Soya contribution came to $4,540.10.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The Indiana w Legislative Advisory Commission took steps today to effect a modernization program for the state fire marshal’s office in the wake of criticism following the Indianapolis Coliseum disaster. The commission created a sixmember committee to study proposals by State Fire Marshal Ira Anderson, a former legislator himself, and present to the 1965 General Assembly a program to improve the Office. Anderson charged in an appearance before the commission that the legislative and judicial branches of Indiana government were indirectly responsible for conditions which may have contributed to the death of 71 persons in the Halloween explosion during an ice show.

Anderson said the legislature failed to provide enough funds for sufficient inspectors and engineers and activities important to controlling hazards, and prosecutors and judges were reluctant to prosecute violators of state fire regulations. But State Sen. Charles Maddox. R-Otterbein,. said - “it’s not the legislatures’ fault you didn’t have the money.” “The money was available and all you had to do was ask. You didn’t put enough pressure on the budget department.” But Sen. Von A. Eichhorn, DUniondale, sympathized with Anderson. He termed the marshal’s office “one of the old neglected, offices of thb state” ana said “we’ve got to bring the office up from 1915 and move a half a century ahead.” Anderson had said the office wa# required to operate under 1913 laws with inadequate help. Meanwhile, a Marion County .grand' jury probing the disaster was taken to the Coliseum to view the scene of the Halloween horror. Anderson presented a proposed legislative program to the State Legislative Advisory Commission in which he urged enactment of laws giving his department power to back up orders. He also asked an end to the legislative practice of diverting funds collected for the fire marshal’s office to other purposes. He said he needed more inspectors, engineers and more funds for public education about fire and explosion hazards. Anderson also proposed partial removal of the fire marshal’s office from politics by adoption of a bi-partisan plan. He said while existing regulations covering such things as liquid petroleum gas and other flammable liquids, have the effect of law in theory, enforcement of these regulations has been “inadequate and difficult.” “It is provided in our statutes that the prosecuting attorneys will prosecute any violation of the state regulations,” Anderson said. “It has been found that in many cases where a good substantial report has been presented to a law enforcement officer, that they are apparently reluctant to institute any criminal prosecution.” "It has been found further that our judiciary system, or perhaps the members of that system, are hesitant to proceed with an arson case, explosion cases and a catastrophe such as we had without first having the fire marshal's office point out the sections of the law which would specifically apply in such casualties,” Anderson said. He said his office is operating under a 1913 law and has only 12 field representatives to cover Indiana’s 92 counties. He said the field men work many extra hours in an effort to fulfill their duties.” TWO SECTIONS INDIANA WEATHER Showers ending evening or early tonight and becoming partly cloudy and cooler late tonight. Thursday partly cloudy and mild. Low tonight , 34 to 40 north, in the 40s south. High Thursday mid and upper SOs. Sunset today 5:20 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 7:36 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and mild. Lows in the 30s, highs in the 50s.

hh K®3B £ JK J 'IK J py lMf ■ <L; ( v CHRISTIAN RI'RAL OVERSEAS PROGRAM kickoff at*Monroe Tuesday night drew a crowd of 80 persons from every township in Adams county to hear Miss Margaret Brugler, left, tell of her experiences in helping others. Here she speaks with Mrs. Elmer C. fieer. secretary of the county CROP committee, drive chairman Gordon Liechty, who told how he had seen CROP aid in the Congo go to starving Baluba tribesmen, and Brice Bauserman, chairman of the county CROP committee.—(Photo by MacLean*

CROP Drive Is Underway

“The initials ‘CROP’ stand for ‘Christ Reaches Out to People’ as well as Christian Rural; Overseas Program,” Miss Margdret Brigler, co-director of CROP for the stale of Ohio> told 80 township solicitors and chairmen from ail parts of the county, meeting at the Co-op building in Monroe Tuesday night. Local Observers Millard Moser, of Berne, told hew for 314 years he worked with 80.Q00 school children who suffer malnutrition and have only what they can gather from the streets to eat. He hold how CROP provided the food used in kitchens built by Christians from other countries to give these children one hot meal a day. ? County campaign, director Gor-, don Liechfy. also of Berne, told how in the Congo he had seen Archie Graber of this county passing out CROP frxxi and self-heip tools to Baluba tribesmen when they were expelled from their traditional area, and moved en masse with only the belongings they could carry, to a jungle area with no homes, roads, markets or gardens. Learns From Us Miss Brugler, in starting her speech, told how happy she was« to see how an Indiana county organized, as Indiana is one of the most successful CROP states. She said sh? felt she was “learning more from us than we would from her.” , “Christ said, ‘lf thine.- enemy hunger, feed him’.” Miss Brugler stated, “and following World War II CROP did just that. Now tne Christians in many small couatriesof Europe, such as Germany and The Netherlands, give more help than the entire Christian population of the United States." Wietfeldt Infant Dies Early Today Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.in. Thursday at the Win-teregg-Linn funeral home for Edward A. Wietfeldt, one of two sons born this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital to Donald and Donna Agiw-Wict-feldt, of Decatur. The infant was stillborn at 4:51 o’clock this morning. Surviving in addition to the parents tire the twin brother, Bryan Keith Wietfeldt: the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Norma Agler of . Decatur, and the paternal grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wietfeldt of near Decatur Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. The Rev. Gerald I. Gerig will officiate at the services, with burial in the Decatur cemetery.

Miss Brugler has been overseas herself, and has,seen niany of ..th,' self-help programs in action. Sue told of how CROP food in Algeria is used to pay the starving, jobIcss Alberians to set out trees on hillsides, to prevent erosion, provide future firewood and food, and to build a feeling of human dignity through work in the people. „ ... In Haiti CROP food has helped pay workers to build farin-to-mrrket all-weather roads between villages so farmers have places to sell, replacing the narrow paths now used. Self-Help in Lebanon In Lebanon, the Ohio CROP has taken jurisdiction over a Vast . self-help program started by a .inew-rgtireri. Phesbyteriaq. ary in 1948. The 1958 revolution in that country upset the plan, but the people in the rural area.; wanted to know how they could help themselves. So Ohio CROP sent heifers, bulls, and chickens to get local livestock programs going. By example, they got Moslems, Maronite Christians, Greek Orthodox Christians and Protestants, who had never even been able to converse together before, into a working committee to plan to raise the standard of living in the rural communities. Three Ohio families, at different times, spent from 11 months to I’4 years in Lebanon showing them how to work. They served entirely without salaries. A former county agent showed them how to repair their buildings, get their livestock program started, and train their youth through 4-11 clubs. .An artificial breeding technician and his family showed them how to breed their cattle artificially, and trained local youths to carry on thV work. Market Own Goods An Ohto Farm Bureau Co-op manager went qver. jind showed them how to organize a cooperative to market their goods in a country almost entirely without organized marketing procedures. H< was so successful that in 1A years it is expected that the farm community of Lebanon will be self-sufficient, and need no more help from CROP! Already lire selling four tons of broilers, a month to the Lcbanes’c ’government, plus other commodities including dairy products. The increase in productivity has been applied by the Lebanese to raising their standard of living, improving their homes, putting jn wells and pumps, etc. Miss Brugler then supplemented.. Maser's, talk oaHong Kong by telling how the goveftiment every ten days completes apartment spaces for 3.000 people; how the population of Hong Kong territory, about the size of Adams county, has swollen from 600,000

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how CROP aid goes only to those who earn less than $5 per person in 1946 to 3‘4 million today', and per month! Bauserman Presides Brice Bauserman, county CROP chairman, presided at the meeting and the Rev. Vernon L. Rilev of Monroe gave the invocation.Special tribute was paid to the Friendship Acres program in the county, and the work of Roy Aschliman and,David J. Schwartz' in promoting it t (Jordon Liechty.' county campaign director, then passed out the CROP campaign packets to (Continued on Page Three' Water Main Planned Along High Street Plhns for the construction of a water main along High street near the Homestead addition were submitted to the city council Tuesday night. » The plans fall for a "6-inch east iron Wjiter main along High street from the northeast" entrance of Homestead addition to the present' 5-Thch ' rrwin'' on Hbfheatead stiedt near the southeast entrance to Homestead addition.’’ City attorney Robert Anderson pointed out that it will be necessary to get an easement from the Adams county commissioners for construction of the main. Anderson reported to the council that the proposed conveyance for the lot which the city has agreed to purchase includes the payment of the 1962 taxes on the lot. Anderson said that such taxes should be paid by thte seller, not the buyer. The amount in question was about $250. The council instructed Anderson to contact attorney David Macklin, who is handling the property, and have the bill for the taxes removed from the papers for the sale. \ |’ The council passed a resolution "approving removal of the first parking meter south of Monroe street on the west side of Second street. This removal will give extra room for big trucks which have difficulty, in. negotiating .the tight turn at the intersection. The council approved a $4,573 92 transfed of funds from the parking meter fund to the city general fund. The amount is to be used for patrolman's salary. A petition for street lights 'was received from several residents of the 700 block of Walnut street and referred to the light committee. A letter to prosecutor Severin Schurger from Clinton A. Venable of the state division of traffic was read. The letter concerned the placing of special markings at the intersection of Fifth and Monroe street. The letter was recorded and no action was, taken. A letter from the Decatur volunteer firemen was received informing the council that Ernie Bauman had been appointed a fireman to.take the place of Vic Porter, who had resigned, The council also decided to move the city collection offices upstairs in the city hall while the lower portion of the building is being remodeled.