Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 279.

Security Is Tightened At Welsh Office

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) Governor Welsh came home from the funeral of the assassinated President Kennedy today and found that his associates had tightened security measures at his Indiana Statehouse office and the state executive residence. Three side doors from the Statehouse corridor leading to outer offices in the governor’s suite of executive offices on the main floor of the capital building were locked. In the past they have often been left unlocked for the convenience of newsmen and Statehouse officials. Welsh himself discovered the new security measures when he showed up at his office in midmorning, tried to get in by one of the side doors, and found it barred to him. Later, Welsh’s news secretary, Richard Martin, revealed that an Indiana State Police trooper has been stationed at the governor’s mansion at 4343 N. Meridian St. on a 24-hour basis and his state police sergeant chauffeur has been ordered to stay around Welsh’s office during hours when he is there. Martin said the action did not represent a tightening of security. “We are returning to the type of procedure used under previous administrations,” Martin said. Martin said former Gov. Harold W. Handley, Welsh’s predecessor, had a full-time trooper at the mansion and another with him at all times. He said that about a year after Welsh was inaugurated in January, 1961, “we decided this was superfluous.” The trooper was withdrawn from the. mansion and the chauffeur was relieved of the necessity to stay around the office. Jack New, Welsh’s executive assistant, said he instituted the new security measures after discussing the matter with CoL George A. Everett, superintendent of the ISP. “There are a lot of crazy people running around,’’ Martin said. New ordered that r the side doors to Welsh’s office be kept locked at all times hereafter. This left the only open entrance the main door into a waiting room where persons Proposed Merger Os Churches Rejected The Decatur Methodist Church and Decatur EUB church voted down a merger of the local congregations Sunday, it was learned today. It was understood unofficially that the Methodist voted in favor of the merger by a large margin, but that the EUB congregation defeated it by a norrow vote of about 11 out of nearly 400 votes. Each congregation had pledged itself to immediately build a new building if the merger failed, and a new joint church has it carried. Had the merger carried, it would have created the largest Christian congregation in the city. The two separate churches presently share honors with Zion Lutheran congregation for the largest Protestant church, and the St. Mary’s Catholic church includes a larger number than any of the separate Protestant congregations at the present time. The failure of the vote indicates that there will eventually be two separate United Methodist churches in Decatur, each with a new church building, when the nation wide union between the two denominations becomes effective in 1966, costing the members about one-third more each year than if the two congregations were one.

REDDY FEATHER SAYS: AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE "LESS THAN $2,000 BOY SCOUTS V T 0 G 0 TODAY S Ik TOTAL IS GIRL SCOUTS $27 268 CRIPPLED CHILDREN SOC. LITTLE & PONY LEAGUES. rJftA The Goal Is dSO . $28,993 SALVATION ARMY iKv YOUR MENTAL HEALTH W Communit ; Fund COMMUNITY CENTER Still Needs AMERICAN RED CROSS $1,725.” Give The United Way

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wishing to see the governor or his aides would check first with a receptionist Lead To Outer Room Actually, none of the four entrances to the governor’s? suite opens directly into Welsh’s private office. All lead eventually to Room 206, the waiting room. But apparently New and other assistants to Welsh believed the locking of the side doors would reduce the chance of unauthorized persons entering the suite from a choice of doors and channel* the flow of traffic through one outside door. The side door was most frequently used by newsmen, since it is convient to a Statehouse newsroom. A note signed by New was fastened to the inside of that door. It said “This door is to be locked at all times. Use 206.” “We thought for security reasons we should keep those doors locked,” said Miss Bernice Dickson, Welsh’s personal secretary. List Inner Offices Among the inner offices in the suite are a news conference room, an office for New, anoth er for Richard Martin, news secretary to 'the governor; a room where papers and documents are duplicated, and several cubicles for aides to the governor and office workers on his staff. None of the side doors leads directly into the governor’s private office. All persons entering any side door wind up eventually in the waiting room, where it is necessary to pass through either New’s or Martin’s office in order to reach the governor’s desk. Apparently Welsh was not advised of the security measures or consulted about them. In .midmorning, when newsmen discovered the security clampdown, the governor still had not reached his office after arriving in the early-morning hours from three exhausting days in Wash- . ington for the Kennedy funeral. NO PAPER THURSDAY The Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Thursday, Nov. 28, which is Thanksgiving Day. Buys Health Bond USE CHRISTMAS SEALS OHHKKnf*! o o wKI I WEnl 0 5 elpP G™ I— < < Christmas [I °owerriNO«U> FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS and other Respiratory Diseases The Decatur VFW post has voted purchase of a $5 health bond, o'ficials of the Christmas seal campaign in Adams county announced today. All proceeds from the annual sale are used in the fight on tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases and to provide clinics and otherwise carry on the combat against disease. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPI) —Police today checked out an apparent false alarm report that a man was seen with a weapon on a roof opposite the office of Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy. Police said the report apparently resulted from someone mistaking a workman, carrying tools, as a gunman. Several workers were on the roof repairing pipes and in- - suiation, officials said.

More Gifts Needed For Mentally 111 7 Many additional gifts for patients at the Richmond state hospital will have to be collected in order to have a successful Christmas gift program, according to Mrs. Robert Boch, Decatur area chairman, in charge of the collection. Mrs. Boch said, “as we contemplate the holiday festivities on this Thanksgiving day in our homes or in the homes of loved ones, most of us are grateful for our many blessings. “One of the best ways to express our appreciation is to help someone far less fortunate. Let’s start the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season by making our first Christmas gift purchase for a mental patient. “Be sure your gifts dre at the collection' depot before next Sunday, Dec. 1. This deadline is just a few days away, so get your gift in now!” Collection depots in Adams county are the Gas Co., office and E. F. Gass store in Zurcher’s Mobil station in Monroe, Yager furniture store in Berne, and the Dorothy Laßue shbppe in Geneva. Calling attention to the importance of this program, Dr. Jefferson Klepfer, superintendent of the Richmond state hospital, in a communication to the Indiana association for mental health, stated, "this is the only project that /has reached all the patients since I have been at the hospital. I know that the patients at Richmond look forward to the Christmas parties sponsored by the ’ mental health association more than any other affair that we have during the year. They alj appreci-. ate the very nice gifts they receive, the spirit with which they are given, the friendliness of the, sponsoring groups and variety of refreshments served at the Christ’mas parties. , “Many of the patients realize that their families can’t or will not give any of these or that this will be their only Christmas. The association of the sponsors and donors with the patients during the Yuletide season does much for all those participating. It offers encouragement, acceptance and enjoyment to the patients.” Youth Fined, Given Suspended Sentence Roger Dale Death, 18, of 818 Adams St, was fined $25 and costs and was given a six-months suspended sentence in the Adams circuit court. Death had entered a plea of guilty to a charge of third degree burglary. He was originally charged with second degree burglary and grand larceny, but the grand larceny charge was dropped and the second degree burglary charge was amended to third degree. " Death had entered a plea of not guilty to the second degree burglary charge sometime earlier. The .case involves the theft of five automobile transmissions. from the Hi-Way service station on the morning of August 19. Also involved in the alleged theft are Ronald Eugene Myers, 18, of route 6, Decatur, charged with second degree burglary; Larry Gene Baumgartner, 21, 216 N. Fourth St., and James L. Plasterer, 24, of Van Wert, 0., both of whom are charged with receiving stolen goods. AH three have entered not guilty pleas to charges against them. Krueckeberg Speaks At Lions Meeting Decatur banker Herman Kruec- ' keberg held the “world premiere” of his European slides ’’ for the ladies’ night meeting of the Decatur Lions club Monday night at the Community Center. » Krueckeberg toured Europe and Russia early this fall on a special People to People trip for American bankers. After the scheduled trip his wife and son joined him for further travels. His son, John, is serving in the armed forces in Europe. The idea of the bankers’ tour was to study the banking customs of the other nations of the world. It also afforded the group a chance to meet the people of these nations. Krueckeberg reported'that many Europeans were Impressed with meeting bank employees who could afford to travel abroad. Some of them could not understand how these people could afford to travel and still own a home and car in the United States. The first -city which the group visited was London. Kruec- ’ keberg showed pictures of many of the sights of the city, including Westminster Abbey and the entrance to Christine Keeler's (Continued on Page 4)

Decatur, Indiana, Tues

President Johnson Takes On Heavy Burden In First Day In White House Office

County School Post Abolished

Thirteen is evidently pot the luckiest of numbers for Adams county school superintendent Gerald Vizard, the 13th individual to hold that position in the county. According to a letter read this morning by county auditor Edward F. Jaberg at the weekly meeting of the Adams county commissioners, the office of_£ school superintendent has been;; abolished in the county. £ The letter was received by Ja-S berg from the social security di-fa vision of the public employees re-= tiremeht fund, a state agency. | It reads: “According to the state board of accounts, the office of county superintendent has tg?en abolished in your county. “We would appreciate being ad-' vised if there are still attendance officers who should be reported! under the social security identifi-g cation number assigned to the? county school superintendent even* though the position of county ~ school superintendent has been? abolished.” Question Board of Accounts | The letter was signed by Eu-~ gene Garrison, executive secretary of the public employees retirement fund. Jaberg received the letter-last-Thursday, and Friday he addressed an’ inquiry to the state board of accounts, requesting confirmation of the abolition of the office. Since the state offices were closed Saturday, Sunday and Mdndey, the board probably did not receive the letter until today. When informed of the letter Vizard said that his office had received no communication from the state board of accounts in regard to the abolishment. The termination of the office is a result of the recently completed’ school reorganization. But Vizard said this morning, “In other counties where reorganization has been completed the superintendent’s office has not been abolished in this way. It certainly seems that. the state board of accounts would notify us if our office had been officially ended. We haven't been notified or even given instructions or information on liquidating our properties.” Vizard also said that there is much work which remains to be done in his office. Jurisdiction Ended When Adams county was officially divided »into three schools districts July 1 of this year, Viz-? ard had no more schools under i his jurisdiction. Previously, alls township schools were under him,g and the county board of education, ~ which consisted of the 12 town-§ ship trustees. Since that time. Vizard and his£ ■secretary, Mrs. R. F. Brandy-5 berry, have been busy compilings final reports and transferring records to the new school dts-g tricts. Previously, St. Mary’Sstownship records and Blue township had already been trans-g ferred to Adams Central. Berne,« Decatur and Adams Central had H previously had their own superin-5 tendents', and were not directly S under the county superintendent. 3 Mrs. Mildred Foley, of has been attendance officer for’ the (County and city schools for a’ number of years. With the term-3 fruition of the county office, it isE expected that the new school districts will either hire her, or a new attendance officer, or perhaps divide the county between two officers, Mrs. Foley’s appointment is for a one-year term, and is regularly made in May, at the end of the school year, for the next year. Four-Year Appointment Vizard's four-year appointment was made by the county board of education in May, 1961, although ft was expected that the office would be abolished as soon as consoUdation went through. However, the trustees were not particularly interested in the consolidation, for the most part, and were hoping that it would be de-

layed, as it Was. Originally, Vizard was appointed to the job when Gail Grabill resigned to take the Decatur superintendency, and it was not expected that the office would last very long. Vizajd was formerly principal at Pleasant Mills and a number of other schools in Indiana during his ca- . reer. ■ The ending of Vizard's position ; stops an office which began in i this county June 2, 1873. The; reci ord of the elections of schools E superintendents is kept in a large, . J single volume in the auditor's office. The 90-year-old book is kept by the clerk of the county board of education, the auditor, who several times has cast the decid- ■ ing vote, which is necessary in case of a tie or if any candidate fails to get a majority. The superintendent was chosen i by the 12 township trustees of the | county, who formed.the county ► board of education, a unit also " made extinct by the reorganiza- ; tion. Each trustee was allowed = one vote in choosing the superin- : tendent, and most of them took advantage of the vote. A few titoes, when there was only one candidate, trustees would fail to vote, From 'the.- very", first hlesitiiSL the ballots were cast secretly and in writing, two men being apiContinued on Page Three) INDIANA WEATHER Fair, windy and warmer north tonight and Wednesday. Colder tonight south, fair and mild Wednesday. Low tonight 37 to 42 north, 30 to 38 south. High Wednesday 50 to 56. Sunset today 5:23 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:43 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair with no important tempera- _ ture changes. Lows in the 30s. Highs 55 to 65. Suspend Business Here For Holiday Most business activity will be suspended in Decatur Thursday as the nation observes the tradit tional Thanksgiving Day holiday. J Church services and family • gatherings will feature the day’s - observance throughout the city. ; All federal, state, county and = city offices will be closed all day, a there will be no mail deliveries, ? except special delivery, the First i Stete Bank and the public library E will be closed, and the Daily - Democrat will not. publish an ; edition. j Exceptions to the general closling of oH retail stores Will be the | theater, some restaurants, con--5 fectioneries, service stations and | taverns. 5 AIL public and parochial schools ?of the city and county will su.- - pend classes .Wednesday after- ? noon, to resume- Monday morn- | ing. giving the youngsters a four--3 day holiday. _ J The annual union Thanksgiving 5 services will be held at 9 o’clock Thursday morning at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church on Winchester street. Speaker for the service will be the Rev. Wilmer Watson, pastor of the Decatur Church of the Nazarene. Pastors of other church’cs will assist in the service, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur. The Zion Lutheran church will hold a Thanksgiving eve vesper service at 7 n. m. Wednesday, and the Thanksgiving day service at 9 a m. Truirsday. Masses at St. Mary's Catholic Church Thursday will be celebrated at 6 a. m., 7:30 am., with the Thanksgiving high mass at 9 a. m. There will be no evening mass Thursday.

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Johnson began work today for the first time in the famed presidential office in the White House, taking on burdens of world and national problems that have befallen him. Much of the President's day was devoted to meeting with foreign dignitaries and preparing his first address to Congress and the American people, Johnson will speak at a joint session of Congress Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. EST. He is expected to outline his domestic and international policies in the speech. It will be televised' nationally. Until today, Johnson had been working in the office he occupied as vice president under slain President Kennedy in the' Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House. On arrival today at the White House at 8:45 am. EST. the new President moved without fanfare into the oval office of the President. Johnson was sped under jk>lice motorcycle escort to the executive mansion from his private home in the well-to-do Spring Valley area of Washington. The seven-mile drive through rush hour traffic took only 12 minutes. In his speech to Congressshaping up as one of the most important he will make as Chief Executive—Johnson is expected to urge top priority approval of the civil rights and tax cut programs spelled out by his dead , predecessor. • Veteran legislators were said to feel there would be no slackening under the new President of the drive forapproval ~ of the two cornerstones of the Kenriedy program. . But whether Johnson would be any more successful than his predecessor remained to be seen. “I think continuity without confusion has got to be bur password and has to be the key to our system,” Johnson ‘said Mopday night in explaining his decision to appear, before Congress. ■ Meets With Leaders The Chief Executive meets first today with the world leaders who remained after attending Kennedy’s funeral, including Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. But from,the domestic political standpoint;..his most important meetings were to come later in the day when he confers with top aides and officials about his. speech before Congress. The tenor of that Speech probably was indicated in the new President's remarks to a meeting of the governors of 35 states Monday night. The governors were hastily assembled following the funeral for the meeting at Johnson's former vice presidential offices. Many were halted at airpqrts and summoned to hear ihe President's 30-minute appeal for" bipartisan backing in the days of crisis following the assassination. The Chief Executive was reported to have stressed his backing for federal programs to aid education in expressing general support for Kennedy’s legislative oals. New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. said th a t Johnson told' the group he would urge Congi'els to act on the sll billion tax cut program, presently stalled in the Senate Finance Committee, 1 and the civil rights measure. Rockefeller said the ovation Johnson received was “a most sincere demonstration of unity' in this moment of tragedy.” He : said Johnson was "impressive." Pennsylvania Gov. William ’ W. Scranton, another prominent Republican, praised Johnson’s 1 speech and said .hp was sure that all the governors at the i meeting would support the new t President. ’Later, Johnson met with ■ Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Budget Director Kermit i Gordon to discuss the nrfI tion’s economy and review the ; budget he will send to Congress in January.

Annual Meeting Os ASCS Held Monday

Charles Trdyer, district field man for ASCS (Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service) spoke at the organization’s annual meeting held Monday night in the basement of the Zion United Church of Christ „ The meeting was held last night in observance of farm-city week, recently proclaimed to be this week by the late president John F. Kennedy. "Farming is a business now.” was the way Troyer opened his brief but inijxntant talk. He explaiiuxi that many farmers have larger investments but smaller incomes than some city businesses, and fatm-city week and meetings of the type held last night, are for the purpose pf getting the rural and city residents together. A Grant county resident. Troyer said that seven million workers are employed in the United States by agriculture, and four of every 10 jobs in this county are in some way relatixi to agriculture. Raw Materials He said farmers use more pet- ' roleum than any industry and detailed other figures giving raw materials produced in the U. S. and how much of each Is used by the farmer. He continued by explaining the average .farmer $1.05 an hour for his work, while food producers and factory workers average over $2 an hour. Troyer then added that 38 cents out of every, dollar-spent in the United States for food returns to the farmer, and gave a breakdown of how the 38 cents returns. He also gave a brief summary of the work of the ASCS. which is a division of the U. S7Uepartment of agriculture, Included in its

Eternal Flame ■■Kill —— '.*»«>li>i —KWmra*3"afc.‘J MH—I -- MilWia — . ww.* -.-•. i>. Is Burning At Kennedy Grave •/

WASHINGTON, (UPI) — An "eternal flame" burned at the flower-blanketed grave of John F. Kennedy today in lasting memorial to the assassinated 35th President of the United States. A white picket fence about two feet high surrounded an area of about five yards on each side of the grave in Arlington National Cemetery. Within the enclosure were piled scores ofbouquets from other nations. The grave was filled in, the fence installed and the flowers placed several hours after Kennedy's burial Monday—a simple sequel to the massive funeral tributes witnessed by national and world leaders. _. Kennedy’s courageous, widow - • who mamtain<<d a magnificent bearing during all her a|>pearAn£efL.Bince. ..the Jrjag.edx.nusk.a poignant visit to the grave shortly before midnight—about eight hours after the final rites. She laid a spring of flowers on the grave and spent several minutes, with Atty. (Jen. Robert F. Kennedy at her side, at the floral-covered. site. .. Special Lights Installed Monday night, specially installed lights cast a blue hue over the floral blanket while the gas-fed flame ignited by by Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy in her husband’s memory burned brightly behind. A military guard “ will be posted at the site around the clock for the next W—k. —— Mrs. Kennedy, who requested the flame as an everlasting symbol of her husband's buoyant spirit, lighted the fire at the

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activities are helping to stabilize prices as far as both the farmer and food consumers are concerned, and others. Increased knowledge Troyer explained that Indiana had (he highest yield per acre of both corn and wheat in states’ producing corn and wheat, and attributed this to “increased knowhow” among farmers - 1 - / He also briefly discussed R. A. D. (Rural Area Development) which he said was an effort to take land out of agriculture and, basically, put it to use in recreation. Those attendingl enjoyed a meal before the program with entertainment provided by the “Eels," a quartet from the Adams county barbershop chapter. Barbershop Music Ed' Ewell, Al Lehman, Don Sprunger and Chuck Kester presented seven selections in barbershop harmony, and Kester also gave a "honky-tonk" selection on the piano. Mrs. Mary Howard, local ASCS '■ office manager, introduced .jiome of the city dignitaries present, including Mayor Donald F. Gage; Mayor-elect Carl D. Gerber; R. E. Rydell, president of the local Chamber of Commerce; W. Guy Brown, Chamber executive y.' and others. ‘ Jerry Setser, new SCS technician in Adams county, was also 'introßueeck Richard K. Moser, county committee head, was introduced and he introduced James Garboden, , vice chairman, and Roy Balsiger, regular member. The community committeemen stood and introduced themselves and their wives. Following the affair, the committeemen held a mret'ing.

conclusion of the impressive graveside services. Then she passed the torch she had used to her brothers-in-law. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who ceremonially -repeated - the process—of igniting the memorial flame. One such light burns at the tomb of France’s unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Another burns at Gettysburg; Pa., in memory of Civil War dead. Kerin.edy's_ grave, on a green slope of the military cemetery which serves as a national shrine to the honored dead, dominates a broad vista' of Washington. It faces directly across the Potomac River toward the marble-pillared memorial to Abraham Lincoln, as- — sassiMt.ed nearly a century ago. 21-Gun Salute There, in the shadow of the onetime mansion of Robert E. Lee, came the 21-gun salute, the three volleys of musketry by the firing party, and the sound of “Taps.’’ As Mrs, Kennedy stepped from her limousine,, there was a sounding of "ruffles and flourishes” followed by the National Anthem. At that point, the bagpipe unit sounded its dirge and the casket was removed from the ' caisson and borne to the grave. As Mrs. Kennedy walked toward the grave she held to the hartd of Robert Kennedy. They took their positions "before the casket. ' Behind them ranged the oth(Continued on Page Two)