Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 281.

Sad Thanksgiving For Kennedy Clan

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (UPD—Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and her two children were surrounded today by reminders of what used to be their happiest days. This was the summer playground for the President, Jacqueline, Caroline and John-John. The grieving 34-year-old widow and her children flew here Thursday for a sad Thanksgiving reunion with the heartbroken Kennedy clan. The only members missing were Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their eight children who spent the sorrowful holiday in the McLean, Va. The traditional Thanksgiving Day reunion and dinner followed the same pattern as others—but it wasn’t the same. ' ' ~ No Laughter There was no laughter or joy. The celebrated touch football game was missing. And there was no ice skating party at the rink just outside the village. As usual 75-year-old Joseph P. Kennedy, former ambassador and father of the assassinated President, sat at the head of the table. The dinner was held at his spacious, 17-room mansion. The elder Kennedy has been paralyzed and to a wheel chair since a stroke in December 1961. I Since his stroke, it had been I

Record High In Fall Taxes

Adams county treasurer William Linn reported this morning that the fall tax distribution figure for the county is $1,208,853 72, a record for the fall tax figure. The figure brings the total which the county hae received this year to an increase of $326,879.65 over the 1962 total and astronomically higher than the sll7 which was received in 1836, the first year that the county was organized as a separate taxing unit. The spring receipts for this year were $1,407,966.58. The tax receipt figures have risen steadily in recent years. The 1961 total was $2,227,223.50, with a spring distribution figure of $1,191,550.70 and a fall figure of $1,035,672.80. The total 1962 figure was $2,289,940.65.

Holiday Toll Below Normal

By United Press International The death pace pn the nation’s highways fell below the, normal for a non-holiday weekend on the second day of the long Thanksgiving holiday today. Since the holiday period began at 6 p.m. Wednesday, automotive deaths had been occurring at the rate of 4.1 an hour. Major Robert Huie Is Taken By Death Maj. Robert S. Huie, Jr., 44, retired, U. S. Army, of 6048 East 21st St., Indianapolis, died Wedday evening at the Army hospi- *’ tai at Ft. Benjamin Harrison following a lengthy illness. He was born in (Jlmaha, Neb., Nug. 18 t 1919. the son of Robert, Sr. and Amelia Torno-Huie, and resided in Siuox City,' la., prior to entering military service <Jn 1940. v Maj. Huie was a member of the Catholic church. . Surviving are his wife, Patsy Ruth; W parents; four daughters. Miss Suzan"Rifle of lMfanapdh£' Mrs. Marbethe Giorgenti of Sioux City, la., Mrs. Mary Karol Van Bogart, of Santa Ana, Calif., and Miss Tana Huie of Long Island,® N. Y.; two sons Kimberly Huie of Indianapolis, and Robert Huie 111 of Long Island, N. Y,; one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Sefton of Grand Rapids, Mich., and three grandchildren. Funeral services and burial, arranged by the Gillig & Doan funeral home of the city, will be held in Arlington National cemetery in Virginia.

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the President’s job to carve the turkey. It was not disclosed who did the carving Thursday. The Kennedy elan children ate their dinner first. Just about as the older members of the famous family were sitting down to dinner, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he ■ was renaming Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy. Return Home Following the dinner, Mrs. Kennedy and other members of the family returned to the late President’s home where the lights burned late into the night. Mrs. Kennedy and the two children, Caroline who was 6 Wednesday, and John-John who was 3 Monday, the day his father was buried, were expected to remain on the Cape through the weekend. Thursday was the 1 first time since her husband’s slaying that Mrs. Kennedy saw the former ambassador, who was not able to attend the fui neral in Washington. Mrs. Kennedy visited the late I President’s flower covered grave in Arlington National Cemetery just before leaving Washington. She and her children were the last members of the family to i—arrive here for the sad reunion. ■ Other members arrived aboard iHthe family plane Caroline.

The figures by taxing units are: Union ... $28,812.56 Root ... 64,795.08 Preble. 41,022.78 Kirkland 42,299.90 N. Washington 21,578.44 S. Washington 41,537.15 St. Mary’s 47,740.84 N. Blue Creelfc. 27,342.37 S. Blue Creek 5,000.18 N. Monroe 50,115.84 S. Monroe .... 17,373.12 N. French 32,942.71 S. French 9,074.55 Hartford 33,913.80 Wabash - 63,495 43 Jefferson 26,768.13 — 13,062.85 Monroe-Washington 1,898.72 Berne ... 149,488.2? Geneva- 37,063.98 Decatur-Washington 304,994.68 Decatur-Root -- 127,811.76

The National Safety Council said the average death toll for a non-holiday period would be approximately 4.6 an hour. A United Press International count at 12:30 p.m. EST showed 173, traffic deaths since the holiday weekend began. The breakdown: Traffic 173 Fires 10 Planes 10 Miscellaneous 25 Total 218 California led the auto death count with 12, followed by Illinois and Michigan with 11 each, Texas with 10 and North Carolina with 9. Five members of a Tennessee family ta route to a Thanksgiving dinner with relatives were killed Thursday when their private plane crashed in a field about 40 miles west of Knoxville, Tenn. Four college freshmen died when their single engine plane crashed and burned on Mt. Wachusett near Princeton, Mass., Thursday night. The National Safety Council does not keep tabs on the Thanksgiving holiday death toll but said about 472 persons would die in traffic accidents during a normal non-holiday pe- ■« tMI 6 p.m., Wednesday to_ midnight Sunday this time of year.' INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, windy and colder tonight and Saturday. Scattered snow flurries likely. Low tonight 25 to 32. High Saturday In the 30s. Sunset today 5:22 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 7:46 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy. Snow flurries likely near Lake Michigan. Lows in the 20s. Highs in the 30s and low 40s.

Urges First Gifts I For Mentally 111 | “If you traditionally start your Christmas shopping the day after Thanksgiving, make your first selection for a hospitalized mental patient. Join the Adams county association for mental health in providing gifts' to brighten the holiday season for those thousands who will be unable to spend the holidays with their families and friends,” Mrs. Robert Boch Decatur area chairman, appealed today. “Boxes to collect Christmas gifts for mental patients are still open and unfilled. Hundreds of gifts are still needed, in order to make sure that every patient in Indiana mental hospitals is remembered. Even if it’s only a new deck of cards, a can of pipe tobacco, or a bright new lipstick to gladden a feminine heart — add one gift to your shopping list. Leave your gift at a collection depot. But do It today. Time is getting short. “Mental illness knows no sea- ’ sons — takes no holidays — plays no favorites. It can happen to anyone — just as it has happened to the 18,000 men and women now in our state hospitals. Young and . old, many of these patients have no families. One in five has received no mail for over a year. This is why your Adams county mental health association urges you to remember patients with a Christmas gift. Your gift will be a reminder that somebody really does care — Actually, mental patients are no different from other people. They like to receive the same gifts you would give to your relatives and friends. “Collection depots a r e at the Gas Co. office and the E. F. Gass store in Decatur, the Zurcher Mobil station in Monroe, Yager Furniture store in Berne, and the Dorothy Laßue shop in Geneva.” The Deadline is Dec. 1 . Mary Jane Saylors Is Taken By Death Mrs. Mary Jane Saylors, of 104 South Fifth street, a resident of Decatur for many years, died at 5:12 o’clock Wednesday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been in failing health for several years and critically ill for several months. She was a native of Sabetha, Kan., a daughter of Alfred C. and Ella Jane Aults-Bingham. Mrs. Saylors was a member of the First Presbyterian church. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Briet weiser of Sabetha, Kan., and Mrs. Herbert (Anne) Johnson of New Britain, Conn.; one niece, Mrs. Thomas (Patricia) Andrews of Rota, Spain; three nephews, Paul Breitweiser of S;. A.X Johnson of New Britain, Conn., and Dr. Theodore Johnson of San Francisco, Calif., and a number of cousins. Funeral services will be held at 10 am. Saturday at the Winter-egg-Linn funeral home, with the Rev. Elbert Smith, Jr., officiating. The body will be taken to Sabetha, Kan., for burial. There will be no viewing of the body but friends may calll at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. Youth Given Fine, Suspended Sentence Ronald Eugene Myers, 18, was fined $25 and costs and given a suspended sentence of six months by Judge Myles F.‘ Parfish in the Adams circuit court this morning. Myers had entered a plea of guilty to a charge of third degree burglary. After suspending his sentence. Judge Parrish ordered him on probation during the six months period. Myers and his family have moved to. Albion, and his records will be transferred to the Noble aounty probation officer, to whom he will report during his probationary period. • The youngster received an identical fine and suspended sentence that wa».4evt«< WaW ♦< old Roger D. Death of Decatur last week. Both were involved in the theft of automobile transmissions from a local service station August 19. James L. Plasterer, 24, of Van Wert, and Larry G. Baumbartner 21, of 216 N. Fourth St., are 81son involved in the transmission case. Both have been charged with receiving stolen goods, to which they have entered pleas of not guilty. No date for appearance has been set as yfet for them, as both have received continuances.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 29, 1963.

Johnson Tells Military Leaders Abide By Pledge To Congress For Economy

REDDY FEATHER SAYS: AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE 'LESS THAN $2,000 BOY SCOUTS T 0 G - TODAY'S ft... TW TOTAL ,s GIRL SCOUTS MA $27 553 CRIPPLED CHILDREN SOC. ’ LITTLE & PONY LEAGUES Bgji The Goal dso - B $28,993 SALVATION ARMY WEf mental health W Comm Y „° Uß Fund COMMUNITY CENTER JL Still Needs AMERICAN RED CROSS $1,440.” Give The United Way

Mrs. Mary A. Myers Dies Al Willshire Mrs. Mary Alice Myers, 89, a resident of the Willshire, 0., community most of her life, died at the home of a 'daughter, Mrs. Bess Jewell 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the home in Willshire. She had been bedfast for the past three months. She was born in Champaign county, O.j April 17, 1874, a daughter of Austin and Amanda Rinaker - Evans, and was married to John L. Myers Dec. 25, 1892. Her husband preceded her in death March 24, 1952. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Hazel DeArmond of Rockford, 0., Mrs. Bernice Acheson, Mrs. Bess Jewell and Mrs. Carroll (Lois) Geisler, all of Willshire; one son, Homer Myers of Long Beach, Calif.; 12 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren, and one brother, S. L. Evans .of Detroit, Mich. One son, Merman, is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m ( Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Albert Swenson officiating. Burial w>ill be in Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. New Street Lights For North Second * Lawrence Kohne, head of the city council’s street light committee, this morning asked N. Second street residents to be patient for the next few days with the street lighting in that area of town. ’ The street lights on the street have been out for three nights due to a short in the lines which is causing Indiana & Michigan quite a bit of difficulty. Repair of the short would be quite costly. Kohne said, so they will not be repaired since the neW lights on N. Second are near completion. There will be 22 new lights on the street, and the poles for the hew light have been erected. All that remains is "stringing” the lights before they will be turned on. ...y Rather than go into costly repair for use of the old lights for a short time, the city and I & M will wait until the new lights go into operation. Three From County In Student Teaching MUNCIE, Ind. - Three Adams county rom Ball State 'Teasers 'VfiF'WJ. WtL tlme student teaching December 5, according to Dr. E. Graham Pogue, director of student teaching. Rebecca Maddox, Decatur, will teach second grade under Mary Moran at Northwest school, and Pattrick Franklin, Decatur, will teach sixth., grade at Southeast elementary school under Raymond Lehman. Participating elsewhere is Linda Kay Wilhoite, Geneva. who will teach home economies under Janet Finch at Portland high school, Portland.

Memorial Services Os Elks On Sunday Annual memorial services of the Decatur Elks lodge to honor deceased members of the fraternal Organization, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the lodge home on North Second street. James A. St. Myers, a prominent member of the Elks lodge at Union City; will deliver the memorial address. St. Myers is a former exalted ruler of the Union City Elks lodge and a former district deputy of the lodge for the “astern district of Indiana The service will open with the processional, played by Mrs. William Gass, followed by the opening by Frank Lybarger, past exalted ruler of the local lodge. Special music will be isovided by a .male quartet. Lawren Arnold, Earl DeWeese, Laures Meyer and LaVern Roth. The roll call of deceased members, will be read by V. J. Bormann, lodge secetary, followed by the memorial address. The services will close with benediction by the lodge chaplain. Members who have died since the memorial service one year ago ar A. L. Colchin and Harold Daniel. All members of the lodge are urged to attend, also families of members and deceased members. The service is open to the public. Decatur Ministere Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will'hold its December meeting at 9:30 a.rp. Monday at the Zion United Church of Christ. The " Rev. J. O. .Penrod, pastor of the Decatur E. U. B. church-Trinity, will lead the devotional period. Fla! Rock Church To Install New Pastor Installation service for the Rev. Donald E. Frank, formerly of Inkster, Mich., will be held at St. ..John Lutheran church, Flat Rock, Sunday evening at 7 o’clock. The Rev. A. A. Fenner, circuit counselor, will officiate and deliver the sermon. The Rev. Otto ■ Mueller, Em manual. Wayne Trace, will serve as liturgisf, while Mrs. Charles Reynolds will be the organist. Both the adult choir of St. John's and the children of grades 7 and 8 will sing special‘anthems. '' .... Born in Chicago*, Rev. Frank began his rffinisterial training at Concordia College, Fort Wayne, graduating in 1950. He continued his studies at Concordia (Seminary, St. Louis, and was graduated in 1955 As vicar, Rev. Frank served Lutheran congregations at Towson, Md , and Detroit, Mich. His first call was to be “missisnary at large” in the Allied Gardens of San Diego, Calif. In 1958 he accepted a call to become pastor of Our Master Lutheran church of Inkster, Mich., where he served until coming to St. John, Flat* Rock Nov. 21. Mrs. Frank is the former Evelyn Fnthauer of Fort Wayne. The Franks have three sons, Timothy, Thomas, and u Daniel. A reception in the fellowship hall of the church will follow the installation service. s

WASHINGTON (UPD'—President Johnson told the nation's military leaders today that he expects them to abide by his economy pledge to Congress that the government will get "a dollar’s vlaue for a dollar spent” undep his regime. The White House said Johnson emphasized this point to the Joint Chiefs of Staff at his first rormal meeting with them as President. Acting Press Secretary Andrew T. Hatcher- said the leaders outlined their operating procedures to Johnson . and that the new President did not contemplate calling for any change in this arrangement. Johnson’s meeting with Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman, and the other joint chiefs who are the military heads of each armed service, began a busy round of conferences today by the President on international and domestic matters. ~ Briefed By Bundy He began his day with an intelligence briefing from McGeorge Bundy, special assistant for national security affairs. The Bundy briefing will become a daily event. Under the late President John F. Kennedy, the intelligence briefings had been conducted by military' aides. After sitting for his first formal portrait’s at his White House desk. Johnson met with the joint chiefs and then conferred with Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. Bundy and central International Agency Director John A. McCone. He next met with Secretary of State Dean Rusk for a fur~ffieF"discuss®' br Toreigif “pblicy and security matters. Then, he discussed pending legislative problems with sptecial legislative problems with special assistant La wrence O'Brien, congressional liaison aide, and deputy special counsel Myer Feldman. Johnson discussed legislativg matters by telephone with House Speaker John W. McCormack and Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield. It was announced that these contacts would also be part of the President's daily routine. Meets With Wilkins Next on Johnsonls. ..schedule. was a meeting with Roy Wilkins. executive secretary of. the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACPi. This centered on the civil rights program on which Johnson called for action when he addressed a joint session of Congress Wednesday. In that address, Johnson pledged to administer federal spending with the upmost thrift and frugality. “I will insist that the government get a dollar's value for a dollar spent. The government will set an example of prudence and economy. > This does not mean we will not meet our unfilled needs or that we will not honor our commitments. We will do both.’’ Hatcher said it was this point that Johnson emphasized to the joint chiefs in connection with its application to defensp agencies. / Johnson's talks with aides after arrival ht the White House at 9:36 am. EST, undoubtedly dealt with the possibility of new Communist pressures in such world trouble spots as West Berlin. 21 J , SHOPPING VTjj DAYS LEFT . CHRISTMAS SEALS fight TB and Other RESPIRATORY DISEASES ■MBBEBS ° HRSKK] oHßi*TM**y g •■'■■timos (J

American Bishops Named To Key Posts

VATICAN CITY (UPU-Ecu-menical Council’ fathers today *■: elected six Americans to key < council commission posts newly i created by Pope Paul VI to help speed up council action. The secretary general of the ( coune+l, Archbishop Pericje Felici, also announced the working ’ dates of the council's third session as Sept. 14 to Nov. 20, 1964. ' Only one Italian was elected to one of the 43 newly-created posts in what was generally in- ' terpreted as -a victory for the council's liberal majority. The po,st.'s ..of .the council's 12 commissions, including the secretariat for promoting Christian unity, were created by Pop Paul in a move to speed up ■ council action and better balance the commissions which in some eases have acted as conservative roadblocks to key council documents. The Italian and Spanish heirarchics. in an unsuccessful lastminute move, were reported to have submitted Their own lists of candidates as alternatives to the generally more liberal list drawn up from combined nominations of r all national hierarchies present at the council. The voting took place Thursday and election results were at this morning’s session. • The U.S. prelates elected were: Bishop Gerard McDevitt, auxiliary of Philadelphia, to the commission for the religious; Bishop John Comber, superior general of the Maryknoll cfor- , eign missibharies, to the missions commission: Bishop Loras Lane of Rockford, 111., to th’e commission for seminaries; Bishop Allen Babcock of Grand Rapids, Mich., to the commission on the laity and press: Bishop Charles Helmsing of Kansas City, Mo', and Bishop Ernest Primeau of Manchester, N 11., both to the secretariat for . promoting ChiusUan. uuitx, ........ Another American-born bishop, John Taylor, who is currently stationed in Scandinavia, was elected to the commission for thp sacrament.

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The council went into its next 'to last work session of 1963 today with its debate on Christian unity still uncompleted. An official observer for the World Methodist Council. Rev. Albert C. Outlet of Dallas, said the key section of the Christian unity document relating to Protestants is the section on “communities that have arisen from the 16th Century onwards.’’ ’The section recognizes the Roman Catholic Church's "special family link and close relationship” with the communities which arose in the 16th Century in “the very grave crisis then afflicting Western Christianity.” The crisis referred I’d is the Protestant split from the Catholic Church in the Reformation started bv Martin Luther in 1517. Local Lady's Mother Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Emma Goeglein, 82, •of 9s 12 Marysville road, Fort Wayne, riled Thursday morning at Parkview memorial hospital of injuries sustained in a fall down a basement stairs at her home ~Wednesday-evening . — - — She- was a’ lifelong resident of Allen county. She and her husband. Herman Goeglein. celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary last May. Mrs. Goeglein was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran churmch. Surviving are her husband- two daughters. Mrs. Arnold Bruiek of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Walter Stcppenhagen of Decatur; three giandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Funeral rites will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the E. Harper & Son funeral home at New Haven. and at 2:30 p. m. at St. PetXXLs...Liithci.iti church. The RpyiE. D Busch will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m/today until tune of the services. ,