Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 3 December 1963 — Page 2

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Condolences Pour Into While House WASHINGTON <UPI) — Tens of thousands of letters and telegrams of condolence are still pouring into the White House from all over the world; Mrs. John F. Kennedy expressed her “great appreciation’’ Monday to those who have written to her and her two children. The former First Lady conveyed her thanks through WhiteHouse Secretary Pierre Salinger. At last count, 293.000 letters and 26.000 telegrams had been received, all addressed personally to the young widow or the children. Salinger said that “bags and bags and bags” of mail are still to be opened and counted. Another estimated 300,000 letters and telegrams have been sent to Hyannis ‘ Port. Mass., home of the Kennedy family. These are being forwarded to the White House. Salinger said Mhe messages "have not only been a source of comfort to her but have renewed her strength with a knowledge of how many Americans and people abroad share her pride in the President and all that he Stood for."

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PHILADELPHIA (UPD * — Protestant church leaders will pay a unique tribute tonight to America’s first Catholic President, In Philadelphia's mass iv e ■ Convention Hall, more than 5,000 representatives of 31 major denominations will join in “thanking God for the “inspired leadership, unswerving vision and courageous dedication” of John F. Kennedy. The interdenominational memorial service for the assassinated President will be held in connection with the triennial General Assembly of the National Council of Churches. It marks the first time in its history that the Council has devoted an entire assembly session to honoring the memory of one man. * Some Os the Protestant leaders who will take part in tonight’s tribute were among those who publicly expressed fear, during the 1960 presidential campaign, that a Catholic i President might jeopardize religious liberties. Refused Fears During his brief presidency, Kennedy refuted those fears and won the confidence and refl Q 20 Years Ago Today 0 0 Dec. 3. 1943— Complying with orders from the war production board, no colored Christmas lights will be strung in Decatur this holiday season for the second straight year. Final figures show the Adatns county war bond quota was oversubscribed nearly 50 per cent, with sales totaling $158,212.50 as compared to the quota of $107,371. Ferd Klenk, of Arnold & Klenk. has announced the opening of the firm’s new store on Madiscn ■ street. —- ——-—-. . The So Cha Rea chfb held its annual Christmas party at the American Legion home. The' annual banquet of the Adams county fish and game conservation league will be held at the Knights of Pythias home Dec. 13. with rabbit, ducks, and wild Canadian geese on the menu. The Decatur Commodor.es Were] edged out by the Willshire, 0., Bearcats, 22-21.

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spect of Protestant leaders as have few president’s in modern times. Kennedy had accepted an invitation to address the General Assembly tonight. Instead of scheduling a substitute speaker, council leaders arranged for the memorial service, conducted by the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church and former president of the National Council. Dr. Blake said the service would pay tribute especially to Kennedy's “championship of liberty and equality” and to his “leadership on behalf of civil rights and racial justice.” The struggle for racial justice has emerged as the dominant concern bt the General Assembly. The council’s retiring president, industrialist J. Irwin Miller of Columbus, Ind., declared Monday that “race relations is ; our No. 1 challenge.’’ [ “Unless churches take a con- . vincing, effective, courageous stand on this overriding moral issue, nothing else they do is going to count for very much,” Miller warned. Engaged in Fight The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the Commission on Religion and' Race which the council established last June, reported at a dinner meeting Monday night that an ever-growing number of white church members are “deeply engaged” in the fight j for Negro rights. 1 “This is the fundamental chal- > lenge to Christian laymen in this country,” he said. “Are t they willing to change the habitual ways of doing things : which perpetuate white suprem- ■ acy? Deeper than that, are they • willing to take a good hard look > at their communities, their businesses, their churches, their carefully guarded social enclaves, and try to see them through the eyes of a Negro?” The Rev. Dr. W.A. Wisser 'T Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, - called in another address for “internationalization” of missionary activities. “There is much evidence that t international teams can break (through walls of suspicion and misunderstanding in away that national missionary teams cahnot,” said the world council leader.

r' ’ i fjy. □MB^Wft^^MMM^MKB^"'R ; <- t _- -,. • -A ■ FROM BANKERS TO NEWSBOYS— Personnel from the First State Bank will assume the roll of newsboys on the 4p. m. Santa Claus train Saturday. Weldon Bumgernder, Erie Lackawanna station agent, is shown above officially tagging Herman Krueckeberg, William Lose, Robert Boch and Jud Bleeke, left to right. The four will distribute the “Train Ride News,’’ and “The Wheel of Progress,” to each person on the train. Other Decatur merchants will be newsboys on the other two trains. The “Train Ride News” contains information about the makeup of the train and the sights to be seen on the trip to Ohio City and back while “The Wheel of Progress” is by the Association of American Railroads, giving general railroad information in comic book form which wiH prove interesting to everyone.—(Photo by Mac Lean) , ''

Await Final Evidence On Coliseum Blast INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Marion County authorities investigating the Coliseum explosion which took 72 lives for possible crimes of omission or commission today expected the last piece of evidence. Prosecutor Noble Pearcy said he expected to receive a copy of exhaustive tests run on five liquid petroleum tanks believed responsible for the holocaust which injured nearly 400 persons Halloween night. The Marion County grand jury investigation is one of two that have been under-way since two gas exp lesions ripped up through a tier of grandstand seats, hurling victims and chunks of concrete onto the ice at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum just as an ice revue wound up. ' The other probe is being conducted by a blue-ribbon team of city, county, and state fire and police officials. Both tehms needed the Purdue test results before a final analysis could be made.. Pearcy said he and his chief trial deputy, Leroy K. New, would study the results and the grand jury would convene Thursday for what was expected to be the final session on the blast. Pearcy said the jury should return a report Dec. 9. The jurors are slated to hear Dr. Harry Solberg, Purdue University professor, explain the technical portions of the rerport when they meet Thursday, Pearcy said. He said the earliest a report could be made would be- Monday . - • Earlier. Pearcy had said he thought the report might be ready this week. At least four persons remained in critical condition from injuries suffered in the tragedy, the worst disaster ever to hit the Hoosier Capital. New $1 Bills Are Received By Bank Don’t worry if your new $1 bills don’t look exactly like the old—a new issue is now in town, it was learned today. About a, week ago the First State Bank received its first shipment of $1 bills-, which are Federal Reserve certificates rather than silver certificates .- The bill resemble the $5 and $lO bills, and no longer have a statement that they are redeemable in silver.

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COURT NEWS Set far Hearing On a motion by the plaintiffs, the defendants’ demurrer to the complaint is set for hearing and determination Dec. 30 at 1:30 p.m., in tthe cases of Carol Nine vs. Stauffer Home’Reducing Co., arid Lorraine Distributing Co., and George Nine vs. the same two defendants. Ruled to Answer On a motion by the plaintiff, the defendants are ruled to answer absolute within 10 days of the date, in the complaint to foreclose case of Aluminum Acceptance Corp. vs. Wilford and Evelyn -Plasterer, . File for Contempt In the divorce case of Hazel E. Deßoo vs.' Harry L. Deßoo, a petition for citation and finding for contempt was filed and a citation ordered issued to the sheriff for the defendant, returnable Dec. 14 at 2:30 p.m. Set for Argument On a motion of the plaintiff, the defendant’s separate and several demurrer in the case of Arthur D. Suttles vs. Val-U-Dress Shops, Inc., is set for argument Dec. 13 at 9:30 a.m. Motion to Strike In the divorce case of Jackson Orrick vs. Mildred Orrick, venued froto Alien county,- a motion to strike from the files was filed and on a motion by the defendant, the defendant's motion to strike was set for hearing and determination Dec. 30 at 9:30 a.m. Set For Trial .. By agreement of the parties, the the complaint for damages case of Floyd Lauck vs. Bernard O. Renier, venuedfrdm Allen county, was set for trial Feb. 25, at 9:30 a.m. Marriage Applications Carl Lee Heiser, Decatur, and Judith Kay Bonbrake, Fort Wayne. Glen Edwin Gephart,- 518 Mercer Ave., and Maxine Nancy Massoth. 959 Highland Park. Willis Henry Conrad, route 1, Decatur, and Marlene Ruth Bulmahn, route 1, Decatur. Theft Os Bicycle l£_ Reported To Police A stolen bicycle report was filed with the city- police Monday by Dan Hardin, 922 N. Second St. A boy’s red and black. 20-inch model, the bicycle was stolen from the Decatur high -school grounds. Green Appointed To Expansion Council INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —Clinton Green, secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Port Commission, has been appointed a member of the President’s Regional Export Expansion Council by Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. Green is accepting the appointment said the council’s work “has a direct connection .with the work of the Indiana Port Commission in its development of feasibility studies for the Burns Ditch harbor." ■ '

Indiana Slate C. C. President Reelected INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Ottis T. Fitzwater, Indianapolis electric utility firm president, was re-elected president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce today. The chamber at its annual meeting also re-elected Walter W. Walb, Fort Wayne industrial executive, first vice president, and Otto N. Frenzel, Indianapolis banker, treasurer. The election was held during a day-long meeting featuring a luncheon address by Gerald L. Phillippe, president of General Electric Co., a firm which has plants employing about 10,000 persons in Fort Wayne, Decatur, Wabash, Shelbyville, Tell City, Linton and Mount Vernon. The membership elected four new vice presidents, Harold H. Dice and Jack E. Reich ,of Indianapolis, Frederick G. Jaicks, East Chicago, and Kenneth C. Williams, Evansville. © New directors elected were G. Robert Baer, Hagerstown; Robert P. Cronin, Hartford City; W. M. Daltpn, Warsaw; Charles S. Heitman, South Bend; W.' H. Kromann, New Castle, and E. H. Stonecipher, Columbus. ■ Directors re-elected were Clarence W. Bader, Gary; Carroll H. Blanchar, Plainfield; Frederick A. Dudderar, Gary; Newton M. Forsythe, Richmond; Welby M. Frantz, Terre Haute; Frederic M. Hadley, Crawfordsville; Allen C. Steere, Fort Wayne; Burr S. Swezey, Lafayette, and the following from Indianapolis: Roy C. Echols, Harry T. Ice, D. L. Mills, Wilson Mothershead, Joseph O. Waymire and Dr. Donald E. Wood. New Control Tower At Bunker Hill AFB WASHINGTON (UPD — The Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks announced through the office of Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., Monday it will call’ for bids for a new aircraft control tower at Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Ind. An aide to the senator explained that although no funds had been appropriated for the tower, the bureau was completing preliminary steps in order to expedite award of a contract when the money does become available-.

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Parley Dec. 7 On Status Os Women INDIANAPdLIS (UPD — The first conference sponsored by the Governor’s Commission on the status of women is expected to set a pattern for future work by a group whose members freely admit they do not know which way to go. Although the main talks at the day-long conference Dec. 7 will be given by Mrs. Esther Peterson, assistant secretary of labor, and Governor Welsh, eight other men and.women are to speak during two panel-type programs. From the response invoked by the topics discussed by the eight panelists, the commission hopes to determine where its efforts most are needed. The eight topics cover all the areas which are under consideration for priority of attention The topics and speakers are: “Laws Affecting the Civil and Empoyment Status of Women,” Municipal Judge Joseph Myers, Indianapolis. “State Employment and Civil Service,” director Lewis F. Nicolini of the Indiana Employment Security Division. “Women in Business and Industry,’’ Paul Slanihka, personnel director, Radio Corporation of America, Indianapolis. “Participation of Women in Public Life,” State Sen. Martha Burnett, R-Indianapolis. “Special Services for Employed Women,” Doris E, White, executive director, Y. W. C. A., Indianapolis. “Women in the Professions,” Dr. Evelyn Perloff, Purdue University. “Women in the Public Schools,” William E. Wilson, Indiana superintendent ot public instruction. “Women In Post-High School Education,” Dr. Raymond S. Butler, Indiana University. Several hundred men and women from throughout the state already have made reservations for the conference. Following the speeches by Mrs. Peterson, Welsh, and Indiana labor commissioner Robert P. Butler, and the panel discussions, the listeners will become talkers after being divided into small groups. A summary of the discussions generated in each of the groups will end the conference. Dr. Eunice C. Roberts, Bloomington, chairman of the commission, said she believes the discussions will- help identify areas which should have priority for attention by the commission.

z ACTRESS SLAIN — Actress Karyn Kupcinet, 22, daughter of Chicago news columnist Irv Kupcinet, was found strangled to death in her Hollywood apartment.