Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 286, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 286.

Kidnaped AmericanJ aX R a | (> Colonel Released

CARACAS, Venezuela (UPI) — A U.S. Army colonel, kidnaped eight days ago by a Communist terrorist underground organization, was freed today unharmed and “in good shape.” The unspectacular release at dawn of Col. James K. Chenault quelled growing fears about his safety after anonymous telephone callers had warned that he was considered a “prisoner of war.” Chenault, 45, a World War II veteran from Sherman, Tex., and for the past two years deputy chief of the U.S. military mission in Caracas, was released at 6 a.m. and took a taxi to his home. He was .wearing his uniform shirt and trousers when he feached home. , Maj. Joseph C. Elevens of the military mission said Chenault was in good shape. About the same time that Chenault was released, it was announced that “Lt. Col.” Juan de Dios Moncade, self-styled

Borders Steps Down As Chief

Mayor-elect Carl D. Gerber announced this morning that a new city police chief, to begin duties J January 1, will be named Friday to. replace chief James M. Borders who will be reduced to the rank of patrolman at his own request. Borders, who recently suffered a mild heart attack, submitted his request to be reduced in rank to the mayor-elect recently!? Gerber, who moves into the mayor’s office January 1, said he will accept the request and will not appoint Borders for the new year, but will name a new chief tomorrow. Borders ‘is finishing his 20th year as chief. As mayor, Gerber appoints a chief of police, fire chief, street commissioner, city attorney, etc. His appointments to fire chief and street commissioner as revealed 'in other stories in today’s paper. Asks Reduction Borders stated in his request, “A recent illness has made necessary a reduction of tension, responsibility and hours. With the above in mind, I respectfully request that in preparing your official family for the forthcoming tetm, I be permitted to return to the rank of patrolman for what time I have left.” The veteran chief suffered a heart attack late in October, forcing him to step down from his duties for a few weeks while recuperating. • He had submitted a similar request to the city council March 7 of 1961, asking for a reduction to patrolman, but the matter was taken under advisement. The chief Employment Total Cited For County Employment in Aaams county during the April-June quarter averaged 4,440 to jobs covered by employment securitv insurance, W'th a total of $5,124,707 paid in wa®es./an average of, $96.93 per worker per week in manufacturing/ The statistics were made avail--ahle Jn the November issue of “Labor Trends in Indiana," a monthly publications of the Indiana emnlnvment securitv division. The A 440 emnloved in covered industries and shops, and approximately 60 unemployed during that p°riod. represents about 48.7% of the total labor force of 9.240 in Adams countv 'in 1960, according to U. S. census figures. At the present time, unemployment in covered industries has been running between 80 and 90 a week, about 100 less than the 195962 average.* Employment has been consistently high in Adams cmuitv tor more then a year..,. .It represents . less" that? ■l% of the total work force, compared with 2% out of work in 1960, and 2.1% in 1950. Fort Wavne, unemployment averages 26% in October, well below the U. S. average of 4.7% for October. , Adams county averaged 4,361 employes in April, 4,476 'in May and 4.484 in June, or an overall three-mpnth average of 4,440. Wells averaged about 3,190 for the same period, and Jay about 4,290 Jay's average wage was $104.72, and Wells, $103.76.

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"supreme commander” of the FALN terrorist organization, was captured by goyerrgnent forces Wednesday night. It was not certain whether there was any connection between the ‘capture of Moncada and the release of Chenault. Venezuelan investig a t o r s questioned Chenault while he ate breakfast. He was scheduled to make a full report to U.S. Ambassador C. Allan Stewart. Chenault was kidnaped a week ago Wednesday as he left his home to drive to the U.S. military mission, situated at the Conejo Blanco army base on the outskirts of Caracas. Later, an anonymous phone caller told the U.S. embassy that “We will not harm him—we only want him for publicity.”

His kidnapers identified themselves as members of the proCastro Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a Communist underground terrorist group.

James M. Borders apparently changed his mind and the matter was forgotten. During the time the chief was ill recently, patrolman Grover Odle was named acting chief, and appears a probable successor to Borders in the burdensome job as the police chief. Dept. Growing The burden on the chief of the city police department is becoming heavier each year. The department now has 10 uniformed officers, including the chief and parking meter officer, two radio operators. and an appropriation of funds is available to add another uniformed member the first of 1964. The department will soon move into its new headquarters, in addition. The building is nearing completion and moving is expected to begin within a couple of weeks.' Borders is concluding his 25th year as a member of the city police force, and his 20th year as chief of police. He began his first day on the local police department January 1, 1939. Modem Methods The veteran chief is widely known throughout* law enforcement circles in Indiana, and has been the chief instigator in many of the modern methods of chimefighting and other duties of the Decatur force. It is believed that Borders has served as chief of police in this city longer than any other police chief in the state. When he requested the reduction in rank in 1961, he said at that time the position was becoming a load and a burden to him. He explained then that he could go on retirement any time he wished, but bis desires were to just be given the job of a patrolman. Borde r s served with the Criminal Investigation Division oi the United States Army during World War 11, and resumed his duties as chief,of the Decatur department upon his return. Taylor Funeral Rites On Friday Afternoon Funeral services for Thomas M. Taylor, former owner of State Gardens at Middleburv, 0., who died Sunday night in Florida, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Marquart funeral home in Monroeville. Burial will be in the IOOF cemetery at Monroeville. Friends may call at the funeral home until :time of the services.

Reduced, Library Funds Restored u, ■ fc.. '

I Bernard Clark

Mayor-elect Carl Gerber announced this morning that Bernard Clark has been appointed to serve as street commissioner for his administration and that Cedric Fisher has been re-appointed as fire chief. ■> Clark, presently a city councilman, served as street commissioner from 1956 to 1959 under mayor Robert Cole. “During that time he did a very good job,” said Gerber, commenting on the appointment. Fisher is presently serving as fire chief and has held that position for more than 15 years. Gerber said that he has not yet completed the other city appointments but will announce them within the next few days.

Ex-Governor Os New York Dies This Morning NEW YORK (UPl)—Herbert H. Lehman, who served as governor of New York during the depression years and later as a U.S. senator, died of a heart attack today. He was 85. K spokesman said Lehman, an ejder statesman of the Democratic party and a leader of its liberal wing, died at 9 a.m. EST at his Park Avenue apartment. On his 85th birthday last ~ March 28, Lehman was honored by the declaration of the date as Herbert Lehman Day m New York State. Lehman said at the time he didn’t know what all the fuss was about. ~ “My wife and I plan to be arbund for many more years,” he said. Lehman was a successful investment banker making a report $2 million a year when he decided to retire in 1928. Instead, he moved into a life of politics and public service. He is surivived by his widow, the former Edith Altschul who Was with him at his death, a son John, and a daughter, Holda. Another son, Peter, was killed in World War 11. Lehman served as governor for 10 years during the advent of the New Deal. He was the first director-general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). He was U.S. senator for seven years and in 1961 helped organize a reform Democrat group tn New York City to defeat his old poltical foe — Tammany Hall. “Few men in our history have had such a distinguished and brilliant career,” the then Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said of Lehman when the U.S. Senate honored him on his 73rd birthday March 28, 1955. Delay Granted To Convicted Slayer INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)— Attorneys for convicted slayer Michael Layton will have until March 9 to file briefs in his appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court. The high court granted the extra time Wednesday, the fourth time it allowed a delay in filng the brefs. Earlier, the court gave Layton's attorneys four delays in filing a transcript of the case. The transcript of.thecase. Tna transcript finally was filed Nov. 13.

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Cedric Fisher

Italian Political Crisis Finally Ends , ROME (UPI) — Italy ended: ... its month-long government crisis today with the swearing in of a new goernment dominated by. Christian Democrats and Marxists. Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro and his Socialist vice premier, Pietro Ninne, were confident that the new centerleft alliance would bring the nation stability after years of weak ‘ coalitions and cabinet shuffles. But other politicians feared that the inclusion of the Socialists in the cabinet could lead to Communist influence. Nenni and Moro are certain the result will be the opposite—that Socialist cooperation in the munists isolated and will end their former ability to wreck legislative programs. Moro, a firm friend of the West and advocate, of Italy’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, accepted the premiership Wednesday night, ending the crisis which began when Christian Democratic caretaker Premier Giovanni Leone resigned. The new cabinet — composed of Christian Democrats, Socialists, Social Democrats, and Republicans — is more than just another in Italy’s series of postwar governments. State Traffic Toll Increases To 1,211 Bjr United Press International A Peru man was killed early, today when his car went out 'of : control in Miami County and: smashed into two trees, increas-i ing Indiana's 1963 highway toll; to at least 1,211, compared with--1,119 a year ago. State Police said John Mills, I 45, was killed despite the fact' he wore a seat belt. However,: authorities said another seat: belt may have saved the life of Thomas Burke, 21, Peru, a passenger, who was injured. Police Said Mills’ car went out of control at high speed, skidded Shout 100 feet off U S 31 about two miles from Peru, .and plowed into the trees. A Henryville man was killed in a truck-train collision near Salem Wednesday. Wade Everett Fleming, 59, was killed when a four-car Monon Railroad majl train slammed into up truck at a crossing on a gravel road five miles west of Salem. • Engineer Henry Royalty, Lafayette, told police Fleming apparently made no effort to stop as he approached the crossing.

Revenue From Sales Tax To Reduce Rafes ; Reductions ranging from $.93 to ' $1.56 in the district school taxes ■ and restoration of the library tax ! rates which were previously cut by the Adams county tax adjust- ■ ment board have been announced by Adams county auditor E d I Jaberg. Rates for the libraries of Decatur. Berne and Geneva were slashed by the county tax adjusters and appealed by the library I boards to the state board of tax commissioners. The rates have been restored to their orig'inally proposed levels. The large cuts in the school tax are a direct result of the revenue which the schools will be receiving since the state sales tax has gone into effect. The tax levels were originally proposed when there was some doubt as to constitutionality of the sales tax The cuts are labeled by th> state board as “due to 'increase state support.” . , ■r North Adams Cut .93 r- North Adams community schools school fund for the district p .vas cut a total of 93 cents. The & cut 32 cents, from $1.32 to E $1.20. The school bond fund was ["cut four cents, from six cents §<to two cents. The tuition fund Iwas reduced 77 cents, from $2.10 ijjto $1.33. The Adams Central community schools rate was cut $1,17. Its tuition fund was reduced 87 cents from SI.BO to .93. The special - sehoool fund was reduced 26- centsfrom $1.32 to $1.06 and the school bond fund was reduced four cents from 16 to 12 cents. South Adams community schools received the biggest reduction, a slice of $1.56. The special school fund was reduced 27 cents from $1.56 to $1.29, and the tuition fund was cut $1.29. from $2.73 to $1.44. Library Rates Biggest beneficiary in—the. restoration of library rates was the Geneva library, which had had>ts rate’“slashed from 26 "cents’ to 18 cents. The rate was restored to 26 cents. The Decatur library rate was restored from 17 cents to 20 cents, its originally proposed level and the Berne library rate was restored from 23 to 25 cents, its originally proposed level. , There were also significant cuts in the tax rates of the county’s cities and towns. The biggest cut was at Monroe where the town general fund was reduced 50 cents, from $1.70 to $1.20 because .-of an "overestimate” of expendi--3 tores for the remainder of 1963 rand an “underestimate”, of mis- — cellaneous revenue. -r The Decatur tax rate was reeduced a total of nine cents. The ‘ general fund was reduced nine cents, the street fund .025 cents land the recreation fund 005 cents. 1 -The Berne general fund was retwo cents. The General S general fund was reduced 17 cents 3 and the Geneva- recreation fund S was reduced two cents. .* The two 3 cent recreation cut completely 3 eliminated the town’s recreation 3 budget. This was done tiecause 3'he South Adams community levy includes a recreation 3 budget: General Fund Cut .08 " The county general fund rate 'awas reduced tight cents from =5.75 to $.67 because of an over--estimate of 1963 expenditures and -•n underestimate of nvtscellan-j-equs revenue The county wcl--fare fund was reduced .001, from I-$lO to $.099. , 1 Cuts in township rates were: „ Blue Creek: township fund — reduced .01 from .14 to .13 because qf overestimate of expenses t for remainder of 1963. Pay of trustee's office rent, clerical [ ary and travel expense reduced S4O to be applied to trustee salary due to exceeding the statutory maximum. > French: township fund — reducj (Continued on Page Six)

Over 3,000 Train Tickets Are Claimed More than 3,000 children have picked up tickets for rides on the three Santa Claus trains leaving the Decatur Erie station at 10 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 4 p.m. Saturdey, Walt Ostermeyer, chairman of the retail division’s Santa Claus train project, said today. The 23 active members of the Delta Theta Tau sororty, aided by Girl Scouts and high school girls, will sell pop corn on all cars of the three trains, the proceeds to go to the Good ■ Fellows campaign, Mrs. Mel Weisman, chairman of the popcorn project for the sorority, said today. 7th Annual Train The seventh annual Santa Claus train is expected to be the biggest ever, Ostermeyer stated. Decatur stores are prepared to take care of large numbers of parents who will want to shop while their children are on the rides. Every individual who rides must have a ticket Obtained in advance. Children’s tickets must be picked up by adults from one of the 45 stores which make the train ride possible by underwriting the ticksets. Some stores on the list, published Nov. 27, still have tickets available; two years ago one store still had them on Saturday, when someone failed to pick up promised tickets. A check of the stores by parents is advised, since there is no central office which would know if* the tickets havebeen exhausted. Must Have Tickets “Adult tickets, must be purchased at the Decatur Chamber office. Parents are asked to write the age of the child on the children’s tickets. Santa Claus will make his way through the entire train, and talk to each of the children, if timg . allows. - This- is one of the- central features on the train ride. The train ride is a great treat to young children, many of whom have never taken a ride on a train. All children seem to love the big, noisy engines, and enjoy . being with the other children on the annual ride. Nurses and »11 r >,i ■>' . a ides -wUK be presaafc ft » any minor cuts or bruises that occur. The train goes to Ohio City, and returns just long enough for Santa Claus to make his way through the train. Merchants who want to get additional tickets for their customers have been informed that extra tickets are still available, but that there are not many, and they will be gone shortly. Assassination Probe Commission Meets WASHINGTON (UPI)—A blue ribbon commission to investigate the Kennedy assassination held its first formal meeting today. A top Justice Department official and a shorthand stenog-» rapher were the only” outsiders present. As the organizational meeting began behind closed doors, Deputy Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katz.cnbach was on hand along with the seven commission members named by President Johnson to conduct the special inquiry. A spokesman for the group told newsmen that none of the of the panel had any statement before the meeting began and t|ierc was little likelihood any would be forthcoming after the session. The commission, headed by Chief Justice Ehrl, Wtfrren. “is expected to proceed carefully in Its investigation, partly because Jack Ruby, Dallas night club owner who shot to death the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, faces trial on murder charges. * No full report to the President is expected to emerge in the immediate future although a commission spokesman said that statements by the commission might be issued “from time to tirfte'' through the Supreme Court press office.

'' A. <wW" : WlkSraSf wB wl Ci ■ SferJl 3 v WRAPPING GIFTS— Left to right—Mrs. W. Lowell Harper, Mrs. Roberppoch and Mrs. Simeon J. Hain. Jr., are pictured wrapping Christmas gifts for mental patients at the Richmond state hospital at the collection depot at the Gas Co. office in this city. The campaign for gifts, sponsored by the Adams county mental health association. has been extended -to Saturday of this week, as the quota was not met by the Dec. 1 deadline.—(Photo by MacLean'

REDDY FEATHER SAYS: AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE "LESS THAN $2,000 BOY SCOUTS 'V. T 0 ®°- TODAYS W TOTAL IS GIRL SCOUTS Hk $27,605 CRIPPLED CHILDREN SOC. FIA P LITTLE & PONY LEAGUES The Goal Is dS 0 Ofcl $28,993 mental health . W fu „ d COMMUNITY CENTER Still Needs AMERICAN RED CROSS $1,388.” Give The United Way Church Heads Ask Civil Rights Bill

PHILADELPHIA (UPI) — . Protestant — church leaders-— from — all parts of the nation moved today to muster public support for a discharge petition to pry the administration’s - civil rightsbill out of the House Rules Committee. A resolution urging millions of church members to write to , their congressman, supporting the discharge petition, was presented to the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches for this - morning.' The resolution, endorsed in advance by assembly leaders from maim Protestant denominations, voiced strong Support for prompt passage of the stalled civil rights bill, and bade church members to apply all possible public pressure to members of Congress to insure its speedy enactment. It endorsed the discharge’ petition which .requires the signature of 218 House members to briqg the bill to the floor without a goahead from the traffic - cop Rules Committee. Bishop Riieben H. Muqjler, Indianaixilis, Ind., took over as president of the National Counccil today with a pledge to ‘‘make more prominent” in the group's activities ‘‘the basic purpose of the Christian faith.” Bishop Mueller. 6(5, jan Evangelical ProteStaritT’ indicated he -wants churches to put more emphasis on their basic mission of "bringing people into encounter with the living God.” He added that there should _be no "subtracting” from any of the council’s past concerns for social issues. He said he plans to. "continue and intensify” the work of the National Council’s Commission on Religion and Race, which is seeking to involve church members actively in the fight for racial justice. Btshbp Mucdlef was 'Me(ted • President Wednesday night at the group’s triennial General Assembly here to succeed J. Irwin . Miller, of Columbus, Ind., ' wealthy industrialist and the first laymjan to head the council. The new president, who is , senior bishop of the Evangelical United Brethren Church (EUB), will serve a three-year term as chief spokesman for the National Council, which represents 31 major Protestant and Orthodox denominations with 40 million

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members.* } — Bishop Mueller, who is known as an “enlightened conservative," said he would like to see the National Council devote more time and- energy —to achieving a genuine spiritual rebirth in America. He said he feels the Council's i programs have been ‘‘well-bal-anced” but his strong emphasis on spiritual renewal may ease some of the controversy . in. many council circles in recent ''"■rho bishop is the first national council president to come froin one of the smaller denominations and his election was gratifying to Evangelical Protestants who have felt that theological liberals have dominated the national council leadership, The strength ot the 800,000- ’ membership EUB denomination is i concentrated in areas of Pennsylvania and in the Mid-, west settled by German immigrants. The EUB is Methodist in heritage and is negotiating a merger with the Methodist Church which is scheduled to be completed in 1968. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight. Friday partly sunny and warmer. Low tonight in 20s north, 25 to 32 south. High Friday 44 to 59. Sunset today 4:21 p.m. Sunrise Friday 6:52 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair to partly cloudy with temperatures a little above normal. Low Friday night 25 to 32. * high Saturday 38 to 48.

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