Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 291.

Holman Egly Wins County Corn Contest Winners in the Adams county live-acre corn contest for 1963 announced by E. J. Lesiuk, county extension agent. Holman Egly is the first place winner with a yield of 198.2 bushels per acre. Ronald Habegger is the junior winner with a yield of 174.5 bushels per acre. In the five-acre soybean contest, Leroy Koi ter won with a yield of 41.16 bushels per acre. „ Rose gold medal winners in the senior five-acre contest, in addition to Egly, were: Ervin Schuller, 189.9; Edison Lehman, 184.0; Roy Lehman, 183.8; Elmer Beer, 179.2; Hugh David Mosser, 177.9. Green gold medal winners were: Mrs. Hugh David Mosser, 174.3; Sylvan Habegger, 172.6; L. Reuben Schwartz, 171.6; Benj. Mazelin, 171.3; John Kipfer, 171.1; Martin Habegger, 167.1; Hugo Bulmahn, 164.7; Ronald Rhoades, 164.7; Ernie Isch, 163.9; Eli Schwartz,<'l63.s; Leroy Kolter, 163.1; Doyle Lehman, 162.8. — Alice Rhoades, 159.1; Franklin Steury, 158.7; Perry Lsch, 158.5; Ben Gerke, 156.9; Edgar Thieme, 153.6; Robert Plumley, 153.4; Gilbert Bultemeier, 152.7; Richard Marbach, 150.5; Martin Kipfer, 150.4; Raymond Becker, Jr., 150.2; Theodore Kipfer, 150.0. Gold medal winners are: Ray Kipfer, 149.9; Harold Moser, 149.3; Elmer J. Isch, 149.2; Lester Adler, 148.8; Joe L. Isch, 148.0, Dwight Moser, 147.2; Roger Koenemann, 146.6; Marcus Luginbill, 145.7; Edward Marbach, 144.2; Mrs. Henry Heiman, 141.9; Irvin Worthman, 139.8; Wm. Kipfer, 139.3; Claude Striker, 139.2; Henry Heiman, 136.9; Don Fiechtei, 136.3; Richard Scheumann, 136.3; Delmas Bollenbacher, 133.3. Silver Award winners are: Edward Von Gunten, 124.7; Mrs. Del. Bollenbacher, 123.1; Merle Kuhn, 116.6; Mrs. Merle Kuhn, 111.0. Besides Habegger, the junior winners were: Jim LeFever, 171.4; Ronnie Lee Mosser, 166.2; Richard Schwartz, 156.1; Roy Mazelin, 155.4; Ron Schwartz, 153.9. Gold winner: Larry Plumlev, 144.4.,: . Silver winner: Judy Kay Mosser, 113.8. These award winners will be presented their pins and trophies at the farmer’s achievement banquet which will be held in the Berne school cafeteria March 3. Health Program On At Adams Central Mrs. Linda Honaker, (R. N.I, the Adams Central community school nurse, annountes the school health program for 1963-64 school year thus far has included a visuab screening program for grades 1,3, and 8 and an audioscreening program to be started the first part of January for grades 1,4, 7, and 10. ''The Rosenthal tine test for tuberculosis was recenthly given to children in grades 1,7, 9, and 12 who had parental consent cards returend to the school nurse. Also, the entire administration, teaching staff, secretaries, cooks, janitors, and bus drivers have all been tested to meet the standards set forth by the state board of health. In the school’s health program any child not included in the specific grades to be tested may receive the visual or audio-screening tests when referred by their teacher to the school nurse. A new audiometer was purchased for the hearing test and the school will also buy a. new machine for the eye-testing.

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Approve Increase In Savings Rates

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana residents soon will start collecting more interest on their bank savings deposits although, in some cases, the rates still will not match those in other states. The Indiana Board of Financial Institutions voted Tuesday to raise the ceiling on interest rates from the present 3 per cent to 3 per cent on passbook savings and to 4 per cent on time deposits—funds left in banks for six months or longer. The change will become effective Jan. 1. Most states raised their interest rates to a straight 4 per cent last year when the federal government raised the ceiling Board To Meet Herman H. Krueckeberg. vice president and cashier of the First State Bank of Decatur, stated this morning that the bank board is expected to meet before Jan. 1, and probably will approve the 3%% maximum interest payment on savings accounts for state banks, and 3ti% on 12-months ceritficates, which the ocher area banks seem to be anticipating. The bank is presently paying the maximum of 3% on each. The board, Krueckeberg stated, has not discussed this _ yet, but in. the opinion of the officers they will probably act. Many of the smaller banks of the state had opposed the proposed change to 4%, in keeping with state banks in other states, because they preferred to keep the cost of borrowed money, and other banK costs, low. Krueckeberg stAted that of course the board would have to review the bank’s financial structure in light of the proposed increase in interest payments, and it was logical to assume that some time in the near future a “slight stiffening” in loan rates might be necessary. This ■would not necessarily be a blanket increase, but would probably be a slight increase in certain areas, to keep the sound banking operation that the First State Bank has always maintained. and Indiana is the only state with a 3 per cent limit:Rushville banker Philip Willkie, one of the leaders in the campaign for higher interest rates in Indiana, said after the board's action that he now will push for a 4 per cent interest rate “across the board.” Willkie, who called Tuesday action a “partial vietpry,” said he had been promised support from President Dallas Sells of the Indiana State AFL-CIO. The campaign for the increased interest had brought a surprising alliance several weeks ago between Sells, a Democrat, and Willkie, a Republican and son of the 1940 GOP presidential nominee. Labor leaders, banks and businessmen had appeared at a public hearing prior to 'the vote

to express support or opposition to the proposed interest rate increase. Frank Moore, chairman of the board, said the reversal of the board’s previous stand against an increase was at least partially the result of “public demand.” Moore said the vote was unanimous for the increase but that he did not vote. He declined to give his opinion of the action. The three board members who switched their votes to approve the raise generally attributed their change to additional information about the effects of such an increase. Paul J. Sweeney, Vincennes, said he had “taken it upon myself to do -a more thorough analysis of the interest situation even before Mr. Willkie and the AFL-CIO got into this.’’ The board members also said they were influenced by a letter from Dr. Robert Turner, Indiana University business economist, who warned that the low interest rate was having an adverse effect upon the state’s economy/ Several of the speakers during the hearing warned that Indiana banks were unable to compete with banks or savings and loan associations which paid higher interest rates. Benton Gates of Columbia City, attorney for a group of • bankers opposed to the change, suggested that before the interest rate was increased the laws governing loan limits for Hoosier banks should be amended. E. Joseph Bannon, Lafayette banker, said the “obsolete laws are being studied. Any change is a grave matter and .we should not be stampeded until our banking laws are updated.” Moore noted, after the increase was approved, that a committee named by Governor Welsh to make a complete study of the state’s banking laws will continue its work and make recommendations to the 1965 Legislature. He also pointed out that the interest rate increase is permissive and said perhaps half the state’s banks would not raise their rates. TWO SECTIONS Rotarians To Meet Later On Thursday Thursday evening’s weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club at the Youth and Community Center will open at 6:30 o’clock, 15 minutes later than usual, it was announced today. ..The gtomv has been made, be, cause three of the contestants in the Rotary speech contest, which will feature*Thursday’s program! are members of the D.H.S wrestling team, which 4iars a meet at Fort Wayne Central Catholic Thursday evening. These three boys are expected ~to return to Decatur in compete in the speech contest.

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Frank Sinatra, Jr., Is Freed By Kidnapers As $ 240,000 In Ransom Paid

Johnson Talks U.N. Problems

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Johnson discussed United Nations problems with Adlai Stevenson and other advisers today, then turned his attention again to the nation’s military posture. Johnson arranged an appearance at the Pentagon to address top military and civilian officials of the Defense Department this afternoon. He apparSanta Claus Phone Service Next Week A direct telephone lirte is being hooked up this week between Decatur and the North Pole by the Decatur Jaycees, in preparation for their Santa Claus phone service next week, president Ftolph Biggs and project chairman Fat Nelson said this morning. The North Pole hook-up will be completed by the first of next week, and local and area children will be able to talk with Santa Claus at the Pole on three nights next week, through the Jayebb efforts. The children may talk with Santa between 6:30 and 8 p. m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week, by phoning 3-2135. The Santa Claus telephone has proven quite successful the past two years, with hundreds of children using the North Pole connection to tell Santa what they want for Christmas, how they have behaved, etc. Nickel Plate Line Is Reopened Today The Nickel Plate railroad line near Peterson has been repoened by repair crews, following the early Tuesday morning derailment. Repair crews worked around the clock as heavy machinery was brought in to clear the path of the tracks of debris. After the debris. was cleared, new tracks were laid by railroad crews and the line was opened this morning. Lawrence (Bing) Gallogly, of near Decatur, aided the railroad workmen in clearing the debris, as he has in other train derailments in this area in the past few years. On the agenda today is trans,, fer of the naptha liquid gas into other tankers, and removing the twisted wreckage from the area. Expert Due A demolition expert was due at the scene today to determine the best way to transfer the liquid gas and supervise the operation. It was reported the gas quit leaking from the two tanks Tuesday, apparently sealing itself. The i two tankers were among the eight cars that derailed a mile south and a mile and a half west of Peterson about 4:30 a m. Tuesday. No answer to the cause of the derailment has been given by Nickel Plate officials yet. The 56th through the 63rd car in the string of 64 had jumped the tracks lyst east of the county foad 9 crossing"'as the freight train was traveling toward Decatur. The m'shap occurred near the Nolan Griffith farm. One of the cars had jumped the tracks about a mile west of the scene, and rode that distance with- one wheel in between the,, tracks and the other to the right of the tracks, before derailing.

ently planned to hit again his economy, campaign in military spending. Johnson had breakfast with Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and White House staff members. They reviewed U.N. activities at the current session, drawing to a close, and made plans for Johnson’s speech before the world organization next Tuesday. The White House said Johnson would go to New York Tuesday morning. His speech is expected to last 15 or 20 minutes, starting at noon, and he will return to the White House that afternoon. McGeorge Bundy, White House adviser on national security; Thepddre Sorensen, special counsel, and another Johnson aide, Jack Valeriti. sat in on today’s breakfast discussion. Johnson asked Stevenson to return this afternoon to continue the talks. They also conferred Tuesday. ■ Johnson, who meets late today with’his cabinet for budget discussions, arranged a lunch with Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, the secretaries of the Army. Navy and Ai r Force and the Joint Chiefs of Staff before addressing about 800 senior military and civilian officials at the Pentagon. Bloodmobile Unit Here January 6 The bloodmobile will make its regular visit in Adams county at the Decatur Community Center from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m. Monday, January 6, Mrs. Ferris Bower, county Red Cross blood chairman, announced today. Those who will be able to give are asked to mark their schedules with their preferred time right now, as blood is usually in- short Supply following holiday accidents, and the blood bank wi’l be counting heavily on the visit. Edward A. Mitchell Is State Candidate EVANSVILLE, Ind. (UPD - Edward A. Mitchell, Evansville, former Bth District congressman and erstwhile Vanderburgh county chairman, said today he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for state treasurer.

Officers Elected By Masonic Lodge Niland Ochsenrider was elected worshipful master of the Decatur lodge, F. & A. M., at the annual meeting of the lodge. Other officers are Don Norquest, senior warden;' Don Cochran, Junior warden; David Langston, treasurer; W. M. Bumgerdr.er, secretary, and Robert S Workinger, trustee for three years, Appointive officers-will be mnTF" ed later by the newly-elected master. The new staff of officers will.be installed at a public installation service at 8 p. m. Saturday, Jan. 4, in the lodge rooms on North Third street. Robert S Workinger, profit, worshipful master, assisted by his staff, of officers, prepared and served a fish supper to a large group of members and visitors at the annual meeting. During ihe meeting, annual reports were presented by the board of trusetes, the relief committee, secretary; treasurer, house committee and auditing committee.

WEST LOS ANGELES (UPD —Young singer Frank Sinatra Jr., kidnaped at a Lake Tahoe resort two days ago, was returned early today after $240,000 ransom was paid by his famous father. Frank Sinatra Sr. held an impromptu news conference outside his first wife’s palatial hilltop home in Bel-Air in predawn darkness to describe the return, only minutes before, of his 19-year-old son. “I’m sorry,” were the boy’s first words, his father said. He added the boy appeared unharmed although “he hadn't eaten much,” Sinatra said he had talked with Frank Jr. twice during eight 'telephone conversations with the kidnapers in the twq days. The first call was to his motel in Reno, Nev., where he kept a tense vigil. “They said they had the boy, and, bang, that was the end of the conversation,” the senior Sinatra said. He said he believed seven br nine persons were involved in the kidnaping. He said he usually talked to the same kidnaper each time, a man whose voice led . Sinatra to believe he was in’his early 20s. Left At Hospital Sinatra said the money was left in a piece of luggage at the U.S. Veterans Hospital on Wilshire Boulevard, not far from where the Sinatra home is located. He said the ransom, collected from several banks was jaoAamt 1 Twice during the night Tuesday, he said he left his former wife’s home to answer telephone calls in separate Los Angeles area service stations. He also left to pick up the boy but couldn't find him. Frank Jr. vzas picked up by> a private Bel-Air patrolman, George C. Jones, 50, who found the youth walking along a nearby Beverly Hills street and took him to his mother's house in INDIANA WEATHER Heavy snow and hazardous driving warning for this afternoon and tonight north portion, diminishing to occasional light snow Thursday. Snow accumulations in excess of four inches likely by Thursday morning. Not much temperature change. Low tonight 18 to 26 north. 25 to 30 south. High Thursday upper 20s north, 28 to .3.3 south. Sunset today 5:21 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 7:57 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Cloudy and cold with snow flurries. Lows low 20s. Highs upper 20s.

Former Local Lady Dies Al Fort Wayne Mrs. Anna Foreman,;>B4, former resident of Decatur, died Tuesday morning at a Fort’Wayne nursing home, where she had been a patient for several months. She was born in Adams county April 13, 1879, and lived at 812 Lavina St., Fort Wayne, unul moving to the nursing home. Her husband died Nov. 29 of this year. Surviving are a grandson, Bill Yahne of Denver > Colo.; two sisters. Mr?!. Mary Swygart of Sandusky, 0.. and Mrs. Emma Link of Fort Wayne; a stepson, Merle G Foreman of Fort Wayne, and three stepdaughters, Mrs. Edna Johnson of Oakland, Calif., Mrs. TfMvwti, HoJaeste .xrf.~ Evans-vUk-. and Mrs. .Mary Brown at Jackson. Mich. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the Klaehn funeral home, with Gordon R. Brown officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwtxxi r cemetery.. Friends may call at the funeral Ifome until time of the services.

the of> his car. As he drove by the hordes of newsmen waiting outside the horpe he said, “Any news yet boys?” and drove the hidden youngster on to his family. Jones said he rang the bell of the Sinatra home and told Mrs. Sinatra, "I've got Frankie in the trunk.” Walked Two Miles Jones estimated Frank Jr. had. walked about two miles from a freeway junction where the kidnapers let him out. "I heard someone call and stopped.” up to see who it was. I almost gave up, then I saw this fellow. He was walking in the middle of the street. I recognized him, but I didn’t believe it." Jones said he talked to Sinatra Jr. about the kidnaping and quoted the youth as saying he thought they were amateurs. He said young Sinatra told him he was blindfolded most of the time and was forced to take sleeping pills to keep him groggy. “He was scared at first,” Jones said of Sinatra’s first few hours with the "but later Frankie said 'They were more scared than I was ’ "One fellow chickened out and ran off,” the patrolman •quoted the youth as saying. * Later this morning. Dr. Rex Kennamer, the Sinatra family physician, said the youth “was not injured .in any way” and was in bed. "No harm was done to him.” the physician said. "He's exhausted and resting.” He said Mrs. Sinatra “has held up wonderfully well.”

Plan Addition For Local Post Office

New plans for a $175,000 addi- ' tion for the Decatur post office,’ and extensive interior remodeling, will be drawn by November 1904 by the Fort Wayne architectural firm of Schcnkel & Lawrence, U. S. Senators Birth Bayh and R Vance- Hhrtke informed the Decatur Daily Democrat late Tuesday nighty Plans drawn originally in_l9s9 by the general services administration, the Chicago office, with administers the physical property for the various U. S. de|Mrtments anticipate a 24-foot addition to the rear of the post office, a new parking lot on the east side to replace the space that would be taken by the addition, air conditioning. remodeling and new lighting inside, a new parcel post room and a new overnight mail vestibule, and many other changes. Drawing by GSA The 1959 drawing was prepared by tfae GSA. preparatory tn submitting it for congressional consideration and inclusion in a ' future budget. The plans to be drawn by the Fort Wayne firm may or may not conform to the department-proposed plan Postmaster John Boch„ who explained that the post office department had nothing to do with planning the addition, and in fact had not even known that the contract for plans was to be let, stated that he expected some changes May Change Ix>bby One change he mentioned specifically would be new windows 'in the outer lobby for service, since the old wypdows were design<d for a completely different serW 'W.WWK .. fice now administers. In handling' as many pieces as go through even a small post office like Decatur. the whole process can be speeded, greatly by judicious location of various mail operations. / The 1959 plan called for shifting the rural mail carrier cases for distributing their mail load from the east side to the west

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Newsmen Wait Nearly 150 newsmen had waited outside the secluded house since learning Sinatra made a mysterious unannounced flight in a charter aircraft from Reno, Nev., late Tuesday. With a smile, Sinatra apologized to newsmen for keeping them waiting in the cold. As he left to return to the house and his son he turned, smiled arid said: "Tomorrow is my birthday and it s the best present I could get.” The young Sinatra was kidnaped by two men from his motel in Stateline, Calif., directly across the state line > from the club where he was appearing with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, the same band that gave his famous father his big start toward fame. The abductors apparently headed immediately for the Los Angeles area, although at least one of the calls when the father spoke to his son carn'e en route. "He said he’s been in more automobile trunks than he’s ever seen in his life," the elder Sinatra quoted his son. "I understand that to mean that they transported him in trunks,” he added, smiling. Expects Capture Jack Entratter, a Las Vegas, Nev., nightclub owner and longtime friend of Sinatra, said in Reno, Nev., that there was a good reason to believe police would round up all the kidnap- r ers Thursday. Sinatra had flown from his t Continued on Page Two)

side of the building, where dispatching and parcel post is now located, and switching the dispatch area to the east side, to speed the mail handling process. > Skylight, Catwalk Out The skyli’ght and catwalk may be removed, new lights that would make the individual lights over the cases unnecessary, and many other internal changes are expected. The new addition, as originally planned, would extend straight south 24 feet from the present building. On the west side, a new outside stairway to the basement would be constructed. The west side of the new addition would include a room 23 by 26Mi feet in which parcel post packages would be handled. Next to it would be a 23 by 12*4 foot room which would include the new overnight mail vestibule. This is a locked room in which the mail received during the night from the train and truck is stored on carts for handling in the morning. This is done so that contract workers do not have access to» the interior of the post office, but do have a locked, safe place in which to deposit the .mail. i New Platform A 12-foot-wide loading would run the 24-foot length of the addition, so that mail trucks could load and unload. A sAf(x>t marquee would extend over the rear of the loading trucks, to protect the mail from rain and snow while it is being unloaded. At present there is some parking space to the south rear of the building .which would be mostly taken up by the new addition, leaving only 12 feet for a drive 4 vyay. A new parking lot would be e»>nstnicted on- the east- side. Parking must be furnished for the six rural. carrieirS And mail truck, and is on a space-ayilable basis for the post office employes. Postmaster Boch stated that as soon as he„ receives any more information on the work, he will keep the general public Informed cf what changes are anticipated, and when.