Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 293.

Good Fellows Help Decatur's Children

By A Good Fellow This is the time for children of all ages. Who, at Christmas, wants to feel grown up? Who would not, for this season at least, turn back the clock to the time when Christmas was full of wonderment, almost unbearable suspense and excitement? We of Good Fellows club sincerely wish that all of you in our community will find it in your hearts to help us give some of this blessed Christmas happiness to the less fortunate children of the community. The bleak outlook that some Decatur children have for Christmas is enough to sicken the heart of any fellow. Good Fellow or otherwise. It is no wonder that some of these unfortunate little souls doubt the wonderful manger story. Anything that can be given may make a child know his first happy Christmas. There are many needy children and very lonely adults who will have a most meager Christmas without the Good Fellows. Canned Food Needed Canned food is needed and may be sent to any one of the city

Secretary Rusk To NATO Meet

WASHINGTON (UPD—Secretary of State Dean Rusk flew to Paris today, bearing with him a special message from President Johnson to the NATO ministerial council meeting. Rusk will attend the meeting, which opens Monday in the French capital, and confer with Allied leaders cm the next Western strategy move in the shaky cold war truce. He will be joined Saturday by Defenkte Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. Rusk’s plane took off shortly before 8 a.m. EST from nearby Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Arrival in Paris is scheduled at 3:15 p.m. EST (9:15 p. m. Paris time). Defense Secretary Robert S. Mcnamara leaves tonight for the meeting and will be followed Saturday by Treasury Secretary C. Douglass Dillon. U.S. officials said they expected the NATO session, as well as individual meetings Rusk will have with the other foreign ministers outside the formal conference, to be focused primarily on a Political assessment on East-West relations. Seek Allied Thoughts The United States is particularly anxious to sound out its partners on the wisdom of trying to reach other tension-low-ering agreements with the Russians following the limited nuclear test ban treaty. American officials said that so far they had found Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s proposal for an East-West nonaggression pact unacceptable because it was tied to schemes such as an unverified —and unverifiable —reduction of military budgets. But the United States believes exploratory talks should continue. Another Rusk objective, although obviously not listed on any specific agenda, is to reassert U.S. leadership of the Western alliance and emphasize that there will be no hiatus because of the change of Presidents in the United States. Reaffirm U-S. Commitment Johnson’s message to NATO,

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schools. It is hoped that each child may take a can of food to his school, where boxes are available. Canned food, good used toys, warm boots, coats, mittens, etc., may be taken to the fire Station. Money may be dropped in the Good Fellows boxes at the First State Bank, Holthouse drug store or Daily Democrat office, or mailed to Miss Rosemary Spangler, Decatur route 2. Each year it is hoped there will be enough money, in addition to giving a Christmas dinner, to buy each school age child one article of apparel, such as mittens, head warmers, or socks. These things feel so good on a zero morning. Will you help a child at Christmas? Just a few minutes from your busy schedule, or even the smallest donation will help the Good Fellows help the small needy ones. We are willing and ready, in fact, already working hard on the project, and need the response of the community to make our job a success. r Let these needy ones, small or elderly, realize that Christ does move us all to share, and includes us all in His birthday celebration.

officials said, will reaffirm the deep U.S. commitment to the defense of the non-Communist world while expressing continued willingness to consider sincere efforts to blunt some of the peril-points which threaten nuclear war. Benningan Funeral Benningan, sistter ot Mrs. Hazel Aeschliman qf this city, who died Thursday at Fort Wayne, will be held at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the Klaehn funeral home, and at 9 a.m. at St. Joseph’s-' Catholic church. The Rev. Matthew Lange will officiate and burial will be in Greenlawn memorial park. Friends may call at the funeral home until titne of the services. Funeral Saturday For Clarence Roop Funeral services for Clarence L. Roop, 52, who was found dead Thursday in his apartment in the McConnell building on Madison street, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Winteregg-Linn funeral home. The Rev. J. O. Penrod will officiate and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery, with military rites by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. The casket will not be opened. He was born in Adams county Sept. 10, 1911, a son of Nathan and Harriet Butler-Roop, and was married to Dorothy Hakes Nov. 16, 1929. Mrs. Roop was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Surviving are his wife; five sons, Rex E. Roop of Des Moines, la., Arthur L. Roop of Algonac, Mich . Donald D. Roop of Mountain Home, Ida., David W. and James A. Roop, both at home; four daughters, Mrs. Hubert (Carol) Hann of Fort Wayne, Mrs. James (Vera) Bauman of Decatur, Ruth V. and Margie J. Roop, both at home; 22 grandchildren; two brothers, Julius Roop of Vicksburg, Mich., and Glen Roop of Gibson City,-111., and three sisters, Mrs. Dorus (Catherine) Stalter and Mrs. Mary McGill, both of Decatur, and Mrs. -Isaac (Crystal) Wagner of Pontiac, Mich. Two brothers are deceased. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and a . er tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and continued cold. Low tonight aero to 10 above. High Saturday 10 to 18 north, • 15 to 22 south. Sunset today s ’5:21 p. m. Sunrise' Saturday | 7:58 a. m. Outlook for Sun--3 day: Partly cloudy and. continued cold with chance of a J few snow flurries. Lows 5 be--3 low to 5 above. Highs 12 to 22.

Barrage Os Protests On Closing Bases WASHINGTON (UPD — The Defense Department order closing 33 military bases from New York to California brought a barrage of protests today from Congress, including charges of false economy. But Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara indicated Thursday that the closing orders were part of a new economy campaign that woyld gear savings to spending. Until now, that has not always been the case. In the past because of a steady buildup in Polaris submarines and other defense programs, the Defense Department had to explain with each cost reduction why spending was increasing. Nothing placated Congress, however. Sen. Kennedy B. Keating, R-N. Y., introduced a bill to block the, base closings in economically * depressed areas. ( Rep. Samuel S. Stratton, D-N.Y. promised to turn the Pentagon upside down before accepting the cutbacks. New York stands to lose seven installations. Rep. Bob Wilson, R - Calif., said the decision to close the San Diego naval repair facility lacked logic in view of other “pump-priming” programs. Wilson said he has asked Assistant Navy Secretary Kenneth BeLieu to reconsider the closure on the basis of “economic horse sense.’’ 11 Under McNamara’s order, a total of 33 bases would be shut down over a three and one-half year period. Twenty six of the bases were in the United States. The seven others were in three foreign countries, but were not identified until the governments concerned can be informed. In his news conference, McNamara said the closings will result in a “net loss” of 8,500 civilian jobs. It was evident, however, that many other civilian workers at the bases will have to make long distance moves in order to keep their government jobs. In these cases the government will pay for the 'moving expenses. McNamara talked of actual reductions which will bring defense department civilian employment to the lowest level in 15 years. Walter Roop Rites Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for Walter G. Roop, retired Decatur grocer, who died suddenly at his Rome City lake cottage Thursday morning, will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home. The Rev. J. O. Penrod will officiate, and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services. Alan Kalver Winner Os Rotary Contest A group of Decatur high school boys proved to the Decatur Rotary club at Thursday night’s meeting at the Youth and Community ’ Center that they had brains and speaking ability as well as muscles and brawn. Three of them had just won their wrestling matches at Fort Wayne to join five others in a speech contest in which all eight boys did an unusually commendable job. Alan Kalver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kalver, was judged winner in the boy’s annual speech contest. He had also won his wrestling match earlier at Fort Wayne. The judges also commended Kenneth Riffle as a close second. Other contests, all members of Tony Kelly’s speech class, were Gary Schultz, Tom Macklin, John Beeler, Tom Baxter, Deane Lehman, and Larry Reinking. Kenneth Uhrick was the timekeeper. Gail Grabill, Rotary speech contest chairman, presided during the presentations, introducing each speaker by number until after the contest, when each boy was reintroduced by name. Judges were Ed Hagan, Jack McEwan, and Elmer Winteregg, Jr. Last week the club heard the girls’ division contest with Miss Jane Burk as winner. Speakers in both divisions discussed the role of free enterprise in America’sfuture. President George Auer appointed Wilbur Petrie as the local chairman for participation in the Rotary district bowling tournament at South Bend January 19.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, December 13, 1963.

FBI Warns Kidnapers Os Sinatra Serial Numbers Os Ransom Money Listed T _4_. J . 1 -

Diplomats And Johnson Meet

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson Invited the topranking members of the Washington diplomatic corps to the White House today Jor a “getacquainted” session on US. foreign policy views.' The White House said 112 ambassadors, ministers and charesdes affairs were expected to attend the meeting in the state dining room of the executive mansion. Johnson was following a .precedent set by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Truman met with the chiefs of all diplomatic missions in the capital eight days after Roosevelt’s death. Meeting Is Vital At that time, with World War II still in progress it was considered vital that the new President acquaint the diplomats with his views and assure them of the unbroken continuity of U.S. policy. In many ways, officials agreed, it was no less vital today because of the many critical issues facing the Western Alliance in the cold war. Besides his session with the diplomats, Johnson was to hold another in his series of meetings with Negro leaders. He had an appointment with Mrs. Rosa Gragg, president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, and Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women. Johnson told a group representing 64 of the nation’s biggest business firms Thursday that there had been promising progress toward abolishing racial discrimination in employment, but he added, “we still have a long way to go.” Should Banish Bigotry The President said every effort should be mAde to banish bigotry and prejudice from the United States. He said that artificial barriers to Negroes and other minority groups should be entirely eliminated in hiring practices. The meeting was called by Joseph A. Rash Dies Suddenly In Florida Joseph A. Rash, 71, of 320 Marshall street, well known Decatur resident, died suddenly Thursday evening at Hialeah, Fla., where he and his wife had gone three weeks ago. Although he had been in failing health, for some time, his death was unexpected. Born in Adams county June 15, 1892, he was a son of Isaac and Emma Bodie-Rash, and was married to Marguerite E. Mayer Feb. 19, 1921. Mr. Rash was employed for many years as custodian at the Decatur post office until his retirement. He was a member of the Zion United Church of Christ and the American Legion. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Lawrence E. (Joe). Rash of Decatur, and Carl F. Rash of Monroe; two daughters, Mrs. Lawrence (Virginia) Scott of Favetteville, N. C., and of Miami, Fla. 4 eight grandctw.V Mrs. Oren C. (Evelyn) Reynolds dren; a brother, Isaac Rash of Columbia City; a jhalf-brother, sister, Mrs. Emma Marguardt of Sam Cottrell of Bobo, and a half near Berne. One daughter is deceased. Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending return of the body to the Winteregg-Linn funeral home. i i

the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, which Johnson headed while Vice president. It was to acquaint the 64 firms with the ‘lPlans for Progress” system of Pledges against job discriminalon. ■ Johnson also was to confer today with Kentucky Gov,-Elect Edward Breathitt, retiring Gov. Bert Combs and Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. to discuss the economic distress of eastern Kentucky, hard-hit by the shutdown of numerous coal mines. Eight U. S. Soldiers Die In Viet Nam SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPD—Two U.S. Army aircraft —a helicopter and a light plane —-crashed in unrelated incidents Thursday,. apparently killing eight American servicemen, it wag announced today. The helicopter was reported shot down by Communist ground fire. A U.S. military spokesman SAid a U.S. Army H-37 helicopter with five American soldiers aboard crashed in the Mekong River delta about 60 miles southeast of Saigoh. Four men were killed and one seriously injured. In the other incident, the spokesman said the wreckage of a U.S. “Otter” light transport plane with four Americans and three Vietnamese aboard was found during the night 500 feet from the peak of a 7,000foot mountain in the jungles 160 miles north of Saigon. There was no sign of survivors. If all eight deaths are finally confirmed, they will bring the toll of Americans killed in action here to 126, with 80 of them this year. The spokesman said two of the five men aboard the giant twin-engined helicopter were still alive when rescue forces arrived at the scene. One died before he could be evacuated. The other was taken to Saigon for medical treatment. Local Lady's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Tempie Butler, mother of Mrs. W. Guy Brown of this city, died Thursday morning at the Joanes convalescent home in Mapion, where she had been a patient for several months. Mrs. Butler’s sister, Mrs. Ellsworth Bennett, preceded her in death by two hours at her home in Elwood. Funeral services for both sisters will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Marion for Mrs. Butler and at Elwood for Mrs. Bennett. Items Stolen At Cabin Recovered The items stolen from the Girl Scout cabin in a pair of recent break-ins have been recovered by the city police. Jon H. Foor, Highland Park resident, found the stolen articles Thursday morning in a woods behind the 'Girl Scout cabin in Hanna-Nuttman park. Foor discovered the stolen items while hunting in the area, and brought them to the citjfc police station at 11:07 a.m. Thursday. Two cots, three tents in carrying bags, an axe and a hatchet were stolen in the two burglaries, and all but the hatchet and one of the carrying bags has been recovered. It is thought they may be in the snow somewhere in the woods. The police are still investigating the break-ins.

LOS ANGELES (UPD — The • FBI served notice on the kidnapers of young Frank Sinatra today that it has the serial numbers of the $240,000 in bills paid for his ransom. The numbers were flashed around the country from FBI headquarters in y/ashington with a plea for anyone who received any of the bills to contact the nearest FBI office immediately. At the same time, the FBI declined comment on reports it had taken motion pictures of the suspects with a long-range lens as the ransom furnished _ by the boy’s famous father was being picked up. Sources close to the FBI said agents are “now more convinced than ever” that the kidnaping was genuine, despite some published reports to the contrary. The list of serial numbers, which are not in sequence, runs 41 pages. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the money included 700 SIOO bills. 700 SSO bills, 4,000 S2O bills, 4,000 $lO bills and 3,000 $5 bills. With the exception of the $5 bills, all the money is in federal reserve notes, Hoover said. The $5 bills included silver certificates, United * States notes and federal reserve, notes. Frank* Sinatra Sr. was reported by a close friend to have seen the pictures, taken with a telescopic lens and infra-red light, and recognized two of the suspects. The friend, a director of one of the San Francisco Bay area’s largest liquor distributorships, asked that his name not be used. He and a Bay area night club owner, who corroborated the story, said they wished to remain anonymous because of the delicate nature of the search and to protect the ones who gave them the information. Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, who offered his assistance in the case when young Sinatra was kidnaped Sunday night at Lake Tahoe motel.’ also was reported active in the case here. Two residences in the San Fernando Valley were raided Thursday by agents. One was a house in Canoga Park where they took pictures, made plaster casts of footprints and tire marks and carted away boxes of evidence. The search of the house was abandoned by the FBI at midnight. Frank Sinatra Sr., who celebrated his 46th birthday Thursday. paid $240,000 in ransom for the return of his 19-year-old son shortly after midnight Wednesday. It was learned Thursday the famed singer’s longtime friend, Alfred Hart, president of the City National Bank, supplied the cash on short notice. An unconfirmed report said that at least part of the bills were treated chemically so persons passing them could be easily identified. .• Aspects of the case sometimes mushroomed out of proportion as conjecture and rumor increased without a law enforcement agency to separate fact from fiction. The FBI, which counts the Sinatra case as only one of four cut of 678 since 1932 still unsolved, came in for sharp criticism by Los Angeles Police Chief William H. Packer because his department was not kept informed in the case. However, the veteran" law enforcement officer said he continued to pass all information his men received concerning the case on to the federal agency* Industry Division Meets Monday Noon The regular meeting of the Industrial committee of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will be held at the Youth and Community Center Monday. • The meeting will begin a( 12 noon. Thurman I. Drew, business administrator of the Adams county memorial hospital, will be the guest speaker.

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By United Press International Strong winds whipi>ed snow into drifts and temperatures dropped far below zero on the northern Plains today. ■ The massive storm that dumped heavy snow from the Rockies to New England during the week moved into eastern Canada but scattered flurries were reported from the Great Lakes eastward. The temperature fell to 18 degrees below zero at Butte, Mont. Sub-zero readings were reported, across the Plains and Midwest. Vandalia, 111.,, reported a 9-below reading and Milwaukee, Wis., had 5 below. Blizzard warnings were withdrawn for large parts of the nation's midsection When the storm began blowing itself out. The Weather Bureau said nearblizzard conditions would develop during the day in parts of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. ? . Despite its waning strength, the storm still sent heavy rains across the south. Gainesville. Fla., reported 1.46 inches of rain in six hours today. Jacksonville, Fla., had 1,06 inches and Tallahassee reported 1.26 inches during the night. Up to one inch fell in sections of Louisianth—Mississippi and Alabama. ' About an inch or two of fresh snow fell Thursday *night in Kansas but the rest of the snowbelt showed only a trace of precipitation The U.S. Army Engineers said ttxiay that Lake Michigan and Lake Huron had equalled all-time low levels for December set in 1933. The weather bureau Warned the severe drought, this fail for causing many rivers in Missouri and Illinois to approach record low levels. The wintry storm dumped -up to six inches of snow on New England Thursday before heading.out to . sea. The Massachusetts Department of 'Public Works had 1,000 men and 500 trucks trying to keep highways cleared. »

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Francis Coyne Home Is Damaged By Fire Damage tq, the Francis Coyne home, route 5, Decatur, was estimated at SSOO, rollowing a fire shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday. A combined utility and bathroom was ruined by the fire, kvhieh broke out in the room and quickly spread. The local fire department was called at 4:50 p.m., and quickly had the blaze under control, confining the blaze to the one room. Two Decatur trucks and three from Monroeville were at the scene. « Firemen assisted in moving furniture and other household the home in the event the fire spread, which did not happen. Local fire chief Cedric Fisher said this morning the blaze started from electrical wiring in a box on the wall. Mrs. Coyne was at home when the tire broke out. M ~ Chief Fisher listed the damage today nt approximately $54)0. Firemen returned to the station at 5:45 p.m., after carrying furniture back into the home. Legion Oratorical Finals Saturday Finals of the annual state high ..aehool oratorical contest, sponsored by the American Legion, , will be hold Saturday St Terre Haute. i John Custer,, Decatur high school senior, is one of the four finalists Other contestants are Bob Mitchfll, Hammond, John Showalter; Terre Haute, and I Patty Hayes, Brazil. The winner will participate in the national regional contest at Louisville.