Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 300.

McNamara Hopeful Over Viet Nam

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara returned from South Viet Nam today and said the new government in Saigon has detailed plans for “bringing the war to the Communists in 1964 and prosecuting. it successfully.” In a pre-dawn planeside talk with newsmen, McNamara said he was “optimistic that the plans, when carried out, would blunt the Communist drivq, of subversion against the people of Viet Naiil.” McNamara landed here at 545 a.m. EST, completing a week-long business trip around the world. During that time he attended the annual NATO" ministerial meeting in Paris and proceeded to Saigon at President Johnson’s direction to review the situation there. The secretary said there had been “dramatic” decline in attacks by Communist Viet Cong guerrillas during the last 10 days. Central Intelligence Agency Director John A. McCone returned from Viet Nam with McNamara. He and the Pentagon chief were to confer with President Johnson later today. After McNamara told how he had discussed plans for prosecuting the war and expressed optimism, he was asked wheth-

School Act Is Upheld Friday

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana Supreme Court Friday upheld the constitutionality of ’ the school reorganization legislation in general and its application to Noble County,, in particular. The high court affirmed the action of Noble Circuit Judge Kenneth King in refusing to grant an injunction sought by a group of Noble County school patrons against the reorganization progress. ' The opponents had raised a number of objections to the legislation ranging from lack of i eapportionment in the Legislature to a charge it unconstitutionally mingled administrative, executive and judicial functions. The high * court rejected» the objectives, citing various, earlier Supreme Court rulings. At the time the injunction suit was filed in 1960, East Noble and West Noble school districts were approved but a Noble Central district'was defeated in balloting. Since then other changes have

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er intentions to reduce number >of the U.S. troops still stood. “Not another word,” McNamara said, cutting off the interview. < Before boarding his plane in Saigon Friday, McNamara issued a cautiously worded statement which said he was “optimistic as to the progress that can be made during the coming year” in the fight against the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas. But informed U.S. sources in Saigon said that it appeared that the previous 1965 target date for removal of American troops from South Viet Nam may have been erased because of the recent Communist victories. It was these victories which first prompted President Johnson to order the Pentagon chief back to Viet Nam for an inspection tour. McNamara was far more optimistic about the situation when he visited South Viet Nam in September. It was after that visit that U.S. officials set a 1965 target date for withdrawal of American troops. But the optimism evaporated when the overthrow of the regime of the late President Ngo Dinh Diem was followed by Viet Cong victories in the vital Mekong River delta area.

been made and still more are under discussion. Noble and York are the only townships not included in a reorganized district at present. There is some discussion that Noble Twp. should be added to the West Noble school district. Another proposal is for York to be added to the Albion-Jefferson district. Good Fellows Club Previously Reported $575.37 , Unknown 3.00 Flossie M. Hower 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Ed Warren 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Petrie 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ohler 5.00 Psi lota Xi Sorority 25.00 Arnold Lumber Co. 20.00 A Friend 3.00 Change in Boxes 1.45 A Friend 2.00 Mr. and Mrs. Al Beavers 10.00 A Friend 100.00 Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lose 10.00 Totals $774.82

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4 ' - Santa Claus Phone Busy Friday Night Santa Claus was quite busy Friday night, according to Santa Claus telephone project chairman Pat Nelson of the Decatur Jaycees. * Santa talked with some 204 chil- . dren Friday evening during a period of an hour and a half, making a total of approximately 550 children he talked with in the past three evenings. Ralph Biggs, Jaycee president, said this morning that Santa expressed .his thanks to the many children who called him the past htree evenings. Biggs expressed the appreciation of the Jaycees to< the parents of the children who called, and to the Citizens Telephone Co. Church-School Case Is Filed In Ohio A church-state school case, brought about because a school district leased a Catholic /school, has been filed in neighboring Mercer county, 0., against the Southwest local board of education, Fort Recovery. A suit was originally filed Oct. 5, but was ruled too vague by the judge, and the new suit was filed this week on behalf of Jesse C. Moore, of Fort Recovery. There are 14 points to the suit, including: *0 * —r-— ; : - : : — ‘———• 7- — • “Plaintiff says that the teachers in the described school premises are dressed in religious garb to the Roman Catholic church. “Plaintiff says the school celebrates religious holidays peculiar to the Roman Catholic church and that student's are released for said holidays. “Plaintiff says the school has different school hours than other schools in the same district to allow Roman Catholic students to attend mass in the morning. “Plaintiff says that certain classes are held in the school which uses books published under the auspices of the Roman Catholic church. “Plaintiff says that there are religious symbols in the described school premise.” The suit also alleges that a church-school agreement, allowing land and buildings owned by the church to be used for public school facilities, has been signed, with the leased premises to be used u nde r • the supervision of agents of the Roman Catholic church, a religious sectarian institution. The action filed in Moore’s name is actively supported by Protestants and other Americans united for separation of church and state <POAU), and by the Ohio free schools association. It is being closely watched as a test case. Judge Paul R. Dull, of Mercer county common please court, has already disqualified himself frorii ruli-g on the case, which will be heard by Judge Fred B. Cramer, of Butler county, on assignment by the Ohio supreme court chief justice, following Ohio law. Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur Jan. 6 Mrs. Ferris Bower, county Red Cross blood chairman, reminded local and area residents today of the bloodmobile visit the first* 1 week of the new year. The bloodmobile will be at the Youth and Community Center Monday, January 6, from 10 a.m. until 4 p. m. Mrs. Bower urged both donors and workers to mark the date on their calendars so as not to forget it during the holidays. This is a very important time for blood donations, since blood is usually in short supply following holiday traffic accidents. Finland Signs Ban On Nuclear Tests HELSINKI (UPI) — Finland has formally pledged its adherence to the Moscow nuclear test ban agreement.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 21, 1963.

Johnson Given Stunning Setback By House Vote On Foreign Aid Measure

Philadelphia's I Democrat Boss I Taken By Death PHILADELPHIA (UPI) — Rep. William J. Green Jr., 53, a power in national politics and boss of the Philadelphia Democratic organization, died today at Graduate Hospital. Green had been critically ill since he was admitted to the hospital on Dec. 8 for emergency surgery. He suffered a relapse Friday and his condition deteriorated steadily until there was a complete loss of ‘ blood pressure. Death came at 2:45 a.m., EST. Green and his wife were in New York to attend the funeral of Herbert H. Lehman, former New York governor and former U.S. senator, when he was stricken with severe abdominal pains. Mrs. Green drove him back to Philadelphia where a twohour operation for peritonitis was performed. Doctors reported that his condition was made critical by complications involving his bladder and pancreas. Green served ’in Congress from 1944 except for 1947-48. He was elected Democratic city chairman in 1953. A politician since the day he became 21, Green had a sometime turbulent career which i eached a high point when he delivered a majority of 331,544 Philadelphia votes for the late John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy carried Pennsylvania by 116,326 votes. Tiros 'Satellite Launched By U. S. CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) — The United States today launched its eighth Tiros satellite on an apparently successful flight into space to send back the first “instant” pictures of earth’s weather. The camera-carrying moonlet rode into the sky in the nose o£ a three-stage Douglas-Delta rocket that sought an unprecedented 21st straight success. The rocket roared from its launching pad at 4:30 a.m. EST. Ten minutes later, the federal space agency said all stages fired properly and the flight “appears nominal,” indicating the 265-pound Tiros-8 was on its way into a planned orbit. However, scientists said it would take an hour or more to determine exactly the success of the nation’s last satellite shot of 1963. A total of 42 stations in 14 countries was poised to pick up “three minute” weather photographs from the satellite as it whirled through space 425 miles above earth. Malfunctions in the rocket’s mechanism had forced three postponements of the launching since Tuesday. Seven prevous Tiros weather satellites have been launched successfully, but each waSr able to send its photographs only to a pair of elaborately equipped ground stations. About three minutes after blastoff, the rocket’s booster stage separated on schedule, sending the upper stages soaring deeper into space. The second stage also fired on schedule and separated as planned, space agency officials said. INDIANA. WEATHER Partly cloudy, snow flurries north and continuing cohl through tonight. Low tonight 5 to 15 below north, aero to 10 below south. High Sunday 10 —to 18 north, 15 to 20 south. Outlook for Monday: Mostly cloudy and warmer with snow.

I Emenhiser Awarded! I City Hall Painting A bid of $2,095 for painting the soon-to-be remodeled city hall by Daniel Emenhiser was accepted by the board of works and safety Friday afternoon, and bids for construction at the street department building and installation of a heating plant, were taken under advisement for tabulation. Emenhiser will receive a contract to ppint city hall, which will be remodeled within the next few months. Chalmer Barkley is the general contractor for the city hall renovation. There were two other bidders for the painting job, but their bids were not read. R. E. Gantz submitted a bid but failed to properly execute the non-collusion affidavit, and a bid from Jay Girard was not read since it did not have a signed, certified check. Two Bids Two base bids were received on the construction of two additions to the old steam plant building, which is being remodeled for a street department headquarters. Lamar Builders submitted a base bid of $11,897.22, plus several alternates which if omitted, would rpdUce the figure. Biker & Schultz submitted a bid of $14,000. The work consists of an addition to be constructed on one side of the building which will be used by the street department as a warehouse for storage, and a small garage area to be constructed on another side which will be used as a garage for the garbage truck. Heating Bids i Two bids were received by the board of works for a heating system to be installed in the building. Bids were received from Haugk Plumbing and Heating and Baker Plumbing and Heating, with both bidders giving figures for both coal and oil heating systems. The Haugk bid was lower but did not include some of the items that the Baker bid included. The bard of works, working with mayor-elect Carl D. Gerber, will tabulate the two heating system bids for purposes of discovering which is the more practical. It will be up to Gerber, who takes office January 1, on which type of system will be used, oil or coal. Relief From Cold Predicted Monday By United Press International Indiana’s record below - zero coldwave went into the preChristmas holiday weekend today with some Relief promised for Monday. c* ‘ But there will be two more nights of icy weather, at leasts before slightly moderating temperatures. Greensburg continued to be the state’s "ice box,” hitting an overnight low of 23 below zero for the second consecutive day. It was 16 below, at Lafayette, a record 14 below at Indianapolis, 12 below at Terre Haute and 9 below at Fort Wayne. It was the coldest Dec. 21 on record at Indianapolis,- eclipsing the previous low of minus,. 6 for the day set in 1901. , Continued cold through Sunday was the forecast, with daytime highs in the teens and overnight lows again well below zero, but the weatherman predicted “mostly cloudy and warmer with snow” for Monday. South Bend, with 13 inches of snow still on the ground, had a high of 16 Friday. It was 13 at Evansville and 11 at Fort Wayne, only 7 at Indianapolis. The Chicago, South Bend and Fort Wayne ''areas reported light snow this morning, but not much additional accumulation was expected. Meanwhile, the latest weatherconnected death was a Mooresville volunteer fireman. Leonard Shover was killed early today while fighting a house fire on a farm near Mooresville.

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson was handed a stunning setback by the House today in a dramatic all-night struggle over the foreign aid J)ill, but administration forces stalled congressional adjournment to make a last try at passage. The bitter defeat came on a pre-dawn roll call during which Democratic leaders sought in vain to overturn an earlier House decision to bar U.S. credit backing in the pending wheat sale to Russia. The roll call vote against Johnson’s position was 141 to 136 and marked not only a cruashing defeat for the new President but a further ° extension of what already was the longest “continuous session since 1942. Backs Aid Fight Johnson threw his full prestige into the fight. He had said that the House ban infringed on his constitutional authority in the field. He also warned that enactment of the credit curb could wreck prospects of selling large quantities ot U.S. surplus wheat to Russia and other Comtnunist nations. House leaders labored through the day Friday and early this morning to set up the crucial vote. But it was session-end absenteeism that finally blasted their hopes. All hold. M Democrat* deserted the fold to votg for the curb, while 133 voted against it. But 95 Democrats were not present. On the Republican side, 115 Republicans voted for the ban, white- only 3- voted against it; 60 did not vote. The House-authored ban on grain sale credit was part of its version of the foreign aid money bill. Hurdle Appeared Cleared Friday night, it appeared the major obstacle to adjournment had been hurdled when negotiators from the House and Senate agreed on a compromise $3 billion aid measure, about S6OO million less than Congress had authorized. The key to the settlement, however, was a compromise curb on the use of government credit for the proposed wheat sales. Under the compromise Congress would go on record against such government involvement in the "“sale, 'but would leave, the final decision to the President. The Republicans decided, however, to make the original credit ban and rejection of the compromise a party tissue. At first. Democratic leaders appeared ready to drop the whole matter until Congress starts its second session in January. Then Johnson, in a last-min-ute plea, told the leaders he wanted the aid bill finally enacted and the anti-trade clause removed or modified before Congress quit for the year. Since taking office Nov. 22, the President has won a number of tests in Congress. On this one, it developed, he stretched his luck too far and lost. It was a bitter defeat not only for Johnson but for his House leaders who, had labored to turn the earlier Rouse decision around. They thought until the end they had it won. When the House vote came sleepy senators were waiting on the other side of the Capitol to affirm what they exacted would be House assent to the compromise clause and swift passage of the beleaguered aid measure. Vote Hair-Raiser The House roll call, which turned up only 280 of the 435 House members, was a hairraiser right to the end. The balance switched back 'and forth as the call progressed. Only when Speaker John •W. McCormack, D-Mass., Announced the count was the final" outcdme known. Shortly afterward at 5:30 am., ‘in a crashing anti-climax, the House gave final approval to a compromise $6.2 billion agriculture appropriation. The Senate reconvened about a /ralfhour later to consider the measure. At 5:30 a.m., the House got back to what it was doing at noon Friday, 17% hours earlier —eulogizing McCormack who today was 72.

Berliners Swarm Through Red Wall

BERLIN (UPD—West Berliners by the thousands swarmed through the "Christmas crack a in the Communist wall today to hold brief reunions with relatives they have not seen for more than two years. Lugging pillow cases and laundry bags full of food and cigarettes, they began streaming past machine gun-armed Communist guards as soon as the barriers were lowered at 7 a.m. (1 am., EST'. They must be back by midnight. West Berlin police predicted 20,000 persons would visit the Eastern zone today under the agreement by which West Berliners are making their first trip across the anti-refugee wall since it went up 28 months ago. Many Carry Food Many emptied their cupboards to take fruit, meat and even potatoes to their brothers and sisters on the wrong side of the barbed wire-and-concrete divi- ■ der. Some suspected the Commur rusts opened the wall for poli- ( tical reasons. But politics paled i beside the emotional explosion of first reunions between mothj ers and sons, grandfathers and granddaughters. The crossings, which started eh masse Friday, will continue for 16 days more.

Top Aides To Meet Johnson

WASHINGTON (UPH-Presi-dent Johnson meets with Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara today for a first-hand report on the progress of the war against the Communists in NOON EDITION . Lighting Contest Prize To Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Schwartz, of 417 Limberlost Trail, have copped the top prize in the Decatur Stratton Place outdoor lighting contest, it was announced this morning. The Schwartzs will receive a SSO savings bond for their toprated outdoor lighting decorations. Mr. and Mrs., W. L. Harper, 203 Stratton Way, won the second prize of a $25 savings bond, while the third prize, $lO in cash, was won by Mr. and Mrs. Leo Curtin, 419 Limberlost Trail, The winners were announced, this morning by Mrs. Francis Ellsworth, chairman of the committee in "charge of the contest-. Honorable mention was "afforded five other participants, Mr. and Mrs. Francis ElLsworth, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Stoppenhagen, Dr. and Mrs. H. R. Frey, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sheets, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl-Mies. Threg, Judges . Judges for the contest. wer*Mrs. Doris Doan, Mrs. Don Lutes and Mrs Hubert Feasel. Following the judging of the decorations, a coffee and cookie session was held by Mrs. Ellsworth for the judges and her ... committee, Mrs. Jack TJumlin, Mrs. Tom Allwein and Mrs. Ferris Bower..'' ! .. . .. Mrs. Silkworth and the committee said that all residents of Stratton Place should be commended for their enthusiastic support of the contest. According to the judges, there were many difficult decision, as competition was of such a high caliber.

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Friday night, at the midnight deadline, reunited families hugged almost savagely at the moment of parting. At the Oberbaumbridge crossing point, one middle-aged womas laughed and cried at the same time while she kissed her Western son goodbye. She also was clutching a very practical set of long underwear he had brought her as a gift. Snow Covers City The wall, like all of Berlin, is blanketed with snow. An estimated 6,000 persons crossed it Friday. Many more were expected on a Saturday when most West Berliners are not working. Western newspapers reported that 170.000 West Berliners already have received passes from the platoon of deadpan Communist functionaries who cole them out. The city government asked the Communists to speed things up as huge lines sored in the falling snow long before daylight. West Berlin police reported that 19 persons were hospitalized of a total of 1,161 who collapsed while waiting. One died. She was Mrs. Franziska Hoernig, 76. Her neighbors said her "last wish’’ had been to see her 73-year-old sister in East Berlin.

South Viet Nam. The Chief Executive scheduled an 11 am. EST session with McNamara and John A. McCone, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who also "visited Viet Nam and attended the briefings and talks .. with leaders of the ruling junta in Saigon. ' > Johnson also was to confer with Secretary of State Dean Rusk shortly after the McNa-. mara-McCone meeting, and with Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon later in the day. Could Be Painful If reports on the briefings McNamara received in Saigon are any indication, the information the secretary passes on to the President today probably will be blunt, honest and possibly painful. Me Namara was sent to Viet Nam by Johnson for a two-dav study of the critical state of the war against the Communistbacked Viet Cong guerrillas. The move followed a series of Red Victories since the overthrow of the regime of the late President Ngo Dinh Diem. In a statement shortly before his departure from Saigon Friday. McNamara said he was "optimistic as the progress that can be made during the coming year” against the Communists. • But ‘ informed U. S. sources in the Vietnamese capital said the 1965 deadline for the removal of American troops from the embattled Southeast Asian nation apparently had been erased. Makes Two Speeches The President will speaK... twice Sunday — at a ♦ p.m., program at the Lincoln Memorial in memory of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, and at 6 p.m. when he lights the “national” Christmas tree in the ellipse south of the White House. Sunday marks the end of the month - long official period of mourning for Kennedy. There is one family "must” on the Chief Executive’s busy Sunday schedule — an informal birthday party for Mrs. Johnson, who will be 51 Sunday. Johnson and his family will then fly to their Texas ranch for Christmas.