Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1963 — Page 1

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Orders Study Os Foreign Aid Cost

*■ JOHNSON CITY, ~Tex. (UPI) o- —President Johnson kept the economy pressure on the executive branch of government today. His latest target was the foreign aid program which he wants operated more efficiently end with fewer federal employes. While preparing for a twoday visit with West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, starting Saturday, the President ordered a speedy review of foreign economic and' military assistance programs.' Johnson set up a seven-mem-ber committee of, policy-level federal officials to undertake a fast, intensive review of foreign aid programs. He ordered the committee to report back to him by Jan. 15 with recommendations on how to eliminate waste, red tape, inefficiency and superfluous personnel. “My action in appointing this committee, far from reflecting any lack of conviction in the necessity for foreign assistance, demonstrates my strong determination that those programs be so administered as to yield the greatest benefit to our country and the free world,’’ Johnson said -in a special statement issued from the Texas White House. Ball Heads Committee The study committee will be headed by Undersecretary of State George W. Ball. Members included Budget Director Kermit Gordon, Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver and David E. Bell, head pf the Agency for International Development (AID). In other economy moves, Berne Man Is Jailed For Court Contempt Daryll D. Burkhalter, of Berne, was remanded to the Adams county jail this morning by Judge Myles F. Parrish for indirect civil contempt of court. Burkhalter has failed to pay S2OO attorney fees for his wife, as ordered by the court, in a divorce action. Judge Parrish had set support payments etc., in the divorce case on August 16, and ordered Burkhalter to pay SIOO within 30 days and another SIOO within 60 davs for his wife’s attorney fees, to t Richard J. Sullivan, local attornev. i*’ He was given numerous opportunities to pay the attorney fees before, he was sent to jail this morning. The order was handed down Aug. 16 and he was cited to appear Oct. 21. The case was continued twice and Nov. 29 he was given until Dec. 20 to pay the attorney fees. Burkhalter had not paid them Dec. 20 and was given to Dec: 27, and when he had not yet paid them when he appeared today, he was remanded to jlfil. Judge Parrish ordered Burkhalter to the local jail until such time as he pays the attorney fees, or is able to show due cause why he is unable to pay the fees.

German Leader Flies To U. S.

BONN, Germany (UPI)— Chancellor. Ludwig Erhard left today for the United States where he will assure President Johnson that the* European Common Market is not turning isolationist. Erhard left by chartered airplane from Wahn Airfield at 1:08 p.m. (7:08 a.m. EST>. The flight to Houston is a direct one, lasting 11 hours. The chancellor is due in Houston at 6 p.m. EST. Erhard was accompanied by Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder and other high officials. According to official sources, Erhard intends to tell Johnson he is pleased with the agreement - reached by the common market ministers in Brussels Monday. But He real' test of the decisions taken there, Erhard is understood to believe, will come during next year's socalled Kennedy round of international tariff reduction talks. Berlin On Agenda. High on the list of items to be discussed at Johnson’s ranch home Saturday and Sunday will bp the situation in Berlin, where the Communists have for the first time in two and a half years permitted West Berliners to visit relatives, in the Eastern half. Erhard had planned a meeting with the late President

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Johnson sent a memorandum Wednesday to agency and department heads calling for a halt in the growth of federal employment. He urged more efficient use of workers and simplification of procedures. He also was re-evaluating defense spending. Secretary of State Dean Rusk topped the list of highranking conferees today at the LBJ ranch which bustled with preparations for Erhard and his party who arrive here Saturday. The Erhard party will spend tonight in Houston. Die President will greet them Saturday morning at Bergstrom Air Force Base outside Austin, Tex. Other Officials Arrive Arriving with Rusk today were Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Ball, former Secretary of State Christian A. Her ter, who now serves as the President’s representative for foreign trade negotiations, and McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the President for national Security matters. Their presence here primarily concerned the Erhard talks which will take place in the Johnson ranch house. Other Johnson conferees scheduled today include Central Intelligence Director John A. McCone, here for a detailed intelligence briefing for the Chief Executive, and Thomas C. Mann, assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs. Theodore C. Sorensen, special counsel and speech adviser to the President, was expected to set up headquarters on the Johnson ranch today to work on the State of the Union message which the Chief Executive will deliver to a joint session of Congress Jan. 8. Colder Weather Is Forecast In State By United Press International That brief flurry of abovenormal temperatures in Indiana apparently has ended. The mercury climbed into the low 50s in the Louisville area Thursday and reached 50 degrees at Evansville; but the latest 5-day forecast called for another round of below-normal temperatures. Through the middle of next week, at least, temperatures* will average up! to 10 degrees below normal, to an overnight range of near zero in the north and to about 10 above zero elsewhere around the state. Little or no precipitation was expected, although there will be scattered snow flurries throughout the period. South Bend still reported six inches of old snow on the ground this morning but elsewhere the snow blanket from last Monday ,hpd melted to one inch as the result of abovefreezing temperatures all around the state Thursday.

Kennedy last month to discuss policies and get acquainted following his taking over from retired Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in October. But the President was assassinated two days before Erhard's scheduled arrival in Washington. Johnson urged him to reschedule the talks as soon as possible. Western plans for continued diplomatic probes with the Soviet Union ai\d the future of U.S. trade with Europe were' expected to dominate the discussions. West Germany and the United States approved such probes at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) council meeting in Paris 10 days ago. - Need German Approval But specific German approval of the various measures proposed for discussion with Mos cow must now be given, since most of them directly affect Germany. They include the • establishment of military observer posts or. both sides of the Iron Cur- ' tain to reduce the danger of surprise attack, and any arrangement that would concern Berlin. ; Erhard has said he supports any U.S. attempt to discuss these issues with the Soviet Union as long as Germany’s interests are safeguarded.

Firearms History Outlined To Rotary The history of firearms, beginning with the invention tof gunpowder, was outlined to the memens of the Rotary club Thursday evening by Paul Berg at their regular weekly meeting at the Decatur Community Center. Speaking under the title of “600 Years of Firearms Development” Berg, former Decatur resident and now a Fort Wayne consulting engineer, through slides and a display of part of his ejection, described the progress made in the design and manufacture of weapons during the past six centuries. Berg is one of the 50,000 gun collectors in the United States and his array of antique weapons is one of the most extensive in the country. He is one oL the five persons in the world who has a complete collection of Remington firearms. Although it is the popular conception that gunpowder was invented in China, there is no evidence to support this theory, according to the speaker. It is believed it was invented about 840 A. D. in one of the countries of the near East, because the necessary materials could be found there. In 1248, a friar named Roger Bacon, wrote the formula for the explosive in code. Beginning with the powder, the necessary coinponents for a firearm are barrel, stock, sight and bullet. The speaker traced the history of firearms starting with the first hand gun in 1350. The early guns were muzzle loaders, and'various methods were used to ignite the powder to produce the necessary explosion. The breech loader came into being»in 1776, It was during the early 1800’s that the Remington and Colt guns were first manufactured, and Colts made the first revolver that shot more than one bullet. The rimfire developed by Smith and Wesson a century ago, is still popular and used today. * Berg showed pictures of the early dueling pistols and explained they for the most part were so inaccurate that very few people got hurt, and the honor of the hotheaded participants was satisfied. He also repeated the familiar saying that guns themselves do not hurt anybody — it is the people handling them that do the harm. He felt that laws to prevent the sale of firearms were not necessary and could not be fully enforced® He said, that in England where there is a strict prohibition on the sale of guns, there is just ats much crime, in proportion, as anywhere else in the world. Frank Detter was the program chairman.

Senate In Session For Two Seconds WASHINGTON (UPI) — The U.S. Senate met today, strictly for the record, in the shortest session of its history. It lasted two seconds. The four senators present at, the 9 A.M. EST meeting even dispensed with the customary opening prayer in a session that was even less than perfunctory. The House scheduled a* similarly abbreviated session three hours later. The meetings were held osly to satisfy the requirement that unless there is a special arrangement, both the House and Senate must meet at least once in every three day period as long as it is in session. Final adjournment for the year is not scheduled until at least Monday and that meeting of the Senate promised to be a drawn-out one. Sen. William Proxmire, DWis., acting Senate Democratic leader said the scheduled vote Monday on the $3 billion compromise foreign aid appropriations bill might be preceded by an "all day” fight over the pared-down bill and a controversial amendment concerning. U.S. credit guarantees for sale of wheat to Communist countries. Today’s abbreviated session, presided over by Sen. Lee Metcalf, D-Mont., broke a previous record of three seconds that Metcalf set last Aug. 3. To Take Bids For Blue Creek Bridge The Indiana state highway commission will open bids Jan. 28 on nearly $7 million worth of road costructiori and bridge projects. Included is a bridge over Blue Creek on U. S. 27, 2.9 miles north of Berne. Man Is Killed In - Corn Picker Accident KOKOMO. Ifkd. (UPI) — Edward E Smith, 35, Kokomo, was killed Thursday night when he was crushed in a com picker accident on fl farm near here. ..

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Rise To New All - Time High During November

To Relrain Jobless South Bend Workers SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPI) — A three-man federal team met with local and state officials today to plan a program to retrain between 1,000 and 1,600 of the workers left jobless last week when Studebaker Corp, ended auto production. —• Plans for the federal officials to come here were announced in Washington Thursday "in a joint statement by Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony J. Celebrezze. They said the move was in i esponse to President Johnson’s Christmas Eve directive .speed up training for' the displaced Studebaker workers. At the request of the secretaries, the Indiana Employment Security Division and the vocational education division of the Stat Department of Public Instruction are developing training programs for 21 occupations 'with labor shortages. Two training specialists from HEW and a manpower official from the Labor Department were here for the meeting with William Spence of the Indiana Department of Public Instruction and Robert C. Riley, vocational education director for the South Bend schools. A Labor Department spokesman said in Washington the group would map “immediate steps to get the new program started.” He said the federal officials would have “complete authority of both departments to approve training projects on the spot, to obtain necessary space, procure needed equipment and assist the local school district in recruiting instructors.”

Gross Income Tax Forms Complicated INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Individual Hoosier taxpayers may get small comfort from the assurance today that the 2 per cent adjusted gross income tax forms they receive are more complicated than future forms. For 1963 Hoosier will be required to figure out their tax under the old system of the Hat income tax and also under the new adjusted system, which went into effect July 1. This double duty will be eliminated next year. Almost 2 million of the individual tax forms are now in the process of being mailed. Deputy Revenue Commissioner Robert Hale said he hoped to have all forms mailed "by the first week in January.” He said taxpayers who paid last year were being sent long or short forms on the basis of the 1962 reports. ThoSe who have changed from wage-salary income to non predeductible income will need to trade the 8-page short form booklet for the 24-page booklet, including the long form. Hale said the trading can be done at any license branch or at the Statehouse revenue offices. One important tip came from the Revenue Department: “First make out your federal income tax return, because many of those can be transfered to the state form." ■ The state tax deadline is the same as for the federal levy— April 15. The rules and regulations concerning the federal tax are incorporated into the state system this year tor the first time. * , Good Fellows Club Previously Reported l .... $825.82 DAV Auxiliary 5.00 M. & Mrs. W. Guy Brown 500 Angpaugh Studio 5 00 Mr. & Mrs. Don Hakes.... 5.00 Mr. 4 Mrs Raleigh Richards 2 .00 A Friend... 100 Change in boxes .... 100 TOTAL $851.82

West Berlin's Mayor Protests Guard Slaying BERLIN (UPl)—The West Berlin city government today protested to the East German government the Christmas Day murder by Communist guards of a refugee shot scaling the Berlin wall. A city government spokesman said the protest was made in the name of Mayor Willy Brandt at a conference of East German and West Berlin officials who meet regularly Mo discuss im< piementation of Mhe agreement that provides for holiday visitsto East Berlin. Horst Korber, a Brandt aide, ■ told East German state Secretary Erich Wendt that the murder of 18-year-old Paul Schultz was “inexcusable.” ♦ He said the incident was incompatible with the humanitarian aims of the agreement that provided for opening the wall oyer the holidays to allow the reunion of Berlin families. The protest was delivered at one *of the regular moetings held by Korber and Wendt to iron out differences resulting from the • pass agreement they signed for their governments. The spokesman corrected a West . Berlin police report that had said three West Berliners were arrested by Communist police at a border crossing points Thursday. .He said the three were held up briefly for using the wrong crossing point but were not arrested. L* Korber and Wendt signed the agreement providing for the unprecedented Christmas visits and they had been meeting regularly to iron out difficulties. Korber canceled Thursday’s meeting- because of the fatal shooting Wednesday of 18-year-old Paul Schultz by East Berlin police as he and a companion made a break for the West. The unidentified companion escaped safely into West ! Berlin. Holiday Visits Continue West Berliners continued to enter the,. Eastern sector qf the divided 1 city today despite the il' feeling provoked by the shooting and many were lining up for passes to visit relatives in the East during the next few days. The opening in the Communist anti-refugee wall—the first since it was built 28 months ago—comes to an end Jan. 5. About 55,000 West- Berliners entered East Berlin on Christmas Day and about 70,000 went Thursday, also a holiday in Germany. Smaller numbers are expected for the remainder of the visiting period, except for the rush on New Year's Eve and New Year’s Day. Firemen Find Only Christmas Tree Light Local firemen were summoned to the home of Howard and Irene Dye Martin, 806 Washington St., at 3;15 p.«n. Thursday. The Decatur lady told firemen she thought she smelled smoke and when she looked into an elec- ' trie outlet in the floor there appeared to be fire. Firemen openthe outlet, however, and found a red Christmas tree light which 'gave the false impression of fire. Free 'Coffee Breaks' On Indiana Toll Road SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPU — Free "coffee breaks” for weary motorists will be available New Year’s Eve at service areas along the Indiana Toll Road; Robert A, Tillett toil road manager, said each motorist entering the road will be given a card good for the free coffee. The service will be provided > from 7 p. m. Dec. 31 until midmorning Jan. 1. .

WASHINGTON (UPD - The nation's living costs rose to an all time high in November with increases in the costs of food and shelter, the Labor Department said today. The department announced that its consumer price index climbed two-tenths of 1 per cent last month to a record - high level of 107.4 per cent of average 1957-59 prices, the norm used for the index. A department spokesman predicted, another record-breaking increase this month because of higher costs for food, housing and services. Increased prices for fresh vegetables and sugar pushed up the cost of groceries, and housing costs advanced across the board except for gas and electricity rates, which held Steady, Arnold Chase, assistant commissioner ‘of labor statistics, said that the index was 1.3 per cent up for the year. He said this was “reasonable price stability” although the 1963 rise may be one of the largest since 1958’s increase of 1.7 per cent. The November rise clipped another two cents off the buying power of a $lO bill, making the‘ $lO worth 13 cents less to the consumer than it was in November, 1962. Prices of new homes, rents, coal and fuel oil, soaps and detergents, property taxes and other housing costs all went up 2ast month. Fresh vegetable prices soared 7.8 per cent, principally be cause of sharp rises for let tuce and tomatoes. Sugar prices climbed 6.7 per cent lasi month. Chase said the drought in recent months contributed to the rise of vegetable prices. Fruit prices were down Tor November, along with meats and eggs, but food costs were up 1 per cent pver last year. New car prices rose less than expected as dealers offered big concessions to keep sales going at record volumes. Used cars cost more . and insurance companies raised their premiums for automobile liability coverage. Many newspapers increased their prices and so did doctors, derifists and optometrists,' the report 'said. In a separate announcement, the department said take-home pay of factory workers also climbed to a record high in November. The average earnings for a worker with three dependents rose by 46 cents to $88.77 a week, mainly because of a two cent increase in average hourly pay. The oventheyear gain was. about $250. Buying power 'of the factory porker’s pay also hit a new peak, but rose less than take home pay because of the increase in consumer prices. Over the year, the buying power has risen by about 2 per cent. The department said about 95,000 workers will receive cost-of-living pay increases ranging from I to 4 cents an hour because of the November index. Adams County Men. File Damage Suits Edward G. Bleeke, of Decatur route 5, and' Wilson Weiland? of Decatur route 3, have filed suit for damages in federal court at Fort Wayne- against the Erie Lackawanna railroad, as the aftermath of an accident Jan. 4, 1962 in which an auto ran into a freight train near Wren, O. Bleeke- is suing for $77,157 and Weiland for $58,989 for personal injuries. A federal jury last June 6 found for the defendants in the railroad’s suit for damages against |,he estates of two Adams county men killed ii) the accident. It also found "for the railroad in the estate's counter claim. killed ip the accident were Alfred H. Grote and his son, Wilmer Grote. Bleeke and Weilahd charge the railroad with negligence in that, the train did not sound its whistle and that it had only a crossbuck warning sign at the crossing. The sign was obscured by a heavy fog. The plaintiffs ask a jury trial.

Demand Inquiry In Greek Ship Tragedy

LONDON (UPD—The British press and Labor party opposition demanded a government inquiry , today into the fire which burned the Greek cruise liner Lakonia at sea and took as many as 155 lives, The demands came because the ship sailed from Southampton and most of the passengers were Britons on a Christmas cruise into African waters. Some have charged that the Lakonia crew panicked and misbehaved. The captain of the Lakonia and other passengers praised the crew. Capt. Mateos Zarbis, Greek skipper of the Lakonia, reached Madrid from the Canary Islands today on his way back home to Athens and told newsmen that more lives might have ’ been saved if rescue ships had gone closer to his burning liner 180 miles from the island of Ma- ■*- deira. A revised set of figures issued .by the Greek Line, which operated the Lakonia. said 886 i persons out of a total of 1,041 survived the tragedy, with 91 I known dead and 64 still missing. The line said there were . 537 passengers and 349 crew

U.S. Legation Today

: V ■ r> VIENNA (UPl)—Hundreds of Bulgarian's hurled stones and lumps of coal at the United States Legation building in Sofia today, breaking every window on the first three floors. The demonstrators numbering more t^han,soo. also overturned four American automobiles outside the legation before they were* dispersed They carried banners and signs calling for “death to the imperialist traitors,” which were left on the ovdrtift-ned automobiles when the demonstration broke up. News of the violence came from the U.S. consul in Sofia in a telephone interview with newsmen in Vienna. The mob action coincided with the trial of a Bulgarian diplomat who was reported by the Bulgarian news agency to have pleaded guilty to charges of spying for the United States. No one was hurt in the demonstration, which lasted an hour nnd 15 minutes, he said. Legation officials in Sofia had requested police protection. The Bulgarians apparently * were demonstrating against alleged US. involvement in the case of a former high ranging Bulgarian diplomat being tried in Sofia on charges he spied against his own country for the United States. The trial, went into its second day today. A U.S-, consul said nobody tried tp enter thc„ building He said that many windows were were smashed, however, ineluding one display , window 'containing photographs on life in the United States. Thp consul said in his opinion INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Colder tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 5 to 15 north. 14 to 22 south. High Saturday In 20a north, 24 to 32 south. Sunset today.s:27 p. m. Sunriae Saturday 8:05 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair to partly cloudy with scattered snow flurries near Lake Michigan and little temperature change. Low Saturday night 15 to 20, high Sunday 25 to 32.

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members aboard. Thursday Patrick GordonWalker, the Labor party’s s|>okesman on foreign affairs, presented Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home with a demand for a British inquiry into the tragedy. _ "Whatever the technical registration of the ship, the passenger were almost wholly British and the cruise was Eorganized by agents in Gordon-Walker said. x’% A large segment of the press* quickly endorsed this viewpoint. "Whatever inquiry is carried out under Greek law, only a British inquiry can fully satisfy ixsople in this country.” com- 1 mented the mass circulation Daily Mirror. The Daily Mail said in an editorial: "The tragic fire in the Greek liner Lakonia was in all but name a British disaster . . . common sense alone therefore dictates that there should be a British inquiry into what happened on that grim night—and why.” “The government cannot just wash its hands of the Lakonia disaster,” the Mail added.

the demonstration had been well organized. He said the overturned car? were badly damaged. It was understood that Eugenia Anderson, the U.S. minister to Sofia, was on vacation in Washington when the demonstration began. The former Bulgarian diplomat, Ivan-Assen Georgiev, faced a possible death penalty for allegedly n seUing Bulgarian secrets to the" United States for. $200,000 over the years. Communist press agency reports said Georgiev. 56, confessed to all the charges against him Thursday, saying he spent all the jfaoney on ‘‘loose women’’.' A source at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna said the demonstrators, in Sofia started gathering in front‘d of the American Legation at 10 am. <4, a m. EST). Soon there were more ’than 500, he said. '* r ’ Noah Hendricks Dies After Long Illness Noah Hendricks, 72. of Decatur, retired Adams county farmer, died jit 10 o’clock Thursday night at the„South View nursing home nt Bluffton, where he had been a patient since Feb. 18, 1961. He was born in Adams county April 22. 1891. a son of Eli W. pnd Mary Ellen Reffey-Hend-ricks. He Was last employed by Wolf & Dessauer in Fort Wayne untit his retirement. Surviving are four sons, Richard Hendricks of Decatur, Russel Hendricks of Berne. Leonard Hendricks of Bellbrooks, 0., and _ Doyle Hendricks of Dayton, O.; one brother, Roy Hendricks of Bluffton, and 16 grandchildren. One sisttr is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 , p.m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Sylvester Martin officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. -Friends may"’’ call at the funeral hojn? after 2 p m. Saturday until time of the services. ‘