Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1963 — Page 1

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Pres. Johnson, Erhard Confer

JOHNSON CITY, Tex. <UPIK —An important chapter in ■sonal diplomacy opens today on a Texas ranch where President Johnson and West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard will explore the prospects for improving East-West relations and U.S.-European trade; Johnson arranged for full military honors and a formal reception for Erhard at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Tex., where the new German leader was scheduled to land after an overnight stay at Houston. From Bergstrom, the President and the chancellor will fly by helicopter 65 miles to the LBJ Ranch where they will \ spend two days in business talks and in sharing such charms of the central Texas hill country as a barbecue, community, singers and deer sausage. ‘ Consider Common Market Thery.was more to the meet’Wtg with Erhard than exploration of better highways to peace with Russia and the ‘bloc countries. Johnson and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman in news conferences at the ranch Friday "' made it clear, that one prime e-topic of discussion will be access to the European Common Market for U.S. farm products. In an effort to keep commu-

Contracts Are Let By Council Friday “a

* The contracts to paint the city hall and furnish an oil furnace for the city‘street department garage at the old steam plant, final purchase of the new city parkinggiot, purchase of an 8,000 gallon oil tank, and several other items occupied the Decatur city council in one of its final meetings of 'the year Friday night. f The meeting had been scheduled as final, but a special final meeting has been called for 11:30 a.m. Monday to discuss a contract with LaMar Builders, which has not yet been approved., End-of-Year Transfers Most of the evening’s business was theusual end-of-the-year finishing up. All money appropriated this year in the various funds must be spent for the purJudge Parrish Head Os Memorial Group Judge Myles F. Parrish has be* -- named chairman of the citywte.o ccnvrUiisv* to select and raise funds to build a fitting memorial plaque to the late President John F. Kenndy, Mayor Donald F. Gage, announced Friday evening. In announcing his choice, Mayor Gage described Judge Parrish as “the leading policial figure in Adams county” Judge Parrish has also been quite active in the Boy Scout program, as cubmaster, and as one of the main people in the Adams county Civil War cnmmemoration. Others Named To serve with Judge Parrish on the committee, Mayor Gage named Steve Everhart, principal of Southeast school, and a leading figure in the Anthony Wayne council bf the Boy Scouts of America. — f Herman H. Krpeckeberg, executive vice-president of the First State Band of Decatur, representing finance; E. E. Rydell' of Decatur Bag Service. Inc.,, representing industry, and Mel Tinkt|am, a disabled American veteran. and Decatur insuranceman, filled out the committee. Qity councilman Lawrence Kohne commented that Ma y o.r Gage had made, outstanding appointments, and mayor-elect Carl" Gerber moved that the appointments be noted in the minutes.-. Suggested by Massonne The suggestion was made by Harry Massonne that the city commemorate the late president, who spoke at the Decatur Youth apd Community Center, April 13, 1959, as he started his campaign to win the presidency. Mayor Gage pointed out that no huge contribution would be needed for a fitting memorial, but that anyone desiring to make contributions should contact the members of the committee, who will meet in the near future on the project.

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Jjtications between the principals *vas free and flowing as possible, the President and the chancellor planned to start their conferences with a long conversation between just the two of them. After a ranch lunch for more than 30 guests, the principals were to meet with their chief advisors joining the talks. Essentially the same group plus a few extras will dine at the Johnson home tonight. Hopes For Progress As for East-West relations which would include such matters as the Communist threat to Berlin, continued diplomatic probes of Soviet policy and the armed might of the NATO powers, Johnson in a news conference Friday said he thought there, was a chance for progress. “We are going to go down any road that can possibly lead to peace,” he said. “I express the hope that all the other leaders of the other nations will do likewise.” > He added* that -he did not know of any world leader who would not prefer peace to war for his people. “The job,” he added, “is how to secure it, 1 what road to follow. We are going to be constantly and genuinely .searching for that road.”

poses authorized, or it reverts to the general fund, and a special appropriation must be obtained through the state board of accounts. Minor amounts were transferred back and fourth within several budgets to correct line item deficits. A $2,095 contract with Daniel E. Emenhiser, to paint the city' hall interior was let.\ Haugk Plumbing and Heating, Inc., was awarded a $6,790 contract to furnish an oil furnace for the old steam plant, which is being converted into a garage headquarters for the city street department. The latter must be started within a week and completed within three weeks from the start. Parking Lot Purchase A resolution approving the final purchase of the Kocher lot on First street for a parking lot for the rjty for $12,000 from Harold Mumma was approved by the city council. Robert D. Workinger, of 818 N. Third street, was approved as a new member of the Decatur volunteer fire department, replacing Max Milholland, who has moved from the community. Buy Oil Tank An B,(MX) gallon oil tank, which will hold an entire tapk car of oil, was purchased for SBOO by the city street department instead of a smaller 550-gallon tank. Lawrence Kohne explained that the larger tank would permit “carload” buying, which reduce the premium asked on small quantities, and from *2OO-S3OO could be saved per tankload. The purchase was made from the 'Steel Tank and Fabricating Co., Columbia City. mbo c ifv ro—nation board asked that the city Youth and Community Center manager’s salary be raised SSOO a year. City attorney Robert S. Anderson explained that Robert August had been hired by the city recreation board at a lower salary than the final salarv of the previous director, that the hoard had been given the lihortv of setting its own budget subject to approval bv the council. The salary'"increase was included in the approved budget, and would be the first raise given August since he was hired. It was passed unanimously; Thanks Council Ma v or Donald F. Gage thanked , ail the citv councilmen for their fine cooperation, as did retiring city councilmen Norbert Anmann and Bernard Clark, and humorouslv handed the gavel, which hadn’t been used during h's term, over to the incoming mavor, councilman Carl Gerber. _AI Anderson was present. aM told the council he was willing to discuss the Lamar Builders \and wou ]d call Lamar long distance to straighten out the , b ! d. a-d informed that Clark had contacted Lamar, and he would be present for the special meeting Monday. NOON EDITION

Decatur Lady Is Critically Hurt Friday Mrs. Margaret Kohne, 56-year-old wife of well-known Decatur doctor Gerald J. Kohne, was critically injured in a head-on collision of two cars in Allen county Friday evening. A report from the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne this morning, where Mrs. Kohne was taken immediately atfer the crash, listed her in “critical” condition. Dr. Kohne was contacted at the Fort Wayne hospital and he reported that she suffered a skull fracture and multiple fracture of the upper jaw, among other injuries. She was rushed into surgery upon arriving at the hospital and was in surgery for about four hours. At 10 a. m. today, Mrs. Kohne remained unconscious. Also Injured Her daughter, Kathleen,, 22, and the driver of the other car, Annita Mendez, 27, of Decatur, were less seriously injured. Miss Kohne received a severe laceration on the right knee and multiple \ bruises and cuts of the face and head. She is listed in fair condition at the Lutheran hospital. -Miss Mendez, a receptionist for Dr. R. E. Allison of Decatur, was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital with cuts over the right eye and the right leg. The head-on crash occurred at dusk, a short time after 4 p.m. Friday, one mile north of the Adams-Allen county line on U. S. 27, just north of the Barkley road intersection. Collide Head-On Mrs. Kohne was operating her auto south on 27, with her daughter the only passenger, when the northbound Mendez car passed an unidentified vehicle and collided head-one with the Kohne car. State trooper Dan Kwasneski and Allep county deputy sheriff Larry Vaughn were the investigating officers at The scene, and listed both cars as total losses. Hie officers said no charges had yet been filed, but investigation of the crash was being continued.

Russians Refuse To Accept U. S. Protest BERLIN (UPD —The Russians have refused to accept an American protest against the fa’tal shooting of a young refugee, by East German guards on Christmas Day, the Russian Embassy in East Berlin announced today. In a statement released by the East German news service ADN, the Soviet Embassy press attache said a U.S. attempt to lodge a protest was blocked by the refusal of Russian officials to accept the American note. An American spokesman confirmed the report. He said a Russian diplomat read the note and said the Soviet Embassy could not accept it. The American diplomat who tried to deliver the note Friday was told that the matter did not fall within the competence of the Soviet Embassy in East Germany, the Soviet press attache said. The note was sept to Pytor A. Abrasimov, Soviet ambassador to East Germany, by Martin Hillenbrand, U.S. charge d’affaires in Bonn. Hillenbrand acted in the absence of Ambassador George McGhee, who is in the United States. The note said trigger - happy East German police and the Berlin wall itself were to blame for the “murder” of Paul Schultz, 18, who was shot and killed as he tried to scale the barrier on It asked the Russians to' take steps to make isure “such wanton acts on the part of East German police do not recur." It said the Communist bullets fired at Schultz landed in the American sector *of West Berlin, endangering lives there* The Russian refusal to accept the’ U.S. note was in line ‘with Communist attempts to cut West Berlin’s legal ties to the West. The Communists contend that . ..all matters concerning West Berlin must be settled in negotiations between city officials and East Germany, not by the four occupation forces. A spokesman for the West Berlin government said the city is ready to talk to the East Germans about . extending the Christmas past agreement, which expires Jan. 5. He said meetings on implementation of the pass agreement are being held daily, and that new ones could begin after Jan. 5. But the spokesman warned that only time will tell if new talks will be held.

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Turkish Residents Fire On Group Os Britons In Cyprus, Woman Wounded

Rusk Foresees Peace Probing

WASHINGTON (UPD — Secretary of State Dean Rusk predicted in an interview released today that “1964 will be a period of probing for the possibilities of peace” between East and West. “My impression is that there is a certain soberness in the attidue of the principal governments of the world; that there is a recognization that crises such as the missile crisi in Cuba in October 1962 must be avoided if possible,” Rusk said. He declared that one of the “more interesting aspects” of the recent NATO meeting in Paris “was the feeling that we ought to continue to explore possibilites of further agreement with the Soviet Union.” Rusk’s remarks were made in the course of a lengthy interview with a Japanese broadcaster for release in that country todajr. The interview was recorded last Tuesday. The secretary warned that Berlin, Germany, Cuba, South Viet Nam were “still explosive points that have to be dealt with and managed.” He said, however, tha he thought there was “a general feeling on the part of the peoples of the world that somehow away to peace must be found and this is reflecting itself in the care with- which governments are exploring these possibilities.” Rusk said this_ caused him to ’“enter 1964 with restrained optimism, with a modest optimism.” The danger of war in the world at present, Rusk said, stems from the Communist contention that the world “must be transformed by revolution into, a Communist world. This is the underlying issue,'and it__is not going to be easy td make that issue disappear.” The secretary said the United States was continuing to discuss a number of questions with the Soviet Union, including disarmament and traoe problems, but it worrit!- take “sortie time and some patience” to make any progress. Declaring that there were “some very deep and some Rep. Powell Held In Contempt Os Court NEW YORK (UPD — Controversial Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, D-N. Y., was held in contempt of court Friday for failure to heed a, legal summons in connection with a $211,500 libel judgment against him. r- Q The Harlem Democrat wn/ ordered to pay the full amounf or to appear in court here on Jan. 6 for a determination of whether he could pay any amount of the settlement. The latter probably would entail a complete study of Powell's financial status. However, his lawyers said thecongressman would appeal the decision. Powell was at his residence in Puerto Rico. Powefl’’' stepped into the libel si4T-during a television inter-view"'-in 1960. He was in the midst of a campaign against gambling and alleged police corruption in Harlem. During the interview .he labeled Mrs. Esther James, a 66-year-dld Harlem widow, as a “bag woman (graft collector.) for, the pojlice department.” Mrs. James sued and won the earlier this year. to collect the money failed and Powell, did not answer a court summons In September. He . contended through his lawyers that it was illegally served. One subpoena had been tacked to the door of his apartment in Manhattan gnd a second had been mailed to him. \

very dangerous .differences between East and West,” Rusk 1 said it would take time, “furth- ■ er understanding and mutual concession in an attempt to bring to formal agreement some of these common interests which we believe exist between us and the Soviet Union.” South Bend Is Making Bid For New Industries SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD— Federal and local officials met today to put the finishing touches on a retraining program for about 1,000 of the 6,000 persons left jobless when Studebaker closed its automobile plant, here. ' The session took place tas es- , forte continued to woo new industry to this Northern Indiana community. Studebaker officials confirmed Friday night that they were negotiating to turn the firm’j defense production contracts over to Litton Industries of Beverly Hills, Calif. Officers of both firms refused to discuss details of the negotiations, but it was believed that Litton would operate here if it took over Studebaker's contracts to produce trucks for the Army and other defense agencies. Local civic leaders Friday asked President Johnson to coni' sider South Bend as a location f for a major space research center which could mean another 2,000 jobs. The U. S. Department of Agriculture also "announced that it had eased the income requirements for persons eligible to receive surplus government foodstuffs. Although the change in Income requirements was primarily aimed aL. the persons left jobless by Yhe Studebaker , shutdown, officials in Indianapolis said it probably would help a large number of needy or nearneedy families- around the state. A mayor’s committee, appointed to seek means of easing the impact of Studebaker's " decision r to transfer all its car-making operations to Canada, sent telegrams to Johnson and to members of the Indiana congressional delegation asking for consideration in" the location of the new research center for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It indicated earlier that the enter probably would not lx? located here because of a lack of suitable space. The University of Notre Dame is one of several institutions seeking the center. Members of the committee said they were encouraged to _make the appeal because of “the President's Christmas Eve promise to help South Bend" The center, being sought by more than 100 communities, including at least three fithers in Indiana, will eventually have a rayroll of about SSO million a year. Preliminary plans for the retraining program were made Friday at a meeting between representatives of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Department of Labor, the South Bend- School System and the Indiana Depart ment at ’Public Instruction. The plans, subject to formal ■ approval in Washington, calleci sos establishing a long-range permanent manpower retraining center here with a capacity of about 1,000 students. It will offer courses in the, fields of data processing, air conditioning and refrigeration maintenance r and repair and automatic heating systems.

NICOSIA (UPD — Armed Turkish residents of this bitter-ly-divided c\ty opened fire top undetermined reasons today on c group of Britons in the northern suburb of Neapolis, it was reported here. “We are surrounded byTurks,” said a telephoned distress call ‘to the British High Commission (Embassy). “Three shots were fired directly at us. One British lady was hit in the leg.” It was the first reported incident of deliberate attack on foreigners in the fighting which has killed dozens of Greek and Turkish Cypriots and wounded scores here this week. Jet planes unofficially identified as Turkish screamed over Cyprus today for the second time in three days, a few hours after Turkish warships were sighted.~off the coast. . Citizens of Greek extraction relaxed when it became clear the ships were not approaching this island nation, but government leaders denounced “their appearance as an act of “gunboat diplomacy.” (In New York, Turkish Ambassador Adnan Kurat told the United Nations Security Council the? ships were on the way from one city in Turkey to another. Cyprus lies about 40 miles off the Turkish coast. (Similar assurances were sent tc Athens; where the report of Turkish naval movements had sent Deputy Permier Sophocles Venizelos into urgent consultation with military. leaders.) British, Greek and Turkish troops patroled^-the streets today, trying to enforce a shaky cease-fire proclaimed on Christmas morning. Sporadic firing has been reported in widely separated areas FTiday and the day before despite the Yuletide agreement. Another agreement placed all of the troops on Cyprus, regardless of nationality, under temporary British command. Britain is flying in reinforcements from southern England. Gunboat Diplomacy Charged To Turkey - UNITED , NATIONS, N. Y. (UPD—Cyprus charged Turkey with “gunboat diplomacy” today for sending a 12-warship fleet toward its coast, and said a midnight meeting of the Security Council may have averted an invasion. Turkey retorted that the Greek community in the divid- ' ed capital city of Nicosia set out last Sunday on a campaign to “annihilate and massacre” <. the Turkish inhabitants. ’ The Security Council convened at 11-35 p.m... EST Friday night and adjourned an hour and a half later without taking action. No date was set immediately for another meeting. U.S. Ambassador Francis T. P. Plimpton, presiding in the absence of Adlai Stevenson, adjourned the meeting after hearing statements from Cyprus, Turkey and Greece. It was the first meeting convened so late at night since November,, 1956, when the epuncil met a,t 3 a m. to debate the movement of Russian troops intoi* Hungary to crush that country’s anti-Communist revolt. ' . Cypriot Ambassador Zenon Rossides told the council he was informed at 5 p.m. Friday that five Turkish submarines, four destroyers and three troopships' were 25 miles from Cyprus—which lies some 40 miles off the. Turkish coast — and steaming toward the. island. Thirty to 45, minutes later, ■ Rossides. said, hi s government advised him that the fleet had changed course, but only after sending flares over Cyprus. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness and continued cold through Sunday. Low tonight 2 to 8 above north. 9 to 15 above south. High Sunday 18 to 23 north, 27 to 33 south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and continued cold.

. v — : — 1 . & ||| I |||| , Ik | SAYS HE SPIED FOR 11. S.— Tvan-Asseu... Hristov Georgiev former counselor at the Bulgarian mission to the United Nations. has told a court in Sofia. Bulgaria, that he spied for the United States for some seven years. He is shown left in courtroom in Sofia. Bulgaria.

Pushes Drive For Federal Economy

JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (UPD — president Johnson today strengthened hjs drive for fed'eral eponOmy especially in military spending and indicated he wgnis a close consultive relationship with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Johnson said Friday he had directed Central - Intelligence Agency Director John A* McCone to set up a meeting with Eisenhower and discuss the Johnson administration’s economy drive. The Eisenhower-McCohe meeting also would review intelligence in world affairs for the Republican and explain the administration's actions on sugestions Eisenhower has made s fade Nov. 22. • » The President announced he had set-up a board of top defense officials to survey military installations that could be reduced in . cost or closed “over the next several years." Earlier he. closing or reduction 0f 33 defense—installations and said Friday the action drew mail almost five to one in favor of the action. - « In his sixth on-the-record news conference, Johnson also announced: —He will meet Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos at Los Angeles and Palm Springs, Calif., Feb. ,21-22. —Teodoro Moscoso had been relieved of duties coordinating the Alliance for Progress.' 'Diomas C. Mann, recently designated assistant secretary of state Ask Reversal Os TaiCase Ruling INDIANAPOLIS <UPD — The Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners Friday asked the Indiana Appellate Court to reverse a lower court ruling which held that 104 individually-owned cottages at a church campground in Clay County should be exempt from property taxation. The Free Methodist Church campground near ' IJraz.il consists of several large buildings which were considered exempt by Clay County officials, But an effort was made to tax 104 cottages owned by ministers and lay people. • The test case' was filed in the name of the Rev. Erwin E. Wright, Bloomington, and the church group won a ruling in Greene Circuit Court to which the question was transferred > At the request of Chairman Richard Worley of the State Board of Tax Commissioners," 1 the attorney general's staff Fri- ’ day . appealed this ruling.

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1 for inter-American affairs, will f** assume the responsibility. Mos- - ebso, with, the rank of ambas- ■ sador, will be a special advisor r to Mann. —The President disclosed that cabinet departments had cut their budget requests by $731 million and 10,000 jobs only three days after he told them to trim their spending plans. He staid federal employment dropi>ed, largely through attrition, by more than 1.000 jobs in November. He noted a 3,500job drop in federal employment since November, 1963, but said the record of eliminating nonessential jobs must be improved. • — Johnson answered questions by newsmen at a barbecue at the LBJ ranch. «■- Some 200 reporters and photographers were guests of Johnson on the front lawn beside the Pedernales River. He spoke from a Isctern perched on a stack id hay bales. County Within $63 Os Goal For CROP Adams county is just 63 short - of its $9,000 for CROP, with only Monday 1 and Tuesday left to complete .the drive, the State di- . rector, Gerald L. Wilson, announced today. Elkhart county is leading in the Christian Rural Overseas Pro--gram in the state, with a new record for Indiana, surpassing the 1948 figure for Alen coun-' ty, the previous record. Adams county, with $8,887. is ranked second, but 22 canvassing counties had yet to report at the Dec. 19 date of report, Wilson stressed. The state has reached $131,792 of its SIBO,OOO goal. CROP is the food arm of Church World Service, although if. so designated, contributions made through CROP can go to the food arms of any denominational group, , The money is used to support hundreds of* self-help projects for neopje in under-developed nations throughout the world. Government surplus foojj U used as wages for projects, such as farm-to-market roads, that help the starvin'*, underprivileged become self-sufficient. , ‘ ■ Anvone who wants, to send a contribution in mav send it dffectlv to Gerald L. Wilson*;' CROP, 1622 N Meridian, Indianapolis. 2, Ind., since the county drive has been: officially closedr anyone who has collected funds, and noty • turned them in yet, is encotff- ’ I aged to, send them directly to C Wilson immediately.