Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1964 — Page 6

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Gary Roosevelt On Top Third Week In Row

INDIANAPOLIS lUPD— Gary Roosevelt, highly favored to; take a 16-game winning streak into the Indiana high school i basketball tourney, remained! No. 1 today in the UPI coach-J es’ board ratings for the third; consecutive week. Coach Bo Mallard’s Panthers • haven't been beaten since Dec. j 11 when Gary Tolleston handed them their only loss, 70-68. Since then. Hammond Noll and South Bend Adams gave the Steel City crew troubles 'on the! road, but the front-runners go into this week’s program with a 10-game winning streak. Gary beat Noll, 55-50. and Adams last Sast Saturday. 7163. Nobody has come closer to them since Tolleston and in all probability, nobody will before tourney time. This week, Roosevelt polled 7 of 18 first-place votes for 159 points. Unbeaten Columbus remained second with 146, including 6 first-place nods. Lafayette Threat Once-beaten Lafayette and undefeated Tipton changed positions, with Lafayette regaining third spot and Tipton skidding to fourth. Lafayette, which lost only to Tipton in the Lafayette holiday tourney title round, 72-67. apparently is ready for an all-out assault on the state crown it missed by just two. games last March. Coach Marion Crawley’s club has polished off five in a row since Tipton snapped its 9-game .string, including a rousing US--78 triumph at Marion last Friday. Indianapolis Washington, the only other major unbeaten team, remained fifth and the lower bracket of the “Big 10”

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r was virtually the same as last ’ week. Only minor change inZ volved once-beaten Huntington. S which was dropped from a tie • for sixth place to seventh. ’ From a standpoint of the ratings, top game in the state Friday has Anderson at Kokomo, with the winner staying alive in the North Central Confer- , ence, led by Lafayette. t < 18 Seclected The two rivals have been ’r beaten only by Lafayette in : league competition. 1 L The breakdown, with first J7 places and total points: » 1. Gary Roosevelt <7? 159 ’ 2. Columbus <6l 146 7 3. Lafayette <4>—— 145. 7 4. Tipton (D -.137 p 5. Indianapolis Washington.. 93 6. Anderson 85 - 7. Huntington 72 8. Indianapolis Tech 59 9 Elkhart 33 ! 10. Kokomo 20 11. Evansville Central 12: 12. Fort Wayne Concordia, Fort Wayne Central 8: 14. Gary Tolleston 6: 15. South Bend Washington 3; 16. Michigan City 2; 17. Lebanon. Terre Haute Garfield 1. Hotshots Have Match Here Thursday Night The D. C. H. S. Hotshots rifle club will meet the Fort Wayne Junior rifle club in a match at the Decatur range at Eddie’s Recreation Thursday evening at 7 o’clock. This will be a four-position match, plus a prone match, the latter for beginners only, Bonham Is Released By Hosoital Tuesday CINCINNATI i UPI) — Ron Bonham, University of Cincinnati basketball All - America from Muncie, Ind., was released from a hospital Tuesday but may not see action Thursday against Wichita. Bonham, the Bearcats’ top scorer with a 23.8 average was hospitalized Sunday suffering from a lingernig cough and cold.

High School Grid Star Dies Tuesday VINCENNES, Ind. (UPD—A young high school football star who suffered a massive brain hemorrhage at his home here Tuesday morning died a few hours later in an Indianapolis hospital. James Boyer, 17, a senior honor student at • Vincennes High School, died shortly after arriving at Robert Long Hospital in Indianapolis. He was rushed there by ambulance after an emergency tracheotomy was performed at Good Samaritan Hospital here. The youth was hospitalized after complaining of a severe headache. He lost consciousness at the hospital after saying he was unable to breathe. Authorities trying to determine the cause of the hemorrhage said Boyer played basketball Monday night at a YMCA but that they had been unable to learn whether he had suffered a blow on the head. Boyer, who ranked first in his _ class academically, was a starting guard on his school’s 1963 football team and received honorable mention on the United Press International AllState. H. S. Basketball Ossian 79, Hoagland 58. Churubusco 81, North Webster 70. Oak Hill, Peru 45. Gary Roosevelt 63, East Chicago Washington 56. Evansville Central 64, Evansville North 54. Evansville Bosse 76, Evansville Reitz 74. Gary Froebel 82, Gary Mann 62 Valparaiso 90, Gary Tolleston 80. Terre Haute Gerstmeyer 53, Honey Creek 50. Terre Haute Gaifield 78, Sullivan 39. Lebanon 93, Sheridan 70. Redkey 79, Gray 54.

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General Asks End To Free Service INDIANAPOLIS <UPD — General Telephone Co. today petitioned the Indiana Public Service Commission for authority to replace existing free service between its Poe and Hoagland exchanges and three other towns with long distance charges. The service affected links the two communities with the Preble and Tbcsin exchanges of Citizens Telephone Co., Decatur, and with the Ossian exchange of Uniondale Telephone Co. General said it will soon convert Poe and Hoagland to automatic dial service and tentative plans ' to work out extended area service with the other three towns were unsuccessful. The petition said a survey determined that continued free service “was not economically feasible” and there was “not a sufficient community of interest” among the towns involved. Barbe Puls Finger On Bomber Os Auto CHICAGO (UPD—Police said today Lewis C. Barbe, highliving informer against the Chicago crime syndicate, had named Marshall Caifano —a playboy racketeer on trial for an alleged Las Vegas extortion —as the one who cOuld have engineered the bombing of Barbe’s car. “I don’t know, who actually carried out the bombing,” Barbe, 32, an insurance man and nighttime bon vivant, said, “but I know he (Caifano) engineered it.” Barbe’s right leg was shattered Monday when he stepped on the starter of his car. Only a few moments earlier he appeared in court in connection with a suit involving Caifano. Barbe, Caifano and six other men were indicted New Year’s Eve for fraud in connection with allegedly trying to collect $48,000 in insurance on—s 762 worth of steel wire' “He did it to me because of what I was going to say in court,” Barbe said. Caifano, also known as Johnny Marshall, is in Los Angeles on trial for an alleged $60,000 extortion from millionaire oilman Ray Ryan at Palm Springs, Calif., and Las Vegas, Nev. State’s attorney’s police sent out pickup orders for top syndica'te chieftains in hopes of finding clues that would lead them to the actual bombers. — Among those ordered arrested for questioning were Sam (Mooney) Giancana, reputed head of the crime syndicate: Felix (Milwaukee Phil) Alderisio, reputed No. 2 mobster: Sam (Teetz) Battaglia, alleged muscleman and gambler: and Albert (Obbie) Frabotta, terrorist and enforcer. Police also studied four tape recordings found in the wreckage of Barbe’s car, which was bombed outside Chicago’s Criminal Courts Building One of the ’tapes was garbled and two others carried innocuous conversations, Police Cmdr. Francis Flanagan said. But the fourth carried conversations about arson. One of the conversations was between Barbe and a ma n named “Vic.” In it, “Vic said, “Something is going to blow up in the air. It is going to be Monday...l want 25 per cent.” Another conversation was between Barbe and “Gene.” “Gene” said, “I will put a fire under the tank and it will tear the whole joint apart, and it will look like an accident... This thing takes a little time. I got a whole line of them set up. We will hit one and then the other. This takes time.” Attendants at St. Ahthonys Hospital said Barbe’s condition was satisfactory. But they would not say whether the father of five, whose second wife is a platinum blonde Las Vegas showgirl, would retain the use of his leg. Browns, Steelers To Play In Akron CLEVELAND <UPD — The Cleveland Browns will play an exhibition game against the Pittsburgh Steelens in Akron’s Rubber Bowl on Saturday, Aug. 22. It will be the Browns’ first appearance in Akron since 1961.

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Auto Theft Charges Are Filed On Pair Warrants for the arrest of William M. Fair, 19, and Trevor E. Frye, Jr., 18, on charges of auto theft, have been issued by Fort Wayne authorities, it was revealed thjs morning. The two are presently in custody in the Adams county jail on charges of burglary, concerning the burglary of a men’s clothing store in Berne last week. The warrants will be used as detainers. In the event either or both are released under bond, or found not guilty in the Adams circuit court, they will be arrested on the Fort Wayne warrants to face auto theft charges in that city. A United States Army detainer warrant has already been filed against Frye, who it reportedly A.W.O.L. from a base in North Carolina. Detective Sgts. Harry Koch and Clete Lothamer are completing the Fort Wayne investigation, as and Fair allegedly stole a 1964 model car from the Collins aeency in that city. The auto was found near the Stan’s Men’s Wear store in Berne, after the two men burglarizing the car fled on foot from the scene when discovered by Berne authorities. Attends Conference For Rural Youth Ferris Bower, well-known Decatur jeweler who serves on the youth committee for the IndianaKentucky synod of the Lutheran Church in America, was one of several area people to attend the governor’s rural youth conference Monday. Also attending the meeting was Leo N. Seltenright, former county agent here, who formerly served on the Adams county youth council. Publicity Counseling Pubicity on rural youth problems. including youth from towns and cities smaller than 10.000 in population, and counselors through the local youth council were the two principal recommendations of the huge panel of experts which helped the delegates discuss the many problems, Bower stated. “I thought I was going to the conference to get the answers, but I soon discovered that I was there to help work out solutions that might work right here in Adams cunty, or in our church youth work,” Bower said. Cuts Earning Power 7 r ‘Just take high school dropouts. I didn’t realize it, but rural areas in Indiana have as high’ a rate of dropouts as the big slum areas in cities. Why, each year a youth misses in high school cuts his lifetime earning potential bv $50,000. we learned. Low earnings, marriage failures, and many other problems plague our young people who do not finish high school. In fact, only one out of every five dropouts can even find a job in a factory today, because, of rapid changes in educational requirements in factories since 1960,” Bower added. Following a report to his synod church officials, Bower hopes to be able to spark interest here 10. cally in an active youth council program, directed by the already appointed council. Moderately Mild Weather Forecast By United Press International The last few days of January and the first few of February will be marked by moderately mild weather in Indiana. The five-day outlook for the period ending next Monday called for temperatures averaging 5 to 12 degrees above normal, which would mean highs ranging from 34 to 53 and lows from 17 to 35. After a warmup today, no substantial changes in the weather situation c were expected. Precipitation will be light, appearing as rain or show during the weekend. The temperature prospects seemed to assure that January would go down in the weather records as a month with an average a couple or three degrees above normal.

Sprunger Estate Is Over $300,000 The inheritance tax appraiser's report filed recently in tne estate of Albert N, Sprunger, who resided in Berne, shows the total net value of the estate to be $309,281.34. According to the report filed by the appraiser, Omer Merriman, the gross value of the personal property amounted to $312,742.93, and the gross value of the real property was $15,000, for a total of $327,742.93. With deductions, such as debts, claims, expenses, etc., the total net estate was valued at $309,281.34. Included in the listing of the personal property were 972 shares of common stock in the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., listed at a fair market value of $149,688, and 200 shares of First Bank of Berne common stock, listed'at a value of $27,000. Other Stocks Also listed under personal property were the following, and the fair market value of each: 120 shares Os preferred stock, Adams County Farm Bureau, $3,000; 13 shares of common stock. Adams County Farm Bureau, $65; 1.130 shares of common stock, Berne Furniture Co., $67,800; 12 shares common stock, Berne Hardware Co., S6OO ; 42 shares common stock. Be ne Lumber Co.. $4,200; 62 shares common stock, Berne Overall Co., Inc., $6,200; and 11 shares common stock, Lee’s Department Store, SI,OOO. Howard E. Baumgartner of Berne is the attorney for the estate, and the executor is E. W. Baumgartner, trust officer of the First Bank of Berne. Listed as heirs in the estate are Lucretia F. Sprunger, Berne; Celia R. Hilty, route 2, Bluffton, O.; Harriet M. Wiebe, Orosi, Calif.; Winifred E. Gerber, Bluffton, O.; and Phyllis M. Suter, route 2, Pandora, 0., all daughters, and one son, Olando W. Sprunger, of route 2, Berne. U. S. Steel Reports Increase In Profits NEW YORK (UPD—The U.S. Steel Corp, announced Tuesday its profits last year were $39 million greater than those of 1962. Roger M. Blough, chairman of the nation’s biggest steelmaker, said that 1963 profits totaled $202,913,826. or $3.28 a share, as compared with $163,679,817, or $2.66 a share, in the previous year. It was in 1962 that U.S, Steel led the industry in boosting prices and then, under strong pressure from the late President Kennedy, withdrew the hikes. Booming auto sales and generally good business' in other steel-consuming firms * were credited for the high net income for the fourth quarter of 1963. The net quarterly income rose to $53,346,136, or 87 cents a share, from the 1962 figures for the ,same three months of $41,053,361, or 64 cents. Directors of the firm voted to continue paying stockholders 50 cents a share, the dividend which they received in the first three quarters of last year. , Blough said that “some” workers who had been laid off may be recalled to fill vacancies created by the extended vacation plan for steelworkers which takes effect this year The chairman said that from 7,000 to 8.000 workers in the firm’s mills would be affected annually by the vacation plan, which was _negotiated last year by the steel workers union as part of its “spread the work” campaign. In 1963, the company said that average employment of white and blue-collar workers dropped to 187,719 from a figure of 194,044 in the previous year. The record employment figure of U.S. Steel was 340,498 workers, iff 1943.

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Republicans Hope To Get Out Os Red WASHINGTON (UPD — Republicans hope to get out of debt tonight and start building a sl2 million war chest to finance the GOP national organization for the 1964 political campaign. About 25,000 Republicans are expected to pay SIOO a plate in 21 cities, which will be linked by closed circuit television for a one-hour round of pep talks. The diners will hear former President Dwight- D. Eisenhower speaking from Detroit and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon from New York. They also will hear two announced candidates for the presidential nomipation—Sen. Barry Goldwater,’ speaking from Pittsburgh, and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, from Los Angeles. Others in the television lineup include Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton, from Indianapolis; Michigan Gov. George Romney, from Washington; Sen. Thruston B. Morton, Ky., from Houston, and GOP National Chairman William E. Miller and Rep. Bob Wilson, Calif., both from Cleveland. The GOP expects to net about $1 million for its national party organization after payment of expenses which include $250,000 for the closed television circuit. The $1 million will be divided among the Republican National Committee and the senatorial and congressional campaign committees, headed by Morton and Wilson, respectively. State and local Republican organizations participating in the fund-raising affair also will net about $1 million. Republican leaders expect the 1964 campaign to cost the national organization sl2 million to be spent by the three permanent committees, plus one or two more to be set up for the campaign next fall. The party is now about $225,000 in debt. Opportunitv School Plans Benefit Dinner Parents and friends of the Vera Cruz opportunity school will sponsor a benefit dinner from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 29 at the American Legion dining room in Bluffton. All proceeds will go to the school’s building fund. Cake Cooling Invert a tube cake pan over a funnel or bottle to provide proper cooling for that angel-food cake.

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Living Costs ' In U. S. Hit All-Time Peak WASHINGTON (UPD—Higher prices for food and housing raised the nation’s living costs to an all-time peak in December, the government disclosed today. The Labor Department said its consumer price index climbed by 2 per cent last month to reach 107.6 per cent of average 1957-59 prices. This meant that it took $10.76 to buy the same goods and services that $lO could buy a few years ago. It was only the third time in the past 10 years that the index went up in December. The 1.7 per cent rise from the previous December in the consumer price level was the largest in five years. Sharp increases were reported in prices for fresh vegetables, sugar and candy together, with home owner costs and housekeeping expenses. Public transportation, gasoline and movie admissions also cost more last month. In a summary of 1963’s price movements, the bureau of labor statistics said: “Prices of practically everything were higher over the year, except meats, new. cars, gasoline, drugs, appliances and electric utility rates.” The Labor Department also said take home pay of factory workers hit a record high in December, mainly because of longer working hours. There was a slight increase in average earnings.

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