Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 26.

Farm Message Is Sent To Congress By Pres. Johnson

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson today sent Congress a special farm message coupling new agricultural programs with a city-flavored proposal to study the growing economic power of supermarket chains. Johnson’s shopping list of farm proposals, some carried over from the Kennedy administration and already t>art way through the congressional mill, included programs for wheat, cotton, milk, sugar, and potatoes. The President said the new cotton plan, which he framed in broad, general terms to allow room for congressional compromising, should make market prices more competitive with other fibers. The wheat plan on which Johnson asked “prompt action,” is designed to head off a SSOO million-S7OO million drop in grower income this year by offering higher price supports to producers who voluntarily curb output. Attacks Rural Poverty The wide-ranging message also called for fresh steps to attack poverty in rural areas, action to broaden food aid to the needy, and a five-year extension of the decade-old Food For Peace program. In one of the few real surprises in the message, Johnson said there was "pressing need” for a bi-partisan commission to study revolutionary changes which have been sweeping the food marketing system. The President said one of every two dollars spent for groceries now goes to fewer than 100 corporate, voluntary, or cooperative chains. Not enough is known about the effects of this “greatly increased concentration - of power” or about changes including contract farming and vertical integration of production and marketing, he added. “I urge that the Congress establish a bi-partisan commission to study and appraise these changes, so that farmers and business people may make appropriate adjustments and our government may properly discharge its responsibility to consumers,” Johnson said. Retailer In Control •' An administration spokesman said there had been charges that retailers now have the power to control prices of some food products. But he said the proposed study was not designed to make a whipping boy of anyone. In another proposal, Johnson asked for a bill allowing potato growers to vote on whether to accept rigid production controls to stabilize supplies and market prices. No federal price supports would be coupled with the control program. Johnson also asked for approval of a bill pending in Congress since last year to authorize future expansion of the tooa stamp program which swells the food-buying funds of needy families. And in a proposal allied to his planned general anti-pover-ty campaign, he said some o the poverty-fighting funds he already had requested should be used to purchase equipment to enable schools in low-income areas to participate in the federal school lunch program. Indianapolis Times Business Ed Dies INDIANAPOLIS (UPD Harold Hartley, 63, business editor of the Indianapolis Times since 1948 and assistant editor since 1954, and former managing editor and executive editor of the Toledo, Ohio, Times, died today in Methodist Hospital. Hartley’s column, “Today in on the front page of late ediBusiness,” appeared regularly tions of the Times. Hartley was . known for his ability to translate cdmplicated business news into language understandable by the average reader.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Holstein Breeders Select Officers | The Adams county Holstein breeders association held their meeting Thursday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Steury, route 1, Berne. Franklin Steury presided at this meeting, <*id the secretary’s report was given by Arnold Gerke, route 3, Decatur. Mrs. Lee Osborn, secretary of state Holstein breeders association, discussed the membership drive held last year, and presented the calendar of events for the association for 1964.

James Day, national fieldman for the Holstein association in Michigan and Indiana area, presented a discussion of the activities of the national Holstein-Frie-sian association., The Adams county Holstein breeders association received a $lO cash award from the state association for having the highest number of new members in state association. The Adams county Holstein breeders association voted to endorse the open class dairy show, which is to be held July 31, at the 4-H fairgrounds, Monroe. All purebred cattle breeders are Welcome to exhibit their cattle. The new officers elected for 1964 were as follows: president, L. Reuben Schwartz, Berne; vice president, Dale Caffee, Decatur; secretary, Raymond Becker, Jr., Decatur; assistant secretarytreasurer, • Harry Wulliinan, Berne; directors, Arnold Scheumann, Decatur; Eugene Caffee, Decatur; Rolandes Liechty, Berne. Twenty-five Holstein breeders attended this important meeting. Local Man’s Brother Dies Early Thursday La Vaughn (Teddy) Ochsenrider, 61, of Bluffton, died Thursday morning at the Clinic hospital in that "city, where he had been a patient two weeks. Death was attributed to a heart attack following surgery. He was born in Montpelier Oct. 20, 1902, a son of Elias and Lillie Mae Leist-Ochsenrider. Mr. Ochsenrider had been employed the past 12 years in the shipping department at the Kresge warehouse. He was a member of the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, a past president of the Eagles lodge, and a charter member of the 40 & 8 Voiture No. 1520. Survivors include his father, Elias, of Bluffton; one brother, Niland D. Ochsenrider of Decatur; and several aunts and cousins. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Goodwin funeral home in Bluffton, with the Rev. Tom Kuhn officiating. _ Burial wim>e in the Elm Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. C. D. Macy Dies Os Heart Attack c. D. Macy, 58, of Austin, Minn., a native of Decatur and member of a prominent pioneer familv here, died of a heart attack this morning at 4:15 o’clock at his home. He had been in poof health for four months. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Macy, he was a graduate, of Decatur high school and Purdue university- In the early 1930’s he went with Hormel Packing Co., and was working in their personnel division at the time of his death. ’ He- has a number of relatives in the Decatur area. Survivors include his sister, Mary: brother. Byford; wife, Laura: two sons and a daughter. A brother, Ishmael, is deceased. Funeral services will be held Monday in Austin.

Richard Lewfon Is Auditor Candidate Richard D. Lewton Richard D. Lewton, Root township, former county treasurer and former county clerk, announced today that he will be a candidate for county auditor, subject to the Democratic primary May 5. Lewton was first nominated for county treasurer in 1948, over Charles A. (Tarzan) Hicks, and he defeated Norval Fuhrman in the fail, 4,692—4,403. He was reelected in 1950 over Waldo (Bud) Neal, 5,114 to 3,641. In 1954 he was elected clerk over Grant Bean, 4,913 to 3,735, after defeating Frank Hebble and Louis Reinking, Jr,, in a threeway race. In 1958 he was reelected county clerk without opposition in either the primary or general elections. When elected to the clerk’s post in 1956, Lewton became the 20th man to hold that position. Lewton is a graduate of Monmouth high school and for several years was an electrical contractor in Decatur. Lewton and his wife, Fredia, reside in Root township. They have six children. He and his wife attend the First Methodist church. Pair Enter Guilty Pleas To Charges

Chester Adams, formerly of Decatur, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of grand larceny in the Adams circuit court this morning, and 18-year-old William M. Dawson, of 710 Spencer St., entered a guilty plea to second degree burglary. Judge Myles F. Parrish ordered probation officer Chris H. Mnselman to make a pre-sentence investigation report to be submitted within five days rin both Dawson and Adams, Adams was apprehended recently in Attica, 0., with, several saddles in his possession. The saddles had been stolen here and were owned by Carl Braun and Ralph Loshe. 1 Adams was taken to Sandusky, 0., to face charges of vehicle taking, but when released on bond, was returned here to face the grand larceny charge. One of Six Dawson is one of six youths involved in a series of break-ins in Decatur, - which the city police broke open a week ago. He and Donald Leroy Lough, also 18, of 434 Mercer Ave., were charged with sceond degree burglary, and four other youths, under the age of 18, were turned over to juvenile authorities. "T ” Lough has been arraigned on the charge, but as yet has not entered a plea. He has tieen released from the county jail after posting SI,OOO bond. Both Adams and Dawson were remanded to jail, where each is being held under SI,OOO bond.

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Decatur, Indiana, 4673 3, Friday, January 31, 1 964.

Soil Conservation Banquet Held Here

"Stick around about ten years, and watch the interesting changes in Adams county agriculture," L. M. Busche, former county agent here, former assistant state director of county agents, and professor at Purdue University, told a crowd of 250 people attending the 10th annual meeting of the Adams county soil and water conservation district at the Decatur Community Center Thursday night. Richard Scheumann, Preble township, board member for the past ten years, and a member I Shriners Entertain Students At Circus All third-grade pupils, in Adams county and all Vera Cruz opportunity school pupils, will be the guests of the Shriners of Adams county a week from Saturday at the annual circus in Fort Wayne. Transportation to the coliseum will be provided by the Adams county buses, R. L. Mills, chairman, stated . The group is scheduled to see the 10 a.m. performance, and the departure time from the various schools is: Geneva, 7:45 a.m.; Berne, 8 a.m.; Adams Central, 8 a.m.; Decatur Catholic, 8:15 a. m.; Decatur Lincoln, including Northwest, Southeast, and Zion Lutheran, 8:15 a.m.; Monmouth, 8:15 am.; St. John’s and all Lutheran schools. 8:15. Some parents might wish to prepare a sack lunch as it will be about 2 p.m. before the children are returned to their starting points. Parents are asked to bring and meet their children at the schools listed above, and the buses will return them to the schools from wh’ch they started. Te circus is entirely new this year, except for the elephants, Mills explained. Auto Is Demolished In One-Car Accident A 1956 model car driven by Roy Eugene Thornton, 18, of route 2, Geneva, was considered a total loss following accident on county road 22. one mile north and four miles east of" Geneva this morning. Thornton was westbound on the county road at 6:30 a.m. when his auto went out of control and left the road on the right side. The vehicle tore down 150 feet of fence and six steel posts on the Pearl Sielschoot property. Deputy sheriff Warren Kneuss, who investigated, said the road was surrounded by a wooded area and was still icy, plus slick from the rain. Thornton escaped the crash without injury. Deputy sheriff Harold August investigated a minor mishap at 3 p.m. Thursday at the site of the new bridge construction in Pleasant Mills. Joseph A. Hunter. 78, of 401 W. Adams St., Decatur, had pulled up to the construction site on state road 101 to watch the work on the new bridge. When he backed up to allow a truck to leave the site, he backed his auto into a car owned by Karl Johnson, 751 Park View Drive, which was parked on the west side. Johnson’s car suffered SSO damage. while Hunter’s was not damaged.

Panama Goes Before OAS Council Today

WASHINGTON (UPD—Panama goes before the council 4>f the Organization of American States WAS) today to charge the United States with “aggression” in the Canal Zone riots. Twenty-three persons, including four American soldiers, were killed and hundreds more were injured in the rioting and sniper fire Jan. 9-10 that , followed a flag-raising incident at Baiboa High School in the U.S.controlled Canal Zone. The 19-member council meets at 4 p.m. EST to consider the Panamanian charges. Panama and the United States, as interested parties, will not vote in the council session. ■The council could, by a twothirds vote of the remaining' 17 members, form a provisional “organ of consultation,” or court, to take up the charges and send a fact-finding team to Panama. Once that team reported—-if

of the original board, was especially honored. He was succeded at the meeting by Russel Mitchel, Washington township, who was elected over Warren H. Nidlinger, Jr., of Root township. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt gave the invocation, and the dinner, served by the ladies of the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren, was accompanied by dinner music. Rotary Club Present Hugh David Mosser, chairman of the soil and water cons er vation district board, then welcomed the guests, and introduced George Auer, president of the Decatur Rotary Club, who introduced the Rotarians present. The group then stood and repeated the conservation pledge: “I give my pledge as an Ameri- < can to save and faithfully to defend from waste the natural resources of my country—its soil and minerals, its forests, waters and wild life.” FFA Awards Ernest Lesiuk, Adams county extension agent, then presented individual medals, to Future Farmers Bill Tonner, Steve Kaehr, Larry Mailer, Phil Isch and Keith Fox, for land judging. Their instructor, Doyle Lehman, of Berne, was introduced, and so was Martin Watson, Adams Central FFA instructor. Certificates of service, in recognition of ten years of service, were then presented to Virgil (Pete) Krick, for Krick-Tyndall Tile Co., E. W. Baumgartner, for the First Bank of Berne, Dick Heller for the Decatur Daily Democrat: Roy L. Price, Russel Mitchel, for Farm Bureau Cooperative; Donald A. Norquest, for the Farmers Home Administration; Mary Howard, for ’the county ASCS committee; Delmas Bollenbacher, for the county commissioners; Winfred Gerke, for the county council; also receiving awards but not present \ were the Federal Land Bank of Bluffton; county surveyor’s office, county highway department, Berne Witness, Bank of Geneva, Rockford Stone Co., and former county agent L. E. Archbold. The Eels quartet then presented a 15-minute program of barber shop style music. Busche Speaks Baumgartner then introduced the speaker, who was a county agent in Adams county many years ago. Busche recalled the many changes since he was a county agent in 1930—the farmers then raised 35 bushels of corn to the acre in Indiana, compared with 87 bushels, 2V 4 times as many, today. Will they raise 217 bushels in 33 more years, he asked? He doubted it. In 1930 the average Hoosier farmer raised only 14 bushels of soybeans on an acre, compared with 30 bushels last year; will heraise 60 bushels in 1996? Wheat has risen from 18 bushels an acre to 41, on the average, with 82 as~ the goal in 33 years. Many factors could limit this, Busche pointed out. “Will we run out of water before then,” he asked. “It’s been dry the past three years, but what if we have a real drought." Population up 20% “In just 10 years the population will increase 20%, so we will need that much more food,” he predicted. “In 1930 it took 15 pounds of food to raise a threepound broiler in 14 weeks; today, it takes six or seven pounds to do the job in eight weeks. Will we reach the point when we can raise a three-pound broiler on three pounds of food? “Hie American farmer has done so well that the American

Panama continued to press the issue—the next step would be a vote on whether the United ■States was guilty of aggression and possibly whether sanctions should be applied. A two-thirds vote would be needed. The United States said it would cooperate if a majority of the OAS agreed to an investigation of Panama’s charges. “We have no objection to an investigation of the facts,” State Department spokesman Richard I. Phillips said Thursday. ~ “As an interested party, we do, to express an opinion on the juridical aspects of the Panamanian action in action in bringing this before the council under the Rio Treaty, but we would cooperate if a majority of the council were favorable to such action,” he said. 1 The White House said it had no statement on the - situation.

I I i x k ffSjsr 4 A ' ’* :A <? ' W \ ./'-■kJ i W'k i /’>Xr va<cwM z A IB . yy |k i i JBEiBk. Kr *s ' \? '. 4 r 11 rEN YEARS OF SERVICE, recorded on the program for the tenth anniversary celebration, is examined here by members of the speakers table at the annual Adams county soil and water conservation district meeting Thursday night. Left to right, Ernie Lesiuk, county extension agent; Hugh David Mosser, chairman of the district; L. Martin Busche, of Monroe, speaker, and E. W. Baumgartner, president of the First Bank of Berne, master of ceremonies, examine the program.—'Photo by Teeple) I Z • F ■< I \«- JM ■ * I ■ '■ H SCS WORK UNIT LEADERS are Jerry Setser, right, work unit conservationist, and Sam Bell, left, his assistant. The two, together with a part-time helper, Arlen Mitchel, and a secretary, Mrs. Al Lindahl, make up the staff of U. S.-county employes who advise the district members. — (Photo by Teeple)

consumers spend 30% on food, income on food, and 81% on other things. In England and France, cosumers sped 30% on food, while in Soviet Russia families spend 56% of their income on food. “Horace Greely once said that the illusion that living was better then than now has pervaded , all ages, but it just isn’t true,” Busche added. Machinery Advances “Don’t fight machinery, like the Luddites in 1811, who broke up new ‘job-taking’ machines in England, or those who burned cotton gins in the U. S. in 1794, when Eli Whitney's invention replaced the labor of 50 workers. “The records kept for the past few years by 500 to 600 of the best Indiana farmers indicates that the family farm is here to stay, but that the farmer of the future will need 40% more land, 100% more capital, will make 2550% more profits, will be more specialized, will buy more services, even leasing machines; and that many more will be parttime farmers. “In 1934 there were only two chemicals used to kill weeds; today there -are 38, and the list grows every year. ' “Only one out of nine or ten of your sons will go directly in* to farming, but a college education in agriculture will give him a background to go into a related field, since 38% of all jobs relate to food,” Busche pointed out. U. S. Convoy ~ Brings Bodies Back To Berlin BERLIN (UPD—A U.S. military convoy headed for West Berlin over icy East German roads today with the bodies of the three U.S. Air Force officers killed Tuesday when Soviet' jets shot down their unarmed training plane. Lt. Col. Gerald Hannaford, 41, of Austin, Tex.: Capt. Donald Millard, 33, of Ukiah, Calif.; and Capt. John .Lorraine, 34, of Jacksonville, Fla., were the victims of the sudden flareup in the cold war. The convoy also carried the wreckage of their T 39 jet trainer, which was downed after straying across the West Ger-

KJ ’ ”n V > ' ' ''' VJb - '•■ k M CONGRATULATES WINNER— Russel Mitchel, right, newly elected member of the Adams county soil and water conservation district, is congratulated by Warren Nidlinger, Jr., left, who was also a candidate. Mitchel, of Washington township, replaces Richard Scheuman, of Preble township, who has served on the board since’it was founded a decade ago.—(Photo by Teeple)

man border into East Germany. Examination of the wreckage was expected to show whether Soviet jets shot down the plane or whether their tactics caused it to crash. The State Department has accused the Russians of shooting it down. Soviet statements on the incident have only “measures!’ - against the plane. The Moscow, Western diplomatic observers said the Russians appeared to be minimizing the incident in an attempt to keep it from spreading into a crisis that could hurt recent moves to ease the cold war. They cited the inside-page treatment of the incident in the Soviet press and the call by the Soviet delegate at the Geneva disarmament conference Thursday to push forward with further agreements despite the “regrettable” incident. Soviet oiticials in Berlin gave permission to the Air Force Thursday to send the convoy 120 miles Into East German territory to bring back the bodies and wreckage.

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Blackford Circuit Court Judge Dies HARTFORD CITY, Ind. (UPI) Blackford Circuit Court Judge Alfred R. Hollander, 51. died Thursday night at Blackford County Hospital. Hollander had been hospitalized since last Saturday when he suffered a heart attack. A native of Indianapolis, Hol- * I lander became judge of the court Jan. 1, 1961, after serving as Blackford County prosecutor, county attorney and City attar- I ney here and at Montpelier. INDIANA WEATHER „ V--.- . Partly cloudy and a Mttte colder tonight. Saturday most*** ly sunny and continued mild. Low tonight 27 to 33. High Saturday 44 to 50. Stmoet today 6:03 p.m. Sunriae Rater, day 7:53 a.m. Outlook for Sunday i Mostly fair and mUd. Lowe 38 to 38. Tlgte 40a write to 50a Booth. *■- '■