Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 28.

Ranger Hits Moon But No Pictures

EDITOR’S NOTE — When America’s Ranter 6 reached _ the moon but failed to send back television pictures, the initial joy of scientists turned to disappointment. UPI Science Writer Joseph L. Myler, who stood watch with them through Saturday night, reports their reactions. By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — More than 100 persons had gathered at the Washington headquarters of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to follow the progress of Ranger-6’S flight. They were linked by direct wire with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., control center for the flight, where more than 200 persons were on hand for the historic occasion. Ranger’s launch from Cape * Kennedy, Fla., had been nearly as perfect as anyone could wish. Since the launch at 10:49 a.m., EST Thursday everything had gone beautifully. A mid-course correction maneuver, executed at 3:57 a.m., EST Friday had put the spacecraft in a near-perfect trajectory. No further course correction would be necessary. Ranger-6 seemed certain to redeem five consecutive failures in the $152 Arillion program and, with its six television cameras, get history’s first close up picture of the moon. Smooth Flight In the final phase of Ranger's plunge to the moon, everything still was working perfectly. The tracking station at Goldstone, Calif., was locked onto the spacecraft and its radio signal was coming in strong and clear. , j. Ranger carried two independent video camera systems. They were supposed to go into

Reds Assault U.S. Compound

SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) — Four Communist guerrillas staged a daring pre-dawn raid on a U. S. Army compound today, causing heavy damage with hand grenades but injuring only one American. A U. S. sentry killed two of the raiders. The injured American, a captain, was not in serious condition. The raid came amid reports that the Communists have doubled their small - scale attacks in the five days since the coup that put Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh in power as junta chairman. The guerrillas struck at a compound in Kontum, provincial capital 260 miles north of here in the wild central highlands. They burned down the main building in the compound, including the offices, supply room, and officers’ quarters. The raiders cut a hole in the barbed wire fence around the compound. Military sources said they apparently were helped by some members of the Vietnamese guard company assigned to the compound. Nine jnembers of the company were missing after the raid. In another development, military sources disclosed over the weekend that the man believed to have assassinated President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, after their overthrow last November has killed himself. They said VietnSmese army v. Maj. Nguyen Van Nhung, aide of the newly deposed junta chairman, Maj. Gen. Duong Van Minh, committed suicide Friday, the day after Minh was ousted by Khanh. ■ Khan flew to one Commu-nist-threatened area by helicopter Sunday and chatted with troops fighting the Viet Cong in almost daily battles. “The chjef of state must be in front with hi§ men, not in Saigon,” he said. “The/sole essential point is to have the population with us, not in Saigon but in the country,” he added. “That is where the people are suffering and need to be protected." Combat Veterans Both Khanh and the junta

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a five-minute warmup period 19 and. 16 minutes before impact and, in the final 10 minutes and the last 900 miles of the mission, take 3,000 photographs of the moon’s surface. The loudspeaker voice from Pasadena said indications were that the cameras went into the warmup phase all right. Goldstone would soon be receiving pictures. But at impact minus 12 minutes (4:12 a.m. EST) the voice reported “no indication” that the cameras had gone from warmup to picture taking. At 4:13 a.m., “as yet no video.” At 4:19 a.m., stfe minutes before impact, “still no video.” At impact minus 4 minutes, then 3%, 2,1%, 1, “still no video.” At 30 seconds before impact, “still no video.” No Video Impact time was only a few tenths of a second off the calculated moment. But —“still no video.” By then, what happened seemed almost incredible. At the climax two separate camera banks, each with two separate turn-on systems, had failed simultaneously. There were four chances that at least one of the television systems would work. Neither did. Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr., associate administrator of the space agency, said it will take “a lot of detective work” to discover the cause of the television failure. Since last-moment emergency "commands” from Goldstone produced no results, it might be that the fault lies in the master switch aboard the spacecraft through which ground controllers routed their radio orders. Three launches, all scheduled for 1964, are left in the Ranger Project to map potential landing places for the Apollo astronauts. Ranger-7 is set to go up in a month. '

chairman he overthrew Thursday, Maj. Gen. Duong Van Minh, are combat veterans of the guerrilla war. President Ngo Dinh Diem, whowas deposed and slain by Minh’s coup Nov. 1, was often criticized for failing to win peasant support in the war. The sources said that before the coup last Thursday, Communist attacks on government positions had averaged about 30 a day. They included smallscale raids, probing moves, and ambushes of convoys. Since Khanh’s seizure of power, the daily figure has increased to about 60, the sources said. Not Linked Directly The stepped-up Communist attacks could not be linked positively to the coup, the sources said. But it was noted that the guerrillas increased their activity in the days after the last change of power, when Minh overthrew Diem three months ago. The military sources said the Viet Cong leadership may have ordered a doubling of raids and ambushes for either of these reasons: •• — —To embarrass and weaken Khanh’s regime at a time when he is seeking support from both army officers and the civilian ■populace. * . : —To probe the strength of government positions in a preliminary to a major military offensive. „ TWO SECTIONS Funeral Held Today For Mary E. Pittmdh Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Pittman, 96, former Adams county resident/ died Saturday morning at the Methodist home in Warren. She was a member of the Fort Wayne Trinity Methodist church and the Eastern Star in Fort Wayne. Surviving are two nieces, Mrs. Olive Jlaudenbush and Mrs. Ruth Ortljeb. Services were held this afternoon at. the Methodist home chapel,, with burial in Spring Hill cemetery.

Superior Ratings To Local Students Several Decatur high school and Lincoln school students received superior ratings in the annual instrumental, solo and ensemble contest Saturday and a number of others received excellent and good ratings. The contest was held at Lakeside junior high school in Fort Wayne, and is sponsored by the Northern Indiana school band, orchestra and vocal association. The local group was under the direction of Richard Collins, high school band instructor. The state contest will be held in Indianapolis at Butler University, Saturday, Feb. 15, with students receiving a superior rating in class 1 eligible to participate. The Decatur students receiving superior ratings Saturday were: Flute solos, Margaret Kocher, Charlotte Houk, Anne Langston and Debra Bodie; baritone solo, Tim Singleton; saxaphone solo, Barbara Houk; clarinet solo, Remilda Harrell. Ensemble superior ratings went to the following: flute trio, Margaret Kocher, John Beeler and Suran Ellis; clarinet trio, Pat Collins, Margaret Cook and Ed Cravins; clarinet duet, Julie Meeks and Karen Noll; saxaphone quintet, Barbara Houk, Pat Collins, Tom Whitaker, Rick Doty and Alan Zerkel. Receiving excellent ratings were Margaret Cook, Julie Zerkel and Lisa Brandyberry, clarinet solo; Alan Zerkel, saxaphone solo; and Mike Curtin, trombone solo. Ed Cravens received a rating of good in clarinet solo, and Barbara Steury received a good rating in flute solo.

Civic Music Group Reelects Officers Mrs. Sherman Stucky of Berne, was reelected president of the, Adams County Music association at the annual meeting of the board of directors held Friday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community center. Other officers named for second year terms “ were Freeman Burkhalt er, Berne, first vice president; Herman Krueckeburg, Decatur, treasurer; and Mrs. Menno Lehman, Berne, secretary. The annual membership drive of the organization was set for April 12 to 18, with “prep” week to be held April 5 to 11. H. E. Nonneman of Dayton, representing the Civic Music Service, was present and discussed the upcoming drive and talent available for the 1964-165 season. All seniors in the Adams county high schools will be invited guests of the association to attend the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra concert to be held Monday evening, February 24, at the Decatur High school. It was also decided to have a tea for the membership following the concert of Elsasser, world famous organist at the Community Center on March 31. The fourth and final concert of the season will be the appearance of the Karlrude Chorale, a singing ensemble of 16 highly trained male vocalists Mrs. Stucky announced that the names of the membership drive chairman will be announced at a later date. Forest F. Durr Dies After Long Illness Forest F. Duer, 64. well known farmer residing on Decatur route 6, died at 9 o’clock Sunday morning at his home. He had been in failing health for several years. Born in Adams county Feb. 18, 1899. he was a son of Henry and Matilda Hurless-Duer. He was a lifelong resident of Adams county and had lived on route 6 for the past 27 years. He was married to Ocie Smith April 26, 1934. Mr. Durr attended St Paul’s Missionary 'church. Surviving in addition to his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Roger (Marilyn) Longenberger of Decatur route 6; two grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Goldie Hilyard of Decatur. One sister is deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Winteregg-Linn funeral horde, -■ with the Rev. Robert R. Welch Officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. -m. today until ’ time of ‘-the services.

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Stage Massive Protest On Racial Segregation In Schools In New York

Martin Conrad Fatally Hurt

Martin Conrad, 74-year-old resident of route 1, Decatur, became the'first Adams county traffic fatality of 1964 when he was killed in a one-car accident north of Monroe this afternoon. He died at 1:40 p. m. at the Adams county memorial hospital, approximately 40 minutes after the one-car crash occurred on U. S. 27, about a mile north of Coppess Corner, Death was believed to have been caused by head injuries. Doctors and nurses at the local hospital were preparing to trans-? fer Conrad tb a Fort Wayne hos-i. pital when he died. The time of| death was listed at 1:40 p. m. t The victim was the only person?; in the car at the time of the; crash, and had been thrown frumethe vehicle as it was rolling overt three times. He was rushed to*= the Adams county hospital and®, admitted at 1 p. m., with ’leadE injuries and a broken right leg.r among other- injuries. He was unconscious at these scene of the mishap, but had re-fe gained consciousness at the hos-E “• pital. Auto Rolls Over The mishap occurred as the* conrad car was northbound on*. U. S. 27, just entering the curve which is located one mile north of the Coppessj ' Corner intersection. The vehicle apparently went| out of control just before enter-j. ing the'' curve. Through prelim-fe inary investigation, it was believ-* ed the car dropped off the road, 7 came back on again, and thenleft the road again on the east side and flipped end over end at least three times before coming to rest on its wheels. ; The 1958 model car was a total: loss, and parts of the car, such as the generator, a spring, etc.,f were strewn for some distance, <■ leaving a trail of where the auto, had traveled while flipping over. ■ Investigation Continues The sheriff’s department, sheriff Roger Singleton, and deputies Harold August, were at the scene of the mishap. No witnesses to the crash could be found at the time. A truck driver reported seeing only the car in the air while flipping over. Investigation of the crash is continuing , according to sheriff’s officers. BULLETIN Mrs. Ethel Kaehr, of 410 Line street, died at 12 noon today at the Adams comity memorial hospital. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home pending arrangements. Restaurant Robbed Os $3,000 By Pair .' INDIANAPOLIS (U P I) — Laughner’s Steer - Inn Restaurant was robbed today of about $3,000 by two masked men who ' forced their way into the office of manager Thurman Harp, 29. Harp told police the men bound his hands as he lay on the floor at their command. They took the keys to a wall safe and robbed it. It was the second lucrative holdup in the Indianapolis area i during the weekend. Manager Gene * Weissenberger, 30, of Preston’s Supermarket was robbed of $2,743 Saturday night at a Lawrence .branch bank i where he was using the night depository. 1

• The body was taken to the Zwick funeral home, where funeral arrangements are pending. Survivors include the wife, Frieda; three sons, Marvin, route 2. Decatur; Delbert, route 1, Decatur; and Waldo, who lived on his father’s property. All reside around the Preble area, and the family are members of the Friedheim church. One daughter, who was not identified, and several grandchildren also survive. Frankfort Branch Bank Robbed Today MICHIGANTOWN, Ind. (UPIf —A bandit dressed in matching blues and brandishing a nickelplated revolver held up the manager and two clerks at the ; Michigantown branch of the Farmers Bank of Frankfort today and escaped with an estiimfrted $2,500 to E Authorities said the gunman . walked in, told manager Richard Wallace to “put the money in a bag,” and fled after threatening Wallace and the women clerks, one of whom was identified as Jane Dunn. Wallace told police the, man ■wore a blue cap, blue quilted jacket, blue pants and the money bag he carried also was blue. He was described as about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing about 160 pounds. The bandit fled in a car which witnesses said was a late model tan colored auto. Clinton County officers and state police put up road blockades in the area but nearly two hours after the holdup they had not located the getaway car. The holdup occurred about 10:10 a.m. EST. The bank is located on the town’s main street, the route of Indiana 29. Michigantown is about seven miles northeast of Frankfort. It was the third bank robbery in Indiana this year. The second occurred last Thursday at an Indianapolis branch of the American Fletcher National Bank and Trust Co. The loot was about $12,000, and a man suspected as one of three bandits was arrested the next day by FBI agents. Mrs. Loretta Gause Dies Last Evening __ Mrs. Loretta Whitman-Gause, 91, a resident of Decatur most of her life, died suddenly at 8:05 o’clock Sunday night at the -home of her son, Charles W. Whitman, 2501 Covington Rd., Fort Wayne. She was born in Decatur Aug. 3, 1872, a daughter of Sylvester and Eliza Blossom-Peterson. She was first married to Silas Whitman, who died in 1927. She was later married to Homer Gause, who ureceded her in death Feb. ‘l9: 1963. Mrs. Gause was a member of the First Methodist church and the Women of the Moose. Surviving in addition to the son ate a brother, Frank Peterson of Decatur, and five grandchildren. Funeral Services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Ziwick funeral home, with the Rev. Alva Kelly and the Rev. Paul Henry officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services.

NEW YORK (UPI) — School boycott leaders claimed that more than 50 per cent of the citys 500,000 Negro and Puerto Rican public school students stayed home today in a massive protest against racial segregation in the nation’s largest school system. Bayard Rustin, one of the boycott organizers and chairman of the freedom march on Washington last summer, said: “We said we could consider this demonstration a success if we got 50 per cent of the Negro and Puerto Rican students to participate, and we have exceeded that number. The boycott appeared to be most effective in schools with heavy Negro and Puerto Rican enrollments, especially in Harlem and the Bedford - Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Many white children also stayed away from their school desks and some parents said they kept their children home because they feared trouble. There are 500,000 white children in the school system but there was no immediate estimate of how many observed the boycott picket lines. However, police reported only one incident at the 290 of the citys 840 public schools which were picketed by 2,600 students, parents and some teachers. Rustin said response to the boycott was so encouraging feat integrationists would plan further demonstrations to terminate segregation in schools, housing and jobs. "This protest is only the top of the iceberg,’ Rustin said. As many as 20 pickets were posted at several Manhattan schools by 6:30 a.m., the hour civil rights leaders designated for the start of picketing at more than half of the city’s 840 public schools. Organizers of the one-day protest urged parents of New York’s one-million public school children to keep the youngsters out of class today in support of demands for quick desegregation of the schools. The picketing, boycott and demonstrations could develop into the nation’s biggest protest against de facto school segregation — racial imbalance caused by housing patterns and other social factors, rather than by law. Special targets of the boycott and picketing were the 168 schools with 90 per cent or more Negro or Puerto Rican students and another 100 schools with at least 50 per cent non-white enrollment. Nearly one-half of the public school population is Negro and Puerto Rican. It was a bitter 20 degrees with wind gusts up to 32 miles an hour when the first pickets joined police guards at many schools before dawn. Picketing of school buildings was scheduled to end before noon. Mass demonstrations then were planned at city hall, the Board of Education headquarters in Brooklyn and at the Manhattan office of New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. —Leaders- of the boycott warned the day protest would be followed by others, including a possible protracted boycott, if the school system’s integration plan is not widened and speeded up. . Planners of today’s demonstration, which has the support of all major civil rights groups, declared it would be non-vio-lent. The Rev. Milton A. Galamison, one of the organizers, warned however that “outsiders” might deliberately provoke trouble. Board of Education President James B. Donovan branded the boycott, as “lawless” and warned that if one child, white or Negro, is injured he intended to do his utmost to hold Galantisdh “personally and criminally responsible. Other developments: Cleveland, Ohio> Alleged de (Continued on Page Eight)

Cyprus President Is Under Pressure

LONDON (UPI) — Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios was under strong pressure from the United States and Britain today to accept a NATO peace force as a means of preventing civil war in his country. (In Nicosia, capital of Cyprus, thousands of Greek Cypriot students demonstrated against a NATO peace force and were told by President Makarios “your feelings are shared by the government.’ (The students, shouting “no NATO”, “we won’t have foreign intervention”, and “down wife blackmail an d threats’* marched past the U. S. Embassy and U.S. information office and 1 on to fee house of representatives where Makarios addressed 1 them briefly.) > Makarios was expected to answer fee Anglo-American proposal some time today. Informed Sources said he might offer counter-proposals on how to keep peace between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities in Cyprus. -. British and American officials

Ten Killed As Plane Crashes

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UPI) — All 10 persons aboard were killed today when a shuttle airliner crashed and burned on takeoff from the Gainesville Municipal Airport. The Federal Aviation Agency said the pilot and nine passengers of the twin-engine Beechcraft were trapped in the flaming wreckage of South Central Airlines ’Flight 510 when it crashed moments after taking off for Jacksonville. Eyewitnesses said fee plane reached an altitude of about 200 feet, veered sharply to the Fort Wayne Youths To Trial Feb. 11 The trial of two Fort Wayne youths, who allegedly burglarized a Berne clothing store last week, will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, February 11. William M. Fair, 19, and Trevor E. Frye, Jr., 18, will be tried without a jury, at their request, in the Adams circuit court, on the second degree burglary charges. Fair and Frye, through their attorney, Frank Celerick, of Fort Wayne, entered pleas of not guilty to the charge in fee circuit court this morning, with Judge Myles F. Parrish setting the trial date. The two allegedly entered Stan’s Men’s Wear in Berne early the morning of Tuesday, January 28, and stole approximately SIOO and several items of biothing and cigarette lighters. After fleeing the store despite warning shots from Berne police chief Don Groves, the two were arrested about five hours later as they were eating breakfast in a local restaurant. A warrant has been issued for their arrest from Fort Wayne, charging them with vehicle taking, ,as the auto they allegedly left at the scene of the burglary was stolen from a Fort Wayne autfi dealer.

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saw the unprecendented NATO force, which would include 2,000 U.S. troops, as the best immediate solution to containing the crisis which erupted around Christmas with inter-communal fighting that killed 200 persons. In Cyprus it was reported that the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities had been transformed into armed camps in the event that Makarios rejected the peace plan. A squadron of British transport planes stood by in Nicosia to fly British subjects out of Cyprus if new trouble starts. Armed forces of both Greece and Turkey were on the alert Turkey has threatened to send troops to Cyprus to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority, __ Acceptance of the U.S.-British plan by the Cyprus government was a condition stipulated by Washington for U.S. participation in a multinational peace force. Makarios, who favors a United Nations force, rejected the Anglo - American proposal before he actually saw it, but later agreed to study it.;..

left, plunged back to the runway. The dead were not immediately identified. Authorities roped off the area and kept newsmen away until federal officials could get to the scene. “It just took a secoiid for it to fall down,” said Mrs. Joe Anne Rowell, an airport employe. “It looked like it stalled ... like maybe the pilot tried to take too steep of an angle. “As soon as ft hit, the gasoline started spilling and the flames shot up." Mrs. Rowell and several others rushed to the plane in a limousine and tried to aid the trapped victims but it was too late. “We tried to open the door but it was locked from the inside,’ s’he said. “We saw two men, one at the door. Both bodies were burning. ’ South Central, headquartered at Ocala, Fla., flies about 13 planes out of Gainesville daily. Police Lt. Courtney Roberts said flames engulfed the entire plane before rescue units could get to it. Only one wingtip and the tail were left unscrathed, he said. As city, county, state and federal officers probed the wreckage, a makeshift morgue was set up in a pilot's lounge. Roberts said that radio operators in the tower heard a voice call out seconds before the crash: “Don't do that or it will stall.” He said the voice apparently came from the doomed aircraft. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. A little colder tonight. Low tonight 18 to 18 north, 17 Co 25 south. High Tuesday moody to the 3to north, low 40s south: Sunoet today «:07 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:50 a.m. Outlook tor Wednesday: Partly cloudy except cloudy southwest. Little warmer, chance of rain or snow. Lows 18 to 11 north, lower 20s south. High 38 to 48 north, tow 58s south.