Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1964 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ' Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Mail Dick D. HeHer, Jr. President John G. Heller Vice President Chas E. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subecripttea Kates iy Mail, in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, *IO.OO. Six months, *5.50; 3 months. *3.00. it Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year *11.35; 6 months, *6.00; 3 months, *3.35. dy Carrier, 35 cents per week. Single copies 7 cents Repeal Six Taxes ' ■ ' Several politicians are toying with the idea of the following: 1. Repeal the poll tax. 2. Repeal the personal property tax. 3. Repeal the sales tax. 4. Repeal the gross income tax on corporations. 5. Repeal the intangibles tax. 6. Repeal the adjusted gross income tax. a < ' • So far, of course, few people would object. Quite obviously, though, the state must raise money. The fairest tax is the net income tax. Each year, Hoosiers, individuals and corporations, make $9 billion. So why not institute a simple tax? One that will not thousands of agents, all over the state, to inforce. With sales tax, personal property tax, gross and adjusted gross taxes, and intangibles tax, state agents will be bothering you several times a year. So why not repeal the six taxes listed above, and institute a simple net income tax — 20% of the Federal income tax. This would mean that all you would have to do to fill in your tax form would be to include a carbon copy of your Federal return. You would have to pay just one-fifth what you pay for your Federal taxes. Get out your tax receipts, and add up what you presently have to pay on the taxes above. Add up the six amounts. Then take one-fifth of your Federal. See which is more. See which is easier for you, and easier for the state and local government. . Think how much would be saved locally — no annual visit from the assessor, no worries about whether your personal property is assessed fairly in comparison with so-and so’s. Undoubtedly some people would have to pay more — but most working people and farmers and storekeepers would pay less, and have less worries. Every family could fill in its own forms, too. This proposed system would permit a larger return from the state general fund for local schools, too. (Did you notice state treasurer Hughes’ claim (he is a Republican —Goldwater candidate for governor) —that the governor has spent 27% more from the general fund? Os course he has — it has been returned to local corporations to keep property taxes from going higher — it has even reduced the tax rate in some counties meluding Adams.) Editorial written by Dick HeDer

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Space Agency Plan To Classify Moon

By ALVIN B. WEBB Jr. United Press International HOUSTON (UPI) — On the doorsteps to space, or one foot in the twilight zone . . . America’s space agency has —or had—a plan afoot to classify the moon. “Classification” is a pet technique used by governmental agencies to stamp a secrecy label on something that, for one reason or another, they do not want anyone else to see. It would be tough to put the entire moon under classified wraps. It would, however, be simple for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to keep any details of the lunar surface a secret, since it has the only wherewithal this side of the Iron Curtain for getting a closeup look. Directors Approve Merger Os REMCs OSSIAN — A proposed merger of the Huntington and Allen-Wells county REMCs to provide more efficient and economical service to member-owners of the combined systems has, been approved by the board of directors of the two rural electric cooperatives, it was announced here today. Howard Creviston and Leslie Fishbaugh, presidents respectively of the Huntington and AllenWells county REMC boards of directors ,in a joint statement said that the next step in the ratification of the merger will be approval by the member-owners of the systems at the upcoming annual meetings. A favorable vote by 20 per cent of the members of both systems is required by Indiana state law for the merger proposal to become ‘effective, it was pointed out. Plans now are for the annual meetings of the two REMCs to be held in April. Attorneys for both REMCs are working with a committee formed from both boards of directors on legal documents to be submitted for approval to the Rural Electrification Administration in Washinton, D. C., which is the “banker” for the rural electric corner atives REA approval for the merger has been indicated, it was stated. Lindsey B. Buffer, who has served as manager of the Al-len-Wells county REMC since 1945. will be manager of the combined systems when the merger is completed. Name of the new organization has not yet been decided upon. The 30 employes of both organizations will continue to work in their present capacities. The Huntington office will become the main headquarters for the combined systems, while the Ossian office will remain open and con-tinue-to be operated nearly the same as in the past. Approval of the merger will make the combined REMCs the eighth largest rural electric cooperative system in the state, with 5,075 member-owners being served over 1,152 miles of line. The 43 REMCs in Indiana have a total membership of opproximately 175,000, with 39,000 miles of line reaching into all of the 92 counties in the state. Both Huntington and Allen-Wells County REMCs are members of Indiana Statewide Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., the central service organization for rural electric cooperatives in the state, of which A. D. Mueller is general manager. Creviston pointed out that both REMC organizations began operation in 1938, and that original plans called for these two systems to be one, but that due to the time element of getting the original construction completed and in operation, the project was divided into two systems. New York Stock Exchange Price MIDDAY PRICES A T. & T. 144%; Central Sova 29; Du Pont 267%; Ford 51%; General Electric 87%; General Motors 78%; Gulf Oil 50%; Standard Oil Ind. 64%; Standard Oil N. J. 81%; U. S. Steel 55%. MASONIC Regular Staled MEETING Tuesday, Feb. 11 7:30 P. M. Niland Ochsenrider, W. M.

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That, informed sources said, was what NASA had in mind when it dispatched a special operative to Pasadena, Calif., to examine, about 3,000 pictures that the 804-pound Ranger-6 lunar probe was supposed to televise to earth in its plunge to a crash landing, on the moonHis job, it was reported, was to decide which photographs would and would not be released to the public. "You will see some good pictures,’ one source told a newsman. “But you may not be allowed to see the best ones. Not for a while, anyway.” The theory behind all this quiet maneuvering, according to the report, was to prevent the release of any detailed lunar geography pictures that would save the Soviet Union any# steps in its own plan for putting men on the moon. Nothing Saved As it turned out, nobody was saved anything—except perhaps for the NASA operative, who was spared the task of wading through 3,000 photographs of the moon on a Sunday afternoon. Ranger-6 failed to take any pictures, classified or otherwise. It blindly smote the moon in another multimillion dollar U.S. lunar failure. Whether the secrecy move would be attempted on Ran-ger-7, now set for early April remained to be seen —although some observers recalled that NASA did not give up the first time when, on previous occasions, it classified weather forecasts and the names of American astronauts. Sand Story Saturn rockets may come and Ranger lunar probes may go, but 11,600 pounds of sand and Ernest P. Snavely are assured of immortality in someone’s memoirs some day of life at Cape Kennedy. During a lull in preparations for the recent Saturnßanger space doubleheader at the Cape, one newsman discovered an intriguing line in NASA’s press kit, to wit: “11,600 pounds of sand as ballast” for the second stage of the Saturn-1 super-booster. The joyful chase was on. NASA, it was discovered, was somewhat sand sensitive. Cape Kennedy is a veritable sandpile itself, but the space agency spurned a chance to buy the product locally for $25 and instead had it shipped in from more than 100 miles away, at a cost of $228. NASA hastened to explain that not just any old sand would do for the proud Saturn. The stuff had to be heat-treated to bake out the moisture. No one around the Cape had an oven trig enough to cook that much sand. Some Left Over To be on the safe side, the agency brought an even 15,000 pounds of sand. Presumably, there is 3,400 pounds of back-up sand still stored in NASA’s supply shops at the Cape. Ernest P. Snavley, on the other hand, does not exist and never did. He showed up as a mythical “hero” when the space agency politely declined to reveal the name of the worker who had failed to remove a test plug and thus caused a two-day delay in the Sturn-1 launching. Snavely was dreamed up by a newsman as a “33-year-olcT missile worker of Eau Gallie, Fla.” (as in “oh, golly!) who stepped forward to accept the burden of guilt for the embarrassing postponement. His explanation for failing to remove the plug, as revealed in a “news release,” does not bear ’ repeating in a family newspaper. But this mythical presence did brighten up an otherwise dull and fruitless afternoon. « And neither Snavely nor that sand will soon be . forgotten around the spaceport. Home Auto. Business INSURANCE Planned According to Your Needs COWENS INSURANCE AGENCY 209 Court Street PHONE 3-3601 L. A. COWENS \ JIM COWENS T-rnsr;- — • h ■ —

4-H Adult Leaders ( Name New Officers The 1964 Adams county 4-H men and women adult leaders meeting was held Thursday at ' the Adams-Central school. Wilbur Kirchhofer, route 2, Berne, men’s chairman, presided at the meeting. An election was held to fill the expired term of office for the following: women’s chairman: Mrs. Eli Schwartz, R. 1, Berne; men’s vice chairman: Bill Journay, R. 3. Decatur; women’s secretary; Mrs. Dale Grandlienard, R. 1, Geneva. The officers whose term of office will expire in 1965 are: men’s chairman: Wilbur Kirchhofer, R. 2, Berne; women’s vice chairman: Mrs. Clair Carver, R. 1, Monroe; men’s secretary: James Wilson, Jr., R. 1, Monroe. Mrs. Patsy Leaders, county extension agent, home economics, discussed the 4-H craft carnival to be held March 2 at the Farm Bureau building basement, Monroe, from 5 to 8 p.m. The 4-H kick-off meeting will be at the Adams Central high school gym, March 2 at 8 p.m. Ernest J. Lesiuk, county extension Agent, discussed the importance of 4-H junior leaders attending the 4-H district junior leader training conference which will be February 12, at the Lencaster Central school, Wells county. Divided sessions were held and discussions were held on the changes in 4-H projects for 1964. Charge Expert With Posing As FBI Man NEW YORK (DPI) — A wellknown expert on extrasensory perception, who allegedly claimed to have solved the slaying of President Kennedy, was to be arraigned today on charges of posing as an FBI agent. The suspect, Dutch-born Peter Hurkos, 52, was arrested early Sunday at a hotel here less than a week after he finished helping Boston police in their search for the strangler of 12 women in eastern Massachusetts. Authorities said the arrest stemmed from an incident last Dec. 10 in Wauwatosa, Wis., in which Hurkos stopped at a service station for gas and told attendants he was with the FBI. Hurkos was reported to have paid that he had just returned from Dallas after solving Kennedy’s assassination and was on his way to Las Vegas to work on the kidnaping of Frank Sinatra Jr. An FBI spokesman in Milwaukee, Wis., said in the course of this Hurkos displayed a rifle with a telescopic sight. After he drove away, the spokesman said the attendants called police. He was seized on a warrant issued in Milwaukee. Hurkos, formerly of Brookfield, Wis., and now a resident of Hollywood, is said to have had many of his “psychic” intuitions about crimes authenticated by European police. He has been interviewed several times on national television, and a best-selling book, “ESP”, has been written about his experiences. Being planned is a motion picture about his life, “The Man with the Radar Brain.”

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Greek And Turk Cypriots Battle

NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPI) — I Greek and Turkish Cypriots battled . each other again in heavy fighting today near a British base on this troubled island. British paratroopers rushed in to stop the fighting, but not before it mushroomed into one of the worst clashes since the truce which came into effect early last month. At least one Greek Cypriot was killed and one Turkish Cypriot was wounded in the shooting, the heaviest since last Thursday’s skirmish at the village of Ayios Sozomenos. The new clash came as American and Allied diplomats rushed emergency peace negotiations to head off a possible full-scale civil war in Cyprus. Meanwhile, a US. Embassy spokesman said that “all U. S. government dependents were evacuated by last Thursday.” It was authoritatively learned that U.S. Ambas- * sador Fraser Wilkins was sending his two sons to the United States, but his wife would remain here. Altogether, 833 American dependents have been evacuated, and it was learned that strong pressure was being brought to bear on the estimated 430 private American citizens here to evacuate their wives and families. The spokesman added that the evacuation of non-essential male government employes “is under discussion. He said that while the evacuation is “still technically voluntary, they are in fact now virtually being ordered out.” The move reflected increasing U.S. concern over the worsening security situation here. British sources warned that a resumption of serious fighting between Greek and Turkish Cypriots “almost certainly would provoke major Turkish intervention” that could result in a clash with Greece. In an attempt to head off a o - ( 20 Years Ago Today 0 —0 Feb. 10, 1944 — The charter and incorporation papers for the Decatur Community Fund, Inc., have bfeen received from the secretary of state. The annual Chamber of Commerce membership drive will open Monday, with Clarence Stapleton and Dan H. Tyndall as cochairmen of an 11-m a n committee. Sixteen members of the Historical club met at the home of Mrs. j. M. Miller. ' The J. A. Long drug store in Geneva has been sold to Sidney Buckmaster, son of Mrs. John T. Kelly of this city. Walter Gard, former Pennsylvania railroad agent in this city, has been named agent at Louisville, Ky. The Monroe Bearkatz defeated the Jefferson Warriors, 66-21.

flare-up along NATO’s Eastern Defense flank, U.S. Undersecretary of State George Ball arrived in Athens for urgent meetings with the U.S. ambassadors to Cyprus, Greece and Turkey. Ball, who flew to Athens from London where he conferred about Cyprus with British Prime Minister Sir Alec Dou-glas-Home, planned talks with Greek leaders and then a trip to Ankara for meetings with Turkish officials. Greece and Turkey are members of NATO' as are the United States and Britain. Reliable sources in London said _ President Johnson sent Ball oh the trouble - shooting mission because the President is considering a reversal of his decision, to contribute U.S. troops to a projected 10,000man NATO peace force for Cyprus, a former British colony.

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MONDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1964

Warren Addy Hemrick Dies Sunday Morning Warren Addy Hamrick, 87, of •15 E. State Blvd., Fort Wayne, a native of Adams county, died at 9:30 a. m. Sunday in Parkview memorial hospital, where he had been a patient six weeks. Surviving are his wife, Bessie May; two sons, Chalmer M. of Fort’ Wayne, and Albert L. of Pleasant Lake; three grandchildren and-six great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the D. O. McComb ft Sons funeral home, where services will be held at 1 a. m. Tuesday. Burial will be in the Tricker cemetery at Salem. t New Castle Market Is Robbed Os $7,700 . NEW CASTLE, Ind. (UPD—A Kroger supermarket was robbed of $7,700 Saturday night, and within an hour police arrested two men they identified as Robert E. Patrick and Billy Blackburn and recovered the loot. The men, one of whom was identified by persons in the store despite a stocking mask, were jailed on armed robbery charges.