Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1964 — Page 1

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Lenten Meditation (By Rev. William C. Feller, pastor, Zion United Church of Christ) “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of “the world.” John 1:29. Ash Wednesday ushered in the season of Lent, the period of forty days before Easter (not counting Sundays) corresponding to the forty days of fasting and prayer which Jesus spent in the wilderness after His baptism. The beginning of Lent is determined by Easter, and Easter, which is a movable date, falls onthe first Sunday after the first full moon in the vernal equinox or the first day of spring. Th£ purpose of Lent is to focus our attention on the Christ, described by John the Baptist as "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world,” and thereby deepen our spiritual life and increase our devotion to Him. Through prayer, meditation and worship, and through whatever self-dehials we may impose on ourselves, may we be drawn closer to the Christ and find spiritual enrichment and refreshment. The central person of Lent is Jesus Christ and the central place is Calvary, where sin did its worst, but where God did His best. Our attention should be centered not on what we do or refrain from doing during Lent, but on what God has done, through the gift of His Son, who gave His life for us on the cross. If we put Christ at the center of our life, all other things will fall into their proper relationship. May this season of Lent truly be a period of soul searching and spiritual growth.

New Vocational Ed Program Adopted •

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The general education commission of the Indiana Board of Education Thursday adopted a new vocational education program aimed at curtailing high school dropouts. The program, which will not go into effect for more than three years—if then—for some schools, will require all high schools with first class commissions to offer at least three of five approved vocational training programs. Before putting the regulation into effect, the commission must hold a public hearing on it March 13 and then have it approved by Governor Welsh and Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers. The changes, which the commission called “the most drastic revision ever made relating to vocational education,” will become effective immediately after promulgation for schools seeking first class commissions for the first time but will not become effective until July 1, 1967, for schools which already have such commissions. The five vocational areas covered byi the regulation are agriculture, home economics, business and office training, trade and industrial subjects and retail and clerical jobs. The last area will include on the job training in which students will spend part of their time in the classroom and part on the job. State ' Supt. of Public Instruction William E. Wilson said he

Six Negroes Enter School

By United Press International Six Negroes entered previously all-white Macon County' High School today under the watchful eyes of Alabama state troopers and found themselves alone in the building, boycotted by the entire white student body. Mayor James (Kayo) Rea, who stood in the doorway of the school Feb. 5 and turned the six Negroes away, watched them enter the building shortly before 8 a.m. CST without comment. The mass boycott of whites started Monday at the Macon County High School and at nearby Shorter where six other Negroes began classes last week under a federal court order. The boycotts were 100 per cent effective at both schools today. White teachers were inside the high school at Notasulga, a rural community of 1,100 population. when the six Negroes arrived in a yellow school bus driven by a Negro. Forty Alabama troopers kept a close watch on the newsmen at Notasulga, checking the credentials of each reporter before herding him. into a small corner of the lawn in front of the three-story building. The mass boycott of whites was similar to the one at Tuskegee High which forced the transfer under federal court order of the 12 Negroes to Notasulga and Shorter. Federal Dist. Judge Frank <M. Johnson Jr. Thursday swept aside the last remaining obstacle to the students’ admission in the Notasulga, Ala., white school. But white students, vowing not to attend classes with Negroes, walked out last week when it became apparent the Negroes would be admitted. Students at the rural Ala-

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felt the new regulation would "help to reduce the dropout rate. He said that, although the courses generally would be given only in the junior and senior years of high school, he felt that many potential dropouts would remain in school to take the courses. Luke White of Covington, a commission member who is seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, said that strengthening the vocational training program was a move to "provide job training for those who will not be going on to college.” The plan approved Thursday would allow two or more school corporations to join forces to establish and maintain a joint vocational training program, a vocational training program. A ferson, Ripley, Ohio and Switzerland Counties already is under consideration and Dearborn County may decide to participate in the plan. The provision for joint programs. however, does not apply to high schools with special first class commissions or to those with enrollments in excess of 1,200. Such schools must each offer four of the five vocational programs. Commission members said, for example, that the three Indianapolis high schools With such programs would not be allowed to handle all of the vocational training for the city’s schools.

bama county’s only other white high school—at Shorter—walked out last week when six other Negroes were ordered admitted there. Most of the whites have enrolled in Macon Academy, a privately supported school in the county seat of Tuskegee. Johnson’s order Thursday was directed at Notasulga Mayor James M. (Kayo) Rea, who blocked the Negroes’ admission on the ground that school buildings were overcrowded and their admission would violate city fire and safety ordinances. It directed Rea not to interfere. Other school integration crises loomed in Chicago, Boston, and Chester, Pa., where civil rights leaders claim de facto segregation exists. Pickets appeared at ten of the 17 public schools in Chester Thursday and a one-day boycott protesting alleged discrimination kept about 50 per cent of the city’s Negro students at home. Pushing and shoving broke out on a few picket lines and one picket captain was arrested, but authorities reported the protest was generally peaceful. The Chicago Board of Education Thursday publicly., reaffirmed its adherence to a policy of racial integration in an attempt to head off a threatened boycott Feb. 25. The board is negotiating with local civil rights groups to work out agreement on other demands. In Boston, Negro leaders requested n a meeting with the school 'committee to settle their demands for more tegration. Other developments: St. Louis: Negro leaders claimed municipal Judge Rodney Weiss threatened them with arrest if they went through with plans to picket President Johnson today when he visits the city. Weiss denied the charge. •. . '*. " ■. • —

Delmas Bollenbacher To Seek Reelection Delmas Bollenbacher Delmas L. (Mike) Bollenbacher, a life-time Adams county Democrat, and a Jefferson township farmer, announced today he will be a candidate for reelection as couinty commissioner for the third district. Bollenbacher is completing his first three-year term. [ A native of Blue Creek township apd a resident of Jefferson township for the last eleven years he has spent his adult life farming in this county. He now operates 280 acres, part of which he owns in Jefferson township. f Jefferson Graduate He is a graduate of the Jefferson high school and a member of the United Church of Christ. Married to the former Loretta Fichert, he is the father of two daughters, Karen, a pupil, and Mrs. Ronald Stuckey, a teacher, at the South Adams community school at Berne. During his first term in office Bollenbacher has been particularly interested in the county road system. He has driven over and inspected most of the county roads personally. He has attending district road meetings and the annual road school at Purdue University. Helped On Bridges In the company of other members of the board of commissioners and state representative Burl Johnson he appeared before the state highway commission in Indianapolis to request the re-build-ing of the bridges on state road 101 at Pleasant Mills and the one on state road 116 east of Geneva. He is interested in obtaining state and federal aid on other bridges in the county and if any interest is shown he has agreed to help in contacting the right officials concerning re-building the Monroe street bridge at Decatur. He is a charter member and director of the non-profit Wabash Valley Recreation, Inc., which is constructing a golf course at Rainbow Lake near Geneva, and is interested in the national program to encourage additional public and private recreational facilities. He said he will co-operate with other' types of recreational program in Adams county. Under a recent change in the state law, the new term in Bollenbacher’s district will be for four years for the first time and will begin January 1, 1965. Charge Berne Man With Tax Evasion Frank Nussbaum, 70-year-old owner and operator of the Berne Ready-Mix, has been charged with four counts of income tax evasion, according to a statement by U. S. Attorney Alfred W. Moellering. The indictment against Nussbaum, a resident of 755 N. Jefferson St., was returned on February 6 by a federal grand jury in South Bend, and was served on the Berne man Thursday. He is charged with income tax evasion for the years 1957 through 1960. a total of four years. Moellering said the indictment charges Nussbaum had realized taxable- income for those years of $10,614.00, $9,556.92, $3,216.43, and $7,909.68, respectively. Achad reported adjusted gross income of $1,784.77, $2,349.58, $2,cording to Moellering, Nussbaum 566.40 and a $282.19 loss, respectively, for 1957 through 1960. Following are the taxes due according to* Nussbaum’s tax returns. and the amount of tax allegedly owned by him: 1957 — $136.27, $2,477.17; 1958 — $220.64, $2,121.62; 1959 — $148.98, $697.43; 1960 — no tax, and $1,654.98. District attorney Moellering said the violations charged in the four count indictment carry, a maximum prison sentence of five years and a SIO,OOO fine on each countx 2JX I ...

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Soviet Russia Requests Officials Be Permitted To Meet With Defector * 4 ■' • / •

Khrushchev Scoffs At Growth Report

MOSCOW (UPD—Soviet Premier .Nikita Khrushchev snubbed Communist China today and scoffed at a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report on slow Russian economic growth. Khrushchev told, an agricultural meeting of the Soviet Communist party Central Committee that “the world of capitalism is literally feeling our breath.” At the same time, he told Soviet farmers that the key to better crops lies in the capitalist nations of the West. In his speech, Khruschev diagnosed the ills of Soviet farming and recommended certain remedies. He also touched briefly on these points; —Soviet arms cuts will not affect the Kremlin’s military punch, which must be kept strong because "imperialists refuse to accept Soviet proposals and come to terms on disarmament.” —Russia has found the right path to communism and “will fight revisionists,, dogmatists, and the newly baked Trotskyites who, while making high sounding revolutionary phrases about the struggle against imNative Os Decatur Dies At Fort Wayne Francis J. (Sam) Lamborne, 54, of 132 East Suttenfield St., Fort Wayne, and a native of Decatur, died Thursday morning at the Veterans hospital in that city, where he had been a patient four weeks. Mr. Lamborne, who had resided in Fort Wayne for 27 years, was employed by Hillman Equipment Co. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic church. Surviving are his wife, Julia; a son. Michael, at home; his mother, Mrs. Beatrice Schopf of Fort Wayne, and a sister, Mrs. Ray Cassady of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 a. m. Saturday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home and at 9 a. m. at St. Patrick’s Catholic church. Burial will be in Covington memorial gardens. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. Lincoln Day Dinner Here Next Tuesday The program for the annual Lincoln day dinner, sponsored by the Adams county Lincoln club, has been announced. The dinner meeting will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday., Principal speaker of the evening will be Lt. Gov. Richard O. Ristine, a candidate for the Republican nomination as governor at the state convention in June. E. Ross Adair, fourth district cogressman, candidate for renomination on the Republican ticket, will also speak .briefly. The program will open with invocation by the Rev: "Ar C: Underwood,pastor of the First Methodist church. Roy L. Price, chairman of the county Republican central committee, will speak briefly" and make various introductions, followed by music by the girls’ double trio Trom the Decatur high school. Tickets, priced at $1.75, include admission to the dinner and a year’s membership in the Lincoln club. Tickets may be obtained from Jerry L. Mclntosh, Lavelle Death. Harvey Jones, Winifred Spaulding, Paul Rich and Robert Anderson. The menu will include swiss steak, vegetables, tossed salad, hot rolls, pie, and beverage.

perialism, undermine the unity of the world Communist movement by their splitting activities.” Friendship Anniversary This was as close as Khrushchev came to mentioning the Chinese Communists — although today is the 14th anniversary of the Soviet-Chinese friendship treaty on which relations between the two Communist giants are based. Khrushchev’s speech was almost wholly devoted to agriculture. He said the CIA report that the current rate of Soviet economic growth is only 2.5 per cent per year was the “crude work of the American intelligence operatives.” “It became the laughing stock even of the bourgeois press,” he said. The premier said Soviet industrial output' increased 19 per cent last year while the gross national product — including farming—went up 11 per cent. 6 He claimed that Soviet steel, oil and cement production already was greater than that in the United States. But he advised Soviet farmers to look West to see what they could learn- from the “capitalist countries.’ Khrushchev told the party meeting that a massive injection of chemical fertilizers is necessary to revive Russia’s stagnating farmlands. He said the country’s farm output must be at least doubled to meet Consumer needs. He said Soviet farmers should use “all that is interesting and useful in the sister socialist countries” and should “study more deeply the achievements of science and practical farming in the capitalist nations.” Farm Achievement Banquet March 3 The 42nd annual farmers achievement banquet will be held Tuesday, March 3, at 6:45 p.m. at the Berne school cafeteria. The principal speaker for this event will be Merle R. Teel, director of research, American farm research association, Lafayette, The title he has chosen is “How About That." He also plans to show colored slides with his pre-*~ sentation. The Invocation will be given by Rev. Frank D. Voss, pastor of the Mt. Hope Nazarene church, of Blue Creek township. The dinner music will be presented by Fred Von Gunten, of Berne. Master of ceremonies for the banquet will be Herman Krueckeberg, vice president of the First State Bank of Decatur. The entertainment feature will be presented by the Wabash Ramblers, a musical group from Hartford and Wabash townships. Recognition of awards will be presented to farmers far their achievement by the various project committees. The dinner will be family style and the cost of the meal will be $1.95 per person. Tickets are available from the following individuals and firms: Ben Mazelin, R. 1 Berne: Theodore Kiofer, R. 4. Bluffton; Ernie Isch, R. 4, Bluffton; John Kipfer, R. 4, Bluffton; Franklin Steury, R..1, Berne; Dan Striker, R. 1, Berne; Martin Habegger, R. 1, Monroe; Fred Duff, R. 1, BernC; Paul Kohne, R. 4, Decatur: Homer Winteregg, Monroe; Galen Baumgartner, R. 4. Bluffton; Ralph Bluhm, R. 1, Monroe; Mrs. Chalmer Barkley, Decatur; First State Bank of Decatur; First Bank of Berne. •*. •

WASHINGTON (UPD—Russia - has asked the United States to let Soviet officials see Yuri I. Nossenko, the Russian defector who has applied for U.S. asylum, informed sources said today. The request was said to have been made in a note delivered by the Russian embassy to the State Department by messenger Wednesday. Contrary to Moscow reports, sources here said they did not understand that the note accused the United States of kidnaping Nossenko. They said it merely asked how he came into U.S. hands and requested permission for the Soviets to see him. There were indications the U.S. government was considering granting the Soviet request. Officials would not say whether Nossenko was in the United States. Nossenko, who had been serving as an “expert’ in Russia’s delegation to the 17-nation disarmament conference in Geneva, was reported by the Russians to have disappeared from ' (Continued on Page Eight) Adams County Third In Total To CROP During the past 12 years that Adams county has been in the Christian Rural Overseas program, the county residents have donated a total of $43,362, and rank third, behind Elkhart and Knox counties, among the 92 counties in Indiana, according to the February issue of CROP News. Adams county has been among the top 12 counties for eight- of the 12 years, and in 1954 led the state, according to the article. In fact, Adams county, according to the article, is the only county other than Elkhart, to have led the state drive. It has been in the top 12 for the past six years, and in second place the last two. Wells county ranks fifth in the 12-year period, with a total of $33,904. Adams and Wells both had their second-best-ever years this year, along with 15 other counties; 13 set new records this year. Adams raised $8,937, and Wells, $7,127 this past year. The CROP News, published nationally 10 times a year, contains information on the distribution of food through CROP, and on other CROP-CWS programs. Associated Churches To Meet February 23 The Associated Churches of Decatur will have an assembly meeting Sunday February 23 at 2 p.m. at the Zion United Church of All members are asked to attend. The executive committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. prior to the assembly meeting.

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Luther Yager Is Rotary Speaker Luther Yager ot Berne described and showed slides of his recent trip to Africa the Decatur Rotary chib at its weakly meeting Thursday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Harold Engle was program chairman. Yager explained that the trip resulted from an invitation from Marc du Lac, a Frenchman, who had spent several months in Adams county several years ago to observe agricultural methods. Marc du Lac has a cousin in Part Gentil in Gabon, Africa, and he and the speaker had joined this relative for the hunt Yager’s slides showed Reykjavik, Iceland as his first stop. He next visited the Rhone Valley in France and then arrived via air in Gabon in equatorial Africa. The speaker noted great contrast between modern facilities with air conditioning, etc., in some of the cities and the most primitive conditions only a few miles away in the jungle. A bush line airline took him about 300 miles into the interior where he visited Missionary Waldo Schindler, who is a Berne native. The speaker found the natives friendly and talkative.. He commented favorably on the* peace corps’ work in Gabon. The Berne Rotary club is nearing a record 100 meetings consecutively with perfect attendance. In order to maintain this record, Yager had to make up several meetings. These included one in France which lasted 4% hours, another in Africa which was moved up a day for the guest’s convenience, aryl a third which had only three Rotarians present. The speaker praised the fine fellowship he had enjoyed at Rotary clubs all over the world. Dr. Albert Schweitzer is the honorary president of one of the African clubs visited by Yager. Rick Doty and Tom Baxter were student guests. George Litchfield announced that plans were well underway for the club’s career night program next week, to which high school juniors and seniors have been invited. A light lunch will be served to these students following the program. Training Course To Scouters On Sunday The basic training course for scouters will be given at the First Baptist church educational unit at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, and not Saturday, as erroneously announced in Thursday’s Daily’ Democrat. Dr. William Trubey, of Bluffton, will conduct the school, which is for the Limberlost district, including all units in Adams, Jay and Wells counties.

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Owen Wemhoff On Detroit Committee Owen C. Wemhoff, native of this city, has been named to Mayor James Cavanaugh’s subcommittee on mental retardation in Detroit, Mich., it was learned Thursday. The former executive director of the Johnny Appleseed school in Fort Wayne will serve ran a special technical committee considering the possibility of establishing a research, training and diagnostic center for the mentally retarded, to be located at Wayne State University in Detroit. The subcommittee is one of several established by the Michigan city under the commission on children and youth. After serving seven years with the Johnny Appleseed school, Wemhoff recently resigned when he was appointed executive director of the Detroit Metropolitan Advisory committee for retarded children. $3 MiOion Coat The center will be the first of its type in the United States and is expected to cost approximate* ly $3 million. It will be partially financed by the federal government and through state funds. Wemhoff issued the following statement in accepting the appointment: “It is with a great deal of humility that I accept Ulis responsibility to help assist a number of physicians, professors, and prominent lay persons to meet head-on the problems of nfental retardation. It is my hope the center tor retardation will be a realization soon.” A native of this city, Wemhoff is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wemhoff of 309 N. Eighth St. He is a graduate of Decatur Catholic high school and taught in the public school system in this city. Bond Funeral Rites Saturday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Lillian Bond, who died Thursday morning, will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the McCain country chapel, north of Peru at the intersection of highways 16 and 31. The Rev. Harry Richter will officiate, and burial will be in Greenlawn cemetery at Mexico. The body was taken from the Winteregg-Linn funeral home to the McCain home, where friends may call until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight Saturday partly cloudy, snow likely south, not much temperature change. Low tonight in the 20s. High Saturday 29 to 40. Sunset today 6:20 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 7:38 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair to partly cloudy. Lows 24 to 32. Highs around 40.