Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 15 February 1964 — Page 1

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Urge Schools End Any Segregation

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)— The Indiana Commission on General Education assured Governor Welsh Friday that It would make every effort to end any de facto racial segregation in the state’s schools. In a surprise visit te the commission, Welsh said he did not know whether segregation is a problem in the state “bbt we should as a state take every precaution to avoid de facto segregation in our schools.” A 1949 state lew forbids discrimination in Indiana schools because of race, creed or color. The Negro pppulation in some cities is confined to specific areas. The arbitrary drawing of school district lines creating allwhite or all-Negro schools is known as de facto segregation. The Indiana Civil Rights Commission has received complaints of such segregation from Indianapolis, Gary, South Bend, Fort Wayne, Muncie, Kokomo and Terre Haute. Welsh urged the commission to “first attempt to see what tthe facts are” and then to "urge local school administrations to take active steps to prevent anything of this nature from developing and to encourage school officials at the local level to see to it that schools are representative of their communities” -5 Must Learn “Part of this business of education is learning to live, in our present-day society and learning points of view of all religious and racial groups,” Welsh said. Shortly after Welsh returned to his office, the seven-member commission adopted this resolution as an addition to its previous civil rights policy: “The Commission on General Education, believing that one of the purposes of education in a democracy is to teach all races

Cease Fire In Cyprus Broken

NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPI) — New firing and explosions at the ancient southwestern coastal town of Paphos shattered the Cyprus > ceasefire today amid United States and British efforts to head off a civil war. The rest of the troubled Mediterranean island was reported calm but extremely tense as rumors spread of an imminent invasion by Turkish troops. (In Ankara, Turkey, unconfirmed reports said Turkish naval units were massing at the port of Iskenderum, 100 miles from Cyprus.) Reports reaching Nicosia said Turkish troops sailed from Iskenderum aboard military transports on what were termed “exercises.” Civilians Ordered Out Other reports said all civilians were ordered out of the dock area at Faipagusta, the eastern Cyprus port closest to Iskenderum and Greek police Leon Rosswurm Dies After Long Illness Leon L. Rosswurm, 32, of 4133 Avondale drive. Fort Wayne died at 3:50 p.m. Friday at St. Joseph’s hospital, where he had been a patient for two days. He had been ill since last May. Mr. Rosswurm, a native of Monroeville, had lived in Fort Wayne 12 years and had been employed 13 years as an electrician at the Tokheim Corp. He was a member of the Sacred Heart Cattwlic church and its Holy Nam*e society. Surviving are his wife, Marjorie A., S daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Miller of Decatur; a son, Timmy, at home; four daughters. Kathy, Marsha Jo Am, and Cindy, all at home; his father. Frank Rosswurm of Monroeville: a brother, Giles Rosswurm of Monroeville; a sister, Miss Carol Rosswurm of Fort Wavne, and two half-sisters. Mrs. Jack Romaneck of Humboldt, Tenn., and Mrs. Cecelia Tibbet of /" Ventura Valley, Calif. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the Mungovan & Sons mortuary and at 10 a m. at Sacred Heart Catholic church. The Rev. Andrew C. Mathieu will officiate, and burial will be in the Fbrt Wavne Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. The Holy Name society wil recite the rosary at 8 p.m. Sunday.

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and groups to live together in understanding, urges the local school administrations to take such actions as may be feasible under local conditions to eliminate any discrimination in the hiring,or assigning of teachers or personnel or the assignment ,of students to schools.” Hie resolution also said that “if de fac|o segregation does exist, it should be eliminated.” Realises Problems Exist Welsh had told the commission be realized there were “practical problems involved and perfection is impossible” in the field of civil rights. However, he said he felt school children “should be brought up in an atmosphere where they are aware of all the types of people living in their community and understand that everybody is just like them.” Welsh’s appeal to the commission came at a time when school officials throughout the state were pondering ways of reducing racial bias. One suggestion has been to assign both white and Negro teachers to each school. A recent survey showed that only 21 of the 103 Indianapolis elementary schools have mixed faculties. Director Harold Hatcher of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission noted that this is one less than four years ago. He and his staff have prepared a volunteer teacher exchange program which they hope to present to the commission at a .meeting next Thursday. It calls for Negro and white teachers to volunteer to exchange jobs for one semester or for one year. Hatcher commented that although he has heard “much concern expressed about the degree of segregation in our schools, I haven’t had any volunteers call yet.”

were taking up firing positions. The' British base of Dhekelia lies near Famagusta. British military officials said at least two Turkish Cypriots were killed and one injured at Paphos, where other fighting was reported Friday. A company of British paratroopers headed for Paphos to try to restore the ceasefire. Truce Talks Fall „ The new fighting followed the collapse Friday of Anglo-Amer-ican attempts to win approval .from the Cypriot government for an international peace force to enforce a truce between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. U. S. Undersecretary of State George Ball flew to Ankara and Athens to urge the Turkish and Greek governments to use restraint in the dispute. The Cypriot government said it would send a delegation to the United Nations Security Council. American and British officials have opposed U. N. involvement because it will permit the Soviet Union to take a hand in the matter through its veto power. Four persons were reported killed in two clashes Friday, a Turk and a Greek in Paphos and two Turks in Polis. Two hand grenades were thrown near the post office in Paphos with unreported results. Youthful Farm Hand Slays Four Persons ATHENS, Ohio (UPI) — A youthful farm hand went berserk in a dispute over wages Friday night, shot four relatives to death and wounded two others. Sheriff Harold E. Shields said Rudy Zamora, 20, fled into a wooded, hilly area near the William M. Wildman farm home two miles west of here after the shootings. A large number of searchers combed the area through the night for the gunman. ~ Shields described, Zamora as “extremely dangerous” and added he was believed armed with a 20 gauge automatic shotgun. He was believed to be of Mexican descent. The sheriff identified the dead as Wildman. 57, a dairy farmer; his wife, Mildred; his son, Eugene, 15; and Mrs. Genevieve Pierce, 26, a daughter whose husband died only a few months ago. j Another daughter, Patricia

New City Directory Being Distributed Hundreds of copies of the new 1963 Decatur city directory went Into the mail today, for distribution not only here, but all over the United States. One of the easiest ways to know Decatur from A to Z is to study the new directory. The “capsule” records of all adult citizens, firms and institutions are contained in the city directory and in no other place, ’the publishers, R. L. Polk & Co., of Detroit, state with pardonable pride. , The 1963 guidebook, a handy volume bound in mustard and maroon, has just been delivered to subscribers and is ready for reference use. It lists, according to the publishers’ records, 11,259 personal and business names in Decatur and Adams county, with 18 continued as the jninimum listing age. The count considers the combined names of man and wife as only one name, the publishers said. Special Features Special features of the new directory, which succeeds the 1961 edition, include the designations of owner-occupied and rented homes, marital status, heads of households, and wives’ names; a numerical telephone guide; tele-phone-number listings by streets and houses; and a statistical and descriptive sketch of Decatur. Here there now are 206 primary (distinct) lines of endeavor, the publishers found. These groups are catalogued in the directory’s classified pages from “Abstracters” to “Wood Products Manufacturers.” Classifications run the ‘“gamut” of enterprise, including “Auctioneers,” “Canners,” "Day Nurseries,” “Grain Inspectors,” Hatcheries,” “Numismatists,” “Physiotherapists,” “Stock Yards” and “Well Drillers.’ Real Ambassador The Decatur directory functions as a sort of ambassodor for this community over the county, showing outsiders “who’s who, what, where and how” here, the publishers pointed out. The latest issue of the book is distributed to branches of the free-reference directory library system operated country-wide by the members of the association of North American directory publishers, especially those located in Indiana and adjoining states. A branch of the out-of-town directory service is maintained at the offices of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, available for public reterence during business hours. The new roll-call is flanked by Alice F. Abbott and Jane R. Zwick. Between these two one will find many picturesque fami'v names, including such examples as Darling, Idlewine, Knuckles, Morningstar, Pancake, Plasterer, Pluck, Stoneburner, Sweat, Toy, Trump, Whetstone, Winteregg and Bye! To Sentence Two Burglars Monday William M. Fair, 19, and Trevor E. Frye, Jr., 18, will be sentenced in the Adams circuit court Monday morning by Judge Mvles F. Parrish. The two Fort Wayne youths were found guilty of second degree burglary by Judge Parrish on Tuesday of this week, after they had entered pleas of not guilty to the charge. At that time, the judge ordered pre-sentence reports prepared for each and has now set Monday morning as the date for sentencing. Each could, receive two to five years in the state reformatory and the fine, or they could receive a lesser sentence, or a suspended sentence, if they are sentenced under the youthful offender’s act. The act provides for lesser and suspended sentences for persons under the age of 21. Seven witnesses testifi°d for the prosecution last Tuesday, including two Berne residents who claimed they saw the two young men enter the Stan’s Men’s Wear store in that city. -* Wildman, 20, a student at Mpuptain State College, Parkersburg, W. Va., and one of Mrs. Pierce’s sons, Daniel, 6, were ■wounded. Patricia was listed in fair condition with head and chest wounds and Daniel was in good condition with a chest wound at Sheltering Arms Hospital here. Deputies found three other sons of Mrs. Pierce, aged about 3, 4 and 5, huddled together in the living room of the farm home near the bodies of their mother. Eugene’s body was in the kitchen. The youngsters were released after hospital treatment for shock. ' ' .fc-’w -

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Sharp Russian Protest Over Defector Nosenko Is Threat To Relations

— yOlPnfe- :0 A ’fis \ \ am Mk Br rPill SEEING THE LIGHT — Although it appears that Mrs. Carrol Miller has a head for parties—her crazy hat has a more serious note. Mrs. Miller, from Missoula, Mont., and chairman of the Law Observance and Crime Prevention division of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, travels the country promoting the cause for better-lighting to reduce purse snatching and muggtngs i

Bomb Explodes Beneath Train

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (UPI)—A dynamite bomb exploded beneath a long Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway train Friday night, derailing 14 cars, igniting a liquid petroleum tanker car and setting nearby woods ablaze. Authorities said two train crewmen were injured, apparently when they jumped from the train after the explosion. Both were treated and released with minor injuries. Winfred L. Thornton, vice president of the strikebound and sabotage-plagued carrier, called the blast “attempted murderobvious sabotage.” It was not immediately determined where the explosion struck the 96-car southbound freight train. But Thornton said the four locomotives and 62 cars passed before 14 cars, including several lp gas tankers, spilled off the dynamite twisted tracks. Conduct Campaign For Farm Hands Richard P. App, manager of the Fort Wayne office of the Indiana employment security division, 315 E. Washington Blvd., which services employers in the northeastern section of Indiana, stated today that he had directed staff employees of the farm placement division to conduct a recruiting campaign for farm hands to fill orders for farmers seeking full-time help this year. Farm placement representatives will interview and accept applications from experienced general farm hands, either married or single and able to furnish references. App concluded, this service is free to both employers and applicants and that in the past, recruitment has resulted in placement of many qualified workers in farm employment. Interviews will be conducted at the following locations and times as listed below: Buffton. at the community building — Friday, February 28, between the hours of 9 a m. and 11:30 a.m. Decatur, at the American Legion hall —- Friday, February 28. between the hours of 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

Explodes In Flames The petroleum car exploded in flames, sending a ball of flames showering out over nearby woods and derailed cars. Firemen from several communities poured tons of water on the burning tanker, trying to keep the blaze from igniting other tanker cars. The explosion, which rattled windows on the outskirts of New Smyrna Beach about a quarter mile from the scene, was seen and heard in Daytona Beach, 16 miles away. “The train was just coming into a residential area,” a New Smyrna Beach policeman said, “we’re lucky ho one was killed.” The FEC has been plagued by more than 200 incidents of sabotage since 11 non-operating unions walked off their jobs more than a year ago in a wage dispute. Blow Up Crane Early last Sunday, 32 cars of an FEC freight train were derailed by a dynamite explosion in North Miami, hurtling the cars into a creek. Later that day, an FEC crane en route to clear the wreckage was destroyed by a dynamite blast. Company offic ia Is have blamed the sabotage on disgruntled striking employes, but un : ion officials have repeatedly denied the charges. Funeral Sunday For Harvey E. Seigman Harvey E. Seigman, 74, farmer and school bus driver, at Ayersville, 0., and a native of Decatur, died of a heart attack Thursday. Surviving are his wife, Viola; two daughters, two sons, eight grandchildren, one greatgrandchild, two sisters and three brothers. - ■ ■■■■--— Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Church of God in Defiance, Q. Friends may <;all at the Mansfield-Mast funeral home in Defiance until 1 p.m. Sunday. - INDIANA WEATHER Snow beginning today and possibly becoming heavy north portion late today and tonight. Snow ending Sunday morning and becoming partly cloudy. Low tonight 18 to 25. High Sunday mid 365. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and a little warmer.

MOSCOW (UPI)—A sharp Soviet protest to the United States over the defection of Russian disarmament delegate Yuri I. Nosenko today threatened a new strain in Soviet - American relations. The protest, calling U.S. actions in the case “provocative,” was handed to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk Wednesday by Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, * according to Soviet sources. They said it bluntly accused the United States of luring Nosenko away from the disarmament conference in Geneva. Some Soviet sources said the Kremlin was considering the withdrawal of its remaining delegates from the 17 . nation disarmament conference in Geneva. A Soviet walkout at Geneva would mean a resumption of cold war tensions which had begun to abate following the signing of the nuclear test ban treaty last year, Western observers said. (In Washington, it was reported that tha United States is prepared" to grant Nosenko asylum. The State Department said Nosenko told a Soviet embassy official in Washington in a dramatic confrontation Friday that he wanted to stay in the United States. (State Department sources identified Noeenko as ft old official Os the KGB, Russia’s security and intelligence agency. He disappeared from Geneva earlier this month.) Informed Soviet sources said the Kremlin considered Nosenko’s flight to the west a deliberate provocation and serious threat to American-Soviet relations and the future of the Geneva Conference. 9 Prepare Asylum WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States prepared today to grant asylum to Soviet Secret Police officer Yuri I. Nosenko who told a Russian Embassy official in a dramatic confrontation Friday that he wanted to stay in this country. Hie State Department disclosed that Nosenko was interviewed Friday somewhere in Washington by the Russian official. Nosenko was said to have informed the Russian that he did not want to go back to the Soviet Union. The department said that the 36-year-old Nosenko, described as a staff official of the KGB, Russia’s multi-purpose security and intelligence agency, also was interviewed sometime Friday by an official of the Swiss Embassy here. On Russian Staff The Russians asked the Swiss police to locate Nosenko after he disappeared the day before he was to return to the Soviet Union from Geneva, where he served on the Russian staff at the 17-nation disarmament talks. The State Department said each of the interviews were separate and lasted less than an hour each. In both interviews Nosenko was said to have “reconfirmed his desire for asylum.” A U.S. official was present during each interview. A department spokesman said at one point Friday that Nosenko “perhaps” might hold a news conference at some future time „to tell his story to the American people. Will Quiz Nosenko But before be appears in public—if ever—it is expected that Nosenko, whose rank in the KGB has not been disclosed, will undergo intensive questioning by U.S. officials for weeks, perhaps months. to extract from him all he knows about the Soviet intelligence apparatus. After that Nosenko may be “submerged,” that is, assisted to disappear in this country, acquring a new identity to help protect him against any reprisal attempts. Other defectors have been similarly protected. Another factor delaying any public appearance by Nosenko would be the possibility that sueh a move might goad the Russians into breaking off the Geneva disarmament talks.

Lenten Meditation (by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon M. Schmitt, Pastor, St. Mary’s Catholic Church) “LIFE AND DEATH” John 11, 25: “I am the resurrection and the life.” All Christians know about Ash Wednesday. All church-goers know about Palm Sunday. Not all are aware that the palms of last Palm Sunday are the ashes of this Ash Wednesday. The significance is worthy of serious lenten meditation. The palms symbolize the enthusiasm, the acclaim, the adulation with which Christ was welcomed into Jerusalem the Sunday before His crucifixion. He must consent to be their king—they will hear of nothing else—‘‘Hosannah to the Son of David!” Five days later the same vociferous mob is screaming “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” “Thus passeth the glory of this world.” The palms are burned, reminding us that pomp, and prestige,.and power in this world' vanish like smoke. And with the residue of ashes. Lent writes out for us the message of the ages: “Remember man, that thou are dust, and into dust thou shalt return.” God made the first human body out of dust, and by a divine decree, each human body returns to dust after death. But it is only the body that dies. The soul continues to live. During Lent we should “die to the world and live to Christ.” He Himself said to Martha: “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, even if he die, shall live; and whoever lives and believes in me, shall never die." “Life is real, life is earnest; and the grave is not its goal: Dust thou art, to dust retumest, was not spoken of the soul.”

Hearing Is Held Un sewage rroDiem 9 * « »•, .T&-

A ‘“twilight zone” hearing, es- . fecting some 15 Adams county land and home owners ,and ap- | . proximately 102 present and fu- ’ ture homes, took place this mom- ' ing before a special sesstonjof the Adams county board of commissioners. Specifically, present land owners questioned the sewage re- , quirements for the new Anthony | Wayne Meadows plat. In question before the com- ' missioners is plat C of Anthony Wayne Meadows a request to subdivide and sell some 33 lots ’ from land owned by Tony Faurote. Land owners in the area object to t h-e proposed drainage of septic tanks into a located ditch which involves alfc of them. Twilight Questions ( The “twilight zone,” referred to ! frequently in the meeting, in- ! eludes a number of questions: 1. Must the Adams county plani ning commission, as well as the county commissioners, approve ’ the plat? 2. Will the proposal, as now * planned, create a health problem ’ by the dumping of septic-tank- ’ treated sewage in the present ditch and waterway? 3. Should the commissioners ap- ’ prove the plat during this “twilight zone” period, before the ■ county master zoning plan is in ; effect, and before adequate sew- : ers are located? Two-hour Meeting For nearly two hours the county ■ commissioners heard all points argued at length by those present, and their legal counsel. The board took the matter under considera- " tion, until legal problems are re- , solved by the county attorney. The meeting, specially scheduled at the request of Robert E. Anderson, attorney for Mr. and Mrs. I Clarence (John) Smith and Mrs. Harriet Cowan, landowners, was ( organized t - for 9 a.m., but was , postponed until nearly 9:20 so that j all the commissioners could attend. Robert G. Smith, of Custer & Smith, represented Tony Faurote, t who owns the land which is being , divided into lots at the present time. 1 The meeting was called to order by Delmas Bollenbacher, [• president of the county commist sioners, and Andereon spoke first. ; Anderson Reads Anderson read from a section of » Burns annotated statutes that 1 both approval of the county com- - missioners and plan commission 3 are necessary in a county where -a county plan commission has been s created. He then read several of the problems that should be cons sidered before approval. County d attorney David A. Macklin called t attention to the fact that these s were required of the county plan t commission, not the commissioners. He then asked Anderson if it

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was his understanding that the plan commission should get the plat, even though the master plan was not yet approved. Anderson parried the question. A large part of toe meeting was spent in fencing between toe attorneys on this question. Calls Board of Health Andersen also pointed out that he had called an acquaintance of his who works for toe state board of health, and that he had described toe local situation to the man, Victor Wayman, who had said in his opinion the state board of health would not approve a subdivision that did not drain into a city sewer, or have its own disposal plant. According to Anderson, toe state health representative stated that a septic tank and leach bed were not enough in this type soil. A number of the land owners present presented their views, and brought up numerous other questions that were _ bothering them. Faurote Explains Faurote, who pointed out that he was more anxious than anyone there that all questions be resolved, and that adequate sewage drainage be provided for his lots, tiled several times to explain his position. He offered to put up SI,OOO cash to guarantee an 8-inch sanitary sewer within three years. He pointed out that in seven years he had sold only 25 homes in the area ,and that it was highly unlikely that in toe next year he would sell all of the lots. He presently has two of toe 33 lots in plat C sold, and these are the ones in which he is presently interested. Attorney Smith brought up toe fact that Faurote was complying with every standard which the commissioners had submitted, that in fact he had added numerous new requirements over and above those approved in plats A and B. He pointed out that not only was he, the sub-divider, bound, but that each of the landbuyers would alsp be bound to provide a septic tank and adequate sewage, and that they would connect into the city sewgie system when it approaches the plat area. When on Sewer? This point was taken up by Anderson, who wanted to know just when this would be. Faurote explained that he had discussed a sewer with toe North Adams school board, and had signified to toe board, superintendent, and attorney, that he was very interested in paying his share on any proposed sewer. The school board was not prepared, he admitted, to discuss sewers for the area at the present time. Faurote maintained that there would be one, though, within a few year*. (Continued on Page >) *