Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 62.

House Votes Down Salary Boost Bill

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House, heeding the old axiom that politicians should never raise their pay in an election year, has rejected a salary boost for congressmen and 1.7 million other federal employes. On a 222 to 184 roll call vote, in which each member had to answer to his name, the House Thursday killed a pay raise bill that would have hiked the salary of a member of Congress from $22,500 to $32,500 a year and added $545 million to the government’s sl2 billion yearly payroll. The vote against the pay raise bill was a stunning victory for the House economy blop, but even the strongest opponents of the measure did not claim that their arguments turned the trick. The bill was killed because the House agreed to face the issue on a roll call vote. On the showdown, a majority of the members refused to go on record in an election year in favor of a 45 per cent pay increase for themselves when the federal budget deficit is $lO bil-

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Richard C. Ludwig, Zion Lutheran Church) “PERSUADED OR DECEIVED?” Matt. 27:20—‘‘The chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.” Some years ago a passenger train rushed into the yards of a station just as another train was emerging. . There was a head-on collision. Many people lost their lives. The engineer was pinned under his engine. In his dying agony, he held up some yellow paper and said, “This will show you that someone gave me the wrong orders." The chief priests and elders also gave the wrong orders. On the great day of the Lord, many will cry out, “They gave me the wrong orders. They told me I didn’t need redemption through Christ. They told me to save myself.” Christ saves. He has reconciled us to God. This is our imperishable conviction, sealed and certified by His triumphant resurrection from the dead. As we trust in this Gospel and steadfastly continue therein, our life will be meaningful and purposeful, for it will be Christ-centered, Christ-motivated, and Christ-blessed.

Defense Head Returns Today

United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — Defense" Secretary Robert S. McNamara said today on his return from South Viet Nam that every responsible official there believes the war against Communist guerrillas can be won “if the proper effort is made.” McNamara cautioned that “there is no magic formula for winning anti-guerrilla struggle” and that “the path to victory may be hard.” But he attempted to convey full confidence that the battle can be won. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, make a full report at noon EST to President Johnson on the results of their five-day, first hand inspection of the critical Viet Nam war situation. The McNamara party arrived shortly after daybreak on their flight from Saigon via Honolulu where they stopped off for a brief conference with the U. S. Pacific commander, Adm.” Harry D. Felt. On his arrival here, the secretary told newsmen ■ “In the entire week, I did not talk to a single responsible official who was unable to agree that, if the proper effort is made, the war can be -won.” He refused to say what possible changes in American support for the South Vietnamese that he might recommend until

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lion. Up to that point, the bill had survived repeated attacks during nonrecord votes. The upset was engineered by Rep. H. R. Gross, R-lowa, the well-known economizer, who solicited and got sufficient support to put across his demand ' for a roll call vote. On the roll call, 136 Republicans and 86 Democrats opposed the bill while 149 Democrats and 35 Republicans supported it. The 1,400 senators. House members, • judges, cabinet members and other top officials who lost SIO,OOO pay hikes were not only losers on the vote. Their pay hike would have cost only a small part of the total package. About 1.7 million civil servants and postal workers would have received about $520.8 million in raises ranging from 3 to 22 per cent under "the bill. But the rank and file boosts went down the drain with the increases for their bosses, and there was only faint hope that the result could be reversed.

after he has talked to the President. McNamara said the trip had a twofold purpose: —To appraise the political, economic and military situations in South Viet Nam. —To determine what additional actions, if any, are needed to. strengthen the South Vietnamese in their war against the Communist Viet Cong. McNamara worked on his report to the President on these matters almost up to the time his plane set down just outside Washington. During a stopover in Honolulu. McNamara told newsmen he and Taylor found the trip “very effective and useful.’ Their findings and recommendations are expected to play a crucial part in determining the future of United States participation in the long war against the Communist-backed Viet Cong guerrillas in South Viet Nam. Before leaving Saigon Thursday after his third visit in less than six months McNamara told a cheering crowd that the situation in South Viet Nam was serious and that American aid would be forthcoming “as long as it is required.” All signs pointed to no. lessening—and possibly a stepping up —of that aid. which now runs at about $1.5 million a day and involves the" efforts of 15,500 American military men who serve as training cadre and advisers. , A key role played by McNamara during his Vietnamese visit . apparently was to bolster support for strongman Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh. who seized power Jan. 29 in a bloodless coup. Khanh overthrew the military junta that ousted the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem last November. The United States plainly wants no rhore coups. Man Killed In Fall • From Roof Os Hotel INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A sign company executive fell 11 floors to his death from the roof of the Marott Hotel today while inspecting a sign his firm was scheduled to repair. . .. ... The victim was idehtified as Robert N. King, 52. Indianoplis, secretary treasurer of Abco Signs.

4-H Dairy Banquet Scheduled April 4 The annual Adams county 4H dairy club banquet will be held at 6:45 p.m. Saturday, April 4, at the Adams Central high school cafeteria. Hie dinner will be served by ladies of the cafeteria. Edison Lehman, of Berne, will be master of ceremonies. The invocation will be pronounced by Elmer Baumgartner, president of the First Bank of Berne. The dairy club committee report will be presented by Charles Backhaus, Decatur route 3; the 4-H member report by Judy Mosser, Jefferson township, and the sponsor’s report by Elmer Baumgartner. Awards will be made by John Shier, of Coldwater, 0., for the Pet Milk Co. Principal speaker will be Euther Yager, of Berne, who will speak and show pictures on his trip to Africa. The dinner Will close with remarks by Ernest J. Lesiuk, -Adams county agent. Tickets for the banquet, priced at $1.50, may be obtained at the county extension office, or from the following 4-H dairy calf club committee members: Fred Duff, Berne route 1; Roy Price, Decatur route 6; Edison Lehman, Berne route 2; Norman Becher, Berne route 1; Peter B. Lehman, Decatur route 4; Charles Backhaus, Decatur route 3; Sylvan Bauman, Berne route 2: Everett Rice, Monroe route 1; Ivan Steury, Berne route 1; Wilbur Kirchhofer, Berne route 2; James M. Myers, Decatur route 6, and Harry Wulliman, Berne route 1. School Calendar Set For Adams Central The Adams Centra? community school board met in regular session Tuesday. The board approved the school calendar for the 1964-65 school year with school starting for all students Tuesday, September 8. Teacher’s meetings and students registration will be held September 3 and 4. Indiana state teachers convention will be held October 22 and 23, Armed Forces Day November 11, and other dates include Christmas vacation starting Wednesday, December 23 and ending Monday, January 4... Other dates on grading periods and the activities for 1965 will be listed later when the complete calendar is printed. School will end Friday, May 28, 1965. Approval was given by the board for the annual jummer school program at the Adams Ceptral school. Several courses will be given depending upon the interest and needs of the students. Presently students are being given the, opportunity to express their interests in courses they want to enroll in for the summer school program. Thre hew mercury arc light fixtures will be installed in front of the school at the entrance and exit ways in order to better accommodate the people in attendance at the activities of the school. The board is advertising for bids on three new 60 passenger school buses, with the bids to be received Tuesday, April 7. David L. Habegger Is Taken By Death David L. Habegger, 63. manager of the Globe Hatchery & Feed Store at Ossian, died at 10:45 a. m. Thursday at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient since Monday. He had been in failing health for the past 18 months. Mr. Habegger had been mana-1 ger of the Ossian firm since 1946,’ and was previously employed for. 23 years at the Berne Equity Elevator. Born in Adams county Jan. 11. 1901, he was a son of Joel and Elizabeth Mazelin-Habegger, and was married to Adella Inniger in Berne Jan. 1. 1928. Mr. Habegger was a member of the Yoder Missionary church. Surviving are his wife: three daughters, Mrs. Maynard 'Vera) Rich of Berne, Mrs. Richard (Betty) Rekeweg of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Lynn (Caryl) Dafforn of Zanesville; one son, Chester Habegger of Elkhart: seven grandchildren; one brother. Noah Habegger of Berne, and four sisters, Mrs. Earl Nunemaker and Jack Schwartz, both of Nappanee, Mrs. Marcus Luginbill of Bei*ne, and Mrs. Pete Mazelin of Ligonier. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at the Elzey funeral home in Ossian, and at 2:30 p. m. at the First J Missionary church at Berne. Thej Rev. Chris Gerig and the Rev.j C. H? Wiederkehr will officiate ! with burial ,in MRE cemetery.’ Friends may call at the funeral j home after 7 p. m. today. I

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President Johnson On Low,-Level Flight Over Flood Stricken Areas

Charges Name Was Forged On Baker Retorn WASHINGTON (UPI) — Ah accountant charged today that his name was forged on one or Bobby Baker’s federal tax returns. ? In an affidavit, Milton L. Hauft, the accountant, claimed that his signature on the Baker statement, as well as on a tax return for the Carousel Motel which Baker partly owned, were forgeries The affidavit was read to reporters by Sen. Hugh Scott, RPa., shortly before the of a showdown meeting of the Senate Rules Committee to determine the future of the nearly five-rnzwito old investigation into the business and financial transactions of former Senate aide Robert G. Baker. Scott Appears Angry Scott entered the closed hearing room after talking to reporters, but emerged obviously angry a few minutes later and told newsmen that the committee had refused to accept the affidavit as evidence. vw Scott returned to the room, where Republicans and Democrats were steeled for an all-out fight over whether to end investigation. Seott said before the session began that Hauft swore out the affidavit and gave it to Sen. John Williams, R-Del., who turned it over to ScottIn the affidavit, r the accountant who testified earlier that he prepared some of Baker's tax returns, said that he was called to the Internal Revenue Service office to discuss the tax returns he had prepared for Baker. “During the course of presenting this information,” the accountant’s affidavit said, “I was questioned about the tax return for the Carousel Motel,” a plush spot on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Says Signatures Forgeries “During the course of my association with Mr. Baker, I had never prepared any returns for the Carousel,"” Hauft stated. “When presented with a return by the Internal Revenue Service I noted that the signatures purported to be mine were forgeries.” Hauft added, “As a result of this r asked to look at the per. manent return for Mr. Baker prepared by me and on looking at the signatures on these returns I noted that the signatures as to the person preparing these returns were also forL geries and not my signatures.” 2* Scott cited Hauft’s affidavit - as proof that evidence was still ■ coming in as part of the Baker inquiry and that more witnesses J should be called. Democrats, ” outnumbering committee Re- • publicans 6-3, have *been in > favor of ending the hearings. 4 Scott said ’t was apparent ! that the original tax returns filed by Hauft on Baker’s behalf “were subsequently re- - moved from the Internal Reve- - nue Service and altered forms ' were substituted.” ' He said, it wag this kind of information' that the committee should look into. He charged that the decision to end the hearings on the part of the Democrats was politically motivated because the investigation was a source of embar- - rassment for the Denlocrats. INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness, windy and warmer with showers r> : likely tonight. Saturda y ' cloudy and mild with occa- ; sional showers or scattered 4 thundershowers. Low tonight 3 38 to 45. High Saturday 58 Ito 64. Sunset today 6:50 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:59 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Showers ’ ending and becoming partly s cloudy. Continued mild. Lows 35 to 45. Highs 45 to 60.

New Rotary Club Heads Nominated The nominating committee of the Decatur Rotary club, headed by Tom Allwein, submitted its slate of officers for the 1964-65 club year at the dinner meeting of the service club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. W. Lowell Harper, president and general manager of Bag Service, Inc., was nominated for president. Other nominees are Gene Ziner, vice president; Roger Schuster, secretary; Ed Hagan, treasurer; George Auer, Richard Reetz and Warren Druetzler, directors. The new officers will assume their duties July 1. H. P. Schmitt, program chairman, introduced as guest speaker, Frank Young, former Decatur resident, who now operates his own certified public accounting service in Fort Wayne. Young spoke on the 1964 revenue act, pointing, out that individual taxes in 1963 ranged from 20 to 91 per cent, for 1964 from 16 to 77 per cent, and for 1965 from 14 to 70 per cent. <2 Owe More Taxes The new table now being used by employers is set at 14 per cent and was distributed before the law was enacted. Young cautioned that on this basis, mast people who have taxes deducted from pay checks are likely to owe additional taxes at the end of the year. The accountant spoke on the new dividend tax, retirement income credit, sick pay, cigarette tax not deductable in 1964. He stated that charitable deductions are better, child care deduction improved, the employes’ stock option clause tightened, and capital loss carryover is now a long term carryover, and also spoke on new corporation taxes. In closing. Young advised everyone to study his own tax situation in order to benefit fully and be ahead of the game. Next Thursday’s meeting will be a joint event with the Cham-& ber of Commerce, Junior Cham | ber of Commerce and Lions club," with the program, "focal point,” by WOWO, with Gal Stewart as moderator. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p. m. at the center, and ladies are invited. Rotarians must make reservations by Tuesday afternoon.

Cancer Crusade To Be Held In April Plans for the 1964 cancer crusade to be held next month wi re discussed last evening at a meeting of the Adams county chapter of the American Cancer society, held at the home of Miss Joan Wemhoff. Ten members of the board of directors were present, and the meeting was conducted by Mis. Doyle Collier, president of the group. The county “kick-off will be held Thursday, April 16, with the campaign slated for the week of April 20 to 25. This year's goal, as announced by Mrs. Collier, will be $3,810. Mrs. Robert Krueckeberg, educational chairman, reported that film showings of “Is Smoking Worth It” are now under way in the junior and senior high schools in die county. This film is also being shown to service clubs and sororities. Film showings for the general public to be held at the I & M auditorium , were announced as follows: Wednesday, March 18 at 7:30; Wednesday? March 25. at 7;30; Saturday, March 28 at 1:30 p. m. The films to be shown are “Self Examination for Breast Cancer”; “Time and Two Women”. (uterine cancer) and “Life Story” (cancer of the colon and rectum.) All interested persons are invited to attend.

By United Press International President Johnson planned a low level flight today over Ohio River flood waters which have driven nearly 50,000 persons from their homes and inflicted the worst damage on the valley in 20 years. The President invited the governors of seven afflicted states —Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania—to make the flight with him from Pittsburgh to Missouri. Afterwards, the President planned to confer at Cincinnati with the governors on what can be done to aid the floodravaged area. Thousands of valley residents forced from their homes waited for the third highest crest of the century along the muddy, debris-choked stream. The Ohio reached its crest at Cincinnati Thursday. Rains were expected to slow down the water’s return to its banks. In Indiana, Kentucky and southern Illinois, farm folks and city people, part of the more than 47,000 routed from their homes, waited and watched as the runaway water slipped over their crop lands and front yards. Louisville expected a crest at 18.3 feet above “flood stage” today—the third highest of this century. -a - ■ J* ■ Upstream the crisis was past but the damage remained. Uprooted families started moving back into’ water soaked homes in parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West - Virginia. The American Red Cross estimated more than 110,000 persons have been affected by the flooding, and the Army Engineers said damage could push past S2OO million. In Indiana; workers readied shelters as the crest rolled into the eastern corner of the state. At Aurora, Ind., 8 feet of water rolled into river front buildings. At Cincinnati, a Red Cross disaster director said “it looks rather rough.” About 700 persons were in Red Cross shelters and others sought refuge with friends and relatives. National Guardsmen and volunteers finished off the sealing of the massive floodwall at Louisville Thursday and helped scores of families from their river-threatened homes. About 3,000 persons fled their homes in the suburbs, beyond the protection of Louisville’s floodwall. Red Cross shelters housed more than 300 persons. In Washington, the Small Business Administration desigignated flood-ravaged sections of seven states as disaster areas, including parts of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Missouri. With rivers starting to recede in the uplands, the danger zone shifted downstream to northern Kentucky, southern Indiana and southern Illinois. Belated Payments Made To Schools INDIANAPOLIS (UPI >—Belated payments of $15.6 million due to local school units in the January distribution -of state funds were approved by the Indiana State Board of Finance Thursday. The board approved transfer of the sum for school use. Combined with the amount distributed in February, it represented completion of the distribution usually made each January. The next distribution is due in April.- But officials indicated it, too. would be delayed since revenue is not coming in rapidly enough to permit the full payment when due. The delay in revenue was blamed on the fact collection of the two per cent state sales tax, originally planned to begin last Jtrfy f. did not get started until late October because of a court fight over the , constitutionality of the tax law.

American Airmen In Soviet Custody

BERLIN (UPl)—Soviet authorities are investigating the “personal responsbility” o f three U.S. Air Force officers shot down over East Germany on an alleged spy mission, an East German government spokesman said today. “In order to file charges, one must have evidence," the Foreign Ministry spokesman told UPI. He said it is “unlikely” the three Americans who were shot down Tuesday will be tried by an East German cqurt. He said it is not yet determined if the Soviets have a “legal right” to try the airmen. The spokesman said the three Americans are now in Russian custody and undergoing questioning by Soviet officials. They fell into Russian hands when their R 866 reconnaissance bomber was down Tuesday after accidentally crossing into East Germany on a routine training flight. U.S. officials said the plane veered over East Germany inadvertently while on a training mission ovdr West Germany from its base in France.. The Soviets called it a deliberate “spy flight” The United States has denied this charge. The East German spokesman said the fate of the three Americans hinges on the outcome of the Soviet investigation. He said each airman’s “degree of personal responsibility” is the key item in the investigation. The official said he did not know if the airmen would be turned over to East German authorities. Earlier, Communist newsmen had speculated that the three Americans might be tried as spies. Demands Return The United States Thursday demanded the return of the

Floods Cause More Refugees

By United Press International One of the worst Ohio River floods in more than a quarter of a century sent additional refugees scurrying to safety from their lowland homes in Indiana today while new moderately heavy rains threatened this weekend. More than 4.000 Hoosiers were believed to be homeless. The crest of the giant stream, which norm all y meanders placidly along the state’s southern border on its way to the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi, moved toward New Albany and Jeffersonville. After reaching a level more .than 18 feet above flood stage across the river at Louisville today, the crest will roll onward toward Evansville, where it is due Sunday. Latest readings (at 10 a.m. EST) were 46.6 feet rising at Evansville and latest crest forecasts were 47.5 feet Sunday, more than six feet below the heights . reached in the great flood of 1937 and nearly a foot below the crest of the 1945 flood. About 175 families were evacuated in Vanderburgh County, most of them along the banks of Pigeon River which empties into the Ohio. Three years ago Pigeon crested a foot higher than it did this time, and chased 800 families to high ground. , Ramparts erected bn the Hoosier side of the stream at Louisville minimized the destruction and inconvenience in

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three officers “without But it was getting no cooperation from the Soviets. One U.S. search team was said to have viewed the plane’s wreckage from the air, but permission to inspect it from the ground was being refused by the Russians. State Department official Llewellyn E. Thompson, a former ambassador to Moscow and Soviet affairs specialist, told Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrinin in Washington that the R 866 reconnaissance bomber had not been on a spy mission when it was downed, as the Soviet claim. Thompson backed up the explanations made by military officials here that the twin-jet plane had strayed across the border while on a training flight in West Germany. The crewmen are Capt. David I. Holland, 35, of Holland, Minn., the pilot; Capt. Melvin J. Kessler, 30, of Philadelphia, an instructor-navigator; and Ist. Lt. Harold W. Welch, 24, of Detroit, the navigator. The first Communist news report on the fliers was broadcast Thursday night by East Berlin Radio. It said all three men were alive after parachuting from the plane, which the Soviets said was 44 miles inside East Germany when downed. Teams from the US. military liaison mission at Potsdam, an East German city just outside Berlin, were conducting the search for the men. The mission members have the right to tour throughout East Germany under an arrangement made early in the occupation. The Soviets have similar missions in West Germany. But in practice, this right is sharply limited by the Soviets, who can rule any area off-lim-its to the Americans for security reasons.

that area. At Aurora a 67-foot crest Thursday sent the overflow around eight feet deep on the city’s riverfront area, and about 800 of the 4,100 population evacuated. Forecasts called for showers tonight and Saturday ahd more by the middle of next week over the river basins. They may total an inch or more. City Hall Offices 7 Moved Downstairs The city hall offices will be moved to the newly-remodeled ground floor of the building this afternoon, and be open for business again at the regular time Monday morning. The offices of the city clerktreasurer, city utilities and board of health were moved to the second floor recently while contractor Chalmer Barkley remodeled the ground floor. Once the offices are situated again on the ground floor, remodeling of the second floor will be started by Barkley. The city council meeting Tuesday night of next week will be held in the city court room on the second floor. Band Parents Hold Chili Supper Tonight The Decatur high school band parents are sponsoring a chili supper at the high school cafeteria tonight from 5 to 7 o’clock. Tickets will be sold at the door.