Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. NO. 63.

Urges Solicitors Redouble Efforts

Adams county Red Cross solicitors were asked to redouble their efforts today in the fund drive, so that the Red Cross can continue its regular relief work in the many disaster-affected areas. More than SSOO has already been collected in the regular drive, John B. Faurote, county Red Cross drive co-chairman pointed out. Part of the Red Cross funds go to disaster relief, and no special disaster campaign is anticipated, but of course all funds donated specically for disaster relief wil be so directed. Area Lady Helping One Fort Wayne nurse, the director of nursing services, has already joined the more than 130 Red Cross staff members working in flooded areas. The entire length of the Ohio river valley, including parts of five states, is experiencing one of the most extensive and disastrous floods in recent years, Faurote pointed out. In fact, more than 100,000 people in 83 counties are affected. From across the nation, the 130 of 160 Red Cross trained disaster workers are already on the scene. Hundreds of volunteers are assisting. 53 Red Cross Shelters In this area 53 Red Cross shelters are in operation, with 12,000 people receiving food, clothing, housing, and medical attention. Additional shelters are being opened as the swollen rivers continue cresting downstream. Indiana’s plight has been widely mentioned locally, but four other states are also suffering: in addition, tornadoes struck this week in rural areas of Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas: <2 are dead, seven injured, and 35 homes were destroyed . / All chapters, including the Adams county chapter, are reminded of the need to maintain a financially strong organization to provide help in case of an emergency, such as the present one. Breakdown by State A statewide breakdown of affected couftties include: Twenty-one counties in Ohio

Orders Speed In Flood Aid

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Federal agencies were under orders from President Johnson today to speed help to the seven flood-stricken states of the Ohio River Valley as soon as needs are determined. “No time will be lost,” Johnson promised in a Cincinnati airport speech Friday climaxing a 34-hour aerial tour of the inundated areas. Johnson took almost six hours away from the White House to fly to Pittsburgh, pick up governors of five of the states, confer with them along a 740-mile route above the flood areas, speak at Cincinnati, and return home. At Andrews Air Force Base, Md., about five minutes after his own arrival, he welcomed his wife and former President Harry S. Truman home from their trip to Greece as his representatives at the funeral of King Paul I. Governors With Johnson Johnson flew over the flooded region with Govs. Matthew E. Welsh of Indiana, Edward T. Breathitt Jr; of Kentucky, James A. Rhodes of Ohio, W. W. Barron of West Virginia and Otto Kerner of Illinois. Gov. William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania was represented by Maurice Goddard, Head of the state’s Department of Forests and Waters. Gov. John M. Dalton of Missouri, unable to get to Pittsburgh in time, ioined Johnson at Cincinnati after ,he low-level jet tour of the disaster area. Dalton flew to Andrews Air Force Base with Johnson, discussing the floods with him en route, then returned to Missouri with Truman aboard another jet plane. The fast pace of the day was pointed up by Johnson after he invited a “pool” of five newsmen into his cabin to hear him and a team of high federal officials brief the five governor aboard about possible federal help to allevite the flood damage tOll. g “Never was so much said in so little- time;” Johnson smilingly said at the end of the 15minutje session. During that time the Chief Executive, in a reminder of his days as Senate leader, “yielded” three

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with 15,000 families affected. Most seriously affected are the Cincinnati area and Ohio counties bordering on the Ohio River as far south as Marietta. Residents in the low-lying regions around Cincinnati have already begun to move their household furnishings to higher grounds; 1,200 people and warkers have been fed today alone; 857 people are presently in shelters around the city. Twenty-five Kentucky counties with 15,000 families affected, the most heavily affected being the area of Louisville and particularly the town of Falmouth in Pendleton County. Greenup County is also suffering severe damage. Fifteen Pennsylvania counties with 2,575 families in scattered areas are affected. The principal areas appear to be between Lock Haven and Renovo, the city of Freeport and the counties of Clinton, Armstrong, Union, and Northumberland. Fourteen West Virginia counties totaling 1,350 families are affected, while in Indiana 8 counties totaling 3,250 families are affected. Louisville Hit Anticipating the highest flood crest since 1945 to hit Louisville, Kentucky, over the weekend, the Louisville chapter has opened two shelters. Already families are being evacuated and ARC is assisting them to move household items beyond the threatened area. Red Cross disaster teams are continuing to Purvey the affected areas to secure estimates of damage and need for additional shelters, food, clothing, or medical attention. While too early to predict the scope of the present floods, the folllowing information may be of interest: The 1937 Ohio-Missis-sippi Flood cost ARC $25 million and ranks as the costliest single disaster operation in the organization’s 83-year-history. In the Mideastern Floods of 1959, Red Cross expended $3 million — $2% million in Ohio alone — providing emergency relief and longterm recovery help for flood victims.

minutes each to Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman and Small Business Administrator Eugene Foley. Freeman needed only two minutes and Foley only one minute to sum up their agencies' roles in distributing food to evacuees and loans and grants to victims whose homes, farms or businesses have been harmed by the flood. Told Os Aid Director Ed war 1 A. McDermott of the Office of Emergency Planning advised the governors on how to qualify their states for emergency aid in repairing public facilities. Federal highway administrator Rex M. Whittoh said the federal. government could pay half the cost of fixing or restoring flooded-out bridges and roads. Lt. Gen. Walter K. Wilson, chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, said the Corps would be surveying the damage to determine what must be done — and the governors said, the Army engineers could be thanked for preventing even a worse fate for the area through flood control projects completed or under way.

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Close Schools When Buses Not Able To Run In the future, when the weather is too bad for the North Adams community school buses to run, there will be no school at any of the local public schools, the North Adams school board decided Friday night in special session. In the past, the Monmouth school, all of whose patrons come by bus, has closed, and the schools in Decatur have remained open. However, nearly 200 of the children are now brought in by bus to the various schools in Decatur, and the board decided unanimously it was unfair to these children to continue school when they could not attend. Only Natural Trouble However, if it is just local school trouble, like a burst boiler, rather than a natural act of God, the other schools will continue to operate, the board explained. The board secretary, Clarence Bultemeier, was unable to attend the special meeting, as he has been sick with the flu. New Tractor Bought The meeting was called to study and accept bids on a tractor to be used for all of the North Adams community schools seven properties. The low bid for a tractor without dual wheels was made by Dierkes Implement Sales, for $2,098. The tractor includes power steering, hydraulic equipment for front or rear, 3point hitch, and electrical system. The low bid includes a MasseyFerguson No. 35, with a base price of $3,150: a six-foot MasseyFerguson blade No. 21, $306.75; a Massey-Ferguson mower, with safety chains, and 60-inch-wide mower, $472; rear dual wheels, S7O; total gross price of $3,998.75, less $1,830.75 for the trade-in, and S7O for the dual wheels, for a net cost of $2,098. Other bids ranged up to $2,800, for about the same type equipment.The other bidders were Reiden-. bach Equipment Co., Decatur Equipment Co., Industrial Tractor and Equipment Co., Fort Wayne; A. A. Heine Co., Fort Wayne;' Shafer Tractor Sales, Bluffton, and Dierkes. The Dierkes bid was accepted by the board. Bertha Moellering Dies This Morning vw Mrs. Herman Moellering Mrs. Bertha Moellering, 72, wife of Herman Moellering, Adams county surveyor, died suddenly at 4 o’clock this morning at her home in Preble township, eight miles northwest of Decatur. Mrs. Moellering had been in failing health for several years but her death was unexpected. She was born in Preble township July 30, 1891, a daughter of Conrad and Marie Scheumann, and was married to Herman Moellering May 27, 1917. Mrs. Moellering was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim and the Tabea society. Surviving in addition to her 'husband are three daughters. Mrs. Walter (Charlotte) Conrad and Mrs. Werner (Dorothea) Hoffman, both of Preble, and Mrs. Ralph (Lorene) Hoffman of N e w Haven: two sons, Carl Moellering of New Haven, and Walter Moellering of Preble township; 12 grandchildren; one brother, Conrad Scheumann of Ossian, and one sister, Mrs. Clara Fishbaeh of Fort Wayne. One son, three brothers and three sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. The Rev. A. A. Fenner will officiate, and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Sunday until time of the services.

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Jury Os Eight Men, Four Women Is Deliberating Jack Ruby Fate In Dallas

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Norman H. Kuck, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Preble) Deuteronomy 8: 1-10. Lent is the call to every man to face up to the dying Lord who gave Himself as the one sufficient and eternal sacrifice for sin and to beg pardon for the way they treat Jesus Christ. What Moses says to Israel with reference to the responsible lives they were to live has its counterpart in today’s warning against the attitude which says “So what?” and “I couldn’t care less!” For every one in America today who confesses Jesus Christ, there are fif%y still unwilling to give the Lord His due. And all this despite the frightening rush toward apparent world catastrophe! But God calls to repentance not only through chastisement— He declares men should be led to their right senses by His goodness, too. However, let’s be honest and admit that our interests lie almost entirely with material concerns, though we know “man shall not live by bread alone.” Let us not allow the wealth of America to blind us either to our sins, or the mercy of God in Christ who died that we might escape eternal damnation. “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

More Hoosiers Flee From Flood W aters

By United Press International More rain fell over the broad river basins of Southern Indiana today, but it couldn’t make matters much worse than they, already were jn Jhe flop*!, soaked area. While the crest of the muddy Ohio River moved southwestward toward Evansville, that city got more than half ait inch of new showers before dawn and forecasts called for showers and scattered thunderstorms with locally heavy rains likely throughout the day and evening. The rain followed President Johnson’s and Governor Welsh’s jet plane tour of the Ohio River valley from Pittsburgh to Evansville Friday afternoon. It totaled .54 at Evansville, .41 at Cincinnati, 22 at Louisville, 08 at Indianapolis, .03 at Fort Wayne and Lafayette and .01 at South Bend by 7 a.m. When the rain ends by tonight, it will give way to at least two days of generally fair and dry weather stretching through Monday, forecasters said. Warm temperatures preceded the new rain, including a high of 70 at Evans zille Friday, 66 at Louisville, 63 at Cincinnati, 62 at Lafayette, 61 at Indianapolis and 53 at South Bend. Overnight lows were in the mild 50s over most of the state. Highs today will range from 58 to 66, lows tonight from 29 to 46, and highs Sunday in the 50s. The river crested at New Albany and Jeffersonville Friday and -ts- expected to crest at Evansville late tonight or early New Stop Sign On Highway 224 Detour City police chief Grover Odle reminded all local mortoists today of the new stop sign erected on the northwest corner of the Fifth street and Nuttman Ave. intersection, which requires traffic southbound on Fifth street to stop. Odle said repairing of the Pennsylvania railroad crossing will begin at 8 o’clock Monday morning at which time the detouring previously announced will go into effect. Also going into effect aT that * time will be no parking regulations on either side of Nuttman Ave., from Fifth street to 13th street, and on Fifth from Nuttman to Monroe street. ~ The city police will erect signs Sunday night ordering no parking on'either side of the two streets, in the designated areas, and the state highway department will uncover the detour signs already erected. *• The major repair work on the Monroe street crossing is expected to take over a week during which time the qo parking and detours will be in effect.

Sunday. Residents of low-lying areas outside the Evansville flood walls already have fled their homes and more are expected to be evacuated today and. Sunjday. Flooding on Pigeon Cheek, an Ohio tributary which runs through Evansville, added to the difficulties in the Pocket City. Meanwhile, plans were underway for federal aid to alleviate the suffering of flood victims and for federal action to help prevent such damaging floods in the future. President Johnson, accompanied by Governor Welsh and the governors of other states hit by the floods, made a 3>4-hour inspection flight over the area Friday and promised the governors he would expedite assistance. INDIANA WEATHER Showers, scattered thunderstorms and windy today, turning colder this afternoon. Mostly cloudy and colder tonight. Sunday sunny and colder. Low tonight 29 to 34 north, 33 to 46 south, High Sunday around 50. Outlook for Monday: Fair and mild. Panelists Selected For Joint Meeting Four panelists for the Focal Point presentation of Fort Wayne radio station WOWO were announced this morning. Mayor Carl D. Gerber, representing the city of Decatur; Ed Hagan, representing Indiana & Michigan; Dr. James M. Burk, representing the Chamber of Commerce; and E. E. Rydell, representing industrial development, will be the four panelists. Focal Point will be held at the Youth and Community Center Thursday evening, beginning at 6:30 p.m. with a dinner. The actual program will begin at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend the program, which will also be adjoint meeting of the four service clubs, Jaycees, Optimists, Lions and Rotary and Chamber of- Commerce. Wives of the service club members are also invited. ” CaT Stewart, WOWO program manager, will be the moderator for the affair which will be tape recorded and later replayed over the Fort Wayne radio station. Thi§ program will begin with Stewart posing questions to the four panelists, and a question and answer period will be held later. This will give an opportunity for persons attending to question the four panelists. Tickets are priced at $2.25 per,„ person and may be purchased at the office of the Chamber of Commerce, 227 N. Second St., or from members of the service organizations.

DALLAS (UPl)—The Jack Ruby murder tr.al jury began deliberating hi? fate today. The eight men and four women, looking tired after a 16hour marathon windup session of the trial, entered the deliberation room in the courthouse at 10:11 a.m. EST. They would choose a foreman first, then get down to the question of whether Ruby was guilty, or innocent by reason of insanity when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald. . As they returned from breakfast, the jurors caught a glimpse of Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, the accused assassin’s mother, who wdS in the courthouse. She had been subpoenaed as a witness at the trial but never called. She said she hoped Ruby received a life sentence. The state demanded death. The jurors received the case at 2:05 a.m. EST. “What are they gonna do to me now, Joe . . . what are they gonna do to me row?” asked the drawn and pale little defendant of huge defense attorney Joe H. TonahiH when the jury filed out of the packed courtroom at 1:06 a.m. Short Night’s Sleep Tonahill assured him there would be no verdict until after a short night’s sleep, at least, and Ruby* went off to his maximum security cell in the same criminal Courts and jail building in which tne jury was locked up for the night. When the state brought summations to a close with a plea that the jury let the world and worldwide communism know that Dallas believes in a rule of law by sending Lee Harvey Oswald’s slayer to the electric chair, Judge Brown began telling the jury to go right upstairs and elect a foreman. Then he looked at the courtroom clock. It stood at 1 : 05 a.m. Then he looked at the tup:kered-out jury and said: “You-all want to begin deliberations in the morning?” They nodded. “All right,” he said. “You elect one of your number a foreman after you get up tomorrow.” Hear Seven Attorneys The jurors took to their beds with their minds full of final in which fourstate 1 attorneys had pulled one way and three defense lawyers another. “When you out your head on your pillow tonight,” said defense attorney Melvin Belli, mindful that he was speaking well past midnight, “ask your own self what you were thinking about the man who killed the President of the United States that day. “And then ask yourself who, of all the people in the city that weekend was the candidate most likely to do it (slay Oswald) — the village character, the village clown ” Belli pleaded that “you cannot find a sick man guilty of anything.” “He is sick,” he said. “Give (Continued on, Page Three)

. . ' r * i • “J?' i i ■ — II 'm, k'* m | .Jnl . wmu, & HIGH AND DRY—This Cincinnati, Ohio, gas station operator used his head to save his service truck from a drenching. Before he closed up for the duration, he hoisted the truck as high as it would go on the oil-change lift. And it worked.

World Fair Weekend Tours Are Planned

Special World’s Fair weekend tours sponsored by the Decatur Daily Democrat and Erie-Lacka-wanna Railroad will take place June 12-15 and July 31-Aug. 3, it was announced today. The cost of the tour includes hotel accomodations at the Hotel New Yorker in m i d-Manhatten, W. 34th street and Bth avenue. There are only five singles,, eight doubles, and 13 twins available for each tour. The cost is $51.50 each for adults, and $34 each for children 5 and under 12. Limited This Year The tour will be strictly limited this year because no more rooms are available, the Erie railroad stated. Decatur people will have* 47 spaces in coach A on each tour. However, single rooms have a double bed, and if need be, can be used as a double bedroom for two persons. The double bedrooms can be used where required for three persons, and a roll-a-way bed will be put in each room where reservation is so requested. Twin rooms can klso include a roll-a-way. This would increase somewhat the total number possible for each tour. For those desiring "“single accomodations, there wi 11 be an

Mike Stucky Dies Suddenly Friday Martin (Mike) Stucky, 64, owner of the Stucky Furniture Store at Wiltshire, 0., died suddenly at 2:30 o’clock Friday afternoon at his home in Willshire. He was born in Wabash township, Adams county, Feb. 5, 1900, a son of Daniel and Marianna Springer-Stucky, and was married to Verona Snyder June 14, 1928. His wife preceded him in death Aug. 13, 1956. Mr. Stucky operated the Stucky Hatchery in Willshire prior to operating the furniture store. He was a member of the Willshire Methodist church. Surviving are one son, Lynn Stucky of Willshire route 1; one daugher. Miss Rozanne Stucky, a student at Huntington College; one granddaughter; five brothers, Erwin Stucky of Monroe, Elmer Stucky of Syracuse, Jacob and Ira Stucky, both of Berne, and Howard Stucky of Tucson, Ariz., and one sister, Mrs. Marcus (Linda) Moser of Berne. Five brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 1:15 p.m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, and at 2 p.m. at the Willshire Methodist church. The Rev. Earl Heckman and the Rev. James Maxwell will officiate, and burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until Ume of the services.

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extra charge of $3.50. Hundreds of pleased Decatur people have made the trip in the past, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Many have gone several times. Early Reservations Early reservations are absolutely essential this year, because of the tremendous drawing power of the world’s fair, interested persons are warned. The usual $lO deposit fee for reservation is required and the balance will be due as shown in literature available at the Decatur Daily Democrat office. June 12 Tour Hie first tour will leave Decatur at 1:20 p.m. June 12. Passengers will be seated in reclining chairs, »air-conditioned coaches, on the diesel-powered Erie-Lackawanna “Lake Cities.” Pillows are provided in coaches. The dinerlounge will be open for those desiring lunch, light snack or refreshment at moderate cost. On Saturday morning, continental breakfast, tip included, will be served. The train will be passing through the beautiful Pocono mountains and Delaware water gap, som® of the most .picture* * sque scenery ip the East — At 8:45 a.m. the train will ar(Continued on Page 3)

Service Stations Hit By Burglars Two service station burglaries that occurred Friday evening or this morning are under investigation today by the city police department. An undetermined amount of change was taken from a cigarette machine at Gene’s Mobil, corner of Eighth and Monroe streets. Thieves attempted also to force open two other vending machines in the station, but were unsuccessful. Don Moser had {Milled into the station a short time after midnight and he told city police officer Kenneth Jennings that when he pulled in he had heard a rear window slam shut. Turning on the lights, Moser found entry had been gained by breaking out a window at the rear of the station. A search was made of the area, but proved futile. In addition to the money from the machine, some change was taken from a cash register. Riverside Hit Hie Riverside Garage, >126 E. Monroe St., was also a victim, with the burglary found at 7:16 a. m. today. Investigation showed entrance was gained through a rear window on the south end of the building, and an unknown quantity of money and merchandise was stolen. A full inventory was to be made today.