Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1964 — Page 1

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Goshen Man Fatally Injured In Crash Near City Saturday

Second County Traffic Death In This Year A 21-year-old Goshen man became Adams county’s second traffic fatality of 1964 when he died Sunday morning at Parkview memorial hospita? in Fort Wayne, approximately 13 hours after a freak two-car crash on U. S. 27, a mile and a half north of Decatur Saturday afternoon. Wayne Burdette, who resided at 120 S. Sixth St., CJoshen, died at 5 a.m. Sunday in the Fort Wayne hospital of a basal skull fracture which he received when the automobile in whcih he was riding vered into the opposite lane of

Flood To Crest At Evansville Today

By United Press International A company of Indiana National Guardsmen labored through the night to build a sandbag wall protecting Cannelton as a weak spot in the flood wall threatened to unleash the Ohio River early today? # The crest of the worst flood in two decades was expected to hit Evansville, the last major Indiana city in its path, today. Late Sunday night the water level was '47.6 feet and The crest was predicted at 47.6 or 47.8 by the Weather Bureau. Bedford residents were expected to have full water facilities again today after a break in the intake main flooded the pumping station Saturday, forcing officials to resort to water tanks hauled in to slake townsmen’s thirst in the city along badly flooded .White River. A call went out from Perry County Civil Defense Director Otis Saalman for help When volunteers were unable to complete the sandbagging of a weak spot in the flood wall after more than 12 hours of work. Guard Ordered In Capt. Bill Brinkley of Company B at Tell City said he was ordered to assemble his 90 men late Sunday and proceed to Cannelton and put them at the disposal of civil defense officials. ~ , Cannelton Maybr Glen Gentry said there appeared to be no danger that the flood wall would give way. Nevertheless, the wall was bolstered and a sandbag channel was being built to funnel off the flood waters should the wall brgak., The weakened flood wall was

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traffic and was struck broadside by a vehicle driven by Mrs. Shirley J. Ashbrook, 22-year-old resident of 821 N. 12th St., in Decatur.- • Burdette sufered a fractured right arm, crashed right foot and ".internal injuries, in addition to the skull fracture. The body has been removed to the Cook funeral home in Cedar Grove, W. Va., for funeral services and burial. Reported Fair Mrs. Ashbrook has been reported in fair condition in Parkview hospital. She received a broken right leg, several broken ribs and lacerations about the head in the 4:05 p.m. Saturday crash. A third person admitted to Parkview was Larry Burdette, 15-year-old brother of the victim. He suffered multiple bruises and abrasions and was released around noon Sunday. The Burdettes were passengers in a car operated by Darrel G.

at the Cannelton Sewer Pipe Co. It was the same defect that threatened the area during a flood in 1961 but was believed to have been repaired by Army engineers. The defect was called a “boil". The water worked its way under the wall and was “boiling” up inside. Gentry said there was “four to six feet of water inside the wall," but outside there “is no water standing.” Residents Assured Cannelton residents who thought the flood danger passed when the 51.9-foot crest swept downstream were assured there would be plenty of time to evacuate should the wall give way, Evansville, Indiana’s fourth largest city, apparently weathered the worst ol the flood, thanks to a 54-foot flood wall. Only the lowlands outside the wall were covered with water from the Ohio. However, Pigeon Creek, which flows into the Ohio at Evansville, was spread out of its banks and covered . several city blocks on the north side. Two radio-equipped patrol boats were put on an’ around-the-clock patrol of the area by police to prevent looting. Bedford residents were without city water most of Saturday, all of Sunday and until early today. A A *4*inch intake main broke Saturday morning and the waterworks’ pumps Vore flooded. The water supply also was cut off to Oolitic and Needmore. < Bedford Loses Water A trickle of water was running through the mains late (Continued on Page Eight)

Rider, 19, of Blakely, W. Va., which was towing another vehicle. Rider was released from the Adams county memorial hospital ■ after treatment and x-rays. Also released from the locaV hospital following treatment and X-rays wag Joey Ashbrook, the three-year-old son of Donald C. and Shirley Ashbrook. Freak Crash Rider was traveling north at about 55 miles per hour, towing another auto with a tow bar. He told investigating officers a vehicle in front of him slowed down, and he applied the brakes of his car. As he aplied the brakes, the vehicle being towed began to “fishtail" on the rain-sfickened highway. The towed auto made a half circle, going off the right side of the road, and the tow bar snapped, throwing the car driven by Rider into the southbound lane of traffic. Mrs. Ashbrook, traveling south,

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. John O. Goodwin, Rivarre Circuit United Brethren in Christ) “The Beatitudes” Matthew 5:1-11 “Our Lord we thank thee for our blessings.” These are familiar" words of appreciation one hears at meal time or at the end of the day. Blessings are those things in which we find our happiness. Jesus states here In the Beatitudes those who are happy in God’s sight. His words are all promises to those being in the Kingdom of God. They are to be comforted, to inherit the earth, to be satisfied, Xp obtain mercy, to see God, and to be called His sons. These are the blessings of those in His kingdom. As any good teacher, Jesus expects His teachings to be put into practice. The followers of Jesus one finds praised in the Gospels are people such as the Beatitudes demand. They are poor in spirit, they mourn, they are meek, they thirst after righteousness, they are persecuted for righteousness’ sake as well as being reviled for Jesus’ sake. Yet, they are not perfect, but they are converted to their Lord. Their interests and desires are turned in the direction of God.

INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy through Tuesday. Some brief showers or snow flurries Tuesday, mainly north and east portions. Turning colder tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 25 to 30 north, mid 40s southwest. High Tuesday mostly in the 30s north;-40 to 56 south. Sunset today 6:53 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:54 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair to partly cloudy and warmer. Lows 20s north to 30s south. Highs 40s north to 50s central to lower 60s south. William Linn Files For County Treasurer William Linn, Adams county treasurer, this morning filed his declaration of candidacy for the perpocratic nomination to that office. subject to the May primary. Linn is concluding his first fouryear term in the treasurer’s office.

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was unable to avoid striking the Rider car, crashing into the right side of the vehicle. Rider was arrested and charged with driving of center. Damages Listed Damages were estimated at $650 to the 1957 model Ashbrook auto and the 1955 model car driven by Rider was considered a total loss. There was also approximately $25 damage done to shrubs in the yard of the H. P. Schmitt Packing Co., where the crash occurred. Trooper » Dan Kwasneski and deputy sheriff Warren Kneuss were among the state police and county sheriff’s department who investigated. The traffic death was the second of the year and the second in six weeks in Adams county, the first occurring February 3. With more than seven months remaining this year, the county in just one shy of 1963’s total of three fatalities.

Resume Story Hour At Public Library The Decatur public library will resume the story hour, by popular demand. Saturday afternoon from 1:30 to 2:30 o’clock. The program designed to interest children who will enter kindergarten next fall, will feature film strips, flannelgrams, puppets and “surprises.” The children’s librarian, Mrs. Jack Knudsen,/will be assisted in telling the stories by Miss Marilyn Knudsen. For the first program under the new direction, the children will be shown this year's egg tree in the juvenile department and hear its traditional tale, “The Egg Tree.” by Katherine Mil house. Also on the program , will be the film strip, ; “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel," and several other stories of novel and humurous nature.

BHB ft T»« yOIjHH • J^^B^^-^ , z l Sr : ag* , '.RLjRI X -- «-«•'■•* ..z ,. ~, r .jW ..J—? - '-< THE TWO AUTOS involved in the fata! accident Saturday afternoon are pictured above. Mrs. Shirley Ashbrook of Decatur was driving the auto at. left, and the car at right was driven by- a West Virginia man, and a passenger in the auto was fatally injured. •.■ ~ — 'Photo by Cede)

County Dumps Considered By Commissoners The county commissioners signified their interest in a county dump, probably one near Decatur. and Monroe and another near Berne and Geneva, at their meeting this morning. In addition, the commissioners heard several complaints concerning drainage and roads in northeastern Union township, as Jerry White and Marvin Brown asked the commissioners to stone a mile stretch of dirt. road, county road 2, between 27 and 28. Talk About Dump Edward Imel and Larry Imel "appeared" before the btfard. v.itif their attorney. Lewis L. Smith, to see if the commissioners would be interested in a county dump, if the city of Decatur decides on a sanitary land fill system. The main question that the commissioners had- was how to determine a fair share of the costs, if city and county people used the same dump. Attorney Smith suggested that a record of names' and license numbers be kept of those dumping, to assign fair share of cost. The commissioners felt that the dump would be used more heavily by city than by country people. Imel stated that he understood the city would soon take bids on a land-fill system to start as of June 1. If he gets the bid. he stated, he would be interested in other contract jobs, and has discussed the matter with several local industries. Also, he would be interested in the county dump, if the people will dump garbage in one spot, and trash in another, so that garbage can be covered every evening. Road Problems Brown and White appeared before the board at 11:30 a. m., and asked that a dirt road near them be graveled for use: otherwise, they have to go 2Vz or 3 miles out of their way to get to fields when the road is unusable. Delmas Bollenbacher stated that tlie commissioners should examine the road; that they had been trying to get all of the good dirt roads, that would not be closed some time in the future, graded and stoned. County highway superintendent Lawrence Noll stated that stoning the road would make it usable by the department, and county engineer Walter Gilliom also stated it would be a good road to stone; it has no bridges to repair. Noll estimated that it would cost about $4,000 to stone the road, and the commissioners decided to visit it this afternoon, to see if it can be worked into the county road program, possibly this fall. Brown also mentioned that a side-ditch by his home was backing up into his yard, causing his sewer tile to break down. Noll stated that he had told Brown two years ago he would place an eight or ten-inch pipe for him under his driveway, if Brown will buy'the pipe. Noll said that the county cannot expend road tax money to buy pipes to go unddr private driveways. Brown stated he would buy the pipe, and call the highway department as scon as he has, it. He also mentioned a bridge near hinj, which is slipping off its abutments, and should be repaired. The commissioners and Noll stated they would inspect it immediately after dinner. Tiles and Roads There are 14 broken tiles reported right now in county roads, Noll said, when they reported an(Continued on Page Eight)

Neuen Is Candidate For County Auditor i L ' ? l | *jl& BhHEHßb' l ' / Leland A. Neuen Leland A. (Lee) Neuen today announced that his name has been entered in the race for Republican candidate for the office of county auditor in the primary elections next May. Neuen is well known here and over the county, having been active in business, political, and music circles since moving back to Berne from Detroit with his family in 1944. He was born in Berne, August 6. 1907, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Neuenschwander. Left motherless at the age of five, he lived with relatives here until moving to Canada with his father in 1922. Several years later Neuen moved to Detroit where for 20 years he worked as laborer, carpenter, mechanic, draftsman, material control and salesman. During this “time, he took some courses in sales and dore management at Wayne University. He tame back to Berne in October, 1944, as assistant sales manager of The Winner House, and later traveled parts of Indiana, Illinois and lowa for his company. In June, 1952, he resigned to manage the former Sprunger-Lehman Co., Berne’s oldest department store here. He became an officer of the firm in 1953, and was elected president and general manager in 1959. The store is now known as Lee’s De-* partment Store, Inc. Mrs. Neuen is the former Erma Whitcomb of Detroit, and together with her husband, have made a significant contribution to the musical activity in the community—Mrs. Neuen as church organist and teacher of organ and piano, and Neuen as former conductor of several choirs in Decatur,. and presently director of music for the Cross United Church of Christ in. Berne. He also is current president qf the Mennonite choral society, an office he held several times before. -* 1 •s*:» Netnui is an active member of the Berne Chamber of Commerce and Rotary club. He has also served as officer and director in various district and state retail trade associations and is presently on the board of the Indiana retail council. No stranger to Republican politics, Lee was a Berne councilman in and several years ago was his party’s candidate for mayor 'here, A-. The Neuens live in their home at 405 Columbia St., and’ have three children: Lois, at home; Lawrence, with the"U. S. Army at Ft.”'Benjamin Harrison; and Don, taking postgraduate work and teaching at Ball State Teachers College.

Pledges U. S. Resist Reds

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson today pledged the full power of the United States to resist the intrusion of Communism in any Latin American nation. Johnson spoke before the Organization of American States (OAS) on the third anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, a Latin American development program sponsored by the President John F. Kennedy as an extension of the so-called Good Neighbor policy of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Johnkon said today the Alliance for Progress is "the only path for those wno believe that both the welfare and the dignity of man can advance side by side.” The President said there must be increased cooperation, a greater degree of self-help on the part of Latin American countries to make the alliance effective. “At the same time,” he said in his prepared remarks, “we must protect the Alliance against the efforts of commu- • nism to tear down what we’re building.” The President cited as evidence of the Communist teardown in Latin America recent “Cuban aggression in Venezuela.” “We will soon discuss how best we can meet these threats to our independence,” he said. “But I now assure you that the full power of the United States is ready to assist any country whose freedom is threatened by force directed from beyond the shores of our own continent.” “The enemies of freedom seek to harass us 'at every turn,” Johnson said. He said this., involved “a struggle for v the destiny of the American republics.” He was, however, optimistic about chances for the Alliance to prosper and defeat the threat of iommunism. “Our Alliance will prosper because we do have faith—not idle hope,but ihe same faith that enabled us Jo nourish a new civilization in these spacious continents,” Johnson said. “And in that new world we will carry forward our Alliance for Progress in such away that men in all lands will marvel at the power of freedom to achieve the bettermen of man,” he said. BULLETIN LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. (UPD — A terrific explosion occurred today in a boiler of the Tanner Creek generating plant of the Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. on the Ohio River. Authorities said nobody was hurt and there was no interruption of service to a northern Indiana area served by the utility. Courthouse Offices Close For Funeral The Adams county courthouse will clofie at 1 p.m. Tuesday for the funeral of Mns. Herman Moellering, wife of the county surveyor, the Adams county commissioners ruled this morning. The court house will remain . closed the rest of the day. Services will be held at l:3o f p.m. at the Zwick funeral home, and at 2 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran church in Friedheim.

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Six Americans Are Killed By Red Guerrillas SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPD—Communist guerrillas shot down two US. Army aircraft over the weekend, killing six < Americans and one Vietnamese.' ITie two crashes brought to 110 the number of Americans killed in action since the U.S. buildup began here in 1961 and increased the total deaths from all causes to 193. Thirty-seven of these men have .been killed in the two and one-half months since Jan. 1. It was one of the worst weekends for casualties for the 15,000-man U.S. military adviser force, the key to the U. S. aid program for South Viet Nam’s fight against the Communists. President Johnson stressed again in Washington Sunday that this support would continue: “We must rtay here and help them, and that is what we are going to do," he said in his television interview. Both Army aircraft were in action against guerrilla bands when Communist gunfire brought them down. On Saturday, an observation plane was downed about 100 miles north of Saigon with the loss of two lives. The other four men died in the crash of their HUIB helicopter in the Camau Peninsula 130 miles south of the capital. A Vietnamese observer on their helicopter also was killed. In Washington, the army identified the first two fatalitiea, as Capt. Thomas J. Bergin of Schenectady, N.Y., and Ist. Lt. Richard E. Jaeck of Milwaukee, Wis. ‘ ' The dead in the helicopter crash were Ist Lt. Roger E. Gauvin of Caribou, Maine, Spec. Carleton W. Upton, of Auburn, Calif., Pfc. Frank J. Holguin, of Los Angeles, and Ist Lt. Kenneth A. Shannon, of Lynchburg, Va. I 11 J I Shopping I Dap ’HI n I EASTER M