Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1964 — Page 1

VOL, LXII. NO. 72,

Top Defense Officials Warn Against Any Cut In Foreign Aid Funds

Church Services To Mark Good Friday

Church services will feature Decatur’s observance of the Three Hours spent on the Cross on Good Friday, as practically all business will suspend during the period from 12 noon until 3 o’clock. Union Good Friday services, under auspices of the Associated Churches of Decatur, will be held at the First Methodist church, Monroe and Fifth streets, from 12 noon until 3 p.m. Good Friday services will be held at the St. Mary’s Catholic church from 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. Services at the Zion Lutheran church will get underway at 1 o’clock. Special services will also be held in many of the individual churches Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Easter Sunday. Retail stores, offices, and other places of business will close during the three-hour period. The county courthouse, city offices, auto license bureau, Indiana & Michigan, and tire Gas Co., will be closed the entire day. The First State Bank will be open until 12 noon ,and the sidewalk window on Monroe street will be open from 3to 5:30 p.m. Retail stores and the bank will forego the usual noon closing Thursday, and will be open all afternoon Thursday. The Decatur Daily Democrat will publish at the usual press time of 3 o’clock, but will close all operations from 12 to 3 p.m. Program of Service The program for the union Good Friday services, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, has also been announced. The service will be held at the First Methodisf church. The Thursday Deadline To File Candidacy Candidacy filings Tuesday afternoon and this morning have brought about two “races,” one for a Democratic committeeman post and the other for the Adams Central school board. Thursday is the final day to file for the May primary election. Bobby E. Heller filed his candidacy for Democratic precinct committeeman from N. Kirkland, developing a race with Robert W. Kershner, who previously filed for committeeman from the same district. Clark W. Smith and Ellis V. Converse, both residents of route 4, Decatur, each filed a declaration of candidacy for the Adams Central school board of trustees. Both are from district 3. One Discovered A race on the Republican ticket for delegate to the state convention was noted today. Cal E. Peterson and Herman L. (Red) Lankenau, both Decatur residents, have filed candidacies for delegate to the Republican state convention from district 10. There are two other races on the Democratic ticket, as of candidacy filing by noon today. Richard D. Lewton, former treasurer and clerk, and Claude W. Marckel have filed for the auditor’s nomination on the Democratic ticket. There is also a contest for the Democratic nomination for congress, fourth district. Henry O. Getting and Gerhard (Johnny) Bultemeier have both filed for the Democratic nomination for county commissioner from the first district. Neither ticket has a candidate for commissioner from the second district, and Republicans have not yet filed any candidates for recorder, coroner, treasurer or state representative. Democrats (Continued on Page Six)

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service will be divided into seven periods, based on' the Seven Words from the Cross. There will be a brief intermission between each period, and persons attending are requested not to enter or leave the sanctuary except during these intermissions. First Word — Call to worship, Rev. A. C. Underwood; First Methodist church. Rev. J. O. Penrod, Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Second Word — Prayer. Rev. Robert McQuaid, First Baptist church-; choral selection, “Ten— Thousand Angels,” ladies’ trio; meditation, Rev. Marlin Nolin, Assembly of God church. Third Word — Praver. Rev. Wil? liam C. Feller, Zion United Church of Christ: meditation. Rev. Sylvester Martin, Nuttman Ave. United Brethren church. Fourth Word — Prayer, Rev. Gerald Gerig. Decatur Missionary church: violin solo, “The Old Rueeed Cross,” Mrs. John Clark; meditation, Re v. Elbert Smith, Jr. First Prespbyterien church. Fi'th Word — Prayer. Rev. Charles Hill, First Christian church; meditation, Rev. Kenneth Angle, Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church. Sixth Word —• Prayer. Rev. Wilmer Watson, Church of the Nazar„.ene; meditation. ■ Rev. Fuhrman Miller. Bethanv Evangelical United Brethren church. Seventh Word — Prayer, Rev. Fuhrman Miller; solo, “He Was Desoised,” Miss Helen Haubold; meditation. Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., Church of God; benediction, Rev. Bever. Good Friday Service At Zion Lutheran “In the Shadow of the Cross” is the title of a Good Friday noonday worship service to be presented at Zion Lutheran church at 1 p.m. Friday. This special service is based on the seven last words of Christ, and the public is invited. Children of Zion Lutheran school from grades one through eight will participate with anthems, recitations, and choral readings. The congregation will join in with responsive readings and hymns. Events of Holy Week recalled ia - the program Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Jesus on Trial, Jesus on Cross, descent from the cross, and preparation for burial. The Rev. Richard C. Ludwig will lead in prayers, readings, and pronounce the benediction. The program is under the direction of Smith F. Snively, principal of Zion Lutheran school, and assisted by faculty members, Mrs. David Ebeling, < Mrs. Sherman Arnold, and Richard Reimer. Members of the newly confirmed class will receive their class communion at the Maundy Thursday services beginning at 7:30 p.m. The Lutheran church practices closed communion and members are asked to announce their intention to commune by card before the service. An evening Good Friday service, also with communion, will begin at 7:30 p.m. n BULLETIN MIAMI (UPD — The Coast Guard, reported todav that a 65-foot tourist fishing boat carrying “numerous people” tipped over and sank in Bovnton Inlet about 70 miles north of here.

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WASHINGTON (UPD — Top defense officials told Congress today that military aid to U.S. friends abroad already had been 1 cut to damaging levels and that any further reductions by Con- I gress could greatly hurt U. S. security interests. Congress last year allowed only $1 billion of the $1.4 billion | sought by the President for arms aid to free world nations. Both Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified today that this trimmed the military assistance program to a critical point. McNamara, urging approval of President Johnson’s new $3.4 billion request for economic and military assistance, said the $1 billion this includes for arms aid again is too low to protect U. S. interests. “We are presenting a request of only $1 billion for 1965 solely because the Congress has made it crystal clear to the executive branch that it is unwilling to appropriate a larger amount,” McNamara told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Taylor, putting it even more bluntly, told the committee that last year’s arms cut came as “a significant exception to the strong support the Congress has ordinarily given to our national defense programs.” “In my opinion a further reduction of the 1965 program below $1 billion new obligation authority would be a tragic emasculation of a program vital to our national security interests,” he said. McNamara made the same point. Anything less would necessitate a reassessment of U.S. policy in depending on foreign military forces for part of the free world’s defense, McNamara told Congress. Allied strength around the' fringes of the Communist world “will quickly melt away” if U.S. military aid is not kept flowing, he said. “I believe it is obvious to all of us that any attempt to offset the loss of combat effectiveness in those Allied forces supported by the military assistance program by increases in our own forces is bound to cost farm more,” he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. McNamara followed Secretary of State Dean Rusk and aid chief David Bell in supposing President Johnson’s $3.4 billion foreign aid request for fiscal 1965. It includes $1 billion for arms assistance to, U.S. allies. Adams Central School Damaged By Vandals A large amount of damage to the Adams Central school, done by vandals sometime early this morning, was under investigation today by sheriff Roger Singleton, deputy Harold August and state detective sergeant Alan D. CopP*Entry was gained to the school by breaking out a window glass. The door to the principal’s office and doors to two offices in the principal’s office were all forced open, with the doors heavily damaged. A vending machine was broken open with just a small amount of money taken, and some change was also taken from the principal’s office. Damage to the school, however, was estimated at from S4OO to SSOO. D INDIANA WEATHER Rain changing to snow and turning colder, tonight. Thursday cloudy with light snow or snow flurries and unseasonably cold. Low tonight 25 to 35 north with little if any temperature rise. Thursday. High mid 40s south. Sunset today 7:02 a.m. Sunrise Thursday 6:39 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and cold, Lows 15 to 25. Highs 30 to 40.

Decatur, Indiana 46733, Wednesday, March 25, 1964.

Stassen Enters State Primary

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Former Minnesota Gov. Harold E. Stassen formally entered Indiana’s Republican presidential preference primary race today and offered himself as an “alternative” to party members who do not want to vote for Sen. Barry Goldwater. Stassen entered by filing a petition bearing 729 signatures—--229 more than were required—in the Indiana Statehouse. He said he believes he can defeat Goldwater —in Indiana because he is the only Midwesterner in the race and because he has labor support. Asked whether he believed Aiany GOP voters would support him as an “anti-Gold-water” Stassen shied away from the “anti” terminology but indicated he considered his views on issues an “alternative” to Goldwater’s conservative philosophy., - Bad flying weather ’ delayed Alabama Gov. George C. Wai? More Os Red Cross Reports Received Pleasant Mills repotted $35.13 collected this year for the Adams county Red Cross by Mrs. Vernon Abbott, compared with $31.45 last year, as the Red Cross rural fund drive increases momentum, John B. Faurote, county co-chair? man, said today. Three other towns also conduct drives separately from their townships. A total of 46 more sections reported, with less than two-thirds to go, as nearly 400 workers in the county push to end the drive by March 31, Faurote said. $1,290.55 Raised So Far A total of $1,290.55 has been raised to date, as the weather has allowed more activity in early March this year than last year. The county goal is $2,655, with only $1,364.45 left to raise. The first report was received Tuesday from the south tier of townships, with six of Hartford’s 24 sections reporting, three of them 100% donors. Reporting were Miss Omo Meshberger, Sec. 3, $10; Mrs. Laurence Noll, Sec. 4, $11.25, 100%; Martin J.’Graber, Sec. 9, $9, 100%; Harry F. Moser. .Sec. 13, SB, 100%; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Miller, Sec. 15, $10; Mrs. Melvin Hirschy, Sec. 16, $4.50. One new report from' Washington township raised the number there to 20 of 36. Hubert Lengerich, .Sec. 16, collected $25.75. St. Mary’s, Union, Root St. Mary’s reached the half-way mark, as two new sections reported, bringing it to a total of nine of 18. Mrs. Lester Brunner, zone 5, collected sl3, and Mrs. Mervin Rupp, zone 9, $4.25. Mrs. Arnold Thieme, Sec. 27 fl Union township, was the ninth ofg 24 to report in that area, withg $6.50 collected. Mrs. Kenneth g Beard collected $10.50 in Sec. 25, g Root township, and was fifth ofg 36 to report there. Four sections reported in Kirk-t land township, raising the num-5 ber in to 10 of 24. Reporting were: Mrs. Harry Aschliman, - Sec. 34, sl4, 100%; Mrs. DorphusSchlickman. Sec. 25, $4: Mrs. 4 Flossie Anderson, Sec. 26, sls; Mrs. Ralph Steffen, Sec. 28. sll, 100%. A total of 108 sections, and one of four towns, have reported so far, Faurote noted, and asked that all township chairmen check with their section workers to make certain that they will be able to complete the drive, which is scheduled to end next Tuesday, March 31.

lace’s trip from Wisconsin to file in the Democratic primary here, and forced postponement of a 10 a.m. EST news conference. Wallace plans to file against Indiana Governor Welsh, a “favorite son” who filed to keep Wallace from winning by default. Wallace was expected to arrive later today. He planned to oppose Welsh, who is backed in his entry as a favorite son candidate by the entire party leadership. Welsh entered purely to prevent Wallace from getting Indiana’s 51 first-ballot votes by default.He doesn’t intend to permit his name to be placed in nomination for president. Stassen began his political head-butting with Goldwater Tuesday at an airport news conference here, and called the Hoosier May 5 primary “one of the most important, of this crucial year.” "This- year Indiana may prove to be the only middle west testing ground,” he said in announcing his intention of giving Indiana voters a choice between his self - proclaimed “middle way” views and those of Goldwater which he termed ultra conservative. “I believe I will defeat Goldwater in Indiana, Stassen said. (Continued on Page Six) Decatur Cab Drops Appeal For Permit Decatur Cab, operated by Mrs. Mary Nichols, has been granted a home occupation permit, and withdrew its appeal for a land use permit before the Decatur board of zoning appeals Monday night, John A. De Voss, city attorney, said today. Mrs. Nichols, appearing through her attorney, Lewis L. Smith, withdrew her appeal for a land use permit, taking the matter out of the hands of the board of zoning appeals. She had been turned down on a land use permit, asking that she be given a variance to run a taxi from her home in a residential area. n However, when she learned f that a home occupation included) any business conducted in a home, 1 by family members of that house-* hold only, and without signs or ’ any outside sign of the business, , she asked her attorney to apply • for a home occupation permit. ■ This was granted, as she tolsj,tlje, issuing authority, city engineer Ralph Roop, that she met the conditions. It was then no longer necessary for the cab company to obtain a land use permit, and the appeal was withdrawn. Roop explained that as long as sthe cab company meets the re--3 quitements of the zoning ordin--5 ance for a home occupation, it g will operate legally. If anvone ii discovers them using help from toutside the family members livting in the home, however, they smav ask that the company be “ found in violation of the zoning - ordinance. 5 A number of neighbors, who de- - sired that the cab com nan v be ■ excluded from the neighborhood/ and those interested in “the competing cab. company, appeared before the board of zoning appeals. The board had a difficult time in explaining that the matter was no longer before them, because the appeal had been withdrawn. The board explained that violations should be called to the attention of the enforcing authority. -

Judge Bierly Seeks State Nomination G. Remy Bierly Former appellate court Judge G. Remy Bierly, of the Decatur law firm of Bierly & Sullivan, announced today that he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the appellate court, second at the Democratic state convention this summer. Judge Bierly was elected to the appellate court in 1958, when Sen. R. Vance Hartke was elected, and served from 1959-62. He was noted for always attending to business, arriving at his office early, and staying late, and during his term of office he wrote a very large number of opinions for the court, and helped cut into the backlog of cases built up there. Close Race Judge Bierly was a candidate in 1960, and missed election by a very narrow margin of about 8,006 votes, less than 1 vote per precinct in the state. He led the ticket in Adams county. Since his retirement from the court Dec. 31, 1962, Judge Bierly has been engaged in the practice of law in Decatur- During his term of office he and Mrs. Bierly maintained a home here which they visited when possible, and also an apartment in Indianapolis. Active in civic affairs, Judge Bierly served as secretary of the local Lions club for several years, is a member of the Moose, Elks, and Knights of Columbus (Fourth Degree.) He is a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church. 1 Active Life Judge Bierly holds degrees from the Indiana State Normal school, now Indiana State College, and Indiana University. This training was followed by graduate courses at the University of Chicago. In addition to membership in the American bar association, he is a member of the Indiana state bar, the Indianapolis bar, and the Adams county bar association-. In 1960 he was admitted to practice before the U. S. supreme court. He is president of the Adams county bar association. Judge Bierly has been quite active in the county, district and state political circles, and has served as county chairman, three times in the state legislature represented four different counties, has served as circuit court clerk, and prosecuting attorney. j School Children To a Have Easter Holiday <* Classes in Decatur and Adams g county schools will resume TuesIl day morning following a brief Eas- <* ter vacation. The Decatur Catho- • lie schools closed this afternoon for „the vacation period, and the pub- - lie and other parochial schools “of the city and county will close --.Thursday afternoon. Classes will resume Tuseday in all schools. I 3 £ | Shopping Days ’til \ EASTER J j

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. H«E. Settlage, Salem United Church of Christ) “Higher Wisdom” Scripture Lesson: 1 Corinthians 3, 18-23 The truly wise are they who love, trust, and serve the crucified and risen Saviour. A Christian's supreme allegiance is to Christ, and the ideal church is a fellowship of believers whose first loyalty is to their Lord. Factions or divisions in the church occur when loyalty to Christ is replaced by loyalty to men. Ulis happened in the church at Corinth, and the above scripture text deals with this situation. Some people considered themselves followers of Paul; others, of Apollos; others, of Peter. In more recent centuries, Christian groups have claimed to be followers of certain great leaders, resulting in the existing divisions in the body of Christ. St. Paul instructs the church not to glory in men (ministers, leaders, or teachers) no matter how learned, eloquent, influential or capable they may be. They, like other Christians, belong to the church as servants of the Christian community. They can offer only what they have first received from God in Christ: they are instruments used of God for the nurture of believers. They are to exalt the wonderful Saviour whose servants they are. Our crucified Saviour delights in the attitude and spirit of John the Baptist who said of Jesus, “He must increase; I must decrease.” Fulbright Calls For New Policy Study

WASHINGTON (UPD —Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., called today for a new U. S. look at policies toward Cuba, Panama and Viet Nam. He said the American people should abandon “myths” for “realities” in their approach to the cold war. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the United States should negotiate revisions—in the Canal Zone treaty with Panama “even though a commitment to revise the treaty may be widely criticized at honfte.’-’ He also said the time had come to recognize that Fidel Castro’s Communist regime in Cuba is here to stay indefinitely as a “distasteful nuisance but not an intolerable danger.” — The administration has said time and again it would sit down with the (Panamanians to review the 1903 Canal Zone treaty, but only after diplomatic relations are resumed. President Johnson and his advisers have steadfastly refused to agree to any “revisions” of the treaty before such talks and before relations are reestablished. The administration also has sought to isolate Communist Cuba from the rest of the hemisphere and to choke its economy by persuading the United States’ Allies not to trade with the Fidel Castro government. Although Fulbright appeared to be bucking the administration line on the two Latin American hot spots, he rejected proposals for neutralization of South Viet Nam. Two Options In Viet Nam, he said, the “only two realistic options” are expanding the war to Communist - held territory or giving heavier support for the South Vietnamese regime. He favored the latter course, which is current administration announced policy. Fulbright’s views were contained in a major foreign policy speech prepared for Senate delivery. The address appeared almost certain to touch off repercussions in many quarters. He said the U. S. failure to persuade Allies from trading with the Communist bloc was a good reason for “relaxing our own restrictions.” But, he added, “there is a better one — the potential value of trade, a moderate volume of trade in _non -strategic items, as an instrument for reducing world tensions and strengthening the foundations of peace.” Fulbright said the Johnson administration should seek to end the Panama dispute by “stating positively and clearly that it is prepared to negotiate revisions in the Canal treaty and to submit such changes as are made to the Senate.” No Weakness He found “no weakness or dishonor” in such a position and said it would be “entirely proper and necessary for the United States to take the initiative in proposing new .arrangements that would redress some of Panama’s grievance against the treaty as it now stands.” Fulbright said the Vietnamese situation “poses a pressing need for a reevaluation of American policy.” But he said he could not see how negotiation for a possible: neutral nation would help, leav-< ing as “realistic options” only, expansion of the war “in one; (Continued on Page Six) I

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TWO SECTIONS Hugh David Mosser Seeks County Post Hugh David Mosser Hugh David Mosser, prominent Jefferson township farmer and former township trustee, announced today that he is a candidate for commissioner, third district, subject to the Republican primary May 5. Mosser’s announcement left only the treasurer, recorder, surveyor and coroner positions unfilled on the Republican county ballot, as well as the state representative slot. County Republican chairman Roy L. Price has been quite active contacting Republicans this spring to fill the ballot with good candidates, he pointed out, and suggested that fellow party members turn out this spring and show their support in the May 5 Republican primary. Township Trustee Mosser served two terms as Jefferson township trustee from 1951-58, is presently chairman of the Adams county soil and water conservation board, was formerly a member of the county extension committee and township representative on the county ASCS board. He is a director of the Adams county Farm Bureau Coop. A lifelong resident of Jefferson township, where he farms some 400 acres, 120 of which he owns, Mosser is a . dairy and grain farmer, milking 31 head ol Jerseys. He is married to the former Catherine Fields, and they have two children, Judy Kay, s senior at Geneva, and Ronnie Lee, a sophomore at the same high school. PTA President Presently Mosser is president of the Geneva PTA, and he is s former Jefferson PTA president County sports fans will remember him as the winner of the county tourney sportsmanship award in 1937. He is a graduate of Jefferson high school, where he lettered three years in basketball and also in softball. This is Mosser’s first candidacy for county office, although he has been quite active in a number of volunteer positions wll 1 . numerous county committees. Candidates for commissioner third district, must live withir £ the third, or southern, district « but are voted for by all the ! S county voters. Delmas (Mikel 'as Bollenbacher, also of Jefferso* township, is the Democratic in ■scumbent, and is unopposed so fai ! 2for the Democratic nominatioc Bfor a second term.