Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 74.

Soviet Union Releases qjur af* * Two Captive Air Force Fliers After 17 Days

Christians Observe Suffering On Cross

By United Press International “There was darkness over the whole land.” St. Mark 15:33 Christians across the nation gathered in churches today to commemorate the suffering of Christ open the cross. Singly and in families, in whitewashed hilltop churches and in cathedrals carved from the stone and concrete of big cities, they came to relive the agony of the Crucifixion. Most churches scheduled three-hour midday services in remembrance of the time nearly 2,000 years ago when hope was plunged into the heart of darkness. Others opened their doors throughout the day and thousands of faithful kept a quiet vigil of prayer and meditation. Stark reminders of the first Good Friday — rough -hewn crosses bound in place by rope —were erected on the lawns of » three Chicago-area cemeteries. A tattered linen shroud fluttered from the crossbars to symbolize the scene in the shadow of Calvary. No masses were celebrated in Roman Catholic Churches today but many Catholics began the Larry K. Vizard In Representative Race Larry K. Vizard Larry K. Vizard, son of county school superintendent and Mrs. Gerald W. Vizard, announced this morning he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for state representative this May. In making the announcement today, Vizard said he had filed his declaration of candidacy in Indianapolis and in the county clerk’s office Thursday. Vizard will oppose current representative Burl Johnson for the Democratic nomination to the state representative post. Decatur Grad Vizard was oom and raised in Adams county and graduated from Decatur high school in 1954. He is 28 years of age, an<j resides on route 3, Decatur, with his wife, Lucy, and their three sons. A veteran of four years with the United States ’ Air Force, Vizard was well-traveled during his tour of duty, being stationed in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and Japan, among other places. Higher Education Since his graduation from Decatur high school, Vizard has attended Indiana University. San Bernadino college in California and Ball State Teachers College, Muncie. This is Vizard’s first venture into running for public office, but he has been well-versed in politics and promises an active campaign.

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traditional period of devotion which extends to Eastern morning. Young adults of Angelica in Los Angeles prepared for a continuous prayer vigil from 3 p.m., until 830 a.m., Sunday. Most churches —Catholic and Protestant — scheduled special Good Friday services from noon until 3 p.m. Major securities and commodity exchanges in the United States and Canada were closed today. Banks in some cities were also closed and many businesses offered employes time off to attend church services. The commemoration of the last Supper was marked by Christians Thursday night. Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York offered Pontifical Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and blessed holy oils used throughout the year. Jews begin their annual celebration of the Passover at sundown today, offering praise to God for the deliverance of the children of Israel from bondage in ancient Egypt. The Passover is one of the world’s oldest religious holidays, having been commemorated for more than 3,000 years. New Corydon Area To Dial Service Employes of the Citizens Telephone company have completed the switchover of subscribers in the New Corydon area to dial service from the Bryant exchange of the Citizens system. Comple- ! tion of the change was announced today by representatives of the company, who also stated that a substantial number of the subscribers in the Bryant exchange have been assigned new telephone numbers as a result of line rearrangements. With the advent of dial service I from the Bryant exchange, the old magneto switchboard of the New Corydon exchange was closed down and the New Corydon area, as a telephone exchange, ceased to exist. Telephone service was supplied for many years, on a magneto or “crank-’em-up’’ basis, by the New Corydon Telephone company which consisted of a group of rural lines operating on a mutual basis and using one small switchboard located in a home in New Corydon. , The facilities were sold, by the New Corydon group, to the Citizens Telephone company and the switch-over, to dial service from the Bryant exchange represents many months Jf plant construc--1 tion and telephone installations ' on the part of the employes of the Citizens company. New Corydon represents the ’ third area to be converted to dial service .within a short period of ! time by the Citizens system. The Tocsin area and the Preble area were also converted to a new dial system during the latter i part of 1963, and the Citizens sysI tern now serves the areas at Argos, Berne, ~ Bryant, Decatur, T.inn Grove, Monroe, Nappanee, i Pleasant Mills, Preble, and Tocson, with a grand total in excess of 11,400 stations in service. INDIANA WEATHER f - I I Cloudy and cold tonight and Saturday with occasional light snow likely. Low tonight 18 to 23. High Saturday mid 30s. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and colder with snow flurries near Lake Michigan. i Highway Commission Does Not Pay Fees INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The ■ Indiana State Highway Commis- ’ sion does not have to pay fees to. county recorders for filing • < right-of-way and easement deJ scriptions.

HELMSTEDT, Germany (UPD — The Soviet Union today released two captive U.S. Air Force fliers, West German police said. The two fliers, whose R 866 jet reconnaissance bomber was shot down March 10 after strayinto East German skies, sweeping homeward through this East-West German border checkpoint after 17 days in Russian hands. Hie Soviets released the pair this Good Friday—and a third crewman set free last Saturday —after Washington warned the Kremlin continued captivity would “jeopardize’’ improvement of U.S.-Soviet relations. Capts. David I. Holland, 35, of Holland, Minn., nd Melvin J. Kessler, 30, of Philadelphia, wore grim expressions when their U.S. Army sedan sped into West Germany. A West German police car—i its siren screaming—led the fliers’ automobile toward Hannover, where a U.S. Air Force DC4 four-engine transport awaited them. Off In Style The Russians saw their captives away in style. A Soviet Red Army officer with a detail of troops smartly saluted the Americans’ sedan when it came roaring out of East Germany and into West Germany. •nly very rarely in recent years have Soviet troops appeared at the Communist Marienborn checkpoint opposite Helmstedt. The U.S. Army sedan entered Western territory at 257 p.m. (8:57 a.m. EST) from the comparatively vacant East East German autobahn and zipped into massive holiday traffic on the Western side. The two fliers, despite their grim — almost frowning — expressions, did not appear to be injured. Injured Flier Returned The captains parachuted from the RB66' when it was shot down after verring off course on what the United States called a “routine training flight” and the Communists labelled “a spy flight.” The third member of the crew already returned West—--Ist Lt. Harold W. Welch, 24, of Detroit — suffered a broken arm and leg when his parachute slammed him into a tree. The Communists had decorated their border checkpoint with Red banners that fluttered under a graf cloudy sky. Communist loud speakers blared martial oom-pah-pah music. Holland and Kessler paid no attention. They kept their eyes facing West as their Army sedan left Communist territory. More than 30 minutes after the captured captains passed into freedom, U.S. Army European Headquarters at Heidelberg and U.S. Air Force European Headquarters at Wiesbaden declined to confirm their return. They appeared to be awaiting a White House announcement. Earlier, U-S. officials had announced the release of an American woman from an East German prison. A U.S. spokesman said the woman, Gabriele Hammerstein, of New York City, was freed after more than two years in prison and flown to tfye United States late Thursday. She was ■arrested in East Berlin in January, 1962, and sentenced to six years in prison on charges the Coipmunists have never disclosed. Military officials said the two Air Force officers could be freed at any time today. They indicated the first word of their release might come from President Johnson's Easter vacation White House in Johnson City, Tex. Strayed Across Border The airmen, Capt. David I. Holland, 35, of Holland, Minn., and Capt. Melvin Kessler, 30, of Philadelphia, were shot down over East Germany March 10 when their R 866 bomber strayed across the border. A third crewman, injured in parachuting from the plane, was (Continued on Page Eight)

Decatur, Indiana, 46733 £ Friday, March 27, 1964.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. F. P. Miller, Decatur Evangelical United Brethren Church) - Galatians 2:14-21 Text: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.” Gal. 2:20. Alex Waugh, the English author, said that the most inspiring words he had ever read were written by his father sixty years before: “High failure towering o’er low success.” That is to say, failure in pursuit of some high goal is more to be desired than success in small endeavors. Said Waugh: “Too often we are tempted by the effortless and easy thing. At such moments raise your sights, think big, attempt something difficult even if you do not quite bring it off.” Holy Week is a good time to look at our goals. Too often our goals are within our reach. To be pitied is the person who dreams no dreams, who lifts his eyes to no distant hills. We dare not turn away from some high goal because of possible failures and tribulations. We are afraid of our crosses. But God calls forever onward and upward. It is not our achievements that count so much as the directions we face. The absence of struggle is no door to happiness. Unless we demand - of ourselves more than we can deliver. life goes stale and flat. Utus, “the life I now live ... I live by faith in the Son of God” is always a life that calls us to carry our crosses and to struggle for that which is best and the highest.

105 Prospective D.H.S. Graduates

The Decatur high school, for the first time in the school’s history, has more than 100 prospective graduates at the annual commencement exercises in May. Hugh J. Andrews, high school principal, in announcing the names of 'lO5 candidates for diplomas, pointed out that this is the largest graduating class in the school’s history. The commencement program and speaker will be announced at a later date. The 105 candidates for diplomas are as follows: Roberta Jean Aeschliman, Maurice Rolli Alexander, Martin Pontius Alexander, Ann Townsend Allwein, Thomas Dean Arnold, Steven Lee Bailey, David Leon Baker, Sammy Lee Baumann, Joe Henry Baumgartner, Larry Gene Baumgartner, Thomas Allen Baxter, Judith Kay Beard, John Frederick Beeler, Donna Lee Birch, Polly Ann Bonifas, John Robert Bookout, Kay Elizabeth Bowman, Lois Arlene Brodbeck, Nora Lea Brown, Donna Lee Burk, Jane Merryman Burk. Amelia Canades, Elsita Canales, Estella Canales, • Thomas Alan Christen, Patricia Elaine Collins, Terry Kay Conrad, Carolyn Sue Cook, Margaret Emily Cook, Dennis Eugene Cookson, Mark Corral, Deborah Nanette Crider, John Patrick Custer, Karen Ann Daniels, Roger Dale Death, Richard Lee Doty, Sandra Darlene Dull, Daniel Lee Eyanson, Connie Jeanne Folk, Gerald Eugene Frauhiger, Janet Sue Fugate, Rita Colleen Gantz. Charlotte Ellen Gephart, Nancy Scott . Gerber, Carolyn Janice Gould, Jerry Blaine Gray, Sharon Kay Harden, Steven Thomas Hazelwood. Judith Mae Heare, Joseph Richard Hess, Stephen William Hess, Billie Jo Hullinger, Robert Rufus Jaurigue, Sandra Jayne Kay Jennings, Alan J. Kais'* £ 1 FwKiLQ -ft- ’ /I * I 1 4 I Shopping Daj ’til \ EASTER /

ver, Donnalu Kiess, Marilyn Boyd Knudsen, Margaret Emily Kocher, Gary Thomas Krueckeberg, Gregory Alan Ladd, Richard Lee Landrum, George Leßoy LaTurner, Bruce Devere Lautzenheiser. Deane Kent Lehman, Larry Lee Lehman, Cheryl Jeanne Lobsiger, Carolyn Odell Long. Carmen Mary Lopez, Craig Allan McEwan, Thomas Michael Macklin, Rebecca Sue Mauller, Floyd DeWayne Melchi, Carol Miller, Jane Eileen Mills, Susann Kay Morgan, Deedra Ann Murray, Ricardo Espinoza Ortiz, Shery Rose Price, Ronald Wayne Ray, Larry Karl Reinking, Nancy Sue Reynolds, Susan Kay Reynolds, Kenneth Glen Riffle, Carolyn Jean Roloff. Ronald Sheldon Rowland, Rebecca Ann Rumple, Judith Ann Rydell, Cheryl Lynne Sapp, Glenda Sue Scheiderer, Elizabeth Jane Schnepf. Sarah Ann Schnepf, Gary Duane Schultz, Lynn Allen Sheets, Peggy Ann Sheets, Stephen Frederick Sheets, Barbara Marie Singer, Pauline Smith, Suzanne Smith, Michael Dee Suman, Connie Sue Teeple, Alice Marie Thornton, Kenneth Paul Uhrick, Kathryn Pearl Weidler, David Allan Wynn, Manuel Ybarra. Races Develop For Adams Central Board ' Five of the seven districts electing members of the Adams Central school board of trustees in ! the May election will have races, 1 as three more candidates filed on > the final day. Robert F. Mutschler filed from i district 1’ Thursday and Richard L. Borne had previously filed . from the same district. Roy Balsiger filed for the board from district 2 and Gerald Tullis filed for district four, both on Thursday. Carl Fiechter had previously filed from district 2 and Martin Steiner had filed earlier from district 4. Two races had developed earlier. Clark W. Smith and Ellis V. Converse both filed from district 3, and Elisha O. Merriman and Harry Dale Raudenbush .had filed from district 6. Two Unopposed The only unopposed candidates are Harvey L. Jones from district 5 and Howard E. Habegger from district 7. Although a candidate must reside in the district in which he files, everyone in the Adams Central school district will vote for the seven board members. Here is the way the candidates line up: District 1— Borne and Mutschler; district 2 — Fiechter and Balsiger; district 3 — Smith and Converse! district 4 — Steiner and Tullis; district 5 — Jones; district 6 — Merriman and Raudenbush; district 7— Habegger.

Battles Develop On Precinct Posts A total of 16 precinct committeemen candidates were filed at 15 minutes before 9 o’clock Thursday night by Albert J. Anderson, of 145*4 S. Second St., in the county clerk’s office. Two of the candidates filed by Anderson filled vacant spots on the Democrat ticket. They were Fredrick W. Fuelling for precinct committeeman from E. Root, and Sherman Neuenchwander, from N. Wabash. The other 13 candidates and their precincts filed by Anderson are: Albert J. Anderson, Decatur 2-A; Norman L. Hart, 828 Dierkes St., 3-C; Warren D. Augsburger, route 2, Geneva, W. Jefferson; John Feasel, 439 Line St., 1- Richard L. Hendricks, 121 N. 15th., 2-C; Paul E. Kohne, route 4, Decatur. N. Washington; Clifford Roe, rotfte 1, Monroe; N. Blue Creek; Richard D. Green 803 Parkview Drive, 1-A. Mervin Stahl, 1216 Master Drive, Decatur - Root; Leoniel L. Davidson, W. Monroe St., 2- Vernon L. Krugh, route 4. Decatur, S. Washington; Lloyd Reef, 810 W. Monroe St. 3-B; (Continued on Page Eight) Robert Lane Enters In Auditor's Race SBC" -K Robert E. Lane Robert E. Lane, 52, of 521 S. 13th street, former Decatur businessman for more than two decades, and presently manager of Ouabache state recreation area, filed late Thursday as a candidate for Adams county auditor, subject to the May 5 primary. Lane, a registered voter in precinct 1-B, makes the auditor’s race a three-way contest in the Democratic primary; former county clerk and county treasurer Richard D. Lewton, and Blue Creek township farmer and advisory board member Claude Marckel, have already announced and filed for the position. On the Republican ticket, Lee Neuen, Berne merchant, has filed for auditor. Important Post The auditor maintains the county plat book records, for assessment and tax purposes, serves as clerk of the board of county commissioners, secretary of the county board of review, and clerk of the county council. He is responsible for all documents, books, records, maps and papers deposited in his office. A lifelong Democrat, Lane and his family have resided in Decatur for the last 23 years. A member of the Adams county Jefferson club, he is a former county chairman of the dollars for Democrats committee. Former Local Businessman For 17 years Lane owned or managed various Decatur retail businesses. He started in Decatur as a confectioner, where Wertzbergers is now located, and later went into the shoe business where the Decatur News Agency is located on the corner of Second and Monroe. Later he managed Blackwell's department store, now the Val-U. A high school graduate, Lane also attended the Anthony Wavne business college and Purdue University extension. Fort Wayne. As superintendent of the Ouabache state recreational area, he has gained a wide reputation as a public servant who tries to see that the public is fairlv, adequately and politelv served. Lane is married to the former Bertha Gibson, of Bryant, and is the father of three children, all of whom were graduated from Decatur high school before attending college. He is member “of the First Methodist church of Decatur and the Decatur Masonic lodge. Lane entered the Adams countv political scene as a candidate in 1958. when he ran for oountv assessor against Walter Koos in the Democratic primary, and came within 292 votes of defeating Koos, who was then running for a second term. Lane earned, the reputation of a strong campaigner during that election.

35 Candidates In Late Filing

Some 35 candidates waited until the final afternoon and evening before filing declarations of candidacy in the Adams county clerk’s office. Included among the last-minute filings were 15 candidates on another “Al Anderson slate.” Neither party filled its ticket for the primary election on the final day. Only one candidacy arrived in the mail this morning, but it is possible that more could arrive Saturday, which would be legal if they were postmarked Thursday, the final day to file. Neither party filed any candidates for county commissioner, second district, and no one filed for delegate to the Democratic state convention from district one. The rest of the Democrat ticket was filled. Republicans failed to file any primary candidates for surveyor, recorder or treasurer. Two Filled There were two vacancies among Democratic precinct committeemen until 8:45 o’clock last night when Anderson filed his candidates. Among them were Frederick W. Fuelling, for precinct committeeman from E. Root and Sherman NeuenschL. Luther Yager To Seek Nomination L. Luther Yager, well known Berne man, and a former state legislator, Thursday filed his candidacy for the Republican nomination as joint state representative from Adams and Wells counties, subject to the May 5 primary election. Yager, who resides on a farm west of Berne, served in the state house of representatives in the 1953, 1955 and 1957 sessions. i Yager, married and >the father of four daughters, is a member of the Berne United Church of Christ. The Berne man is the only Republican to have filed to date on the G. O. P. ticket for the state assembly post, barring any possible late filings by mail. Yager is seeking the post now held by Burl Johnson, Democrat of near Decatur. Johnson, who is seeking renomination, faces opposition in the primary, as Larry Vizard filed Thursday afternoon in the county clerk’s office. Two Are Appointed To Youth Committee Qave Anspaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Anspaugh, of Decatur, and Gregg Lehman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lehman, of Berne, have been appointed by Gov. Matthew E. Welsh to serve on the youth advisory committee to the Indiana youth council. __ More than 300 young people from throughout the state will meet in Indianapolis May 1 and 2 to discuss problems of interest —to youth and to make recommendation for thg Indiana youth council. The teenagers were selected on the basis of their leadership qualities and demonstrated interest in their fellow youth. Anspaugh, a Decatur high school student, is a member of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, member of Demolay, officer in church youth, has won two letters in each of football, basketball and track. Lehman has taken an active part in musical activities at the Berne high school, where he is a member of the band, the a capella choir, and the orchestra. He is vice president of the school orchestra, and is a member of the First Mennonite church. His participation at the conference of the youth council is made possible by the Berne Rotary culb. Committee Meets The Adams county youth advisory committee, meeting this week with Ferris Bower, chairman, discussed ways of financing the trip to the conference. Various fraternal and service organizations will assist in the finances, it was stated. The committee also named Willim Bauman, representing the Optimist club, as secretary, and Robert Worthman, of the Lions club, as treasurer. The committee will meet again April 14 to 'discuss additional . youth projects for the county. It is also planned to expand the committee to cover the entire county more thoroughly.

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wander from N. Wabash. Those were the final two precinct committeemen spots that were unfilled. Larry K. Vizard filed Thursday for state representative on the Democratic ticket, bringing about a race between Vizard and Burl Johnson, who is seeking renomination. Surveyor Candidate Herman Moellering, county surveyor, filed his candidacy for renomination on the Democratic ticket on the final day. Dr. E. Doan, son of former mayor John M. Doan, filed for the Republican coroner’s nomination on the final day. Five persons filed for Democratic precinct committeemen, other than those filed late Thursday night by Anderson. They were: David Vanhorn, Decatur 1B; Harold M. Johnson, DecaturRoot; James W. Tutewiler, Decatur, 3-C; Bernard Clark. Decatur 3-A; and David R. Habegger, Berne C. Fredrick D. Striker filed for delegate to the Democratic state convention from district 10. Republicans File In addition to Dr. Doan, several other Republican candidacies were filed on the final day. Filing for precinct committeemen were Keith D. Hammond, Decatur 1-B; Carl A. Nagel, Berne A; Thomas A. Miller, DecaturRoot; John A.' Mason, Berne D. Two persons filed for delegate to the Republican state convention, Richard K. Moses from district 1 and Menno I. Lehman, from district 7. L. Luther Yager of Berne filed his candidacy with the secretary of state in Indianapolis for the Republican nomination for state representative from Adams and Wells counties. Patrick Murphy’s candidacy for delegate to the Democratic convention from district 6 arrived in this morning’s mail. Authority On Water Is Rotary Speaker George H. Kiumb, of Northbrook, 111., and a recognized authority on water, told the Decatur Rotary club and its guests Thursday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center that although America is using more and more water each year it is still possible to reclaim much of it for repeated reuse if contaminates are removed. Kiumb began by explaining the importance of water. Next to air, it is the most important substance needed to sustain* life. Seventy per cent of the human body Is water, and about threefourths of the earth’s surface is covered with it Charts projected on the large screen showed the enormous increase in demand for water in recent and future decades. Industry, irrigation, and municipality use of water was shown. Water used in industry can often be reused but that used for irrigation is consumed. Three-fourths of all rainfall goes back into the air. One large .oak tree may evaporate 500 gallons of water per day. The speaker explained that water pollution makes it unfit for reuse unless treated. Twentyfive per cent of all sewage is put into streams in its raw state and an additional 31 per cent is given only primary treatment. Other common contaminants are detergents, pesticides, weed killers, insecticides and radioactive waste materials. Pictures of a sewage treatment plant with billowy foam and streams with their surfaces completely white with foam were shown. The speaker said that actually although these detergents caused visible pollution, other much more serious problems might be present but are not so easily seen. Just raising the temperature of water when used for cooling by industry may reduce dissolved oxygen and harm marine life. The speaker described some highly technical use of water in industry today which demands water of surgical quality. Underground sources of water are still tremendous, but even these sources may someday be contaminated. It takes nearly 100 years for surface water to find its way into these deep sources. .... Kiumb seemed confident that there is still much water available, but it must.be reused and it must be conditioned to remove contaminants. * Clarence Ziner was program chairman and several Culligan dealers in the area were present as guests. Several members of the Deca* 1 tur Optimist club were also present. . w