Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 75, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 75.

Alaska Is Rocked By Violent Earthquake

Fire, Tidal Waves Rock Alaskan Cities In Wake Os Violent Earthquake

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. M. H. Nolin, Assembly of God) “An Open Door with Christ” Jn. 10:1-10 There is only one way into this heavenly kingdom, and that is through the door, and that door is Christ. We have access to this door by faith, believing that Christ is our Savior, through the application of His precious blood to our hearts, which has transforming power. Jesus describes it as a spiritual birth. Ye must be bom again, He said. Do not gain entrance by our good deeds Or by church membership or by our own righteousness, trying to get in through these methods makes us thieves or robbers. Only through Christ can we enter into this kingdom. In those days sheep were kept in rock walled enclosures to protect at night from all sorts of marauders under the protecting care of a porter, and a stranger was.pot permitted in this enclosure, and the sheep feared strangers. Typical of the Holy Spirit today who cares for the sheep in the absence of the shepherd, protecting them from the destroyer. The hireling careth not for the sheep but the shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. The hireling desires to fleece the sheep, the shepherd directs them through the open door that leads to everlasting life, where, there with Christ they enjoy everlasting peace and joy-

Civil Rights Debate Monday

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The! Senate chamer is empty and; silent today. The members are' scattered throughout the nation; for a brief, quiet Easter week- 1 end before the civil rights storm breaks. The historic bill comes up for formal debate at noon Monday. But senators were given a taste of the filibuster to come when it took 16 days of extended debate before a vote could be taken on a simple motion to call up the measure. Supporters of the bill plan to take a full week to marshal thteir arguments for the farreaching measure, which would ban racial discrimination in voting, employment, unions, education, public accommodations and use of federal funds. The House approved the measure Feb. 10 by a vote of 290 to 130. Senate Democratic Whip Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn., sums up the supporters’ arguments this way: Repair Os Monroe Crossing Complete Repair of the Pennsylvania railroad crossing has been completed, and traffic is once again open on Monroe street, police chief Grover Odle said this morning. Monroe street was opened Friday for the first time in over two weeks. Odle said the traffic lights are not yet in working order, but are Expected to be restored sometime Monday. The light on the northeast corner of Monroe and Fifth streets was knocked down by a semitrailer truck last week and the control box for the four lights was located on that pole. The lights were covered and stop signs erected on both sides of Fifth street at the intersection. Odle said that state highway crews expect to put the lights in working order again Monday, at which time the stop signs will be taken down. Odle expressed the thanks and appreciation of the police department to persons living on Fifth street and Nuttman Ave., where no parking was put into effect during the detouring, and also to local and area motorists for their cooperation.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

I “The time has come for the American people to face up to one simple question: Are we as = a nation now ready to guaran--1 tee equal protection of the laws as declared in our Constitution to every American regardless of his race, his color or his creed? To me, passage of this civil rights bill is the great moral challenge of our time.” Sen. Richard B. Russell, DGa„ the 66-year-old commander of the southern opposition, has promised an all-out battle against the measure because: “This bill. . .deals with every aspect of man’s relations to man, whether social, economic, or political. It would vitally affect the right of American citizens to choose their own associates. It would prescribe the manner in which they should be permitted to exercise dominion over private property acquired by honest toil.. .if the bill should be passed it would drastically change our entire system. It would turn our social order upside down. It would , have a tremendous impact on what we have called, in happier times, the American way of Life.” — • Humphrey has said he expects the rights struggle to run at least until mid May. He said the bipartisan leadership group steering the bill is “programmed” on a daily basis up to May ..16, Russell will not estimate how long the fight will last. Burgess Funeral Services Sunday Lewis P. Burgess, 75, owner of the Burgess funeral home at North Manchester, died suddenly late Thursday night. ; A former resident of Bluffton, i Mr, Bdrgess had lived in North : Manchester for 30 years. Survivors include his wife, the former Chella Schooley; one daughter, Mrs. Paul Faucett of North Manchester route 2; a foster daughter. Mrs. William Griffiths ,of Decatur route 2; two brothers and four grandchildren. Funeral rites will be held at 2 p. m- Sunday at the Church of a the Brethren in North Manchester. Burial will be in the Stahl cemetery, near Bluffton. Friends may call at the funeral home until 12 noon Sunday, when the body J will be removed to the church. |

BULLETIN ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) — Official estimates admittedly based on skimpy information, said today that the death toll in Friday night’s earthquake might be as high as 600 persons. FAIRBANKS, Alaska (UPD— Fire and tidal waves ravaged Alaskan cities today in the wake of Friday night’s violent earthquake, one of the most powerful ever recorded. The office of Gov. William A. Egan in Juneau said estimates of dead ranged from 50 to 300. The rumbling temblor joltrtl the state at 5=45 p.m. (10:45 p.m. EST) while shoppers still crowded Anchorage stores. In Anchorage streets rippled like ocean waves, . business buildings and homes collapsed and thousands of persons fled outside in freezing weather. Smaller shocks continued today while fires blazed in coastal cities struck by tidal waves. Tidal waves also sped thousands of miles to Hawaii and Japan, to the mainland West Coast as far as Southern California, and into the Gulf of Mexico. Egan asked President Lyndon Johnson to declare Alaska a disaster area and said damage might amount to $250 million. The President was awakened at Johnson City, Tex., to be informed of the quake and asked aides to keep him up to date. Anchorage Hardest Hit Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city with a population of about 100,000, was hardest hit along in the interior was shaken but had little or no damage. Civil defense officials in Anchorage said at least six persons were killed in Anchorage and “possibly 10 times that many.” A military official told Egan "I can’t see how we can help but find many more casualties after daybreak.” The quake ripped huge cracks in Anchorage streets, some four to six feet wide, which along with falling debris from collapsed buildings made them practically impalpable. Sen. E. L. Bartlett, D-Alas-ka, said in Washington that the military commander in Alaska, Lt. Gen. Raymond J. Reeves, told him that 90 per cent of a seven block section on downtown L Street “was gone.” He said Reeves “confirmed” earlier reports that about 50 homes in the expensive Turnagain suburb of Anchorage crashed down a bluff. Waves Hit Kodiak Two tidal waves struck Kodiak, the general said, and the town was “substantially demolished.” Reeves, stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base, told Bartlett : “I was literally glued to my chair in the second floor living quarters. I could not move. It lasted six minutes. Everything in the house that was breakable did break.” An amateur operator in a radio-equipped automobile reported from Anchorage, at the moment the quake struck: “Oh my God what is happening. The streets are rippling like an ocean wave. Cars are rolling ...” Then the voice faded. / The front of the J. C. Penney store, five stories high and half a block long, collapsed into the street. The store was still open when the quake struck and it was feared victims would be found in the debris. Normal communications with Alaska were knocked out but military authorities reported necessary channels open, and said their air raid warning defense systems were operating. Light Turned Back The Air Force and civilian (Continued on Page Six)

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Debate founts On U.S. Cuban Policy

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The debate over the effectiveness of the United States’ Cuban policy mounted today with Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s entry into the lists against Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark. In a major Senate speech earlier this week, Fulbright, who is chairman of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Fidel Castro was a “distasteful nuisance but not an intolerable danger” to the United States. Rusk, who rejected Fulbright’s contention that the ad* (ministration’s policy of boycotting Cuba economically is a failure, told a news conference Friday that “Castro is more than a nuisance. He is a threat to-thus hemisphere.” Rusk said the Johnson administration will neither trade nor conduct “normal relations” with Cuba as long as it maintains its “military and political” ties with Moscow and. continues efforts “to interfere in the affairs of other countries

Hawaii Undamaged From Tidal Waves HONOLULU (UPI) — Tidal waves launched by Friday night’s disastrous Alaskan quake forced evacuatiqn of 300,000 Hawaii residents but did practically no damage to the islands. The first of a series of tidal waves reached the outer islands at 10 ; 42 a.m. HST Friday night (3:42 a.m. Saturday EST) and 10 waves swept gently across the islands during the next two hours. Maximum height reported for any of them was eight feet. Coaist Guard officials here described the waves action as “more like a running tide rather than a typical tidal wave.” The only place reporting extensive flooding was Kahulyii, a town of 5,000, on the island of Maui. Waters moved about onequarter mile inland there. No injuries were reported anywhere on the islands. The siren alert was sounded at 9 p.m. HST (2 a.m. Saturday EST) and Gov. John A. Burns went on radio and televisjpn to urge residents of lowland areas to head for high ground. Two shifts of police worked simultaneously to clear out residents, who showed no panic. On the contrary, police reported that the greatest danger came from sightseers who wanted to stay in beach areas to see the wave. To add to police problems, this has been a four-day holiday in Hawaii and fishing aieas have been packed. Major hotels at Waikiki started moving guests to the upper floors, closing down their bar and restaurant facilities. INDIANA WEATHER Snow diminishing to flurries early tonight. Colder tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and rather cold. Low tonight in the 20s. High Sunday upper 30s north, low 40s south. Outlook for Monday: Fair to partly cloudy and continued rather cold.

in this hemisphere.” The secretary specifically challenged Fulbright’s claim that U.S. efforts to persuade other countries to isolate Cuba economically have “been a failure.” Rusk argued that though this isolated has not been “complete” it has been “very substantial.” “ “There has been a very jfharp reduction in Cuba’s trade with the free world,” Rusk said “a very sharp reduction in free world shipping, a very sharp reduction in free world travel with Cuba . . . these are important in limiting Castro’s ability to. work mischief outside of his own frontiers ...” The administration also had to defend itself recently against Republican critics Who urge a more militant Cuba policy. Rusk, apparently with this in mind, said that the United States must “travel on a main highway of policy on which there are soft shoulders on either side.”

Three Youths Hurt In Accident Friday Three local youths suffered injuries in a two-car accident Friday at 2:30 p. m. on 13th street, just south of the Monroe street intersection. Terry L. Sieger, 16, of 327 Mercer Ave., driver of one auto, received a bruised right hand, while Terrill Stults, 16, 133 S. Fourth St., had a pinched nerve in his right leg. Scott Anderson, 16, of route 5, Decatur, suffered a “whip lash,’’ or neck injury. Both Stults and Anderson were passengers in the Sieger auto. Sieger and Stults were treated and released, while Anderson was held for observation. The mishap occurred as Sieger was southbound on 13th street, and a car driven by James C. Fletcher, Sr., 84-year-old' Fort Wayne resident, pulled from a service station in front of the Sieger vehicle. Sieger's car, which received an estimated S3OO damage, struck the left rear of the Fletcher auto, which suffered S3O damages. Fletcher was arrested for failure to yield the right of way and cited into justice of the peace court. Two Others The city police investigated a pair of accidents that occurred a short time after midnight last night. At 12:12 a. m.,’ autos operated by Dennis Allen Huber, 17, of route 1, Poneto, and Guadulupe M. Serna, 21, of 946 N. 12th street, collided at the intersection of Monroe and 13th streets. Huber was westbound on Monroe and had stopped for the flashing caution light. He failed to see the Serna vehicle northbound on 13th and pulled out and struck the right side of the Serna car. Damages were estimated at S3O 51 to the Huber auto and SSO to the Serna car. Autos driveii by Brian Schindler, 18, of Berne, and Arnold N. Weidler. 40,i. route 1, Geneva, collided on Monroe street, near Third street, at 1:17 a. m. today. Both autos were westbound on Monroe, and as Weidler slowed to park, his vehicle was hit in the right rear by the Schindler car. Damages were estimated at S3OO to the 1964 model Schindler car and $75 to the Weidler auto.

Redouble Work In Red Cross Campaign As news of a terrible disaster in Alaska reached Adams county, all Red Cross rural solicitors were asked to redouble their efforts so that all help could be rushed to those injured or homeless, John B. Faurote. Red Cross fund, fund drive chairman, announced today. By 8 a.m. today the Adams county Red Cross chapter was busy trying to contact relatives of local people who were in Alaska. Halfway to Goal The fund drive crossed the halfway mark to the goal of $2,655, with more than $1,470.11 reported, as 28 more sections and one special donation were received. The St. Paul’s Ladies Aid Society of Preble gaye $5 to the The first sections were received from Jeffenson, with 10 sections being turned leaving only Wabash township to be heard from in the southern half of the county. There are 24 sections in Jefferson township. Reported were: Sec. 3, $1; Section 4, $2; Sec. 5, $6; Sec. 6, sl4; Mrs. Holman Egly, Sec. 9, $9 and Sec. 10, $4; Sec. 15, $4; Sec. 16, $3.50; Mrs. Hattie Brunner, Sec. 17 $4 and Sec. 18, $4. No names were returned with six of the 10 sections.' ' - ■- ' Eight From Blue Creek Eight more sections reported from Blue Creek township, which has now completed 17 of 24 sections. The latest reports were: Mrs. Bill Gaunt, Sec. 9, $8; Elisha Merriman, Sec. 10, $3.80; Ermil Shifferly, Sec. 16, $3.75; Mrs. Morris Riley, Sec. 17, sl3; Mrs. Ronald Byran, Sec. 7, $7; Mrs. John Burkhart, Sec. 20, $5.50; Junior Huser, Sec. 28, $2.50; Mrs. William Dague, Sec. 29, $4.25. With only a few days left in the month, no township has completed its drive; however, three more sections reported in Washington, bringing the total in that township to 23. Reporting were Kenneth Schwaller, Sec. 34, $3; Mrs. Ray Miller, Sec. 33A, $4.26; Roger Shoaf, Sec. 17, $5, 100%-. Preble Halfway Preble reached the halfway mark in reporting, with 12 of 24. New reports were: Kent L. Girod, Sec. 28, $10.50, 100%; Girard Bieberich, Sec. 34A, $4.50, 100% ; Edwin Reinking, Sec. 358, $lO, 100%'. Three more sections were reported in Root township, bringing the total to 8 of 36: Carl H. Heckman, Sec. 7, $8; Mrs. Lloyd Scherer, Sec. 8, $9, 100%; Mrs. Everett Singleton, Sec. 19, sls, 100%-. Mrs. Carl Hildebrand, collected $6 from Sec. 4, Kirkland township, bringing the number of sections reporting, to 11 of 24. Four Killed In Air Crash Near Auburn AUBURN, Ind. (UPD— Four persons were killed today when a small private plan piloted by a Michigan flying club member crashed on a farm near Auburn. Three of the victims were identified by sheriff’s officers as Willard Hershman, Jr., Adrian, Mich., the pilot; his wife, and Mrs. Doris Brown of Miami, Fla., sister of Mrs. Hershman. The fourth victim, a middleaged man, was not identified immediately but was believed to be Mrs. Brown’s former husband, W. „B. Brown, Miami, Sheriff Dorsie Likens of DeKalb County said. Likens said the single-engine plane, a Piper Cherokee owned by the Adrian Flying Club, nosed into, a field and bounced across a county road, scattering wreckage over a wide area. Hershman had been flying for about six years, Likens said he learned. The plane crashed on a flight "from Evansville, Ind., to Adrian. One of the Hershmans’ three children told authorities their parents flew to Evansville to pick up Mrs. Brown and take her to their home, presumably for an Easter visit. Cause crash was not determined immediately. The plane fell on the Samuel Hood farm ab6ut 12 miles southeast of Auburn, not far from the, Ohio state line. /

West Coast Is Hit By Waves

SAN FRANCISCO (UPD—The tidal wave spawned by the Alaska earthquake struck the West Coast early today, causing two deaths and leaving Crescent City, Calif., paralyzed by flood and fire. Waves were reported from six to 12 feet high by Coast Guard stations from Washington to Southern California. A series of waves flooded Crescent City streets, knocked out power, and started fires which eventually caused five oil tanks to blow up. The fire raged through the downtown Mrs. Wilson Weiland Dies This Morning Mrs. Helen M. Weiland, 49, of Decatur route 3, five miles northeast of Decatur on state road 101, died at 12:40 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill since November of 1962, and hospitalized for the past two weeks. She was born in Root township July 4, 1914, a daughter of August and ' Mary Franke-Busick, and was married to Wilson C. F. Weiland July 20, 1935. Mrs. Weiland was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran church, the Ladiesi Aid, Berea society, and the church choir. Surviving in addition to her husband are four sons, Robert A. Weiland of Fort Wayne, and Lynford A.. Richard W.. and David L. Weiland, all at home; top grandchildren, , and three sisters, Mrs. William (Della) Anmann of Decatur route 1, Mrs. Oscar (Esther) Christfaner of Decatur route 3, and Mrs.*Lloyd Ktoss of Decatur route 1. One brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Zwick furieral home and at 2 p. m. at the Immanuel Lutheran church. The Rev. W. C. Vetter will officiate, and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services. .

Will Decide Monday On Wallace, Stassen

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The bipartisan Indiana Election Board ’ scheduled a crucial meeting Monday afternoon at which it will decide whether Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and ex-Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota can run in the Hoosier presidential primary. A state police handwriting expert, assigned by Governor Welsh, chairman of the Election Board, will report on the validity of signatures on the Wallace and Stassen petitions and also on those of two other minor candidates who filed for the May 5 Indiana presidential preference balloting. Jack New, Welsh’s administrative assistant, indicated that Wallace, whose intended entrance in the Democratic race could have stirred a civil rights controversy, would have less than the 500 valid signatures of registered Indiana voters when the checking is complete. Others Checked New said a lesser number of invalid signatures has been found on the petition of Stassen to enter the Republican race against Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. New commented that “the Stassen petition appears fairly legitimate.” In addition to the Wallace and Stassen petitions, the board at a Friday session delayed approval of the Democratic primary petitions of Lar (America First) Daly, a perennial of-fice-seeker, and John Hugh Latham, a political unknown. The board flatly rejected the Democratic presidential petition of Mrs. Faye Carpenter Swain, Greenhill, Ohio, as “obviously not meeting the requirements.” The board approved the petitions of Welsh and Goldwater and indicated it would approve that of Frank Beckwith, an Indianapolis Negro attorney seeking to join Goldwater and Stassen in the GOP presidential field. Welsh filed in the Democratic primary as a “favorite

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business section before firemen could partially contain it. One unidentified body had been recovered and five people were presumed drowned, according to Sheriff Oswald Hovgaard. He said the deathtoll might be even higher at Crescent City. A separate tragedy took place at Beverly State Park near Depot Bay, sOre., where a wave swept across a family of six from Tacoma, Wash., sleeping on the beach. One of the children was drowned, three are missing and the mother. Mrs. McKinsey, was reported in shock. She waa unable to give her first name. At Gold Coast. Ore., the waves ripped out docks and shattered small boats on the Rogue River. Three homes were flooded at nearby Winchuck, Ore. Urgent Appeal Made For Blood Donors An urgem plea for 11 persons with A negative blood type to give blood specially at 1 p.m. April 14 to help a Berne area youth who will undergo open-heart surgery the next morning was made today by the Adams county Red Cross. Anyone who can give will be scheduled to give the blood at 1 p.m. at the Fort Wayne chapter headquarters. The blood will be specially processed and flown |.to the Robert Long hospital, in Indianapolis, where 22-year-old Amos J. Schwartz, of Berne route one, win undergo the operation the morning of April 15. This is the first time than an Adams county open-heart patient has been allowed to fly the blood down, rather than have all of the donors go to Indianapolis, and stand by. Anyone who can be scheduled at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, and who has A negative blood, is requested to call Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, 3-3106, Monday morning after 9 o’clock.

son” to block Wallace’s move for the Indiana delegate votes. A Wallace aide said in Milwaukee, Wis., where the Alabama governor was campaigning, that the board’s action indicated that "we’ve really got them (the Welsh camp) shook.” Bill Jones, the governor’s news secretary, said, “So far as Governor Wallace is concerned, the petitions are in order. Governor Wallace is perfectly willing for the people of Indiana to make their decision about his candidacy at the May 5 primary.” Daly To Appear Daly said in Chicago that he would “personally verify” the signatures on his petition and that he would come here for Monday’s meeting. Meanwhile, copies of the petitions were rushed to the clerks of the nine counties in which the bulk of the questioned signatures originated. The clerks were asked to check the names against voter registration lists and to report any discrepancies. The clerks were asked to make their reports to the board in person Monday . Counties involved are Marion, Lake, Jasper, Porter, Parke, Clay, Vermillion, Putnam and Vigo. A hasty check was necessary because the names of candidates for the primaries must be certified’ to county clerks by Monday. The dispute brought a prediction from James Noland, a Democratic member of the Election Board, that the 1965 Legislature would amend the state’s presidential primary law to “prevent what should be a serious business from becoming a farce.” He said the number of signatures required to enter the primary might be increased to as many as 2,000 and that signers be required to state their party affiliations. - •