Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 78.

Revolt Against Brazil Government Grows; Ten States Oppose Goulart

State Revenue Over Estimate

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana’s anticipated 1963-65 revenue is s2l million more than the state figured six months ago, < but $23.3 million less than the budget created by the 1963 Legislature. This report was made today to Governor Welsh by Commissioner John Hatchett of the Indiana Department of Administration and the Indiana University Department of Governmental Research. “The new forecast is an improvement over the revised revenue predictions of last year,” Hatchett said, “but we still will suffer a significant loss of income.” Hatchett pointed out that the lawmakers were using revenue estimates made in April, 1963, and “since that time, several major events have acted to change that estimate.” Economy Strength Helps “Most important of these,” Hatchett continued, “was the Indiana Supreme Court’s decision upholding the sales tax, but decreeing'that there is no tax liability on sales of 24 cents or less and setting the effective date of the tax as of Oct. 23.” Hatchett and his advisors also pointed out another major event changing the estimate was “the current strength of the U.S. economy and the optimistic forecasts of future economic growth.” “The third factor is passage of the federal income tax reduction bill which fixes the amounts and timing of the reductions so that their effect on Indiana business can be computed,” Hatchett said. ■ ’.The new estimate for total state revenue for the 1963-65 biennium is $1,434,900,000, compared to the October, 1963, estimate of $1,413,800,000, and the figure of $1,458,200,000 which the Legislature was using. Less In Sales Tax On the sales tax, the estimated revenue for the two years beginning last July 1 was $186.5 million. This was $36.5 million less than the budget- g makers had counted on. The* main reason was the delay in - collection because of a judge’s

First Scout-O-Rama Here On April 25

Indians in their teepees, or attacking covered wagons, the smell of cooking flapjacks, soil and water projects, and dozens of other themes will ■thrill those who attend the first Limberlost district Scout-O-Rama at the Decatur youth center Saturday, April 25, district ticket salesman Earl Caston, of Decatur, announe~~ted today. Tickets will be passed out at the district round-table meeting at the First Baptist church in Bluffton tonight for the threecounty affair, the main moneyraising project for the local Scouts. More than 50 Boy Scout, Cub Scout an* Explorer posts from Adams, Wells, and Jay counties will take part in the gala eight-hour affair. Sates Start Thursday Ticket sales will undoubtedly start door-to-door Thursday as local scouts get their tickets to pell. The Scout-O-Rama will/ extend from 1 o. m. until 8 p. m.. with a thrilling parade through downtown Decatur at 4 p. m. From the sale of tickets at 50 cents each, a total of 25 cents will be retained by the pack, troop or post, and 25 cents will go toward the expenses of the Scout-O-Rama. 32 Units Already All booths are spoken for by the 32 units, but if other units still desire a booth, they will be crowded in. All seven Cub packs

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ruling the law was unconstitutional. The loss was greater but was offset somewhat by favorable economic conditions. The estimated revenue from adjusted gross income taxes for the same period presently is $224.4 million, an increase of $4.4 million over the budget estimates. The two-year revenue estimate from the corporate gross income tax now is $228.8 mil-, lion, an increase of SB.B million from the earlier estimate. Hatchett said that even though the new revenue picture is improved over six months ago, “this does not mean we can begin now to give the schools the full amount" of the legislative appropriation in state aid. *- Hatchett said most of the s2l million estimated gain in revenue will come in the second year of the biennium. He said it will be the last year of the biennium—the year beginning this July I—before the state will benefit -materially from the improved revenue picture. This is pointed up by the fact that the figures show the revenue for the first year of the biennium will be about s4l million less than the budget makers had figured, while the revenue for the second year will be about $lB million more than the estimates a year ago. Charles J. Miller Services Friday Funeral services for Charles J. Miller, who died Monday evening, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Friday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home after 7 p.m. today. Mr. Miller, retired G. E. employe, was a member of the Quarter Century club. The name of a sister. Mrs. Teresa Lichtle, of Mansfield, 0., was unintentionally omitted from the Hist of survivors Grandson of Mr. I Miller will serve as pallbearers, with the Fourth Degree K. C. as honorary pallbearers.

in Adams county, for example, have already signed up. In previous years the Scout-O-Rama has been held on a council basis in Fort Wayne. But this year, in an attempt to get more community interest, the presentation will be on a district basis. This will give more people a chance to see the fine shows presented by their local scouting units. Decatur Pack 3063 A good example of what can be expected is the western and Indian theme that Decatur Cub pack 3063, sponsored by the Northwest school--- PTA, plans; they will be competing with a Bluffton Cub pack that plans a similar theme. These Cubs have been working for weeks on their uniforms, with Mom’s help, of course. They will have a regular cowboy and Indian show, Ralph E. Smith, Jr., cubmaster, explained. The group will be split up by dens, and each den will have charge of the booth for a period of . time, with the den mothers assisting. Totem poles, tom toms, covered wagons, teepees, and other old west items will be used in the skits to be presented in the 8 bv 8 booth allotted to the pack. Other scouting units will present many other themes, each working on their own original ideas, developed in their own ways.

RIO DE JANEIRO (UPD — Fiery anti - Communist Gov. Carlos Lacerda of key Guanabara State, which includes the city of Rio de Janeiro, threw his weight today behind the growing rebellion against the leftist government of President Joao Goulart. With Lacerda’s support, the rebel movement claimed the backing of 10 of Brazil’s 22 states and the open support of two of its four armies. The Ist army, based in Rio, and the 3rd army, in Porto Alegre, supported Goulart. Considered Heavy Blow Lacerda’s support of the revolt movement, which started Tuesday in big Minas Gerais State, was considered a heavy blow to Goulart’s chances for survival in office. Lacerda has long been a power in Brazilian politics and his opposition in i 1961 led to the resignation of President Janio Quadros. In 1954, President Getulio Vargas committed suicide after Lacerda had accused him of master-minding an attempted assassination plot. The 2nd army, in Sao Paulo, 1 and the 4th army, in Pernambuco, backed the rebels. In Pernambuco, leftist Gov. Miguel Arraes was seeking to get army leaders to reverse their support of the rebel cause. (In Washington. totoWcitf re- , porta said four Brazilian-war-ships had put out to sea to keep from being order into action by Goulart. The navy was represented as being anti-Goulart.) j Minutes after Lacerda’s state- - ment, issued from the gov- ~ ernor’s office here only a short: run from Goulart’s palace, state troopers took up positions ; in Rio’s downtown movie district. ~ Stirs Political Capital Lacerda’s announcement, carried as a phoned interview to the rebel radio network based - in Belo Horizonte, electrified the nation. The city of Rio de Janeiro is to all ” practical purposes the political capital of the nation. Only the Ist army, based in Rio, has openly support Goulart in the present crisis. Lacerda, who has been holed up in his local palace behind sandbag barricades and guarded by tommygun-bearing state troopers, said he would remain there “for the time being” because of what he termed the presence in Rio of “Communistoriented federal troops.” The rebel radio immediately reassured Lacerda “we are with you and will protect you and Rio de Janeiro from the (Continued on Page Three)

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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Wednesday, April 1,1964.

INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight Partly cloudy and warmer Thursday, scattered showers likely south portion. Low tonight in the 30s. High Thursday 55 to 63. Sunset today 7:00 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 6:28 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Considerable cloudiness and continued mild with-scat-tered showers or thundershowers likely. Lows in the 40s. Highs upper 60s. . Water Pollution ' Survey Underway A comprehensive - water polyrtion survey of the Maumee river basin, which includes the St. Mary’s • river and its tributaries, is how underway because of the taste and odor problems in water dew nstream, Ohio health director- Dr. Emmett W. lias reported. The United States "public health service and Indiana department of health will participate in the project, he stated. It is known that Indiana department of health authorities have been checking on the St. Mary’s and it tributaries in Adams county during the past week. ! Take A Year * Some phases of the survey wil| , -.begin this summer, but the coin- . plete survey will take a year or -longer, so that seasonal viria--tions may be considered. 5 The river basin presents a Wum- - ber of special problems. 'These "3 include: £ 1. Periodic severe taste and odor 2 prbolems in water supplies taken the Maumee river. 5 2. Sudden fish kills, taking place Pin virtually all seasons: this has -been noticed in the St Mary’s “river at various times, too. 3. Frothing of the river at some points. " 4. A general disappearance of 1 certain species of fish in the lower Maumee basin. Decatur Is Safe Decatur was mandated a number of years ago to install a sewage treatment system, as have all larger cities in the basin area. The new action may eventually lead to a house-by-house system for all homes, rural or urban, and all factories, or other buildings, using the river or any of its tributaries. Soil in Adams county, composed of a high clay content, is noted for not being .able to filter water very well. This means that a more extensive sewer system is needed here by individual homes than septic tanks or filtration beds provide.

Dean Boltz To Head Decatur Optimists Dean Boltz Dean E. Boltz, an associate of the Zwick funeral home, has been elected president of the Decatur Optimist club for the ensuing year. He will take office July 1, succeeding Thomas N. Sefton, who has served for the past year. Other new officers are Maurice Teeple, first vice president; Dr. 'JBobert Irwin, second vice president; Lester Myers, secretarytreasurer. Boltz and his wife, Patricia, and three daughters reside at 510 East Monroe street. Boltz is a native of Fort Wayne, a graduate of Fort Wayne Central high school, and the Indiana College of Mortuary Science. He is a member of the Masonic Blue lodge and serves on the advisory board of the local DeMalay chapter. He is a member of the First Methodist church, which he serves as a director, and is also vice president of the Lincoln school PTA. TWO SECTIONS Pre-School Roundup For North Adams ■ Pre-school roundups for the school year 1964-65 for children in the North Adams community schools are scheduled as follows: Southeast school, April 7; 9 Monmouth school, April 9; and Northwest school, April 14. Children who will, be five years old on or before September 30 are eligible to enroll in kindergarten this fall. This is a change in enrollment date from previous yeans. Children planning on attending kindergarten at Northwest, Lincoln or Southeast school will attend either the Northwest or Southeast roundup according to where they live. Children living south of Monroe street and in Stratton Place addition win attend the Southeast roundup, Tuesday, April 7, at the school from 8 to 9 a.m. Children living north of Monroe street and in the rural area will attend the Northwest roundup, Tuesday, April 14 from 8 to 9 a m. Children in the Monmouth area will attend the roundup at the Monmouth school April 9, from 8 to 9 a m. • Each child will be given free examinations by local physicians, and should have a robe or large towel to wear for the examination. Person responsible for the ~Child at the roundup should bring a birth certificate, also have information available as to the diseases the child has had, and the year and number of shots given for immunization against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio and smallpox. "If you have a child to enroll this fall and do not attend either roundup, notify one of the principals of the elementary schools about your child so they can complete their plans for the coming school year,” school officials stated. I—, r--’

Higher Parcel Post ’ Rates In Effect New fourth class parcel post mail rates go into effect today “ all over the country, postmaster John Boch reminds Decatur and area people. , The country is divided into ; eight zones; local, 1&2, 3,4, 5, i 6,7, and 8. The cost of mailing i parcels of varying weights dis- j fers by both weight and zone. For example, under the new j rates, it will cost 29 cents to 1 mail a package that weighs 1 < to 2 pounds locally; the same package would cost 72 cents going to zone 8 from Decatur. Parcels up to 70 pounds are mailable, if combined length and girth does not exceed 84 inches. If the package weighs less than 10 pounds, it may measure up to 100 inches total length and girth, but then goes at the 10pound rate for the zone to which addressed. A 70-pound package costs $1.60 locally, or $12.26 to zone 8. Attend Meeting Postmaster John Boch and superintendent Clarence (John) Smith, of the Decatur post office, spent all day today at a Fort Wayne sectional center meeting on the zone improvement program. The program, known as ZIP, is an attempt by the post office department, over a long-range period, to improve postal serv- ' ice through automation and machine separation at large centers." This encompasses the use of a numbering system to augment the city and state presently written on letters. The program is an enlargement of the present 2-digit numbers for the larger cities. Decatur, for example, is 46733, the last two digits, 33, representing the Decatur post office. The program started at 9 this morning, and will terminate at 4 p.m. It was scheduled for the Fort Wayne Masonic building. City Receives Bid On Trash, Garbage The Decatur Sanitary Land Fill Co., through partners Edward and Larry Imel, entered a bid of SII,OOO a year, plus a jump of at least S3OO a year, or not less than $1 per person in * population increase ,to handle ' the city's garbage and trash problem. It was the only bid placed, Mayor Carl D. Gerber stated. The board of works is considering the offer, the mayor stated. _ Present Cost Higher 1 The board must also consider. the fact that it is presently cost-

mt XUVk —— —— ing the city about $13,734.76 to do the same thing. The pre- J sent dump site must be closed, .- as the dump is encroaching on * the water wells, which will be _ condemned if located too close ; to the dump. = Wages and insurance for the * two people now handling the; city dump and sewage at the disposal plant totaling $6,772.48 last year. It cost S3OO to periodically kill the rats, and $238 for the daily leveling operation. Then eight days with a caterpillar or 65 hours at $8 an hour cost $512, while two days on the road or 16 hours at sl2 an hour, cost $192. The maintenance and expense of the garbage disposal at the sewage plant was figured at $5,572.29, for a total of $13,734.76. . Allowed $6,800 The city had allowed an additional $6,800,’ based on a preliminary estimate of costs filed by (Continued oh Page Six) Continuance Os Rail Service Is Sought Members of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce have* indicated a strong interest in continuing passenger and mail operations of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad in Decatur, and a reasonable schedule for both. W. Guy Brown, secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce said today. Several Chamber members have already signified their interest in writing in, and explaining the need that Decatur has of rail passenger and mail service. Others will be encouraged to do so, if they feel that the service benefits them and the community. Brown stated that he will be, checking with members, buti those who desire to write in on their own should address their _ letters to W. G. Maxwell, Vicepresident for Operations and 7 Maintenance, Midland Building,, Cleveland. 15. O. Decatur has had excellent train" service from the Erie-Lackawan-• na, and is quite proud of it, Brown pointed out. It is a verys valuable asset when many pre-j fer train travel to tedious, tiring. driving in cities.

22 Policemen Are Indicted

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Sixteen of 22 Indianapolis police charged by a grand jury with accepting bribes to ignore a multi-million - dollar numbers racket today faced suspension from the force. The six others are retired, four of them Tuesday, only hours before the indictments ending a three-week prbbe by the jury were returned. The lid was blown off the alleged police protection scandal when federal agents last summer raided one headquarters of Isaac (Tuffy) Mitchell, who is serving a five-year term for income tax evasion, and found an adding machine tape noting names of police officers and sums ranging from $lO to SIOO. The officers, some with service covering 30 years, could be sentenced, upon conviction, to 2-14 year prison terms with fines ranging up to SI,OOO each. Marion County Prosecutor Noble Pearcy said he had exhausted all the leads the federal agents supplied him in connection with the alleged bribe taking. However, U.S. Dist. Atty. Richard Stein said while all of the people involved “were local, Mitchell had connections in other cities. There may be further investigation.” Mitchell Inherited Racket The numbers racket, which attracted low-wage earners to place nickel and dime bets in hopes of big payoffs, had been a fixture in the Hoosier capital for more than 25 years after Mitchell, 52, a Russian immigrant, reportedly inherited the business and made it flourish. All of the officers charged surrendered within hours of the return of the indictments and all were released without bond under orders of Criminal Court Judge Eugene M. Fife, Jr. Mitchell’s chief lieutenant, Van Wert Mullin, who was whisked to the federal penitentiary at Terre Haute six hours before the indictments were returned by the six-man jury to serve an 18-month income tax evasion sentence, was also indicted on bribery charges. The jury charged Mullin, who said he regretted that the officers were caught but hoped the * investigation would continue so

Radio Station To Open Here May 1

i After more than three years J of legal maneuvering through the • federal communications commission, Decatur is finally getting a 7 daytime AM radio station May 1, - to operate from one-half hour asE ter sunup to one-half hour before ] sundown, with a power of 250 “ watts, at 1540 kilocycles, with the call letters of WADM. The station will be absenteeoperated by employes of Alma, Mich., radio station WFYC, a 5,000 watt station which started operations Aug. 17, 1948. Wayne G. Harris is the president of the parent corporation; Gilbert E. Thomas is general manager; and David W. Sommerville is station manager of the Alma station which operates on 1280 kilocycles at the city located on highway 27 40 miles north of Lansing in Gratiot county, Mich. It is a city of 8,978 population. Downtown Studio The station, which planned originally to open last fall, then this spring, then April 1, now has a target date of May 1. The downtown studio will be located in the Decatur Baking Co. building, owned by Effie Brodbeck and adjacent to the Decatur Chamber of Commerce office, at 229 N. 2nd. street. Approximately four small soundproof rooms are now under construction at the downtown location, which will be §ome distance from the tower site. Local workmen -have been remodeling the office for several weeks. Dr. Archbold’s dental office was formerly located at the same site. Nondirectional Station f The station will be nondirectional: that as, it will generate equally in all directions front! Decatur. „ Its power, 250 watts, is the lowest granted a license. It compares with WANE’S 1,000 watts directional daytime, and 250 nondirectional at night; WGL’s 1,000 watts ” directional day and night; WKJG’s -5,000 watts directional; and ~ WOWO’s 50,000 watts nondirec- - tional day, directional at night; “WHLT, Huntington, 500 watts .directional daytime. - "Bhe daytime designation means s that the hours of the station may £vary from summer to winter; in « the summer it will be able to ~ broadcast much longer hours,

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as to include "some big people in town,” with one count of bribery and he was named on each of the other indictments as being the payoff contact or "bagman.” 3 Per Cent Os Force The 22 officers, including one captain, seven lieutenants, 11 sergeants and three patrolmen, represent almost 3 per cent of the entire force ot more than 900 men. Four of those indicted were permitted to retire before the indictments against them were returned so as to preserve their pensions. ’ They were Cap*. Laurence Gigerich, Lt. Osa Woodall and Sgts. Wilbert Gruner and Robert Stiegelmyer. Two other already retired officers, Lt. Francis Dux and Sgt. Charles Schaubhut, also were indicted. Other police officers indicted were: Lts. Donald Burkert, Paul Pearsey, David Jeter, Oscar Donahue and James Mullins; Thomas Carr, George Corydon, Jack Herman, William Hyneman, Salvatore Rene, James Brentin, Robert Alkire, and Vincent Gatto; Gatto’s brother, Patrolman Rosario Gatto, and two other patrolmen, Albert Sheridan and Joseph White. Police Chief Weeps Chief Noel Jones, whose face was tear-stained when he held a news conference, said all were relieved of duty immediately Tuesday and ordered to stay home until formal charges could be drafted today. He said they would then be required to turn in their badges, weapons and credentials while awaiting hearings before a police board later this week, probably Thursday or Friday, and Board of Safety action next week. Mayor John J. Barton, former superintendent of the Indiana State Police who campaigned on a platform of putting the police force in shape, urged public compassion by saying: “I hope the general public will reserve judgment until all the facts are in and the men are tried. The fact these men are indicted does not mean they are guilty.” “Surely," Barton said. If (Continued on Page 3)

X. • from about 5 am. until 7 pm. in early summer. But by December, it will not be able to broadcast until after 8 a.m. and will be off the air before 4 p.m. In late 1960 the federal communication commission, which regulates and licenses all radio stations, opened up certain frequencies, including the 1520-40 range, ’for licensing for daytime stations. By the time that the frequencies “closed,” there were four applications for the 1520-1540 range that overlapped in area. Four Applications The stations applying were Community Service Broadcasters, of Ypsilanti, Mich., to be operated on 1520 kcs; Robert R. Growth, Eugene A. Robinson, and Rev. Lawrence Kenneth Zank, doing business as Downriver Broadcasting Association, Napoleon, 0., to be operated on 1540 kcs; Andrew E. Mercier, Thomas P. Moore, and Orville J. Sather doing business as Crawford County Broadcasting Co., Bucyrus, 0., to be operated on 1540 kcs; and Airon, Inc., Decatur, Ind., to be operated on 1540 KCS. Airon, Inc., was represented locally by R .J. Henry, of route 2, Roanoke, and by two silent members of the corporation in St. Louis, Mo. The company was founded solely to obtain a broadcasting permit, and never intended to operate the station. At that time several local groups dickered for the station interest. March 5, 1982, the FCC held a public hearing on which of the four above places and corporations would get the station, as advertised in the Decatur Daily Democrat on Dec. 14, 1961. Formation of Airon, Inc., had already been announced in the newspaper. Decatar Wins After the hearing, it was finally announced that Airon, Inc., the Decatur station, had won the franchise. They were given 90 days in which to start construction; this period passed, and they were given an extension, another, and another. Finally, on June 14, 1963, Robert Coleman, of St Louis, Mo., and Ralph JerreU Henry, of route 2, Roanoke, sold their interest in Airon and WADM (Continued op Page Three)