Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. NO. 90.

North Adams Board! Studies Pressing Expansion Needs

Offer 10 Subjects At Summer School The North Adams community schools summer school program will offer at least 10, and possibly 11 different subjects to more than 450 pupils, school superintendent Gail M. Grabill told the North Adams school board Tuesday night. Last summer 385 students attended summer school, and already 420 have signed up for courses. Many more are expected to sign up at the May 7 parents night, when the courses will be explained to all the parents. A basket special permit has bewi obtained from the state so that good students may carry both drivers training and typing I in summer school. Ordinarily, only one course is reimbursable by state aid money. Driver’s training is not offered during the winter, and must be taken during the summer if desired. Ten sections of drivers training, five in the morning and five in the afternoon, using five cars eight hours a day, are already anticipated for this summer. Os the 11 courses offered, only shorthand II has failed to produce enough interest to warrant hiring a teacher, Grabill said. More students may still sign up for it, he added. Ten Courses Sure . At least one section of the following will be offered: civicssociology, typing 1, physical science, speech, algebra I, biology, driver training, auto mechanics, remedial English, an elementary remedial reading for 4th to Bth graders. This is the first year that the 4th-Bth remedial reading program has been reimbursable —that is, the first year in which the state has paid the entire cost of the program. Ordinarily, class must run four hours a day in the summer program. However, the elementary classes will take into consideration the length of time that a young• child can concentrate on remedial reading, and each section will be scheduled lyAll of the high school courses will be taught at Decatur high school this year, and all of the elementary courses will be taught at Northwest elementary, Grabill stated. Mike Reynolds Is Award Nominee Sr. M. Julienne, C. S. A., principal of the Decatur Catholic high school, announced today that Mike Reynolds, a junior at the school, has been nominated for the annual achievement awards program, sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The nominee is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Reynolds, of South First street. For the seventh year, the council is conducting the national awards competition to grant recognition to outstanding high school seniors for excellence in English. The writing abilities literary awareness of each nominee will be judged bv local and state committees. NCTE will announce the winners in December, 1964. and will send their names to every U. S. college and ; university with the recommendation that these students be considered for scholarship assistance. According to James R. Sauire, executive secretary of NCTE. the achievement awards program is part of a comprehensive program undertaken bv the council in cooperation with American schools to encourage improvement in English language and literature at all grade levels. The council is also cooperating with Project English, a national program sponsored by the U.S. office of education for improving English instruction. By stimulating interest in English studies and by supportirie programs for improved instruction in English, the NCTE seeks to contribute to a national educational program of excellence.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

New High School, Monmouth School Addition Needed

The North Adams schools board, in a three-hourg session Tuesday night, voted rt unanimously to approach threeengineers on bids for remodeling Monmouth and adding a cafeteria building, and to draw plans for a new senior high school. The board was faced with the problem of the growing student body at Monmouth. A new class section must be added this coming year, and there is absolutely no room left for a new section. Therefore, the board considered, and delayed decision until a special meeting next week, on attempting to maintain the attendance districts as they are at present by crowding in the new section somewhere, rushing the Monmouth cafeteria project to completion, and using it temporarily with dividers as class space until a new senior high school is completed, or change the districts and allow 17 freshmen students •from Monmouth to come to Decatur high school, or bring the entire freshman year to high school. To Contact Architects The board f also instructed North Adams superintendent Gail Grabill to contact three architects, as suggested by board member Clarence Bultemeier, including Bradlev & Bradley, Martindale, and Hinbrecht, all Fort Wavne firms with whom Bultemeier has worked before. Grabill indicated that he would contact the firms immediately, he and Monmouth principal John McConaha would draw up the minimum needs for a crash program at Monmouth, and that he would ask the architects to be present at a special school board meeting next Tuesday night to get the information they will need for plans. Contour Map Needed The architects will also be asked to provide an engineer to draw a contour map of the 85-odd acres in Bellmont park owned by the school district, and to make proposals for a building there. The proposal discussed by most of the board members seemed to be a three-year senior high school, with sopohomore, junior and senior years. No details concerning a new high school have been decided as yet, the board stressed. The board will also decide next week on whether to ask for a cumulative building fund, how large a rate to ask for, and for how long a period the fund should run. The former Decatur fund had been set up at a 75 cent rate, for 10 years. This ran out two years ago. The Root township rate for Monmouth was 30 cents for six years. The law now allows a fund to be set up for 12 years, and Decatur already had a 12-year fund in operation when the new school district was created, and absorbed Decatur and Preble, Root, Union, and part of Adams Central. 75 Cent Rate Suggested Dr. James Burk suggested that the new rate for North Adams be 75 cents for 12 years, which at the present assessed valuation, Bultemeier figured, would raise $184,000 a year, or $2,208,000 over the proposed 12-year period. Dr; Burk explained that the rate was based on the proposed needs, as projected in the county school study. Grabill stated that the figures, over the past three years, have proven to be pretty accurate in general, and that the growth in the school district has at least equalled expectations. Surprised At Rate Bultemeier expressed some surprise at the suggestion of a 12year period for the fund. Grabill stated that this was nortnal, that most of the school units were now adopting the new maximum, that it made it easier to borrow “cheap” money from the various state funds, because the controlling boards seemed to favor schools who were trying to raise

i the money necessary to run their ' schools properly. I Grabill pointed out that the cost l of remodeling Monmouth, improving the class rooms, removing the old front section, and replacing the heating plant; building a new senior high school; converting the present Decatur high school building into a junior high; improving Lincoln so it can be used for kindergarten through the sixth grade, and possibly by then even building a new school, would require a long-range program to keep costs down. Bultemeier asked that a decision on this matter be deferred until the next meeting, and the board agreed. Alternatives Discussed The board discussed the alternatives to a cumulative building fund, such as separate corporation. Bultemeier stated that he did not favor that, that it was too expensive. He recalled a ouikiing project at Berne, where a gym was added, and that two adjacent main beams and two building segments had tc be made at the junction between the part being financed by the holding company and the school corporation. This was wasteful, if it could possibly be built by any other method, he added. The board agreed that it would probably be two to three years before a high school would actually be completed, at the earliest. They felt that if they so decided, Monmouth and Decatur high schools could operate separately until that time, but the general consensus was, that if it took any longer; .Monmouth would be so overcrowded that the high school students would have to be moved out. Strain On Schools Meanwhile, Grabill pointed cut, the total number of junior high students is putting great pressure on the junior high facilities at both Monmouth and Lincoln. A sixth grade section must be added at Lincoln this year, crowding that school, which the state has made clear is a purely marginal operation. In the high school picture, the state is slowly pressuring firstclass schools, such Monmouth and Decatur, to improve or lose their certification, and easy entry of seniors into state colleges. Stalling next school year, first-class schools must offer a major in the vocational field. This .means at least three years of home economics, or shop, or vocational agriculture, or auto mechanics, etc. Then in the following 1965-66 school year, all first-class high (Continued on Page Six) Carlisle Flanders Dies In Florida Carlisle D. Flanders, 66, a native and forrper resident of Decatur, died Tuesday at Leesburg, Fla where he owned and operated the Pine Motel. He moved to Leesburg from Ash Fork, Ariz., five years ago. He was born in Decatur, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Flanders, and lived in this city and in Fort Wayne for many years. He was formerly a construction engineer in Fort Wayne. Mr. Flanders was a member of the Methodist church, the American Legion and Masonic lodge. He was a veteran of World War I. Survivors include his wife, Melba F.; a son. Pierce D. Fland-. ers of Dallas, Tex.; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Lester Jones of Fort Wayne; one sister, Mrs. Hugh P. Lawrence of Peru, and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Beyers funeral chapel in Leesburg, the Rev. M. McCoy Gibbs officiating. Burial will be in Lone Oak cemetery in Leesburg.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Wednesday, April 15, 1964.

Routine Items Handled By School Board A number of routine items were disposed of by the North 'Adams Community school fiveman board in its regular monthly meeting Tuesday night. Minutes of the Feb. 11, Feb. 25, March 10, and March 13 sessions were read and approved. These covered the last regular meeting and three special meetings. Diploma Signed A military diploma certificate, showing that James A. Dyer, former Decatur high school student now in military service, had completed the high school-level general educational development test (GED), was signed by the school board members. A certificate for the appointment of Dr. John B. Spaulding to the Decatur library board was signed; the appointment was actually made two years ago, but no certificate was filed. Superintendent Gail M. Grabill then explained a letter from the state board of accounts, which changes the accounting procedure for the school lunch a.-’Jp textbook rental systems. Accounting Change Previously, each of the schools ran its own school lunch program. but now vouchers will be prepared, and submitted to the school district superintendent, and the board will get a chance to review them, as well as sign the checks. The same procedure will apply to textbook rental. The state board of accounts has favored this change for some time, but now has legal backing for it. Any school board member or interested person who wants to attend the governor’s conference on vocational education at 2 p.m. April 23, is asked to notify Grabill by Friday morning, so that the reservations may be mailed in. Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur high school principal, Grabill, and Herb Banning, school board president, attended the last meeting. Clarence Bultemeier, secretary of the board, signified that he might be interested in attending, if he can clear his schedule. National Convention The school board also voted to send Grabill and at least one school board member to the national school board convention in Houston, Texas, April 25-28. Dr. James M. Burk and Richard Macklin are considering attending. Each board member signed his name on a special card, and this year the members’ signatures will be printed on all of the diplomas. Those who sign, the checks, the secretary and treasurer, have hundreds to sign every month. Bultemeier and Macklin discussed the possibility of one of them using a stamped signature every other month, as permitted by law. Land Exchange Grabill explained the proposed exchange of land to get a place to bold the auto mechanics courses. At present the motors have to be hauled down into the high school basement, which is difficult to do and extremely greasy. The schools still own the sites of the north and south wards, but these are rented to the city for $1 a year. Grabill and the city are now considering whether it is legal to exchange these properties, so the city can have the parks, and the schools can have the old light quonset, which was once a foundry building. It is located, near Southeast school. v .. The secretary and treasurer agreed to meet today at noon, to « sign the payroll and claims checks. Orders Arrive Grabill reported that chairs for the art room in the high school have been received, that the tractor for mowing all school property is here, and that two of the three buses ordered are here, and the third will arrive Friday. One bus hauls the Union town(Continued on Page Six)

■- • - Bl ‘ I ./■£! ~..jJK TO LEAVE DECATUR— The Rev. Charles M. Hill, pictured with his family, today announced his resignation as pastor of the First Christian church in Decatur. He has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Treasure Valley Christian church at Caldwell, Ida., beginning July 1. In front, left to right—Alan, first grade student; Mrs. Hill; Charlene, Decatur high school freshman; rear—Peggy, a sophomore at Eastern Montana college of education: Rev. Hill; Mrs. Roger Conrad, who will continue to make her home in Decatur.

Rev. Chas. M. Hill Resigns Pastorale The Rev. Charles M. Hill, pastor of the First Christian church in Decatur since Sept. 3, 1960, today announced his resignation from the pastorate, effective this summer. Rev. Hill has accepted a call to the Treasure Valley Christian church at Caldwell, Ida., where he will begin his work July 1,. and will be formally installed as minister in the latter part of July. Caldwell is an agricultural community of approximately 14,000 population. The minister and his family moved from the state of Washington in 1960 so he could resume his studies at Christian Theologi- • cal Seminary (formerly Butler school of religion,) at Indianapolis. He will receive a bachelor of divinity degree at the school June 5. Rev. Hill and family moved to the northwest in 1946, first living in Billings, Mont., where their ‘ Eldest daughter is .now attending. Eastern Montana college of education. They moved to Eugene, Ore., in 1952, when Rev. Hill began his study for the ministry, receiving his bachelor of theology degree from Northwest Christian college in 1957. He served as pastor of the Christian church at Colfax, Wash., until moving to Decatur. In announcing his resignation, Rev. Hill stated, “we have enjoyed being a part of the life of this community. We shall not forget the many friends that we have made. Because we have strong family ties in the northwest we feel this is where we desire to continue our Christian work.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer tonight. Thursday fair and warmer. Low tonight lower 40s. High Thursday 65 to 73. Sunset today 7:23 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 6:07 a.m. Outlook fir Friday: Partly cloudy and continued warm with chance of showers late in the day. Lows in the 40s. High mostly in the 70s. DeMolay To Install Officers Saturday Public installation of the re-cently-appointed first slate of officers of the Decatur chapter of DeMolay will be held Saturday evening, acording to an announcement today by Robert Workinger, council chairman, and Robert Raudenbush, chapter dad. The installation ceremonies will be held at the local Masonic Lodge, 222% N. Third St., beginning at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The public is invited to attend, and there is no charge to attend the program. Seventh district governor Fred Divelbiss, of Huntington. will attend and be in charge of the installation. At 2:30 p.m. Saturday, inititation of the DeMolay degrees will be held at the Masonic lodge, and at 5:30 p.m., a banquet will be furnished for the DeMolay boys by the mother’s club. Members of the DeMolay organization were voted on and appointed by the advisory council recently, and become the chapter’s first slate of officers. In all. DeMolay boys were named to fill 26 offices. David Anspaugh was appointed master councilor, while Jack Stauffer was appointed senior councilor and Bob DeVoss was named junior councilor.'

County's Spelling Bee Next Monday Winners or runners-up from spelling bee contests in 11 Adams county schools will meet for the spelldown at 7:30 p.m. next Monday in the Berne school cafeteria, it was announced today. The public is invited to the contest. School winners only, or run-ners-up if the winner withdraws or is ill, will take part. Mrs. Helen Macklin will be the pronouncer, and Philip Souder, Adams Central superintendent, and Hubert Zerkel, North Adams Lincoln principal, will be the judges. Winners by School Winners and runnersup are: St. Joseph Catholic school, Mary Ann Reynolds and Connie Gerber; Zion Friedheim Evangelical Luth r eran school, Sylvia Fay Stoppenhagen and Russell Fuhrman; Monmouth school, Beverly Geyer and Connie Durr; Immanuel Lutheran school, Janice Schamerloh and Rita Krueckeberg; Berne elementary school, Tom Yoder and Jdanne Sprunger; Berne junior high school, Mary Sprunger and Jean Liechty; Geneva school, Michael Anderson and Ned Neuenschwander. Adams Central school, Diane Strayer and Anne Hilty; St. Peter’s Lutheran school, Karen Matthews and Joanne Kukelhan; Pleasant Mills school, Jayne Suman and Carol Gage; Zion Lutheran school, Kathryn Kenney. Rules Listed The rules to be followed are as follows: 1. Words used in the county finals shall be selected from the “Words of the Champions” book, from the lists used in the various city and regional contests, and from Webster’s third new International Dictionary. 2. In competition, contestants may pronounce words before spelling them, after spelling them, or not at all. 3. Having started to spell a word, a contestant shall be given no opportunity to change letters once pronounced. A speller may retrace, provided letters and their sequence are not changed in the retracing. 4. A contestant may request that a word be re-pronounced, defined or used in a sentence. The pronouncer shall grant the request until the officials agree that the word has been made reasonably clear to the contestant. Judges may disqualify any contestant who ignores a request to start spelling. 5. If, inadvertently, no definition of a homonym is given, the correct spelling of either word shall be accepted as correct. When a speller is given the definition of the homonym, he must spell the word defined. 6. When a speller fails to spell a word correctly, he or she drops out of the contest. The next word on the pronouncer’s list shall be given to the next contestant. 7. When the contestants are reduced to two, the elimination procedure changes. At that point when one contestant misspells a word, the other contestant shall be given an opportunity to spell the same word. If the second contestant spellls the word cor(Continued on Page, Six) Speech, Hearing Consultant Hired Miss Phyllis Joy Young, of Portland. has been hired to replace Miss Nancy Berinett as speech and hearing consultant for the North Adams community schools, Gail M. Grabill, school superintendent, told the school board Tuesday night. Miss Young will be graduated from Ball State Teachers College in speech and hearing therapy this June. Miss Bennett is resigning to get married; her fiance is a state highway engineer, and they plan to live near Indianapolis.

Woman Senator In Surprise Showing

CHICAGO (UPI) —Sen. Barry Goldwater had his first presidential primary victory today but because a whitehaired lady from Maine captured nearly 25 per cent of the vote he may have to wait to see how his Illinois win pays off in the White House sweepstakes. Goldwater took Illinois’ GOP primary by nearly 65 per cent Tuesday over Maine’s Sen. Margaret Chase Smith in an election where all-out Goldwater backer William J. Scott was drubbed by Chicago industrialist Charles H. Percy in a bitter battle for the gubernatorial nomination. Goldwater, jolted by a writein upset last month in New Hampshire at the hands of Henry Cabot Lodge, hailed his Illinois victory and his campaign field directors called it a “great triumph.” Surprise Political Observers But the results were a surprise to some Illinois political observers who expected Goldwater to pull down at least 80 per cent of the vote in this corn belt “Goldwater country.” It was apparent today that more than 150,000 Republicans went to the polls to vote tor governor but did not mark I 'their ballots for any presidential candidate. There were other surprises from Illinois and they came by

K Blasts At Chinese Reds

MOSCOW (UPI) — Premier Nikita Khrushchev angrily pledged today he would be “ruthless” against the Communist Chinese whom he charged had brought world communism to the “verge of a split.” Shaking his fists, Khrushchev told 6,000 people jamming a Kremlin Soviet-Polish firndship rally that he was now in “open conflict” with the Chinese leaders. An hour later, Polish Communist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka rose to declare—for the first time—his party’s support for Khrushchev's, proposed world Communist summit conference to take action against the Chinese. Khrushchev accused Peking of “subversive activities” seeking to divide and conquer the world Communist movement and said the sino - Soviet conflict was now “much graver” than a theoretical dispute. “It is not ourselves who initiated this dispute which has by now transgressed into an open conflict,” Khrushchev declared. “Lenin was ruthless against faction makers and splitters and we shall follow his behest Khrushchev said. Diplomatic observers said Khrushchev, who is now lining up support from his allies against Peking, had never previously gone •as far in describing the extent of the historic conflict. Ridiculing, lecturing j,a n d threatening the Chine se, Khrushchev also found time in a 90 - minute speech to call again for a German peace treaty which would turn Berlin into a “demilitarized free city” and to announce a 20-year extension of the Polish - Soviet friendship treaty. He backed Poland’s plan for -a “freeze” of nuclear weapons in Central Europe, praised his guests, Gomulka and Polish Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz, and attacked West German “revenge seeking militarism. “There is no doubt today that the Chinese leaders are seeking to split the Communist movement and the socialist camp and for this purpose are employing methods borrowed from the Trotskyite arsenal,” Khrushchev said. “This has created serious difficulties for the world Communist movemnt arid placed it on the verge of a split.” Gesticulating angrily, Khrushchev often strayed from his written text as he lashed the Chinese for “subversive activities” and mocked them for seeking to attain communism through revolution. “I guarantee you that the Soviet Central Committee will do I everything -so that the Red flag will flutter over the whole ’ world,” he declared. Khrushchev, now lining up 1 support from his allies against > f ; TWO SECTIONS

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the write-in route. Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, the Democratic segregationist with no organization behind him here, rolled up more than twice as many write-ins as New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. Wallace gained writeins on both Republican and Democratic ballots, but even his Republican total alone was enough to edge the New York governor. Lodges Attract* Many Henry Cabot Lodge led the flurry of write-in votes to take 6 per cent of the Republican vote. , Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner, mining with no opposition, counted nearly as many votes as his Republican rivals did combined. With 7,902 of 10,256 precincts counted, 3,827 of them in Cook County (Chicago), the GOP presidential vote was: Goldwater 416,180 Smith 165,262 Lodge 40,914 Nixon 19,708 Rockefeller 1,631 Romney 341 Scranton 1,215 Wallace 1,790 With 9,297 precincts counted, 4,991 of them in Cook County, The Republican vote for governor was: Percy 522,218 Scott 323,818

Peking, also announced a 20year extension of the SovietPolish friendship treaty and a new economic agreement until 1970. He called for measures to lessen tension in Central Europe, including the Polish plan to “freeze” nuclear weapons at their present levels on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The premier also called again for a German peace treaty which would turn Berlin into a “demilitarized free city” and attacked “revanchist” West Germany as the “most dangerous hotbed” and a source of military threats to Europe’s security. Hearing Held On Wabash Watershed Some 125 people, including a large number of farmers, attended a public meeting Monday at the Geneva school concerning the Wabash river watershed project, soil conservationist Jerry •Setser said this morning. Included in the targe turnout were representatives from Adams, Weills, and Jay counties, and from Mercer and Darke counties in Ohio; area conservationist Johnson Craig from Kendalllville, and an area conservationist from Ohio; the Mercer county commissioners; the park commissioner of St. Mary’s O.; and several representatives of the Celina, 0., Chamber of Commerce. Soil and water conservation representatives from each of the five counties also attened the informational meeting, which was held in an attempt to determine the interest in a watershed project for the Wabash river in this area. Interest in the project, which would affect about 300,000 acres in Indiana and Ohio in the five counties is very favorable. Only about 25 persons attended an earlier meeting, but Monday’s meeting attracted about 125 interested persons. Further Meeting An organizational meeting, in which information concerning the various problems caused by the Wabash river during rainy seasons will be gathered, is being planned. No definite date has been set as yet. Setser stressed the fact that the project is not government supported, but, a project of the people involved. The soil conservation service will act only in an advisory capacity. It is hoped that after the upcoming meeting, the persons involved in the project will be ready to apply for the project to the Indiana flood control and water resources commission, and to the commission of natural resources in Ohio. Setser said that persons interested in the project here should note the progress being made near Fort Recovery, where three dams have been built and the residents of that area have been quite satisfied with the results.