Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 96.

World’s Fair Opened In New York, Harassed By Civil Rights Stall - In

Burk Reappointed To North Adams Board Dr. James M. Burk, a veteran member of the Decatur and now North Adams community school board, was reappointed to a fouryear term on the board by the city council Tuesday evening. Burk was one of two applicants for the job, the other being Charles Ehinger of the Citizens Telephone Co. Clerk-treasurer Laura Bosse read a letter from superintendent Gail M. Grabill to the council, asking that the appointment be made, as it must be done 60 days before the new term, which is July 1. The appointment was for a fouryear term, and was for a member of the board from the city limits of Decatur. Mrs. Bosse then read the applications of Burk and Ehinger, and councilman Lawrence Kohne moved to vote on the appointment by secret ballot, which was seconded by councilman Ralph E. Allison. City attorney John L. DeVoss tabulated the ballots, which showed four votes for Burk and one for Ehinger. Veteran Member Burk has been a member of the Decatur and North Adams boards for 'more than eight years. He was first appointed on December 6, 1955, to fill the unexpired term of Harry (Jack) Irwin. Irwin had been appointed just a few months earlier, in June of 1955 " Burk filled out that term, and was elected to his first three-year term in 1958. He was reappointed to his second three-year term in 1961. Two years ago, he. Herb Banning and Dick Macklin, who were members of the Decatur school board, were named to the North Adams community school board along with two members from the rural areas. Burk's third appointment, and his first full term on the North Adams board, will be for four years, effective July 1.

Council Approves Bid For Landfill

The Decatur city council approved Tuesday evening, a recommendation from the board of works and safety, that the bid received from the Decatur Sanitary Land Fill Co., for a sanitary land fill for this city, be accepted. The company, through partners Edward and Larry Ime 1, entered the lone bid on March 26, at which time the board of works took the matter under advisement to consider the offer. The letter from the board of works, recommending the council’s approval of the bid, was read at the council meeting last night, and the councilmen voted unanimously to approve the bid. JL contract has been drawn up, and will be up for approval or disapproval, in the form of an ordinance, at the city council’s next meeting, scheduled for Tuesday. May'«s. Bid Entered The Imels 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 received. It is estimated that/it is now costing the city about $13,700 a year to handle its garbage and trash. Within Two Miles At the time they entered the bid. the Imels promised to njaintain a garbage and rubbish operation within two miles of the city of Decatur with the following regulations and qualifications: That the two would be separ-

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Study Changes In Operation Os Pool It appears that some changes in operation of the city’s swimming pool will be forthcoming, before the pool opens for this summer. The city council members, andespecially Mayor Carl D. Gerber, appear very interested in making some changes from the normal operation to relieve somewhat the tremendous responsibility placed each summer on the shoulders of lifeguards Hubert Zerkel, Jr., and John Rosier. “Well have to do something with that pool,’’ were the words of Mayor Gerber before the council took the matter under advisement to attempt to work out a satisfactory solution. The discussion began when councilman Harold Miller, chairman of the parks, asked the council! to approve Zerkel as head of the city’s swimming pool, golf, and other recreation, including girl’ts softball, if there is enough interest shown. Miller said that in talking with Zerkel, the long-time lifeguard at the pool, had suggested charging admission to out-of-town persons using the city’s swimming facilities. Mayor Gerber then spoke up, saying that something was going to haw to be done, as on some days there are 500 to 1,000 children in the pool and just the two lifeguards, to watch over them, which is an Impossible task. The mayor said he would like to hire three more lifeguards for the pool, or if not, clofee it up because of the tremendous burden put on the two life guards. Councilman Clyde Drake suggested charging everyone using the pool, no matter where they reside, a certain rate. Decatur may be one of the only city owned swimming pools in Indiana that does not charge admission. By charging each person who uses the' pool facilities each day during the summed, revenue could be raised to hire additional lifeguards.

ate. with no garbage dumped with the trash, and vice versa; that they retained the right to charge dealers, other than municipal corporations, for dumping any animal or vegetable matter in loads exceeding 300 pounds; that they promised to build suitable roadways in the dumping area; that they would purchase and maintain adequate equipment and provide for rodent control, and that the cpntrol would be valid for 10 years with the annual change in charges; and that the dumps would be ooen from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. daily, with the exception of Sundays. Must Be Done Something has to be done by the citv,_ as the present dump site must be closed. The dump !s encroaching on the water wells, which will be condemned if located too close to the dump. The council and Mayor Gerber have known something must be done, and their thoughts were confirmed last night when a letter from the state board of health was received and read. The letter might be termed an “initial warning.” The letter, from Max L. Barrett, sanitary engineer of the northeastern branch office, said that the. city’s dump was encroaching on city water/ wells eight and nine. According to the letter, the dump is now within 150 feet of the wells, which were approved ,bv the state board in 1948. Barrett recommended a 200-feet radius of the wells be ridded of trash and cleaned up.

Civil Rights Demonstrators Harass Fair NEW YORK (UPI) — Civil rights demonstrators harassed the opening of the World Fair today by scuffling with police, delaying subway trains and staging sit-ins. A planned massive automobile stall-in blocked cars at scattered points, but the city traffic commissioner said traffic was less than normal. Reinforced police squads made arrests following demonstrations ranging from Manhattan’s Times Square to the Flushing Meadows fair grounds. Shortly before noon, EST, police had arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and Herbert Callender, chairman of the Bronx branch of CORE. Farmer and about a dozen others were arrested for staging a sit-in at the New York City pavilion. Callender was picked u p when he tried to block the entrance to the Elmhurst police Station", where earlier demonstrators had been taken. Also involved in the sit - in demonstrations at the fair was Bayard Rustin, leader of last year’s civil rights march on Washington and organizer of New York’s first school boycott. At least 50 shouting, signcarrying demonstrators picketed the Florida pavilion and shouted at Florida Gov. Farris Bryant: “Jim Crow must go—Governor Bryant must go.” Bryant ignored the taunts and entered one of the buildings at the pavilion. Halted Train One of the demonstrators tried to scale the 110-foot citrus tower —landmark of the Florida exhibit—but he was dragged down by four policemen and carried away in handcuffs. First demonstrators were picked up at 7:30 a.m., EST, when they delayed subway trains carrying visitors to the fair by pulling emergency stop cords, throwing themselves on the tracks and preventing train doors from closing. Faces of some of the demonstrators were bleeding when they were led away—-————— — Enno Busse Dies At Home This Morning Enno Busse, 67, died at 3 o’clock this morning at his home on Decatur route 2, after an extended illness. He was born in Fort Wayne May 1, 1896, a son of Frederick and Louise Rodenbech-Busse. — Surviving are a brother, the Rev. O. C. Busse; a sister, Miss Louise Busse, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Blanche Busse, all of Decatur route 2: Private funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Norman H. Kuck officiating. Burial will be in the St. Paul’s Lutheran church cemetery. INDIANA WEATHER Partly coludy and cooler tonight, Thursday mostly cloudy with little temperature change, showers likely south and central portions. Low tonight in the 40s north, near 60 south. High Thursday 56 to 63 north, 70s south. Sunset today 7:30 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 5:57 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Fair to partly cloudy and a little warmer. Lows in the 40s. Highs 60s north to low 70s south.

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Council Meets In Utilities Office Here The city council held its secont regularly-scheduled meeting in April in the city utilities office Tuesday night, due to the remodeling that is being done to the regular meeting room, along with the rest of the city hall’s second floor. Among the citizens attending the meeting were Cal Yost, who discussed a proposed new sewer along High street with the council. Yost owns 30 acres of land on the east side of the street, and along the northeast side of the railroad tracks. Yost said he would like to tap into the sewer from his property, but that the sewer would have to be slightly larger than proposed to handle the sewage from his land, if and when it is developed. Yost has offered to pay a fee of $2,500 for the tap in, and the sewer is expected to cost about SIO,OOO. The council requested that he make his offer in a letter that could be made a matter of record, which he said he would* do. Police School Another citizen attending the meeting was Pat Costello, who discussed with the council the possibility of sending Decatur police officers to a police school held in the spring and fall at the Fort Wayne police academy. He said he had recently talked with the captain of the academy, and gave the councilmen some information on the school, including the cost, which is S6O per man. “We spend a lot of money on a lot of things, and I think this is one of the best things this council can do,” he told the councilmen. 2 Mayor Carl D. Gerber told Costello that he had previously talked with chief of police Grover Odle about the possibility of sending some of Decatur's officers to the school. Hie mayor explained, however, that the police department has been an officer short due to illness most of this year, and it would be nearly impossible to send anyone until the force was at least back to full strength. Station Signs Councilman Chalmer Deßolt asked if anything had been done about signs informing people, especially thosp from out of town, as to the location of the new station at Park and Fhiid streets Chief Odle replied that the old neon sign, that formerly hung on the city hall building, is being revamped, and when finished will be placed on a pole at Third and Monroe streets, with an arrow pointing toward the station. Odle also said that in the near future, a neon sign will also be placed in the yard of the new station. Decatur “Eyesores Deßolt also brought up a matter concerning some of the “eyesores,” that are located in various sections of the town. Fire chief Cedric Fisher said he has warned some owners that their building is a fire hazard and. must be cleaned up, but that the owners repeatedly ignore the warnings. He suggested sending the city health officer to check the possibility of condemning the buildings for health reasons, and Mayor Gerber said he would contact the health officer. One other item of business was an appointment made by clerk-, treasurer Mrs. Laura Bosse. Mrs. Bosse has appointed her assistant, Mrs. Virginia Houk, as deputy clerk-treasurer, asked that the matter be made a matter of record, which the council approved.

World's Fair Os 1964-1965 Opened Today United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) — The 1964-65 World’s Fair opened today with colorful but raindampened ceremonies including a dedicatory visit from President Johnson. Hie fair’s 95 turnstiles at eight entrances began spinning at 9 q.m., EST, at the command of an electronic impulse from the atomic clock in Neuchatel, Switzerlana. Fair chairman Thomas Deegan snipped a ribbon in the city’s colors of orange and blue and welcomed the first visitor, William Turchyn, 18, of Neptune, N.J., with a handshake across the turnstile at the main gate. The turnstile refused to work when Turchyn tried to make his entrance, and repairmen had to be summoned to get it in working order. “That’s not a stall-in, that’s a stick-in,” someone yelled, referring to the civil rights demonstrations which threatened to mar the opening day. , The fair officiary marked the 300th anniversary of the establishment of New York as a city. It is the largest exhibition in history and 30,000 employes were on hand this morning to man its 134 pavilions, restaurants and amusements which cost more than SSOO million. About 2,000 police, evenly divided between fair personnel and city patrolmen, were on hand to maintain order in the face of threats from rebellious local branches of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to stall hundreds of automobiles on major access routes. One of their first tasks was to assist the Secret Service to protect Johnson, former President Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, daughter of India’s Prime Minister Nehru, Marquesa Carmen Villaverde, daughter of Spain’s Generalissimo Franco, and other notables. The 646 - acre fairgrounds, which was also the site of the 1939-40 World’s Fair, was ,as soggy as a sponge after days of rain. But freshly laid sod, avenues of trees, and gushing fountains gave a finished look to the exhibition, which was dually only 95 per cent completed at the opening hour. In addition to Presidents Johnson and Truman, New York Gov Nelson A. Rockefeller, Mayor Robert F. Wagner and other dignitaries were on the dedication day speakers list. Messages from former Presidents Herbert Hoover and Dwight D. Eisenhower also were to be read to the invited guests at the Singer Bowl ceremony. Dague Infant Dies At Hospital Today Richard Wayne Dague, two-day-old son of Glen and Donna Painter-Dague, of Root township, died at 1:40 a.m. today at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he was born at 11:32 a.m. Monday. Surviving are the parents; the grandparents, Mgs. Carl (Betty) Bucher of Root township, and Doyle Painter of Decatur, and the great-grandparents, Mrs. Olive Painter of Berne route 2, Mrs. Mae Musser of Decatur and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Dague of Decatur route 6. Graveside services, conducted by the Zwick funeral heme, will be held at 10 a m. Thursday at the Decatur Cemetery, the Rev. Robert Oleson officiating.

Salary Boost For Teachers

North Adams’ 100 school teachers were given raises ranging from SIOO a year for those without master’s degrees to $460 a year for those with 20 or more years experience and a master’s degree, as the North Adams community school board fixed its first basic salary schedule Tuesday night. Continue Monmouth Following an appearance by a number of representatives from the north three townships, and testimony by Monmouth school principal John McConaha, the board decided by consent to continue the present high school arrangement at Monmouth, with the 45 high school freshmen split into two sections, and one section using the spare teacher’s preparation room each period until the new addition is completed, Gail Grabill, school superintendent, said today. Schedule Set Up Following a meeting with four architectural firms, the school board set up the following schedule for interviewing individual firms: Tuesday and Wednesday, May 5 and 6, Hembrecht - Sherbondy, 7 p.m., and A. M. Strauss, 8 p.m. Tuesday; Martindale and Dahlgren, 7 p.m. and Bradley & Bradley, 8 p.m. Wednesday. The four-hour school board meeting started with a discussion of architectural problems, to find out whether the board wanted to go ahead with just the Monmouth construction, or tie it in with the construction of the new threegrade high school. Rural Group Present A group of about eight rural people were present, and they were asked for their opinion. Elbert Fuhrmann, of Preble township, replied for the group. Fuhrman thanked the group for its proposal concerning the improvement of the Monmouth school, the need for which had long been recognized by the rural people. The meeting then continued with a discussion of future problems, but no decisions were reached. Fuhrmann pointed out that the group present, and hundreds erf others in the rural area, were greatly concerned over the pro-

Drive For Wildcat League Here May 13

The spring drive to raise $2,500 to support the more than 400 boys who take part each summer 4n the W ildeat basebaH program will take place Wednesday afternoon, May 13, with a canvass of the entire city by the Wildcat board and former Wildcat players, Carl A. Braun, Wildcat baseball commissioner, stated. This will be the second season for the Wildcat league, Braun stated, and a survey of schools in this area showed a preliminary number of 310 already interested, as follows: St. Joseph, 125; Northwest, 75; Lincoln and Southeast, 45 each; and Lutheran, 20. Last year’s experience indicated that 120 more signed up than had originally signified interest. Meet May 13 The drive will start at the Decatur Youth Center at 5:30 p.m. May 13. All former Wildcat players will be asked to be present. The city will be divided into districts, and an adult will get a map of a district, and take a carload of boys, in caps and Tshirts if possible, out to canvass. Board members who will participate include: Braun, Kenny Gaunt, Robert Boch, Dick Heller, Bill Kuhnle, Ferris Bower; Deane Dorwin, Wayne Roahrig, Bill Zoss, Don Harman and Dan Davis. George Waning, director of play last year, will manage the contacting of the boys, Ferris Bower, assisted by two tally clerks, will operate a booth for scheduling districts at the Youth Center. Robert L. August, center manager, has approved use of a table and chairs in the lobby for the canvass. * 28 Teams in 1963 Last year there were 16 Kitty teams, six Kat teams and six Tiger teams. There were 420 to start, and 402 to finish the program, and 150 boys had perfect attendance all season. A dozen old baseballs are left, and five dozen new ones will be needed. Some new bats will also be needed. Activities last year included a special trip to Chicago, 111., for a major league ‘game, personally arranged by D. W. McMillen, Sr., sponsor of the program in Fort Wayne;- the Carl Erskine clinic, which drew 250 boys; the all-star baseball game, which

posed possibility of discontinuing the freshman class at Monmouth. He stated that they felt that this would kill the Monmouth school, would divide family loyalties and ties between two schools for sports, band, choir, and other purposes, and would be bad for the school system. Board president Herb Banning then explained that this was only one of several possibilities considered, and that it was the least likely of the ones suggested. McConaha Speaks John McConaha, Monmouth school principal, told the group that this was a serious problem, that the school was definitely overcrowded, and the new addition needed just as soon as it Historical Society To Meet April 28 The Adams county Historical society will hear the history of the Lutheran church in Adams county, in their meeting to be held at the Decatur public library, beginning at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 28. Smith Snively, principal of the Zion Lutheran school in Decatur, will speak on the six Lutheran churches in Adams county, St. Paul, Preble; Zion, Friedheim; St. John, Bingen; *St. Peter, Fuelling; Immanuel, Union township; and Zion of Decatur. Snively has divided his lecture into six large topics, the European background, Early American Lutheranism, the Missouri synod, Lutheranism in Indiana and in Adams' county, and the present status of the church in Adams county. Several appropriate musical selections wil be given by Wayne Geiger on the accordion during the evening’s program. The general public is invited to attend and there is no admission charge, Gerald R. Durkin, president, said. A question and answer session will follow the talk. TWO SECTIONS

drew 90; and the program days in Fort Wayne, which included 175 from Decatur. Will Sell Decals The Wildcat players will each have a handful of decals, silver and blue, which will be sold at $1 each or more, to support the program. If $2,500 can be netted, plus gifts from sponsors, enough will be raised to continue the program another year. The Wildcat program provides baseball for more than three times as many youths as take part in the Little League and

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WILDCAT DECALS will be sold door-to-door by Wildcat baseball (, players, 400 strong, who want the program continued another year. The goal will be the sale of 2,500 decals at $1 or more each, to help the program. Last year a subscription meeting was held to kick off the program for its first year in Decatur. Signup indicates at least 400 will be interested again this year. Any boy from the area, whether in the ctyy or not, may play if he wants. Every boy gets to play in every game in the Wildcat league.

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could be completed, but that if necessary he could schedule another freshman section by using the empty rooms of the teachers who were preparing for classwork. This would mean moving out the teacher for his preparation period, and would mean shifting the class from room to room. He thought this might be possible for as long as a year, or two years at the very most, but that by the end of two years another new section would be needed, and there would no longer be any space. In reply to the suggestion that a grade class be moved from one of the larger, newer rooms to the old section, and the whole 45 freshman class be placed in one room, McConaha stated that this would just be too many pupils in one room at that level, and he would not favor it. An additional teacher will be required, he stated. Money Available Banning and Grabill explained that approximately $54,000 in bonds, and $12,000 in cash, the portion turned over to North Adams community schools from the Root township 30 cent building fund levy, was available for the architect and builder for the new addition. However, it has been estimated that it will take about $60,000 for a new cafeteria, and $40,000 for two new classrooms, not to mention the need for a new heating plant. This additional money is not available, and would not be available, unless a building fund is started, or bonding is possible. Bonding is not probable as long as there is a lawsuit against the school corporation, Grabill stated. A building fund must be approved by June 1 to get it in time for next year, and if it is instituted, then the school corporation could sign a contract for architects and contractors for up to the amount of the following year’s tax draw, on the bulding fund, which would be ample for both the Memmouth construction, and the start of architectural work toward a new three-grade high school which would be new, neither Monmouth nor Decatur, but North (Continued on Page Six)

Patsy league combined, Braun pointed out.. It provides baseball for every boy, and the purpoise is to train him as well as possible. '■ - There will be a number of changes in the staff, and in the rules and regulations, as will be announced in the near future, Braun added. Last year, a kickoff dinner, with rally speeches, was held. This was passed by this year to try the door-to-door approach to broaden the base for the support of the league.