Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 98.

President Johnson Makes Four-State Poverty Tour; First Stop At South Bend

Khrushchev Orders Farm Improvement

MOSCOW- (UPD—-Top Kremlin officials, under orders of Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, took over the urgent task today of finding a cure for Russia’s grain and meat shortages. Khrushchev gave a blue-rib-bon committee exactly one month to come up with proposals for improving the country’s farm methods, which he said were lagging far behind those of the United States. The z Soviet leader called for an ena to bureaucratic bungling in farm management so that production of cattle, pigs and poultry can be boosted. The executive orders were contained in a memorandum from Khrushchev Thursday night to the ruling Presidium of the Communist party’s Central Committee. The memorandum was accepted and approved by the Central Committee. Among the party’s top leaders named to the farm-improve-ment group were President Leonid Brezhnev, considered a top contender as Khrushchev’s successor, and First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the premieifs principal troubleshooter. In his statement to the Central Coihmittee, Khrushchev urged Soviet farmers to copy agricultural methods used in the —United States. He cited American superiority in corn production and animal hus-

Shut Down 22 Military Bases

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara today announced the shutdown—complete or partial of 22 military installations and facilities with the elimination of 10.056 jobs. McNamara told a news conference that the shutdowns and reductions plus the sale of two industrial reserve plants, the consolidation of defense contracting officers in 29 U.S. cities and several other economy measures would save S6B million annually in the United States and abroad over the next 3% years. He also said that eight economy measures would be taken overseas—in Europe and the Western Hemisphere—but that these would not involve NATO forces. He said these actions would eliminate 3,600 military and civilian jobs and would • stave s2l million, he said. McNamara ruled out any possibility that some shipyards will be closed before next November. He said it will take at least six to nine .months to complete the department’s study of that subject. The biggest single cutback announced today was at the Army's Watertown, Mass., arsenal where 1,849 jobs are to be eliminated by September 1967 at an estimated saving of $5.3 million. McNama-a said only the Army’s materials research „ woibd be retained ‘at Watertown. He said most of the a uii s facilities would be sold. On Capitol Hill, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Vinson. D-Ga.. commended the Defense Department for its actions. “I’ve heard no complaints from anywhere,’’ said V i n-s. on. “Apparently t hey closed bases that no one is

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bandry, and praised the agriculture in Britain, West Germany and East Germany. Khrushchev’s statement, his first major pronouncement on domestic matters in weeks, covered more than three full pages in the official newspapers Pravda and Izvestia. Russia’s grain shortage last fall due to a bad harvest forced the slaughter of thousands of animals, particularly pigs, because of the lack of fodder. The premature slaughter caused the current meat shortage. St. Mary's River Is Slightly Lower The overflowing St. Mary’s river, which has flooded its banks during the p/st week, stood at nearly 19 fe/t this morning, with a slight drpop (from Thursday morning’s reading. Louis Laijdium of Decatur measured the river this morning and reported a reading of 18.82 feet, which is just slightly less than the 18.94 feet depth taken Thursday morning. The 18.94 was the crest reached this week, and is also the highest depth the river has reached this spring. Last weekend’s h e,a v y rainfall. and 1.47 inches received Monday, swelled the river from 2.59 feet last Saturday morning to 17.52 feet Tuesday morning, as the St. Mary’s overflowed its banks. Flood stage is 13 feet.

concerned about.” But Sen Leverett Saltonstall, R-Mass., whose state was most affected, said he was “extremely disturbed,” over plans shutting down the Watertown arsenal. “I trust that the Johnson administration will live up to its promise that these fine citizens will be given other positions comparable with the skills they have built up in serving their government in the arsenal,” Saltonstall said. The facilities to be closed are the Army ammunition depots at Sidney, Neb., and Igloo, S.D., by July, 1967; the Naval Auxiliary Air Station at New Iberia, La., by January, 1965; Ft. Lawton, Seattle, Wash., by July, 1967, and the Navy’s seadromes at Jacksonville, Key West and Pensacola. Fla., and at Norfolk, Va., all by January, 1965. “All career employes whose —jobs are eliminated will be offered other job opportunities,” McNamara said. “By careful, advance planning and an extensive use of Airing ‘freezes’ additional job opportunities willbe made available for the others. Moving expenses will be borne by the government.” Besides Watertown, reductions were scheduled at the Atmy’s Pasadena, Calif., area support center; at eight small naval offices aid facilities in Sap Francisco, all due to be transferred to Treasure Island Naval Base bv December, 1966; at the Air Force's Bradley . Field Reserve Center, Windsor Locks. Conn : at a sub-post of Ft. Devens. Mass.—Ft. Banks, Winthrop, Mass.—which is to be/ sold: at the Navy East Park Housing Annex, Bremertoi. Wash., and at the Army Northwest Relay. Station, Lynnwood, Wash".

PITTSBURGH (UPD—President Johnson moved into Pennsylvania on his four-state poverty tour today after telling a South Bend, Ind., audience that the trip would stimulate more federal action to aid the jobless. Johnson flew by,, jet from Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Indiana after meeting unemployed auto workers who are training for new careers, following shutdown of the Studebaker plant. His plane landed at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport at 11:28 a.m. EST. He and Mrs. Johnson were caught up in a crowd crush for nearly five minutes on the first stop on the tour at a vocational school in South Bend. He told them he was proud to see their determination to prepare themselves for available jobs as computer specialists and other skills. The crowd at South Bend broke through security lines and hundreds surrounded the Johnsons as they made their way from the helicopter that had flown them from Chicago Johnson was greeted at the airport - here by an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred persons, most of them steelworkers. He spent more than 10 minutes walking along a barrier shaking hands. “We are going to launch the war on poverty in Pennsylvania today,” Johnson said. “I am here for a first-hand look. We are going to drive poverty in the United States underground.”— f Johnson, in an ebullient campaign mood, was unperturbed at the South Bend incident, He told an aide afterwards “it was pretty tight but it was wonderful.” And he told the crowd of 5,000 waiting to hear him in a high school football field “I’m going to tell Congress I wish they could come here in the heartland of America and see what the people of America are do- , ing for themselves. “I have been stimulated and inspired by what I have seen. I’m here to see what the federal government can do to improve your condition. Many Still Jobless Johnson and his Lady Bird flew by helicopter to this prosperous northern Indiana city which was shaken last December when the Studebaker Co. ended its U.S. automotive production and thousands of men were thrown out of work. An estimated 2,000 ex - Studebaker men are still jobless in South Bend and .many of them are training for new jobs in centers set up in Kline School, where Johnson stopped, and elsewhere in South Bend. The crowd bolted through a restrainingrope and streamed past three apprehensive Secret Service agents who tried to head them off when the Johnsons landed. The crowd, was led by school children. A teen-age girl fainted and was carried from the crush. kout-O-Rama In fi Decatur Saturday Limberlost district’s first threecounty Scout-O-Rama will open at 1 p. m. Saturday at the Decatur Youth Center,- and 37 troops, packs and posts will have booths there, Bill Spice, district executive, announced today. At 4 p. m., a parade will wend its way through the downtown streets of Decatur, advertising the many skills that more than 1.000 Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and' Explorers will demonstrate during the great event. Decatur troop. 70. sponsored bv the Decatur Methodist church, was the last- to secure a booth, Spice said. It will present a dis-

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Third Youth Held In Horse, Buggy Theft A third arrest was made this morning in connection with the Saturday night horse and buggy theft, with the apprehension of a Monroe youth. Mervin Leroy Parrish, 19-year-old resident of 205 E. Hocker St., Monroe, was taken into custody this morning by deputy sheriff Harold August and lodged in the Adams county jail under SI,OOO bond. Parrish has been charged with the same offense as the two Decatur youths arrested earlier, theft by obtaining and exerting unauthorized control. — Sheriff Roger Singleton said this morning that this was the final arrest in connection with the theft, unless further developments turn up in the near future. Meanwhile, Herman Lynn Dellinger, 20, of 1209 Master Drive, appeared in court this morning after a violation of probation charge was filed against him by prosecuting attorney Severin H. Schurger. After hearing evidence presented by the ptosecutor, Judge Parrish ordered Dellinger’s recent suspended sentence revoked, and ordered the sheriff’s department to transport the youth to the state penal farm at Putnamville to serve the term of six months. Dellinger was tried on charges of furnishing alcohol to minors a week ago Thursday in the local circuit court. He had pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined and given the six-months sentence, which Judge Parrish suspended during good behavior. Other Charge Pending The latest chafge against Dellinger, theft by obtaining and exerting unauthorized 1 control, will be pending on the circuit court docket, and he will more than likely be tried on that charge after serving the six months at the penal farm. “It should be understood that when they do not behave well, suspended sentences will be revoked,” the judge said this morning,. The third local youth involved in the theft of the horse and buggy, which led to a personal injury accident, Dennis Lee Scott, 20, of 328 Bollman St., has bee n arraigned in the circuit court cn a charge identical to that against Dellinger and Parrish. Scott was arraigned by Judge Parrish and ordered to enter a plea to the charge next Wednesday. He was the first youth arrested in connection with the theft, and Dellinger was apnrehended a day later, Tuesdav. Scott has been released from the county jail after posting bond of SI,OOO. *"'■ "y—' - ~ y—_ play on astronomy. Members of the scout committees and the Decatur Optimists will meet this evening to clean up the Youth Center after the dance, and mark off booths, Spice said. At 8 a. m. Saturday, the doors will open for the Scouts to start setting up their demonstrations. , At 1 p. m. the doors will be opened to the public, and thousands from Adams, Jay and .Wells counties. are expected to attend. Earl Caston, ticket chairman for the event, asked that all units or individuals still having unsold tickets or ticket money nlease turn it in between 5 and 6:30 p. m. Saturdav at the shoxV. Every Cub pack in Adams county is taking part in the event, .which guarantees plenty of local interest, wliile dozens of units from Portland. Bluffton, and other neighboring towns will be included. All available space will be. crowded with events. Spice promised, and everyone will get their money’s worth. Admission is just 50 cents.

Mrs. Noah Steffen Dies This Morning Mrs. Aldula V. Steffen, 55, a native of Adams county, died suddenly about 7 o’clock this morning at her home, 603 South Main street, Bluffton. She was born in Adams county March 31, 1909, a daughter of Joel and Salo ma BaumgartnerSchwartz, and was 'married to Noah Steffen Feb. 25, 1928. Her husband preceded her in death June 20, 1948. Mrs. Steffen, an employe of Franklin Electric for the past 10 years, was a member of the Christian Apostolic church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Leonard (Wava) Bertsch of Bluffton, and Mrs. Ben (Carolyn) Manz of Paulding, 0., route 1; one son, Lester W. Steffen, with the U. S. Army in Germany; four grandchildren; two brothers, Louis Schwartz of Downey, Calif., and Ray Schwartz of Van Wert, O.; and four sisters, Mrs. Sam Mailer of Bluffton, Mrs. Ronald Ryf of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Edward Gerber of Berne route 1, and Mrs. Walter Fiechter of Craigville route' 1. Funeral services have been set tentatively for 11 a. m. at the Christian Apostolic church, the Rev. Sam Aeschliman officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call ait *he Goodwin funeral home at Bluffton after 7 p. m. Saturday. The body will lie in state at the church from 10, a. m. Monday until time of the services. Kennedy Memorial Plaque Is Erected The John F. Kennedy memorial plaque, purchased with donations received from numerous residents of this city, has been erected in the Youth and Community Center, Adamis circuit court Judge Myles F. Parrish said this morning. The plaque was placed on the west wall in the entranceway to the Center by the Yost Construction Co. Thursday. Judge Parrish headed a committee appointed in December of last year to raise funds for the plaque. The committee brought in $840.40 from numerous Decatur residents, and was purchased for SB3O. from the E. L. Ponader, Co., of Fort Wayne. Judge Parrish had previously stated that the $10.40 remaining from the purchase will ‘be spent in some conection with the fund or plaque.” The solid bronze plaque commemorates the visit here and speech given at the building by the late President Kennedy when he was a senator in 1959.

Tower Erected For New Radio Station

The radio antenna tower for Decatur’s new radio station, WADM, went up Thursday about 100 feet tall, op the lot between High street and the Nickel Plate railroad west of High, but a delay in getting the radio equipment for the downtown station may delay getting on the air, Joseph S. Klarke, manager of lie station, announced today. Klarke stated that the equipment must arrive within two days if the station is to get on the air by May 1. He hopes they will be able to broadcast “live” on Sunday, May 10, for the open house for three Decatur industries; if not, it will be taped and broadcast later. Broadcast Hours The station will operate under the FCC code for daytime stations, and during the month •of May plans to broadcast from 6 a.m, until 7:45 p.m. It will operate on 1540 kilocycles on the regular AM band, and is not an

Statehouse Emptied By Bomb Threat INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — An anonymous, telephoned bomb threat Thursday sent Indiana Statehouse occupants, including Governor Welsh, dashing to the street while state police combed the building. Forty troopers and a bomb squad from Ft. Benjamin Harrison here found no trace of explosives and workers returned to the 85-year-old seat of state government at mid-afternoon. Welsh was in the Statehouse when an Indiana Bell Telephone .Company operator received the anonymous threat that a bomb had been planted in the building. However, Welsh was at lunch in a nearby hotel dining room when the search of the building began. The threat was relayed to Indianapolis Police Chief , Noel Jones who notified members of his own department and then called the Indiana State Police. The two-hour search, directed by State Police Supt. George Everett, turned up no sign of any explosives in the building. Everett said the threat appeared to be the work of a crank. A check with the Indiana Historical Bureau indicated it was the first time the building ever was evacuated because of a bomb threat. Welsh and the other evacuees returned to work about IVz hours after the alarm was sounded. The search went from basement to attic of the four-story structure as officers poked into desks, filing cabinets, waste baskets and behind pictures. The building was evacuated when word of the call was received shortly after 12 30 p.m. EST. Police officers, including Everett, Went from office to office ordering empployes and visitors to get out. The “al| clear” Was sounded around 2:15 p.m., but it was more than' an hou r afterward before things were back to normal. The State Office Building, where 5,000 work across the street west of the Statehouse, was not emptied and work went on as usual. Russell Fleming On North Adams Board Russel Fleming, Root township 'contractor, was unanimously selected for the North Adams Community schools board, replacing Louis Krueckeberg, of Union township, who completes two years on the board June 30, Robert Kolter, Preble township trustee, reported this morning. Kolter stated that he, Wilbur Blakey, and Ed Selking met last night, and that Fleming’s written application looked so good that they chose him unanimously. Fleming lives on road 33, in the second district. He will join Clarence Bultemeier, Preble township, Dr. James Burk, recently reappointed, Rich ard Macklin and Herbert Banning on the board July 1. Fleming, is one of the plaintiffs in the suit against the North Adams community schools, questioning its legality. . • ■

FM station. The new station hopes to be able to cover very strong an ' area bounded by Berne on the south, Vera Cruz, Tocsin, Poe, Hoagland, Monroeville, Dixon, 0., Middlebury O. Willshire, 0., and Wren, O. It may during good hours of reception reach as far as Redkey, Hartford City, Huntington, Churubusco, Fort Wayne and New Haven, Delphos, 0., Celina and Fort Recovery. They will not know for certain until the new tower Is in operation. Access to the tower lot is by a 25-foot right-of-way from High street. The station also owns an orchard propertv on the south side of the Wilbur Foor property, as well as the three-acre tower site. Five More Employes Klarke stated that six families are expected to move irtto the city from Bryan, O. He expected his wife and two children, who will attend the lotal public

Amendment To Bill Is Presented

WASHINGTON (UPD—Senate Democratic and Republican leaders jointly introduced today a jury trial amendment to the civil rights bill intended as a concession to Southern opponents. The compromise amendment provides for guarantee of a jury trial under all sections of the bill when penalties for crim inal contempt of court exceed a S3OO fine or 30 days imprisonment. «- The jury trial provision as written into the House - passed bill would affect only penalties exceeding a S3OO fine or 45 days in jail. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., who cosponsored the .substitute for one offered earlier by Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, D-Ga., said he hoped for a vote early next week. The amendment was introduced by GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 111. Mansfield and Dirksen said they had consulted thoroughly with fellow' senators before ofUrges Democrats To Back Pres. Johnson “All local Democrats should back President Johnson by voting for Matthew E. Welsh in the Democratic presidential primary. Burl Johnson, Democratic candidate for renomination as state representative, said Thursday, while campaigning in Decatur. Johnson, who addressed the Women's Democratic club just a week ago, pointed out that President Johnson is sure of renomination, and that it will greatly strengthen the position of Indiana in the national party if Hoosiers back him strongly. Welsh has promised his delegates to President Johnson on the first ballot, while Gov. Wallace is trying to get Indiana in the Dixiecrat ranks, state representative Johnson pointed oiit. The other candidates in the presidential primary are not even seriously interested, but the winner of the presidential primary will get the first-ballot vote of the state of Indiana. “Since only one ballot is expected, and President Johnson is expected to be renominated by acclamation, it will make the people of Indiana look ridiculous if they are the only state, or one of the few, voting against the president’’ Johnson said. The St. Mary’s township farmercontractor looked very well after his surgery and bout with pneumonia, and is able to be out to campaign a little more each day. Johnson expects to have his full strength back by summer, and will be ready to campaign with vigor next fall. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and continued rather cool. Low tonight in the 30s north, 45 to 54 south. High Saturday mostly in the 60s north, 68 to 74 south. Sunset today 7:32 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 5:54 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers likely. Lows 40s north and 50s south. Highs 60s north and 70s south.

schools, to move in the very .near future. One of the family’s children will attend the Catholic school. Klarke, a former part owner of the Bryan station, sold out to his partners, and went to work for Alma, Mich., the corporation which is starting the local station. A native of New York, he has been in radio all of his life. He is bringing in a completely professional staff, all of his life. He is bringing in a completely professional staff, and is hiring only a local secretary for the time being, he stated. Programming The programming will Include local news, good popular music except for two hours of rock and roll in the late afternoon, and local interest programs, in accordance with FCC rules. Time, has been made available daily and on Sunday to local churches, and to the county agent’s office. The local station will have its •

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sering their amendment. The Senate opened its 39th day of debate on the antidiscrimination measure with discussion of the public accommodations title of the bill. The Senate met until 8:42 p.m. Thursday night, then resumed at 10 a.m. EST. The legislation would ban racial discrimination in voting, public accommodations, education, employment, unions and use of federal funds. The jury trial amendment was but one of three areas being explored by the bipartisan leadership seeking to break the seven-week legislative deadlock. The others under consideration relation to the public accommodations and fair employment sections of the bill. Senate Democratic Whip Hubert M. Humphrey, Minn., the bill’s floor manager, told newsmen, “things are looking great. I’m feeling better all the time.” The Southern-proposed jury trial amendment would assure trial by jury in any criminal contempt case in any federal court. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, DI., said the jury trial amendment he and Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., were working on would not go “outside this bill.” In general, both sides appeared to favor extending to all sections of the bill the limisted jury trial guarantee embodied in the 1957 civil rights law. At present, that guarantee extends only to two sections of this year’s bill. Summer Reading Program Planned Portending school vacation time, Mrs. Jack Knudsen, children's librarian, announced plans today for the 1964 summer reading program at the Decatur public library. The program will be divided into two groups. “The Circus Fan Club” will be for children from pre-school age to those entering the third grade next September. Boys and girls in the fourth through the eighth grades will be in the “Great Exploration” program. In each program, each child will be required to read 10 books by August 31 in order to receive a certificate, according to Mrs. Knudsen. Registration will begin May 11, and the children will begin to read in the program June 1. With the exception of rural children who come to town only once a week children will taken one book at a time until they have read the ten books. Last year, 677 boys and girls registered for the program, with 447 completing the program, Mrs. Knudsen said. There were 13 schools represented in the group. In urging all children in the county to register, Mrs. Knudsen said, “Containing picture books for the youngest through modem classics for teenagers, the shelves of the children’s department of the Decatur public library have a distinguished list of favorite authors and carefully selected books to help make the young reader’s summer an enjoyable and profitable onei” ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■M

own record library, and news broadcasting and taping room-One-half minute of advertising on the station will cost $5.85 for one time, with special rates up to 1095 times at $2.35 a minute; an hour is S4B for one time or $25 each for 1095 times. This compares with an open rate of 84c a column inch for local newspaper advertising, and contract rates starting at 70c down, depending on the number of inches per week or month in the contract. The station does not expect to broadcast editorials of a political nature, Klarke stated, although they will have public feature announcements. One of the newsmen is presently a Democratic precinct committeeman in Bryan. 0., however, and he himself ran as an independent in the mayor’s race there a few years ago, although he considers himself a Republican.