Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1964 — Page 1

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SPOTLIGHT ON INDIANA — Indiana’s presidential primary ended up with the political pot at full boil as a result of Alabama’s Gov. George Wallace (left) staging his second northern invasion. His opponent in the contest is Indiana's Gov. Matthew E. Welsh (right), a stand-in for President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Bayh Charges Abuse Os Franking Rights

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Brich Bayh, D-Ind., said Monday he will ask the Post Office Department to investigate what he called “a clear abuse” of the Congressional franking privilege by Rep. Joe D. Waggonner Jr., D-La. Bayh, in a Senate speech prepared for delivery today, will call official attention to “an action by a member of another body that I can only describe as reprehensible.” True to Senate tradition, he will not identify the member in the speech, but he told UPI that the reference was to Waggonner and that he will request an investigation. Waggonner said he would have no comment on Bayh’s charges until tomorrow. Waggoner, Bayh said, '‘has been flooding the State of Indiana with a grossly inaccurate and misleading commentary on the civil rights bill. “To make matters worse, the member has been sending this commentary to thousands of my constituents under his personal frank—a clear abuse of the intent and purpose of the congressional franking privilege that we enjoy.” Bayh said Waggonner inserted in the congressional record an advertisement by the pro-segre-gationist “.Coordinating Committee. For American Freedoms,” then permitted reprints of the material to be mailed into Indiana under the Louisianan's congressional frank. The intent, Bayh said, “was to drum up support through means of half-truths and outright inaccuracies” for Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace is a candidate in Indiana’s presidential preference election, opposing Hoosier Gov.

LB J Plans Second Tour Os Appalachia

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson is going to make another tour of the povertystricken Appalachia region. His new trip will include an address to the Georgia state Legislat u r e, possibly on civil rights. The President, who visited the Appalachiaarea—less—than two weeks ago, plans to leave Thursday morning on a tour that will include stops in Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia. The highlight of Johnson’s trip will be his speech to the Georgia Legislature in Atlanta Friday morning. -There were indications he might deal with the civil rights issue in the address. The first stop on the President’s, itinerary is. .Cumberland, Md . where he will speak briefly. He then will fly to Lockbourne Air Base, Ohio, and proceed by car or helicopter to Athens, 6hio, to join in observance of the 160th anniversity of Ohio University. Topic Os Speech White House Press Secretary George E. Reedy said Johnson would discuss planning of the civilian work corps and federal programs involved in the antipoverty program in his Athens speech. From Ohio. Johnson plans to fly to Knoxville. Tenn., for conferences Thursday afternoon with local leaders on such problems a¥ urban renewal and un-

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Matthew E. Welsh who announced he was a stand-in for President Johnson. Bayh said the situation was spelled out in an Indiana newspaper (Evansville Press; which “clearly indicates the intent of this widespread mailing at the taxpayers’ expense to people other than this member’s own constituents.” On the same theory, Bayh said, he could insert in the Congressional record material sponsored by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, then permit reprints to be mailed under his frank to any state in the union. “I defend the right of any man to express his views on this (civil rights) or any issue—whether they agree with my own views or whether they are contrary to my views,” he said. “But I cannot, in good conscience, remain silent when an attempt is made at the taxpayers’ expense to mislead the people of Indiana or any other state by distortion and misrepresentation of the civil rights bill in order to win votes for a candidate.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight, Wednesday partly sunny, continued warm with chance of widely scattered thundershowers north portion. Low tonight 55 to 62. High Wednesday 78 to 85. Sunset today 7:43 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:40 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and warm with thundershowers west and north by afternoon. Low Wednesday night mid50s to low 60. High Thursday in 80s.

employment. After the Knoxville meetings, he will go to Rocky Mount, N.C., before continuing to Atlanta, where he plans to spend Thursday night. His program called for talks with various governors in the area, including sessions with Gov. Terry Sanford of North Carolina and Gov. Carl Sanders of Georgia. Johnson's speech to the Georgia Legislature marks one of the rare appearances of a President before such a state body. The late John F. Kennedy addressed the Massachusetts Legislature when he was presi-dent-elect. Will Speak Frankly The President is expected to speak frankly to the joint session of the Georgia Legislature, sources said. They suggested the address might be a high point in his drive for civil rights legislation in Congress. Johnson, who will be accompanied by his daughter, Lynda Bird, will visit Gainesville, Ga., Friday and return to Washington that afternoon. On Saturday he goes to New York foi" two appearances, followed by a Democratic political dinner in Atlantic City, N. J., Saturday night. On his first tour of the Appalachian area Johnson visited sections of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana.

10 Americans Killed As Army Transport Plane Crashes In Viet Nam

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Sheriff Gives Out Warnings On Vandalism Sheriff Roger Singleton and his department are conducting a fullscale investigation of some recent vandalism — “malicious vandalism,” as the sheriff explains it. Sometime Saturday night or early Sunday morning, about a dogen stop signs and mail boxes in the northwestern part of the county, Root and Preble townships, were damaged by vandals. The sheriff has asked the aid of citizens in that area in attempting to locate those who are the cause of the malicious acts. “Qur department would appreciate any type, of clues that might lead to the apprehension of those responsible,” the sheriff exclaimed. About three or four mail boxes were torn loose from the posts on which they were located, and several stop signs were pulled from the soft ground and thrown into roads. Annual in Spring Sheriff Singleton said these types of incidents are becoming annual events in the spring by thoughtless individuals out for a “good time.” These types of incidents will continue, it appears, unless it is stopped now, the sheriff said. When the ground becomes harder and vandals are unable to pull up road signs, there will then be cases of signs pushed ove r by motor vehicles. Heavy Loss The city of Decatur will soon be paying over SIO,OOO for a sanitary land fill north of town to be

Early Voting Here Is Heavy

An unusually heavy vote, 49%' heavier than in the primary a year ago, and a little better than 50% of the vote in the November elections of 1962 and 1960, had been cast by noon today. The voting was especially heavy in Decatur 1-A, which includes southeast Decatur, the Homestead, and Parkview Drive; in Decatur-Root, which includes the Central Soya and Homewood areas; and in 2-A, which includes the Stratton area and the main part of Decatur. In addition to races for congress, state representative, auditor, commissioner first district, on the Democratic ticket, the presidential primary is drawing national attention. - ■ . Network Here In fact, one network, CBS,

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Precinct 1964 1963 1962 1960 Voting Regis- Voted Voted Voted Voted Place tered Noon Noon Noon Noon ii, ; ' _ LA—Quonset 531 110 45 200 250 LB—Cannery. 279 75 39 108 129 1- -Jail 303 60 47 144 100 LD—Rambo Garage 387 50 44 148 154 2- Court House t„_ 473 140 102 182 178 2 B—Fire Station 277 89 45 115 106 2- Worthman Field 253 43 26 103 75 3- —Zintsmaster’s 416 110 98 185 226 3-B—Hebble Barber Shop-. 449 73 60 125 180 3-C—Sheets Garage 281 53 39 94 128 D-Root—Decatur Equip. Co.” 348 70 40 130 126 TOTAL 3,997 873 585 1,534 1,652

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Mrs. Grace Gardy Dies At Chicago Mrs. Roy Runyon has received word of the death of Mrs. Grace) Miller Gardy, at her home in Chicago. She was born and reared in Decatur, and formerly taught school. She has several nieces and nephews residing in Michigan. rid of the city dump, which must be done away with in the very near future to prevent two city water wells from being condemned. Word on the land fill, however, was slowed recently due to another “ridiculous act of maliciousness,” according to the sheriff. Edward and Larry Imel, who are providing the land fill for the city, had hired some workmen and equipment to ready the area. Recently, though, a caterpillar being used at the’site had its motor destroyed. Someone had driven the caterpillar around the area, and wad then unable to turn it off when finished. Afttd throwing mud in the machine’s fan, which did not shut it off, it was just left to sit with the motor idling. O It was estimated that the motor idled for approximately 24 hours, and then finally burned up, and was a total loss. It will cost the owner several thousand dollars to replace it, sheriff Singleton explained. A large crane parked at the land fill site was also “hit,” the sheriff said, as several wires were torn from the machine. “We want to put a stop to these annual vandalism incidents, that seem to come with warm weather, immediately," sheriff Singleton said. “We are urging the support of all city" and county residents in attempting to halt further incidents and locate the persons responsible for the recent ones,” he concluded.

working with Walter Cronkite at Indianapolis, has a direct wire from the Adams county court room, where votes will be tallied, to Indianapolis and New York. NBC will be relayed from newspaper offices all over the state in Indianapolis. ‘ . A check of the 11 Decatur precincts shows that of the 3.997 registered to vote this time, 873 have voted, compared with 585 in the 1963 city elections. In the 1962 general election, in November, 1,534 had voted by about noon, and in 1960, the previous presidential year, in the November election, 1,652 had voted. The precinct-by-precinct breakdown,. whichwas obtained between noon and 1:15 p. m. today, is as follows:

SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) — A twin - engine U. S. Army Caribou transport plane crashed in flames shortly after takeoff south of Saigon today, killing 10 Americans and 5 Vietnamese. It was the worst single disaster to American forces since the outbreak of hostilities in the Vietnamese anti - Communist war. A U. S. military spokesman said the crash took place at Tan Hiep air strip, about 25 miles from Saigon in nearby Dinh Tuong Province. Before today’s crash, the worst incident involving. American military men in Viet Nam had been the twin crashes of two H 34 U.S. Marine Corps helicopters in the mountains of central Viet Nam. 'Die helicopters were shot down by Communist ground fire with a loss of 12 American lives. Comjnunist guerrillas long have made it a practice to fire on planes landing and taking off at such strips as Tan Hiep, as well as at Saigon Airport. But it was not known immediately whether the plane was shot down J>y the Reds or crashed because of mechanical failure. The plane’s pilot radioed the Grabill Speaks To Decatur Lions Club “The North Adams community schools have arrived at a point where educational standards may be at stake which will effect the educational opportunities of its boys and girls for the next 20 years.” This was a point stressed by superintendent Gail Grabill in a talk Monday evening to the Decatur Lions Club at Four Seasons restaurant. According to the superintondent, increasing enrollment pressure plus the rapidly changing and expanding demands of modern education, especially in the area of curriculum, requires the school district to take action to meet the challenges and do it soon. If the challenges are not met, the boys and girls of today who will be deprived of adequate educational opportunities to meet the needs of the times will be in 20 years be citizens starting to 1 help run the community and country. “One of the great challenges here, as throughout the nation,” Grabill said, “is the school dropout problem. Nationally about 20% of the boys and girls who enter next fall’s first grade will never finish school. Many of these dropouts, if nothing is done, will be added to the welfare burden of the country or become even worse problems. Thus, the matter becomes a concern for every citizen and taxpayer. As of now, about half of these dropouts could not be saved by schools unless the attitude of the dropouts’ parents is changed. This challenges the school systems and education to build a better program of school-parent commnunications and understanding.” Grabill stressed the need of civic organizations like the Lions to take a greater interest in local vocational education. “Vocational education is an area of vital concern to business and industry in the training of employes •and it is an area of vital concern to schools which needs the help, interest and cooperation of business and industry,” he concluded. There will be no regular meeting of the* Lions club next Monday evening. Instead, all members are being urged by attendance captains Herman Krueckeberg and Jack Gordon to join other Decatur service and civip . organizations in attending the appreciation dinner at the Community Center honoring Decatur’s three Industrial Park industries. Tickets have been mailed to members and cancellations should be in by Wednesday.

airstrip shortly after takeoff that one of his engines was on fire, the spokesman said. The plane exploded and burned on impact, the spokesman added. Medical personnel rushed to the scene had difficulty in identifying the charred remains of the passengers. The crash came in the wake of a disastrous weekend of violence against Americans helping the Vietnamese government in its fight to crush the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas. Last Saturday, Communist frogmen were believed to have slipped through security guards to plant an underwater mine against the side of the U.S. aircraft ferry Card, blasting a 28foot hole in its side and sinking it in the muddy waters of the Saigon River. Nope of the 73 civilian crewmen was hurt, but the ship was put out of commission. Hours later, other Communist terrorists threw a hand grenade into the midst of a group of American servicemen on the Saigon riverfront near the scene of the Card sinking. Eight Americans were wounded in this attack. The plane left Saigon this morning for the Mekong River Delta region to the south. It was returning to the capital when the crash occurred about 25 miles southwest-of Saigon.’ The spokesman said there were 11 passengers and 4 crewmen aboard. The American crewmen were based at V u n g Tau airfield, southeast of Saigon.

Report Early Voting Spotty

INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Early voting in Indiana’s tempestuous primary was spotty, with no definite indication that a record balloting would be recorded. Vanderburgh and Allen Counties reported fairly light beforenoon voting, reportedly due to a long list of candidates which caused lines to form at the voting places. Floyd County also reported few voters in the early hours. A heavy early total was reported from the Democratic citadels, Lake and Vigo Counties, however. There was no heavy early count in Indianapolis except in the fashionable northside. Because of the bitter battle between Governor Welsh and Alabama Governor George C. Wallace in the Democratic presidential race, observers had believed that the voters would flock to the polls soon after their opening at 6 and 7 a.m., EST. Also, ideal weather, sunny and almost cloudless in most localities, had been expected to swell the early-bird balloting. Only a few instances were reported* of challenges to Republicans attempting to switch to the Democratic primary in behalf of Wallace. Although a number of poll workers reported known Republicans cross in g over, Democratic officials seldom forced the signing Os an affidavit. '■ In Evansville and in Lake County, voting was large in the Negro precincts, but it was rather light to medium in the Indianapolis Negro area. ’ Challenging of switch - over vote was practically non-exist-ent in Evansville because' Joseph O ’Day, Vanderburgh County Democratic chairman, issued a no-challenge order to his party workers. An illegal slate of South Bend delegates to the Democratic state convention was confiscated by police by order of the St. Joseph County Election Board. South Bend and St. Joseph County reported “fairly heavy” early balloting.

Parents' Night At D. H. S. Thursday Incoming parents’ night will be held at the Decatur high school gym Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. “This sixth annual meeting should be our largest in the series,” said Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur high school principal. He. added, “each year we find ■greater interest on the part of our parents, and it is possible for them to learn about our program as well as where each youngster can fit into it ” Last year, more than 80 per cent of the families were represented, and an even higher portion is expected this year. Profiles, school handbooks, job trends and reference sheets are included in the packet of materials for each set of parents. These papers may be picked up in the gym lobby, each group divided as to school and section.” Marsha Basham, Theresa Girod, Vicki Lehman, James Norquest, James Cass and Tom Fuelling will be present to distribute materials for the parents. - A coffee hour will follow the 8 o’clock meeting for further informal discussions with those in charge of the meeting.

There was fairly brisk voting in Anderson and Madison County with no evidence of substantial crossover and few challenges. There seemed to be only mild interest in the tame contest between Arizona Sen. Barry M. Goldwater and former Minnesota Gov. Harold E. Stassen in the GOP presidential primary. The Arizonan was the overwhelming favorite. The afternoon voting, however, was expected to be terrific, perhaps bearing out forecasts of a total of about one million, with about half for each major party. It was the head-on faceoff between segregationist Wallace and favorite son Welsh, who waves the banner of Lyndon B. Johnson, which has stirred up the hottest Hoosier primary in modern history. Most observers watched to see whether Wallace would score as much, or better, as the 34 per cent which he racked up in last month’s Wisconsin primary. The Wallace cry after Wisconsin was “we won without winning.” On the eve of the Indiana showdown, he said, "I’m feelin’ good.” Welsh, a lame duck governor who acknowledges he has made enemies in his own party by backing a state sales tax, felt that the support of labor and religious groups strengthened his hand within the last 10 days. “I’m under no illusion that I’m the most popular man in Indiana,” he told a UPI reporter. But he'felt that an “education campaign” had steeled the ranks of a state Democratic organization which has elected two U.S. senators and a governor within the last six years. Hie weather forecast for the primary was, good Hiundershowers threatened to dampen the polling places when they opened at 6 or 7 a.m. EST, depending on their location in the state. But the prediction for the rest of the day was sunny and warm, with temperatures ranging between 75 and 85. ,

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Ralph W. Sauer To Join Daily Democrat ■ I

Ralph W. Sauer

Ralph W. Sauer, accountant and parts manager with the L. R, Zintsmaster Motors Co. for the past 11 years, joins the business staff of the Decatur Daily Democrat today. Sauer left immediately for Indiana University, where he will gain experience in the use of business accounting machines prior to the conversion of the Decatur Democrat office to mechanical bookkeeping July 1. He will train under Prof. J. Poynter McEvoy, of the Indiana University school of journalism, and at the Martinsville Reporter, a daily newspaper now using a similar system. A 1947 graduate of Decatur high school, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Sauer, of Decatur, Sauer is a veteran of two years military service in the U.S. Army, and rose to the rank oi sergeant first class in nine months combat duty in Korea. Sauer has had training in the General Motors accounting system, which is a double-entry system based on machine bookkeeping methods. He is married to the former Marilyn Foor, and they have three children: Rhonda, .5; Michael, 3; and Carla,, 7 months. The Sauers are members of the Zion Lutheran church of Decatur. Replacing Sauer at Zintsmasters are Ralph Jones, who took over management of the parts department, and Mrs. Sondra Dierkes, , who will handle the bookkeeping system.

East Root Voting Place Is Changed

The Adams county commissioners, hampered by the illness of county auditor Edward F. Jaberg, met all day Monday and signed the vouchers for the bills, changed the voting place for East Root for the third time, and accepted the monthly report from the county home. After lunch the commissioners investigated a bridge in Union township, and a tile in Root township, before returning to the court house for a final meeting. One of the ladies staying at the county home was discharged during the month to a rest home, and one of the men was taken to the State school in Fort Wayne, leaving 14 men and eight women at the end of the month, tor a total of 22, compared with 15 and nine, or 24, at the first ’of the month. • . The voting place was originally set by the commissioners, at the vocal request of Jack Zehr, at his garage. Zehr later complained, and tojd the commissioners that he would rather it be at the bathhoil’.e, if it didn’t rain, so they changed it to the bathhouse. Later that afternoon, Zehr called for the commissioners again, and the county attorney, David A. Macklin, who told him it would have to be one or the other. Zehr told him the garage, and this was printed. Then Monday Zehr called again, and said that his garage was packed full of stuff, that it looked like nice weather, and he’d rather have it at the lake and bathhouse. So it was changed back, for the third time. North Adams Board To Hear Architects The North Adams community schools board will meet in special session this evening at ■ 7 o’clock to hear the proposals of two architects for the proposed additions to the Monmouth school. At 7 p.m. representatives of Humbrecht and Sherbondy, a Fort Wayne architectural firm, will make their proposals, and at 8 p.m. A. M. Strauss will make their proposals. The board will meet again Wednesday at 7 p.m. to hear two more proposals.