Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1964 — Page 1

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■" 1 " ■■■ ' - r r c 1A m 17 VICTOR PORTER, right, boat company president, and vice president for sales, Tom Miller, left, examine one of their new model boats. The company has rapidly expanded in the modern boat field, and as leisure time and higher wages allow more and more people to buy boats, they expect their business to continue to mushroom. They will he on hand for the open house this Sunday from 2:30 p. m. until 4 p. m. at their factory in the industrial park.

Duo, Inc., One Os Leaders In Field

Duo, Inc., one of the three Decatur industries located in the Decatur Industrial Park, which will hold an open house from 2:30 until 4 p.m. Sunday, and will be honored by a dinner by the Decatur service clubs Monday evening, is now one of the top 20 companies in the small pleasure craft field in the United %tatee. Started in 1958 Started in 1958 with five employes as Duo-Marine, Inc., the reorganized company has now expanded from its original site on Jefferson street and the Pennsylvania railroad, and employs 135 in Decatur, 60'rfidre at us new Michigan aluminum boat plant. Victor Porter, president, and Neil Hesher, vice president for production, organized the comSecretary Os C. C. Lauds Wildcat Loop W. Guy Brown, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, today called the Wildcat League “a sound investment in our community.” “A sure sign of a growing city is the interests that citizens show in their boys and girls. Wildcat, which emphasizes development of boys, rather than only competition in baseball, is an important program,” Brown added. “I'm glad to see that the whole munity will have a chance to back the league through inexpensive booster stickers.” Brown referred to the Wildcat sticker, slated for Wednesday, May 13. Wildcat League boys will attempt to reach each home in the Decatur area between 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. offering Wildcat stickers at sl. “I think the fact that these boys are turning out for the sale in such great numbers, and being so active in obtaining support for their league, is a real sign that they love baseball, and want

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pany in an old ice cream plant. The company now produce eight models of glass boats in Decatur, 12 models of Duo boats, 12 Duo aluminum boats at the Mottsville, Mich., plant, and 16 models of Aqua-Swan, aluminum boats. Headquarters for both divisions, fiber-glas and aluminum, are in Decatur. Second in Indiana As the second largest producers of runabouts in Indiana, Duo, Inc., has experienced steady growth, and its salts staff, under the competent management of vice-pre-sales Thomas R. Miller, haS*lxpAn<le& aKeaa of production, providing new markets for the many models of boats. Duo, Inc., has the largest plot of land sold so. far in the Industrial No Damage Caused By Fire Thursday No damage was done Thursday evening when some dry sul> stances outside the sewage disposal plant on the Monmouth road caught fire. Workmen at the plant were burning some boards and trash when the blaze began to spread. Firemen were called around 6:30 p.m. and soon extinguished the fire. their Wildcat League to survive,” Brown added. The Wildcat League drew over 400 boys into organized baseball last summer. The program emphasizes the development of boy’s skills through professional coaching as well as actual experience. The philosophy that “Everybody makes the team, and everybody plays the game” appeals to the large number of boys who are unable to participate in other youth leagues in the area. Wildcat League boys, with the May 13 sticker sale, are attempting to raise most-of the 1964 budget set at $4,800. „ —— t

Park, 10 acres. They presently have future plans that will take most of this area. Miller stated. From $99 to $3,000 Already Dou, Inc., is selling both aluminum and fiber-glass boats, ranging in price from $99 prom to a $3,000 deluze model, in all 48 states, and Canada, and future plans call for a world market within a few yeans. The recent addition of an aluminum line gives Duo the ability to 1 o a d mixed lots of boats — aluminum and fiber-glass — to any one dealer. This is expected to more than double business, Miller said. - The company exhibiti' in New York and Chicago shows each year, and this year one of their boats won the Orange Bowl regatta Jan.. 2. Jury Selected For James Hoffa Trial CHICAGO (UPI) — A jury was sworn in in the James R. Hoffa S2O million: fraud trial after two weeks of painstaking selection today and testimony was expected to begin Monday. The opposing sides agreed on a jury of eight men and four women. hardly an hour after the government had used up the last of its 18 peremptory challenges. The defense used its last peremptory challenge—by which a prospective juror can be dismissed without stating a cause —Thursday. Four alternate jurors must still be selected before the opening statements of a trial which is expected to last through the spring and much of the summer. The speed with which the last four jurors were Selected, however, indicated there woiild be little difficulty in sitting the alternates. The selection process was especially arduous because U.S. District Court Judge Richard B. Austin has ruled that the jury will be locked up for the 5 duration of the marathon trial. K

Decatur* Indiana, 46733, Friday, May 8,1964.

Johnson Makes Plea For t ■ Racial Tolerance, Equal Opportunity For Citizens

Exchange Student I Is Rotary Speaker | Leo Gavilli, the American! Field Service foreign exchange! student from Florence, Italy, who* has been spending the school year* at the home of the Severin Schur-; gers, described his native Italy* geographically and historically at? Thursday evening’s meeting of" the Decatur Rotary club. WilburnPetrie was program chairman. The speaker said Italy was| about twice as large as Indiana * but had 50 million people living • there. Shaped Jike a boot, it isf over 700 miles long, 250 miles s wide, with the sea on three sides.? Ulis long coast line is the mostg highly developed part of thecountry which is tour-fifths hills * and mountains. Gavilli said the American diet® is quite different from the one. Wine is served with meals, but ice cream and cokes are' avoided. ’ C Italy is 99% Catholic and that'* religion is taught in all schools. The textile industry‘is the largestthere with chemical, machinery and food processing important' also. Tourism has recently become large with about 16 million visitors each year. The government controls TV, the railroads, cigarettes, and even has a monopoly on salt. The state also controls education, which both tuition free and compulsory through the eighth grade. High schools offer a five-year course in classical, scientific, or teacher training fields. There are 27 uni-J versifies in Italy and many arecenturies old.Traces History The American Field Service' student briefly traced Italian history through its settlement from Asian sources, its Roman control, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, two world wars, and finally establishment of the republic in 1946. He also told of Florence and the part it has taken in Italian history. Gavilli said he believed American teenagers get too much freedom, which may account sor J some of their problems. He was impressed by the friendly attitude he noted between American students and teachers. He also feels our free enterprise system is working very well in contrast to his country, where the Socialists advocate nationalization of almost all industry. Jim Becker and Mike Reynolds, juniors at D. C. H. S., were guests of the Rotary club, as members of the AFS chanter in this city. William Crosby spoke briefly on behalf of the Prentiss Institute in Mississippi. President George Auer announced that the Rotary club will cooperate with the Chamber of Commerce and attend the industrial appreciation dinner Monday evening at the Community Center. _ 200 Parents Attend Meeting At School More than 200 parents were in attendance at the sixth annual parents’ night at the Sfcscatur high school gym Thursday evening. “It was! highly gratifying to observe the increased concern of our parents.” Hugh J. Andrews, nrincipal. stated. “This was our finest crowd in this series of meetings and we all can nrofit immensely from this experience,” he Continued. Soecific profile sheets were provided for each student represented. as well as other information pertinent to the operation of the school and the functions of the guidance department. Much Os this material wil be sent to those parents who were unable to attend. They are asked to contact th? school for any clarification desired. Refreshments prepared by the sonhomore home economics’ class under the supervision of Mrs-. Phyllis Houk, were served b y Carolyn Lang, Carolyn Roloff, and Deedra Murray.

ATLANTA (UPD—President - Johnson, openly delighted with 2 the crowds that gave him his ~ biggest personal ovation since 2 taking offic#, wound up his L hectic two-day tour of the Ap- _ palachian region today with a r plea for racial tolerance and 5 equal opportunity for all. - The chief executive was ■ cheered by an estimated one “ million persons in his six-state P swing, but by far his warmest L welcome was in Georgia, the p heart of the Confederacy and £ the home of Sen. Richard Rus- ? sell, the South’s congressional 6 leader in the fight against the | civil rights bill. 3 Johnson’s final major talk, 5 his 17th since starting out in jj Maryland Thursday, was on £ Roosevelt Square in Gainesville, E situated in the foothills of the 6 north Georgia mountains about ■j* 55 miles north of Georgia’s capital. ~ “Full participation in our ? society can no longer be denied gto men because of their race, p religion ‘or region,” Johnson *7 told the estimated 60,000 per- ?• sons who turned out to hear the speech at Gainesville. ■i The crowds at Gainesville were as enthusiastic as they ' had been during the other stops and Johnson said he was - “thrilled.” “I have never been received anywhere in the world better than I have been received in Georgia,” he declared. He was said to feel the trip constituted his biggest personal oration since taking office. An estimated half million persons turned out to see the IJresident in Atlanta, where he ad- - dressed a breakfast meeting of 2 the Georgia Legislature. “I have never seen as many _ people gathered anywhere in my life,” said Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins. In his Atlanta breakfast talk the Texas-born President urged fellow Southerners to ignore the “tattered and discredited banners” of racial extremists. Johnson spent 15 hectic hours Thursday whipping through six states of the poverty stricken Appalachia area. He rubbed el■“Tfows with sharecroppers and governors and told the people he was there “to listen snd to learn” and to show them he cares. With only a few hours sleep, Johnson was back on the crowdlined Appalachia trail bright and early today. The president said that while racial problems have deep roots in Southern soil, “they also trouble the passions of men on the shores of Maryland, in the slums of Philadelphia and in dark streets of New York.” He reminded the Georgia lawmakers we are one nation and, urged against heeding those “who seek to stir old hostilities and kindle old hatreds. A crowd of several thousand persons broke through police barricades and surged forward for a better look at the President when he' emerged from the hotel where the breakfast was held. The President shook hands with scores pf well-wishers, many of them children carrying American flags, while police struggled to unsnarl the crowd and get the motorcade going. Johnson finally climbed in the closed car, rolled down the window and continued shaking hands. Switches To Convertible Heavy crowds, liberally sprinkled with high school bands, lined Johnson’s route through ’ Atlanta and the Chief Executive changed from a closed car to a convertible to get a better look. ' INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudv, windv and warm with scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Turning cooler late tonight. Saturday partly cloudv and coaler. Low tonight 58 to 64. High Satnrdav in the 70s. Sunset today 7:46 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 5:37 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair and mild. Lows in the 50b. Highs in the 70s. j i

I & M Seeking Reduction In Electric Rate Indiana & Michigan Electric company today announced that it is seeking a rate reduction amounting to $383,000 annually. It will mark the second consecutive year that I&M has reduced its electric rates. - R. E. Doyle, Jr,, I&M vice president and general manager, said the new rates were filed today with both the public service commission of Indiana and the Michigan public service commission. Subject to commission approval, the lower rates would become effective on bills issued in July for electric power used in June. Benefiting from the new rate reduction, Doyle said, would be large users of electricity among residential customers, as well as electrically heated schools, municipal street-lighting installations, and large industrial and commercial customers of the utility. The rate changes result in savings of $312,000 annually for Indiana customers of the utility and $71,000 annually for customers in Michigan. Residential and farm customers in the two states alone will save $300,000 annually. Coupled with rate reductions which became effective in 1963, amounting to some $392,000, reduction in rates to customers of I&M exceeds three-quarters of a million dollars annually. I&M rates have been designed of electric power for all purof electric power so rail purposes at a steadily declining rate and to extend to all residential and farm customers a one-cent-per-kilowatt hour rate, Doyle * said. Primary Factors He attributed his company’s ability to offer customers a second rate decrease to two primary factors: 1. Confidence in today’s favorable business climate enhanced by the recent federal income tax cut, and 2. The construction of new facilities utilizing the most advanced technology to produce greater efficiencies and economics in the mass generation, transmission and distribution of electric power. The I&M vice president and general manager said the company would spend $236,000,000 in the next seven years as a part of the sl-billion expansion program of the American Electric ' Power system. The greater use tomers and the federal income of electric power by its custax reduction were major influences in embarking on this program, Doyle said. * Doyle cited the efficiency of I&M’s new 600,000-kilowatt gener-

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John R. Worthman Found Dead Today

John R. Worthman, 63, prominent Fort Wayne home builder, developer of the Stratton Place addition in Decatur, and well known throughout this area, was found dead at 5 o’clock this morning in the garage at his, home, 5120 South Wayne avenue, Fort Wayne. Dr. E. H. Mendenhall, Allen county coroner, ruled death a suicide by hanging. Members of the family and business associates reported Mr. Worthman had been despondent in recent weeks because of ill health. He was born in Craigvjlle but had resided in Fort Wayne for the past 40 years. In addition to the Stratton Place addition in Decatur, Mr. Wortiiman. president of John R. Worthman, Inc., developed a housing area in Huntington and five areas in Fort Wayne. . „ Mr. Worthman was a member of Plymouth Congregational church in Fort! Wayne. Active all his life in civic affairs, he was president of the Fort Wayne Commercial College, was a member of- -eeverai Masonic bodies, a charter member of the Fort Wayne YMCA, and member of the Lions club, United Commercial Travelers, Fort Wayne Executive club, Fort Wayne board of realtors, and various home builders associations. Funeral Monday Survivors include his wife, the former Alice Yaney; one daughter, Mrs. Ronald Flohr of Fort Wayne: one sori, Jack R. Worthman of Fort Wayne; eight grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Martin Gahman of Craigville, Mrs. Ernest Sills and Mrs. Hermas O. Mahler, both of Fort Wayne, and two brothers, Chauncy Worthman of Bluffton, and Ford Worthman of' Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Plymouth Congregational ating unit at its Tanners Creek plant in Lawrenceburg as an example of the new concept in the mass generation of electric power. This mammoth new generating unit is expected to establish a new record in the efficiency of the conversion of coal into electric energy, when it is placed in commercial operation in the next few weeks. I&M generating capability will exceed 2,000,000 kilowatts with the placing into service of the new unit at the Tanners Creek plant, more than that of any other Indiana-based utility.

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church, with the Rev. Lawrence Fairchild officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the ChalfantPerry funeral'home from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and from 12 noon to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday. John R. Worthman School Reporters Are Honored At Dinner Thursday By Marilyn Knudsen Honoring the nine girls who have served as school reporters during the 1963-64 school year, the Decatur Daily Democrat held a dinner at the Fairway restaurant Thursday night. At each seat was a place card inscribed with the names of all the reporters and the schools they represented: Marilyn Knudsen, Decatur; Joan Gase, Decatur Catholic; Patty Schurger, Decatur Catholic; Judy Hirschy, Adams Central; Sandy Nycum, Hoagland; Phyllis Franke, Hoagland; Terry Bollenbacher, Crestview; Dianna King, Monmouth; and Kathy Lewton, Monmouth. Representing the Democrat, Dick Heller, president and publisher; Mrs. Connie Mitchel, society editor; and Mrs. Mary Erp, circulation manager, served as the hosts. After the dinner, Mrs. Mitchel presented each of the girls with a certificate of award, commemorating appreciation for her work, and a tote bag for her personal use. In leaving, the girls expressed their gratitude both for the lovely gifts and the opportunity to explore the field of journalism for a year. Miss Judy Hirschy and Miss Sandy Nycum were unable to attend the dinner.