Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 116, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1964 — Page 1

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Oregon Holds Primary Today

PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — Oregon Republicans voted today in a free -for - all presidential primary contest still echoing with shouts of denial that anyone was conspiring in a stopGo Id water plot. On the basis of public opinion polls, the silent, absentee candidate, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, was expected to win the primary despite signs of a last - minute surge by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York. Others on the GOP ballot in the six -way race were Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Gov. William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania and Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine. Mild and partly cloudy weather was forecast for most of the state for voting running. from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., PDT. Registration Figures The state has about 853,000 registered voters, including more than 380,000 Republicans. The Republican turnout is expected to be about 270,000. President Johnson is unopposed in the Democratic presidential primary, and the Democratic ballot offers no major contests. Goldwater, who is winning national convention delegates if not public opinion polls, seemed to have written off Oregon, which will send only 18 delegates to the convention. He ob-

Roahrig Head Os Decatur Jaycees f Btl. ' I $ I 11 C. Wayne Roahrig

C. Wayne Roahrig, commercial and industrial engineer with thelocal Indiana & Michigan office, has been elected president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce for the 1964-65 year, it was announced this morning be outgoing president Ralph Biggs. •Also selected by fellow members in a recent election were the following: Dick Johnson, internal vice president; Kenneth Nash, external vice president; Jack Ely, secretary; Pete Sotile, treasurer; Tom Weis, Mike Murphy and Bob Shraluka, directors. Biggs will also serVe as a director for one year by virtue of being past president. The new Jaycee officers will take office June 1, at the annual installation banquet for which plans are now being made. Roahrig has served as the organization’s treasurer during the past year, and is also a former state director for the local Jaycees. In addition to being a member of the Jaycees, Roahrig is a member of the directors of the Decatur Wildcat League. He was Southeast elementary school Cub previously affiliated with the Scout pack. Earlier this year; Roahrig was named receipent of the distinguished service award, made annually by the local Jaycees. Democrot Delegates InviteH To Meeting Delegates to the Democratic. state convention from Adams, Allen, and Wells counties are invited to a meeting at 7:30 p. m. Monday at Hall’s Gas House in Fort Wayne. Clinton Green, Democratic candidate for governor, will address the group. Green has served chairman of the state highway commission, commissioner of the department of administration and chairman of the Great Lakes commission, and as secretary-treasurer of the Indiana port commission.

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viously was more interested in the June 2 primary in California, where his only opponent will be Rockefeller, in a contest for 86 delegates. In both Oregon and California, the delegates are bound by the results of the presidential primaries. On the eve of the Oregon vote, Rockefeller and spokesmen for the draft - Lodge organization were busy denying that they were forming a coalition to stop Goldwater. Ike Reaffirms Neutrality And at Harrisburg, Pa., former President Dwight D. Eisenhower reaffirmed his neutrality in the battle for the GOP presidential nomination and said it would be silly for him to try to stop anyone. Rockefeller, the only contender in the state this week, held a farewell news conference at which he scoffed at a suggestion that signs of increased support for him resulted from efforts to cut down Goldwater. The conservative Arizona senator had not visited Oregon in the previous five weeks. He asserted with emphasis that he would “make no deals” to enlist supporters of other candidates in a stop - Goldwater movement in California, where Rockefeller is the underdog. Many Republicans are convinced that a Goldwater victory in California would put hi m within striking distance pf a presidential nomination.

Moose Celebration To Conclude Sunday

The week-long golden anniversary of the Loyal Order of Moose lodge in Decatur will be concluded Sunday with a Legion of the Moose meeting and class enrollment. The celebration, which opened Tuesday evening with enrollment of a large class of candidates, continues with a district meeting here this evening, and the lodge’s anniversary banquet Saturday evening. Guest speaker for the lodge banquet Saturday evening will be Stanley Stickford, secretary bf the Indianapolis lodge, the fourth largest in the fraternal organization, and executive vice president of the Indiana Moose association. He holds all four degrees of the order, the Moose, Legion of the Moose. Fellowship, and the Pilgrim Degree of Merit. He is a past governor of Moose and a member of the 500 division of the 25 club. The anniversary banquet will be in honor of all members of the local lodge, and in special honor of the 14 living charter members. Meeting Sunday James M. Rawlings, publicity director for the Loyal Order of Moose, and associate editor of the Moose magazine, will be guest speaker at the Legion of the Moose meeting Sunday. Rawlings became associated with the Moose lodge in 1951 when he joined the fraternal organization at Elgin, 111. He served as prelate and as junior governor at Elgin, then governor of the Kewanee. 111. lodge, and three and one-half years as its secretary until assuming his present position at Mooseheart Oct. 1, 1958. Stale Traffic Toll f Is At Least 4CO By United Press International A car-truck • collision Thursday in Owen County claimed one life and raised Indiana's 1964 highway toll to at least 400, a mark which was not reached until May 18 last year. The toll on Hoosier highways at this time last year was 387. Don Keith McCullough. 28, R.R. 1. Quincy, was killed in-’ stan ly Thursday when a pickup truck descending a steep hill went out of control on a curve slammed headon into his car. The driver of the truck, Robert Boyd, 41, Indianapolis, and his passenge-, Joe Burns, about 50. also Indianapolis, were not seriously injured. The death was the seventh reported in the state Thursday with most of them resulting from accidents involving trucks.

Judge In Warning Os Health Dangers To County's Youth

Young Adams county boys and girls are causing permanent, irreversible brain damage by sniffing glue, gasoline and paint thinner, and parents had better watch carefully what their children are doing, and whom they are associating with. Judge Myles F. Parrish warned the 49 members attending the annual meeting of the Adams county mental health association at Berne niursday night. Judge Parrish* also suggested that the 1965 legislature change the laws so that potentially dangerous psychopaths could be placed in containment until proper psychiatric examination, before the court, with full rights, is possible. The present system makes necessary an unreasonable delay that is very dangerous to both the patient and society, he warned. Hold Onto Tank Judge Parrish related that several local youths have been brought before him for mental commitment because of sniffing various ethers, such as those mentioned. One boy would lock his arms around a tank of gasoline, and sniff until he passed out, and when conscious, would do it again. His grandmother even brought him sandwiches so he could eat and sniff at the same time, before he was committed. These things are habit-forming, he warned, and once tried, the youths cannot, by themselves, shake the habit. Just one sniff

Head Os Huge Broker House Kills Himself NEW YORK (UPI) — Vernon C. Walston, onetime California bank clerk who became head of one of Wall Street’s biggest brokerage houses, killed himself with a shotgun Thursday night. The body of the 58-year-old securities magnate and big game hunter was found about 9 p.m. by his chauffeur in his expansive financial district office, the walls of which' are lined with guns and hunting trophies. A double - barreled 20 - gauge shotgun was found on the floor. The chauffeur, Gustav Puigdollers, 55, said Walston had threatened to kill himself while they drove to the office from the wealthy broker’s Park Ave. Ave. apartment. Puigdollers said he was on the telephone ih another room advising Walston’s wife of his threats when the fatal shot was fired. He found Walston shot in the head and lying in an overstuffed chair behind the desk from which he directed the worldwide network of 90 brokerage offices of Walston & Co. Walston was president and a director of the firm. Shot In Head In a statement issued at 4 a.m. today, a Walston & Co. spokesman said the untimely death of the firm's president would not affect its capital status. He said the company’s assets amounted to more than $23 million. Police knew of no motive for the suicide but Walston's physician indicated “he was severely burdened by business pressure, and fatigue. Walston & Co. was known to be involved in several big and highly complex business deals but there was no hint of financial trouble. "“Extremely Overworked” “He must have been extremely overworked, overworked. He was just spent — t r e mendously exhausted,” said Dr. Eugene E. Marcovicci, who had treated Walston for 25 years. M He said Walston had been in good physical health. “The death was definitely a suicide,” said assistant city medical examiner Leonard Di Re.

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1 can lead to permanent brain dam- ■ age, and parents must watch out for even accidental addiction by • those who make model planes, he stressed. Alcohol Dangerous The Adams circuit court judge 1 also stressed the dangers of alcoholism in mental illness, and how one of the best deterrents to 1 youth is the sight qf a stumbling drunk on the streets of Decatur. Judge Parrish stressed the need I for treatment of those who suffer from mental illness. They are sick, and only psychiatrists can help them. Frequently they cannot, and even their closest rela- . fives do not, realize just how sick, and how potentially dangerous, they are. “£t present it is very complii cated to get a mentally ill person ■ committed, unless that person agrees to it. You must get a huge long questionnaire, with 191 questions, and fill it out. Then i the patient’s doctor must be cont suited, and he must sign the petition. Then the court must ap- > point two more doctors to examine the patient, and they must agree. [ Many Hesitate [ “Meanwhile, many of the most ■ dangerous types will have periods ( of relative stability, when to thenown physician, they appear pen- '■ fectly normal, and no medical , doctor, with limited physiatric ex- • S parience, wants to commit a man , « without due cause. [3 “Thus, it frequently takes

Files Contesl Os H. H. Stoner Will Mrs. H. H. Stoner, through her attorney, Tony Bruggeman, of Barrett, Barrett and McNagny, Fort Wayne, filed suit late Thursday to contest her late husband’s will. __ . The suit will tie up sizable donations to the' Decatur First Methodist Church, a Methodist church in Chicago, the Decatur cemetery association, several nieces and nephews, and others. Mrs. Stoner maintained: I. That it was not his will, because he was of unsound mind when he made it out. 2. That the will was not properly witnessed. 3. That she did not get her fair share to which. she is entitled by law. Mr. Stoner, former Chicago businessman, died November 9, at the age of 81, and left an estate believed to be in excess of sl% million, after large gifts before his death. His will was probated Nov. 18, and by it he left one-third’ to his widow, SIOO,OOO to the local Methodist church, $25,000 to the local cemetery, and various other amounts to relatives, friends, .and other cemetery associations and churches. If there had been no will. Mrs. Stoner would have received the entire estate. • Attorney D. Burdette Custer, of Custer & Smith, has handled the estate. A large part of the estate consists of stocks. District Meeting Os Moose Here Tonight About 150 district officers and members are exepected to attend the meettfrg' RF the ’* Adams Lodge 1311 of the Loyal ' Order of Moose in Decatur this evening. The meeting is being held here in observance of the week-long golden ’ anniversary celebration of the local lodge. Every lodge in the third district is to be represented at this evening’s 7 . meeting by its governor, secretary and some members. Included in the third district, in addition to the Adams lodge, are 8 * Angola, Kendallville. Columbia City, Fort Wayne, Auburn, Bluffton, Marion, Dunkirk, Portland, Hartford City and Huntington. Art Turner, district vice president from Huntington, will be in charge of the meeting. Stanley Callow of the local Moose is the chairman for the evening's program'.

months to get a comrnitm,ent, and until all of the papers are signed, all red tape completed, the patient is allowed to remain at large, because the law does not provide for temporary incarceration until all agree he is insane. “Frequently, when a man is obviously troubled, and will really be violent if not restrained, the court must perjure itself, and arrest the man for disorderly conduct, holding him in jail until final papers can be signed,” the judge said. Changes Needed “This isn’t fair to the patient, who should be sent immediately to Norman J. Beatty hospital for treatment. But at present the patients need not be accepted, unless the superintendent approves—they are frequently too crowded or busy to take patients, who must remain in jail, or at the hospital, for long periods. “A simple law, and adequate budget for the mental institutions would help this,” the judge stated. “The present ‘may’ in the law should be changed .to ‘shall’ for admissions. At present, police and health authorities can ask temporary commission, with legal immunity if no malice precedes the act; but any citizen who signs stands the chance of being sued. The citizen should be given the protection of the law, so that he may protect himself and society from those who are obviously insane, and should have treatment,” he said.

Democrat Leaders To Meet Saturday INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The final step in the reorganization of Indiana’s political parties from the precinct to the state level will be taken when the Indiana Democratic State Central Committee meets Saturday morning. A meeting in party headquarters is scheduled for 11 a.m., with chairman J. Manfred Core of Vincennes considered likely to be reelected along with other members of the executive group. The others are Mrs. Mabel Striker of Decatur, vice chairman: James E. Noland, Indianapolis, secretary, and Eugene B. Crowe, Bedford, treasurer. The state committee also will elect a national committeeman and national committeewoman. The present members are Alex E: Campbell, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Margaret Afflis Johnston, Indianapolis. Congressional district party organization meetings Wednesday resulted in reelection of 17 of the 22 members of the old committee. 1116 turnover was considered much too small to create jeopardy to the committee officers, even if such a movement were afoot. The reorganization began at the May 5 primaries when voters elected 4.416 Democratic and a like number of Republican precinct committeemen. The new committeemen then appointed vice committeemen, persons of the opposite sex. The 17,664 precinct officers met in county meetings May 9 and elected county chairmen and vice chairmen, who participated in the district meetings last Tuesday for . the Republic ans and Wednesday for the Democrats. The GOP , state committee, with only five new members among the 22, Wednesday reeltected the old battery of officers headed by Robert N. Stewart of Columbus as chairman. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with chance of some isolated thundershowers extreme north. Not so cool tonight. Low tonight 46 to 54. High Saturday 75 to 80. Sunset today 7=52 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 5:30 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair to partly cloudy and continued mild. Lows mid 50s. Highs near 80.

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MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS in Adams county were outlined by this group, ways to improve the law, and the functions of the state school and psychiatric center in Fort Wayne in helping local people. Pictured above are Dr. Manuel Vargas, director of the adult psychiatric center in Fort Wayne; Judge Myles F. Parrish, main speaker; Mrs. Sherman Stucky, president; James A. Meyers, director of volunteers at the Fort Wayne state school; and Jerry Mast, regional director of the mental health association. —(Photo by Cole)

Mrs. Kalver President Os Mental Health Mrs. Roy L. Kalver, prominent Decatur lady, was elected president of the Adams county mental health association Thursday night to succeed Mrs. Sherman Stucky, of Berne, who has been appointed regional chairman for state school volunteer workers. Mrs. Carl Gerber, wife of the Decatur mayor, was elected vice president of the association, succeeding Chris Lehman. Mrs. Stanley Baumgartner was reelected secretary, and Brice Bauserman was reelected treasurer. Berne Ladies Honored Mrs. Arley Sprunger, adopt-a-patient chairman for Adams county, who led the county to one of the top four in the state in the adopt-a-patient field, and Mrs. Roger Van Gunten, chairman of the Gold Lady volunteers, who work at the state school, received state certificates of achievement for their fine work; the certificates were signed by Mrs. Hazel Kirkpatrick, state chairman of volunteers. Mrs. Stucky reviewed the many accomplishments of the local chapter during the past year, and mentioned that 895 gifts were distributed at Christmas, but that this was only a small part of the continuing program to help those who are mentally ill. Director Speaks Jerry Mast, the regional director of the state mental health association, explained that Adams is one of 19 counties in his region, and that Indiana is divided into four regions, and all 92 counties are organized. Improvements in state law, and state appropriations, for mental institutions, are part of the state association’s program, but education concerning the mentally ill is equally important. Mrs. Ruby Garringer explained at length the Gold Teens program which she had instituted in Wells county. Psychiatric Center Dr. Manuel Vargas, director of the regional adult psychiatric center, that Adams county participates in, spoke briefly, and passed out a leaflet explaining the center’s important functions. Anyone with unrealistic fears, phobias, depression, undue anxiety, excessive use of alcohol, extreme apathy, withdrawal from daily responsibility/ unreasonable bitterness .or hatred, unfounded hostilities, or destructive acts toward self dr society, if 18 or older. may be referred by his or her physimh to the 'b’ffiic for outpatient or clinical trreatment. Fees for such treatment are on a sliding scale based on ability to pay. State School James A. Meyers, the director of volunteer services, closed the . meeting with a 12-minute taped slide program on the Fort Wayne State school, and its 2.000 patients, who appreciate visits and interest by those on the outside through the parties arranged by the Gold Lady and Gold Teen . volunteers.

Following the meeting, a special presentation was made to Judge Parrish of one of the 325 Leia bags hand bags that double as work aprons, made by the volunteers for the ladies at the state school.

Two Church Leaders Split Over Prayer

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Two chunch leaders split today on the issue of amending the constitution to authorize schoolroom prayers. Two top law professors stood together against any change in the First amendment. The churchmen and the legal experts appeared before the House Judiciary Committee as it ended a fourth week of hearings on 147 proposals to override recent Supreme Court decisions barring prayer and Bible reading as required parts of public school programs. Dr. Daniel A. Poling of New York and Philadelphia testified in favor of an. amendment “to make clear that separation of church and state does not mean exclusion of religious practices under proper non-sectarian conditions in public education.’’ Supports One Decision Poling, editor of the Christian Herald said; he supported the high court’?, decision invalidatinging a government - composed prayer in New York. But he said he objected to the thrust of subsequent decisions which he said seemed to lean toward “subordinating religion to irreligion, and indeed, of supporting irreligion.’’ The veteran minister and author said, “surely ... to protect those who, in their freedom. do not believe in God, we should not destroy or restrict the more than century-old commitments of practices of those

Tenant On Johnson Farm Is Satisfied

BILLINGSLEY, Ala. (UPI) — • “My house is as good as most and better than a lot,” said the * 68-year-old farm woman, gesturing toward an unpainted '"i frame structure in a clearing of the wooded countryside. '■ ’ < _Mrs. Willie Cutler was defending her home in a quiet voice that would be heard in Washington and possibly around the nation. The house, and four others on a 3,700 - acre tract in central Alabama, was threatening to become a national political issue. It belongs to Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, and her husband’s opponents were using .it to attack the President’s anti-pover- < ty program. Republican Reps. Dave Martin of Nebraska and M. G. Snyder'* of Kentucky '‘recently visited Mrs. Johnson’s farmland as “poverty investigators.” Claim Poverty They told a Washington news conference Thursday they found “deplorable poverty (and) shocking squalor” and charged that if the President were sincere in his poverty program he would have helped his wife’s tenants long ago. The White House said in a statement that Mrs. Johnson’s income from the land was “approximately 14 cents per acre,” and that the four families residing on the property were there at their own request. The statement said Mrs. Johnson had not received any request for repairs from any of the

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who do believe.” Opposition to prayer amendments came in prepared statements from the Rev. Ben Mohr Herbster, New York, president of the United Church of Christ, and constitutional lawyers professors Paul A. Freund of Harvard University and Paul G. Kauper of the University of Michigan. Would Jeopardise Rights Herbster said neither he nor anyone else could speak for the entire two million members of the United Church of Christ. But he said he personally felt the proposed amendments “would seriously jeopardize the right of all parents to determine the religious faith of their children.” ..... Specifically discussing a proposed constitutional amendment offered by Rep. Frank J. Becker, R-N.Y., and more than 50 other congressmen, Herbster said, “There will be winners and losers if (the amendment) ever should be adopted.” “The losers will be those of us who believe that religious views are too personal, too sacred to be determined by the state or promulgated by the state,” he said in the testimony submitted to the committee. “The winners will be those persons who believe they have a monopoly on religious truth and are willing to employ the power of the state to require all society to accept their version of the truth or to face ridicule and reprisal.”

tenants, most of whom are Negro. “I just want to get Mrs. Johnson to fix the leaks in my house,” said Mrs. Cutler, who, with her husband, Charlie, has lived on the farm for 50 years. ‘"Diese have been wonderful years here,” she said. “I want to stay here ‘till the good Lord takes me away.” No Longer Needed Tenant farmers no longer are needed on the land which is being converted from cotton to more profitable timber growing. But Mrs. Johnson has allowed the tenants to remain as long as they desire. Only five of the 14 tenant houses on the land when Mrs. Johnson inherited it .still..are standing. Four are occupied. “Two pay a cash rent of $5 per month, which is about sufficient to cover the taxes and general management expenses of the property. ’fwo of the other tenants ... continue to pay rent in the form of a portion of their cotton crop," the White House said. The land, until two years ago, was managed by /“Uncle John” Patillo, Mrs. Johnson’s second cousin. Patillo, now 87, said the First Lady came here to live with him and her “Aunt Effie” following her mother's death in Texas. Mrs. Johnson, on a recent visit to Huntsville, recalled her happy girlhood days and watermelon cutting parties In Ala* bama.