Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 129.

• ’ • • __ ■ Israel’s Leader Meets With Pres. Johnson At Capital This Morning

Mother Os Poe Men Drowning Victim Alva Wells, 68, and his wife, Eva Fryback Wells, 71, of Angola route 1, were drowned late Friday afternoon when their boat overturned on Big Turkey lake, near Stroh. They had been married only a few months, and had moved recently from Defiance, 0., to Steuben county. Mr. Wells, a retired tool grinder, is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Glenn Kiser of Fort Wayne; two sons, Robert E. and Roger D. both of Angola; four grandchildren; one great-grandson; one brother, Curt of Defiance and a sister, Mrs. Audrey Walter of Fostoria, O. Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Mansfield-Mast funeral home in Defiance, with burial in Myers cemetery. Mrs. Wells is survived by three sons, Clarence and Harold Fryback, both of Poe and Russell Fryback of Fort Wayne; fi v e grandchildren; 10 great-grandchil-dren; one brother, Charles Smith of Fort Wayne; and four sisters, Mrs. Hattie Beyers of Lake Wawasee, Mrs. Grace Pohler of Auburn, Mrs. Ella Lamley of Ossian, and Mrs. Minnie Taylor of Fort Wayne, Funeral rites will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Tom Mungovan funeral home in Fort Wayne, with burial in Prairie Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. Former Local Lady ~ Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Lucy Myers, 82, former Decatur resident, died Saturday afternoon at her home, 2425 New Haven avenue. Fort Wayne, after an illness of 15 months. She was a native of Mercer •county, 0., and after living in De. catur, moved to Fort Wayne 35 years ago. Mrs. Myers was a member of the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving, are two daughters, Mrs. HeVn Cox of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Rowena Walters of Clyde, 0., four grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; two brothers, John McGough of Willshire, 0., and Thomas McGough of Celina, O. Services will be held at 1:30 p. m7 Tuesday at the RodenbeckHockemeyer funeral home, with the Rev. Karl Tauber and the Rev. R. E. Vance officiating. Burial Will be in Greenlawn memorial park. Friends may caljat the funeral home until time of "the services.

Consular Pact By U.S., Reds

MOSCOW <UPl>—The United States and Russia today signed a consular agreement paving the way for a Soviet consulate in New York, Chicago or San Francisco and an American consulate in Leningrad. The agreement was the first bilateral pact between the United States and the Soviets since the 19305. It assures American citizens traveling or resident in the U.S.S.R. of prompt access to U.S. officials if they are arrested or detained. Soviet citizens in the United States have similar rights. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko hailed the agreement as another step in lessening cold war tensions, but U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohler warned that, “we have a long way to go before the remaining barriers to free interchange are brought down.” ~ Gromyko said the agreement is a logical step after the nuclear test ban treaty signed by

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Ulman Is Appointed As Police Radioman Gerald Robert Ulman, 28, a 10. year United States Navy veteran, began his duties this morning as a new civilian radio operator with the city police department. Ulman was appointed recently by the city board of works and safety, and began his first day of duties this morning on the 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. shift. He will work with former chief James M. Borders for several weeks while learning the practices and procedures of his new joli. Ulman becomes the 13th member of the city police department, which includes 11 uniformed officers and Ulman and George Stults as civilian radio operators. The department has nine uniformed patrolmen, Jim Cochran, Dick Mansfield, Kenny Jennings, Pat , Nelson, Tom Hoffman, Bill Baumann, Donald Liechty, Victor Strickler and Borders, plus chief Grover Odle and parking meter officer Ray Seitz. Radio Duties The civilian, radio operators are not uniformed and do not have the authority of a patrolman, but remain at the station to handle the police radio, telephone, etc. Having such a radio operator on an eight-hour shift relieves a patrolman of those duties and he is able to patrol in the car, make investigations, etc. The department’s new radio' operator is a graduate of MendonUnion high School in Mercer courity, 0., and was formerly an employe of City Carpet of Fort Wayne, prior to his appointment as the civilian operator. 10-Year Veteran Ulman served in the United States Navy for 10 years, including more than five years overseas. He was a member of the medical corps, and entered the service near the conclusion of the Korean conflict. He resides on route 5, Decatur, with his wife, Phyllis, son Gerald David, aged two and a half years, and daughter Rhonda Lee, three» months-old. He is, however, attempting to locate a home within the city. Ulman was chosen by the board of works over a number of applicants. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and not much temperature change tonight and Tuesday. A few widely scattered light showers likely. Low tonight 44 to 53. High Tuesday 68 to 75. Sunset today 8:07 pm. Sunrise Tuesday 5:19 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday cloudy and cool. Lows upper 40s. Highs near 70. ' ’

the United States, Britain and Russia last summer. — G . He called today’s signing proof that “in spite of inevitable difficulties the two governments can reach understanding on numerous points.” “This tendency could be more evident if the two governments started new efforts for settlement of other, more important, problems,” he added. Gromyko and Kohler signed the documents in the Spiridonovka palace, a Foreign Ministry ceremonial building. The treaty, hammered out in negotiations that began Sept 27, must be ratified by the U.S. Senate and will formally come into being upon exchange of instruments of ratification in Washington. ' The agreement provides that U.S. and Soviet officials be informed within three days of the arrest or detention of each other’s nationals and may visit and communicate with them

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson welcomed Israel’s Prime Minister Levi Eshkol to the United States today with an assertion that "it is not only possible but imperative” that Israeli-Arab problems be peacefully resolved. Johnson greeted die Israeli leader, here for a three-day official visit, at a ceremony on the White House south lawn. Eshkol was accorded full military honors. “We are aware of the problems of political adjustment Is- ; rael faces with her neighbors,” Johnson declared. “We know it is not only possible but imperative that these problems be peacefully resolved, bringing justice for all as well as security for all.” • The President said he was confident that Eshkol’s visit — which was protested last week by Arab ambassadors — will “result in increased understanding' between us and strengthen our already cordial relations.” In reply, Eshkol paid tribute Local Man's Father Dies At Fori Wayne Carl R. Sieling, 71, of 6019 Lake avenue, Fort Wayne father of Merlin C. Sieling of Decatur, died ( Saturday afternoon at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne. Mr. Sieling, a lifelong resident of Fort Wayne, retired in 1961 from his engineering position with the Pennsylvania railroad. He was a veteran of World War I and member of the American ~ Legion. Mr. Sieling was a member of Concordia Lutheran church. Surviving in addition to the son are a daughter, Mrs. Vai Tagtmeyer of Fort Wayne; a brother, Albert Sieling of Fort Wayne, and a sister, Mrs. Lula Huebner of Fort Wayne. Funeral rites will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the D O. McComb & Sons funeral home, with burial in St. John’s cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. John Roege Dies At Home Near Hoagland John Roege, 76, died Sunday I morning at his home on Hoagland route 1 following an illness of three weeks. A retired farmer, he was employed by the Hoagland Grain Elevator a number of years. He was a member of Emmanuel Lutheran church, Wayne Trace, and Adams Post 43, American Legion in Decatur. Surviving are a brother, Herman, with whom he resided, and a sister, Mrs. Arnold Bleke of Fort Wayne route 10. Services will be held at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday at the E. Harper & Son funeral home in New Haven, and at 2 p.m. at Emmanuel church, the Rev. Otto A. I. Mueller officiating. Burial will be in the church Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

within four days. Soviet authorities in the past have detained Americans for lengthy periods of time. The most recent example was the arrest last November of Yale University Prof. Frederick C. Barghoorn who was held incommunicado in Moscow’s Lubyanka prison for 16 days before being released. The Russians charged him with spying. Code of Behavior * At the signing ceremony Kohler said the consular convention would “serve as a code of behavior in our consular relations.” He added ■ “We must recognize, however, that we have a long way to go before the remaining" barriers to free interchange are brought down. I would hope that this convention ... might serve as a stimulus to an even greater flow of ; persons, goods and ideas.”

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to Johnson as one whose “deep dedication to peace, to freedom and to the welfare of ordinary people have aroused hope and confidence throughout the world.” Eshkol is the first Israeli prime minister to make, such an official visit to the United States although his predecessors have come here on a less formal basis. His two days of talks with Eshkol begin a busy week tor the President. Johnson will fly to New London, Conn., Wednesday to address the Coast Guard Academjy commencement, will give a White House lunch Friday for the shah of Iran, and fly to New York Saturday to speak at ceremonies sponsored by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Johnson returned by jet to the capital Sunday night from his Texas ranch after a threeday Memorial Day weekend which saw him address the graduating class at his high school alma mater in Johnson City, Tex., and receive an honorary degree from the University of Texas. The President, accompanied by Mrs. Johnson and their 20-year-old daughter Lynda Bird, drove to the Edison Street Methodist Church in the nearby community of Fredericksburg, Tex., for services Sunday. Johnson also took advantage of the trip home, his first s’im< Easter, to take care of “some family business” in the old homestead at Johnson City and to cast an absentee ballot for a runoff election for congress-man-at-large.

I Rev. A. C. Underwood

Rev. Underwood To Foil Wayne Church The Rev. A. C. Underwood, pastor of the First Methodist church in Decatur for the past three years, was transferred from the local church to St. Joseph’s Methodist church in Fort Wayne, during the closing session of the North Indiana conference Sunday afternoon at Mishawaka. Rev. Underwood, who came to Decatur from Peru, will be succeeded as pastor of the local church by the Rev. Melvin R. Seeger present pastor at Tipton. Hie Rev. W. Noble Greene, who has been pastor at St. Joseph’s Methodist in Fort Wayne, is transferred to the ' Tipton church. Eighty-six changes in pastoral appointments were announced "at the closing session by Bishop Richard C. Raines. No other changes were made in Adams county Methodist churches. The Conference unanimously approved a plan Sunday to step up racial integration of the denomination and invited three Negro Methodist churches into the conference. Invitations to join were extended to Second Methodist at Anderson, Trinity in Muncie and Wiley at New Castle. Delegates voted to ask the 10state north central jurisdictional conference to invite all Negro churches in the area in a similar move.

Memorial Services Held Here Saturday “So on Memorial Day, when you' place a wreath at the grave of someone loved and lost, pray that all those who are working for a world without wars shall attain their goals, so that those to come shall not know the pain of battle,” Max Hobbs, Fort Wayne attorney and Decatur native, said in his Memorial Day address Saturday. In his address, Hobbs told of the first Memorial Day services held in Columbus, Miss., shortly after the Civil War when three women went to a cemetery to decorate the graves of their husbands — and ended up placing flowers on each grave there. Today we honor not only those who were lost to us, but we also honor the spirit of America — that spirit made up of all those individuals to whoml we owe our own lives and our way of life,” Hobbs, the Democratic candidate for fourth district representative, said. Begin at Cemeteries The annual Memorial "t>ay services here began at 9 o’clock Saturday morning at the grave of Joseph C. Laurent in the Catholic cemetery, and then proceeded to the grave of Lester L. Drake, at the Decatur cemetery. Parade marshal Severin H. Schurger led a parade of veterans through the downstown area later, and to the St. Mary’s river bridge on Monroe street, where the Naval war dead were honored. The Decatur Catholic high school band, the color guard and several Girl Scouts also marched in the parade. Five Organizations The parade then returned to the peace monument, located in the rear of the courthouse lawn, where the services were held. All five local veterans organizations took part in the ceremonies, including the Spanish - American War Veterans, the Veterans of World War I, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. Civil Rights Heads Deplore Violence NEW YORK (UPD — Two civil rights leaders today deplored the weekend of violence, vandalism and terror on the city’s subways but warned it was part of a growing sentiment of anger and frustration among Negro youth. Twenty-one persons, most of them teenagers and all of them Neeroes, were taken -in custody Sunday by-police in connection with three separate incidents on subway trains. White victims were .knifed, beaten, kicked, robbed and terorized as they rode in early morning hours and late at night. “There can be no possible justification for this kind of behavior,” said City College psychology professor Kenneth B. Clark, director of Harlem Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU). James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) said the “alleged acts of violence and vandalism are to be condemned no matter who the perpetrators are.” Both said it was “part of something we have been talking about for a long time.” Asked if there were racial undertones. Farmer called the incidents “a reaction, I am sure, al hough not an organized urged quick action aimed at solving the problems that face underprivileged members of minority groups. “They are signs of frustration and anger building up because of failure to get real movement from the city in equal opportunities in jobs, housing and school,” Farmer said of the incidents.

Decatur City Dump Ceases Operations

The Decatur city dump, a longtime sorespot with local residents is now a part of this city’s history. The dump was not opened this morning, for the first time in many' years. It is now closed — to remain that way forever. With the closing of the dump, the city’s new sanitary land fill, located just north of the city limits, opened for business this morning under Edward and Larry Imel. City residents are asked to take their garbage, trash, rubbish, etc., to the new facilities located about a quarter mile north of the St. Mary’s river bridge on U.S. 27. Still Same The procedure is still the same. Mayor Carl D. Gerber and street commissioner Bernard Clark said this morning. Local residents may continue to dump their trash at the new land fill — and the service to city residents is still free of charge. There will be Ji slight charge to persons residing outside the city limits. The Decatur Sanitary Land Amy Aughenbaugh Is Taken By Death Mrs. Amy L. Aughenbaugh, 92, of 201 West Grant street, lifelong resident of Adams counuty, died at 5:35 p.m. Saturday at the Adams county memorial. She had been in serious condition since suffering a fall last Wednesday. She was born in a log cabin five miles south of Decatur Feb. 10, 1872, a daughter of Samuel O. and Melinda Russell - Burkhead, and was married to Edwin L. Aughenbaugh Jan. 1, 1896. Her husband preceded her in death May 24, 1927. She had made her home with Mrs. Clara Dague for the past 12 years. Mrs. Aughenbaugh attended the Nuttman Ave. United Brethren church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. John E. (Helena) Moore of Decatur, Mrs. Ralph (Jane) Kenworthy of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. E. Mary Yager of Brandenton, Fla.; one son, Daniel E. Aughenbaugh of Fort Wayne; one brother, J. W. Burkhart of Toledo, O.; one sister, Mrs. Husta Siders of Fort Wayne; five grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. One daughter, Reba, died in infancy. ♦v Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Sylvester Martin officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Publisher On Trip To Mexico

by Dick D. Heller, Jr. Would a young Decatur area boy and girl enjoy a summer adventure to Mexico this summer, and would they learn much from it, or would it be too tough a trip for them? That’s the question we propose to answer this summer, as we leave for a two-week typically midwestern, summer vacation — or will it be? For we are taking along nine-year-old Allen Smith, who just completed the fourth grade in May at Northwest school, and his parents, Mr. and Mns. Ralph E. Smith, Jr., and our . niece. Miss Barbara Gilliom, who just completed the fifth grade at Northwest. Barbara’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Gilliom, of Union township. Questions To Answer Will a girl or boy enjoy the trip most? Will the American history and geography, and that of Mexico, learned in the fifth grade, make a difference? ( Will the children be able to hold up under three days of heavy driving, with long hours, to get to Monterrey, Mexico, 1,600 miles, in that time? We sure hope so! Because at 7 ?.m. Saturday we all six loaded into our car, and left to start our summer adventure in Mexico. The trip has been in the planning stages since last December, when we decided to try . another working vacation, writing stories, as we did two years ago on a trip to the Far East. By January, we had hotel reservations, information on entering Mexico, and we were studying up on the country, and what we could expect to find

Fill Co., through partners Ed and Larry Imel, entered a bid of sn,000 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. The bid was submitted to the board of works and safety the last day of March, board later awarded the contract to the Imels. The bord had considered the fact that it was costing the city about $13,800 a year to take care of the old dump site, located to the rear of the Youth and Community Center. To Regulate The Imels promised to maintain a garbage and rubbish operation within two miles of the city with the following qualifications and regulations: that the two would be separate, 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 would purchase and maintain adequate equipment and provide for rodent control, plus the contract would be valid for 10 years with the annual change in charges.

Critical California Primary On Tuesday

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — Sen. Barry Goldwater and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller kept fighting for votes today in the final hours of a California presidential pramary campaign with" managers of both candidates predicting victory. The two Republican presidential candidates are matched in Tuesday’s critical primary contest — the last and most important presidential' primary of 1964. The winner gets 86 national convention votes. Rockefeller was flying back overnight from New York, where his son. Nelson Jr., was born Saturday, for a 1,500-mile hedge - hopping trip up and down the state by chartered plane. His schedule called for 12 airport stops beginning this morning at San Diego, up as far north as Chico and back through San Francisco to Los Angeles. If both Rockefeller and Goldwater keep their schedules, they will be holding separaterallies tonight, less than an hour apart, at Los Angeles. Goldwater planned to fly this afternoon from Washington for his airport appearance and possibly a news conference at Los Angeles. He also will appear on a state television hookup to-

in our southern neighbor. For most of us, this will be a first trip. We will start off with an easy 400-mile drive the first day, Saturday, to St. Louis. We plan to go to bed early, and get up early because we want to drive across Missouri on highway 66 to Oklahoma, take the tollroads to City, and then drop down into Dallas, Texas, a 700mile drive, the pext day. And on Monday, when you will be reading this, we plan to drive 600 miles, from Dallas, on to Monterrey, arriving late in the evening. This is a pretty long, grueling drive, but Ralph and I will change off driving, and we will make frequent rest stops for the children. What’s To See? What do we plan to see in Mexico? We won’t have time,, in two weeks, to drive further south, to Mexico City, or Acapulco, so we will be pretty much limited to the mountain valleys and desert of northern Mexico. Will there be much to see there? After studying the situation, Ralph and I decided that there would be plenty to do for the ten days we have scheduled for sight-seeing. Os course we hope to get many good photographs of Mexican life, to show the tremendous progress being made by our southern neighbors. Visit Large Cave On our first day, Tuesday, we plan to recuperate from the long drive, and just rest, perhaps walking around the city. And what kiijd of city is Monterrey? Well, it’s the third largest city in Mexico, behind Mexico City and Guadalahara. It is a city of some 600,000, larger than Indianapolis, and is known as the “Pittsburgh

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The new dumps will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and closed all day Sunday. Something definitely needed to be done about the old dump, as it was approaching 150 feet of the city wells. The state board of health will condemn any wells within 150 feet of a dump, and recently sent a letter to the city council informing them that would have to be done or the wells might have been condemned. The two dumps will end the dumping of garbage at the city’s sewage disposal plant, which has proved to be both time consuming and costly, as well as taxing to the equipment. City Continues Pickup Mayor Carl D. Gerber said today that the city will continue to pick up garbage as in the past, although the new sanitary land fill has now opened. Some persons were confused as to whether or not the garbage would be picked up yet by city garbage* men, or if they were to take their garbage to the new land fill area. The mayor clairfied the situation, explaining that the garbage collection will continue, although new routes and times will be set up in the near future. a

Public opinion polls continued to , indicate that Rockefeller was ahead by what would seem to be a safe margin. However, the poll - takers were qualifying their forecasts and politicians were suggesting that a larger percentage of the Goldwater vote would turn out than of the potential Rockefeller support. Victory forecasts came Sunday from Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel, chairman of the Rockefeller campaign in California, and former Sen. William F. Knowland, the Goldwater chairman. They appeared jointly on the National Broadcasting Co m - pany’s “Meet The, Press.” Knowland said his belief that Goldwater would win by 500,000 votes was buttressed by big turnouts for the conservative “ Arizona senator at campaign rallies Saturday. About 2 million of the state’s 2.9 million registered Republicans are expected to vote. Kuchel said Goldwater was drawing support from a number of extremist volunteer groups which were 3 “menace” to the California GOP. He also charged Goldwater with voting against “responsible Republic canism” in a number of senate votes. ,

of Mexico” because of the heavy steel industries there. On Wednesday we plan to tour Garcia caverns, a large grotto on the side of a mountain near Monterrey; Thursday, perhaps a drive to Saltillo, and see a famous battle site, some anciept Indian ruins, and the grapes growing on the sides of mountains, as in Italy ;j Friday, a swim at Topo Chico, a visit to the steel mills; Saturday we would like to take pictures of a village market, and perhaps some homes; Sunday, of course, the Mexican rodeo, a bull fight if we can find one this offseason, and the open-air evening concert. See Orange Groves The following week we will start with a trip to Ciudad Victoria, south of Monterrey, to see the oranges, cotton, bananas, and other tropical fruits in profusions. Tuesday a nice drive up Huasteca canyon, followed on Wednesday by horseback rides at Chipaque. One of the big treats should be the visit to Cola de Caballo waterfall on Fridty, just before the start of our long trip bacfc, scheduled with the shortest days as our last, so we won’t be too tired when we arrive back June 14! A Sound like fun? Well, a lot can go wrong, and a lot can go right, so we hope you enjoy traveling along with us as we head south across five states into modem Mexico, for a visit with some neighbors of ours, „ Join the trip, and get all of tile advantages, and ' laugh at our troubles, profit by our experience, and have a nice vacation yourselves this summer! And don’t forget to drop us a line, so that we know how good a time you’re having.