Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. NO. 130.

Johnson Reaffirms U.S. Determination To Help Defend Southeast Asia

Local Lady's Father Is Taken By Death Vess E. Miller, 75, of Fort Wayne route 2, died Sunday night at Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient 10 days. He was a native of Paulding county, 0., but had resided in Allen county most of his adult life. Mr. Miller retired from the General Electric Co. 15 years ago. * Surviving are his wife, Katie; two sons, Paul J. and Ronald L. Miller of Fort Wayne; five daughters, Mrs. Conrad Monroe of Inkster, Mich., Mrs.'Voil LaTourette and Mrs. John M. Howard, both of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Furman Smith of Lake Wales, Fla., and Mrs. Elmer Fuhrman of Decatur route 1; a sister, Mrs. William Haines of Fort Wayne; 21 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Funeral rites will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Getting funeral home in Harlan, with the Rev. H. H. Backs officiating. Burial will be in Scipio cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. today. Wells County Agent - To Porter County Hubest Reinhold, Wells county agriculture agent for the past six years, has resigned to aciept a similar position in Porter county, effective July 1, with offices at Valparaiso. Reinhold was an assistant in the Whitley county office before moving to Wells county. His successor, will be announced by Purdue University.

Touring Editor In St. Louis

Picture On Page Eight By Dick Heller, Jr. May 30, 1964 St. Louis, Mo. Saturday was a beautiful day for driving across Illinois and Indiana, and after Memorial Day stops in Springfield, 111., to see Abraham Lincoln’s tomb and home, we arrived safely in St. Louis, Mo., across the Mississippi, about 4:30 p.m. ’ We had been a little apprehensive about the first day, because two members of the six-man “crew” have gotten a little carsick in the past. But modern drugs, like dramamine, prevented anyone from the least upset. Driving west out of Decatur, we followed highway 224 to Huntington, then took highway 24 across Indiana and Illinois to U. S. 66. Lucky Break We were lucky at our first service station stop in Logansport. A car from Texas pulled in for gas, and we talked to the man, who had just arrived from Dallas, where we are headed. He gave us two good ideas for shortcuts that will save us two hours on our “long” day of driving, Sunday. One is a stretch of 4-lane highway, and the other a short cut to miss mountains and narrow roads in Oklahoma by cutting off the turnpikes, and missing Oklahoma City. By 11 o’clock we had seen several Memorial Day services, with their parades of veterans, and everyone was quite hungry, so as we intersected highway 66, we stopped for lunch. Visit Lincoln Tomb Through Illinois, highway 66 has several very good restaurants for tourists, and we stopped at one of these. Then we headed south through Illinois for Springfield, the capital, to visit the tomb of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. The Memorial Day crowd was large, and impressive at beauti-

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Accepts Call From Missionary Church The Rev. Leroy Rusher, of Martinsville, has accepted a call from the congregation of the Missionary church of this city tp f become pastor of the church, effective Sept. 1. Rev. Rusher will isucceed the Rev. Gerald I. Gerig, pastor of the Decatur church for the past eight years, who resigned recently to accept pastorate of the First Missionary church in Berne, also effective Sept. 1. The new pastor is a graduate of Fort Wayne Bible College, and held pastorates in Mooresville, Dodge City, Kan., and Celina, 0., before becoming pastor at Martinsville. He has done a great deal of promotional work for the foreign department of the Missionary church association. » Rev. and Mrs. Rusher have two daughters, Rebecca, age 16, and Deborah, age 13. Hearing Tonight On 75-Cenf School Fund The first of two public hearings on a proposed 75-cent building fund levy, for 12 years, for the North Adams community schools, will be held at 8 o’clock this evening before the school board, at Decatur high school. The 75-cent levy is the same amount that the former Decatur school city had for some time, and the levy so rthe North Adams schoools has been proposed to raise approximately $2.2 million to continue improving all schools in the system. The levy will permit school building and repairs to keep the system up-dated with the population increase, and will mean that the system will not have to go into any complicated .bonding

ful Oak Ridge cemetery in Spring-1 field. Springfield is a little smaller than Fort Wayne, and it was quite easy to find all the places of interest. The tomb itself, constructed of nine different types of marble and completed in 1874, is topped by a 117-foot spire. A truly international crowd was assembled for Memorial Day rites, including Indonesians and many other foreigners. Lincoln’s Home From the tomb we went to Lincoln’s home, and the line of people to go through the simple old frame two-story dwelling was nearly half a blotk long, and several people wide. We didn’t want to wait several hours, so we contented our selves with looking in from the outside, admiring the garden, and buying souvenirs at one of the many “museums” nearby. On the road Ralph Smith and I took turns driving, and the rest slept intermittently, and played auto bingo, and a game of peg checkers, ... By 4 p.m. we were approaching St. Louis, and came to the mighty Mississippi river, father of waters. It was quite a thrill to cross midAmerica’s artery again, and the children enjoyed seeing the brief view of the river. In St. Louis we soon located our hotel, the Warwick, and got our rooms, by 4:30 p.m. Then we walked around downtown St. Louis, looking at the beautiful library, the auditorium, the beautiful parks and other sights. We all agreed that St. Louis was a very clean and lovely city. At the War Memorial building, still decorated for services, we saw the museum of war relics, quite interesting, especially to Allen Smith. After a big supper at the Hilton hotel, the ladies went back to their rooms to rest, while Ralph and I, and the two children went to Forest Park, one of the outstanding landscaped parks in the

Arthur Bauer Dies

Arthur Bauer Dies Early This Morning Arthur Bauer, 71, of 144 Pettit street, Convoy, 0., retired Convoy Equity employe, died at 1:15 a. m. today at the Ottawa Valley hospital in Lima, 0., where he had been a patient for two months. Born in Van Wert county July 16, 1892, he was a son of John and Susan Gunsett-Bauer, and was married to Marie Schmidtgall Dec. 20, 1914. Mr. Bauer was a member of the Redeemer Lutheran church and the Men’s club of the church. Surviving are his wife; three sons, Robert J. Bauer of Van Wert route 3, Herbert J-. Bauer of Ohio City route 2, and Arthur Bauer, Jr., of Van Wert route 1; three daughters, Mrs. William (Lucille) Hulwick of Denver, Colo., Mrs. Charles (Florence) Stuckey of Decatur, and Mrs. John (Loraine) Stelzer of Lima, O.; 14 grandchildren; two brothers, Oscar and Carl Bauer, both of Union township. Van Wert county, and two sisters, Mrs. Carl (Marie) Kloges of Owen Sound, Canada, and Mrs. Elmer (Helen) Schrader of Fort Wayne. Two brothers. Edwin and the Rev. Walter Bauer, both of Decatur, are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Redeemer Lutheran church in Convoy, with the Rev. F. H. .Gerken officiating. Burial will be in the Convoy IOOF cemetery. Friends may call at the H. D. Smith funeral home in (Convoy after 7 p. m. today until time of die ser. vices. — systems. The five school board members have agreed on the need for a levy, but have disagreed on the length of time it should run. But the five-man board, by a vote of 3 to i, adopted the plan for a proposed 12 years.

C world and second largest in the ? United States. ~ Working from a small map of the city, Ralph and I drove, with , me reading the map, until we got to the park, while Allen and Barbara played auto bingo, looking for the various objects on their bingo cards. Visit Zoo We soon reached the limits of the park, but had to drive quite a ways before we could make a left turn into it; all the streets seemed to be wide, eight-lane After driving around a beautifully landscaped golf course ~We came to the zoo, and stopped to see it. The St. Louis Zoo has a very fine reputation, and although we got there late, we could see it was-well deserved. Polar bears, buffalo, birds of all kinds, and many other interesting animals were <ll on exhibition. > To us from Decatur, perhaps the most noticeable thing was the fact that at least 50% of the people in the park were Negroes, yet everyone seemed to get along fine. Amusement Park On leaving the park, we could see the lights of a nearby amusement park, and Allen and Barbara nearly jumped out of the car with excitement. We headed for it, but it again took a long time to make all the left turns necessary, much to the chagrin of our young passengers. At the park we were able to ride just three rides — including a “Wiki Mouse” ride that's a dilly — before 9 p.m., and time to head for the hotel. We tried to drive back using “dead reckoning” and discovered that our reckoning was truly dead, so finally located a service station that could give us directions to get back to the center of town. And so, to bed early, because Sunday will be a “big day” — 700 miles of driving, compared with only 400 today! We plan to get up early, and drive late, to reach Dallas, Texas, late Sunday.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Tuesday, June 2, 1964.

! WASHINGTON (UPD—Presi- ( dent Johnson today reaffirmed - this country’s determination to stand by its commitments to help defend Southeast Asia “against Communist encroach- ' ment.” At a news conference in his White House office; Johnson declared that “the United States cannot fail to do its full share” to preserve peace in that critical area. He declined to go into specific proposals for action which might result from a top level meeting of U. S. officials currently in progress at Honolulu to * review recent Communist successes in Laos and South Viet Nam. But the Chief Eexecutive did say that he knew of “no plans being made” for carrying the war into Communist North Viet Nam. Johnson laid down “four basic themes that govern our policy” with respect to Southeast Asia. “First, America keeps her word," the President said. “Second, the issue is the future of Southeast Asia as an area. ,« “Third, we desire peace. “Fourth, this is not a jungle war but a struggle for freedom . ... ” The President made these other points: —The nation’s economy is showing new vitality as a result of the income and corporate tax reductions pushed through Congress earlier this year. —Although he was very pleased with the civil rights bill passed by the House, the compromise worked out by Senate Democratic and Republican leaders is acceptable to the administration. He has “confidence in the action the Senate will take.” —He sees no present threat of inflation. However, he renewed his expression of hope that business and labor will abide by government guidelines on price-wage increases. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and not much temperature change tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 45 to 52 north, in the 50s south. High Wednesday 68 to 75 north, in the 70s south. Sunset today 8:07 .p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:18 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and continued cool with chance of showers. Lows upper 40s. Highs low 70s.

Session Is Opened By Board Os Review

The county board of review, made up of three county office holders and two citizens, opened its 30-day session Monday mor..ing in the county courthouse. Members of the board include assessor Omer Merriman, auditor Edward F. Jaberg, treasurer William L. Linn, and twq members appointed by circuit court Judge Myles F. Parrish: Edward Eichenberger, of Berne, and Rue Strayer, route 1, Monroe. First order of business for the board is reviewing mortgage exemptions, personal property assessments, and other items. Appeal hearings will begin Friday, June 12, Merriman said today. Merriman explained last week that only 15 or 20 appeals, from several hundred notices of additions and improvements, had been received. A few more are expected. For the first time this year, persons notified of changes in Ih"ir assessments havs 30 days to file a petition for a hearing, instead of the previous 10, so rriore petitions will probably be received by the board. The board will meet for 30 davis and since it does not convene on Saturdays and Sundays, will hold its final session Thursday, July 10. The board meets In the assessor’s office in the courthouse.

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Vernon B. Hebble

Red Men To Hold Fair June 22-27 Vernon B. (Speck) Hebble was announced this morning as the head of the annual street fair for the Decatur Red Men’s lodge, which will be held this month. Hebble will head activities for the Red Men in sponsoring the street fair once again this summer in Decatur. This year’s fair will open Monday, June 22, and run through Saturday, June 27. Rides for the annual fair will once again be furnished by the Gooding Amusement Co., which has promised the Red Men some new and modern rides, and the popular Scrambler ride. Plans call ‘for two'matinees, on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Both matinees will start at 1 o’clock. “We promise this to be a good show for all,’ Hebble said. ’ Merchants Plan Sale Local retail merchants are now forming plans for a sale to be held during the fair week, on one day. Further plans will be announced by the retail division in the near future. “The merchants are planning a sale that people can not afford to pass up.” Hebble added. “There will be bargains galore; be on the lookout for the newspaper ads,” he. stated. Also added to this year’s fair will be a flower show, sponsored by the Rose Garden club. The flower show will be held on Wednesday of the fair week, and the general public will be able to make entries in the show. More details will be given later about this phase of the week-long festivities. Bands Will Perform Hebble said that a different high school band for each evening is being lined up for entertainment. The bands will be from Decatur, Adams county and the nearby area., A parade will open the J fair Monday evening, and included in the parade will be Indians, floats, and many other items of interest. Ticket Sales Hebble explained the advance ticket sale situation. Tickets will go on sale at the Red Men hall on S. Winchester street Thursday and Friday, June 11 and 12. "*> Tickets will be sold from 7 to 9 o’clock those evenings and every Thursday and Friday night until they are gone. In all 1.000 books of tickets will be sold, Hebble said. The Red Men's lodge will also give 12,000 rides to the underprivileged children of the county for the Wednesday matinee of the fair. The tickets will be'distributed by the welfare department and the township trustees. Two bicycles will be given to two lucky children by the Red Men during fair week. They will be awarded on Saturday evening, and the bicycles to be won are now on display at Bowers hardware. “We know that manv people are looking forward to this, and we hope that we can please them as we have in the years past,” Hebble stated.

— ... — ,11, [ .. , — —— — ~ , , ~ i ah. s M (Additional photos on page 8) LIBRARIAN HONORED— Miss Bertha Heller, Decatur librarian who retired Sunday after 16 years in the petition, was the guest of honor at an open house at the library Monday evening. Pictured aboVe are the librarian with the library board members, left to . right—Dr. John Spaulding, Mrs. Hugh J. Andrews, Lowell J. Smith, Miss Heller, Mrs. Laura Kohne, Raymond Kohne. Other members, Mrs. Lloyd Cowens and Miss Frances Dugan, were not present when the picture was taken. — (Photo by Cole)

Retiring Librarian Is Honored Monday Night

Miss Bertha Heller was honored Monday night at an open house at the Decatur public library, from 7 until 9 o’clock. Representing all the types of patrons Miss Heller has assisted, residents of Decatur and the surrounding grea paid tribute to the retiring librarian. Students, businessmen, club women, teachers, community leaders, and her fellow librarians from the area at. tended. Since Miss Heller came to Decatur to assume the postion of librarian, anyone with a research problem, a term paper, or a club program to present has come to the library, where Miss Heller has been ready with ideas and assistance in finding "the right material. Greeting each of her visitors

More Federal Aid Funds To Highway Department

Christmas came early this year for the Adams county commissioners, who were informed during their Monday meeting that this county has received $8,476 in federal aid, waived by Morgan county, located southwest of Indianapolis. The commissioners received a letter from the state highway commission relative to the fact that Morgan county had waived its right to $26,099 for this year. Os that sum, $8,476 will be received by Adams county and $17,623 by Allen county. Both waivers have been approved by the state highway commission. Adams county has been allocated about $30,000 in federal aid this year, which does not include the waiver of funds from Morgan county. Bridge Project With the additional funds, the commissioners were also informed that $39,500 will be available in federal aid for the bridge project on the Winchester road. The project includes straightening of the road, about one-half mile west of U. S. 27, and construction of a new bridge, after the road work is completed. The( bridge in use at the present time is located on a sharp curve, which will be eliminated before the new construction begins. The county recently purchased some land around the bridge from Harley Roop, Jr., for a right-of-way for the straightening of the road. Federal aid will cover half of the cost of the project, and the county will appropriate funds for the other half of the total cost. Contracts for the work are to be let June 30 at the state highway office in Indianapolis. 1 20 MPH Zone In their regular meeting Monday, which was interrupted in the morning as commissioner Max Kreps had to appear in city court as a witness, the commissioners passed a resolution to adopt a 20 mile per hour speed zone on the road that circles Rainbow lake near Geneva. County highway supervisor Lawrence Noll will have signs posted in several locations on the road informing motorists of the speed limit.. Report on Home

County home supervisor Charles Morgan submitted his report for the month of D>y to the commissioners. The report showed that total receipts during the month amounted to $1,109.45, and that there were 14 male and' eight

at the door last night, she made everyone realize that she was not only his public servant, but also his friend, interested in everyone. With two beautiful corsages on her shoulder and her usual pleasant sipile on her face, she joked or reminisced with each visitor. One of the corsages had come from Roy Kalver, who was unable to attend, and the othr was presented by members of the Shakespeare dub, of which »she is now president. Various community organizations whom she has helped in the past, gave contributions to make the party a very special one: the Shakespeare club provided mints;,.toe Home Demonstration clubs, punch; and the cookies came from the Decatur Woman’s club. In the middle of the re-

female patients at the home when the month ended. The rest of the meeting was spent in discussion with Larry Imel. Imel and his .father opened their sanitary land fill facilities north of toe city Monday morning. ‘

Vote Today In Six Primaries

By United Press International Voters in six states from California to Mississippi went to the polls today in primary elections highlighted by the California GOP battle between two GOP presidential aspirants, conservative idol Sen. Barry Goldwater and liberal Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller was given the edge by pollsters in his race* against Goldwater. About two million GOP voters were expected to turn out for the California primary. At stake were 86 national, Convention seats, a key bloc in deciding who will get the nod as GOP 1 presidential standard bearer. A Goldwater victory couldclear toe road to the nomination for the Arizona senator, who already has about half of the delegates needed. A defeat, however, could sidetrack his bandwagon. Rockefeller needed a win to keep his nomination chances alive. If he beats Goldwater, he could become $ front runner for the prize. In Senate Race On the Democratic side, about 2.6 million voters were deciding a party squabble over the Senate nomination. Voters chose between former White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and Allan Cranston, California state controller. Cranston is backed by Democratic Gov. Edmund G. Brown. Salinger, who jumped into the race at the last minute, but before ailing Sen. Pair “Engle withdrew, is backed by the politically powerful Jesse M. Unruh, state assembly speaker. The winner will face the victor' among three Republican candidates, movie actor George Murphy, industrialist Leland Kaiser and former Kansas Gov. Fred Hall.

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freshment table stood a lovely blue and white centerpiece sent by the Garden chib. » Carrying out the motif of the table in blue, Miss Heller’s favorite color, and white, Mrs. L. A. Cowens used tall blue tapers, blue cups for the punch, and small cut glass swans bearing mock orange blossoms. Other floral arrangements, from the Chamber of Commerce and the library board, were used to decorate the library for the reception. Besides these, many gifts were presented to Miss Heller throughout the evening from grateful patrons. The library board, who held the reception, and the more than 206 guests who attended used this means of thanking Miss Heller for her service to the community and county.

Imel explained he is attempting to check on the number of non-Decatur residents using the facilities, which will be used to determine whether or not rural residents will be charged for the use of the two dumps. There were no definite decisions reached.

Seeks Renomination In New York, voters climaxed one of the hardest fought primary election campaigns in years. A major New York City contest centered around Democratic Rep. Charles A. Buckley’s battle to win renomination in the face of a drive for his seat by Jonathan Bingham, a former membej- of the U. S. delegation to the United Nations. Bingham was backed by both Mayor Robert F. Wagner and city reform groups. Still another reform group backed Edward J. Koch, fighting to retain the Democratic leadership in Greenwich Village in a race against one - time Tammany Hall boss Carmine De Sapio. In Mississippi, four Negroes sought congressional seats in an all - Democratic primary. The Negroes waged a vigorous campaign but their chances were viewed as almost nil. In Alabama, voters chose eight congressional candidates out of a field of nine contenders. The congressional candidates were running at - large. The one among the seven incumbents and two newcomers receiving the fewest votes will be ousted. The rest will face relatively strong Republican op* position in November. Choose Delegates South Dakota voters had to make up their minds between two slates of 14 delegates each to the GOP convention. One slate favored Goldwater, the other was uncommitted. Pollsters predicted a victory for the uncommitted slate. In Montana, the Democratic gubernatorial race featured a battle between the former head of Montana State College, Dr. Roland R. Renne, and Mike Kucher a, a furniture dealer. On the side, Gov. Tim Babcock was unopposed for the Republican nomination.