Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII, NO. 14T.

Supreme Court Rules All State Legislators To Be Elected By Population

Laos Troops Are Regrouped

VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI) — Communist - harassed government troops today were reported regrouping their force s around Muong Soui in an attempt to save this stronghold on the main Communist supply route from North Viet Nam. Reports from the Plaine des Jarres said neutralist government forces hoped to mount a counter attack to prevent the Communist Pathet Lao from holding Muong Soui. The Pathet Lao, aided by Viet Minh troops from North Viet Nam, were reported massing forces on the plain for an all - out effort to crush the last neutralist resistance in central Laos. In their offensive, started last month, the Communists have chased most of the neutralist forces under Gen. Kong Le off the central plain into the hills. ‘ Communist China, in a broadcast from Peking, charged Sunday that US. fighter - bombers made rocket, sfrafing and bomb attacks on Communist positions and Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay for

Scranton Launches Heavy Campaigning

MEADVILLE, Pa. (UPI) — Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton, bolstered by new sup’ port from a powerful segment of his party, today begins his first full week of campaigning th his quest to wrest control of the Republican National Convention from Sen. Barry Goldwater-. Scranton delivers a commencement address here at Allegheny College this morning, then flies to Des Moines, lowa, for a speech and a meeting with convention delegates tonight. Supporters of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge announced Sunday that they would throw their weight behind Scranton at the convention July 13 in San Francisco. They represent a total of 43 committed delegate votes from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Scranton himself has won 107 convention votes. Goldwater workers predicted their man will pick up enough uncommitted delegate s this week to win on the first ballot. A United Press International 594 first-ballot votes, 61 short of survey showed Goldwater has the 655 needed for nomination. ScraiTon said the response to his candidacy was “fantastic.” He said he was confident his last-ditch bid to geit the nomina-* tion would be successful. . Tuesday he will see politicians in Topeka, Kan., and Minneapolis. Wednesday he speaks to a lunch in St. Louis, later flying to Denver for meetings with delegates. He said he has left Thursday and Friday open for “staff work, probably somewhere back East.” On Saturday he delivers the keynote address to me GOP state convention in Boston. Wins Lodge Backers The Lodge backing was announced by Paul B. Grindle, campaign director of the National Draft Lodge Committee, after a short conference with Scranton at his home. “We offered all possible help from the draft Lodge people to get behind Scranton to see that he gets the.. nomination,” said Grindle. “We have offered to turn over all our plans for the convention to the Scranton peoP* s ” ■ . . <

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three consecutive days, starting last Friday. A New China News Agency (NCNA) report said the attacks were concentrated in the Plaine des Jarres, 20 miles northwest of Khang Khay and about 110 miles north of the Laotian capital of Vientiane. The United States has made no official comment on the Communist charges, f oilowing its general policy of silence on operational aspects of flights over Laos. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with scattered growers or thundershowers tonight, ending north during night. ♦ Cooler north tonight. Tuesday fair and cool north, partly cloudy and turning cooler with chance of a few showers south. Low tonight upper 50s north to lower 60s south. High Tuesday 68 to 75 north, 74 to 84 south. Sunset today 8:15 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:16 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair and mild. Lows near 60. Highs low 80s.

Later, George Lodge said he had received a telegram from his father in South Viet Nam which said “he was delighted by the decision to support Scranton.” The son said their farces “are now behind Scranton to the end ” Scranton appeared ori a nationwide television program earlier in the day and admitted that his campaign will have “something of an amateurish flavor” because his decision to run came at such a late hour. He indicated his campaign tour would concentrate on getting grass roots support. The governor said his two main jobs during the campaign would be to “make clear to the p>eople of America where I stand and (to) do a per son-to-p>erson job on delegates and see as many as I can.” Heads Operation Scranton’s aides said M. George Mooradian has resigned as head of the governor’s committee of Pennsylvanians to aid industrial growth in the state. Mooradian will now head the goveror’s operations at the campaign. Scranton said either he dr Goldwater can beat President Johnson in the November election. He pledged to support the candidate who wins the nomination in San Francisco. One of the reasons he waited so late to announce his candidacy, he said, was because he was counting on former President Dwight D. Eisenhower to announce his support for Scranton at the Governor’s Conference in Cleveland recently. “I made the mistake of expecting to count on somebody else for help, rightly or wrongly,” he said. He said that during talks with Eisenhower in Gettysburg prior to the conference, the former President “gave me the impression that he would come to Cleveland and speak highly of me.” Later in a telephone conversation Eisenhower “indicated there would be no espousal." S cranton also announced plans to attend a GOP fundraising dinner in Newark, N.J., on June 23 and a meeting with Michigan .delegates in Lansing on Jue 26.

Strikes Down Apportionment , In Six Stales • WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court ruled today that all members of state legislatures must represent districts substantially equal in population. It struck down apportionment systems in six states — New York, Alabama, Colo rado, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware. The court in a series of decisions held that state senators as well as representatives must be elected on an equal population basis. The first ruling of the day came on the Alabama case. Then the court threw out both a present and proposed apportionment plan for New York. In the New York case, Chief Justice Earl Warren said: “Neither the existing scheme nor the forthcoming one can b? constitutionally condoned.” The New York opinion reversed a lower court which in August, 1962, had upheld lhe constitutionality of the 68-yeair-old formula for . apportioning seats in both the senate and the assembly. t Warren said the lower court “acting under equitable principles, must now determine whether, because of the imminence of the (November), election and in order to give the New York Legislature an opportunity to fashion a constitutionally valid legislative apportionment plan, it would be desirable to permit the 1964 election of legislators to be conducted pursuant to the existing provisions.” An alternative, he said, would be whether under the circumstances the right to<a properly weighted voice in the election of state legislators should not be delayed beyond the 1964 election. Justices Potter Stewart and Tom C. Clark dissented from the New York decision. The court then similarly disposed of the Colorado case with Stewart and Clark again dissenting. ' A lower court had upheld the Colorado plan, which was set up under a 1962 amendment to the state constitution. The Alabama case served as the guideline for the court’s milestone decision, which is expected to have widespread political impact on every state. The opinion declared: “By holding that as a federal constitutional requisite both houses of a state must be apportioned on a population basis, we mean that the equal protection clause (0f...ttie.... U... Constitution) requires that a state make an honest and good faith effort to construct districts, in both houses of its legislature, as nearly of equal population as is practicable.” The court- added, however: “We realize that it is a practical impossibility to arrange legislative districts so that each one has an identical number of residents, or citizens or voters. Mathematical exactness or precision is hardily a workable constitutional requirement.” Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the opinion which involved Alabama’s state apportionment system. “Simply stated,” he said, “an individual’s right to vote for state legislators is unconstitutionally impaired when it s weight is in a, substantial fashion diluted when compared with votes of citizens living in other parts of the state.” The decision was a sequel to the court's precedent-shattering opinion in a 1962 Tennessee case opening federal courts to voter complaints about unfair representation in state legislatures.

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a Monroeville Youth , I Seriously Injured | Ronald Kipfer, 15-year-old Monroeville resident, is listed in serious condition in Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne, after he was struck by a truck while riding a bicycle this morning. The youth was one of four boys who were riding their bicycles to a swimming location about 7:40 a. m. today, on state road 101, about two miles south of Monroeville. The youth was struck by a twoton truck driven by Stanley Gallogly, 33, of route 5, Decatur, as he rode in front of the truck. The boy was rushed to the Fort Wayne hospital with a basal skull fracture and cuts and abrasions. He was listed as “serious” at noon today. * Kipfer, Gary Johnson, Jack Johnson and Tom Gibson were all riding their biycles south on 101 this morning when the mishap occurred. The Kipfer boy started to pass the youth in front of him, as the four were riding in single file. As the youth attempted to pass, he got out too far and into the northbound lane of traffic, just as the southbound truck was at-., tempting to pass all four boys. The right front fender of the truck struck the handlebars of the bicycle and carried the youth 45 feet before he fell to the pavement. Investigating were Capt. Bender of the Allen county sheriff’s department and trooper Henderson of the Indiana state police. Surprise Rail Strike Called O In Southwest DALLAS (UPI) — Railroad (trainmen pulled a surprise strike against four major railroads in defiance of a court or- . der today shutting down operations in a wide area of the Southwest. Freight and passenger lines were affected in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan?as and Louisiana. A Midwest terminal at Dupo, 111., also was struck. Terminals of the Missouri Pactiic; Texias Pacific South ern Pacific and Missouri, Kansas and Texas (KATY) were tied up as the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen set up pick- ' et lines.In addition to the four major lines, the International - Great Northern Railroad, which runs from the Rio Grande Valley to Houston, also was tied up by a strike. — R. E. Gregory, president of the union local at Big Spring, Tex., said he believes only milk trains and military trains will be able to operate. The union said it was strik-— ing for better working conditions. The Santa Fe Railway, a major line in the Southwest, was not affected. A spokesman said Santa Fe trains were running normally. A Missouri-Pacific spokesman said a . restraining order was issued against such a walkout by a federal judge in Washington Sunday night. Robert Heller Named On State Commission Robert H. Heller, prominent Decatur realtor and insurance man, today was appointed by Gov. Matthew Welsh to the Indiana flood control and water resources commission. Heller, a former state representative, succeeds Anson S. Thomas, of Crawfordsville, whose term expired.

Welsh Warns On Need Os Legislation INDIANAPOLIS <VPD—Governor Welsh said today that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that s*ate legislatures must be apportioned on an equal population basis means that if Indiana’s general assembly fails to do something about it next year, “the federal courts will do the job for us.” The high court ruled today that all members of state legislatures must represent districts substantially equal in population. The court struck down apportionment systems in New York, Alabama, Colorado, Maryland and Virginia in a series of decisions which held that state senators as well as house members must be elected on an equal population basis. “This decision confirms my veto message on the 1963 reapportionment act,” Welsh said. “The Indiana General Assembly must follow the clear dictates of the Indiana Constitution.” “Thart is what the Supfeme Court has said and it presents no legal difficulties in Indiana," Welsh said. “As a practical matter, the decision means our General Assembly must review carefully the 1963 reapportionment law. Must Act in 1965 . “My veto said that the act did not comply with our Constitution. Implicit in the Supreme Court decision is the warning that unless the Indiana Legislature does act to comply in the next session, the federal courts will (do the job for us.” 1110 1963 Indiana Legislature reapportioned the House on a population basis and the Senate on what amounts to a geograph-ical-population basis combined. The reapportionment bill was vetoed by Governor Welsh, but a later ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court held that it was one of four measures Welsh waited too long to veto. As a result, the reappartionment bill became law and the legislative districts created by the 1963 act were followed in connection with selection of nominees at the May 5 primaries for membership in the 1965 Legislature, subject to the will of voters at the November election. Panel Delays Mandate A panel of three federal judges which had been studying two civil suits to force reapportionment previously had postponed any mandate action to permit the 1965 Legislature to act. Judge At Muncie In Crackdown On Boys MUNCIE, Ind. (UPD—Three Muncie teen-agers who admitted damaging more than 200 flags on veterans’ graves in Beech Grove Cemetery were under orders frotn, today to raise the lower the flag on the Delaware County Courthouse lawn each day for a month. i At a Juvenile Court hearing, Judge Alva Cox also ordered the boys to spend the next 30 days working at the courthouse —on the lawn when weather permits and washing windows and walls when it is rainy. At the end of the month, Cox said he will decide final disposition of the case. Meanwhile, if they commit any delinquent act during the 30-day period, he said, they will automatically be sent to the Indiana Boys School. “They can’t.even blow their noses the wrong way without being sent off to the boys’ school,” Cox said. Authorities said flags from two rows of graves at the ceme’ery were ripped from their staffs Smd tossed into a heap, and the boys said they did it while “just messing around.”

■■■■■lMHßMiawaßMHßmßmmaaMaaaaammmaMMaßßMa Eight Accidents In City Over Weekend The city police spent a busy weekend aCcident-wise, as eight crashes occurred Saturday and Sunday. A freak incident occurred Sunday as seven automobiles, a boat and a boat motor were all damaged in three separate accidents that occurred at nearly the same location on 13th street within 11 minutes. At 5:39 a.m,, at 509 N. 13th, it all began when a car operated by Julius Quinones, 29, of 1003 W. Elm St., was struck in the rear by an auto driven by James E. Hensley, 19, of Rockford, O. Both were southbound on 13th street and Quinones had stopped in a line of traffic when hit in the rear. Damage was estimated at $250 to the Quinones car and S2OO to the Hensley vehicle. Three Used Cars Three minutes later, at 5:42 p.m , Steven A. Spiegel, 16, of 318 N. Ninth St., was southbound and when a car in front of his stopped to avoid the accident, Spiegel sud- ' denly applied the brakes of his machine.The auto skidded to the right and into the Paul Myers Auto Sales used car lot, damaging three autos, Spiegel’s auto received S3OO damage, while damage was listed at S3OO on a 1961 car in the Myers lot, SIOO to a 1957 model and SSO to a 1960 model station wagon. It was just eight minutes after that mishap that a boat and motor being ptilled on a trailer from an auto driven by Lester H. Burkhart, Jr., 41, of route 6, Decatur, was damaged. Burkhart had slowed for the accident in front off him, as he was southbound, and a car driven by Richard L. Mosier, 20, of route 3, Winchester, crashed into the boat on the trailer, inflicting an estimated S3OO damage to the boat and motor. Mosier’s auto received approximately SIOO damages. Local Man Hurt A local youth Roger D. Boring, 16, of 1235 Lewis Drive, suffered Minor injuries in an accident at 5:20 o’clock this morning that damaged three vehicles. Boring suffered a cut on the face and a pucture wound on the left knee, and received treatment from a local physician. He was charged with reckless driving and cited to appear in justice of the peace court. Boring was southbound on Fifth street when his auto crashed into the rear of a car parked on the west side of Fifth and owned by Robert Hess of 909 N. Fifth. The force of the impact shoved the auto into a parked pick-up truck by Hess. The parked car a 1963 model, received an estimated $1,300 damages, while the second vehicle suffered SIOO damaged Damage to the Boring auto was estimated at S3OO damage. Two Saturday Crashes Four autos were damaged in a pair of two-car crashes Saturday evening. The first occurred at 7:20

Changing Landscape In Mexico

By Dick Heller, Jr. (Pictures on Pare Eight) A changing landscape, with desert canyons full of cactus and sand, mile-high mesas draped in clouds and cool in the heat of summer, and lush tropical valleys with monstera and philodendrum, figs, oranges, etc., are all within a few miles of Monterrey, we found. One morning we drove up to Huasteca canyon. A paved road leads into the canyon, but soon gives way to a dirt track, which in turn becomes a stony ravine. Good Picture Material We stopped on entering the beautiful canyon to take some pictures, and immediately were deluged by little boys, each with his own donkey, offering us rides. Barbara Gilliom decided she woulrLlike to ride, so we followed slowly behind, in the comfort of our air conditioned car, as she praved sun and dust for two hours ridi n g a round on a burro, led by a little Mexican boy. The’ canyon would appear tp dead-end, and then make a sudden turn. Barbara got to see several different kinds of lizards, which from her vantage point high up on the burro entertained her. We in turn, stopped several times to admire the many kinds of blooming cactus, and other desert flora. It was a pleasure just to get outside in the desert, hot as it was, and take some interesting pictures. The everchanging scenery provides limitless possibilities. Any camera bug would have a circus down here! • Tropical Valley After a dry morning in the desert, we returned from the west side of Monterry, and drove south, toward the valley of Mexico on the Pan American highway. Here the scenery was a complete change. Many creeks running brimful, have turned the valley into a farming paradaise. We saw corn already 12 f ee t tall,

Iris Lehman Dies Aller Long Illness Iris I Lehman, 57, lifelong resident of Berne, died at 7:40 p. m. Saturday at the Adams qgpty memorial hospital, following an illness of two years of cancer. He was born at Berne April 12, 1907, a son of Simean E. and Caroline Nussbaum-Lehman, and was married to Mildred Brooks Oct. 7, 1950. Mr. Lehman, employed as a frame assembler at Dunbar Furniture Corp., was a member of the United Church of Christ at Berne, the Dunbar Quarter-Cen-tury club, and the Berne volunteer firemen. Surviving in addition to his wife are his mother, Mrs. Caroline Lehman of Berne; three brothers, Lores Lehman of Decatur, Edward Lehman of Kendallville, Ervin Lehman of Berne, and one sister, Miss Esther Lehman of Berne. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the United Church of Christ in Berne, with the Rev. Jerry Flueckiger officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home • after 4 p. m. today. Volunteer firemen will attend the services in a body and will serve as pallbearers. p.m. as Karen Mae Corey, 22, of Hammond, was southbound on Second street and her auto struck the door of a parked car in the 30 block. John Kenneth Eady, 62, of 116 S. Sixth St., was opening the car’s door at the time of the impack. Damages were estimated at f2OO to the Eady car and SSO to the Corey car. At 6:05 p.m., autos driven by Ervin Laverne Elzey, 40, of King City, Calif., and Gerald Franklin Krick, 19, of 204 S. Eighth St., collided at the intersection of Monroe and Tenth streets. Elzey was northbound on Tenth and stopped at the intersection when- his auto was struck on the left rear by Krick’s car which was attempting a right turn off Monroe onto Tenth. Damages were estimated at $225 to Elzey’s machine and $75 to the Krick car. Post, Meter Hit A light post and parking meter at 206 N. Second street received an estimated SIOO damage Sunday at-12:58 a.m. when struck by a car driven by Francis A. Raszkowski, 21, of Fort Recovery, O. Raszkowski was northbound on Second when his auto swerved to the right and struck the two objects. He told investigating officers he had fallen asleep. The car received S3OO damages. In a rear-end collision at 915 N. 13th Street Sunday, at 7:20 p.m., a car driven by Kenneth H. Williams, 36, Fort Recovery, 0., struck an auto driven by William M. Coldwell, 20, of Dayton O„ in the rear. Both were southbound at the time and damages were estimated at $l5O to the Williams auto and SSO to Coldwell’s car.

tassled and eared! p Driving south about 26 miles, we came to the Cola de Caballo, e or Horse-tail falls, one of th eB lovely sights of the Monterrey ’ area. You turn off at a small village, and wind three or four miles up a narrow road to a parking area. At the top of the road is a fine hotel, with a number of cabins. The dining room overlooks the green lush valley, and is a real dream, completely glassed in, and right on the edge of a precipice, so that you have the whale world before you as you eat. At the hotel is a swimming pool, where you can swim and take life easy in the 95-degree heat. But what a sun—it burns much faster than the lower Decatur sun! Ride To Falls Behind tiie ~hotel, toward the mountains, you can rent a burro, or a horse, or a chariot, and ride up to the falls; it’s only a short way, about 15 minutes or so each way, but the entire trip takes a little better than an hour, what with rest stops, pictures of the falls, etc. Barbara rode up in the chariot, and back on a horse, and decided that the horse, which seemed step-ladder-tall after a short burro in the morning, was the best way to travel. On Tuesday, Ralph Smith, Allen, Barbara GiUom and I all rode horseback up to the falls, while the two ladies sunned at the pool. Then we returned, and swam all afternoon. While we enjoyed the other sights in and around Monterrey, we found the falls opr favorite place to return to, with its fine pool, and excellent restaurant. Really Good Food Apd by the way, all the food at the good restaurants is outstanding. Last night, for example, the ladies had roast turkey and dressing, while Ralph had filet mignon, and I had sirloin, and Allen had French fried shrimp; Nel-

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Jaycees' Dunking Machine For Fair Wayne Roahrig, president of the Decatur Jaycees, announced this morning that the local organization will bring back “an old favorite” for the annual Red Mens fair this year. The fair will open one week from today, Monday, June 22, and the Jaycees will once again operate a "dunking machine,** which has proven to be most popular in past fairs. The Jaycees operated such a game at the 1961 fair, but the mechanism was destroyed in a fire that demolished a barn at the residence of Richard J. Sullivan. where it had been stored. Roahrig explained this morning that the local Jaycees have secured another “dunking machine,** similar to the previous one, from the Hartford City Jaycees, for use during this year’s fair. In addition to the old favorite, the Jaycees will also operate a basketball-shooting stand again this year, Roahrig said. The organization holds its regular general membership meeting, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the meeting room at the First State Bank. All members are urged to be present as plans for operation of the two stands will be discussed, along with a proposed change in meeting dates and starting times. Bus Is Donated To Explorer Post An old school bus, in running order, valued at about S4OO, has been donated to the Elks Explorer Post 2062 by Norval S. Rich, of near Decatur, it was learned today. Dr. Rich purchased a regular camping bus earlier this year, and when he learned that the local Explorer post, composed of older Boy Scouts, wanted to be able to make longer trips, he offered to donate the bus to them. Institutional representative Mel Weisman signed the title transfer papers for the scouting unit Elks Scout committee chairman Simeon J. Hain and post advisor Jack Hartwig are now preparing the bus, so that the troop can use it on its trip to Rifle River, Mich., over the Fourth of July. Acquisition of the bus will make it possible for the boys to plan for a camping trip to Philmont Scout camp, New Mexico, next summer, Dr. Weisman stated. Anyone interested in finding out more about the Explorer scouts, and how to join (it is not necessary to have been a Boy Scout) should call Dr. Weisman, or attend a meeetmg at the Elks home, at 7:30 p.m. the first and third Mondays of the month during the summer.

=la had pork chops. For dessert, • r we tried one we had always heard F of, but had never eaten — crepe jj suzettes. Tasted like bitter soggy • pancakes at first, but after you get used.to them, they are pretty good. We tried to watch well enough to fix some ourselves, as they browned the sugar and orange peels over the sterno burner, but when they started dumping bottles of stuff in, we lost out! Guess we’ll never mix our own! We’ve spent part of three days at the falls, mostly swimming and taking pictures. One Mile-High Mesa Tuesday morning was a cool 8Q degrees, and the clouds were lowbut' we drove up to Chipinque mesa anyway. Starting on a fourlane highway, it suddenly narrowed to two lanes, and then seemingly disappeared, as it got narrower and narrower. Following Sanborn’s directions, we kept on going, and believe me, when he says not to drive tins road at night, he’s right Only a lane wide, with two-way traffic it climbs 3,500 feet out of the valley of Monterrey, onto the 5,500-foot mesa top o! t h e Sierra Madre Oriental. It is a lovely spinetingling drive, but for those who prefer to see mountains, rattier than drive in them, we highly recommend a guided tour; you only have to look on a tour, as the driver does all the work. At the top of the mesa we found a nice little ea t i n.g place, and about 26 cottage units, that are being refurnished at There is horseback riding, and a yearround pleasant temperature. It’s worth the drive up, but try to pick a clear day, as you can see for miles if the clouds don’t hem you in, as they did us. Os course, we enjoyed it anyway, and the kids' got quite a kick when we let them walk partway down by themselves, and watched them progress slowly down the steep mountainside road.