Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 142, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 142.

Massive Earthquake Hits Main Island Os Japan; At Least 2 2 Are Killed • v . .. 4 ° «

Grefchen Holler Dies Unexpectedly Miss Gretchen Hoffer, former resident of Willshire, O-, and well known as a social worker in Van Wert county was dead on arrival at the Van Wert county hospital Sunday afternoon. Miss Hoffer was attending a memorial service at the Starr Commonwealth for Boys at Van Wert when stricken. Dr. W. C. Trapp, Van Wert county coroner, found death due to a coronary attack. For the past 10 years she had resided at Albion, Mich, where she was a social worker for the Starr Commonwealth? She had formerly been employed by the Methodist children’s home at Worthington, 0., the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors orphans home at Xenia, CL, and from 1949 to 1952 was office manager of the Aid to the. Aged at Van Wert. Miss Hoffer was a graduate of Willshire high school. Her father, the late William G. Hoffer, so ryears was editor and publisher of the Willshire Herald and also served as Willshire postmaster for 22 years. There are no immediate survivors. Miss Hoffer was a member of the, Willshire MethwJist church. funeral services will be held at 10:30 am. Wednesday at the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert, with Dr. .Paul D. Chiles officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. Jobless Pay Claims I Continue Low Here | Unemployment claims for Xdams county continued low, with hist 10 new claims and 27 Continued claims for the week ending June 13, Richard P. App, manager of the Fort Wayne office, Indiana employment security division, announced today. Claims filed in Adams county have been running under 50 for nearly a year now. This indicates leas than 1% unemployed in the I county at present.

Visit Rural School In Mexico

By Dick Heller, Jr. S Visiting a small rural school inMexico, where local children are“ taught the fundamentals of citi- ~ zenship and workmanship as well as the three R’s, was the highlight of our last few days in Mexico. One morning we left Monterrey fairly early, and drove north toward the Ciudad Victoria. However, we forgot to take along our map and information, and thought that Victoria was only about 100 miles away. So we poked along through the orange and pear tree groves, admiring the lush valley sights, until we noticed that we were getting low on gas* Then Ralph started reading a little pamphlet we brought along, and discovered that the figures I had figured were in kilometers were actually in miles, and that instead of being within a mile or two of Victoria, we were still 50 miles away, and nearly out of gas! Nearly Out We were too far along to turn back, so we continued. Our gas gage showed empty, but we still had a little left. Gasoline is a state monopoly in Mexico, and since few rural Mexicans own autos, most gasoline stations are in the larger cities, and there are not many even there. Monterrey had perhaps a dozen, fewer than Decatur has, no doubt.' Finally, ahead we saw a vidlage. If there were no gas ss* «. tions there, perhaps we might get some from a truck driver. Then we saw it. Ahead on the left was a small, old-fashined station, with a hand-pump. Mexican gas comes in three grades: Gasolmex, their highest high-test, is„

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Drainage Dispute Studied By Board The Adams county commissioners signed county highway and surveyor’s bills, heard a drainage dispute bebtween Robert J. Rice and Robert Graves, loked over two roads, and set the date of June 29 to take bids on coal and cleaning the Venetian, blinds in the courthouse, at the regular meeting Monday. Listen To Dispute Following approval and signing of the bills in the morning, which takes an hour or so, the commissioners listened to Rice explain his side in the drainage dispute for about an hour. No action was taken by the commissioners on the problem. The commissioners will advertise to let bids for two carloads of coal on June 29. The coal bin at the county home will be- filled first, and all that’s left will be used at the courthouse. The same day they will also let bids for cleaning the courthouse Venetian blinds, which was last done about 19]60, and which are quite dirty. Previously, Fort Wayne firms have bid on the cleaning, which is given on a per-window basis, with replacements of cords, tapes, etc., extra. The county commissioners also voted to give the Decatur Chamber of Commerce permission to place a display of groceries on the courthouse lawn during the street fair, provided that no damage is done to the lawn, and that the area is cleaned up afterward. The request was made by Ferris Bower, chairman for the event. Drainage Problem The commissioners investigated | a drainage problem along road 5% in section 29, Union township, one mile north of highway 224, and decided that the ditch needed cleaning, and that they would have it cleaned. They then inspected road 6t4, where slightly more than a quar-ter-mile was paved this past week from the Decatur city limits to the bridge at the entry to Hanna-Nuttman park. The road goes by the Dr. C. William Freeby and Ned G. Johnson resi-

190 octane, and you get some "pings from a new car using it; ; their next best is a little lower ‘ in octane. This was the only kind available, but we were glad to get it. Since it was still 142 miles to Victoria, and it would take two hours longer to get there, and back just this far, we decided to turn around and visit some other - small villages along the way. r Drive To Itarbide And that was how we happened to visit the little town of Iturbide. When we reached the great orange-growing center of Monte-

PROUD SCHOOL TEACHERS are pictured above in the village of Iturbide, in the state of Nuevo Leon, about 75 miles south of Monterrey, Mexico, in front of their elementary school. Very few young Mexicans get the opportunity of going farther than the sixth grade, and many must start to work before then; school means real sacrifice, but also the only possibility of advancement, to most Mexican citizens. On the right is the school director, Prof. Paula _ Torres Luna. *

William McGahey Dies In Florida Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in Fort Wayne for William E. McGahey, 67, husband of the former Helen Swearingen Lenhart, of Decatur, who died at 10:30 a.m .Monday in the Miami Heart Institute in Miami Beach, Fla. The McGaheys sold their Fort Wayne home late last year, and moved to Deerfield Beach, Fla., where he suffered a severe heart attack shortly after arrival. He hadbeen in serious condition most of the time since then. He was the father of Mrs. George H. Kinne and Mrs. Walter H. Lupke. Jr., and William E. Jr., all of Fort Wayne, He was born in Charlottsville, Va., and came to Fort Wayne in 1924. He was industrial gas engineer for Northern Indiana Public Service Co. and for 32 years was manufacturer’s agent and district representative for the Michigan Steel Casting Co. He was past chairman of the Fort Wayne Chapter of the American Society for Metals; past president of the Shrine Chanters; and past president of the Men’s Club of Trinity Episcopal church. He was a member of Trinity Episcopal church, a former member of the vestry and a former member of the choir. Mr. McGahey was a 32nd degree Mason, a member of Home Lodge 342, F. & A.M., the Scottish Rite and the Mizpah of hie Gold Coast Shrine Club of Deerfield Beach. Surviving in addition to the two daughters and a son in Fort Wayne, are his wife, Helen; another daughter, Mrs. John Harshey, Downers Grove, Ill.; a brother, James of Detroit; and 18 grandchildren. The body will be returned to Fort Wayne. Friends may call at the Klaehn funeral home from noon Thursday until 10 a.m. Friday. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Trinity Episcopal church, Rev. George B. Wood officiating. Burial will be in Covington memorial gardens. * dences, and is an entrance to the park; it was paved in agreement with the city.

morelos, we turned west, and headed up the San Luis Potosi road about 30 miles into the mountains. As the mountains closed in upon us, and we were hemmed in by great barren rock faces on both sides, the women began to murmur, having lost faith in cur ability to read maps and get them around safely, I imagine. We passed several farm homes, taking a number of pictured. Then we came to the town that wa9 listed as an Indian village in our guide. Allen and Barbara (Continued on page seven)

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Tuesday, June 16, 1964.

NIIGATA, Japan (UPI) — A massive earthquake struck t a 300-mile stretch of the west coast of the main island of Honshu today, shattering buildings, smashing bridges and setting off raging fires that burned into the night. It was the worst temblor to hit this earthquake-prone country since 1923, when 143,000 persons were killed in the To-kyo-Yokohama area. The official Japan Broadcasting Corporation, NHK, reported 22 persons dead, one missing and 196 injured. More than 3,000 buildings aid houses were destroyed or damaged by the quake, which kit ait 1:02 p.m. (12:02 a.m. EST). Tanks Ablate Seven petroleum tanks still were blazing furiously in Niigata at 11 p.m. (10 a.m., EDT>, and city officials asked for outside help to fight the flames. The officials were reported to have asked the Japanese Air Self-Defense Farce to air-drop chemical fire - fighting bor*» over the tanks. A massive relief and resAe operation was being mounted from many paints in Japan help the affected area, U.S. Air Foroe planes, men apd equipment an standby alert to help out when needed. The Japan Defense Agency sent one company of 150 soldiers along with nine vessels and 13 planes to the stricken region. ' Describes Impaqt The impact of the quake was depicted in a telephone conversation from Hana Furukawa in Niigata to her cousin, Toshiko Miyajima, a UPI employe in Tokyo. a Mrs. Furukawa, 50, owns a confectionery stare in the heart of Niigata, and she told her cousin what happened when the quake struck. “I couktot’ stand up when the first shocks hit,” she said. “When I went outdoors the earth was slowly heaving like the sea. Telephone poles swayed and wires snapped. “Then large earth cracks appeared. I heard a large explosion. “Our Buddhist shrine is smashed and with it the name tablets of our dead. Our cupboards and dressers also have toppled over. “Our house has not collapsed, but there are many buildings leaning crazily. “Everyone is just standing around dazed.” Then the phone went dead. Center Os Quake The latest quake was centered in the area of Niigata, a port city of 290,000 population, which also is Japan’s largest petroleum and natural gas producing center. It lies about 150 miles northwest of Tokyo. Also hard hit were the cities of Yamagata, Akita and Toyama, which stretch along a 300mile arc in northwest Honshu. After-shocks rocked Honshu far hours after the main tern—blor, but were reported subsiding at 9 p.m. (8 a.m. EDT'. The intensity of the quake was- only slightly less than the great Tokyb-Yokohama disaster that killed 143,000 persons 41 years ago- ~ ~— — It shattered buildings, sent seven-foot tidal waves flooding into cities and touched off oil fires which were still burning hours after the massive shock. Bridget collapsed, buildings and houses fell apart, and huge cracks opened in parks and streets—some big enough for cars to fall into them A* kindergarten school building collapsed in Tsuruoka City, about 50 miles up the coast from Niigata, trapping 17 children in the wreckage. Firemen swiftly dug out 12 of the youngsters/ but, five others remained buried under the debris by early evening. * New Haven Man Dies In Wiridmill Fall NEW HAVEN, Ind. (UPI) — Martin Zellinger. 73, R.R. 1, New Haven, was killed Monday when he fell 25 feet from a windmill while attempting to saw a tree limb clear of power lines.

Flag Day Services Held Last Evening Annual Flag Day services, jointly sponsored by the Decatur Elks lodge, and the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts of this city, were held Monday evening at the Elks lodge home. Feature of the observance was the reading of the essays of the three finalists in the county-wide contest on Flag Day conducted in the high schools of the county. Winner of the contest was Miss Patricia LaFontaine. who will be a senior at Decatur Catholic high school next fall. She was presented with a $25 check. Second place winner was Frederick Schurfeer. who graduated from the Catholic high school earlier this month, and third place was won bv Miss Kathryn Walter, who will be a senior in the Catholic high school next fall. Schurger received sls and Miss Walter $lO. More than 150 students from high schools in the county submitee essays in the contest, which was supervised by Tony Kelly, speech instructor, in the Decatur high school. Roger Blackburn, exalted ruler of the Elks, and his staff of officers conducted the flag service ritual. The history of the flag was read by George Laurent, a past exalted ruler of the lodge, and the response by Frank Lybarger. also a past exalted ruler. The Decatur high school band, directed by Richard Collins, opened thhe service by playing “The Star Spangled Banner,” and closed the program by playing “America.” Following the service, refreshments and luncheon were served to the guests. ( Busick Appeals On Parking Ticket Fine Fort Wayne attorney Don W. Wvneken, of the firm Nieter, Smith. Blume and Wyneken, informed the Decatur Daily Democrat this morning that he .is requesting city Judge John Stults of Leo Busick’s intent to appeal his June 1 conviction of failure to pay an overtime parking ticket, or to request a new trial. Busick contended he had paid the ticket. The information was received via a carbon copy of a letter to prosecuting attorney Severin H. Schurger. which read as follows: Letter Text Dear Severin: I am sure you recall we represent Leo Busick. who has consulted us re: his fine of $1 and costs for allegedly failing to pay originally a $.25 ever parking ticket. < ..., __ Leo is concerned over the process of this case and wants to clear the record in whatever legal manner is open to him. — I-know he was- remanded to jail fnr refusing to pay the fine and costs, though he had_money to do so. and that after being jailed he paid sll in order to be released so that he could get to work. I am not sure of the exact state of the record -nor do’ I have know-' ledge of the statute or ordinance' which formed the basis for the original arrest and ultimate fine of $1 plus costs and request that you send me copies of shme. So that Mr. Busick’s rights are protected wg are sending a copy of this to Judge Stults and specifically requesting that he note on the docket defendant Busick's intent to perfect an appeal. We also herewith inquire of Judge Stults What requirements Mr.- , Busick must meet in order to perfect this appeal. . „ New Trial Grounds If the record is such that an appeal is not possible, then respectfully move the court for a new trial on the grounds the witnesses were not properly sworn, defendant Busick was not advised that this was a final hearing, (Continued on Page Eight)

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I Decatur Population Growing

Decatur is one of only 26 out of 84 larger cities in Indiana which is growing by both natural birth-over-death increase and by-in-migration, Indiana state board of health figures indicate this month. Decatur, which had an official census count of 8,327 in the spring of 1960, passed the 8,900 mark a year ago, according to the state board estimates. This includes a net in-migra-tion of 200 people, and a natural increase of 400 by births over the death rate. Only 25 other cities over 5,000 population had increases in both. County Out-Migration Adams county has increased m population .from 24,600 to 25,400, a net gain of about 800; but, births over deaths indicate a gain of 1,300, cut down by an out-mi-gration of 500 people. 'Die leas indicates a rather substantial outmigration of rural people. In neighboring Bluffton, the population has decreased, According to the estimate, from 6,200 to 6,100. While 200 more people have been born in the city than died there, 300 have left the community to live elsewhere. Portland is also a fading community, with a population estimate of 6,900, compared with 7,000 in 1960. Again, exactly the same statistics were indicated, as for Bluffton: a natural increase of 200, but 300 leaving by out-migra-tion. Counties Gain Jay county increased in population, however, with 700 more bom there, and 100 migrating in. Wells county gained 500 in population, with natural increase of 700, and 200 leaving by out-migration. No estimates were given for cities with less than 5,000 population, such as Berne, or for towns. Hartford City’s population was estimated as stagnant, at 8,100, with 300 more having been bprn there, and 300 leaving by out-mi-gration. The state as a whole v has an estimated population of 4,794,000, a gain of slightly more than 130,000 since the 1960 census. This estimate is considerably lower than one rtiade in March, because of a reversal in previous migration trends. More people have left Indiana since April, 1960 than have moved in; previously. World's Fair Tour Tickets Received At Erie Station W. M. Bumgerdner, Decatur agent for the Erie-Lackawanna railroad, announced Monday afternoon that tickets for the ErieLackawanna — Daily Democrat tour to New York and the Wqrld’s Fair July 31, have been received at the rail station. •The tour’will, leave- Decatur Fri- '• day afternoon ? July''3l, and will * return Monday afternoon, Aug. 3. Persons who have made reservations for the weekend tour are urged to pick up their tickets at the station at once, in order that firm reservations for hotel rooms may be made. INDIANA WEATHER * • Fair and cool tonight. Wednesday fair east, partly cloudy west and a little warmer. Lows tonight 44 to 50 north, in the 50s south. Highs Wednesday 70s north, 78 to 85 south. Sunset today 8:15 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:16 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and warmer. Lows in the 60s. Highs mid 80s north to low 90s south.

the reverse was true. According to these figures, Marion county gained approximately 30,000 persons in the 39 months following the 1960 census to lead all other counties in the amount of increase. • Even so, more people left the county than moved in, with natural increase responsible for the ehtire gain. Indianapolis had the greatest gain of any city, with an increase of almost 20,000. Indianapolis Out-Mi grates However, Indianapolis also had a net out-migration, and was among the 58 larger cities with

Six Killed As Bus Plunses Into Lake

NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — A Continental Trailways bus with eight persons on board plunged into Lake Pontchartrain today after a barge ripped a 240-foot hole in the causeway, the world’s longest bridge. Six persons were killed. All six bodies were recovered. One had been trapped inside the bus but divers freed it. One of the dead was a woman. Two persons were injured. They were Ernest Vaughn, 38, Jackson, Miss., the bus driver, and William Cockerham of Baton Rouge, a passenger aboard the bus. The captain and two crewmen aboard the tug were not hurt. A derrick was used to try raise the bus, and divers went down into the large lake to

Rockefeller Throws Aid To Scranton

WASHINGTON (UPl)—Scran-ton-for-president backers intensified their hunt for shaky Gold water delegate votes today, hoping to make timely use of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller’s declaration of support for the Pennsylvania governor. But the most that even partisans would draw from Rock# feller’s move was that the GOP presidential race was beginning to look more like a contest. Gov. William W. Scranton, m the opinion of many Republicans, still has a “long way to go” to take the nomination from Sen. Barry Goldwater. The Arizona senator its expected to gain enough delegates this week to assure him the prize—if he has no defections before the Judy 13 convention. The “if” provided the incentive for the Scranton forces. Because promised convention votes are often loosely tied to their candidate, the Pennsylvanian and his leaders were concentrating on states with uncommitted and “soft” delegations. Not Bound Legally A sizable share of the delegates now pledged to Goldwaiter are not legally bound to vote for him, but merely have stated their preference and intentions. Some .of these may be delegates who felt they could .not support Rockefeller for the nomination, but may be willing to reconsider in light of the Scranton candidacy. Hie Scranton forces believe that some delegates went to

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similar statistics. Fort Wayne, Auburn, and Warsaw, were the only cities in this area in the group with Decatur. „ It is estimated that 68 Indiana - counties, out of 92, either gained or held their own in population between 1960 and 1963. Os these, 48 would have lost population except for the excess of births over deaths. The remaining 24 counties actually lost population. In <Tie estimates, figures were not carried beyond the hundreds figure; no exact numbers were given, therefore, for 1960 comparisons, except for Decatur.

bring up the bodies. The Codst Guard said the tug Rebel Jr., was towing a barge which rammed the 24-mik-loog causeway. The bus apparatiy fell through the gaping hole moments later. The bridge spans the lake from near New Orleans to Covington. The accident happened about nine .miles from the New Orleans end. Police said the wfather was clear at the time of the pre dawn crash. The bridge was closed to traffic following the accident Lake Pomtchartrain was the site of am Eastern Air Lines jetliner crash, last Feb. 25 which took 58 lives. The bus left New Orleans at 1 a.m., CST. Its first stop was to have been Jackson, Miss.

Goldwater because Ibey had no acceptable alternative. It is felt they might swing away now that Scranton is available. Supporters of Scranton hope ip woo some of the Goldwater votes with the argument that a ticket headed by the Arizona Republican would cause the defeat of many state or local GOP candidates. The Goldwater backers contend that the opposite is true—that more Republicans would ride to victory on Goldwater Is coattails than on those of any other presidential candidate. Rocky’s Support Wriest - Rockefeller’s decision to give up his own candidacy and throw his “full support” to Scranton and his fight for a “moderate, forward looking platform” * came with welcome timing for the Scrantonites. They hoped it would soften the impact of anticipated Goldwater gains. Today the Texas state Republican convention is expected to, commit all 56 of its votes to Goldwater. And iater in the week he should pick up ail 14 of Montana’s. A UPI tabulation shows these additions would give him a total of 667, or 12 more than the 655 he needs to win- the nomination at San Francisco. The UPI tabulation shows Rockefeller with 121, Scranton with 116, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge with 43, - others with 166, and a total of MS uncommitted. The Lodge fortes have thrown their wppart to Scranton.