Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1964 — Page 1

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Lodge Resigned To Aid Gov. Scranton

SAIGON, Viet Nam (UPD - U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said today he is resigning his post solely to help Gov. William W. Scranton in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He said he would not accept a draft if offered. "I am not a candidate for anything,’’ Lodge said. Lodge’s resignation after nine months in this critical diplomatic trouble spot was announced Tuesday by President Johnson in Washington. The President named Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the - Joint Chiefs erf Staff, to replace Lodge. The appointment of Taylor, who has been closely involved with the South Vietnamese government’s battle against the Communist guerrillas, was seen here as evidence of Washton’s continuing -commitment in Southeast Asia. Completes Formalities „ Lodge, who was the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1960, said he would leave Saigon in two or three days afj ter completing the formalities required upon leaving a diplomatic post. In a statement after Johnson’s announcement Tuesday, Lodge said he felt it is his duty to do everything he can to help Scranton win the Republican nomination at the GOP convention juiy 13. “Viet Nam is on the right track, and with persistence its freedom and independence will surely be achieved,” the statement said.

One Man Killed In Terre Haute Blast

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPD— A construction foreman died today from burns suffered in an explosion which injured six members of his crew in blastplagued Terre, Haute. Cliff Wilkerson, 56, Columbus, was incritical condition for 18 hours after the flash fire apparently set off by a spark from a welding torch used near a six-foot cylinder of gas pipeline cleaning agent. He died at 5:30 a.rti. iq. St. Anthony’s Hospital. A series of explosions here began Jan. 2, 1963, when a terrific blast at the Home Packing Co. plant killed 17 and injured 51 persons. Subsequently before the end of 1963 a total of 18 were hurt in a Februaryjeasplo sion which leveled two businesses . and damaged two homes, 2 were killed and 1 injured in a July blast at an electric generating plant, and 1 was killed and 9 injured in a September -blast at a fertilizer manufacturing plant. Ismael Craig, 53, Bloomfield, was reported as “serious but holding his own” at St. Anthony’s. Bennie Jewell, 50, R.R. 1, Dugger, was listed as serious

Johnson Meets Greek Premier

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson opened talks today with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in hopes of working out a means of keeping the Greeks and Turkey from going to war over Cyprus. At a White House welcome for the visiting leader, Johnson told Papandreou that thenmeting was dedicated to “the cause of peace.” Arriving by helicopter frbm Williamsburg, Va., where he spent the night, Papandreou immediately went into conference with Johnson—the first in a two-day series of meetings with U. S. officials. The Greek prime minister told Johnson that “no peace can be durable without justice.” Johnson said he was confident that the talks would strengthen the long standing ties between Greece and the United States. “We have stood stalwartly together against aggression, friends in freedom and coworkers for peace and prosperity,” he told Papandreou. . Johnson also recalled that both Greece and the United States had recently shared national tragedies, a reference to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the death of Greek King Paul. He recalled that Mrs. Johnson had been one of the American rep-

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Lodge told a UPI correspondent before the .resignation announcement Tuesday that stopping Sen. Barry Goldwater’s drive tor the Republican nomination js “vital to every American and in the interests ot the twoparty system.” Goldwater Leading Goldwater currently is the front-runner for the GOP nomination, with Scranton the only avowed opposition. Die Arizona senator generally is considered a conservative spokesman and the Pennsylvania governor, a late starter in the race, the standard bearer of the more liberal Republicans. Lodge disavowed the feelings in some Republican circles that he still might be a candidate for the nomination. A spokesman for Lodge said this afternoon the ambassador still was undecided as late as June 15 when he denied rumors his departure was imminent for “health” reasons. The spokesman said Lodge is in good health, and he decided to return home at the strong urging of friends following the California primary. “I am not a candidate for anything,” he told newsmen this morning. "I am not going back to connive at anything for myself. I cannot be drafted. “There are no hidden meanings. I am going back to do what I saw was there to do. That is, to help Governor Scranton, and I have also accepted an invitation to address the resolutions committee of the Republican party.”

at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis where he was transferred after treatment at Union Hospital here. Eugene Stackhouse, 43, R.R. I, West Baden, and Eddie Porter, 54, R.R. 2, Farmersburg, were in good condition at Unicm and Lawrence George, 40, Bloomfield, and Henry McKenny, 40, Marainsville, were in satisfactory cindition at St. Anthony’s. The men, employes of a Columbus construction firm, were injured when the tank of cleaning agent exploded about 10 feet from where they were repairing a pipeline at the Indiana Gas & Chemical Co. plant on the south side of Terre Haute. The cleaning agent is used as part of the filtering process for natural gas. Six other members of the escaped injury when the blast sent flames leaping 50 feet into the air. Two of the injured, George and McKenny, were burned when they attempted to tear burning clothing from their fellow workers.

representatives at the King’s funeral. Tuesday after two days of White House and State Department talks with Turkish Premier Tsmet Inonu, U.S. sources exp.essed can'4 job optimism over the progress of the American peace effort. Inonu was understood to have indicated some. willingness ‘for direct Greek-Turkish talks over the Cyprus issue. In their meetings with Papandreou To-" „ day and Thursday, administration officials hoped to find out whether the Greeks also are willing. The United States, which has never wanted to become too intimately involved in the Cyprus dispute, would be happy if it could get bo h sides to meet across a conference table. The talks would not necessarily have to be between the. greek and Turkish premiers themselves. They will hot meet during their trips to Washington. Inonu left for Nev/ . York Tuesday as Papandreou was arriving in Williamsburg, Va. Papandreou was being accorded the identical reception in Washington that was given Inonp. The Greek leader was to arrive at me White House by helicopter from Williamsburg at 10 a. m. EDT and meet 15 minutes later for his y first conference with Johnson.

House To House Search Underway In South For Missing Civil Righters

I 1 ■ 1 1111 Valuation Higher In Blue Creek Twp. | County auditor Ed Jaberg reported this morning that Blue Creek township hps shown a $47,000 increase in assessed valuation. The gain was made in property improvements and in personal property. Jaberg’s office is currently in the process of summarizing the county plat books as work on assessments is completed by the board of review and the county assessor. The plat books are the. county records of the value of personal property, real estate and property improvements of each taxpayer. The work being done involves making entries in the records to show changes in assessed Valuation caused by property improvements or gains or losses in personal property. As the board of review completes its work on the records of each township, these records are forwarded to the auditor’s office for entry into the plat books. To date the Blue Creek records are the only onds which have hpen completed. * Dick Poss, Auburn, of the state board of accounts, spent Tuesday working with the board of review and advised the board’s members oh questions and problems pertaining to the assessments. Poss will also be in Decatur Thursday to work with the board. He is also’one of the officials who will conduct the scheduled hearing on the North, Adams cumulative school building fund. FTC Plans To Require Label On Cigarettes WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Federal ’.Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to require that cigarette advertising and labeling include a warning to the public of possible health hazards, it was announced today. FTC Chairman Rand Dixon made the announcement during a congressional hearing on the controversy surrounding the effects of smoking on health. Dixon did not specify what the regulation will contain. Nor did he say what type of label cigarette manufacturers would be required to cjjrry on packages. The FTC held hearings on proposed advertising and la- ' beling regulations and since May 15 has been considering whether to adopt them and, if so, precisely in what form. Dixon said today: “The commission has completed its consideration of the record in this proceeding and has determined that the public interest requires the provocation of a trade-regulation rule , for the prevention of unfair or deceptive advertising or labeling of cigarettes in relation to the health hazard of smoking.” Dixon made the statentent in remarks prepared in advance for the second day of House hearings on the whole question of cigarettes and the dangers smoking them poses to human health. Dixon said the commission’s decision was being printed and would be formally published “in the very near future.” 1 He, asked the House Commerce Committee to withhold final action on pending legislation until it bad an opportunity to consider the FTC decision. Dixon announcement- came one day after the Depa-tment W HeaTh, Education and Welfare (HEW) told the committee tfiSt -it felt HEW, rather than the FTC, should regulate labeling and that new legislation was necessary.

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Some Indiana Votes May Go For Scranton INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana, considered a staunch Goldwater state, may have as many as five votes for Gov. William Scranton lurking in its delegation if the balloting at the national Republican convention in ’ San Francisco goes beyond one ballot. This was the indication given today in conversations following publication of a letter from an independent - minded delegate, Clarence O. Hamilton, Columbus industrialist. Even Indiana’s national committeeman, Walter Beardsley, Elkhart, said he has declined to commit himself beyond the first ballot for Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., who won the state’s 32 first-ballot votes when he won the presidential preference primary May 5. Wants To Use Brains “I am a great admirer of Barry, but I don’t like to be a delegate unless I can use my own brains,” Beardsley etj, v - plained. “I personally don’t I think there will be more than one ballot. But if there is, I want to be free to meet the situation as it then exists.” The Hamilton letter was read', by GOP state chairman Robert N. Stewart, Columbus, at one of several campaign strategy meetings now in progress throughout "the .state. Hamilton was on a Canadian vacation® and not available for comment. In his letter, Hamilton said he was accepting his role as delegate “with the full understanding that I am to use ?my best judgment in the voting for all nominees. It is my 'belief each delegate ... should vote his or her convictions at the time the balloting is done at the convention in San Francisco.” Refer to Second Ballot Although the quoted portion sounded as if Hamilton might be talking about a first-round ballot, several persons acquainted with him indicated that they thought he was referring only to a possible second ballot. State Election Board member Edwin M. S. Steers pointed out that the presidential preference law binds the delegates to vote for the winner on the first ballot. He said a rebel delegate could be removed by vote of the State Central Committee and a suocessor named by his district committee. But one observer commented;.... “Hoosier Republicans are not about to- knock off Clarence Hamilton.” Stewart does not intend to hold a caucus of delegates until July 12 when they assemble in San Francisco.. James T. Neal, the GOP state committee secretary. said no effort would be made until then to poll the delegation. Some other delegates reportedly share the views of Hamilton and Beardsley but because Hoosier Republican leaders doubt there will be more than one ballot, no great fuss has been made about the subject. One party leader observed “there could be five at the outside who would vote for Governor Scranton.” TWO SECTIONS INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little cooler tonight. Thursday sunny and warmer north half. Low tonight in the 50s. High Thursday 77 to 85. Sunset today 8:17 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 5:18 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and a little warmer. Lows around 60. Highs mid to upper 80s.

PHILADELPHIA. Miss. (UPD — A house to house search was begun today in this rural east Mississippi countryside for three missing civil rights workers whose burned ca.- was found near a snakeinfested swamp. “It looks like a long hot day,” a state highway patrol spokesman said. “We’re trying to develop some leads, any leads. . Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA> Director Allen Dulles, sent by President Johnson. was to confer later today in Jackson with Gov. Paul B. Johnson about the disappearance of the workers —two white New York youths and a Negro. The burned art station wagon in which the three civil rights workers were last seen was found Tuesday in a wooded area near Bogue Chrtto Swamp in this east Mississippi area. At least 50 federal and state officers combed the area late Tuesday during a rainstorm for further clues to the whereabouts of Andrew Goodman. 20. of New York: Mickey Schwerner, 24. of Brooklyn. N.Y.. both white; and James Chaney. 21, a Negro of Meridian. Miss. • Fear Foul Flay Civil rights leaders said they fear the three men were victims of foul play. They were participants in a militant voter registration drive called the “Mississippi Project” and were first reported missing late Sunday after they went ’ from Meridian to Philadelphia to investiga*e the alleged bombing of a Negro church. The discovery of the burned ' station wagon, in a thicket some 50 feet from a highway set off reaction around the nation.. The National, Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACPi said it will ■ stage a 2.000-man demonstration outskfe the Justice Department toda¥ to protest the racial situatwn in Mississippi. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy delayed- a departure for Europe , to keep in close touch with the situation. FBI and state authorities resumed the search today for the missing trio. The gutted station wagon was hauled from the woods Tuesday and locked up in a garage here. Confers with Parents President Johnson was conferring with parents of Goodman and Schwerner at the White House when word came of the discovery of the automobile. The President personally told the parents of the development, the White House said, then called on Dulles, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (ClA’.to fly to Mississippi and confer with state officials in an effort to improve the state’s racial climate, — A White .House statement said, the President has asked Dulles “to go to Mississippi to

< • wW a 11, r WK. 4 jQl MAIL FLOWS IN—As Sen Edward M. Kennedy recovers in a Northampton. Mass., hospital, well-wishers are keeping the mailbags full of their messages. Hospital aide Mrs. Vera Hamilton carries another stack through the corridor.

■1^ — Fire Station Bid Awarded To Haugk Haugk Heating and Appliances, of 209 N. 13th street, was awarded a contract by the city board of works and safety at a special meeting Tuesday afternoon. The feontract awarded Haugk is for installation of a new heating plant at the local fire station. Haugk was foe low bidder for the contract, with its figure of $2,170. There were three bids submitted. including the Haugk bid and bids from Baker Plumbing and Heating and Al Anderson. The contract calls for removal > of the" present boiler and gas buifier at the fire station, and for furnishing and installing a new gas-fired boiler, plus conversion of the present steam heating system to a forced hot water heating system. Two Gooding Co. Workmen Killed ASHLAND, Ohio (UPD — Two carnival workers, one from Indiana. were killed and three others injured today when their car plowed into the rear of a tractor trailer on Interstate 71 near here. The dead men were identified tentatively as Jesse Warfield, 36,. R. R. 2. Laurel, Ind., and George Willet, Jr., Waverly, Ohio. The injured, who were taken to Ashland Samaritan Hospital, were identified tentatively as Edward H. Warfield, 44, Rushville, Ind.; Lawrence Stiffler, Wheelersburg, Ohio; and Clarence Price, Chillicothe, Ohio. The truck driver, Robert Clark, 50. Dayton, was not injured. The occupants of the car were employed by the Gooding Amusement Co., Cleveland. Couple Sentenced For Tax Evasion INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — George L. Whitlock, 57, and his wife, Helen, 60, Anderson, were sentenced to one-year terms in federal prison Tuesday on charges of evading nearly $lB,000 in federal income taxes for 1958. Federal Judge S. Hugh Dillin passed sentence after the Internal Revenue Service reported the Whitlocks paid $689 in taxes on reported income of $4,370 while actual income was $46,420 and taxes should have been $18,331. Die Whitlocks operated an auto seat cover store in Anderson. meet w-ith the governor, other officials of the state, the FBI and others who have information on the law observance problems that exist there and are a matter of such great concern.”

Two Are Dead In Blast On River Barge NEW YORK (UPD — Two men were killed in a barge explosion on the Hudson River Tuesday night but hundreds of thousands of ' spectators who witnessed the tragedy thought it was part of Macy’s annual fireworks display. From two barges moored in the middle Os the broad river rose a spectacular display of pyrotechnics, and the crowd was spellbound as the sky was lighted with the multi-colored flashes of rockets, roman candles and flash bombs. ... ' Suddenly a rocket went off just above one of the launching barges, and rockets flashed low above the water, splashing into the river within yards of the crowds. Help Arrives .Fireboats, police launches and Coast Guard cutters converged on the smoke-shrouded barge, as the fireworks continued to scream skyward. The tug “Creal,” standing fire-watch just 75 feet off the barge, pulled alongside and four men, their clothes in tatters, leaped on board. Tug Captain Leo Davis, of Jersey City, N.J., said all the men could say when they climbed on board was “thanks for getting us off.” “There was just this loud explosion, then a flash of flame and lots of smoke and we moved in to help,” said patrolman Will Romanchik, aboard Police Launch 12. “At first I thought it was very unusual to see the rocket burst so low, then someone yelled that two men were missing.” Ficks Up Bodies The launch picked up the bodies of Anthony De Francesco and Anthony Amato, a second generation fireworks expert. Both had been blown far off the barge by the explosion. Police said they apparently were killed by the impact of the blast. x As the launches bearing the dead and injured sped back to

Greek, Turkish Cypriots Battle

NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPD— Greeks and Turks armed with automatic weapons and hand grenades battled early today for control of a key village west of Nicosia. A U.N. spokesman said Greek Cypriots drove the Turks off a ridge overlooking the Turkish Cypriot village of AmbeMkou, and then opened fire on the village. A Turkish counter-attack regained the ridge. There were no reports of casualties. Ambelikou is one of the key villages guarding the route to the Turkish Cypriot stronghold of Lefka, 28 miles west of here. . Swedish U.N. troops moved in to patrol the area and attempt to arrange a cease-fire. . Elsewhere in Cyprus, a Danish U.N. armored car was fired on Tuesday night in the Greek Cypriot village of Methoki, 10 miles west of Nicosia, but no one was hit. A Finnish U.N. soldier was accidentally wounded in the tight arm when a Greek Cypriot policeman dropped a submachine gun. The wound was not serious. American officials here today expressed hope the return of Gen. George Grivas, the Cypriot independence leader, might reduce Soviet influence on the

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Rex Halberstadt Is , Off Critical List r Rex Halberstadt, lft-year-01/ resident of route 5, Decatur, has been taken off the critical list at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Halberstadt, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Clark, has regained consciousness and is now listed in “fair” condition. Ver Bn Macintosh, 17, of 1415 W. Monroe St., and Robert Liby, 16, are both now listed as “fairly good.” --- The three youths were injured in a car - truck accident at the intersection of two county joads in Allen county Monday afternoon. Halberstadt was driving an auto crashed into a pick-up truck. Macintosh and Liby were passengers, while the truck driver, Hilbert Witte, erf route 2, Ossian, suffered only a wrist injury. Halberstadt suffered multi* pie factures and was listed in critical condition at the Lutheran hospital through Tuesday. Macintosh received numerous facial and arm cuts, while Liby suffered a broken pelvis. Bayh Tells News Parley Os Crash NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (UP!) — Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., said today he thought the plane crash in which he and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy were injured “was the end of my life here on earth.” . “I must say that there were fleeting moments in which I thought we were gone,” he told a news conference in recalling events inside the ill-fated plane. His wife also was injured in the crash Friday in which two men were killed. The Bayhs were less seriouslj hurt than Kennedy. » Seated in a wheelchair and dressed in hospital pajamas and bathrobe, Bayh spoke softly. “I got the impression that we were flying over thunderheads but actually the thunderheads were trees,” he said. The plane carrying them to the Massachusetts Democratic Convention plunged into an apple orchard. He said his last recollection was that they were “hit, not violently; but as if by a gust of wind.” He said that as the plane hit a tree “there was a sound of a crash. > “I thought we were hit by lightning and it was the end of my life on earth.” Kennedy suffered a broken back in the crash but was recovering satisfactorily. Doctors said today that Kennedy’s condition was “very good” and that he ate a little warm cereal and drank some chocolate. a boat basin on the New York side of the river, the c r owd watched with increased fascination as the fireworks continued to rise, now flashing off in ail directions. John Serpico, president of International Fireworks of N- Bergen, N.J. explained that all the explosives had to be fired off before either barge could be brought back to shore.

island. Grivas’ arrival from Greece last week appeared to have split the Greek Cypriot leadership which has been battling the Turkish Cypriots. The exact nature of Grivas’ mission was expected to ,be clarified in a radio address by the legendary hero this morning. Top-level Americans on the island expressed cautious hope that the return of Grivas could end Soviet influence on Cyprus and open the way to a solutiOd to the communal conflict. Grivas, who le<J the underground struggle against Cyprus’ former British rulers in the late 19505, entered the picture at a time when President Johnson was trying to achieve an understanding between Greece and Turkey on the Cyprus problem. Johnson has been meeting in Washington with the premiere of the two NATO partners whose backing of the opposing sides on Cyprus has created the danger ot a full-scale war in the Mediterranean. The crisis began last December. The Turkish Cypkrts, who are outnumbered 4 to 1, are resisting Greek Cypriot efforts to take away their voice in the government and other minority rights contained in the IMO constitution. t