Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 173.

Hundreds Os Negroes Clash With Police In Brooklyn Fifth Night

I Building Finance Committee Named | The appointment of a building finance committee was the major item of business transacted by the Zion Lutheran voters’ assembly at its quarterly meeting held Wednesday evening at the church. The assembly had established the committee at its April meeting and instructed its church council to suggest names of individuals to serve on the committee. The committee will study the ways and means to finance a new church building. The new committee will consist of Donald Bieberich, William Zwick, Stewart Schnepf, Roger Schuster, and William Justice. The president and the pastor of the congregation, its financial secretary, and its public relations chairman will also serve as advisory members. Carroll Schroeder, reported that the building committee has interviewed nine architectural firms to date, with several more interviews scheduled before-4hey are ready to recommend an architect. The assembly also heard midyear financial reports and chairmen of the various committees reviewed their activities. I Film On Quackery Is Shown To Optimists Members of the Decatur Optimist club this morning saw a film on dental quackery presented by Dr. Arnold Spiegel. The film explaintd the operations of fly-by-night firms which pose as reputable establishments and offer cheap dental plates, which are often dangerous and painful to the wearer. During the business meeting, president Dean Boltz reported that the watermelon stand operated at the Sidewalk ale had produced a profit of more than SIOO, which will be used for the club's 1 activities. A proposed anti-smut campaign and a pamphlet to be distributed to local boys was also discussed. Top Bu Leaders With J( , WASHINGTON (UPl)—President Johnson meets with about 200 of the nation’s top business leaders today to discuss a - broad range of problems from civil rights to the health of the economy. The Chief was to nlav host at a White House lunch at 1 pm. EDT. He has " scheduled 7 a similar lunch meeting Friday for a large group of labor leaders. In the telegrams the White House sent inviting the busi- . nessmen to today’s affair, the President said an “exchange of views with you and other outstanding leaders of our country is, I believe, important and desirable.” It was expected that among the chief topics of discussion would be imDlementation of the new civil rights law, and ways and means of keeping the U.S. economy in good health. Shortly before the lunch, the President was to greet members of the Peace Corps National Advisory Council at a ceremony in the White House rose £flrden. The council, which is holding , its fourth annual meeting here this week, advises the Peace Corps on long-range*, policy. Its

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Two-Week Vacations At G. E., Duo, Inc. The nearly 200 employes of Duo, Inc., in keeping with company policy of the past few years, will start on vacation Friday, the same time as the local General Electric plant, for two weeks, Victor B. Porter.,., president,, an-., nouqced this morning. Because many of the employes have spouses working at the GE plant, it is more convenient for the workers to be gone at the same time, he explained. Retooling to meet the specifications of the new models for 1965 to complete, and when the workers return, they will start In on the new models. Duo, Inc., will have six sales representatives in the field this Summer and early fall; they put their first sales representatives in the field last September, so all business secured between now and the Chicago boat show Sept? 17, to show the ne\V models, will be new business. The new warehouse, which will be used for a storage space, is progressing, with the Walls about half up. Porter explained that they plan to have the building under roof before starting the floor, so they can start storage as soon as each floor segment is completed. East Noble Building Fund Is Approved INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners today approved continuance of a 75-cent cumulative building fund property tax levy by the East Noble. School Corp. at Kendallville. Commission secretary Richard Worley said the board ruled against a group of petitioners who opposed construction of a new school at Kendallville arid approved a lease rental agreement between the corporation and the East Noble School Building Corp. . T-; • isiness $ Meet 3hnson members include singer Harry Belafonte; movie actress Janet Leigh; E. Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Denver Post; former Florida Gov. Leroy Collins, director of the new civil rights Community Relations Service; educators, industrialists and civic and religious leaders from throughout the DB- - ■.> — - -- Johnson was named chairman of the council when it was organized in 1961. He retained the post after his accession to the presidency. The President meets with Tengku Abdul __ Rahman, prime minister of Malaysia, who is visiting Washington, at 5 p.m. EDT. He was scheduled to attend a recep’ion in his honor at the Malaysian Embassy after the meeting. The climax of Johnson’s busy day wa? to be a flying visit to Valley Forge, Pa., site of the ■ - six’h national Boy Scout Jamboree. 1 i The President was expected to arrive at the jamboree about 8:30 p.m. and, after jdsiting the ; sprawling camp grcxmds and > speaking to the boys, 'return to s Washington, Today is the final i day of the Jamboree. .ea ’V . >

Fuhrman To Head Young Republicans | Republican county chairman Roy L. Price announced this morning the appointment of John N. Fuhrman, of 833 Parkview Drive, as the new county chairman of the Ydung Republican organization. J The appointment was made by Price with the approval of the Republican central committee. Fuhrman succeeds Jerry Mclntosh as head of the Young Republicans. Mclntosh, of Homestead 12, was appointed) by former county chairman , True (Tabby) Andrews. Price also announced the appointment of Georgianna Barlett, wife of Jack D. Barlett, as vice chairman of the Young Republicans of Adams county. Both appointments are effective immediately, Price stated, and are for terms of two years each. Former Treasurer’s Son Fuhrman is the son of the late Norval Fuhrman, a former Adams county treasurer, and the former Dorothy Sprunger of Berne. He is employed at a tool and die company in Fort Wayne, where he is a tool and cue maker. He and htS wife. Phyllis A. Fuhrman, reside at 833 Parkview Drive. Mrs. Barlett, a resident of 107 W. Walnut St., Monroe, is the daughter of Cliff Essex of Monroe and the niece of former Republican county chairman Harry (Peck) Essex. Price explained that he and Arnto Liechty, of Berne, a district Young Repubilean chairman, will meet with the new chairman and vice chairman to fill the other offices of the organization. Monte Carlo Robbery Loot $1.6 Million MONTE CARLO, Monaco (UPl)—Five masked gangsters wearing blue jackets robbed a fashionable jewelry store, seriously wounded one policeman with submachine gun bullets and kidnaped another in a lightning two-minute operation today. First estimates placed the loot as high as 8 million francs —sl.6 million. M.’ Ferrario, director of the store, said the loss “is around eight million new francs” ($1.6 million). It was the fourth time his shop, a branch of the exclusive Paris jewelers, had been robbed. The gang in their escape were reported to have dropped _ one-necklace and ring valued at one 'million , francs ($200,000). . ... Ferrario said the gunmen entered the shop about 10:30 a.m. “I was in the store with two employes and a watchman. Three or four men,—l couldin’t say exactly how many—entered he said. “They were all masked with pieces of wool and all armed with machine guns. “They had hardly entered when one of them opened fire, probably to intimidate us. “He wasn’t content to shoot in the air. He let loose a burst horizontally, and iF was just ’ luck no one was wounded.” As the gangsters left the store, they ran into a jtoliceman rushing to the scene. They forced him to go with them and escaped. Ferrario said the kidnaped . policeman was taken as a hostage.

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By United Press International . Hundreds of screaming Ne- 1 gro youths clashed with police I in Brooklyn Wednesday night I in the fifth straight night of vi- I olence in New York City. A I wave of looting followed early 1 today and police shot three of I the suspected looters. Police said the latest street disorders and the looting resulted in the three shootings, 130 arrests and more than 155 stores vandalized. Two policemen were hurt. - The Negro mobs, defying a warning .from’ Mayor Robert F. Wagner that “mob rule” would not be tolerated, charged police in two major forays, “Killed or be killed!” they shouted. Mounted police arid foot patrolmen swinging clubs dispersed the mobs. X* Two Major Flareups Wednesday night’s violence included two major flareups in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn and another incident in which Negro women attacked a policeman, kicking and scratching him. In Jackson, Miss., Dr. Martin Luther King angrily denied Wednesday night that Communists have infiltrated the civil rights movement. “There are as many nists in this freedom movement as there are Eskimos in Florida,” King told a rally of 2,500. In Washington, Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., charged Wednesday that the civil rights drive in Mississippi was backed by Communists and suggested that the mysterious disappearance of three young civil rights workers might have been a hoax. Elsewhere i Atlanta: A three-judge federal court panel ruled Wednesday that an Atlanta restaurant and a motel must admit Negroes in the first court test of the public accommodations section of the new civil rights law. Both the -restaurant and motel are expected to appeal. Jacksonville, Fla.: A federal judge Wednesday refused to is- ■ sue a blanket order directing all St. Augustine restaurants and hotels to comply with the new civil rights law but began hearings on two specific cases. Richmond, Va.* U.S. District Judge John D. Butzner Jr, Wednesday reaffirmed an earlier ruling that public funds may not be used to aid children in segregated private schools in Surry County. Attorneys announced they will appeal. Memphis, Tenn.: The federal government will not sit on its hands and await complaints of discrimination before moving to Withdraw fun<& from federally-,, assisted programs now that the civil rights law is effective, James M. Quogley, assistant secretary of health, education and welfare told educators from four sourthern states Wednesday. MCComb, Miss.: Another Negro church was found burned Wednesday near here and about a mile from the site of a similar burning last Friday. Authorities said arson was suspected. Greenwood, Mbs. l Ninetyeight civil rights demonstrators were fred on bond Wednesday, following the removal of their cases from state to federal court. They were arrested during picketing in front of the Leflore County courthouse last Thursday. . - INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Friday except for some isolated thundershowers in late afternoon and evening boors. Continued warm and humid. Lows to- - night 67 to 73. Highs Friday 88 to K. Sunset today 8:67 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:37 i a-m. Outlook for Saturday: Continued hot and humid 1 with (Mattered thundershowers. Little temperature ' V. t ’ u

| Youth Is Held For 1 Ohio Truck Theft A 18-year-old youth is being held in custody in, the Adams county jail for sheriff's officers from Adams county, O. s Sheriff Eugene Fulton, of West Union, Adams county, 0., has contacted officers here and . ex*, plained that he will pick the fugitive up Friday to return him to the Ohio city to stand charges there. The youth has been identified as Dennis Ketron, 18, who was taken into custody in this city around 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Chief of police Grover Odle recently received a letter from sheriff* Fulton, requesting that authorities pick up the youth at his residence here, 1121 Elm St., for questioning. ; The Ohio sheriff explained that the youth was believed to have stolen a truck in Adams county, 0., early the morning of Sunday July 20, and driving it a short distance before wrecking the vehicle and abandoning it along the road. Odle questioned the youth a short time before noon Wednesday, at which time he told the police chief that he knew nothing about the th*fL- Around 1 o'clock yesterday • afternoon, however, he telephoned the police department and said he was ready to make a statement concerning the theft. After telling his story, Ketron signed a waiver of extradition, and was placed in custody at the local jail, awaiting the Ohio authorities. <r .... *o* Continued Hot And Humid For Hoosiers. By United Press International More liberal doses of heat and humidity were crammed down the throats of Hoosiers today as summer's more uncomfortable wave of weather continued with, no relief in sight. “Continued hot and humid” was the forecast for today, Friday and Saturday. Weathermen again repeated the prediction of isolated or widely scattered thundershowers similar to those which have featured the weather each day this week. For the second afternoon in a row, part? of Indianapolis were drenched with a brief but heavy rain during thundershowers and became the only city in the state to peratures. Fort Wayne and other parts of Northeastern Indiana also received heavy thundershowers, some accompanied by soaking -F&inv hail and strong winds, Lightning set fire to three Fort Wayne homes, but at the official weathei 1 station there, only a trace of rain was recorded. High readings Wednesday included 89 at Indianapolis, 90 at Evansville, 91 at South Bend arid Fort Wayne, 92 at Cincinnati and 93 at Louisville. During one of the hottest nights of the summer, temperatures dropped below 70 only at South Bend and Cincinnati, and the lows there were'69. Highs today will range from 88 to the mid 90s, lows tonight from 68 to 75, and highs Friday in the 90s. The outlook for Saturday was continued hot and humid.

Former Wells County Auditor Dies Today BLUFFTON, Ind. <UPI>— Curtis O. (Pete) Ellis, 53, a field examiner for the State Board of Accounts and former Wells county auditor, died unexpectedly to- " day while apparently recuperating from possible food poisoning suffered on a vacation trip to Massachusetts last week. ' ' Ellis died 15 minutes after admission to tgTells county hospital. He became ill six days ago on the trip but wax able to return to Bluffton in a car. An autopsy was ordered.

Break Ground Soon For New Church

Ground - breaking ceremonies for the new quarter-million dollar Decatur Methodist church should be held in about 45 days, William H. Brown, chairman of the official board of the Methodist church, announced this morning. Invitational bids will be let three weeks from Friday, after the architects’ plans, drawn by McGuire, Shook. Corppton, Richie. & Associates, were approved, it was announced Wednesday evening. 1 * Sheets Finance Chairman At the same time, Earl Sheets, Decatur businessman, was chosen De Gaulle In Call To Europe Play Own Role PARIS (UPI) — President Charles de Gaulle called on Europe - today to play-its own independent role in world politics, free from “subordination” to the United States. He said Europe still must remain allied to the United States “but the reasons which turned this alliance into subordination are fast disappearing.” De Gaulle spoke at a crowded Elysee Palace news conference his first since Jan. 31 and his 19th since he became president 5Vi years ago. The entire French cabinet and nearly 1,000 French and foreign newsmen, Officials and invited guests were jammed into the ornate gilded state reception room of the presidential - ■ palace. _■-. - -..— — Looks Well De Gaulle wore a doublebreasted grey suit and striped black tie. He looked well and spoke in a strong energetic voice. He appeared to have overcome all after-effects of his prostate surgery last April. After a 'very brief opening statement of welcome, Gaulle asked for questions. De Gaulle called for a new .-effort aimed at European unity. 3, “As far as we French are concerned,” he said, “the kind of Europe we must build must be a European Europe with its own independent policy.” Reiterates Demands But he reiterated his - earlier demands —which have blocked European political unity talks for the past 2Vi years—that it must be a federation of independent European » states rather than a closely knit unton. - • De Gaulle recalled that he had made proposals along these lines to the other five members of the European Common Mar-ket-West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. He said his poroposais received “support in principle” from the West German government but that Italy refused to call the decisive meeting, aimed at setting up such a union and that its objections, together with those of Belgium and The Netherlands, brought the whole project to a standstill. Recalls Treaty Signing He said the kind of integration sought by the opponents of his plan would simply have resulted - in ““an American protectorate.” De Gaulle recalled that at this point France and West Germany signed their treaty of friendship and cooperation in January, 1963.

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to succeed Virgil (Pete) Krick, of the Krick-Tyndall Co., as chairman of the finance commission. Hie financial drive to raise $90,000 to finish the fund for the new church was more than successful, with SIIO,OOO being pledged. The huge new 132 by 48 foot building will face on Monroe street, and will be connected to the new chapel, which followed the 1949 building program under the direction of Dr. Gerald Jones. Carl Gerber is serving as chairman of the building and plans committee. A 12 x 35-foot canopy will con-

Civil Rights Law Is Upheld

ATLANTA <UPI> — A three judge federal court, possibly setting “a powerful precedent,” Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of the public accommodation section of the new civil rights law in its first legal test. The tribunal, headed by Chief Judge Elbert Tuttle of the U.S. sth Circulf Court of Appeals, ordered the Heart of Atlanta Motel and the Pkkrick Restaurant to admit Negroes within 20 days. _ - The dolay in activating a temporary injunction against discrimination was to allow the owners of the businesses to follow through on their stated intention to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court, _• A cornerstone of the controversial civil rights law which "went into effect July 2, the pub- , be accommodations section outlaws racial discrimination in hotels, motels, restaurants, theaters and . other public places which “affect” interstate commerce. The new law also prohibits ’ discrimination in voter registration, public places, ' schools, employment and federr al aid programs. ' Ruling after two days of hearings, the court said there r

—p—uppw School Bus Men Discuss Problems

Members of the North Adams community 'schools bus drivers association met Wednesday night to discuss problems which they presented last week at the North Adams school board meeting and to prepare a route map which they will present to the school board for approval. The newly-formed drivers group, headed by Don GrOte,, is seeking to eliminate the present inequities in the length of bus routes and to obtain extra pay for those drivers who must drive i longer routes. At present, route [ lengths vary from 87 to 22 miles l per day. At the last school board meet- ; ing, Grote told the board that ; some of the bus routes are so long that drivers must travel 50 miles per hour to get children to - school on time, despite the fact f that state law limits buses to 35 miles per hour. - At lost night's meeting Grote pointed out that there are iwo t drivers who drive oevr 80 miles t per day making stops at six diff ferent schools. He said that in r addition to this, the drivers are required to shuttle kindergarten

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nect the present chruch and new church across the chapel building. In addition to the main entrance on Monroe street, the new church will have two sixth street entrances. Educational Unit The present church will either be torn down, or remodeled, and replaced by an educational unit. The 700-member local church now has on hand, or pledged, enough money to complete the proposed addition, Brown explained. Work is exepected to start on the new building, with completion as quickly as possible, after letting of the bids.

was “nothing which we can find" to indicate that Congress cannot exercise the “full extent." of its powers under the commerce clause to deal with discrimination in much the same manner as it regulates prices, wages, hours and labor relations. The public actommodaiorts, section applies to any restaurant or hoiel that sells ’ food for consumption on the prem--ises” if its opera tons affect commerce or 'f “L serve., or offdrs to serve interestate travelers or a substantial [>ortion of the food v/hich it serves ~ T has moved in commerce.” “Congress had the power to go this -far,” the court said. The court, which also included federal district Judges Frank A. Hooper and Lewis F. Morgan, .made. Jl_cl£fULin. page ruling that the Heart of Atlanta Motel and F ickrick Restaurant, both or federal highways, came under the definition of public accommodations as outlined in the new law. “It follows, therefore, that the defendants’ attack on ti e constitutionality of the act, as applied to their operations, must fail,” the ruling said.

student from the Monmouth school to the kindergarten between Monmouth and Decatur. They are not paid for this job. All kindergarten children from the regular bus routes are dropped at the Monmouth school. One bus driver must wad at the school until they have all arrived and then take them to the Fort Moses kindergarten building, at the intersection of the Piqua and Monmouth roads. Since no provision was made for assigning a driver to this, the drivers usually alternate taking the kindergarten route. It means an extra three or four miles of driving peT day. Bus drivers currently receive $1620 per year or $9 per day during the school term. A pay increase is scheduled. This would move the salaries to $1650 • per year or $9 17 per day. The drivers association, more concerned over route length than a. pay increase, have offer->d to reject the raise if the school board -will consider revamping the routes to make them more equal and pay six cents per day per mile Tor every mile over 30 miles of route length.