Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 176, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. NO. 176.

United States Will Send More Soldiers To Assist Viet Nam

Clement Uhl Dies Saturday At Toledo Clement R. Uhl, 86, of Toledo, 0., died Saturday evening following an extended illness of complications. Mr. Uhl was a well known Toledo industrialist, and had visited in Decatur on numerous occasions. He was married to Jdiss Clara Terveer of this city, who preceded him in death. He was a bro-ther-in-law of Mrs. Anna Voglewede and Mrs. Frances Terveer, both of Decatur. Mr. Uhl is survived by four daughters and three sons. Funeral services will be held at 9:40 am. Wednesday at the Cathedral in Toledo. The body was removed to the Coyle funeral home on Collingwood avenue in Toledo, where friends may call until time of the services. Vesper Services At Fair On Wednesday The annual vesper services at the Adams county 4-H fair, sponsored by the county ministerial association, will be held on the fairgrounds at Monroe Wednesday evening from 7 to 7:30 o'clock. The schedule of service follows : Prelude, organist, Miss Marvene Wechter. Call to worship and invocation, the Rev. F. P. Miller, Decatur Evangelical United Brethren church. Hymn. “O Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name” — led by Darrell Gerig. Special music — girls’ quartet, Ann Sprunger, Judy Hakes, Romona Merriman, Kathy McKean. Scripture reading — (II Timothy 2:1-5), and the evening prayer, the Rev. Carey Knittie, Monroe United Brethren church. Hymn, “Onward Christian Soldiers” — led by Darrell Gerig. Special music — girls’ quartet. Devotional message, “Let’s Face Up to Life” — the Rev. Dolar Ritchey, Pleasant Pale Church of the Brethren. Benediction — Rev. Ritchey. Postlude, Miss Marvene Wech- ———---—: —— : -— <7

Approve Budget For Adult Clinic

The Adams county commissioners this morning approved a $2,700 1965 budget item which would make Adams county residents eligible for the services of the adult psychiatric clinic of Northeast Indiana in Fort Wayne. The allocation must be approved by the County council before it is official. Dick Heller, acting as spokesman for the Adams county association for mental health, appeared at the meeting to request the commissioners to make a budget allowance for the service. U—Six Counties The center is set up to furnish outpatient psychiatric services to residents of Adams, Allen, DeKalb. Huntington. Noble, Huntington, Noble and Wells are providing part of the funds, while the state and federal governments are furnishing the remainder. This is the first year that Adams and DeKalb counties have been asked to participate in the program. Saves Taxpayers Money Heller pointed out that one of the best arguments for the center is that it provides much need-, ed outpatient service to those residents of Adams county who otherwise would havfe to be com- | mitted to various state hospitals

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X-Ray Unit Is In County This Week Mrs. W. Guy Brown, executive secretary of the Adams county tuberculosis association, reminded Decatur and Adams county residents that the mobile xray unit is in the county this weekv ——— The mobille unit Will be in Decatur from 9 a.m. 'to 1 p.m. Thursday, stationed at the Adams county courthouse, and open to the public. The unit is in Berne today and will be at Dunbar Furniture Co. from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Tuesday, and the old bank building from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. the same day, both in Berne. From 1 to 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, the unit will be at the C. T. S. factory near Berne, and will then travel to the county 4 H fair, to be open there from 6:30 o’clock in the evening. After being in Decatur Thursday, the x-ray unit will travel to Geneva, where Jt will be located at the library from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday. J?" There is no charge to any individual for an x-ray, as the project is sponsored jointly by the Indiana* state board of health and the local TB Association. The unit is furnished by the board of health, while the local organization pays for the reading of the films. Removal of clothing is not necessary, only metal combs, pens, etc., must be removed. « No one under the age of 18 will be x-rayed, nor will pregnant women. The only age exception is if a food handler under 18 is cerified hv the city or county health officer, he or she may be x-rayed. > INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warm with widely scattered thundershowers likely tonight and Tuesday. Warm and more humid Tuesday. Low tonight 67 to 73. High Tuesday 88 to 94. Sunset today 8:03 p.m. Sunrise Tuesdays 5:40 a-m. Outlook for Wednesday: Continued hot and humid with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Lows upper 60s north to low 70s south. Highs near 90 north to low to mid 90s south. » ■ 1 ~ —-*—

at considerable expense to Adams county, taxpayers. An average of 24 Adams county residents can be expected to use the center each year, representing a savings of SIOO,OOO in tax money which would otherwise have tb be used for their support in hospitals. Adams county has approxiately 6.6 per cent of the population of the- six-county area which the center serves and has been asked to contribute 6 per cent of the county-contributed funds which the center receives. Get Money’s Worth The center has an annual budget of $120,000, which includes county, state and federal funds, clinic fees, individual gifts and revenue from United Fund drives. Heller pointed out that if the county agreed to contribute $2,700 it would be receiving the benefits of a $120,000 program while paying only 2.2 per enct of the total budget. • He also told the commissioners that there is presently a vacancy on the center’s board of directors and that they may recommend an Adams county resident to fill that vacancy. He spoke for Mrs. Roy L. Kalver, association president, who was unable to be present.

SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPl)—The United States has promised to send more U.S. soldier and civilian advisers to South Viet Nam and to furnish more equipment for the war against the Communist guerrillas, the Vietnamese government announced tonight. The announcement by Premier Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh said the undisclosed number of fresh American troops would be used as additional advisers in battlefield areas. They will reinforce the approximately 15,500 American servicemen already serving as advisers with Vietnamese fighting forces in this war - torn Southeast Asian nation. Khanh said additional civilian advisers also had been promised by the United States. More Equipment The South Vietnamese premier said there would also be an increase of U.S. - supplied equipment, including transport planes, plus more technicians for maintenance and communications work: The* prime minister’s announcement was issued this morning after a conference wi*h U. S. o Ambassador MaxwellD. Taylor, former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. A communique published after the meeting said: “The prime minister of the Vietnamese government has just received confirmation from Ambassador Maxiwell D. Taylor that the U. S. government, in agreement with the Vietnamese government, had decided to strengthen the present military aid civilian advisory group in order to help the Vietnamese government.” Khanh listed four main fields of U.S. aid: —“To have more military advisers among units of the armed farces of the Republic of Viet Nam, esoecially at the battalion level, the sea patrol and air units.” Strengthen Special Forces —“To beef up the American Special Forces in order to help the Vietnamese intensify the training and supporting units of this corps with a view to increasing their effectiveness -inoperations against (Communist) Viet Cong infiltration across our border, and especially at conducting counter-guerrilla operations to destroy Viet Cong units and bases.” —“To have more military advisers in the provinces in order to improve regional and militia forces.” A U. S. military spokesman reported earlier today that Vietnamese government troops have killed 36 Communist Viet Cong guerrillas in a major offensive in Phu Yen Province, 235 miles northwest of Saigon. One of the .guerrillas was reported cap‘ured. "* The battle, centering seven miles northeast of the provincial capital of Tuy Hoa, raged into its second day .today. The U. S. spokesman said the 36 Communists were killed in “just one section” of .the battle and indicated final casualty figures would be much larger. ft Four Tickets Made Available For Tour Illness in the families of two couples planning to take the Defeatur Daily Democrat-Erie-Lack-awanna railroad , special New York World’s Fair weekend trip this Friday has resulted in four tickets being available, W. E. Bumgerdner, Erie ticket agent, said today. s # Anyone interested in the tour, at $51.50 for adults, should contact Bumberdner immediately, and he will arrange the transfer of tickets. The group will leave at 120 pjn. Friday, and arrive back in Decatur at 12:25 p.m. Monday. 10 Persons Die In North Carolina Wreck KINSTON, N. C. (UPI) — Ten persons were killed near here early Sunday when two automobiles, each carrying six persons, collided headon.

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Monday July 27,1964.

Judges Named For Festival At Fair Names of three judges and details of the Tuesday night entertainment festival at the 4-H fair in Monroe were announced tr.is morning by Paul E. Rich, program chairman. The judges will be Mrs. Evelyn Erekson, Charles Kester, and Joseph S. Klarke, of Decatur-. The annual festival will get underway at 8:15 p. m. Tuesday, following the parade. , There will be 17 local acts in this year’s festival— Well Known Actress Mrs. Erekson, a resident of Decatur for 14 years, is a native of Salt Lake City, Utah. She has been in summer stock theater performances, and TV and radio work. She has appeared many times in civic theater productions in Fort Wayne. She has taught creative dramatics to children and spends many of her free hours reviewing plays and musicals for area clubs and organizations. In 1963 she and her husband, Reid Erekson* directed the Decatur Jaycees’ presentation of “The Music Man.” Kester was born in western Indiana, and attended school at Veedersburg, where he was grad-,, uated from school in 1953. Married, he and his wife Linda are the parents of two children, a boy aged 9 and and a girl aged 3. He is the owner-operator of Chuck’s piano shop in Decatur, where he has resided for ten years. • Quartet Experienced He has played the piano since he was seven, and is a member of the Adams county chapter of the society for the preservation and encouragement of barbershop quartet singing in America (SPEBQSA). He sings base with the Home Tones quartet. He has played the piano and sung in many home talent shows. He also acted and sang in last year’s production of “The Music Man. Klarke, a native of New York City, is presently station manager of radio station WADM. He has been associated with raaio since he was 10 years old, and started announcing in New York at the age of 17. He appeared on TV in 1947 as a free-lance actor and comedian, made several movies pilmed in New York, and appeared in “Route 66” on CBS until 1959. He has been associated with radio in several capacities, and WADM is the fourth station he has started. Rich also reminded the participants that they should be at the back of the stage by 8 p. m. Tuesday, and asked them to report either to him or to Miss Suellen Bentz r assistant program, chairman. First Aid Workers Listed For Fair Local Red Cross secretary Mrs, Wanda Oelberg today announced . the schedule of workers for the. Red Cross first aid trailer at the Adams county 4-H fair. Thirty seven workers, putting in two-hour shifts, will staff the trailer during the three days of the fair. The trailer is supplied by Decatur Trailer Sales. Last year the first aid trailer treated about 40 persons during the course of the fair. . The schedule for workers Is as follows: July 28—9 a. m. - 12: Mrs. LaVern Roth, Mrs. Margaret Lengerich. 12-2 p. m.: Mrs. Leonard Schwaller, Mrs. Jim McHugh; 24 p. m.: Mrs. William Fifer, Mr?. Glen Ehrsam; 4-6 p. m.: Mrs. Vernon Ginter, Mrs. Dean Boltz; 6-8 p. m.: Mrs. Phyllis Deßolt, Mrs. Robert Johnson; 8-10 p. m.: Mrs. Edward Linder, Mrs. Mary Howard. July 29—9-12 a.m.: Mrs. Dorris - Williamson, Mrs. Joe Hazelwood; 12-2 p. m.: Mrs. Mary Schnepp,

II” I u - ig Decatur Lady 1 Is Critically Hurt In Crash Mrs. Joan Workinger, wife of Robert D. Workinger, owner and operator of the Downtown Texaco station in this city,( remained in critical condition at noon today, suffering from injuries received in a DeKalb county traffic accident Saturday afternopn. Mr. and Mrs. Workinger, and their nine-year-old daughter, Darlene, residents of 818 N. Third St, were all injured in the crash that occurred on state road L two and one-half miles southeast of Hamilton, at 3:50 p.m. Saturday. Workinger, 39, and the daughter were less seriously injured, but remain in Elmhurst hospital in Angola where all three were taken after the headon collision. Immeriate Surgery Mrs. Workinger, who is believ ed to have been thrown through the windshield of the auto, was taken to the Angola hospital and immediately transferred to Parkview, where she underwent four and one-half hours of surgery. She suffered severe cuts and head injuries, among other ’ injuries, and remained in critical condition today. Workinger received a broken jaw, a severe throat laceration, possigle broken ribs and numerous other cuts and bruises in the crash. He is listed as fair at the Angola hospital, and was scheduled for surgery today on the broken jaw. The little girl also received severe cuts about the face, a possible hip injury and had several teeth dislodged. The three also suffered from shock. Six Injured A total of six persons were in---jured in the crash, as a car operated by David R. Spence, 17, route 1, Howe, collided head-on with the Workinger auto at the ♦ drest of a MH. Two passengers in the Spence vehicle, Robert Park, 19, and Earl W. Huffman, also 19, both of Kentucky, are also in serious condition in Parkview hospital. Spence suffered several lacerations and a fractured jaw, and is in the Elmhurst hospital. DeKalb county sheriff’s office said Spence was passing a car driven by Forrest McCella, of Hicksville, 0.. in a no passing zone, and at the crest qf a hill smashed head-on into the auto driven by Workinger. Both Mrs. Workinger and the daughter were thrown from the auto upon impact, and it was believed through the auto’s windshield. Workinger struck the steering wheel and remained in the auto. Credit Doctor " ' Workinger’s father, Harry, who is operating the service station today, said this morning that the Fort Wayne specialists attending Mrs. Workinger credited an Angola doctor with keeping her alive in time to reach the Parkview hospital. The Angola doctor, who was not identified, performed a tracheotomy and inserted a tube in the throat of Mrs. Workinger, allowed her to breathe while enroute to Fort Wayne. Workinger and his daughter may be transferred to Parkview or the local hospital within the next day. or two. Youth Is Killed In Fall At State Park _ NORTH VERNON, Ind. (UPI) — Eight-year-old Virgil H. Hooper of Columbus was killed Sun day night when he tripped and fell 50 feet from a state park cliff, striking a rock jutting out halfway down. State police said the boy was walking along a bluff with hrs father, Earl, and his 3-year-old brother, Bryan, when he stumbled and plunged o#?r the brink. Authorities said he hit a rock about 25 feet below the bluff and then fell another 25 feet. Mrs. Dorris Williamson: 2-4 p.m.: Mrs. Kenneth Nash, Mrs. Donald Moser; 4-6 p.m.: Mrs. Harriet Shoaf, Mrs. Norbert Bleeke; 6-8 p. nt.: Mrs. Leo Ross, Mrs. Robert Johnson; 8-10 p. m.: Mrs. Lester Ford, Mrs. Troy Fennig. July 30—9 a.m,-12: Mrs. Florence Anderson, Mrs. Jim Burk; 12-2 p. m,: Mrs. Peggy Hosea, Mrs. Raymond Eloph; 2-4 p. m.: Mrs. Glen Manley, Mrs. Glen Ehrsam; 4-6 p. mu, Mrs. William Hutker, Mrs. Glen Ehrsam; 6-8 p.m.: ■ Mrs. Hubert Isch, Dr. Joe Morris; 8-10 p. m.: Dr. Joe Morris, Mrs. Robert Johnson, Gerald Durkin.

National Guards In Rochester; Curfew Is Now Being Studied

ROCHESTER, N. Y. (UPD— State troopers and local police patrolled the streets of this riotravaged city and three battalions of National Guardsmen stood by today as city officials debated whether to impose another curfew tonight in fear of more racial violence. The National Guard — troops were sent in Sunday night to support the state and city police but the city was relatively calm this morning. The city criminal court began hearing the cases of more than 555 persons arrested during the violence and pillage that flared here for three successive nights beginning last Friday. About 200 persons were arraigned Saturday. Negroes went into the streets again Sunday night in defiance of a nightlong curfew and hurled rocks, bottles and improvised fire bombs, mostly in hit-and-hide forays. Helmeted and bayonet-armed National Guardsmen were trucked through Negro districts in a show of force Sunday night, but did not go on patrol duty immediately. Their orders were to stand by as a force in reserve to be sent into the streets only if the insurrection got out of control again. Troops Supplement Cops Maj. Gen. Collin P. Williams commanding general of the 27th Armored Division of the New York Guard, said the troops would supplement police activity "if the situation warrants.” Three persons were killed Sunday and nine ■ wore injured when a Civil Defense helicopter ’ scouting a Negro district for signs of a new outbreak crashed into a rooming house, turning it into an inferno. The helicopter pilot and two "residents of the home were killed. Monroe County Civil Defense .Director Robert N. Abbot was burned critically. The fiery crash raised the death toll to four since apparently long standing anger and frustration among this northern New York community’s Negro minority burst into the open three nights ago—triggered by the arrest of a Negro at a street dance. The previous fataljty was a white Civil Defense worker who stumbled into the path of a hitrun car Saturday night after he was’ clubbed by a Negro. A Negro man was shot in the buttocks by police Sunday night when he tried to escape arrest for violating the curfew. Earlier, six or seven Molotov cocktails — crude fire bombs made from bottles of flammable liquid with rag wicks—were tossed from a public housirtg unit, one of them narrowly missing a fire engine. « Fire Warning Shots Police fired a volley of 10 warning shots over the buildMrs. Ellen Langdon Is Taken By Death Mrs. Ellen Langdon, 81, of 11 Rose Ave., New Haven, a native of Berne, and a former missionary. died at 10:25 p. m. Saturday at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne, where she had been a "patient four days. Mrs. Langdon had resided in New Haven since 1956. She served as missionary in the Belgian Congo three years, and was a member of the New Haven Methodist church, its Ladies’ Bible class, and the Marguerite Deyo circle of the church. She Was a life member of, the WSCS and a member of the past presidents club of the WSCS. Surviving are her husband, the Rev. Herbert Langdon, retired Methodist minister: a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Perl of Glenwood, Ill.: two grandchildren, and two brothers. John J. Augsburger of Long Beach, Calif., and Albert Augsburger of Geneva. Funeral rites will be held at 1 p. ‘ m. Wednesday at the New Haven Methodist church. Dr. Newman S. Jeffrey and Dr. Justus Olson officiating. Additional services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Evangelical, Mennonite church, Berne, with the Rev. G. E. Steiner officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery at Berne. Friends may call at the E. Harper & Son funeral home at New Haven after 7 p m. today until noon Wednesday, when the body will be removed to the church.

ing forcing the bottle thrower on the roof to take cover. A police rifleman zeroed in on a man throwing Molotov cocktails from a nearby building and the officer in charge of the police detail ordered: “If he drops another one, give it to him." A fire bomb also was tossed into a grocery a block away but firemen controlled the fire quickly. New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller committed the 1,200

Jury Convicts James R. Hoffa

CHICAGO (UPD — Tean.sters boss James R. Hoffa summoned his attoneys today to plan the appeal of his conviction on charges he conspired to drain $25 million from the union pension fund to further his own interest. ’ ~ Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy was described as “really pleased” with the verdict. The 51-year-old czar of the nation’s larest union refused to comment on the government’s second successful attempt to win a conviction that could put him behind bars with his Teamster predecessor, Dave Beck. A “jury of eight women and four man returned, guilty ver- ’ diets against Hoffa and six codefendants Sunday afternoon after 17 hours of deliberation. Hoffa, snappish and grim after the verdict was returned, let his chief defense lawyer, Maurice Walsh, do his talking for him. Walsh Criticises Verdict -*■ “It’s an outrageous? guessed result,” Walsh said. “They went around and found everyone guilty on one count. There’s no logic involved." Hoffa’s attorneys immediately filed motions for acquittal or a new trial. U.S. District Court Judge Richard B. Austin, who presided over the 90-day trial, set dates of Aug. 10 for written briefs and Aug. 17 for the hearing. A beaming William O. Bittman, the 32-year-old assistant'' attorney general wtho headed the prosecution, telephoned the

OAS Decision Body Blow To Commies

WASHINGTON <UPI) — A high U.S. official said today condemnation and punishment of Fidel Castro’s Cuban regime by the 20-nation Organization of American States (OAS) delivered a forceful “body blow” to Communism in the Western Hemisphere. “We think economically, politically, psychologically and every other way that this puts the continent on record,” said Thomas C. Mann, assistant secretary of state for inter-Ameri-can affairs. Man n str es sed the psy c hological importance of the decision by the OAS foreign fflinis- . tens Sunday to condemn the Castro regime for aggression against Venezuela and to apply diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba. The OAS also warned Castro that future acts of aggression against any OAS member could bring him face-to-face with the combined military strength of Latin America and the United States. -AThe ministers made their decision by a 15-4 vote and signed the resolution on the 11th anniversary of Castro's 26th of July revolutionary movement. Regime Is Unacceptable Mann told newsmen the sanctions and the warning would serve notice not only to the world but to the Cuban people themselves that Castro’s Communist regime was unacceptable to the hemisphere and doomed to eventual failure. -j, “This is a body blow to Communist subversion in the hemisphere,” said Mann, who is President Johnson's personal adviser on Latin America.

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to 1,300 National Guardsmen to the riot-torn city Sunday night. Local and state police, despite their numbers, were thinly spread and fatigued. About 700 guardsmen from Rochester and other northern New York communities went on duty at two armories in the city before midnight. The rest were expected to reach here today. One outfit set up a tent encampment in a city park across the street from one of the armories.

news to Kennedy at Hyannis Port, Mass. “It would be safe to say we were contratulated and he was really pleased," Bittman told newsmen. Kennedy, who has feuded openly with the Teamster boss since the attorney general was chief counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee in the late 19505, said through his * Washington office: RFK Lauds Attorneys z “This case involved fundamentalconcepts of honest unionism. The management of union members’ pension funds is a trust of unequalled responsibility sot a union official The jury has rendered its - verdict. "Mr. William Bittman and Mr. Charles Z. Smith, who presented the case for the United States, deserve appreciation of all citizens.” Bittman said appeals on behalf of Hoffa, even if unsuccessful, could keep the union leader out of jail for at least two years. The Justice Department earlier this year scored another victory in its battle against Hoffa. A federal court jury at Chattanooga, Tenn., convicted Hoffa of jury tampering last March. Hoffa was sentenced to eight years, in prison and fined SIO,OOO in that case, presently being appealed. Hoffa could be sentenced to 20 years in prison and given a stiff fine on the fraud conviction if his appeals fail and the judge invoke the maximum penalty.

’Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in a television interview Sunday (Issues and Answers—AßC) said the OAS action proved that “Castro has no future in Cuba or this hemisphere.” “We believe the Cuban people. . .will.. welcome v this ac-/ tion as demonstrating that the regime which has now fastened itself upon them is not compatible with .the; hemisphere and must be resisted,” Rusk continued. “We expect now a consolidated hemisphere in resistance to these "“’subversive —activities — from Cuba.” Four Vote No Chile. Mexico and Uruguay—-the four Latin American countries still maintaining diplomatic relations with Cuba —cast the only votes against the resolution ordering OAS nations "not' to maintain” diplomatic -relations and to suspend all trade and shipping ties with Cuba,, except those necessary l£or humanitarian reasons. In addition to the warning against future aggression, the resolution also carried an appeal to other nations of the ‘ free world to cooperate in the shipping and trade embargo. This OAS appeal added considerable strength to the similar U.S. request that has been rebuffed, partly because some hemispheric nations continue to trade with Cuba. The -only question left unanswered after the meeting ended Sunday was Whether the four nations who opposed the action would comply with the sanctions or ignore them. There was no deadline for compliance, nor were there any penalties for ignoring the act