Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. No. 177.

Astronauts Plan To Log 700 Miles

HOUSTON (UPI) — America’s astronauts, grounded by a lack of transportation for the past 14 months, planned to log nearly 700 hours of flying time in space in their new Gemini capsule by the end of 1965. ’ • The massive orbital assault by a quartet of two-man Gemini crews would, if successful, far outstrip the estimated 390 hours of space time racked up by six Russian cosmonaut ince the era of manned space flight began three years ago. Astronauts Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom and John W. Young are scheduled to pilot the 7,000 pound, dual - controlled Gemini capsule on its three-orbit inaugural flight in December. Four-Day Trip Monday, fellow spacemen James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White 11, a pair of Air Force captains who joined the space program in September of 1962, were named pilots of the second Gemini mission —a flight that will send them into orbit for four days early next spring.'

Grand Jury Probes Rochester Rioting

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (UPD—A grand jury today began hearing the first cases of persons charged with rioting. City officials believed the emergency caused by a weekend of racial violence now was under control. The city was quiet today and bus service was back to near normal although streets remained filled with police and national guardsmen were camped around Negro neigh'Mobile Newsroom" At Fair For Democrat The Decatur Daily Democrat is operating a “mobile newsroom” at the Adamis county 4-H fair this week. The newsroom, set up in the 17-foot travel trailer of photographer Dave Mac Lean, includes complete facilities for news writing and photo processing. Located near the livestock barns, it is staffed by Mac Lean, who does assignment photography for the paper, and Democrat reporter Mike Thoele. Sues Decafur Store For $46,000 Damages Ivan E. Garwood, who resides east of this city, has filed a damage suit in the Adams circuit court against John and Ruth K. Rawlingson, doing business as the Western Auto Associate Store. In his complaint, Garwood asks a judgment of $46,000 from the Rawlinsons for injuries he received in the store July 29, 1962. Garwood .contends in his suit that he waspurchasing aßefrigerator from the store and when John Rawlinson began moving the item, it fell from the cart onto Garwood, who claims Rawlinson was negligent. Garwood says he has expended the sum of S7OO in medical ser...yiges .and has lost $5,000 by reason of job classification, as a result of the injuries, and will continue to lose more.

Reds Willing To Talk Pact

MOSCOW (UPI) — Premier ' Nikita ~S. ’-Khrushchev today told British Fdreign Secretary R. A. Butler the Soviet Union is willing to take a softer line on a treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons, reliable sources said. Khrushchev’s new willingness to talk about the treaty despite the West’s proposals for a mul-ti-lateral nuclear force (MLF) emerged as the chief result of his talk with Butler, the sourtr ces said. v Khrushchev also was said to have told Butler Moscow will not consider quitting peacekeeping role in Laos at least until it hears the results of its call for a new 14-nation conference on the troubled Southeast Asian kingdom. Butler, making his initial es-

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Next up will be a seven-day flight by two astronauts sometime in the summer of 1965. The pilots for that voyage have yet to be selected, but leading contenders include veteran spaceman Walter M. Schirra Jr. and three relative newcomers, Thomas P. Stafford, Neil A. Armstrong and Elliot M. See Jr. Two-Day Affair The- fourth Gemini manned Mission, tentatively set for late 1965, will be a two-day affair with the principal task of linking up with another object —a previously orbited Agena second-stage rocket —175 miles up in space. That will mark the first socalled “rendezvous and docking” attempt. Veteran astronaut Gordon L. Cooper, who set America’s current record of 22 9 orbits in about 34 hours on the nation’s last manned flight in May of 1963, and trainee Charles (Pete) Conrad, are given the best chance of making the delicate and tricky rendezvous flight:

borhoods. There were no street disorders or lootings Monday night for the first time since Friday night. “Things were very quiet last night and we’re all hoping that they will stay that way,” Mayor Frank P. Lamb said. However, it has not yet been decided whether the curfew will be lifted tonight. , . Judges working in three court rooms and a cell block at the Monroe County penitentiary completed arraignments of the approximately 750 persons arrested sinee the weekend. Officials said court facilities were so heayily taxed that it probably would be several days before the exact number of arrests was known. The first of between 200 and 250 persons held on felony or rioting charges went before a grand jury today. They were held in SIO,OOO bail each. About 500 others, who had pleaded guilty to misdeameanor charges of unlawful assembly or curfew violations, were being released as soon as they could be processed. Both the police chief and city manager, who had maintained all-night vigils at the Public Safety Building during the previous nights of rioting, went home shortly after midnight; Governor Tours City New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who toured the riot-stricken city Monday, also seemed assured that the 1,200 state and local police on duty here and the 1,300 National Guardsmen he ordered in as a standby reserve, could maintain the peace. “The problem now is preservation of law and order, getting back to normalcy,” he said after conferences with police and military officers. After a lengthy trip through the area where four men were killed and hundreds of business places were ravaged as Negroes battled, police, . Rockefeller declared there was "clear evidence of extremism” in what he saw.

fort at Kremlin negotiations, had said he came to Moscow to urge the Soviets to drop their new threat to pull out as co-chairman of the 1962 Geneva agreement unless its conference call was heeded. The sources saia Khrushchev. expressed deep frustration at efforts to keep the peace in Laos. He indicated he was sick and tired of criticism of Soviet action, the sources said. Butler spent an hour and 45 minutes with 1 Khrushchev and an hour with Foreign Secretary Andrei Gromyko in the Kremlin. He found Khrushchev in good humor. Khrushdhev gestured toward Ted Orchard, the bearded first secretary of the British Embassy, and said: “This man has a beard. Mr. Butler, why did you bring along that Cuban?”

Accident Victim Is In 'Poor' Condition Mrs. Joan Workinger, seriously injured in a DeKalb county traffic accident Saturday afternoon, was listed in “poor” conddition today at the Parkview memorial hospital, according to a 1:30 p.m. report from the Hospital. Mrs. Workinger, her husband, Robert D. Workinger, owner and. operator of the downtown Texaco station on N. Second St., and their daughter, Darlene, nine-years-of-age, were all seriously injured in the Saturday crash two and a half miles southeast of Hamilton, that hosiptalized six persons. Mrs. Workinger was believed to have been thrown through the windshield of the car driven by her husband, which was struck head-on at the crest of a hill by another vehicle that was in the process of passing. She suffered severe facial lacerations and head injuries, and underwent four and one-half hours of surgery at Parkview a short time after the crash. Workingerand the young daughter are much improved today, according to his father, Harry Workinger, who is operating the service station. Workinger suffered a broken jaw, lacerations and other injuries. He underwent surgery on the jaw Monday and was scheduled for further surgery on the jaw today. The little girl received severe cuts about the face and other less serious injuries. Workinger and the daughter are in the Elmhurst hospital in Angola, where they were taken after the crash. Original plans to have them transferred to either the Parkview or Adams county memorial hospital have been dismissed. Mrs. Kennedy May Attend Convention HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (UPl)—Mrs. John F. Kennedy, .widow of the President,,, is debating whether to attend the Democratic National Convention, a source close to the Kennedy family said today. The source said that Mrs. Kennedy is “highly interested” in the possible candidacy of her brother-in-law. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, for the vice presidential Mrs. Kennedy flies to New ’ ’York today, Ker 35th birthday, to attend a meeting of the trustees of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. Then she planned to go to Newport, R.1., to join her children, before a flight to Greece Aug. 5. She will cruise the Greek islands aboard a yacht chartered by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman of Palm Beach, Fla., longtime friends of the late President and his widow. She also planned a brief stop in Italy en route home, at the villa rented by her sister north of Rome. Her return to the United States would be before the end of the Democratic convention. Little Relief From Heal Wave Foreseen By United Press International Forecasters held out little hope today for early relief from Indiana’s longest and strongest hot spell of the season and one of the most persistent in several years. Predictions indicated a little cooler weather for the northern third of the state Wednesday after scattered thundershowers, s but for the bulk of Hoosier land the outlook through Thursday was "no important changes.’’ Highs today will range from 89 to 95 north, around 90 central and the mid 90s south. For Wednesday, the upstate highs will drop to the low to mid 80s but elsewhere they will duplicate the peak readings expected today. £ Low tonight will range from 68 to 74. At their high points Monday, temperatures reached 94 at Cincinna'i, 93 at Louisville, Fort Wayne and Evansville, 92 at Lafayette, 90 at South Bend and Indianapolis. . , The night was one of the hottest of the.season. The mercury failed to dip below the 70s at any of . the daily check points in the state. Scattered or widely scattered thundershowers were expected daily through Wednesday, but none was in sight for Thursday.

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Tuesday, July 28,1964,

U. S. Sends Its Ranger -7 Television Probe Out On I 228,000-Mile Moon Trip

INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warm, scattered thunderstorms mostly north portton tonight Wednesday partly cloudy with thundershowers south portion and thundershowers probably ending over north portion. Turning cooler north and central Wednesday. Low tonight 68 to 74. High Wednesday in the 80s north and central and low 90s extreme south. Sunset today 8:02 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:41 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Mostly fair, cooler and less humid. Lows mostly in the 60s. Highs in the 80s. Viel Nam Feels Free To Attack North Viet Nam SAIGON (UPI) — Premier Nguyen Khanh of South Viet Nam said today his government feels free to attack Communist North Viet Nam whether the United States approves or not. The premier’s statement waa made in the face of continuOtr - United States opposition to extension of the war against the Viet Cong across the border into North Viet Nam. It also coincided with the disclosure of American plans to build up its forces in Viet Nam by about one third with the dispatch of an additional 5,000 troops to the area. Shortly after Khanh made it dear to newsmen that he felt free to act again st North iet Nom without U.S. consent,, it was disclosed that four American officers were killed today by Communist mines and bullets in two separate incidents within 20 miles of Saigon. A U.S. military spokesman said three Americans were killed when their jeep hit a land mine. Another U.S. officer was killed in a Viet Cong ambush 15 miles northwest of Saigon, an unofficial source said. The fatalities raised to 173 the number of Americans killed in combat in South Viet Nam since the beginning of 1961. Americans Killed SAIGON < UPD—Four American officers were killed today by Communist mines and bullets in two separate incidents within 20 miles of Saigon. A U.S. military spokesman said three of the Americans were killed- when their jeep hit a mine just before boon. -- - The fourth U.S. officer was killed along with his Vietnamese driver in an ambush this afternoon about 15 miles northwest of Saigon, an unofficial source reported. The new fatalities raised to 173 the number of Americans killed in combat in South Viet Nam’s war against the Communists. An overall total of 260 Americans have" 1 died" in South’ Viet Nam in combat and noncombat incidents since the beginning of 1961. The three victims of the mine blast were all riding in the sarpe jeep when it was demolished in Go Cong Province, about 20 miles south of Saigon. Two of them were U.S. Army officers and the third was a U.S. Air Force officer. There were no reports of casualties among passengers 6f the four other vehicles making up their convoy. Unofficial sources said the fourth officers was killed in a daylight ambuSh on or near highway one, the main northwest artery from the capital. Official sources were unable immediately to confirm the death of the fourth officer because of a policy of delaying casualty reports for a mandatory six hours.

Protest State Displacing Os 5.000 Persons INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Governor received an implied warning from a Negro delegation today that Indianapolis could become “another Rochester” if plans to displace from 4,(XX) to 5,000 persons by interstate highway routing through the Hoosier capital are carried out. The delegation was from the Indianapolis Taxpayers Association, which has mixed membership. But nearly all of those who presented their plea to Welsh were Negro leaders from areas in the line of proposed urban loop freeways. They said they decided to call on Welsh for help after they were unable to get an appointment with U. S. Highway Administrator Rex. M. Whitton, who came to Indianapolis today to make a speech. Dr. Fernie M. King, a spokesman for the delegation, • said that “while we are not the type of people who could create a Rochester”, he feared there ■ were otmsrtt of his race who might. He said that many of the Negro families who are scheduled for displacement are having difficulty finding equivalent housing. Mrs. Myrtle Roper, another member of the delegation, told Welsh that there are “two prices for the same house” in some cases and cited an experience in which she said a real estate man priced a house “at $17,000 jf you are white or $20,000 if you are ’coldfecT.”' ■ Mrs.— Dorothy Whiteside - said that urban interstate highway development “all over the country has been most often in Negro communities because highway people have found it doesn’t cost as much and they do not protest as much.” Welsh listened to the delegation, then said “I promise you the matter will be reviewed.” “I am aware of the gravity, but there is no easy soluttoin. I will review the matter to see equity is done and all factors considered,” he said. Involved in the controversy are inner city routes for Interstate 65 and Interstate 70. The present planning was developed after public hearings were held by the Indiana State, Highway Commission, which the Negro delegation members said they attended. They said‘their protests failed to change the plans. The highway department is figuring on using earth embankment type construction according to Frank J. Murray, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Taxpayers Association, but his group favors the depressed highways such as Interstate 94 along the Dan Ryan Highway in Chicago. Whitton, in his prepared speech at an Indiana Highway Industry Day luncheon, hailed interstate highway construction’s “outstanding benefit the saving of 8,000 lives a year and prevention of countless injuries.” “But the shocking fact remains that 43,400 people were killed on our roads and streets last year,” Whitton said. “No nation—least of all one which seeks to become what President Johnson calls “The Great Society"—cartl tolerate such a senseless toll.” Whitton handed Indiana officials a federal check for $21,925,603 which represents federal aid on highway work in a recent period. «Welsh in remarks prepared for the luncheon .said all of the, 1,100-mile interstate highways allocated to Indiana are either open, under construction or on the drawing boards. He said 274 miles are open, another 360 will be open this year, and another 100 is under construction With the rest on the drawing boards.

CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) — The United States today sent its Ranger-7 television probe on a 228,000-mile trip to the moon to get the first closeup pictures of the lunar surface. The spacecraft, designed to end a six-year string of American moonshot setbacks, thundered into blue skies atop an Atlas - Agena rocket at 11:50 am. EST. Thirty minutes later, the upper Agena stage — coasting 115 miles above the Atlantic—fired a second time in a delicate maneuver designed to send the Ranger-7 toward the moon. Space agency officials were able to confirm that the rocket fired successfully but it would be some time before its exact path could be plotted. ♦ Several minutes later, a tracking station" reported that the Ranger-7 spacecraft had responded properly to its first command. Six previous Ranger shots have ben failures but scientists were hopeful that shot number seven would ring up a success at the conclusion of its flight of 68hours. The pioneering probe wa s first aimed at a “parking orbit" about 115 miles above earth. After coasting for about 20 minutes to a point over Africa, the Agena upper stage was Mrs. Mary Swygart Is Taken By Death Mrs. Mary Swygart, 93, a resident of Decatur most of her life, died suddenly at 12:05 p. m. Monday at a nursing home in Fretnont, 0. She was born in Zurich, Switzerland, June 23, 1872, a daughter -of Henry- and Barbara Spuhler, but resided in Decatur most of her life, moving to 831 Fulton St., Sandusky, 0., four years ago to make her home with a daughter. Her husband, James Swygart, preceded her in death. Mrs. Swygart attended the First Church of the Nazarene in Decatur. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Albert (Grace) Glass of Sandusky, 0., and Mrs. David 'Dessie) Sangster of Chicago Heights, Ill.; two sons, John Shaw of Decatur, and Giles Swygart of Lima, O.; two grandchildren,'and one sister, Mrs. John (Emma) Link of Fort Wayne. Two brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Wilmer R. Watson officiating. Bur- - ial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p. m. Wednesday until time of the services. Garage, Old Auto Destroyed By Fire A late Monday night fire destroyed a garage and old automobile at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Norris, of. 325 N. Fourth St., at the corner of Marshall St. How the blaze started was not known, but it quickly consumed the garage and 1937 model car in the garage, before firemen had a chance to extinguish the flames. Firemen were called at 11 : 35 p.m. Monday and stayed for about an hour, returning to the station at 12:35 a.m. In addition to burning down die garage building and destroying t the auto, the fire also scorched another garage on the other side of an alley, and a neighbor’s fence, and also burned some utility wires located above the garage. The firemen doused water on the nearby garage and fence and ■ contained the blaze to the garage on the Norris property. No estimate of damage was given today.

expected to rocket Ranger toward the moon at 24,480 miles per hour. The silvery rocket thundered into the clear blue sky after a- - countdown. Seconds after launch, the rocket arched over the Atlantic leaving a brilliant white vapor trail on its way to the preliminary orbit. If all goes well,, the- 806pound package of six television cameras will snap up to 4,(XX) pictures of the moon's mysterious landscape before - Crashing into the lunar surface about Local Lady's Uncle Dies At Fort Wayne John Frederick Madden, 92, uncle of Mrs. Dwight Kimble of Decatur, died at 11:25 a.m. Monday at the Glenacres nursing horrffe in Fort Wayne following a short illness. A native of Fort Wayne; l he formerly operated the Elite case in that city. He formerly served as a game warden in Kankakee county, 111., and for the past 35 years was a resident of Gary, where he whs employed with the Gary steel mills for more than 30 years. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Kimble are two other nieces, Mrs. Arthur B. Miller of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. George Mitchell of Phoenix, Arlz. Funeral rites will be held at 130 p.m. Wednesday at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne, with the Rev. John M Kirkpatrick officiating. Burial will be in Parker cemetery. Friends may call at the fhneral home until time of the services.

County 4-H Fair Opened

The annual Adams county 4-H fair sprang to life today under a broiling sun which impartially baked exhibitors and exhibits alike at the 4-H fairgrounds in Monroe. Energetic 4-H’ers worked most of the morning moving their projects into the livestock barns, the the nearby headquarters of the county highway department. Undaunted by the heat, they put finishing touches on their displays. The information desk in the school building, the real hub of fair activity, was already in hectic operation this morning. Staffed by Juanita Arnold and Dorothy Thompson, it is the center of operations for Ernie Lesiuk, county agriculture extension agent, and Patsy Lc Leaders, county home economics extension agent. Animals Washed Near the livestock bam the sweltering heat failed to dry the concrete of the washing platform as the exhibitors kept water running all morning while hosing down their animals. The commercial exhibit area be- " 'gah " filling* W ’wriy air Adams county merchants and implement dealers spread their wares to be viewed .by the twelve to fifteen thousand persons who will, .visit the grounds during the fair’s threeday run. County commissioners Hugo Boerger and Delmas Bollenbacher spent the morning preparing the stage and walkway for this evening’s Adams county entertainment festival, Wednesday night’s dress revue and Thursday’s barber shop quartet singing, In the fo<xi building women rushed around preparing for the rush of customers which will begin flooding the building this afternoon and reach a peak at this evening’s meal. First Aid Trailer The first aid trailer, provided by Decatur trailer sales and staf. fed by Red Cross volunteers, reported this morning that it had treated two cases —a boy and a

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10 a.m. EDT Friday. The mission, delayed a day by ground guidance system troubles, was given a 50 - 50 chance of success—better than the odds scientists gave its fruitless predecessor, Ranger 6. The United States needs the photographs to lead the way for manned landings on the moon scheduled by 1970, and to help find possible landing sites for unmanned surveyor spaceships next year. Benjamin Eyanson Is Taken By Death Benjamin Franklin Eyanson, 77. retired Adams county farmer died at 3:30 p.m. Monday at the South View nursing home, Bluffton, following an extended illness. He formerly made his home with a brother, Charles D. Eyanson, 218 North Third street. He was born in Decatur Sept. 6, 1876, a son of Joseph and Mary Maple-Eyanson, and had resided in this area his entire lifetime. Mr. Eyanson was a member . of St. Mary’s Catholic church and the Holy Name society. Surviving are a brother, Charles D. Eyanson of Deactur, and a sister, Mrs. Jesse Kinney of Avilla. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 a m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic church, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic uemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call until' time of the services. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. today.

horse. The boy, Roger Moser, called in person and was treated for a blister on his hand. The horse, was represented by his owner, an unidentified girl, wh6 picked up some salve to treat a sore. In the horse barn,. 4-H horse and pony club members, junior ’ ■“ahd'sehior. prepared for this afternoon’s horsemanship show and tonight’s two horse shows. Livestock judging began at 11 a.m. when the judges began the long process of picking winners in the sheep and poultry contests. By noon a few proud participants could be seen wandering around the fairgrqjjnds, with winner’s ribbons in their hands or hanging carelesly but proudly from their pockets. Horse and ponies were arriving at the fairgrounds until 1 p.m., and by 6 p.m. this evening, when all dairy and beef animals and pigs are due, the fair’s animal population should reach its peak. Parade This Evening Parade marshals Roger Singleton and Martin Steiner will begin organizing the opening parade at about 6:30 this evening, and the long, long march of bands, floats and commercial exhibits will leave the fairgrounds to pass through the streets of Monroe at 7:15 p.m. , 'fSingleton -reminded fairgoers that, because of the parade, parking will be prohibited this evening on Park street and on the east side of the Monroe road between state road 124 and the east entrance to the fairgrounds. After the parade comes the 4-H horse show at 8 p.m. The Adams county entertainment festival, which begins at 8:15, will be going on at the same time. The 4-H senior horse show begins at 8:15. When the entertainment is over the-crowds will leave, the exhibits will close and the fairgrounds will be virtually deserted, except for those hardy exhibitors who elect to sleep in the barns with their animals. A number of special deputies will patrol the area during the night.