Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 181, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1964 — Page 1

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Dangerous Moon Craters Revealed By Remarkable Photos Made By Ranger

Britain Asks For Conference On Laos

MOSCOW (UPI) — Britain has asked India to arrange a conference of the three Laotian factions to keep the conflict in Laos from spreading into a world war, British Foreign Secretary R. A. Butler announced today. Butler told a news conference following talks with Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders that Britain “does not want (the Laos conflict) to spread into world war. The foreign secretary, ending a mission to Moscow, said he has sent a message to India, chairman of the Laos In‘ernational Control Commission (ICC), asking it to bring together the right wing, neutralist and Communist Pathet Lao factions in a conference. The conference, it was suggested, should be held on neutral territory. Butler said the Soviet Union has refused to join efforts to get the warring groups around a 'conference table. He said he also has contacted Poland and Canada, India’s fellow members on the threenasion ICC. ® “I am confident the Poles will agree to help,” said Butler, who apparently took Canadian agreement for granted. Butler moved to restore peace to the troubled Southeast Asian kingdom after the Russians rejected allied conditions for convening a new con-fe-ence of the 14 nations which, signed the 1962 Qeneva agreement on Laos. New Offensive The move came as neutralist troops mounted a new offensive against the Pathet Lao Communist forces, reports from Laos said. The Russians and British are co-chairmen of the agreement On Laos and have the prime responsibility for keeping peace in the country. Butler said he had been unable to get the Russians to drop

Speed Effort To Rescue Men

CHAMP AGNOLE, France — (UPD —- Powerful oil drills bored into crumbling Mount Rivel today in a stepped ‘up effort to rescue 11 men believed still alive 262 feet in a chalk mine that caved in on them Monday. One 24-inch drilling rig was biting steadily through the mountainside to dig a rescue shaft to one group of nine min; ers known to have survived the cave-in. . ' Another smaller drill bored swiftly toward another spot where two other missing miners were believed still alive. Pierre Aubert, Prefect (Governor) of the Jura Department where the mine is located, said it now was considered certain the ‘wo men are holed up behind fallen rubble some 5 to 10 from the other group of miners. Aubert said tapping signals, apparently coming from the two mis ing men, were heard as lase as Friday afternoon. He said an 8% inch drill began boring into the hilltop this morning in hope of finding them still alive. Noises Deaden Signals He added that because of the noise of the drilling it had been impossible to hear further signals today. . Aubert refused to predict when the rescue might take place. However. Champagnole Mayor Andre Socie, the nine men might be reached by early Sunday. Fourteen men were below the

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their threat to quit as co-chair-man unless the 14-national conference is convened without conditions. “They (the Russians) are not keen to continue as co-chair-man,” Butler said. “But they are hoping conditions will be met for a full conference,” Butler said. This was a reference tp the fact the Russians want such a meeting without a ceasefire, without withdrawal of Pathet Lao forces from recently taken territory and without Pathet Lao recognition of the regime of neutralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma. These were the Anglo-American conditions for agreeing to a 14-nation conference. Treaty Needed Before. Butler’s news conference,, Britain and the Soviet Union announced agreement on the need for a treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons. But a communique also underlined the East-West differences on what to do about strife-torn Laos. The joint communique said Moscow and London believe a trea'ty stooping ' more notions from acquiring nuclear arms “would be in the interests of peace.” But the communique had colder words for talks on Laos between Butler and Premier Nikita S. Khruslichev and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gro- • myko - , ■ ■ „ * L. “An exchange of views took place on the Laotian question, the communique said. “Both sides set out their position concerning their evaluation on the situation in Laos and of the situation which has arisen with regard to the fulfillment Os the Geneva agreement.” This appeared to be a diplomatic way of saying no agreement could be reached. The communique was issued shortly before Butler’s departure for London.

surface of Mount Rivel near here when the chalk mine caved in with a roar Monday. Early today there was a brief alarm when earth crurpbled around a small communications shaft through which rescuers have kept up contact with the nine-man group of survivors since Tuesday night. Communications with the men were cut off briefly but were restored la'er. Aubert said there appeared to be no serious danger of a new major cave-in. But he said that, as a p ecautionary move, all visits to the rescue site by relatives of the trapped men have been suspended and no more food whs being sent dow.n Th any event, he said, the men have a 36-hour supply of food and drink. Chnnde Night Hours At Swimminn Pool * New hours for the evening at the city swimming pool were announced this morning by Hubert Zerkel, Jr., city recreation superviw and head lifeguard at the pool. Zerkel said that due to earlier darkness, the pool will be open from 6:30 to 8 o’clock in the eve ninjs, beginning Monday, instead of the previous 7 to 8:30. The rest of the pool hours remain ‘he same, 1 to 4 p.m. and 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday: The pool will also continue to bold family nights an Tuesday and Thursday. .4 . ' ...

PASADENA, Calif. (UPI)— Pockets of treacherous tiny craters on the surface of the moon’s “sea of clouds” — revealed in the spectacularly successful Ranger 7 lunar probetoday set space scientists looking for more desirable sites for a possible moon landing. Scientists making a prelimi- f nary review of the 4,316 frames j of film returned by the Rang- ] er before it crashed on the ■ moon’S surface Friday morning t were even more emphatic Fri- , day night in their praise of the ( operation. Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper, a ; member of the “Ranger team” ( from the University of Arizona’s lunar and planetary laboratory, , called the photos “extraordin- ‘ ary” and claimed they were , i.OOO times better than any- ; thing available previously. Though they ended fears that | the lunar surface would be coa’ed with layers of dusts that would impede a landing, the photographs posed a new problem by revealing the “secondary” craters, some of which were as small as three feet 1 across and one-half foot dep. Craters Are “Poison” Dr. Kuiper said the craters, apparently formed by particles spewing from the larger or “primary” craters, would be “poison” to space vehicles. “We found a remarkable cluster of these very small craters,” he said. “They have dangerous rounded crests into which a whole spacecraft might slip. It’s a badly battered region that should be avoided like poison.” While some areas of the region still seemed suitable for landing, scientists indicated they would attempt to find more suitable terrain with future studies, including one- of the 100-mile-wide crater copernicur, ■the moon’s largest. Ano + her scientist, Dr. Eugene Shoemaker «of the U. S. Geological Survey at Flagstaff, Ariz., revealed a “significant .mys’ery” that turned up in the photos. Pictures Look Smooth During the transmission, he said, the pictures began looking smooth, but the reason could not be traced to lack of focus or other transmission problems. “This is very significant, but as yet we adon’t know what it means,” he said. But the mysteries and problems of the flight remained obscured by the dazzle of the space achievement itself. The photos relayed a picture of the moon from the equivalent of one-half mile — 2,600 feet — away, while previous shots from earth telescopes were no nearer than the equivalent of 500 miles distance. “The amount of information we’ve got is truly remarkable,” said Kuiper, who added that he had never seen pictures of this quality “in all of 'my experience.'” The Ranger’s cameras continued transmitting at the rate of one fiame every two-tenths "of a second right until the point of impact. The last photo received, in fact, was only onehalf frame. Pickering Delighted Dr. William Pickering, director of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), ‘was delimited with the success, as was space expert pr. Wernher Von Braun. Von Braun said the Ranger 7 likely will “prove to be the most significant accomplishment in our lunar program short of man himselUsetting his foot on the moon.” Essentially, the goal of Ranger 7 was to provide defailed pictures — the first ever obtained by man —of the lunar landscape to prepare for the Apollo manned shot late in this decade. Even the direct hit , by Ranger J was insignificant in comparison to the picture- , taking assignment. However, Pickering noted two . more Ranger shots would seek even more infortnation on posL sible landing sites. And as for . putting' a- man on the moon, I the scientist who also led the i team that first put an American satellite (Explorer I) in

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Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Saturday, August 1,1964.

■ 111 ) ‘"1 Junior Troop Heads IJ Prepare For Camp | Three groups of junior troop leaders from Boy Scout troops 60, 6 land 64, sponsored by the Lutheran church, Rotary club, Friday night from a week’s and Catholic church, returned training to prepare them for next week’s campout by their respective troops. The leaders were split into two patrols, and they slept out “under the stars” every night, and prepared every meal for themselves. This next week, when more than two dozen local Boy Scouts camp out on Big Island, will be a little easier, with the provisional troops sleeping in tents, and eating in the cafeteria. The physical aspect of the camp has improved considerably, the scouts related, in the past few years. Added this year were live animals for the conservation demonstration, outdoor-type maps and many interesting features. The boys missed Bill Spice, Limberlost district executive, who has been camp leader for the past three years. Next week a dozen scouts from troop 60, nine from troop 61, and a large group from troop 64 will make the trip, starting Monday t to Big Island, on Sylvan Lake, which was originally planned ujj a water souree for the canal connecting the Wabash & Erie canel with South Bend. Today, the Anthony Way n p council members, who administer the Fort Wayne area scout program, will meet at the camp with national officials. Attending the junior leadership program were the following boys: from troop 60. Duane Thieme, Kennv Witte, Eric August, Dennis Huffman, Wayne Geiger and Tony Ostermeyer, from troop 61, John Ginter, Richard Howard. Gary Teeple, and Mike Patch; from troop 64, David Braun, Dick Miller, Miller and Roger Geimer. Drivers who returned the boys from camp last night included Carl Braun, Leßoy Huffman, Norm Witte, Vernon Ginter. Dunes Park Measure Has New Roadblock WASHINGTON (UPI) — The crisis-littered path of the Indiana Dunes National Park today was headed for yet another possible roadblock. The delayed Senate Interior Committee hearings on the legislation which would establish the $23 million, 11,294-acre lakeshore were scheduled to begin Tuesday. Sen. Milward R. Sinjpson, RWyo., a member of the committee, has served notice he will move then to table the bill. His argument, like that of House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck, Ind., is that Indiana will not surrender its 2,182-acre dunes park for inclusion in the federal project. The state park is vital to the National Lakeshore project, according to Simpson,, and he therefore will propose that Congress take no action on the bill until the federal and state governments have agreed to a proper disposition of the matter. Simoson said Gov. Matthew E. Welsh concedes the Indfana Legislature will not surrender its biggest revenue - producing park, needed to supoort o*her, less popular, recreation areas in the state. Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., sent a hurry-up letter of explanation to Committee Chairman Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash. Bayh said the bill was written so as to provide the state ample opportunity to protect its interests in its park, and Welsh is in accord with the provisions. orbit had this to say< "Landing a man on the moon still is a tough job.”

Margaret Wolpert Dies Last Evening Mrs. Margaret Wolpert, 85, widow of Andrew Wolpert, prominent Adams county farmer, died Friday evening at her home, Decatur route 4, after only a brief illness. She was born in Adams county Nov. 2, 1878. a daughter of Herman and Mary Hackman - Kortenber, and was married to Andrew Wolpert Oct. 4, 1905. Her ■ husband preceded her in death Feb. 5, 1940. Mrs. Wolpert, a lifelong resi- | dent of Adams county, was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the St. Vincent de Paul society, Third Order of St. Francis, the Rosary society and the St. Ann’s Grandwother club. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Frances Miller, Mrs. Mary Schirack and Mrs. Margaret Lengerich, all of Decatur; one brother, Clem Kortenber of Decatur; 11 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Three sons preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted all 9:30 am. Tuesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Sphmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Glllig & Doan funeral home after 12 noon Sunday until time of the services. The Third Order of St. Francis will recite the rosary at 7:30 p.m. Monday, following by the Rosary society 8 p.m. NOON EDITION Mayor Wagner Os New York Rejects Demand By United Press International New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner Friday rejected a demand by Negro leaders that he create a civilian review board to investigate charges of police brutality. Wagner said he was setting up, instead, an appellate comnuttee with himself as chairman to investigate the police department. Negroes have charged police brutality in the shooting of a Negro youth by an off-duty officer who said the boy attacked him with a knife, and in subduing bloody rioting in Harlem. Wagner and his two sons will be guests of President Johnson at the White House this weekend. The visit will be a combined social one and an occasion to discuss racial ant economic conditions ifi the nation’s largest city. At Rorhester, N.Y., sjene of racial rioting last JveekeSKl, 400 police reserves and l,2Oo™Na-— tional leand assist a ne'e “'Tn the event of any further violence this weekend. Two 16-year-old white youths were arrested by police at Mobile, Ala., Friday for allegedly riding through a Negro neighborhood, shooting air guns at residents. Four Negroes suffered superficial wounds. Elsewhere: Mobile, Ala.: Federal Judge Daniel H. Thomas Friday ordered the desegregation of grades 1, 10, 11 and 12 in city schools but decided against lowering racial restrictions in the “ first grade in county schools. Montgomery. Ala.: U.S. Deputy Marshal Charles Thompson said Friday he was quitting because the Justice Department hired a Negro marshal without going through “normal channels.” ( — — u- -■ — fy,

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WATCH THE BIRDIE— Lines indicated on map of the moon by H. M. Schurmeier, Ranger project manager in Pasadena, show the areas photograph ed. Outer square. 300 miles on a side, was photographed five minutes before impact. Final photo covered a 60-foot square.

INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight. Sunday mostly sunny, hot and humid. Low tonight mid to upper 60s north, low 70s south.- High Sunday near 90 north, upper 90s south. Outlook for Monday: Mostly sunny hot and humid. Possible widely scattered thundershowers afternoon and evening. Huntington CountyCrash Kills Three By United Press International Three persons, including a prominent Columbus contractor and his wife, were killed in a head-on collision in a bridge near Huntington today as Indiana suffered 10 traffic fatalities in less than 24 hours and the year’s toll shot up to at least 699 compared with 691 a year ago. Evans Dunlap, 47, Columbus, executive vice president of Dunlap & Co., a contracting and retail lumber firm with branches in six Southern Indiana cities and towns, and his wife, Isabel, about 50, were killed outright in the crash on Indiana 37 in Mount Etna. Richard Jones, Lansing, Mich., driver of the other car, also was injured fatally in the accident. The three-death crash was one of a series which sent the weekend toll skyrocketing to at least eight within a few hours after the counting period began at 6 p. m. Friday. Dunlap was an heir to a 31-year-old Columbus business with branches in Edinburg, Seymour, Hope, North Vernon, Batesville and Madison. His family was believed en route on a vacation trip when the accident happened. Police said the Jones car apcrossed the centerline just as the vehicles approached a bridge. Injured were John Dunlap, 17, and his brother, Robert, 15, sons of the victims. Raymond Deal, 31, R. R. 3, Seymour, was killed this morning on a Jackson county road near Dudleytown when he apparently dozed while driving and the car swerved into an enbankment. Joseph V. Sizemore, Bremen, was killed early tod-ry when his car hit the of a truck as it slowed on U. S. 6 east of the intersection with U. S. 33 in Noble county. Dolores Jean Lucas, 13, Brazil, was killed late Friday night when a car she was driving ran off a county road northeast of Brazil and overturned. Frederick Car! Osburn, 26, R R. 4. Brazil* who was apparently teaching her to drive, was injured. Charles Losey, 29, North Vernon, was killed just before midnight when he apparently went to sleep at the wheel of his small truck on U. S. 50 one mile east of Butlerville. The truck rolled over, pinning him in the wreckThe first weekend traffic victim, a coed at Indiana University’s summer school, was killed in a three-car pileup in Monroe county Friday night. Jane Orstan Bright, 24. was kiUgd. oil fright wheJL.hg.L.£ar. was hff in the rear and then piled over a third car at the intersection of Indiana 37 and a county road five miles north of Bloomington. . Police said a car dnven by Linda Lue Sexton, 17, Ellettsville. hit the left rear of the victim’s car. which then skidded into the path of a car driven by a man identified only as John Bender, who was driving in the opposite direction. The Bright car hit the Bender , vehicle, barrel-rolled over it and ended up at the side of the road. The other two drivers were only slightly injured. Before the weekend period began, Mrs. Lillian Smith, 37, Newburgh. was fatally injured when her car collided headon with one driven by James Files, 22, Melrose Park, 111., when Files tried to pass a truck and pulled into the opposite lane, 13 miles east of Evansville. : —:—_•— : -—u

Asks Kennedy Run Campaign

WASHINGTON (UPI> -President Johnson has’ asked Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy — now no longer a possibility for the Democratic vice presidential nomination — to run the Johnson election campaign this fall, it was reported today. Kennedy, who masterminded his late brother’s successful presidential drive in 1960, has not decided whether to accept the offer, sources said. The attorney general is spending the weekend with his family on Cape Cod to ponder his political future, including the possibility of running for the Senate from New York. It was reported that when Johnsori informed Kennedy that he was erasing his name along with those of other top administration officials from the list of possibilities for the No. 2 spot on the Democratic ticket, he offered the attorney general the job as campaign manager. Both the White .House and the Justice Department today cjoclined immediate comment on the report. Johnson was said to want Kennedy to play a responsible role in the presidential campaign. As a result of Johnson’s elimination of the attorney general as a possible running mate, Kennedy is taking a second look at th'e New York Senate race. _,He previously had ruled himself out as a possible candidate. Johnson's announcement brought on a renewed call by his New York supporters to draft Kennedy for the nomination. It* was learned that the 38-year-old Kennedy planned to use the time this weekend at

Wemhoff Is Named Association Head

Owen C. Wemhoff has been appointed the first executive director of the Indiana association for retarded children, James Keyes, , state president, has announced Wemhoff is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wemhoff, of 309 N. Bth street, and is a former Decatur high school assistant coach and teacher, as well as a graduate of Decatur Catholic high school. His previous experience provides him an excellent background for his present assignment. He has held executive directorships in Fort Wayne, and recently in Detroit, Mich., on the metropolitan advisory committee _ for retarded children. Rehibllttate Retarded The IARC, a voluntary organization, is dedicated to the rehabilitation of the mentally retarded. There are , approximately 138,000 mentally retarded in- Indiana. The scope of its work encompasses nursery and school classes financed by private funds, special education classes in public schools and institutions, and those mentally retarded people receiving care in the home. The objective of the association is to prevent the waste of these lives by fostering their development. » Wemhoff continues an enviable record. In Fort Wayne he spearheaded the planning and development of a comprehensive program that has served more than 500 retarded from that county. He initiated a sheltered workshop and activity center program for the older retarded and tripled the

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Hyannis Port, Mass., to think over again the possibility of trying to unseat Republican Sen. Kenneth Keating of Now York and also his part in the presidential campaign. Sources said Kennedy had previously rejected an effort by a White House aide to get him to withdraw his name voluntarily from the list of those mentioned as a vice presidential possibility. Temperatures Start Climb Toward 90s By United Press International August arrived in Indiana to» daj’ and sent temperatures climbing toward the 90s throughout the state. Forecasts called for highs today ranging from the upper 80s north to the low 90s south, then highs ranging from near 90 to the upper 90s Sunday. For Monday, the outlook for continued hot. High humidity also was scheduled to return after a threeday respite, and sunny skies were expected to prevail through the two-day period beginning Sunday after partly cloudy conditions today. Friday highs ranged from 80 at South Bend to 91 at Evansville, and overnight lows this morning from 59 at Fort Wayne to 69 at Evansville and 70 at Lafayette. Lows tonight will range from the mid to upper 60s to the low 70s.

annual budget in six years. Work In Detroit In Detroit, he evolved a 5-year plan of action for metropolitan Detroit, which, has a population of 4 million and serves over 120.000 mentally retarded. He instigated and established seven activity center programs and spurred a movement that requested over 400.000 for the erection of five satellite sheltered workshops for the older retarded. Wemhoff also worked with the Michigan Junior Chamber of Commerce in adopting sheltered workshops as a state-wide Jaycee project. The program was adopted in May of this year. HeTs;“a'fnember of the national association for retarded children, the national rehabilitation association, the American association on mental deficiency, the crippled children’s association, the Indiana o state teachers association, and <> the national education association. Ban State Graduate A graduate of Ball State Teachers College, he was, graduated With a B. S. degree in education and an M. A. degree in administration. He is currently working on Ijis doctorate in- guidance and counseling. He is married and intends to move his family to Indianapolis soon. He is visiting in Decatur today. Vera Cruz opportunity school parentTteacher organization is an • affiliate member of the Indiana • Association for Retarded Children, Inc. Application for affiliation was approved by the board of directors of the IARC in April of this year. ; ' <8