Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1964 — Page 1

Johnson, Advisers Discuss Attack Incident

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For the third time this year, Decatur and Adams county rest' dents responded to the call for blood donations Monday to exceed the goal of 125 pints. A total of 149 pints of blood were donated while the bloodmobile unit was at the Youth and Community Center for a six-hour period, 24 pints over the quota of 125. Monday’s visit was the third of the year by the mobile unit to this city — and the third time the quota was exceeded! On January 6, 162 pints were donated, and on May 26, another 131 pints of blood were received. The goal was 125 for those two donation days also. Mrs. Jean Dower, blood program chairman, and other Red Cross officials, again expressed •».' . Red Cross Awards $> Certificates Thq Decatur Red Cross office announced today that swimming certificates in various classes have been awarded to 149 students who completed cdurse requirements this summer. Beginner swimmers — Thomas Stevens, Susan Everett, Gr e g Landis, Norman Sprunger, Mick Habegger, Sarah Yoder, Tony Lee Rumple, Alvin Lehman, Ted Biberstein, Jenelle Agler, Brent Landis, Steve Kiser, Dick Bollenbacher, Barbara Nussbaum, Alan Arnold, Alvin Mitchell, Philip Kirchner, Irene Kaehr, Cheryl Byerly, Carla Mitchell, Iris Cauble, Jim Fleck, Mary Jo Nussbaum, Jed Nussbaum, Kim Bunker, Linda Sprunger, Debby Hake, Jo Ellen Brunner, Melinda Zurcher. Also, Randy Miller, -Sharon Workinger, Vern Peterson, Tommy Hoopingainer, Barbara Moller, Gay Sprunger, Lanae Lehman, Linda Nussbaum, Ricky Lichtenberger, Pat Grove, Keith Moser, Kim Fisher, Cheryl Cook, Randy Reinhard, Carol Reinhard. Steve Bieberich, Angela Mitchell, Don Kirshner, Jane Byerly, Deon, Leyse, Marjorie Cauble, Nancy Beer, Judy Beer, Gaynelle Biberstein. Phvllis Diehl, Josette Baxter. JoEllen Arends. Joyce Baumgartner, John Kasser, Peggy Liechty. Advanced beginner swimmers: Dennis Light. Dick Bollerbacher, Susie Everett, Mary Jo Nussbaum, Nancv Beer, Jed Nussbaum, Stanley Foreman. Judy Funk. Steve Mailer, Brian Zurcher, Karen Habegger. Greg Winteregg, Kim Bunker, Sandra Jeannine Merillat. Mike Doherty K Jim. Davidson, Bob Garringer. Cheryl Cook. Also: K«ith Moser, Dan Funk, Barbara Sheets, Judy Beer, Leslie Swartz; Jerry Double, Jan Bluhm, Darrell Gereg, Jan Nuss(Continued on Page Eight)

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.their thanks to the Decatur Daily ■S Democrat and radio station iWADM for their publicity, the for helping set up and take ~ down the mobile unit, ■ and the fire department for placing the flags throughout the city. I Volunteers Assist The many volunteers who donated their time through the day were as follows: Mrs. Earl Fuhrman, Miss Fan Hammell, Mrs., Idabelle Alton, Mrs. Francis Ellsworth, Mrs. Leo Curtin, Mrs. Richard Green, Mrs. Merlin Sieling, Mrs. Arnold Ostermeyer, Mrs. Herman Krueckeberg, and Mrs. Richard Macklin. t Nurses; Mrs. Tom Grimm, Mrs. Gail Grabill, Mrs. Joe Azbell, Miss Margaret Eiting, Mrs. Arthur Miller, Mrs. Ed Buckner, Mrs. Ron Secaur, Mrs. Cletur Miller and Mrs. John McConaha. Doctors: G. J. Kohne, J. C. Carroll, A. H. Girdd, J. M. Burk, W. C Freeby and J E. Doan. Canteen workers: Mrs. Lee Fleming, Mrs. L. E. Archbold, Mrs'. Russell Fleming, Mrs. Bert Haley, Mrs. Richard Moser, Mrs'. Ed Bauer and Mrs. Edgar Reinking. Gallon Donors With their pint donations Monday, Mrs. Stanley Arnold, John Rawlinson and Mrs. Harold Whittenbarger became one-gallon donors. Joining the two-gallon Bid Let For Painting Os Courthouse The Adams county court house will have a fresh, new coat of paint on j,ts trim and metal surfaces, the Adams county commissioners ruled Monday, bv allowing the contract to Wayne Emenhiser, local contractor, for . . $2.473. , . ‘ There were three bids: one by R. E. Gantz for $2,874.60. and one bv Walker Tower. and Industrial Painting which was not considered because it was not accompanied by a certified 1 check nor on regular form, explaining conditions. The dome on the court house was painted earlier this spring, and the idea was well received bv the general public at that time. The application of a local lady for the county home was approved. The commissiners spent the entire morning considering the - claims, and approving them. Most of the county office budgets have been received, and will be reviewed and referred to the i county council. Edward F. Jaberg, county auditor and secretarv of the board of covntv commissioners, was on vacation Mondav and today, and the notes of the meeting were taken by commissioner president Delmas Bollenbacher and county attorney David A. Macklin.

club were Fred Lautzenheiser, Mrs. Eva Brewster, Carl Badenhop, Mrs. Arnold Scheumann and Glen Bixler. Don N. Raudepbush became a three-gallon donor with His contribution Monday. Mrs. Bower and other officals expressed their thanks and appreciation to the 149 donors, who were as follows: Sgt. Bert Crosby, Dave Haggard, Leona Feaisel, Justine Everhart, Tom Lambert, Gene Moser, Mrs. Carl Lose, John McConaha, Don Raudenbush, Rev. Kenneth Angle, E. Vian, Robert Carr, John Butler, Dorothy Call, Mrs. Lowell Smith, Loren Burkhead Jr., Jim Bassett, Mrs. Geraldine. Youst, Mrs. Shirley North, Ed Pierce, Lewis Smith, Mrs. Rosetta Hake, Fred McDougal, Arthur Braun. Doyle Egley, Mrs. Lillian Harden, Mrs. Walter Moellering, John Rawlinson. Anita Mendez, Mrs. Kenneth Erhart, Clarence Macke, Vernon Macke, Mrs. John Hackman, Mike Murphy, Raymond Shell, Mrs. Emma Boerger, Ruby McCulough, Margaret Boerger, Bill Zwick, Jean Nunn, Mrs. Lois Sharp, Herb Banning, Edmund Thieme, Mrs. Ida Fuelling, Bernard Meyer, Carl Badenhop, Richard Reimer, Mrs. Jack Maclin Alan Zoss, Mrs. Alan Zoss. Frank Lybarger, Mrs. George Rentz, Dick Heller, Mrs. Don Smith, Donald Deaton, Herman Rumschlag. Harlan Jackson, Donald Bollenbacher, Pat Kintz, Mel Tinkham, James Smith, Michael Thoele, Mrs. Cleo Arnold, Harold White, Glenn Bixler, Fred Lautzenheiser, Vic Strickler, Victor Bieberich, Mrs. Victor Bieberich, Kei h Frey, Mrs. Robert Johnson, Richard Miller, Dale Hake, Clois Eichar. Eleanor Frauhiger, Carl Gerber, Mrs. Arthur Miller, Mrs. Dorothy Pollock, Charles Cook, Alfred Con<Continued on Page Eight* Wade H. Mcßarnes Dies Monday Evening Wade H. Mcßarnes, 80, a'native of Adams county, died unexpectedly at 7:30 p. m. Monday at his home at 340 N. Tenth street, Decatur. He was bom Oct. 21, 1833 in Decatur, a son of Ezra and Lydia Smith Mcßarnes and was married on May 5, 1907 to Eva C. Ehlihg, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Victor, of Geneva and Melvin, of route 4. Decatur; four daughters. Mrs. Walter Gerber of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Carl Brown of New Port Richey, Fla., Mrs. Eugene Sommer of route 2. Decatur and -Mrs. Carl Hildebrand of route 2, Decatur; two sisters, Mrs. Otto Lambert of Pleasant Mills and Mrs. Sandford Carter of Ohio City, O,; fifteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a. m. ’Riursday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Richard C. Ludwig officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral* home after 7 p. m. this evening, g

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i fe'Si F " waopt 1 W'' 't B it ’* . f J TENSE MOMENTS— In what resembles an attitude of prayer, rescue workers at Champagnole, France, listen during rescue work yesterday to sounds of trapj>ed miners in a cavern 260 feet below the surface. The miners were reached this morning and the first of them was removed shortly after noon.

INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and a little cooler and less humid. Generally fair and a little cooler tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight in the 60s. High Wednesday 82 to 87. Sunset today 7:55 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:47 a.m. Outlook for Thursday : Fair and cooler. Low mid 60s. Highs mid 80s.

Judge G. Remy Bierly Working On Heavy Campaign Schedule -

Judge G. Remy Bierly, of Decatur, a candidate for appellate court judge, is already well into a heavy campaign schedule, even though the regular campaign won't start until Labor Day. Bierly has completed 29 engagements in political rallies over the state, and has four more scheduled for this next week alone. Sunday Judge Bierly visited with Governor and Mrs. Henry F. Schricker at Knox, and th"n attended the second district Democrat central committee’s fiftn annual swim party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Mason, in Hebron. Mason, publisher of the Hebron newspaper, is also Porter county Democratic chairman. Friday Judge Bierly attended Berne United Fund Officials Named .. <9 - te . Jimmie Sprunger and Earl Webb have been named to head the Berne United Fund drive next October; Brice Bauserman was named chairman of the budget - committee. Robert W. Flueekigi er is president of the Berne Com- | munity Chest, Inc. v

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson and his top military and diplomatic advisers confer today with the prime topic expected to be the North Vietnamese torpedo boat attack bn the U.S. destroyer Maddox. The Chief Executive scheduled a noon EDT session with the National Security Council, and a 1 p.m. lunch with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and McGeorge Bundy, presidential assistant for nation- , al security affairs. Johnson also was to hold his usual 845 am. White House breakfast with Democratic congressional leaders. The meetings are routine Tuesday affairs at the White House. But it was probable that Sunday's attack on the Maddox in international waters of the Gulf of Tonkin would be a principal* topic of discussion. Orders Strengthening Johnson Mon d a y ordered strengthened naval forces into the area off Communist North Viet Nam and issued a stern directive to destroy any attackers such as those that fired on

To Install Minister’s Father

The Rev. Paul Ludwig, Sr., will be inducted as assistant pastor of Zion Lutheran Church at special services at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. His son, the Rev. Richard C. Ludwig, Zion’s pastor, will administer the rite of induction. «■

the candidates meeting in Indianapolis, while the day before he had toured the north part of the Fourth congressional district, visiting in Avilla with Jim Koons, in Waterloo with Cleve Grube, in Angola with James Sprague, at the LaGrange County fair, and in Columbia .City for Old Settlers day. Earlier engagements, since his announcement of his candidacy, have taken him to Muncie, Indianapolis, Marion, Delphi. Rensselaer, Rising Sun, Bluffton, Princeton, Columbus, Chesterfield, Kokomo, Martinsville, Fort Wayne, Berne, and Monroe. He will attend the Noble county Democratic central committed buffet in Kendallville this noon. Democrat day the Jay county fair in Portland Thursday, a special meeting of delegates ar.d alternates to. the Democratic national convention Friday in Indianapolis, and the circus city parade in Peru on Saturday. Judge Bierly was elected to a four-year term as appellate court judge in 1958. At the present time, the appellate court is heavily Republican, and Judge Bierly is running on the state Democratic ticket for the office.

the Maddox. One of the three Soviet-built North Vietnamese torpedo boats that attacked the Maddox apparently was sunk by retaliating U.S. air and sea fire, it was learned. The State Department said Monday it was sending a diplomatic protest to the Hanoi government over what it called the “unprovoked attack" Sunday. High administration officials briefed members of Congress ,on the incident. Republican presidential candidate Barry M. Goldwater raised questions about its significance. Answering reporters’ queries in writing from his vacation retreat at the Balboa Bay Club in California, Goldwater asked Monday whether the presence of American destroyers off Viet Nam meant that more U.S. ground troops are to be landed there. “Does it mean medium bombers are going to be used to interdict supply lines?” he also asked. “Does it mean a change is taking place in foreign policy at White House and State Department . levels?”

CHAMPAGNOLE, France (UPl>—Rescue workers broke through to an underground tomb today where nine miners had been trapped in a cave-in for eight days and they brought the first survivor safely to the surface. The breakthrough to the nine cheering, singing men 260 feet deep in the earth below the Mount Revel limestone mine was made with a giant American made drill at 12*55 p.m. (7:55 a.m. EDT). Then, scant hours later, Andre Jacques, 23. married but ' with no children, sumbled from the rescue shaft at 5:16 p.m. (12:16 p.m. EDT). It was just eight days, five hours and six minutes since he and 13 other miners were buried by the cave-in on July 27. Nine of the trapped men had been in communication with their rescuers over an emergency telephone line for days, and they were in good condition despite their ordeal. The fate of five others still was unknown. Little hope was held that they were still alive. Wearing a white singlet and blinking in the brilliant sunshine, Jacques was helped out of the gleaming silver capsule in which he had risen to free-

With two pastors the congregation feels it can better serve its more than one thousand souls. The Rev. Otto Mueller of Emmanuel Lutheran Church at Soest will be the guest speaker. A reception for the new pastor and his wife will follow the ser.videt The Rev. Paul Ludwig attended St. Paul’s College at Concordia, Missouri and Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis. He was installed into the mfnistry in August, 1924 and has since served congregations in Hoxie, Kansas: Bloomington, Nebraska; Oxford, Nebraska; Bremen, Kansas; Houston, Texas; Navasota, Texas, and Gordonville, Missouri. The congregation at Gordonville honored him last Sunday evening on hi sfortieth anniversary in the ministry. During his tenure there this congregation dedicated a new church building with a modern educational wing. The Rev. and Mrs. Ludwig will soon have four sons in the Lutheran ministry. A son, David, will finish his training at Concordia Theological Seminary in June of nejjt year. The Rev. Paul Ludwig Jr. is a chaplain with the U. S. Air Force in Georgia. The Rev. Theodore Ludwig is serving in Japan and the Rev. Richard C. Ludwig has been serving here in Decatur since February, 1959. Mrs. Ludwig is the granddaughter of Prof. Schick, who was well known in this area as a former rector of Concordia Junior College in Fort Wayne.

On Capitol Hill, congressmen and senators were briefed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, • Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, and Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Aftenvard, Rusk told newsmen ’that the Communist sea • attack was “serious enough” but that he considered it “an isolated instance.” The U.S. Seventh Fleet sailed strengthened patrols off Communist North Viet Nam today with orders straight from President Johnson to shoot to kill if attacked. The destroyer USS Maddox, which repelled an “unprovoked attack" Sunday by three Rus-sian-built North Vietnamese P 4 patrol torpedo boats, was joined on patrol station in the Gulf of Tonkin by the destroyer USS C. Turner Joy. Previously, the job of observing Communist shipping in the Gulf had been handled by one destroyer at a time without continuous air cover. Today, by command of the President, the two destroyers were screened by a combat air

dom. A pair of dark glasses was slapped at once over his eyes. Needing little help, he stumhled down the steps of the wooded derrick and was laid gently on a waiting stretcher by two nurses. A doctor gave him a quick check and then he was lifted into an ambulance and driven to Champagnole Hospital. A volunteer rescue worker rode down in the capsule on its first trip and stayed at the bottom, to help lying up the other sdrvivors. A second volunteer rode down on its second trip which began immediately after Jacque was brought to the surface. Second man up was Michel Jacques, 29; married with one child and brother of Andre Jacques. He reached the surface at 5:32 p.m. (12:32 p;m.“EDT). As the rescue operation continued’, a message was sent down to the men at the foot of the shaft to stop* smoking and not to light matches. One of the first requests they had made when rescue workers broke through to them early this afternoon was for wine, cigarettes and matches. Like his brother, the older

The elder Ludwigs will reside at 246 S.. Second Street. Their daughter, Charlotte will be a senior at Decatur High school where her brother, Thomas, will enter as a freshman. T Plans are developing at Zion Lutheran Church for the erection of a new house of worship. The induction of the new assistant pastor marks an additional forward step in the growth and exexpansion of the local congregation which was organized in 1901 z

Rapid Growth -i— Hoosiers Swelter As Com Crop Improves ** LAFAYETTE, Ind. <UPI> — Indiana's corn crop is making “rapid growth” while Hoosiers are sweltering in the summer s hottest weather. And the current dry weather over most of the state apparently hasn’t hurt the farm crops except for pastures, which are browning somewhat. That was the report today from Robert E..Straszheim, agricultural statistician at Purdue, in his weekly summary of crops. “Topsoil moisture, rated as short to adequate, decreased from the adequate rating of the previous week.” Straszheim said. "This is the first time that topsoil moisture has fallen below the adequate level since the week ending July 4, or nearly a month.. - "The subsoil moisture supply, rated as adequate, remains the same as the previous week., Pasture condition, rated fair, slumped slightly from last week. »■ i. .X ’ ■, * *

patrol from the carrier USS Ticonderoga, on station 200 miles to the south. This was 100 miles closer than its previous position. U.S. warships were under new and stronger standing orders. Before Sunday’s apparently unprecedented incident, they were expected to repel any attack but not to pursue the attackers. But Johnson said that from now on they will “attack any force which attacks them in international waters. . .not only with the objective of driving off the force but of destroying it.” The 3,300-ton Maddox saw action in World War 11. The 2,800ton Joy is a postwar Shermanclass destroyer, launched in 1958. Up to now the Seventh Fleet has observed the 12-mile offshore territorial limit claimed by the Communist powers, though the United States officially recognizes only a threemile limit. The President’s announcement did not specify whether the 12mile limitation would continue to be observed.

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Jacques also wore a white singlet, somewhat soiled by his long stay underground. He also was given dark glasses and helped down the derrickto a stretcher before being driven aiway in an ambulance. « The only persons allowed at the pit head were technicians and engineers who had fought for more than a week to save the miners. At the hospital a team of 20 doctors was assembled. Among them were eye specialists and ear, nose, and throat doctors who were prepared to check the physical effects of the imprisonment. At the bottom of the shaft the trapped men worked to aid in their rescue by clearing away the debris scattered throughout the mine pocket by the final breakthrough. The final stages of the rescue were slowed when the drillers hit a mud pocket only 13 feet from the trapped men, delaying the completion of the emergency shaft for several hours. Drilling was stopped while water was sluiced down the shaft to loosen the mud which then was pumped up. Continued on Page 8)

Adams Central Student Attending Yearbook Workshop Maris Moeschberger of Monroe, a student at Adams Central High School, is among high school year- ' book editors, photographers, and business managers from throughout the Midwest attending a special Yearbook Workshop at Indiana University, July 26-Aug. 8. Over 280 teenagers are enrolled in the Workshop, which is the third and final portion of the 18th annual High school Journalism Institute held each summer on the Bloomington campus.