Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1964 — Page 1

U. S. Acting To Meet Viet Nam Crisis

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18 Red Cross , » Chapters Join

The Adams county chapter of the American Red Cross became a somewhat bewildered stepchild of the new combined service territory, which includes 18 counties married by “shot-gun wedding” Wednesday to the Fort Wayne chapter. In effect, the Allen county chapter will become a watchdog of policy and direction for the region, which previously had an area professional in charge of helping the local chapters. To Strengthen Program The object of the* program is increase local acceptance and Former Berne Police Chief Passes Away ———■ . . ' .4-' «szFormer Berne police chief, Karl H. Sprunger, 55, deputy warden at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City died Wednesday of a heart attack shortly after he had undergone gall bladder surgery in a Michigan City hospital. He had been taken to the hospital last week after suffering a gall bladder attack. The operation was performed Wednesday morning and he had just been taken to his room when he died. A deputy to the head warden at the Michigan City prison, he had joined the prison staff three years years ago last spring on the invitation of the warden, with whom he had become acquainted while both were members of the prison staff at the state reformatory in Pendleton. Sprunger had left the Pendleton job to become chief of police in Berne. He served in that post for a number of years and left it to take the deputy warden position at the state prison. He was a son of Lewis and Mahala Schenbeck Sprunger and was born in Berne on Oct. 1, 1908. He was married to Rosemary Lubker, of Seymour, who survives with two daughters, Carla Sue and Jane Ann, both at home. His father also survives, as does a sister, Mrs. Augusta Dubach, and a bro'her, Frank. His mother preceded him. Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10 o’clock in Michigan City, followed by graveside services at the M.R.E. cemetery in Berne about 1 or 1:30 p.jn. Friday. A number of state police, city police, and sheriffs departments offiiers from not only this county, but the surrounding area, are expected to attend the Friday morning graveside services at the Berne cemetery. fl'

use of the overall objectives of the Red Cross. The local people in attendance felt it seemed a little bit forced on them. For three years, Adams county has been cooperating in an ever-, widening sphere with the Allen county chapter, which has far greater resources, more professionals, and different standards. This was done at the chapter’s ■choice. The Wednesday meeting, however, was an announcement of an accomplished fact, a change ’in the entire setup. It will- besome time before local chapter officials fully absorb its meaning. Local Group Attends Ralph Habegger, chapter first vice-president: Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fuhrman, the former a past chairman, and Mrs. WandaOelberg, chapter executive secretary, attended the special meeting in Fort Wayne. The following is their official explanation, given in a “suggested chapter release.” “The combined service territory plan is the result of 10 years of planning by the American Red Cross. Its purpose is to improve (Continued on Page Eight) 4000 Bottles Dumped On Local Lawn More than 4,000 empty soft drink bottles were dumped on the front lawn of the Carl Hurst residence this morning when a Steury Bottling Co. truck from Bluffton left U.S. 224. The truck, operated by Michael Lynn Wilson, 19-year-old resident of route 1, Uniondale, went out of control and into the front yard at the Hurst residence, scattering its 196, 24-bottle cases, or 4,704 bottles, throughout the area. Wilson told deputy sheriff Harold August, who investigated, that he had taken his eyes off the highway for a moment to look at something on the seat beside him. As he did, the westbound vehicle went off the right side of U.S. 224, about three miles east of Decatur, and went out of control. The two-ton truck smashed into a cement abutment at the edge of the driveway to the Hurst home, completely tearing it from the ground. Bed Breaks Loose The bed of the truck, which carried the pop bottles, was torn loose from the cab and rolled over on its side, spilling nearly all of the empty bottles on tthe vehicle around the lawn of the (Continued on Page Eight'

By United Press International The United States rushed men, ships and planes to Southeast Asia today to meet any possible showdown with the Communists over Viet Narti. Red China has charged that

mm UR — ! k. ' -*'■ W B B » b« |||P& ss&saaMMßkO i PLANES MOVE IN— An airman guards some of the F 102 Delta Daggers floWn to Saigon, Viet Nam, as part of “substantial military reinforcements to Southeast Asia” ordered by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY VOL LXII. NO. 185. Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Thursday August 6, 1964. SEVEN CENTS FBI Expects Arrests Soon In Civil Rights Murders

By ANDREW J. REESE JR. United Press International JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) —The FBI, with 'arrests expected “at “any time," dodged comment today on a report that an informer had named five persons, including a Baptist minister, as the slayers of three civil rights workers. Negro comedian Dick Gregory said in Honolulu Wednesday night that, in response to a $25,000 reward offer, he had received in a letter and a tape recording pinpointing the spot where the bodies of the victims were buried and naming the men responsible for the killings Gregory naid he gave the le ter to the FBI three weeks ago. FBI agents found the bodies of the youths, missing since June 21, under 23 feet of clay at a pond dam on a farm near Philadelphia, Miss., Tuesday evening. The FBI in Jackson and Washington had “no comment ’ on Gregory’s statement. Agents also refused to say whether arrests were imminent, as reported by reliable sources. Has Tape Recording Gregory said he also had a tape recording in which the informer identifies the' killers and “mentions that they (the civil rights workers) were shot.” ReCounty Students_____ Attend Orientation At Ball State Ann Marie Inniger, Monroe, and Gregory Alan Ladd, Decatur, were on he Ball State Teachers College campus recently, in a two-d a y freshman orientation and class registration program. Miss Inniger, a 1964 graduate of Adams Central High School, Monroe, is the daughter of Elmer Inniger, R. R. 1, Monroe. She plans to major in business education at , Ball State. Ladd, the son of Rolland Ladd, 1304 High St., Decatur, is a 1964 graduate of Decatur High school. He plans to major in medical technology and minor in biology. ' - '

the United States had “gone over the brink of war” with its retaliatory air strikes against Communist North Viet Nam. But Peking took no apparent action to back up the North Viet Namese.

ports said that an official autopsy, expected to be made public today, Would show that the workers were shot. Maureen Murphy, 22, who said she was a co - worker with the victims, said in Los Angeles that she was with Gregory when he received the letter. She said it came, from a man in Washington, D. C. Gregory confirmed Miss Murphy’s statement shortly afterward. FBI agents, working around the clock in shifts to break the case, hauled possible evidence from the red clay dam site in 20 - gallon cans for relay to the FBI lab in Washington. At one point late Wednesday, the FBI advised the state highway patrol that roadblocks Would not be needed any longer in the area, but this was

Vera Cruz Boys Drown In River

Two Vera Cruz brothers, Rex Allen Everidge, 10, and Billy Ray Everidge, 'B, drowned Wednesday afternoon while swimming in the Wabash river about a half mile from Vera Cruz. The sons of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Everidge, they left home about 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Their bodies were discovered in four feet of water at about 4:20 p.m. by their grandfather, Toy Everidge., Their clothes were on the river bank. Wells county coroner Dr. Charles Hope Fades For Trapped Miners CHAMPAGNOLE, France (UPD—Rescue workers today virtually abandoned hope of finding alive any of five miners buried deep inside Mount Rivel by a cave-in July 27. “The last chances of finding any survivors are now slipping away,” Mayor Andre Socie of Champagnole told reporters after two probing operations failed to locate the missing men. * _ -

The fast-moving Viet Nam crisis included these developments: —Congress moved in bipartisan fashion to unite behind President Johnson in his punishment moves against North

countermanded later and agents returned to the tedious effort of sifting evidence at the scene. Screen In Earth Earth from the spot where the’ bodies were found was shoveled onto a wire screen which caught every scrap of foreign objects. Agents were searching among other things for insignificant articles such as a particular kind of cigarette butt or a shirt button that might have been dropped at the scene by- someone burying the bodies. The bodies of the civil rights ( workers — Andrew Goodman, 20, of New York; Michael Schwerner, 24, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and James Chaney, 21, of Meridian, Miss. — were removed in plastic bags to the University of Mississippi medical center in Jackson for thor6>

Caylor ruled accidental death. County sheriff Alva Smith, Deputy Miles Hoopengardner, state trooper Roger Gerwig were at the scene along with Bluffton city police and, fire department members. Surviving in addition to the parents are two brothers. Daniel and Johnny Wayne, two sisters, Cosetta Marie and Polly Ann, and the grandparents. The bodies are at the Mcßride and Son Funeral home in Bluffton. Friends may call from 3 to 6 p.rp. Thursday. The bodies will then be -taken to Fort Branch, Ky. for funeral services. Barry's Ahead; At Least From The Neck Down WASHINGTON <UPI) — Republican presidential nominee Barry M. Goldwater has topped President Johnson in at least one election-year poll. The Arizona senator was named the "best dressed man in politics” Wednesday by the Custom Clothiers Association. Johnson was runner-up.

Viet Nam. Two key Senate committees swiftly approved a resolution approving an American policy of firmness to preserve peace in Southeast Asia, and sent it on to the full Senate for action. The House is expected to act soon after the Senate. —ln Moscow, the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia condemned the American air strikes against North Viet Nam. It termed the strikes “aggression” and warned Washington not to “go too far,” but Izvestia coupled the warning with a plea for peace in the region, saying that “for this noble object no effort should be spdred.” Claim U.S. Aggression Peking broadcasts, while 'claiming that “aggression by the United States against the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam means aggression against China,” said it was up to North Viet Nam to “hit back in self defense against the armed attacks of U.S. imperialisjn.” U. S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson told the United Nations Security Council Wednesday that the United States would not tolerate attacks by North Viet Nam or anyone else. UN. Secretary General Thant was making a state visit to Washington that had been plan-

ough examination. The autopsy indicated each man had been shot in the body but had not been mutilated, according to published reports here.

Air Conditioning For Center Is Requested

The Board of Directors of the Decatur Memorial Foundation resolved at its annual meeting last night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center and agreed to draw petitions to be circulated and sent to the Decatur city council, urging that the community building’s tenth anniversary be observed next year by the installation of air conditioning in the building and that steps be taken to complete the suggested original master plan for the area, which includes tennis courts, ice skating rink, swimming pool, etc. A committee of the board consisting of Lowell Harper, George Auer, and Charles Ehinger had been studying the air condntioning problem for some time. Two used air conditioners, one from the Citizens Telephone Co. and another from Dr. Arthur H. Girod, had been offered to the center, but since both were' water cooled, would probably be somewhat costly to operate, " and would still only cool a small section of the building, it was decided to petition the council to handle the problem. Carl Pumphrey was appointed to have the petitions prepared and INDIANA WEATHER Fair with little temperature change this afternoon. Slightly warmer tonight. Friday partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers likely. Lew tonight 62 to 79. High Friday 84 to n. Sunset today 7<53 I p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:49 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers likely south. Highs in the 80s-

ned before the crisis broke out. ! It gave Johnson an opportunity to outline U.S. policy to him in person. All Except France Through American embassies around the globe, Johnson informed U.S. Allies of the whys and wherefores of Wednesday’s action. All but France, still dickering for neutralization of Southeast Asia, quickly expressed firm support. There were scattered minor demonstrations against the U.S. action in Japan, Sweden, Algeria and Scotland, but no violence. On the American political front, Republicans said Johnson’s swift reply to Communist accks had taken the edge off the Viet Nam issue in the presidential campaign, at least for the time being. SEN. Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee, praised Johnson’s decision. == — - o “I believe it is the only thing he could do under the circumstances,” Goldwater said. Jl We”‘ cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and presitge.” Puxzled By Attacks American diplomats remained puzzled as to why North Viet Nam sent its torpedo boats against American destroyers in the first place. One theory was that the Communists hoped to inflame the crisis to the point that world opinion would demand another international conference to “neutralize” all of Southeast Asia. The U.S. position is that this would be a mere prelude to a Communist takeover. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said it was clear enough why so much of the world supported the American position. He said it was because other countries recognized the right of American vessels to sail international waters without interference, and realization that the United States was not trying to expand the conflict. To guard against Communist escalation of the confict, however, the already imposing American military forces in Southeast Asia was being reinforced. Units of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, which . patrols Communist coastlines ! throughout the western Pacific, were dispatched from ports in Japan and Hong Kong to the Indochina station. Shift Fighter-Bombers Squadrons of American jet , fighter-bombers were shuttled west from the United States, to Honolulu, to Okinawa and the Philippines, to Thailand and to

distributed. All Interested citizens will be given an opportunity to sign one of these instruments before they are presented to the > council later this fall. The building was dedicated in June, 1955. The recreation specialists who had designed the building had also prepared a master . plan for additional improvements , in the building area . Robert August, building direc- [ tor, reported that the structural steel in the youth room, lobby > and kitchen have been painted. A

, ...... : ... „ _ I ~ ; Optimists Hear Talk

Members of the Decatur Opti- • mist club met this morning and, 1 after the regular business meet--1 ing, heard a talk given by Char- ' les Chew, representative of ’ Teeple Trucking Co. Chew gave 1 a brief sketch of I the history of transportation I from earliest man, who used women as beasts of burden, up , to the modern nuclear age. From the crudest means of motivation, transportation has increasingly moved forward through the various stages of common cart, horsey drawn freight lines, steamships, canal routes, railroads, internal combustion engines, and finally . jet, rocket, and nuclear power. In 1881 Congress created the Interstate Transportation Commission ; which regulates and controls the freight industry and assures the consumer of a fair o . ’ i ' ■ •

South Viet Nam itself. Six FlO2 Delta dagger jet fighters arrived in Saigon Wednesday to provide air defense for any retaliatory raids by North Viet Nam. More Flo2’s landed 375 miles north at Danang, only 100 miles from the North Vietnamese border. An aircraft carrier task group, normally based at San Diego, Calif., was transferred from the First ‘Fleet, patrolling the U.S. Pacific Coast, to the western Pacific. Eight American submarines, three of them nuclear-powered, were poised for action at undisclosed locations in the western Pacific. The carrier USS Ranger, with 100 combat aircraft, sailed out of San Francisco Bay today for the Far East, returning to station there after maintenance work was quickly terminated. The crisis boiled up suddenly on Sunday when three North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats made an "unprovoked attack" on the destroyer USS Maddox. The Maddox was checking on Communist shipping in the Gulf of Tonkin, 35 miles off the coast of North Viet Nam. Repelled Red Attack The destroyer, aided by jet fighters from the carrier USS Ticonderoga, repelled the PT boats and sank one of them. Johnson ordered the Maddox reinforced by a second destroyer, the USS C. Turner Joy, and provided with constant ai r cover. - — — ■ ■ ,If the United States considered that the repulsion of the Sunday attack, without American damage or casualties was deterrent enough, the Comtnunists apparently did not. Their PT boats attacked again on Tuesday. Again they were repulsed without inflicting any damage or casualties on the U.S. warships. ' Johnson told the nation that night that he was ordering retaliation to make it clear to the Communists that such attacks would not be tolerated. U.S. aircraft from the carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation made 64 sorites in five hours Wednesday along 100 miles of the North Vietnamese coast, attacking four torpedo boat bases and one oil storage depot. Defense Secretary McNamara said* the bombardment de- , stroyed or damaged 25 North Vietnamese PT boats and destroyed nine-tenths of the oil depot installation. He said Communist anti-aircraft guns shot down two American planes and damaged two others. O'.

new commercial range and refrigerator were purchased for the kitchen. The wood structure on the building's exterior was also painted. The building continues to be used by a growing number of people each year. Record hop attendance during the past year totalled 11,473 young people. Seventeen wedding receptions, four showers, three recitals were held and a total of 11,212 meals were served. Over 90 different Continued on Page 8)

rate of charge. Chew emphasized the importance of the Bill of Lading. Should any discrepency in shipment occur the receiver must produce the original Bill of Lading before any adjustment can be made. „- ■ He said that the capacity toad a truck may carry is determined on a fixed basis. Eighteen thousand pounds per axle is allowed. Frequent violations of over loading, resulting in arrest and fine of the driver, are usually committed by “gypsy” lines and are seldom committed by legitimate companies. Plans were made for a club barbeque to be held in late August. Dr. Robert Irwin, local dentist and first vice president, presided in the absence of vacationing president, Dean Boltz. 4■ , .