Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 11 August 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 189.

Cyprus Cease-Fire | Reported As Being Generally Observed

NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPD—The United Nations said today the cease-fire between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities was being “generally observed” except for isolated and often accidental incidents. An, official statement said Turkish air force FIOO Supersabre jetfighters today reconnoitered the weekend battle area in northwestern Cyprus but took no offensive action. The U.N. confirmed today that Turkish jets Monday strafed the Greek Cypriot port of Polis, 55 miles northwest of Nicosia. A spokesan said it was estimated that 10 persons were wounded and five cars, four houses, a movie theater and one case were damaged. Holding Urgent Talks Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister Spyros Kypiranou left by plane for Athens today for what he called “talks of an urgent character” with Greek officials. The Greek Cypriot government declined to comment officially on the Turkish demand that the cease-fire be conditional on a Greek Cypriot withdrawal from captured Turkish Cypriot villages in the northwest. But high Greek Cypriot Tq Blacktop Highway 124 Through Monroe Following a year’s work on the project, the Indiana state highway department has agree to begin work Wednesday on blacktopping highway 124 through Monroe from sidewalk to sidewalk, state representative Burl Johnson announced this morning. In a meeting at Coppess Corners this morning, the state agreed to the project, Johnson reported. Dust from the state right-of-way which remained unused in the corporation limits made housework difficult for those living along the road, he explained, and led to numerous complaints. During the past year the following persons have worked with Johnson on the project: Cal Weber, Dr. Harry H. Hebble, Governor Matthew E. Welsh, Wendell Macklin, and Jack Parr.

Building Is Badly Damaged By Fire

As explosion, apparently of , leaking gasoline, triggered a * blaze which swept through the ; Mcßride and Son Welding and - Engineering Building, on U. S. * road 224 just east of Decatur, • at 3 p.m. Monday causing exten- - sive damage to the shop and sac- w ilities. , The explosion occurred as ; Floyd Mcßride 'was doing some . welding work underneath a truck. • He -had removed the vehicle’s J gas .tanks but gas leaking from . the open fuel lines apparently • caused the explosion. Except for singed hair and eye- : brows, Mcßride was not injur- - ed by the explosion although he - was right in the center of it. Fire started by the blast jumped to an overhead garage door which was open and suspended g above the truck. Insulation ong the ceiling caught fire and the® blaze spread across the ceiling g and walls of the building. Mcßride backed the burning gl truck from the building and wasg | able to put out the fire on it. He and his assistant, Dave Hamil-g ton, sprayed CO2 foam on acety-g lene tanks inside the building. The Decatur fire department ar-|j jived quickly after receiving the J call at 3 p.m. and extinguished the blaze inside the building. They had just gotten the fire-i fire under control when they re- ! ceived another call, at 3:15, an i electrical fire at Lord's Women’s ] Apparel 127 N. Second. This fire : . was extinguished quickly with ■ littl** damage to the store. Mcßride said this morning that a damage estimate had not vet been made. The ceiliing of the steel building is buckled in several places and the insulation has 1 been destroyed or damaged. The building was completed only last fall. ±

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sources said Monday night it was “psychologically impossible” to meet the Turkish demands. Greek and Turkish Cypriots buried their dead today and bitterly awaited the next move that could destroy the fragile day-old peace between them. Even the peace was not complete. Sporadic small arms fire rattled the shutters along Ledra Street, the re-born "murder mile” in downtown Nicosia, Monday night and echoed in the battle-torn hills of northwest Cyprus. For the moment at least, both the Greek Cypriot government which dominates Cyprus and the Turkish 'government which backs the Turkish Cypriot miDelinquent Tax Sale Held Monday Adamis county treasurer William Linn served as auctioneer Monday in the first tax sale held in the county for several years. Os the originally advertised list of delinquent properties, only five were offered for sale. The tax liens on the other were all settled prior to the sale. Highest price paid at the sale was $625 for lots in Salem. The lo‘s, belonging to Grace Bixler, were purchased by Clair Carver for $625. The Berne Lumber company paid s2l to buy a lot which it owned and on which it owed taxes. A Genvea lot belonging to Mathew Miller sold to Otis Buckey .for the amount of the taxes due on it, $14.61. Another lot in Geneva, belonging to Albert Steiner, sold for SIOO. The fifth property, a half-acre lot in Union township, owned by Donald and Charlotte Jacobs, was .not .bid upon. This lot will.be offered for sale every day until November 2. If not sold by then, it reverts to the county. The purchasers of the lots are required to wait two years until actually taking possession.

*li it jba 1 i J1? •• ■* THE AFTERMATH—Debris littered the floor and burnt insulation hung from the ceiling at the Mcßride and Son Welding and Engineering shop after fire swept through the building Monday after- - noon.—(Photo by MacLqjtn)

nority were observing a cease- - fire plea by the United Nations Security Council. But a Greek Cypriot rejection of Turkish conditions for continuing the cease-fire kept tensions at breaking point. Archbishop Makarios, president of Cyprus, Monday visited Greek Cypriot villages on the northwest coast which had been bombed and strafed by Turkish jet fighters over the weekend. Views Bodies Makarios viewed the bodies ' of nine Greek Cypriot victims j at a hospital. Wailing women j in black fist-shaking men demanded ires, h vengeance i against the Turks. —— Reporters visited the Turkish Cypriot village of Kokkina in tne same area. A Turkish Cypriot doctor said 12 persons had I been killed and 50 wounded in Kokkina since Greek Cypriots began attacking the town on Friday. Kokkina’s mosque and school j were badly damaged. Houses ’ were riddled with bullets arid burned-out motor scooters and d o n k e y-carts littered the streets. A pall of smoke hung over the’ town from the burning Turkish Cypriot village of Selan Tepe nearby, which the Greek Cypriots had seized. Despite Turkey’s denials, the Greek Cypriot government maintained that Turkish air force planes strafed the town of Polis Monday with machine-gun fire. But it said nobody was killed. Death Estimates It said 29 persons had beep killed in ground fighting since Thursday and it estimated that 350 persons died in the jet attacks. Greek Cypriot Foreign Ministry officials said Monday it was “psychologically impossible” to meet Turkish demands . that . Greek. Cypriot forces withdraw from villages they captured in heavy fighting last week along the northwest coast. “It is out of the question and Turkey knows this,” they said. ———• ■———•

Decatur, Indiana, 4673 3, Tuesday, August 11, 1964.

■ _, ■ __ L ( Heart Attack Fatal To Adrian H. Coffee it .7 ■V I Adrian H. Coffee Adrian H. Coffee, 63, for many years a member pt the Decatur police department until his retirement, died suddenly of a heart attack at 12:30 p.m. Monday at his home, 503 North Fifth street. Although he had been in ill health since February, his death., was unexpected. Mr. Coffee was a 23-year veteran of the city police department until his retirement in 1956. He was then employed as pressman and stereotyper at the Decatur Daily Democrat for some time, and for the past five years was employed at Bag Service, Inc, A lifelong resident of the Decatur area, he was born here April 27, 1901, a son of David and Anna Hessler-Coffee. He was marrjed in 1923 to the former . Miss Mary E. Lobsiger, who survives. Mr. Coffee was active in the Fraternal Order of Police and was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Knights of Columbus, and the Holy Name society. Surviving in addition to his wife are four sons, Fred, Louis and Thomas Coffee, all of Fort Wayne and Gary Coffee, of Decatur; 11 grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Fred Colchin and Mrs. E. Berling, both of Decatur. One daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Jean Eichhorn, and three brothers preceded him in death? Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Officers Installed 2 By Decatur K. Os C. The Monsignor J. J. Seimetz, lodge 864 chapter of the Knights of Columbus, met Monday evening for the installation of new officers. Presiding over the installation ceremonies was district deputy Dave Terveer of Fort Wayne, a former Decatur resident. Those installed were as follows: Chaplain, Rev. Charles J. Ueber; grand knight, James Kortenber, deputy grand knight, Richard Girardot; chancellor, Joseph Gremaux; recording secretary, Jerome Runschlag; treasurer, Jerome Heimann; advocate, Hubert Lengerich; warden, Tom Morrissey; inner guard, Frank I Dewey; outer guard, Jerome | Reed; trustees, Cyril Becker, Bob | Eiting, and Elmer Mendel; lec- | turers, Dan Miller and Robert • Gage, Jr. The annual K. C. family picnic, to be held this year at the Hoagland Hayloft, was discussed at the meeting.

Civil Rights Bill Passes First Test By United Preu International A possible showdown shaped up today between Negroes and an Atlanta restaurant owner < who defied the civil rights bill and chased Negroes away with , a pistol. A U.S. Supreme Court justice Monday refused to intervene against enforcement of the public accommodations section of the law before a final decision has been made on the law’s . constitutionality. An enforcement order from a special three-judge fed era 1 court became effective today. The restaurant owner, Lester Maddox, stood by his vow to “never integrate,” but said he would not close the doors to his Pickrick restaurant until Ne- . groes show up for service. Maddox said he expected such a move today but William Alexander, attorney who represented three Negro ministers in the case, said his clients had no plans of going to the Pickrick. In another part of the same court action — the first court tests of the civil rights law Mor eton Rolleston, owner of the Heart of Atlanta Motel, said he would comply with the decision of Justice Hugo Black and the special court and accept Negroes as guests at his motel. The suit against Maddox was instituted after three Negroes who said they were preachers “and everybody knows how preachers like fried chicken’’ showed up at the Pickrick on July 3, the day after President Johnson signed the civil rights bill: The Pickrick specializes in fried chicken. They were chased away by Maddox who pulled a pistol and .» number of his customers who beat on the Negroes' car with ax handles. Elsewhere: St. Augustine, Fla.: Negroes were expected to begin “tests” at 17 motels and restaurants today following a federal judge’s refusal to postpone integration of ’ the establishments. Greenwood, Miss.: Calypso singer Harry Belafonte and Academy Award winner actor Sidney Poitier presented civil rights workers with a check for $70,000 here last night that" was raised by entertainers in the east. Jackson, Miss-: The results of an official state autopsy on the bodies of three slain civil rights workers remained a closely guarded secret today, one week after the badly decomposed remains were found buried under a 20-foot earthen dam. Tuskegee, Ala.: Negroes go to the polls today with a 104 vote edge over whites in an effort to duplicate in city elections their success in county races last May. Richmond, Va.: The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday that Negro demonstrators must exercise their constitutional rights on free speech and assembly with responsibility and not “trample on the rights of others.” Dallas: Fifteen civil rights demonstrators swarmed into the offices of school Supt. W. T. White Monday and demanded total* desegregation of Dallas public schools. Richard D. Lewton Hospitalized Here Richard D. Lewton, former county treasurer and clerk, is hospitalized with what appears to be a severe internal virus infection, his physician stated this nbon. It does not appear to be too serious, but x-rays will oe taken. INDIANA WEATHER INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and much cooler tonight, with showers ending southeast this evening and winds becoming west to northwest 15 to 25 miles per hour. Wednesday partly sunny, windy gßd cooler. Low tonight from mid 50s northwest to lower Ms southeast. T High Wednesday « to 75 north, 7< to 70 south. Sunset today 7:47 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:54 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair and eool. Lows in the 50s. Highs low 70s north to near M south.

- HIT BY TURKS—A cypriot patrol boat, swept by flames, smokes after being hit during the Turkish air raid at Xeros, Cyprus, Saturday. Greek Cypriots claim that 300 were killed in the raids. — ’

Disappointed Taxpayers

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—About 24,000 , Hoosiers who may be wondering why they have not received Indiana gross income tax refunds they thought were due them have an unpleasant surprise coming—they owe more tax. ■ Deputy Commissioners Robert C. Hale and Wilbur O. Plummer of the Indiana Department of Revenue said today that 457,025 gross income tax refunds have been made and that all refunds will be completed by Sept. 1. The only exceptions, they said, were a few which were turned over to field auditors who will make personal calls before these refunds are approved. Plummer said "about 24,000 taxpayers who asked for refunds actually owe added tax.” He added that, for the most part, these taxpayers do not know this yet since the department has concentrated on getting the money back to the taxpayers who actually had refunds due them. Notice Told of Error The 24,000 were among the 140,000 taxpayers who some time ago received notices saying a preliminary check indicated an error in their tax forms and that a recheck would be made. If a refund was due, they were told, the money would be returned soon. That preliminary check was made not by human hands but by an electronic computer which “throws out” all forms showing probability of error or not within the limit of reasonability. “An example might be a person who moved into the state in the last half of the year,” Hale said. “All his income would show in the last six months with none in the first six months. What may appear to the machine to be an error is found to be okay when we look at it 'manually.I’* 1 ’* Plummer said as of today, his office has 12,000 gross income tax forms to review and is doing them at the rate of 2,000 a day. After his office completes its work, the forms go through the data processing division and if a refund is due, a request for a check goes to the state auditor’s office. Sand Hurt Computer At one time when the state auditor’s office was experiencing unusual, difficulty with its electronic check-writing equipment due to sand” from Statehouse sandblasting, backed-up water delayed payrolls and other factors, there was a delay in getting gross income tax refund checks written, but this has now been corrected. Hale said he recalled that in past years it has been as late as October before all refunds to gross income taxpayers would be completed. He said he felt Sept. 1 would be an impovement. ' “If you are asking me, I do not think we are dilatory,” Hale said. ’ "Everything that came in properly prepared has gone out. Because of the shift from one tax system to another this year, an unusually large number of errors have been made. The most frequent errors was to di- , vide the year’s Income in half instead of figuring for the full year and the using the one per cent tax rate which represented an adjustment for the change. The gross income tax is actually two per cent but the one

per cent figure was used this year in order to make the change from the old system to the new. — Hale said the bulk of refunds from “properly prepared forms” was completed by July 27. He said the state’s refund setup cannot be compared with

Governor Nominees Criticize Board

FRENCH LICK, Ind. (UPD— Indiana’s two nominees for governor agreed Monday in separate address’es to state teachers that the State Board of Accounts has no business assuming legislative functions of policy .making for schools. Lt. Gov. Richard O. Ristine, the Republican, and Roger D. Branigin, the Democrat, strongly criticized the board for venturing outside its "proper function of auditing.” They referred to a recent order for a change in the method of handling school lunch and other activity funds. Ristine spoke at a luncheon and Branigin at a dinner of the 15th annual Leadership Confer- • ence of the Indiana State Teachers Association. Spokesmen for the ISTA said the concensus of more than 800 educators attending the threeday session, after hearing the gubernatorial nominees, was that their interests would be in good hands the next four years whether the next governor is a Democrat or a Republican »"Adults pay for good schools; children pay for poor schools,” Ristine said. He said he favors the state paying a greater share of the cost of public schools—“perhaps as much as 50 per cent compared to 33 per cent now paid”—and favored holding the line on local property taxes for schools. Branigin pledged an increase in state aid with no additional —proper tytaxes. —- —— — —

Senate Passes Poverty Bill

WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate, handing President Johnson a juicy election year victory, today passed and sent to the White House his sweeping $947.5 million "war on poverty” pro* gram. The Senate passed the Houseapproved bill by voice vote. The legislation, an essential • element in the Presidents election plans, will embark the government on a broad program of financial • assistance to areas where pockets of poverty persist amidst. general prosperity. A key provision will establish youth camps to train young men and women in new skills and give them outdoor conservation experience. The bill also vyill provide aid to small businessmen and farmers to under- ' write local anti-poverty projects. It is certain to be an issue in the presidential election camt paign. Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for President, opposed the bill when it first passed the Senate July 23, as a hodge-podge of discredited programs resurrected from the

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that of the federal government because the Internal Revenue Service has many more employes and makes no audit before refunding, while the state does what amounts to almost a 100 per cent check on the authenticity of the refund before actually making it.

Branigin drew prolonged applause when he expressed the belief the Indiana Retired Teachers Center at Greenwood, operated by the ISTA, legally tax exempt and promised to support legislation to that effect if necessary. The center was placed on property tax rolls by the Johnson County Board of Review at Franklin recently. Ristine said vocational education must not be relegated to second-class status. t Ristine said, “Some say the answer to unemployment is a shorter work week or the enforced slowdown of technological change. I say these answers are not final. I say the real answer lies in the creation of aih. educational system that will bring * • our people, all our people, up to the levels of skill and knowledge that will enable them to share in the opportunity of American life. The teachers’ group, meeting at the French Lick Sheraton Hotel, heard Ristine say Indiana should encourage the improvement of a corps of professional, career teachers which would be able to help improve communities in order to attract new job opportunities, “We must see to it that vocational education is not relegated to second class status; it must be in tune with changes in technology; it must not be a dumping ground for failures in education, " Ristine said.

New Deal 1930*5. Goldwater signed a blistering Senate GOP condemnation of the bill as being designed "to achieve the single objective of securing votes.” Johnson has called it a vital program to help those living in want while most Americans prosper. Democrats say onefifth of the nation’s population lives in poverty where the "doors of opportunity are closed." — The major stumbling block was a loyalty oath proviso added by the House before it <, cleared the bill over some Republican resistance* last Satur*— day by a vote of 226 to 184. The Dixie-sponsored provision would require persons to sign affidavits disclaiming any affiliations with Communist or subversive groups and pledging loyalty to the United States- as •— a condition for receiving aid for anti-poverty projects. It was the major difference between the House bill and a similar measure identical in dollar total passed July 23 by the Senate. t i