Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 194.

Scores Os Whites Hurt By Rioting Negroes In Chicago Suburb Sunday

CHICAGO (UPl)—Police led by a straw-hatted sheriff today broke up remnants of rioting Negroes who had seized the downtown area of an integrated suburb. The Negroes, ranging in age from pre-teens to adults, had injured scores of white persons who bad innocently entered the southern Cook County area. The whites mostly had been out for Sunday drives. More than 1,000 Negroes were drawn into the rioting, which reached a peak shortly before midnight. The rioting was confined to Dixmoor and to an area between that village and Harvey, one of Chicago’s more industrialized suburb s. State and county police joined those from neighboring suburbs to drive back the rioters with tear gas, fire hoses, dogs and a “flying wedge” of helmeted officers. Ordered Defensive Fire Sheriff Richard B. Ogilvie, a World War II tank commander, led the main section of police advancing against the Negroes. Ogilvie, holder of the Purpole Heart, had ordered the police to return any fire from the rioters. The sheriff led the advance ' wearing a sailor-type straw hat. Hie uproar smarted over a bottle of gin. Before it was oveiS at least two persons were shot, close to 60 were injured, Mrs. Joan Workinger Home From Hospital Mrs. Joan Workinger, wife of local service station owner Robert ,D. Workinger, has been released from Parkview memorial hospital and returned to her home at 818 N. Third St. Mrs. Workinger, who was seriously injured in a two-car traffic accident in DeKalb county on Saturday, July 25, is confined to bed most of the time, but may have a few visitors. She is now on the way 'o complete recovery. Her husband and nine-year-old daughter, Darlene were also hurt in the mishap, but their injuries were less severe. Workinger has returned to work at his downtown Texaco service station.

Group Rejects Medicare Plan

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate Finance Committee today voted down two proposals to finance health care for the elderly under Social Security, including the medicare plan backed by President Johnson. Backers of the long - stalled administration measure indicated they would offer it again as an amendment on the Senate floor. They accepted the committee vote as an expected defeat. The commit’ee’s one -two punch came on two health care proposals offered as riders to a $1.5 billion House-passed bill increasing cash benefits five per cent far about 20 million persons covered by Social Security. Meeting in a closed door session, the committee rejected the King<Anderson administration bill to provide up to 45 days of paid-up hospitalization, certain nursing home care, nurse visits to the home, and medical checkups. It would be financed by higher Social Security taxes. Also defeated was a compromise optional plan whose chief sponsor is Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, D-Conn., former secretary of health, education, and welfare. It, too, would be financed by higher payroll taxes. No Adjournment WASHINGTON (UPD-Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mans-

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31 were arrested, two buildings —both believed unoccupied — were set on fire, stores were looted, and cars were overturned. ' County police wearing white crash helmets and with orders to fire if fired upon patrolled the largely Negro south suburban community in the aftermath of the riot. On the surface, the trouble seemed over. Workingmen went peaceably to their jobs, walking over the broken glass left by Sunday night’s fighting and past stra-tegically-placed patrol cars. The trouble in Dixmoor started Saturday When Mike Lapota, white owner of the Foremost liquor store, accused a Negro woman of trying to sneak off with a bottle of gin. The woman charged Lapo’a slapped her. That was the spark which set off the summer’s first major racial violence in the Chicago area, the nation’s second largest Negro population center. Police Outnumbered At the , riot’s height, Capt. Tom Henry of the Cook County sheriff’s police estimated from 1,000 to 2,000 Negroes were involved in the melee swirling about the liquor store. Against them were matched slightly more than 200 state, county and town.policemen, along with firemen from Dixmoor and surrounding communities. The police used all-out measures. Volleys of tear gas shells were fired. A flying wedge of policemen led by a squad car surged over a vacant lot to enter a housing development. Sgt. Clarence Bachar of the nearby Harvey, 111., police, which took part in the operation, said that at one point firemen turned their hoses on the crowd and that warning shots were fired in the air. Chained police dogs were brought to the area, but were not used on the crowds. Hie two shooting cases appeared to be accidental. Lowell Smith, 39, a Negro, was shot in the right forearm, apparently by a spent bullet. Another man was wounded on the finger.

field announced today he is advising fellow Democrats that adjournment of Congress this week is out of the question and they will be back at work on Aug. 31 after the Democratic National Convention. » The Montana Democrat, confronted with a deadlock on reapportionment legislation and an upcoming fight on health care, said just before entering a conference of Democratic senators: “If the session has to be resumed we will stay as long as necessary.” The Demoncratic convention opens at Atlantic City a week from today. Mansfield told reporters earlier today he was “afraid” it now was “out of the question” to clean up the session’s work by the end of this week. His word to the Democratic conference made it official. Meanwhile Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore. took the Senate floor this morning to fill in for fellow liberals trying to talk down the Dirksen-Mansfield proposal which would require federal courts — except in “highly unusual circumstances” —to stay all reaoportionment proceedings until-Jan. 1, 1966. At the same time a new bipartisan effort was launched to break the reapportionment deadlock. — : —

= ; | — — W A £ MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, wife of the president, and her party leave Moren Point for a float trip down the Snake river in the Teton national park. Seated next to Mrs. Johnson (C), is Mrs. Gale McGee, wife of Wyoming Sen. Gale McGee. On the near side of the rubber raft art L-R Sen. McGee and interior secretary Stewart Udall. Handling the boast is Grad Eastman. —(UPI Telephoto)

Trader Ming At Monroe Thursday Tractor pulling contests will be an added feature on Thursday’s program at the Monroe “Community Days,” which will be held on the uptown streets of Monroe Wednesday through Saturday. The four-day event is sponsored jointly by the Monroe town and rural fire department and the Monroe Lions club. The 8,500 pound class tractor pull will get underway at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, the 10,500-pound class will be staged at 6:30 p.m. and in addition there will be a riding garden tractor pull at 5:30 p.m. Prizes in both the medium and heavy classes will be a trophy and S2O for first place, sls for second place, $lO for third place, $5 for fourth place, and $3 for fifth place. The weighin will be held at the Monroe Grain & Supply, Inc. The entry free of $3 is to be paid at the weighin. The riding garden tractor pull, with an entry free of sl, is limited to youths 18 years of age and under. Weight is to be 900 pounds and under, with drawbar of 14 inches. A trophy and $5 will be presented to the first place winner, $3 for second place, and $2 for third place. TWO SECTIONS Bailey Infant Boy Dies Early Sunday Mark Steven Bailey, three months, died early Sundav morning at the residence, 501 E. Monroe street. The infant had been ill since birth. He was born in Decatur April 23, 1964, the son of Don and Pat Frank-Bailey. The parents are members of the Church of God. Surviving in addition to the narents are a brother, Gregg and three sisters, Theresa, Sheryl and Kim, all at home; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Frank and Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Bailey, all of Decatur; and the ereat - grandmothers, Mrs. Lo n Weaver of Berne, and Mrs. Mamie Bailey of Monroe. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Zwick “ funeral home, with the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. —_l

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Winners Are Named, In Tractor Pulling Carl Hildebrandt, Jim Rhoton and Darrel Arnold were winners in the final tractor pulling contest Saturday in the final of the annual three-day event, sponsored by the Preble volunteer firemen. The final Saturday night drew an overflow crowd, and a grand total of 158 entries competed in the three-day event. Carl Hildebrandt won the 8,-500-pound class, pulling a load of 16,500 pounds a distrance of 300 feet at a speed of over one-half mile per hour. Other placings were Larry Macke, Neil Tshannen, Von Heyerly, DeWayne Beer, Dale Reinhart and Dale Bieberich. This class had 53 entries. Jim Rhoton won the 7,500pound class over 37 other entries, pulling a load of 15,000 pounds a distance of 290 feet at a speed over one and one-half miles per hour. Other winners were Dale Reinhart, Carl Hildebrandt, Walter Hildebrandt, David Schueler, Eddie Ewell and Gary Jeffrey. parrel Arnold captured . the heavyweight class, in which 30

Three-Year Pact Is Offered To UA W

DETROIT (UPD—The auto industry’s big three of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler today offered the United Auto Workers Union a new threeyear contract which provies for retirement as early as age 55 and a wage increase of up to 34 cents an hour. The three separate offers Were given to union officials at almost the same minute this morning. There was. no immediate comment from the union. But UAW President Walter P. Reuther predicted earlier the offers would be inadequate in the face of worker's demands and record industry profits. The offers came exactly two weeks before the big three contracts expire—Aug. 31. New Pension Proposal \ The union, which had called early retirement its chief issue this year, got its answer in the form of a new and complicated pension proposal from the industry. Under the plan, retirement benefits would be increased from $2.80 to $3.25 per month for each year of credited service. And normal retirement benefits would be available as early

County Council To Meet September B County auditor Edward F. Jaberg is sending out notices today that the Adams county council will mee 1 at 9 a.m. Tuesday, September 8 for a two-day session on the 1965 county budget, and any additional appropriations for the remainder of this year. The county council will review all budgets submitted by county departments, and will make any cuts which they feel are necesary. The rates will then be published ten'atively, and a hearing by the state board of tax commissioners .held, before the final tax rates are established. • 8 - entrants competed, pulling a load of 20,000 pounds a distance of 280 feet at a speed of over one and one-half mile# per hour. Other winners were Ken Heyerly, Harold Dick, Bob Heyerly, Von Heyerly, Ezra Reinhart and Henry Gallmeyer. The Preble firemen expressed their thanks to the various committees, donors and helpers who aided in making the contest a success, and also to the tractor drivers who displayed fine sportsmanship.

as age 62 after 10 years service. Or a worker could retire voluntarily under a special plan as early as age 60. Offer Early Retirement He could also retire at age 55 if his job was lost because a plant was closed or if his job was eliminated through automation. He could also retire at 55 with snecial benefits if he was incapacitated. The industry also proposed to continue the present “annual improvement factor' ’... increase of 2% ner cent or six cents an hour, whichever is greater. This would average out to from 19 to 34 cents an hour over the life of the contract. The union had asked for an increase of 4.9 per cent. The President’s Council of Economic Advisers said *he average rate of industrial gain in the country was 3.2 oer •Cent. The industry also proposed to increase the jobless benefits paid a paid-off worker from S4O to $45 per week. Under the nlan, a worker with a wife and three children could receive ssl a week in so-called supplemental unemployment benefits.

Cases Os Vandalism Reported To Police Two incidents of vandalism, one involving more than 00 broken windows, have been reported to the city police. Karl Kolter, of the Kolter Vault Co., located behind the Wayne Novelty on Washington street, reported to the police Sunday afternoon that sometime during the three days previous, some 26 windows had been broken out at the vault company’s plant. Kolter then reported to the pollice this morning that another 36 windows had been broken out since the first report. B-B guns, bricks, etc., had been used to cause the extensive damage. No estimate of the cost of darrage was given. The city police are continuing investigation. Norbert Cable, of route 5, Decatur reported to the police Saturday evening another case of vandalism. Cable said that he recently purchased a home on N. Second street, and has been remodeling the home. During the past few days, someone entered the building and broke out several windows, damaged the floor, and caused other small damage. This investigation is also continuing. _ Mrs. Lina Wilson Is Taken By Death Mrs. Lina Wilson, 81, died at. 3:20 p.m. Saturday at the Glen Acres rest home in Fort Wayne, where she had been a patient for eight months. She had been in failing health for the past year. Born in Wells county May 19, 1883, she was a daughter of Jacob and Mary Ruby - Kay, and was married to Thuesall Wilson in July of 1904. Her husband preceded her in death in 1952. Mrs. Wilson was a member -of the Jefferson. Chapel Methodist church in Columbia City. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. George W. (Mildred) Bonner of Decatur route 1, with *" whom Mrs. Wilson made her y home prior to her illness, and Mrs. Kenneth Emerick of Fort " Wayne; two sons, Mearl Wilson i_ of Tucson, Ariz., and Richard Wil- >. son of Columbia City; eight grandchildren; five great-grand-children; one brother, Riley Kay v of Ossian, and one sister, Mrs. y Susie Hanni of New Castle, Pa. y Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Ossian Methodist church, with the e Rev. Gorman Pritchett and the s ReV. Charles Kerr officiating. e Burial tdll be in Oak Lawn cemetery at Ossian. Friends may call at the Elzey funeral home in Ossian.

County Board Sets Limit On Pipeline The Adams county commissioners resolved this morning that no utility is to lay lines or pipes within 24 inches of the road bed on any county road, following information that a road bed had been undermined by an approach within that limit. The commissioners received a report that one telephone company, with no local office, had laid its lines within a foot of the road bed, and had endangered the road structure. At the same time the commissioners signed an agreement with NIPSCO to extend its gas line along the Eiting addition road just southwest of Decatur. The line will go 340 feet west of its present extension. Ralph E. Biggs and Allen Felt and their attorney, Lewis L. Smith, appeared before the commissioners and asked what the requirements would be for a subdivision near the Percy Everett addition in Root township. Victor Strickler Is Acting Police Chief Veteran police officer Victor Strickler has,, been appointed acting polcie chief during the rest of August. Stickler will serve as acting chief during the absence of chief Grover Odle, who began a two-week vacation Sunday. Italian President Still Gravely 111 ROME (UPI) _ Italian President Antonio Segni, victim of a cerebral stroke, remained in grave condition today. _ A mfeutoal bulletin issued late Sunday night said * there had been “no change” in the 73-year-old president’s condition since he lapsed into a coma Frida;',

Open Hearings On Democratic Party Platform

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secretary of State Dean Rusk opened the 1964 Democratic platform hearings today with a warning against “reckless deeds or words” in foreign policy which he said could reduce the world to “a cinder pile.” The issues ,of militancy versus caution in foreign affairs and control of nuclear weapons rapidly came to the forefront as the 106-member committee opened hearings to draft a platform for the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., one week from today. As the hearing opened the national committee refused to seat delegates from Mississippi, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands because of challenges to .their credentials. The all-white Mississippi group is under a challenge from a Negro "Freedom Democratic Party.” Warns Against Recklessness In a blunt statement Rusk told the platform group: "This is no time to indulge in reckless deeds or words which would cost us the confidence of both Allies and other free nations and stimulate irrational action by our adversaries." Twice during a question period following his speech the subject of administration responsibility in the use of U.S. military power came up. The issue has become acute in tne light of charges that GOP nominee Barry Goldwater is a “hip-shooter.” Asked about frequent Republican charges that the Democrats have a "no-win policy”, Rusk replied that a forceful military solution to all world ' problems would not “win” either because, he said, “* cinder pile is not freedom, it is not something the human race wants to look forward to.”

Strong Campaign In State By Democrats

By EUGENE J. CADOU United Press International INDIANAPOLIS <UPI) — Besides the vigorous oratory, a number of oplitical developments occurred at the weekend meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association in French Lick. Among them were: —The forces of Roger D. Branigan, gubernatorial nominee, will refrain from ousting State Chairman J. Manfred Core prior to the election and Branigan added that he could have a post in his administration, if he is elected . —Gordon St. Angelo, Huntingburg, Bth District chairman and Core’s chief rival, also will “be taken care of,’’ if victory comes. —Branigin, Core, St. Angelo and Governor Welsh will hold weekly meetings to discuss campaign Senj Vance Hartke presumably will be too busy in Washington to attend. — Kentucky Gov. Edward Breathitt, the editors’ banquet speaker, predicted that Welsh will be named to an important national post. Most observers believe it will not be the vicepresidential nomination, but rather a cabinet post, if President Johnson is elected. Branigin Unfettered — Branigin at French Lick practically served notice that he will be his own boss minus a “man to see.” John Hurt, Indianapolis and Martinsville attorney, who has been “the man to see” in the Welsh administration, was conspicuous by his absence at French Lick, although he was a pioneer Branigin packer. . — Branigin said that his GOP rival, Lt, Gov, Richard O. Ristine, will “play hell in trying to drive me into a denunciation of the Welsh administration.” — Welsh, however, took no chances. His administratives assistant, Jack New, nominee for state treasurer, outlined the Welsh regime accomplishments at the editors' luncheon and Welsh himself followed suit at the banquet meeting, — The party war chest win have more than $600,000.

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In answer to a question about control of U.S. nuclear weapons. he said flatly such control roust rest entirely with the President. He said he was “quite sure” that Americans who have thought about the awesome nature of nuclear power would agree with this. President Needs Control Rusk said that those who regard nuclear weapons as “just another piece of military equipment do not understand "the levels of violence” that they involve. “This does not mean that these weapons cannot be used. But it does mean that before they are used the President of the United States should decide,” he said. On Southeast Asia, Rusk said U.S. counter-attacks on North Vietnamese bases following Red PT boat attacks on U. S. destroyers. have proved to the Communist side that the U.S. response to such actions will be “immediate, .direct and costly” to the Reds. Rusk's comments on nuclear weapons were an obvious reference to the clash between Goldwater and President Johnson last week. INDIANA WEATHER Fair north and central, partly cloudy south tonight and Tuesday with chance of a few showers extreme southwest Tuesday. Not much temperature change. Low tonight 52,t0 56 north, 55 to 62 south. High Tuesday 72 to 84. Sunset today 7:38 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 6 a m. Outlook for Wednesday: Little change in temperatures. Lows mid to upper 50s. Highs upper 70s to mid 80s.

Plans Strong Campaign — Hartke, who was in every act at French Lick, like Uncle Miltie Berle, will campaign more furiously than ever with his administrative aide, Mace Broidie, in charge. He's going hot and heavy for the female vote with an elaborate pamphlet entitled “Let’s Quit Taxing the Ladies,” which announced his drive in Congress to repeal the 10 per cent federal excise tax on cosmetics, handbags, and luggage, jewelry and furs. Next to former Gov. Henry F. Schricker, the Hoosier party’s patron saint, Breathitt and Branigin probably received the biggest applause. The audience warmed up to - Breathitt's charge of intellectual dishonesty on the part of Sen. Barry M. Goldwater because of his change of pace after the Republican summit harmony conference at Hershey, Pa. “The great wagon master from Arizona crawled like a desperate candidate for constable on a lastminute baby-kissing campaign,” Breathitt said . Says Stand Changed “The man who said that one Eisenhower enough promised not to lick a postage stamp without Ike’s permission. The man who told the rioters in Mississippi and New York that extremism was no vice and moderation meant cowardise decided that it had all been a horrible mistake. “The man who promised to take our mothers and fathers off Social Security and send them to the poorhouses decided that Social Security ought to be extended. The man who said that America should torpedo the United Nations decided that the U. S. was not really so bad.” Heller Elected The Editorial Association elected Dick Heller, IJecatur Daily Democrat, as president, succeeding James Wright, Wakarusa Tribune. Heller was succeeded as vice - president by John T. Rumbach, Jasper Herald,* who was secretary, Mrs. Vera Hall, Danville Gazette, was advanced from treasurer to secretary and Robert C. Huneke, Batesville 1 Herald-Tribune, was elected treasurer.