Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. NO. 197.

Auto Workers Union Votes Overwhelmingly T o Reject Pact Offered By Big Three

CHICAGO (UPD—The United Auto Workers union today voted overwhelmingly to reject economic offers laid to the bargaining table Monday by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. The vote was unanimous at meetings of the GM, Ford and Chrysler councils of the UAW. Each of the councils also overwhelmingly passed resolutions asking the union’s international board to declare their respective firm the strike target in the 1964 round of labor negotiations. At GM, a delegate read the resolution seeking to have GM ddzzz zz zz zz declared the target. He was interrupted from the floor when another delegate said that the wording of the resolution should be changed to “we demand” instead of “recommend.” At the UAW Ford council meeting, Ken Bannon, director of the UAW Ford department, said his group had voted “unanimously and with enthusiasm to reject the company’s offer and asked for a strike against Ford Mo‘or Co.” “I think it should be Ford,” Bannon said. “The company has done well. This is a logical place to start. Ford is in the middle with GM above and Chrysler below.” The rejection Came at the urging of UAW President Walter P. Reuther. The UAW was expebted to pick a strike target at an afternoon meeting. Reuther called the target ’selection the “most

FDR’s Home First International Park

CAMPOBELLO ISLAND, N.B. (UPD—Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson paid tribute to the courage of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt today in ceremonies dedicating" his summer home here as the world’s first international park. “We all know that Campobello is unique,” the First Lady of the United States said. “It’s name has become synonymous with greatness. In a troubled time, it stands as witness to our unfortified boundaries and to our friendship with our genFormer Local Youth Critically Injured Bruce Vanhorn, 17, of Cromwell, Decatur native and brother of Kenneth. David and Harold Vanhorn of Decatur, remains in critical condition at Parkview hospital. Fort Wavne, following a trucktrain accident near his home at 5:50 Wednesday. Vanhorn remained unconscious during the night, and suffered a mangled right shoulder, right leg, left arm, broken ribs, and other injuries. He was driving over to a neighbor’s in a pick-up truck to help with the evening chores at the time of the accident. The railroad crossing is in a dip with hills on both sides, and the train was approaching from the direction of the sun, and he apparently failed to see it, running into the engine. The Baltimore and Ohio freight train involved at the wreck at the crossing, one-half mile north of Cromwell, was engineered by RD. Murley, Garrett, and William Kelley, Garrett, was conductor. Impact carried the pickup truck some 75 fee', and Vanhorn was pinned in the wreckage for half an hour before state police could remove him. * r His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Delmer Vanhorn, were on vacation in Battle Creek. Mich., at the time of the accident, and were called home immediately. The Vanhorns moved to Cromwell about six years ago. Bruce attended grade school here, and will be a senior at Cromwell this fall.

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important tactical decision” of the negotiations. Each of the three councils will recommend to the 25-mem-ber international board that the firm where its members work be picked as the strike target. The councils represent UAW locals at Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. The board scheduled an afternoon meeting to pick the target. The union, employing what the companies call “whipsaw” tactics, traditionally picks one firm, concentrates .its bargaining efforts and exacts a settlement. The settlement becomes the pattern for the other companies. Current con+racts covering the nearly 600,000 big three workers expire at midnight Aug. 31. The uhion has called for a strike vote and locals reporting results have overwhelmingly approved a walkout. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer tonight, possibly a few showers northwest and extreme north tonight. Friday partly cloudy, warm and humid with scattered thundershowers likely. Lqw tonight mostly taj the 60s. High Friday 85 to 94. Sunset today 7:35 p-m. Sunrise Friday 6:02 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: SboWery conditions ending and turning cooler by late afternoon. Lows in the 60s. Highs low' to upper 80s.

erous Canadian neighbors/’ She said Roosevelt had "an over-reaching emotional attachment” for Campobella, adding, “it was here too that tragedy struck, and it was here that a man triumped over adversity.” Roosevelt was stricken with polio while at Campobello. “Both Franklin and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt knew the meaning of courage sustained by compassion in every day of their lives,” Mrs. Johnson said. She said the landmark was dedicated “as an inspiration for all future generations.” “This island off the northeastern coast of our continent will always turn its face toward the sunrise of world event — the sunrise at Campobello,” she said. « “In one of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets” he speaks of the ‘still point of the turning world' and adds, ‘in the end is my beginnink.’ Campobello, fortunately for us all, is one of the still points in a changing world. I believe that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would consider that today we have made a good beginning,” she said. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Lester B. Pearson, wife of the Canadian prime minister, were scheduled to dedicate the park, which will be operated by the United States and Canada. Campobello Island is in the Bay of Fundy, between the United States and Canada. Mrs. Johnson, accompanied by Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, DMaine, arrived at Dow Air Force Base at Bangor, Maine, aboard a Northeast Airlines plane. Mrs. Johnson and her party transferred to seven -smaller planes for Eastport, Maine, from whence they were to take a boat to Campobello. %sMso in the group were Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and two of the three United States members of the Roosevelt-Cam-pobello International Park Commission. The third member, former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Sumner Pike of Lubec, Maine, is in Scotland.

General Motors was the target during 1961 negotiations and Ford was chosen in 1958 and 1955. There has been no indication which of the big three firms will be the target during the 1964 round of bargaining. Mrs. Vance Hartke Here This Evening The wife of Indiana Senator R. Vance Hartke, Mrs. Martha Hartke will be the featured speaker at the Jefferson club’s annual Adams county Democratic ice cream social at the home of Miss Rosemary Spangler, Adams county recorder, this evening. Tonight’s annual event is scheduled to begin at 7 o'clock. Robert Kolter is chairman of the afaiir and Earl Habegger is serving as co-chairman. The Spangler home is located three miles west of the intersection at the Country Charm restaurant and U. S. 27. A native of Richmond, and a graduate of Indiana University, Mrs. Hartke was an elementary teacher until 1943 when she married Vance Hartke, then a young naval officer. Since moving to the nation’s capital in Washington, D. C., after Hartke’s election to the senate in 1958, Mrs. Hartke has spent a good deal of her time assisting her husband in many duties and functions required of his office. Happy Rockefeller Seeking Children WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (UPD —Mrs. Margaretta (Happy) Murphy Rockefeller won the first round today in what promises to be a bitter battle for the custody of the four minor children of her first marfiage. State Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Gagliardi ordered trial Sept. 2 of the application by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller’s wife to amend her Idaho divorce agreement giving her former husband, Dr. James Slater Murphy, custody of their children. She asked for “absolute” custody. Gagliardi denied Murphy’s petition to throw out his former wife’s suit, but he promised that the Idaho agreement would be given “great weight” in reaching a decision. Mrs. Rockefeller, 36, married the governor, 56, last year just 33 days after she divorced Murphy and settled for only generous visitation rights with her children. She has since had a son by Rockefeller. Murphy, 41, has married the teacher of two of his children. Gagliardi said further arguments and trial sessions in the case will be heard behind the closed doors of his chambers. Attorneys for Mrs. Rockefeller's former husband, Dr. James Slater Murphy, said Wednesday they wanted an open trial. But this morning one of them, Ddvid Kelly, said he would not stand in the way of a private hearing. The court battle between Mrs. Rockefeller and Mur {Ay promises to be a no-holds-barerd contest. Mrs. Rockefeller's attorney, Edward S. Greenbaum, has already charged that Murphy has shown “what sort of father he is” by denying Mrs. Rockefeller custody and forcing the case to trial. Murphy’s chief attorney, Vincent J. Malone, has promised “we’ve got plenty to talk about” and warned that "we’re not going to be pushed aside.” New York’s first lady has retained four attorneys to argue her case and Murphy three. The case is being tried here because the Rockefeller residence neir Tarrytown, N.Y., is in the jurisdiction of the White Plains Supreme Court district.

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LB J Will Ask More Tax Cuts

WASHINGTON (UPD — Administration officials said today that President Johnson plans to ask Congress next year to cut excise taxes by $1 billion to $3 billion in time for the nation’s 1965 Christmas shopping. They said a deadline of Oct. 1, 1965, had been set on such a measure so that consumers would not put off their holiday purchases in anticipation of a la er tax cut. If Johnson.'s plans go through, the second big tax reduction in two years would mean postponing a balanced federal budget at least until fiscal 1968, officials said. Taxes to be placed on the congressional chopping block would include retail levies on jewelry, furs, cosmetics, luggage and women’s handbags: such as those on office equipsuch as those on officie equipment and machine tool lubricating oils, which officials said “simply increase the cost of doing business;” and various “nuisance” taxes on matches and other consumer items. The decision to push for another tax cut 'next year instead of in 1966 was announced by Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon at Tuesday’s session of the Democratic Platform Committee. According to sources close to the White House, {he principal reasons for this major change

Former Wren Youth Is Killed By Train Douglas Milton Stewart, 11, a resident of Wren, 0., until a year ago, was killed late Tuesday when an auto in which he wars riding with his grandfather, Walter J. Kail, of near Upper Sandusky, 0., was struck by a» C & O railroad passenger train at Upper Sandusky. The boy, who was born in Decatur, was the son of Mr. find Mrs. Marvin Stewart, who now reside in Lincoln, Neb» The family had been visiting at Upper Sandusky. The father was a veterinarian at Wren until moving to Nebraska one year agb. Also surviving are three sisters. Mona, Marcella and Melinda, and the paternal grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. R. D. Stewart of Delphos, O. Funeral services will be he’d at 2 p.m. Friday at the Lucas funeral home in Upper Sandusky with burial in Oak Hill cemetery there.

KSaSm CUTTING THE RIBBON — Miss Suvimol Trisuwan, exchange student from Bangkok, Thailand, at the Decatur high school this year, is shown about to cut the ribbon to mark the formal opening of the enlarged and remodeled Holthouse Drug Co. store here Wednesday morning. Watching, from left to right, are: W. Guy Brown, executive secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce: Dan Freeby, partner in the drug store; Mayor Carl D. Gerber; Lawrence Anspaugh, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Louis'Jacobs and Robert Holthouse, store partners. -(Photo by Maclean)

in administration policy are: —A feeling among Johnson’s economic advisers that the effect of the $11.5 billion cut in corporate and personal income taxes enacted last March may “run out of steam” by the latter half of next year. —A certainty that if the administration does not initiate a move to cut excise taxes, Congress will cut them itself —‘ and the results might be messier than Treasury tax experts would like. In June, the White House barely defeated a Senate move to do away with excise |axes imposed during the Korean War. —The people want another tax cut. Last March’s tax reduction whetted the public's appetite for this kind of /‘fiscal dividend” —a point that has not escaped the administration this election year. In June, when Congress was debating renewal of the Koreaii excise taxes, Dillon fold the Senate Finance Committee that another tax cut “should not even be thought of” until 1966 at the earliest, and not before 1967 if the budget was to be balanced. Lone Gunman Robs Indianapolis Bank INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A branch of the Indiana National Bank on the city’s north side was held up and robbed today by a blonde crew-cut bandit carrying a revolver. Vice President J. Harold Wrgiht said the bandit got $1,980. It was the second branch bank holdup in Indianapolis in three days. A southeast side branch of another bank was held up for $2,500 Tuesday. Witnesses desiribed the bandit as white, about 36 or 37 years old, weighing 160 to 165 pounds, wearing a two-tone tan sport coat and white shirt. The gun he used in the holdup was described as a 32-caliber snub-nosed blue steel weapon. There were 15 employes and 6 customers in the bank, described as Indiana National’s largest branch operation, when the man walked up to teller Robert Junker, 27, and demanded all the currency in his drawer. “No marked money,” Junker quoted him as saying. Wright said nobody but Junker knew there was a holdup until the freckled bandit rushed out, brushing a customer in his haste to leave. The man ran down the street

Negro Children Registered At Jackson, Miss. By United Press International Five Negro children registered without incident at three previously white elementary schools at Jackson, Miss., today within minutes after the opening of registration for the city’s first grade classes. The registrations for classes which start next month was the city’s first start toward public school desegregation. Jackson, the capital, is one of four Mississippi school districts ordered to start integration this year. Mississippi has had no previous public school integration below the college level. Seventeen Negro first graders registered without incident last week at Biloxi, Miss. School officials hoped registration could go off as smoothly in Jackson. Police were ordered to admit only school personnel, pupils and to keep pedestrian and motor vehicle traffic moving. At Clarksdale, Miss., Wednesday federal Judge Claude Clayton ordered school officials to desegregate the first grade when school starts in two weeks and the second grade in January. — ~ The other school system ordered desegregated is rural Leake County. Elsewhere: Chicago: Quiet returned to suburban Dixmoor where Ne-. groes staged riots and violence for three consecutive nights. Squads of police patrolled to prevent looting. At nearby Harvey, nine persons were arrested. Atlanta* A federal attorney said Wednesday the government may not push its contempt charge against Lester Maddox who closed hi* restaurant rather than serve Negroes. The attorney said the question of contempt may have become 10Mt> jackson, Miss.: Judge Stokes V. Robertson Wednesday held that Mississippi’s predominantly Negro “Freedom Democratic party” may attend the national Democraic convention at Atlantic City without risking contempt action. Jackson: Sponsors of the ‘jMjLsfi'ssipipi Summer Project” announced Wednesday that the program has been successful and that it will be continued into the fall and winter, stressing Negro voter registration. Jackson* Two white men charged with shooting a Negro in the leg, beating a white civil righ’s worker and firing several shots into a car driven by another civil rights worker were freed on bond Wednesday. Jacksonville, Fla.: Federal Judge Bryan Simpson Wednesday ordered a spare-time deputy to get out of the sheriff’s department and a motel manager to admit Negroes in the first contempt action under the D.H.S. Yearbook To Be Distributed Friday The 1964 edition of “Raveling:;,” yearbook of the Decatur high school, has been received, school officials said today, and the copies will be distributed from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday. Persons wishing to pick up their yearbooks are asked to enter by the west door of the cafeteria, and the books will be distributed in the cafeteria lobby. Plastic covers. at 25 cents each, will also be available. and was believed to have fled on foot.

State Candidate In Decatur On Friday

John D. Bottorff, history and government teacher at Culver, and candidate for secretary of state for Indiana, will be in Decatur Friday noon to tour the main business district. Dr. Harry H. Hebble. Democratic county chairman, announced today. John L. DeVose, city attorney, will introduce Bottorff to businessmen and shoppers in the Decatur area between 10 a m. and 12 noon Hebble announced. . Well-known in Decatur and Adams county, Bottorff received unanimous support from the Adams county Democratic delegation at the state convention against slated opposition. Native of Seymour A native of Seymour, and graduate of Cortland high school, Bottorff has his A.B. degree from Franklin College, where he was president of the Young Democrats, his chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and a member of the Blue Key national honor society, NEA, Indiana state teachers association, Indiana schoolmen's club, Indiana high school coaches association. In addition to his present teach-ing-coaching position, he formerly was government teacher and head basketball coach at Reelsville high school. Active In Politics Bottorff has been active in politics, and is presently presidnet of the Young Democrats of Indiana, chairman of the MidWestYoung Democrats of America, and past' president of the 9th district Young Democrats. He is a member of the Cortland Christian church, and Masonic lodge No.' 146, Seymour. An indefatigable campaigner, Bottorff is readily recognized in his white summer suit. He spoke in Fort Wayne Tuesday night, stopped briefly in Decatur on his way to Hartford City for a 4 p.m. meeting, and then on to Columbus for an evehing rally. Thursday night he will be in Huntington as the main speaker. Locally Important Local support of the party's nominee for secretary of state is especially important, Dr. Hebble emphasized, because the party getting the high vote in the county for secretary of state appoints the election inspectors in each of the 40 precincts, the highest paid election job. This is especially important to all local officeholders and candidates, from township trustee, preainct committeeman, to county commissioner and Bounty council members, he stressed. In addition, the party getting the highest vote for secretary of state in the entire state gets its emblem placed to the left on all ballots for the next two years. Constitutional Office The office of secretary of state, Dr. Hebble pointed out, is defined by the state constitution, and is elected every two years, with the incumbent able to serve four years out of any six-year period. The new secretary of state,, succeeding

Anti - Poverty Bill Is Signed

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson cemented a major legislative victory today by signing into law a $947.5 million “war on poverty” bill which he said will stimulate a “new era of progress” for those who have not shared in America’s prosperity. "The days of the dole in this country are numbered,” the President declared before using more than 50 pens to place his signature on the measure at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. In an obvious reply to Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater’s charge that the poverty program is just an election year gimmick to win votes, Johnson asserted: “This is not a cynical proposal to exploit the poor with the promise of a handout or a dole.”' Aims At Unemployed Instead he said the program aims at getting unemployed youth “off the streets" and into job training, so they can look forward to a "productive life, not a wasted life.” “Every dollar spent will result in savings to the country and especially to local taxpayers in the cost of crime, welfare, health and police protec-

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o John D. Bottorff Charles O. Hendricks, will take office Dec. 1. __ Bottorff is eminently qualified for the office's three main types of service, Dr. Hebble added. By virtue of the office, he would serve on the Indiana state school building authority, and as a teacher he is vitally interested in that area He will also serve on the state board of convassers, where his fine political record will be invaluable in providing the necessary background. As a school board of convassers, where teacher in history and government he will be a particularly valuable member of the commission on public records. Attest State Documenta As a history and government teacher, he is well aware of his traditional duties—attesting official state documents such as constitutional amendments, statutes, proclamations, and fcommissiom issued by the governor. Most such official documneta will be in his custody in the secretary’s office, if he is elected. He will also be charged with compiling, publishing and distributing the statutes enacted by the general assembly. The secretary of state also administers the laws regulating the issuance and sale of corporate securities in the state. The securities division is a part of his office, and he appoints a securities commissioner and such additional personnel as are necessary to .administer these laws. Corporation Charters The secretary is also charged with issuing charters of incorporation and receives reports annually from all corporations chartered in the state. His office also is charged with administration of the trade-mark registration law, the state lobby law, the licensing of collection kgencies and the issuance of commissions to notaries public and railroad police. Thus, it is quite important that a well qualified man be nominated and elected to this important post, Dr. Hebble concluded, “and the Democrats of Indiana have just such a man in John Bottorff, who will be in Deactur Friday.”

tion,” Johnson said. The ceremony was attended by a large number of House and Senate .members, mostly Democrats: cabinet members, including Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy; governors and mayors, including Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York: business and labor leaders; and Sargent Shriver, whom Johnson will nominate to head the program. Making American History » “The American answer So poverty is not to make poor more secure in their poverty but to help them real'll down apd help themselves out of the ruts of poverty," the President said. “The American people and the American system are making history,” Johnson asserted. “Today, for the first time 'in ijhe (history of the human race, a great nation is willing to make, and able to make,' a commitment to eliminate poverty among our people.. .1 firmly believe that as of This moment a new opportunity is dawhing and a new era of progress is opening for us all.*' Signing the anti-poverty bill was a sweet victory for the President. Johnson and his congressional lieutenants had a Continued on Page 8)