Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII NO. 204

Hurricane Cleo Brushes —v-t-— . ——- —•— .-u-.. . \ .. *•»., Cape Kennedy; May Turn To Sea, Missing Georgia

Civil Rights Group Sits In At School

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A civil rights group today launched a “declared war’’ on the Indianapolis ' School Board and promised to enforce demands for racial equality in education with “mass demonstrations, sit-ins and boycotts.” A statement containing those promises was issued by John Torian, chairman of the Congress on Racial Equality in Indianapolis, at a mid-morning news conference called after six members spent all night in the Indianapolis public school administration building protesting delays in the solution of .a school racial problem. The six played games, sang and took turns sleeping on rows Os chairs after school officials turned off air-conditioning and locked restrooms and soft drink machines, a routine they said was normal for in the middle of the night when the structure ordinarily is deserted. Torian issued his statement on the steps of the school administfratloh building while the six sit-in demonstrators remained inside. “We will bring them food and other necessities as long as we are permitted to do so,” said Torian, “and if we are cut off they will stay to the point of starvation if necessary.” “The arrogant school officials have left us no question. We will go into the neighborhoods and organize the parents, the children and all other citizens who have been wronged by this action,” he said. “The board has delayed action to keep Shortridge High School from becoming allNegro," said Torian after vice chairman Don Bundley read a prepared statement outlining the action. • “The city is a battleground. We are stepping up action everywhere,” said Torian. “We

Restraining Orders Given Against NFO

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Producers Marketing Association—in an attempt t? “keep our markets open”—has obtained temporary restraining orders against the National Farmers Organization. Judges at the Whitley Circuit Court in Columbia City and the Blackford Circuit Court In Hartford City granted the temporary orders Thursday, but did not set hearing datas for the cases. The PMA asked the injunc- ** tions to prevent NFO members from interfering with livestock markets at Columbia City and Montpelier. The NFO is currently staging a livestock holding action across the Midwest to force prices to suppliers up. Wayne Miller, Anderson, a national director of the NFO, said the court action and suits “haven’t discouraged us in the least ” • About 100 NFO pickets were ordered off PMA property in Columbia City Wednesday night and the PMA market at Montpelier closed at mid-morning Tuesday and remained closed all day Wednesday when pickets patrolled the area, turning back truckloads of livestock. William R. Cummins, general manager of PMA, said, “If trouble starts at any of our markets, we will tty to get an injunction there. We are trying to ' take no action other than to keep our markets opep.” The PMA announced the court action after the disturbances at the two markets. ,

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will face opposition. Last night my wife got threatening calls warning me not to go to the board meeting. She is a teacher and they threatened to fire her. Another call about a bomb and more with harassment. Now we are pleading to the citizens for mass action to correct a community problem.” Michael J. Smith, 26, chairman of the Indianapolis chapter of CORE, said the sit-ins took turns sleeping on chairs placed tn rows in a conference room made stuffy when maintenance men turned ofTthe air-condition-ing. ‘ “We played Old Maid all night and sang freedom songs,”, Smith said; The sit-in began when the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners postponed action on proposals to effect .a racial balance at Shortridge High School which, in recent years, has enrolled an increasing ratio of Negroes to white students. Maintenance men at the schohl administration building just off Monument Circle in the heart of downtown Indianapolis locked restroom doors and soft drink vending machines. Several plainclothes policemen were stationed at the building, but no arrests were made. Smith described the sit-in as a drive for "equal educational opportunity.” He said the school b-ard failed to take action to eliminate de facto segregation. Postponement -of action until at least Nov. 24 on the Shortridge Situation meant that there will be no change in school districts for the opening of the fall school term. CORE proposed changing the districts so that students entering high school from several predominantly white residential areas would go to Shortridge, thus helping to keep that school from becoming entirely Negro.

Enthusiasm High CHICAGO (UPI) — The president of the National Farmers Organization (NFO) said today "enthusiasm is high and determination building” for the .group’s market rebellion despite setbacks earlier in the week. “The general tightening effect should start building now because the livestock in the hands of farmers is in stronger hands and our opposition’s supplies have narrowed,” Oren Lee Staley said. Livestock prices were generally firm Thursday. But receipts were down. Twelve major Midwestern terminals reported only 39,000 hog receipts received, a 20 per cent drop from a week a'go and the smallest for a Thursday in more than 18 months. Prices for hogs were generally steady to lower. The highest price paid at Chicago for quality animals was $18.75 per hunderweight, off 10 cents from Wednesday and $1.25 from Monday’s top price. The NFO campaign at Waukon, lowa, drew vocafc support from 200 members Thursday who staged a “scream-in” protest at a local auction shortly after five members were fined SSO each for blocking entry to livestock buying stations. “The scream-in was a howling success,” one member said. The methodical voice of the auctioneer could barely be heard as be demonsraors pushed, stomped and jostled their way into the crowded markeing exchange.

CAPE KENNEDY (UPD — Hurricane Cleo, its winds greatly reduced, brushed this space center early today and showed signs of turning into the Atlantic, bypassing the Georgia coast. Cleo’s top winds were barely of hurricane force, and these were occuring in gusts, as it dawdled along the upper east coast of Florida. A late advisory located the storm slightly to the northwest of St. Augustine, Fla. Miami weather forecasters said the storm, which did at least SSO million damage to the Gold Coast country south of Cape Kennedy Thursday, would continue on a northerly course during the next 12 to 24 hours. This would skirt the northeast Florida and Georgia coasts, weathermen said. , “No important change in size or intensity is indicated,” the advisory said. A few telephone and power power lines were reported blown down in St. Augustine but damage was light. A car was flipped over in * Jacksonville by wind gusts but the driver escaped injury. A plane that flew ; into the hurricane said the highest winds were occuring east of Cleo’s center — over the open Atlantic. — ’ Hurricane warnings south of St. Augustine were lowered but remained in effect north to Brunswick, Ga. where coastal residents battened down during the night. Heavy rain was forecast north of the storm, over sou’heast Georgia and South Carolina. A weather reconnaisance plane located the hurricane near St. Augustine, Fla. and the Weather Bureau said in a 9:30 a.m. EST advisory surface winds had dropped to only 40 miles an hour. The plane reported, however, winds at flight level were still of hurricane force — 75 miles an hour or higher. “There still exists a hurricane potential once the center gains a little more energy from the nearby ocean,” the Miami Weather Bureau said. “The eye or calm center of Cleo has 'enlarged and became diffuse and ill defined with somewhat erraTC movement,” the weather bureau said. At 8 a.m. EST the center was placed along the coast near Flagler Beach, about 80 miles north of here. “Current reports indicate that any hurricane winds occurring are only gusts of about 75 miles an hour,” the weather bureau reported in its 8 a.m. EST advisory. Increase In Intensity But it warned that Cleo's present course will bring its center just offshore and “some increase in intensity may be Mrs. Mary Ann Tague Is Taken By Death Mrs. M— Y Tfl ßtie, 90, died at 1:55 o’clock Thursday afternoon at her home, 805 McKinnie avenue, Fort Wayne. She was a native of Mercer county, 0., and had resided for 38 years at Fort Wayne. She was an active member of the Zion United Brethren church at Willshire, O. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Harold Kimmell and Mrs. Carl Einsiedel, both of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Raymond Gibson of Bryan, 0.; two grandchildren and four great-grand-children. Her husband, L. W. Dague, died in 1929, and a daughter, Mrs. Marie Motz, also preceded her in death. Funeral rites will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne, the Rev. Lawrence Fairchild officiating. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery at Van Wert, O. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday.

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expected as it regains a——of warm moist air later today.” Heavy rains and high winds caused by Cleo’s forward areas brushed as far north as the Georgia coast and Jacksonville was buttoned up to await the blow. Savannah, Ga. police put on 24-hour alert. Heavy rains and winds of 72 4 miles per hour struck here '■ shortly after midnight. Space agency officials made extensive surveys at first light today and reported that “the 4 biggest hazard is the snakes the hurricane brought out.” They reported a few broken windows, downed power lines and some slight damage to temporary construction buildings, but the Cape’s rockets and firing systems escajred without ■ harm. Grade School Book I List Printed Today Complete book lists for the Lin- 1 coin, Monmouth, Northwest and . Southeast elementary schools in , the North Adams system are print- ' ed on page six of today’s Daily Democrat. Included are fees for book rentals. workbooks and necessary supplies. ‘ Glen Jackson Dies After Long Illness Glen Jackson, 62, brother of Mrs. Oran Schultz of this city, died Thursday at his home on route 3, Van Wer’, O. He had been ill with cancer for the past one and one-half years. Mr. Jackson worked for the Ohio state highway department for 40 years until forced to retire because of illness. , Surviving are his wife; one son, Alford Jackson of Van Wert; two daughters, Mrs. Alfred Tangeman of Van Wert, and Mrs. Harold Keith of Coldwater, Mich.; two sisters, Mrs. SchuPz of Decatur, and Mrs. Clarence Fishback of Rossburg,’•O., and one brother, Harmon Jackson of Lima, O. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Ridge Methodist church in East Lincoln highway near Van Wert. Burial will be in Ridge cemetery. Friends may call at the Knoll-Bricker funeral home at Van Wert after 7 p.m. today. School Calendar Sei At Adams Central The complete school calendar for the 1964-65 school ’year was announced today by the Adams Central school board and A. F. Allen, superintendent. The annual organization meeting for all teachers will be held Friday, Sept. 4, and the opening day for classes at the Adams Central schools will be Tuesday, Sept. 8. Oct. 16 will be the end of the first grading period, and the annual teachers convention will be Oct. 22 and 23, with the schools closed on those days. Veterans day vacation will be Wednesday, Nov. 11, and the Thanksgiving vacation Thursday and Friday, Nov. 26 and 27. The second grading period will end Dec. 4. Christmas vacation will start Wednesday, Dec. 23, with schools reopening Monday, Jan. 4, Friday Jan. 22, will be the end of the third grading period, also the end of the first semester The fourth grading period will end March 5, and the fifth grading period April 15. Good Friday will be Friday, April 16, and classes will resume Tuesday, April 20. Baccalaureate services will be held Sunday, May 23, and commencment exercises Monday, May 24.

INDIANA WEATHER Showers ending and cooler north tonight, scattered showers and thunderstorms with little temperature „ change sogth. Partly cloudy and mild > Saturday, chance ot widely ; scattered thundershowers extreme south. Low tonight mostly in the 60s. High Saturday in the 80s. Sunset to- ; day 7:23 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:10 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and pleasant. Low Saturday night around 55 north to 65 south. High Sunday in the 80s. Peace Corps Worker Is Rotary Speaker Neal Voiral, Monroeville school teacher, and former member cf the peace corps, was the «*uest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Voiral, who obtained his education at Ball State Teachers College and St. Francis College, joined the peace corps in 1962, and after 10 weeks of intensive training was assigned to teach in British Honduras. He told about the country, the customs, industries, one the former mahogany lumber industry now about depleted due to lack of replacement, the various types of population, including Indians of Mayan extraction, Creole, Chinese, Lebanese. The diet - consists of rise, fish and beans. Voiral served as commercial and physical education instructor at several schools, including a girls’ acedemy. He said the country's economy has been raised through a Central American type common market, and the citizens seek to encourage tourists to bolster the economy still further. The climate is very hot, with lots of rain. The policemen carry no guns, just small sticks. Radio is the only mass news media in the entire country. Among the guests were Norman Lawrence and Allan Bradick, two high school exchange students from British Honduras, now residing at Monroeville. These boys sang several songs in close harmony. Other guests were Jeff Camp, grandson of Rotarian J. Ward Calland, and two Van Wert, 0,. Rotarians. Bill Lose was chairman of the program. Slightly Injured When Hit By Aulo Little Jane Druetzler will spend her second birthday in the Adams county memorial hospital Sunday, but her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Druetzler, of 315 Stratton Way, are thankful that she will be on the way to a complete recovery from a mishap that occurred at their home Thursday evening. The youngster was struck by the family auto, her father was backing from the driveway of the home a short time before 7 o’clock Thursday evening. She was immediately rushed to the hospital and numerous x-rays were taken, all of which were negative, revealing that no bones were broken. The little girl was apparently behind the car, where neither her mother or father could see her, when Druetzler began backing the auto into the street. She suffered some bad pavement “burns” about the arms, face and head from being dragged a snort distance by the auto. Jane will remain in the hospital for several days, but doctors feel she will make a complete recovery.

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Pres. Johnson Winds Up Party Convention On Plea For Courage

ATLANTIC CITY (UPD — President Johnson led his party against Sen. Barry M. Goldwater today in a campaign he calls a choice between those who fear the future and those who want to live in unprecedented peace and prosperity. He said the way to attain the Democratic goal was for the voters in November to give him a mandate to keep alight “the golden torch of promise which Kennedy set aflame.” The alternative, he said, is “to undo all we have done together/’ The President and his running mate, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, fly to the LBJ Ranch in Texas today to begin preparing for the presidential campaign charted by the tumultuous but generally united 34th Democratic Nation- . al Convention which ended last night. Breakfast With Delegates Before departing, they will breakfast with some 400 convention delegates and party leaders and attend the first session of. the newly elected Democatic National Committee. The committee is expected to re-elect John M. Bailey as national chairman, although he may resign after the Nov. 3 election battle • with Goldwater and William E. Miller. Johnson and Humphrey delivered their accep'ance speeches Thursday, night at the final session of a four-day convention which proceeded toward its inevitable climax under Johnson’s complete control. Their speeches made clear that Johnson would talk in thelofty language expected of a president. while Humphrey undertook the effort to rough up Republican presidential nominee Goldwater. Johnson never mentioned Goldwater by name but Humphrey slugged at the GOP ‘ candidate with the zest of a boy who found he could lick the new kid in the neighborhood. Offers Voters Choice To Goldwater, who wants to offer the voters “a choice, not an echo,” Johnson replied “Tonight we of the Democratic party confidently go before the people offering answers not retreat, unity not division, hope not fear or slavery. r “We do offer the people a choice —a choice of continuing on the courageous and compassionate course that has made this nation the strongest, freest, most prosperous and most peaceful nation in the history of man.” Both Johnson and Humphrey charged that Goldiwater offered

simple answers to complex questions and that he was too rash to be trusted with defense and foreign policy.’ Pledges Firmness “There is no place in today’s world for weakness,” said Johnson. “But there is also no place in today’s world for recklessness ... I promise no easy answers ... I pledge the firmness to defend freedom, the strength ■to support that firmness and a constant, patient effort to move the world toward peace.” The President was applauded

Convention Pays. Kennedy Tribute

ATLANTIC CITY <UPD — A 16 - minute ovation by cheering Democrats launched Robert F. Kennedy today on a political career of his own. Some predicted it would reach its climax some day in the White House. The spontaneous outburst for the attorney general and brother of the late President at Convention Hall Thursday night was unanimously viewed by political pros more as a tribute to the martyred President than to the 38 - year -old Bobby. However, it came as powerful evidence .that the Kennedy name is magic to millions. Practical politicians saw it also as confirmation of President Johnson’s judgment some weeks ago that Kennedy had to be shut out of the race early if he was to be denied the sec* ond spot on the Democratic ticket. ■ The attorney general’s immediate goal is a New York Senate seat now held by Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, a liberal Republican. With the balking of party leaders, Kennedy expects to get the Democratic nomination at a state convention next Tuesday. Open To Question What Thursday night’s emotional tribute did for his prospects in the senatorial race was open to question. Most of the delegates who cheered him to the rafters can’t vote in New York. Keating is popular and articulate and will be a tough opponent. The ovation caught convention officials by surprise. They had alloted two minutes to Kennedy to introduce a filmed

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again and again,<W'hen he demanded equal /rights for all Americans and z again when he said that this goal must not be jeopardized by violence. He said the 1964 contest was not between two parties or between liberals and conservatives but “between courage and timidity.” “It is between those who see what can be and those who want only to maintain the status quo,” he said. “It is between those who welcome the future and those who turn away from it* promise.”

tribute to his slain brother. It was many minutes longer than that before Kennedy could get in his first word. Democrats themselves, apparently, did not realize the extent to Which they still react to the Kennedy name. Delegates questioned! about the significance of the Kennedy ovation took the line it was really an outburst of affection for the slain President and of love and sympathy for his family. Expressing Emotion Gov. John Connally of Texas, gravely wounded in the burst of gunfire that felled President Kennedy, commented: "It was a means of expressing the feeling, emotion and sentiment for the great tragedy, the assassination of President Kennedy. , I think this was the way they had to show it.” Even before Kennedy went before the convention Thursday night his popularity among Democrats was apparent as he visited state delegations. Rep. dtement Zablocki, of Wisconsin, introduced Kennedy to the Wisconsin delegation as “the next senator of New York and some day the president of the United States.’’ Few Democrats here would bet that Bobby Kennedy will not eventually be the Democratic candidate for President. Some saw him as a possible contender against Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, who will run with Johnson in November, for the party’s top nomination when Johnson’s White House tenure is finished. Others thought his time would come later.