Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 214, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. NO. 214.

Local Lady Bilked Os S7O By Roofers

Two out-of town roofers, operating out of a slick-looking 1964 mode* pickup truck with license 44A5355, and wanted on a warrant in Huntington county, defrauded a Decatur lady of S7O this morning and skipped out before a sheriff’s check discovered it. All county and area residents are warned to be on the lookout for' out-of-town roofers. A sheriff’s check indicates that a group of men stopped at a motel in LaGrance, on the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana border, and purchased a group of licenses. Any 43A license would be from that county. Alerted by Neighbors The sheriff’s office was alerted this morning by neighbors, who remembered how a similar incident occurred a few years ago. Deputy Harold August immediately drove to the home of Mrs. O. L. Vance, 523 N. Secpnd street, and stopped the two men. They gave their credentials, said they would be working the area, that an advance man had made the contracts, and that they whre fulfilling thorn. The deputy immediately returned to his office, where Decatur Democrat reporter Mike - Retired Teacher, Band Leader Dies James O. Danner, 81, prominent retired teacher of music and band director, died at 6:30 a. m. Wednesday at Union hosnital, Terre Haute, following an illness of two weeks. He had made his home tot the past five years with a son, Forest Danner,' 2901 Hall Ave., Terre Haute. Mr. Danner taught music for' many years in schools at Wren, Willshire and St. Henry, 0., and at Monmoyth, Monroe, Pleasant ’ UHlfe arid. Kirkland schools in Adams county. He also served as director of the Dunbar band at Beme, and the General Electric band In Decatur. He was born in Blue Creek township July 18, 1883, a son of Frank and Arrilla FergusonDanner. His wife, the former Mae Deitsch, preceded him in death Aug. 17, 1956. Surviving are the son and one grandchild. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Robert Harvey officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services.

First Os Many , ma teite teteAk • * WRWw ’' ’ a-*u, it9£3sK9 —vr kSHßlhfiifiß Il '' nl igZAK- ff? «±v*«. | ■:■ $ K2 h|« I wMm I d?£aJ I a ■ 1 " —,uawteßM>BW-aUF ■■ S ■mmmk & ..,.,.. MM j.. ... ■• W?< - ..,.-. w* . y -1 ‘ ’ '- *' \~' '' 'r' r ' ’.’'y*' T ><■’ <'< *"' Sv Jy ■■> I ' I : ' 'i" THE FIRST LOAD of 1964 soybeans was delivered to the Decatur Central Soya plant Tuesday by the Don Dauler elevator of Convoy, O. Above, Gale Bauserman of Soya tests the load while driver Don Hoover looks on. The beans were grown on the Walt Dagor farm near Convoy. Central Soya’s Decatur plant provides a market for several million bushels of soybeans annually. — (Photo by Cole) 4 - ■ ■ . - , ■ . ■;.'.' * ■ .

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Thoele recalled that two men had worked a similar racket in Huntington county. The two men had finished their S7O “roofing job” — painting the roof with a tarlike substance 7— in half an hour. Check Indicates Warrant August was called to the' jail on another case, but on his return immediately checked with Huntington, which reported a warrant for their arrest. By the time August got back to Mrs. Vance’s home, she had paid them — the man filling out the check himself — and they had left. An "all points” alert to neighboring sheriff’s offices, and to the state and city police on the two men was immediately given. Description of Men The older ntan, who gave his age as 32, was short and somewhat stocky. They wore respect-able-looking clothes. The younger man was tall, thin, and gave his age as 24. Both were light complexioned, but heavily suntanned. The sheriff’s office urges anyone who is contacted by an out-of-town roofer, painter, or sprayer to contact tne police for an immediate check. Every year fast-talking con artists move into unsupecting communities, and “take” as many local citizens as they can before they hustle on to greener fields. Check with Chamber Local citizens are invited to check with the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, as well, to see if the painters, etc., 'have registered there. The police will check out the registrations, .credential, etc., of anyone whom they are called to check, but of course the best way to be certain is to get a local businessman who is well known and who will be around to make good any complaint. Cut-rate roofers, etc., usually cost more in the long run, by doing vastly inferior work, and then running out, the sheriff warned. INDIANA WEATHER Showers or thundershowers north and central portions to- - night and central and south portions Friday. Cooler northwest tonight, north and central Friday. Low tonight 58 to 65. High Friday low 70s north to around #0 extreme south. Sun-Met-today 7:02 p.m. Sunrise Friday 6:22 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy with near normal temperatures. Lows mid 50s. Highs in the 70s.

County Council Cuts Tax Rate To Figure Below Present Levy

No More Violence At Local Markets No morg violence has occurred in Adams county at the two markets at which visitors from the local NFO organization are patrolling to try to keep hogs off the market, Gene Arnold, president of the Adams county NFO, said this morning. > Arnold said that he had talked with all his members, and that he is certain that none of them was responsible for the incident at the sale barn Tuesday. The barn is used by farmers from a wide area, and only four or five of those present were from Adams county. “All our local members realize that the P. B. Stewart markets in Decatur and Geneva have cooperated very well, and that under no circumstances does the local or national NFO condone violence,” Arnold stressed. Meeting Tomorrow There will be a meeting at 8 p.m. Friday for NFO members from 13 northeastern Indiana counties in the community hall at Bluffton, and both members and interested non-memtoers are invited, Arnold stated. “In the year 1900 the great steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, made a net income of 25 million dollars. This vast income was absolutely tax-free then,” Arnold explained. “His laborers made an average of a dollar a day for a ten-hour day six days a week. “They were totally unorganized. Any effost to organize meant immediate dismissal. The workers had no insurance protection. No old-age benefits. They were forced to work until they fell in their tracks, in effect. Attempted strikes were suppressed with inhuman ruthlessness. Government Helped Workers “Shortly thereafter President Theodore Roosevelt revolted against this barbaric treatment of labor. He tirade against the “malefactors of great wealth” is well remembered. As a result of Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and F. D. R., and the labor climate they created, labor today is well organized, and workers get contracts like yesterday’s Chrysler contract. “In sharp contrast,” Arnold stated, “the farmer is still disorganized. Each farmer is in active competition with his friends and neighbors. Others Fight NFO “Our attempts to organize under NFO for bargaining power is meeting stiff resistance from other farm organizations which have at best no solution to offer the farmer, except to cut the cost of production! "It is disgraceful,” Arnold charged, “for some so-called cooperatives to call upon law enforcing officials to come to their rescue when all the NFO members ask is a fair price for, their commodities — the original goal of the cooperatives themselves, 30 years ago. "The cause of the NFO is just,” Arnold concluded, "and farmers are joining in locally to see that right prevails.” Krueckeberg Speaks To Optimist Club At the weekly meeting of the Decatur Optimists held this morning, Earl Caston, program chairman, introduced Herman Krueckeberg, who showed a series of slides on his recent trip to Europe. Krueckeberg gave an interesting talk which accented the pointed difference of life in the western sector of Berlin as Compared to that in the eastern sector. The Berlin wall, composed of concrete, barbed wire and broken glass, was shown and discussed in detail. Even buildings have been mortared and bricked to form a part of the wall that has become a symbol of freedom

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Thursday, September 10, 1964.

Further Cuts By State Are Seen Certain The Adams county council closed its two-day session Wednesday afternoon by passing an ordinance setting the 1965 county tax; rate at $1.36.1, a rate which is nearly 12 cents lower than the present figure, and which is likely to be cut at least seven cents when it is reviewed by the state board of tax commissioners. • The additional seven-cent reduction will come because county officials inadvertently included a seven-cent levy on the budget for the county ditch improvement fund. This fund was established by state law in 1951 with the stipulation that it run for a 13year period. Thus, 1964 was its last year. However, the county council could not legally cut the fund, so the task of removing the sevencent levy will fall to the state board of tax commissioners when Fred H. Kamholr - Dies Last Evening Fred H. Kamholz, 72, \of 365 Center street, Berne, and prominent businessman of that city, died at 8:27 p.m. Wednesday at the Adams county memorial hospital, following an illness of three years of a heart condition. A partner in the Jefferson garage in Berne, he was a former member of the board of trustees of the Adams county memorial hospital, and also served many years as clerk of the Berne town council. * » He was born in Harmony, 111., Aug. 3, 1892, a son of August and Augusta Kaunde - Kamholz, and had lived in Berne since 1917. Mr. Kamholz was a member of the Lutheran church in Union, 111., and of the Masonic lodge. Surviving are his wife, the former Caroline Schroeder; a foster son, Richard Vander Smissen of Fort Wayne; a foster daughter, Mrs. Fred (Lauretta Conway) swift of New Paltz, N. Y., and a sister in Woodstock, 111. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the first Mennonite church chapel in Berne with the Rev. Gordon Neuenschwander officiating. Burial will be in Union cemetery in Union, DI. Friends may' call at the Yager funeral home after 7 p.m. today until 1 p.m. Friday. Mishawaka Woman Is Fatally Burned MISHAWAKA, Ind. (UPI) — Mrs. Sherry Dausman, 21, was burned fatally Wednesday night in a fire at her home. Authorities said Mrs. Dausman’s husband, Stanley, 22, dragged her from the burning house and rolled in grass on his lawn to extinguish flames in his own clothing. versus slavery . Krueckeberg’s group took a tour of the eastern sector and the only time they were allowed to leave their bus was to visit the Russian memorial, "beautiful to behold but totally lacking in spiritual meaning.” _ They also visited Switzerland and stayed in the homes of people who have near relatives living in Adams county, at the present time. Krueckeberg concluded his , talk by saying that although Europe is beautiful to behold the restrictions he witnessed in East Berlin gave him a much greater appreciation of America. , President Dean Boltz reminded the membership that the first travelogue of the new season will be held Saturday, October 24, and urged an early report of ticket sales.

its representatives convene to review the Adams county budget. With that seven cents removed, the county tax rate will stand at $1.29.1, or 18.9 cents lower than the prevailing 1964 rate. At least one other cut will probably be made by the state board—it is reasonably certain that they will cut .001 to bring the rate to an even dollar and cents figure. The council cut $7,720 from the proposed county budget, which was already significantly lower than the 1964 budget. The county budget, along with township, school, library, city and town proposals is scheduled to go before the seven-member county tax adjustment board Monday. The board is composed of one member of' the county council, one township trustee, the mayor of the county’s largest city and four citizen members. By law it must be composed of four members of one political party and

Dora Smashes North Florida

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (UPI) — Monstrous hurricane Dora, the worst of the century in this area, smashed through this historic coastal city today and inland across north Florida, leaving a multi-million dollar trail of damage. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but thousands were homeless in Dora’s wake along the Atlantic Seaboard from this oldest city in the nation north to the Georgia and South Carolina beaches. Homes were unroofed, seaside restaurants and cottages undermined and toppled, into 25-foot waves, fishing piers smashed and amusement park fer r i s wheels twisted to hulks. Beaches were chewed up along nearly 400 miles of coastline. Gov. Carl Sanders of Georgia said damage to his state’s coast was sure to run into the millions. Both Sanders and Gov. Farris Bryant of Florida sought federal disaster aid. Uses Guardsmen Sanders ordered about 150 National Guardsmen into Brunswick to guard against looting. Fifteen per cent of the buildings in the city of 30,000 were said to be destroyed. At Jacksonville Beach, perhaps the hardest hit spot along the wide swath cut by Dora, city councilmen made a preliminary estimate of $lO million in damages. In other cities, authorities were still picking through debris making their first surveys of the destruction. There were reports of looting in both St. Augustine and Jacksonville. Dora, its winds reduced to bare hurricane force of 75 miles an hour in gusts, crunched

Parochial Schools' Enrollment Listed

Opening enrollment in the Decatur Catholic schools reveals an increase in the total number of students, while a slight decline is reported at the Zion Lutheran school in this city. The St. Joseph elementary school has a decrease of seven children, while the Decatur Catholic high school has nn increase of 20 students. Sr. M. Julienne, C. S. A., principal of the Catholic high school, reported 271 enrolled in the four high school classes, an . increase of 20. Junior high school, or grades seven and eight, has 167 enrolled, while grades two through six, as reported by Sr. M. Vera, C.S.A., St. Joseph principal, have 420 enrolled, or seven less than last year. First grade students have not reported to date at the St. Joseph’s ischool.as the new class-

three of another. The members are: Frank Bohnke (D), representing the county council; Robert Kolter (D), representing the trustees; Carl Gerber (D), as mayor of Decatur; and the four citizen members, Charles Langston (R>, Menno Lehman (R), Joe Anderson <D), and Earl Caston <R). The four citizen members are appointed by the circuit judge. The county budget, as completed by the council, is as follows.' The 1964 figures are included for comparison. 1965 1964 County revenue — .58 .67 Welfare .12 .099 Cumulative courthouse .05 .05 County school tax .281 .281 Cumulative bridge .... .20 .20 Hospital fund .01 .01 Hospital bond & interest .05 .10 Ditch improvement ... .07 .07 TOTALS 1.361 148

through the piney woods and recently harvested tobacco land of north Florida. The center was located at noon edt about 70 miles west-southwest of Jacksonville. The storm was moving between west and westnorthwest at about 10 m.p.h. Hurricane warnings went up along the elbow bend of Florida’s north Gulf Coast and the Florida Panhandle and south Georgia areas were warned of approaching gales and rains that may total 10 to - 15 inches in the coming two days. Ethel Moves Westward Meanwhile, hurricane Ethel pounded westward almost in Dora’s tracks with building fury. The weather bureau located the storm at noon EDT about 850 miles east of Palm Beach and said it was moving westward at about eight m.p.h. Maximum winds had reached 95 m.p.h. in the storm’s center. Miami forecaster Paul Moore emphasized “it’s much too early to say what this one will do.” Dora moved like a bulldozer across St. Augustine early today. Huge oaks were toppled and seawater flooded the streets, including the old slave market where segregationists and civil rights demonstrators clashed this summer. The city lost its water power for about an hour shortly after daybreak as a result of punYps failing. The pumps were quickly repaired. Tampa, on Florida’s Gulf Coast, began to feel side effects of the storm at mid-morning. Downtown areas were blacked out by a power failure and wind gusts up to 52 miles an hour were recorded.

looms for this grade will not be ready for occupancy for several days. Anticipated enrollment in the first grade is'96, based! on pre-registration figures last spring. These figures make a total nf 956 enrolled in the •Catholic schools. Zion Lutheran Smith Snively, principal of the Zion Lutheran school, reports a decrease of nine students in opening day enrollment. The parochial school on West Monroe street has an enrollment of 97 pupils, a decline of nine from the 106 enrolled in 1963. Enrollment by classes at Zion is: Grade 1, 11; grade 2, 18; grade 3, 10; grade 4, 17; grade 5, 11; grade 6,9; grade 7, 10; and grade 8, 11.

LBJ Asks Report On Racial Trouble

WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-dent Johnson has asked the FBI for a comprehensive report on its investigation of recent racial riots and other disturbances to see if they fit a common pattern. The Chief Executive told a news conference Wednesday that “considerable agitation” obviously was involved in disturbances in both the North and South. He declined to say, however, whether FBI had found any signs of outside agitation or political motivation so far. Johnson said the FBl’s report might form the basis for further federal action—possibly including legislation—wherever violations of federal law are involed. “We are informing all of the mayors and all of the governors where these problems arise that we will make available through appropriate channels of their Picnic Saturday By Young Republicans Robert Gates, of Columbia City, fourth district Republican chairman, will be the featured speaker at the candidates’ picnic, sponsored by the Adams county Young Republicans club, to be held at the Legion memorial park on Winchester street, Saturday evening. John Fuhrman, chairman of the Young Republicans, invites all Republicans to attend the picnic, which will get underway at 7 o’clock. Hamburger and buns will be furnished, and those attending are asked to bring a covered dish and table service. Guests of honor will be all county Republican candidates at the Nov. 3 election, including Wayne R. Carpenter for surveyor, Leland A. Neuen for auditor, L. Luther Yager for joint state representative, Dr. John E. Doan for coroner, Hugh D. Mosser for commissioner, first district, and William Fritzinger for commissioner, third district. After the hamburger fry, all are urged to go to the party headquarters on North Second street, for specal entertainment and an. opportunity to become better acquainted with the Republican candidates.

Taylor Briefs On Viet Nam

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor’s five-day review of the situation in South Viet Nam led today to a view that the anti-Communist war could not be won militarily in the foreseeable future. This assessment by one highranking U.S. source came as Taylor briefed Congress and prepared to return to Saigon tonight. It was disclosed that when Taylor gets back, new efforts would be mounted to clean up Communist insurgents in the area surrounding Saigon. But there were no indications of a major shift in U.S. strategy in the beleaguered and internally troubled Southeast Asian country. Some U.S. officials believe the American - supported war effort is not in desperate straits because of recent political tur-, moil in Saigon. But the outlook for a quick military victory over Communist guerrillas was not encouraging. One official source said the main hope of winning the war now lay in attempting to bring the Communists to realize the futility of pursuing aggression any further. War Too Coatly The aim, he said, would be to convince the Reds that for them, the war would be too costly to continue and too barren of expectations for gain. Taylor was scheduled to leave Washington at 6:30 p.m. EDT. Before his departure, he briefed the House foreign affairs subcommittee on the Far East and later, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Both sessions were closed. U.S. sources said one result of a high level review of Viet Nam strategy here during the past few days has been that previous plans for a mopup around Saigon should now go forward. This was envisioned as much more than a military operation. It would also involve co-

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peace officers full information that we may have,” the President said. Government Available He said the government would be available Jo local authorities “for any supplementary work that may be within our authority under existing law.” As examples, he cited Mississippi, Georgia, New York, New Jersey and Maryland where disorders have arisen in the past. The President’s impromptu White House conference touched upon several other issues figuring in his election campaign against GOP presidential nominee Barry M. Goldwater. He did not reply directly when asked his opinion of Goldwater’s proposal for a 25 per cent reduction in federal income and corporate taxes over a five - year period. Instead, Johnson praised the effects of the administration’s $11.5 billion tax cut—which Goldwater voted against in the Senate—and cited statistics he said showed “confidence in our economic prosperity.” Studying Economic Situation He said that executive and congressional experts are studying the nation’s economic situation to determine the wisdom of possible further tax cuts. He said he would report their views to Congress next January. Sources close to the Treasury Department reported last month that Johnson was thinking of asking Congress to approve a $1 billion to $3 billion cut in excise taxes in time for the nation's 1985 Christmas shopping. On other matters, the President said: —He had named a panel of prominent Americans "above partisan politics” as special consultants on foreign policy problems to the President, the secretary of state and secretary of defense. He said the panel would serve informally. —He was pleased that a contract settlement had been reached between the United Auto Workers union and Chrysler Corp. Johnson, who has urged wage and price restraints in the past, expressed satisfaction over reports that the new contract would be noninflationary.

ordination of police and civilian administrators in an attempt to beef up government control and security in the areas involved. Three of the four provinces surrounding Saigon have been considered among the toughest problems in the battle against Red insurgents. The conclusion of Taylor's talks here, siurces said, was that the mopup around Saigon could proceed, even though the South Vietnamese government will be in a state of reorganization for several months. Taylor conferred twice with President Johnson Wednesday on the status of the Americanbacked war by South Viet Nam against Communist Viet Cong guerrillas. Johnson told newsmen afterward that Taylor reported there had been “continued progress” in the bush war. Operations Reviewed Taylor arrived from Saigon Friday for a thorough review , of U.S. operations in Viet Nam in the wake of a riot-marked political crisis that disrupted the Saigon government. Washington sources said today Taylor was returning with no major departures in US. policies in his briefcase. But they said there would be some alterations in “priorities” and “emphasis.” One part of this will apparently include some changes in economic aid programs, particularly those designed to mesh, with increased efforts in the provinces surrounding Saigon. Some changes of emphasis in military and economic programs may have to await a solution by South Viet Nam to some of its many governmental problems. Vietnamese leaders —mostly military at presenthave promised to» set up a new provisional government in November.' This would be followed later by a more fundamental change to constitutional, representative government.