Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1964 — Page 1

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President Johnson Tells Union Convention Medical Care For Aged Is Vital

MIAMI BEACH (UPD—President Johnson told a union convention today that Americans who believe in health care for the aged under Social Security must now "stand up and be counted.” Johnson’s statement was regarded as support for organized labor’s efforts to win House passage at this session of Congress of a Senate-ap-proved bill that contains such a "medicare” program. Addressing about 4,000 cheering delegates and guests at the International Association of Machinists (IAM) convention, the President departed from his prepared text to emphasize his Myers Is Released At Hospital Today Lewis Myers, 42-year-old resident of Fort Recovery, 0., who was injured in a cave-in that claimed the life of a Fort Wayne man in Berne Monday morning, was released from the Adams county hospital a short time afte’ noon today. Myers escaped the cave-in that killed John H. Beckley, 46, with just bumps and bruises,’even though he was standing near the victim at the time the cave-in occurred. An old fire cistern which had not been used for many vears, gave way when workmen dug near it, and hurled water and earth onto Beckley, crushing his chest. Other workmen at the scene thought that a nearby milk truck saved the life of Mvers. Myers had seen the milk truck and was just starting to leave the trench to purchase some milk frojn the truck when the cave-in occurred. Both men were employed by the Fate Construction Co. of Fort Wayne, which is instiling a new sewer network ttyDDUghout Berne.

School Boycott In Second Day

NEW YORK (UPI) — White parents kept tens of thousands of children out of classes for a second day today to protest erosion of the neighborhood school principle. A boycott leader said most Students will return to school Wednesday. The demonstration, scheduled to last onlyto two days, was peaceful except for one isolated incident at a junior high school in Queens Village, which waS picke’ed by 300 parents. Some of the pickets subjected three , pro - integration demonstrators who showed up at the scene to name-calling and epithets. School Board President James B. Donovan denounced the boycott as a conspiracy to wreck public education. Jle asked the city's five district attorneys to determine whether boycott leaders were, subject to criminal prosecution. If not, he said, he- would seek_ legislation to make school boycotts specifically illegal. Disrupts Education “This new weapon of child boycott is not only reprehensi- , tie, it js at minimum a conspiracy to disrupt the public education and, at maximum, a conspiracy to destroy it,” Donovan declared. School officials said 275,638 of , .the 1,007,000 students enrolled in the nation’s largest school system were absent Monday. They said absenteeism on a normal school day is about the enrollment. The boycott hit hardest in ] White residential neighborhoods of Queens and Brooklyn—espe-

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support of the health care legislation. “I say to you now and I say to all Americans everywhere: If you believe in medical care under Social Security, now is the time to stand up and be counted.” This remark drew some of the loudest cheers from the union officials. The legislation is tied up in Senate-House conference and the health-care provision is not considered likely to pass by Capitol Hill observers. Backers of the plan conceded today they did not yet have the strength to push it through the House. Johnson told the machinists, who have endorsed him for a full four-year term, that Americans in all walks of life are enjoying “years of great success.” But he warned that partisanship could jeopardize rec-ord-high prosperity. The Chief Executive said the expansion of employment and rise in workers’ take home pay was far greater since 1961— when Democrat took over the White House —than it was in the' preceding three years—with a Republican administration. "This is America moving again,” Johnson said in a speech prepared for the convention of the International Associatio of Machinists. “Our success — the success of all the American people—is running at the flood,” Johnson said. “In all our years, never First Grade Classes Will Ooert Wednesday Sr. M. Vera, C. S. A., principal of the St. Joseph elementary school announced this morning that the new first grade classrooms at the school are ready for occupancy, and first grade classes will start Wednesday morning. Parents are asked to have their children at the school at previously announced time Wednesday.

cially those areas where predominantly white schools were paired with largely Negro schools and the student bodies were partially swapped to even the racial balance. The citywide absenteeism was 30.9 per cent at elemen-. tary and junior high schools, 16.7 at academic high schools and 14.5 at vocational highs. All Cut Classes The entire enrollment of 475 youngsters cut classes at one elementary school in a white district of Brooklyn. This school was not involved in the pupil transfer plan but parents apparen-ly feared that if the program went unchallenged it might be expanded in the future to include their children. At present, only four predominantly white schools are paired with four Negro schools and the total number of students required to legye their neighborhoods is about 13,000 — mostly Negroes and Puerto Ricans. The transfers generally are over less than 15 miles and only 1,000 students are required to go by bus. The transfers represent only a small part of the city schools’ $1.3 million bat’le against de facto segregation. But the opposition is determined and highly organized. More than 2,000 pickets, most of them white mothers, marched outside of about 150 schools Monday in the demonstration organized by two predominantly white parents’ groups, the Parents and Taxpayers Coordinating Council (PAT) and the Joint Council for Better Education.

have any other Americans known the prosperity we know now.” Much of the prepared text of the President’s speech was ordered deleted by the White House press office after it had been distributed to newsmen in mimeographed form aboard the Whi.e House press plane. Deals With Cuba The deleted section of the speech asserted that Cuban Premier Fidel Castro had failed to spread communism in Latin America and posed no threat to. U.S. security. A White House spokesman said this portion of the text was released prematurely by the press office. He said it would not be accurate to report that Johnson scrapped the portions of the prepared address defendng U.S. policy toward Cuba. The deleted portions of the speech contained obvious gibes at Sen. Barry M. Goldwater and pointed criticism of the Eisenhower administration on its domestic economic program. Benefit Horse Show Here September 27 Decatur’s second annual benefit horse show, sponsored by the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, will be held Sunday, September 27, according to an announcement today by general chairman Dan Freeby. Again this year, the horse show profits will be used for purchasing Christmas lights for the city. Freeby and co-committee chairmen Ferris Bower and Carl Braun explained this morning that the list of prizes to be awarded for the show have been greatly expanded, giving expectations for a bigger and better show than last year’s most-successful venture, Various committees have preparations for the second annual show well underway, and applications have been mailed to over 200 horse show enthusiasts throughout the country. ’Die greatly=£xp»eded list J* of prizes is expected to draw a huge list of participants. Anyone interested in entering the affair may pick up an application blank at the Chamber of Commerce office or from Freeby at the Holthouse Drug Co. in downtown Decatur. At Belmont Again Again this year, the horse show will be held at the old race track at Bellmont park, the portion of the park just north of Monroe street extended. The affair will begin at 12 noon on Sunday, Sept. 27, and Sunday, October 4, has been set as the rain date. There will be about 12 classes on the program, with prize money awarded, along with ribbons, for each of the first five places, instead of just the three places as was the case last year. Freeby said this-, morniig that complete details concerning the various classes, prize money, etc., will be -announced later in the week. Other Chairmen Mrs. Kay Boch and Mayor Carl D. Gerber are in charge of the refreshment committee, wtn Morris Begun heading the gate committee and George Litchfield the advertising committee. Freeby said also that Paul Strickler of Adams County Trailer Sales will again donate a trailer for the day to be used for first aid facilities provided on the grounds. Admission will be only 50 cents for adults, and children under 12 will be admitted free of charge. There will also be free camping provided on the show grounds for entrants wishing to remain overnight. Jim Drudge, well-known in this area and an experienced judge, will be the judge for the affair. Kenneth Secaur, of near Decatur, will be the announcer for the show again this year.

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Tuesday, September 15, 1964.

- ■ ■ ... —- | First Fall Meeting | Is Held By Lions A report on the colorful international assembly of Lions this summer in Toronto, Canada, by international councellor Roy L. Price and delegate Francis Ellsworth, occupied the main part of the first meeting of the Decatur Lions club this fall, attended by 39 members, Monday evening at the Youth and Community Center. The Rev. Richard Ludwig, president, presided, and introduced first vice president Carroll Schroeder, who announced the roster of nine drives for the annual light bulb and broom sale Oct. 5. All Lions were asked to help. At least nine station wagons are needed for a successful drive, he explained. , Buckey Zone President He also reviewed the recent meeting of the Decatur zone, which elected Otis Buckey, of Geneva, as its president. The Decatur club was asked to designate a surgeon who would be willing to remove eyes from deceased donors, and a driver willing to speed the eye to IndiaiwpoMs, as the local club’s part irfthe Monroe Lions club’s eye bank project. Second vice president Smith Snively gave a brief report on the monthly program chairmen for the entire 10-month Lions club year. Earl Dawaid, tail twister of the club, got his first action of the year by fining outgoing tail twister Lawrence Anspaugh just on general principles. Price, Ellsworth Speak Price and Ellsworth, who were accompanied to Toronto by their wives, reported on the meeting, the colorful costumes of some of the foreign delegates, the parades and banquets. Price also mentioned that he has secured the second vice president of Lions International as a speaker in Decatur later this year. Rev. Ludwig asked every member to redouble his efforts to attend every meeting, and to get new prospective members for the club. A roster of members and a rosLouis J. Houk Dies After Long Illness Louis J. Houk, 82, of 409 Gage avenue, prominent for many years in farm circles in Adams and Allen counties, died at 11:15 * o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient since ■ June 15. He had been in fa ’ing health for eight years. Mr. Houk formerly managed 1 the Farm Bureau Co-op elevator i at Bingen, and was one of the organizers of the Wayne Co-oper-ative Milk Producers Association. < He was bom in Allen county Jan. 22, 1882, a son of Samuel 1 and Cinderella Smith-Houk, and i was married to Ida Magley June 7, 1907. They moved to Decatur in 1959. 1 Mr. Houk was a member of the < Antioch Lutheran church at Hoagland. - Surviving are his wife: one < daughter, Mrs. Herbert (Louan- i r.a) Banning of Decatur; two 1 grandchildren, Herbert Banning, Jr., of Decatur, and Miss Sue ! Ann Banning, at home, and one brother, William R. Houk, of i Hoagland. Four brothers'are de- 1 ceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Friday at* , the Antioch Lutheran church at ; with the Rev. Robert L. Whitenack officiating. Bur’al i will be in the Decatur cemete’-v. The body was removed to the ■ Zwick funeral home, where : friends may call after 7 p. m. Wednesday until 11 a. m. Friday. The body will lie in state at the ] church from 12 noon Friday until I time of the services.

County Democrats Invited To Berne, Decatur Meetings Hundreds of letters went out to Adams county Democrats today inviting them to attend both a dinner at Berne at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Palmer House restaurant, and the opening of county Democratic headquarters on Madison street across from the courthouse at 8 p.m., to honor Democratic governor candidate Roger D. Branigan. Grover C. (Jiggs) Moser, Berne businessman, will be chairman of the Berne meeting, and is organizing a reception in that city for the LaFayette attorney and lifelong Democrat. Branigin is wellknown in the county, and is quite popular with both Democrats and Republicans. He is known as a moderate with a quick wit and ready mind, well able to help solve Indiana's .tax and other problems. Refreshments will also be served at th evening meeting, Dr. Harry H. Hebble, county chairman, stated. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with no important temperature changes tonight and Wednesday, chance of rain west portion by late Wednesday or Wednesday night. Low tonight 46 to 54. High Wednesday upper 60s extreme north to near 80 extreme south. Sunset today 6:54 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:27 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: considerable cloudiness and a little warmer. Some chance of showers. Lows in the 50s. Highs generally in upper 70s. ter of officers and committees, was corrected and distributed to all members present.

Scout Units Need 300 New Members

Adams county’s 22 units of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Explorers, need to sign up at least 300 new members in the frontier round-up by December 15 to equal last year’s 1,570 members in the Limberlost district, Bill Soico, district executive, warned today. Eight of the county’s Boy Scout troops have pledged to get only 34 new members: only three of the eight Cub Scout units have reported goals, totaling 27; and one of the three Explorer units has reported a goal of 10. This leaves more than 200 boys still needed in Adams, Wells and Jay counties. Spice explained. It also means that a number of boys are being denied the pleasures and experiences of scouting. Cub Pack Goals Here in Adams county. Cub pack 3061, sponsored by the Lincoln school PTA, with Judge Myles F. Parrish and Kenneth Erhart as cubmasters, has a goal of five new members, even though it is thq largest pack in the dis; trict with 47 members already. Pack 3064, sponsored by the St. Mary’s Catholic church, with Dick Braun as cubmaster, has a goal of 10 new members to add to its 45 present members. Pack 3067, sponsored by the Berne Lions club and led by George Hewitt, has 39 members and a goal of 12 more. The other Cub Scout units have not yet met, or have not yet turned their goals in to the district. executive, or to the scouting office in Fort Wayne. Troop Goals Eight troops already have reported goals in Adams county, Spice explained. Troops can frequently pick up new members by

County Tax Board Approves Budgets

The seven member Adams county tax adjustniwt board met Monday and approved without change the budget of the county, cities, towns, schools and libraries. The budgets are scheduled to undergo one other round of review when they are submitted to the state board of tax commissioners Oct. 5. Since the adjustment board made no changes the budgets go before the state board only eight cents lower than they were originally proposed. Os this eight cents, one cent was cut from the county general fund by the county council when it met last week. The other seven cents, while still technically in the budget, is listed under county ditch improvement fund and is certain to be removed by the state board because there is no longer any legal provision for maintenance of the fund. By taxing units, the tax rates as they go before the state Board of tax commissioners are as follows. The figures still include the seven-cent ditch levy which will be. rut by the state. V BULLETIN MOSCOW (UPD - Premier Nikita 8. Khrushchev today announced the Soviet Union has developed a “ monstrous new terrible weapon.” He did not describe it. Khrushchev made the announcement while addressing visiting Japanese lawmakers. Weekly Auction Os Livestock Resumed The regular weekly auction at the Berne - Geneva livestock auction, south of Berne, went on as scheduled today, with several law enforcement authorities standing by at the scene. Sheriff Rcyjer Singleton, deputies fiaroM August," special deputies Harold Thieme and Palmer Schwartz, plus two assisting members of the police department, Bill Baumann and Dick Mansfield, have been at the auction site at various times through the day. There were no incidents at all by 1:30 p.m., and none was expected as none of the NFO members had shown up today to picket the auction. Two of the last three Tuesday auctions were cancellled due to NFO members, usually between 25 and 30, standing around the entrances to the auction. Last Tuesday, an independent trucker’s truck tire was punctured in the lone incident to have occurred thus far.

talking with the packs, and getting the boys as they leave cubbing. ... ..._ Bob Baker, scoutmaster of Lutheran-sponsored troop 60, has 22 members and a goal of five new members. Judge Parrish’s troop 63, sponsored by the American Legion, has 15 members and a goal of three. Herald Hitchcock’s troop 65, sponsored by the Decatur EUB church, has 20 members and wants at least four new ones. Jerry Lobsiger’s troop 66, sponsored by the Decatur Baptist church, has 23 members and wants at least six new ones. The Decatur Methodist church’s troop 70 has 15 members, and a .goal of two new ones. Karl Hilty’s Borne troop 57 has 23 members and a goal of five, while the Geneva Lions troop 69 under Marvin Hart, has 38 and a goal of four. Harvey Birch’s troop 72, sponsored by the Monroe Methodist church, has 22 members and wants at least five new ones. Post Goals Explorer post 2062. led bv Mike Thoele and sponsored by the Decatur Elks, has 12 members and needs 10 new ones. The other trooos and posts have not yet reported their goals. Spice stressed. These should be sent in just as soon as they are determined. “Scouting provides useful training and a lot of fun for boys from eight to 18 years of age. Manv j wonderful scouting experiences are remembered through life,'’ < Spice concluded, “and every ; pack, and post should try • very hard to get all members J possible." a •; ' . . a

Decatur - Washington .. 6.471 Decatur • Root 6A31 Monroe - Monroe 7 091 Monroe- Washington .... 7.031 Berne - Monroe 6.971 Berne - Wabash 7.061 Geneva 6.741 North Blue Creek 4.841 South Blue Creek 4.841 North French4.B6l South French 4.861 Hartford 4.901 Jefferson 4.911 Kirkland 4.751 North Monroe 4.841 South Monroe .....1.... 4.841

Threatening Notes Received By NFO

Threatening, defaratory, and obscene letters have been received by a number of local NFO members calling them all sorts of names, but local membership is growing as the holding action nears the end of its fourth week, Gene Arnold, president of the Adams county NFO, said this morning. The letters, obviously written by an ignorant and uneducated person, called certain local indiviuals “Reds," called them un-Christian, etc. Still Withholding Hogs The NFO is continuing its holding action here, and at least two local members have been “on duty” at both the Decatur and Geneva stockyards since the holding action started. The NFO visitors explain why they are withholding hogs from market, and ask other farmers to cooperate with them, Arnold explained. They are trying to show farmers that scarcity has nothing to do with market price — that the price is actually set bv the large chain outlets, and that a contract is the only way that the farmer can’make a profit after he works hard reusing this nation’s food. Banker Explains —Arnold pointed out that Vince Rossiter, Sr., president of the Bank of Hartington, Neb., explained it this way: “The NFO does not advocate or condone violence and seriously regrets violence from whatever source, but it is evident that the plight of the farmer has been dealt with so lightly by epnstituted government and by responsible business people, that a Wisconsin truck driver’ felt privileged to drive his stock truck into a group of farmers, killing two men and injuring three others. It's time someone wakes up! “Peaceful farmer members of the National Farm Organization and self respecting people everywhere are shocked at the wanton disregard of human life that was demonstrated in Bonduel, Wisconsin on September 9, 1964. Thia was a black day for those of us who believe in the Golden Rule. "Farmers everywhere 4 re, deeply indebted to the memory ' of the two Bonduel, Wisconsin farmers who were killed and the three others who were injured, while they were engaged in peace-

" ’*y— — NEW YORK— Two seventh grade classrooms at P. S. 109 in Hollis, Queens, offer contrasting pictures as the fall term begins amidst the parents' coycott. Top photo shows Miss Barbara Cronacher . with only half of her class of 24 students present. Bottom photo ; shows another seventh grade with two teachers presiding over a ; classroom filled with regular P. S. 109 pupils and some bussed-in : children. — (UPI Telephoto)

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Preble - 4.641 Root ... 4.841 St. Mary’s 4.871 Union ..... 4.701 Wabash 5.021 North Washington 4.541 South Washington 4.791 These figures will be reviewed by two members of the state board of tax commissioners during an all-day session Oct. 5 at the Adams county courthouse. A member of the Indiana state taxpayers association,., a private organization, will also sit in at the meeting.

ful demonstration to dramatize the plight of the family farm. Os the 986,000 families in the state of Wisconsin, 129,000 live on the farms and of these 129,000, fifty thousand are categorized as poverty families, who earn less than money income annually. How are these families to help themselves except by peaceful demonstration in organizations when no one else seems to care about them? A New Force ' “It is. time that all concerned recognize that the National Farmers Organization is a new force in agriculture and begin to try to understand it and it's goal. - “There is nothing unique or new about endeavoring to, attain a price for farm products that is relative to the cost of other goods and services. The difference is, that the National Farmers Organization is now for the first time in a half century, offering agriculture a method of marketing that will accomplish this long sought objective. Evidently NFO people don’t Intend to slacken their efforts until thia goal is accomplished. "Farm income never stops once it .is started until it filters into every nook and cranny of bur domestic economy. The time has (Continued on Page Eight) Rev. Studebaker Os Ossian Killed Today The Rev. Homer Studebaker, 65, of Ossian, pastor of the United Chuch of Christ at Andrews, was fatally injured this morning in a traffic accident three miles south of Bluffton on state highway 1.. The minister was thrown out of his car into a ditch when the vehicle sideswiped another car and collided almost head-on with a truck. Authorities said Rev. Studebaker was trying to pass a car driven by Mrs. Fred Thomas, 52. of Bluffton route 2. His car sideswiped the Thomas auto and swerved into the path of a truck driven by Donald E. Stoddard, , 41. of Marion. * Rev. 'Studebaker was well known throughout this area, having served a number of churches in Adams, Wells and Huntington counties.