Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 220.

House Committee Votes Near Billion Dollars In • * j o' Catchall Money Measure

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Appropriations Commit-, tee today voted just under $1 billion in a final catchall supplemental money bill. It carries funds to crank up President Johnson’s anti - poverty, food stamp and mass transit projects. The appropriation bill will come up in the House Tuesday. It brings to about $94 billion the total funds appropriated by Congress this year. This is about $3.7 billion less than President Johnson requested. However, much of the apparent saving represents bookkeeping transactions that will not save any money. Many members viewed today’s money bill as the most hopeful sign yet that the 88th Congress is about to grind to a halt. The final supplemental always is held up until leaders are reasonably sure nothing more will be needed. No Appalachia Vote The decision to move now with the bill tent support to earlier hints that Johnson’s $1 billion Appalachian development program will not be brought to a vote in Congress this year. Today’s bill includes sl3 million, as requested, to implement

Marathon Session By Ford; UAW

DETROIT (UPl)—The United Auto Workers union and Ford Motor Co. today opened a marathon bargaining session to Write a new contract by 10 a.m. EST Friday and head off a strike by 130,000 workers. UAW President Walter Reuther and Ford Labor relations Vice President Malcolm Denise led bargainers to the negotiations table after a night of subcommittee meetings. Reuther told newsmen Wednesday he expected bargainers would work through the night right up to the deadline. The union established the strike deadline at Ford Wednesday. Reuther said the “dynamics of the negotiations require a strike deadline." The union and Ford he said, were apart in both economic and noneconomic aspects. Reuther said the company and union had not agreed on alleged wage inequities in the ecnotnic area and were still

Court Setback To Rights Law

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) — A three - judge federal panel dealt the new civil rights law its first setback today by ruling that the public accommodations section of the act is unconstitutional when applied to a restaurant not engaged in interstate commerce. The court said if Congress had the “naked power to do what it has attempted in Title Two (public accommodations section) of this act, there is no facet of human behavior which it may not control.” The Justice Department in Washington said it would im- » mediately appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court and would seek a stay of the ruling pending an appeal. Today’s ruling held that enforcement of the public accomnwpations section, as applied to tW restaurant in question here, would violate “the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. It was the first time a federal court has ruled the accommodations section did not apply to any particular business. The suit brought by “Ollie’s Bar Be Que” was-not a class

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the new civil rights law. Most of the money will go for educational work. Enforcement funds alsd® are provided. A Public Health Service request for $1.9 million to set up a “national clearing house for smoking and health” was turned down for the present. Also passed oyer “without prejudice” was a request for $5 million to get staiteJ on a survey for a new sea level interocean canal. The committee allowed $750 million of the $947 million sought to put the job corps and other features of the President’s antipoverty bill into operation. About 40,000 youngsters are" to be enrolled initially for > work and training on public projects reminiscent of the old Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).' Food Stamp Program For food stamps for the needy, the committee allowed the full S6O million requested. With this money, the Agriculture Department will expand its present experimental program to 60 new areas and about 600,000 more r eedy-people by June 30. Participants will buy at a discount, depending on need, stamps that can be spent at face value at corner grocery stores. Only U. S.-produced foods can be bought.

apart on the non-ecpnomic items of production standards and working conditions. “These areas have not yielded to non-crisis bargaining, and we hope they will yield to crisis pressure,” Reuther said. Ford has offered the union a three-year contract including the same benefits that the union won from Chrysler in the pattern-setting agreement last week. A 54-cent-an-hour price tag for the three-year life of the contract has been put on the Chrysler package. At Chrysler, company and union negotiators continued lo cal negotiations. Douglas Fraser, head of the UAW Chrysler department, said Wednesday night that all but five Chrysler locate have agreed to plantlevel settlements. Fraser added he expected to meet with some local officials tomorrow to discuss strike deadline authorization.

action and therefore the ruling could apply only to the one restaurant. Another special federal court earlier in Atlanta upheld the accommodations section as applied to a motel and a restaurant because the court felt they dealt heavily in interstate commerce. Ollie’s contended it was located far from any interstate road and did not cater to transients and therefore the restaurant should not be subject to the civil rights law. The restaurant, owned by Ollie McClung and his son, Ollie Jf., who are white, is located in a Negro neighborhood, but caters to white patrons, except for takeout orders. The government argued that the restaurant should come under the accommodations section because segregation breeds racial friction which would hamper interstate commerce. The judges were Walter T. Gewin, of the U.S. sth Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. District Judges Seybourn H. Lynne and H. H. Grooms of Birmingham.

To assist cities in solving their mass transit problems the bill provides $75 million of the $225 million sought for grants and $2.5 million of the $5 million requested for loans. It also contains $187,500 of the $375,000 estimated as needed for administration costs of the program. Among other items in the bill was $150,000 to implement a new law tightening rules on securities sales by over-the-coun-ter dealers. 15 Persons Injured In Bus-Truck Crash SCOTTSBURG, Ind.. <VPD—A Greyhound Scenicruiser enroute to Louisville collided with a pickup truck at a highway intersection south of here today and authorities said “about 15” persons were injured. The driver of the pickup truck, Clifford Terrell, about 34, of near Scottsburg, was rushed to Jewish Hospital in Louisville in critical condition. Authorities said nobody aboard the bus was injured seriously. Witnesses told police the truck made a left turn in front of the bus*at- the intersection of U.S. 31 and Indiana 356 about three miles south of here, causing the collision. The bus swerved out of control across the highway, went through the yard of the Lillie Costigan home and came to rest in the woman’s garden. The truck was shoved over an ’embankment on the right side of the highway and was demolished. The bus front end was wrecked and the vehicle’s doors were so bent by the impact that the passengers climbed out through windows, Scott County Sheriff Delbert Julian said. The bus driver was identified as Bernard Tulley. “He did a beautiful job bringing that bus to a halt, some of the passengers told us,” Julian said. All of the bus passengers were taken to Scott County Memorial Hospital here for examination. One passenger, with a back injury, was transferred to a hospital in Seymour, her home, authorities said. Another was also transferred to a Louisville hospital.

Choking Infant Is Rushed To Hospital Martin Rios, 15-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Rios, of 904 N. 12th St., was rushed to the local hospital this morning on an emergency run by the city police. The youngster began choking at his home arid Heeding at the mouth. His mother contacted the police who rushed the child to the hospital. D>e youngster had swallowed an unkhown object, which caused the choking, but the object was extracted by a doctor at the hospital and the youngster was all right. Mrs. Hugo Beitler Is Taken By Death Mrs. Gertrude Hirschy Beitle", 70; wife of Hugo R. Beitler of Berne, died Wednesday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, a few hours after being admitted. She had been ill with a heart condition for some time. She was born in Berne Oct. 21 1893, a daughter of Amos and Emma Schenbeck-Hirschy, and was married to Hugo Beitler April 4, 1915. Surviving are her husband; five, . sons, Richard, Chester, James and Calvin Beitler, all of the Berne community, and Dr. Roger Beitler of Kent State Uni-

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Thursday, September 17, 1964.

Marx Suggests Schools Open Entire Year KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (UPI) —The president of the Indiana School boards Association suggested Wednesday night that public high schools operate a five-year program and a “trisemester" system to keep them in operation the year around. Milton D. Marx, Huntington, told the Northeastern Indiana School Study Council that public education should be divided into separate schools for kindercation in terms the layman can understand, urged discontinuance of study halls as “the greatest waste of all” and proposed raising the mandatory age for school attendance from 16 to 18. Earlier this month, Marx proposed legalizing pari-mutuel race track betting in Indiana as a means of financing public education. He told the audience here he was "thrilled with the response” to that proposal. “We must find ways to offer a more complete education to our children in the public schools to better prepare them for entrance into college or into business and industry,” he said. Marx said a five-year high school would require eight additional credits for graduation. He said a third semester for the summer would be “voluntary with the students.” Regarding study halls, he said schools are “for learning” while “the home is for studying.” » Marx said both gubernatorial nominees “have made education the primary issue in this campaign” but have expressed themselves in “vague, roundthe - fulberry - bush generalities” insttad of specifics on “how to do things and with whose money.” ■•V. * Berne Woman Dies After Long Illness Mrs. Emanuel Neuenschwande” 80, of Berne, died at 10:40 p. m. Wednesday at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill for five months and hospitalized for eight weeks. She was born in Monroe township May 29, 1884, a daughter of Joshua, and Elizabeth HabeggerSprunger. Her husband, Emanuel Neuenschwander, preceded her in death. Mrs. Neuenschwander was a member of the First Menncnite church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Wilbur Berkey of Smithville, 0., and Mrs. David Graber and Mrs. Howard Culp, bo s h of Berne; one son, Howard Neuenschwander of Berne; 17 grandchildren; five great-grandchil-dren; two brothers, Andrew Sprunger of Berne, and David Sprunger of Fort Wayne, and one sister, Mrs. Clifton Gilliom of Berne. A son, Glen, is deceased. Funeral Services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the First Mennonite church, with the Rev. Gordon Neuenschwander officiating. Burial jvil be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home. after 3 p. m Friday until time of the services. versitv; one brother, Co. Irvin A. Hirschy of Florida, and 21 grandchildren. Mrs. Beitler was a member of the Cross United Church of Christ. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Friday at the Cross United Church of Christ, with burial in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager fune ;al home until time of the services.

Lehman Death Cause Is Not Determined County coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., said at noon today that there has been no verdict yet as to what caused the death of David D. Lehman, 64-year-old Berne man, Wednesday morning. An electrician for Hie Service Store of Berne, Mr. Lehman was found dead at 10:56 a.m. Wednesday in the Howthorn - Mellody plant in Berne, the former location o fthe United Milk plant. He had been doing some electrical work in the plant on a ladder 18 to 20 feet high, and was found lying on the floor at the bottom of the ladder by a workman. Mr. Lehman was dead when found, but the cause of death was, and remains today, uncertain. Maybe Fall Whether or not he was electrrocuted, or whether he was fatally injured in a fall, is to be determined by autopsy. Dr. Norman Beaver of Berne said it appeared he had suffered a concussion. The case was turned oveij to coroner Wihteregg for investigation and a definite answer as to the cause of death. Funeral Services Mr. Lehman was the father of Berne mayor Richard L. Lehman, and is also survived by his wife, Olga, and two other sons, Ted Lehman of Berne and James Lehman, at home; two daughters, Mrs. Ma ver (Carmen) Roth of Anchorage, Alaska, and Mrs. Lejjpy (Alice) Neuenschwander, of Garden Grove, Calif., five sisters, all of whom live in Berne, and nine grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 10 a m. Saturday at the First Mennonite church in Berne, with the Rev. Gordon Neuenschwander officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home in Berne- after 7 p.m. today,. Prayer Breakfast Saturday Morning The regular men's prayer breakfast will be held at 6:30 a.m. Saturday at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. All fathers are invited to bring their sons as special guests. Those not having sons may bring another youth. Wess Christian, Adams county Youth for Christ director, will be the guest speaker. Don Sipe will sing a special number, accompanied by Larry Merriman on the piano. Native Os Decatur Dies At Fort Wayne Arthur H. (Dutch) Luttman, 7E3, of 2531 South Hanna street. Fort Wayne, and a native of Decatur, died at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been patient one day. Mr. Luttman was a retired shipping clerk for the Milleraft Paper Co. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of American Legion Post 47. Surviving are his wife, Evelyn; three daughters. Mrs. Lexter Caudill, Mrs. Carnelius Kracium, and Mrs. William Knelanger, all of Fort Wayne; a son, Roland T.uttman of Fort Wayne; 10 grandchildren; three great- grandchildren; and three sisters, Mri. Gertrude Counsellei and Mrs. Lawrence Topp, both of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Russell Dimmick of South Whitley. Fuheral rites will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home, with the Rev. Charles Seevers officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. Friendrmay call at the funeral home aftfer 7 p.m. today. (

' • ■ 1I r a w RiAk • - CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER Lester Pearson gives a short speech at Malstrom Air Force base, Mont., while President Johnson listens. Both leaders went on to Blaine, Wash., for the signing of the Columbia river treaty. — <UPI Telephoto)

A-. Farm Program Value Explained By Pound Lenard C. Pound, chairman of the Indiana ASC state committee, spoke to a group of approximately 150 rural and urban people at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, Wednesday evening. Pound explained the value of farm programs to both farmers and business, stating that the investment in agriculture is equal to two thirds of the value of corporation assets in the United States. At the present time, only 8 per cent of the population of the United Staes are farmers and they actually contribute to the employment of about six million people, who work in factories manufacturing products, etc. In explaining the value of the farm programs, Pound said that ■ in 1961 the cost of CCC storage in Indiana alone was $464 million and the feed grain programs, 1961 through 1964,| were a contributing factor in’reducing this cost of storage. sl:s million has been saved per year and the farmers’ income has been increased one half million dollars per year. Pound also stated there would be a free grain program in 1965, similar to the program in 1964, and urged all farmers to participate, saying “agriculture must have programs to manage production.” Explains Programs Charles R. Troyer, farmer fieldman for this area, explained the 1965 voluntary wheat program to the group, stating that the wheat program was necessary to help control wheat roduction. He stated that the program is entirely voluntary and urged all Auzalah Zimmerman Is Taken By Death Mrs. Auzalah C. Zimmerman, 74, of 836 W. Jefferson street. Fort Wayne, a native of Adams county, died at 1:40 a.m. Wednesday at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton, where she had been a patient three Tdays. She resided in Adams county until moving to Fort Wayne 20 years ago. Her husband, John E. Zimmerman, preceded her in death. Mr. Zimmerman was a member of the South Wayne Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are <a daughter, Mrs. Ford L. Warthman of Fort Wayne; two grandchildren; four great - grandchildren, and two brothers, Lawrence Breiner of Fort Wayne, and Arba Breiner of Tocsin. '#•» Funeral rites will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the ChalfantPerry funeral home in Fort Wayne, with the Rev. Lynn Henry officiating. Graveside services will be held at 2:15 p.m. at the Pleasant Dale cemetery, where friends may view th body before intermnt. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional rain likely, warmer north portion tonight Friday mostly cloudy and mild with showers likely. Low tonight in the 60s. High Friday 75 to 85. Bonnet today 6:51 p.m. Sunrise Friday 6:29 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and mild. Lows in the low 60s. Highs upper 70s to low 80s.

wheat growers, who have wheat allotments, to call at the county ASCS office and sign an intention to participate, advising them that if they changed their mind and did care to participate there would be no penalty Involved. The signing -to participate in the program is actually a protection of income. In closing, Troyer reminded

Federal Grand Jury To Probe Slayings

By United Press International A federal grand jury will consider possible indictments next week in the slaying of three civil rights workers in 4 Mississippi. , Reliable sources said the grand jury would begin its probe Monday in Biloxi. The sources said 120 subpoenas were served on giersons in the AhrftideWta. Mia., area where the three workers disappeared June 21. Bodies of the three—Andrew Goodman, 20, Michael Schwerner, 24, both of New York, and Negro James Chaney, 22, of Meridian , — wede found six weeks later following a massive search by the FBI and military authorities. Each had been shot. Federal authorities refused comment on the grand jury report, but the source disclosed the 'government would seek indictments against as many as nine persons. In New York, a two-day boycott of the nation’s largest school system was scheduled to end today. The boycott was touched off by a controversial school board plan to transport students away from neighbor-

Johnson Cites Nuclear Issue

SEATTLE, Wash. (UPI) — President Johnson presented a string of anti-war pledges that today heightened the question of nuclear arms control as an election campaign issue. The President laid down his views Wednesday night at a civic dinner here in which he • said: —The nation and the world “can rest assured that we have taken every step man can devise to ensure that neither a madman nor a malfunction could trigger nuclear war.” —He “will never let slip the engines of destruction because of a reckless and rash miscalculation about our adversaries.” Raises Nuclear Issue Johnson pointed up the nuclear issue at a* non-partisan dinner sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce and three Seattle area universities. The event climaxed the first day of a two-day tour through four western states and the Canadian province of British Columbia. Heading from Seattle to Portland, Ore., for a breakfast sponsored by public and private power interests, Johnson issued a statement hailing the partnership of both groups in this area. He said an 11-state intertie of Northwest and Southwest power facilities represents "true conservation — the cooptration of all in the development of our resources for the benefit of all.”

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farmers that 'October 2, is the final date to sign up to participate and there will be no signup period in the spring. {The group was favored with a song by John Finley, training officer from the Indiana ASC state office. Richard J. Moser, chairman of the Adams ASC county committee was in charge of the meeting.

hood schools in order to get better racial balance. Other develpments: JACKSON, Miss.> Church leaders from nine denomina.tions announced formation of a committee to assist in rebuilding Negro churches burned in Mississippi this summer. The group said 22 churches had been damaged or destroyed by arsonists during the civil eights campaign in the state. i PHILADELPHIA, Pa.: John Doar, chief assistant of the • Justice Department’s civil rights division, said in a speech Wednesday that the South should be praised for its compliance with the public accommodations section of the civil rights law. PHILADELPHIA, Fa.» A hearing will be held today for Florence Mobley, a 22-year-old typist who was one of three persons charged with instigating racial riots in North Philadelphia two weeks ago. ATLANTA: Dr. Martin Luther King’s office announced the Negro integration leader would discuss the nation’s racial problems with Pope Paul VI during an audience with the pontiff . Friday.

“This is the kind of conserva tion action we intend to continue,” Johnson declared. The President described the intertie as “the most exciting transmission system in our history.” Johnson’s Seattle speech Wednesday night set forth in greater than usual detail the safeguards that have been built into prevention of an accidental nuclear war. The President said; Complex Codes u “The release of nuclear weapons would com by presidential decision alone. Complex codes and electronic devices prevent any unauthorized action. “Every further step along the way— from decision to destruction — is governed by the two- man rule. Two or more men must independently decide the order has been given. They must independently take action"An elaborate system of checks and counter checks, procedural and mechanical, guard against any unauthorized nuclear bursts. “In addition, since 1961 we have placed permissive action links on several of our weapons. These are electromechanical locks which must be opened by secret combination before action is possible ... “The American people, and all the world, can rest assured that we have taken every step man can devise to ensure that neither a madman nor a malfunction could ever trigger nu- ». clear war.”