Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII NO. 223

Soviet Russia Reports Three Vessels Sunk By U. S. Warships Friday

XB7O Makes First Flight

EDWARDS AFB, Calif. (UPI) — The revolutionary XB7O “winged missile” made its historic maiden flight today to become the world’s first forerunner of future supersonic airliners to take to the sky. Flames gushed from the undercarriage as the wheels of the XB7O touched the landing strip but were fanned out by the time the big plane came to a stop on the runway. The triple-sonic six-jet ship, one of the most controversial planes ever built and aviation’s heaviest aircraft, swept over the Mojave on V brief but crucial one hour and five minute test hop. Officials of the Air Force and North American Aviation, builder of the XB7O, hailed the successful maiden flight as the first step in the development of future supersonic airliners that will dash across the nation in only 90 minutes. 10 Persons Killed On Slate Highways By United Press International Indiana’s traffic fatality toll climbed into double figures again over the weekend but the 10 deaths were well below the record 25 the previous weekend. The weekend deaths brought the state’s 1964 toll to at least 939 compared with 913 a year ago. Tavie Stevens, 26, Owensboro, Ky., was injured fatally Sunday night in a two-car collision on U.S. 231 north of the Owensboro bridge in Spencer County. She died later in an Owensboro hospital. Police said she wss a passenger in a car which made a left turn in the path of another. Five other persons were •injured. John Carl Glidden, 38, aift Donald Richmond, 36, Shelbyville, were killed Sunday when Glidden’s car went out of control and struck a tree on U.S. 421 west of Greensburg. Kenneth Scott, 18, Indianapolis, was killed early Sunday wheh the car in which he was riding hit a utility pole near Indianapolis. Sheryl Hensley, 16, Delphi, died at Lafayette Sunday of injuries suffered Friday night in

Over Thousand Flee From Fire

CALISTOGA, Calif. (UPD—A fire whipped by 70 mile an hour winds roared through lush vineyards and orchards into the edge of this northern California community today, forcing evacuation of about half of the city’s 2500 residents. , The 7000-acre blaze was the worst of .six forest and brush fires reported in northern California. It came down Napa County’s St. Helena Mountain and across the fertile Palisades area, blackening some of California’s most productive grapegrowing acres. The flames destroyed 40 homes in the northeast section of town before the wind shifted direction and died down enough so that a line of about 1000 men could keep it from further damaging the town. The blaze was reported still out of control east

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The Air Force said the event could spell “a turning point in aviation history” for the trouble - plagued experimental ship which has cost taxpayers $1.5 billion to put into the air. The sleek white “winged missile,” designed to fly 2,000 miles an hour and to a altitude of 80,000 feet, was programmed to go through a series of basic maneuvers to test its radically advanced design in flight. Chief North Amercan Aviation test pilot Al White, 45, and his co-pilot, Air Force Col. Joe Cotton, 42, said they hoped to streak the huge experimental delta-winged ship Slightly past the speed of sound,, between 650700 miles an hour, if the XB7O flew as planned. They also intended to climb to about half of its planned maximum altitude. The controversial plane started as a reconnaissance and strike bomber called the RS7O. But it lost that designation in a series of reverses resulting from a running battle between the Air Force and the Defense Department. Afterward it become an experimental. aircraft to pioneer triple-sonc passenger planes capable of flashing from Los Angeles to New York in only an hour and a half. a two-car collision on U.S. 421 near Delphi. Wanda Lawrence, 22, St. Joseph, Mich., was killed Saturday night in a two-car collision at the intersection of U.S. 20 and Indiana 39 near LaPorte. Dennis Weis, 17, R.R. 7, Evansville, was injured fatally Saturday night when his motorcycle hit a car at the intersection of two Vanderburgh County roads west of Evansville. He died at an Evansville hospital a short time later. Robert Nicely, 31, R.R. 1; Needham, was killed Saturday in a two-car collision on Indiana 44 near Shelbyville. Marvin Martinson, 54, Valparaiso, was killed Saturday when his car went out of control on Indiana 53 at Hebron. and crashed into a railroad station loading ramp. Murray Barrett, 46, Lincoln Park, Mich., was killed Saturday when he stepped into the path of a tractor-trailer on Indiana 19 near Wakarusa.

of town. “If the wind hadn’t changed, the fire would have wiped this town out,” police office J. W. Wing commented after the blaze was finally stopped in the corner of the town. Other Napa County firefighters battled a new fire in the Mt. George area which reportedly had destroyed 2000 acres and five structures and was still out of control. Forestry officials warned that with dropping humidity and the north wind blowing, conditions were “ideal” throughout northern California for forest fires. Marin County suspended all burning permits for the day. Calistoga Mayor Bud Hanley set a damage estimate of $5 million to the city, but stressed this was only a guess. He said it was by far the worst fire in the city’s history.

MOSCOW (UPD—The official Soviet Tass news agency said today it was “reported” that U.S. warships fired on five unidentified ships in last Friday’s Gulf of Tonkin incident and “three of them were sunk.” Tass carried the report in- a statement warning that American interference in Viet Nam “may lead to very dangerous consequences, the entire responsibility for which will rest with the United States.” The official Soviet agency did not give any source for its report. U.S. authorities, in describing the incident, have never said and ships were hit or sunk in the incident off the Vietnamese coast Friday night. “Another military incident took place in the Gulf of Tonkin on Sept. 18,” Tass said. Two United States destroyers, which were in international waters, opened fire on ships they had not identified. “A statement issued by De- > sense Secretary (Robert) McNamara on Sept. 19 admits that the unidentified ships had taken no hostile actions what ever and the United State? destroyers opened fire only conjecturing that the above mentioned ships allegedly had hostile intentions. “It was reported that five unidentified ships were allegedly fired at and that three of them were sunk” the Tass statement added. “The world public remembers only too well,” Tass said, “that similar events in the Tonkin Gulf were used by the U.S. armed forces as a pretext for piratic actions against the shore facilities and inhabited localities (of North Viet Nam) in August this year. “Therefore, the report about the incident in the Tonkin Gulf has caused anxiety and apprehensions lest this is a pretext for new aggressive actions in that area.” U.S. Defense Secretary McNamara told a Washington news conference Saturday that two U.S. destroyers fired on four threatening but unidentified vessels Friday in the latest Tonkin Gulf incident. McNamara said the night time incident 32 miles off Communist North Viet Nam ended when the approaching vessels disappeared from the U.S. destroyers’ radar screens. The marauders never got close enough to attack the American warships, the U.S. defense secretary added. Cautious Optimism On Averting Strike WASHINGTON (UPI) — A management source expressed a measure of optimism today that a threatened nationwide railway strike can be averted before a scheduled walkout Tuesday. Represen’atives of the r ail- - and the six unions involved in a thorny work rules. dispute met together throughout the morning. About noon wheh the management representatives emerged from the closed negotiations to allow the union spokesmen to caucus, one railroad souce commented: “There is nothing definitive at this point but I don’t expect it to go to a strike.” Unless an agreement is reached, the unions representing 150,000 shop craftsmen who handle repair work have indicated they would walk off the job at dawn Tuesday. The strike would cripple 147 of the nation’s railroads except the Pennsylvania, the Long Island, the Southern and the Florida East Coast. Federal Mediator Francis O’Neill met separately with both sides Sunday in the hopes of ending the dispute, but no progress was reported.

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Monday, September 21,1964

First Aid Class For Men Opens Sept. 29 The Adams coqnty chapter es the American Red Cross will begin a first aid class for men Tuesday night, September 29, according to an announcement today by Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the local chapter. The class will be held on Tuesday and Thursday nights for two weeks, and on Tuesday night of the following week; or two hours a night for five nights, for a 10hour first aid class. Classes will start at 7 o’clock each night. The class will be held in basement of the Reppert building, which persons may reach by using the Madison street entrance. Instructor for the course will be Darrel Brown. A special invitation has been extended oy the Red Cross chapter to members cf the sheriff’s department, city police, the citizen’s band radio club and any other men who might be interested. A course for the ladies will be set up at a later date. On the same night, the parentsteachers league of Union township and the Emmanuel Lutheran church wfll begin a first aid class at the Emmanuel Lutheran school. The class begins a; 7 o’clock. Those who are taking the course are asked to be at the school no later than 7 o’clock. Walter Stoppenhagen will be the class instructor. Four Trapped Men Await Rescue Crews NEVADA TEST SITE, Nev. (UPI) — Four men, trapped more than 36 hours in an underground chamber used for nuclear detonations, were patiently awaiting rescue crews today which have been working round the clock to reach them. The workmen, employes of an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) support contractor, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Co. Inc., were trapped Saturday night when an auxiliary elevator cable snapped. One man whs killed and three others injured when the heavy cable shiplashed upward. The men were working in what was described by an AEC spokesman as a “large room bigger than a house” to one side of the elevator shaft when the cable snapped. The room, located 1,800 feet below the surface, is one of numerous chambers on the Nevada test site used for underground nuclear tests.

W T.t rIM ■ ► ref K YOUNG LUCI BAINES JOHNSON sings along softly as folk singers Peter (right), Paul and Mary perform for a youthful crowd of 3,000 at an LBJ campaign barbecue at Indianapolis Sunday. Rhythmic handclapping and fiery speeches gave the event a tinge of the old religious revivals.—(UPl Telephoto)

Luci Johnson Brings Dad's Drive To State INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Luci Baines Johnson brought her father’s presidential campaign to Indiana Sunday and she aroused almost 3,000 barbecue guests with a plea to “help me ring the bell of freedom.” Pegging her speech to the largely youthful crowd at a , $5-a-paper-plate picnic on the songs of folk singers Peter, Paul and Mary, who shared the spotlight with her, she urged the audience to .‘/sing your songs freely.” The red - clad, 17-year-old brunette suited her actions to her words as she sang along with the folk singers, who interspersed their songs of peace and freedom with pleas for suppoit for president Johnson. One of the singers, Peter Yarrow, stole the speechmaking thunder from the professional politicians with the strongest attack of the day on Sen. Barry ”Sr. Goldwater, the? GOP presidential nominee. “We are worried about the course of man here today,” Yarrow said. “Goldwater’s course is the course of selfishness. If he saw a blind man walking across the street, he would tell him, ‘Don’t bug me.’ But Lyndon Johnson’s course ,is the course of humanity.” Luci left most of the speechmaking to Governor -Welsh, Sens. Vance Hartke and Birch Bayh and gubernatorial nominee Roger Branigin, while she concentrated on a table-hop-ping, handshaking tour of a tree-shaded lot which was the scene of the barbecue sponsored by the Indiana Young Citizens for Johnson. Luci arrived by plane Sunday morning from Minneapolis and was greeted at the airport by Welsh and his family, the state’s other Democratic leaders and about 300 wellwishers. She was quickly whisked to the executive mansion for a brief rest before joining Mrs. Virginia Welsh and the governor’s 22-year-old twin daughters, Janet and Kay, for mass at Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral. After church they returned to the mansion for a few more minutes of quiet prior to a noon reception for guests and party dignitaries. “It’s a shame they didn’t have more time to talk like girls do,” Mrs Welsh said, “but you should have heard them in the back seat — clothes and school and they even talked

Elevator Dimming Courthouse Lights Hie Adams county commissioners met this morning in regular session and contacted the Fort Wayne architectural firm of Martindale and Dahlgren to learn why operation of the new courthouse elevator causes lights in the courthouse to dim. The firm, which did the design work for the installation of the elevator, said that it would contact Indiana & Michigan Electric company to determine what was causing the problem. The commissioners also studied a map which has been submitted to them by Northern Indiana Pt>b•lic Service company. The map had been submitted as part or a county road labeled on the map as “High street.” It was not clear from the map whether the "High street” in question is in Decatur or Geneva. After contacting NIPSCO the commissioners learned that the portion of road on the map was High extended, near Decatur. Permission for the work was then granted. The. commissioners also asked county attorney Dave Macklin to draw up a resolution which would change county right-of-way requirements for blacktop roads. The new resolution will require the right-of-way for such roads be 50 feet instead of the present 40 feet. County highway superintendent Lawrence Noll told the commissioners that the Indiana municipal league is backing a drive for legislation which would change the distribution formula for gasoline tax funds. The proposed change would give a greater portion of the gasoline tax revenue to city street departments, at the expense of county highway departments. Noll said that if the proposed legislation were passed the cost to the Adams county highway department would be about $63,000. The commissioners also approved the admission of Frank Torres, 60, of Washington township, to the county home. Three Teen-Agers Die As Car Is Wrecked STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (UPD—Three teen-agers who were to begin freshman classes today at exclusive Yampa Valley College here were killed Sunday when their sports car went out of control on a curve. A fourth student from Indiana suffered a concussion, severe cuts and a fractured jaw. Colorado State Patrol officials identified the dead as Thomas H. Sheppard, 18, Hanover, Pa., the driver; Carl Owen, 19, Beaver Falls, N.Y., and Abigail T. Driscoll, 17, White Bear Lake, Minn. I Reported in satisfactory condition at St. Luke’s Hospital in Denver was Madeline Hutton, 18, Michigan City, Ind. Officials were attempting to find the injured girl’s parents, who were driving back to Michigan City from this Northwestern Colorado community. about the difference of our Catholic church service and Luci’s Anglican service.” But the chance for talk came to an end when the barbecue began and Luci got down to <the serious business of drumming up votes for her father.

Political Activity

To Grow In State

Hoosier Candidates Today By United Press International Ristine Attending candidates' meeting at GOP state headquarters this morning, speaks at Connersville Chamber of Commerce meeting tonight. , Branigin: Campaigning at Batesville this morning, at Lawrenceburg this afternoon and tonight. Bontrager; Campaigning at Frankfort tonight. Hartke: Cancelled day’s campaign schedule to return to Washington. By United Press International Indiana’s political activity slowed, somewhat today but it was to be only a brief respite sandwiched between a heavy weekend of politicking and visits later this week by both vice presidential nominees. Part of today’s slowdown stemmed from the decision by Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind., to cancel campaign engagements planned for today and Tuesday because of the press of Senate business. Hartke flew from Indianapolis to Washington Sunday night after a telephone conference with Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont. He said Mansfield told him he was needed to “consider several urgent matters which must be disposed of prior to adjournment.” Hartke said his schedule after Tuesday would depend upon developments in Washington. Hartke had spent Saturday in a se'ries of campaign appearances around the state and then joined other top Hoosier Democrats Sunday to provide the supporting cast for Luci Baines Johnson as the President's 17-year-old daughter presided over a Young Citizens for Johnson barbecue at Indianapolis. Hartke, Governor Welsh, gubernatorial nominee Roger Branigin, Indianapolis, Mayor John Barton and Sen. Birch Bayh all managed to get in a few words to the crowd estimated at almost 3,000 but Luci and folk singers Peter, Paul and Mary stole the show, Luci begged the mostly youthful crowd to “help me ring the bell for freedom” while the singers interspersed pleas for support for President Johnson and attacks on GOP nominee INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with no important temperature changes tonight and Tuesday. Some scattered showers or thundershowers mainly north and extreme west portions. Low tonight in the 60s. High Tuesday in the 80s. Summer ends, autumn arrives officially at 7:17 p. m. Tuesday. Sunset today 6:44 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:32 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy with scattered showers likely. Not much temperature change. Lows In the 60s. Highs in the 80s.

Steelworkers Seek Increase In Wages

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPD —Hie United Steelworkers of America opened its 12th annual convention today with a promise from union leaders to go after substantial wage increases next year. The promise was contained .in a report of union officers to convention delegates. It took note of the absence of wage hikes in recent contracts-ya result of the union’s cooperation in observing the anti - inflationary guidelines laid down by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. The report was signed by union President Dhvid J. McDonald, Vice President Howard R. Hague, and Secretary-Treasurer I. W. Abel. Jt' said burgeoning prosperity in the basic steel industry since 1962 made “substantial progress” possible in negotiating wage hikes and other solutions to rising living costs and automation. Call* It Essential It said an expansionary wage policy is "essential” for trade unions if the economy is to reach full employment and utilization of industrial capacity. But it did ' not spell out any specific wage demands to be expected when current steel agreements become reopenable for negotiation early in 1965. "Without price, profit, divi-

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Barry Goldwater among their songs. Hoosier Republicans had their day Saturday when the top candidates tor state offices spoke at sessions of the fall meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association in Indianapolis. State Sen. D. Russell Bontrager of Elkhart, Hartke’s opponent, and Lt. Gov. Richard O. Ristine, the gubernatorial nominee, made strong attacks on their opponents. Bontrager concentrated on Hartke's voting record and friendship with Bobby Baker while Ristine attacked Branigin os Welsh’s “handpicked candidate” to succeed him. Both Ristine and Bontrager pledged their support of Goldwater and GOP vice presidential nominee William Miller and Ristine denounced the “sniping and rejection of party loyalty" on the part of some Republicans. Miller will make his second trip of the campaign to Indiana Tuesday for a speech at Fort Wayne on the first stop of a swing through the Midwest. Democratic vice presidential nominee Hubert H. Humphrey will be in the state Wednesday for speeches at Evansville, Terre Haute and Fort Wayne. It will be Humphrey's first campaign visit to Indiana. Mrs. Hockemeyer Dies Early Sunday Mrs. Caroline Hockemeyer, 53, of Monroeville route 2, died suddenly at 6:30 a. m. Sunday at her home, four miles northeast of Hoagland. She had been in failing health for the past four and cne-half years, but death was unexpected. Born in Allen county Aug. 22, 1911, she was a daughter of William H. and Julia SeddelmeyerHorman, and was married to Edgar H. Hockemeyer Oct. 10, 1937. Mrs. Hockemeyer was a member of St. John’s Lutheran ctiiirch at Flatrock, and the Ladies Aid of the church. Surviving are her husband, two sons, Kenneth Hockemeyer of Fort Wayne route 10, and Alfred Hockemeyer of Hoagland route 1; two daughters, Marilyn'and Joan, both at home; two grandchildren, and three brothers, Herman, Henry and William Horman, all of Fort Wayne route 10. Fuperal services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday at St. John's Lutheran church at Flatrock, with the Rev. Donald E. Frank officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral hojne after 7 p. m. today. The body will lie in state at the church from 12:30 p. m. Wednesday until time of the services. The family would prefer memorials to the Flatrock building fund.

dend other income limitations—and" we have no such limitations—any government policy of wage restraint makes no economic sense at all,'* said the report. It was the union’s strongest criticism to date of the voluntary anti - inflation measures initiated by the late President Kennedy and supported by President Johnson. Johnson To Speak Johnson is scheduled to speak to the convention of the 1,130,-000-member union Tuesday and is expected to reiterate the government’s concern over the possibility of a hew wage-price spiral. He will return to the capital immediatey after his speech. The officers’ report endorsed Johnson’s candidacy for the presidency and the convention is expected to give the President its formal endorsement before the week is out. The report praised Johnson’s economic policies but warned that 7a positive wage policy is an essential ingredient of a full employment policy.” The convention also will be addressed by Democratic vice presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey via a special telephone hookup. Other guest speakers will include New Jersey Gov. Richard J. Hughes and President George Meany of the AFL-CIO.