Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. NO. 227.

Auto Workers Strike As :■■ • -j: . ■ . t k • 4 Union, General Motors Fail To Reach Agreement

DETROIT (UPI) — The United Auto Workers Union and General Motors Corp, today failed to reach agreement on a new three yeqr contract and the union called a strike by more than 260,000 workers at 89 GM plants across the country. The -union left on the jobnearly 90,000 workers at 41 plants that produce either key defense parts or vital components for auto firms in the first “selective strike” in auto-labor history. The GM strike came after the union had already won 54 cent an hour 1 contracts from Ford and Chrysler and was triggered by non-economic issues. Official word of the strike came 30 minutes after the 10 a.m. EST deadline. UAW President Walter Reuther said it was with “a great sense of sadness we have to announce we were unable to reach a settlement with GM” the world’s biggest and richest 1 manufacturing company. The red-haired union leader told a jammed news conference that a strike was called because GM was “unwilling to meet” the standards of decency demanded by workers. The major stumbling blocks were productions standards and union representation — regarded as noneconomic problems, Union and company negotiators said they would “have to get some sleep" before negotiations resumed. No formal resumption time was set, but presumably it would not be before Saturday. As the 10 a.m. EST deadline passed with ho word from the bargaining room, thousands of workers went out at GM plants atfoss the nation. The word c*ihe quickly. California said three plants employing 7,200 were shut dpwn. Texas said 2,900 were out i.

LB J Ready To Go Anywhere

To Aid Peace

IBT. PASO, Tex. (UPD—President Johnson said today he is willing to “go anywhere, talk to anyone, discuss any subject” if it would strengthen freedom and advance world peace. The Chief Executive appeared to be opening the door to a possible summit conference with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev if elected in November to a four-year term. Johnson said the United Stotes is strong enough to sit down at the conference table with any nation in a search for agreement that would lead the way to lasting peace. His position appeared to contrast with Sen. Barry Goldwater's views against seeking new acbommodations with Soviets. The GOP . presidential nominee once suggested using the threat of breaking off diplomatic ties with Russia to gain concessions from the Kremlin. ' The President opened a jetspeed speaking trip to Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas with Ms pledge to travel anywhere in the cause of peace and freedom. It came in a speech prepared for a ceremony with Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos to celebrate the settlement of the 100-year-old Chamizal boundary dispute with Mexico. ‘'Let Chamizal stand as a symbol to all the world that the most troublesome of problems can yield to the tools of peace.”. Johnsen said. “Lasting peace will come from the careful, patient, practical solution of particular problems. *’ he added. “We have the strength and

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at the Arlinbton GM plant. Cleveland reported 1,800 out at two Fisher body plants. St. Louis said 7,000 walked out at 10 a.m. Several thousand walked out in the New York area. Reuther said the company did not respond the way they should have in light of earlier agreements with Ford and Chrysler. The union sought to make these agreements a pattern for the GM contract. GM said it was willing to match the economic benefits of the other contracts but the two sides never did tesolve what Reuther called a “broad question of working conditions.” “GM can resume production any time they want,” Reuther said, “if they want to sit down and provide the respect—and dignity” for the workers. GM Vice President Louis G. Seaton said the strike against his firm was “completely unnecessary and unjustified." He warned that if the strike is prolonged it will “have serious consequences for our employes, and their families, for our communities and for the public and the economy at large.” Seaton that in the last 16 years “our differences -haVe been composed at the bargaining table in five successive negotiations." He said it was “difficult to understand” why the union broke off negotiations and went on strike “because substantial progress towards resolution of our difference has been made at the bargaining table.” The GM vice president noted that the union hqd admitted the firm’s economic offer “was satisfactory and equivalent to those upon which agreements with our competitors were based.” He said GM “made every es-

self-confidence to be generous toward our friends and unafraid towkrd our adversaries. “A nation strong in its might, secure in its belief, steadfast in its goals is not afraid to sit down at the council table with any other nation. “Only the weak and the timid need fear the consequences of communication and discussion. We have never been such a nation. We will never be such a nation. "The presidents of the last 20 years have been willing to go anywhere, talk to anyone, discuss any subject, if their efforts would strengthen freedom and advance the peace of the world. “I will do the same,” Johnson pledged, without mentioning any specific trip he might have had in mind. He said Communist forces have dwindled in Latin America, failed to win control of any new nation in Africa and failed to penetrate the Middle East or subdue India. * “Steadily widening cracks are appearing in the Communist empire, in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union is increasingly absorbed in the dis- ■ appointments of its economy and disputes with former comrades,” Johnson said. The President, accompanied by his wife, had a round of Various engagements in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. His jet landed M El Paso at ■ 9:55 a,m. OST op a flight from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, He left Andrews at I 814 am. EDT.

fort” to settle the non-economic issues. But he accused the union of making demands which would have restricted GM’s management responsibility and therefore “we are not prepared to accede to such unsound demands...” Reuther said that there were “at least a half-dozen of these non-economic issues which still had to be solved including the matter of union committeemen paid by the company to handle worker grievances at GM plants. Reuther said that “nothing would have made us more happy” than to be able to announce an agreement. But he said “things looked hopeless” at about 7 a.m. today. He said the union’s executive board will meet tonight to review the situation. The strike followed frn<jre than 24. hours of continuous negotiations. During much of the night, Seaton, Reuther, and their two aides, UAW Vice President Leonard Woodcock and GM labor relations director Earl Bramblett, were closeted i n a private meeting to try and resolve the impasse. They failed.. Boy Scouts, Cubs Need More Members Only three of 22 units of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Explorer posts in Adams county have as yet failed to report their progress in the frontier round-up, Limberlost executive Bill Spice explained today. Spice said that no report has been • issued- him from the Zioh Lutheran ($b Pack 3060, the Deea% Lions Boy Scout trabp 62, < or.tire SerneAmerican Legion Explorer post 2068. at least 300 new members in the round-up by December 15, to equal last year's total of 1,570 members. Latest reports were from the Zioh Lutheran Boy Scout troop 60 and the Rotary troop 61, Troop 60 has one new member toward its goal of five, while the Rotary troop has five new members, or half of its goal of 10. Low Goals Due to the low goals established by most of the units, each must exceed its goal by about 50 per cent if the overall goal of 1,650 is to be retched. The total number of boys in Adams county scouting before the roundup began numbered 1,300, as compared to the total of 980 of two years ago. 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, Weils and Jay counties. Spice explained. The Cub packs’ goals are about 250 short of the number needed to reach the quota, most of which is due to the lack of Den mothers. Den Mothers Den mothers are desperately needed for the Cub packs. Spice said that being a Den mother requires one to donate her time to only one meeting a week, and that there are many experienced Deh mothers who would be willing to aid new Den mothers in getting started. Cub Pack 3061, sponsored by the Lincoln school PTA, with Judge Myles F. Parrish and Kenneth Erhart as dubmasters, has 1? new members, to put it beyond its goal of five. The 17 new members give the pack a total registration of 64. The new members of the [Mirk arg the following: Timothy S. Batiman, Jerald D. Andrews, Craig Druetzler, Peter C. Minch, Teddy t. Mankey, Russell Braun. Kirby McCreary, Dennis Garwood, Terry A. Jteer, Kim McCormick, Lynn Witte, Wayne E. Coulson, Grant Lee Hurst, Edgar

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Friday, September 25,1964.

Local Man's Father Dies This Morning Wilbur K. Boltz, Sr., 62, of 1626 I McKinnie street, Fort Wayne, father of Dean E. Boltz, an ass>. ciate of the Zwick funeral home’ in this city, died at 6:25 a. m. today at St. Joseph’s hospital of a massive cerebral hemorrhage suffered early Thursday. Mr. Boltz, who retired from the U. S. Army as a lientenant colonel in 1960, served as chief of staff in the African campaign during World War 11, and was personally cited July 1, 1943, by King George VI of England. He was also a retired employe cf the General Electric Co. in Fort Wayne. He was born in St. Marys, O , Jan. 16, 1902, and was married to Nina L. Ruble Dec. 25, 1925. He had lived in Fort Wayne for 40 years. . Mr. Boltz was a member of the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, Summit -City Ixxige No. 170, F. & A. M., the -Scottish Rite bodies, Mizpah Shrine. Quarter Century and Supervisors clubs of the G. E., and the Retired Men’s club of the church. Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Jeanne Dangler of Orlando, Fla.; two sons, Wilbur K. Boltz, Jr., of Fort Wayne, and Dean E. Boltz of Decatur; eight grandchildren; two brothers, Herbert L. Boltz of Fort Wayne, and Harry Boltz of St. Marys, O-, and one sister, Miss Lillian Boltz, also of St. Marys. Funeral services, in charge cf the Zwick funeral home, will be conducted at 11 a. m. Monday at the Chalfant-Perry funeral home in Fort Wayne, with the Rev. Ldwrence W. Fairchild officiating. Burial will be ih Fort Wayne. Friends may call at the Chalfaht-Perry funeral home after 7 p. m. Saturday until time of the services. Volunteers Aid To Prepare Horse Show Preparations for the second Chamber of Commerce - sponsored horse show were made Thursday at Bellmont park by a group of volunteer workers. Using donated equipment -and materials, the group prepared and fenced an arena and installed seating and sanitary facilities for the event, which will raise money for Christmas lighting in Decatur. Special equipment was loaned by Indiana & Michigan Electric company, General Electric, Central Soya, Dierkes Implement Sales, Adams County Trailer Sales and Doyle Rich. Workers for the afternoon were Dan Freeby, Doyle Rich, Tom Weis, Dale Morrissey, Art Heimann. Carl Braun, Morris Begun, Jack Coolman. Nile Williamson, James Franz, Jerry Dager, George Litchfield, Paul Rich, Phil Hess, Mike Thoele, Walt Osterman, Kenny Jennings and Ferris Bower. Monroe Lions Club Hears L. E. Archbold The Monroe Lions club met Tuesday evening at the Adams Central cafeteria. Prayer was given by John Baltzell before the supper was served. L. E. Archbold, from Decatur, showed slides and gave an interesting talk on his recent tour to Mexico. Following this, the business meeting was called to order by the president, James McCullough, and several items of importance were discussed. The business meeting was closed and all were dismissed by the president. . mi • — ■ V" Ben Dyer, Jr., Roger Andrews, Eric light, and David Watson. The Pack will hold its annual field day at Hanna-Nuttman park October 3, beginning at 2 pan.

1 Nine Juveniles Are Found Delinquent Nine juvenile boys under the age of 18 were found delinquent in a day-long juvenile court session Thursday by juvenile Judge Myles F. Parrish, and one of the nine was ordered to spend 15 weekends in the Adams county jail. David Lee Weiland, 17 r was given a year’s sentence nt the county jail by Judge Parrish, with all but 30 days of the sentence suspended. The youth was ordered to spend 15 weekends, from 6 p. m. Friday to 6 p. m. Sunday, in the Adams county jail, beginning today. Weiland was found to be guilty of breaking numerous windows in the Monmouth school building. Total damage at the school came to $195.62. In addition to the weekends in jail, Weiland was ordered to make full and complete restitution for the damage he caused, and was ordered to be finger--printed and photographed, and to be placed on probation for one .year. .... The juvenile judge also advised the youth to bring his books to the county jail and “study” during his weekend sentences. Tower Painters Four Jooys, found guilty of painting the city water tower in the northern portion of Decatur, were placed on probation for six months, and ordered to visit the Indiana boys’ school at Plainfield during that time. The four boys were Thomas Davidson, 17; Jerry Conrad, 16; Tony Conrad, 15; and James Christen, 15. They too were to be fingerprinted and photographed for police records, and ordered to make full and complete restitution of the damages wi>hin 30 days, Christen was exempted from the restitution order is he did not paint any part of the tower. The judge told the youths how serious their crime was, climbing 85 feet into the air., to paint letters on the tower. The city was forced to pay $119.19 to have the writihg removed. He ordered all four to visit the boys’ school for their own “edification and information.” License Suspended Judge Parrish suspended the driving privilege of Stephen McBride, 17, who was brought to juvenile court for speeding while Jittempting to escape from a poice car, and a violation of the curfew. Mcßride, who had been arrested at 12:20 am., was placed on six months probation and ordered to surrender his license to sheriff Roger Singleton for six months. He was also ordered fingerprinted and photographed for records, and told to visit the Indiana boys’ school. Also Suspended Domingo Lopez, 17, was found guilty of letting an unlicensed driver operate his auto, and of violating the 11 p. m. state curfew. He, too, was ordered to surrender his driver’s license to sheriff Singleton for six months. Lopez, arrested at 1:55 a. m was ordered fingerprinted and photographed and told to visit the boys' school at Plainfield, and placed on probation for six months. The youth driving his auto, John Dale Meyers, 15, was also placed on probation for six months, and ordered to be fingerprinted and photographed and to visit the boys’ school. For Break-in Donald Evans, 14, was found guilty of breaking into the Community Gas & Oil service station, Adams and Seventh streets, and placed on probation for six months. > Evans was ordered to make full and complete restitution for ------- f

FULL HOUSE—LocaI Republican candidates display their campaign cards as they line up with James R. Beasley, state Republican candidate for superintendent of public instruction. Left to right, Hugh David Mosser, Lee Neven, Beasley, Wayne Carpenter and William Fritzinger.—(Photo by Mac Lean)

Beasley Speaks To Geneva Republicans James R. Beasley, Republican candidate for state superintendent • of public instruction, Thursday night told a group of 50 Geneva area Republicans that the Amer- . lean people are fighting a war for freedom. Beasley, speaking at a carry-in supper and rally arranged by Mrs. Eleanor Snyder and the Republican women of Geneva, told the group, “We are now fighting one of the worst wars that has ever been fought. We are going to win this war but the only vehicle that is available for us to get on and do it is the Republican party. This is a war that each and every one of us can fight.” Beasley, presently serving as superintendent of schools in Daviess county, has worked in public schools and state correctional schools since 1946. He-has served as superintendent of schools at the Indiana reformatory assistant superintendent in charge of all treatment of the reformatory and as director of classification of treatment of all penal institutions in the state. “Good people always answer the call to fight,” said Beasley. “That’s why I’m so confident when I say that we won’t let ourselves be sold into slavery by smooth - talking, silver - tongued voices.” False Statements Beasley said that American freedom has been slipping away for the last thirty years, sine? the time Franklin D. Roosevelt began his fireside chats. Since that time, he said, our freedoms have been “sold down the river.” “We hear a lot of false statements about Barry Goldwate-,” he told the group. “We hear that he is against social security. These things will be clarified. “I don’t think these Democratic neighbors of yours mean to sell our freedom down the river. They are good people. I think they’re misled. It’s up to us to tell the story.” Speaking of Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard Ristine, Beasley said, “Dick Ristine is the best qualified man who has ever sought the governorship of Indiana. We now have a Democratic governor who has run a deficit budget every year he’s been in office. He refused to give « the legislature a workable program. But Dick Ristine, as lieutenant governor, put his political future on the line for the good of the people of Indiana. Don’t tell me the people of Indiana are going to turn down a statesman for a politician.” Beasley also told his audience that Americanism and the history of the nation are being slighted in today's educational systems. “Too much Americanism has been taken out of the schools.” he said. “Too many boys and girls have been denied the opoortunity of learning the things which made this country what it is. We have a great responsibility to these boys and girls.” INDIANA WEATHER Fair sooth, partly cloudy north tonight. Warmer most sections tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and warmer, showers likely north spreading to south by night. Low tonight mostly in the 50s. High Saturday 75 to 85. Sunset today 6:38 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:26 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly cloudy and Turning cooler with showers southeast. Lows 50s northwest to low 60s southeast. Highs 60s northwest to low 70s southeast. any damages done to the station, and was also ordered to visit the boys’ school.

, ... I .... m, T ■ t — ■II II ■ ■ I I W Firefighters’ Hopes Raised

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI) — Lower temperatures and higher humidity today raised the hopes of firefighters battling a brush fire which destroyed or damaged more than 100 homes. Winds also dropped off although the forecast was for them to increase during the day. Shortly after dawn a gentle haze covered the region from the coast to the fire area east of this seaside resort city and fire officials said this may add to the moisture in the area to help in bringing the fire along a 10-mile front under control. Humidity was expected to rise to 40 per cent during the day. Some Hot Spots The fire was burning into uninhabited foothills. There were two or three “hot spots” reported but officials said no structures were in the immediate path of the flames. Thousands of persons fled their homes in the fashionable Santa Barbara-Montecito area as flames raced across the verdant landscape. The blaze, now in its fourth day, went into a slight lull Thursday night as winds diminished somewhat shortly after dark. But the ultimate fate of 300 homes rested with the winds in particular and on the efforts of 2,000 firemen from all over the state. The man-caused fire blackened more than 40,000 acres of valuable watershed, killed one fireman and injured 40 other persons, including 29 in one flareup on the La Cumbre Mountain.

Legislative Goals Discussed Thursday

The 1965 legislative goals of the Indiana mental health association were discussed Thursday by members of the legislative committees from northeastern Indiana counties at Foellinger Center, Fort Wayne. Adams, Allen, Wells, Whitley, and Noble counties were represented at the meeting, Adams county being represented by two members of itis legislative committee, Dick Heller and Carl Gerber. Weaver Speaks Charles Weaver, assistant director of the state association, explained how far 1949 to 1957 mental health’s share of the state tax dollar rose from 6.2% to 7.2% but that since then it dropped to 5.8% for the 1964-5 biennium. Since state tax money is the only source of funds for the state mental hospitals, it is Imperative that the general fund sources be pledged to eliminating present mental health problems, Weaver explained. Fair salaries, especially for maintenance and non-medical professionals, are urgently needed, along with sufficient personnel to raise the quality of patient care to recognized minimum levels. Other Goab Enough food, clothing, drugs, and maintenance of buildings must be provided for. The research program, now getting 8150,000 a biennium, should be increased to 8500,000 a two-year period. Nine after care offices, including one at Fort Wayne, must be built, professional education of employes must be continued. more support given to community psychiatric clinici.

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Authorities labeled the fire the worst disaster to strike this picturesque area since 1925, when it was shattered by an earthquake. Millions of dollars in damage have been wrought by the fire, which dumped soot and ashes on the two neighboring coastgl cities. The U.S. Forest Service said the loss in property exceeded $3.5 million. With an eye to a possible wind shift and an open fire line at the extreme northern sector where the fire jumped the Santa Ynez River, U.S. Forest Supervisor William H. Hansen said “things don’t look good.” But, he added, the situation was a little brighter on the ocean side of the fire, which all but surrounds this city of 60,000 from the mountains to the sea. “A lot depends on the winds,” Hansen said. “IF they come up again, it could be bad.” The forecast called for stronger off-shore breezes and none of the Santa Ana wind conditions that fanned the flames Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Hansen’s primary concern early today was for a major fire run deep into the Santa Ynez Mountains, where poor access and rugged terrain could forestall control of the blaze for days. The other current hot spots were In Upper Goleta, 3% miles west of here; San Marcos Canyon, about five miles northwest, and Paradise, a mountain community six miles north.

including the Fort Wayne clinic. A family care program should be doubled in scope to $2,000,000 a biennium. The alcoholism program should also be expanded through an increase in the tax on taverns. Money should be available to reimburse counties who use nonpolice officers to transport patients to state hospitals, or the hospitals should be allowed funds to pick up patients. Two new facilities in the north part of the state should be built immediately to take care of mentally ill children. Also, $4 million federal funds for mental health centers will be available to Indiana if it elects a legislature which will appropriate a matching mount. More Money Available The final point of the association’s policy statement supports taxes high enough to maintain expanded and improved mental health services. About $159 million is expected to be available for additional state programs, including mental hospitals, schools, highways, etc., if taxes are not cut, but i*equests have already been made for increases amounting to $250,000,000 for the biennium. Those who attended not only got acquainted, but also drew up a blueprint for operation during the months approaching and during the 1965 legislative session. Youth Fatally Injured SULLIVAN, Ind. (UPI) — David Earl Underwood, 17, R. R. 4, Sullivan, was injured fatally Thursday when fragments of a wooden bowl struck him in the head during a high school trial arts clast.