Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1964 — Page 1

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Tens Os Thousands Flee / * ■ * ~. Louisiana Coast As Fury Os Hurricane Is Nearing

NEW ORLEANS tUPI)—The low - lying Cajun country was abandoned today to the approaching fury of Hurricane i Hilda and its 150-mile-an-hour winds. More than 100,000 oer- ■ sons fled inland in Louisiana and thousands followed suit on j upper Texas Gulf Coast. The Duke - Tulane football game Saturday in New Orleans was cancelled and Louisiana marshaled all state police, civil ! defense and Red Cross facili- « ties for the job of handling 1 refugees in the exodus from seven parishes counties of southern Louisiana. All of St. Mary Parish was < I Berne Man Dies At f Hospital Thursday j Noah Neuenschwander, 76, of i 766 Franklin street, Berne, well known retired farmer, died at 11:35 p. m. Thursday at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient for 1 five weeks with a heart condition. Born in Monroe township Dec. I 5, 1886, he was a son of Christian C. and Mariann StaufferNeuenschwander, and was a lifelong resident of Adams county. He was married to Neßfe Lehman Sept. 15, 1914. Mr. Neuenschwander was a member of the First Mennonite church. Surviving are his wife: three sons, Orval Neuenschwander of Monroe, Lores E. Neuenschwander of Fort Wayne, and Vernon R. Neuenschwander of Berne route lj two daughters, Mrs. Willard (Marie) Lehman of Berne, and M*s. Charles E. (Waneta) Habegggfr of Berne route 1; 16 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two brothers, Edwin Neuen- 1 sqbwander of Rome City, and Otner Neuenschwander of Berne, aad two sisters, Mrs. Wilbur Lehntan and Mrs. Herman Lehman, both of Berne. Funeral rites will be held at 2 p; ,m. Sunday at the First MennonJtd church, with the Rev. Gordon Neuenschwander officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager fuheral home after 7 p. m. today.

Longshoremen Ordered Back

NEW YORK (UPI) — Sixtyfhousand longshoreman from Maine to Texas have been ordered back to work by a federal court, but it appeared today full activity at East and Gulf Coast ports would be delayed until Saturday. Pickets remained at piers in New York and other affected ports and passengers boarding lukury liners had to handle their own baggage for the second consecutive day. Two liners were to leave New York during the day. Union spokesmen in Philadelphia and Baltimore also said their men probably would not be back on the job before tonight or Saturday. The strike was the sixth by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) to be interrupted by the “coolingoff” provisions of the Taft-Harj-lejr labor law. A restraining order suspending the strike for 10 days was signed Thursday night by federal district court Judge Fred-, erick van Pelt Bryan after President Johnson declared the walkout, “if permitted to continue, will imperil the national health and safety.” That was’ the finding of a fact-finding panel Johnson had appointed Wednesday, a few hours before the strike started. Exteasfca Expected A subsequent court order ex- / tending the strike ban to SO

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being evacuated. Evacuation's were also reported in Plaquemines, LaFourche, Iberia, Jefferson and Cameron narichpc Officials of St. Mary’s Parish appealed for a train — “any kind of train”—to help remove people. The Southern Pacific said it would do its best. Whole Town Evacuated Col. Joseph Leßlanc, Civil Defense director, said officials of Lafayette parish with a population of 38,000, were preparing to remove people from the town of Delcambre South. The U.S. Weather Bureau called it “one of the most powerful hurricanes ever seen in the Gulf.” Winds lashed around its core at 150 miles an hour. In size it was almost as big as Louisiana and Mississippi combined. Tides began rising today, more coastal towns emptied, and the Coast Guard raced to help a ship feared sinking -in the Matilda Henderson Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Matilda M. Henderson, 68, of 416 West Washington boulevard, Fort Wayne, and a native of Decatur, died Thursday morning at the Lawton nursing home, where she had been a patient two months. She had been ill for six months. Mrs. Henderson had been employed eight years as housekeeper at St. Paul’s rectory in Fort Wayne. She was a member of St. Paul’s Catholic church and ! ts • Rosary society. Surviving are a brother, WilU«m Kohne of Decatur, and three sisters, Mrs. Anna Schneider of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Florence, Gillig and Miss Clara Kohne, both of Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Mungovan & Sons mortuary, and at 9 a.m. at St. Paul’s Catholic church with the Rev. William J. Ehrman officiating. Burial will be in the Fort Wayne Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. todhy. Rosary services will be held at 8 p.m. today.

days was expected. ILA President Thomas Gleason promised to send the longshoremen—who load and- unload cargo and pdssenger hips—back to work after a meeting this morning. “The men went out together and they will have to go back to work together,” Gleason said Thursday night, dismissing the possibility that the workers could have resumed their jobs immediately after the court order was signed. Bryan scheduled a court hearing for next Thursday to de'ermifte whether to issue an injunction adding 70 more days to the Taft-Hartley cooling off period. An extension was considered likely. Idled 500 Ships While it lasted, the walkout idled about 900 ships and cost# millions of dollars. Gleason said the ports were “100 per cent closed down.” “No* even a raft moved in New York,” he said. ( At issue were automation and 1 management charges of featherbedding. The union rejected a proposal by a government mediation team t to reduce the size of work gangs mi the docks from 20 men to 17. Management represented by the New York Shipping Association (NYSA), insisted that new automated equipment made the cut in force possible.

storm. ■*’ At 10 a.m. EDT Hilda was reported 250 miles. south-south-west of New Orleans and moving north-northwest. However, the hurricane was expected to move northerly in the next few hours. It was moving at seven miles an hour roughly midway between Tampico, Mexico and Pensacola, Fla. Warnings Up Hurricane warnings were displayed along all of the Louisiana coast west of the mouth of the Mississippi River. The U.S. Weather Bureau said winds would reach gale force late today in an area from Galveston, Tex., to Mobile, Ala. Tides were on the rise and were expected to reach 3-6 feet. The bureau said the season’s eighth hurricane had the potential to produce tides up to 12 feet near and just east of the center when it storms ashore. More than 52,000 people were ordered evacuated in St. Mary Parish, which includes Morgan City and Franklin, La. Other evacuations were being carried out. Lisle Hodell Is • Speaker At Rotary Lisle Hodell, of Fort Wayne, Retired General Electric company executive, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youtb and Community Center. Hodell, well known in Decatur, a Rotarian and past president of the Fort Wayne Y. M. C. A., spoke and showed slides on the work done by the Y. M. C. A. around the world. His discourse sovered Rome, with pictures of the Coliseum, the Forum, and the current Y. building, then to Egypt, the Pyramids and the Sphinx, on the Jordan, site of the Dead Sea scrolls discovery, then to Jerusalem, and finally to Greece, the Acrdpolis, and the nine-story Y. building recently dedicated by the king of Greece. Throughout his talk, Hodell emphasized all the new Y. M. C. A. facilities were built with funds from the governments and peoples of the various countries. George Auer was chairman of the program. Earl Fuhrman read a petition to Mayor Carl Gerber and the city of Decatur, requesting air conditioning of the Center. This petition was signed by most of the Rotarians present. Joe Klarke, manager of radio station WADM, stated that the station has copies of the Warren commission report for sale at $1,50, as compared to the $3.25 charged by the government. Van Buskirk Rites Saturday Afternoon A change in time of burial for Voris M. Van Buskirk, son of John M. Van Buskirk of this city, who died Wednesday at Sullivan, 0., was announced today. Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m' Saturday at the Monroeville IOOF cemetery, one hour earlier than reported Thursday. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Elliott funeral home at Lodi, O. INDIANA WEATHER Fair north and central, partly cloudy south and cooler tonight with showers ending southeast this evening. Saturday fair and a little cooler sooth portion. Low tonight 45 to 50 north. 50 to 55 south. High Saturday $7 to 73. Sunset today 0:20 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:43 a.m. Outlook for oMay: Putty cloudy with little temperature change. Lews in the 40s. Highs mUMNs north to tow 70s

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BULLETIN Paris (LTD — A DC6 airliner with 80 persons abroad is missing between Palma, Majorca, and Port Etienne, Mauretania, it was announced tonight. The disclosure was made by the airline, the Unto Transoft Aeromarttimes (UTA). I Johnson Meets With Group Os Lawyers WASHINGTON (UPI) —President Johnson took a day off from campaigning today — but not from politicking. The Chief Execotive was to meet today with a group called the "National Lawyers’ Committee for Johnson-Humphrey." The lawyers’ group includes among its members four former cabinet members, five former presidents of the American Bar Association and eight law school deans. The onetime cabinet menfbers are former Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall, who heads the 58-member organizing committee; former Secre- _ tatv of State Dean Achesoq; former Atty. Gen. Francis Biddle and former Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman. Johnson Thursday received the support of the newly organized women’s section of the National Citizens Committee for Johnson and Humphrey. Among its members are a number of prominent Republican women. He met for nearly an hour with the group and wowed them with a personal briefing about the duties and burdens of the presidency. Bubbling over with enthusivasm, musical comedy star Ethel Merman, said, “everything’s coming up Johnson.” She plans to vote for Johnson by absentee ballot in November because she will be away on tour in Australia. The co - chairman of the group, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, publisher of the Houston Po?t and secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Eisenhower administration, praised Johnson as a “prudent man” and one who would “ease international tensions, work persistently for peace and innovate new approaches to peace.” American Tourist Is Killed In Paris PARIS (UPI)—An American woman on her first day of sightseeing in Paris was killed today when she was struck by a French woman who leaped to her death from the north tower of Notre Dame Cathedral. The American was identified as Veronica McConnell, 24, an x-ray technician from Philadelphia. She was one of a group of tourists who arrived in Paris Thuftday night. The cathedral was their first sightseeing stop. The tourists had just left their bus and were walking around the corner of the cathedral when, according to witnesses, a woman climbed over the balustrade of the North Tower of the cathedral and plunged to the ground. As the woman fell, she landed on Miss McConnell. Both women were - rushed to the Hotel Dieu, a Paris city hospital just across the street, where they died a few minutes later. Jean Strenovic, a street photographer who works among the tourists at the cathedral, said the accident happened just before noon. “I rushed to the spot where the woman fell,” he said. “About 10 American tourists in ■ the party were standing around the two women. The woman had fallen and struck the,, young American just on the corner of the cathedral under die statue of St. Etienne.

Hoover Warns On Danger Os Gestapo WASHINGTON (UPI) — FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover has cautioned the Warren Commission against lettihg a desire to protect the President lead to the creation of a “Gestapo.” In testimony before the Warren Commission, Hoover warned that absolute security was impossible without “almost establishing a police state.” Hoover’s testimony was not released by the Warren Commission but was made available to the Washington Evening Star. UPI ascertained that a Star story concerning Hoover’s statements was accurate. In questioning by commission members, Hoover revealed the existence of a State Department document that termed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald a “thoroughly safe risk.” According to information based on an interview with Oswald at the American Embassy in Moscow, Hoover said the State Department document indicated Oswald was safe since he had changed his earlier views cn communism. According to Hoover, the report indicated that Oswald “was a loyal man now and had seen the light of day, so to speak.” Rep. Earl Wilson's Brother Is Killed A brother of Rep. Earl Wilson, R-Ind., was killed in a head-on collision on the crest of a fog-covered hill Thursday night, and this and other deaths raised Indiana’s 1964 traffic fatality toll almost to the 1,000 mark. The death of Hubert Wilson, 45, Otisco, despite a seat belt he was wearing as he rode in a car with three other men, and the others moved the year’s toll upward to at least 997 compared with 956 a year ago. It was- the second time in recent weeks that the reelection campaign of an Indiana member of Congress was interrupted by the traffic death of a near relative. Sen. Vance Hartke, DInd., lost his sister in an Ohio accident Sept. 1. Larry Girton, 22, Brazil, was killed early today when his car crashed into the rear of a big truck on U.S. 40 at the east edge of Brazil. Franklin L. Jones, Brazil, driver of the truck, was not hurt. Police said Girton apparently was speeding when he approached the truck which had stopped to make a turn. At Goshen, Mrs. Lois Moore, 60, Mishawaka, died in a hospital Thursday from injuries suffered Sunday in a collision of two cars on U.S. 6 near Syracuse. The accident also killed Mrs. Katherine Lester, 55, Mishawaka. Wilson was a passenger in a car driven by Earl Koehler, 46, New Albany, which collided with another vehicle driven by Ennis Austin, 21, Deputy. * Police said the Austin car apparently drifted over the centerline as it approached the crest of a hill three miles west of Kent in Jefferson County, Near Madison. Wilson had a seat belt on and was riding next to the driver. Koehler and his other passengers, Robert Peters, 40, Deputy, and Lloyd Menefee, 63, Lexington, were injured. William E. Welsh, 48, Indianapolis, was killed and Albert Sims, 60, Terre Haute, was critically injured Thursday night when their cars met in the middle of U.S. 40 near Seelyville- , Police said the impact occurred as the Welsh car entered the passing lane of a four-lane highway. He was pinned in the wreckage of the car and dead on arrival at a Terre Haute hospital. *

Strike At GM ; Now Affecting Steel Industry DETROIT (UPI) — The effects of the nationwide strike against General Motors Corp. spread to the steel industry today with announcement that GM’s Fisher Body Division has notified all steel firms to stop shipments. A GM spokesman said the stop order was for the next two weeks and it indicated the Fisher Body plants had adequate inventory to be used if production resumes. The United Auto Workers Union struck GM last Friday. There are 28 Fisher Body plants located around the nation in areas where GM assembles Chevrolets, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Cadillacs and Buicks. The auto ihdustry uses about 20 per cent of the nation’s steel output and GM has over half of the auto market. It was the first spread of the effects of the strike to another basic industry. The effects were expected to spread to the rubber and glass and other basic industries shortly. Meanwhile, the UAW and GM concentrated bargaining efforts on wrapping up nearly 17,000 local demands in an effort to end the eight-day-old strike by more than 260,000 workers. GM Vice President Louis G, Seaton and UAW President Walter P. Reuther said Thursday that some progress was seen in plant level negotiations and two more locals came to terms. Reuther said several others were rather close to settling. GM and the union have agreed that the vast majority of the local demands will have to be cleaned up at the corporation'sj 130 bargaining units before labor peace can be restored. The union called the strike at the world’s largest auto maker last Friday over non-economic issues. The union struck only 89 of GM’s plants and left 41 open because they supply key parts to other firms. About 260,-. 000 of jJM’s nearly 345,000 workers went on strike. But the pinch of the strike began to be felt in other GM plants. The company said by the end of today’s shifts, nearly 15,000 workers at non-struck plants would be laid off.

Boy Scout Program 54 Years Old dgjjil jmVL Mtjf WaH-IgMIP 4 «pi yfrCJr * *p WNll . i *MV if *Q \< \- \ *■ jfl Jfr / J *V** # rj| B^^^KyMt2 '&jr s * 'n i ii iiiwM^^ii 1 '■lfti >L]nf ,; , - vj. BUSY YOUTH— Boy Scout activities during the past year included the Scout-O-Rama held this spring at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. — (Photo by Mac Lean) ■' • '• , ‘ - — »

The Boy Scouts of America, one of the 10 agencies in the Decatur Community Fund, have submitted a budget request of $4,510, slls less than their request of last year. The national Boy Scouting program is a 54 year old organization which has enjoyed success and public acclaim for its invalu-,, ; able role in training American youth in character, citizenship and physical fitness. 4 About 400 Decatur youths are involved in scouting—2oo in Boy Scouts and 200 in Cub Scouts. There are six Cub packs, --five Boy Scout troops and one Explorer post. These groups are sponsored by various local churches and orgpnizations. The six Cub packs are fdstered by the Zion Lutheran church. Lincoln PTA, Southeast PTA, Northwest PTA and St. Mary’s Catholic church. They are led by Martin Bultemeier, Judg? Myles Parrish, Leo Feasfel, Cecil

Security And Appalachia Aid Bills Are Out,

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Con- i gressional leaders today wrote ! off contested Social Security I and Appalachia aid bills today i and prepared to adjourn the i 88th Congress Saturday night, i Speaker John W. McCormack . 1 announced that the Senate - approved $1 billion Appalachia bill would not be called up in ] the House before adjournment. < He said Congress already had compiled a historic record. < A few minutes earlier. HouseSenate conferees *• tjeadlocked again on the quesjjbh of Social Security boosts —tq which the Senate had gdfded President Johnson's medicare plan for the aged. They gave up the struggle for agreement. McCormack declined to say flatly that shelving of the two “key issues would clear the way for adjournment Saturday. However, other key House members, including Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, said there was no reason why remaining business—most of it comparatively routine—could not bt disposed of by the close of business Saturday. Loss of the medicare and Appalachia bills marked President Johnson’s first major setback this year on major legislation. He had scored impressive victories on bill dealing with civil rights, taxes, welfare and other national problems. Congress stepped up its adi journment timetable after elec-tion-conscious House members Thursday turned loose the angriest blast within memory at leadership failure to bring the long session to an end. It appeared for a time that House-Sehate conferees on the $3.5 billion foreign aid bill had . damaged the adjournment machine. Thursday night they night they scuttled a “sense of Congress’’ suggestion that federal courts go slow in reapportioning state legislatures. Tnis non-binding statement of congressional policy was the sole fruit of a reapportionment

Shaffer and Jerome Reed. The seven Boy Scout troops arc sponsored by the Zion Lutheran church, the Rotary club, the Lions club, the American Legion, Sto Mary’s Catholic church, the Methodist church, the EUB church and the First Baptist church. The leaders of these troops are Bob Baker, Ronnie Secaur, Charles Stonestreet, Dr. Richard Parrish. Medford Smith, Herald Hitchcock, Jerold Lobsiger and Harold Van Horn. Boy Scout Explorer post 2062 is sponsored by the Decatur Elk* club and headed by Mike Thoele. The Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts meet every week and the Explorers meet every other week. Besides the regular meetings, there are special activities such as camping trpis and field days. This spring all the Boy Scout troops attended the spring camporee »t the state park in Bluffton The Explorers have an annual “deep freeze” winter camp-

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controversy that tied up the Senate for six weeks. It sprang from widespread congressional resentment at Supreme Court rulings that both Houses of state legislatures must be apportioned on the. basis of population. ’*• The House at one point passed a legally binding bill to deprive federal courts of all jurisdiction in reapportionment cases. The Senate torned this down and finally settled on the “sense of Congress” appnoach. Key members hoped the latest action would not reopen the reapportionment dispute and jeopardize the new drive to adjourn. The betting was it would not. Many members felt that the "sense of Congress" approach, had been expressed by separate votes in House and Senate. The rejected resolution also carried a clause that some anti-appor-tionment forces viewed as worse than nothing at all. This was to the effect that if state legislatures failed to apportion themselves, the courts had a right to step in and do the job for them. Many members don’t concede that right. Goodrich Plant Is Idled By Walkout FORT WAYNE, Ind. JUPIJ’ — Production was at a virtual standstill today at the B. F. Goodrich Co. tire plant near New Haven ■as a result of a strike described as "Wildcat” by company officials. Thirty-eight members of the United Rubber Workers Union 'Local 715 walked off the job Thursday evening and set up picket lines. More than 100 others on the same shift stayed on the job temporarily. By morning, the strike had spread to include several hundred employes. Thermion indicated the walkout was unauthorized and spokesmen said they did not know what caused it.

ing trip. The various groups also attend field days where they participate in contests of scouting skills. ' | The local Boy Scout council is described by scouting leaders is a community resource which contributes to the welfare of the whole community, just as does formal education. The entire community benefits as a result of the training imparted to its young men by the scouting movement. Scouts and their parents pay the major costs of the scouting program, including cost of uniform, insignia and equipment, camp fees, unit dues, transportation costs, handbooks and the national membership fee. The boy is taught and encouraged to earn his own expenses as Mr as is possible, but additional funds, which can be provided by contributions to the Decatur Community Fund, are needed to continue the extanfive work of the scouting program and to maintain the necessary facilities.-