Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 236, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 236.

Extensive Cuts Made By Representatives Os State Tax Board

Final Rafes Not Complete At Noon Today Four members of the state board of tax commissioners convened Monday in all-day session for the final round of review and cuts on the 1965 budgets and tax proposals for Adams county, and cities, towns, townships, schools and libraries. The board made extensive cuts in the proposed budgets. Final totals and rates were still not available at 1:30 p.m. today, as the Adams County auditor’s office was still completing the work of Mrs. Cora Runyon Dies At Portland Mrs. Cora Elizabeth Runyon, 72, of Geneva, widow of David Runyon, died Monday afternoon £>t the Jay county hospital at Portland. Surviving are a son Dale Runyon of Geneva; a daughter, Mrs. Erma Frank of LaForte; four grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, five brothers and four sisters. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva, with burial in Alberson cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 p. m. today. Arthur Kleinhenz Suffers Broken Hip Arthur Kleinhenz, 69, veteran employe of the Holthouse Drug Co., and lifelong resident of Decatur, suffered a broken hip in a fall at his home, 317 street, early Monday evening. He apparently suffered the injuity shortly after arriving hom jury shortly after ariving home Adams county memorial hospital for treatment.

Russia Rejects Allied Protests

MOSCOW (UPD—The Soviet Union admitted today its agents searched three U.S. military attaches and a British colleague in a Siberian hotel raid. But it said it acted because the 'men were spying while traveling on the trans-Siberian railroad. A Soviet Foreign Ministry note rejected U.S. and British protests against the forcible nighttime search of the attaches in their hotel rooms in Khabarovsk last month. A strong Soviet counterprotest charged the Allied diplomats engaged in espionage. It warned they may be declared persona non grata and be expelled from the Soviet Union. The four U.S. and British attaches are now in Tokyo. The men involved were U.S. Army attache George A. Aubrey of Annapolis, Md., assistant Army attache Lt. Col. Karl R, Llewer of Osmond, Neb., Maj. James F. Smith of Meers, Okla., and British assistant naval attache Lt. Cmdr. Lavi lie. They said Soviet officials burst into their hotel rooms at Khabarovsk the night of Sept. 28-29 and searched their possessions, seizing cameras, film and a transistor radio. All four men are now in Tokyo. Hie Soviet news agency Tass today said the Moscow Foreign Ministry replied to the Allied protests ifa notes to the U. S. and British embassies here

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recording and totaling the budgets as revised by the board. _ Figures were available today ong the county, township and poor S relief tax rates. Totals for school | city, town and library budgets 5 will be completed later today. Five-Cent Cut Under the county tax rate, the county general fund rate was reduced five cents, from 58 cents to 53 cents. The board said this cut was made because county revenue from July to December of this year will be above the amount estimated and because it cut from $20,000 to SIO,OOO the amount allowed for additional appropriations during that period. The county welfare rate was reduced from 12 cents to 11.9 cents. The county hospital equipment rate, originally proposed at one cent, was eliminated because of a sizeable blance on hand. The county ditch improvement fund rate of seven cents, which was erroneously included in the original budget proposal, was eliminated, as state law directs. Townships Cut Several township rates received sizeable cuts. Township rates trimmed were: French, cut from 18 cents to 17 cents; Jefferson, le, from 16 cents to 14 cents; from 13 cents to nine cents; PrebSt. Mary’s, from 19 cents to 18 cents; Union, from 16 cents to 13'cents; Wabash, from 14 cents to 12 cents; Berne-Monroe, from 13 cents to nine cents; Berne-Wa-bash, from 13 cents to 12 cents; Geneva, from 14 cents to 12 cents; Monroe-Monroe, from 13 cents to nine cents. The poor relief for several townships were also cut. They included: French, from five cents to four cents; Hartford, from three cents to one cent; Jefferson, from two cents to nothing;' Kirkland, from two cents to one cent; Preble, from three cents to two cents; Monroe, from three cents to one cent; Root, from three cents to nothing; St. Mary’s, from eight cents to six cents; Union, from two cents to one cent; Washington, from seven cents to six cents; Monroe-Monroe, from three cents to one cent; DecaturRoot, from three cents to nothing; Decatur-Washington, from seven cents to six cents.

charging that the Allied attaches “engaged in spying.’’ The incident was the seventh known time that Soviet authorities have interfered with or mi-treated Western military ataches since 1963. On Sept. 28, the four attaches were in the Soviet far east city of Khabarovsk, having just completed a trip across the country on the Trans-Siberian Railway. They were heading from Moscow to Tokyo and Hong Kong. * They said Soviet officials burst into their hotel rooms, prevented them from t getting out of bed, searched their possessions, and seized cameras, film, and a transistor radio. The search was conducted “forcibly,” the State Department said in Washington Monday, “despite their strong protests.” (The three American officers, who were allowed to continue their trip to Tokyo after the incident, were not available for comment in Tokyo. A U.S. Embassy spokesman confirmed only that they were there and would return to Moscow.) Western attaches travel extensively in the Soviet Union as a regular part of their duties. As in the case of their Soviet counterparts stationed in Washington. these trips must be approved by the host governmen. Soviet authorities keep a close check on the attaches* movements.

| INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cold tonight with s : frost. Wednesday fair, warm- | er in afternoon. Low tonight | 27 to 34. High Wednesday 58 s to 66. Sunset today 6:20 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:47 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and a little warmer. Lows around 40. Highs mid 60s. Senator Hartke In County Wednesday R. Vance Hartke, Indiana’s senior senator, will visit in Adams county Wednesday evening, according to an announcement today by Dr. Harry H. Hebble, Democratic county chairman. Hartke will be the featured guest for coffee at the home.of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Van Poppe). Van Poppel, an announcer for radio station WADM of Decatur, resides near Beatle (Saddle) Lake. This portion of the visit will begin around 8 o’clock Wednesday night. From there, Hartke will travel to the CTS plant near Berne and visit with employes of the second shift, and then go to the Geneva residence of Walter Hofstetter, near the Gene Stratton Porter memorial. The public is urged and invited to attend and visit with Hartke at any of these three places, Dr. Hebble said. Details Procedure Os Farmer Choice Wayne Roahrig, president of the local Jaycees, explained this morning the procedure of selection of an outstanding Adams county young farmer, since there are two chapters in this countv. The local Jaycees will make their selection from county farmers who reside north of state road 124, while the Berne Jaycees will select their outstanding farmer from those residing south of 124. Roahrig has appointed Norb Selking and Lewis Van Poppel of the local organization to head the project of selecting a local outstanding farmer, and they will assist Roahrig in arrangements for the state-wide contest to be held in this city. Anyone between the ages of 21 and 35 who derives a minimum of two-thirds of his income from farming is eligible to enter the contest on the local level, and he need not be a Jaycee. Entries may be made by contacting Roahrig or one of the other Jaycee officers. Decatur Host Decatur will host next February the state-wide recognition day program for the outstanding young farmer (OYF) of the Indiana Junior Chamber of Commerce, and the 'state-wide program to select a contestant for the United States Jaycee outstanding young farmer program. The affair will be co-sponsored by the Central Soya Co. A statewide publicity effort to secure OYF candidates from each of the 192 Jaycee clubs in the state is now underway through die nubile relations facilities of Central Soya In Fort Wayne, under the direction of Everett Bierman. Jaycee chapters in Indiana, including the Decatur and Bernechapters, will select an outstanding young farmer from their respective areas, and the nominees will compete for the state award at the recognition in Decatur on February 20 of next year. The state winner will then compete in the national finals at Fort Collins, Colo., April 11-13, 1965.

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First Lady On Four-DayTour Through South ABOARD THE LADY BIRD SPECIAL (UPI) — Lady Bird Johnson expressed her love for the South today and said she was certain it would rise “to the hard duty” of assuring equal and constitutional rights to all Americans. The First Lady referred to the civil rights issue at a trainside rally in Alexandria, Va., just outside Washington, as she set out on a four-day whistlestop traiq, tour of eight Southern states. Mrs. Johnson, standing on the rear platform of the train with President Johnson by her side, said: “The law to assure equal rights passed by Congress last July with three-fourths of the Republicans joining two-thirds of the Democrats has been received by the South for the most part in away that is a great credit to local leadership — the mayors and ministers, white merchants and Negro leaders, to all the Mr. arid (Continued on Page Eight) High School Day At Purdue U. Oct. 17 High school day at Purdue University, an annual event designed to supplement the school guidance programs for students who plan to continue their education at colleges or universities, is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 17. All such students, with their parents and high school teachers or counselor, are invited ta attend. The all-day program is designed to provide college-aspiring .high school students and their parents with general as well as specific information about requirements and opportunities in particular career areas, regardless of the institution they may plan to attend. High school day also will provide first-hand information on the opportunities available to them at Purdue, will give answers to individual student questions from staff members of Purdue’s various schools and curricula and will emphasize the importance of adequate preparation in high school for college study. The program is primarily for juniors and seniors. Register By Friday Deane T. Dorwin, guidance director for the North Adams schools, urges parents and students interested to sign registration forms in hte guidance office, room 206 of the Decatur high school building, by Friday of this week. Registration Oct. 17 will begin at 8:45 a. m. in the ground floor lobby of the Edward C. Elliott hall of music. The session opens 'at 9:45 a. m. in the same bunding, where Prof. Harland W. White, director of admissions, will discuss “preparation for college.” Following the 9:45 meeting, students will go to their “first choice” career area meetings. At noon, the students, parents and teachers will be guests at lunch at the university’s residence halls Tours of the resident facilities will be conducted immediately following the meal. From 2 to 3 p. m., they will have a choice of activities. They may return to their ‘'first choice” career area meetings for additional, detailed information; they may attend a "second choice” career area meeting, or partici?, pate in conducted tours of facilities of each of Purdue’s schools—such as classrooms, laboratories, the computer sciences center and several other interesting Purdue instructional and research areas which are pertinent to the high school day program.

Royal Couple Opens Canada Visit Today CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island (UPI) — Queen Elizabeth, who appears ready to brush aside with charm threats from Quebec superatistextremists, today had another danger to her Canadian tour removed —by the weather man. The Queen, who makes her first public appearance in this island capital today, got the good word from the Maritime Weather Office that Hurricane Hilda will not strike here in any force. A special telegram was sent to the royal yacht Britannia late Monday night informing the Queen the hurricane-turned-tropical-storm, once expected to bring heavy rain and winds of 60 miles an hour to the island, has blown out to sea. The storm, the weatherman says, will be 120 miles out at sea and Charlottetown will now receive only light showers this evening and light winds. The day will begin for the Queen with her first public speech —a brief reply to remarks by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and Premier Walter Shaw—on a dias outside the $6 million buildings donated to the province by the rest of Canada to mark the 100th anniversary of the first meeting that led to confederation. The Queen arrived Monday and almost immediately established an unexpected air of relaxed informality that melted the edge of the most massive security arrangements in Canadian history. Optimists' Travel Series Announced Tbe Decatur Optimist club her announced the schedule for ’its second annual travel, and adven'ture series of narrations and films of the world’s interesting sights and scenes. This year’s program include six events, with presentations ranging from Africa to Utah. Season tickets for the travel and adventure series are priced at $5 for adults and $3 for students and are available at Holthouse Drug stores, Weis men’s store.Habeg-ger-Schafer’s or from any Optimist member. — The first presentation, entitled “Sunny Italy,” will be narrated by world traveler Gordon Palmquist Saturday, Oct. 24. It includes quaint fishing villages near Naples, the lure of Capri, dances by the blue-green Mediterranean, an audience with Pope John XXIII and a tour of the romantic city of Venice. Saturday, Nov. 21, “Holiday in Quebec” will be narrated by Howard Pollard. The presentation will include such sights and experiences as outdoor ovens, oxcarts, wayside shrines, picturesque houses, sparkling lakes and streams, a ship ride through the St Lawrence Seaway and a tour of the rugged cliffs, ocean beaches and fishing villages of the Gaspe peninsula. Africa in January Larry Linnard is the narrator for the January 9 travelogue entitled “African Animals in Action.” The program is a filmed safari to the remote interior areas erf the East African countries of Uganda, Tanganyika and Kenya to see elephants, hippos, rhinos, lions, leopards, hyena, wildebeestes, zebras, giraffes, impala, gazelles and antelopes. , Saturday, February 27, Russ Potter will narrate “Belgium oi the Masters,” a presentation of the talents and artistry of Europe’s most densely populated country. Included in the program are visits with tapestry weavers, lace makers, flax workers, textile workers, diamond cutters and hard working farmers. Potter, a radio and television announcer, did the actual film work on the program he : will present. Saturday, March 20, Sasha Sie- [ mel, famed aj. the central figure i in the books of Julian Duguid, will narrate his own story, "White Hunter of Brazil.” Samuel is a professional hunter, hunting jaguars or tigers as they are called in South America. He is the only white man who has mastered the natives’ difficult and dangerous art of dispatching the destructive tigers with a man-made spear. The last travelogue in the series will be “Fun in Utah,” presented April 24 by James Forsce. Included in the presentation are , the Great Salt Lake, the Bonnel vine salt flats, the Wasatch mountains and the stone pini nacles, towers, spires and temi pies which contribute to the scenic beauty of'Utah.

Y ■ 11 ■■■' Wading Pool Plans Approved

"Approval has been received — the next step is taking bids,”£ Decatur Jaycee president C.l Wayne Roahrig said this morn-X ing ,in announcing that approval ' has been granted for construction of the Jaycee wading pool for the city. Approval of the plans and specifications for the wading pool have been received from the office of George G. Passmacht. chief of the water supply section. of the division of sanitary engineering of the state of Indiana. As Roahrig explained, the next step for the Jaycees is securing a contractor for the job. Contractors interested in bidding on the tfork may pick up a copy of the plans and specifications from Roahrig at the Indiana & Michigan office on Monroe street. Take Bids After looking over the plans for the wading pool, contractors may submit a bid to Roahrig, who is handling the Jaycee project. Plans and specifications for the pool were first taken to the state office in Indianapolis by Roahrig Wednesday, August 26. The Jaycees were later informed of some changes that needed to be made, which was done. The plans were then returned a few weeks ago. The Jaycees are hoping to contract for the work in the immediate future, so as to have the wading pool constructed before extreme cold weather sets in, which would allow the new pool to be open next summer at the same time the regular city pool begins operations. Near Old Pool The new pool, strictly for the use of young children, will be constructed near the northwest corner of the existing pool, and plans call for a fence to be constructed around It. The wading pool will be 30 feet long, and 15 feet wide, according to the plans. The depth of the water will vary from four inches at one end to one and onehalf feet at the other end. A six foot cement slab will be constructed around the pool with the exception of the south end. Plans for construction of the pool, which will be constructed and readied solely by the Decatur Jaycees, to be turned over to the city when completed began a year and a half ago. The profits from ‘‘The Music Man,” presented by the Jaycees in March- of 1963, plus funds raised by the Jaycees through the color television and several other projects, are making possible construction of the new pool, Roahrig explained. In making the initial announceSeek To Clean Up Plant-Level Pacts DETROIT (UPI) — The United Auto Workers and General Motors, sought today to clean up plant-level contracts at 130 bargaining units and end a 12-day strike by more than a quarter million workers. GM and the UAW Monday agreed to a new three-year national contract that followed the pattern set last month in agreements the union won from Chrysler and Ford. The contracts included earlier retirement at age 60 with pensions up to S4OO a month, longer vacations, pay increases and many other items. President Johnson said the settlement was ‘‘generous,” but added he does not expect it to set a pattern for other industries with lower profits. UAW President Walter P. Reuther and GM Vice President Louis G. Seaton both hoped that the agreement on the national level would speed up local negoations around the country. Reuther said the clause in the national agreement calling for a so-called wage inequity fund immediately would eliminate about 2,400 local demands. Prior to the national agreement, GM and the union had just under 16,000 local demands to clear away before labor peace could be restored at the world's biggest manufacturer. Leonard Woodcock, UAW vice president and head of the union’s GM department, said he was hopeful the local contracts could be written within a week. Earl R. Bramblett, GM labor relations director, said ‘‘it could be done within a week. . . we agree that the psychology of the local bargaining is improved when the background of the national settlement has been written in Detroit.”

a ment of the wading pool, Roah- cooperation the club received* s rig said, “if the Jaycees open the from the citizens of this commun- ! wading pool next summer, it will ity when we staged our fine show Xbe due to the fine support and in March of 1963.” REDDY FEATHER SAYS: "TODAY'S DECATUR AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE COMMUNITY FUND y BOY SCOUTS TOTA^’ S girl scouts $5,359.25 Z/l CRIPPLED CHILDREN soc. The Goal Is Li UTTLE & PONY LEAGUES $29,934 KKfl u - s 0 YOUR H SALVATION ARMY Community Fund MENTAL HEALTH • Still Needs e . COMMUNITY CENTER $24,474.75 American red cross Give The United Way

Johnson Starts On Campaign Tour

WASHINGTON (UPl)—President Johnson said today he felt certain the voters would choose next month “to continue their quest for peace, with reason and restraint." Johnson spoke briefly before a chilled, breakfastime crowd at a rally in nearby Alexandria, Va., as his wife started a Southern campaign tour of her own. Johnson, ready to embark on his longest trip of the campaign, said: "Never before within the memory of any person here have the American people been asked to make a basic and radical departure from the beliefs and values which are the I source of our economic health • and our hopes for peace.” He i did not mention the name of his • GOP opponent, Sen. Barry M. • Goldwater, however. Johnson said he planned, dur- ■ ing a 10-state tour running into • next week to talk “about the proud record” of the Democratic administration of the last four years. “And I’m not going to tear down any person or any group in doing that,” he said.. Johnson took his wife to Washington’s Union Station and rode with her in her campaign train, the “Lady Bird Special,” across the Potomac River to

Continue Arrests For Race Violence

By United Press International ~ A crackdown against racial violence in Mississippi continued Monday with announcement that a former Army demolition expert, a millionaire’s son and five other persons had been arrested. The arrests bring to eleven the number of persons taken into custody in the McComb, Miss., area by FBI agents and local offibers since last Thursday. All eleven are charged in connection with Negro church .burnings or with bombing Negro homes. A wave of such incidents has occurred in Mississippi, particularly in southwest Mississippi, since civil rights workers stepped up a desegregation drive at the beginning of the summer. 0 Among those arrested Monday were Sterling (Butrfjer) Gillis, 35, son of Narman Gollis Sr., a wealthy -oil. investor and landowner, and Emergy Allen Lee, 35, a former Army demolitions expert who is now a paint contractor. The FBI accused Lee of supplying the weapons and bombs and said they found 15 dynamite and black powder bombs,

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Alexandria. After seeing his wife off, Johnson returned to the White House for a busy day on foreign and domestic matters as well as a political visit with “scientists for Johnson” and lunch with "businessmen for Johnson? 1 He flies to Raleigh tonight to .rejoin Mrs. Johnson after her first day of whistle stop appearances on his behalf. Johnson is scheduled to speak in the Reynolds Coliseum on the Raleigh campus of the University of North Carolina. Afterward, the First Lady and the President intend to follow separate paths in politicking across the country this week. Johnson plans to return to Washington late this evening. He leaves Wednesday morning on a six-day tour through the Midwest, the South and Far West. Mrs. Johnson’s train is bround for New Orleans Friday after stops in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. The President Wednesday added Peoria and Springfield, 111., and Nashville. Tenn., to a campaign journey which will take him into states where Democratic victories are stilt doubtful.

hand grenades and other weapons cached on property owned by Lee. Also arrested were Murphy J. Duncan, 44, a supply store clerk; Hilton Dunaway, 36; John Paul Westbrook, 20; Charles Avery Womack, 26; and Gerald Lawfence, 21. All were from McComb. They, like the four men arrested earlier, were charged with unlawful use of explosions. A grand jury was empaneled Monday in Magnolia, Miss., to hear charges against all the men. Other developments: Alexandria, Va.: U.S. District Judge Oren R. Lewis Monday ordered a ban against religious practices of the Black Muslims in a federal reformatory lifted. He said contentions that the religious practices of the black supremists caused hostility among other prisoners were insufficient. Washington: The U.S. Supreme Court Monday heard pleas from Atlanta motel operator Moreton Rolleston that it strike down a lower court ruling requiring him to accept Negroes at his heart of Atlanta motel.