Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 14 October 1964 — Page 1

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Reported Threat To Kill President Johnson Leads To Arsenal Os Weapons

Series Back <• In St. Louis |

Yankees Win > ST. LOUIS — The New York Yankees defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-3, in the sixth Kame of the World Series today, knotting the teams at 3-3, with the final fame to be played here Thursday. ST. LOUIS (UPI) — -Ihe New York Yankees, struggling to avoid elimination in the World Series, sent Jim Bouton out to face the St. Louis Cardinals toRepublican Caravan In County Tuesday Republican state and local candidates toured Adams county Tuesday, traveling in an all-day caravan which grouped in Geneva, then journeyed through Linn Grove, Berne, Salem, Moqroe, Pleasant Mills. Decatur, Monmouth, Preble arid Magley. In the caravan were state auditor candidate Allen J. Lindley, attorney general candidate Edwin K. Steers, appellate judge candidate John W. Pfoff, secretary of state candidate Gerald L. Powell,. and congressional candidate E. Ross Adair. Local candidates in the entourage were first district commissioner candidate William Fritzxnger, third district commissioner candidate Hugh David Mosser, surveyor candidate Wayne Carpenter, auditor candidate Lee Netjen, and Adams-Wells representative candidate Luther Yager. County coroner candidate Dr. John Doan was represented by his wife. At each stop, members of the group met and talked with local residents. The candidates had lunch at the Four Seasons and spent much of the afternoon meeting people on the streets of downtown Decatur.

Johnson Urges National Unity

ENROUTE WITH JOHNSON (UPI) —President Johnson called for national unity today as he began *a two-day tour of three northeastern states in an attempt to extend his coattails to local candidates. “Above all else I believe the American people know that we need not—and we cannot—live as a nation torn apart by factions,’’ Johnson said in a speech at the Bergen Mall shopping center in Paramus, N.J. The speech was the first of a* series he will give in a tour of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York today and Thursday. All the polls indicate Johnson already is a heavy favorite to pick up the 89 electoral votes of the three-state area. But some local candidates, particularly former Atty. Gen. Robert F,. Kennedy, can use his help. Kennedy personally conceded that a private poll shows he is trailing Sen Kenneth B. Keating, R-N.Y., iiTthe race to represent New York in the U.S. Senate. In his opening speech of the tour Johnson concentrated on courting the heavy Republican majority in Bergen County, a suburb of New York City. “Americans do not want their land divided/* Johnson said. "They do not want region set again region, religion turned against religion, race incited

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day in the sixth game. The fidgety, 25-year-old right* hander from Ridgewood, N. J., was opposed by southpaw Curt Simmons before another capacity crowd of 30,800 at Busch Stadium. It Aras a “do or die” assignment for Bouton. The • Cardinals gained a 3-2 edge in the best-of-seven series on Tim McCarver's three-run homer in the 10th inning of the fifth game at New York Monday and hoped to wrap up their first world championship in 18 years today. The weather was perfect. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the temperature was 70 degrees as the 1 p.m. CDT starting time approached. Hie lineups: New York St Louis Linz ss Flood cf Richardson 2b Brock If Maris cf White lb Mantle rs K. Boyer 3b Howard c Groat ss Tresh If McCafver c Pepitone lb Shannon rs C. Boyer 3b Maxville 2b Bouton p Simmons p UMPIRES: Plate—Al Smith (AL;, lb—Frank Secory (NL), 2b—Bill McKinley (AL), 3b— Ken Burkhart (NL), LF—Hank Soar (AL), RF—Vennie Smith (NL). ST. LOUIS (UPI) — The following is the play-by-play of the sixth game of the 1964 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees: Yankees First Linz flied out to Brock. Richardson singled through the left side of the Cardinal infield and stole second on the second pitch to Maris. Maris struck but. Mantle struck out. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. Cardinals First Flood singled sharply to left field. Brock singled up the mid<Continued on Page Six)

against race.” “I have found that the vast majority of Americans want to help their President, not harrass him. I have had greater strength than my own on which* to call—from business and from labor, from the West and from the East, from conservatives. ‘ and from liberals, from Republicans and from Democrats.” He noted that he had returned earlier this week from a sixday, 9,998 mile trip from coast to coast and said he had ob- ' tained some feeling of what the ' people are thinking. From New Jersey, Johnson planned to fly to the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Airport for a > Democratic rally at noon, EDT, before going on to New York City, where he will spend the ■ night The President had no afternoon appointments scheduled in New York, but he was to attend the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner tonight at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Thursday John on flies to upstate New York for speeches at i Rochester and Buffalo returni ing to the New York City area i to dedicate a federal site in Brooklyn and attend a liberal party rally. His election chances in New York state are considered excellent. Some political observI ers predict he may carry the I state, and its 43 electoral votes,

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. (UPI) — A reported threat to assassinate President Johnson led sheriff’s deputies Tuesday night and today to an arsenal including weapons as big as a field mortar and a collection of Nazi relics. The deputies arrested Julius Schmidt, 29, a plumber and gun trader, and another unidentified man who worked on guns. Deputies and police still sought the man who made the reported threat—a former mental patient believed to be in the Corpus Christi area. “I do not believe there was a plot to kill the President, but I do think that one individual made such a statement (to kill the President) to an informant I trust 100 per cent,” Sheriff Johnnie Mitchell said today. President Johnson is due in Corpus Christi Sunday to make a campaign speech. Two Not Involved Mitchell said Schmidt and the other man arrested were not involved in a plot. He .said his informant told him that the man who threatened the President intended to buy a gun from Schmidt but had not made the attempt. Schmidt was arrested to cut off the man’s “source of supply.” Mitchell said the man wanted a “fully automatic weapon” and he will look for three or four other persons, who have automatic weapons. Mitchell said he was taking no chances. • “I want to cut off his possible source of supply,” Mitchell said. “There is a possibility the threat on the President’s life could have been serious knowing the type of man he (the suspect) is.” Schmidt and the other prisoner were scheduled for arraignment today before U.S. Commissioner James Martin on charges of violating the federal arms act. The assistant repaired guns that would not shoot. Schmidt served two years in the state penitentiary on charges of murdering a man. Find Many Weapons In* his Swastika - bedecked home, deputies found a machine gun, a field mortar, a rocket launcher, boxes of hand grenades, a loaded pistol, five high-powered rifles—one with a telescopic sight — and 20,000 rounds of ammunition. The deputies also found a huge Swastika banner and other Nazi flags, World War II Nazi helmets, pictures of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders and photographs of Nazi concentration camps. Weapons were found both in Schmidt’s home and his mother’s. Mitchell said Schmidt’s wife helped them in the search and showed them where to find weapons. She pulled a submachine gun from under her bed. Mitchell said all the weapons, except the submachine gun, were in “perfect working order.” Feels City Is Safe “I feel a lot better now that we are on to the man (who made the threat),” Mitchell raid in a news conference in his office in the Nueces County courthouse. “By the time we are through, the President or anyone else can come to Corpus Christi and feel safe.” President Johnson will visit Laredo and Corpus Christi, Tex., Sunday. His Corpus Christi visit is timed for 630 p. m., CST. Monday he will visit San Antonio, Fort Worth, Houston and Dallas — Dallas for the first time since President Kennedy’s assassination last Nov. 22. by a much wider margin than John F. Kennedy's 383,666-vote edge in 1960. How well Johnson runs in New York may help determine the outcome of the hot senatorial race between former Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, the GOP incumbent.

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Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Wednesday, October 14,1964.

| Jaycee Award Hight I | Set For January 6 | The Decatur Jaycees, in their regular meeting Tuesday night, set a tentative date of Wednesday, January 6, for the annual distinguished service award and bosses’ night banquet. Plans are progressing for. the banquet, at which the outstanding local young man of the year will be named and presented the Jaycee DSA award. Also honored at the affair will be the Jaycee wives. Jack Ely is chairman of the project. Richard J. Sullivan was appointed chairman of the registration committee and Bob Shrahikd was named to head publicity for the state-wide outstanding young farmer banquet in this city early in 1965. The local Jaycees will host the contest which will see outstanding farmers from chapters from throughout the state competing for the top award and the right to represent Indiana in the national competition. Norb Setting and Lewis Va>('j Poppel are eochftirmen for,, the program to name the Detattfr chapter’s representative in the competition. Other Appointments In other appointments made last night, Roger Gentis was chosl er. to head a committee to select a needy local family which the Jaycees will honor at Christmas time. In addition, Bill Zwick and Kenny Nash were selected to head the annual Santa Claus telephone project, which will also include a Santa Claus mailbox for local youngsters this year. Ely. and John Baxter gave a report on the governmental affairs school they attended last weekend at Tuesday night’s meeting, and Zwick announced that the airport survey committee is to have its report concluded and turned into the state organization by October 26. Also discussed was the wading pool project which. has been approved through a letter read to the meeting last night by president Wayne Roahrig. The annual Jaycee fall stag affair will be held at the home of Dick Johnson next Tuesday, beginning at 7:30 p. m. Herman Krueckeberg will show slides of his recent European trip at the stag. ’ District Meeting Here Next Tuesday The county commissioners of 19 northeastern Indiana counties will assemble in Adams county for the northeast district meeting Tuesday, October 20. The schedule for the meeting includes a tour of the Yost Gra-vel-Ready Mix plant and a social hour, dinner and business meeting at the Decatur Elks lodge. At the Yost plant the commissioners will be given a tour of the company’s pre-stressed concrete beam manufacturing facilities. These beams made by Yost, are used In the construction and repair of many county bridges. In the evening the officials will gather at the Elks club for the social hour and dinner, with Adams county officials as their hosts. The business meeting to be held after the dinner will include a question and answer session on the parts of the 1965 Indiana legislative program which pertain to county government. The program will conclude with entertainment. The meeting is an activity of the Indiana association of county commissioners and will be conducted by Jay Shiedeler, of Huntington, president of the association's northeast district.

John R. Roth Dies At Hospital Tuesday John R. Roth, of Decatur route 2, retired farmer and resident of Kirkland township most of his life, died at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient one day. He was in Wells county Sept. 11, 1890, a son of Christ and Anna Ebnit-Roth .and was married to Cora E. Manley Nov. 26, 1932. His wife preceded him in death Aug. 25 of this year. Mrs. Roth was a member of the St. Luke’s United Church of Christ at Honduras. Surviving are four brothers, Fred Roth of Fort Wayne, Albert Roth of Decatur route 2, David Roth of Decatur route 5, and Glen Roth of Decatur route 4. Four sisters and one brother are deceased. Funeral services will be conduct at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Robert R. Oleson officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery jrt Berne. Friends may call at ’'the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. TWO SECTIONS Hill Area Back Os Jail Is Cleared Adams county sheriff Roger Singleton, assisted by a series of county jail prisoners, has successfully reclaimed what was previously a brush-clogged, junkfilled, rat-infested section of land between the jail building arid the St. Mary’s river. A number of prisoners participated in the project. By state law, county jail prisoners may not be compelled to work on such projects but Singleton gave several of the jail “regulars” an opportunity to get some fresh air by volunteering to help out. Most of them took him up on the project. The downhill slope which the prisoners cleared had been cluttered for years with the refuse which had been allowed to collect there and brush which had grown up in the midst of the trash. x The site constituted a definite safety hazard, because the hill is used during*the winter months as a sled run by neighborhood children. Singleton said that before the area was cleared there were a number of precariously rotten trees with dead limbs which could have, easily injured one of the children. Tin cans and broken glass littered the area. The volunteer work crew, using a county chain saw and other tools, cleared all the brush and dead wood from the hillside, then gathered the trash to be hauled away. Using scythes, they cleared the area and prepared it for seeding. Singleton said that future plans for the hill include filling in a few depressions and low spots and planting grass. And when the sleds are sailing down the slope this winter, the sheriff will be free of a few worries. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Thursday but extensive fog in the early morning. Not much temperature change. Low tonight 4# to 48. H i g h Thursday in the 765. Sunset today 6:M p.m. Sunrise Thursday «:SS a.m. Outlook for Friday: Fair or partly cloudy and continued mild. Lows in low or mid 4*B. Highs In the 7te.

Teen Dems To Aid In LBJ - HHH Day

Adams county’s newly organized Teen Dems will get their "baptism of fire” in political campaigning this Saturday, as they help the Democratic county candidates and party workers in a state-wide LBJ-HHH day. The “Main Street U.S.A, for HHH and LBJ,” which involves virtually every city and town in Indiana, will be chairmaned in Adams county by Robert Kolter, advisor to the Teen Dems. All Interested Youth All Decatur area young men and women under 20, and down to seventh or eighth grade level, who are interested in helping locally get across the HHH-LBJ story, are asked to meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Democratic headquarters on Madison street, across from the courthouse. Adult advisors will see that the group is transported to Berne for a county-wide meeting of Teen Dems at Democratic headquarters there, starting at 7:30 p.m. The Decatur Teen Dems will be returned to the headquarters by 9 p.m., and if they need transportation, a responsible adult will see that the young people are taken home. Make Plans Thursday At the Thursday evening meeting, plans will be made to coordinate Teen Dem help over the entire county for Saturday, starting at 1 p.m. On every main street and in every shopping center in the state, recorded messages from the president to the people of Indiana will

Parrish Ruling Is Upheld By Appellate Court For the fourth time in recent months, the Indiana appellate court has affirmed a decision handed down In. the Adams circuit court by Judge Myles F. Parrish. appellate court has unanimously upheld a decision handed down by Judge Parrish Saturday, July 7,1962, when he denied a request judgment of $4,500 asked by the Decatur - Kocher Lumber Co. from Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ehrsam, of route 4, Decatur. Robert S. Anderson, of Decatur, represented the Ehrsams in the case, while Custer & Smith, also of Decatur, was the law firm representing the lumber company. The four appellate court judges who heard the case stated in their decision as follows: “As we have reviewed the record and analyzed same, we are forced to the conclusion that appellant has not met its lawful responsibility and requirement to prove the material allegations of its complaint through the introduction of evidence. It will be noted that appellant (lumber company) attempted, in a manner which apparently was not satisfactory to the trial court, in pursuance of a so-called oral agency agreement, to prove (1) the payment of certain monies for labor, and (2) the providing of certain materials for the construction of the residence.” “Our investigation does not disclose that there was any evidence tending to show that the expenditures made and such materials furnished appellant (lumber company) were necessary and essential, or that such items were reasonably worth the amounts paid out on account of the book entries and the charges. But for the introduction of the items of account, which is insufficient, there was a failure to establish any amount due and payable to appellant (lumber company).” No Contract The court also concluded from the record that it is devoid of evidence in the establishment of an oral agreement between the parties. "Appellant did not prove an oral contract,” the decision said. The decision mailed to Judge Parrish and the parties involved concluded with the following: “Thus it will be noted that any other error asserted by appellant would not be available to it on aooroval. However, we may state that we here are involved in a negative finding and judgment with ample proof that the acount sued upon fully has been paid.” Ask Judgment Judge Parrish turned down the lumber company’s request of $4,500 from the Ehrsams ruling that Decatur - Kocher should receive nothing. The lumber company had requested a judgment of $3,964.50, plus interest and attorney fees, which amounted to $4,500. In

be played. Campaign materials of all kinds will be passed out, with over 2 million pieces of campaign literature from state headquarters and one million pieces of bubble gum, seven tons of it, will be distributed over the state. Kolter has a truck ready to pick HP Adams county’s share of material and this will be broken down into packets for handy distribution in every town in Adams county Saturday afternoon. Dramatic Message “Main Street USA for HHH and LBJ,” Manfred Core, state chairman, said, "is our way of dramatizing the Democratic message to Indiana citizens, and of having fun all over the state at the same time.” Core added that several county

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Week Necessary To Enjoy World's Fair

By Dick Heller, Jr. “Don’t try to see the New York World’s Fair in three days, but do plan to spend at least a week there next WMW- 'when it reopens.” That’s the advice of the publisher and his wife after a very fast, survey of the fair, and what it has to offer, as they returned from the 1964 UPI editors and publishers conference in Washington, D. C. The New York fair is very worthwhile. While it is six times as large as the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, it does not attempt the same Impossible job of presenting so much new scientific and cultural material that it cannot possibly be absorbed. At Least A Week Instead, the New York fair, if seen sensibly in a week or two, presents as much new and different information as can be absorbed by the human mind, without completely overloading it. Also, many of the main exhibitions include a chance to rest—movie seats, or moving automobiles, or other forms of relaxing travel that give relief to the long periods of walking and standing in line. Which exhibit did we enjoy most? That’s very hard to say. We enjoyed the delightful nineminute boat ride through a Walt Disney world of little children frbm the UNICEF countries, sponsored by Pepsi Cola —purely fun. We enjoyed seeing several fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls, from the Qumran monastery, as shown in the Protestant and Orthodox center, and by Jordan. his written judgment, Judge Parrish had as one reason for turning down the judgment that the "dependants herein have answered in payment.” At the trial in the local court, the defendant’s exhibit “N” was introduced into evidence, and was a receipt from the lumber company. The receipt was dated October 19, 1959, and was marked “pd. in full.” The defendant’s exexhibit "O" wa sa check made payable to the lumber company for the sum of $4,348.35, and it toe/ carried the notation "pd. in full.” The lumber company had filed the case, alleging that the Ehrsams owed them the total of $3,964.50 for construction of a home. At the time of his ruling, Judge Parrish stated that “a written receipt is evidence of a high character. It is evidence of so satisfactory a character as not to be overcome, except by clear and convincing testimony, and the burden of proof as a matter of course rests upon the one attacking it.” After the judgment was denied by Judge Parrish, and a request for a new trial was also denied, the plaintiff appealed the decision to the state appelltae court.

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coordinators have unique entertainment ideas planned, including marathon runners bearing torches in one county, and teams of parrade horses in another. Here in Adams county decorated cars and trucks, loaded with candidates, young people, and campaign literature, will visit every i town and city in the county, dis- ■ tributing the material door-to-door. About three dozen vehicles are now planned for use. Through the entire county, the I decorated Democratic Teen Dems bus will shuffle back and forth, • carrying the Democratic message i of progress, prosperity and a [ bright future, the message of its i presidential candidate, the state Democratic ticket, and local Dem- ' ocratic candidates.

Stress Brotherhood Johnson’s Wax and Coca Cola t also stressed world brotherhood. : At the Vatican exhibition, the •c famous Michelangelo statue, Piota, and many other exhibits, stressing the theme, “The Church ’ is Christ living in the world.” > Hundreds of countries, or . groups of countries had special I exhibits, showing their products, scenery, and history. The states had many wonderful exhibitions. Was there anything for children? Yes, even strollers which may be rented for the smaller children. There are many interesting rides, as well as a number of exhibitions which children' would enjoy, if they didn’t get too tired. Getting to the fair was no problem. All of the major highways were marked. In addition, inexpensive subway and train rides, and buses were available. Take Tour First We would strongly recommend the full 2%-hour tour of the fair grounds by bus as soon as you arrive. This will give you a chance to orient yourself, find out what you would enjoy to see the most, and then schedule the time you have available so that you can see the most in that time. Knowing that we would have to hurry if we were to see the fair in only three days, we had written ahead to the press headquarters, and had received passes to the fair, and a guide to take us around. Takes Less Time We soon learned how valuable this service was. First, as legitimate, working-press writers, we (Continued on Page Six) Mrs. Chas Affolder Dies This Morning < Mrs. Mary Belle Affolder, 64, wife of Charles Affolder of Ossian route 2, died at 8 o’clock this morning at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton. She was born in Wabash township, Adams county, Sept. 30, 1900, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Topp - Hendricks, and was married to Charles Affolder Mav 4, 1916. 4 Surviving in addition to the husband are one son, Virgil Affolder of Ossian; three daughters, Mrs. Darrell (Rosella) Cookson of Decatur, Mrs. Ed (Florence) Teeple of near Decatur, and Mrs. Hobart (Vera )Spencher of Preble: four brothers, five sisters. 14 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Two sons, Donald and John, are deceased. Funeral rites will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Winter-egg-Linn funeral home, with the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Thursday until time of the services.

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