Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 246, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1964 — Page 1

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President Cheered By Ohio Reception

WASHINGTON (UPI) —President Johnson was buoyed today by the success of his six-hour campaign swing through normally Republican southwest Ohio where wildly enthusiastic crowds threatened at' times to mob him. To Protest County Dump Near Homes Residents of Eiting Acres met Friday evening to lay plans for attending the Monday morning meeting of the Adams county commissioners protesting a proposal to establish a county dump in the vicinity of the housing development. The commissioners have, without much publicity, laid plans to locate a county dump on land presently owned by the KrickTyndall company to the south of Eiting Acres and within approximately 400 feet of some of the homes in the area. Commissioner Hugo Boerger said this morning that no contract for acquiring the la'nd has yet been signed and that the board of commissioners will not, make a decision until it has heard the protest of the Eiting Acres residents. The residents are basing their protest on a number of points. They contend that the location of a dump in the area will eliminate the area from further residential development and that it will decrease the value of homes already constructed. They also say that the proposed dump will “cut off natural drainage in the area, pollute water supplies, cause the area to be infested with insects and rodents of all kinds, create smoke, dirt, odors and , health hazards . . .” Not Consistent' 1 The also contend that the establishment of a dump “is not at all consistent with orderly development of the area as contemplated by the county zoning ( plan now being formulated and which the commissioners appar- ( ently intend to avoid by the hasty unannounced location of this , dump.” A statement issued this morning by Robert Smith, attorney for the* residents says “The group , believe that persons and industrial concerns in the southwest , part of the city of Decatur should be concerned because, with the prevailing southwesterly winds, < they too will get the ‘benefit’ of this dump.” i Smith said that about 75 persons would he present Monday to i present their objections to the commissioners. i

UAW And American Resume Bargaining DETROIT (UPI) — United is r ues that must be settled beAuto Workers union and Ameri- fore the strike can end. can Motors negotiators return , to the main bargaining table and company battoday in an effort to reach tied long and hard over whether agreement on three key issues or not the 1964 national conand end a strike by about tract would include the historic 26 000 workers Profit sharing—or progress sharThe strike was called by the contrast, as they prefer to union early Friday even though faD » - concept. The first dea last ditch bargaining effort tails of the plan were scheduled resulted in agreement on the to be released today. major stumbling block — profit AMC, the nation’s smallest shading. auto maker, joined giant GenDouglas Fraser,, UAW Ameri- eral Motors as subjects of UAW can Motors department direc- strikes. The union struck GM tor, and AMC Vice - President 23 days ago. Since then, a naEdward L. Cushman agreed tional contract has been agreed Friday the three unresolved is- to but labor peace cannot be sues on the main table cov- restored until {Slant level conered transfer rights of workers, tracts are substantially cleaned an economic agreement for up at 130 GM plants around the workers of the Kelvinator appli- country. - ance division and alleged wage GM spokesmen said the numinequities. They also said there ber of settlements hovered at were several unresolved local nerfr half the total.

DETROIT (UPI) — United Auto Workers union and American Motors negotiators return to the main bargaining table today in an effort to reach agreement on three key issues and end a strike by about 26,000 workers. The strike was called by the union early Friday even though a last ditch bargaining effort resulted in agreement on the major stumbling block — profit shading. — Douglas Fraser,, UAW American Motors department director, and AMC Vice - President Edward L. Cushman agreed Friday the three unresolved issues on the main table covered transfer rights of workers, an economic agreement for workers of the Kelvinator appliance division and alleged wage inequities. They also said there were several unresolved local

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The Chief Executive cancelled political activities, including a scheduled weekend trip to Texas, to confer with top advisers at the White House on the recent developments in Russia and China. A planned Texas campaign trip late Sunday apparently was dependent on the international situation. Johnson emphasized prosperity and respinsibility in leadership on his tour through Cincinnati and Dayton Friday. He drew some of the largest crowds of the campaign in the area. Several times his motorcade was almost engulfed when cheering throngs pressed against his automobile, denting the’’ right front door in the crush. • At Dayton in a nighttime street rally, the President said the “only issue” in the campaign was “responsibility versus irresponsibility.” “Peace or war, prosperity or depression — you hold that decision in your hands,” he declared. Earlier, at Cincinnati, he said recent international developments - demanded responsible leadership in the United States, the and mightiest power in the world.” “I will go to any lengths an honorable man can to seek peace in the world,” he promised. “Our guard is always up, but our hand is always out.” The President launched the tour with a speech at the greater Cincinnati Airport In nearby Covington, Ky., then moved to Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati where police estimated the crowd at 30,000. Says Goldwater Is Part-Time Amateur INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— About 2,000 Indiana Democrats paid $lO to SIOO a plate for dinner Friday night and the privilege of hearing Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey describe Sen. Barry M. Goldwater as a “part-time amateur” as a presidential candidate. The Democratic vice presidential nominee appeared at a Marion County “victory banquet” which enriched the coffers for he Nov. 3 election campa’®n by about $50,000. It was Humphrey’s third appearance this campaign in Indiana and he still has a fourth aop-arance scheduled Oct. 21 at Gary. Goldwater is “either deliberately or accidentally misleading the American people” in his comments about nuclear war,

New Regime Reaffirms Khrushchev’s Peaceful Coexistence With West

MOSCOW (UPI) — The new Soviet regime reaffirmed today that it would continue ex-Pre-mier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s peaceful coexistence with the West. Its stiff line toward Communist China may bend, but not much. It denounced the deposed Khrushchev himself as “harebrained.” Today’s issue of Pravda, the Soviet Communist party newspaper, underlined the reassurances given by U.S.S.R. ambassadors in Washington, Tokyo, the United Nations and other capitals.

Johnson Meets Top Advisers

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson meets with his top military and diplomatic advisers today to consider “these .. . sobering hours in the history of the world”—Red' China’s nuclear test and the shakeup in the Kremlin. The Chief Executive canceled a scheduled weekend campaign trip to Texas because of the international situation. He was to confer at noon EDT with the National Security Council. White House sources said Johnson planned a series of similar conferences over the weekend on foreign policy. He told an airport crowd at Cincinnati during a short campaign swing through southwest Ohio Friday night “these are sobering hours in the history of the world." U.S. officials doubted that either of the two events — China’s nuclear test or Nikita S. Khrushchev’s downfall—was caused by the other. They were regarded as a momentous coin-, cidence. Profound Effects Together their effects on the Humphrey said. He said Goldwater is “a parttime, off-and-on, now-and-then amateur and hobbyist” who wants to abandon the “challenges of tomorrow for the fantasies of yesterday.” ~ The aim of Goldwater and his supporters is “to establish a kind of selfish irresponsibility” in domestic and international affairs, Humphrey said. “The American people must choose for the president of the United States between a dedicated professional in the arts of science of government— Lyndon Johnson—and a part-time, now-and-then amateur, Barry Goldwater,” Humphrey said. Humphrey attacked Goldwater for suggesting some nuclear weapons could be classified as conventional. ‘"Die world entered a new era at Los Alamos in 1945, an ear fraught with greater peril than any mankind has known be fore,” Humphrey said. “Senator Goldwater cannot deal responsibly with the most fearful crisis of our time if he ignores its existence, if he argues that a tactical nuclear weapon is just an oversized hand-grenade. He is either deliberately or accidentally misleading the American people—and I am not sure which is more dangerous.” Humphrey hurried into Hoosierland from a corn - picking contest in lowa, and was greeted at Weir Cook Municipal Airport by Sens. Vance Hartke and Birch Bayh and Governor Welsh. 4 The party went to the Indiana executive residence for a reception, and while the “victory dinner” audience was feasting, Humphrey was making radio and television tapes. After his speech, Humphrey flew away to Chattanooga, Tenn. ■ "

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Pravda upheld the “principle of peaceful coexistence between states with differing social orders as advanced by V. I. Lenin.” Pravda said the new government of party First Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev and Premier Alexei Kosygin “will pursue an active line for the convocations of an international meeting of all Communist parties.” Planned Meeting Khrushchev had a mid-December meeting of 26 key Communist parties. Khrushchev intended the meeting to arrange a Communist world

world would be profound, although these effects might be a long time emerging. The Kremlin change left great questions as to how East and West would not proceed on major issues between 'them—Berlin, Southeast Asia, disarmament. payment of United Nations costs. Officials expect a' pause in East-West negotiations while the new Kremlin leadership goes through a “shakedown” period. Aministratioh sources saw a possibility of new overtures by the Kremlin to settle Russia’s bitter dispute with China. But it was noted that this dispute has been so deep that easy solutions may be impossible. Johnson moved quickly Friday to calm world’ fears—especially in Asia —over China’s nuclear blast. Reaffirms Pledge . “The United States reaffirms its defense commitments in Asia,” he said in a television address. “Even if Communist China should eventually devel- # op an effective nuclear capabil- ' ity, that capability would have no effect upon the readiness of the United States to respond to requests from Asian nations for help in dealing with Communist Chinese aggression.” Johnson said the "low yield” nuclear blast in western China had been monitored by U.S. detection systems. “This explosion comes as no surprise to the United States,” he said. “It has been fully taken into account in planning our own defense program and nuclear capability. Its military significance should not be overestimated.” Taken Into Account Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in a separate statement, added that Chinese nuclear development also has been taken into account in U.S. weapons “deployment.” “There is no possiblity whatever,” he said, “that there is any lack of security for the free world in the Pacific Ocean area as a result of the detonation of this first device by Peking.” Johnson Friday received his first direct word from the new Kremlin leadership. It came through Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin who called, at the White House with the message that Khrushchev’s policies of "peaceful coexistence,” relaxation of tensions and “strengthening of “peace” would continue. At about the same time other Soviet ambassadors in other capitals were making similar statements. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and not much temperature change through tonight. Partly cloudy and a Mt cooler Sunday, the high «5 to 70. Low tonight mid-401. Outlook tor Monday: Cloudy, cooler' south and light rain over 40 per cent of the state.

summit conference which would expel Red China from the Communist bloc. This Dec. 15 meeting may be postponed or toned down. But the differences between China and Russia are too profound with national and racial rivalry . to be solved in the foreseeable future. Red Chinese chairman Mao Tze-tung, having exploded his atomic bomb, cabled the Kremlin Friday uring a return to unity—on Mao’s terms. It was believed that Brezhnev and Ksoygin were impressed neither by Mao’s message nor by his bomb. Khrushchev is understood to have remarked recently that possession of one bomb is not grounds for immediate concern. Urged Unification Mao urged that “the two countries unite on the basis of Marxism-Leninism," which Peking interprets as opposition to peaceful coexistence with the West. Pravda, without mentioning Khrushchev by name, denounced “hare-brained scheming, immature conclusions and hasty decisions and actions divorced from reality, bragging and phrasemongering, commandiSm, unwillingness to take into account the achievements of science and practical experience.” It denounced “the ideology and practice of the personality cult.” It praised collective leadSix Klansmen Are Indicted By Grand Jury By United Press International A federal grand jury Friday indicted six Georgia Ku Klux Klansmen on charges of intimidation and violence against Negroes. Four of the men were the same ones arrested by the FBI during its investigation last summer of the shotgun murder of Lemuel Penn, a prominent Washington, D.C., Negro educator who was killed July 11 while riding along a north Georgia roast. FBI agents at Athens, Ga., arrested three of the Klansmen Friday. Two others were free on $25,000 bonds they posted earlier and the sixth Klansman, James S. Lackey, is being held in jail awaiting trial ♦on charges of murdering Penn. Two of the Klansmen indicted Friday—Hebert Guest, 37, a garage operator, and Joseph Howard Sims—were tried by a state court in Danielsville, Ga., and acquitted on Sept. 4 of charges that they murdered Penn. A confession by Lackey implicating the two men was introduced into evidence at the trial, but he later repudiated the confession. The other two indicte<j were Willis Phillips, 24, a mechanic' who worked in Guest’s garage, and George Hampton Turner, 32, a textile mill worker who lives in Hull, Ga. The six were charged with conspiring to oppress, injure, threaten and intimidate Negroes. “It was part of the plan and purpose of the conspiracy,” the indictment said. “that'"its objects be achieved by . . . shooting Negroes . . . beating Negroes . . . killing Negroes . . . damaging and destroying property of Negroes.” In .. addition. Guest also was charged with violating the federal Firearms Act. Conviction of the first offense could carry e penalty of up to 10 years in prison and $5,000 fine.

ership as communism’s "greatest political asset.” Reliable sources said Khrushchev went down fighting at the Central Committee meeting which decided his fate. Praised Policies These sources said Mikhail Suslov, the party’s chief theocretician, praised Khrushchev’s over-all policies but said they were not properly carried out and had reached the “point of stagnation.” Reliable sources said a Khrushchev comeback is out of the question. Ironically it was Khrushchev himself who established the post-Stalin custom of retirement instead of execution for leaders who fall from grace. The sources said Khrushchev is resting at a governmentowned “dacha” (country house) in the Moscow area, taking medical treatments for an unspecified ailment. They said Khrushchev may be seen again in public some day—but not in a prominent position. He probably will live quiptly on a pension with his wife Nina Petrovna in Moscow. Third Youth Held * ’ On Burglary Count A third youth, from Decatur, has been implicated in a second burglary cleard up with the apprehension of two other youths around midnight Thursday. Gerald Gene Harmon, 17, of near Decatur, and Eddie Ray Thompson, 17 of near Bluffton, were apprehended by a city police “stakeout” at the Adams County Trailer Sales at midnight Thursday, and are being held in the Adams county jail on second degree burglary charges. A third youth, Richard Dennis Ketron, 18-year-old resident of 1121 Elm St., has been implicated in a second burglary in which at either Harmon and Thompson, or both, are also believed involved. Ketron is also in custody at the county jail, charged with second degree burglary. All three are being held under SI,OOO bond each. Second Burglary A city police patrol around 10 o'clock Thursday night discovered a break-in at the Treon Poultry Market on 13th street, and some time later, the stolen articles,

Five Persons Die In Crash

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI) - Five persons were killed today when their car was crushed between two trucks in a fiery accident on U. S. 52 west of the Purdue University campus. The dead were believed to be Indianapolis area young persons enroute home for the weekend from their work with Trans World Airlines in Chicago. Two of the dead were identified by Indiana State Police as Patty Sue Owen, 21, Brownsburg, and Michael Lewis, 21, Seymour, driver and owner of the car. Lewis's grandmother told state police she believed that Lewis, Miss Owen and three other TWA employes were in the car. Police said a truck stopped at the edge of the highway, a heavily traveled route between Chicago and Indianapolis, because of a fire in a car which previously had pulled off the road. Lewis pulled up and stopped behind the truck but pulled out into the highway and was struck by another truck in the passing lane at the four-lane road. The car was crushed between the moving and the parked truck, and burst into flames when the gasoline tank explod-

Field Fire Nearly Leads To Disaster Quick work by the Decatur fire department, averted a near dis-, aster Friday afternoon when a fire in a field nearly got out of hand. The fire started some distance | from the home of William Fritzinger, north of Decatur, by a cause as yet undetermined. It was seen by some one in the Fritzinger family in the morning, but was thought to be just al small trash fire. The blaze continued to work its way through the brush, and a bean and corn field, and the' firemen were called at 3:55 p.m. The firemen arrived just ini time, as the blaze was becoming an inferno burning out of control The firemen, however, quickly went to work on the blaze that was also burning on two properties adjoining the Fritzinger land. Two trucks and seven men battled the fire until finally getting it completely extinguished at about 6 p.m. At one time, fire chief Cedric Fisher reported, the fire moved to within about 10 feet of the Fritinger home. There was no damage to any buildings, but the bean and corn fields and a number of fence posts were consumed in the blaze. consisting of some beer and cigarettes, were found under a trailer at the Trailer Sales lot. City officer Victor Strickler waited in a nearby trailer near the loot, and when Harmon and Thompson came to pick it up, the officer apprehended both youths. Questioning of the boys cleared up a burglary at the Franklin service station, east of the city on U.S. 224, that occurred early the .morning of Wednesday, October 7. Approximately 40 knives, cigars, cigarettes, about $1 in change, and several other items were stolen from the station. Many of these articles have already been recovered by city and sheriff’s department authorities working on the case. Further interrogation of the youths and investigation by the two departments is continuing.

ed. The bodies of the car occupants were badly burned. Police traced identification from the charred license plate of the car. The plate had been issued in the Seymour area. At first, police considered the possibility the victims were Purdpe students. Heat from the flames which swept the wreckage kept them from probing through the car for additional clues to the identity of the victims. Joseph E. Talbot, Jr., 55, South Bend, a former FBI agent and former deputy prosecutor in St. Joseph’s County, was killed early today when he left his stalled car on U.S. 30 near the ElkharMJt. Joseph’s County line. He was struck by a vehicle which did not stop. Airman 3c Jerry Leßoy Farmer, stationed at Bunker Hill Air Force Base, was killed Friday night when two cars collided south of Peru on U.S. 31 near a bypass construction’project. Police said the car in which Farmer was riding hit a barrel at a detour junction and skidded broadside into a vehicle driven by Curtis Hurley, 56, Peru. Farmer was thrown out.

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Lower Income For Indiana Farmers Indiana farmers likely will receive in the next 12 months a somewhat smaller net income than during the past year, Jack H. Armstrong, Purdue University agricultural economist, said Thursday night at the Adams county outlook meeting. Thirty-five farmers and business men attended the meeting, one of the some 60 being held throughout Indiana. Purdue agricultural economists each fall analyze the outlook for farming for the next year. Armstrong said that this Income prospect is in line with the U. S. net farm income prospect for the next 12 months. Lower cash receipts for Hoosier farmers will result largely from smaller yields for crops produced in 1964 which will be sold in the coming marketing year. Reduced income will also result from lower prices for eggs and stock cattle, fewer broilers and lower prices for them. However, higher hog prices are expected to more than offset smaller receipts. Purchase of feeder cattle $3-6 per hundred weight below year ago levels, and reduced marketings of heavyweight cattle should bring improved returns to cattle feeders. The economist forcasts a continued expansion of the non-farm economy in the year ahead. This means strong total demand for farm products, more off-the-farm - job opportunities for skilled or semi-skilled persons, a continued scarcity of good hired men and continued exodus from the farming business. Analyses Outlook Here’s the way Armstrong analyzed the Indiana farm outlook for the period from October 1 to September 30, 1965: Corn — Five to 10 per cent a bushel higher prices are expected for the next marketing year — summer prices averaging $1.15$1.25 in surplus areas, 10 to 20 cents a bushel higher in deficit areas. Soybeans — Prices forcast at an average of $2.55-12.65 a bushel compared to the $2.54 the past year. Wheat — Increased in price for soft red winter wheat will only be about enough to cover storage costs this fall and winter. Hogs — Moderate increases in prices above those of last year are expected. Average price in Indianapolis was $15.70 per hundredweight. Beef cattle —- Somewhat improved prices for the higher grades of fed cattle; but lower returns for beef cow herd owners are seen. Dairy — Equal or slightly better net income for dairymen. Laying flocks — On-the-farm egg prices will average about one cent a dozen below the previous year. Broilers —a 14-cent a pound average in the last quarter of this year is expected, down one-half cent from a like period of 1963. • Turkeys — Prices for the remainder of 1964 will average about one cent below those of the same period of last year. Farm real estate — Upward trends in land values will continue —two to four per cent in the next year. Production item prices — Increases of one to three per cent are seen for prices of production items.

NOON EDITION British Labor Head Appoints Ministers LONDON (UPI) - Laborite Prime Minister Harold Wilson spurned 'any mere “caretaker” role today and set out to run a tough, hard-hitting 'government despite his slim parliamentary majority. Indications were that Wilson might have an edge of only three or four votes over -the combined opposition in the new Parliament. Wilson appointed the first seven members of a sharply streamlined cabinet Friday night, less than three hours after being named prime minister. He appeared intent on fulfilling his campaign pledge to “get Britain moving.” He promised to announce more cabinet appointments today and to complete the list Sunday. The ministers named Friday night were taking over their jobs this morning.