Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 263, Decatur, Adams County, 6 November 1964 — Page 1

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United Auto Workers At Nine Ford Motor Company Plants Go Out On Strike

IK - I BEHt'u ij< 1 ' r > ir . ”»- Bl MNMHI 2 JP >l[v fl E 1 m DEMOCRATIC SENATE leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) greets four new senators from his party at the U. S. Capitol. AH come to Washington to register with the senate. Left to right: Senators-elect Fred Harris, Okla ; JosephM.rMontojw,. N. M,.; Mansfield; Hoss Bass, Itenn., and Robert- F. Kennedy, * New York. — (UPI Telephoto).

Unity Parley Os Reds Urged

MOSCOW (UPD—Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev today called for a world Communist unity conference. Brezhnev, who succeeded the ousted Nikita Khrushchev as first secretary of the Soviet Communist party, made his appeal in a speech marking the 47th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Among the 6,000 persons listening to him in the Kremlin’s Palace of Congresses was Red China’s Premier Chou En - lai, sa *■ c* Ml Mrs. Margaret Akomi Dies Last Evening | Mrs. Margaret Leona Akom, 74,g wife of Fred Akom of Ohio City.gj 0., died at 7:35 p.m. Thursday atg; the Van Wert county hospital fol-g lowing a month’s serious illness.S She was born in Liberty town ? ship, Van Wert county, Aug. 6,S 1890, a daughter of William J.=and Anna Belle Foor, and was married to Fred., Akom June 5, 1912. « Mrs. Akom, a former in the Ridge school in Liberty.', township, was a member of the. g Bethel E. U. B. church, the W. S. j Harmony club,' and. the Board of Manager of the Van Wertgj county hospital. es Surviving are ner husband; one~ son, Kenneth Akom of New Bruns--; wick, N. J.; one daughter, Rea (Mary) Book of Attica, O.;g five grandchildren; one grandchild; one brdther, Dr. Clif-K ford Food of Hillsboro, 0., andE four sisters, Mrs. Edna Spahr Decatur, Mrs. Florence Stover ofjs Rockford, 0., and Mrs. InezZ Schaadt and Mrs. Bernice Bru-g baker, both of Van Wert. Oneg daughter and two sisters are de-g ceased. s Funeral services will be held_ at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Bethel S E. U. B. church, with the Rev B Mart’n Krick and the Rev. Alberts N. Straley officiating. Burial willg be in Woodlawn cemetery at Ohiog City. Friends may call at theg Cowan & Son funeral home in Van® Wert after 7 p.m. today until 12® noon Sunday. The body will lie" in state at the church from 1:30s: p.m. Sunday until time of theg services.

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who sat on the speakers’ platform. The bid for a unity conference was' an obvious bid to Communist China to talk over the split that has divided Moscow and Peking for the past three years. Brezhnev also praised the victory of President Lyndon Johnson over Sen. Barry Goldwater in Tuesday’s U.S. elections. ’ “The American elections re- ■ cently showed a majority of ■ Americans cherish peace and ■ are tired of the cold war,” said e Brezhnev. “The death of the S American ultras is a good les- ! son for all supporters of ad- ■ venturism.” g Chou’s presence in Moscow • would have been unthinkable a “ month ago. But since then ! Khrushchev has been fired. • Chou arid the new Soviet leadi ers want to test each other’s | mettle. ; Chinese Foreign Minister ; Chen Yi remarked in Algiers • Thursday that Khrushchev’s ' downfall has opened up 5 “new possibilities for the im- ’ provement of relations between s Moscow and Peking. £ The Chinese have indicated ; they would like to solidify the 1 world Communist from against ; “U.S. imperialism.” ; But the new Soviet leaders, • party First Secretary Leonid 5 Brezhnev and Premier Alexei j Kosygin, have made it clear 2 they will continue to support j peaceful coexistence and the in- : ternational treaty which pro- ; hibits testing of nuclear ■ weapons above ground. Both : ideas are poison to Peking. : Today, the Communist New £ China News Agency broadcast : anniversary greetings to the Soj viet Union. The greetings were . : signed by Chairman Mao Tze- : tung, President Liu Shao - chi = and Chou. 1 The cordial tone was new but > the content was unchanged: I Peking is maintaining its hard, line against the West and wants Moscow to get in step. (Moscow is unlikely to. Shortly before Chou arrived Tburs!day, the Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda urged ’ “unending struggle against 5 symptoms and vestiges of any ’ sort of nationalism and chauSvinisnr,” a favorite Soviet way lof describing Peking’s ambipions.

District Governor Visits Rotarians Riley L. Case, Rotary governor of district 6?4, made his official visit to the Decatur Rotary club Thursday night at its weekly meeting at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Lowell Harper, club president, presided and introduced him The local club is one of 44 clubs" across the northern part of Indiana in his district. Case, until recently a county extension agent of LaGrange county, said, “Rotary is growing stronger as a force for the improvement of communities and the advancement of International friendship and understanding, Rotary clubs are functioning in 11,800 communities in 125 countries and their combined membership is more than 553,000 business and professional men — all of whom are dedicated to the Rotary princinle of serving others.” The speaker complimented Fritz Ashbaucher for having the best attendance record in the district. President’s Program Referring to the program of Charles W. Pettengill, president of Rotary International for 196465, he said, “This year Rotarians worldwide -will strive harder to be guided by Rotary tenets in their communities, their vocations, and in their relations with people of other countries. We are urged by Rotary’s world president to live Rotary at our meetings and away from them.”Case asked the local club to seek members representing three new vocations not now represented in the club. ■— tractor, and Hubert Feasel, art instructor at Decatur high school, were introduced as new Rotarians. The district governor also reported the continuation of the organization’s 1963-64 "matched district” program, which has linked Rotary districts in different parts of the world as a means of encouraging Rotary clubs and indi- , vidual Rotarians to get to know one another better through the conduct of mutually helpful projects. Hie local Rotary club is matched with the Rotary club of Flori- , ono in Brazil in district 449. Case praised the local club’s career night which will be held for the sixth consecutive year next Thursday evening. George Litchfield has been chairman of the project. During his visit, the governor was given additional information on some of the local Rotary club's activities, including the club's scholarship program, which awards 11,000 annually and is

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DETROIT (UPI) — United Auto Workers Union employes at nine Ford Motor Co. plants around the country walked off the job today when company and union bargainers failed to put together plant level working agreements. Ken Bannon, director of the UAW’s Ford department, charged that “something happened” at Ford and the company’s failure to implement the same plant level standards at different locations was “wrong, wrong as can be.” A 10th plant was authorized to walk off the job at the 10 am. EST strike deadline, but Ford spokesmen said members of Local 325 at St. Louis continued working on a contract extension”. Other Ford bargaining units had failed to reach plant-level contracts, but the UAW international did not grant them strike authorization. They were the engine and foundry at Cleveland and units at Monroe and Wixom, Mich. Bannon said the general issues that caused the strike involved in - plant? working conditions -such as - excessive overtime and other items. The walkouts involving about 22,000 workers occurred at Sterling Township (Detroit), Ypsilanti and Wayne, Mich.; Sheffield, Ala.; Chicago HeightsLouisville; Dallas and Buffalo, N.Y. Ford said the Wayne strike involved two separate plant operations. ■\Ford said the struck plants inel»ded four assembly plants, two stamping plants and three parts manufacturing plants. Ford said the strikes at the assembly plants immediately reduced the company’s average daily car production by about 15 per cent and truck production by about 30 per cent. It said it had a 32 - day supply of cars and a 38 - day supply of trucks on hand. Malcolm L. Denise, Ford vice Tax Cui Helping Slow Unemployment WASHINGTON (UPI) — Last March’s $11.5 billion tax cut apparently is helping reduce long-range unemployment. The Labor Department noted this Thursday while announcing that 3.3 million Americans remained out of work last month. But the jobless rate of 5.2 per cent in October was virtually unchanged from September unemployment. Total employment rose by 300,000, a normal increase for the season. Harold Goldstein, Labor Department analyst, said joblessness last month was 200,000 below the figure for October, 1963. Most of the drop took place among workers out of jobs for six months or longer, he said. Goldstein said the tax cut and manpower retraining appeared to have eased the long - termunemployment plight. “The measures that have been taken seem to have had some effect,” he said. The tax cut especially was aimed at reducing the jobless ra'e by encouraging investment thus creating new jobs. ■» x considerably higher than in most communities. Graduate Study Case also reported that district 654 would select a Rotary district fellow this year to spend one year of graduate study in a foreign university. The local Rotary club will nominate the applicant. The applicant may be a single boy or a girl with a bachelor’s degree from a recognized four-year educational Institution. The local club was commended for its past support of the Rotary Foundation aad urgpd to continue. The Rotary Foundation sends young men to study for advanced degrees in a foreign (Continued cm Page Eight)

president of labor relations, said the strikes are “completely unnecessary.” “In most of these local negotiations, which have failed to produce settlements, the union is seeking concessions from the company that would restrict its right to manage the plants ’rfficiently,” he said. Shortly before the strike deadline, the UAW came to agreement at a key stamping plant at Bedford, Ohio. Ralph Meyer Dies Thursday Evening Ralph A. (Tang) Meyer, 52, of 1046 Vine street, a resident of the Decatur area most of his life, died at 5:20 p.m. Thursday at the Adams county memorial hospital following an illness of one year. He was born in Decatur May 31, 1912, a son of Linus and Mary Bentz-Meyer, and was employed ■ by the Dana Sorp, of Fort Wayne, During World War 11, he saw action in the South Pacific as a member of an M. P. company of the 38th division. Mr. Meyer was a member of St, Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society, and the Disabled American Veterans. Surviving are four brothers, Xystus and Francis Meyer, both of Fife Lake, Mich., Clarence Meyer of Chandler, Ariz., and Clement Meyer of Decatur; two sisters, Sr. Mary Linus, C. S. A., of New York, N. Y. and Mrs. Marie Thurston of South West Harbor, Me., and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Military committal rites will be conducted by the D.A.V. at the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the GilUg, Doan & Sefton funeral home, where friends may call after 2 p.m Saturday until time of the services. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday.

Lewton May Ask Recount

Richard D. Lewton, former Democratic county clerk and county treasurer, who lost a close election for county auditor to Republican Leland A, Neuen, said today that he may petition for a recount of the votes. Lewton said that many of his friends had asked him to do so, feeling that errors certainly existed in the counting processes in. many of the precincts where .the boards were hurrying to complete the county.” According to law, Lewton may ask for a recount of one precinct, several precincts, or all 40 precincts. Must Fie by 18th The former county official has until Nov. 18 to file his petition with the circuit Court, would then have until Nov. 28 to file a cross-complaint. Lewton would have to post a bond of S4OO toward payment of the court costs. Payment! of costs is up to the individual, or his friends. The last recount in Adams county was in 1959 in the Decatur mayor’s race, when Lewton was clerk. At that time, a number of friends of Mayor Robert D. Cole, who lost originally by four votes, took up a collection, and asked him to file for a recount. Must Order If Asked / , Judge Myles Fs Parrish then, oa Nov. 28, ordered the recount as requested by petitions and cross-petitions as amended, and appointed a recount commission

Judges Are Named For Jaycee Project The Decatur Jaycee s have named Herman Krueckeberg, executive vice president of the First State Bank, and Hugh Boerger Adams county first district commissioner, as the final two judges in the organization’s outstanding young farmer recognition project. Boerger and Krueckeberg will assist the other three judges appointed by project co-chairmen Norb Selking and Lewis Van Poppel. Serving with the two will be Ernest Lesiuk, Adams county extension agent, Wilmer Bultemeier, manager-treasurer of the Farm Bureau Co-op credit union in Adams county, and county soil conservationalist Jerry Setser, who were previously named as judges. The five judges will select two finalists in the local program. The finalists will be honored at theJaycee distinguished service award banquet on January 6, at which time the winner will be announced. The Jaycees are now taking applications for the local program. Local farmers interested in applying may contact Selking at his home or Van Poppel at radio station WADM. Final Day Monday, December 11, is the final day to enter the competition. To be eligible, the entrant must be between the ages of 21 and 35, and must be an actual farm operator deriving a minimum of twothirds of his income from farming. He need not be a Jaycee to enter. To enter the Decatur competition. the young farmbr must be an Adams county resident, living north of state road 124. Farmers living south of 124 may enter the JSenje Jaycqesycompetition. „ The winner of the Decatur and Berne contests, and winners from ,Jaycee chapters throughout the state, will then enter the statewide outstanding young farmer contest, which culiminates with a banquet in this city in February of 1965. The Decatur Jaycees and the Central Soya company are cohosts for the state-wide affair. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and not quite so cool tonight. Saturday mostly cloudy, rain affecting about 70 per cent of south portion by afternoon. Little change north, a little cooler south Saturday. Low tonight 36 to 43. High Saturday mostly in the 60s. Sunset today 5:38 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 7:20 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy north, mostly cloudy south. Continued mild. Lows generally in the mid 40s. Highs low to mid 60s.

of three members to count the votes. Two of the commissioners must be of opposite political parties. All three will receive $lO a day for the period of the recount. Th? petitioner and cross-petitioner pay the costs. In the 1959 recount, the commissioners found a 39-vote mar- . gin for the Republican candidate. Donald F, Gage.— The matter was—then appealed directly to the circuit court, and Judge Parrish himself ruled on the disputed bal- • lots, over which the candidates and the commission had not agreed. The final count was by a 42-vote margin against Mayor Cole. Large numbers of ballots had been found at that time to have been legally mutilated. May Appoint Friends Judge. Parrish and Lewton are close political friends, which could influence the appoinment of friendly commissioners. This is perfectly legal, since the decision to count or throw out many ballots is of such close decision that regardless of the choice made, the commissioners would probably be upheld .on a legal appeal to a higher court. . With 40 precincts, an error of 1% votes per precinct would mean the election of Lewton. The city election of 1959 involved only the recount of the Decatur nrecincts, 11 of them. At that time the cost of recounting 11 precincts was $275.53.

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G. O. P. Finds Self In Family Squabble

» Os WASHINGTON (UPI) — The GOP found itself in a chairthrowing family fight today, over the blame for Tuesday's election disaster and ways to rebuild or remodel the Republican party. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon asked for a cool-ing-off period while he threw crockery at New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. And while praising Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, he said the defeated presidential nominee should try to lead the party only if the Arizona senator’s views represent a consensus of Republican thinking. Rockefeller t called Nixon “peevish” and said the GoldwaNo One Injured In School Bus Accident Two cars and a school bus were involved in an accident on U. S. 33, three and a half miles south of Decatur, at 7:30 a. m. today. None of the children in the bus was injured in the mishap. The bus, driven by John William Johnson, 32, of route 3, Decatur, traveling south, had stopped to pick up some children at the Robert Sheets residence on U. S. 33. A car following the bus, driven by Moses E. Davis, of Dayton, 0., also stopped. Richard Allen Smith, 44, of Bellefontaine, 0., came up on the Davis car and was unable to stop In time, skidding some 101 feet into the rear of Davis’ auto. The impact shoved the Davis vehicle 42 feet into the rear of the bus. Deputy sheriff Harold August investigated the crash, which was blamed partly on the dense fog at the time. There was no one in either of the three vehicles injured. Damages were not listed. One-Car Mishap A 1961 model car was considered a total loss after a one-car mishap at 6:50 a. m. today that occurred on county road 32, four miles south and one mile east of Decatur. Donna J. Bowers, 20-year-old resident of route 6, Decatur, was southbound on the county road when her auto dropped off the west side of the road arid struck a cement bridge abutment. Her vision ahead was practically obscured by the heavy fog. She was taken to the hospitalfor treatment of a laceration of the lip, and later released. Deputy sheriff August again investigated.

First Attempt To View Mars Fails

CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) — The United States, thwarted by a freak mishap in its first attempt tp explore Mars, today readied' another Mariner probe for the same picture-taking mission. Mariner 3 died late Thursday night, 4 about nine hours after launch, despite the last-ditch efforts of a team of scientists to revive the complex, 565-pound spacecraft. The ship's twin, Mariner 4, sits atop another Atlas-Agena rocket ready for launch expected within two weeks. The ill-fated probe, designed to take 22 pictures of mysterious Mars and help lead the way for future space ship landings, now is speeding into orbit around the sun to become a lifeless space derelict. Project chief Jack N. James

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ter candidacy had divided the party and carried hundreds of Republicans down to defeat. Speaking more gently, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower said the GOP had been hurt but not wrecked. He said the GOP must rid itself of the ‘‘false image” that it was the party “for the rich and privileged.” Broad View* Eisenhower said the next Republican presidential candidate “must represent a broad spectrum of political thinking” but he suggested no names. Gov. William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania also spoke of the GOP image and said it must be changed to show that it is not. ah exclusive organization. He thought various groups of party leaders should meet and discuss what course the party should take. These .and other comments iame from Republican leaders ■■ after Goldwater’s statement Wednesday that he had no intention of withdrawing from politics or pulling out of his fight for conservatism. In their search for a scapegoat, GOP critics of the Goldwater campaign were asking for the retirement of Goldwater’s party chairman, Dean Burch, and John Grenier, executive director in national headquarters. One well-informed Republican source said the clamor for Burch's scalp was coming from the grass roots, from GOP state legislators and members of Congress in normally safe districts who were buried in the Democratic landslide this week. Names Thrown Out Many names were being advanced for the party. chairmanship, including Nixon. Gov. Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma suggested Nixon, several gov- , ernors and Bay C. Bliss, Ohio party chairman who has refused the job many times. Gov. Robert E. Smylie of Idaho nominated Gov. John Anderson of Kansas. Two other Republicans reported under discussion were Rep. Robert Taft Jr., who lost a cliff-hanger contest for an Ohio Senate seat, and former Rep. Walter Judd of Minnesota. Republican party rules provide no machinery for ousting Burch but he would be in a hopeless position if the GOP National Committee should approve a motion of “no confidence” in him at its next meeting. Sen. Hugh Scott, R-Pa„ who was reelected this week in a photo finish, faced a similar move as party chairman in 1949. He won a 54 to 50 vote of confidence but resigned a few months later.

early today blamed Mariner’s failure on a protective cover that apparently hung up on the space craft instead of being thrown clear during early stages of flight. He explained that the cover, which shields the delicate Mariner during launch, prevented the ship’s vital solar panel from unfolding to recharge its overstrained battery with energy from the sun. As a result, the battery failed and Mariner’s radio fell silent. James said the positive cause • of the trouble would not be determined for several days until volumes of data radioed back from Mariner are anaylzed. He said engineers' -would begin at once preparing to launch Mariner 4, the last space craft in the 4112 million, two-s hot Mars program. x