Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 266, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. NO. 266.

Johnson And Rusk Confer On Friction Among NATO Allies, Other Problems

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Securities Man *.. Is Lions Speaker Life insurance stock represents very good buys for those interested in growth, John Durham, field representative for Patterson Securities in the Fort Wayne area, told Decatur Lions Monday night. Durham, and local representative George Thomas, were introduced by program chairman Victor Porter. Porter announced that next week will be a ladies night, with the “Just Folk” trio singing for entertainment. The following ( meeting will be the regular 1 Thanksgiving meeting. Ted Hill called a meeting of the I Boy Scout committee for 8 p. m., and they met with Clarence Ziner. PJ’ssouri Graduate Durham, a graduate of the Uni- j versity of Missouri school of business in finance and banking, has specialized in life insurance stocks for several years. Explaining that Life Insurance investments are secured by state, j county, and city bonds and first mortgages, rigidly controlled by i examiners, free of foreign competition, free of labor problems, I with guaranteed premiums, gradually decreasing expenses, life insurance stockholders benefit from the fact that people are not dying as young as tables would indicate, that they have a 50% tax advant- | age over other businesses, and many other important features. Unusual Growth Duhram outlined the spectacular growth of several companies, explained mergers, forced mergers, stock splits, Irish stock splits, and many other interesting insurance company factors. The value of all life insurance companies is figured at $119.6 billion; of AT&T at $22,558 billion, and GM at $7,837 billion. But life companion paid $479 million in taxes, while GE paid $904 million, and AT&T paid $3,168 billion! Ulis indicates the tax break given to life insurance companies. After the meeting a number of Lions stayed to ask questions. G. Remy Bierly, recently elected judge of the appellate court, was given a rousing hand of applause by his fellow Lions. Associated Churches Will Meet Sunday The annual meeting of the Associated Churches of Decatur will be h«*ld Sunday afternoon at the Zion United Church of Christ. An executive meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m., followed by the general assembly at 2 o’clock. An election of officers and department chairmen will be Held at Sunday’s meeting. ,

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’INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy entire state tonight and Wednesday. Warmer north Wednesday. Low tonight mostly in the 40s. High Wednesday in the 60s north, 66 to 72 south. Sunet today 5:34 p.m. Sunrise Wednsday 7:25 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair and mild. Lows in the 40s. Highs low 70s. Career Night For Students Thursday i . K, John P. Ulmer The annual career night, sponsored by the Decatur Rotary club for high school students of Adams county, will be held at the Youth and Community Center Thursday evenig, according to an announcement today by George Litchfield, program chairman. Students from 'all four high school grades from the six Adams county schools are invited to attend the career night. The regular dinner meeting of the Rotarians will be held first, followed by the career night program at 6:45 p.m. Guest speaker for the evening will be John P. Ulmer, academic counselor at the Fort Wayne regional campus of Indiana University. Following Ulmer’s address, the students will be broken down into groups by vocations, and will meet with professional and business men who will offer counseling on the students’ preferred vocations. A lunch will be served following counseling session. Native Os Indiana Ulmer was born >at Topeka, where he attended both grade and high school. He received a bachelor «rs science degree in education at I. U. in 1952, and a master

JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (UPI) —Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrived by jet plane at LBJ Ranch today to discuss with President Johnson friction among the NATO allies. Rusk and the President also were to discuss other international problems. McGeorge Bundy, the presidential special assistant on national security affairs, was to join in the discussions. The President concentrated on trimming the defense budget and NATO problems in cabi-net-level talks at the ranch. Johnson is trying to keep his 1966 budget below the SIOO billion dollar mark. He hopes to trim waste from the defense budget to finance programs to make his “great society” a reality. The high-level budget review - —with the economy axe sharpened — began Monday with the arrival of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Depu’y Defense Secretary Cyrus R. Vance. They worked long into the night on preliminary defense aspending for the fiscal year starting July 1 and stayed overnight. Tour Over Figures The White House said Johnson and McNamara searched the figures with an eye for maintaining the “highest degree of national security within the lowest possible cost.” White House sources said Johnson has not settled on a total budget target, but that normal projections, including precommitted increases, would put it between $lO3 billion and $lO5 billion. The present over-all budget figure is $97.2 billion, of which $49.9 billion is earmarked for the Defense Department. There are 13 task forces at work drafting programs which Johnson may eventually include in his legislative recommendations. Officials pointed out these necessarily will increase the budget proposals. They also noted built-in money increases inherent in the new education and anti-poverty programs approved by Congress. To Study Budget Johnson planned to hold meetings over the next several weeks with agency heads to go over their budgets item by item, sources said. He also will review the task force recommendations. With the arrival of Rusk and Bundy from Washington, Johnson planned to throw the spotlight on the growing split in the Atlantic alliance over the creation of a multi-national nuclear fleet. The United States proposal for a NATO surface fleet armed with Polaris missiles is strongly opposed by France. Rusk has been sounding out st steady stream of European foreign ministers on the matter in Washington. Johnson is also expected to take up the stalemated war in , South Viet Nam. Ambassador, Maxwell D. Taylor plans to re- ’ tum to Washington from Saigon later this week. of science in 1953. After serving two years as an Army education advisor in Germany, he accepted a secondary teaching position in the Logansport public schools. During his eight years at Logansport, he held the positions of social studies teacher, guidance director, and assistant principal, continuing graduate work evenings and summers at Purdue University and Ball State Teachers College. In 1963 he entered I. U. where he was a fulltime graduate student and graduate assistant in the- reading and study clinic for one year. He was recently appointed academic counselor at Fort Wayne.

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Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Tuesday, November 10, 1964.

British Laborites Win By Six Votes LONDON (UPI) — The Labor government mobilized its slender majority today for the second major parliamentary challenge from the opposition Conservatives within 24 hours. Labor survived a crucial test Monday by a scant six votes. One Labor MP mustered in a wheelchair and another hobbled in for the Vote on crutches. Bad weather delayed the arrival of several othefs. Up for balloting today was a Conservative “no confidence” motion in the government’s ability to fulfill its plans “without damaging the program of modernization already in train and thus imperiling the future well-being of the people.” Prime Miister Harold Wilson’s Laborites were expected to win the vote by approximately the same margin—3o7 to 300 —'with which they staved off a ■mo’jon Monday to condemn their plans for re-nationalizing the steel industry. High drama permeated Monday night's vote—the first major challenge to the three-week old Labor government. It was not certain until the last vote was recorded whether Wilson could avert an embarrassing setback. Defeat Monday night could have brought down the govern-

Asks County Act On Sewage Problem

Mrs. Harriet E. Cowan, accompanied by her attorney, Robert S. Anderson, appeared Monday afternoon at the meeting of the Adams county commissioners to request the board to take action on a sewage problem created by the recent addition of a plat in the Tony Faurote addition. Mrs. Cowans and Anderson were requested to appear after the commissioners received and read a letter from Anderson on the question. Petition for approval of the plat was originally filed by Faurote last February. The section, known as Plat C of the Faurote development, contains 23 lots. On February 15 Anderson, representing Mrs. Coman, appeared before the commissioners and requested them not to approve the petition because Faurote had made no provision for disposal of septic tank affluent. < Faurote told the commissioners that the land purchased by the North Adams school board was due to be annexed and that when sewage lines were extended to school land at Bellmont park, Faurote would petition the city for annexation so that.his addition could utilize the sewage facilities. Faurote offered to post a SI ,000 bond that he do this. Approved Hat Several days thereafter the commissioners approved Faurote’s plat without requiring Faurote to post bond guaranteeing that he would petition for annexation and then utilize the city sewers. ■' Anderson’s letter to the commissioners re-informed them that affluent from septic tanks in the addition was flowing through an open ditch which runs across Mrs. Cowan’s land. The letter also pointed out that Faurote has made no attempt to petition the city for annexation of his plats, although a petition for annexation of the school board’s land has already been passed. The letter stated in part, “It is our understanding that the school city and other owners of land in the Bellmont area have taken the necessary steps to come into the Decatur sewer system by asking that their land be annexed to the city of Decatur, Indiana, and it

Selective Service Sends Contingent The Adams county selective service board sent 23 young men to Indianapolis this morning, one for active induction into the nation’s armed forces, and the others lor. physical examinations prior to active induction. Scheduled for induction today was Garry Wayne Fifer, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Fifer of Decatur route 2. The 22 youths sent for physicals were: Robert Harold Godsey, Mervin Leroy Parrish, Leroy Marlin Bohnke, Robert Henry Counterman, Jerry Blaine Gray. Edward Leo Brite, John Kenneth Rupp, Jesse Edwin Minch, Jerald Lee Cauble, Arthur Gerald Crozier, Elmer L. Schwartz. Jack Arthur Shoaf, Roger Frederick Pyle, Steven Otto Miller, Roy Eugene Thornton, Calvin Ernest Hofstetter, William E. Hilty, Michael Earl Johnston, Gary Dewayne Zuercher, James Bernard Eiting, Alvin C. Christner, Steven Lee Bailey. —: . -• ■- • •• • • ■ ■ . ment, as coul- a setback today. With 317 seats in the House, Labor holds a precarious five-vote majority over the combined 303 of the Conservatives and nine liberals seats.

is also our understanding that Mr. Anthony Faurote, owner of the Anthony Wayne Meadows subdivision, has not joined in the petition for annexation, and therefore would not be eligible to join in the city sewer since his land would remain outside the city limits. The commissioners told Anderson and Mrs. Cowan they would consider the matter. They later scheduled a meeting with Faurote for 9:30 next Monday morning. Approve Resolution The commissioners also approved final wording of a resolution which they passed July 6. The resolution pertaing to use of a dumping ground whic hthe commissioners purchased in the southern part of the county, between Berne and Geneva. The resolution reads: “Be it resolved that no person, firm or

Craigville Girl Is Killed In Accident

Miss Karen Sue Thomas, 14-year-old freshman at Lancaster high school in Wells county, was fatally injured about 8 o'clock this morning when the car driven by her brother, 16-year-oki Avery Thomas, went out of control on a gravel road. The girl victim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thomas of Craigville route 1, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton. Her brother was uninjured. The Thomas children were enroute to school and were only about one mile from home when the accident occurred near the interseciton of county roads 600 east and 300 north. Investigating officers, state trooper Dan Kwasneski, and sheriff Alva Smith and deputy sheriff Miles Hoopingarner, of Wells county, said Avery Thomas apparently lost control of the car, which skidded sideways about 300 feet, then into a ditch and rolled over once or twice, coming to a stop right side up in a field about

Decatur EUB < Is Conducting Fund Canvass The Decatur Evangelical United Brethren church is in the midst of a five-week building fund canvass program, with Chalmer Bollenbacher named general chairman for this significant event. An advance gift committee of Ivan Stucky, Earl Fuhrman, Chalmer Barkley, and Charles Kent, chairman, have begun their work of advance solicitation. A major step will be taken Wednesday evening when the members and friends of the church meet at the Youth and Community Center for a special congregational dinner. During the evening there will not be a formal address, but leaders of the local church will explain details for constructing and financing the new building. Those making presentations include: the Rev. F. P. Miller, the Rev. J. O. Penrod, Chalmer Bollenbache’-, Charles Kent, and A. Wayne Carr. A special gift brochure, with pictures of the new church, will be presented to each guest. Estimated need to complete the new construction is $546,000. The present campaign is designed to underwrite with cash or three-year pledges as much of this total need as possible. A high point of the evening will be a report of the advance gifts received to date. A hostess committee of 39 women and 11 youths under the chairmanship of Mrs. Lawrence Anspaugh, Mrs. Ivan Stucky, Mrs. Hubert Gilpin, and Mrs. Charles Kent, has extended personal invitations to 375 member families and friends of the church and will act 1 as personal hostesses at the tables during the dinner. Plans are being made to care for the younger children of the congregation at the Trinity church. Child care is “being provided by a group of ladies from the Methodist church.

corporation shall throw, dump or deposit any garbage, dead animals or parts of dead animals in the county dump located two miles south of Berne in Adams county, Indiana. “Any person, firm or corporation violating this resolution shall upon conviction be fined SIOO for each dump violation of this resolution. Any person, firm, or corporation which by its agents or employes shall violate this resolution, may be prosecuted therefore in the same manner as such person, firm or corporation may be prosecuted against for violation of this resolution. “This resolution shall be effective upon its passage.” The commissioners said they had already been notified of one violation of the resolution. They said that an investigation of the viqlation is currently being conducted.

55 feet off the side of the road. Karen was thrown out of the auto and suffered a fractured skull. Her brother stayed in the auto and was uninjured. The car, which was totally demolished, was equipped with seat belts, but they were not in use. Speed of’ the car was estimated at 55 miles per hour. Funeral Thanday The accident victim is survived by her parents; the brother, a junior at Lancaster Central; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Thomas of Bluffton route 3, and the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Stidham of Keavy, Ky. The family were members of the Church of Christ at Bluffton. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton, with the Rev. William R. Raney officiating. Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery . Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a. m. Wednesday until time of the services.

Drought Situation Serious In Indiana

By United Press International Indiana's drought situation grew more serious by the hour today as weather forecasts again showed no signs of rain for relief. Dry weather was indicated at least through Thursday, completing a four-month period during which showers were hard to come by and prospects of bumper crops deteriorated with a resulting loss of dozens of millions of dollars for Hoosier farmers. Brush and forest fires were reported on a sporadic basis over the southern portion of the state, and U.S. Forest Service officials said the fire threat was the worst in 12 years. A year ago some rather substantial showers in early November ended a drought that dated back to August. The rain shortage last year came a little too late to cause great harm to corn and soybean crops. But this year it started at a critical time for those crops and the result was a sharp decrease in the yield prospects. Statistics compiled at Lafayette by state climatologist \L. A. Schaal showed that the east central area of the state is 6.9

REDDY FEATHER SAYS: "TODAY'S DECATUR AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE COMMUNITY FUND BOY SCOUTS TOTAL IS GIRL SCOUTS $22,058.78 crippled children soc. The Goal Is LITTLE & PONY LEAGUES $29,834 Bn u - s °- YOUR BA salvation army Community Fund MENTAL Still Needs WT COMMUNITY CENTER $7,775.22 Jn AMERICAN RED CROSS dive The United Way >

Russia To Follow Coexistence Line

MOSCOW (UPl)—The Soviet Union, in the midst of truce talks with Communist China, stressed again today that it > will follow a policy Peking opposes —peaceful coexistence with the West. Pravda, the Communist party newspaper, said in an editorial that "the activity of the Soviet Union in the field of foreign policy is based on the Leninist principles of peaceful coexistence with states with different social systems.” Heavy Rains Lash North California By United Press International Gale-driven rains lashed the Northern California coast today while an Indian summer drought dried up crops in the Midlands. Near Burbank, Calif., searchers looked for the wife of singer Frank Sinatra’s pianist. Aimee Miller, 47, was missing after rain-triggered mudslides engulfed her home Monday. Eight other homes in the Sunset Canyon area were damaged by the wall of mud. The Western storms drenched Eureka, Calif., with nearly one and a quarter inches of rain and hit other Northern California towns with more than an inch- of rain. The rain changed to snow as it moved into the mountains. The heaviest snows were reported around West Yellowstone, Mont., where the Highway Department ordered motorists to use tire chains. Warnings of heavy snows and winds 40 to 60 miles per hour were issued for the Sierra Nevadas. To the east, farmers were in dire need of moisture. Forest fires crackled in West Virginia and Pennsylvania and the Agriculture Department declared counties in South Dakota and Indiana drought disaster areas. In Kansas, Agriculture Department statistician J. C. Pallesen said wheat farmers needed rain and snow—and lots of it—to carry their crops through the season. The California mudslides were started by rains which drenched the burned-out hills around Burbank.

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inches of rain short of the normal amount for the last 13 weeks. Other central areas are short 6 or more inches. Rainfall by areas since Aug. 10 includes east central 2 inches, central 2.9, west central 3, south central 3.3, southeast 3.5, southwest 3.7, northeast 5, north central 5.6 and northwest 7.1. The departure from normal for those areas for the same period was east central 6.9 inches, west central 6.7, central 6, south central 5.9, southwest 5.5, southeast 5.2, northeast 4.3, north central 3.5 and northwest 2.6, Schaal reported that only two other years since 1887 were drier for the August-through-October period. These were 1897 and 1908. Temperatures, meanwhile, remained mild with no indication of an early change to colder. Highs Monday ranged from 68 at most points around the state to 71 at Louisville. Overnight lows this morning ranged from 36 at Fort Wayne to 48 at South Bend. Highs today will range from 57 to 72, lows tonight in the 40s, and highs Wednesday from the 60s to 72.

Communist Chinese Premier Cou En-lai, who is reported»to be meeting privately with Soviet party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, has attacked co-exist-ence many times in the past as capitulation to the West. Peking’s more militant-policy was one of the main causes of the Sino-Soviet split. Informed sources said the Chou-Brezhnev talks would continue most of the week. Chou, they said, is trying to arrange further private talks in Peking early next year and seeks to put off a December meeting of 26 Communist parties. Ousted Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev called the December meeting as a preparatory step to expelling the Chinese from the world Communist movement. The final expulsion was to come at a Communist summit next summer. Pravda said today that a new world Communist meeting to deal with the Sino-Soviet conflict was "clearly overdue.” It avoided mention of the December meeting. It said such summits are “an effective means” of solving Communist differences. ~ But Chou was reported trying to obtain Brezhnev’s agreement to hold bilateral peace talks in Peking before putting the issue to the world meeting.

Open House Friday Al Decatur High To recognize national education week, November 9-13, Decatur high school—will hold its annual open house, Friday evening. The program will take place in the auditorium, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Hugh J. Andrews, principal, will open the program with a welcoming speech. A musical program will follow, presented under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold, choir director, and Richard M. Collins, band director. The dance band, high school band, freshman - sophomore choir and junior - senior choir will perform. » After the program, parents are urged to visit with the teachers and get better acquainted with the school and its facilities. Refreshments will be served in the cafeteria.