Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 271, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. NO. 271.

All 28 Aboard Airliner Killed As T win Prop jet Crashes On Mountain Top

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) — The wreckage of a twin propjet Bonanza airliner was found scattered across a lonely desert mountain top today and ground crews said there were no survivors among the 28 persons aboard. Sheriff’s deputies said it was impossible to reach the mesa top with either four-wheel drive vehicles or pack horses. Helicopters were landing on the mountain top and twinging the bodies down to the valley where motor vehicles transported them to nearby Arden, site of a temporary morgue. The, gleaming silver and white F 27 had disappeared from radar screens during a blinding snowstorm Sunday night as it approached McCarr an Field. The shattered remains of the plane were spread over the peak about five miles southwest of the field. Because of the snow on the ground and the ruggedness 'of the terrain confirmation that none had survived was delayed more than an hour after the wreckage was sighted. Charles Nichals, a pilot for Alamo Airways which aided in the aerial search, said “it’s pretty badly broken up.. .parts of it are scattered over 200 INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and cooler tonight. Mostly cloudy and cooler Tuesday. Low tonight in the 30s north, 37 to 44 south. Highs Tuesday 45 to 52 north, in the 50s south. Sunset today 5:29 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:32 a m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and cool. Lows lower 30s. Highs upper 40s north and mid 50s south.

State Ban On Fires Lifted

By United Press International General rain measuring up to more than two inches put a big dent in Indiana’s historic fourmonth drought today and prompted Governor Welsh to end a five-day ban on outdoor fires. Twenty-four hours of sporadic showers hit the central area hardest, and that was just where it was most needed. Rain has been seven inches short of normal there over the last 15 weeks. - Welsh issued a mid-morning proclamation cancelling a prohibition on trash and leaf fires which he imposed last Thursday when a series of forest and brush fires in the tinder-dry southlands created an emergency hazard that alarmed officials. The rain totaled 2.17 inches at Indianapolis, the biggest there since last March «8. Other central portions, hurt worst by a crop - damaging precipitation shortage dating back to midJuly, received between 1 and 2 inches. Southern points north of Evansville, including the tinderdry forest lands of the rolling hill country where residents - have been plagued by dangerous fires the past few days, generally got one-half to threefourths of an inch of moisture. That wasn’t enough to put down the fire danger permanently this fall, but foresters indicated it was a good start. Weather observers indicated that the way the rain fell, stretched out over a period of many hours, it soaked the soil much better than if the entire , amount had been recorded in a » relatively short time. There was little runoff. Other rain totals up to 7 am. today included Zionsville 1.85, Crawfordsville 1.78, Knightstown 1.74, Terre Haute 1.85, Noblesville 1.60, Anderson 1.46, New Castle 144, Covington 136, El-

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yards.” A Bonanza spokesman said the airline is “proceeding with notification of next of kin on the assumption there are no survivors.” Near Former Crash The wreck site is approximately five miles from the spot where actress Carole Lombard was killed in 1942 when a twinengine plane crashed on Potosi Mountain. The actress, then married to the late Clark Gable, was returning from a war bond sales campaign. A ground party sighted the wreckage of the Bonanza plane shortly after dawn on the mountain between Sloan and Arden near Interstate 15, the main highway connecting this gambling center with Los Angeles. The plane, Flight 114 en route to Las Vegas from Phoenix, Arlz., disappeared Sunday night in the worst snowstorm to hit this area in 15 years. It carried 22 passengers, three crewmen and three Bonanza employes making the flight to Las Vegas as extras. Frustrated By Storm An all-night hunt for the plane ,was frustrated by the storm, darkness, a power failure and disrupted communications. The fact the plane was silver and white further hampered searchers/ A varied 3-to-10 inches of snow blanketed this city of 225,000 persons as dawn broke, fog lifted and the snow stopped, enabling light planes and helicopters to take off to aid a ground party of about 100 persons in the search for the plane. During the night temperatures dipped into the low 30s and many roads, including Interstate 15 were closed or nearly

wood 1.25, Spencer 1.05. Amounts Below Inch Amounts below an inch included Muncie .96, Kokomo .98, Frankfort .98, Columbus .83, Bedford .77, Edwardsport .71, Lafayette .71, Austin .56, Hartford City .65, Portland .56, Shoals .51, Bluffton .55, Vincennes .49, Peru .56, Winchester .56, Medora .68, Seymour .45, Fort Wayne .43, Newberry .60, South Bend .31, Evansville .17, Louisville .19 and Cincinnati .56. The Indianapolis rain was the first measurable precipitation since Oct. 18. It came after a dry October in which only .64 of an inch fell, a September with only 1.27, and'an August with only .68. More showers may fall today, tonight and Tuesday. Forecasts said the showers would end this afternoon in the central portion of the state, tonight in the south, and Tuesday in the north. Rainfall' during the five day 'period ending Saturday was expected to total one-third to onehalf inch. Temperatures Stay Mild Temperatures; meanwhile, remained above normal. Highs Saturday ranged from 66 at South Bend to 76 at Evansville, and overnight lows early Sunday from 42 at Cincinnati to 51 at South Bend. Highs Sunday ranged from 65 at Lafayette to 77 at Evansville, and overnight lows this morning from 59 at South Bend to 62 at Evansville. Highs today will range from 58 to 72, lows tonight from the 39s to 45, and highs Tuesday from the low 50s to the tow 60s. The five-day outlook said temperatures will average 2 to 4 degrees above normal highs of 50 to 53 and normal tows of 31 to 36. “Cooler early in period with no important changes through remainder of week,” the outlook said. •>

imoassable. The search began shortly after 8:37 p.m., PST (11:37 p.m., EST) Sunday when the plane disappeared from the radar scope at McCarran Field. ** The plane was 8-to-9 miles from the airport when it disappeared from the scope and the pilot was making his final landing approach. The plane’s path took it across the famed Las Vegas strip and over Arden. Discuss Question Os Sewage Disposal Tony Faurote and his attorney, Robert Smith, appeared today at the meeting of the Adams county commissioners to discuss the question of sewage disposal for the Anthony Wayne Meadows subdivision built by Faurote. Faurote told the commissioners that he still intended to make a connection with city sewer lines. Faurote said that he would con* tact city engineer Ralph Roop to determine the necessary steps for making die connection. He said that he would then ask Roop to contact the commissioners and inform them of what steps were being taken to make the connection. Today’s action on the Anthony Wayne Meadows sewage question stemmed from an appearance at last week’s commissioners’ meeting by Mrs. Harriet E. Cowan and her attorney, Robert S. Anderson. Mrs. Cowan attended last week’s meeting to request the board to take action on the problem. She and her attorney pointed out that Faurote had stated his intention to make a connection with city sewage several months before, at the time that he filed the plat in question. She said that he had taken no action to make the connection. COunty Road Signs County engineer Walter Gilliom also appeared at the meeting to present the commissioners with specifications for the purchase and installation of a road numbering sign system for the county road system. The specifications call for 584 complete four-way sign units, installed, and for an additional 20 replacement units to be delivered to the county highway garage. William Schnepf, chairman of the county plan commission, attended the meeting to discuss purchase of eauipment for the commission’s office. Schnepf requested the commissioners to inform him if the plan commission is to receive the equipment from the county superintendent’s office, which is to be vacated next August. He pointed out that the commission will need to purchase only a few items if they are to receive this equipment. He also told the board that if the commission was not to receive the equipment, .then it would want to purchase new equipment very soon, so that money allocated for that purpose can be spent before it recerts to the county general fund. Funds allocated for a specific purpose revert to the general fund if not spent within the fiscal year. The commissioners told Schnepf that he could probably count cm getting most of the equipment in the superintendent’s office. They advised him to purchase the special fixtures which he know the commission would need and which are not available from the superintendent’s office. Expenses Are Filed By Two Candidates Two candidates in the recent general election have become the first to file the required expense statement showing expenses during the pre-election campaign. Republican Hugh David Mosser, defeated by Delmas (Mike) Bollenbacher in his bid for the county commissioner seat from the third district, filed a state-

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Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Monday, November 16, 1964.

CROP'sl Kickoff Banquet! Thursday

More than 230 reservations have alread been received for the CROP kickoff banquet at Adams Central cafeteria at 6:45 p.m. Thursday!, Mrs. Edith Beer, secretary, stated this morning. The Rev. Albert Farmer, national director of CROP, will be the kickoff speaker, as Adams county farmers seek to raise slor 000 toward the of $2lO,000. n Second Qlr/wte For the past threlXrears, Adam# county has ranked second in me state, and it raised nearly $9,000 last year. However, the number of Friendship Acres dropped from 50 to 38 this year in Adame county, and crops haven’t been as good as the past two or three years, so every worker will have to try harder, Mrs. Beer statedTownship chairmen have been appointed for each township, and they have secured their worker*, al ot whom are invited to attend the banquet, and bring their 300 will be present. Elkhart County Kickoff The largest kickoff meeting thsi year was held in Elkhart county, where 325 attended the kickoff banquet. Elkhart county has 230 Friendship Acres farmers, including several friendship farms. Last year the Adams county goal was $9,000, and $8,923 was rasied. The year before, the goal had been $7,000, and $8,670 was rasied, again for second in the state. Only Elkhart traditionally raises more than Adams county. In 161 the goal was $5,500 and r $6,632 was raised. Liechty Heads Drive Brice Bauserman, of the First Bank of Berne, headed the drive for several years, and Gordon M. Liechty is heading the drive this year. Liechty has actually handled CROP food as a Mennonite worker in the Congo. While the county may exceed its all-time high of 1948, when $9,607 was raised by the Farm Bureau, this would be doubtful - . Koscousko county, with 75 Friendship Acres farmers, also has a goal of $lO,000, as does Knox county, in the south part of the state. The CROP drive was reorganized in Adams county in 1958, and it has bettered itself every year since then in the program. CROP is the food arm of Church World Service, which represents 34 church denominations. Grain or money given during the CROP drive may also be designated to any other similar agency, such as Catholic Relief Services, or Lutheran World Relief, Mennonite Central Committee, or the National Association of Evangeli-. cals. If so designated, the entire’ Drivers Urged To Obtain Licenses Any person having a birthday this month, whose driver’s license will come due. is asked to get that license early this month, Mrs. Ray Heller, manager of the Decatur auto license bureau, " said today. The license bureau will be closed on Thursday, Thanksgiving day, and the following day, Friday, Nov. 27. This means those who wait until the end of the. month will have only Monday, Nov. 30, and the office will be very, very busy then. Thus, anyone who can is asked to please come in this week, or early next week, rather than wait for the last minute, Mrs. Heller explained. Driver’s licenses are dus every other year in the month of birth. ment showing $4lO expenses. Democratic incumbent treasurer Willliam L. Linn, unopposed in bald fora second term, filed expenses amounting to $20.35.

amount is given. s2oj,uoo Last Year Last year $205,000 was given in Indiana for CROP. Os this, $42,000 was used to distribute $960,000 worth of surplus food abroad. The rest was used to purchase food not in surplus, to buy and transport seeds, tools, etc., and self-help and teaching programs. Church World Service programs are originated in the foreign area being served, are outlined on paper to show that they are feasible and meaningful, and are then approved and scheduled by the national CROP board at Elkhart. In 1983, CROP campaigns were conducted in 22 agricultural states in 600 counties, A total of $1,454,046 was raised, a 13year record, and Indiana was the top state with a 24% gain and an all-time state record. 2,100 Tons of Food Church World Service shipped 2,100 tons of CROP food, seeds transmittals of $64,000 for overand agricultural equipment, made teas pdrchases in programs in 34 countries. Another $200,000 was used to pay the costs on 65,809,000 pounds of government surplus, 22.4% of the P. L. 480 shipments of CWS. The total value of CROP shipments and payments in 1963, was $719,000, and another SIOO,OOO was earmarked for early 1964. (The 1963 campaign money has to last until the end of 1964. when the 1964 drive is completed, and the states send in their collected amounts). Campaign Is Opened On Christmas Seals Robert Zwick, president of the Adams county tuberculosis association, announced the opening of the 1964 Christmas seal campaign today. Approximately 6,400 lettPFs containing seals have been mailed to individuals, business houses and organizations. Health bonds of $5, $lO, $25 and SSO are again being offered to organizations. Eighty-one cents of each contributed dollar remains in Adams county for support of the local TB program, and 19 cents goes for research and other work of the state and national programs. Approximately 2,500 x-rays were taken during two x-ray surveys during the past year in industry and at various public stations. The tuberculin Tine test was given to more than 2,000 children in grades 1,7, 9 and 12 in * the public and parochial schools of the county. In addition to these activities, the Adams county TB association participates in health education, helps finance research projects, cooperates with the Iren Byron hospital, and assists in rehabilitation of tuberculosis patients. Financed By Seals The complete program is financed by the sale of Christmas seals, as the association has no other source of revenue. . Zwick and other association members expressed their thqnks to Mrs. Robert Zwick and the following Girl Scouts and their leaders for their assistance in’ preparation of the Christmas seal letters: Troop 573 — leader, Mrs. Woris Williamson, Debra Gaunt, Kathy Roughia, Marta Hitchcock, Sandy Duff, Joyce Williamson, Vicki Everett, Pam Gaunt, Susan 1 McConnell, Patty Kaehr, Lou Ann Meyer, Brenda Roughia, Darlene Merriman, Rita Schwartz, Deana Dolch; Troop 222 — assistant leader, Mrs. Dean Boltz, Deborah Bolt, Theresa Girod, Janet Rickard, Linda Johnson, Cindy Felty, Debby Zerkel, Diane Evans, Linda Nash; Troop 377 — Deborah Bodie.

I yi BimO HB I|j ! ■Wr -<T' '' PRODUCTION BTOPB— Unfinished Ford cars sit on the assembly line in Dearborn, Mich., as the company faces total shutdown due to strikes at nine plants around the nation. Ford Motors laid off workers at the finai-assemblv plant even thought it has been operating six days a week.

Race Against Time In Labor Troubles

By DONALD ZOCHERT United Press International A race against time began today in an effort to settle or head off strikes that could paralyze Ford Motor Co. operations and the nation’s railroads by the end of the week. Efforts continued to end strikes against Allis - Chalmers Manufacturing Co. plants in four cities, the Detroit Newspaper walkout, a strike against Corn Products Refining Co. and the West Coast pulp and paper company strikes. A total of more than 32,000 workers are involved. Ford, its production of 1965 cars and trucks dwindling under the impact of scattered local strikes toy toe United Auto Workers union (UAWI, was expected to shut down its major assembly centers by Friday if the disputes are not resolved. Nearly half of Ford’s 130,000 hourly rated workers were on strikeor idled because of the walkouts, some of them at key plans manufacturing parts without which projection eventually will have-'lb come to a halt. Five of the original nine locals that went on strike Nov. 6 despite a national agreement between Ford and the UAW, still were out today. Schedule Meeting Negotiators for six railroad shopcraft unions were scheduled to meet today with federal mediators in a last-ditch effort to head off a possible nationwide rail tie-up. The six AFLCIO unions could walk out Friday. Union official Michael Fox announced a news conference for this afternoon in Chicago. He was expected to formally announce the strike plans. j’.E. Wolfe, chief railroad negotiator, also was in Chicago in case the unions decide to renew talks directly with the carriers. Fire Chief Revokes Ban On Open Fires Sunday afternoon’s rain fall led Decatur fire chief Cedric Fisher to lift the city-wide ban on open fires passed last week. Fisher said that the rains had lessened considerably the danger of trash and leaf fires spreading. The city ban was issued in conjunction with a state-wide ban proclaimed by Gov. Matthew - Woliah — - Welsh's order declared that an emergency fire hazard existed throughout Indiana. The order prohibited burning of leaves and trash, and discarding matches, cigarettes or ashes from motor vehicles until the emergency was passed.

REDDI FEATHER SAYS: "TODAY'S DECATUR AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE COMMUNITY FUND BOYSCOUTS TOTAL IS Z GIRL SCQUTS $23,455.78 crippled children soc. The Goal Is LITTLE & PONY LEAGUES $29,834 Kb °- s 0 YOUR M SALVATION ARMY Community Fund MENTAL HEALTH Still Needs COMMUNITY CENTER $6,378.22 AMERICAN RED CROSS fiivo Um Ualted Way

The dissident unions include machinists, boilermakers, sheetmetal workers, oilers and electrical workers. The chief issue ~in the dispute is the union demand for a wage increase in excess of the 27 cents an hour over a three year period. The 27-cents pay boost was approved by a presidential emergency board earlier this year. One strike was technically over today but production was unlikely to resume. The Printing Pressmen’s union Local 13, which has been on strike against the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News for 126 days, voted Sunday to end the walkout against the Free Press, The first real ehink in the Detroit newspaper strike was seen by Lawrence Wallace, executive secretary of the Detroit Newspaper Publishers Association, as a "whipsaw effort" by the union to drive a wedge between the city’s two daily newspapers. Wallace said union members trying to return to work today at the Free Press would be told there is no work. “The strike will end at both newspapers on the same day. with the signing of a new contract," he said. Other Developments In other developments on the labor scene: —More than 700 local union presidents of the United Steelworkers meet in New York City today to help formulate demands in forthcoming contract negotiations with the basic steel, industry. —New negotiations were set in the nation's capital today in an attempt to settle the fiveday strike of 48 pulp and paper producing plants in Oregon, Washington and California. About 21,000 workers are on strike. The walkout of 10,700 United Auto Workers at five AllisChalmers Manufacturing Co. plants in four cities began its second week. National agreements remain to be reached with the United Auto Workers in plants at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; La Crosse, Wis.; La. Porte, Ind.; West Allis, Wis.; and Springfield, 111. —An eight-day strike by from 60 to 100 Louisville, Ky., schoolteachers was expected to end today at the urging of teachers union leaders. The teachers want more money and better working conditions. The Oil, Chemical and Atonrie— Workers International union planned to ask federal mediators today to set up more talks in an effort to end a 117-day strike against the Corn Products Refining Co. in Pekin, HL . mi

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November Term Os Court Opens Today The November term of the Adams circuit court opened this morning with Judge Myles F. Parrish hearing pleas by Thomas and James Garwood, and Glen Dague. The Garwoods entered please of not guilty to third degree burglary and theft charges and Dague pleaded not guilty to a charge of check forgery, and both will have jury trials during December. Coming up Wednesday, the third day of the new term, will be a jury trial concerning a suit for 115,000 damages yenued to this county recently from Fort Wayne. Judge Parrish called the petit jurors after the 24 names were drawn last Monday, and they are due to be impaneled at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning when the wnue case, Ida Chaney vs. the city of Fort Wayne, opens. The Fort Wayne lady is asking $15,000 damages for injuries suffered in an alleged fall on a public sidewalk in Fort Wayne on February 29, 1963. She claims the city was negligent in maintaining and repairing its public sidewalks. The 24 persons drawn for petit | jury by county clerk George M. 1 Bair last week were as follows: Hubert G. Gilpin, Paul Hilyard, Forest Beer, Norbert Aumann, William Journay, Robert K. Ehrman, Lawrence Anspaugh, Leroy Bollenbacher, Clarence Amstutz, Glen A. Rupert, Glen Manley, Marvin Hart, Wilson Weiland, Donald W. Moser, Warren W. Harden, Walter Hildebrand, Merle L. Foor, Dorsey Bisel, Walters, Glen W. Adams, Daniel Habegger, Gerald Tullis, Ivan Hakes and Ward Houser. Lloyd E. Bowman Is Taken By Death Lloyd E. Bowman, 69, of 911 Winchester street, resident of Adams county most of his life, and a retired Central Soya Co. employe, died at 1:15 p.m. Sunday at the Adams county memorial hospital He had been in failing health for six months and hospitalized for the past 10 days. He was born in Adams county March 18, 1895, a son of William and Abbie Studebaker-Bow-man. He was married in 1919 to Frances Bucher, who preceded - him in death in 1947. He was married to Justeen Tomlinson, Jan. 10. 1948. Mr. Bowman was a member or the Zion Lutheran church. He He was an employe of Central Soya for 22 years prior to retirement March 31, 1961. Surviving in addition to his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Leonard (Eileen) Morrison of Decatur; a stepson, Gene Boitet of Fort Wayne: two grandchildren, Cheryl and Gary Morrison; three brothers, Edward Bowman of Baltimore, Md.. Charles Bowman of Bluffton, and Russel Bowman of Pierceton, and two sisters, Mrs. Orval (Edith) Barger of Craigville, and Mrs. Russel (Viola) Melchi of Decatur. Two sis- ’ ters and one brother are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Richard C. Ludwig officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call lat the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services.