Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 3 December 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 285.

Angry Partisan Clash As Senate Hearing Continues .. . *' * -ft • _ Into Case Os Bobby Baker

WASHINGTON (UPD—Senate hearings into the Bobby Baker case resumed today with an angry partisan clash when the Democratic counsel accused GOP Sen. John Williams of telling “an unalterable untruth.” Sen. Carl T. Curtis, R - Neb., heatedly complained the remarks by counsel Lennox P. McLendon were an “impertinence” such as “I’ve never witnessed before in my years in Congress.” But Democratic Sen. Claiborne Pell, R.1., defended McLendon against Curtis. “T h e man has a right to speak,” Pell said. Then he added, “because he (Williams) is a senator, he’s not a god.”

Arrest College Demonstrators

BERKELEY, Calif. (UPD — Steel helmeted police today began arresting 900 University of .California “free speech” sit - in demonsOatprs. Rebel leaders.. urged other students to join a campus general strike. Acting on orders of Gov. Edmund G. Brown, a force of 410 Berkeley police, sheriff’s officers and highway patrolmen marched with military precision to the administration building at 3:45 a.m. and began hauling out students who had occupied the building since 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. Demonstrators went limp in the classic passive resistance tactic. The first person arrested was Robert Treuhaft, Oakland attorney and husband of Jessica Mitford, author of the best-sell-ing “American Way of Death.” Treuhaft, frequently identified with civil rights causes, had spent the night" with the demonstrators in Sproul Hall. The arrests were made after university Chancellor Edward

Minor Surgery Is Performed On LBJ

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson was operated on today for the removal of a benign type of lesion from the back of his right hand. The White House described the ailment as a small hyperkeratosis, a thickening of the skin on the hand. Press Secretary George E. Reedy said there was no malignancy. The operation was performed in the President’s beedroom. It did not interfere with Johnson’s immediate schedule. He kept an appontment to speak at Georgetown University where he received an. honorary degree. But he appeared restless and was perspiring. On his hand he wore a small, flesh colored bandage, marking the spot where the surgery was performed. While seated during the early part of the Georgetown ceremony, he smoothed his hair several times and shielded his eyes against the glare of lights. He subsequently asked that television lights be turned off until he started speaking. Reedy said the operation lasted 20 to 30 minutes. He described it as a “very small things”, that would not interfere with Johnson’s normal routine. A reporter asked Rejjdy if Johnson might be “laid up” at all by the operation. Reedy replied, “Not in the slightest.” The President’s right hand became calloused and nicked by enthusiastic hand shaking during the presidential campaign. Reedy was asked whether that might have

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The flap came as the committee resumed its investigation into charges that former Senate aide Baker acted as middleman in a scheme to funnel $25,000 from a government stadium contract into the 1960 Democratic campaign and to various individuals. Admits Being Bagman Insurance man Don B. Reynolds testified Tuesday that he was the “bagman” in the alleged deal in which builder Matthew H. McCloskey overpaid for insurance coverage on the contract, and most of the excess went to the 1960 Democratic campaign fund and to several individuals. Williams, of Delaware, was a

W. Strong told the demonstrators to disperse or be taken into custody. Tliey responded with passive resistance and chants .at “freedom mow,” so officers begari the' task’ of carrying them out. The students, part of a so:alled “free speech movement” on the campus, began the sit-in Wednesday after university officials refused their demands that no disciplinary action be taken against movement leaders for previous demonstrations this fall. The sit-ins were locked in the building by campus police Wednesday night after ignoring a direct order to “get out.” Some slept on the floors, others talked in small groups or sang to soft guitar and banjo music. One group of co-eds played jacks on the floor. University President Clark Kerr said recently that demands of the movement leaders were incompatible with orderly operation of the university.

caused—or contributed to—the ailent. Reedy replied that he was advised that the thickening was caused by exposure to the sun. He said he understood that the thickening had "been forming for some time.” Reedy said the operation was performed by Capt. Gustave T. Anderson, chief of dermatology at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. He said Dr. Peter Horvath, professor of dermatology at Georgetown University, assisted. INDIANA WEATHER Rain continuing extreme south, sleet and freezing rain developing in ocntral portions and snow spreading across extreme north tonight Predptation changing to snow* north and central and rain becoming mixed with snow extreme south Friday. Two to six inches of new show accumulating north and central during tonight and Friday. Turning a little' colder south half late tonight and Friday. “ Low tonight in the 20s north, to 38 south. High Friday 28 to M north, in the 30s south. Sunset today 5:21 p.m. Sunrise Friday 7:50 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Cloudy and colder with light snow or snow flurries north and central. rain south possibly mixed with snow at times and a little colder. Lows 18 to 22 north, S to N south. Highs arid 20a north to mid 3fo exIMMMI OMttL

prime mover in the Baker investigation and has been sitting in on the hearings. He triggered today’s outburst when he said he had suggested to McLendon that the staff look into other McCloskey contracts, including construction of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters in suburban Virginia. McLendon promptly denied that Williams had made any such suggestion to him or the committee staff. “That is absolutely and unalterably untrue. I deny that,” the 74-year-old counsel declared. Curtis then jumped in to say he had never heard such disrespect from a Senate employe to a member. But Pell defended McLendon and McLendon declared he had a “perfect right” to speak when he felt an untruth had been said. “He (Williams) ought to at least tell the truth,” McLendon said. Asks Counsel To Withdraw Curtis suggested that McLendon withdraw as counsel, but did not press it. The subject of the CIA building was the first public mention of any other contract in the wide-ranging., inquiry -into the outside*" business ’activities Baker. It added to a welter, of new evidence that has been placed before the commi'tee, much of it linked to the secret testimony of Reynolds last Tuesday before the public hearings. It involved the mystery role of a German beauty, alleged payoffs from the TFX airplane defense con- , tract and former White House aide Walter Jenkins. Curtis asked Baker if German beauty Mrs. Ellen Rometsch, whose name has cropped up repeatedly in the case, had ever told him she was an employe of the Commu- ■ nist East German government. Baker refused to answer that question just as he refused to answer others Curtis posed. These concerned whether Baker had used' his influence in the controversial TFX fighter plane contract award, and whether former White House aide Walter Jenkins had helped arrange an ou’-of-court settlement of a law suit against him. In fact, Baker invoked constiftutional protections 45 times in declining to answer, or produce records, about any of his wideranging activities. It was the ' second time the former Senate Democratic secretary had re--1 fused to testify before the committee. Baker’s' Refusal posed a dilemma for the committee. Investigators now are faced with two comple’ely different explanations for a $36,000 payment to Reynolds. The money has figured prominently in the committee’s inquiry into the tangled insurance arrangements for construction of the sl7 million Dis’rict of Columbia Stadi- : um. The two explanations went like this: — Philadelphia builder Matthew H. McCloskey, longtime . Democratic party fund-raiser and former U. S. ambassador to Ireland, told the committee Wednesday his comnany mistakenly made duplicate payments for liability insudance coverage on the stadium job. McCloskey and several executives of his firm said a “goof” resulted in the double payment to a Philadelphia insurance firm and to Reynolds. He said he was taking steps to recover the money paid Reynolds and he denied that the payment was part of any kickback d»al to funnel mone to the 1960 Kennedy - Johnson campaign fund. - - ■— Reynolds earlier told the committee there was no mixup at all. He said Baker and McCloskey had arranged in advance for the overpayment. He said he understood the “excess funds” were apportioned to the camoaign and to several individuals, including Baker "and himself. He called himself the “bagman” in the alleged deal.

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Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Thursday, December 3, 1964.

I Yosl Construction Awarded Contract The Yost Construction company, of Decatur has been “re-award-ed” a contract for construction of a pumphouse for the new Van Wert, 0., city reservoir. The Yost firm was previously to have received the contract after submitting the winning bid at an Oct. 27 bid ietting. But the city of Van Wert, to sidestep a threatened lawsuit by one of the other bidders, tossed out all the bids and scheduled a new bidtaking date. The second set of bids was taken by the city Tuesday. The Yost base bid was $219,000, approximately $7,000 lower than the next lowest bidder. Robert Yost told Van Wert officials that the firm will start construction on the pumphouse as soon as materials are available. He said that completion of the work can be expected within 250 days of the start of construction. Items on the base bid include ' a* raw ; " water " pumping -station,« screening equipment, raw water pumps, piping, electrical installar tions, a roadway, fencing, seeding and a raw water force main. The city of Van Wert originally threw out all the Oct. 27 bids because of a lawsuit threat from the K. and P. Excavating company of Lima. Robert Balyeat, attorney for K. and P., contended that the Lima firm submitted the lowest base bid, but that city cfficials deducted items from the bids and recomputed costs. On the basis of these deductions and recomputations, he said, the Yost firm became the lowest bidder. Van Wert officials said that the bids received at the Oct. 27 bidding were too high, and that it was necessary for them to delete some items to attain a cost figure within reach of the city’s finances. In this week’s rebidding the K. and P. proposal was the highest of all four firms submitting bids.

First State CROP Report Is Released The first state CROP report shows Adams county in fifth position, with very incomplete returns, and $1,232.66 reported to the state CROP office so far, state director Gerald L. Wilson reported this morning. A township-by-township report of Adams county will be gjven Friday morning by county CROP treasurer Brice Bauserman, and it will indicate how much has been turned in so far by the 12 township chairmen or co-chair-.ipen. Bauserman did indicate that he had totalled Monroe township, which has already turned in $l,lOO, which is not included in the total sent into the state already. One Large Gift The total listed by the state director includes one very generous gift of SI,OOO from an anonymous farmer in the south part of the county, made earlier this year, and $232.66 turned in by the Geneva EUB youth fellowship from their “pop for CROP” popcorn sale last May in Geneva. TTiey were tons in the state contest for youth groups. As expected, Elkhart county leads the state with a $19,000 total so far. Their goal is $25,000 this year. Miami county is now in second place with $3,373.11 turned in to the state. Jasper county is third with $1,516.97, Whitley county is fourth with sl.295.31, and Adams fifth. Wells county is presently in 11th place, with SBIB turned in. Geel b $216,000 About $33,000 has been turned

Mode O'Day Store To | Open Here Friday , Mode O’Day, presenting- the smart, new 'look of California-de-signed fashions and acessories, announces the opening of its new Decatur store, 123 North Second street, Friday morning. It is the newest addition to the Mode O’Day organization of over 800 stores throughout the country. Mrs. Evelyn Disher, new store owner, states that Mode O'Day’s “enviable reputation for quality fabrics, smart styling, excellent fit and craftsmanship has made Mode O'Day a first-stop valueshop for the homemaker, career girl and teenager, for over 30 years. “With its main offfice in Los Angeles, where the casual style in living and fashion originates, Mode O'Day designers create new fashions for the lowest possible cost. Fashioned from quality cottons, cotton blends, acetates, wool jersey, cotton knits, synthetic fabrics, wool and wool blends from the finest mills, these deMe .-then authoritative fashion board of company executives. “Skilled workmen in nine ultramodern factories throughout the country then grade the pattern, cut, sew, finish and ship the fashions to stores as rapidly as possible, keeping stock at peak freshness. “One of the largest producers of ready to wear in the world. Mode O’Day offers a beautiful line of daytime, casual, and af-ter-five apparel with complete departments featuring sportswear, coats, robes,, sweaters, lingerie and colorful accessories Including costume jewelry and imported handbags.”

Memorial Services At Elks On Sunday Annual memorial services of the Decatur Elks lodge, honoring deceased members of the fraternal organization, will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the home on North Second street. The memorial address will be delivered by the Rev. Elbert Smith, Jr. _.,pastor of the First Presbyterian church in this city. Services will be conducted by Roger Blackburn, exalted ruler of the Elks, assisted by officers, of the lodge. Special music will be sung by a men’s quartet, accompanied by Mrs. William Gass. Members of the quartet are Lawren Arnold, Earl DeWeese, Laures Meyer and LaVern Roth. Seven members of the Elks have died during the past year. They are Fred J. Bashara, F.- J. Schmitt, Iris Lehman, Jesse G. Niblick, Bubord Dull, .George M. Krick and Arthur B. Kleinhenz. The public is invited to attend, and a special invitation is expended to ’familes of the deceased members. I in toward the state goal~of $216 - 000. Adams county’s goal is SIO,OOO this year, and two other . counties, Kosciusko and Knox, also have the same goal. Adams [ county had a kickoff meeting second in attendance only to that of Elkhart county. AU. workers are asked to turn In their 'collections as soon «• as completed to their township chairmen, who in turn are asked to send their township totals to the county CROP treasurer, Brice Bauserman, First Bank of Berne, as quickly as possible. i Bauserman must have all of his totals added up, verified, and sent in to th- state office by Dec. 14 to have them count on this year's I total.

Selking Winner Os New Orleans Trip

Jerry Selking

Jerry Selking, a 17-year-old Decatur Catholic high school student, and one of Adams county’s outstanding 4-Hers, has been named the recipient of a sevenday trip to New Orleans. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Reiney Selking of route 2, Decatur, Jerry is one of some 10 or 12 youths from the entire state of Indiana who was awarded such a trip. The local youth will depart from Terre Haute, along with an Ossian boy who also won a trip, early Saturday morning, and return to Decatur Saturday evening, December 12. Young Selking entered the competition for this trip while he attended the state fair national junior vegetable growers association. He had won a trip to the fair in September. Writes Composition Selking won the New Orleans trip on a composition he wrote entitled, “What we learned from the exhibits in the Purdue Btiildki2.“ a Rfirfessors. Rosco Frazer a&T W. R. flmi.ek? judges, also took into consideration their 4-H achievements in their counties. This is a field in which Jerry excels. Including those of this year, the local youth will have carried and completed some 63 projects. A member of the Preble Rough Riders for the past seven years, Jerry is the first Adams county 4-H---’er to not only win the trip to the state fair, but a trip such as he won he will take to New Orleans 24-Hour Ride According to the letter he received from Prof. Frazer, the chartered bus taking the Indians boys to. New Orleans will rtop only to refuel, change drivers, and for the members of the national junior vegetable growers association to eat as the trip will require approximately 24 hours. Chaperones will be with the youths at all times, and some of the places Selking and the rest of the group will visit include the following: Standard Oil refinery, a seaport, a sugar plantation, Baton Rouge, the French Quarter and the waterfront. In addition, there will be steamboat ride on the Mississippi and while on the boat, the young people will have supper and enjoy square dancing in the evening.

William Hamrick Dies This Morning William E. Hamrick, 74, died at 10 a.m. today at his home in Black Creek township, Mercer county, 0., four miles south of Willshire. He had been in failing health since suffering a heart attack Sept. 13. He was born in Willshire township, Van Wert county. May 6, 1890, a son of Miles and Amanda Garwood-Hamrick and was married to Maude Cordell Feb. 16, 1913, in Chattanooga, Tenn. They had lived in Black Creek townshio since 1916. Mr. Hamrick was employed at the Pennsylvania railroad shops in. Fort Wayjae_tor 30 years - before his retirement in 1952. He was a member of the Union EUB church at Willshire Surviving are his wife; two sons. Herman H. Hamrick of Willshire route 1, and Cloyde E. Hamrick of Decatur route 6; two daughters, Mrs. Kenneth (Bessie L.) Sanders of Monroe route 1, and Mrs. Homer (Virginia C.) Landis of Decatur route 6; 12 grandchildren; five great-grand-children; seven brothers, Calvin H. Hamrick of Decatur route 6, John W. Hamrick of Van Wert, Rov C. Hamrick of Dectaur, Samuel L. .and Jess R. Hamrick, both of Willshire, Albert O. Hamrick of Ohio City, 0., and James E. Hamrick of Wren, O.; and one sister. Mrs. Harold (Goldie) Joseph of Convoy, 07 Two brothers

Sebree Heads Top Committee

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — House speaker-elect Richard Bodine today appointed Rep. William Sebree of Anderson as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee for the 1965 session of the Indiana Legislature. Sebree’s appointment confirmed a reported compromise agreement which led to Bodine's choice as speaker at a Democratic caucus earlier this Week. Sebree's committee is the most powerful in the House because revenue bills must originate in the House and the Ways and Means Committee is the gateway for all legislation for the budget committee and other spending measures. Although Lt. Gov.-elect Robert L. Rock has not yet named the counterpart Senate Finance Committee chairman, best guesses were that it will be Sen. Robert P. O’Bannon of Corydon, veteran member of the State Budget Committee. Rock appoin'ed Sen. Marie T. Lauck, a former House member, as chairman of the Senate Patronage Committee. Freshmen lawmakers proved themselves practical people by questions they asked panels of veteran representatives and senators at separate sessions of the third day of their pre-legislative conference. Questions were similar and included such queries as when and how they would be paid and how to obtain General Assembly license plates. The subject of pages sparked lively debates in both meetings. A committee previously urged that the legislature limit the number of pages and require them to be high school or college age. — Sen. J. J. Bailey, of boys a'nd girls to whom he has promised appointments as pages. He said “I will be in a dilemma if this rule is adopted.” The rule will bo voted on after the legislature opens Jan. 7. Sen. Nelson Grills, D-Indian-apolis, offered a formula .for reducing the number of page applications? “I require all who ask me about being pages to write letters explaining why they want to be pages," he said. “Then I require they report to their, schools on what they saw. This reduces the number.” The freshman lawmakers were advised "by panelists to get co-authors on their bills from, membership of committees to which the bills most likely would be referred. Sen. J. R. Rees, R-Columbus, urged them to read the Sta'e Legislative Advisory Commission’s books containing studies

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BULLETIN DETROIT (UPD — Police said today six persons, including four children, were shot to death and a seventh critically wounded at a trait home pn the .far east 7 ~ side. They said the only one still alive in the home was a three-ynar-old child and “he is not expected to live.”

and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m Sunday at the Union EUB church )at Willshire, with the Rev. Howard McCracken and the s Rev, Robert Heckman officiating. Burial will.be in the Willshire cemetery. The body * was removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. Friday. The body will lie in state at the church from 1 p.m. Sunday until time of the services.

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by all interim committees. He said 85 per cent of the bills developed under the commission’s sponsorship were enacted in 1963 and he warned "you will be bombarded by various groups wanting you to introduce bills.” Today's final session featured a parade of state agency and department heads with their recommendations for new legislation and, in all likelihood, a pitch for more money. Money occupied a large share of the spotlight Wednesday with the presentation of the budget prepared by the adminisl. ation of outgoing Governor Welsh and with a plea from presidents of the four state-supported colleges and universities for restoration of funds cut from their budget requests by the State Budget Agency. The proposed budget for the 1965-67 biennium called for an increase of S2BO million in state spending above the present biennium. Branigin said Wednesday afternoon following a conference with Welsh that he does not intend to make changes in the $1.7 billion budget “without a lot of consideration.” He said he felt the budget prepared by the administration of his felldw-Democrat was “complex and heavy” and deserved "a lot of consideration” before any changes were made. Branigin has said several times he expects to reduce state spending but has not specified any budget items he definitely plans to cut. The first criticiSfn of the proposed budget came Wednesday •from the college and university presidents who said a $36 million cut in construction money they sought will "Stymie” them ; . unlrss a bontjjng.. authority . law i is enacted. 5 Dr. Frederick Hovde, Purdue t University president, said the ; Budget Agency’s action in cut- . ting the $56 million joint con- > struction proposals of Indiana, Ball State and Indiana . State to S2O million “simply stymies us,” “We can’t do the job on this amount,” Hovde said. i He said, however, that the schools will be able to manage Jf the legislature enacts a proposal giving them authority to issue construction bonds for . academic buildings. He noted that a. similar measure was defeated in 1963.

No One Injured In Four-Car Accident A four-vehicle accident occurred Wednesday afternoon at the south edge of Berne, on U. S. 27, within the city limits. The mishap occurred as Philip ~ Hough, 17, of route 2, Geneva, was traveling south on U. S. 27 when the auto went into a skid and traveled across the road and into a ditch, with the rear end nearest the highway. Agnes Strickler, 65, of route 3, Punta Gorda,. Fla., was also southbound and her auto’s right front slipped off the road and struck the rear of the Hough vehicle. After striking the Hough car, the Strickler automobile careened across the highway and struck two northbound vehicles, one operated by Treva Johnson, 45, of Portland, and the other by Larry Grile, 22-year-old Portland resident'. No one was injured in the fourcar pileup, but damages amounted to more than sl/100. Deputy sheriff Warren Kneuss and Berne police chief Don Grove estimated the damages as follows: Hough car, 1100; Strickler - car, $450; Johnson car, $275;' Grile car, S6OO. Two Minor Mishaps Two other minor mishaps oc 7 ”~«ffred Wednesday. Nancy E. Brodbeck, 19, of St. Marys, 0., reported to the sheriffs department that at 3:05 p. m. her auto left the road two miles south of the city on U. S. 33. Nothing was damaged, however. Also Wednesday, Luke Branes, of route 1, Monroeville, lost cun trol of his car on U. S. 224, east ■ of Decatur, and struck the fence at the Raymond Kolter property. i No damages were listed. i At 5:45 p. m. Wednesday, Mart- : in L. Huser, 56, of Monroe, lost ' control of his pick-up truck while - traveling north on IL" S. 27. two r miles south of Berne. ‘ ■ : The pick-up went out of control s•> and slipped off in the ditch. 1 Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $75.