Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1964 — Page 1

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Pres. Johnson, British Prime Minister Wilson Launch Series Os Talks

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson and visiting British Prime Minister Harold Wilson today began a crucial series of talks on the fu'ure shape of the Western Alliance. They exchanged pledges to work together for mutual security and the peace of the world. “We can begin together to explore complex and important problems facing us and facing our allies,” the President told Wilson at a formal welcoming ceremony on the White House lawn. Wilson, taking note of the “stresses and strains” which are plaguing the NATO powers, promised that Britain would make the greatest contribution it could to new arrangements for nuclear strategy as well as on other issues. This morning’s 90 - minute mee'ing was scheduled to be followed by another session between Johnson and Wilson late today and two more Tuesday. The prime minister leaves for New York and Canada early Wednesday. Johnson skirted the controversial issue of an Americanproposed NATO nuclear surface leet in his opening remarks. However, Wilson mentioned the need for assuming “responsibility in... nuclear. mat ers’.’ . and said that Britain w6uld seek to “make our contributions.” Wilson’s new Labor government, in power less than two months, is reluctant to join the international nuclear force as suggested by the United States and wants to downgrade and submerge it in a broader scheme. The President and the prime minister planned to get down to business immediately following a formal welcoming ceremony, complete with military honors on the south lawn of the White Harold A. Hirshey Dies Early Sunday Harold A. Hirshey, 23, of 1009 Schirmeyer street, died at 6:30 a.m. Sunday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne following an illness of one day. He was born in Decatur July 21, 1941, a son of Harry and Mary Smith - Hirshey, and was married to Annabelle Ball Jan. 5, 1960. He was employed as a butcher at the Schmitt Racking Co. Surviving are his wife; his parents; and three children, Mary, Peter Joseph and John Scott Hirshey, who live with their mother in Fort Wayne. One son is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Winteregg-Linn funeral home, with the Rev. Kenneth Angle officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friend,s may call at the funeral home after 7 pm. Tuesday until time of the services. Rites Held Today For Dorcas Swick Funeral services were held this afternoon for Mrs. Dorcas Clem Swick, 93, of Monroeville, who died late Friday night at the Berne nursing home, where she had been a patient one year. A native of Ohio she resided in the Monroeville area most of her life. Mrs. Swick was a member of the Grace Evangelical United Brethren church at Monroeville and its Ladies Aid society. Surviving are two sons, Walter Clem of Monroeville, and Jay Oscar Clem of Frankfort, Kv., two daughters, Mrs. Walter Schlemmer and Mrs. Asa Brouwer, both of Monroeville; 11 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. *-• Services, were held at the Marapart funeral home, Monroeville, with the Rev. Robert KI ingel officiating. Burial was in the IOOF cemetery at Monroeville.

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House. When Wilson arrived Sunday night at nearby Andi ews Air Force Base, Md., he was greeted informally by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and protocol officials. Wilson, a blunt Yorkshireman whose Labor party won a slender victory in Britain’s October elections, told newsmen at the airport he considered his talks with Johnson to be “vitally important.” Coordinate Control The major task confronting Johnson and Wilson was to coordinate control of nuclei? weapons and forces within the Wes ern Alliance in the face of French President Charles de Gaulle’s refusal to even consider the subject. They also were expected to discuss Britain’s desperate economic plight, complicated by a run on the pound sterling, and exchange views on a number of explosive issues in Asia and Africa. The President and Wilson both have expressed confidence that" they will be able to find some formula to resolve their differences * concerning the shape and naturejsoY ar proposed NATO nuclear organization. U.S. officials said, however, that much depended on the details of a compromise formula which Wilson is supposed to have brought from London to set against the American project for a NATO nuclear fleet, known officially as the “Multilateral Nuclear Force (MLF).” Find Common Way Johnson, in a speech at Georgetown University Thursday, said the problem was to "find a common way” to streng hen NATO ties “by sharing the tasks of defense through collective action in meeting the honorable concerns of all.” ~ Before leaving London Sunday, Wilson said Britain Wanted to make NATO more effective and do it in such away as to “reduce East-West tension and stop the spread of nuclear weapons.” This coincides with American objectives. It is on the manner of accomplishing this that the two countries differ. And no matter what the Anglo - American leaders decide, it cannot please De Gaulle. They are committed, to ever greater integration of NATO. De Gaulle wants a more “independent” Europe, gathered around his fledgling nuclear force, which would be an “equal partner” wi h the United States, not under its domination.

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INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy tonight. Intermittent liTht snow, ending in south half tonight. Partly cloudy south, cloudy with a few snow flurries north Tuesday. A little warmer north half tonight and entire state Tuesday. Low tonight 15 to n. High Tuesday ?' _2B to 35. Sunset today 5:25 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:53 a m. Outlook tar Wednesday: Mostly fair and a little warmer. Lows low to mid 20s. Highs Mid 30s. I ■*

Children Ride Santa Claus Trains Some 2,600 Decatur area young- ■ ‘ 3

Some 2,600 Decatur area youngsters turned out Saturday to “ride the rails” on the eighth t.nnual Decatur Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus train. The train made three DecaturOhio City round trips this year accomodating, respectively, 962, 986 and 674 young passengers. In addition, nearly 300 adults made the trip. Star performers for the day were, of course, the big, bearded gentleman in red from the North Pole and Bozo the clown, of WKJG-TV in Fort Wayne. Santa, filling out his l size 48 suit to perfection, was more than a little tired by the end of the third train trip, but reported that he would be in perfect shape by December 25. The three Santa Claus trains ran at 10 a. m., 1:30 p. m. arid 4 p. m. Chamber of Commerce' committee members made each trip, assisting Santa and passing out candy and the Santa Claus train newsletter. Committee members making the 15 o'clock 'trip 'were tiecatur ‘ mayor CriH Gerber, John Bdth, Lyman Hann, Gene Nicloy and Dan Freeby. Making the second trip were Walt Ostermeyer, Glenn Maxwell, Jerry Dager arid Floyd Ballot. On the third trin were (Continued on Page Six) Indicted Persons Appear In Court The two Adams county residents indicted by the recent grand jury were arraigned in the Adams circuit court this mor-„ ing. Regina A- Steiner, 24, route 1, Berne, and Phillip Adams, 24, route 2, Decatur, heard their legal rights explained to them by Judge Myles F. Parrish during this inorning’s session. Also present for the arraignment were attorneys Robert Biberstine bf Berne and Robert S. Anderson of Decatur, representing Mrs. Steiner and Adams, respectively. Biberstine just recently opened a law office in Berne. Judge Parrish gave both persons further time before entering their pleas. Mrs. Steiner, released under S3OO bond, i$ charged with following too closely, a motor vehicle violation, in connection with a recent traffic accident that claimed the life of an Amish baby. Adams, currently out of Jail under SSOO bond, is charged with making a ficticious report of a commission of a crime. The third person indicted by the grand jury, still unidentified has not yet been served with a warrant for arest. Hospital Reports Gain In November A cash gain of $1,546.59 for the month o' November at the Adams county memorial hospital indicates a record gain for 1964, fi- - gurcs rebased today by “hospital ndmi-’istrator Thurman I. Drew indicate. The hospital is already $18,905.86 to the good, and barring a major disaster, can count on a profitable December. Last year, which wao the previous record, year, the hospital showed a cash gain of $18,175.87. December hss traditionally been the tost month of the year, since the books are closed just before the end of the year. Cash gains for December have ranged between the record $8,141.18 in 1962 ! -to $1,632 89 in 1959. All indications are that the hospital will go over the $20,000 mark for 1964. During the month of November $38,063 25 was deposited, and bills amounted to $14,020.99, with a payroll of $22,495.67, for total ex-

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■ lb ij * i 'HL " hHh kt * ?' 'Blfc SANTA SAYS HELLO —The portly gentleman from the North Pole was present for all, three trips of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus train Saturday. He spent all of each trip rov- - ing through the train greeting passengers like the three youngsters above.—(Photo by Mac Lean),

Jerry Selking Not In Bus-Auto Crash Jerry Selking, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Reinhard Selking of route 2, Decatur, was not one of the several youths injured in a bu,s-car crash near Tupelo, Miss., early Sunday. Selking was one of 10 or 12 Indiana boys and others from throughout the country who left Saturday for a week’s trip to New Orleans, sponsored by the junior vegetable growers association. Authorities said a car driven by Larry Miller, 20, of Baldwyn, Miss., was passing a truck “ori sort of a hill” when his auto rammed head-on one of the buses transporting the 4-H club youths. Mrs. Selking, contacted today, said she had not received any word from her son. and a check with the Tupelo hospital did not list him as one of the injured. In fact, she believed Jerry was a passenger on one of the other two buses or “he would have contacted us by now.” Driver Killed Miller, whose auto rammed the bus, was killed in the crash, and the bus driver, Robert Turner, 39, of Terre Haute, had his leg amputated Sunday at the Tupelo hospital. An adult adviser suffered a broken leg in the mishap, and at least nine other pas- r sengers in the bus received lesser injuries. There were three huso's taking the youths to New Orleans.

penses of $36 516.66. The operating cash balance rose to $50,980.67 on Dee. 1. A total of 182 adult patients were admitted. End 41 babies were born during November. This was the lowest number of admissions since September,' 1962, and the lowest number of births since Ap*H. The preceding fnonth. October, 220 admissions and 46 births. while a year ago there were 203 admissions and 47 births. Deaths also took a dip to 10,

Thompson Noll Dies After Long Illness

Thompson R. (Tom) Noll, 81, of Washington township, three and one-half miles southeast of Decatur, prominent retired farmer and former Washington township trustee, died at <6:20 p. m. Saturday at the home of his»daughter, Miss Eloise A. Noll of Decatur. He had been in ill health for the past four years. A native of Pleasant Mills, he was born Jan. 1, 1883, a son of John and Nancy Roebuck-Noll, and was married to Allie Bender Oct. 17, 1906, at Pleasant Mills. Mr. Noll, who served as Washington township trustee from 1926 to 1934, was a member of the Moose lodge. Surviving are his wife: four daughters, Mrs. Daniel (Mary) Neireiter of Decatur route 6, Miss Eloise A. Noll of Decatur, Mrs. James (Juanita) Myers of Decatur route 3, and Mrs. Doyt (Patricia) Sipe of Willshire, O.; two sons, Carl T. Noll of Decatur, and Richard B. Noll of Geneva; 10 grandchildren, including Franklin T. and Robert N. Noll, who were reared by their grandparents; five great-grandchildren; one brother, William Noll of Linn Grove, and one sister, Mrs. Roy (Marta)- Miller of Sherwood, O. Two sons, two sisters and one brother are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the ; Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Robert R. Welch officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services.

nine adults and one baby, compared to totals of 14 preceding month, and'a year ago. A total Os 366 persons were "treated in the laboratory, x-ray and emergency room, the lowest number since September, when 358 were treated. This compares with 387 a year ago, and 406 in October. (

Mabel Striker To Follow Core In Resignation INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—State* chairman J. Manfred Core sang a tuneful swan song today for members of the Indiana Democratic State Central Committee, telling them he helped in the "conversion of Indiana from a Republican to a Democra ic . state within four short years,” Core has resigned effective Jan. 10, the day before Governor Welsh is succeeded by Gov.elect Roger D. Branigih. Both Welsh and Branigin are Democrats. Core issued a report highlighting “four years of political success" when the cormni'tee met, apparently to elect Gordon St. ' Angelo of Huntingburg as Core’s successor. Mrs. Mabel Striker of Decatur, state vice chairman during the Core regime, said she also will resign because “my feeling is Mr. St. Angelo should have whoever he prefers” for the second spot in the organization. Observers believed a likely successor to Mrs. Striker would be Mrs. Agnes Woolery of Bloomington, 7th District vice chairman. Core's report said that when he took office “the s'ate remained what it had basically been throughout this century: a Republican stronghold." “Recognizing that the key to a healthy Democratic organization lay in the patronage available only through control of the Statehouse, then in Republican hands, Chairman Core directed . a vigorous and well-financed campaign on behalf of gubernatorial candidate Mat'hew E. Welsh. Success in this campaign proved to-be -the key to the conversion of Indiana from a Republican to a Democratic state" within four short years,” the "report said: ' " ' Core laid that despite the heavy cost ot the 1964 election, the cash balance of the party organization is greater than it was When he took office before the 1960 election. He further predicted Indiana will go Democratic in future elections. “With continued good administration of government and good management of the state committee, there is every reason for Indiana to remain in he Democratic column,” he said. He outlined in detail lhe financial ~ achievements of the ' .1960-64 period, including "extensive fund-raising efforts and the establishment of the two per cen contribution system from all state patronage employes." He said the committee "received and disbursed about $3.2 million during the last four years” and is “unique among American political insti’utions in being listed and favorably rated by Dun & Bradstreet." Mrs. Ira Mcßride Is Taken By Death Mrs. Ota L. Mcßride, 75, wife of Ira E Mcßride, 388 Stevenson street, died at 12:25 p.m. Saturday at the Adams county memorial hospital.- She had been in failing health since March. Born in Mercer county, 0., July 25, 1889, she was a daughter of Marion and Sarah Allen-Clay, and was ma ried to Ira E. Mcßride at Mendon, 0., Feb. 11, 1905. They have lived in Adams county since 1914 Mrs. Mcßride was a member of the Church of God. Surviving are her husband; five sons, Car] E. Mcßride of Berne, Lee F. Mcßride of Decatur route 2, Robert J. Mcßride of Addison, 111., Jack W. Mcßride of Monroe route 1, and Charles V. Mcßride of Decatur; two daughters, Mrs. Ralph <’lo> Porter of Fort Wayne, and M\„Richard 'Juanita' Ross of Decatur; 21 grandchildren; 24-great-grandchlldren; three brothers, Orval Clay of Van Wert, 0., Earl Clay of Lima, O„ and Roy Clay of Mendon, O.; two sisters, Mrs. Roger Williams of Kenton, 0., and Mrs. Charles Rexroth of Hoagland: a half-brother, Joseph Clav of Mendon, 0., and a halfsister. Mrs. Waldp Burger of Mendon, O. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the church of God, with the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., officiating. Burial will be in the Tomlinson cemetery at IvtendontoThe body removed, to. the Zwiek funeral home, where friends may call until 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, when the body will lie in state at the church until time of the services.

Thousands Forced From Homes By Ice

ALBANY, N.Y. (UPD—Thousands of persons forced to leave their homes by “the worst ice storm" in New York history today remained housed in emergency shelters. More than 2,000 linemen and other workers were trying to restore electricity to more than 40,000 homes still without heat because of downed power lines. At the height of the weekend storm that struck Friday, more than 100.000 homes were without power and about 100,000 persons were forced to leave their homes and seek shelter elsewhere. The hard-hitting storm turned highways, ponds and fallen power lines into potential death traps. At least 12 deaths were attfifciutdiC to the storm. Ten persons died in highway crashes, one seven-year-old girl

Taylor Meets With Vietnam Officials I

SAIGON (UPI) — U. S. Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor begins “urgent” consultations with top South Vietnamese officials today. As the U. S. envoy returned Sunday from Washington talks with President Johnson, Vietnamese officials reported with elation that 115 guerrillas from "the elite Communist U Minh II Battalion had been slain in a swampland battle 143 miles southeast of here. The skirmish produced the greatest government victory in months. Twen'y’ three -government soldiers were killed and 50 wounded* -Six ‘American,, advisers Were ..founded. Taylor, presumably bearing new *ideas frorrrn Washington for prosecuting the war, was to meet today with Premier Tran Van Huong and Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, commander of the Vietnamese armed forces. Asked if American policy now envisated air strikes against Viet Cong sanctuaries in North Viet Nam and infiltration routes along the “Ho Chi Minh” trail through Laos, he replied, “I would not care to speculate.”

Florid aLaw Held Invalid

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court today ruled unconstitutional Florida’s law forbidding a man and woman of different races to “habitually .. . occupy in the nighttime , the same room.” The court said the statute is a denial of the "equal protection of the laws’ guaranteed in the Constitution. The opinion, by Justice Byron R. White, emphasized that the court is expressing no opinion on Florida’s bar to interracial marriage which also prevails in other states. The ruling unanimously reversed the convictions of Dewey McLaughlin, a Honduran - born Negro and Connie Hoffman, a white woman. They were arrested in- 1962 for living together in a Miami Beach apartment and were sentenced to 30 days in jail plus fines of $l5O each. Justices Rotter Stewart, William O. Douglas and John M. Harlan concurred separately in the judgment overturning the convictions. In other action the court: —Agreed to examine Connecticut’s 1879 anti - birth control law, which forbids use of drugs and instruments to prevent conception. The Cannectlcut . Supreme Court of Errors once again upheld last April the constitutionality of the statute, which had been under attack in earlier cases. —Agreed to review the conviction of Texas financier Billie Sol Estes on a charge of swindling a Pecos, Tex., farmer, "T. J. Wilson. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the conviction and eight-year prison sentence on Jan. 15, 1964. —Agreed to examine the constitutionality of a 1962 law restricting mail delimery of Communist political propaganda from abroad. The court will hear arguments bb a c&tf??enge to -the law by Corliss Lamont, ■who does business in New York under the name Basic Pamphlets. —Refiised to examine the

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drowned when she fell through ice on a creek and one 17-year-old youth was electrocuted when he stepped on a downed power line. Police warned mothers to keep their children inside while crews worked on hundreds of snarled and sparking power lines. Extra work crews from otheAparts of the state arrived during the night and began relieving weary workmen who had labored through the night in sub-freezing temperatures. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, in a hastily aranged tour of the Albany - Troy - Schenectady area, said this was "the worst ice storm I know of in the history of New York.” Rockefeller said he was satisfied the civil defense organization and the Tied Cross were doing “all that could be done.”

Such strikes were reported among the “options" discussed in Washington to reverse the deteriorating situation in Viet Nam. Taylor affirmed that hithunused methods existed for improvement of the war, but he would not elaborate. President Johnson, he said, had ordered him to consult with Vietnamese leaders “to improve the situation in all respects." Taylor said the President had reaffirmed the basic American policy of “providing all possible. useful assistance to the South Vietnamese people and ' the government in their strUg* ' gie to’ defeat the externally supported insurgency arid aggres- ™ Atones helnftr conducted —against them." In the swampland battle, five battalions of government rang- . ers and infantry launched a daylight offensive against the U Minh II Battalion and two o‘her rebel companies in a village considered a Viet Cong stronghold.' Government troops continued mopping up operations today in the chest-high grass where the clash took place.

question of whether acceptance of federal grants for the education of military dependents bars a school district from practicing racial segregation. The court turned down a Justice Department request that it review three decisions by the sth Circuit Court of Appeals • that the “impacted area” grants carry no such responsibility. The circuit court had upheld dismissal of federal integration suits brought against the Madison County, Ala., Board of Education and the Gulfport. Miss, and Biloxi, Miss, municipal separate school districts. —Declined to hear an appeal from seven states based on an argument that inherent differeniies between Negroes and whites might justify school segregation. t • Funeral Tuesday For Floyd Schnepp Funeral rites will be held Tuesday for Floyd Schnepp, 70, of 1039 Elm street, who was found dead Saturday morning at his home by, a brother, Oliver Schnepp. Time of death was fixed at: ~-; 7 p.m. Thursday. Bom in Union township Feb. 12, 1894, he was a son of Solomon and Letitia Walters - Schnepp and had never married. A retired farmer," he was a veteran of World War I, serving with Co .M of the 22nd Engineers. Mr. Schnepp was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Surviving are three brothers, Oliver and Freeman Schnepp, both of pecatur, and Kenneth Schnepp of Fort Wayne. Two brothers are deceased. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Winteregg-Linn Funeral home, with the Rev. ”* Kenneth Angle officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. The casket will not be opened.