Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1964 — Page 1

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Secretary Rusk Invites NATO Allies Discuss Multi-Nation Forces

PARIS (UPD—Secretary of State Dean Rusk today invited those NATO allies who want to think “realistically and operationally about what nuclear war really means” to join in discussions concerning a multi-nation nuclear force. In an address to a closed session of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Council of Ministers. Rusk said Nussbaum Manager Dies Unexpectedly Robert B. Haecker, 54, of 724 Lehman street, Berne, manager of the Nussbaum Novelty Co. in that city, died at 3:30 p. m. Monday at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. He was taken to the hospital after suffering a massive cerebral hemorrhage at 9:30 a. m. at the plant. Mr. Haecker was also a. director of the Dunbar Furniture Corp. Bom in Berne April 5, 1910, he was a son of Vilas E. and Thelma Eroughton-Haecker, and was married to Anna Lehman March 22, 1933. Mr. Haecker, a lifelong resident of Berne, was a member of the Trinity E. U. B. church in that city. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, John R. Haecker and James L. Haecker, both of Berne; one daughter, Mrs. James (Georgia) Long of Chattanooga, Tenn.; and three grandchildren. One brother is deceased. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Thursday at the Yager funeral home in Berne, with the Rev. Kenneth Overmeyer officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 12 noon Wednesday. ' *•-

Britain Urges African Unity

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD—Bri'ain urged the Organization of African Unity (OAU) today to take the initiative to restore order and confidence in the Congo and protect the strife-torn country from foreign intervention. “If the African states are divided, I can see no hope for the Congo,” Lord Caradon, British permanent representative, told the Security Council. African foreign minis'ers and other representatives of the OAU were considering a toplevel secret session this afternoon to take stock of their position following a tongue-lashing by U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson. The Africans demanded condemnation of the United States and Belgium for the mercy airlift, staged from Britain's Ascension Island last month, to save white hostages held by Communist-backed Congolese rebels. Caradon, the former Sir Hugh Foot, acknowledged that the mercy mission was a dangerous one, in view of the Congolese civil war raging around Stanleyville, but said that “where lives are at s'ake the onus of argument is not on those wishing to save them but on thoseprepared to see them destroyed.” As Stevenson also did Monday, Caradon deplored the introduction of black racism into the Congo conflict. “There is indignation and anger arising from race and color feeling,” he said. “But from

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consultations would be undertaken to give fullest consideration to Britain’s expanded proposal for an Atlantic nuclear force. Without mentioning France by name, Rusk took a slap at President Charles de Gaulle’s recently intensified opposition to American plans for creation of an Allied nuclear force. He noted that for 3% years there had been no direct challenge to American plans “at this table.” Unveils U.S. Proposal Rusk also formally unveiled a U.S. proposal for meetings of deputy foreign ministers of the NATO powers every two or three months to enable the alliance to deal more rapidly and “flexibly” with the multitude of problems confronting it. The plan stems from an American feeling that the semiannual and 'stylized council meetings of the ministers are too far apart and too rigid in form to handle quickly such explosive issues as Cyprus, disarmament, the Congo and Southeast Asia. The Uni'ed States feels the deputy ministerial meetings should be “informal” to allow the greatest possible latitude in the exchange of information and ideas in periods of crisis which may require prompt action. Rusk ’ made it clear the United States was not trying to “pressure” anyone into joining the proposed Allied nuclear force. He said, however, the United States had “always felt that those who were targets might have a reasonable interest in the problem.” “In Good Faith” Washington and those of its allies who have been seeking a formula to create a multi-na-tion nuclear force have worked “in good fai'h,” Rusk said, and their actions were not directed

my own experience in Africa, I would testify that one of the most striking facts about Africans is not how much racial bitterness they bear but how little." ", - « Twenty-two African and neutralist countries called the Security Council into session last week, seeking condemnation of the United S ites and Belgium for “aggression” in last month’s mercy airlift of approcimately 2,000 white hostages held by Communistbacked Congolese rebels. Stevenson, following up a denunciation of the Africans by Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak last week, told the council: “We have no apologies to make any state appearing before this council. We are proud of our part in saving human lives imperiled by the civil war in the Congo.” Freewalt Funeral Services Wednesday Funeral services for Fred Freewalt. Blue Creek township farmer who died Sunday night, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at th-> Union E U. B. church at Willshire,O. The Rev. Howard McCracken will officiate and burial will be in Swamp College cemetery at Celina, O. Friends may call a the Zwick funeral home. The body will lie in state at the church from 12:30 p.m. Wednesday until time of the services.

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against anyone. This was in line with Rusk’s assurance Monday to De Gaulle .that U.S. nuclear planning was not designed to “isolate" France, which opposes multi-na-tion forces and which is creating its own atomic deterrent. On other major issues, Rusk: Appealed to NATO members to aid embattled South Viet Nam, declaring “we believe the free world has a stake in this issue and we hope the nations at this table will help Viet Nam tangibly." —Warned members of the alliance against lowering their guard because of the current lull in East-West tension. He said it was the strength of the an‘i-Communist coalition which has forced Moscow to adopt a more reasonable approach to world problems. —Said conditions in Latin America were showing some improvement, with the nations of that area beginning to “settle some of their political problems on their own.” —Epressed deep concern over developments in some sections of Africa, particularly the turbulent Congo. Red Line Unchanged —Reported that in his recent series of talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York and Washington he found no significant change in the peaceful coexistence line which had been followed under former Premier Nikita Khrushchev. —Discussed the situation in Communist Eastern Europe, where the United States believes there has been some loosening of Moscow’s iron grip and increased opportunities for Western trade and other exchanges. Rusk spoke at the afternoon session, during which British: speakers. Today, the council of 15 minister devoted itself to political issues. Wednesday, it takes up purely military subjects. Earlier, the United States won support from West Germany and Belgium for its plans for an Allied nuclear force.

Lisi Nominees For C. Os C. Directors Ten men have been nominated for the board of directors of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce to replace five men who will complete their terms Dec. 31. The names were reported by the nominating committee at the December meeting of the C. of C. directors Monday evening. L. E. Anspaugh, president, stated that the nominating committee, with Ed Hagan as chairman, and George Auer, Louis Jacobs, Tom Allwein and Lowell Harper, selected “the following nominees: Dr. H. R. Frey, Lewis Smith, Dr. John E. Doan and Dr. Otto Spiegel, representing professions; Bill Zoss and Roy Kalver, retail division, and Victor Porter, Robert Cook, Richard Schauss and Richard Reetz, industrial division. Os these 10, five win be elected for three-year terms, succeeding David Macklin, Herb Banning, Dr. James M. Burk, Gene Rydell and Victor Porter. Dec. 26 was set as the election date, with ballots to be mailed to all members. 23 New Members Victor Porter, of the membership committee, reported the membership campaign had added 23 new names to the roster. They are Community Oil & Gas, Two Brothers, Husmann’s Decorator, Golden “Q”, Inc., George M. Bak, Mirror Inn, Strickler Auto Sales, Corah's Car Wash, Blackstone Case, Dierkes Implement, Decatur Auto Supply, Inc., Shady

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Local Man’s Mother Dies This Morning Mrs. Merlie Snyder, 77, died at 5 o’clock this morning at her home in Rockford, O. She had been ill with a heart condition for some time. Born in Wapakoneta, 0., Sept. 12, 1887, she was a daughter of Leonard and Frances Lee - Rush, and was married to Ben Snyder Dec. 9, 1903. Her husband preceded her in death in 1951. Surviving are three sons, Verl Snyder of Decatur, Dee Snyder of Lambertville, Mich., and Lowell Snyder of Scottsdale, Ariz.; seven daughters, Mrs. Olen (Bonita) Deitsch of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Grant (Lena) Cook of Celina, 0., Mrs. Basil (Leia) Felber of Celina route 1, Mrs. Raymond (Arberdeen) Fickert of Ohio City, 0., route 2; Mrs. Paul (Jessie Sapp of Rockford, Mrs. Darrell (Opal) Huffman of Rockford, and Mrs. Norman (Bessie) Fahncke of Celina route 3; 46 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren, arid one sister, Mrs. Koneta Agler of Middlepoint, O. One son is deceased. Funeral rites will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Rockford E. U. B. church, with the Rev. Charles Bradford officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery. Friends may call at the Ketcham funeral home in Rockford after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Mrs. Leßoy Miller Dies Unexpectedly Mrs. Hazel M. Miller, 68, wife of Leßoy Miller of Blue Creek township, one-half mile west of Salem, died at 5:15 p. m. Monday at St. Joseph’s hospital. Fort Wayne, 20 minutes after she had been admitted. She suffered a heart attack shortly after leaving the office of a Fort Wayne physician. Born in Jennings township, Van Wert county, near Elgin, 0., Oct. 22, 1896, she was a daughter of Robert P. and Nancy Tucker-Da-vies, but had spent most of her life in Blue Creek township. She was married to Leßoy Miller April 7, 1917. Mrs. Miller was a member of the Salem Methodist church and the W.S.C.S. of the church. Surviving in addition to her husband are two sons, R. LaDoyt Miller of Decatur, and Maurice E. Miller of Berne route 2; five grandchildren, and one sister. Miss Cora Davies of Ann Arbor, Mich. Four brothers are deceased. y Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 1:30 p. m. at the Salem Methodist church. The Rev. Joseph Gibson will officiate, and burial will be in Riverside cemeterv at Rockso r d, O. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services. Lawn Motel, Papa Joe’s, Victory Bar, Ned Johnson, realtor, Stiefel Grain Co., Inc., Lutes Flowers, Russell Brooks, Jr., Decatir Ready Mix, Mode O Day, Hammond Fruit Market, Dr. Harry Ilebble, State Line Auto Parts. Max Gilpin, chairman, Norman Steury and Victor Porter of the sign committee reoorted erection of a new sign at Industrial Park will be done soon, with the contract awarded to R. E. Gantz, with Indiana & Michigan setting the supporting polet. Gene Rydell, chairman, Herb Banning and Max Gilpin were appointed to nominate officers for 1965 board of directors, and Norman Steury, chairman, Art Heimann and Glenn Ellis were named to the budget committee. v

Lions Hear Officer Os National FFA The Future Farmers of America, and what its program means, was explained to the Decatur Liors club Monday night by national vice president James Teets, of Terra Alta, W. Va., a student at Reppert's auction school. Teets was introduced by program chairman Clyde Butler, and a short board meeting was held after the regular meeting to approve a gift to the Decatur Good Fellows. The last regular Lions club meeting of the year, and regular board meeting, will be held next Monday. No meeting will be held between Christmas and New Years. Auction instructor Homer Pollack of Delphos, 0., was a guest of the club. Teets, who has completed a year and a half at the university of West Virginia, dropped out for a year so that as a national FFA officer he could visit the 50 states, attend the state conventions, and national convention, and speak to the cooperators who make 'the program possible. His year as a national officer was climaxed in October by the annual national convention at Kansas City, where 10,000 representatives of local FFA clubs met. Adams county FFA chapters are located at Adams Central, Berne, and Geneva. Something Missing In 1917 the Smith-Hughes act authorized vocational education, but during the early years of the program something seemed to be missing in the instruction. The boys learned agriculture, but they lacked leadership, citizenship training, and cooperation together. So in 1928 the FFA, Future Farmers of America, was organized. Each vo-ag teacher was a sponsor of a club. Doing to learn-, learning to do, earning to live, and living to serve are the goals of FFA. Each club has leadership, citizenship, and copoeration as goals, as well as learning to farm. The vo-ag teacher, farm-reared, college-trained, does more than just perform a job — he lives the program with his group of boys, Teets explained. Project Learning Every boy has a project, and works with this project, whether it is a plot of cropland of a farm animal, watches it grow and respond to his scientific farming. He figures his profit or loss, and gets business as well as practical farm experience. One youth. Tests recalls, was about to quit school as a freshman as he had no interest in learning. He went into the vo-ag program, and as a freshman went Ei3 a delegate to the national convention. He came back, a changed boy. He was more interested, his studies improved, and within a few years he had moved from chanter to district to state and finally became a national officer. Jobs In Agriculture In 1962 there were 26 million agricultural employes, but only eight million were actually farmers. Seven million were in pro* cesing, and 11 million in distribution, j o b s which farm-reared but college educated youths have a good chance of excelling ih. No FFA “triangle it stronger than any of its three sides — the boy, his parents, and his vo-ag teacher. But every FFA group must be strongly suported by its lock! groups, who must know and understand the FFA program." Teets, who plans to go into the catle buying business with his father as soon as he' graduates from college, closed with a quotation from the late president John F. Kennedy, who said, “As long as two-thirds of the world's people

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Decatur High School Given Certificate Decatur high school principal Hugh Andrews announced Monday that the high school has received an honorary certificate for 50 years of membership in the North Central Association of colleges, universities and high schools. The association, a voluntary, extra-legal organization, was formed in 1895. Decatur high school joined in 1914, when Martin F. Worthman was principal and C. E. Spaulding was superintendent of schools. At that time the school had a total enrollment of 183 and a > teaching staff of 10. The present enrollment is 585 and the present teaching staff numbers 27 persons. Andrews received notification of the award in a letter from Dr. Donald C. Manlove, state North Central Association chairman. The letter stated that the association's committee on secondary schools had voted to issue “a 50-year certificate for those schools who have been a member of the North Central Association of colleges and secondary schools for a period qt 50 years oi more.” The association now includes 478 colleges and universities and 3,692 secondary schools among its membership. Its territory includes the states of Arizona, Wyoming. Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Idaho, Missouri, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. There are 209 member high schools in the state of Indiana and only about 30 of them have been in the association longer than the Decatur school. In the, Decatur area, only three schools have held membership for a longer time. Berne high school is the only other institution in the county which is a member. The object of the, association is the development and maintenance of high standards for universitic", colleges and secondary schools, the continued improvement of the educational program and the effectiveness of instruction on secondary and college levels through a scientific and professional approach to the solution of educational problems. Membership in the organization is entirely voluntary. Schools are accredited by the association when they meet the crietria for membership. As long as it remains a member, a school must continue to meet the association's standards.-

INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness and not so cold tonight. Ixiw 10 to 20 north, low 20s south. Wednesday mostly cloudy and warmer, high in low 30s north to low 40s south. Sunset today 5:21 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday ,8 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Cloudy and turning much colder during the day. Snow north and turning briefly to snow south. Low Wednesday night 10 to 15 north, in mid 20s south. High Thursday 15 to 20 north, in the 30s south.

go to bed hungry, two-thirds of the world has a large deficit, no one can feel secure. We have the learning, means, and ability to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth — we only seem to lack the interest in doing it.” American farmers, trained, by FFA and advanced schooling, will try to answer that challenge, Teets said in closing. ~

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It’s Now Official, Johnson Is Elected

WASHINGTON (UPD — The 538 members of the Electoral College went through the formality Monday of officially electing Lyndon B. Johnson president of the United States and Hubert H. Humphrey vice president.-' Each state's electors met in their respective capitals to cast their ballots, which are being shipped to Washington in sealed boxes. The boxes will be opened during a joint session of Congress Jan 6. when the House .clerk will count the votes. The Electoral College is the body which actually elects the President, despite what American voters may think they were doing on Election DayWhat the voters really do is vote lor a slate of electors who support the candidate of their choice. Each state has as many

17 Students Injured As Truck Hits Bus

LEBANON, Ind, (UPD—The school bus driver and 17 stu- . dents were injured today, none seriously, when their vehicle was struck by a big truck and overturned on busy U.S. 52 north of here. Only three of the students were admitted to Witham Hospital. The others were treated for mostly cuts and bruises. State police .‘•aid Oliver Pattinger, 38, Carlisle, Ohio, the trucker, was arrested on a • reckless driving charge. He posted $5,000 bond in a justice of the peace court at Thorntown. The children aboard the Western Metropolitan School District bus were tossed about by the impact like an open sack of potatoes when the bus overturned but there was no panic. “I’ll never drive another truck,” Pattinger was quoted as ■ saying as he Viewed the wreckage. All the pupils were from the Thorntown area. They ranged in age from 6 to 13 and were en route to school when the accident occurred on the dry, fourlane highway about 6 miles north of here. The accident happened at almost the same spot where another truck hit a bus two years ago. Both times the bus driver , was Les Wilkins, 41, Thorntown, ' who escaped with facial lacerations today. i The three more seriously in-1 jured students, all girls, were! hospitalized with broken ribsj and broken bones. They were! Cynthia Trage, Sandra Rowland ■ and Carolyn Russler. ’ The students attend Washing- < ton Twp. Elementary School I and Thorntown High School. la Wilkins said the truck, also 1 heading north, bore down on ’

Madison Hotel Burns, 1 Dead

MADISON, Ind. (UPD — One guest was killed and at least six others were injured today when a $500,000 fire des'royed the Hillside Hotel in this scenic Ohio River city. Hours after the pre-dawn blaze, the dead man was identified only as Richard Brown of Maryland. Fire Chief Harold Lohrig said his body was found in the hotel’s smoldering ruins. Five of the injured, suffering mostly from smoke inhalation, were described in “fair” condition in King's Daughters Hospital. Another was treated and released. ’ . ' , Authorities „ said only a shell of the three-story hotel, long a picturesque landmark overlooking the Ohio, was standing, and the few remaining walls also threatened to collapse in the debris. The hotel, on a hill overlooking the downtown business district, was remodeled only recently. For years it was the stopping-off place of the “sporty set” attending the annual Madison Regatta. It also entertained the cast of the movie "Some Came Running,” which was

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electors as it does senators and representatives. Even though latest figures show Johnson with 43,126,218 votes to 27,174,898 for Republican Barry M. Goldwater, it would theoretically be possible for the presidential electors to upset the verdict. This has happened. In 1876, South Carolina gave its electoral votes to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes. So did three other contested states, and Hayes was declared President even though Samuel J. Tilden had a majority of the popular vote. But there were no surprises as the official vote was cast Monday. Goldwater, who car- ' ried only six states with a total of 52 electoral votes, was given those, and Johnson took the other 486.

him before he could veer off the . road to avoid a collision. Pattinger was hauling a load of paper for Victor Transit Lines of Cleveland, Ohio. Pattinger said he lost control of his big truck when a tire blew. Dr. W. E. Stewart, assistant state superintendent of public instruction, stopped and helped ’’with the students and the investigation. The bus rolled over at least once, throwing students helterskelter inside. Wilkins suffered face cuts but was able to help load the children into ambulances before he,-. too, was taken to the hospital. The accident happened a little before 8 a.m. EST. Doctors said the students suf? sered mostly cuts from broken glass that flew through the bus like shrapnel and others were being x-rayed for possible broken bones and internal injuries. Good Fellows Club Previously Reported $280.59 Mr. & Mrs. W. L. Linn 10.00 A Friend — 5.00 Mr. & Mrs. W A. Klepper — 5.00 A Friend 1.00 Mr. & Mrs. O. K. Baker 2.00 A Friend 100 Chet from Monroe 2.00 A Friend «...----- 100 Ruth Circle Decatur EUB 5.04 Mr. & Mrs. Al Beavers .. 15.00 Eagles Auxiliary 5.00 A Friend 1.00 Mr. & Mrs. Ed Warren 10.00 i In memory of Robert Duane Lake 5.00 Mr. & Mrs. Fred Striker 5.00 ..-.—A — Total .$353.63

filmed here in the late 19505, and which starred Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine. About 30 guests fled the hotel, most<- of them in their night clothes, into 15-degree temperature. Some were quartered in other hotels. The blaze broke out about 4 a.m. EST, but it was not pinpointed where it s'arted and its cause also was unknown. One report said it may have started on the second floor in a room occupied by Brown. Another said it apparently started in the hotel kitchen. Five hours after the first fire engines answered the alarm, flames were still shooting from the debris. Admitted to the hospital were John Acton, 46, Bedford; Cecil Keith, 46, Cincinnati; Roscoe Brescia, 42, Hawthorne, N.J.; John Way, 50, Swampscotts, Mass., and Raymond Pohl, 34, Clifton, N.J. Weldon Smith, 46, Peru, was released from the hospital after treatment of a hand injury. The loss was estimated by the - —fire chief. ——-