Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1964 — Page 1

And Again ' 4 Gunmen Rob Brink Truck Os SIOO,OOO

By WILLIAM B. MEAD United Press International CHICAGO (UPD — Three masked gunmen seized a Brink’s armored truck believed carrying more than SIOO,OOO in a hijacking at a Roman Catholic church Monday night that was strikingly similar to one in New Jersey one week ago. The holdupmen tied up two priests at the Divine Saviour Church in suburban Norridge and waited in ambush for the Brinks truck to come for the proceeds from Sunday’s collections. They slugged the guards and made off with the truck, holding one of the Brinks men as a hostage until abandoning the vehicle a short distance away. An exact accounting of the loot has,-«ot been made, but it was thought to run into six figures. Exactly a week ago, three holdupmen invaded St. Anthony’s Church rectory in Pat-

LBJ Proposes Travel System

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson plans to propose a high-speed transportation program that could lead to Americans rocketing between cities on cushions of air, through tubes or on electronically guided cars within 15 years. High adminisration sources said an immediate result could be the fastest East Coast rail service in history in 1965. These sources said Johnson probably will unveil the threeyear research and test program in his State of the Union message to Congress next Monday. The long-range program will call for an initial S2O million outlay in the first year, a figure reported to have been approved by Johnson in his forthcoming budget. If Congress approves that amount, $lO million would be spent for research and evelopment of new ground transportation systems, $8 million for demonstration projects and $2 milMartha Buuck Dies Saturday Mrs. Martha Buuck, 85, widow of the Rev. August Buuck and a native of Adams county, died Saturday at her residence oh Moeller Rd. near Fort Wayne. She had been in ill health about 10 years. She had resided in the Fort Wayne area for about 45 years and her husband was the former pastor of the Martini Lutheran church. Surviving are two sons, the Rev. Lorenz Buuck, Ormsby, Minn., and the Rev. Marcus Buuck, Allen Park, Mich.; a daughter, Miss Ora Buuck, Fort Wayne; seven grandchildren; and 10 greatgrandchildren. Services were held this afternoon at the Martini church, with the Rev. Ott Marschke officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Democrat Loses Mac Lean Photographer Leaving Again

Dave Mac Lean, Decatur’s only bearded free-lance photographer, has received a final go-ahead on, a photo assignment that sounds like a vacation with pay. He will find it necessary to be , S in Daytona Beach for the “500” stock car race; Tampa, Flordia, for the Gasparilia Pirate festival; New Orleans for Mardi Gras; Mobile, Alabama, for the Azalea festival; and some two dozen other cities in the southeast includ-_ ing Pensacola, Natchez, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Talahassee and St. Augustine. As spring moves north, so will he - to places like Savanah. the» Chesapeake Bay, Richmond, Annapolis and then ’ west to the Great Smokey Mountains and Mammoth Cave. The assignment calls for shooting some 6,000 35mm color slides from which approximately 1,500 will be chosen for a travel slide

erson, N.J., handcuffed four priests and a sexton, bound two guards and looted a bank truck of more than $500,000 when it arrived to pick up collection money. Studied Pattern “They must have studied the New Jersey pattern,” police said of Monday night’s robbery. The gunmen, wearing halloween masks as did the New Jersey bandits, arrived shortly before 6 p.m. The church’s pastor, the Rev. Walter Morris, said he was alone in the rectory when he answered a knock on the door. One of the gunmen pushed into the room and forced Father Morris into another room. The o'her two gunmen followed, and forced Father Morris, and the Rev. Richard Burke, the assistant pastor who had walked unknowingly into the rectory, to go to an upstairs room. The gunmen taped the priests together and locked them in.

lion for statistical studies. One purpose of the studies will be to determine whether Americans actually want to travel at a speed of 200 miles an hour on the ground, or whether they would fear such fast rail travel. While the research and development program is designed to solve nagging inter-city transportation problems between such municipalities as Boston and Washington, administration officials said .the results would be used nationwide. The .research aspect of the program is a long-range affair —looking ahead to 1980. The demonstration project could take place next year. Former Resident • Fined For Dumping Thomas C. Smith, former Decatur resident now living at 1731 Maplewood Road, Fort Wayne, was fined the minimum $1 and costs in Justice of the Peace court this morning on a charge of littering. Smith was arrested by the sheriff’s department on a warrant Monday afternoon, stemming from an incident which occurred Christmas afternoon when he dumped a load of trash on the Piqua Road, near Decatur. In court this morning. Smith through his attorney.. D. Burdette Custer, pleaded guilty to the charge, J. P. Floyd Hunter fined him the minimum sl, plus court costs. Dumps Trash Smith had dumped a load of trash on the Piqua Road, between the Monmouth and Saddle- Lake, Road, around 3 o’clock Friday afternoon. Several residents of the area witnessed the dumping and reported the license number to the auto to the sheriff’s deparment. Smith said he had taken the trash, loaded in a station wagon, to the city dump along U.S. 27, but found the dump closed.

series distributed nationally by Blackhawk Films of Davenport, lowa. It is estimated that the job will take four to five months to comple’e and will require about 10,000 miles of travel. Mac Lean, whose work frequently appears in the Democrat, expects to leave in the latter part of January and reports that there is already a considerable waiting list of people who have volunteer-' ed to go along and assist him. He also reports that the job is not as ideal as it sounds “Unfoftuna'ely,” he says, “when the weather is at its best is when I have to be out working. When it’s no good for taking pictures, it’s usually not much good for anything else, either. There’s also a lot of paper work to be done, since each slide has to be accurately identified and captioned. I don’t expect to have much free time on my hands.”

The priests said they could hear the gunmen listening to police calls on a small radio as they waited for the Brink’s men to arrive. They also looted the church safe. No Time “Time, we don’t have any time,” Father Burke said one of the men kept muttering. About 25 minutes later, the Brink's truck arrived. Guard Richard Johnson, 38, walked up to the church. One of the gunmen struck him on the side of the head with a pistol butt. One of the bandits put on Johnson’s cap and jacket, went out to the parked truck, slugged the driver and handcuffed him. Two other gunmen joined him, and they drove the truck to a West Lawn Cemetery across the street where they emptied it. Bridge Bids Let Baker & Schultz of Decatur were low bidders on two bridge projects for the Adams county highway department, and were awarded the bids Monday afternoon by the cpunty commissioners. A new bridge in Blue Creek township over a west fork on Blue Creek on north-south road 28, through the middle of the township, three-quarters of a mile east and three-quarters of a mile north of Salem, was awarded for $6,130. Other bids were Butler & Butter, $10,892; Yost, $10,945; and John T. Camden, $13,081.20. Repairs on a second bridge will be made by Baker & Schultz in St. Mary’s township, over the Blue Creek ditch, on the old Bluffton road, in section 34, a halfmile west of the state line, and a half-mile north of state highway 124. The Baker & Schultz bid was $1,261.12, compared with $2,196.60 by Butler & Butler; $2,311.20 by Yost; and $2,516.60 by John T. Camden. The commissioners also approved continuing the bringing of the county plat book up-to-date by Fred Blackburn of Fort Wayne. Also approved were appropriations of $4,500 from the revolving general ditch improvement fund to clean the Dan Irwin drain in Union and St. Mary’s townships, and $l9O to clean the Thurman Wolfe drain in Blue Creek township. The commissioners have certified to the state highway department that there are 733.81 miles < of couny road in Adams county as of the first of 1965. Bertha Reidenbach Rites Held Today Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. todav for Mrs. Bertha Bischoff Reidenbach, route 1, Mishawaka, a former Decatur resident, who died at 6 a.m. Saturday morning in a South Bend hospital after undergoing surgery Wednesday. A daughter,, of Mrs. Henry Bischoff, she was born on July 8, 1892 in Union township. She was married on November 23, 1919 to Theodore Reidenbach, who survives. She was a member of the Redeemer Lutheran church of South Bend and had lived in the South Bend area for the past 30 years. Surviving, besides her husband, are seven children, Velma of Lakeville, Bertha of Mishawaka, Victor of Lakeville, Ferd of Lansing, 111., Ted of Lansing, Hl., and William Ri c e of Decatur; two brothers, Dick Bischoff of route 5, Decatur and Julius Bischoff of Wawatosa, Wis., two sisters, Lorina Reidenbach of Convoy, 0., and MrsiJlVilbur Reidenbach of Decatur; 27 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. Garwood Trial This Afternoon Thomas and James Garwood, local brothers, were scheduledto stand trial this afternoon in the Adams circuit court on charges of second degree burglary and thef*. The Garwood brothers, represented by Richard J. Sullivan, local attorney, received a postponement last week when their three character witnesses were unable to be present for the , trial.

Ice Jams Pose New Flood Threat

By NEAL CORBETT United Press International SAN FRANCISCO (UPD—Two large ice jams in the Yakima River brought warnings today of possible new flooding in the state of Washington. Daredevil civilian and armed forces helicopter pilots were standing by a break in the weather to begin mercy food and medicine flights to 500 mountain residents isolated near the California-Oregon border. The Christmas week deluge and subsequent snow storm killed at least 41 persons in the fourstate area and caused damage estimated at $350 million. The mountain inhabitants were cut off by the devastating floods early last week and then blasted by a swirling snowstorm during the weekend. The pilots attempted to reach them Monday but were thwarted by the fury of the storm in the tricky, dangerous canyons. “They (the plots) are fantastic,” said one civil defense official. “They are all familiar with the terrain and fly blind, but they can’t get down into the canyons.” Warnings of new flood dangers in Washington were issued by the Bureau of Reclama’ion because of two large ice jams —including one three miles long —in the Yakima River above the Roza Dam. Cyril Lentz, superintendent of the Yakima reclamation project, said, there originally were three jams but that pne broke loose and joined the second to form the three-mile obstruction which' already had flooded a state Highway Department maintenance shed and forced residents to leave a nearby state building. The other jam, one mile in length, is four miles downstream from the larger one. Lentz warned Os the possibility that if the jams broke suddenly, the logs and debris carried with the rushing water and ice could endanger Roza Dam. Lentz “said lower temperatures forecast for the area, expected to reach 17 degrees, probably would keep the ice jams from breaking up. The gates of Roza Dam were opened wide to permit as much water as possible to flow past, INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and warmer this afternoon and tonight with showers developing over most of the state late today or tonight. Wednesday cloudy and mild, showers continuing over about 50 per cent of the area. Low tonight 38 to 45. Highs Wednesday 44 to 52.

Phone Company Announces New Long Distance Rates

Citizens Telephone Company today announced reduced long distance charges on telephone calls within the state, including a bargain rate of 40 cents or less on nighttime and Sunday calls. Charles D. Ehinger, president, said that on the basis of present estimates Hoosiers will save about $2.5 million annually as a result of the intrastate reductions and lower interstate rates recently announced by the Federal Communications Commission. The Citizens and the state’s 106 other telephone companies filed new tariffs covering the changes with the Public Service Commission of Indiana. The new rates

Viet Generals Confer

United Press International By MICHAEL T. MALLOY SAIGON (UPI) — Vietnamese generals* huddled in the seaside resort of Vung Tau today amid indications of a breakthrough in the political crisis that has placed the military leaders at odds with the United States. / - Official sources said the generals at the meeting 40 miles from Saigon, were considering ■“W possible compromise solu’ion to the crisis that stemmed from the military’s partial overthrow of the civilian government 10 days ago. Armed forces commander Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh summoned the “young turk” generals to the strategy conference while • Chief of state Phan Khac Suu sought to reconcile US. offi-

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Johnson Talks With Rusk

JOHNSON CITY, Tex. ■ (UPD —President Johnson called Secretary of §iate Dean Rusk to his Texas ranch today for a look at the' world scene and decision?* ,on arnbasSadorial ap-

will be effective February 1, the same day long distance charges on calls crossing state lines will be similarly reduced. Ehinger said the reductions generally will result from lower rates for evening, Saturday and Sunday calling and from bargain night rates which will apply an hour earlier than at present. The nighttime intrastate rates which will become effective after 8 p. m., instead of 9 p. m., also Will be offered all day on Sundays. This will permit three minuses of station-tp-station conversation between phones anywhere in Indiana for 40 cents or less after 8 p. rn. and all-day Sunday.

cials in Saigon with the generals and admirals who masterminded the latest coup. The compromise efforts were clouded by announcement of a Communist victory southwest of Saigon that did much to offset the government triumph early this week in a big battle at SoC Trang. The government was reported to have lost 60 men killed, 43 wounded and 38 missing in a Communist attack on an outpost 40 miles southwest of Saigon. Three Americans also were wounded in the action. Official sources said that terms of the compromise being considered by the generals would conform closely to conditions laid down by the U. S. Embassy, but only jtf'er the embassy tempered its demands.

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pointments. The Chief Executive planned to discuss those topics, and to come to a final total on the State Department . budget, in a meeing with Rusk and Mc-

<0 ' 6. Ehinger also announced reductions in many, evening rates—for 6 to 8 p. m. calling—and said these rates also will apply all day on Saturdays. As a result, there will be reductions as high as 25 cents in the initial three-minute charge on some Saturday daytime calls. The telephone companies also will adopt more precise methods of calculating distance between cities, taking info account the curvature of the earth. This will result in five-cent changes on only slightly more than 10 per cent of the rates between Indiana points, with the large majority of the changes being reductions. The charge for handling collect calls will be increased from 10 to 20 cents to compensate for the 'extra operator time and billing procedures involved. Ehinger pointed out that this charge does mot apply on calls billed to telephone credit card, numbers. The telephone companies in Indiana weje the first to introduce rates on nighttime calls. Since 1958, Hoosiers have been able to talk six rpinutes Tor Price three on calls placed after 9 p. m. For nighttime calls the new tarriff adopts the traditional threeminute initial interval which ap,„plies to day and evening calls and establishes a maximum rate of 4Q cents after 8 p. m. or on Sunday. For calls between phones less than 172 miles apart, the charge will be even less. t The reductions in evening rates —those which apply from 6 tp 8 p. m .—affect most intrastate calls in the 71 to 244 mile ranee. Charges for the first three minutes of conversation will be reduced, five cents- in seven mileage categories, and overtime charges will be reduced proportionately.

George Bundy, Johnson’s special assistant for National Security Affairs. Johnson focused upon international developments Monday, too. He got a briefing from CIA Director John A. McCone, who arrived at the ranch at dusk, as newsmen Were leaving after an informal npWs conference with the President. Appointment of Sheldon S Cohen as the new U.S. tax commissioner, and of Frederick Lewis Deming as under secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs were among items which highlighted the session with newsmen on the ranch house lawn. Johnson also used the occasion to announce that his State of the Union message at 9 p.m. EST next Monday will “emphasize some of the immediate" programs he intends to propose. But he indicated he will leave many long-range plans for disclosure later. “The message . . will not be a complete or final summation of all we hope to achieve.” Johnson said. "That program will evolve over a -period of time through various messages. I don't want to leave the impression we can build the ‘Great Goldwater ToUlidergo Operation PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPD — Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., said Monday he would undergo back surgery in Washington Jan. 5. Goldwater made the announcement while visiting a youth with a broken neck in a hospital here. He said Dr. Janet Travell, who was recommended to him by the late President Kennedy, would perform the. surgery. Dr. Travell served a? Kennedy’s back physician. It was disclosed in 1961 that the senator suffered a back ailment but its exact nature was not disclosed.

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Society’ overnight, or in any one week, or any one month, or any one (congressional) session.” He said he would send special messages to Congress proposing further steps in his program over the next four years on the basis of ‘‘when Congress is ready to receive them” and when House and Senate committees are in a position to act on them. • "Obivously the State of the Union message will be brief and cannot deal with all these subjects,” Johnson told reporters. ‘‘lt will give a general outline and emphasize some of the immediate recommendations I would like to see acted upon.” Heavy Truck Fined slOl4 Frank’s Sawmill, of Portland, Will have to ‘‘dish out” a total fine of $1,014.75. if its to have one of its trucks returned. A Fort Recovery, O. man driving the truck was arrested by the Indiana State Police Monday evening on U. S. 27 near ' Berne for operating an overweight truck. The truck, taken to the scales at the Uehrn an' Feed in Berne, was found to be 9.730 pounds Over the maximum legal weight of 10,000 pdunds. Berne Justice of the Peace Arthur Muselman levied a fine of $18.75 on a charge of being over the registered weight and a fine of $995.75 on a second charge, over axle gross. 10c A Pound The second fine stemmed from a $5 fine, $17.75 court costs, and 10 cents for every pound the truck was overweight, an additional $973. The fine was actually levied against the Sawmill’s owner, who was not identified. The driver was released and the truck impounded. The truck will remain in the custody of the state police until the fine is paid. If not paid within 60 days, the state police notify the owner by mail, and then sell the vehicle.