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INDIAKA. STATE LIBRARY INDUKA-PULIS INDIANA- WEA FEATURE AND PICTURE SERVICE COLUMBIA CITY, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14 ,1960 UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL TTS WIRE SERVICE if I fvj CROP Canvass To Be Conducted During The Week Reported Troops In 3 Central American Countries Battling Rebels Said To Be Communists By DOUG ANDERSON United Press International Troops in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica were locked in Stale Troopers Make No Attempt To Halt Negro Girls Integrating White School rnnPB runner mppHno (i. to R) Harold Wherrv. countv chairman; Rev. P.

F. Young, Trick or Treat Rev. Harold Oechsle, Jefferson township chairman. The dinner was chairman; Rev. William Weber and sponsored by the local banks.

Kennedy To Call On Nixon Today Paulding Girl 12, Is Kidnapped And Killed PAULDING, Ohio (UPI) At Sheriff John Keeler said there mi'nhunt spread through Ohio and was no evidence of a struggle at Indiana today for a "man in a the place where the body was battle today, with rebels de scribed by the three governments as Communists and "mercenaries" supported by Cuba's Pre mier Fidel Castro. Only scattered casualty figures had been published, but losses at some points were believed to be heavy. Latest reports said loyal forces were in control in all three countries, but did not discount the possibility that reinforcements from Cuba might change the pic ture at any moment. Officials in Guatemala charged flatly that the weekend uprisings were part of a plot hatched in Cuba to clamp Communist con trol on all of Central America. Cuban officials denied any connection with the attacks.

In Guatemala and Nicaragua rebel forces scattered by govern ment attacks had seized hostages in the hope of insuring themselves a safe getaway. Wear Cuban Uniforms In Costa Rica, loyal troops were battling forces wearing the green fatigue uniform of Castro's Cuba. The guerrillas were using the country as an assembly area and a supply base for the invasion of Nicaragua. The rebel forces operating along the Costa Rican border were said to Include bearded Cubans. Two- engined planes believed to be Cuban were shuttling in and out of the area.

At the height of the weekend fighting, Presidents Miguel Ydigo- ras Fucntcs of Guatemala and Mario Echandi of Costa Rica took personal command of the forces fighting the rebels. The Nicara- guan army is commanded by Gen. Continued on page tlx Kennedy Clings To Lead Over Nixon WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. John F. Kennedy clung to a lead of 389,346 votes over Vice President Richard M.

Nixon today as the count in last Tuesday's presidential election inched slowly toward completion. With a record high 67,718,263 votes already counted, Kennedy's numerical margin in popular votes was the smallest in any presidential election since 1892. His percentage to 49.71 was the smallest since the elec tion of 1884. At midmorning a tabulation by United Press International gave: Others 396,933 The count was unofficial and still incomplete. With close to 230,000 absentee ballots still to be counted in California lone, the total vote for president seemed certain to exceed.

68,000,000. A complete but unofficial count of the balloting in Hawaii gave Vice President Richard M. Nixon that state by a 96-vote margin. Democrats, however, may seek a recount. Nixon was leading in states which would give him 191 votes.

Kennedy had a potential 338 electoral votes as the tally of absentee ballots progressed in California. The latest figures from Nixon's home state showed the vice presides had 3,093,169 votes, still 32.385 behind Kennedy's 31,125,554 California total. But this was a net gain of 3,370 for Nixon over previous figures. A dinner meeting of township chairmen and workers for Chris- tain Rural Overseas Program was held Saturday evening at the First EUB Church. The canvassing for CROP began today and will continue all week until it is com pleted.

The workers received their materials and instructions at the meeting. UNICEF is a similar organization of the United Nations, sponsored by the Church World Serv ice. As in 1947, CROP today, is to give farmers a way to share the produce of their farms with the people who need it most. A farmer sends a part of himself over seas when he sends what he has raised. No one else can do quite the same thing and nothing but crop gives him quite the same op portunity.

Since 1954, the government has made available free of charge to Church World Service and other voluntary agencies, large amounts' of basic foods from Commodity Credit Corporation stocks. To meet their costs of handling and distrib uting these foods, the denomina tions in Church World Service have the "Share Our Surplus" program. In this program $1.00 will dis tribute more than 300 pounds of food. This year, $300,000 of CROP con tributions is- also budgeted for "Share Our Surplus," enough to add 100 million pounds to the sur plus commodities Church World Service can distribute. Food is first in helping starving people help themselves.

The. next step is assistance toward the dig nity of self support. In a dozen lands, thousands of people are self- sufficient today because CROP gifts provided the seeds, fertilizer, tools or livestock, the wells or irrigation systems, that some agri cultural rehabilitation or resettle ment project lackes. Millions of Americans have helped their neighbors overseas since 1947 by means of CROP. They have given their time and ab.Ulty as vol unteer workers.

Taey tiave-contributed from their farms and in comes. Therefore, making avail able for distribution overseas more 440 millions pounds of food and other supplies. In lands both new and old many of our neighbors are still in want, unable to help themselves without aid. Attending the meeting, in addi tion to the chairman of the county, the Rev. Harold Oeschle, were Gerald Hively, Russell Sherman and Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Sell, Thorn-creek townshipi Traverse Hull, Col- umbia township; Merlin baugh, Maurice Butler, Rev. Wil-lliam Weber, Bill Buecker, Harry Heintzelman and Mrs. Austin Hod-son, Jefferson township, Harold Wherry, Union township, Raymond Bird, and the Rev. P.

F. Young. Victor Clark Takes A First In New Haven Annual Speech Contest Among individual winners in the fifth annual speech tournament at New Haven high school Saturday was Victor Clark, Columbia City, who took first place in boys' extemporaneous. Eugene Groves placed fourth in the same division. Of 16 CCJHS students who participated in the event, 11 took firsts in the opening round of competition.

Joan Montz, freshman, took a first place in the opening round of humorous interpretation but was eliminated in the semi-finals. Jefferson High School, Lafayette, captured first place honors followed by Howe Military, second; South Side of Fort Wayne, third; New Haven, fourth; and Peru, fifth. The tournament was under the direction of Francis E. May, Daniel W. Boylan and Forest C.

Fruits, speech coaches, assisted by Masque and Gavel and the National Forensic League. More than 500 students from 27 schools participated in the event. The local varsity debate team, Victor Clark, Gene Groves, Jim Fleck, Jean Fesler and their instructor, Jack Widner, will go to Hammond Saturday where the team will enter the Invitational. Minor Injuries To 3 Southeast Of LaOtto Miss Maureen Mann, 17, Columbia City 7, Miss Carolyn Wes-ner, 16, of Churubusco, and Kenneth Shank, 21, LaOtto 1, all were injured about 12:30 a.m. Saturday when the car driven by John R.

Shank, 17, brother of the injured man, ran off a county road approximately two miles southeast of LaOtto. The injuries received were all minor. State Police reported another brother, Cecil Shank was called to the scene and the injured were driven to Garrett, then to Auburn, and then to Kendall-ville for treatment which was received in McCray Memorial Mrs. McConnell Is Killed Guntersville, Ala. Services Wednesday At Smith Funeral Home Mrs.

Lilah Pence McConnell, 72, wife of George F. McConnell, 332 North Line street, was fatally injured in Guntersville, Sat urday evening when she was struck by an automobile while the Mc Connells were crossing from a motel to a restaurant on Die other side of highway 431. The body, was taken to the Carr Funeral Home In Guntersville and is being returned to the Smith Funeral Home herb, where friends may call after 7 p.m. Tuesday. Mr.

and Mrs. McConnell were en route to spend the winter at Bradenton, when the led dent occurred. They left Columbia City Saturday morning. Driver of the car which struck Mrs. McConnell was Charles Johnson, 20, presumably a resi dent in the Guntersville area south east of Huntsville, Ala.

Manslaugh ter charges have been filed against Johnson. 1 Karl Freese Jr. of Nappanee, a son-in-law of the McConnell! flew to Alabama Sunday and is returning with Mr. McConnell. Mrs.

McConnell was born In Smith township, Whitley county August 18, 1888 to David and Mir iam Coulter Pence. She attended school in Churubusco and at Valparaiso University. She was a member of Grace uitberan Chiwcte past regent of the Col. Augustin de la Bahne Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and an as sociate member of the Osceola Chapter of DAR at Bradenton, Florida. She was a member of the Sorosis Literary Club of Columbia City.

She is survived by her husband, George McConnell; two daughters, Mrs. John (Helen) Alexander, Dallas, Texas and Mrs. Karl (Marjory) Freese Nappanee; five grandchildren Suzanne, John and Nancy Alexander and George and Sylvia Freese; a brother, Evan J. Pence, of Smith township. Services will be at 2 p.m.

Wednesday at the Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. Graham Kleespie, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be at Merriam in the Christian Chapel cemetery. Property Damage $310 In Traffic Accident On South Line Sunday Property damage amounted to $310 in a traffic accident which occurred at 5:20 p.m. Sunday on South Line street about 40 feet south of its intersection with West Van Buren street.

Involved in the mishap "was a car driven by Wil-lard Franklin Bales, West Van Buren street. According to police reports Bales had pulled into a parking place and as he attempted to put the car into parking position, it jumped the curb and hit a parking meter. Bales then reportedly put the auto in reverse and lost control, crossing the street and sideswiping the parked Sievers auto and then going back across the street, jumping the enrh and hitting shrubs and a light pole before coming to a stop against uie kh-mi, duuu- Damage to the front, leu sioe and rear of the 1954 Buick driven by Bales was estimated at $180 and tho Severe nntn a 1960 Ford. Was damaged to the extent of $80. Damage to the parking meter, shrubbery and light pole amounted to $50.

Microwave Route Crosses North Indiana iMniANAPni.ts (UPI) The Bell Telephone System revealed details today of a microwave route crossing Northern Indiana which ultimately will provide almost 11,000 more telephone cir cuits across the state. Rett sniri five buildings along thp Hnnsier Dortion of the coast- to-coast route will be enlarged to house additional relay equipment. Contracts have been awarded fnr ennctnictinn work and equip ment to cost about $425,000 near Pleasant Lake, Albion, Atwood, Culver and Kouts. The microwave radio relay route is used to transmit televi sion pictures and telephone conversations. It is bne of several which bypass major population centers across the nation.

around the schools and federal marshals wearing yellow armbands brought children out of police cars and accompanied them into the school buildings. AU shades at the school were drawn. About 40 teen-agers began parading in front of the McDonogh School carrying crude signs saying "segregate'," but a U.S. marshal herded them down a side street away from the school. One Negro mother began crying outside "because of the precedent that has been established here." When the white parents brought their children out, cheers came from the crowds across the streets.

Principals Enter Schools State troopers stood in front of the schools and told all the principals as they arrived that thece would be "no school today." The principals thanked them and went on into the buildings. Some of the parents reported that school officials tried to talk them out of removing their children. Crowds totalling approximately 500, police said, miUedacross the streets from the two schools hours after the Negroes disappeared inside. Before classes started, children danced in front of the television cameras yelling "Daddy, it's Mickey Mouse," and "Daddy, the doors are open." Police patrolled every school in the city. Ike Helps Mamie Celebrate Birthday AUGUSTA, Ga.

UPI (President Eisenhower, pronounced in "great" health at the age of 70, helps his wife celebrate her 64th birthday today. Mr. Eisenhower flew here Sunday from Washington to join her husband on an extended vacation at the Augusta National Golf Club quarters known as "Mamie's Cabin." A private dinner party, complete with birthday cake, was planned in honor of the First Lady. Both she and the President appeared to be feeling fit and in high good humor when he greeted her at the airport with a kiss and a hug. Eisenhower was tan from the five rounds of golf he has played since he arrived last Wednesday afternoon.

"He looks great," said Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, the President's personal physician. 10-20 Years For Armed Robbery NORTH VERNON, Ind.

(UPI) Richard Unold, 22, Long transfer to the Indiana State Reformatory today after being sentenced to 10-20 years for armed robbery. Unold made an injury-delayed appearance Saturday in Jennings Circuit Court to receive the sentence on his plea of guilty to a $380 robbery at the Baltimore Ohio Railroad depot in North Vernon Oct. 25. Unold was slated to appear for sentencing Thursday but a few hours before he apparently slash ed himself in the arm with a razor blade. 1 of Columbia City on Road 30.

length. It will be used as ware- It will be completed and ready to By JOHN G. WARNER United Press International NEW ORLEANS (UPI) At least four Negro girls walked into formerly all-white first grade classes today and the state troopers under orders to stop integration made no attempt to halt them. No violence was reported. Five Negro girls had been scheduled to enter two schools, but apparently only four Negroes entered.

Three jvent to McDonogh No. 19 and one went to William Franz School. The White House recognized the potential explosiveness of the conflict between federal government and state in New Orleans. A spokesman for the White House disclosed today that President Eisenhower talked to Atty. Gen.

William P. Rogers about the situation. Rogers warned the governor of Louisiana Saturday that, if he interfered with integration, the U.S. Department of Justice would crack down on him on at least five charges. Jeers from Crowd There was no violence, but jeers welled up from huge crowds kept across the street from the schools by police.

The schools are several miles apart. At least two dozen white parents immediately marched into the schools and began taking their children out. One mother said she was removing her three children because she didn't "want them in there if anything happens." Others said they would not let their children go to school with Negroes. 'The legislature, in spite of a federal restraining order, sent state police to the schools to inform teachers and pupils that it was a holiday. No one paid any attention to them.

One trooper was reported assigned at each school. All Shades Drawn The schools were integrated about half an hour after classes began. City police swarmed Hope To Recover Capsule From Discoverer Rocket INGLEWOOD, Calif. (UPI)-An advanced Discoverer satellite whirled around the globe today carrying a capsule set to be ejected into the Pacific at the end of a record one million mile journey equal to two round trips to the moon. Nine airplanes and two ships will try to recover the instrument-carrying capsule in an area 200 by 50 square miles near Hawaii about 2 p.m., PST (5 p.m., EST) after its precendent-setting trip.

The 300-pound capsule was slated to be kicked out of the Agena satellite on its 31st polar orbit of the earth, nearly 49 hours aft er its launching Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. In all previous recovery attempts in the Pacific, the capsule was ejected on the satellite's 17th pass around the world a trip equal to about 480,000 miles. The average distance to the moon is 238,857 miles. meter storage, truck and equipment. By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter PALM BEACH, Fla.

(UPI) President-elect John F. Kennedy, in a gesture unmatched in modern political history, goes to call on Vice President Richard M. Nixon today to heal some of the wounds of their recent election campaign. The Democratic victor asked for the meeting. At 11:30 a.m.

EST, he will visit his defeated Republican rival at Key Bis-cayne, a resort and residential area outside Miami where Nixon and his family, like Kennedy, are recuperating from the campaign. He will fly to Miami this morning. Kennedy and Nixon both arrived in Florida last Friday. Kennedy went to the estate of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, in the fheart of the nation's most, ex clusive winter colony.

Nixon went to the small but swank Key Bls-cayne Hotel, about 10 miles southeast of Miami. After a good night's sleep and talking by telephone with Democratic leaders around the country, Kennedy on Saturday had an opportunity to study the perilously small margin by which he defeated Nixon. In a nation of nearly 180,000,000 population, less than 400,000 votes separated winner from loser. Makes Up Mind After dining with his old friend and campaign associate, Dave Powers of Everett, Ken nedy made up his mind. He picked up a telephone Saturday night and placed a call for Nixon.

The vice president could have been somewhat startled. Even though the two men had been friends in the Senate, they had some harsh things to say about each other during the campaign Surprised or not, Nixon quickly accepted Kennedy's Pierre Salinger, pres' secretary to Kennedy, said the presidentelect had a dual purpose in seeking out Nixon: "First, the senator wants to congratulate the vice president on the campaign he conducted. And second, he wants to resume cordial relations which existed between them during their 14 years in Congress." Although there had been sug gestions from within both parties since the election that Nixon be given a role in the new administration, there was no indication that Kennedy's trip to Miami was any forerunner of a coalition. Possible Cabinet Choices Meantime, the Kennedy headquarters here buzzed with other developments: Gov. Luther H.

Hodges of North Carolina was regarded as set for secretary of commerce in the Kennedy Cabinet. Gov. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, widely regarded as the leading possibility for attorney general in the Kennedy Cabi-let, will have lunch here Tuesday with the Massachusetts senator. Sen. W.

Stuart Symington, will spend next weekend with Kennedy here, primarily to deliver a detailed report on reorganization of the Defense Department. Symington, former Air Force secretary, ha's been conducting a study of defense reorganization needs for the president-elect. Northern Lights Added Autumn Attraction A spectacular display of the northern lights were an added Indian summer attraction Saturday night. Mild weather with bright sunshine Sunday brought many motorists onto highways for fall trips. Temperature Sunday exceeded by two degrees to 62-degree forecast.

A 62-degree reading was made at mid-day and at 5 p.m. citizens were still enjoying a balmy 60. blc car" who kidnaped, raped and killed a teen-age girl Sunday An autopsy at Fort Wayne, showed that Nancy Eagleson was raped before she was shot in the head with a small-caliber pistol by her assailant, authorities said. The only clues police had were provided by the 4-year-old sister of the slain girl. "It was a man In a big car who got my sister," sobbed Sherrill Kaglcson at she began to realize the tragedy.

Paulding Is an Ohio town in a county adjacent to the Indiana-Ohio border east of Fort Wayne, Ind. Kherrlll and Nancy went to a movie while their parents were at work. Aftcrwaut, they stopped at a rrHl intra nl for a soft drink and then started 'walkta! to their home flvo blocks away. A man stopped his car and oflered the girls a ride home but they refused, Sherrill said, adding that the man grabbed Nancy and shoved her Into the car. Kherrlll said she ran as fast as she could to the home of John Larson, a neighbor.

Larson tele-phom-d the sheriff, who mobilized all officers he could in the town of 2.300 population. His three-man department, town police and two highway patrolmen soon combed the area. At 2 30 a m. today, two Paulding men hunting raccoons found Nancy's body Just off a county road. Talks At While House Transfer 01 Powers To lly DWAItl) OWAN ulled I'rrnn International WASHINGTON (UPI) The outgoing and Incoming administra tions begin talks at me wniie House today to plan for the transfer of powers to Sen.

John F. Kennedy when he becomes president on Jan. 20 Moj. Gen. Wilton li Persons, President Elsenhower's chief assistant, arranged to meet with Clark Clifford, Kennedy's liulson man with the White House.

Persons and Clifford were expected to discuss general arrangements and to set up other meet-lugs between Elsenhower administration officials and Kennedy aides to consider s'clfic problems In various fields. Such matters as lorulgn policy, defense, and farm policy undoubtedly will be taken up In more detail at the subsequent meetings between experts on those subjects. It was learned that Kennedy's advisory committee on Defense Department reorganization Is considering a proposal to eliminate the secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force, and give stronger power to the defense secretary. The group, headed by Sen. Stuart Symington, also Is weighing a plan to put greater authority in the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stuff.

Symington will confer with Kennedy next baturday in Florida on the delense proposals. Under the defense plan, the secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Forte would become undersecretaries of defense to encourage unification. There is no thought, however, of merging Ihe three services into a single force wearing the same uniform. In the agricultural field, the Kennedy administration's first action may include steps to cut surplus grain production and sharply expand donations of surplus food to the needy. Democratic farm sources said top priority probably would be given to drafting a new wheat bill for consideration early in the new Congress.

Kennedy's advisers have been working on a plan ior con-1 found. The body was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital at Fort Wayne for an autopsy. The girls' father works days and also at nights as a bowling alley helper. Their mother works in a drive-in restaurant.

Unregistered Voters May Register After First Of December Voters knowing themselves to be unregistered on Dee. 1 and thereafter may register at the office of County Clerk Clarence A. Plat-ner. By registering, they then will be able to vote in the 1962 election. Despite intensive registration ac tivity on behalf of both major political parties, there were numerous instances of voters presenting themselves at the polls Nov.

8, only to find that they were unregistered. Most of these were instances of voters misunderstanding that house-to-house polls made by the parties were a registration effort. After Jan. 1 registration lists will be purged. Names of voters who did not vote in the past two elections will be removed from the lists.

Before the voter's name is taken from the registration records he will be mailed a card. If he does not return it within 30 days his name will be purged from the voters' lists. Today To Plan Kennedy In January irnltpri marketing of wheat in price-protected domestic markets, Thp nevt. secretary of agricul ture is considered almost certain In announce establishment of a fnnri iiarnn nlan for moving more surplus foods into the homes of unemployed and other lowncome families. 5-Day Outlook By United Press International Northern Indiana S.HAY OUTLOOK: Tempera tines will average 4 to 8 degrees above normal.

Normal highs 43 to 47. Normal lows 27 32. only minor temperature changes i v.i i iti Thni-srinv. Fridav and Saturday. Precipitation will total around one-nau men in rain mulnly about Thursday and Friday but chance of showers Wednesday.

Central South Indiana 5-DAY OUTLOOK: Temperatures will average 7 to 12 degrees alsive normal. Normal highs 48 to (Mi. Normal lows 32 to 40. Continued much above average tem peratures until cooling trend be ginning about Thursday and colder Saturday. Continued dry until rain mainly Friday and Saturday except widely scattered showers Thursday.

Haln will total one-half to three-fourths of an inch. WEATHER By United Press International Considerable cloudiness but mild this afternoon through Tuesday. Low tonight 46 to 52. High lues- day in the 60s. Sunset today 4 31 p.m.

CST, 6:31 p.m. CDT. Sunrise Tuesday 6:29 a.m. CST, 7:28 a.m. CDT.

Oullook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy with chance of widely scattered showers. Little temperature change Lows in the 50s. Highs 5 to 75. High Sunday 62 Low Sumluy 43 Monday 12:30 60 ---J i iiiii ii i i a 4 9MTMJJ IX JTm WAREHOUSE OF REMC nearing completion in Gateway Park Addition The new construction is 81 feet 8 inches in width and 164 feet nine inches in bouse facilities, linemen's quarters, use in another week..