The Herald from Jasper, Indiana • Page 1

ranged and at running lows 70 highs to high 85 a at at the included accompanied few the of at points from south Indianap- and further around degrees Evans- state Sat- by to at in to a WEATHER Partly cloudy, warm and humid with scattered showers and thundershowers today and tonight. Friday variable cloudiness and not as warm with showers and scattered thunderstorms. High today 87 to 91. Low tonight low 70s. High Friday upper 80s.

VOL. 66 NO. 256 Border Patrolmen Will Ride Planes To Prevent Hijacking WASHINGTON (UPD President Kennedy announced today that border patrolmen will be stationed on some U. S. airliners to prevent hijacking.

At the same time, he warned Congress and the country against be- HARK THE Make Punishment Fit The Crime- MERICA IS NOT a vengeful A land, it is not a cruel land," says J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who adds, "but certainly something must be done to make it an internally peaceful land." Mr. Hoover points out that crime in 1960 rose 12 per cent over the previous year, and in the first quarter of 1961 our country appears headed for a new all-time high annual record. The FBI Director's remarks are made in the August issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin in which he states: "Nothing discourages and disheartens law enforcement officers more than the knowledge that their efforts in apprehending criminals are too often no more than useless expenditures of time and money useless because unwarranted leniency in the form of suspended sentences, parole, or probation so frequently makes a mockery 4 of good police work. "Assuredly, we must continually strive to rehabilitate those persons who have strayed from lawful ways.

On the other hand, consideration must be given to depraved individuals who have no respect for law and order or the rights of others. The scales of justice must be balanced. "Certainly, the principles of parole, probation, and other rehabilitative measures are good, but maladministration can nullify their worthwhile aspects. Conscientious, -working parole and probation officers, frequently (Continued on Page 11) Civil Defense Chief To Be Discharged WASHINGTON (UPD John W. McConnell, director of a five area of the office of Civil Defense and Mobilization, has been fired, the Chicago Tribune reported today.

The Tribune said McConnell was discharged by Frank B. Ellis, President Kennedy's newly appointed di(Continued on Page 12) May Collect Taxes From Ohio Carriers INDIANAPOLIS (UPD Governor Welsh said today that he may make Ohio truckers pay a tax for use of Indiana highways if Ohio continues tax Hoosier truckers passing through their state. Welsh said Ohio's Highway Use Tax "levied on Indiana carriers, as well as the carriers of other states, amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year." Welsh said he intends to talk with Ohio officials "to reach a reciprocal agreement which would result in suspension" of the tax on Indiana vehicles. If Ohio does not waive the tax, he said, "we have no alternative but to tell Ohio that we intend to collect this tax from their carriers. There are presently several thousand motor carriers in Indiana fleets which are affected by this The Indiana General Assembly passed legislation which gives Welsh authority to collect the same fees from Ohio carriers traveling through Indiana.

The motor vehicle laws of Ohio allow the state to waive the tax, if another states passes a retaliatory bill similar to the Indiana one. Dubois County Education places trump cards in the hands of a man when he plays the game of life. 10, 1961 Twenty Pages Today September Draft Call Set At 25,000 Men WASHINGTON (UPD The Defense Department today announced that the Army will draft 25,000 men in September as part of President Kennedy's military build-up program. The September call is 12,000 more than the revised draft for August. It will bring to 2,640,950 the number of men drafted since the Korean War started in June, 1950.

In his July 25 speech to the Nation, the President forecast that draft calls would double and triple as the Army built up from 870,000 men to about 1 million. Immediately afterward, the Army draft call for August was raised from 8,000 to 13,000. The other services do not draft men. The September draft call is the largest since the Army requested 32,000 men in June, 1953. That was at a time when it was tapering off from larger calls as the Korean War drew to a close.

Before Kennedy's preparedness program, draft calls this year had been averaging 3,375 a month. Common Council Of Jasper Holds Its August Meeting No remonstrators were present at Wednesday night's regular meeting of the Jasper City Council in regard to the proposal to establish a cumulative building and sinking fund to help finance the construction of new sanitary sewers and repair existing sewers, whereupon the city officials gave final approval to Ordinance No. 523 which calls for the establishment of the fund. The new ordinance calls for the levying of an additional tax cut at the rate of 5c on each $100 of taxable property in the City of Jasper. The tax will be payable for the first time in 1962, and each year thereafter for five years.

The ordinance will now be submitted to the State Board of. Tax Commissioners for their approval. All councilmen were present except Bernard Kress, who is on vacation. Clerk-Treasurer "Chuck" Alles turned in an itemized bill for 235.88 representing losses to the city incurred by the flood waters last May. This includes no actual damage but represents the money paid out by the city in the form of overtime pay of city street department workers, purchase of sandbags and other emergency materials.

The bill will be sent to Governor Welsh for approval of payment under the federal assistance set-up. The bill was approved by the council. Mayor Edwin Knies called attention to the fact that the lease on the ground rented from Mrs. Elizabeth Bellner about four miles southwest of the city as a dumping ground will expire on August 23 and should be renewed. He said Mrs.

Bellner re(Continued on Page 12) Mrs. Matt Oser Of Huntingburg Dies At The Age Of 76 Mrs. Margaret Oser, 76, wife of Matt Oser of 1015 Main Street in Huntingburg, died unexpectedly, at 11:05 this morning in the Stork Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Oser became ill around 8 p.m.

Thursday, and a doctor was called. It was believed at the time that she was suffering from an attack of indigestion. When her condition had not improved by this morning, she was removed to the hospital around 8 a.m. Surviving besides the husband are three sons, Walter L. of Rantoul, Sylvester of Tell City and Hubert of Huntingburg; two daughters, Mrs.

Dorothy Vogler and Mrs. Hilda Arensman, both of Huntingburg; and several grandchildren. The body is at the I Funeral Home, Peaceful Solution To Crisis Sought coming -excited" on the basis of incomplete information about such incidents. He pointed out that the last two hijackings were performed by men with a history of mental weakness. Senate Considers Bill Meanwhile, the Senate prepared to pass a bill which would toughen federal penalties for plane piracy, including a proposal to let juries sentence hijackers to death.

Action oh the legislation was spurred by the recent rash of hijacking incidents. The latest hijacking occurred Wednesday when a French-Algerian forced a Pan American jetliner to fly to Havana, Cuba, from Mexico City. The plane was sent back to the United States by Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. Asked at his news conference what should be done about the hijackings, Kennedy answered that an order had gone out today to assign border patrolmen to a number of airline flights. He did not specify them.

Doors Kept Locked The President also announced that the government wants doors to the pilot's cabinet kept locked, that keys be held only by the crew and that the doors be strong enough to block the entry of any intruder. The State Department announced just before Kennedy's news conference that a note had been received from Cuba proposing an agreement for the automatic return of any hijacked planes or vessels by both countries. The note, dated Aug. 4, was transmitted through the Swiss government which is looking after U.S. interests in Cuba since the break in diplomatic relations last year.

U.S. officials said the note implied, but did not promise, outright the return of an Eastern Air Lines Electra hijacked by a Cuban born (Continued on Page 12) Harbison Hears Reorganization Plan Discussed The twelfth of the fourteen school units of Dubois county which would be affected by reorganization held its meeting Wednesday night to discuss the preliminary plan as set out by the County School Reorganization Committee. One hundred and fourteen persons attended the meeting held by the Harbison township advisory committee in Dubois high school. Township Trustee Oscar Kalb presented a brief history of the Reorganization Act after which two members of the county committee, Ralph Seger and Earl Buechler, outlined the preliminary plan as it has been worked out by the county committee. Lewis Eichmiller, township advisory committee chairman, conducted the question and answer session.

Among the many questions asked and discussed were some regarding the allocation of the proposed school board members. Of those present, no one favored the plan: the great majority disapproved it and there were a few absentions. Of the fourteen present school corporation units involved in the proposal to consolidate county schools into two units, twelve have now held public information meetings which are to be conducted prior to the general hearings at which the north and south plans will be discussed. The county committee. will hold a hearing on the north district plan on Tuesday, August 22, in Jasper high school gym: The hearing for the south plan is set for Thursday, August 24, in the old gym in Huntingburg.

Units which have held information meetings thus far include Bainbridge, Ferdinand, Boone, Madison, Hall, Marion, Jackson, Patoka, Jefferson and Harbison townships and the school cities of Jasper and Huntingburg, The Cass township advisory committee has set its public meeting for Friday night of this week at 8 p.m. in the old Holland gym. Plane Carrying British Children Hits Mountains STAVANGER, Norway -(UPD-The wreckage of a chartered airliner carrying 34 English schoolboys to a holiday in Norway was found today in the coastal mountains southeast of Stavanger. Officials said there were "no The plane was believed to have crashed in the mountains at dusk Wednesday during a storm. In the plane with the boys were two teachers and three crewmen.

The boys, all 12 to 16 years old, were en route with their teachers to a Norwegian vacation sponsored by the Lafranc School in Croydon, a suburb south of London. The plane was a twin-engine Viking chartered from the Cunard Eagle Airways. It was reported here that a party arrived two hours after dawn and confirmed that all had been killed. Pieces of the plane were strewn along the mountainside and apparently all aboard were killed instantly. Second Flight Safe Another all-student flight from a school in Harlow.

England, landed safely in Stavanger Wednesday. A Norwegian air force helicopter located the wreckage this morning Lake Vostervann, about 21 miles near Stavanger, a port town on the from (Continued on Page 2) Driver Of Auto Packed With 13 Persons Is Killed By United Press International Three new traffic fatalities scarred Indiana's safety record today, one of which killed the young driver of with 13 members of a car packed the same family. Donald Killian, 20, Kennett, killed Wednesday night and 12 was of his car all other occupants of them bearing the same last name and all related were hurt when the car went out of control about three miles east of Kentland and overturned in a ditch. The injured include Killian's parents, his nine brothers and sisters and his sister-in-law. Charles R.

Leonard, Deadwood, S. was killed this morning on Indiana 3 about six miles north of Hartford City when his car collided with another auto and a tanker truck transporting 11,400 gallons of gasoline. A passenger in Leonard's car, Luther Baker, Elwood, and the driver of the other car, Virgil Sutton, Hartford City, were taken to a Muncie hospital in critical condition. Leonard A. Patton, 48, Bedford, driver of the tanker, was not injured.

Lillian Rost, 51, Lafayette, was killed near Lafayette when a car she was driving went out of control as it coasted down a hill and plunged into a ditch and overturned. At least four of the Killian family were injured seriously and taken to George Ade Memorial Hospital at Brook. The nine brothers and sisters ranged in age from 8 months to 20 years. The Rost accident also injured Orville Howe, 45, Lafayette, riding in the car as a passenger. Howe, a Lafayette police sergeant, was reported in "very poor" condition at St.

Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette. Authorities said only a few hours earlier, Howe had investigated officially a multiple-injury traffic accident involving an ambulance and three cars in which eight persons were hurt. In the Kentland accident, the injured were Willard Killian, 53, his (Continued on Page 12) JFK Sees No Change In Khrushchev's Stand WASHINGTON -(UPD- President Kennedy today renewed his call for use of every possible means to bring about a peaceful solution of the Berlin crisis. The President told his news conference he did not consider Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's recent speech to the Russian people as any change in the stand the Red leader already had taken in their talk at Vienna.

He promised that in the coming months "we will use every device available to us" to settle the Berlin problem peacefully. While he did not get into specifics, Kennedy said it is America's "strong conviction that every diplomatic measure should be employed." As to whether there should be an -West summit meeting, Kennedy said he still feels that none would be useful unless adequate groundwork were laid. But he said that if a summit meeting of Western leaders should prove desirable, he would "be prepared" to join in one. In Relaxed Mood The President, appearing for the most part quite relaxed in contrast to his grim mood at his previous news conference three weeks ago, made these other points to the record-high attendance of 433 reporters: -He cautioned against getting "over-excited" about plane hijackings before complete information is in. But he called for international action to prevent such incidents in the future and announced that hereafter the cockpit doors on American commercial planes would have to be locked from the inside, and that a number of border patrolmen have been ordered to ride on flights.

-He is sending chief negotiator Arthur Dean back to Geneva Aug. 24 to resume "decisive" nuclear test ban talks with Russia. He said he has received a special scientific report which has made him "feel more (Continued on Page 12) Guardsmen Face Tougher Training Camp Grayling, Uniteded States Army chief of staff said yesterday the 9,000 members of the Indiana National Guard (38th Infantry Division) face tougher, longer training sessions. The chief, Gen. George H.

Decker, told the guardsmen, now nearing the (Continued on Page 11) Rain May Continue In Area Until Saturday By United Press International A new round of showers and thunderstorms was launched in Indiana today. Evansville reported an early-morning thundershower and Terre Haute recorded rain as the vanguard of two-day pattern of precipitation moved into the state. Scattered showers and thundershowers were expected all the state today and tonight, the southern two-thirds of the Friday, with a chance showers in the extreme urday. The rain will be temperatures cooler, Temperatures Wed- nesday from olis and Lafayette 90 66 ville, Overnight Lafayette. Indianapolis Highs today will range 84 91, lows tonight from 60s the low 70s, and Friday from near 80 to the upper 80s.

The outlook for Saturday was fair and over the mostly pleasant bulk of the state, although there was extreme a chance of showers in south..