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RU SH VI LLEW REPUBLICAN Vol. 61 Established 1840 Rush ville, Indiana, Thursday, May 23,1963 Eight Pages Seven Cents Class Of 108 On List Here As Graduates The 93rd Commencement for the Rushville city schools will open here Sunday night with the annual Baccalaureate exercises, followed with the Commencement graduation services on Wednesday night. Both services will be held in Memorial Gymnasium. The Sunday night program starts at 7:30 p.m, and the Wednesday night program will begin at 8 There are 108 candidates for diplomas, the largest class to be graduated here. The Sunday program will open with the processional, with Dan Schermer at the organ.

The class will occupy elevated seats on the gym floor, and the invocation will be asked by Linda Lambert. The high school choir, with Donald E. Myers, Directing, will sing, Heard a Forest The scripture will be read by Kenneth Todd. The sermon for the evening will be delivered by the Rev. Ray Crawl of the First Baptist Church, using as his subject, for The choir will again be heard, and will sing, Lord Clairetta Wykoff will pronounce the benediction, and the seniors will retire with the organ recessional.

The class officers are Patrick Badell, president; David Axsom, vice president; Cheryl Campbell, secretary, and William Evans, treasurer. Pre-commencement activities will start on Friday of this week with the annual Junior-Senior Prom and Dance. The dinner portion will be at the Durbin Hotel and will follow with the dancing program at the Elks Club. The 108 members of the class are as follows: THE MAJOR GETS A GLAD HAND Astronaut Gordon Cooper is greeted by two girls who rushed out from the curbside crowds in welcome to Cooper Tuesday. They were among several who broke through police lines to shake hand despite efforts to keep them back.

The incident occurred on Pennsylvania Avenue. (AP Wirephoto) Ann Kathryn Abercrombie. Samuel Ransom Addison, III, Carolyn Diane Alexander, Donna Sue Allen, Charles H. Ariens, Thomas K. Austerman, David Marshall Axsom, Patrick Curtis Badell, Paul William Barada, Thomas Henry Barnes, Sheryl Jean Bills.

Bonnie Blevins. John Borem, Francene D. Bradley, Diane Ruth Buhler, Sharon Sue Caldwell, Ronnie D. Cameron, Cheryl Ann Campbell, Geraldine Kay Clark, Martha Kay Coffey, Vicki Sue Conner. Mary Barbara Gail Copeland, Michael L.

Cox, Norbert Clay Coyle. Lonnie Jene Dehoney, Jean Ann Denney, Walter Lee Durkes, III, Danny Lynn Earnest, Delores Earnest, Stephen Kenneth Earnest, Marshia Lenoa English, Sharon Arlene Eskew, Beverly Sue Evans, William Max Evans, Mary Katherine Floyd, Lincoln Wayne Fraley. Marsha Gallimore, Connie Kay Gordon, Harold Eugene Gravitt, Toni Jolene Green, Sue Ann Griffin, Clayton Wallace Haehl, Janet Lee Henby, Jerry Lee Hileman, Roy Santford Hollar, Donald Ray Howard, Sandra Kay Howard, John Douglas Howell. Carolyn Jean Huff, Max E. Hufferd, Walter W.

Jackson. Clarienda Frances John, William G. Lacy, Linda Louise Lambert. Richard Kevin Levi, Jana J. Liebrandt, James Thomas Marshall.

Anne Mauzy, Harold Robert Miller, II, Thomas Andrew Miller. Mary Lynn Moorman, Jean Elaine Morgan, Orville Morris, Dennis Allan Mullins, Susan Elizabeth Mullins, Carol Kay McDaniel, Joyce Elaine McFatridge, Jane Lee McRoberts, Suzanne Northam, Anglia Diane Owen, Lorella Paugh, Carroll A. Petricek. Stephen Porter, Jonathan Poston, Rex A. Ratekin, Helen Faye Ratliff, David Thomas Richardson, Beth Elaine Ritter, Harry Lee Robbins, Daniel L.

Schermer, Jayne Schneyer, Judith Ann Sednek, David A. Shouse, Joyce Lorraine Smith. Marsha Mae Smith, Virginia Ann Smith, Lawrence Alan Southerland, Sheila K. Sparks, George Allen Stamm, John David Stamm, James Nelson Stewart, Christine Swarts. Ralph Brent Sweet, Duane Richard Taylor, Carolyn Thoman.

Connie Sue Thomas, Kenneth Gayle Todd, Dwayne Lee VanSickle, Janet Alene Voiles, Bernard Allen Walker, Janet Sue Walker, Sharon Ann Whitefan, Robert Earl Wilder, Kathleen Wilson, Robert Allen Wilson, Robert Allen Wilson, Shelia Jean Wilson, Carroll Eugene Woods, Clairetta Lee Wykoff. Air Force Rapped For News Ban On Crash In Indiana WASHINGTON (AP) Interference with newsmen covering plane crashes outside military reservations is a violation of Air Force regulations, Rep. John E. Moss, told Air Force officials Wednesday. Moss, chairman of a House subcommittee on government information, told Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M.

Zuckert in a letter that reports of such violations have been received. He told Zuckert to stop them. Moss cited a case in Indiana in which radio and television newsmen reported and Final Service Sunday to Bring End Of 132 Years Ministry, Gowdy Church Sunday, May 26, marks the clos- the church, forever, by Job Paugh, ing of the Gowdy Methodist church. Communion will be observed at the worship hour at 9 a.m. and the Rev.

James Timms, pastor, will bring the message. Sunday school will follow at 10 a.m. Approximately 132 years have passed since the church was formed. The work accomplished in the church by its members can be keenly felt in the neighborhood and in the surrounding areas. The Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church of Gowdy has an almost continuous history running back for more than 90 years, this congregation being the successor in this generation of the church abusive last Sept.

14 by society that was organized in that an officer from Bakalar Air Force neighborhood about the year 1830. Base at the scene of a B58 crash near Butlerville. He quoted a 1958 Air Force regulation as stating that authority may not prohibit the taking of photographs. Force policy is limited to withholding In the Indiana case, Moss said, newsmen were halted by two military policemen one and one-half miles from the crash scene and were later escorted to the scene but wre prevented by an Air Force major from taking pictures or even making written notes. just before morning, officials from Bunker Hill Air Force Base arrived, surveyed the scene, and gave permission to photograph the Moss said.

recorder of Rush county. Among the families which were numbered among the charter membership of the church were the Wagoners, the Redenbaughs, the Machlans, the McGinnises, and the Wrights. In 1867 the church was abandoned and the membership was transferred to the church at Moscow. In 1874, the Rev. Asbury Wilkinson, then pastor of the Moscow church, held a series of meetings at the school house (now Gowdy).

During these meetings so much interest was shown that a new church was erected across the road from the school house. The building was destroyed by fire on December 24, 1897. The next year a new edifice was reacted on the same sight. John Kennedy Gowdy, for whom the village was named, donated Cold Records For May 23 Broken Here By The Associated Press Temperatures tumbled to record low levels in Indiana early today, and the Weather Bureau predicted another round of chilly readings tonight. Record lows for May 23 reported early today included 31 at Michigan City and Fort Wayne, 34, at Evansville and 37 at Indianapolis.

Evansville showed the biggest drop from a previous record of 41 in 1917. The Weather Bureau forecast lows tonight for the 30s and low 40s, including the possibility of Mercury Tumbles To Frosty 37 Here A frosty 37 degrees was reached early this morning at the U.S. Weather Station here. It was the coldest temperature reading here since May 1 when the mercury dipped to 31. Frost clearly was in evidence early this morning and weather forecasts predict the possibility of more frost early tomorrow.

Things Going On In Rushville Tonight JayCee Special Meeting, Coca Cola Plant Choir Practice, Main Strret Christian, St. Methodist, First Presbyterian Churches Young Meeting, First Pentecoastal Church Prayer Meeting, EUB, First Baptist, Church of God, Church of Christ and Christian Assembly churches Veterans of Foreign Wars Moose Lodge V.F.W. Ladies Auxiliary, VFW Hall Princess Theatre scattered frost across the southern twothirds of the state. A warming trend was forecast for Friday, pushing high temperatures into the upper 60s, and was expected to continue Saturday. The Rev.

Robert McDuffee, a local preacher, who had come up from iL Kentucky, held meetings in a barn be Plaeed the church on a farm one-half mile east of Gowdy. Prayer meetings were held in the homes of tre pioneers of that vicinity. A building was erected as a house of worship less than a mile of where the village was platted. The land on which this building was erected was deeded to Smith Leaves Prison INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Virgil W. (Red) Smith, former chairman of the State Highway Commission, left the Indiana State Prison quietly Wednesday, the State Parole Board reported today.

Smith was paroled after serving nearly three years of a 2-14-year sentence for conspiring to embezzle public funds and soliciting and accepting bribes. Bert Rudicel, parole board chairman, said Smith was picked up at the prison in Michigan City by his family. He reportedly intends to live in his home town of Milan. Semester End Nears For City Children Monday will be the last full day of class work for underclassman in the Rushville schools. Exams will be completed by noon on Tuesday and teachers will have the afternoon for grading and making reports.

Students will return to their classrooms at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday to get their grade cards. The commencement for the graduates will be at 8 Wednesday night in Memorial gymnasium, to be followed with the annual all-night party at the Elks Club. Gary Teachers Threaten Strike GARY, Ind. (AP) The Gary School Board met in emergency session today in an attempt to avert a threatened strike by a teachers union.

Gary Teachers Local 4, a member of the AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers, has threatened to boycott classes beginning Monday if the board does not negotiate with the union. Charles O. Smith president of the local, said boards have recognized and dealt with the union since 1937, but the present board has refused to meet with teacher representatives. Dr. LeRoy Bingham, school board president, said that, under an attorney ruling, the board is not allowed to negotiate with the union.

will not lead our board into an illegal he said. tower. Four men, reared in the church, went out as ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They include J. T.

Scull, Sr. John Machlan, Merritt Machlan, and John Carpenter. Dr. John T. Scull.

A son of J. Sr. also became a minister of the Methodist Church Dr. and Mrs. Scull reside at the Jackson Nursing Home in Rushville.

Sugar Prices Climb Wildly: Market Is Described As In State Of Panic By DARDEN CHAMBLISS AP Business News Writer NEW YORK prices are climbing like crazy and no one seem to know where it will end. The head of the Agriculture sugar policy staff, Lawrence Myers, says the market is in a state of panic. A commodity that in 1961 was worth two cents, and which was excluded from the United States except under rigid quota systems, is being pursued with ardor at about 12 cents. what a pound of raw foreign sugar costs at dockside New York these days. The American Sugar Refining Co.

announced Wednesday the latest hike in the wholesale price of refined sugar: By $1.75 to $16.80 per 100 pounds in the Northeast. Mrs. Clevideiue Of Carthage Dies Mrs. Artie Clevidence, 54, of Carthage died suddenly this morning at Rush Memorial Hospital where she was admitted Wednesday. A former employe of the Container Corporation at Carthage, Mrs.

Clevidence had lived in that town since 1931 when she moved there from Kokomo. She was born in Albany, on January 5, 1909, the daughter of Thomas and Thelma Berchette Conner. Mrs. Clevidence was a member of the East Street Christian Church, the Order of Eastern Star and the American Legion Auxiliary, all in Carthage. Survivors include the husband, Paul Clevidence; a daughter, Mrs.

Eugene Wilson of Carthage; three sisters, Mrs. Mallie Anderson of Biloxi, Mrs. Sally Wright of Cadiz and Mrs. Vula Foster of New York City; three brothers, Vivian and Robert Conner of New Castle and Thomas Conner of Mesa, and two grandsons. Services will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday at the Hampton Mortuary in Carthage, with the Rev. Robert Kendall officiating, and burial will follow in Glen Cove Cemetery at Knightstown. Friends may call at the mortuary after 3 p.m. Friday. By The Associated Press Cold weather toppled low temperature marks for the date in the northeastern quarter of the nation today and brought freezing weather damage to some Midwest crops.

Low temperatures ranged in the 20s and 30s, with most severe cold in the orchard region of northern Lower Michigan and in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Empire, reported a low reading of 20 degrees. Smudge pots, wind machines and low flying airplanes were used by raisers in Michigan in efforts to minimize damage to trees in the blooming stage. Record low marks included 27 at Lansing, 28 at Minneapolis, 30 at Pandora, Ohio, and Grand Rapids, 32 at Pittsburgh, and Des Moines, Iowa, 35 at Rochester and Syracuse, N.Y., and 42 at Little Rock, Ark. Some warming developed today in the north central region, however.

Cooler weather was indicated in the Atlantic and Gulf Coast areas, with some of the chilly air expected to spread southward into northern Florida. But fair and milder weather was the outlook for the Midwest region during the day. One of the early morning low marks was 23 in Marquette, Mich. The mercury dropped to near freezing in suburban areas of Chicago. Temperatures east of the ies ranged from the 50s across the northern half of Dixie to the 30s and lower in the Great Lakes region.

Only Florida and the immediate South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts remained in tropical air with readings in the 70s. Owen Rotan, 82, Succumbs Here Owen Rotan, 82, retired farmer of west of Falmouth, died at 6 a.m. today in the Hillside Haven Nursing Home where he had been staying for about six months. He had been ill for three years and in a serious condition since July of 1962. A native of Richland Township, he was born March 17, 1881, the son of John W.

and Phoebe Halstead Rotan. Mr. Rotan had lived in the Falmouth community for many years. He was a member of the United Brethren Church and the Falmouth Masonic Lodge. The widow, Mrs.

Addie Carson Rotan, also is in ill health and now is a resident of the Paula Mar Nursing Home at Connersville. Only other survivors are a niece, Mrs. Mary Owens of Los Angeles, Kennedy Will Use Troops If Necessary To Enroll Negro At Alabama School Negro Students Return To Desks In Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala. pupils suspended for integration activities flocked back to their classrooms today backed by a federal court order for reinstate raent. A spot check of Negro schools WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy has made it clear he will use U.S.

troops and marshals if needed next month to crack racial barriers at the University of Alabama. But he voiced hope at his news conference Wednesday that segregationist Gov. George C. Wallace would back away from the threatened federal-state collision by heeding court orders to integrate the school. A federal court at Birmingham told the university Tuesday it must showed that the pupils suspended admit two Negroes June Monday were returning this morning.

School Supt. Theo Wright said the 1,081 pupils were being reinstated immediately in compliance with the decision rendered on Wednesday night by Judge Elbert P. Tuttle of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. School board attorney Reid Barnes said he would press for a new hearing on decision.

The Atlanta judge said the children were illegally arrested. He ruled that the city school board could not prevent pupils from completing this term. Seven days remain in the school term. Tuttle overturned a decision by U.S. Dist.

Judge Clarence W. Allgood of Birmingham within eight hours after Allgood refused to re- Snd a nephew, Neil Harlow of New instate the 1081 pupils expelled Jersey. The Rev. I. T.

Rogers will conduct services at 2 p.m. Sunday at Wyatt Moore Memorial, where friends may call after 2 p.m. Sat- or suspended Monday. Tuttle said the school reason for its action was a policy of suspending or expelling any pupil arrested for any cause. He Brother Of Local Man Dies Last Eve New Lobby Hours The price was about $10 in January.

The five-pound bags of sugar that sold for about 55 cents in the supermarket last year are tagged at 69 cents and up. The 360-degree turnabout from depressed to premium prices involves several factors. Weather has been bad for beet crop. crop has been far! below normal. Demand, mean-1 Drivino flacc Tn while, has been growing rapidly jIMIV111 10 Sugar is one of luxuries i iY Af A r1, people in emerging nations seek.

lTU1 Al The domestic crop generally is A summer class in train- all right, but traditionally it is ing will begin at 8 a.m. Monday at only about half enough to meet the Arlington school, Principal needs. Donald Hedrick announced today. Most trade sources say there Those who have enrolled are ask- should be prices relief when the ed to be present at that time. A few fall beet crop comes in.

But the general view seems to be that above-normal prices will continue for a couple of years. openings still remain in the class and those from other schools may Arthur Lemen, 82, Dies Last Night Arthur Lemen, 82, died at 9:10 p.m. Wednesday at the home of a stepdaughter, Mrs. Blanche Walker, on R. R.

1, Rushville, after four years of failing health. A retired farmer, Mr. Lemen formerly lived five miles south of Rushville on Ind. 3 before moving to Mrs. home at the Airport Inn last December.

He was born in Jefferson County on August 29, 1880, the son of Thomas and Sarah Shreves Lemen, and had lived in Rush County for 45 years. His wife, Mrs. Ethel Noah Lemen, preceded him in death on August 24, 1957. Survivors include two sons, Alvin B. Lemen of Rushville and Alfred Lemen of Orange; two stepdaughters, Mrs.

Floyd Rogers of Florida and Mrs. Walker; a brother, Avery Lemen near Madison; a sister, Mrs. Nellie Sellers of Peoria, 111., and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The Rev. Ray Crawl will con- burial will be there.

urday, with entombment in East ruie(j however, that the pupils Hill Shrine Mausoleum. engaging in legally permissible and were arrested for exercising this constitutional News of decision set off wild celebrations at a mass Roy H. Meyers, 72, a native of meeting and integration leader Dr. Rush County, died last night at Martin Luther King Jr. said his Urbana, 111., after an illness of position had been vindicated, several months.

School board members held a He was born in Rush County night meeting but made no im- Jan. 31, 1891, a son of John B. and mediate comment Louisa A. Meyers. He had retired ------------------------a number of years ago as a church custodian.

Mr. Meyers was never married. Only immediate survivor is a RushvaieClarence E- Meyers of For Post Office Funeral services will be held at sherman Wnght postmaster, the Weaver-Henderson Funeral has announced that the Rushviile Home in Urbana on Saturday and post office be closed one-half hour earlier, beginning Saturday, May 25. It will then be open from 5:30 a.m. until 7 p.m.

I daily, except Sundays and holidays. I On Sundays and holidays it is open from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m. The window will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

daily (except Wednesday and Saturday) when it will be open from 8 a.m. until 12 noon. Mr. Wright stated that a study was made of outgoing mail service and that it was determined that, when the schedule was advanced one-half hour, much better connections would be made in Indianapolis with air and surface routes. It is believed that the advantages gained by making these connections will outweigh the disadvantages to the general public by the earlier closing.

In connection with this change evening collections over the city will be somewhat altered. Collect- The Weather Continued fair and cool tonight with chance of frost; low tonight in upper 30s. Partly cloudy and slightly warmer Friday; high in upper 60s. Sunset Today p.m. Sunrise Friday .................5:21 a.m.

I LOCAL TEMPERATURES 8a.m. today 46 ion will begin at 4 p.m., but each 1 p.m. today 54 box will show the collection times, Wednesday May 22 together with the location of a Highest 56 nearby box where collection will be Lowest 37 made after 5 p.m., where any box Precipitation None will be collected before that time, curred at 5:15. at the main campus at Tuscaloosa, the other af, the Huntsville branch. Wallace has declared that he personally be present to bar the entrance of any Negro who attempts to enroll.

This is legal resistance and legal Alabama is the only state with all its public schools still segregated. In his news conference that ranged from flights to space to his trip to Rome, Kennedy also discussed another facet of the civil rights problem: The recent outbreaks of racial violence at Birmingham, Ala. The President said he will decide in the next few days whether to propose additional civil rights legislation. He did not go into details, but a Justice Department spokesman said any additional proposals would be in the fields of education and public accommodations. The Birmingham situation prompted Kennedy on May 12 to order 3,000 troopb into Alabama military bases so they would be nearby should they be needed to quell any disturbances in Birmingham.

Wallace challenged the authority on the troop move in a suit filed Saturday with the U.S. Supreme Court. Kennedy said he welcomed the court suit, declaring, is where these disputes should be would he said, the fact that the governor has chosen to carry out our dispute in the courts indicates that in the final analysis, he will accept the judgment of the court in the cases coming up in enrollment of the two Negro students in the university. The Justice Department had expresed this view for the administration last Saturday. Speaking of the possible use of marshals or troops if Wallace should attempt to fight the court order, Kennedy said: would be very reluctant to see us reach that point.

But I am obligated to carry out the court order. There is no choice in the matter. These decisions must be enforced. Everyone understands Boy Rides Bicycle Into Bumper A seven-year-old boy received a laceration on his head yesterday afternoon when he rode his bicycle into the bumper of a trick. Johan E.

Sednek, 701 North Oliver Street, turned from Spencer Street onto Seventh and struck the vehicle which was driven by Loren E. Littrell, 25, 329 North Hannah Street. The boy was thrown to the pavement and the injury required four stitches to close. The accident oc- U.S. Scores Dramatic On Mt.

Everest KATMANDU, Nepal American teams scaled Mt. Everest from two different sides Wednesday in a mountaineering first, radio reports from the scene said today. It was the first time anyone had conquered the highest peak in such dramatic fashion. Most spectacular feature was that William F. Unsoeld; Corvallis, and Thomas F.

Hornbein, San Diego, made it up hitherto unsealed west long considered crossed over the peak and started down the other side. via the south traditional I quest of the perilous west ridge route to the three came in terse walkie-talkie radio hours before Unsoeld and Horn- messages from Unsoeld and Hornbein got there. This makes five Americans who have stood on roof of the are all very said bein. After leaving the 27,000 foot takeoff point Wednesday morning for the final assault, they reported climbing over great rocks with This was the first traverse of duct services at 2 p.m. Friday at Everest in history.

Moster and Sons Mortuary, where friends may call after 5 p.m. to- sign up for the class with a letter day, with entombment in East Hill from their principal. Shrine Mausoleum. Barry C. Bishop, Washington, D.C., and Luther G.

Jerstad, Eugene, were reported by ra- dio today to have made the top U.S. Ambassador Henry Endicott the aid of pitons and ropes. But Stebbins. Expedition leader Nor- they said there was little wind man R. Dyhrenfurth, Santa Moni- and the weather was ca, said the traverse exploit had been the of moun- At noon, Unsoeld and Hornbein taineers for radioed to James Whittaker of There was wild cheering at the Redmond, who scaled the American Embassy as the radio peak May 1, that they were above reports reached here.

128,000 feet and had passed the There had been little hope Un- point 0f no return. soeld and Hornbein would succeed after they lost much of their oxygen and food in a snowslide and windstorm last Thursday. The gripping account of the con- This meant they had to reach the top and descend by the easier southern route. Retreat down the west route was impossible since Continued on Page Eight.