THE WEATHER PHONE 282-5921 Details on Page 2 STAR subscription. Colder THE MUNCIE STAR For news and stories, display and classified advertising, to start your "Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Cor. 3:17 VOL. 87-NO. 228 MUNCIE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1963 TEN CENTS ROADS ICY ACROSS Hampton Plans Changes City to Quit Ambulance Service, Lease All Cars By BILL ORMSBY Two revolutionary changes in the use and ownership of city cars are planned by Mayorelect John V.
Hampton. THEY INCLUDE getting the police department out of the ambulance business and getting the city out of the car maintenance business by leasing all cars used by municipal employes. The anticipated leasing includes police squad cars. Hampton revealed Wednesday night that the details for leasing autos have already been put in motion by his purchasing agent, Joseph Sutton. Hampton said Sutton has contacted at least two local auto leasing firms for estimates to be compared against what Hampton called "exorbitant costs of repairs and maintenance." THE MAYOR-ELECT said that if a moneysaving agreement can be reached he hopes to discontinue ambulance service the city is providing "at a great cost to the taxpayer and which is being abused." Hampton said that if the idea is put Into effect an emergency vehicle would be on call at all times to use at auto accident scenes and during disasters, "but we have to get out of the business." Hampton and Marion Gibson, the incoming chief of police, said too many people are taking advantage of the free ambulance service and that only a small number of ambulance runs is are real emergencies.
GIBSON HAS briefly discussed the matter with incoming Fire Chief Wilbur Shimer and plans are being studied for the use of the fire department's first aid station wagon where needed. Hampton and Gibson said statistics show that most people today are covered by insurance but that a majority of the taxpayers are paying the costs of ambulance service for a few. Hampton said most other cities do not give "free" ambulance service and there is no law that states this service must be provided. POLICE, FOR SOME time, have have argued that most squad car accidents and injuries to policemen can be attributed directly to emergency runs which, in many cases, are not emergencies. Hampton said that with the discontinuance of ambulance service "for bloody noses and skinned knees" the city can be more fully protected.
Gibson said it was not unusual for two or more police cars to be tied up at once at the hospital, leaving two of the four police districts "unprotected until the cars are back in service." HE SAID THE situation is repeated after persons are treated "and we are called to give them cab service back home." Turn to Page 3 Schools to Run Program Federally-Financed School to Train Jobless Planned By MAX JONES A federal-financed job training school will be located in Muncie under the Manpower Development Training Program, Dr. ON. Durward Cory, school superintendent, announced Wednesday night. THE PLANS for the school drew mixed reaction from board members. The school, Cory told the board, will serve Delaware, Jay Randolph counties.
It was approved by the MDTP officials on Nov. 26. He said the school will be totally supported by the federal government until June 30, 1964, at which point state and local governments must pick up 50 per cent of the cost unless additional federal legislation approves permanent federal support. CORY SAID $288,423 had already been allocated to finance Peking Reds Rap Nikita's Policy of Co-Existence TOKYO (UPI) Communist China charged Wednesday, that Premier Nikita Khrushchev's "dangerous" co-existence policy was aimed deliberately at setting up joint U.S. Soviet domination of the world.
In a slashing new attack on the Kremlin, the Peking regime accused Khrushchev of betraying communism and warned was courting disaster by seeking cooperation with the United States. The lengthy article was published in the official Chinese Communist party newspaper, the People's Daily, and the Peking regime's theoretical jour nal, Red Flag. the schood. The total cost is $411,734 to $470.000 with the balance to be paid later. The school will train 118 people and is a cooperative effort by the U.S.
departments of labor and health, education, and welfare, Indiana Board of Vocational Education, the local office of the Indiana Employment Security Division, and Muncie Community Schools. Courses to be taught here will determine the total cost of the project. IT WAS ESTIMATED 25 would be trained in a combination of welding projects costing 25 as auto mechanics, 24 auto body repair, 24 machine operators, and 20 in mechanical drafting, $68,282. Cory told the board at the special meeting the Muncie school board would be pected to provide teachers and supervise the training at the school. He said the school board would be assisted locally by the employment office and a citizen's committee in selecting the location of the school and its establishment.
MEMBERS OF THE citizen's committee include Dwight K. Sadgebury, manager of local employment office; Robert O'Bannon Jr. executive secretary of Chamber of Commerce; Leon J. Parkinson, editorial page director of the Press; William Conner, president, Conner Chevrolet; Fred su tendent of trade, industrial and vocational training for the city schools, Charles Yeo, training director Warner Gear Division; Leland Stiff, president of the AFL-CIO Labor Council; and Andrew Vaughn, supervisor of By All Policemen Complete Enforcement Pledge to Be Signed Incoming Chief of Police Marion Gibson made public Wednesday a pledge card all policemen will be expected to sign Jan. 1 when the administration of Mayor-Elect Hampton takes office.
"This should once and for all settle the question about what kind of law enforcement the public can expect from us." Gibson said. Following is the word-for-word content of the pledge card: my signature appearing on this form I hereby acknowledge that I have read and understood the entire contents that are listed. I also have been advised in person, by the Chief of Police, Marion J. Gibson. Jr.
and also the Assistant Chief, Ralph I. Keeler, that no one in the City of Muncie, Indiana, is immune from arrest, for violations of any existing laws, or any laws that may be enacted in the future by the proper authorities. "THIS PERTAINS to the laws of the United States of America, the State of Indiana, Delaware County, and the City of Muncie. above two officers have expressly called to my attention the laws pertaining to gambling and prostitution. They have also called my attention to (to the rule that) drinking or immorality, while on duty as a police officer for the City of Muncie, will be sufficient grounds for immediate dismissal from the police force." STATE State Police Warn of Hazards Even on Major Highways dropping and freezing northern Snowfall tinue By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL The heaviest snow storms of the season began a white blanket over Indiana late Wednesday motorists were advised to use caution as subtemperatures crusted highways with ice.
Up to four inches of snow was called for over the two-thirds of the state by Thursday morning, was to slacken by dawn Thursday but conas temperatures remained frigid. Star Photo SLIPPERY STREETS 'HELPED' The Fire Department's First Aid wagon was demolished when it crashed into a car driven by Larry Condon, 21, 1600 Wheelan emergency run and Condon was cited for failure to yield the right way. Two ing about nightfall at High and Main streets. The first aid vehicle, was on firemen, Condon and his wife were hurt. Accidents Keep Police Busy By JON SHAFER With winter weather dumping more than an inch of new snow on Muncie and the surrounding area, police were plagued Wednesday night with accident calls ranging from minor fender benders.
to mishaps causing hundreds dollars in damage. NO SERIOUS injuries were reported, however, the Redkey State Police Post urged all drivers Thursday morning to be extra cautious with even more snow expected. Troopers reported state highway crews were working on main state and U.S. highways with snow plows. Sand and salt were being placed on most roads.
City Street Commissioner Ben Beckham reported crews at work on the city streets. THE FIRE department first aid unit was damaged in an accident at Main and High street while on an emergency run with four people slightly injured in a crash. Driver of the vehicle, Capt. Pete Whitcomb, 37, 3201 S. Jefferson was unable to stop his vehicle when a car driven by Larry Condon, 21, Scared but Says After MEETS THE PRESS--Frank ing beside his mother, home near Hollywood, tells details of his kidnaping until tioning.
Man at his side is Frank Jr. could return to the house. "FRANK hasn't even had breakfast yet," she said. "I want to feed him, and has to talk to the authorities." He was taken from a Sierra motel by two gunmen and freed Wednesday morning on a freeway two miles from his mother's home. A newsman asked him if he was afraid.
"Sir." said young Sinatra, "I believe I can say offhand that probably reacted normally, 1600 Wheeling came into the intersection from High Street. Whitcomb received minor head and arm injuries and his passenger, Lt. Ronald True, was treated at Ball Hospital for cuts and bruises. Condon was only slightly hurt. His wife, Sharon, 21 had a head cut.
CONDON WAS arrested for failure to yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle. Damage to the first aid unit was car received $300 damage. Helen J. Eley, 56, 2901 Oaklyn received a slight foot injury Wednesday in an accident with another car driven by Mary A. Chase, 41, Portland.
The mishap 0C- curred at Jackson and McKinley streets shortly before 5:30 p.m. Mrs. Chase told police she thought the intersection was a four-way stop when she proTurn to Page 3 M'Cormack, Mansfield Deny Leader Shakeup WASHINGTON (AP)-A port that the two aging congressional leaders next in the line of presidential succession plan to step down SO younger men can take their places drew angry denials Wednesday. When a reporter at a news conference asked Speaker of the House John W. McCormack, D- whether he plans to give up his leadership post, he flared up.
Feel Fine, Rest AP Photofax Sinatra 19, standNancy, outside her Bel Air newsmen he can't discuss the FBI completes quesunidentified. "I was scared, I was a little bit nervous, naturally. All I could do was hope for the best." Sinatra Sr. said he thought there might be as many as nine men in the gang, but the youth said he thought there might bel as few as three. He told the private patrolman, George C.
Jones, who picked him up on the freeway, he thought they were a bunch of amateurs. One of the gang, he told Jones, "chickened out before they made the pickup. He gave up on the whole deal." Indiana State Police alerted motorists to slippery conditions on secondary roads at 2 p.m. (EST) Wednesday as snow began to fall in northern and central regions. Main roads were wet but expected to freeze as temperatures dip to overnight lows.
Secondary roads were already hazardous. TWO hours later, the State Highway Department announced that snow was falling throughout the state. They said icy conditions from freezing slush had made some major roads dangerous. State forces were beginning to plow and treat major arteries with sand and salt. Downstate, snow may accumulate to one to two inches in western areas.
The precipitation will change to freezing rain Thursday unless temperatures remain below predicted marks. DAILY snow will continue to cover Indiana for the rest of the week and well into next week as temperatures remain close to freezing at the highest. The high reading Wednesday for the upper two thirds of Indiana was in the mid-20s. After an overnight low in the teens, a high close to 30-degrees will arrive Thursday. Southern regions of the state had highs at 30-degrees Wednesday which will plunge to the mid-20s overnight and rise a few degrees above freezing Thursday.
A general turn to colder temperatures is expected Friday with highs in the mid-20s and lows resting about 15 degrees. Saturday's snow will continue light and raise total precipitation for the five-day period ending Monday to one-fourth to onehalf inch. One inch of snow has a water content of one-tenth inch of precipitation, forecasters explained. TEMPERATURES, which have been in the sub-freezing region for three days ending Wednesday, will stay 3 to 6 degrees below normal north and up to 10 degrees below normal central and south for a period ending next week. Skies throughout the state will remain 1 clouded over heavily until the weekend and only moderate winds are expected to accompany the snow storms.
Heavy Snow Drives East From Plains By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL A snow and ice storm lashed a vast midsection of the nation from the Great Plains to the Great Lakes Wednesday and drove eastward toward the Atlantic Seaboard. The storm spread a deathdealing sheath of ice on highways, touched off power failures and raised heavy snow warnings from Missouri to western Pennsylvania and New York. An Arctic blast in the wake of the snow storm sent temperatures down to 26 below zero in the northern Rockies. The Weather Bureau said yet another surge frigid air racing southward east of the Canadian Rockies would bring blizzard conditions to the northern plains by Thursday. HEAVY snow warnings were extended late Wednesday to include eastern Illinois, northern Indiana, northern Ohio, sections of Pennsylvania and York.
Weathermen said the heavy snow may spread on eastward Thursday through eastern Pennsylvania and downstate New York. South of the snow belt, a ribbon of ice, spread from the southern plains through the Ohio Valley. Heavy rains washDixie. Birmingham, got almost 3 inches of rain in 24 hours. Local flooding was expected along small streams and in low areas in north-central Alabama.
The mercury plunged to 26 degrees below zero at Big Piney, Wyo, 23 below at Bozeman, 22 below at Butte, and 19 below at Havre, Mont. and education at Westinghouse Electric Corp. Dr. Cory said students at the school will be selected for referral to the MPTP school by representatives of the U.S. Labor Department.
they will be trained for local job openings. Those to be referred for training will receive compensation while attending the school. Course cannot be for less than six days nor more than 52 weeks. THEY MUST BE 16 years ofa*ge or over and considered be I Was Turn to Page 3 Sinatra Jr. HOLLYWOOD (AP) Frank Sinatra his life ransomed for nearly a quarter of a million dollars, said Wednesday he had this reaction to being kidnaped: "I was scared." The slender 19-year-old singer, pale and nervous, emerged from his mother's Bel-Air mansion Wednesday afternoon for his first talk with newsmen since his abductors freed him before dawn.
He described his emotions but declined any details of his ordeal, saying he couldn't discuss it until the FBI completes queshim. HIS FATHER, who flew here Wednesday night from the Lake Tahoe area where the boy was kidnaped at gunpoint Sunday night, was not at the news conference. Earlier, Sinatra said he arranged for the secret transfer of $240,000 in small bills to a gang of from seven to nine men who carried out the plot. Sinatra divorced wife Nancy and daughter, Christina, 16, flanked by two press agents, accompanied the youth to a battery of microphones. How did he feel? "Fine, said Sinatra.
"I wasn't harmed at all." HOW MANY men kidnaped him? "I'm sorry, fellows," Sinatra said. a "I'm not at liberty to say anything about that." Sinatra, speaking in strongly resembling those of his famous father, explained to newsmen he didn't talk to the FBI when he first got home because he had gone almost three days without sleep. "Last night," he said (meaning early Wednesday), "when I returned home I was so exhausted from having walked from that freeway that just kind of passed out. I just decomposed Mrs. Sinatra, her eyes moist, kept interceding with newsmen to hurry their questioning "I am amazed you would ask such question.
Is there no limit of decency?" he replied. McCormack, who will be 72 next week, began to stalk angrily from the room after his reply and suddenly turned and declared: "I was elected speaker and I'm going to remain speaker." THE report that 86-year-old Sen. Carl Hayden, plans to relinquish his post as Senate president pro tempore was scotched by Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of (Montana as not possessing a "a scintilla of "These reports should be seen as they are--absolutely any responsible foundation. Mansfield said in a statement. A columnist had circulated a report, which also was broadcast, that Hayden might step aside to let Mansfield take his place as presiding officer of the Senate, with Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, now assistant Democratic leader, moving up to succeed Mansfield. The reports, Mansfield said, "in 1 my opinion seek to bring about a discord and disunity within the Democratic party and its leadership in the Senate which does not and will not exist." When President Johnson succeeded the slain President John F. Kennedy, leaving the nation without a vice president, this put McCormack as speaker next in the line of succession with Hayden behind him. Hayden has been added by Johnson to those invited to his weekly meetings with Democratic congressional leaders.
France to Quit Euromart Unless Satisfied Dec. 31 PARIS (UPI) The French cabinet Wednesday endorsed President Charles de Gaulle's threat to quit the Common Market if member countries fail to agree on a joint six-nation farm policy by his deadline set for Dec. 31. The French government ordered Minister of Agriculture Edgard Pisani bank to Brussels for resumption of Common Market talks with "very firm instructions" to insist on De Gaulle's deadline being met by the other five countries. The strong French stand plunged the six-nation Common Market deeper into crisis.
West Germany said it could sign no agreement on prices of beef, dairy produce and rice until the Common Market countries first on their policy in the tariff slashing talks scheduled with the United in Geneva next May. Inside Today's Star Bridge 18 Classified Ads 36, 37, 38 Editorials 6 Markets 36 Obituaries 2 Puzzle 39 Sports 33, 34 Statistics 35 TV 18 15th Man Arrested in Insurance Swindle By JIM GRISSO The 15th man to be arrested in the insurance swindle in Muncie was apprehended Wednesday morning by Cook County, sheriff's officials in Chicago. PROSECUTOR Hugh Tuck Schulhof said David Lee Batio, 23, former Muncie resident now living in Chicago, was arrested on a warrant issued by Circuit Judge Alva, Cox. The warrant, filed charges Batio with defrauding an insurance company. Schulhof said Batio is scheduled to appear in Cook County Criminal Court No.
44 Thursday for extradition proceedings. If the defendant refuses to waive extradition, Schulhof indicated he will begin extradition proceedings immediately through the office of Gov. Matthew Welsh. The Country Parson "Making misbehavior illegal doesn't necessarily make it unpopular." According to the affidavit, Batio is charged in connection with a fraudulent claim for $6,180.36 filed May 22, 1962, with the Maryland Casualty Co. The claim was filed for "pretended loss by burglary," the affidavit charges The $6,180.36 was made payable to Batio, doing business as Batio and Combs Paint according to the charges.
THE WARRANT was mailed to Chicago Nov. 20, but authorities were not able to locate Batio until Wednesday, Schulhof said. A number of others face charges in the insurance swindle. They include Jack R. Hall, 35, 4403 University James C.
Myers 36, 21 Duane William Hoover, 42, 1846 Cowing Park Lane; George Turckes, 40, 305 Forest Bobby Joe Barker, 29, 123 N. Hodson Charles N. Hahn, 27, R.R. Clifton E. (Jack) Hahn, 35, Yorktown; Marley Evans, 46, 2809 Petty James S.
Kennedy, 37, 1900 Colonial Lane; Carl France, 44, 3330 Riverside Frederick E. Barton, 42, 3232 Southwest and David Kearns, 39, 1713 S. Franklin St. All 12 of these men except Charles Hahn have pleaded not guilty to charges of defrauding an insurance company. Turckes also faces two additional charges of insurance fraud.
CHARGED WITH grand larceny are Donald Carpenter, 1004 12-12 E. Fifth St. (filed County): James E. Bass 41, 213 S. Beacon and Clinton Hahn.
Hahn and Bass also face grand larceny charges in Kosciusko County..
