Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 97.

Proposes Two New Grade School Buildings In Decatur

School Board Members Laud Survey Report Express Praise Os Formal Report Os Survey Os Schools School board members, George Helm, Everett Hutker and Harry O. Irwin were high in their praise of [ the formal report o£ the survey of Decatur public schools Submitted to the public Friday night by the school survey commission of Indiana University. George Helm, president of the board, said: } "We have studied the report* and: we believe that it is sound, and speaking for the board and school authorities, I want the school patrons and Decatur citizens to know that we are prepared to go as fast and as far as they desire in building our public school system into the finest in Indiana.” Everett Hutker, member, said: “1 believe the program is sound and if we receive continued endorsement from the citizens of Decatur and the school patrons, we should proceed immediately to put the plan into operation. I sought a post on the Decatur school board with one thought in mind. tluy of making the Decatur schools second to none in Indiana.” Harry 0. Irwin, member, said: "1 join with the other two bdftrd members in expressing a belief that the plan is sound. I feet that our children are entitled to the best .and I believe we will have the best if the recommendations of the survey are put into effect." Members stated that they were anxious to get the reaction of all school patrons and other Decatur citizens either directly or through the press. All of them indicated that after a two or three week period of closer study of the plan, they would proceed to carry out in principle most of the recommendations. All three expressed pleasure over (Turn To Pa«* Two,

Distribution of School Pupils ; .s/ -- }) 111 ’/ DECATUR. INDIANA [ll • (l GRADES 1-6 1|* — \\ * < * t FURL ToT * L * let i ■ __SB§LSB®wg wk Wx ??s•' ~ ’ 1 1 ¥ * . id . ■ ' L 1 ' -.- ‘ xuc m«p auure aUuW* 'uia uijLliuutluil ill iJe.acUi 04 pupils ITOin the first to sixth grades inclusive, totalling at present 663. The X marks show the approximate locations of the two proposed new buildings for kindergarten and elementary grades.

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Daylight Savings Time Starts Sunday Decatur And Most Os State In Move By UNITED PRESS Daylight savings time starts Sunday in many sections of the nation. Clocks will be set ahead one hour in all or most of 16 states, in scattered cities in six other states, and in the nation’s capital. The New England and Middle Atlantic States form the most solid block going on “fast” time. Most of the south will stay on standard time. _. In the midwest and west, scattered areas will make the switch to daylight time. The changeover will mean an hour's less sleep for millions of Americans Saturday night unless they sleep an hour later than usual Sunday morning. But they will regain the “lost” hour next fall when they switch back to standard time. ' - - - ■ ■ Most cities and states will change back to "regular time” the last Sunday in September. But in Massachusetts daylight time will run through October for the first tune this year. Some states outlaw daylight time, among them Wisconsin and Kentucky. But towns in Kentucky get around the law by passing resolutions to have their residents show up for work an hour earlier and quit an hour earlier. , States in which ail or most communities will go on daylight time include: all six New England states. New York, New’ Jersey,. Pennsylvania, pelaware. Maryland, the District of Columbia, Indiana, Illinois, California and Nevada. Northeastern Ohio generally will go on daylight time but the rest of the state will stay on standard. Other sections where daylight time will go into effect include: St. Louis and its suburbs; Michigan communities near Chicago: Virginia communities in the Norfolk - Portsmouth area and near Washington, D. C.; < s o m e cities in Montana and West Virginia. and Los Alamos, N. M.

Hold Options Oir Proposed School Sites School Board Buys Options On Tracts Recommended Here Options to purchase have been obtained on two probahle elementary school sites, one in the northwest and the other in the south part of Decatur, it was made known today by school board members and superintendent W. Guy Brown. The options were secured 10 days ago following a conference with members of the Indiana University school survey commission and they were taken prior to the making public, of the report to assure taxpayers, that if the survey is adopted by the school board, land would be purchased at the lowest possible price. Dayton Avenue Site The area in the northwest part of the city is a nine acre tract, running 790 feet north and south, between 10th and 12th streets, and 495 feet east and west between Marshall street and Dayton avenue. One strip of the land to the west is owned by Anthony and Elizabeth Faurote and the balance is owned by Giles and Vehna Porter. The options call for a purchase < price of $8,500 . tx> the Faurotes ’ and |23,800 to the Porters. In each instance the school city would assume the obligation of the northwest sewer assessment, which would total $7,480 for the complete tract of land. Total cost of this tract of land, if the options are exercised, would be $32,500 plus the s7,4Bo.sewer assessment which would make a total land investment of $39,780. Mcßarnes Street Site In the south part of the city, option has been taken on a 10-acre tract known as the Pumphrey land. This site is between McBush, Grant and Bollman streets and the purchase price has been set at $7,500. It is owned by Carl and Mary Pumphrey. There would be two entrances to the school property at present and option has been taken on a 50 foot strip of land from Bollman street to the school to make a third en- ' trance. This option was taken from i Herman and Agnes Heimann at a : purchase price agreement of $750. This would make the southern tract total price total $8,250. The total cash outlay for additional property for the two schools if the recommendations are adopted by the school board would be (Turn To Page Five) To Resume McCarthy Hearings On Monday Face More Haggling On Monitored Talks WASHINGTON UP — Senate investigators faced more haggling Monday over whether monitored telephone conversations- between Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and the army will be aired publicly in hearings on their row. Acting Chairman 'Karl E. Mundt (R-SD) of the senate investigating subcommittee said McCarthy gave only "fuzzy consent” to make public what he said to Pentagon officials in calls he did not know were being written -down. Mundt ..said he may call a secret” meeting of the subcommittee and the six participants in the bitter army-McCarthy fight next week to try to hammer out a formula for geting the .texts of the calls into the public record. He said it would "require some negotiating.” But he declared the ispue would not delay “one iota” the subcommittee's televised hearings into the drama-packed dispute. The hearings will resume Monday with fur* ther cross-examination of army secretary Robert T. Stevens on his charge's that McCarthy and’ subcommittee counsel Roy M. Cohn used heavy pressure to obtain favored treatment for a drafted aide, Pvt. G. David Schine.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 24, 1954.

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Highlights Os School

Buildingßecommendationz; Immediate construction of a nine-class room building in the northwest section of Decatur on an eight to 10 acre ntniW kindergarten pupils and grades one to six, inclusive, at an estimated cost of $270,000 to $290,000. Construction not later than 1956 of a seven class room building on an eight to 10 acre site in the south part of Decatur to house kindergarten and grades one -to six inclusive at an estimated cost of $220,000 to $240,000. Addition to northwest unit in

BULLETIN Harold Fast, of two miles east *of Decatur, was killed shortly after noon today in an auto accident* at the intersection of the Bellmont and Piqua roads, east of Decatur. . Polio Vaccine Test To Start Next Week Over 18,300 Hoosier Students Take Tests INDIANAPOLIS DP — The Indiana state board of health said today about 18,300 second-grade pupils, more than 85 per cent of those eligible in eight Hoosier counties, will start receiving Salk polio vaccine injections next week. Dr. Andrew Offutt of the health board said the ehots will be administered in three doses. The first vaccine will be a dose of one cubic centimeter. The second will be given a week later and the last four weeks after the second. Selected for the vaccinations were Allen, Delaware, Elkhart, Howard, Madison, St. Joseph, Tipton, and Vanderburgh counties. The jprogram may begin next Tuesday, provided the vaccine arrives in time. Offieialsr-said some schools will be closed for the summer vacation by the time the program is completed, but will be reopened temporarily and some bus drivers will deliver children to the clinics and take them home again. ' ’ In Allen county, April 30 was set for the first vaccination, and as many .as 180 physicians may participate. , Fort Wayne's three hospitals declared medical holidays for the dates the shots will be given. Clinics were set up in 58 spots around the city and county- ■ “xrr Nosurgery except 'emergency will he scheduled on those three dates and the public was asked not to call doctors unless “it's a case of dire emergency.’’ NOON EDITION

1958 of six rooms at estimated cost ot slßo,oo’o to $200,000. Addition of six rooms to southeast building in 1960 at gstlmated ’cost of SIBO,OOO to $200,00&. Total estimated cost to be between $850,000 and $930,000. Present Building Shift: Eventually move seventh and eighth grades back to Lincoln school. Use high school building exclusively tor high school classes, and have room if desired for cafeteria, etc. —-5= —===-- Also retain kindergarten and

Indochina War Is Reported Al Critical Stage French Thrown Back With Heavy Losses In Counter-Attack HANOI, Indochina. UP French forces counter-attacking in ar desperate effort to reconquer part of the shrinking Dien Bien Phu fortress have been thrown back with “very heavy” losses. French headquarters announced today. Overwhelming Communist artillery fire and force of numbers plus an unexplained slip-up in liaison between air and ground force# were blamed for the failure of Friday's counter-attack by defenders of the besieged garrison. Twenty-five American-built Corsair fighter planes recently arrived in Indochina aboard the United’ States aircraft carrier Saipan participated in the action. French pilots flew the fighters, fastest in Indochina, on their first misSion in the war. \ In'disclosing the liaison mistake a French spokesman said, , "it seems that there was a lack of coordination between the FrancdVietnamese infantry and the aviation action.” He did not say whether the pilots of the American - supplied Corsairs wert to blame." The high command said Friday’s ground action was aimed at an outpost of the “Huguette” .position abandoned only a few hours earlier by the defenders. It lies on the northwest side of Dien Bien Phu's ever - contracting defense ring and from it the airfield can be covered. Loss of the position opened a breach in the French bastion which ~Br ig7Gan. Christian de Gastries had |o seal or face serious consequences. The war in Indochina reached a most, critical stage. Dien Bien Phu was not alone at stake. The French said the situation in the vast, (Torn To Pace Five)

grades one to six inclusive at Lincoln school for pupils of central part of city. Financing: Sate of 10 year general obligation bonds totalling two percent of appraised valuation of city of Decatur. Retention of 75 cent-per-hundred cumulative building fund tax, until 1962. That 20 cents be added to the school tax rate until 1964 for repayment of general obligation I bonds.

Russian Diplomats To Leave Australia Result Os Russian Break In Relatiqns CANBERRA, Australia UP — Russian diplomats burned their papers today, preparing to leave the country as a result of the Soviet severance of diplomatic relations with Australia. A mound of documents 15 feet square burned briskly in the back yard of the Russian embassy. A guard stood by with a garden hose to keep the stiff wind from spreading the flames —and to discourage passersby who peered through the 10-foot hedge surrounding the yard. The break in diplomatic relations was announced in Moscow Friday. The action came after Vladimir Petrov, former Soviet secret police chief in Australia, “chose freedom” and his wife Evokiya, was rescu ltd from fted guards —who were trying to hustle-her out of the country. Petrov gave Australian authorities information about a Soviet spy network when he asked for political asylum. Another couple- said to Have information about Soviet spying, Russian "correspondent” V. Antonov and his wife, are missing but are believed in Russian hands. XThe Antonovs disappeared from their apartment in Sydney a few days ago. Unconfirmed reports say they are living at the embassy. Australia has announced Its 'IrU. tention of forming a royal confmission to investigate "Russian espionage, on the basis of information Petrov is said to haye salvaged from embassy files when he deserted the Communist world. -There had been widespread expectation here that Australia would (Continued on Page Elaht) INDIANA WEATHER —-—Partly doud, warmer tonight. Scattered showers north. Considerable cloudiness Sunday, scattered showers and turning cooler north and west central. Low .tonight 53-58 north, 58-84? south. High Sunday 58-68 northwest, 75-80 southeast. ■

Geneva Conference Will Open Monday Red China Leader First To Arrive GENEVA, Switzerland UP — Chinese Communist Premier and foreign minister Chou En - Lai said today he hoped the Far East peace conference “wilt provide possibilities for settlement of the pressing issues of Asia.” Chou, first of the “big names” to arrive for Monday’s conference, flew in from Moscow in a twinengined Soviet air force transport. With him were 22 other members of his 200-man “human wave" delegation. Chou arrived in the middle of a deadlock between the western powers and Russia over the role that his country will play in the Geneva meeting. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov was making frantic efforts to change his previous agreement to making Red China an invited government rather than a host nation with the Big Four powers. There were reports in diplomatic circles that Chou and Molotov had some bitter words over this during the Chinese premier’s stopover in Moscow. Chou was believed angry over Molotov's agreement at the Berlin foreign ministers meeting to ,an American demand that Red China not be recognized as an equal to the big powers at the Geneva confgrence. , . In ft written statement handed out after he landed, Chou said “the peace - loving peoples and countries all over the world will watch closely the progress of the Geneva conference and hope ardently tor Its success. “The delegation of the People’s Republic of China has come with sincerity to attend the conference. We believe the joint efforts of all the participants of the conference and their common desire to strengthen peace will provide possibilities for the settlement of the aforementioned pressing issues,” he said. The plane carrying the premier of a country which is not recognized by the United States was navigated from East Berlin acrosi West Germany by anAmerlcan air force officer. His name was not disclosed.— Molotov was expected to arrive later in the day and United States secretary of state John Foster Dulles late tonight. Estate's Net Value Is Over $330,000 Schedule Is Filed For Smith Estate The three children of the late Dr. and Mrs. W/E. Smith each will receive chattel and cash, valued at $110,009.09, according to the property schedule filed Friday in Adams circuit court by Robert S. Anderson of the firm of Voglewede and Anderson, attorneys for the estate of Martha D. Smith. Total net value of the estate was placed at $330,027.28. Farm lands were valued at $264,556.25. Cash and notes were valued at $43,252.91. Chattel property was placed at $39,961.28. Expense of administering the estate was set at $17,743.28. Spring and fall taxes totalling, $2870.14; burial expense, Jf.2,64 LJ2B.; expense of sale of property, $1,099.60 and attorneys fees, $9,952.43 were, the largest expenditures listed. Other items included hospital bills, current bills and court costs. In compliance with the will of Martha D. Smith, the farmlands were divided among the three children as stipulated and cash and chattel assets were divided in such a manner as to equalize the distribution in three even parts.— The children are: Dr. Lowell Cline Smith, Lafayette, executor of the estate; Mrs. Lucile Smith Eicher, Rocky River, 0., and Mrs. Genevieve Santini, Tenafly, N.J. The estate is one of the largest ever probated in Adams county.

Price Five Cents

Propose Sites For Two New Schools Here To Convert Lincoln School Into Junior High Facilities To provide classroom facilities tor an additional 612 children by 1963, conversion of the Lincoln 1963, conversion of the Lincoln and reserving the present juniorsenior high school exclusively for four-year students, two new grade buildings were recommended for Decatur’s growing family of children by the Indiana University survey team. Reporting to an assembly of about 100 persons in the high , school auditorium last evening, the state educators and consultants recommended that a nineroom building be constructed immediately in the north part of the city, and that an eight-room building be built in the south section of the city in 1956, Additions to these new buildings to meet the heavier enrollments expected after 1958. through 1963, were ateo recommended. The completed buildings and Improvements to existing buildings will entail about $850,000. The largest building is recommended for the northside site. Described in another article in this edition, the eKe is south of Dayton a ventre, bounded by Tenth and Twelfth streets. ' The southside building site is south of Mcßarnes strpet, extending south to the property lines on Bollman street. Options on these sites have already been acquired by the school board. ... . Enrollment Estimate In a report titled, “Enrollment Trends," the members of thelU survey tdam estimate that the city’s population has and will increase 1.5 percent a year, from ISSO to 1960. -This estimated 15 percent increase will boost population to about 8,400 in 1960, from the’ 1950 census of 7,271. The big zoom in enrollment will come In the grades, the survey shows, although the percentage of Increase la high school wilt be greater. The table on current enrollments and' the estimates for 196364 follow: < ■ 1954 1964 Grades 1 to 8 » — 836 1262 Increase 406, or 47 percent. High School < 294 500 Increase 206, or 53 percent. School Family of 1762 This 612 expected Increase in enrollments over the next 10 years will give the public schools a family of 1,762 children, exclusive of kindergarten. With the kindergarten the enrollment would reach 1,959, based on the estimates of the educators. A steady increase in enrollments will begin in the grades and high school in the 1954-55 school year, continuing upward for the next decade. One of the largest increases in high school is expected in the five year period from 1959-60 to 1964, climbing from 398 to 500. Estimates On Growth Enrollments in the elementary grades 1 through 6 were 675 on Nov. 5, 1953, and with the kindergarten the enrollment was 855. The average class load in grades I through 6 is approximately 34 pupils per teacher and two-thirds cf the 18 elementary teachers .have teaching loads in excess of the recommended standard of not more than 30 pupils per teacher. The enrollment in the six-year high school is 4,77, with 276 of the total being in grades 7, 8 and 9 end 201 in grades 10, 11 and 12. Community growth will likely continue at the rate of about 1.5 percent per year. Elementary ” enrollments in grades 1 through 6 Will increase to 95Q or more by IMI.- or about 41 percent. Enrollment in grades through 8 will increase to over 1,250 by 1963, or about 47 percent • Enrollment in grades 9 through £ 12 will increase to about 500 pupilsby 1963, an increase of about (T»r» To Page Fear)