Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil, No. 203

Plans City To Withstand Any Atom Bomb Raid Minnesota Is Site Os City To Cost Over $50,000,000 HOLLYWOOD (INS) — Millionaire .Hollywood contractor Hal B. fiayesdisclosed today plans for construction in Minneapolis of the first “atom bomb-proof’ city in the world at a cost of (60,000,000. i Complete with schools and city hall, the city will be Hayes* answer to what he terms the nation's “haywire" civil defense program. In addition to super-dwellings equipped with Geiger counters and bomb-proof bedrooms, the 1,000aere project will be surrounded by u miniature Venetian canal, which will serve as an emergency water supply and “escape hatch" in case of attack. Hayes is considered an authority on atomic-resistant construction and frequently has been consulted by the government about atomic defense problems. But, according to him, American civil defense is sadly lacking. He said: "They seem to -think when a warning siren sounds all they have to do is shove all the school kids under their desks and deplpy a bunch of women in station wagons to pick up the wounded! “Nothing could be worse. There won't be any place to go because there'H be total destruction for at least a- mile out, and incendiary fires all over the place.” Hayes predicted that one of the first tragedies in the wake of a bomb attack will be the complete breakdown of a e+ty's water supply. This is where the canal for the Minneapolis project enters .the picture. The unique waterway will contain wells 1,000 feet deep sealed with lend capping to prevent contamination. It also will serve as a fire-break and as'an Csctfpe wading route thtte fb four feet deep away from debris-littered streets. The contractor sai dhe got the idea for the canal after studying the after-effects of war-time Abomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and bomb damage In Europe. The futuristic city will offer homes in the (15,000 to (25,000 bracket. School Book List Publication Starts The Decetur public school book list appears in today s issue of The Daily Democrat. The complete list tor Adams county schools and Decatur Catholic schools will appear in 'Monday's paper. Sale and rental prices are given on all books, they are asked to contact the various school principals. Contest Planned For Miss Indiana Annual Event To Be At Bluffton BLUFFTON — The seventh annual Junior Miss Indiana pageant for the selection of the “most beautiful and talented teen-aged” girl in the state will be held at Bluffton September 23 and 24. The State wide contest for the naming of Indiana's junior queen will be climaxed during the 44th Annual Bluffton Free street fair. September 21 to 25. The 1954 Queen will succeed Miss Barbara Baker of Union City, who was crowned last Fall. In order to qualify for the teenage beauty and talent contest, it is necessary to be a resident of Indiana, single (never having been married) and not less than 16 or • more than 20 years of age. Arrangements for the staging of the beauty pageant are in charge of the Beauty Contest Committee of the Street Fair Association, with Ed James of Bluffton, as chairman. Entry forms are available from Ed James, c/o Renner Express, P.O. Box 8, Bluffton. Indiana,. The contestant selected as Junior Mias Indiana, will receive a cash award of (100.09 as top reward, and in addition to the Junior Mlsk Indiana title and crown, will wear the crown also as Indiana Tomato Queen. The contestant finishing second will receive (50.00, and the third place will carry a (25.00 award. There will be awards in addition to the top three thentioned. Candidates in past years have been variously sponsored by organisations of their home cities.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS BOUNTY

New Decatur Pastor Rev. C. E. Lykins The Rev. Claude E. Lykins, now pastor of »• church in Goshen, will replace the Rev. Romaine Wood as pastor of the church of the Nazerene in this city. Rev. Lykins will be in charge of the service# of the church beginning Sept. 7. He and his family will move from Goshen Sept. 7. He has one daughter who is married and resides with her parents while . her husband is in (he service. The new minister has served churches in Farmland, Parker and i Hammond before going to Goshen. He replaces the Rev. Wood who will begin a pastorate in -Grand ! Junction Colp. - - —>— Bucher Named To Airforce Command Assumes Command At Baer Field I Lieutenant Colonel Ervin H. . Bucher, of RR-10, Fort Wayne, has assumed duties as Deputy Group i Commander of -the 122nd Fighter Bomber Group, Indiana Air National Guard, at Baer Field. This new assignment will place him second in command of all Indiana Air k National Guards aircraft in Indiana, . which consists of the 163rd Righter > Bomber Squadron at Baer Field . and the 113th Fighter Bomber i Squadron at Stout Field, Indianap- : olis. Colonel Bucher's background in , military aviation makes him well qualified for this key operational position. Rising from the 'enlisted ranks as a crew chief on Air Force i aircraft, Colonel Bucher completed pilot training and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1942. As a tighter pilot with the 12th Air Force in Europe and North Africa he flew 130 combat operational missions. This included Mediterranean convoy patrol duty and aerial support missions for allied forces in Tunisia and the invasion of Sicly. Assigned as Operations Officer for the- 163»d Fighter Bomber Squadron, Colonel Bucher was called to active duty with this unit ' during the Korean Conflict. He was then transferred to Keflavick Air Force Base in Iceland as the Base Operations Officer. He was released from active federal service in March of 1953, and returned to the Air National Guard. Colonel Bucher was then appointed commander of the 163rd Fighter Bomber Squadron. Colonel Bucher is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Bucher, 319 North 3rd St.. Decatur, Indiana, and is a graduate of New Haven High School. Russia Has Margin In Track-Field Meet, ■ BERNE, Switzerland (INS) - Russia has turned the European track and field championships into a rout, with an advantage of 103 unofficial point# over Its. closewt competitor and' just two day# left of the five-day games. Although there h» no officially necogpized team championship, the Soviets have 162 point# to Czechoslovakia's 59. Germany- has 43. Britain 36, Hungary 21, Finland 19, Sweden 18, Poland 11, Switzerland. 6, Holland' 5, France 5, Yugoslavia 5 and Italy 3. The Soviets, comparative newcomers In this continental version of the Olympics, entered eight final events Friday and then won •even gold medala. Another Iron Curtain country, Czechoslovakia, took the eighth—the ehot put. Fresh Egg Permits Insure Quality Eggs LAFAYETTE, Ind. (INS) — An Indiana housewife can be certain of quality eggs by dedilng in stores displaying a Fresh Egg Permit. Purdue University’s Chief Egg Inspector, E. R. Menefee, said grocers cooperating to Insure standardization of size and quality of eggs and shewing this permit are finding sale of eggs increasing.

Skip Election Question Heads For Legislature Opinions Vary On Election Date For Municipal Voting INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The skip election issue appears to be billowing into a 1955 Indiana General Assembly Issue that will rank along with toll roads and time for its inflapimable qualities. GOP State Chairman Alvin C. Cast queried the 71 Republicans among the 103 Indiana mayers for their opinion about a legislative change that would put election of mayors and other city officers on the same year that presidential elections come. Such a law would continue present mayors In office until Dec. 31, 1956 and possibly give the GOP city job-seekers a chance to garner additional -votes in 1956 if a popular presidential candidate heads the ticket, v In his letter. Cast reviewed arguments for and against the holding of city elections in an off-year, and noted that municipal elections "were thrown off M-hethJle" during World ,War U by * J* Democrat Legislature and have been heldseparately since that time. One of the latest mayors to speak his mind in reply to the chairman's letter is Mayor H. O. Roberts, of Evansville. In his reply to Cast, Roberts favored the skip-election bill proposal.) 'His view is opposite to that of Mayor Vernon C. Anderson, of Hammond, and Mayor Ivan H. Brinegar, of Bedford, both of whom have made public their stands against the skip-election proposal. Brinegar is president of the Indiana Municipal League; Anderson is a former president, and Roberts is a director of the Municipal League. All of which indicates that the Indiana Municipal League annual convention in Indianapolis *Ogt. 9-7 may be (he scene of some fireworks on the skip-ele?tion issue. • - - In his reply. Mayor Roberts said his chief reasons for wanting the skip-election bill passed were that expense of an off-year election burdenstaxpayers unnecessarily and the effort of preparing for elections three years out of every four imposes a wearying task upou political organizations. The Evansville chief executive said he doesn't agree witg the argument by Mayors Brinegar and Anderson that state and national Issues tend to confuse the issues locally when all three sets of officials are chosen at the same time.

Farm Group Plans Trip To Florida Winter. Vacation, Sightseeing Tour INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 28 — A trip for Indiana farmer* to Florida next Felrruary at the height of the winter season is being: sponsored by the Indiana Farm Bureau and will he conducted by Hooeier Travel Service, a farmer-owned organization, according to an announcement by 0. W. Sample, general manager. Highlight of the excursion will be a visit to the Florida State Fair at Tampa — an event with which Carl Tyner, former Indiana State Pair manager, is associated. The tour plane cell for a special train to otart from Crown Point on the Pennsylvania Railroad and make eight stops through the state and at Louisville. Past-engens will l>e transferred to buses at Jacksonville, Florida, to make a complete circuit of the peninsula with stope at industrial plants, farming operations of various kind*, and the usual point* of interest in that etate. They will al*o spend eome time at Miami Beach and Miami, end will witness the world' famous Ybor City illuminated Oasparilla parade, an extra vagenaa of floats. Florida sunshine during February is expected to have a special appeal to Indiana farmers and their families, who at that time of the year can most conveniently leave their farm chores behind. The tour will leave February 12 and return nine days later. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy. Scattered showers south and east-cen-tral portions today and possibly In extreme south portion tonight or Sunday. ■ Little change In temperature. High today 84-80 north, 87-92 south. Low tonight 84-70.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 28, 1954.

Airforce B-36 Bomber Crash Claims 24 Lives In Attempted Landing

French Face Crucial EDC Debate Today Note Softening In Attitude Os French Premier PARIS (INS) — The French National Assembly faced its long delayed showdown on EDC today, but supporter# of the European army, plan expected the crucial debate to be postponed again to allow a, laM-ditch meeting of the six member nations. French Premier Pierro MendeeFrance reportedly has agreed' to go along with an adjournment move in the hope that a “postponement .formula" can save the European army pact. The treaty almost certainly will be doomed if a vote is held Tueeday as originally planned. A softening in. the premier’® attitude toward postponement was noted at the close of an emergency cabinet meeting Friday when Mendes-France emphasized that he was always ready to consider any reasonable compromise on the , treaty, which would, rearm West Germany and place it under A wupru-natiftual command. Further evidence that the premier's attitude was more flexible was seen in the announcement that his cabinet now is united on the EDC issue and' would vote unanimously, or not at all. This removed any throat that his government might fall if EDC was not ratified. Chough some ministers yet may resign. regardless of the final outcome. ■Belgian Foreign Minister PaulHqnri Spaak, trying desperately to save the plan, also offered another potential counter-solution to the French, but it was rejected by Mendes-France as “nettling new?’ The Spaak amendment would give France the right to appeal any decision by t!he six EDC commissioners which it felt was contrary to French Interests. Farmer French Premier Antoine (Tare To Pore Three)

State Candidate Schurger Has Arduous Campaign

(Decatur Daily Democrat reporter Dick Heller, Jr., spent a full day with Severin H. Schurger, Democratic candidate for judge of the appellate court in Indiana, to write this story about a day's campaigning by a candidate for state officep By DICK HELLER, Jr. Staff Reporter The glamour of being a state candidate is vastly overrated, and the amount of work is under-rated, if a day is spent with Severin H. Schurger, state candidate tor judge of the appellate court of Indiana, is any standard. Schurger, first Adams county man on the state ticket since Judge Hubert DeVoss was elected to the appellate court in 1938. has already entered into a full-time schedule of campaigning, with at least one big trip a week. Last week was a typical week in the life of a state campaigner, Schurger said. Monday afternoon he went to Huntington for the opening of the Huntington county fair. Monday night he attended the Jefferson Club meeting back here in Adams county. / Tuesday night Schurger attended a picnic given by the Allen county Democratic Women’s club. The crowd was so large, Schurger disclosed, that late-comers had to eat in the kitchen of the shelterhouse. z, ■. Wednesday morning Schurger started out tor a full day of campaigning. Leaving home shortly after 7:46, be drove south through heavy rains to North Vernon, county seat of Jennings county. In this strongly Republican conn-

fr- ■■ —— Club Leaders To Get Instructions One Dish Meal Is * Subject Os Meet f Connie Walker, district home economist for International-Har-vester, will demonstrate a one-dish meal to approxiinatejy 40 repreeentatiyes of the 20"Adanis county 1 home demonstration clubs on Sep- < tember 17, Anna K. Williams, home demonstration agent, said today. «J , ’ The demonstration will take ' place at the Decatur Junior Sen- ‘ ior High school from 1:15 until ’ 3:15 o’clock Friday afternoon. ? September 17. The ladies who watch this demonstration will then return to their own clubs, and demonstrate what they have ’ learned to the almost 800 other ’ ladles who are members of the county's home demonstration ’ clubs, Miss Williams explained. Found Department A general assortment of clothes, pans cake dishes, vase#, sunglasses wallets, and combs may now be f found in the county extension of- ' flee, Miss Gloria Koeneman, couni ty 4-H leader, said today, j The articles are those which , were lost at the county 4-H fair in B Monroe August 8-5. and were never t claimed at the fair office. They (Tira T* ■■ Nashuka Is Favored t At Saratoga Meet SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y. . (INS)' — Belair ,Stud'» Nashua t with Eddie Area no aboard, is tfav- , ored to take the closing feature - today of the Saratoga meeting—- . the (78,750 added' Hopeful Stakes for two-year-olds. . Eight of tbe country's beet ju- > ventilea will take off in the 50th ■ running of this six-and-a-half furi long event—a partial preview of ■ next year’s Kentucky Derby. ■ The winner of the haticnnllytelevised race (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m ) will net (57.050 Nashua, who won the Grand Union Hotel Stake# with ease last week, will be even-weighted at 122 pounds with opposition that includes C. V? Whitney'# Pyrenes#.

ty Schurger made inquiries about the location of the local Democratic county chairman, ao that he could visit with him on a return trip later in 'the campaign. Scott County Stop Shortly after noon he stopped at Austin, a small town in Scott county Just 26 miles from Madison, and the Ohio river. Austin is famous for its large canning plant. Here Schurger visited with Charles Mayfield an Austin barber, who is county chairman in the small, hilly county. Mayfield spoke very 1 ' highly of Democratic chances this fall Tn" Scott county, and pointed out that for the first time the Republican forces were well split In the county. Democrats regularly carry the county, nnd now hold all court house offices, except Judge and prosecuting attorney, which are elected on a Joint basis with heavy populated and heavily Republican Jennings county. Mayfield stated that he predicted at least a 1.000 vote majority for Democratic state candidates from Scott county, which thl* year should off-set the Republican votes from Jennings county. From Austin Schurger drove south to Scottsburg, the unincorporated county seat of Scott county, where he talked with all the court house employees and many local residents. Mayfield joined Schurger there, and introduced him to everyone in the building. More than an hour was spent in Scottsburg passing out Schurger for Judge cards and campaigning.,, —County Fair Continuing west from Scottsburg, Schurger next stopped at Salem, county seat of Washington county. (Tar* Te Page Pear)

Price Support 1 Is Top Target 1 For Democrats Midwest Meeting 1 Os Leaders Held ' This Afternoon ' < WASHINGTON (INS) — Demo- ' crate seeking control of congress will make a strong vote plea to farmers this summer and fall on the theme that a Democratic congre.~a will mean a return to rigid, high price support#. This idea — that a Democra ticcontrolled congress will reinstate 90 percent of parity price supports on basic commodities — probably will be the clarion point emphasized today at a 15-state midwestera Democratic farm conference in Sioux Falls. S. D. Republican#, however, will likely counter with the explanation that the flexible support system adopted by the GOP 83rd congress will not greatly harm farmers growing any of the basics other than wheat. In addition, the Republicans can claim that President Eisenhower would veto any move to reinstate rigid supports on wheat, cotton, corn, peanuts and Hee. There Is little likelihood- that even a Demo-crat-controlled congress could override a White House veto on this crucial issue. Generally speaking, southern am! northern liberal Detrfbcnats and a handful of Great Plaine Republicans formed the hard core of senators and representative# who fought in this past cession of

congress to retain high supports. Republicans from the eastern and far western sections of the nation as well as form central corn belt and part of the wheat belt stood with conservative northern and western Democrats in opposition to continued high 90 percent ■supports. A run-down of senate seats under contention in this year's elec- * tion shows that it would be all but impossible for Democrats to gain | enough of a majority in the upper house to override a veto—since it takes a two-third# vote of each 1 house to achieve this. t

Believe Red Raid Was Propaganda Experts Discount Raid On Island TOKYO (INS) — Experts on the China situation discounted today any significance other than propaganda to a raid by a small Communist force on the heavily defended Nationalist island of Quemoy. The raid was carried out last Monday by 40 Communist soldiers, causing a flurry of concern in the Far East among those familiar with public Communist threats against Chiang Kai-Shek's Formosa. Reports were current in the Far East this morning of hurried moves by the U.S. Seventh Fleet to help defend Quemoy, the Island raided, and of movement of reinforcements to the island by the Nationalist government. But the 111 square mile area of Quemoy and adjacent satellite islands is among the most heavily defended in the world, and there is little that could be added to give the island any more protection than it already has. 0 Quemoy lies about a mile at its closest point from the Comtpunistheld mainland and the city of Amoy on the Fukien coast. « It was on this island that Chiang Kai-Shek's troops halted their flight from the victorious Mao Tse-tung armies In IM9, and handed the Reds a stunning defeat. At that time a 20,000 • man Communist folce sent to assault the island was totally destroyed. o ; e NOON EDITION

Red Cross Needs More Blood Donors | Monday Schedule Short Os Quota Red Cross volunteer workers I who have spent many hours durIng the past week setting up the schedule for Monday’s visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile, have been unable to recruit the - 185 blood donors needed to fill Adams county’s quota for the visit. While the morning hours are . nearly filled the afternoon hours, ! especially 12:45, 1:15 and 2:45 are short of scheduled donors. The unit will be set up at the American • Legion home. A last appeal is being made by Mrs. Ed Bauer, county chairman of the blood program, for persons who are willing to give a pint of blood at this visit. Particularly in demand are new donors, those who have never given blood before. Anyone who wishes to give blood may db so by contacting the Red Cross or by visiting the Legion home Monday. Mrs. Bauer, in commenting on the reluctance of many people to give blood, stated that often they have a misunderstanding of the Red Cross blood program. She emphasized that Red Cross blood is given free of charge to people in ' need of it. Sba added that many.

mistake the bos'ißtjfl's ttihblhistration fee for a charge oh the blood itself. Red Cross authorities point out that during the summer months when the' need for blood is great supplies dwindle because fewer donations are made. The regional blood bank has been dangerously low for several months and it is vitally necessary to replenish it. Mrs. Bauer reminds Decatur residents that their friends, Sieighbors or even members of their own family may be the beneficiaries of the blood given Monday. Blood transfusions have saved many lives, she added.

Three States Alerted For Missing Youngster WHEEIJNG, W.Va. (INS) Po lice of three state were alerted today for 12-year-old Caroline Beever, who has been missing for two weeks from her Wheeling home and is feared abducted by a boarder. The youngster disappeared Aug. 21, when a boarder at her home, Joseph Mitchell, 28, reportedly took her downtown to shop for •chool clothes.

Annual Parade Is Set For Sept. 25 . Sunday Schools Will Plan March Decatur's annual Sunday School parade is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, September 26, it was announced today by Rev. H. J. Welty, pastor of the Decatur Missionary church. The Missionary church again will sponsor the event and Sunday Schools of all Decatur churches again will be invited to take part in the march. Purpose of the annual parade is to stimulate interest in attendance at the various Sunday Schools. Rev. Welty pointed out that statistic* reveal that regular Sunday School attendants seldom ate in dashes with the law and Juvenile authorities. Time, of the event has been announced at 2 o'clock In the afternoon. This hour was determined so there would be no conflict with any church meetings. A year ago. tour local churches Joined In the parade and It Is believed that several more will take liart in thia year's march. ; Churches and Individuals, laterested In taking part, are asked to contact Rev. Welty or a member of the Missionary church.

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Three Injured . In South Dakota Near Rapid City Tragedy Follows Routine Flight Os Giant Plane RAPID CITY, SD. (INS) —The Ah- Force announced today that 2+ men perished and three others were injured critically in the crash and burning of a B-36 bomber on a farm near Rapid City, S.D. Friday night. , Names of the victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin. The giant plane was preparing to land out of a starlit sky over Ellsworth Air Force Base after completing a routine flight. An Air Force enlisted man. said’: “It was about 10:10 p.m. MST as the plane began to descend onto the northwest runway. The weather was perfect. “Suddenly, it plunged down to earth about two miles north of the runway, and caught fire. “Wreckage was scattered for a quarter of a mile. It appeared that it split in two aa it hit the ground.” Rescuers from the base emergency station reached the scene «horUy attar the disaster. They ! pulled out three survivors and rushed them to. the base hospital. Twenty bodies were recovered ’in night long rescue work and shortly after dawn four mpre were ’ found. The base said that radio reports . from the plane just before it began the ill fated landing indicated "all was well.’’ The bomber’s gasoline supply, the base added, was apparently adequate since the pilot’s last report mentioned no trouble. A board of inquiry will be convened today to fix the cause of the crash. It was the first disaster for a B-36 plane based at Ellaworth.

Traffic Officers Warn Motorists Caution Urged In All School Zones INDIANAPOLIS (INS) The Office of Traffic Safety today warned all motorists that vacation is ending and school zones again will ba heavily, laden with children. In addition to the city “junior policemen” and cross walk supervisor, authorities asked motorists - to observe extreme caution where school buses are concerned. These buses will carry some 270.000 children more than 300.000 miles to OH p*g» TWree) "" w Jal A SUIT for S9OO monthly main- . tenance has been filed in Log Angeles by Connie James, 20, Los Angeles model and TV actress t against her husband, Steve Ellingson, 43, a nationally syndicated columnist. The silver blonde actress complained her husband of four month* objected to paying $12.50 for a ’hairdo, /international;