Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV, No. 1.

Adams County Tourney Draw Is Announced

TOURNEY SCHEDULE January 12 Game I—7 p.m. —- Monmouth and Adame Central. Game 2— 8:15 p.m. — Jaffereon and Hartford. January 13 Game 3—*7 p.m. — Berne and Geneva. Game 4—1:15 p.m. — Detatur Commodores and Pleasant Mills. January 14 Game s—l p.m. *~» Winner of game 1 and winner of game 2. Game 6->2;16 p.m. — Winner of game 3 and win* ner of game 4. Game 7—4:18 p.m. — Winner of game 5 and winder of game 8. Pairings for the’annual Adam# meeting of the Adams county athletic association Monday evening at the Decatur Catholic high —school. - The drawing was supervised by the Rev. Robert Content, athletic director of the Decatur Catholic school, manager of this year's tourney. The tourney will be hold at the --»• Adams Central gym Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 12, 13 and 14, with all county teams excepting the Decatur Yellow Jackets competing. The defending champion Monmouth Eagles drew the honor of opening the tourney, meeting the Adams Central Greyhounds in the lid lifter at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12. In Thursday’s second game, the Jefferson Warriors will tangle with the Hartford Gorillas. The draw aets up what should be two of the feature games qf the entire tourney on Friday night, in Friday’s opener at 7 o’clock, the Berne Bears will tangle with the Geneva Cardinals. Closing out the first round, the Decatur Commodores and the Pleasant Mills Spartans will battle at 8:15 p.m. Semi-finals will be played Saturday afternoon. Winners of the Thursday night games wiir clash at 1 p.m., followed by the Friday night winners. The championship game will be played at 8:15 p.m. Saturday. It will be preceded by the chaiupioni ship game of the second team tourney at 7 o’clock. Officials tor the tourney will be * Don Lieberum and Hans Dienelt, both of Fort Wayne. Claren Neuenschwandw. of Berne, will be the official scorer and Leo Strahm, of Adams Central, will be the official timekeeper. Season tickets, priced at 32 for all four sessions, were distributed at last night's meeting, and each school will conduct its own ticket sales. Single session tickets will be sold only at the Adams Central gym prior to each session. Trophies will be presented by the Decatur Daily Democrat to both the first team and second team championship teams. The individual sportsmanship trophy will again be presented by Robert Monnier, former Decatur businessman, in honor of Everett 'Rice, prominent Adams county farmer. Second Team Tourney Finalists for the second team tourney, which championship game will be a preliminary to the first team final, will be determined in preliminary rounds in the north and south divisions, the same as last year. Drawings for these tourneys were alsomade Monday night. The four north division teams will play at Monmouth, with Monmouth meeting Decatur Catholic at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9, and Pleasant Mills playing Adams Central at 7:30 p.m. These winners will meet Tuesday night, Jan. 10, , in a semi-final clash. The four south division teams will play their first round at Geneva Monday. Jan. 9, with Geneva (Contra um on t*awe «x) County Officials Sworn Into Office Richard Lewton, county clerk who assumed office Sunday succeeding Ed Jaberg, received his oath of office in a ceremony Sat_i - urday morning from Judge Myles Panish at the county court house. Also sworn into office Saturday morping were 'Ed- F. Berling, Democrat, and James Gattschall, Republican, who were re-appointed jury commissioners. Only other county official to assume duties on the first day of , 1956 wta Roger Singleton, newlyappointed additional full time deputy for the Adgms county sheritr 8 aeparfmm. - . —.... • p •- i — ~L'

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Communists, Rightwingers Gain In France Moderate Parties SufferLossesln Assembly Strength „ r PARIS (INS) — Communists and right-wing malcontents, both looked aa unfriendly to the parliamentary system, have scored hcavijy in the French national assembly elect ion. ■ Their victories bled the right center and left-center moderate parties somewhat of their assembly strength. It thus appeared that the 22d French postwar cabinet, to be formed sometime after the new assembly convenes on Jan. 19, would have to be a coalition of moderate fyites. The latest official seat figures, including all French metropolitan departments Mosella which is under dispute, showed that 537 seats contested in Monday’s election were distributed this way: Caretaker premier Edgar Faure’s right-center government coalition —175. The Communists (145) and miscellaneous leftists (41—149. Pierre Pou jade's right-wing movement (St) and right extremists (3)—54. ■ More than,-, 80 percent of France’s nearly 27 million eligible voters went to the polls Monday in a chilly dritzle. & -nes of the campaign werethe pressing Algerian question, takes, housing and economic conditions. . Politically, this election inevitably will have a dramatic effect on France’s political lineup. Instead of a rivalry between the Faure and Mendes-France coalitions, pressure from the Communists and Poujadists, who previously had no representation, now is likely to force the right-of-cen-ter and left-of-center groups into a broad centralist coalition to resist the two extremes. Such a coalition would, if formed, produce a substantial majority in the profoundly divided assembly. Both Pou jade’s unhappy shopkeepers and the ’Communists were expected to win some seats but their victories far outstripped the predictions of the experts. Perhaps the most remarkable development of the election was the rise to eminence of the Poujadists. . These anti-tax businessmen, who threw overripe tomatoes and rotten fruit throughout the elec(Contlnuea on Page Five) Nathan L. Roop Dies At Pontiac, Mich. Funeral Services Here On Wednesday Nathan L. Roop, 88. a resident of Decatur most of his life, died at 6:30 o’clock Sunday morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Isaac Wagner, Pontiac, Mich. He had been in failing health for several months and seriously 411 for the past three weeks. He had gone to Pontiac three months ago. He was born In Willshire, O„ July 4, 1867, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam >Roop. His wife, the fonder Harriett Butler, died Oct. 5, 1950. Mr. Roop, a retired railroad employe, was a member of the Church of God. , — Surviving in addition to Mrs. Wagner are two other daughters, Mrs. Cathrine Stalter and Mrs. Mary McGill, both of Decatur; four sons, Arthur F. Roop of Columbus, O„ Julius E. Roop of Vicksburg. Mich. Clarence Roop of Decatur and Glen Roop of Gibson City, TH.; 30 grandchildren and 30 greatgrandchildren. Two sons and- two daughters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Black funeral home and At 2'p.m. at the Church of God, the Rev. W. R. Kirkpatrick officiating. Burial will be In tha Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Cosily fire Al Bakery, Dental Office Saturday Stewart Bakery And Dr. Archbold Office Damaged By Flames A costly fire at the Stewart Bakery building on North Second street ended the year in Decatur Saturday night. The fire, which started in the basement caused heavy damage to the basement of the building and to the dental office and equipment of Dr. Roy Archbold. . » Decatur firemen battled the firt for about six hours. The alarm Was turned in shortly after 9 p. m. by Harold Miller, an employe of Gooden’s market, who noticed smoke coming up through the grate on the Second street sidewalk. Roy Stewart, owner of the bakery. stated that damage to the b >kery itself was negligible but that 35,000 to 36,000 worth of paper wrappers and cartons which were Heaviest damage was in the dental office, where much of the expensive equipment was ruined by smoke, fire and water. Also damaged were the floors which were chopped up to permit firemen to get at the basement fire. Neither Stewart nor Dr. Archbold could give an accurate estimate on the amount of damage until insuifeace adjustors could make an inspection of the building and equipment . However, Dr. Archbold stated that he thought his loss would exceed 34,(W0l He said that some of the equipment can be reconditioned and that as soon as repairs and replacements are made he will reopen his office. Stewart spent Sunday and Monday cleaning up the bakery and was able to resume the regular-bak-ing schedule today. He announced that the bakery trucks will be sent out Wednesday morning. Decatur firemen were unable to determine the the New Year’s Eve blaze which was probably tbe worst fire of the year in the city. Carl C. Pumphrey Is Stricken By Pneumonia Carl C. Pumphrey, prominent retired Decatur business man is in a Sarasota, Fla., hospital suffering a second attack of pneumonia. He recoved from the first attack while returning from a boat trip to South America. Mrs. Pumphrey and Miss Eleanor Pumphrey, a daughter, are with Mr, Pumphrey. His condition is regarded as serious but not critical, according to word received here by friends. First Meeting Held By City Councilmen City Committeemen Appointed By Cole of the new city administration met Monday night for their first council meeting at the city hall. The meeting was brief and featured announcement of appointments which will be confirmed at tonight’s regular council meeting. • •• The certificates of the elected officials were read and made a matter of record. Also announced were appointments by Mayor Rob-ert-Cole to the councilmanic committees. These also will be confirmed tonight. The committee includes: board Os finance. Ed Bauer, chairman; Clyde Drake and Lawrence A. Kohne; electric light committee, Norbert Aumann. chairman; Ed Bauer and Lawrence A. Kohne; water department committee, Lawrence A. Kohne, chairman; Ed Bauer and Carl D. Gerber. - Street and sewer committee, Carl D. Gerber, chairman: Clyde Drake and Ldkvrence A. Kohne; ordinance committee, Clyde Drake, chairman; Ed Bauer and Norbert Aumann: park board committee. Carl D. Gerber, chairman; Norbert Aumann and Clyde Drake; board of public works and safety, Robert D. Cole, Norbert Aumann and John L. De Voss. ' , • y INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday, chance of enow flurries near Lake Michigan. Colder Wednesday and in north pbrtlon tonight Low tonight 20-25 north, 25-30 south. High Wednesday 30 worth to 35 south,

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—— i I, „ Congress Convenes For Crucial Election-Year Session; Strife Seen

■ , ■ . r "j 1 1 1 '* [-• ■ - t -r r. Three Harvard Students Die In i Ski Lodge Fire Four Others Escape: j With Lives As Ski • I Lodge 1$ Burned MONTREAL (INS) —Tbe son of navy undersecretary Thomas S. Gates, ’Jr., the grqat-grandsou of ' former American Ambassador My» ron T. Herrick and a third Harvard university student from New Brook, Y., perished today in a fire that swept Mon( Tremblant ski lodge. ' Four other undergraduates of the Cambridge, Mass., university narnowly escaped witb their lives. The dea<: . . Thomas b. uates; zi, of Devon, Pa., a Harvard senior and a gradu- ’ ate of St. Paul's school at Concord, . N. H. He was a membe*r of the Harvard nival ROTC and would . have been commissioner in June. Myron Himotby Herrick, 20. a . junior, es Pavta. Fran efn son us F. l W Herrick and grandson of the) , former ambassador Myron P. Hqri; t rick. , , Jedidiah H. McLane, 21, a sophomore, of Millbrook, N. Y. He alscw l was graduated from St. , lodge, also students at Harvard,’ were: Lawrence Coilidge, a sophomore, of Topsfield, Mass. David Lee, Westwood, Mass., a graduate of Milton Academy. Peter Swords, a junior, of Mt. Kosco, N. Y., and a graduate of St. Paul's school. Marshall Morgan Jeanes, a junior, of Devon, Pa., and a graduate of St. Paul’s. Word of the tragedy that stuck the group of Harvard students spending the New Year holiday at the lodge was sent to undersecre(Continuec on Pan Bight) Red China, Lebanon Initial Trade Pact TOKYO (INS) —• »adio Peiping i said today that Red China and Lebanon have signed a trade pact. The broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, said China will export steel, machinery and chemicals to Lebanon in exchange for such items as sugar, tobacco, and vegetable oil. i

-- ' V' ■ ' _ r L. Opening Os Community Center Top News Story

The long-awaited opening of the Decatur Youth and Community Center and the city election which swept all Democrat candidates into office provided the bfggest stories of the year 1f»55 for the Decatur Daily Democrat, • .. The Community Center was opened to the public with a week of dedicatory programs June 19 to June 25. Clean HilL general chairman, assisted byadarge group of Decatur residents, successfully planned the program which included dinners, dSgncts, a youth day and such noted speakers as U. S. Senator Homer Capehart and Herbert Philbrick. In addition to a special Community Center issue, the Decatur Daily Democrat ran several stories pertaining to the program, history and opening of the center.» The other big Story was the city election which featured a Democrat primary. Robert Cole defeated Boyd Rayer and Bernard Clark in the primary and then in November, he and his ticket beat a full Republican ticket headed by incumbent MayofJohn Doan.” Traffic Deaths Decatur and Adams- county' had their share during the year- Ten persons were killed in Adams county traffic accidents and four other -Jocal residents host their lives in crashes elsewhere.

' 11 y' 'l* [To Launch March Os Dimes Drive Tonight j Meeting Tonight To I Opfen 1956 Campaign I A meeting tonight at the Elks home at 8 p.m. will officially open I the 1956 March of Dimes drive th [Adams county; according to an j announcement by Mrs.’ Rfibert Hess, chairman of the Adams county chapter of the National Polio 'Foundation. ’ Mrs. Hess will also serve as county fund drive chairman. Lyle Mallonee will be chairman of the fund campaign Th Decatur. Other' Adams county residents who will assist will be named after tonight’s meeting. z The meeting will feature formulation of plans Tor the county campaign which extends to Jap. 31. The local campaign is in conjunction with the national fund drive. Money which is raised is used to finance research and last year also helped to finance the national foundation’s project of administering the Salk anti-'polio vaccine Jo all first aqd second grade pupils of the nation. Also to be announced after the meeting will be thg 1956 goal of the drive. Last year more than S.OOB was raised in the fund campaign. City Officials Are Sworn In Saturday Brief Ceremony Is Held At City Hall CITY OFFICIALS ARE f Ed F. Jaberg, retiring Adams county clerk, administered the oath of office to all seven Decatur municipal officers last Saturday afternoon in a short informal ceremony at the city hall. The Rey,. Wiliam Feller delivered the invocation and following that, Robert D. Cole was given the oath and thus became the mayor of Decatur. ' Mrs. Mirriam Hall was the second officer to receive the oath and she succeeded H. Vernon Anrand as clerk-treasurer. Aurand had served in that capacity for 17 years. \ ' / The five councilmen, Ed Bauer, incumbent, and Norbert Aumann. Lawrence Kohne, Clyde Drake and Carl Gerber, then received the oath as a group. About 75 Decatur citizens attended the ceremony and a short reception followed.

The worst 24 hours, traffle-wise. for local people was June 17 and 18. A young Decatur couple, Vernon and Boreas Thieme who were About to celebrate their first wedding anniversary were killed in a crash on slate highway 101 north of T. S. highway 224. A few hours later William Kintz, 23-year-old son of county commissioner John Kintz, died at Fort of injuries sustained in an accident June 18. First traffic death of the year came Jan. 20 when Charles McF'arren, 777 of Ponet»,,was killed lib Adams county. Two days later John H. Helm of Decatur died of injuries sustained when he was hit by a car in Decatur Jan. 4. Three and four Os the list came Feb. 4 when Robert' Huser, 21, of near M.onroe, and Arthur Neadstine, 36, of Decatur were killed on U. S. 224. On April 5 Mrs, Corriue oF Geneva, was killed near Geneva. In less than 24 hou-s two Geneva children were killed when they got into the path of vehicles driven by their parents. The first was Wendy Doherty, three - year • old daughter pf Mr. and Mrs. John Doherty. She died April 29. On April 30 John Stephen Lambert, three, stepped jnt<? the path of a car driven by his mother, Mrs. Delores Penrod. (ContinuM on FM» Burnt)

Traffic Toll Over Holiday Is Record 349 New Year's Holiday Death Tall Below Council Estimate CHICAGO reports today Swidents during the New XearS weekend sent the traffic death toll to 349, a new record bat well below an early prediction of 420. . Fires killed 61 other persons and ■ I 92 more victims died in accidents |of other types for a total of 502 deaths for the period from 6 p.tn. Friday to midnight Monday. The "traffic death...toll set a new record for a three-day year end holiday, surpassing the previous I traffic toll of 317 set on New Year’s ; Eve and New Year’s Day in 1953-54. Just last weekend, during the| three-day Christmas holiday, an all-1 time high of 609 highway deaths i J were recorded. For the Second time in two weeks Americans recklessly and needlessly killed themselves in establishing I new records. ! Some went too fast. Others drank I too mueh. All were careless. And (death claimed more holiday vicitims. i’l-. - i AdUffionai tabulations are expected to Increase the final number at highway fatalities. In the first hours of the New Year’s weekend the toll was very j light, causing law enforcement authorities throughout -the eountjy to • have hopes of a safe and sane driving period. But as the weekend drew to a smashing,, crashing close, the nutnI ber of deaths on the highway ipj creased sharply. Nine In Indiana • INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — State Police announced today that 1,143 persons died in traffic accidents compared to ,1,077 in 1954. (Continued On Page Five) Lewis H. Reynolds Dies Last Evening Founder Os Church Os God Dies Here Lewis H. Reynolds, 88, well known Decatur resident and one of the founders- of the Church of God in this city, died at 5:20 o’clock Monday evening at his home, 707 Cleveland street. He had been ill of complications sinpe last July. Mr. Reynolds.’ wlthmembers of the Scheller family, started a series of prayer meetings in 1895 which led. to the opening of the Church of God. The church edifice on Cleveland street was dedicated in 1913, with Elmore Cook as its first pastor and- Mr. Reynolds as the assisting pastor. Mr. Reynolds assisted in many services of the church until only recently, when disabled by illness. He was born ih Adams county Sept. 20, 1867, a son of Elisha and Sarah Roe-Reynolds, and was married to Emma, Leyse, March 26, 1891, Mrs. Reynolds preceded him in death in 1934. Surviving gre four daughters. .Mrs. Nettie Odle, Mrs. Daisy August and Mrs, Beulah Fryback. MJ of Decatur; and Mrs. Esther Miller 6t Fort Wayne; nine grandchildren; 15 great-grand-children. and Wne sister, Mrs. Dilla Baudenbush of;, near BerneOne son. two brothers and three sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted as 2 p. m. Thursday at the Church of God, the Rev. W. fir Kirkpatrick officiating, assisted by the Rev. Dwight R. McCurdy, former pastor. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig * Doan funeral home, where 1 friends may call after o’clock this evening until Otte of the-services. ' F’ ■■ >

Hint At Surprises In Ike's Message President Finishes Work Over Budget KEY WEST, Fla. (INS)— President Eisenhower finished work on the new federal budget today amid hints that he will have some -Surprises in his stale of the union message Thursday. • Working in his office at the Key West naval base, the President spent an hour and a half going over the budget for the next fiscal year with budget director Row? land. R. Hughes. Mr. Eisenhower also —put the final touches on his state of the union message to congress spelling out his 1956 legislative program. ' White House news secretary James C. Hagerty parried questions on whether the lengthy message Thursday would contain any “major surprises” but gave the impression that it would. Prospects are that the budget fer fiscal year 1957, starting next July 1, will bet-balanced, barring I tax reductions which cut revenue ! below expenditures. The President hasn’t said yet whether he favors a tax cut this year, but today’s conference with Hughes may shed important light on the fiscal situation which will decide the administration’s position on the politically hot The new bqdggf is.exited ■ tqs be substantially A,the -same as spending for, the current fiscal year, which will be something river 68 billion dollars. The administration will probably effect some further economies in the operations of some departments but they will be offset by a planned increase of about one billion dollars in defense spending. Military spending makes up more than half of the federal budget, and It is virtually impossible to make any appreciable reductions in expenditures without sizable cuts in defense outlays. Mr. Eisenhower pat in two hours working on the budget Monday and then spent another hour hitting golf balls in balmy 75-degree weather. County Workers Are Appointed By Board No Changes Made By Commissioners At their first meeting of the year Monday morning, county commissioners re-appointed all county personnel and made their regular first-of-the-year inventory of the county home. The appointments include Henry Rumple to a four year term on the board of trustees of the Adams county memorial hospital; Dr. Norval Rich, physician lor the county home; Dave Macklin, county attorney; John Bixler, court house janitor; Mrs. Jewell Ehinger, court house matron, and Lawrence Noll, county highway superintendent. Other appointments in the county highway department are Walter ’Reppert, north district superintendent; Albert Beer, south district superintendent; Herbert Isch, clerk and bookkeeper; Virgil Draper. Raymond Kolter, latwrence •Koenig and Virgil Fferry, diesel .Operators; Jesse Patch, mechanic; Harold Burger, Burl Fuhrman. Don Harvey, Dick Lafountaine, Roger Steiner t and Duane Bder, truck drivers; .Arthur Ross. Noah Brunner and Christ Moesehbergpr, tractor operators; Joe Spangler, janitor, and Christ Zurcher and Joel Augsbufger, single hands. The commissioners . also held their annual reorganization session. As a result of that session, Harley j. Reef will erve again as chairman and John Kintz will be vice-chairman. Lewis Worthinan is the third member of th4 commissioners.

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Top Issues To Concern 84th Congress Meet Uncertainty Over Ike's Candidacy Hangs Over Salons . - WASHINGTON (INS) — Gsigress convened today for a crucial election-year session with uncertainty over President Eisenhower’s plans lending drama, to the preparations for bitter legislative battles. ' .A'X' \ The second session of the 84th congress opened- at noon (EST) with the customary formalities in the-senate and the house. There was little evidence of the political strife certain to come on such issues as tax cuts, farm prices, and r -foreign aid. The Democrats, holding narrow control of hot'll chambers, mapped strategy which they hoped WDttM speed their chances of victory in next November’s congressional elections and in the race tor the White House. TtFSHL But it was obvious that the big, questions for all legislators was whether Mr. Eisenhower and his doctors would consider his recovery from his Sept. 24 heart attack complete enough to spur the Chief Executive to a bid tor reelection. pected to be made early in the session. Meanwhile, sharp disputes are shaping up not only on taxes, the farm problem and overseas assistance. but also on defense spending. highway construction and federal aid to education. *•*-> Leaders of both parties"hoped to minimise—but noUeliminate —politicking for election year advantage. If they can, they" want to adjourn congress comfortably in advance of the national political conventions which begin Aug. 13 with the Democrats in Chicago. The Republican convention meets one week later, on Aug. 20, In San Francisco. President Elsenhower’s state of the union message will be xead in each house on Thursday. His budget message, calling for fiscal 1957 spending of about 65 : billion dollars, will come to congress later. It will include military spending 0F35.6 billion dollars, an increase of a ittle over one billion dollars, according to the latest infoliation. * 1 (Continued On Page Five) Fraternal Order Os Police Is Organized Form Police Lodge Here Monday Night law enforcement officers of Adams county met Monday evening at the city hall to organize a new Fraternal Order of Police lodge. The local lodge will be known as Adams County F.O.P. lodge No. 127 and will be affiliated with the national lodge. The new lodge will include 19 charter members who are police officers of Decatur, Berne and Geneva. members of the Adams counter sheriff’s department and the county’s conservation officer. Three officers from the Fort Wayne F.O.P. lodge attended last night’s meeting to assist with the organization. They initiated the officers and instructed them In their duties. ? ’ Robert Hill was elected to nerve as charter president. Other offi-. cers will be Merle Affolder, vicepresident; Victoi; Strickler, secre-tary-treasurer; Ed Wolpert, conductor. and Karl Sprunger, James .... •Cochran and tßoy Chllcote, trus- ! tees. Mfftirtce Teeple. James Cochran and Dale Death form the by. laws committee. In th? near future the lodge will conduct a membership drive ’ among other officers of the araa. Associate membership will be offered to local men of goodchargCter, It pras announced*. 7 ' \