Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 88, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 88.

GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST 1957 CHOSEN ( 1 • y\ /<■ i r * ' ’ B * rSI Ka K ‘w‘< ■Or ■r wEHf 3 w. W 1 sbe/i . 4i MKkfv-. ~ Bm-rr« — — - wj .. Contestants for the title, “Girl of the Limberlost,’’ appear on the stage of the Wabash township school just before the winner, Miss Sonja Yoder, of Adams Central school, was named the 1957 choice. Pictured above, left to right are, Betty Bultemeier, Miss Monmouth; Nancy BoHenbacher, Miss Geneva; Marjorie Bichel, Miss Poling; Carol Taylor, Miss Petroleum; Vera Neuenschwander, Miss Hartford, and Sonja Yoder, Miss Adams Central, Girl of the

Ike Doctrine Protested By Jordan Youths Stage Demonstration As Effort Made To From New Cabinet By EUGENE McLOUGHLIN United Press Staff Correspondent Former Jordanian Defense Minister Abdul Halim Nimr launched a new effort Saturday to form a coalition cabinet and solve the government crisis. Reports from Amman said he met this morning with ousted Premier Suleiman El Nabulsi and the high command of their National Socialist Party to seek support for Nlmr’s candidacy as premier. While the crucial meeting was going on this morning thousands of Jordanian youths demonstrated against the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East in the main streets of Amman. They shouted “down with the Eisenhower plan” but there were no reports of violence. Post In Question ’■ Diplomats in Beirut, Lebanon, said the real key to the mood of the new government will be whether Minister of State Abdullah Rimawi remains in the cabinet. Rlmawi is considered one of the strongest Soviet supporters in Jordan. If he remains it would be considered a victory for the forces allied against young King Hussein. If he goes, King Hussein would be regarded as having won the battle. Political observers in Lebanon believed Hussein had suffered a disastrous and perhaps fatal setback anyway in his struggle to remain in control in Jordan. Similar sentiments were voiced by Egyptian circles. They said Hussein's firing qf Nabulsi backfired into a victory for the Arab neutralist block. U.S. Officials Confident But in Washington U.S. officials said they believed King Hussein would ride out the crisis safely. They discounted fears the internal struggle would ignite a new Arab-Israeli war. In other developments on the Middle East: —Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Britain said his government would make no decision on using the Suez Canal pending the outcome of U-S.-Egyptian talks now in progress in Cairo. —Peiping Radio said Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser may visit Communist China this summer. —French press reports in Paris said Britain plans to “give in” to Egypt on the canal dispute and described the French government as deeply concerned. Alabama Man Killed When Autos Collide ROCKVILLE (UP) — Don Adkins. 36, Jasper, Ala., was killed Friday night when two automobiles collided in U. S. 41 nine miles west of here. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cold Saturday night. Sunday partly cloudy and warmer with chance of showers sotith portion Sunday night. Low tonight 24-36. High Sunday about , 50. Outlook for Monday: Considerable cloudiness with little change in temperature and chance of showers.

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Miss Sonja Yoder Is Girl Os Limberlost Adams Central Girl Chosen Last Night Miss Sonja Yoder, Miss Adams Central, won the title of Girl of the Limberlost at the Limberlost land party at the Geneva school held Friday night by the Geneva Lions club. Miss Yoder, the sixth girl to bold the title and the first from Adams Central, appeared before the group in a beautiful white party dress I and played the piano solo, “Coast- . ing,” by Burleigh. Several ■ hundred spectators crowded the floor and bleachers of . the Wabash township school gym for the program which followed • fish fry. Other contestants included, in the order of their Vera Neuenschwander, Miss Hartford Center, a reading, “Late Again” by Sidney Stoloff; Carol Taylor, Miss Petroleum, piano solo, "Falling Waters" by J. L. Truax: Marjorie Bickel, Miss Poling, piano solo, “Faith” by Mendelssohn; Nancy Bollenbacher, Miss Geneva, saxaphone solo. “Sax Carrice.” Betty Bultemeier. Miss Monmouth, reading, “Limberlost Lillies.” Judges for the contest were Gerald Quindry of Rochester; Don Kable, of Celina, 0.; Chester Hite, Lions district governor of Huntington; Mrs. John Craig of Fort Wayne; and John Webster, superintendent of conservation officers for the state of Indiana. Mrs. Edwin Lee. last remaining charter member of the Gene Stratton Porter club of Fort Wayne, j presented the necklace to Miss , Yodgr, which is the symbol of the i title “Girl of the Limberlost.” i The program was M.C.’d by William H. Gingher, of the Fort ' Wayne Central Lions club, state i chairman of the Lions leader dog < program for the blind. 1 The Geneva high school choir. ’ under the direction of Walter Hin- ] kel, opened the program with ! three numbers, including “Easter 1 Parade.” Following the contestants ’ program, while the judges picked a queen, entertainment included ' various selections by the “Mixed Up Kids” quartet of Linn Grove; ' vocal solo, “Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody,” by Joy Ev- . erhayt; four mimics by Ronald j Townsend, Geneva faculty mem- t ber; a vocal solo, “My Little Ban- < jp,” by Steve Sprunger; a reading, “Old Shorty,” by Bill Stanton, of ] Petroleum; several numbers By j the Wabash Ramblers, Yoder, < Grandlienard. and Yoder. j Judge Hite, district governor, an- i nounced the winner following the r program, and the award® was t made. Judging was based on beau- i ty, personality, charm, and talent. ‘ Previous winners of the title “Girl I of the Limberlost" were Margo < Augsburger, Hartford Center. 1956; Barbara Cox, Petroleum, £ (Continued on Page Six) ’ T i - . ’ ' • Younq Kokomo Airman One Os Crash Victims BRUNSWICK, Maine (IB — Charles H. Frank, 18. Kokomo, ; Ind., was one of six Navy airmen 1 killed Friday night when their i Neptune patrol bomber crashed on 1 takeoff., i The plane had just cleared a .runway on a routine training flight < when it plunged into a woods. It 1 burst into flames and touched off a brush fire which prevented res- . cue attempts. b

Parties Blame Each Other In Postal Cuts : Congress Expected To Appropriate Funds Next Week 0 WASHINGTON (UP) — Repub licans and Democrats today blamed each other for the drastic curtailment of postal services. But by next week both parties were expected to rally behind a drive to push a big emergency postal appropriation through Congress to end the cuts. The House Appropriations Committee already has approved appropriation of 41 million dollars of the 47 million dollars called for by Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield. But Summerfield put the cuts into effect at midnight Friday night on grounds committee action wasn't enough. He said under the law he had to have the money in hand. The House planned to act on the appropriation Monday. The Senate Appropriations Committee planned to meet Tuesday to receive the bill. Summerfield said he would still try to get all 47 million dollars. The House Appropriations Committee said the extra 6 million was for equipment purchases that could wait. Other congressional developments: Chairman James O. Eastland of the Senate Internal Security subcommittee left unanswered a new mystery in the suicide of Canadian diplomat E. Herbert Norman. Eastland said there was a "sound reason” why information allegedly linking Norman with Communism could not be brought quietly to the attention of the Canadian government. But, in defending his subcommittee on the Senate floor he said he would not discuss what the “sound reason” was. Chairman Warren G. Magnuson <D-Wash.) of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee prodded the Federal Trade Commission to step up efforts to end misleading radio and television advertising. He asked FTC Chairman John W. Gwynne for greater monitoring of the airways to check “phony” and “bait” advertising. Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (RMich.) accused a House Government Operations Committee investigation into federal information policies of taking on the “earmarks of an inquisition.” Hoffman, minority members of the three-man subcommittee, said he was convinced the Pentagon was “making a sincere effort” to make public all the information that it can. Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.) said the new proposed bill to regu(Contlnue Pax* Six) Three Are Killed In Two Gary Accidents GARY (UP) — Billy Rolan, 41, and Lewis York, 41, Gary, were killed Saturday their automobile crashed at high speed into the rear of a big truck in U. S. 30 near here. Rolan was killed outright. York died in Mercy Hospital here a few hours after the accident. A second accident killed John Jadrenak, 59, Gary, Saturday morning.

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Authorities Continue Probe Os Alleged Lush Profits In State Deals

Drastic Mail Service Cuts Go In Effect Summerfield Makes ; Good On Threat To i Cut Postal Service WASHINGTON (UP)— Postmig- ~ ter General Arthur E. Summerfield Saturday made good his order to end almost all Saturday postal service because of lack of money. Not even last minute approval by the House Appropriations Committee of a 41 million dollar emergency appropriation stopped the scheduled drastic cuts in postai service. Summerfield said he had no choice. He said under the law his de- ~ partment could operate only with funds actually appropriated. Therefore, he said, the cuts would have to stay in effect until President Eisenhower signed the necessary emergency appropriation. y Curtailments Begin c Summerfield ordered the following cuts into effect as of midnight s Friday night; - —Halt window service in all y post offices on Saturdays. However, post office lobbies will be open and patrons may deposit letH ters and get mail from their k locked boxes. f —Deliver no mail on Saturdays y except special delivery. —Reduce collection of mails on Saturday to the limited schedules 5 which normally prevail on Sun- , days. j —Starting Monday, keep post of- ; fice windows open only 8%-hours ' a day Mondays through Fridays. Each local postmaster will determine his window schedule to ac--5 commodate his community's ‘ needs. 5 — Starting Monday, limit mail deliveries in all downtown business areas to two a day Mon-j 1 day through Friday. Starting April 29, embargo third class mail and end sale of postal ’ money orders. ] Nationwide Effect But a post office spokesman I ' said some 39 government agencies i and departments including Con- ’ f gress and the White House will re- < ’ ceive their mail as usual. Postal officials 'also said the 1 1 cuts will not affect the flood of I last minute income tax returns < which must be postmarked before 1 midnight Monday to avoid penal- j ' ties. i Moreover, the cuts were expect- 1 ed to be short lived. Congress < next week was expected to appro- < priate emergency funds, ending 1 most or all of the cuts. 1 1 Hammond Couple Die As Auto Hits Tree i ■„. . { HAMMOND (IB — Bernardi Johnson, 25, and his wife, Deb- i orah, 24, Hammond, were killed 1 Saturday when their automobile careened out of control for two t blocks in a Hammond residential 1 area and struck a tree. 1 Police said the couple had been < drinking. They said the car zig- 8 zagged over curbs and parkways ‘ and knocked down two poles be- 8 fore it smashed into the tree. 1

Zen fen Meditation “THE SEARCHERS” “Canst thou by searching find out God?”—Job 11:7. Books on religious themes are becoming very popular. In fact, more people are buying and reading them than at any time in history. This interest, according to one publisher, is “no longer confined to the radius of conventionally religious people. People of all sorts are desperately searching for something to cling to . . . Readers aren’t looking (or saccharine piety, but for something they can get their teeth into-that changes them.” This search is nothing new. In fact, it is as old as the race. What are these searchers looking for? They are trying to “find out God.” For only a living fellowship with the eternal Spirit is a strong enough anchor to hold and satisfy the restless human spirit. No clever human philosophy is enough. Can we find God by searching? The answer lies in the fact that God is searching for us! We find Him and He finds us in Jesus Christ our Lord. When we accept the Christ of the cross and the empty tomb, we find divine cleansing, healing, and peace. And our search is over. " ’

Reduce Cigarette Cancer Pofenlial Hint Possibility Os Manufacture Change CHICAGO (UP) — A leading cancer research scientist has disi closed that recent experiments have indicated it is possible to | manufacture a cigarette with ’ greatly reduced cancer potentialities. Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of the ! research unit of the SloanKettering Institute’s Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases said that although tests still are going on the results thus far point the way toward the manufacture of a safer cigarette. Wynder told the 48th annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research Friday that three steps must be taken to produce such a cigarette. An “effective" filter must be designed for the removal of tobacco tars. The burning temperature of the cigarette must be reduced. The waxy coating from raw tobacco must be removed. Dr. Wynder pointed out that the waxy coating of the tobacco leaf is a major source of the aancercausing substances contained in tobacco and can easily be removed from the tobacco leaf by a Experiments currently are being conducted by Dr. George Wright of the University of Toronto to test the cancer-causing activity of cigarettes made from tobacco from which the waxy coating has been removed. He did not disclose when the results of Dr. Wright's experiments would be made public. Dr. Wynder said that when the tar obtained from the waxy coating is burned at 880 degrees—the temperature of a burning cigarette —it has a very high cancerproducing activity. When the temperature is reduced to 720 degrees—the temperature at which tobacco burns in pipes—there was a marked reduction in the tar’s cancer - causing activity. At 650 degrees the cancerproducing activity ceased. Dr. Wynder states that it should be possible to produce filtered cigarettes with "satisfactory flavor" that would expose the smoker to 40 per cent less tar. With such a filter, he Said, the tar Coiltent could be reduced to a level that would significantly reduce cancer risk to smokers. Dr. Wynder said that tests on five types of filtered cigarettes now on the market showed that the filters did not remove the cancer causing components. On an equal weight basis, he said, the cancer causing activity of the filtered and unfiltered tars was the same. Industry Asks Caution Statistically, Dr. Wynder said the cancer incidence for two-pack-a-day smokers was 278 per 100,000. For the one-half to one-pack-a-day smokers i t dropped to 61 per 100,000. Dr. Wynder said that further tests indicated that a person who has smoke for 10 years is pot likely to have a greater risk of developing cancer than a nonsmoker. He said the risk increased but still was relatively small up to the 20-year level. From that point on it rose sharply cOoatinuea on F*xe Elrbt>

Southeastern U.S. In Grip , Os Cold Wave J Central Region Os 1 Nation Warming Up After Record Cold a By UNITED PRESS 1 A spring cold wave wrapped the . southeastern section of the nation I in its icy cloak Saturday, allowr ing the frostbitten central region . to warm up a bit. The movement of the arctic air I into the Gulf States and Eastern . Seaboard was detected early Satr urday by the sharp temperature > drops. Night-time readings ranged as . much as 35 degrees lower than > the previous morning’s readings in some areas, the U.S. Weather . Bureau reported. Mercury moved up into the 20s , and low 30s from the Great Lakes westward across the Northern , Plains to the Rockies, the region t which had shivered in record- . breaking temperatures Friday. ! An aftermath of the frostiness . left 35 ships ice-bound in the St. , Mary’s River at Sault Ste. Marie., Mich, today. Gigantic ice fields, described -ar the worst in the , memory of veteran Great Lakes i skippers, halted shipping on Lake t Superior. The ice field was some 65 miles i long and from 30 to 60 miles wide, i A Ipw pressure area lurking off i the Washington coast spewed rain > across the Pacific Northwest - again today and deposited snow on • western Montana. > Weathermen forecast, a cold, • rainy day for the southern half of • the country from eastern Texas : to the Atlantic Coast. Snow slur- ■ ries fluttered over the northern and lower Great Lakes areas as ■ well as northern New England. ■ A pleasant day with mostly fair i skies was predicted for most of • the rest of die nation. • i! 'ft Juniors To Present Class Play April 26 First Class Play At ?! DHS For 16 Years The Decatur high school juniors will present the comedy, “Foot Loose.” the first class play to be presented by the local school in some 16 years, at the school auditorium Friday night, April 26, at 8 o’clock. The play is being directed by Miss Catherine Weidler, junior class sponsor. The comedy is built around a j typical American family, with the , usual family problems, such as: I—a vacation for Mother and Dad j Early, long overdue; 2—a mother i who has ruled children, forgetting , they are growing up; 3—a teen-age son who wants a car; 4—-a young ( intern who wants a chance at hap- < piness now instead of waiting five or six years; s—a high school girl j who has to choose between good ( old dependable Randy and the , suave college smoothie. ( Tickets for the production will j go on sale next week. ’and will be ( priced at 50 cents’ for adults and 25 cents for children. Members of the cast: Richard Early, vice president of the bank, | Dave Butcher; Emily, his wife, • Kathie Cole; Hope, their daughter, Susan Custer; Dick, their son (the intern), Dave Eichenauer; Mary, daughter, a senior in high schodl, ‘ Barbara Kai ver; Bob, their son, a high school junior, Norman Bas- * sett; Delphfe, general maid and J adviser. Judy Lane; Randy Cunnignham, Mary’s friend, Lanny 1 Ross; Jenny Malloy, Dick’s sweet- 2 heart, Jane Stiverson; “Buzz” c Dailey, Bob’s chum, Pat Nelson; Miriam Walker, Mary’s friend, Su- ® san Heller; Jack Milford, college c sophomore, Bob Banks; Sanford Wells, a young attorney, Fred 1 Locke; Mrs. Forester, cranky rich v widow, Janalee Smith. c - 8 NOON EDITION i 1 : - i

8 Killed In Series Os Plane Crashes Four Are Missing In Military Crashes By UNITED PRESS A series of military plane crashes since Thursday night killed eight men and left four others missing. A six-man crew perished when a Navy Neptune patrol bomber crashed and caught fire while taking off from Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine Friday. Observers said the plane spun to the ground seconds after its takeoff and bunt into flames which in turn ignited nearby trees. Separate crashes in Japan Friday claimed the lives of two jet pilots. A U. S. Marine Corps jet plowed into the ground near Tokyo and an FB6 Sabrejet crashed into the ocean about 20 miles southwest of Chitose Air Base on Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan. A search continued Saturday for four crew members of a Navy amphibion which has not been heard from since Thursday night while on a flight from Atlantic City, N. J., to Jacksonville, Fla. Searching parties combed an area from Charleston, S. C. to Savannah, Ga. Meanwhile, naval officials at Key West, Fla., scratched their heads in amazement at the “miraculous” survival, of two sailors who lived through a ten-mile swim after their plane crashed on a re? mote Florida Key. Retired Willshire Railway Agent Dies James Evans Dies At Van Wert Hospital James S. Evans, 81, retired Nickel Plate railroad agent at Wilshire, Ohio, died at 6:30 p. m. Friday at the Van Wert county hospital, where he had been a patient since suffering a fractured hip in a fall Tuesday. ■BHe was born in Martinsville, 11.. April 23, 1875, a son ot David and Emilie Phillips-Evans, and was married to Laura Hoffman May 18, 1899. Mrs. Evans died June 20, 1938. Mr. Evans had been an employes of the railroad for 52 years prior to his retirement. He was a member of the Willshire Methodist church and the Masonic lodge in that town. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Basil Banta of near Willshire, Miss Helen Evans of Willshire; one son, James H. Evans of Columbus. O.; three grandchildren, James Loe, Nancy and Billy Evans, all of Columbus, and one brother, Charles A. Evans of Van Wert. One son, three sisters and one brother are deceased. Funeral serveies will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. James A. Hipkins officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the fu- = neral home after 7 o’clock this : evening. Masonic services will be ; held at 6 p. m. Sunday at the funeral home. 1 Resume Toll Service To Berne On Friday The Decatur-Monroe-Berne telephone toll line was returned to service about 5 p.m. Friday, a day , ahead br schedule, and work con- , tinued today on the Decatur-Ge-neva toll line and the Berne-Linn Grove lines, officials of the Citi- ■ zens telephone company said to- j day. It was expected to take about i a day to get the Geneva and Linn 1 Grove lines back in working con- < dition. Attention will then be di- < rented to the Pleasant Mills line. 1 which will complete the list of communities completely Isolated I and without intercity telephones. 1 Work will then begin on rural and < individual lines, officials said. <

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Teverbaugh Is Fired Friday In State Job Right Os Way Chief In Craig's Tenure Loses Highway Job INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — ■ Nile Teverbaugh, whose grandson has . the same name as a mysterious i “Dean Burton” in the Indiana ' State Highway Department landL buying “scandal,” was fired Friday night from his highway job while authorities investigated re- ’ ports of lush “middleman” profits ; in road right-of-way transactions. Teverbaugh stepped glumly ' from a Statehouse conference with ’ his superiors and law enforcement agents and announced he was dis- ; charged. He insisted, however, he ■ was guilty of no wrong-doing. He came to Indianapolis on ■ orders from Highway chairman - John Peters to be questioned by i police and prosecutor’s investit gators. ; Earlier, it was reported the “Dean Burton” who apparently i acted as a middleman in a deal . which brought a $22,800 “windfall” was located in a first-grade school- . room in .Monroe City, Tever- ; baugh’s hdvnetown. But Teverbaugh Insisted his ‘ grandson has “no relation" to the 1 case—“lt’s not anything close,” 1 he said. “Fd-swear that on a stack of Bibles this high,” Teverbaugh said. “Burton” allegedly bought two lots from Indianapolis couples for $2,500 and resold them to Robert A. Peak for $3,000, who in turn sold them to the state for $25,800. Burton SUU Mystery Police were still trying to determine the identity of “Burton.” Peters said earlier "I’m not sure he exists.” Meanwhile, auditors for the FedI eraj Bureau of Public Roads t joined state and county investigators in searching records in the ; Highway Department's right-of-way division. 1 ■ Teverbaugh, right-of-way chief in the administration of former highway chairman Virgil Smith, was questioned by State Police I Det. Sgt. Stanley Young and Jake 1 Greene of the Marion County i prosecutor’s office. Young said Teverbaugh was "very cooperative” but he refused to disclose his testimony. Denies Money Gain “I’ve never received that first dime from anybody,” Teverbaugh said. “If I’d wanted to be crooked in this game, I could have got enough to have bought the building.” Teverbaugh insisted “I don’t know" Robert A. Peak, Milan attorney who bought the properties from "Burton" and resold them to the state at a $22,800 profit. He also denied he gave $2,500 to the Robert Quinlans and the John Ackers for their property along the route of a U.S. 31 expressway in south Indianapolis. Teverbaugh described “Dean Burton” to newsmen as 35 to 38 years old. medium height, weighing 210 pounds and well dressed. He said he met the “mystery man" as many as “8 to 11 times.” Peak was reported to have returned a check for the $22,800 he unnnnuM ,m Easter Vaca tic n For All School Students Students of Decatur public, Decatur parochial and Adams county schools will enjoy Easter holidays ranging from two to four days next week and the following week. Decatur public school classes will be dismissed all day Good Friday and the Monday following Easter Sunday. Students of the Decatur Catholic schools and Zion Lutheran school will have no classes Holy Thursday and Good Friday and Monday and Tuesday following Easter. Students in the Adams county schools will have a two-day vacation Holy Thursday and Good Friday and will return to classes Monday, April 22. 1 •