Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 95.

LAST RITES TO ACCIDENT VICTIM I ■ ’ V » • j<rX yx HiTiiJ“oWo7MfflCTWr ;i,^i tj ; .' . x < rU.. , DEATH HOVERS over this tragic street scene in Chicago as Father Joseph McDonnell of Our Lady of the Angels Church administers last rites of the Roman Catholic Church to Joseph Stojak, 73, of Chicago. An off-duty policeman William Reeden attempts to comfort the aged man after he was struck down by a city bus. He died later in a nearby hospital. The bus driver was charged with reckless homicide, failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian, and driving too fast for conditions. " ' -'

Dulles Warns Soviet Russia Over Threat Free World Alliance Will Hold Despite Retaliation Threat NEW YORK (UP) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles issued a clear-cut warning to the Soviet Union today that its campaign of atomic threats against U.S. Allies will never shatter the free world alliance. “... Such Soviet assaults will not disintegrate the free world," he declared in his first major foreign policy speech since Oct, 27, 1956. •’ "Collective measures are here to stay.” At the same time Dulles called for an East-West agreement on disarmament by "steps carefully measured and carefully taken.” He said modern weapons have such "vas* destructive power" there will be "no real factor” in any general war. Billed as Major Speech Dulles’ speech, prepared for delivery to the Associated Press annual lunch and carried to the nation by radio and television, was billed by the White House as a "major” foreign policy pronouncement. In it he also: —Called anew for “liberation’’ of Soviet satellite nations but said this country does "not incite violent revolt” by the satellites; “raher we encourage an evolution to freedom.” He said freedom of the satellites is sought "not in order to circle Russia with hostile forces’*, but because otherwise "peace is in jeopardy and freedom a mockery.” He pledged the United States will "never make a political settlement” at the expense of the satellites. —Said the chief deterrent to aggression is U.S. "mobile retaliatory power” that must be “vast in ... ita ! potential.” But he added the “extent to which it would be used would ~. depend on circumsances.” He also said it would be "imprudent to risk everything" on "one aspect of military power” and that the nation must have balanced land, sea and air forces for "local action" and defense. Warns of Red Intrigue —Warned of Soviet "intrigue” in the Middle East and pledged the United States to seek a “durable" peace based on “justice and the rule of law” in the troubleridden Bob’ Land area. He said this cannot be done “quickly or all at once.” —Put in a strong plug for the administration’s economy - threatened foreign air program, asserting Americans will have to pay for "vastly" bigger national defenses if the cooperation of U.S. Allies is ended. Dulles’ speech was approved in advance by President Eisenhower. It followed a string of retent Moscow declarations to France, Norway, Greece, Turkey, Denmark, Spain and other American Allies that they are inviting atomic retaliation by participating in free world defense strategy based in part on rockets, . missiles, and atomic weapons. Duties said “the men in the Kremlin stole, one by one, the independence of a dozen nations and Soviet rulers would prefer the free nations to be weak and divided. “Here to Stay” "So, at each enlargement of the area of collective defense, the Soviet rulers pour out abuse against so-called •militaristic groupings’," he said. "And aa the free nations (Coßtlaued bb Paae Ftve>

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Says Ike Budget Cut Plan Is Inadequate Byrd Determined To Seek Further Slash WASHINGTON -(W Sen. Harry F. Byrd today stood by his determination to try to slash President Eisenhower’s budget by $6,560,000,000. He said Eisenhower's recently proposed budget reductions were "totally inadequate.” The Virginia Democrat is a leader of the Senate economy bloc hoping to whittle down Eisenhower's $71,800,000,000 budget for the 12 months starting July 1. Byrd said his figures show the government already has 70 billion dollars available for the new fiscal year from money appropriated by Congress in recent years. Added to this year's request, he said, the amount available would total about 140 billion dollars. The President, sensitive to the high economy fever Congress is running this year, suggested in a letter to Speaker Sam Rayburn DT-ex. last week that $1,342,000,000 be shaved from his requests for new "spending authortty.” Eisenhower said, however, that less than half his prposed cuts in “spending authority” actually would show up in reduced federal spending next fiscal year. Annual Kindergarten Roundup Thursday Hold Annual Clinic At Lincoln School • The annual kindergarten roundup, sponsored by the parent-teach-er associations of Lincoln and Northwest schools, will take place Thursday morning at the Lincoln school. Boys and girjs eligible to enter kindergarten next fall will be given physical examinations local phvsicians and optometrists, who will donate their time for the clinic. All youngsters who will be five years of age by Sept. 15 will be eligible to participate in the roundup and parents are urged to take advantage of the clinic. Hours for the round-up are from 8 to 9:30 a.m., for the girls and from 9:30 to 11 a.m. for the boys. Mrs. Leo Feasel is general chairman in charge of arrangements. She is being assisted by committees composed of members of both P.T.A. groups. Members of the associations will be at the clinic Thursday to help with registration. Hunsicker Funeral Wednesday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Grace Hunsicker, 73, a former resident of this city, who died Thursday evening at her winter home in Palmetto, Fla., will take place Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Black’s funeral home. , The body is being brought back to Decatur and friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Tuesday. The Rev. Virgil Sexton, pastor of the ‘ First Methodist church, will officiate at the funeral services, and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Mrs. Hunsicker was the widow of Dallas Hunsicker, who was in business here for many years. In recent years she resided at Hamilton and in Florida. She was well-known in this city. \

Eisenhower To View Carrier Training Tour On Navy's Newest Plane Cartier For Training Exercises AUGUSTA, Ga. (UP)—The White House announced today that President Eisenhower will go aboard the Navy’s newest carrier, the 60,000-ton U.S.S. Saratoga, for training exercises off the coast of Florida June 6-7. > Eisenhower will board the new ship at her home port, Mayport, Fla., and spend most of two days at sea, watching the Navy’s second angled deck carrier put her het fighters and twin-jet bombers through training paces. The announcement of the President’s forthcoming voyage came as Eisenhower prepared to discuss disarmament here at his vacation headquarters with Harold E. Stassen. head of the American delegation to the currently recessed London disarmament talks. Stassen is scheduled to arrive here tonight from Washington and confer Tuesday morning with the President at the Augusta National Golf Club. Stassen will fly back to Washington immediately after his talk with Elsenhower and confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles before leaving by air for London early Tuesday afternoon. Cough Is Better In other action today at the golfing White House: —The President transmitted to the clerk of the House an amendment to the Interior Department’s budget for fiscal 1958, calling for a net reduction of $5,658,000 in funds for the Bonneville power administration. —Press Secretary James C, Hagerty reported that Eisenhower’s cough was "virtually gone” after his relaxation in the warm weather of Augusta, but his golf game was suffering. The President was hitting his woods and long irons well, but having difficulty with his approach shots. The President proclaimed May 22 as National Maritime Day to honor the Merchant Marine and commemorate the departure from Savannah, Ga., in 1819 of the S.S. Savannah on the first transoceanic voyage ever attempted by any steamship. The President Sunday put his seal of approval on a major foreign policy speech to be delivered in New York today by Dulles. The President studied a draft of the Dulles speech for at least two days and conferred with the secretary by long distance telephone twice over the week end, discussing phraseology to be employed in restating the broad outlines of this country’s foreign policy in what the White House called "the field of collective security, niutual security and the efforts the United States has made to maintain justice and law in the world.” The London disarmament talks (Coatißae« bb Pace Five) Legion Auxiliary To End Clothing Drive Conclude Clothing Drive On Saturday The clothing drive currently being conducted by the American Legion auxiliary unit 43 will be concluded Saturday, April 27, according to a reminder by Mrs. R. C. Hersh. Mrs. Hersh is child welfare chairman of the local unit and is in charge of the clothing collection. The drive is co-sponsored throughout the nation by the Save the Children Federation. All local persons are being urged to contribute new or good used clothing to make the winter more bearable for children and their families in many countries throughout the world. 1 Last year earthquakes and blizzards created a pressing need for more than 500,000 pounds of clothing outside the United States and more than a million pounds were made available to needy persons in the country. The need is still urgent. Clothing needed includes longsleeved sweaters, shirts, pants, dungarees, overall, hats, knit caps, cotton dresses, underwear, socks, pajams, cloth coats, sheets, blankets, baby clothing, rubbers, low-heel-ed shoes, overshoes and work shoes. Save the* b Chlldren Federation celebrates its 25th anniversary of service -to needy children this year. National sponsors of the federation include Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, James A. Farley and Henry R. Luce. ’ « Any person who wishes to donate articles of clothing in the current drive is invited to take them to the American Legion home or to contact Mrs. Hersh.

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Jordan Denies Reports Iraqi Troops Based In Troubled Mideast Land

Tornadoes Hit ;; South Part Os Texas Sunday Over 30 Injured, * Property Damage Heavy Last Night By UNITED PRESS A cluster of tornadoes roareH across the south plains of Texas Sunday night, injuring more th»n 30 persons and causing heavy damage. The Texas Department of Public Safety reported that an unidentified Mexican was in a Levelland hospital “severely hurt.” Two persons were in serious condition in Littlefield hospitals. Many of the injured were treated at hospitals and then released. Authorities expected the toll to climb higher. “There’s a lot of injuries we’ll find out about after daylight, and a lot of damage, said Department of Public Safety chief radio operator Bill Williams in Lubbock. Williams said there "must have been a dozen or more” tornadoes. They lashed hardest around Littlefield, Levelland, Shallowater, and Whitharrel. Littlefield is the largest of the towns at 9,000 inhabitants. , More than 20 houses were dhid--1 aged, more than half of them 1 blown completely away. At one place near Levalland, motorists abandoned seven cars along a roadside to take refuge in a storm shelter, Williams said. The tornado picked up all seven automobiles and hurled them half a mile from the spot where they were parked. “There may be farmhouses out there we can’t see at night. The only way we'll be able to find some of them, I’m afraid, is by the foundations,” said Williams. There was no telephone service into Littlefield, where many of the injured had been taken, and telephone company servicemen said it would probably be sometime this morning before service into the town of 9,000 is restored. Three miles from Littlefield, motorists in five cars, unable to avoid the twister bearing down on them, hid in a cotton gin. The raging tornado shattered the gin around them like matchwood, injuring four. 1 1 Mrs. Wm. Beougher Dies Early Sunday Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Bessie Louise Beougher, 73, died at 4:40 a.m. Sunday at the Gibbons hospital in Celina, 0., following an illness of five years of complications. She had been a patient at the hospital for the past five weeks. Born Jan. 13, 1884. she was a daughter of William and Arinda Juneman-White, and was married to William D. Beougher June 22, 1905. Mrs. Beougher was a former member of the Union U. B. church of Hopewell township. Mercer county, where she resided all her life. Surviving in addition to her husband are three daughters, Mrs. Florence Fast of near Decatur, Mrs. William Robinson of St. Mary’s, 0., and Mrs. Jack Zizelman of near Convoy, O.; three sons, Harry of near Rockford, 0., Gail of near Celina, and Clifford of St, Mary’s; 25 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; one brother, Clarence White of Mishawaka, and a twin sister, Mrs. Dessie Hainline of Norwalk, G. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Dick & Stalter funeral home at Celina, the Rev. L. A. Middaugh officiating. Burial will be in the Otterbein church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

„I ■■■ -.- At Least Five Dead In Hoosier Traffic One Drowning Also Reported In State ' By UNITED PRESS ’ Autos crashed into trees, bridges, utility poles and other vehicles during the Easter weekend in Indiana, and the death toll reached at least five. In addition, three Hoosiers were killed in Illinois smashups, and one person drowned in Indiana. Charles Owen Jr., 24, Rushville, and Loid Dick, Cambridge City, were killed Sunday when their car left Ind. 44 in Rush County, bounced off a tree and struck another auto. Two persons in the second car were hurt slightly. Mamie Reedy, 61, Cortland, was killed Sunday when the car she occupied rammed a bridge abutment on Ind. 54 just east of Linton. State Police said Bruce Reedy, 60, tried to pass another car, then swerved into the bridge to avoid a collision as the second car started a left turn. Two persons were hurt. William R. Devine, 20, Indianapolis, was killed Saturday when his car rammed the rear of another, then careened into a utility pole on an Indianapolis bridge. His bride-to-be. Miss Jeanne Carmack, 19, Indianapolis, was hurt critically. Paul Johnson, 33, Oaklawn, Hl., whs killed Friday night when his auto rammed the rear of a truck on the Indiana TqII Road near the Lake-Porter county line. Andrew Jones, 21, Princeton, and an Illinois man were killed Sunday when their auto smashed into another car on U.S. 50 near Trenton, 111. The other victim was Carl Anderson Jr., 15, Carlyle, Hl. Injured were Edmund Shermann of Carlyle, driver of the second car, and his sister, Marcia. Arnold Burman 25, Dyer, was killed Sunday in a two-car crash one mile northwest of Dyer across the Illinois border on U.S. 30. Seven other persons were hospitalized. Jacqueline Tomlin, 8-months-old daughter of the Eugene Tomlins, Frankfort, was killed and seven others were injured in a crash at an intersection 8 miles north of Whtseka, 111. The injured included the girl's parents and Larry Priebe, 18, Crawfordsville. The drowning victim was James Young, 23, Crothersville. He and a companion were fishing in White River 10 miles southwest of Bedford when their boat struck a dam. Alex Boos, 40, Crothersville, was rescued, but the current swept Young downstream. Adams Central Tops In Judging Contest Decatur Is Second In County Contest Adams Central and Decatur placed first and second in the Adams county 4-H and FFA livestock judging contest, report Kenneth Kenneth VanEmon and Eugene Sprunger, in charge of the contest. The top teams were: Adams Central with Phil Moser, Don Bailey, Don Ray, and alternates, Jim Brown, coached by Martin Watson; and the second team—Decatur with Roger Fuelling, Leonard Thieme, Rex Allison, alternate, Ivan Roth, coached by William Joumay. The top ten individuals were: Ist, Bill Hartman, Berne; 2nd, Phil Moser, Adams Central; 3rd, Roger Fuelling, Decatur; 4th, Leonard Thieme, Decatur; sth, Don Bailey, Adams Central; 6th, Don Ray, Adams Central; 7th, Calvin Morgan, Geneva; Bth, Larry Nevil, Geneva; 9th, Jim Brown, Adams Central; and 10th, Rex Allison, Decatur. Farms on which judging was done were Paul Yoder, Linn Grove,, Yorkshire hogs, and Henry Rumple, ’ Jefferson township, Angus cattle and sheep. Adams Central and Decatur will judge In the district contest Saturday, April 27 in Allen county.

Grand Jury To Meet Tuesday On Land Deals Marion County Jury To Probe Indiana Highway Scandal INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A grand jury will try Tuesday to get to the bottom pf an Indiana scandal story that there was a spread of $22,800 between the price the state paid for two back lots along an expressway right-of-way and the amount the property owners received. * Summoned to appear before • a Marion County jury investigating reports of huge middleman profits along Madison Ave, in Indianapolis were two former state highway officials, a small-town attorney, three property owners, and a state police detective. The ex-officials of the- highway department are Virgil W. (Red) Smith of Milan, who headed the department as chairman during part of -the administration of former Gov. George N. Craig, and Nile Teverbaugh of Monroe City, former chief of the right-of-way division of the department. The attorney is Robert Peak of . Milan, who recently returned > $22300 to the state after disclosure : that a $22,800 profit was made on : the backyard lots. Peak bought the lots, which highway chairman John Peters said were not needed I for the right-of-way, for $3,000 and 1 sold them to the state for $25,800. The property owners are Mrs. Loretta Acker and Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Quinlan of Indianapolis. They were the ones who sold their back lots for a total of $2,500 to "Dean Burton,” an unidentified mystery man whose name coincides with that of Teverbaugh’s grandson. The detective is Sgt. Stanley Young, who has headed a fourman team investigating the high(CanUßaed ea Pa«e Five) Mrs. Hattie Mills Dies Sunday Night Lifelong Resident Os County Is Dead Mrs. Hattie J. Mills, 86. lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 11 o’clock Sunday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Albert Beery, 639 Mercer avenue, following an illness of two years of complications. She was born in Adams county Feb. 26, 1871, a daughter of Lewis and Jane Quinn-Andrews. Her husband, Lewis Mills, preceded her in death. Mrs. Mills was a member of the First Methodist church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Beery, Mrs. Mary Oliver of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Frances Andrews of Angola; five grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Addie Hahn of Blue Creek township. Two daughters, two step-daughters,' one step-son, three brothers and four sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Gilljg & Doan funeral home, the Rev. Virgil W. Sexton officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 o’clock this evening until time of the funeral. Four Persons Killed In Air Force Crash TOKYO fffl — A U.S. Air Force Cll9 cargo plane crashed today in southern Japan, killing its four crewmen. A helicopter that went to investigate the accident also crashed. Three men aboard the helicopter were hospitalized. A spokesman for the Far East Air Forces said the bodies of the four crew men were recovered, from the wreckage of the Flying Boxcar 2% miles from Yawata in Kyushu, Japan’s southnmost island.

Dies Suddenly 9 «ronn Hints John A. Kintz Dies Suddenly Saturday Heart Attack Fatal To County Official John A. Kintz, 60, president of the board of Adams county commissioners, and prominent Wash-. ( ington township farmer, died sud- ' dently of a heart attack Saturday I afternoon. « ’ Mr. Kintz suffered the attack 1 while transacting business at the k First State Bank shortly before ' closing time Saturday. He was 1 rushed by ambulance to the Ad--1 ams county memorial hospital, but was dead on arrival. The county official, prominent in Democratic party circles, was elected as county commissioner in November of 1954, taking office in 1955. He was serving the final year of his term. He was born in Adams county Nov. 21, 1896, a son of William E. and Catherine Vorndran-Kintz, and was married to Mary A. Bernard May 18, 1920. Mr. Kint’ was a member of St. Mary's Cr.'Mic chureh, the Holy Name society, and the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus. Surviving in addition to his wife are eight daughters, Mrs. Joseph Schultz, Mrs. Harold Whitwright and Mrs. Anselm Hackman, all of Decatur, Mrs. Robert Bohjer and Mrs. Bill Ruggles of Anderson, and the Misses Isabelle, Dolores and Patricia Kintz, at home; one son, Sp. 3/C John Kintz. Jr., serving with the armed forces in Germany; 12 grandchildren; one brother, Eugene Kintz of Van Wert, 0., and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Kohne of near Decatur. Two sons are deceased, Daniel, in infancy, and William E., killed in? traffic accident June 18, 1955. Five brothers and three sisters are also deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Wednesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home until time of the services. The Holy Name society will recite the rosary at 8 p. m. Tuesday. County Offices Open Saturday Afternoons The auditor’s office, treasurer's office, and assessor's office will remain open until 4 pm. on the two Saturdays preceding the tax deadline, it was announced today. Th? three offices will be open until 4 p.m. on April 27 and May 4 so that last minute taxpayers who are unable to get to the court house on weekdays, any pay their taxes. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional rain and scattered thunderstorms north and east, widely scattered showers and thunderstorms southwest tonight Tuesday mostly elottdy, occasional showers and thunderstorms northeast, partly cloudy, widely scattered showers or thunderstorms southwest. Turning warmer north and east portions Tuesday. Low tonight 50s north and east, 60s southwest. High Tuesday 7333. Sunset 7:30 p.Bi., sunrise Tuesday 5:57 a.m.

Denies Egypt Report Over Iraqi Troops Says Troops Not To Enter Without Any Consent Os Jordan AMMAN, Jordan (UP)—Premier Hussein Khalidi today denied Egyptian reports that Iraqi troops have entered Jordan and said they will not enter “without our consent and knowledge." He said he is ‘not in a position to reply to any questions at all” about Saudi Arabian and Syrian troops which already are based within this troubled kingdom. Khalidi spoke at a critical juncture in Jordan’s internal struggle between East and West in an exclusive television interview granted to United Press - Movietone News. He declared: —"There has been a delay” in the aid promised by Egypt and Syria to replace Britain’s justended military and economic grants that totaled more than 30 < million dollars a year. —Jordan’s attitude on American . aid under the Eisenhower Doctrine . will depend on what special en- , voy James P. Richards "says and what explanations he will give” , When he reaches Amman.- } —He did not think U.S. i sador Lester Mallory, charged j with being among “foreign diplo- . mats” allegedly interfering in the Jordan crisis, “would do such a thing.” —"lraqi troops did not enter Jordan and would not enter without our consent and knowledge.” Thus, Khalidi delivered Jordan’s first official denial of a report circulated by Egypt’s semi-official Middle East News Agency. The MENA report elaimed that Iraqi troops had crossed the Jor- ‘ dan frontier and taken up positions near Mafraq, a key point straddling the main route between Damascus, Syria, and Amman. But Khalidi declined all comment on the future of Syrian ami Saudi Arabian troops who came into Jordan at the time of Israel's invasion of Egypt’s Sinai Desert and were still here. The premier spoke frankly, however, about reports that the socalled “national guidance committee” meeting in Nablus tonight would demand the recall of American Ambassador Mallory. The foreign minister and former leftist Premier Suleiman Nabulsi charged Sunday that “certain diplomats” had been interfering in Jordan affairs. "A final decision in these matters will remain with the government and not a political group,” Khalidi said. t ' Cautious Optimism Over Disarmament See Some Measure Os Red Agreement MOSCOW OF) — Diplomatic, circles expressed cautious optimism today that some measure of agreement could be reached between the Soviet Union and the West in the London disarmament talks. Hie prediction came as Russia . made public its latest notes to the Western Big Three proposing a four-power declaration renouncing the use of force in settling disputes in the Middle East. The return to Moscow from the London talks of Deputy Foreign Minister Valerin A. Zorin was regarded as an indication . the Russians may be ready to accept certain Western disarmament proposals. The Soviet press has not yet indicated Soviet reaction to those proposals, but observers believed there was more than a 50-5 B chance that Zorin was returning to the London talks with instructions to accept or at least suggest constructive modifications |p the plans. In the case they feel that the Soviet Union will- agree to some sort of reduction in convention al arms and armed forces. > g

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