Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 153.

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State Counts Death Toll Os Six in Floods Millions Os Dollars * In Property Damage Reported In State By UNITED PRESS _ Indiana counted a death toll of at least six and millions of dollars in property damage today from flash floods blamed on Hurricane Audrey. Many streams which spread havoc with unprecedented rises Friday dropped back toward normal nearly as fast as they climbed Others still inched upward, including the White and the Wabash, as tributaries poured abnormal torrents at water into them from rains measuring up to 10 inches. Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker acknowledged an emergency existed and authorized use of Indiana National Guard facilities. Troops and equipment were sent to at least three areas immediately. Mayor Phillip L. Bayt of Indianapolis also declared an emergency as Big Eagle Creek, which claimed four lives as it splashed to a roaring crest, spread over the city’s west side and forced many hundreds of residents to flee their homes. 2 On Bus Drown Damage to crops, railroads, city and personal property was inestimable. But it was expected to range well into the millions. Two of toe five victims—Nora Lindsey and Mrs. Stampsy Stones, both of Indianapolis — drowned when a commuter bus plunged into Big Eagle on the edge of Zionsville, a small town just northwest of Indianapolis Five others escaped through a hole chopped in the roof. James V. Muncie, 26, Indianapolis, was killed when a rescue boat overturned and crushed him against a concrete abutment of a railroad bridge at Indianapolis as he tried to help a motorist stranded atop an automobile. An Indianapolis man was killed when his basement wall collapsed from Big Eagle's overflow as he tried to turn off the gas before evacuating his flooded hbme. A child was killed at Frankfort when he touched a shorted electrical pump being used to remove water from a flooded basement Mrs. Nattie Runyon, 60, Shirley, was killed in a traffic accident near New Castle blamed on the flood. Authorities said the brakes on her husband's automobile may have become faulty from driving through high water which inundated a highway. 11 Counties Hit * Mopup operations began in some places scattered over an 11-cbun'ty area worst hit by toe floods because rainfall totaled between 5 and 10 inches in less than 24 hours.. Counties apparently most seriously involved were Vigo, Clay, Parke, Putnam, Montgomery, Boone, Marion, Tipton, Vermillion, Hamilton gnd Clinton Crawfordsville, virtually isolated early Friday, found its situation improved as swollen Sugar Creek dropped. Greencastle reported Big Walnut Creek was receding rapidly. But that city's worst handicap was a knocked-out municipal water supply. Flood waters contaminated toe supply and residents boiled what drinking water was available. Water tankers manned by guardsmen rumbled into the city on an hourly basis to supplement toe supply. At Tipton, rising water forced (ContlßueS •> Pave Five) NOOITEDmON

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Two Diseases Are Killing Elm Trees / Trees Are Affected In City And County Two elm tree diseases are slowly denuding Decatur and Indiana of the American white and slippery elm trees, county agent Leo Seltenright, explained today. Ten or eleven more trees have been affected this summer on Master drive. In toe past two years, several others .have died in the same area. Both diseases are spread by insects from infected to healthy trees, and both diseases can only be halted by yearly spraying for the insects, Seltenright explained. Once either disease has started, it is too late for treatment. Nothing can be done to save toe tree, and it is best to cut it immediately to prevent further spreading of the disease. Seltenright recommends planting another tree as soon as leaves start to wilt on an elm tree. Because of toe manner and speed of the spreading of toe two diseases, he does not advise planting more elm trees in this area. The chance of survival of susceptible varieties is very poor. Chinese elm may be planted, Seltenright explains, as it will not catch the diseases, but it Has extremely brittle limbs, and is easily damaged in this ice belt area in the winter. Many were ruined last winter by ice and wind. They seldom last in this area more than 20 years. Phloem necrosis is qpe xis the most destructive and widespread diseases of the American elm. It has slowly spread over most of Indiana, including Adams county. For years the cause of the disease was unknown, and no control was effective. Recently toe cause was found, and an effective spray contrdl worked out. Trees infected with this disease commonly start to shed their leaves in midsummer, and usually are completely bare of leaves and dead by fall. The bark on toe base of toe tree becomes a dark butterscotch color on the inner side next to the wood and has a faint winter-green-like odor. To detect this, put a small piece of toe inner bark in a small bottle’, and smell it as toe lid is removed. Sometimes the odor cannot be detected. The bark becomes loose and can be pulled from toe- tree even before the leaves have fAUen. A virus causes this disease, and it is spread from infected trees to healthy elms by toe elm leafhopper, a very small insect that few people ever see. A year passes from toe time the time toe leafhopper injects toe virus in a leaf until the tree dies. Trees dying this summer were actually infected last summer. For example, a large tree in toe poet office yard at Berne was sprayed Monday, and it started to die Wednesday. It is hard for people to understand that toe spraying should have been started a year earlier to have been effective. The red or slippery elm, and the Siberian or Chinese elm do not get this disease. Trees showing symptoms of the disease are beyond hope, and no effort should be wasted on them, experts agree. Trees may be saved by spraying with DDT to kill leafhoppers before the tree is infected. No injection treatments have yet proved satisfactory. Dutch elm disease is another killer of elms. In this disease toe leaves wilt slowly, and usually it takes several years before the tree has died, branch by branch. The wood of diseased branches, cut across, shows darkened rings. This disease is caused by a fungus cCeatttuM m »“*»• ■»*>

House Group Gives Lift To Economy Drive 400 Million More Slashed In Ike's Foreign Aid Plan WASHINGTON (UP)—The congressional economy drive gos a new lift today from toe House Foreign Affairs Committee’s decision to cut 400 million dollars more from President Eisenhower's foreign aid program. The group took toe action Fri- , day despite Eisenhower's repeated ; warnings that toe program he re- , quested was vital to U.S. security , and to toe freedom of this coun- , try’s allies. The committee also voted to , limit to one year a proposed new : aid fund for loans to underdevel- : oped nations. The group approved 500 million dollars for the fund to make so--1 called soft loans to countries which can’t borrow the money from existing international banks. But it turned down Eisenhower’s request to make it a threeyear program. Some State Department officials complained the action would jeopardize toe entire aid program to underdeveloped countries. & The House group voted to provide $1,500,000,000 in military aid —4OO million dollars less than the administration had requested. The committee authorized 700 million dollars for defense support items which was 200 million dollars less than what toe President wanted. The overall cut of 600 million dollars was 400 million more than the Senate already had made in the program. «Other congressional news: ..FBI: Supporters of the bill to limit the right of access to FBI files planned quick action on the measure. They hoped to get the bill out of toe way before toe prolonged fight expected when toe civil rights bill comes up July 8. TVA: Senators from toe Tennessee Valley Authority area want to know more about President Eisenhower's choice for a TVA Board of directors before commenting bn him. The White House announced Friday Eisenhower has selected Deputy Budget Director Arnold R. Jones for the post. Sen. John Sherman Cooper (RKy.) said he did not know Jones but was "sure the President had good reasons” for picking himSoil Bank: A House-Senate conference committee reportedly plans to ask Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson to impose new restrictions on toe 1958 soil bank acreage reserve program. Informed sources said the committee wants Benson to bar farmers from increasing acreage of uncontrolled crops like soybeans if part of their land is registered with the soil bank. Benson earlier had said he was giving ‘‘serious consideration” to such a plan. Weeks: Chairman Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) of the House antitrust subcommittee! accuses Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks of stui violating conflict of Continued on Six; Funeral Monday For Mrs. Frank Johnson Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Johnson, former Decatur lady who died Friday at Decatur* 111., will be hela at 9 a. m. Monday at the St. Thomas Catholic church in Decatur, 111., with burial in St. Mary’s cemetery at Assumption, 111. Friends may call at the Moran funeral home 'n Decatur, 111., after 7 o'clock this evening. •” ' *

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Great Aerial Review Honors Gen. Twining Greatest Peacetime Aerial Review In History Assembled WASHINGTON (UP) - The greatest peacetime aerial review in history was Assembled today to honor Gen. Nathan F- Twining in ceremonies at nearby Andrews Air Force Base. Twining's four-year tour as Air Force chief of staff ends Sunday. He will become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Aug. 15. He will receive an Oak Leaf Cluster on a Distinguished Service Medal in a ceremony before the aerial review. The Air Force massed 272 aircraft ranging from old World War I Jennies to the latest in jets to participate in toe flyover. A Jenny was to lead to toe armada, one of the nation’s first flying machines. Next in line were a Spad, a Pl 2, an Fsl, a 817, a 829. a T 37 jet trainer, and a supersonic FlOl. A KBSO refueling tanker and three FIOO Super Saber jets were scheduled to put on an aerial refueling demonstration. A similar exercise with' a new KCI3S fourjet tanker and an eight-jet bomber was to follow Then a flight of 12 Cl3O cargo planes, propeller type, were to lead these jet planes: 30 8575, 24 FB6Ds, 24 Fl 02s, 24 FIDOs, 24 FB6Hs, 96 8475, and 24 8525. Five missiles also were to be shown on toe ground — the Falcon, Matador, Rascal, Bomarc, and Snark. " / After toe 34-minute flyover ceremony, toe FlOOs, 8475, 8525, and Bs7s—weather permitting—will fly over Baltimore and Philadelphia at 5,000 feet. - Township Line Case* To Continue Monday Trial Will Resume On Monday Morning Final preparations have been completed for toe trial of the Wa-bash-Monroe township boundary dispute in toe city of Berne, L. A. “Gus” Mann, Wabash township trustee, said this morning. Mann’s attorneys, Custer and Smith, had received a postponement of the trial until Monday to complete reading of the cdfhmisSioner's record. The power to change toe township boundary rests with the county commissioners. Mann vigorously denied that it was true that he planned to ask for a change of venue from the Adams county circuit court. He stated that he was sure his attorneys had their evidence, and were ready to begin trial here* and that a fair and speedy trial Would be conducted. Custer and Smith, Mann’s attorneys, stated when contacted, that toe trial would proceed under Judge Myles F. Parrish Monday at 9 a.m., and that no change of venue had been considered to date by them or their client, the trustee of Wabash township. Vincennes Youth Is Killed In Accident VINCENNES (W —Gary Wayne Williams, 19, Jlipcennes, was killed today whantwo automobiles collided in U. B. 41 near Oaktown. ' Police said Jack Barraughs, 27, Oaktown, and his wife Lucille, 17, were injured, the husband seriously. He was taken to Good Sa'maritan hospital here. '• Williams tried to pass a car and truck on a slight grade, ignoring a yellow line, police said, and his car struck toe Barrough automobile head-on. Williams died a few minutes later of a fractured skull.

Collision Destroys Two Planes Friday Part Os Airlines Terminal Damaged MIAMI (UP) - A four-engine DC7B plowed into a parked Super Constellation on the ground shortly before midnight touching off a fiery explosion which demolished both aircraft and part of Eastern Airlines* terminal here. Both aircraft, valued at $5,000,00, were owned by Eastern. The airline reported that there were no passengers involved and the crew of the DC7B escaped without injury. The airline said there was no ,one aboard the Constellation- ’ *'■ The raging fire within minutes lighted up the hangar area at the huge Miami International Airport. It was hours before firemen finally put out the blaze and kept the sparks from spreading to other aircraft. s .•— ■■■-■ The DC7B, A 350 m.p.h. plane recently inaugurated by the airline, had been on a routine local training flight. The plane was taxiing to the maintenance hangar when it collided with the parked Constellation. Witnesses said that when the DC7B hit the parked plane, a violent explosion occurred, shooting a geyser of flaming gasoline into the air and showering the 'terminal wing with flames. Former Geneva Man Is Named Manager Cross Is Appointed Regional Manager W. D. Cross, Jr., formerly of Geneva, has been appointed western regional manager for Sinclair Refining company’s marketing department, effective July 1, it has i been announced by M. F. Braeckel. executive vice-president. Cross is the former owner of the Cross Oil company in Geneva, now the Eastern Indiana Oil and Supply company. He was toastmaster at the Geneva alumni banquet this spring. A company vice-president, Cross has been manager of Sinclair’s central district with headquarters in Chicago since 1952, and will continue to maintain his office there. In his new position, Cross will maintain liaison between Sinclair’s home office in New York and its five sales divisions located in the midwest, southwest, and Rocky mountain states. Sinclair also announced that its former five-state central district has been divided into two divisions in order to render more effective service to the company’s different types of customers in these important north central states. H. H. Young, formerly assistant manager under Cross, will be manager of the new Great Lakes division covering the Indiana, Ohio, and lower Michigan districts. R. M. Bridges, formerly Sinclair area manager in Indiana, will be assistant manager. Young will make his headquarters in Chicago. Report Cutback In Employment At G.E. Another cutback has been made in General Electric workers here,, it was learned here today. Informed sources stated that the company has moved to lay off male workers back to. those hired in 1944. and female workers back to 1953. So far men i have been laid off back to 1945 or 1946, and women back to about 1954. i It is understood that notices have been mailed to about 139 GE employes. A few weeks ago a temporary layoff brought a i union vote on shorter workers’ i hours for three weeks. Workers decided to skip work on three : Fridays to help those who would i have Io be. laid off if thia were ! not done.- „- s 1

Seek Approval Os NATO For Disarm Plan Western Delegates Apparently Given Approval Os Plan PARIS (UP)—Western disarmament delegates today sought and apparently got approval of their NATO partners for the arms cut inspection program they expect to present to Russia next week. West Germany was reported to have expressed reservations over the "open skies” aerial inspection plan. U.S. disarmament delegate Harold Stassen and his French counterpart Jules Moch presented the newest Western proposals at a three-hour extraordinary session of the permanent council of the 15nation North Atlantic Treaty ganizationFew details were, immediately available on the highly secret meeting. I It was understood the Atlantic alliance as a whole accepted the U.S., French and British disarmament moves to limit testing and production of nuclear weapons and inaugurate President Eisenhower’s plan for an "open sides** inspection area over central Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain. NATO sources said West German reservations were based on fear the inspection plan might “solidify” the demarcation line now splitting Germany into two nations. Emerging from the briefing session, Stassen said it had been “a good constructive session” but refused to give any details. Moch said only that he is “optimistic.” Driver Is Arrested I Following Accident Truck-Auto Crash Friday Afternoon An arrest for effecting an improper turn followed a two car accident Friday afternoon, in which One of the cars sustained S9OO in damages. The accident occurred at 1:30 p. m., three miles south and three miles west of Berne, at the intersection of county roads 37 and 21%; A half ton pickup truck driven by Elmer Dubach, 58, of route 1, Geneva, made a sweping right turn at the intersection, and struck the left front of a late model car driven by Richard L. Zeigler, 23, also of route 1, Geneva. The entire left front, including the grill, rod and fender, of the Zeigler vehicle was damaged in the amount of S9OO, while the truck suffered $250 in damages, alsQ_to the left front fender, grill, rod, and the bumper. Zeigler received a deep cut on the lower lip, and several front teeth were broken in the collision, while Dubach sustained a cut on the left cheek and inner lip. Sheriff Merle Affolder investigated the accident, and arrested Dubach for an improper tiirn. Property damage to a post and rod fence on the John Steiner farm where the accident occurred, amounted to approximately S2O. Baby Is Killed In Three-Vehicle Crash PERU (UP) — Three vehicles collided in a U.S. 31 intersection Friday night, killing a baby and injuring six persons from three states. The baby was unidentified hours after the accident. TW injured included Mary J. Hartshorn, 50, Peru; Vivian Putnam, 56, Mexico; Morris Dupree, Tulane, Ga.; Mrs. Jackie Brown, 17, gnd Betty Brown, 16, whose addresses weFe'undetermined. and Stanley- M, Terry, 22, Kalamazoo, Mich. ' ,

Scientists Disarm Dud Nuclear Device Plan Alarm System For Future Tests LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UP)—Three apparently nerveless scientists who disarmed a “dud” nuclear device shortly after it failed to explode at the Nevada test site, said today that a detonation faUure "will never happen again.” The three clambered atop a 500- • foot tower Friday and disarmed 1 the device when a hitch in the firing mechanism halted a scheduled test. Robert Burton, 35, of the Sandia Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM., married and the father of two, was credited with the actual disarming. But the two others, Forrest Sairbrother and Barney Rubin, both of the Livermore, Calif., laboratory, played important parts in completing the job. Burton said he was “not particularly nervous” and that the chances were “about a million to one”/that the device would have gon© off unexpectedly. “This will never happen again,” Rubin said. He indicated that an electronic alarm system would be installed in future detonation systems to warn of power failures such as the one which stopped Friday’s blast. Road 27 Al Portland Closed By Floods Motorists Forced ' Into Long Detour , , •• ■ Deep water in Portland and at College Comers about a mile south of Portland closed U. S. highway 27 Friday night, and It remained closed there at noon today. Highway officials reported that it might be open by Saturday evening if it did not rain any more. Persons traveling north on highway 27 were forced to detour through Hartford City, about 60 miles out of the way, to reach , Decatur. More than 4.5 inches of rain in ! Berne yesterday, flooded that I city, and the main street was nearly impassable in front of the i post office.. Farmers, especially in the south half of the county, reported many flooded fields. No damage was reported by the telephone, light, or county highway department so far from the Roads in Adams county were still open despite high water. State Police Rush Supply Os Blood To Winchester Injured An explosion and flash fire at Winchester Thursday evening, resulting in death to three men and injury to several others, sent state trooper Al Coppes, of Decatur, on a relay race with death. Coppes, traveling on U. S. 27, carried a supply of type O blood from Fort Wayne to Winchester, where the tragedy occurred. Three relays, and practically ' an hour, were necessitated to get the badly needed blood over the 65-mile stretch. State trooper Gene Ellis was immediately notified following the explosion, and picked up the : blood at the Fort Wayne blood center, at 8:11 p. m., and rush- ■ ed it to the Allen-Adams county i line, where Coppes took over. Coppes drove to the Adams-Jay j county line, where he was met by state troopers from the Redkey district, who completed the relay, arriving at the Winchester hospital at 9:19 p. m. Dead "as a result of the explosion at the Anchor Hocking Glass Corp., were John Davis, a young glass blower just recently moved up from an apprentice to operator, Alen Moland, 35, Winchester, and Carl Myers, 51, of Union City.

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All Resources Os 4th Army PutToWork Tidal Wave Surges Over Louisiana In Hurricane's Wake LAKE CHARLES. La. (UP)— The Fourth Army threw its full resources into the hurricane-shat-tered, snake - infested Louisiana coastal area today in an effort to find out quickly exactly how many persons a giant tidal wave did kiH. The death toll thus far stood at 161, including 11 killed in Texas. The others were killed along the southwestern Louisiana coast, mostly in the fishing town of Cameron, as a nine-foot tidal wave washed from the Gulf of Mexico into the lowland. ■ The Fourth Army ordered every helicopter at Fort Polk, La., into search and recovery service along the coast It ferried giant bulldozers down the Calcasieu River to turn over water-logged wreckage and see whether there were bodies under it. Ambulances were shipped to the drying-out coast and a radio network was set up to replace broken piVillan communications, so that every shattered town and community could be methodically searched. The tidal wave, surging into bayous, drove thousand of venomous moccasin snakes from brambles into the shattered communities and towns, which are on ground a little higher than the swampland. They were angry and struck at everything in sight. One woman lost three children by drowning and then had to watch the fourth die from a snakebite because there was no doctor to treat him. Icehouse Becomes Morgue As the dead were collected, they were stacked in an icehouse at Cameron, lest the hot sun putrefy them. Another icehouse was ready at Lake Charles, 30 miles north of Cameron, where identification experts will try to identify and tag them. A boatload of bodies was due in Lake Charles from Cameron today. Survivors who had been brought to Lake Charles and who were missing relatives were expected to meet it to see whether they can identify the bodies. Among the refugees sent to Lake Charles and other south Louisiana cities were five babies, borp at Cameron during the height of the hurricane. Jerry Coron, assistant regional director of the Red Cross in the southeast, said one doctor delivered them in the rabish courthouse. Rumors circulated — many of them out of the number and complexity of reports of missing relatives among refugees—that many more were dead in the ruins of half-a-dozen little coastal villages. One rumor was that Sacred Heart Catholic Church between Cameron and Creole collapsed upon more than 30 persons who had taken refuge in it- Actually, there was no teljing exactly bow many persons were dead and there won’t be until the Army finishes its search. The survivors were put up at McNeese College in Lake Charles. About 1,000 rescue workers, including Army, Air Force and Coast Guardsmen, were at work in Cameron today. Not All Drown George Holsomback, a pilot who flew back to Houston, Tex., today said survivors were still in such a state of shock that they didn’t react normally to the tragedy. “The people were in such a state of shock,” he said, “that they talk of losing their parents, their children, as if it actually had no meaning for them.” ’ INDIANA WEATHER ' Fair and a little cooler tonight. Sunday partly cloudy with a chance of scattered thundershowers by evening. Low tonight upper Sts to tow 60s. High Sunday 85-87. Outlook tor Monday: partly cloudy and warm with scattered mA’' thuMterstovws*