Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV, No. 158

BOY SCOOTS TO JAMBOREE KSw * KH <3 DECATUR BOY SCOUTS who will attend the Fourth National Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pa., July 12-18, are, from left to right, front row, Jerry Mclntosh, troop 63; Dan Heller, troop 61; Herb Banning, troop 62; second row* Pat Durkin, troop 63; Ned Baumgartner, troop 63; Jim Burk, Air Explorers 7062; Joe Smith, troop 63; third row. Larry Macklin, Steve Edwards, John Krueckeberg, and Ron August, Air Explorers 7062. Accompanying the group will be Steve Everhart, of Decatur.*-(Staff Photo)

Congress Puts Slop Order On Soil Pay Cuts Order No Changes In Soil Subsidies Program Next Year WASHINGTON (UP)—Congress put a stop order today in the path of administration plans to sharply cut back on soil cooservatiofc Subsidies to farmers. The administration wanted to drastically curtail the 1958 subsidies for certain conservation practices and drop others outright . That would add to the already huge stocks of governmentowned surplus crops. But Congress reacted quickly after the administration’s quietlydrafted plans came to light when a secret Agriculture Department memorandum Came into the hands of several congressmen this week. A Senate-House conference committee, reporting on a compromise multi-billion dollar Agriculture Department appropriation bill, said “flood and drought conditions in much of the nation make it imperative that all 1957 (conservation) programs practices be continued.” , The committee also had reached its agreement secretly a week ago- Bu it made the report public Friday fallowing disclosure of the department memorandum detailing the conservation cutback. Ordering no changes in the program next year, the committee authorized 250 million dollars for 1958 conservation measures — the same as, this year’s level. The bill is scheduled for floor action Tuesday. i Soviet: Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Calif.) said the Kremlin’s political shakeup m*y result in a Soviet shift in tactics’but not in long-range objectives. "It looks to me,” he said, "like they’ve got just a different combination running things in the Kremlin.’’ Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said the purge of several top Russian leaders represents a “new Soviet challenge ...that makes our job tougher, not easier.” Information: The House Government Information Subcommittee planned to ask Navy and Air Force information chiefs Monday if they knew of any cases where newsmeh “purloined” secret information. The Army head of public information, Maj. Gen. Guy g. Meloy Jr. testified this week he never encountered any such cases. Loyd*Wright, head of the controversial Commission on Government Security, alleges there were cases where newsmen wrote “dark chapters of betrayal” by publishing secrets. Television: The Federal Communications Commission — in a memorandum directed at Congress — steadfastly maintained it *has the power to authorize pay-as-you-see television on a test basis. Chairman Oren Harris (DArk.) of the House Commerce Committee had p r o t e s t e d the FCC’s announcemejst May 23 that (CeatiaueSl Pace Mvo> INDIANA WEATHER ' Fair and a little warmer today, tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 62-68. High Sunday in the 90s.

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Decatur Boy Scouts Leave For Jamboree ■ ■> .... ’ ..... - . I 11 Decatur Scouts To Attend Jamboree Eleven Decatur Boy Scouts, the largest delegation ever sent from this area, left today for a three»day training camp at Fort Wayne before leaving Monday for the fourth national Boy Scout jamboree at Valley Forge. Pa . July 12-18. of 110 and ten wayne toaay ana complete inree days of rigorous training for the jamboree at the site of Washington’s famous winter camp. Sylvester Everhart, Decatur teacher, is among those who will accompany the boys. Troop leaders were registered at 5:30 this morning, and attended an instruction period. The registration of patrols followed, with site assignments. At 7 a.m. the troops assembled fen* equipment issue and instructions. At 7:30 a.m. camp construction started. A snack interrupted the program at 8:15 a.m. At 9 o’clock this morning a medical recheck, to assure scout health on the trip, was held. The camp set-up continued. Uniform inspection instructions and food issuance took place at 10:45 o’clock, and cooking instructions were also given. At noon the scouts took time out for lunch, cleanup, and a rest period. The rest of the day will be followed with drill periods, inspections, and a program meeting. Taps will sound at 9:30 p.m. each night. Sunday’s program will be much the same, and will include religious services for all faiths. Monday the group will pack up, and dress in their scout uniforms. All old clothes will be sent home. The trains will leave at 5:13 p.m. The group will arrive at Washington, D.C., at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday*, and will spend a full day sightseeing. including the bureau of printing and engraving, Washington monument, white House, capitol, Arlington cemetery, tomb of the unkown soldier. Alexandria and Mount Vernon, and Lincoln Memorial. The group will leave Washington at. 11 a.m. for Norristown, where special buses will transfer them to section 38, the camp site ifor the local group while at Valley Forge. A total of 50,000 scouts, from every state in the union, are expected at the fourth jamboree. Two gigantic area shows, with marching casts of 5,000, will be featured at the week-long encampment. Patriotic pageantry and fireworks will thrill the group. The entire encampment will tour Philadelphia, including Independence Hall, the liberty bell, home of Betsy Ross, Carpenter’s hall, where the first continental congress met, and many other interesting sights. The huge city of tents in which the scouts, will camp includes its own police and fire departments, water works, hospitals, railroad stations, bus and truck lines, radio and TV stations, newspaper, bank, post office, telephone exchange, supermarkets, theaters, and places of worship. The local scouts will send home reports of their doings on a day-by-day basis, according to pre-camp plans.

I "nl P 11 i Little rollout Damaflafl Cfam Keponcu rrom Atomic Blast Areas Hundreds Os ■ Miles From Scene Startled By Blast ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. (UP) —A dazzling blast equal to the force of 75,900 tons of TNT left westerners today with a faint glimmer of what an atomic conflagraj! Don could be like. . The detonation Friday of atomlie* zlAvinA UT/wwi His aroac hiinriruHc tit, titrviuv ntxxi nn arvtib iiuuurtxib I erf miles away with the doubleof light and sound. | Tfie ’fiasK. appearing sun - like jOVCT the arid wastes of the Atomtic Energy Commission’s test site .[near Las Vegas, created a false Ldawn in Los Ahgeles some 300 [miles westward. Observers from ii Is far north as the Canadian bor- ' der and south to the Rio Grande 3 Twelve hundred miles from the test site, over the Pacific* an airline pilot reported seeing the light. Sleepers Startled Hood's sound, traveling in the wake of the flash, came as rumbling jolts. They startled thousands of Los Angeles area residents from their beds 25 minutes after zero hour at 4:40 a.m., p.d.l First reports said there was no damage to private property. But 12 hours later the AEC learned shock waves bouncing off a thin layer of air below the stratosphere had shattered windows and dented metal sides of buildings at a mine 35 miles north of the test site. Seismographs at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena recorded the awesome explosion a minute after it occurred. Its seismographic magnitude was not revealed tor security rea-, sons. ■ Heat estimated at nearly a million degrees Centigrade was an added effect of the detonation The intense heat set fire to brush on the slopes of a small mountain ridge several miles north of Despite the size ahd power of the device, whose force was 55,090 tons of TNT more than that of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War 11, the AEC reported the radioactive fallout was minute. Areas outside the proving grounds were reported “dean” of radio-activity less than six hours after the blast. A unit of 2,000 Marines participating in the test, entrenched about three and a half miles from Ground Zero, withstood the blast without harm. The device was the largest ever fired in the United States. Its run-ner-up, a device detonated in 1953, had a force of 60,000 tons of TNT. Friday's device was suspended by a helium-filled balloon 1,500 feet over the desert floor. The 1953 device was dropped by a plane. Excursion Planned To New York City Newspapers Join Erie Railroad Co. The Dsuly Democrat, Huntington Herald-Press and Rochester NewsSentinel will join with the Erie Railroad Co., in sponsoring a late summer week-end excursion to New York, it was announced today. The excursion will leave Decatur Friday afternoon. August 23. and arrive back in Decatur Monday afternoon, August 26. The late August date was decided on so that farmers will have completed most of their summer work, and before schools start, so children also can take advantage of the trip. , Cost from Decatur to New York, including lodging at the Governor Clinton hotel, tours of the city, a boat trip around Manhattan and numerous other features, will be $51.75 for each adult and $34.75 for each child. ; Complete details of the excursion, and a list of features included in the train fare will be announced later, according to those in charge of arrangements. An application coupon will appear in the three sponsoring newspapers later. All of the excursion coaches will be air conditioned, and pillows will be provided for each passenger. All seats will be the reclining type and each passenger will have his own reservation. Each room, at the Governor Clinton hotel is modern with bath and excursionists win be assigned two to a rooom. Complete details win be announced in about two weeks. NOON EDITION

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 6,1957

Public Outcry Against Deposed Stalinists Is Increasing In Russia ■ -1- -

- ~ • Major Purge ! : Seen Os Czech ' Red Leaders Upheaval In Russia May Be Followed By Czechoslovakia Act I EDITOR’S NOTE: United ' Press staff correspondent Rus- ' sell Jones covered the uprising* 1 in Poland and Hungary last year. He was the only American 1 reporter in Budapest at the ’ height of the revolt. He Is cur--1 rentiy on assignment to Eastern 1 Europe. In the following dis- ’ patch from Vienna, major West--1 era listening post to Iron Curtain happenings, he reports the Soviet political upheaval may be followed by the ouster of Stalinists from Communist Czechoslovakia By RUSSELL JONES United Press Staff Correspondent ‘I — VIENNA (UP)—Nikita S. Khrushchev may order • major purge of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and government when the i Soviet Communist Party boss visi its Prague next week. ! Observers here believe Khruvi£S f Un, will insist Czechosolvakia fol- > low suit in “cleaning house." > Czechoslovakia is one of the last of the major satellite nations run by old-line Stalinists. Its rulers > have shown no signs of changing I their ways since the death of Jo- ' sef Stalin and the repudiation of i the “cult of the individual.” Same Crowd In Power The only gesture made by the 1 Prague regime toward following the “Khrushchev line” was to demote Alexei Cepicka from the post of defense minister to head the patent office and to oust Ladislav Stoll as minister of culture. But both men remain as members of the party in good standing. From President Antonin Zapotocky and Prime Minister Vilem Siroky on down through the ranks of both party and government, however, the same old crowd is 1 still in power. » These are the men, who under ] the late President Klement Gott- j wald, overthrew the democratic ; government of Eduard Benes, and i in 1952 hanged Rudolf Slansky and 10 other “nationalist Commu- ] nists.” rSTXr. "iz ~ J Throughout their careers, they i have been unswerving foUowers of i the tough line laid down by Stalin. Reshuffle Appears Difficult However, observers said any re- ] shuffle of the Czech Communist ( Party would be difficult because i the elimination of Slansky and his i “independent” Communist faction ] rOvntiaaetl oa Pane Five)

Ex-President Truman's Library Dedicated Today

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (UP)Former President Truman climaxes years of planning to preserve his official papers in the dedication of the Truman Library today. Hie former President, the center of as much attention as he has had since leaving the White House will present the 21-million dollar library and contents to the government in ceremonies this afternoon. Chief Justice Earl Warren will be the main speaker at the dedication ceremonies. He headed the list of some 2,000 out-of-town guests present for the library dedication. The day’s festivities begin with a parade and a cornerstone laying ceremony. Prominent persons on hand included former President Hoover, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, former Truman cabinet members, congressional leaders from both parties and educational and cultural leaders from throughput the nation. ** ' Built From Donations The modernistic library, built from public donations totaling more than the $1,750,000 cost, bouses Truman's official papers and mementos of his office. It was

— Hoosiers Clean Up Debris From Storm Temperatures Head For Higher Levels ! X By UNITED PRESS Temperatures headed for more summery levels today in Indiana as Hoosiers cleaned up debris left by violent Fourth of July windstorms and braced for flood crests along major streams. .High readings of 90 W*ere due Bunday after a brief respite from warm and humid weather which fiSime when severe storms raked the state Thursday. ■Dozens of cities and towns hit by gale force winds hauled away debris and repaired damage. Others swept by flash floods cleaned up the mud. .Meanwhile, the crests of streams riled by rains up to four inches deep rolled southwestward even before major streams had dropped to normal from flash floods a week earlier. Temperatures were due to hit highs ranging from 82 to 87 today and drop to lows of 62 to 68 tonight before the 90-degree readings Sunday. No rain was in sight. “Fair and a little warmer today, tonight and Sunday,” was the outlook. > The mercury hit highs ranging from 77 at South Bend to 84 at Evansville Friday and dropped to cool readings of 58 at Goshen to M at Fort Wayne early this morning. * South Bend reported a thundershower with .07 of an inch of precipitation this morning. Otherwise, no further rain soaked the soggy state. River experts at the weather bureau gave this picture of flood crests: The Wabash will crest at Bluffton late today about a foot below its previous crest, and at Wabash late Sunday about 1 to 2 feet below the earlier crest. At Lafayette, the stream will crest Sunday about 4 to 5 feet below the earlier rise. From Terre Haute south, the river rise will only slow the fall from the previous flood. ~ — Rises will be moderate on the White River. At Muncie, a crest today will be abhut 3 feet lower than last week. At Anderson, a crest tonight will be 5 to 6 feet lower than last week At Indianapolis, the crest Sunday will be about 7 feet lower than a week ago. Spencer will have a slight crest Monday about 8 feet lower than before and below Spencer the upstreanf water will only retard the rate of fall. On the east fork of the White, where the rise was only moderate last week, the present rise will exceed earlier crests ,as far south as Seymour. A Columbus crest will be about a foot higher than last week. At Seymour, the crest (CoßtlaneC oa Face Five)

- expected to become a center of - study for students and historians : of the Truman period — the end • of World War 11, the birth of the . United Nations, and the Korean ■ War. i i Truman insisted that all records ; —whether reflecting criticism or • credit—be included- His papers ■ alone number three and one-half ■ million. The library first was opened to 1 the public briefly Friday as Tru- - man, beaming and obviously de- ■ lighted, took 200 persons on tour, i played a piano solo, and received • gifts for the library ranging from a set of master keys to an organ. i The former President also ex- ■ hibited a sun dial in what will be the rose garden of the library, ■ and gave a brief dissertation on , how to tell time. It took the country 40 years to ■ set up time zones, he said, then ■ “some crazy goof got this idea I about Daylight Saving Time but • I’m not going to pay attention. I’m going by this sun dial.” One - Story Structure t The library is of Indiana lime- ! stone facing, arid is in a/crescent ■ or "J” shape on the cYest of a s knoll. It is a one-story building (CoadsMl «a Pa«« Ftoc) *

Geneva Infan!* Is Killed In | Wreck Friday i Infant Girl Killed * When Mather Loses 5 Control Os Her Car J Vicki Lynn Weaver, fiue-month- > old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ar- ' thur Wayne Weaver. Jr., of route 1 2, Geneva, was killed shortly before noon Friday, and her 17t year-old mother, the former Sara ' Lou Proffit, injured in an automobile accident on state road 116, five miles east of Geneva. . The one car accident occurred . at 11:45 a.m.. as the car the ■ young mother was driving werft off the berm and plunged into a ! ditch, throwing the sleeping child onto the floor of the car. A passing motorist rushed the ’ mother and child to the office of . a Geneva physician, where the • infant was pronounced dead. County coroner Elmer Winteregg , said death was due to a basal i skull fracture. Mrs. Weaver, in a deep state of shock, was unable ! to explain the cause of the accit dent. She was taken to the Jay > county hospital, where she is be- > tor treated for shock, • lacerated * jaw, and bruises. a*4 rt&siont to the left knee. Deputy sheriff Charles Arnold and state policeman Al Coppes ' and Dan Kwasneski, who later r investigated, determined from . tracks that the right frqpt tire i apparently dropped off the right berm. Mrs. Weaver apparently . attempted to regain control of , the car but continued 150 feet i along a six foot deep ditch be- - fore coming to a halt. Surviving in addition to the I parents are the maternal grandt mother, Mrs. Carl Proffit, Van > Wert, Ohio; the paternal grandi parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur • Weaver, Geneva, and a greatgrandmother, Mrs. Pearl Brew- ‘ ster, Geneva. The body is at the Hardy and Hardy funeral home at Geneva, where friends may call after noon today. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Mount Carmel church, east of Geneva, with the Rev. Lawrence Fever officiating. Burial will be in die Riverside cemetery, east of Geneva. Reports Collection For Disaster Fund Adams County Quota For Disaster S6OO A total of $222.81 has been Collected do date for the emergency disaster fund of the Red Cross, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive director, said this morning. The disaster fund quota for Adams county is S6OO, Mrs. Oelberg stated, and the money will be used in Indiana and the western states. Disaster funds are very important, she emphasized, as the Red Cross was ready to help anyone injured here in the wind storm July 4. The four persons injured were personally contacted by Mrs. Oelberg, and the national Red Cross organization was prepared to send in nurses or anything needed in this locality. A full report was made on toe local storm situation. Those who helped man the "collection station at the First State Bank July 3 were Mrs. H. H. Krueckeberg. Miss Sue Petrie, and i Shirley May and Judy Tuteweiler. < Cdllections for July 3 were : $127.34. 1 Volunteers for July 5 were Miss 1 Fan Hammell and Mrs. R. C. Hersh; Girl Scouts, Jane Bedwell, i Linda Jackson, Rebecca Jackson and Mary Ann Walters. The collec- 1 tion July 5 was $95.47. Persons interested in helping i with the campaign should contact < Mrs. Oelberg at the Red Cross of- 1 flee. Donations may be made at < the First State Bank of Decatur. 1

Holiday Death Toll fj Is Under Estimate Officials Hopeful < Os Decreased Toll * By UNITED PRESS Motorists streamed onto national highways Saturday 3gtartened by reports from safety- experts that fatalities on the third day 01 the holiday weekend had fallen short of pre-hol id ay estimates, j It appeared, in fact, that careful driving might result in a bet- " ter highway record than, a n«- ; mal period of the same duration at this time of the year. ;. Tire National Safety Council had forecast 535 deaths by midnight Sunday. and expressed hope the toll would be closer the normal fourday count of 465. *' .7 ‘ Multiple accidents, however, had already raised the count to 223, a survey by United Press ■at the 63 hour point, 8 a. m. CDT Saturday, revealed. Deaths by drowning reached a staggering 130. There was also 1 fireworks death, 7 dead in plane crashes, and miscellaneous deaths numbering 28. The total thus far: 389. Ohio led tiie state-by-state count with 19 deaths. California reported 18, Pennsylvania 17, Texas 16, Michigan 14, Oklahoma 12, and New York 10. L The worst traffic disaster, a , Car-truclf-' collisio* nsai- ; Cepem- ' Mi, Mich.. tailed seven persons l Friday night and injured three others. All seven dead were oc- , cupants of a car with Arkansas license plates, police said. ' There was a rash of deaths in- ' volving persons in show business. At Belle Fourche, S. D., a . broken ladder rung sent a high , stand performer plummeting 82 (Continued on Page Throe) New Equipment For Hospital Received To Install Machine At Hospital Monday The new 300 milliamp GE Xray machine, part of the Adams county memorial hospital revamping program, has arrived in Decatur, and will be installed Monday, Thurman Drew, hospital manager, announced last night at the monthly board meeting. The machine is now being held over the weekend at the Teeple trucking company, and will be fooved to the hospital Monday. The equipment will be installed and used before the new addition is completed. When the addition is completed, the machine will be pivoted in the present room to make better use of the facilities which will then be available The board’ todk • under consideration a statement of costs for installing a drinking fountain in the new hospital lobby, and asked that a detailed statement of costs be submitted. Four petitions for wage raises by hospital employes were submitted, and taken under consideration by the board. The board will make a detailed study of hospital finances before allowing any increases. - A report on the hospital finances for the month of June, reported to be quite good, was made at the board meeting, and will be released to the press Monday. Recover Body Os Drowning Victim ROCKVILLE, Ind. (IP) — Searchers late Friday recovered the body of George Washington Milton Jr., 19, Indianapolis, from the swollen waters of Sugar Creek in Turkey Run State Park where he drowned Thursday while on an outing with a church group. Milton slipped from a rock and tumbled into the creek not far from the spot where two brothers from Dana drowned recently while on a picnic with high school classmates. Milton’s body was discovered about 30 feet from the spot where he drowned.

Official Word 4 Is Lacking On Ultimate Fate ! Official Newspaper i Says Popular Wrath n Mounting In Russia - MOSCOW (UPI-’rtw public out- > “anti-party'” a in intensity and ferocity across the e length and breadth of the Soviet - Union. . « * But there was. still noofftaftUg I word on the ultimate fattifflw’ ’ - VyacheslAv M. Molotov Georgi ; sSSS 1221 > The official Cotomunist Party ? newspaper Pravda said a "wave cd popular wrath against the antii party group of Moldtov, Malenkov , and Kaganovich has been sweepi ing the U.SR.R.” I Full Military Backing I The shakeup, directed by Communist Party Secretary Nikita S. , Khrushchev, has received the full ' backing of Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov. Unofficial public accusations against the trio already have gone k far beyond the official attacks on * ' The strongest official blast came irom we armea lorces newspaper ‘ Red Star which accused the Mol- • otov group of "conspiring” to “re--1 move the elected leaders” of the Communist Party. This is in it- • self went beyond the previous accuastions of "dogmatism” add i “factionalism " i . Public speakers at thousands of ! mass rallies throughout Russia went even further. They denounced the trio for “vanity,” “lust for power” and of “dirty sabotage.” Trio Out Os Sight There has been no official word on the whereabouts of Molotov, Malenkov or Kaganovich. They have not appeared in public since June 18 — 10 days before the party Central Committee meeting that resulted in their ouster. The continuing shakeup in government and party Friday saw two more deputy premiers dropped from cabinet posts. They were Mikhail G. Pervukhin and Maxim Saburov who lost their posts as first deputy premiers. Pervukhin presumably remained (Continued oa Pag* Tbraa) - ' Sewage Plant Bid Awarded To Yost Tentative Approval Is Voted By Council Members of the city council met in special session at city hall Friday evening, for the purpose of taking official action on the recommendation of the Consoer Townsand & Associates, to tentatively award the sewage disposal contract to the Yost Construction Cos, Decatur, which was low bidder on the combined projects. Hie motion that the contract be tentatively awarded to the Yost concern was made by councilman Ed Bauer. The contract is still subject to the financing and state agency and the public health service approval. Contract one, which calls for an interceping sewet, is to be constructed by Yoat for the sum of $228,242.50. The sewer treatment plant, garbage disposal and lift station, as provided in contract three, will be built for $746,050. Both prices are subject to any change due to major equipment selection by the city as provided in the original proposal, and further recommendations that the supplies set forth in the engineer’s recommendation be selected as a source of the major equipment. In the only other motion made during the meeting, the board of public works was authorized to negotiate with the Pioneer Engineering Company to make plans and specifications for a new sub station.

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