Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1957 — Page 1

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A-Bomb Barstg Into Fiery Bloom fIBF Ty 11 - '£; ' ' 1 L. J feflpl flfl fl fl ■" K ■■ '- -a.*'' A ' ’ ■r THE FIREBALL from “Franklin,” 14th detonation of the current series of atomic tests, rises like a gigantic flower of fire over the Nevada desert a split-second after it was touched off. It was fired frojh a balloon 750 feet in the air. The device was described as a “pip-squeak” bomb because of its small size. The flash was seen about 300 miles away in Los Angele*!.

175 Killed In Jamaica Train <3 Wreck Sunday Worst Rail Wreck In Peacetime In Jamaica On Sunday KENDAL, Jamaica (UP)—The worst railroad wreck in peacetime history killed at least 175 persons and injured 500 Sunday night in this British Caribbean colony. The tragic wreck happened when an excursion train bringing some 1,500 Roman Catholcs of all ages home from a weekend outing in Montego Bay came uncoupled on an S-curve about half a mile west of this hill town. Nine of the train’s 12 cars jumped the track, tumbling into a ravine where two cars were smashed to splinters and others were heavily damaged; Scores of persons trying to jump to safety fell on the tracks t o be decapitated or otherwise mutilated by the wheelsFather Charles Eberley, of Somerville, Mass., organizer of the excursion and only American who took part, escaped injury. Two Jamaican priests were injured. Goins At High Speed Survivors of the wreck said the train, which had been towed uphill from Montego Bay by two diesel engines, headed into the S-curve at high speed. A coupling parted with a thunderous crack. The engines plunged ahead while the cars careened back down the hill. One car, its sides torn off, ran a quarter of a mile before it jumped the track. The rending crashes of the derailed coaches transformed the night into a scene of horror, punctuated by the groans of the Injured and the screams of the bereaved. , • Some of the less seriously -hurt sang hymns in an effort to keep up the spirits of their bleeding fellows in misfortune. Joseph Mitchell, a linotype operator for the Daily Gleaner who leaped to safety a moment before the car in which he had been riding toppled off the track, said “We saw dozens of persons who were traveling on the platforms between the coaches slip through onto the tracks, where their* heads, hands VouUnaMl F««e Five) Stepfather Os Local Lady Dies Saturday C. H. Adair, 77, of Crawfordsville, stepfather of Mrs. Robert Holthouse of this city, died at 8:55 p.m. Saturday at a Crawfordsville rest home after an illness of six and a half years. Adair, a retired grocer, entered the rest home three weeks ago when his wife suffered a stroke Mrs. Adair is a patient at the local hospital. Surviving in addition to the widow and Mrs. Holthouse are a son, Ed Adair of Indianapolis, and a daughter, Hazel Adair of Crawfordsville. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday morning at Crawfordsville. Mrs. Holthouse has gone to that city to attend the funeral services.

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Challenges Russia To Make Next Move Ike Pessimistic On Disarmament Talks WASHINGTON <UP)—President Eisenhower today challenged Russia to make the next move toward an East-West disarmament agreement. The President, speaking at his news conference, took a pessimistic view of any early break in the disarmament deadlock. He said he does not now see any further constructive step the United States and its Allies make on disarmament at this time. Something, he said, must happen on the other side—referring to Russia. Eisenhower added that a Soviet policy change does not seem likely, but there could possibly be some change in the Kremlin’s position which is not visible at the moment. Disarmament negotiator Harold E. Stassen has returned to London from conferences here for a meeting of the U.N. disarmament subcommittee. The President did ndt disclose whether he has given Stassen any new instructions. In this connection, the President referred to his (Voatlaaee Face Five) Catholic Schools To Open Wednesday Daily Schedule Os Classes Is Changed A high mass at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary’s Catholic ijhurch will open the school year for students of Decatur Catholic high school and St. Joseph’s grade school. Students will meet at the school immediately after the mass for organization and registration of new pupils. Pupils in the first grade will not report to school until Thursday. The Wednesday morning session for all other students will end at about 11 a.m. Sr. M. Almeda, C.S.A., pricipal, has announced the daily school schedule. The school day will open for the seventh and eighth grade and high school students with a daily mass at 7:30 a.m. Classes will begin immediately after the mass. A mass to open the school day for the elementary pupils up to and including the sixth grade will begin at 8:15 a.m. each day. Thenclasses will begin after the mass. The lunchj hour for the entire school will be from 11:35 a.m. to 12:25 p.m., and classes throughout the school will be dismissed at 3:20 p.m. Change Schedule Os Daily Masses Here Announcement was made Sunday of changes in the schedules of daily and Sunday masses at St. Mary’s Catholic church. Effective Wednesday morning the daily masses will be held at 6 a.m., 7:30 and 8:15 a.m. Sunday masses are scheduled for 6, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.

Holiday Death Toll Soars To Over 440 Mark Traffic Death Toll Well Above Estimate Os Safety Officials The traffic death toll for the Labor Day weekend soared above the advance estimate of 420 today and safety officials said they were "deeply disappointed.” As late reports trickled in, a United Press count showed the traffic death toll hit 442. In addition, 95 persons drowned and 84 died in miscellaneous accidents for an overall holiday total of 821 during the period from 6 pm. last Friday to midnight Monday. Ned H. Darborn, presdent of the National Safety Council, said that “We are deeply disappointed, of course, that the Labor Day toll not only was higher than our preholiday estimate but exceeded the four-day Fourth of July toll. "Reports indicate that a major factor in the toll was universal good weather which brought cars onto the highway in almoVst record number. "The traffic enforcement agencies and the millions of careful drivers who teamed up to hold the toll down to what it was deserve a vote of thanks.” Motorists had cut the tdlr below estimates in two previous holidays, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, and the council had hoped the Labor Day total could be held to 375—the average for a nonholiday period at «this time of: year. California led all other states with 56 dead in traffic. New York had 29, Texas 27, Ohio 22, Illinois 21, Pennsylvania 20, and North Carolina 18. Four states and the District of Columbia had no deaths during the holiday. They were Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Delaware. Dearborn said the highway carnage was “tragic” and "discouraging” to safety officials and law enforcement officers.

Joe Kohne Is Winner Os Showman Award Adams County Youth Wins Champ Award Joe Kohne, of route 4, won the champion Red Poll showman ribbon and award at the Indiana state fair, it was announced today. _ _ Kohne, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kohne, of Washington township, also won the reserve dual-purpose ribbon in. the 4-H calf classes. He was second in the heavyweight class, fourth in the showmanship class, fifth in the three-year-old cow or older; and seventh in the senior yearling class. Denyse G. Manfiold, of route 1, Geneva, placed 14 out of 25 in the Jersey heifer calf class. In the 4-H electric project exhibit, Lois Jean Gerke. of route 5, placed in the blue ribbon class; Margaret Beeler, zbf route 2, Geneva placed in the white ribbon group. In the 4-H food preservation class, Nancy Bailey, of route 6, won a red ribbon in the fifth division, three quarts or pints of three vegetaWe varieties. In division seven of the 4-H clothing show, Helen Rumple or route 2, Berne, won a blue ribbon. Janice Van Emon of route 2, Geneva, won a white ribbon in the sixth division. In the baking exhibits, Nancy Cook won a red ribbon in the fifth division with plain or fancy cookies; Patsy Kalthoff, of route 1, won a green ribbon in the third division, chocolate butter cake with frosting; and Arlene Johnson, of route 4, won a white ribbon in the fourth division with yeast rolls. Jim Kirchhofer, of route 2, Berne, won a blue fibbon in the boy’s electrical exhibit, division two; Ronnie Mefferd, of route 5, won a white ribbon in division one of the 4-H boys electric project exhibit. on Fax* Wx) Report Vandalism At Decatur High School Vandalism at the Decatur high school Saturday night resulted in pole in the northwest corner of the the breaking of a SSO steel flag high school lawn, Hugh J. Andrews, principal, said this morning. , A window was also broken in the gym entrance, Andrews said. The flag pole is believed to have been broken off by children wiggling it back and forth until it snapped about 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

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Governor Os Arkansas Defies Federal Order On School Integration

Bar Integration Guardsmen To Bar Intergration Attorney General Probing Use Os Arkansas Guards WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower said today that Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. is inS vestigating the use of National Guard troops to prevent school integration in Little Rock, Ark. He said that Brownell will set his course of action after a conference with the federal judge who ordered the integration. The President also told his news conference that the overall progress of school integration is bound to be slow. He said tension between races can be licked only by Americans being true to themselves and not approaching the problem emotionally. Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus called out National Guardsmen to prevent Negroes from registering for the fall term at a Little Rock high school Faubus said the move was aimed at preventing “violence and bloodshed.” Other news conference high-j lights: —Eisenhower said that while he is not advocating a buyers’ strike,’ he thinks Americans should buy more selectively and carefully to combat inflation. He called inflation our major internal problem. —He said he had not materially changed his view that the record of the 85th Congress in its first session just ended was tremendously disappointing. —He said Congress actually cut his appropriations budget 'between 900 million and one billion dollars which, he said, is not a suffeent savng to justfy a tax reduction in the near future. —He took a somewhat pessimistic view toward the London disarmament talks, saying he could see no constructive new step possible by the United States. Any move toward improving the situation, he said, will have to come from the Russians. And this, he said, seemed unlikely this morning. —He warned against placing full credence in the Russian announcement that Soviet scientists had de(U»u««ei P««e Five)

Mrs. Carrie Ketchum Is Taken By Death < 90-Year-Old Decatur Lady Dies Saturday Funeral services were held this afternoon for Mrs. Carrie Mae Ketchum, 90-year-old Decatur resident, who died at 1:05 p.m. Saturday at the Adams county memorial hospital. Mrs. Ketchum, who resided with a son, Amos, 947 Mercer, had been ill for two years from infirmities of her age, and had been seriously ill three weeks. She was born in Licking county, 0., Aug. 6, 1867, a daughter of James W, and Betty A. Barr, and was married to Marion Kettchum in 1883. Following the death of her husband in 1912, Mrs. Ketchum was a telephone switchboard operator in Jefferson township for many years. Mrs. Ketchum was a member of the Mt. Carmel church in Jefferson township. Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Bessie Curry of Geneva, Mrs. Anna Durbin and Mrs. Gusto Baker of Decatur, Mrs. Addie Hisey of Kokomo, Mrs. Dulcie Gunter of Ohio City, 0., and Mrs. Beulah Hillary of Portland; two sons, Artfos Ketchum of Decatur, and Leo Ketchum Os Bryant: 11 grandchildren; 21-great-grandchil-dren, and one brother, Stanley Barr of Bradenton. Fla. A daughter, two brothers and three sisters preceded her in death. Services were held this afternoon at th Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas officiating. Burial was in the Riverside cemetery, east of Geneva.

County Council In Study Os Budgets Two-Day Session Is Opened Here Today The Adams county council met this morning at the court house to begin a two-day budget session. iThe council will study proposed budgets totalling $308,429 submitted by the various county offices. Also to come under the scrutiny 6f the councilmen are a county highway budget of $378,375; a welfare budget of $203,741; a hospital budget of $333,610;, a new hospital furniture and equipment fund budget of $40,500; a hospital bond fund budget of $31,000, and the county cumulative bridge fund budget of $36,264. The combined levies necessary to finance these budgets, if approved, would be 90 cents per SIOO of taxable property. This proposed rate is 24 cents higher than the current county tax levy. The council, meeting today and Wednesday, has the power to cut the budgets and levies. Following the council action, the budgets will be submitted for further study to the county tax adjustment board and finally to the state tax board. The council in is initial action this morning appointed Julius Schultz to serve as p member of the tax adjustment board, which , will meet later this month. The appointment completes the board Which will also include William Linn, representing the township trustees; Mayor Robert Cole, as mayor» of the largest city; Charles Langston of Decatur and Menno I. Lehman of Berne, Republicans appointed by Judge Myles Parrish, and Louis Reinking, Sr., and Ernest Hanni of Geneva, Democrat appointees by Judge Parrish.

Legislative Day Al Indiana State Fair Judging Highlights State Fair Monday INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-Indiana lawmakers and state officials were invited to take a bow today at the Indiana State Fair. It was “Governor’s and Legislators’ Day” and Governor Handley and other officials were on hand to share the spotlight with champion livestock growers, pie bakers and the honky-tonk shows on the Midway. The weatherman dished up temperatures of 88 degrees for a throng of 121,780 Labor Day fairgoers , Monday. But he promised cooler temperatures today with a top of 80. Handley, .Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker, Sen. William E Jenner and other Hoosier politicians were invited to take part in a ceremony marking the national issue of a 30-cent specal delivery postage stamp. Judging of swine, cattle, colts sheep and poultry highlighted competition Monday, designated as “Labor and Industrial Education Day.” Four-H youngsters also took part in a public speaking contest Two grand-champion sows were crowned—an animal entered by the Mapleview Farm of Versailles, Ohio, in the Yorkshire division, and another owned by John Gerth and family of Indianapolis in the Duroc class. The Yorkshire competition took a legal twist earlier when the fair board ruled a group of breeders was ineligible to enter because members did not belong to the American Yorkshire Club. But the group obtained a court order to permit them to enter fair competition. Saturday and Sunday attendance failed to break any records, but gatemen counted 272,675 persons. The record for Monday at the fair was 132,786, set in 1956. Fair officials reported the coliseum shows, featuring radio and televsion stars, grossed a nearrecord $100,175 for fve performances. .

Stassen Back To London In Disarm Parley Returns To Parley After Conferences With U.S. Leaders LONDON (UP) — Harold E. Stassen returned today from consultations in Washington for what may be the showdown session in the London disarmament talksObservers said the next move is up to Russia when' the fivepower United Nations disarmament subcommittee resumed negotiations this afternoon. Stassen planned to meet earlier with the delegates of Great Britain, Canada and France to report on his weekend talks in Washington with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The subcommittee meeting Is the first since Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorn denounced n what President Eisenhower deplored as “shocking” words the Wester)) arms reduction, package plan last Thursday. Prime Minister Harold MacMillan also protested the Soviet brusque rejection of Western disarmament proposals in a personal letter to Soviet Prmier Nikolai Bulganin. The British prime minister called for “favorable consderation” of the Western package plan which he said were “practical and imaginative." He told Bulganin “you have but to say the word” and progress can be made toward arms reduction. Macmillan’s letter was the latest in a series of exchanges with the Soviet prime minister. I was dispatched to Moscow last Friday and released for publiation Mon-, day. Official sources in both London and Washington appeared to be steeling themselves for a verbal duel ith Moscow on which side is * blame Jtor the disarmament deadlock.

Local Man's Father Is Taken By Death George Houk Dies On Sunday Morning i George Houk, 63, farmer and factory employe of near Winchester, died Sunday morning at the hospital ip Union City following an illness of three weeks of complications. He was bcm near Winchester April 1, 1894, and was a lifelong resident of that community. He was a member of the Five Point Christian church. Surviving- are 'his wife, the former Birdie Swindell; three sons. Charles Houk. Standard Oil agent in Decatur, Leroy Houk of Newtown, and James Houk of Union City; two brothers, Everett Houk of Castro, Calif., and David Houk of Albany: three sisters, Mrs. Nellie Baird and Mrs. May Wickersham, both Richmond, and Mrs. Nancy Baird of Dayton, 0., and eight, grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Maynard & Walker funeral home at Winchester, with burial in Fountain Park cemetery at Winchester. Friends may call at the foneral home until time of the services, INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy south and central, mostly cloudy with few light showers extreme north tonight. Cooler and rather windy. Wednesday partly cloudy to cloudy and cool with chance of ». rew showers extreme northeast. Low tonight 58-63. High Wednesday 68-74 north, 74-78 south. Sunset today 7:14 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 6:15 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair with seasonable temperatures. Lows Wednesday night near 60, highs Thursday near 80.

Movement To Oust

Skillen Is Failure Hatchet Buried By Democrats Os State INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—lndiana Democrats kept their hatchets buried today, but it could hardly be said that their weekend powwow at French Lick resolved all their differences. In a repeat of a‘ year ago, a move to oust Democratic State Chairman Charles Skillen at the annual Indiana Democrat! cEditorial Association meeting fzzled out—for the tme being. , Democratic National Charman Paul Butler also left the meeting with his job intact as national committeeman from IndianaBut refforts filtering from "rump sessions" prior to the state committee meeting at the southern Indiana resort indicated there still was wide disagreement on party leadership. One report, which several district chairmen did not deny, was that nearly all 11 of them voted secretly to ask Skillen to resign, but that Skillen refused. The group decided it would cause too much dissention to force Skillen out, this report said. Butler Issues Warning Butler said he wouldn’t decide at least flntil next February whether to seek the party nomination for U.S- senator. He was one of a handfol hoping to cash in on whatever change in voter sentiment was indicated by last week’s senatorial victory in Wisconsin. But Butler warned his party: "We can’t win in 1958 with Democrats fighting Democrats.” That warning followed by a few hours a reported scuffle in an upstairs corridor of the SheratonFrenck «|ck Hotel in which Hugh Dillin of Petersburg said his glasses were broken by a fellow Democrat. Dillin, a 1956 candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, said he was not an active participant n the scuffle. Most of the committee’s official business involved raising money for the. 1958 campaign to defeat Sen. William E. JennerUrges Big Fund Drive Skillen urged a “Dollars for Democrats’* campaign next month in which party workers would “knock on every door in every precinct in the state of Indiana." Butler said the party should be able to raise "at least $60,000” in Indiana >and five million dollars for the 1960 presidential campaign. Democrats climaxed the French Lick session with a banquet speech in which Sen. Frank Church warned of “creeping concealment” of government information. The Idaho Democrat, at 33 the youngest man in the Senate, also criticized the "self-imposed press (CvatiaaeU oa Pa«e F»va)

September Term Os Court Opens Today Criminal Docket Is Called At Opening The September term of Adams circuit court opened this morning, with Judge Myles F. Parrish presiding. First order of business today was the calling of the criminal docket, and causes to be tried during the present term were set. The civil docket will be called Wednesday and Thursday and current causes will be set for hearing. It is not known whether there will be any jury trials during the September term. Judge Parrish as a rule frowns on long jury cases during the fall months because the farmers, who comprise a majority of each jury, are needed in their fall farm work. There was no court scheduled for this afternoon and Judge Parrish went to Portland where he had disposition of several findings in Jay circuit court, where he sat as special judge in a number of hearings. He said he was attempting to dispose of these special cases so they would not interfere with his regular September term here. Call of the Adams circuit civil docket is scheduled for Wednesday morning.

Troops Block Integration At Little Rock Racial Integration Os Southern Schools Spreading Uneasily ATLANTA (UP >—Racial integration of public schools spread uneasily further into the Southland today, but Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus defied a federal order and blocked with troops integration in a Little Rock school. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell began an immediate investigation of the use of the National Guard troops to prevent obedience to the court orders. President Eisenhower told his news conference today that the overall progress of school integration is bound to be slow. He said tension between the races can be solved only by approaching the problem calmly. A shower of pebbles, hoots and jeers greeted 13 Negroes who entered the Sturgis, Ky., high school under watchful eyes of state troopers. No one was injured"Get out of here you old black man” were words shouted at the Negroes who arrived in a five-car caravan at the Kentucky integration hot spot. But the crowd of some 200 * persons outside the school began to disperse as the Negroes entered the building. No Negroes Show Up Little Rock’s Central High School, where about 15 Negroes were to have enrolled today, Was a tense scene of bristling armor of the National Guard—halftracks, rifles, clubs apd pistols. A cordon of some 250 Guardsmen and' state troopers—being used by the Arkansas governor as an “arm of the militia,” ringed the school to prevent integration. The attempt was 100 per cent successful. None of the Negroes showed up. The Little Rock Board of Education appealed to the Negroes not to enter the Central High School or any other Little Rock school. Greensboro, N.C., trying integration for the first time, reported a similar experience - threats and jeers but no violence. Four Negroes, flanked by a police officer and a Negro man, entered a Greensboro grade school. “You niggers ain’t going to be in there long,” yelled a white man identified as Glenn Barnett He was stopped by an officer from entering the building. Say Pupils Are Armed Two other North Carolina cities —Charlotte and Winston-Salem—-begin school Wnednesday on an integrated basis for the first time. Nashville, Tenn., goes into the venture Sept. 9 with integrated first grades.

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Ballots Mailed For ASC Committeemen Annual Election Is Scheduled Sept. 10 Ballots have been mailed to eligible farmers, which are to be used for the election of comnttfaity committeemen, announced Oscar T. Brown, chairman of the Adaips coupty ASC committee, today. The deadline for returning ballots is September 10. Nominees were selected by nominating committees. The nominating committees were selected by a committee appointed by the state committee, of which Leo. N. Seltenright was chairman. This committee also selected the election tabulation board consisting of Clarance Black, Herman Loshe and Lores Steury. The tabulation board will count the baftlots September 12. Any eligible farmer, who did not receive a ballot by mail, may call at the county office and a ballot will be given to him. Brown urges each farmer to cast his vote in this election at community committeemen.

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