Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No; 220.

PLEADS “NOT GUILTY” I igfr) I w'-'- Am Ir JOHN KASPER, 27-year-old self-appointed anti-integrationist, facing a charge of inciting to riot, appears before Criminal Court Judge Chester K. Hart at Nashville, Tenn., and enters a plea of not guilty. Judge Hart gave Kasper 60 days to prepare his defense.

Governor Os Arkansas Io Court Friday To Explain Action Over Integration To Federal Judge United Press Staff Correspondent LITTLE ROCK, Ark, (UP) — Gov. Orval E. Faubus and Rep. Brooks Hays (D-Ark) were expected to confer again today on how Faubus may explain to a federal judge Friday his actions in the Central High School integration battle The pair met twice Tuesday. Hays refused comment on the discussions and Faubus did not leave his guarded mansion. Friday Faubus must appear in U.S. District Court before Judge Ronald N. Davies to show cause vhy he should not be enjoined' from interfering with integration at Central High unless he removes his troops from the school. Central High opened today with 10 or 15 Guardsmen watching it. There were almost no spectators and no Negroes tried to register. Elsewhere in the integration controversy, Federal District Judge Albert V. Bryan today ordered a delay in his original ruling which would have required all-white Arlington County schools in Virginia to start integrating next Monday by admitting seven Negro students. The Arlington School Board asked the delay, pending an appeal of Bryan’s original order to the court of appeals Bryan agreed. He said he still believes Negroes cannot be banned legally from white schools. But, he said, •T cannot say that another court would not have a different opinion ” Nashville Is Quiet In a surprise move today, the Virginia General Assembly"s racial investigating committee subpenaed records of three branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in northern Virginia. The committee also subpenaed key figures in the Arlington school controversy for a closed-door hearing in the Arlington County courthouse Thursday. In Nashville, Tenn., attendance at integrated first-grade classes increased for the second straight day and youngsters settled down to normal routine. Nine Negroes attended first-grade classes at previously all-white schools. Their appearance last week touched off jeers, rock-throwing and a dynamiting. but a police crackdown and a Federal Court injunction kept things quiet Tuesday and today. Segregationist John Kasper pleaded innocent to an inciting to riot charge and was sent back to jail and given 60 days to prepare a defense. .. In Newport, RJ., President Eisenhower was expected some this week to answer a telgram from Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-NY.), who demanded that the President meet with Negro leaders on the integration problem Powell claimed Tuesday Eisenhower has met only with whites on the matter in the past 18 months. (Continued on Paxe six) INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair north and central, cloudy with possibly a little rain extreme south tonight and Thursday. Not much temperature change. Low tonight 50-58 north, 54-62 south. High Thursday 74-80. Sunset today 6:49 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 6:29 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Cloudy and cooler with showers spreading southeastward. Low Thursday night in the 60s. High Friday around 70 extreme northwest to the 80s southeast.

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Employment Lower Here During August Sharp Reduction In Payrolls Reported Industrial employment in Decatur during the month of August was less than a month before and lower than during the same month a year ago, according to figures released in the monthly business barometer of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Employment during the past month totalled 1,378, as compared with 1,402 during July and 1,505 during August, 1956. The industrial payroll also took a nose-dive. The $406,747 reported for August is a sharp reduction from the $635,833 reported a month ago and is less than the $489,981 reported for the same month las*, year. . > The barometer also shows 3,948 electric meters, the same as last month; 2,529 water meters, one more tnan in juiy, s,«hs ureters, the same as in July, and 6,171 telephones, which is an increase of 13 from the previous month. Twenty-one poor relief cases served 86 persons at a cost of sl,552 during August. In July the same number of cases served 76 persons at a cost of $1,286. A year ago there were 14 cases reported with 50 persons aided at a cost of only $355. The business barometer showed a report of 50 births and seven deaths in Decatur for -August. This amount is similar to August of 1956 but differs from' the 67 births and four deaths reported in July. Total carloadings in and out of the city, 2,879, were an increase of more than 1,000 over July and a rise of about 800 over August. 1956. The August total includes 1,344 carloadings in and 1.535 carloadings out. No reports on railway express shipments were available for July and August because of the strike. In August last year, 950 shipments were reported. Six building permits with a total value of $86,045 were reported as compared to 14 permits with a value of $33,750 in the previous month. A year ago 16 permits were issued with a total value of $30,041. Tuberculosis Patch _ Tests In Schools — Program Started For All Schools The tuberculosis patch test program in the city and rural schools of Adams county got underway this week. The program is sponsored by the Adams county tuberculosis association, and is conducted by Mrs. W. Guy Brown, executive secretary *of the association, and Mrs. Eloise Arnold. - - The patch tests were placed Monday at Hartford, Geneva, Jefferson. Lincoln and Kimsey schools, and these will be read Thursday. The tests were made Tuesday at Bobo. Pleasant Mills, Adams Central and Berne, and will be read Friday. Next Monday, the tests will be made at St. Paul, Zion St. John’s, St. Peter's, Emmanuel, Decatur Zion Lutheran and the Decatur Northwest school, and they will he read the following Thursday. The final in the tests will be held next Tuesday at Decatur Lincoln. Decatur Catholic schools. Decatur high school, and Monmouth, and these will be read the following Friday. The tests this year are being given to students in grades one, seven and nine.

Meet Thursday Night On Time Issue In City Special Meeting Os City Council, Public Invited To Attend A special meeting of the city council is scheduled for Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the city hall for the purpose of settling the time question for Decatur residents. Mayor Robert Cole announced plans for the meeting at Tuesday night’s regular city council session. He has issued an invitation to the general public to attend the meeting and participate in the discussion. Mayor Cole stated that,. of the many persons who have contacted him recently, the great majority have been in favor of skirting the state law and remaining on a daylight savings time schedule. However, many other persons favor following the spirit as well as the letter of the Indiana statute which makes central standard time mandatory beginning at 2 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 29. The law specifies that cities or schools which violate the provisions of the statute will lose state refunds from taxes. However, it is believed that the penalty can be avoided by putting the clocks on standard time and then running on an hour earlier schedule. This, in effect, would continue daylight saving time. The local community is apparently being forced to attempt a continuation of daylight savings time since most of the city of Fort Wayne has indicated that it will keep the fast time schedule. The county commissioners recently ordered the clocks of all county offices and the big town clock to be pushed back to central standard time. However, it is speculated that if the rest of the community stays on fast time, a change will be made in the court house hours to be mere convenient for the while None of the superintendents of the school systems in Adams county was available today for comment on how the schools will handle the situation. W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur public schools; Gail Grabill, head of the county public school system, and E. M. Webb, head of the Berne system, along with the principals of several local schools, took their time problem to a meeting of school heads in Columbia City today. They hope to arrive at some solution during the (Continued on Pace Six) Approve Contract For Pump House Ordinance Adopted By City Councilmen An ordinance approving a contract between the city and Baker and Schultz Construction company for the construction of a pump house for well number 14 was adopted by the city council in regular session Tuesday evening. Under the terms of the comtract, the city win pay the company $1,425 for the construction project, which will provide an additional well for the city’s water system. —■——7-7—r-— l - — - The council also approved the appointment of Jay Minch as a permanent member of the city police force. Minch has been a temporary member for several months. The appointment was made by the city board of public works and safety. The report on the recent sale of municipal bonds to finance the sewage treatment plant was read by the clerk-treasurer and was approved and recorded by the council. The bonds, totalling $925,000 in value, will be delivered to the purchasers, A. C. Allyn company and others, by Manday. .. .. Young Motorcyclist Seriously Injured , John Allen Heare, 20, of 1026 South Line street was seriously injured in a motorcycle mishap early this morning on South 13th street in Decatur. The youth lost control of his cycle at 1:05 a.m. when the vehicle dropped off the roadway. The cycle flipped over and landed on top of Heare. Heare was rushed to the Adams county memorial hospital suffering either a severe concussion on fractured skull. He was later transferred to the Fort Wayne Lutheran hospital for specialist attention. His condition .is described as serious. City police who investigated the accident reported that damage to the cycle was only about S2O.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 18,1957.

Tropical Storm Hits Hurricane-Battered Coast Os Louisiana

India Starts Drive In U.N. For Red China Seek Nationalist . China Ouster With Backing Os Russia UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)— India, with full Soviet support, opened a formal drive today to oust Nationalist China from the United Nations and seat Red China in its place. The United States and its allied steeled themselves to beat down the maneuver as they have in past years. India was expected to demand at the first session of the 16-mem-ber Steering Committee that the issue be placed on the General Assembly agenda for a full-dress debate. The United States planned to counter the demand with a resolution declaring that the assembly decides “not to consider” the Chinese issue at this session. This tactic was successful last year and a U.B. pokesman said his delegation had “high hopes” it would win again. He said the proposal to seat Red China would be opposed “as vigorously as in the past — and W . little bit more.’” Because of the projected Indian move, the Soviet Union withheld its customary objections to the presence of the Formosa representatives when the assembly opened its 12th annual session Itiesday. The assembly elected Sir Leslie Knox Munro of New Zealand as its president following a dramatic, last-minute withdrawal announced from the forstrum by Foreign Minister Charles Malik of Lebanon- He had waged a strong campaign against the bushy-browed New Zealander. The opening session, remarkably free of political fireworks, also elected newly - independent Malayas the 82nd member of the United Nations, chose the chairmen of the seven standing committees and adjourned unti today (at 11 a.m.) The schedule for this morning’s session called for election of eight vice presidents. Burns Are Fatal To Nine-Month Old Boy INDIANAPOLIS (W — Max Sigmon, 9 months, died Tuesday night in General Hospital from burns sustained five months ago. Authorities said the baby was burned by a fire started by matches with which his older brother was playing in the family home. Roger A. Christener Given Safety Award Award Made Today In Safety Campaign Roger Allen Christener, of Decatur route four, has been named recipient of one of the certificates of award and $5 checks for outstanding acts of courtesy in traffic. The award is one of several being made in the current courtesy safety campaign of the Chicago Motor club. Christener received his award from Glen Hoch, area representative of the Chicago Motor club. Hoch stated that he followed the Adams county motorist for several blocks and during that time Christener stopped at the intersection of Second and Monroe streets for pedestrians, again at Five Points to permit children to cross, and observed speed caution in areas where children were playing. - s Several other motorists in Decatur are slated to receive the courtesy campaign awards during the current safety campaign which is sponsored each year to promote better attitudes in motorists. Pedestrians and cyclists are also elegible to receive the awards.

National Plowing Contests On Today 27 State Champions In National Battle PEEBLES, Ohio ffl — Twenty seven champion plowmen from .around the nation dug, their plows into the dark soil near this Adams County village in a “battle of the ‘furrows,” for the 1957 national level land and contour plowing championships. Twelve states entered contestants in the match of the year at the World Conservation Exposition and Plowing Contests sprawled over the 2,500-acre site. This ' is the first time in its five-year history the World has been held in the United States. Lawrence Goettemoeller, 46, St. Henry, Ohio, won his second straight level land title in 1956. The slim, wiry Mercer County farmer captured the level land crown at lowa to become the sixth Ohioan in nine years to win a U. S. title. John Daniels, 35, Mulberry Grove, 111., won the contour title at the lowa matches. He won the crown the first time in 1954 at Olney, 111., and was unable to compete this year because a contest rule bars two time winners. a Other states entered, in addi- ; tionto Ohio, are lowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, ‘Missouri, South Dakota, Illinois. Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania and ' Tennessee. Winners of the contour and level land matches compete next year in the world plowing matches in Germany. Rules of the national matches are similar to those of the Ohio matches which highlighted the exposition’s opening day Tuesday. Duane Nootz, 32. Hillsboro, scored 85 points of a possible 100 in besting five other plowmen to win the state contour title. Dix Doren, 23. Xenia, had a little mere trouble in capturing ..tlnueo on Pair® 81x) County Home Agent Is Hired Tuesday Miss Lois Folk Os Huntington Named Miss Lois Folk, of Huntington county, was hired Tuesday evening by the county extension committee and home demonstration council as Adams county’s new home demonstration agent. The surprise announcement was made today following the meeting last night. Miss Folk will officially start here October L Her first two weeks will be spent at Purdue University, however, in the new agent’s training school. She will start duties in the county October 14. Paul Yoder, chairman of the extension cotnmittee, and Mrs. R. C. Hersh, president of the county home demonstration council, presided at the meeting. Miss Folk is a graduate of Ball State Teachers college and has taught home economics for two years at Hoagland. She has trained since August 19 with the Delaware county home agent in preparation for this type job. She had eight years of 4-H work in Huntington county, and led the 4-H club at Hoagland. The position of home agent in this county has been vacant since June 30, 1956. It had been held formerly by Miss Bertha Landis, who came to.the county to train in June of 1954, and took over the job of home agent here in October when Miss Anna K. Williams resigned. Miss Williams was the first home agent in *the county, and she served for 10 years, beginning here in 1944. She is now an extension specialist in home management in the better farming and better management program. Miss Elizabeth Jane Knapp, of Purdue university, agent leader, introduced Miss Folk to the group. Several of the home demonstration council ladies had al(Oooosaaa OB »>')

Negotiators In Deadlock Over Phone Strike Federal Mediator Asks Negotiators Review Positions NEW YORK (UP)—A federal mediator called on negotiators to reappraise their positions today in the three-day strike of telephone equipment installers that has partially disrupted long-distance service across the nation. Walter Maggiolo of the U.S. mediation and Conciliation Service meet again with representatives of the striking Communications Workers of America and the Western Electric Co., in an effort to break the deadlock. At the end of a negotiations session Tuesday, Maggiolo reported “no significant change” in the positions of either the company or the union. He then urged both sides to reappraise their positions. About 23,800 telephone equipment installers went on strike at 6 a m. Monday to back demands for a wage increase and improved fringe benefits. An estimated 150,000 non-striking telephone operatons, members of the CWA, have refused to cross picket lines set up by the equipment installers. Only minor delays have been reported in long-distance service, however. Operators crossing picket lines have been supplemented by supervisory personnel, pressed into switchboard service at the outset of the strike. Local service has been virtually unaffected by the strike- f The strike’s greatest impact was on communications projects in the 44 states where the striking installers are employed. Work has been halted on an estimated 9,000 projects, including the new nationwide long-distance automatic dial system. Little Effect Here From Phone Strike The telephone strike which is disrupting long distance service over many sections of the nation is having little effect on Decatur subscribers, according to a report made today by Charles Ehinger, manager of the Citizens Telephone company. Ehinger said that since Decatur has long-distance dial service to most points, the strike has not created too much difficulty with long distance calls. Fort Wayne is being hit harder by the strike and it is reported that in that city only emergency toll calls are being taken. Decatur Man Head Os Mental Health Ralph R. Habegger County President Ralph R. Habegger, of Decatur, was elected president of the Adams county mental health committee Monday night in an election held at Geneva. Other officers elected were: vice-president, Luther L. Yager, Berne; Leo W. Kirsch, of Decatur, secretary-treasurer. President Habegger today announced the i tonowing - appointments: fund chairman, Joseph Brewster, Berne; visitor and counsellor, the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt of Decatur; rehabilitation chairman, Herman Bixler, of Geneva; publicity co-chairmen, Dick Heller, Jr., of Decatur, and Simon Schwartz, of Berne; forgotten patients chairman, Mrs. Harry Raudenbush, of Monroe; legislative committee chairman, Luther L. Yager; delegates to state board, Mrs. Clarence Mitchel and Ralph R. Habegger; Christmas gifts chairman, Mrs. James Kocher, Jr. Habegger succeeded E. C. Stucky, of Geneva, as president. Twelve persons from the Decatur area attended the meeting.

Phone Picketing Spreads In State Auburn Latest City To Have Picketing INDIANAPOLIS ffl — Picketing of Indiana Bell Telephone Co. property by striking Western Electric Co. installers spread slowly to new cities today. By dawn, the number of cities where pickets marched had increased to 21, compared with 17 when the walkout occurred Monday. Auburn was the latest city to feel the effects of picketing. Logansport and Lafayette strikers also marched in front of exchange buildings for the first time. Indiana Bell Telephone C<?. spokesmen here said they “assumed” the pickets concentrated on Bell installations. Both Logansport and Lafayette exchanges are operated by the General Telephone Co., with Bell servicing the longdistance centers. Officials said supervisory employes in both cities were manning switchboards. Meanwhile, spokesmen said telephone utilities were largely doing "business as usual.” They said more than 70 per cent of the regular work force was on duty in Indianapolis Tuesday handling a “normal volume of business.” ness was handled at a normal voL ’ time also, with delays on longdistance calls quoted in a few exchanges. The strike, affecting more than 400 WE installers in Indiana, is in its third day. Sorority Donates To Hospital Room Tri Kappa Is First Sorority To Donate The local Tri Kappa sorority and its associate chapter will furnish a single unit room for the new hospital addition, the hospital board of trustees announced today. Alpha Sigma chapter of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and its associate chapter, made the decision at a meeting Tuesday night. It is the first local sorority to donate a unit to the new addition. A total of 16 units in the new addition of 35 units have already been sponsored by individuals and organizations, and 19 remain to be furnished. Several additional individuals and organizations are known to be planning to furnish a room, however. Single units are being furnished for SSOO, and double units will cost SI,OOO, the hospital board said. Among those who announced that they are donating units to the hospital are: in memory of Mrs. Emma Lankenau, R. N.J in memory of Mrs. Sara Kalver; in memory of Arthur D. Suttles, Sr.; Women of the Moose; Mr. and Mrs. William Schafer; E. W. Busche; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Klepper; Mrs. C. C. Rayl and daughter Mrs. C. K. Egeler; the Holthouse Drug Company; the First State Bank of Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. Pumphrey; the American Legion; the Decatur Lions Club, and a double unit from the Central Soya union, local 261 of the United Brewery workers. Late Bulletin WASHINGTON (W — The AFL-ClO’s ethical practices committee has charged that the Teamsters Union “has been and continues to be dominated or substantially influenced by corrupt influences,” it was disclosed today. A report by the committee said the Teamsters Union “does not meet the standards for ethical union practices set forth in the AFL-CIO constitution.”

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Residents Os Coast Areas leave Homes Torrential Rains Forecast In Parts Os Southern'States NEW ORLEANS (UP)-Tropieal storm Esther smacked the hurri- , cane-battered Louisiana coast with . winds of up to 64 miles an hour today. Coastal residents, warned of the danger of high tides, fled in plenty of time to escape the kind of disaster that hit the same general area earlier this year killing almost 500. Esther was a sopping wet storm that dumped more than five inches of rain in some areas. The storm center was expected to pass over New Orleans this afternoon. The Weather Bureau at New Orleans said the storm center was 100 miles wide and that the disturb- * ance would cause torrential rains > of up to eight inches in parts at ■ Alabama, Mississippi and LoUisi- ■ ana. Two minor injuries were reported in the early stages of the - storm’s entry into the US. main- - land. Everywhere along the path of . the storm, bayous and streets were flooded. New Orleans received i eight inches of rainfall during a . 24-hour period. “Esther had all the potentialities' of a hurricane, but it never developed into one,” a Weather Bureau forecaster saidThe tropical di art urbane e, spawned in the Gulf of Mexico, slowly moved shoreward at the rate of 10 miles an hour before striking the Louisiana coast. Southeast storm warnings were extended to Pensacola, Fla., but were towered west of Morgan City. Tides three to five feet above normal were expected along the southeast Loußsiana and Mississippi coasts today and along the Alabama cost by tonight. A rush toward safe ground began quickly Tuesday after storm warnings were issued. Workers on offshore oil rigs went ashore and several thousand residents joined them in a mass evacuation of the coastal area. Pecan island was deserted late yesterday except for civil defense radio operators who were helping the weather bureau keep track of winds and tides. Although no warning was issued in Cameron Parish, about 1,500 persons moved out of low-lying areas. Another severe storm in the North lashed Cutbank. Mont., with a late summer snowstorm. Readings dropped to the freezing mark at Cutbank early today and 1-inch of snow accumulated on the ground. ------ - - The storm, blamed on a frigid air mass pouring across the northern Rockies and the Plains, kicked up wind gusts of 55 m.p.h. at Ephrata, Wash. The disturbance sent temperatures dropping over much of the interior of the Pacific Northwest and other sections of the Far West. Elsewhere, scattered showers broke out over the northern Great Lakes, the northern Plains and the central Rockies. "Warmer air pushed northward along the Great Lakes and central Plains through the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. Cooler air overspread the Atlantic coastal states with rain confined to Virginia and south into Florida. Driver Is Killed As Auto Misses Curve NASHVILLE — W) — Betty Cummings, 25, Kurtz, was killed Tuesday, night when an automobile she was driving missed a curve 13 miles southwest of here and rolled dpwn a 15-foot bank. Marcus Timberlake, 26. Medora, was injured. Miss Cummings was hurled out of the car and pinned beneath it.