Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 221.

NOT MISSING—JUST MARRIED w 'U ®Li.’■ - ■ -ißbfcst ••'*’’ Jl ■“ > KjK 4Bb THE ANXIETY in the Chicago" home of Mr, and Mrs. Burton Halstead, which had been building up since Sunday when their 16-year-old daughter, Marion (left) and her boy-friend Earl Eugene Lilac, 23, disappeared after starting for a movie, has ended. A call from Lilac's home in Tonawanda, N. Y., informed the parents that the couple had eloped and were married. Marion is a recovered polio victim.

Canadian Town Is Periled By Deadly Poison

THAMESVILLE, Ont (UP)-A passenger train ripped apart a tractor-trailer loaded with 15 tons of deadly cyanide pellets just before midnight and left this town’s 1,200 residents in fear of their lives. This morning, still faced with dangers of children picking up poisonous pellets, of a poisoned water supply and poisonous gas fumes, Police Chief Robert Letts said the state of emergency might last for three days The speeding Canadian National Railways train hit the 25-ton truck trailer rig of Truck Transport Co., Dearborn, Mich., at the east edge of the business district. The crash tore the trailer loose from the tractor, ripped the trailer into two parts, carried the larger part ’a q6»rter-mlW’'hß golf-ball size cyanjde pellets spewed out, and tore up electric lines and pdes. Truck driver J.C. Sluder, about 35, Wayne, Mich., crawled out with head and arm injuries and was taken to Chatham Hospital. The train engine was put out of commission and the train delayed while another engine was brought up There was $150,00 damage. Ontario Highway 2 had to be closed and a detour set up. Lights over a 35-mile area were out until 3 a.m People were ordered to stay in their homes. Civil defense and army reserve forces were called out Railroad and truck company workers rushed to the scene. By daylight. 150 men were working in the 400 yards along the railroad tracks. They swept the pellets into piles, shoveled them into cardboard cannisters, loaded the cartons onto trucks and took them for burial in bulldozer gouged ditches. Some workers probed through bushes and weeds with gloves in a pellet-by-pellet search. School children, most accompanied by their mothers, were led past the wreck scene under police escort lest a child pick up a pellet, which could kill with even a taste of cyanide. Ptdice called Dow Vhemical Co., Sarnia, Ont, and two chemists covered the cyanide with lime before the workers started scooping “ * S’Clark Is President Os Jefferson Club

Decatur Man Heads Democratic Club Bernard Clark. Decatur city street commissioner and active for many years in Democratic activities, was elected president of the Adams county Jefferson club at a potluck supper meeting held Wednesday evening at the Affolder park in Geneva. Clark succeeds Mayor Robert Cole, of Decatur, who has headed the club during the past year. Other officers named for the coming year are Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker of near Geneva, vice-president; Mrs. Donna Hunter of Decatur, secretary, and Ed Jaberg of Decatur, treasurer. Other outgoing officers are Mrs. Grover Moser, Jr., of Berne, vicepresident; Miss Rosemary Spangler, secretary, and Frank Bohnke, treasurer. The meeting featured, in addition to election of officers and the ■upper, • general discussion of p|ans for the coming election year.

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Dulles Urges U.N. Discuss Middle East/ j Warns Red Meddling In Mideast May Lead To New Aggression UNITED NATIONS (UP)-Sec-retary of State John Foster Dulles warned the United Nations General Assembly today that Russian meddling in the Middle East may lead to new aggression. He urged full discussion of this critical situation ah which the United States would produce “concrete proposals.” “The United States,” Dulles said in a major policy speech, “stands ready to contribute generously to the economic development of the area under conditions which will promote and strengthen freedom and independence of nations. “This prospect of enlarged freedom and well-being will, however, never be realized so long as the area is looked upon as a subject of conquest and as a potential base for the domination of Europe, Asia and Africa.” Pleas for Disarmament Dulles also called for U.N- support of Western disarmament proposals in hope that the Soviet Union could be brought to accept them. He said that as long as Russia rejects the Western disarmament plans, the United States will continue testing nuclear arms for the development of “discriminating defensive weapons substantially free of radioactive fallout.” Dulles outlined the joint proposals put before the deadlocked London disarmament talks by the United States, Britain, France and Canada. The proposals were rejected there by Russia as a “sham.” “We cannot believe that that sweeping, almost contemptuous, Soviet rejection is final,” he said. “Never before have so many nations, of so great military power, joined to mAke proposals o farreaching Any government that summarily rejects them would accept a frightful responsibility before all the world. Humanity faces a tragic future if the war threat is not brought under control.” Defends Atomic Testa Dulles told the assembly the United States seeks, “by experiments now Carefully controlled,” to eliminate hazardous radioactive Continued »i«M Breakin Is Reported Here This Morning A breakin at Decatur Auto Supply on South First street was reported to city police this morning. Investigation shows that sometime during the night someone entered the building, causing some damage to interior doors but failing to take anything. Don Forst, proprieter of the store, said that apparently nothing was missing. The point of entry could not be determined but police were able to determine that the would-be-burglars left through a window on the south side of the building. 14 Pag**

Atomic Device Is Exploded Underground First Underground Nuclear Blast Set Off By Americans ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. (UP) —An underground atomic device exploded with a muffled but shuddering miniature earthquake force ( deep inside a desert tunnel today. Scientists measured its violence to help unlock the earth's secrets. Nuclear shot “Ralfl|ter”— comparatively puny as A-bomb firings go and yet the most powerful ever detonated by U.S. technicians inside the planet’s crust—rumbled off at noon e.d t. from a shaft dug 2,000 feet into the desolate mesa on the northern end of Yucca Flat. At the chamber's end, around four sharp right turns and under 900 feet of rock, the intricate shot erupted within the 8-by-8 foot confines of a cavity designed to absorb its force and prevent its acting as a huge rifle pointed at the wasteland There was little visible upheaval from the cavern, which collapsed inside the escarpment to be sealed possibly for 100 years from human entrance because of trapped radioactivity. An Atomic Energy Commission spokesman estimated it would be a century “before you could enter the tunnel-” The mesa appeared to rise slightly in the sunlight, and then settled back while loosened rock tumbled from the sides and dust stirred by the sudden jolt swirled around scrub cedar and juniper trees. ■

Scientists, alerted at nearby stations, took seismographic recordings despite last-minute information that the blast would be only l-1000th of a “barely detectable earthquake." There was no immediate indication as to how far away or how deep the seismic waves might go through the earth's heavy mantle of rock and inner core Estimated* yield of shot “Rainier"—the 21st of the current series —was between one and three kiloS.“ sealing in its radioactive fallout. Debris cascading from the walls apparently halted the usual air shock wave. ’ As a result, the AEC achieved (Continued on Page eight) Rev. Schmid! Named Workshop Delegate Attends Workshop On Mental Health

The Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church of Decatur, has been appointed Adams county delegate to the education workshop of the 1957 program conference at the Sheraton-Lincoln Hotel in Indianapolis Thursday evening through Saturday noon. The announcement of the appointment was made by Ralph R. Habegger, newly elected president of the Adams county mental health association. Rev. Schmidt stated that he was pleased to be able to attend the important conference. He added that he thought the subjects for the conference were very important and interesting. The keynote address will be by David A. Boyd. Jr.. M.D., former head of the department of psychiatry, Indiana University, and a consultant in psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., with the subject, “Psychiatry and religion." There will be sessions on forgotten patients, which include the 25 from Adams county who have no living relatives or no one who claims them, and have received no cards or letters for at least one year; volunteers; patient jailing; and education: publicity; countystate responsibilities; and rehabilitation. The principal address Friday evening will be by William K. Keller, M.D. director of pyschiatrie services, Louisville General Hospital, department of psychiatry, University of Louisville, on the subject “Sex and other misinformation.” There are 80 patients from Adams county in state institutions for the epileptic, mentally retarded and mentally ill, Rev. Schmidt pointed out. and a serious problem Skists in educating the public concerning their sicknesses. Education on mental sickness is imperative, and is one of the major jobs of the county mental health association, he added. Rev. Schmidt was appointed county chairman of the visitation and counseling committee in 1955 When the county organization was formed, and has served ta that position since that time.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 19,1957

Governor Os Arkansas Refuses To Appear At Federal Court Hearing

Over 100,000 Cases Os Asian Flu In Nation - „ ir Major Outbreak In Mississippi, May Spread Elsewhere WASHINGTON (UP)—The Public Health Service reported today the number of Asian flu cases in the United States has* climbed to more than 100,00. A major outbreak is underway in Mississippi, where from 20,000 to 25,000 cases are reported, officials said. Dr. Carl C. Dauer, influenza control officer of the PHS, said ‘the Mississippi situation “could be the beginning” of a true nationwide epidemic. “The Mississippi flu epidemic is still regional,” said Dauer. “But it has some of the characteristics of a break-out Another week or two will tell the story.” “Break-out” is the term that epidemiologists use to describe the transition from a localized epidemic to one which spreads through the general population at rapid speed. . Some “Sizable” Outbreaks Although Asian flu cases have been reported in 37 states, so fa»t ail tmvo beoe localized outbreaks, with the possible exception of Mississippi. Louisiana has had from 15,000 to 20,000 cases, possibly more. Dauer said. But these have been concentrated in two or three parishes (counties), and so far there has been no indication that the Louisiana epidemic is breaking out for a wider spread. s * ■ Other states which have had “sizable” local outbreaks are New York, Texas, Utah and California, Dauer said Informed sources said the Public Health Service will announce later today the release of 1,526,590 doses of Asian flu vaccine. This will make a total of 6,957,032 doses released since the new vaccine went into production. Continues Rather Mild f Vaccine output is running some(Continued on Page FWe) Report Progress In Phone Negotiations Some Encouraging Progress Reported NEW YORK W — Negotiators reported “encouraging progress" early today in talks aimed at ending a four-day strike of telephone equipment installers in ,44 states. Federal mediator Walter Maggiolo issued the progress report, the first since the strike began Monday, at the conclusion of a 16-hour marathon negotiations meeting interrupted only for meals. Negotiations, which recessed at 2:30 a.m. e.d,t. were expected to resume this morning between Maggiolo, Joseph E. Dunne, chief negotiator for the striking Communications Workers of America, and A. D. Billotte, head negotiator for the Western Electric Co. Negotiating teams for both disputants were standing by. On strike are 23,800 members of the CWA who install telephone equipment at telephone exchanges in every state except Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Montana. They are seeking a one-year contract providing a wage increase, higher travel pay and improved fringe benefits. Thousands of non-striking telephone operators have refused to cross picket lines set up by the installers. However, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., of which Western Electric is the manufacturing arm, said that despite the strike both long-distance and local service is normal throughout the country. A spokesman for A.T.&T. said operators who had been observing picket lines were returning to work “in is creasing aumbere ”

Ask Daylight Time For Capital City Indianapolis Labor For Daylight Time INDIANAPOLIS W) — Governor Handley revealed today he considered calling in Indiana school superintendents to discuss the controversial time situation. But, the governor’s aides said, he decided not to do so after toying with the idea for some time. “I continue to hope,” Handley said, “that the local school authorities will administer the time law as the Legislature intended.” A week ago today, Handley said state aid would be withheld from schools which changed hours for classes in order to circumvent the 1957 law requiring observance of Central Standard Time after Sept 29. The Indianapolis Central Labor Union and Indianapolis Industrial Union Council asked the City Council to keep the Hoosier capital on "fast” time in defiance of the law. The organizations, which represent more than 55,000 members of 120 locals, adopted resolutions against a return to “slow” time Sept. 29 on grounds that the 1957 Legislature which enacted the time tew twice violated the Constitution. The resolutions accused the Leg- . a (MBr J .. ■■ w-* — whuuFC Oi exTencung Jw session beyond the M-day legal limit by stopping clocks, and that it failed to observe a constitutional mandate to reapportion the Legislature, thus allowing rural area representatives to dominate the vote on the time issue in favor of (Continued on Paffe Five) Contribute Funds For Hospital Unit To Furnish Double Unit For Addition The furnishings for a double unit in the new hospital addition wil be given in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Amos Reusser by his five daughters, members of the board of trustees of the Adams county memorial hospital announced today. This will be the first double unit given by individuals. The first double unit to be announced was that to be furnished by the Central Soya Union, Local 261 of the United Brewery Workers. Dr. and Mrs. Reusser were residents of Berne, and the doctor practiced there more than 50 years. The five daughters who are presenting the double unit in memory of their parents are Mrs. Robert Krick, of Decatur; Mrs. Harmon Bagley, Mrs. C. T. Michaud. and Mrs. Sherman Stucky, all of Berne, and Mrs. H. B. Hoffmann, of New Peltz, N. Y. Other large gifts for the new hospital addition include that of furnishing the doctor's, nurses and father’s waiting rooms by the Adams county medical society for $4,350; and single units in memory of Mrs. Emma Lankenau, R.N.; Mrs. Sara Kalver, Arthur D. Suttles, Sr.; Tri Kappa, Decatur; 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, Post 43; and the Decatur Lions club. Os the 35 units to be furnished, 18 have already been donated, and 17 remain to be furnished. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional showers and possibly thundershowers tonight and Friday. Turning cooler west and north portions Friday. Lows tonight in the 60s. High Friday around 80. Sunset today 6:48 p.m. 'Sunrise Friday 6:30 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Cloudy and cooler with occasional showers. Low Friday night 40-45 north to low 50s southoauk High fiatarday tn thana.

Secy. Wilson Orders Cut In Armed Forces Slash Os 100,000 Ordered By Wilson By Next Summer WASHINGTON (UP) — Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson ordered the armed forces today to reduce their armed strength to 2.600.00 men by next summer That would be a reduction of 100,00 men. the second cut of that size ordered in two months. Wilson said the reduction will not affect “our deployments of major units abroad” and can be made “without impairment of our national security.” Wilson said the ordered reductions will be achieved “as promptly as possible.” As before, the Army will take the brunt of the new reduction. It will be required to pare 50,000 more men—or one-half the new reduction. The new ceilings for the various services would be: Army, 900,000; Navy, 645,000; Marine Corps, 180,000; Air Force, 875.000. Wilson, with President Eisenhower?* approval, had instructed the services on July 16 to reduce their authorized strength by 100,090 men by next Dec. .31. Today’s order, which Wilson said also had Eizenhower’s approval, requies additional cuts to be carried out in the. second half of fiscal 1958, or between next Jan. 1 and next June 30 (Continued on 81 r) Phone Strike Spreads To Lebanon, Rockville INDIANAPOLIS (W — A strike of Western Electric Co. telephone installers, in its fourth day. spread to Lebanon and Rockville today. They raised above 25 the number of Indiana cities hit by the 43state walkout. Indiana Bell Telephone Co. spokesmen said pickets also returned to Logansport and Kokomo today after being withdrawn Wednesday.

Tax Board Hearings Here September 26 Conduct Hearings On Appropriations Hearings on requests for emergency appropriations filed by 15 tax units of the county have been set for Sept. 26 in the office of the county auditor. The hearings are conducted by the state board of tax commissioners. The tax units, the amounts requested and the times set for each include: Root township, $3,071, 9 am.; Jefferson township, $720, 9:10 a.m.; Hartford township, $l2O, 9:20 a.m.; Blue Creek township, $330, 9:30 a.m.; Preble township, $l2O, 9:40 a.m.; Monroe township, S6OO, 9:50 a.m. Kirkland township, $120,10 a.m.; Adams county, $50,572, 10:15 a.m.; St. Mary’s township, $5,800, 10:30 a.m.; Union township, $12,220, 10:40 a.m.; Wabash township, $10,222.44, 10:50 a,jn.; Washington township $255, 11 a.m.; Adams Central. $16,116.85, 11:10 a.m.; Berne-French school, SII,OOO, 11:20 a.m., and Geneva civil town, $52,281.60, 11:30 a.m. Many of these totals include requests for the transfer of funds from one item to another. The county requests include $5,737 in a d d i t i o n al appropriations and transfers in the general fund, $40,835 from increased gas tax revenue for the county highway department; SIO,OOO from the cumulative bridge fund and $4,000 for the hospital fund. All interested taxpayers are invited to attend the hearing on any requests. Following the hearing the state board gives the final ruling on the requests before they are officially granted.

Four Dead In Wake Os Tropical Storm Floods Threatened In Path Os Storm NEW ORLEANS (UP)-TropicaT storm Esther was only a shallow low pressure area in Mississippi today, but four were dead in her wake and flooding was threatened in her path. ’ , The storm passed Jackson, Miss, at 9 p.m- c.s.t. Wednesday with winds reduced to 17 miles an hour. It was “weakening rather rapidly,” the Jackson Weather Bureau reported. However, It was water, rather than wind, that figures in the four deaths and put Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana on the alert for possible floods. The New Orleans Weather Bureau said Esther was expected to move about 15 miles an hour through the northern portions of Mississippi and Alabama and into central and East Tennessee today, dumping up to six inches of rain along the wayStorm warnings were lowered on the Gulf Coast, where the storm moved in from the Gulf of Mexico on a 300-mile front. Top winds around the center were clocked at 64 miles an hour and tides were only three to five feet above normal. Coastal flooding was still feared, however, due to heavy runoff and possible overflow of rivers emptying into the Gulf. New Orleans was hit by a flash flood as the storm moved by with eight-inch rains Wednesday, and two boys drowned after water rose to nearly eight feet in a canal normally only four feet deep. A New Orleans man drowned also when his car skidded and went into the water near Donner, La. The fourth victim was a woman from Meridian, Miss., killed when a truck skidded on wet pavement near Selma, Ala , and crashed into the car in which she was riding. Five Naturalized In Court This Morning Five Made Citizens Os United States Five persons, including four adults and a young boy. became citizens of the United States in naturalization proceedings this morning in Adams circuit court. • The new citizens include Una Pauline Miller of Monmouth, formerly of England; Florence Nora Stallbaum of 518 Mercer avenue, formerly of England; Dorothea Maria Kahlert of Berne, formefly of Germany; Louis Flores of Berne, formerly of Mexico, and Phillip James Braun, the adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Braun of 322 Stratton Way, formerly a Canadian citizen. A motion requesting that they be granted citizenship was filed by William E. Dillon, representative of the naturalization service. The motion was granted by Judge Myles Parrish following an explanation of laws governing naturalization and an examination of the petitioners. The proceedings were viewed by a large audience which packed the courtroom. The visitors included, in addition to friends and relatives of the new citizens, students from Decatur, Berne - French, Adams Central, Monmouth and Geneva high schools. Following their formal admission to citizenship, the five persons repeated the oath of allegiance to the United States, which was administered by county clerk Richard Lewton. Judge Parrish then addressed the new citizens, reminding them of the great advantages of American citizenship and pointing out,. also, the responsibilities which go along with the rights and privileges. f; “Our citizenship has no equal in the world,” he said, charging them to protect and cherish their new rights and responsibilities. Judge Parrish traced the history of (OhMuM <m Pa*i Two)

Hearing Set On Validity Os Race Laws Faubus Refuses To Appear; Ulterior Motives Are Cited BULLETIN LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (W — Gov. Orval E. Faubus today asked Federal Judge Ronald N. Davies to disqualify himself to hold a hearing Friday on an injunction against the governor. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP) — Gov- Orval E. Faubus today refused to appear in Federal Court at a hearing on the validity of four state segregation laws passed by the 1957 Arkansas General Assembly. He said he refused “because of the obvious ulterior motives'* of those who obtained the subpenaThe governor, in a letter to U.S. district clerk Grady Miller, acknowledged a subpena delivered to him Wednesday by U.S. Marshal Beal Kidd. He said, however, that .he did not have to appear in court if he chose not to. ‘ While I have the utmost respect for your court and its valid proeeases, I must point out that almost from the beginning of our republic it has been uniformly held that the chief executive is not compelled to comply with a subpena unless he chooses to do so,” the letter said. “In this particular case, because of the obvious ulterior motives of those who obtained the subpena, I do not choose to comply with it, and will thank you to so advise the court, Faubus wrote. Ten Negro ministers filed a suit in-Federal Court asking for a determination of the constitutionality of four segregation bills enacted by the Arkansas Legislature earlier this year- A similar suit by a “disinterested person” has been filed in a state court. The Arkansas Sovereignty Commission, headed by the governor as chairman, will hear a petition in Federal Court otday to throw out the suit by the ministers and let the state courts determine the validity of the four actsFaubus was summoned amid these developments on the integration scene: NEWPORT, R.l.—President Eisenhower agreed to meet with Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (DN.Y.) and other Negro leaders to discuss the integration crisis in Little Rock where National Guardsmen are blocking Negroes from Central High. OKLAHOMA CITY — Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler supported a strong civil rights stand despite threats of southern Democrats to organize a third party. He criticized Eisenhower's handling of the Little Rock incident and said “Harry Truman would have solved this • long time ago.” NASHVlLLE—Segregation leader John Kasper was released from jail on $2,500 bond put up by a fellow segregationist. Kasper spent a week in jail on a charge of inciting to riot shortly before a school ordered integrated was dynamited. ALEXANDRIA, Va — Postponement of the Sept. 23 deadline for admission of Negroes to all-white schools in Arlington County has delayed their entry until at least next February20 Are Injured As Student Hurls Lye NEW YORK — (IF — A 17-year-old student threw lye into a high school classroom in Brooklyn today, injurying 19 students and a teacher. Two of the students were taken to a hospital for treatment. Police said the other 17 and the teacher in the Thomas Jefferson High School classroom were injured only superficially.

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