Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 225.

“WE AIN’T GONNA INTEGRATE* ' .5-JgM MWiWMMra.. - > ’\» * : 'O ■■mF faPg |pi jfi i ~ K t* ■ - »*• «■». I ■ , B |'\ Bpß I I TB®? L n GIRL STUDENTS, who left Central High School in Little Rock when eight Negro students entered, beckon to their classmates to leave the school also. Several hundred of the 2,000 white students walked out of class rooms forming a milling throng and some of the pupils, mostly girls, chanted: “Two, four, six, eight—we ain’t gonna integrate.” •

Time Question Apparently Up To Each Area New Statement Is Issued By Steers On Time Question INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — It appeared today that the 1957 Indiana Legislature might just as well have saved its breath arguing over the time problem. Despite a new law aimed at bringing uniformity of clocks and watches to a state plagued by a patchwork quilt of time zones for years, it appears communities cap follow just about any time schedule they please. Governor Handley made that clear Monday when he issued a proclamation giving Atty Gen. Edwin Steers the responsibility of deciding who violates the law and who doesn’t. , Steers, who previously had said he didn’t see how the state could prevent a school from changing its class hours while making its clocks read the legal time, issued a new statement saying: ‘‘Adjustment of office and school hours is an administrative matter and does not violate the statute as long as such adjustment is made in accordance with the required time set out in said law and without stated intent or purpose to circumvent the law." This < seemed to mean that Steers will not certify for loss of state aid under the new law any school which changes class hours unless the officials of that school issue a public statement declaring they are doing so to flout the law. The Legislature, dominated by the rural element which long has fought "fast" time, called for "slow” time seven months of each year beginning with the last Sunday in September. It imposed penalties consisting of loss of state aid on governmental units which violated the law. The time issue was, therefore, almost certain to come up as a major issue again in the 1959 Legislature, with lawmakers representing urban areas expected to fight for year-round “fast" time and those from rural areas battling for "slow” time Sen, Arthur S. Wilson, Princeton Democrat, generally was credited with waging the fight which (Continued on Page Five) Eight Employes Os Bag Service Promoted Eight employes of Bag Service, Inc., have been promoted, effective Sept. 16, W. Lowell Harper, executive vice president, announced today. Thos promoted, and their new offices are: E. E. Rydell, treasurer and assistant to the executive vice president; Mrs. Vivian Painter, assistant treasurer; Dwight Myers, general plant manager: Rolen, Ross, assistant plant manager; Donald Aeschliman, day superintendent of the new bag department; Marvin Watkins, night superintendent of the new bag department; Earl Scarbrough, superintendent of the reprocessing department; Harry Mauller, superintendent of material control. Bag Service, Inc., has grown and expanded business in the past year. Harper said. All departments have expanded. The factory is now providing service in nearly all of the states east of the Mississippi River, and servicing most of the major feed manufacturers.

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Outbreaks Os Asian Flu Are Reported Health Officials In Utah Battling Flu By UNITED PRESS Health officials in Utah today battled an epidemic of Asian flu, and other serious flu outbreaks caused the death of a soldier in Arizona and hit students in Texas, lowa and Michigan Dr. Joseph P. Kesler, acting director of the Utah State Health Department in Salt Lake City, termed the outbreak an epidemic. It was the first time any state has officially declared an epidemic of ■ Asian flu. Kesler said late Monday the di- : sense has swept the state with absentee cates in schools as high ‘•-a 50 per cent. Official said they planned to close some schools If the epidemic continues. An outbreak of flu at Fort Huachuca, Ariz, was blamed for the death of Pvt. Kenneth N. Rockstroth, Danville, 111. Doctors said Rockstroth died Sunday of complications of influenza "probably the Asian type.” About 740 persons at the Army base have been afflicted by the disease. The soldier’s death was the 16th fatality in the nation believed caused by Asian flu. Earlier, the National Health Service reported 15 deaths as a result of the disease and at least 100,00 persons afflicted by the malady. Other outbreaks struck 1,500 students at Texas A&M College, forced a Clifton, Ariz., high school to shut down, hit about 50 students at the University of lowa, and struck pupils in four Michigan cities. About 600 of the Texas Aggie students came down with the flu during the weekend and about 900 more cases were reported Monday. The ailing students were treated in the student hospital and dormitories. The Aggie football team was not affected -as the players received Asian flu inoculations. The outbreak at the University of lowa campus appeared to be confined after affecting about 50 students, most of them girls- University officials said they planned no special precautions. The high school at Clifton, Ariz., was closed Monday when 145 students were absent with flu. A number of flu cases also were reported among elementary school children in Clifton and Morenci, Ariz., but there were no immediate plans to close the schools. Flu outbreaks also hit in Port Huron, Detroit, Frankenmuth and Saginaw, Mich The outbreak at Saginaw was listed definitely as the Aslan variety. The cases in Texas, Arizona and lowa have not been clinically identified as Asian flu but are believed to be in that category. Meanwhile, at Milwaukee, the state pharmaceutical association has criticized industrial firms in Wisconsin for ordering Asian flu vaccine for their employs directly from manufacturers. William Apple, Madison, Wis., said at the group’s convention Monday that the practice is making -it impossible to use a priority system to distribute the vaccine. Apple said firms ordering Asian on Picks Ktgbt) Jury In Confidential Case Is Deadlocked HOLLYWOOD (UP) — Both the prosecution and the defense counsels in the Confidential magazine criminal libel trial agrecg today there was a good possibility the trial would end with a hung jury. Jurors appeared hopelessly deadlocked in the seventh day of deliberations to reach a verdict.

Five Survivors Os Windjammer Sinking Saved Five Other German Youths In Lifeboat Dead Os Exposure HAMBURG, Germany (UP) — 1 Grief - stricken German families clung desperately today to hope . that at least 30 crewmen of the j windjammer Pamir survived a mid-Atlantic hurricane. Ten of the 86 merchant mariners , and teen-age trainees from the capi sized square - rigger were accounted for. five of them wwa ’dead. \ The American freighter Saxon late Monday picked up a lifeboat in which the 10 had escaped the storm-wrecked Pamir Saturday. Only five of them managed to survive 48 hours of punishment from mountainous waves and murderous winds in the open craft. They were reported in fair condition suffering from exposure. The Saxon said the survivors reported they had been in signal contact with another Pamir lifeboat containing 25 men. Search planes and ships patrolled the sea all night looking for it. News of the rescue and the possibility of other survivors gave sorrowing Germany its first chance to rejoice in three days. The sinking was a national tragedy here. It touched off a heated controversy over whether the old-time sailing vessels should be abolished. The Saxon transferred the survivors to the Geiger, a U. S. naval transport ship en route to Casablanca with American service med and their families. It has medical facilities and is scheduled to dock Saturday. Southern Governors Deplore Ike Threat Threat Os Troops Deplored By Five SEA ISLAND, Ga- (UP) — Five southern Democratic governors today deplored President Eisenhower’s threat to use federal force in the Little Rock integration dispute. Gov. Frank Clement of Tennessee, usually regarded as a moderate on the racial issue, said “I hope we will never see the day when federal troops will march against the law abiding citizens of any state.” Gov. Le Roy Collins of Florida, who called in a speech Monday for a progressive approach to the race issue, said he "could not believe that the President would call out the troops but if he did it wbuld be a grave and grievous mistake.” Gov Luther Hodges of North Carolina said if the troops report is true, “that would be bad.” He said he hoped it was "not true.” Gov. Marvin Griffin of Georgia said flatly the Eisenhower action means that "the second reconstruction of the South is now under way." Gov. George Bell Timmerman Jr. of South Carolina accused Eisenhower of “trying to set him- , self up as a dictator ” A militant states rights leader in Augusta, Ga., former U.S. Ambassador Hugh Grant, telegraphed Griffin urging him to hold the southern governors conference, now in its third day here, in ses(Contlnued on Page eight)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 24,1957

President Eisenhower Orders Federalization Os Arkansas Guardsmen — i : — — '

Negroes Plan School Return If Protected Return To Arkansas School If Guards Grant Protection i By BRYCE MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (UP)-The head of the NAACP in Arkansas announced today that nine Negro children will attend Central High School Wednesday, if the National Guard, federalized today by President Eisenhower, can start protecting them then. “The children will go back to school as soon as we are assured protection,” Mrs. L.C. Bates, state president of the NAACP, said. "If that’s in the morning, they will go in the morning. There is no chance of their going back this afternoon. "The President’s action has given us, and certainly the nine Negro children, renewed faith in the Constitution ” There was no" violence at Central High today, although a crowd of about 300 persons showed up. Police arrested six known agitators. Governor Flying Hone The President’s action in federalizing the Arkansas National Guard and Air National Guard, giving them the status of regular Army troops, presumably did not meet the approval of Gov. Orval Faubus, who was flying home from a governor’s conference at , Sea Island, Ga. Lt. Gov. Nathan Gordon sw- , clined to comment and said, "I am waiting for the governor to arrive.” The nine children went to Central Monday and managed to get in while a crowd of 1,000 persons was beating up four Negro newspapermen and photographers. But the crowd got so blood- j thirsty and wild that it threatened < to crush the lines of state and city police. School authorities or- i dered the children spirited out at I noon for their own protection. i Appeals to Negroes 1 Scattered reports of racial vjo , (Continued cn Page Five) , ] 1 Stock Market Rise 1 Nearly Wiped Out I Steep Market Rise Virtually At End i NEW YORK (W—The stock mar- , ket has pll but wiped out its steep rise of five months from Feb. 12 < to July 12. 1 In that period the market rose 1 $31,678,000,000. In the period from i July 13 to the close Monday, the market declined $30,268,000,000. ’ Hence at the opening today the < market was only $1,410,000,000 1 above its year’s lows on the basis ’ of valuation of all listed issues. Many reasons have been given for this drop, which is one of the j most severe since the bull market started on June 13, 1949. There I was a more severe one on Presi- j dent Eisenhower’s heart attack | just two years ago k ] These reasons include tight mon- , ey, government economies in the ( talk stage, the Middle East uncer- ( tain ties, foreign financial difficul- < ties, notably in England and < France, and a profit pinch on j American corporations. 1 There were many others but the : first one that seemed to rock the « market was the profit pinch which ‘ became apparent at mid - July 1 when reports of earnings for the 1 second quarter were beginning to appear. Since then the experts have been making predictions on a letdown in business for the fourth quarter and for next year. The worst that has been said for 1958 is that the nation will operate on a high plateau with the boom slackening in pace. Employment is expected to remain high and so is national income.

Union Preparing To Blackball Teamsters Quick Action Seen By AFL-CIO Heads NEW YORK OPI - The AFL CIO high command is ready t< blackball the Teamsters Unior tinless the Teamsters do ar about-face, labor sources said to day. % The federation’s Executivi Council, meeting in New York also planed to issue clean-up-or get-out directives to the Baker) Workers and United Textile Workers. The Teamsters, largest union in the nation, spurned repeated invitations to appear before the council on charges that it is dominated by corrupt leaders. In Miami Beach, retiring President Dave Beck was blunt. "We can damn well handle our own business,” he wired George Meany, AFL-CIO president. In a new burst of defiance. Moves leading to expulsion ol the 1,400,000-member trucking union are expected from the 29member Executive Council. Renewed claims by Midwest Teamsters boss James R. Hoffs that he is a sure thing to succeed Beck at forthcoming union elections have increased AFL - CIC determination to act. A two-hour meeting of the AFL ClO's eight-man executive com mittee Monday night set the stage quick action on charges against the three unions. Approve Addition To Church Building Plan Second Stoiy To Education Unit The congregation of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, Sunday morning in a special meeting f/jllowing the worship service, decided, without a disenting vote, to accept the plans of the building committee and the recommendations of the offical board to go ahead, with the erection of the second story of he educaional building. A goal of $35,000 was set to cover the cost of construction and furnishing, a part of which is on hand in a building fund. The ground floor of the building was erected in 1951 at a cost of approximately $45,000. It is 59 feet long by 40 feet wide, and contains two main rooms, one 42 x 34 feet, which can be divided into eight class room by means of accordion type doors. The other is 34 x 15 feet, with a dividing door for two class rooms. The second floor will have the same over all dimensions, and will have three rooms on the east one for an office and two for class rooms, with permanent walls. There will be a large room, 39 x 34 feet, capable of being divided Into either four or six rooms by means of folding doors. There will also be storage closets and a wash room on this floor. The building committee which drew up the plans included, Luther Clase; chairman, Robert Ashbaucher, Rufus Kjrchnhoffer, Calven Yost, Robert Yost, Wesley Lehman, and Herman VonGunten. A financee has been appointed to make immediate plans to raise the needed amount in cash and pled ges. Sunday, Sept. 29, has been designated as pledge Sunday, at which time the members of the congregation will be given the opportunity to make their pledges for this project. Members of the fiance committee, include, Ned Johnson, chariman, Richard Linn, Thomas Adler, George Thomas, Richard Kershner, William Tutewiler, James Hunter, James Co(Contfnued on Pare Five) INDIANA WEATHER Fair and continued cool tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 42-59. High Wednesday 64-72. Sunset today 6:39 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:35 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair and cool. Lows Wednesday night tn 40s. Highs Thursday in 70s.

Living Costs At New Record During August “ Consumer Prices At > New Record For 12th e Consecutive Month '• WASHINGTON (UP)—Consumer ’ prices climbed to a record high in ” August for the 12th consecutive e month, the government announced today. n The Bureau of Labor statistics d reported that its consumer price e index —a monthly sampling of s prices for 300 goods and services across the nation—stood at an allg time high of 121. t. The August index figure was .2 r per cent higher than that of July. e BLS Commissioner Ewan Clague a said food contributed mainly to the August increase, climbing .4 per cent during the month. He said „ the price of fruits and vegetables ? dropped but failed to offset increases in the cost of other foods ~ Egg prices climbed 10.2 per cent ‘ and all cuts of meat were higher, a Bacon was up 8.4 per cent, ham -by 3.5 per cent, frankfurters by 2.8 per cent, and steak, roast, and 0 hamburger by 1-5 per cent. Clague said he could not say j- whether the iwtey would continue V its long upward climb this month. * "While food looks more hopes fol,” he said, expected price increases for such items as new fall clothing might offset any declines in September. The index began its latest climb in September, 1956, and each succeeding month established a new cost-of-living record. The BLS also said spendable earnings and the buying power of factory workers rose in August, despite the increase in the price index. A factory worker with three dependents earned an average of ' $75.13 per week after taxes, com- ' pared to an average of $74-80 last f month. The increase was attribu- > ted to longer hours. ; The living cost increase affects - the pay of an estimated 157,000 > workers whose wages are tied to . the BLS price index. Clague said I it will mean hikes of two to three t cents an hour for workers i nosme , cents an hour for workers in some j aircraft, glass and metal industries. ■ f * •. - Watkins Continues ' As Aide At Center Kenneth Watkins To i Remain As Assistant f Richard Linn, newly appointed ’ director of the Decatur Youth and j Community Center, who will assume duties Oct. 1, announced to- ' day that Kenneth Watkins, Adams , Central school teacher, will con- ’ tinue in the role of part time assistant at the center. 1 Watkins, who had temporary charge of the Center during the ‘ months that the post of manager 1 was vacant, began working with the center during the time that j O. M. McGeath was manager. ! Following McGeath’s resignation, 1 Watkins handled the details of the 1 management of the community ■ building. Watkins will now assist Linn with center activities. Members of the Decatur recrea- ■ tion board which controls the coml munity center today issued a state- ■ ment In appreciation of Watkins’ • service to the community during ■ the time that the center was with- ’ out an official director. L. A. Cowens, president of the recreation board, stated that Watkins did an excellent job of handling activities at the center during the past summer. " • — naa « ini-™-." The board’s appreciation was al- : so extended to Mrs. Watson Mad- < dox who has also assisted at the 1 center on a part time basis. Linn announced that Mrs. Maddox would I remain on the center’s staff.

Five Men Killed By Explosion In Mine Terrific Blast In Pennsylvania Mine BROWNSVILLE, Pa. (ff> — Tb* bodies of the last two of five miners killed when trapped by a violent explosion 500 feet beneath the earth's surface were brought up today from the depths of a soft coal pit. Rescuers identified the bodies *s those of oJseph Smith, 81, an.* - Stanley Collins, 58, both of Marianna, a small Southwestern Pennsylavnia community where the sub-surface blast occurred early Monday. Three other bodies were recovered before the last two victims were hauled up at 3:25 a.m., and 4:10 a.m., e.dt. today. Federal and state mine inspectors opened investigations today into the cause of the explosion. State Mine Inspector A. J. Narn refsued to speculate on what touched off the tremendous blast. Eleven workers were trapped in the soft coal pit. All but two were foremen or supervisory personnel who had gone into the shaft to repair a faulty fan. Because of the faulty fan, which caused poor ventilation, the mine was closed for the day. Otherwise, more than 200 miners would have reported to work on the 7 a.m. shift. The blast occurred at 7:».1t Mew a, concrete block structure on the surface to pieces Omtlnwee «■ Pmr» Bl«fe Howard Gehrig Dies Monday Afternoon Decatur Young Man Is Taken By Death Howard L. Gehrig, 34, wellknown Decatur young man, and a resident of this city his entire life, died at 4:30 o’clock Monday afternoon at the. Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient for the past five weeks. An employe of the Decatur General Electric plant for 15 years, he was a shop scheduling specialist. He and his family resided at 110 Harvester Lane. He was born in Decatur Dec. 19, 1922, a son of Tillman H. and Annabelle Shockey-Gehrig, and was ' married to Anita Lindeman Jan. 4, 1947. Mr. Gehrig graduated from the Decatur high school in 1941, and entered the Army air corps Jan. 8, 1942. He was given his discharge Oct. 22, 1945, after serving in the European, African and Middle East theaters. He was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, the Masonic lodge and the American Legion, and had been active for a number of years in Cub Scout work. Surviving in addition to his wife are two children, Eric, 9. and Victoria, 5; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tillman H. Gehrig of Decatur; two brothers, Richard and Gerald Gehrig, both of Decatur; his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Jennie Gehrig of Decatur, and his maternal grandfather, Howard Shockey of Westminster, Md. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the servies. The Masonic lodge will hold services at 8 p. m. Wednesday, and the American Legion will conduct military services at graveside. Fifth Polio Death Reported In State INDIANAPOLIS (W - The death of Mrs. Janice Marie Thompson, 21, Indianapolis, has been blamed on bulbar polio, apparently the fifth polio death in Indiana this year. Mrs. Thompson died Sunday in Methodist Hospital a day after she entered.

Secy. Wilson Given Orders On Race Acts Eisenhower Plans Television Speech Tonight On Crisis U LLE ’IN (W — Defetwe Secretary Charles E. Wilson today ordered the entire Arkansas army and air National Guard into federal service. NEWPORT, R I. (UP) — President Eisenhower today ordered federalization of the Arkansas National Guard and planned to speed back to Washington for a nationwide TV speech to the people tonight on the Arkansas school crisis. The President by executive order in addition to federalizing the state National Guard and the Arkansas Air National Guard, also authorized Dfense Secretry Charles E Wilson to use any necessary regular armed forces of the United States to break up crowds in Little Rock resisting compliance with a school integration order. The President planned to fly hack to Washington late today anft make a TV-radio appearance before the nation about 8 pm. I c.d.t. It will deal with his efforts to put down violence in Little ock and enforce the Federal District Court orßder for integration of Central High School. His executive order was based on the failure of the people of Little Rock to comply with his cease-and-desist order demanding an end to obstruction of justice and calling for compliance with the court’s decisions. The executive order directed the defense secretary to muster into active federal military service members of the Arkansas National Guard and the Air National Guard for "an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders.” It was left up to Wilson when to carry out the orders, but since the President acted so swiftly, Wilson was expected to follow suit. Wilson was directed to "take aU appropriate steps” to enforce the orders of the district court "for the removal of obstruction of justice in the state of Arkansas with respect to matters relating to enrollment and attendance at public schools in-. • Little Rock.” . Wilson was given authority to use, in addition to the National Guard, "such of the armed forces of the United States as he may deem necessary.” Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said this meant - Wilson could use National Guardsmen alone to enforce the court orders or use thertf in conjunction with regular federal troops. ctetteoee race Hypnotic Show In Decatur Thursday, Lions Are Sponsors "Yes, it would be possible to hypnotize a lady for five days to catch up on sleep,” Dr. Morton Greene, hypnotist who will appear in Decatur Thursday at 8 p. m. at the high school gym, told Lions club president M. C. Sieling today in a telephone conference. Dr. Greene confirmed that he will arrive in Decatur shortly before noon and astound the city crowds by driving blind-folded down Second street as a demonstration of his unusual mental powers. Chief of police James Borders will supervise the event. Scene three of the two-hour show, which may be seen only this one day in Decatur, will include a “deep sleep” trance produced on volunteers from the audience. The doctor states, however, that he will not keep the volunteers sleeping through the entire show. The famous 14act show is being sponsored by the Decatur (Lions club to raise money to furnish a room in the new hospital addition. Tickets are available in 10 marked offices downtown in Decatur.

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