Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 231, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No 231.

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HERE’S THE NEW automatic control dam which has just been dedicated one mile above Niagara Falls. It controls water level at Grass Island pool, which feeds Canadian power stations.

Five-Cent Cut Is Ordered In Decatur Rate

A five-cent cut off the proposed 1958 levy of the city of Decatur • general fund seems likely as the result of hearings conducted by George Gable, representing the state board of tax commissioners, at the county court house Tuesday. The cut is subject to the approval of the full tax board in Indianapolis but it is probable that the official 1958 levies in Decatur will be $5.66 for Decatur-Root and $5.60 for Decatur-Washington. No cut was made in the proposed 83-cent county levy but several reductions have been made th various township, school and city corFive cents was also taken off the Monroe town fund to bring Monroe’s levies down to $4.56 from Monroe-Monroe and $4.65 for Mon-roe-Washington. A one-cent slash from Berne's proposed rate gives ... that city a tax rate of $5.68, the highest of any tax unit in the tyOmer cuts made yesterday include two cents off the Union township special school levy; one cent off the Hartford township poor —— relief fund; one cent off Jefferson township tutition; one cent off the Adams Central special /school fund; and one cent off Blue Creek township tuition fund. All other levies submitted to the tax board representative, including the Decatur school rate and the Decatur Htyasy- levy, were approved and will probably become official when they are submitted to the full board. The probable schedule of township rates includes Union, $2.68; Root, $3.14; Preble, $2.46. Kirkland, $3.66: Washington, $3.78: St. Mary’s $3.20; Blue Creek, $2.62; Monroe, $3.64; French, $4.14; Hartford, $3.16; Wabash, $4.04, and Jefferson. $3.08. Rates in all tax units except Blue Creek township will be higher in 1958 than they were in 1957. The Blue Creek rate is six cents less than the 1957 levies. The increases range from eight cents more in Wabash and Jefferson townships to the 64-cent increase for Berne taxpayers. Burl Johnson Named - County ASC Chairman Burl Johnson, St. Mary’s township farmer and a former Adams county sheriff, was elected Adams county ASC chairman at a meeting of township committeemen Monday. Johnson succeeds Oscar Brown, chairman since 1954, who was not a candidate for reelection Other new officers are Victor Bleeke, vice chairman; James Garboden, regular member; Ben Mazelin, first alternate; Herman Steele,*, second alternate' ' Donate Units For Hospital Addition Two units for the new hospital addition will be furnished in memory of Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick by their daughters, Mrs. Helen Niblick Stoner and Mrs. Josephine Niblick Edwards, the hospital board said today. John Niblick was a partner in the Niblick department store. Mrs. John Niblick was a daughter of Judge David Studabaker, of Decatur. The new double unit donation brought the total of units given to 20 of the 35 units being constructed. The new addition will make the Adams county memorial hospital an 85-bed hospital.

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Governors Os South States Meet With Ike Agree On Proposal < To Eisenhower On *■ Little Rock Crisis WASHINGTON (UP) — Four southern governors agreed today on a proposal to President Eisenhower for easing the Little Rock integration crisis and expressed “high hopes” of a soluiton . They refused to reveal their “plan of action" in advance of their afternoon White House meeting with the President. But it seemed apparent that the four governors—all “moderates” in the South’s stand on. racial in-tegration-had drafted a compromise designed to remove federal troops and ease the federal-state clash in Arkanas. / 2 Gov. Luther Hodges of North Carolina chairman of the delegation, said after a four hour and 20 minute strategy conference in his hotel room: “I have high hopes that we can come to some solution of the Little Rock situation.” Could Broaden Discussion They agreed unanimously to limjt their joint proposals to the iskue of the use and role of federal troops in enforcing Little Rock school integration. But Hodges said they did not close the door on broadening the area of discussion if Eisenhower wants to bring up general questions on southern racial problems. Present at the marathon strategy huddle with Hodges were Govs. Frank Clement of Tennessee, Leroy Collins of Florida and Theodore R. McKeldin of Maryland. Hodges would not say whether the group contacted Gov. Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas at any time during the all-morning session. Nor did the group make any plans for a possible conference with Faubus until after they could talk with Eisenhower, Hodges said. Picket White House While the four governors were meeting, the federal government withdrew paratroops of the 10 ist Airborne Division from daytime sentry duty around Little Rock's Central High School. They were replaced by men of the federalized Arkansas National Guard. However, Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said there was no connection between the troopwithdrawal and the President’s conference with the four governors. The four came here to seek complete removal of federal troops from the integration dispute. Hagerty said it always had been the plan to relieve the paratroops with the Arkansas Guard as soon as possible. Indianapolis Woman Dies Os Injuries INDIANAPOLIS (IB — Miss Delores Kidwell, 23. Indianapolis, died Monday in Methodist Hospital from injuries sustained Sept. 12 in a two-car crash in which Larry W. Aynes, 14, Bridgeport, also was injured fatally. Aynes died the day after the accident, which occurred at a Marion County intersection.

Beck Orders Re-check Os Credentials Ask Credentials Committee Check On All Delegates MIAMI BEACH (UP) — Teamsters President Dave Beck called for a re-check of delegates’ credentials questioned by the Senate Rackets Committee today, a move which could slice the big lead James R. Hoffa now holds in the race for the top union job. “We are bending over backwards to see that no delegate is seated where a protest is backed by facutal data,” Beck said in asking the credentials committee to "go over., the list of delegates from 68 locals questioned by Senate investigators. The Senate committee the convention that It had reason to believe more than one-half of some 1,900 delegates were chosen improperly. The Teamsters committee met backstage while socalled non-controversial changes in the union’s constitution were before the convention. Will Let Off Steam Chicago contender Thomas J. Haggerty, one of four in the race to succeed Beck, said that a first ballot victory for Hoffa could be stopped. • But Haggerty said only properly elected delegates could be seated if he and other anti-Hoffa candidates — Thomas Hickey of New York and William A. Lee of Chicago—are to have a chance. Many of the brawny truck drivers are indignant over objections to their credentials. They said they would let off steam when the convention considers the challenges at its second session. But Hoffa’s lieutenants said the credentials squabble will be just a sideshow in the clash of contenders to succeed departing Dave Beck. English Backs Hoffa Old-time Teamster John F. English, secretary - treasurer of the union, struck a heavy blow at anti-Hoffa forces by coming out for the Midwest boss of the big union. TTiomas J. Haggerty, milk wagon driver from Chicago in the presidential race, was geared to fight against accepting credentials of 177 delegates. He said most of them were pledged to Hoffa. The credentials committee, on its own initiative, questioned 394 other delegates for the grand total of 571. fight over Teamsters delegates also was in progress on a second front—in Washington—and union officials credited this sideplay to the convention with being responsible for the unusually large number of challenges. Suit Goes To High Court Thirteen rank and file Teamsters ..from the New York area, denied a rehearing-by the Circuit Court of Appeals at Washington, carried their suit to block the union’s election to Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren who agreed to hear it. The suit charges more than 80 per cent of the convention delegates were handpicked to boost Hoffa to the Teamsters throne. TTie Senate Labor Rackets Committee also entered the fight over delegates with a charge that 50 per cent of them had been chosen illegally. _z But shortly after Committee Chairman John L. McClellan (DArk.) made the charge in a telegram to Teamster Vice President William A. Lee of Chicago, another of the presidential candidates, the union’s credentials committee tentatively approved the seating of nearly 1,500 delegates.

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Killer Os Two Police Officers Captured By Indiana State Police

Japan Elected To Council Os United Nations , ' ■ /v *; ' ‘ _ j- J Japan Is Elected Despite Opposition i From Soviet Russia UNITED NATION — 4R — Japan was elected to the United Nations Security Council on the first ballot over Soviet opposition today. Canada and Panama also were elected to two-years terms, all three countries take office next Jan. 1. The United States supported all three successful candidates. Russia, claiming under the “gentleman’s agreement” of 1946 the seat won by Japan belonged to Eastern Europe, waged a vigorous campaign for Czechoslovabia on the council. In the secret ballot, Panama received 74 votes, Canada 72, Japan 55, Czechoslovakia 25. Single votes were cast for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Italy, Indiana and Sudan. Fifty-two votes were necessary for election. Panama will replace Cuba, Canada takes over from Australia and Japan assumes’the seat now helt by the Philippines next January. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vassily V. Kuzenetsov called a press conference last week to protest the nomination of Japan, although he never mentioned that country by name. He cited the so-called “Gentlemen’s Agreement” of 1946 on the election of Security Council members by geographical area to support Czechoslovakia’s claim. The United States has insisted the agreement lapsed several years ,agq»,..„. .......... ...

Red Cross Planning First Aid Classes Instructor Class In Home Nursing Registration for a Red Cross instructor class in home nursing will take place Oct. 15 at 2 p.m. at the Huntington court house in the assembly room. There is still room for four more in the present car arrangement, and more cars will be available if necessary, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive director, said. The Adams county chapter of the Red Cross plans several classes in first aid, both standard and advanced, and it is hoped that there will be instructors in home nursing. If instructors are trained, classes will be given this fall and winter. These classes will stress training for emergencies and disaster, at local and national level. The civil defense department recommends that at least one member of every family in the county have instructors in first aid and home nursing. Any person interested in the Huntington course should contact the local Red Cross office at 3-3106. There is no charge for this training course, the only expense is the text book (75c), note book, and pen, and a few hours of time. "As a result you will be better able to care for yourself, your family and your community in time of illness or disaster,” Mrs. Oelberg stated. Blood Donors Needed At Berne Wednesday Blood donors will be needed at. the Berne auditorium between 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Mrs. Ed Bauer, blood program chairman, said today. Persons who desire to give blood may walk in and be scheduled at that time, Mrs. Bauer added. Persons who gave blood the last time the bloodmobile was in Decatur are now eligible to give again. The quota is 127 pints.

Many Pupils Absent Because Os Illness Public High School Is Worst Affected Respiratory diseases,* including colds and flu, have quite a number of pupils in some city and county schools home sick today. Hardest hit, perhaps, is Decatur high school, which reported 72 pupils home sick. Os the first 30 members of the football team, which plays Concordia high school tonight, at least 15 are ill at home, including Ted Hutker, Larry Klenk, Richard Leming, Clarence May, Jack Macklin, Larry Moses’, Phil Rambo, Nick Conrad, James Corah, Pat Franklin, Steve Lytle, Bob Shraluka, Lynn and James Gay. The Decatur Catholic school reported very few absences, and almost none in the high school. Monmouth also reported only five absences out of 181 students. Adams Central reported 49 absent from high school, most of whom had colds or flu. No report was available from the lower six grades, but the figure there was believed much lower. Decatur’s grade schools apparently were aiso not yet hit by die usual fall respiratory? diseases. ■ . Pleasant Mills reported that Some of its students wvrt. sU'k. but not many. Hit Several Areas INDIANAPOLIS (W — Outbreaks of ailments slashed deeply into class attendance at Indiana schools in several areas today and doctors checked symptoms to determine if Asian flu was responsible. Our Lady of Mount Carmel, an elementary parochial school at Carmel near Indianapolis, w a-a closed Monday at least for two days. Nearly half the school’s 150 pupils were absent, some of them suffering from symptoms associated with Asian flu. South Bend health authorities reported about 500 pupils absent from three high schools, including about 350 from Washington high school which has an enrollment of around 700. Attendance also was low at Anderson schools, where a wave of flu-like illness previously had swept the Anderson College campus the first week after school opened.

American Airman Is Held In Japan Denies Knowledge Os Hit-Run Deaths FUKUOKA. Japan (UP) — An American airman whose automobile killed two persons and injured two others in a series of hit-run accidents Saturday night has claimed he "can’t remember what happened" that night, Japanese police said today. The airman, S. Sgt. Winston Eley, 32, Philadelphia, was turned over to Japanese police by U.S. military authorities Monday. He was to be questioned by a judge today to determine whether he can be held another 10 days pending investigation. Police said Eley’s car, driven wildly through drizzling rain, struck and injured a physician and his wife on a motorcycle, ’Mt and killed a 50-year-old woman and then careened on for about a quarter of a mile and struck’and killed a 38-year-old housewife. All the victims were Japanese. The car later was found abandoned near a bridge in the suburb of Fukuoka and traced to Eley. Eley told newsmen Monday he was not driving the car when the accident occurred and did not know who was. But police said today he told them he had dinner at the service club Saturday night at 6 p.m. and the next thing he remembers he was at home suffering from stomach pains. The commander of the Bth Air Base Group at Ita:|)ke field where Eley is stationed said the airman had been under treatment for stomach cancer. (Continued on Page eight)

Guards Replace Paratroopers On Little Rock Duty First Step Toward Withdrawal Os All Federal Soldiers LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP)-Na-tional Guardsmen replaced the regulars of the 101st Airborne Division on daytime sentry duty around Central High School today in the first step toward withdrawal of federal troops. An Army spokesman said members of the federalized Arkansas National Guard henceforth will be in “complete charge” of protecting Central High around the clock. About 100 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne remained at the high school, quartered in locker rooms beneath the football stadium. .Nearly 1,000 other paratroopers are being held at an Army reserve training armory in Little Rock and at Camp Robinson, on the outskirts of the city. Military sources intimated that the paratroopers will stay in Little Rock for several more days at least, but will keep “in the background” while the 153rd Infantry Regiment of the Arkansas Guard escorts Negro children to the. school and keeps order in the school area. Armed. But No Bayonets About 1,500 members of the 153rd were mobilized under federal command last Tuesday night, at the same time that the paratroopers were flown here from Ft. Campbell, Ky. The guardsmen are quartered at Camp Robinson. Until today they were assigned only to a night watch at the school. They took over from the paratroopers at sundown, and the 101st resumed its vigil each day at dawn. Today the usual changing of the guard did not take place. No advance announcement was made. But a military spokesman confirmed the visual observation of an early-arriving United Press reporter that the guard had assumed daytime duty. The guardsmen were armed with carbines or M-l rifles without bayonets. They wore fatigue uniforms bearing the shoulder (Continued on P*a* Three)

Mrs. Mike Moser Dies Monday Night Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Bertha Moser, 72, wife of Mike Moser, died at 10:30 p.m. Monday at her home, three miles west of Berne. She had been in failing health for seven years and seriously ill the past two years. Bom in Adams county Jan. 11, 1885, she was a daughter of C. V. and Sophia Bailey-Stauffer, and was married to Mike Moser Jan. 7, 1904. Mrs. Stauffer was a member of the First Mennonlte church at Berne. Surviving in addition to her husband are three sons, Homer of Lima, 0., Clinton of Groveland, 111., and Norman of Cleveland, 0.; pine grandchildren; two great-, grandchildren; four brothers, the Rev: Joshua Stauffer of Owosso, Mich., the Rev. Emanuel Stauffer and John and Christian Stauffer, all of Fort Wayne, and six sisters, Mrs. Amos Steiner of Portland, Mrs. Hulda Steiner of Huntertown, Miss Christine Stauffer of Decatur, Mrs. William Zurcher of Monroe; Mrs. Vernon Riley of Monroe, and Mrs. Lester Wimmer of Elkhart. One brother and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Mennonite church in Berne, the Rev. Olin Krebbiel and the Rev. Gordon Neuenschwander officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home in Berne after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Three Children Dead In School Bus Crash Brakes Fail, Bus Plunges In Ravine LOS ANGELES (UP) — Three children were killed and 25 others injured Monday when a parochial school bus went out of control down a steep grade and plunged into a 35-foot ravine. Police skid brakes on the bus apparently failed as the vehicle • was halfway down the three-block • hill. The bus, travelling at an effti- • mated 70 miles an hour, crashed ' through a guard rail at the end ’ of the street and overturned in ■ the ditch. Officers said the children were • jumbled together in a bloody mass 1 in the wrecked 'bus. Mrs. Elsie Steimer saw her boy, Michael, 5, ride the bus to serious injury. Says Helpless Prayer “When they went by, I saw him standing up in the bus, waving and shouting,” Mrs. Steimer sobbed. “I thought they were having fun until I realized something was wrong. I was helpless. I just prayed that Michael would be all right." The bus driver, Meldon Smith, ' 53, was trapped in the vehicle for • nearly a half-hour before firemen ■ could remove him. He suffered a ’ broken arm and other injuries. 1 The bus had left the All Saints Catholic Elementary School at 3 • p.m. to take 50 pupils, ranging from 6 to 12 years of age, home. It was nearing the end of its run ■ when the accident occurred. It was ’ estimated about 30 children were in the bus when it was wrecked. Two Killed Instantly Two of the children were killed instantly in the crash. They were Steven Maiorca, 8, and John De Santis, 8. A third boy, Edward Ul--1 welling, died two hours later at Central Receiving Hospital. Smith had to choose between a sharp left turn at the bottom of the hill or collision with a narrow 1 footbridge. The bus zoomed straight ahead, hit the bridge and flipped into the ; 100-foot wide ravine. Witnesses said the left wheels of the bus Ceattned <m rllvat

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Scout Honor Court Held Monday Night Awards Court Held For Legion Scouts Twelve Boy Scouts of the American Legion troop 63 were honored in a court of awards held Monday night at the American Legion home. Five new scouts were awarded tenderfoot badges: Ed Kohne, John Custer, Kenneth Riffle, John Alberding, and Richard Doty. Five scouts received second class awards: Steve Gause, Tom McIntosh. Ernest Hanni, Mike Worthman, and Ben Kolter. Two scouts received advanced rewards: Joe Smith received merit badges in life saving, nature, forestry, apd camping. Jerry Mclntosh received awards in life saving, cooking, and personal fitness. Nelson Doty, institutional representative, conducted a question and answer session on scouting in general, and on the troop’s program for the coming year. Scouts Joe Spiith and Jerry Mclntosh explained the merit badge system. Instruction on maps and compass reading will be given at the Oct. 3 meeting by Doty. Thursday, Oct. 10, Charles W. Kent will explain and exhibit his collection of precious stones. All scouts and their parents are Invited to attend. The meeting will be held at the Community Center at 7 p.m. INDIANA WEATHER Fair this afternoon through Wednesday. A little cooler north half this afternoon and tonight. Low tonight 4046 north, 46-62 south. High Wednesday 72-78. Sunset today 6:28 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 6:42 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and warm. Lows Wednesday night In 50s. Highs Thursday in 70s.

Companion Os Gunman Slain During Night Michigan, Indiana State Troopers Die Under Blazing Guns NORTH VERNON, Ind. (UP)— Three Indiana state policemen today captured the surviving one at two gunmen who had killed two state police troopers and wounded three other officers in a series of running gun battles across two states. They identified him as Victor Wayne Whitley, 26, Granger, Tex. Lt. Fred Lee, Sgt. William Kirkham and Sgt. Bob Grey of the state police flushed him out of a thinly wooded area near a farm five miles south of here. He surrendered with his hands in the air when they hailed him from a patrol car. Whitley and his slain companion, believed to have been Ralph Walker Taylor, 36. St Alban’s. W.Va., were wanted tor the slaying of a Michigan state trooper and an Indiana state pol iceman: the abduction of a woman and a man In Michigan, and a deputy sheriff in Indiana; the wounding of a Michigan state trooper, the weundto&of a North Vernon city policeman, and the wounding of an Indiana trooper; and at least one bank robbery. Unarmed When Captured Whitley, a tall, blond young man with a crew cut, was Covered with blood from briar scratches, but otherwise unhurt. His sports shirt and khaki pants were torn. The three policemen saw him walking through the area with his hands on his hips, and when they hailed him he put his hands into the air. He was unarmed when he was captured, and was taken to the state police post at Seymour, Ind., for questioning. His companion had died from wounds earlier in the chase, and was thrown out of a car. He was found along a roadside. At Seymour, Whitley told state troopers he had no part in any of the killings. He told officers that he and Taylor were on a holdupspree since last June, robbing liquor stores, loan company offices and supermarkets in 13 states, including Georgia Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, South Carolina, West Virginia, Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska and Indiana. A S3OO loan company holdup at Terre Haute last Thursday was one of the crimes, Whitley said. Whitley said Taylor once told him he served nine years in a West Virginia prison. Police, fearful they would have to shoot it out with the gunman, carried a heavy array' of weapons and kept in touch with each other with walkie - talkies during the search. Other officers in the state police and North Vernon police contingents girdled the area on foot and manned about 75 roadblocks in 10-square mile area south of here. Abducted Three Persons The search was held up for a time this morning by a dense fog. Police feared the searchers would be “sitting ducks” for the gunman in the fog and early morning darkness. Authorities said the gunman was one of two bandits who killed a state trooper in Michigan Monday afternoon and seriously wounded another. The desperadoes then fled to Indiana, killing another state patrolman and wounding two police officers in a gun battle at a roadblock. One of the officers was reported in critical condition. One of the gunmen, believed to be Ralph Walker Taylor, 36, of near St. Alban's W. Va., was injured fatally in the battle and dumped from the getaway car. The surving bandit later abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot into the woods about seven miles south of North Vernon. During their two-state flight, they also abducted a man and worn in in Michigan and a deputy sheriff in Indiana. All were released (Continued on Two)

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