Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 246, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV, No. 246.

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HEAVY EGYPTIAN TANKS roll through the streets of Alexandria enroute to Syria after reports that a state of emergency had been declared for the Syrian army. Reports placed heavy concentrations of Turkish tanks and men on Syria's frontier.

Chinese Reds To Aid Syria If Attacked Formal Assurance Given By Turkey No Attack Plans By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Communist China said today it would go to Syria’s aid if Syria is attacked. A Peiping Radio broadcast heard in London said Chinese Communist leader Mao Tze-Tung pledged that the Peiping regime would “resolutely support the joint struggle of the Syrian peoples to defend their independence and peace." Peiping Radio warned the United States was “risking the danger of starting.a war” and said “in the era of intercontinental guided missiles ... it would not escape heavy blows as it did during the last two world wars.” “America’s allies also may be the targets of these guided missiles—and this is something which they should pseriously consider,’’ Peiping said. Turkey Assures Syria In Damascus a Syrian government official disclosed that Turkey had given formal assurances it did not plan to attack Syria, but he said a Turkish note delivered yesterday was another example of “inteference in our affairs.” The statement came from acting Syrian Foreign Minister Khalil Kallas. He took exception to the wording of the note which said Turkey was "concerned’’ at the "Syrian attitude" and at “what is taking place in Syria.” "We regard this as interference in our affairs,” Kallas said. New charges that the United States Sixth Fleet and Turkey were making “provocations” against Syria came today in Cairo from the six million strong International Federation of Arab Labor Unions. The federation said it cabled President Eisenhower asking him to use his “good offices” to avert a Middle East war and threatening to cut Western oil supplier if Syria is attacked. "Beware our wrath,” the federation told Eisenhower. Appeal To UN It also appealed to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to take effective steps to avert a nuclear war and cited his efforts in the Egyptian invasion. The Syrian crisis was expected to come before the U.N. General Assembly by Tuesday for_a full fledged debate. Syria has requested such a debate and the U.N. Steering Committee was meeting this afternoon to put the debate on the agenda. - In the meantime United States and British officials in Washington plunged into an intense series of top-level talks on the Syrian-Turk-ish situation and on Russia’s blusU „ilnu*o on Pstt* UL»» Membership Drive By Legion Saturday * Members of the American Legion are asked to meet at the Legion home at noon Saturday to help start the membership drive for 1958, Ambrose Spangler, chairman of the group, said today. Last year’s membership list will be used, and teams will go about seeing old members, and urging them to pay their dues for 1958. Dues must be paid by the first week in November to qualify for the district box-car roundup.

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Influenza Deaths Continue To Mount All U.S. Sections Are Now Affected By UNITED PRESS Influenza deaths mounted today and in some sections of the country authorities said vaccine was arriving “too late” to do any good. A United Press count since the start of the week showed at least 39 deaths blamed on flu or complications since the start of toe week. Pennsylvania and Ilinois reported 9 each, Michigan 4, Indiana, New York and New Jersey 3 each, and lowa, Ohio, Utah and Wisconsin, 2 each. In Tennessee, State Health Commissioner R. H. Hutcheson declared the outbreak an epidemic Absenteeism to Tennessee schools ranged from 25 to 45 percent. At Madison, Wis., Dr. E. H. Jordan, assistant state health officer. said 154,000 doses of Asian flu vaccine released for Wisconsin came “too late to do any good.” He said the vaccine takes two . weeks to develop immunity. The death toll at the Dixon, Hl., school for retarded children reached seven and authorities said it might hit 30 before toe outbreak subsides. A total of 1,278 inmates were stricken, with 4. in critical condition and 24 acutely ill. A similar outbreak killed six children at the Pennhurst state school for the mentally retarded near Philadelphia. Earlier, the U.S. Public Health Service estimated more than 1,500,000 persons hit by toe flu since toe first outbreak of Asian flu last summer. At least 360,000 of the cases came last week alone. College and high school students appeared to be most susceptible to the disease. More than a dozen collegiate football games were cancelled or postponed this weekend due to campus flu epidemics. In Pennsylvania, toe flu outbreak at the Pennhurst school was reported on the wane, but another epidemic of a “mild form” of influenza affected 600 of 850 patients at the Laurelton State Village for mentally retarded women.

Ohio Historian To Speak Here Oct. 29 County Historical Society Will Meet Dr. Richard Knopf, historian of the Ohio Anthony Wayne Parkway board, will address the Adams county historical society Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 8 p. m„ at the Decatur library. Bryce Thomas, president of the society, said today. The meeting will be led by the Indiana Anthony Wayne Parkway commission, with Robert H. Heller, of Decatur, commission member, in charge of the meeting arrangements. Dr. Knopf is one of the outstanding Anthony Wayne authorities in the United States, and is hired on a full-time basis to study the Wayne campaign of 1792-5. Dr. Hubert H. Hawkins, director of the Indiana historical bureau, will also be present for the meeting. A board meeting of the newly formed historical society will Start at 7:30 p. m. All persons interested in joining the historical society, which will present interesting historical (Continued on Page Five)

Busy Round Os Activities For Queen, Philip Brisk Schedule For Second Day Os Visit To Nation's Capital WASHINGTON (UP) — Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, basking in the welcome given them by the heart of democracy, set out on a brisk round of activities that include lunch with Vice President Nixon and dinner with Secretary of State Dulles. It was the second day of the royal couple’s four-day state visit to the nation’s capital. Already they had found this city, blase about most visiting celebrities, warms to a pretty queen and a handsome prince. President Eisenhower, toasting the British sovereign and her husband at a sumptuous White House banquet Thursday'night, said this country's respect for Britain was "epitomized in the affection we have for toe royal family ... And Eisenhower took the occasion to make what may become the West’s answer to Russia’s earth satellite. Labelling the scientific and cultural assets of toe free world far greater than those of Communism, he called for a new scientific alliance within toe North Atlantic Treaty Organization to meet the threat of Russia’s missile and space achievements. Toaita Ike The gorgeously - gowned young Queen, who toasted Eisenhower and wished him “every possible health and happiness,” also did not ignore the scientific excitement caused by toe oviet "putSnik.” She pledged Britain’s cooperation in toe "new age of discovery and exploration in the world ot human knowledge and technology” beginning to unfold. Her majesty, incidentally, unwittingly contributed to the first snafu of her visit to the New World. The meticulous British Information Service had announced that the Queen wore to the White House dinner her “maple leaf of Canada” gown, which she had worn to a reception in Canada. Ab about 3 a.m. the embarrassed British Information Service telephoned news agencies to say she hadn’t worn that dress at all —■it was another with some similar features. One official sadly quoted Tennyson, “Someone has blundered.” Today, tne seventh day of toe 10-day royal visit to North America, the couple was scheduled to be separated for part of toe time. The monarch was to visit the National Gallery of Art and Children’s Hospital in toe forenoon. Award To Philip Meantime President Eisenhow; er was scheduled to award Philip (Oonunuea on rax* Six) Girl Scout Shelter House Rite Saturday Formal Dedication Saturday Afternoon '* ~ ■ The program for the dedication of the new Girl Scout shelter house at Hanna-Nuttman park has been released by Mrs. Jack Rosenberger, program chairman. The dedication will be conducted Saturday at 3 p. m., with all Decatur Girl Scouts and Brownies participating. Opening the program will be the flag raising ceremony by members of troop 21, under the direction of Mrs. Robert Railing. Girl Scouts, Brownies, their leaders and guests will unite in the pledge of allegiance to toe flag, followed by group singing. The Rev. Virgil W. Sexton, pastor of toe First Methodist church, will offer the dedicatory prayer. The building committee will then be presented and a history of the building project will be given. Acting mayor Norbert Aumann will be presented and he will cut the ribbon placed across toe door. Assisting in this portion of the ceremony will be Lesa Brandyberry of Brownie Troop 26, Rita Le Glentzer of intermediate Scout troop 22 and Jane Bedwell, a senior scout representing troops 16 and 17.’ "The Blessing of the House,” a dedicatory ceremony, will be presented by troop 11 under the direction of Mrs. Railing. Troop 14 will preside for toe flag lowering ceremony, during which taps will be sung by toe Scouts and Brownies. Parents of toe girls and all persons interested in Scouting are invited to attend the dedication. The annual Girl Scout roundup, Maturing a wiener roast, will follow the program.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October 18, 1957.

Back Lot Owner 1 ells Os Receiving SI,OOO Bill From Teverbaugh

UN Debate On Syrian Charge Is Seen Likely . f U. N. Committee In Session Today On Charges By Syria UNITED NATIONS (UP) — The United Nations takes its first step today toward debate on the SovietSyrian charge that America and Turkey are plotting a war in the Mideast. The General Assembly's steering committee will meet at 3 p.m. e.d.t. to decide whether to add the issue to the agenda of toe current session. The Syrian request for a debate is almost certain to be approved. The question probably will be taken up by the assembly as a whole on an urgent basis Tuesday, following Queen Elizabeth H’s visit to the United Nations Monday. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko’s letter to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, backing up the Syrian complaint, charged that Turkey plans to attack Syria "immediately after toe Turkish elections Oct. 27.” Western sources dismissed the charges as "f ant all i c,” but spokesmen for both the United States and Britain welcomed the idea of a debate on toe question. "The United States favors a full and free discussion of the prob-, lem,” said a spokesman for toe American delegation. ‘We are ready and willing to talk about it. . . "The US. delegation is initiating contacts with a number of other delegations — including the Arabs, except Syria—to ascertain the desires of the delegations on how they would like to see the item handled.” Sludent Speaks At Meeting Os Rotary John Hebble Speaks At Rotary Meeting John Hebble, Decatur high school senior, and son of Dr. and Mrs. Harry Hebble, described his experiences at Hoosier Boys State at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at toe Youth and Community Center. The student was the representative of the Rotary club at Boys State, held during the summer on the campus of Indiana University at Bloomington. Relating his experiences, young Hebble stated that each boy was elected to some governmental office and was assigned to perform the regular duties of that particular office. * Hebble was a county recorder and also played in toe band. Special classes were held in speech, police work and law. Each boy was assigned to one of two political parties, mock political conventions were held, and the boys were given an bpportunity to se how these parties function in Indiana government. Earl Sheets, of Sheets Furniture store, was formally induct ed into toe club by Avon Burk, first president of toe club when it was organized in 1917. The Rotary club will forego its regular meeting next Thursday, and members will attend the annual Chamber of Commerce rur-al-urban fish fry at toe Decatur high school. Members are urged to purchase their tickets at once. Late Bulletin FORT WAYNE W — Two men wearing halloween masks held np the south-side branch of the Lincoln National Bank A Trust Co., today and escaped with “thousands of dollars.” The bandits escaped in a blues late-model sedan bearing Michigan license number MN3462, bank officials said.

Teachers Institute Slated Next Week Schools Will Close Thursday, Friday Public schools in Decatur, Berne and Adams county will be closed Thursday and Friday, Oct. 24 and 25, so that faculty members can attend the annual two-dny teachers institute meetings. Decatur Catholic grade and high school will also be closed on those two days while the faculty attends a meeting for Catholic school teachers, to be held at Central Catholic high school in Fort Wayne. A few of the local public teachers, including the official delegates from each of toe school systems, will attend toe meeting in Indianapolis, where the annual business session of the Indiana state teachers’ association is being held. Most of the teachers will attend a similar meeting at Fort Wayne. Delegates for toe Decatur schools are Miss Glennys Roop and Mrs. Hubert Feasel of Northwest elementary school. Paul Liechty of the same school is alternate. County school delegates are Kenneth Van Emon of Geneva, John Fruto of Adams Central and Frieda Lehman of Lincoln school in Blue Creek township. Several local teachers are included on committees in charge of arrangements lor the Fort Wuyne sessions. William J. Lee of Geneva, Claren J. Neuenschwander of Berne-French and Hugh J. Andrews of Decatur high school are members of the advisory committee of the northeast division of the I. S. T. A. Students of Berne high school, under the direction of Ralph Kem, will present music for the general session, section two, to be held Thursday at 10:15 a.m. at the Scottish Rite auditorium in Fort Wayne. Other local teachers on committees include Sylvester Everhart of Decatur, a member of the driver education section committee, and Beth Blue of Berne high school, chairman of the English section committee. In addition to several general sessions, toe institute will feature special departmental meetings on business education, driver education, English, home economics, industrial education, journalism, mathematics, music, personnel and guidance, physical education for men and women, science, social studies and superintendents and (Continued on Page Five) Community Fund's Total Now $15,500 Repeat Request To Workers To Report M. J. Pryor, general chairman of the 1957 Community Fund drive reported today that the fund collections tabulated to date now total $15,500. With many reports still not turned in by team captains to their cochairmen, Pryor stated that it was highly probable the additional $6,000 heeded to raise the figure to the goal of $18,450 would be forthcoming. Pryor repeated his urgent requests to all workers, captains and co-chairmen to complete their fund work immediately so that toe final tabulations can be made. He also announced plans to solicit those persons who do not work in Decatur. He pointed out that during the current drive only those persons who work in the community have been contacted and that an effort will be made in toe near future to contact people who are employed outside toe city. . He stated that this portion of the campaign will be conducted later in the month. He asked that those persons who have joined payroll deduction plans in other communities should direct their payments to the Decatur fund. He pointed out that persons working in Decatur who do not live here follow this plan in contributing to toe fund drives of their own communities.

Ike Calls On Free Nations Pool Knowledge Urges Grouping Os Scientific Powers Os Free Countries WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower called free nations to create a super scientific alliance that would far outstrip anything the Russians can produce in technological and missile achievements. . .We have the power,” the president said last night. "The only thing to do is put it together.” Eisenhower appealed specifically for a grouping of toe scientists of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nations* But he also had in mind the total scientific manpower and resources of toe free world. “NATO should not be thought of merely as a military alliance,” he said. “NATO is away of grouping ability—of our manood, our resources, of our industries and our factories.” Ike Speaks At Dinner Eisenhower issued toe call for scientific unity at a glittering White House dinner for Queen Commonwealth countries in these troubled times. K Meanwhile, a high-ranking government scientist indicated toe administration is In the process of stepping up its missile and satellite programs. There were these other developments in toe missile-satellite field: —lnformed sources said scientists at Cape Canaveral, Fla., may test fire today the rocket that is to carry the U.S. satellite into space. The second and third stages of the three-stage rocket will be dummies, however, and no at(Cont<nu*o on Paa* Four) Two More Entrants For Queen Contest a To Choose Queen At Fish Fry Oct. 24 Two more entrants in the 1957 Adams county soybean queen contest were announced today by Joe Kaehr, chairman of toe contest which will be held in connection with the annual soybean festival and rural-urban fish fry 8 Thursday, Oct. 24, under toe sponsorship of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Miss Jane Grimm, 17, a senior at Adams Central, will be one of the contestants, Kaehr stated. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Left Grimm of Decatur route two. Her talent in the contest will be dramatics. The other recent entry was sent by Miss Dorene K. Beery, 17. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Beery, of Decatur route two, and a senior at Monmouth high school. For the talent portion of the contest, she will play toe piano. All unmarried girls of Adams county between toe ages of 16 and 19 inclusive, are eligible to participate in the contest, which will feature elimination of all but five girls in the afternoon of next Thursday at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The queen will be chosen that night at the fish fry which will be held at the Decatur high school gym. She will be crowned by Miss Indiana of 1957, Miss Gloria Rupprecht of Valparaiso University. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday. Quite cool tonight with scattered frost. Continued cool Saturday. Low tonight 32-40. High Saturday 55-62. Sunset today 6:02 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 6:55 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Increasing cloudiness and a little wanner. Low Saturday night around 46. High Sunday In the 60s.

S. S. Speaker Harold H. Filing

5.5. Convention Sunday And Monday Harold H. Etling Convention Speaker Harold H. Etling, of Winona Lake, will be toe speaker at all three sessions of the annual fall Adams county Sunday school convention Sunday and Monday, Oct. 27 and 28, Earl Chase, president of the association, said today. The convention will convene Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Cross Evangelical Reformed church in Berne. Etling is director of the Sunday school board of toe national fellowship of Brethren churches. He travels throughout toe nation as an advisor and aid in the Sunday schools of his denomination. Fallowing this program, Etling will speak at toe national Sunday school convention at Los Angeles, Calif. From Oct. 31 to Nov. 1 he will attend the other “twin convention of the national Sunday school convention” at Grand Rapids, Mich. The Sunday evening service of the county Sunday school convention will be held at the West Missionary church, five miles west of Berne on state highway 118. It had originally been scheduled for the Decatur Trinity E. U. B. church, but special services at that church necessitated a change in program. The evening service will begin at 7:30 p. m. The Rev. G. Robert Magary, pastor of the West Missionary church, is president of the Indiana state Sunday school association. Plans are now complete for the annual banquet Monday in the Berne school gym at 6:30 p. m. Sunday school superintendents and workers throughout toe county have the tickets and they are again priced at $1.35. Many schools throughout the county are sending their officers and teachers to the banquet as a token of thanks for toe work that they do each Sunday. Reservations can be made with Janet Brown, route 3, or Earl Chase, route 6. They must be made by Thursday, Oct. 24. Sister Os Decatur Lady Dies Thursday Mrs. Dorothy Niblick, 61, of Bluffton, died at 4:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the Wells county hospital in that city. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Gaffer, of Decatur, and Mrs. Frank Ziegler, of Toledo, O. Mrs. Niblick was we|l known in Decatur. Decatur Lions Will Meet Monday Night The Lions club will meet Monday at the regular time and place, secretary G. Remy Bierly announced today. Original plans to cancel the meeting because it is the same week as the rural-urban fish fry have been changed because there was no meeting this week. Dick Heller, Jr., will give a brief description of his visit with former President Harry S. Truman two weeks ago during the program, Jay Markley, program chairman, announced.

Bill Payment For Purchase By Dean Burton Owner Says Former Highway Official w Completed Deal INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The former owner of a Madison Ave. back lot told an Indiana highway scandal conspiracy trial jury today that former highway right-of-way chief Nile Tteverbaugh handed her and her husband a SI,OOO bill in payment for sale of the lot to "Dean Burton.” Teverbaugh is one of four men on trial on charges they conspired to buy that lot and another in a deal which produced a $22,800 “middleman” profit. • < Mrs. Loretta Acker, owner of one of the two lots on which the grand jury indictments of conspiracy were based, said Teverbaugh was the man who came to her home In 1954 and completed the deal for "Burton.” Marion County Recorder Harry Alford previously had testified that a property deed showing sale of the lots in the name of “Dean Burton” was mailed to Teverbaugh at his home in Monroe City. But defense attorneys had obdoes not require that such records be kept. Judge Walter Pritchard took the objection under ment. Records in Evidence Alford brought additional records today to the witness stand showing that Teverbaugh paid the recording fees for recording the deeds in “Dean Burton’s” name. A typewritten sheet con ta ining that information was placed in evidence. This time, the defense did not object and there was no need for Pritchard to rule on the previous objection. While Mrs. Acker was on the stand. Deputy Prosecutor Robert Orbison asked her what was said about "Dean Burton" when Teverbaugh bought the back lot. “There never was much mentioned about ‘Dean Burton’,” she said, “except that we were selling it (the property) to ‘Dean Burton’.” The state contends that "Dean Burton” does not exist, and was a name used in the conspiracy. Teverbaugh has a grandchild named Kerry Dean Burton. Robert Quinlan, former coowner of the second back lot involved in the deal, also linked "Burton”—but not Teverbaugh—with the lot transaction. Quinlan testified he talked with Teverbaugh at the Statehouse about sale of his property, including the front half of the lot needed for right-of-way, and Teverbaugh sent utility engineer Herbert Erickson to negotiate a sale price. Quinlan said Erickson and he agreed on $28,500 for the front half of the lot, including a house. Later, he said, Erickson came to see him about purchase of the rear half and they agreed on a $1,500 price. Still later, according to Quinlan, Erickson brought him an option which Quinlan signed agreeing to sell the back lot to "Dean Burton.” A copy of the option was introduced as evidence. A witness Thursday for the see(Continued on Pass« Three) Ticket Sales Brisk For Fish Fry Here Rural-urban fish fry tickets are selling briskly, and persons who desire them should buy them immediately before they are sold out, Herman Krueckeberg, ticket ■ chairman, who just completed a survey of sales, said this morning. A sellout is possible by Saturday, although tickets will be sold until Tuesday. No tickets will be available at the door. Miss Indiana’s crowning of the soybean queen, and the outstanding entertainment on the program, are features which have contributed to the unusual sale of tickets this year.

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