Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 282.

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EISENHOWER reflecting her pleasure with his apparfLOm recent illneSß - President Eisenhower arrives at his Gettysburg farm.

Bone-Chilling Cold Spreads Over Midwest Sub-Zero Weather In North Midwest; Snow Hits Indiana By UNITED PRESS Bane-chilling sub-zero temperatures spread over the northern Midwest in the worst snap of the season while rain and snow dominated the weather picture east of the Mississippi River. Cold, dry air clung to the region between the Rockies and the Mississippi Valley, churning up snow flurries as its leading edge cut into the Great Lakes area. Severe thunderstorm activity was forecast for most of Georgia where a tornado ripped a farm home apart Friday. About 12 persons were injured, eight of them children, when the twister smashed into a home where funeral gathering was being held. Northerly gusts which swept the cold wave into the northern Midwest Friday accounted for a 18-below-zero temperature reading at Fraser, Colo. From the eastern Dakotas to northern Wisconsin, the mercury ranged from several degrees below zero to 10 above. Farther south in the Far West, there were low night time temperatures in the 10-20 degree range, although a warming trend was noted in Idaho and Montana. Clearing and cooling temporarily followed widespread rains in the Northeast Friday, but showers in the south Atlantic states were moving up the eastern seaboard A thin blanket of snow spread over Indiana today and temperatures skidded toward . near-zero levels. South Bend had a 2-inch snowfall and Lafayette an inch but over most of the rest of the state the season's first snow to stick was a scarcely measurable coating. Nevertheles, it iced highways in spots and imposed hazards on pedestrians and motorists on city sidewalks and streets as temperatures fell from a few degrees above freezing Friday to belowfreezing levels during the night. The first general snow came on the last day of November, and the season’s coldest temperatures were due to be swept in on the wings of a stiff wind on December’s first day. The weatherman forecast temperatures as low as 10 above zero in the north portion, 15 in the central and 20 in the south. Lafayette’s 18 above was the coldest in the state this morning. Indianapolis had a 22. Evansville 21 and South Bend and . Fort Wayne 27. The mercury crested at 35 at Fort Wayne Friday and slightly higher elsewhere. Today’s highs were expected to be in the chilly sub-freezing levels, ranging from 23 north to 32 south, and Sunday's highs will be around 30 all over the state. The outlook for Monday was fair and not quite so cold. Winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour* (Conti" •«•’» o" Faxe Six) Auction School To Open Here Monday Between 50 and 60 students from 24 states and two provinces of Canada are arriving in Decatur this weekend for the winter term of the Reppert auction school, Dr. Roland Reppert, president of the school, said today. Col. Q. R. Chaffee, dean of the school, has arrived to take charge of The classes. Registration wiij continue Monday, but classes will start Monday morning. A total of 13 instructors are present for this session of the school, Dr. Reppert added.

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International Show Now In Second Day Annual Livestock Show At Chicago CHICAGO (UP)-Prize livestock and sharpeyed college students shared the spotlight today at the 58th annual International Live Stock Exposition. The second day of the nine-day stock and grain extravaganza, featured the collegiate livestock judging contest in the main amphitheater arena, while the collegiate grain judging coolest was held in the Exchange Building. Judging teams from 39 agricultural colleges and universities vied for prizes including wrist watches, trophies and cameras. Also on tap was the judging of junior livestock feeding contest steers, Chicago Boys’ Club steers, and the junior livestock feeding contest, for barrows. On Hoof Results Friday, as a prelude to Tuesday’s naming of the grand champions, judges tapped top cattle, wine and sheep in carjass-cn-the hoof contests. **"’* Illinois exhibitors dominated the Shorthorn division of the contest, with Malcolm B. Tucker, Chrisman, showing the champion and Mary Lou Wilson, Champaign, reserve champ. Pennsylvania State University won the Angus division and Lewter Feed Lots, Lubbock, Tex., captured top honors in the Hereford class. B Kelly and R. Rowe, Dallas Center, lowa, showed the run-ner-up in the Angus division and Richard R. Renck owned the reserve champ in the Hereford section. Barbara Lucy Londas, Navarre, Ohio, presented the champion in the Purebred, Cross Bred and other divisions with Dick Hopkins Jr., McNabb. 111., showing the reserve champion. All 278 head of cattle entered in the on-hoof contest will be slaughtered and then judged in the carcass event. The champion carcass will be sold at auction Tuesday. Last year's carcass winner, an Angus steer, brought $8.25 per pound. ‘ Ohio State University took top honors in the wether lamb car-cass-bn-the-hoof contest with a 105pound crossbred lamb. The reserve champion, an 85-pound Southdown..was shown by the University of Wisconsin. Harness Horse Judging The judges named a 210-pound Berkshire, owned by Milo Wolrab, Mount Vernon, lowa, as the champion on-the-hoof among the swine entries while another Berkshire, owned by Harold Yake and Sons, Cardington, Ohio, won the reserve championship. Contests were also held Friday night at the International Horse Show, which is being held in connection with the exposition. Charming King, a harness pony owned tZ Mrs. A. C. Thompson, May wood, Hl., Won first prize. Mr. Reau, owned by Raymond G. Lonnon, Chicago, took second in the harness pony class, and Majesty’s Romaine. Hawthorne - Mellody Farms, Libertyville.lll., took third. Barbara Hoopes, Normal, 111-, won in the girl children's class <ll to 13 years k, Sandra Ledbetter, Wheaton, H., was second, and Gloria Fausset, Indianapolis, third. Hunter Barney, Elkhorn, Wis., won in the boy children’s class (13 years and under), Martin. Tyskling, Chicago, was second, and Ralph McDonald, River Forest, Hl., third. Another Notion, owned by Delaine Farm, Morton Grove, 111., won three-gated saddle horses match. Second place went to Faintly Capricious, owned by Doris J. Raikes, Hinsdale, Hl., and Moonglow, owned by Louis L. Henson, Lockport, Hl., took third INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and cold tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 1020. High Sunday 30. Outlook for Monday: Fair and not quite so cOML

Unemployment On Increase In United Slates Defense Cutbacks In Aircraft Are Principal Cpuse Washington (up>— Small to moderate increases in unemployment were reported this month in three-fifths of the nation's major industrial centers. . . But the Labor Department said the number of jobs was near an all-time peak for the season in many parts of the nation. Defense cutbacks in aircraft production caused the greatest jump in unemployment, the department said. Areas specializing in machinery and primary metals also reported significant increases in jobless totals. Seasonal reductions in employment were reported in the food processing, lumber and construction industries. Most employers anticipated a temporary pick-up in hiring before Christmas but the outlook for January was less favorable than was the case last year. Further lay-offs were predicted for the aircraft industry because of the ‘‘stretch out” in military buying. The sharpest cutbacks were expected in Los ’Angeles, Long Beach and San Diego, Calif., Wichita, Kan., and Columbus Ohio- Virtually all aircraft plants prepared to lower payrolls before mid-January, the department said. The survey found that no major industrial area had a labor shortage in November. Two Connecticut cities — Hartford and Stam-ford-Norwalk — were removed from the shortage classification after being in that category for one year. Lay-offs in aircraft, machinery and-construction led to the downgrading. Only two of the 149 areas surveyed showed less unemployment. They were Flint, Mich., which benefited from a pick-up in auto production, and Fall River, Mass., where plants and retail trade increased employment. (Cootie u*d 6n Pare Fhra> New Split Looming In Ranks 01 Labor Union Os Building Trades May Quit WASHINGTON (UP) — A major new split loomed in labor ranks today with hints the powerful building trades unions may quit the AFL-CIO. The dispute may flare into the open next week. Richard J. Gray, president of the federation’s Building Trades Department, was reported ready to air the threats to quit at the department's convention opening Monday In Atlantic City, NJ. That is just three days before the AFL-CIO convenes there. One source said Gray relayM the threats earlier this week to AFL-CIO President Geroge Meany. The threat to quit the big labor federation stems from unhappiness among many of the 19 building trade unions over failure to find a formula to settle jurisdictional disputes baeween craft and industrial unions. Underlying this, some of the building trades felt the AFL CIO moved too quickly in suspending the Teamsters Union on corruption charges. If all three million members of the building trades unions should pull out of the federation, it would be a major challenge to Meany’s leadership. He has been making a concerted effort to solve the jurisdictional problem. But Joseph D. Keenan, secre-tary-treasurer of the International Brotherhood of Eledtrical Workers one of'the larger of the building trades, said his union would not consider withdrawing from the AFL-CIO. A spokesman for the Bricklayers also denied any intention of pulling out. Local Man's Father Is Taken By Death Funeral services will be held Sunday for R. G. Heffner, 71, of near Rockford, 0., who died Thursday night at the Adams county memorial hospital following a heart attack. Surviving are the widow, Nellie; a daughter, Mrs. Morris Koch of near Rockford; three sons, Cleo Heffner of Decatur, Luther of Lansing, Mich., and Robert, at home; a brother, Vernon of Mendon, O„ and a sister, Mrs. Marguerite Roebuck of Fort Wayne. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Zion Lutheran church at Chattanooga, 0., with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Morris Koch residence until time of the services.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 30, 1957

President Eisenhower Recuperating At Farm Home Near Gettysburg

Gen. Doolittle To Work With Missile Group Retired Air Force General Named To * Science Committee WASHINGTON (UP) — World War II hero Lt. Gen- James H. Doolittle today moved into the thick of the nation’s souped - up missile and scientific effort. The retired Air Force general is one of five prominent scientists appointed to beef up President Eisenhower’s revamped scientific advisory committee. They will work with new presidential scientific assistant Dr. James R. Killian, who was named to help guide the program for overcoming Russia in the spacescience race. In a move announced Friday at Gettysburg, Pa., where the President is recuperating at his farm from a mild stroke, Eisenhower also transferred the 17member scientific committee from the Office of Defense Mobilization to the White House. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the decision to increase the size and give the committee “A more direct relationship”-With the President was made Nov 22three days before Eisenhower's cerebral attack. Doolittle, who led the first World War II raid in Tokyo, is now vice president of the Shell Oil Co- He also is pr'.minent in aeronautical research and other scientific activities. Un group was renamed “The President’s Science Advisory Committee.” Also named to the committee were: Dr. R. F. Bacher, professor of physics at California Institute of Technology: Dr. E. M. Purcell, professor of physics at Harvard University; Dr. Herbert York, director of the Livermore Laboratories at the University of California, and Dr. George B. Kistiakewsky, professor of chemistry at Harvard UniversitySix Are Arrested In Gambling Raid U. S. Agents Raid Terre Haute House TERRE HAUTE (UP)—U. S. Internal Revenue' agents barged into an alleged syndicate gambling house in the business district Friday and arrested six men, including a former Marion County sheriff. Leo (Bookie) Shaffer, 57, Chicago, described as an “internationally known gambler,” was taken in the raid along with Charles (Buck) Sumner, 68, sheriff of Marion County from 1931 to 1934, and four other “known gamblers.” The men faced charges of failing to buy a federal gambling stamp and not paying the tax on bets taken. Agents found eight telephones lined up on a desk ‘‘with calls coming in from all over the United States and Canada." The equipment was confiscated. "The individuals are members of an international syndicate,” said District Internal Revenue Director Sterling Dietrich of Indianapolis, “engaged in accepting wagers on sporting->events- including football, baseball and boxing matches.” Agents said calls were coming in for bets on today’s football games during the raid. Others arrested in the raid were Joe Horwick, 54, Chicago; Joseph Jacobson, 60, Indianapolis: Bill Share, Sherman Oaks, Calif-, and Irwin Gordon, Las VegasDietrich said Shaffer and Horwick were arrested in Canada in 1956 on gambling charges and paid SIO,OOO fines after pleading guilty. Dietrich indicated the operation here started in September. The six men were brought to Indianapolis for a hearing where U. S. Commissioner Edwin C. Haerle placed them under $3,000 bond each.

Rocket 01 Sputnik May Plunge Today Plunge Earthward Today Or Sunday CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UP)—The earthward plunge of the first Sputnik’s fellow-traveling rocket, expected either today or Sunday, will look like a shootyig star or a white streak against the sky, a top scientist said Friday night. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, said the appearance of the streaking rocket would depend on whether it fell at night or in the day time He said that in a night descent the object would flare for possibly 1000 miles “like a shooting star” while a daylight plunge would look like a streak of white smoke against the sky. 72 Seconds From Death Scientists calculated that the jrocket was only 72 seconds away from the critical speed which would lead to its fatal entry into the earth's atmosphere. Though experts have been working on data which may give them the exact hour of the death-plunge, it was conceded by Whipple that this would be very difficult. “If the rocket becomes aerodynamic and levels out it enters the atmosphere,” he said, “it might soar along for a longer time than We now expect. • Could Phinxe Today “On the other hand, if it turns broadside toward the resisting atmosphere, it could plunge earlier, even Saturday, and skitter off in an unpredictable direction.” However, it was generally expected that the rocket would fall sometime Sunday. The scientist again said he believed .the object would survive the terrific friction of the atmosphere. If it lands where it could be recovered, Whipple said, "the solidly constructed parts such as the rook* motor,- should come through witfimit being badly destroyed.” Trash And Tin Can Collection In City - The city street department will conduct a trash and tin can collection in Decatur next week. Residents are asked to place their rubbish and cans in containers prior to the date set for th| collection in each area. The collection will be made on the following schedule: Monday, north of Monroe street and west of Fifth street; Tuesday, north of Monroe street and east of Fifth street; Wednesday, south of Monroe street and east of Fifth, street; Thursday, south of Monroe street and west of Fifth street. Fire Department's Radio System Used Discontinue Use Os Siren During Night New radio equipment of the Decatur fire department has been installed and is now in operation, fire chief Cedric Fisher Stated today. Fisher said that beginning Sunday, the radio system would be used exclusively during the night hours although the city siren will be, in use during the daytime. A fire last night gave the department an opportunity to test the radio system, Fisher added, and it is believed that it will prove quite satisfactory as it has in other communities. The radio system includes the base station at the fire station and receiver sets in the homes of all regular and volunteer firemen. When a fire is reported, the firemen are first alerted by a tone signal and then advised about th» location of the fire. The radio system will be augmented with the siren during daytime hours since most of the volunteer firemen will be at work rather than at home during these hours. v

Holiday Death Toll Is Over Mark Os 250 Fear Cold Wave To Bring New Surge Os Deaths To Midwest By UNITED PRESS Thanksgiving weekend traffic fatalities Soared past the 250 mark today. It was feared a zero cold cause a new surge oi deaths in the northern Midwest. A United Press tally which began at 6 p.m Wednesday showed that highway accidents had claimed 251 lives as of 4 a.m., e.s.t., Saturday. Added to that figure were 3 deaths in plane crashes and 41 persons killed in miscellaneous accidents for a tragic holiday death total of 235. California and Ohio had the worst totals in the country, 26 each followed by Michigan and Texas, 13 each, New York 12, and Arkansas and North Carolina 9. Only seven states managed to make it into the third day without a highway fatality, and one of these, West Virginia, had reported a single fatality from another accident. The others were Delaware WtaUSaw Hampshire Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Wyoming, plus the District of Columbia. • Gov- Abraham A. Ribicoff, in whose state one accident killed five persons, told the nation ‘everyone must realize that he is his brother’s keeper .when he is driving an automobile.” At this point, the nation seemed well on its way to exceeding the (Continued on Page Five) Mrs. Van Buskirk Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Zelda Van Buskirk, 73, of 1009 West Monroe street, died at 5:30 o’clock Friday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been in failing health for several years and seriously ill for the past week. She was born in Allen county Feb. 1. 1884, a daughter of John and Mary Ann Gresley-Riley, and was married to John M. Van Buskirk Feb. 8, 1903. The family lived in Warsaw from 1904 to 1917, then moved to a farm five and one-half miles southeast of Monroeville on the Adams-Allen county line. They moved to Decatur one year ago. Mrs. Van Buskirk was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to her husband are one son, Voris Van Buskirk of Sullivan,* O.; two daughters, Mrs. Erma High of Mount Gilead, 0., and Miss Vera Van Buskirk, a teacher in the Lincoln elementary school in this city; six grandchildren; three great-grand-children; one brother, Edmund Riley of Fort Wayne, and one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Nott of Janesville, Wis. One sister and four brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at *1:30 p.m. Monday at the Zwick funeral nome and at 2 p.m. at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. J. O. Penrod officiating. Burial will be in the IOOF cemetery at Monroeville. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. Veteran Newspaperman Retires At Bluffton ,; BLUFFTON (IP) — Orin O. Craven, 77, was in “restless retirement” today after completing 60 years on the news staff of the same newspaper. Craven retired Friday as news editor of the Bluffton News-Ban-ner, exactly 60 years after he started work as a reporter on the old Evening News in 1897.

Syrian Ambassador To Speak To U. N. To Seek Effective 'Action On Algeria UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —Syrian Ambassador Farid Zeineddine said he would insist today that the United Nations take “effective" action on Algeria because it has become an international problem. was listed as the first speaker for an unusual Saturday session of the General Assembly's main Political Committee. The session was scheduled to start at 11 a.m., e.s.t The fiery Arab orator served notice he would speak at least 90 minutes, indicating he might heat up the debate which has been relatively mild this year. Zeineiddine said the struggle between France and the Algerian nationalists has had such an impact on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the whole Arab world that it has become an international problem with which the United Nations must deal. Up to today the Arab states have given every indication of accepting a resolution about as moderate as last year’s, giving France another J 2 months to solve its Algerian troubles- > ' , The French delegation won a strong arguing point early this morning whoa the French National Assembly voted a new framework law and a new electoral law for Algeria. Both were designed to give new freedoms to the North African territory. Court's Ruling On Petition Monday Judge To Announce Death Case Ruling A ruling on the petition of Dale Death to change his plea of guilty to not guilty to a charge of public intoxication will be given Monday morning at 10 o’clock in the Adams circuit court, it was learned today. Death was arrested Nov. 1 by the city police following an accident in front of the Standard Grocery. He was charged with public intoxication and appeared in mayor’s court the following day. At that time he entered a plea of guilty, and signified he wanted to get it over with right away. He was fined $5 and costs and given a 10-day suspended jail sentence following his plea of guilty. Later, after a hearing before the Decatur board of public works and safety, he was dismissed from the police force for being convicted of public intoxication, absent without leave from his job, and conduct unbecoming an officer. The present bearing dealt only with the fairness of Death’s trial on the drunk charge, and did not concern the merits of that case, nor his dismissal from the police force. Death, through his attorney, was deprived of his rights during a 26-paragraph statement, that he Robert S. Anderson, claimed, in the trial, and that he was coerced into pleading guilty. The state contended that it was a typical trial, and that be was not coerced. The hearing on the matter lasted two days, and Judge Myles F. Parrish then took the matter under advisement until he finished his decision. Former Resident Os Pleasant Mills Dead Ernest (feud) Fisher, 57, former Pleasant Mills resident, a race horse trainer, died Friday afternoon at Long Island, N. Y., following a heart attack. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Mack Cunningham of Lakeland, Fla. The body will be returned to the Ketcham funeral home at Rockford, 0. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Ike Resting At Home, Making Good Progress Friday's Medical Bulletin Reports Recovery Is Good GETTYSBURG, Pa., (UP) — President Eisenhower, home to recuperate in the laughter of his grandchildren, rooted today for his beloved Army cadets to tame vaunted Navy in their annual fall football classic. The President, like millions of Americans, planned to watch the televised game between the two service schools in which the West Pointers were six point underdogs. Eisenhower had no other plans scheduled today. Accompanied by Mrs. Eisenhower, he drove from Washington Friday to his farm home here in the heart of this picturesque Pennsylvania Dutch countryside for a long Thanksgiving weekend. Taking It Easy The President was taking it easy. The latest medical bulletin, issued Friday, continued to report that he was. making “excellent” progress in recovering from a slight stroke of last Monday. The President’s physician, Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, who usually stays at a nearby motel when accompanying the President to Gettysburg, was quartered at the farm home for this tripThe weatherman predicted more fair skies and mfld temperatures this morning which might tempt Eisenhower out of doors again for another look around his 496-acre farm. He took a 70-minute tour by car and foot Friday around his sun-splashed acres. Might Show Tricks He also might decide to show his grandchildren a trick or two on their horses today. Two of the children — David, 9, and Susan, 5, —rode their horses before his Arrival Friday, Susan with the help of a secret service agent who helped her keep her balance. The Presidents son, Maj. John Elsenhower and his daughter-in-law Barbara were also here at their nearby home with their other two children, Barbara Anne, 8, and little Mary Jean, who win be two next month. They would help provide what Eisenhower’s physicians prescribed for the President’s recovery—the “home surroundings” they believed preferable to a hospital. Supposedly Neutral As Commander-in-Chief of’ the Armed Forces and as President, Eisenhower was, of course, technically neutral in today’s interservice football game. As usual, he was expected to send “good luck” messages to both teams. But no one would question where his hopes lay, for Eisenhower as cadet at West Point wore an Army football uniform. He was a half-back until a wrenched knee made him give up the game. There was no indication of when the President would return to Washington A White House meeting has been scheduled for next Tuesday with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to discuss plans for the coming session of Congress and the NATO "summit” conference in mid-De-cember. A preparatory cabinet session will be held Monday. Vice President Richard M. Nixon said he would preside at the meetings if the President has not returned. NOON* EDITION

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