Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1957 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. Entered at the Decatur,*lnd., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D Heller .—, ... President. J. H. Heller Vice-President • Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer gabacrlptlon Kates: By Mall in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year. $8.00; Six months, $4.25; 3 months. $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year. $9 00; 8 months, $4.75; 3 months, $1.50. By Carrier: 30 cents per week. Single copies. 6 cents.

The grand jury meets this week. All deliberations of this body are of a secret nature—at least until indictments are returned and a full report is made to the court. It's an age old system of bringing felons and misdemeanors to light, but no one ever has come up with a better or fairer system. •S. 0 o - Better join the crowds and do your Christmas shopping in Decatur this week. Store hours will be extended all this week to accommodate the shoppers. You won’t find better values or better merchandise any place and you know your home-town merchant will be here day after day and year after year. Trade in Decatur and watch your shopping dollars go farther. o o— Be sure and drop a few quarters in the Goodfellows boxes. Every dime of this money will go toward the happiness of less fortunate kiddies and their families on Christmas Day. The Goodfellow fund is one of which all Decatur should be proud. Not a cent goes to administration of the fund and the members of Delta Theta Tau, sponsoring group, work long and hard making the gift distributions. If you really want to be a vital part of Decatur, make your contribution this week. o i A survey pertaining to the estimated value of the Decatur light and power utility is being midacted itertr. This of course does not meap that the sale is underway or proposed. It merely is an appraisal of the possible worth of the plants and lines and customers. The utility can never be sold, without the vote of the people by referendum. The survey will give the people an idea of what the plants are worth and what we can expect if a sale was voted. Final decision will rest entirely with the citizens, who are the owners. --i X..

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The new part of Stratton Place already has done an excellent job of decorating for Christmas. Almost all of the homes reflect the holiday spirit with the season’s trimmings and lights. Other parts of the city will follow suit and it appears that Decatur will be the best dressed in years for the holidays. ——o- o Every member of the board of commisisoners and county council joined equally in contributions toward furnishing a room at the Adams county memorial hospital. This was a fine gesture by the combined boards and demonstrated the confidence they have in the hospital board of trustees, who have had the big brunt of the improvement program now nearing completion at the hospital. Both boards have taken much interest in the project and have given the trustees a free hand to make the hospital the finest in northern Indiana. We salute these public spirited citizens who have faith in the ability of the trustees and recognize the need of the improvement. ' '' o o Roland Miller, Adams county commissioner who is completing his first year as a minority member of the board will become senior member of the majority on January 1. Mr. Miller has done a fine job during his first year and we are sure he will continue to do so. He has served well as the minority member and should fit into the majority picture just as well. He has a good philosophy on * ajwibirifeehts. He believes that the jobs should go to the victor and that all active workers of his party who are applicants for the several jobs should be considered,. Biggest task of the new board will be selection of a county highway superintendent and a county attorney. Superintendency of the county home does not come up this year. We wish Mr. Miller continued success both as a commissioner and in bis new job as senior majority commissioner.

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a ' —< l | 20 Years Ago Today » — December IT, 1937 — Mrs. Nancy Jane Ranier, 87, well known Decatur lady,* dies this morning. Decatur G. E. employes will share SIB,OOO in company's profits. Mrs. Susie Reppert Is hurt when hit by automobile. State tax board holds final hearing on bond issue for new high school building. Decatur housing authority has petitioned federal government for building project. Three Decatur young men face charges for mail box destruction. E. Burt Lenhart is taken to hospital today. His condition is reported to be serious. Mrs. Ivan Stucky is hostess to her Sunday school class at Christmas party. ICBM (Contiuuefl from One? search plane, exceeded Z.OOO miles an hour and an altitude of 25 miles last year. • In an opening statement to the subcommittee, the Douglas said it is important that the Strategic Air Command be strengthened while the nation is perfecting its missile weapons of tomorrow and aims at the conquest of space “the day after tomorrow.” He said SAC must be put on a broadened alert, that the tankers which fuel its bombers in flight must be "deployed more efficiently” and that "we must further disperse SAC’s strike units.” Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, subcommittee chairman, told newsmen it was “very clear that it is going to take some time for us to catch up” with the Russians on missiles. During this time, he said, national security depends "to a tremendous extent" upon SAC. The H-bomb-equipped SAC “must be the instrument which acts as a protective shield behind which we develop weapons of the future,” he said. Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), ranking GOP member of the subcommittee, said he expects the administration to ask for money to purchase more 852 long range SAC bombers than had been planned before the Russian Sputniks and the Soviet claim to possess an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Polaris Work Speeded It had been disclosed earlier that more money will be asked to strengthen SAC by greater dispersal of its bomber bases. After - testimony, by*.,Navy. offU cials Monday, Bridges said development of the 1500-inile Polaris missile apparently had been speeded up. But, he said, it is “not ready” and won’t be “until some time in the future. i ’ , . . High Navy officers contended that the Polaris would be the "rough equivalent” of an ICBM because it would be fired from surface ships and subs —surfaced or submerged—ranging wide over the world's seas and oceans.

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Says Confession Os Man's Murder False Surprise Testimony Given At Richmond RICHMOND (UP)—An accused murderess who allegedly lived with another woman in an “unnatural relationship” has testified she confessed a killing to help her friend. Miss Ethel Mae Wise, 31, Richmond. is on trial for first-degree murder in the shooting of Roy Hirshburg, 84, prominent portrait photographer, March 25. In surprise testimony Monday, Miss Wise said her confession of the shooting was false, and that her friend. Ann McFarland, 42, was the real killer. Miss McFarland, the state’s star witness in the trial of Miss Wise, had previously testified that they had been living together in an "unnatural relationship” before Hirshburg became a factor in their lives. Hirshburg and Miss McFarland later became engaged to be married, according to testimony In the trial. Then, on the night of the shooting. Miss Wise said, the. three were driving in her car and stopped in front of the photographer’s studio. The older woman and her fiance stepped out of the car and began to argue, the accused murderess said. In a sudden silence. Miss McFarland turned to look at her old friend in the car. “The awfullest look was on her face," Miss Wise testified. She said Miss McFarland grabbed a rifle from the car and shot Hirshburg. The younger woman said that, in a fit of panic, she grabbed, the rifle from Miss McFarland’s hands and sped off in the car, leaving the older woman with Hirshburg’s body. "I kept thinking I would wake up in a minute and it would all be a horrible dream,” she said. Miss Wise said the statement given police was “true up until the shooting, but the rest is false.” She told the jurors in Wayne Superior Court she thought “Ann” would admit the slaying. But she added she thought she could confuse the police “and help Ann” if she confessed the killing. Further testimony was to be taken from Miss Wise today, and two Indianapolis psychiatrists who examined the accused after* the shooting were scheduled to be called to the stand. Logdnsport Catalog ° v Store Is Robbed LOGANSPORT (W — Mrs. Bada Crago, manager of the Spiegel, Inc., catalog store here, reported to police that thieves robbed the store of $1,025 in cash early Monday. Mrs. Crago said she noticed the safe standing open when she arrived for work. She said it had not been forced. More than SSOO in checks and 35 pennies were left behind by the robbers. Workman Is Killed In Plant Accident SEYMOUR fff) — Milton George White, 83, Seymour, was killed late Monday when his left leg was torn off in a screw conveyor at the Acme-Goodrich Co. His body was discovered by fellow employes about 10 minutes after the iccident.

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Commissioners In Regular Session The county commissioner! met Monday to review and approve some of the outstanding bills. County auditor Edward Jaberg stated that a final meeting would be held next Monday morning to approve the remaining bills for the year and the salaries for the county employes. TWO-WAY ■ (■ from Pace One) facT was that Adenauer and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles agreed on the treatment of these letters on Saturday when they first conferred for about two hours. Adenauer's presentation of the German suggestions in his speech Monday already was part of the NATO consultation. Bolster Military Position However, diplomatic sources said the two-way program now shaping up was summarized by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Monday. At that time he said: "In Sir Winston Churchill's words: ‘We arm to parley.’ We shall not parley successfully unless we arm .effectively." In effect the West'sl eaders feel they must go ahead with strengthening their military position in order to talk peace with Moscow on a plane of equality. The sources said that on the question of East-West talks the 15 NATO nations would seek to find out what the Russians have in mind by approaching them through diplomatic channels. This was suggested first Monday by Adenauer, and was supported by several of the other delegates. This is one of the questions that will be discussed by the NATO foreign ministers at their second closed meeting Wednesday morning. They then will report their recommendations—which will not be made public to the summit leaders in the afternoon. < The sources stressed that any moves towards Moscow will be made with the full approval of all NATO members. On the military side, the sources added, NATO will push ahead with plans to equip itself with the most modern weapons possible. Ike Pledges Help Monday, the United States offered its European Allies sweeping aid in the form of a nuclear stockpile in Europe ’ and intermediate range missiles. Several European nations, including West Germany, Denmark and Norway, have called for postponement of a decision on missiles and have suggested using the intervening time for sounding out the-Russians.- - • - But all conference sources flatly denied/there is any “rift" oj- "reyeß’*''over this. Dulles made the U.S. offer of nuclear stockpiles and intermediate missiles at Monday afternoon’s session. President Eisenhower reinforced this with a pledge that the U.S. would come "at once, and with all appropriate force,'' to the aid of any NATO nation subject to armed attack. Following presentation of the U.S. position at the long sessions Monday, Eisenhower skipped a formal dinner Monday night and went to bed early. He was up early today for his talks with Zoli and Adenauer, and then paid a sentimental visit to SHAPE headquarters outside Paris.

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' iiP' 1 " Court wowfe Marriage License Don Robert Peterson, 19, Decatur, and Esther Leah Sheets. 19, Decatur. Petit Jury Howard D. Nussbaum has been duly released from petit jury service for the November term, 1957. Complaints In the case of Vernon E. Critchtield, administrator of the estate of Marian H. Crltchfield vs Robert A Coburn, venued from the Allen superior court No. 2 of Allen county, the case has been re-set for trial by jury to Feb. 19, 1958 at 9 a. wi. In the case of complaint on a promlssary note. The Associate Loan Co. vs. Edwin C. Rasp and Sylvia E. Rasp, the defendants have been ordered to answer absolute within 10 days. On the complaint for damages for wrongful death, Chester L. Haines, administrator of the estate of Aria R. Haines vs. Robert B. Popplewell, the court heard the defendant’s motion to amend the complaint and took the matter under advisement. On the complaint for personal injury and property damage in the case of Chester L. Haines vs. Robert B. Popplewell, the matter was also taken under advisement. In the complaint on account of Sears, Roebuck and Company vs. Charles R. Johnson, the case is set for issues December 28 at 9 a. m. on a motion by the plaintiff. In the complaint on a promissory note the Associates Loan Co. vs. Edwin L. May Jr., on a motion of the plaintiff the cause is set for issues Dec. 28, at 9:30 m. Estate Cases ’ In the estate of Lewis H. Rumschlag, the final report has been filed and a notice was ordered issued that is returnable Jan. 8, 1958. The total cash deficit of the estate was $1,213.18. Livestock and grain were valued at $3,000, bonds at S9OO. A 1952 Plymouth sedan and approximately 155 acres of land in Section 11, township 27 north range 14 east, completed the estate. The last will and testament of Jacob J. Wagner has been filed No bonds were required. Anna Wagner, the deceased's wife, has been named executrix. Value of personal property estimated at $19,682.76, and value received from issues and profits were estimated at SBOO. The known heirs are Anna Wagner and Lloyd «id»« Jund. wt the deceased. In the estate of Chester A. Runyon, a petition for orders to make a partial distribution has been filed. Named to receive shares of the distribution were John L. Runyon and Verle Meshberger, $5,000 each. Lenna E. Bryant, Evelyn J. Bullock, Glen A. Borror, Wren A. Borror and Dee D. Borror, SI,OOO each. A schedule to determine inheritance tax with reference to the county assessor has been filed in the estate of Clara J. Flauding. The net worth of the estate has been determined at $9,967.47, and an equal amount, $3,322.49, is ff* go to each of the three heirs, Helen Jellison. Pauline Chester and Betty Eger.

Youth Injured When Auto Hits Cemetery SOUTH BEND — (W - Gary C. Gray, 19. sustained severe head injuries Monday when his automobile skidded on ice and overturned into St. Joseph Cemetery.

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