Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 18 December 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 297.

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Atlas Sent Up Without Nose Cone Tuesday Senate Committee Recesses Hearing Until January 6 WASHINGTON (UP) — Testimony before a Senate hearing on the U.S. missile-satellite lag indicated today that the Atlas conti-nent-spanning missile fire successfully Tuesday was sent up without its nose cone. Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever. Air Force ballistic missile chief, told the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee a complete Atlas was not used In Tuesday's test firing or in either of the two eariler unsuccessful tries. His statement further indicated that the major problem connected with the cone is to prevent it from burning up when it reenters the earth’s atmosphere. “Except for a full-scale, all-the-way test — which is proof of the pudding — we are fully confident that we have the nose cone problem in hand," Schriever testified. Can To Unity Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson called upon Americans today to unite and work as they did after Pearl Harbor to put the U.S. ahead of Russia in the missile race. "We have to spend our days and nights trying to get ahead," the Texas Democrat said. The second round of Johnson’s subcommittee hearings wound up in a spate of dour warnings, bright forecaste and more frenzied activity at the Cape Canaveral, Fla.,missile test range. New Atlas Readied Technicians began readying another Atlas 5,000-mlle intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) following Tuesday’s successful Atlas test amid these developments: —Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White predicted interstellar travel within 25 years. —Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle said that by the year 2,000, man wilt have travelled to Mars or Venus. The sharpest warning of the need for an all-out U.S. weapons effort came Tuesday at the preparedness hearings from Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, Air Force vice chief of staff. “Unless we do something very radical," Lemay said, “we will become inferior to the Russians militarily in a very short time. Hie subcommittee, which concluded its second round of public hearings Tuesday night, will resume Jan. 6 with at least another week of hearings scheduled. ♦ INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness tonight with rain ending In most sections. Turning cooler south. Thursday partial clearing with moderate temperatures. Low tonight In the 30s north and the 40s south. High Thursday in' the 40s north and the 50s south. Sunset 5:23 p.m„ sunrise Thursday 8:01 a.m. Low Thursday night in the '4os. Outlook for Friday: Rain and mild. High Friday in the 50s.

Decatur Stores Open Evenings for Christmas Shoppers

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American Farmers • . Turn Bumper Crop All-Time Record In P Yields Per Acre WASHINGTON (UP) — American farms turned out a bumper crop in 1957 on the smallest total acreage planted or grown since 1919. The Agriculture Department’s year-end crop report Tuesday said the 1957 crop matched the record production of 1956 and 1948 and set an all-time yield per acre. The record yield was accomplished despite many local and sectional setbacks which delayed planting and slowed harvest of some crops to the latest stage in several years. Stated in index form the 1957 crop joined those of 1956 and 1948 in reaching 106 per cent of the 1947-49 base. The overall yield per acre index covering 28 field and fruit crops reached 127 per cent of the 1947-49 base. This considerably surpassed the previous record of 124 per cent in 1956 and 118 per cent in 1955. Feed grains and forage had a big year. The corn crop at 3,402,832,000 bushels was the third largest in history. It was only slightly smaller than die 3,455,283,000 bushels of 1956 and only moderately below the record 1948 crop. Oats production was much larger than in 1956. Sorghum grain more than doubled any previous output. Hay tonnage was almost one-tenth larger than the 1955 record. Wheat, the big breadgrain crop, weighed in at 947,102,000 bushels, far below average. The department’s revised figures showed 1956 production of wheat topped one billion bushels. Previous estimates showed the 1956 crop, to be only 997 million bushels. The total planted acreage of the 59 principal crops for 1957 was 334 million acres. This was nearly 11 million acres below the 1956 planted acreage. Soil bank deposits and other acreage controls caused the principal acreage reductions in 1957 from the 1956 levels: Winter wheat 6,900,000 acres: corn 4,200,000 acres; cotton 2,800,000 acres; tobacco 200,000 acres, and rice 200,000 acres. Partially offsetting increases were made in all sorghums of 5,30,000 acres, barley 1,700,000 acres, hay crops 500,000 acres and smaller increases for soybeans, peanuts, rye, sugar beets, sugarcane and broomcorn. “Whatever the complex impact of different factors on each farm,” the department said, “such as prices, allotments, soil bank program, crop rotation, livestock needs, and weather at planting time, these plantings were the result.” Os the basic crops under acreage controls corn was the only commodity which was above average production in 1957. Wheat, cotton, rice, peanuts and tobacco were below average. The record-breaking crops—hay, sorghum grain, sorghum silage, soybeans and barley —were not under acreage controls. The department said the 1957 crop season in some sections may be remembered because of the amount and timing of rain. In the central and southern Plains snow, rain and then more tain soaked and sometimes flooded away the drought which had withered many of the efforts of farmers and stockmen since 1952. In Texas and Oklahoma, *1957 may stand out as "that wet year." on Page Five)

Another Atlas Missile Ready For Launching Wait Computations On First Launching Before Second Test CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UP) —Another intercontinental Atlas missile was readied today for firing as soon as mechanical brains finish their computations on Tuesday's first successful ICBM launching Some sources said the Air Force missile, now standing in its launching tower, would be fired before the week is out. Others said at least a week will be required to assemble all the data from Tuesday's shoot and make the necessary adjpstments for the second firing. The presence here of Maj. Gen. John A. Medaris, commander of the Army ballistic missile agency at Huntsville, Ala., and Dr. Wehrner Von Braun, technical director, brought increased reports that a Jupiter intermediate range missile might be fired some time today. Third Try For Atlas The big talk was still about the Atlas which Tuesday completed a “limited range test of several hundred miles." Two previous attempts to fire this U.S. entry in the long-range missile race had ended in destruction of the Atlases a few thousand feet above the launching stand. At a press conference after the spectacular shoot, Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates, commander of Patrick AFB and military operations at the test center, and engineers tried to emphasize that “busts” do not mean a launching was unsuccessful. They said previous teste should be considered “95 per cent successful” because of the information gained. As they spoke, about 50 technicians had already started processing data recorded electronically during the Atlas shoot. Information Extensive The job would go on without letup for 80 hours. Yates said over "one-quarter of a million individual data points" were the scientific objectives in the launching “and we'll probably get them all." B. G. Macnab, operations manager at the cape for Convair Corp., prime contractor for the Atlas, said the complex countdown leading to the launching went off without a serious hitch. He described a scene of elation in the blockhouse after the big bird flew successfully. The firing of the first ICBM gave this nation a new strength in the rocket race with Russia, a firmer footing in the Paris NATO (Continued on Page Five) Good Fellows Fund Previously Reported 8452.97 Delta Theta Tau Alumna . 5.00 6A and 6B Rockets 1.21 Mr. and Mrs. Glen Mauller 5.00 Mr. & Mrs. Frank Rowley 5.00 Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Calland 5.00 Change in Boxes 4.15 Mrs. Hamma 1.00 Ronnie Highland 2.00 Mr. & Mrs. H. Krueckeberg 5.00 Mrs. Clem Voglewede .... 5.00 Mr. & Mrs. W. L. Linn .... 5.00 , Total $496.33,

Decatur,lndiana, Wednesday, December 18,1957.

United States, Allies Unanimously Agree On Strengthening Defenses

Rackets Group Seeks Evidence On Alleged Fix Chattanooga Judge Linked To Reports Os $18,500 Bribe WASHINGTON (UP)— The Senate Rackets Committee, ready to move into a new payoff case, hoped today to hear from a judge linked by testimony to a “fix." Committed Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said the committee would not meet until this afternoon in hope that Hamilton County (Tenn.) Judge Raulston Schoolfield would accept the committee's' invitation to appear. The committee was told Tuesday there was “quite a bit of talk” that the Chattanooga judge was paid $18,500 to quash a labor violence indictment against 13 teamsters in 1951. Kennedy said, without elaboration, that today’s testimony should also prove to be “of interest” to the judge. He said the committee planned to go into another case “in which spme money was passed” when it Resumes its hearings. Kennedy rid the case is on* to which' H.T® oli ng, secretary-treasurer of teamster local 515 in Chattanooga “has some information.’’ Judge Schoolfield was linked to the payoff Tuesday by Deputy Tennessee state Fire Marshal Raymond Hixson, who said there was “quite a bit of talk" the indictments had been quashed for a .Continued on Page Five) Bogner Funeral Is Held In Michigan Funeral services for William Bogner, 73. who died Friday at his home in Branch, Mich., were conducted Tuesday afternoon in Branch. A number of relatives from the Decatur area attended the rites. A former resident of Decatur, Mr. Bogner is survived by a number of nieces, nephews, cousins and a brother-in-law, all living in this community.

Council Approves Plans For Sewer Proposed Sewer In West Port Os City The city council, meeting in regular session Tuesday night, approved and filed plans for the eight-inch Aeschliman sewer in the west edge of the city. The proposed sewer is to run south from Washington to Meibers street and will affect approximately 12 lots, including Aeschliman’s laundry and the Shady Lawn Motel. City engineer Ralph Roop submitted profile plans for the construction and estimated the cost at $2090. Plans for the proposed sewer will be advertised and the owners whose lots are affected will have 30 days in which to remonstrate against the project. The council also voted to transfer S9OO in the city appropriations from contractual services to supplies in the Youth and Community Center budget. A certificate of appointment of Richard Mansfield, Jr., as a temporary member of the Deeatur police (orce, which had been approved by the board of public works, was submitted to the council and approved after a short discussion. December 30 was set as the date for a special meeting of the council in which to clear up any remaining business for the year. All the councilmeh, as well as the heads of the city departments, attended the meeting.

Governor Defends His Administration Speaks Tuesday On Television Network ’‘INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A statewide television audience Tuesday night heard Governor Handley tell Mow his administration brought Hoosieriand “businesslike, honest, economical government" during its first 10 months in office. The Republican State Committee sponsored the talk by the chief executive over eighteen television stations, including outlets in Louisville and Cincinnati. Handley said Indiana is getting “nationwide acclaim” for its fight against public power, aid to education and other “pernicious” programs of the federal government. His blast against federal encroachment of state powers was the type of attack Sen. Homer Capehart and other Hoosier Congressmen warned him to stop only tiie day before. Capehart said such Criticism has “split the party right down the middle." “Local self-government is a precious heritage,” Handley said, “and Indiana is leading such a courageous and forceful fight to preserve it that»we are receiving nationwide acclaim.” He said Indiana “atone canhot defeat paternalism,” but the state can reject “such pernicious new as federal aid to education and public power. He also devoted part of his talk to a discussion of the Indiana highway situation. He said the “mess" he found in the Highway Departmeqj, involving "abuses, laxness and irregularities” has been cleaned up. He praised the "orderly, efficient and businesslike manner" in which the highway program has progressed since he took office. . Handley said hi 1957 the number of construction contracts was Continued on ®a«re Flv«)

Daniel Fiechler Is County Com Champ Winners Listed In County Competition Adams county 5-acre corn and soybean yields have been received from the agronomy department at Purdue, reported Leo N. Settenright, county agent, today. Winner of the 5-acre corn yield contest was Daniel Fiechter. of Kirkland township, with a yield of 145 bushels per agre. The hybrid seed used was Indiana 620. Fiechter will be awarded a green gold Indiana crop improvement'' association medal for his high yield. Other green gold winners are: Ervin Schuller, 136 bushels; Raymond .Ringger, 135 bushels; Lores E. Steury, 130 bushels, and Paul Kohne, 128 bushels. Leo D. Busick, of Root township, and Gary Ringger, of Monroe township, had the high yield in the junior 5-acre contest with 137 bushels per acre. Other green gold junior winners were Dwight Moser, 129 bushels; Gerald Bulmahn, 129 bushels; Tim Ringger, 128 bushels and Emanuel Gerber, 126 bushels per acre. Gold medal jwinners in 5-acre were: Hugo Bulmahn. 124 bushels. Joe L. Isch, 123; Harold Moser, 120; Ben Gerke, 114; Eli Kipfer, 114, Elmer J. Isch, 112, Arnold Gerke, 110, Ralph Berning, 109, Mrs. Ben Mazelin, 107, Ben Mazelin 105, and Earl Johnson, 104. Gold medal winners in junior 5acre were: Phillip Moser, 122, Perry Isch, 120, Larry Busick, 119, David Fuelling, 119, Theodore Kipfer, 119, and Roy Mazelih, 101. Silver medal winners in junior 5acre corn were: Loren Habegger 9sf bushels, John Rumple. 98, Duance Arnold, 97, Alan Habegger, 97, and Sidney Schwartz, 88. Other yields reported were Robert Isch, 95 bushels, Martin Kipfer 93, Harold Schwartz, 84, Merle Kuhn 77. and Robert Plumley 62. -4- n-n Pasre

Benson To Cut Dairy Products Support Prices Announces Cut To Legal Minimum Os 75 Per Cent Parity WASHINGTON (UP)-Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson said today he will cut price supports on dairy products to the legal minimum of 75 per cent of parity for the marketing year starting April 1. The new support levels will apply both to manufacturing milk and butterfat. Present supports now are about 83 per cent of parity for manufacturing milk and about 80 per cent for butterfat. Benson said the downward adjustments are equivalent to about cents a pound for butter, 2Mj cents a pound for cheese, and % cent a quart for fluid milk. He said a lower price to consumers would result in consumption of more milk and milk products. Benson- made 4he announcement at a news conference, saying he was doing so well in advance of the marketing year so adjustments and milk promotion plans can be underway by the start of the new marketing year. Benson prefaced his announcement by noting that dairy supports in the last fiscal year cost the government 379 million dollars. A careful study of the dairy situation, including discussion with industry representatives and advisory committees, he said, “indicates that adjusting supports to the 75 per cent level will be in the best interests of the dairy industry." While necessary adjustments are being made by producers, Benson said, his department “will assist the dairy industry in every sound way we can.” He promised continued cooperation in promotion and advertising programs and said the department will step up efforts to acquaint consumers with facts about milk as a health food.

Former Local Lady Is Taken By Death Final Rites Friday For Mrs. McConnell Mrs. Frank McConnell, 87, former resident of Decatur, died at 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the home of a sister, Mrs. Clara Dermond, -of Greentown, where she had been residing. She was born in Kingston Center, Delaware county, 0., Jan. 5, 1870, a daughter of Christy B. and Mary E. Iler-Chase. She had resided in Decatur for 25 years before going to Greentown. She was first married to Herbert Scoville, who died in 1931. Her second husband, Julius Haugk, died in 1938. She was later married to Frank McConnell, who died in 1946. Mrs. McConnell was a member of the First Presbyterian church here, the Women of the Moose, and the auxiliaries of the American Legion, Eagles and Disabled American Veterans. Surviving are a foster daughter, Mrs. Helen Rice of Corvallis, Ore.; two sisters, Mrs. Dermond, and Mrs. Viola McConnel of Lake Worth, Fla.; a niece, Mrs. Hazel McCoy of . Greentown, and a nephew, Phillip C. Dermond, also of Greentown. One brother and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Harold Bond officiating. Burial will be at Marion, O. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening until time of the services.

Little Rock Negro Student Suspended For Throwing Bowl Os Chili At Boy LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP) -One of the "Little Rock nine" who Integrated the city's Central High School under the protection of paratroopers last fall was suspended Tuesday for throwing a bowl of chili at a white boy. The Negro, Minfiie Jean Brown, was suspended for three days by School Superintendent Virgil T. Blossom. Blossom said the girl “heaved" the bowl of chili at one boy, hitting him directly and spattering it on another. The girl, contacted at her home later in the day, said she was “jostled against a chair, which caused me to drop my tray of food.” She said it fell into the lap of a boy sitting at one of the tables and spattered over the boy sitting next to him. “The boys didn’t act mad,” Minnie said. She added she didn’t even know the two boys’ names. A National Guardsman on duty in the cafeteria immediately took Minnie and the two boys to the office of School Principal Jess Mathews, the. usual procedure for any kind of disturbance. “I told them in the office it was an accident,” the girl said. “He (Mathews) siid he would think it over and let US" know what would happen. “I went back to class and a few moments later was notified I had been suspended.” Mrs. L.C. Bates, president of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP, said she was sure the incident was an accident, but that school officials felt they might as well go ahead and suspend her, giving them a chance to show the Negro students are not getting any special treatment. “If it had been any other kid, they would have probably helped him clean up the mess, let him offer to pay for the cleaning bill and forget about it," she said. “But because one of the nine Negroes was involved, different action was taken." The “Little Rock Nine” entered Central High School Sept. 25 under the protection of the bayonets of the 101st Airborne Division, flown into Little Rock under orders from President Eisenhower. Since that time, there have been occasional reports of white students "picking on" the Negroes, but none of Negroes fighting white students. .The paratroopers have been withdrawn from Little Rock and a National Guard unit still enforcing the integration order will be reduced to 432 men by Christmas, Eve. At one time the National Guard force numbered 1,800 men.

Objection Is Filed To Change Os Venue Death's Attorney Files Objection Dale Death’s attorney, Robert S. Anderson, has filed an objection to the city of Decatur’s motion for a change of venue from the Adams circuit court for Death’s petition to reinstate him as a city policeman. Death, then a city policeman, was arrested for public intoxication following an accident the night of Nov. l,.and was tried in city court and found guilty of public intoxication Nov. 2. He was fined $5 and costs, and given a 10-day suspended sentence. He was also called before the board of public works and charged with conduct unbecoming an officer, absence from his job without leave, and conviction of a crime. After a hearing he was discharged from the police force. At the time he was served with papers to appear for the hearing, he hired Anderson, former city attorney under the Doan administration, to represent him. They rCont.uued on Page Flv«)

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Agreement On Parley Agenda Reached Today American Missiles, Nuclear Stockpiles & Go to Europe PARIS (UP) — The United States and its NATO Allies agreed unanimously today to strengthen the Atlantic alliances defensive shield with American missiles and nuclear stockpiles in Europe. At the same time, they agreed to seek new Big Four talks with the Russians. Full agreement on the entire summit conference agenda was hammered out by the foreign and defense ministers of the 15 NATO countries at a meeting this morning. It was then submitted for final indorsement by the heads of government at their third working session, which got underway at 11:10 a.m. c.s.t. U.S. delegation sources hastened to stress that no “deal’’ was involved. They said the United States did not agree to new EastWest talks merely to win the European members’ acceptance of American missiles in the NATO defense shield. The agreement still has to be spelled ouWn detaiL But it constituted, in effect, a sweeping two-way plan for puttihg new vitality into the alliance. It will bolster the NATO group with every modern weapon in the West’s arsenals while at the same time seeking new talks with' Russia to end the East-West nuclear arms race. The agreement came as the NATO conference, spurred by the United States’ successful .launching Tuesday of the Atlas missile, headed into the home stretch. The Military Agreement The military phase of the agreement covered these main points: —America’s NATO Allies accepted in principle the U.S. offer of nuclear stockpiles and missile bases in Europe. But decisions on just where these would be established were left for further review by NATO defense chiefs and for bilateral negotiations between each country and the United Stats. In any case, the bases could not'be ready for use for at least another 12 to 18 months. —AU IS countries approved in principle a British plan for a balanced NATO foroe to which each nation would contribute those arms it is best able to provide. —They lagreed on further integration of NATO armed forces, establishment of an integrated NATO air defense system in Europe, tighter concentration of their supply services and closer inte(Continued on Page Five) BULLETIN LONDON (IB — Russia replaced ousted Marshal Georgt Zhukov in the party Presidium today with a local Communist leader from Central Asia. The party reshuffle was announced on the eve of the Supreme Soviet’s December session. Moscow Radio announced promotion of N. A. Mukhitdinov to the ruling Communist party body. He also became a secretary of the party under the first secretary, Nikita Khrushchev.

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