Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1957 — Page 1

Vol. IV. No. 302.

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Nation Ready For Observance Os Christinas Abundance Os Peace And Prosperity For Christmas Os 1957 By UNITED PRESS The natio»i*’ todsy prepared J W celebrate Christmas 1957 with an abundance of peace and prosperity. Only the northern reaches of the Midwest and the western mountain regions were expected to enjoy a white Christmas, but there was no laek of other traditional aspects of the season. Merchants around the country reported a huge business volume, in some cases record sales, indicating gifts will be piled high around the Christmas free. Christmas Starts with Church For millions of devout Americans, Christmas will start tonight with midnight church services. • Family get-togethers wilT feature the day’s activities, topped off with a sumptuous Christmas dinner. But, inevitably, tragedy in the form of traffic deaths will cast a somber cloak over the holiday celebration, but since Christmas falls in mid-week the highway slaughter is not expected to be as great as on holiday weekends. The National Safety Council estimates as many as 180 persons will be killed during the 30-hour holiday period from 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve. until midnight ‘'Christmas pay. This compares with the “normal" traffic toll of 80 deaths for a non-holiday period at this time of year. Stay Sober, Obey Law* The council pleaded with motorists to stay sober and obey traffic laws, pointing out that most traffic fatalities are caused by drinking drivers and road hogs. The council’s plea will be backed up by all-out crackdown on violators in most states by state and local authorities who will give up the day with their families so that others may live to enjoy the holiday with their loved ones. President Eisenhower, like most Americans, will spend today at work, and tentative plans call for the President and Mrs. Eisenhower to spend Christmas Day at the White House and then leave for a long weekend at their farm home in Gettysburg, Pa.s3oJrTNickels Are Stolen From Church NEW ALBANY (IP) — Police are seeking a thief who made off with about 530 in Buffalo nickels from the Assembly of God Church. The money was part of the church building fund. . South Bend Bendix Executive Is Dead SOUTH BEND (IP) — Wilbur Leo Webb, 51. general manager of the Bendix Products Division-Missiles plant at Mishawaka, died ii> Memorial Hospital Monday of cancer. He became the first general manager of the plant in September, 1952.

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Engineer Speaks On City Sewage Plant Decatur Lions Hear New Plant Details Two side products, humus and a fuel gas, will be produced by the new sewage treatment plant. Wesley Gallup, project engineer, told members of the Decatur Lions club Monday night. Gallup, an engineer with Con-soer-Townsend Associates Co., stated” firm fii€~*prefjteet" ? ihcfoatSS" much work besides the disposal plant. Two interceptor sewers, pumping stations, a cast-iron force main, and other construction will be necessary in addition to the main plant. One large interceptor sewer wifi run along, the river, and intercept all the sewers which now dump directly into the river. The sewers will not connect directly, but a smaller pipe will connect directly into the interceptor. This will carry the ordinary flow of sewage. When a storm occurs, and there is a large quantity of rain water in the pipes, this water will flow directly out and into the river, and there will not be a great increase in the amount of sewage reaching the plant. The second interceptor will run from the west end sewer at 12th and Meibers streets to 17th and Monroe streets, and intercept the sewers that used to empty into the creek which runs through file golf course. When the sewage arrives at the plant, it runs through a grit chamber, which removes sand, gravel, and grit that might enter from the storm sewers. ’ ’ . In the pre-aeriation tank, air is blown through the sewage to help bacterial action. It is then run through the primary settling tanks, and 50% to 60% of the solid matter is then settled out. A collecting belt gathers the solid material in hoppers. Trickling filters in two circular tanks filled with 2-3 inch stones, with an underdrain of tile, then condition the sewage for the secondary settling tanks. This leaves the water 85-90 percent free of sewage. The remaining water is treated with chlorine and discharged into the river. The solid material is then pumped into two digestor tanks 50 feet in diameter and 20 feet high, for 45 to 60 days. The temperature is maintained at 85 to 90 degrees by; circulating the material through a boiler. This conditions the sludge so that it may be disposed of without smelling. 4 sewage gas, suitable for heating purposes, is produced by this process, and will be collected to use in the heating process in the plant. Some excess gas may even be produced. It is similar to natural gas but contains more sulphur and less BTU’s. When the sewage is properly conditioned it will be pumped to drying beds, consisting of tile covered by two feet of sand. The dry material collected here is quite useful as humus to condition soil. This is usually collected with a tractor and scoop shovel. The plant will also be able to grind garbage and prepare it for sanitary disposal, Gallup explained. - The plant has been built high enough to withstand a flood as se(Continued on Pmto Fivb)

Four Rescued From Crashed Naval Plane 24 Men On Board Navy Picket Plane Crashed Off Oahu HONOLULU (UP) — A Marine Corps rescue boat eany today picked up four men who survived the crash of a big Navy radar plane off Oahu Island with 23 aboard, spurring hopes of a search armada that more survivors could be found. The skipper of the crash boat No. 22 reported that he and another Marine Corps boat in the area had also picked two bodies in the choppy waters. Crash boat No. 22 headed for Kaneohe Marine Air Station with the four exhausted survivors and both bodies. The other crash boats remained at the scene to continue the search, along with other boats and planes. The skipper of crash boat No. 22 radioed to search headquarters at Pearl Harbor: “One of the survivors told me they had to ditch." He had no further details. The rescue of the four men touched off renewed efforts by the ships and planes taking part in the all-out search ordered after the plane Vanished Monday while on a routine training flight. Seas in the area were high and visibility was poor, hampering the search by ocean. However, the search by air was easier, since the ceiling was 2,000 feet and there were scattered clouds. Names of the survivors and the dead men were not immediately available. The plane, a WV-2 Super Constellation, was returning from a routine training mission Monday when it suddenly disappeared from the radar screen of a Navy tracking station at 3:50 p.m. (8:50 p.m. e.s.t.). Hours later, the Navy heard a in the area, about 30 miles off the northern tip of Oahu. It dismissed as “unfounded" Air Force reports of sighting at least two life rafts. Ordered into the search Monday night were the destroyer Lansing, two sea-going crash boats from the Kaneohe Marine Air Station, three Coast Guard cutters, four smaller Coast Guard patrol boats, two Coast Guard planes, four Air Force planes equipped for night search and two WV-2 planes like the missing plane. (Continued on Pare Five) Khrushchev Hints Armed Forces Cut Study Recommended By Supreme Soviet LONDON W — Soviet Communist leader Nikita Khrushchev hinted today that Russia is preparing to cut its armed forces in view of NATO’s latest declaration against the use of force, Moscow Radio reported. Khrushchev, in a speech to the Ukrainian Republic’s parliament in Kiev, said the Supreme Soviet had recommended a study of such cuts last week. He added that “development of science and engineering in our country”/ makes reductions in armed forces possible. Moscow Radio broadcast a* brief- paraphrase of Khrushchev’s speech to the Republican Supreme Soviet of his home state. In the short account there was no reference by Khrushchev to President Eisenhower’s report to America on the NATO summit conference. The speech, was broadcast only a few hours before the Kiev meeting began. * Dog In Rocket LONDON (IP) — Soviet scientists twice have sent a dog to a height of 125 miles by rocket and brought it back safely by parachute, a Moscow newspaper said today. The newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya, quoted by Moscow radio, said a space dog named “Albina" had made the journey into space twice in a rocket and survived. The broadcast gave no further details of the dog’s flights, but it said they had proved that if rockets are launched vertically the animals traveling in them suffer no discomfort. “This means that man too can be taken to great heights by rockets,” the newspaper said. It said the Soviets plan to launch ' 125 rockets during the course of the International Geophysical year. It said they will carry not only scientific equipment “but will also be used for medical and biological experiments.”

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 24,1957.

United States Holding Door Open To Russians For New Peace Parley

Army Decides j Against Moving Satellite Site Vetoes Proposal To Hold Next Launching Outside The U. S. WASHINGTON (01 — The Army has decided against a proposal to cloak its satellite-launching attempt in secrecy by holding it ; outside the United States, it was learned today. Informed sources said suggestions were advanced within the Army to conduct the rocket-fir-ing somewhere like Panama or Puerto Rico. However too many obstacles arose and the attempt to lift the Army satellite into an orbit will be conducted at the Air Force missile test center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. This is the same site used for the Navy Vanguard satellite tests. L The main reason advanced for shifting the site of the Army firing from Cape Canaveral to a more isolated spot was to avoid a publicity buildup like the one . which - preceded • - Venguard failure three weeks ago. From this standpoint Panama, Puerto Rico or other sites mentioned might have filled the bill. A launching place farther south than Canaveral would have one added advantage — it would be easier to reach the 18,000-mile-per-hour speed needed to get into an orbit. The nearer the Equator you go the more you can take advantage of the speed of the earth's own rotation. But the suggestion had insurmountable obstacles. The main (Continued on Page Five) 14 Persons Killed In Colombian Crash MEDELLIN, Columbia — RB Fourteen persons were killed and 28 others injured seriously Monday when a bus ran off the Andean Highway and plunged down o 600foot chasm. The accident happened on the highway linking Medellin and Cali in western Colombia. One Os Hollywood’s Greats Dies Today Norma Talmadge Dies After Heart Attack LAS VEGAS, Nev. (TO — Norma Talmadge, one of the greats in Hollywood’s fabulous era of the ’2os, died today after a heart attack at her home. The former silent screen star had been ill for some time and died at 6a. m. CST. She had resided here with her husband, Dr. Carvel James, whom she rilarried in 1946. Before her marriage to James, Miss talmadge was married for 17 yeatjr to movie mogul Joseph Schenck. She divorced Schenck in 1934 and married cornfdiantoastmaster George JCssdr Her marriage to Jessel ended in the divorce courts five years later. Miss Talmadge gained worldwide fame in the silent screen era, her career guided by the masterful Schenck who selected her stories and directed the best possible talent in her support. Her successful pictures made the Talmadge name a household word and reaped financial returns from epics that were the biggest money makers of the screen. Two Talmadge sisters, Constance and Natalie, also were successful in file silent screen era. • She retired from pictures shortly after talkies arrived, making only one audible film and turning down frequent attempts to make a film comeback. The star said she put in almost a generation before the cameras and was entitled to enjoy life. •

—T Plea In Abatement Under Advisement Prosecutor Argues Against Abatement Prosecuting attorney Lewis Lutz Smith entered a demurrer to Dale Death’s plea to abate his case of public intoxication in circuit court Monday. Judge Myles Parrish heard the arguments on the demurrer, which r sthted that the reasons for which > Death asked that the charge be . dismissed were not specific enough t tjk warrant their discharge, i I Death had asked that the case be abated or the charge dismissed - against him because no warrant : or summons' was ever issued in ■ the mayor’s court. Death was arrested Nov. 1 for public intoxication following an aci cident near the Standard grocery. i A city policeman, Death was offI dutv at the time, and was taken to » police headquarters, where the chief of police fried to talk to him, ' but after an hour and a half had ■ him taken to the jail and the public intoxication charge was filed against him. Death was arraigned the next day in mayor’s court and entered a plea of guilty, and was fined 85 and costs and given a ten-day L suspended sentence. Afterhe was served with papers for a hearing before the board of works on sparges of conduct, unbecoming a police officer, absent without ofo ficial leave, and conviction of an offense, he hired a lawyer to represent him. The clrbuit court t granted Death the right to change his plea, and following this a plea , in abatement was entered. Before the argument started, Smith filed a demurrer to the plea, charging that a plea in abatement must be strictly construed and the specific grounds upon which the defendant demands that the prosecution abate must be stated with certainty. Answers in abatement are not favored in the law, and they must allege every fact necessary to their sufficiency. No pre(Contlnued on Page Five) Final Session Held By Commissioners ". Final 1957 Session Held Here Monday The Adams county commissioners met Monday In the county auditor’s office for their final session of the year. Martin Reiter of Root township put in a request for the county to build a road from U.S. highway 27 to his property line." The request was discussed and approved by the commissioners. The road, an extension of the Williams road south, will be approximately 200 feet long. Henry Rumple an£ Roy Price were named as the county farm appraisers and will appraise the livestock, farm equipment and household goods of the county farm ■>n January Ist. Dave Macklin, county attorney, will accompany them in their work. - Appointments for the offices bf county attorney, county physician, county health officer, the court house janitor, the court house matron, the county superintendent of highways, the assistant superintendent of highways for the nflrth and south districts, highway garage bookkeeper and the highway garage janitor were discussed, but no information will be released until the new commissioners meet at the first of the year. School attendance officer, Mildred Foley’s request for a private telephone was granted. At present, she shares one telephone with the members of the sheriff’s department. On a recommendation from the sheriff, the insurance on the photographic equipment was declined. The reason given was the extremely high rate of premiums assessed on equipment of this type used in conjunction with law enforcement departments.

Dr. Hannah Is Chairman Os Civil Rights College President Named By Ike As Commission Head WASHINGTON (UP)-The new chairman of the Civil Rights Commission established a theme today of a patient, “good-will” approach to the long-standing problem of racial desegregation in America. Dr. John A. Hannah, president of Michigan State University with a firm record of backing integration in the acade&ic and military life, was named by President Eisenhower Monday to succeed former Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed as commission chairman. Hannah, who has been serving as commission vice-chairman, disclosed he will meet with the President and commission members here Jan. 3 to launch the new group’s work. The President also named former Florida Gov. Doyle E. Carlton, identified with southern moderates on the segregation issue, to fill the vacancy caused when Reed resigned for fear of a conflict with his past and present judicial role. Carlton’s appointment completes the six-member commission created by Congress this year to ins vestigate alleged violation of Ne- ; ®ro voting rights and other civil rights problems. The commission has not yet held its first meeting. Its members must eventually secure Senate confirmation but need not await it to begin their work. Hannah, reached at his home at East Lansing, Mich., said the problem facing the commission is “as important as any confronting the American people today.” “Wise men have struggled with if for decades and L have no illusions that this commission will be able to produce the final solution in a few months," he told the United Press. “However,” he said, “I approach this task with the attitude that men of good will should be able to make some useful contribution in the national interest. More than that I cannot say pending the first meeting with the President and my colleagues on Jan. 3.” Civil rights backers in the federal government enthusiastically hailed H&nnah’s elevation to the chairmanship as a "positive contribution" to prospects of civil rights advances.” • H'i> I- 1 11 . Rev. Chandler To Leave Local Church Accepts Post With Fort Wayne Church The Rev. Traverse W. Chandler, pastor of the First Christian church of his city, has accepted 1 a call to become minister of youth and evangelism at the West Creighton Avenue Christian church in Fort Wayne. Rev. Chandler has been pastor of the Decatur church since 1954, although maintaining his home at 3422 Bowser, Fort Wayne. He will assume his new duties ; Feb. 9, The Rev. E. Clayton Gooden is pastor of the West Creighton church. Rev. Chandler was ordained in 1945, and his first pastorate was the Buckeye Christian church in Huntington county. He has attended special conferences at Butler University in cooperation with the department of town and country church work. In Rev. Chandler's new duties, he will work in an administrative capacity with the church school staff and with the education committee. _ INDIANA WEATHER - Fair tonight. Wednesday fair and somewhat warmer. Low tonight 26-33. High Wednesday upper 40s to low 50s. Outlook for Thursday: Fair to partly eloudy.

Christian On Road To Bethlehem Today Barrier Os Hate Is Lifted Early Today BETHLEHEM, Jordan — — The barrier of hate dividing the Holy Land lifted at dawn today in Jerusalem and Christian pilgrims embarked on the road to Bethlehem — the birthplace 6f the Prince of Peace. Israeli and Jordanian border guards obeyed orders to stand ’ aside for 36 hours to let Christians j from Israel and other parts of the . world pass through the Mandelbaum Gate. t About 1,700 were expected to i cross no man's land into Jordan, i Roman Catholic patriarch Alberto Gori headed the traditional porcession of the clergy from Jerusalem to Bethlehem at 5 a.m. e.s.t. to begin services beneath the Church of the Nativity, in the cavern where Christ was born. The route of the procession wound from Mandelbaum Gate down the Valley of Cedron, past the Garden of Gethsemane and the Mount of Olives and then along the winding road to Bethlehem. It was watched by shepherds who guarded their flocks today Ittueh as shepherds did'inthe time of Christ Consuls-general of seven nations, including the United States, planned to attend a pontifical mid- 1 night Mass here. Consuls once went in procession , down the old road past the well , where the three wise men are said i to have halted to drink. Today ; that road is blocked with tank (Continued on Pace Five) i 'Sick' Strike Cuts Commuter Service ■ -"d Dispute On Holiday Train Crew. Setup NEW YORK (UP) - A “sick” strike cut service today on the Long Inland Railroad, the world’s largest commuter line, giving , thousands of workers an unsched- j tiled holiday and snarling Christ- J mas plans for thousands of others who had planned to ride the trains ( to join family and friends for < Christmas celebrations. ( A spokesman* for the road said ( 185 conductors and ticket takers j had called in sick between midnight and 6:30 a.m., apparently < as the result of a dispute over ( holiday train crew schedules. Up to 8:30 a.m., 45 of 230 sched- t uled trains had been cancelled. 3 Service was suspended entirely on J the Port Jefferson and the Oyster « Bay branches. The road normally carries about j 275,000 passengers daily, A spokes- e man said it had planned for 55,000 c commuters during the morning * rush hour instead of the normal 75,000, because many businesses had declared a pre-Christmas holi- < day. Extra sections were sched- j uled for later in the day to carry t Christmas travelers. Traffic on Long Island parkways j was heavy but apparently less , congested than if the shutdown t had occurred on a normal working day. Many commuters who would have worked only half a day ? anyway apparently decided the L trip wasn’t worth the effort. Congestion was expected later in the day with thousands of families traveling in both directions to family gatherings. 40 Families Made Homeless By Fire PITTSBURGH (® — An esti- s mated 40 families faced a home- I less Christmas today as the re- <! suit of a wind-whipped fire that t destroyed 14 homes and a grade i school in a three-block area at t nearby Rankin, Pa. I The fire raged out of control t for more than four hours in a 1 condemned tenement section, s causing an estimated one million dollars damage. Two persons s died of heart attacks during the 1 blaze and at least four firemen c were injured. c

Ike And Dulles In Report To Nation Monday Call On Kremlin To Give Clear Evidence To Prove Sincerity WASHINGTON (UP)—Top leaders of the East and West talked of peace on the eve of Christmas. President Eisenhower Monday night invited Russia to offer evidence, not just words, of a desire to halt the nuclear missile arms race. The President, in a report to the people on the Paris NATO meeting, said there could be no “finer Christmas present” than a start toward universal peace. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, Soviet Communist boss Nikita Khrushchev said that Russia “will continue’’ to “struggle for peace.” In a speech in Kiev to the Ukrainian Republic’s parliament, Khrushchev reported Soviet reaction to statements by NATO countries that they would not use force against other countries. .. . . Iltwk •*. - Ih vfew of these statements, Moscow Radio quoted Khrushchev as saying, the Supreme Soviet has asked the Soviet government "to study a further reduction of the armed forces of the Soviet Union.” Washington officials noted, however, that Khrushchev went on to say that such a reduction could be accomplished without lessening Soviet might. Development “of science and engineering in our country,” the Communist boss was quoted as saying, makes it possible for Russia to maintain its strength ‘‘with a smaller expenditure of means...’’ This sounded like the “more bang for a buck” philosophy expressed by U.S. military leaders in the heyday of atomic development. Urges Stop of Threats State Department officials said they would welcome any real Soviet steps toward disarmament. But they also noted that Khrushchev’s remarks were vague and did not make it clear that any reduction in important types of military power is contemplated. In his talk Monday night, President Eisenhower urged Russia to stop “threats and blandishments” and make a genuine step toward checking the race for arms of mass destruction. The Soviets may get their first chance to accept when the expanded 25-member United Nations disarmament commission- meets for the first time, probably early next year. — President Eisenhower, in his first television appearance since his Nov. 25 stroke, called upon the Kremlin Monday night for “clear evidence” —not more Words — to prove its sincerity in seeking to ease East-West tensions. Door Open To Talks Both the Chief Executive and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in their report to the nation on last week's allied “summit” meeting in Paris, left the door open to new East-West talks whenever Russia shows willingness based on “intergrlty and sincerity." High administration sources, in giving the "open-door” interpretation of the President’s remarks, did not indicate how, when or where the administration felt Russia should demonstrate its sincer(OonUnued on Pa«e Jfour) Funeral Held Today For Werling Infant Lindsey Werling, four-day-old son of Jean and Patricia Roe-buck-Werling, of near Decatur, died Monday at the Adams county memorial hospital. Surviving in addition to the parents are a twin sister, Linda; two brothers, Larry and Dennis, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roebuck. Mrs. Treva Werling and Mrs. Mary Blpxham. Funeral services* were held this afternoon at the Black funeral home, the Rev. 0. C. Busse officiating. Burial was in the Decatur cemetery.

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