Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1957 — Page 1

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NEW BROTHER IS Ne. 15—Newest member of the Schouten family, the 15th child, basks in the smiles of his parents and brothers and sisters in Lynwood, Calif. Newcomer Michael is a Christmas baby. The other Schouten children in photo range in age* from 21 months to 22 years. i

1958 Election Year, Several Races Offered Increased Salaries Likely To Attract More Candidates The new year of 1958 will usher in another election campaign for the citizens of Adams county, with all township offices, and eight county or area offices, as well as many state offices at stake. I Higher salaries for most county offices are expected to attract a large number of aspirant; in the Democratic and Republican primaries to be held in May. All present office-holders, except for several trustees, are eligible for renomination aqd, reelection. Commissioners will be elected for a three-year term from the first and third Harley J. Reef, Democrat, of the third district, has served as corn tnissioner since 1953. His second term will expire Dec. 31 of next year. The third district has never had a successful Republican nominee. Roland J. Miller, Republican, who has served on the board of commissioners for the past year, will be up for renomination and reelection next year, although the successful candidate for the first district will not take office until Jan. 1, 1960. Miller is the second Republican in the past 121 years to serve from the first district, the other being Dale D. Moses, who served from 1942-48. Democrats must 'elect both commissioners to regain control of the board of commissioners, which will pass into Republican hands Jan. 1 for the second time in the county’s history. Republicans can continue control by electing cither commissioner’s candidate. Several Democrats have already indicated to their friends that they will be candidates from each district. Both Miller and Reef have indicated that they may be candidates again, depending on the competition. Commissioners will draw $2,700 a year, but will draw no mileage. The office of clerk of the circuit court, commonly called county clerk, also be up for election next year, but the newly elected clerk will not take office until Jan. 1, 1960. Richard E. •’Dick” Lewton, Democratic clerk, was first elected clerk in 1954, and began serving as clerk in 1956. He has served only one term, and is eligible for reelection. Twenty men have held the office of county clerk since the county was founded in 1836, and the first clerk, Samuel L. Rugg, held the office the longest, 18 years. Eight clerks have served at least two terms, only Rugg has served longer. No Republican ever held the office. The clerk receives a salary of $6,500 a year. The most popular job in the county, that of sheriff, is also up for nomination and election this year. The newly-elected sheriff will take office Jan. 1, 1959. After Jan. 1 the job will pay $6,500 a year. Merle Affolder, Democraitc sheriff, is eligible for renomination and reelection. Affolder is the 35th sheriff of Adams county. No Republican has ever been elected sheriff. No sheriff has ever been defeated when renominated for the office. Only Robert Shraluka, the last sheriff, has not run for reelection since Peter (Continued on Pa«o Five)

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Warns On Terrifying Growths Os Cities Rate Growth May Bring Real Crisis INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A political science professor has warned that the Italmost terrifying” rate of growth* f American cities may lead to a real crisis. Dr. Coleman Woodbury of the University of Wisconsin said the national population may reach 220 dllion by 1975. Speaking at the 124th annual meeting of the American Assoc iation for the Advancement of Science, Woodbury said Friday night that “our now predominantly urban society is poorly prepared to deal with the problems of this growth.” Nor is It ready to create economical, livable and beautiful physical settings and facilities, he said. Shopping areas will become decentralized. he said. Accompanied by spreading “blight” in metropolitan areas, the financial plight of cities may become a “real crisis.” “When one looks at the serious problems of metropolitan growth, its probable speed in the near future is almost terrifying," Woodbury said. Another speaker told the AAAS that this nation’s long-range technological and military supremacy could be seriously threatened by an all-out effort to match Soviet space-age feats. Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co., said “real progress” in science can be achieved only when “all its branches move forward in an unbroken front.” "I sincerely hope that no scientific chauvinism will lead us down ill-considered pathways toward goali which may be more glittfer than gold,” he said. Although hasy expedients promise immediate advantage, in the long run scientific endeavor is weakened rather than strengthened, Greenewalt said. In other activity yesterday, the AAAS: . —Named Dr. Paul Klopsteg of the National Science Foundation to succeed Dr. Wallace Brode of the National Bureau of Standards as president of the group. Brode’s term begins next month, expires Jan. 15, 1959. —Reelected board hembers Thomas Park of the University of Chicago and William Rubey of the IL S. Geological Survey, and elected as new board member Dean Mina Rees of Hunter College. —Heard Dr. Canio L. Zarilli, senior law instructor at the New York Institute of Criminology, report that homosexual behavior between “consenting adults” should be a “matter of private morality, not a crime." Acknowledging a British report the findings of which corresponded with his own, he also said prostitution should be "dealt with as a social, • medical and psychiatric problem.” (Continued on Page Five) Miss Vivian Closs Dies This Morning Miss Vivian Closs, 63, a native of Decatur, died suddenly at 6 o'clock this morning at a Fort Wayne hospital, two hours after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage at her home in that city. She was born here Aug. 23, 1894, a daughter of Jacob and Catherine Meehan-Closs, and attended the Catholic school. She was employed for many years by the Lincoln National Bank and Trust Co., retiring in 1956. Surviving are two brothers, John and Ignatius Closs, both of Fort Wayne. Another brother, Arthur Closs, died at his home in Decatur last year. The body was removed to the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home. Arrangements have not been completed.

Judge Denies Implications Os Union Pay Judge Schoolfield Terms Testimony As Plot Os Destruction CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (UP)— Tennessee Judge Raulston Schoolfield told a radio - television audience Friday night that implications before the Senate Rackets Committee that he accepted a bribe were part of a “consummate plot to destroy rhe.” The 52-year-old criminal court jurist spoke for an hour here on both radio and TV, then flew to Nashville and made the same speech on another radio hookup. In the speech he denied “emphatically” that he accepted money to quash indictments against members of the Teamsters Union. Testimony in which the implications were made came during the committee's investigation of labor violence in Chattanooga and other Tennessee areas. j “Directed Squarely At Me” The probe was “directed squarely at me and no one else,” Schoolfield said, and termed the entire investigation “a consummate plot on the part of certain people of interests to destroy me.” Schoolfield said the “interests” wanted to ruin him his belief in separation of the races and his opposition “to the federal government’s towering proportions of power in the affairs of the people.” State officials, including Gov. Frank Clement, huddled earlier this week and agreed to investigate Schoolfield's activities. There also have been indications the state bar may ask the judge to leave the bench until this investigation is complete. Hunted Scandalous Conduct Schoolfield charged in his speech that two Senate investigators sent to the Chattanooga area “addressed almost all of their time and effort toward trying to produce scandalous and-or unlawful conduct on my part, all of which was wholly unrelated to the field of labor and management.” S - _ "At the time I went to Washington I was of the opinion that the senior senator from Tennessee (Estes Kefauver) was in all probability the trigger man in this plot,” the judge added. “But up to this time I have been unable to uncover his track.” The judge said committee investigators “studiously avoided” checking out alleged labor violence and bribery in Chattanooga. "There was not one word of evidence Introduced at that hearing proving any violence of trouble between labor and management”. Four Youths Given Sentences Os Death Four Sentenced To Chair For Murder NEW YORK (UP)—Four youths, ranging in age from 17 to 22, stood before the bar of justice. Each in his turn heard the same solemn words from Judge James P. McGrattan. “This court sentences you to die in the electric chair in Sing Sing prison the week of February 10th —may God have mercy on your soul.” It was the first time in Queens County Court history that four defendants were sentenced to death for one murder. The four were convicted Dec. 11 by a jury of 11 men and one woman for the holdup slaying of delicatessen proprietor William Boser, 61. The jury failed to recommend mercy making the death sentence mandatory. • Thomas Frye, 20, was the first to appear before McGrattan Friday for sentencing. He appeared calm but flinched noticeably when the grim-faced judge intoned the death sentence. William Wynn, 17, whose widowed mother, Clara, was the only close relative of any of the defendants in court, gulped nervously when sentence was pronounced. Ralph Dawkins, 22, seemed selfpossessed and maintained an outer calm. Only Jackson Turner Jr., 21, appeared blase. He strode into the courtroom grinning jauntily. He also was the only one to address the court before sentence was pronounced. . , • “When this trial first started we requested that Negroes be put on the jury,” Turner told the court. “There were not enough Negroes called to be chosen and that, your honor, is a violation of my constitutional rights." INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and colder tonight, Sunday partly cloudy. Lows tonight in the 20s. High Sunday over 30s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy.

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Russia Offers Aid To Asian, African Lands Seen Opening Shot In A New Russian Cold War Offense CAIRO (UP) — Western observers today viewed a sweeping Soviet aid offer to African and Asian nations as the opening shot in a new Russian cold war offensive against the West. The offer was made Friday to unofficial delegates from 37 nations attending an Afro >• Asian "solidarity” conference. Delegates from Kenya and Afghanistan arrived Friday night raising the total to 39. The 400 delegates — predominantly Communists or .leftists — discussed the Russian offer excitedly today. They spoke of new opportunities for their awakening continents. Soviet delegate Apushavan Arkyumanyan offered everything from factories to hospitals with no strings attached. He attacked American aid as loaded with interference in the domestic affairs of the receiving countries. He coupled the offer with strong urgings that African and Asian nations; seize foreign property and capital in their countries. The delegates gave him a standing ovation at the end of his speech. Since this is not an official conference — its sponsors call it the “people’s Bandung” — no agreements could be made here. Terms of the Soviet offer would have to be worked out on the diplomatic level. But if the Soviet offer were accepted by many of the Afro-Asian nations, and if a plan for a common Afro - Asian market proposed by Egypt were put into effect, the Soviet Union certainly would befactor in all Africa and Asia, in com the dominating economic the view of western observers. Two Girls Crushed To Death By Auto CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (W — A car driven by a soldier ran onto the porch of a home here Friday pinning two girls against a brick wall and crushing them to death. The victims were Beverly Ann Pointer, 5, and Priscilla Walker, 9. The soldier, Pfc. Franklin Pullom, 24, was charged with murder by drunken driving. Meningitis Threat In lowa Community Children, Parents Exposed At Party , FRANKVILLE, lowa (ffl — Physicians hopdd today they have stopped a threatened outbreak of meningitis that endangered 30 children and parents at a school Christmas party. All the students at Bloomfield No. 5 school, a one-room school near here, were treated Friday when it was discovered that Dale Snyder, 11, had a “severe” case of the disease. The youth was rushed to a hospital at Rochester, Minn., Thursday and an immediate warning went out for the others at the party W take preventive measures. Mrs. Ruth Buddenberg, the school’s only teacher, said “all of the persons who attended the party have been contacted.” But danger still threatened. Hospital authorities said the Snyder youth was not the “carperson at the Christmas party must have infected him, they Her” of the disease. Another said, and they have not been able to locate that person. Although the original 30 have been, treated, others may be exposed to the disease by the unknown carrier, they said.

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Flood Walers Rise Io Southern Illinois More'Rainfall Is Forecast In Area By UNITED PRESS Flood waters swelled by four hours of heavy rain continued to rise at East Carmi, 111., today, and more downpours were forecast for the southern Illinois city where 40 families have been evacuated. The roiling waters coursed : through the southern Illinois region Mt by a series of freakish on - season tornadoes last week. The overflow of the Little Wabash River closed the main highway ' from Mount Carmel, 111., v to Princeton, Ind., police said. A band of showers crossed the Mississippi River from the West early today, and thunderstorm activity continued into the night along the central Gulf Coast. In Washington and Oregon, a new Pacific disturbance caused downpours, and the influence of the storm was being felt in north- ' ern California and the Rockies. More than 2 inches of rain fell at Crescent City, Calif., Friday and a 6-to-7-inch snow fell at high elevations in southern Oregon. Snowfall was widespread over the Great Lakes region but promptly turned to slush in the northern sections of Illinois and Indiana. j The recent cold fronttover the Northern Midwest caused Lake Wihhebago in Wisconsin to freeze ' over—but not enough to support the more than 50 fishermen who ventured on the ice Friday. Authorities set up a ferry service of rowboats to rescue the stranded fishermen when cracks a block long set them adrift. At East Carmi, officials said the evacuation of about 40 families from the flooded lower section of the town by motorboat had been completed, but that another 20 or 30 families were threatened by the rising waters. The evacuees are being bedded down at a radar station. <r Soufbeasl Highways Watched For Gunmen Two Killers Sought After South Flight ATLANTA (UP) - The FBI and local enforcement officers watched the highways of the Southeast today for two “armed and dangerous” men who shot up a Washington, D.C. bar Friday and fled south in stolen cars. « The pair was believed to be traveling somewhere south of Cheraw, S.C. where a Negro worn- , an was released about 7 p.m.'est Friday night after being kidnaped by two men in Virginia. The North Carolina Patrol talked with the woman and said it was assumed her kidnapers were the killers. The gunmen, Henry Clay Overton, 44, and a man tentatively identified as Wayne Carpenter, 22, also kidnaped a young couple in their car at Washington after killing a bar owner and a hillbilly musician and wounding a blind piano player. The fugitives drove to Richmond Va., where they releaser Mis s. Dorsi Mattingly , 19, unharmed. From there they went to Alberta, Va., and locked Pfc. Larry Monteith, 21, of South Fargo, N.D., in the trunk of the car. Leaving that vehicle, they stopped a “big car” occupied by a man and continued on their way. tion officials to help complete the trunk dnd got out. The Negro woman, Mrs. Arsonia G. Allman of Richmond, Va., told ' officers that two men'blocked her car with theirs between South Hill and Petersburg, Va., left their vehicle behind and headed through North Carolina. Upon her release at Cheraw, Mrs. Allman told police of the kidnaping, then went to her sister's home near Hamlet, N.C., and was questioned by the North Carolina 1 Patrol. Tbe men continued south- < ward in her car, she said. 11

S4O Billion Likely Defense Budget In 1958 Eisenhower Nears Final Figure On Budget For Defense GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UP)—ln the quiet seclusion of his farm President Eisenhower today neared a final figure on the heavy cost next year of making the nation’s missile might equal Russia’s. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said a determination of the size of the 1958 defense “has not been made definitely — but I think it will be shortly." Defense officials were reported to have submitted recommendations in excess of 40 billion dollars. Budget Director Percival Brundage was expected here next week along with other high administration officials to help complete th President’s Jan. 9 State of the Union message and a later budget message to Congress. The Chief Executive also planned to play the part of the doting grandfather to his four grandchildren on the first full day of his new year holiday week of work and rest here. Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower motored to the farm Friday afternoon, accompanied by three of their grandchildren. Hagerty declined to confirm or deny reports that the President would include a 500 million dollar fund in the new budget for use at his discretion to exploit new missile or rocket breakthroughs. The press secretary, in response to questions, also said he doubted whether a final draft of a reply to Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin’s “peace” proposals would be completed until after New Year’s. He said the reply was being prepared by the State Department. Hagerty said before it was dispatched to the Kremlin the President would confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who also will be away from Washington over the holiday. Columbia City Girl Killed In Accident COLUMBIA CITY (W — Mary Jo Wysong, 16, Columbia City, died Friday less than four hours after m automobile she was driving skidded in loose gravel on a Whitley County road and rolled over in a fieldTwo teen-age companions were njured. All three girls were thrown from the car.' Three Kosciusko County Men Drown Bodies Recovered In Palestine Lake WARSAW OP) — Authorities late Friday recovered the bodies of three Kosciusko County men from Palestine Lake where they drowned Thursday when their boat overturned while on a fishing trip. The body of Robert Vanderrnark, 22, Mentone, was recovered with drag lines shortly after noon. About an hour later, the body of Dennis Howard, 23, Warsaw, was taken from the water and a half hour later that of Stephen Wallis, 21, Warsaw. Residents living on the lake notified police when they noticed a car parked at the boat landing Thursday was still there the next day. Dragging operations began when the boat used by the men was found adrift. State police skin divers aided in the recovery attempts, but dense vegetation on, the lake bottom hindered their efforts. The bodies were recovered in 10 or 15 feet of water. The men all were wearing heavy clothing which apparently dragged them to the bottom when the boat capsized.

Initial Application On Subscription TV Philadelphia Co. Is First To Apply WASHINGTON (UP) —The first application for pay-as-you-see television test broadcasts today was up for consideration by the Federal Communications Commission. The application was filed by the Philadelphia Broadcast Co., which plans to operate on ultra high fre--1 quency channel 29. 1 The FCC announced last Oct 29 • it would accept applications for 1 subscription, or pay-as-you-see TV 1 to operate on a limited basis but would not act on the applications T until March. • Subscription TV is not to be con- • fused with the closed circuit type ■ of pay-TV operation in Bartlesville ’ Okla. TV programs there are car- ! ried by wire on a closed circuit ' They are not broadcast and there- ■ fore do not come under FCC control. The Philadelphia firm proposed to use the Skiatron system of pay TV. The subscriber would use punch cards to record his program selections. The firm said it planned to charge home subscribers an annual fee of S3O, plus one dollar ! for each special events program. A commercial firm using toll TV 1 would be charged SIOO annually, : plus $5 for each special events program. t The application said a subscriber must attach either a converterdecoder or a simple decoder to his regular TV set. If a subscrib- ■ er did not pay his bill — submitted in quarterly installments — the ■ station would not send him a new set of decoder cards. For the annual fee, a subscriber ' could receive basic sports cover--1 age on the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Eagles, and Philadelphia Warriors — baseball football 1 and basketball. It addition there would be some of the sports schedules of various colleges. Extra - charge special events would include stage presentations, ' major sporting events, current movies, symphonies and “other spectaculars.” Soviet Party Chief Streamlines Party ' Bringing In Old, Tried Associates MOSCOW (UP) — Soviet Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev is streamlining the party leadership by bringing in his old and tried associates of former days, informed sources said today. The sources said Khrushchev’s old friends are being brought from key provincial positions to take up prominent posts in the two powerful party organizations—the Presidium and the secretariat of the central committee. With a few exceptions—notably Premier Nikolai Bulganin and trade chief Anastas Mikoyan—the Presidium now consists of professional party officials. All 10 members of the secretariat of the central committee are either full or candidate (alternate) members of the policy-mak-ing Presidium, it was noted. The central committee now is more active than at any time since the early years under Lenin and Stalin, as Khrushchev told this correspondent in an exclusive interview in October. All branches of Soviet power—the armed forces, security and the state apparatus — are now subordinated to the central committe€. An autonomous “state within a state” such as Lavrenti P. Beria, security chief executed as a traitor, was accused of trying to create now is impossible. Similarly, an army independent of politics as envisioned by Marshal Georgi Zhukov, former defense minister, also has been ruled out The Communist Party rules supreme. Good Fellows Fund Previously Reported $624.62 Mr, and Mrs. L. E. Clase 5.00 Totals ....*

14 Are Saved After Being Trapped Hours All-Night Rescue Operation Ends As Bodies Recovered : AMONATE, Va. (UP) — Rescue workers today brought to the suri face the bodies of 11 coal miners ■ killed by flash burns and concus- ■ sion from a gas explosion in ; Amonate Mine No. 31 of the ; Pocahontas Fuel Co. The blast occurred about 6:30 p.m. e.s.t. Friday, 500 feet underground and about two miles from the main entrance of the mine. About 175 miners, far from the explosion scene, fled to safety in a mine elevator. Fourteen others were trapped for six hours, but were rescued unharmed. They had protected themselves from poisonous sums by stretching canvas over openings in the shaft An all - night rescue operation ended with discovery of the bodies of the 11 victims shortly after dawn. - Start Four-Pronged Inquiry The bodies were brought to the surface more than 13 hours after the explosion occurred. About 75 persons, some of them members of the families of the victims, stood solemnly in the gray morning light at a drift mouth near War, W.Va., as the bodies were brought up on shuttle cars, wrapped in canvas. Over the drift mouth was a sign: “Have you worked carefully today?”. The bodies were unloaded onto makeshift tables in a machine shop near the entrance, placed on rough-hewn boards resting on oil drums and covered with canvas. Final identification was made in the machine shop. A four-way investigation of the disaster started immediately, by the Federal Bureau of Mines, the West Virginia Department of mines, the United Mine Workers and the Pocahontas Fuel Co. Seven of the victims were under notice of a layoff effective Monday. Notice had been given 500 miners in the area that they would be laid off because of falling coal prices. Leave 38 Children The 11 victims left 38 children. William Amos was the father of seven, and Main B. Harrison and Arnold W. Young of five each. The mine *is only a few miles from the Bishop, Va., mine where 37 miners were killed in an underground explosion last Feb. 4. Both shafts are owned by the same company. W.A. Fullerton, special assistant to the president of Pocahontas Fuel Co., said about 175 other miners were working when the gas exploded, but were far from the scene and went to the surface by elevator. None of them was hurt. Woodrow Evaqs, 44, foreman of the 14 - man group rescued at about 1 a.m. today, said his men remained calm during their wait and “some of them even ate. their lunch.” The blast was so deep in the mine that officials did not feel the shock on the surface and did not know there was trouble until gauges showed ventilation failure. Ambulances and rescue equipment came to the scene from throughout this remote mining country along the Virginia-West Virginia border. Elbert Sparks, one of the men who escaped from the mine, said the explosion "kicked up a lot of dust and there was a loud report.” He was about two and a half miles from the blast, he said, and he and companions walked to an elevator and rode to the surface. 200-215 in Shaft Fullerton said between 200 and 215 men were working in the mine, one of several operated in this area by Pocahontas. The explosion apparently resulted from an accumulation of gas, he said. The blast occurred two to two and a half miles from the emCorUnued on Page Five) NOON EDITION

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