Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 306.

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Three Plead Not Guilty In Road Scandals Sherwood, Sayer, Mogilner Trial Is Set For March 10 INDIANAPOLIS <W — Three men charged with bribery in the Indiana highway scandals pleaded innocent today and their trial was set for March 10. They were Elmer (Doc) Sherwood, former Indiana adjutant general; William E. Sayer, former administrative assistant to exGov. George Craig, and Arthur J. Mogilner, an Indianapolis salesman who sold more than a million dollars worth of equipment and supplies to the highway department. Judge Saul Rabb set the trial date in Marion Criminal Court and ordered .a speical venire of 200 prospective jurors drawn. The men pleaded before Rabb after the Judge overruled motions to quash the affidavits against them. Rabb set the trial date 10 weeks hence after Prosecutor John G. Tinder said the state could have its 1 case ready “in two weeks" but defense attorneys objected to such a short delay as “ridiculous." The quash motions were filed on technical grounds. The three were accused of conspiring to bribe and bribing former Indiana highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith to receive more than $600,000 worth of state contracts for Mogilner. Smith was convicted on other charges in the scandals and is free (C utinu.d on Page Five)

Church Os Nazarene Engages Architect The official board of the Church of the Nazarene, Seventh and Marshall streets, has engaged an architect to help formulate plans for a future building program. More adequate faciities will be planned for the growing congregation. The Decatur church was organized in 1936, with 19 charter members, and has 157 members, with a Sunday school average of 160, an active missionary society, and a youth group which meets each Sunday. The Rev. C. E. Lykins is serving his fourth year as pastor. Building plans will tie in with the general program of the church, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 1958. INDIANA WEATHER Snow north, snow, sleet or rain central and occasional rain extreme south tonight. Colder north. Tuesday cloudy, rain likely south, colder with snow or snow flurries north. Low tonight 24-32 north, in the 30s south. High Tuesday 28-36 north, 34-44 south. Sunset today 5:30 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 8:06 Sa.m. Outlook for Wednesday: ■** Cloudy and cold with some snow likely north and central and rain south. Lows Tuesday night 16 to 22 north, 22 to 30 south. Highs Wednesday near 30 north, near 40 south.

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Seek To Change Red Tone Os Conference Move Launched By Neutral Delegates CAIRO (UP)Neutralist delegates to the unofficial Afro-Asian “solidarity” meeting launched a move today to change the Communist tone of the conference. Many leaders of the 39 delegations showed open distress at Western press charges that the conference was Communist dominated. . Ethiopian spokesman Mekasha Getachew said several delegations, including his own, were trying to get the conference to issue a mod-erately-worded, middle-road final communique. “Many delegations, notably the Burmese, are displeased and irritated by charges that the conference is Communist dominated," Getachew said. India's Anup Singh, one of the conference's main organizers, war similarly piqued. “I think many people will be surprised at the wording of the final communique," he said. "Most of us here are non-Communists and we are determined to underline this fact in the communique.” A high Egyptian source said the tone of the final statement “will not lend itself to the charge of Communist propagandizing." The fact remained, however, that up to today the public utterances at the conference had been for the most part markedly antiWest. The Communists have been represented at the discussions out of all proportion to their real strength in Africa and Asia. Communist elements at tie meeting suffered their first real defeat Sunday when they failed in a bid to indict the United States as a nation practicing racial discrimination. Local Man's Nephew Dies At Fort Wayne James Samuel Baker, 58, of Fort Wavne. nephew of Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Baker of this city, died Saturday afternoon at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne after a lengthy illness. A veteran of World War I, he was a member of American League Post 47 in Ft. Wayne, Survivors include his wife, Thelma; a brother, Robert of Fort Wayne, and four sisters, Mrs. James Nall of Louisville, Ky., Mrs. William J. Thompson of Salem, Ore., Mrs William Lichtenwalter and Miss Lois Baker, both of Chicago. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home, the Rev. Stanley L. Manoski officiating. Burial will be in the Fort Wayne Catholic cemetery. Late Bulletins An official communique said tonight that Premier David Ben-Gurion will resign by Tuesday morning at the latest if his leftist coalition partners refuse a last minute appeal for a loyalty pledge. INGLEWOOD, Calif. (V) — Two masked bandits today themselves in a cocktail bar with six hostages and an assault force of 150 officers surrounded the place.

New Transport Strike Threat f , * For New York 7,000 Subway, Bus Employes Vote To Strike On Tuesday NEW YORK (UP)—The City Transit Authority was expected to make a new wage offer today to the defiant Transport Workers Union in the hope of heading off what could be the city’s worst transit strike beginning at midnight New Year's Eve. Approximately 7,000 shouting subway and bus employes voted unanimous approval of the strike at a rank-and-file meeting of the AFL-CIO union late Sunday. High officials of the state and city CIO councils attended the meeting and pledged support of the strike. The walkout would close down the city's 228-miles of subway lines, all city-run bus lines and nine private bus lines at an hour when millions of New Yorkers are "on the town" welcoming 1958. Gov. Averell Harriman said the strike would be "illegal and intolerable,” but he did not say what he intended to do. The transit authority, whose 18-cent-an-hour wage increase offer was turned down Saturday, was expected to make a new offer at a 3 p.m. e.s.t. meeting with TWU officials who represent the city’s 31,000 subway and bus workers. Transit officials are reported hopeful qf a settlement on the basis of a 22-cent-an-hour increase over a two-year period. The TWU has demanded a 65-cent-an-hour increase. At no time during the meeting Sunday did union President Michael J. Quill or any other officer mention a lesser figure, but they said that only a one-year contract would be satisfactory. All union spokesmen emphasized how “miserable” the transit authority’s offers have been to date.

Are Warned By Botanist Cites Radio-Active Fallout Hazards INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A botanist has warned that the nation’s policy-makers should make up their minds which is more im-portant-more H-bomb tests or the lives of thousands of victims of radio-active fallout. Prof. Barry Commoner, Washington University of St. Louis, said Sunday the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy published 2,000 pages on its recent hearings on the dangers of fallout without deciding on a policy. Commoner said anyone trying to deride if “biological hazards of world-wide fallout can be justified by necessity must somehow weigh a number -of human lives against deliberate action to achieve a de sired military or political advantage.” ~He noted in a report to the American Association for the Advancement of Science that the committee estimates fallout from tests already made may produce up to 13,000 defective new-born children and up to 100,000 cases of leukemia and bone tumor. There apparently isn’t even a “stated policy” on who should decide if tests should continue, Commoner said. “But there is, I believe, no scientific way to balance the possibility of 1,000 deaths from leukemia against the political advantages of developing more efficient retaliatory weapons,” he said. “Never in the history of humanity has such a judgment involved literally every individual now living and expected for some generations to live on earth," he said. Another speaker, Prof. S. Meryl Rose, University of Illinois zoologist, suggested that cancer be used as a weapon against cancer. “Growth can be limited by its products.," he said. “Now an attempt should be made to collect products of cancer, concentrate them, and use them back on the cancer.” Rose said scientists have learned they can produce heartless or brainless tadpoles by culturing their eggs in water containing mashes or cultures of heart or brain. By using the same theory, Rose suggested, doctors might be able to stop the growth of malignant cancers. NO PAPER WEDNESDAY The Decatur Daily Democrat, following a custom of several years, will not publish an edition Wednesday. Jan. 1, because of the New Year’s holiday. Tuesday’s edition' will be published at the usual press time.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 30,1957.

Scientific Education. Program Approved By President Eisenhower

Study Closer Links On Free World Defense NATO Is Exploring Closer Links With Other World Pacts WASHINGTON (UP)—The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is already exploring the possibility of closer links with other free world regional defense pacts, it was learned today. Official sources said the explorations are being undertaken by Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium, secretary general of NATO. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will have an opportunity to discuss proposals for such ties with the Baghdad Pact when he attends a meeting of the pact council in Turkey next month. However, officials said the main burden of studying possible new links between NATO and the Baghdad Pact, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) and, the Interamerican Defense Alliance is up to NATO officials. Dulles said in his radio-TV report to the nation last week that the NATO nations had agreed at their recent Paris meeting on the desirability of closer liaison between NATO and other free world defense groupings. He specifically named the Baghdad Pact, SEATO and the Interamerican Alliance but did not elaborate on the nature of such liaison. Officials here said pending full discussions between NATO officials and representatives of the three other groups it would not be known what form of cooperation is possible or desirable. One method, it was suggested, would be assigning official representatives of one pact group to sit with the others. Officials said NATO itself is anxious to establish closer liaison. (ConUnued on Fax. Five) Youths' Attempt To Fire Rocket Fails Refuses To Budge Off Launching Pad AUSTIN, Minn. (UP)—The Austin Rocket Society and the U.S. Navy had something in common today. Both flopped in an effort to launch a high-publicized rocket. . - • _ The society, composed of 11 teen-aged boys and coached by a Roman Catholic nun, sought to fire a mile-high rocket Sunday containing a white mouse named “Ulysses." Ulysses was ready and 50 persons huddling in sub-zero temperatures to watch the launching were ready, but the rocket, dubbed the “Mousenik," wasn't ready, It simply refused to budge from its launching pad. To begin with, the electrical ignition system ' failed. Then efforts to touch off the rocket mechanism manually fizzled. Finally, the boys called it quits. Things had gone badly with the society from the start. Earlier in the day, the boys sought to fire a “test” rocket containing a radio transmitter. The rocket exploded in an impressive mass of smoke and fire similar to the Navy’s illfated "Vanguard” at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The twin failures climaxed months of preparations for the ambitious projects. » Later, the boys and their teacher, Sister Dun Scotus, were too I down-hearted to comment on their failure to make Ulysses a smallscale counterpart of the dog in Russia’s Sputnik H. Ulysses was recovered unharmed from the second rocket, which had stayed put. The society had devised a mechanism to parachute the mouse to earth alive after the hoped-for mile high flight into space. The boys had launched a previous mouse-carrying rocket, but the animal was killed when the rocket crashed and buried itself in the ground.

-fl ■ ■■■■ ■ - - ---- -- - Heavy Snow Dumped On North Michigan Hundreds Os Autos Reported Stranded 1 By UNITED PRESS An Arctic air mass surged southward into the Midwest today, damping one of the heaviest snowfalls in a decade. on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and lighter •mounts elsewhere. Hundreds of cars were stranded 1 and some buried Sunday by the heavy snow in Upper Michigan, ' but authorities reported no casual--1 ties. The Civil Aeronautics Administration at Houghton, Mich., caUed the storm the heaviest snowfall in a decade. More than 18 inches of snow was reported at Houghton, 14 inches at Sault Ste. Marie and 10 inohes at Grand Marais, Mich. The snow spread southward during the night, coating the southern Lake Michigan area with 2-to-accumulations. Colder air which had been hovering in Canada for 36 hours also began seeping southward, plunging readings to 19 below zero early today at International Falls, Minn., 8 below at Duluth, Minn., and near zero across northern Wisconsin. 1 Readings dropped into the teens along the southern fringe of the aold air mass in lowa, {northern Missouri and southeast Nebraska. Many of the persons stranded by tie snow in Michigan’s peninsula were skiers. Highway crews maintained traffic on main highways and came to the rescue of motorists marooned on. secondary roads. A number of destructive fires broke out in the cold air region, one of them sweeping the east wing of the state home and training school ofr the mentally retarded at Coldwater, Mich. All occupants were led to safety, but damage was estimated at SIOO,OOO in the blaze Sunday. A $175,000 fire destroyed the Madison Rendering Co. plant at North Lake, Wis., Sunday, and five persons were injured when a fire swept three buildings at Bolivar, Mo., causing at least SIOO,OOO damage. In southern Illinois, floodwaters receded slowly but authorities said it would be several days before more than 50 families evacuated in the Carmi, 111., region could return to their homes. The fami(Continued on ?a.ge Five) "V — Hunted Killer Dies In Highway Crash Driver Os Second Auto Also Killed WRENS, Ga. (UP)—Henry Clay Overton, subject of a Southwide manhunt in connection with a double killing in Washington, died Sunday night In a high speed headon collision while fleeing a police car. A Florida man, who was unable to get his car out of the path of the stolen auto Overton was driving at 110 miles an hour, was killed in the collision. Officers found no trace of Wayne Carpenter, 22, listed as the man who helped Overton shoot up a Washington, D.C., bar early Friday. Sgt. R. L. Knight and Cpl. F. R. Talcon of the Georgia Highway Patrol said they had chased the 1958 car Overton was driving for about a mile and a half When he apparently looked back and allowed the venlcle to serve into the wrong lane. Overton was thrown out, along with a sawed-off shotgun and a suitcase full of shotgun shells. The Overton car burst into flames. Charlie Wray, of Cocoa, | Fla., was found dead in the back seat of his demolished car. The FBI, which had been on the trail of Overton and Carpenter since they killed two men in a bar and commandeered a getaway car, sped agents to the wreck scene in an effort to find some indication of what became of Carpenter. Patrolmen said it appeared doubtful Carpenter could have survived the crash if he had been with Overton. But the entire surrounding area was scoured without finding any trace of .him.

United States Planning New Satellite Test l Vanguard Director Says No Advance Notice To Press WASHINGTON (UP)—Dr. John ’ P. Hagen, project Vanguard direc--1 tor, believes this nation is “very, very far ahead” of Russia in . some phases of the missile-satel-l lite field. , But he concedes the United f States is “certainly behind" the I Soviets in other areas of the rock- > et rara. He does not, however, sell the American satellite pro- . gram short. Hagen, Who was interviewed . Sunday on a television program (ABC’s “College News Confer- . ence”), said the United States will ► make another attempt soon to put . its tiny, six-pound test moon into - an orbit, but without advance notice to the press. ’ Hagen - also said the United t States plans to expand its earth satellite program following Vani guard but said Its success will de . pend on the backing it gets from i Congress and the Defense Depart- , meat. -’•< ; The satellite boss also said this i country could at the present time ■ "come awfully close- to Mtuncing a i thousand-pound satellite.” In reply to further questioning Hagen said “you’d have to quibble there. It would be .within a- tew pounds of 1000 > The Russian Sputnik II weighs • in excess of 1000 pouhds. Hagen indicated-an attempt to launch such a sphere would be made later. 1 “We are planning to improve-our satellite program following Van- ( Continued on Pwre Five) Burkhalter Heads Civic Music Group Berne Man Elected President Sunday Members of the Adams county civic music association met Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in the auditorium of the Decatur Youth and Community Center and elected Freeman Burkhalter, <rf Berne, to serve as president of the association for the incoming year. Mrs. Roy Kalver, Lee A. Neuen, of Berne, Clint Reed and , Glenn Hill were elected to vicepresident positions. Mrs. Menno Lehman, of Berne, will fill the position of secretary, and Leo Kirsch was chosen as the new treasurer. An organizational meeting will be held January 23 with representatives of the national civic music association for the purpose of planning the calendar of must- , cal events for the new season. ‘ The week of April 7 has been designated as a preparatory week for the purpose of planning a new campaign to renew old member- , ships and to solicit new subscriptions to the society. The week of April 14 has been designated as the actual campaign week. Two more programs are scheduled for this season’s concert series. The Indianapolis symphony orchestra will appear in March and the James Pease concert is scheduled for April. Local Man's Sister Is Taken By Death Mrs. W. HI McClellan, 81, of near Warren, died at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at a nursing home in Marion after an illness of four years. Surviving in addition to her hus- i band are two brothers, George Squier of Decatur, and Allison Squier, of Ossian. ■ Funeral services will be held 1 at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the H. Brown i and Son funeral home at Warren, 1 the Rev. Herbert Schumm officlat- i Ing. Burial will be in Woodlawn i cemetery at Warren. ’

, Dies Saturday ■ Sr. M. Albertonia -— — -T Former Teacher At Catholic High Dies ‘ Heart Attack Fatal To Sr. Albertonia Sister M. Albertonia, C.S.A., a ! former teacher at Decatur Catholic high school from 1935 to 1944, died of a heart attack at 4 a.m. Saturday in Elmhurst, Hl. Sister Albertonia will be remembered by DCHS falumni as the teacher of commwce and the librarian, as well aj homeroom supervisor of classes ranging from seniors to freshme j over the span of the nin. years ihe spent in Decatur. In June, 1951, Sister Albertonia was elected mother general of the Sisters of Saint Agnes, at the general chapter held at that time at Fond du Lac, Wise., the six-year term of office expiring in June of this year. In 1944, when Sister Albertonia left Decatur, she became a member of the council of the congregation of Saint Agnes, serving in that capacity until her election to the position of mother general. She was on the staff of Immaculate Conception high school in Elmhurst, 111., at the time of her death. She was a native of Muncie. Final Rites Tuesday For Vivian C. Closs Funeral services for Miss Vivian C. Closs, native of Decatur who ' died suddenly Saturday morning, ; will be conducted at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the D. O. McComb & : Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne, 1 and at 9 o’clock at the Cathedral ! of the Immaculate Conception. 1 The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas L. Durkin will officate. The body will be brought to Decatur for burial 1 in the Catholic cemetery. j Most Schools Will Reopen On Thursday ' Public and Lutheran schools of j Decatur and the Adams county ( schools will resume classes Thurs- ; day morning following the annual holiday vacation. The Decatur Ca- . tholic schools will not reopen un- , til next Monday. i Suspend Business In City Wednesday I To Greet New Year ] ■ Business generaly will be sus- < pended in Decatur Wednesday as the city’s residents celebrate the . beginning of the New Year 1958. < Only exceptions to the closing J will be theater, newstands, some t confectioneries, restaurants and { service stations. All public offices, federal, state, j county and city, will be closed, t also the First State Bank, library j and post office. Only special deli- s ver mail will be delivered, with i the post office lobby open an usual holiday hours. Many of the city’s churches will < hold special watch night services £ New Year’s Eve. On the lighter * side, various clubs of the city will ‘ hold annual celebrations Tuesday , night, and many family gatherings J will be held in private homes to welcome the New Year,

Education Aid Plan To Go To Congress Federal-State Cost Os Nearly $2 Billion In Next Four Years GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UP)—President Eisenhower today approved - for submission to Congress a plan for expanding scientific education at a federal-state cost of about $1,800,000,000 over the next four years. The pfttn was submitted to the President this morning by Marion B. Folsom, secretary of health, education and welfare. The chief executive approved the entire program. It calls for federal college scholarships for high school students who have “good preparation” in the field of science and mathematics. Eisenhower will touch on the, new aid-to-education plan in his State of the Union message, then send Congress a special message detailing the ..program. The goal would be to improve teaching and speed up the production of scientists and engineers to meet Russia's space-age challenge. Seven-Point Program Assuming relatively quick and favorable congressional action, Folsom said it was possible that the first federal scholarships might be granted in time for the start of the new academic year next September. The seven-point program would cost annually about 225 to 250 million dollars in federal funds plus nearly matching state appropriations. Over the first four years the federal government weuld put up about one billion dollars, the states about 800 million. v The seven points: —Grants to states on a 50 - 50 matching basis for aptitude tests of students between the seventh and ninth grades. The testing would be conducted by the states. —Matching grants to states for improved counseling and guidance of young students in preparation for higher education. —A program of about 10,000 federal college scholarships a year for four years to be allocated among the states on a population basis and granted on a basis of ability and ' need. Scholarships would be granted to all students in all fields of study, but preference would be given to high school students with “good preparation in science and mathematics. Keep Bette, -•chers —Provision of 1,000 xederal graduate fellowships for the first year and 1,500 fellowships annually for the succeeding three years to encourage more able college students to prepare for college teaching careers. Graduate schools also could receive direct federal grants up to $125,000 a year to help meet the cost of expanding their capacity, provided the school itself matched the federal contribution. —A 50-50 matching fund with the states to help states and local school systems obtain and keep more and better science and mathematics teachers. —Federal financial assistance for the establishment and operation of training centers to increase the output of foreign language teachers, particularly in the languages of Asia, Africa and the Near East. • —An increase of 64Mt million dollars in the budgSt of the National , Science Foundation for programs to improve the quality of research, training and teaching in the sciences. In explaining the program to reporters, Folsom emphasized that the scholarships will not be limited to students who promise to specialize in science and mathematics in college. He said the government felt that it was desirable for all students of this age to know more about science, regardless of their intended occupations after college. He said the scientists felt they would "get their share” of science majors if the scholarship recipients were well-grounded in high school. The program is essentially a (Continued on Pegs Five)

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