Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 1.

—' ——— b ’ T 'hrt HP-*’ -*5 >L jjj, •" r Hk. jfl nt fl w isl ; . " fl ... < z " '9 ■ sf ■ "9 ■ ADAMS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS met Wednesday morning for Reorganization and appointing of new county officials and board members. Pictured above from left to right are, Harley (Jake) Reef, Jefferson township Democrat; Rolland J. Miller, St. Mary’s township Republican and new president of the board; and Stanley D. Arnold, Monroe township Republican, new member of the board, and vice president. Ibe new board decided to meet every Monday instead of only the first and third Mondays of the month, because of the new salary increase.—(Staff Photo),

Appointments Are Made By County Board ‘ ~- K ‘ Republicans Take Control Os Board ; Os Commissioners # v Five new J° b appointments, out of a total of nine, were made, and an assistant county rtfad superintendent fired in the first meeting Wednesday of the new Republican board of county commissioners. T“T' Haw appointees are: Robert S. Anderson, replacing David Macklin as county attorney; Orval Sudduth, replacing John Bixler as court house qustodian; Mrs. Beatrice Daniels, replacing Mrs. Jewel Ehinger as court house matron; Frank Kitson, replacing Mrs. Mary Jane Runyon as county highway bookkeeper; and Dr. C. William Freeby, replacing Dr. Jkarold ? * F. Zwick aS county health Officer Reappointed were Lawrence 1 Noll, county highway supervisor; Joe Spangler, highway garage janitor; Dr. Norval S. Rich, county physician; Burl Fuhrmah, as- ■ sistant highway supervisor. Albert Beer, assistant'highway supervised for the south district, was discharged, and no replacement will be named. Cal E. feterson, president of the Adams county memorial hospital board, was reappointed to a fouryear term ,as a Republican mem her on the board. Boyd Rayer was reappointed as a Democratic mem- >, ber of the county liquor board. Stanley Arnold, who succeeded Mrs? John Kintz as commissioner for the second district, took office New Year’s day to join Rolland J. Miller as the second Republican on the board. Harley (Jake) Reef, the third member of the board, is a Democrat. The board is now Republican for the second time in 122 years. Miller, who has completed his first year on the board, was elected president, and Arnold vice president. Reef was formerly president ~ of the board. Because of the increase in commissioners’ salaries, the board agreed to meet every Monday morning, instead of just the first and third Mondays of the month. After the organisation of the ', . board, the applications for county attorney were opened and read. Three applications were received, from David Macklin, Democratic b attorney who is the outgoing county attorney; Robert G. Smith, of the firm of Custer and Smith; and Robert 6. Anderson, of Voglewede and Anderson, former city attorney under the Doan administration, former Geneva town attorney Arnold nominated Anderson for the job, which was seconded by Miller, and passed without discussion. Four applications were received for court house custodian: Jacob Nussbaum, Decatur; Orval Sudduth, former city hall janitor under the Doan administration: Clyde Campbell, of Geneva: and D. W. Alberson, of Decatur. After a discussion of the merits -of each applicant, Arnold nominated Sudduth, who was then approved by the board. The outgoing custodian, John Bixler, who has been janitor for nearly 15 years, was retained or one month to teach the retained tat one month to teach the was called, and reported for work Immediately. Five applications were received for matron of the court house: Mrs. Aloha Werst, Mrs. Robert Witham, Mrs. Lloyd Daniels, MVs. .Earl Fell, and Mrs. Gertrude Swoveland. The applications# each was discussed, and Reef nominated Mrs. Werst, while Arnold nominated Mrs. Daniels. Miller voted for (Continued on Page Five) ’■•’ • . -

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Young Pirates Captured By Police Seized Yacht, Held Family As Hostages ISLAMORADA, Fla. (UP) — A smuggled note led to capture Wednesday of 1 three armed teenage pirates who seized a yacht and held a family of six as hostages in an attempt to reach Mexico. Sheriff’s deputies, who learned of tiie family’s night of terror through a note slipped to a fisherman on shore, chased the yacht down with their speedboab in the Florida Keys and boarded it without meeting resistance. Sheriff John Spottswood of Monroe County .said the boys gave their names as Johnny Cox, 16, Tommy Edwards, 15, and Mike Moore, 17, all of San Antonio, Tex. The sheriff was conferring with juvenile authorities to determine what charges would be brought. He said he was considering either kidnaping or grand larceny. Spottswood, said th youths comfendttered the 40 - foot “Siesta" night at Craig Key south at Islamorada, where Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sias of Winter Park. Fla., and their four children had tied up for the night. The youths ’’thoroughly' terrorized" the family, according to the sheriff, despite the fact they were "well-mannered" because of the children’s presence. Spottswood said the youths were armed with a rifle and knives and loaded so many stolen supplies on one side of the yacht “it made it list." They also had suitcases of clothing, a supply of food and a chain hoist, he said. “They said they wanted to take our boat and use it for about two or three weeks,” Sias said. “At first they talked about going to Cuba, then they changed their minds and told us they wanted to go to Mexico. Later they said St. Petersburg." Sias said he persuaded the boys that he couldn’t navigate at night, so the yacht remained tied up until yesterday morning. It was when the youths were getting fuel from unsuspecting dock employes that Mrs. Sias penned a note for help and slipped it to her son David,....14. David strolled down the dock and passed the note to a fisherman. “Please help us," the note said. “Wo are being kidnaped at gunpoint by four young men from Texas. They jumped us last night at Craig Key and are trying to take us to St. Petersburg. They are desperate and armed. Please call the police.” Decatur Firemen Answer Two Calls Overheated Stoves Blamed For Fires The Decatur fire department made two runs over the holidays to extinguish fires caused in both incidents by overheated stoves, Tuesday at 5:45 p. m. the department was called to the home of James C. Everett, Jr„ at 123 North Fifth street. Fire had not broken out and the department stood by while the red hot pipes were cooled. ...” A fire broke out in the home of . Wilbur Cook on highway 101 near -Robo last night and fire partially destroyed the roof of the house. The Decatur fire department was called to the scene at 8:25 p. m. and extinguished the fire, which was caused by an overheated stove. Fire chief, Cedric Fisher, stated that the fire caused damage around the chimney on the roof; and the veiling of .the home was partially burnedf The fire took the department more than an hour to extinguish. J/?-' ■, -‘ l ‘ -J ' »-•

Tragic Death Toll Claimed On Highways 169 Deaths From I Traffic On Roads Reported In U.S. By UNITED PRESS The nation’s motorists began the new year with a death toll in holiday traffic that made a grim mockery of advance estimates and warnings. At 10 a.m. c.s.t. late reports had boosted the traffic death total to 169 killed between 6 p.m. New Year’s Eve and midnight Wednesday. One person died in a plane crash, 16 died in fires and 18 in miscellaneous accidents for an overall total of 204. The National Safety Council had estimated that 130 persons would die in traffic during the 30-hour ( hour period. When the final count soared above this estimate. Council President Ned H. Dearborn said: “This toll is a jolting reminder that along with the threats of war from overseas and of new and bigger Sputniks from outer space, this nation faces a relentless enemy from within that is making a ■ mockery of our claims to leader- ) ship in civilized living. “How long can America endure : or tolerate such a needless drain ■ on its manpower? Let us hope i that 1958 brings a stop to this slaughter.’.’ I In the worst single accident of ’ the holiday, nine persons were killed in a head-on collision beI tween two cars near Eureka, S.D., ( Wednesday night. The dead in- ■ eluded six members of one family. ' " , ' New York had the highest trafi sic death total with 24 killed. California reported 14 deaths, New ' Jersey I*. South Dakota 10 and ■ Texas c :~ Onlj nst week 223 traffic deaths 1 mam 6 the Christmas holiday, a ' total well above the council’s ad- , vance estimate of 180. The final count will not be known until all reports are in. ■ later today, but Dearborn said , figures so far show the toll is I running at, a rate 25 per cent . greater than last year. He said the holiday toll could double the “average” of 80 traf- . sic deaths for a similar non-holi-day period in early winter. A New Year’s Eve snowstorm that dumped 3 to 18 inches of snow across the nation’s Midlands was blamed in part for the high traffic death rate. Cites Urgent Need Os Budget-Cutting Spenders Are Scored By House Economizer WASHINGTON (UP) — A noted House economizer asserted today that “the spenders" are trying to hook every pet project onto the defense crisis despite what he called an urgent new meed -for budget-cutting. J “In and out of the Pentagon the country is in a mood of hysteria, said Rep. Clarence Cannon (DMo.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, “a lot of people are ready to capitalize on it." Cannon told newsmen a spending spree now could touch off a renewed spiral of inflation leading toward economic disaster. “There is greater need for economy now than ever before," he declared. He said intersts which a year ago were pressing Congress to save now are demanding steppedup spending to restore business to the boom levels from which it has slipped. “The pork barrel fellows,” he added, are insisting that locallypopular projects involving big federal outlays must go ahead as before despite the obvious need for bigger defense spending. “Where national defense is concerned we can't stop to count the the cost,” said Cannon. “But there is no reason to get hysterical and spend vast sums of money (Oontlpuea on ’ D »jr« Fiv«) ——-—————— Carl Bartlett Dies Wednesday Evening * Carl Bartlett, about 53 years old, a former Deca cur resident and prominent auctioneer in Muncie, took his own life Wednesday evening. Mr. Bartlett had been iU for the past five years, and seriously ill the past six months. . Bartlett married a sister of Mrs. Roy Johnson, and is survived by her, a son Tom, both of Muncie; his father and a sister, who live in Denver, Colo. A graduate of Reppert’s auction school, Bartlett worked with Roy Johnson* here a number of years ago. Funeral arrangementshave not been made. : t ' - : "' ■

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 2, 1958.

Revolt Os Venezuelan Army And Air Force Is Crushed By Loyalists

Indicate Ike To Reject Plan From Bulganin President Returns To Capital Today From Week At Farm WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower interrupted a vacation at his Gettysburg farm today and returned here for conferences on the budget and a decision on how to answer Russia’s ■ bid for top level East-West peace talks. He spent the past week at farm, resting and working on budget problems and his State of the Union message to Congress. He will go back to the farm Friday for the weekend. During his 24 hours in the capital, Eisenhower will confer with Secretary of State John Koster Dulles ,on a reply to the peace conference proposal made by Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin just before the President went to Paris for the recent North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit meeting. Eisenhower also will preside Friday at a Cabinet meeting and attend an organizational meeting of the newly created Civil Rigfrtj) Commission. - ■ - .V' The Cabinet is expected to give final approval to the budget the President plans to submit to Congress for the fiscal year starting July 1. The new budget will exceed this year's 72-billion-dollar spending program as a result of increased funds for defense and education in the light of Russia’s advances in science and technology. It is .expected to total about 74 billion dollars. Eisenhower and Budget Director Percival Brundage reached tentative agreement at Gettysburg earlier this week on the budget total. But the President planned to confer with Defense Secretary Neil IL McElroy on some phases of th military spending program before setting the final figure. — Administration officials have inti . -ntlnued on Fase Five) Fred Hilton Dies At Hospital Today Funeral Services Fred Hilton, 85, of Decatur route 3, a retired ernploye of tiie Decatur plant of the General Electric Co., died at 5 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient for the pari three weeks. He was born in Van Wert county, 0., Spt. 26, 1872, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hilton. He was married to Miss Elmina Jackson Feb. 22, 1899. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton had lived near Bobo for more than 50 years. He had been a member of the Bobo United Brethren church since 1900. -F Surviving in addition to his wife are two son, A. N. Hilton of Decatur, and Lawrence E. Hilton of White Pigeon, Mich.; four daughters, Mrs. William Huston of Monmouth, Mrs. Iris Harkless of Decatur route 3, Mrs. Hazel Stout of Schoolcraft, Mich., and Mrs. Juanita Deßolt of Decatur; 20 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchil-dren; one brother, Walter Hilton of Convoy, 0., and one sister, Mrs. Ada Roeder of Decatur. Four sons, one daughter, two brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the residence, one mile north of Bobo, and 2 p.m. at the Bobo United Brethren church, the Rev. L. A. Middaugh and the Rev. H. B. Bakner officiating. Burial will be in the Bobo cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. The body will be returned to the residence, where friends may call after 5 p.m. Friday until time of the services.

Brilliant Fireball Reported Sighted Scientist Doubts Object Is Sputnik SPRINGFIELD, Rl. (ffl — A brllfireball was sighted early toin northeastern Missouri and central and southern Illinois. A moonwatcher said it was possible the object was Russia’s Sputrtlk I satellite, but only if calculations on its orbit were “off.” At Cambridge, Mass., Dr. Donald Lautman, senior scientist of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s computation division said he was ‘‘quite confident” the object was not the satellite. Lautman said the first satellite’s only recent U. S. crossings were at 9:30 p.m. c.s.t. Wednesday and 6:30 a.m. today. But he said the rapidly accelerating Sputnik I has reached a “very unpredictable stage.” The b’ic?_t Object was seen ..around midnight at St Louis. Fer<mson and Aftop, Mo. A short time later, scores of persons called police and newspaper offices to report sightings in Illinois. Most callers described the objectas a “blinding flash of fight.” Among the qbserverS were three state pcljce officers. v In St. Louis, Stuart L. O’Byrne, x Piccnwatcher, said they light have the fall ol( Sputnik "if ca-leulations were off as much as 20 to 25 degrees,” American scientists recently reported that Sputnik L was dropping lower in its orbit and was expected to crash to earth like a flaming meteor within a. few days. State police headquarters at Springfield said officers near Springfield, Jacksonville and Elkhart radioed at about 12:14 a.m., c.s t., to report a "blinding flash of light” in the sky. A Springfield man said he “never saw anything like it—it lit -jContlnued on Paxe Five) County's 1958 Corn Allotment Is Fixed Acreage Increase Is Set In County Adams county has deceived a corn acreage allotment of 31,007 acres for 1958, Burl Johnson, chairman, Adams county ASC committee, announced today. For r 1957, the county had a corn allots ment of 29,788 acres. The total national corn allotment ( for the commerical corn area has i been increases from 37.3 million: acres in 1957 to 38.8 million acres for 1958. However, Johnson ex-; plains that the increase will not materially affect allotments in “.bld'’ commerical corn counties because 38 new counties have been added to the commercial area for 1958, bringing the total to 932 counties In 26 States. The increase in the acreage allotment for 1958, compared with 1957, will go mostly to these new commercial corn counties.— Chairman Johnson said that, as in prior years, the national corn acreage allotment was determined in accordance with a legal formula based on the estimated supply of corn. With the total supply estimated at 4.7 billion bushel for 1957-58, which probably will result in an estimated record carryover of 1.4 billion bushels on October 1, 1958, a production of 2.3 billion bushels vfeuld be needed from the 1958 crop to meet the “normal” supply requirement of 3.7 billion bushels. Mr. Johnson exphasized that when acreage allotments are in effect, compliance with . com farm allotments is a condition of eligibility in the commercial cornproducing area for price support at the full rate. Farmers who comply with 1958 acreage allotments will also be eligible to take part in the soil bank program. Acreage allotments do not apply in noncommercial corn-produc-ing acres, where the price-support rate is three-fourths of the rate in commercial areas. ; - ’

British Plane Forced To Land By Jet Fighters Demand Albanians Rejease Freighter Plane And Crewmen LONDON (UP)—Britain demanded today that Albania release a British freight plane and six crew members forced down by jet fighters, but the tiny Communist nation did not reply. The four engine DC-4 Skymaster, flying to the Far East with freight, was forced down by Soviet-built jet fighters Tuesday nar Jhe Albanian coast on a route over the Adratic. Britain was handicapped in that it has not diplomatic relations with Albania, but the French legation reported the six members, _ one of them a stewardess, were “safe and well." The Albanian government said the plane violated that country’s air space at 10:38 a.m. on Dec. 31. A broadcast from Tirana Radio said it crossed into the Seman area and was over Albanian territory for 30 minutes. The plane was being held at Valona. a key Soviet air base ringed with fighter bases and one, of the most sensitive corners of the Iron Curtain. Valoha is a former Nazi submarine base and is reported to be a major Soviet U-boat base. Seizure of the plane was wit* nessed by military observers in Italy on their radar screens. They saw the big freight plane as a large blip and then two smaller ships converging rapidly on it. The big plane veered away from a collision course and headed inland over Albania. Nothing was (Continued on Fa<e Five) Martin Infant First Born Here In 1958 The first baby of the new year born at the Adams county memorial hospital was a seven-pound, three-ounce boy, Roger Alan Martin, born to Mrs. Gerald (Joyce) Martin at 7:33 a.m. Wednesday. The paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Paul Martin, of Monroeville, and the maternal grandparents are deceased. Mrs. Clara E. Krall —■■■ xfe, — : Is Taken By Death z Funeral Services ZLy Friday Afternoon Mrs. Clara Ellen TumblesonKrall, 76, died at 11:30 a. m. Wednesday at her home in Wren, O. She had been in failing health for five years and bedfast for the past year. She was born in Huntington county Aug. 3, 1886, a daughter of W. G. and Adeline MyersTumbleson, and was married to H. O. Krall Sept. 27, 1903. The family has resided at Wren for the past 20 years. Surviving in addition to her husband are two daughters, Mrs. Guy (Lillian) Berry- of Willshire, O., — route 1, and Mrs. Dale 'Laverne) Roth of Fort Wayne; one son, Guy Krall of Willshire route 1; 14 grandchildren; three brothers, Earl and Sylvester Tumbleson, both of Decatur route 3, and Doy Tumbleson of Huntington, and three sisters. Mrs. Grover (May) Everett of Troy, 0., Mrs. Maude Wechter Ot Beaverton, Mich., and Mrs. Earl 'Ethel) Hawk of Lipsic, O. One sister and three -brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the United Brethren '’hurch at Willshire, the Rev. Argo B. Sudduth, the Rev. Walter Purdy an,d the Rev. S. F. KochenspSrger officiating. Burial will be In Riverside cemetery at Rockford, O. Friends mav call at the funeral liome until time of the services. ■ ‘ ~ ’ ’ ---CJ ..

Temperature Drops To Near Zero Mark Slow Moderation Is Forecast In State By UNITED PRESS Temperatures fell as low as six above zero in Indiana today as a cold wave marked the arrival of 1958. Slow moderation was due, however, within a matter of hours. The mercury dipped to 6 above at Lafayette, 7 above at Indianapolis And South Bend, 10 above at Fort Wayne and 15 at Evansville. By dawn it already had climbed one or two degrees from the low points and appeared on its way toward the moderation the Weather Bureau promised. Highs, today were expected to range from 20 to 25, and Friday from the mid 20s to the upper 20s. with further moderation expected Saturday. Another cold night was in store with lows ranging from 5 to 10 above in the north to about 1G above in the south. The cold wave arrived after a general snowfall over the state, inches near the southern tip oi including depths up to 6 or 8 inches near the southern tip ol Lake Michigan and several inches north of a line from Rensselaer through Plymouth and Goshen Elsewhere, only an inch or less ol snow fell, and highway hazards were prevented only by the fsc the temperature tumbled’ belov freezing before the snow began and brisk winds whisked the snoa off highways before it had a chance to ice the surfaces. _ New Year’s Day was cold all over the state, with high tempera? tures ranging from 16 at Lafayette and 19 at Indianapolis to 2J at South Bend and 26 at Fort Wayne and Evansville. The five-day outlook issued Wednesday called for temperatures averaging 5 to 10 degrees below normal and little precipitation, mostly waiting until the weekend. — Report Three Thefts Here Over Holiday ' Police Investigate Thefts In Decatur The city police investigated three complaints of theft over the holidays, one of which was a Sometime last night or early this morning, someone entered Kenny's ice delivery and removed four or five cases of soft drinks. Entry was gained by prying a latch from the north door. < Kenny Mills, proprietor of the establishment, discovered the theft when, he opened the building at 7:17 this morning. Edgar Ewell, manager of the Marathon service station on the corner of 13th street and Nuttman avenue, told the police that S7O in bills was taken from the cash register while the station attendant was checking the antifreeze on a car at 2 p. m. New Year’s day. Ray Shepherd, station attendant on duty at the time of 'the robbery, stated that a customer Ms— aatidteeze checked and while he was working oh the car the customer evidently opened the register and took the money, which was in bills of large denomination. City police are continuing their investigation. The third theft occurred at the home of Mrs. Henry Murphy of 1120 West Madison street, where $24 was stolen from a can in her bedroom. Mrs. Murphy stated to the police that the theft must have occurred either last Friday afternoon or Tuesday morning as she was absent from the house on both occasions. She did not discover the money missing until late Tuesday. Mrs. Murphy told the police that she left her home unlocked and whoever took the money evidently knew where it was located. Most of the money was in 50cent pieces with the exception of two ailver dollars.

Troops Loyal To President Crush Revolt Government Says Rebellion Crushed In Attack On Base CARACAS, Venezuela (UP) — The government announced loyal troops crushed a revolution by army and air force units today and captured the rebels or sent • them fleeing in all directions. Four columns of soldiers loyal to President Marcos Perez Jimenez broke the rebellion in a predawn attack at the big military base of Maracay, 50 miles to the west, the government said. Gen Romulo Fernandez, armed forces chief of staff, made the announcement on television and radio. He said all organized resistance at the military base had crumbled less than 24 hours after the revolt broke out. The announcement came about seven hours after Perez Jimenez announced the "four 'powerful columns" of troops were marching on Maracay to crush' the rebellion. Some Bebels Flee 1 The revolt started at dawn 1 Wednesday. The rebels sent war- ' planes to bomb and , strafe the ■ capital. ’ ' Fernandez said there was no 1 trouble anywhere else in the country but Maracay. After the announcement Ca- ' racas Radio went back to broad- ' casting classical music but inter--1 rupted It periodically to repeat the government communique. Official sources here said loyal government troops converged on Maracay from the former capital city of Valenci and the central plains while other government troops stood by here ready to help. Some of the rebels were reported to have fled Maracay by plane but there was no hint where they were headed. Official sources said they probably were flying out of the country. Military authorities in Caracas immediately lifted a partial blackout which had been imposed Wednesday night. Plane Buzzed Palace Caracas itself was quiet. The U.S. embassy reported all 30,000 Americans in the capital, mostly oil workers and their families, were safe. (Venezuelan sources in New York said the Navy had joined the uprising but there was no confirmation of this in dispatches from Caracas,) The government admitted the rebels had attacked the city by plane Wednesday but Perez Jimenez said the flights were ‘ disorganized’’ and ’did no damage. He said one rebel plane’buzzed the presidential palace but was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Authoritative sources in Washington said rebel jet and propeller planes strafed the capital Wednesday and one dropped a bomb but caused no casualties. (Caracas Radio broadcast uninterrupted classical music from 11 o'clock, e.s.t. Wednesday night. No telephone calft from New York were being accepted in Caracas. Cables were getting through from Caracas but the Venezuelan govSnmbitt* censors outgoing cables.) Military police, security police and national guardsmen in battledress guarded the presidential palace and the main public buildings in Caracas, capital of one of the (<JonUnwSo tin Page Five) Indiana Leather Generally fair tonight and Friday except seme cloudiness extreme north tonight. Continued cold. Lows tonight zero to 5 above extreme northwest to around 15 southeast. Highs Friday 20-25 north, 25-30 south. Sunset today 5:32 p. m. Sunrise Friday 8:0S a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and cold. Lows Friday night zero to 10 above north, 10 13 south. Highs Saturday high 20s and lew Ms.

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