Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1958 — Page 1

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Politics Is Warming Up For Primary Five Announcements This Week Add To Interest Locally Politics began to warm up in Adams county following five announcements this past week for office, six weeks before candidates will be gin filing. Three candidates announced fpr the Democratic nominations for commissioner, two from the third, or southern district, and one-frofn the first, or northern district. Lorren Heller, French township farmer, and Harley (Jake) Reef, Jefferson township farmer, have announced for the third district, and Hugo Boerger, Root township farmer, has announced from the first district While the nominees must be .residents of the district from which they run, the voters of the entire county will vote for them. The Indiana political calendar for 1958 points out that the first date that a candidate may file is Feb. 25, and the last date is March 27. _ Richard E. (Dick) Lewton has also announced for the Democratic nomination as clerk of the circuit court, for reelection, and Merle Affolder has announced for the Democratic nomination for sheriff. —— Candidates for sheriff, assessor, ’clerk, commissioner, county councilman from any of the four districts or at large, township trustee, advisory board, or township assessor where elected, precinct committeemen, and delegates to the state convention, must file with, the county clerk between Feb. 25 and Mar. 27. Candidates for congressman, prosecuting attorney, state representative and state senator must file withfng the above dates with the secretary of state in Indianapolis. It is customary for candidates for these offices to also file with the clerks in the counties of their district, and announce to the newspapers of their districts. Persons interested In perhaps being a candidate for an office should inquire of their friends, of those now holding office, of their precinct committeeman, or county chairman of their party. These persons will be able to explain the necessary qualifications, and can give each potential candidate some idea of his chances. No candidate is bound, of course, by the opinions which he gets, and anyone may enter any race, if qualified to hold office. Each candidate must announce —as—either a Democrat or a Republican. These names are then listed on a primary ballot for each party. Members of each party then choose their own candidates for office in the primary May 6. Precinct boundaries cannot be changed after March 1, but. until that time the board of commissioners may make any corrections they think necessary to improve the precinct system. ' ’“• Other February dates important to 1958 elections included the following: February 3 — Beginning of the last session of the board of county commissioners at which it may create new or change boundaries of precincts until after the 1958 November election except as to* (Continued on page five) NOON EDITION

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State Convention Held Here Friday Drainage Men Meet In Annual Session More than 300 persons attending the annual two-day convention of the Indiana Drainage Contractor's association heard humorist Mack Sauer prase the Decatur Youth and Community Center as a project achieved by the . community working together. Sauer,, rapid-fire speaker and editor from Leesburg, 0., is a . noted lecture r , authcr, radio and TV speaker. • He spoke following . the lunchnn meeting of the as- “ sociation -.eld at the center. Officers elected for the next J -year are: president. Guy Gross. . of Churubusco; vice president, . William Leininger, gos w Fort Wayne; secretary-treasurer, Paul . Banning, of Economy; executive [ secretary, Don Sisson, of Purdue , university; district one, director, , Walter Thiele, of Allen county; ' assistant, John Mills, of Hunting- . ton county; district three, direc- ’ tor, Dorsey Poer, of Rushville; assistant director, Cecil Boring, of Greenfield; district five, director, John Royer, of Clarks Hill; assistant, Robert Hendricks, of Lebanon. During the afternoon business session, T. W. Schultz addressed the group, and several resolutions were passed. Dan Tyndall, of the Krick-Tyn-dall company, was master of ceremonies for the noon luncheon, and he introduced Mrs. William Gass, —who furnished— the organ dinner music; Mayor Robert D Cole of Decatur; and Louis Jacobs, president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Representatives of Purdue university, the state ASC office, farmers home administration office, soil conservation service office, national land improvement association. Ohio drainage association. state board of health, and many others, were introduced as guests. The main speaker, Sauer, put the audience in a good humor for the afternoon session with his quick wit and large stock of jokes. In a serious vein, he suggested that everyone try to'leave something to their children besides money, their precious heritage of liberty; that all work together for a better community. "Come down off your tight-rope and relax,” he added. Five rules, Sauer stated, for better living in 1958 are quit worrying, stop looking for trouble, bank new friends, learn to accept hard knocks, and "build a few chimneys for friends." To illustrate the last point he recited a short poem about the . man who built a chimney for a poor friend, and then though he was out in the cold for days the warm glow of what he did warmed him. . _ Observe Founding Os Adams County Adams county day, the 122nd anniversary of the founding of Adams county, will be celebrated by a meeting of the Adams county historical society at 8 p.m., Thurs- 0 day, Jan. 23, at the Decatur public library, Bryce Thomas, president, said'»today. Membership cards have been printed for the organization, and will be passed out to members at the meeting. More than 110 persons have joined the society as charter members since it was reorganized in October, Thomas said. The public is invited to attend the meeting, which will include the election of officers for the new yeas, and an interesting program.

Air Force Is Ready To Join Satellite Race Claims Potential To Launch Manned Trip Around Moon WASHINGTON (UP) — The Air 1 Force mounted a strong campaign today to enter the satellite race 1 and launch a manned flight around I the Moon. It also claimed the immediate potential to initiate a< project in ; unmanned flights to Venus and Mars and put the United States in a competitive position with Rus- : sia in future space technology. I The Army at the same time signaled a possibly important . breakthrough in missilfe fuel development by disclosing it is replacing its liquid - propelled 200mile range Redstone with a solid fuel missile. Bolstering the Air Force rocketry claims was the successful shot Friday of its 5,500-mile All a s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Gen. Schriever Testifies Air Force space plans were revealed in hitherto secret testimony by Air Force missile chief Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever before the Senate preparedness subcommittee The testimony- given Thursday to the defense investigators, was released Friday by the Air Force. Schriever siapped at administration plans for speeding production of intermediate range and intercontinental ballistic missiles saying that the programs could be roughly doubled. “It would be a colossal blunder” Schriever said, “if we were not to plan beyond the point of matching every Soviet ballistic missile with one of our own.” Dealing with the "field of astronautics,” schriever said: “Our studies have shown that by using our presently existing rocket (Continued on p&ge fiver Week Os Prayer To Close Sunday Night ... Concluding Service On Sunday Evening The service of the special week of prayer sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. The Rev. Harold J. Bond, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will, deliver the sermon. The Rev. J. 0. Penrod, host pastor, will preside, assisted by the Rev. Traverse Chandler and the Rev. Gerald I. Gerig. No service will be held tonight. The Rev. Huston Bever, pastor of the Church of God, spoke at the Friday evening service, held at the Nuttman Avenue United Brethren church. His text was "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” He named two essentials to prayer as “Be forgiven” and “Be forgiving.” He pointed out that “we must acknowledge our sins unto •the Lord. If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cldanse us from' all unrighteousness. So long As there si sin in our Uvea; our words may go out but our prayter is not heard. Forgiveness restores the personal relationship with our Father God.”

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 11,1958

Report Indications Os Rocket Heading Out To Space, Possibly Moon

Launching Os Allas Hailed By Scientists b; Seen Big Step In Evening U.S. With Reds In Space Race CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (UP) —Scientists today hailed the second successful launching of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile and the vital data obtained as a big step in putting this country even with Russian the rocket race. Engineers as well as techicians were jubilant over Friday's spectacular launching of the Atlas- designed to fly 5,500 miles. The big missile was believed to have soared 600 miles to a target in r the Atlantic southeast of this cape 5 in a limited - range test. e The missile test center also j sent up a Navaho missile four hours after the Atlas was fired. ..Although the Navaho is obsolete, scientists eagerly evaluated data □ on performance of its ram - jet engines and other components which also are in use on other missiles under development at g Cape Canaveral. —- t The huge Atlas, biggest bird in u the nation's arsenal, thundered qp Friday morning In one of the most k awesome displays of rocket might i ever seen here. The firings followed President Eisenhower’s vow to bring the United States abreast t of Russia in missile development, s The Defense Department an- > nounced that both tests were successful. The announcement said the Atlas was not flown the full - distance of which it is capable, but r did not disclose just how far the . 100-ton missile flew before plung- > ing into the ocean. (Continued on page five) I Emile Brunner Dies Friday Afternoon 93-Year-Old Man Is Taken By Death Emile F. Brunner, 93-year-old : retired farmer and brick mason, died at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon at the home of a son, Herman, seven miles southeast of Decatur. He had been seriously ill for three weeks. Born in Lukley, Switzerland, Oct 20, 1863, he was the son of Frederick and Pauline Deboral-Brun-ner, and came to the United States when 16 years of age. He was married to Lena Riff March 4, 1889. Mrs. Brunner died May 22, 1920. Mr. Brunner had made his home with his children for the past nine years. He was a former member of the Berne Evangelical and Reformed church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Albert (Aldine) Beer of near Berne, and Mrs.. Perry (Sarah) Teeter of Decatur; sou» sons, Herman of St. Mary’s township, Noah of near Geneva. Orlando of Portland, and Amos of Mt. Rose, Mich.; 18 grandchildren; 48 greatgrandchildren ; one great-great-grandchild; two brothers, George of New Albany and Jule of Scottsburg, and one sister, Mrs. Jennie Kiefer of Decatur. One daughter, Hulda, is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Huber Bakner officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery at Berne. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’dock this evening until time of, the services. Jaberg Will Speak “ At Luncheon Monday County auditor Edward F. Jaberg will speck on "Taxation of Adams county" to the January luncheon meeting of the industrial committee of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce Monday ndon at the Decatur Youth and Community Center.

Freezing Weather - Persists In Florida Freakish Weather Hits At West Coast By UNITED PRESS Sub-freezing temperatures persisted again in Florida Friday night, but fruit growers were beginning to regard tlie unseasonal frigid blasts as a blessing in disguise. .Freakish weather also struck across the continent when a sudden twister spun along the Cali- ! fornia coast, 'sinking three fishing ' ships, and killing 1,000 chickens. J Although considerable warming ' occurred over the East Coast from • Maine to Georgia early today, the mercury dropped into the 20s in : northern Florida for the third ■ night in a row. Losses due to wintry blasts in ! Florida’s billion - dollar citrus : regions may actually be curtailed, i Crop experts said. The chilling > temperatures retarded the growth of citrus trees to such an extent ’ there was a possibility the trees ’ would be in a dormant stage the • rest of the winter, according to . Warren Johnson, chief of the • Florida frost warning service. t Had the trees been in full de- > velepment, he said,- disaster could ’ very well follow another cold 1 wave. In ncrthfein California, a tornado 1 swept up the coast from Bodega 1 Ray to the outskirts of Sagat Rosa 1 causing power failures, ripping off t the roofs of cottages and barns. ’ and scuttling three fishing boats ’ in the bay. ‘ Followed by 50-mile-an-hour winds, the twister crashed into a chicken shed and after killing 1,000 chickens, threw a cage containing 20 more 500 feet into a tree. They were unharmed. New cold Canadian air dispersed unusually high temperatures in northern areas of Minnesota and •ths northern Great Lakes, and pushed temperatures down to zero at International Falls, Minn. Snow flurries were common from the northern Great Lakes and along the lower lakes into parts of Pennsylvania and New_ York. On the West Coast, rains pelted the area from Washington deep into California, becoming lighter farther inlandj. INDIANA WEATHER Increasing - cloudiness tonight. Sunday rain or snow, no important temperature change. Low tonight 30-34. High Sunday 37-45. Outlook fer Monday: Fair with little temperattffe change. Ask Aid To Family Homeless By Fire Appeal Is Issued Here By Red Cross Adams county residents were again asked to help a family burned out of their home, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, Red Cross executive secretary, said this morning/ The Eli Bixler family lost all of their possessions, clothes, bedding, and furniture in the flash fire which razed their farm home in the Salem cofnfnunity Thursday morning. One member of the family escaped with only her nightclothes, robe and slippers. Persons who would like to help the famliy are asked to bring men’s clothes, size 38, and women’s clothes, size 44 and 1814 to 20 to the Red Cross office. The Red Cross will then take it to the family. Bedding is also needed immediately, and should be brought to the Red Cross office. Persons wishing to donate furniture should call the Red i Cross office and leave their name, address, and telephone number, and the furniture will be called for when a home is secured for the family. - Neighbors and relatives helped the family immediately after the fire. Gifts of money to help buy food and clothes will also be greatly appreciated. |

■ ■ . - r " Congress Will Receive Ike's Budget Monday Indications Point ....— _ To Treasury Running In Red This Year WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower is expected to tell Congress Monday in his budget message the Treasury is running in the red this year. Revised official estimates of income and expenditures for the cunent fiscal year will be included in his defense-swollen new budget of about 74 billion dollars, i One tip-off on a deficit an- ; nouncement for 1957-58 came from Senate Republican Leader .William ; F Knowland. But there have been I other indications that increased t spending to meet Russia’s missile ; threat and a drop in tax revenues > as a result of the business slump , might cause a deficit by June 30— ; the end of the fiscal year—of as much as 600 million dollars. Balanced Budget in Doubt i A weekly memorandum from i the~GOP Senate Policy Committee quoted- Knowland as saying the 1959 budget “would be balanced i at about 74 billion dollars, but that * It was in doubt whether the budgJ et for the current fiscal year will 1 be balanced.” The President’s budget message ’ Monday will contain updated administration estimates on government income and outgo for the 1 current year, as well for the com- ’ ing fiscal year. In the last administration budg--1 et estimates, compiled before Sputnik and released in October, ' a surplus of! $1,500,000,000 was 1 forecast for this fiscal year. Federal revenue was estimated at $73,500,000,000 and spending at 72 billion. Missiles Change Picture But since then the picture has been changed by the step-up in (Continued on page five) Mrs. Sara J. Yaney Is Taken By Death 95-Year-Old Lady Dies Os Pneumonia Mrs. Sara Jane Macy Yaney, 95, the first lady school teacher in Adams cdunty, died at 4:50 p. m. Friday in the Cooper Nursing home in Bluffton of pneumonia. She had been in the home for seven weeks. The daughter of James M. and Isabel Lednam Macy, she was born in Yadkinville, N. C., May 8, 1862. She was married Nov. 11, 1883 to I. F. Yaney, who died ta 1946. ' Mrs. Yaney, a resident of Kirkland township fpr 53 years, was a member of the Adams county chapter of the W. C. T. U., and a. charter member of the Pleasant Dale church of the Brethren, where she organized the Eadies Aid society. She taught school in Jefferson township from 1880-84. She is survived by four sons, George W. Yaney of Fort Wayne, William R. Yaney of Columbia City, Arville Yaney of Monmouth, 111. and A. D. Yaney, of Oak Park, Hl.; four daughters, Mrs. Samuel Henschen, of Decatur; Mrs. John R. Worthman, of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Clyde M. Shafer, of Fort Wayne; Mrs. C. A. Olwin of Cushing, Okla,; 21 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. * Four sisters, nine brothers, one son and one daughter preceded her in death. . Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 10 a. m. Sunday; The body will lie in state from noon Monday until the service begins at the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren. Services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Monday at the Pleasant Dale church, the Rev. John Mishler officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Dale cemetery. -

i .. i Eisenhower Plans Reply To Bulganin To Leave Door Open To Talks At Summit WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower will reply to Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin in a’ day or so and leave the door open to “summit? talks with Russia, officials indicated today. But ihe will reject Bulganin s latest bid to hold them within “two or three months.” Eisenhower would consult the western allies before agreeing to meet with Bulganin, it was indicated. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, setting the tenqr of the allied rely to Russia’s peace negotiation proposals, brusequely knocked down Bulganin’s bid for ' early' talks. 1 Dulles told a news conference 1 Friday there must be extensive [ preliminary negotiations first on a J lower diplomatic level that pro- ‘ duce at least a probability of suc- ; cess before it would be worthwhile ’ to hold a conference of chiefs of ' state. ’ He said a top-level conference that ended in disagreement — or in an agreement in words only—- ’ would have "very undesirable con- ' sequences..” ' Dulles sized up the Soviet preJ mier’s letter as a “massive rep--1 etition of prior proposals” made j by Soviet officials aqd summarized 1 in another Bulganin-letter Dec. 11. He said the new letter was timed ; to “discombobulate” allied replies to ’the earlier proposals and ’ “blanket” the effect abroad of the ! President’s State of the Union message to Congress. The secretary accused the Russians of being more interested in “propaganda techniques’’ than sincere efforts to relax East-West tensions American officials studying the Bulganin notes said they appeared to cloak a Communist effort to get the V’sst signed to non - aggres(Continued on page five) Dr. Bixler Is Head Os Library Board Renamed President Os Library Trustees Dr. N. A. Bixler, Decatur optometrist, was re-elected president of the board of trustees of the Deeatur public library Wednesday evening. Other officers for 1958 will be: vice president, Raymond Kohne; treasurer, Mrs. Hugh Andrews; secretary, Mrs. G. L. Brayton. Other members of the sevenmember board are Lowell Smith, Miss Frances Dugan, and Mrs. Ed Bosse. The library reported an increase in circulation of 3,797 in the past year, with 63,313 books circulated in 1957, as compared with 59,516 in 1956. During the past 10 years, circulation has almost tripled for the library. Adult reading has increased from 13,228 books in 1947 to 21,986 this past year. Children’s books have shbwff the) most remarkable increase, frqm--8,068 in 1947 to 41,327 in 1957, an increase of 500 per cent. children reading more books, but reading habits of both groups have' changed. In 1947 28 per cent of the books read by adults were non fiction, and 72 per cent were fiction books. This past year adults read only 64 per cent fiction books, and 36 per cent nonfiction. Adult reading has not quite doubled in 10 years. Juvenile books circulation has shown a great increase in quantity, from 8,068 ten years ago, to 41,327 this past year. However, in 1947 82 per cent of the children’s books circulated, were fiction, and 18 per cent’nonfiction. In 1957 this had changed very little, as 20 per cent of the juvenile books circulated were nonfiction, and 80 per cent fiction. Nearly three-fburth of all the books circulated this past year were fiction books, and one-fourth were non fiction.

Radio Stations In Finland Say Signals Heard Official, Private Stations In Finland Report On Signals HELSINKI, Finland (UP)—Official and private radio stations picked up signals today which in--1 dicated that a rocket is on its way into space—perhaps to the moon! Although the immediate, assumption was that the rocket ’ probably came from -nearby Rus- ‘ sia. United Press correspondent . Henry Shapiro reported from Moscow that "there Is no indication , here of any new rockets being ; sent up.” ' Engineers at the state radio sta- ‘ tion and a private firm's listen- ’ ing post agreed that the signals , must be coming from a rocket i headed for space — unless they were being faked by an earth sta- , tion. ' Audible for Hour The signals were audible for ’ about an hour, strengthening the assumption that they were from a space-bound rocket rather than a new Sputnik- Sputnik signals ; were heard here for only about I 20 minutes at a time. (A coastal radio station at Tjoej moe, Norway, and West Gerj many’s Radio Control Institute in j Darmstadt both picked up the sig- , nals. , (The British Broadcasting Corporation’s listening post also _ heard the signal, but said it resembled. an unexplained s i g n a 1 that has been audible at about 5 a.m. e.s.t. every day for two weeks. (“Our direction tinders indicated when we heard it first that it did not come from within the borders of the U.S.S.R-,” a BBC official said.) Heard Loud and Clear The signals were first heard in Helsinki at 9:55 a.m. (3:55 a.m. e.s.t). Engineers said they came in “loud and clear ” (The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington said it had “no word of any launchings.”) Finnish radio engineer Jaakko Holpainen said the signals were heard on 40.002 and 20.005 megacycles — the frequencies used by the Sputniks. , Holpainen said the signals must logically come from a moon rocket or some other vehicle heading into space, unless they are being faked by an earth station. "If they are real signals, they must come from a rocket heading into space,’’ he said. "A Sputnik signal would fade out as it passed around the earth.” Matti Vilska. an engineer at the private listening post, said he is “almost sure” the signals were not fakes. , They were the familiar “beepbeep—beep” signal of the Sputniks. Newsmen at the United . Press bureau here heard them over the telephone from the state radio station _: Geneva Fire Chief 1n Annual Report ’ TKe Geneva fire department fought 10 rural fires and six town fires during 1957, with $34,850 damage in rural fires,, and. 51.500 in town fires, Harold Schlagenhauf, secretary of-the Geneva fire department, reported Local Man's Mother Dies Friday Night Mrs. Lulu Mac Lean, 83, of Chicago, motherof G. D. Mac Lean of this city, died Friday night. She had 'been in failing health since suffering a fall Thanksgiving day. Surviving tn addition to the son in Decatur are three other sons, James and Maxwell, both of Chicago, and Robert, of Stockton, Calif., and two daughters, Mrs. Barbara Maileh of Chicago, and Mrs. Marjorie Unwim of Michigan. The body was removed to a fu- ■; neral home at 103rd and State streets inChicago. Arrangements i have not been completed, awaiting word from the son in California. .

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