Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1958 — Page 1

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Democrats In Congress Hit At Policies Grow Increasingly Critical Os Program Os Administration WASHINGTON (UP) — Democrats in Congress are emerging from the mellow glow with which they received President Eisenhower’s State of the Union message and beginning to throw brickbats. They may lack unanimity over why they dissent But they are becoming increasingly critical as the administration program unfolds. The complaints became more noticeable when the budget message reached Congress a week ago with its cutbacks in domestic programs. The farm program brought more roars from the Democrats and more than a little criticism from Republicans. In a statement Sunday night Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinn.) said the President’s State of the Union message was "constructive' 1 but the budget message was disappointing. Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney (IlOkla. ) told a reporter today he expects Democrats’ to become “increasingly critical .at lack of performance and imagination” by the administrationHe said he felt uncomfortable \ a week ago because he registered one--of the few dissents in the general applause for the State of ' the Union message. He said he was feeling better now because other Democrats were joining him. Monroney said President Eisenhower already hod “backed away" from his promise to reorganize the Pentagon to end interservice rivalries. He said the administration had shown nothing but “vocal urgency” in its defense program. He described the administration’s foreign policy as “an apparent retread of now worn-out tires” inherited from past Democratic administrations. And he complained that the administration had no "affirmative” suggestions to deal with the business (Continued on pa-ge six) Mrs. Katherine Cole Dies Sunday Night Mrs. Katherine S. Cole, 84, a resident of the Geneva community practically her entire life, died at 11 o'clock Sunday night at the South View nursing home at Bluffton, where she had been a patient since last summer. Only near survivors are a granddaughter, Mrs. Paul Strickler of Decatur, and four great-grand-daughters. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home at Geneva, Dr. A. B. McKain officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Snow or rain north and rain tonight, probably changf ing to snow over most of state late tonight and Tuesday. Turning colder Tuesday. Low tonight 24-28 northwest, 27-32 southeast. High Tuesday 28-32 north, 30-38 south. Sunset today 5:51 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 8:01 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Cloudy and cold with occasional snow flurries. Lows Tuesday- - 15-22. Highs Wednesday 24-30.

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Heavy Snowstorm Is Headed For Midwest Warning Is Issued Os Heavy Snowfall By UNITED PRESS The biggest snowstorm of the year swept out of the Plains states into the Midwest today, coating roads with a treacherous snow blanket of one to eight inches from west Texas into the Great Lakes region. Weathermen Issued heavy snow ’ warnings today for eastern Kan- ‘ sas, northwest Missouri and south ’ central lowa where accumulations J of four inches or more were expected by nightfall. Warnings also were out for northern Illinois, southern Wiscon- ' sin and lower Michigan where 1 two to -ive inches of snow were ' likely. In Chicago, forecasters predict- ! ed stormy weather for President ■ Elsenhower’s arrival by plane for ■ a fund-raising dinner. A two-to- ‘ four-inch snowfall was expected in the city and the storm was ex- ' pected to cut visibility from onehalf to one mile. Thepresidential plane, Columbine 111, was scheduled to land at Midway Airport in Chicago at 3:30 p.m. The snow storm began Sunday and spread from Texas and Neyv Mexico north through the central Rockies • and North Dakota and east across lowa into the Great Lakes. Three to eight inches of snow covered the central Rockies early today and three to six inches fell »ver the central Plains. Another storm center produced r moderate rains from central Texas and Oklahoma into Missouri. A mass of frigid air poured across New England and New York, plunging readings below zero in the interior and into the 20s as far south as VirginiaHigh winds also plagued the Plains states, whipping the snow into deep drifts and cutting visibility. The snow generally was preceded by freezing rains which slicked roads with a dangerous undercoating of ice. Highways were reported extremely hazardous from northeast Nebraska across northern • lowa and into Minnesota, Wisconsin and parts of northern Illinois. Increasing cloudiness prevailed in the Far West in advance of a new Pacific storm, and temperatures dropped along the Northwest Coast. Polio License Plate Bid Up To $64.50 - The bids on the'polio license plate went up to $64.50 over the weekend on a bid from Cletus Miller, of the Fairway Restaurant, Robert L. August, city polio chairman, said today. The license plate JA 1958 is being auctioned off at the license bureau, the money going to the 1958 March of Dimes, which supports polio research and help to polio victims. Recover Bodies Os Four Mine Victims PRICE, Utah W) — A -full-scale investigation was begun today into the cave-in, explosion and fire which claimed lives of four miners trapped deep inside the Spring Canyon Coal Co. mine near here Friday. The body' of the fourth miner was found just before noon Sunday, nearly 60 hours after an earthquake-like “bounce” started the tons of coal and rock falling inside the mine. Bodies of the other three were recovered Friday and Saturday. I

Legal Action Is Planned On Klan Leaders Klan Rally Halted By Indian Gunfire In North Carolina MAXTON, NjC. (UP)—Authorities planned legal action today against leaders of a Ku Klqx Klan group whose rally set a band of North Carolina Indians op the warpath. •v Armed vigilante groups formed after the Saturday night riot and patrolled the etotire area where the Indians live. Twelve of the armed men in three cars questioned and threatened three United Press reporters and a radio network reporter, then shot up the newsmen’s car as they left the scene. Robeson County Sheriff Malcolm McLeod said he will seek an indictment against the Rev. James Cole, who fled with his followers in the face of a burst of Indian gunfire that stepped the rally coldCole Plana Sait Cole, contacted at his home in Marion, S.C., said he planned to bring suit against McLeod for failing to guarantee his constitutional right to free speech and assembly. Police Sunday moved into the area where members of the Lumbee tribe make their home, searching for Klansmen who may have been left behind. Two were picked up and held for possible charges of inciting a roit. An estimated 300 Indians fired more than 1,000 shots when the 20 to 30 armed Klansmen arrived for a cross-burning and rally. Nobody was killed but at least four persons were wounded. The Indians had been seething over the cross-burnings staged earlier last week by Klansmen who said the Indians had been trying to mingle intimately with whites. When the Klansmen arrived Saturday night the Indians were ready. Indiana Move In Quietly Klansmen huddled around a speakers stand. Indians moved in from two skies, quietly- Then an Indian boy walked onto the scene and with one shot knocked out the lights powered by a portable generator. The Indians began shooting,’ aiming for the most part into the air or at the ground. The Klansmeh ran for their cars, many of them dropping their guns and leaving behind their white robes (Continued on page five) — • Change Os Venue Is Granted To Decatur Grant Venue Change In Death Petition A change of venue to another county has been granted in the case of Dale Death vs the city of Decatur, Death’s attempt to be reinstated on the Decatur police force after he was fired for conduct unbecoming a police officer, absent without official leave, and conviction of a public offense. v The change of venue was granted from the Adams circuit court, which held that although the city attorney did* not ask for a change of court in’ compliance with the statute, that the change of venue from the county would really be a change of venue from the court, since there is only one court in Adams county which has jurisdiction in this case. Death was ar rested Nov. 1, 1957, following an accident in which his car struck a parked car on North Second street. Death was apprehended in the parking lot nearby, and was arrested by the city police, and after examination by the chief of police was charged with public intoxication. Death, at the time off-duty as a city policeman, was later dismissed from the police force, and then instituted several suits aimed at regaining his position on the police force. He was allowed by the circuit court to withdraw his plea of guilty to public intoxication, and presently has under consideration of the court a motion to completely dismiss the charge. This will be heard Feb. 12. In the present civil case, the attorneys for the two parties have three days In which to agree on a county in which the case will be heard. They may choose either Jay, Wells, or Allen. If they do not agree, then the court will inform them that those three counties are available, and each lawyer will strike one name from the list, and the remaining county will .be where the trial is held. If the lawyers fail to strike, the clerk of the I circuit court will strike for them.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday; January 20, 1958.

Warns Business, Labor Leaders To Go Slow On Price, Wage Increases

Ike Reiterates • Opposition To Early Meeting Answers Bulganin Proposal On Early East-West Meeting WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower in a brief letter to Soviet .Premier Nikolai Bulganin today made clear that he still opposes an early East-West summit meeting. ■ _ The Presiaent’s tnree - sentence note was in reply to Bulganin’s Jan. 8 letter calling for a heads- , of-government conference within the next two or three months. Eisenhower acknowledged re- ! ceipt of Bulganin’s letter, but said , no further answer was necessary ’ because he had “dealt with the i substantive matters which it contains” in replying on Jan. 12 to Bulganin’s December letter. The earlier letter from the Kremlin, delivered just prior to the Western Allies' summit conference in Paris, called for EastWest talks on banning nuclear weapons and nuclear tests, the creation of a nuclear and missilefree belt across central Europe and an East-West non-aggression pact. Second Batch of Letters In his Jan. 12 reply, the President did not rule out a summit conference on such cold war issues but he made clear there was no prospect of one in the immediate future. He said it should be preceded by exhaustive preparations and a meeting of foreign ministers. He said the Should draft proposals which would hold some prospect of endorsement by the heads of government. Before getting this reply, Bulganin dispatched another batch. of letters to Eisenhower, the 15 NATO nations, four Soviet bloc nations and all other members of the United Nations, plus Switzerland. In these letters he called for a summit meeting within two or three months and said the confertContinued on page four) Mixture 01 Rain, Snow For Indiana Colder Weather Is Also On Forecast By UNITED PRESS A rash of precipitation which the weatherman said would be a "messy mixture of rain and snow” began to overspread Indiana today. •’ Evansville reported rain and Lafayette snow shortly after dawn, forerunner of what the Weather Bureau said would be the dominant weather theme through Tuesday. The five-day outlook for the period Tuesday through Saturday called for below-normal temperatures and precipitation averaging one-half to one inch. Temperatures hit highs Sunday ranging from 33 at Fort Wayne to 40 at Evansville, then dropped to lows this mornifg ranging frorrf 28 at Fort Wayne to 34 at Evansville. The forecast called* for snow mixed with sleet or rain today, probably becoming light snow late tonight and Tuesday. High temperatures today will range from the 30s to the 40s, lows tonight from 25 to around 30, and highs Tuesday from 26 to 38. The outlook for Wednesday was cold with snow flurries. The five-day outlook said temperatures would average about four degrees below normal highs of 28 to 44 and normal lows of 12 to 30. “Colder Monday night and Tuesday.” the outlook said. "Little change Wednesday through Saturday. Precipitation will average about one-half inch north to one inch south in snow and rain tonight and early Tuesday and again about Friday or Saturday.”

Gunmen Are Seized Following Robbery Two Muncie Men Held In Illinois DANVILLE, IU. (UP)—Authorities today held two gunmen who robbed a supermarket of more than $3,000, used four hostages to Escape and were captured in separate gun battles. One of the men, identified as Walter Gump, 36, allegedly forced three of the hostages to accompany him across the state line into Indiana where he was captured by police. l jThe otner man, identified as John Definbaugh, 47, escaped from the Danville grocery store Saturday night by using one of the hostages as a shield. Definbaugh was captured near Danville after he had been wounded in the shoulder by police as he fled on foot. Police said Gump was held in jail and Definbaugh was under guard in a hospital. §oth are from Muncie, Ind. The crime spree started late Saturday when two gunmen forced the assistant store manager, Raymond Van Duyn, ; and clerk Tom Wynn back into the closed supermarket. However, the robbery plans were disrupted when another store worker called police, who* surrounded the building and demanded that the bandits surrender. Shots were exchanged. a “If you do anything, tfiese people are dead," the gunmen toid police- Then Van Duyn and Wynn wre used as shields by the robbers who walked out the back door. Wynn escaped a short time later. Breaking into a home where" Frank Levin and Ed Bolser were playing cards, Gump commandeered a car, police said. Gump forced the three — Van Duyn, Levin and Bolser—to drive aim to Crawfordsville and into a police roadblock. After a volley of gunfire, Gump was attacked (Continued on pace four) Tension Mounts At tittle Rock School Rumors And Minor Incidents Reported LITTLE ROCK, Arm) (UP) — Little Rock’s Central High School entered its second integrated semester today with tension mounting as result of rumorß and minor racial incidents. > A rumor sent two truckloads of federalized Arkansas National Guardsmen racing to the school last Thursday night to Search for what turned out to be a non-exist-ent bomb. S’umors circulated Sunday night : the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was planning to put more Negroes in Central High to start the second semester. Another rumor had the segregationist Mother’s League of Central High School planning a march of protest at the school. The nine Negroes now attending Central have learned, in some degree, to live with rumors and incidents. So has the rest of th school. Integrationists blame segregation groups for what has been called a "deterioration of orderliness' I —at the ‘school in the past few weeks. Last week, the Arkansas Gazette charged editorially that the rumors and Thursday’s bomb scare were the work of those who want conditions stirred up so that troops will have to be left at Central. But many segregationists say they don’t believe this is necessary to keep the troops there. “This thing is much-bigger than some people believe,” said Mrs. Margaret Jackson, president of the Mother’s League “People are excited enough that we certainly don’t need anything to stir us up.” A Negro girl was suspended for throwing a bowl of soup on two white boys in the school cafeteria. The girl, Minnie Brown, was reinstated two weeks ago. Presently, two White students are under suspension for their part In incidents with Negroes,

Death-Dealing Fires In U.S. Over Weekend At Least 29 Dead, Six Persons Killed By Florida Blaze By UNITED PRESS A rash of weekend fires claimed a heavy toll of lives and property. Fires snuffed out the lives, of six persons in a wooden frame home at Hastings, Fla.; swept crowded apartment buildings in Chicago and in Boston; and trapped victims in private homes across the nation. A United Press count showed at least 29 persons perished in the fires Sunday and early today. One was missing and feared dead. Flames erupted in explosive fury at a Texas chemical plant and caused more than one million dollars' damage at an Indian parochial school. The greatest loss of life was in the Florida fire. Three farm laborers and three children, all Negroes, died in an explosion and fire that occurred Sunday night when one of the group poured kerosene on a hot stove. A fourth child was burned critically and two other adults suffered slight burns. Four' persons, including a 21-month-old baby, died in flames that swept a three - story apartment budding in Chicago early today. Firemen said the victims apparently were trapped on the top floor when flames and smoke Blocked a central stairway, the only means of escape A woman, 52, died of smoke inhalation in another Chicago apartment blaze early today. More than 70 persons, including a 104-year-old woman, were evacuated from the two burning buildings. Two sisters, 78 and 80 years old, died when a fire blamed on an overheated kerosene stove destroyed their home near Bucyrus, Ohio, Sunday, and a 40-yar-old mother of four burned to death when flames swept her home at Shadyside, Ohio. Two teen - age babysitters rescued the children but did not know the mother had returned home and gone to bed without awakening them. Two men died when fire destroyed a two-room home at Belcourt, N.D., Sunday and two children died when flames trapped them in an upstairs bedroom of their home at Warrenton, N.C. A flash fire killed a 35-year-old father Sunday at Petersburg, Mich. His wife and two of their three children were hospitalized with burns. An elderly woman was missing and believed dead in a fire at Delmar, on the Maryland - Dela(Contlnued on paxe four) Homer Kizer Dies Suddenly In Oregon Brother Os Decatur Lady Dies Suddenly Homer M. Kizer, 42, a brother of Mrs. Pearl Whetstone, of Decatur, and Mrs. Vernea Ethel Beeler of Geneva, died suddenly at his home in Boring, Ore., Saturday noon of a heart attack. Kizer, a resident of Wells county until March, 1954, was a World War II Veteran and before going to Oregon was operator of a truck, ing business, driver bf a school bus and an employe of the Franklin Electric company. Surviving in addition to the two sisters are his mother, Mrs. Orlando Kizer, Wells county; the widow, three sons, Homer Elden, Bennie and Kenny, and two daughters, Corolea and Ellen Marie, at home; three brothers, Floyd Kizer, Ossian; Woodrow Kizer, Fort Wayne, and Cloyd Kizer, Bluffton, and one other sister, Mrs. Bertha Mansfield, of Texas. Services will, be conducted . Thursday in the Corroll funeral home in Gresham, Ore., with burial in the Veterans Cemetery in Portland, Ore.

■„ i n ~g--n -i ■ mriWlfßlii Eisenhower Speaks In Chicago Tonight Will Keynote 1958 Political Campaign WASHINGTON (VP)-President Eisenhower was reported ready to make a “fighting speech” tonight telling Republicans they will have to hustle this year if they hope to achieve their program and win back Congress in November. He was expected to slap hard at political opponents who picture the nation in dire peril from Russian advances because of the Republican administration's policies: The President, accompanied by Mrs. Eisenhower, was scheduled to leave by plane for Chicago where he will keynote the GOP’s kickoff of its 1958 campaign to recapture Congress from the Democrats and prepare for the 1960 presidential election The Chief Executive will speak during a 30-minute broadcast and telecast program at a SIOO-a-plate Republican dinner this evening. Other GOP leaders including Vice President Richard M. Nixon will join in the program from their places at dinners in other cities. A total of 40,000 diners were expected to participate in 44 $lO to SIOO-a-plate dinners in 27 stats and the District of Columbia. The half-hour program will be aired by NBC radio and television starting at 9:30 p.rii. e.s.t. The dinners celebrated the fifth anniversary of Elsenhower’s assumption to the presidency five years ago. The theme as stated by the Republican National Committee was a "tribute to five years of achievement and salute to Republican Congress." About 5,400 persons are expected to attend the Chicago dinner. Weathermen predicted a snowstorm for Chicago today, with an accumulation of two to four inches and a high temperature of about 32 degreesChicagoans will have a chance to welcome the President during his trip in a 14-car and bus motorcade from the airport to the Stock Yard Inn, his headquarters for the visit. However, the stormy weather is expected to cut the (Continued on pa-ge tour) Fosnaugh Quits As County Home Head Resignation To Be Effective March 1 George Fosnaugh, superintendent of the Adams county home for the past seven years, submitted to the board of county commissioners today, effective March 1. Fosnaugh replaced Frank Kitson as .superintendent of the county farm March 1, 1951. He still had a year remaining on his second four-year appointment. No replacement was named immediately by the commissioners for the job. Originally from Illinois, Fosnaugh had been an Adams county farmer for many years prior to his appointment. He was one of the 18 candidates for the sheriff’s nomination in 1934, and was one of the eight candidates in 1942 for the same office. Immediately before he took over at the county home, he was employed by the Central Soya company, During the seven-year period, Mrs. Fosnaugh has served as matron of the county home. Management of the home includes not only the residents and their well-being, but also a 274acre farm and the financial records of payment from the townships, county, or private individuals. A great improvement in record-keeping has been undertaken the past few years. In 1951, when Fosnaugh took the job there were 26 men and 10 women at the county home. Income for the year was $24,973.62, and the annual inventory set the value of the farm at $29,911, The value of the farm reached an all-time high in 1953 under Fosnaugh’a management, when it was valued at $36,657.50.

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Ike Couples . New Warning To Optimism Annual Economic Report To Congress Contains Warning WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower coupled a generally' optimistic report on the nation’s economy today with a new warning to business and labor leaders to go slow on price and wage increases. “As we look ahead in 1958,” he said, “there are grounds for expecting that tne decline in business activity need not be prolonged and that economic growth can be resumed without extended interruption.'' The President, in his annual economic report, said that stable prices are essential to a sound, prosperous economy. Business leaders must hold price increases to amounts warranted by increased production costs, the President said. And labor must limit its demands for higher wages to gains in productivity per man-hour, he said. Otherwise, he said, recovery from, the present business slump could be slowed down. Asks Wage-Price Restraint The new call for self-restraint on prices and wages highlighted the annual economic report to Congress. He had sounded such warnings previously when administration economic policies were directed to combatting inflationary pressures. This was the first time he had spoken out along this line since inflationary pressures lessened with the decline in business activity. It came only a few weeks bfore start of negotiations on some major nw wage contracts, including those for the aircraft and auto industries. The overall tone of the President’s report, was optimistic about ♦he ernnnmir nntlnnlc, both for the near future and the long runHe reported record overall prosperity for 1957 despite the economic decline in the latter part of the year. But he said about four-fifths of the year’s business gains in dollars was eaten up by inflationary price rises. And some segments of the national economy didn't do quite as well as in 1956. Looking to the future, the President stressed the importance of an expected business pickup being based on a sound dollar and reasonably stable prices. Sees Business Pickup The President noted several factors favorable for a business pickup later this year. They included high personal income and consumer spending, low inventories, increased defense spending, easier credit with lower interest rates, higher expenditures for research and development. He also Cited the outlook for increased home building and larger expenditures by state and local governments for public services, such as highway construction. Increased defense spending to meet Russia's space challenge was a large factor; in the President’s confidence in an economic upswing this year., He said the present increased rate of awarding defense production contracts may cause business activity generally to “rise earlier and more strongly than the prospective increase in the national security expenditures.” He was sure that the Russian challenge could be met “Without distorting pur economy or destroying the freedoms that we cherish.” “Whatever our national security requires, our economy can provide and we can afford' to pay,” he said“There are good grounds for confidence not. only that- economic growth can be resumed without prolonged delay, but also that a vigorous expansion of our economy can be sustained over the years,” the President said. However, he warned that inflationary dangers will reappear with a business pickup. The government, he said, will do its ufc ’ most to combat them?"' |