Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1958 — Page 10

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Gives Evidence, Opinion i On Lad's Mass Slayings

Editor's Note: Why does a 19-year-old go berserk and kill?. Until -Charles Starkweather. 19, went on a rampage that left 10 and possibly 11 persons dead, he had been in trouble only for minor traffic violations. Starkweather claims he killed in self-defense. A criminologist says he wanted public recognition. The youth's father said Starkweather was going blind and had received a head injury a few years ago. In the following dispatch, a veteran United Press correspondent examines the evidence and opinion on Starkweather's mass slaughter. By MURRAY M. MOLER ' United Press Staff Correspondent LINCOLN, Neb- 'UP*—A noted criminologist suggested today that a •’compulsive drive for domi-' nance 9nd public recognition' i caused red-haired Charles Starkweather to embark on his bloody i trail of killings. But the parents of the 19-year-old Lincoln.youth.claimedhe went J ■•• berserk” because he* faced blind- [ ness. Starkweather had recently been fired as a gartf.fi collector because, his own brother said, he was too lazy to work. Lincoln authorities, trying to determine a motive for the bloodiest crime spree in Nebraska history, ( contended the grade school graduate had Impulsively killed a serv- ' ice station attendant for- money, then murdered 10 other persons to hide the guilt of his original crime. After his arrest late Wednesday in Wyoming. Starkweather signed a confession, but authorities realised to divulge its contents. Totally Defeated Ego Dr. James M. Reinhardt, former head of the University of Nebraska department of sociology and anthropology and a consultant to the Nebraska prison and the FBI. said he . had followed the fast-breaking case with i’interesE" In an interview with United -Press. Reinhardt said "here was a totally defeated ego w’ho had

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no satisfactory anchorage in the social life. Socially, he was simply ah empty man. The only way he equid be important was by killJ ing." "Killing gives you a command [of the situation,” the expert said. "Hie surest way to become dominant is to render the other fellow ; powerless " i Reinhardt Said a person like Starkweather who will kill many Himes without any apparent reason "must theorize that he wants to ; be important and wants to get [ even with people, and one way to do it is with a gun. |i "He says to himself, in effect. - ‘I never would amount to anything hauling garbage. I ask for permission to drive a car and they tell me to go to hell. I can't j do it. I determine to make myself important and- want to make the I newspapers. I want to push United J Nations and Sputnik off the front J pages'." Feared Going Blind Os course, Reinhardt said, such a person does not sit down and analyze his own situation in so rriany words. ~ • -. ■ '■’■’, But numerous studies have shown, he said, that such prisons seem to reason in that manner because their urge to become important becomes so powerful "it ' is compulsive and he cannot think ‘about the consequences.’ The killer's father. Guy StarkI weather, unemployed Lincoln carpenter and the father of six other children. • said his son had been i warned he had a form of astigmatism that would cause blindness (Within a year, and this had been i worrying him. The father said Charles was also worried because he had been fired from several jofos, and had recently suffered illness that,.caused him to lose 30 pounds. "A few years ago he had been hit on the forehead with a 2-by-4 ■ and never felt right since," the father said. "All of this just built up inside iof him until he went berserk." A

i : vi h z, '■****'’»’* M | ■ w kMBsEHrK « --ssWsRJH 81 t . 'i f* Bia wWl' :t Wwm fB- * • -H8 wsmß s JJH ! BERNE HIGH SCHOOL RIFLE TEAM members are shown here-tiringJn in their ,1 match against Adams Central recenlty. Jack Hurst, district conservation officer, who helped organize the teams, and Doyle Collier. Adams Central teacher who coaches the Adams Central ; team. Berne won the prone position match. 391-330. Six-member teams fired, and the total was added together to reach a team totaL The match was held at the Adams Central indoor range, in the shop room. Berne also has an indoor range, and the two Decatur high schools have now organized chibs, and will begin firing soon on the FOP range in the basement of the K. of P. building. —'Staff Photo L ——• = —

I K Ipll lE"** lywll Rgb ' jß|Bflkj; j i ' ' 141 I 1 The Rev. Janies McCain. WesI' leyan Methodist evangelist of |i Marion, will speak at the ;monthL ly meeting of the Adams county L holiness ..association: .The fljggty I ing will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday I at the Pleasant Valley Wesleyan I Methodist church, two miles east and one mile south of Monroe. , The Rev. Vernon Riley, association president, will ’.conduct""the meeting and the host church will ’ be in charge of music and ingDecline Blessing In Disguise For Some Fired Executives I Find Better Jobs I CHICAGO i UP» — The current r economic decline “is —turning out I to be a "blessing in disguise tor I sonie. execUfives . who get the ax. I a job counselor said today. I Richard D Gleason said many I discharged executives -“are getI ting better jobs- than the one£ they I originally held.” I "Good meh are in as much dbI mand as ever," Gleason* said’. I "Where there is a difference, it I is in the meed to prove Hne’s I worth." 0 I Gleasop cited the case of one I man who had been with his comI ■pariy for 14 years and admittecfTw I would never ha,ye left of his" own I volition. I "Vvnen ir? was discharged," I Gleason said, “he advanced from I technical to executive work at 35 I per cent more pay.'.’ I Despite widespread layoffs at I lower levels. Glegson said he has I seen no pronounced tendency to I fire executives and .junior execu-

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-<tives.- —— | However, he said “some of the [ frills are being- eliminated and people who are not completely adequate are being replaced by stronger people. ' i The "frills.’. he said,, include ex- ' eeutives who bea r .vague “assist- , ant to” titles and persons working Jin "programs of intangible merit" Ito their employers. Among the meh finding them- | [selves expendable, Gleason said, [ are financial officers who do not really practice - good financial .planning and executives whb_find themselves in personality conflicts. "Personality conflicts are en-i Idured by the underling as well as I by the boss’,'.' he said. "When the | J ax finally falls, both are re-[ [ lieved.” I, [ [ Gleason said the man fired be-ji J cause of such a clash normallyj| - can look forward to a "happie** f connection" and an opportoj - ' turn over a -new leaf if .’[been at fault. Gleason, former 1 iion: m,u;a4er for GHfbfifi ’ISRm £ ’ j which counsels management men I trie in New York, heads a firm which counsels management men on careers and draws up job- , hunting campaigns for them- His I firm does not contact employers on behalf of clients. He said. "There seems to be no J tightening of salary levels. But-* ’and this’ is a big but—there is a i serious tightening of job stand- [ aids." _ - - . "Many firms actually seem willing to ’pay more for the same job," he said, "but they_wanE men with ' considerably more proven talent.' I Gleason said he would advise ' the executive 16 avoid changing jobs if he can and. instead, to "keep himself sold" to his boss 1 and work toward a higher spot in his present firm. Three Under Arrest For Stealing Ponies . j NEW CASTLE 'IP — A man ' '-and two teen-agers were held to- ■ day aster's admitting they stole 1 five ponies in Henry and Jay ’ Counties last fall. Henry County Sheriff Robert Padgett identified the three as H Hubert Eugene James,_2(L- Cadizy ‘ James*- brother-in-law, R o belt _ 1 Dean Green, 19. and William , Reser. 17. both of Parker. Padgett said four of the five ’ ponies were recovered at Owen- ‘ town. Ky., and the ftifh was beJ Lieved to have been auctioned at Mount Sterling. Ky. y-L-’---- -- - , Trade in a good town — Decatur

Tar, pitch, turpentine, and other ! resinous products of the South's I long-leaf and slash pine were | named naval stores because they | were chiefly useful in wooden ships.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CLERK-TREASURER CITY OF DECATUR, INDIANA YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1957 IIAKKETT LAW FIND rash Balance, January I. 1957 $ 2.251.90 Balance, D,eii‘Uibt:r, 3,L_'95“ ■ . “ . 2.2.>1.90 GENERAL FIND r-ash Balan>•*'. January 1. 1957 $ $105,096.86 Receipts: (leneral'Propert y Taxes 122,588.50 •TJrjuOr • Kxi Ise Tax ■ 8,773.85 State Gasoline Tax- 43.438.8, Licenses 5,426.22 Fines ,X V'ourt Fees 1,141.00 Office Rent —- Electric Dept. - 480.00 ,Offi<*- Ren’ — Wat er Dept 240.00 SpFii e Truck Service — Country Fires- : ~ 205:00 Skl.iiense Fees’- 197,00 W-A'ity Dump 340.00 Esfibow Big x -Vater (hauling) , 130.75 - Sales 433.50 ■Kl’ermits. Sewer Taps 157.50 Rvßullding Permits, Inspection Fees t... , 360.39 Deposits (Plans X Specifn at iotjs) 1,300.00 L Miscellaneous . - 793.34 -SL-. ...... J. -OJ,U.U.<I)j ■.-r-r—— - - -iwsWKWSS: ■.■ Parking Meter Fund —• Transfer ■••• ... .’.200.n0 -* Total Receipt* - yi...— $193,72104 Total Receipts & Balance . $298,818.90 DMrttrsjmeh ts < • ”, " ■ - - Citv Judge’s Office $ 794.00 ’ Mayor’s < >ffi> >■ 2.829.75 '(■l. tCTo is leer's < >rTi.->- 5.690.19 Depart ment of Law 1.443.55 '- Common Council 1.250.00 Engineering Department . . .... 5.079.60 ’ . < Cite Hall 5,191.52 Adams County Auditor ■, . ~ 100 00 Arm rWn Legion . . ... — 50.00 City Schoo! Bands SoO.’OO Municipal League — Dues 100.00 " insurance . ' . ... 5,100.00 Printing' A- A>lv, rt ising 636.28 Street & Sewer Department 74.747.90 Department of Ilealtli . . . ’ . 1 1,372.25 Police Department - 41'.053 2.5 Fire Department 29,737.13 Hydrant Rentals • , 13.650.00 . Debt .’Payment' -.--Bonds- . 6.000.00 . # Debt Payment — .hiterewt .. 1.259.36 .<>1(1 Age Survivors ItTsiiru n< e 1.390.19 Civil Defense - 300.00 Transportation Expense” 87.83 Refunds Plans A- Specifications 815.g0 .— |l>.g I'eltUti ■ • .Ax,. .... ■■ H9.SI ' —-—" ' Barger Ditch Assessment . 171.00 Total Disbursements $2.07,29.8,31 Cash' Balance, December 31, 1957 i . $ 91.520.59 DEPARTMENT of parks Cash Balance. January -I. 1 957 ' ..... ...3' 8.236.34 . Re.e'eipts property Taxes _ 3.313.77 Total Receipts A- Balance $ 11,550.1 1 Disbursements 7.894.64 Cash Balance, December 31, 1957 $ 3,655.47 ifEPARTMEVIOF HE< II RATION Z" Cash Balance. January 1. 1957 742.03 JI. •. .HG -• ” ■” ..’ ”32.417.54 Total Receipts & Balance . $ 33,159.57 Disbursements 31.713.39 Cash Balance. Decembej- 31, 1957 $ 1,446.18 P 01.14 E PENSION FI ND ('ash Balam e. January 1, 1957 ....... $ 5,110.07 Ro> .-ipts .. 7,802.08 . Total Receipts A- Balance $ 12,912,15 Disbursements a ” 5,797.75 Cash Balance, December 31, 1957 $ 7,114.40 FIREMEN'S PENSION Fl ND Cash Balance. January 1.1 957 ... $ 8.985.50 Receipts ~ * -2,857.18 Total Receipts A- Balance 7.$ 11.842.68 . Disbursements —o—- — Balance, December 31. 1957 . .....77,-.-7.-... $ 1 1,842.68 REVOLVING NEWER FIND Cash Balance, January 1, 1957 $ 6,669.43 Receipts 2,881.37 — Tomi —RfceiptFrßalance : — ’C.. T~c .777$ 9,550.80 Disbursements .’. .7.:. 47.66 i'i.-Ii Balan. <■. December 31. 1 957 $ 9,503.14 ’’ - '’ , ■ — ““7— : j PAiIKIXG METER FIX’D 1’.0.1i Balam-C. January 1. 1957 $ 4,980.78 Receipts ( “ : -» Total Receipts A Balance $ 15,765.88 Disbursements 9,881.18 Cash Balance, December 31, 1957 $ 5,884170 - IXSI RAXCE Cash Balance, January 1, 1957 —o— 1 * BeeeLpta— $ 6,856.75 Total Receipts & Balance 6,856.75 Disbursements ...... 4 . 6.856.75 Cash Balance, December 31, 1957 —o—- — «,. WITHHOLDING TAX FI ND Cash Balance. January i, 1957 $ 2,370.82 Rm etpts 32,111.89 Total Receipts & Balance $ 34,182.71 Disbursements !...< 32,398.81 Cash Balance. December 31, 1957 $ 2,489.20

Airport Building Destroyed By Fire Estimate $350,000 Damage At Chicago CHICAGO «P> — An explosion and fire destroyed the Aeronautical University’ building at Midway Airport. Damage was estimated at $350,000. Classrooms, training planes, and equipment lost in the blaze late Wednesday were valued at more than $200,000. Airport officials said air traffic was re-routed to other runways and only slight interference with schedules was made. Auto traffic, however, was snarled for miles. ThF old-style hangar had been vacated shortly before the blaze by aviation mechanics and aeronautical engineers who had been attending classes. 1 Lew.is W. Churbuck, 61, president of the training school, said fin explosion took plaice in the workshop area, shortly after 4:30 p m. The 50-foot-by-100 foot structure collapsed in the blaze that followed. Fireman George Nielsen suffered a dislocated shoulder when he slipped on ice while maneuvering hose. City firemen joined air terminal firefighters in battling I the multiple-alarm blaze. Authorities said the was confined to the university. ‘The Oak That Owns Itself’ ‘stands, identified by a marble i marker, near Athens. Ga. Its own- | er bequeathed the white oak to it- | self in his will; the deed is re- | corded in the town clerk’s office.

( .. .. '’’'l y ) . ;v •p’.i.r •jOR KM / ' CRUELTY TRIAL—U. S. Marine Adrian McLane (above) of Philadelphia la echeduled for trial in Yokosuka, Japan, accused of cruelty to brig prisoners at Sasebo. (International) Four Men Are Killed When Scaffold Snaps PORT ARTHUR, Tex. <W — Four men were killed and seven injured • Wednesday when one end of a coni struction scaffold snapped loose, hurling the men and equipment ’ 123 feet to the ground. ’ The men were employes of the M. W. Kellogg Construction Co. ' They weie building <a cracking unit tower for the Texas Co. refinery. The workers fell from a height equal to about a 11-story building * when bolts holding the 20-foot long ’ scaffold sheared off without any warning. w Trade in a good town — DecaTur

OLD AGE A Nl KXIVORS INNI RANCE FI ND Cash Balance, January 1, 1957 $ 1.331.65 Receipts , 6.636 92 Total Receipts A Balance $ 7,966.57 Disbursements 6,508.49 > Cash Balance. December 31, 1957 $ 1.460.08 GROKS INCOME TAX FI ND > Cash Balance. January 1, 1957 : $ 28 78 Receipts 2.028 76 Total Receipts & Balance . ... $ 2J)57 54 Dlshursnuvnts ........ i. 104.57 Cash Balance, December 31, 1957 . . . $ 952.97 —-- . SPE4IAL FIRE FIGHTING- FI ND Cash Balance, January 1. 1957 $ 404 no Receipts 15i o„ Total Receipts A Balance $ 559 90 Disbursements S', 4.51 Cash Balance. December 31, 1957 j 1A5.39 . Interest Year Maturity Bute - Purpose AttUiliut I Rate • IssueCTZL t,ip,fJl u aa nws - GENERAL OBLIGATION —— BONDS. ) 1 5/8% 1952 Jan. 1, 1967 Sewers $78.009 00 REVENUE BONDS: 2 1/4% ' 1951 July 1. 1976 Light Plant $730,000.00 — , improvement 2 1/8% 1950 July 1, 1970 Waterworks $ 54,000 00 Improvement 14.956% 1957 Jan, 1, 1990 Sewage $925,000.00 Treatment Plant ' Total Bonded Indebtedness at December 31. 1957 ,„,_51.782,000.0ff DECATI R LTGHT & POUTER DEPARTMF.XT DECATVR. INDIANA t 18S7 Financial Statement * OPERATING FFND. -7--<’ash Balance, January 1, 1957 .. . . Q , 28,71131 Receipts 760'302.55 Total Receipts & Balance I." ~ / Disbursements . 825,307.51 Cash Balance. December 31, 1957 $36,293.65* •Negative - ELECTRIC DEPRECIATION Ft’ND 1 (fesh Balance & January 1, 1957 . . $37:8,213'07Receipts 55:687.50 > Total Receipts & Balance $283 901 47 Disbursements 41,653.08 I Cash Balance. December 31, 1957 124° ”48 39 7 ELECTRIC I’TILITY SINKING FI ND L ‘ - Cash Balance, January 1, 1957 .... $ 29 08153 Receipts 37.985.44 Total Receipts & Balance j 67.066 97 7 Disbursements 45.032:50 - ('ash Balance, December 31, 1957 .............. .. . $ 22,034 47 i ■ - ----- - ■ . - _> ... TZ.. 7 r ELECTRIC METER DEFOSTT FEND ” - Cash Balance, J inuary L 1957 j 16 528 65 f Receipts „..t 2 477 00 * « . Total Receipts & Balance t isootek 8 Disbursements LSBO 47 Cash Balance, December 31, 1997 ...j 17,423 18 8 DECATLR WATER DEPARTMENT ■> DECATI R, INDIANA > , 1037 Ftnnnelat Statement - OPERATING FUND 1 Cash Balance, January 1, 1957 • *6 908 04 Receipts 1 ’ Total Receipts & Balance SIBO 777 15 1 Disbursements 144 864 80 - Cash Balance, December 31, 1957 $ 35,912 23” - WATER DEPRECIATION FUND' e- 8.. ..L... , , ~,—s „ I Cash Balance, January 1, 1957 $ 6-297 81 Receipts .„... 7*637 25 Total Receipts & Balance ,3.;....$ 13,931706 1 Disbursements :.... : 3 101 50 - Cash Balitfice, December 81, 1957 | 10,8.33 56 i ~ WATER BOND & INTEREST REDEMPTION FI’ND I ('ash Balance, January 1, 1957 ... » 10 348 '8 Receipts /• 2 :270:?>4 1 & Balance , Cash Balance December 31, 1957 ... 8,062.74 r , 1 SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT CONSTRICTION DECATUR. INDIANA 1057 Financial Statement OPERATING FUND Bonds — Issued Z 3875 000 on i Earned on Investments i > 6;2215’ > Total tsxn 99c i New Construction $824,411 33 Investments Purchased 396,790.00 721,201 33 - Cash Balance, December 31, 1957 Zll .......$159 025 28 ! SEWAGE WORKS SINKING FUND ) Bond* — Issued t | S7 33 I Cash Balance, December 31, 1957 .„.....$ 57,337 33 * Miriam Hsill, Clerk-Treasurer City of Decatur ..• a »

THURSPAY, JANUARY 90, 19M

Handley Protests Guard Reduction Letter Os Protest Sent To Eisenhower INDIANAPOLIS Ilf) — Governor Handley sent a letter of protest to President Eisenhower late Wednesday on the announced plans to reduce the strength of the Indiana National Guard. Handley said in the letter sent to the White House that he "cannot understand the efforts on the part of the Department of Defense to reduce the strength of the National Guard at a time when millions of Americans are sincerely concerned with the ability of our country to cope militarily with the international situation.” The governor noted that Indiana’s 38th Division was directed to reduce strength last year "to comply with budgetary limitations.” "Further reduction,” he wrote, "would bring the strength below an effective training level.” ‘ Handley said the matter concerns "the security of the nation and for that reason I am deeply concerned . . . ” North Manchester Baby Dies Os Suffocation NORTH MANCHESTER IW — Five-months-old twin Dennis Leon Wood was found dead of suffocation Wednesday in his baby carriage at the home of his parents, the Harold Woods, near North Manchester. Trade in a gooa town — Decatur