Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 50.

~ '— -- "" '‘ll s .Wta%lr ■ W-_ $’ I . v ' JNtaife K ■ a '> MMOHk < ->«\ ' ■;.■ V\ jfcc 1 ; u. twßb * < ' .. ’<o . FRED E. KOLTER, standing, Decatur Chamber of Commerce executive secretory, is shown with Dr. Ralph Allison and Robert Morrisey, co-chairmen of the coming Chamber of Commerce membership drive as they check last minute details of the coming campaign which will begin Monday, March 3. Nearly every one of the chambers’ present members has been assigned a carefully selected prospect who will be invited to join the organization during this drive. The Chamber’s board of directors recently accepted its annual budget based on a sizable incr-ase In membership to help finance a more vigorous promotion of the Chamber’s industrial procurement program.

Mack Rejects Demands For Quitting Post Would Consider If Resignation Sought By Pres. Eisenhower WASHINGTON <UP >—Richard A. Mack told the United Press today “I would have to consider it” if President Eisenhower asks for his resignation from the Federal Communications Commission. But Mack, accused of letting financial interests and friends influence his vote in FCC decisions, did not indicate whether he would yield to a Presidential request to step down. B The 48-year-old Miami Demoappointed by Eisenhower to the FvC, remained steadfast in his reufsal to quit under congressional fire, swearing he is innocent of any official misconduct or of being influenced in a Miami television case. Called For Second Day Mack made the comment as he called for a second day of cross examination by members of the House subcommittee on legislative oversight, who expressed dissatisfaction with the commissioner’s explanation of his financial dealings with accused “fxer" Thurman A. Whiteside. Re. John E. Moss (D-Calif.) said Mack had turned over to the investigators only "sketchy” financial records Moss said he wanted to see Mack’s income tax "returns for the years since his appointment to the FCC in 1955. Mack testified Thursay he knew hardly anything about two Miami firms from which he drew $15,000, even though Whiteside made him the sole owner of one. He said Whiteside handled all the details, including "bookkeeping transactions” which enabled him to repay loans from Whiteside. Still up in the air was a question whether the President legally could remove Mack from the FCC, which! is an independent federal agency regarded as an "arm” of Congress. Its members are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. FBI Report Awaited The President said Wednesday Mack could be removed only for so therefore I assume that would be by a trial of some kind.” Eisenhower has indicated that he would not consider asking for Mack’s resignation until after I he receives a report on the case from the Justice Department which has the FBI making an investigation.. . Subcommittee member Rep. John B. Bennett (R-Mich.) said he would introduce the necessary legislation to impeach Mack—if Mack fails to resign or if President Eisenhower does not have the legal power to fire him. Repeatedly / Thursday Mack said he didn’t have the "faintest idea” or "didn’t know” when asked to name the officers or cite the value of the firm he headed, Andar Inc., a holding company He was equally vague about the operations of the Stembler-Shel-den insurance agency, in which Whiteside said he gave Mack a one-sixth interest. Mack testified that Whiteside approached him twice about the award of Miami Channel 10. The commissioner said "at no time did Icommit myself."

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Give Furniture To Hospital Addition Dunbar Furniture In Fine Donation Furniture, valued at $3,694, for the new waiting room at the Adams county memorial hospital has been donated by the Dunbar Furniture company of Berne, the hospital board stated today. The furniture, consisting of four lounge chairs, a sofa, a 72-ineh armless unit, a right arm unit, an ottoman, two end tables, a round end table and a coffee table .have already fifeen placed in the large-glassed-in waiting room which overlooks the front entrance to the hospital. The furniture was secured through hospital board member Wilbert Nussbaum, of Berne, through Roger L. Sprunger, resident designer for the company. The furniture is from the "conversation piece” line of Dunbar, makers of contemporary furniture known from coast to coast. Edward J. Wormley of New York is the director of the craftmanship, quality and fine design which goes into Dunbar furniture. The $3,694 gift is one of the largest received by the hospital for the new addition. All 35 new units have already been subscribed for memorial rooms by individuals, organizations and companies. Added Candidacies Filed With Clerk Two Are Filed For Township Trustees Two more township candidates, two delegates to the Republican state convention, one candidate for precinct committeeman, and five candidates for township school advisory boards filed for the spring election Thursday and today. • Menno I. Lehman, of Berne, filed as one of the 13 delegates to the Republican state convention from the ninth district. Clarence C. Shepherd, of Geneva, filed as if delegate to the Republican state convention from district five. Wilbur H. Blakey, of West Union township, filed for trustee of Union township on the Democratic ticket, and Silvan Sprunger of South Monroe township, filed for trustee of Monroe township on the Republican ticket. ’ Clarence C. Shepherd, Geneva, filed also as the Republican precinct committeeman of Geneva B. Otis Sprunger, of South Monroe township; Edison Lehman, of South Monroe township; and Edgar Lehman, of Berne C, filed as candidates for the advisory board of Monroe township, all on the Democratic ticket. Alfred P. Hirschy, route 1, Mon(Contlnued on Page Fira) Deadlines Near On Gross Tax, License INDIANAPOLIS (ffl — Deadlines approached today for Hoosiers to pay their-1957 gross income taxes and buy 1958 auto license plates. After today, 1957 auto tags will be illegal. Midnight Saturday is the deadlineh for filing gross tax returns by Hoosiers who had part of their taxes withheld from wages in 1957. But taxpayers who have not received withholding statements from their employers were given an extension to March 31.

Thor Missile Launched On Mighty Blast Thor Intermediate Range Missile Is Fired In Florida CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UP) —A Thor intermediate range missile, carrying a new nose cone designed to return a nuclear warhead from space and smash an enemy target, was-launched with a mighty blast toddy. The new technique, although perfected for military purposes, also might lead to licking the reentry problem of a man-made satellite. The trim missile, its blunt and rounded nose cone glinting in the bright morning sun, blasted up from the Cape Canaveral launching site a few minutes after 8 a.m. A great cloud of smoke and fire boiled up from the launching pad The missile slashed through a layer of clouds after 40 seconds of flight but was visible again for about 20 seconds before it disappeared, trailing vapor, behind more clouds. The Air Force announced only that the Thor was fired and said nothing about the success or failure of the flight or how far the Thor went. In previous flights a Thor to reported to have flown some 2,600 miles, although it is designed only as a 1,500-mile range ballistic missile. The Air Force said “the nose cone used in today's test was different from tho s e previously used.” The -nose cone was much flatter and was designed to solve the problem of re - entering the at- , mosphere. The advantage of a blunt nose cone is that it spreads out the tremendous heat accumulated as the warhead streaks down at many times the speed of sound from high above the atmosphere. - There was only a dummy warhead in today’s missile. The first squadron of Thors is due to be set up in JJpghtod. by, the end of this year, and these will be ready to strike back at any aggressor. Heavy winds Thursday and Wednesday forced postponement of the Navy’s Vanguard satellite carrier launching until next week. But the sturdier Army Redstone missile was launched Thursday. The Redstone, fueled with the new compound, apparently flew successfully to Its target downrange in the Atlantic. The fuel is called hydyne and was announced for the first time when used in the Jupiter C satellite launcher which flung the Explorer into orbit Jan- 31. ——————— j C. 0. Fritizinger Dies In Florida Charles O. Fritzinger, 67, former resident of Root township, died < Thursday at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he had resided the past few years. He was a native of Detroit, Mich., but lived in Root township for a number of years. Survivors include three daughters. Near relatives in this area include Mrs. Reinhold Sauer and Robert M. Fritzinger of Decatur. Mrs. Louis Bertsch of Preble, Arthur and William Fritzinger of Root township, and Robert Fritzinger of Monroeville. Earl Steele Dies At Indianapolis Native Os Magley Dies Unexpectedly Earl E. Steele, 70, of Indianapolis, an uncle of Miss Wilma Andrews, of Decatur, died unexpectedly at his residence Thursday night. He had not been ill. Born in Magley, he spent most of his life in Fort Wayne. He moved to Indianapolis about 18 years ago and was actively employed by Mayflower Van Lines, Inc., at-the tifne of his death. Surviving in addition to the niece are his widow, Ethel; a daughter, Mrs. John Faulkner, Fort Wayne; seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild; a sister, Mrs. Claude Caton, LaGrange; and a nephew, Vere Welker, Fort Wayne. • Mr. Steele was a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Eagles Lodge, and the Loyal Order of Moose. The body was taken to the Jordan funeral home in Indianapolis pending comp’etion of arrangements. ' '

ONLT DAILY NEWSPAPER W ADAMS COUNTY

■Decatur, Indiana, Friday, February 28, 1958

18-24 School Children Killed Or Drowned As r <? V* , Bus Plunges In River

Severe Storm Is Raging Over Midwest Area Traffic Stopped In Tracks; Heavy Rain. Over Eastern Coast By UNITED PRESS One of the worst Midwest blizzards of the winter raged with undiminished intensity today, stopping traffic In its tracks and virtually , Isolating ccmmunites n parts of Nebraska Kansas and the Dakotas. The massive ;’orm system also sent drenching rains cascading across sections of the Eat Coat, accompanied by hail and high wind. Weathermen said one deluge dumped an inch of rain at Raleigh, N. C., in a period of minutes Thursday night. The Midwest blizzard began Thursday afternoon and was not expected to ease off until tonight. Frigid northern winds of up to 60 miles an hour piled the snow into deep drifts and cut visibility to zero in swirling snow. The blizzard belt ranged from the western and central Dakotas south through western and central Nebraska and into western Kansas. VThe storm was expected to into northern Minnesota today and blizzard warnings were out for that area. A foot of snow buried Dickinson, N. C, today, and other heavy accumulations included 11 inches at Pierre, S. D.; 10 at Chadron, Nebr.; 7 at Russell, Kan., and 6 at North Platte, Neb. Temperatures in the area plunged to near zero in western North Dakota and to the teens as far south as Kansas. New York City was doused with more than an inch of rain Thursday night and about three quarters of an inch fell at Harrisburg, Pa, Heavy rains were reported throughout the Middle and North Atlantic states; —" One to three inches of snow brought slippery driving conditions to parts of southern Michigan and northern Indiana and. rain or drizzle extended southward into the Ohio Valley and Tennessee. Weathermen said the storm center dropped barometric preset,. •<’lve> City Health Board Will Meet Monday The city board of health will , hold its monthly meeting Monday at 12:30 p.m. in the office of Mayor Robert D. Cote. Any person with business connected with the board of health, or anyone wishing to file or report anything to the board is urged to attend the meeting. The board of health has recently contacted persons who reside in the vicinity of the new Aeschliman lateral sewer and who have outdoor toilets, advising them that they must connect to the new sewer if the sewer passes within 150 feet of the outhouse. The residents have 90 days to connect to the at their own expense. Members of the board of health include Dr. J .B. Terveer, Dr. A. H. Girod, and Mrs. Walter Gilliom.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. C. E. Lykins, Decatur Church of the Nazarene) “FROM TURMOIL TO TRUST” o Text: Psalm 28:7—“The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with my song I will praise Him.” This writer had the experience recently of being approached, by One who was greatly disturbed regarding his relationship with Christ. Faith was at a low ebb. The gripping fingers of doubt and fear clutched at the soul. His talents were varied, his intellect above average, yet he walked the borderline that might have turnea into the path of the infidel. A few days later I saw him again. His countenance was changed. Hope gleamed 4 in his eyes. He opened the lids of God's Word, and read to me the above text. In the never-failing abundance of Holy Scripture, the seeking heart had found it’s answer. In this Lenten season, as we face, again the mighty truths of the Christ, the Cross and the Resurrection, may our lives be lifted into new realms of faith and trust, until we can testify with one of old, "Underneath are the everlasting arms!"

—v Ike To Hospital For Tooth Extraction Will Also Undergo Recovery Check-up WASHINGTON OP) — President Elsenhower underwent a “normal and successful" extraction of an upper molar tooth today at Walter Reed hospital, where he also will receive a checkup on effects of last year’s mild stroke. The President will receive this checkup, a neurological examination, Saturday. His doctor will appraise the degree of his recovery from a cerebral occluusion which ’ he suffered Nov. 25. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said he expects to have a statement on the neurological examination some time Saturday. Meanwhile, the President will remain in the hospital overnight. • Hagerty said one reason the President will remain at the hospital tonight is the fact that he had been taking anti-coagulant drugs since his heart attack in September, 1955. The doctors, Hagerty said, want to take every possible precaution against hemorrhaging following the tooth extraction. ■ , Preparatory to the tooth extraction,' the President quit taking his anti-coagulant drugs Thursday, The,., itxtr action required only 15 minutes. The President suffered a “split” ' molar when he bit something hard recently. He was X-rayed at the White House Thursday, and then doctors decided to pull the tooth today. There was no indication at Wai- ! ter Reed Hospital of any particu-; lar concern about the President’s condition. Hagerty said he was confident the President would j leave the hospital Saturday after his neurological examination. The chief executive was apparently in good humor when he arrived at the hospital with his personal physician, Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder. ' . 'x. Eisenhower smiled broadly at Maj. Gen. Leonard D. Heaton, commanding officer of the hospital, as he stepped from a White House limousine. Just before leaving the White House the President presided at an abbreviated cabinet meeting. Saturday morning Hagerty said, the President will be examined by the same neurologists who attended him after his slight cerebral occlusion. Hagerty said there is no' connection between the dental work and .the neurologist examination, except that~the P- esident is having both de- .-g a single hospital vis” South Bend Child Is Drowned In Basement SOUTH BEND W — Michael Eugene Singleton, 4, was found dead at the bottom of a water-filled basement excavation near his Lakeville home late Thursday, about two hours after he disappeared. He was believed to have fallen through iefe which covered the water, while playing with his sled.

Added Kohler Employes To Police Force Chief Os Police In Testimony Today On Long Strike Hearing WASHINGTON (UP) — Waldemar Capelie, police chief of Kohi ler, Wis., said today he added i more than 40 Kohler Co. employes to his force as special officers when the United Auto Workers organized the plant in 1952. He said the recruits trained with submachine guns and tear ; gas guns on the company’s rifle range. Once the UAW strike started, he said, he put 45 more Kohler men I on his force as special policemen. But Capelle told the Senate Rackets Committee it was not his purpose in augmenting his regular four-man force to set up a strikebreaking forceHe was not asked directly about charges by UAW President. Walter P. Reuther that the Kohler Co. armed and trained a private “army” under the guise of a civil defense program. Became State Officer The committee is investigating violence in the early days of the strike, wtych began in April, 1954. Capelle said he began recruiting his special police force two years .earlier when employes of the plumbing fixtures plant voted to join the UAW. Under questioning by Robert F.Kennedy, the committee counsel, Capelle said he organized a humane society in Kohler village and said that prevention of cruelty to animals was not the only reason. He said as head of the society he also became a state officer appointed by the governor. He said the village attorney advised him that this would lend extra ■legal “protection” for having gas guns and submachine guns. He said there had been “quite a todo'' in the village over these weapons. I Kennedy brought out that Ca- ; pelle got his instructions from a I three-man police committee of the village board. Capelle said two of the three board members were Kohler employesOne the strike started, he said, he signed up another 45 Kohler workers as special policemen. Eight or nine of the original group quit to join the strikers, he said. Sheriff Mosch Recalled Theodore S. Mosch, former SheContlnaed on pane five) Local Lady's Sister Dies At Huntington Dorothy Anderson Is Taken By Death Mrs. Dorothy M. Anderson, 50. a lifelong resident of Huntington, died Wednesday night at her home in that city. She had been in failing health two years and seriously ill two weeks. ». * She was born in Huntington Aug. 24, 1907, to William and Margaret Conner Brebaugh, and was married to M. C. Anderson Oct. 29, 1940. She was well known in Decatur, having visited here on numerous occasions with her sister, Mrs. Frank Braun. Mrs. Anderson was a member of St.. Peter’s Lutheran church and the Sigma Beta sorority. Surviving in addition to the husband, and the sister in this city, are a daughter, Miss Martha Carolyn Anderson, at home; two other sisters, Mrs. A. L. Engle of Fowler, and Mrs. John C. Austin of Phoenix, Ariz., and two brothers, Harry J. Brebaugh of Chicago, and William Brebaugh, Jr., of Huntington. , . Funeral sciences will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Robbins funeral home in Huntington, the Rev. Arthur Ziegler officiating. Burial will be in Pilgrim Rest cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Northern Indiana Blanketed By Snow Colder Weather Is Forecast In State By UNITED PRESS Northern Indiana, barely recovered from a long January-Febru-ary siege of snowstorms, was blanketed again today by up to three inches of snow and more was due. The Weather Bureau reported three Inches had fallen at South Bend and Goshen by 6 a.m. CST and warned that more than four inches were likely in the northern third of thestateby Saturday morning. Police reported that roads in the north portion were covered with snow or slush and some of them were slippery north of U.S. 30 Occasional rain changing to snow flurries was due elsewhere over the state today, tonight and Saturday. The five-day outlook said a colder trend developing tonight and Saturday would continue at least through next Wednesday with only minor day -to -■ day changes. Temperatures will average near normal. Little precipitation was expected, but what comes will arrive tonight, Saturday and Monday or Tuesday. Temperatures crested at points ranging from 40 at Lafayette to 56 at Evansville Thursday and dropped to lows ranging from 31 at South Bend to 49 at Evansville this morning. Highs today will range from the mid-30s to 45, lows tonight from the mid-20s to 30, and highs Saturday from 35 to 40. Many areas got their first appreciable precipitation of the month Thursday, amounts ranging from .22 of an inch at Evansville to .48 of an inch at Fort Wayne, Evansville's rain raised to nearly (Continued on page five) Rev. Bond Speaker At Rotary Meeting Presbyterian Pastor Guest Speaker Here The Rev. Harold J. Bond, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, was the guest speaker at this week’s Rotary meeting held Thursday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Wilbur Preble was the program chairman. Rev. Bond spoke about “Christ Street, U. S. A.” and told of the “great influence for good Americans churches exert on our lives.” He explained that “there are many invisible forces at work around us all of the time which we cannot analyze in the laboratory or actually see, feel, or examine, yet we are sure they are present.” He eited gravity, electricty, love, pain, and life itself as- examples. These forces, however, follow rules defente ever definite rules and accomplish certain things which make us never question their existence. “Using the Holy Bible as our textbook, we can use the power of God through faith to accomplish good in our lives and establish the right relationship between ourselves and our God through His Son, Jesus Christ.” The Rotary club will hold its annual election of officers at its next meeting next Thursday. Nominations for those officers were accepted at last night’s meeting. INDIANA WEATHER Heavy snow warnings extreme north. Snow tonight probably mixed with rain southern portion hnd accumulating up to four inches extreme north portion, possibly more near Lake Michigan. Saturday cloudy, light snow north, scattered flurries south. Colder tonight and Saturday. Low tonight in the 20s. High Saturday in the 30s. Sunset today 6:36 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 7:18 p.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and cold. Snow flurries north. Low Saturday night low 20s. High Saturday low 20s. High Sunday 28 to 38.

Loaded School Bus Plummets In Big Sandy 12 Children Escape From Kentucky Bus And Are Rescued PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (UP)— A loaded school bus plummeted over a 50-foot bluff into the Big Sandy River today, with 18 to 24 children and the driver apparently killed or efrownedTwelve children escaped from the bus and were rescued. The tragedy occurred on U.S. 23 about three miles south of here this morning when bus driver John Derossett, 22, tried to avoid an automobile wrecker and a halfton truck which had skidded into a ditch on the right side of the road. __ Kentucky state trooper Bill Lycan said the school bus glanced off the left rear corner of the wrecker and careened across the highway, striking the shoulder of the foad and a parked Car. The bus teetered sickeningly on the edge of the bluff for a moment, then rolled over and down into the Levisa fork of the Big Sandy, swollen some 20 feet above normal stage by recent heavy , rains. [ Lycan said the bus did not sink immediately, and some of the i children escaped t trough the , emergency door, which Derossett apparently was able to open. Donald Horn, driver of the wrecker, got on top of the bus and helped several children get | out until the bus sank out of sight in the swirling water; - — James Green, chairman of the Floyd County School Board, said he believed 23 children and the driver were dead. Prestonsburg High School Principal James B. Volen issued a list of 16 high school and four grade school children unaccounted for and believed to have been on the bus. It was possible that some may (Continued on page five) Louis Habegger Dies After Long Illness Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Louis Habegger, 81, of Berne, father of Mrs. Charles Shoaf of Decatur route six, died at 7:45 p. m. Thursday at the Berne nursing home, where he had been several months. He had been ill 2*4 years. A retired businessman, Mr. Habegger had lived In the Berne area most of his life. He was a T member of the First Missionary church. Survivors in addition to Mrs. Shoaf are two sons, Wilfred Habegger, of North Manchester, and the Rev. Tillman Habegger, of Berne; three other daughters, Mrs. Percy Gould of Berne; Mrs. Rufus Kneuss, of Celina, O.; Mrs. Jesse Speheger, of Van Nuys, Calif.; 13 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren. Tne body is at the Yager funeral hpme, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. Services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday in the First Missionary church, the Rev. J. J.Klopfenstein officiating. Burial will be in the MRS cemetery. New Castle License Bureau Is Robbed NEW CASTLE (IP) — State police and Henry County authorities today investigated a $1,195 safe robbery at the auto license bureau here. Authorities said the safe was stolen Wednesday night. The bur-> glars pried a lock off a back door to get the safe out of the building. State atjd city police later recovered the safe — battered and open — on a farm southwest of nearby Westwood. Laying nearby were tools, sledge hammer and a pair of gloves.

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