Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1958 — Page 1

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Russia Agrees To Conference Os Ministers Russia's Reversal Os Earlier Stand Comes As Surprise WASHINGTON (UP) — Russia has agreed to .a foreign ministers meeting and U.S. officials said today “this is a hopeful sign” an East - West summit conference eventually can be arranged. Their cautious comment was ' made as Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Meshikov told the United Press in an interview that it would be “easy” to work out arrangements fcr a summit conference once it was agreed that one should be held. Russia's surprising reversal of its previous refusal to consider a meeting of foreign ministers before a summit conference was announced by the foreign minister in Paris; Officials here said the “same general idea” was expressed by the Russians in a note handed to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr., in Moscow Friday. Want Broad Talks They described thq latest Soviet position as a "hopeful sign’’and a "step forward" in East-West negotiations on the summit issuer According to Paris, • Moscow agreed to a prior foreign ministers meeting "limited to preparing the agenda and deciding on the participants" at the summit talks. President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles have- insisted on much broade' Preparations at a foreign ministers meeting—a more general dis cussion of issues in a testing process to show whether anything worthwhile might be accomplished at the summit. Officials said it would be difficult for the Russians, having agreed to discuss a sumnrf agenda,” to avoid a discussion oi East-West issues in more general terms. It would be difficult, they said, to agree on an agenda "without a more thorough discussion of what should be on it.” Expect July Date • Menshikov, discussed the prospects of a summit meeting before the announcement of Russia’s agreement was made in Paris. He said he felt details could be worked out -through normal diplomatic channels, indicating the possibility of a U.S- - Russian agreement to work out details through ambassadors in Moscow and Washington. President Eisenhower proposed to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin on Feb. 15 that attempts be made to break the “impasse” on summit procedure “through our ambassadors or foreign ministers.” ” , The developments in Moscow and Washington lent weight to reports from London several days ago that the British expect asummit conference will be held in Geneva in July. This London forecast was described here as “premature." The State Department announced Friday night that Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr., had been summoned to the Moscow foreign office early Friday to receive a note “concerning procedure for preparations for (Continued on pa-ge alx) NOON EDITION

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Bank At Hammond Is Robbed Os $11,500 Drop $2,000 Os Loot In Hurried Getaway HAMMOND (UP)—Officials estimated today two gunmen got away’ with about $11,500 Friday but dropped $2,000 more as they “hustled like the dickens” away from a branch bank. The men, wearing women’s stockings as masks and armed with automatic pistols, entered the Woodmar branch of the Hoosier State Bank at the busiest hour of the busiest day of the week. They-held 15 customers at bay while they quickly stuffed cash from behind a counter into a paper bag. Bank President John Wilhelm said the bag caught on a door as the men fled. About SI,OOO dropped on the floor and they left a trail of currency as they ran. “They hustled like the dickens," Wilhelm said. The bandits tied the stockings around their faces as they came into the bank. Bank employes immediately pushed alarm buttons. But the men worked swiftly and escaped before police arrivedAuthorities Said they were last seen heading toward the Illinois border in a 1955 - brown and orange Plymouth with Illinois license plates. The gunmen were described as between 25 and 30 years old and nearly six-feet tall. They harmed nobody and didn’t bother with a (Continued on page six) Medical Checkup Is Scheduled For Ike Determine Degree Os Ike's Recovery WASHINGTON (W — President Sisenhower undergoes a medical heckeup today to determine the degree of his recovery from a mild stroke suffered Nov. 25. A neurological examination was scheduled for the President about 11 a.m. e.s,t. at Walter Reed Army .ledical Center. The White House said a statement on the doctors' indings would be issued about 12:30 pm. \ . The Chief Executive was due to leave the hospital after the checkup, either before lunch or early in the afternoon. He entered the hospital Friday for removal of a split upper molar. It was described as a “normal and successful” extraction. The extraction was performed by Col. Robert B. Shira of the Army Dental Corps, assisted by two other Army dentists. The neurological examination was to be conducted by physicians called in when the President suffered the stroke. Local Man's Father Dies At Greenville Earle Phillips, 67, father of Norman Phillips of this. city, died at 4:20 p.m. Friday at the Wayne hospital in Greenville, 0., a few hours after becoming ill at his home in that city. Survivors include his wife and five sons. He had visited at the son’s home here on numerous occasions. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at the Miller funeral home in Greenville, with burial in the Earlham ceme* tery.at Richmond.

Senate Defies Threat Os Veto On Postal Bill Tacks Pay Increase ■ On Measure Boosting U.S. Postal Rates WASHINGTON (UP) — House Democratic leaders today predicted hard going for the administration - proposed flve-cent stamp for out-of-town letters included in a postal rate increase bill passed by the Senate Friday. Majority Leader John W. McCormack (Mass.) said be was “inclined to believe the flve-cent stamp will have a tough time getting through the House.” Speaker Sam Rayburn (Tex.) has forecast the House might knock out the nickel stamp and substitute the four-center it approved in a separate bill last session. The Senate Friday night Passed a 732 million dollar postal rate measure including — besides the flve-cent stamp—a four - cent charge on local letters, a boost from six to eight cents in airmail rates, and additional hikes in second and third class rates. Senate Defies Veto Defying threats of a presidential veto, it tacked on a 320 million dollar-a-year pay raise for a half million postal employes — about twice as big a raise as the administration wanted. Before adjourning it approved a separate bill providing 7% per cent across the board pay boosts for 950,000 other government white collar workers. Rep. Morgan M. Moulder (DMo.) said a House investigation could bring about the resignations of Federal Communications Chairman John C- Doerfer and Commissioner Robert E. Lee. Moulder said both men were “subjected to the same thing” as FCC Commissioner Richard A. Mack — Pressure from friends , and others involved in broadcast industry decisions. Demands Mack Resign Moulder, who stepped down as ■ chairman of the House legislative oversight subcommittee investigating the FCC, is one of nine ; subcommittee members who have demanded Mack's resignation. Mack has denied friends and financial interests affected his official decisions. But he said Friday he would “seriously consider” the demands that he quit. It appeared the Senate Rackets Committee might be a long time winding up its hearings on the Kohler Co. strike at Sheboygan, Wis Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said it may be late next week before the committee hears from its two main witnesses— Unitd. Auto Workers (UAW) President Walter P. Reuther and company President Herbert Kohler. ' When the hearings resume Mon- : day, Kennedy said, they will question two UAW members about i the 4-year- strike He wouldn't ; guarantee that either ’Reuther or , Kohler would be called to the < stand during the week. 1 Other Congressional developments : ' (Continued on page three) 1 1 Rubinoff Will Play For School Students . To Entertain At I Schools March 10 David Rubinoff. who will present 1 a concert of popular music on his . violin Monday evening, March 10, - at 8 p.m. at the Decatur high , school gym, will first entertain the school children of the schools in northern Adams county. | s Rubinoff will arrive in Decatur 1 Sunday evening before his show on Monday, and early Monday will start visiting schools, playing 15minute concerts at Decatur high school, Decatur Catholic high and grade school, Lincoln and Northwest schools, Monmouth, Pleasant Mills, and Adams Central. One of the outstanding violinists of all times, Rubinoff will then present a special hour matinee for school children at 2 p.m. Decatur residents will share with Rubinoff one day out of nine months he spends each year touring the nation. He will this year 125 cities, 250 matinee and evening concerts played with an ‘additional 1,250 free performances for hospital, service club luncheons, and radio broadcasts, and school assemblies. A day with Rubinoff is a whirlwind oT activity. An ironclad rule of his is to appear at the auditorium an hour early to practice on his beloved Stradivarius. Even with 50 years experience, he still practices daily to keep his fingers in shape to play the many hours of high-speed concert work.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 1, 1958

Sectional Champions To Be Named Tonight; Four Teams In Running

Divers Seeking Bodies Os 27 Bus Victims Most Tragic School Bus Accident In Nation's History PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (UP) — Divers go to the bottom of treacherous and swift Big Sandy River today to seek the bodies of 26 children and a bus driver, victims of the most tragic school bus accident in the nation’s history. The victims died when the bus, which carried high school and grade school pupils, plunged over a 50-foot cliff into the rain-swol-len river after a collision with two other vehicles Friday morning. Fourteen other children escaped through an emergency door before the swift current sucked the bus under water and carried it downstream for at least 50 feet. It was likely bodies were swept out of the bus after it submerged. Gobles Lose Three Children Mr. and Mrs. James B. Goble lost their three children. Two other families were left childless. Seven families lost two children each. The small farming communities in this area were stunned by the tragedy The village of Cow Creek, where about 100 families reside, lost 14 children. Goble runs the community store in Cow Creek. His wife teaches 33 children in the village’s grade school. They lost their three children, James E. 12, John Spencer, 11, and Anna Laura, 9. Mrs. Goble was teaching when Bill Darby, a neighbor, ran to the schoolhouse to tell her what had happened. “I prayed that at least one of the three might be saved, but I knew in my heart I had lost all my children,’’ she said. Daughter, Sister Drowned Later, Darby learned he had lost his daughter, sister and niece in the accident. Three divers sought to locate the bus on the rocky river bottom and attach cables to the vehicle. A raft was taken out and anchored for use of the divers and their equipment. A powerful bulldozer was ready to puli the submerged vehicle to the shore when lines were attached. Coast Guard Lt John Mundy, in charge of the operation, estimated it would take at least seven hours. The bus was located 10 hours after it dropped into the river. It lay in about 20 feet of water, 50 feet downstream from where it toppled into the stream. The river Is about 100 feet wide at the spot. The current is 6 knots, about 8 miles per hour. Bill Leedy,' 12, ■ of Sugar Loaf, Ky., opened the emergency door When the bus hit water and was the first to escape the death trap. Returns to Help "I had a numb feeling whqp the bus went over the cliff,’’ he said. “The first thing I thought of when the water 7 came in was to 1 (Continued on page six)

- - Lenten Meditation (By ReV Edgar P. Schmidt, pastor, Zion Lutheran Church) , “MINDFUL OF HIS OWN” When we behold the greatness of God’s universe we feel quite insignificant. Surely God can’t have time or thought for me! How cap the eternal Lord be bothered with my aches and worries, when millions of people walk this earth and ten millions of stars must be kept in their appointed course? Yet that is the assurance God gives me in His Word. He is mindful of my needs. I can depend on Him. The falling sparrow and tiie shooting star are not beyond His notice. Even they move at His will. But I am more precious to God than sparrows and stars. God has redeemed me through His own Son, Jesus Christ, who went to the Cross and gave His life that I might be His own now and in eternity. This redemption links rrfe to God Almighty. His hands uphold me; His heart loves me; His mercy in Christ forgives me. I am only frail, lost, worthless, until Christ comes into my heart by faith. And faith means clinging as a little child cling.s God knows I am here. And I know the Lord loves me. The Cross of., Jesus tells me that. “God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” ftomans 5, 8. I need never be afraid. Underneath are the everlasting arms.

New Engineering Building Occupied Central Soya's New Office Is Completed The newly-constructed engineering and technical office building on Second street for the Central Soya company and McMillen Feed Mills was opened this week. About 30 employes started moving their offices from the old Sugar Company office at the north end of the silos to the new building on Tuesday. The new building extends north and south from Second street to the old baseball diamond adjoining the Decatur plant. It is constructed to allow expansion on the H-prin-ciple. The present building would form the east side of a future Hshaped building. The west wing will house the Decatur plant office, and the two would be connected by a hall-way and reception room, forming the H-bar. The company engineering and technical departments started in 1936 with two men. who had their offices with the plant offices at the front part of the Feed Mill. In 1945 the departments had grown to a staff of 12 men and a secretary. At this time they moved into the Central Sugar company office, since the sugar company manufacturing operations were liquidated about that time. At the present time theje departments consist of 20 men’'and four secretaries, which made the old sugar company office extremely crowded. Entrance to the new building is now from the side road which used to run west of the baseball diamond. The entrance is where the H-bar will connect in the expanded building. No definite date has been set at present to expand the new building. From the entrance, the office of J. Ward Calland, managing director of the American soybean association, is on the left, and the office of F. G. Zimmerman, general purchasing agent, is on the right. A lobby, with closets for hats and coats, separates the offices, and runs through the width of the building. The entire building is lighted with fluorescent lights, flushmounted in the fibre-glass ceilings which keep noise at a minimum. The building is air-conditioned, and the interior is decorated in roughfinished, pre-cast colored stone masonry. - —.— Past the two offices, on the right, is the information desk, and extended lobby. This connects with a hallway running the entire north-and-south length of the building. To the north are the engineering offices, and to the south, the technical offices. < The technical department han« dies problems in processing and the manufacture of oil and meal from the raw beans. New techniques and methods designed by this department call for new-type buildings, with special machinery and safety problems, which the engineering department handles. On the cost side of the north- ! south hall, facing the lobby, is a (Contlnutc on page »!x)

Blizzard Eases Off, Weather Is Moderating > Northeast Area Os Nation Is Facing Threats Os Flood l By UNITED PRESS 1 A blizzard that pounded the Plains states fizzled out early toi day and was followed by relatlve- > ly moderate temperatures. The ; Northeast, however, faced flood I threats in the wake of a driving . rainstorm. The intense storm center that . spawned the blizzard and heavy snows in the western Plains weakened considerably and only light snows were reported early today Starting late Thursday the turbulent snowstorm continued until Friday and caused tempera--1 tures to drop 30 degrees while it pfled up 10-foot drifts in Kansas ’ and up to five feet in North ■ Dakota. Deaths and snow-associ-ated disasters, however, were I sharply curtailed by advance i warnings. I There were few reports of , stranded motorists and hazardous , highways were generally free of travelers. Phone service was cut off in 15 North Dakota communities and nine in South Dakota. There also were numerous school r closings in Kansas, where more 1 than half the highways were impassable, and in eastern Colorado and southeast Wyoming. 5 The Cheyenne, Wyo., airport i suspended operations as winds hit > miles per hour and bus. truck j and train service was either de--1 layed or halted entirely. Stocki men, however, faced losses of r cattle which had been put out on the ranges during the fairly mild [ winter. The driving raiiistorm that in- . undated the Northeast also lost its . punch, but not before it had poured almost four inches of rain into metropolitan New York City. Flooding knocked out subway traffic and held up airline and train travel. Tides were whipped up three feet above normal while the wild coastal storm lashed New England. In parts of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the rain was accompanied by 75 mile per hour gusts. The weather bureau warned (Continued on page four) Mrs. Justine Miller Dies This Morning Young Adams County Lady Dies Suddenly Mrs. Justine Miller, 30, wife of William J. Miller, died unexpectedly at 1 o’clock this morning at her home near Monroe. She had been ill with complications for a few weeks but death was unexpected. She was born in Decatur March 11, 1927 r a daughter of Jacob and Frances Miller-Heimann, both of whom survive. She was married to William J. Miller April 19, 1952. Mrs. Miller was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and the Rosary society. Surviving in addition to her husband and parents are four young / children, William, Jr., Therese Marie, Loretta Rose and Lawrence Peter; three brothers, Charles, Jerome and Frederick Heimann, all of Decatur; and seven sisters. Mrs. Walter Baker, Mrs. Gerald Grove, Mrs. Daniel Gerber, Mrs. William Lichtle and Miss Helen Heimann, all of Decatur, Mrs. Arthur Wilder of Woodburn, and Mrs. Louis Savieo. of Monroeville. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 o’clock Monday morning at St. Mary's Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig and Doan funeral homh, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the funeral. The Rosary society will meet at 8 p.m. Sunday to recite the rosary.

North Korea Ready To Release Pilots Free U.S. Pilots And Two Germans TOKYO IW — Communist North Korea announced tonight it is ready to hand over the two American pilots of a hijacked South Korean airliner and its two West German passengers in Panmunjom or any other spot designated by the U. S. and German governments. The announcement by the North Korean Foreign Ministry was broadcast by Pyongyang Radio and monitored in Tokyo. It said that North Korea was ready to hand over the two Americans and the two German nationals, to official delegates nominated by the U.S. and German governments. They would be handed over at any date in Panmunjom or any other spot in Korea designated by the governments of the United States and the German Federal Republic, the foreign ministry said. The two Americans* are pilot Willis P. Hobbs, 36, Vallejo, Calif, and co-pilot U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Howard W. McClellan, Buchanan, Mich., who went along on the trip to log flight time. ’ 1116 West Germans are Mr. and ; Mrs. Johannes Hinrich. Hinrich is ' employed by a Swiss importing firm in Seoul. j The North Korean foreign mina istry said it was taking this action . in line with the wishes of the per- > sons concerned and in consideration with the requests by the Amert lean and German governments. t It said that the North Korean government also felt that meas- • ures should be taken to an early ■ return of those South Koreans de- ' siring to return home. 1 Pyongyang Radio said the foreign ministry statement was issued Feb. 28. The South Korean airliner with 34 persons aboard landed in North Korea a week ago Sunday after being hijacked by Communist agents while flying from Pusan to Seoul. The United Nations Command in Korea had requested the immediate return of the .plane, its 34 occupants and cargo during meetings of the secretariat and the full militarmy artnistice commission at Panmunjom. The Communists, however, at both meetings turned down the UNC requests and said the matter was not a subject to be taken up by the commission and should be negotiated directly by the governments of North and South Korea. Weather Picture Is Changed In Indiana Snow, Cold Forecast For State Revised By UNITED PRESS Heavy snow and somewhat cold-, er temperatures forecast for Indiana failed to materialize today and the arrival of the month of March was considered lamb-like. A heavy snow warning was issued Friday for an upstate area where a week of thawing melted most of a snow* accumulation of several weeks. But while the South Bend and nearby areas got two or three Inches before noon Friday, temperatures stayed high enough to eliminate traffic hazards. » State police reported all roads clear and conditions normal this morning, although they had feared earlier that new shows and plunging temperatures would create slippery road surfaces. At 8 a.m. today light snow was reported in the Chicago and Lafayette areas. But winds had calmed to gentle velocities and temperatures were hovering,around freezing, give or take a degree or two. The weatherman expected a little scattered snow in the north today but none elsewhere. The mercury crested Friday at levels ranging from 36 at South Bend to 43 at Evansville and drop(Contlauad on pa«o tlv»)

Title Winner To Advance To Regional Meet Commodores To Meet Hartford In Opener; Geneva Meets Berne Decatur Commodores vs Hartford Gorillas at 2 p. m.l Geneva Cardinals vs Berne Bears at 3:15 p. ml That’s the lineup for this afternoon's semi-final battles in the annual sectional tourney at the Adams Central gym. And this afternoon’s victors will clash for the sectional championship in the final battle, scheduled to get underwEj at 9:15 o'clock. The first contest ’r.au.hes teams which met twice during the season, dividing honors. The Gorillas whipped the Commodores, 74-50, on the Hartford floor Jan. 10. Just eight days later, the Commodores turned the tables on the Gorillas, whipr:rr Hartford in the final gam of the county tourney at the Auams Central gym, 59-38. ’ a In the second semi-final, those rivals from the south met once during the regular season, with Berne defeating Geneva by 10 ‘ points, 56-46, at the Berne gym. The Commodores and Cardinals are still seeking the sweets of a sectional championship, as neither has been able to come through with a tourney title. Decatur Catholic competed in the sectional tourney for the first time in 1943, after parochial schools in the state were admitted to the Indiana high school athletic association. The Commodores have advanced to the sectional final twice, losing to Hartford in 1948. 42-29, and to, the Decatur Yellow Jackets in 1950, 5846. Geneva’s only trip to the final game in recent years was in 1955, when the Cardinals lost to the Monmouth Eagles, 56-53, in an overtime battle. For the Gorillas, they are seeking to repeat the championship won last year, when they downed the Berne Bears in the final game, 60-49. Berne is seeking to end a long drought in championships. The last sectional title copped by the Bears was in 1946, when Berne edged the Decatur Yellow Jackets, 29-28. The winner of tonight’s crown will advance to the regional tour- » ney, which will be held at the Fort Wayne coliseum next Sat■urday, March 8. The Adams Central champion will play in the first regional game at 2 p. m., meeting the winner of the Avilla sectional. The second regional tilt will match the winners of the Fort Wayne and Churubusco sectionals. The regional final will be played at 9:15 next Saturday rtight. The regional champion will return to the Fort Wayne colfceum the following Saturday, March 15, for the semi-state, tourney. Winners of the Fort Wayne and Marion regionals will clash i" th" first semi-final at 2 p. m., followed by the Elkhart and Kokomo winners. This championship game will also start at 9:15 p. m The semi-state champs will move on to the four-team final at Butler Fieldhouse in Indianarr*lis Saturday, March 22. Th" Fort Wayne and Evansville winners will meet in the first game, the Indianapolis and Lafayette winners in the second clash. The championship game will be at 9:15 p. m. Final games of the regional and semi-state tourneys, and all three games of the . March 22 final tourneys will be televised. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and a Httl* colder tonight. Sunday partly cloudy. Low tonight 22 to 3ft. High Sunday 35 to 45.' (hdteok for Monday: Cloudy with little temperature change.

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