Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 63.

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More Violent Weather Hits Eastern Area March Storm Is In Fourth Day, Hitting At Widespread Areas By UNITED PRESS The whip end of an "amazingly*’ long weather pattern extending from the Dakotas fell with a crack on the East, causing a rash of gale winds, severe thunderstorms and new snows. Along the New England Coast Friday night, 65 - mile -an - hour winds drove tides up to four feet above normal, and a Coast Guard , cutter put out into 12-foot seas to rescue a diabled fishing boat. There were 10 inches of snow reported at Worcester, Mass , and unofficial reports of foot - high ° snows in the Berkshire Mountains running through Massachusetts and Connecticut Were received. The new outbreak of weather violence followed an early March lull after an unusually hard winter. Hie U.S. Weather Bureau said the "sphere of influence of <the) storm center is amazihgly large," as a wide band of snows covered about two- thirds of the nation’s northern rim. Now in its fourth day, the storm’s heaviest blows were delivered in the Northeast. Snow was still falling early today, topping 10-inch snows left in the initial stages. There were five inches of new snow since Friday night at Lebanon, New Hampshire, three at Albany, and numerous two-inch deposits during the iame periodModerate temperatures caused the mushy snows to snarl traffic in New York City. With 6 to 10 inches of snow in the northern suburbs, commuter trains were slowed, and airline traffic cancelled and delayed. The soaking snows snapped power lines, cutting off electricity to 5,000 consumers on Long Island while thousands of lights blinked out in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, homes. Racing was called off at Lincoln Downs racetrack in Rhode Island, when jockeys refused to ride in the swirling snows. At least 11 persons were killed in weather-caused accidents, a United Press survey showed, since the storm burgeoned out of the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday. Four persons were killed in a car-train crash in Indiana during a snow storm, a plane crash killed three persons in Utah, and single weather deaths were reported in Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. On the West Coast, nearly an inch of rain fell at points between Los Angeles and San Francisco, while lesser amounts fell in the generally cloudy area. Parts of Nevada and southern Oregon also received light sprinklings. Temperature drops were moderate throughout the country with the notable exception® of Jacksonville, Fla., where the mercury fell 18 degrees during a 24-hour period. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with few scattered snow flurries tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 25 to 30. Highs Sunday upper 30s to low 40s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and a little wanner.

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Father Throws Two Children Into River Mental Examination Planned For Father "’wheeling, W.Va. (UP)-Ohio County Prosecutor Thomas P. O’Brien said today that Johh Turner, who told police he hurled his two children into the Ohio River here, will be given a mental examination at Wheeling Clinic. O'Brien said no* charges will be filed-aga+art the unemployed Beech Bottom steel worker until a search'is completed for the two missing "children, John, 7. and Betty Marie, 4. Turner, 33, surrendered at the Brooke County sheriffs office Thursday night and told a hazy tale of hurling his children to their deaths from the Fort Henry Bridge. Although authorities held some slim hope that Turner might have left the children some place during a long and apparently aimless drive in his automobile in the Wheeling- area, the possibility seemed remote Dragging operations have not begun due to the swift river current. Police believed Turner, an apparent "mental case,” told the truth about throwing the children in. the river despite his being hazy at times about the incident. He told police at Wellsburg, about 15 miles north of Wheeling, he threw the youngsters into the river from a point about halfway across the bridge which leads from Wheeling to Wheeling Island. Turner said footprints in the snow on the bridge would bear out his story. Officers investigated and found just what the father said they would: Small footprints leading to a railing on the bridge: snobrushed away from one spot, and some handprints in the snow. 4‘ — ; Plan Fish Fry At Monmouth March 21 Band Parents Group Sponsors Fish Fry Friday, March 21, the Monmouth band parents association is sponsoring a fish fry, similar to the one held at Monmouth last year, tc raise money for 12 uniforms for new band members. During the fry, which is scheduled from 5 o’clock until 8, the band will entertain by giving several short concerts. General chairman for the fish fry is Norval Fuhrman, who is also in charge of the kitchen. Mrs. Alton Bittner will be in charge of the dining room and the service; Dick Lewton is to be the cashier, and he will also take care of the tickets and seating arrangements. Carl Snyder, former restaurant owners will fry the fish. tickets for the fish fry at $1.25 and 75 cents for adults and children, respectively. Children of preschool age are to be served free of charge. A salad, potato chips and ice cream will be included in the price of the ticket, which may be purchased at the Decatur Music House, Holthouse on the Highway, from any band Student or at the door. NOON EDITION

House Probers Pose Question On FCC Head Brother-In-Law Os Mamie Eisenhower To Testify Monday WASHINGTON, (UB) — House investigators today posed a question whether the President should be stripped of power to name the chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) said his 11 - member legislative oversight subcommittee looking into “misconduct" on the FCC is considering backing a move to either have the chairmanship rotate or have the bead of the FCC elected by its members- He said a change in the law might help make the agency more independent. Col. George Gordon Moore, brother-in-law of Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower, will testify Monday as the subcommittee—in recess today—nears the end of its long hearings on the controversial award of television Channel 10 at Miami, Fla. The subcommittee has neard gineered” the award to a subsidiary of National Airlines, a statetestimoiw that Moore “e n - ment which Moore flatly denied. At the same time the FCC, which only Thursday sought to reconsider its Channel 10 award, filed a brief stoutly defending its original decision. The brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals maintained the decision to give the channel to the airline subsidiary was based on "substantial” and “uncontroverted” evidence. It made no mention of the subcommittee investigation into charges that ex-Com-missioner Richard A. Mack and other FCC members were subjected to improper influence in connection with the award. P Crack Train Wrecked In Southern Oregon Nine Passengers Reported Injured KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (UP)The northbound Southern Pacific streamliner Cascade was wrecked today in. the rugged,. snow-covered mountains of southern Oregon; State police said nine passengers were injured. Ambulances and nurses were sent to Crescent Lake, six miles from the scene of the derailment to take the injured to Eugene, some 80 miles to the north. A relief train, carrying doctors and medical supplies, was dispatched to the wreck to bring toe injured to Crescent Lake, the closest point accessible to the ambulances. State police said toe injuries consisted of broken bones and lacerations. The 13-car streamliner went off the tracks at Kotan Siding in the almost inaccessible Cascade Mountains area about 100 miles north as Klamath Falls. State police >aid 12 cars were derailed, one of .hem overturned and another was across the tracks. There was two feet of snow in the area, which is about 1,800 feet above sea levelL.R. Smith, superintendent of SP’s Portland Division, said there were 172 passengers on the train. He said busses had been sent from Eugene and Klamath Falls to carry the uninjured passengers to their destinations. Smith said reports from railroad engineers at toe scene indicated the wreck might have been caused by a broken rail. He said it would be 12 to 15 hours before the tracks could be cleared and readied for at least partial service.

St. Joseph's Pupils Present Operetta Students of the St. Joseph's grade school presented the operetta, "The Man with the Crooked Nose," Friday evening at the Catholic school auditorium, honoring the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor of the St. Mary’s Catholic church and superintendent of the Catholic schools. The program was presented In honor of Msgr. Seimetz' nameday. The program opened with the nameday greeting and song by grades 1 and 2. Then fbllow.ed the operetta, in which all students of the grade school took part. At the close of the program, students from both the grade and high schools presented gifts to Msgr. Seimetz, who responded by making Monday a free day at the school.

WflT DAILY NEWRPAFO IN 4DAMR COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 15, 1958.

Section Os Large Dam Gives Way, Residents

Forced To Flee Homes

Five Billion Dollar Deficit Is Predicted * '1! Appear Certain To I * Plunge Government Deeply Into Red WASHINGTON (UP)— Falling tax revenue and beefed up antirecession spending today appeared certain to plunge the government deeply into the red —even if taxes aren’t cut. Administration and congressional experts agreed that on the present course the government could roll up a multi-billion dol- ; lar deficit in toe next fiscal year. \ If there is a tax reduction, it ■ could go higher, unless there is a- - business upturn. Some lawmakers said they were ready to keep a hand on ; the spending brake, even if the economy needs pump priming. Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) said he will oppose deficit financing included in toe Senate’s $1,500,000,000 highway bill—one of the slump - curing spending bills The Senate Finance Committee chairman said g provision to at J low expenditures over arid above the highway trust fund resources would only add to next year’s deficit Five Billion Dollar Deficit The deficit is likely to be at least five billion dollars as things stand now, Byrd said. A government report shows personal income of Americans slumped in February for the sixth month in a row, dropping the annual rate to $341,800,000,000. The Administration has based. its forecast .pL. $38,500,000,000 in revenue from income taxes for the next fiscal year on an anticipated overall annual income of 352 billion dollars in this calendar year. Some congressional experts believe this figure is more likely to be down about seven billion dollars to around 345 billion—causing a 750-million dollar drop in anticipated tax revenue Ade- , cline in corporate profits and in excise taxes because of the recession they believe might slack off Treasury receipts another two or three billion dollars. Balks at Defense Spending Chairman George H. Mahon (D-Tex.) said his House military appropriations subcommittee would not permit a Defense Department "spending spree’’ merely to give a shot in the arm j to business. He said he would support House and Senate resolutions calling for a step up in spending military construction funds already appropriated by Congress. But Mahon said he didn't want the resolutions misinterpreted to i allow waste, inefficiency and slip shod management to infiltrate future Pentagon spending. With the administration and Congress still holding off or. a possible tax cut, toe Commerce ■ Department reported a new upward swing in toe number of * persons drawing jobless pay ben- ; efits. In toe week ended March • 1 the figure stood at 3,282,400— a record high for toe second con- ' secutive week. New claims for unemployment 1 benefits rose to 440,400, indicat- i ing overall unemployment might : climb this month beyond the Feb- : ruary 16-year high of 5,200,000. ; «.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Dennis Johnson, pastor, Berne Circuit,’ United Brethren in Christi “WINDOW IN THE WALL” Our thought for today is taken from 2 Corinthians 11:32-33 A window as we think of it is to let light in to brighten that which is inside. Paul, here, in a well fortified city, was provided away of escape through a window. He stated many times his life was in danger, yet through it all Christ provided away of escape. Today there is that window which will let the light of Christ into dur hearts and provide away of escape for us in time of trial or danger. So along with Paul, as he was provided away of escape, we too have the same opportunity extended to us from* the hand of God. That we by the grace and measure of faith given us may be counted as Paul, able to escape as through the window In the wall.

Hiroshima Bombing Defended By Truman Says Bombing Saved Thousands Os Lives INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (UP) - Former President Truman told the people of Hiroshima Friday that the World War II atom destruction of their city saved thousands of lives and was ‘‘urgent and necessary for the prospective o f japan anc j AUtos.** nan, in reply to a protest from the Hiroshima City Council, also refused to retract a statement te made on a television program — that nuclear warfare should be used whenever necssery. Truman revealed receipt of the Hiroshima resolution, adopted Fb. 13 by the City Council, protesting the above statement and another remark that he felt "no compunction” after ordering the atomic bombinf of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. tiie resolution told the former President if that is true, “it is a gross defilement committed on the people of Hiroshima and their fallen victims.” The iTuman reply, released Friday at a news conference in his library and; museum, stated it was “necessary for me to remind the City Council of some historical events.’’ i lie noted in his statement that the Japanese committed “an unwarranted and unheralded attack” on Pearl Harbor to begin the war between the two countries. Truman said military advisers had warned him that it would remillion Allied soldiers to land on million Allied soldiers to land on the Tokyo plain and on the south island of Japan. “After ja long conference with the cabinet, the military commanders and, Prime Minister Churchill, it was decided to drop the atom bomb on two Japanese cities devoted to war work,” Truman wrote. Truman said that when Japan surrendered after the bomb was dropped on Aug. 6, 1945, the military estimated at least a quarter of a million of the invasion forces against Japan and a qurter of million Japanese "had been spared complete destruction and that twice that many on each side would otherwise have been maimed for life.” Truman concluded the need “for such a fateful decision, of course, never would have arisen had we not been shot in the back by Japan at Pearl Harbor in December of 1941” First Meal Served In New Hospital Room The first meal to be eaten in the new dining hall in the addition to the Adams county memorial hospital took place Friday noon, it was reported today. The kitchen facilities have been moved into the new, stainless steel kitchen, in the basement of the new addition, and they are also in use. Laundering facilities are also now in use in the new addition. The next part of the next addition to be used will probably be the surgical rooms ’ on the first floor, where an emergency room, minor surgery room, and major surgery room will be installed. Equipment was purchased for this room last week.

Kohler Strike Probe Delayed Until Tuesday I Senate Committee To Resume Hearing On Strike Tuesday WASHINGTON (UP)-Sen. Carl T. Curtis (R-Neb.) said today the Senate Rackets Committee is j “making hay” with its Kohler strike investigation and has pro- ; vided some "helpful legislative i information." But as far as Democratic members were concerned, the haying , season is lasting too long. Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-NC.) , told newsmen the three-week-old ' investigation of the four-year-old strike is being "unnecessarily ; drawn out.” The committee heard Friday j from Sheboygan Pol ice Chief Steerr .7. Heimke. The appearance cf several other witnesses ' scheduled for this week was de- ' layed until the hearing resumes next Tuesday, Heimke said his department “stood alone" in trying to appreS the guilty ones in a wave of nee and vandalism' in the early stages of the United Auto Workers strike. He charged that Sheriff Theodore Mosch cautioned some of his deputies to “lay off” such investigations and that Mayor Rudolph Ploetz kept city police "under wraps” to some extent. Heimke said fear in the community made it difficult for police to get information and only one conviction was obtained out of more than 900 complaints. Such unforeseen developments as a two-hour- appearance-by Rep. Clare E Hoffman (R-Mich.) Friday have wrecked efforts by Chief Counsel Robert F. Kennedy to maintain a schedule. Hoffman appeared with a boxful of documents to dispute a statement by UAW President Walter P. Reuther that the union tries to discourage strike violence. National Library Week Opens Sunday Fine-Free Week At Library Next Week The week of March 16 to 23, proclaimed national library week, will be celebrated at the Decatur oublic library as a fine-free week the board of trustees of the library announced today. Every year libraries sustain a great loss in books that are not returned. Carelessness in checking books in, and books misplaced at home land never returned account for most of these. Decatur residents are asked to check their bookcases carefully this week, and to return any library books found. A container located just inside the door will be for all overdue books, and . nothing will be said to those who return their overdue books. They will not even have to report to the ' desk. This is the only fine-free week ever to be held by the De- ' catur library. ’ The national library week headquarters sponsored by the American library association and the national book committee made the suggestion about fine-free week. Jerry Gehrig Home From Hospital Today Jersy Gehrig, who received serious third degree burns Thursday will be discharged from the Lutheran hospital today. Gehrig will be rehospitalized later when skin grafting will be done to replace the burned areas. The accident Happened at work as he was standing on a platform and tripped and caught himself. White-hot aluminum spattered allover him, severely burning hl* Head, chest, arms and right foot.

Russia Rejects New Disarmament Moves Seen By America As Blackmail Attempt WASHINGTON (UP) — Moscow’s rejection of new disarmament moves is a “blackmail attempt" to force an East-West summit meeting, American officials said today. The Soviets said In Moscow that they would not attend a meeting of the 25-nation United Nations Disarmament Commission as suggested by the western powers. A Kremlin spokesman said the only way to attack the disarmament problem is to "follow the Soviet proposal and agree to discuss disarmament in a summit . U.S. officials said the negative Soviet position on U.N. disarmament talks was no surprise. They said it has been clear for some time that the Soviets would balk at arms talks away from a summit table. The United States expects a summit meeting will be held- But officials are irritated by Moscow’s “pressure tactics.” The Soviet game, as seen here, is to hold out for a summit conference where “pleasantries and platitudes” would be swapped .without really, working out agreements to diminish East-West tensions. Such a performance would be helpful to the Soviet regime inside the Soviet Union, and behind the Iron Curtain, by creating an “illusion” that the cold war is ended, officials said. Oratorical Finals In City Next Friday Legion State Finals At Decatur School The program for the American Legion state fianls of the Americanism oratorical contest to be held in Decatur high school next Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock was released today by Hugh J. Andrews, rtf-te chairman for the event. Four zone winners will speak at 2 p. m., and the state winner of the contest, which is a 12ninute oration on the constitution of the United States, will be chosen. The public is invited to attend this contest. Following the contest, the speakers, their teachers, and parents will be taken on a tour of the city. A banquet, open to the public, will be held at the American Legion home at 6 p. m. Tickets are available for $1.50 at the legiofi. A speech class dance will be held at 9 p. m. at the Decatur Youth and Community—Center. The contestants will be invited, and overnight accomodations will be provided. A letter describing the program will be mailed to all zone winners from the state Legion headquarters. Members of the committee, in addition to Andrews, are James K. Staley, Frank Detter. Dee Fryback, and Fred Bieberich. One zone contest in the southern part of the state had to be postponed until next Monday because of heavy snowfall. Decatur High School Broken Into Friday Hugh J. Andrews, principal of the Decatur high school, reported to the police this morning that sometime Friday night, vandals broke into the Decatur school. Entry was gained by breaking out a window of the boys' lavatory on the first floor. Upon entry the thieves forced the door of the principal’s office and made an attempt to pry Open the safe with an iron bar. After failing to break open the safe, the thieves broke the window from the door of a conference room on the second floor and stole a number of candy bars. The police department is continuing the investigation.

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300-Acre Negro Area Flooded As Dam Breaks Most Os Section Is Under Five Feet Os Water After Break BENNETTSVILLE, S.C. (UP)— One section of a large earth dam system gave way here early today, dumping half the water in a 300-acre Negro residential section. Rescue teams were evacuating the area, most of which was tinder about five feet of water It was not learned immediately wether there were any drownings. The dam, part of a dual lake system built about 18 .months ago by the state wildlife' commission, broke alongside a concrete spillway. There was Immediate concern that there might be a break in the remaining section of the dam or a mile-long “divider” dam that divides the lake into two sections. Police Sound Fire Alarm Bennettsville police said they discovered the break moments after it occurred and sounded the city’s fire alarm to warn citizens living below the Win. Mrs. Nellie Williams, who fled her home along with her husband and sister-in-law, said “the water was knee-deep when we left and was rising all the time.” Mrs. Williams estimated that about 600 to 700 persons live in the affected area. "A whole lot of those people have children, too,” she said, "and we don’t know whether they all got out of there or not.” Flee In Night Clothes Most of the residents fled “in their night with. just a coat thrown over them,” Mrs. Williams said. Her husband helped her to safety, then went back to the house and got her pocketbook, she said. The break came at about 2:45 am., e.s.t. Police said water had begun to recede in some spots but that there were threats of flooding further down the creek. A careful watch was being kept on the remainder of the dams structure, which was holding back about 150 acres of water. Lake In Two Parts The lake consisted of one large main dam across the creek bed and the earth divider, with a road along the top. One half of the lake was set aside for fishing, the other for boating and swimming. The lake was named for former South Carolina Congressman Paul A. Wallace. It is located on Sugar (Continued on page sx*./ Fire Department Called Last Night A short in the wire of a stove at the home of Jerome T. Reed, 126 South Fifth street, caused the fire department to make a run at 9:30 o’clock Friday night. Fire had not yet broken out when the department arrived at the scene although considerable smoke was pouring from the wall. The firemen turned off the electricity and repaired the wire. They returned to the station at 9:40. S2OO Cash Gift To Hospital Addition A S2OO cash gift has been received by the Adams county memorial hospital by an anonymous giver, Thurman Drew, hospital administrator, said this morning. A lady who had previously been a patient at the hospital visited there for a check-up this week, and handed the money, two SIOO bills, to the superintendent of nurses, Miss Marie Felber. She asked that her name not be released, but she stated that she had always received such kind care and courtesy there that she wanted to make a gift. The money will go into the building fund, the board of trustees stated, and will go towards the new addition which is now being completed. -’.■■■ r :