Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1958 — Page 2

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Granted Additional Time To Enter Plea Man Charged With Indecent Exposure Donald J. Phillips, 36, Celina, 0., charged here April 9 with public indecency, has been granted additional time for his attorneys, Myers and Myers, to enter a plea in circuit court here. Judge Myles Parrish read the defendant his rights, and he again was releasefl on SSOO bond posted qn April 11. Phillips was cnarged with exposing himself while making indecent approaches to a 14-year-old girl on Indiana Street in Berne. He confessed to three of four recent incidents of this type in Adams county, one involving a married lady, and the other an eight-year-old. Phillips was freed last week. When his father and father-in-law TOMORROW is TOT’S DAY AT Edward’s Studio ; I ——————-- ~ ———~ :

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posted SSOO cash bond for him. He is the father of three small children. The arrest was maae in Geneva last Wednesday by sheriff Merle Affolder and Karl Sprunger. police chief of Berne. The two law enforcement officers had been carefully checking, and suspected Phillips as the person involved. They knew that he visited Berne twice a week, and had the girl stationed in one of the stores visited by the salesman. When she, identified him, he fled out a back door of the Berne firm. He continued on his 1-oute. ihowever, and was picked up in Geneva. Three Memberships Sold In Decatur C.C. Dale Morrissey and Dr. RE. Allison, co-captains of the Chamber of Commerce 1958 membership dricve. reported today three new memberships sold in the current drive. Workr Tom Allwein of capain ! Gene Rydell s teqm/ sold a new membership to Mayor Robert j Cole. Worker Word Calland sold ‘ ' Edward Jaberg, A,dams county 1 au- ] new membership, and M. J Pryor’s team sold Andrew Ap- 1 , pelman a new membershop. I

Uniondale Trucker Critically Injured Unusual Accident Involves Trucks LIMA. Ohio IIF — Max Williamson, 38. Uniondale. Ind., was injured critically today in an unusual accident involving his truck and that of Russell Kingery, 41, Logansport, Ind. The state highway patrol said Williamson apparently fell asleep at the wheel and his truck, a cab over engine type, struck a bridge I abutment on U. S. 30. near Gomer, and sheered off the cab. The cab dropped into the center of the road, with Williamson pinned inside. Kingery's truck, following Williamson, struck the cab knocking it about 50 feet into a field. Williamson suffered a fractured skull, rib fractures and other injuries. Kingery was not injured. The patrol said Williamson’s truck was demolished. Wreckage was i scattered over about 200 feet. ■ Damage was estimated at $20,000. ■ Kingery’s truck suffered only i minor front end damage. Trade in a good town — Decatig

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Pleads Innocent To Reckless Driving A plea of not was entered; in justice of the pebce court last night by Herman Witte 17, route three, Decatur. Witte was arrested for reckless driving, When his automobile was involved in an accident last Saturday at the intersection of 13th and Nuttman Streets. Witte s car hit « vehicle operated by Mrs. Severin Schurger as she was driving north on 13th street. Points To Increase In Farmers’ Income Secretary Benson Says Prices Higher WASHINGTON *UP>—The current business recession hasn’t significantly affected the demand ■ for agricultural products, according to Agriculture Secretary Ezra : Taft Benson. ; Benson said Monday he was advised by his technicians of that fact. He also said the “favorable” , figures “made extremely questionable the statement made by some that the recession is “farm fed and farm led.” Benson, in a letter to Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland (R-Calif.i, pointed out that farm prices rose 4 per cent in the month ending March 15. He said current farm price'levels compare “very favorably” with prices under the high ’ support policy of the Truman administration Former President Truman, in a speech to Democratic Party women here Monday, blamed the Republicans for a decline in farm income from 1953 to 1957 at an average annual rate of 2'z per cent. Truman said Republican economic policies “have been squeezing the farmer.” ' Predicts Higher Income But Benson cited figures in his letter to Knowland that showed prices received by farmers stood at 263 per cent of the 1910-14 average last March 15. From Jan. 15, 1953, when the price index was 267 per cent of 1910-14. the index declined to 247 in June. 1954. During this 18 month period prices were affected by supports fixed under Democratic policies, Benson said. Benson said it now .“seems, likely that a substantial gain in! farm income will occur this! year.” In another agriculture develop ; ment. the Senate Monday passed' a bill carrying more than four billion dollars to finance farm spending and loan programs next year. The bill, which was approved by voice vote, now goes back to the House for consideration of I Senate amendments. The measure included $3,216,988.539 for various farm programs, including price supports, research, conservation. „ and the soil bank. > Another 263 million dollars was provided to bolster prices of perishable crqps by taking them off the commercial markets and for expenses under the National Wool . Act. The bill authorized 594 milI lion dollars for loans to expand rural electrification and telephone systems. S3OO Million for REA Administration farm planners suffered two major setbacks without a single voice being raised in ther defiense * . One involved President Eisenhower's proposal to slash the soil conservation subsidy program from 250 million dollars in 1958 to 125 million in 1959. The Senate concurred in House action continuing the 250-millon-dollar level. The President also had asked the -lawmakers to authorize only 150 million dollars in rural electrification loans for the new fiscal year beginning July 1. He also sought approval of a companilin plan under which rural electric cooperatives would get some of their funds from private sources. The House ignored the PreSiddht's suggestion and voted 306 million dollars for REA loans. The Senate added another 17 million dollars, boosting the total to 317 million. Showers Forecast Today And Thursday Cooler Temperature • Trend Developing By UNITED PRESS A few showers today and a few more Thursday are on ' Indiana’s typically April weather menu. Rain was recorded at Evansville and Terre Haute and in the Chicago, area shortly after dawn today and additional showers were expected during the day all around the state. Meanwhile, a cqoler temperature trend developed. High temperatures Monday ranged from 66 at Fort Wayne to 72 at Evansville. The mercury dropped during the night to lows ranging from 51 at Fort Wayne tb 54 at Today's highs will., range, from the upper 50s to the 60s. tonight's lows from the low 40s to 48. arjd Wednesday’s highs from 55 to 64. j ni<- tinll<w>k for Thiirsdny was | cloudy with showers and a Uttie’ '.warmer. J w i

Robert L. Long Is County Candidate Seeks Nomination As Commissioner Ml . 1 T J® ; ■ VwF 'Ki rw W WW ok m S' I JR IT® & Robert L. Long, farmer and earth-moving excavator from Wa- , bash township, is one of the three candidates for county commissioner from the third district in the Demoocratic primary this year. Long, last of the candidates to file from the third district, is a veteran of the Second World War, having served five years in the engineer corps, and was discharged as a captain. He is a member of the reserve officers association of the U.S., in which he is a major; the Geneva Lions club, the Adams county historical society, the Farm Bureau. and the Adams county Farmers Union. Loing is the son of Russell and Viola Burk Long, and his greatgrandparents were early settlers in Wabash township. He has three brother, Harold, a teacher at Geneva: Wendell, a worker at Franklin Electric in Bluffton; and Lowell, who farms with him in Wabash township; and one sister, Mrs. Gladys Long Orr, of near Bryant. A graduate of Geneva high school, this is the first time Long has been a candidate, although he has served as a precinct committeeman from North Wabash. He is* jan active member of the Gen- ■ cV iKiM t ’ t h cx l>st church, a member ! of We finance committee, educai tion committee, and choir. Long came out for the commissioner’s post after being «ncouraged by Wabash township leaders, who pointed out that the la»t third district commissioner froni that township was George Shoemaker, who served from 1923 to 1932. (Continued trom page one) with 42 passengers and five crew members. —— The airliner, en route from Los Angeles to New York, “screamed and boomed” earthward in a death dive, ending in a skidding crash, explosion and fire on the rock-studded desert. Wreckage Scattered Wreckage of the pl an e was'scat 7 ? tered over a square mile area. Its four engines fell several hundred feet from the main mass of bodies, debris and. charred personal belongings of the plane’s occupants. The jet. from nearby Nellis Air Force Base, spiraled into the ground about miles away. Capt Tom Coryell, 29. Indianapolis. Ind., the pilot-instructor, apparently tried to eject from the disabled jet, but was top late. Student-pilot Lt Gerald Moran, 24. Rapid City, S.D., was found-in the wreckage of the jet.

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Pleasant Mills Lions To Present Minstrel The Pleasant Mills Lions club will present “Blackface Jubilee,” an old time minstrel, at the Pleasant Mills high school auditorium Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Admission will be 50 cents and the ; public is invited to attend, j . — 1 ._ Attendance Report Os Rural Schools I > ■ • The county attendance report has been filed by county attendance officer, Mrs. Mildred Foley, ; for the second six weeks of the second semester. Monmouth led thp county with 97.4 per cent of their 136 high school pupils. The rest of the county schools are as . follows: Adams Central 218 pupils, 96.2 per cent; Geneva. 136 pupils. 95 per cent; Hartford, 6< pupils, 95.2 per cent; and Pleasant Mills, 90 pupils. 93.2 per cent. The grade schools were led by St. Peter’s Lutheran school, grades I four to eight, 33 pupils, for 99 per cent. The rest of the schools are Jefferson township* grades one ■ ; and two. 32 pupils, 96 per cent; ■ grades three and four. 31 pupils, . 94.3 per cent; grades five and six, 29 pupils. 95.5 per cent; and grades ’ seven and eight. 28 pupils, 95.5 per 1 ■ cent. ’ St. Mary's township, Pleasant ' Mills, grades one and two. 24 pupils. 97 per cent: grates three and '"ur. 31 pupils, 94 3 per cent; U grades five and six, 29 pupils. 95.5 . per cent: seven and eight. • 28 pupils, 95.9 per cent; Bobo, ■ grades one to three. 3L pupils. 94.8 - per cent, grades four to six, 35 pu- ■ pils. 91.5. Adams Central grade one, 89 puI pils. 92.8 per cent; grade two. 73 ■ pupils. 93.5 per cent; grade three, • i 77 pupils, 93.6 per cent; grade four. •' 68 pupils, 95.4 per cent; grades four and five. 34 pupils. 94.2 per • cent; grade five. 72 pupils, 96.1 per 'lcent; grade six, 72 pupils. 94 1 per cent: grades seven and eight, 144 ’ pupils, 96.4 per cent. Blue Creek township, Lincoln ■ grades five and six, 28 pupils. 96 per cent; grades seven and eight. 25 pupils, 96.3 per cent: Kimsey, 1 grades one and two, 28 pupils. 98 per cent; grades three and four, ■ 29 pupils. 95.1 per cent. Wabash township, grade one. 37 pupils. 93.1 per cent; grades one and two. 29 pupils. 93 4 per cent; grade two 38 pupils. 91.5 per cent; grade three, 40 pupils. 95 3 per cent; grades three and four. 33 I pupils, 90 per cent; grade four, 40 J. pupils, 91.4 per cent; grade five.' i 39 pupils, 94.1 per cent; grades; ' five and six. 32 pupils, 91.7 per; cent: grade six. 40 pupils, 91 1 per cent: grades seven and eight. 81 I pupils, 91.4 per cent. Monmouth, grade one, 32 pupils, j 91.6 per cent; grade two. 24 pupils, 89 4 per cent: grade three J >3O pupils. 91.1 per cent: gradesfour and five. 33 pupils. 96.5 per cent; grades five and six, 37 pu- ■ pils, 95.6 per cent; and grades, seven and eight. 43 pupils, 98.3 per cent. , I j Hartford, grades one and two, j 27 pupils. 91 per cent; grades three and four, 42 pupils, 91.1 per cent: ' grades five and six. 40 pupils. 95.9' per cent; and grades seven and; i eight, 27 pupils, 90.6 per cent. Lutheran Schools, St. John’s, one Ito four, 49 pupils, 95.2 per cent; grades five to eight. 35 pupils. 96.3 ■ per cent; St. Paul’s, grades one to three, 19 pupils, 95 per cent; • grades four to eight. 30 pupils, i ■ 97.1 per cent: Zion *FrjjjUjeim>, I ’ grades one to three, 28 pupils. 98 per cent; grades four to eight, 43 ' pupils. 96.2 per cent; and St. Pet--1 er’s grade one to three. 24 pupils. 97.1 per cent.

$126,000 Jewelry Robbery At Chicago Wealthy Woman Is Victim Second Time 1 1 - CHICAGO IW — Mrs. Titus Haffa. wife of a multimillionaire Chicago industrialist, was robbed Monday night of 8126,200 in jewelry by two bandits, who surprised her in the vestibule of her plush Lake Shore apartment house. It was the second time in seven weeks she has been victimized by jewel thieves. On March 2, she lost 8175,000 in gems to burglars while a guest of Arthur Godfrey in Florida. * "There’s nothing more for them to take,” Mrs. Haffa told police after the robbery. “I’m cleaned out." Mr/. Haffa told authorities the bandits, one about 45 and the other about 50, accosted her as she entered the apartment. She said one of the bandits wore a handkerchief mask and brandished a revolver. -j Taken back by the daring of the bandits and thinking it might | be a prank, Mrs. Haffa walked away and was pursued about the; lobby by the unarmed thief. The bandits then forced tier and two elderly building employes into an elevator and' stripped her of a 29-carat diamond ring valued at 8100,000, a wedding band worth 81.500, a diamond bracelet worth 818.000 and a 86.700 wrist watch.

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