Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1958 — Page 1

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Miss Ruth Sipe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs'. John Sipe, Decatur route 6, is valedictorian of the senior class at Adams Central high school. Tied for second in scholastic honors and thus named co-salu-tatorians, are Gary McMillen, son of Mrs. Marjorie McMillen of Monroe, and Winston Lister, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lister of Preble. *

Dulles Enroute To Copenhagen For NATO Meet Discuss Next West Move In Planning For Summit Talks COPENHAGEN (UP) -Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew today to Denmark to talk with NATO foreign ministers about the West’s next move toward an East-West summit conference. I Dulles left for Europe Friday night immediately after telling a New Hampshire audience that “great difficulties" stood in the way of agreements between the United States and Russia. He was scheduled to arrive in Copenhagen abcsa 6:25 p.m. <1:25 p.m.. e.d.t.L He will attend a meeting of the NATO Foreign Ministers Council starting Monday that will consider the state of the 15-nation alliance, disarmament, European security and German unity as well as the summit issue Dulles said in his speech at Durham, N H., Friday night he would be “reckless” to weaken the free world on the gamble that accession to Russia's demands would end the cold war. , . Face New Challenges He said We NATO nations faced new challenges in preserving peace.. Russia, he said, .Would agree to an international inspection zone in the Arctic if it were sincere about w.antirig peace. Dulles spoke at the University after the Soviet Union had vetoed the Arctic inspection plan proposed by the United States and endorsed by U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Department from his prepared text. DuHehJsaid the Soviet veto meant the world continue to live “on the edge of an awful abyss.” He said the world could be “rescued” from this position “if only the Soviet Union did not insist upon retaining for itself the possibility of massive surprise attack.” NATO Leaders Hopeful Although Dulles said the Soviet veto created a “frightening” prospect for peace, European diplomats were optimistic a summit conference will take place this year. “I see no reason to suppose that the summit conference will not take place.” NATO Secretary General Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium said. "But,” he added, “in my opinion the West is absolutely right in insisting on careful advance preparation.’’ Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvard Lange told newsmen the council will “agree upon a reasonable approach to a summit conference” without tying itself up in detailed discussion of Western positions to be taken at such a conferencewill Support U.S. Soviet Ambassador to Denmark Nikolai Slavin announced this morning that he had an “urgent message” for Danish Premier H. C. Hansen, who is also Denmark’s foreign minister. The message was believed to be connected with the NATO meeting. European diplomats who arrived early for the meeting indicated almost all the NATO nations — particularly the smaller ones __are behind Dulles on speci(Continued on p&xe fivo) INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with showers and some thunderstorms tonight and Sunday. Continued mild. Low tonight 55 to 65. High Sunday in the 70s. Outlook for Considerable cloudiness with showers and turning cooler north portion. Showers and possible thunderstorms and mild south portion.

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Graduation Riles For Adams Central 35 Candidates For School Diplomas Thirty-five members of the senior class of the Adams Central high school are candidates for diplomas at the annual commencement exercises. to be held in the school auditorium Tuesday night, May 13, at 8 o'clock. Baccalaureate exercises will be held In the school at 8 o’clock Sunday night, May 11. ’ The Rev. Gordon Neuenschwander. pastor of the First Mennonite church at Berne, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon. Mrs. Leon Gerig, organist, will play the processional and recessional at both exercises. The Adams Central glee club will provide special music for the baccalaureate rites. Joseph Wagner, business manager of Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, will deliver the commencement address. Members of the graduating class will be presented by Herman Frantz, high school principal, ■ and Harold Schwartz, president of the Adams Central school board, will present the diplomas. The senior class ensemble will provide special music. Miss Ruth Sipe, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sipe, reside on Decatur route 6, has been named the class valedictorian. Co-saluta-torians are Winston Lister, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lister of Preble, and Gary McMillen, sen of Mrs. Marjorie McMillen of Monroe. Members of the graduating class are as follows: Jerry Beard, Alice Beer, Dorjs ble, Marilyn Christener, Suzanne Edwards, Jane Grimm, Mary Hamrick, Roger Hawkins. Richard Hirschy, Nancy Jauregui, Thomas Lambert, Rose Lantz, Cecilia Lehman, • Patricia Liechty, Winston Lister. i Gary McMillen, Danny Mendoza. Marsha Merriman, Richard Myers Chloe Neuenschwander, Delores Sauder, Ruth Sipe, Gordon Snyder. Jacqueline Snyder, Barbara Sdm-“ mer, Barbara Steiner, Ned Stucky. Jerry Tharp, Marilou Uhrick, Judy Worthman, Muri Yoder, Rolland Zimmerman, Floyd Zimmerman. Syngman Rhee Leads In Korean Election Appears Certain Os Substantial Victory SEOUL (UP) —Preaident Syngman Rhee's Liberal Party, surging ahead of the opposition Democratic Party today, appeared certain of winning a substantial majority in the National Assembly- , Latest returns from Friday’s election to fill 233 assembly seats gave the Liberals 51, the Democrats 43 and independents and splinter groups 9. Returns were beginning to pour in from remote rural areas, where Rhee’s Liberals have their strength. ' The cities went mainly to the Democrats. In Seoul, for instance, the Democrats won 14 of 16 seats. The main question in the elections was whether the ruling party would win the two-thirds majority needed to pass a constitutional amendment on presidential succession. Under the present constitution, the vice - president succeed;: the president In case of the president’s death. Democrat John M. Chang is. now vice-president, and Rhee and his party do not want him to succeed to the nation’s highest postjf the 83-y ea r -old president dies. The election was one of the quietest in South Korea’s history. NOON EDITION I

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Fear St. Louis Girl Kidnaped And Murdered Six-Year-Old Girl Missing FroAi Home Since Wednesday ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UP) —Extra police squads probed St. Louis tenements today for a six-year-old girl feared kidnaped and murdered because,she was “too friendly." Kathryn Hampton had not been seen since about 7 o’clock Wednesday night when she left her third-floor apartment to play. "She is too friendly,” the girl’s distraught mother, Mrs. James Hampton, said. “People just love to talk to her . .and Kathy likes to talk to people, just anybody. P e r h a p s that’s the trouble. . .” Policeman C. W. Porter, one of the officers assigned to the search, said "there is nothing to indicate that we will find her Police said the blonde, blueeyed <frL considered small for her age, was abducted by a man who called to her from a car. Kathryn’s father, James, said “She must have been carried off. He collapsed from exhaustion Friday after searching fnr 48 hours in tenement buildings and alleys for a sign of his daughter, one of five children. FBI agents were reported working with St. Louis police in the painstaking search in a teeming commercial area where the girl lived. " * Every. St- Louis _policeman -was gweh a picture of Kathryn with the notation “she has two front teeth missing now’’ written on them by her mother. Officials noted grimly that the Hampton apartment was only eight blocks from the home where a 2-year-old girl was ravished by an unknown assailant last April 20. The search was intensified late Friday when police found a partially dug hole in the basement of a vacant building near Kathryn’s home. The handle of an ax was folind near a second fresh hole. Another lead was provide d when a neighbor boy. 15, reported he had seen Kathryn go to talk with a man who had called to her from a car. There were many other reports from persons in southern IllinoisSt. Louis area, but all have proved fruitless. Officer Porter said “in a case of this type, a child usually is released that night or the next morning." He said the investigation has indicated Kathryn was “picked up” by an unknown person. “It doesn’t look too good right now,” he said. Herbert Hoover Is Home From Hospital NEW YORK — (W — Former President Herbert Hoover was released from the hospital today, two weeks after an operation to remove his gall bladder. A’ spokesman for the ColumbiaPresbyterian Medical Center said the 83-year-old former President was “feeling chipper and walked out on his own power.” s) Hoover was accompanied to his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Towers by his physican and Miss Bernice Miller, his secretary. Garage Is Crushed As Wall Collapses FRANKLIN (W — A brick wall on a 3-story building being torn down for a municipal parking lot collapsed and crushed the garage at the Johnson County Jail Friday, causing damage estimated at j $5,000. Falling bripks also ruined a breezeway between the garage 'and the jail kitchen.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 3, 1958

Tornadoes Rip Through Southwest, One School Is Destroyed By Winds

Election Day InCountyAnd City Tuesday Only Four Races On Democratic Ticket At Primary Tuesday Inspectors of the 39 Adams coun-, ty election boards were scheduled to obtain their supplies this after-] noon for the 1958 primary election, which will be held Tuesday., Polls will be open in all pre-, cincts from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. In-: •diana standard time (Decatur time). Veteran observers are expecting a light turnout of voters, as there are only four contests on a countywide basis on the Democratic ticket, and none on the Republican ballot. However, some of the battles for township trustee and advisory boards have enlivened interest in some parts of the county. The Democratic ballot is headed' by the three-way race for the nomination for fourth district congressman. The three candidates are F. Dean Bechtol, of Garrett, the Democratic nominee two years ago; W. Robert Fleming, prominent Fol* Wayne attorney and former United States, comrhissioher, and Richard E. Hoatzer, Auburn, Walter Koos, the incumbent, is opposed by Robert Lane, Decatur businessman, for nomination as county assessor. Both ijxinty commissioner posts have rival candidates seeking the nominations. In the first district, Hugo Boerger is opposed by Lew Sapp. In the third district, there are three candidates: Harley J. Reef, the incumbent,, is opposed by Loren Helper and Robert L. Long. " In, Decatur, interest centers on the Wajhihgtoh ' s tdwnsiup‘ cratic trustee nomination, where Robert Gay, service station owner, opposes F. J. Schmitt, livestock buyer. There are also two candidates for the Democratic nomination as Hartford township trustee, Ralph M. Miller and Gail Runyon. The Republicans have two candidates for Hartford township trustee, David Alberson and Vilas Eugene Burry. All offices in the court house, with the exception of the county (Continued on page alx) Merchants Showcase Opens Here Tuesday Youth Center Site Os Many Exhibits Plans have # been completed for the "showcase of cars” to be displayed at the “Merchants Showcase” to be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center May 6-7-8. Most all the new car dealers of Decatur have entered some of their 1958 models for the showing. Not only will cars be shown, but a few trucks and housetrailers have also joined the "showcase/’ All of the vehicles to be displayed will be in the circular drive In front of the center. Floodlights will be erected for the display so people may look at tile new cars during the evening. The men who contacted the new dealers were: Frank Lybarger, salesman for the Schwartz Ford Co., Harley Lehman, owner of the Decatur Super Service and L. R. Zintsmaster, of Zintsmaster Cadillac and Oldsmobile. The dealers participating in the show are the following: Macklin’s, Decatur Super Service, Schwartz, Zintsmaster, Beery’s, Butler’s, De- . catur Equipment Co., and the Adams County Trailer Sales. The center itself will be rcowded with exhibits by many of Decatur’s retail merchants, and will be open' each of the three days from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m. There will be no admission charge and many valuable gifts will be presented.

Retires f .f||||l J. 'IJ « 5 'ipQjL y... Donald McDaniel, above, retired April 30 as president of the Decatur Casting Co. He is continuing to serve, however, as a member of the board of directors. He has been an officer of the company since the local plant was organized in 1920. U.S. Paratroopers Rescued By Police Italians Irked By • Election Incident 1 VENICE. Italy (UP). A M#re than 100 riot police today reseto! ! six U.S. paratroopers from ? a hotel besieged through the night ! by a mob of Italians angered because the soldiers had burned a Communist election banner. The six and a large group of other American paratroopers on leave were hustled out of the ci,ty by police and put aboard a train for Germany. The paratroopers attacked the Communist banner Friday night after an evening out on the town. They took refuge in a hotel and remained there jrntil out It was the second election incident involving American troops in : two days. ■ Friday a US. Army corporal was taken into custody in Naples after he tried to saw through the supports of a Communist election 1 poster in the port city. The incident here began Friday ■ when six U.S. paratroopers spend- • ing a leave here formed a human ■ pyramid close to a large banner urging Italians to “Vote Commu- , nist” in the forthcoming general ’ elections. The Americans ripped down the Red banner, tore it apart and set it afire while passers-by shouted their disapproval. The crowd around the soldiers grew larger and angrier and the Americans ran into a nearby hotel. The hotel manager slammed the shutters and barred the doors to keep the angry mob out. Police responding to an emergency riot . call forced their way through the crowd and cordoned off the building. The angry Italians shouted out- , side and police made no attempt . to escort the soldiers from the i hotel during the night. They escorted them out and back to their : own hotel shortly before dawn. The rest of a group of 67 para--5 troopers on leave from units in Germany before returning home ’ to the United States were rounded ’ up and taken under heavy police 1 guard to the Venice railway ter- ■ minal on the outskirts of the city. r Native Os Monroe i Dies In Michigan } Funeral services were held Fri- ■ day for Fred O. Bailey, 60, a na- ‘ tive of Monroe, who died unexpectedly Tuesday of a heart attack at ! his home in Lansing, Mich. He had • been a supervisor of the Melling • Forging Co. in that city since 1919. ■ Survivors include his wife, Ber- - tha; three daughters, Mrs. Warren Cook and Mrs. Larry Dorin of 1 Lansing, and Mrs. Glen Ander- • son of Holt, Mich.; nine gandJ children; one sister, Mrs. Henry i Austin of Harrison, Mich., and two ; brothers, Archie Bailey of Ponr tiac. Mich.,' and David Bailey of Milford, Mich.

Soviet Russia Vetoes Arctic Inspection Plan Lodge Says Russia Knocking Summit Conference On Head UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP) —U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge contended today Russia has "deliberately knocked the idea of the summit conference on the head" by rejecting the U.S. Arctic « inspection plan. Soviet Ambassador Arkady Sobolev retorted that the American proposal had a “purely propagandistic aim” and that Lodge rushed it to a vote in the U.N. Security Council Friday with “undue haste” Lodge said neither Russia nor any other council member sought a delay before the council voted 10-1 in favor of the American plan. Russia’s veto killed passage of the proposal. The council also voted down, 9-1, with Sweden abstaining, a Soviet demand to end alert missions by H-bombers of the U.S. Strategic Air Command and a suggestion that the question of safeguards against an Arctic surprise pttack be referred to a summit i conference. I "Based 6* XT.P. Dispatch The United States had put into '■ its resolution a Swedish amendment expressing the council's view that discussions on the Arctic plan “might serve as a useful basis for deliberations on the disarmament problem at a summit conference.” The veto was Russia'd 83rd in the 13-year history of the Security Council. The debate that led to it was based largely on a dispatch in Which United Press president Frank H. Bartholomew described how -SAC planes took pfC with fired objects were sighted by radar. Lodge commented to newsmen on the Soviet veto: “To me, personally speaking, it looks as if the Soviet Union has deliberately knocked the idea of a summit conference on the head." Dulles Europe-Bound Sobolev contended it was the 1 United States and other Security ' Council .members who damaged ■ chances for a summit conference 1 by rejecting Russia’s demand for an end to the American H-bomber ! defense system- : Despite these. pessimistic stateI ments on summit chances, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster i Dulles flew to Copenhagen today > to discuss summit preparations ■ with foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- [ tion. Fred C. Jones Dies After Long Illness Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Fred C. Jones, 66, a retired farmer of near Wren, 0., died at ; 5.30 o’clock Friday evening at the Van Wert county hospital. He had been in failing health six years - with complications. Re was born in Willshire township June 18, 1891, a son of Benjamin and Mary Dailey-Jones. He had never married and made his home with a sister, Mrs. Clara Gruelach, on the family farm. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Gruelach are another sister, Mrs, C. L, Volta of Willshire township, and three brothers, Charles Jones of Berne, Harlen H. Jones of Decatur route 6,,and Clyde Jones of Willshire township. Five brothers . and two sistws preceded him in . death. 1 Funeral services will be conduct- . ed at 2 p.m. Monday at the Cow- • an & Son funeral home in Van Wert, the Rev. Albert Swenson ofi ficiating. Burial will be in Wood- ■ land cemetery at Van Wert. ! Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. ■ *** 1 i

■ WSI ■ m " , y m Hi Rev. C. E. Lykins Baccalaureate Rites Here Sunday, May 18 Rev. C. E. Lykins To Deliver Sermon The Rev. C. E. Lykins, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene in Decatur, will deliver the Decatur high school baccalaureate sermon Sunday night, May 18, at 7:30 ■ o’clock at Decatur high school auditorium, it was announced today by superintendent of schools. > W. Guy Brown. The Rev. Hus- • ton Bever, Jr., pastor of the : Church of God, will pronounce the invocation. The Rev. Virgil Sexton, pastor of First Methodist church, will read the scripture and the Rev. J. O. Penrod, pastor of Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, will give the prayer. Benediction will be given by the Rev. Carroll Myers, pastor of the Church of Christ. Miss Helen Haubold will have charge of the .and the Ojgan will be furniSnsf* the Tfe'b'k&r Music House. Following is the order of service: Processional, ‘Majestic March.’ Call to Worship. Invocation, Rev. Bever. Hymn. Scripture reading. Prayer. Music. Sermon, “Open Doors and Closed Gate.” Hymn. Benediction. Recessional. Secretary Benson Will Visit Russia First Cabinet Visit To Reds Since 1947 WASHINGTON (UP) — Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will become the first U.S. cabinet officer to visit the Soviet Union since 1947. — Benson announced Friday he accepted a Russian invitation to i visit this summer. He said he hoped to leave for the 10-day trip , "sometime in July, or possibly a [ Ittle Hater ” i Whle in Russia, he said, he will visit farms and agricultural . research center and inspect the all-union agricultural exhibition in Moscow. The last cabinet officer to visit the Soviet Union was former Sec--1 retary of State George C. Marshall, who attended a foreign min- ■ isters’ conference in Moscow 11 • years ago. The cold war was just . beginning at that time. i Agriculture Department officials - told newsmen Benson’s trip would [ be part of the U.S. - Soviet ex- ; change program. They said nego* j tiators for both countries were “given the green light” some time ago to try to work out arrangements. One official said Benson hoped 1 to get a close look at Soviet llve- • stock herds so he can reach a ■ first-hand opinion of the success of the Soviet state drive to over1 taket his country in the production of meat, butter and milk.

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50 Children Are Saved By Two Teachers Devastation Heaped On Flood-Stricken Area Os Southwest By UNITED PRESS Tornadoes raced through the Southwest Friday splintering homes, destroying a school, and heaping general devastation upon the flood-stricken area. At least five tornadoes spun across the Texas landscape, while another was spotted early today near Paducah, Ky., causing slight damage but no injuries Rains continued to pour over Arkansas and Texas, and pilots reported impenetrable squall lines in the Lone Star state. At Garland City, Ark., flood-strained levees were reinforced by the National Gitnrti by day and civilians by night. Two school teachers were credited with saving the lives of about 50 children at La Coste, Tex., Friday. Moments before a tornado ripped off the schoolhouse roof, Mrs. Dorothy Marthis and Mrs. i Rose Marie Wolverton, hustled L their charges to safety. Another tornado blew down a ■ building and overturned a Car at ’ Leon Valley, 12 miles northwest of 1 San Antonio, and other damage was reported in the area. A school bus filled with children was marooned northwest of San Antonio. The driver, aided by older students, was credited with leading his younger passengers through waist-deep water to safety. Floodwaters sprawled across some 750,000 z acres in three states. In Miller Qbunty, ft*k, authorities said Ipcal/’damage camp, to more than three miUlon dollars' as TO,000 acres were inundated. In southeast Arkansas, flooded land 'estimates ran as high as 500,000 acres. Families had to abandon their homes near Pine Bluff and authorities feared more rain would cause all-out havoc. The rain continued to fall. More than an inch of rain was reported early today at Little Rock and Walnut Ridge, Ark., and also at Dyersburg, Tenn., and Austin, Tex. Weather-caused deaths in Texas alone in the past week have mounted to 11 and authorities feared a flash flood at Durant, Okla., had claimed several lives. A five-inch rain at Durant brought floodwaters to their highest levels within memory anti forced 400 persons to flee. The Weather Bureau reported heavy rains and thunderstorms in the lower Mississippi Valley, fanning to either side. Showers occurred throughout the Ohio and mid Mississippi valleys and the upper Great Lakes. There were a few widely scattered light showers extending eastward into North Carolina and Virginia* A warming trend raised temperatures in the Great Lakes region as much as 17 degrees in 24 hours, while temperatures dropped as much as 21 degrees In parts of New England.. ONLY 2 MORE DAYS ’TILL Decatur Merchants Showcase AT Decatur Youth and Community Center - May 6,7, 8