Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 138.

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One Defendant In Road Trial Pleads Guilty Mogilner Switches Not Guilty Plea; May Be Witness ’ INDIANAPOLIS former member of the Indiana State Highway Commission testified today that he saw two bribery trial defendants in the department offices several times during a twoyear period in which the state contends they conspired with a salesman to brib» a state official. Deane E. Walker, Plymouth, who was Democratic member of the three-man Republican controlled commission when Virgil (Red> Smith was chairman, testified in the trial of former Indiana Adj. Gen. Elmer W. Sherwood and William E. Sayer. The testimony came after Arthur J. Mogilner, the salesman alleged to have sold $1,630,000 in contracts to the department with profits of nearly a quarter of a million dollars, unexpectedly pleaded guilty and dropped out as one of the defendants in the bribe trial. Mogilner changed his plea late Wednesday, and loomed as the prosecution’s best choice as a state witness who could help convict Sherwood and Sayer. Walkpr testified that in 1955 and 1956 Mogilner was “pretty well all over the place the highway department)." He said he saw Sa»er there "at least a dozen times” and once saw Mogilner, Sherwood and Sayer together at a goingaway party for Smith, attended by ex-Gov. George Craig, shortly before Craig’s term expired. Impressed By Loader On cross - examination. Walker said he and other commission members went to Bloomington once for a demonstration of frontend loaders the commission later contracted with Mogilner to buy. Walker said that he was “very highly impressed” by the loader demonstration. Mogilner dramatically changed his plea from innocent to guilty as defense and prosecution attorneys finished their opening statements to the jury of 10 men and 2 women. Prosecutor John G. Tinder said he will call Mogilner as ■ a state witness against the other defendjContlnuea on page five) INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness and a little warmer this afternoon with showers and thunderstorms spreading into western - sections. Showers and thunderstorms tonight and Friday ' with locally heavy rains likely central and north portions. Warmer north portion tonight. Low tonight 55 to 60 north. 60s south. High Friday 70s > north, 80s south. Sunset today 8:13 p. m. Sunrise Friday 5:17 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Cloudy, warm and humid with showers continuing. Low Friday night in 60s. High Saturday mostly in 80s. 12 Pages

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Professors Tour Central Soya Co. Nine Professors Os Louisiana On Tour The sheer magnitude of Central Soya's Decatur plant, and the high calibre of its scientific personnel greatly impressed a group of nine professors from Louisiana State University who toured the plant Wednesday. This was the first of six such groups from different agricultural colleges which will visit the local plant and other McMillen facilities on tours this summer. The company’s airplane picked , up the group in Baton Rouge, La.,, site of the modern land grant college, and flew them to Memphis, Tenn., where they toured the feed mill at that city. They then flew to Fort Wayne, where they were the guests cf Central Soya officials. Wednesday morning the experts in poultry, dairy, and animal industry toured the extensive research facilities at the Decatur plant under the direction of Dr. W. W. Cravens, director of feed research and nutrition. Thej were shown the many experiments conducted there by the experts themselves —Dr. L. V. Curtin, assistant director of feed research and nutrition, W. L. Soldner, assistant director of feed research, and Dick Childs, poultry research specialist. One of the touring professors, Dr. Don Thrasher, an expert on swine, is a native of Bloomington, and a graduate of Purdue. The professors, who carry on experiments under the agricultural extension program, and also teach classes, have degrees from many universities in nearly every state. This gives them a broadness of opinion which creates a healthy atmosphere for further research. Dr. C. W. Upp, director of the agricultural experiment station at Baton Rouge, explained that cooperation was very good “both ways" between industry and experimental stations. Much of the basjc research is carried on at the stations. As this is developed, it is turned over to private industry. Private industry has greatly increased its ability to turn new nutrition facts into regular feed formulas, it was explained. A few years ago it would have taken at least a year or even two to get new facts from experimental stage into the “feed bag.” Now it is a matter of only weeks or a month. Dr. S. L. Hansard, of the animal husbandry department at Louisiana State University, explained that the professors were a little surprised at the tremendous amount of room available for lab » work at Central Soya. Prof. Hansard has been carrying on important experiments in amino acid work. These basic proteins are carefully measure in eacjti feed so that the amount available to the animal can be known. A number of these proteins are necessary in large quantities for healthy growth. Dr. Hansford traces these compounds with radioactive isotopes so that their utilization may be studied. The university is presently enlarging his department. Dr. A. B. Watts, .head of the poul(Contlnued on pa<e five

Black Funnels Renew March In Midwest Northeast Section Os Wichita Hit By Tornado Wednesday By United Pres International Black funnels renewed their destructive inarch along the Midwest's "tornado alley” late Wednesday, the rivers crested in flood-stricken Indiana. About 25 to 30 homes in a two-and-a-half block area in Wichita, were damaged when a tornado swept through the Northeast section and at least one person was injured. High tension wires were ripped down, and officials said damage would have been more severe had the twister made a direct hit. Another tornado ripped into Scottsbluff, in Nebraska’s Panhandle, destroying outbuildings, corrals and farm machinery on an outlying farm. Meanwhile, raging winds and heavy hail inflicted damages on the sugar beet, bean and corn crops. Heavy rains in the Gering-Fort Laramie, Kan., region drew a comment from a flood control consultant that “the area has lost all control of water from any kind of rain storm.” Floods Swamp Hoosiers Several other tornadoes were sighted throughout the Midwest, but early reports indicated damages were not severe. New thunderstorms ranged across parts of Illinois and Indiana, heightening an already dangerous flood situation in the latter state. Up to 100 blocks of Marion, Ind., were under water in what was termed the “worst since 1913, when millions of property were destroyed.” The Wabash River was to crest at 22.5 feet at Peru, Ind., Wednesday night after it overflowed its banks and caused 1,000 persons to flee their homes. Elsewhere in Indiana, raging rivers drove another 4,000 persons to higher ground. Thousands of acres of farmland were inundated in a broad area running 100 miles north of Indianapolis and stretching to the borders of the neighboring states of Illinois and Ohio. Kansas Rivers Rising During the night, a line of thunderstorms pounded through Kansas and Oklahoma, and in the northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest rain deposits came to more than an inch during a sixhour period Flash floods, meanwhile, threat-, ened in Olpe, Kan., where almost five inches of rain fell Wednesday night and early today. The U.S. Weather Bureau reported that Eagle Creek had risen over the bank at Olpe and was mounting at the rate of two to three inches every 15 minues. The entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida, was subjected to showers and occasional thunder storms, with heaviest rain fall amounts in the mid-section. Almost an inch of rain was measured in several parts of Virginia. East Germans Deny Americans Kidnaped Reds Taking Issufe With Dulles' View BERLIN (UPD—The East German Communists took issue today with John Foster Dulles’ statement they had “kidnaped” an American Army helicopter with nine servicemen aboard. The official Communist Party newspaper Neues Deutschland said if an aircraft made a forced landing you cannot accuse anyone of having kidnaped it. The secretary of state told a Washington news conference Tuesday the U..S. would negotiate with East Germany for the return of the nine men because if someone is kidnaped you have to deal with the kidnapers. Until today the Communists had used the term “foced down” in referring to the helicopter but they never spelled out wheather it was forced to land by the Communists or had to land bcause of engine trouble. The Communist newspaper made no mention today of efforts to return the nine men, eight officers arid a sergeant from the U.S. 3rd Armored Division. Apparently they still were waiting word from Washington. American officials in Berlin said they had received no instructions from Washington on negotiations wth the East Germans. They were not sure whether the contact would be made here or in some other East European capital, possibly in Prague.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 12, 1958

Threat Os New Rainfall ' J . ' ... - Hangs Over State Areas Already Badly Flooded

€ Senate Group < Defeats Move To Cut Taxes Senate Committee Favors Extension Os Present Taxes By United Press International The Senate Finance Committee today approved a House-passed bill to continue for another year present corporation and excise (sales) taxes. The committee defeated a six-billion-dollar tax cut proposed by Sen. Paul H. Douglas D-Ill.). Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson noted that taxes covered by the bill are due to drop June 30 unless the measure is enacted. Johnson told the Senate “We can’t let these taxies expire.” H said the bill will be put before the Senate for action as soon as possible, perhaps right after the pending labor bill. The bill would continue for onpyear the 52 per cent corporate tax rate and present taxes on alcohol, tobacco, cars, auto parts, and other items. Other congressional news: , Fann: The House Agriculture Committee voted to give Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson power to block a boost next ‘ year in price supports for rice, i The action would permit Benson to hold rice supports at present levels for the next three years. Pay Raise: Senate-House con- ■ ferees agreed on a compromise bill providing a 10 per cent pay raise for 1,021,000 federal civil service workers at a cost of 542 million dollars a year after 1958. Labor: Chairman John F. Kennedy of the Senate labor subcommittee opened Senate debate an o middle-of-the-road labor union reform bill with a caustic reply to Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell’s criticism of the legislation. Mitchell branded it inadequate and far short of correcting abuses turned up by the Senate Rackets Committee. Kennedy DMass.) deplored Mitchell s “gross misstatement of facts.” Defense: Speaker Sam Rayburn Texas) charged House Republicans with making a political issue of the President’s defense reorganization program. Raeburn said GOP leaders were lining up votes on a partisan basis in an effort to shove through White House amendments which were unacceptable to the Democratic - controlled House Armed Services Committee. Return From Annual Rotary Convention Two Local Couples Attend Dallas Meet Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ziner and Mr. and Mrs. Gail Grabill have returned from Dallas, Tex., where they attended the 49th annual convention of Rotary International. Ziner, who has been district go- • ver nor of Rotary for the past year, was district representative on the council of legislation, which met May 31, prior to the convention, with 214 men from clubs all over the world, in attendance. Ziner also spoke at the regular meeting May 30 of the Rotary club 1 at Pasadena, a club of 160 membets near Hpuston. Grabill was of--1 ficial delegate of the Decatur club, of which he will become president July 1. Attendance at the convention totaled 3,979 Rotarians and their 1 families from 55 countries, who enjoyed a program of varied entertainment in addition to Rotary business sessions. , __ Clifford A. Randall, of Milwaukee, Wis., was elected president of Rotary International for 195859, and will preside at next year’s convention, which will be held to New York City.

- Wells County Child Is Killed By Aulo ; Eight-Year-Old Boy Killed Wednesday Brice Allen Frauhiger, 8-year-old grandson of Levi Frauhiger, route four, Decautr, was fatally injured about 5 p. m. Wednesday as he was struck by an automobile while attempting to cross state road 124 in front of his home, four miles east of Bluffton. The boy’s {Hrents are Mr. I land Mrs. Ivan Frauhiger. . j The boy was hit by a station wagon driven by Robert Campbell, 34, Bluffton, a salesman for the Red Cross Manufacturing company. Sheriff Raymond Durr, Wells county, and state trooper Roger Gerwig, who investigated, reported the boy had been on the south ' side of the highway, across the road from his home, watching employes of the Craigville telephone company working on lines. As the line crew quit work for the day and started to drive away, the lad ran from behind the truck onto the highway and was struck by Campbell’s westbound vehicle. The car carried the boy’s body 230 feet. Campbell told the investigating officers he was driving approximately 60 miles per hour at the time of the accident. Witnesses ' following in another vehicle re- > ported the speed estimated as ‘ Correct. \ - ) The mishap victim was a third ■ grade pupil in the Lancaster Cen- ‘ tral school. t Surviving in addition to the parents are a twin brother, Rudy, . and a sister, Arlene, all at home, , and the paternal grandfather, . Levi Frauhiger, route four, DeI catur. • The body is at the Goodwin funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p. m. Thursday* Services will be conducted Saturday at 1 p. m. in the funeral 1 home and at 1:30 o’clock in the Apostolic Christian church, the ' Rev. Samuel Aeschliman officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Exchange Students To Visit Decatur Foreign Students In City For Two Days Sixty-eight foreign exchange students will arive in Decatur for a two-day visit July 2, it was announced today by Joe Kaehr, chairman for the affair. The students will represent 24 countries from all parts of the world, and will consist of 32 girls and 36 boys. During their stay in Decatur, they will tour the local industries and visit with families of this ityForty of the students have been provided with lodging for the twoday visit, but 28 are still without, and may be placed by calling 33154. Anyone wishing to provide lodging for one or more students should contact the number mentioned before as soon as possible so plans many be completed. The Rotary club is asking families with teenagers to help lodge the students, but to remind them that anyone may help to make their short visit in Decatur an enjoyable one. The group is part of 1033 students from 29 countries, traveling in 31 buses. The trip, lasting three weeks, takes the students on a tour of the country where they stay as guests of local towns and communities, and to broaden their view of American community life as well as enabling them to see more of the country. The buses are traveling in pairs, in most cases, with an average of 34 students to a bus. The general pattern of the trip is that each bus will travel for one day, stop for two evenings and one full day in a community, and travel on ' again on the third day. In some ’ instances, because of great mile- ’ age to be covered, buses will stop 1 only overnight in a community. 1 Each bus will make about 10 stops, (Continued on page five)

Sherman Adams Confer? Today With President Reply Is Planned To House Charges Os Influence Use WASHINGTON UPI) — Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams conferred with President Eisenhower today but the White House did not say whether they discussed influence charges made against Adams by a House subcommittee. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said he would not have any reply from Adams to the subcommittee charges until 4 p.m. Hagerty said Wednesday Adams wAuld prove the charges “completely false.” Meanwhile, Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) said new subcommittee hearings starting Mon d a y would “develop any and all information” about Adams and his relations with Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine. The committee says Goldfine paid $2,000 in hotel bills for Adams and his family and received favors from federal regulatory agencies. The presidential assistant, who was on a fishing trip in New ’ Hampshire when the subcommittee charges were published, re- ‘ turned to his White House office ’ today. He saw the President later. Hagerty said he did not know ! whther they talked about the ■ charges. In Boston, Goldfine accused the subcommittee of publishing "an • irresponsible smear on my good name and the good name of Sherman Adams." Goldfine said it was true he paid hotel bills for Adams. But he said Adams “has never used l any influence in my behalf with i any government agency, or ever attempted to do so, nor have I asked him to do so.” He said Mr. and Mrs. Adams “have been close friends of mine and Mrs. Goldfine for more than 20 years.’’ “I think that we are in a sad state,” Goldfine said, "if a man cannot entertain his old friends without being subjected to this kind of vinification.” The Harris subcommittee investigating federal regulatory agencies produced photostatic copies of bills early this week showing that Goldfine paid for more than $2,000 worth of stopqyers by Adams and members of his family at the plush Sheraton-Plaza Hotel in Boston. The subcommittee staff also aired charges that Goldfine firms accused cf violations received special consideration at the hands of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) beiContlnueo on page nve) Schedule Testing For Speech Clinic Appointments Now Being Scheduled Gail Grabill, chairman of the Adams county Society for Crippled Children and Adults, today announced that appointments are now being scheduled for the testing of children in the speech clinic, which is sponsored by the society in cooperation with the Psi lota Xi sorority. Testing in Decatur will begin next Monday and continue through Wednesday. Parents are asked to note that all former students in clinic should be re-registered and be tested again before the speech improvement Work begins. Parents may contact Miss Judy Locke, phone 3-2196, or Miss Jeanette Hahnert, 3-4448, for testing and registration. Those in the Berne area will be tested Monday, June 23, and any parents may bring their children in at 10 a.m. on that date at Berne, and at 10 a.m. June 18 in Decatur, for those who have not received appointment cards.

One New Director Named On TB Board Officers Reelected At Annual Meeting Robert Huebner, a teacher at Immanuel Lutheran school in Union township, was named to the board of directors of the Adams county tuberculosis association at the anhual meeting Wednesday night. All officers of the association and directors up for election were returned to office. Adams county has four patients in Irene Byron hospital at the present time, Mrs. W. Guy Brown, executive secretary, reported. One case, probably positive, who "needs hospitalization desperately,” according to the hospital medical report, left the hospital and returned to Adams county in March against medical advice. Nine patients attended the local cfinic March 21. Dr. O. T. Kidder was the clinician. All patients were outpatients or doctor referrals. Educational material on tuberculosis was delivered to all schools and libraries in the county. Packet envelopes were delivered to all schools and teachers of grades one, seven and nine. Posters were placed in the schools, and a film library of seven films on TB has been accumulated. All materials were exhibited at the teachers* institute in the fall. A total of 2,820 persons availed themselves of the mobile X-ray unit without cost to themselves. Os these 13 were tuberculosis suspects, 13 showed other pathology, and five were cardiac cases. Family physicians were notified, and all persons were notified to contact their physicians. < '■ - Appointments for large size chest X-rays were made by the executive secretary for 89 persons at Irene Byron hospital. The total sales receipts for Christmas seals for 1957-58 were $5,320.95, $86.66 less than the previous year. The financial report was made and audited by county auditor Edward F. Jaberg. Seal orders for this Christmas have been placed. One patient is taking a comptometer course in Fort Wayne as a part of his rehabilitation program. Officers for the coming year will be Robert J. Zwick, president; Charles Fuhrman, vice(Conti&ued on pafre rive> Flag Day Services Saturday Evening Public Invited To Annual Elks Rites Annual Flag Day services of the Decatur B. P. O. Elks, assisted by the city’s veterans organizations, will be held at 7:30 o’clock Saturday evening on the lawn of the Elks home on North Second’ street. Judge Robert Harrington, of Van Wert, 0., will deliver the Flag Day address. Charles Weber, Vincent Bormann and Wendell Macklin are rfiembers of the committee in charge of the annual ceremony. Robert Hammond, exalted ruler of the local Elks lodge, assisted by other officers of the lodge, will conduct the Flag Day ritualistic ceremonies. The color guards of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars will post the colors, and special music for the event will be provided by the Decatur high school band, conducted by Clint Reed, band instructor for the Decatur schools. The history of the flag will be read by George F. Laurent, a former exalted ruler of the Elks lodge. The public is invited to attend and participate in Decatur’s annual tribute to Old Glory through the medium of the fraternal organization and the city's war vetFlag Day services are conducted annually by Elks lodges throughout the entire nation, a custom established more than 50 years ago.

Thousands Are Made Homeless By High Water Forecast Os Heavy Rains For Flooded Area Os Indiana By United Press International The threat of new locally heavy rain tonight and Friday over Indiana’s flood zone was indicated today in weather forecasts as -a high water crisis eased along the Wabash River and streams feeding into it. The zone included a broad area in North Central- Indiana. Peru and Marion,' where thousands were homeless, were the hardest hit. At Marion, 2,300 persons were estimated as having fled their homes in the city and the nearby Jonesboro-Gas City area through which the Mississinewa River flows. At Peru, about 500 families were evacuated along the Wabash. The stream was falling at both points from crests re a ch e d Wednesday or early today. “Locally Heavy Bains” Forecasts called for showers and thunderstorms tonight and Friday “with locally heavy rains” Or “possible heavy rain” throughI out the northern two-thirds of ’ Hoosierland. This would include the flood zone. The situation improved at Peru and Marion, where crests of the Wabash and Mississinewa Rivers, respectively, appeared to have been reached after hundreds of families were evacuated in the path of the swirling water. At Peru, about 500 families were evacuated late Wednesday, including 300 in the south part of the city and 200 in the west section. 1116 Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad shops were inundated and operations virtually closed down, and water crept into Canal & Second Sts. running parallel to the stream. But the Wabash crested at Peru at 23.13 feet between 2 and 4 a.m., highest stage in 15 years, and authorities indicated the worst was over. Evacuees spent the night in emergency shelters set up in churches and public buildings/ ~ Airmen Help Sandbag Airmen from Bunker Hill Air Force Base, National Guardsmen . and police and volunteers built up a sandbag levee which kept the situation under control. Rivers were falling at Wabash and Muncie as the crests of major streams moved southwestward. The American Red Cross estimated Wednesday night that 200 families at Marion, 200 at Wabash, 50 at Delphi, 60 at Logansport, 25 at Lafayette, 100 at Peru', 5 at Tipton, 15 at Kokomo, 6 at Anderson and smaller nuipbers at several other points had been evacuated from flood areas. While thousands of persons were evacuated and crop damage from the floods was heavy, no lives had been lost in the floods. However, weather-connected deaths, mostly in traffic accidents on wet roads, totaled 13 for Indiana since Sunday. Weather Warming Up Meanwhile, temperatures headed for warm and humid levels after a respite Wednesday when, highs ranged from 67 at South Bend to 83 at Evansville. Highs today will range from the 70s north to the 80s south and Friday they will crest at 84 to 87. The threat of more rain hung over the state. The weatherman said showers and scattered thunderstorms will move into the state Friday and stay over Saturday. At Marion, the Mississinewa had receded to a level of feet this morning compared with Wednesday’s crest of 16.85. A closed highway was opened, some evacuated families were moving back into their homes, and two industrial plants which suspended shifts were back on regular work schedules this morning. Elsewhere over the flood area, (Cvutuuws ba Page Piva)

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