Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 139.

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At Least Nine Tornadoes Hit Central Kansas Severe Storms Hit At Brood Portions Os Midwest States By United Tress International A squall line unleashed destructive twisters aero s s central Kansas for the third straight day Thursday while new rains primed flooded Indiana farm country* At least nine tornadoes, accompanied by, heavy rains, were reported Thursday in the Sunflower state, ripping power lines from their posts, uprooting trees and flattening wheat in many areas. Heavy hail fell at Belpre, causing extensive damage to farm buildings. Three persons were injured slightly when a possible tornado touched at LaCenter, Ky, near the Illinois border. Property damage was reported extensive. Severe thunderstorms wracked a broad portion of the Midwest, mostly in the lowa-Missouri - Illinois region where rainfall deposits over one inch were common Since Thursday night, more than an inch and a quarter fell at Cedar Rapids, lowa, Quincy and Rantoul, 111., and at Kirksville, Mo. The greatest danger, however, existed in Indiana where the week long ravages of violent storms were beginning to heal. As swollen rivers began to recede in the flooded north central portion of the Hoosier state, the belt of heavy storms spread from Illinois into the stricken region. Indiana weather officials said one-or two-inch rains could create new disaster situations in the north where rain already had reached their crest and, over the weekend ( in the southern part of the state. A broad pattern of scattered showers and thunderstorms spread across the northern tier of states from Washington to the Great Lakes. Although deposits were generally light just west of the Roikies and in the Great Lakes region, exceptions oc curred in Rapid City, S.D., which received a halfinch, and Chadron, Neb., a full inch. Fresh rains in Missouri posed possibilities of flash floods, such as those which wept through Jefferon City Thursday, destroying two airplanes, flooding highways, and inundating many homes and basements. (Weir’s Creek in Jefferson City, fed by a 2.07-inch rain, reached depths of more than six feet in some places and carried cars along in its swirling path. Gusts of wind up to 75 miles an hour ripped the metal roof off an airplane hangar and dumped it on eight planes, and hail the size of goif balls pelted the city and outlying ateas. INDIANA WEATHER Showers and thunderstorms mainly north portion this afternoon and central and south portions late this afternoon and tonight. Some locally heavy showers likely but widespread excessive amounts are not expected. Saturday partly cloudy and somewhat cooler north, mostly cloudy with some showers south. Low tonight in the 60s north, 66 to 72 south. High Saturday 65 to 75 north, 75 to 85 south. Sunset today 8:14 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 5:17 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and cooler with showers ending. Low Saturday night 50s north, 60s south. High Sunday mostly in 70s.

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Food Handlers Abide By City Ordinances Inspectors Report Fine Compliance Decatur restaurants and food handling establishments are taking on the “new look” as owners have begun to clean up and modernize to comply with the new city health ordinance. “The proprietors ate to be complimented for their serious, earnest efforts, interest, and receptiveness to the new program.” inspector Ray Lehman said this morning. All establishments inspected after the first day had already begun cleaning operations, and many were found practically spotless. An official check list with 85 standards in 24 categories is used by the inspecting team, composed for the present of Lehman and state department of health inspector D. A. Swickard. Lehman is now training in the work of inspecting for all public health problems, including not only the two health ordinances but other health problems such as filthy homes and outdoor privies. , The first phase of the program is entirely educational, so that each operator will understand exactly what is expected. Each restaurant, bar, and shop handling food will be inspected. Two copies of the 85-standard check sheet will be made. The sheet is carefuly explained to each manager, and he is shown what will have to be done to comply. A second check will be made following the first inspection. Perhaps five inspections will be needed, Lehman pointed out, to make certain that safe habits are being followed as a matter of course. As soon as the manager can be given a clean inspection shet, showing no health problems, he is awarded a decal. This decal shows that the eating establishment or market safely handles food. Lehman explained that he started working June 4. On that day Swickard went over the rules and regulations of the Decatur ordinances pertaining to health, and state laws on the matter. J. B. Baker, of the food, drug, and cosmetics department of the state board of health, also assisted in the training. The three men then went to the 4-H camp at Oilver lake and inspected the food facilities there, to give Lehman an idea of what was expected. The second day Lehman returned 4o Fort Wayne and continued his study of the rules and regulations and a large amount of literature concerning public health information. The first actual inspection in Decatur started June 6. Lehman and Swickard started at the south end of Winchester street. The Diner Bell was the first place inspected. The Erie restaurant, Ideal, and downtown Pioneer restaurants followed. Each manager present was very cooperative, Lehman stated. A copy of the inspection sheet, showing what is to be expected, was left with the owner. Most of the repairs to be made were of a minor nature, but nevertheless important to health. At the Erie restaurant, for example, a tencent spring to keep the latrine door closed, a new linoleum top for the counter, and other minor items amounting to about $lO, were needed. No busineses were closed, nor will any be closed if they make an honest attempt to comply with the law, Lehman said. So far all have indicated that they are solidly behind the program. Swickard then showed Lehman how to set up his permanent files, recording the permanent informa(Continued on Page eight)

More Debate Is Scheduled On Labor Bill Senate Schedules Further Debate On Labor Reform Bill WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate scheduled further debate today on the moderate labor reform bill introduced by Sen. John F. Kennedy D-Mass.). Kennedy said he thought the bill’s supporters had lessened chhnces of any major revisions by accepting almost unanimously 10 amendments the administration wanted to strengthen the legislation. Kennedy said all the changes adopted Thursday were minor ones. But Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland Calif.) said the fact that Kennedy had agreed to the revisions showed the bill as it emerged from the Senate Labor Committee needed overhauling. Knowland, a major advocate of a stiffer bill, said his side was not conceding defeat. In the first major test of strength Thursday night, the Senate rejected 47 to 38 a move by Sen. Barry Goldwater R-Ariz.) to strike from the Kennedy measure a section changing the definition of supervisory employes who are exempt from provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson Tex.) scheduled another long meeting today. Te said it was “up to tae Republicans” whether the Senate reached a final vote tonight or met in an unusual Saturday session, The House was in recess today until Monday. Sen. Richard B. Russell D-Ga.) forecast Senate approval of a defense reorganization bill which falls short of what President Eisenhower wants. Russell’s Senate Armed Services Committee begins hearings next week on reorganization legislation. The House passed its bill 402 to 1 Thursday after defeating three amendments offered by Republicans to bring the measure more in line with Eisenhower’s requests. Other congressional news: Defense: The House passed 402 to 1 a bill granting most of what President Eisenhower requested in a move to streamline and centralize the Pentagon command structure. But it rejected, generally along party lines, three proposed changes the President said were vital to the nation’s defense. Taxes: The Senate Finance) Committee unanimously approved the House’s hold-the-line bill to continue high wartime tax rates on corporation income and sales of such consumer items as automobiles, liquor and tobacco. Fann: The House Agriculture Committee gave the administration its first partial victory on a (ConunuM on Page ax) Young Soldier, Date Are Killed By Train GARY, Ind. (UPD — A young soldier home for a visit and his date, a June high school graduate, were killed today when their car J was hit by two trains at a Gary , crossing. The dead were Duane W. Downey, 20, and Judy A. Colburn, 17, Gary. Police said that the crossing : gates were down when Downey ; reached the Michigan Central : tracks. They believe he saw one train, six blocks away, and decided to pull around the lowered ; gates and continue, without noticing another closer train. ’

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 13, 1958

Fierce Wind Storms, New Downpours Sweep Indiana Flood Areas — — - ♦ _

Mogilner Tells Os Payments To Sherwood, Sayer Salesman Testifies , Paying Defendants In Bribery Trials man Arthur J. Mogilner‘followed up his plea of guilty to bribery charges in the Indiana highway scandals today .by testifying that former Indiana Adj. Gen. Elmer W. Sherwood was “elated” when Mogilner gave him a check for $14,056 as a commission on state sales of “Gio.” Mogilner told a jury trying Sherwood and William Sayer on bribery charges that he gave the two men a check on July 18, 1955, representing the first big 25 per cent commission on gross sales of the engine additive to the State Highway Department. , Mogilner said as a state’s witness that he sold 148 barrels he got for $3 a gallon to the state for $8 a gallon and gave Sherwood and Sayer one-fourth of the $66,080 the state paid him, in lipe with a pre-arranged commission rate. He also made sales of “Gio” to the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Mogilner testified. • Sherwood and Sayer had told him, Mogilner said, that “they would arrange tor me to meet the right people and that they had enough influence to talk to these people and assure me of the sale of ‘Gio’ to the State of Indiana.” Helped Arrange Tests He said Sayer helped arrange tests of the product and instructed Edmond Talucci, then director of farms and industries for the State Correction Department, to “assist me in any way possible in the (Continued on Page eight) Proposes Aviation Agency For Safety New Federal Agency Is Proposed By Ike WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower*- proposed today creation of a new federal aviation agency to make air travel safer. The new agency would absorb the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Airways Modernization Board which have been taking emergency measures to stop collisions of planes in flight. In a special message to Congress, the President asked that legislation setting up the new agency be passed, “at the earliest practicable date.” He said he had intended to recommend such legislation early next year but that a recent jetairliner collision over Maryland—in which 12 were killed—made it apparent “that the need for action is so urgent that the consolidation should be undertaken now.” Accordingly, he Said, he was recommending that the new agency be set up promptly with “powers required for the effective performance of the responsibilities to be assigned to it.” The new agency would be headed by an administrator appointed by the President and subject to Senate confirmation. It would take over from the Civil Aeronautics Board the issuance of air safety regulations. In addition to having full control over civilian aircraft, the new agency would have under its jurisdiction military air operations to the extent possble without causing “impairment of the national defense.” The President’s message said such Defense Department air con trol functions should be trans ferred to'the new agency “as rapidly as adequate arrangement for their performance and the solution of the personnel prob lems can be worked outi” He said military personnel, as well as civilians, should have high posts in the new agency to assure that national defense interest would not be negected.

Rainfall Continues In City And County Overnight Rainfall Average 1.6 Inches Rains that began over the weekend, and continued to threaten in mid-week, started again last night. Overnight rainfall averaged approximately L 6 inches for die county; it came in general, steady downpours accompanied by moderately heavy to light thunderstorms. High water, from the earlier rainfalls, rose, as the St. Mary's river measured 17.52 feet at 11:30 o'clock this morning at Decatur. This forenoon .6 inch of rain fell at Decatur while .17 inches were maasured at Berne for the same time. Until noon 2 inches of rain were recorded in Geneva. Roads inundated in the county included Indiana 101, north of Pleasant Mills, and Indiana 116, east of Geneva. In surrounding areas, state roads closed because of high water were 1, north of Redkey, in Jay county, and 316 ' in Wells county, southeast of i Bluffton. The Wabash river, before the last rains, had reached its crest at Marion Thursday morning, measuring 23.13 feet, the highest in 15 years. At Portland, the Salamonie had gone back to near normal Thursday also. Weather bureau reports said this morning that it would take over two inches of rain to Cause more flooding. throughout the county, the unofficial township reports looked like ■ this, as they reported the rain recorded during a period from 7:30 to 8:30 this morning: Preble township received 1.5 inches at the Arthur Koeneman farm. In Root township, Cecil Harvey reported a rain fall of 1.8 inches. At the Erwin Fuelling farm in Union township, 1.2 inches had fallen. Recordings in Kirkland township ranged from I.6jnches at the Peter J. Spangler farm to 1.l inches at the Dan Fiechter farm. One and six tenths inches of rain fell during the night at the farm of Mrs. Bonnie Zimmerman, in St. Mary's township, on the Nimrod McCullough farm, the rain gauge stood at 1.8 inches early this mornContinueu vn usure six) Dorwin Is Speaker At Rotary Meeting Praises Exchange Student Program Deane Dorwin was the guest speaker at this week’s Rotary meeting held Thursday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Ken Eliasson, Rotary foreign exchange student, also spoke briefly and thanked the members for having sponsored him during the year. Joe Kaehr program chairman. Dorwin, who is teaching at the summer school session at Decatur high school, complimented the club on its exchange student program. He praised the Swedish youth and said the program had added a great deal to the past school year. He also commented favorably on the coming visit of about 70 other exchange students who will visit Decatur July 2 to 4. The Decatur high school had its first summer sessions in 1943 to accommodate.lhose wanting diplomas before their induction into the arined forces. Guy Brown, and R. A. Adams were the instructors. This plan was discontinued in 1951. The present session was offered to permit students to handle two required subjects, government and sociology, so that seniors could then take added electives during tiie regular school year. Many plaV to take, French 1 which Will be offered for the first time next fall. The eight week summer course is tuition free because of state aid, and gnust conform to state requirements. Seventy-taree clock hours of instruction are* given and two credits earned toward graduation. The course is offered as “a small step toward meeting the education(Contlnued on page »ix)

Ike Refuses To Heed Demands Adams Resign President Rejects Demands Top Aide Ousted From Post WASHINGTON (UPD - President Eisenhower today rejected a congressional demand that he fire Sherman Adams, his top aide. White House Press Secretary James A C. Hagerty made the President’s position clear in answer to a reporter’s question. The-reporter noted that Rep. Peter F. Mack (D-Ill.) had said Eisenhower should demand Adams’ resignation because of the presidential assistant’s actions in Rehalf of millionaire industrialist Bernard Goldfine, from whom he accepted favors. He then asked if Hagerty could say whether the President had any intention of firing Adams. “Sure I can,” he said. “The answer is of course not.” Hagerty declined to answer further questions concerning Adams. Denies Sought Favors “The governor sent a letter Thursday to Mr. (Rep.) Oren Harris (D-Ark.) and that is all he expects to have to say,” Hagerty said. “He is not going to have a press conference and I have not heard any talk about his going up (to Capitol Hill) to testify.” This was Hagerty’s answer to all further questions about the matter, including a report that Goldfine had given a S7OO vicuna coat to Adamsi Adams denied Thursday that he had .used his position to seek government favors for Goldfine, New England textile tycoon. He said he only made, or directed others to make, phone calls to get information for Goldfine or to arrange an appointment for him. Hagerty said Thursday that Eisenhower “still has complete confidence” in his 59-year-old chief aide. Morse Blasts Conduct Congressional Democrats denounced Adams’ conduct as “highly improper.” Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said he did not see how the President could “reconcile” Adams admissions with his (Eisenhower’s) 1952 campaign promise to make the government “cleaner than a hound’s tooth.” Adams admitted Thursday that Goldfine had paid about $2,000 in bills for him and his family at a swank hotel in Boston (The Shera(Continued on Page eight) . Covered Bridge May Be Replaced Soon Survey Possibility Os Replacing Bridge Rumors that the covered bridge at Pleasant Mills would be removed and replaced by a newly constructed type, are reported within the county. Ervin Fox, Bluffton, sub-district superintendent of the state highway department, was contacted today on the matter. He stated that a team of surveyors is working in the corporation of Pleasant Mills, and said th? bridge was surveyed, but that nothing is official as yet. The surveying was still in progress Thursday. The old covered bridge at Pleasant Mills, constructed "in 1881, is still serviceable, and used by state highway 101, where it crosses the St. Mary’s river at that town. The old bridge and the village of Pleasant Mills are synonymous. During the years, the bridge has undergone various repairs but to all intents, it is the same old covered bridge. The citizens ms Pleasant Mills cherish the old bridge with its memories and hope that when it is no longer safe for modern travel it will be preserved as a museum piece.

To West Point jgfg® Bl / Gene Baxter Baxter Is Accepted As West Point Cadet Gene Edward Baxter To Attend Academy Gene Edward Baxter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Baxter of 312 Line street, received word Thursday afternoon that he had been accepted as a student at West Point, the United States Military Academy. Baxter was the first principal appointment this year of Rep. E. Ross Adair, and he passed two physical examinations before being informed that he was accepted. He will report to the academy July 1 before 10 a.m. to begin his first year of training. He will be a member of the class of 1962. It will be approximately 11 months before he receives his first vacation to return home for a visit. Baxter is a 1957 graduate of Decatur high school, where he was a fine, hardworking student in the upper one-fourth of his class, principal Hugh J. Andrews said this morning. He was a four-letter man in football, baseball, and basketball, and a member of the D club for three years, serving as vice president his senior year. He also participated in intramural volley ball his freshman year. In 1957 he was the alternate West Point candidate, but did not pass the four-day examination given at Fort Sheridan, 111. Last fall he entered Purdue university, where he studied the past year, concentrating on mathematieal and pre-engineering courses. He was a pledge" to Beta Theta Pi fraternity =*at Purdue. During his high school career he was quite active, having sung in the freshman chorus in 1954 and (Continued on page Youngsters Die In Abandoned Icebox < Two Are Suffocated In Icebox Saturday VENICE, 111. (UPD—Police today considered possible charges against a housewife whose old, abandoned icebox became a death vault for two youngsters. The youngsters, Bobby Lee Loving, 7, and Sandra Waggoner, 5, were found suffocated in the icebox Thursday after they had been missing for seven hours. Two playmates, Bobby’s sister. Ruby, 7, and Sandras sister, Yvonne, 8, each blamed the'other for “locking them up in the icebox. Police said the children apparently crawled into the icebox while playing. Police Chief Robert Trower said he would talk with Harry Hartman, Venice city attorney, to determine what charges might be placed against the icebox's owner, Mrs. Peggy Bell# Police said Mrs. Bell recently moved from the neighborhood and left the box in the basement of her aunts home. An Illinois law states that abandoned iceboxes must have their doors removed. Bobby Lee was the son of Mrs. Leroy Loving. Sandra was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Waggoner.

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North Central Indiana Area Is Hit Again v Crests Os Streams Revised Upward As Storms Continuing STORM WARNING INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—The Weather Bureau said in a severe weather forecast for Northern Indiana that a new surge of thunderstorm activity is expected to move through the area today with possible tornadoes. The warning said: “A new surge of thunderstorm activity is expceted to move into Eastern Illinois about noon today and move rapidly eastward through Northern Indiana into Northern Ohio. This activity is expected to produce several tornadoes along with scattered damaging windstorms and large hall this afternoon and evening from noon CST until 9p. m. CST in an area approximately 60 miles either side of a line drawn from a point 20 miles southeast of Chicago to 30 miles southeast of Akron, Ohio. By United Press International Fierce wind storms and new downpours swept North Central Indiana flood areas today. Tornadic gusts caused damage at Markleville and Logansport. Unofficial reports placed the loss at SBOO,OOO at Makleville. River observers revised upward the crests of streams already swollen to their highest levels in 15 years. One flood area got nearly 3t4 inches of new rain. A flash flood of Campbell’s run at Edna Mills near Frankfort isolated the town of Scircleville, with National Guardsmen standing by in Frankfort ready to help if called. To make things worse, more heavy rain was forecast for this afternoon and tonight over the entire state, including the harried flood zone, and the five-day outlook indicated 1 to 3 inches of rain would fall up to next Wednesday in addition to the torrents measuring up to more than 10 inches which have doused some areas this week. New Higher Crests Overworked weather observers, trying to evaulate the effect of the latest torrents of flooded streams, said the Wabash River an far downstream as Lafayette would rise above earlier crests at some points and below at others. Most streams were rising or due to rise in the runoff of the new rain from waterlogged earth. Lafayete reported 3.30 inches of rain this morning, and the Wabash River there, which had dropped late Thursday, started rising again. At Logansport, a storm described as a “small twister” unroofed one house and damaged another and hurled lawn furniture 600 feet into a football field early this morning. Cass County areas reported nearly 2% inches of rain, and Logansport, in the flood zone, had nearly IVg inches. More showers and thunderstorms, with loc all y heavy amounts, were forecast for the entire state today and tonight, with mos-e rain Saturday and possibly early Sunday. A storm described by witnesses as '"funnel shaped” roared through Markleville, near Anderson, at 2:30 a.m. and caused damage estimated in preliminary reports at SBOO,OOO. Carnival Tents Down A carnival playing in the Mark leville schoolyard under sponsor ship of the Amvets was damaged badly. Tents were flattened and displays scattered. Trees were uprooted and houses vibrated as the storm passed. A carnival worker was hurt slightly. The storm occurred during a rain of nearly two inches. The weather bureau officially reported Lafayette’s 3.3oinch rain and said the new heavy downpour (Continued <n page eight)