Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1958 — Page 1

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Rescue Three Crewmen From Ditched Plane Planes, Ships Scour Patch Os Pacific For Remainder Os Crew HONOLULU (UPI) — Planes and ships scoured a patch of-the Pacific Ocean 600 miles southwest of here today for the plane-mates of three Air Force men who were rescued from the water Friday after their C-124 went down. The three rescued survivors said at least one other man was alive in the water after the crash. They said they heard his cries and saw light flashing in the distance. But they never made contract with him. The rescued airmen said two others got out of the plane alive but died in the water before the rescue. Besides the three survivors, one body was recovered and five men were missing. "It doesn’t look too good for the others now,” an officer said when they were not located among the floating debris where the three survivors were found. Treated For Shock — The fiiree crewmen pulled out of the water by a helicopter from the carrier USS Boxer were being treated for shock and minor injuries in the flat-top’s sick bay. The crewmen saved were Capt. Jonathan W. Brown, pilot of the downed craft, who lived at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where the flight originated; T. Sgt. James M. Phillips, flight engineer, Vacaville, Calif.; and S. Sgt. James P. Vanderre, flight engineer, San Rafael, Calif. The man known dead was not immediately identified. Others known to be on the plane were Ist Lt. Gerald J. Bona, navigator, Vacaville, Calif.; Al-C Charles E. Entrekin, loadmaster, Atlantic City, N.J.; S. Sgt. Thomas Tasco, assistant loadmaster, Fairfield, Calif.; and Ist Lt. Philip E. Johnson (no home town' given). Two couriers, an Air Force officer and a Coast Guard warrant officer, who boarded at Hickam Field, Hawaii, were also unaccounted for. Trouble Reported The Air Force officer was identified as Capt. Charles Eaton Spears, a dentist based in Hawaii, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russel E. Spears, live at Ironton, Ohio. The plane had left Hickam en ™ route to Tokyo via Wake Island late Thursday night. At 1:20 a.m. (7:30 a.m., e.d.t.) Friday, Brown reported trouble in his right inboard engine, He turned back 500 miles out of Hickam, but a little later, when the propeller started “runing away,” he headed south towards the air-strip on tiny Johnson Island, which was only 200 miles away. When no further word was heard from the disabled Globemaster, the well-trained Pacific rescue poeration went into swing. The. survivors were spotted by an Air Force search plane. at 1:15 p.m. (7:15 p.m., e.dX) and were picked up by the Boxer’s helicopter a few minutes later. The carrier was expected to return to Pearl Harbor with the survivors Sunday. INDIANA WEATHER Turning cooler tonight. Sunday fair and pleasant. Low tonight in 60s High Sunday 78 north to 85 South. Outlook for Monday: Fair and pleasant.

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Light Rainfall Is Reported In County Less Than Half-Inch Average In County Rain unofficially averaging less than one-half inch fell in the county over the Independence Day holiday, from late Thursday afternoon until this morning, driving farmers momentarily out of their fields and dampening holiday picnicking - prospects in scattered areas. Highest reading in the county came from Jack Hurst this morning, with a report of .70 from the Geneva area, where the rain came mostly early Friday morning. However, in Kirkland township, on the Peter J. Spangler farm, the light sprinkles of Thursday night were not recordable. These scattered summer rains, while making the atmosphere more humid and uncomfortable, were welcome as they helped to break up the crust which had formed on the ground after tern- 1 peratures averaging in the 80s baked the ground which had been soaked during a wet, cold June. Farmers in the area have had to work swiftly at cultivating and late planting since they had been able to get into the fields just recently. The general county picture, reported early this morning, looked like this: in Root ches was recorded on the Cecil Harvey farm, which received rain Thursday evening and the morning of the Fourth. No recordable amount of rain fell at the Spangler farm in Kirkland township. In Decatur, from 7 a. m. Thursday until that time Friday, .08 inch was recorded, U. S. weather observer Lewis Landrum reported this morning;, the St. Mary’s river continue to recede, standing at 3.01 this morning. In French township, on the Harold Moser farm, .3 inch fell Thursday evening and this morning. On the Ben Mazelin farm, in Monroe township, .6 was recorded Friday forenoon. In Geneva, Jack Hurst recorded .7 inch. June had been a wet, cold month, with cold temperatures <Continued on page Bix) Mrs. Rosanna Yoder Dies Early Friday Local Lady's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Rosana Yoder, 82, a native of French township and a lifelong resident of the Berne community, died at 2:20 a.m. Friday at the home of a daughter; Mrs. Walter Curts, at Parker. Mrs. Yoder, who resided two miles west of Berne, had been bedfast since March 30. ‘ SurviJViqfe |n jadditl||x to jtbq daughters are three sons, Dennis Loveland, 0., Ralph, at home, and Clifford, route one, Muncie; three other daughters, Mrs. Harold Durbin, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Earl Sudduth, Decatur; and Mrs. Charles Rope, Geneva; 14 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; two brothers, John Meschberger, Auburn, and Wilbert Meschberger, Fort Wayne; and a sister, Mrs. Sarah Rastetter, Fort Wayne. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home, Berne, after 4 pm. today. Services will be conducted at 2 pm. Sunday in the funeral home, the Rev. E. G. Steiner officating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. , NOON EDITION

Worst Flood In Southwest lowa HistoryEases 19 Known Dead In Floods, Property Losses Are Heavy AUDUBON, lowa (UPD — Searchers plodded through mudcovered flood debris today looking for the lone remaining body of the 19 known dead in southwest lowa’s worst floods in history. The floods appeared to be spent. Red Cross officials said a first survey of the damage showed 19 dead, 59 injured, one seriously, and 31 dwellings destroyed. In addition, 120 dwellings suffered major damages, 355 others were less severely damaged and 71 farms building were destroyed. In all, the floods inflicted losses on at least 971 lowa families. At least two possible flood threats- be past., tihfr danger stage. The Nishnabotna River, loaded with carcasses of dead livestock, flowed swiftly past the barricaded town of Hamburg into the Missouri River. Sandbags and flash boards lined up to protect the town proved to be eight feet higher titan the river’s crest. A second flood threat diminished when the Racoon River crested at 18 feet at Des Moines, then began falling. Earlier, the Racoon nad chased 250 persons from their homes in Des Moines and West Des Moines. It was feared overnight raips might. push a ' secondest past the area within the next two days. The fir&t of the dead to be i buried Friday were at Aububon. where services were held for Mrs. Dalton Hansen, 22, and Darwin . Kurtzweiler, 17. There was little July 4th holiday i spirit at Audubon Instead, workers poured in to help put back in , order as much as possible of smashed home?, bridges and highways. On farms, too, the damage was , severe. One farmer said he lost • 1,700 head of sheep. Another said , he lost 1,200. i The Red Cross said it hoped to 1 have a tentatively complete fi.«nancial damage estimate" ready : sometime today. i The three hardest-hit counties were Guthrie, Cass and Auduon. i The Red Cross said it helped I (Conti"' Pture six) 1 _1 ———— . Paris Vizard Dies l ' • Al Home In Illinois Native Os County Dies At Galesburg Paris D. Vizard, 60. eldest son of the late Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Vizard of Pleasant Mills, died at 12:30 o’clock Friday afternoon at his home in Galesburg, 111. He had been in failing health for six months with heart trouble. He was born at Pleasant Mills Sept. 12, 1897, and graduated from the Decatur high school in 1916. He obtained his LL. D. degree at Oklahoma University in 1921, and was admitted to the bar in Indiana in 1922, but never practiced law. For the past 25 years, Mr. Vizard has been Northwestern Illinois sales manager for Allied Mills. Surviving are his wife, Margaret; three sons, Edward, with the U. S. Army in Heidelberg, Germany; Donald and James, both at home; two daughters, Misses Rita and Mary Vizard, both at home; one sister, Ruth, of Indianapolis, and two brothers, Gordon Vizard of Portland, Ore., and Gerald Vizard of Decatur. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, pending word from the son in Germany. Adams Central School Band To State Fair Adams Central high school band, under the leadehip and the world under of Don Gerig, has been offically entered in Indiana state fair band contest, Thursday 28. , The contest will be on the second day of the fair, which is scheduled from August 27 through Septenxber 5. The Adams Central, band will march 87th in the parade of high school bands from all over the state Os Indiana, beginning at 8 a.m. in front of the grandstand. Five judges, nationally known band directors from outside Indiana will judge tiie contest and select the winners of 81,000 in class prizes and trophies. Some 18,000 spectators are expected to watch the contest, which has been hailed by many as one of the most colorful and competitive band contests in the country.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 5,1958

Nation’s Holiday Toll On Highways Mounting Steadily Across U. S.

Says Goldfine Attempting To Buy Influence Goldfine's Gifts Should Be Returned WASHINGTON (UPI) — Two House investigators said today White House and congressional employes should return any gifts from Bernard Goldfine which the Boston textile tycoon wrote off as business expenses on his income tax forms. “Goldfine’s motive is quite clear — he’s trying to buy influence.” Rep. Morgan M. Moulder (D-Mo.) charged. Moulder is a member of the influence '- investigating subcommittee investigating Goldfine’s relationship with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. Goldfine testified on Thursday that his income tax returns listed Christmas checks to 33 employes at the White House and Capitol Hill as business expenses, the Same treatment accorded various favors to Adams. - Moulder called upon Adams to return at once the expensive oriental rug which Goldfine testified he loaned the White House aide. “it’s about time the rug goes baek,” Moulder told United Press International. Goldfine had acknowledged he deducted the cost of the rug as a business expense. Subcommittee members John E. Moss (D-Calif.) and John B. Bennett (R-Mich.) said they want fuller explanations of what Goldfine had in mind. Moss said public officials should ship Goldfine gifts right back to the sender if they were listed as deductible items. Leaving Washington for a week encTm“Boston; Goldfine told newsmen Friday he expected to go on playing Santa Claus to “poor” federal workers. He said he was not a bit sorry for What he’s given so far. Summer Hours Staff Monday At Library Regular summer closing hours will begin Monday, as the library will be open only two nights of the week. The hours are as follows: Mondays and Saturdays, open at noon; closing at 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, the library will be open at noon, and will close at 6 p.m.

Over Million In County Crop Loss, Land Damage

By Dick Heller, Jr. With official estimates of more than $1 million in crop loss and land damage in Adams county already this year, flood control on the St. Mary’s and Wabash rivers and their tributaries looms much more important. Damage last year .was estimated to have been almost as much, with substantial damage suffered two years ago. Official estimates of flood damage, made by a survey board of county agricultural agencies for the agricultural stabilization and conservation committee, showed total damages of $1 million. A similar report has been sent in from the local SCS office to the district office, amended by a report that the original figure was believed to be low, compared with actual damage. Damage in fields that have survived is much greater than originally estimated. To merchants interested in farm Credit, to taxpayers interested in the tax value of local farms, and especially to the farm families affected by the high water, the problem has become acute. Initial planning on the problem of the Wabash river, the greater of the two problems, has already started. Apparently, however, the problem is pigeonholed in various county, district, state and federal agencies which have been contacted. On Dec. 10 of last year, repre-

10 Violent Deaths .o ' 1 Reported In Stale Bryant Youth Killed As Auto Hits Bridge By United Press International Hot, humid weather drove Hoosiers to the water for recreation on the Fourth of July, and drowntigs nearly equalled traffic deaths ip Indiaa’s holiday casualty toll. Ten violent deaths were listed for the first half of the 78-hour holiday weekend, including 5 in traffic, 3 by drowning, 1 in a farm accident and 1 by accidental electirocution. Ta traffic accident near Crawfordsville Friday night killed Wai ter Bean, 73, Crawfordsville, and fatally injured his wife, Loula, 55. A car in which they were riding collided at a road intersection near New Ross with one driven by Mrs. Nancy Linn, 16, New Ross. Richard D. Cain, 19, Bryant, apparently fell asleep at the wheel, state police said, and his car rammed a bridge abutment Friday. He died about five hours later in Jay County Hospital. Tire Blowout Fatal Charles Wilkinson, 42. Chicago, was killed when his car blew a tire on the Northern Indiana Toll Road one mile east of the Elkhart plaza Friday. The car hit a guard Tail and a bridge rail and overturned. Elijh Ingle, 80. English, was killed when he walked in front of a car on Ind. 64 in Dubois County Thursday night. A short time before the holiday eount started at 6 p.m. (e.d.t.) Thursday Mrs. Anna Moore, 74, was killed when a car hit her as she crossed a Conersville street and Morris Van de Walle, 52, was hit and killed by a runaway automobile in South Bend. But these did not count on the holiday toll. Two persons drowned Friday and David Lee Echols, 7, Mishawaka, drowned' Thursday -night in the St. Joseph River at Mishawaka. The boy was playing in the rain in his swim suit. Authorities said he had been warned not to go near the river a block away. Judy Shepherd, 16, Whiteland, drowned Friday trying to save two younger sisters from the current in Flat Rock River at Columbus. Fisherman and picnickers saved the two younger girls and a brother and married sister in time. But Judy was taken from the river too late. Falls Off Dock Klee Turley, 32, Evansville, fell from a dock Friday at a fishing camp in Vanderburgh County (Cent)nued on page five)

sentatives of the corps of engineers, U. S. Army, met with Roy Weaver, Charles Stolz and Orison • Stolz, farmers along the Wabash , river in Jefferson township. The three local men and two . of the engineers inspected the Wabash river from the Ohio line downstream past New Corydon. They found the stream choked and deteriorated by acumulated drift. Numerous drift "racks” or log piles were found, including some across the entire channel. At one location west of New Corydon, a drift rack causes complete damming of the channel, backing up water for two miles or more. At this point, land owners have proposed to dig a new channel, eight feet deep, 60 feet wide, and, 1300-1600 feet in length. Engineers estimated that it would cost more to remove the block than to build a new channel. The landowners themselves have raised about $2,000, and have started work on the new channel. However, lack of funds has hampered the work. The group, known as the Jay-Adams association, told the engineers that they would like federal assistance in cleaning the Wabash from a point 1% miles west of the state line to a point near Geneva, about eight miles of the river bottom. At the time that the engineers visited the site, the land owners did pot have a legal organization (Continued on page ftve)

Russia Unveils Secret Method Os Defection : Russian Scientists Make Disclosures At Nuclear Talks GENAVA (UPI) — The Soviet Union today unveiled some of the previously secret methods it uses to detect nuclear explosions. The disclosures were made by Russian scientists in a new report preseted to Western scientit at the eight-nation Ent-West technical conference studying means to detect nuclear explosions. The methods were not made public immediately. Dr. Hans Bethe, professor at Cornell University, told newsmen after the lengthy meeting today, the fourth of the conference, the Soviet experts had given data “beyond the technical information previously known." The scientists from Britain, France, Canada, the United States, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania met for nerly three hours tody. It was the fourth session since the conference began five days ago. The official communique announced only that the scientists “continued' . technical discussions” and scheduled the next meeting for Monday at 3 p.m. Both Soviet ad Western delegates said they were satisfied with the progress of their discussions and the friendly atmosphere in which they proceeded. But the Rusians appeared less impressed with what the West had offered than did the Western scientists with what the Russians had offered in the way of technical knowledge. . - Soviet Nqbel Prize winner Nikolai N. Semenov and Mikhail Ar (Continued on page six) —— Former Local Lady Dies Al Fort Wayne Mrs. A. Merle Ogg Found Dead In Home Mrs. A. Merle Ogg, 62, a former Decatur resident, was found dead at 9:30 a. m. Thursday at her home in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Ogg was born near Craigville to Bruce and Ellen Clark Niblick. Her husband, Perry Ogg, preceded her in death in 1935. Mrs. Ogg and her husband had operated a used furniture store here. She had moved to Fort Wayne 26 years ago. Surviving are one son, Giles W. Ogg, Fort Wayne: four daughters, Mrs. Lulu Bolt, Decatur, Mrs. Stanley Reed and Mrs. Tom Drew. Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Mark Stauffer, Freemont; four brothers, Verne Niblick, Decatur, Ross Niblick, near Bluffton, J. R. Niblick, Bluffton, and Clark Niblick, Fort Wayne; four sisters, Mrs. Stella Coffee, Mrs. Velma Garner, Mrs. Hattie Shoe, and Mrs. Georgia Brinner. Decatur; 16 grandchildren and four great-grand-children. The body was taken to the C. M. Sloan and Sons funeral home fin Fort Wayne, where friends may call. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday at the funeral home-, the Rev. John G. Frank officiating. Burial will be in Decatur cemetery. , SI,OOO In Contraband Fireworks Destroyed SEYMOUR, Ihd. (UPI) — About SI,OOO worth of contraband fireworks, confiscated from the car of an enterprising Kentucky man, were dumped into White River Wednesday on order of Jackson Circuit Judge John M. Lewis. Lewis ordered disposition of the fireworks, after he fined Herbert J. Brabandt Jr., Louisville, SSO and costs for trying to sell them in a state where they are banned by law.

Innocent Man Freed By Man's Confession Ends Two Years In Death Row For Man COLUMBIA. S. C. (UPI) — James Fulton Faster, father of seven, prepared today to end two years in death row because of the confession of a Bible - reading cop-turned-crook cleared him of a 1956 murder. Charles P. (Rocky) Rothschild , of Cairo, 111., signed a confession ; Friday saying he shot a Georgia s merchant in a burglary attempt two years ago. Foster had been ' convicted of the murder and sen- 1 tenced to death. “I’m so excited now that I : , don’t know what to say,” Foster . sa|d- “But I do want to thank ' , all the people that helped me.” ( His wife, who had remained at home in Greer, S. C., with the , ’ seven children during the two years her husband was awaiting r execution, heard the news of Rothschild’s confession by accident on a newscast. Six of the children heard it also. Jump With Joy “They’ve been jumping up and down with joy. They keep running to the window to see if he’s coming down the road,” she said. “I knew from the very beginning he didn’t do it. He’s too . good a husband and fattier to do it. He’s just too good.” Rothschild said the Bible led . him to confess shooting Charles Drake, 56, of Jefferson, Ga., two . years ago. The onetime Cairo policeman cited the Fifth Chapter, 10th Verse of the book of St. Mathew: "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for s theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” -* , “May God return him to his wife and family and may he have a long and happy life,” Rothschild said of Foster.’ To Return Home Officials at Jefferson said Foster would be free to return to his home at Greer either today or Sunday depending on necessary paperwork. Rothschild was being held in the South Carolina State Pent (Continued on p*xe six) * Rebel Positions In i Tripoli Battered Shooting Is Also Reported In Beirut ' BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) —Gov- ! ernment batteries bombarded rebci positions in the port city of Tripoli for "the third straight day ’ today in an effort to flush out Syrians the army said were hiding in no man’s land. In Beirut, the government — angered by United Nations reports \ denying “massive” Syrian infiltra- ; tion — retaliated by expelling seV- ’ en United Arab Republic Embas- ' sy officials and employes. The Tripoli fighting was concentrated again in the no man’s land separating the rebel-held of the city and the government- . held new city. Buildings in be- . tween were being reduced to rubble by the tank and mortar fire. United Press International Cor- . respondent Robert Egby. who has ’ watched the fighting from the Ho- . tel Hakim headquarters of the U. I N. observer teams, quoted rebel . leader Rashid Karami as describ- • ing the barrage as "the worst since the war started.” Egby himself narrowly escaped injury when a stray bullet whizzed into his hotel room and embedded itself into a watt. Firing also was heard in Beirut • Friday for the first time in sev- • eral days and U. S. Ambassador ’ Robert McClintock said stray bul- - lets, apparently from rebel guns, ’ zipped over his yacht while he i and his son. David, were sailing in ■ Beirut harbor. He said he thought the bullets • were not aimed at his yacht, the 1 Virtue 111, which was flying the i American Flag but were strays. r The boat was not damaged and there were no injuries. .

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Fear Record Death Toll On Long Holiday Many Drownings Are Also Recorded In Nation Oyer Fourth ...... By United Press Interational The nation’s Fourth of July weekend highway death toll steadily mounted today at an even greater rate than sober pre-holi-day statistics had forecast. As of 8 a.m. c.d.t. a United Press International count showed 146 traffic deaths since the Independence Day weekend officially began at 6 p.m. local time Thursday. In addition, there were at least 62 drownings, 3 deaths in plane crashes and 24 other deaths in ’ miscellaneous accidents for an overall holiday death count of 235. California led the nation with 15 traffic fatalities. Texas had 10 deaths while New York and Ohio had nine each. The National Safety Councils which originally had predicted 410 highway deaths, said drivers had better put on the brakes or a new three-day Independence Day weekend death record would be set. •’The best way to check this is by better behavior behind the wheel,” Safety Council President Ned H. Dearborn said. “The very enormity of the toll should serve as a sobering shock to every driver and a grim warning that dager is riding the highway.” Rains and thunderstorms hampered many holiday drivers, especially in an area stretching from Nebraska and Kansas into northern Illinois. Four persons including two children were killed at Smith River, Calif., when they were trapped in a fire. A train-car crash in Chicago took three lives. Police said the driver of the car apparently drove around a lowered crossing gate only to be struck by an oncoming Wabash Railroad train. Four persons were killed near Mount Vernon, Ky., when a car tried to pass a truck ad collided head-on with another auto. Among the dead was a 6-month-old baby. More than two million persons jammed New York’s Coney Island in a holiday mood. But the glorious Fourth was a day of sadness in southwest lowa, where relatives bega burying the first of the 19 known dead in recent floods. In Ordway, Colo., Howard Gibson, 7, v/as burned over 35 per cent of his body when his grandfather tried to light a sparkler with a blow torch. A fireworks factory exploded in Portland, Ore., killing at least one person and injuring 20 others. Police said the one-story frame warehouse blew up with an earsplitting roar, shattering windows as far as 22 blocks away. One policeman was injured when struck by a car while diverting traffic from the explosion scene. State Securities Commissioner Quits INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The resignation of Hugh A, Thornburg as Indiana state securities commissioner was made public today. Thornburg was commissioner the last 15 months by appointment of Secretary of State Frank Leaning. No reason was given for the resignation. South Bend Child \ 7 Drowns In Michigan CASSOPOLIS, Mich. (UPI) - Two-year-old Kevin Dean Adair of South Bend, Ind., drowned in a boathouse on Diamond Lake two miles south of here Friday. Authorities, said the boy’s body was found by his father. Dean Adair, and a physician and police worked over the child .for about two hours trying fruitlessly to revive him. /