Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 175.

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Adams County Tax Valuation Is Decreased

•» Adams county taxpayers received a jolt today as 1958 assessment figures show a decrease pf more than $400,000 in valuation, due chiefly to the old age exemption which went into effect this year. Total net value for the county in 1958, the basis for taxes in 1959, is $44,883,260, down $388,660, or more than 8.5% from the $45,271,920 assessed a year ago. The 1956 assessment was $43,430,440. The city taxpayers, however, received good news, as assessments in Decatur, Berne, and Monroe exceeded last year's figures. Decatur-Washington has an assessment of $9,041,150 this year, as compared with $8,891,850 last year, and $8,653,710 in 1956. Decatur-Root increased to $2,260,460 from $2,181,540 last year and $2,246,180 in 1956. The higher the assessment is, the lower the tax gate must be to raise the same amount of money. The lower the assessment, the higher the tax rate must be. Monroe-Washington figures show the assessment there up to $75,380 from $59,900 last year, and $47,990 in 1956. In Monroe-Monroe, the assessment is $415,430 this year, $391,020 last year, and $375,950 in 1956. Berne increased from $4,170,530 in 1957 to $4,186,510 this year. Geneva was the only town to show a decrease in assessment valuation, with $1,221,720 last year, and sl.147,710 this year, and $1,166,910 in 1956. ’ . Among the townships, only Root showed a gain in assessment values, while Kirkland showed only a very small decrease. Township rates are as follows: Blue Creek - $1,575,680 $1,633,540 French 1.830.310 1.846,020 Hartford .... ,1,903,690 1,987,800 Jefferson 1.433,210 1,502,070 • Kirkland .... 2,179,290 2.179,530 Monroe 3,094,550 3,178,690 Preble 2,631,740 . 2,743,890 Root 3,379,010 3,298.010 St. Marys ... 2,320,730 2,346,260 Union 1,850.560 1,886,260 Wabash 2,273,890 2,359,460 Washington .. 3,283,960 3,393,830 For the county, real estate assessments increased from $26,776,110 in 1957 to $27,318,230 this year. Personal assessment valuations propped from $15,233,730 last year to $14,648,760 in 1958. The state evaluation decreased from $5,384,030 to $5,364,970 this year. Both mortgage and soldiers exemptions increased this year, and the addition of old age exemptions subtracted $309,510 from the total (Continued on page five) * INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair and not much change tn temperature tonight and Sunday. Low tonight npper 50s north to mid 60s south. High Sunday 85 to 87. Outlook for Monday: Continued fair with little temperature change but with some widely scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers likely. ,

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Lebanon Loyal, Rebel Forces Clash Friday Report Bloody Fight In Lebanon, No U.S. Forces Are involved BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — A bloody clash between rebel and government forces, the worst since American troops landed two weeks ago. lent new urgency today to diplomatic efforts to resolve the Lebanese crisis before full-scale civil war erupts. Unofficial reports said 14 persons were killed and another 12 wounded in fighting Friday night. 1116 fighting was concentrated in an area at the foot of the rebelheld Al Khayad Hill, highest in Beirut. None of the 10,000 U. S. Marines and paratroops in Beirut was involved. The clash provided new fuel to fears that unless a settlement is reached soon there would be an eruption of full-scale fighting between the rebels and government forces — with the U. S. troops camped in “no-man’s land.” The diplomatic negotiations to find a presidential candidate satisfactory to both sides were continuing almost non-stop. The 66man Lebanese Parliament it scheduled to meet Thursday to elect a successor to President Camille Chamoun. Rebel leader Saeb Salem already has warned, ho.wever, that his supporters would boycott the elections unless Chamoun and the U. S. forces are removed first. Top American and 1 Lebanese civil and military leaders conferred for almost three hours Friday. Shortly afterwards, U. S. and United Nations officials had ‘their first formal contact in a high-level conference at the residence of U. S. Ambassador Robert McClintock. ; Gary Man Dies In Fall At Hospital GARY. Ind. (UP) — Joseph Faitak, 57, Gary, died late Friday of injuries suffered when he plunged from a second-story window in Gary Methodist hospital and landed in a parking lot. . Hospital officials said Faitak had been in the hospital about 10 days. They said he was “irritable” at first but that his attitude had changed and they knew of no reason he would want to harm himself. NOON EDITION

Senate Passes Farm Measure By Big Margin Measure Backed By Administration Is Approved By Senate WASHINGTON (UPl)—The administration rejoiced today in the prospect that a major farm bill to its liking might clear Congress before adjournment. The Senate Friday night approved, 62 to 11, an administra-tion-backed measure which would give Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson much of the power he wants to cut farm price support floors and loosen government curbs on planting. njirty-seven Republicans and 25 Democrats, mostly Southerners, voted for the bill. Opposed were 11 Democrats. Benson promptly praised the bill as “constructive” even though he said it did not give him everything he sought. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinn.), who led Democratic efforts to defeat the bill, raised a threat against Republicans who voted for its price-cutting features. He said he would "fight this out before the American peo- • pie,” in the coming election campaign. > Benson issued a statement calling the measure a ’victory for I sound principles” and a stride toward more freedom for farmers. He said he hoped the House would approve the bill quickly without “crippling amendments.” House farm leaders were considering a plan to pass a bill along the lines of the Senate measure, perhaps adding some relatively minor changes and amendments. They would then try to rush the House version through passage and send it to a conference committee to compromise the differences. The bill would avert 1959 cuts in 1959 planting allotments for both cotton and riee. However, it also would abolish all corn planting controls beginning next year, eliminating corn as one of the traditional “basic” crops for the first time since the farm program began in New Deal days. For the first time since World War II began, it would lower permissible price floors below 75 per cent of parity. Furthermore, it omits mention of wheat, tobacco or peanuts, thus leaving the door open for Benson to move next year to lower prices and relax planting restrictions on those major crops. Major provisions of the bill: —For corn, all federal planting controls dropped beginning in 1959. Price supports to be based on 90 per cent of average open (Continn-i on page five) Miss Colombia Is New Miss Universe South America Girl Winner Os Contest LONG BEACH, Calif. (UPI)— Luz Marina Zuloaga, 19-year-old Miss Colombia, who has only been kissed once, today was the new Miss Universe. The Latin American beauty who captured the international crown for the second straight year for South America, was breathless with excitment and disbelief Friday night as she received the Miss Universe crown. Miss Zuloaga, a shapely 35%won the crown and SII,OOO in cash, a new convertible and contracts worth $6,000 that go Mth it, over 34 foreign and 45 domestic beauties. Runners up were: Second, Miss Brazil, Adalgisa Colombo; third, Miss Hawaii, Geri Hoo; fourth, Miss U. S. A., Eurlyne Howell, and fifth. Miss Poland, Alicja Bobrowska. Choice An Upset The choice of a South American entrant was considered an upset for the number of curvesome blonde beauties from Europe; Miss Poland was the only European to. be named in the finals. Miss Zuloaga, brown - haired and brown -eyed, had paraded with other foreign entrants wearing colorful native costumes before the final judging. Then she put cm a tight - fitting. Huesequined bathing suit and that was it All the finalists expressed approval of the judges’ choice of Miss Zuloaga, except Miss France who thought Miss Brazil should have won. Miss Poland was a big favorite going into the finals and the selection of Miss Colombia was considered a great surprise. Miss Zuloaga, full bosomed and (Continued on page five)

—e .... _____ - Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 26,1958.

Await Russia’s Reply To Eisenhower’s Note On Summit Conference i ( '

Air Force Is Preparing Ist ; Shot At Moon Report Air Force Is Readying First Shot In Three Weeks » LOS ANGELES (UPl)—The Air - Force is preparing to launch its t first shot at the moon in about - three weeks when the moon - passes within about 220,000 miles of the earth, it was reliably re- - ported today. ■ The lunar probe is planned for - the period when the moon makes . its closest monthly approach. Tbat 1 period, according to astronomers, ; is Aug. 15-19, with the moon being closest Aug. 17. The small package of instruments, which will be fired in a three-stage rocket from Cape Canaveral, wil take about two days for its journey. If fired on Aug. 17, it would arrive Aug. 19 at a time when the moon is in its quarter phase and visible up to midnight at locations throughout the world. What type of probe is planned for the first shot was not revealed by confidential sources. So far officials have stated only that scientists would attempt to send the first probes in “the vicinity of the moon” and that the primary objective is not to hit the moon, although that possibility exists. It also has been stated the moon rockets are designed to provide a “close look” at the moon with instruments which include televi-sion-like “ground scanning” devices. This has led to speculation the first launching will be a simple “boomerang” shot around the moon and back toward earth rather than an attempt to hit the moon. Scientists who conducted Air Force studies on the project say the round-trip shot appears basically easier. However, unofficial spokesmen believe the first shot could be aimed to impact on the moon. A scientific source close to the project declared scientists would be happy “even if the first shot came only within 50,000 miles of the moon because we could learn a lot from that and it would not be a failure.” The first two stages of the moon rocket will consist of the ThorAble missile which has been undergoing recent testing at Cape Canaveral. The third stage vehicle was developed especially for the lunar probe project. U.S. Position On Lebanon Revealed Hoping For Early Troop Withdrawal WASHINGTON (UPI) —The United States said today it wants to withdraw U. S. forces from Lebanon as soon as the United Nations can act "to assure the independence and territorial integrity of that state.” The U. S. position was made known.in a. .joint .statement —by President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana issued by the White House. Nkrumah approved of the U. S. determination to pull back troops from Lebanon, the communique said. “The two governments were in agreement that the solution for the urgent problems of that area (Middle East) should be found within the framework of the United Nations in a manner which will preserve the Independence and territorial integrity of all member nations, whether large or small,” the statement said. Nkrumah and Eisenhower also reemphasized their determination to strengthen the United Nations in the interests of world peace based upon international justice

Wide Area Lashed By Severe Storms Flash Floods Friday Claim Eight Lives United Press International Reported tornadoes in southwest Kansas apparently failed to do iny damage early today but revere thunderstorms lashed a wide area extending into eastern Colorado and the Texas and Ok- . tohoma panhandles. . » Elsewhere high waters contin- ► ued to threaten low areas along '4 the Mississippi River in southern ( Illinois and Missouri. ’ Flash floods Friday in West Virginia and Kentucky claimed . eight lives, seven of them members of one family at Spencer, : W.Va. The Tennessee Valley Authority was forced to cut off the entire Sow of the Tennessee River at Kentucky Dam Friday in an effort to stem the flood crests pouring down the Ohio Valley. Heavy rains in the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri valleys have forced many streams and rivers from their banks. Missouri has fought million-dol-lar floods for nearly three weeks and Friday 400 inmates of the Missouri State Prison were promised time of their sentences as a reward for a successful battle to save some $200,000 worth of crops. Across the Mississippi. River in Ulihdlk, the Menard State Prison farms were flooded and about 400 acres of corn were under water. The Spencer, W.Va., flash flood swept down Granny’s Creek raising the level half a foot every five minutes. The crest hit the John Willowby home at the junction of the creek and another normally small stream with the force of a pile driver. The house was ripped apart and the water carried Mrs. Willowby and her six children, all under 10 years of age, to their death. The father chopped his way through the roof of his shattered (Continued on page five) —t Auction School To Open Here Monday Semi-Annual Term Will Open Monday Monday, the Reppert school of auctioneering will start its 76th session of instructing men from all over the United States and Canada on all types of auctioneering. Enrollment has averaged 65 to 67 persons with students reporting from all parts of the United States and Canada for two intensive three-week sessions a year, in December and August. Scheduled along with classes at the auction school near Decatur are several field trips to cattle farms in the area and auctions, for practice. They will visit the W. H. Kohne and Son farm, near Decatur, to see their herd of Red Poll cattle, and the Bernard Rice farm, < near Portland, where registered Jerseys are raised. Sales the auctioneers will attend include the county 4-H fair sale, Thursday, July 31. They will try their hand at auctioneering at the third annual auction in Decatur to benefit a Lutheran church project, and they will also make a trip to an auction at Grabill, at the invitation of their Chamber.of Commerce.*' '■ —.— : = They will also tour the Central Soya Co. plant here. Thirteen instructors, who will teach phases . of, auctioneering from auto to dairy cattle sales are: Q. R. Chaffee, dean, Towanda, Pa.; G. L. Pettit, Bloomfield, la.; Clyde M. Wilson, Marion, O.; Carey M. Jones, Oak Park, Hl.; C. B. Drake, Decatur, Hl.; H. W. Sigrist, Fort Wayne; Walter Carlson, Triumph, Minn.; Ray Elliott, Portland; H. B. Sager, Bozeman, Mont.; Homer Pollock, Delphos, O.; Earl Wright, Mount Gilead, O.; Gene Slagle, Marion, O.; and a new member of the staff, H. D. Darnell, Cynthiana, Ky. Dr. Roland Reppert, of Decatur, is the president, and Miss Grace Lichtensteiger is executive secretary .and office manager of the school.

Crippled Liner With 45 Aboard Landed Safely Emergency Landing Ends Dramatic Trip Over Dark Atlantic ARGENTIA, Nfld. (UPD — A ’ crippled Pan American World Airi ways Clipper carrying 45 persons made an emergency landing here today ending a dramatic four- [ hour, 460-mile turnabout flight _ from over the darkened Atlantic. There was no panic, and all 36 passengers and 9 crewmembers were unharmed. The pilot of the DC-7 Capt. Robert P. Postlewaite, 42, of Wilton, Conn., at one point planned to ditch his craft in the Atlantic after one engine went dead and the plane developed a runaway propeller. But, finding he could maintain altitude after dropping from 17,000 to 6,000 feet, Postlewaite decided to make a run for the U.S. Naval Base airfield here. The New York-to-London-bound Clipper set down without incident at 12:36 a.m. Publisher Aboard A Sabena Belgium Airlines 1 plane, bound from New York to i Shannon, Ireland, flew to the side j of the disabled Clipper on receiving its distress call. It was rel lieved a short while later by two . Coast Guard B-17’s, two Royal Ca- > nadian Air Force Lancasters and a U.S. Navy rabar picket Constel- ■ lation, which shepherded the DC-7 ; to its emergency landing. Among those aboard were Sey- . mour J. Berkson. publisher of the New York Journal-American, and his wife. They were bound for a vacation in Europe. Mrs. Berkson is a fashion expert. On the emergency turnabout flight, Postlewaite maintained an air speed of 115 miles per hour while flying at 6,000 feet. The Clipper had been flying between 275 and 300 miles per hour at 17,000 feet before the left inboard engine failed at 8:27 p.m., e.d.t. Plan’s Speed Drops When the propeller began to windmill, dragging the plane down, Postlewaite prepared to ditch in the Atlantic at Ocean Point Delta, where a Cost Guard vessel is stationed, about 360 miles from Newfoundland and about 100 miles from where the trouble developed. But when Postlewaite found he (Contlnuec on page five) Accuses Turkey Os Plotting On Iraq Accusation Is Made By Soviet Russia MOSCOW (UPD—The Soviet Union, which has strong army forces concentrated near the Turkish frontier for summer maneuvers, has accused Turkey of planning an attack on Iraq "in a few days time.” Russia claimed Turkey was prevented from carrying out plans ' against Iraq by "absence of full agreement with the United States regarding this venture” and the knowledge that Russia and “other peace-loving states” would- ope pose it. The Soviet charges, /pi a note delivered in Ankara, came as the major powers were trying to set up a summit conference on the explosive Middle East, and members of- the anti-Communist Baghdad Paet alliance prepared to meet in London. Russia’s note claimed it had received reports that “a request” 'by Jordan's King Hussein “might provide an official pretext for an onslaught by Turkish troops on Iraq.” The Soviet government said It considered it “its duty to warn the Turkish gdvernment of its responsibility for the likely consequences of an armed conflict in this region.”

New Attempt To Put * Satellite In Orbit Heaviest Satellite Launched By U. S. United Press International By RICHARD F. ROPER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD A Jupiter-C rocket with Explorer IV on its tip streaked into the skies today in an Army attempt to place the bullet-shaped satellite in an orbit that would cross Russia. The big rocket, belching fire, bored into a hazy sky and turned on a northeastward arc on a course just off shore from the Carolinas and. New, England. It carried the heaviest satellite—3B pounds—so far launched by this country. ,It would be some time before it could be announced whether the new American moon had achieved its hoped-for orbit. The Jupiter-C blasted off from the missile test center about 10 a.m. est. • The National Academy of Sciences in Washington will announce, whether the little satellite joined Explorer I. Vanguard I and Russia's Sputnik 111 in circling th earth. The Army said the 80-inch “moon” was designed primarily to gather information on radiation in unexplored areas; outside the earth’s atmosphere. ' Explorer IV was chosen to be the first U.S. satelite aimed at passing over Soviet soil. ’ There was no living creature in the satellite, only equipment to J measure cosmic rays and radios to transmit the information back J to earth. Three mice have been sent into space in a|nother series of tests, but the Exp brer was not a part of that progra|m. Earlier today the Air Force launched a Thor missile but it blew up over the Atlantic after it (ConUnued on paxe rive) ■-l Huge Balloon Soars Aloft, Two Aboard Two Scientists To Outer Space Fringe CROSBY. Minn. (UPD—A huge plastic balloon soared aloft today, bearing two scientists, 5,000 insects and a maze of scientific instruments. Two veteran spacemen, Cmdr. Malcolm D. Ross, 38, and retired Cmdr. M. Lee Lewis, 45, planned to go up 17 miles to the fringe of outer space, before easing the 17story high balloon to earth late Sunday. At 4:42 a.m. cdt the balloon, dangling a sealed and pressurized gondola, was cut loose from its launching site in a 400-foot deep open pit mine. It soared up at a rate between 1,000 and 2,000 feet per minute in what U.S. Navy spokesmen described as "a perfect launch." As the balloon began its ascent, a tracking plane and tracking van swung into operation, following the craft’s westward course toward North Dakota. Hie first radio contact came as the balloon reached 740 feet, and Ross and Lewis began to rattle off a series of readings from the instruments." A short while later, the pilot of a commercial airline made, contact with the balloon. Ross responded to the caH wlffi a genial. “What' do you say, kid?” The first TV signal was transmitted from 60,000 feet. The picture was fuzzy, but observers could discern shots of the men, the gondola, and clouds. Surface winds sent i[he craft off course a couple of hotars after its launching, and it drifted back east. But later winds pent it back and at 7:45 a.m. cdt it was reported over Crosby. The launching had been scheduled for last Wednesday, but high winds and foul weather cancelled the repeated Last-min-ute technical problems delayed the launching today, and Ross and Lewis spent the final hours in a pressurized van at the takeoff point while technicians swarmed about the baloon.

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Ike Ready To Indict Nasser,— Soviet Russia Report Eisenhower Has Information ' i. On Machinations WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower is ready to indict Russia and Nasser’s United Arab Republic for subversion and destructive intrigue in. the Middle East if the proposed “summit” conference is held, i nformed sources said today. Officials said the United States has considerable information on Gamal Abdel Nasser's Sovietbacked machinations never before made public. This would furnish the President fresh ammunition at the summit conference. Eisenhower told Khrushchev Friday the United States is ready for a summit meeting, if Russia will abide by United Nations rules. He served notice, however, that while the meeting would be limited to the Middle East the United Slates would not agree to oonsider only Russia’s charges of Western aggression to Lebanon and Jordan. He* made it plain this country would insist on airing ( its charges of U.A.R. and Soviet ( "indirect aggression” in the area. * 4 ' In Fighting Mood E Officials said that, while the J administration still is reluctant to ; attend, the President is deter- ■ mined to go in slugging and give Khrushchev as good as he dishes out. They believe the United ’ States can make out at least as good a case for Russian culpability in the Middle East as Khrushchev can for his alegations of U.S, and British “aggres-, sion.” Congressional Democratic leaders, heartened by the President’s latest stand, urged him to go into a summit conference with more of a "chins-up” show of selfconfidence and to “take the initiative for peace” in the Middle East. There was no official word yet on whether, if the summit meeting is held, the United States will make concrete proposals for ending not only the current tension but the causes of conflict in the Middle East. Senate Democrats and the French already were suggesting various Middle East “peace” plans. Up To Khrushchev There were conflicting opinions here as to whether Khrushchev would accept the restrictions imposed by President Eisenhower on a summit meeting. Th President, iq his note to Khrushchev Friday, said he would attend a summit meeting under U. N. auspices if it were “generally acceptable” to members of the U. N. Security Council and provided “broader problems” of the Middle East could be discussed. There was some feeling the Soviet premier might think Security Council procedures would not offer him the scope for propaganda he is believed to seek.* If so. he might accuse the United States of trying to avoid a contference by bogging it down in details. The view here was that the fate of the summit meeting now lay in Khrushchev’s hands. Officials said if he were willing, representatives of Security Council members could get together in a few days and decide the date and terms of the meeting. Late Bulletin Joe Sapp, residing one mile west and one and one-fourth miles south of Pleasant Mills, died late this morning at his home. The body was removed to the Zwicfc funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.