Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 176, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVL No. 176.

Marine Killed By Buddy In Lebanon Sunday Accidentally Killed During Unauthorized Visit To Village By LARRY COLLINS United Press International BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — A U.S. Marine killed Sunday was accidentally shot by one of his own buddies while on an unauthorized visit to a small village, a Marine spokesman said today. It had been reported he was killed by a rebel sniper. The Defense Department in Washington identified the Marine today as Pfc. Walter Gordon Richardson, 19, Brooklyn. N. Y. The Marine was killed when he was hit in the bead by a single bullet about noon Sunday in an area in front of his company positions south of the Beirut International Airport. His body was carried back by other Marines. The Marines were reported “fighting mad” when news circulated that the shooting was done by rebel snipers in the hills. But Marine spokesmen warned at jumping at conclusions until an official investigation into the shooting had been completed. Today, a spokesman announced: "Four Marines left the airport area on an unauthorized visit to a small village about half a mile from the airport perimeter Sunday. At some time during the visit while climbing over a sevenfoot wall, the revolver of one Marine banged against the wall and discharged a bullet which entered the head of the man below him and killed him instantly.” The Marine was the fourth casualty suffered by American forces in Lebanon and the second to be killed by the bullets of a buddy. A Marine corps spokesman Sunday had cautioned against blaming rebels for the shooting. But he added that if it was proved the rebels were responsible the Marines “would certainly take the necessary patrolling action to see it did not happen again.” American paratroopers prepared to move into security positions around the airport and relieve Marines in the hottest sector of the U.S. beachhead in Lebanon. The Marines manning the defense perimeters on the beaches and hills around the airport have been the targets of almost nightly rebel sniper fire. There has been a growing feeling among the Marines that they should be allowed to retaliate more effectively and not just sit (Continnaa on Page Flv«) Rufus Slucky Dies Unexpectedly Sunday Long-Time Decatur Businessman Dies Rufus Arthur Stuckey, 75, former Decatur business man, died unexpectedly it 9:30 o’clock . Sunday morning at the Methodist Memorial home at Warren. He was born in Adams county June 19, 1883, a son of Abraham and Mary Luginbill-Stuckey. He had lived in Decatur for/more than 30 years, and for many years owned and operated the Stuckey Cash Coal, Feed and Supply store on West Monroe street. Mr. and Mrs. Stuckey moved to toe home at Warren several months ago. Mr. Stuckey was member of the First Methodist fchurch in this city and the Decatur Elks lodge. His wife, Iva, is the only immediate survivor, ( Funeral services (yill be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday inf the chapel at the Warren home, Dr. B. M. Bechdolt officiating. Burial will be in the Lancaster cemetery near Warren. The body ha? been removed from the Grogg funeral home to the chapel, where friends may call until time of the services. Mrs. Kate Baumgartner Dies This Morning Mrs. Kate Jackson Baumgartner, 93, well known in Decatur, where she was a former music teacher, died early this morning at University hospital, Columbus, 0., following an illness of several years She had made her home with a sister, Mrs. Emma Myers at Columbus, after toe death of her husband, Paul Baumgartner. Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Edwin Anderson Aiderman of New York state, and two nieces, Mrs. Lola Macklin and Mrs. Alice Christen, both of Decatur. The body will be returned here for burial, but arrangements are incomplete.

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Mobile X-Ray Unit In County This Week The mobile X-ray unit of the state board of health will be in Adams county this week, in cooperation with the Adams county tuberculosis association. No one under the age of 15 will be X-rayed unless they are reactors to patch testes, in contact with active tuberculosis, or sent by physicians. The unit is in Berne today and Wednesday. The unit will be in downtown Decatur from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday and from 9 a.m. until 12 noon Friday. It will be at the 4-H fair at Monroe Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m., and Thursday from 1 to 5 p.m., and 6 to 9 p.m. Russian Boss Favors Geneva For Conference Accepts Suggestion Os De Gaulle For European Meeting MOSCOW (UPI) — Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed today to hold a summit conference in Geneva or “any other city” in Europe if the United States security would be a problem in New York. Khrushchev made his offer in letters to the Big Three, formally accepting the suggestion of French Premier Charles de Gaulle that Europe would be a better place for the top level talks. “The Soviet government agrees to meet in Geneva, Paris. Vienna or any other city acceptable to all participants,” Khrushchev said. He specificaly suggested Moscow as a site and said The Soviet government would guarantee full security for the "delegations and the necessary conditions for fruitful work.” Khrushchev’s reply to the latest . round of Western messages was ' handed over tonight by Deputy j Foreign Minister Vasilev Kuznet- , sov to the American, British and ' French ambassadors here. In it Khrushchev said “...with- ' out objecting to holding the con- , ference in New York, the Soviet j government agrees to meet in J Geneva, Vienna, Paris or any ( other place acceptable to all par- , ticipants. “We would also welcome an agreement on holding the meet- , ing of the heads of governments in Moscow, and the Soviet govern- ; in Moscow, and the Soviet govern- 1 ment would guarantee full security for the delegations and the necessary conditions for fruitful work. “We are convinced that the Soviet people will welcome the emissaries who would come here in oriContlnuea on pag« nv«) Severe Storms Lash Nation's Midsection 2,500 Fairgoers In Illinois Are Periled By United Press International Gale' winds and at least one tornado struek /rom -a band of severe ifr-the nations.. midsection Sunday ’ i^fe| k ~ ering 2,500 fairgoers in destroying an Oklahoma school gymnasium. Three persons were injured when winds clocked unofficially at 75 m.p.h. smashed the Macon County fairgrounds at Decatur, 111. Tents were flattened, carnival rides Were twisted like cardboard and concession stands crashed to the ground. -A Most of the fairgoers escaped injury by fleeing to their cars or taking refuge in a concrete block community house when the storm hit. The storm at Decatur and a similar wind and rain storm at Prophetstown, 81., knocked out utilities and uprooted trees. At Hollister, Okla., a tornado touched down and ripped through a school gymnasium. Earlier Sunday, a 5 - year -old ] girl drowned when she and her sister and two brothers were swept into an open sewer during a rain storm at Quincy, 111. The boys clung to tree limbs and were rescued. The girls were swept to the mouth of toe sewer where Judy Lee Shafer was found drowned. Her sister, Patty, 10, was badly bruised. In toe East, services were to be held today for seven members of a Spencer, Va., family who drown‘ed during a flash flood last Thursday. Only the father, John Willougby, survived. Thunderstorms Sunday night ranged from the Great Lakes and Ohio River Valley into portions of toe central and southern Plains.

Postal Rate Increases in Effect Friday First-Class Mail Up One Cent In New Postal Rates WASHINGTON (UPI) — Letter writers have until midnight Thursday to get to the mail box if they want to post a letter bearing only a 3-cent stamp. Starting Friday/-Aug. 1, firstclass letters must bear 4 cents worth of postage and air mail letters will require 7 cents worth of stamps. The former 2-cent post card will take a 3-cent stamp after 12:01 a.m.» Friday. Air mail post cards will cost 5 cents apiece. Any combination of stamps may be used to cover the new rates. But the switch will vastly popularize the present 4-cent lavence stamp carrying a likeness of Abraham Lincoln. There will be a new 7-cent air mail stamp—blue-white with a jet airliner on it—for the convenience of the stamp-buying public. Postpone Penalty Fee Postal officials warned that there would be no grace period while toe nation becomes accustomed to the new rates, despite some reports to that effect. The post office has, however, put off until Oct. 31 collection of a 5-cent penalty for delivery of mail lacking the right amount of postage. But postmen have been ordered to see that all mail postmarked Friday bears sufficient postage or it will not be delivered. If a letter is short on postage, the mailman will try to Collect from the addressee. If he refuses, the mail will go back to the sender if it bars a return address. Otherwise it will wind up in the dead letter office and be destroyed. Postal officials said toe nation’s 36.605 post offices are well stocked to handle the expected big demand for higher - priced stamps. In addition, it is prepared to sell 4-cent embossed stamped envelopes featuring a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a 7-cent embossed air mail stamped envelope, similar to the old 6-cent air mail envelope except for the change in denomination. Old Stamps Useable Most of the increases allowed by the new law for second class mail are slated to become effective Jan. 1. The one expption, however, is a hike in the price (Continued on page five) Heart Attack Fatal To Farmer Saturday Joe Sapp Dies At Farm Home Saturday Joe Sapp, 59-year-old farmer and a lifelong resident of Adams county, died suddenly at 11:30 o’clock Saturday morning at his home in Blue Creek township, three miles southwest of Willshire, 0., of a heart attack. He was preparing to go to work -injiis fields when stricken, JT* iV.rn k Warns county Feb. 14, Mrs. Oren Sapp, and was married to Lillie Brunner Sept. 21, 1923. Mrs. Sapp preceded him in death June 17, 1956. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Louis (Naomi) Landrum of Decatur, and Mrs. Paul (Juanita) Sowards, of Blue Creek township; one son, Dale Sapp of Columbia City; nine grandchildren; one brother, Lewis Sapp of St. Mary’s township, and one sister, Mrs. Herman Brunner of St. Mary’s township. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at toe Wesleyan Methodist church, the Rev. Garl Shaw and the Rev. Hubert Rich officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery at Berne. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Partly-\cloudy with scattered thunderstorms mostly in south <: and east this afternoon and in southeast and extreme south tonight. Cooler north tonight. Tuesday fair, north, partly cloudy south with chance of a few thundershowers extreme south. Little temperature change. Low tonight 58 to 64 north, 64 to 70 south. High Tuesday mostly in 80s. Sunset today 8:02 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:42 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy with littie temperature change. Lows Tuesday night in the 60s. Highs Wednesday In the 80s.

Decatur, Indiana, MonJhy, July 28, 1958.

Publisher Os Decatur Daily Democrat Dies f Early This Morning

Explorer IV Is Whirling Around World Largest Satellite By United States Whirls In Orbit WASHINGTON (UPI) — Explorer IV whirled around the world today with its important radio sig- , nals “coming in wonderfully” and sending back valuable information on deadly radiation. The largest U.S. satellite was scheduled, to pass over Russia •gain todays It shot across Soviet sues Sunday marking the first appearance of an American earth over that country. the Naval Research Laboratory said toe satellite’s course today also will take it over, points in China, New Zealand, French Guiana, England, Australia, Mongolia, France, Yemen, Japan and Uruguay. A spokesman at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville/ Ala., said officials were delighted with the performance of Explorer IV. It whirled about the earth every 110 minutes and carried what are believed to be toe most delicate instruments ever devised for radiation detection. The 38.43-pound bullet-shaped satellite may have a life expectancy of about five years, officials said. Other Nations Informed The deadly radiation band the satelite is gathering data on could stall human space travel for years unless its problems are solved. This country has given the International Committee of the International Geophysical Year a description of the instruments in the satellite as well as the frequencies on which its . radio transmitters are broadcasting. This should enable Russian scientists as well as scientists from other nations to interpret the data being sent back just the same as American scientists are doing. The Army fired the baby moon into orbit in a northeasterly direction with a Jupiter C rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., SaturtiggstJ ~ln space, it joined top<; piny’s Explorer I, the I, and Russia's Spwflffik 111 in an elliptical the globe. Radiation Unknown The satellite’s orbit ranged from 162.9 miles above the earth at its nearest point to 1,373.3 miles at its most distant point. It was trav- ' eling at speeds ranging from 14,“000 to 18,000 miles an hour. (Contiuueo on page five) Mrs. Anna Straw Dies This Morning Former Local Lady Is Taken By Death Mrs. Anna Straw, 78, former Decatur resident, died at 4:15 o'clock this morning at the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne, where she had been a patient three weeks. She left Decatur in 1954 to make her home with a daughter, Mrs. Don Dibble, 3810 South Hanna street, Fort Wayne. She was born in Boone county. Mo , June 15, 1880, a daughter of William H._ and Catherine DucanHeckey, and was married to Charles Straw April 14, 1938. Mr. Straw preceded her in death Dec. 20, 1954. Mrs. Straw was a member of the Church of Christ in Decatur. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Fred King of Portland, Ore., Mrs. Russel Shinn and Mrs. Dibble of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. John Yahn of Celina, O.; one son, Russel Smith of Troy, O.; 11 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchil-dren. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Kenneth Timmons officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2:30 p.m. Tuesday until time of the services.

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Ike Requests Debt Ceiling Be Increased Highest Peacetime Level In History Requested By Ike United Press International Congress was requested b$ President Eisenhower today boost the temporary nationaWdebt ceiling to 288 billion dqll^— the highest peaceti^aJ^sgp history. J- the House and Eisenhower asked that the debt limitation be hiked by eight billion dollars. He also asked that the perma nen t ceiling by increased 10 billions to 285 billion dollars. He advised the Democraticcontrolled Congress that the deficit outlook is such that the emergency increase is needed. Federal s pen d i ng / has to be curbed when the indebtedness threatens to exceed the legal limit. " Both houses were expected to be receptive to the request. The administration has suffered heavier than expected revenue losses due to the business slump, and at the same time has had to increase defense spending. As a result it wound up fiscal 1958 almost three billion dollars in the red. Elsewhere in Congress: Stockpiles: Spokesmen for the administration urged the Senate Banking Committee to permit federal agencies to "write off” 300 million dollars worth of losses from national stockpile programs. Millikin: The House laid aside scheduled business for 10 minutes today while members eulogized former Sen. Eugene D. Millikin (R-Colo.) who died Saturday in Denver. Draftees: Eisenhower signed into law a bill which permits him to set higher mental and physical standards for draftees accepted by the armed forces. Adjournment: Rep. Charles W. Vursell (R-Ill.) said the “greatest service” Congress could render the people would be to adjourn as quickly as possible. He said this would save the taxpayers four to 'nve billion dollars in legislation now pending—“every dollar of which would be a waste.” Senate and House leaders look forward to adjournment in two or three weeks, provided the Middle East crisis doesn’t worsen.

Red Cross Chapter / Changing Location Reppert Building Offices Red Cross headquarters will be doing double dsy this week, as the 4-H fair is and the headquarters also moves to a new location. headquarters for county chapter of the American Red Cross are being set .sup in the front two upstairs rooms in the Reppert building on Madison street, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg» executive secretary, announced this morning. Students from the Reppert auction school will help to move the equipment upstairs from its present location at 125 Madison street. Red Cross headquarters were set up at the 4-H fair grounds this afternoon, Mrs. Oelberg added. A trailer will be the office for the first aid station, and the Red Cross will also have an exhibit, where staff aides will give information on the disaster and blood programs, among other Red Cross work. Fair-goers will have a chance to sign up for the second Adams county bloodmobile visit—a visit that will be very important for the Red Cross, it has been reported. For the Fort Wayne regional blood center is critically short of blood, since it is summer, a time when blood donors go on vacation, unlike the accidents and diseases which require the use of whole blood. The bloodmobile visit, Mrs. Oelberg stated, will be August 20, at Berne. The quota is 127 pints, which requires that 170 donors register to give blood. Standbys are needed to replace those who find they cannot give blood. First aid workers for the first day of the fair will be the Mesdames Orland Lehman, Millard Sprunger, Millard Lehman, Paul Herman, Otis Sprunger, Rufus Sommer, Louis Stucky, Dwight Amstutz, Clark Dennison, Ivan Steury, Raymond Sprunger, Alfred Lehman, Lester Lehman, Art Habegger, Rufus Liechty and Elmer Rich, and Roy Gilliom and Iris Lehman. " Working at the exhibit that day will be the Mesdames L. Bowpnan, Mildred Foley and Ed Bauer. First aid, workers Wednesday will be the Mesdames Mary Jane Miller, Helen Jdhnson, Leonard Johnston, Norbert Bleeke, Estella Rich, and Ruth Suman. Wednesday staff aides will be the Mesdames Bowman, Bert Haley, Clarence Smith, E. Reinking and Ivan Stuckey. Thursday, the last day of the fair, first aid workers on hand will (Continued on pare five)

Adams County 4-H Fair Opens Tuesday Monroe Fairgrounds Is Scene Os Fair Tomorrow the Adams county 4-H fair will open at the fairgrounds in Monroe. Preparations for the fair began last week, as the trestles and lumber were set up for exhibits in the Adams central school building, Tuesday, and tents were set up Saturday. Today the Red Cross will set up its trailer and exhibit at the fairgrounds. AH last week five girls* home economics projects were being judged at local centers stationed at Decatur, Monroe, and Berne. Today the exhibits meriting honor class blue ribbons in the ing are being judged for final county prizes. Two events i«ahe evening wilt climax the opewig day: the grand parade for Ml clubs, implement dealers, 4-ljsfiorsemen and pet and hobby cluWTnembers, beginning at 7:15 p.nw and the first session of the Adorns county entertainment festival; for 4-H acts only, beginnin£L®mmediately after the parade, argShd 8:30 p.m. activity will begin at 8 Jp/m., when these exhibits and aniqmals will first be received: Beef, dairy, electricity, poultry, pheasant, quail, sheep, rabbits, pigs, horses, and ponies. Handicraft exhibits will be received beginning at 8:30 a.m. Homemaking exhibits will open to the public in the Adams Central school building at 10 a.m., until 10 p.m., and the food tent Will open ‘ at 9:30 a.m. By noon, the commercial displays will open, and that evening the rural youth tent will begin to sell refreshments and 4-H novelties at 6 p.m. Judging in the morning will be on handicraft exhibits and poultry, pheasant and quail. In the afternoon three projects will be judged: the lambs, horsemanship, and the conservation exhibits. The latter exhibits are due in their places at 4:30 p.m., when judging will begin. 1 Sixteen 4-H club acts will appear ’ in the first part of the entertainment festival. The second division of the festival, the non 4-H acts, (Continued on page five) Voyle H. Hill Dies Lase Sunday Night Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Voyle H. Hill, 45, former Decatur high school athlete, who resided in Kirkland township, three and one-half miles west of Decatur, died about midnight last night at the Parkview memorial hospital, Fort Wayne, following an illness of six weeks. j His condition had been serious since he underwent surgery for a brain tumor five weeks ago.* He was born in Decatur June 6, 1913, a son of Henry and Alma Amerine-Hill, and was married to Marcile Walters Sept. 21, 1940.: He had been employed at International Harvester in Fort Wayne for the past 24 years. Mr. Hill was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church in this city, and was a member of the Preble volunteer fire department. He graduated from Decatur high school in 1931. Surviving in addition to his wife are three sons, Stanley, 13, James, 11, and Richard, 8, all at home; two brothers, Curtis and Robert Hill, both of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Virgil Andrews, also of Decatur. One sister, Mary, preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Wednesday at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. J. O. Penrod officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may .call at the Zwick funeral home after 12 nbon Tuesday. The body will lie in state at the church from 1 p. m. Wednesday until time of the services. Friends may make memorials to cancer research.

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Long Illness 1 Takes Life Os \ Dick D. Heller \ 55-Year-Old Head Os Decatur Newspaper Dies This Morning Dick D. Heller, Sr., 55, 415 N. Second street, president of the Decatur Democrat Co., Inc., and publisher of the Decatur Daily Dtyw?s' ; " crat, died at 12:15 morning at the hospital in Death young newspaper from which followed a second operation for a brain tumor. Mr. Heller’s condition had been serious since he underwent surgery May 24, and again on June 9. He became critical June 28 and had been in a coma most of the time since then. His death ended a long, courageous battle against the ravages of the illness which struck him more than 18 months ago. He underwent brain surgery Nov. 5, 1956, but made a remarkable recovery and returned to active duty as editor and publisher of the Daily Democrat Dec. 24 of the same year. Mr. Heller had a long and active career, not only in the newspaper field, but also in affairs of the Democratic party. He had served as chairman of the Adams county central committee, was executive secretary under M. Clifford Townsend while the latter was lieutenant governor and later governor, and also was an employe of the federal government in Washington, D.C., before returning to his foremost love, the newspaper business. Vice president of the Decatur Democrat Company for many years, he became president Jan. 1, 1949, when his father, John H. Heller, retired from the more arduous duties and was named vice president. Mr. Heller was a member of the .First Presbyterian church, the Masonic, Elks and Moose lodges of Decatur, and was a former member of the Decatur Rotary club. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Heller, of 326 Winchester street; his wife, the former Martha Grant; two sons, Dick D. Heller, Jr., and John Grant (Jack) Heller, both of whom are associated with the Democrat Company; one sister, Mrs. Fanny Macy-Shirk of West Palm Beach, Fla.; and three grandchildren, Stephen Van, Eric Alan and Patricia Ann Heller. The body was returned to the Zwick funeral home. North Second street, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:15 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the funeral home, and at l;30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian church, the Rev. Harold J. Bond officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The casket will not be opened at the church. Pallbearers, all co-workers with Mr. Heller at the Decatur Daily Democrat, will be Charles E. Holthouse, Pete Reynolds, David Heller, Robert Garard, Gerald Timmons and O. K. Baker. Native of Decatur \ Dick Daniel Heller was born Sunday, September 22, 1902, at the home of his parents, John Herbert and Martha Alice Peterson-Heller. His grandparents, great-grandpar-ents and second great-grand-par-ents were pioneer families in the county,! including the Hellers, Petersons,/ Kunkels, Smiths, and Dorwins. Mr. Heller's father was general manager of the Decatur Daily Democrat during Dick Heller's early years, and while still in grade school, he began passing papers. As a freshman in high school during 1917, he replaced Lawrence Gerard in the job department of the newspaper when the latter enlisted to serve in the first World War. A student at Decatur high school at the time, he was president of his freshman class in 1917, vice(Coutinued on pace four)