Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 191.

URGES STANDBY FORCE— President Eisenhower urges the United Nations in New York to create a standby UN military force as he enunciates a six-point program for the Middle East. Seated on the podium behind the President are (from left) UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, Assembly President Sir Leslie Munro and assistant Secretary General Andrew Cordier.

New Farm Bill Endorsed By Both Parties Democratic Farm Leaders Agree To Support Price Cut BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPI) — An administration-backed bill to provide lower price supports for farmers cleared the House today with the support of both Democratic and Republican leaders. WASHINGTON (UPI) — A new price - support - cutting farm bill bearing endorsement of both Democratic and Republican leaders was called up in the House today for almost certain approval. The reductions in support prices were agreed to by Democratic farm leaders in order to win administration backing for provisions to cancel sharp planting cutbacks scheduled next year for cotton and rice growers. The measure for the first time in nearly 20 years would allow price props for rice, cotton and corn to be cut below 75 per cent of parity. It would allow supports as low as 65 per cent of parity for corn next year, for rice in 1961 and for cotton in 1962. Bipartisan agreement on the new compromise measure Wednesday broke a stalemate which had threatened to kill any chance of a new farm bill this year. Thre Bills Faild Three previous attempts to enact Democratic s ponsoredi measures to block the planting; reductions had failed. President Eisenhower vetoed the first bill. The House refused to consider the second. Hie third bill was defeated on the House floor last week when Republican leaders complained it did not provide enough concessions to the administration’s demand for authority to reduce price props. The new compromise called for corn and cotton supports somewhat lower than the bill offered to the House last week, but higher than those provided in the Senatepassed farm bill which the administration favors. Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) said he was hopeful that the Senate would agree to the new House bill, rather than insist on a confrence to work out a new compromise measure. (Continued oil Page Seven) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair south and central. partly cloudy with chance of widely scattered thundershowers extreme north late this afternoon or tonight. A little warm extreme north tonight. Friday partly cloudy and warm, chance of scattered thundershowers north and central. Low tonight 66 to 72. High Friday 87 to 92. Sunset today 7:43 p. m. Sunrise Friday 5:57 a. m. Outlook for ' Saturday: Mostly fair and cooler north, partly cloudy and warm with scattered thundershowers south. Lows 66 to 74. Highs lower 80s to near 90.*

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Sees 50-50 Chance Os Rocket To Moon Initial Launching Expected Next Week WASHINGTON (UPI)— A top Air Force general said today the United States has a “50-50” chance of blasting an instrumentcarrying robot to the vicinity of the moon in the first lunar-probe launching expeced next week. Lt Gen. Samuel E. Anderson, commander of the Air Research and Development Command, gave his first evaluation of the lunar rocket mounted at Cape Canaveral. Fla. Roy W. Johnson, director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, previously had estimated the chance oi success in the first lunar shot at “no better than one in ten.” However; Johnson’s estimate applied to a different degree of success. In the achievement he spoke of, the radio-equipped robot would pass at least once around the moon and would transmit to earth a picture of the moon’s far side which has never been seen. No Date Set No date has been announced for the launching, but informed sources said Wednesday the blastoff could occur as early as 8 a.m., e.d.t., Sunday. Anderson, who is the Air Force's overall boss for both Cape Canaveral and the Ballistic Missiles Command at Inglewood, Calif., discounted the fact the 100foot lunar rocket's third .stage has never been flight tested. He said in an interview the third stage has received innumerable ground tests and is “a good rocket.” The first two stages of the lunar rocket are the Air Force’s ThorAble, which has carried two space-travelling mice on 6,000-mile journeys into the South Atlantic. In Airless Space The instrumented robot journey to the moon would be 226,000 miles and would take at least two days. But only a small amount of additional power is required because the 60-pound robot would be moving in airless space. Scientists familiar with the project said that if the lunar rocket cannot be fired shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, then it might be fired shortly after 9 a.m., e.d.t., Monday, shortly after 10 a.m., e.d.t, Tuesday, or shortly after 11 am., e.d.t., Wednesday. If the shot cannot be made at any of those times, then the lunar launching must be postponed until mid-September. The Defense Department, in a (Contlnuea on Page Seven) Four-Year-Old Boy Is Killed By Truck INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A four-year-old boy was killed late Wednesday when crushed beneath the wheels of an ice cream truck in front of his home here. Danny Armstrong, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald C. Armstrong, Indianapolis, was the victim. The boy was in the habit of waiting for the ice cream truck at the end of a dead-end street each day. As the truck turned in a driveway, the boy ran to meet it and slipped tinder the wheels.

Great Brilain Supports Ike's Peace Proposal Gives Full Support To Proposal; Blasts Gromyko's Charges UNITED NATIONS (UPl)—British Foreign Secretary Sel wy n Lloyd gave full support to President Eisenhower’s Middle East peace plan today and blasted Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for uttering “just plain nonsense.” , . Lloyd called for private talks at the United Nations to arrange details of Eisenhower’s six-point Mideast plan. He said Gromyko’s charges of aggression by the United States and Britian were unfounded. The Soviet official, he said “has got the record wrong.’’ In fact, Lloyd said, it is the Russians who have been shipping arms to the Middle East and attempting "to whip fears of war, and to create a kind of international hysteria.” Eisenhower Wednesday proposed a do-it-yourself economic program for the Arab world. He suggested establishment of a U. N. standby peace force and emphasized the need for action in the world organization to safeguard Lebanon and Jordan. Hammarskjold’s Big Role Lloyd told the General Assembly’s emergency session today he thought it would be “unwise” to go into details of these plans at this stage. “One of the advantages of our meeting here is that we have the opportunity of private consultation and discussion,” he said. Lloyd put forth his views as U. N. Secretary - General Dag Hammarskjold’s peace - making role was assuming increasing importance. There was belief that the entire problem might eventually be turned over to him. This task would include helping set up an economic development organization and forming a U.N. peace force for the Middle East. Lloyd lambasted Gromyko far his speech Wednesday in which'he denounced the United States and the United Kingdom for “aggression” in the Middle East. On the other hand, Lloyd said, “President Eisenhower’s address was an admirable introduction. “Just Plain Nonsense” Lloyd’s backing of Eisenhower’s peace plan came after the Arabs and Communists reluctantly conceded that the Presidnt had outlined a constructive program to end the threat of war. But the emphasis was on Soviet charges of "aggression” against the U.S. and Britain. Lloyd said the assembly w r as meeting to consider Lebanon’s and Jordan’s complaint of outside interference, not to consider Russia’s demand for the immediate (Continued on Page Seven) Reach Agreement On Partial Tax Relief Some Tax Relief To Small Businessmen WASHINGTON (UPI) — Some tax relief was on the way today for small businessmen, theatergoers, sports fans, whisky-makers, parochial schools and dues-paying member of community swimming pools. But heavier levies will soon be imposed on others, including buyers of record players and thousands of policemen. These are among the millioifs of taxpayers and consumers whose pocketbooks will be affected by a vast, technical overhaul of excise and income taxes on which, a Senate-House conference committee reached agreement Wednsday night. The two compromise bills reconciling differences between Senate and House bills will together produce a net loss of about 300 million dollars a year in federal revenue. The bill revising excise taxes—about 400 pages thick—was slated for final House approval today. It would trim about 42 million dollars from the nearly 10 billion dollars which the federal government collects annually from taxes on the manufacture and sale of goods and services. Quick congressional approval also was assured for the second bill containing numerous changes in income tax laws. Its principal feature is a 260-million-dollar program of "fringe benefit” tax relief for small business. The bill also would plug up loopholes tor some taxpayers and create new tax advantages for others. Congressional tax experts said both bills were assured of the President’s signature.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 14,1958

Royal Dutch Airliner Crashes Into Atlantic With 99 Persons Aboard \ . .

Wealthy Oil Man Tells Os I Placing Bets Bet Thousands On Grid Games With Gambling Syndicate - INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—A handsome, 36-year-old Oklahoma bachelor oil millionaire said today he bet SB,OOO to SIO,OOO last fall on football games with a Terre Haute gambling operation tagged by federal agents as a multi-million-dollar international syndicate. Sam K. Viersen, Jr., Okmulgee, Okla., said he never bet more than a few hundred on any game but sometimes placed three or four bets the same weekend. “I don’t smoke. That’s my recreation,” Viersen told newsmen shortly before he entered a secret grand jury session as a witness in government efforts to nail charges against a group of gamblers which could lead to fiveyear prison terms. The government contends the syndicate grossed more than $3,500,000 in a 10-week period last fall while operating above a Terre Haute restaurant, mostly on football bets telephoned from all around the country. Once Attended Colver Viersen, who conceded he is “probably” a millionaire and told newsmen he attended Culver Military Academy as a boy, said he felt the Terre Haute gamblers were “more up to date” on point spreads than any others he knew about. “I’d telephone Terre Haute lots of times and never bet,” he said, “just to get the points.” Viersen was the most talkative of the vanguard of a group of 16■ witnesses scheduled to testify today. He appeared with two otherwitnesses he said are “friends. They were Hugh B. Key, Norman, Okla., oilman, and Gene Purdy, Tulsa, Okla., businessman. Purdy told newsmen he bet only a few hundred dollars at a time, mostly on Oklahoma’s national champion Sooners. Viersen said when he lost a bet, he always sent cash covering his wager by registered mail to the Terre Haute address where a raid was conducted Nov. 29. Also due to be given a second (Continued on Page Seven) High Wafer Prevents Dump Fire Controls Effective Control Os Fires Hampered High water is preventing the city from effectively controlling burning refuse after 6 p. m. at the city dump, Bernard J. Clark, street commissioner, said today. The city has been pumping water from the river at 6 p. m. each evening to put out the fires that develop during the" day. This . keeps smoke and other odors that originate at the dump from blow- ( ing over the north end of town. To pump the water, the city lo- , cated a large cement base on the normal river bank. From this they extended a pipe with an un- ; derwater foot-valve to prevent ■ leaves, branches and river dirt from entering and blocking the pipe. On the block, a shallow- < well electric motor is installed to j pump the water. The shallow- • well motor was the most econom- : leal to buy when purchased. However, high water has kept the pumping station, with the sta- ; tionary facilities, under water ; most of the summer. It would cost the street department an esti- 1 mated $1,500 to get a deep-water i pump in operation. If people will cooperate by not 1 dumping burnable material on ; fires after 6 p. m., much of the ; resulting smoke can be stopped, i Clark explained. The city, he em- i phasized, will do the best it can ; to prevent the smoke by care in i burning. ]

Hit-Skip Showers Hit On Wednesday. Power, TelephoneService Disupted ®it -and-skip thundershowers surjjfased the area Wednesday afternoon, drenching scattered areas and disrupting some power and telephone service. Most of the showers hit the area between 3 and 4:30 p.m. The hardest hit area was a band across the lower central part of the county, where an inch fell in Monroe township. On the other hand. Union, St. Mary’s, Hartford, and Wabash townships reported sprinkles or no rain at ajl. Decatur was on the northern edge of the storm which hit hardest, as it received a steady downpour from about 3:15 until 3:45 p.m., which measured .40 inch, according to weather observer Louis Landrum. The St. Mary’s river here is still receding from the weekend’s two-inch-plus rains. Yesterday afternoon’s shower only slowed the rate, as it had shrunk to 11.85 feet by 7 a.m. today. North and east of Decatur, a brief but severe electrical storm hit power transformers and knocked out telephones. The city light and power warehouse reported this morning that the disrupted power was restored within an hour. Several transformer fuses had been blown, and one transformer, east •of tire city had to be replaced. Southern Adams county, hard-hit by other rains, received little or no rain Wednesday afternoon. The Wabash river continued to stay inside its banks; it was still not quite back to normal after rising moderately from the rains over the weekend. The morning’s weather picture looked like this: In Root township, the Cecil Harvey farm was in the center of the most severe electrical storm. Power was disrupted as transformers were damaged and some telephones were reported out yet this morning. Around 3:30 s.m. a bolt of lightning like a ball of fire cut off the electricity; the (Continued on Fage Seven)

Auction Graduate Exercises Friday Three-Week Session Will Close Friday * Seventy-four students of the Reppert school of auctioneering are completing their intensive three-week training session, with a program this morning with Decatur officials and businessmen, and the graduation banquet and rites Friday morning. Tomorrow at 11 a. m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center will be the graduation banquet, for the instructors of the school and the students, with the rites immediately following, for students and their relatives. Q. R. Chafee. dean of the school, will be master of ceremonies, and Dr. Roland Reppert, owner and manager of the school, will present the diplomas, certifying that the students have satisfactorily completed the nationally-known Reppert school course, including “pedigree study, livestock judging, physical and vocal training, public speaking and sales methods and practice.” Included in the group of instructors who will attend are Guy Pettit, Bloomfield, la., Clyde Wilson, Marion, 0., Homer Pollock, Delphos, 0., and Ray Elliott, Portland. The students will leave Decatur for their homes, which are in one province of Canada and 20 states. Twelve are Hoosiers this summer, and one lives in Decatur. City officials and representatives of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce visited the school in its last day today, presenting keys to the city as tokens of friendship and appreciation for the student auctioneers. There to honor the students were Mayor Robert Cole, and chief of police James Borders, and, from the Chamber of Commerce, Robert Heller, Robert W. Bradtmiller, and Clifford Brewer.

Claim Pattern Os Arson In Teamster Acts Senate Committee Hears New Evidence On Teamster Union WASHINGTON (UPI) — Senate investigators said today there was a “pattern” of arson in Teamsterbacked strikes and organizing drives which might explain the recent “human torch” death of a union official in Michigan. The charge came as the committee heard new evidence of arson, dynamiting attempts and othr violence in a 1955-56 hotel workers’ strike in Indianapolis which had Teamster support. Earlier Teamster President James R. Hoffa said his Detroit local gave a destitute trucker local in Indianapolis $125,000 in credit—never used—to strengthen the union in dealings with employers. Hoffa also told of an SB,OOO loan from his own resources to the operator of a taxi company who vanished under what the committee has called “mysterious circumstances.” Torch Death Recalled Chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy said the arson testimony was of interest because of the recent death of Teamsters’ business agent Frank Kierdorf of Flint, Mich., who stumbled into a hospital with fatal burns. Kierdorf died of the burns and police theorized he suffered them while trying to put the torch to a Pontiac, Mich., dry cleaning plant. Today's evidence was offered by small businessmen in Indianapolis —a hotel owner and his wife and a produce deliveryman—who said they were victims of arson attempts. The deliveryman said he was burned out of his business for defying advice to stop deliveries to the strike-bound hotel. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said he detected a “pattern” in the strike activities of Teamster unions and the death of Kierdorf. Cites Police Laxity “It's a terrible thing that things like this happen in a country where men are supposed to be free,” Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (DN.C.) said upon learning that Indianapolis police never made an (Continued on Page Seven)

Mrs. Carl Wilkins Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mrs. Lillian Wilkins, 66. wife of Carl Wilkins of near Ohio City, 0., died unexpectedly Tuesday at a Toledo hospital after a brief illness. She was born in Little Rock, Ark., May 21, 1892, a daughter of Napoleon and Mattie McFallsBrown, but had lived in Alabama most of her life. Her first husband, Houlet South, died Sept. 21, 1933, and she was married to Carl Wilkins in March of 1941. Mrs. Wilkins was a member of the Bethel Evangelical United Brethren church, one-half mile south of Glenmore, O. Surviving in addition to her husband are one son, Jenson South of Decatur; two daughters, Mrs. Walter Suman of Willshire, 0., and Mrs. Carl James of Van'Wert, O.; eight grandchildren; one greatgrandchild; one brother, Ancel Brown, living in Arkansas, and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Kenner of Samuals, Ida., Mrs. Casey Duncan of Gentry, Ark., and Mrs. Willie Hutton of Waterloo, Ala. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:15 p.m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Bethel E. U. B. church, the Rev. Albert N. Straley officiating Burial will be in the Rockford, 0., cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

High Winds, Rain In Southern Texas At Least One Death Is Caused By Storm United Press International Winds up to 47 miles per hour drove sheets of rain over southeastern Texas late Wednesday, causing at least one death and heavy damage. Heavy rain pounded the Atlantic Coast and thundershowers in central Minnesota were accompanied by hail up to 1% inches in diameter. Showers also were reported over large areas of the Rockies from Idaho to Arizona. The Texas storm swept out of the Gulf of Mexico, lashing Galveston bay to a white froth, and pounded up the Houston Ship Channel upsetting boats. Winds of 47 miles per hour hit Houston blowing down power lines and tree limbs. Jim Shields. 60, a railroad section hand was killed when one of the falling limbs struck him. The Coast Guard rescued 10 persons from Redfish Reef, 12 miles from Galveston, and picked up the two-man crew of a shrimp boat forced aground by the storm. The crew of a tug which capsized was rescued by another tug nearby. There were reports of a three foot tidal wave washing over fish camps. Galvston reported 3.44 inches of rain. Inland Fort Worth reported hail about a quarter of an inch in diameter followed by heavy rain while Dallas reported the hottest day of the year, 105 degrees. Thundershowers in the north central section of the nation dumped half an inch of rain at Alexandria, Minn., along with hail. The storms marched eastward into northern Wisconsin and across Upper Michigan but rainfall dropped to a trickle. The Great Lakes region lay under a cool blanket of air early today with Alpena, Mich., reporting a 45-degree reading, lowest in the nation outside of the mountains.

Commissioners Plan Sales Os Properties Highway Building, Land Sale Planned The Adams county commissioners have included in their estimate of revenue to be received next year $22,500 from the sale of the county highway building on First street and about 7.5 acres of land near the county hospital. I According to the estimate, the county commissioners plan to receive $15,000 for the county highway building, and $7,500 for the part of the lot between the railroad and the ditch near the center of the county property. For many years it has been planned to build the new county building on the lot next to the hospital. The present commissioners feel, however, that the building should be constructed at Monroe. They have taken an option on acres for $3,000 next to the county 4-H fair grounds. Roland J. Miller, president of the county commissioners, stated that he felt the building should ba constructed near the geographical center of the county. He also stated that the building could be used during the 4-H fair by the 4-H committee, and that in return the county could continue storing equipment in the 4-H buildings in the winter. Girl Is Electrocuted By Mechanical Horse ROY, Utah (UPD—A 4-year-old girl was electrocuted here Wednesday by a mechanical horse at a grocery. The girl, Debra Barber, Syracuse, was dismounting from the machine when it sent an electrical charge through her body. She was pronounced dead at a hospital after doctors tried unsuccessfully to massage her heart back into action. .

24 Americans Are Reported Aboard Plane Wreckage Sighted By British Liner; Heavy Toll Feared BULLETIN SHANNON, Ireland <UPI) — A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Super-Constellation with 99 persons aboard, including at least 46 Americans, crashed into the stormy North Atlantic today on a tight from Amsterdam to New York. A French fishing vessel reported it had spotted survivors on a life raft. SHANNON, Ireland (UPI) — A KLM Super Constellation with 99 persons aboard crashed into the Atlantic Ocean today on a flight from Amsterdam to New York. Officials of the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines conceded that the wreckage of a plane sighted 130 miles west of Shannon was theirs. They feared the death toll was heavy. At The Hague,. KLM announced . that there were at least 24 Ameri icans aboard. I The wreckage was sighted first i on the radar of a British Overs seas Airways Corp, airliner on a j New York-to London flight. I No Sign of Life 5 One of six Royal Air Force long range Shackleton planes, dis. i patched from points in Ireland, i England and Scotland to search t along the airliner’s route, report- . ed sighting the wreckage at 8:45 I a.m. I The Shackleton reported it saw • bodies in the water, floating wreckage and a few half-inflated r life rafts. It reported no sign of ’ life. ' All indications were that the 1 plane was beaten down into the ■ sea by a heavy thunderstorm. KLM officials said the plane was at 16,000 feet when it sent out its last radio message. An Air Ministry official said the plane may have been struck by lightning. Ships to Scene A Trans-World Airlines pilot reported on arrival in Shannon on a flight from New York that he had hit a very bad squall about the same time the KLM aircraft apparently crashed.' The Shckleton that spotted the wreckage was directing surface ships to the scene. KLM officials said there were 91 passengers — ihcluding 83 adults, 5 children and 3 babies—and a crew of 8 on the SuperConstellation which disappeared between Shannon, Ireland, and Gander, Newfoundland, on an Am-sterdam-to-New York flight. The plane’s pilot made his last routine radio contact with Shannon at 16:40 p.m. c.d.t. Wednesday, 35 minutes after he had taken off from the Irish airport following a routine stopover. Delayed In Amsterdam After that there was nothing but silence. Air officials said the KLM aircraft probably hit a violent wind and rain squall shortly after leaving Shannon. The flight, 607E, was a replacement for the normal flight 607 which left in charter Wednesday night. Because of the replacement, Flight 607E was delayed nearly five hours in Amsterdam. It left Shannon airport at 10:05 p.m. Wednesday and was due in Gander at 6:15 a.m. today. The pilot made a routine radio contact with Shannon at 10:40 p.m. when the plane was approximately 200 miles west of the Irish airport. The U.S. Coast Guard in New York said the pilot told the Shannon control tower at that time he was heading for a point in the ocean 55 degrees north and 30 degrees west—Bso miles northeast of Gander and 700 miles west of Shannon — from which he would make another radio check at about 1:51 a.m. 9ut there was only silence after that, and a vast international air and sea serch effort got under(Continued on Face Sevan)

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