Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 202.

f W -.j ’ / W '(Mr A -waia. ’.. WMB STATE |g NEW YORK’S DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR Averell Harriman, right, and his running mate. Lt. Gov. George B. DeLuca, left, were renominated by acclamation during the Buffalo convention. Harriman will oppose multi-millionaire Nelson Rockefeller, whose family gave $152,604 to the 1956 GOP campaign fund. Both Democratic and Republican conventions were held at the same time.

GOP Worried Over Outcome Os Fall Vote Top Command Meets In Chicago To Hunt For Issues By RAYMOND LAHR United Press International CHICAGO (UPD—The high command of the Republican Party is meeting here to persuade itself that the GOP can win back control of Congress this year and then to figure out how to do the job. To pull it off, the Republicans must buck what has appeared to be a Democratic trend in the two years since President Eisenhower won re-election by a landslide without bringing in a GOP Congress with him. They must also buck history, which has shown that the party in control of the White House normally loses congressional seats in mid-term elections when the presidency is not at stake. To reverse this trend the GOP is trying to develop issues on a local and national basis, rally support for President Eisenhower and stress the importance of nominating “attractive” candidates. However successful these approaches might be, many GOP leaders would count it a moral victory if they could hold their own. Odds Favor Democrats All 435 House seats and 34 of the 96 Senate seats are at stake this fall. Ratification of Alaskan statehood would mean one more House member and two more senators. While the GOP needs.to show a net gain of 21 House seats and only one Senate seat to its present membership, the Senate job looks the toughest. In the 34 Senate seats outside Alaska, 21 are now held by Republicans and 13 by Democrats. Six are “safe” Democratic seats in the South. Os the remaining seven, all except Sen. William Proxmire (D - Wis.) managed to win in 1952 when President Eisenhower was carrying their states in the presidential vote. The President will not be on the ballot this year. Os the 21 Republican seats, about a dozen are counted in the tossup class. If the Democrats win half of these, even if Proxmire loses, they still would show a net gain of five. See Proxmire Defeat The Democrats claim the seat of Sen. Charles E. Potter (RMich.) already is theirs, and the Republicans admit it has them worried. Elsewhere, the Democrats believe their chances are better than even to sace Republican Senators in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, California, Maryland and at least one of the two Senate races in West Virginia, the only state with two Senate con(Ccrtmoeo on paste Ove) City Court Hears Two Drunk Cases Two cases were heard this morning in mayor’s court. Norval E. Brown, 47, Brewton, Ala., forfeited sls and was sentenced to ten days in the Adams county jail this morning. He was arrested on a charge of public intoxication Tuesday on High street, Geneva, by town marshall Preston Pyle. The case of John L. Glauner, 75, West Madison street, who was cited by city police Tuesday was continued indefinitely. Glauner had b»en cited for public intoxication about 9:55 a.m. yesterday in the 100 block of South Second Street.

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Decatur's B Battery Trains At Ft Sill Jet Plane Crash Cancels Air Show FORT SILL, Okla. — "B" Battery of the 424th Howitzer Battalion normally located at Fort Moses near Decatur, has been serving their summer training binder the auspices of the United States Army at Fort Sill, Okla., for the past week. The entire battalion will undergo training for one more week before returning to their respective home town units located in the Fort Wayne area. The 424th Howitzer Battalion was to be part of the expected 5,000 spectators to attend the demonstration that was canceled due to the jet plane crash on this post shortly after noon Friday in which the pilot Lt. Billy Randall, Biggs, Calif., was killed. The pilot was assigned to the 615th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 401st Tactical Fighter Wing, England Air Force Base, La. Members of the battalion were to witness Die largest artillery and missile demonstration ever scheduled to be held in this country. The demonstration was scheduled to be two and one-half hours in length and included everything from the firing of a 762 mm Honest John Rocket which is one of the Field Artillery’s major weapons with a nuclear capability. The United States Air Force was to move into support position while the Artillery was to hammer the range with barrage after barrage from 105, 155 and 8 inch Howitzers. One of the highlights was to be the inflight refueling of three F-100's from the KB-50 tanker. An estimate of 30,000 pounds of bombs, one hundred sixty two 2.75 mm "Mighty Mouse” rockets, and 3,300 gallons of fire bombs, were to be used in the air show by the Air Force. The 424th Howitzer Battalion *8 inch towed) is part of more than 1,600 reservists from the 431st Field Artillery Group, who flew into Fort Sill August 17 for two weeks summer training at the artillery and missile center. Based in the Fifth Army area, the group is made up of nine artillery battalions from Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. While at summer camp, they are spending most of their time in the artillery field problems. The 424th consists of 20 officers and 214 ehlisted men from the Fort Wayne area. The battalion consists of headquarters and service battery located in Fort Wayne, “A” battery. Auburn, “B” battery, Decatur, and “C’ ; cattery from Wabash. The first group of the battalion to leave B ort Wayne departed from Baer Field at 2:35 a.m. Sunday morning and arrived at Fort Sill at 6:50 a.m. the same morning. The rest of the battalion didn’t arrive until 1:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon because ‘of magneto trouble suffered before arriving in Fort Wayne to fly the troops to their summer training site. While at Fort Sill, the men are receiving extensive training in their prospective sections they are assigned with during their training at their home town units. The Howitzers, communication, motor, supply, survey, administrative, and fire direction center sections are all participating in the training. INDIANA WEATHER Fair, not so cool tonight. Thursday partly cloudy .and warm with chance of a few late afternoon thundershowers extreme northwest. Low tonight 58 to 66. High Thursday 84 to 90. Sunset today 7:24 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 6:69 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Fair and mild. Low 55 to 65. High 75 to 85.

Steer Judging Begins Today At State Fair Carol Parks, 16 Named Queen Os 1958 Fair BULLETIN Decatur’s 4-H forestry judging team placed Bth out of 33 in the state contest held at the state fairgrounds Tuesday. Members of the team, coached by William Joumay, are Barbara Bleeke and Janice Allison, both of Union township. The Deeatur team scored 1,339 pointe out of a possible 1,400, while the winning team had 1,380 pointe. The test consisted of two parts, the first identifying leaves of 45 trees, and the second, a written test on forestry. Miss Bleeke scored 676 pointe, and Miss Allison, 663. INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Fair weather lured thousands of Hoosiers to the Indiana State Fair today for its opening, with glamor cattle and cattle girls vying for the spotlight. Four-H cattle judging drew big crowds and the usual excitement was in the air as livestock competition oved toward one climax—the crowning of a grand champion 4-H steer this afternoon. Carol Parks, 16, Montgomery County, was crowned “Queen of the Fair” in competition with 31 other county fair queens from all over the state on the eve of the opening day. She and her court rode to the grounds in a caravan of 18 convertibles. Runnersup were Judy King, Scottsburg, and J&ne Williams, Bringhurst. Lt. Gov. Crawford F. Parker got a 16-gun salute when he arrived at the fair to crown Carol. Governor Handley's appearance was delayed until afternoon. Judging of the steers reminded habitual fairgoers of the Woebbekings of Allen County, whose animals won a string of three grand championships from 1955 to 1957. This year’s winner will not be a Woebbeking, however, fair officials said, because the family has no entries in the 4-H competition. Prize steers will be auctioned Thursday. PlKup Uth pgh: Sue Secondino Sue Secondino, 19, Terre Haute, decided last year against selling her Hereford, “Honeymoon,” and took it to the International Livestock Expositionin Chicago. There Mrs. Secondino’s brown and white steer beat another Woebbeking Angus for the title. She received a record-breaking $30,050 for “Honeymoon,” who has retird to pasture. The Indiana State Fair winner ended up on a butcher’s block after auction. Other events on the program for which the weatherman promised fair skies and 70-degree temperatures. included a tractor pulling contest. There was judging in every building as 4-H Club, members and Future Farmers of America ruled the grounds. The 4-H portion of the Hoosier shindig will close Saturday, to give the youngsters no excuse for missing school when it opens next week. Democrat Ladies Meet For Luncheon Sept. 13 INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana Democratic women will honor the party’s state and congressional nominees Sept. 13 at a luncheon here in observance of “National Democratic Women’s Day.” . Former Decatur Man Gets $25,000 Award Legal Suit Follows 1957 Railroad Injury A former Decatur man received a court award c os $25,000 in Chicago this week following a yearlong civil injury trial during which he was represented by the lawyer-husband of a former resident. Cletus McManama, who attended Decatur high school from 1940 until 1944 when he joined»the Navy, was injured in July, 1957, at Deshler, 0., while employed by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He was hospitalized for two days following the injuries in the Bowling Green, 0., Wood county hospital. Attorney for McManama was O. William Olson, husband of the former Marjorie Schnepf, daughter of Mrs. Will Schnepf of Decatur. The Olsons reside at 230 N. LaSalle Street in Chicago.

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Chattanooga, O. Laborer Killed In Dispute With BerneTomato Workers

5-1 Margin Statehood Vote In Alaska Record Turnout To Make Alaska 49th US State ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPD — Alaska was riding into the union today on a tremendous vote approving statehood by a margin of more than 5-1. * Tabulations of nearly 25 per cent of a record-breaking vote, estimated to total more than 35,000 showed 6,865 for statehood and only 1,331 opposed. As returns from Tuesday’s election rolled in from throughout the vast territory, the pro - statehood forces showed themselves winning in every district. Southeastern Alaska, supposedly the anti-statehood fortress, voted overwhelmingly for the three propositions which will clear the way for a presidential proclamation admitting Alaska as the nation's 49th state. The Congressional Vote With more voters going to the polls than ever before in Alaska history, the balloting was so .heavy at Fairbanks and Anchorage that election officials kept the polls open well past the 8 p.m. closing hour. Long lines of voters were still waiting to cast their ballots in some Anchorage and Fairbanks precincts almost two hours later. > Indian and Eskimo villages, which were counted as anti-state-hood precincts prior to the election, stumped the experts by turning out for statehood by margins of 10-1 or better. In addition to offering statehood to Alaskans, the election, also gave them their first opportunity to nominate candidates for Congress. But only one congressional nomination, that on the Democratic side of the ballot for United States representative, was contested. Alaska’s political weathervane, considered by some to be unerring, pointed decidedly in the Democratic direction after early and scattered counts. But there was one major exception in the vote for former Gov. Mike Stepovich. running unopposed for the Republican nomination to on! of the Senate terms. Stepovich had polled 380 - 261 for unopposed Democrat Ernest Gruening, Juneau, also a former <«. itiuea on Page Five) Robert Riesen, 65 Dies At Berne Local Lady's Brother Funeral Thursday Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, Berne, for Robert Riesen. 65, brother of Mrs. John Feasel, 439 Line street. Mr. Riesen died about 1:14 a.m. Tuesday at his Berne home following a heart attack. A lifelong resident of the Berne community, he had been in failing health with a heart ailment since November. 1955. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Berne American Legion and Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are the widow, the former Helena Mae Liechty; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Ellen Hcssa, in Japan, and Mrs. Emma Lou Ahr, Anderson; six grandchildren: three brothers, Roy Riesen, Sacramento, Calif., G. E. Riesen. Fort Wayne, and Francis Riesen. Waynedale, and two sisters, Mrs. Feasel and Mrs. Wilmer Pyle, Bryant. Friends may call at the Yager Funeral home, Berne. Officiating at the funeral services will be the Rev. A. E. Givens, assisted by the Rev. Gordon J. Neuenschwander. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery.

Wirmer Weather Hoosier Forecast Chilly Weather To Return Friday Warmer weather breezed into Indiana •today and earlier forecasts that it would last only about 24 hours were revised to indicate a longer stay. Earlier, the Weather Bureau predicted highs of 80 to 85 Thursday and “quite cool” Friday. The late-morning forecast called for 85 to 90 Thursday and 75 to 85’Friday, 'Hie five - day outlook, issued before the revised forecasts, indicated cooler Friday with not much change thereafter. The five-day outlook called for temperatures averaging 3 to 5 degrees below normal in the north and 6 below in the south. Normal highs are 80 to 86 and normal lows 58 to 65. ' Warmer tonight, turning cooler north Thursday , and south about Friday with not much change in temperature Saturday through Monday,” the outlook said. A separate -outlook for Friday indicated temperatures will be “quite. cool.” TJie mercury crested at points ranging from 74 at Fort Wayne to 78 at Evansville Tuesday and cbropped to lows from 51 at Godhen to 56 at Lafayette this mornWair to partly cloudy weather will prevail the next few days except for a "chance" of showers or thundershowers in the extreme north tonight and Thursday. Precipitation during the five-day period ending next Monday will average .50 to .75 of an inch north and .25 to .50 south in scattered showers or thundershowers north tonight or Thursday and over most sections about Saturday or Sunday. Mrs. Louisa Pollock Dies At Van Wert 94 Years Old Mother Os Decatur Resident Mrs. Louisa Pollock, 94. mother of Asa Pollock, 603 West Jeffersdh, died Monday night in the Van Wert, 0., county hospital. Native of Fairfield county, 0., Mrs. Pollock had 114 direct descendants. Surviving are two sons, W. E. Pollock, Middle Point, 0., and Asa Pollock, 603 West Jefferson street: four daughters, Mrs. Gladys Slentz, Taft, Calif., Mrs. Florence Hofman, Pleasant Township, 0., Mrs. Genevieve Cox. Van Wert, and Mrs. Hazel Summersett, Ridge township, 0., 38 grandchildren, 69 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Church of the Nazarene, Van Wert, O. Burial will be in the Ridge cemetery. The body is at the Alspach funeral home. Von Braun Recovering At Science Meeting AMSTERDAM (UPD — U.S. Army missile expert Wernher Von Braun, who suffered a slipped disc Monday while attending the International Astronautjcal Congress, was allowed *to leave his bed today. Lady Drive Thru Window Seven Are Injured INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Mrs. Marilyn L. Shrout, 23, Indianapolis, dtove her car through a window at the Double-L Drive-in Restaurant Tuesday and seven persons were cut by flying glass. Mrs. Shrout said she intended to back up from a parking place at the drive-in but the car went forward. Damage was estimated at $3,000 to $5,000. Neither Mrs. Shrout nor her 2-year-old daughter Laurie was hurt. The injured included Mrs. A. G. Pappenhagen, 29, West Lafayette, and six persons from the Indianapolis area.

Upsurge Noted In Insured Farm loans Local Lenders Increasing Use Os FHA Backing Local bank); and (4her private lenders are increasing their stake in the Farmers Home Administration's progiam of long-term loans to qualified farmers to buy or improve family-type farms or establish good soil and water conservation practices. Donald A. Norquest, Farmers Home Administration county supervisor, pointed out this week. His agency is authorized to insure farm real estate loans that are made from funds advanced by banks, insurance companies, or other institutions having money to invest. Since the recent change in the money market, activitiy by investors has greatly increased. During the past 6 months, the national monthly volume- of new insured loan business has risen from approximately $1,250,000 to $5,000,000 a month. For either a direct or insured loan the farmer pays 4% per cent interest. If the loan is insured, the lender or investor gets a clear 3Ms per cent and the Government guarantees payment of both principal and interest. The full guarantee and the money market change have put many local banks in position to contribute to a stronger local agriculture by helping farmers otherwise unable to buy or improve their farms, Mt. Norquest said. After a 5-year period the private lender may sell the insured note to the Government for the amount of principal and interest due, may arrange for later sale, or may hold until the note is fully repaid. In case of default, the Government stands ready to take the note over (Continued on cage five) Harlke Says Farmers Want Understanding Have No Control Over Farm Prices WATERLOO — A friendly federal government is _what the farmer of Indiana wants and needs. Mayor Vance Hartke of Evansville told a DeKalb County meeting at Waterloo today. In a speech prepared for delivery this afternoon, the 39-year-old fasttraveling candidate for U. S. Senator said he believes Indiana farmers want "understanding and an occasional helping hand.” He said his talks with Hoosier agricultural leaders convinced him they want less control, “Virtually every segment of our economy has been able to obtain help in the form of tax rebates, fast tax write-offs, depreciation allowances, mail subsidies and such aid without federal control. In the the case of the farmer, there is an even more basic problem. “Agriculture is the foundation of our economy even in days of diminishing farm populations and growing cities and suburbs. The farmer alone has almost no control over the price he receives from the goods he takes to the market place. “This points up the need for some guarantee that the bottom won’t be allowed to drop out from under the farmer. This is why I favor a constructive farm program. This is why I resent and shall resist claims of certain Republican leaders that the small farmer must go because he is too inefficient. I believe that the family farmer, like the small businessman, has been kicked around too long. I believe these family farms and small businesses are the keystones of our democratic system. I hope to do my part to lend a helping hand instead of turning a deaf ear to the problems of Hoosier agriculture.”

State School Bus Safety Record Good Young Says Fleet Totals Over 6,000 "No child has been killed while riding on a school bus in over 14 years and we want to extend that record,” Wilbur Young, state superintendent of public instruction, has stated, key noting a new effort to maintain school bus accidents at a minimum. Now there is complete data covering the accidents that happen to school buses, as the Indiana State Police is cooperating, so that there is current information available. Young stated. Before, there was only a summary of the number of accidents at the end of the year. “Now, with complete data we believe we can attack the problem of property damage accidents,” Young believes. In the six-month period just end ed. there were 97 accidents involving school buses, 17 involving personal injury. “On the other hand,” Young added, “there were 46 ac-cident-free days.” The record also shows a period of seven consecutive school days without an accident. A good record, Young asserts, for the Hoosier flee of school buses numbers over 6.000: they carry 348,974 pupils, and their routes total over 40 billion daily passenger-miles. “Not all injuries may be classified strictly as a traffic accident,” Young pointed out, “for example, a wheel of another car hit a school bus causing injury; stones were thrown through a bus window by vandals: and two children fell, out of a bus through a door which they opened. We are studying the causes of all accidents and hope that the number will soon reach the irreducible minimum which is our goal.” Unemployment Claim Still Double 1957 Week's Claims Over 100,000 For Jobless INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —The Indiana Employment Security Division said today claims for jobless benefits dropped last week, but the total for regular claims alone was nearly twice as many as during the same week last year.” Total claims still were more than 100,000. Director William C. Stalnaker announced 65,082 claims for regular benefits were received in his division’s 30 ofifces. He said that was about 2,700 fewer than the week before. The total included 8,084 claims from persons who had just lost their jobs. But Stalnaker said the “only sizeable ' layoff” reported was in the Evansville area where a model-change shutdown idled approximately 3,200 employes. A total of 41,078 persons filed for extended benefits, including 2,800 who were on their last week of their extension. Car Turns Acrobat, Driver Escapes Injury Apparently falling asleep at the wheel of his car while on the way home from work, a resident of near Willshire narrowly escaped injury Sunday. In a one-car accident a mile west of Van Wert at the intersection of the Lesson Avenue and Pleasant School roads, Gerald W. Hurless, 22, Willshire route one. escaped with a bruised knee. He had worked all night, and had started home. The car struck a concrete bannister, just north of a steel bridge, and plunged over a wall into a ditch channel, dropping 20 feet. The automobile apparently turned a complete somersault for it fell on all four wheels in two and onehalf feet of water, facing the northeast.

Alert Out For Suspects In Shooting Laborers Argue Over Wages; One Man Captured BULLETIN Adams county sheriff Merle Affolder apprehended Lu pe Callejas about 11 a. m. today at a labor camp approximately five miles east of Berne, as Callejas was returning from Indianapolis, where he had left Gregory V. Prado, who allegedly shot and killed Jesse Gomez after an argument Tuesday evening in Chattanooga, O. Lupe Callejas, apprehended as an accessory, was taken to Chattanooga about 12:53 o’clock this afternoon. Prado is 3G years old. five feet, six inches tall, and weighs 155 pounds. ■ A tri-state alert is out for two men who left the scene of a shooting Tuesday at the St. Mary’s packing plant labor camp in Chattanooga, O. Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan authorities are alerted to watch for Lupe Callejas and Gregory V. Prado, both under forty who left the Chattanooga labor camp shortly after Jesse Gomez, about 33, route two, Berne, was shot. Hit by two bullets from a .45 automatic, Gomez died about ten minutes after the shooting, according to Celina, 0., authorities. After the autopsy performed this morning it was fotind the victim bled to death. Mercer county coroner Dr. Donald Fox stated this noon. Two shots were fired. One, which entered and broke the left arm, went into the left leg and lodged in a mattress the victim had apparently been sitting on. The other had struck the right elbow and entered the lower left abdomen, cutting a large vein; this bullet was found in the lumbar vertebrae, the coroner reported. The body was taken late Tuesday night to the Didrick-Stallter funeral home in Celina. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. as authorities are still seeking the Gomez family. Gomez was shot following an argument over division of earlier wages, according to the story pieced together this morning. Called to the scene, Mercer county sheriff Bruce Barber, Celina, notified Adams county authorities shortly after nine o’clock. Assisting in the investigation were one unit from Adams county, one from Allen county, two from Jay coun« ty. and state troopers. Adams county authorities, assisting in the alert, have set up roadblocks, in case the alleged killers, might return to the camp near Berne, where they have settled since April, according to reports. The alleged killers and Gomez had apparently come to Indiana from Sturgis, Mich., in April, and settled on the camp near Berne, on a farm owned by Jim Parr. Later the group split, Gomez going to the camp in Chattanooga, the other two staying at the Adams county camp. Thursday evening the two men came to the Chattanooga camp, and argued with Gomez over dividing earlier wages, it has been reported. and Gomez had driven the two away just before the shooting occurred. Indiana Traffic Deaths 14% Below Last Year - INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Indiana’s traffic death toll climbed to 573 by last Sunday midnigh. 14 per cent below the 666 deaths recorded up to the same time last year. Twenty-five deaths added to the 1958 roster last week compared with 26 in the corresponding week of 1957 and left this year’s, toll 93 below that of late August last year.

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