Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 205, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 205.

Decatur To Honor Grid Coaches

* W * * 1 WBIi®? v I SL/4 ihl lb* P I wj' y • >1 br Bar k * ■Bl ... '”’’* jl Bk Jmmßß ' ~ ABOUT SCHOOLS? BORED!— While legislators listen intently to discussion in the Arkansas House of school integration problems, young Gary Purnell, 2-year-old.son of Rep. Carl Purnell, yawns in boredom. The legislature, after empowering Gov. Faubus to close schools, adjourned their three-day emergency session.

Schricker Has 75th Birthday In Indianapolis Former Governor Only Mon Twice In That Office INDIANAPOLIS <UPD—Former Gov. Henry F. Schricker. one of the best known and best liked politicians in a state that is full of politicians, observed his 75th birthday anniversary today. The only man ever to serve two terms as governor of Indiana, Schricker remains in good health and is quite active for one of age. He goes to work every day—to a desk in a brand-new building which honses a fire and casualty insurance company he heads as president and board chapman. The company is located oti the same side of the same street and only seven blocks from the governor's mansion where Schricker and his wife. Maude, lived during Schricker's second term. Members of the closely-knit Schricker family, including the couple’s three children—Henry. George and Margaret—and their families were expected to attend a birthday dinner in the Schricker home. Schricker was hospitalized for a slight stroke last year. But since then, he has apparently recovered completely and shows no signs of a recent illness. The white-haired governor still wears a white hat, si long-time habit which his Democratic party capitalized on in the 1948 gubernatorial election as a symbol of good government. Schricker reached the heights of political popularity first in 1940 when, in a campaign in which he spent only $7,000, he was elected governor while every other state office went to Republicans, including control of the Legislature. Studebaker Agrees To Month Labor Contract Indiana Co. Extends Expiring Contract SOUTH BEND. Ind. (UPD — Studebaker - Packard Corp, and United Auto Workers Local 5 ha*, a announced an agreement to extend their current labor contract through Sept. 30. The agreement announced Friday extended a three - year contract which expires at midnight Monday. Negotiations on a new contract have been underway for several weeks. Company officials said the negotiations were proceeding in “an atmosphere of confidence and understanding.” T. Forrest Hanna, president of Local 5, said he was under the impression that the international union did not want the S-P negotiations completed until the “Big 3” have reached agreements. He added, however, he had not received any direct word from the UAW to that effect. Hanna said the union was negotiating for an “agency shop clause” in the new contract in an effort to skirt Indiana’s right-to-work law. He said since the Taft-Hartley Act considers the union a bargaining agent, for all plant employes whether they belong to the union or not, the proposed clause would allow the union to charge nonunion employes for services. Hanna said the service fee would equal union dues.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Former Congressman Blames Governor No Cooperation Says John Walsh HUNTINGTON, Ind. <UPDJohn R. Walsh, Democratic nominee for Indiana secretary of state, attacked Governor Handley Thursday for not cooperating fully with the federal government and other states. “I have heard on many occasions that Harold Handley represents a particular kind of Americanism,” Walsh told an audience here. “This kind of Americanism is leading the people of Indiana to the point where our tax load is oppressive and we have a governor who refuses to accept federal participation to assist us in caring for our needy, lame, young, sick, and old,” he charged. Walsh, a former congressman, said that Indiana is one of only two states not participating in the rural library program. He also charged that Indiana ranks last in prticipation in the vocational rehabilitation program and next to last in the children’s welfare program and in hospital construeWildcat Strikes Expected To End Big Three Autos Want Holiday Pay DETROIT (UPD — Most of the wildcat strikes that cut into production of Big Three 1959 model cars during the past week were expected to end this weekend. Two strikes were settled late Friday — one involving 7,000 at General Motors’ Pontiac plant in Pontiac, Mich., and another involving 2.300 at Hamilton, Ohio. But more than 12,000 were still jobless in Michigan and Ohio today. At one time Thursday more than 20,000 were idled by walkouts. The United Auto Workers international headquarters has refused to issue specific orders to the striking work er s, saying the strikes were local outbreaks in which it was not directly involved. But it was reported to have advised local union leaders the strikes would have to be halted at midnight Sunday if workers were, to claim their Labor Day holiday pay. The 6,500 at Flint were either directly on strike at three parts plants or were forced out of work by materials shortages in the assembly plant. Buick also was forced to close an assembly line Thursday in Kansas City, Kans. Chrysler warned an additional 4,000 non-strikers would be thrown out of work next week if the walkouts of 2,750 at three Detroit plants were not ended. Seven hundred more were out at a Fisher Body plant in Grand Rapids, Mich., and an Elyria, Ohio, plant remained closed. In the Brook Park section of Cleveland, 2,100 Ford Motor Co. employes were idled by walkouts at three plants. Meanwhile, the union was preparing to set a strike deadline in negotiations with GM, Ford and Chrysler. UAW. Vice President Leonard Woodcock said a date for a meeting of the union’s executive board would be set next week. The date of a strike and a target company were expected to be named at the board meeting.

Celina Police Hold Callejos As Accessory Prado Loose; Lupe Hazy On Where Released One man Is being held by Mercer county authorities as an accessory to the murder of Jesse Gomez, 33, a laborer, and authorities are still on the alert for another laborer, suspected to be the murderer. Lupe Callejos, 24, will face charges as an accessory to murder, according to Mercer county sheriff Bruce Barber. Callejos disappeared, along with another laborer, after Gomez was shot in an argument at a labor camp owned by the St. Mary’s packing company, Chattanooga, 0., Tuesday evening. Gomez died ten minutes after being shot twice, about 9 p. m. Authorities first searched for Artemio Callejos, 30, who owned the escape car, and who was found probably innocent Wednesday morning at a labor camp five and one-half miles east and one mile north of Berne, and affiliated with the Redkey packing plant, where he and Lupe had lived. Lupe was apprehended by Adams county sheriff Merle Affolder when he returned to the camp late Wednesday morning, after allegedly taking away and leaving a third man, Gregory V. Prado, 39, suspected to be the killer. Lupe and a younger brother, Fernando, 16, were cleared in the actual shooting after paraffin and lie detector tests at the Indiana State police crime laboratory at Indianapolis. However, accounts of where Lupe had left Padro were still hazy after the tests. Authorities in the tri-state area are still alerted to watch out for Padro, who is described as approximately 5 feet, 6 inches tall, and weighing 155 pounds. Lupe, Prado, and Fomez had been arguing earlier Tuesday over a division of wages and bonus received when Gomez was affiliated with the group who live at the Berne encampment, before he moved to Chattanooga. There were discrepencies in stories about the. happenings before the shooting; Lupe, however, related these details when he was returned to the scene of the shooting, the bed on which (Continues on page five) Mrs. Anna Auer, 45 Dies Friday Al Ossian Wife Os GE Manager 111 For Six Months Mrs. Anna Kathleen Auer, 45, wife of George W. Auer, plant manager of the Decatur General Electric company, died at 4 p. m. Friday afternoon at the home of her mother 3% miles east of Ossian. • Mrs. Auer died from loss of blood from self-inflicted wounds caused by a razor blade. She had been in ill health for six months, and had been quite despondent for the past week. The Auers and their two sons reside four miles northwest of Decatur in Preble township on the River road. They have resided here since 1956, when Auer was transferred from the Linton plant. Mrs. Auer was the daughter of Clyde O. White, deceased, and Mrs. Dora White, of near Ossian, and was born September 3, 1912 in Fort Wayne. She was married to George W. Auer October 1, 1936. An active member of the Zion Lutheran church of Decatur, Mrs. Auer took part in the Missionary society of the church, and worked closely with other troop mothers of Boy Scout Troop 62, of which her eldest son is a member. Surviving in addition to the husband are two sons, Robert William Auer, 3, and John Charles Auer, 11; two brothers, Aubrey White and Edwin White of Jefferson township, Wells county; two sisters, Mrs. Jack Barnes, Jefferson township, Wells county, and Mrs. P. C. Drybbro of Fairbanks, Alaska. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home at 1 p. m„ and at the Zion Lutheran church at 1:30 p. m„ the Rev. Edgar P. Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Lindenwood cemetery in Fort Wayne. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 2 p. m. Sunday.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 30, 1958

Worthman, Andrews, Dorwin To Be Cited By Lions Club For Service

PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE OF THE CITYOF DECATUR, INDIANA: WHEREAS, The Decatur Lions Club, The Decatur Booster Club, The Decatur Youth and Community Center Teen Council, The Decatur Chamber of Commerce, and Post 43, the American Legion, being duly organized Decatur institutions; and 1 WHEREAS, These groups have petitioned the city of Decatur to honor three present and past Decatur High School football coaches, Robert Worthman, Hugh Andrews, and Deane Dorwin; and WHEREAS, it is the civic duty of the City-of Decatur to fully cooperate in projects which promote civic pride, faith in our city school system and its teachers, and city spirit, THEREFORE, I, Robert D. Cole, Mayor of the Citv of Decatur, call upon all citizens to observe the three special city holidays of Sept. 10-12 by decorating their places of business and enjoying the parade Wednesday pight. and turning out for the opening football game and celebration Friday evening. September 12 7:30 p. m , at Worthman Field. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused of the City of Decatur to be affixed this 23rd day of August, 'SEAL) ROBERT D. COLE. Mayor.

Mounted Posse Organized Here For Sheriff Special Group Will Parade On Horseback The newly organized Adams county sheriff’s mounted posse will meet for the third time September 8, to make plans for their September 14 horse show. Fourteen men became charter members of the horse-riding posse at a meeting earlier this week, and were measured for their uniforms, which will be similar to those worn by the officials of the sheriff’s department. The group organized to act as a unit of the sheriff’s department, with special deputies in the membership. and as a parade unit. In the horse show, to be at Clem’s Lake, ten events will take place, including classes for western pleasure horses, and junior horsemen, 16 years of age and under, musical chairs, .and races including cloverleaf, barrel, obstacle, rescue, and mail bag races. The grand entry is slated for 1 p.m., Sunday, September 14. Smith, Lawson, Busch To Methodist Meeting Decatur Men Study At DePauw Next Week Three Decatur men will attend the annual Institute for Methodist men, September 5 through 7, at DePauw University. Lowell Smith, Alva Lawson, and Fred Busche will represent the First Methodist church at the institute, to attend workshops on 11 subjects, including stewardship. Methodist men at work; official board activities and responsibilities; international relations; Bible study; missions; relation of the church to the state; alcoholism; music; the church lay leader, and lay speaking. Eaqh of the 600 delegates expected to attend will choose one of the subjects and follow it through in workshops on next Saturday and Sunday. Sunday morning the conference will end with special church services for the group, which will live in three DePauw dorrpitories. Speakers during the institute will inslude Bishop Richard Raines, of the Indiana area, and the executive assistant for Indiana, Rev. Edwin R. Garrison. NOON EDITIOnT

Cleveland Man Injured On 224 Treated, Released * From Local Hospital Robert K. Gilbert, 21, Cleveland, Ind., was treated and dismissed from the Adams county memorial hospital after being injured in a two-car accident Friday about 5:15 p.m. east of here on U. S. 224. Lawrence H. Stetler, 75, route five, heading east, had apparently slowed down to turn into his driveway on U. S. 224 six and threequarters miles east of Decatur on the federal highway. Gilbert was approaching the Stetler car from the rear, and was attempting to pass, before he noticed a turn signal; he swerved to the right, attempting to get back into the right lane, and his car struck the right rear of the Stetler auto. Gilbert suffered lacerations on the nose, forehead, and upper lip, and received treatment at the Adams county hospital following the accident. The left front wheel, fender, hood and igriHe on the Gilbert auto, a 1951 MG midget, received $350 damages. The Stetler auto received S2OO damages, according to the sheriff's department report. INDIANA WEATHER Temperatures in the low 90’s are forecast for Saturday and Sunday willyslightly lower temperatures Monday, after widely scattered thunderstorms which will clear the skies. Drive Carefully! Decatur Answers Young Boy's Plight Funds Pour In For Tenth Operation Lester Wayne Werling does not “walk alone." Decatur and area residents are proving once again that the plight of a young boy can lead straight to their hearts. When only one day old, Lester underwent his first operation and at the age of two and one-half, he again was subject to surgery. By the time he was three, Lester had had as many operations as he was old. Since that time, he has had to go back to the hospital each year for an operation. May 11, he had his eighth operation and since then has had an additional tWO. . Now a fund has been started to aid his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Werling with the costly operations. Donations can be sent to the Lester Werling Fund, Decatur Daily Democrat, in care of Mari16u Uhrick. Cards can also be sent to Lester at the Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne.

B Battery On Ranges This Week Decatur Reserves To Arrive Home This Evening FORT SILL, Okla. — The men from “B” Battery of Decatur were up at 4 o’clock again Wednesday preparing to travel to the ranges located on the northern part of Fort Sill to file the large guns. Vehicles were assembled near the battalion area to take the men to the firing ranges in a combined convoy of military trucks at 6 a.m. with Captain Jack E. Welch, battalion motor officer in charge of the convoy. The temperature and humidity was very high during the exercises held on the ranges this forenoon. While at the ranges, the men were given more instructions by the safety officers and commanding officers of each Battery on the procedures and regulations enforced in that particular area. After the firing was completed the men were brought back to the battalion area for their noon meal. During the afternoon they were given time to prepare the equipment needed by each individual for the training scheduled for the “bivouac” in the field tonight. All of the personnel in the battalion will participate in the exercise. While in the field, the men will fire the large guns at targets near the same area they occupied earlier today. Morning "chow" will be served in the “bivouac” area in the morning. The men will then prepare to clean equipment and the area occupied by them during their stay here at Fort Sill before returning to Fort Wayne Saturday. The planes are scheduled to arrive in Fort Wayne in the early part of the evening Saturday night with the members of the 424th from (Continued on oaae six) Pre-School Institute At Decatur Friday County Teachers Hear Mishawaka Leader County school teachers convened at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Friday morning for their pre-school institute, hearing John J. Young speak on the role of the school in building moral and spiritual values. Included in the business meeting was the election of county delegates at the state teachers institute, October 23 and 24. T h e three official delegates are John Rosier. Monmouth, Margaret Kuhn, Adams Central, and Harold Long, Geneva. Their alternates will be Berniece Van Metre, Geneva, Brice Smith, Monmouth, and Elmer Ehrsam, Adams Central. Before Young’s talk, Rev. Willis Gierhart, of the Monroe Methodist church, gave the invocation, and the Pleasant Mills high school quartet sang. • Young, superintendent of the Mishawaka city schools, asserted an outimistic view of the role schools have in education in general today, saying that moral and spiritual values are higher today than they ever have been. Citing examples, he told of Calhoun, the statesman, who, in his business dealings, would borrow money from the national bank without the loans being secured, not intending to pay them back; Young pointed out that such action would not be let slip today. Citing examples of increased spiritual values. Young pointed to today’s higher church attendance. I

Indianapolis May Vote For Fast Time i Central Indiana May Join Northeast INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The way was rapidly being paved today for a big segment of Central Indiana to observe “fast” time this winter. Marion County commissioners have indicated they will change courthouse clocks late this month in accordance with a 1957 state law aimed at bringing time uniformity to Hoosierland. The Indianapolis City School Board indicated Thursday night in a poll of the membership that it would adjust class hours in conformity with Daylight Saving Time if the remainder of the city decides to stay on “fast” time this winter. Earlier, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce announced a poll of its members and their employes showed overwhelming sentiment in favor of “fast” time j the year around. The time decision actually is up to the Indianapolis City Council, Which last year decided against winter “fast” time largely on the strength of a school board decision to operate on “slow” time. What Indianapolis does traditionally affects many smaller cities and areas in Central Indiana from which workers and shoppers commute daily. Last winter, the first under the new time law, an area in northeastern Indiana was the only one to "defy” the state law, which (.Continued on page five) Mrs. Dan Beery, 96 Dies Thursday Mrs. J. T. Myers Looses Sister Mrs. Mary Etta Hower Beery, 96, widow of the late Daniel W. Beery of Decatur, died in her sleep at her home in Arcadia, Calif. > Thursday morning. She had been in good health,--Mrs. Beery was the daughter of Martin and Sarah Archbold Hower, and was born Jan. 28. 1862 in Adams county. She was married to Mr. Beery in 1880. and for many years they ran the Madison House hotel, located where the American Legion home is now. ■Biey also managed the Rice hotel at one time. Mr. Beery died in 1942. Mrs. Beery was a member of the Order of Eastern Star. Pythian Sisters, and the Methodist church. She is survived by two children, Mrs. J. O. Sellemeyer, of Arcadia, Calif., and Lloyd Beery, of San Marino, Calif. Two children, Destina Dailey and Arthur Beery, are deceased. Mrs. John T. Myers of Decatur, and Mrs. James Harkless, of Fort Wayne, are sisters of Mrs. Beery; three brothers, Dallas Hower, Ervin Hower, and Ira Hower, and one sister, Mrs. Ferdinand Nichols, are deceased. Five grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren also survive. Mrs. Beery’s body will be returned to Decatur next Thursday for services to be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Hazen Sparks officiating. Own Auto Runs Over Elwood Housewife ELWOOD, Ind. (UPD — Mrs. Robert Dellinger, 39, Frankton, was hurt seriously in a freak accident on the parking lot of a cannery her own automobile. Mrs Dellinger parked the car and stood with the door open while talking with friends. The car rolled backwards, the door knocked her down and the wheels passed I over her body.

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Booster Club, Legion, Bands Join Festival Season Opener 7:30 p.m. Sept 12 Scene Os Event Sparked by the Decatur* Lions club, a full-scale celebration honoring present football coach Robert Worthman and former coaches Hugh Andrews and Deane Dorwin, will begin Wednesday, September 10, and culminate Friday, September 12, at half-time of the opening home game between the Decatur Yellow Jackets and the Now Haven Bulldogs with special ceremonies. A special Lions club committee, headed by Merritt Alger, is working closely with the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, the Decatur Booster club. Post 43, of the American Legion, the city of Decatur, and the General Electric company to make the celebration a success. 4 The recognition day and threeday celebration will be the first of several activities sponsored by the Decatur Lions club this year for community betterment, Glenn Hill, new president of the club, announced. The following tentative program, with some changes in details, will be followed during the celebration: The streets of the downtown business section will be specially decorated with American flags starting Wednesday morning, Sept. 10, by the city fire department, honoring the teaching profession as an American institution. Purple and gold bunting, a gift of the Lions club, will be draped from the main street light pole's by the electric light department. The Decatur Booster club will encourage all outlying businesses and service stations to decorate with school colors and other colors fill bunting to impress on visitors the importance of the opening of the football season in Decatur. Art Contest An art contest, open to pupils from any of the public or parochial schools in Decatur, will take place Tuesday. Posters with football themes will be placed in retail store windows, and judged by the Chamber of Commerce, Louis Jacobs, president, said. Prizes for the first three places will be awarded by the Decatur Lions club to the creators of the best posters. The Decatur Booster club will attempt to contact all former lettermen who played football under the three honored coaches, and invite them to join in the pre-game activities Friday night, September 12. All former letterman present will be introduced by class before the game starts. Parade Through Town Wednesday evening a parade through Decatur, led by the famous Shrine Club calliope, secured by Clarence Ziner and Noah Steury, will take place. Following the calliope will be the equally famous American Legion fire truck, with members of the Decatur football team mounted thereon. ... , ... A flat-bed truck with a jazz band will also visit outlying communities and invite them to attend'.7. — Preliminary Game Before the main game Friday evening, two Decatur junior high teams will face each other in the opening of the Junior High football season. The public is invited to attend the game at 6 p. m. About 7 p.m., as the crowd forms, former lettermen who served under the three coaches will be introduced. At the half, massed bands will parade onto the field. Following (Continued on page five)