Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 209

*— ' —— ; , ’ . — RM ft | ® - *v j£3| I k / '/ * IKBsLjMD 1H I W; j F 1 .r’' B *’*' "'1 a COMPARING NOTES — “Miss lowa,” Joanne Lucille MacDonald tleft), and “Miss California,” Sandra Lee Jennings, smile after comparing notes at the “Miss America” beauty pageant in Atlantic City, N. J., and learning each’s boy-friend is one and the, same, to wit: Air Cadet E. D. Hopkins, currently sojourning at the U. S. Air Force academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Sandra, 20, has his class pin, and Joanne, 18, has his identity bracelet. They phoned him and he admitted he “knew it was inevitable” that they would meet. Cadet Hopkins better watch himself—Sandra’s .dad is a Strategic Air command officer: Joanne’s a USAF engineer.

« " Louisiana And Texas Coasts Put On Alert Tropical Storm Is Reported Stronger, , Near To Hurricane NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — Tropical storm Ella, still below hurricane strength but increasing in intensity, put a wide area of the Louisiana and Texas coastlines on alert today. The New Orleans Weather Bureau issued a bulletin extending a hurricane watch from south of Corpus Christi to Galveston. The storm struck fear in the hearts of the people in Cameron, La., where 500 died last year in a hurricane, and many already were heading for safe ground. Highest recorded winds were 70 miles an hour in squalls but the Weather Bureau said that “latest indications from coastal stations are that Ella has increased in size and very likely in intensity during the night.” Interests along the Texas and west Louisiana coasts "should be ready to take quick action in case Ella becomes a hurricane and it is necessary to change and extend the warnings,” the Weather Bureau said. Residents along the entire Guit Coast, however, were taking no chances. At least 1,500 citizens of Cameron Parish county in Louisiana evacuated their homes so» higher ground. “We’re in trouble if that storm picks up speed and heads north, a Coast Guard duty officer in New Orleans said. Most of Cameron’s population carried fresh scars of the havoc wrought by hurricane Audrey last year when 500 persons lost their lives. The town had to be almost entirely rebuilt. The bulletin said “indications from reconnaisance aircraft, ships and coastal stations are that tropical storm Ella is slowly becoming organized and will likely reach hurricane force. The center was about 450 miles east-south-east of Corpus Christi, Tex., moving toward the west - northwest at 12-14 miles per hour. “Tides are around three feet along portions of the Louisiana and Texas coasts and some scattered squalls with winds 30-50 miles per hour are occurring. “Tides are expected to rise a (Continued on pave two) Ralph Butler Rites Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for Ralph Bulter, Decatur native who died Thursday morning in a Pennsylvania hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home in this city. The Rev. Hazen Sparks will officiate, and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends'may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Saturday until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, chance of a few thundershowers extreme north this evening. Saturday partly cloudy, warm and humid followed by scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers extreme north. Low tonight 68 to 72. High Saturday 86 to 94. Sunset today 7:11 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 6:17 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and cooler north, cloudy and turning cooler with showers and thunderstorms south. Lows Saturday night in the 60s north. Highs Sunday upper 70s north to the 80s south.

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Callejos Is Bound Over To Grand Jury New Developments In Gomez Murder Case Lupe Callejos, 30. migrant tomato picker from the camp near Berne, was bound over to the Mercer county grand jury Thursday following a hearing Wednesday night in Celina municipal court. Other developments in the murder case include a new theory on the difference between Jesse Go- ’ mez, 33, the murdered man, and ‘ Greg Prado. 35, the missing man, . believed to be Gomez’ killer. Callejos has been charged with . first degree murder as an accomp- ! lice in the slaying. He previously j had pleaded not guilty ■to the j charge, and during the Wednesday >! night hearing sheriff Bruce Barber of Mercer county and a depi uty sheriff testified. Callejos was ordered held without bond by Judge C. C. Reiser, • who presided. The murder occurred the night of Aug. 26. Prade is still at large, and was aided in his escape by the imprisoned Callejos, who is believed by authorities to be living about where he took Prado. He first told the police he drove Prado to Indianapolis, but a lie detector test showed that he might be lying, and no trace of Prado was ever found near Indianapolis. The search for Prado extended to Fort Wayne Sunday, where he , was sought by a deputy sheriff from Celina and two Fort Wayne police department detectives. At first police believed that an argument over bonus money paid to Callejos and Gomez led to the killing. However, Prado was not involved in the money dispute, and authorities now believe that a family “vendetta" or feud, reaching back many years, may be responsible. None of the workers questioned, who knew both men, would comment on this theory, since they would not want to become involved with either family. Funeral services for Gomez were held Tuesday afternoon at Celina after relatives in Detroit, Mich., were finally located. Gomez was originally a native of Puerto Rico. {Conttniita ou p«k« six) Tax Adjustment Board Meets Here All Local Budgets Will Be Reviewed The Adams county tax adjustment board is scheduled to meet at the court house Monday morning at 9 o’clock to review the budgets of all of the taxing units of the county. The tax board has the power to lower any budget it sees fit, but does not have the power to raise any budgets. The tax adjustment board will study the budgets from the county, city, township, schools, library, and etc, ’ ----- The final action will then be taken by the state board of tax commissioners after the local board approves the budgets submitted by Adams county. The tax board consists of seven men from Adams county. Mayor Robert D. Cole is a member because he is the mayor of the largest city in the county; William Linn was voted to represent the township trustees: Leon Neuenschwander was voted to represent the county councilmen. Four men were appointed by Judge Myles F. Parrish, they are: Louis Reinking, Sr/ Preble: Clarence Shepherd, Geneva; Brice Bauserman, Berne; and Charles Langston of DecaturRoot township. >■

Chinese Reds Send Planes Over Formosa Two Waves Os Planes Fly Over Northern Part Os Formosa TAIPEI, Formosa (UPI) —The Communists threw two waves of warplanes over the northern part of the Formosa Strait today, setting off air raid alerts in the offshore Nationalist-held Matsu Islands. The Defense Ministry said an undisclosed number of Rubsianbuilt MIG jet fighters were sighted west of Matsu this afternoon. An air raid alarm was sounded on the island. A second wave of Communist warplanes of unidentified type flew west of Matsu a couple of hours later, setting off another air raid alert, the Defense Ministry said. No combat was reported with Nationalist planes in either case. Today’s flights were the first announced sightings of Red Chinese warplanes over the FormoI sa Strait since Nationalist Sabrejets shot down two MIGI7s near Quemoy Aug. 25. } Military Leaders Confer The renewed aerial incursions [ came as Communist artillery _ shelling continued into the 14th day, but on a smaller scale. Only 1 60 rounds were fired at Little Quemoy. during the early part of the day. 1 Amid these developments, Vice Adm. Wallace M. Beakley, com1 mander of the U.S. 7th fleet, sped ■ to Taipei from a Formosa Strait patrol to confer with American 1 and Nationalist Chinese military ■ commanders on the growing ’ threat of war in the Far East. ■ It would be the job of the 7th ’ Fleet to defend the offshore Que- • moy and Matsu islands from Com- • munist invasion should the Red regime defy the United States and • carry out its long-threatened plans to “Liberate” the islands. Beakley arrived in the northern ' port of keelung aboard his flagship, the cruiser Helena, and > came immediately to Taipei for • talks with Vice Adm. Roland : Smoot, ’ commander of the U. S. : Taiwan (Formosa) Defense Com--1 mand and senior American com- ; mander on Formosa. Cruising Far Days He also met with Rear Adm. Paul Blackburn, commander of 1 the U. S. Taiwan Straits patrol, and Vice Adm. Ni Yu-shi, deputy ’ commander-in-chief of the Nationalist navy. An authoritative Nationalist mil--1 itary spokesman said Beakley had been cruising in or near the Formosa Straits for the past few days. (Continued on page four) Ten Are Entered In Miss Monroe Days Festival To Close Saturday, Sept. 13 Ten beautiful girls, sponsored by Adams county business men, have entered the contest for Miss Monroe Days, to be named a week from Saturday at 9 p.m. at the Monroe Days festival in Monroe, Mrs. Clarence Mitchell and Martin Steiner, co-chairmen, announced. Entrants, and their sponsors, are: Sharon Sheets, Decatu,r Music House; Nancy Fuhtman, Ydfet Con,, struction Company; Onna Lee Barkley Construction Company; Jeannie Smith, Robin Hood Flour Company; Carolyn Luginbill, Pleasant Mills Lions club; Jeanne Kaehr, Monroe Grain Elevator; Nancy Raudenbush, Adams County Co- ! op; Susie Liechty, Lerman Heat- ■ ing of Berne Joy Everhart, Stucky Gas aW Appliances of Geneva; 1 and Susie Bailer, Linn Grove Hardware. The girls will papear in the parThe girls will appear in the parnight, Sept. 11. They will wear formals and will be seated in convertibles. The parade will take place at 7 p.m. Girls will be judged for both beauty and talent. The talent contest will be held Friday at 8 p.m. in the center of the town of Monroe by the railroad depot. The winner of the contest will be named Saturday evening, and the formal crowning will be held at 9 a.m. in the place erected for the contest by the depot. The winner, in addition to being certified for the Bluffton Junior Miss Indiana contest, will receive a fine wrist watch. The runnerup will receive a record player, and the other contestants will each receive a record album. All money from the entry fees charged the sponsoring groups will go into the prize fund.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 5, 1958

Urges Eisenhower Go Slow On Decision To Defend China Islands

Russia Warns Os Aggression Against China Soviet Government Newspaper Warns Red Bloc To Aid MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia said today the entire Communist bloc including Russia would rush to the support of Communist China if war develops in the Far East. Izvestia and the Communist Party organ Pravda said Russia would aid Peiping with all possible means “just as if its own fate were being decided.” Pravda accused the United States of planning aggression against the Chinese mainland and said Russia “cannot remain inactive.” “The U.S.S.R. cannot remain inactive in the face of what’s happening on the borders of the territory of her great ally,” Pravda said. "Russia will not watch quietly United States military preparations in the Pacific whose waters also wash Soviet shores.” Returns To Moscow It was the second warning to[ appear in Pravda this week and It came after diplomatic sources said Premier Nikita Khrushchev had cut short his Crimean vacation to return to Moscow and take care of “urgent matters.” Pravda said the United States had assigned Formosa the role of main base in “its aggresive plans” against the mainland and ermarked Quemoy and other offshore islands as the “springboard for attack against the Chinese peoples republic.” Pravda said the Chinese Communists are strong enough to counter any aggression and are backed by “all the Asian, African. Latin American and Europen peoples.” It said Russia would give the Chinese Communists “every kind of aid and bridle the adventurous war provocateurs who have grown insolent and rash.” Hints At Invasion The official Communist Party newspaper did not spell out the specific form of aid but said the “inspirers and organizers of a new military adventure in the Far East cannot count on a retaliatory blow restricting itself to the area of the offshore islands and the Taiwan Straits.” It said the Nationalists occupied the offshore islands "on direct orders” of the United States and added, "It is quite obvious that the Chinese peoples republic could not allow these islands to be in the hands of hostile forces engaged ' in open military operations.” Mrs. Ethel S. Burgo Is Taken By Death Mother Os Adams County Lady Dies Mrs. Ethel Etateler Burgo, 75. mother of Mrs. Margaret Cook of route 3, died Thursday following an illness of nine months at the home another daughter, Mrs. Dale Terry, of near Van Wert, O. A daughter of the late James and Sarah Prather Statelet, she was born November 16, 1883, in Mississippi. Her husband, William, died in April. 1957. ( Surviving in addition to the two daughters are fQur other children, ■ Mrs. Mary Marquardt, of Monroe- , Ville: Kenneth E. and Warren Bur- ; go of Fort Wayne: and Mrs. Isabel 1 Reinhart of Fort Wayne; 14 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. J Friends may call at the H.D Smith funeral home in Convoy, 0., ’ until noon Saturday. Private funeral and burial ser- 1 vices will be held with the Dr. ’ Paul Chiles officiating. Burial will i be in the Woodland cemetery. 1

Indiana Fair May Set Gate Records Nine-Day Stand Is Closed Last Night INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The 106th edition of the Indiana State Fair ended a nine-day stand Thursday night with officials tenting at a new record take in gate receipts. The final day, blessed by sunny skies and warm temperatures, was marred by a small fire and two accidents which injured four persons. Two persons were hospitlized and another was injured less seriously in the horse barn when a Palomino saddle horse ridden by Jim Abraham of Martinsville collided with a hackney pony in a practice ring and the horses bolted into the crowd. Robert McHenery, 80, Oaktown, and James Lynch, 52, Clarksville, were treated at the emergency Red Cross tent and then were taken to Methodist Hospital. McHenery sustained a possible broken left hip, shoulder and wrist, while Lynch had an arm injury. Both were in “fair” condition. John Martin, 32, Mulberry, was treated for bruises and was released. Horseman Not Hurt Abraham was thrown to the ground, but was not injured. In another accident, Mrs. Zona Peters, 82, Indianapolis, was in serious - condition in Methodist Hospital with a possible skull fracture sustained when she fell down a flight of steps at the Coliseum. (Continued on page two) Ladies Entertained At Rotary Meeting Exchange Student Speaker Thursday The Decatur Rotary club held its first ladies night of the fall season last night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center with Miss Sylvia Jackson, of Angola, a Rotary Foundation exchange student, as the speaker. Clarence Ziner, September program chairman, introduced her, and Gail Grabill presided. Ziner explained that the Rotary Foundation, established in 1947, now has collected over five million dollars and has sponsored over 1,000 students in 61 countries. College graduates spend a year aboard studying to gain first hand knowledge of the country of their choice and also to act as good will ambassadors for their native countries. Miss Jackson is a graduate of Michigan State University. She spent the 1957-58 school year in Paris, and will continue her work in politicial science at the University of Wisconsin this fall. Using the letters which she had sent home, the speaker recalled the two-week orientation course in Southern Sweden, where she had met similar students from all over the world. She said the French people were individualists to the extreme deshe thought them to be stable with illogical to outsiders. In spite of frequent changes in government, gree which often made them seem a reshuffle of portifolios within the cabinets taking place rather than any real basic changes. 45 Students Enrolled At Lutheran School The enrollment for the Zion Lutheran school for the 1958-59 school year numbers 45, according to a report given by the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, superintendent of the school. The new figure shows an increase of 17 pupils over last year’s total. There were 28 students enrolled at the school last year. The main reason for the increase this year is that one more class has been added to the school system. Each year a new class is being planned for the Lutheran school.

White Pupils Racial Strike Takes Effect No Negroes Report At Arkansas School As Strike Result VAN BUREN, Ark. (UPD — ' White students striking against in- ( tegration at Van Burean High ' School apparently achieved their ; objective today. Not a Negro was seen entering school before classes started. About a dozen girls joined 45 to . 50 white boys in the strike today. But just before the last bell rang, , the girls piled into an automobile and drove away, apparently to their homes. The boys struck Thursday in an effort to drive 13 Negroes out of the high school. Only three Negroes—two girls and a boyshowed up Thursday. The strikers burned one effigy of a Negro Thursday night on the campus and tried to burn an- ; other. They hung one on the flag pole, but before they could set it on fire, a civilian guard drove them away. ■ They hauled another effigy out of the trunk of an automobile and i set ft on fire. A civilian guard on 1 top of the school building shouted t at them and threatened to shoot. 1 The strikers gathered today on 1 a corner. Just before classes be- • gan they formed a line and marched across the school yard to a big shade tree under which they sat Thursday. There was no disorder, but they took a sign saying, “Chicken Whites Go to School with Jiggs.” off of an automobile and nailed it to tjie tree. About 45 men and women, most of them parents of the strikers, met Thursday night in a restaurant to discuss the integration situation. They appointed a six-man ; committee to look into their legal • rights and scheduled another i meeting Monday. ; “Today, the children took the ■ first step and now it is up to us,” a woman said. They discussed closing the ■ school, but dropped the subject when a man reminded them of the cost of operating the high school privately. This touched off a long discussion of the school board and school officials and the feasibility of a recall election. About half of the parents said thev’d keep their children out of school: the rest said it was up to the children whether they strike. Decatur Area Has Over Inch Os Rain Power Off Over Hour In Parts Os City Root and Washington townships were reported to have received most of the rain that feU Thursday night between the hours of 7:30 and 9 o'clock. It was reported by Cecil Harvey that 1.1 inches of rain fell in the northern' part of Adams county last night. Louis Landrum, Washington township weather observer, reported that 1.05 inches fell in Decatur during the storm. The rain was accompanied by thunder and lightning during most of the storm. Two transformers had to be looked at by the city light and power company in Union township and Decatur. A high tension wire was knocked out of commission when a limb»from a tree fell, causing the power to be off in the area surrounding Five Points j Power was reported off on First and Second streets, and Fifth street. The power was off one to two hours, L. C. Pettibone, superintendent of the city light department, said. Two telephone lines were reported out of commission for approximately two hours in the Berne area, but were back in ser* vice before the night ended.

Reuther Returns To Auto Contract Talks Plans Public Report Over Negotiations DETROIT (UPT) — United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther returned to the auto contract talks for the first time in more than three months today and said he will sit at each “big three” bargaining table before next Tuesday. Reuther entered negotiations at General Motors this morning and hinted he might call for marathon bargaining sessions during the weekend in order to attend talks with each company before he makes a report to a "public jury” Tuesday. He said he is willing to “sit all weekend” if he feels that the companies are willing to bargain in good faith and talk about solving problems. The UAW leader announced earlier this week he will report on the auto negotiations next Tuesday to panels of public officials and community leaders from key automotive centers in Michigan and Ohio next Tuesday. The UAW served notice on the industry Thursday that it has until next Wednesday to make a fair offer toward reaching a new agreement. If no proposal is forthcoming, Reuther said, the UAW’s executive board will meet Wednesday to set a strike deadline, presumably later this month. UAW members have been working without contracts for three months. A wave of wildcat strikes swept the industry during the period and at times threatened to cripple 1959 model changeover operations. Thursday, more than 10.000 workers were idled at General Motors and Chrysler plants in Michigan, Indiana and Missouri. A settlement Wednesday night ended a 24-hour strike of 3,500 workers at the GM Fisher body plant in Marion, Ind. The strike involved a company request for workers to remain for overtime. The UAW has adopted a position .Continuea on »lx) Lester Werling Fund Nears SI,OOO Mark Six-Year-Old Boy Reported Improved With just a few more donations, the Lester Werling fund will reach the SIOOO mark. The fund has grown by leaps and bounds from donations received from a little boy who gave'*’ dime to a sls money order received this rnonb ing from a Fort Wayne couple. The one explanation that can be used for those who have given so freely to one whom they know little about is a statement printed years ago in the Tommy Mann story. Readers feel that “I who give to help this lad as a Godfearing person who has sympathy for another who suffers.” Lester is coming along satisfactorily after his tenth operation. Only six years old, Lester has gone through ten ordeals that some people never experience in a lifetime. The little boy who wants to go to school is getting help in his struggle now both by donations turned into the Decatur Daily Democrat and the cards which Lester likes to receive. These cards can be sent to Lester at Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne or to his home on route 1, Decatur. Latest contributors who have sent money to the Democrat, in care of Marilou Uhrick, or have dropped contributions in the box at the Democrat office are Anna Durbin, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lybarger and Lori Anne, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Spiegel and family, Mrs. Maud L. Mahan, Mrs. Emma Fritzinger, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Franz, Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Koenemann, Mr, and Mrs. William Werling, Tammy, Scherry, and Grant Lee Hurst, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Moellering, Mr. and Mrs. Max Thieme, and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Thieme.

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Urges Congress Be Consulted Before Action Senator Mansfield Warns President Not To Be Carried Away WASHINGTON (UPD — Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) urged today that President Elsenhower consult Congress through its leaders before being “carried away” in a decision to defend the offshore China islands of Quemoy and Matsu. The assistant Senate Democratic leader told United Press International that defense of the Nation-alist-held islands would be a matter of “face-saving, prestige and <, psychology” rather than military importance. Mansfield is considered one of the Senate Democrats’ outstanding spokesman on Far Eastern affairs. U.S. officials here said this country is trying to build up enough world opinion on Red China to force the Communists to shy away from the use of force in the Formosa Straits. These officials said failure to , convince the Peiping regime of • this would endanger security of ' the entire free world. Informants said getting this message across was one of the - chief purposes of the Eisenhower- ? Dulles statement Thursday warns ing Red China against starting a ■ war to grab Nationalist Chinese- > held islands. The President and ' secretary of state said world opinion would not stand for “military • conquest” as an instrument of naI tional policy. i Meanwhile, the Defense Department declared the United States t does not recognize any claims to ) a territorial sea of 12 miles as ’ established by the Chinese Com- ! munists. : No Concessions The department was asked spei cifically if the U.S. 7th Fleet would obey the 12-mile limit claimed by the Reds around the offshore islands. “It is the U.S. view that under international law the limit of the territorial sea is three miles and that states adhering to the threemile limit have no obligation under international law to recognize claims to a greater area,” the department said. At the same time, informants emphasized the United States would make no concessions to Peiping as bait to persuade Red China to stop shooting and taka the good behavior pledge. They said the United States feared any conciliatory action on its part while Red China is threatening to shoot its way to Formosa would make this country appear weak. Would Use Force Dulles issued the special statement of U.S. position ■— endorsed by Eisenhower — after the two conferred at length in Newport, R.1., on the Formosa crisis. It did not change the U. S. position on aiding Nationalist China hold her present territory. But the mere restatement made it appear more likely than ever the United States would use American force to block a Communist grab of Quemoy or Matsu if the Nationalist forces re(Contlnved oi ’'»«• five) County GOP Leaders Meet Here Saturday Harry Essex, chairman of the Adams county Republican central committee, today announced all precinct committeemen and vice committeemen will meet at 8:45 o’clock Saturday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Following the dinner, a discussion will be held on the fall election campaign and future meetings. William Parker, noted .Delaware speaker, will talk on the methods and general procedure to be used during this election year. The county chairman stated that this will be the first of several meetings planned prior to the November election.