Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1958 — Page 1

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Three Schools Are Closed In Virginia ■ Anti-Integration Edict Os Governor Brings On Closing By AL KUETTNER United Press International Three Virginia schools were officially closed today under the anti-integration edict of Gov. J. Lindsay Almond, and one group of parents agreed on a policy of firm patience in the education crisis. The governor Thursday assumed “all power and control” over a high school and an elementary school in Charlottesville, with a total enrollment of 1,700, facing the integration order of a federal court. This automatically invoked the state’s school closing law. It also apeared that six schools in the port city of Norfolk, subject to a federal desegregation mandate, would soon be removed from the public school system and remain closed. This would place another 10,000 pupils on compulsory vacation. Thursday night about 500 members of the Front Royal, Va., Parent-Teachers Assn, wrangled for more than two hours before voting down a motion to request that Almond return their high school to local control. Faubus en TV The Front Royal school, only white school in Warren County, was the first to be closed by the governor to sidestep desegregation. Z . — — Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus urged in a radio-television speech Thursday night that voters endorse the reopening of four Little Rock schools on a segregated basis. A special election on the question is scheduled Sept. 27. Faubus also asked that the city school board lease the idle schools to a private organization so they can be reopened with the races separated. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People planned an effort today to return 13 Negroes to the high school at Van Bufen, Ark. Colored students have not attended the integrated school since white pupils demonstrated against them earlier this month. LSU Student Protest The NAACP said it would ask a federal court for an injunction enforcing the right of Negro students to attend the school without interference. White undergraduate students at thee newly-opened New Orleans branch of Louisiana State University said they planned today tc formally ask that Negro students withdraw from the institution. Since Negroes enrolled in the school under court order last week, there have been increasing signs of hostility toward them Thursday a firecracker was set off near a group of Negro undergraduates in the student lounge. A spokesman for the white students said a petition asking the, (Continued an page eight) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with little change in temperature tonight and Saturday. Low tonight mostly in the 50s. High Saturday in the 70s. Sunset today 6:48 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:30 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Increasing cloudiness and mild with rain likely by Sunday night. Lows Saturday night in the 50s. Highs Sunday in the 70s.

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Farm Outlook Meet Held Last Evening Farming Returns To Be Lower In 1959 Business recovery will continue in 1959, but "returns from farming in Indiana will be a little lower next year,’" Ed Carson, Purdue University agricultural economist said Thursday night at the Adams county outlook meeting. Seventy-five farmers attended the meeting, one of a series being held throughout the state. Each fall, Purdue agricultural economists give their views on the farm outlook at meetings held in most Indiana counties. The economist said that production costs for farmers will edge upward in the year ahead, which combined with lower farm product prices will narrow profit margins. Improved efficiency and increased volume may best offset this trend, he added. Here is an analysis of the situation: Corn—Expected to average between SI.IO-51.20 a bushel on No. 2 basis. Harvest price of No. 2 com probably will be near the $1 level. Soybeans—7: pected to average near the jcar rate of $2.09 a bushel. Wheat — Probably will remain near the $1.82 a bushel loan level. Hogs — In the marketing year ahead (Oct. 1-Sept. 30, 1950) prices are expected to average $2-$4 lower per cwt. than the $20.50 average fbr the 1957-58 marketing year. The hog-corn ratio is likely to remain above the long-time average of 13.6 to one through mid-1959. But by late 1959 and early 1960, the ratio will probably be below average. Beef cattle—as high, or moderitely higher, than in 1958. Earnings from beef breeding herds are expected to be above average levels. Dairy — Expected to average about the same as last year. Sheep—Returns from flocks will be similar to 1958 returns. Eggs—Large Grade A egg prices during the first six months of 1959 will average six to nine cents below year ago levels of 35 cents. Broilers—Lower prices than a year earlier during the last quarter of 1958 and the first half of 1959. Turkeys — Prices above' last year’s 23-cent September-Decem-ber Indiana average. Farm production items — Costs of farm production items are expected to run two to four per cent higher than in 1958. Prices of farm machinery, motor vehicles and tax costs are expected to run well above those of last year. Farm real estate —Indiana farm hand values will continue upward from the current all-time high. Increases will be about the same as the four per cent rise of the past year. Family living — Prices of most consumer goods are expected to increase. Food prices will be only slightly higher—largest increases will be for electrical appliances and shoes. Smallest increases will be for household linens and nonstyle itoms of clothing. Car-Truck Collision Is Fatal To Driver INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —A cartruck collision killed Donald E. William, 30, of New Augusta, Thursday night on U. S. 52 near Indianapolis. State troopers Walter LaMar and Pat Bennett said Williams appeared to have been speeding when bis car ran beneath a livestock truck.

Nationalists Oppose Debate On Red China Asserts Debate On Seating Red China Would Upset U.N. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) —Nationalist China said today a General Assembly debate on seating the Red Chinese would “upset the moral foundations” of the United Nations because the Communist regime “has not been accepted” by the Chinese people. Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang, ambassador for Chiang Kai-shek’s Formosa government said the Communist regime had liquidated at least 20 million Chinese and clapped another 5 million into prisons and concentration camps. “Can anybody suppose the Chinese people would like to have the Communists represent them in the U.N.?” Tsiang asked. “Domestically, this regime is un-Chinese. It has not been accepted by the Chinese people. It cannot represent anyone in an international body. It has been branded by the U.N. as an aggrssor. It is not peace-loving. “A debate on the possibility of allowing this regime to take the seat of China in the U.N. would upset the moral foundations of the U.N.” . Tsiang supported a motion by U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge that the committee recommend that the assembly decide “not to consider at its 13th regular session any proposals to exclude the representatives of the Republic of China.” Lodge pointed out that similar procedure had been followed in 1951, 1956 and 1957. U.S. spokemen predicted the assembly would aprove it handily again this yean The assembly’s 21 - member General (steering) Committee called a mid - morning meeting to decide on one of three courses: 1. An Indian demand backed by Russia for a full debate later in the assembly session on whether China’s U.N. seat rightfully belongs to the Chiang Kai-shek or the Mao Tze-tung government. The seat carries with it the right of veto in the Security Council. 2 An' American roosal backed by Britain and most of the other Western Powers that the issue be shelved for the duration of this assembly — the course adoted by the assembly in recent years. 3. A compromise proposal fostered by Ireland and several Other countries that neither India nor the United States push its proposals to a vote as long as the Warsaw negotiations are in progress. U. S. Opposed The United States opposed the compromise, and an American spokesman predicted another vote to postpone consideration of the question. The assembly voted in (Continued on pare eirht) — First State Bank To Offer Scholarships Two Scholarships To Purdue Short Course Theodore Graliker, president of the First State Bank of Decatur, has announced that two scholarships to attend the agricultural short course at Purdue will be offered to young farmers in this trading area. The short course begins in January and continues for eight weeks. Subject matter is designed to be of practical use to young farmers. Courses in animal husbandry, farm machinery, agronomy, agricultural economics, dairy, poultry, entomology and horticulture are offered. A full program of activities is also planned for short course students. Purdue faculty members provide leadership for the short course glee club and orchestra as well as such athletic activities as basketball, volleyball, and swimming. To be eligible for a scholarship, applicants should be at least 18 years old, have a good commonschool education and plan to make farming or related work their career. Scholarships will be awarded by the bank on the basis of accomplishments and leadership. Selection of scholarship winners will be made by the Adams county chapter of the Purdue ag alumni association. This scholarship program - has been sponsored and encouraged by the Indiana Bankers association through its agricultural committee for the past five years. Additional information and application blanks may be obtained from Graliker at the First State Bank.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 19, 1958.

Cease Fire Offered By Reds For Evacuation Os Off-Shore Islands

United Slates Fires First Os Nuclear Tests First Os Possibly Last Series Fired From Nevada Site ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. (UPl)—The U.S. fired the firA of possibly its last series of nuclear tests today, a comparatively puny one-kiloton device dangling from a teetheered balloon 500 feet over Yucca Flat. -The shot, estimated as less than the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT, shattered the daylight sky but because of its size apparently was not seen beyond Las Vegas, 75 miles southeast of the Nevada test site. The flash lasted less than a second, and then the cloud boiled up in a ball rather than thetraditional mushroom. Newsmen stationed about 1014 miles from Ground Zero said it “looked like a piece of cotton candy or a ball of yarn sitting up there over the desert.” There was no wind to disperse the cloud immediately as it hovered in the sky with the sun giving it a dull salmon color. A small amount of dust was sucked up from the desert floor, but the stem did not reach the ground. “It was a real little baby,” watchers agreee. The shock wave hit News Nob. the vantage point for witnesses, in about one minute with a low rumble. The Atomic Energy Commission called the shot “Eddy,” for Eddy County, New Mexico, but newsmen watched the blast quickly dubbed it “Operation Deadline” because the series must end by. Oct. 30 when an international ba' on nuclear weapons testing gc into effect. Benjamin B. Eiling Dies This Morning Prominent Retired Farmer Dies Today Benjamin B.Jjliting, 79, prominent retired farmer who resided just southwest of Decatur, died at 7 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital of a heart attack suffered last week. A lifelong resident of Adams county, Mr. Eiting, was active in Democratic politics for many years. He had served as a member of the Washington township advisory board for two terms, and was a candidate for reelection at this fall’s general election. Born in Decatur March 14, 1879, he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eiting, and was married to Miss Elizabeth Miller May 10, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Eiting celebrated their golden wedding anniversary three years ago. Mr. Eiting was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society and the Knights of Columbus. Surviving in addition to the wife are two sons, Bernard Eiting of Vera Cruz, and Robert Eiting of Decatur; two daughters, Sr. M. Virginita, 0.5.A., of Fond du Lac, Wis., and Miss Margaret Eiting, at home; five grandchildren; one great-grandchild, and two sisters. Miss Clara Eiting and Mrs. Peter Spangler, both of Decatur. Two daughters and one son preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a.m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, and will be returned to the residence, where friends may call after 11 o’clock Saturday morning. The rosary will be recited at the home at 8 o’clock Sunday evening.

Auto Workers Plan For Strike Target May Set Deadline On G.M., Chrysler DETROIT (UPI) — The United Auto Workers union will decide today whether it will set a deadline for a strike against either General Motors or Chrysler. A union spokesman said the question will be considered at a meeting of the UAW's executive board. The official notice of the meeting said the board would tile agreement the union reached Wednesday with Ford and the “Status of negotiations with the other two major auto producers, General Motors' and Chrysler?’ It was at a simuar meeting on Sept. 10 that the union set a Wednesday deadline for a strike at Ford. A settlement with Ford was reached only six hours after deadline passed. Progress Not Enough jFord still was crippled by the strike, however, as workers were slpw to return to their jobs and tl» strikes were continued vAerever there were local grievances to be solved. A company spokesman said most of the workers were expected to be back oa the job by Monday. 'Both GM and Chrysler reported tome progress in talks with the union Thursday but not enough to avord a strike threat. Douglas Fraser, administrative assistant to UAW president Walter P. Reuther and top union negotiator at Chrysler, warned the company negotiators he would ask Chrysler be named as a strike target if progress didn’t pick up. Makes Similar Threat UAW vice president Leonard Woodcock, chief union negotiator at GM, indicated he would ask the board to make GM the target if,progress didn’t increase. “It is time for us to quit fooling around,” he said. Negotiators for both companies appeared to be waiting until they could obtain copies of the Ford settlement before making any similar offers. But the negotiators emphasized contracts with General Motors and Chrysler would not be carbon copies of the Ford pact. Miss Betsy Burk Is Speaker At Rotary Exchange Student Tells Experiences Miss Betsy Burk, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James Burk of this city, and a Decatur high school student, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Miss Burk recently returned from Beckum, Germany, where she spent the summer as an exchange student. She began her summer trip and exchange student training June 11 when she sailed aboard the Waterman from Montreal, Canada, for Rotterdam, Holland. She then traveled by rail and bus to Beckum, where she met her German family, Dr. and Mrs. Schmidt and children, June 21. Miss. Burk stated that Beckum| is a city of 20,000 situated in NorthRhine Westfalen, with cement manufacturing as the principal industry. She also told the Rotarians, sponsors of the exchange student program, that Ken EHasson, Swedish youth who was the exchange student in Decatur high school last year, visited her at Beckum. “Our summer’s objective,” Miss Burk concluded, ‘,‘can best be summed up in the motto of the American Field Service, ‘walk together, o ye peoples of the earth, then and only then shall ye have peace.” H. P. Schmitt, Jr., was chairman of the program and introduced Miss Burk.

Living Costs Dip For First Time In 2 Years Emphasize August Decline Reflects Seasonal Factors WASHINGTON (UPD—The cost of living dipped .2 of 1 per cent last month, the government reported today. The August drop was the first in two years. The Labor Department’s monthly report said seasonal declines in food prices and small declines in clothing costs outweighed price rises for other basic family goods and services. The Consumer Price Index, based on the 1947-49 price average slipped from 123.9 in July to 123.7 in August. Though lower than July’s the August figure was 2.2 per cent higher than a year ago. Ewan Clague, commissioner of labor statistics, said the August dip did not herald any continuing drop in living costs. He emphasized that the August drop reflected heavy seasonal marketing of meats, fruits, and vegetables. “This is no downward trend,” Clague said. “The index is now tending to stabilize.” Clague said food prices probably would decline somewhat further this month and then level off. The report said food prices dropped .8 of 1 per cent from July to August as lower prices of fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, and poultry more than offset markups for eggs, milk, and restaurant meals. Clothing costs slipped .1 of 1 (Vton tinned on page flve) Benjamin Chilcote Dies This Morning Former Fieldman Os Central Sugar Co. Benjamin O. Chilcote, 77, former fieldman for the Central Sugar Co. of this city, died at 4:30 o’clock this morning at his home in Ohio City, O. He had been seriously ill for the past eight weeks with complications. He was born in Lincoln, Neb.’ Jan. 29, 1881, a son of John and Matilda Chilcote, and had lived in Van Wert, Rockford, and Ohio City for the past 50 years. He was first married in 1903 to Josephine Phillips, who died in 1943. He was then married April 1, 1945, to Mrs. Laura Young. Mr. Chilcote had. also been a fieldman for the old St. Louis Sugar Co., the Paulding Sugar Co., and the Sharp Canning Co. of Ohio City and Rockford, and served two terms as Van Wert county treasurer. He was a member of the Methodist church at Ohio City, the Masonic lodge at Vah Wert, and the Commercial Travelers. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Benjamin 0., Jr., and Warren Chilcote, both of Liberty township; five daughters, Mrs. Adeline Kerr and Mrs. Clara Beagle of Flint, Mich., Mrs. Pauline Johns of Van Wert route 4, Mrs. Iva Demint of Van Wert route 5, and Mrs. Eloise Custer of Ohio City; one stepdaughter, ) Mrs. Jeannette Crowley of Crystal Lake, Ill.; one stepson, Richard Voung of Convoy; 24 grandchildren and 20 great - grandchildren. One daughter and one brother are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church at Ohio City, the Rev. Merle Young officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery at Ohio City. The body was removed to the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert where friends may call after , 9 a.m. Saturday until 1 p.m. Saturday. The body will then be returned to the residence, where friends may call after 3 p.m. Saturday.

Moore Is Chairman For Fund Campaign Is Named Chairman Os Community Fund David E. Moore, manager of Sears Catalog Sales office in Decatur and chairman of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, has been named chairman of the 1958 Community Fund drive, Ralph Habegger, president of the Decatur Community Fund, Inc., said today. The goal for Decatur is $18,485 in the drive to provide funds for eight vital Decatur agencies, including the Boy and Girl Scouts, the Decatur Youth Center, the Cancer Society, the Red Cross, Mental health, Salvation Army and USO. Habegger replaced the Rev. Virgil Sexton, who left Decatur this summer, as president. He had served as vice president of the fund. Moore will take over the job held last year by M. J. Pryor. The same system as last year will be used, with each worker contacting only two persons. The drive will be held the first week in October, with hopes of reaching the goal during the allotted time. Last year the budget was $18,450, ar.d it was reached; this year s budget is only $35 more. Both Moore and Habegger were enthusiastic at last night’s meeting, held at the center, that the goal would be reached this year. Industry-wide solicitation, as well as house-to-house calls, will be made. Moore, the new drive chairman, has had much experience in Decatur organizational work. He is a member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Rotary club and the Knights of Columbus: South Bend Changes Time October 26 SOUTH BEND. Ind. (UPD - The South Bend Chamber of Commerce said today business and industry will remain on Daylight Saving Time until Oct. 26, the same day Chicago returns to “slow” time. A chamber spokesman said the decision was made after a sampling of city manufacturers and retail merchants showed overwhelming favor for the late return. State law requires that cities return to slow time on Sept. 28. City and school clocks will abide by state law, but hours for school children and city employes will be advanced on hour until the switch on Oct. 26. Lincoln PTA Heads Meet Last Evening Executive Group Plans Activities The executive committee of the Lincoln School PTA met Thursday evening. Meetings will be held on the third Thursday of each month, beginning in October. Time will be 7:30 p. m. The meetings will not last over 45 minutes. The membership goal is 500. All parents are urged to join and the fee is 50 cents per year. Programs this year will feature the children as much as possible. More than 350 parents have already volunteered to serve on the different committees. All parents are given an opportunity to serve for the welfare of their children. The executive committee is composed of Judge Myles F. Parrish, president; Mrs. David B. Heller, vice president; Mrs. Hollis Bonifas, secretary; David C. Kaye, treasurer.' Theme of the year for the PTA is “The family and the community," while the local organization’s theme is “Progress through cooperation." I

Report Offer Contingent On Evacuation Say United States Insists Cease Fire Must Be Made First LONDON (UPD — Communist China has offered a cease fire in the Formosa Strait in return for immediate evacuation of the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, informed diplomatic sources reported today. The sources said the United States has told Communist China a cease fire must come first. In return, the diplomats said, the offshore islands might neutralized. This was held to imply the United States would try to persuade Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to cease using the islands as a base for raids on the Communits Chinese mainland. The diplomatic sources said these opposing stands were taken by the United States and Communist China respectively at the ambassadorial talks in Warsaw which opened earlier this week. The source said neither side has budged so far from its stand but that further negotiations may show whether the Peiping regime is prepared to make some concessions to end the Formosa crisis. The sources said Chinese Communist Ambassador Wang PingNan made an uequi vocal demand for an immediate withdrawal of the Nationalist Chinese from Quemoy and the Matsus. In return he offered an immediate cease fire. In Tokyo, a Peiping broadcast reported that Communist China ridiculed the idea of a cease fire in the Formosa Straits and joined with Russia in accusing Washington of using the Warsaw talks to “camoulflage" aggressive intentions in the Far East. It was further understood the Red Chinese have indicated they might be prepared to renounce the use of force against Formosa and the Pescadores while retaining their claims to the islands. The United States was said to have insisted and to continue to insist that there must be a cease fire in the Formosa Straits before any settlement is negotiated. The United States also called for the renunciation of the use of force by the Peiping regime as a means of settling the future of Formosa itself and the Pescadores, the sources said. In return, the United States might seek to persuade the Nationalists to stop using the offshore islands as a base for raiding the mainland and interfering with shipping, the sources reported. Unconfirmed reports said in this connection that if such understanding could be reached the offshore islands might eventually be evacuated. They mentioned a period of two years. (Continued on page eight) Former Policemen To Trial Dec. 2 FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD — Dec. 2 has been set as the trial date for three former Fort Wayne policemen who pleaded innocent Thursday to charges they were involved in a burglary ring. Allen Circuit Judge William H. Schannen set the December date for Carl J. Pequignot, William R. Bollman and Roland M. Lapp Jr..

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