Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 11 October 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 240.

f/'' <p s* CORTEGE ENTERS ROME — Through a reverent crowd which everywhere awaited the arrival, the Papal hearse bearing the body of Pope Pius XII enters his native city through the Gate of St. John which pierces the ancient wall of Rome. In the background is the Basilica of St. John Lateran.

Cardinals To Meet Oct 25 To Name Pope - Princes Os Roman Catholic Church To Select New Pope VATICAN CITY (UPD — The princes of the Roman Catholic Church will meet here at 4 p.m. Oct. 25 to elect a successor to the late Pope Pius XII, it was announced today. All of the church's 55 cardinals who can get here for the purpose will take part in the conclave in a specially walled-off portion of St. Peter’s Basilica at which the new pope will be chosen. The date for the election was set today by the 16 cardinals now on hand, who are acting as a sort of interim “legislature” for the Vatican. r Arrangements for the conclave are being handled by Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella, the “camerlengo” or chamberlaja who is acting as the administrative head of the church during the interregnum. Prelates who participated in today’s decision included Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York. The date was set as thousands of grieving Catholics filed silently through St. Peter’s to pay their last respects to the late Pope, whose remains lay in splendor in the great basilica. A crowd of 2,000 was already waiting on St. Peter’s steps when the gates to the basilica were opened at 6:15 a.m., 45 minutes ahead of schedule. Wihin the . first five hours, 50,000 persons i passed the bier. j Vatican workmen were busy all : night draping the basilica in : mourning purple and erecting ; barriers to channel the flow of grieving visitors through the vast building. The Pope’s body lay beside the massively - columned Altar of the | Confession, where it will remain until Monday. Then it will be entombed with elaborate ceremony ] in the Vatican grottoes near the i Tomb of St. Peter, the first pope. ] A Requiem Mass at 10 a. m. ' fotwlly began ntoe:-days of fun- ■ era! rites forthe Pope, a “major < pontiff who died begging in his ■ last testament for forgiveness of I his “deficiencies, shortcomings and mistakes.” i A half hour later, Camerlengo 1 Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella , met other princes of the church 1 ><_cntinuea on page five' INDIANA WEATHER ’ Fair and cold with frost likely tonight. Sunday fair and not j quite so cool. Low tonight in ] the 30s. High Sunday mid 60s j to near 70.’Outlook for Monday: ] Partly cloudy and slightly warmer. , ~ ' < NOON EDITION - J

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Gifts For Hospital Wing Near $50,000 Hospital Addition Dedication Oct. 26 A gift of $25 from Girl Scout troop 13, which graduated from high school last spring, to the Adams county memorial hospital, brought the total in gifts for the new addition to $39,431.76. The new hospital addition will be dedicated in special serviced Sunday, October 26, at 2 p.m., the hospital board has announced. Four gifts left by wills started the fund for the new addition. From the estate of Thurman Schug, of Berne, the hospital received $15,426.26; from Eli W. Steele, $2,000; front William Miller, 61.000; and from the Dr. C. C. Rayl memorial fund. $721. Other large gifts to the hospiltal fund included $5,157 from the Central Soya Company foundation for the waiting room, day room on the third floor, nursery, and delivery room; $4,050 from the doctors of Adams county to furnish the two doctors’ rooms, the nurses’ room, and the father’s waiting room on the second floor; $2,000 from the General Electric company. Five of the SSOO memorial units were given by the McMillen Foundation in the largest single gift of room furnishings. Double gifts included those of the Meshberger Stone Corp., in memory of Oscar Meshberger; in memory of Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick by Helen Niblick Stoner and Josephine Niblick Edwards; in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Amos Reusser by his daughters; and by Local 261, United Brewery Workers, the Central Sova union. Single gifts of SSOO units were from the First State Bank, Mr. and Mrs. William W. Shafer, of Monroeville: Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Klepper; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Rayl and daughter; Mrs. C. K. Engeler and children; E. W. BuCantinued en page slxj Funeral Monday For Mr?. Jess Wilcoxson Funeral service will be held Monday at 9:30 a.m. at the Goodwin funeral home in Bluffton for Mrs. Mary E. Minger Wilcoxson, 70, wife of Jess Wilcoxson who died at 3:45 p.m. Friday at fee Clinic hospital in Bluffton, where she had been a patient 18 days. Services will be at 10 a.m. at the Apostolic Christian church, of which Mrs. Wilcoxson was a member. The Rev. Sam Aeschliman will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. In addition to the husband, survivors include three sons and two daughters: Carl and Woodrow, of Auburn; Harold W. of Lewiston, Mich.; Mrs. Joseph Schneider and Mrs. Wesly Wayer, of Fort Wayne; 14 grandchildren; a brother, John Minger, of Sabetha, Kan.; four sisters, Mrs. Gotlieb Brunner, Oneida, Kan.; Mrs. David Strahm, Sabetha; Mrs. William Strahm CraigviUe; and Mrs. Robert Rose, Dayton, O.

Nationalists Bolstered By U.S. Weapons New American Guns Increase Strength On Offshore Islands TAIPEI (UPD — Gen. Peng Meng-chi, commander of the Nationalist Chinese army, said today delivery of additional U.S. weapons to Quemoy Island helped the Nationalists win the first round in the battle for the offshore islands. Peng told American - Nationalist military ceremonies here that the weapons had greatly increased Nationalist strength. Even as he spoke, new American guns arrived on the island in the largest convoy to reach Quemoy since the Communists launched their bombardment six weeks ago. Hie deliveries were made during a Communist ceasefire which ends Sunday at midnight. There was speculation whether the Communists would extend it. Peng spoke at ceremonies in which Maj. Gen. Leander L. Doan, senior U.S. Army commander in Formosa, presented him with a model of a 155-m.m. self - propelled gun, which Doan said was symbolic of the weapons which the United States has turned over to the Nationalists. Reds Continue Buildup The delivery of new American arms to Quemoy coincided with an apparent Communist buildup on the mainland. The Defense Ministry said that during the past two days some - 7,720 men and 2,150 trucks were working on Communist fortifications across from Quemoy. It said observers counted 450 men and 150 trucks at Red positions opposite Matsu, the Nationalist outpost islands 140 miles north of Quemoy. Maj. Gen. William Thames, chief of the U.S. Army combat surveillance section, flew to Big Quemoyi Friday .wifea team of 1 artillery counter battery fire 1 officers and a civilian missile'exs pert. Evacuation of Civilians ! However, Thames said there was no plan to establish missile 1 bases on the offshore islands at 5 the present time. Missile expert - Dr. Joeph E. Body of the Universiy of Michigan said he was i a scientist “working on this sort ■ of problem (Quemoy)-” 1 Military officials halted the ’ evacuation of civilians from the • Quemoy Islands temporarily to- • day, but they indicated they may ■ clear Little Quemoy Island com1 (Continued on page six) ■ Monroe Power Sale • Approved By Stale i Indiana-Michigan Purchase Approved ■ The Indiana puolic service com- ’ mission Friday gave approval to f Indiana and Michigan Electric ’ Co. to purchase the electric utility of the town of Monroe for ' $50,000. The commission also authorized 1 the firm to put its normal rates into effect in the area now served by the Monroe system. The Indiana and Michigan utility has stated that new rates for all but three of the 269 Monroe patrons will be a reduction. Sale of the Monroe electric distribution system was approved by the? town board June 13 when a straw vote taken in -the town showed 173 persons in favor of the sale, while only nine were recorded in opposition. Under terms of the sale contract, the town of Monroe will receive free street lighting until 1960. Monroy for many years has purchasing its the Decatur light and power utility, but this will end when Indiana and Michigan takes over the Monroe distribution. Koenemann Funeral At Church Monday Funeral services will be held Monday at the St. John’s Lutheran church, north of Decatur on U.S* 27, for Mrs. Emma ? Koenemann, -native of Preble township, who died Friday morning at her home in Fort Wayne. Friends may call at the Chalfant & Perry funeral home in Fort , Wayne after 7 p.m. today. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the funeral home and at 2 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran church, the Rev. Erwin Tepker officiating. Burial will be in the church ceme- : tary. (

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Decatur, Indiana,Saturday, October 11, 1958

American Moon Rocket Pioneer Is Streaking Through Space Today

Red Delegate Derides Test Ban For Year Russian Delegate . Says Soviet Wants All-Time Test Halt UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD —Western diplomats saw little hope today of Soviet agreement to a nuclear test suspension until Russia completes its current test series. The diplomats, including U. S. United States, Britain and the Soviet Union would meet in Geneva Oct. 31 to negotiate means for halting the tests without advance agreement to do so. The United States and Britain had sought agreement with the Soviet Union for a one - year test moratorium beginning with the start of the talks. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zori told the General Assembly's main political committee Friday his country was ready to agree to a test halt “for all time.” But he derided the idea of a one-year moratorium and shortly afterwards” Washington' disclosed the Russians had set off their sixth nuclear explosion in their curren test series. U. S. delegation sources said they would not take Zorin's words as outright rejection until the word came from Moscow but that in any case this would not stop the Geneva meeting. Hie sources also described as “very possible” a report from London that the United States and Britain would propose to the Kremlin a compromise plan on the Geneva conference. One Killed, Five Hurt In Auto-Truck Crash LAPORTE, Ind. (UPD—A man was killed Friday night and five other persons were injured, one critically, in an automobile-truck collision in Rolling Prairie. John Corteville, 54, LaPorte, died of a skull fracture, authorieies said, when a car driven by Floyd Skaggs, 53, LaPcrte. smashed into the side of a truck operated by Edgar Freshour, 43, South Bend. David Fiechter Dies Os Gunshot Wounds Funeral On Monday For Suicide Victim David Fiechter, 59, of route one, CraigviUe, died at 11 a.m. Friday at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton 15 minutes after admission for self-inflicted gunshot wounds. The son of John and Len Reinhard Fiechter, he was born May 20, 1899 in Wells county, and lived near CraigviUe his entire life. He was married June 18, 1939 at Alto, Mich., to the former Hulda Wingier, who survives. They have no children. Mr. Fiechter was a farmer, and a member of the Apostolic Christian church. Survivors in addition to the widow are four brothers and six-.sis-, tetsT Dani el Fiechter, of route 4; Joel Fiechter, of route one, Craigville; John Fiechter, of Craigville; and William Fiechter, of route 4, Bluffton; Mrs. Corniel Baumgartner, of route 4, Bluffton; MrS. Sam Baumgartner, of route 4, Bluffton; Mrs. Oscar Hoffman, of route 1, CraigviUe; Mrs. Glen Barger of near Decatur; Mrs. Levi Ginzel, of route 2, Ossian; and Mrs. Lillian StoUer, of Van Wert, O. One brother and one sister preceded him in death. Funeral services will be h&d at 1 p.m. Monday at the Goodwin funeral home, and at 1:30 at the Apostolic Christian church, the Rev. Sam Aeschliman presiding. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

1958 Farm Crops To Surpass All Records Bumper Harvest T o Put Benson On Spot WASHINGTON (UPD — Good weather and a technological revolution in American agriculture combined today to triumph over expensive federal effors to control production through acreage allotments and the soil bank prografn. As a result, Agriculture Secre- , tary Ezra Taft Benson is on the , spot. Agriculture Department statis- . tics released Friday showed feat crop prospects improved again last month under the impetus of , almost perfect growing weather, ' assuring a 1958 harvest far sur- , passing any previous year. Farmers are raising more corn, wheat, grain sorghums, soybeans ■ and other items than can be used , at home or exported, the report i indicated. The surplus will go to the government under price support programs, boosting support . costs and pinching storage facilities. The bulging rarrn surplus represented a victory for the American farmer in his battle against the elements, but it represented a setback for the administration—and Benson — in efforts to reduce - farm otrtptrt *by acreage ahotments * and the soil bank plan. V Ironically, the bumper harvest was grown on the smallest planted acreage in 40 years. The corn crop led a parade of individual crops headed toward new records with an estimated production of 3,686,218,000 bushels. This compared with 3,402,832,000 bushels in 1957 and the 10-year average of 3,144,304,000. The prospective horn of plenty also could mean price concessions on some items. The department’s all-crop index stood at a record high of 117 per cent of the 1947-49 average on Oct. 1, a rise of one index point over September. The previous record of 106 was set in 1948 and equaled in 1956 and 1957. (Continued on page six) Receive Word Os Grandson's Death Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bauer have received word that their week-old grandson, Michael Paul Morris, died at 1 p.m. Friday at Bermuda. He was the son of Lt. and Mrs. 1 Jack Morris. The father is stationed in Bermuda with the U. S. Air Force. Surviving in addition to the parents are a twin brother, Mark Edwin, and two other brothers, Jeffrey and Douglas. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ed Baufer of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morris of Huntington. Depository System Os Parking Meter Fines Start New System In Decatur Tuesday Yellow parking tickets will replace the familiar red ones on Tuesday, Maypr Robert D. Cole announced today, as the city begins Its on-the-street depository system for fines. A total of 20 of the depositories, which will be fixed on from one block Monday by the city police, will be set up in the downtown area. Last summer the city council voted to buy the handy depositories since many motorists complained of having to walk to the pity hall to pay the fine. Also, the office is open only during business hours. Under the new system the fine will be 25 cents if paid the first day, $1 if paid later. A warrant will be issued if necessary to colled the fines. Motorists are warned the new system will go in effect Tuesday, and the Yellow ticket will be an envelope in which the 25 J cent fine should be placed, and deposited in one of the handy boxes nearby.

Faubus Reports Funds Pour In To Run Classes Over $3,000 Daily To Run Segregated High School Classes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) — Gov. Orval E. Faubus says the Little Rock Private School Corporation’s campaign for contributions to finance segregated high school classes is producing $3,000 to $4,000 a day. This response does not include anything from the thousands of personal appeals Faubus is sending out. They have not been in the mail long enough for Faubus to get replies. He told reporters Friday that most of the contributions come from outside Arkansas. It took about $4,000 a day to operate Little Rock’s four public high schools, which have been closed six weeks in the intergration dispute. The private scnool corporation intends to open classes in churches, lodge halls, office buildings and homes as soon, as it can find enough teachers. Faubus said he does not know whether the private classes will be operating by Oct. 15. Oct. 15 is the date the Eighth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rule on the National Assn, for the Advancement of Colored Peoples petition for a permanent injunction to keep the public school board from turning over the high Schools to the private school group. The private school corporation does not have much hope that the appeals court will allow it to lease the public high school b u i 1 d i n’ g s where Faubus had thought private,- segregated classes could be conducted with state tax funds. It also is having "a little more difficulty' in obtaining teachers than expected, said Dr. T. J. Raney, the corporation president. He explained preliminary screening has eliminated some of the teacher applicants. New Flag Pole Is Dedicated Friday Dedication Is Held At Catholic School Columbus Day rites were held in conjunction with the dedication of a new flag pole at Decatur Catholic high school Friday afternoon, with the entire student body participating in the event. An honor guard accompanied the flag from the school building to the new flag pole located at the northeast corner of the school lawn. The honor guard consisted of air scouts, Severin Schurger, and Mike Ehler, explorer scout, Steve Omlor. Fourth Degree Knights, Carl Braun and G. Remy Bierly, Holy Name society officers, George Tricker, and Lawrence Beckmeyer, and the Very Rev. Msgr. J.J. Seimetz, the Rev. Robert Contant and the Rev. Robert Jaeger. The band then played America and thechorus joiped in with the first chorus while Msgr: Seimetz blessed the flag. Air scout Schurger raised the flag while the band played. The pledge of allegiance was given by the students following the. raising of the flag. Kathleen Kohne, senior class body and the persons attending the president, spoke to the student festivities. Miss Kohne expressed the school’s appreciation to the groups and individuals who donated the flag and flag pole to Decatur Catholic high. Msgr. Seimetz addressed the students and stated "they should give up and live up to being a good citizen.’ 1 Msgr. Seimetz continued bv saying "to give in every way to make America a country to be (Continued on page four) : '

116 Chinese Saved By U.S. Cruiser Rescued By Copter Off Stranded Ship HONG KONG (UPI) — The U. S. cruiser Helena, /lagship of the 7th Fleet, arrived here today with 116 Chinese rescued by helicopter from a Norwegian ship that struck a reef while en route from Communist China to Singapore. The 3,405-ton motor ship Hoi Wong ran aground in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea Monday. Hong Kong tugs made two attempts to free the ship before the master of the Hoi Wong called for American aid. The Helena broke off gunnery practice in Subic Bay in the Philippine Area Thursday and reached the stranded vessel Friday morning. Vice Adm. Frederick N. Kivette, commander of the 7th Fleet, Said two helicopters making 27 flights picked the Hoi Wong’s passengers off the deck and carried them to safety on the Helena. “The rescue was spectacular,” he said, during the Helena’s fourhour stopover here. "It certainly was the biggest helicopter rescue anywhere. "The 7th Fleet in the Far East hns it hnmariitarian roT<r as WIT as keeping the peace,” he said. "When human life is at stake we make no distinction between political beliefs, and stand ready to offer assistance to people of all nations.” The Chinese, including 46 men, 48 women and 22 children were en route from the Communist port of Swatow to Singapore after visiting relatives in Red China. Capt. James T. Lay, Clair, Mo., skipper of the Helena, said he decided to use helicopters in the rescue because a huge sea swell made it impossible to approach (Continued on page six) Lester Werling Fund More Than $l,lOO Oft-Operated Boy Plans For School The story of Lester Werling began over six years ago when he was born to Arthur and Viola Werling of route 1. The next day, Lester underwent what proved to be the first of a series of ten operations, the latest being this summer, to correct an intestinal defect. This year Miss Eldora Bultemeier and Mrs. Elmer Bultemeier started a fund to help Lester’s parents with the costly operations and hospital care which Lester required. The Daily Democrat joined in the plan to solicit funds for the young boy who wanted to go to school. That was just a few months ago and during those months, the Werlings were literally showered with donations, all of which will go to cover Lester’s operating expenses. To the people of Adams county and surrounding area, Lester Werling was a symbol of giving, and give people did. Thursday the Werlings were presented with the last donations received, and with the combined funds of the Bultemeiers and the Democrat, well over $l,lOO was collected. Arearesidents may thihlr that the Lester Werling story is over now that the fund has been completed, but to his parents, and to Lester, it is only the beginning. When this reporter visited the Werling home Wednesday, Lester had just completed his “school." A teacher who conies to Lester’s home once a week to try to teach him in one hour what others take a week to learn. Lester, a very intelligent boy, may be able to go to school for a few hours each day soon, his mother reported. Because Lester could not run and play like other boys his age, Mrs. Werling used to read to him and as Lester puts it, “I have piles of books.” Besides ‘ “piles” of books, the (Continued oa page six)

Rocket Breaks Free Os Gravity Pull Os Earth ■ Rocket Is Launched I By U.S. Air Force At Cape Canaveral WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Pentagon said today that the American moon rocket "Pioneer'’ 1 is streaking toward the moon at ' a rate that would bring it to the vicinity of the moon in 2.6 days. “Should it attain the desired ’ orbit,” the announcement said, "it would stay within 4C,000 miles of the moon for at tea st seven J days.” The announcement was made at 7 a.m> c.d.t. after “Pioneer" had been in flight for three hours and 28 mihutes. The moon rocket was launched ’ from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 3:42 a.m. c.d.t., and one hour ' later the Pentagon said the pay- , load had broken free of the earth’s gravity pull and was ’ streaking through space. The Pentagon revealed that additional instruments have been installed in the “Pioneer" to : measure- radioac-tivity along the entire course to the moon. To Photograph Moon ' The total weight of he instruments is 30 pounds, compared to 25 pounds in the lunar robot that the Air Force attempted unsuccessfully to launch on Aug. 17. The overall weight of the payload ; is 84 pounds. ; A scanning device to take an electronic picture of the back side of the moon, and instruments to count small meteorites and detect ' the moon’s magnetic field have j been retained. The Pentagon said the moon 1 satellite was thoroughly sterilized with chemicals and radiation before the firing. The robot was officially named "Pioneer.” The announcement said the sterilization was carried out “in an attempt to prevent contamination of the moon’s surface should ‘Pioneer’ impact." An hour after "Pioneer” soared skyward, the Defense Department announced that it had broken free of the earth’s gravitational . pull—"the first man-made object , known to escape the earth’s gravitational field.” It broke out of the earth’s atmosphere at a speed , of 25,000 miles an hour. Resembles A Top Describing the historic probe vehicle, the Pentagon said that it “resembles a hugd top." “Its core is a retro-rocket designed to alter its direction and velocity when approaching the environs of the moon so it will be captured by lunar gravity,” the statement said. The statement said the robot, 35 inches long and 29 inches in diameter, is rotating at a rate of 200 revolutions a minute. The most important remaining operation will be the firing by remote control of the “retrorocket,” when the robot is nearing the moon. “Perhaps the most important piece of equipment in the satellite : is the Doppler command receiv- ; er,” the Defense Department said. ■ It is this instrument that will i fire the rero-rocket on a signal ■ transmitted from Earth. I iring I will occur about 2.6 days after launch when it is nearing the path ; 6t the State To Review 1 Budgets October 31 • The state board of tax commis- , sioners will review the budgets and levies at the Adams county court 1 house October 31, Edward F. Jaberg, county auditor said today. The schedule is set up for the county unit budget and budgets of ' the townships to be reviewed in the morning session, starting at 8:30 a.m., C.S.T., and the city budget and levy and others will be checked during the afternoon session, starting at 12:30 p.m., C.S.T. The state board of tax commissioners regulates its time on central standard time.

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