Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 244, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 244.

John H. Heller

Nationalists Halt Flights Over Mainland Report Red Buildup Os Forces Continues Opposite Formosa TAIPEI (UPI) — Nationalist Chine is still making aerial reconnaissance flights over the Formosa Strait although they have stopped flights over the mainland, the air force said today. An air force spokesman said the decision to discontinue aerial photo missions over the mainland did not affect reconnaissance flights along the coast. He did not disclose how close the flights came to the coast. Some aerial photo equipment can be mounted on the sides of planes so that intelligence photographs can be taken a considerable distance to the left or right. President Chiang Kai-shek meanwhile was quoted as saying the offshore islands would be threatened as long as Communist farces are poised directly opposite them. • Recent reports from Quemoy told of a continuous Communist buildup along the coast oposite the islands. "As long as Communist military forces remain oposite the offshore islands on the mainland the Communist threat to the islands will remain as it is,” Chiang told Australian newsman Denis Warner. Chiang said U. S. Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy did not bring up the question of Nationalist troops reductions on Quemoy and Matsu during their talks earlier this week. Press reports published in Taipei said the government might consider such reductions if the (Continued on pa.ge seven) Wren School Added To School Reporter Since the school reporter column first begin in the Daily Democrat several years ago with only the two Decatur schools participating, three more schools were added from Adams county to add to the interest of Adams county readers. Starting today, a sixth reporter has joined the popular teen age feature column. Miss Jo Ann Lichtesteiger a senior at Wren. Ohio high school will submit stories about her and- the students. Wren high school has been added because of the daily subscriptions of the Democrat which are sent to that area. Willshire high school was also contacted but as of today has not yet sumbitted a story. Mis Lichtensteiger is the daughter of Paul Lichtensteiger of Wren. Besides being a member of both the band and chorus, she has been able to maintain an A and B average on her report card. For extra-curricullar activities, Miss Lichtensteiger is a member of the Y-Teens arid is on the annual staff. Upon completion of high school, the Wren reporter plans to enter college. 12 Paget

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Huge Shortage In Credit Union Fund Noble County Fund Still Under Audit ALBION, Ind. (tf^l)—Residents of this small county seat town expressed shock and surprise today over reports that a shortage of as much a $1,200,000 may be found in the books of the Noble County Credit Union, a small-town savings institution which fired its veteran manager a month ago. A private firm of certified public accountants is in the fifth week of an examination of the firm’s books, presumably in the final stages of a systematic study to determine the truth or falsity of estimates of a shortage ranging from $200,000 to $1,200,000. However, the examination was incomplete and the adutiors made no reports to substantiate the estimates. They were expected to give some hint of the scope of the alleged shortage next week when th Noble County grand jury opens a "thorough investigation of irregularities which Prosecutor Louis G. Ketcham said he wanted when he asked Judge Kenneth A. King to call the jurors Oct. 20. Manager 10 Years The discmarged former manager is Arnold G. Hobbs, 32, father of two young children, twice-married Navy veteran and an ex-farm boy who grew up in this area and became manager of the credit union 10 years ago. * Since he was fired in mid-Sep-tember, Hobbs has been named defendant in several civil suits, one seeking replevin of his two Late-model Lincoln automobiles and another seeking to collect $2,000 allegedly due for construction of a swimming pool in the yard of Hobbs’ Albion home. Spokesmen for the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions at Indianapolis, the department under supervision of which credit unions operate, said they knew of the investigation but had not entered the case as yet. Howard G. Herald, a Noble County farmer who heads the institution's board of directors, has been in a Fort Wayne hospital since Sept. 27 suffering from what was described as nervous exhaustion. Board Meets Daily The board has been meeting almost daily with Roy Rice, Albion, vice chairman, in charge. It was said that Rice and other board members were hopeful that if the firm found it was insolvent, there might' be some truth to reports that “restitution” might be forthcoming. There were reports, which were , not denied, that the accounts of shareholders were not insured. It also was learned that a state credit union law was invoked which . required shareholders to give 60 days notice of intent to withdraw assets, which apparently had ttie effect of freezing funds pending the outcome of the audit. It was the second reported case of allegedly big irregularities in a set of books in Indiana in recent months. Last June, the Indiana Grand Lodve, Free and Accepted Masons, fired Julian T. Lett, 58, Marion businessman, after 10 years as secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Masonic Home Foundation, Inc. (Continued <m page seven) 1

Six Men Are Slill Missing After Blasts At Least One Dead In Explosion, Fire In Off-Shore Rig NEW ORLEANS (UPI) A stepped up air and sea search ’begins at dawn today for the six men still missing in the Gulf of Mexico near the flaming remains of an off-shore oil rig that exploded and burned Wednesday. At least one man, identified by Continental Oil Co. officials as T. T. Butler of New Orleans, died in the watery inferno at the manmade island. Twenty others were hospitalized with injuries. The Coast Guard air and sea rescue headquarters in New Orleans said a helicopter and a 165foot cutter would join in the search at the rig’s site, 25 miles southeast of Grand Isle, La. Hold Little Hope The Coast Guard duty officer warned there was little hope for the recovery of all the men who leaped or were blasted into the choppy Gulf waters by the force of a series of explosions, which erupted without warning on the recently complete oil well. A spokesman for the Continental Co. said the fire was from the oil well—not the superstructure of the rig—and would probably burn for two or three days until it could be extinguished. The 20 known survivors who were fished from the water by small boats and helicopters gave varying accounts of the disaster. Cause Unknown All appeared to agree, however, that the fire was touched off by at least one and possibly a series of explosions on the metal rig. Within 40 minutes after the initial blast intense heat had melted ’the 210-foot derrick which collapsed with tiie platform. One survivor, Paul Eggert of New Orleans, said "it happened too fast for anybody to know anything,” and added that he was sure two of his buddies died inside the wreckage. Company officials, who had no explanetion as to what touched off the explosion, said late Wednesday that an estimate of the damage would be "premature.”

Building Permits Approved In City New Homes Addition Valued At $84,000 A total of 18 building permits, with an estimated value of $145,199, have been applied for, approved and granted from the first day of September to the 15th of October, according to a report given by Mrs. Ralph E. Roop of the city engineer’s office. Tony Faurote has been issued seven permits for new houses to be built near Mercer avenue in a new addition, with an estimated value given at $84,000 for the homes at their completion. A permit was granted to Robert Frisinger, 315 Limberlost trail, for a new house with a value of $20,MJO; McMillen Home Building corporation was granted a permit for a new home at 1104 Mix Drive valued at $13,000. The Decatur Library board was granted a permit for the new addition to the front of the library located on Third street. The value was estimated at $19,000. Paul E. Hammond was issued a permit to add to his fruit market on 13th street and estimated the cost at $3,000. A new garage estimated at $2,000 is planned by Mrs. Fay M. Baker at 104 N. 10th street. An addition to a house at 739 N. 11th 5 street, with a value estimated at S9OO, is being built by Genaro Rozo. Another addition to a house on 11th street is planned by Andrew Chavez and the estimated value was given at S9OO. Chester Howard received a permit to add a garage at 513 Marshal street with a value of $300; Walter Fegley was also granted a permit for a garage at 503 Fifth street, valued at S2OO. Mrs. Gladys Hakes was issued a perinit to add to a house at 319 11th street and estimated the cost at $160; Elsie M. Delong was given a permit to build a tool shed at 822 N. 12th street with a value listed at $l5O. Paul L, Myers received a permit to build a portable office for car sales on 13th street and valued at SI,OOO. Lome Esparza was issued a perinit for a laundry room and shop at 834 N. 12th street and valued at $l5O. (Continued on page mvw)

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( Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 16,1958

Co-Founder, Longtime Publisher Os Decatur Daily Democrat Dies

De Gaulle Wins Test Os Power With Algeria Call For General Strike Is Called Off By Committee ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI) — Pre-' mier Charles de Gaulle won a test of power with the die-hard rightwing Algerian Public Safety committee today. The committee cancelled a general strike call and a scheduled protest demonstration failed to develop. Hie committe, after five of its members conferred with French Supreme Commander Gen. Raoul Salan, voted 13-10 to cancel its call for a general strike to protest De Gaulle’s orders for wide open Algerian elections. Business continued normally. Both the strike and the scheduled demonstration had been banned by Salan. « The committee did not specifically cancel the demonstration, but the 3 p.m. deadline for a mass meeting in the square before government house passed with no signs of a mass meeting. Two fire trucks, their hoses connected to hydrants, stood guard over the vast square where the May 13 mutiny against the Paris government took place. The committee’s movement against De Gaulle was expected to fizzle because it lacked support of the army in Algeria. De Gaulle, backed by the army, had been expected to win. Gen. Raoul Salan, French commandant in Algeria, said the committee’s call for an Algeria-wide strike today would not be tolerated. And he said “I absolutely forbid” a scheduled right - wing demonstration today in front of the government buildings. It was an all out showdown be* tween De Gaulle and the “committees of public safety” whose rebellion against the French government last May 13 threatened France with civil war and brought (Continued on page seven) Ease Strike Threat For Westinghouse Negotiation Recess Averts Strike Today PITTSBURGH (UPl)—Westinghouse Electric Corp, and the International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) Wednesday agreed to a two-week recess in negotiations, averting a threat of an immediate strike. Hie union, which was free to strike last midnight under terms of a five year contract, had asked for the delay in talks centering around job security issues. Westinghouse had been negotiating separately with four unions representing about 66,000 workers. trical Workers (UE) virtually The recess granted to the IUE and the independent United Elecwiped out the strike threat. Neither union had issued a notice of intent to strike. Three of the four unions rejected a Westinghouse proposal for an employe security plan including savings, loan and retirement provisions. The plan called for the unions to forego part of scheduled wage increases this year and in 1959 to finance the opening of a savings program. Under the recess agreement, either management or the IUE may reopen bargaining during the two-week period. UE, representing 9,000 workers, recessed talks for the rest of the week after joining the IUE and the Federation of Westinghouse Independent Salaried Unions in rejecting the company proposal. The fourth union, the International Brotherhood Electrical Workers (IBEW), remained to be heard from on the Westinghouse security proposal. . '

Republican Misrule Assailed By Hartke Says Handley Rule Is Worst Example United Press International Evansville Mayor Vance Hartke today charged that Indiana Republican leaders “have ruled with complete disregard for what the people want and need” and the Administration of Governor Handley is “the worst example of this Jtind of misrule.” Hartke, Handley’s Democratic Nov. 4 election opponent for the U.S. Senate, predicted Hoosiers Will “finally and emphatically reject this kind of lack of leadership on Nov. 4.” In a talk before a party rally at Fremont, Hartke cited as examples of “misrule” increased taxes, Wasted money, a “disregard” for Education, “payrol padding” anld inaction in the face of “infation, recession, and unemployment.” Earlier, Hartke criticized the national administration for a soft foreign policy which has allowed Russia to become the “leader of the oppressed peoples of the World.” Hartke told party workers at New Albany Wednesday night that he does not expect the U.S. to solve all the world problems. But he said he does expect President Eisenhower to tell the “cold truth” about this country's relations with other nations. , He went on to cite our actions in South America, Egypt and Hungary as examples of foreign policy blunders.

Anticipated Rise In Stock Margins Margins Boosted To 90 Per Cent NEW YORK (UPD—The stock market met some further selling today on the rise to 90 per cent in margin requirements. It quickly regained its equilibrium and moved narrowly in orderly trading. Opening prices ranged between a rise of $1.13 in Magma Copper and decline of $1.25 in National Lead, a high-priced issue. Most changes were well below $1 a share and a long list registered gains. Steel issues and metals other than steel received better support than the general market in the early dealings. Market experts said the margin rise from 70 per cent to 90 per cent had been anticipated and the anticipation may have been a factor in the sharp decline in the market in the past two sessions. American Home Products ran up $1.75 a share in the drug section. Polaroid gained 75 cents. Bethlehem Steel firmed after a slight decline on 6,000 shares. U.S. Steel also firmed after a small net loss. Studebaker - Packard, volume leader Wednesday, rose to within a shade of its high for the year on a block of 15,000 shares. American Telephone registered a small rise. Tickers ran late for a brief period after which the market settled down to orderly trading. Actually some of the market operators seemed disappointed that the Federal Reserve Board in raising the margins didn’t make them 100 per cent — or no margin at all. “Why the FRB’s generosity?” they asked. Margin is the amount one must (Continued on page seven) ■ —I 1 I INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Friday. " Cooler north tonight and most of state Friday. Low tonight 47 to 55 north. 55 to 60 south. High Friday 68 to 74 north, 74 to 78 south. Sunset today 5:05 g. m. CST., 6:05 p. m. CDT. Sunrise Friday 5:57 a. m. CST., 6:57 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Saturday: Fair and mild. Lows in upper 40s north and tow 50s south. Highs in 70s.

Two Nuclear Blasts Fired This Morning Baby Nuclear Test Follows Up Largest * Underground Blast ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. (UPl)—The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission fired a “baby” nuclear device today, following up the largest underground explosion ever held in this country. Hie shot banged like a giant firecracker from beneath a balloon tethered 500 feet over Yucca Flat at 6:20 a.m. p.s.t. It followed by only a few hours Wednesday night’s giant subterranean detonation that caused the ground on the Atomic Energy Commission’s Nevada test site to ripple toward observers. The daylight shot, named “Dona Ana,” was in the sub-kiloton range, or less than 1,000 tons of high explosive. Dona Ana, which was described as one of a series of small shots, was the fourth shot from a balloon in the current series and marked the first time in AEC history that three shots were fired Within 24 hours. After a brief fireball, a dirty looking cloud in mushroom shape rose to about 5,000 feet and began drifting to the west. There was a rumble in the shock wave, but just about all the activity was gone from the shot within two minutes. Meantime, the AEC said Wednesday night's underground test which went off at 10 p.m. p.s.t. had a range in kilotons from three to seven, with a best estimate of yield somewhere between five and six kilotons. The largest previous underground shot was 1.7 kilotons. A monitoring survey this morning showed that radiation was (Continued on page seven)

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Keep Foreign Policy As Political Issue Kefauver And Nixon Differ With Ike WASHINGTON (UPI) — The rival candidates for vice president in 1956 made it clear today that they are ready to keep foreign policy in the 1958 campaign debate even though President Eisenhower deplores the whole idea. This was the position taken by both Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. Estes Kefauver, 1956 Democratic vice presidential nominee, with reference to campaign debate on Far Eastern policy. Kefauver told a reporter that the country must unite behind the President whenever an irrevocable decision is made. But meanwhile, he said, it is “fair to discuss and debate foreign policy.” Nixon told a San Francisco news conference Wednesday that he intends to continue answering Democratic attacks of administration policies although it was proper for the President of the United States to refrain from doing so. Nixon States Position “One of the troubles of the Republican Party in the past two years is that it has allowed people to criticize and has not stood up and answered effectively,” Nixon said. “I expect our opponents to attack our policies, but when I answer I don’t expect to have people say that the attack is justified but the answer to unfair.” These viewpoints were expressed after Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had suggested at news conferences this week that foreign policy be kept out of partisan debate in the campaign. Dulles at first appeared to be criticizing Nixon. But he issued a statement Wednesday blaming a (Continued on page eev>«n) (Continued on page seven)

Plane Crash-Lands On Superhighway One Driver Dead, Six Persons Hurt BABYLON, N.Y. (UPI)-A lumbering Air Force troop carrier plane crash-landed Wednesday night on a .busy Long Island superhighway, hitting three automobiles and killing one motorist. Six persons were hurt. Drivers frantically wrenched their cars off the road and sped into the ditches to avoid the twoengined C 123 as it scraped and skidded several hundred feet down the four-lane southern state parkway. The plane apparently had been attempting an emergency landing at Zahn’s Airport, about a half mile from the parkway, after it ran into trouble cm a flight from Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, Conn., to Mitchel Air Force Base, several miles from the crash point. Die plane was attached to Troop Carrier Wing 70 of Dobbins Air Force Base, Marietta, Ga. The Air Force had grounded all Cl2*’s earlier this month for modification of the aircraft’s fuel system but work on the plane that crashed Wednesday night apparently had been completed. Harold J. Schneider, 50, of 36 Alinda Ave., West Islip, N.Y., was fatally injured when the plane crushed his car against an underpass. Mrs. Mary Rehn, 42, of 366 Oceanside St., Islip Terrace, N.Y., received a broken leg in the third car. Mrs. Jean Calabrese of 27 Landscape Dr iv e, Wyandanch, N.Y., who was in the second car hit, received less serious injuries and was taken to a hospital. Os the six crewmen aboard the plane, four received minor injuries. Only one, Sgt. Willard Carman, was hospitalized. The pilot, Capt. Keith Sessions, was slightly injured but not hospitalized. Summery Weather Over Most Os U.S. Only Major Rainfall Area Stricken Texas United Press International Fair, summery weather prolonged its stay across most of the nation Thursday with the only major rain area occurring in floodstricken Texas. Thousands of persons have been forced to flee their homes on the Texas and Mexican sides of the lower Rio Grande Valley as the Lain-swollen river surged above flood stage. At least 900 persons were evacuated -at Rio Grande City, Tex., Wednesday when the river clibmed to four feet above flood stage. A crest of six feet above flood stage was expected today. A 4.5-inch downpour Wednesday forced about 200 persons from their homes at Elsa, Tex., and 200 more were forced out by rains in Matamoros, Mexico, across the river from Brownsville. Earlier, the entire Mexican town of Ciudad Camargo, across the river from Rio Grande City, was evacuated, and 500 persons fled their homes in Reynosa, Mexico. In Southern California, the problem was too much sunlight which sent the mercury bubbling to a record 101 degrees in downtown Los Angeles. The previous high for the date was 92 in 1912, and the normal high is about 77 degrees. It was the second 100-degree day of the year in Los Angeles and weathermen warned Thursday could be the third. Other California readings Wednesday included San Diego 91, Long Beach and Van Nuys 102, San Gabriel 103 and Ontario 104. Outside of Texas, the only precipitation reported Wednesday night and early Thursday occurred in the form of light, scattered showers in the mid-Mississippi Valley, and east coast ©f Florida, the northern Great Lakes and New England.

John H. Heller Is Dead After Long Illness Veteran Publisher Os Democrat Dies ■ After Long Illness John H. Heller, 85, co-foundcr and publisher of the Decatur Daily Democrat for nearly half a century, died at 2:20 o’clock this afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. Mr. Heller, who had resided at 326 Winchester street for many years, had been in failing since suffering a stroke Dec. 23, 1955. His right side was affected and he had been confined to his home most of the time since he was stricken. However, he was able to be up and about the house and continued to take an active interest in the Daily Democrat until last December, when he became bedfast. The veteran publisher became progressively weaker-in recent weeks, and an infection developed Sunday, Oct. 5, as a complication to his many ailments. He was removed to the hospital Friday, Oct. 10, after gradual heart failure, and his condition had been critical since that time. The prominent newspaper publisher, widely known and respected throughout the entire state, not only in newspaper circles, but through his long association in Democratic party activities, and years of service on the board of trustees of Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, and Indiana State Teachers College?, Terre Haute, began his newspaper career in 1891 in Elwood. He returned to Decatur in 1898, working for Lew Eilingham on the weekly Decatur Democrat. The Daily Democrat was organized in 1903, and Mr. Heller was publisher until his retirement in 1950. Mr. Heller was a member of the First Presbyterian church, the Masonic lodge, the Scottish Rite and the Elks lodge. He served as trustee of the Presbyterian church for several years. Surviving are his wife, the former Martha Alice Peterson; one daughter, Mrs. John Shirk of West Palm Beach, Fla.; one brother, Henry B. Heller, prominent Decatur attorney; two sisters, Mrs. John W. Tyndall of Decatur, and Miss Bertha Heller, Decatur librarian; four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. His only son, Dick D. Heller, Sr., who succeeded his father as president and publisher in 1950, died July 28 of this year. No funeral arrangements have been completed. Native of Decatur John Herbert Heller was bom May 4, 1873 in Decatur, the eldest son of Judge Daniel D. and Anna Corbus Heller. His father was the last judge of the joint AdamsJay county circuit, and the first judge of the Adams circuit, serving two terms. Judge Heller was a native of Harrison county, 0., his grandfather being a pioneer of that county. He studied law, and opened his practice in Millersburg, 0., where he met Annie , Jane Corbus. They were wpd July 15, 1869, and immediately left for Decatur. John Heller’s parents arrived in Monroevilje by rail, and walked overland to die small village of Decatur. Here he* his two sisters, Mrs. John W. Tyndall and Miss Bertha C. Heller, and his brother, attorney Henry B. Heller, were born. The late editor was raised by an educated family, and attended the old grade and high school, located where the First Christian church now stands. After graduation from high school, Mr. Heller attended Indiana Law school in Indianapolis for two years. There he met a member of the state legislature. “Silver” Dick Miller, one of the great Democratic orators of die day. The two men roomed at the (Continued on page six)

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