Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 245, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 245.

.IT"~ , ’EM " 3 gg* w £ ' SHk wife i s ARRIVES FOR NAVAL TALKS— Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten • left) of Great Britain is gretted by Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, U. S. Chief of Naval Operations, as the former arrived in Washington for discussions with President Eisenhower and top Navy officials. Their talks will cover “general naval pro Hems.”

Truman And Ike Hil Political Trails Today Truman Arrives In Washington As Ike Leaves For Speech WASHINGTON (UPD—Former President Truman arrives here today on the political trail only a few hours after President Eisenhower leaves for a campaign junket to the West Coast. The former Democratic president was expected to get down to issues immediately as a lunch honoring Mrs. Truman and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Domestic issues appeared certain to dominate the speeches of both Truman and Eisenhower in the next few days. Truman has put himself at odds with some members of his party by backing Eisenhower’s Quemoy - Matsu foreign policy, while the President said at his news conference this week that "foreign policy ought to be kept out of partisan debate.” Ike Clears Confusion Some confusion over this remark as it affected the campaigning of Vice President Richard M. Nixon apparently was cleared by the President Thursday when he gave Nixon an unqualified go-ahead to strike back at Democratic campaign criticism of administration handling of foreign policy. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on Tuesday had deplored the injection of the Quemoy crisis into the current campaign, and Dulles’ remarks were interpreted in some quarters as an oblique swipe at Nixon. Dulles later issued a statement declaring Nixon had every right to answer the Democratic criticism. The President, in his statement, said Dulles' statement “should clear the atmosphere." Truman, interviewed during a brief stopover at St. Louis, Mo., enroute to Washington Thursday night, complimented the President for learning “at last” that foreign policy should be kept out of political campaign speeches. Says People Frustrated But Truman noted that “people are frustrated over foreign policy and particularly farm policy. Those living in agricultural states are worried, and they’ve got a right to be.” Eisenhower sets out today on a 5,000-mile political expedition to add muscle and unity to the Republican election campaign. First stop on his winging visits with the voters was this afternoon at Cedar Rapids, lowa. His major effort will come in California, where he will be trying to patch up GOP family differences and pick up election prospects for the Republican ticket there. Nixon, -in a speech Thursday night at Salt Lake City where he was continuing his Far West swing, said it was the responsiiOcMinued on page five) INDIANA WEATHER Chanee of scattered thundershowers south this afternoon. Fair and cooler tonight. Saturday mostly sunny, cooler south „a portion. Low tonight 40 to 45 north and 45 to 50 south. High Saturday 60s north and central to the low 70s extreme south. Sunset today 5:03 p.m. c.s.t., 6:03 p.m. e.dX Sunrise Saturday 5:58 a.m. c.s.t, 6:58 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Sunday: Fair mostly in the 40s. Highs in the and a little warmer. Lows upper 60s north portion to 70s in south.

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Gross Income Tax Collections Higher 82 Per Cent Boost Over Previous Year. INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A .whopping 82 per cent increase in gross income tax collections for the first quarter of the current fiscal year today pushed state revenue for the three-month period to more than 67 million dollars. The quarterly report issued by the Indiana State Revenue Department said total collections of $67*593,657 were almost 33 per cent or $16,725,668 above the $50,867,989 collected in the first quarter of the 1957 fiscal year. The fiscal year runs from July to July. The tremendous increase in gross income tax collections more than offset decreases in other categories. Commissioner Edwin Beaman said gross income collections accounted for $37,779,139 of the total. That was $17,011,664 over the $20,767,476 collected in the JulySeptember quarter of last year. Although the withholding of IMt per cent of gross earnings went into effect July 1, 1957, the revenue department did not receive any of the hike until the beginning of the second quarter in October. Thus the figures for the first quarter of 1957 contains none of the hike. The other big revenue maker was the motor fuel tax. Collections of $26,759,095 were about $677,694 shy of the amount taken in during the corresponding quarter last year. Decreases also were shown in the bonus tax, inheritance tax. store license revenue, employment agencies fees, oil inspection fees and petroleum severanc. Intangibls taxes increased to sl,276,224, a 51 per cent hike. Inheritance tax collections of $1,285,952 completed the list of revenue sources totaling more than a half million dollars Little Rock Private School Opens Monday * Open Private School For White Students LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD — The Little Rock Private School Corp, with contributions totaling $61,481.25 in the bank, announced today that it will open private classes for white high school students in private quarters Monday. “We feel that this amount will allow us to start operating,” said Dr. Thomas J. Raney, president of the Private School Corp. “W. C. Brashears (private school superintendent) says we have a sufficient number of teachers to operate the senior class.” Private school will start, he said, in a huge, three - storied building in western Little Rock that formerly housed the University of Little Rock graduate center. The Private School Corp, has signed a lease for it with Vance Thompson, who bought the building recently. There are three temporary corrugated iron buildings nearby that also can be used. Three Saved After Five Days In Boat MOBILE, Ala. (UPD — Thred men missing for five days in the Goulf of Mexico were taken aboard a motorship Thursday and were reported in “perfect health.” The three—J. B. Self, Tommy Baker and John McGaughan — had left Clearwater, Fla., early Sunday in an outboard motorboat.

Pre-lnaugural Flight Os U.S. Jet To Brussels Ushers U.S. Into Commercial Jet Age With Flight BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPD — The Pan American World Airways jet Clipper America flew from Baltimore to Brussels in just over seven hours today on a pre-inaugural flight that ushered the United States into the commercial jet age. Pan American said the Boeing 707-121 with more than 50 notables aboard made the historic flight from Friendship International Airport outside Baltimore to Melsbroek Airport in 7 hours and 19 minutes at an average speed of 540 miles per hour. A nonchalant woman announcer at Melsbroek proclaimed the arrival of the huge jet transport with these words: "The nonscheduled Pan American flight from Baltimore has just arrived.” Turbulence Slows Speed The flight was made at an altitude of between 25,000 and 38,000 feet. It took off from Baltimore at 7:54 p.m. e.d.t and set down here shortly after 8 a.m., Brussels time, flying two- thirds of the distance in darkness. Pan American officials had hoped to make the flight in less than seven hours but the plane ran into turbulence as it approached England and the bad weather delayed it slightly. Among the passengers was Juan T. Trippe, president of Pan American. The pilot on the flight was Capt. William Moss. The plane was christened Thursday night at Washington National Airport by Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower who broke a bottle of water from the seven seas against the side of the big aircraft. The big plane, first of a sleek new jet fleet, had to leave the Washington Airport without its distinguished roster of passengers. They took a conventional pistonengined plane to Friendship International Airport about 28 miles away where the blue and white jet liner took them aboard for the flight to Brussels. Flights Start Soon Commercial flights in the new 575-mile per hour jet clipper will start Oct. 26, opening a daily service between New York and Paris and Rome. Pan American jet Clippers will start service to London on a daily basis on Nov. 16. The airline said the swift, high - flying jets will reduce flying time about 40 per cent. Pan American has bought six planes like the America and has ordered 17 others with somewhat more power. On luxury flights the big ship will carry 86 passengers. In economy service, 165 passengers can be carried. Decatur Elks Plan New Lodge Building Plan New Home At Present Lodge Site Tentative plans for building a new lodge home for the Decatur B. P. O. Elks were approved by members of the fraternal organization at a regular meeting held Thursday night at the lodge home on North Second street. Robert Hammond, exalted ruler, reported that subject to final details and certain grand lodge approval, the Decatur lodge is planning to build at its present site on North Second street. The lodge’s building committee, at last night's meeting, reported plans for construction of a ranch type structure. The architectural drawings and specifications are near completion. The lodge authorized the finance committee to proceed with the necessary financial arrangements. Hammond also announced that a special lodge meeting will be held Thursday, Oct. 30, at which time the membership will vote, on final arrangements. It was also announced that a special district representation night will be held Wednesday, Nov. 5, when representatives from the other 12 lodges in the Northeastern Indiana district will attend, among whom will be a number of Elks dignitaries. All members of the Decatur lodge are urged to attend both of these meetings. Herbt Brautsch, Fort Wayne, district deputy grand exalted ruler, and Cecil Rappe, Union City, past Indiana state Elks association president, assisted the local lodge officers in an advisory capacity at Thursday’s meeting.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October 17, 1958

Bomb Explodes Today In Wichita Airport; Man Is Killed By Blast

Secy. Dulles Plans Parley With Chiang Flies To Formosa Next Wednesday To Meet With Chiang WASHINGTON (UPD —The State Department said today that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will fly to Formosa next Wednesday to confer with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek on the Formosa Strait crisis. Officials added that the secretary will fly to Taipei Oct. 22 from Rome where he will attend funeral rites on Sunday for -the late Pope Pius XII. The department said that Dulles will go to Formosa at the invitation of the Nationalist leader who asked for consultations under the mutual defense treaty between the two countries. Informants said Dulles plans to discuss the entire range of problems in the Formosa crisis with particular emphasis on the size of Chiang’s garrisons on the offshore islands, the Quemoys and Matsu. His mission presumably would be to patch up differences between the U. S. and Nationalist Chinese governments on measures to avert war with Communist China in the Formosa Strait. The United States wants Chiang to reduce the size of his 85,000man garrison on Quemoy Island, to guarantee he will not make raids against the mainland, and generally to give the Communists no excuse for charging him and his U. S. ally with provocative acts. Diplomatic sources said Chiang will seek a firm, public pledge of U. S. support in defense of the offshore islands. This will be difficult for Dulles to give, however, because the President is authorized by Congress to defend such “related areas” as the offshore islands only if an assault on them appears to be part of an attack aimed at Formosa and the Pescadores. President Eisenhower has insisted he could not make this determination far in advance of the actual Communist attack. William Jackson Dies This Morning Former Teacher In Schools Os County William Jackson, 81, of Craigville route 1, a retired school teacher, died at 6:25 o’clock this morning at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton following a stroke. He had been bedfast for the past two years and hospitalized for three days. He was born in Adams county Nov. 10, 1876, a son of Henry and Rebecca Chronister-Jackson, and was married to Mary Ellen Barger Aug. 14, 1906. Mr. Jackson taught in Adams county schools for more than 20 years. He was a member of the Tocsin Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, Dwight Jackson of Fort Wayne, one daughter, Mrs. William (Fay) Johnloz of Bluffton route 4; two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Arnold of Decatur,'and Mrs. Armintha Engle of Westerville, 0., and four grandchildren. One son and two sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Goodwin funeral home in Bluffton, the Rev. Fred H. Pflugh officiating. Burial will be in Oakland cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 12 noon Saturday until time of the services.

Capital Airlines Halts Operations Mechanics Strike Halts Operations WASHINGTON (UPD — Capital Airlines 'suspended operations today after operating most flights for 24 hours following a strike by its mechanics. Capital—the nation’s 'fifth largest commercial carrier—normally carries 13,000 passengers a day on some 730 flights to 77 cities east of the Missiippi. A Capital pokesman sai<> 38 planes were in the air at midnight, the deadline for takeoffs. He said Flight 883, scheduled to land about dawn in New Orleans, probably was the last plane down. Pilots now will ferry their planes to designated storage spots, he said. The decision to halt operations meant the furloughing of 7,544 employes. Some 2,600 meahanics walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Thursday in a dispute over wages and other issues. Another bargaining session was scheduled for this morning after a similar session at National Mediation Board headquarters Thursday failed to bring the contract dispute to a close. The strike by District 144 of the International Association of Machinists was the first major strike ever experienced by the airline. Year-long negotiations had preceded the walkout. The union rejected a proposed 9 per cent wage increase over a two-year contract period , recommended by a special presidential emergency board. The increase would mean about 22 cents an hour more for top-scale joumey"man mechanics, now getting $2.54. The unicm’s last demand was for a 42 cent hourly increase over the two-year period, a reduction from its earlier request for 49 cents. Portions of both the presidential board wage recommendations and the union’s demands would be retroactive to Oct. 1, (Continued on page five) Exchange Student Speaks At Rotary Peter Friederici Speaker Thursday Peter Friederici, Rotary exchange student from Wiesbaden, Germany, gave his autobiography to the Decatur Rotary club last night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Widbur Petrie, his “American father,” was program chairman. Vice president H. P. Schmitt, Jr., presided. Peter began by thanking the club for its sponsorship which makes it possible for him to spend this year in America. He is a senior at Decatur high school. He was born at Stetten in north Germany, near the Baltic Sea. He has two sisters, one of whom has lived a year in America and is now studying to be a high school English teacher. The second sister is attending high school in Wiesbaden. Following the war, the family, in rather humble circumstances, found themselves in the Russian zone. There was no freedom of speech and criticism might queckly send one to Siberia. During February, 1950, his father received a tip that he was to be arrested the next day, so the family fled on foot through subzero weather into West Germany. Peter said his happiest day was the day he received notification from the American Field Service that he had been assigned to his year’s stay in America. He described an enjoyeble but rough voyage to New York with 650 other • exchange students. ' Peter has but two years of English which made his first weeks in Decatur a bit difficult at times. He likes American schools and said they were much less stern than in Germany. He concluded his remarks by saying “I am not homesick because you make me feel at home here." (‘Continued on page five)

Use Tear Gas To Half Riot At Denver Jail Two-Hour Riot By 70 Tough Inmates * Quelled Thursday DENVER (UPI) — Police laid down a ' thick blanket of pungent tear gas Thursday to smother a two-hour riot by 70 tough inmates at the Denver County Jail. Four jail guards were beaten by the rioters, but they were not injured seriously. The prisoners took no hostages, and they never had a chance to escape. At the climax of the disturbance shortly after 8 p.m. E.D.T., 36 of 44 available police patrol cars had surrounded the maximum security building in which the riot occurred. By 9:10 p.m., guards reported they had shaken down the last of the rioters and returned them to their cells. Reason Not Known Authorities said they had not established the reason for the riot. Two prisoners told safety manager Edward Geer that they staged the riot to protest maltreatment by jail guards. But several others in the cellblock, who did not leave their cells, told United Press International that there had been no trouble recently. The riot area was left in shambles. Showers were turned on to flood the floor and water was mixed with scattered remnants of the evening meal. Hamburger, potatoes, gravy, bread and custard were squashed underfoot. Will Get Tough Windows were smashed, tables and benches were upended, and brooms and brushes were crushed. Mattresses were ripped and scattered. “If they think things have been tough,” Geer said, surveying the damage and litter, “they haven't seen anything yet.” “I'm taking away their mattresses and radios. There’s going to be no more picture shows and they can eat in their cells.” The maximum security building, one of five, houses 108 of the Denver County Jail’s 738 inmates. Hope For Unified U.N. Resolution Small Powers Hope For Unified Stand UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) —Small power delegates expressed hope today that the General Assembly's main political committee can reach agreement on a unified resolution on disarmament and nuclear weapons tests. The 81-nation group has three major measures before it. A 17-power resolution backed by the United States and Britain backed the Geneva talks s on test suspension, scheduled to start Oct. 31, and urged the nuclear powers to support the Anglo - American offer to call off tests for a year, if Russia does likewise. The 17-power resolution Is a comprehensive measure dealing also with other aspects of the disarmament question. A Soviet resolution calls for an unconditional "immediate halt” to nuclear weapons tests and without awaiting the outcome of the Geneva conference. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin has made it clear Russia insists that the tests be stopped "forever.” The West balks at such a step until foolproof controls are set up. A 12-nation AFRO-Asian measure fostered by India calls for “immediate discontinuance” of weapons testing until agreement is reached on controls necessary to police a permanent ban. Ireland planned to introduce a resolution today aimed at what Irish Foreign Minister Fr a n k COobt.x.twd oo page

Song Leader Joe W. Seabold, above, sales promotion manager for McMillen Feed Mills, and well known in this area, will lead community singing at the annual rural-urban fish fry in Decatur Oct. 23. He will be accompanied at the piano by Chester Longenberger, who will also provide organ music during serving of the dinner. Deadline for advance ticket sales is next Monday at 5 p. m. Eisenhower Starts Long Campaign Tour Gives First Speech In lowa Corn Field CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa (UPD— President Eisenhower opened a 5,300-mile political campaign tour today with a speech in an lowa corn field, and reminded the farmers to count their blessings under his Republican administration. The chief executive spoke at the national corn picking contest on the 80-acre farm of Lumir Dostal 10 miles from Cedar Rapids. A crowd of several thousand watched the President’s big plane land in Cedar Rapids, where he switched to a helicopter for a direct hop to the contest site. Sheriff James Linn estimated the crowd at the contest, which sprawled over 300 acres, at being in the neighborhood of 85,000. Eisenhower disclaimed politics in his brief speech. But the manner in which he praised the agricultural record of the GOP made this more than a “give-em-hell” visit. . Use Free Markets Instead of coming out and saying farm belt conditions are attributable to GOP policies, the President said it was a matter of freedom. “Our farmers should always be free to make their own decisions and to use free markets to reflect the, wishes of producers and consumers,” he said. “Due largely to these practices of freedom, farm prices are going up. “Generally those prices are higher now than when rigid price supports were last in effect. The farmer realized net farm income is up 20 per cent over last year. Per capita farm income is the highest ever. Gross farm income too will set a new record this year.” After presenting this appraisal of the farm situation, speaking from an open stand in bright, sunny 75 - degree weather, the President said there was a negative side of the picture which he was attempting to change. . "Farmers still have some serious difficulties— including the costprice squeeze,” he said. “But we are making real progress.” He said in his prepared notes for the speech that he was deeply grateful for the good harvest this year for the improvement in farm incomes. Greeted by Governor Then came the message that was unmistakable in political overtones: “Then, above all, I am grateful that you are still running the farms and haven’t turned the job over to the federal government,” The basis of GOP criticism of Democratic farm policy over the years has been that the Democrats stood for far-reaching government controls over agriculture. (Continued on page fiva)

Quirk Os Fate Averts Major Air Disaster Victim Apparently Found Package On Plane At Wichita WICHITA, Kan. (UPD—A bomb exploded in the Wichita airport today, killing one man and shattering huge plate glass windows but apparently averting a major airline disaster by a quirk of fate. The victim was tentatively identified as Forrest Don McCuiston, a tool engineer for Douglas Aircraft Co., of Tulsa, Okla. McCuiston, according to reports, was playing the role of a good Samaritan, taking a package he had found on Braniff Flight 301 bound from Kansas City to Oklahoma City to the lost and found office. McCuiston was in a 40-foot long hallway lined with plate glass leading from the main lobby to the air control tower when the bomb exploded. He was alone in the hallway and his body was ripped apart. All the glass was shattered. The bomb was in a rectangular box 1 foot long, 6 inches wide and 2 inches deep. It was wrapped in brown paper and tied with a string. The bomb went off about 8:45 a.m., about 10 minutes after the Braniff flight landed from Kansas City and shortly before it was to take off for Oklahoma City. Mrs. James Embree, a desk clerk at the Avis rent-a-car booth in the lobby, said McCuiston walked up to her and asked where the lost and found office was located. “Well, we don’t have a regular one,” she replied. "It’s in the airport manager’s office. I’ll be glad to take it for you," she said, putting her hand on the lethal package. “No, I’ll take it myself,” Mrs. Embree quoted McCuiston as replying. . McCuiston then walked out of the lobby into the deserted hallway and the building was rocked by an ear-shattering blast. Braniff confirmed that McCuiston was a passenger on their flight 301. Another passenger on the flight said he had seen McCuiston on the plane. It could not be confirmed immediately, but it was apparent that McCuiston had found the package on the plane and thought some passenger had left it behind. Final Rises Sunday For John H. Heller Funeral Sunday For Veteran Publisher Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon for John H. Heller, co-founder and president and publisher of the Decatur Daily Democrat for nearly half a century. Mr. Heller died Thursday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital of complications following a long siege of illness. He had been confined to his home since last December. Final rites will be conducted at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Harold J. Bond, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. Pallbearers, all employes of the Decatur Daily Democrat, will be Charles E. Holthouse, Pete Reynolds, O. K. Baker, Gerald Timmons, James Markley and Adrian Coffee. B ULL E T I N ATLANTA (UPD—Five persons were indicted today ’in connection with the dynamiting of the Jewish temple here.

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