Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 255, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1958 — Page 1

Vol LVI. No. 255.

——r- — NEW CATHOLIC PONTIFF BLESSED WORLD— Within a short time after a white plume of smoke rose above the Sistine Chapel and Senior Cardinal Deacon Nicola Canalli voiced the electric “Habemus Papam”—“We have a Pope”—Pope John XXIII, 282nd Vicar of the Roman Catholic Chruch, blesses the surging multitude in the Square of St. Peter’s in Rome. As church bells proclaimed his selection, the man who was Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncafli. 76-year-old son of an Italian share-crop-per, climaxed his career with a Papal blessing "Urbi et Orbi” and took up the tasks of the late Pope Pius XII.

Pope Appeals To World For A Free Peace Appeals To World's '« Leaders To Abandon Monstrous Weapons VATICAN CITY (UPD - Pope John XXII began the first day of his reign today with an appeal to world leaders to heed the anguished plea of mankind and turn their "monstrous” weapons of war into instruments of a just peace. In one of his first acts after the address, the 7&-year-old Pontiff appointed Msgr. Domenico Tardini pro-secretary of state for the Vatican. The Pope expressed fervent hope that the “instruments of destruction and war be turned into instruments of peace” and raised a prayer “that the whole family of peoples may live in concord, peace and tranquil liberty under the sign of Jesus Christ.” Spoke in Latin “Outward peace is not possible without inward peace,” he said. “Only the most holy religion of God can bring about peace.” The Pontiff, in his first papal address, asked the world leaders to “look at the people, listen to their voices.” “What do they ask? What do they implore? Not new monstrous arms but peace. . .but justice. . . but tranquility and concord.” Pope John, his voice firm and at times almost musical, spoke in Latin from the papal throne in the Sistine Chapel where a secret conclave of cardinals elected him Tuesday as the 262nd pontiff. His speech followed a Solemn Mass that brought the electing conclave to an end and opened the sealed area of St. Peters to the world for the first time since last Saturday. Needs Free Peace He said the world neeeded a free peace — not a peace existing under conditions of slavery. Addressing himself to those who “hold in their hands the fate of nations,” the Pope asked: “Why are dissensions and discord not settled? .Why are efforts directed at creating harmful instruments of war instead of civil progress? "Come, act courageous and confident. . . the light from above shines on you.” He quoted from St. Augustine: “Pax est tranquillitas domini”— (Continued on page s!x> INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair and cool again tonight with some scattered frost. Thursday mostly sunny and not much change in temperatures. Low tonight in the 30s. High Thursday in the upper 50s. Sunset today 5:47 p. m. CST,, 6:47 p. m. CDT. Sunrise Thursday 6:11 a. m. CST.,' 7:11 a.m. CDT. Outlook for Friday: Fair with no important temperature changes. Low Thursday night in the 30s. High Friday in the upper 50s and low 60s.

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Film On Ice Age Shown To Society Historical Society Meets Last Evening Interesting aspects of the glacial age left in Adams county, from the gravel deposits now in the morrains of the retreating glacier and in the bed of the old Teays river which, two miles wide, cut across Adams county, to the huge glacial boulders like elephant rock, were discussed Tuesday night by the Adams county historical society and their guests. A colored film strip, showing the advance and retreat of the three glaciers that covered Adams county in the past million years, was shown, and many questions discussed. The film strip, entitled “The Age of Ice in Indiana” with a teacher’s manual, will soon be released to all the schools in Adams county, both public and parochial. Designed and planned by the Council for Local History, Inc., to meet the needs of school children in this state for visual knowledge of state history, the film was prepared by Luke J. Scheer and George Scarbo, in cooperation with the Indiana historical society, the Indiana geological survey, the Indiana junior historical society, and the local historical societies. The strip will be released locally through Mrs. William Christen, president of Alpha Sigma chapter of Tri Kappa sorority, which sponsors the film on a state basis. Other supporters of the film are: the First State Bank of Decatur, the First Bank of Berne; the Bank of Geneva; Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line company; Adams county historical society; the Decatur and Berne Chambers of Commerce, and the 4-H clubs of Adams county The main feature of the 32-view colored film strip is a character named Mr. Zero, who tells the tale of the ice age in very interesting fashion. Hoosier history, he points (Continued on page four) State Tax Hearing In Decatur Friday The state tax board of commissioners will be in Decatur for the hearing of budgets submitted for the coming year Friday. The schedule states that the hearings will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the county auditor’s office at the court house. The schedule shows the county units will start at 8:30, followed by the townships. The order is which the schedule shows is as follows: Blue Creek, French, Hartford, Jefferson, Kirkland, Monroe, Preble, Root, St. Mary’s, Union, Wabash, and Washington. The city, libraries and schools, will be submitted at 12 noon. The schedule is: Adams county Central consolidated school, BerneFrench school corporation, Berne civil town, Berne public library. Geneva Civil town, Geneva 1 public library, Monroe civil town, Decatur civil city, Decatur school corporation, and Decatur public library.

Democrats See Gain Os Eight Senate Seats Hartke Victory Is Forecast By Party Leaders Os Nation WASHINGTON (UPD — Democratic campaign managers appeared convinced today they will gain at least eight U. S. Senate seats in next Tuesday’s election and have an even chance or better to gain eight others. They stuck to their forecasts despite the intensive campaigning by President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon in behalf of Republican candidates. While admitting the GOP leaders may have stirred up Republican workers — which could could mean a larger GOP turnout at the polls next TuesdayDemocratic spokesmen refused to concede any change in the outlook. Eisenhower returned Tuesday night after a two-day campaign trip into West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York in which there are critical races for four Senate seats and two governorships He will make his final campaign address Friday night over a national radio and television hookup from Baltimore, Md. Would Set Record If Democrats maintain or enlarge their hold on Congress this fall, the President would have to face the prospect of the opposition party controlling Congress for six of his eight years as President—a record of modern presidents. After a 36 - hour rest Nixon heads west again tonight for stops in lowa, Kansas, Montana and Washington state before flying to the soon-to-be new state of Alaska for the weekend. With some differing assessments, Democrat leaders soundconfident they will win Senate seats now held by Republicans in California, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. They are counting both seats in West Virginia, the Only state electing two senators next Tuesday. The Democrats already have wrested one seat from the GOP in the earlier Maine election. After these eight states Democrats figure their chances are a little better than even to win GOP Senate seats in New York and Minnesota and about even in New Jersey, Arizona, Nevada, Maryland and Utah. Make No Forecasts Democrats now hold a 49 to 47 edge in the Senate. They expect to reelect all the 13 incumbents they have running this year. While talking about chances of staging upsets. Republican leaders have shied away from specific forecasts about unseating Democratic senators in the Nov. 4 contest for control of Congress. Eisenhower plugged in New York City Tuesday for election of Nelson Rockefeller, Republican (Continued on page five)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 29,1958

Nuclear Blasts Rumble Across Nevada Desert As Five Shots Planned

Atomic Chief Says U.S. To Hold New Tests New Weapons Tests Planned If Russia Rejects Tests Ban WASHINGTON (Ut’l) — Atomic Chief John A. McCone said today the United States will stage new weapons tests if the Russians finally reject the West’s proposal for a one-year suspension starting Friday. At his first news conference as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, the former Los Angeles industrialists said this country could profitably continue testing to perfect small clean • H bombs for tactical and defense purposes. Scientists feel they now know how to make such weapons, McCone said, but would not be able to prove them without tests. A test suspension could “delay or prevent” their’ perfection, he said. McCone made it clear that the United States will stop testing Friday when representatives of Russia start negotiations with U.S. and British officials in Geneva on a possible permanent test fan. But if the Russians refuse to go along with the U.S.-British proposal for a one-year suspension, while negotiations continue, “it would not be long” before this country resumed weapons experiments, he said. McCone agreed with the statement by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Tuesday that the Russians decided to resume testing because they learned at EastWest technical talks in Geneva last summer that they are far behind the United States in weapons development. The AEC chairman said U.S. representatives at the Geneva talks on how to police a test ban (Continued on pagg six) Grave Problems Face Newly Elected Pope Early Consistory Call Is Expected VATICAN CITY (UPD — Pope John XXIII, faced with •some of the gravest problems in Roman Catholic Church history, was expected today to call a consistory “before the end of January” to name new cardinals. The problems ranged from the severe menace of atheistic Communism to the need to revamp the entire Vatican administrative machinery and replenish the depleted ranks'of priests and missionaries around the world. The new Pope also faced an upsurge of materialism, apathy and cynicism in his own Roman Catholic Italy. High Vatican officials said the speed with which the new Pope secretary Msgr. Alberto Di Jorio as cardinal Tuesday indicated swift action would be taken to replenish the strength of the Sacred College. Only 52 cardinals, exclusive of the new appointee still to be consecreated, are left of the 70 who filled the college after the late Pope Pius XII named 24 new princes of the church in 1953. Two of these, Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty of hungary and Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac of Yugoslavia, are virtual prisoners behind the Communist Iron Curtain. The new pontiff ascended the throne of St. Peter at one of the most criticsfl times for the Roman Catholic Church—at, a time when its very survival is menaced in many lands by Communism. Almost important, according to Vatican observers, was the problem presented by the internal condition of the church. Despite modernization and innovations during the 19 - year (Continued do page five)

Candidates, Party Orators Cover State Seeking Support In Nov. 4 Election United Press International Candidates and party orators’ fanned out through Indiana's hinterlands today seeking support in next Tuesday’s elect ion with charges and counter - charges against their opponents. Governor Handley went to Brazil and Vincennes in a 7th District tour. His Democratic opponent for U.S. senator, Evansville Mayor Vance Hartke, made a final fling in the 9th District. Hartke was in the 7th earlier this week. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1956, spoke at Richmond Tuesday night and. was booked for Seymour and Evansville today. Handley and nine of the GOP congressional nominees made an, 18-station television appeal Tuesday night. The governor said he considers Hartke “only as a frontman for a combination of forces outside the State of Indiana who are more interested in changing the political complexion of this state for their own socialistic plans and purposes than they are for the welfare of any Hoosier citizen.” “Hie day that the voice of conservatism is stilled in the United States Congress,” Handley said, "will be a sorry day for the taxpayers and for America.” Even while Kefauver was addressing a Richmond party rally. Handley was describing him and other Democratic campaign orators who have appeared in Indiana this fall as “a battery of leftwingers.” At Hope in Bartholomew County today, Hartke described Handley as a “do-nothing” politician “concerned only with his own selfish gains.” "For 14 years,” he said, “Handley has been in the Statehouse. As state senator, he was a donothing, passing but six bills in eight years. As lieutenant governor, he was a do-nothing, concerned with his own selfish gains and with building a patronage empire.” Kefauver, urging Wayne County voters to elect Hartke, said the high cost of living is “a failure of the Republicans to keep their 1956 promises, which has finally convinced the American people that (Continued on page four) Open Junior Classes In Private School Expect Sophomores In Class By Nov. 3 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD — Classes have begun for 220 juniors at the Little Rock Private High School Corporation’s school. Meanwhile, the president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, William A. McDonnell, expressed doubt that private schools will solve the South’s integration problem. Classes for seniors have been going for a week. Tuesday juniors filed into classrooms for the first time this fall, about the time McDonnell remarked in another part of town, “I don’t think the private schools can be a permanent solution.” McDonnell, of St. Lfiuis, said most people realize that private schools are not the answer. “I don’t think the public schools of the South will be abandoned,” he said. He said he felt the integration problem would be solved "with the passage of time/’ Little Rock sophomores are expected to be in class by Nov. 3 in the private high school. Dr. J. W. Cady, principal of an emergency school sponsored by a Baptist college, said about 360 students began classes Tuesday. The Baptist school charges a tuition i of S2O a month per student for the first child of a family. The second child costs sls, and the third 110.

13 Killed In Mine Blast In J West Virginia Second Disaster In Two Days Brings 35 Death Toll In Mines RICHMOND, W. Va. (UPD — Two coal, mine explosions in as many days in West Virgina left 35 men dead. Thirteen were killed in thd blast that ripped through the Burton Mine of the Ogleby-Nor-ton Coal Co. near Craigsville Tuesday morning. The last body was brought to the surface at 6:30 a. m. EST today. Twenty-two were killed in a similar explosion at the Bishop mine of the Pocahontas Fuel Co. at the Virginia border Monday morning. Charles Ferguson, United Mine Workers safety inspector, said he believed this was the first time mine disasters had occurred on consecutive days in the United States. The men killed Tuesday “never had a phost of a chance,” according to a state mine official. Last year 37 men lost their lives in a blast at the Bishop mine. Thirty-seven miners working on one section of the mountainside pit at Craigsville scrambled to safety. But 17 others in another section were trapped when a wall of fire and earth sealed off passageways. Four of the 17 were rescued and hauled to the surface on conveyor belts from two and one-half miles inside the mine. William Tucker, 34, and Paul Davis, 43, were admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital with serious burns. The other two were in fair condition. State Mines Chief Crawford (Continues on page six) Eisenhower Meets With Space Council Study Controversy Os Army, Agency WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower summoned his space council to a White House meeting today to take up the explosive coptroversy between the Army and the new civilian space agency. Many authorities believed the Army’s future in space exploration and rocket weapons development was at stake in its fight with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). White House Press Secretary James C Hagerty said no final decision would be made on the matter today. The NASA had put in a bid to take over the Army’s German-led team of 2,100 scientists and technicians, along with the laboratories, of the Army ballistic missile agency at Huntsville, Ala. The team is led by the German-born rocket expert Wernher von Braun. NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan also has proposed to the Army that his new agency take over the Army’s present arrangements with the jet propulsion laboratory at Pasadena, Calif., for space and missile work. If the NASA bid is successful the Army’s leasehold on space would be considerably cut down. Up to Tuesday night, authorities said, a compromise had not been worked out among the Army, NASA and the Defense Department. The President has said he would decide himself what federal agencies or facilities would be transferred to the new space agency which was set up under the space act of last July. Until Dec. 31 the President can make such decisions without referring them to Congress. After that congressional approval must be obtained.

Pasternak Rejects Nobel Prize Award Under Pressure Os Red Authorities STOCKHOLM (UPD — Soviet author Boris Pasternak has rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature apparently because of extreme pressure brought by Communist authorities, informed sources reported today. Authoritative information reaching here indicated the outspoken author of “Dr. Zhivago" had retracted the previous acceptance which he telegraphed to the Swedish Academy last week. Pasternak, since winning the $41,000 award, has been attacked in the Soviet Press and expelled from the Soviet Writers Union — a move that could threaten the livelihood of the 67-year-old author. The academy, which awarded him the first Nobel literature prize ever given a Soviet citizen in Russia, was expected to receive a renunciation of the award in his name shortly. The Soviet treatment of Pasternak contrasted sharply with the praise heaped on three Soviet scientists who were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics Tuesday. Pravda, the official Communist party newspaper, hailed the scientists today, praised their work and heaped more condemnation on the non-conformist writer whose book has been banned in Russia as antiCommunist. Two of the Soviet physics nominees were holding a news conference in Moscow today, presumably to announce whether they would accept. The third was out of Moscow. The Soviet attacks on Pasternak almost overshadowed the other Nobel prizes this year. The Nobel Prize for Medicine is to be awarded Thursday and informed sources said three Americans probably will win it for their work in genetics. The three are Dr. George W. Beadle, formerly of Stanford and now at Oxford, Dr. Edward L. Tatum of Stanford and Joshua L. Lederberg of Wisconsin University. The award will be made by the Carolina Institute of Surgery and Medicine. After the medicine prize is announced only the prize for peace will be left. Its winner will be chosen by the Norwegian Nobel committee in Oslo. (Continued on page four) Consider Increase In Interest Rates Farm Loan Rates May Be Increased WASHINGTON (UPD- Administration farm officials are considering an increase in interest rates on federal farm ownership loans from 4.5 per cent to the legal ceiling of 5 per cent, it was learned today. The loans involved are made and supervised by the Agriculture Department’s Farmers Home Administration, which lends only to low-income farmers. Some of the loans are made with federal funds. Others are government-in-sured or government-guaranteed loans made with private funds. No decision on the interest boost has been made, an Agriculture Department official told United Press International. Officials have discussed the possibility of an increase however, this spokesman said, and "realize we may be faced with the necessity of entertaining it.” The official indicated administration policymakers would move slowly and reluctantly in boosting lhe farm loan rate. He pointed out however that the Farthers Home Administration’s insured loan program is under pressure from a money market in which other investments pay a better return to private lenders. One source of funds for the agency’s insured farm ownership loans has been completely dried up since early August, the official said. Big banks and other na(Continued on page four)

Scientists In Race Against Proposed Ban Two Shots Are Fired This Morning; Three More Tests Planned ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. (UPD—Nuclear blasts sent rumbling echoes* across the desert today as U.S. scientists punched buttons in a race to fire five shots in one day and beat a proposed test ban deadline. After touching off two early morning shots the scientists were confronted by wind conditions and technical difficulties that forced them to revise their timetable for the next three full - scale detonations. An evaluation meeting was set for 5 p.m. c.s.t. with target times of 7 p.m. for the third shot, 10 p.m. for a massive underground test and “at least" 10 p.m. for the final detonation of the day. “Humboldt” the day’s second shot, flared brightly as it was detonated at 8:45 a.m. c.s.t. atop a 50-foot aluminum tower in Yucca Flat. The tower disintegrated and a plume of dust swirled into the sky in its familiar mushroom formation. Cloud-tracking aircraft darted into the area after each shot to check radiation effects. Ground crews scurried to begin evaluation of the blast. A few hours earlier, “Mazama” was triggered atop a 50-foot steel tower with a force of less than 1,000 tons of TNT after a brief technical delay. Mazama, triggered at 5:20 a.m. c.s.t. was visible in the dark sky only in southern Nevada. Motorists had been cautioned not to be startled by the shot’s sudden light. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has announced the United States would honor the U.S. proposed deadline for tests by Russia, Britain and the United States. Russia informed the two powers it had declined«the offer to halt nuclear testing and would continue with its program. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin, however, made it clear that Russia would participate in talks slated to start at Geneva Friday covering possibilities of banning nuclear test explosions. Detonation of five atomic devices within one day would mark a milestone in this country’s 13year history of atomic testing. It would be the first time that number of shots was held on a single day. The previous high was three shots held during the current series. Today’s program called for the detonation of two devices as they (CoirMniued on page four) Spencer Woman Killed When Auto Hits Truck TERRE HAUTE. Ind. (UPD — Mrs. Ella Zigler, 70, Spencer, was •killed and her son George, 54, injured seriously when their car smashed into a stalled truck on Ind. 46 southeast of here last night. Authorities said the Ziglers were coming to the Callahan Funeral Home here to view the body of a friend. Mrs. Zigler was brought to the same funeral home which held the body of her friend, 'Victor Sowers of Terre Haute. Reorganize Polio Chapter Thursday Reorganization of the Adams county chapter of the National Foundation for Irjfantile Paralysis is scheduled to be completed at a meeting at the home of Mrs. Roy Kalver Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Twenty-five persons from all sections of the county have been invited to attend the meeting and all are urged to be present. Lonnie Boyers, state representative of Indiana East for the national organization, will be present

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