Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 261, Decatur, Adams County, 5 November 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 261.

Democrats Score Smashing Win

R W s I1 1 M t Burl Johnson State Representative Bl & ■ Hugo Boerger Commissioner

10 Trustees Are Elected By Democrats Republicans Take Only Two Township Trustee Offices The Adams county Democratic party maintained its control of the county board of education by electing 10 township trustees, against two for the Republicans. Seven of these trustees were elected unopposed. Democrat Robert Gay carried all 12 precincts in Washington township to win the trustee race in Washington township over former county treasurer Roy L. Price by 1,094 votes from a total vote of 3,532. Republican Silvan Sprunger, incumbent trustee in Monroe township, reversed the procedure, carrying all five precincts in that township, and defeating Otis G. Sprunger 1,087 to 654. Silvan Sprunger is popular as a trustee, and also did not oppose the Adams Central school. Closest race was in Hartford township, where Republican Vilas Eurry defeated former trustee Ralph M. Miller, 205 to 181 votes. In Wabash township, Democrat James Lybarger had a little trouble with Wesley G. Amstutz, defeating him 445 to 367. Amstutz carried North Wabash and Ceylon but lost Geneva A and B. In Union township Wilbur H. Blakey, a Democrat, defeated Alva Railing 232 to 114, carrying both precincts. Township officers who will take office Jan. 1, 1959 for four years and the vote for them and their opponents if opposed are: Preble Township Trustee, Robert M. Kolter, Democrat (unopposed), advisory board, fu-st three are winners: Edmund Aumann, Democrat, 284; Martin Selking, Democrat, 222; Charles A. Fuhrman, Republican, 134; Arthur W. Adam, Republican, 63. (Continued on page four) INDIANA WEATHER A few showers, windy and turning cooler this afternoon. Partly cloudy, windy and colder tonight. Thursday partly cloudy north, fair south and cool. Low tonight 35 to 42. Sunset 5:39 p. m. CDT., 4:39 p. m. CST, Sunrise Thursday 7:19 a. m. CDT, 6:19 a. m. CST. ' High Thursday near 40s to near 50. low Thursday night near 30. Outlook for Friday: Generally fair and cool, high in the 50s.

DECATUR DAIIA DEMOCRAT OHLY DAILY MHWBPAFDR IN ADAMS COUNTY

Jt A Walter Koos Assessor Jr -X, I A o Loren Heller Commissioner

Ordinance Favored On Flasher Signals City Seeks Signals At Dayton Crossing An ordinance requiring the Pennsylvania railroad to install two flasher signals and a watchman at the Dayton street crossing passed its first reading by the Decatur city council Tuesday night. The ordinance will go into effect after passage on its third reading and advertisement two consecutive weeks. A copy of the ordinance will be sent to the railroad company this week. The flasher signals, to be maintained 24 hours a day, must be installed within 90 days of the effective date of the ordinance. A watchman between the hours of 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. shall be maintained by the railroad immediately when the ordinance takes effect. The railroad will be fined $lO to SSO a day for violation of the ordinance. A letter concerning sewage connections was read, and referred to the city engineer. (Continued on uage five) 2,850 Calls Made To Wire Recorder Here A total of 2.850 calls were received at the Decatur Daily Democrat from 5 o'clock last night to 12 noon today from persons seeking election results as were given periodically on the wire service during the night. The wire service, now in its fourth year of operation, is given daily through the courtesy of the Decatur Daily Democrat and the Citizens Telephone company, and may be heard by dialing 3-2171. The most calls ever recorded over the wire in one evening was over 6.000. The service was first installed in November of 1954. Escapes Jail, Man Caught Soon After A former Decatur man, Vernon <Ogg) Edrington, 44, escaped from the Adams county jail today but was apprehended by the sheriff’s department approximately four hours later near Pleasant Mills. Ogg, as he is known to most people in Decatur, walked out the side door at 9:35 a.m. this afternoon while one of the sheriff’s deputies was finger printing other prisoners on the top floor of the building. Ogg was found by deputy sheriff Bob Meyers at 1:30 p.m. trying to hitch a ride on highway U.S. 33 near the village limits of pleasant Mills. He apperentiy walked along the river until he reached Pleasant Mills and then was trying to get a ride to head south.

Elect Hartke By More Than

200,000 Voles

Entire State Ticket Elected; Bierly Is Winner For Judge INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Hoosier Democrats forged their biggest triumph Tuesday since the early days of the New Deal, electing Mayor Vance Hartke to tije U.S. Senate from Indiana by more than 200,000 votes and sweeping all 10 Statehouse offices they sought. Gov. Harold W. Handley, the hand-picked choice of Sen. William E. Jenner to succeed him when he retires this year, fell beneath an avalanche of Democratic votes and lost by nearly as much as «he won by in his gubernatorial race with Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute two years ago. The 9-2 Republican margin in the Hoosier congressional delegation was wiped out and possibly reversed. Several congressional races were so close the outcome was in doubt well into Wednesday. The Democrats won control of the House of the Indiana Legislature for the first time since 1948 and came within a whisker of dominating the Senate, where Republicans had a 16-9 advantage in holdover senators that made necessary a bigger Democratic landslide than actually occurred to wrest control. Repeal of Law Seen Nevertheless, though they failed to win the Indiana Senate, the Democrats made such inroads in the Republican majority that repeal of the “right to work’ law, enacted by the 1957 GOP Legislature, was virtually certain. Hartke's huge majority over Handley was even greater than the experts believed it would be. The 39-year-old mayor of Indiana’s fifth largest city piled up a comfortable lead from the moment the first returns came in and became the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Hoosierland since Frederick Van Nuys won 20 years ago. Reps. Ray J. Madden of Gary (Ist District) and Winfield K. (Continued on page six) Interest Grows In Spiritual Emphasis Services Continue Nightly This Week Dr. Milo A. Rediger, Spiritual Emphasis week speaker, continues to challenge worshippers each night with his presentations of the basic principles of Christian faith. Using as the basis of his message Geness chapters 3 and 4, “Dr. Rediger vividly portrayed the fact and reality of sin; how it entered the human stream from the outside of man’s original creation. It came from rebellious Lucifer in the serpent to Adam and Eve and has continued through the centuries endeavoring to defeat God's purpose for man and separate him from his Creator.” Dr. Rediger’s definition sot sin was “Any rebellion against the will and law of God.” He referred to the sin of Cain who slew his brother in rebellion against God by Jealously, hatred and lying. He also pointed out the sin of the Babelites was not in making bricks and building a city and the tower, but that they rebelled against God’s command to multiply, replenish, and scatter abroad into the whole earth. The congregation was challenged to face any rebellion they might have against God and to pray for its removal. Presiding Tuesday night was the Rev. Harold J. Bond, of the First Presbyterian church. The Rev. J. O. Penrod of the Trinity church read the scripture and Rev. Gerald Gerig of the Missionary church led in prayer. A girls quartet from the E.U.B, churches sang special music. Tonight, Rev. Parker presides. Rev. Lykins will read the scripture and Rev. Anderson will make the prayer. Dr. Rediger’s message will be, “The Remedy for Sin.” Sponsored by the Associated Churches, these services are open to the public and are held each night at 7:30 in the Methodist church. The high school chorus will bring the special music tonight.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 5,1958

Take All County Races; Sweep State Contests; Huge Gains Over Nation

Democrats Win Solid Conlrol Over Congress Landslide Victory Carries Democrats Into Firm Control WASHINGTON (UPD — Democrats rode into commanding control of the House and Senate today with the biggest congressional landslide victory since the Roosevelt New Deal era. A Democratic tide which surged in Maine two months ago swept across such Republican strongholds as Vermont, Ohio. South Dakota, Nebraska and Wisconsin. Democrats won 25 Senate races, with one unsettled, to assure them of at least 61 seats in the new Congress, while the GOP had won 8 for a total of only 34. Democrats held 272 sure House seats against 132 for the Republicans. Fifty Senate and 219 House seats are needed for control. President Eisenhower thus faces, a Congress more heavily under control of the opposition party than any president-in this century. Knowland, Knight Out The Democratic sweep wiped out a solid Republican House dele-, gation and retired a GOP senator in Connecticut. It engulfed Senate Republican Leader William F Knowland of California, heir to the late Sen. Robert A. Taft in the Senate, and Sen. John W. Bricker. Taft's heir as the head man in the Ohio GOP. Down with Knowland, running for governor, went Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, who reluctantly ra for the Seate. He lost to Democratic Rep. Clair Engle. Bricker was beaten in Ohio by former Rep. Stephen M. Young, Democratic running mate of Michael V. DiSale, who unselated Gov. C. Wiliam O’Neill. Surveying the GOP wreckage. Vice President Richard M, Nixon said the Democrats deserved to win because they had been campaigning for two years, and GOP (Continued on page four) Chinese Reds Shell At Quemoy Islands End 27-Hour Lull In Shelling Os Islands TAIPEI (UPD — Chinese Communist artillery shattered a 27hour lull in the Quemoy islands today with another heavy bombardment. Nationalist guns roared back. The artillery duel began a few hours after the Communists accused the Nationalists of using poison gas shells in Monday's firing. The Nationalits denied the charges but prepared for Red “reprisals.” Moscow Radio echoed the Peiping charges early today and said the United States and Nationalist China were guilty of “barbarism" and violation-of international law. The Nationalist government said it seriously feared the Red charges were a smokescreen to justify Communist use of gas or some other unorthodox weapons. The United States accused Peiping of lying as it did in Korea when it said American troops used “germ warfare.” The Nationalist Defense Ministry said the Communist shore guns broke the Quemoy lull with a light pre-davgi shelling and then launched heavy firing at 8 a.m. This was an odd numbered day and, under Peiping’s weird stop-and-go cease-fire, all parts of the islands were subject to bombardment. Peiping has warned the Nationalists not to try to land supplies on odd-numbered days.

|. I i ! J A * J? i R. Vance Hartke U. S. Senator

Indiana House

Control Taken By Democrats Apparently Barely Miss Taking Over Control Os Senate INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Democrats captured firm control of the House of the Indiana Legislature in Tuesday’s election, but Republicans eked out control of the Senate because of a 19-9 holdover margin. With returns still missing from scattered counties, Democrats had won close to 70 of the 100 House seats. Only 51 are needed for a majority. But Republicans grabbed at least 6 Senate seats to add to their 19 holdovers. That gave them control of the 50-member upper house since Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker, a Republican, casts the deciding vote in case of a tie. Democrats had at least 22 Senate seats and three were still in doubt. The Democratic gains virtually assured that the state “right to work" law, enacted only "20 months «go, will be repealed in 1959 and the repeal confirmed if Governor Handley Vetoes it. Handley recently came out, during his fruitless senatorial campaign, in favor of “right to work” in Indiana, although he allowed it to be- , come law without his signature last year. Among senators who lost in their re-election bids were Dorothy Gardner (R-Fort Wayne), Carl A. Helms (R-New Castle), Thomas Hasbrook (R-Indianapo--11s). A host of Republican representatives seeking reelection failed to make the grade, among them former House Speaker W.O. Hughes of Fort Wayne, Richard Fishering of Fort Wayne, Charles Miser of Garrett, Court Rollins of Muncie, Oren Felton of Marion, and Rep. Harriett Stout and four fellow Republicans in Marion County. Democratic sweeps of populous and industrial Marion, St. Joseph. Allen, Vigo, Vanderburgh, Lake and other counties ran up big margins for the party’s legislative candidates, furnishing well over half the number of House members necessary for control. At least eight Republican House members who voted for “right to work” in the bill’s showdown last year were re-elected but at least 20 others were defeated, including Rep. Otis R. Bowen, who lost in normally Republican Marshall County to Forest M. McLaughlin by only four votes. A former Republican House member running as a Democrat (Continued on page five)

PH dK. - - G. Remy Bierly Appellate Court Judge

Four States Reject Right-To-Work Law Strong Surprise Showing In Ohio WASHINGTON (UPD—Organized labor and its political allies apparently buried efforts to pass so-called “right-to-work” laws in four out of six states in Tuesdays election. Such law’s, which would guarantee workers the right to hold jobs without having to join unions, were apparently rejected in California, Ohio, Colorado and the state of Washington. Voters“in Kansas approved a right-to-work law, bringing to 19 the number of states with such legislation on their books. In Idaho, the sixth state where the controversial issue was on the ballot, the outcome was still in doubt hours after the polls closed. Right-to-work proponents took the lead, 95,841 to 94,052, with about 85 per cent of all precincts reporting. Labor’s Big Campaign Pro-labor forces in Ohio made a surprisingly strong showing, burying the proposition with nearly half a million votes to spare. AFL-CIO officials had predicted a tight contest in this top-ranking industrial state and were amazed at the lopsided results. With more than two-thirds of all precincts reporting, the Ohio vote ran 1,296,396 to 791.556 against a right-to-work law. When the law goes into effect in Kansas, workers there can no longer be required to join a union to hold a job even if a labormanagement contract calls for such an arrangements. The measure was vigorously opposed by labor and generally supported by business groups in the six states where it was placed before voters. It triggered one of the biggest get-out-the-vote efforts in history by labor unions. The campaign was pressed in California and Ohio, two heavily industrialized states with a combined total of more than two million union members. — Returns tabulated by United Press International showed that right-to-work lost by about a 2-to-l margin in Washington and Colorado, It trailed by nearly a quar-ter-million votes in the California contest. Defeated Two Men Kansas passed its amendment to the state constitution by roughly 3-to-2. When right-to-work was declared approved, the vote was about 225,000 to 157,000 in its favor. Two Republican contenders for governorships who favored right-to-work laws without joining a union were defeated in Tuesday’s voting. They were Sen. William F, Knowland in California and Gov. C. William O’Neill in Ohio. (Continued on pa«e five)

Hopeless Deadlock Feared On Test Ban U.S., Britain 4nd Russia Deadlocked GENEVA (UPD — The Soviet Union appeared hopelessly deadlocked today with the United States and Britain on a nuclear test ban. Diplomatic sources here saw no sign of a backdown on either side. But because the United Nations shifted responsibility for some sort of agreement to the EastWest conference here, Western officials expressed optimism that both sides would give way sufficiently to prevent a permanent rupture. In New York the United Nations Politcal Committee ended its discussion on nuclear test bans and disarmament and left it up to the Geneva conference to work out some agreement. Both sides were standing pat on their positions when the conference went into its fourth session today. These were: —The Russians want an immediate unconditional and permanent ban on nuclear testing and have handed the West a draft treaty to sign on the dotted line. They also insist on discussing this before talking about a control system to police it. —The West refuses to tie itself down with an unconditional ban until a control system has been set up and is working and until there is progress toward a geeral nuclear disarmament plan. For this reason the West insists on discussing a control ystem firt. Christmas Season Store Hours Fixed Official Christmas Opening Nov. 28-29 Store hours for the Christmas holidays were determined Tuesday afternoon by the retail merchants at the meeting held at the Decatur Chamber of Commerce office. Dave Moore, retail division chairman, said today. Moore stated that stores will remain open on Thursday afternoons starting December 4 for regular store hours held during the rest of the week. Stores will remain open at night beginning December 12 and will remain open until December 23. He continued by saying that thfe stores will close about 6 o'clock on Christmas eve. Store hours will not change during November as was proposed by some of the members that stores remain open on Thursday afternoons. The Santa Claus train committee will meet at the office of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce for a special meeting at 7:30 o’clock tonight. The official Christmas opening will begin November 28 and 29. Veteran Republican Councilman Defeated Charles S. Jones, veteran Republican member of the Adams county council, was unseated by Democrat Floyd L. Meyer, former Blue Creek township trustee, 1.075 to 995. The race, which included the three Berne precincts, two Monroe precincts, and two precincts in both Blue Creek and Jefferson townships, was close all the way. The entire county council will now be Democratic, with the following in # addition to Meyer: Henry Dehner, Frank E. Bohnke, Leon Neuenschwander. William Kruetzman. Julius Schultz and Chris Stahly. The new county council will take office immediately and reorganize at 10 a.m. Saturday, November 15.

Entire County Vote Carried By Democrats Burl Johnson Wins Over Luther Yager For State Assembly The entire Democratic county ticket swept into office by large majorities in Tuesday’s election, with Democrat Burl Johnson of St. Mary’s township, upsetting incumbent Republican L. Luther Yager by 1,160 votes total in both Adams and Wells counties. Johnson carried Adams county by a narrow 120 votes margin, but carried Wells county by a comfortable 1,040 votes. Yager had defeated G. Remy Bierly, Democratic incumbent, in 1952, William Kruse in 1954, and C. H, Muselman in 1956, and was trying for a fourth term. W. Robert Fleming, Democratic candidate from the fourth district, carried Adams county by a narrow 392 margin, over incumbent E. Ross Adair, who was running for his fifth term. Fleming polled 4,702 votes to Adair's 4,310. In the 1956 election Adair carried Adairs Wins By 288 E. Ross Adair, incumbent Republican congressman from the fourth district, squeezed out a 288-vote margin over W. Robert Fleming, Democrat. Early this morning, Adair’s margin with all district precints reported was 14&, but a tabulation of about 900 absentee voter ballots in Allen county by noon increased his final margin of victory. the county by 1,637 votes, however. Fleming was strong in the north part of Adams county, but lost most of the south precincts. Merle Affolder, candidate for reelection as sheriff, totalled the most votes, 6.040, while Richard D. Lewton, clerk of the circuit court, polled 5,770; Severin H. Schurger ran up 5,684 for prosecuting attorney; and Von A. Eichhorn, candidate for joint senator of Adams, Wells and Blackford counties, ran up 5,567 votes in this county. In the races facing opposition, Loren Heller, of French township, defeated Emil Stauffer of Hartford township, for county commissoner from the third district. Heller rjin up 5,415 votes to Stauffer’s 3,456, a majority of 1,959 votes. Walter Koos of St. Mary’s township. incumbent assessor, defeated Republican James M. Teeple, of Hartford township by a vote of 5,328 to 3,466, or 1,862 votes. Hugo Boerger, of Root township, defeated incumbent Republican Roland J. Miller, of St. Mary’s township, by 1,042 votes, (Continued on page tour) Robert Gay

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