Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 263, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1958 — Page 1

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Scheduled Shot Os Moon Rocket Is Postponed 'S. Another Launching Attempt Scheduled For Early Saturday CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — The Air Force corrected the “technical difficulties” that forced postponement in launching its third moon rocket today and began preparing the 88-foot vehicle for another blastoff attempt early Saturday. Officials declined to pinpoint the cause of the postponement, but non-militery sources said the trouble was in the Thor missile section of the four-stage rocket. These sources said the trouble was not major, but it could not be corrected in time to fire the rocket within the 15 or 20 minute period during which the launching attempt had to be made. In that period the moon was lined up in just the right position in relation to the earth. The postponement, which came only 48 minutes before the scheduled firing time at 1:22 a. m., meant that the launch team would have to start almost from the beginning in the countdown checklist, a 94-page document that includes 1,100 items. Lose Distinguished Visitor ft also appeared that the Cape would lose its distinguished visitor of today. Queen Frederika of Greece, who displayed a keen interest in science during a visit to Chicago Thursday, was to watch the shot from a vantage point on the Cape. But the Air Force said after the postponement that the Queen and her daughter. Princess Sophia, were scheduled to leave soon after dawn today. A new system of cutting off the second stage engine of the .rocket will be used this time to avoid the difficulty that caused the second moon rocket to fall far short of the lunar sphere. Instead of the "accelerometer” built into the earlier vehicles, the second stage engine of the third rocket will be cut off by radio signals from a ground station when a computer figures the rocket has achieved the proper angle of flight at the desired speed. Additional Insurance The last rocket was robbed of the extra kick needed because the first stage Thor missile climbed too high before veering out toward the moon. The new system was designed to assure that the second stage engine does not cut off before the necessary speed and angle of flight have been attained. a (Co’ atf on ” aKe INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy north, fair south, warmer this afternoon. Mostly cloudy and warmer tonight. Saturday mostly cloudy with chgnce of a few showert in north and east portions. Windy Saturday, turning colder north and west portions, a little warmer southeast. Low tonight 37 to 44, High Saturday from the 50s northwest to the 60s southeast. Sunset today 4:37 p.m. CST., 5:37 p.m. CDT. Sunrise Saturday 6:21 a. m. CST., 7:21 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and colder. Lows upper 20s north and central to low 30s south. Highs mid 40s north to low 50s south.

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Statehouse Changes Begin December 1 First Os 10 Changes In State's Offices INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The fact that Governor Handley stays in the Indiana Statehouse for two more years, keeping it firmly in Republican control through 1960, probably misleadingly overshadowed the big Democratic gains made in last Tuesday's election. Though Handley stays in office, the political complexion of the elective officers who spend time in the statehouse undergoes g n abrupt change within less than four weeks. Today, the GOP holds every one of the 20 elective offices. Next year, the Democrats will have taken over 10 of them, leaving the Republicans with an equal number. Republicans keep the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and courts reporter, and Democrats take over the offices of secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, school superintendent and courts clerk. Take Appellate Court In addition, the Democrats replace four Appellate Court judges, taking a 4-2 political margin over the GOP in the currently all-Re-publican court, and take over one of the five Supreme Court seats, currently all-Republicsfih. Then there’s the matter of legislative control. In winning 23 of the 50 Senate seats, barely short of control, and 79 of the 100 House seats, the Democrats switched the Republican margin in the Legislature from 108 to 41, the current makeup, to 102 to 48 in favor of the Democrats. Combine those totals with the new Democratic 8-3 margin in the Hoosier delegation in Congress, reversing the current 9-2 Republican margin, and the new 1-1 U.S. Senate ratio, compared with the current 2-0 Republican, and you get 121 Democratic and 62 Republican officeholders as of next year compared with 139 Republican and 43 Democratic at present. On a Statehouse level, the full effect of the Democratic triumph perhaps will not be known until 1959: What About Bureaus? By winning the office of secretary of state with the election of former congressman John Walsh of Anderson to succeed Republican Frank Leaning of Bloomfield, the Democrats take over control of the 1960 election machinery m most counties through appointment of inspectors for precinct election boards. The inspector is top man on the local board totem pole. ‘ , ~ Under a traditional rule, the Democrats also would appoint lucrative auto license bureau managers when Walsh takes office. However, in 1952 then Gov. George N. Craig assumed distri(Conth. -e or, page eight) Adair-Fleming Vote Total Is Unchanged ¥ "Vote tallies in the Adair-Fleming congressional race remain unchanged today after reported irregularities in Noble county election returns were resolved. Kenneth A. King, judge df the Noble circuit court, ruled late Thursday afternoon that totals in four of Noble county’s precincts should be counted as originally tabulated, in effect leaving vote totals unchanged. Rep. E. Ross Adair thus remains a 288-vote victor over W. Robert Fleming, Democrat, for congressman from the fourth district.

Count Shows Strength Os Democrat Win Polled Roughly 55 Per Cent Os Votes Outside The South WASHINGTON (UPI) — Democrats polled roughly 55 per cent of the vote outside the South in winning their landslide victory’ in Tuesday’s elections, the United Press International count showed today. That figure gave Republican leaders some idea of the job ahead in their effort to reverse the political trend before the presidential election of 1960. Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler was expected to report preliminary findings from the post mortem research in his headquarters at a news conference today. The UPI count was based on the vote cast for candidates for senator in the 37 non - Southern states electing senators this year; for governor in eight states; for state treasurer in Illinois; and the combined vote for House candidates in Kentucky. (Neither Illinois nor Kentucky elected a senator or governor this year.). The 11 Dixie states were excluded because they are so heavily Democratic that the remaining 37 states provide the real battleground in national elections. Poll 54.6 Per Cent The vote tabulated in the 37 states showed Democrats polled 54.6 per cent of the total. Inclusion of the South would run up the figure still higher. In 1956 when the Democrats won slender majorities in the House and Senate despite President Eisenhower’s landslide reelection, Democratic senatorial candidates polled a fraction over 51 per cent of the vote in the states, including the South, which held Senate elections. Democratic candidates for the House polled about the same percentage. Outside the South, Democratic candidates for the House polled only 47 per cent of the vote in 1956. In his first detailed comment on the meaning of the election, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson belittled the likelihood of political warfare between Congress and the White House. In a speech prepared for a Big Spring, Tex., audience, he promised Democrats in Congress will meet President Eisenhower “at least halfway, and perhaps even further if the circumstances warrant.” Sketches 12-Point Program Johnson also sketched a 12-point program featuring legislation dealing with labor reforms, farm problems, slum clearance, space exploration, airport construction, conservation, aid for depressed ■areas and other measures. The AFL-CIO, which gave much help to many Democratic winners in the balloting Tuesday, unfolded its first legislative proposals after a meeting of its council Thursday. It asked for a labor reform measure similar to the KennedyIves bill which died in the House last summer. But it threatened to stir even greater controversy by calling for repeal of the Taft - Hartley law provision which permits states to enact right-to-work laws outlawing union shop contracts. Such action would nullify the 19 state laws which have been adopted. (Continued on page five)

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U. S., Britain Charge Russia With Breaking Tacit Truce On Tests

Ike Announces Continuation Os Test Suspension To Keep Suspension Despite Two Blasts Set Off By Russia WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower announced today that the United States is continuing Suspension of H - bomb tests “for the time being” despite the fact that the Russians have set off at least two blasts since the Oct. 31 deadline. The Atomic Energy Commission announced that, it had detected two fairly low power nuclear weapons tests in Russia, one on Nov. 1 and another Nov. 3. Both were held in southern Russia rather than north of the Arctic Circle where 14 other tests had been staged since Sept. 30. East-West talks on the possibility of a permanent test ban started at Geneva, Switzerland, on Oct. 31. Eisenhower said “this action by the Soviet Union relieves the United States from any obligation under its offer to suspend nuclear weapons tests.” Eisenhower demanded that the Russians formally renounce any further tests “shortly.” If they do not, he the United States will “be obliged to reconsider its position.” The White House statement noted that Russia’s continuance of its nuclear testing flouted a United Nations General Assembly resolution a few days ago urging suspension of nuclear tests while the Geneva negotiation on a possible suspension of such experiments were in progress.” The President recalled that last Aug. 22, the United States and Britain announced they would withhold further testing for one year beginning Oct. 31 and renew cient progress were made in nethe suspension annually if suffigotiations with the Russians for a workable control and inspection (CQiitiLued on page five) Spiritual Emphasis Week Closes Sunday Final Service Here On Sunday Evening Spiritual Emphasis week services, which opened last Sunday under auspices of the Associated Churches of Decatur, will close Sunday, with the final service at 7:30 p. m. at the First Methodist church, where all services are being held. A service will be held this evening at 7:30 o’clock, but there will be no services Saturday evening. One of the features of the week will be the mass youth rally, to be held at the Missionary church Sunday evening at 6 o’clock. Dr. Milo Rediger, guest minister, opened his evening sermon Thursday by suggesting that there are several ways of teaching presented in the Bible. One of these ways is by comparison and contrast. By use of scripture from the gospel of John, first and third chapters, he pointed out that there were three comparisons by which John fulfilled’his ministry. “In the first place, John the Baptist pointed out who Jesus was. In the second place he presented to his own disciples what Jesus could do. The third comparison comes from the verse which says, ‘He. must increase, but I must decrease.’ This, pointed out the speaker, “is what must happen to all Christians. {Jesus must increase in importance in our lives. This is turning allegiance from ourselves to Jesus Christ.” The Missionary church choir sang the anthem for last night’s service, and the 1 congregation sang three hymns, “Am I A Soldier of the Cross,” “The Ninety and Nine,” and “My Faith Looks Up to Thee.”

Sanla Claus Train Ride Here Dec. 6 To Repeat Popular Children's Feature Another Decatur Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus train ride is scheduled for Saturday, December 6, according to an announcement made today by Tom Garner, retail division Christmas promotion chairman. Last year, 2,488 youngsters enjoyed this popular event which Decatur merchans had sponsored for the first time. Again this year, through special cooperation of the Elie Railroad, three special trains will be run between Decatut and Ohio City. Trains will leave Decatur at 10 a. m., 1:30 p. m., and at 4 p. m. They return about an hour and a half later. Free children’s tickets will be available Tuesday, December 2, from any of the participating members of the Chamber of Commerce. To avoid confusion, tickets will be given out to adults only and parents are asked to handle ■ these arrangements in person.' Adult train tickets will again be; Sold at the Chamber office on that same date. Fred Kolter, Chamber executive secretary, will contact last year’s participating merchants who are Chamber members. Other interested members are urged to call him and make their stores’ reservations at once. Due to last year’s experience when it was learned that the smaller children did not require (Continued on page five) Dr. Milo Rediger Is Rotary Speaker Tells Os Problems Found On World Tour Dr. Milo Rediger, vice president of Taylor University and the guest speaker for the present Spiritual Emphasis week program, was the speaker at this week’s Rotary meeting held Thursday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The Rev. Wm. Feller was program chairman. Dr. Rediger, who had recently completed a 25,000 mile world tour during which he visited 25 Countries, told of the problems and conflicts which he found everywhere. Each county had peculiar problems but there was stress and strain in each one. Liberia had a labor problem with the rates much lower than the U. S. The Gold Coast was changing from a British colony into an independent country, Nigeria was slowly gaining representative government. The union of South Africa refused Visas to the group because it had an American Negro as one of its members. Kenya Colony had land ownership as its central issue of dispute. The Arab-Israeli problem with its artificial divisions caused bitter disputes in the near east. The speaker described a visit to the Upper Room where the Lord’s Supper was first celebrated, amid barbed wire barricades and military guards. Rev. Rediger pointed out that although conflicts were varied in the different countries, there was a common problem of people not being able to get along'with one another. He felt that by bringing people together, both in the clubs themselves arid through their projects, Rotary and Htther service clubs could help solve many of those problems. Steven Edwards and Jerry Baker represented the Decatur high school and Decatur _ Catholic high school. The district governor will make his official visit next Thursday evening with a club assembly scheduled at 5 o’clock. The annual high school speech contest on the subject “Education is the Answer,” will be held Nov. 2Q. with that meeting to begin at 6 o’clock. LX; _ .. 7 ...

Men Stranded On Ice Floe Are Removed Men Stranded Since Sunday Rescued In 20 Below Weather ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI)— Twenty men stranded since Sunday on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean were removed safely early today by a CI23J plane from Thule, Greenland. All were reported in good condition following the rescue operation carried out in 20 degree below zero weather about 960 miles northeast of Point Barrow, Alaska. . * Station A, an International Geophysical Year station, broke in half Sunday under the pounding of a polar storm. The men were marooned on a camp site on an ice floe roughly 1,000 feet square. The Alaskan Air Command said the rescue operation went off exactly as planned, the men were separated from the runway on the other half of the island by 114 miles of open water and crossed the gap when the winds died down. The men had a boat with them on the floe and used it to get across the gap. The CI23J, using jet assisted takeoff, lifted the men off the runway half of the island at 2:27 a.m. E.S.T. (9:27 p.m. Nov. 6 Alaska time). WiU Return To Alaska They will be flown to the RCAF station alert on the northern tip of Canada where the CI23J will refuel and proceed on to Thule There the men will be transferred to a C 54 which will return them to Ladd Air, Force Base, Fairbanks, Alaska. Air Force men marooned on the island were identified as Capt. James F. Smith, commander of the station; Sgts. Richard Van Natta, George Coleman and T. A. Boger and Airmen C. Beaupre, C. €>. Williams, R. E. Wise, (Continued page eight) William Black Dies After Long Illness Prominent Farmer Is Taken By Death William O. Black, 76, prominent retired farmer of Willshire township, two and one-half miles east of Wren, 0., died at 11:30 o’clock Thursday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been in failing health for the past year. Mr. Black, a resident of Van Wert county most of his life,/served on the county fair board for 18 years, was a former Willshire township trustee, and was highly •active in community and Farm Bureau affairs in Willshire township. He had been a member of the United Brethren in Christ church at Wren for 50 years. He was born in Van Wert county Feb. 4, 1882, a son of James and Margaret Church-Black, and was married to Grace Hileman May 17, 1902, near Glenmore, O. Surviving in addition to his wife are three daughters, Mrs. Harry (Zelma) Workinger of near Saltern, Mrs. Walter (Marguerite) Kessler of Willshire, and Mrs. Lewis (Esther Jane) Kessler of Fort Wayne; one son, Lester C. Black of Akron, O.; seven grandchildren; four great - grandchildren, and one brother,. Curtis 'C. Black of San Anna, Calif. Two daughters, four sisters and two brothers are deceased. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening until 11:30 a.m. Sunday. The body will lie in state at the United Brethren in Christ church at Wren from 12:30 p.m. Sunday until services at 2 p.m. The Rev. S. F. Kochensparger and the Rev. L. A. Middaugh will officiate, and burial will be in Greenbrier cemetery.

Capehart, Handley Are Again At Odds Capehart Calls For Matthews To Quit INDIANAPOLIS (UPl(—Governor Handley and Sen. Homer E. Capehart were at odds today over the future of Republican State Chairman Robert W. Matthews in the wake of Tuesday’s Democratic victory which virtually crushed the entire GOP slate in this normally Republican state. Handley said he won’t fire Matthews because “you don’t kick him in the teeth because we lost all over the country.” Capehart earlier called for Matthews’ resignation because he “has proved incapable of handling the situation.” Sen; William E. Jenner, who hand-picked Handley to succeed him, sided with the governor and said Matthews “will stay.” The split among the top party leaders reflected the bitter factional bickering that has weakened the state GOP in recent years. Takes GOP Responsibility “Those that want to back-bite can do it in their own corner,” Handley said in an obvious reference to Capehart’s remarks about Matthews. Capehart claims he was slighted by the party in preelection campaigning and gave only a few talks on behalf of the ticket toward the end of the campaign. Handley, who lost his senatorial bid to Vance Hartke by almost (Continued on »age five) Student Day Sale Planned Nov. 22 Seniors, Merchants Cooperate In Sale The annual student day sale held each year by members of the student body from Decatur high school in co-operation with the merchants of Decatur, will be held Saturday, November 22. The project, started during the 1930’5, is held each year by the members of the senior class and other students to raise money for senior projects during their last year at Decatur high school. Steve Edwards, senior class president, and Miss Charlotte Vera, class sponsor, are working each day placing the 130 students in approximately as many stores in Decatur. Helping the class sponsor and class president, are the other class officers of the senior class, Bill Jacobs, vice president; Ann Kocher, secretary, and Pat Franklin, treasurer. A committee was formed to help the other students in finding the stores and business establishments in co-operating with the students of Decatur high school in the fund raising campaign. The committee includes Ned Baumgartner, Jane Bedwell, Linda Jackson, Betsy Burke, Karen Corey, Janice Badenhop, Eva Mae Plumley, Judy Rhodes, John Schaffer, Betty Smith, Carolyn Taylor, and Gloria Wall, all members of the senior class. The class president stated that approximately one third more than the number previously given have agreed to donate their services in helping the senior class, but that not enough places could be contacted to locate each individual. The Boy Scouts will distribute hand bills prior to student day sale showing the merchants and high school individuals co-operat-ing with’ the senior class. Mrs. Grace Sullivan Custodian At Geneva INDIANAPOLIS (UPD - The Indiana Department of Conservation today appointed Mrs. Grace Sullivan, Geneva, as custodian of the Limberlost State Memorial to succeed Mrs. Chloe Price, Geneva, who has retired. Limberlost was the Geneva home of Gene Stratton-Porter, Indiana’s most widely read woman writer. The home was built in 1895.

Accuse Soviet Union Breaks Tacit Truce Test Truce Broken After Geneva Talks Opened On Test Ban GENEVA (UPI) — The United States and Britain accused the Soviet Union today of breaking a tacit East-West truce on nuclear tests since the current Geneva atom ban talks started. The charges were made public in statements issued in Washington and London. The announcements said the Soviet violations relieved the United States and Britain of their self-imposed obligation to suspend further nuclear tests for a year dating from the start of the talks Oct. 31. But they added that for the time being both Washington and London will continue their test suspensions in hopes of reaching agreement here with the Soviets. The Russian violations, it was charged, came in atomic test blasts Nov. 1 and Nov. 3. Representatives of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union this morning began the fifth session of their thus-far deadlocked conference called to draw up a pact to outlaw the testing of nuclear weapons. No Soviet Reaction Publication of the American and British charges was expected to sharpen the tone of the present talks. There was no immediate Soviet reaction. It was not known whether Semyon Tsarapkin, the Soviet Union’s chief delegate here, would reply. It also was not known immediately whether the Western delegations would bring up the charges in the conference itself. > Diplomats said the disclosures — despite the accompanying Western undertaking to refrain from testing for the time being—were certain to increase tension in the conference room and make agreement more difficult to reach. Both the Soviet Union and the West have maintained secrecy over the talks thus far. But publication of the American and British charges was expected to provoke a public reply from Moscow and might end the secrecy agreement in Geneva. Want Dulles at Talks Disclosure of the Soviet tests also was expected to stiffen the West’s determination not to conclude any nuclear testing ban until a tight control scheme is set up to police it. Since the outset of the present conference, the , Russians have • been pressing the West to sign an immediate, unconditional and permanent pledge to end nuclear tests. The West has insisted that the first step must be the setting up of a proper control system. Western diplomats said the Soviets appeared to be stalling in the present talks, perhaps in hopes of forcing Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to come to Geneva in an effort to break the deadlock. The Russians had urged strongly a meeting of Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to discuss the question of nuclear arms. But the United States and Britain refused on grounds that other, lesser officials should first work out some preliminary agreement. Indianapolis Man Killed By Bullets INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - Bullets from a revolver killed Arthur Anderson, 42, Indianapolis, today and police arrested Mrs. Lillian Edwards, 36. who sgid she shot to defend he-self from Anderson’s knife attack. Mrs. Edwards faced a preliminary charge of murder. Anderson died in General Hospital receiving ward shortly after the shooting in the Edwards home.

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