Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 265, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 265.

'"‘p 1 ' Hk s’/ /' ■£ CHAMPION SOLI* TO HOTEL— Grand National prize-winning Shorthorn “Bert" is looked over by ohn A. Toulze (right) after he bought the bull for the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. “Bert” sold for $5.25 a pound and tipped the scales at 1,062 pounds. Looking on is Bill Bennett, a herdsman.

King Hussein Plane Chased Back To Base Syrian Jet Planes Intercept Jordan King's Plane Today BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — Syrian jet MIGs intercepted Jordan's King Hussein today while he was flying over Syrian territory and tried to force his plane to land at Damascus, official sources reported. The MIGS chased the King’s plane back to Jordan, the sources said. He called his cabinet into emergency session today and ordered parliament to assembly Tuesday. The 23-year-old pro - Western Hussein was en route to Europe for a well - advertised vacation when the Soviet-built jets swarmed up from Syrian airfields and ordered him to land at Damascus airport when he identified himself by radio. The sources said the King refused to land and he radioed the control tower he was returning to Amman. The control tower told the King they had orders to force him to land and to use force to bring him down if necessary. Pilots Own Plane The King, piloting his own De Haviland airplane, told the Damascus tower he would land. Instead he turned tail and streaked at high speed for Jordan only a few minutes flying time away. The high Jordanian sources said the Damascus fighter command then sent 10 MIG fighters into the air to try to find the plane when it did not appear over Damascus airport. 'Die King radioed his plight to Amman airport and a flight of Jordanian jets was ordered into the air to escort the King to safety. Hussein, who had a big lead on the MIGs, reached Jordan air space under an umbrella of his own fighter planes. The Jordanian government claimed later the Syrian MIGs violated Jordan air space in chasing the King. New Crisis Feared Hussein had filed _a flight plan prior to take off. the sources said, and' had encountered no reaction from Syria. He was reported to have radioed the Damascus airport while he was approximately 15 miles south of the city. Arab and foreign diplomatic missions in Amman were notified of the incident by Prime Minister Samir Rifai. He called a special meeting of parliament Tuesday and declared the day an official holiday to celebrate the King’s safe return. Hussein, who was accompanied on his flight by his uncle, Sherif Masser Jamil, was to make a broadcast to the nation later today. A broadcast heard in London sgid two jets bearing United Arab Republic markings attacked Hussein’s plane six times today during his flight from Amman toward Europe. The King’s charge broadcast by Jordan Radio threatened a major new crisis in the Middle East (Continued on page five) INDIANA WEATHER (Fair, a little colder north and east portions tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer. Chance of showers extreme northwest portion by Tuesday night. Low tonight 28 to 35. High Tuesday 58 to 64. Sunset today 4:34 p.m. e.s.t, 5:34 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Tuesday 6:24 a.m. e.s.t., 7:24 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Wednesday: Cloudy and mild with rain spreading across state late Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Lows in the 365. Highs mostly In the 50s.

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State Democratic Legislators Meet Lively Contest On For Party Leaders INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— A lively contest promised to develop today when victorious state Democratic legislators met to elect the party’s top leaders in the 1959 Legislature. Democrats swept into control of the Indiana House by a whopping 79-21 margin in last Tuesday's election, the first time they had the upper hand in that body in 10 years. Only 17 of the elected Democrats had previous House experience and 62 were freshmen. Because of that fact, they had few experienced men to vie for the position of House speaker and majority leader. But several were more than anxious to take a crack at the prestige jobs. In the Senate, it’s a different story. Republicans managed to salvage a 27-23 majority, thanks to a 19-6 edge in holdovers. Most observers believed Sen. Matthew Welsh of Vincennes was almost certain to be re-elected as Senate minority leader, a post he held in the 1957 Legislature. Observers believed he would get a run for his money from Sen. S. Hugh Dillin, Petersburgh attorney, who is extremely popular with a large faction of the party. But Welsh said he had Dillin’s support and said “I don’t anticipate I will have any oppcsitfcn.” A real dogfight appeared in order for the top House posts. Bayh, Folic Mentioned Top candidates for speaker or majority leader included youthful Birch E. Bayh of West Terre Haute. Donald E. Foltz of Clinton, Otto Pozgay of South Bend, James S. Hunter of East Chicago and Walter H. Maehling of Terre Haute. “Outside” candidates who apparently have little support but were campaigning for the post included LaPorte newscaster Jean LaGrange and Carroll M. Dennis of Indianapolis. Bayh wa s minority leader in the 1957 House. Foltz has had legislative experience and is well liked and Maehling can point to 16 years service in the House and the fact that he was his party’s majority leader in the 1949 ses(Uontlnued on two) Selective Service .Board Sends Five Five Adams county young men were sent to Indianapolis today by the selective service board, one for active induction into armed service, and foer for physical examination prior to induction. Jayson Stuart Miller was sent for induction. Taking physical exams were Luther Jerome Hedington, Jimmie Sprunger, Floyd John Meyers and Franklin D. Bittner. The board also announced that David Gene Halterman has been transferred to board 55, Cincinnati, O. Final Tax Rates Are Determined By State Final tax rates have been determined by the state tax board of commissioners in Indianapolis, Edward F. Jaberg, Adams county auditor, said today. The report given by members of the board of their recommended cuts to some of the budgets was approved by the entire board of tax commissioners at the meeting and discussions held in Indianapolis. The rates will Ije: Blue Creek, $2.80; French, $4.12; Hartford, $3.12; Jefferson, $3.38; Kirkland. $3.72; Monroe, $3.77; Preble, $2.42; Root, $3.16; St. Marys, $3.34; Union, $2.28; Wabash, $4.42; Washington, $3.86; Berne, $5.72; DecaturRoot, $5.90; Decatur-Washington, $5.86; Geneva, $5.41; Monroe-Mon-roe, $4.66; and Monroe-Washington, $4.76.

Blast Damages School In West Virginia Town Integrated School Building Damaged By Dynamite Blast MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (UPI) —A dynamite blast heavily damaged an integrated 17-room ele-mentary-junior high school building today in the mining town of Osage, which had been regarded as a model desegregated community. Sheriff Charles J. Whiston of Monongalia County said at least a case of dynamite had been touched off at two points in the main hallway of the building at 2:15 a.m. e.s.t. A section ot the brick wall of the 2’4-story building was ripped out and the reinforced. concrete ceiling supporting the second floor was bowed. The blast came without warning. “This is the last tiling we could expect,” Superintendent of Schools Charles Stevenson said. “We never had any difficulty.” The Federal Bureau ot Investigation at Washington announced that E. H. Winterrowd, special agent in charge of its Pittsburgh office, was en route to Osage "to actively assist' the local authorities in every way possible.” The bureau said all of its facilities would be available for the investigation of the blast. Winterrowd, the FBI said, personally will investigate any indications that federal laws had been violated. The school served a student body of about 300 whites and 93 Negroes the mining town and surrounding area. Schools of Monongalia County have been integrated for about five years without incident. The building blasted today housed pupils of the first, second, third, seventh and eighth grades. Students of the other three grades used a building about 300 yards away which had been exclusively for Negroes before desegregation. Forty Per Cent Negro About 40 per cent of the 400 residents of Osage, about three miles from the county seat of Morgantown, are Negroes. More than 50 per cent of the students at the school came from the surrounding area by bus. State Police Cpl. W. B. Snodgrass and Sheriff Whiston said the dynamite apparently had been set off by a hand generator. A 300-foot segment of wire of the type used for coal mine telephones was found leading from the explosion-wrecked corridor through a gymnasium win(Oontlnued on page »)▼•)

Juries Are Drawn For November Term Jurors Drawn Here For Circuit Court Richard D. Lewton, clerk of the Adams circuit court, met with the jury commissioners, James Gattshall and Edward F. Berling, this morning to draw names of persons to serve on the petit and grand juries during the November term of the Adams circuit court. A total of 12 names were drawn for the grand jury and 24 names for the petit jury. The names of the petit jurors include: Elmer Affolder, Hartford township; Forest J. Tucker, Berne; Gerald W. Springer, Union; Robert J. Christen, DecaturRoot; Raymond S. Johnson, De-catur-Washington; Walter Lister, Decatur-Washington; Robert T. Moran, Jefferson township; Harvey L. Jones, St. Mary’s township; Elmer C. Rich, French township; Howard Eley, Decatur-Root; Edwin C. Bauman, Monroe township; Harley J. Roop, Root township; Forest S. Walters, Union township; Raymond Martz, Washington township; Robert W. Odle, Decatur-Root; Lawrence Jacobs, St. Mary’s township; Ernest J. Stengel, Berne; Victor Mcßarnes, Geneva; Adolph Weidler, Root township; Eugene Wilkins, Berne; Clinton D. Steury, Berne; Charles E. DeVine, Monroe township; Nilah M. Neil, Decatur-Root; and Kenyon C. Nussbaum, Berne. The names of the grand jury are: Andrew C. Schrock, Root township; Lawrence L. Williamson, Union township; Herman A. Lengerich, Union township; Kenneth Roop, Decatur-Root; Alva W. Lawson. Washington township; Oran Schultz, Washington township; Kenneth Reed, Washington township; Robert O. Lord, Deca-tur-Washington; Harry Lehrman, Union township; Wilbur C. Tinkham, Berne; Harvey E. Crandall, Jefferson township; and David Alberson, Hartford township.

Two Traffic Fatalities Are Recorded In Adams County Over Weekend

Orders Little Rock Schools Be Integrated U. S. Appeals Court Bars Leasing For Private Schools LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) — ' The Bth U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis today directed the Little Rock School Board to integrate its school district and barred it from leasing the school buildings for operation of private, segregated schools. The order brought no immediate comment from School Supt. Virgil T. Blossom except this brief statement: “I have not read the decision. I will have to read it and confer with school board attorneys before I have any comment.” Gov. Orval E. Faubus, in New Orleans tor a Citizens Council address, was not immediately available for comment, nor would his staff here issue a statement until it conferred with Faubus. The Appellate Court directed its order to William G. Cooper, who was president of the Little Rock School Board when the action was filed, and Blossom. Wayne Upton, a Little Rock lawyer, now heads the board. The court also ordered school authorities to “take affirmative steps such as the District Court may direct to facilitate and accomplish the integration of the Little Rock school district in accordance with the court’s prior orders.” Wiley Branton, chief attorney in Arkansas for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the next move to open four Little Rock public high schools, closed since last September, appeared to be “up to the school board or the court.” Branton, however, refused to comment on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals order today to take “affirmative steps” to integrate the Little Rock school district. “It looks like the next move is up to the school board or the courts, and I don’t want to comment until I have read it < the order),” Branton said. Upton was not immediately available for comment. Federal District Judge John E. Miller, who dismissed a demand by the NAACP that the building-leasing plan be declared unconstitutional, (Continued on page four) Christian Becker Is Taken By Death Dies Saturday At Home Near Convoy Christian Becker, 92, retired farmer of Convoy route 2, died Saturday night at his home following an illness of several years. He was born in Germany Dec. 16, 1865, a son of Matthias and Carolina Etzler-Becker, and came to the United States when 15 years of age. He was married to Minerva Reidenbach Nov. 12, 1891. His wife died in 1952. Mr. Becker was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church in Harrison township. , , Surviving are four sons, Paul Becker of Decatur, Herbert and Richard Becker of Harrison township, and Oscar Becker of Convoy; one daughter, Mrs; Edna Krueckeberg of Convoy; 13 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Bertha Groetsch of Orlando, Fla. One daughter, three brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the St. John’s Lutheran church in Harrison township, the Rev. F. H. Gerken officiating. Burial will be in. the church cemetery. Friends may call at the H. D. Smith funeral home in Convoy until time of the services.

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Belgian Monk Given Nobel Peace Prize Work In Resettling Refugees Honored .OSLO, Norway (UPI) — Father Georges Pire, a Belgian Roman Catholic monk, was awarded the 1958 Nobel Peace Prize today for his work in resettling refugees. The humble Belgian friar was Arosen for the honor by the fivemember Nobel Prize committee of the Norwegian Parliament in a year when the world skirted close to war in the Far and Middle East. He will receive the $42,000 award from King Olav at a cere- 1 mony in Oslo on Dec. 10. The peace award to Father Pire, Who found new homes for the thousands of refugees of Europe’s cold war — including many from the 1956 Hungarian revolt — was the last of this year’s Nobel prizes to be handed out. The prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine and literature have been awarded in recent weeks by Nobel committees in Stockholm, Sweden. As usual, the'Norwegian Storting (parliament) committee gave no reason for its choice of the peace prize winner. But it was significant that, in a year of international stress, the award went to and not a statesNorwegian sou r c e s believed Father Pire would use his award money to establish another refugee village in Norway. Father Pire, 48, already is a hero in his Belgian homeland. He was chaplain of the anti-Nazi underground during the war, and helped establish an intelligence network to aid the Allies. Annual Banquet Os Rural Youth Sunday Annual Installation • Banquet Is Planned The annual installation banquet of the Adams county rural youth will be held Sunday beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Following the meal, Jim Merriman, 1952 county rural youth president, will stall the 1959 officers. They are: Legora Markle, president; Alice Kukelhan, vice president; Janice Busick, secretary; Roger Habegger, treasurer; Jane Uhrick, song leader; Byron Linker, devotional leader; Ron <Gerber, news reporter; Linda McKean and Jerry Sprunger, recreational leaders. Special entertainment will also be included on the program. Tickets are priced al $1.50 and may be secured from the officers or the county extension office. Reservations should be in by Thursday. All rural youth members, former members, parents, Farm Bureau members and anyone interested in the Rural Youth program is invited to attend this banquet. State Convention The annual state rural youth convention will be held at the Murat Temple in Indianapolis Wednesday. Legora Markle and Sally McCullough will be representing Adams county rural youth as voting delegates. Gloria Koeneman is serving on the convention planning committee and will give the report of the national committee' of the Farm Bureau young people during the convention program. Kelso Wessel, 1958 president, will conduct the day’s business meeting and program. New officers for the coming year will be elected. Also on the day’s program will be the state talk meet and public speaking contests. A banquet is on the program at 5 p.m., where awards will be presented to clubs for sports, membership, newsletter, and community service projects. . The Rural Youth members Will join the Farm Bureau general session that evening. Gov. Harold Handley will be one of the speakers on the evening program. Fol(Oonttnued on page five)

Hear Distress Signals From Downed Plane U. S. Novy Search Planes Sight Oil Slick In Atlantic LISBON, Portugal (UPD— The U.S. Navy reported today that its search planes had spotted an oil slick and picked up distress signals in the South Atlantic sea area where a Portuguese plane went down Sunday with 36 persons aboard, including six Americans. Officials at the naval station in Port Lyautey, Morocco, stressed that it was too early to tell if there were any survivors from the amphibian which disappeared on a flight between Lisbon and Madeira, 600 miles west of Casablanca. The oil slick was spotted around 9 a.m.. Port Lyautey officials said. A Navy pilot reported it appeared to be aviation oil, and not ship oil. The Navy then reported that call letters from a distress signal were audible by searching aircraft. A Navy spokesman said the signals were garbled. Sea Was Rough Navy officials reported that the pilot who spotted the oil slick used submarine detection equipment to try and pick up any sign of a submerged plane. But he was unsuccessful. The sea at the time was rough. The pilot of the four-engined Mariner (PBM-5), now being operated by Portugal’s Artop Airline, radioed Sunday he was making an emergency landing in calm water 180 miles off the Portuguese coast. Airline officials hoped he would be able to taxi to safety. U.S. Air Force planes from Africa and the Azores joined Portuguese, British and French planes and ships criss-crossing the Atlantic in the area where the flying boat was last reported, 100 to 180 miles off Cape St. Vincent. Capta. Xon Nicol Salem, 111., and William Brook, Marietta, Ga., piloted two of the search planes. The 20,000-ton Portuguese liner Santa Maria, on a run between Lisbon and Madeira, joined other ships in searching for the plane. Airline officials appeared confident today the aircraft would be found safe and might even be ploughing through the Atlantic headed for port through waves reported around four feet high. But U.S. pilots using powerful radar said they were unable to find it. Radios Emergency Landing The last message from the plane came at 8:21 a.m. e.s.t. ‘ on page flvo)

Mrs. Peter Mougey Dies At Toledo, 0. Former Local Lqdy Is Taken By Death Mrs. Lena Vollmer Mougey, 86, former resident of Decatur, died at 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon at her home in Toledo, O. The family left Decatur many years ago but had visited friends and relatives here on numerous occasions-. Her husband, Peter Mougey, was" a well known Decatur blacksmith. Surviving in addition to her husband are one daughter, Mrs. Frances Thompson of Dayton, O.; six sons, William Mougey, Alfred, Adrian, Raymoqd, Robert and Richard Mougey? all of Toledo; one sister. Mrs. ’Josephine Rodd of Toledo, and one brother, Alfred Vollmer, also of Toledo. One daughter and one son preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Wednesday at the St. Mary’s Catholic church In Toledo. Friends may call at the Murphy-Rooch funeral home in Toledo until time of the services.

Unemployment Rises In Nation's Plants Labor-Management Disputes Bring Rise WASHINGTON (UPI) — Unemployment among factory workers increased by 190,000 in October because of labor-management disputes, , the government reported today. This brought the number of employed factory workers down to 15,553,000 in October. The downward trend in factory jobs contrasted with the overall decline in unemployment and rise in total employment last month. As reported originally by Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks on Nov. 1, the total of unemployed workers dropped 306,000 to 3,805,000 last month while the number of employed jumped 677,000 to 65,306,000. Figures released today by the and Commerce departments showed that the number of workers on payrolls in hard .goods manufacturing industries declined slightly. "Strikes reduced employment sharply in automobile plants and to a lesser extent in the fabricated methls, machinery, electrical machinery and glass industries,” the government report said. The factory work week declined by 18 minutes to 39.6 hours because some plants were strikebound. Operations in other factories were geared down to reduced demand, the report added. Average weekly earnings declined by about a dollar to $84.35 in October for the typical factory worker because of the shorter hours. The job report contained several bright spots, however. The number of full-time workers holding part - time jobs because of economic conditions dropped to $1,186,000, a $958 low A greater-than-usual increase in jobs was reported again last month in the steel industry. Non-farm employment rose by 450,000 in October to 58.902.000. This figure includes domestic servants and unpaid family workers. It also counts striking workers as having jobs, which accounts for the difference in the payroll figures. The report noted there have been significant recalls to work in the critical hard goods manufacturing industries in recent months. It said the seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment was 7.1 per cent in October compared to 7.5 per cent at the depth of the recession earlier this year. The report said that the nearly 200,000 workers who were not on the job because of labor disputes (Continued on page five) Hospital Profit Is Shown For October Nearly S6OO Profit Shown During Month In spite of bills for the opening celebration for the new addition, the Adams county memorial hospital showed a profit of $596.03 for the month, administrator Thurman I. Drew announced today. . ' A total of $26,585.21 was collected at the hospital last month and added to the operating cash balance of $5,742.60, for a grand total of $32,327.81. Bills for the month of October amounted to $9,244.05, and the payroll was $16,745.13. Total expenses were $25,989:18, leaving an operating balance at the end of the month of $6,338.63. A total of 158 patients were admitted, and 56 babies were born during the month. There were 45 adults and ten babies in the hospital October 1, and 42 adults and eight babies on Oct. 31. During the month six patients died and 155 were dismissed, with 58 babies dismissed. During October 27 boys and 28 girls were born, including one set of twins. There were 239 outpatients treated in the emergency room, laboratory, and x-ray departments.

Decatur Man, French Twp. Youth Killed Fred Engle Killed When Hit By Auto Saturday Evening Two persons from Adams county died over the weekend as the result of traffic mishaps that occurred Saturday and Sunday. One of the victims, Fred M. Engle, 69, was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Adams county memorial hospital after he was struck by a car Saturday evening while crossing the street. The second accident victim, Allen Leon Gerber, 12 years old, died late Sunday night at the Bluffton Clinic of injuries suffered in a motor-scooter and auto accident that occurred Sunday afternoon. Engle's death was the first pedestrian and auto fatality within the city in nearly four years. The two deaths increased the county’s toll to 11 for 1958. Fred M. Engle, 69, a retired General Electric and volunteer fireman from Decatur, and wellknown throughout the community for several years, was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Adams county memorial hospital when he was struck by a car driven by James L. Ball, 23, of Decatur, Saturday at 6:20 p. m. on Winchester street near Hite’s Grocery. The accident occurred when Engle was attempting to cross the street at the same time the auto driven by Ball was northbound on Winchester street. En- . gle’s body was found approximately 55 feet from the point of impact. It was believed that Engle’s body was apparently carried the distance by the front of the vehicle. He was born in Adams county in 1889, the son of Asa and Maria McAlhaney-Engle, and was married to Gladys Springer, September 6, 1909. His wife died July 14, 1956, after an extensive illness. He was a member of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church and a member of the Moose lodge. Surviving are one son, Richard, of Kendallville, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Brundrick. of Berwyn, 111. Engle was the last surviving member of his family. Members of the volunteer firemen will act as pallbearers for the funeral. The funeral will be held at 1:30 o’clock Tuesday at Black’s funeral home, with burial in the Decatur cemetery, the Rev. Benjamin G. Thomas and Rev. Maxwell Wable of Kendallville, officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home until the services Tuesday. Scooter Rider Killed The second traffic accident causing the death of Allen Leon Gerber, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gaius Gerber, of French township, was due to an accident involving a motor-scooter and auto Sunday at 2:05 p. m., six and one half miles west of Monroe on county road 40. Gerber suffered severe injuries to his face and head, a broken left arm, and contusions and abrasions. The mishap occurred when the scooter operated by Gerber was in the left lane of traffic and he apparently signaled for the motorist to pass him on the right. As the auto driven by Alvin B. Kipfer, 20, route four, Bluffton, attempted to pass the scooter, the boy rode into the right lane causing the collision. The scooter and rider were dragged for 190 feet with the boy’s body being dragged 83 feet on his face and head. The boy was taken to the Cay-lor-Nickel Clinic in Bluffton following the accident, and died at 9:55 p. m. He was born in Bluffton March 31, 1946, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gaius Gerber, of route four, Bluffton. He was a member of the Apostolic Christian church, and was a seventh grade student at BerneFrench school where he was a model automobile enthusiast. He (Oo> -..nMd on txx*

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