Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 271, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 271.

(I • / JUK KITCHEN ‘DELIVERY’— Anthony Joe Michael, 21, and his wife, 18, hold Anthony, Jr., bom before dawn on the kitchen floor of their home in Indianapolis, Ind. Michael helped his wife deliver their 6'za-pound son. Rhonda Gay, the Michaels’ two-year-old daughter, was an interested spectator. Alfter examining the mother and son, the family doctor, arriving fifteen minutes after the delivery, said: “They are both doirjg fine.”

First Severe Snowstorm Os Season Sunday Four Airmen, Three Boy Scouts Missing In Western Storm United Press International The season’s first severe snowstorm swept across a broad front from the Pacific to Minnesota today trapping four downed airmen and three lost boy scouts in mountain wildernesses from southern Arizcr.a to northern Utah. ' Eight to 20 fr.ches of snow were reported in the Utah and Colorado - Wyoming border where horseback, snowshoe and air rescuers sought two Air Force officers mTSsing since they bailed out of a Cl 19 transport with six others Friday. Also missing were two civilians whose disabled military cargo plane was believed to have crashed in the snowstorm Sunday. Temperatures dropped to 20 degrees in the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson, Ariz., where three lightly clad boys, aged 12 to 14, became,lost in a lashing snowstorm Saturday. The cold wave swept in over southern California, sprinkling snow and hail on Los Angeles suburbs and turning into a near blizzard in the 4,000-foot Tejon Pass, major highway route between Los Angeles and the central valley town of Bakersfield. 9 Below Zero The storm whistled across the length of the Rocky Mountains, plunging temperatures to 10 and 20 degrees and to a low of nine below zero at Evanston, Wyo., early today. A flow of mild southerly air across the central states slowed the cold advance in Minnesota and forced the snow front southward to the Mexican border in eastern New Mexico. Border temperatures were near 30 and, two to four inches of snow were reported from New Mexico and Arizona. Four to six inches of snow collected in western Nebraska. The three missing Tucson youngsters were believed lost near the 9,000-foot level of Mount Baldy in the Santa Rita Mountains, where they became separated from three young companions on a hike Saturday. Searchers on snowshoes found no trace of the youngsters through the night. Searchers were nearing the area on horseback today, and a helicopter was to join the search. The boys are Michael Lunew, David Greenberg and Mike Early Jr., whose father had taken the youngsters into the mountains Saturday. Seek Airline Pilots East of Ogden, Utah, hope diminished for the safety of two Air Force men, Ist Lt. Donald E. Bom, of Andover,' N.Y., and Capt. Donald Liggett, Indianapolis, unreported in the rugged, snowclotted Wasatch Mountains since (Continued on page four) INDIANA WEATHER Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight with possibly some heavy thunerstorms central portion. Continued mild. Tuesday showers ending, followed by partial clearing extreme southwest, windy and turning much colder Tuesday. Low tonight 58 to 65 with temperatures falling during Tuesday. Sunset today 5:28 p. m. CDT. Sunrise Tuesday 7:32 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Wednesday: Cloudy and quite cool. Lows Tuesday night low 30s. Highs Wednesday mid 40s.

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Predicts Growth In Nation's Economy Agriculture Lone Exceptional n 1959 WASHINGTON (UPI—An Agriculture Department official said today all segments of the nation’s economy except agriculture can expect significant growth in 1959. Nathan M. Koffsky, chief of the department’s farm income branch said the total U.S. wage and salary income probably will increase substantially next year “although some part of the increase may be offset by some drop in farmers’ income from farming.” Department economists have forecast a drop of 5 to 10 per cent in farm income during 1959. In another economic signpost, the Commerce and Labor departments predicted building in the United States will increase next year to a new all-time high. The construction industry often is regarded as a bellwether of the economy. The report forecast total spending of $52,300,000,000 on construction of all kinds in 1959, the first time such spending has passed the 50-billion-dollar mark. Even allowing for price increases, this would be a new high in amount as well as in cost of construction. The predicted figure is 3 per cent over the previous peak of 1955 in construction volume. Residential building and highways will account for four-fifths of the rise over 1958, the survey said. It predicted work will begin next year on 1,200,000 new homes and apartments compared with 1,170,000 estimated for this year. Koffsky made his predictions in a statement prepared for the 36th annual agricultural outlook conference. The conference brings together agriculture extension workers from every state, Hawaii and Puerto Rico for a five-day meeting to discuss the national and international economic outlook, longtime agricultural trends and the immediate outlook for agriculture. Welcoming the’ extension workers, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson said economic information in the agricultural field is the brick and mortar of sound agricultural policy. “People cannot build the sound programs they need if they lack facts in this vital area,” Benson said. “Public policy in agriculture is the reflection of milions on indivdual opnions.” Aged Man Dies Os Traffic Injuries INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - Oliver M. Jones, 81, Indianapolis, died in a hospital Sunday from injuries sustained Oct. 25 in a traffic accident in which his wife, Olive, 66, was hurt critically. Dehner Is Reelected County Council Head The county council met at the court house Saturday morning for the purpose of reorganization and to go over additional appropriations asked by county offices not considered in thet budgets submitted earlier this year. Henry Dehner was reelected president, and Leon Neuenschwander was reelected as vice president. John W. Blakey was reappointed to the Adams county alcholic beverage commission. All of the additional appropriations and transfers were approved by the council. The listing of the appropriations and transfers appeared in the Decatur Daily Democrat last week.

23 Cardinals Are Appointed By Pope John Two New American Cardinals Named; Consistory Dec. 15 VATICAN CITY (UPI) — Pope John XXIII named 23 new cardinals today to raise the strength of the Sacred College of Cardinals to an unprecedented 75. Jhe Pontiff called a Vatican consistory for Dec. 15 when the new cardinals will be invested with their red hats. He named two new American cardinals: Msgr. John O’Hara, archbishop of Philadelphia, and Msgr. Richard James Cushing, archbishop of Boston. The new cardinals were named shortly after the Pontiff named Msgr. Domenico Tardini as Vatican secretary of state. He had been acting in that position for some time. Msgr. Giovanni Montini, the archbishop of Mpan, was among Italians elevated to the rank of cardinal. Montini had won fame for his work against the Communists in that industrial area of Italy. The 23 new cardinals raised the strength of the Sacred College to its greatest strength in history. The new ones include 13 Italians, 2 Americans, 2 French and 1 each from Mexico, Uruguay, Britain, Spain, Austria and Germany. Elevation of two Americans to become princes of the church brings to four the number of American cardinals. The other two are Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York, and James Francis Cardinal McIntyre, archbishop of Los Angeles. But the Pontiff this time did not replace the vacancies in Detroit and Chicago caused by the deaths in Rome this year of Edward Cardinal Mooney and Samuel Cardinal Stritch. Archbishop O’Hara was born in Ann Arbor, Mich., on May 1, 1888, and educated at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind., Catholic University, Washington, D.C., and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadegrhia. He was ordained Sept. 9, 1916, and appointed titular bishop of Milasa and military delegate on Jan. 15, 1940. He was named bishop of Buffalo, N.Y., March 16, (Controlled on page four) Heavy Traffic Toll On Indiana's Roads At Least 11 Killed In Indiana Traffic . United Press International The death toll on Indiana highways climbed into double figures for the third weekend in a row. At least 11 persons were killed in traffic accidents around the state in the 54-hour period from Friday to Sunday midnight, including seven in the first 10 hours. Four members of a family were killed Friday night when their car was struck by a Pennsylvania freight train in Hamlet. They were Victor Laux, 44, his wife Amelia, 44, their 3-year-old son Joseph, and Mrs. Laux’ sister, Leona Blum, 53, all of Hamlet. Albert Jones, 76, Elwood, was killed Friday night when he was struck by a hit-run vehicle on a dimly-lighted Elwood street. Kent Sterling, 36, Lafayette, was killed when his car smashed into a pole on U.S. 52 near Fowler early Saturday. Sterling was a former pitcher for the Lafayette Red Sox baseball team. Other accidents Saturday claimed the lives of Charles Merriman, 22, Mooresville; Fred W. Bellis, 62, Payne, Ohio; Leon Van Hom, 51, Alexandria, and Russell Bums Burgess, 68, Hagerstown. Merriman’s struck a tree along Ind. 144 near Franklin. Bellis died when his car overturned in a water-filled ditch after colliding with another car at an intersection on Ind. 101. Van Horn was killed Saturday in a two-car crash on Ind. 9 north of Anderson. Eight other persons were injured in the collision. Burgess died of injuries suffered in a two-car collision on U.S. 36 in Randolph County. Police said he was driving without corrective glasses, which were required by his license. Jacob H. Yarberry, 63, Bedford, was killed Saturday night on U.S. 50 near Bedford when he was struck by a big truck as he walked in the highway. Truck driver Woodrow Birchfield, 45, Midrile, town, Ohio, said he swerved in a fruitless effort io miss Yarberry.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 17, 1958.

Soviet Forces Permit U.S. Truck Convoy To Pass Without Trouble

Final Returns Show Extent Os Democrats' Win T Bierly Vote Total Is 936,676 In Race For Appellate Court INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Complete official returns from Indiana’s Nov. 4 election showed today while Vance Hartke was beating Governor Handley by 242,000 votes for U.S. senator, other Democrats on the state ticket with Hartke were winning by margins of less than 200,000. The lowest vote total of a winning Democrat was the 930,771 votes granered by John Ax of Linton in his successful quest for a seat on the Indiana Appellate Court. Appellate Judge Donald E. Bowen of Bloomington led the Republican state ticket with 764,031 votes. Besides Handley, the lowest Republican vote total was 747.683 by Judge Wilbur Royse of the Appellate Court. William Wilson of Jeffersonville, elected state school superintendent by 195,173 votes over incumbent Sppt. Wilbur Young, piled up the highest vote total of the 10 Democratic candidates below Hartke. He got 946,399 ballots. Appellate Judge Donald E. Bowen of Bloomington led the Republican state ticket with 764,031 as he lost by 166,740 votes to John R. Ax of Linton, whose 930-771 votes were lowest on the Democratic ticket. The official returns also placed Rep. E. Ross Adair’s Republican victory margin in the 4th District over W. Robert Fleming at 267 votes, and Earl Hogan’s 9th District Democratic triumph over Rep. Earl Wilson at 882 votes. The complete count on the state ticket: Secretary of state—John R. Walsh (D), Anderson, 945,230; Frank Lenning (R), Bloomfield, 751,260, margin 193,970. Auditor—Albert Steinwedel (D), Seymour, 934,609; Roy T. Combs iR), Indianapolis, 761,209, margin 173,400. Treasurer—Jack Haymaker <D), Logansport, 944,234; Adolph Fossler (R), Richmond, 748,330, margin 195,904. School superintendent— William Wilson (D), Jeffersonville, 946,399; (Continued <»n page .three) Fannie Augsburger Is Taken By Death 1 Resident Os Berne Dies Here Saturday Mrs. Fannie tive of French township and a resident of Berne most of her life, died at 11:10 o’clock Saturday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been bedfast for five days. She was born in French township June 14, 1880, a daughter of Christian and Fanny Moser-Stucky. Her first husband, Noah Baumgartner, died in 1915. She was later married to Adam Augsburger, who died in 1948. Mrs. Augsburger, an employe of the Berne nursing -home for the past five years, was ,a member of the Evangelical Mennonite church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Victor Nussbaum and Mrs. Alfred Clauser, both of Berne, and Mrs. Elmer W. Price of High Point, N. C.; one son, Roger J. Augsburger of Berne; 12 grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Rachel Klopfenstein of ’Woodburn. One son, five brothers and four Sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Mennonite church, the Rev. E. G. Steiner officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home in Berne until time of the services.

Rain, Fire Inflict Damages On Sunday Basement Flooded; Stone Quarry Hit Extremely heavy showers occurring in Decatur and throughout Adams county resulted in heavy! losses to three business establishments Sunday night and early today due to water and fire. An undisclosed amount of damage resulted to Meshberger’s Bros, stone quarry in Blue Creek township when a building caught fire after it was believed struck by a bolt of lightning, Holthouse Furniture store reported heavy damage to merchandise from three feet of water found in the basement, and the adjoining business establishment, the Northern Indiana Public Service company, also reported heavy damage as a result of the water. Thtee fire departments, Decatur, Willshire, and Monroe, were called to the scene of the fire at the stone quarry Sunday night at 10 o’clock. It was believed that a bolt of lightning struck a small building containing a boiler used in processing black topping, and containing fuel oil. It was reported that the three fire departments worked during the heavy rain for approximately two hours in an attempt to extinguish the fire and to keep the fuel oil from exploding. No explosions resulted from the fire. The damage was not estimated by any of the departments and was not available today. Holthouse Furniture company reported that approximately three feet of water leaked into the basement from the empty lot located next to the building on Second Street, pausing several hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars in damage to merchandise stored in the basement. The water entered the building through the windows (Continued on page three) Strike Os Chrysler Workers Is Settled Resume Production Os 1959 Cars Today DETROIT (UPI) — Chrysler Corp, employes resumed production today of 1959 cars left on the assembly lines when white collar workers went on strike last week. The strike, first in the auto industry's history by white collar workers, ended Sunday night when negotiators for the company and the United Auto Workers Union reached agreement on a new contract covering the company’s office workers and technicians. > Although 61,000 employes were idled by the strike, only 53,000 production workers returned to work when the picket lines were lifted. The 8.000 white collar workers waited to ratify the contract at meetings scheduled later today before returning to work. A company spokesman said full production would be resumed immediately, however, because the plants would be able to operate temporarily without the office workers, who were expected to be back on the job by Tuesday at the latest. All Chrysldr production had been halted by the strike, which began last Tuesday, because the production workers refused to eross - pieket lines set -up by the office workers at most of the company’s plants. The three - year contract followed the general lines of an earlier pact reached by the company and the union covering Chrysler’s 65,000 production workers. It included the same three per cent annual improvement factor, transfer of $25 of the worker’s cost -of - living allowance to his base pay, separation pay plan with payments coming from a supplemental unemployment benefits (SUB) fund, and increases in. pensions, hospitalization and surgical benefits and SUB. It also included a modification of the area-wide seniority plan included in the production’s worker’s pact. ' ■> <

Russia Calls For Ban Over Bomber Flights Western Delegates Turn Down Proposal From Soviet Russia GENEVA (UPl)—Russia today called for a ban on flights of atomic and hydrogen bombers over the territory of other states and the high seas. The Soviet delegate to the conference on prevention of surprise attack presented the proposal to today’s session. It was turned down immediately by the West. Conference sources said U.S. chief delegate William C. Foster told the Russians their proposal was an old one which already had been discussed at other East-West conferences. Foster was said to have added that the Soviet plan also came outside the scope of the present conference. He added he would make a fuller reply at a later meeting. The Soviet proposal was presented by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasili V. Kuznetsov, at the sixth formal session of the conference. It followed reports that the Soviets might be ready to make a move in the nuclear ban talks sources said Russia has indicated it will allow U.S. observers on Soviet territory to police an EastWest nuclear ban if it receives , similar permission from the West. Western observers regarded the report as potentially a major Soviet concession in view of the Russians’ well-known aversion to opening up their country to foreigners. The sources said the Soviet stand was made known to the West informally, and has not yet been mentioned at the nuclear test conference here, which still was deadlocked. The United States and Russia each have submitted draft treaties for a nuclear testing ban, and each was expected to reject the other’s proposal at today’s session. The U.S. plan called for a nuclear ban with built-in controls to police it, while the Soviet proposal called for an immediate East-West pledge to ban nuclear testing for all time. The East and West also were (Continued on page five) Sister M. Dolores Dies In Hospital Native Os Decatur Is Taken By Death Word has been received here of the death of Sister M. Dolores (Eleanore Holthouse), aged 81, at St. Thomas hospital in Kolby, Kan., last Thursday. Sister Dolores had not been in good health for several months but her death was unexpected a day after she underwent surgery. ,b She was born in Decatur, J a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Holthouse. She entered the congregation of St. Agnes in 1895, and for more than 50 years followed her vocation in the classrooms of Wisconsin, New York, Indiana, Michigan and Kansas. For the past seven years she had followed a full day’s schedule at St. Thomas hospital, devoting her time to daily visits to the sick and using hqr skill in handicrafts for the benefit of the hospital. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Puryear of Memphis, Tench, and Sister M. Antonio of Jonesboro, Ark., and two brothers, Clem Holthouse of Tulsa, Okla., and Bernard Holthouse of Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Mrs. Minnie Holthouse of Decatur is a sis-ter-in-law. i The funeral mass was celebrated Saturday at St. Joseph Catholic church in Hays, Kan., with burial in the church cemetery,

Ex-State Highway Head Again On Trial i Virgil Smith Faces Second Trial Today INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—X man once described as the “Horatio Alger boy of the Indiana Highway Department” is scheduled to go on trial today for the second time in connection with charges of malfeasance in office. Virgil (Red) Smith already is fighting one conviction carrying f a 2-to-14 year prison sentence in t connection with right-of-way trans- 1 actions for the Madison Avenue t Expressway in Indianapolis. The J second trial—fifth in the series of ] related cases—is slated to open in Marion County Criminal Court i No. 2 with beginning of jury S selectiori. < Smith is charged with accepting r a bribe of $7,793 from salesman < Arthur J. Mogilner to ease the i path fcr sale to the state of 36 i pieces of heaVy highway equip- ’ ment. 1 A special venire of 150 persons has been summoned as possible 1 jury members by special judge 1 'Diomas E. Garvin. The former highway chairman • has been on the sidelines in the Indiana highway scandal story < since his first conviction at the opening of the long and involved trials featuring the friends and appointees of former Gov. George Craig. Craig named Smith as chairman in June, 1955. After Governor Handley came into office in January 1957, there began a series of disclosures about the operation of the highway department under Smith which led to indictments by a Marion County grand jury of Smith and several of his former highway associates and two of Craig’s advisors—Elmer Sherwood (Continued om page three) Heavy Rainfall Is Reported In County Over Three Inches In Part Os County Most all of the townships throughout Adams county reported over three inches of rain fell between the hours of 8 o’clock Sunday night and 7 a. m. today. Os the several township weather observers contacted, only two reported that less than two inches fell, Washington and Union townships. Louis Landrum, Washington township weather observer, reported that Decatur received approximately 1.92 inches of rain during the night. The river was reported to have risen from 1.69 to 11.57 feet, this is mostly due to the heavy rains recorded in the southern part' of the county. The flood level for the St. Mary's river is 13 feet. Ray Heller, of Kirkland township, reported over three and one quarter inches fell in that area. It was reported that French township received approximately three and five eights inches of rainfall since Saturday morning. Ben Mazelin of Monroe township reported 4.4 since Saturday, and 3.7 since Sunday. Blue Creek was reported to have received 3.5 inches during the night, with Hartford township a little over three inches, ; and Wabash township, as recorded , 4 by Jack Hurst, almost four inches, j Erwin Fuelling of Union town- 1 ship reported that only 1.5 inches , of rain fell through that area. i i Bridge Is Ruined , When Hit By Auto < COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (UPI) — A foreign sports car driven by John Lillich, 17. Columbia City, skidded on the wet plank flooring of a wooden bridge over the Eel River southwest of here Saturday j night and struck the railing. Lil- 1 lich steered the car off the bridge. 1 stopped and looked back in time < to see the 50-foot-long structure i collapse into the river. - i

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Truck Convoy Dispatched To Test Intention Passage Os Convoy Brings Some Easing Os Blockade Fears BERLIN (UPD— Soviet forces passed an American truck convoy through a checkpoint outside West Berlin without trouble today at the place where another U.S. Army convoy was held up last Friday. The convoy of two trailer trucks and one jeep was sent out to test Soviet blockade intentions. The convoy passed through the Soviet’s Babelsberg checkpoint just outside West Berlin on the 110mile superhighway to West Germany without incident. The Soviets did not insist on searching the trucks as they did on Friday. The swift passage today indicated to American officials here that the Soviets do not at present intend to interfere with Western Allied military traffic. However, today’s move was only a partial test of Soviet plans. The three trucks refused passage to the West and detailed for BYz hours on Friday were closed trucks. Today’s were open trucks. On Friday, the Soviets said that covered truck's in which the cargo cannot be seen must be inspected. > Passage of the convoy continued to ease tensions here, although no one believed the crisis over the West’s position in Berlin was over. The situation reniained so serious that President Eisenhower was meeting today in Washington with David K. E. Bruce, U.S. ambassador to West Germany. The situation is expected to be clarified when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev issues a new statement on Berlin sometime in the. near future. In the meantime Pravda accused the West of turning Berlin into a “powder keg’’ and denied the Western assertion their occupation was based on the defeat of Nazi Germany rather than the Potsdam agreement. Despite the steady stream of Communist propaganda, these developments indicated an easing of the situation: —West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt said in a radio address Sunday night the announced Western determination to hold the threatened city by force has averted a new blockade. He said, “I do not believe that we are about to have a dramatic development.” —The East German Communists forgot about the Berlin situation long enough Sunday to hold one of their one-ticket elections for a parliament that can only rubber stamp Communist Party decisions. Voters were marched to the polls, given a ballot and told to drop it in the box. There was no ye® or no and every vote meant a vote for the Red regime. Persons who did not vote were warned they would find themselves in trouble. The Communists were expected to announce another 99 per cent victory. —The East German Communists were disclosed to have released an American tourist, George- S. Milroy, 29. . oX Ann Ar-. bor, Mich., whom they had threatened to try as a “spy” because he photographed a victory monument. His release was an adminission that the; Communists again were unsuccessful in trying to force the U.S. government to negotiate with them on equal terms. Man's Body Found Floating In Lake LA PORTE, Ipd. (UPD—A body identified as that of Augustus Westenberg, 71, New Carlisle, was found floating in Hudson Lake Sunday. Westenberg had been missing a week. There was no evidence of foul play, authorities said.