Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 273, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 273.

1 '’' , (*- ■’Ayl wgfM» > | , 1 ■ • ' *J ' J .V s ? ;> i ... - - ' i ' i y?k "'< ■ ■ I ' i—— i “IT’S HEBE SOMEWHERE!”— Larry Anderson, a salesman from Des Moines, lowa, has rough going both travelling and working during a snow storm in Liberal, Kansas. He is trying to find the door lock on his snow-covered car parked under a bank thermometer sign registering 24 degrees. Anderson was in Liberal showing a line of spring straw hats to local merchants.

Vicious Storms Trailing Into Canada Today At Least 14 Persons Killed, Another 16 Reported Missing United Press International High winds trailed a vicious storm system across the nation’s border into Canada today, leaving in its wake at s least 14 persons killed by snow, cold and tomadic winds. Thare were three dead in both Utah and Oklahoma, two dead in Texas and New Mexico, and one' dead in South Dakota. Wisconsin, Colorado and Missouri. Another 16 persons were missing in the snow covered mountains of Arizona, Utah and Colorado. Rescuers virtually gave up hope for six of the missing, three of them Boy Scouts lost in deep snow in Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains, the last of eight airmen who parachuted in the Magpie Flat area near Huntsville, Utah, and two men whose plane crashed near Fort Collins, Colo. Darkness Halts Search A search party in Colorado battled to within half a mile of the wreckage of the crashed C 46 cargo plane, but had to quit Tuesday night when darkness and howling blizzard made it too dangerous to continue. An Air Force pilot who first spotted the wreckage said he saw no signs of life. Blizzard conditions swept parts of the Dakotas and Minnesota Tuesday, piling up five-foot drifts along highways in the Grand Forks, N.D., region. The storm then smashed into Canada, dumping up to 20 inches of snow on Manitoba’s Red River Valley in the worst November snowstorm in the province's history. A tornado along the flanks of the storm hit the Port Arthur, Ontario, region. Cool Air Hits East Cold air radiating out from the storm’s core blanketed a vast area of the nation extending from Pennsylvania across eastern Tennessee and Alabama and into the Gulf of Mexico. Fair and cold weather also prevailed westward into the plains states, but a warming trend eased the bitter cold in the northern and central Rockies and began seeping eastward into the plains early today. The greatest cooling occurred in Tennessee and "the lower Ohio Valley where readings plunged as much as 35 degrees as compared with early Tuesday. Terre Haute, Ind., had an overnight low of 36 degrees as compared with a balmy 70 the day before. Temperatures dropped into the 20s in the upper Great Lakes. The cold air reached as far south as New Orleans', dropping temperatures 19 degrees within four hours Tuesday night. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday. A little colder south and extreme east tonight. A little warmer most sections Thursday. Lo wtonight 27 to 33. High Thursday generally in the 50s. Sunset today 5:27 p.m. Sunrise Thursday, 7:35 aim. c.d.t Outlook lor Friday: Partly cloudy and seasonably cool. Lows Thursday night low 30s. Highs Friday mid 50s.

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Bag Service Plans Open House Friday To View Improved Plant Facilities The Bag Service, Inc., is planning an open house for approximately 150 customers and interested business men Friday from 1 to 7 o’clock to view the new and improved facilities recently installed at the plant, W. Lowell Harper, president, announced today. Officers and workers conducting the open house will be Harper, E. E. Rydeli, treasurer; Dwight Myers, plant manager; and Roland Ross, assistant plant manager. A new sewing process recently developed by the Central Bag & Burlap company in Chicago, and the Bag Service, eliminates extra handling after the sewing operation and gives better quality to the finished product. The machines were installed within the plant the first of October. Harper continued by saying that the new process eliminates 12 people from the line, but due to the increase in operation of nearly one-quarter of a million bags, other jobs have been provided for the employes throughout the plant. The six new machines cost approximately $3,500 each, and have increased the monthly production from one million bags to nearly one-and-one-quarter million per month. When the new sewing process is completed, the bags are transported throughout the plant by the new conveyors. The Bag Service employs 70 people on two tricks, and has annual payroll of $225,000. The Bag Service company has customers in every state east of the Mississippi and several customers in the west and southwest. All of the finished product is shipped by the firm’s own trucking system. The burlap that arrives from Calcutta, India, at the dock in Norfolk, Va„ is transported by the trucks to the local plant. All of the burlap imported from Calcutta is made from jute. It arrives in 2,000 yard bundles comprised of bolts of 100-140 yards. Then it is processed and rolled into one large roll, enabling the plant to handle the burlap easier. Harper stated that one million and a half yards in inventory is kept in Norfolk at the storage warehouse and the same inventory is kept on hand here. Also the same amount of burlap comes into the United States from talcutta each month. The Bag Service keeps 500,000 bags on hand for customers at the two warehouses here. All burlap and cotton used and bought by the local company is purchased on the futures market. Os the million and a half production capacity per month, 1,000,000 new bags are made and 350,000 to 400,000 bags are reprocessed. Approximately 175,000 bags are processed on the returnable program in which most of the manufacturers and new customers of Bag Service are participating. The'Bag Service processes 50,000 yards of burlap each day. This does not include the cotton bags manufactured. Harper stated that the cotton output is approximately 10,000 to 15,000 yards of cotton each day. Bales and finished products are handled throughout the plant by lift trucks. Most all of the printing on the bags is done at the local plant. Special bags are made for (Continued on pace »lx)

Fear Reds May Interfere With Berlin Traffic Communist Legal Expert Says West , Must Negotiate BERLIN (UPD—A Communist legal expert wrote today in the East Berlin newspaper “Neue Zeit" that the Western Allies must negotiate with the East German government to enter isolated West Berlin by ground or air. The expert was identified as a “Professor Reintanz,” head of the International Law Institute at the East Zone’s Martin Luther University in Halle. He said the West is using the air corridors illegally for qion-military traffic. His statement posed the danger that the Communists might be planning to interfere with or restrict air traffic to the city in the three 20-mile wide corridors over the Soviet Zone. At the same time, West Berlin expressed concern over an attack on the Berlin status Tuesday by the Soviet newspapefr Pravda. Pravda said the decision by Premier Nikita Khrushchev to abrogate the Potsdam Agreement is unshakeable. The story drew banner headlines in the West Berlin press. The official East Communist newspaper Neu e s Deutschland kept the issue alive today by repeating Communist claims the United States, Britain and France had no rights in Berlin under the Potsdam Agreement. Mother Os Decatur Men Dies Tuesday Mrs. W. Fullenkamp Dies Last Evening Mrs. Matilda M. Fullenkamp, 69, mother of two Decatur residents, died at 9:20 o’clock Tuesday night at her home, 12 miles northeast of Portland, following an extended illness. Mrs. Fullenkamp, wife of William Hi Fullenkamp, was a member of the Holy Trinity Catholic church, seven miles east of Bryant. Surviving in addition to her husband are four sons, Ernest B. and Eugene J. Fullenkamp, both of Decatur, Martin E. Fullenkamp of Portland, and Wilbur P. Fullenkamp of Redkey; four daughters, Mrs. Vincent Hartnagle of Bryant, Mrs. Kahl Bricker of St. Mary’s, 0., Mrs. Lester Moorman of Springfield, 0., and Mrs. Hilbert krieg of near Fort Recovery, O.; 23 grandchildren, and two brothers, Isador Braun of Portland, and Edward Braun of Greenville, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 a. m. Friday at the Holy Trinity Catholic church, the Rev. Francis Uecker officiating. Burial will be in the Trinity cemetery. Friends may call at the Williamson funeral home after 6 o’clock this evening until time of the services. The rosary will be recited at 8 p. m. Thursday.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 19, 1958.

Two Survivors Picked Up From Sunken Cargo Ship In Lake Michigan

Pass Ordinance For Crossing Protection Requires Flasher Signal, Watchman At Dayton Avenue An ordinance requiring the Pennsylvania railroad to provide flasher signals and a watchman during school hours at the Dayton avenue crossing was passed on second reading by the Decatur city council Tuesday evening, over strenuous objections by the railroad representatives present. Ralph O. Baird, district public relations manager from Cincinnati, 0., Robert Baldwin, the district engineer, and N. W. Gunsett, local Pennsylvania engineer, appeared at the meeting, and explained a counter-proposal by the railroad. First, Baird said, the railroad agreed that protection should be furnished for the crossing, but the railroad does not want to actually hire the watchman. The railroad suggests that the city hire a watchman for two hours in the morning, two at noon, and two in the afternoon, and pay the watchman $4 a day, five days a Week. The liability for the watchman would be carried by the Decatur police department, but the railroad would reimburse the city on the basis of SBO a month. The railroad might even go up to $5 a day, he added, if no one could be found for $4. Other cities, such as Fort Wayne, Anderson and Cincinnati, 0., have such plans, he stated. The reason, he said, that the railroad did not want to provide a watchman is that once the man is put on the payroll, the union] will not let the railroad take him off the payroll, even though the job is no longer necessary. The railroad spokesman admitted that the city of Decatur and his company had been negotiating on the question for two years, and that a tremendous amount of correspondence had built up, all with the former district engineer, none of which ever reached the region-] al office. The first knowledge, he I said, that he had of the city’s request was a story which he read in the Decatur Daily Democrat two weeks before the ordinance I was proposed. Concerning the flasher lights,: which the railroad feels is not the ] answer to the problem, the repre-i sentatives said they would take, a year to install, and would cost, $30,000 at a minimum. He explained this by saying that a seven-trap complex, such as (Con.tlm.ued on page four)

Mayor Cole Discusses Proposed Utility Sale

(Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles by Mayor Robert D. Cole discussing the various aspects of the proposed sale of the city’s electric utility to Indiana & Michigan Electric Company. Today’s article deals with the rate structure.) by Mayor Robert D. Cole If the citizens of Decatur vote to keep the city in the electric business or vote in favor of the sale of the utility to Indiana & Michigan Electric company, wt,at effect will it have on the rates now paid by the city’s 2,400 residential customers? This question is foremost in the minds of every customer, and rightly so. A comparison can be made, of course, of I & M rates and those of the city utility now in effect. It should be pointed out, however, that should the decision of the votgr be to keep the city in the utility business, city utility rates would have to be increased. At the present time there is a balance of $700,000 outstanding on a long term debt bond issue which is the balance due on the purchase of the present diesel generating plant. It is estimated that the alternative program outlined by

Set Preliminaries For Vote Recount To Proceed Under Federal Statutes James L. Koons, Avilla, district Democratic chairman, Tuesday night announced formal preliminaries are underway for a recount of the fourth district congressional race by proceeding through the federal code governing such contests. The party leader said a notice has been prepared for service on E. Ross Adair, Republican candidate for congress. The official vote for congress in the Nov. 4 election gave Adair, 69,745 votes and W. Robert Fleming, Democrat, 69,478. Fleming carried Adams, Allen Wells and Whitley counties, and Adair carried LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb counties. Henry Hasley, Fort Wayne attorney, is representing the district Democratic organization, and is proceeding under the federal statutes rather than by submitting recount petitions to the various state courts in the district. Hasley said 32 days after the election are permitted under federal laws when some of the tabulating is done by paper ballot, as is the case in all counties in the district except Allen. No disclosure has been made yet in which counties the recounts will (Continued on page five' Appeal Issued For Contributions To Community Fund An urgent plea for funds for eight Decatur agencies went out today from the Decatur Community Fund, Inc., still $3,000 short of its goal of $18,485. Dave Moore, fund drive chairman, stated that $15,103.49 has been raised, with almost complete reports from all solicitors. Anyone missed who desires to help should send his contribution immediately to the Community Fund, c/o Dave Moore, Decatur, Ind. The report showed the following amounts from captains, each of whom had five workers under them: Carl Braun, $622.50; Art Burris, $707.50; Mrs. Lloyd Cowens, $262; Gail Grabill, $437; Ralph Habegger, $978.30; Ted Hill, $1,375; Rev. J. O. Penrod, $377; W. E. Petrie, $454; Miss Glennys Roop, S9O; Central Soya Co., $4,712.44; General Electric Co., $3,026.30; city employes, $102; Krick & Tyndall, $433; Schafer Co., Inc., $504.50; Bag Service, Inc., $341.65; Wayne Novelty Corp., $107; Decatur Industries, $92; Decatur Casting company, $40.30; Adams counIty memorial hospital, S2B; Adams I county officers, $49 (partial).

j consulting engineer's as necessary 1 for additional power capacity to ■ bring not only the rural distribution system but also (he city distribution system to a satisfactory : physical as well as financial posi- I tion would require an expenditure i immediately of almost $1,000,000 ; and abandonment of the generat- ’ ing department. This bond issue would require an increase of elec- i trical revenues by approximately ! $75,000 per year for the next five i years at least, and result in an . increase of $2.50 per month to the ' customers residing in the city of ■ Decatur. The I & M rate schedule for , residential customers is as fol- . lows: 5 cents per kilowatt hour ■ for the first 30 kwh consumed; ■ 4 cents for the next 40 kwh used 1 each month; 2.4 cents for the next , ' 150 kw h; and 1.5 cents per kwh ‘ for any additional usage during 1 the month. Customers who use electric water heaters purchase a 1 portion of their additional usage 1 at 1 cent per kwh. 1 The 461 residential customers of ! the Decatur utility who heat their : water with an electric water heat- * er would pay an average of 90 cCantinuM <» page >lxl

Russia Offers Outer Space Control Plan Russia Surprises • With Amiable Plan For Space Control UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD —Western delegates reacted faforably, today to Russia's surprisingly amiable plan for control of outer space. But they were giving it careful study before committing themselves. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorih produced the new resolution before the UN main political committee late Tuesday, raising UN hopes of agreement by abruptly scrapping the Kremlin demand that space control be linked with elimination of foreign military bases. U. S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge told the UN Political Committee it looked as if “progress has been recorded” in Russia’s apparent move toward a compromise but he promptly dispatched a copy to the State Department for study. “There appears to be some encouragement in the fact that the Soviet Union appears to have dropped its insistence that the free world give up its collective defense system as a basis for an outer space agreement,” Lodge said. British Amnassaoor Su Pierson Dixon said the shift in Russia's position was a “welcome return from outer space to terra firma.” He and the other Western delegates also sent a copy of the Russian resolution to their home government for careful study. Delegates were impressed because Zorin showed the measure to Lodge before unveiling it in the assembly. The resolution called for creation of “an international committee for cooperation in the study of cosmic space for peaceful purpses.”

Mrs. Kitlie France Dies This Morning Native Os Decatur Dies At Gary Home Mrs. Kittie Clark (Peterson) France, 82, a native of Decatur, died suddenly this morning at 2:10 o’clock at her home in Gary following a stroke. Mrs. France had been in failing health since the death of her husband, Carl O. France March 21, 1957, but had been able to visit in Decatur about a month ago, and was planning to come to Decatur to live with her sister, Mrs. Berniece Magley, following Thanksgiving. The daughter of the late Ddcatur attorney Robert Smith Peterson and his wife, Fanny Catherine Kunkle Peterson, she was born in Decatur August 26, 1876. She was married to Carl O. France September 5, 1894. Her husband was a steel mill worker in Gary for many years, and after his retirement worked for the city of Gary. Mrs. France is survived by two children, Carl H. France and Mrs. Hazel France McDonald; both of Gary; two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. She is also survived by five sisters and two brothers: Mrs. Dora Lower, 617 N. Second Street; Mrs. John H. Heller, of 326 Winchester street; Mrs. Grace Allwein, of 311 W. Madison St.; Miss Elizabeth Peterson, of 617 North Second street; Calvin E. Peterson, of 215 South Fifth street; Mrs. John Magley, of 103 Marshall, Richard W. Peterson, of Corvallis, Ore. Three brothers and a sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Friday at the Williams and Burns Funeral home in Gary, the Rev. H. H. Brown of the First Presbyterian church officiating. Burial will be at Gary.

Sewer Problems Are Studied By Council Study Complaints Os Water Damage Sewer problems, budget problems, and an alley light occupied the city council Tuesday night in regular session in addition to the railroad crossing problem. Roscoe Raudenbush, of 616 Indiana street, whose home is on the Seventh street sewer, a lateral of the Marshall street sewer, reported that the sewer had backed up considerably, and damaged basement storage areas and furnaces in several homes near him in addition to his own. Ralph E. Roop, city engineer, was asked for his opinion, and he suggested that relief for the Marshall street sewer and its laterals could be obtained if the General Electric company would connect its surface water drains into the new Northwest sewer. The roof of the GE building drains thousands of gallons of water into the Marshall street sewer during flash floods, backing up sewage in many homes, he said. A complaint by Mrs. Sarah Potts, of 407 South 13th street, that she should not be assessed sewer charges was investigated, and it was discovered by the city engineer that several neighbors .of Mrs. Potts had been omitted from the list, although their sewers drain into the same sewer that Mrs. Pott's kitchen sink enters. Their names were added to the sewage charge list. Mrs. Potts was found to have the correct assessment. A sewer that would reach from the southwest corner of inlot 939 of the Allen T. Lynch addition north along 15th street to the Monroe street sewer was requested by Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hawkins and Mrs. Mabie Reed. It was referred to the city engineer. An alley light petition, by (Continued on page six)

Mothers Singers To Feature PTA Meet To Present Program Thursday Evening The “Mothers Singers,” a new choral group of the Lincoln school P.T.A., will feature the musical program to be presented Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the school auditorium. Group singing, vocal solos and piano duets will be among the other musical numbers during the program. This will be the regular November meeting of the P.T.A. organization. The Mothers Singers, a group of members of the P.T.A., has been organized under the co-chairmen-ship of Mrs. J. Clark Mayclin and Mrs. James Webb. The complete program is as follows: Group singing, Mrs. Myles Parrish, accompanist — "Back Home Again in Indiana,” “Shine on Harvest Moon,” “My BuddyT “There Are Smiles.” Vocal solos by Mrs. Clint Reed, accompanied by Clint Reed on guitar—“ When You Remember Me,” “Bonnie Wee Lassie,” “Im a Wayfaring Stranger.” Piano duet by Mrs. Jerold Lobsiger and Mrs. Ferris Bower — “Valse.” Mothers Singers, Mrs. J. Clark Mayclin, director and Mrs. Jerold Lobsiger, accompanist—“Oh Suzanna," "If I had My Way,” “Oh, What A Beautiful Morning.” Group singing—“ Over the River,” “Prayer of Thanksgiving.” Benediction. Members of the Mothers are: Mrs. William Brown, Mrs. Don Cochran, Mrs. Kenneth Singleton Mrs. Myles Parrish, Mrs. Vernon Affolder, Mrs. Jerold Lobsiger, Mrs. Charles Chew, Mrs. Norman Koons, Mrs. James Webb, Mrs. Kenneth Watkins, 4|rs. Norman Steury, Mrs. Jack Heller, Mrs. Richard Parrish, Mrs. Robert Smith, Mrs. Clint Reed, Mrs. Earl Geyer, Mrs. J. Clark Mayclin.

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Report Bodies Os Eight Men Sighted Today 35 Men Were Aboard Ship Foundered In Wiid Storm Tuesday CHARLEVOIX, Mich. ' (UPD — Two survivors were picked up today from the sunken cargo ship Carl D. Bradley and the bodies of eight others, apparently dead, have been sighted In the waters off Gull Island in wind - lashed northern Lake Michigan. There were reports that two additional survivors had been sighted on High Island, west of Gull Island, but the report could not be confirmed. There were a total of 35 men aboard the sunken ship. The two men rescued were taken from a life raft by the Coast i Guard cutter Sundew and were reported in good condition. They were identified as First Mate Elmer Fleming and Deck Watchman Frank Mayes, both of Rogers City, Mich. Bodies in Shallow Water They were rescued some 14 hours after the Carl D. Bradley, a 615-foot limestone carrier foundered in a wild storm. Late Tuesday, the Bradley reported by radio “we’ve broken in half. We’re going down." Fleming and Mayes were picked up about midway between Gull and High islands, several miles from the position last reported by the sinking ship. All of the bodies sighted by the Coast Guard were floating in shallow waters within a half mile of Gull Island, on its north side. The Coast Guard said there would be delay in recovering the bodies because the water was too shallow for the Sundew to go in. and too rough to launch small boats from the cutter. The Cast Guatd station at Beaver Island was sending out utility motor launches to search the area of uninhabited High Island to check the report of two men sighted • there. Rescue Spurs Hope A refueling station for planes was set up at Beaver Island. A Grumman Albatross plane was loaded down with fuel and sent there to act as the refueling tanker. The rescue spurred hopes that other crewmen might have made . their way to the safety of islands in the area where the ship went down after breaking in two in a wild storm. Four ships and Coast Guard planes continued to search a 700(CWtlnued cm page six) Annual Rotary Speech Contest On Thursday The annual Rotary speech contest will be held at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Six Decatur righ school students will compete. Rotarians are reminded that this meeting will start at 6 o’clock, one-half hour earlier than usual. To Honor 4-H Adult Leaders Thursday Thursday evening, the Adams county 4-H adult leaders will be honored by the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce according to Martin Sprunger, chairman of recognition committee. The recognition banquet will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center starting at 6:30 p. m. Elmer Baumgartner, president of the First Bank of Berne, will be the featured speaker, Rev. John Mishler of Pleasant Dale Church of the Bretherh, will give the invocation The Decatur Music House will provide entertainment for die meeting. Gerald Vizard will be the master of cermonies. Recognition awards fbr 4-H lead-

ership service will be presented by the County Extension Office.