Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 278.

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Supreme Court Okays Alabama Placement Law Favorable Ruling By High Court On Pupil Placement ATLANTA (UPD—Most Southern leaders expressed hope today that Supreme Court approval of the way Alabama worded its pupil placement law has given the doctrine of states’ rights a new lease on life. Alabama Att. Gen. John Patterson, who will be sworn in as governor early in 1959, commented: “I hope the decision reflects a trend toward letting us handle our own domestic affairs without outside interference, which is the only way things can be handled without chaos and disorder.” Patterson expressed fear, however, that “race agitators” might pose a future threat to the law’s application. . The Supreme Court said in its ruling Monday that the Alabama statute is constitutional “on its face,” since there is no provision in it for separation of the races. The ruling would not necessarily apply to all applications of the law, however, the court said. If administered in such away as to keep Negroes from white schools because of race, it could be struck down as unconstitutional. The case was taken to the court on behalf of four Negro students turned down in efforts to transfer to white schools in Birmingham, Ala. The Supreme Court said a lower court correctly ruled that the pupils failed to show their exclusion was in conflict with their rights. Four New Directors Are Named By C. C. Four men have been elected to the board of directors for the Decatur Chamber of Commerce for a three-year period, Fred Kolter, executive secretary, announced today. The new 1959 board of directors are: Noah Steury, representing the industry division; Robert Ashbaucher, retail divisioh; and Harry Schwartz and David Macklin, representing the professional and service division. The election was held Monday afternoon at the Decatur Chamber of Commerce office by the election judges, Raymond B. Johne, John J. Brecht, and Richard J. Mies. INDIANA WEATHER Occasional rain spreading over state this afternoon and evening with southerly winds 20 to 35 miles per hour. Showers south portion and rain changing to snow flurries north, turning much colder with winds shifting to northwesterly 25 to 40 miles per hour tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy to cloudy and much colder with strong northwesterly winds and chance of snow flurries extreme north portion. Low tonight 20s northwest to the 30s southeast. Highs Wednesday mostly in the 30s. Sunset today 5:24 p. m. CDT. Sunrie Wednesday 7:42 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and cold with snow flurries north. Lows Wednesday night 15 north to 20 south. High Thursday mid 20s north to around 30 south.

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Nixon On Goodwill Visit To Britain Guard Against Any Red-Led Violence LONDON (UPD — Vice President Richard Nixon bluntly told the Communist world today that the West intends to stay in Berlin until an acceptable solution to the city’s problems is reached. Speaking at a lunch of the Pilgrims Society, a British-American group dedicated to furthering closer friendship between the two nations, Nixon Earned against faltering in the face of Red challenges. “The lesson of history is clear,” Nixon said in the speech which marked the first formal event of his four-day good will visit to this country. His program got off to a delayed start when his plane from Washmgton ran headlong into a London fog and was diverted to another airfield 30 miles away. “Rewarding aggression does not stop it,” the vice president said. “It only encourages more aggression in the'Ylrture.” Disrupts Red Plans Despite the slight change in plans that caused the Nixon party to land at Gatwick, take a train to London, and hastily adjourn to the Savoy Hotel for the Pilgrims lunch, it had another good side. It disrupted any plans the Communists might have had for staging a threatened antiAmerican demonstration at London Airport. As it was. the Nixons were welcomed at Victoria Station by a small crowd of onlookers and a large group of newsmen. The vice president waved and smiled and quipped that “We have smog in California, too.” Nixon postponed scheduled protocal stops at Buckingham Palace and the town house of (he Queen Mother to go directly to the Pilgrims lunch. Scotland Yard has been alerted to deal with any repetition of the Red-led mob violence which greeted the vice president on his tour of Latin America last spring. The Communists have scheduled a mass meeting and a “march oh the U.S. Embassy” tonight. Recall Ridgway Visit The last American to be honored by such a bristlingly hostile reception from the Reds here was Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, then allied supreme commander in Europe. “We can’t prevent the Communist meeting, but we will watch it closely to make certain it doesn’t get out of hand,” a Scotland Yard spokesman said. “We wouldn’t want any unpleasant incidents while Nixon is in England.’’ British police in uniform and plainclothes are certain to be bn hand throughout Nixon’s visit, but the spokesman said so far as he knows Britain will furnish no bodyguards for Nixon as such. The vice president will be guarded by a Secret Service detail which accompanied him from Washington. Addresses Pilgrim Society Nixon came here to represent President Eisenhower at the dedication of an American war memorial chapel. He is to meet both government and opposition leaders during his stay. He made his first appearance today at a lunch given for him by the Pilgrim Society, where he reaffirmed Anglo-American determination to stand firm in Berlin and declared that the Kremlin could make “no greater miscalculation” than to assume that the recent U.S. election represented dissatisfaction with American foreign policy.

Blizzard Hits From Rockies Across Plains Pile Road-Blocking Snow Over Montana And North Dakota United Press International A blizzard piled road-blocking drifts across parts of Montana and North Dakota Tuesday and weathermen warned of heavy snows expected in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. A cold wave surging southeastward from die Yukon plunged readings to near zero in northern Montana during the night. Cold wave warnings were issued for North Dakota and Wyoming and the plains states into northwest Kansas. The blizzard droped readings as much as 40 degrees in one half hour in Montana Monday and dumped an average of six to eight inches of snow across the state. Winds up to 50 miles per hour scooped the snow into drifts, forcing schools to close, snarling traffic and isolating an Air Force radar outpost north of Cutbank, Mont. However, officers said the 250 men stationed at the 681st Air Control and Warning Squadron base had sufficient rations on hand to prevent hardships. Temperatures Skid Helena, Mont., reported temperatures skidded from 58 degrees to 18 in a half-hour period Monday. As the storm moved eastward, it blocked highways in the southwestern part of North Dakota and cut visibility in the area to about one-fourth mile. Another band of stormy weather hit the northeast Monday, bringing cold air into the mountains of New England, New York and western Pennsylvania. Two inches of snow fell at Massena, N.Y., and snow flurries persisted early Tuesday in central New York. To the south erf the western storm, a warming trend occurred from toe southwest to the upper Mississippi Valley, while cooler temperatures overspread the eastern third of the nation. , Warn Stockmen Weathermen warned that as the storm drives eastward during the day. additional snow depths of up to four inches could be expected in the upper Midwest along with high winds. Turkeys, Chickens Are Reported Stolen 1,000 Chickens And Four Turkeys Stolen The Thanksgiving turkey or chicken (which ever the case may be) will decorate someone’s dinner table over the holidays as two complaints of stealing of 1,000 chickens and four turkeys have been reported to local authorities by an Adams county farmer and Treon’s Poultry Market during the past two days. Elmer Gerber, of route four, Bluffton, telephoned the Adams county sheriff's department and stated that approximately 1,000 pullets, five to six months old, were missing from his farm located five miles’ west and six miles south of Decatur. Gerber stated to the authorities that he had been raising 2,000 Leghorn chickens on his farm for the past several weeks, and noticed Sunday that approximately half of them were missihg from the area. The chickens were running loose over the area near the house and barn, he said. The department said that the road lies approximately 200 feet west of the first chicken house. The exact time of the theft was not known and Gerber stated that he would contact toe sheriffs office when a definite count could be made to determine exactly how many pullets were missing from his farm. Treon’s poultry market, operated by Norman Treon, and located on 13th street, reported to the city police department at 8:36 p. m. Monday that four live turkeys were stolen from one of the trucks between 7:30 and 8:30 o’clock while the proprietor was working inside. Treon entered his building and was busy working for approximately one hour and parked his truck at the back. When he left the building to unload the truck, one crate containing four turkeys was missing. He gsve a value of S2O for the missing turkeys.

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Orders U. S. Traffic Not To Submit To Any East Germany Checks

Judge Issues Order Againsl Airline Strike Temporary Order 1$ Issued; Two Other Airlines Struck United Press International A federal judge issued a temporary against a threatened pilots strike on American Airlines, third of the major air carriers beset by labor troubles, but a spokesman for the pilots’ union said tonight’s walkout deadline remained in force for the time being. Two major lines, Eastern and Trans World, were grounded and their planes silent instead of warming up for the Thanksgiving rush. The strike of the Air Line Pilots Assn, against American, in a long wage dispute, was set for a minute before midnight. U.S. District Judge Frederick Bryan Monday night signed a temporary restraining order in New York to halt the threatened walkout by 1,491 pilots. On the surface it eased toe sitI nation, but at Chicago a spokesman at pilots’ headquarters said do official of toe ALFA had been served with legal notice, that ■ the strike deadline remained, the pilots were ignorant of the terms of toe order, and that not until formal notice was received would it be decided what the pilots would do. Other developments in one of the severest outbreaks of labor trouble to hit the airline industry included: —Eastern Airlines grounded the last erf its planes late Monday following twinstrikes by 600 engineers and 6,000 mechanics. —Trans World Airlines was strike bound for a fifth day by a walkout of 6,700 machinists. No progress was reported in negotiations with federal mediators at toe carrier's headquarters in Kansas. City.

Road Scandal Trial Goes To Jury Today Prosecutor Terms Scandals A Mess INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A state’s attorney today called former Indiana highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith “one of the most corrupt and vicious men” ever to hold a state office and described the Hoosier road scandals as “a rotten, stinking mess.” Deputy Prosecutor Leroy New, summing up the state’s $7,793 bribery case in closing arguments before a jury, said Smith was “the ringleader” of the scandals. “He set the pattern for bribes in the State Highway Department,” said New. “If Virgil Smith took bribes, it was all right for others in the highway department to take bribes. “Smith corrupted the people all around him. He was the bell cow who showed everybody how to get his.” The jury was expected to get the case this afternoon, after closing arguments by defense attorney Frank Hamilton. Smith’s defense attorney rested his case late Monday after calling only one witness. Smith declined to testify in his own behalf, as he did when he was on trial several months ago on a charge of embezzling public funds in connection with transactions involving back lots along the Madison Ave. Expressway in Indianapolis. Smith was convicted at that trial and sentenced to 2 to--14 years imprisonment. - *

Nationalists Claim Anti-Red Revolts Report 500 Killed By Communist Guns TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD— Nationalist Chinese sources claimed today that villagers on the mainland opposite Quemoy staged two anti-Communist revolts recently when they believed Nationalist troops were landing from Formosa. Communist troops, however, rushed to the scene and sprayed the rebelling townspeople with machine gun fire that killed about 500 persons, the sources said. They estimated 50 Chinese Communist troops were killed in one of the uprisings. Mainland troops today resumed their alternate day firing at Quemoy. The Nationalist ministry said 201 Communist shells had fallen on the offshore islands up to noon. The Nationalist sources said an uprising was touched off last Sept. 23 by Nationalist artillery fire from Quemoy. They said the bombardment destroyed several Red gun emplacements and killed and wounded scores of Communist troops. The surviving troops withdrew to the village of Liu Wu Tien. They said the villagers thought the soldiers were retreating in the face of a Nationalist landing and immediately attacked toe Red soldiers, killing about 50 of them. Suspend Business Thanksgiving Day Church Services To Feature Observance Church services and family gatherings will feature Decatur’s observance of Thanksgiving Day Thursday, as most business activities will be suspended for the day. Union services, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, will be held at 9 o’clock Thursday morning at the Nuttman Avenue United Brethren church. The Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., pastor of the Church of God in this city, will deliver the Thanksgiving sermon. M i n i s t e r s of the participating churches will assist in the service and the president’s proclamation will be read by Lowell J. Smith, Decatur high school teacher. • Two thanksgiving services will be held at the Zion Lutheran church, the first at 7 o’clock Wednesday evening, with the Rev. Herbert Bredemeier as the guest speaker. The second service will ge at 9 a. m. Thursday, with the Rev. Harold I. Haas as the guest speaker. The regular weekday schedule of masses will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic church Thursday morning, at 6, 7:30 and 8:15 o’ clock. It will mean a vacation for the youngsters, too, as all public and parochial schools in Decatur and Adams county will close Wednesday afternoon, with classes to resun»e next Monday morning. Most business activity will cease for the entire day. All federal, county and city offices will be closed, only mail delivery will be special delivery, the First State Bank will be closed, and the Daily Democrat will not publish an edition. Exceptions to the closing will be theaters, taverns, and some restaurants, confectioneries and service stations. NO PAPER THURSDAY b The Decatur Daily Democrat, following a custom of many years., will not publish an edition Thursday, because of toe Thanksgiving holiday. , — — 24 PAGES

Living Costs Are Unchanged During October Consumer's Price Index Holds Steady During Past Month WASHINGTON (UPD — Living costs remained unchanged in October for the second straight month but a rash of strikes in the auto industry cut factory workers’ buying power, the government reported today. The Labor Department said its consumer price index held steady at 123.7 per cent of 1947-49 prices because lower food costs offset increased prices of new cars. The index declined .2 of 1 per cent in August and levelled off in September and October. This means a 1 cent hourly reduction in pay for 220,000 workers in aircraft, electrical, farm implement and. Chicago transit industries. Their wages are tied to the index by cost-of-living escalator clauses in labor-management contracts. This was toe first time since March, 1956, that workers took a cut in pay because toe index dropped. Less Take Home Pay Another 1,160,000 workers, mostly in the auto industry, will not receive any increase because the index remained the same last month. “We have stability achieved by a balance of forces,” said H.E. Riley, chief of the department price section. “We are just teetering in this situation.” Take home pay of toe average factory worker fell last month by 85 cents a week. The pay check of the average worker with three dependents after reductions for federal taxes was $76.58 a week. This was 85 centp below the September record. Strikes in auto and auto-parts plants and the effects of such labor disputes were blamed for the decrease in overtime and the average factory work week. The drop in earnings reduced buying power by about 1 per cent in October. Local Lady's Sister Dies Last Evening Mary Gattshall Dies At Dupont, 0. Mrs. Mary Gattshall, 81, of Dupont, 0., sister of Mrs. James R. Meadows of Decatur, died at 6:15 o'clock Monday evening at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Eunice Smith at Dupont. She had been ill four months following a stroke. She waj born in Van Wert county, 0., May 12, 1877, and had lived in Putnam county since 1921. Her husband, Hosie Gattshall, brother of James Gattshall of this city, died March 20 of this year. Surviving in addition to the daughter and the sister are a son, Ora Gattshall of Philadelphia, Pa.; two other daughters, Mrs. Ethel Bird of Dupont, and Mrs. Edna Staley of Paulding, O.; two other sisters, Mrs. Minnie Kohn of Grass Lake, Mich., and Mrs. Martha Uhl of Van Wert; two brothers, Edward DeCamp of Van Wret, and Job DeCamp of Coldwater, Mich.; 12 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren, Mrs. Gattshall was a member of the Dupont Methodist church, where she served as Sunday school superintendent for many years. The body was removed to the Walls-Walker funeral home at Continental, O. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Former Decatur Man Is Accident Victim James Buffenbarger Is Killed Monday James F. Buffenbarger, 25, of Wapakoneta, 0., former Decatur resident, was fatally injured shortly before noon Monday when the pickup truck he was driving upset along state road 501 near Lima, O. n .y" Mr. Buffenbarger died in St. Rita's hospital, Lima, shortly after admittance. He was employed as a construction worker. He was born in Decatur Nov. 19, 1933, a sou of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Buffenbarger, and lived here most of his life until the family moved to Wapakoneta. He had not married. Mr. Buffenbarger was a member of the St. Joseph Catholic church at Wapakoneta and its Holy Name society. Surviving are his parents, with whom he lived at Wapakoneta, two brothers, Richard and Herbert, both at home.'and his grandmothers, Mrs. Frank Bentz and Mrs. Willard Kelsey, both of Decatur. The body was returned to the Gillig & Doan funeral home in this city, where friends may call until time of the service. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Wednesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The Holy Name society will recite the rosary at 8 o’clock this evening. H. W. McMillen Is Lions Club Speaker Chairman Outlines Company's Growth Harold W. McMillen, chairman of the board of directors of the Central Soya, Inc., which was founded in Decatur, detailed the company’s growth in an address to the Decatur Lions club Monday evening at the Youth and Community Center. McMillen, wno resided in Decatur for a number of years while serving as president of the Central Sugar Co. until the latter plant was closed in 1945, outlined the remarkable growth since Central Soya was founded here in 1934. Net sales of the company this year were $225 million, a sizeable increase over sales of $196 million in 1957. The business executive stated that, overall, 1958 was the best year in the company’s history, even in a so-called recession period* This, McMillen said, officials felt was due to the fact that the company is in the food processing business, which was not affected as were such businesses as appliance manufacturing and automobile production, among others. In the years Central Soya, Inc., has operated, the company has earned sllß million, paid out in taxes $57 million, paid in dividends S2O million, leaving s4l million to be powled back into the business for expansion. Added to this s4l million, McMillen stated, the paidin capital of about $5% million makes up the net worth of the company over >46% million. The Decatut plant was founded in 1934, with 34 employes on the payroll. In 1940, there were 250 employed -here. This grew to 423 employes In 1950, and this year, this figure has increased to 507 workers. The Central Soya payroll in Decatur now totals nearly $2 million annually. D. W. McMillen, Sr., father of the board chairman and founder of the Central Soya, Inc., and McMiller Feed Mills, accompanied his son to the meeting and spoke briefly in extending greetings to the Lions club members and their - Continued on page five

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Order Traffic Turn Back If Reds On Duty West Determined Not To Submit To German Red Check BERLIN (UPI) — The U.S. Army issued orders today for all American civilian and military road traffic to or from Berlin to turn back if they found any border checkpoints manned by East German Communist guards. The order was issued in anticipation of any move by the Soviet Union to withdraw its own troops now manning the checkpoints and turn them over to East German authorities, as Moscow has indicated it would do. It made clear that the West was determined not to submit in any way to attempts to exercise authority by the East German regime, which is not recognized by the United States, Britain or France. The order was issued in preparation for the transfer of Soviet occupation functions to the East German government in a move to force western recognition of the Communist Zone government. East German Communist leader Walter Ulbricht predicted today the Soviet Union would announce such a transfer by the end of the week. The Army said American traffic to and from isolated Berlin by road or rail will submit only to the customary controls exercised in the past by Soviet guards at border checkpoints. Western diplomatic circles had expressed belief the Russians may be having second thoughts about precipitating a major crisis, but the Army’s action today showed it was preparing for one. The order said individual Americans driving to or from Berlin by automobile must turn back if East German Communist police are manning checkpoints in place of the Soviets. The same order was given to military traffic. By the order the Army served notice it will not recognize the [East German claim it may control western traffic passing through East Germany. Soviet diplomats in Germany today supported Ulbricht’s stand that the only way the West can avoid a new blockade is to negotiate directly with the Communist regime. , / Askco wnat would happen if the West refuses to reach such agreements with the East Germans, one Soviet diplomat said, “That is a good question.’’ Ulbricht outlined for a Iz>ndon newspaper the price the West would have to pay to avoid a new Berlin blockade — negotiations with the East German government. His statements were trumpeted by newspapers, radio, teleision, newsreel and every means of propaganda at his disposal. He said he thought the 7,500man American, British and French garrison in free Berlin must go. He said as long as it remains the price the Allies must pay is full recognition of the East German government and its right Continued on page five.