Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 280.

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WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS TREE— A 99-foot-high Engelman spruce starts a 2.490-mile Wney from toe Kootenai National forest near Libby, Mont., to the White House, where it will be lit Dec. 24 by President Eisenhower. This is the tallest of many tall White House trees to date.

Bad Weather May Increase Traffic Dead Traffic Death Toll Is Relatively Low At Holiday Midpoint Halted Press International A forecast of bad, weather for nearly two-thirds of the nation today has bung a blackcloud over hopes for safely celebrating the last two days of the Thanksgiving weekend. The holiday neared its midpoint with a relatively low traffic death toll, but warnings of heavy snows throughout the Southwest and freezing rain across the upper half of the nation threatened a deadly finish to the weekend. A United. Press International count at i a m. e.s.t showed at least 123 persons killed in traffic accidents since the four-day holiday began Thanksgiving Eve. In addition, 16 persons died in fires, one in an airplane crash and 25 in miscellaneous accidents for- an overall toll of 153. Ohio reported the heaviest traffic toll with 11 dead, followed by California and New York with nine epch. Illinois, Alabama and Pennsylvania with eight each and Virginia wth six. The National Safety Council, as is its custom, declined to estimate the nation’s Thanksgiving holiday traffic toll. However, it said that an average of 470 persons are killed in traffic during non-holiday periods of the same length, from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday, at this . time ofyear. The traffic count so far was running somewhat behind the rate of last year’s four-day Thanksgiving holiday when United Press International reported 554 highway deaths. Stay-At-Home Holiday The weatherman’s gloomy predictions were expected to keep even more people at their own firesides for the remainder of the four-day holiday—already one of toe homiest in recent years. Strikes against two major airlines—Eastern and Trans World —have reduced the nation’s air traffic by one-third, and a court in New York City will decide today whether to lift an injunction which has halted a strike at American Airlines. The holiday death toll was expected to rise at a steeper rate today with hazardous driving conditions predicted for the Midwest and Southwest, where snow, sleet and rain glazed highways. Freezing temperatures were forecast for the New England states. Fires Prove Fatal Among the most tragic accidents on Thanksgiving Day were a fire in North Little Rock, Ark., which took the lives of four children and their parents; a fire which killed five children at a nursing home near Oklahoma City; and a two-car collision near Continued on page five f

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Indiana Landscape Buried Under Snow First Snowfall Os Season In Indiana United Press International The season's first blanket of snow buried toe Indiana landscape and created traffic hazards today, and threatened to pile up to a depth of six inches or more. By dawn, five inches had fallen at Evansville, the state’s southernmost city which often escapes snow while northern and central areas bear toe brunt of the fall. The snow began during the early morning hours while temperatures hovered below freezing in the low 20S. It quickly packed on highways and streets, bringing slippery conditions to motorists for the first time this season. Weather forecasts warned that all parts of the state could expect an accumulator of 3to 6 inches or more of sr.tw before the fall ends sometime Saturday. Below - normal temperatures helped create the icy conditions. The mercury slipped to 19 in the Chicago area, 20 at South Bend, 22 at Fort Wayne, 23 at Indianapolis and 26 at Evansville overnightly after hitting highs generally below freezing on Thanksgiving. Evansvmes 33 was toe only above-freezing temperature recorded OT the holiday. Lafayette’s 26 maximum was the coldest. Highs today will range from the upper 20s to toe low 30s, lows tonight in the low and mid 20s, and highs Saturday in the upper 20s. The outlook for Sunday was partly cloudy and continued cold. The ftve-aay ouiiook for Illinois and Indiana called for temperatures averaging 5 to 8 degrees below normal north and 8 to 12 below normal south. Highs this time of year normally range in the 30s and 40s, lows from 21 to 31. “A little colder Sunday or Monday. followed by slight warming Tuesday,” the outlook said. “Precipitation will average around onetenth inch extreme northwest Illinois to near one-half inch southern Indiana occurring mainly as snow tonight and Saturday, although mixed with rain southern Indiana. Little or no precipitation Continued on page five John U; Tumbleson Dies This Morning ' Funeral Services Monday Morning John U. Tumbleson, 87, retired farmer and a lifelong resident of Blue Creek township, died at 11:45 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been ill for three months and hospitalized for the past eight days. A son of Samuel anl Sarah Dickey Tumbleson, he was born in Blue Creek township Feb. 1, 1871. His wife, Mantle, to whom he was married Feb. 16, 1900, preceded him in death Sept. 8, 1937. Only near survivors are two sisters, Miss Otta Tumbleson of Blue Creek "township, and Mrs. Manley Irwin of Decatur. Four sisters and three brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted' at 9:45 o’clock Monday morning at '’the Zwick funeral home and at 10:30 a. m. at the Mt. Hope church of the Nazarene. The Rev. Jeffrey Webb will officiate and burial will be in the Mt. Hope cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Saturday until time of toe services.' . '

At Least 12 Are Killed In Holiday Fires f Heavy Snowfall In l Much Os Nation In a Gathering Storm United Press International i A vast snowstorm swept the 1 nation’s midsection from Texas • into the Ohio Valley Friday and e weathermen issued heavy snow warnings for much of the area. • A special bulletin issued by the 1 Chicago Weather Bureau warned • of snow accumulations of four or 3 more inches from central Missouri through southern Illinois, ; Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and 1 into Pennsylvania. 3 South at toe snow area, weath--1 ermen warned at freezing rain, sleet and glaae from southeast s Oklahoma through northern Ar- • kansas, southern Missouri, Tene nessee, Kentucky and West Vir- • glnia. Freezing rains and snow during the night made driving hazardous from Oklahoma and Kansas through the central Mississippi and lower Ohio valleys. y More than 200 traffic accidents • were reported on slippery Kansas 6 City, Mo., streets. At least 30 persons were hospitalized during the 1 early hours of toe storm. s The Oklahoma highway patrol • reported roads over two-thirds of r the state were blazed with a 5 solid sheet of ice up to one inch thick. The icy roads extended s southwest to Dallas, Tex. Roads were reported almost s impassable ndrtoward from the 2 Fort Smith, Okla., area, and aus thorities discouraged traffic west i of the Clinton, Okla. 5 A rash of fires erupted in the cold air belt, killing at least 10 - children and two adults. The vic- ; tims included five children killed - in their beds in a fire Thursday - at an Oklahoma City convalescent - nursery, and a mother, father and - four of their children killed in a s blaze that destroyed their home - at North Little Rock, Ark. i Among other fire victims were i a 3-year-old Milford, Conn., girl whose four brothers and sisters perished in a fire seven years ago, and a 70-year-old man who died in a Vermont blaze. The Coast Guard rescued a fisherman adrift in a Lake Superior gale Thursday and sought another man missing in the wild waters. Hilmer Aakvik, 55, Hovland, Minn., said his small boat ran out of gas Wednesday when he went out to tend his nets, j Aakvik said he kept alive in l near zero temperatures during [ the night by bailing water from ; his boat and keeping active. Missing was Carl Hammer, 25, a fishj erman who disappeared in a simt ilar small boat. Other Weather Accidents . At least four children drowned (CubUttued on page eight) . ' t -T : Mrs. Max Evani Dies 1 At Greenfield Home | Mrs. Max Evans, 46, a native of Blue Creek township, died Wednesr day at her home in Greenfield fol- . lowing a cerebral hemorrhage. She was formerly Madonna Campbell, i . a daughter of Lloyd and Florence r Hettler-Campbell. 1 Survivors include her mother; > two sisters, Mrs. Harold Masters . of LaCanda, Calif., and Mrs. David - Shinn of Greenfield, and two broth- . ers, Walter Dale Campbell of Foti--1 tana, Calif., and Philip Campbell . of Miami, Fla. Funeral services - will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Greenfield. t- *

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 28,1958.

West Germany Rejects I . l \ Russian Proposals To Make Berlin Free City

West To Give Studebaker Plant I No Ground On iv vivuiiu vii Strike Settlement Pure Prnnnul Recched Thursday lUIJJ rIVIJVJUI SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPI) - The financially hard-pressed StuWoctorn Allioc In debaker - Packard Corp., this TTCiiem Allies m City’s major industry, resumed Consultations Over production today following tentaProposal On Berlin £L s “‘ en “" t 01 3 , ° ur ’ d “ y WAWTNfITON (TIPI) The Agreement on a new contract ~ A® * came Thanksgiving morning and Sat t£ SteX P“ r ° rdered a StKAS £lf * 9 000 lt rS yeS a tiffc C a k : threatened into turning free West £ work today altoough ratificaBerlin over to “hostile domina- tton will not be voted tion” by the Communists. 011 . ... . The Western Allies beimn *vwi About 6,200 United Auto Workers , saltations which foreshadowed vir- on s Trike Mondayjustas tually certain rejection of Soviet the planned to bee Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s U P Production of ite new small Thanksgiving Day maneuver to car se ,^ les / 1116 . Lar ’ force Britain, France and the which it hopes to recapture a United States out of West Berlin profitable share of the market and turn it into a “demilitarized strike was the first major free city „ walkout in the 106-year history of The Russians said that if the Ae Studebaker firm Western Big Three refused to , company reported * had agree to the plan within s ix *>st 22 motion dollars mthe first months, toe Soviet Union would mon f• °^ Q f a LS .. T y f withdraw from its sector in East lining out its 1959 Lark. OffiBerlin and force the Allies to deal «als reportai they had received with toe puppet East German mOTe than 50,000 orders for the Communist regime, which they ca ? „ . ,• . refuse to recognize. Detads t of the em 1 e a nt ' s‘s. U 8 t.»«hcs Back came after more than 18 hours of The United States lashed back negotiations fth the of a in a sharp statement declaring federal conciliator, wJI wl be that the Russians apparently want T P ub f to “keep their grip on East Ber- UAW Local 5 ratify or reject to lin” while tricking the Allies into agreement Sunday, leaving West Berlin “in favor of However, both union and manwhat is called a ’free city’”. cement said, they gave some The U. S. statement, issued late groupd on the wage issife m the Thursday, made it clear that toe interests o fthe community, the Russian maneuver will fail for company and the union, two reasons: The company had ordered an 1. Britain, France and the Unit- immediate two-cent hourly wage ed States are ’’solemnly com- increase and an additinal two mitted” to the security of West cents per nour m each quarter Berlin and its 2,250,000 inhabi- that ii-& * lrm sold 30,000 or more tants who have “convincingly and units. courageously demonstrated the The union sought a pay increase good fruits of freedom.” of six to eight centers, retroactive 2. This country will not agree to Sept. 1 when the old contract to Russia’s pulling out of its expired. Previous wage scales treaty obligations in Berlin “nor were not made public. will it enter into any agreement However, most of this year emwith the Soviet Union which, ployes have been working only whatever the form, would have four days on alternate weeks as the end result of abandoning the Studebaker-Packard sales lagged, people of West Berlin to hostile On Wednesday, company presidomination.” dent Harold E. Churchill warned Hie Soviet assertion that the in a newspaper advertisement dirUnited Nations might be given Mure of our company just as we some vague “observation” status out “could ruin the immediate in a “demilitarized tree” West future of our company just as we Berlin was regarded by American see daylight ahead.” officials as meaningless except as a cloak of respectability for the To survive,” Churchill said, Kremlin’s tactics. “ we must ea™ a place in the Will Give No Ground market by building a fine auto“lf we accept even a single mobile at competitive prices. That point in this complicated arrange- means our costs must stay down, ment,” one official said, “we will “The time to eat the pie is (Continued on pase eight) after it is baked, not before.”

Santa Claus To Arrive In Decatur Saturday

Santa Claus, that ever popular ber of children can be accommored coated gent who never fails dated, according to Tom Garner, to thrill little people, will officially Chamber Christmas promotion arrive in Decatur at 2:38 p.m. Sat- chairman. He urged parents to urday as he steps off an Erie pas- make their reservations at once senger train at the Erie depot. A since several merchants already band will be on hand to greet him report they have committed their and escort him uptown, where he entire ticket allotments, will meet his hopeful admirers, Most stores have completed their hear their fondest dreams, and s t ore decorations, their shelves pass out advice and candy. bulging Christmas sugges;Thr°ugb J pecia J arrangements tions Lay . away gift busi ness has with the Erie railroad, the west- alre a d y been brisk, according to bound afternoon passenger train severa j sources. Beginning Friday, No. 5, which normally does not stop December 12, nearly all stores will here, will unload St. Nicholas, prob- rema ju open each night until 9 o’3 P l 6 ? ng / n f. c ? b ', . clock for the convenience of ChristThe Decatur Catholic high school mas s h o nners band will play. It will be under the direction of Joseph Morin. Dick App, regional manager of Christmas decorations on Sec- the Indiana employment security ond street have been placed and division at Fort Wayne, announced will be lighted on Friday evening, earlier this week that Adams counChristmas music will be broadcast ty has an unusually low unemployinto the downtown area soon also, ment rate of less than 2%. This is Schedule of the choirs and their much less than neighboring areas, appearance dates will be announced The Decatur Chamber of Comsoon. ' merce business barometer for NoThis year's Santa Claus train vember showed a sizeable gain of rides sponsored by the retail divi- total in Decatur compared sion of the Becatur Chamber of to last year. Decatur merchants Commerce, will be Saturday, De- are optimistic and anticipate a reccember 6. Due to additional equip- ord Christmas volume. Inventorment which the Erie will be able ies are high and selections at local to supply this year, a larger num- stores are at an all time high. I.

Federal Judge Orders Pilots Delay Walkout American Airlines Pilots Ordered To Hold Off Walkout United Press International A federal judge today ordered American Airlines pilots to hold off their threatened walkout until Monday. In Miami, attorneys for Eastern Airlines expected a federal judge to decide whether to issue an injunction against the Flight Engineers Union, one of two on strike against the line. Eastern and Trans World airlines, two of the “big four” carriers, are grounded by strikes. Two unions are on strike against Eastern, the other being the machinists. Stewardesses picketed offices of Lake Central Airlines. Members of the AFL-CIO Air Lines Pilots Assn, has scheduled their walkout Tuesday in a longstanding jet (Operation dispute with American. A temporary restraining order blocked it, and today in a New York federal court, District Judge Frederick Van Pelt Bryan extended toe order to Monday and said both parties put on a “silly exhibition” In failing to get together last Wednesday for a meeting. The pliots have said, however, that a lifting of the ban against their strike would not necessarily mean an immediate walkout. They said they probably would set another deadline. Stewardesses also were on strike against Lake Central Airlines, a Midwest feeder route. The stewardesses' strike, the nation s first, failed to curtail runs as pilots crossed picket lines and male supervisory personnel replaced the girls. The Air Lines Pilots Association had scheduled a strike Continued oh page five Loren C. Burkhead Dies At Monroe Home Retired Employe Os G. E. Dies Thursday Loren C. Burkhead, 67, lifelong resident of Monroe, died at his home at 5:30 o’clock Thursday morning. Although he had been in failing health for three years, his death was unexpected. He was employed by the General Electric Co. fbr 29 years until his retirement in January, 1956. He was born in Monroe township Jan. 10, 1891, a son of Joshua N. and Elizabeth Snavely-Burkhead. and was married to Stella Boxley Nov. 28, 1914. Mr. Burkhead was a member of the Monroe Methodist church and the 1.0.0. F. lodge at Decatur. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Loren C. Burkhead, Jr., and Jack Burkhead, both of Monroe; six daughters, Miss Virginia Burkhead of Monroe, Mrs. Louis (Druscilla) Martman of Monroe, Mrs. Richard (Margaret) Maddock of Warren, Mrs. Frank (Portia) Van Leuven of Rapid City, S.D., Mrs. Douglas (Wanda) McFall of Artisia, N.M., and Mrs. Lyndell (Audrey) Peterson of Buffalo, S.D.; 10 grandchildren; one brother, Nolan Burkhead of Panama City, Fla., and four sisters, Mrs. H. G. (Thelma) Hendricks of Monroe, Mrs. Violet Johnson of Jackson, Mich., Mrs. Clyde (Letty) Noffsinger of Bluffton, and Mrs. Kenneth (Kathryn) Nyffeler of Decatur. One brother and one sister are deceased. \\ Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Monroe Methodist church, the Rev. Willis Gierhart officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery, west of Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

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Tennyson Guyen, nationally known humorist and speaker, will feature the ladies night program of the Decatur Lions club at 6:30 o’clock Monday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Guyer is director of public relations for the Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. of Findlay, O. He has spoken in Decatur on previous occasions and is known throughout the nation for his wit and humor, averaging 300 speeches annually. All Lions club members and their wives are urged to attend Monday’s meeting.

Auction School To Open Here Monday Semi-Annual Term To Be Held Here Approximately 60 students will arrive in Decatur over the weekend for the winder Session of the Rdppert auctioneering school. Dr. Roland Reppert, president of the Reppert school, announced today. Col. Q. R. Chaffee, dean of the school, has arrived here for the semi-annual session, which begins Monday. Registration will continue Monday, and classes will also start Monday. There will be 13 instructors at the school, including Chaffee, of Towanda, Pa. The other instructors include: G. L. Pettit, Bloomfield, Iowa; Clyde M. Wilson, Marion, O.; Carey M. Jones, Oak Park, Ill.; C. B, Drake, Decatur, Ill.; H. W. Sigrist, Fort Wayne; Walter Carlson, Triumph, Minn.; Ray Elliot, ; Portland; H. D. Darnell. Cynthi- ; ana, Ky.; H. B. Sager, Bozeman, Montana; Homer Pollock, Deli phos, O.; Earl Wright, Mount Gili ead, O.; and Gene Slagle, Marion, O. 1 An intensive schedule of classes j will continue for three weeks, with many sidetrips planned to , various auction sales in the area to aid in the students’ training in the auctioneering profession. Two Promotions By [ Central Soya Co. Cental Soya Co. officials have ; announced two promotions affect- , ing personnel at the Decatur plant E of the industry. Tom Marlow, plant - manager at Memphis, Tenn., since . 1956, has been named senior en- ■ gineer in the technical department, ■ and will make his home in Decatur. Jack Rosenberger, production , engineer at the Decatur plant since • 1956, has been named manager of ■ the Memphis plant, and he and his ■ family will move to Memphis. INDIANA WEATHER Heavy snow warning. Snow j this afternoon probably ending I tonight or early Saturday with l total accumulations 3 to 6 inches south, locally up to 12 inches south portion. Becoming partly cloudy Saturday afternoon. ' Continued cold. Low tonight 15 to 22. High Saturday in the 20s. Hasard- ‘ ons driving conditions throughout state. Sunset today 5:22 p. m. CDT. Sunrise Saturday 7:45 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and 1 quite cold with snow flurries i north. Lows Saturday night IS to 26. Highs Sunday mid* 26a. * #

West Berlin Demands Force Used If Needed Leaders, Citizens Reject Proposal Os Neutralized City BONN, German|y fVPD—West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today rejected Soviet proposals for turning West Berlin into a “free city” on the grounds that its security would not be guaranteed. He said Allied troops \juill rpmnin in Wacl Ratlin W 111 IVI liUXlt ut TICDV XTCTTim West Germany already was consulting with its Western Allies on the Soviet bid to oust the West from Berlin and the resulting West German insistence the Western Big Three save the city from communism. Adenauer told leaders of his Christian Democratic Union at a private meeting in his office that the Soviet proposals would leave West Berlin far less secure than under the present management. The United States, Britain and France now guarantee the integrity and political freedom of West Berlin and keep 7,500 troops there as a sign of their intentions. Adenauer said he coujd assure his followers that the Western troops would remain in Berlin. Confers With U.S. Envoy Adenauer conferred today with U. Ambassador David Bruce and British Ambassador Sir Christopher Steele on the Berlin situation. The CDU press service noted that as a “free city West Berlin would be at the pleasure or displeasure of the Communists, legally and militarily, financially and economically.” “In order to preserve its freedom, therefor, West Berlin must remain under the protection of Western Allied troops,” it said. Foreign Minister Rleinrich von Brentano met all morning with fairs Committee on the Soviet note which was seen here as little more than a stay of execution that avoided an immediate clash on Berlin. Roy McDaniel Dies As Home In Monroe Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Roy (Mac) McDaniels, 73, a lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 5:30 o’clock this morning at his home in Monroe. He had been bedfast for two months. He was born in Blue Creek township Aug. 19, 1885, a son of Scott and Minerva Burdg-McDan-iel, and was married' to Myrtle Andrews Dec, 24, 1909. His wife preceded him in death June 8, 1952. ; Mr. McDaniel, an employe of the Farm Bureau at Monroe, was a member of the Bethel Brethren Surviving are lour daugnters, Mrs. Donald (Eva) Burkhart of Geneva, Mrs. Grover (Dorma) Levy of Decatur, Mrs. Duane (Martha) Harman and Mrs. Lee V. (Charlotte) Miller, both of Monroe; six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and three nephews. Three brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 1:15 p. m. Monday at the residence in Monroe, and at 2 p. m. at the Bethel Brethren church, seven miles east of Berne. The Rev. Irvin Miller and the Rev. A. E. Burk will officiate, and burial will be in the Mt. Hope cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 7 p. m. Saturday until time of the services.

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