Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1958 — Page 1

01. LVI. No. 281.

' ; W 'LI -rjP nN 3 tjl Jr 1 * ' ~ - ■ I - ft o ‘‘4 ,IS g® HKflSHsrv'’ - SEES NO CUT IN MILITARY COSTS— President Eisenhower, on a working-vacation at Augusta, Ga., meets with Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy (left) and Gen. Nathan Twining (right) for a conference on military spending in the coming fiscal year. M;Elroy told the economy-minded President it would be "pretty rough” avoiding increased military costs. Maj. John Eisenhower (rear) joined the group.

Severe Storm Spreads Havoc To Northeast Holiday Death Toll From*All Causes Is Near To 300 Total United Pres* International The wind-rain-and-snow whiplash of a widespread storm that paralyzed Midwest traffic with recordbreaking snows fell on the Northeast early Saturday, knocking out power lines in three states. Gale-force winds whipping along at 68 miles per hour ripped off tree limbs, toppled power lines, and created hazardous driving conditions that already had pushed the Thanksgiving .weekend holiday death toll past the 200 mark. A. United Press International count showed that as of 8:00 a.m. c.s.t. Saturday at least 226 persons had been kilted in traffic accidents since the unofficial holiday weekend began at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday. In addition. “20 persons lost fheir lives in fires, and 52 in miscellaneous accidents for a total of 298 dead. Nine of the miscellaneous deaths in Ohio were weather induced heart attacks, brought on by shoveling snow. Traffic Toll Rises New'York state led the nation with 18 traffic fatalities, Illinois was second with 15, California listed 14. Alabama and Pennsylvania 13 each, and Ohio 12. Although the National Safety Council made no prediction on highway deaths for the 102-hour period ending midnight Sunday, it said an average of 470 persons would die in a similar period at this time of the year. The UPI counted 554 traffic deaths during last year's 102-hour Thanksgiving holiday. , Shifting of the storm to New England was followed by a southward movement of frigid air to the Gulf Coast, dropping temperatures below freezing in parts of Texas and Louisiana. The storm was the third major weather disturbance in less than two weeks. Roads from Colorado to Pennsylvania were covered with ice and snow in what officials called some of the most hazardous conditions possible. Heavy Snow Widespread Snows were nearly a foot deep in parts of Indiana, while roads in southern Illinois and Ohio were clogged with 9-inch snows that brought traffic to a standstill. Heavy snow deposits caused the roof of an Indianapolis store to collapse, injuring four persons, while blinding snows covered the escape of a robber who took almost SIO,OOO from an Etna Green, Ind., bank. Temperature readings in the teens were common throughout the Midwest storm area, and dropped below zero again in North Dakota and Minnesota. Before moving into the East with seven - inch snows at Erie, Pa., the storm had dumped nine-and-a-half inches at Marion, Jll., the heaviest November snowfall on record there, and hit Evansville, Continued on page five INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with chance of snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Continued cold. Low tonight 5 to 20. High Sunday 20 to mid 30s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy central and south, mostly cloudy with some snow flurries north. Continued cold. H

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Farm Prices Lower, Costs Inch Higher Prices Paid Index Higher In November WASHINGTON (UPI) — Farm prices declined slightly while farm production costs inched upward to a new all-time high in the month ended Nov. 15, the Agriculture Department reported Friday. . Most price changes during' the month were relatively small. Primarily responsible for the decline in the index of prices received by farmers were lower prices for oranges, hogs, cotton, corn, and tobacco. Seasonally higher prices for some fresh vegetables, potatoes, apples, and milk were only partially offsetting. Even with the overall decline, mid-November prices received by farmers were nearly 4 per cent above a year earlier. Farm costs, led by higher prices for new z automobiles, kicked the prices paid index to 308 per cent of the 1910-14 base period. The mid-November prices paid index was up one-third of 1 per cent from mid-October. The November index was 3 per cent higher than a year earlier. “Die decline in prices received and the rise in prices paid brought the farm parity ratio down to 31 per cent, the lowest point this year. This compares with 82 per cent in mid-October and 81 per cent in November. 1957. The parity ratio has been 81 per cent for November for the last three years. The prices received index now has dropped for two consecutive months, and the prices paid index has risen three consecutive months. In addition to the cost of new automobiles prices were higher in November for clothing, food, and building materials. Feed prices were lower. The prices received index for mid-November was 251 per cent of the base period, down .4 of 1 per cent from mid-October. Average hog prices dropped 60 cents per hundredweight during the month. This was in line with earlier department predictions that the hog population is going up, which will create heavy supplies that will send prices down. The average hog prices on Nov. 15 were $17.90 per hundredweight. This compares with $18.50 in mid-October and»sl6.6o in midNovember a year ago. Average beef cattle prices in mid-November were $22.20, the same as in mid ; October. In midNovember, 1957, beef cattle prices were $17.80. Five-Year-Old Boy Finds Self A Hero NEWARK, N. J. (UPI) — Five-year-old Kevin Ryan ran through the four-story apartment house he lives in Friday ringing doorbells to alert neighbors to a basement fire. No one was injured. Twentyfive persons ..fled to the streets. And Kevin was hailed as a hero. Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will meet at 9:30 a. m. Monday at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Mrs. M. L. Forrest, field representative of the social security administration, will speak on the social security amendments of 1958. The Rev. O. Penrod, vice president, will preside, and the Rev. William C. Feller will bring devotions. All ministers are urged to attend.

Sets June 1 Deadline For Berlin Change Red Propagandist Says West Powers Must Accept Plans BERLIN (UPI) — Communist propagandist Gerhart Eisler today set June 1 as the deadline by which the Western powers will have to accept local Communist control of the lifelines linking Berlin with the West, j “ “In six months—from June 1, 1959 — the Western powers will have to recognize and negotiate with our (Red German) officials if they wish to go to Berlin,” the bail-jumping fugitive from U. S. justice said in an article published by the Communist organ Junge Welt. Eisler said that by that time the Reds will be in a position to block not only the roads, rail lines and canals between Berlin and the West but'also the aiflanes that saved the city from the Russian blockade 10 years ago. Mayor Is Target Other statements in the Communist press made it clear that the undefended “free” West Berlin demanded by the Russians could not long hope to retain its independence. They said there would be no place in the government of such a “free city” for Willy Brandt, West Berlin’s socialist mayor, or Ernst Lemmer, the Christian Democratic candidate for the post. Statements by U.S. and West German leaders had indicated earlier that the West will insist that there be no change in the status of divided Berlin until all Germany is reunified. “Free City” Rejected Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Mayor Brandt all took substantially this line in rejecting Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s demand that West Berlin be converted into an undefended “free city”—surrounded on all sides by Communists. (American officials in Washington said the West may call for a new Big Four conference to deal with reunification of Germany through free elections —a proposal repeatedly rejected by the Russians. (These officials said, however, that no final Western decision is likely until after the meeting of the Atlantic Pact Council which opens in Paris two weeks from Tuesday.) From Two to Three Brandt and Nixon both pointed out that the “free city” proposal would only complicate the situation by creating “three Germains” where now there are only two. Brandt said Friday night that the only kind of freedom West (Continued <m page six) Mother Os Eight Is Found Dead In State GRIFFITH, Ind. (UPI) — Authorities said Friday there was no evidence that Mrs. Vera Will, 52, Griffith mother of eight children, whose body was found in a slough Thursday by two hunters, was a victim of foul play. They believed Mrs. Will fell and struck her head while walking through a marsh to visit a relative in a trailer Camp near her home, and died of exposure. NOON EDITION

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First Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Is Fired To Span Ocean

West Studies Approach To Berlin Stand May Try To Focus World's Attention On Entire Question WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Western Allies are expected to try to focus world attention on the entire German question as a countermove against Russia’s effort to force Britain, France and the United States out of West Berlin. American officials said one possibility is a Western suggestion for a Big Four conference to deal with the reunification of Germany under free elections. Such elections would give inhabitants of the Communist-ruled ,East • Zone their first chance for a free ballot expression. This approach was one of several being studied by the three Western powers as they pondered an answer to the Soviet Union’s demand for an Allied withdrawal from West Berlin. Russia also wants creation of a demilitarized “free city” there. NATO Discussions No substantive answer to the Moscow note was expected until after the Dec. 16 Paris meeting of the foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Council. Britain, France and the United States are expected to reach tentative argeement on their reply within the next two weeks and then seek approval of the other 12 NATO countries before sending it to Russia. 11118 country already has served notice that the West can be neither tricked nor threatened into handing over West Berlin to Russia’s “hostile domination." In this same connection, Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) late Friday denounced as “preposterous” the Soviet offer to make West Berlin a demilitarized free city. Mansfield, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the Russians obviously were trying to prepare the way for eventual takeover of Berlin by East Germany, “which in effect means having it taken over by the Soviet Union.” Broad Perspective Sought A Western proposal for a Big Four meeting — which might be held on the foreign ministers level if developments warranted—was regarded in diplomatic circles here as a logical move to try to put the entire German (Contlnuod on pace six) Heating System At City Hall Changed City Hall Closed Friday Afternoon The city hall building was closed Friday at noon due to the changing of the heating system being performed this week, city officials disclosed today. The new hot water system will replace the “old” split steam and hot water system used for several years. Mayor Robert D. Cole stated that the change was made, when it was learned that the cost of fuel would be cut almost in half with the new system. He continued by saying that the old system was hard to control and the heat could not be regulated for the two floors. The new baseboad heat registers will have two pumps feeding the heat to the separate floors, she for the first floor and a second for the top floor; In this way the two separate floors will receive an even amount of heat. Mayor Cole said that approximately 30-40% in savings on fuel consumption should result from the change over. Regular hours were resumed today.

i ... Roanoke Lady, Baby Die In Auto Crash Holiday Death Toll In State Is Eight United Press International : Icy, snow - covered highways dealt a lethal punch to motorists in Indiana Friday,, and the Thanksgiving holiday wedcend traffic death toll was shoved up to eight. Weather was believed to be a } contributing factor in all of the ' seven fatalities recorded Friday, t after the jtate got through the ; first 40 hours of the 102-hour holi- , day period with only one traffic I death. t A Northern Indiana Toll Road collision near Gary involving three automobiles during a snow- ( storm Friday morning claimed I three lives. Clifton Leslie, 21, , Rison, Ark., died Friday night of injuries sustained in the collision j which killed outright Alfred John- , son, 48, Racine, Wis., and Louis > Krepcha Jr., 44, Appleton, Wis. Four other persons were injured, and one of them remained in , critical condition today. Mrs. Donald Feemster, 23, Roa- , noke, and her 7-months-old daughI ter Vicki were killed Friday night , on U. S. 224 east of Huntington I when their car colided with one .driven by an off-duty State Police trooper. Mrs. Feemster’s husband appari ently lost control of the car on an icy highway surface aiyi 4t skidded J into the path of a police ear driv- ' en by Trooper Norman Pierce, 29, Columbia City. Pierce was reported in “very serious” condition in Huntington County Hospital. Joe E. Roberts, 41, Franklin, was killed Friday night when a , pickup truck driven by David F. Shepherd, 24, Franklin, struck him as he walked on Ind. 252 southwest of FJranklin to avoid grading deep snow along the roadside. 1 Albert Veron, 62, New Albany, was killed Friday when his pickup truck slid off icy Ind. 62 near New Albany and struck a tree. The rash of wrecks occurred as Indiana highways became hazardous for the first time this season from a snowfall ranging in depth from 2 to 8 inches. Previously since the weekend count began at 6 p.m. Wednesday, only one fatality had been recorded, the death of a woman in Fountain County Thursday afternoon. Employment Gains Continue In U. S. Economists Foresee Usual January Dip WASHINGTON (UPD-Govern-ment economists expect the Christmas season business surge to further reduce the ranks of the nation’s unemployed. But job totals probably will suffer the usual January dip. These prospects were reported Friday night by the Labor Department in its bi-monthly survey of job conditions in 1949 major labor market areas. It said the employment rise which began in midsummer continued through autumn and probably would last until the end of 1958/ There were these highlights in the report: —Factory job gains and a seasonal wave of pre-Christmas hiring have produced “a generally strengthened area > employment situation.” —While almost all areas showed some improvement in employment conditions during the autumn, the changes in most instances were not large enough to warrant area reclassifications to categories indicating substantially lower unemployment. Labor Surplus Still Evidenced —Most of the nation’s principal areas continue to have an overall labor surplus, but employers were having increasing difficulty in getting all the workers they need in certain skilled and professional occupations. Six major areas were dropped (Continued on pace eix)

Bank At Etna Green Robbed By Lone Gunman Escapes In Heavy Snowstorm, Loot Totals $9,876 <ETNA GREEN, Ind. (UPI) —A slightly-built bandit, masked with a blue handkerchief, robbed the Etna Bank of $9,876 late Friday and escaped in a swirling snowstorm. The gunman, described as “nervous,” entered the bank located in this small community on the Kosciusko - Marshall County line midway between Plymouth and Warsaw about 2 p.m. (c.s.t.). He forced three customers and four employes to lie on the floor while he went through cash drawers and looted the contents. He put the money in the pockets of his cact. The bandit appeared to employes to be a customer until he pulled the handkerchief up on his face and shouted: “This is a holdup.” He pointed a blue-steel revolver at the employes and customers to prove he meant business. The bandit ordered Mrs. Avis Mason, bank president, to join three other employes; Mrs. Althea Hamlin, Mrs. Janet Huffer and James Cawthrop, and two customers, Edward Stutzman and Max Thomas, on the floor. Mrs. Donald Poulson, another customer who entered the bank as the holdup was in progress, also was forced to lie down. “We were a little slow to lie down, thinking it was a joke,” Mrs. Mason said. “But he was so nervous, we saw he wasn’t joking.” J. R. Lindsey, the bank cashier, was in a rear room and was not aware of the robbery. The bandit fled to his car and escaped in the snow. Authorities said he was driving a late model blue and white car (1957 Plymouth). Roadblocks were set up, but they failed to catch the gunman. Mrs. Mason described the bandit as between 35 and 40 years old. 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing about 140 pounts. He wore a green hat, dark-rimmed glasses and heavy overshoes. It was Indiana’s second bank holdup in less than a week. A young bandit robbed a Columbia City bank of $6,043 Monday but was captured minutes later. Youngsters Feature International Show Crown Junior Grand Champions At Show CHICAGO (UPl)—More than 500 youngsters at the 59th International Live Stock Exposition entered the arena for young America’s most valued farm prizes today. The nation’s junior grand champion steer and pig will be crowned in the second flay of the famed livestock show—traditionally set aside for youthful competition. The two winners will not only get fame but a possible small fortune, for over the years many youngsters have won top honors in the open class judging, which is held in the second week of the nine-day exhibition. Last year’s junior champion steer. “Honeymoon,” brought its owner, Sue Secondino, West Terre Haute, Ind., $31,050. Winners also are to be named today in the collegiate livestock judging contest, with 40 teams from 33 states and Canada entered. The national 4-H judging contest will have 28 teams from 28 states. Friday’s winers by name, contest division and breed were: Jane Turner, 16, Champaign, Ill.', champion carcass steer on hoof, Aberdeen-Angus. (Continued on page elx)

Mercury At Season Lows For Indiana Up To Eight Inches Os Snow In Indiana United Press International A killer storm which dumped up to eight inches of snow on Indiana paved the way for wintry temperatures near zero today. While a blanket of white 2 to 8 inches deep lay across Hoosierland, the mercury dipped to season’s lows ranging from 10 to 15 degrees above zero. Indianapolis recorded a chilly 10, Lafayette 12, Evansville 13 and South Bend and Fort Wayne 15 as a cold spell enveloped the state on the heels of the season's first snow. At least seVen Indiana traffic fatalities Friday were blamed on icy highways, including a Northern Indiana Toll Road collision which killed three out-of-state motorists and a Huntington County collision which killed a mother and her 7-months-old baby. A five-inch snow at Indianapolis was blamed for the collapse of a grocery roof and injury to the owner and three cusoomers. Ralph C. Niles, 35, Indianapolis, fell dead of a heart attack while shoveling snow from the sidewalk in front of his home. A bandit took advantage of the weather to rob an Etna Green bank of nearly SIO,OOO and flee 1 ina flurry of snow. The snow was 8 inches deep at Cincinnati, 7 at Evansville, 5 at Indianapolis and Louisville, 4 at Fort Wayne, 3 at South Bend, and 2 at Lafayette. More cold weather was due through the weekend with little improvement in hazardous driving conditions except in places where street and highway crews were able to clear roads with chemicals and snow plows. The forecast called for temperatures ranging from the low 20s to around 30 at high points this afternoon, lows tonight from 5 to 20, and highs Sunday from around 20 to the mid 30s. The southern two-thirds of Hoosie dland will get no more snow during the weekend, but forecasts called for “some snow flurries" today and “chance of heavy snow flurries near Lake Michigan today, tonight, Sunday and Monday. Third Os Nation's Airlines Grounded Another Crippling Strike Threatened Unietd Press International Deadlocked negotiations kept one third of the nation's airliners grounded today, apparently for the duration of the week end, and another crippling strike threatened at American Airlines despite admonitions from a federal judge. The Air Lines Pilots Assn, discounted as a “public relations maneuver” an offer by American Airlines to resume negotiations Saturday or Sunday, and went ahead with plans to set a new strike deadline that would idle about 1,500 pilots. Judge Frederick Van Pelt Bryan in New York extended a temporary injunction Friday barring a strike against American, saying both sides were, guilty of a “silly exhibition” in faling to meet wth federal medators earlier this week. The ALPA said it would return to court in New York Monday in a further attempt to have the injunction lifted. Bargaining Right Questioned In Miami, Judge Emmett C. Choate said 550 flight engineers who walked out at Eastern Air Lines six days ago had no right to bargain on the issue of whether the third man in the cockpit of jet airliners should be a pilot or engineer. However, the International Assn, ol Machinists said there were other issues to be settled before the walkout which shut down EAL operations could be ended. (CanAlmued on page four)

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Allas Travels Full Distance Friday Night Air Force Jubilant At Successful Test Os Ballistic Missile CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) —The Atlas fired Friday night was America’s first intercontinental ballistic missile to travel the full, ocean-spanning range of 6,325 miles, the Pentagon said today in a statement released by the Air Force. The Washington announcement made formal the event that already was the cause of jubilant celebration here at the launching site where the giant ICBM thundred skyward in the night. Russia claimed successful ICBM flights more than a year ago but this was America’s first successful venture with the so-called “ultimate weapon” that would be capable of untold horror if ever launched in anger with an atomic or hydrogen device in its nose. In a terse but momentous statement, the Defense Department said the successful all-the-way flight “came less than a year after the first successful flight of the Atlas, made last Dec. 17 when the test vehicle went slightly more than 500 miles.” Used Three Engines “The Atlas ICBM launched yesterday was successfully test fired for the first time over the full intercontinental range, a distance of approximately 5,500 nautical miles,” the Pentagon statement said. The distance is equivalent to 6,325 statute miles. The missile was powered for what the department called “this significant flight” by a threeengine cluster. Prior successful firings, all at less than the full range but employing all three engines, were staged Aug. 2, Aug. 28, Sept. 14, and Nov. 17. A spokesman for the Convair Astronautics Division of General Dynamics Corp., which built the Atlas, said the flight was a complete success. Spontaneous Celebration Even before the announcement, any doubt was dispelled by broad grins on the faces of test officials and a champagne party thrown spontaneously here by Convair. and Air Force missile people. Sources in Washington, who asked not to be identified, said the missile covered a distance of 5,500 nautical miles (6,300 statute miles) and smacked into the South Atlantic withing 30 miles of a target area set up for it. The Atlas, launched at 9:27 p.m. e.s.t. and guided automatically throughout the flight by its own instruments, performed perfectly, according to the Washington spokesman. The Atlas was equipped with a slender, pointed nose cone designed to come back intact through the atmosphere from its peak altitude of 800 miles. Reconnaissance planes and recovery boats stood by at the target area. Test officials lightened the vehicle by keeping data-recording instruments to a minimum. Capabilities Demonstrated Two booster rocket engines dropped away smoothly 130 seconds after takeoff. The three main engines, which provide more than 300,000 pounds of thrust, continue to operate until the Atlas has reached a speed of Continued on page five gXIMYSim