Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1959 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except SUhdafr Bg THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., Dfc. „ Cnterad at the Decatur, bd., Port Office M Second CUm Matter Did D. Heller, Ji President John G. Heller Vice-President Chas. Halthouse ... Secretary-Treasurer ■vSxVtes. By Mail, beyond Adami ahd Adjoining Grtmtitt: One yete, 18.00; I moffths, $4.75; J moriths“» 50. Py Carrier. 30 cents per week. Single copied, • Mate. A Sad Story One of the saddest stories concerning a Decatur mother and her sob was told to us yesterday by the mother herself, who could only ask us the unanswerable question, Why? This mother explained that her husband had left her and refused to pay support mohey for her several sons, which meant that she had to go to work to sup* port the children. The family had to live along the railroad tracks in a poor neighborhood. She was able to properly supervise the children because she" had to work long hours. As her older son grew up, he became more and more unmanageable. He insisted on staying out late hours, hanging around with persons of questionable background. He refused any longer to even listen to his mother. , ; The mother went to a local county official with her problem, and he suggested that the two of them talk to juvenile authorities. They did. The juvenile authority bluntly told the mother that he could not act unless het* son actually committed a crime, that he could not talk to him. The heartbroken mother returned home. Soon. afterward her son left home, While 17 years of age, and has never returned, except for a visit or two. Why is this important? The son described above is now one of those young men accused of committing between 50 and 150 breakins, robberies, and malicious tresspasses, together with the other gang members. Could proper supervision have stopped this? If an understanding person had heard this mother’s plea, and was involved two years ago, might he have changed? The whole purpose of a special juvenile court and special juvenile officers is to effect a change, to reform the boys. Should the court refuse to help a boy, « just because he is not formally charged? The mother involved has actually given a sworn statement that the above happened. How many more such cases have occurred without the knowledge of the public? Two juveniles involved this week have already appeared twice in court, and have been remanded to the county jail. They appeared with their attorney, H. R. McClenahan, it is understood. Will the local court act, or will they be transferred to Allen county for action ? The local court has given direct orders to a number of court officials that no more information is to leak out. Os course the law only states that the court record shall not be made public, except at the discretion of the judge. It does not say that correct statistical information about cases cannot be released. It does not say, and other courts in this area do not operate, without full public understanding and sanction of action taken to help our young people. m - TVrograms i Central Daylight Time Us AMCT TW i ' , uu -=-—=====-— =~' flAlVfc" I W 9:&s—Faith To Live By CHANNEL IS 10:90—Dough He Mi 10:30—Treasure Hunt • WEDNESDAY 11:00—.Price Is flight „ i 11:30—OohcehtraUon 6:oo—Our Miss Brooks Afternonn 0:8O-r-.Thls Day J 959 12 OU-.TI? 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Damages Heavy In Five Auto Wrecks Five detidents reported to the city police and the sheriff* departments during the past 24 hour*, brought heavy damages to the autos invoked, according to the reports of the investigation*. All drivers escaped without injuries as a result of the collisions. A one-car mishap occurred Tiie»day on U. S. 224 about one mile west of the city at 2:15 p.ffi. A car driven by Helen Grace Reynolds. 47, of Decatur, went out of control after skidding on the ice and struck a tree and a large construction sign. Deputy sheriff Charles Arnold estimated $425 damage to the Reynolds auto. The city police were called to the scene of a property damage accident Tuesday at 3:20 p.m. at 222 Jefferson street. The report shows that a car driven by Mary M. Cloud, 42, Decatur, was struck by a car driven by Dorothy Ray, 32. also of the city, while headed east on Jefferson street. The Ray vehicle was approaching from the west and slid on the ice into the “path of the Cloud vehicle. Damage was estimated to the Cloud auto at $250 and S2OO to the Ray car. A minor mishap occurred at 12:40 Tuesday afternoon at 207 Court street involving a small truck and parked auto. The truck, driven by George Tricker, 43, of Debatur, while attempting to back from a parked position on Court Street, struck a parked auto next to his vehicle, causing S2O damages to the car owned by Eugene M. Hill, 29, of Decatur. No damage resulted to the truck. A cat owned by Gerald Vizard, principal of Pleasant Mills high school, and driven by Kenneth W. Terrell, 17, of route one, Willshire, went out of control on U. S. 33 this morning at 8:15 o’clock in Pleasant Mills after skidding on the ice while headed south and struck a parked car owned by Fred Bauman, of Pleasant Mills, which in turn struck another parked auto owned by Grover Wolfe, of route six, Decatur. The mishap occurred near Baumart’s barber shop. Damage was estimated at SSOO to the Vizard car; $350 to the Bauman auto and S3O to the Wolfe

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WHAT HAS HAPPENED 1 RhodS Marsh left her Nsw Bn«- , land home to cross the countrj to marry • man she hasn’t seen tor I three rears. Her betrothed Elisha , Slocum. Is a missionary amony Indians near Fort Caas. Wyoming She ' faces the likelihood st being stranded ( a: St Louis which she reached with . the Res Jeremiah Shandy as her es- • core For Re» Shandy has been an- I able to persuade his brother Jim. a ] mountain region trader to arrange for Rhoda to travel West under the protection of a back train. ( Jim Shandy cooked up a scheme with Sherman Randall or the Ameri- 1 can Fur Co , which is a rival of Jim'S I employer, the Rocky Mountain Fur- . Co., to rook the" latter company, and 1 now has reason to regret It If the I AFC traders get to the RMFC secret rendezvous first. Jim may get 10% hta life. For he has spotted trappers Mordecai Price and Ree Semple, whom be supposed to bo in the mountains They can upset bls game To get rid of Mordecai. be dopes Mordecai'e drink end the trapper recovers consciousness to And himself obligated to escort Rhoda Marsh on the long journey up the Missouri. \ CHAPTER T RIVER FOG was neavy outside, with a dampneg* that made Mordecai Price wonder why he’d ever left the mountains. He slouched along with a bubbly feeling in his belly and nis mind still fuzzy from yesterday’s doin's. It seemed like Jim Shandy was going out of his way to reach the wharf. Farther along the bench where the big gray and yellow stone warehouse of the American Company sat, blobby lights shone and Mordecai neard men’s voices. Shandy said, *1 see the American is rushing to get some goods on the Rosebud at the last minute.” Almost without pause he added, “1 nope you understand — how Important it is to get this woman safe to Fort Cass.” "Yeah. Where’s my rifle?" "All your pl wider will be at the wharf.” They slipped down through mud to greasy planks. Lanterns were moving jerkily on the wharf. An orange light was coming from the stack of the boat The bitter odor of wood smoke came to Mordecai. "Over here,” Shandy said, and Jed Mordecai toward two cloaked figures at one end of the landing. "Here he is, Miss Marsh—Mordecai Price. He’s one of the company's most trusted men. He’ll get you there.* Mordecai heard the woman sniff. She said, somewhat doubtfully. that she was glad to know him. Mordecai refrained from an* swerthg. ... _ . The second shadowy figure said, "Get us a lantern, James. I should like tolook closely at this man before—” “Ain’t no time for that," Shandy said. *■" “Where's Old Belcher ?’’ Mordecai demanded. ■ ■' - '.---A < . - "There will he two of them with WgT" the Woman asked Shandy. .“This Mr. Price and Mr. Belcn“Yeah," Shandy said absently. ' *He yelled a name, and a hian came through the tog to him. "Ware’s your stuff. Mord.” Mordecai felt a little better

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vehicle. A reported accident was filed at the sheriff’s department today which occurred early Tuesday morning. The report shows that a car driven by Mary Ann Kershner, 42, of toute four, Decatur, struck a telephone pole after sliding on the ice. The accident occurred one-half mile west of .Coppess Corners on a county road. Estimated damage to the Keitshner cat was estimated at S2OO and S4O damages to the Citizens Telephone Co., pole. <* 20 Years Ago Today I ~ Feb. 4, 1939—The Adams county commissioners have awarded the workman’s compensation and liability insurance for the county to . the Schug Insurance agency of ■ Berne. Edwin H. Gilliom, former Mon- , roe township trustee, has been named resident supervisor of the new Berne school building project.

When he got hla hands on the cold weight of Old Beleher. hi* rifle. H* complained that the case was gone, and Shandy said it couldn’t be nelped. The man had everything else, pistol, shot pouch, powder horn, possibles sack, and Knife. He even had Mordecai'* pipe and tobacco. Only after the fellow had gone did it occur to Mordecai that there had been something about him vaguely remindful of the little Creole who nad’ worked such a blinding game of hand the night before. They were yelling on the Rosebud for everyone to get aboard. Mordecai lurched away. His moccasins were wet and they almost betrayed him crossing the «p ringy landing plank*. For an Instant he came within a hair of falling between the boat and the wharf. Shandy yelled for him to wait up and help the woman with her plunder, but Mordecai had all he could do to get himself aboard. Miss Marsh carried some of her own stuff and Shandy brought the rest. They piled it against Mordecai’s lega “Take good care of her how.” Shandy said. “Remember how important this Is to the company." He went back to the wharf. From the wharf the woman’s companion called. “Goodbye and God spejed you. child!” Rivermen hauled the planks in. The boat, began to drift gently as stumbling, cursing men pushed her away from the wharf with long poles. Not trusting the dampness and whoever had been handling hi* rifle, Mordecai raised Old Belcher and pulled the trigger. It had beeh charged, sure enough, and too heavy at that. It made a hell of a roar and flameThe woman jumped and let out a startled gasp. Midships on th* boat someone mistook Mordecai’s shot for send-, off noise, and. fired a pistol. Several others joined tn. Mordecai reloaded his rifle properly. Somewhere over there against the hill St Louis was quiet and sleeping, except for the dim lights at th* American Company warehouse. Spark* gu«hed from the static. The Rosebud shuddered as the wheel began to fight the Mississippi Miss Marah asked, “Where can I find quarters, Mr. Price 7" "Anywhere there* room to flop." Mordecai walked away from her, feeling his way forward through a disorder of bales and boxes. Forward of the boilerhouse on the main deck he found a place to lie down on the fog-damp planks, cftWlihg his rifle against him to keep it dry. He went to sleep quickly. When Mordecai woke up, the «nell ot ths river was in his no*-

Annual report of the state board of health shows there were 473 births in Adams county in 1938 and only 199 deaths. High school basketball scares: Fort Wayne Central Catholic 38, Commodores 25; Berne 31, Bluffton 30; Monmouth 33, Kirkland 30; Hartford 29, Bryant 26; Pleasant Mills 44, Jackson Center 29; Geneva 28, Albion 2& COURT NEWS Divorce Case On motion of the plaintiff in the case of Janean Kay Grogg vs Donald D. Grogg, the case was set for trial February 14 at 9 o’clock. Petit Jury Victor Graber and Albert Bixler were excused to serve as jury members for the February term. Grand Jury Lester Reynolds was granted an excuse to serve on the grand jury. Estate Case The schedule to determine the inheritance tax with reference to the county assessor was filed in the estate of Flyod Vorhees.

trita and he knew without opening his eyes that the morning tog was gone, and just how the brown bluffs on the west bank would look. He felt considerably better. He was headed toward rendezvous, and as soon as tie got a little something in bis meat bag— And then he remembered the missionary woman. He opened hta eyes cautiously. She was about ten feet away, sitting on a box. looking upriver. .. Her bonnet was in her lap. With — her black hair shining tn the sun she was some different from the way he’d pictured her. She lacked the heft of an Indian woman, he judged, but she wasn’t skinny Take white women. though, they just didn't shine. He saw two boatmen watching - her front the corner of the boilerhouse. They thought she was something, all right When Mordecai started to rise, he found hta feet and ifegs hedged in by the woman’s plunder. Come time to leave the boat, he’d have a few words with Miss Majsh about the pile of f oof a raw He wasn’t running no pack train to Fort case. Right now it was time to eat “Mr. Price," Rhoda called. Going around the boilerhouse, ■ Mordecai stopped to look back. If she thought he was going to i wait on her, she had another I think coming. She hesitated and r then said, Good morning.” Mordecai grunted. He went in I search of food. i Standing high in the muddy > water, with a Shallow draft, the i Rosebud was Uttle more than a I steam-powered keelboat without cabins ahd with nothing but storage space below the main deck. . Right now boatmen were still I busy stowing the cargo that had tome aboard last night She was an American Company boat If yoti didn’t know, you > could tell by the number of open- . mouthed greenhorns justa-beam-. - . tag at the prospect of going upi rivet to work for the company. Wasn’t two in the bunch that t wouldn't wish they’d stayed home 1 once they reached Fort Union and , discovered that the American was . aU work and little pay. Mordecai found the engine , crew’s coffee bucket slung on an . iron hook under the slow drip of a leaky steam hne. It was strong . and muddy and hot enough to dehide a buffalo. He tipped the , bucket up and drank. One of the , stokers glowered at him and . started to protest, and then sized i Mir up again and was silent. He must have been plumb be- ( dazzled last Bight when Jita . Shandy got after him. Suddenly ,he remembered that Shandy hadrt’t given hind money to buy I ah outfit as he had promised. Well, that didn’t cut ihbch difference; there were an kinds of . ways to skin a cat. ‘ I . (COMthMced Tomorrow/

Three Fort Wayne Juveniles Are Held Three juveniles ate being held at the Adams county jail for Allen county authorities who are expected to arrive in this city late today to pick up the youths and return them to Fort Wayne, it was learned here today. The 14-year-dds and a 16-year-old were picked up today by the City police department on North 13th street when police observed the youths attempting to solicit a ride to Fort Wayne from Decatur. AH of the teenagers were questioned at the scene and taken to the city police station for a routine check. According to Fort Wayne authorities, the youths all have lengthy juvenile records, and the city was informed that the Adams County authorities should hold the young teenagers until the Allen county probation officer could arrive from Fort Wayne to make the pickup. « _ Police were informed last night that the youths were in the city. It was said that the three had bragged to a motorist who had given them a ride of the money each one was carrying. The motorist called the station and reSrted the incident to police. « officer who questioned the youths could not find the substantial amount of money as was reported, in fact nothing was found. It was’not known where the youths spent the night. Amos Steiner Dies Tuesday Afternoon Amos Steiner, 79. a native of French township, Adams county, died Tuesday afternoon of a heart attack at his home. Surviving are the widow, Mary; two sons. Ire Gene, Fort Wayne, and Elmer, Gas City; three daughters, Mrs. Keith Spahr, Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Ronald Michael* and Mrs. Guthrie Howard. Portland; a sister. Mrs. Cyrus Lehman, Berne; four brothers, Albert arid John, near Geneva, Ezra, Linn Grove, and Sam, Columbus, O. Mr. Steiner was a member of the First Evangelical United Brethren Church of Portland. The body is at the Yager funeral home, Berne, where friends may call after 7 p.m. Wednesday. Services will be conducted at 2 p.rri. Friday in the funeral home, the Rev. Floyd J. Elliott officiating. Burial will be in Gravel Hill cemetery west of Bryant.

PUBLIC AUCTION DECATUR, INDIANA I have rented THE VALLEY FARM LAND to Mr. Howard Evans and will sell the following described Personal Property: LIVESTOCK—FARM MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT-GRAIN & HAY _Z . ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18,-10:00 A M. (Auctioneer’s Note: This is an Unusually Fine Line of Farm Machinery and Power Equipment, All in Excellent Condition.) LOCATION— At The McMillen Valley Farm located one mile Southeast of Decatur, IndianaOn Highway No. 33. LIVESTOCK —HOGS: 10 Sows, some with litters, Others will farrow by or near sale date. SHEEP: 8 Head of Ewes, 3 have lambs, Others are Bred. GRAIN AND HAY— I2OO Bushels of Com. 500 Bushels Oats. A Lot of Chopped Hay. FERTILIZER— 23S Fifty lb. Bags of ROYSters 0-20-20 Fertilizer. FARM MACHINERY and POWER EQUIPMENT THREE TRACTORS— A NEW JOHN DEERE 720 DIESEL—AN OLIVER 77 and AN OLIVER 88, ALL IN EXCELLENT REPAIR. OLIVER Four Row Cultivator NEW IDEA 12 A Manure Spreader on Rubber OLIVER 3 Bottom Plow on Rubber NEW IDEA Manure Spreader on RubberJOHN DEERE 4 Bottom Plow on Rubber Power Take-off. OLIVER Two Row Corn Picker, nearly new Two Rubber Tired Wagons Complete. CASE Combine with motor Two Wheel Trailer with Stock Bed. KEWANEE 9 Ft. Wheel Disk on Rubber CASE Ensilage Blower with 50 Ft. of Pipe — JOHN DEERE 17 Hole Fertilizer Drill M. & M. Cylinder Corn Shelter on Rubber on Rubber ~ Elevator on Rubber with Motor JOHN DEERE Four Row Com Planter Manure Conveyor and Track JOHN DEERE 10 Ft. Cultimulcher. Large Water Tank Mounted on Dual Tires NEW IDEA Power Take-off Mower Elevated Gas Tank MASSEY-HARRIS Four Bar Side Rake Two Barrel Sprayer on Rubber JOHN DEERE Four Section Rotary Hoe Metal Wheelbarrow on Rubber JOHN DEERE Subsoiler Large Air Compressor JOHN DEERE Hay Pick-up Chopper Several Drums..of Oil and Grease with corn head Forks, Shovels, Grease Guns, Wrenches, etc. NEW IDEA Hom Loader with Blade, A Lot of Small Tools Bucket and Fork. 12 Ft. Two Section Harrow. Automatic Silo Unloader. Many Miscellaneous Articles. CORMAN RUPP IRRIGATION PUMP With CHRYSLER MOTOR and 1300 FT. ALUMINUM PIPE SPECIAL FEEDING EQUIPMENT— Four Ton Feed Cart with dual tires, Power Take-off and Auger Unloader; Metal Bottom Forage Wagon with Drag, Power Take-off; Large Feed Bunk with Roof, Hopper, Motor and Feed Distributor; 8 Feed Bunks; 4 Metal Tanks: 12 Portable Hog Houses on Skids; 8 Metal Hog Feeders; Several Water Fountains. TWO JEEPS— A 1958 Four Wheel Drive, F.C.-170—%-Ton Jeep specially equipped with Automatic Hubs for Front End; New Motorola Radio, Heater and Defroster; A 1955 Four Wheel Drive Jeep with Power Take-off and on New Rubber. TERMS —CASH, * . — ■ ELIZABETH K. MCMILLEN, Owner J. F. Sanmann —Gorrell Bros. —Sherman Sausaman — Auctioneers. Sale Conducted by Midwest Realty Auction Co., Decatur, Indiana. Lunch Will Be Served On The Premises By The Decatur Lions Club.) 4 13

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* • LONDON (UPD—U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew ' to Europe today to discuss a "new s look” Western policy on Germany 1 and a possible go-it-alone mission 1 to Moscow by British Prime Mint ister Harold Macmillan. - Dulles will confer with Foreign s Secretary Selwyn Lloyd this ani ernoon and meet with Macmillan i at 10 Downing St this evening. Macmillan was understood to - have received an invitation from :- Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushe chev to visit Moscow in the near s future. Informed sources said he e will defer a decision until he talks a with Dulles. .. There was as yet no official B confirmation of the reports which also were carried in most London t newspapers that Macmillan had been invited to the Soviet capital. Anxious to Accept i The invitation was understood ? to have been delivered by Soviet Charge D’Affaires Alexei Roechin *• when he called on Lloyd Tuesday. MacMillan informed the cabinet e Tuesday morning, sources said. >- The Daily Express said Macs Millan also informed Queen Elizas beth of the invitation at his regular weekly audience with her. e Macmillan was said to be anxious to accept the invitation. But - reports from Washington said Dulles opposed the idea and will try to talk Macmillan out of it. French Premier Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer also were reported 1 “cool” to the idea. The sources said ho date had t been set for the visit. However, e they said if it does come off it e would be around the beginning of , March. The Daily Mail said, how- ;. ever, that “a trip to Russia within ;. a matter of days cannot be ruled e out.” Dulles flew here from Washing- . ton after a long llth-hour talk . with President Eisenhower. He expressed confidence that his mis- ’ sion would reaffirm the West’s determination “not to yield” be--1 fore Soviet threats. 3 Dulles will confer with Allied e statesmen in London, Paris and Bonn during his four-day flying :- visit to Europe. Sees Nortsad First , But surprisingly, his first sched- ,. uled meeting was with Gen. Lauris l ; M. Norstad. Allied supreme com--1 mander in Europe. Norstad was flying from his Paris headquarters to confer with Dulles this | -... [

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afternoon at the U.S. Embassy here. The subject was not dlscosefl. But there was widespread speculation that Dulles was seeking Norstad’s advice on die military implications of a possible Western offer to the Soviets of a 500-mile wide zone along the Iron Curtain frontier in Europe from which Western and Soviet forces would be thinned out or withdrawn altogether. , . It was reported that Dulles also wanted to discuss with Norstad the possible military implications if the Soviets clamped another blockade on Berlin. Quick-Fire Developments A quick-fire series of cold war developments marked the start of Dulles' mission: —Russia reportedly is pressing the West to speed up the date ot an East-West foreign ministers conference on Germany. —The Soviets held a U.S. Army convoy in a move apparently designed to remind the West how precarious its position is in Com-munist-surrounded West Berlin. —Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky told the . 21st Communist Party congress in Moscow Tuesday that Russia has [ far outstripped the West in intercontinental rockets. Diplomatic sources said the , main purpose of Dulles’ mission . is to seek agreement on a new I Western policy on Germany in preparation for a Big Four con- | ference. It is generally assumed that such a conference wfll be ■ held in Geneva this spring. Dulles was said to want West- . ern agreement on: t —A new Western offer aimed at I German reunification, including a settlement of the Berlin problem. . —The date, place and level of the expected East-West conference. —What action the West is pre- ; in- ; other Communist blockade of Berlin. ' . i Bulldozing in Class POTSDAM. N.Y. (UPD—Giant earthmoving and roadbuilding machinery has dug its way into the college curriculum. Next year, Clarkson College of 1 Technology will offer students ’ courses in the marketing of con--1 struction equipment that wfll lead ’ to a bachelor of science degree.