Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 40.

Registration of voter* few the special city election scheduled for April 14 to decide on the selling or maintaining of the city electric utility, will begin immediately and continue until April 6, Richard D. Lewton, Adams county clerk, announced today. April 6 will also be the last day to register for the primary election, which will be held May 5. All persons from Decatur will register at the clerk's office, with the exception of persons wishing to apply for absentee ballots due to sickness. Lewton stated today that no deputies will be appointed to canvass the city to register voters because there are only four day* from the final day of registration until each precinct is to receive the list of names of eligible voters. However, Lewton continued, each county chairman will k be authorized to appoint one man to register persons who are bedfast or will file absentee forms due to sickness, or who will be absent from the county on April 14 for the special city election, or May 5 for the primary. Lewton stated that this would be done so that affidavits would be returned immediately or otherwise names might not be returned to time. Separate applications for each election must be filed with the clerk's office. According to the political calendar for the city and town, primary and city elections, February 24 is the first day a declaration can be filed with the clerk of the circuit court for the primary election by a candidate few a city office. March 26 is the last day a decalration can be filed, and is also the last day a candidate can resign and withdraw his name from the ballot. ' April 6 is die last day for a voter, including a voter absent i from the county by reason of military or naval service, to register before the primary electton. April 6 is also the last day a voter can transfer his registration before the primary election. Report Quartet Are Being Questioned It was unofficially reported today that three adults and a juvenile, ranging in age from 17 to 2j years, were being questioned at toe Adams county jail this afternoon concerning a breakin at Nuttman avenue and 13th street Mon- ’ day - 6ven i ng . No Charges have been placed against them at the present time. |*olice authorities said the station was entered from the east side by breaking a window. Most of the money in toe station was found in a waste basket. The police caught one of the men in the station and toe other three about a block away. David Hensley, Arthur Terlosky and Robert Gilbert, all of Fort Wayne, are being questioned by sheriff’s police regarding toe break-in. The trio are between the ages of 18-21. Native Os County Dies In Michigan Mrs. Wilhemina Bittikoffer, 81, a native of Adams county, died at 7:15 a.m. Monday in toe Bloomfield hospital, Pontiac, Mich. She resided in Birmingham, Mich., the past three years. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2:30 p.m, at the Klaehn funeral home in Fort Wayne, where she was a former resident. Interment will be at the Lindenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.————

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5 Movie On Cancer Is > Shown Decatur Lions "The dark shadow,” a story of how lung cancer can be cured if promptly caught by having X-rays , taken every six months, was 1 shown in movie ofrm to the Deca- * tur Lions club Monday night by » Ben Behrent, state crusade direc'r tor of the American cancer so--1 ciety. r John Auer, son of George Auer r of route 3, led the, Lions club in . toe pledge to toe flag. Roger Gen- > tis, vice president of toe club, pre- - at the*Sheeting, and Dick - publicity chairman for 1 the Adams epunty cancer society, 1 introduced the speaker. The Decatur. Lions club accepted 5 the challenge from the Rotary : club to play a basketball game as 1 soon as arrangements can be com- ‘ pleted, if the admission price is split between the two clubs. ! Frank Lybarger reported on the ! check received from toe gum ball ' machines. Roy Price called for a meeting after dinner on the lunch counter Wednesday at the McMil- ' len sale. J Behrent, whose great-grandfath-er settled in Adams county near ’ Friedheim Lutheran church in ’ 1839, and was named Von Baeren, explained that 700 persons die each J day in the world from cancer. If ’ that many died in a single rail ’ crash or fire 'll would be a great r tragedy, but since it happens reg- . ularly from cancer, few realize ’ the terrible meaning of this, he , pointed out. Behrent explained how each pen- ! ny of each dollar donated to the t cancer society is used, and how, if f cancer could have been cured 12 > years ago 2.5 million persons . would be alive today. r There are 1,500 different types -of cancers, and each one, or each . type, may need a separate cure. At present a break-through is imminent in .only one type, leukemia. Also, only radiation and surgery are known to cure cancer at toe present time. Patients are warned not to listen to quacks who may prevent early surgery dr radiation which often cures the disease. Seven danger signals which may indicate cancer should be known by everyone, and if they persist more than, two weeks, a doctor should be immediately consulted. The slightest delay may mean a long and painful illness culminating in death. T h e signals are: 1. Unusual bleeding or discharge.

2. A lump or thickening in the breast or elsewhere. 3. A sore that does not heal. 4. Change in bowel or bladder habits. 5. Hoarseness or cough. 6. Indigestion or difficulty in • swallowing. 7. Change in a wart or mole. Don’t wait for pain, he warned. ; By that time, It is often too late. ] The color movies showed how a ' physician had discovered that he < had lung cancer, and had immed-l 1 iately authorized a surgeon to operate. This was in the early | 1930'5, and the surgeon found that i an entire lobe of the lung .would 1 have to be removed. This was i done, for the first time on a hu- : man, and toe doctor lived to continue his practice for more than > 20 years. Pictures of numerous others who had caught lung can- 1 cer early, and lived long useful lives afterward, were shown.

lOppose Direct Payments For US. Farmers WASHINGTON (UPI) — Chairman Allen J. Ellender of the Senate Agriculture Committee voiced strong doubts today about a Democratic proposal to support crop prices through direct federal payments to farmers. The Louisiana Democrat said he would keep an open mind on the issue until his committee finished a full-scale series ot hearings on farm legslation. But he said he was “inclined at the moment to say it won’t work.” Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, in testimony Monday, flatly opposed toe direct payment plan being put forth by Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.) and other Democrats. Benson said the proposal would mean "going from He said Congress should accept administration proposals to relax controls on production and allow cuts in price supports so that farmers will produce less. The direct payment idea is patterned after the plan which was advanced during toe Truman administration by former Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Bran-, nan. Talmadge’s bill would call for the government to stop buying up cotton, wheat and other “basic” crops at support prices. Farmers instead would sell their products for whatever the market would pay. The government then would make payments to cover the gap between market prices and full parity for part of their output. Talmadge has been working with Sen. Hubert H. Hunphrey IDMum.) and several other Senate Democrats to broaden his original bill to cover a wider range of farm products. Ellender agreed with Benson’s view that direct payments would not benefit the small farmers. Benson said non-basic crop producers also would “come clamoring” for payments. Talmadge noted that the direct payment plan already is in effect —with administration approval—for wool, sugar and minerals.

Two Highway Reform Bills

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - Two highway reform measures were ready for passage in the Indiana Senate today. One (SB11) originally provided for a one-man highway director. But it was amended to change toe present highway commission of two Republicans and one Democrat to two commissioners from each party, plus a highway director. The highway reformers, including Sen. Charles Maddox (R-Otter-bein), a former highway commissioned ana now chairman of toe Senate Roads Committee, favored toe original bill, but it was denounced by Republican Governor Handley, who charged it would set up czaristic control. It was pointed out, however, by toe reformers that the bill at least

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Vanguard Is Launched By Navy In Effort For Satellite Into Space

Hensel To Speak In Decatur Wednesday Paul E. Hensel, vice president of personnel administration of the Central Soya Co., Fort Wayne, will speak to Decatur high school students at 1:10 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the high school auditorium. Hensel's appearance here is a part of the school's guidance program. He will speak on “I dare you to be a champion.” Basic thought of his address is, "People raised in a free country, nourished mentally by free schools and a free pressT gfinfiiny employed in free enterprise, and strengthened morally by the religion of their choice, —are better able to develop the country in which they live.” Hensel is a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan and has a master’s degreein industrial psychology from the University of lowa. A past president of the American society for personnel administration, he is also a member of the American arbitration panel. He coached in Illinois high schools and was a member of toe coaching staff at the University of Michigan until joining Central Soya in 1945. The public is invited to hear Hensel's address. -1’ • i ■ St. Mary's River Below Flood Stage St. Mary’s river is now below theoretical 13-foot flood level at the depth of 12.6 feet, weather observer Louis L.anarum reported today. No precipitation was measured in toe last 24 hours, from 7 a.m. Monday to thismorning.

confirms the status of the commission director. - Bypassed by Commission? George Foster now is executive head of the department but for two years has been by-passed by the commission members who often called meetings without his presence and usually failed to let him know what was going on, according to the reformers. However, the current bill, emasculated as it was, insures the status of the highway director. Present highway commissioners are John Peters, chairman, and Charles Dawson, former lieutenant governor, both Republicans, and Eugene Bodine, Democrat. The reformers charge that Bodine has been the tail-wagging the dog ofTfie”comrhission. The other bill (SB12) attempts to amputate politics from qualifications for the highly skilled technical personnel of the highway department. The bill’s digest says It “establishes qualifications and methods of selection for certain state highway employees and provides for their protection from political exploitation.” Hie reform measures were sponsored by Sens. Ruel Steele '(RBedford) and Von Eichhorn (DUniondale). Other road reform measures, resulting from the Hoosier highway scandals, are in varying degrees of legislative enactment. They include: Other Highway Bills —SBI3, which prevents the department from renting equipment when rental fees over the anticipated period of use shall exceed the cost of the equipment. —SBI4, which requires publication notice in newspapers in each county where highway right of way is purchased, and amounts paid. —SBIS, which forces inventory records in the department.

Levees Break Along Wabash

United Press International Levees broke on both sides of the Wabash River today, spilling flood water across thousands of acres of farmland in Indiana and Illinois. A levee west of Oaktown, Ind., was ruptured a few hours > after Indiana National Guardsmen departed, their task of fortifying the dike completed. ~ Later, a gap 100 feet long was torn in a levee on the Illinois side near Russellville. The breaks came as toe stream neared a crest in the area. Reports from the areas indicated „ some farm families were evacuated as the levees broke and toe crest moved harmlessly toward well-protected Vincennes. The Wabash crested at Hutsonville, between Terre Haute and Vincennes, late Monday at 27.9 feet, slightly below expectations. It had dropped to 27.8 by 7 a m. today. As the river level dropped at West Terre Haute, last danger point on the stream, toe crest moved into an area where overflow will be confined largely to farmland and posed no’ threat to

Present Cost For Highway Building An estimated cost of toe .new Adams county highway building being planned by the Civilian Building & Supply, Inc., of Fort Wayne, is expected to be presented to the Adams county board of ...CHnniissiwrs. February 2-L it was announced at toe weekly meeting held at the court house Monday iwth the county auditor. Edward F. Jaberg, county' auditor, stated today that the Adams county council wilFbe called to session March 9 to go over the ‘Specifications and- plans of the new building, which will be built near Monroe. The board of finance, which consists of members of the board of commissioners, determined Monday that deposit of county funds in the three Adams county banks would be as follows: The First State Bank. 52%; The First Bank of Berne, 36%, and toe Geneva Bank 12%. Every two years, the board of finance determines what percentage of county funds will be deposited in the three banks. Two years ago the Bqrne Bank received 36% of the funds while the Geneva Bank received 11%. The Decatur Bank will receive the same percentage as it did at that time. A new four-year contract has been signed with the county home superintendent, Frank Kitson, and the matron, Thelma Kitson.’ The new contract goes into effect March 1 of this year, and expires March 1, 1963. The contract calls for a $l2O per year increase for toe matron, bringing the total annual figure to $1,620, and a SSO increase for the superintendent per year, for auto repairs. Kitson receives $2,400 per year as superintendent. The next meeting of the Adams county commissioners will be held next Tuesday, because Monday is a legal holiday for county offices. INDIANA WEATHER Occasional snow, sleet or freezing rain developing in north and some light rain south half tonight Precipitation ending and colder most sections Wednesday. Low tonight ranging from upper 20s extreme northwest to upper 30s extreme south. High Wednesday 20s extreme north to near 40 extreme south. Sunset today 6:23 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Wednesday 7:34 ° a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and cold. Low Wednesday night 10 to 20. High Thursday 25 to 32.

populous communities such as were hit by the flooding last week in the stream’s upper reaches. Scattered showers and light rain —mixed with snow and freezing in the north—were on toe weather menu for this afternoon, tonight, and Wednesday morning. But forecasts did not • indicate any heavy precipitation. Temperatures reached highs ranging from 36 at South Bend to 49 at Evansville Monday and dropped to overnight lows ranging from 28 at South Bend to 35 at Indianapolis. Highs today will range from the • low 30s to the upper 40s, lows to- . night from toe upper 20s to the upper 30s, and highs Wednesday between 30 and 40. The outlook for Thursday was cloudy and cold, l Out West, a * tropical storm i which battered southern California with gale winds and flooding , rains headed inland, where it was expected to dump up to five t inches of snow in the mountains. The storm, which began Sunt day, tapered oft to showers in - California Tuesday and rain in ) Oregon and Washington. Weatoer- > men warned of heavy snows Tuesday in parts of Montana and pre- ~ dieted snow or snow flurries for the Rockies, the Dakotas, the upper Mississippi Valley and the upper Great Lakes. At least two traffic fatalities were blamed on the Pacific storm, which left considerable wind and water damage in its ' wake. At Santa Maria, Calif., ! more than 50 trees were uprooted i by 75-mile-an-hour winds, and t schools were closed Monday due ■ to power fa —— 7 Trees also were downed in nu- ' Angeles "and Santa Barbara. The ! heavy rains flooded intersections and temporarily closed a portion of the Harbor Freeway. However, : the storm, second in recent weeks, ► snapped a seven-month drought in ■ southern California. Ballots Are Burned By Election Board The nearly 5,000 ballots printed at city expense for the special city election without the supervision of • the county election board, were ’ burned publicly on Court street ’ Monday afternoon before the elec- ’ tion board and city clerk-treasur-er. ‘ After the burning of the ballots. • new ones were ordered by the county election board; they will be ' printed on different colored paper so that none of the old ballots ’ could be used. The group met at the office of county clerk Richard D. Lewton. ; Cal E. Peterson, president of the J county election board,grabbed the. . wire mesh incinerator, and asked • Lewton to bring the ballots. Lew- . ton refused, stating that the court » order stated that Mrs. Miriam t Hall, the Clerk-treasurer, was supi posqd to burn the ballots. Mrs. Hall struggled to the door of the court house carrying the ; ballots, at which time Peterson I took both the ballots and the iron ; 'incinerator, and carried thenT'to . the side of the court house, where the ballots were burned. Peterson opened each sealed package of ballots and poured the contents into the incinerator, lighting them. Later, kerosene was poured over the ballots to hasten the burning, which took nearly an hour. Mrs. Elmer Beer, the third member of the election board, ajso witnessed the burning. At one point, Lewton remarked that the packages of ballots did not contain the three samples required by law; Mayor Robert D. Cole, who also witnessed the burning, then replied that if. Lewton and the election 'board had assisted in printing the ballots as originally requested, many errors could have been avoided.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) —A new Vanguard streaked into the skies today in an effort by the Navy to put a satellite into space that will be used as an orbiting miniature weather bureau. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington announced 10 minutes after the firing at 9:55 a.m. CST., that all three stages fired successfully: NASA said that the launching "looked good,” but that two or three hours would be needed to determine definitely whether the new satellite attempt had achieved an orbit. The 20-inch, 21 Ms-pound artificial moon was the eighth Vanguard blasted off. Officials said the delicately instrumented satellite, developed by Army scientists at Ft. Monmouth, N. J., should be able to spot Atlantic hurricanes or Pacific typhoons. They described it as "a first step toward obtaining continuous weather mapping of a global scope.” Flames mushroomed from the base of the gaunt, cartridgeshaped rocket and it rose gradually from its launching site. Picking up speed, it forged into a heavy overcast about 47 seconds ) after blastoff and only its low rumble could be heard after that. The Navy said that only three more Vanguard launchings after this one were scheduled in the Vanguard series that began as a

Juke Box Operator Tells Os Beating

WASHINGTON (UPD—A Brooklyrr jttke box operator testified today that three hoodlums beat his nose into the shape of a, horseshoe when he refused to cut them in on his business. tinder special New York “police protection, had tears in his eyes as he described the beating before the Senate Rackets Committee. He identified his assailants as Ernest (Kip) Filocomo, Charles Panarella and Anthony (Dutch) Tuzio.' The committee said all had served prison terms and now are facing a second trial for assault on Saul. The witness said the beating took place in December, 1957, at the Wagon Wheels, a combination candy store and luncheonette in Brooklyn. He said he had been threatened repeatedly by Filocomo earlier. Question Union Officials He said Filocomo first approached him in May, 1957, on behalf of Lawrence Gallo, another juke box operator and organizer for the United Coin Machine Operators Assn. Saul said he rejected Gallo’s demand that they become partners and that he sign up with Local 19 of the Federated Service Workers Union. The local was identified earlier as a bogus labor group and a haven for ex-members of Murder Inc. «=- Opening the second week of its 6f juke box teer in g, the committee also planned to question six, union offi-

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Gerald Gerig, Decatur Missionary Church) THE EBB AND FLOW 1 Corinthians 4:5 “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels , of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. There seem to be two definite classes of people today in the world—those who are growing spiritually and those who are showing defeat in their spiritual lives. It is hard for some Christians to understand why some who live such ungodly lives can prosper in material goods. Yet, we must understand that the accumulation of earthly goods is not a true index of character nor is it a title indication of God’s blessing. Some who are enjoying everything they want today may have a rude awakening when the Lord reveals the hidden things of the heart. . . We need to be careful during this Lenten season that we do not lose the true meaning of the cross. We can become much like the soldiers who crucified the Saviour. They were much more interested in the clothes of the Lord than they were interested in the Lord Himself. There are many things we enjoy which are by-products of the Master and we need to be careful le’st we become wrapped up with the by-products more than being wrapped up with the Lord Himself. How much does the Lord mean to you?

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BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPD—The U. S. placed the first weather satellite in orbit today. vital phase of the International Geophysical Year. Amateur birdwatchers on nearby beaches were few compared to the crowds that turned out for early Vanguard launchings. Youngsters played in the surf while their parents, with telescopes and field glasses ready, watched the 22,600-pound Vanguard start its mission. The rocket was set to place tha matellite in an orbit with a mini* mum altitude of 200 to 300 miles and a maximum altitude of 1.6 M miles. The only previous Vanguard to achieve an orbit was a 3 Vi-pound K test sphere fired last March 17 and now in an orbit that may last as long as 2,000 years. If today’s firing succeeds, the new Vanguard will be the first full-sized satellite in the series. December Injuries Are Fatal To Woman INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Mrs. Anna M. Myles, 31, Indianapolis, died today of injuries sustained last Dec. 10 when she was hit by a car at a city street intersection.

cials and operators about a reported scheme to take over the coin machine business in the New York area. The union men are Joseph Degrandis, head of Teamster Local . trusts. the Federated Service Workers Union. The committee heard testimony last week that Degrandis once ran a retail clerks local using a gun and a billy for office equipment. Witnesses charged that Degranflis was working in cahoots with Herbert and Eugene Jacob of a coin machine trade association in an effort to create a New York monopoly. Expect New Scandals The Jacob brothers were slated to testify along with another set of brothers who are juke box op--1 era tors — Lawrence and Joseph ' .(Joey the Blond) Gallo. The Gallos have been linked in testimony with notorious underworld figures. The committee spent all last week exploring the use of bogus union locals and strong-armed • tactics to discourage competition . in the juke box business. New scandals are expected to . be aired later this week when the t committee starts looking into i some of the “factoring com- ; panies,” or lending agencies, which operate in the coin machine , field. Kennedy said the committee would inquire into information : that they made loans to “some of . the leading narcotics- and EEff” i bling figures in the United States.”