Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1959 — Page 1

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Artificial Planet Is Soaring Steadily For Orbit Around The Sun

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Ameri- , car’s first articial planet soared steadily today toward a brief rendezvous in space with the moon on its way into orbit around the sun. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said that at 10 a.m. c.s.t its Pioneer IV had climbed 84,800 miles, far higher than any other U.S. space probe had risen. NASA scientists said nothing short of a direct hit from a meteor can now prevent the 13.4 pound gold-plated package from becoming planet No. 11. Nd. 10 is Russia’s Lunik, launched Jah. 2. Pioneer IV was launched by a 60-ton Juno II Army rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 11:10 p. m. c.s.t. Monday. By 8 a.m. it had climbed 72,400 miles and was coasting along at 8,518 miles an hour. Pioneer I, launched by the Air Force Nov. 11, had risen only 71,300 miles before falling back to earth, and the Army’sfirstmoonearth, and the Army’s first moonreached only 65.580 miles. . as Ample Speed By 10 a.m. the pull of earth’s gravity had slowed Pioneer IV to 6.162 miles an hour but had left it with plenty of momentum to pass the moon Wednesday afternoon and become a new artificial planet of the sun. The 10 am. speed and height figures, supplied by NASA’s Goldstone tracking station in California, jibed precisely with an estimate for that time made two hours earlier. The National Aeronautics and Space Agency said it expected the newest U.S. space robot to reach an altitude of 84,800 miles by 10 a.m. The pull of the earth's gravity should have slowed its speed to 6,162 miles per hour by then. Has Ample Velocity Although slightly off course, the satellite was expected to pass within 35,000 miles of the moon—a miss of 20,000 miles from the planned trajectory. Its closest ap-

—-——— ——— ,— — Fail To Agree Over Germany

MOSCOW (UPD—Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan admitted today they were "unable to agree” on Germany but said they would study a plan to pull back troops and nuclear weapons from the middle of Europe. They pledged themselves to seek a negotiated solution to the Berlin crisis. Western diplomats in Moscow were pessimistic and said no solution was in sight because Moscow has not ‘retreated from the determination to turn Berlin control over to Communist East Germany. Macmillan flew back to London today. A Soviet-British communique issued at end of the 10-day Macmillan Mission accepted the need of “early negotiations” to save “peace and security in Europe and throughout the world" and promised to study a partial pullback of Eastern and Western forces from the Iron Curtain. Start on Disarmament Any decision to pull back troops from the Iron Curtain would be part of a peaceful, long-term settlement of the German-, problem. They said nuclear weapons would be included in the thinning. out and that there would be "an appropriate system of inspection.” This would provide a partial start on disarmament and a partial start on European security, two East-West issues long locked in a cold war stalemate. At first reading, the cautiously worded communique seemed to imply a new British willingness to take up the previously rejected “Rapacki Plan” for Europe. This years-old proposal by Poland’s Foreign Minister Adam, Rapacki provided for a "neutral zone” stretching, along both, sides of the Iron Curtain and including both East and West Germany, As originally phrased, the Rapacki Plan would call for withdrawal of all foreign troops from Germany and a ban on nuclear weapons there. ** ~ C

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proach to the moon is expected j at 1 p.m. Wednesday, when its speed will have been cut to 3,500 ' miles per- hour. ‘ But NASA scientists said the ' space vehicle hks ample velocity . to go into an orbit around the , tan. Its speed at launching from . Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 11:10 p. b m. c.s.t. Monday was 24,890 miles per hour. Thia was 305 miles per hour more than needed to escape ‘ the backward pull of the earth’s i gravity and the tug of the moon’s gravity field. .The scientists said Pioneer IV will go into a solar orbit somewhat larger end more elongated than that ci the earth’s. The space 1 vehicles, like die earth, they said, 1 will take about a year for each trip around the sun. k . ...... NASA scientists s said U.S. ’ ground stations may be able to track the radio-equipped robot for . a distance of 300.000 to 400,000 milesfrom the earth. The robot’s batteries are expected to lastabout 50 hours aft- ' er passing the moon, 221,000 miles away. How Tracking Works "For a brief period this morn- , ing, from 5:47 to thrde of the biggest tracking stations in , the world were locked onto Pio- . neer IV’s radio signal. The stations were Mayaguez in Puerto Rico, Jodrell Bank in England and Goldstone at Camp Irwin in the Mojave Desert in California. Goldstone then took over the tracking and was scheduled to remain locked on the signal for about nine hours. After a period of uncertain tracking, Goldstone again wkafid lock onto the signal and chart the robot’s closest approach to the moon. The 14 hours of uncertainty will result from rotation of the earth. This will place the tracking stations on the opposite side of the globe. But NASA scientists said only a collision with a meteor could divert the robot from its charted course, and Goldstone should have no difficulty picking it up again.

The two statesmen did not go - into detail It was not stated how - Berlin itself would be affected un- ’ der a troop withdrawal agree--1 ment. Russia has demanded withs drawal of all Western troops » from West Berlin in return for a pullback of Soviet troops from t East Berlin. This the West has - refused. i Ask April Meeting I In Leipzig, East German diplo- • mats predicted Khrushchev would i bring with him Wednesday a new i proposal designed to avert a clash t over Berlin when he goes there os - tensibly to visit the Communist i trades fair. In the past he has used visits to East Germany to ■ announce a hardened Soviet policy ■ but Eastern diplomats said they I saw a spirit of conciliation in the « Soviet notes handed to the West ■ Monday. I Reaction in Washington, London, Paris and Bonn to the Soviet i notes on Berlin and Germany was almost the same. State, Department officials were strongly opi posed to Khrushchev’s attempt to ■ limit a foreign ministers conference to discussion of Berlin alone and the same feeling was reflect1 ed in other Western capitals. Asked about the Rapacki-like proposal at his final news conference, Macmillan replied only that it was one of the problems which must be decided in the forthcoming East-West talks. A Soviet note handed Monday . to envoys of the United Stated, , Britain, France and East and West Germany called for an ■ East-West foreign ministers meettag on Germany and Berlin in •Vienna or Geneva in April and a summit conference of the heads of state later. Only a week ago Khrushchev told a political rally that a foreign ministers meeting was “impractical” and that there should be a summit meeting instead. Informed sources said Macmillan’s patient talks with Khrushchev in the final days of his stay had softened this line.

Meeting Wednesday On City Planning Decatur citizens are invited to attend a special meeting in the city council chambers Wednesday at 7 p.m. to hear Milferd H. Eggerding discuss community planning. Eggerding, a partner in Community Planning Consultants, will tell how the elimination and prevention of city problems can lead to the growth and prosperity of the city. Mayor Robert D. Cole said that the city council and city planning commission would also attend to hear the talk. Eggerding, besides his partnership in the firm, is a full-tiine staff planner. He is a member of the American institute of planners and is vice president of the Indiana section of the western Great Lakes chapter of A.I.P. He also has written many papers for the Indiana academy of social science, the Chicago metropolitan housing and planning association, the Indiana economic council and the American railway development association. Eggerding advised the city of Valparaiso while directing its master plan for improvement. He has conducted surveys for church and school -sites throughout the country. He received his AB’fßftn Valparaiso U. in 1940, an M.A. from Northwestern U. in 1947, and taught geography and geology at Valparaiso from 1948 to 1954 before forming Community Planning consultants. Acquitted On Charge Os Assault, Battery Reves Viarrial, 53, of route one, Monroe, the Mexican laborer who was accused of striking a fellow worker on top of the head with an axe, was found not guilty in mayor’s court Monday afternoon of assault and battery as was charged against him. .The decision was handed down by Mayor Robert D. Cole Monday afternoon after hearing the case presented by Severin Schurger, prosecuting attorney, and D. Burdette Custer, attorney for Viarrial. The formal charge of assault and battery was Viarrial by one Santos Garcia, 35, of route one, Craigville, February 23, for an incident which occurred at the home of Viarrial on Sunday, February 22. Hie alleged victim, Garcia, had stated to local law officers that Viarrial came at him with an axe while he was sitting in a chair in a cabin on the Ezra Kaehr farm, located three miles west of Monroe on state road 124. Garcia gave no apparent reason for the alleged attack. In court, Garcia gave the sapa® story while Viarrial gave his version of what had happened? Viarrial stated that he hit Garcia on of the head with the axe in an act of self defense when Garcia attacked him. Neither story could be; disproved. Garcia had to be taken to the Caylor-Nickel clinic In Bluffton following the scuffle, where Several stitches were required to close the wound. — Viarrial had been held in the Adams county jail on the charge since Tuesday, when he was unable to meet the required S2OO bond for his release, but was released Monday afternoon when the court handed down its decision of not guilty. • Three persons appeared in court as character witnesses for the defendant. All were former employers of Viarrial. Widespread Search For Missing Plane LISBON, Portugal (UPI) —U.S. planes from Spain, Morocco and the Azores joined Portuguese aircraft today in a sweeping landsea search, for a DC3 missing with two Americans aboard. Pilot G. W. Grossoehme and co pilot Thomas Pierce were ferrying the two-engined plane from the United States to Thailand. They were last heard from about six hours after they left the Azores on the way here.

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Decatur. Indiana, Tuesday, March 3,' 1959.

Home Talent Show In City Thursday, Friday

Broadway isn’t really coming to ’ Decatur and "Around the World r in a Daze’’ isn’t really the extrava- , ganza that the late Mike Todd pro* ■ duced. But for and a wellrounded evening of entertainment, r the Beta Sigma Phi sorority “pro . ducers” announce that tickets for , the March 5 and 16 performances of the musical comedy are still t available. . Appearing on the Decatur high j school stage as Casper Perkins, the winner of two tickets for a trip, . around ’ the world, will be Jerry f Meyers (subbing for David Niven, . who had previous committments*. I His companion is his landlady Mai bel Mullins, played by Bertilene I Hess. The duo first visit a fairy s land where the inhabitants are - portrayed by first graders from St. » Joseph’s and Lincoln schools. 1 Perhaps the highlight of the trip > is an “evening in Paris” where the - gay continental, Maurice Cheval- ■ ier, a transition that Bob Worthman does with considerable apf lomb, leads the acting of a night • club show, complete with a Follies Bergere chorus line. 'Hie chorus, I seniors at the local high schools,

Repealer Bill ! ~ ’ - - - ST 1. Is Dead Issue

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —lndiana senators who fought for repeal of the two-year-old “right to work” law gave up the ghost today and frankly admitted theirs is a lost ’ cause. ’ The clincher came when the Senate .voted 26-23 this afternoon i 1 to reconsider Its action 24 hours 1 earlier in passing Sen. Roy Con- [ rad's so-called “Republican” re- : pealer by a 27-23 vote. The action recalled the bill 1 from a sort of limbo into which ’ it was thrown Monday, halfway ! between the Senate and the House, ■ where it must pass before it can • move to Governor Handley’s desk for a veto that was seen as cerI tain. t Three senators—two Democrats 1 and a Republican—who wanted ■ the law repealed because it was i roundly opposed and castigated by labor union leaders, admitted the issue is now dead for this session. “It’s A Corpse” “I think it’s a corpse and has been since last Friday,” said Sen. Howard Steele, Knox Republican, who voted with the Democrats Monday for passage of the bill. "The killer was when it was made a special order of business last Friday. The move this morning means they are fiddling with the cadaver..■. Sens. Matthew. Welsh, Democratic minority floor leader, and Sen. S. Hugh Dillin, perhaps the most vocal Democrat on the repeal issue in this session, agreed with Steele. It was a strange twist of strategy that brought the repealer back for another showdown—a showdown which could come later today, or Wednesday, even later, or not at all, depending on when Conrad wants to call it down. Even most of the rebel Republicans who defected from the GOP —~l

Lenten Meditation “ON BEING A PERSON" “What is man, that thou art mindful of him?”—Psalms 1:4. Oliver Wendell Holmes went out for a walk one day near his summer home. A little girl joined him for a time. When the girt said she had to go home, her distinguished companion said, “When your mother asks you where you’ve been, tell her you’ve been walking with Oliver Wendell Holmes.” To which the little lady replied, "And when your folks ask you where you’ve been, tell them you were walking with Mary Susanna Brown.” There is something tine and healthy here. This little lass stood on her own rights for what she was as a person. She was not to be overshadowed by greatness. - ■ It is so with the Christian. We must respect ourselves as well as others. Without thinking more of ourselves than we ought to think, we can still value our own individuality. God is mindful of. us, whoever we are. We do not need to be self-important to recognize our importance as persons in the sight of God. This makes possible our self-fulfillment, however humble our station.

I - . i dees its best to keep up the Parisienne tradition. ’ A Sadie Hawkins day race is ; viewed by the lucky winders as they visit "the mountain folk a spell,’* even getting in on the Mar-tin-Coy fuedin’. Players in this skit include Jo Meyers, Ethelind Mann, Janice Schulte, Charlene Morrison, and members from the Junior Women’s chib. The feud will be ' vocalized by Jerold Lobsiger and 1 pantomimed by seniors from De- - catur high. Chet Longenberger will provide the music. Proceeds of the show will go for an “isolette” to be installed in the Adams county memorial hospital nursery. The isolette is instrumental in keeping premature babies alive. Tickets can be purchased as Holthouse -on - the • Highway, the Style shop, Bower jewelry store and Kane paint and wallpaper. Price of tickets are $1 for adhlts and 50 cents for children. Tickets may also be purchased at the door prior to each performance.

* ranks to help pass the repealer, felt that the Democrats should have brought out Monday for a final vote the “unicm reform” bill which many legislators in both I houses believed should go hand-in-hand with repeal of “right to work.” Blame Own Party Republicans, in debate on the issue this morning, contended the Democrats werg.being unfair. But Welsh contended- that his deal with Conrad last week required that the repealer be up for third reading in the House at the same time the reform bill was at the same stage in the Senate. Some Democratic senators blamed their party almost as much as the GOP for the stalemate. “We have not been faithful to the trust placed in us by the people of Indiana,” said Sen. Nelson Grills (D-Indiana polish ‘ ‘The welfare of the state requires that both reform and repeal be passed.” On the issue of reconsidering its action in passing the repealer, the senators generally did not cross party lines. Sen. James W. Sturgeon (D-Brownstown), who voted against repeal Monday, voted with his Democratic colleagues today against reconsideration. Sen. Howard Steele was the only Republican to vote with the Democrats. i 13-Year-Old Boy Is Strangled By Swing DELPHI, Ind. (UPI)—-Thirteen-year-old Dewey Burkhardt Jr. was accidentally strangled Monday while swinging from a rope tied to a tree in front of hia home. The youngster’s body was discovered by his father.

Evacuate U.S. Employes From LaPaz Embassy WASHINGTON <UPI) -Official sources said employes at the U. S. embassy at La Paz, Bolivia, are being evacuated to two concentration points on the outskirts of the city because of anti-Ameri-can demonstrations. They said embassy employes and their dependents—about 200 in all—are joining 700 or more other American citizens in the La Paz area who also have been urged to gather at the two points, points. Officials said that so far as they knew here, no evacuation of the Americans from the country itself was yet contemplated. Mobs demonstrated around the embassy Monday night in protest ( against unfriendly remarks about . Bolivia attributed to an embassy j official by Time magazine. One of . the controversial remarks was t that Bolivia and its problems should be divided up among its neighbors. 1 U. S. Crarge d’Affaires Wimber- , ly Coerr denied that any official i had made the remarks quoted by Time. Coerr conferred with Presii dent Herman Siles Zuazo this morning and reported to the State Department. i County Council To Meet On March 16 . Members of the Adams county “ council will be called to a special ! session with the county commissioners Monday, March 16, to dis- ’ cuss the proposed Adams county ' highwdy building and the additional appropriation needed for its construction. Edward F. Jaberg. Adams county auditor, stated today that the council will be callM chiefly to discuss the appropriation of $lB,000 termed by the commissioners as needed in addition to the first estimate of $32,000 for the construction of the county building. It was announced last week that the county building will cost nearly $50,000 rather than the $32,000 as was first estimated. Other business completed by the county commissioners Monday at i their regular meeting included the allowing of the county bills acquired during February. > Frank Kitson, superintendent of the Adams county home, submit- ' ted his monthly report for February. The report shows a total of $557.26 receipts for the 30 persons living at the county home. During . February, one male and one female were admitted to the home. The February report stated that the home now has 23 males and seven females listed as residents. An allocation of $950 from the general ditch improvement fund for the repairing and cleaning of the W. D. Reinhart drain in Preble township was approved by the commissioners. According to the allocation, as submitted by Herman Moellering, Adams county surveyor, the allocation will pay the costs of re-working 1,700 feet of the drain. ; Gorman Augsburger and William Baily discussed a ditch prob- : lem which exists in Wabash township with the county commission- ’ ers. The matter was referred to Moellering. ■ z ' Jaberg stated today that the auditor’s officice will be closed j April 14 due to the special city ] election. Hie office is used as a < voting station during elections for < Decatur residents voting in precinct 2-A. Glen Neuenschwander, of Berne, was authorized by the commissioners Monday to make an appraisal of the Adams county court house, and contents, the county farm, and contents, and the county, jail and its contents, to determine if the proper insurance is being carried on county property. The next meeting of the Adams county commissioners will be held with the county auditor Monday at the court house. INDIANA WEATHER Clear to partly cloudy and colder tonight. Some snow flurries extreme north’, tonight. Wednesday parti y\cloudy, showers likely northwest and extreme north by Wednesday night. Warmer south Wednesday. Low tonight in the 20s. Highs Wednesday ranging from around 40 northeast to 50 southwest. Sunset today 6:39 p,m. c.d.t. Sunrise Wednesday 7:15- a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and windy with snow flurries north. Turning colder late Wednesday night or early Thursday. Lowe mostly in the 30s. Highs 45 to - 55.

National Awards To County 4-Hers

The wiaatrs of the national 4-H awards for Adams county were announced today by Leo Seltenright, county extension agent. The awards will be officially presented at the countywide meeting Friday evening at Adams Central high school. The meeting will be the highlight of the festivities for national 4-H we£k. Sixty-five members of 4-H club work will be given awards in 21 phases of county work. The achievement phaser sponsored by the Ford Motor Co., of the blue award group goes to: I, Helen Rumple; 2, Jane Wass; 3, Leo Busick; and 4. Alan Habegger. The alumni recognition, sponsored by the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., of framed award certificates will be given to: 1, Mrs. S. Neuenschwander, and 2, Stanley Arnold. The boys’ agricultural division, a blue award group, sponsored by Interantional Harvester Co., are slated for: 1, Larry Busick; 2, Leo Busic k;3, Jim Sipe, and 4, Muri Yoder. Canning, another blue award group, sponsored by Kerr Glass Mfg. Corp., has two recipients: “I, Wanda Deßolt, and 2, Marsha King. Clothing is another blue award group with Coats and Clark Co. giving the awards to: 1, Gail Egly; 2, Carol Norquest: 3, Helen Rumple, and 4, Rita Norquest. The blue award in dairy, sponsored by The Oliver Corp., will be given to: 1, Dick Johnson; 2, Jim Singleton; 3, Muri Yoder, and 4, Joe Kohne. Westinghouse educational foundation sponsors the electric blue group award to: 1. Ronnie Christner; 2, Nancy Bailey; 3, Lois Kerke, and 4, Roger Roth. Entomology, a blue award group, Hercules Pcwoer Co. as sponsor, will be presented to: 1, Steven Kaye; 2. Jack Miller, and 3, Jimmie Brown, Arcadian Products Dept, of Allied Chemical Corp, will present the blue award group jn field crops to: 1, Mike Thieme; 2, Ray

Nine Children Drown Today

TIFTON, Ga. (UPI)— A school bus jammed with more than 80 Negroes plunged almost out of sight into a pond today, and authorities said at least nine were drowned. Three children were hospitalized for effects of shock, exposure and minor injuries. ---- The other frightened children who were pulled safely through windows of the bus were sent to their homes. Driver Doyer jones, 40, who had been making the bus route rounds for 23 years, said his bus hit two bumps in succession on the dirt road, causing him to lose control “unavcudably.” The bus turned over on its right side and plunged into the water. The vehicle was about two-thirds submerged. The accident happened near the community of Brookfield, about seven miles east of Tifton. Jones said he kicked out the window at the driver’s seat, mounted the overturned bus, kicked out other windows and hoisted to safety screaming children who were standing on top of other children. “The larger ones were standing <

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Mazelin; 3. John Rumple, and 4, Sidney Schwartz. The blue award group in food preparation, sponsored by Betty Crocker of General Mills goes to: 1, Lois Jean Gerke; 2, Phyllis Smith: 3, Annette Thomas, and 4, Jane Duff. The forestry award from American Forest Products Industries Inc., will be presented to Lynford Weiland. In the frozen food division, the Whirlpool Corp, will present the blue award group to: 1, Lois Jean Gerke; 2, Linda King; 3, Nancy Cook, and 4, Karen Nussbaum. Garden tractor group, a blue award group, sponsored by Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. goes to: 1, Lois Jean Gerke; 2, Jim Fuhrman; 3, Mary J. Baker, and 4, David Rash. Girls’ home economics, a Montgomery Ward blue award group will be given to: 1. Esther Brehm; 2, Janice Van Emon; 3, Alice Sprunger, and 4, Jean Wass. The Eli Lilly' Co. health blue award group will go tc: 1, Rita Norquest; 2, David Collier; 3, Erma Stauffer. and 4, Thelma Walters. In home improvement, Hie Sears-Roebuck foundation b1 u e award group goes to: 1, Jackie Hurst; 2, Connie Bergman, and 3, Linda Kruetzman. The Edward Foss Wilson leadership award for the boys division goes to Lynn Lehman and the girls award to Alice Sprunger. Another SearsRoebuck award, in poultry, goes to: 1, John Fuhrman; 2, Donald Ray; 3, Paul Rich, and 4, Leroy Adam. * 'The awards from the national committee on boys and girls club in recreation goes to: 1, Sharon Diehle: 2, Larry Busick; 3. Jim Fuhrman, and 4, Deanna Small. Soil and water conservation, flit Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. blue award group will be given to: 1, John Rumple: 2. Claude Striker; 3, Muri Yoder, and 4, John Fuhrman. ' The Moorman Manufacturing Co. blue award group for swine [ goes to: 1, Donald Fuelling; 2, Joan Brown; 3, Rex King, and 4, Max Egly. — — -■ - -H-r- -

on the little small, ones,” Jones told United Press International. “That’s' what caused so much trouble. Those (the small ones) were the ones we lost.” Jones said two white men from nearby farm houses helped him lift some of the larger children through the windows. Someone reached a telephone and soon an array of emergency apparatus was put into use. Five of the children were pronounced dead almost immediately. Rescue workers revived three nearly drowned children but, after several hours, gave up on four others. Volunteers began ferrying the panicky, shivering children home almost at once, making it difficult to obtain a count of those Ch the bus. Jones estimated “between 80 and 100.” Jones said his 56% mile route would bring 105 children if there were no absentees but several boys were staying away from classes to begin spring planting. The bus did not have 105 seats, Jones said. He said there were standees in the bus at the time of the accident.