Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 5 March 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVil. No. 54.

Heavy Death Toll Taken By Fires

Planning For Future Is Urged For Decatur

• Miferd H. Eggerding, partner of Community Planning Consultants, told a group of civic and city officials, including Mayor Robert D. Cole, members of the council and plan commission, that "Decatur would soon be a suburb of Fort Wayne, and should plan to live and grow accordingly?’ He gave the informative address Wednesday night in the city council chambers. Eggerding cited Decatur’s current parking problem, the lack of many good industrial sites, the need for cross thoroughfares in some parts of the city to allow better accessibility, and other constructive criticisms as a few that must be remedied, if Decatur is to reap the rewards of ' civic improvement. The growth of the cities and towns today is from pedestrian to automobile, Eggerding said, explaining the trend of planning cities. The downtown area of Decatur depicts how the city was built for pedestrian traffic, not powered vehicles. New retail districts should be added with ample parking facilities and frontal area, he added. Eggerding gave a '•thrive-pointed plan for the city to follow. 1. Take inventory of the land use—what economic factors affect it? What is the current trend for . residential, industrial, ~ etc. in the community? 2. Decatur’s needs and wants—reserve sites for future residenial and industrial areas. 3. A realistic development plan—this will be .used for planning highways, Siewers, streets, etc. He also explained the part the landowner, developer, and administration must play to carry such a plan through. He also warned of the obstacles that turn up under such circumstances. Key To Plan The key to making such a plan work, he illustrated are the . "tools" used. From development and thoroughfare planning to revamping staid zoning laws to resubdivision ordinance, which would establish minimum standards for streets, housing, lots, electrical, plumbing, and other facilities. The importance of the fringe area was stressed Jhy the former geographer from Valparaiso University. Should Decatur need this area for growth, it must comd under the administrative control of the area, he said. "The people out there must be called in to meetings and, between them and

INDIANA WEATHER Rain spreading over most of state, becoming quite windy tonight and Friday, possibly beginning as rain and snow mixed north and some scattered thundershowers south this afternoon. Rain changing to snow flurries north and central and rain ending extrsme south and turning colder tonight. Becoming quite windy this afternoon, tonight and Friday. Griday mostly cloudy with some snow flurries likely north. Low tonight 27 to 36. High Friday mostly in the 30s. Sunset today 6:41 p. m. CDT. Sunrise Friday 7:12 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy, cool. Lows 18 to 28. Highs 35 to 44.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Vernon Riley, Monroe Friends Church) “THE SHIP” Means of travel on water conveys from one place on land to the sSe interesting things are recorded in the Bible regarding a ship. Jonah, in making his flight from the presence of the Lord, and his call to preach to the people of Ninevah, went m a ship to 7 the opposite direction. Jesus did much of his traveling on earth by boat or ship, reaching multitudes of people. Since a ship is used to transport from one land to the other, this gives a wonderful hope for every Christian, looking for the day when life’s work is over and we step on the good old slup of Zion, and go on to our Heavenly home prepared for all that love the There is a hvmn that goes something like this: When aU the ship's company Shall meet on that strand I want to be there I do *• To greet one another, in that fair land I want to be there, don’t you?

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you, a feasible plan worked ouf to promote the betterment of the city,” Eggerding added. When asked if a bill was before the state legislature which would assist cities seeking planning, Eggerding replied that there was, but doubted if it would pass. It (701 Fund) calls for the city to pay half the planning costs while the state would pay the other half. Another question about time and cost, brought Eggerding to say, “we need about 8-12 months to complete a study, draw up the maps, and the likes at about a dollar per capita rate.” He added that the price fluctuated with what the city wanted done. After the meeting, Mayor Cole stated that the plan commission would discuss the possibility of using Eggerding’s organiaztion. They would then suggest to the council how much, if any, of the system theg could use. Stockyards Owner Is Taken By Death Peter B. Stewart, 67, of Payne, 0., prominent livestock dealer, whose holdings include the P. B. Stewart & Go. stockyards in Decatur, died Tuesday night in Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient 24 hours. Survivors include the widow, Kfma: a daughter. Mrs. Alma Dene Dahm of Fort Wayne: two sons, Peter D. and Daniel E. Stewart, both of Payne; one brother and two sisters. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. John the Baptist Catholic church in Payne, with burial in the Fort Wayne Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Evans funeral home in Payne.

Senate Attacks Stack Os Bills

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana Senate laid aside the proposed record billion dollar budget today and attacked a stack of 64 House bills up for a vote on final passage. The budget, facing a fight from Sen. Nelson Grils (D-Indianapo-lis) to pare it to a “realistic” figure, was put back temporarily so the Senate could give first attention to a pile of measures already passed by the House and facing death unless they receive prompt handling. The House also was busy expediting bills and it appeared Governor Handley’s desk this time Friday may be heaped high with documents awaiting his signature or veto. ~ After today, only taree legislative days remain before the 61-day sessibn i» scheduled to adjourn, not to return until 1961 barring a special session. Grills battled to reduce proposed state school aid commitments. The Indianapolis Democrat said

United Press international Fires in an Arkansas school for delinquent Negro boys and in a Pennsylvania hotel today claimed a heavy toll of dead and injured. Twenty-one boys died in the Arkansas blaze. Three persons were killed in the hotel fire, and two were missing. In addition, an explosion and fire at Worcester, Mass., killed two persons for an overall fire death toll of 26. The Arkansas blaze broke out in a one-story brick dormitory at Negro Boys Industrial School near Little Rock. L.R. Gaines, the school’s Negro superintendent, said the 21-year-old building went up "like matchsticks,” trapping many of the 68 inmates as they slept in their beds. Games blamed defective wiring in a room normally occupied by the caretaker, who was ill and absent. Gov. Orval Faubus rushed to the scene and said he had learned the “boys were locked in. This is something that should not have been.” At Hazleton, Pa., fire roared through the five-story Gary Hotel, where panic-stricken guests jumped from windows and slid down wires to escape the flames. Firemen said the building was a mass of flames when they arrived and they were able to save only one of several women they saw pressed screaming against fourth-floor windows. Twenty of the estimated 40 to 45 persons in the hotel were injured, and 10 of them were hospitalized. An explosion in a five-room cottage at Worcester, Mass., early today killed an elderly couple. The victims’ daughter and her son were thrown into the yard by the blast, critically injuring the daughter, Police said leaking gas may have caused the pre-dawn blast and fire. Spring Opening In Decatur March 14 This city’s "spring opening,” planned by Decatur merchants, will be held Saturday, March 14. A story in Wednesday’s Daily Democrat on the opening failed to list the correct date, leading many persons to think the opening is scheduled for this week, not one week from Saturday as scheduled.

he would launch a drive to lop 20 million dollars from state school aid by proposing an amendment to House Bill 276, a bill which sets the formula for distribution of state funds for schords. To qualify far state funds under H 8276, a school corporation would be required to levy a property tax rate equivalent to 50 cents on each SIOO of adjusted valuation. The corporation then would be entitled to receive from the state an amount equal to the difference between the revenue from the 50cent rate and the “state-recog-nizd” instructional salaries for the corporation. “Every time you revise thatso- - rate upward by one cent, you cut $750,000 from state aid,” Grills said. “I propose to set the rate at 77 cents, thus saving the state 20 million dollars."... . Other Demos Oppose Grills admitted that local communities would have to make up the difference. But he contended “that was only right.” Grills said fellow Democrats wers “uniformly opposed” to the plan. "As a matter of fact,” he said, “I am having a hard time finding anyone who -will go along with me.” The proposal touched off a heated argument between Grills and Robert Wyatt, executive secretary of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association, in the Senate halls. Grills’ proposed move got a belated endorsement from Governor Handley who charged that “the area of education is sopping up” more than its share of the budget. When Handley presented his $1,041,800,000 budget to the House at the opening of the current session,’ he allocated 192% millions for state school aid. But when the budget left the House some six weeks later, the figure was hiked to 206 million in committed funds plus an escalator clause that could add another 20 millions.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER W ADAMS COUNTY

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Monroe Safe Robbed, Loot Totals $193.80 The Adams County farm Bureau Co-op Lumber company iff Monroe reported to the Adams county sheriff’s department early today that a safe was entered and $193.80 removed by thieves sometime during the night. DeMyron Byerly, manager of the lumber company, reported the incident about 7:45 a. m. shortly after he had entered the building to report for work. Conducting the investigation were sheriff Merle Affolder, deputies Charles Arnold and Robert Meyer, and state detective Wat ter Schindler. Their report shows that the thieves entered toe building by breaking a lock on a large door at the southwest side of the building to gain access to the large main room and drive. After gaining their entry, toe thieves proceeded to the office, where a second door was altered by prying with a large crowbar. Upon entering the office, toe thieves then entered the safe by breaking the combination lock from the safe door and driving the shaft into toe inside of toe safe. Taken from the safe was $193.80 in currency and change. A few checks were left untouched. Nothing else was reported missing from the building. The investigating officers stated that the thieves apparently left the scene of the crime by the same way they entered. The sheriff’s department and state detective Schindler are Continuing their investigation of the burglary. -

HenryAschleman Dies Last Night Henry Aschleman, 67, prominent retired farmer and livestock breeder, died at 11:30 o’clock Wednesday night at his home, 317 Dearborn street in Berne. He had been 111 with cancer since December. . Mr. Aschleman had lived in Berne since last August when he retired from his French township farm. One of the best known farmers in the county, he was a past president of the Indiana Ayrshire breeders association, and currently was county chairman of CROP. Born in Hartford township April 19, 1891, he was a son of Arnold and Mary Meyer-Aschleman, and was married to Daisy Moeschberger March 16. 1919. Mr. Aschleman was a member of the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church, at Berne. Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Kenneth (Rose Marie) Liechty of Berne: and Mrs. Robert (Phyllis) Stein of Lynbrook, N.Y.; three grandchildren; one brother, George Aschleman of Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. Elmer Raymond of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Clyde Kraner of Geneva. Three brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Yager funeral home in Berne, the Rev. C. A. Schmid officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday until time of the services. _—— 137 Decatur High r Pupils Are Absent Decatur high school reports 137 pupils out of school, many with the flu, an increase of 19 over yesterday’s total. Two more basketball players were sent home, Denny BollenbaCher and Jim Gay, but the three who were out yesterday returned to school today. Bob Schraluka, Larry Daniels, and Rich Canales were reported fit as of early this afternoon. • In the city’s elementary schools, an increase of 37 was noted over yesterday’s total at the Lincoln school with 64 absent out of a 859 enrollment. At the Northwest school, 26 of 293, an increase of 11, also was noted. Spot checking around the county, the results showed little gains in absenteeism. Monmouth kept its figure slightly above the normal rate with 14 out in the high school, while Pleasant Mills records the same number out today as yesterday, 12. /

Hold Talks On Berlin Crisis

United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower summoned, the National Security Council to a special meeting today and discussed the Berlin crisis for nearly two hours. The White House disclosed that the President had called security council members into his office for the conference after his regular meeting with toe group. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said, “The President called a special meeting of toe council to consider the evolving situation in Berlin, and toe broader question of Germany, which toe President and the council have been following closely.” Asked whether the special meeting indicated an emergency, Hagerty said he was not going to elaborate on his statement. The White House meeting came as American officials expressed hope that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s conditional postponement of his Berlin deadline may relieve some of the EastWest tension. But they said it does not alter the essentially illegal nature ot the Soviet intention to welch on its obiigaions and responsibilities under war time agreements with the Western Allies. Khrushchev told members of toe British parliament at Leipzig that he may extend the, Soviet deadline Tor the West to get out of Berlin beyond May 27 if “sensible negotiations” are underway then. U.S. officials said they have no intention of accepting Russia’s demand that the Allies get out of West Berlin. Neitoei* will they agree to a Russian proposal to turn the Soviet sector over to the

Russia Hints At Extension

LEIPZIG, East Germany (UPI) — Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev said today he may extend his deadline for the West to get out of Berlin beyond May 27 if "sensible negotiations” are going on then. It could be extended to June 27 or even July 27, Khrushchev declared. “We have no grounds to hurry but We must solve the Berlin problem,” he said. The Soviet leader spoke at a lunch fnr vicjting members of the British parliament. Khrushchev’s statement that the Berlin showdown might be postponed confirmed an earlier remark by his Deputy Prime Minister, Anastas I. Mikoyan, after his return from the United States that the May 27 deadline was not final. Khrushchev reiterated that his demand that the West get out of Berlin by May 27 was not an ultimatum. ! However, the Soviet leader warned that once Russia signs a separate peace treaty with the East German Communists it will end the Potsdam agreement of 1945 which allowed the West to occupy part of Berlin and guar anteed it free access to the city across 110 miles of East Germany. “The control functions we exercise will be transferred, and the provisions of the Potsdam agreement will no longer be valid after a peace treaty is signed,” Khrushchev said. “-f- —™~—- Earlier Khrushchev took time out today from negotiations on the peace treaty and visited the Leipzig trade fair. Shortly before he went to the fair, East Berlin authorities announced he would visit East Berlin Saturday evening. While fie was inspecting ma-" chinery, a representative of a West German firm came up and said, “We want peace in the West, too, you know. Come to West Germany and see.” “No, it’s too cold there,” Truck Speed Limit Increase Is Signed INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) -Governor Handley signed into law Wednesday a bill to increase the speed limit for trucks from 45 miles per hour to 50 miles per hour on two-lane highways and 55 miles per hour on divided highways. --T—

German Communists. The Allied position remains, they said, that Russia is bound by the four-power agreements of 1944 and 1945. The Khrushchev statement came as the United States and Britain appeared at odds on several key points of long - range strategy for dealing with the Soviet leader. American officials expressed confidence, however, that the differences would be reconciled when President Eisenhower and British Prime' Minister Harold Macmillan confer here later this month. They acknowledged that Eisenhower and Macmillan, who has just returned to London after a Moscow visit, held differing views on the usefulness of a summit conference with Khrushchev on East-West problems. It was obvious, too, that the British and American leaders did not see eye-to-eye on the wisdom of trying to negotiate with toe Communist leader on a limited troop pull-back in central Europe. But on toe basic principle of standing firm in Berlin against all Communist press ures and threats, toe two Allies appeared as firmly united as ever. Macmillan, in a House of Commons speech, said Wednesday the important thing was to “get negotiations going” with Russia and indicated he was willing to hold them at toe summit.* Eisenhower, at the same time, told a news conference that “what I keep deploring is this idea of talking about summit meetings when you cannot see any possibility of a constructive step coming out of it.”

BULLETIN MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet Union has officially protested to the United States against the boarding of a Russian fishing trawler off Newfoundland, the Tass news agency said today. Khrushchev said. “But I believe the climate will improve soon. First we went to the moon, but now we are back on the eyrth." Khrushchev was accompanied through the fairgrounds by East Zone boss Walter Ulbricht and Premier Otto Grotewohl, with whom he is discussing a peace treaty and ways of undermining the West in Berlin. ' Khrushchev announced to a mass rally of Oommunists Wednesday Russia was ready to negotiate a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany if the Western Allies and West Germany continue to reject his demand for a conference aimed at a peace treaty with both German states. Then he plunged into secret talks with Ulbricht and other East German leaders. General expectation here was that today’s talks were only preliminary and that a separate peace treaty would not be signed during Khrushchev's present visit.

Senate Democrats Revive SUB

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana Senate Democrats late Wednesday pushed through a successful attempt to disinter the corpse of supplemental unemployment benefits, but most observers felt it was too little and too late. Minutes before adjourning, the Senate Social Security Committee reported out “without recommen-a'House-passed bill (HB--10) which would legalize SUB payments in addition to regular state unemployment benefits. A, 1957 law banned such payments. The action by the Republicancontrolled committee was not voluntary. It came on a parlimentary technicality and the committee had no choice but to comply and report out the bill. A Republican version of SUB, which provided for “indi'/idual” accounts, sailed through the Senate last month. But the House amended the bill and sent it back in substantially the same .form as HBIO., Would Handley Sign? Indicatiqns were that Republicans, who hold a 27-23 majority in the upper chamber, would not accept the House bill in its pres-

RJRL X||MHBr l ' r " '"W J’M '• * *g H^> -2E5l \W LT *’■■- U. S. OFFICES WRECKED— United States Embassy personnel view damage done by rioters to their offices in La Pas, Bolivia during anti-American demonstrations. No Americans have been injured, but two Bolivians have died since the disturbances, triggered by a magazine article, began on March 2.

Decatur Man's J Brother Dies 1 In Accident John Gattshall, 84, a retired farmer, who resides in Grover Hill, 0., north of Van Wert, and eldest brother of James Gattshall, an employe of Schafer’s store, of Decatur, was instantly killed in a car-truck collision six miles northeast of Van Wert on U. S. 224 Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 p. m. Mr. Battshall’s death was the first traffic fatality recordedin Van Wert county since the first of the year. Gattshall was pinned in his auto nearly two hours before work- . men were able to cut away metal , »nd debris to remove his body , from the wreckage. The mishap reportedly occurred when Gattshall pulled from a side road onto the main highway into the path of a westbound semitractor unit driven by Rex Knight, of El Monte, Calif. The large tractor van struck the side erf, the auto, carrying it approximately 800 feel before dwnmfe tn rest. The driver of the truck was reported as not injured, however, his rig was heavily damaged. Ohio state police and Van Wert county sheriff's department investigated the fatal mishap. Mr. Gattshall had made his home in Grover Hill for the past 11 years. His wife, Laura, preceded him in death about six years ago. His first wife, Anna, died several years ago. He was born in Morror county,. Ohio, the eldest son of William and Sara Shaw-Gattshall, May 23, 1874. He was a member of the Grover 41111 Church of Christ and the Farm Bureau in Paulding county. Surviving are one daughter, . Mrs. Otto Mohr, of route one, ( Grover Hill: two step-daughters, Mrs. Milo Blackmore, of route one, Van Wert, and Mrs. Remus 1 Mohr, of Scott, Ohio; one step- ’ son, Orval Kincaid, of Paulding; three brothers, James, of Decatur; William, of near Akron, 0., 1 and Harry, of Grover Hill; one J sister, Susie DeCamp, of Grover ' Hill; seven grandchildren, and 13 ’ great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 o'clock at the ] Church of Christ in Grover Hill ( with the Rev. Robert Bryan offi- < elating. Burial will be in the ] Middle Creek cemetery. Friends j may call at the Didrick funeral ] home in. Grover Hill. . 1

ent form. It appeared likely they controlled enough votes to kill it on second reading and there still was some question whether Governor Handley would sign the measure if it ever got to him. Meanwhile, one of Handley’s pet projects was in its death' throes in the House. The proposed intermediate penal school’for boys appeared to have died an untimely death when the House Penal and Reformatory Institutions Committee voted not to release the bill for final action. The bill, which passed the Senate, appropriated two million dollars as a start on the project. But Handley said he had not given up on the project. “I still hope the intermediate institution will work out as agreed,” he said. “I made several concessions in an effort to save the institution. Anybody who visits our penal institutions knows how crowded they are. We have to do something about getting kids out from association with 1 hardened crimijtals.” ‘ ■ '‘7.7 ._• -r. Money-Saving Move Rep. Lucille Currie (D-Indian-

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Bluffton Girl Wins Oratorical Contest The fourth district high school oratorical contest at Bluffton Wednesday night was . won by Miss Sandra Fritz, sopohomore at Bluffton high school. Miss Judy Rhodes, senior at Decatur high, finished a close third, behind Robert 'Riker, senior at Fort Wayne Central. The speech contest, sponsored by the American Bar association and the American Legion, will now enter the zone competition phase with the winners from the fourth and fifth districts, the Ko-komo-Peru areg, meeting later this month. Miss Fritz was selected by the — three Bluffton area judges as th? best speaker of the four contestants. Miss Judy Tooma of Garrett was the fourth place finisher. Two other contestants, Eugene Groves of Columbia City, and James Barroquilla of Wolcottville did not appear because of the flu. Chairman of the fourth district contest waa_ Robert Fritz, ot Bluffton. .I—-— 7. Pioneer Soars To Permanent Orbit Os Sun WASHINGTON (UPI)’ — America’s Pioneer IV space robot, which passed within 37,000 miles of the moon, soared today toward a permanent orbit around the sun. Government scientists said that for a period “comparable to the — life of our„univ'erse” the goldplated 20-inch long instrument package would contin'/e to revolve around the suf. every 382 days. The space vehicle already is orbiting the sun, and will move into its permanent orbit on March 17. The man-made planet’s orbit, much more elongated than that of the earth, will vary from 91,744,000 to 105,829,000 miles from the sun. The earth, in an almost circular orbit, averages 93 million miles from the sun. Pioneer IV made its closest approach to the moon at 5:24 p.m. e.s.t. Wednesday. Dr. Homer J. Stewart, planning director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), said the pass “grazed the moon’s gravitational field.”

apoJis), chairman of the penal committee, said the decision was made to save money. She said the committee at first cut the appropriation to $1,750,000 and then decided not to advance it at all because of estimates the total cost would be 15 million dollars. Senate leaders emphasized the approaching end of the current session when they withdrew from second and third reading nine Senate bills and three Senate resolutions. Sen. C. Wendell Martin, majority leader, said the measures “have no hope of passage” before the session is scheduled to end Monday midnight He said the authors concurred and agreed that the bills were “only cluttering up the calendar.” The House also defeated a move to kill a controversial Senate bill which would set up a dairy board and stop the practice of selling milk products at a loss. Members blocked a move to have the bill recommitted to a committee and it moved along to second reading. The Senate disposed of 36 bills and resolutions in one of its most productive days since the current session began.