Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 63.

Portions Os Midwest Are Staggered Under Near Blizzard Sunday - — ■ ■■■■ — n ■—

United Preu International The snow-weary Midwest staggered today in the wake of a near blizzahd which stalled trains, marooned thousands of persona and cut communications. The week-end storm, powered by 50 to 80 m.p.h. winds, piled up paralyzing snows from Nebraska northeastward through Michigan. It roared into eastern Canada during the night, but strong winds continued to batter the lower Great Lakes region and eastern Upper Michigan, where snow depths averaged 40 to 50 inches. The storm, tornadoes and Texas prairie fires were blamed for at least nine deaths. Three persons were killed in Arkansas tornadoes at Opal, Moko and Owensville. A fire fighter died of burns in Texas. Exeftioo or exposure claimed two UvW' in lowa and one each in Illinois and Michigan. And an Ohio man was killed when blown from a second floor porch by 80-mile-an-hour winds. Four Trains Stalled Highlights of the weather situation Included: —Four Chicago and North Western Ry. crack “400” streamliners carrying about 350 passengers were stalled by 10-to-15-foot drifts in northern Wisconsin Sunday. AU were freed by early today. A bus with 83 persons aboard was stuck for hours in drifts Sunday, and most bus operations in the state were cancelled. The North Western’s “Flambeau 400“ en route from Ashland, Wis., to Chicago with 150 passengers became stock in giant drifts near Anston, Wis.. um 1 to west of Green Bay, and finally was pulled free _ after about eight hours. Five diesel engines were needed to free the streamliner. Two were sent out and became stuck; and three more were sent to their rescue. AU five made it to the “Flambeau’’ after hours of fighting the deep snow. —Snow emergencies were declared in Milwaukee, Sheboygan. Appleton and Green Bay, Wis., and in 12 Wisconsin counties. Sheboygan County was isolated. 1

No Reinforcements Os Forces In Berlin

AWSHINGTON (UPI) — Gen. Thomas D. White believes U.S. ground forces in Europe should be brought up to full strength but doubts there is any real need for reinforcements because of' the Berlin crisis. The Air Force chief of staff expressed his views behind closed doors to the Senate preparedness subcommittee last week. A heavily censored transcript of his testimony was made public Sunday night. “For this situation (Berlin),” White said, “I feel there is no real requirement for further stengthening or equipping of our armed forces in Europe.” Cites Rotation System He said that existing forces ■ in Europe are not up to foil strength because of the rotation system "and it would certainly not be wrong to fill that up.” "But to send new units and so on in this situation in my opinion would have no influence to speak of on the outcome of a Berlin in-

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Gerald I. Gerig, Decatur Missionary Church) DEPTH OF VISION Luke 10: 21-28 We are living in a day when the spiritual eyefcight of many people is not too good. We are able to see the things which interest us but we have little interest in spiritual values. In Luke 10 we see where the Lord has allowed the humble to know some things that even kinds are not aware of. It is piteful that with all of the increased knowledge in the field of science we still have tremendous ignorance of spiritual truths. Our depth of vision is really quite shallow. ' " ; - . , It might be wise for us at this time of the year to stop ana consider the way we are going. We are so wrapped up with the things of this world that we have little time to spend in considering the world to come. We work at a rapid pace to earn a living and we come to the end of life defeated in our own souls. We realize, but too late, that we have not been able to see beyond the few years that God has allowed us to live. Let us check anew our depth of vision. It might pay you to look beyond the grave!

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Authorities were unable to keep up with road conditions because many highways drifted shut again shortly after they were opened. —Thousands of lowans in Des Moines for the state high school girls basketbaU championship were stranded overnight in the Veterans Memorial Auditorium. The youngsters danced to rock ’n roll records through the night while their elders tried to snatch some sleep on benches. Most of the cage fans, including the champion Gladbrook team, left for home Sunday. Many Skiers Trapped —BasketbaU fans, about 6,000 strong, also were stranded Saturday night by the storm at Lincoln Nebraska after attending the state’s high school tourney. —Thousands of skiers were trapped by snow in hotels, tourist homes and motels in northern Michigan. Winds in the state reached 78 m.p.h., whipping up 25-foot drifts. Thousands of cars were abandoned in central and northern Michigan. At least 60 persons were injured in traffic accidents in western Michigan alone, with many of the accidents involving 10 or more vehicles. —Telephone service was knocked out to thousands of rural homes in northwestern Illinois and about 1.500 residents north of Freeport. Hl., have been without power since Saturday night due to downed utility lines. Tornadoes Kill Three —Tornadoes which skipped across Arkansas and southern Illinois Saturday night killed three persons and injured nine persons, one critically, in Arkansas and injuring one person in Illinois. —Prairie fires, spread by high winds, blackened thousandsof acres of rangeland In a fivecounty section of north central Texas and killed scores of cattle before being brought under control Sunday. A volunteer fireman was trapped and burned fatally. Earlier, winds up to 70 miles an hour kicked up a dust storm in the Texas panhandle so thick it turned day into night. The dust was blamed for a 15-car accident near Shamrock, Tex.

I cident, becase the 7th Army. is one of the best trained and best equipped units in tho world,” he , added. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army chief of staff, said in testimony made public Saturday that Gen. ’ Henry I. Hodes, commander of ‘ the 7th Army, hap asked for more ' troops. Taylor said i e supported the request. Endorses Hodes* Stand White said it was his impression that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1 of which both he and Taylor are members, had endorsed Hodes’ recommendation. The Air Force general testified the Berlin crisis could lead to . general, nuclear war. If that comes to pass, he said, there is “no question that we can bomb (Moscow and other Russian cities) successfully.” > White’s testimony, for the most i part, appeared to go down the ; line in support of the administra- • tion defense policy.

Relations In Mideast Acute

BEIRUT (UPD—Steadily deteriorating relations between the United Arab .Republic and Iraq plunged to a dangerous new low today. > The tense situation had become so acute, the Cairo Newspaper Al Ahram reported from Damascus, that Iraqi authorities ordered all U.A.R. citizens in Iraq to get out of the country within 24 hours. Relations between the two Arab nations, already strained, reached the breaking point last week with > the abortive Iraqi revolt centered around Mosul, which Baghdad blamed on the U.A.R. Both nations have since traded vitriolic insults, and 12 U.A.R. diplomats were expelled from Baghdad last week. The hate-Iraq campaign of U,A R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser reached a crescendo in Cairo today where tens of thousands of screaming demonstrators hanged effigies of Iraqi Premier Abdel Karin) Kagsem alongside. an insulting assortment of dead dogs, cats and mice. The mammoth anti - Kassem demonstration st a r ted with a memorial procession through the streets of Cairo, honoring the Iraquis who died in the revolt in .. ..T xx. ■ ■ ■, ——— nortnern Iraq la&i wwr. The marchers, eaught .up in hysteria, screamed, "Eneniy. jSI God!" every time Kassem’s name was spoken. They called Nasser “hero of Arab nationalism.” In toe latest demonstration in a massive anti-Kassem, anti-Iraq propaganda campaign, carried red-painted coffins with, pictures of Kassem plastered on I the sides. The pictures were la-, belled “the Baghdad executioner”; and ‘Tellier of women and chil-,

• i Arthur Burris To Marion, 0. Plant Arthur Burris, safety and training director at the Decatur Central Soya plant for 5% years, has been transferred to the Marion, 0., plant and promoted to personnel director, effective today. Burris, a graduate of the University of Tennessee, from which he was graduated with a bachelor of science degree in education, joined Central Soya at the Decatur plant November 23, 19§3. He had been a member of the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons basketball team before that time. Active in civic affairs in Decatur, Burris has been a member of the board of directors of the Community Fund since 1957. That year he served as vice chairman, becoming president in 1958. This year he is chairman of the budget committee. Burris was also a member of the Decatur Lions club, and the Methodist church. Burris, his wife Katherine, and their daughter Becky Ann, live on Harvester Lane. They will move to Marion, 0., as soon as they find a place to live. - - ■ f ■

Opens Drive For Foreign Aid

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter told Congress today U.S. foreign policy will become “ineffective" unless President Eisenhower’s $3,929,995,000 foreign aid program gets strong support. He made the statement in opening the administration’s drive to sell the program, to a reductionminded Congresss Testifying las the first witness at House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings, Herter said the mutual aid program is “fundamental to the peace of the world, our own future welfare and progress, and in the years ahead the survival of our American nation and our American “way of life as we know it.” His statement was made in the

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" * —--rdren.” The demonstrations which have occurred in Damascus since Tuesday spread to Cairo for the first time Sunday when students offered prayers calling on God to “annihilate introduers in our land (Communists).” Nasser, speaking Sunday in Damascus, predicted new revolutions would break out in Iraq against the “dictatorship, atheism and terrorism” of toe Kassem regime. ‘ Blames U.A.R., Nasser In Baghdad Lt. Col. Majid Mohamed Amin, toe people’s court prosecutor, said Nasser would meet toe same fate as Col. Abdel Wahab Shawaf, slain leader of the Mosul revolt who has been branded a traitor to the Iraqui government. Iraqi Foreign Minister Dr. Ha- ' shem Jawad, in an interview with UPI Correspondent Zaki Salama, said in Baghdad the rebellion was ( organized and armed by toe ; UXR. and•-Wnansrasser-Br three anti-Kassem conspiracies in the last eight months. The high temperature in toe Middle East took another jump; during the weekend when toe, U.A.R. said three Iraqi air force] fighter planes launched rocket and! machine gun attacks against vil- j lages and' vehicles in Syria on ’ Saturday. G.E. Closes Down i Bloomfield Plant ' BLOOMFIELD, J. (UPI) — ]The General Electric Co. perm- ( anently shut down its giant air , | conditioning plant today in a surprise move against union mem-. bers who chained themselves to-' gether in toe factory to protest a scheduled April 1 closing. Four officials of toe AFL-CIO International Union of Electrical Workers refused to leave the sac-; tory. They told company officials they would leave only after being assured of jobs. “I asked them what their intentions were,” said Henry W. Pierce, manager of community and employe relations for the plant. “It seems all I can get out of them is that they intend to stay there until they can get a job.” Pierce said he made it clear to the holdouts that “they were trespassing because the plant was now closed.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly eloudy tonight, chance of a few snow flurries extreme north. Tuesday partly ctotHiy, a little warmer southwest Low tonight mostly in the 20s. High Tuesday 30s north to the 40s south. Sunset today 6:53 p.m. c.d.t Sunrise Tuesday 6:54 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Wednesday: Increasing cloudi- _ ness and warmer. Lows 20s north, 30s south. Highs 40s north, 50s south.

face of open find veiled threats by Democrats to try to cut the program by up to one billion dollars. An even deeper cut—of two billion dollars—was recommended on the eve of Herter’s appearance by the fecently organized “Citizens Foreign Aid Committee.” Herter said approval of the requested funds would be “tangible proof” of U.S. concern for other countries threatened by the Communist bloc. “Militarily it supplies the shield,” he said of the aid program. "Politically it promotes freedom and stability. Economically it improves conditions of life. Psycholoically it displays our determination to continue a role

——- - Civil War Veteran Dies This Morning ♦ , J.4CH4GSPORT, Tenn. (UPI) -• ' T 'Gene ral” John Sailing, 112, one of the last two surviving veterans of toe Civil War, died today. : The old rebel, who would have! been 113 on May 15, succumbed 4 to pneumonia and old age at a i clinic here, 23 miles from his home in Slant, Va., where he spent almost all his life. Sailing’s daughter, Mrs. Hugh; McCamy and his grandson, H.E.; Hawkins, both of Sant, were with the old soldier when he died. The southwest Virginia mountaineer, who enjoyed good health ptfen after he passed his 110th bi rthday. contracted influenza Thursday and was brought to the clinic. Pneumonia followed and he grew gradually weaker. He held his own for a brief time, but his resistance was gone. He slipped into a coma Sunday, and the end came at 7:45 a m. today. Sailing’s death leaves Walter W; ] Williams, 116, as toe only surviving veteran’of toe War Between toe States. Williams, bedridden and totally blind, lives in Hous-* ’fam, Tex., with a daughter. “THe old man, also a' Confederate veteran, heard of Sailing’s illness on the radio. Dr. R.L. Wolfe, Williams’ physician, said toe old man ; expressed great concern over Salj ling’s condition. ; last one, and it looks like I will,” • Williams said.

Eisenhower To Speak Tonight

By WALTER LOGAN United Press International President Eisenhower goes before the nation tonight with a radio-television report on the Berlin crisis which already has brought calls for withdrawal of U.S. military dependents from the threatened city. The President was said to regard the speech as one of the most important he has delivered since entering the White House. He was not expected to unveil any new strategy but was certain to make it clear the West will not allow itself, to be driven out of West Berlin. Any discussion of strategy normally would await the arrival in Washington on Thursday of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, after talks with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Mowcow, has reported so far to President Charles de Gaulle ot France and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Gemany. Leaves For Canada Macmillan leaves London ‘Tuesday for Ottawa and talks with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Reports reaching London from Washington indicated many of Macmillan’s ideas will form the basis for American thinking in the upcoming talks with the Soviet Union, especially his desire to hold a summit conference with

of leadership in the fight for free world objectives.” Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) sharply criticized the program in a statement issued before Herter’s appearance before the House committee. Mansfield said the administration request should be cut very drastically x "to do away with this overlapping, duplication, waste and inefficiency which has marked the foreign aid program from the v&ry beginning.” "Shake the program down,” he declared. “Get the right kind of people in there to administer it, and I think you can conduct a better program at considerably less coat.”

SIO,OOO Approved On County Building The Adams county council met in special session today with the Adams county board of commissioners and approved SIO,OOO of the SIB,OOO additional appropriation believed needed to construct the new proposed county highway building in Monroe. The board of commissioners announced February 24 at their regular meeting held with county auditor Edward F. Jaberg, that it| was believed the new building would cost nearly SIB,OOO morel than the first estimate of $32,000; believed sufficient to construct* toe building. . _ . | At the,, meeting held today, the! county council unanimously ap-] proved 610,000 of the additional appropriation. The fund will have $42,000 for construction, I drainage, water supply, fuel tanks, landscaping, and fencing. Two additional appropriations] . were reduced, the highway accu-l | mulative bridge fund for bridge, 1 No. 10 on county road 16 in Root i township, was reduced from $25,-' 000 to $25,000; and the county hospital item 101-J, commission for collecting accounts, SSOO, was ; not approved. 1 Other additional appropriations and transfers were approved. Members of the county council include: president, Henry Dehner; Julius Schultz, Leon Neuenschwander, Chris Stahly. Frank E. Bohnke, and Floyd E. Meyer, One member, William Kruetzman. councilman at large, was not present for the special session. I Ireland President I Visiting In States NEW YORK (UPD—lrish President Sean T. O’Kelly arrives here today for a 15-day goodwill visit that includes St. Patrick’s Day with President Eisenhower aft the White House. The 76-year-old chief executive and his wife, Phyllis, are accompanied by Ireland’s foreign minister, Frank Aiken, and Deputy Premier Sean Lemass, who will open the new Irish Airlines office here Wednesday.

Khrushchev as soon as possible. - London sources said Washington also may go along .with the idea of having, Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia present at such talks if only in the role of observers. “Thinoting Out” Support Macmillan was reported to have found some support in Paris and Bonn for his proposal there be some sort of “thinning out” of East-West troops in a specified zone along the Iron Curtain.- borders. Eisenhower, who has discussed his speech with ailing Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, was generally expected to reaffirm U.S. determination not to give an' inch on its rights -in West Berlin. Western leaders in Berlin have greeted firm U.S. statements on Berlin with pleasure. They were reported to believe only firmness and determination to fight a war over West Berlin if necessary would convince Russia the U.S. meant business.

■B»jy 1J ; PLANE CRASHES IN FREIGHT YARB—Firemen extinguish the blaze after a two-engine American Airlines Convair crashed and burst into flames in a busy railroad freight yard two miles south of Chicago’s Midway Airport. The plane recently co nverted from passenger to cargo use, was on a flight from New York to Chicago when it crashed. The two crewmen were not injured. ' • ' -

Greensburg's Mayor Reports ,1 11 Funds Are Paid GREENSBURG, Ind. (UPI) — Mayor Sheldon Smith said today he has paid back $7,178 in government funds and bail bonds which he” said were stolen from him by three attackers who slashed him • with a razor blade and threatened I to mutilate him last month. I Smith said he paid $5,358 25, to ; the Decatur County auditor repre- | senting fines and costs he had col--1 lected in his city court, and deI posited in the trust account of a l bank $1,820 ® bonds. 4 Smith said in a prepared statement that, he “borrowed the money to make these payments.” ] He said the funds, which he I contends he gave to the attackers .to keep them from mutilating him, “probably saved me from ' mutilation.” Smith said he also lost $1,300 of his own personal funds, including S2OO taken from his billfold. Smith said he felt no legal liability, under toe circumstances, for making good the funds. But he added “I feel a moral responsibility.” He said the money was “taken from me under threat of severe physical violence.” He said an audit by examiners for the State Board of Accounts showed the amount of the loss, which had been estimated but not verified since Smith was attacked in his office where he said he was lured on a telephone ruse that a man wanted help in making out an income tax return the night of Feb. 21.

School Absenteeism Is Decreased Today The week-end respite apparently 1 assisted Decatur area high school ' and elementary pupils in battling the flu bug as cases have dropped . considerably from Friday’s count J Reductions were almost doubled; in the high schools, while big cutbacks were noted today in the grade schools. The peak day fori the grade schools was Friday. Decatur high school reports a “normal” number on the absentee list this morning with a few more than 20 pupils home. On any given day during the' year, at least 20 pupils can be expected absent, for one reason or another. Decatur Catholic has nine out: today, also near the normal for that school. St. Joseph’s grade 1 school joins its sister school with a near-normal enrollment. Lincoln school dropped 41 names from the absentee list today as 188' were absent, Friday, 229 were out. I The Northwest school also showed] a decline as eight more reported] to school today than on Friday, when 58 stayed home. The 51 absentees today, coupled with the decreases at St. Joseph’s and Lincoln, indicates the trend is being established for less out each day ( this week. " Pleasant Mills nlso reached normal stages with 10 absent, while Monmouth is nearing its average as 15 were out today. Adams CentraL still has 137 absent, but this total represents almost 100 less than the high at the Monroe school. Tuesday of last week, 236 wete absent.

Some Wind Damage Is Reported Here High winds, more than 50 miles per hour, roared through the Decatur area Saturday night and Sunday causing some damage, i>ut “not as much as one might expect,'* said Bernard Clark, city street commissioner. He added that the fierceness of previous sleet and wind storms, earlier in the winter, had cleared out much of dead trees and limbs. The winds did interrupt electric service in Monroe and telephone service in Decatur, but only for a short duration. »Power failures in Monroe were caused by the wind blowing the up against one another and 'aiitaby short * circuiting therr intermittent operation of power was corrected as soon as a report reached Norbert Buffman and crew. Huffman said that he worked most of Sunday morning and afternoon repairing burned out lines, but that by Sunday evening all malfunctions had been cleared. The Citizens Telephone Co. received about six calls concerning lines down, interrupting telephone service on Sunday. A spokesman for the company said that all the trouble had been repaired and all lines were functional today. The lines were blown down by the wind. Clark reported a tree had been fflled by the blustering wind at the light plant on Third street, and that two limbs had cluttered up streets near the downtown area. ; He and two members of the street L department cleared away the de- ; bris Sunday. One limb fell at the i corner of Fifth and Madison t streets, while the other went down 1 near 600 N. Second street. He said that no other damage was reported.

No injuries have been reported as a direct result of the wind. fires Across Nation Fatal To37Persons t United Press International Fires across the nation during the weekend left at least 37 persons dead, including 29 children. At Superior, Wis., a father burned to death today and his five children suffocated when fire destroyed their home. Authorities identified the victims as John Anderson, 35, and Margaret, 7, ‘Rita, 6, Charles, 4, John, 3 and ‘Dorothy an infant. Mrs. Anderson 26, who came home as firemen were boarding' up the front of the house, was hospitalized for shock. Firemen said , the fire chould have started from I a smoldeding cigarette or from a stove. At Des Moines, lowa, eight busi- ' nesses were burned out Sunday night in a five-alarm fire that raged through a quarter block. No one was killed, but District Fire Chief Lee Williams was hurled 30 feet by an explosion. He was in i satisfactory condition. Occupants of six second-floor apartments escaped without injury. They were able to salvage only their clothing. In the Texas Panhandle, a firefighter died when he was trapped by vicious winds while in a giant prairie fire. At Muncie, Ind., Mrs. Mabel Lancaster, 39, a mother of four ' children was killed by asphixation when fire swept her home. - - . . HJ JJU4H ... - ir-?T

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