Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1959 — Page 1

'ol. LVII. No. 72 .

Senator Kennedy To Speak Here

Sen. John F. Kennedy, one of the Democrats most prominently mentioned as presidential timber in 1960, will speak at a fund-raising dinner at the Decatur Youth and Community Center April 13 at 6:30 p.m., Dr. Harry H. Hebble, county Democratic chairman, said this morning. Sen. Kennedy, recognized as one of the top Democratic leaders in the nation, has agreed to fly out from Washington, arriving in Fort Wayne about 4:30 p.m. the afternoon of April 13. Dr. Hebble announced that Mrs. Mabel Striker has been named chairman of the arrangements committee to set up the meeting. Tickets will go on sale immediately, and will be available at $5 each to Democrats and the general public interested in hearing a candidate for the presidency. Dr. Hebble stated that months of negotiations with state chairman Charles Skillen and U. S. Senator Vance Hartke had resulted in the sudden announcement late Wednesday that the well-known senator would be available to speak in Decatur on that date. Sen. Kennedy is admired by many as a middle-of-the-road Democrat, and is expected to draw a sellout crowd. Dr. Hebble announced that only 500 tickets will be released, and these will be on a first come—first serve basis, with none available at the door. Cruise Ship Hits Tanker, One Dead NEW YORK (UPD—The cruise ship Santa Rosa sliced into the tanker Valcbem to apparently good weather in the Atlantic early today, nearly cutting the cargo vessel in two. One tanker crewman was killed and 16 were injured in the 3 a.m. crash 22 miles east st Atlantic City. N. J. The Coast Guard and ship owners could give no immediate Teason for the collision. Both vessels were equipped with radar and the U. S. Weather Bureau said there was eight-mile visibility in the area at the time of the collision. A tanker crewman, flown to Atlantic City by Coast Guard helicopter, was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. Heads For New York Seventeen other Valchem crewmen were transferred to the Santa Rosa. Three were to be hospitalized in New York, 13 were treated for minor injuries and one was uninjured, the Coast Guard said. At 10:10 a. m., the 20.000-ton Santa Rosa steamed slowly from the scene under her own power and headed for New York, the Coast Guard said. The 25-million-dollar vessel, placed in service to the Caribbean area last June, was expected to dock tonight. A United Press Intrenational correspondent, who flew over the collision site, reported the Santa . Rosa had the red smokestack and entire after cabin roof of the tank- • er perched on her bow “like a smoking cigar.” -»■ i The cargo-passenger vessel of the Grace Line carried 512 per- : sons including 247 passengers. No ; injuries were reported aboard the 1 Santa Rosa. A fire in the Santa Rosa’s paint J locker had been extinguished, the Coast Guard said. Tanker’s Radio Cut The 10,416-ton tanker, which had • been manned by a crew of 39, ( was unable to move. The vessel 1 had a 15-foot wide hole going two- i ; (Canititoued on page four)

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Richard Ludwig, Zion Lutheran Church) “HIS BODY AND HIS BLOOD” On the night when Jesus was betrayed. He gathered His disciples in toe Upper Room. Here He instituted the Lord’s Supper. The Passover meal preceded the giving of this Sacrament. Why? Because on the next day He was to be toe real Passover Lamb of God, offered up for'the sins of toe whole world. Out of this Passover meal (toe Old Covenant) would come toe New Testament (the New Covenant of Grace), in and through which Christ gives His body and blood. Having finished the Passover meal, Jesus’took the bread and the cup of wine, saying: “Take, eat, this is My body.” “Take, drink ye all of it. This is My blood.” He gave Himself that you and I might have forgiveness of sins. At His Table our souls find peace. Jesus' urged us to show forth His death till He come. Every time, then, that toe Church administers the Lord's Supper, it confesses that Jesus is coming again. Each Communion invites us to make ready for His return. On this Holy Thursday, toe birthday of the Lord's Supper, let us resolve to receive the blessed Sacrament often, and’thereby strengthen our faith in toe forgiveness of all our sins and obtain toe assurance that we are at .peace with God.

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Sen. John Kennedy Sunrise Service For Youth Easter Sunday The annual Easter sunrise service for youth, sponsored by the young people of the churches of Decatur, will be held at 6 o’clock Easter Sunday morning at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. The entire service will be conducted by young people of the various churches of the city. Ralph Thomas, Decatur high school graduate, and son of the Rev. and Mrs. Benj. G. Thomas, will present the Easter message. The offering received during the service will go to a fund being established to help Decatur youth who are training for the ministry as their life’s work. The sunrise service will open with an organ and piano prelude by Kayne-Wynn and Jane Bedwell. The order of service will be as follows: Call to worship. Jean. Huftoag; opening hymn, directed by LaFry Sheets; invocation, Marilyn Knudsen; hymn sing; scripture, Cassie Strickler; trumpet duet, Ron Feller and Jack Dailey; morning prayer, Janet Rupp; hymn; offering, Gayle Custer; solo, Onalee Barkley; Easter message, Ralph Thomas; closing hymn; benediction, Nick Conrad. Ushers will be young people from the First Methodist church, Church of God. First Presbyterian church, Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Missionary church, and Church of the Nazarene.

Nationalist China Aids Tibet Rebels

TAPKI (UPD —President Chiang Kai-shek said today he would lead his Nationalist Chinese forces against the Communists if the Tibetan rebels carry on their fight.* Chiang, in his first statement since the anti-Communist revolt broke out in Tibet, said the Nationalists are “making every possible effort” to aid toe revolutionary forces. Chiang’s declaration followed reports from Nationalist intelligence sources that toe insurgents have cut toe two mainland routes from Red China to the remote Himalayan kingdom. Wrote To People Chiang addressed his 500-word message to the people of Tibet. “If you remain firm and courageous and if you continue to carry on toe fight soon I shall lead your compatriots, civilian and military alike, to join forces

Bam Destroyed By Bolt Os Lightning Lightning struck the barn of Victor Kahle, Decatut route 3, causing a fire that burned more than 60 tons of hay Wednesday night and early this morning. Decatur fire department officials report that the blaze continues to smolder today, after 13 hours of burning. The blaze completely demolished the structure and its contents. Kable was making ‘ arrangements to sell the hay, but had none sold at the time of the fire. The barn was insured for $2,500, but the farm equipment, which included a corn picker, a cultivator and other itmes, and the hay were not. Kable expressed satisfaction at the job the firemen did and their promptness in answering his call. Neighbors in the immediate area reported that television and radio sets went out when the bolt struck. Kable suspected his bam had been hit and rushed out to check, only to see the blaze had started. Aided by high winds, the entire barn was soon engulfed in a roaring inferno. The heavy rains of last night proved only a slight aid to firemen as they worked to keep the flames from spreading to adjoining farm buildings. More than 30 cars crowded the country road near the fire as onlookers raced with the fire department to the scene of the fire. Sheriff's police blocked both ends of the road, permitting only firemen to enter the area, easing the crowded situation. Fire department officials had no immediate Estimate of damage, as is the case in farm fires. INDIANA WEATHER - Cloudy and windy, occasional raut extreme nerth. showers and thnnderstorms with chance of locally severe ones south and central this afternoon and evening, diminishing later tonight and turning colder south. Friday partly cloudy and cooler south, mostly cloudy with occasional rain and cool north. Low tonight 34 to 40. High Friday 40 to 46 north, 46 to 52 south. Sunset today 7:03 p. m. CDT. Sunrise Friday 6:38 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and a little wanner. Lows 37 to 47. Highs 48 to 60.

with you on the mainland and to fight shoulder to shoulder, for t£e successful -fulfillment of our sacred mission of national salvation,” Chiang said. The 70-year -old generalissimo said “the government of the republic of (Nationalist) China is making every. possible effort to give you continuous and effective aid.” He did not disclose what the aid was. But key Nationalist officials have been meeting day and night during the past 72 hours to find ways to help toe anti-Red uprising. (The Chiang statement came as the London Times, in a dispatch from Kalimpong on toe IndianTibetan frontier, said toe Kashag, Supreme Tibetan Cabinet, had declared itself independent of Chinese communist control. (In New Elhi where the Indian government has reestablished radio contact with toe Tibetan capital of Lhasa there was no confirmation of toe report, a government spokesman said. Says Reds Abandoned Roads (Reports reaching New Delhi indicated Lhasa was quiet but that there was widespread fighting in other areas of Tibet and that the rebels were holding the town of Gyantse which controls an important road through Tibet. (Tibet reports reaching Darjeeling, India, said refugees from Lhasa believed the Dalai Lama to be safe. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and temporarl ruler of Tibet and is revered by Tibetans as the reincarnation of their god Buddha). Nationalist Chinese intelligence sources said Tibetan guerrilla forces have cut toe two main highways leading from Communist China into toe mountain kingdom. The sources said the Reds abandoned toe roads in toe face of heavy rebel attacks and withdrew highway maintenance crews.

Decatur/ Indiana, Thurs day, Marfch 26, 1959.

11 - ... - Wrl fHi NICHOLS TRIAL JURY COMPLETER)— After nearly eight day? of examination, twelve men were accepted by both prosecution and defense for jury duty in the first degree murder trial of Connie Nicholas (right-foreground) at Indianapolis. She is charged with the fatal shooting of her long-time lover, Forrest Teel.

Reveals Deadly Radiation Band

WASHINGTON (UPD—The U. S. atomic tests above the South Atlantic last year spread a 100mile thick shell of deadly radiation over the earth at altitudes of up to 4,000 miles. This was disclosed late Wednesday when the White House released a 2,400-word report giving the first details on scientific results of the high-altitude Argus experiment. Dr. Herbert York, research director for the Defense Department, said the strongest part of the shell compared in intensity with the natural radiation zones in space named after Dr. James A« Van Alton of the University of lowa. He told reporters at a White House news conference that bigger bombs would have created a correspondingly bigger and more intense zone of radiation. Military details were kept out of the White House report, and York refused to discuss the explosions’ effect on such things as radio communications, missile electronic equipment, and radar early warning systems. But the shots caused artificial auroral which are known to accompany natural electronic disturbances which disrupt communications. Lower altitude but more powerful Hpbomb tests in the Pacific a few weeks before the Argus Project- blacked out radio communications for hundreds of miles. York did not estimate the intensity of the Argus electron shell in terms of radiation dosage that would be experienced by unshielded occupants of a space craft that might venture into it. But Dr. Van Allen has estimated peak radiation intensities of -the two “natural electron shields, discovered last year, at from 10 to 100 roentgens an hour. A dose of 400 to 600 roentgens could kill an unprotected human being. So any space pilot, for example, the operator of a manned satellite, who spent more than four to 40 hours in either the natural or artificial radiation zones might be fatally injured unless he were protected by a lead shield. In the Argus experiment, kept secret until last week, three small atomic bombs were e x pTo de d more than 300 miles above the U. S. missile ship Norton sound in the South Atlantic on Aug. 27, Aug. 30, and Sept. 6. Hobbs Petition For Court Venue Granted ALBION, Ind. (UPD — Arnold G. Hobbs, ousted manager of the insolvent Noble County Credit Union, has been- granted a change- of venue for his trial on embezzlement charges. Special Judge Lloyd Hartzler, Fort Wayne, sustained a defense petition for a venue change from Noble to Allen Circuit Court Wednesday. The new judge will be William Shannen. Hartzler said he'decided to allow the case to be tried in another county because more than 2,000 Noble County residents had money in the credit union. He said, however, he believes Hobbs would have received a fair trial at Albion. Hobbs is jailed in lieu of bond on several of 21 embezzlement indictments returned by a grand jury in connection with a suspected two million dollar shortage in union funds.

Central Soya Lists Three Appointments Central Soya company announced three new executive appointments today at the Decautr plant, all in the elevator department. Glen C. Dickerson was named assistant general elevator superintendent under Richard H. Miller, general elevator superintendent, while Glenn McCammon will become elevator superintendent. Announced as his assistant is Lee V. Owens. Dickerson will maintain an office j at the Decatur plant, where he has beep working 4s elevator superintendent since September, 1958. Dickerson and his wife, Gertrude, and three children, reside at 903 N. Fifth street. McCammon, who will replace Dickerson, has been assistant elevator superintendent at the Decatur plant since 1955. He, his wife, Vivian, and three daughters, live at 1127 Mix avenut. Owens, who will replace McCammon, has been a shift foreman in the department since returning from the Army in 1946. He and his wife. Irene, live on their farm east of Decatur. Dickerson started with the firm in 1940 at the cost department in Decatur. He was soybean clerk until entering the Armed Forces in October, 1942. Tn 1945, he became order department manager, and subsequently elevator superintendent. He also served in this capacity at the Chatanooga,. Tenn., plant. McCammon started with Central Soya in the feed mill at Gibson City in 1947. Hie same year he became solvent plant foreman. In 1951, he became assistant superintendent of the solvent- plant. He was named assistant elevator superintendent in 1955 at Decatur. Owens started in 1937 in the elevator department. He served as car unloader and bean rush foreman before being named shift foreman after the war, where he was an M.P, Historical Society To Hear Prosecutor Severin Schurger, county prosecutor, will be the main speaker at the monthly meeting of the Adams county historical society Tuesday night at 8 o’clock at the Lincoln school. Schurger’s talk will be on “Historical items from the prosecutor’s off i c e.” The Adams county bar association, Robert Anderson, president; appellate court judgp G. Remy Bierly; Judge and Mrs. Myles F. Parrish, and others will be honored guests at the meeting. Judge Bierly will be the featured speaker at one of the future meetings, talking on his native Harrison county. Members of the society are reminded that 1959 dues are now being accepted. The $1 dues can be sent to the Adams county historical society, Decatur Public Library, Decatur, Ind. .44-lnch Rainfall In City Overnight Weather observer Louis Landrum reported .44 inch of rain and hail in Decatur as of 7 a.m. today, while the St. Mary’s,jiver remained near yesterday’s level. The river was at 3.16 feet this morning.

Give Evidence Ike's Budget Not Balanced WASHINGTON (UPI) — 'The Democratic Congress, under fire for unbalancing President Eisenhower’s new budget, came up with evdience today that it never was balanced in toe first place. 8 Congressional staff tax experts reported that the President's precariously "balanced” budget actually call<xl for $1,200,000,000 in in the fiscal year 1 because toe Presitax revenues by $1,300,000,000. The report said that moves in Congress cduld, if carried to completion, boost toe spending deficit for the new fiscal year above four billion dollars. The report came from the staff of the Joint Committee oo Internal Revenue Taxation. Its tax revenue estimates, issued every spring, generally are accepted by Democrats and Republicans as more reliable' than toe administration’s January budget estimates. The report produced differing reactions. The reaction of some liberal Democrats who have been denounced for "budget-busting” because they have been pushing for a bigger federal spending pronam was “I told you so; the socalled balanced budet was a phony sill along.” But Sen. Harry F. Byrd (DVa.), a leader of the congressional economy bloc, .accepted the report a sthe signal for ever greater efforts to hold down congressional moves to boost spending above budgeted levels. Court House Offices To Close On Friday The Adams county court house will be closed all day Friday in observance of Good Friday, county auditor, Edward F. Jaberg, announced today. Good Friday is one of 11 legal holidays granted to workers of toe county court house throughout the year. Although toe court house will be closed all day, the Adams circuit court will remain open during the morning. Judge Myles F. Parrish will precide over court from 9 to 12 o’clock. The city hall will be closed from 12 to 3 o’clock in the afternoon as will business establishments in Decatur.

Fears Weakening Os West Germany Stand

BONN, Germany (UPD—Chancellor- Konrad Ade na uer was nagged by fears today the Western powers might weaken West Germany’s position in forthcoming negotiations with the Soviet Union. He was reported particularly worried that the Western powers will accept something less than general controlled disarmament—a settlement that might weaken West Germany defensively. His aides and others who see him regularly said this explains the 83-year -old Adenauer’s extreme suspicion of and extreme sensitiveness to public statements by other Western leaders or even newspaper interpretations of such statements. Adenauer’s suspicions, which have infected many of his advisers and most of the newspapers which normally stay close to his foreign policy line, have caused

Allies Propose Summit Talks

Heavy Storm Rolls Across Midwest Area United Press International A pre-Easter snowstorm rolled across the Midwest Thursday, isolating some rural communities under 16 inches of white. Gale winds of up to 50 miles an hour, violent thunderstorms, hail and tornadoes raced ahead of the snow and cold. Heavy snow warnings were out for parts of Minnesota, lowa and Nebraska Thursday. Lighter snow was expected in northern Wisconsin and Michigan and parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The storm powered out of the Rockies Wednesday, laying down deep snows over sections of Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska. A cold wave associated with the storm triggered twisters in Texas and Kansas. One tornado ripped through the southeastern section of Denison, Tex., Wednesday night injuring one woman and causing heavy damage to cotton mill warehouses. Trees and utility lines were downed and homes damaged. Hail up to an inch in diameter battered the Texas panhandle while dust storms swept west Texas. The heaviest snow hit Nebraska where the state highway patrol warned against travel of any kind. Accumulations included 16 Inches at Harrisburg and 15 inches at Scottsbluff. Numerous rural ” Nebraska communities were isolated by snowblocked highways. Snow plow crews were called back during toe night, because of zero visibility. A family trying to drive to a doctor’s office near Scottsbluff was stranded in a snowdrift for five hours in the Nebraska panhandle Wednesday night. Roger McGowan walked through the storm to get help for his wife and small daughter. Heavy rains fell to the east of the cold air mass, soaking Kearney, Neb. More than one inch doused Kansas City, Mo.; Chanute, Kan., and McAlester, Okla; * Daylong snows Wednesday left Denver under a 10-inch blanket and Cheyenne, Wyo., with 5 inches. Drifts buried northeast Colorado and southeast Wyoming. Cold air draining southward behind toe storm dropped overnight temperatures in toe Texas panhandle, western Oklahoma and western Kansas- into the 20s and low 30s. • > Earlier, 60-mile-an-hour winds and a tornado funnel raked the Lafayette, Ind., area, and tornado funnels were reported at Oklahoma City and Alva, Okla. At McAlester, a prankster telephoned residents during the height of the storm and posed as a civil defense official in warning them to “evacuate your home at once.” Authorities sought to trace toe calls. Weathermen predicted rain or thunderstorms for most of toe eastern half of the nation Thursday except for New England where fair weather was expected. Colder weather was predicted for toe Plains and most of toe Mississippi and Ohio Valleys.

a series of crises in GermanBritish relations. Only this week Adenauer instructed his ambassador in London to determine the truth about reports Britain was considering some kind of “freeze” on atomic weapons in central Europe. This might mean West Germany would get none although other NATO Allies would. Wednesday British Ambassador Sir Christopher Steele had to visit Adenauer with a personal letter from British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to soothe the chancellor’s feelings. Adenauer was uneasy before Macmillan went to Moscow. He apparently thought his fears confirmed when the final Moscow communique spokes of “limitation of armed forces” in central Europe. He considers this would apply only to West Germany.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States, Britain and France sent notes, to Russia today pn> posin a summit conference this summer which could deal with a peace treaty with. Germany and the Berlin crisis. The notes insisted that a foreign ministers meeting precede the summit conference and that it "justify” such, a top level parley. The separate notes to Russia suggested the foreign ministers meeting discuss "questions relating to Germany, includln a peace treaty with Germany and the question of Berlin.” The U.S. note said the purpose of the forein ministers meeting "should be to reach positive agreements over as wide a field as possible, and in any case to narrow the differences between the respective points of view and to prepare constructive proposals” for a heads of government meet? ing later in the summer. Similar iw Intent "On this understanding and as soon as developments in the foreign ministers meeting justify holding a summit conference, the U.S. government would be ready to participate in such a (summit) conference," the U.S. note said. The British note signified Britain’s readiness to participate in a summit conference "as soon as developments in the foreign ministers’ meeting warrant” it. The French note stated: “If the conference of foreign ministers brings signs of real progress, the French government arees to accept a conference at the summit at an appropriate date and place. The aenda of such a conference should be discussed by the foreign ministers.” On other points the notes appeared similar in content and intent. The summit conference, the U.S. note said, “could consider and, if possible, resolve some wider problems” raised by Russia and the Western Allies in previous exchanges of notes. ' .. Only Four Powers The Western powers rejected Russia’s proposal that Polish and Czechoslovakian foreign ministers be full-fledge participants in the foreign ministers’ meeting. But the Western Big Three agreed for the two Russian satellites to join in “at a certain stae in negotiations.” They would presumably have the status of observers. But the United States “believes that the proposed meeting should at least in the outset involve only the four. powers responsible for Germany,” the note said. It was noted that Russia had agreed for representatives of East and West Germany to sit in as observers at the foreign ministers meeting. Soviet Premie r Nikita S. Khrushchev had agreed in advance to the foreign ministers’ meeting starting May 11 in Geneva. But, at the same time, he said anew that only a summit conference really could accomplish anything definite. To Narrow Differences Although the U.S. note specified only Germany and Berlin as topics for the foreign ministers conference, it said “naturally, any of the four participating governments should have the opportunity" to bring up other matters "which it may consider relevant to the problems under consideration.” The US. missive —said: “The purpose of the foreign ministers’ — meeting should be to reach positive agreements over as wide a field as possible, and in any case to narrow the differences between the respective points of view and to prepare constructive proposals for consideration by a conference of heads of government later in — the summer.”

Ralston Baby Dies Wednesday Evening The three-day-old son of Mr. and “ Mrs. Paul Ralston, of 330*4 N. Fourth street, died at home Wednesday. The infant, Calvin Gene Ralston, was born Sunday at 9 p.m. in the Adams county memorial hospital. Mrs. Ralston is the former Carol Lepper. Survivors are the parents; the grandparents. Mrs. Ida Lepper, of Hoagland and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ralston, of Decatur; the maternal great-grandmother. Mrs. Amelia Nahrwald and the paternal greatgrandmother, Mrs. Catherine Marbaugh, of Celina, O. Funeral services were held at the Zwick funeral home this afternoon, the Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob officiating. Burial was in St. John’s Lutheran cemetery.

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