Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 73.

Install Transformers To Carry Power Load While Repairs Made

Two electric transformers, one a permanent-type 3,750 KVA and the other a portable 3,000 KVA unit, capable of furnishing the city an additional 5,000 kilowatts of electricity while the steam generator is being repaired, have been installed here by Indiana-Michigan, it was announced today. The permanent-type transformer was installed on the north side of the steam plant, by the swimming pool, on Tuesday and Wednesday, and was "cut in" early Thursday morning. Brought From Manon The portable unit was transferred to Decatur from the Marion TAM office. It was moved into position on the alley south of the city diesel plant and street department building at Seventh and Short streets after the city constructed new pole requirements there. Since it is a portable unit it will not be used at full power. The portable unit was moved into position Wednesday afternoon, but mired down in the mud. Thursday it was moved into position, and connected despite a pouring rain which made the operation hazardous. A large crew from In-diana-Michigan, assisted by the city workers, competed the jobDisassembly Complete Meanwhile, the 13-ton generator has been completely disassembled with the generator stator removed. _ Normal maintenance work on the giant turbine, which converts steam into mechanical energy, is being performed. The damaged winding wfl Ithen be removed, and replaced. Repairs will start next Monday. Coils will be made at the Toledo office, but they will be placed here. After carefully examining the Eisenhower Relaxes On Farm For Easier GETTYSBURG, Pa. ' (UPD — President Eisenhower, with a long-hoped-for round of golf under his belt, settled down today with his family for a relaxing Easter weekend at his farm here. The President took several hours off from tensions of the Berlin crisis and other issues Thursday to play his first 18-hole game in four months. He was in good humor and good -form. Eisenhower was overheard to say, "It sure feels good to get a round under your belt." » There was no advance announcement on whether the President and Mrs. Eisenhower would attend Good Friday services at the Gettysburg Presbyterian Church as they did last year. The President and first lady came here Thursday for a fiveday stay. They were to be joined today by their son and daughter-in-law, Maj. John and Barbara Eisenhower, and the four Eisenhower grandchildren. Along with his golfing and family life, the President planned to spend his weekend writing two important speeches to be delivered next week. One will be to the 10th anniversary meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Washington next Thursday.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Willis Gierhart, Monroe Methodist Church) THE CALL OF THE CROSS Galatians 6:11-18 “But God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ At the time of Christ’s crucifixion the cross was a reproach to many of the people. They looked upon it with an attitude of shame and distaste. The cross of Jesus was thought of as the gas chamber or the electric chair is thought of today. Too often we have viewed the cross with a light sentimental attitude. In reality, the cross rightfully is in the center of many of our worship centers, for in the cross we see the most perfect revelation of God that this world has ever seen. Amongst other revelations of God upon the cross, we see His forgiveness. His fove, His willingness for self-sacrifice. His desire to do for others and His power to save even the thief. v* If we seen the cross in the true light, it then should call us to these high virtues. The call of the cross is for a full acceptance of God’s redemption through Christ, for a full dedication of oneself to God and for a supreme desire to give oneself in service for God and others.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

J damaged stators, the GE engin- • eers stated that there is no question but that the tremendous mol mentary flash, that occurred when . the breaker failed and threw out the entire switchboard March 16, . was the cause of the .insulation damage that resulted in the ruined stator March 18. There was no - lightning, and the only other pos- ! sibility, they stated, would have been had the generator been started from the idle position recently. This has not been done since last 1 August, however, and it has never been done without plant engineer Lester Mitchel actually in charge. All of the engineers who examined the generator agreed on this. Connected Thursday The permanent-type transformer : was attached to the city lines at 4 a.m. Thursday, vhile the I-M lines handled the complete power load of the city during the slack period. The transformer allows more power to be brought in from the 33,000 volt I-M line. Previously only 5,000 kilowatts could be purchased at any one time. The new transformers were in. stalled by Indiana-Michigan without any present cost to the city, since the company would have to install them anyway while building a sub-station and changing over, if the people of Decatur decide to sell the electric utility at the election April 14. If not, the company will make only a token charge for the installation and rent. The installation saved the city from purchasing the equipment itself at * vW Ugh cost, and arranging to have generator repairs done on an overtim basis.

Chinese Reds Offer Tibetan Rebels Pact

NEW DELHI (UPD—The Chinese Communists have offered the Tibetan rebels a new “friendship agreement” in hope of putting down the widespread Tibetan revolt, reports from Kalimpong on the Indo-Tibetan frontier said today. Tibetan noblemen fleeing to Kalimpong from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa said the Chinese i Communists themselves ceased ■ firing in Lhasa after offering ito make a new deal with the Ti- ' betans. The revolt was reported still going on outside Lhasa, however. , Reports reaching Gangtok, capital of the Indian protectorate of Sikkim which borders Tibet, said the Dalai Lama, spiritual and j temporal leader of Tibet, was i fleeing southwards to the Indian 'border but did not plan to enter India. Left Lhasa The reports said the Dalai Lama left Lhasa, two days after the revolt broke out and that he planned to join Tibetan resistance forces massed in south Tibet. The group would be expected to flee into India in event of an emergency. The Communists were reported in control of Lhasa, and the fate of the lamas (monks) in the Dalai Lama’s cabinet was not known. It was generally believed they I were mov in g southward over 1 Tibet’s . tortuous roads with their

To Probe Collision Os Liner And Tanker ' NEW YORK (UPD—The collision of the sleek new liner Santa Rosa with a tanker off die coast near Atlantic City which killed four will be Investigated by the Coast Guard and a Senate committee, it was reported today. The 20,000-ton liner knifed into the stern side of the 10,000 - ton Tanker about 3 a.m. Thursday a few hours before the Santa Rosa was due in New York ending a Caribbean cruise for 247 passengers. The victims of the crash were all from the tanker Valchem. One crewman died en route to a hospital and three were missing and presumed dead. Sixteen other tanker crewmen were injured. Three seriously enough to be hospitalized. Capt Frank Wiwik, 50, master of the Santa Rosa, said he had plotted the Tanker’s course from sightings which indicated the Valchem would pass safely to starboard (right). He said the tanker suddenly swerved into his path. The operators of the tanker declined to make a.y immediate reply to Siwik’s charges. Coast Guard officials appointed a marine board of investigation which will hold hearings on the collision Monday. In Washington, Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (IlWash.) said the Senate Commerce Committee would investigate the causes of such offshore collisions of ships equipped with radar and other modern navigational aids.

leader. (In Taipei, Formosa, Dr. Tsiang Ting-fu, Nationalist Chinese representative to the United Nations, said the United Nations may be asked to investigate the uprising. He did not expect intervention because Tibet is not regarded as a sovereign state and is not a U. N. member. Summoned Key Officials The Nationalist parliament summoned key government officials in Taipei to express their views on sending military assistance to the rebels. It adopted a resolution asking the government to send army generals, Tibetan born officials and Nationalist troops if necessary to the rebels. (It asked the Defense Ministry to send arms, food, medicines and signal equipment to the rebels but did not say how this would be done. (In New York Buddhist refugees from Russia including robed lamas of the Kalmuks sect announced they would petition the United Nations today to ask the Communists to end the "bloody terror” in Tibet and “respect the immunity” of the Dalai Lama.

Circus Lion Terrorizes 3,000

NEW YORK (UPD — A huge circus lion broke out of an arena cage Thursday night at Madison Square Garden and terrorized an audience of 3,000 until he was trapped in a dead-end corridor 15 minutes later. Ponto, 800-pound star of Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey’s big Cat act, smashed through an insecurely hinged section of the ring-size cage after gettin into a fight with two of toe act’s eight Bengal tigers durin the full dress rehearsal performance. The powerful, heavily - maned beast bounded around the end arena, then paused as the screaming audience Os in vit e d guests, including reporters, and their children, Jumped to its feet and started for the nearest exit. Ponto did the same, leaping gracefully over the arena rail and disappearing through an exit into the main lobby. Watched For Re-appearance Realizing that the lion now had

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Decotur, Indiana, Friday, Morell 27,

City Candidates DECATUR DEMOCRAT REPUBLICAN — Mayor — Robert D. Cole Harry Hirschey Mrs. Mary K. Morgan Adrian Wemhoff — Clerk-Treasurer — Mrs. Laura Bosse — Qty Judge — Richard J. Sullivan — Councilman, Ist District —■ Carl Getber — Councilman, 2nd District — Norbert Aumann — Councilman, 3rd District — Lawrence Kohne — Councilman, 4th District — Clyde Drake — Councflman-At-Large — Frank Braun BERNE DEMOCRAT . REPUBLICAN — Mayor — Forrest Balsiger Leland A. Neuen — Clerk-Treasurer — Richard L. Lehman Kenyon L. Sprunger — Councilman NE District — Leslie F. Stuckey Gorman E. McKean — Councilman NW District — William Wulliman — Councilman BE District — Daniel Speicher Max T. Sprunger — Councilman SW District — Edgar C. Lehman Fred L. Kirsch — Counoilman-At-Large — Dr. James G. McCrory Homer Niederhauser

Air Force Missile Blazes Across Sky CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD—Another stubby Thor, the Air Force’s Jack-of - many-trades missile, blazed across the sky late Thursday night with tracking cameras clicking away in an attempt to pin-point its flight p'uh. Fitted with a strobe light designed to flash like a neon sign, the Thor was fired in a continuing program to improve the weapon's accuracy and reliability. The Air Force made no statement on whether the 37th Thor flight was successful. But all appeared to go well on the start of the fiery flight, which was intended to end about 1,600 (statute) miles down the Atlantic tracking range. Officials said there would be no effort to recover the Thor’s blunt nose cone, which should have splashed into the ocean about 15 minutes after the 11:02 p.m. e.s.t. blastoff. The problem of protecting the hydrogen warhead the missile would carry in combat is said to be solved by use of the heat-absorbing cone over intermediate range. Only a few hundred feet away from the site of Thursday night’s launching, technicians have been working on another Thor-Able rocket which may be used to boost a radiation-measuring satellite into space. Rep. Overton Brooks (D-La ), said last month that such a satellite, weighing about 325 pounds, would be launched April 15.

the run of the building, most of the spectators decided to stay in the seating area where they could watch for his possible re-appear-ance. Many persons suddenly realized thSt the interior of the garden resembled the Roman Colosseum. “Now I know how those Christians felt waiting for the first lion,” one woman remarked. In the lobby, Ponto scattered the ticket-takers and refreshment stand employes and eyed the various stairways and escalators leading to toe upper balconies. But he chose to plunge headlong down a short corridor leading to a stairway to the basement, where the smell of other circus animals probably attracted him. A locked grill across the end of corridor frustrated Ponto and he turned momentarily to claw at f telephone booth only a few feet away from one in which UPI correspondent Murray Brown was phoning the news to his office. Then Ponto attacked the grill

Expect Russia To Accept Bid

MOSCOW (UPD—Western diplomatic circles predicted today the Soviet Union- would quickly snap up the Western offer to hold a pre-summit foreign ministers conference in Geneva May 11. The Russians apparently are far more eager than anyone to get out of the way what they regard as a rubber stamp conference and proceed to global problems at a meeting of heads of state. Premier Nikita Khrushchev, for all practical purposes, agreed at his March 19 press conference on the time and place. He also made it clear he was not interested in an agenda covering more than the German problem. Notes Were Brief The Soviet note of Mir ch 2 did propose that the summit meeting take up the general problem of European security, disarmament and the "de - nuclearization” of Central Europe in addition to Germany. Observers said the Western notes were so remarkably brief and free of polemics and diplomatic gobbledegook that they made Soviet acceptance almost inescapable. The Soviet government also was not expected to quibble over either the agenda or the Western formula for inviting Polish and Czechoslovakian representatives at “certain stages” of the nego-

again, this time getting his paw caught in an interstice.

“Ponto Is Gentle...” "Here comes the trainer, hurryin in followed by several circus hands rolling his cage,” Brown reported. "But I’m not sticking my head out to see how the trainer is going to get him loose." The German trainer, Hans Naumann a veteran of five Garden seasons, ordered a net thrown across the entrance to the corridor. He placed Ponte’s cage near toe roaring beast, talked to him soothingly, and prodded the paw loose from the grille. Suddenly the giant cat was back in the cage and roustabouts were rolling him off to the basement. “He’s the biggest lion in America but he never caused me any trouble before,” said Naumann of the 8-year-old beast “Ponto is gentle—be was probably more afraid than anybody else. He certainly is not dangerous to me, but to< you. . .yes, maybe."

Spring Storm Is Easing On Move To East « United Press International A spring blizzard which piled up heavy snow from the Rockies and across the Prairie states into Michigan was expected to diminish today to flurries in the Northeast. South of the snow line, drenching rains and high winds swept Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and parts of the Southeast. An apparent small torn ad o touched down near Waukegan, 111. late Thursday, ripping away the door of a grade school. None of the 916 children in the building was injured. The three - day storm was blamed for at least four deaths, one each in Colorado, lowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin. Wisconsin and Michigan bore the brunt of the snow storm as it pushed eastward during the night. Up to six inches of wet snow hit parts of Michigan, and state police reported traffic nearly at a standstill in Kent, Montcalm, Ottawa. Muskegon and Newaygo counties. Whipped By Gale Winds In Wisconsin, the snow was whipped by gale winds which snapped more than 100 power lines in the Milwaukee area, cutting off electricity to homes. The blizzard was the third this month for parts of the West and Midwest and was termed one of the worst in five years in eastern Colorado and Southern Wyoming. It left parts of Nebraska under as much as 20 to 25 inches of snow. Ahead of the storm, snow flurries broke out in New York State during the night, depositing an inch at Buffalo and three inches in Binghamton. Severe thundershowers and tornadic winds occurred in Alabama (Continued on page three)

tiations.' The Russians .formerly insisted on mathematical parity with the Western Big Three, but in view of tfie almost certain summit meeting they will forego this principle. Remain Poles Apart Western observers here said the truth of the matter is that a foreign ministers conference has been downgraded to what one neutral diplomat called "a procedural subcommittee for a summit meeting.” The same idea has been reflected in dispatches from Western capitals. On basic matters of substance, East and West remained poles apart although the Soviet press in recent days has been reporting a “more realistic approach by Western governments including the United States. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and colder tonight. Saturday fair and cool. Low tonight near 30 north to lower 30s south. High Saturday lower 40s north to near 50 south. Outlook for Sunday: Considerable cloudiness with little change in temperature and showers in the south portion.

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Decatur Lady In Mayor Race

Two last-minute candidates for city office on the Democratic ticket filled the ticket for every elective city office, and placed a third surprise candidacy in the mayor’s race, it was learned this morning. Mary K. (Mrs. John) Morgan, of 310 South 11th street, -filed -for mayor at 9:50 p.m. Thursday at the clerk’s office, becoming the first woman candidate for mayor since the 19th amendment was declared effective Aug. 26, 1920. About 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Frank Braun, retired GE employe, filed for rity councilman-at-large, replacign Ed Bauer, who stated that he had served two terms, and that he did not desire to be a candidate for a third term. Mrs. Morgan, who had informed Democratic leaders two days ago that she was considering filing, is known to her friends as Kay Morgan. Born near Greenville, 0., and a graduate of Hazeldell rural grade school and Versailles high school, she was married to John Morgan, and moved to Decatur 17 years ago. Her husband has been employed since then at the Decatur General Electric plant. They have two children, C. Edward Morgan, a sophomore at Decatur high school, and Susann Kay Morgan, a seventh grade student at Lincoln school. Mrs. Morgan also attended short evening courses at the Fort Wayne IU extension after marriage. She has served as Eagle auxiliary auditor, is a member of the Women of the Moose, the Pocahantas lodge and the Jefferson club. For a number of years she has assisted in Boy Scout Troop 62, of which her son is junior„ assistant scout-

Harry Hirschey Is G.O.P, Candidate The Republicans had only one last-minute candidate out before I the primary election in Decatur, and there was some question as to whether he is eligible to run, Richard Lewton. clerk of the .circuit court, said this morning. The candidate, who mailed his declaration from Fort Wayne at midnight Thursday night, is Harry Hirschy of 1009 Schirmeyer street. His candidacy was questioned because he is not a registered voter. There was some question as to whether he could register yet and still be counted as a legal candidate, however. Hirschey, a well known local man and not considered as a serious candidate by any of the Republican party members contacted, is a chicken picker at Decatur Farms. If Hirschey’s candidacy is ruled valid, however, it will prevent the Republican party from filing another candidate later in the fall. The Republicans 'have no other candidates in the field in Decatur, although Berne has a full slate. They may fill the rest of their city ticket by city convention of precinct committeemen later this summer. In Berne, Leland A. Neuen, insurance agent, filed for the Republican candidacy for mayor. Other candidates there are Kenyon L. Sprunger, clerk - treasurer; Gorman E. McKearL-JWilliam Wulliman, Max T. Sprunger. Fred L. Kirsch, and Homer Niederhouser, for city council.

master. The candidacy of Frank Braun filled the Democratic ticket. Braun retired in 1956 as plant foreman at the Decatur GE after 40 years with the company. A graduate of the Berne school system', he came to Decatur in 1914 and he and his father operated the Teeple Truck line as Fred Braun and Son. In 1916 he went to Fort Wayne where he worked for GE until the Decatur plant was opened in 1920. He served as chief of the General Electric plant fire department until the start of World War 11. He also completed all the GE training courses while working with that company. He is a member of the Zion Lutheran church, and the* GE Quarter-Cen-tury blub. He was a charter member of the Decatur Lions club, but is not now an active member. Terre Haute Youth Oratorical Winner Michael L. Donnelly, of Terre Haute, won the Indiana title in the American Legion sponsored high school oratorical contest at the Decatur high school Thursday afternoon, besting three opponents in a well-organized contest. Hugh J. Andrews, state chairman of the event, presided at the meet and also at the evening banquet in the American Legion home. Robert V Morris, of Gary; Sam King, of Brazil; and Miss Mary Jo Volpert, of Peru, finished in that order behind young Donnelly. He will now go to the regional (meet, scheduled for April 13, 14, and 15, at a site to be decided. Donnelly won the contest by a close margin on the vote of the five judges. Miss Frances Dugan, of Decatur; Lewis L. Smith, Decatur attorney; Robert Gates, immediate past s+ate -commander of > the'Legion of Columbia City ; Lu- . ther Yager, former state representative from Berne, and James Barbieri, Bluffton newspaperman. Richard Smidley, director of Americanism for the Legion, presented the contestants with their"”" four-year scholarship certificates to Indiana University after the results were announced. The Decatur high speech class then led all guests and visitors on a tour of the city, befofce attending the banquet at the Legion home. Myron Eubank, national Legion committeeman, presented the cash awards to the four state finalists at the banquet. Decatur commander Robert Smith gave the welcoming address. More than 300 high school pupils, American Legion oratorical contestants, their parents, and faculty advisors attended the Decatur high speech class sponsored dance Thursday night at the Community and Youth Center from 9 to 11 p.m. Ron Feller, general chairman of the event, which was part of the festivities for the speech contest, expressed his pleasure at the attendance and the work done to prepare for it. Highlight of the ctvening were • the three “disc jockeys;* Bob Shraluka, Peter Friederici, and Bill Jacobs, who took turns spinning rock and roll records. Deane T. Dorwin, speech class advisor, chaperoned the affair.

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