Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 87, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 87.

Sen. Kennedy Here Tonight

Plans were completed this noon for Decatur to be host to Sen. John F. Kennedy, of Massachusetts, widely mentioned as a presidential possibility in 1960, at a $5 a plate fund-raising dinner this evening.. Robert H. Heller, former speaker of the state house of representatives, will be master of ceremonies, Edward F. Jaberg, general chairman, said this morning. The Rev. Robert A. Jaeger, assistant pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church, will give the invocation in the Youth and Community Center at 6:30 p. m. Following this, Boy Scouts will lead the pledge at allegiance to the flag, including Dan Heller, troop 61; Eddie Morgan, troop 62; Tom Baxter, troop 63; — and Allen 'Garner, Explorer post 2063. Following the evening ceremonies, tiie Rev. Huston Sever, Jr., of the Church of God, will give the benediction. Immediately following the opening arrangements, the community center staff, aided by three local groups, will begin serving the meals. More than 500 persons have already paid for their tickets, and the room yrill be jammed to capacity. A speakers’ table seating only five persons will be used. The menu for the meal will include a tomato juice cocktail, sauted Swiss steak, escalloped potatoes supreme, Fagiolini saute, cole slaw, relish plate, hot rolls, butter and coffee, with pie for dessert. Sen. Kennedy will arrive by motor caravan from Fort Wayne about 7:15 p. m„ as soon as TV, radio and press representatives have finished interviewing him at the airport. It is hoped that most of the meals will have been served by that time. Immediately following the dinner, introductions will be made of the fourth district, county central committee, state officials and legislators, city, county, township officials, and precinct committeemen and women. Heller will then introduce Sen. Kennedy, and following his speech Robert D. Cole, mayor, will present him an honorary colonelship in the Decatur police force, and a locally manufactured gift on behalf of the city. Plans were being made for a press, TV and radio interview by 30 newsmen following the dinner in the Girl Scout room of the center. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight with scattered frost or freezing temperatures south. Low tonight 28 to 33. Tuesday fair and a little warmer. High upper SOs. Sunset today 7:21 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Tuesday 6:09 a.m. c.d.t Outlook tor Wednesday: Fair and warmer. Lows in the 30s. Highs in the 60s.

Connie Concludes Testimony

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Connie Nicholas finished her ordeal on the witness stand today, sticking unshaken to her story that wealthy Forrest Teel was shot accidents ally in a struggle in his car. Deputy Prosecutor Francis Thomason abruptly ended his hammering cross-examination of the tiny divorcee, as her murder trial entered its fifth week. It was expected the case would go to the all-husband jury Wednesday. Mrs. Nicholas, who was 45 Sunday, gave final testimony that she was afraid the drug company vice-president would beat her more when she drew out her French revolver while sitting beside him in the front seat of his white Cadillac outside the apartment of Laura Mowrer. "I made a motion with the gun toward myself,” she said. “I wanted to scare him.” “Did you fear you would get a further beating?” asked Defense attorney Charles Symmes. “Yes, I was afraid because he had struck me and thrown me across the-car.” Only Few Questions Thomason asked Mrs. Nicholas only a few questions today, after Friday's gruelling interrogation that left her almost hysterical. Thomason asked if she got out of the car after she drove away from the death scene and got mired in mud. She said she got out twice, once to put a paper bag under a rear wheel and again

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Sen. John Kennedy Ike Interrupts Georgia Vacation AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) — President Eisenhower flew back to Washington today in cold, blustery I weather for a crowded 24-hour (schedule in the nation’s Capitol and a personal check on the battle of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles against Cancer. Interrupting his golfing vacation here for a day of speeches, conferences and a visit with Dulles in Washington, Eisenhower took off from Augusta aboard the Columbine 111. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty refused to discuss the Dulles physical situation as the Columbine left for Washington on a flight expected to take about one ' hour and 45 minute. Hagerty said that as far as he {knew Eisenhower would return to Augusta Tuesday to continue his vacation through this week. The circumstances which caused Dulles’ doctors to recommend his sudden return to Walter Reed Army Hospital naturally concerned Eisenhower deeply and he was keeing in olose touch with the situation. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty -said he assumed the President would see Dulles today or Tuesday, but this will depend on a check with the secretary’s doctors after the President gets back to town early this afternoon. Eisenhower's flight plans depended on tiie weather. Poor flying conditions today would require his departure from Augusta during the morning. If flight conditions were good, however, he was not expected to leave before noon. First item on the Eisenhower schedule in Washinton was a 3:30 p.m. speech to the National Advertising Council. Tonight he speaks to the seventh annual Republican Women’s Conference. Tuesday morning, the President will confer with House and Senate Republican leaders, their first meeting since Congress returned from the long Easter recess. Later Tuesday morning, Eisenhower will participate in the dedication of a memorial on Capitol Hill to tiie late Republican Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio.

to vomit after taking a huge dose of sleeping pills. Thomason showed her a picture taken of her lying unconscious in her car. » “Do you observe your shoes?" he asked. "Yes.” “Do you see any mud?” “If there were, it would be on the soles of my shoes. I don’t see the soles.” “Yet your wheels were bogged down?” “Yes.” Mrs. Nicholas looked relieved as she stepped off the witness stand. Reporters asked her if she was glad it was over. “It isn’t,” she said. Then she added: “I’m still hopeful for that jury to acquit me.” The defense still had three medical witnesses to call. Later, a jury will decide if Mrs. Nicholas is: A. A clever liar using a story of accidental shooting of business executive Forrest Teel to get away with a murder conceived in jealous shrewdness and carried out with cold purpose. Or: B. A desperate woman who did not mean to kill her ex-lover but only herself and now finds herself facing possible death in the electric chair because she failed in suicide. The little divorcee, who observed her 45th birthday Sunday

Dorwin Drake Dies After Long Illness Dorwin Drake, 77, of Bellmont Park, a life-long resident of Adams county, died at Adams county memorial hospital Sunday at 8 p.m. after two years of failing health. He was the son of Jacob and Margaret Taylor Drake and was bom Jan. 25, 1882 in St Mary’s township. On April 2, 1910 he married Cora Springer, who survives. The former employe of Kricktyndall Co. was a member of the Mt. Tabor Methodist church at Bobo. "*• ’ Survivors, besides his wife, include, five sons, Arlo, Robert J., and Lester of Decatur, Charles of Monroeville, and Harry of Fort Wayne; three daughters, Mrs. Edward (Ozema) Isch, of Portland, Mrs. Lawrence (Samantha) Andrews, of Decatur and Mrs. Robert (Carrie) Neile, of Wingo, Ky.;-24 grandchildren, and 2 great-grand-children. One son preceded him in death. Services will be conducted Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Zwick ■ funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Mt. Tabor Methodist church in Bobo, the Rev. George Christian officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

Launching Os Three Satellites Planned

WASHINGTON (UPI) - The United States plans to launch three more earth satellites today —two from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and one from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. If all gofcs well, the three manmade moons will be fired skyward by midnight. The new satellites are designed to glean more data on the earth’s make-up and weather and explore the possibility of putting huge reconnaissance satellites into orbit in the future. The Cape Canaveral shot is scheduled to be a unique 2-in-l launching with the Vanguard rocket. It will carry an instrumented satellite for measuring the Magnetic field f solar radiation and meteor effects, and a 30-inch inflatable sphere tor checking air density. <To Eject Package Actually, the Canaveral scientists may put three objects in orbit if all goes well. The third and final stage of the rocket assembly is expected to go into orbit with the two satellites. At Vandenberg, the Air Force will try to put a Discoverer satellite into a south-north polar orbit. This launching will be part of a long-range endeavor to develop satellites capable of scanning the earth with television and photographic cameras. The 1,300-pound Discoverer probably will eject a package of instruments which scientists will try to recover. However, defense officials were mum on this aspect of the experiment. In Stable Flight The Discoverer satelites, which are designed to achieve stable flight rather than tumbling about like other satellites, have an important relationship to eventual efforts to put a man in space as

in a hospital detention ward, takes the witness stand again today to face further cross examination after becoming nearly hysterical Friday. Prosecutor Francis Thomason appeared to have punched some holes in her story of Teel’s fatal wounding in a struggle for her tiny French revolver in his Cadillac outside the apartment of his new girl, Laura Mowrer. They included: Although she said she was fleeing wildly and afraid after the gun went off, she held on to it and even had the composure to put it in her purse. Although she contends the paralyzing injuries to her right arm and shoulder were suffered when Teel wrenched her arm, she had been suffering and had itX-rayed right shoulder and had it X-rayed shortly before the shooting. She testified that she did not learn Laura Mowrer’s Identity until last July 17. But she also wrote a letter to Teel on July 3 ip which Miss Mowrer’s name was included. Mrs. Nicholas explained she inserted that when she typed up the letter July 22. Defense attorney Charles Symmes has four more witnesses to call, three of them doctors, before concluding his case. It was expected that, with closing arguments by both . sides and the judge’s instructions, the case would not reach the jury before Wednesday and possibly later.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 13, 1959.

Four New Members Signed With C. C. Four new memberships to the Decatur Chamber of Commerce have been acquired, chairman L. A.' Anspaugh, and co-chairman, Roy Kalver and Dave Moore, announced today. Team captain E. E. Rydell reported that team worker T. C. Smith secured the Acker Cement Works, at 910 Miebers street; and Dale Liby, captain, reported that Herb Banning, worker, acquired Don Smith of Indiana Truck Leaser Corp., at 236 N, 12th street Two new memberships recently signed by worker Ferris Bower were reported by captain Francis Wertzberger. James Merriman, of Merriman Mobil Service, located at 224 E. Monroe street, has signed. and Gerald W. Lobsiger, an architectural designer, at 426 N. Fourth street, is a new member. Democratic Women Meet On April 21 The Adams county Democratic Women’s club will meet Tuesday evening, April 21, at Berne, in the directors room at the First Bank of Berne. The meeting will be a carry-in supper at 6:30 p.nq. All Democratic women of the county are invited to attend.

well as to military communications, meteorology and reconnaissance. The current experiments eventually may lead to 10,000-pound satellites hurled aloft by Atlas intercontinental missiles. Both the Vandenberg and Canaveral launchings will be under the auspices of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA). Woman Is Injured As Autos Collide An elderly lady from Monroe, Mrs. Emma Heyerly, 77, was hospitalized Sunday forenoon at the Caylor-Nickel clinic in Bluffton from shock after she was thrown from an auto that was involved in a two-car collision at Coppess Corners at 10:45 a.m. Another passenger, Roxann Stavenik, 9-y Car-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Stavenik, of Monroe, was also thrown from the auto, but was not hospitalized. Mr-s. Heyerly did not receive any broken bones, but did suffer a deep laceration to the back of her head, bruises, and shock. Her condition is not listed as cirtical. The young girl received bruises and scratches, and is being treated at home under a doctor’s care. The two people were thrown from the car driven by Mrs. Frieda Stavenik, 45, of Monroe, when she attempted to drive across U. S. 27 on highway 124. A southbound vehicle, driven by Richard Dee White. 25, of Fort Wayne, was unable to stop in time to avoid the collision and struck the side of the Stavenik auto. State police and the Adams county sheriff's department investigated the mishap and estimated damage to the White auto at $125 and $175 damage to the Stavenik car.

If IE V. I ■ffl FATHER PLAYS THREE WITH BAT— Fairfax County. Vg., policeman Eugene Columbus leaves the home of Joseph B. Matthews, Jr., 40, with the instruments of tragedy, a knife and a baseball bat, after Matthews (left) went berserk at breakfast and beat his three children to death with the bat, seriously injured his wife, and then slashed his own throat. The wife is in “fair condition” in a hospital. Police said there was no warning of trouble when Matthews went berserk in the kitchen of their home in Springfield, Va. ’

Decatur Citizens Vote Tuesday On Sale Os Utility

Decatur's registered voters will go to the polls Tuesday in a special city election tp vote on the question, “shall.the city of Decatur sell its municipal electric utility to Indiana & Michigian Electric company?” To vote for the sale, voters will mark an x beside the square marked "Yes.” To vote against the sale, voters will mark an x in the square marked “No.” Every registered voter in the city may vote. There is no special property qualification. This will not be a referendum of property holders, it will be a special city election. The regular state law concerning city elections will be in full effect. Election boards have been named by both political parties as the law provides, to help with the election. Actually, both political parties are split wide open on the issue, many prominent members of both parties on opposite sides. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. for the convenience of the voters. As soon as the votes are counted in each precinct, they will be available at the Decatur Daily Democrat office, or by calling 3-2171, the news number maintained by the Democrat and the Citizens Telephone company. At least three different groups have advertised concerning the election, two in favor of the sale, and one opposed. Feeling has run quite high at different times among the partisans on one side of the question or the other. While coffee shop polltakers have differed widely on predicted ’(results of the election, there is no doubt that sentiment in- favor of selling the plant has grown greatly in the past three weeks ,as more and more information has become public.

Dulles Cuts Short Florida Vacation

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Associates of Cancer - striken John Foster Dulles said today that, barring a miracle, he will have to resign as secretary of state. They based their conclusion on reports from his physicians and developments in Dulles’ case during the pat week at Kobe Sound, Fla., where he had been resting. Persons who talked with the 71-year-old diplomat since he reentered Walter Reed Army Medical Center Sunday reported him weaker now than when he left Washington just two weeks ago for his Florida “rest and recuperation.” President Eisenhower and Dulles’ brother, Director Allen W. Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency, visited the secretary at the hospital during the noon hour. Herter May Gel Post The President, interrupting his golfing vacation in Georgia, went directly to the hospital from the ■prport. He came to Washington

Shot Is Fired At Virginia Governor RICHMOND, Va. (UPl)—Police officials met here today to plan further steps in their search for someone who fired at Gov. J. Lindsay Almond. The 60-year-old Almond was shot at Friday as he was walking from the executive mansion to his office in the state Capitol. One of his three bodyguards hustled him inside the Capitol as the. other two searched for the gunman. Police said they were "nearly certain” an ardent segregationist had fired the shot at the governor. Almond had been threatened by telegrams, letters and telephone calls several times during the current school desegregation crisis. Wilbur Walker, an aide and onetime private detective, said he would meet with Lt. C. G. Phaup, chief of the Capitol police force, theres a good man ready to take their investigation. Almond, however, shrugged off the incident. “I'm just going to go on living and do the best I can,” he said. “If someone knocked me off. theres a ood man ready to take my place.” He was referring to Lt. Gov. A. E. S. Stephens, who is next in line of succession. At Augusta, Ga., Presidential Press Secretary Jgmes. C. Hagerty said it was a shocking thing and that only an insane person would try anything like this in the United States, and that whoever the person was, by his action, he did a great disservice not only to the state of Virginia, but to the entire country.”

Ito make three talks today and Tuesday and to see Dulles. There was no indication, however, how soon a final decision on Dulles’ future would be made. High officials said that if the decision is to resign, as they expected, the successor would be Undersecretary Christian A. Herter, who has been sating secretary. Dulles, following radiation treatments for his abdominal cancer, had hoped to regain enough strength to continue his duties for a while. As recently as last Wednesday, he was reported determined to try to return to his post and lead the American delegation to the foreign ministers' meeting at Geneva starting May 11. He had been arguing against the advice of his physicians who doubted that he would be well enouh to undertake the rigorous Geneva meeting. Thin and Drawn But after an X-ray examination in Florida Thursday, his Army doctor who had accompanied him insisted that the secretary return to Washington as soon as possible for a thorough check-up. The tests began this morning. There was speculation that Dulles’ decision to resign and Eisenhower's designation or a successor would come soon after doctors evaluate the results of the conclusive check-up. Dulles appeared thin and drawn as he stepped from the President’s plane. Columbine 111, but he told reporters, “I feel fine.” Vice President Richard M. Nixon greeted him at the airport. Eisenhower was described as “very disturbed.” He was expected to visit Dulles at the hospital today when he returns from Augusta, Ga., for a 24-hour round of engagements before resuming his vacation there. Administration sources insisted the question of Dulles resigning from his State Department post had not come up in his most recent conversations with Eisenhower. The President was pictured as primarily concerned at this time about the secretary’s health and not with the-problem of whether Dulles would return to the State Department helm.

Demand Meter Use Explained By Firm Head “Demand meters are very easily explained,” Bud Hill, Fort Wayne district manager of Indiana & Michigan said this morning, when asked over the telephone about them. “In the first place, Indiana & Michigan, NIPSCO, REMC's, and most electric companies in the country have used them for years)) 1 for commercial users. They are established to give the fairest rate possible to a commercial user." “Also, only about 20% of the commercial establishments in Decatur will qualify to have one installed. The other 80% will pay the regular commercial rate. “With a demand meter, the Fairway restaurant will save sl.142.98 a year; General Electric will save $25,000 a year; even smaller operations, such as the Decatur Daily Democrat, will save $123 a year, with a demand meter.” “Any user whose average daily demand is under five kilowatt hours, which would mean under about 1,000 KWH a month, will not have one. This takes care of most of -the merchants in Decatur.” “Any user such as a filling station that runs 24 hours a day, or a restaurant that runs most of the day and keeps its other electrical appliances as cooling or heating on 24 hours, will benefit.

“Certain users, who take a tremendous load just once a week or once in a whi’e, such as the tile mill, or the stone quarry, or the Bag Service industry, will have a slight rate increase. They have already been informed of this.” (A telephone check with the managers of all three industries shows that they are solidly in favor of the sale of the plant to I&M. “The demand meter,” Hill continued, “will measure the maximum kilowatt per hour demand during each month. This gives a reading which is multiplied times the kilowatt hours used. If 50 is recorded, it will cost 5c per KWH for the first 30 KWH, and 4c per KWH for the rest. If 150 is measured, it will cost 24c per KWH, for the first 3,000 KWH. and 1.5 c per KWH for all over that; if the demand meter times KWH is 2,000 or more, it will cost 1c per KWH.” . “In 1956 I&M ihen visited every commercial user in Decatur who would have been affected at that tlfne, examined his electrical use, estimated his highest possible demand reading, and recorded figures on how much it would cost or save him. These figures were all given at a Rotary-Chamber of (Continued on pax* sight) *•

Dalai Lama {Arrives Safely In Bomdila

NEW DELHI (UPD—Buddhist monks in Ceylon demanded today that Premier Solomon Bandaranaike sever diplomatic relations with Communist China and cancel the Ceylon-Chinese trade pact because of Communist attacks against Tibet. The Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet, arrived safely Sunday in the Indian army hill town of Bomdila and was expected to be flown to New Delhi shortly. Thousands of Buddhist hill people greeted the god-king with drums and dancing when he emerged from the Assam jungles. Ceylon is predominantly Buddhist, site of one of the bigest Buddhist temples in the world (The Temple of the Dooth at Kandy), and the Buddhist monks carry great political* weight. Their growing anger at Peiping crystalized Friday when the Chinese Communist ambassador refused to

Six CenH

Five Concerts Are Slated Next Season With an increase of 60 over last year, the membership drive of the ( Adams County Civic Music Asso ciation was brought to a successful conclusion Saturday night. With nearly 800 persons enrolled, the association has enough funds to present a briluan program of five concerts during the 1959-60 season. The talent committee met at the • Youth and Community Center Sunday afternoon and selected the concerts for next season. Theis ~ choice was based on the preference ballots handed in by members of the association. In October, The Serenaders, a popular and nationally known male quartet, will ap- • pear in Decatur. In November, Robert Schrade, rising young American-piano soloist will be presented. Schrade. highly praised by New York critics, is rapidly becoming one of the top piano virtuosi in the concert field. Carl Palangi, handsome and dy* namic bass-baritone will present the February concert. Palangi, noted for his opera and television appearances, possesses one of America’s finest voices. In March, the association members will have the distinct pleasure of hearing the great Indianapolis Symphony orchestra under the baton of Izler Solomon. The closing concert next April will be given Wlhe’fainoui hus-band-and-wife dual piano team, Nelson and Neal. Nationally known through their television and stage appearances, Nelson and Neal were recently seen on the Ralph Edwards’ TV program, "This Is Your Life.” , The final concert of the current season is the appearance on Sunday afternoon, May 3 of Stan Freeman, pianist and humorist. This will also be a bonus concert for new members who enrolled for next season. Sean O'Dowd, representative of the Civic Concert Service of New York, in a brief talk to the talent committee Sunday thanked the two drive chairmen, Mrs. Roy Kalver of Decatur and Sherman Stucky of Berne, and, their many enthusiastic workers for the hard work they did in making possible another splendid concert season for the members of the county music association. Mrs. Ellis A. Squier Dies Saturday Night Mrs. Mae Squier, 74, the mother of Mrs. Edward Imel. of Decatur, died at 11:30 Saturday at her residenst in Ossian. Other survivors are her husband. Ellis A.; another daughter, Mrs. Harry Mills of Ossian: a son, Robert C., of New Haven: five granchildren and a great-grandchild. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Elzey and Son fnueral ifome, the Rev. Milton Nolin officiating. Burial will be in the Oak Lawn cemetery.

receive them to hear a protest. Observers in Ceylon said the embassy rebuff to the Buddhists was a major diplomatic blunder. The Dalai Lama is revered in Ceylon almost as highly as in Tibet. The Communist action in Tibet also has stirred other Southeast Asian nations against Peiping and thousands of telegrams and cables poured into India to congratulate the Dalai Lama on his escape from the Red army. Many of the cables from abroad offered asylum to the Dalai Lama. . Excitement over the Dalal Lama’s safe arrival at Bomdila almost overshadowed news of fighting in Tibet. Reports reaching New Delhi said the Tibetans had blown so many important highways and bridges that Tibet was now cut in two between north and south.