Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 101, Decatur, Adams County, 29 April 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 101.

ir 1 .? j a ■ ■' 3k w -. fc BOOKS FOR THE ONE— Dr. Grayson Kirk, president of Columbia University, presents a gift of books dealing with work of Alexander Hamilton to former President Harry Truman in New York. Truman is lecturing at Columbia. t

Clare Luce Is Backed By •/ -‘M

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower said today he was very much disappointed by the Senate-passed labor reform bill. He expressed hope that the House would strengthen it. The President told a news conference he felt the Senate bill did not deal properly with secondary boycotts, blackmail picketing and the assignment to the individual states of jurisdiction in purely local disputes where the National Labcr Relations Board has refused to move in. Eisenhower said the Senate version, approved, 90-1, Saturday, definitely needed to be strengthened. He said he was very hopeful that the House would do this. Defends Mrs. Luce Other highlights of his first news conference in a month: —He saw no reason for Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce to resign as U.S. ambassador to Brazil. He said her remark Tuesday about Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) may have been ill-advised, but was perfectly human and not intended as an overall disparagement of the Senate. Mrs. Luce had said that her difficulties began when Morse, her chief critic and opponent, “was kicked in the head by a horse” several years ago. —He rejected speculation that he was reluctant to have Christian A. Herter to succeed John Foster Dulles as secretary of state*. His three-day delay in appointing Herter after Dulles’ resignation was due simply to the need for getting and reading a new medical report on Herter, then arranging a time when the appointment could be announced In a dignified manner with Herter present. The President and Dulles had agreed sometime earlier that Herter was the man for the job if Dulles had to resign. —He said the United States will continue to seek some avenue toward improvement of the situation in divided Germany; this country will stand flat-footed on the position that America will not desert the people of West Berlin

Willshire Lad Is Merit Scholar

The 850 national merit scholarship winners were announced today, with 46 named from Indiana. James David Cowan of Willshire, 0., high school won the Sears Foundation merit scholarship and Kent H. Westley, of Elmhurst. 111., won the Central Soya Co. scholarship. Young Cowan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Cowan, of Willshire. The elder Cowan is retired from the General Electric plant in Decatur. The Sears-Roebuck Co., the sponsors of the Sears foundation, endows the foundation with grants available to various types of charitable, scientific, and educational activities. It is the largest private sponsor of the merit scholarships. Since the inception of the awards in 1956, 350 Sears scholarships have been presented. Soya Award To Science The Central Soya Co. award goes to a student who intends to follow a career in science. The company demonstrates its confidence that American youth and American business will help meet the challenge presented by the shortage of highly trained persons in our society and industry. The scholarship is designed to also help the college, the recipient selects, with additional funds. Young Westley will attend Harvard to major in physics with long range plans of entering research or teaching. At high school, he was a first chair french horn musician, band president, student council

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: or relinquish her rights and responsibilities in Germany. 1 New Atom-Smasher ’ —He said the situation in Iraq was very serious because of Com- ' munist intervention in that Middle • East. country; a situation which ’ required a close daily check by this government. 1 —He dismissed new criticism of i him by British Field Marshal 1 Viscount Montgomery. —ls a summit conference is held, and Eisenhower finds it ■ impossible to attend for the entire . period. Vice President Richard ■ M. Nixon might possibly sit in. • But there is no plan for this at ■ present, and Nixon and Eisenhower would certainly not be at t a summit conference at the same time. Constitutional conditions ■ would prohibit this. i —His scientific advisers have : informed him that the new linear I style atom-smasher to be built ’ with govemmen. money at Stan- ■ with government money at Stani extraordinary tiung of its kind yet ’ attempted. When put into operas' tion about five years from now, it > will place the United Sates far - ahead of Russia in this technique. 1 He knows of no discriminaion against the Midwest University t Research Assn., at Madison, Wis., 1 in awarding the plant to Stanford. Substantial Drop In ; Jobless Pay Claims INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Offi- . clals of the Indiana Employment • Security Division said today that increased hiring in outdoor work I was responsible for a substantial drop in the number of jobless ‘ claims last week. Director William C. Stalnaker 1 said 43,335 claims were received ■ last week, compared to 47,157 the ’ week previous. 1 Os the 32,791 regular claims* ' 4,687 were from newly-unemployed ’ persons.

B James David Cowan member, on the Elmhurst Youth Center board, and a junior representative. His hobbies include music, scientific projects and sports. Cowan will attend Ohio Wesleyan, majoring in engineering, with olans to enter engineering, teaching or selling. A patrol leader and senior crew chief in the Boy Scout Explorer plan, he also participated in the Little League and Pony League for four years. Cowan’s other activities include three years of dramatics; editor of the high school year book; fouryear member of the band and choir; president of the Methodist

Adams Central Graduate List is Announced Adams Central high school’s 1959 valedictorian, salutatorian, commencement and baccalaureate services and speakers were announced today by principal Herman E. Frantz. Baccalaureate services will be held at 2:30 p. m. May 17 at the

Dr. Amos L. Boren school gym, with the Rev. Willis Gierhart, pastor of Monroe Methodist church, as sermonist. Subject of his address will be “Live, Love, Lift.” Commencement will be at 8 p.m. May 18 at tfie school gym. Dr. Amos L. Boren, minister of the Roberts Park Methodist church of Indianapolis, since 1947, will be the speaker. Educationally, Dr. Boren is a graduate of Evansville College, and the Boston University school of Theology. The former institution honored Dr. Boren with a doctor’s degree in 1950. Dr. Boren will speak upon the subject “With a Chisel In His Hands.” Jim Hoffman is valedictorian and Bill Hoffman, satutatorian. _ - Graduates of 1959 Kathleen Adler, Larry Andrews, Barbara Arnold, Phyllis Biberstein, Steve Brandenburg, Mary Djck, Max Egley, Georgianna Essex, Jerry L. Gerber, Dorothy Geyer, Alan Habegger, Larry Habegger, Carol Haggard, Tom Heyerly, Terry Hike, Bill Hoffman, Jim Hoffman, Clair Inniger, David Isch, Joe Lambert, John Lantz, Fred Mann, Inez Merriman. Olin Moeschberger, Evelyn McKean, Wanda Neuenschwander, Doveanna Nussbaum, Shirley Osterman, Suzanne Pageler, Carmen Quinones, Linda Reber, Roger Schlickjnan, Berrihrd Shoaf, Carol Shoaf, Kay Singleton, Brenda Sommer, Joe Sprunger, Mabel Steffen, Karen Stultz, Annette Thomas, Terry Witte, Bernice Yager, Evan Yoder, Arlene Zimmerman. Jim Hoffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hoffman, R- R. 1 Monroe, plans to attend Olivet College, Kankakee, 111. Bill Hoffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hoffman, Monroe, plans to attend Purdue University, Lafayette.

youth fellowship; while his hobbies include photography, music, sports, and working on scientific projects. The other Indiana organizations which offered scholarships are Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. w of Fort Wayne, and the Lilly Endowment Inc., of Indianapolis. Dunkirk Pupil A Winner The Indiana winners are: Steven R. Peden, of Dunkirk high, Indiana University’s pre - optometry school; Michael T. Cooper, of Evansville Central, no college selected; Audrey L. Hughes, of -Evansville Bosse. Western College ’for Women in European studies; Daniel J. Desmonds, of Fort Wayne Central Catholic, Purdue’s electrical engineering; Edwin M. Hartman, of Fort Wayne South Side, Harvard’s pre - ministry school; Steven P. Henry, University of Michigan’s chemistry department; Gary D. Milne, Gary’s Horace Mann, MlT's physics; Robert E. Pyke, of Bishop Noll high, St. Procopius College’s physics; Terry G. Aahuron, of Greensburg, Purdue’s mathematics - science; Glen G. Graber, Griffith high, Northwestern’s mathematics-dramatics; Carolann Chovanec, of Bishop Noll high, St. Mary’s College's political science-government; Jack W. Hugos, of Hammond high, Purdue’s aeronautical engineering; and George E. Harbison, of Hobart high, Purdue’s civil engineering. Evelyn T. Birge, of Shortridge high, no school decided; Harry H. Continued on page five

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, April 29, 1959.

Western Allies Agreed On Tough Stand With Russia At Conference

Youngster Crashes Vehicle Into Tree *, Damage estimated at $250 was caused to an automobile Tuesday afternoon when a two-and-one-half-year-old youngster crashed the vehicle into a tree on Winchester street after driving the vehicle about 100 feet while his mother was busy purchasing the family groceries. Michel Ewell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Ewell, of 358 Stevenson street, drove a car owned by Fred- - erick W. Bieberich, of Preble, into a tree at the Edwin Adler residence at 349 Winchester street, Tuesday afternoon at 12:39 p m. Mrs. Ervin (Joy) Ewell, mother of the youngster, stated to the investigating officer that she had parked the auto across from Hite’s Grocery, turned off the ignition switch, and placed the vehicle into third gear. While she was inside the grocery store, Michel turned the key in the ignition switch causing the vehicle to start, drove it 100 feet north on Winchester street, and struck the tree. Only injury suffered was a small scratch on the right cheek of Terest Ewell, three-and-one-half-year-old sister of Michel, who accompanied him in the auto. Other damage caused was approximately $25 damage to the Adler lawn and tree. Lake County Records 20th Traffic Death HAMMOND, Ind. (UPD—Miss Shirley Crouch, 18, Schneider, became Lake County’s 20th 1959 traffic death victim today. She died in St. Margaret’s Hospital from injuries sustained in a collision of her car and a truck Monday at the junction of U.S. 12 and U.S. 41. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight apd Thursday. Not \ much change in temperature. Low tonight 43 to 50. High Thursday 68 to 75 north, 74 to 80 south. Sunset today 7:37 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 5:48 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and continued mild. Low 48 to 55. High 70 to 80.

Senate Overrides Eisenhower’s Veto

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower counted today on House Republicans to stop Congress from spoiling his record of never having a law enacted over his veto. The legislation—which the Senate passed over the President’s veto Tuesday—would strip Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson of power over loan policies of the Rural Electrification Administration. Republican leaders were hopeful, but not certain, they could muster enough votes to keep the House from enacting the measure when he final showdown vote come Thursday. A two-thirds vote of both Senate and House is necessary to override a veto. The Senate vote was 64-29, two more than thie minimum required. Six Republican senators deserted the President on the issue. The significance of the issue which divided Congress along party lines was more symbolic than real. Some members of both parties privately agreed it was mostly just a slap at Benson. Backers of the bill charged Benson now can exercise" a “political veto” over loans the agency wants to make to help rural co-ops finance electric and telephone service. Administration supporters retorted Benson never had done so. The House passed the bill and sent it to the White House on April 15 by a 254-131 vote, slightly less than the two-thirds margin required o override a vetp. Noting that 40 of the 50 absentees on that vote were Democrats GOP House leader Charles A. Halleck (Ind.) said the number of absentees could determine the final outcome of Thursday’s vote.

St Mary's At 20.35 Feet In ji;* Reading Today I St. Mary’s river reached a high , mark of 20.35 feet today as of the T a.m. reading by weather observ- [ er Louis Landrum, but is apparent- ( ty receding after yesterday’s tor- . rential downpour. A total of 2.14 , inches of rain fell in the Decatur . area from 7 a.m. Tuesday to this morning’s reading. The river reached 19.24 feet yes- . terday at noon after being at 17.84 . at 7 a.m. The rainfall had been 1.5 [ inches, but an additional .64 fell from the early morning hours to t the noon reading Tuesday. , Fair weather and clear skies cut short the flood threat in the Deca- . tur area and Adams county after ■ rain. which started Monday, filled i the St. Mary’s and Wabash to over flood stages. Both rivers’- left their banks at various low spots yesterday, caus- ’ mg more tension than damage, , however. The St. Mary’s did not reach the level that forced migration from homes in low areas in , February this year. The high of , the St. Mary’s during that flood, Which crippled many cities in the northern parts of Indiana and Ohio, was a little more than 22 leet, or nine feet more than the I theoretical flood level. Today, rainfall measured s throughout the county in various - townships, increased a litte less - than an inch from yesterday’s I readings taken at 8 o'clock. Jeffer- - son township, as an example, ref ported a total of 5.4 inches of rain t accumulated from Saturday. Yes- , terday’s reading was 4.5 inches. Kirkland township received a total of 3.5 inches from Saturday, while Union recorded 1.7 inches from 6 p.m. Monday to 6 p.m. Tuesday. • In the Berne area, 4 inches of rain was recorded from Monday to Tuesday noon in Monroe towi> ship at the Ben Mazelin farm. Hartford township reported an additional .7 inch to go with the 1.5 inches of yesterday,- keeping it close to Decatur’s reading.

“I’m hoping we can wih,” he told a reporter, “but I can't make any confident prediction. It’ll be real close.” Hartford Graduate Exorcises May 5 Seventeen seniors of the Hartford Center high school will be graduated at annual commencement exercises in the school gym May 5, at 8 p. m. Baccalaureate services will be held in the gym Sunday evening at 8 o’clock. The Rev. Fuhrman Miller will deliver the sermon. The Rev- Donald Barnes, pastor of the College Avenue Methodist church at Muncie, will deliver the commencement address. Carl Zuercher has been named the class valedictorian. The class will be presented by George Hensley, school principal, and diplomas will be presented by Gall M. Grabill, superintendent of the Adams county schools. Graduates are Lana Lee Bailer, Daily Eugene Bixler, Connie Marlene Brewster, Bonnie Lou Dubach, Carolyn Ruth Graber, Karen Darlene Grandlienard, Howard Duane Grogg, John Richard Meshberger, Delbert Dean McCune, Frederick Wayne Miller. Gerald Owens, Derryle Lee Pharr, John Charles Thomas, Maralyn Esther Wable, Carol Sue Wheeler, Sharon Kay Zimmerman, and Carl Duane Zuercher.

Scout Honor Court Thursday Evening The bronze palm will be awarded Eagle Scout Dan Heller and life, star, second class and tenderfoot ranks will be conferred on other Scouts at a pancake and sausage super to be held in the Boy i Scout cabin at Hanna-Nuttman : park Thursday evening as a regu- • lar meeting of the Decatur Rotary ■ club at 6:30 o’clock. Parents and members of the 1 families of th-J participating scouts ' are invited ST attend the supper ! and the court of honor which will immediately follow the meal as the • regular- Rotary program. A charge I of 50 cents a meal will be charged ’ each of these guests and all pro--1 ceeds will go into the troop activi--1 ties fnud as the sausage and pancakes are being donated by the club and its members. Boys who have earned higher I ranks at the troops board of review Monday night are Dari Heller, bronze palm: Nick Conrad, life scout; John Bedwell, star scout; Rocky Finlayson, Robert Jaurigue and John Burroughs, second class; Erick Gehrig, Dick Cowan, Allan ; Zerkel and Joseph Asbell and Simeon Hain, tenderfoot, and Tom i Moddox, merit badge. Rotary troop scoutmaster Nor- > man Koons will present the awards ■ to the boys. J Gene Ziner, youth committee ’ chairman of the club, is in charge * of the program, assisted by George . Auer, Scout institutional represent--3 ative and chief cooks, H. P. Schs mitt, Jr., and Carl Gerber. Scouts ® will serve the supper. ; Says Stale Police — > Not Gaming Squad » 5 INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —Gover- ■ nor Handley angrily told newsmen today “I don’t intend to take state ’ troopers off the highways and put r them in taverns to watch for pin- * ball violations.” ‘‘You can print that in scream- - ing headlines,” the governor said J at a fist-thumping news conference. “I am sick and tired of the buck passing that has been going on,” Handley said. “If county and local officials won’t do anything about free-play pinball machines, how can we?” Handley said he is waiting for the’ outcome of a test case in Boone Circuit Court at Lebanon to determine whether free-play pin- ■ ball machines are illegal. ; “If they are found illegal, we j will clean them up overnight," he s vowed. “But I want to say again that' the state police are not a gambling vice squad. Their main job is to regulate highway traffic to cut down on fatalities.”

Handley said state police are “more than willing” to step in when requested by local authorities. But he said many local officials wink at gambling violations. The violator is fined about $25 and is back in business within a few hours, he said. “State police can confiscate and break up any slot machines they may find,” Handley said. “But it is a different matter with the pinball machines because the courts have not defined which are legal and which are illegal. “We don’t have the right to bust into a tavern and chop up The wrong machine. After all, we also are liable for illegal acts.” Handley said he also ordered state excise police to cite violators when they see illegal gambling operations. Mt Summit High Principal Quits MOUNT SUMMIT, Ind. (UPD— Earl Lemme has resigned as principal of the Mt. Summit High School to take a similar position at Carmel High School, it was announced today. Lemme had headed the Mt. Summit school for the past five years. Basketball coach Robert Beall will become the new principal.

PARIS (UPD—The Western Allies have agreed to take a “tough” stand at the beginning es the Geneva foreign ministers’ conference with the Soviets next month, informed diplomatic sources said today. The Western foreign ministers were said to have decided this at the first session of their planned three-day -■'aris strategy talks designed to bring „ about a solid Western position of agreement before meeting with the Russians in the Swiss city. At the same time, the sources said, the West has agreed on a three-point agenda which it will propose to the Soviet Union at the start of he Geneva talks May 11. These include: » —German problems. —Berlin. —European security. The diplomatic sources provided the guidance on developments at the morning session after the foreign ministers had decided to impose a shield of secrecy around their discussions here. Won’t Exclude Concessions Secretary of State Christian Herter met for two hours and 20 minutes at the Quai d’Orsay with the British, French and West German foreign ministers. They met again for two hours in the afternoon. Their aim was to line up an agreed Western strategy in preparation for the Geneva meetings. The "tough” Western line, the sources explained, would not exclude all concessions. But it would mean that the West would refuse to bow to Soviet K attempts to squeeze i out of Berlin. It also would mean that the West would not lay all its cards on the table at the outset in Geneva. In particular, the sources said the Western Allies will take great care not to make any proposals in the early stages of the Genevatalks with which the Russians later could rip them up. Meanwhile, the sources said, the United States, Britain, France and West Germany still are far from full agreement on details of their Geneva strategy. Study Open Skies Plan In Washington, President Eisenhower told his news conference this morning that he hopes the forthcoming negotiations with Russia will advance the German situation one small step toward the negotiation of a peace treaty. Reliable diplomatic sources said one of the plans to be studied today would offer Russia a combined ground-and-open skies inspection plan from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains in Russia as

Temporary Truce Is Reported In Panama

PANAMA CITY (UPD—A Cuban army officer reported today Panama’s rebel invaders had rejected a surrender ultimatum, but that a few were willing to call off the invasion if allowed to go free. He called the current situation a temporary truce. Capt. Raul Torres, one of two be arded Cuban revolutionary army officers who negotiated with the invaders in the captured coastal town of Nombre de Dios (God’s Name), returned here shortly before midnight to report the results of his mission to Panamaian officials. He told newsmen the invaders, mostly Cubans, were trained fighters who were determined to carry the fight to the finish. “Under no conditions do they want to surrender their arms — no soldier does," he said. Mission A Failure Panamanian Minister of Justice Jose D. Bazan said Torres’ mission was "considered a failure by our government.” He said the Cuban captain would not return to Nombre de Dios unless requested by the Organization or American States investigating team, which was scheduled to arrive here later today. Torres described the current situation as a temporary truce, with most of the 80 members of the original invading party remaining in Nombre de Dios. Twenty rebels were reported pushing across the San Blas Mountains in an apparent drive toward the capital. In addition, reports that size-

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one npeans of easing cold war tensions. There was no general agreement on this plan, however, and > its adoption would depend on substantial progress being made toward the reunification of Germany. A pre-session note of gloom was introduced fay French Foreign Minister Maurice Couv® de Murville, who said the forthcoming Geneva talks may collapse because die Russians have made no substantial concession to end the lEast-West crisis. " British Still Hopeful The British took the line there still is a fair chance the Geneva foreign ministers conference May 11 and a summit conference later may solve the Berlin question and ease cold war tension. Hie United States and West Germany inclined toward the French viewpoint. De Murville met in the French Foreign Office with Secretary of State Christian Herter, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and West German Foreign Minister Henrich von Brentano in their ter Henrich von Brentano in their first formal session. Herter, facing his first major challenge since he became secretary, met earlier today with De Murville and Von Brentano and was lunching later with Lloyd. He conferred for 35 minutes Tuesday with President Charles de Gaulle and found him deeply pessimistic. Although the Allies were united on basic policies they were not agreed on the approach to them. ’ In contrast to this was the unani- ’ inbus backing of the ..Soviet •tr *i- . tion by the Communist bloc and Red China at a meeting of the ' Warsaw Pact members in War- : saw. _ Viewpoints Differ The inspection plan up for discussion in Paris today ran into these difficulties: —Britain favors restricting it to a relatively narrow zone on both sides-of the Iron Curtain. —France feels that it would be - of use only if it took in an area stretching from central France to central Russia. —West Germany insists the area must include all Europe from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains. German sources say any smaller zone woilld result in squeezing American forces into an area too small for them to maneuver in while the Soviets remained in Central Europe. —The United States was reported not to have made up its mind yet on the plan.

able rebel reinforcements numbering about 300 men were converging on Panama from Cuba persisted. The loyalist forces of President Ernesto de la Guardia Jr., strengthened by U.S. - supplied arms and ammunition, were moving to encircle the rebel headquarters and to cut off the 20man spearhead moving toward Panama City. Torres, who brought one of the insurgents with him, said the rebels felt they were liberating Panama from a dictatorship. Castro Condemns Act He said a few were willing to call off the fight, but only if allowed to keep their arms and if promised immunity from prosecution by both the Panamanian and Cuban governments. Cuban Premier Fidel, Castro, who was flying to Rio de Janeiro today en route to Buenos Aires for a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS), told newsmen aboard his plane that the Panamanian invasion was “Irresponsible, inconceivable” and potentially dangerous to his own revolution in Cuba. The invasion also has been condemned by the OAS Council, which voted Tuesday in Washington to aid Panama against the invaders. U.S. Sen. George D. Smathers (D-Fla.) urged Tuesday in a Senate speech in Washington that die OAS ask the United States to send ships and planes to defend Panama.