Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 102.

Surgery Discloses Godfrey Has Cancer

NEW YORK (UPD — Surgeons found a cancer in Arthur Godfrey’s left lung today and began to remove the section of the lung affected by it. Two hours after the TV entertainer underwent an exploratory operation at Columbia-Presbyter-ian Medical Center one of his surgeons announced: “The lesion in Mr. Godfrey’s left lung has been identified as being a malignant tumor. “The section of the lung containing the tumor is being removed. “His condition is excellent.” The old redhead was wheeled into the operating room at 7:25 a. m. At 8:25 a. m. the three surgeans, aided by three nurses and an anesthetist, began the exploratory operation. At 10:20 a. m. the announcement that cancer had been found was made. A hospital spokesman said at 12:15 p. m. that Godfrey still was on the operating table and the operation probably would continue for at least another hour. Following the surgery he was to be removed to a recovery room where he will remain until he comes out of the anesthetic. The announcement indicated that the section of his lung not endangered by the malignancy would not be touched. There was no indication from the announcement that Godfrey would be an invalid as a result of the operation—the thing he said he feared the most. But a long convalescence can be expected as in most lung operations. A source close to Godfrey, questioned by reporters, said the entertainer gave up smoking several years ago. The source said Godfrey, who once was sponsored on the air by a cigarette manufacturer, quit cigarettes not because of reported links between smoking and lung cancer but because cigarettes left him nauseous. After giving up cigarettes, Godfrey took up cigars and a pipe but never inhaled the smoke from either. When he smhketf cigarettes, the source said, Godfrey smoked “at least” a pack a day. Godfrey was reported to, have slept well last night under sedation. He was wheeled to the operating room at 7:25 a. m. and a spokesman said he might be there for three or four hours. Godfrey has taken an indefinite leave from his television and radio programs while he undergoes treatment. The 55-year-old entertainer has said that his lung may be removed if the growth is found to be cancerous. He disclosed two weeks ago that an examination for a pain in his chest had shown he had a growth “under the collarbone.” He asked his radio and television audiences to “cross their fingers” for him in the hope it would prove non-

State Trooper 11 Is Overpowered

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, (UPD — An Indiana State Police trooper who chased a speeding automobile was overpowered by two armed men today who threatened to kill him on the spot "unless you keep your mouth shut.” Trooper Paul B. Stewart said the two suspects, who said they were "in the rackets'," fled in their car after handcuffing him to his patrol car and shooting out the two rear tires. They also took the trooper’s car keys and his revolver, but Stewart free himself with another set of keys he managed to. reach in his pocket. Roadblocks were set up through the Wabash Valley area -for the men, reported driving a “white and pink” 1955-model Buick. Stewart said he was parked just west of U. S. 150, about 7 miles northwest of here, when a car whizzed past at high speed. He gave phase and caught up after the speeders nearly overturned in a curve. Stewart said the driver got out with a shotgun, met him about half way and said: “Trooper, that’s far enough.” Then he took Stewart’s gun and his ignition keys and asked df he had radioed for a check on the car. Stewart said he had not. He said the other man then spoke up and said “you got too inquisitive and asked too many questions.” Then one of them held Stewart’s service revolver to the

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■ 111 » ■ II !■! ■ 111 ■! ■■■ l! 11 ■ ll1 "* malignant. Not until this week, when he entered Columbia - Presbyterian Medical Center after a week at his Virginia farm, did Godfrey announce that the tumor which showed in x-rays of his chest was in his lung. On his first full day in the hospital, he wrote, and later made public through the Columbia Broadcasting System, a personal statement expressing his fears on facing the possibility of cancer and his hopes that he might recover to continue a normal life. He was placed under mild sedation Wednesday in preparation for today's operation, St. Mary's River Slowly Receding A thoroughly saturated Decatuf and Adams county can breathe a collective sigh of relief now that St. Mary’s river begins a slow recession from its high of 20.35 feet Wednesday. Today, the mark is still over 20 feet, 20.13, but weather observer Louis Landrum reports the waters returning to its banks. The recission started despite an additional .28 inch of rain last night, bringing the five-day total to 4.47 inches. The threat of scattered thundershowers today would have made the flood situation worse, but the expected rains were held to a minimum. The river had reached the roadways in many sections yesterday but did not seriously hamper traffic. Many fields and land adjacent to the river were innundated but not with the severity of the mid-February flood. Around the county, the five-day total was a little more than 4 inches with the Geneva area, Wabash 1 township, having the highest at 5.2 Inches. Monroe township, near Berne, reported 4.2 inches since the torrent began Sunday. Blue Creek township had 4.5 inches to compare closely with the Decatur total. Union township reported 2 inches for Wednesday and today. Kirkland’s total for the week was an even 4 inches. bulletin INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Indiana State Police reported this afternoon that a bank was held up at Fishers, about 15 miles northeast of here in Hamilton County. The police identified the bank as the Wainright Bank & Trust Co., and said the bandit escaped in a rsd car with a white top.

officer’s temple. “If you don’t keep your mouth shut, we’ll kill you right now,” Stewart quoted him as saying. Stewart said they took a card giving his name from his billfold and told him they would come back and kill him if he turned them in. After flattening the tires, they turned around and headed back toward U. S. 150. Stewart said the men told him they stayed at Westville, 111., “all night." He said they did not elaborate on the statement that they were, “in the rackets.” Stewart, 26, was appointed a trooper July 1, 1956. He is assigned to the Terre Haute post. The car bore license number HJ-3821, but Stewart said the men said that it was stolen. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with light showers north this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Little temperature change tonight. Somewhat cooler central Friday. Low tonight 37 to 42 extreme north to 48 to 55 south. High Friday 58 to 64 extreme north, to 75 to 80 southwest. Sunset today 7:38 p. m. Sunrise Friday 5:46 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Increasing cloudiness and cooler with chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows upper 30s to upper 40s. Highs mid 50s to upper 60s.

29 Seniors To Be Graduated At Monmouth Twenty-nine names of'students ' of tt>e senior class from Monmouth high school were announced today 1 as candidates for graduation exercises scheduled for Thursday, May 21, in the school auditorium, Loren S. Jones, principal, said today. Bacculaureate services will be held Sunday, May 17, at 8 o’clock, with the Rev. Hazen Sparks, of the Methodist church in Decatur, delivering the address. Assisting Rev. Sparks will be the Rev. Emmett Anderson. The featured commencement speaker will be Dusty Miler, a newspaperman from Wilmington, Ohio. Miler is famous for his sparkling humor, down-to-earth philosophy, and Christian concepts. Names of the valedictoriun and salutatorian were not released today with the senior names. They will be announced at the commen- ! cement exercise. ' Special awards will be announced by Loren S. Jones during the commencement exercises and Gail Grabill, county superintendent of schools, will present the diplomas. The following is a list of names comprising the candidates for graduation: Robert Beineke, Kay Bultemeyer, Larry Busick, Joan Fleming, Beverly Fuelling, Donald Fuelling, John Fuhrman, Glendolyn Gallmeier, Nyla Girod, Garnita Hartman, Sharon Heller, Alice Ann Hockemeyer, Larry Hoffman, Ronald Hoffman, Carol Jacquay, Gene Kalthoff, Rex King, Sandie Knittie. Jean Kolter, Duane Lee, Mary Lewton. Sandra Sue Merriman, Patsy Miller, Dwight Schaefer, Larry Schaekel, Wilmer Scheuman, Carol Schuller, Ruth Ann Selking and Jay Venable. Name Omitted From List Os Graduates The name of Carol Helmrich was , unintentionally ommitted from the ; list of 1959 graduates of Adams Central high school, published in . Wednesday’s Daily Democrat. Two Ladies Injured Wednesday Evening Two elderly ladies, one from Florida, the other from Ohio, were admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital Wednesday evening with injuries sustained in a twocar crash about 4.3 miles east of the city near the junction of state road 101 and U.S. 224 about 6:25 p.m. Two other passengers were injured, but not serious enough to be remanded as patients at the hospital. Both were treated and released. Injured were, Mary Augsburger, 73, Pandora, 0., and Martha Bayness, 71, Palm Beach, Fla. Mrs. Augsburger is reported suffering from a fractured pelvis, and Mrs. Bayness is confined with a fractured right leg. Both of the elderly ladies were thrown from the auto onto the pavement. Others treated and released were, Arnold Potts, 58, Ottawa, 0., sheriff of Putnam county, Ohio, and his wife, Leana Potts, 53. They received only minor injuries. 7 According to the Adams county sheriff’s department, the accident occurred when a car driven by Menno Augsburger, 72, Pandora, 0., attempted to slow down while travelling in a line of traffic. While travelling east on U.' S. 224, the Augsburger atrto swerved* to the other lane M traffic, into the path of the car driven by Potts, which was headed west. Augsburger attempted to slow his auto when ' another vehicle travelling in front of him attempted a left turn off U.S. 224 onto a county, road. The sheriffs department stated • that the Augsburger auto swerved to the other lane of traffic be- ; cause the brakes were wet. Augsburger had just driven his auto through the high water on U.S. 224 just east of the city limits. Another unidentified couple riding in the Potts auto were not injured. Sheriff Potts was headed for Louisville, Ky., to attend toe Kentucky Derby Saturday. The sheriffs department stated today that both families involved in the mishap were from Putnam i county, Ohio. The Augsburger auto was «m---sidered a total loss by the investigating officers, and the damage to ’ the Potts vehicle was estimated at over SI,OOO. Conducting the Investigation were Alan Coppes, state trooper, sheriff Merle Affolder, and deputy Charles Arnold. /j

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 30, 1959.

House Sustains Ike’s Veto Os Bill Stripping Benson Os REA Powers

\ .y-y r H■ J I ■ - ■. Il ' Im - - ■£* MnNTGOMFtY CHATS WITH KHRUSCHEV— An official Soviet source describes this radio-photo as the KwJen Britain^(field Marshal Viscount Montgomery 'right) and Premier Nikita Khmichrhpv (ipft) which Monty described as “ . . . so friendly and interesting that I shall try to see him again.” President Eisenhower criticized Montgomery for talking much and the British Press, calling his public statements “muddled, mischevious, irresponsible and egotistical said not only too much, but out of line.” __ - —_—

Final Civic Music Concert On Sunday Stan Freeman, versatile muskfal entertainer, will perform at the last of the 1958-59 concerts of the, Adams county Civic Music association at the Youth and Community Center Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. •" / Freeman was slated to perform here January 22, but a mixup in transportation found him at Decatur, 111., instead of Indiana. The talented pianist, who runs the gamut of music from classical to progressive jazz with a little comedy added, learned the modern idiom while serving in the Army with the late Glenn Miller band. The Freeman program is also a bonus one for those who recently purchased the 1959-60 season tickets during the association’s recent successful campaign. Rated one of the finest entertainers in the music world, Freeman began his career as an interpreter of the classics. He wandered into the pop field purely by accident, but managed to rouse critical acclaim. From popular music, he discovered the lure of jazz, which was making a sincere effort at that time to sweep the country. Follow- j ing the lead of Stan Kenton, George Shearing and other pioneering jazz pianists, Freeman gained a firm toe-hold on inspired audiences. Finding that jazz didn’t vary too much in structure from the class-

Planes, Troops Alert For Panama Invasion

PANAMA CITY (UPD-Plane* and troops from the United States and three Latin American nations stood by today to meet the threat of a new landing attempt by invaders from Cuba. Informed sources said U. S. planes based in the Canal Zone were expected to start patrolling the Panamanian coast today. Initially, it was thought their mission would be merely to observe invader positions and to watch for the possible arrival of reinforcements. A highly placed source said Wednesday at least one more invasion ship was on the way. "We have it spotted,” he said. “We are watching.” Ecuador Sends Planes The source was.unable to say whether the ship was the Carinthia, which earlier reports said had loaded about 100 invaders in Cuba to join the 80-odd now holding the Panamanian coastal village of Nombr de Dios.— The Organization of American States assumed responsibility for the tactical defense st Panama with the arrival Wednesday of a special five-man commission to survey the situation. . - i The commission promptly appealed to the 21 member nations erf the OAS to send planes to Pan-

ics, he drifted back to his first love. He now plays any style with equal polish and ease. Pleasant Mills Lad Has Narrow Escape From Wabash River * LAFAYETTE. Ind. (UFD—Four ' Purdue University students who took a kayak ride on the floodswollen Wabash River to practice for an inter-fraternity race had a narrow escape Wednesday. Police rescued three 'Of them from tree tops into which they climbed after their Eskimo-type boat flipped over and tossed them into the muddy water. The fourth swam to shore and got help. Tom Caylor, Lowell, swam to shore and led rescuers to trees where the others were marooned for nearly an hour. They were Reese Nicholas, Gary; John Wolfe, Pleasant Mills, and Kenneth Brooks, Los Angeles. Lqcol Lady's Sister Dies In Toledo, O. Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Ziegler, 69, sister of Mrs. Ethel Gaffer of Decatur, will be conducted in Toledo, O„ Friday afternoon. Mrs. Ziegler died Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Although she never lived in Decatur permanetly, Mrs. Ziegler spent much time here , visiting her sister. She died of a heart condition after an extended illness of a year. Her husband is the only other surviver.

, v ......—. : | : ama for "peaceful observation flights over Panamanian territory and the nearby seas.” Ecuador responded by sending two reconnaissance planes to Albrook Field a U. S. base in the Zone. Guatemala sent a planeload of volunteers described as “experts in mountain and jungle warfare:” Rejects Cuban Offer (Guatemalan President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes told UPI 10 days ago—before the'’first invader set foot on Panamanian soil—that Guatemala would send troops to aid any Central American country which was invaded from Cuba.) , Panamanian troops already deployed around Nombre de Dios, peeking for the- moment merely to contain the invaders without precipitating a battle. President Ernest de la Guardia Jr. reported Wednesday that coast residents have organized “civil guards” to patrol possible invasion beaches. (Informed sources tn Havana said La Guardia had'rejected a Cuban offer to send a coastalpatrol frigate and had suggested the Cubans uSe it to guard their own coasts and prevent further inyasion sailings.) _

Charles W. Stadler Is Taken By Death Charles W. Studler, 68, a native , of Linn Grove, .died Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in St. Joseph hospital. r Fort Wayne, where he had been } a patient four days. He had been ill several months. Mr. Studler , moved to Fort Wayne in 1937 after i living in Adams county until that time. He married Orilla Heche, on , August 27, 1910. He was an enginr eer for the Nickel Plate railroad > for 35 years. [ Surviving are his wife; a son, i Russell Studler, of. Berne; four daughters, Helen, at home; Mrs, i Louise Kistler, of Muncie; Mrs. Joan Miller, Milwaukee, Wis.; and Mrs. Naomi Alexander, Columbia City: seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two sisters, and three brothers. - The body is at the C. M. Sloan funeral home in Fort _Wayne, where friends may call until the time of services, which are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Friday, the Rev. Leo McKinley officiating. Burial will be in Six Mile cemetery in W6lls county. Streams In Indiana Reported Receding United Press International Scattered showers in Indiana Wednesday failed to affect the stages of flooded streams, and rivers out of their banks for the third time this year fell steadily in their upper reaches today. Unexpected rain, which the weatherman hadn't predicted, : measured up to two-tenths of an inch over the Wabash River valley. Nevertheless, the stream fell i above Lafayette but still rose I from Tippecanoe County southward. The White also fell above Indianapolis. , Shower activity today was ex- 1 pected to be light and confined to the northern third of the state. , However, a chance of showers and ' scattered thunderstorms was seen for Saturday. Temperatures, me a nwhi le, moved upward. Evansville’s 80 topped the Wednesday highs, with Indianapolis and Lafayette getting 73, Fort Wayne 71 and South Bend 68. The mercury then dipped into the 40s throughout the state early this morning, including a chilly 41 at South Bend. Highs today will range from the mid 60s to the low 80s, lows tonight from the low 40s to the low 50s, and.highs Friday from the low 70s to the low 80s. Warm temperatures will continue Saturday. Flood crest predictions were revised somewhat downward from earlier forecasts, and only a relatively few families—mostly in the Wabash and Lafayette areas—had to leave their homes temporarily.

WASHINGTON (UPD — The House, by a four-vote margin, today sustained President Eisenhower’s veto of the Rural Electrification Administration bill. The action kept Intact Elsenhower’s record of never having a law enacted over his veto. The House roll call vote was 280-146 .in favor of overriding, but this was four votes short of the required two-thirds. The Senate on Tuesday voted to override the veto, 60-27, two votes more than the minimum required. It takes a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate to override a veto. Same Changed Vote Four Democrats joined 142 Republicans to sustain the President. Six Republicans voted with 274 Democrats to override the veto. A major factor in determining the outcome was the fact that of the 16 Republicans who originally voted for the bill April 15, only 5 voted to override the veto today. Os the remaining 11, 9 voted to sustain the veto and 2 were absent. In contrast, four of the five Democrats who broke party lines to oppose the bill April 15 voted today to sustain the veto. The vetoed bill would have stripped Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson of his power over lending policies of the Rural Electrification Administration. The agency loans money at 2 per cent interest to crural co-ops to finance building of electric and telephone systems. : House Democrats and Republicans both made it a party issue. Fearful that absentees might decide the issue, they had appealed to all of their party’s rank-and-file to show up for today’s vote Only eight members failed to vote. Hoover Supports Ike Republicans worked until the last minute to produce switches among some of the 16 Republicans who voted for the bill when it was sent to the White House April 15. Likewise Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) personally contacted some of the five Democrats who voted against the measure then to switch their stand today. When Rasburn announced the tally, it touched off a burst of applause from Republicans. Democrats generally were unhappy over the outcome. Some of them felt, however, that they had developed a good political issue for the farm belt, even though they had failed to Spoil Eisenhower’s perfect veto record. The closeness of today’s vote had been anticipated by leaders of both sides. Before the -showdown Eisenhower had been given

Agree To Seek Berlin Unity

PARIS (UPD—The four Western foreign ministers wound up their Paris conference today and announced “complete agreement" on Western strategy to meet the Soviet Union. In an official communique issued at the end of a day and a half of talks, the ministers announced they had reaffirmed their determination to ensure the freedom of West Berlin. They expressed their willingness to engage in negotiations with the Soviets “to ensure a just peace in Europe.” Despite an official cloak of secrecy on details, responsible sources said the foreign ministers of Britain, France, the United States and West Germany had agreed to seek unification of East and West Berlin under four power guarantees. It could set the pattern for all-German reunification. Deal with East Germany This would be an answer to the Soviet demand that West Berlin be made a “free city.” If the Soviets did not accept, then the West would call for mainenance of its existing rights in West Berlin under agreement with the Soviet Union and with a U.N. observer stationed in Berlin. The sources said the West would agree to deal directly with East German authorities but only with the understanding they were acting as agents for the Soviets. .

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4. » . an unusual statement of support from former President Herbert Hoover. In a rare comment on legislation, Hoover said it would be “a sad day for good government” ,if the veto were overriden. There were strong political overtones to the controversy.,. Farm belt Democrats were jubilant over the issue. They figured it wrapped up in one political package (1) a good farm belt issue, <2> a chance to take a swipe at Benson and <3) a chance to spoil Eisenhower’s perfect veto record. Charge Politics Republicans, charging the Democrats with playing politics, said there has never been a case in which Benson vetoed a federal loan which REA wanted to make to a rural electric co-op. Benson, in an interview Wednesday night, said the congressional drive to override the President’s veto was “largely a political move , to embarass me and the PresiContlnued on page five Albert Burke Dies I Early This Morning Albert Burke, 74, of near Bobo, died suddenly at 12:35 a.m. today > at his home. Mr. Burke was a ; farmer all his life, living near Dej catur until the last 10 years, when he moved one-half mile east of r Bobo. ...... i. He was born June 3, 1884 In Van -IWert county, 0., and married 1 Grace Ramsey Oct. 7, 1905. He - was the son of Henry and Mettie Jones Burke. J Surviving besides his wife are four sons, Adrian and Verlin Burke, of Decatur; Jess Burke, of ; Sturgis, Mich., and Vaughn, of Burr 1 Oak, Mich.; seven daughters; Mrs. ’ Jesse (Doris) Daniels. Mrs. Rufford (Evelyn) Broadbeck. Mrs. ’ Harlo (Marian) Miller, Mrs. Roy I (Rosena) Schwartz, Mrs. Glen > (Katheryn) Isch, all of Decatur; 1 Mrs. Roger (Marjorie) Andrews, of Fort Wayne; and Mrs. G. M. • (Bonnie) Alspaugh, of Rockford, f O.; one foster son, David Rash, of Bobo; four brothers; three sis- - ters; 24 grandchildren and 10 f great-grandchildren. One daughter 1 is deceased. ‘ Funeral services will be con--1 ducted at the Zwick funeral home Saturday at 2 p.m., the Rev. Wilbur Tibbetts officiating. Burial will , be in the 'Decatur cemetery. ' Friends may call after 7 p.m. to- ! day at the funeral home.

The conference started Wednesday. Originally it had been expected to last three full days. A spokesman said the four reached "oomplete agreement” on policy, strategy and tactics for the meeting with the Russians planned for May 11 at Geneva. But they decided to maintain complete secrecy about their plans, he saia. Talk with NATO Council The closing communique made . these points: —The ministers reaffirmed the ' West’s determination to protect ■ the rights of the West Berlin popi ulation and Allied qbll- [ gations there. I —The ministers reaffirmed their ; willingness to negotiate with the ■ Soviets “with a view to estabiish- . ing a just and durable peace in Europe." . —The ministers readied “com- ■ piete agreement” on their position i to be presented at the Geneva ■ conference. > —The results of their meeting i will be discussed with the North . Atlantic Council. Responsible conference sources . said the ministers reached agreement on a cold war “package" [ plan to be„ presented to the Soviets at Geneva. Phased Security System Its main points were said to be: Continued on pa«a five