Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1959 — Page 6

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Midwest Area Is Peppered By Tornadoes United Press International More than a score of tornadoes peppered midwestern states Monday night, sending thousand* df persons diving for cover. t Despite the frequency of the twisters, no injuries were reported and property damage was relatively light. Most cf the tornadoes struck in sparsely populated rural areas. The twisters nicked from a vicious squall line separating warring cold and hot air masses, The storm front ranged from west Texas northeastward into Minnesota and Wisconsin. Driving rains of more ther four inches in Texas and Nebraska triggered death - dealing floods. Damage in Texas floods was estimated unofficially at more than one million dollars.

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At least 29 deaths were blamed on the humidity and storms across the nation's interior since the start of a spring heat wave five days ago. The weather connected deaths included seven in Illinois, five in both Indiana and Minnesota, four in lowa, three in Texas, two in Oklahoma and Nebraska and one in Michigan. Residents along tornado alley had been warned to take cover and thousands of persons headed for the shelter of basements at the first sign of tornadic activity. least eight tornado sightings were reported ip Kansas, including one funnel which hovered over downtown Wichita for several minutes before disappearing. Other twisters touched down jnear Holton, Kan., and Maryville, Mo., but caused only minor damage. Hutchinson, Kan., was soaked : by two inches of rain in two hours , and Junction City, Kan., had three inches in three hours. A tornado hit a farm near Rockford, Neb., damaging out buildings. Creeks and rivers in southeast Nebraska spilled over into lowlands following up to 4.50 inches of rain at Bennet, Neb., Monday night and 2-to-3-inch rains throughout the area. > ; Other twisters struck near Blackwell and Vici, Okla., and funnels were spotted swirling overhead in the state's north-cen-tral section. About an inch of rain swept the state. Forecasters predicted more storm activity Tuesday in central and eastern lowa, southeast Nebraska, northwest Missouri and eastern Kansas. The first paper money to be issued by the American colonists was put out on Feb. 3, 1690, by a 1 provincial bank in Massachusetts.

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BIG FLOOD of 1913 proved disastrous to the homes located near any of the streams or rivers in the county. Not only was the St. Mary’s at Decatur on the rampage, but in St. Mary's township equal damage was done. This picture, showing water around the old homestead, was loaned to the Adams county historical society for its April program by Mrs. Milton Chronister.

White House Spell Cast By Churchill WASHINGTON <UPD-Sir Winston Churchill cast his spell over the White House today, operating from an imposing four-poster bed in the second-floor residential quarters of President Eisenhower. ' Befitting his age of 84 and a long-standing distaste for the earlier hours of the day, the doughty old warrior from Great Britain let it be known that one of his famous habits had not changed—he would not be stirrng until early afternoon. Sir Winston, jabbing the floor with his gold-headed cane and wagging his famous “V” signal, walked falterinly on the arm of the President into the White House late Monday to begin a sentimental visit with his old comrade in arms of World War 11. There was a quiet dinner Monday night with the President and his wife; their son, John, and his wife, Barbara, and Anthony MonI tagiie Brcwne, Sir Winston’s per-

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sonal secretary. Then the former prime minister who regarded 3 a.m. as a reasonable—bedtime during his World War II White House visits, lumbered down the hall to the Rose Room and retirea before midnight. Eisenhower Lad a busy day scheduled at the office, but planned to devote the late afternoon and evening to his fabulous visitor whose very presence created an atmosphere of nostalgia and even excitement among members of the staff. The President planned a relatively small stag dinner for Sir Winston tonight, and a larger stag affair Wednesday night. On Thursday Churchill will move to the British Embassy for one night before returning to London via New York. Six Os Family Die In Fishing Tragedy HEYWORTH, 111. (UPD —Police today sought the cause of a fishing tragedy that claimed the lives of a mother and father and four of their children a flooded gravel pit near here. The body of little Florence Bradley, 2, was. still hidden beneath the murky waters of the Rowe gravel pit. Authorities hoped to recover her body today. The bodies of her father, Laurence Bradley, 32. a factory worker from nearby Bloomington, Ill.; her mother, Betty, 32; two sisters. Deborah, 6, and Laura Jean, 3, and a brother, Danny, 4, were re* covered late Monday soon after the accident. A fisherman, Carl Wunder, 27, swam 100 yards through the icy water to rescue another daughter, Susan, 5. Two older children, Ronnie and Sharon, watched helplessly from the shore. "How would you feel if you were standing there and you couldn’t do anything?’’ Ronnie asked as the bodies of his family were brought' to shore. Several theories were offered in explanation of the tragic accident that ended a happy family outing on a warm spring day. Authorities believed the rickety, flat - bottomed fishing boat was overloaded or was caught in swift current cutting through the pit waters.

House Group Adopts Jobless Areas Aid WASHINGTON (UPD — The House Banking Committee, hoping to head off another veto, today approved a program of federal aid for areas of chronic unemployment that was scaled down to 251 million dollars. ” The total was 138 million dollars less than the Senate approved, but still was almost five times what President Eisenhower had proposed. Eisenhower last year killed by pocket veto after Congress ad journed a Democratic program that would have extended $289,000,000 in such aid to the states. Former President Truman, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said congressional critics of the foreign aid program should cut their own salaries rather than skimp on financial aid to U. S. allies. He said foreign aid is of “absolute, vital importance” in tbft fight against the spread of communism and Congress should see to it that the program is “carried through to a photo finish for the welfare of the world.” Other congressional news: Fallout: Witnesses told a joint subcommittee on atomic radiation that U. S. deaths and other “tragedies” from radioactivity could reach 2,000 a year if atmospheric nuclear tests are continued at present rates. Cases of cancer, leukemia, hereditary defects, stillbirths were included in the term “tragedies. ' Rackets: Ted Thackery, former publisher of the defunct New York Compass newspaper, told the Senate Rackets Committee he made a SIO,OOO “shakedown” payment to Irving Bitz for a favorable contract with the deliverer’s union. Bitz, described as a former convict, invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions about Thackery’s testimony. MacLeish Wins Third Os Pulitzer Prizes NEW YORK (UPI) — Archibald MacLeish, playwright and poet, won his third Pulitzer Prize and cartoonist Bill Mauldin won his second Monday. — MacLeish was cited for his play, “J. 8. a current Broadway hit that is a modern re-telling of the Book of Job. He received Pulitzer prizes for poetry in 1933 and 1953. Mauldin, of the St. Louis PostDispatch. won a prize for a cartoon entitled, “I won the Nobel Prize /or Literature. What was your crime?” The cartoon, published last Oct. 30, was a commentary on the boris Pasternak case. Mauldin received his first Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for his World War II cartoons. Other 1959 Pulitzer prizes included: Journalism: —Meritorious public service: The Utica (N.Y.) Observer - Dispatch and the Utica Daily Press for their successful campaign against local corruption, gambling and vice. —Local reporting, edition time: Mary Lou Werner, of the Washington Evening Star, for her yearlong coverage of the integration crisis in Virginia. —Local reporting no edition Scranton (Pa.) Tribune and the Scranton (Pa.) Trbune and the Scrantonian, for his four-year campaign to halt labor violence in his homt» city. —National reporting: Howard Van Smith, of the Miami (Fla.) News, for a series of articles on deplorable conditions in a Florida migrant labor camp. —lnternational reporting: Joseph Martin and Philip Santora, of the New York Daily News, for a series of articles on the brutality of the Batista regime in Cuba long before its downfall. Their series predicted the triumph of the Fidel Castro forces. —Editorial writing: Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, for distinguished editoral writing as exemplified by his Page 1 editorial last Oct. 13 entitled, “One Church, One School. . —News photography: William Seaman, of the Minneapolis Star, for his dramatic photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street. Letters —Fiction: “The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters,” by Robert Lewis Taylor. — History: “The Republican Era: 1869-1901,” by the late Leonard D. White, with the assistance of Jean Schneider. —Biography: “Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet,” by Arhtur Walworth. —Poetry: “Selected Poems 19281958,” by Stanley Kunitz. In addition, the music prize went to “Concerto for piano and orchestra” by John La Montaine and a traveling scholarship in art was awarded to Jerome Paul Witkin, a student at Cooper Union in New York. Cash awards of SI,OOO each accompany the journalism prizes, except that for meritorious public service. That prize is accompanied by a gold medal. All other prizes carry cash awards of SSOO except the art scholarship which comes to $1,500.

Cigarettes Stolen In Breakin Monday A burglary incident occurring sometime after 6 p.m. Monday and 4:15 a.m. today, at the DoNut Shop, located at 118 E. Monroe street, was reported to the city police early this morning by Carey Knittie, manager. Thieves stole approximately 12 cartons of cigarettes, and about 15 individual packs of cigarettes, from the premises. Knittie gave a value of S3O for the stolen articles. Nothing else was believed .missing from the building. Entrance into the building was -gained byway of a window located ‘to the rear of the building near the rear door. A screen was torn from the frame, and a window was removed by the thieves. Police are investigating. Groceriers in the U.S. sold 81, 700,00 pounds of tea in 1958, an increase of two per cent over 1957 and 20 per cent more thap in 1951.

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Harfke Bill Would Sei Political Code WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Vance Hartke (D-Ind.) today introduced legislation to establish a “fair political code” for radio and television broadcasting. Hartke said the measure is needed because the present law governing political broadcasting has not been overhauled since 1927. The Indiana Democrat said his bill would: —Remove news broadcasts and panel shows from their present “usage” category so radio and TV stations may give ample coverage of political campaigns without “fear of unreasonable demands for equal time.” —Prohibit broadcasters from being sued for remarks B»de by candidates. —Prescribe what constitutes a “legally qualified ’ candidate for president or vice president, thus

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