Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 12 May 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 112.

wMmimSHßK'' W»T. Matilda Selleneyer Florence Haney |QL - ■ fc I ’ ' i- ? -L<- <> -V • 4&- : * Miriam McDonald Alma Brayton FOUR TEACHERS RETIRE—Four lady teachers of the Lincoln elementary school in Decatur have requested retirement, according to an announcement today by school officials. The retirement jjf these teachers, resignations of four other public school teachers, and the hiring of six new teachers were announced this morning by W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur public schools.

Teaching Changes In Decatur Schools

Retirement of four teachers, resignation of four other faculty members, and hiring of six new teachers, was announced today by W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur public schools, following action by the city school board Monday evening. Retiring after many years of service in the teaching profession are four lady instructors in the Lincoln elementary school. Those requesting retirement are: Mrs. Alma Brayton, grade one; Miss Florence Haney, grade two; Mrs. Miriam McDonald, Kindergarten, and Miss Matilda Sellemeyer, grade four. Faculty members who offered their resignations are: Lex Dormire, English and social studies in the high school; Judy Haggard, grade six in the Lincoln school; Harold Irvine, English teacher in the high school, and Mary Wemhoff, grade three in \the Lincoln school. ’ Six New Teachers The six new faculty members who will be added to the public school system next fall are: Margaret Schnepf, who graduates from St. Francis College this spring; John Eichenberger, now teaching at Adams Central; Wilma Andrews, presently teaching at Pleasant Mills; Dorothy Eichenauer, currently a teacher at Monmouth; Anita Smith, who will graduate at Ball State Teachers college this spring, and Beulah Parrish, a former teacher at Hartford Center. School officials reported four vacancies remain to be filled in the public school faculty. Teaching positions still open are junior high school English and social studies, high school English, and third and sixth grades. Sign New Contracts Contracts for the 1959-60 school year were signed last evening by teachers and school board members. All contracts were signed under the new salary schedule of the state, which sets up new minimum salaries. Under the new scale, the minimum for teachers with a bachelor’s degree and no experience is $4,350 annually, up to $5,430 after 12 years of service. For teachers with master’s degrees, the minimum for those’ with no experienc eis $4,550, ranging to $6,350 after 20 years of service. g Four Retire Mrs. Brayton received her hi«?h school education in Bryon, 111., and her college education at Northern Illinois Stote Teachers College at DeKalb. 111. She taught four years at St. Charles. 111., and nine vears in Brvon. 111. Following World War I. her husband. George L. Bravton, returned to the Pennsylvania failroad and they moved to Deca tor. Mrs. Brayton taught eight years at

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Pleasant Mills, and for the past eight years has taught at the Lincoln school. She will sail May 27 on the Queen Mafy for a trip to Europe, and after returning Aug. 14 will make her home in Byron, 111. Miss Haney graduated from toe North Baltimore, 0., high school, and received her teacher's training at Tri-State College. Angola, and Ball Stato Teachers College, Muncie. Her first year of teaching was in the Washington township schools, and she then taught in the Decatur schools for 34 years, retiring in 1954. Due to the shortage of taechers, Miss Haney was called back to teach in 1955, and has taught since that time in the Lincoln school. Mrs. McDonald graduated from high school at Bloomsburg, Pa., and from Bloomsburg State Normal school, specializing in music and padagogy. She taught for three years in West Hoboken, N. J. until her marriage to Charles K. McDonald in 1916. She came to Decatur in 1947 and was employed for thred years in the office at the Adams county memorial hospital. She then moved to Florida and upon returning to Decatur opened a private nursery school. She became a kindergarten teacher iq the Decatur schools in 1952. / Miss Sellemeyer, a lifetong resident of Adams county, received hey teacher’s training at Valparaiso College and Ball State Teach-ers-College at Muncie. , After teaching at the Preble school for three years and the Peterson school for one year, Miss Sellemeyer, entered the Decatur school system in 1909. She has taught toe fourth grade for 24 vears. Previously she taught history and civics in the seventh and eighth grades. She is a charter member (and first president) of the Business and Profesisonal Women’s club, a charter member of the Art department of the Woman’s club, a member of the Pythian Sisters, and a member of various organizations of the Zion Evangelifal and Reformed church. Winter Wheat Crop Estimate Lowered WASHINGTON (UPI) — Prosoects for Indiana’s winter wheat crop took a dip of 1,023,000 bushels during April. The Department of Agriculture estimated Monday that as of May 1 the Indiana wheat yield was 38,040,000, compared with an April 1 forecast of 39,063,000 and a 1958 crop of 40,992,000 bushels.

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Approves Rezoning {■ • • For Bowling Alley After a two-week deliberation, the Decatur plan commission approved the Mids-Dawson Realty Co. petition to rezone seven acres of residential area along U.S. highway 224 to general commercial by a 4-3 vote Monday night at the city court room. The city council will be requested to adopt the petition into an ordinance. The petition, which caused obpections that brough remonstrators from the adjacent land owners, will allow the Mies-Dawson company to build an ultra-modern, $200,000, 16-lane bowling alley with complete recreational facilities, if the city council adopts the commission's recommendation. Secret Ballot Taken The seven-man commission asked both the petitioners ahd the remonstrators last night if tWy wished to add further discussion, but both declined. All concerned parties then left the room, while a secret ballot was taken. The crowd returned to hear commission secretary Ralph E. Roop read the results. He picked three "yeas” and three “nays” from the balolt box as tension built on both sides. The petition was affirmed when the last ballot read was a “yea.” The land, adjacent to Schwartz Motor Sales, near the Decatur Golf course, will, in effect, be an extension of general commercial as the Schwartz property is also Cj2. The eastern boundary of the Mies property will extend to this point. Alleys A Valuable Addition The remonstrators had asked, at the last commission meeting, that the petition be disallowed as the rezoning would hinder the value of real estate in that area. The petitioner’s claim was that the city should be allowed to grow by toe addition of a valuable facility such as the bowling alleys. On contrast, last night's meeting took only 20 minutes, while the first hearing on the petition lasted more than two hours. The law firm of Custer and Smith represented the petitioners, while attorney Lewis Smith represented toe remonstrators. SIOO,OOO Fire Uss At Salem Today SALEM, Ind. (UPI) — A supermarket and a flower shop burned today at Salem at an estimated loss of SIOO,OOO. The blaze had gained such headway that firemen were unable to save the one-story structure or its contents. Estimate of the loss was made by the owner, Earl Cauble. The fire appeared to have started near a furnace which provides year-around heat to toe flower shop.

’| West Rejects Russian Move

GENEVA (UPI) — Russia ' attempted to railroad two Communist satellites, Czechoslovakia and Poland, into the Geneva Big Four foreign ministers’ conference as equals today. But the West swiftly rejected ' the move. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Tromyko demanded seating of the satellites as the conference met for what was to have been its first working session on the Berlin crisis and German unity. The session -opened at Geneva’s Palais des Nations shortly after 3:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. c.d.t.l. But Gromyko did nbt wait until the formal get-together to plunge the conference into another day of chaos and yvrangling. Instead, spuming normal diplomatic niceties, he had his press spokesman announce it at a specially summoned news conference four hours before the Big Four meeting began. A Prompt Rebuff The Soviet spokesman announced that Gromyko was demanding admission of Czechoslovakia and Poland as “full and equal members’’ of the conference. The Western foreign ministers, meeting shortly afterwards in a pre - conference strategy session, agreed at once to turn down the bid for the Soviet satellites to be seated as their Equals at the parley table. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, who lunched with Gromyko at the Soviet delegation villa, took the opportunity to tell him that the West would not buy this latest Soviet maneuver. It came only 24 hours after a Soviet attempt to get the East German Communists admitted to the conference, also as equals. The West rebuffed this move and Gromyko settled for admission of both East and West German dele-

New Outbreak 4 Os Violence Al Henderson HENDERSON, N. C. (UPI) - Gov. Luther H. Hodges today ordered toe National Guard to this strike-torn city where violence* has erupted repeatedly at two textile mills. — £ The governor acted after a dynamite blast wrecked a vacant one-story building that had been used by the strike-bound HarrietHenderson Mills as a nursery for children of women workers. There were no injuries resulting from toe blast, toe latest in a long series of violent incidents since the two textile mills were struck last November. This was toe first instance of toe governor calling out the National Guard in a labor-manage-ment dispute. The governor emphasized that his action did not constitute martial law. The violence began Monday night when non-strikers left the plants at toe end of the second shift. They were greeted by a barrage of gunfire, bottles and rocks. _j. Mayor Carroll Singleton and Vance County Sheriff E. A. Cottrell appealed to Gov. Luther H. Hodges to call out the National Guard. Hodges declined to act Monday night. An aide said the governor wanted to “get all possible information and look it over in toe morning before acting.” Hodges withdrew some 100 highway atrolmen from strike duty last week and promised he would use the National Guard if there was more trouble which local officers could not handle. About 1,000 members of the Textile Workers Union of America (AFL-CIO) went on strike Nov. IT in a dispute over an arbitration clause which the company wanted eliminated from its contract with the union. Die first outbreak came Feb. 16 when the firm resumed limited operations. The second began April 20 tore? days after a compromise agreement had apparently ended toe strike. Die settlement broke down when it appeared that only a handful of strikers would obtain jobs at toe plants. Additional Rainfall Reported In Decatur Weather observer Louis Landrum reported an additional .70 inch of rain fell on Decatur yesterday bringing the St. Mary’s river level to 3.07 feet today. The river had been at 2.45 feet yesterday.

gates as “advisers” seated at separate tables. Compromise Is Possible But Soviet spokesman Mikhail Kharlamov indicated Gromyko planned to go all-out to get the Czechs and Poles admitted. In rejecting the Soviet move, Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Berding told newsmen the Western delegates were willing to hold up their opening speeches until the issue was threshed out. Some observers believed the new squabble might be settled through some sort of compromise. The Western Big Three have let it be known they wodid allow Poland and Czechoslovakia to be called in if some problem arose directly affecting thembut they would be visitors and not full delegates. Hert Lunches With Gromyko Another Western compromise would be to let toe two satellite nations join the conference but to bring in Italy—and pjossibly Holland and Belgium—so the West would maintain numerical superiority. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter was having lunch with Gromyko today and was expected to try then to solve the new tangle. Before that Herter was meeting with the other Western foreign ministers to discuss the newest Soviet move. Today’s session was to hear the foreign ministers deliver formal statements outlining their general positions on West Berlin, German reuniflcation and European security. But already they were prepared for the latest Soviet demand. Gromyko, today’s chairman, hinted Monday he would introduce toe Czech-Polish demand.

Steelworkers Seek Reduced Work Week NEW YORK (UPD-Steel wage negotiators met again today to hear further union arguments for a spread-toe-work program in the industry. David J. McDonald, president - and chief negotiator of the United . Steelworkers, indicated a sharp I decline in unemployment anj nounced Monday by toe federal , government would have no effect on toe union's (dans for increasing the number x of jobs in the j mills. “All I know,” McDonald said 1 before entering toe' meeting, "is ‘ that there are a number of steel ’ workers out of work." ’The eight negotiators entered f their second day of joint bargain- ! ing talks with neither side showi ing any signs of retreating from t toe positions taken last week. The negotiators, four from each f side, are racing the clock in an . effort to reach a new agreement . before the July 1 strike deadline. The union has made it plain that j in the early sessions, it will hammer away at the need for increasing toe job security of steel work- , ers and reducing the unemploy- , ment which now plagues the steel ; towns. An industry spokesman said the four management negotiators have jhents to back up their proposal . .that employment costs be frozen 'at present levels for one year. It has been estimated that the ; union’s demands for higher wages, reduced hours of work, and fringe , improvements would increase em- . ployment costs in the industry by approximately 50 cents ah hour if granted in full. The cost alone of the union’s suggestion of a fourday week every fourth wek has , been estimated at 15 cents an I hour. ‘ The only thing negotiators would say after the two and one- ' half hour meeting Monday was , that “both groups share the com- " mon desire to negotiate labor f agreements peacefully and expe- . ditiously.” Before Monday's meeting. David J. McDonald, president and chief negotiator of the union, said . fee “first item on the agenda” would be employment security. , He said the union’s program for tote was “a balanced » program of reducing hours, in- ' creasing purchasing power by improved wages and other benefits, and appropriate revisions in our pensions and unemployment benefits.” Decatur Lions Tour ; City Sewage Plant The Decatur Lions club toured the Decatur sewage disposal plant Monday evening following an interesting description of its operation by Harry Knapp. Boy Scout D. L. Hawkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Hawkins of 1501 Patterson Street, led the Lions in the pledge of allegiance before their dinner at the Decatur community center. Afterward, Boy Scout Troop 62, under scouters Richard Mies and Richard Sullivan, joined the club for a tour of the plant. Knapp explained how first an interceptor sewer was built, starting near the hospital, and forming -a circle around the town. Into this all the, sanitary sewers of the city lead. The sewage system works 1 on the gravity principle until it • reaches the pumping station on the Monmouth road. Here a large pump elevates the sewage, and forces it up to the level of the disposal unit, and t pumps it across the river to the new unit. In three stages the disposal , plant takes all raw sewage and converts it into a harmless substance resembling plain dirt; this substance is a very useful fertilizer. The plant was constructed large , enough to handle all . the sewage . from a city with a population of 15,000, allowing for plenty of expansion on the part of Decatur. The plant has been in operation since last September, and a large ■ quantity of sewage has been treat- ■ ed. Yet it has- £een necessary to > empty the dry beds of residue only • once. There are three men trained to ■ operate toe plant, which is operated automatical all night. The state board of health regularly ini spects the plant, and tests of both I the raw sewage, residue, and watez ■ both above and below toe outlet • are made daily, except during high ’ water. Knapp invited any interested citizens of Decatur to visit the plant, , and tour its facilities, which int elude a modern garbage disposal , unit, used to rid,the city of its gar- . bage. President Glenn Hill announced I that toe Lions club Scout troop will march in the Memorial Day pa- ■ rade, and that all Lions were ask- • ed to meet that morning, and also join in the parade.

14- Hour Riot In Tennessee Prison Ended

FORT PILLOW, Tenn. (UPDA 14-hour prison riot akied without bloodshed shortly after noon today. Two hostage guards were not harmed. The convicts staged a noisy, window - smashing demonstration to back up their demands for “justice.” They charged that white prisoners were discriminated against and that the food at the prison was no good. State Corrections Commissioner Keith Hampton said he would not press charges against the rioters but would transfer the ringleaders to a maximum security prison in Nashville. “I do not consider what they did here a riot,” Hampton said. He led 11 manacled convicts downstairs to the prison office. Threatened Hostage Guards Throughout the night the rioting men screamed down to newsmen that they would kill the guards if their demands were not met. At one point they held a guard to a window with a knife at his back. This morning they dangled a noose out a window. The rioters were led in the “surrender” procession by ringleaders Leonard Thompson, 20, Minneapolis, Minn., and Johnny Roddy, 20, Jacksboro, Tenn. Hampton said he was not going to take good conduct time away fromthe 11 “instigators,” indicating that he had “made a deal” to settle the riot. The prisoners looked subdued, tired and “sheepish.” They ignored newsmen’s questions. The two guards, Hubert Neyman, 57, and J.S. Voss, 49, were in good condition. Signal Briars in Police Police ringing the prison were brought in on a signal a few minutes before toe prisoners came down. The riot broke out Monday night. It involved about 130 prisoners who haa a variety of grievances, including charges that Negro prisoners got the best treatment. Two guards, seized by convicts, were imprisoned in the west wing of the Fort Pillow prison. The men taken as hostages were Hubert Neyman, 57, and J.S. Voss, 49. For several hours Monday night Neyman was forced to stand at the third floor window, arms outside with a knife at his back. State Corrections Commissioner Keith Hampton, who flew here at midnight from the state capital, saidt “We have decided to wait ’em out.” Vincennes Resident Electrocuted Monday VINCENNES, Ind. (UPD—Melvin Eugene Crouch, 25, Vincennes, was electrocuted Monday night while instaling a sump pump in the flooded basement of his home after a rainstorm. Coroner George Gardner said Crouch was. standing in six inches of water and apparently became entangled in an electrical extension cord.

Jack Dailey To Japan For Summer

Jack Dailey, Decatur high school junior, has been notified by the American Field Service that his summer trip abroad in the student exchange program will be spent in Japan. Dailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dailey, 321 North Fourth street, will leave Seattle by ship May 30, with 45 other American students bound for Indonesia, Japan and the- Philippines. There will be 28 girls and 17 boys making the trip, three to Indonesia, nine to the Philippines and the balance to Japan. Miss Carolyn W. Bill, of IndianapaliS, will be the other Hoosier in the group. The Decatur student will be taken by i»is parents to Chicago, where he will board a plane for Seattle. Americans Abroad students are selected from high schools which have awarded a scholarship to an AFS foreign student during the current year. Three students were selected from the Decatur nigh school, with Dailey’s, final selection made by American Field Service. Sponsored By Rotary Dailey’s trip is sponsored by the Decatur Rotary club, which also sponsors an exchange student from a foreign country in the local high school for an entire school year.

Local Student Tops In Chemistry Exam William Jacobs, Decatur high school senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jacobs, of Decatur, tied for first place in the chemistry examinations recently given at Indiana University extension, Harry Dailey, science and mathematics teacher, said today. Jacobs tied with Daniel Serves, of New Haven high for the top honors. Third place was awarded to Larry Beuret, of Auburn. Seventy-six students from 24 high schools, of northeastern Indiana, including the six Fort Wayne Schools, were given the final examination at the extension in Fort Wayne, April 25. The examinations are sponsored by the Northeastern Indiana section of the American chemical society. A preliminary examination was given two weeks prior to the finals in the various schools to determine the finalists. Other Decatur high school students representing t(he local school in the examinations include: Janice Badenhop. James Bleeke and Ann Kocher. All three were judged in the top half of. the contestants. Jacobs will receive a U V S. savings bond ant’, a certificate of achievement at the annual awards banquet of toe American chemical

New Communist Threats To Berlin

BERLIN (UPD—West Berlin’s celebration of toe 10th anniversary of the end of the Berlin blockade today ran headon into new Cpmmunist threats to cut off lifelines and oust Allied troops from the city. A telegram sent by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to East German Communist leaders expressed confidence that Britain, France and the United States would lose their occupation rights in Berlin. The telegram, released by the East German news agency ADN, said “now the important questions of the conclusion of a German peace treaty will be decided” at Geneva. Khrushchev made it clear the Soviet was thinking of a solution on Communist terms, not Western proposals. The East German Communist newspaper Berlin Zeitung said in an editorial that the Western Allies blockaded themselves in 1948 by measures they took in the city "just as they are isolating themselves again...” The newspaper denounced the I West Berlin celebration as a

1 x Ik Ik - ■ I tE iyl * fJrw A■ i W X** -Jy ■ IH Jack Dailey Peter Friederici, of Germany, is the present exchange student in Decatur. The Decatur junior will make his home while in Japan with Mr. and Mrs. Toshikatsu Nishimura, 3-2-chrome, Irifune-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. His hosts have one son, Yuici, aged 18. His host is presi-

society slated for May 23. Jacobs plans to enter Valparaiso University this fall on a scholarship award. U.S. Population Is 176,446,000 WASHINGTON <UPI> —The population of the United States was 176,446,006 on April 1. the Census Bureau estimated today. This was 3,071,000 or 1.8 per cent higher than on April 1, 1958. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy extreme north, mostly cloudy south and central through Wednesday with occasional showers or thundershowers south and central this afternoon and south tonight and Wednesday. Locally heavy showers likely southwest tonight and Wednesday. Not much temperature change except cooler extreme south this afternoon. Low tonight from the 50s north to the 60s south. High Wednesday mostly in the 70s. Sunset today 7:49 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:33 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy, little temperature change. Showers and possible thunderstorms continuing southeast. Lows around 50 north to 60 south. Highs generally in the 70s.

“bomb against Geneva (which) shows the world only how urgently necessary it is* to eradicate this source of unrest through conversion into a free, demilitarized city.” On hand to mark the observance were Gen. Lucius D. Clay, now retired and in private industry, and other leaders of the Anglo-American airlift that broke the 11-month blockade. But Berliners were acutely aware that the breakup' of the Geneva foreign ministers’ conference probably would, mean trouble of some sort, if not an immediate new blockade of the city. Most were pessimistic. Some others, like Lothar Freund 51, a salesman, saw some hope in the belief that the Soviets cannot afford to start a war. “Perhaps everything will work out,” said Freund. “I doubt that the Russians want a war over Berlin.” If the foreign ministers’ conference fails, the Soviets are expected to reinstate their May 27 deadline for transferring control of Western Allied traffic to the East Germans.

dent of a cosemtic company in Tokyo, is president of PTA, and fond of sports. Their only son is a member of the Keio English speaking society, and likes reading, sports, photography, stamp collecting and travel. The Decatur youth will share a room with Yuichi in the Nishimura household, located in a good residential district of Tokyo. It is a quiet neighborhood, with shrines and temples nearby. The family .has no specific plans for the summer, but usually takes a trip to the sea and the mountains. Returns In September The summer program began in 1950, when nine American teenagers spent the summer with Franch families. There were 834 students in the program last summer, Countries now participating are Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Franch. Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, Portugal. Spain, Sweden, Switzer* land, Turkey and Uruguay. Dailey will sail on the ship, Hikawa Maru, and will return on the same ship early in September.

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