Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1959 — Page 1

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GENEVA (UPD—Russia threw another roadblock into the path of the Big Four foreign ministers conference today, amid signs of mounting U.S. impatience and rumors the U.S. might break off the talks altogether unless progress on the German question is seen by next weekend. The promise of new Soviet delaying tactics came in a dispatch from the Soviet news agency Tass while the ministers were in weekend recess. x Tass said Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would demand admission of Poland and Czechoslovakia to the conference as full participants in “the very next days.’ Similar Russian demands were brusquely overridden by U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter in the opening days of the conference. I Hope for Concession It foreshadowed more hours of time-killing argument over procedural matters, in the face of Western demands that Russ i a now produce constructive proposals for German peace. officially. Western diplomats continued to hope that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev might soon be ready to make enough of a concession here on Berlin to win the summit conference he wants. The American view was that the foreign ministers meeting would go on for about two more Weeks, ending with agreement in secret negotiations on an interim Berlin settlement which would dear the way for summit talks. Assistant Secretary of State Andrew H. Bending, official U.S. spokesman, refused to comment on rumors that Herter might soon < decide to break off the talks. i "Lets wait until the end of next week,’’ was all he would say. But backstage maneuvering continued. la Weekend Recess Herter met U.S. Defense Secre- ( tary Neil McElroy. The two conferred for two hours at Herter’s villa alongside Lake Geneva. Gromyko met with West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano at the latter’s villa in the afternoon. I It was the second private meeting between Gromyko and Von Brentano, and was held against a background of Khrushchev’s implied threat that he would sign a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany unless the foreign ministers here are able to reach agreement. The U.S. delegation announced that Herter will confer Sunday with Maurice Couve de Murville.

Senate Passes Wheat Measure

WASHINGTON (UPD — Senate passage of a wheat bill aimed at curbing the costly growth of wheat surpluses posed another direct challenge today to Eisenhower administration farm policies. The measure was passed Friday night on a standing vote after the President’s own plan for dealing with the problem was swept aside. The issue now goes to the House. The administration opposed the final wheat bill because it contends the price support levels offered are too high and would boost federal costs by 50 ''million dollars. In a second big step, the Senate approved, 57-20, a new $35,000 ceiling on total price supports the government may pay on all crops to any single farm or farmer. The House approved a $50,000 limit earlier this week. Throughout the debate, senators agreed with the President’s view that something had to be done to stop piling up a wheat surplus. It will total nearly 1,500,000,000 bushels, IVi year's supply, by July 1, 1960. I The stop-gap Senate bill would give wheat farmers three choices for their 1960 and 1961 crops. A grower could continue planting at present levels and receive price support at 65 per cent of parity, as opposed to the present 75 per cent level. He could cut acreage 10 per cent and get 75 per eent of parity. . Or, he could reduce acreage 20

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The conference is in recess until Monday, when formal sessions resume. British Secretary Selwyn Lloyd left Geneva for the weekend. Midwest Is Chilled By New Cold Front United Press International Midwesterners redonned winter clothing Saturday in the face of a new cold front that dipped temperatures 10 to 25 degrees and brought up to 14 inches of snow to the Colorado and California mountains. The cool air ended a week of heat and humidity in the Great Lakes area. Chicago reported an earlymwrning temperature 25 degrees below that of 24 hours before. A 14-inch snowfall was reported in Coal Creek Canyon near Denver, Colo., with another ten inches blanketing Nederland, high in the Colorado Rockies. Light showers turned to snow in California’s Sierra Nevada and six inches of wintery whiteness was reported at Echo summit. High winds Friday night damaged buildings and downed power lines in Miami County, Fla., and two tornadoes skipped across the Texas plains earlier in the day. Other showers fell Friday night through the plains state and the Midwest into the upper Ohio Valley and the southern states. The U. S. Weather Bureau predicted scattered showers and thunderstorms spreading eastward Saturday through the Southeast into the lower Ohio Valley and the Atlantic coastal states. Other rain was expected over the plains states into the Rockies and southern California. ' Asks Home Heating Rules Be Relaxed INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The State Public Service Commission received a petition from the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. Friday asking that rules governing home space heating be relaxed. The firm said it hoped to add a total of 45,000 new space heating customers in the next three years as the result of a proposed pipeline for the area. The NIPSCO currently serves about 218,000 space heating customers in 13 counties and J 8 municipalities.

per cent and get 80 per cent of parity. Each farmer would make ' his own choice for his own farm. Opponents argue that farmers will cut their acreage to take advantage of the higher price support and then pile on fertilizer to increased production on the reduced planting. The bill tightens penalties for overplanting. It cuts the 15-acre marketing quota exemptoin to 12 acres. It also abolishes for two years all controls on wheat grown for use on the producer’s own . farm'. i The House ip expected to act soon on a different wheat bill. It i Would allow farmers to choose between two plans in a nationwide I referendum this summer. I One would fix supports at 90 ; per cent of parity with a 25 per cent cut in plantings. The other M supports to 50 per cent : of "parity with unrestricted production. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and cooler with occasional rain or drizxle today. Mostly cloudy and cooler tonight Sunday partly cloudy and not much change in temperature. Low tonight low 40s north to low 50s south. High Sunday low 60s north to high 60s south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and warmer.

;Gun-Riinning Ring Is Smashed Friday

MIAMI (UPD — U. S. customs agents smashed a gun - running 1 ring Friday tha| planned to ship • a million dollars worth of weap- 4 ons to the Caribbean for a counter r revolution in Cuba. ! { The agents, doubling as under- J cover men in the best cloak-and- ' j dagger tradition, arrested a Do- s minican Republic consul general, ' a shapely woman pilot, a police- • a man and 11 other persons after 1 almost three months of work. 1 Eleven were arrested as they I t loaded 200,000 rounds of ampiuni- 1 Q tion, 17 machine guns, 38 Cferand s- rifles and parts for 20 carbines i - aboard a surplus U. S. Air Force t C 47 transport plane at Miami In- I •j ternational Airport. t All 14 of the alleged plotters s were freed under bond to await . a hearing June 8. Consul General Surrenders 1 They included Dominican Ren public Consul General Agusto Fer- < rando, who took refuge at first in I s his consulate-residence where he enjoyed diplomatic immunity as - long as he stayed inside. ] r Ferrando surrendered voluntari- ( 1 ly six hours after the others were , e arrested and was freed under $25,000 bond. He was charged , t $25,000 bond. He was charged with j conspiracy to bribe customs . , agents and conspiracy to illegally ship arms. .. Chief customs agent Joseph ” Fortier said the arms were bound ‘ for the Dominican Republic where ' former Cuban President Fulgen- < 0 cio Batista, ousted by the Cuban ; - revolutionary forces of Fidel Cas- j a tro, is living in exile. Fortier j s could not say to whom the arms ] - were, being shipped. j Agents Offered Bribe Other figures in the mystery inci i cd * —Aviatrix Virginia Bland, 36, ■ who does her flying in skin-tight s toreador pants, charged with con- i spiracy to illegally ship arms; i ' —Miami policeman Joseph Li- i 1 quori, one-time body guard to 1 ■ Gov. Faubus Warns ■ ; Os New Violence i 1 ) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD - i 0 Gov. Orval E. Faubus has warned 1 3 of new violence unless segregationists win Monday’s school board , . recall election. 1 Faubus told a state-wide radio and television audience Friday ? night that if “Integrationists” win, J the city might again be the cen- ’ ter of mob action like that which led to federal intervention in 1957. i He said the “results of Monday’s I election will prove inconclusive as I to the ultimate results of this ter- . , rific struggle. . . Whoever wins I the victory will find that it will I prove to be a victory only in one - engagement of a continuing conflict.” < Firm Against Integration £ J He said no matter what the out- i • come, he would stand firm against < 3 any element trying to force inte- t gration on the people of Little c ‘ Rock. t ’ “I will resist such force with all , ‘ my might, and it will pass only by trampling over my prostrate t r form,” he said. ( 5 Wayne Upton, former school t ! board president, said the speech ’ showed the governor’s “ignor--1 ance.” A present board member 1 1 said Faubus was “misinformed.’ ' A Negro leader s’aid Little Rock ' t is “aroused more now than since 1 t the governor called out the - troops.’ £ » Although the speech was carried s on a state hodcup, only Little c ) Rock voters are eligible to cast £ r ballots Monday. i r Faubus said he went on-air t despite urging of his “friends” to i - remain silent. He said if the “in- { tegrationist element” wins the , election, Little Rock might return t to the “conditions which we suffered in 1957.” School Board Split The six-member school board, ' elected last fall after the old ' board resigned except for segregationist Dale Alford who beat Rep. c Brooks Hays for a congressional c seat, is split down the middle— I three staunch “segregationists” s and three Faubus branded as "in- 1 tegra tionists.” j

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playboy Rafael (Ramfis) Trujillo Jr., son of the Dominican strongjpan. Customs officials said they had known of the plot since March. Fortier said two of his agents were approached at that time. He said the agents were offered money to overlook arms shipped through, Miami to the Dominican Republic. Fortier said the plotters' planned to eventually ship a million dollars worth of arms. Fortier said authorities in Washington gave the go-ahead for the two agents to play along. He said Ferrando paid them S4OO. Later, they received another SI,OOO. Methodists Retire Fourteen Ministers FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD — Fourteen ministers will be retired today after long terms of service to the Methodist Church. The retirement will come at a session of the North Indiana Methodist Conference, which has been meeting her this week. The ministers are the Revs. Bransford, Anderson; Claude M. Simons, Woodburn; John Borders, Goshen; Samuel Yoder, Goshen; C. L. Rees, Indianapolis; Lafayette Hile, Avondale; Edwin Jaycox, Richmond; Homer Firthing, Kokomo; E. J. Arthur, Kendallville; Curtis Rice, Cicero; Bertrand Nysewander, Leo; and Robert Gorrell, Upland. Delegates to the North Central Jurisdictional Conference, a ninestate regional meeting next summer at which midwestern bishops are elected, were elected Friday night. .. .j—' They included the Revs. Robert Fribley of Richmond and L. G. Sapp of Bluffton, and the following lay members: Mrs. Royal Neff, Claypool; Herbert Cooper, Fort Wayne; Larry Pierce, Muncie; Mrs. J. N. Rodeheaver, Warsaw; Mrs. Henry Rehm, Shipshewana, and George Fenstermacher, Upland. Dr. Edwin R. Garrison, Indianapolis, administrative assistant to Bishop Richard C. Raines, was elected the fifth minister and last delegate to the general conference. Receive Lining For Diesel Replacement A new lining to replace the one cracked a week ago in the engine at the diesel plant arrived this week, and will be placed in the diesel early next week, L. C. Pettibone, plant supervisor, said today. Three pistons will be sent to the factory for repairs next week. The cracked cylinder liner has been removed, Pettibone said. Cracked piston rings on cylinders 5 and 7, which have been suspected for two or three weeks, were also removed. Several other rings were damaged when the pistons were removed, and they will be replaced. Piston ring trouble is quite common, Pettibope explained, and could not have been responsible for the crack in No. 8 cylinder lining. The entire diesel engine will be checked while it is down. The other rings would have been replaced earlier, but the engine was running all the time while the steam generator was under repairs. At the stoam plant Pettibone reported the final adjustments were being made, and everything was progressing nicely. Lightning hitting transformers on the rural lines had five or six out briefly Friday evening, he reported, but despite the fact the storm was quite severe, the area had been fortunate to have had so few outages/ •

Estimate Decatur Population 8,290 The number of households assessed this year by the township and city assessors indicates that the county population is now about 22,876, slightly higher, and that Decatur is about 8,290 and Berne 2,769, county assessor Walter Koos said today. . Each May, Koos reports the number and value of 15 classifications of property to the state. This gives valuable information in .indicating the' trends of population and buying, as well as taxation. The population is indicated by multiplying 3.3, the average number of people per household, times the number of households assessed. It is not, of course, as accurate as a house-to-house census, like the one that will be taken next year. Awhigher population for either city would mean a larger-amount received from state taxes for street repairs and other work. Decatur’s population at the census of 1950 was 7.272, and Berne’s was 2,277, and Adams county 22,393. Monroe’s population works out to 459, compared with 428 nine years ago; Geneva’s at 1,261, compared with 999 in 1950. The assessment figures include only horres within the city and town llnjits. f Adams county averages 1.32 'cars or trucks per home'; and the value of the vehicles averages more than the household goods. The report showed that Adams county's assessed valuation of personal property is $18,127,066 for 1959; this will form part of the base for the 1960 tax assessment. It is higher than last year, which means that if there are the same number of exemptions, the same tax rate would raise more money. Decatur was the largest taxing unit in the county, with 2,300 households assessed for $580,370 in Decatur-Washington, and 212 units assessed at $45,515 in DecaturRoot, for a total of 2,512 households assessed at $625,785 in the city. Berne is next with 839 units assessed $321,810. Berne’s average household goods assessment was $371, which was 'considerably higher than Decatur - Washington’s $252, or Decatur-Root’s $234. Other household goods asessments were: Union, township, 217 units, $76,965, average $354; Root, 354 units, $113,640, average, $321; Preble, 270 units, $100,841, average $373; Kirkland, 187 units, $65,684, average, $351; Washington, 359 units, $89,715, average $222; St. Marys, 275 units, $86,760. average $315; Blue Creek, 186 units, $58,250, average $314; Monroe township, 334 units, $108,445, average $324; French, 165 units, $49,495, average $300; Hartford, 241 units, $90,981, average $377; Wabash, 315 units. $80,590. average 256; Jefferson, 157 units, $34,105, average $217; town pf Geneva, 382 units, $131,450, average $344; Monroe-Monroe, 118 units, $38,610, average $327; MonroeWashington, 21 units,. $5,540, average $262. Elderly Woman Dies As Truck Rams Car STILESVILLE. Ind. (UPD - Mrs. Gussie Mae Ebbs, 76, Colden, N. Y., .was killed and five persons were injured when the car she was riding in was rammed by a truck on U. S. 40 about 30 miles west of Indianapolis Friday. The injured were Mrs. Ebbs' daughter, son-in-law and their three children. One Man Killed In Three-Auto Pileup FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD - Harry Timmis, 48, LaGrange, was killed Friday afternoon in a threecar pileup on Ind. 3 near Fort Wayne. State police said a car driven by Walter C. Heights, 68, Kendallville, mad? a left turn into the path of the Timmis car, which troopers reported was traveling fast. A third car driven by Oscar Fleming, Jr., 39, Fort Wayne, piled into the wreckage.

Drastic Cui ! Made In Army Nike Program : WASHINGTON (UPD—Members < of the Senate Armed Services < Committee indicated today they would ignore service rivalries and i stick to their decision to drastically cut the Army’s Nkie-Hercu- : les anti-atfcraft missile program. : An Army spokesman Friday I night accused the lawmakers of i imperiling the nation’s security by their action. The committee earlier this week , voted to eliminate $17,300,000 from : the Army’s recommended $22,400,- ; 000 Nike - Hercules construction plans. Committee members said they had no less an authority-than De- ; sense Secretary Neil H. McElroy : to back up their decision. McEl- ; roy had testified he would not mind “if you held our feet to the ; fire and forced us” to a decision : on anti-aircraft missiles. McElroy later explained he meant Congress should press for a master plan covering all kinds ■ of air defense weapons and sites, not for a choice between rival ; missiles. Sen. - Francis Case (R-S.D.), ; ranking GOP member of the Senate armed services construction . subcommittee, said the group re- ] garded McElroy’s testimony as , “an invitation to do something” about missile defense systems, | But the Army spokes man , charged that “this committee’s • proposal seriously endangers the j future security of our contry against air attacks” and would ; “leave serious gaps” in U.S. airdefense. Nearly Three Inches ; Os Rain This Week Rainfall in Adams county averaged out to slightly less than three inches since the middle of 1 the week when the torrents hit northeastern Indiana. The St. ’ Mary’s river jumped from Fri- : day’s mark of 3.17 feet to 12.9 5 feet this morning, aided by an additional 1.78 inches of rain. Decatur weather observer Louis Landrum reported a total of 2.94 ’ inches since the downpours started on Wednesday. In other townships around the county, Erwin Fuelling at Union reported a 2.3 inch total since the middle of the week, while Jefferson had .1 higher. At Ben Mazelin’s farm in Monroe township, the total since noon I Thursday was 2.5 inches, while Blue Creek, at the Austin Merriman residence, counted 2.5, including Wednesday's rain. Three inches fell at both Wa- < bash, at the Jack Hurst residence, 1 and at French, Harold Moser reporting. Kirkland had the least 1 recorded rainfall as 2.3 inches were noted by Rosemary Spangler. St. Mary’s river, at its present level, is only .1 inch from being at theoretical flood stage. The river had remained near the 3foot level until today despite 1.16 inches of rain that fell Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Fur- , ther rains today may swell the , river, causing flooding of fields < and basements. Hartford City Youth Killed In Accident PENNVILLE, Ind. (UPD — A ; Hartford City teen-ager was killed ’ and two others were injured early today when they were thrown from an aiftomobile by the impact of its . collision with a roadside pole. , Allen Baker, 18, was killed, and , his Hartford City companions, ( Donald Sones, 18, and Steve Crump, 18, were hurt and taken : to Jay County Hospital.

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Scores Interference , 1(2 , In Starkweather Case

LINCOLN, Neb. (UPD—The Nebraska attorney general today ] blasted "federal judicial interfer- ' ence” in the execution stay grant- * ed convicted mass murderer Charles Starkweather. The official, Clarence S. Beck, sharply criticized an order by Federal Dsitrict Judge Richard E. Robinson granting Starkw??fter, 20, a last-minute chance to appeal i his condemnation to the electric chair. “It is my hope and prayer that I live long enough to see the criminal laws of Nebraska enforced by the state without federal judicial interference,” Beck said. The two-week stay gave Starkweather time to file an appeal to the U.S. Dfttrict Court. If the appeal fails, a new date will be set for his electrocution at Nebraska prison here. Judge Archibald Gardner, presiding judge of the Eighth Federal District Court of Appeals, promised that, due to the nature of the case, “action will be expedited,” Judge Robinson granted the stay early yesterday when Starkweather’s father, Guy, charged his son’s constitutional rights had been violated because he lacked an attorney. The father had fired his son’s counsel nearly a year ago because his defense was based on an insanity plea. The stay came only 90 minutes before the red-headed ex-garbage collector was to have died for the murder bf Robert Jensen, 17, of nearby Bennet, Neb. Jensen was one of 11 persons Starkweather killed on a murder rampage in Nebraska and Wyoming in December, 1957, and January, 1958. His 15-year-old companion on the death spree, Caril Fugate, is serving a life sentence. The elder Starkweather’s plea to Robinson came after a hurried telephone call to the Huron, S.D., home of Gardner. Gardner refused to Intervene, but suggested a call to Robinson, chief federal district judge for Nebraska. There followed a phone call, then a telegram from Starkweather to Robinson, then a call from Robinson to Gardner and finally Robinson’s order staying the ex-1 ecution, barely 20 minutes before!

New Showers Soak Indiana

United Press International New heavy showers soaked Indiana with as much as 214 inches of precipitation as the year's rainiest week closed out and hundreds of Hoosier farmers got farther behind in their spring work. Elwood had 2.35 inches of rain' in the 24-hour periocj ending at 7 a.m. today. Other heavy totals included Logansport 1.22, Portland 1.15, Winchester 1.07, Muncie 1.12, Fort Wayne .99, Covington .89, Lafayette .86, Wabash .70. Amounts scaling from less than half an inch down to scarcely one-tenth of an inch were recorded at Evansville, South Bend, Indianapolis and Terre Haute. Turbijlent conditions spawned thunderstorms in some areas with rather strong winds that ripped off a few tree branches. Greencassle got a hailstorm. Daily rain this week kept farmers out of their fields at a time when they need some dry days for corn planting and other chores. The prospect of dry summer weather was not too bright. But the rash of rain may trail *off tonight and leave only cloudy conditions in its wake. Rain or drizzle on an xxicaslonal basis was forecast for today in the northern two-thirds of the

I- . .. - •••■• the youth’s head was to have been shaved to accommodate the death-dealing decides. Terry Marbach Wins Annual Scholarship Mrs. Ruth Christen, president, today announced the 1959 winner of the Tri Kappa social sorority scholarship as , Terry Marbach. recent graduate of Decatur h|gh school. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marbach, of ■ Decatur route 5, Terry bested 15 seniors from Decatur and Decatur Catholic high schools, winning the SIOO award. Terry will use the scholarship to help defray tuition expenses at Purdue University, where he plans to enroll in the fall in one of the engineering phases. The annual scholarship award, in effect since 1950, goes to interested pupils who are in the upper third of their class from both Decatur high schools. A special exam is given, with the highest scorer gaining the scholarship. Past winners from Decatur high are Miss Phyllis Kohler, Palmer Johnson, Tom Cole, Dave Uhrick, Ralph Thomas, and Ted Shrock, while Miss Margaret Smith and Mike Kohne, from Decatur Catholic, have also won. Glen Rekeweg was the most recent winner, being named in 1958. Marbach will follow in Rekeweg’s tracks as he also is enrolled at Purdue. Dulles Is Clinging Tenaciously To Life WASHINGTON (UPI) - John Foster Dulles clung tenaciously to life today in his fight against cancer and pneumonia. No change in his condition was reported by the State Department. The last announcement said the former secretary of state was weakening. He is under heavy sedation at Walter Reed Army Medical CenIter.

state, with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the south portion. Cooler temperatures flowed into Indiana and probably will prevail until Monday, when warmer readings are due. The mercury crested at a range between 72 at South Bend and 82 at Indianapolis Friday, then dropped to lows generally in the 50s during the night, including relatively cool readings of 51 at Lafayette and 52 at South Bend. Today’s highs will range from the upper 50s in the north to the mid-60s in the central and mid 70s in the south as a 20-degree temperature spread divided upstate and downstate areas. The mercury will dip to the low 40s in the north, the mid 40s in the central and low 50s in the south tonight. It will climb to the 60s Sunday. The new rains coupled with effects of earlier showers this week sent the Wabash and White Rivers and their tributaries on a rise, bpt there was no indication any serious flooding would result unless there is additional heavy precipitation. NOON EDITION ~

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