Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 144.

1 SrOfM VvßffcKS lIW *. ■ ‘ < rfiCrC SMJ&K ■» 5 Jr iH TORNADO ROARS THROUGH MIAMI— This wrecked drive-in restaurant framed through the wrecked window of an office on North Bayshore Drive in Miami, Fla., testifies to the impact of the freak tornado which roared in from Biscayne Bay causing $5,000,000 in damage. More than 100 persons were injured, and heavy rains and winds up to 60 miles per hour made clean-up operations difficult. ( 15 4-H Girls Win County Contests

Fifteen 4-H girls who were winners in the county judging and demonstration contests at Decatur Thurscday afternoon will repreThursday afternoon will reprecontests at Wabash in July. "Take advantage of every opportunity to give a demonstration,” Mrs. Lawrence Hess, judge of the demonstration contest, told approximately 130 4-H club girls and leaders who were waiting for the announcement of the demonstration contest winners. Mrs. Lawrence Hess, of Fort Wayne, said that both judging and demonstration work are important, complimenting the girls on their work. Commenting that there are excellent possibilities in the junior demonstrations for possible district winners, Mrs. Hess listed comments and suggestions on the demonstrations in general, emphasizing that it is especially important to work on the voice and the manner of presentation, which should show enthusiasm, and that it is also important to practice, to work up poise. Miss Falk Commends 4-H’ers Miss Lois Folk, county home demonstration agent, who came after her classes at Ball State Teachers College, told the girls and their leaders that she was especially pleased with the number of demonstration contests this year. ’ In the forenoon, ten junior demonstrations were given, while one junior and eleven senior demonstrations were given. Miss Linda Gould, apprentice home demonstration agent, supervised the day’s activities with the help of 4-H leaders who helped to organize the day of contests. Judging tests were given in the morning, while demonstrations were being given throughput the day. After the senior demonstrations were completed in the afternoon, the award ribbons were distributed to -the winners. The senior demonstrations grand champion was Gail Egley, Jefferson Work and Win, giving “This

Ike Bitter On’’ Strauss Vote

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower bitterly criticized the Senate today for rejecting Lewis L. Strauss’ nomination as secretary of commerce. He said “The American people are the losers.” The President, who met for 20 minutes with StrausS, summoned newsmen to his office and read his hand-written comment on the Senate vote early this morning. Strauss was refused confirmation by a 49-46 vote. The action automatically removed him from the Cabinet post he has held since last November by a recess appointment. Eisenhower had stood firmly by his nominee during the acrimonious fight over confirmation. Losint; “Valuable Associate” His formal statement described Strauss as a man who had served "loyally, honorably and effectively” under four presidents. The President added that he was losing “a truly valuable associate.” He went on to say that if the nation was to be denied the right to have Strauss serve in the Cabinet, then the American people are the losers. While the Senate vote was „in progress the rejected nominee had waited in his office for word of -the outcome.

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Could Be, You.” Reserve grand champions were Barbara Carver and Karen Foor, Blue Creek Up and At It, “Miss 4-H” Rating “A? placings and also the right to participate in the special demonstrations contests at Wabash are Ruth Ann Beery, Preble Jolly Juniors, "Salad,” in the frozen foods division; and Donna Shoaf, Washington Happy Hustlers, “Pretty As A Picture,” in the baking division. Receiving “A” ratings in the junior division were Jane Girod, of Blue Creek Up and At It, “Weekend Fun Packing a Train Case,” champion: Diana Fuhrman, Preble Peppy Pals, “Hemming a Towel;” Joy Strouse, Monmouth Merry Maids, “Operation Mix;” Karen Bieberick and Linda Conrad, Kirkland Kut-Ups, "Facts in the Life of a Sandwich;” Connie Johnson, Jefferson Work and Win. and Suellen Bentz and Jane Hendricks, Berne Jolly Workers, "Pampering Your Clothes Pays Off.” . Twila Arnold Wins in Baking In the baking judging contests, the top two winners were Twila Arnold, Monroe Boosterettes, first, and Kay Singleton, Washington Happy Hustlers, second. These two senior division contestants will represent Adams county at the district contests. Winning senior honor ratings were Barbara Caruer, Blue Creek Up and At It, third: Betsy Schnepf, Monmouth, fourth, and Karen Foor, Blue Creek, fifth. In the junior division of baking, placings were Judy Mosser, Jefferson, first; Kathleen Thieme, Union, second; Donna Hodgin, Colverblossom, third; Diane August, Decatur, fourth; and Cynthia Carroll, St. Mary’s, fifth. In clothing, the top two in the senior division were Shirley Bieberich, Preble Jolly Juniors, first; and Margaret Boerger, Monmouth Merry Maids, second. Those who won honor placings, but will not continue to the district contests, are Anita Hodgin, Cloverblossom,

, The showdown came shortly _ after midnight in a marathon i session marked by charges and » counter-charges and a dramatic > race against time by some Republican senators to get back for ) the vote.' 1 Only two Republicans deserted i their party ranks to oppose » Strauss but they.were enough to . swing the decision. They joined . 47 Democrats in opposition to the i nomination. Fifteen Democrats i and 31 Republicans voted to con- • firm Strauss, {I - It was the first time in 34 years that the Senate had rejecti ed a presidential appointee to - the cabinet. Charles Beecher Warren, nominated by President Coolidge in 1925 to be attorney genl eral, was the last previous nomI inee rejected. Eighth Appointee Rejected Strauss, former chairman of ‘ the Atomic Energy Commission, • was the eihth presidential appointee to fail to get Senate con- ’ firmation in the nation’s history, t ' He took the Senate verdict - calmly in his ofifce at the Coms merce Department. An aide said he accepted the defeat ’ “with l not a whimper.” In a statement s issued before te retired to his hoI tel, Strauss said: ? ‘I leave with issued before he retired to his ho-

I third; Barbara Tinkham, Up and ■ At It, fourth; and Colleen Kelly. > Decatur Peppy Gals, fifth. I Junior division clothing winners > were Diana Beer, Work and Win, - first; Maris Moeschberger, Mon- > roe Boosterettes, second; Ramona ’ Merriman, Up and At It, third; i Susan Ostermeyer, Decatur Pep- , py Gals, fourth; and Janice Mil- , ler, Peppy Gals, fifth. J In the electricity judging contest, Donna Cauble, Kirkland Kut- ‘ Ups, placed first, and Judy Yo- . der, Monroe Boosterettes, placed ■ second. Both will go on to the i district contest, as this was senior ■ division competition. Susan McCullough Top in Food Prep 1 Food preparation winners in the ' senior division were Susan Mc- • Cullough, St. Mary’s, first, and ' Sharon Harkless, Memmouth, sec--1 ond, who will go to the district. Placing in the senior honors were T Kathleen Grile, Jefferson, third; r Janice Allison, Union, fourth; and Ann Seamon, Monmouth, fifth. -Junior division winners in food ’ preparation were Kathy Ellenber--1 ger, French, first; Jane Girod, • Blue Creekt second; Kathy Christ--1 man; Blue Creek, third; Colleen ! Ringger, French, fourth, and Pam ’ Sovine, St. Mary’s, fifth. ■ Home improvement placings, • entries tip the senior division only, • were Gail Egly, Work and Win, 1 first; Jackie Hurst, Monmouth ' Merry Maids, second, and Connie - Bergman, Monmouth Merry Maids third. Food preservation winners in ’ the senior division who will go on to the district contest are Nancy Cook, Kekionga, first; and Linda King, also Kekionga, second. Honors winners in the senior division were Gyneth Schnepp, Berne ' Jolly Workers, third; Rosalind Bauman, Cloverleaf, fourth; and Mary Eichenauer, Decatur Peppy Gals, fifth. ' Junior devision honors in food preservation went to Debbie Baumgartner, Peppy Peppers, first; Susan Brite, Monmouth Merry Maids, second; Mary Ann Kipfer, Peppy Peppers, third; Diana King, Monmouth Merry Maids, fourth; and Brenda Roe, Up and At It, fifth. Leaders helping with the judging contests were Mrs. Clair Carver, Mrs. Charles Yergler, Mrs. Richard Minnich, and Mrs. Marvin Conrad, baking; Mrs. Helen Egley, Miss Doris Cauble, Mrs. Raymond Van Emon, and Mrs. Ardon Moser, clothing; Mrs. Don King, electricity; Mrs. Ben Gerke, and Mrs. Elmer Inniger, food preservation; Mrs. Dale Brandt, home improvement; and food preparation, Mrs. Stanley Arnold and Mrs. Roman Sprunger. just.” ' The White House was advised ot the outcome immediately. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said, “we’ll have no comment at this time.” But embittered Republicans had harsh words. Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) who led the fight for the 63-year-old Strauss, said: "a band of bitter men have brought political execution upon an honored public servant." Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper (R---lowa) termed the outcome “a tragedy of the greatest degree,” and “an inexcusable affront.” He suggested it would keep able men from accepting government posts. Personal Reasons Cited The Republicans generally agreed that Strauss lost for per- , sonal reasons. The Democrats had charged that he was contemptuous of Congress, took a high-handed attitude toward gov-’ emmental affairs and could not be trusted by the legislative (Continued on page eight)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 19,1959.

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Kiefer Again Convicted Jo Die In Chair FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) - Richard E. Kiefer was convicted for the second time today mi a first degree murder charge and was sentenced to death in the electric chair. A jury which got the evidence around noon Thursday returned the verdict of guilty at 8 a. m. today, and Allen Circuit Judge William H. Schannen immediately imposed sentence. Schannen ordered that Kiefer be electrocuted before sunrise on Oct. f. It was the second time Kiefer was condemned to die for killing his wife. Pearl, in 1957. Kiefer also was charged with killing his young daughter, Dorothy, but never was tried in connection with the little girl’s death. Kiefer was tried for a second time because the Indiana Supreme Court ruled there were errors in the first trial last year. During final arguments Thursday, defense attorneys called the double slaying a crime “of passion and rage.” Attorney Barrie Tremper said Kiefer was a good father and husband but fell victim to a moment of anger when he stabbed and beat Mrs. Kiefer and their daughter. ’’ But Prosecutor J. Bryan Hayes’ told the jury of 7 men and 5 women Kiefer “formed the intent to kill” when he got a hunting knife after bludgeoning the two. Principal Is Named At Monmouth School Charles A. Rix, a native of York- ; shire, N.Y., became the Monmouth, school principal today when he I signed a contract in the office of county school superintendent Gail Grabin’s office. Rix succeeds Loren S. Jones, who after six years here left recently to become principal at Leo high school in Allen county. Rix, a 40-year-old veteran of 10 years teaching experience, is a graduate of Houghton College, N.Y., with an AB degree. He is currently working 0 on his master’s degree in supervision and administration at Central Michigan University. His wife, Charlotte, who is also a teacher, and their two-year-old daughter, Cherie Lou. will soon move with the new administrator from their residence in Angola to Decatur. Mrs. Rix has taught commerce at Attica, N.Y., high school (Continued on page eight) Exchange Student To Speak To Rotary An interesting film, “Bay at the Moon,” produced by the Remington «Arms Co., was presented at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotaiy club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Leo Curtin, program chairman for the month, presented the program and H. P. Schmitt, Jr., vice president, conducted the meeting. The Club will observe ladies night at the weekly meeting next Thursday. Recently elected officers of the club will be installed. feature speaker for the evening will be Peter Friederici, who has attended tile Decatur high school for the past year a£ Rotary’s foreign exchange student for the year. Friederici will speak on his reactions to life in America as > compared to his native Germany. The annual Rotary district golf tourney will be held at South ; Bend next Tuesday, with tee-off : time at 12 noon. Wilbur Petrie, i local chairman, urged Rotary I golfers to attend.

Louisiana Governor In Insane Asylum

BATON ROUGE, La. (UPD— Gov. Earl Long, seized by deputies and committed on his wife’s warrant in one of the wildest days in Louisiana's turbulent political history, was behind insane asylum bars in his home state today. Shrieking and erasing, Long was intercepted just three miles outside this capital after he had freed himself from a New Orleans hospital, declared he was the governor “right now,” and roared off in a state highway patrol car for Baton Rouge to entrench himself in office. The silver-haired Long, 63, gave a piercing hog call, “Whooeee,” and yelled “God Damn, God damn,” as officers took him away to the Southeastern State Hospital at Mandeville, La., to be held “indefinitely.” Long’s violent removal from power stunned the people of Louisiana as nothing had done since his older brother, Huey (Kingfish) Long was assassinated in a corridor of the Capitol in 1935. Remains Governor In Name Long remained governor in name today. The state constitution provides a governor remains in office until death, resignation or impeachment. Lt. Gov. Lether Frazar will resume the post of acting governor he has held since Long was taken veston, Tex., 20 days ago. Long is serving his third term as governor and had been preparing to resign so he coudl ran a fourth I time. Long left the Ochsner Foun-’ dation Hospital in New Orleans late Thursday in a state police car. An 80-mile-an-hour race up the “Airline Highway” along the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge between Long and his wife, Blanche, followed, and

i mo William A .Gaull Is Taken By Death Services Will be conducted Saturday afternoon in Wabash for William A. Gault, 81, who died Wednesday evening at his home in Wabash following a heart attack. Mr. Gault was born November 20, 1876, in Preble township, the son of J. D. and Mary Weldy Gault. Formerly a railroad worker, he was a veteran of the SpanishAmerican war, and was a member of Company B, 160th Infantry Regiment of Adams county. ’ Surviving are the widow, Ethel, four daughters, two sons: 13 grandchildren, six great-grandchil-dren: and four sisters, Mrs. Frank (Netta) Aurand, route six, Decatur; Mrs. Ervin (Lizzie) Elzey, 602 Indiana street; Mrs. Homer (Frances) Brubaker, near Preble; Mrs. Frank (Eva) Allen, Gary. The body is at the Hoover and Meyner funeral home, Wabash, where final rites will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. Shakespeare For Breakfast Today Summer Class “Shakespeare for breakfast” was the menu, this morning for the summer schpol senior English class, which held a four-hour session, 6 to 10 a.m., at Hanna-Nutt-man park, with a 100 per cent attendance of the students, The assignment for the outdoor session was several scenes from Macbeth. The clasS was Under tliP direction of Mrs. Dorothy Schnepf and Deane Dorwin. More sessions of a similar nature mAy be held by the class. The class members include Don Agler, Alice Ailwein, Jan Aumann Marie Barlett, Sandy Bauman, Jim Gay, Keith Griffith (Adams Central), Ron Highland, Jean Hoffman. Betty Haugh. Barbara Johnson, Chuck Krueckeberg, Jerry McIntosh, Diana Rhodes, Noel Scherry (Berne), Dee Schroeder. Etta Soliday, Cassie Strickler, Bruce VosheU and Kay Wynn.

kept the whole state government in suspense. Mrs. Long won by ’ just enough margin to sign the commitment warrant authorizing sheriff’s deputies of East Baton Rouge Parish to nab her husband. Charged Political Plot The wild-eyed Long had accused his wife and political enemies of plotting against him and there wps fear of what he might do in revenge if he reached his office and tried to use his power as and the Louisiana National commander of the state police Guard. A hastily appointed coroner’s commitment commission, consisting of Coroner Chester Williams and Dr. Stachman Wyatt, examined Long in the back seat of the white Ford after he was stopped and taken to the East Baton Rouge Parish courthouse. The commission declared Long was suffering from paranoia and schizophrenia. A crowd of more than 300 gath- ■ ered around the courthouse as the governor was examined. When he was pulled out of the highway l patrol car and put in the depu- . ties’ car with four husky officers, ; there were cries of “no, no, they i can’t do that to the governor.’* One man was arrested for get- . ting too close to the car. - State police threw a heavy cori don around the state hospital at ; Mandeville an hour before the ! governor was whisked through its , gates. UPI Correspondent William Cook gained entrance to the hospital and was told that Long was “angry and hard to handle.” Dr. Charles Belcher, assistant supervisor, said the governor was in a room by himself which had been until recently a storeroom. ' He was under “constant attention," Belcher said. Four doctors examined him.

I — • • 1A Decatur Lions Plan Ladies Night Monday £3 fc ( >i- %* ,J ( HL * !|||l!f b I Mack Sauer Mack Sauer, radio commentator, editor, and humorist, will be the featured speaker for the ladies night entertainment Monday evening so rthe Decatur Lions club, ' president Glenn Hill said this ; morning. ‘ Sauer is editor and publisher of ' the Leesburg. 0., Citizen and the Lynchburg, 0., News. He has a 30minute daily radio program, “Breakfast at Sa u e r’s," over WPFB, Middletown, which has run for nine years. Sauer’s poems and sketches have appeared in Country Gentleman, ; Collier’s, and newspapers and [ magazines SB over the country. He has written three humorous , books. A member of a Lions club himself, he has spoken in 38 states, Canada and Cuba, and has travel; ed extensively. The Monday meeting will be the last ladies night of the year, and the second ,to the last meeting of the summer;’Hill stated.

BULLETIN GENEVA (UPI) — The Big Four foreign ministers broke - off their conference today but agreed to meet again in midJuly and try again for a peace settlement. GENEVA (UPI) —• Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev launched a new attempt to undercut Western rights in Berlin today. The Western foreign ministers here promptly turned down his proposal. — Khrushchev proposed to drop his immediate takeover time limit on Berlin if the West would give East Germany equal rights With West Germany in a peace treaty. The Western ministers, after considering the new Red proposal for an hour, declared it raises “no new hopes." Faced with Western determinatoin to end the Geneva Big Four foreign ministers’ parley unless Russia gives a positive answer to the West’s last compromise offer, Khrushchev broached his plan in a Moscow speech. Reject West Offer Simultaneously, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko delivered a formal plan to the Western ministers at a secret Big Four session. The Westerners retired at once to study it and Khrushchev’s speech. Just before 4 p.m. (10 am. c.d.t.L Western spokesmen told newsmen here: “It is understood that Gromyko has not accepted file Western proposals even as a basis for discussion. Furthermore, the Soviet position as put forward this afternoon by Mr. Gromyko, coupled with Mr. Khrushchev’s speech, has given no new hope to "the Western delegations.” But until the Westerners had given their reply personally to Gromyko at a later Big Four session, they kept secret their decision whether to go on with the conference. High American officials said that what it all boiled down to was that Gromyko had rejected the Western proposal and has advanced new plans of his own which cannot be accepted by France, Britain and the United Statos Cite Three Proposals Secretary of State Christian Herter and his Western partners got the document from Gromyko at a Big Four secret session. East German sources said the new Khrushchev plan contained these three proposals: —A non - aggression pact between East and West Germany.

Living Costs Hit New High

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Living costs edged up to a new all-time high in May, the government reported toflay. Higher prices were reported for all major categories of consumer spending, including food, clothing, housing, medical care and transportation. The consumer price index, based on a 1947-49 price average of 100, rose one-tenth of a point from April to a May reading of 124.0, a new high. Labor Department price chief H. E. Riley said the increase was seasonal and that “for all practical purposes” the stability of living costs over the past year has not been broken. The price index hit 123.9 in July, 1958, which was a new high at that time. * The department also reported that take-home pay and buying power of factory workers climbed to* new highs last month). Takehome pay averaged $81.03 for a worker with three dependents, about 9 per cent higher in dollars and purchasing power than a year ago. The upward trend of the price index means some 100,000 aircraft manufacturing workers will ret a pay boost of 1 cent an hour. Their wages are tied by contract to the . cost of living, Food prices rose slightly in May after declining in eight of the previous nine months. The 0.1 per cent rise stemmed from

—An all-German commission to prepare for a peace treaty, with each half of Germany getting equal representation. This was proposed despite the fact that West Germany’s population is 40 million compared to East Ger. many’s 17 million. —Temporary continuation of Berlin’s ‘ occupation status” with no specific time limit, but with a firm understanding that the status quo would be maintained only temporarily. Khrushchev, speaking in Mos--1 cow, delivered a personal plea to keep the current Big Four foreign ministers’ conference going here despite six weeks of deadlock. He added that a summit conference would be even more necessary if die present talks fail. His speech was aired just an hour before the foreign ministers went into a showdown secret session during which the West hopes to get a positive answer to its latest Berlin peace plan or go home. “Let’s discuss everything,” ' Khrushchev said in another one . of his remote control diplomatic ; moves obviously beamed at i Geneva. 1 “Let’s weigh all the pros and cons. The establishment of the exl act period for writing a German peace treaty and ending Western ) rights in Berlin is by far not the - main question. t “The most Important thing is to » agree on the problems on general 1 principles.” t r Khrushchev did not specifically withdraw the idea of a time limit 1 for the West to get out of Berlin. > He said this is inevitable and he - noted that the West’s original ’ peace plan for all Germany pro- ! vided for German reunification, and thus withdrawal, within a > year time limit. 1 Geneva diplomats believed ’ Khrushchev launched his concilia--1 tory declaration to shake the West- . ern ministers from their agreed determination to pack up and og home unless Soviet Foreign Mint ister Andrei Gromyko gave s ■ hopeful reaction to the Western > compromise plan. If the latest Russian proposal I “does not sut the Western powers," Khrushchev said, "this can . be discussed again, providing they have a business-like approach.”

higher prices for restaurant meals, fresh fruits and vegegnbles. The increase would' have been even greater except for a sharp decline in egg prices. All dasses of clothing cost more in May, the report said, with shoes, especially men’s and children’s posting the biggest increases. Housing costs rose because of advances in prices of home repair and maintenance, gas, electricity and insurance. Residential rents showed no average increase for the first time since February, 1957. The cost of medical care rose 0.4 per cent, mainly because of higher physicians’ fees. Some mark-up for drugs and hospital rates also were reported. Riley said there was "nothing very unusual” in the May rise. The index has dipped in May only once ip 12 years and has held steadly only once, he added. INDIANA WEATHER Fair with no important temperature changes tonight and Saturday. Low tonight mostly in the 50s. High Saturday 72 to 80 north and central, low Ms extreme south. .Sunset today 8:18 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 5:17 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Fahr and eool. Lows 50 to 58. Highs mid 70s north and central to low Ms south.

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