Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 154, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 154.

Proposals Os Amish Not Up To Standard

Proposals in a petition from the old order of Amish to exempt their children from public high school attendance do not meet educational standards, county school superintendent Gail Grabill said this morning. Superintendent Grabill acknowledged this morning that he had received a petition Monday from the governing board of the old order of Amish bearing 50 signatures. It proposed that their children be exempted from further public schooling either after they have completed the first eight grades or have become 14 years old, and that they be allowed to establish independent schools. The petition reads, in part: “We also petition that the children of the plain people be granted exemption from school attendance upon request of parent or guardian upon completing primary studies of the elementary grades or after attaining the age of 14 years; we further would desire to have sufficient privileges to establish independent schools where the public school district determines upon consolidation and transportation.’’ Superintendent Grabill said that the children will continue to attend public school, as what is proposed in the petition does not meet the requirements prescribed by the county board of education in conjunction with rules and regulations prescribed by the state of Indiana. "We are not invested with power to grant them exemption from attendance in school,” Grabill said. Early in March, the old order of Amish of both Adams and Wells counties, had petitioned the state for similar privileges, to teach their children through vocational training on the farm, a system which has been adopted in Pennsylvania. Currently, a petition similar to the one which was presented to the superintendent’s office this week is being circulated in Allen county. The governing board of the old Amish order of this county are Bam M. Schwartz, Geneva route one, bishop; Jacob D. Wickey, Berne route one, and David N. Wengerd, Berne route one, ministers; John D. Wickey, Berne route one, deacon; and Noah S. Wengerd, Berne route one, spokesman for the board. Approximately five years ago, a small school had been started near Geneva for Amish children. It operated for one or two years, fog five or six families. Action wag taken against it, and it was closed because of a lack of an adequate teacher, substandard educational methods and school facilities.

Kozlov Meets Ike, Herter

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol R. Kozlov conferred for 70 minutes today with President Eisenhower and said afterwards that the “cardinal question” in their talk was world peace. “We discussed diverse questions during our meeting with President z Eisenhower,” Kozlov said through an interpreter. “The cardinal question was a question of peace and I hope peace will prevail - throughout the world. Goodby.” He then went outside the White House and. in an interview for television cameras, he said: “The conversation we had with the President was a wonderful one. “Among the many questions we discussed was the question of peace. I hope that peace will prevail in the world and that it Win be a strong and durable peace.” American officials said they understood that the President made it dear to Kozlov that the United States cannot be stampeded or frightened into a summit conference by threats or crises. They said their understanding was that the President made two chief points in a general discussion of the necessity to ease tensions and achieve better East-West relations. —T>e United States still insists on some progress at the Geneva foreign ministers’ conference, when it resumes July 13, before it will consider a top-level meetlag with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. —The Western Allies will not pull their forces out of West Berlin un--1 any circumstances until there! is a final solution of the German problem through reunification of the country.

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Colombian Village Destroyed By Flood IBAGUE, Colombia (UPD — A sudden flood struck the mountain village of Junta earl/ Tuesday while its inhabitants slept, and killed every person and animal there. Only today was the completeness of the disaster becoming known. Authorities said 80 bodies had been recovered and that helicopters were trying to find other traces of the 150 persons. The full casualty toll may never be known. The flood caused by heavy rains struck at 2:30 a. m. with devastating swiftness and swept entire families and their livestock down the Combeima River. Almost no trace of Junta remained. Although the village is only eight miles from this city of 130,000, the bodies of men, women, children, dogs, cats and cattle lay in eerie silence for nearly 10 hours before the first word of the catastrophe began to trickle in. • A rescue operation began immediately but after a few hours word came back that there was no life in the area. The villagers had been caught asleep in their thatched-roof huts, easy prey for the roaring torrent. When the waters began to recede late Tuesday they exposed a desolate valley strewn with corpses and debris. Dewitt H. Burk Dies At Home Near Geneva Dewitt H. Burk, 71, a retired farmer, died at his home a mile south of Geneva on U. S. 27 about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. He had been in failing health with a heart ailment approximately two months. Surviving are the widow, Clara; two sons. Ralph Burk, south of Portland, and Warren Burk, north of Portland; two daughters, Mrs. Lester Branstetter, Geneva, and Mrs. Don Kelly, Portland; seven grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. John Stettler, Bluffton. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in the Williamson and Spencer, funeral home, Portland, the Rev. Lloyd Wyatt officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery east of Geneva. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. today.

. - r - ■ .r - *.!!■*■■ --- • - - Kozlov, regarded by many as the eventual successor to Khrushchev, went to the White House direct from an hour-long meeting with Secretary of State Christian A. Herter. Herter and Kozlov discussed the Berlin crisis during an hour-long meeting. Kozlov declined to say whether the talks led to a lessening of East-West tensions, but added that more would be said about the exchange of views later in the day. Kozlov’s talks with Eisenhower and Herter were viewed as a test of the Russian's overtures at friendship. Administration officials said they expected Kozlov to talk in sweeping generalities about the need for settling East-West differences and- increasing RussianAmerican trade. But they seriously doubted that he was authorized to start any hard bargaining on the thorny problems dividing Russia and Western powers. Officials also discounted speculation that Kozlov was bringing any new Russian suggestions to break the Big Four deadlock over the future status of Berlin. Even as a smiling Kozlov arrived by plane in Washington, the East Germans were protesting officially against z the holding 6f elections in West Berlin. Possibility of another blockade of the former German capital was hinted. """ * Kozlov was greeted at the air port by an official delegation headed by Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Nixon was to meet with Kozlov this afternoon in the capitol after the Russian lunched with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Nivnn also will be host at a reception for the Soviet deputy premier tonight.

Reorganization I Meet Held By Cancer Group Person to person contact to recruit more volunteer workers and an education program to tell the public about cancer are the key k kinds of work to be done if the i county unit of the American cancer r society is to continue its work, it I was agreed at a reorganization 1 meeting Tuesdaiy night. The representatives of area or- ■ ganizations and industries who got f together Tuesday will bring other ; volunteers to another reorganiza- . tion meeting, on the second Thur%- - day in September, at 8 p.m. Such a recruiting and education pro- • gram will begin so that the society , can begin its new work, which is to include a campaign of its own I next April. - The county cancer socfety unit ’ must reorganize its work, the group learned because of a decision that was recently made by the members of the American canr cer society: that all county units must conduct independent drives, and can not ally with drives such ’ as the Community Fund, as the . Adams county unit has done in the past. Money and volunteer time ' are needed to carry out the American cancer society’s three-point ’ program, which field representa- ’ five Robert L. Biddlecombe ex--1 plained. County units which affiliate with other fund raising drives 1 lose their identity, and do not meet ■ their quotas, as Adams county has - failed to do in the past. ‘ .Billicombe, northern Indiana rep--1 resentative for the American can--1 cer society, praised the Adams county society for the work it has done in its total program in the •' past, which Miss Joan Wemhoff, secretary, summarized before introducing him. He went on to explain the three kinds of work the j society does in fighting cancer. , The society helps to pay for ret search being done to find a cure . for the disease. It has an education . program, to tell the public about the progress that is being made in . research and what they themselves f can do to fight cancer. Its third j area is family service, which is help to cancer patients themselves, j Research is going on constantly , to find a cure for cancer, a disease which has a death rate that is secs ond only to that of heart disease. , he said. Scieitnsts are not now con- . ducting research on an eight-to-five basis, but around the clock, to find i an effective treatment for cancer j as has been done for polio with the . Salk vaccine. The society does not give financial aid to scientists who are work- ■ ing with research, but units may have scholarship programs for students, beginning as soon as the sophomore year in high school, to get them interested in the biological sciences and health work. The American cancer society provides educational aids such as films under its program of education. Five groups are the targets for this part of the society’s program, Billicombe said: the clubs and organizations, schools ancLcolleges, businesses and industries, ' neighborhoods, and mass media. In its service to families, Biddler combe explained, the society helps ' cancer patients with expenses in home treatment, with transporta- . tion, and with bandage supplies. In the past, where cancer society ' units have not conducted their own drives, Biddlecombe said, the units cannot make a contribution equal to that made by the communities who do have their own , fund-raising drives. The education part of the program also suffers, he said, adding that a county unit loses its identity this way. Representatives of county organizations who heard Biddlecombe j last night were Mrs. Ross F. Brian, , president of the Woman’s association of the First Presbyterian , church; Roy L. Kalver, past county chairman of the cancer society; j Dr. John Spaulding, D.D.S., past county chairman; G. W. Sprunger, : of the Dunbar Furniture company, Berne, also representing the Berne , Witness; Mrs. William Holthouse and Mrs. William T. Hunter, the city of Decatur, from the mayor's office; Kenneth Gaunt and Richard Dellinger, General Electric; Mrs. Dorothy Dryer and Mrs, Mel Weisman, Delta Theta Tau; Miss Joan Wemhoff, secretary of the county unit; and Miss Barbara Fiechter, the Decatur Daily Democrat. Off ices Ta Close All Day On Friday The Adams county offices of the soil conservation service and the agricultural conservation and stabilibation committee will be closed Friday in accordance with an executive order by the president. The offices will be open for business as usual Monday, July. 6.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 1, 1959.

Decatur Industries To Erect New Building, Increase Production

■ cl A fl BOUT TIME FOR A VACATION—New heavyweight champ Ingemar Johansson and his fiancee Birgit Lundgren receive the “Key” to the city from Rosemary Morris, “Miss Miami of 1959,” on their arrival for a Florida vacation. The Johansson group will vacation around Fort Lauderdale area.

Missing Decatur Man Is Found Drowned

The three-day search for Kenneth Eugene (Bing! Bailer, 32, of 1033 Elm street, Decatur, ended today when his body was found in Krick’s pond, south of Decatur, at 10:15 a.m. by Dickinson Alverson, of the Devor trailer park. Coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., said the cause of death was drowning and although no apparent signs of violence were evidenced he was continuing his investigation of the death. Disappeared Saturday Bailer disappeared from his home Saturday about 5 p.m. and was reported seen heading toward the city dump around 8 o’clock later that same evening. The city police issued a missing person’s bulletin oh Monday morning. Chief of police James Borders checked with Fort Wayne and Coleman, Mich., authorities and friends, inquiring whethep or not Bailer had been seen in tqat area. He frequently visited friends an<| relatives in both cities. The fire department rescue boat assisted city and sheriff's police at the pond, bringing the body to shore. Sgt. Walter Schindler, state detective, and the coroner examined the body in the' preliminary investigation. The body was identified by Bailer’s brother, Richard Bailer, of Schirmeyer street. Coroner Winteregg said the body apparently had been in the water for three days. Native of Decatur Kenneth Eugene Bailer was born in Decatur June 6, 1927, a son of Bert and Anna Bauer. The drowning victim lived with his mother at 1033 Elm street. Surviving in addition to his mother are his father, of Coleman, Mich.; three brothe/s, Hubert Bailer of Fort Wayne, Muri Bailer, with the army at Fort Knox, Ky., and Richard Bailer, of Decatur, and two sisters, Mrs. Eva Mason of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Dorothy Hildebrand of Kennesaw, Ga. One brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, with Clyde Steele, presiding minister of Jehovah's Witnesses, officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The casket will remain closed. i INDIANA WEATHER ’ Mostly cloudy and cooler tonighL Scattered thundershowers tonight ending north this evening. Thursday partly cloudy gnd cooler south and central. Chance of scattered thundershowers extreme south. Low tonight 50s extreme north to 80s south and central. Highs Thursday muMly In the 70s. Sunset today 8:17 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 5:21 i. m. Outlook, for Friday: Generally fair and a little warmer. Lows mostly in the 50s. Highs mostly fat the 70s. 12 Rises

BULLETIN INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Governor Handley’s office was informed today that a Senate subcommitee pigeonholed the Dunes national monument bill " by a 4-3 vote this morning, thereby eliminating a roadblock to construction of Indiana’s seaport on Lake Michigan. Handley said the subcommittee’s action was “a great service to Indiana and the Midwest.”

News Conference Is Held By Eisenhower

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower said today he believed Congress is swinging behind his goal of a balanced budget. Die chief executive told a ( sweltering news conference that the action of Congress in raising ; the permanent debt ceiling to only : 285 billion dollars—about the size of the present dollars—was evidence ( that it expected federal spending . to pull into line with receipts dur- ( ing the new fiscal year beginning , today. The President at the same time issued an implied warning against the congressional efforts to cut his request for $1,600,000,000 in military aid for foreign countries. Eisenhower said the Joint Chiefs of Staff had informed him that the administration figure was the barest minimum required for foreign military aid, and that a larger amount would be necessary in fiscal 1961. Other news highlights at his conference: —He stuck to his position that a summit meeting would not be justified until Russia proves by deed or by agreement to a fruitful agenda that he heads of state can negotiate together profitably. —He expected inflation to- be J one of the main political issues in the national political campaigns next year, but he disclaimed any knowledge of a purported secret government forecast that the general price index is expected to go up 3 per cent next year. —He said he had no intention of publicly or privately attempting to influence the selection of the 1960 Republican presidential nominee. —The President declined to interfere with the art exhibit arranged tor tiie American exhibition in Moscow even though some of the artists were under investigation today by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. —He said he had no plans at the moment to go directly to the people about the fiscal situation facing the country at the start of tiie new fiscal year. His party leaders had urged that he speak out publicly in the immediate fu-

Ben-Gurion's Plan Os Sales Approved JERUSALEM (UPD — The Israeli Knesset parliament approved Premier David Ben-Gurion’s {dan to sell grenade-launchers to West Germany today. But Ben-Gurion’s coalition government probably will fall anyhow. The leftist Ahdut Avoda and Mapam parties, two of the four parties in his coalition, voted against the motion. Ben-Gurion had said that if he did not get the backing of all coalition parties, he would quit. Now that these two have voted openly against him, he was expected to resign. But even with Ben-Gurion’s expected tender of his resignation to President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, he was likely to be asked to try to form a new government, since his Mapai Party holds the large'st bloc of seats in parliament—although it does not control a majority and thus must form another coalition. Ben-Gurion would remain as caretaker premier while trying to form a new cabinet. Should he fail, informed quarters said Finance Minister Levi Eshkol, <a member of the Mapai, would succeed him. In that event, Ben-Gurion would retire a second time to his desert home. The government’s majority in the motion approving the arms deal included the opposition Herat, the National Religious Party and the Communists, whose “no confidence” motion was defeated Tuesday. Voting in favor of the arms deal, in addition to Ben-Gurion’s own Mapai Party, were the General Zionists and the Progressives, Tel Aviv Radio said.

ture in behalf of his budgetary program before Congress. —The United States at this point should not inject itself directly into threatened new difficulies in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, but should rely on the Organization of Arherican States to deal with thp situation. ' He ordered an immediate government study of the legal situation involved in the Supreme Court ruling against the industrial security clearance program. Swimming Pool Open Saturday Afternoon The city swimming pool will be open from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, for Independence Day, Hubert Zerkel, Jr., pool director, announced this morning. The pool will operate on its regular schedule for the rest of the holiday weekend, he said. Friday the hours will be from 1 to 4:30 p.m., and in the evening from 7 to. 8 o’clock, open swimming, and from 8 to 9 o'clock, for adults only. Sunday the hours will be from 2 to 5 p.m. ’

City To Host State Convention

Decatur will be host in 1960 to the 58th annual Indiana rural letter carriers association, with the Adams county carrier association as the offical host. ra -. This city was chosen for the honor by an overwhelming vote at the 57th annual state convention, which closed at Indianapolis Tuesday. The 1960 convention will have its headquarters and meetings at the Youth and Community Center July 3, 4 and 5. The local association’s invitation to the convention was extended, along with invitations from the city of Decatur, through Mayor Robert D. Cale, the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and the Central Soya Co., Inc.

Decatur Industries, Inc., purchased five acres of land from the local Chamber of Commerce Tuesday afternoon completing two months of negotiations for the tract. The land is on the southeast portion of the 32 acres owned by the 0. of C. on U. S. 27 between the Eire and Nickle Plate railroads. Noah R. Steury, president of the firm, said that land moving operations would begin today as he hopes to centralize his threebuilding business into a singlehoused operation. He added that the new building on the five acres would be cement block and steel, completely fireproofed, with 100by 250-foot dimensions. Steury said he foresees the plant capacity doubling as well as its work force. He also expressed his pleasure and appreciation to the Chamber for the final negotiations. Steury added that he had other offers to consider, but settled for Decatur because of the cooperation shown by the local Chamber. George Auer, Chamber president who signed the contract with Fred Kolter, executive Chamber secretary, and Steury, said that he was sincerely pleased that the Chamber could be of service to indus? try, especially a local one. He added that the Chamber is dedicated to serve the community, “but It is most gratifying when the group can be helpful to one of its own members.” Auer and Steury both expressed gratification at the cooperation extended by city officials concerning the transaction. Mayor Robert D. Cole said that necessary street improvements on the road into the newly purchased area would be completed as soon as men and equipment are available. To Build Fund “The purchase price,” Louis Jacobs, chairman of the industrial development cqinmittee, said, “will build up a revolving fund to purchase new land for industrial development.” Jacobs explained that the remaining 27 acres on the industrial site will be divided into separate lots, complying with the needs of prospective businesses. The Chamber originally purchased the land in February of 1957 to spur the interest of industrial devolpment. Norman W. Steury, secretarytreasurer of the wood-making firm, said that the Kraft Building on Winchester street, which serves as a cutting and storage plant, would be closed and the facilities would be moved to the new building. He also said that much of the equipment at the main plant on Eighth street would also be moved and the Boknecht building on Third and Monroe streets would have its facilities transferred to the new building when it is completed. Mrs. Noah Steury, vice president, said that Ron Gerber, a designer at the plant, would be the architect for the new building. No definite date for completion was set, but it is hoped to be completed by fall. While all the equipment cannot be economically moved at one sweep, Steury said he hoped to make the change gradually, but

' Other bids tor next year’s convention were submitted by Valparaiso University, and the cities of Indianapolis and Madison. Delegates from Adams county who presented the invitations, along with pictures of the Youth and Community Center, and the city’s leading industrial plants, were Diomas Miller, county president; Sherman Stucky, county sec-retary-treasurer, and Mrs. Sherma< Stucky, county president and member of the state board of the ladies’ auxiliary of the association. , Headquarters tor local delegates was located in tile Rainbow room of the Severin hotel In Indianapolis. Tuesday, the Western Electric

eventually. He pointed to early 1960 as his target date for the one-building operation to be at full scale. The company manufactures specialty items from wood, such as cigar humidors, pipe racks, and trophy bases. They supply the major and quality dealers with most of these manufactured goods. The first new building will allow 5,000 more square feet to the Steury operation as 20,000 are now being used. This is only the first stage of the building development plan. The Steury goal is at least a 50-000-foot floor space. Elect Luebke President Os West Germany BERLIN (UPD —Heinrich Luebke, candidate of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Christian Democratic party, was elected president of West Germany today. The 64-gear-old Luebke, minister of agriculture for the past six years, won on the second ballot. He received 526 votes, six more than the absolute majority needed for victory. Luebke will take office Sept. 15," at the end of the second term of incumbent President Theodor Heuss. Luebke was chosen by the 1,038 delegates to the s West German Federal Assembly, which met in Berlin to choose a new president of the republic in defiance of a Communist warning that such an action could end only in a “new Stalingrad”'—a reference to the worst defeat a German army suffered in World War H. , A minor crisis in the election was headed off when it was decided to give the 43 delegates to the assembly from this isolated city full voting rights. Luebke received 517 votes on the first ballot, three short of the number he needed to win. But he came back with added support to sew up his victory the second time around. Prof. Caro Schmid, opposition Socialist Party candidate, got 385 I votes on the first ballot The third candidate, Max Becker of the Liberal Free Democrats, received 104 votes in the first go-round, in which 25 delegates formally abstained. On the second ballot, Schmid got 386 votes, a gain of one. But Becker received only 99 votes cm the second ballot, a loss of five. Florida Man Kilted In Huntington Crash HUNTINGTON, Ind. (UPD — Cars containing two elderly couples collided at an intersection of two state highways today, and Clarence W. Clarkson, 73, Ormand Beach, Fla., was killed. Clarkson’s wife and Earl Young, 72, R. R. 1, Andrews, and Young’s wife were taken to Marion for hospitalization. The accident occurred at the intersection of Ind. 218 and Ind. 105.

plant was host at a luncheon and tour of its plant for delegates and their families, and approximately 190 were in attendance. The junior members enjoyed lours through the Coca Coia plant, the post office building. Soldiers and Sailors monument, and a movie. While their parents attended convention sessions. Principal speakers at the convention were Max Jordan, vice president of the national organization; Mrs. Bernard Geene, of Indiana, vice president of the national auxiliary: Walter A. Smith, Indianapolis postmaster; Walter A. Summa, senior field services officer, and Herbert -C. Rumble, of Cincinnati, regional operations director.

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