Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 158.

Sidewalk Sales And Jubilee Draw Crowd

Come on to the jubilee! Thousands of shoppers and spectators have been pouring into Decatur today for the old fashioned sidewalk sale and jubilee, and many more are expected to come tonight drawn by four special attractions. ————- Tonight from radio station WOWO will be th Decatur, with program PM, from 8 to 10, with Marvin Hunter and Perry Steckbeck broadcasting from the Decatur Daily Democrat office. WOWO deejay Jack Underwood will have a record hop from 8 to 11 p.m., in front of the Chamber of Commerce office on North Second street, while at the other end of the street. Max Kreps, local square dance caller, will call for a square dance. At 7 p.m., just before the dances begin, Burl Sprunger will auction off several old used cars in the first jubilee car auction, in front of the Chamber of Commerce office, where the hop will be held later. This afternoon, a prize will be given to the best dressed shopper or merchant. The shoppers and merchants began the day early, with some shoppers, 'who Said they had gotten up early to get their husbands to work, coming in about 8:30, when many, of the stores were still working oh their outside displays. Stories BsHnd the Antiques Appropriate dress for the day was bowlers or top hats for the. men and high lace collars and long skirts for the women. Old-fashioned brooches, pins, rings and plumed hats went along with the costumes of the Gay Nineties and the Gibson girl. And those who remembered the days of these costumes exchanged stories and talk about oldfashioned dress. For instance, there was the one comment that in those days, it wasn’t ladylike to sit on soda fountain stools. Not only the people, but also the stores were dressed up: store windows all up and down Second and Monroe streets are devoting whole show windows to displays of aatique furniture, in the furniture stores, to dresses, pictures, and s* prints, ■in - the-, apparel shops. There are stories behind the displays, stories such as the one behind a dress which was made by a twelve-year-old girl: long-skirt-ed, with draped side panels, in a pink-and-white print, the dress _ was never worn by its seamstress for she died soon after the dress was completed. Some of the displays may remain up longer than for just today, giving shopers who could not make it to this year’s jubilee a chance to see the old-fashioned displays for a day or so afterward. ' .. Big Success Last year’s jubilee, just a week and a day later than this year’s sale, also saw warm, sunny weather, just right for the outdoor displays. if a little hot for the people who wore the lacy, long-sleeved, long-skirted gay nineties clothing. The crowd this year is bigger than last year’s, Dave Moore, general chairman of* the jubilee day said this noon, during a noon lull in business. (In spite of the usual shopping lull, business still boomed at the Explorer Scouts hot dog stand, where the Explorers expect to sell 600 hot dogs and 400 cups of soft drinks.) ? The participation, both financially, and in the displays, has been excellent, Moore also said, adding that the jubilee is shaping up to be a success again this year, as one of the merchants called it this morning, the best promotion event Decatur has had.

Queen Ends Triumphal U.S. Visit

CHICAGO (UPD—A radiant but tired Queen Elizabeth ended a one - day. whirlwind love affair with Chicago today and headed back to Canada. She cruised away with Prince Philip aboard .the royal yacht Britannia after massed thousands of friendly, cheering Chicagoans bade them a noisy, spectacular farewell on the fireworks-lighted shore of Lake Michigan For the Queen, it was a triumphal, 14-hour visit to the capital city of the Com Belt and America’s second largest city. For Chicago, it. was a proud, tumultuous day that symbolized the city’s emergence as a world port and gave Midwesterners their first chance to entertain a reigning Britsih monarch. They liked what they saw. Voices City’s Attitude • Mayor Richard J. Daley, host at a wind-up state dinner in the Conrad Hilton Hotel, voiced the I

DECATUR DAITA DEMOCRAT

County Planning To Buy Used Trador The board of county commission--1 ers met Monday in the offices of 1 county auditor Ed Jaberg, ap- | proving a proposal by the highway department and the surveyor’s office to accept bids on a used trac--1 tor, and allocating funds for the : Calvin Coppess ditch, besides Other . business. . Bids on the used tractor will be taken after a legal notice is published in county papers. The two county agencies • need the tractor ' to transport its new Loboy trailed. The commissioners also allotted SB,OOO from die ditch improvement fund for the Coppess ditch, which ' is located in Monroe and Washington townships. Frank Kitson, superintendent of ■ the county home, also submitted ' the monthly report for June on the I county home, which was approved , by the commissioners. The reportt • showed that total receipts for the month were $1,370. As of June 30, ; 21 males and seven females com- » prised the population of the home, ' showing no increase or reduction in the past few months. County highway supervisor Lawrence Noll also , submitted his , monthly work report, which was , approved. A breakdown of the , major work in the report, showed j that 28,096 miles were traveled, ! while 9,534.78 tons of stone were . hauled on county roads. A total of 89,073 gallons of liquid . asphalt was used for blacktop . roads with 668 man-hours being used for new blacktop and 96 manhours for patching blacktop. For seeling roads, 930 man-hours were ’ utilized. For work on drainage 1 channels, catch basins and other monservation projects, 440-man ' hours were noted. i i Former Newspaper Owner Here Dies - Harry R. Daniel, 85, who started his newspaper work on the Decatur Journal, a paper he later owned, J' died Wednesday at the Washington ’ hospital center after a short ill- • ness. The Fort Wayne native, who 1 retired from his public relations position for the national automo- - bile dealers association in 1950, ■ was instrumental in founding the ; “Newspaper of the Air,” which i featured H. V. Kaltenborn as coml mentator. Mr. Daniel was the son of the late Rev. William H. Daniel and Emma Birch Daniel He was educated in Indiana schools, but grad- : uated from Northwestern Univeri ‘sity, being affiliated with Phi Delta ■ Theta fraternity. After working in Decatur, Mr. ■ Daniel went to work at the InterOcean in Chicago at city editor and managing editor. From there • he went to New York, entering the public relations field. He was a , member of the National Press club. ! One of the first syndicated column- , ists, his column, “Minor Observa- , tions,” attracted critical acclaim ■ in the 30 newspapers which pub- : lished it. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Gladys Daniel, of Washington, D.C.; a niece, Mrs. William Howard Bell, and two nephews, Fred- ‘ eric W. Schafer and Daniel B. Schafer, of the Schafer businesses ’ in Decatur. Funeral services were conducted ’ at 10 a.m Monday and he was 1 buried in Cedar Hill cemetery.

; city’s attitude when he told the Queen: “Your majesty, come back again and bring the Children.” The 1,400 hand - picked guests applauded and cheered. They broke ; into laughter when the Queen replied that she would “like to stay longer and get to know Chicago under more normal conditions.’* Prince Philip received so much applause when he was introduced ■ at the dinner that Daley, known . for his astuteness in politics, whispered to a companion that he was glad Philip was not runnfog for public office here. _ The Queen’s all-American welcome to this lusty metropolis was marred by a brief bomb scare and one near-mob scene and interrupted briefly while she had a dentist replace a tooth filling. Queen’s Filling Replaced Dr. Norman R. Olson installed a temporary filling to replace one which had fallen out while she

California Forest Fire In Sixth Day SIERRAVILLE, Calif. (UPI) - California’s worst forest fire of the season raged into its sixth day today with more than 10,000 acres of prime timber in Tahoe National Forest charred in its wake. Forest Service officers said the blaze was 80 per cent under control after winds died down Monday night, but almost 2,000 weary fire fighters battled against time along a 20-mile front as a late weather report forecast strong winds for today. “if the winds stay down we have a good chance of containing the fire today," said Ernest Draves, Forest Service spokesman. Several times the flames were believed contained, but winds up to 50 miles an hour rose again to send the flames leaping across the control lines. For five days the fire, started by a 6-year-old boy playing with matches, has been a constant threat to the mountain village of Loyalton, two miles away. The town’s 1,000 residents have been under constant evacuation alert. Volunteers have extinguished ashes and embers blown into the town by strong winds. Meanwhile new blazes were reported in other mountain areas: —ln Plumas National Forest, about nine miles west of Portola, strong winds fed a fire that had burned about 100 acres by early last evening and was reported “boiling up real nasty.” An estimated 500 men, working with bulldozers, were battling the blaze that jumped Feather River at one point. —ln Eldorado National Forest, about a mile east of Pollock Pines on U.S. 50, a fire that Monday caused $140,000 damage to timber and watershed was brought under control.

Housing Bill Vetoed By Ike

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower vetoed the Democratic housing trill today. He said its spending provisions are excessive and would do far more damage than good. In a message to the Senate, the President called the bill “extravagant.” “Much of the spending it authorizes is unnecessary,” he said. He objected particularly to spending authorizations which he said amounted to a minimum of $2,200,000,000 as against his budget recommendations of 810 million dollars. The Democrats had put a sl,375,400,000 price tag on their farreaching bill. After listing the defects in the measure, the President called on Congress to enact before adjournment a new housing bill along the lines of his recommendations of last January. There appeared to be no chance Congress would over-ride the veto. The bill passed the Senate, 56-31, and the House, 241-177. Both were less than the two-thirds margin required in both chambers to enact vetoed legislation. The rejected bill would have expanded federally subsidized public housing and launched new federal lending programs to buil<| college classrooms and low-priced rental housing for elderly persons. The administration vigorously opposed these three programs, as well as many other provisions of the catch-all bill.

was sailing to Chicago. He said a sharp edge of the tooth was “aggravating" the Queen’s tongue. The bomb scare came at 3:17 p.m., when someone called police headquarters and mumbled ‘‘there is a bomb set in the Museum of Science and Industry to go off at 3:30.” Before the Queen, arrived at 3:40, bomb squad detectives satisfied themselves that the Call was the work of a crank or prankster. The Queen’s museum visit went off without a hitch. Highlight of the day for Chicagoans, and possibly for Elizabeth and Philip, was the royal parade down Michigan Boulevard to the state dinner. The Queen, radiant in a stunning evening gown and wearing a diamond tiara, rode with Mayor and Mrs. Daley behind the smart black horse troop of Medinah Temple Shriners.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 7,1959.

Capture Four Convicts In Washington Prison, 38 Hostages Unharmed

MONROE, Wash. (UPI) — A small army of officers, in one bold move with tear gas cartridges, today captured four convicts who had threatened death for 38 hostages if their escape demands were not met. No one was injured in the move. Dr. Garret Hyns, state institutions director, hel pi ng direct strategy from his office at the state capitol in Olympia, said the officers "conned” the four convicts into defeat. “The guards armed themselves with tear gas after waiting until the hostages had bedded down," Heyns said. “Hien with just the four men up and around, prison officials called the four to the window and told them that I was coming to talk to them. Over in 5 Minutes “As soon as they came to the window, the guard let them have it with tear gas. There was no one hurt. The four prisoners were shook up by the tear gas, but will recover shortly. These things are serious and they will happen anywhere. It all depends on how well you handle them.” The move against the convicts, holding their' hostages in the reformatory’s visitors room, came moments before 7 a.m. c.d.t. Within five minutes, it wa’s all over.

Steel Heads, Union Leaders Standing Pat NEW YORK TUPI) — Neither union nor company bargaining teams showed signs of relenting today in negotiations aimed at heading off a nationwide steel strike next Tuesday midnight. Stepped-up negotiations were resumed Monday when four-man bargaining teams representing the United Steelworkers of America and the nation’s 12 largest steel companies conducted morning and afternoon sessions. No progress was reported. Similar sessions were scheduled for today. , A mystery developed' Monday when David J. McDonald, president of the Steelworkers Union, failed to appear at the afternoon bargaining session. The reason for his absence was.lfoot announced. Although the strike deadline is barely a week away, a showdown must come by Sunday, when the steel companies would — if faced by an imminent walkout — begin banking furnaces in anticipation of a shutdown. Negotiations are being conducted under terms of a two-week truce arranged by President Eisenhower on the eve of a previous strike deadline. If negotiations continue deadlocked, it is regarded as possible that the union would be asked to agree to a further contract extension. The American Iron and Steel Institute reported Monday that summer vacations and a series of wildcat strikes cut the nation’s steel production last week to the lowes level in five months. Output totaled 2,215,000 tons, more than 250,000 tons less than the preceding week. Meanwhile, the union, in a bulletin to its locals throughout the nation, said the steel companies would have “even more embarrassing riches” to explain when their second quarter earnings are announced later this month. The bulletin said the industry’s profits would “top anything ever sedn in history.”

The steel industry, in refusing to accede to the union’s demands, has urged the USW to accept a one-year wage freeze in order to avert more inflation.

Screams and shouts could be heard after the tear gas shell exploded. One woman was carried out, apparently a victim of the gas fumes. One of the hostages, Mary Turner, 24, holding her 5-month-old baby, Elaine, said, “It wasn’t bad at all. The baby knew something was going on all the time. She wouldn’t go to sleep. When we came out, I said to my husband, ‘Stay with me.’ He told me, ‘We can’t go anywhere!” Mrs. Turner said none of the four convicts ever “acted real fierce.” Planned to Kill Guards United Press International staffer Dick! Anderson, who watched the hostages being led to fresh air, said “There wasn’t a whimper from the children. Their eyes were red with tears streaming down their faces, but they looked relieved. They were in there for 1314 hours.” Supt. Ernest C. Timpani led the surprise assault shortly after the rebels had announced they planned to kill their three guard hostages and “toss out the bodies one by one.” The hostages were taken out onto the administration building porch to clear their eyes in the misty, morning air. It was several minutes before any of them could One of the guards who had been held, Hugh Dewait, 38, was asked if he knew the convicts had set a 6 a.m. deadline. “Yes, I did, Dewait said “They were threatening us guards all die time.” I One of the escape-mtoded convicts *as reported bleeding slightly from the chest, a possible wound from a bit of exploding tear gas shell: His wound was described as superficial. Stole Forks, Knives Heyns said the decision to move in on the convicts was made by Tifripani and Warren Dehnore, the state’s superintendent of adult correction. “They made the decision, — ; — “ Plan Commission Approves Rezoning The Mies-Dawson Realty Co. faces its last rezoning hurdle tonight at the city council meeting when the council will act on the Monday night decision of the plan commission to approve the rezoning of 3.7 acres of R1 residential land to C 2 general commercial. The plan commission approved the Mies petition by a two-vote margin, recommending that the council enact an ordinance allowing the local bowling firm to construct a $300,000, 16-lane bowling emporium and parking facilities on its property north of U.S. 224, next to the Decatur Golf club. The plan commission approved a previous petition, by a one-vote margin, last month when the Mies Co. was asking for rezoning of the entire eight-acre tract, but the council disallowed the recommendation. Vehement objections were raised at that time concerning the use of land that would not be used for he actual bowling site. Yesterday the remonstrators again appeared and asked what would be done with the remaining land. But, the commission felt that only the 3.7 acres were the point of discussion and favored the petition. The remonstrators, through attorney Lewis L. Smith and several individual home owners and building contractors, voiced suggestions that the area in the vicinity of the proposed bowling area would become “blighted.” (Blight, according to Webster’s unabridged dictipnary, means “to stop growth.”) Attorneys for the petitioners, Robert G. Smith and Burdette Custer, countered with the idea that if Decatur is not allowed to grow, i.e., construct a bowling alley, towns around Decatur will. Custer cited the new bowling lanes being built in Van Wert, Z O., and Berne. The petitioners also submitted a plat for approval, besides the petition and ordinance, which will be acted upon tonight by the council. The proposed rezoning area is 500 by 330 feet, which includes a 60-foot street. The plat also incldes easements, sewer and water lines and other details needed for approval.

then cleared it with me. We decided it was the only way to end trouble.” Heyns said that up to the time of the convicts’ capture, there was no indication that they would yield. “We couldn’t take any more chances,” he added. “They told us they would start shoving out bodies at 6 a.m.” The convicts, two of them former mental patients, put their escape plot into action at 6:35 p.m. e.d.t. Monday when they used two knives and two forks stolen from the reformatory kitchen to_capture their hostages. They released one, Mrs. Bruce Oxford, Monday night when she became ill, from fright and shock. She had come here to visit her inmate husband. She appeared near collapse when 12 husky state patrolmen escorted her into Timpani’s office. Mrs. Oxford’s husband, their four-year-old son and her sister were among the hostages left in the visitors’ room. The 40 included three guards, 11 inmates and 26 visitors — seven children, 12 women and seven men. Timpani said the youngest child was only six months and the oldest was about eight. Hostages Not Harmed Mrs. Oxford reported none of the four troublemakers had harmed or directly threatened any of the hostages. She later was taken by the reformatory physician to a staff member’s home and given sedation. » At the time of her release, one of the convicts, whom Snohomish ! shouted an “ultimatum.” them with a car by nightfall they knew where to stick the knives,” , Twitchell said. > But the nightfall deadline passed > without incident. Except for the . squalling of the baby and the p | fussing of children, the visitors ’ | room and the entire prison were quiet. Timpani said that in any other kind of prison disturbance, most of the inmates would be “stirring up a lot of noise, but I think they are as angered and disgusted by this thing as we are.” Timpani, working through the night with his coat off, the collar of his white shirt open and the sleeves rolled up, was described as a “cool customer” by his associates. Both Timpani and Twitchell offered to exchange themelves for the hostages, but their offer was rejected curtly. “They will make the next move,*’ Twitchell said. “We’re waiting for them.” Timpani said the visitors’ room had a telephone and the four convicts could call his ofifce anytime.

Russia Hails Rocket Flight

LONDON (UPI) — Soviet scientists today hailed the rocket flight of two dogs and a rabbit as proof that man will soon be flying through space. One said that day will “not be far off.” Western scientists saw it as proof the Russians are working desperately to beat the United States into space and said there was a chance the Russians might succeed this year. They based their predictions on the fact the Soviet already has two major space “firsts" — the first satellite and the first missile to leave the earth’s gravitational field and become a planetoid around the sun. They also were impressed by the weight of the latest Soviet rocket payload which carried the rabbits and dogs — slightly more than two tons, or perhaps eight times the weight of the American rocket’s payload which took the monkeys Able and Baker on a 1,500-mile flight over the Atlantic in May. Exact weight of the U.S. vehicle has not been announced. The American target date for the first manned space flight is the autumn of 1980. British and other Western scientists think the Russians may make their bid this

i Brnir,..,!, ji 1 ' _ MF '’ Bb Mfe - ’ , d9M GOVERNOR, MAYOR GREET QUEEN-Apparently thoroughly enjoying the sights as she rides along Chicago's lake shore after her arrival, Queen Elizabeth smiles gaily at the huge multitude which followed every phase of her 13-hour visit She is accompanied in her open-air car by Gov. WilUam Stratton (center) of Illinois, and Chicago Mayor Richard Dailey.

Monmouth Annual Is Not Yet Available Don Fuelling, editor of the 1959 Monmouth annual, asked that the students take notice that the annuals have not arrived and thus cannot be distributed Wednesday as planned. An announcement will appear at a later date stating when the year books can be picked up. y Bloomington Girl Dies Os ***** BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (UPI) - Bonita June Bates, 17, Bloomington, died today of injuries sustained early last Saturday when an automobile went off the road east of here and struck a utility pole. Gary Williams, 20, Bloomington, the driver on leave from the Navy, was unhurt. June Statement By County Hospital The June statement from the Adams county memorial hospital shows that a total profit earned of $2,739.76 after expenses of $27,422.29 were paid. The operating cash balance as of June 1 was $6,486.39, while the July operating cash balance increased to $9,226.15. The profit and loss on earned income, however, showed a gross loss of $922.39. The earned income netted $26,499.90 while expenses were $27,422.29. A total of unpaid accounts, amounting to $30,212.02, can alleviate the loss, when they are collected.

year. One date often mentioned is the ' end of August when* the 10th International Astronautical Congress meets in London. The Russians seem to time their space shots to coincide with such international meetings. They announced their satellite plans at the 1955 congress in Copenhagen, . put their Sputnik into orbit the day the 1957 congress opened in Barcelona and fired the first dogs, into space during last year’ls Amsterdam congress. Monday’s announcement coincided with the opening in Moscow of the international cosmic ray conference. Soviet scientist Grigory Khrush- ; chov, a corresponding member of ■ the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, : spoke on Moscow Radio on the ; ramifications of the latest Soviet . space shot announced Monday. The Russians said two dogs and a rabbit had been fired last : Thursday to a "great height” in a single-stage rocket and had returned safely. “It was an important step in ; salving the problem of space i flight by man,” Khrushchov said. > “It won’t be long before we see i people flying into space. \

Missile Bases Taking Shape Over Britain Editor’s Note: Charles Corddry United Press Ttflerqatioual military expert, is on a tour of ILS. By CHARLES CORDDRY United Press International . LONDON (UPD — The free , world’s first force of strategic I ballistic missiles is rapidly taking . shape at widely dispersed sites in eastern England. •■ 22_ Progress is such that Britain 1 now could launch a reasonable number of the U.S. - built Thor missiles with nuclear warheads if a war emergency required it, British and American officials said today. The full planned force of 1,500mile range weapons, with US.trained Royal Air Force crews and highly automated ground equipment, will take another six months to a year to complete, according to best available estimates. “Operational readiness” of Thor missiles in England has been a matter of controversy since U.S. Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) contended several weeks ago that the weapons were not ready to fire and were not dispersed or protected. Symington assailed Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, for telling Congress Thors were “ready to go” in England. Associates answered that the context of Twining’s testimony was that in the present year the Thors would be ready. Maj. Gen. William H. Blanchard. commander of U.S. Strategic Air Command units in England and chief U.S. adviser to the British government on the Thor program, told newsmen that today Britain “has a reasonable emergency operational capability.” In another press interview, a top British Defense Ministry official said, “Some Thors are deployed now and could be fired in anger. We could use them now in an emergency.” Col. Harry Zink, a deputy to Blanchard, said that a year after first construction started in the_ spring of 1958, “a portion of die force had taken on an operable shape.” He said the four squadrons of 15 missile launchers each are being dispersed so that they are 60 to. 100 miles apart. INDIANA WEATHER Fair this afternoon and tonight, warmer north tonight. Sunset 8:15 p. m. Low tonight 57 to 64. Sunrise Wednesday 5:25 a. m. Mostly fair, some- ' what warmer north and east Wednesday, high 87 to 93. low Wednesday night fa tow 60s north, upper 60s south. Outlook for Thursday— Partly cloudy and continued warm high in low 90s north to mid90s south.

Six Cents