Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 186.

Eisenhower To Confer With NATO Heads And Italy’s Prime Minister

WASHINGTON (UPD - President Eisenhower will confer with top NATO chiefs and Italian Prime Minister Antonio Segni early next month before Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the United States, The White House announced today. The President is expected to assure the NATO country leaders that the United States will stand firm on its commitments and will not-engage in unilateral negotiations with the Soviets. .The conversations with the NATO leaders and Segni will follow the President’s conferences in Great Britain with Prime Minister Sir Harold Macmillan and in Paris with French President Charles de Gaulle. He is flying to Europe Aug. 28. News Secretary James C. Hagerty first announced that the President will meet wtih NATO dfficials in early September to discuss “important aspects of the current world situation of concern to the North Atlantic Treaty Organizations.” This meeting, w;hich apparently will take place about Sept. 4, will be with Joseph M. A. H. Luns. Netherlands foreign minister and president of the North Atlantic Treaty Council, and Paul Henri Spaak, secretary general of NATO. The announcement noted also toe previously • announced official visit that Segni will pay to the United States beginning Sept. 30. It said Eisenhower would have further conversations with Segni at that time. The announcements of the NATO and Italian conferences were expected to be followed by one on toe President’s plans to ■meet with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The President’s talk with Luns and Spaak will be his only contact with the smaller of toe 15 NATO nations before his top level conversations with Soviet Premier Nikita KhrushAev who is visiting

- — Grocery Chain Head Dies In Air Crash

LOGANSPORT, Ind. (UPD — The president <rf a four-state supermarket chain and two passengers were killed Friday in the flaming crash of a private airplane on a farm four miles east of here. Killed outright in the crash were Ermal W. Marsh, 48, Muncie. head of Marsh Foodliners, Inc., at Yorktown; Spencer Deal, 52, Muncie, treasurer of the company, and Deal’s daughter Jean, 18 Their plane smashed into the ground with such force that observers said it was ‘‘just a ball of metal.” Identification of the victims was made through papers and other personal effects. The twin-engine Piper Apache, with Marsh at the controls, was enroute to Chicago, Marsh had a business appointment and Deal and his daughter were to visit Deal’s son, Spencer Jr„ who was

I DYNAMITE TRUCK EXPLOSION DEVASTATES TOWN—Smoke billows from numerous fires in the heart of Roseburg, Oregon, following explosion of a truck loaded with dynamite and chemicals. Hours after the blast downtown Roseburg looked like a ghost town with National Guardsmen patrolling deserted streets. At least 10 persons died in the blast and fires which sprang up, at least 50 were injured and damages ran into the millions.

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■ the United States Sept. 15. 1 Meanwhile, a New York con--1 gressman urged toe President to ■ visit West Berlin on his trip to Europe later this month. * Rep. Samuel S. Stratton (D- --! N.Y.) said in a telegram to the President that a visit by him to ' the former German capital would ’ emphasize “our determination to I stand firm in Berlin.” ' He said such a visit would show the world there had been no slackening in the U.S. position ! despite the invitation for Khrushchev to come to this country next 1 month. i Open Verdict Filed In Traffic Fatality I An open verdict was filed today by county coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., in the death July 23 of Howard O. Shaw, fatally injured in an automobile wreck one-half mile north of the Decatur city limits on the Monmouth road. The verdict will allow the grand jury to decide if there is evidence indicating someone should be indicted following the wreck. The wreck occurred at 11:20 p.m. when 3 1959 convertible driven by Larry Dean DeLong, 19, of Monmouth, went out of control and hit two trees just north of the bridge. David Ellsworth. 20, son of Mr. and Francis Ellsworth, is still ! hospitalized following the incident. ( Ellsworth and Shaw were trapped ’ in the car for an hour while rescuers tried to cut them loose. Shaw died half an hour before he was pulled from toe wreckage. ) _______________________ NOON EDITION

(leaving for Army service in Korea. Several witnesses said they heard a loud explosion when the stricken craft hit toe ground on the Carl J. Record farm about 12:50 p.m. Jack Thomas, 50, who lives near the scene, said he heard the plane’s engine alternately sputter and roar before it nosed over and crashed. A tractor was needed to pull toe plane apart to get at toe mutilated bodies in toe cabin. Marsh built toe giant food chain from a humble begining as a clerk in his father’s general store in North Salem. The firm owns 57 stores in Indiana, Ohio, South Carolina and Georgia and did a 63 million dollar business in the last fiscal year. Deal, a memberof the board of directors, was promoted from secretary to treasurer only hours before the fatal crash.

Death Toll Os 30 Is Feared

By JAMES DOYLE United Press International ROSEBURG, Ore. (UPD — Workmen dug through the wreckage of a blast - leveled area of downtown Roseburg today in an effort to determine whether the explosion of six tons of dynamite and ammonium nitrate may have taken as many as 30 lives. Nine bodies already have been recovered and a 10th victim died in a hospital. But Deputy Coroner Russ Carry said there mey be as. many as 20 more yet to be found. Authorities did not know how > many persons were living in a rooming house a block from the blast which was completely wrecked. Twenty persons remained hospitalized of toe scores of injured. Engineers, meanwhile, were checking buildings still standing in the downtown area to see if they were in danger of crumbling from structural defects caused by the explosion. The blast leveled eight square blocks of the city. A 15-foot deep crater marked the place whe£e driver George Rutherford parked his six-ton load i of dynamite and amonium nitrate. The truckload of explosives was . set off by a fire in the warehouse near which Rutherford berthed his rig for the night. Downtown area four blocks long and two blocks wide was “pretty well leveled and gutted' by fire.” Police Chief Vernon Murdock said. City Manager John Warburton estimated the total loss at 10 million dollars. Acting Gov. Walter Pearson flew here from the capital at Salem. He said the disaster’s cost was “by far the greatest this state has ever experienced.” Sens Wayne Morse and Richard Neuberger called on President Eisenhower to give federal help to the stricken city, which lies 200 miles south of Portland. National Guardsmen guarded against looting and radio stations broadcast repeated warnings tht pilferers would be dealt with severely. PTA Auction Soles Today And Tonight Madison street t>etween First and Second streets is blocked off, ready for the street auction this afternoon at 2 o’clock ,and this evening at 7:30. The Northwest and Lincoln schools are cooperating with the Reppert school of auctioneering for their annual street auction. New merchandise from local stores as well as used goods will be sold, with proceeds going into the PTA fund. Ninety students of the Reppert school summer session, which will end next Friday, will sell the goods. The pubic may inspect the goods before the two sessions of selling.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 8,1959.

INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy today. Clearing and cooler tonight. Sunday fair and a little warmer. Low tonight mid 50s, high Sunday near 80 north to mid-80s south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and warmer with a chance of scattered showers in extreme southern portion. Gettysburg To Be Summer White House GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UPD — This town of 8,000 was busy getting ready today to serve as headquarters for the “summer White House,” beginning .next Tuesday. President Eisenhower, who arrived Friday to start his 1959 vacation at his farm home here, planned his usual Saturday round of golf. But Gettysburg regarded his decision to spend an extended period here as a snecial .salute. • Workmen began to give the Getl tysburg Hotel a fresh coat of paint. It will serve as White House headquarters during a work-and-play holiday that may last most of August. The town’s newspaper, the Gettysburg Times, gave Ike’s vacation plans a % column on the front page. “So again Gettysburg becomes the center of world attraction. The Chief Executive of the world’s greatest nation will make his headquarters here for at least a week,” toe Times story said. The first family’s comings and goings normally are covered in a few paragraphs in the Gettysburg paper. White House activities will center in toe Gettysburg Hotel, a 100-room structure on the town square that also houses a press room converted from a gymnasium. Eisenhower's longest stay at his farm occurred late in 1955 when he was recuperating from his heart attack. He was here 26 days that time. Death Os Youth Is Ruled Accidental The death of David L. Myers, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. David S. Myers of Decatur, who died last Saturday when his motorcycle hit a tree after failing to make toe 90-degree turn on old highway 27 just east of the Doc’s Car Dock corner, was ruled accidental today by county coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr. Winteregg stated that he carefully investigated the rumor that someone may have forced the motorcycle off the highway, but that evidence indicates that this could not have happened. Child Fatally Hurt In Farm Accident Brian Scott Springer, 2, son erf Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Springer, of near Ossian, was fatally injured Friday afternoon as his body was drawn through a seveninch aguer to a grain hammermill on the farm of his grandfather, Emil Springer, one-fourth mile east of state road 1 on the Wells-Allen county line. The child apparenetly slipped from a truck bed onto toe augur platform. Surviving in addition to the parents are a sister, Monica; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Springer and Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Prediger of Edgerton, 0., and a great-grandmother, Mrs. A. Ernst Springer of Allen county. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in St. Mark’s Lutheran church, with burial in toe church cemertery.

High Waters Receding In Three States United Press International Swollen rivers in flood-plagued areas of Illinois, Missouri and lowa began to recede today and the weatherman promised the area clear skies. In Missouri, Lt. Gov. Edward Long and state Sen. James Kelly Friday flew over the flood area, surveying the flood damage. Officials fear the raging waters might top the flood mark set in 1909. For the rest of the nation today, the weatherman predicted scattered showers and thundershowers. The U.S. Weather Bureau said rainfall would occur ahead of a mass of cool air extending from eastern Kentucky and Tennessee into Texas. Showers were expected ahead of the cool air from North Carolina into Maine in the East. More widely scattered thundershower activity was expected from South Carolina westward to the mountains of southern California, through the west central Plains and northward to Montana and the Dakotas. I There was a warming trend on I the way through the upper Mississippi Valley and the west cenJ tra and northern Plains states. ; Some cooler air was predicted for ’ the Tennessee and Ohio valleys. The central part of the nation was to get mostly fair weather from Oklahoma to the Great Lakes and fair skies were in sight over the Pacific Northwest and central Rocky Mountains. Variable cloudiness was expected to prevail along the south and central Pacific coastal states. Light Rainfall In Decatur On Friday Two hundredths inch of rain fell Friday afternoon to make a quarter of an inch of rain in Decatur for the first significant rainfall in August. Late Thursday night .23 inch had fallen in Decatur, while inchplus rains were recorded elsewhere in the county. Thursday night 1:30 inch fell in Hartford township, while almost an inch fell in western Kirkland township. Thursday’s showers were scattered, as .40 inch fell in Root township, at the Cecil Harvey farm. Earlier in the week, on Tuesday, .20 inch fell, and Friday afternoon another .20 inch fell there. Berne recorded a .40 inch fall Thursday night. County farmers hoped that the rain would help stop the damage the corn leaf aphids are doing in the heaviest infestation the area has ever seen. Several more reports of damag came into the county extension office Friday. The infestation, county agricultural agent Leo Seltenright said yesterday, may have reached its peak. Purdue and Ohio State University experts, who have no records of such a heavy infestation, are watching the progress and recommending spraying with malathion on a test basis, particularly in fields which are just coming into silk and where the infestation is heavy. Decatur had received .13 inch of rain Tuesday, making the total for the first week in August .38 inch, weather observer Louis Landrum reported this morning. The St. Mary’s river was not affected by these showers, and receded to below a foot, .91, this morning at 7 o’clock. South Bend Mon Is Killed In Accident SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPI) — Cloyd Miller, 53, South Bend, was killed Friday night when his car collided with one driven by Austin Benjamin, 65, Bangor, Mich., on a road jdst outside Niles, Mich. Miller was dead on arrival at South Bend’s Memorial Hospital-

Copper Strike Is Threatened Next Monday PITTSBURGH (UPI) —The nation’s metal production, dented by the 25-day-old steel strike, faced new curtailments today with 8,300 copper workers poised for a walkout unless contract demands are met by Monday. The United Steelworkers Union, which represents 500,000 striking . workers in steel mills in 24 states, said it would call out 2,300 workers in JCennecott Copper operations in Utah and Arizona unless settlement was reached by Monday morning. Another 6,000 copper workers in Utah, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico, members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, have the same deadline. After a week of meetings between representatives of the steel industry and the USW in New York, chief federal mediator Joseph F. Finnegan said Friday there has been no real progress. He warned against any “false hopes” that the two sides were on the way to an agreement. '■ Finnegan flew to Washington to brief Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell after Friday’s bargaining session. David J. McDonald, president of the Steelworkers Union, left for a weekend tour of picket lines. Another mediation session was scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday in New York. 5,000 Bushels Os Corn CROP Goal A goal of 5.000 bushels of corn for the Adams county Christian rural overseas program (CROP) was set Friday night by the county and township leaders, Hugo Boerger, county chairman, and Silvan 1 Sprunger, campaign director, announced this morning. The county and township com- ; mittee met at the Farm Bureau building at Monroe with the Rev. Gerald L. Wilson, state campaign director. The week of November 8-14 was set for the campaign, and Thursday of that week will be canvass day. Last y nr, Adams county raised $2,751 70 in a county-wide drive for soybeans, and ranked 12th in the state. This will be the 12th year for the campaign in this county. Last year’s drive was the best locally since 1954, when the Farm Bureau and rural youth managed the campaign. Last year a pledge system was used for the soybean drive, or cash was collected. The campaign took place in September. This year’s drive will be after the corn harvest, which should yieuld a bumper crop. Officers for this year’s campaign include Leo N. Seltenright, vicechairman; Mrs. Dan Striker, of route one. Berne, secretary; Dick Heller, Jr., of Decatur, publicity director: Brice Bauserman, of the following township chairmen Berne, treasurer: Forrest Tucker of Berne, commodity manager; and have already accepted: Vern Linker, Preble; Norval Fuhrman, Root; Raymond Moser, French; Ben Mazelin, Monroe; Hary Raudenbush, Blue Creek; Tillman Lehman. Hartford; Harvey Ineichen, Wabash; and Robert Lehman, Jefferson. The CROP program not only brings the food to the starving masses in many foreign countries, but also brings the feeling of spiritual satisfaction to those Christians who open their hearts io those afflicted in other countries. Last year each dollar given to CROP provided 445 pounds of surplus corn meal, wheat meal, or powdered milk for starving people in 27 countries of the world. In addition, soybean oil, corn oil, sugar, and other nutrients are urgently needed. This is purchased with the dollars given to CROP through rural life Sunday collections. * The food gathered is distributed through Christian missionaries in the foreign countries, not by the various governments involved. Contributions are highest in countries where refugees helped by the program have resettled. Father Os Seven Dies From Polio NEW ALBANY, Ind. (UPI) — Lewis Perry Jr., 34, New Albany father of seven young children, died Friday night in a Louisville hospital of polio. Perry had not been inoculated with polio vacc|ne. He was stricken with the disease Tuesday.

Experts Hail Explorer VI

WASHINGTON (UPD — Scientists reported today they were highly pleased with the first day’s performance of Explorer VI, the I Paddlewheel satellite fired into • orbit Friday. The jubilant scientists said that 1 the new addition to America’s space achievements already had . reaped information of vast im- ! portance to future rocket probes • ot the moon and planets. The successful launching height- ■ ened the likelihood of a rocket 1 “moon mission" in October and a probe millions of miles into space tentatively scheduled for Novem--1 ber. It also raised the possibility of ’ a rocket shot toward Mars when 1 the red planet is in a suitable 1 position Oct. 1, 1960, and toward Venus in 1961. Explorer VI, nicknamed the 1 Paddlewheel because of four pad-dle-shaped solar cell vanes, was ’ launched into the longest flattest orbit ever achieved by an earth satellite. The orbit extends 25,000 statute ' miles from earth at its farthest point and within 150 miles at its ’ closest approach. It takes 12% hours to complete each full circuit. The 142-pound satellite, roughly the size and shape of a medicine ball, blasted off Friday morning atop a Thor-Able 111 rocket pack--1 ing 150,000 pounds of thrust. The satellite was not expected to be visible to the naked eye. On its first trip around the earth, the orbit carried the pad-dle-wheeler over South Africa at the highest point and over Singapore at the lowest. It is the most complicated scientific instrument ever dispatched on a space mission—at least by ! the United States. r Portland Fairgoers ' Terrorized By Chimp i- PORTLAND, Ind. (UPD — A u' chimpanzee which terrorized several thousand persons at a county n fair today was back under lock and key. s The chimp, a 13-year-old anthro- . poid ape weighing 150 - pounds. 3 roamed loose on the Jay County Fairgrounds for almost an hour Friday night after escaping from ' his cage. 1 The chimp loped - among the : midway, bit a teen-age girl and took a ride in toe Dodge-Em cars • before being cornered by his • trainer, Capt. Barney Dexter, in i an exhibition hall. 1 Joyce Lanning, 15, Portland, was bitten twice by the chimp, : known as “Mickey.” A back bite • required two stitches to close, ( doctors said, while a hand bite was only superficial. The girl was given a tetanus shot. Authorities indicated toe chimp might possibly be checked for rabies. The victim, reached at home, ; said she tried to dodge when she saw the chimp coming toward

House Will Take Up Labor Bill Tuesday

WASHINGTON (UPD — Congressional backers of the many rival labor reform proposals agree that President Eisenhower’s stern radio-TV demand for a tough bill this week virtually guaranteed that some legislation would be passed. How tough that legislation should be is the question the House will take up Tuesday in , the biggest fight of the session. The outcome will affect many . fortunes in next year’s congressional and presidential elections. Eisenhower backed the strongest measure of all, the bill of Reps. Phil M. Landrum <D-Ga.) and Robert P. Griffin (R-Mich.). He told a nationwide audience ' that there is an overwhelming demand for truly effective legislation to clean out the "national i disgrace” of crooks asd corruption in unions. AFL-CIO President George Meany went on the air two hours ■ later to denounce the Landrum- • Griffin measure as a “blunderbuss” which would inflict "grievous harm” on all unions for the sins of a few. He supported the weakest proposal, a bill by Rep. John F. Shelley (D- Calif.). Speaker Sam Rayburn (Tex.) gave his endorsement to the third major bill, the middle of the road plan approved by the House La- , bor Committee. It is a watereddown version of a Senate-passed measure. The already heated dispute was further complicated by the announcement that a group of north-

her. “When I saw him coming through the crowd, I stepped aside. But he grabbed me and threw me down and bit me,” she said. “Then I screamed.” As sight-seers screamed and ran for safety, Mickey fled into an exhibition hall, where officials said the chimp consumed all the candy and cookies on display and then began wrecking the exhibits. Dexter managed to creep up behind Mickey and snap a chain onto the collar the dhimp was wearing. He then fastened Mickey to a tree until a truck arrived to pick him up. Dexter described Mickey as being “very mean.” But the animal trainer added that he was glad it wasn’t another chimp named “Gargantua” that escped. “If he escaped,” Dexter said in describing his meanness, “Even I might not have hung around.” Refinery Contract Talks At Stalemate WHITING, Ind. (UPD-Contract talks between the striking Independent Petroleum Workers and Standard Oil ifcmained stalemated today. ‘ Negotiations '’between the two sides were recessed until 10 a.m. Monday at the offices of the mediation service in Chicago. Following talks between the company and the union Friday, no progress was reported. The bargaining session was conducted by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. In other action Friday, Standard Oil filed a SIOO,OOO damage suit against the union. The suit, filed in Lake Circuit Court at Crown Point, charged the union with i wrongfully inducing a breach of a collective bargaining contract by employes represented by a different union at a com- ' paiiy refinery in Wood River, DI. The suit sought damages of SIOO,OOO for shutting down the Wood River refinery and the ultimate start-up cost, plus $33,000 a day for plant costs every day the other union — the Central States Petroleum Union Local 115—is in violation of its bargaining contract. A company official said the IPWA caused a number of its agents and representatives to go to Wood River and began a picket line Aug. 5. The spokesman aid the company has a “firm no-strike clause” in its bargaining contract with the CSPU that does not expire until May 2, 1960, and that there is no dispute between Standard and CSPU. But Standard said the Wood River refinery was forced to shut down because “operating personnel represented by the CSPU have refused to go to work” since the appearance of the IPWA picket line.

■ ern Democrats would try to tack a ban on racial segregation in ■ unions to any labor reform legisi lation. ’ I Other congressional news this I week: , Housing: The Senate housing « subcommittee voted sto 4 not to > try to overturn President Eisen- ■ hower’s veto of the Democratic . housing bill. Instead, it approved a measure that would cost 325 million dollars less than the rejected legislation but 240 million more than the President’s proposal. Civil Rights: The House Judicary Committee approved a fivepoint civil rights bill. It would extend the life of the Civil Rights Commission, down on “Hate” bombers, make it a federal crime to interfere violently with school integration orders, require state officials to preserve voting records, and authorize the. government to educate children of military personnel whose public schools are closed in segregation disputes. Mueller: -The Senate quickly confirmed President Eisenhower s nomination of Frederick H. Mueller to be commerce secretary, the job for which Lewis L. Strauss was rejected. Defense: The Senate and House gave final approval to a compromise $39,228,239,000 defense money bill, by far the largest appropriation of the session. The total was about what President Elsenhower asked for the fiscal year that started July 1.

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