Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 187.

AT 85, FEELS LIKE 7®—New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller greets former President Herbert Hoover (left) as both were on hand at Yani*_e Stadium in New York for the annual Old Timers’ game. The venerable Hoover celebrated his 85th birthday today and says that he feels like he is 70. Rockefeller, who is being boosted for the Republican nomination for president in 1960 will attend his son’s wedding in Norway on August 22.

Pres. Eisenhower To Visit Adenauer

WASHINGTON (UPD—American officials* said today they hoped to convince Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev during his U.S. visit next month that he must stop trying to “expo rt” Communism to other countries. These officials said the Soviet Union must cease its efforts to impose Communism on other nations if there is to be any real lessening of world tensions. There also were these developments in connection with the forthcoming exchange of visits between Khrushchev and President Eisenhower, who will go to Russia later this year: Ike To Bonn —Eisenhower will fly by jet plane to Bonn Aug. 27 for a meeting with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. He wil meet British Prime Minister Rar- , old Macmillan in London Aug. 28, see French President Charlies de Gaulle in Paris Sept. 2, and then confer there with other NATO leaders. —The President is keping his fall schedule fluid enough to permit a quick summitt meeting with Khrushchev, Macmillan and De Gaulle should the Soviets make any concessions to ease cold war tensions. —Eisenhower won't insist on any major Weak-through in the cold war as a price for a summit meeting. He feels that any indication of Soviet reasonableness, even as minor as a relaxation of trade restrictions or willingness to respect copyright laws, would be enough to warrant a conference. Coaid Fave Way —Undersecretary of State C. Douglas Dillon said Sunday the Eisenhower - Khrushchev exchange of visits might pave the way for a Big Four summit conference "toward the end of the year,” perhaps in November. —House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack (Mass.) said he did not think the late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles would have condoned the invitation to Khrushchev. House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck (Ind.) said he did not see any “reversal” of Dulles policy. Additional Deputy Assessors Are Asked The township trustees of nine of Adams county’s townships have asked the county commissioners to include in their assessing budget $3,300 for additional deputy assessors in 1980. The trustees explained that an increasing number of rural people are working in factories and that even-many rural wives now work; this means that the assessor has to make repeated trips to the same farms to find someone at home. Monroe township and Berne already have provision tor deputies, as do Wabash township and Geneva. Decatur-Washington has its own setup. Root township, with more than $6 million assessed valuation, has only two part-time workers, as compared with two full-time workers in Monroe township, with just a million dollars more assessed valuation. Townships asking about S3OO each for additional help include Blue Creek, French, Hartford, Jefferson, Kirkland, Preble, Root, St. Mary’s, and Union. The trustees will also appear before the county council asking for this request to be included in the county budget .. j...

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U.S. officials said it was totally unrealistic for Khrushchev to call 1 for improved relations and a ' thaw in the cold war while international Communism, direcjpd from Moscow, was busily trying • tp subvert governments through- ’ out the world. They said they would regard it as a major achievement if they could sell this -Jriew to Khru- ; shchev during his visit here. Profit Is Shown By Hospital For Month . Despite a low number of patients during the month of July, the ' Adams county memorial hospital 1 recorded a profit of $313.34, Thur--1 man Drew, manager, said today. The cash balance July 1 was $9,226.15, and $28,785.90 was deposi ited during the month. Bills totaled > $10,280.19, and the July payroll was > $18,192.37. Expenses totaled $28,472.56, leaving a balance on hand of $9,539.49. When the month started, 40 adults and 11 babies were in the hospital. During the month 178 adults were admitted, and 63 babies were born. Two patients died, 176 were dismissed, and 66 babies were dismissed, leaving 40 adults and eight babies in the hospital August 1. A total of 244 outpatients were treated in the emergency room, laboratory, or x-ray room. There were 63 newborns during the month, 29 boys and 34 girls. Mrs. Emma Smitley Dies Sunday Night Final rites will be conducted Wednesday for Mrs. Emma Leuella Smitley, 90, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sam Egley, route two, Berne, about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Mrs. Smitley had been bedfast six men ths. She was born December 13, 1868, in Van Wert county, 0., the daughter of Gottlieb and Cordelia Cook Marbaugh, and was [ married September 24, 1886, in , Mercer county, 0., to Newton , Smitley, who died in 1928. She had resided in Adams county most of ’ her life, and was a member of the Bethel Brethren church east , of Berne. ’ Surviving are five sons, William 1 and Chalmer Smitley, route two, Berne; Ralph Smitley, Geneva, and Clarence E. Smitley and Ar--1 chie H. Smitley, Decatur; four daughters, Mrs. Sam (Hila) Egley, route two, Berne, Mrs. Ralph (Marie) Christy, route two, Ge- ■ neva, Mrs. Alva (Florence) Lawson, and Mrs. Heber (Mildred) ’ Feasel, both of Decatur; 30 grand--1 children, 53 great-grandchildren, ' and 7 great-great-grandchildren. ‘ One son, Francis, is deceased. 1 She was the last surviving mem- ’ ber of her family. The body has been taken to the I Yager funeral home, Berne, where i friends may call after 7:30 o’clock , tonight, until noon Wednesday, , when the body will be taken to the Bethel Brethren church. Where it ■ will Tie in state until services at ■ 2 p.m., the Rev. Irvin Miller <rfs ficiating. Burial will be in ML Hope cemetery.

Committee Os House Refuses To Increase Federal Gasoline Tax

WASHINGTON (UPD — The House Ways and Means Committee adamantly refused today 1 , for the fourth time this year, to vote an increase in the federal gasoline tax as away to solve the financial crisis besetting the highway construction program. The committee, by a reported vote of 15-8, rejected a proposal to boost the tax by 1 cent a gallon. Earlier this year the House group had turned down three other moves to hike gasoline tax by either a %-cent or 1 cent. The Ways and Means Committee has tentatively voted for a plan to float one billion dollars worth of bonds, This would mean a sharp cutback in future apportionments to the states for construction of the 41,000-mile superhighway system. However, the House Public Works Committee recommended last week a much milder “stretchout” schedule, forcing the Ways and Means Committee to reconsider its financing proposals. Other congressional news: Labor: Forces supporting a labor reform bill written by the House Labor Committee lost the services of their floor general. Rep. Carl Elliott (D-Ala.) sponsor of the bill backed by House Democratic leaders, under went a gall bladder operation during the weekend. Elliott had been counted mi to lead the floor fight when debate on the issue begins Tuesday. Civil Righto: The Senate Judi clary Committee held a closeddoor session today with civil rights backers determined to win approval of a mild two-part “skeleton” bill. Military CMUrtruction: The House was set to approve and send to the Senate a $1,285,002,700 military construction bill. It was brought to the floor after the House appropriations subcommittee slashed 18 per cent from the amount requested by President Eisenhower. Foreign Aid: A secret Senate investigation of U.S. foreign aid administration in Bolivia was disclosed. 'Die inquiry, headed by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), has questioned aid officials four times in secret. At least three or four more private sessions were ox pcc tod Senate office building: Douglas Haskell, editor of Architectural Forum Magazine, complained that the new Senate office building illustrates “a state of architectural illness attended by extreme mental confusion, threatening to become chronic in Washington." Commuters: Rep. Florence P. Dwyer (R-N.J.) Sunday urged the House Commerce Committee to act promptly on her bill designed to prevent further cutbacks in commuter rail service. Otherwise, she said. Congress would adjourn for the year without voting on the matter.

11,500 Copper Workers Strike

SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Kennecott Copper Corp, operations in four western states were halted today as 11,500 workers were idled in a strike which a company spokesman said appeared to be the start of an industry-wide copper strike. The strike for new contracts was staged by members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the United Steelworkers of America, and the International Association of Machinists. 1 Picket lines at Kennecotot operatins in Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico were set up and members of the 17 other unions Which have contracts with Kennecott refused to cross the lines. Workers in New Mexico jumped the gun and started striking last week. x Supervisory workers were allowed to pass through picket lines in order to maintain equipment. The dispute over new contracts involved 4,854 members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, 2,313 members of the United Steelworkers of America, and 600 members of

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 10,1959.

Six Traffic Deaths Recorded In Stale United Press International Indiana’s weekend traffic death toll was well under double figures for the first time in more than a month. However, at least six persons were killed during the 54-ho'ur period, and the deaths were rather evenly spaced, one occuring Friday night, two Saturday and three Sunday. Mrs. Lilly Curry, 75, Evansville, was killed Saturday night when a car hit her as she walked across a street in front of her home. The driver was identified by police as James H. Young, 38, Evansville. The fatalities, evenly spaced throughout the weekend, included two men Sunday, two men Saturday, and a teen-age girl Friday night. Ben Gilbreath, 30, Fort Wayne, died when a car in which he was riding skidded on Ind. 67 east of Fort Wayne and hit a roadside embankment. Harry W. McCubbins, 42, Muncie was killed Sunday when his car went out of control on Ind. 5 near Huntington and struck a tree. His wife, Blanche, 42, and two step sons were injured, but not seriously. Another single-car accident killed Ernest Praul, 18, Sexton, Saturday. Praul died when his big truck missed a curve on Ind. 67 near Worthington and smashed into a tree. Henry E. Boyer, 38, St. John, was killed early Saturday when his car collided head-on with another auto on a street separating East Chicago and Gary. Miss Verna Harden, 19, Bloomington, was killed late Friday when a car in which she was riding skidded into an embankment and overturned on a Monroe County road near Bloomington. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday. Chance of scattered thundershowers mostly in south portion Tuesday. Not quite so cool most sections tonight. Little temperature change Tuesday, low tonight 58 to 65. High Tuesday 78 to 85. Sunset today 7:48 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:53 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Generally fair with moderate temperatures. Lows 56 to 65. Highs 75 to 80.

the International Association of Machinists. A three-year contract with the mine-mill union ended June 30 and work continued on a day-to-day basis while negotiations continued. The union’s major demand is for an across-the-board increase of 15 to 17 cents an hour. The Steelworkers turned down a company offer of 18 cents an hour. The Steelworkers’ contract expired July 31. The USW strike involves Kennecott workers in Utah and Arizona only. Losses from the strike are estimated, at about $250,000 a day for the workers and $600,000 a day for the company. Late Bulletins LITTLE KOCK, Ark. (UPI) —Segregation leaders called a ‘buyers’ strike’ today aimed at making the Little Bock business district a “cemetery.” NEW YORK (UPI) — The Inland Steel Co. refused to bargain individually with the Steelworkers Union today.

Muncie Policeman Slain Early Today

MUNCIE, Ind. (UPD — An offduty policeman, married and the father of two sons, was shot to death in a gun battle today with a Negro who approached the officer’s car in which he was parked with a girl friend. Lowell Westervelt, 26, a Muncie patrolman who once was suspended from the force for 15 days for parking with a girl while on duty, was shot through the heart in McCullough Park shortly after midnight. Mack Helm Brown, 33, Muncie, who had had two previous brushes with the law was shot in the abdomen and wounded seriously. Police believe Brown and Westervelt exchanged one shot each when Westervelt took his service revolver and stepped out of the car to investigate a man approaching the place where Westervelt was parked with his date. The date was identified by officers as Miss Beverly Thompson, 21. an industrial plant office worker. Police believed that the man • approaching the couple's car in--1 tended to rob them, npt realizing that Westervelt, who was still in uniform, was a policeman. i Two guns found hidden in an ; air shaft at Brown’s home not far from the park were identified tentatively as Brown’s ,and Wes- • tervelt’s. Brown was found wounded ■ about seven or eight blocks from the park. Officers said Brown told them he had been shot by a policeman. Miss Thompson said Westervelt picked her up after he went off duty at midnight. She said they had parked only five minutes before a man approached the car from behind. Miss Thompson said there was a scuffle and she heard two shots. She jumped out of the car and saw a man running away. WestNext School Move Is Up To Faubus LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD — Gov. Orval Faubus has 48 hours left today to make his move and try to stop integration at Little Rock for the third straight year. The four high schools he closed last year under laws now nullified by federal courts are preparing to open integrated Wednesday. He is fully aware the next move is up to him. And Faubus is equally aware the nation is watching to see what the South's segregation chief has up his sleeve this time. He’s adopted a “wait-and-see” attitude. “I haven’t told anybody what my plans are,” Faubus said. Segregation leaders feel confident that Faubus will do something. He has twice before. And he indicated he’s working on plans but won’t say exactly what. “Confidence is sometimes misplaced ... as well as well-placed” Faubus said. Meanwhile, school teachers reported to the four high schools today for organizational meetings. The Little Rock School Board planned to meet twice a day for the next few days to finish routine preparations and handle such items as requests for reassignment. Under an Arkansas pupil placement law, the board assigned three Negroes to Central High School, the scene of mob violence in 1957, and three more to Hall High. But 60 Negroes registered at white schools, and can ask for review of their assignment to a Negro school. Wiley Branton, attorney for the NAACP, filed a motion in federal court attacking the assignment law cm grounds it denied a majority of Negro students living within a certain school district the right to go to that school. Federal Judge John E. Miller said he had a loaded docket fur the next two weeks, and didn’t see any need to rush the NAACP request for a hearing in ahead of the other cases. There were indications that another judge might be assigned to hear the motion. - •

ervelt lay on the ground, bleeding from the chest and mouth. Doctors determined later that Westervelt was killed outright by a bullet through the heart. Two unidentified college students nearby rushed to the scene when they heard the shots. A few minutes later, police recieved a call that a man who had been shot was seen some distance away from the park. Officers found the man identified as Brown. He was rushed to Bal Hospital for surgery. Westervelt joined the police force about a year ago. PTAs Profit By Auction Saturday ' Saturday’s street auctions netted approximately $350 for the Northwest and Lincoln schools PTA. “It was a very succesful sale," the PTA co-chairmen, Mrs. John Kelley, Northwest school, and Mrs. Paul Wolf, Lincoln school, said this morning. Clerk James Beery had added that this year’s sale was one of the most successful of its kind. The students of the Reppert school of auctioneering summer school auctioned off both new and used goods in the afternoon and evening sessions, as they do each year, with the proceeds going to a local organization that helps to gather merchandise and used goods for the sale. Articles that came onto the auction block Saturday afternoon and evening ranged from pitchforks to chicken dinners, oil drums and fishing poles to toys and jewelry. PTA members donated used things, while the merchants of Decatur also contributed. The PTA co-chairmen today expressed their appreciation for the merchants’ cooperation in the sale. The afternoon auction began about 2:30 o’clock, lasting approximately two hours. The evening session, begun about 7:30 with singing from the 90 auctioneering students to gather a crowd, lasted until about 10:30 o’clock. The auctiorvering students, now in their last week of summer school at Reppert’s, took turns in selling the goods. All afternoon and evening, the PTA sponsored their refreshment stand, and the Explorer scouts sold their specialty, charbroiled hot dogs. Clarence Stapleton was in charge of the refreshment stand which sold cold drinks, candy, hot coffee, pie, potato chips, popsickles and ice cream bars. Assisting Stapleton were the Mesdames Arthur Beeler, Jack Shady, John Spaulding. Roy Friedley, and Kenneth N. Singleton. Ray Eichenauer was clerk for the auction. Herter Heading For Conference In Chile WASHINGTON (UPI) Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, departing for a meeting of Latin American foreign ministers, expressed confidence today that a “candid examination*' of tensions can ease the troubled Caribbean situation. In a statement issued prior to his departure for Santiago, Chile. Herter said the United States has been “increasingly concerned’’ with the problems developing as a result of the political upheavals in the area. » ' But he added: “By a candid examination of these tensions and the adoption of mutually agreed measures for dealing with them on the basis of these principles and responsibilities, the meeting of foreign ministers will fulfill the aspirations of our peoples.” The secretary is scheduled to reach Santiago late Tuesday after an overnight stay at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico.

Two Are Injured By Charge From Convoy A year-and-a-half-old Canadian baby was temporarily deafened and its mother burned on both legs about noon Sunday on U. S. 224, wtest of Decatur, when a practice fire charge exploded in their car after being thrown from an Ohio national guard convoy. Sheriff Merle Affolder and deputy Charles Arnold,, who investigated, said that Ellen Leah Clark, the infant, and her mother. Olive Clark, were, released from Adams county memorial hospital after treatment. The husband and father, Allister Clark, principal of the New Hampton school at Hansport, Nova Scotia, Canada, was not injured. Authorities stated that an unidentified member of the national guard threw the practice charge, which bounced into the open door of the Clark car as the occupants '■*were parked at a roadside table-, resting after several hours of driving. The family was enroute I home after touring the U. S. while ■ on summer vacation. The detachment, under the com- ’ mand of Major Dan Matheny, of 1 Bowling Green, 0., was released I by the sheriff ..after completing a , full investigation and the signing s| of necessary papers. s | Hospital authorities believe thal i- the hearing loss of the child is onlj e temporary and the burns on tht g mother's legs were considered II only minor. I Youth Is Injured j By Rolling Tractor One youth was injured Sunday at 2:30 p.m. when he fell under a ■ rolling tractor that was being towl ed by his older brother, 2% miles » west of Decatur on county road 7M». I Deputy sheriff Charles Arnold said . that Edward Sells, 16, of route I 6, Decatur, is in “fair condition” . this morning at the Adams county L memorial hospital. The youth is . suffering from internal injuries. The youth lost control of the tractor when its one and only front wheel slipped off, causing the trac- ' tor to roll over several times, once over the Sells boy. The tractor was being towed by Sylvester Sells with a 2-ton truck. Extensive damage was done to the road by the rolling tractor. The Sells boys are the sons of Harvey Sells, of route 6, Decatur.

Fear /Thousand Dead In Flood

TAIPEI, Formosa (UPI)— The worst floods in Formosa’s recorded history began to subside today leaving a scene of devastation in which more than 1,600 persons were injured, missing or dead. Preliminary estimates indicated that property damage on the Nationalist Chinese island may run to 13 million dollars. Police reported 498 dead, 563 injured, 541 missing and 134,679 homeless. U.S. military and embassy . spokesmen said there were no known American casualties al- , though several hundred U.S. military families live in the stricken areas. Torrential weekend rains sent i walls of water rolling across 150 miles of central and southern i Formosa, lush rice belt of the island which feeds millions of Chi- ; nese and other East Asians. UPI - Movietone cameraman ; Charles Lowe who flew over the ; flooded area this morning in a Chinese air force plane described the scene as ’‘horrible.” ’ ‘‘Whole sections .of highways ! and rail lines are washed out,” • Lowe reported. “Some rails are ’ twisted like straw. I counted 11 ■ bridges of all sizes washed away. ■ Telephone lines are strewn around like spaghetti. “It was still raining down there ► but the water was rolling back from the cities and towns. It still covered the rice lands.” Eight schoolgirls in nearby

Fidel Castro Beset By Hew Regime Threat HAVANA (UPI)— Premier Fidel Castro, beset by new threats to his regime at home, will go to the Organization of American States foreign ministers conference and personally defend his conduct of the Cuban revolution, his associates said today. The bearded Castro returned to the capital late Sunday. Informed sources said he had been directing a counter-attack that smashed an air-sea invasion of the Isle of Pines over the weekend. At the same time the government was reported to have put down an interior uprising by arresting 1,000 soldiers. . Officially, the reports of the invasion and uprising were denied i or ignored and there was a nearly complete blackout on details. But the reports increased the pitch of Caribbean tension with which the foreign ministers hope to cope. The conference begins Wednesday in Santiago, Chile. Castro’s cabinet did not decide officially until Sunday night whether to attend the conference at all. Foreign Minister Raul Rao was named to take the formal delegation to Santiago today. It ws announced officially tht Castro probbly would go to Santiago after the conference got underway, but the premier’s associates told newsmen he definitely would go and would participate I in the meeting. , They said he also might address • a rally outside the conference, i (Presumably this referred to a ; meeting of Latin American Com- [ munists and leftwing Socialists . being held in the Chilean capital ' during the foreign ministers meeting.) 1 Three Are Killed In a ■ Crash At Pierceton it y WARSAW, Ind. (UPD — Three ie persons were killed today when d two Ohio aars aud a truck smashed togeher in a collision in a heavy fog on a highway near Pierceton. Dead were Mrs. Florence Obermiller, 2S, Norwalk, Ohio; her son, r William, 5, and Ronald E. Tobin, ( Bucyrus, Ohio. The accident occurred on U. S. i 30 in the pre-dawn darkness about . a mile west of Pierceton. I Mrs. Obermiller’s husband, ■ Charles, 25, was injured critically, and their year-old son Robert was less seriously hurt. They were i taken to Murphy Medical Center in Warsaw. s Also injured critically was Al- : bert Toki, 24, Columbus, Ohio. State Police said Mrs. Obermil--1 ler was driving west on the highi way in a heavy fog. Her car 1 swerved across the center stripe ! and struck Tobin’s car headon. A ! big truck driven by Paul Harding, ! Mansfield, N. J., smashed into the rear of the Obermiller car.

Changhua were washed to their deaths when they disobeyed their teachers’ orders to remain in school. They disappeared in the flood waters before they reached the schoolyard gates. A northbound express train was stranded near Chunghua from Friday until Sunday night and its 400 passengers went without food for 48 hours. The U.S. International Cooperation Administration released $270,000 for preliminary emergency aid A stock of surplus American agricultural products wil be released ahead of schedule to relieve the food shortage. , Funeral Rites Held For Wefel Infant Graveside services were held this morning at the St. Paul’s Lutheran church cemetery for Sarah Wefel, infant daughter of Donald and Patti Hamilton-Wefel, who died at 9:45 p.m. Saturday, shortly after birth at the Adams county memorial hospital. The Rev. Louis Schulenberg officiated at the rites, conducted by the Zwick funeral home. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Lee Hamilton Wefel: a half-sister, Suzanne Eaton; two half-brothers, Brett Eaton and Randall Wefel, and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wefel of Preble.

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