Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 189.

Little Rock Policemen Breaking Up March Os Angry Segregationists

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD — Firemen turned high - pressure hoses on a throng of angry segregationist demonstrators at Central High School today and police bloodied the heads of two men trying to break through their lines. Police cracked another man across the ribs with a nightstick. About 1,000 demonstrators marched on Central High School two hours before a lone Negro was scheduled to integrate it. Three Negro girls integrated Hall High, in the wealthiest area of the city, without a hand being raised against them. The situation there was so quiet that Police Chief Gene Smith ordered away all patrolmen before school closed for the day at 1 p.m. c.d.t But the scene at Central was reminiscent of the bloody battle in 1957 when President Eisenhower ordered in 1,000 paratroopers to keep the peace and protect nine Negroes who integrated the school. Arrest Eight Persons Smith ordered hoses turned on the demonstrators at Central High as a last resort. Part of the crowd fell back but a few stood up to the stinging streams of water. Police arrested a total of eight persons at Central, including four women, three men and a teenaged boy. The boy and a middleaged man were bleeding from wounds on their heads. Another man was crying. He said he had been cracked across the ribs with a nightstick. Two boys with a U.S. flag stood up to the streams of water from fire hoses. The flag began to waver and another teen - ager rushed up to help hold it. An old woman across the street from Central turned her back into the water and cried: “You’re not going to make me move.” Six girls, standing up to the water and drenched from head to foot, sobbed and screamed. Another girl screamed over and over, “Communists! Communists! Communists-” “This still looks toad,” a police captain said. “Right now, they don’t have a leader. It looks like that’s what they’re waiting for.” Firemen dropped their hoses in the street, but left them running so they could pick them up immediately and turn them on the crowd. Faubus Addresses Crowd Students arrived to begin the term at Central and police checked their identification care-

Ike Rejects Intervention

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UPI) — President Eisenhower said today it was shallow thinking to suggest that the government must intervene to force a steel strike settlement before Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchv visits this country. The suggestion he might intervene in the deadlocked steel talks was made by the industry magazine Iron Age. It said the idea was to settle the strike before Khrushchev arrives Sept. 15. Eisenhower repudiated the idea at a news conference. At the same time, he gave top priority for this session of Congress to legislation to permit higher interest rates on federal bonds, labor reform, financing the interstate highway program, and civil rights. About 50 newsmen attended the unusual news conference. The President discussed the steel strike in terms of the Khrushchev visit after being asked if his attitude toward the role ot the federal government had changed now that the strike had entered its fifth week. His direct reply was that his position had not changed in the slightest. He has made it plain in the past he will maintain a hands-off attitude. In reply to other questions, Eisenhower said: —His apparently more aggressive leadership recently grew out of a desire to break the almost hopeless stalemate in the cold war and a need to take a more direct part in shaping legislation inasmuch as the Democrats control Congress.

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fully to make sure that no agitators slip through in the guise of students. Some demonstrators leftf but new ones arrived so that the crowd remained at about its original size. , Police used their nightsticks when the demonstrators, who had marched from the state capitol, where they heard a speech by Gov. Orval E. Faubus, tried to break through a human barricade around Central. “I see no use for you today to be beaten over the head and jailed,” Faubus told the crowd at the state capitol. “This should be used only as a last resort. The sun is hot out there where the police are on duty. This enforcement of an illegal duty will soon become burdensome. “Let us act so posterity will be justly proud. Let us continue and never weaken.” Faubus said the school board “has betrayed the people.” “Make no doubt that this integration is by force,” he said. “No force at my command has anything to do with the force being used to compel integration and the forces at my command will not be used. We can win this battle. The most effective way is by use of your vote.” Man Fatally Shocked Under Family House INDIANAPOLIS (UPI — Nine-year-old John Brown Tuesday night discovered his father dead under the family house where James E. Brown, 32, had crawled with a drill to install new electrical wiring. Brown apparently was electrocuted by the current from the drill, which his wife, Roberta, said had shocked him once before. Missing Portland Twins Found Safe PORTLAND, Ind. (UPD—Zayne and Wayne Burroughs, 9-year-old twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. George Burroughs of Portland, were found safe Tuesday 18 hours after they were reported missing from their home with their swim trunks and bikes. Police said the boys spent the night in an auto parked about two blocks from their home, apparently because they feared punishment for arriving home late.

—ln the 1960 campaign, he will do all he can to elect a Republican nominee dedicated to moderate, sound middle of the road government. He believes the GOP needs a vigorous, straight - forward, hard-hitting candidate who has public recognition tor experience, honest, integrity and character. But he thinks the worst possible thing he could do would be to interfere in the convention choice. —Neither he nor his brother Milton would have any part of a move to nominate the latter for the vice presidency next year. He could think of nothing worse than giving the appearance that a political dynasty is being set up. Milton is president of Johns Hopkins University and has undertaken a number of missions for the President —There were four or five particularly objectionable provisions in the new housing bill as rewritten by a Senate banking subcommittee. He recognizes that all legislation is a process of compromise but he will not back awaytfrom principle—in this case, support for a sound economy and avoiding more debt. The Senate will seek to override his veto of a previous housing measure which he rejected as extravagant and inflationary. —After leaving the White House he wants to help educate the American people about today’s great problems because there is nothing more important.

Senate Votes Today On Overriding Veto

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate was set to vote today on whether to override President Eisenhower’s veto of the Democratic housing bill. Senators agreed unanimously to limit their debate to 3% hours, putting the vote around midafternoon. The final decision promised to be close. The Senate banking Committee Tuesday voted to push for the twothirds majority needed to override the veto rather than to go ahead on a compromise measure. Eisenhower turned down the Democratic - sponsored bill because of what he described as excessive spending provisions. The measure calls for expenditure of $1,375,000,000 over a twoyear period. Other congressional news: Labor: The House continued debate on the hot issue of labor reform, with a test of voting strength expected by nightfall. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell announced his full support of a substitute reform bill backed by the administration,. Highways: The House Ways and Means Committee was reported close tZ agreement on a plan to raise new cash for the interstate highway network. The compromise, plan would boost the gasoline tax 1 cent a gallon for 22 months, then later divert some general revenues to the superhighway trust fund. Interest: The House Ways and Means Committee approved a modified version of the President's proposal that interest rate ceilings on government bonds be lifted. But committee members expressed strong doubt that the measure will come before the House this session. Equal Ttane: A bill to exempt newscasts from equal time requirements was ready for action by the House. The House Rules Committee approved the measure and it will go to the House floor subject to unlimited amendment. Contracts: House investigators summoned officials of the Douglas Aircraft Co and Western Electric Corp. to find out if the firms published big newspaper ads to influence Congress aixt the Defense Department in the Bomarc - Nike missile feud.

Mrs. Harry J. Knapp Dies Last Evening Mrs. Ruth A. Knapp, 60, wife of Harry J. Knapp, 327 Stratton Way. long prominent in social and civic activities in Decatur, died at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital. Death followed an illness of two and one-half years. A native of North Webster, she was born here July 26, 1899, a daughter of the Rev. John F. and Amy Murphy-Bockman. Her marriage to Harry J. Knapp was solemnized Nov. 5, 1922. Mrs. Knapp graduated from the Berne high school in 1917 and from the Battle Creek school of economics, later teaching at Marthaville, La. She served as receptionist at the local hospital for seven years until ill health forced her retirement in July of 1957. Mrs. Knapp was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, the Women’s Guild of the church, and the associate chapter of the TH Kappa sorority. Surviving in addition to her husband are two sons, Roger T. Knapp of Glen Ridge, N.J., and Richard D. Knapp of Andrews, Tex.; one granddaughter, and a brother, Roscoe Bockman of Huntertown. A brother, Walter J. Bockman, former Adams county recorder, was killed in an airplane crash several years ago. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 12, 1959.

Bumper 1959 Crops Estimated In U.S. WASHINGTON (UPI), — American farmers are producing a bumper 1959 crop second only to last year’s record output. The Agriculture Department’s August crop production estimate Tuesday showed the 1959 crop will be 115 per cent of the 1947-49 base period. This is only 3 points below the record all-crop production index of 1958 and is 9 points above the previous record crops of 1948, 1956, and 1957. Sharp increases in production from last year were estimated for corn, cotton, sugar crops, and tobacco. The feed grains group, led by corn, appeared likely to roll up a tonnage equal to or slightly above that of last year. The department said the composite yield per acre index covering 28 leading crops edged upward to 132, well below last year’s record 143, but 4 per cent above the former high of 127 in 1957. Yields qf cotton, sugar beets, and dry peas now appear to be setting records, soybeans and dry beans equalling previous highs", and rice holding near last year’s record. Corn and wheat yields are down somewhat from last year's high marks. The corn production estimate at 4,173,00b,000 bushels was down 1 per cent from the July forecast, but 10 per cent more than last year’s record output and 28 per cent above average. Production of all wheat was estimated at 1,119.000.000 bushels, 23 per cent less than 1958 but 4 per cent above average. The August forecast was 3 per cent under the July estimate. Question Six Young Men In Rape Cases

CHICAGO (UPI; — Police said today six young men seized in the rapes of two young women would be questioned about other assaults and robberies. Sgt. John Gias, whose work brought about the arrest of the six Tuesday, said they would be questioned about other unsolved attacks. An assistant state’s attorney spent the night near their cells, ready to take any statements, but the men had nothing to say. Gias said a waitress who was raped and wounded in another recent assault was unable to identity any of the six. However, they have not been cleared of suspicion in the case, police said. Police said William Oparka, 26, was the “worst egg of the lot” and the apparent leader of the group. Gias said he served .five years for attempted rape. William Oparka. his brother. Fred, 22, and John dipich. 19, were accused in one ot both of the rapes. The other three held were William Thomas. 19, John Stasiuk. 19, and George Starcevich, 28. Starcevich and Stasiuk were charged with disorderly conduct and Thomas with receiving stolen property. Fred Oparka was identified by both rape victims, an 18-year-old student nurse and a 20-year-old laboratory technician, as one of their attackers. The nurse also accused William Oparka. Gias said Fred Oparka first admitted the rape of the technician but later denied knowledge of either rape. Grant Is Awarded Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE. Ind. (UPI) —A $24,331 grant from the National Institutes of Health was awarded to Purdue University Tuesday for speech and hearing clinic research. -

INDIANA WEATHER Mostly sunny and hot this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight, chance of a few scattered thundershowers north portion. Turning cooler extreme north tonight. Thursday partly cloudy, a little cooler north, continued hot south. Low tonight 65 to 72. High Thursday 80s north to the low 90s south. Sunset today 7:45 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 5:55 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy, continued warm. Lows 65 north to 70 south. Highs 85 north to 95 south. Union Hearing Continued By Rackets Group WASHINGTON (UPI) — Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) of the Senate Rackets Committee said today there was nothing “abnormal” about the current secret hearing on the United Auto Workers Union (UAW). He told newsmen that the committee had frequently interviewed witnesses in executive session and some of the cases never reached the public hearing stage. But Sen. John F. Kennedy (DMass.) said it would be “fair and more in the public Interest” to open the UAW inquiry to the pubYte as requested by Union President Walter P. Reuther. Kennedy moved to do this as the hearing got underway Tuesday, but he was defeated by a 5-2 vote. He said he had no plans to make another attempt. The committee pressed ahead with the inquiry behind closed doors today. Committee members and aides were uniformly tight-lipped about details, but were expected to question a group of dissident UAW members from the Toledo, Ohio, area. By buttonholing senators before and after Tuesday’s session, newsmen were able to get a general idea of the topics under discussion. Some background infor-. mation was supplied by union attorney Joseph Rauh and two I Reuther aides who posted themselves outside the committee door.

The UAW representatives apparently were assigned to counter any “leaks” of testimony that might be damaging to the union. Reuther has accused Republicans of insisting on a closed hearing “for the sole purpose of leaking out charges that cannot stand the light of investigation.” Some of the Toledo witnesses were expected to testify about Richard Gosser of Toledo, a UAW vice president who is the chief target of the inquiry. One Man Killed In Storm In Minnesota United Press International One man was killed and five others injured Tuesday when a cold wave moving across the Dakotas and Minnesota produced thunderstorms, high winds and lightning. The mass of cool Canadian air mixed with a front of warm air lingering over the plains, spawning the turbulent weather and sending the mercury down as much as 36 degrees. Hugo Illg, 60, of rural Frazee, Minn., was killed when he tried to get his farm machinery into a barn during a storm and was hit by lightning. Five men were thrown from a roof when a lightning bolt struck a shed at Austin, Minn. The five were injured but only two required treatment at hospitals. The Weather Bureau said Mobridge, S.D., which reached 106 degrees Tuesday afternoon, reported a reading of 70 degrees early Wednesday morning, a drop of 36 degrees. In the Northwest, the cool air lowered readings 5 to 15 degrees in a 24-hour period. Scattered thundershowers were forecast Wednesday in the Midwest, the South and the far West.

Ohio Native Aided Smashing Cuba Plot HAVANA (UPI) — An American - born revolutionary helped smash a 'gigantic plot against Fi- . del Castro by pretending to join the conspiracy and then trapping its leaders at a secret midnight meeting, it was reported today. Informed sources said Maj. William Morgan of Ohio, a com- ! mandante of the Cuban rural po- , lice, worked as an undercover agent with Army commandante Eloy Guitierrez Menoyo. They played along with the conspirators and passed the information to Castro. Castro was reported directing a continuing mopup operation in which more than 2,000 persons have been arrested, at least 1,000 of them soldiers. Castro had been expected to make one of his famous television speeches on the conspiracy Tuesday night but it was canceled without explanation. Reliable but unofficial sources said he was too busy with the roundiq? of the conspirators. One report had it that he had been shot and wounded but a foreign ministry spokesman said this was “completely false.” The spokesman said he personally had seen the premier in downtown Havana Tuesday night. Two American newsmen and a Cuban civilian were arrested Tuesday when they tried to interview Morgan at his home but they were expected to be released shortly. No charges were preferred. , They are Jean Secon, a parttime employe of United Press International, Cuban Guillermo Tuzzio and free-lance cameraman Alexander Rorke. The U.S. Embassy contacted Cuban authoriabout the Americans and was informed they probably would be released today. State Traffic Toll 591 Through Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Indiana’s 1959 traffic death toll climbed to 591 by the end of last week, a total 13 per cent higher than this time last year. Twenty-three deaths Were added to the list last week, .compared with 18 in the corresponding week of 1958. The toll by last Sunday midnight, according to Indiana State Police provisional figures, was 66 higher than the 525 deaths on record a year ago for 1958.

Red March Against U.S. Embassy Halted

SANTIAGO, Chile (UPD — One of the heaviest concentrations of police ever seen in Santiago broke up a Communist - led “march on the U.S. embassy” here Tuesday night A crowd of about 2,500 persons, who had been attending a Redorganized meeting on the eve of the opening of the Western Hemisphre foreign ministers’ conference here started down Merced Street toward th embassy when the meeting brok up. Scores of police, on the alert 1 for trouble, quickly headed off the crowd and turned in onto the nearby Mapocho River bridge. There was no major outbreak of violence, and no casualties were ’ reported. ' Police Guard Embassy Police on foot and on horseback ' had been posted to guard the em- 1

H ' ' -xK Owr 31 l.V' w |Ei l>. * w a BEHIND CLOSED DOORS— Members of the Senate Rackets Committee OL"to r.): (seated) Sen. Sam J. Ervin, Jr,. (D-N. C.); Sen. John McClellan, chairman. ID-Ark.); Sen. John Kennedy (D-Mass.); (standing) Sen. Carl Curtis (R-Neb.); and Sen. Barry Goldwater <R-Ariz.>; plunged into a closed-door inquiry of the United Auto Workers after rejecting a union demand that any charges be aired in public. U.A.W. President Walter Reuther blasted the closed hearing as a “Star Chamber,” session and the committee voted 5-2 agaihst a motion by Sen. Kennedy to make the meetings public.

Decatur Tax Rate Over $6

Preliminary budget and tax rate figures indicate that Decatur and Berne will go over the $6 levy per SIOO valuation this year, and that only Blue Creek and Preble townships will remain below the $3 mark. Using estimated figures for the county fund and poor relief rates, and advertised figures for the rest, Decatur-Washington will lead all units in tax rates with a $6.31 rate. Decatur-Root's rate will be $6.27. This is 45 cents and 37 cents higher, respectively. Berne’s rate will be $6.12; Geneva, $5.76; MonroeMonroe. $5.14; Monroe-Washington, $5.11. Berne's rate will be 40 cents higher, Geneva's, 36 cents, Mon-roe-Monroe, 48 cents, and Monrc»e-' Washington, 35 cents. May Lower Rates Not only are the county fund rates and poor relief rates not “firm” as yet, but all the rates may be reduced. All must be aproved as advertised, at a public meeting at which every taxpayer has a right to be heard, and to find out why rates and budgets are as advertised. After this, the county budgets will go to the county council, which may cut them. The county tax adjustment board will then hold further hearings, at which taxpayers may appear, and the state board of tax commissioners will finally hold hearings on the rates. Blue Creek Lower Among the taxing units, only Blue Creek township shows a decline. Its rate will be nine cents lower, $2.71 instead of $2.80; Union township’s gain is greatets. 74 cents, or $3.02 from $2.28. Others are, French, $3.13, up 50 cents; Hartford, $3.38, up 26 cents; Jefferson, $3.76, up 38 cents; Kirkland. $4.07. up 35 cents; Monroe, $4.29. . up 57 cents: Preble, $2.99, up 571 cents: Root. $3.42, up 26 cents; St. Marys. $3.63, up 29 cents; Wabash. $4.62, up 20 cents; and Washington, $4.28, up 42 cents. The tax rate in the average taxing unit, of which the county has 18 (12 townships, Berne. DecaturWashington, Decatur - Root, Geneva, Monroe-Monroe, and MonroeWashington), went up from $4.04 to $4.42, an average gain per unit of 38 cents. What has caused the increase in tax rates this year in the county? An analysis shows that the state rate was reduced from 8 cents to

bassy, where U. S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter wil live for the five-day duration of the conference. Motorized troops were held in reserve nearby to deal with serious disorders. The Red-organized me e t ing, called in competition with the conference to demonstrate leftist support for the governments of Cuba and Venezuela, was interrupted repeatedly by cheers for Cuban Premier Fidel Castro and jeers for the foreign ministers' meeting. The United States Is expected to warn Latin American leaders today that continued unrest in the Caribbean area plays into the hands of,the Reds and weakens the Western Hemisphere politically and economically.

1 cent. County Rate Higher The biggest increase is in the total county rate, which was 87 cents last year, and may reach $1.31 this year, a 44-cent increase. The reasons: the county fund may go up six cents —part of which will provide a budget for the county school study commission, part of which will buy new radio equipment mandated by the state and federal governments, and a small part of which will meet the general rise bi costs. The welfare fund will be up two cents: last year’s budget did not provide the amount needed, and a special appropriation was necessary. The county commissioners have raised the bridge cumulative fund from 8 cents to 15 cents. This is to keep county bridges repaired. Those who drive the county roads know how many are either completely out, or need repairs. The hospital and hospital bond funds will remain the same, with a two cent increase in the hospital building and equipment fund to provide better laboratory facilities, and meet state minimum requirements. State Creates Rate The state legislature created one new tax, called the county school tax, which, with its adjustment factors, will be 24 cents additional on the total county tax rate. This will go to schools in addition to their own tax rates based on a distribution factor. It was necessary because the state also raised the salaries of school teachers. The county commissioners also initiated a three-cent court house maintenance fund, which previously had been included in the county fund. This increased the county rate another three cents. Poor relief rates will vary greatly as usual. This is because in townships with low evaluations, the keeping of one person in the county farm costs 2 cents on the levy. If a person must be. hospitalized from township funds, it takes e large amount from the fund. Proliminary poor relief figures show the following rates may apply next year: Blue Creek, 10 cents; French, 4 cents; Hartford. 1 cent; Jefferson, 7; Kirkland, 2; Monroe. 24; Preble, 11; Root, IO*; St: Mary's 20; Union, 2; Wabash, 7; Washington, 23. Township fund rates are: Blue Creek, 20; French, 13: Hartford. 15; Jefferson, 19; Kirkland, 11; Monroe, 5; Preble, 10; Root, 5; St. Marys, 13; Union, 11; Wabash, 10; Washington, 3. School Rates Given School and library rates generally held the line pretty closely. They were as follows: Blue Creek, $1.09; French, $3.13. Hartford. $1.90; Jefferson, $2.18; Kirkland, $2.62; Monroe $2.68; Preble, $1.56; Root, $1.95; St. Mary's, $1.98; Union, $1.57; Wabash, $3.13; Washington, $2.70; Berne, $3.37; Decatur-Root, $3.34: Decatur-Washington. $3.27; Geneva. $3.28; Monroe, $2.62. Poll taxes remained the same with a universal state tax revenue of $1 per poll, and state school revenue of 50 cents. French township and Berne also have tuition and special school polls of $1 each, while Decatur and Geneva have a corporation tax poll of $1 each. This gives all the townships and towns except the following a $1.50 poll tax total: French township and Berne. $3.50 each; Decatur and Geneva, $2 50 each. This unchanged from last year’s polls.

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