Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 190.

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INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Governor Handley hinted today that he was available as a Republican vice presidential candidate in 1960 but said he has no intention of advancing his chances by running as a “favorite son” candidate in the Indiana presidential prefer - ence primary. Handley, sun-tanned and jovial after two weeks at the Governors’ Conference in Puerto Rico, told a news conference that Vice President Richard M. Nixon is the only man in either political party with enough "training” to take over the presidency. Handley, who was one of three governors coming out in full support of Nixon at the conference, said he would not actively seek the second spot on the GOP national ticket. But he did not rule out the possibility that he would accept the nomination if it were offered. At the same time, the governor named House Minority leader Charles A. Halleck (R-Ind.-), an old political foe, as a strong possibility for the vice presidential nomination. “If Nixon or anyone else wants Halleck, that's okay by me," he said. Handley also told newsmen: No Khrushchev Bid —Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev will not get an official invitation to visit Indiana when he arrives in this country this fall, but would be treated with respect if this state is included on the official itinerary. —Preliminary work on the proposed deepwater seaport in Northern Indiana is “progressing nice"nicely,” although there is “still much to do.” . —The Indiana Highway Department is going ahead with road planning and will be ready, to continue its program wheh Congress gives the green light. Handley, who was one of the first to climb , aboard the Nixonfor - President bandwagon, said the vice president "endeared himself to the public with his verbal slugfest with Khrushchev during his recent Russian tour.” He said there is “a great deal of sentiment” for Nixon’s candidacy among Republican governors. But he said most of them do not want to commit them - selves because “they are waiting to see how the wind blows.” Handley had little to say for New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, considered by many Nixon’s chief rival for the GOP presidential nomination. Cites Training Lack “To know him is to like him,” Handley said with reference to Rockefeller. “But let’s face it, Rockefeller lacks training. You need more than two years of public office experience to qualify for the job.” ' Handley said a Nixon - Rockefeller ticket would be a “strong one” and would eliminate intraparty battles. Rockefeller said earlier he would not accept the vice presidential nomination.

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Handley said he has never believed in the “favorite son” idea to “beat anyone over the head-" He said it would be up to party leaders in Indiana to decide whom they favored and then determine how to push his candidacy. “The presidential candidate usually determines who his running mate will be,” Handley said. “You never run for vice president and I’m not looking that far ahead. That kind of lightning can fall anyplace and could hit anyone of the 14 Republican governors, congressmen or just anyone.’ Handley obviously saw little merit in Khrushchev’s pending visit, although he endorsed vigorously President Eiseuhow - er’s exchange of visits. “Khrushchev is a captive of the Communist leaders,” he said. “He is not going to change his ideas, no matter what we show him over here. But we might gain something by letting him see hoW strong and united we are.” The governor said he would “never” invite the Soviet leader to Indiana. “I’d Not Insult Him” “If the White House had Indiana scheduled as a stop on his tour, I would treat him with courtesy and would not insult,” Handley said. “They didn’t snub Nixon during his visit to Russia and I don’t want them to snub the President when he goes over there.” Handley said it would do little good for him to talk to Khrushchev. “I wouldn’t believe a word he said, and I doubt if he would believe a word I said," the governor said. Handley said preliminary planning on the seaport is moving forward and the project should be ready to submit to Congress in 1960. He warned that efforts of Sen.] Paul Douglas (D-Ill.)_to defeat' the port by having a national park i created in the dunes area are not finished. "Professor Dougls is never beaten down or beaten back and we can expect him to be an albatross around our neck for a long time,” Handley said. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and continued warm through Friday except chance of scattered thundershowers northwest portion late Friday afternoon or evening. Low tonight 65 to 76. High Friday 88 to 94. Sunset today 7:44 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:56 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy with showers and thundershowers and turning cooler. Lows 60 to 65 ntro mb u 5 er. Lows 60 to 65 north, 65 to 76 sooth. Highs 80 to 85 north, 85 to 05 south.

Agreement Is Reached To End Whiting Strike CHICAGO (UPD — Agreement was reached today to end the 17day strike by 4,800 petroleum workers at the Standard Oil Co. refinery in Whiting, Ind. The settlement was announced in the pre-dawn hours as weary negotiators ended a 15-hour bargaining session. Striking members of the Independent Petroleum Workers of America will meet Friday in the Whiting High School gymnasium to vote on the contract. Details of the pact were withheld pending the ratification meeting. Negotiations were resumed Wednesday morning at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service offices here following a <meday recess requested by Standard to consider the latest union offer. Early in the negotiations, the union sought a shorter work week with no loss in pay and certain guarantees against layoffs. However, the union dropped these demands, according to Arthur F. Endres, manager of the Whiting plant. Refining units were shut down July 28 when the strike began. But supervisory personnel reopened the plant on a limited scale Aug. 3. The company said operations had returned to 55 per cent of normal this week. Standard spokesmen said they resumed operations to protect workers “by helping to supply our products to the customers who support the jobs.” The union charged the action posed a fire threat to the community and backed an ordinance in the Whiting City Council which would in effect have cut off production at the giant refinery. The ordinance was given preliminary approval and a final vote was scheduled Aug. 24. Whiting city officials and newsmen toured the plant Monday as the company sought to show that fire hazards in operating the plant with 600 supervisory workers were at a minimum. Standard said the first two weeks of the strike cost the 4,800 operating and maintenance workers a total of nearly M. 200,000 in wages alone. Approval of the pact at Friday’s meeting would also lead to the reopening of Standard's refinery at Wood River, 111., shut down since Aug. 5 when IPWA pickets from Whiting appeared at plant gates and members of the Central States Petroleum Union refused to cross the picket line.

Negroes Return To High School

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD— Three Negro girls returned to Hall High School today for their second day of integrated classes, almost ignored by 700 white students. There were no surface indications of new violence today at Central High School, where firemen and police broke up an unruly crowd Wednesday with highpressure fire hoses and nightsticks. Police arrested 24 persons. They later wer rlasd on bond. On Negro is scheduled to attend Central when it opens at 2 p.m. c.d.t. Mrs. L.C. Bates, president of the Arkansas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said that If the integration attempt can get through today, “we’ve got it licked.’’. There was no trouble Wednesday at Hall, although a heavy police guard was prepared for it. Police still guarded a four-block {perimeter about Hall today, but .there was a noticeable air of relaxation. The three Negroes—Effie Jones, Elsie Robinson and Estella Thompson—got out of an automobile at Hall four minutes before school opened at 10:30 a.m. c.d.t They walked slowly up the driveway to the entrance. A white girl and white boy walked behind them but paid no attntion to them. Four white boys were sitting on the steps of the entrance. As the girls approached, two of the boys jumped down and walked off. The other two remaind and watched as the girls walked in. There were these other developments: —The Little Rock Committee for Peaceful Operation of Free Public Schools charged that many of the demonstrators who clashed with police Wednesday “Were not citizens of this school district.” —A source close to Gov. Orval E. Faubus said he still could dose the schools, as he did in 1958 to

Decatur ,Indiana, Thursday, August 13,1959.

Temporary Increase In Federal Gasoline Tax Okayed By Committee

Three Ball Stale Courses In City Three 12-week Ball State courses of undergraduate and graduate level, will be brought to Decatur and taught at the Decatur high school, if 16 persons enroll for each class, W. Guy Brown, superintendent of schools, announced today. ' Enrollment of the 16 for each class must be completed by August 27, or the classes will be dropped, he explained. Classes will be held on Monday and Thursday evenings in room 107 at the high school building. Education 530, tests and measurements, will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, September 10, if 16 persons have enrolled by mail by August 27. This is a four-quarter-hour course. Monday, September 14 at 6:30 p.m. social science 342, social problems, and social science 550, recent economic and social changes, four-quarter-hours each, will be taught. Interested persons should write immediately to Extended Services, Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Ind., about enrolling. Seven More Polio Cases In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Seven cases of polio were added to Indiana State Board of Health records last week, raising the 1959 total to 41, more than three tfmesthe number recorded by this time last year. The latest cases included 2 in Lake county and 1 each in Darborn Johnson, Marion, Porter and Vanderburgh. Week before last, 14 cases were added to the records. By early’ August in 1958, only 13 cases had been recorded.

preserve segregation, through use of his executive powers since the school board is no longer using a federal court-approved integration plan. —Segregationist leaders, who said they were furious about use of police billies and fire hoses Wednesday to break up a protest demonstration, met secretly Wednesday night, perhaps to decide on their moves today. Firemen turned high pressure hoses on demonstrators at Central High Wednesday. Police whacked three men with their clubs and arrested a total of 24— including four women and girls—and put them in jail. All 24 got out on bond of $15.50 each and were ordered to appear Aug. 19 for trial on charges ranging from assaulting an officer to loitering. Segregationist lead ar Amos Guthridge, lawyer for the Capital Citizens Council, said he was “too angered even to make a statement” on police action in breaking up tiie demonstration. He said other segregationist leaders were as angry as he. There wr numerous reports of plans for new demonstrations today but none could be confirmed. The Committee of Peaceful Operation of Free Public Schools, which made the charge of outside interference, is a group that sprang up in recent months to get Little Rock’s high schools open. The committee said many of the estimated 500 persons involved in the demonstration came from well outside the school district. Newsmen counted many cars bearing license plates from Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi. The crowd that formed near Central, battleground of the 1957 integration wars, had marched from tiie state capital where Gov. Faubus told them that there was no need for them to get “beaten on the head.” He said local police soon would tiro of their "burdensome illegal duties.”

Herter Expected To Ask Invasion Probe

SANTIAGO, Chile (UPD—Secretary of State Christian A. Herter is expected to press the Western Hemisphere’s foreign ministers today for quick and specific action to curb the recent rash of Caribbean invasions. Latin Americans who spoke at Wednesday’s opening session of ' the foreign ministers’ conference here — perhaps in an excess of ' tact to avoid hurting anyone’s ' feelings — tended to discuss general problems like democracy and human rights' rather than the ominous tensions which inspired the meeting. In a major speech today, Her- ■ ter is expected to urge formation of a committee which could in- ) vestigate reported military build- [ ups or threats of invasion immediately, without awaiting debate I on the issue by the Organization of American States. There were some indications > Charge Torture Os Elderly Patients EVANSVILLE, Ind. (UPD — 1 Ckiminal affidavits were being ' prepared today against attendants ■ of an unlicensed nursing home 1 Who were accused by a grand ► jury of torturing elderly patients > in punishment for their senile transgressions. i The grand jury’s four-page report charged that patients were ; struck, left under restraint in chairs for as long as eight hours , at a time, doused with burning antiseptic for incontinence, inadequately fed and in constant danger of being trapped by fire. The jufy said it had heard evidence that “toenails were pulled from patients’ feet as punishment for their alleged misconduct.” Many of the problems of improper care of patients could have been eliminated,” the jury’s report said, “if the family and friends of patients had been interested and concerned enough. Many of the patients had no visitors for months at a time.” It also blamed state and local health departments and fire and safety departments for an "appalling lack of coordination in the supervision of nursing homes and laws and regulations governing them.” Mrs. Viola Barnes, who operates the Comfort Nursing Home with her husband, Harold, flatly denied the jury’s charges. “I’m going to prove that report was false,” Mrs. Barnes said. “I can prove it was a lie from beginning to end.” Heart Attack Fatal To Decatur Resident Mrs. Anna Rains, 61, wife of Arthur Rains, 421 Line street, was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne shortly after noon Wednesday. Mrs. Rains suffered a heart attack in downtown Fort Wayne and died before an ambulance could remove her to the hospital. She was born in Peoria, 111., July 28. 1898, a daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Rentsch-Benz, and was married to Arthur Rains June 10, 1926. The family has resided in Decatur for the past four years. Mrs. Rains was a member of the Church of the Nazarene. Surviving in addition to the husband are two daughters, Mrs. Ray Hoover of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Roy Felton of South Coffeyville, Okla., and one brother, Charles Benz of Peoria, 111. Funeral services will he held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Carl Greek, of Berne, officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery at Berne- Friends may eall at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

that Herter might be willing to adopt a revision of the committee plan advanced Wednesday by Colombian Foreign Minister Julio C. Turbay Ayala. The Colombian official lunched Wednesday with Herter, and the two men are believed to have discussed his plan. Turbay proposed the creation of a five-nation committee to watch for instances of intervention in the affairs of any Western Hemisphere state by any other during the six months between now and the opening of the Inter-American conference in Ecuador next February. Th Turbay plan differs from the idea suggested some time ago by the United States principally in the fact that tiie committee he envisioned would have hemi-sphere-wide authority instead of being limited to the Caribbean Rev. William Day Dies This Morning The Rev. William Henry Day, 86. former minister of the Pleasant Mills Baptist church, died at 8:15 a.m. today in Bluffton. The Rev. Mr. Day, pastor of the Pleasant Mills Baptist church for 34 years, had been in failing health for two years. He had been admitted to the hospital a few hours before death occurred. He was a native of Liberty township. Wells county. His marriage was June 10. 1900, in Liberty center, to Minnie Buckner, who survives. He resided at 209 West Walnut street, Bluffton, and was a 50-year member of the 1.0.0. F. at Liberty Center. Surviving in addition to the wife are two sons, Frank E. Day, Milford, and Charles E. Day, Liberty township. One son and one sister preceded him in death. The body was taken to the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m., in the First Baptist church, Bluffton, the Rev. Marvin Hall officiating. Burial will be in the Mossburg cemetary. Wisconsin Town Is Threatened By Gas FRIESLAND, Wis. (UPD — A railroad wrecker crew today began an agonizing inch-by-inch removal operation of an overturned, leaking, porpane gas tank car that threatened this community of 400 persons. A spokesman for the Chicago & North Western Railway here said the decision to move the 10,000 galon car out of the danger zone rather than deliberately explode it was based on favorable gusts of wind up to 15 m.p.h. It’ll take a while,” he said. “This stuffs like dynamite.” Evacuation of families from 18 homes in the vicinity began Wednesday night after the tank car derailed, overturned and sprang a leak. Five fire companies from neighboring communities stood by, virtually helpless, as possibility of explosion or fire threatened the town. Friesland, a town of 400. is about 65 miles northwest of Milwaukee. A workman said the treacherous gas could be “fogged off” if the car were moved out of the town area. Authorities earlier considered the possibility of exploding the car at the derailment point. To Repair Blackford County Courthouse HARTFORD CITY, Ind. (UPD— The 66-year-old Blackford County Courthouse is due for its first redecoration next year, according to county commissioners. The estimated $17,500 repair bill is to be financed by a special seven-cent tax levy in 1960.

WASHINGTON (UPD — The House Ways and Means Committee approved today a temporary penny-a-gallon increase in gasoline taxes to help ease the super highway financing crisis. The committee tax writers meeting behind closed door, were reported to have voted 16-9 in favor of the boost. The action is subject to a formal roll call vote later. The financing plan, sponsored by Rep. John W. Byrnes (R-Wis.l, would provide for boosting the federal gasoline levy from 3 to 4 cents a gallon for 22 months, beginning Sept. 1. After the increase expired, some excise tax's on nw automobiles and trucks which now go into the treasury’s general revenue fund would be diverted to the highway trust fund. The money to be diverted would include half of the receipts from the 10 per cent excise tax on automobiles and 62tt per cent of the take from the 8 per cent levy on parts and accessories. President Eisenhower repeatedly has asked Congress to increase the gasoline tax IVfe cents a gallon, for five years, to provide the money needed for building the interstate highway system. He has opposed any plan to tap general revenues to beef up the highway fund. Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson indicated to the committe Wednesday, however, that the administration was ready to talk about o compromise. The plan approved by the committee today would permit the government to make $1,800,000,000 in apportionments to the states for the year starting next July 1. The apportionments would be $2,000,000,000 and $2,200,000,000, respectively, in the following two years. Under present law, tiie apportionments would be $2,200,000,000 for each year. Indianapolis Man To Face Murder Charge INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—William Huff, 54, Indianapolis, will appear in city cort today in connection with the fatal shooting of Mary Katherine Hurt. 34, whose body was discovered in the living room of her Indianapolis home Wednesday. Authorities said Huff apparently was a suitor of the dead woman. East Chicago Man Is Named Director EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (UPD— Frederick McCarthy, East Chicago businessman, has been named director of the Citizenship Participation Department of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. He will take office Sept. 1.

German, Russ Ships Collide

AARHUS, Denmark (UPD— A German coastal vessel collided today with a Soviet destroyer which apparently was shadowing a large-scale NATO navy maneuver, Allied naval sources said. The collision in dense fog off the West Germn port of Kiel was first reported in an enigmatic SOS from the 259-ton German motor vessel Christel which said it had hit “a Soviet warship” 30 miles east of Kiel. The Christel was holed but did not sink. The Russian destroyer was seen heading north with two other warships, apparently undamaged. It made no effort to aid the Christel but two German tugs quickly reached the stricken vesel. Allied naval sources here said it was believed the Soviet warship was one of three Russian destroyers which "as usual” had been showing “keen interest” in a naval maneuver involving about 60 NATO warships. Kiel is the West German port leading to the Baltic. - A Danish naval command spokesman said it was known that destroyers were

Firemen's Festival Planned At Preble A fish and ham supper and tractor pulling and amateur contests are scheduled for the eighth Preble firemen’s festival, Friday and Saturday. Bob Sievers, disc Jockey for radio station WOWO, will be master of ceremonies for the amateur contest at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Approximately 15 acts have been entered already in the contest, climaxing the first day of the eighth annual fund-raising affair. “This year promises to be bigger and better than all previous festivals.” Gilbert Ehlerding, president of the Preble volunteer fire fighting association, said this morning. The firemen hope to buy new equipment for the volunteer fire department, and to raise funds for operating expenses through the festival. The department now has one pumper truck, two tank trucks, three auxiliary pumps, five auxiliary water tanks, of 260 gallons each to have on pickup trucks. Serves 350 Within a matter of a few minutes after the fire alarm, the Preble volunteers can have 3500 gallons of water enroute to the fire. The fire department serves approximately 350 members. The fish and ham supper will begin the festival, with serving ; from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Preble, four miles west of Decatur on road 224. The talent contest will begin at 8:30 p.m. For entry blanks, rules and list of cash prizes, entrants are to contact Arthur Bieberich, Preble, or Carl Mann, Tocsin. Saturday morning the three-divi-sion tractor pulling contest will begin, with weigh-in time from 8 to 9 a.m., for the lightweights, and pulling beginning at 9:30 a.m., for tractors 4500 pounds and under. Mediumweight at 12:30 p.m. The medium weights, 4510 to 6500 pounds, will weigh in between 11 a.m., and noon, with pulling beginning at 12:30 p.m. The heavyweight class will weigh in from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., with the final tractor pull beginning at 4 p.m. The contest is open to all rubbertired, two-wheel drive tractors, and will be pulled on the ground. No dual wheels and no hookup in front of the rear axle are allowed. Each driver will draw numbers for positions. Entry fees are $3 in each class, and tractors may weigh and re-en-ter in a heavier class, but each driver may enter one time only in each class. Each contestant will receive two pulls from a tight chain five feet long. First and Second winners will receive trophies in each division, while third place will cop $lO and fourth, $5.

in the area of the Baltic Sea where the colision took pace. British IVice Adm. Sir Arthur Pedder, commander-in-chief of Alied naval forces in northern Europe, has established his headquarters here to command the big Allied maneuver which the Russian ships were thought to be spying on. The Allied armada of British, Danish, Norwegian and West German warships has been maneuvering in the western Baltic and the strategic Danish Straits between the Baltic and the North seas in "operation Freshwater.” Naval sources said several Soviet warships had been sighted duri ntghe exercise which ends today. The power-packed armada was setting course for this Danish port and was scheduled to arrive here later today. The naval command spokesman said the crew of the German ship was belived to be in no danger and that German salvage vessels already were on the scene. 12 Pages

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