Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 201.

Eisenhower Launches Historic Crusade Os Peace In Bonn Today

BONN, Germany (UPD —President Eisenhower landed at West Germany’s capital city of Bonn today to launch a historic nuclear age crusade for peace. The man who led the Allied armies 14 years ago to inflict on Germany the most crushing defeat in its history was welcomed back here in triumph today as the free West’s leader in the cold war with communism. West German 'Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 83, and most of his government were on hand to greet the President as he stepped from his gigantic ejt transport at Wahn Airport near here. An (estimated 50,000 Germans lined the 19-mile route from Wahn to Bonn and its nearby diplomatic suburb of Bad Godesberg where the President was spending the night at the U.S. embassy residence. The President and Secretary of State Christian A. Herter will spend some seven hours in conferences Thursday with Adenauer, Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano and other West German officials. May Add. to Bitterness The triumphal reception given the President here was dramatic evidence of the way the cold war has switched the world’s power fronts since the destruction of Nazi Germany in 1945. The West Germans see in President Eisenhower and the U.S. their main hope ultinately of breaking down Soviet hostility to German reunification. The aged chancellor interrupted his vacation at Cadenabbia in northern Italy to be here to receive the President. Brentano and Defense Minister Flranz Josef Strauss cut short their vacations, too, on Adenauer’s orders. Eisenhower flew here in a giant Boeing-707 jet transport from Andrews Air Base. Wahn Airport was just large enough to take the huge plane. He was accompanied by Herter. Deputy Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr., Deputy Undersecretary of State Livingston T. Merchant and John N. Irwin 11, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. "Eisenhower flew to Europe knowing full well that his day of talks Thursday with Adenauer might add to the Soviet bitterness toward West Germany, but the American leader was determined to use his “last atom of energy" in his jet-age quest for peace. Aside from wartime meetings of heads of state and government, Eisenhower’s trip represented the most extensive, personal diplomatic venture by an American president overseas since President Woodrow Wilson toured Europe on behalf of the League of Nations following World War 11. After spending Thursday in Bonn, the President will fly to Great Britain where he will devote nearly a wek to hard-case cold war strategy talks with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, a ceremonial visit to Quen

Gear Way For House Housing Bill Action

WASHINGTON (UPD — The House Rules Committee today cleared a new housing bill for action on the House floor. Debate was expected to begin Diursday on the $1,050,000,000 measure, a substitute for the bigger bill turned down by President Eisenhower. There were predictions he might veto this one also. The new bill was drawn after the Senate failed to override the veto. It already has passed hte Senate. Other congressional news: Labor: A joint conference commute interrupted its formal proceedings on labor reform legislation to study closely a compromise proposal on disputed issues. Democratic members offered the plan as a means of settling a battle over four amendments to toe Taft - Hartley law. The conferees are trying to reconcile a strong House measure with a more moderate Senate version. Water Diversion: The annual battle over Lake Michigan water dicersion at Chicago began in the Senate amid threats of a filibuster. The issue is whether Chicago should be allowed to take an increased volume erf water from the lake to improve its sewage-

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Elizabeth at her summer castle in Soctland and a separate meting with the Spnish foreign minister. From London next Wednesday, Eisenhower will hop over the English Channel to France for far - ranging conversations with president Charles de Gaulle, conferences with the president and the secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and a separate meting with the premier and the foreign minister of Italy. ■Travels In Super-Security As customary, Eisenhower traveled in super-security—a network of warships beneath the scheduled transatlantic route of his Boeing 707 jet; a special follow-up plane cruising along behind him in case trouble should ground his plane. Secret Service agents, veterans in advance planning of presidential trips, have' ben in Europe for weks, going over every foot of ground he will cover in the 10 days ahead and inspecting the places where he will live. Advance parties of the Army Signal Corps have installed special White House communications in Bonn, London and Paris. The 68-year-old President was described by his staff as being in top physical shape, but as customary, he was accompanied by his physician, Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder. Traveling with the President in a separate chartered commercial jet liner were more than 50 reporters, photographers and televi-sion-radio personnel. Second Wasp Death Recorded In State MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (UPD— The death of an Indianapolis man stung while on a hunting trip in Morgan County was the second fatality attributed to wasps in Indiana in two days. State Police said Carl Anthony Rizzo, 37, was hunting squirrels along White Lick Creek a half mile north of Mooresville yesterday. He climbed on a brush pile to get a better shot and a swarm of yellow jackets attacked him. A yellow jacket is a member of the wasp family. Morgan County Coroner E. C. Holmes said Rizzo died of heart failure but that the insect stings induced the fatal attack. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly sunny, continued hot and humid this afternoon and Thursday with chance of a few isolated afternoon and early nighttime thundershowers. Low tonight in the 70s. High Thursday in the 90s. Sunset today 7:26 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 6:08 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Continued hot and humid with scattered thundershowers. Lows mid 70s. Highs low and mid 90s.

disposal system. Canada enters heated objectiins every time the matter comes up, and President Eisenhower has twice vetoed diversion bills. Several Great Lakes states also oppose such legislation. Election: The House Elections Committe reported that investigation of the Little Rock, Ark., congressional contest last November showed that segregationist Dale Alford defeated his moderate opponent, Brooks Hays, by 1,498 votes. This was a greater margin by 276 votes than the original count had showed. Highways: Speaker Sam Bayburn said today he believes Congress will come up with some means of raisin new funds for the interstate highway program. The House Ways and Means Committee has insisted on a bill which would raise gasoline taxes 1 cent for 22 months and thereafter divert general revenues into the highway trust fond. The House Public Works Committee has voted to limit the tax increase to 12 months. Although Rayburn expressed confidence, he • gave no indication what the next step will be.

Traffic Death Toll In State Skyrocketing United Press International A sobering wave of traffic fatalities, with 12 persons killed in 8 accidents in 40 hours, sent Indiana's death toll skyrocketing today just after Governor Handley invoked an all-out campaign to stem the tide. Three of the accidents were mul-tiple-fatality wrecks, one of them killing three persons on the Northern Indiana Toll Road, another killing two men in Fort Wayne and the third killing two women near Seymour. The accidents came amid a threat the worst Hoosier toll in 18 years would be racked up this year. Ten fatalities were recorded Tuesday night and today forenoon. Even before the latest rash of accidents, Indiana State Police had prepared provisional figures showing Indiana’s highway death toll climbedto 646 by last Sunday midnight, more than 14 per cent above the 564 deaths recorded by the same time last year. Twenty-six fatalities were added to the 1959 list last week, compared with 17 in the corresponding week of 1958. The toll road crash occurred late Tuesday night 10 miles east of South Bend when a car smashed into the rear of a truck, killing Mrs. Teresa Trentz, 41, Chicago; her son, Charles, 12, and Judith Day, 11, Chicago. Mrs. Trentz’s husband, Charles, 43, driver of the car, and Grace Busillo, 78, Chicago, were taken to a Mishawaka hospital. The truck driver was Fred Sturkey, 31, Chicago. The Seymour crash dead were identified as Mrs. Elma L. Coryea, 52, and Mrs. Lorraine Winienger, 44, Seymour. Police said the accident occurred in a bridge during a fog just after dawn. ‘ Richard Bane, 17, Freetown, driver and lone occupant of one of the cars, was driving to the left of the center line in the bridge, police said. Bane was injured, along with five persons riding in the car in which the women were killed. They were believed to have been enroute to Columbus to work in a tomato processing plant. Shortly after dawn today, two women were killed on U.S. 31-A about three miles north of Seymour when two cars collided head-on near the White River bridge. Six persons in one of the cars were hurt and rushed to Schneck Memorial Hospital at Seymour. At Fort Wayne Tuesday night, William Scheiferstein, 34, and Wayne Barnett, 28, both of Fort Wayne, were killed when a car in which they were riding collided with a truck driven by Robert Shearer, 29, St Louis, Mo., at a downtown intersection. William Hoenig, 58, driver of the car in which the victims rode, was not hurt seriously. Police said (Continued on page eight)

Andrews Infant Girl Dies Tuesday Night Christine Diane Andrews, dayold daughter of Albert and Alice Krueckeberg-Andrews, died at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she was born at 8 p.m. Monday. The family resides on route 5, Decatur. Surviving in addition to the parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Noel Andrews of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Krueckeberg of Union township, and the great-grandparents. Mrs. Emma Krueckeberg of Union township. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Andrews of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith of Union township. Funeral services were scheduled for 3:30 o’clock this afternoon at the Zwick funeral home, the Revz W. C. Vetter officiating. Burial will be in the Immanuel Lutheran cemetery in Onion township.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 26,1959.

Changes In Faculty At Adams Central Two new teachers have been added to the Adams Central school faculty and two new teachers will replace former faculty members for the 1959-60 school year, assistant superintendent Hugh Tate announced today. At Adams Central high school, Mrs. Dorothy J. Schnepf will be an additional instructor, teaching English and social studies. She resides on route three. In the grade school, Richard G. Miller will teach grades five and six. Re-, placing John Eichenberger, he lives in Monroe. Miss Sally Rose Beer, route one, Berne, is the additional fourth and third grade teacher, to accommodate the increased enrollment this year. Mrs. Wanda M. Munson will be the new second grade teacher, replacing Mrs. Elaine Habegger Colston. Mrs. Munson plans to move to Decatur from Fort Wayne in the near future. Faculty Members Returning These faculty members will return: Herman E. Frantz, principal; Thomas Adler, science and mathematics; Richard Allspaw, science; Mrs. Wanda Archbold, commerce and physical education; Miss Lucile C. Beavers, mathematics and English; Robert L. Brown, social studies; C. Doyle Collier, industrial arts; Hubert L. Feasel, art; John Fruth, commerce and physical education; Donavon J. Gerig, instrumental music; Leon Gerig, vocal music; Harvey Haggard,, social studies; Amzie K. Miller, Jr., coach and mathematics. Mrs. Joyce Myers Nielsen, home economics; Robert W. Shoup, social studies and English; Donald W. Sprunger, English; Ronald Lee Stork, science, drivers’ training, and physical education; Mrs. Rowena Stucky, English and Latin; and Martin Watson, vocation! agriculture. Grade School Faculty In grades one through six, these faculty members will return: Jay K. Johnson, and Leo Strahm, grade six; Elmer E. Ehrsam and Kenneth Watkins, grade five; Mrs. Dolores B. Byerly and Mrs. Margaret Kuhn, grade four; Mrs. Veda Crist Haggard and Mrs. Harriet Mills, grade three; Mrs. Mary Egley, grade two; and Mrs. Naomi Griffith, Mrs. Martha Habegger, and Mrs. Eloise Leistner, grade one.

Monroe Festival To Open This Evening

Queens, bicycles, and bands will be on parade for the opening of the Monroe community days tonight. The opening parade will begin at 6 p.m., and the midway with rides and concessions will open immediately after the parade ends. Almost everything is ready for the crowds, general chairman Howard Habegger said this morning. The tents were erected last night at the general committee meetings, and rides are being set up now. Cakes and pies from members of the Lions club, and the Monroe rural and town fire departments are scheduled to arrive before 6 p.m. today, for concessions and the cafeteria to be set up in the Monroe fire station. Parade Begins on 124 The opening parade will form on hte blacktop behind the Adams Central school, beginning <jn state road 124. Tarveling down 124 and turning right toward the Monroe fire station, the parade will go a block south of the fire station, turning left to the Methodist church. There it will turn left toward road 124 again and back toward the Adams Central school. Decorated bicycles will compete for three prizes, while the 10 queen candidates will be accompanied by five county high school bands, the sheriffs mounted posse and the Monroe rural and town fire trucks.

Precautions In Germany For Ike Security BONN, Germany (UPI) — U.S. and West German officials worked out intricate security arrangements for the arrival today of President Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied forces that whipped Germany in World War 11. Most Germans today consider Eisenhower and the United States ■as the foundation stone of their freedom. But possibly there stil is some bitterness ini Germany against the U.S. President despite the passage of 14 years. U.S. Secret Service agents have ben in Germany for 10 days working out detais with West German officials and making their own inspections. Check All Rooms They checked almost inch-by-inch tiie 10 rooms in the chancellery which have been set aside for working sessios with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Every vantage point from which a bullet could be fired into any of the rooms has been checked. Adenauer usually sloughs off such stringent security arrangements for himself and his aides have made several disparaging remarks about the activity of the U S Secret Service men. Tempers Raw The American agents in turn explain to them that while Eisenhower also may get tired of all this security business the U.S. Congress has charged Secret Service with protecting him and there is nothing the President can do about it. Tempers were said to be a bit raw by the time the arrangements were completed Tuesday night but everyone teamed together 'to find a likely place for a landscape which the President painted for Adenauer several years ago. They finally decided to put it on the chancellor’s tea wagon and leave it to Adenauer to make sure the President sat where he would see it. Donald M. Nelson Is Seriously 111 LOS ANGELES (UPD—Donald M. Nelson, former war production board head, remained in serious condition today at Good Samaritan Hospital suffering from a stroke.

Continues Into Saturday The community days will continue for four nights and two days, until Saturday, when the climax will come with the coronation of Miss Adams county, 1959. Thursday night will be a variety show on the stage, beginning at 8 p.m. Friday morning the tractor pulling contest will begin, with the lightweights weighing in at 9 a.m. Friday noon will see the mediumweights weighing in for the after,noon contest. Saturday morning the pulling contest will end, with the heavyweights coming in at 9 a.m. Friday evening will be the first big contest evening for the 10 queen candidates. Each of the 10 win present a short act for the out-of-county judges, who will be judging the.talent part of the contest Friday evening, beginning on the outdoor stage at 8 p.m. Saturday evening at 9:30 o’clock, the coronation ceremonies for the new queen will begin. The winner wfll receive the crown from Miss Nancy Raudenbush, the queen selected at the community days celebration last year. t Throughout the community days, concessions and five commercial rides wil operate for the crowds on the midway as weU as a cafeteria where sandwiches, soup, pie, and cake will be sold.

Public Schools Set Registration, List Faculty Members

Two new teachers will be on the faculty of Decatur high school, and eight new faculty members will be on the Lincoln and Northwest school staffs, W. Guy Brown, Decatur superintendent of public schools, announced today. The teachers will meet the day after Labor Day, and classes will begin the following day, Wednesday, Sept. 9. Book lists will be available soon. -*' Charles Abel, a graduate of Indiana University, will teach English and social studies in Decatur high school, while John Butler, also a graduate of 1.U., will teach English. Seven at Lincoln Seven new teachers will be on the Lincoln school faculty. Miss Anita Smith, recent graduate of Ball State Teachers’ College, and Mrs. Beulah Parrish, who formerly taught in Hartford township, will both be kindergarten teachers. Miss Frieda Lehman, who taught in Blue Creek township, will be a third grade teacher. Mrs. Doris Fox, who taught in Wells county, will teach grade four pupils. Three teachers will be new in the sixth grade. Miss Wilma Andrews, who graduated from Ball State Teachers’ college this summer, will return to Lincoln school from Pleasant Mills. John Eichenberger, from Adams Central school, will teach grade six. He is a graduate of Heidelberg College. Mrs. Dorothy Eichenauer will also return to the sixth grade after teaching a year at Monmouth school. At Northwest elementary school, Mrs. Margaret Schnepf, a graduate of St. Francis College, Fort Wayne, will teach second grade. Returning Faculty Members Faculty members returning to Decatur high school will be Hugh J. Andrews, principal; Merritt Alger, mathematics and science; Paul Bevelhimer, English, mathematics, and basketball coach; Mrs. Roberta Chronister, vocational home economics; Harry Dailey, science and mathematics; Deane T. Dorwin, speech, social studies, and journalism; Sylvester Everhart, driver training and physical education; Miss Helen Haubold, vocal music; Maynard Hetrick, commerce; William Journay, general agriculture and science; Miss Kathryn Kauffman, art. Amos Ketchum, industrial arts; Miss M. Eleanor Pumphrey, librarian; Clint Reed, band; Lowell J. Smith, social studies; Miss Charlotte Vera, Latin and French; Miss Catherine Weidler, English; Mrs. Rebecca Worthman, physical education, health and safety; Robert Employment And Payrolls Higher The statistical accounting for nine of Decatur’s industries by the local ..Chamber of Commerce for July, 1959, indicates increased growth and expansion as industrial employes and payrolls moved ahead of last month’s figures and well beyond the July, 1958, data. Everythihg, including births and building permits, soared to greater heights with the exception of direct poor relief cases and its costs, deaths, and total carloadings. Building, estimated at $224,155, outdistanced last month's figures by more than 13 times and almost tripled last July’s total. Industrial employes ran to 1,654 in July while the June figure was seven less, with the July, 1958 total at 1,481. Payrolls, at the same time, reached $880,521, or more than $230,000 over June’s reading with the 1958 July figure at $748,768.

Electric meters rose eight over June's total of 4,021 and 81 more than the 1958 reading of 3,948. WateY meters, likewise, edged ahead by one from June’s figure and nine more than 1958’s total of 2,559. Gas meters dropped off by one from June’s total of 2,449, but increased by 68 more than the 1958 total of 2,380. Telephones, including rural, Continued a steady climb to 6,447, or 13 more than June, and 217 more than July a year ago. Eighteen poor relief cases were noted in July’s report while 24 were reported in June and 21 a year ago. The cost last month was only $759 while the June total of $1,074 and $1,552 in July, 1958. In the birth category, 63 were born, an increase of five over Juna and 13 over last year. Ony two deaths were reported, white six were reported in June and seven (Continued on pege eight)

Worthman, physical education, health and safety, football and track coach, and William McColly, commerce. Elementary Schools Returning to the Lincoln school will be these faculty members: P. Bryce Thomas, principal; Mrs. Helen Zwick, kindergarten; Mrs. Ruby Swickard, Mrs. Madeline Snell, and Mrs. Ruth Petrie, grade l one; Miss Mary Jo Huffman, Mrs. Wanda Miller, and Mrs. Marjorie Warner, grade two; Mrs. Evelyn Blaney and Mrs. Kathryn Dorwin, grade three; Miss Vera Van Buskirk and Mrs. Emma Kerst, grade four; Mrs. Audrey Bleeke, Mrs. Suzanne Kuhn Smith, and Mrs. Xariffa Walters, grade five; Mrs. Thelma Hendricks, grade six; and Floyd Reed, Raymond Lehman, Jerry Leitz, and Robert Doan, grade seven. Ten faculty members who will return to Northwest elementary school; Hubrt Zerkel, Jr., principal; Mrs. Anita Fisher, kindergarten; Miss Mary Helen Moran, and Mrs. Drusilla Hartman, grade one; Mrs. Irene Friedly, grade two; Mrs. Evelyn Detter and Mrs. Marnell Shepherd, grade three; Mrs. Leona Feasel, grade four, and Paul Liechty and Miss Glennys Roop, grade five , Conservation Field Day Held Tuesday About 80 Adams county farmers attended the soil conservation field day Tuesday at the Ken *Deke) Schnepf farm under the auspices of the Adams district soil conservation supervisors. The first demonstration centered on a construction of a grass waterway, which reduces the chances of soil erosion. .An old water wav was plowed up and re-designed to conform to current soil erosion practices. The new system was planted with Fescue grass. This demonstration gave the attending farmers the insight on how to obtain a grass waterway at a minimum of time and cost. The second exhibition was an actual ditching eperation, laymg tile about three feet beneath the ground. The specifications for the demonstration gave the average farmer knowledge of what he can do on his individual farm in similar situations. The surface dra nage demonstrate n closed the ine and «...e-half hour session with ar. eight-root pan being formed to channel surface water tow arc the grass waterway, thus Saving the soil from erosion. Equipment used in the demonstration was supplied by the following: Sprunger Implement Co. Decatur Equipment Inc., Dierkes Implement Co., C. R. Bowers and Sons, and Krick-Tyndall Tile Co., all of Decatur. Asisting the supervisors with the organization of the field day were Adams county soil conservationists Milt Spenc.e Elmer Phelps, and Roger Koeneman, and Leo Seltenright and Marvey Spoonhauer, of the county extension agent office in Decatur. A food table was set up by the Union township 4-H club. A lunch was served about noon.

U.S. To Give Help To Laos

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States has decided to give Laos emergency - help in arming 5,000 more troops and militiamen to deal with Communist guerrilla attacks, official sources disclosed today. Formal announcement of the decision, expected this afternoon, is not likely to mention the 5,000-man size of the force increase or the cost of the emergency aid, officials said. But they said the United States will foot the entire bill, including pay and the cost of uniforms and other equipment. The present 25,-000-man Laotian army is entirely financed by U. S. aid. The decision followed shortly a warning here by the Laotian government’s ' special representative, Ngon Sananikone, that his govern-

Registration for students of the three Decatur public schools will be held next week, according to plans announced by the principals, Hugh J. Andrews, high school; Bryce Thomas, Lincoln elementary school, and Hubert Zerkel, Jr., Northwest elementary school. Public schools will open Wednesday, Sept. 9, with the annual teachers meeting to be held Tuesday, Sept. 8. Registration will be held according to the following schedule: Lincoln School Pupils will report to the school auditorium to receive room assignments and information concerning rental books on the following schedule; Sixth grade—Monday, Aug. 31, 9 a.m. Fifth grade—Monday, Aug. 31, 1 p.m. Fourth grade—Tuesday, Sept. 1, 9 a m. Third grade—Tuesday, Sept. 1, 1 p.m. Second grade—Wednesday, Sept. 2, 9 a.m. First grade—Wednesday, Sept. 2,1 p.m. Seventh grade—Friday, Sept. 4, 9 a.m. Kindergarten — Parents of children who are planning to enter kindergarten are asked to register for their children Thursday, Sept. 3. Boys’ registration will be i from 9 until 11 a.m. and girls’ registration from 1 until 3 p.m. Parents will be requested to pay a $2 registration fee and present the child’s birth certificate. Union township — Union township students are asked to report at the Lincoln school Tuesday morning, Sept. 8, at 8:15 a.m., to register for room assignments and information regarding rental books. Northwest School Pupils at the Northwest school will report to receive room assignments and rental book information under the following schedule: Fifth grade—Monday, Aug. 31, 10 a.m. Fourth grade—Tuesday, Sent. 1, 9 a.m. ' , Third grade—Tuesday, Sept. 1, 10 a.m. Second grade—Wednesday, Sept. 2, 9 a.m. First grade—Wednesday, Sept. ’2, 10 a.m. Kindergarten — Thursday, Sept. 3. Boys to register at 9 a.m. girls register at 10 a m. Parents are asked to register their children at these hours, pay the $2 registration fee, and present children’s birth certificates. High School Decatur high school students will register under the following schedule: Seniors—Monday, Aug. 31, from 9 a m. until 3 p.m. Juniors —Tuesday, Sept. 1, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Sophomores — Wednesday, Sept. 2, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Freshmen — Thursday, Sept. 3, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Eighth grade—Friday, Sept. 4, with all members of the grade to report at 9 a.m. Locker keys will be issued at time of registration And the book rental room will be open, for the distribution of books.

ment faces collapse if the Com-munist-led rebellion is not soon stamped out. Sananikone, the brother of the prime minister of Laos, told State Department officials in a 35-min-ute conference late Tuesday that the military situation in Laos is “grave” and if allowed to worsen, “it will become a debacle.” The monsbon season is about to end and dry weather would favor stepped-up military action. State Department ofifcials explained that the additional military equipment to be purchased would be used to outfit special militia. These forces then would take over the handling of law and order in many parts of the country —jobs now performed by the government’s small army of 25,000 men.

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