Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 217, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 217.

Several Children Die As Tremendous Blast Rocks Texas School

- HOUSTON, Tex. (UPD—A tremendous explosion shattered the Edgar A. Poe Elementary School shortly after 10 a. m. today, killing several students and a man who may have tossed a bomb into the school. A newsman who reached the scene shortly after the explosion said he counted “at least six dead," including a white man about 30 years old. The school is attended by white children only. None of the schools in Houston is integrated. The sheriff’s office said that it was told tint “someone threw a bomb on the school basketball court.” Bodies of three children were lying in the yard of the school when police first arrived at the scene. Hundreds of frantic people were running around trying to find their children. One of the dead was said to be the woman principal of the school who tried to wrest the suitcase containing the explosives from the man. A newsman for a Houston television station was about a block from the school when the bomb went off. Larry Rasco, the station’s news editor, quoting the newsman, said the bomb was thrown on a basketball court, rather than into the school itself. The newsman, who gathered his account from persons on the scene, said a man walked into the principal’s office and tried to sell her something. The principal told him she wasn’t interested and tried to run him off. The man opened the suitcase he was carrying, according to the newsman, took the bomb out, threw it and started running. The bomb went off before the man could get out of range, killing both him and the principal. Japanese Princess Reported Pregnant TOKYO (UPD—Princess Michi-, ko, wife of Crown Prince Akihito, is pregnant, the imperial palace announced today. The 24-year-old commoner-born princess and Akihito were married last April 40. The announcement said an examination last Thursday disclosed she was four months pregnant.

Inform Amish Send Children To School

The parents of 30 Amfsh ninthgrade students in Adams and Alien counties are being informed today that their children must attend approved schools or they will face court action. In Adams county, attedance officer Mrs. Mildred Foley visited Adams Central, Berne, and Geneva for the daily attendance report, and a full report on any absent students. Five students at Geneva, one at Berne, and four at Adams Central who have graduated from the eighth grade but are not yet 16 have not yet attended school this year. 4 Honrs A Week Monday, county superintendent Gail Grabil went to the “back porch school” at the home of C. P. Neuenschwander northeast of Berne, only to learn that no pupils were there; the “school” is to be open four hours on Fridays, from noon until 4 pm. It was reported that some of the four girls who attend Adams Central actually broke down and cried when they learned that their parents would not permit them to return to school this year. Jack Lee's Problem ' In Allen county, Carlton Giant, the county attendance officer, reported that about 20 students ready for the ninth grade failed to attend classes. The seventh and eighth grade pupils, awaiting “certification” of their one-room cementblock school, are in school. Os the pupils effected, about onehalf attend Wood Lan, the school over which Jack Lee, former Geneva principal, is now principal. The other 10 attend Harlan and

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

i Commissioners In ; Regular Session The board of county commissioners met in regular session Monday 1 in the offices of county auditor Ed ’ Jaberg,, receiving the boiler in--1 spection report of the Hartford Steam Boiler inspection and Insur- ' ance Co. and discussing plans to 1 improve the boiler facilities of the court house. Although the report showed that no major repair was necessary for the court house boiler, minor repairs are necessary to keep die ' facilities in a functional condition. The commissioners appointed ' Haukgs Heating and Plumbing to make the necessary repairs of the boiler. They also discussed county highway matters with superintendent Lawrence Noll. A report that the county was going to blacktop the . 4-H road, just south of the county garage had been circulated, and a request from 4-H club members asked that the entire strip of road be blacktopped. The commissioners stated that only the entrance to the county highway garage was slated for blacktopping in that immediate vicinity. The commissioners then adjourned after handling routine matters such as the local residents at the Irene Byron hospital, who requested special services. Funeral Rites Held Far Light Infant Graveside services will be held late this afternoon at the Decatur cemetery for Tammy Leigh Light, stillborn Monday night at the Adams county memorial hospital to Darvon D. and Sharon Anne NernLight, 703% North Second street. The Rev. Richard C. Ludwig officiated at the services, conducted by the Zwick funeral home. Surviving in addition to die parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Eldor Nern of Antwerp, 0., , and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Light lof Decatur route 6: the greatgrandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nern of near Woodburn, G. A. Light of Decatur, Mrs. Della -Pease of Fort Wayne, and Mr. and Mrs. Chester Shoaf of Monroe, and a great-great-grandmother, *Mrs. John Nern of Fort Wayne. I

Leo. Giant stated that a letter, having the same effect as the notice to be given today by Mrs. Foley in this county, has been sent to the Allen county Amish parents. The Adams and Allen county school leaders agreed Friday in Indianapolis to handle their problems similarly. Double Failure Os Firing Os Missiles CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD —The Army failed early today to fire its intermediate range Jupiter rocket, three hours after a scheduled Vanguard rocket launching was postponed. The double missile failure came only hours before Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in the United States to personally tell President Eisenhower of Russia’s successful moonshot, Lunik 11. A malfunction prevented the Jupiter from leaving its pad, a spokesman for the Atlantic missile test range said. The malfunction occurred shortly after ignition, causing the engine “to cut off automatically while still on the launching pad.” Cause of the malfunction was not available. x Three hours earlier an attempt to place an earth satellite in orbit with a Vangifard rocket also failed. The Vanguard, expected to hurl a 50-pound instrumented satellite into orbit, was never ignited and its firing was postponed until an unannounced ante.

Nikita Arrives In Washington

WASHINGTON (UPD-Premier Nikita Khrushchev, beaming, waving his hat and gesturing to President Eisenhower with his hands, arrived today for a fateful 13-day visit that could turn the course of the cold war—for better dr for worse. The Soviet leader’s mammoth TU-114 turbo-prop arrived almost an hour behind schedule. Confusion was compounded when the great craft had to be turned around on the gunway so that Khrushchev emerged on the other side of the plane from the color guard that was lined up for him. Eisenhower went around the plane and greeted the Soviet leader at the foot of a specially built 27-step ramp. The President shook hands heartily with Khrushchev, with his wife, Mrs. Nina Khrushchev, and with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Accorded Full Honors • Khrushchev wore a dark gray suit and carried a black hat. On his lapels were two gold stars. Mrs. Khrushchev was dresed in a blue print uit and wa wearing a black hat and black shoes. Khrushchev’s plane landed at 11:21 a.m. e.d.t.. He Emerged at 11:28. t was the first time in his career that Khrushchev had been accorded the full honors of a visiting chief of state and he got the full treatment—2l-gun cannon salute, review of an honor guard of the four U.S. armed services, reception by the top-ranking officials of the American government and their wives, and the playing of the national anthems of the two nations. Both men made brief and formal opening statements at the airport. Eisenhower read a brief, carefully prepared message of welcome in which he expressed hope that his talks with Khrushchev “may contribute to better understanding.” Want Peace with Justice He assured Knrushchev that th American people bear no ill will toward the Soviet Union, that they covet no territory nor any additional power. But he took a sharp dig at the totalitarian Communist government. “The political and social systems of our two countries differ greatly,” he said, “n our system, the people themselves establish and control the government. (Continued on pa*e three)

First Meet Held On School Organization The first county meeting to discuss the mechanics of the school re-organization act of 1959 and the proposed study committee, which will survey educational facilities in the county, took place Monday night at the Hartford Center gym with-more than 100 interested persons attending. Eugene Burry, Hartford township trustee, was the main speaker for the educational program, while Judge Myles F. Parrish al-, so spoke briefly and answered questions with Burry about the act and the study committee. School superintendent Gail Grabill and the judge have planned similar meetings throughout the county to enlighten those parents and interested persons on the function of the re-organization act and the study committee. Last night, file' meeting lasted about three hours, with a great deal of interest being exhibited by those attending. No animosity was shown by the audience toward the proposed actions, prompted by the new law, as most were generally interested in learning just what the law meant to the individual school district in, the county. The next meeting is slated for Pleasant Mills tonight, with Gerald Vizard acting as main speaker and moderator. Seven other meetings will follow.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER Df ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1959.

Lauds lions Club For Aid To Blind Fred Cole, the blind sales manager for the Indiana agency for the blind, a state agency only onethird supported by state funds, complimented the Decatur Lions club on its aid to the blind of the state on the first fall meeting for the local service club. Next Monday night the Lions club will hold its annual light bulb and broom sale. The Lions club scout troop will pass out handbills this week, and will also take one of the city districts next week during the sale. Lions will pick up the bro Oms in the alley behind the Western Auto store between 5 p. m. and 10 p. m. Ed Highland will check out the brooms. Blind Suddenly Cede, who five years ago wa/ the personnel director of a large factory in Indianapolis, woke up one morning to find himself totally blind from glaucoma, a very painful disorder of the eye. Married, and the father of two children, Cole had to begin immediately the readjustment necessary for a blind person to meet the necessities of every-day life. He lost his job and his house, on which he was unable to meet payments, before he was able to learn enough to readjust to a blind life. Indiana ranks 44th of 48 states in caring for its blind citizens, he explained, but in spite of that art understaffed agency attempts to train the blind for a profession while also making two-thirds of its expenses, a very difficult feat. Lions Help Blind Lions clubs all over the state are helping the blind in many ways, he pointed out. A total of 67 of the 375 clubs in the state purchased, as did the Decatur club, brooms for the annual broom sale from the state agency, helping to employ and train many in a useful occupation. The Lions of Indiana also help maintain a center for training leader dogs in Michigan, one of many such centers throughout the United States. Cole spoke wmle his seven-year-old leader dog wagged its tail under the table. He was driven to the meeting by his wife, whoi also had many readjustments to face during the past five years. Many Blind Work Cole explained the function of the state agency, and the numerous problems of the growing blind population in a rapid-fire, humorous way. Blind people, he explained, must compete with sighted people in earning a living. There are about 8,000 blind in Indiana, and 60% of these are elderly. Many operate their own businesses, and the state operates a supervisory service for those with vending, stands. The blind serve in including insurance Salesmen, car salesman, newspaper reporters, stock brokers, and hundreds of other useful professions. Muncie Council Votes For Daylight Time MUNCIE, Ind. (UPD—The City Council voted Monday night to keep Muncie on daylight saving time all winter for the first time in three years. The council, in a surprise move, passed a “fast” time ordinance after hearing favorable testimony from representatives or organized labor, the local chamber of commerce and the ABC Bus Co. Muncie had been returning to “slow” time each winter in accordance with a 1957 state law, but prior to that law had observed year-around “fast” time for three years.

Red Cross Meet Is Held Here Last Evening Thrw of five new Red Cross boa_\i members and three of five new biood program chairmen were introduced to the Red Cross county board, and Dr. Harry C. Harvey, M.D., director of the Fort Wayne regional blood center, spoke briefly to the largest board meeting in several years, Monday evening. Wilour Petrie, chairman of the board, introduced Mrs. Henry Heimann, Talmage Campbell, and Joseph Anderson, the three new board members present. Also on the coard, but not present, were Robert Meyer, deputy sheriff, and Walter Stoppenhagen, of the Decatur General Electric plant. Mrs. Heimann has served for several years as chairman of the Washington township fund raising, program. Campbell is a new resident of the area, having come from New York. Anderson is from Geneva. New Chairmen The Rev. Harold jl. Bond, new ehairman of the home service program, was unable to be Mrs. Cletus Miller, a registered nurse who was formerly chief burse at the Fort Wayne blood center, was introduced as the new blood program chairman, succeeding Mrs. Ed Bauer, who has served for seven years. Mrs. Harold Engle has returned as head of the staff aides; Mrs. Lee Fleming was introduced as new chairman of the canteen workers in the blood program, and Mrs. Louis Zwick will head the volunteer workers in the blood program. Blood Center Explained Following the service awards, .Dr. Harvey explained the operation of the Fort Wayne center, and what could be done to improve its services. Dr. Harvey explained that if a county resident needs blood in another area, exchange is very simple. First, the county chapter fills out the top half of a form verifying that it has a blood program, and the person needing blood is a county resident. Then this is sent to the hospital where the patient is using the blood, preferably by a relative of the patient who can make certain that the hospital promptly fills out its part of the form. As soon as the hospital verifies the amount of blood used by the patient, the form should be forwarded to the Fort Wayne blood bank. The hospital giving the blood to an Adams county patient may then draw, at its own convenience, the blood supplied. The blood is shapped on instructions from the using hospital. County Ranks High Dr. Harvey' complimented the canteen workers for the long hours they must put in each time the blood unit visits the county. He noted that two years ago thd county furnished 88.8% of its blood quota; this was up to 92.8% a year ago, and 96% this past year. Adams county has' every chance of making its quota this next year, he pointed out. In the Fort Wayne blood center area, only seven groups were above Adams county in percentage of quota last year, and four of these were Ohio groups. Only Huntington county. Kendallville, and Goshen in Indiana were above Adams county. There were 35 groups below this county on the chart. The blood needs of the 1,322.519 people in the region amount to 37,500 pints a year, or 30 pints per 1,000 people. Training Programs For Scout Leaders The first in a series of training programs of leaders or those interested in Girl Scouting, will be held Thursday from 1 until 3 o’clock in the Girl Scout room at the Youth and Community Center. The training will help in planning Brownies to intermediate and senior scout programs. /

Boy Dies Crossing Road To School Bus PERU, Ind. (UPD—A 7-year-old boy was killed and another pupil was'injured seriously today when they were struck by a skidding car as they crossed a highway to board a school bus. The car also struck the bus, containing 50 other pupils. Indiana state police said that Jeffery Chalkley, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Chalkley, R. R. 4, Peru, was killed in the accident on U.S. 31 a mile south of Peru. Injured seriously was Phyllis Jean Moy, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Moy, R. R. 4. Troopers said the school bus, driven by Alvin Metger, 51, R. R. 4, had halted to pick up 11 children standing in a group on the opposite side of the highway. One child had crossed, and Jeffery and Phyllis were halfway across when a car driven by .Miss Marilyn Schroll, 19, R. R. 4, approached. Troopers said the northbound car skidded as ft approached the southbound bus, hit both children, then struck the bus. They said the cause of the skid was not immediately determined but the sun may have blinded the driver. Police said none of the 50 children on the bus, nor any of the eight pupils waiting to cross the highway, was injured. The boy was killed outright. The girl was taken to Dukes Memorial hospital at Peru with a possible skull fracture/ broken left shoulder and facial lacerations. First Atom-Powered. Icebreaker To Sea

MOSCOW (UPD — The world’s first atomic-powered icebreaker, the Lenin, headed out into the Baltic Sea this morning on its first sea trial, the occicial news agency Tass reported. A Tass dispatch from Leningrad said the Lenin, a Prestige building ’achievement of Soviet science which has been largely overshadowed here by the Soviet moon rocket, will be attached to Russia’s northern fleet and will operate in the Arctic when trials are completed. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness and cool tonight, some light rain or drizzle likely central. Wednesday partly cloudy, cooler central and south. Lows ranging from the 40s extreme north to the 50s central and south. Highs Wednesday in the 50s north to the 60s south. Sunset today 6:54 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:26 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair to partly cloudy and cool. Lows 38 to 45. Highs in the 60s.

Congress Quits This Morning

Washington (UPD-congress adjourned at dawn today, ending its eight month session with lastcontroversial issues — civil rights minute action on two of its most and foreign aid. The first session of the Demo-cratic-controlled 86th Congress ended at 6:24 fa.m. e.d.t. when the Senate adjourned sine die. The House had quit at 6:21 a.m. e.d.t. The second session, barring an unexpected ’special call by President Eisenhower, will convene on Jan. 6. Adjournment came less than six hours before the scheduled Washington arrival of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and eliminated the question of whether he should be invited to address a joint session. The legislators shoved some of their biggest problems under the rug until 1960. They postponed the main civil rights fight until midFebruary and also put off action on farm and school aid legislation. Played to Packed Galleries While the House marked time most of the final day of the longest session in eight years the Senate played to packed visitors. Galleries in a windup debate on civil rights. The product of its labor was a two-year extension of the federal Civil Rights Commission, which the House accepted as part of a catch-all 83,626,00,060 appropriations bill. Os the bill’s total, $3,225,813,000 was for the foreign aid program. A $500,000 item covered next year’s expenses of the Civil Rights Commission, which had been scheduled to die Nov. 8. Democrats, who ruled the 1959 session with top-heavy majorities in both Houses, claimed they produced a “solid and substantial” record depite tire frustrations of “divided government.”

Honor Red Cross Veterans

Leo Kirsch

Phil Sauer Twelve Adams county citizens were honored Monday night by the county Red Cross and given service awards for from 30 to 5 years of service on the board of directors. First aid instructors were also honored. R. E. Glendening, assistant cashier at the First State Bank, and county chairman of the Red Cross from 1951 to 1954, was honored for 30 years of active service to the Red Cross. Glendening served on the campaign drives when they were called “war drives” during the Second World War. He served as treasurer for several years, and as vice chairman before becoming chairman. He is still active in an advisory capacity. Mrs. Bauer Honored Mrs. Ed Bauer, who was blood program chairman from 1952 until July of this yean, was also honored for 30 years service. Mrs. Bauer is a board member, and served on the sewing committee during the war years. She was

GOP leaders held that public support of President Eisenhower’s fight for economy and a balanced budget forced the Democrats to “bend” in his direction. The session’s accomplishments included approval of Hawaiian statehood, a compromise labor reform bill, plus housing, airport construction, veterans aid and international monetary measures. Crises overshadow Session It was a session overshadowed by the Communist-induced crises in Berlin and Lao, and stirred by the U.S.-Soviet race for outer space and the unfolding Eisenrecord despite the frustrations of visits. Khrushchev’s American tour applied the final “get-home” pressure on Capitol Hill. Many members of Congress*, and State Department officials, were anxious to have Congress in recess when the free-wheeling Soviet premier reached Wahington. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson promised his colleagues that “on or about” Feb. 15, 1960, the Senate would consider the question of a major rights bill. His pledge, with companion agreement from GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen, was part of an adjournment understanding by which agreement was reached on the Civil Rights Commission extension. Southern senators made a record against extension of the commission in a series of prepared speeche. Then the Senate voted 71 to 18 to suspend its rules o the extenlon could be written into the foreign aid money bill, and approved the rider itself by an identical vote. The aid bill passed by a vote of 64 to 25.

R. E. Glendening SO siSI Richard Macklin

chairman of production. Leo Kirsch, Decatur postmaster, was honored for 25 years service. A board member, he headed many Red Cross fund campaigns, and was disaster chairman in 1942. He served as vice chairman, and is still active in an advisory capacity. Matthias Kirsch, his unde, was president of the local chapter in 1917 when the Red Cross was called the “Red Cross temporary association.” E. M. Webb Serves E. M. Webb, superintendent of schools at Berne, was also honored for 25 years of service. A board member, Webb was the 1943 chairman of war bond purchases for the chapter; he served as county chairman on the resignation of Avon Burk. He was vice chairman several terms, and Adams county chairman two terms. The chairman of the Berne fund campaign since 1938, he is, still active in an advisory capacity. Four members were honored for 10 years or more of service, including Miss Bernice Nelson, Phil Sauer, Mrs. H. P. Engle, and Miss Glennys Roop. Miss Nelson Awarded Miss Nelson was home service chairman in 1947, and together with Judge Earl Adams and Mrs. W. A. Lower formulated the original home service policies. A board member, she has served as secretary for many years. Phil Sauer, also a board member, is disaster chairman, and served also as fund campaign chairman. Mrs. H. P. Engle has been a board member since. 1949 and has been staff aid chairman from the beginning of the blood program. Miss Glennys Roop, the present secretary of the board, has also served since 1949. She is chairman of the junior Red Cross. Three' members of the board were honored son five years of service, Mrs. Mildred Foley, Earl Fuhrman, and Richard Macklin. Preble Lady Honored Mrs. Foley, the county attendance officer, has been on the board since 1954 and has served as chairman of the fund campaign for Preble. She is co-chairman of the jpnior Red Cross program. Fuhrman server as chairman of the board for two terms, and also as vice chairman. A board member since 1952, he also served as fund chairman. Richard Macklin has served in the important post of treasurer of the chapter since bis appointment to the board in 1954. Ist Aiders Awarded The first aid instructors honored for five years of service were Mrs. Roger Singleton, Gerald Durkin, Iris Lehman, and Roy Gilliom, the latter two from Berne. Durkin also is a board member and chairman of the first aid and water safety program. Wilbur Petrie, president of the county Red Cross this year, was then presented with his five-year pin. He was recently elected to succeed Earl Fuhrman, who had served two terms. A former fund campaign chairman, he has served several years as vice president of the board.

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