Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVIL No. 219.

Amish School Problem Placed Before Juvenile Court Os Adams County

Adams county prosecutor Severin H. Schurger today prepared papers to take the question of the 10 Amish school children who have not been in school this year before the juvenile court of Adams county. Schurger had the choice of taking the matter’ before the circuit court and prosecuting the parerits, or of taking the matter before the juvenile court, where the children may be placed under the custody of the welfare department. Explains Course Since the parents have already stated that they would go to jail before they would send their children past the eighth grade in public school, Schurger stated, the matter was brought up in juvenile court. It is felt that by taking action against the children the parents are more likely to respond, since they will not want their children placed in foster homes. The Adams Central school has four girls affected, Berne has one girl, and Geneva has three girls and two boys absent. Allen County In Allen county the Amish have already threatened to pull out their seventh and .eighth grade students next Monday to send them to a substandard school built recently by the group there. All 20 township trustees in Allen county are supporting the trustees in the four townships which have Amish pupils. When the Amish appeared before county superintendent Gail Grabill Wednesday, they gave him the foUowfhg statement in writing. It is printed exactly as it was written by the Amish themselves.

Amish Statement

“Our churches have organized a Private church School through the aid of the Bishops ministers and 100% vote of the church membership and have appointed one member from each of the three church districts as our School Board or Board of education for this ogranization by 100% vote of the church members. The board members are Noah Wengerd, Jacob R. Schwartz, and Jacob Girod and have adopted the vocational School law with part-time classes as found in the Acts of 1913. Chapter 24, approved Feb. 22, 1913 and Mar. 4, 1919 and agin March 10, 1921 Chapter 173. Our class instructor and class room were adopted and approved by 100% vote of the church members. We believe and is our opinion that our childern are getting more of the instruction that they will need in there daily life according to Our Religious belief and interpretation of the bible and ways of life then they would in the public schools, in Our Classes we teach English. Mathematics, Spelling, Home Economics and agriculture. There vocational training consist of actual training in house keeping, cooking, baking, canning. Sewing, takeing of domestic animals, forestry and other wage-earning 'or productive work on the farm and providing for the home and family under Parental supervision and are not runing at leisure in idleness, it is the duty of parents or Guardians to have child occupied at home on the farm and with a period of study in the courses before mentioned and make a complete report of there achievement each weak and are bound to there dutys in all hours While public schools are in session and it is our opinion that we are within our legal rights and privileges under provision of the act of 1953 chapter 249 as found in Burns (1957 supp.) and in the the clause of the School organization act of 1959 pertaining to the private church organized Schools (and also the First and Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitutional provisions) (which states) congress Shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or the free exercise thereof, No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”

GrabiU’s Answer Grabill pointed out that the number of students Involved, 10. is ' very small here, and not important in itself. What is important, he stressed, was the fact that the state has the right to set up standards to protect the health and safety of children and adults in

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any school, private or public, and that it has the right to require certain standards of teaching methods, hours of attendance, and ages of attendance. This in no way aonages any religious right. Any religion that sincerely desires to build and I maintain its own school, that meets the necessary requirements for health and safety, and provide education by trained teachers to children between the ages of 7 and 16, will certainly be approved. “But,” Grabill reiterated, "no back porch school, which meets four hours a week, and uses the children for house and farm work the rest of the time with no supervision by trained agricultural, home economics, or vocational shop instructor, no school whose teacher only had an eighth grade education, will ever be Approved here. “To do so would be to open the gates to every group that wanted to set up its own ‘religious’ standards, and create complete havoc in this community. It wo-Jd be a shame to bring the stigma of ridicule that will follow acceptance of the back-porch scheme on our community, on Berne, and on the fine first-class parochial schools maintained by the Catholics and Lutheran groups here.” Grabill also emphasized that the members of the state commission on education have called him by telephone, even while he was talking to the Amish leaders, and told him that the state will under no condition approve a school which has not been previously approved by the county school authorities, and meets state minimum requirements. And every child that transfers from a public school to a parochial school must first satisfy the county superintendent that the parochial school is giving equal training, he explained. It is under this law that the superintendent is acting.

Herter Appeals For Disarming

UNITED NATIONS (UPI) — Secretary of State Christian A. Herter today challenged the Soviet Union to negotiate on disarmament as away of preventing the arms, race "from exploding into nuclear conflict.” Herter made his appeal in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly one day in advance of the address to be made by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The Soviet leader has promised to unveil a new Kremlin disarmament plan. Herter also told the conclave that any efforts to change the international situation by force “could destroy us all.” “Total nuclear war has now become, quite literally, a suicidal enterprise,” he declared. Khrushchev in his Washington speech Wednesday described a future war as “sheer madness.” He said such a conflict would cover the earth with “ashes and graves.” The Soviet leader also described disarmament as “the burning issue of our times.” Herter urged the Russians to join with the West at forthcoming disarmament talks in a spirit of sincerity and seriousness. “The degree to which we succeed may determine man’s future.” he told the delegates. Herter, addressing the assembly for the first time since he succeeded the late John Foster Dulles this summer, said the disarmament problem is one deserving of “all of our imagination and ingenuity.” He warned there would be a “growing danger in an indefinite continuation of the arms face.” Five free world nations and five Communist nations are to begin disarmament talks early next year. British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd will highlight the afternoon session. Lloyd sandwiched

Manned Rocket In Successful Flight

EDWARDS AFB, Calif. (UPD— An experimental Xls manned rocket successfully flashed across the desert under its own power for the first time today in the "Kitty Hawk flight” , for human space travel. Test ' pilot Scott Crossfield brought the ship designed to probe the fringes of space to a skidding halt on a dry lake bed. Fourteen minutes earlier, the Xls was released from a 852 bomber flying at 38,000 feet altitude and its engines cut in for the first time. The stud-winged craft—half airplane, half rocket ship—flew to a height of nine miles and traveled about 1,200 miles an hour on today's initial powered flight. Like the Wright’s first heavier-than-air flight 56 years ago, today's Xls only hinted at things to come in ultra-sonic space travel. The 15-ton rocket craft streaked on a 100-mile triangular course over the Mojave Desert before Crossfield brought it in for a 200-mile-an-hour landing at Rogers Dry Lake. Because of its abbreviated airfoil surfaces, the ship had to land that fast or stall out. With crash and fire trucks standing by, Crossfield brought the unwieldly plane in with its nose high in the air to get as much lift as possible out of its stubby wings. A crowd of reporters and military observers cheered as the plane skidded to a dusty stop. Dies Os Injuries In Traffic Wreck COLUMBUS, Ind. (UPD—Herman E. Glass, 33, Glassgow, Ky., died Wednesday in Bartholomew Hospital here of injuries suffered Monday in a hearse-truck collision on U.S. 31 near here.

his policy speech between Herter and Khrushchev’s because he plans to return to Britain this week end to participate in the parliamentary election campaign. The General Assembly is expected to endorse today the successful U.S. effort to block an Indian-Soviet move to seat Communist Chinese delegates in the United Nations. The 21-nation steering committee, by a 12 to 7 vote with Austria abstaining, Wednesday approved and sent to the Assembly a U.S. motion rejecting India’s Sovietbacked appeal for a full debate on the Chinese representation issue and shelving for the duration of the Assembly any move to oust the Chinese Nationalists or seat the Red Chinese. Three Persons Dead In Headon Collision CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. (UPI) —A car and a pickup truck collided head-on two miles east of here on Ind. 32 late Wednesday, killing three persons. ■ Emerson L. Lyon, 45, Darlington, and his wife, Pauline, 45, were killed outright. Rayburn Mullen, 61, Crawfordsville, died in a Crawfordsville hospital about an hour after the crash. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy with little change in temperatures, occasional rain likely south portion tonight and Friday, and chance of some light rain north tonight or Friday. Lew tonight upper 30s extreme northeast to upper 46s southwest. High Friday 55 to 62. Sunset today 6:51 p.m. Sunrise Friday 6:29 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Considerable cloudiness and continued cool with occasional rain likely. Low* 49 to 45. High* 66 to <5.

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Top Ratings Given County School Buses The 52 school buses used in Adams county to transport the pupils to and from their respective classes received class A from the state police inspection team in Geneva and Decatur Wednesday morning and afternoon. The last driver through the inspection lanes set up at the city parking lot east of the A&P store in Decatur, explained that he had a very good reason for being a little late. The driver. Bill Susdorf. had to drop his wife off at the Adams county memorial hospital before having the inspection. She was about to have a baby. County school superintendent. Gail Grabill, checked the townships off the list as their buses passed through the lanes under the thorough scrutiny of the state troopers led by Cpl. Stephen Woodworth, of the Ligonier post. Others assisting Woodworth were Dan Kwasneski, of the Fort Wayne post; Julian Echterling, and Dick Crdsley, both of the Ligonier post. The breakdown by schools or townhsips of buses reads: Adams Central, 15; Union township, 3; St. Mary’s township, 5; Root township, 5; Preble, 4; Hartford, 4; Jefferson, 5; Wabash, 7, and BerneFrench, 5, totalling 52.

Peru's New Light Plant Is Damaged PERU, Ind. (UPI) _ A fire at the Peru Power & Light Company’s new plant was brought under control this morning after nearly six hours of battling the coal-fed flames. Coal in bunkers which is fed through a conveyor system into the plant caught fire late Wednesday night. Capt. C. A. Ellis of the Peru Fire Department said the flames were confined to the coal except for some damage to the convevor. Ellis said no loss estimate was made. For a time parts of Peru were without electricity when some power lines burned off. but service was restored in about an hour. The new plant, located along the Wabash River, had just been completed. Ellis said about six or eight tons of coal was in the bunkers but he did not know how much of it burned. '

Mrs. Mary Kohler Dies Last Evening Mrs. Mary Kohler, 86, a native of French township, died at the home of her son, Clfifton Kohler, of Berne, at 5:15 p. m. Wednesday. She had been bed-ridden since June 1 and has spent the last nine years living with her daughter, Mrs. Andrew Hackenjos, of route 1, Monroe. Born March 28, 1873, the daughter of Peter E. Moser and Anna Amstutz-Moser, she married Alfred Kohler on March 6, 1897 in Vera Cruz. Mr. Kohler died in 1949. She was a member of the West Missionary church of Berne. Survivors include two sons, Cliffton Kohler, of Berne, and Melvin Kohler, of Decatur, a daughter, Mrs. Sylvia Hackenjos, of route 1, Monroe, eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Three brothers and three sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducetd at the Yager funeral home in Berne Saturday at 2 p. m., with the Rev. Robert Magary officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery? Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today.

Unexpected Holiday For Lincoln Pupils One of the joys of youth overcame the pupils at Lincoln elementary school this morning when they received an extemporaneous holiday because of repair work necessary on a flue of the school’s heating system. W. Guy Brown, superintendent of city schools, said this morning that the children will not report back to school until Monday morning when Ashbaucher’s Tin Shop is scheduled to complete the repair. A 30-inch flue, leading from the top of the Lincoln school boiler to I the heating ducts, fell apart when workmen began to fix it. It was thought to be a minor repair job when actually it turned into an extensive one. f Ashbaucher’s is giving the iphool top priority in the products of the large flue. Workmen pegan working on the project this morning and will continue until finished. The unseasonable weather pressed school heating equipment into use several weeks before the normal time. While the weather may be cold, and forecasts indicate even colder temperatures for midSeptember, the hearts of those pupils enrolled at the school were warmed by the unexpected holiW. ' .•/ Ike Spends Weekend At* Gettysburg Farm WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower left by helicopter today for a weekend a this Gettysburg, Pa„ farm. i Injury Is Fatal To Health'Officer LA PORTE, Ind. (UPD—Dr. H. D. Hinshaw, 30, LaPorte city health officer, died Wednesday in an Indianapolis hospital eight days after he sustained a skull fracture in a fall at his home.

Ike Rejects Nikita View

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower today firmly rejected Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s prediction that communism will eventually replace democracy and capitalism in the world. Eisenhower also told a news conference he has reached no agreement whatever with Khrushchev to exclude Laos, or any other so-called “third country” from their forthcoming talks at Camp David, Md., following completion of the Soviet leader’s cross country tour. The President said that no matter how sincere and colorful Khrushchev might appear to the public, he did not believe Americans would be fooled by the Russian leader's generous forecasts of Communist dominance in the world. Khrushchev said Wednesday at the National Press Club that his oft-quoted remark that communism would “bury" democracy was meant historically and was not meant to mean “the physical burial" of the American people. He predicted anew that communism would supplant capitalism. Eisenhower said that, thus far, his conversations with Khrushchev had been confined to a general retatement of position and agreement on the agenda for foe Camp David talks. Therefore, he said, it was not possible to detect any change in foe basic Soviet position that has led to East - West tension. Other highlights ot the President's first news conference since Aug. 27: —The President expressed doubt

Effort To Pul Satellite In Orbit Fails

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. • UPD—The United States apparently failed today in an effort to put a 265-pound global navigation satellite into orbit around the earth. A tall Thor-Able rocket shot the satellite aloft at 9:34 a.m. c.d.t., but the Defense Department announced an hour later that the rocket’s third stage apparenly failed to fire, and "it must be assumed that the satellite did not orbit.” As scientists here awaited further word on the "Transit I” firing, other scientists were readying the 11th and final Vanguard rocket for a try at orbiting a 50 pound space - studying satellite, probably later this week. 11118 will officially close Project Vanguard, America's first space program. Hie 90-foot Thor-Able rocket had appeared to perform perfectly in its second try as a moon carrier. Ten minutes after launch the Air Force had said the second of the rocket's three stages had fired successfully. The Thor-Able firing followed a perfect launching of an operational Atlas missile Wednesday night. The Atlas flew almost its maximum range, traveling almost 6,300 statute miles. It landed in the Ascension Island area of the south Atlantic.

Temperatures Drop To Below Freezing United Press International The mercury skidded below freezing in Indiana today for the first time this season. Six days before autumn is due to arrive, the temperature hit 30 at Goshen and light frost was recorded in an area in the state's extreme north portion where low readings in the mid-30s were general. South Bend recorded a 35 and Fort Wayne 36, within a few degrees of freezing. Forecasts called for the posibility of scattered frost again tonight with temperatures dropping to a range of 35 to 43 in the north portion, 38 to 43 in the central and the lower 40s in the south. A low of 43 at Indianapolis this morning came within three degrees of trying the all-time mark of 41 established in 1943. The frost and cold temperatures came on the heels of the season’s chilliest day, with temperatures climbing no higher than 56 at Indianapolis, 57 at Fort Wayne and 61 at South Bend and Lafayette Wednesday. Evansville’s top was a relatively warm 71.

that the tiny sphere bearing the Russian national coat of arms ever reached the surface of the moon during the successful trip of the recent Russian Lunik. Eisenhower said he thought that with the speed of the rocket being so high, the sphere probably was vaporized before it could reach the moon. —He called the refusal of Congress to adopt his recommendations for financing the federal debt one of the most serious things that had happened to the United States in his time. He said something would have to be done to put the heat of truth under Congress in order to pass the legislation needed to lift the celling on the interest paid on long term government securities. —Eisenhower said he was still firmly committed to free bargaining in settlement of the steel strike and would like to see management and labor tackle the basic issues without setting up a fact-finding board or quarreling over whether the Taft-Hartley law should be invoked. —He thought the public reception of Khrushchev in Washington was properly restrained because Americans naturally continue to ask themselves serious question about the policie of the Soviet Union. —The President praised French President Charles de Gaulle’s plan for ’solving the Algerian problem. He said that it was one that the United States could support. He added, however, that he has not ye discussed the matter with his foreign policy advisers.

fir' ’ ' ______. D. W. McMillen, Sr., “Mr. Mac,” founder of the Central Soya Co. in Decatur 25 years ago, is pictured here with one of his original employes and long-time friends, Jack Neering, now retired, and living at 338 South Third street. Neering and "Mr. Mac” met recently at the open house at the Decatur plant, where this picture was taken. In Decatur today to be honored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, Decatur Lions club and Decatur Rotary club with a noon luncheon. D. W. McMillen, Sr., recalled many of his old friends who helped build his enthusiasm and in turn gained enthusiasm by their long-time association, especially during the hard days of the depression.

City Leaders Honor McMillen Founder

“That which I have given away in the proper spirit, I have really kept, and that which I keep for myself I really lose,” Dale W. McMillen, founder of the Central Soya company here 25 years agb, told 170 Decatur businessmen who met here at noon today to honor the veteran industrialist. McMillen spoke an hour and 15 minutes to the group, recalling fondly the “good old days” of 1933 and 1934 when the men he still calls his best friends — workers like Jack Neering, Harry Maddox, Peck Essex, and businessmen like Chalmer Schafer, Bill Klepper, Carl Pumphrey, Arthur Holthouse, Cal E. Peterson, Ted Graliker, Guy Brown, and many others, helped and encouraged and drew help and encouragement, from their mutual friendship. McMillen called up many of his old friends, and joked with them, explaining to each the importance of their association. One of the highlights of the address occurred when he called up his two sons, now president and chairman of the board of the vigorous corporation that he founded, and called up the two grandsons of his friend and former publisher of the Decatur Daily Democrat, and presented a huge framed portrait of himself and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. John H. Heller, to the Decatur Daily Democrat. The picture was taken seven years ago at the wedding of James Holthouse. son of the late editor of the newspaper, Arthur R. Holthouse. “Mr. Mac” spoke feelingly of the long association he had with Decatur, how he came here in 1933 after purchasing the Decatur plant of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company, and how the local men, working together as a team, built first Central Sugar and then Central Soya. “We don’t have management and labor at Central Soya—we are all partners working together. As I once told John Heller and Art Holthouse, if there is ever another strike in Decatur, tell both sides they are crazy and can kill each other, but don’t try to take sides either way.”

Honored Guest The honored guest, “Mr. Mac,” was seated midway between a dozen of his old friends at the head table, which was beautifully decorated with white carnations and red and white gladioli. Directly in front of the founder of Central Soya was a one-foot scale model of the first McMillen feed plant in Decatur 25 years ago. At the head fable were Harry Maddox, one of the old Central Sugar company men, the Rev. Willaim C. Feller, pastor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church; Roger Gentis, president of the Decatur Lions club; George Thomas, vice president of the Rotary club; H. H. Krueckeberg, cashier of the First State Bank; Ward Caland, master of ceremonies; Mr. McMillen; Roy Hall, former president of Central Soya, former professor at Northwestern University, and presently head of the auditing firm of Hall, Penny, and Jackson: Harry “Peck” Essex and Jack Neering, former associates of Mr. Mac’s here in Decatur, and Carl Pumphrey and William Klepper, old friends and

business associates here in Decatur. Gifts Presented Each guest was presented with a silver key ring attached to a silver medalion with a likeness of Dale W. McMillen, founder, 1934, on one side, and “Silver Anniversary Central Soya Company,” with a picture of the Decatur t plant, on the other side. Calland started the meeting with the invocation by Rev. Feller, followed by the singing of America, led by Leo Kirsch with Miss Kaye Wynn at the pitmo. The group then sang “I’ve been Working on the Railroad.” Mr. Mac then pleased the group by singing a solo verse of “My Wild Irish Rose,” followed by the group singing a verse. For most of those at the dinner it was their first time to eat under Klieg lights; the entire affair was photographed in motion by Richard Galbrieth of Fort Wayne, for so a company motion picture.

Following diner, Roger Gentis, president of the Decatur Lions club, presented “Mr. Mac” with a large wooden plaque, engraved in bronze, “To D. W. McMillen, an honorary member of the Decatur Lions club, in grateful appreciation for his many gifts and services to the city of Decatur and its people.” George Thomas, vice president of the Decatur Rotary club, then presented the Central Soya founder with a beautiful silver money clip. H. H. Krueckeberg, representing the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, followed with the presentation of a silver humidor for cigars. Two Crewmen Killed As Bomber Crashes

FORT WORTH. TeX. (UPI) — Air Force authorities today began an investigation that may show why a B-58 Hustler supersonic bomber crashed and burned on takeoff Wednesday night, killing two Carswell Air Force Base crewmen. The third crewman, the pilot, Maj. Kenneth Lewis of Denver, Colo., pulled himself from the mangled, flaming wreckage. He was hospitalized at the base for treatment of second and third degree burns on his hands and a teg. The Air Force identified the dead crewmen as Maj. Willis A. Edgcomb, 39, of Gary, Ind., and Capt. Lee N. Barnett, 32, of Knox, Pa. Air Force spokesmen said the giant, delta - wing bomber was making a routine takeoff when one of its pod-like jet engines spewed flame around its housing. Lewis attempted to stop the racing aircraft, “bjit something went wrong,” a spokesman said. The surging, needle-nosed bomber roared into arresting chains near the end of the runway. The chains were put there to stop aircraft in trouble before they run onto a highway near the end of the runway.

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