Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1959 — Page 8

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Rainy Weekend Is Forecast in State United Press International Light rain dribbled over Indiana today in a prelude to what shaped up as a damp weekend, j By dawn, most areas had njeasured between one-fourth and onehalf inch of recipitation, and foreeasts called for rain or drizzle to continue on an •‘occasional” basis until Saturday morning or noon. But that's not all. Forecasters said it was likely the rain would return by Sunday night. Temperatures, meanwhile, were on the mild side, staying above freezing all around the state during the night and showing no signs of dropping as low as 32 before Monday night or Tuesday. The five-day outlook called for temperatures to average about six degrees above normal highs of 31 to 47 and normal lows of 16 to 32. "Mild weather continuing through Sunday and in south and east portions Monday," the outlook said, “turning colder Tuesday and in northwest portion Monday.’’ The rainfall outlook was for about an inch in occasional periods of showers tonight and early Saturday and again Sunday or Monday. High temperatures Thursday ranged from 40 at Indianapolis to 49 at Evansville. Overnight lows ranged from 36 at Indianapolis and Fort Wayne to 43 at Evansville. Rainfall the last 24 hours included .47 of an inch at Indianapolis, .26 at Evansville, .22 at Lafayette and .20 at Fort Wayne. Highs today will range from the mid 40s to 58, lows tonight from 42 to near 50, and highs Saturday from the mid 40s to the mid 50s.

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Stolen Check Is Cashed At Berne Another of the stolen Scott & Seiling Co. payroll checks appeared this week, this time In Berne at the Mennonite Book Store, accordin to state police sergeant Walter Schindler. Tbe fraudulent check, signed for $48.96, was passed at the tified man Friday. The checks were stolen from the Fort Wayne firm Oct. 4. The checks have appeared throughout the Fort Wayne area, but this is the first one reported in Adams county. The man, who always! signs the same name to the checks, uses a credit card for identification. The police throughout north-' eastern Indiana are continuing their investigation. Recount Reverses Election Outcome BLOOMFIELD, Ind. (UPI'-A recount reversed the outcome of Linton's city clerk-treasurer election and gave the office to a Republican today. Mrs. Eva Myers asked for the recount because the official returns of the Nov. 3 municipal election showed she lost by only 25 votes to Democrat Charles N. DeCourcy. But the recount commission found some absent voter ballots incorrectly tabulated and ruled that Mrs. Myers won by two votes. 1,740 to 1,738. All other Linton city offices were won by Democrats. The errors appeared to have been due to confusion brought about by the death of James Usrey, the incumbent clerk-treas-urer who died after ballots were printed bearing his name as a candidate for re-election. The recount board found that stickers bearin De-Courcy’s name were attached to some of the absent voter ballots but not to others, and that election boards incorrectly added votes for Usrey to DeCourcv's totals on the grounds De--1 Courcy replaced Usrey on the balI lot and both were Democrats.

Two Delegates To National Meeting Adams county rural youth will have two delegates attending the national convention of the American Farm Bureau young people’s organization in Chicago. Gloria Koeneman and Sally McCullough will attend the convention at the Sherman Hotel December 13-15. The young people's convention is held in conjunction with the American Farm Bureau convention. ! Saturday. Miss Koeneman will at- ! tend the national committee meeting, representing the Indiana rurI al youth organization. A vesper service in the grand | ballroom of the Sherman Hotel ! will open the convention Sunday I afternoon. Sunday evening’s ac- | tivities will include the regional I talk meet eliminations and the rehearsals for the talent find program. A get acquainted party for all the young people from over the United States will conclude Sunday gvening’s program. Monday, the young people will meet in joint session with the American Farm Bureau and hear President Shuman give his annual ’ president’s address. The afternooon's program will feature the j young people’s session with Gloria ! koeneman. first vice-president of the national young people's committee presiding. Stanley Burris, j president, will speak to the young I people during the session. The program Monday evening will be the formal dance for the Farm i Bureau and Farm Bureau young ; people in the Sherman. i Tuesday, Roger Fleming, secre- ' tary of the American Farm Burj eau, will address the convention I delegates ,at the Civic Opera I House in Chicago. Tuesday even- ! ing’s program will feature the recognition program including the talent find winners from the various states. Sixty Indjana rural yoyth members will attend the convention. Native Os County is Taken By Death Charles W. Bucher, 75, of Elkhart, a native of Adams county, died Thursday at the Van Wert. ;O , ¥bunty hospital, where he had i been a patient five days. Ho suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last Saturday while driving his auto on U7 St highway 224, five miles’’ west of Van Wert. His car veered off the highway and into a j stubble field. His wife, who was with him, was not injured. The I body was removed to the West- ! brook funeral home in Elkhart.

Pleads Innocent To Manslaughter Charge LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI> —! Prentice Von Conrad, 38, today pleaded innocent to a manslaughter charge in the shooting last July 24 of a fellow student at Purdue University. Von Conrad entered the plea before Tippecanoe Circuit Judge Paul D. Ewan, who then set Feb. 23 as the date for a jury trial. Von Conrad was charged in the slaying of James F. Strain, 26, Westville. He is free in 85,000 bond pending trial. Oil On Concrete .Oil spots on concrete floors will, often yield simply to cleaning fluid. If the spots are old, however, mix up a paste of cleaning fluid and fuller’s earth, spread this on the spots and wait until it is completely dry before sweeping it off with a broom.

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U.N. Assembly Fails To Break Vole Deadlock UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI> —lsie United Nations General Assembly, due to adjourn Saturday, failed again today tp. break the deadlock between U. S. - backed Turkey and Soviet-supported Poland for a two-year term'on the Security Council. The Assembly took its 50th and 51st ballots this morning. Poland led both times, 4-37, but Mbs far short of the two-thirds majority—--52 votes—needed for election. Assembly President Victor Andres Belaunde of Peru postponed further voting until a session tonight to allow time for consultations between the two candidates and their backers on a compromise. Three major hurdles stood in the way of adjournment by Saturday's target date: the Council election which must fill the twoyear vacancy by Jan. 1, the Algerian question, and outer space problems. The Algerian comprmoise measuse up for debate later today appeared to stand a good chance of Assembly passage despite France’s oppoosition. France will boycott the debate as it has all other proceedings dealing with the Algerian question. The French were still counting on continued support of the United States and Britain on the question. The new compromise measure was reported to have dropped the controversial parts of a resolution that passed the. Assembly's main political committee by a simple majority but which would undoubtedly fail to gain the needed two-thirds majority needed for Assembly approval. The new proposal was understood to confine itself to giving the Algerian people recognition of the rigflt to self-determination and to call for informel diplbuUrtic talks on the basis of that right. The original resolution called for informal talks between “the two parties,” an obvious reference to France and the provision-' al government of th" Algerian! Front of National Liberation.: France has insisted any talks must be with representatives all the Algerian people, not jttst the FLN.

One Os Most Wanted .-■ . i i Men Seized By FBI GREENSVILLE, S. C. (UPI) — George Lloyd Thomas, 48, one of the FBl’s 10 most wanted men, i was seized Thursday night, end-' ing a 15-month masquerade as a quiet-living used car salesman in a small community near here. I He was wanted for holding up the Commercial National Bank in Shreveport, La., Feb. 13, 1958. j One of his accomplices in the $34,000 robbery wounded a worn-1 an employe, the FBI said. Thomas and his family moved to the crossroads community called "Ware Place,” about 20 mile? south of here, in September, 1958. He adopted the name George Clark Ashley, grew a' mustache, and enrolled his 6 and 13-year-old daughters in school under new names. He rented an unpretentious frame house for S4O a month and i set up his used car lot next to it. His nearest neighbor lived a quarter of a mile away. He was placed on the most wanted list Oct. 21 When FBI agents closed in on him Thursday night he had a , loaded .38 calibre revolver strapped to the back of his car radio, two hacksaw blades tied to his legs, and $125 in his shoes, but he put up no resistance. He was arraigned in Greenville before U.S. Commissioner Jesse ■ M. Ray and held in $50,000 bond.; Thomas was arrested when he ’ stopped at a gas station to buy l an evening paper, as he had dorie • nearly every night for 15 months. I The owner of the station said he seemed “a nice, quiet, pleasant person.” Australian farmers who expected to harvest about 180 million bushels of wheat this year, compared with last year’s 214-million-bushel crop.

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Senator Symington To Africa, Israel WASHINGTON (UPD-Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) leaves today for an “education" trip to Africa and Israel but two other Democratic presidential aspirants have just about abandoned pre--1960 foreign travel plans. Spokesmen for Sens. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) indicated it was highly unlikely these unannounced presidential candidates would be able to fulfill plans to visit Africa and the Far East, respectively. But Humphrey, it was stated, still hopes to fly to Geneva for a few days near the end of this month to participate in the nuclear test ban negotiations there He is chairman of he Senate Disarmament Committee. Both senators had their overseas travel schedules upset by the late adjournment of Congress and the pressure of domestic campaining. However Symington managed to make good on his arrangements. Accompanied by Fowler Hamilton, a New York attorney who has visited Africa a number of times, Symington will visit Liberia, Guinea, Ghana, Nigera and parts of North Afrca before flying to Israel. He will spend the Christmas holidays with his son. James Symington, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren in London. Young Symington is administrative assistant to Ambassador John Hay Whitney in England. Humphrey presumably has been hurt less by the travel disarrangement than anyone else. He made a big publicity splash just a year ago with his eight-hour conference with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. This was six months before Vice President Richard M. Nixon visited Russia and nine months before Khrushchev came to this country. Like Kennedy, Humphrey also is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committe. Kennedy was one of the first in the Senate to speak out forcefully on the Al-gerian-French crisis. He also has shown personal interest in India. As a youth in 1939, he visited Russia. Over 2,500 Daily Democrats at sold and delivered in Decati each day

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Ring Leader Os Escapees Is Captured MARTINSVILLE, Va. (UPD— Charles W. (Yank) Stewart, ringleader in the escape of 20 convicts from North Carolina’s "Little Alcatraz” prison, was captured here early today. Stewart, 52, was caught after he wrecked the stolen automobile that he was driving during a po lice chase. Stewart’s car plunged 30 feet off of a bridge down a riverbank on Route 220 near here. Only six of the 20 convicts who fled the maximum security prison after overpowering the guards Tuesday were at large today. State police grabbed the swarthy ringleader of the prison break from the Ivy Bluff prison for incorrigibles only 100 feet fom where his car was found after it crashed through the bridge railing. Offers No Resistance Police said Stewart offered no resi stance, although he was armed with a .38 caliber revolver He did not have the machinegun which he stole during the prison break. * Stewart was brought here and kept in the Herny County jail. Martinsville is about 40 miles from the North Carolina prison which borders Virginia and is 60 miles south of Roanoke, Va. The search for the Remaining six fugitives was centered in the. metropolitan Washington, Dc. ( area and central Virginia. Capture Lessens Tension The FBI said fingerprints found on an abandoned stolen car in suburban Washington at Arlington, Va., were those of convicts Wiley Cummings, 34, Johnny Miller, 27. and John Kilbourne, 34. WoodrowtStewart, 36, Cleveland McNeil, 27, and Willis Shaw. 29, are believed hiding out in the central Virginia area. Stewart’s capture slightly lessened the tension created by the convicts in this North CarolinaVirginia area, but Caswell County, N.C., sheriff’s deputies reported they were receiving an average of two telephone calls per minute from nervous rural residents Thursday night.

Sheriff Speaks To County Rural Youth “Highway Safety" was sheriff Merle Affolder’s topic on speaking to the Adams county rural youth at the meeting Thursday at the Farm Bureau Building in Monroe. Sheriff Affolder pointed out the causes of accidents, speed being the major cause, and also explained his various duties in enforcing the law in the county. The meeting opened with a Santa Claus mixer led by Carolyn Moore and Jean Ann Potts distributed snowman name tags. Gary Shoaf called the business meeting to order and Jane Gerber led the group in singing favorite Christmas songs. Shirley Workinger gave the devotions. Business discussed and announcements made included the following: The club will bowl one night a month with Clair Inniger in charge of this activity. The first boiling session will be on Thursday night, January 21 at the Berne Bowling Alleys. District Christmas party arrangements were made with the group deciding to leave for the party at Van Buren Saturday night, Dec. 19 at 6:45 p.m. at the post office, Decatur and parking lot in Berne; and 7 p.m. at Coppess Corner. Adams county will be in charge of devotions for this party. A basketball report was given by Ray Miller, advisor. The next basketball game will be at Atwood December 15 at 8:30 p.m. Membership drive plans were announced by Leslie Ploughe, Vice president and membership chairman of the district. The club has a goal of 60 members to reach be-

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fore January 28 if they wish to receive the two recognition awards given by the Indiana rural youth. The first will be awarded at state rural youth day January 28 at Purdue and the second at the state membership dance in May. Each member was urged to contact other- young, people who might be interested in the rural youth program and urge them to attend the January 14 regular meeting. Carolyn Moore announced the date of December 29 as the holiday party to be held by the club at the William Boerger home in Root township. Mr. and Mrs. Boerger are Farm Bureau advisors to the club and the committee in charge is Carolyn Moore, Roger Habegger, and Larry Andrews. AU rufal young people are invited to this special holiday party. A report of the district board meeting attended by the officers was given by Legora Markle. Adams county will be host to the district IV July, meeting which will be a picnic and is also in charge of the special number at the October meeting. Gary Shoaf was appointed basketball chairman for i the district and Carolyn Moore appointed to serve on the district recreation committee. Trimming the Christmas tree and toy exchange were the special features of the evening’s program. The toys will be given to needy children at Christmas. Recreation was led by Carolyn Moore and Roger Habegger and refreshments of punch and cookies served by Mr. and Mrs. William Boerger brought the meeting to a close.

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