Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 9.

VETE..N MM ICEMAN TO £ tire from Uv- Decatur |M‘lie<- force Fet> •. force, pictur'd with Chilcote, are chief James Borders. ctttar, and Robert Hill, left.

With the pending retirement of police officer Roy flkci Chilcote on Feb 1. the Decatur police department will low a man with 23 yean of experience. Robert Hill, a 20-year veteran, and chief James Borders, a 21year Veteran, combine with Chllcote to provide Decatur with 64yean of police experience. In a few short years, both Hill and Borders may retire. Will Take Other Jebs Indications are. however, that they won’t retire from working Chilcote has secured another job already, and will probably earn more at It than he did as a pdlicc officer. Hill has said that he has already had offers froth a Fort Wayne investigation company. This would certainly provide him with more than he earns now for the city. Os the three, only Chilcote has ever had to take sick leave. And he did that only once in 23 years. Really an enviable record, and quite fortunate for the city as well. When you talk to these policemen about their jobs and what they've done with them, you get the feeling that, basically, they are satisfied with the work they’ve done. They’ve all had their trying times. All is not adventure and thrills as a policeman as portrayed by the movies and TV. Too much of it is just boring routine. Borders, however, reiaws one instance when he had “tense moments, not adventure, because that would only indicate poor planning.’’ He also cites things that he would-never do again—if he had the chance to think it over. Took A Dangerous Chance There was one time when he had a burglar cornered in an office. With no light handy, the took the chance of going in after the man, rather than risk losing him by getting a flashlight or calling for help. Luckily, the burglar, who really had a bad reputation, did not elect to shoot it out, but gave up readily. He also tells of the dramatic situation of hunting for a lost 2-year-old child. A lady who was scared stiff, came to the station, sobbing that her child was lost for the past two hours. Borders picked up a make-shift posse as he went along the street to the worn-

Sen. Wayne Morse Enters Primaries

WASHINGTON (UPD — SenWayne Morse’s decision to enter presidential primaries was viewed today as a possible holding action to build up support for Adlai E. Stevenspn. Morse announced Monday he “ woulcT enter the DistncFof Columbia primary on May 3 and run as a “favorite son” in the Oregon primary oh May 20. A L. Wheeler, D.C. campaign manager for the Oregon senator, said today if Morse finds he can’t win at the July Democratic convention, his backers here want him to throw his support behind Stevenson. ' Adlai Supporter Wheeler, chairman of the D.C. Democratic Central Committee, said one of the main reasons why Democrats were backing Morse was “his untiring support of Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and 1956 and his continued favorable comments about Stevenson.” . Stevenson has said that he is not a candidate this year but he has not ruled out a move to draft him for a third try for the White House. _ , , A United Press International A -- survey showed Monday that a campaign to draft Stevenson has. reached the official organization stage in at least five states—Wisconsin, Missouri, Ohio, California and Texas. **’ 'To Clash With Humphrey M ’ln the D.C. and Oregon contests Mors* will clash directly with Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.l. The only other announce d Democratic aspirant, Sen. John F. Kennedy (Mass.) has not said whether he would run in these two primaries. But Morse said he understood Kennedy would run in Oregon. —■ Morse said he had tried unsuccessfully to keep his name off the Oregon ballot, but that his supporters have more than sigtures necessary to enter him

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an’s house. They scoured the town for hours, when he asked the lady, if she had searched the house., She answered. "No. Well, they found the tyke asleep behind the davenport, but as he put it, it was one of thoes tense moments. Chilcote underwent one similar child experiences but with a little more pressure Involved He helped save a woman and her new-born baby. Note Aaks Fol" "Help He got a scflbbled note from a young 5-year-old child while on duty one night. The note called for "Help.” Not knowing what to expect he raced out to the scene with a friend. They found the woman had just delivered the baby by herself. He picked the baby up off the floor and immediately started shaking it and spanking it. After about a minute, that seemed an eternity, it cried. He wrapped it up in a blanket and took the baby and the mother tp the hospital. The other day. a man stopped him on the street, and reintroduced him to the baby he had saved. •She was the prettiest little girl you've ever seen," Chilcote said. Hill got his first taste of law enforcement proceedings about 10 years before he even got on the 1 fore?. While riding up town one attrnoon, he got involved in a ?hase after an armed gunman, who had just escaped the clutches of two police officers. Gunman Escapes The 1 gunman had just leaped from a second story window of a local wholesale house, and was hightailing it donw Monroe street, when Hill heeded a call to “.stop that man.” 'He jumped from his hightailing it down Monroe street, after the man, not knowing he had just fired at police officers. He nailed the culprit in a back yard of where the A&P is now. Hill, in reflecting on how it was in the old days and comparing it to the present, said that improved facilities really make the task easier. In the old days, the telephone was the only communication between the public, the station, and the officer in the car, or on the beat. Today, radio has ; made communication a lot simpler, but the same tasks remain for the police to settle, he added.—

’ without his consent. i He said he would not have campaigned in his home state, even with his name on the ballot, had ■ Humphrey and Kennedy voiceda similar intention not to. “They have decided otherwise, so we’ll have some debate on the issues,” Morse said. t - o Advertising index Advertiser Page A&P Tea Co. —— — 3 Arnold Lumber Co., Inc. 2 Ashbauchers’ Tin Shop — ——- 2 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. ...- 2,7 John Brecht Jewelry —- , 3 Briede Studio — 3 Burk Elevator Co. 5 Butler Garage — --- 5 Budget Loans -- —7 Decatur Ready-Mixe, Inc. 2 Fager Appliances & Sporting Goods 7 Farmers Marketing Service .5 Fasteeth 4 Goodyear Service Store — 8 . Haugks Heating. Plumbing & Appliances 4. 6 HafliCh & Morrissey , 3 Kohne Drug Store ————3, 5 Kohne Window & Awning Co. 2 Mercury — a——— 7 Petrie Oil Co. 2 QualityChevrolet-Buick, Inc. —. 4 Rash Insurance Ageny — 2 Rambler — 4 8 Schafers ——. 6 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. — 3 ; _5 Shaffers Restaurant ———— 8 Shady Park ... —- Teeple —--i——- ——- 5 Mel Tinkham Agency — T 5 John B. Terveer. M.D. - —- 5 Yost Gravel Readymix, Inc. —— 2 Zwick Funeral Home 2

Lad Indicted By Grand Jury Under Arrest Allen county sheriff's deputies this morning arrested the Fort Wayne youth who was recently indicted by the Adams county grand jury, and he immediately posted tsou bond for his release. Ronald Eugene Easley. 19. of Fort Wayne, was the driver of the death car In which Robert James Kase. !•. also of Fort Wayne, died after suffering a fractured neck and crushed chest. Sheriff Investigates The accident occurred on U. 8. 224 just west of the Indiana-Ohio state line Sept. 12. in the early hours of the morning, sheriff Merle Affolder. who investigated with state police, said. Four other Fort Wayne youths were in the car besides Kase and Easley. Two were treated for minor injuries and the other two were released after being' checked at the Adams county memorial hospital. The grand jury indictment charges a true bill against Easley on a charge of reckless driving. Feb. 1 has been set for his scheduled hearing in Adams circuit court. County prosecutor Severin H. Schurger said today that the docket foe criminal matters must be set on the first day of the term, which is Feb. l.ln this case. Car Struck In Rear Sheriff Affolder said that another car was involved in the 2:15 a m. accident as the Fort Wayne youths were returning to Indiana. A car driven by Frank Orsini, of Pontiac. Mich., was struck slightly in the rear by the Easley car as both cars were westbound on the dangerous S-curve near the state line. Little damage was done to the Orsini car as it was only nicked as the Easley qar apparently tried to pass. The car went out of control, spilling its six teenage occupants onto the road and berm as it hurtled off the highway. It was the eighth traffic fatality within Adams county for 1959.

Lions Entertained By Children Monday Lion Weldon Bumgerdner and his two grandchildren, Michael and Ann Stonestreet, children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stonestreet, provided the program for- the Lions club meeting Monday night. The children were accompanied by Charles Kester on the piano as they sang several numbers. Bumgerdner then recited three choice poems, including “When the Frost is on the Pumpkin.” and others. His home talent program was well received by the club members. Mrs. Bumgerdner was a guest at the meeting. The Lions will meet Tuesday night next week, at the' annual meeting of the soil conservation district at Pleasant Mills, president Roger Gentis reported.

1960 Traffic Toll Is Boosted To 32 United Press International Indiana’s 1960 traffic death t 011... mounting higher with each passing day. reached 32 today with four more fatality reports. Three fatalities Monday and a fourth reported belatedly from Sunday night were the latest in a wave of deaths which began New Year’s Day. Stanley Ray Smith, 28, Elwood, died Sunday night of injuries suffered half an hour earlier in a collision at an Elwood street intersection. Larry D. Clay. 23, R.R. 1, Noblesville, was killed and three other persons were injured in" a head-on collision north of Fortville in Madison County. Injured were James F. Cloud, 31, Nofclesville, and David A. Cauldwell, 16, R.R. 1, Fortvile. Cloud-was reported in fair condition at St. John’s Hospital at Cauldwell was injured only slightly. State police said the accident occurred on a county road when the car driven by Cloud swerved into the path of the Cauldwell car. Garth White, 53, a Wells County farmer, died in Clinic Hospital at Blufton Monday night of injuries sustained Jan. 8 when his car went out of control on Ind. 1 south of Blufton and smashed into a tree. Delton Rarey. 35. Marion, was killed when his car was hit by a Wabash Railroad passenger train on a Miami County crossing east of Peru.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tu«»doy, Jan. 12, 1960.

Asks Congress Remove Interest Ceiling On Long-Term Securities

District Scouters Meet Monday Night A total of 37 saouters from Decatur have already made reservations for the golden anniversary scouters appreciation dinner next Monday at the Fort Wayne coliseum. and only 200 more seats remain on the floor of the giant auditorium. R. L. Van Horn, council executive. told the south district representatives Monday night at the Decatur high school. . Lyle Cotton, of Bluffton, district president, presided at the meeting, and introduced Van Horn, who gave the council program for the coming year. Lac al Reservations Troop 65, sponsored by the Trinity E. U. B church, has 18 reservations for the scouters banquet, followed by seven reservations for troop 62, sponsored by the Decatur Lions club, and six eaeh for troops 61 and 63, sponsored by the Rotary and American Legion, lyThe council goal for membership for 1960 is 10.279 and 10 new units are planned for the south district, including Adams, Wells and Jay counties. Next big council affair is "operation deepfreeze" for Explorer I Scouts January 23-24. This winter campout draws hundreds of boys every January. Boy Scout Week February 7-13 will be Boy Scout week, with every troop asked to do something special to bring scouting to the attention of the community. * February 11, the annual council meeting will honor Eagle Scouts. May 6-7 is the date -of the council Scout-o-rama. Camping at Big Island will take place in July and August, with the golden jubilee camporee July 22-24. Explorer field days July 23-24, and Cub Pack golden jubilee July 23. In October the golden jubilee annual meetings will be held for each district, and on Nov. 5 scouts will take part in the “get out the vote” campaign. A month later, December 5, the council golden jubilee dinner will be held, with anniver--1 sary awards to units and scouters, land the roll call for 10.000 scouts.

Denies Clemency To Berne Bonk Robber Gov. Harold W.' Handley has denied clemency to Berne bank rober Richard E. Clark, who is currently serving a 10-year term at the Indiana state prison. Gov. Handley commuted the sentence of a Hamrryond woman and ' three men, while denying 14 others and continuing two cases. Clark was sentenced to 10 years in the state prison for the robbery of the First Bank of Berne in 1954 by Judge Myles F. Parrish. Lewis L. "Smith was prosecuting attorney at that time and Robert Shraluka was sheriff.

Rash Os Swastika Painting In U.S.

By United Press International - A rash of swastika painting and church defacing in the U. S. and Canada took an indiscriminate turn today, supporting theories that vandals were keeping a wave of anti-Semitism alive. In Toronto. Ont., the vandalism even turned against Germany, where the swastika; an old -Indian sign for the rising sun, was converted into a symbol of antiSemitism by Hitler. , Toronto's German social club, Harmonie, reported Monday that someone pushed a signboard with a swastika through the club door The sign said:" “Germans go to hell where you belong.” The club also reported receiving 20 threatening telephone calls one of which said a bomb had been placed in the building. Lowell, Ind., a town of 1,300 persons with few. -if any, Jewish residents, was invaded Monday by what police said was a group of young vandals. A swastika was painted on the . J. ’

Ask Action On Civil Rights

WASHINGTON (UPD - House GOP Leader Charles A Halleck today labeled as “political baloney" Democratic suggestions that additional Republican support will Joe needed to force qutfk House action on the civil rights bill. Haleck and Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen served as spokesmen for the Republican congressional leaders following their first legislative meeting with President Eisenhower for the current session of Congress. The civil rights fight in the House came up in the White House meeting. Halleck said later that while he personally did not sign discharge petitions, be was not attempting to dissuade or persuade any Republicans in connecttian with the petition. "Trying to shift the responsibility to the Republicans is not going to stand up,” Halleck told reporters. , . The civil rights bill is now stalled in the House Rules Committee. A key House GOP member said today he doubted that northern Democrats would get enough GOP support to force action on it. The Democrats frankly admit they need about 60 Republican signatures on a petition to pry the bill out of the rules group and bring it to the floor for action. Halleck said he was supporting the civil rights NO as reported by

Planning Record Os Stop, Yield Signs The county commissioners explored the possibility of recording all stop and yield right-of-way signs within the county to provide protection for the county’s law enforcement agencies, besides receiving two inventories and meeting with a group of Jefferson township farmers on a road problem at Monday's all-day session in the offices of county auditor Ed Jaberg. After discussion with sheriff Merle Affolder and county attorney Robert Anderson, the commissioners felt that a record of all intersections with either a stop sign or yield sign would be beneficial—in assisting the lawmen in their duties. Need Road Linked — Ten men from Jefferson township discussed the feasibility of constructing a three-mile blacktop road on county road 28% between county road 21 and state road 116. They contend that it would be the main link .with state road 101. —Tfie~meh also claimed that a three-mile stretch in that area which was built a few years ago,

home of John Miller, a non-Jew, and paint was thrown on his , home. A nearby school was smeated with green swastikas, a ' rope on a flagpole was cut. A swastika, stenciled in black, was found on a partition of the 10th floor of the Chicago City . hall. Other swastikas appeared on the walls of college buildings in San Francisco and Boulder, Colo. However, Nazi and anti-Jewish pamphlets were found on about 200 cars at two student parking lots at the University of JJatyland. University officials said the i pamphlets were entitled: “Program of the world union of free enterprise national socialist,” “Why is a Nazi,” and “Jews are through in *72.” The Western states regional commander of the Jewish War Veterans, Bernard Rodin, called on the U. S. attorney general and the State Department to take immediate action against anti-Semi-tic acts.

the House Judiciary Committee in the last session. He said he | thought it was possible to bring ! the measure to the House floor in ( the "regular, manner" without, proceeding through a discharge | petition for which the Democrats are seeking signatures. A GOP source, who asked not to be identified by name, said it would be ‘•difficult’’ to get 60 Re- ‘ publicans to sign a discharge peti-, tion, even though some may favor' the bill. To become effective, ♦he petition needs signatures of 219 House members. At the close of business Monday. 151 had signed but Democratic sources said “less than a dozen" were Republicans. Under House rules, the names are not made public. House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack (Mass.) is keeping the House in session this week, even though it has no business to transact, to give members— especially Republicans —a chance to sign. The bill, a watered-down version of President Eisenhowers 1959 civil rights proposal, would provide extra protection tot Negro voting rights and new penalties for obstructing school desegregation orders and for "hate bombings. ■.-■’-j; was the wrong road. They told the commissioners that only 13 families lived on that three - mile stretch of blacktop, and the wrong road had been paved. The men were Ralph Denckson, Floyd Baker, Dale Harpring, Woodrow Kelly, Hobart Woodruff. Del ma s Bollenbacher, Brayton Pyle, Dan Reef. Ray Miller, and Dora Brewster. ! Inventories from the county highway department and the county home were submitted and approve ed by the commissioners. The highway department listed $94.506.83 in material and equipment, while the appraisers, Doyle E. Gilbert and Lewellyn Lehman, listed the' county home equipment and property at $23,119.00 for 1960. slightly less than the 1959 figure of $24,218. These two years broke a steady dwindling trend there as the following figures will indicate. 1958—521,238.70; 1957—522,660.25; 1956 — $23,507.25; 1955—529,205.70; 1954 _ $29,948.70; 1953—536,657.50; 1952 — $32,128 50. and 1951-129.-911.80. t According to recent grand jury reports, the commissioners were urged to acquire a new county <lirectorv for the courthouse. To better assist visitors and other persuns seeking information of a directory, the commissioners spoke with E. L. Ponader, a representative of a plaque manufacturing firm. He showed a list with directories ranging in price from SSO to $l5O. Plaque At Hospital Ponader is also manufacturing a plaque for the new addition to the county hospital. He told the commissioners that they could probably get a large wooden frame with removable letters fbr about SSO-175. They did not cement an agreement but would look into the matter a little further, they said. A $9,000 ditch allocation for the Ernest Amstutz-Howard Teeter, et al ex parte ditch in Wabash township, was approved. The money will come from the general ditch improvement fund for construction purposes. INDIANA WEATHER Occasional showers and unseasonably warm tonight and Wednesday. Lows tonight in the 50s. Highs Wednesday in the 60s. Sunset today 5:42 Pm. c.dl Sunrise Wednesday 8:05 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Thursday: Cloudy and mild with occasional moderate to heavy rain and scattered .* thunderstorms. Turning colder northwest late Thursday. Lows Wednesday night in the 50s. Highs Thursday 55 to 65.

WASHINGTON I UPD — President Eisenhower asked Congress again today to remove the statu-1 tory 4V« per cent interest ceiling | on long-term government securi- 1 ties. He said congressional action was "Imperative” to sustained economic growth. Eisenhower, in a special message, recalled that he made the same request for “the removal of this archaic restriction on flexible debt management" last June. "Congressional inaction on that request has resulted in a much more rapid increase in short-term debt than would otherwise have I occurred.” the President said. He said short - term Treasury . borrowing costs had risen to the i highest level in several decades Because of congressional inaction, the President said, “the ability of debt management to operate in a manner consistent with sound principles of sustained economic growth has been seriously undermined.’’ "1 deem it imperative, therefore. that this restrictive ceiling be removed," he said. The President, in his brief, three paragraph message, sajd he had asked Secretary of Treasury Robert B. Anderson to transmit to the House atf Senate proposed legislation tor Titting the interest ceiling on new long-term securities. The Treasury has said that its borrowing costs have been forced up by the 4¥« per cent ceiling. Treasury oficials have asserted that short - term interest rates would be lower if the Treasury had been able to flpat some longterm issues in the past six months. The situation was dramatized in October when the Treasury offered the public a note paying 5 per cent interest—a 30-year high. Eisenhower sent his message to Congress after meeting with Republican House and Senate leaders. The leaders said afterward that GOP lawmakers will fight to defend Eisenhower’s projected $4.200.000.000 budget surplus for fiscal 1961 against the "lure” of increased spending.

Cuba Rejects U.S. Protest

HAVANA (UPD - The Cuban government Monday night rejected a U.S. protest against seizure of North American holdings in Cuba and said a formal protest failed to deal basic situation ’’ of Cuba’s new agrarian reform laws. A statement by Acting Foreign minister Marcelo Fernandez Font made it clear Cuba later would formally reject a State Department note handed oyer Monday by U.S. Ambassador Phillip W. Bonsai. However Fernandez promised to study the note further. In dealing with a similar American protest last June a spokesman first criticized the Washington note and the revolutionary government later rejected _it_officially. Monday’s was the fourth U.S. protest note in a year. U.S. insistence on cash payment for Americans whose property in Cuba is seized by the Fidel Castro government put a new strain on the already cool U.S.-Cuban relations, and Fernandez statement made it clear Cuba would continue expropriating property. The text of the stiffly worded U.S. note was not made public, but the U.S. embassy said it concerned the “denial of basic rights qf ownership to .U.S. citizens in Cuba— rights provided under both Cuban law and generally accepted international law.” This meant payment for property seized. PlKup last pghz'The value Three Youths Sent For Physical Exams Three Adams county young men -were sent to Indianapolis this morning%y the local selective service board for physical examinations prior to active induction into the nation’s armed forces. They were Johnnie Lou Toland. Harold Leon Vanhorn, and Ralph Edris Fell. ? -

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Search Continuing For Two Escapees BLUFFTON. Ind. OJPD — A ' search continued today for two men who escaped from the Wells County Jail, while authorities investigated a story told by two Bluffton youths who said they drove the prisoners to Virginia and Kentucky. Sheriff Raymond Durr said the ' boys,' I-croy Rothgeb. 20. and IBorme Stidham. 10. admitted drivling the fugitives to their homes but said they didn’t know they had escaped until they reached Ohio. Billy James Sturgill, 21, Pennington Gap, Va., and William Ray Chadwick. 22. Wallins Creek. Ky., escaped Sunday morning by climbing down a dumb waiter shaft and walking out the front door. Rothgeb and Stidham were arrested by Muncie police Monday because they were driving a car with only one headlight. They were returned to Bluffton and re- ; leased in custody of their parents. I Durr said Rothgeb told him that l Sturgill and Chadwick went to an - apartment in Bluffton Sunday and asked Rothgeb if he would drive . him to Ohio. Rothgeb said he and i Stidham agreed and then Chadwick introduced him to Sturgill. « Sturgill and his brother. Donnie. ‘ 24, were arrested on charges of , shooting Howard Vaughn. 26. Noy. f 4 in Bluffton. Chadwick was in : jail Since Dec. 28 when he was arrested on charges of public intoxication and driving without a [ license. Oil Truck Explodes, ■ Trailers Destroyed [ INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Three , house trailers were destroyed and ■ several cars were damaged badly ■ Monday when a fuel oil truck • caught fire and exploded. No one was injured.

Injuries Fatal To Wells County Man / Garth -White, 53, Wells cdunty farmer residing one-half mile west of Reiffsburg, died at 6:45 p. m. Monday at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton from injuries suffered Friday night in a one-car mishap three and one-half miles south of Bluffton. He suffered multiple injuries as his vehicle veered off the highway( snapped off a utility pole ' and smashed into a tree. He was a member of the Reiffsburg Methodist church. Surviving are his wife, the former Mabel Anderson, a teacher at the Lancaster Central school; a son, Duane White of Tocsin; n daughter, Klyda, at home; two grandchildren and a sister. Funeral services will be conducted St 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton. the Rev. Ernest Minegar officiating. Burial will be in Oak Lawn cemetery at Ossian. Friends may call at die; funeral home after 7 p. m. today. Malley Burial Here Wednesday Afternon Funeral services for Joseph T. ■ Malley, formerly of Decatur, who died Sunday at Toledo, O„ hospital will be held at 10 a m. Wednesday at Catholic church in Perrysburg, O. The body will be brought to Decatur for burial in the Catholic cemetery, with graveside services at 3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon.