Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 19 January 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 15.

u PEACE TREATY - Vice President Nixon is shown with Japanese Prmie Minister Nobusuke Kishi in Washington. Kiahi signed a peace treaty fith the United States climaxing his country s climb back from disastrous World War II defeat -

Changes In Law On Property Exemption A change in the Indiana personal property tax exemption law this year provides for application once in four 'years instead of every year, as it has been in the past. County auditor Ed Jaberg said this morning that the new law also provides for new forms to be filled out by non-profit societies and organizations in seeking the personal .property tax exemption 5* Cent Charge Jaberg also said that a handling charge of 50 cents is also being assessed this year, according to the new law, and the money will be turned over to the countytreasury. He referred a section erf the law wtiich stipulates that the county auditor must inform all known non-profit organizations within the county of their failure to file, in event they miss the application date. The law provides 60 days to file, from January 1 to March 1. After March 1, Jaberg, and other Indiana county auditors, must inform all known non-profit associations, such as educational, fraternal, or literary societies, including organizations organized for scientific purposes, that they failed to file. He hastened to add that the new forms have not arrived from the state printers, but are expected within a week or so. The arrival of the new application blanks will be announced in this paper. Another Innovation Another innovation this year, is the need for the listing of the valuation of the property, real estate, and improvements. No application will be accepted without this information on them. Jaberg said. Local institutions that usually apply for this non-profit exemption are churches, unions, fraternal and society clubs and lodges, and other chartered agencies.

Revolt Threat . . - - ~ I I—’From Algeria

PARIS (UPD — A group of French officials in Algeria today threatened and armed uprising against President Charles de Gaulle. ..... - The mayors of the Algiers region, meeting today at Algiers City Hall, issued a communique after rumors spread that’ de Gaulle would emarge his peace offer to the Algerian rebels. “Gen. de Gaulle is planning to take grave decisions,” it said. “He must be told that the people of Algeria want to remain French. It (Algeria) is prepared to show its will be any and every means, •ven by rising in arms if need We" The communique said “negotiations with cutthroats” (an apparent reference to the rebels) would not be tolerated, nnd if necessary Algeria “will take the law into its own hands." ' The mayors’ federation has criticized De Gaulle before. But

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Martin Aumann Dies From Heart Attack Martin Aumann, 70, a Root township farmer for the past 43 years, died suddenly of a heart attack at 10:40 o’clock this morning at his home on U. S. highway 27, five miles north of Decatur. He was born in Preble township July 2, 1889, a son of William and Sophia Dirksen-Aumann. and was married to Ida Bultemeier June 1, 1914. Mr. Aumann was a member of the St.- John’s Lutheran church, north of Decatur. Surviving In addition to bls wife are six daughters. Mrs. Morris (Marie) Wiegman of near Hoagland, Mrs. Carl (Erna) Melcher. Mrs. Harold (Alvina) Sauer, and Mrs. Gilbert (Florence) Hoffman, all of Hoagland, Mrs. Otto (Marlene) Fuhrman of Root township, and Miss Eloise Aumann, at home; one son, Frederick Aumann, at home; 13 grandchildren, and three brothers, Henry and William C. Aumann, both of Root township, and Edmund Aumann of Preble township. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran church, the Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday until time of the services. The casket will not be opened at the church. Allen County Farmer Is Killed By Fall FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD — Fred Roege, 61, of near Hoagland, died shortly after he fell from a haymow on his farm Monday. Allen County Sheriff Custer Dunifon said Roege was tossing bales of hay to his brother, Herman, when he lost his balance and toppled 10 feet to the barn floor.

this was the first time it spoke in a public communique of “rising in arms.” De Gaulle has offered Algeria the eventual right to decide its future if the rebels stop their war. But there were rumors that he soon may have something new to say on his peace offer. The French in Algeria fear a peace settlement would leave them at the rebels’ mercy. .. The meeting was attended by the Federation of Mayors for the Algiers District, a powerful group whose jurisdiction takes in about one-third of Algeria. Some of Algeria’s leading extremists also attended. They included rightist National Assembly Deputy Pierre Lagaillared. who led the students who stormed and sacked the Algiers government House in the uprising that helped push De Gaulle into power in°May, 1958.

Ask Hospitalization Os Mental Patients The county commlssloorri will request special •ppropriuttonn from the county council for a "waiting room" for mental patients at the Adams county memorial hospital after discussing the matter with sheriff Merle Affokter. county clerk Richard D. Ixwtoa. and hospital manager. Thurman I. Drew. In other regular and more routine matters at the weekly meeting Monday in the offices of county auditor Ed Jaberg. the commissioners announced they would publish a legal notice Wednesday in the Daily Democrat requesting bids for the new 1960 automobile for the sheriffs department. The winning bidder must accept the 1958 Ford that the sheriffs department how uses as part of the deal Bids Will 'be opened Feb 1. Rarer Reappointed Boyd Rayer. local barber, was reappointed to the county alcoholic beverage commission by the commissioners. The county council reappointed John Blakey of Decatur earlier this year, and the mayor of Decatur appoints the third member of the board. Chester Armstrong, of near Geneva, requested that the commissioners check into the Wabash river problem near the county-line road and his home He said that the river had washed up to almost his back porch as it had done a few years ago. He suggested cutting a new path for the river, which takes a severe bend near his home. The commissioners promised they would look into the problem. Mental Boom Discussed Mrs. We no . county courthouse matron, signed her one-year contract yesterday. It is renewable Jan. 1, 1961. In discussing the special room at the hospital for the mental patients, the commissioners agreed with Lewton and sheriff Affolder that the need for such a room is imperative. Should a person be committed to a state hospital for mental reasons .they told the commissioners, a place must be avail(Contltiuog on page eight)

Chatmcy L. Oliver Dies Al Bluffton Chauncy L. Oliver, 72, a native of Adams county, died at 4:15 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton. He had been in failing health several years with a heart condition, and seriously ill with pneumonia for the past week. at. He was born near Monroe March 7, 1887, a son of Marion L. and Ellen Wisner-Oliver, and was married to Martha Buckmaster Nov. 9, 1907, In Decatur. A resident of Bluffton for 50 years, he had operated the Oliver insurance agency for 25 years. Mr. Oliver was a member of the Bluffton Methodist church. Surviving in addition to his wife are a daughter, Mrs. Raymond Mosure of Bluffton; three grandchildren and 16 great - grandchildren. Funeral services will 'be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Goodwin funeral, home in Bluffton, the Rev. Arleon Kelley officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. -.-- -

Girl Slightly Hurl As Train Hits Auto A Fort Wayne motorist was slightly injured when her car and a Pennsylvania switch engine collided at the Pennsy tracks and Second street at 12:10 a. m. today. Miss Judith Ann Stauffer, 18, of route 10, Hessen Cassel road, Fort Wayne, suffered a slight bump on the head and shock. She was admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital for treatment. but released this morning. Engineer C. B. Hardin, of 1027 Line street, Decatur, told police that his engine was going about 25 miles an hour when the car entered the path of the engine. Miss Stauffer told potice that no watchman appeared at the crossing, and that she did not hear any whistle from the engine. Damages to the Stauffer car, which is owned by Zintsmaster Motor Sales of Decatur, amounted to an estimated SBOO. according to the police report. The report also indicated that Second street at the time of the accident was very slick. The Stauffer car was going northwest on Second. The train struck the right end of tile vehicle, spinning it in a counter-clockwise direction across another row of tracks.

ONI.Y DAILY NEWSPAPER TN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1960

50 Killed When Airliner Crashes In Wooded Area In Virginia Last Night

Storm Leaves Death Trail

Untied Freas Interaattanal The new year's biggest snow storm, leaving a swath of death from Texas to the Great Lakes, struck at New England today with up to eight inches of snow. Heavy snow warnings were issued for New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine Sleet and freezing rain were forecast for Massachusetts and Connecticut, and light snows hit New York and Pennsylvania. . The storm originated in Texas last Saturday night and swept up the Mississippi Valley with paralyzing snowfalls and sub-freexing weather. * „ , It claimed at least 31 lives, in highway accidents, freezings, cold weather asphyxiations and heart attacks. There were seven dead in Nebraska, six in Texas, five in Colorado, four in Kansas, three each in Missouri and Wisconsin and one each in Illinois, lowa and Michigan. As schools and highways began to reopen in the Midwest and northern Plains states, three to eight inches of snow hit the Northeast. , Hazardous dt i v i n S warnings were in effect throughout New England and in New York and Pennsylvania. High drifts still blocked a few roads in Colorado and Nebraska. Schools had been closed in Omaha and Lincoln, Neb., and in many small towns throughout the storm area. Northerly winds following the storm pushed temperatures down by as much as 20 degrees to the 40s from Georgia to Virginia, while the 30s were common from Pennsylvania southwestward to Texas. The zero to 10 degree above range covered most of the area from the Dakotas to Kansas. The mercury plunged to 10-15 below in the rockies and rose to the 40s near the Pacific Coast. Hundreds of schools were closed in lowa, even in the capital city of Des Moines Monday. Thirteei schools wre closed in the Free-

Democrats Oppose Budget Requests

WASHINGTON (UPD — Lawmakers agreed today that Congress won’t raise gasoline taxes, boost postage rates or approve some of the spending cutbacks requested by President Eisenhower in his new budget. • But Republicans and some Democrats said the President had handed the GOP a good campaign issue by making the unpopular proposals that Congress won’t accept in an election year. Refusal of the legislators to approve Eisenhower’s requests would melt away rhuch of the $4,200,000,000 surplus he envisioned for the fiscal year starting July 1....— As a result, the Republicans probably will be accusing the Democratic - controlled Congress next fall of wrecking chances for the 1961 tax cut for which the President held out hope. Budget May Help Democrats, of course, are hoping to make political hay of their refusal to go along with. Eisenhower’s recommendations to pare some federal spending on housing, veterans, water pollution, farm conservation, hospital construction, and aid to schools near military installations. But some Democrats fear the President’s budget will help the Reoublicans. ‘•We’ll have all the special interests demanding that we reject the Eisenhower budget proposals that hurt them,” .one Democrat said. "Then, when we do, we 11 have members of their groups criticizing us for spending the surplus.” ■ . “Politically, the new budget is excellent,” one Republican said privately. “It holds out hope for a tax cut next year if — if the Democratic Congress does a lot of things we know it’s not going to do. The recommended boost in gasoline taxes and postage rates won’t hurt Republicans because it won’t happen. Besides, Republi-

INDIANA WEATHER Mostl) cloudy «nd a little folder taaight. a few snow flurries north. Chance of heavy snow (lurries near Lake Michigan. Wednesday considerable cloudiness and continued cold, snow flurries extreme north. Low tonight 8 to 18. High Wednesday 29 to 28. Sunset today 8:59 p. m. e. d. L Sunrise Wednesday 8:91 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Thnreday: Mostly cloudy, continued cold. Lows Wednesdsy night 5 to IS. H I g h a Thursday mostly In the 20s.

port. Hl., area because’of snowblocked roads.

In southern Wisconsin Monday, a school bus flipped over on an icy highway at Menomonee Falls, but the children were not injured. Sub-freezing weather, however, helped three Milwaukee area men whose plane developed generator trouble while flying through freezing rain from Minneapolis to Milwaukee. They made a successful emergency landing on frozen Lake Weyauwega. Jefferson Club To Meet This Evening -T The Adams county Jefferson club will meet tonight at 7:80 o’clock at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Byron McCammon will be the featured speaker for the meeting. A school teacher, farmer, and a member of the Indiana state legislature from Allen and Whitley counties, McCammon is a candidate for the fourth district Democratic congressional nomination. McCammon will speak on the founding of Jefferson clubs and also will touch on the problems facing today’s farmers. All Democrats are invited to attend.

cans running for office don’t have to endorse it.” See No Postal Boost Simply by taking no action at all on Eisenhower’s plea for a penny boost in the cost of mailing a letter and for cancellation of scheduled reductions in telei phone and travel taxes, Congress would eliminate about $1,100,00,000 of the projected budget surplus. Legislators agreed that postal; rates would not be boosted and many members said it was doubtful that Congress would rescind the scheduled July 1 cuts in communications and transportation levies. Eisenhower’s tax program also called for extension for another year of the higher taxes levied during the Korean war on corporation profits, liquor and cigarettes; But Congress is certain to go along with him on that. Other congressional news: Air safety* ’The Senate aviation subcommittee opened its second week of hearings on the nation’s grim 1959 air accident record only 12 hours after the second fatal crash of 1960. The inquiry was expected to question experts on how to detect bombs, aboard airliners. j _ Ejections:, The Senate moved toward a vote on whether primary elections should be covered by the provisions of a so-called "clean elections bill. Chances appeared dim that the amendment would be approved over the opposition of conservative Republicans and Democrats from the South, Where a primary victory often is tantamount to election. Civil rights: Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) said the use of federal voting registrars in the South might be the most important development in the drive for universal suffrage since women were given the right to vote in 1920.

Boy Scout Leaders Dinner Held Monday More than 50 Adams county: scouters and their wives attend-! ed the 12-county Anthony Wayne I council leaders appreciation din-1 ner at the Fort Wayne coliseum Monday night. in dinner drew a huge crowd of The golden anniversary carrymore than 2.000 adults connected with scouting in the council area. At Head Table The table of honor included executive board members W. Guy Brown, E. M. Webb, Clarence Ziner, and E. E. Ry dr 11. Council vice president Herman H. Krueckeberg. of Decatur, was unable to be present. The printed program included the names of all the Silver Beaver award winners, highest council honor, including Carl C. Pumphrey, 1932; Bryce Thomas, 1937; Sylvester Everhart, 1940; Lowell Smith, 1945; Karl Hilty, of Berne, 1955; Herman H. Krueckeberg, 1956; W. Guy Brown, 1957; Earl M. Webb, of Berne, 1958. The 1959 awards went to Robert G. Gillespie. O. Milton Clark, and Robert B. Rinehart. Scout Veterans In the veterans of scouting list in the program. Bryce Thomas, with more than 40 years of scouting, led the list; others were 3539 years, Carl C. Pumphrey; 30-34 yAars, W. Guy Brown; 25-29 years, Sylvester Everhart; 20-24 years, Karl Hilty, lowell Smith, Earl M. Webb, Sylvan Zuercher, and Clarence L. Ziner; 15-19 years, Myron L. Habegger, Herman Krueckeberg. Alva Lawson, Richard F. Linm J. D. McCrory, Leslie Sprunger, Ernest J. Stengel, Sherman Stuckey, Toro C. Smith, and Harold Sprunger. Each of the troops, packs, and posts present was honored by having records of scouting achievement presented to the scoutmaster. The record contains 14 blanks, including if the troop was re-reg-istered on time, whether there was (Continued on PMC® eight)

Runaway Boy, 6irl Unhurt In Accident

A run-away teenage boy and girl will be returned to their Massachusetts homes today or tomorow after the local sheriff and city police collaborated in their apprehension following a major damage accident 'early this morning. Sheriff Merle Affolder received a call at 6:t>s a.m. today, about an accident on U.S. 224 about three miles east of Decatur. He found a 1957 Ford station wagon completely demolished. The wagon had way, spinning into the north ditch and crashing. * Sheriff Searches Area Finding no occupants, sheriff Affolder searched the nearby woods and surrounding area. He alerted local and surrounding police to be on the look-out for possible injured suspects. » - Policeman Grover Odle, who had stopped at Holthouse on the Highway for a cup of much needed warming coffee on this cold winter’s morning, noticed a young boy and girl in the restaurant, and further noted that she was not wearing shoes. When he returned to the station, the call came through from the sheriff, requesting information about the possible runaways. Odle jumped into the patrol car and started back toward the restaurant. He spied the two youth hitchhiking on 13th street. Upon investigation, Ralph J. Davis, 16, of Concord, Mass., told police that he and his 17-year-old female traveling companion were going to Oklahoma to be married. Conservative estimates of the total damage to the vehicle put the loss at 61,600. The parents of the teenagers were called and are making arrangements for their return. „

HOLDCROFT. Va. (UPD — A Capital Airlines turbo-prop plane pancaked into a dense wooded area only a few minute* away from Its destination Monday night and erupted in flames which cremated the 50 person* aboard Three of the dead were children. The British-made plane's jetpowered engines apparently failed on the last 50 mile* of a flight from Washington to Norfolk. Va., and the Viscount plummeted al- | most straight down in a shroud of fog and drizzle. The plane smacked into the | slope of a small ravine and burst into flames. The fire raged for more than eight hours white rescuers stood by helplessly, unable I even to get near enough to see if 'anyone inside still had a chance to survive. Troopers, deputies and rescue teams fought through a tangle of briers and underbrush for nearly a mile to reach the scene, about 30 miles east of Richmond. With Explosive "Thnd.” It was the second major airline disaster within 12 A National Airlines DC6”b disintegrated over Bolivia, N.C., on Jan. 9, kiting 34 persons. As in the National Airlines crash, Monday night’s disaster came without a word of radio warning from the pilot. The crash occurred about 930 p.m. c.s.t., minutes after several farmers in the sparsely populated area reported they heard the plane circling in the thick fog, its engines coughing. It crashed tact with an explosive “thud.” R.H. Tench, on whose farm the aircraft fell, said it ’looked like it just fell down.” Another witness said it "fell like a helicopter.” The impact apparently killed or stunned an of the- occupants including a small boy and two infants. Tench and others who were on the scene by the time the first flames erupted said they heard no cries, saw no movements or any indications anyone was alive when the fire began eating away at the bodies still strapped in the seats. Thtn the fuel tanks exploded. Heat Hampers Rescuers Farmer Irving Wallace, one of . the first on the scene, said “Three guys were lajylrtg there in Rie ’ fire but I couldn’t tell how many ■ more were inside,” he said. “You ! couldn’t get close enough to tell.” Harvey Roach Jr., a fireman, said he and other firemen were ■ able to get close enough to see a 1 stewardess’ body, charred and caught in the wreckage. “We could see other bodies and we could recognize faces but we couldn’t get inside,” he said. The heat became so intense that

the rescuers had to back away. Heavy firefighting equipment

Treaty Signed By U.S., Japan

. WASHINGTON (UPD The United States and Japan, World War II enemies 15 years ago, i today signed and unveiled a security treaty making them full - fledged alies in the cold war. In the same White House east room where the Allied powers pledged the complete defeat of the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis in 1942, U.S. and Japanese leaders today pledged a lasting partnership of economic and limited military cooperation. President Eisenhower witnessed the signing of the, long-term agreement by Secretary of State Christian A. Herter for the United States and Prime Minister Nobusiike Kishi for Japan. Also signed and confirmed were a new agreement detailing U.S. military base rights and obligations in Japan and seven related * diplomatic papers, notes and memoranda defining the new relationship. Invitation to Visit Japan Earlier, the President and Kishi conferred at the White House for minutes. After the meeting, i Eisenhower was host at a stag ' lunch with 45 guests in honor of Kishi. Before the White House session; ; began, it was disclosed that Kishi 1 would invite the' President to visit ' Japan. Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujijama said he believed Eisenhower would accept and

could not get into th* area which borders a small creek known as "Sandy Gut.” Tench. Walace and nt least two other residents nt the area Mid they heard Um* plane circling Mrs. A H. A vary. who reported the crash, said it was drtxxl|ng rain and a heavy fog cloaked the area at the time. * She saxi she beard an awful thug.” then silence. There was no ho mediate explosion but moments later the first of several explosions in the gas tanks began feeding the fire. i, CAB Investigate The passengers—43 adults ana the 3 children—Mid; the crew of 4 made up a- capacity ’wd for thv plane which had replaced anothjf Capital plane at Washington op a flight from, Chicgo to Norfolk. The first plane was taketfifot of service at Washington. Capital said, for routine maintenance. It was replaced by the 18-fatcd Viscount, which had just flown to Washington from Detroit. * Capital said It was setting up a temporary morgue at the Med(Cosxinued tm p*«* •**> Advertising Index Advertiser ***** AAP Tea Co. 3 Arnold Lumber Co.. Inc. 2 Ashbauchers' Tin Shop 2 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. --2, 5 Bower Jewelry Store ——3 John Brecht Jewelry -r 3 Burk Elevator Co. — —* 5 Butler Garage — - 5 Bowers Hardware Co 2 Briede'Studio --- 3 Fred W. Corah 8 Decatur Ready-Mix, Inc - — 2 Fasteeth . — —- < First State Bank —4* 3 Ford ® Haugks - - • Haflich & Morrissey 3 Habegger Hardware -i 2 Jones & Byer 7 Kohne Drug Store ----3, 5 Kobne Window & Awning Co. -- 2 Marge & Charles Dance Studio . 3 National Safe Drivers Division . 7 P. Neuenschwander, auctioneer - 5 Ohio OU Co —- 4 Oldsmobile 7 Petrie OU Co — 2 Rash Insurance Agency 3 Schafers . • L. Smith Insurance Agency 5 Schmitt Meat Market —L.™.— 8 Shaffers Restaurant —7 Smith Drug Co. -5, 6 Sherwin-WHliams Co. 2 Stucky & Co. —7 Stop Back News Stand — 5 Teeple 5 John B. Terveer, M.D. — 5 Uhrick Bros. ——— 8 Yost Gravel Readymix, Inc. 2

make the visit immediateyl after his June 19-19 trip to Russia. The President’s trip to Japan, if made, would be considered a return call for the planned visit to Washington in late May of Japanese crown Prince Aldhito, representing Emperor Hirohito. The security' treaty links the United States and Japan in a broad partnership of economic and military collaboration dedicated to peace in Asia. It continues the right of the United States to base military' forces, principally air fighter wings, in Japan but gives the Japanese a voice in the number, their weapons and the manner in which they can be used. " Commited To Defense The pact commits the United States to defend Japan, but Japan is not committed to defend this country or to join in any collective military action outside Japan. Under its terms Japan has what amounts to virtual veto power over the use of Japan-based troops or Air Force in combat outside Japan and must be “consulted” before the United States can introduce nuclear weapons, ; missiles or other modern arms. « The treaty supplants a hurried-ly-drawnl9sl pact which the Japanese complained gave the Americans free-wheeling rights in. violation of Japan's sovereignty.; f V- '

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