Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 22.

File For Third Plant Election

A petition for an election to decide if Decatur will aell Ita electric utility to Indiana h Michigan *U filed tbla morning, just one day from to* deadline. Mr*. Laura &w, city clerk-treasurer. laid today. The petition, bearing 138 aignatures. was headed by Edward Hunt, at 1505 Wert Monroe. One hundred signatures were needed to require the city to have an election. Thia will be the third election on the power question. The first election was held April 14. 1969, and carried against the sale. 1500 to 1217. The second election was held Nov. 3. IKO. and carried in

Boy Scont History In County Related

Election of new officers and the history of the Boy Scouts in Adams county as recalled by four local leaden occupied the Adams county historical society Tuesday night pt their regular monthly meeting at the Decatur public library. Gerald R. Durkin. Decatur rural mail carrier, was reelected president of the historical society: the Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob, of Root township, was elected vice president; Nelson Doty, of Decatur, was reelected secretary-treasurer Richard Mailand, of St. Mary’s township, and David J. Schwartz, of Monroe township, were elected trustees for three years. Other trustees are Lowell Long. Wabash township; Raymond Kohne. Deca tui*; Mrs. Brayton Pyle, Jefferson township; Miss Bertha Heller, Decatur. Founded In England fiylverter Everhart, assistant district commissioner for Adams county, explained that scouting, as an international movement, was started to to eeariy 1980's A British army officer. Sir Robert Braden Powell, was in charge of training soldiers in South Africa. The city boys did not like camping, so Sir Robert made a game out of it, which was quite popular. When he returned to England, he was asked to start a national movement for boys that included camping. The American founder of scouting, a man named Boyce, was visiting in London when he became lost in a fog. He turned to a youth in uniform, and asked him directions. The boy took him to where he was going, and then refused a tip, explaining that he was a Boy Scout. Boyce became so interested that he returned to the United States and founded the scouting movement here Feb. 8, 1910. Decatur In 1913 Everhart then Introduced Bryee Thomas, principal of Lincoln school, who described scouting in the early-days in Decatur. In 1913, just three years after the movement -was founded nationally. a group of boys from the North Ward school, where they had been taught by John Parrish, formed a club in a home at the corner of Adams and Third streets. The club room contained magazines and games, and in one Magazine the Boy Scouts were mentioned. The boys wrote in to find out more aboyt the organization, and found that they had to get » scoutmaster. Clark Spahr was secured, add toe first Decatur troop was chartered that year. Thomas stated that he did not remember any sponsoring institution, and that if there was one, it was on paper only. First Troops Scouts ir toe first troop were Roy Kalver. Robert Colter, Alex Sutton. Ishmael Macy, Harry Knapp. Albert Gehrig. George Schug. Dick Durkin, Winfield Maddy, Bryce Thomas, Murry Sutton, Ralph Tyndall. Carlisle Flanders and Gregg Ball. The first troop was divided into two patrols, the younger boys in the wolf patrol, and the older boys in the ram patrol. The first scout troop continued as an active organization for about two or three years before becoming inactive. Shortly after this troop ceased to exist, another troop was organized with Dr. Fred I, Patterson as scoutmaster and Carl C. Pumphrey as assistant. Among the members of this troop were Max Williams. Dick Heller, Dick Durkin. Paul Castle, Thetis Stoker, Herman Myers, David Hensley, and Gerald Grandstaff. First Camp These scouts held a camp at

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favor of the sale. 1,040 to 1.383 However, the appraisal waa over the IAM offer, ao the ptent was not sold. Th* petition will be presented at the next city council meeting, and the mayor and council will have the job of settling the date for the third election. The freeholders and resident taxpayers who filed had 30 days from the date of publication in which to act. The ordinance was published Dec. 29. which gave them until Jan. 98 to file their petition with the city clerk-treas-urer.

• Rome City during the summer. I Shortly after the organization of • the American Legion Post 43 in t Decatur in 1919. the Legion be- ; came sponsor of a scout troop, and Joseph McConnell was named I scoutmaster. He was followed by Harold Daniels. Later, in 1921 or ' 1922. the Rotary club became spon- : sor for scout work. Roland Shimp was made scout- , master for troop No. 1, sponsored by the Rotary club, and Dr. Pat- ; terson was scoutmaster of Troop , 2. Bryce Thomas, returning from I college in 1923. took over the Ro- ■ tary troop that summer, and Cori nelius Durkin was scoutmaster of troop 2. Troops 1924-25 In 1924 the scouts enjoyed a few days' camping trip to Blue lake, near Churubusco. In 1925, Central school was well i represented in the Rotary troop, i with 13 regular scouts and 32 juni for scouts. The scout rooms were • in toe basement of the school and . were equipped and decorated. The ■ regular scout ’ meetings and drills ■ were held there every Tuesday • night and the junior scouts met there on Monday nights. The scouts enjoyed a week’s outing at Hamilton lake, with 30 boys atl tending. They had two strong baseI ball teams and a junior tennis tournament. Lake James Camp In 1926 Rotary troop 1 moved its ■ headquarters from the basement > of the Central school to the RoI tary club and Industrial associai tion club rooms. Meetings were i held on Tuesday evenings with , Clark Lutz, French Quinn, Rev. Covert, Rev. Miller. Dr. Patterson, iO. L Vance, and others as speak- ■ ers. The Decatur scouts made their annual summer camp that year at Lake James, accompanied by W. Guy Brown, Cornelius Durkin, ' and Bryce Thomas. Durkin is well remembered because of his insistence on the mastery of Morse code for advancement That year, ten scouts passed their second class tests, four passed first class, and two advanced to star scouts. Council Formed In 1927 the area council was formed as the Fort Wayne council, with Adams, Allen, Wells and Whitley counties taking part. Several- Decatur scouts, Brown, and Thomas attended the annual meeting and dinner that year at the Wayne street Methodist church on Feb. 26. Fielding H. Yost, hea<9 football coach at Michigan, spoke. In 1928, there were three active troops. Rotary troop 61, with Clarence Beavers as scoutmaster and Frank DeVor, assistant; American Legion troop No. 63, Russell Owens, scoutmaster, John D. Aber, assistant; St. Joseph troop 64, Harold Daniels, scoutmaster, Cornelius Durkin, assistant; troop 62 was a senior scout organization, ' comparable to explorer scouts today, then known as Beta Sigma Alpha. Lankenau Chairman In that year, E. W. Lankenau was county chairman, Dr. E. Burt Mangold, vice-chairman, John Nelson, secretary - treasurer, and Bryce Thomas, commissioner. (Coskttoead m page Mx> Mobile X-Ray Unit In City Thursday The mobile X-ray unit of toe Indiana state board of health will be located at the court house from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday for the general public. The unit will be at toe Bag Service plant from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Today, workers at toe General Electric and Central Soya plants were X-rayed.

Deadly Cover Os Ice Over Midwest Roads United Press toternattees I Sleet paved mid western highways with a deadly coaling of ioe today. Hazardous driving conditions were ported over eastern Nebraska. northern Missouri and all of lowa Th* Weather Bureau warned of ice developing on roads in Indiana, southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois, lower Michigan and northwest Ohio. Three lowa traffic deaths were blamed on slick highways and ice-covered windshields The weatherman said the freezing rain or sleet would follow a narrow path into the Northeast today and tonight. Snow was expected to mix with the rain from the Groat Lakes into New York. Pennsylvania and northern New England. Officials at Dayton. 111., reported that ice blocks—some 25 feet high—have “practically ruined” a 150-foot bridge across the Fbx River. ' Deputy Sheriff Roscoe Milan said he doubted that workers would “salvage any part of’ the bridge, weakened by blocks which dammed the river and sent flood waters surging into low-lying areas. , t , Milan said “our only hope is for mild weather.” but the Weather Bureau forecast more rain and snow for the central Illinois area. Florida officials met today to discuss the plight of 5.000 migrant workers left stranded and penniless by last week’s cold snap which destroyed much of the state’s winter vegetable crop. Migrant workers at Homestead. Fla., most of them from out of state and many with children, joined bread lines Tuesday for f °Tbe cold spell broke Sunday after temperatures dipped as tow as 18 degrees in northern Florida and 26 degrees in the southern part of the state. Cold Arctic air which turned the Dakotas and Minnesota into sub-zero iceboxes was expected to move into the Central States today. with a slight warming forecast in the northern Plains.

Program To Combat Delinquency Okayed WASHINGTON (UPD —The Senate approved a five - year 25 million dollar program Tuesday designed to combat the nation’s growing juvenile delinquency pro Hem. The action came by voice vote after drteat of an amendment by Sen. Everett M. Dirkson (R-Ill.) which would have trimmed the measure to a two-year two million dollar program. The bill now goes to the House. It would provide $2,500,000 a year for five years tor the training of persons to prevent, control and treat juvenile delinquency. A.nother $2,500,000 annually would be provided for the development and demonstration of improved methods for dealing with delinquency. The secretary of health, education and Welfare would administer the grants of funds to states and local bodies with the aid of a new 12 - member National Advisory Council on juvenile delinquency.

Temperatures Above Freezing In State United Press International Temperatures remained above freezing today in Indiana as rain spread across the state. Showers were reported the length and breadth of Hoosierland as precipitation activity got under wky. But the rain was expected to be shortlived with the arrival of colder weather this % afternoon or tonight It won’t be much colder, however. Dows ranging from the lower 90s to the tower 30s were expected tonight, with highs Thursday ranging from the upper 20s to near 40. The five-day outlook called for temperatures averaging about 5 degrees above normal north and • to 10 above normal south for the period ending next Monday. Normal highs this time of year are 38 to 45. normal lows 12 to 30. s r ■ The cooler weather tonight and Thursday will be replaced by warmer Fridav or Saturday. Precfoitation will be very light during the period, totaling around onetenth of an inch in a little rain or snow about Friday or Saturday.

Decatur, Indiana, Wedneiday, Jan. 27, 1960

Asks Additional Funds|| To Speed Development Os U.S. Super Rockets

Vicious Gunman Murders Four In New Jersey NORTH BRUNSWICK. NJ. (UPD — Police attempting to track down the vicious gunman who turned a lavish country estate into an execution chamber for a surgeon’s wife, two women servants and a taxi driver, today found the killer s getaway car. The black and red taxi which the killer is believed to have used to take him to the home of Dr. Francis M. Clarke on his mission of mass murder was recovered in Elizabeth. Police admitted they were unable to find a motive to the slayings but said that robbery or revenge ranked as immediate possibilities. A complete review o>' Clarke’s personal and professional affairs was ordered. Clarke was in the operating room of a hospital at the time of the slayings. Killings Appear Senseless Victims of the mass killings were Clarke’s invalid wife, Edith, 60; Miss Dorothy Moore, an elderly practical nurse; Mrs. Cora Jones Thadies, 29-year-old Negro maid and Morris Michaels, 60, a Newark cab driver. The killings appeared as senseless as the shotgun slaying of wealthy Kansas wheat farmer Herb W. Clutter. Clutter, his wife and two of his children all were murdered in their Holcomb, Kan., farm residence last Novembe during a robbery attempt. Two ex-convicts have been arrested in the Clutter case.. The getaway taxi was found near the Newark. N.J. line and police said it had been left there only a short time, leading authorities to believe the killer still was in the Elizabeth-Newark area Tied And Shot The trussed up bodies of the viejims were found Tuesday in second floor bedrooms of Clarke s two-story colonial-style home on a rambling five-acre estate about 30 miles south of New York City. Middlesex County Prosecutor Warren T. Wilentz said the slayings “look like an execution. ‘‘They were tied up and shot. But why it happened we don’t know. I don’t see any point in tying anybody up after one is shot.’’ j ' Wilentz said “We haven t ruled out robbery, but it looks rather slim.” He said apparently nothing had been stolen. t . Check Former Patients On revenge as a possible motive, Wilentz said: “We’re checking out all former patients, all former business acquaintances.

, *'’4 i “LONG LIVE MASBU” - That’s what the banner prodaims as French nationalists continue to man barricades su” is Maj. Gen. Jacques MSssu. deposed civilian and military commander of the Algiers, Algeria, area. Unrest spreads to other cities as French President Charles de Gaulle stands firm on self-determination for Algeria. ~

Wave Os Explosions Throughout State

United Press Internrttonal 4 wave of dynamite, bomb and rocket explosions in Indiana have killed one person and injured two others the last three days. Two other cases were reported of devices which might have caused more casualties if they had blown up. I A workman was killed at North | Vernon Tuesday when struck by a chunk of frozen earth hurled by [a dynamitg. blast at a sewer con-1 I struction project. He was Ervin I Bixler. 53. Scottsburg. James Krepps, 13. Bloomington, was injured critically in the blast of a homemade rocket constructed of a carbon dioxide cylinder and match heads Monday night. Randolph County authorities learned many hours afterward that detonating caps attached to a charge of dynamite, hidden in a stick of firewood by a farmer who was angry because part of his woodpile was stolen, blew up in a heating stove Sunday night near Farmland and slightly injured a 16-year-old girl. In addition. Indianapolis authorities investigated today the explosion of a homemade bomb in a south side street late Tuesday night, Fort Wayne Police arrested a 17-year-old high school boy when they found a stick of dynamite in Ms car parked at the school he attended, and La Porte authorities held a man whom they said admitted installing a home-

anybody who had anything to do with him.” The suspected slayer was described in a teletype alarm as white, about 35, 170-180 pounds, five-feet, eight-inches tall, a graybrown overcoat, a brown felt hat and glasses. It said he was armed with a 32-caliber automatic and “dangerous.” The bodies were discovered by Mrs. Clarke’s daughter, Mrs. Cornelia Chapin, 29, whose husband is second secretary in the U.b. Embassy at Managua, Nicaragua. She returned to this country for a visit Jan. 15. <«, INDIANA WEATHER Light rain south and central, light rain possibly mixed with freezing drizzle extreme north this afternoon, probably ending most sections by evening. Cloudy and colder tonight and Thursday. Lows tonight 18 to 25 north, 25 to 32 south. Highs Thursday 28 to 35 north, 34 to 39 south.

made bomb in the car of a loan company manager he accused of hounding him for payments. The Farmland blast report ended a thr<-»-day alert of the area by authorities who had learned of the “booby-trapped” firewood. They had cautioned area residents to inspect all firewood used, in an effort to avoid an explosion they believed could have leveled an entire house. But, Sheriff Gilbert Roberson said, only the detonating caps exploded and the blast in a home where there were five children was not severe. However, a child sitting near the stove was struck by flying metal. At LaPorte, Robert L. Manring, 24. LaPorte, was held under bond after he signed a statement admitting he placed a gunpowder bomb in the car of John Wood and rigged it to explode when the car started. However, it failed to go Fort Wayne authorities believed no malicious intent was involved in the dynamite discovery in a teachers’ parking lot at Fort Wayne North High School. Nevertheless. they said, the dynamite could have exploded. The Indianapolis blast went on with a bang at University Heights on the city’s south side. « nearby windows, but nobody was near when the explosion occurred and there were no injuries.

No Pleas Entered By Case Burglars No plea was entered this morning nor was anticipated this afternoon, from the two carry-out safe burglary suspects, who were arraigned Tuesday morning in Adams circuit court. Christian H. Schwartz. 27. formerly of Berne and now of Decatur, and James M. Spears, 36, of Decatur, stood mute in their jail cells and have not entered any pleadings through their lawyer. H. R McClenahan. After quick law work by city police chief James Borders, sheriff Merle Affolder. and state police detective Walter Schindler, the suspects were arrested and proceedings ready to file in court within 24 hours after the Jan. 22 burglary of the Blackstone Case. The police report has the establishment being burglarized between 4 and 5:30 a.m. Friday morning. The police had the suspects in jail and recovered most of the money by that same evening. A total of $1,400 has been removered, but it is believed that more is still missing.. The police went to recover the safe this morning after locating it in the Wabash river Saturday afternoon. The asfe contains many important papers of the owner. Charles M. Shannon, and may con's tain some more money. Schwartz and Spears are charged with grand larceny and entering to commit a felony. They are under $4,000 bond each, with $2,000 being issued on each charge.

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WASHINGTON (UPD-The nation’s civilian spaee chief said today he will ask Congress for ''substantial additional funds'* to speed up development of super rockets which may enable the United States to pass Soviet Russia in space achievements in “four to five years.” At the same time he promised a series of spectacular US. space launchings which will be climaxed next summer with manned rocket trips and American manned satellite.

This was the burden of testimony before the House Space Committee by T. Keith Glennan. director of the National Aeronautics A Space Administration. NASA already has asked Congress for 802 milion dollars in the fiscal year starting next July 1. Os this, the agency has earmarked 140 million for development of Saturn, a giant booster expected to thrust up to four tons as far as Mars or Venus. Glennan did not disclose the additional sum he will ask. but observers recalled that Dr. Wernher Von Braun, in charge of Saturn development, had recommended that 240 million dollars be committed to it in fiscal 1961. To meet this figure Congress would have to give NASA an additional 100 million. . Glennan said NASA plans to speed development of Saturn s “first phase.” a booster consisting of eight clustered rocket rtiglnes. by “as much as one year.” Development of the second and third stages “will be advanced by three to nine months,” he said. — With new space vehicles already coming along, the Atlas-Ag*na and the Atlas-Centaur, the Unitea States “should be able to match” Russia’s present ’weight - lifting capabilities within the next 12 to 18 months,” Glennan said. But the Russians will not be standing still in the meantime he said, and “our expectations of superiority will not be satisfied for about four to five years, when the Saturn should be ready. Glennan said “it is clear that the Soviet Union continues to hold a substantial space lead in the eves of the world. He said this is because the Russians have more powerful and more reliable This has enabled them to carry out more spectacular s P ace ™‘ s . sions than could be accomplished with the less powerful U.S. rock ets, he said. But “in a» <* ner respects Glennan saic’, “we have an equal capability” and have extracted from space “more significant scientific results.”

Four Children Die In Crash

EMINENCE, Ind. (UPD —Four school children, all brothers and sisters, were killed today w ben their car skidded broadside into an empty school bus on a wet highway a mile south, of The victims were identified by state police as James T. Jessup. 17 R. R. 1, Paragon, his brother. Richard. 16, and their sisters, Barbara, 13, and Janet, 7. They were the children of Mr. and Mrs. James JeSsup. Police said the four apparently were enroute tp Eminence school where all were pupils. Their car, driven by the oldest boy. skidded on wet Ind. 42 and smashed broadside into the school bus. which Lee Voshell, 47, R. R. 1, Paragon, was driving. There were no children on the bus. The three younger children were killed outright or died in the wreckage within moments of the terrific crash. James died in an ambulance speeding him toward a hospital. Police said it was raining slightly at the time and the blacktop highway surface was wet. They quoted Voshell as saying he was headed south after delivering a load of pupils to the Eminence school and had just cleared a narrow bridge when the northbound car containing the children suddenly loomed over a hill.

Loren Heller Will Seek Renomination * Frrll ' Wl ** l ’****' J* ft - >. ■ Loren Heller Loren Heller, currently chairman of the Adams county board of commissioners, will seek the re-nomination for the third district commissioner’s post in the Democratic primary in May. Heller, who is serving the «econd year of his first term, must seek the nomination this year because his term expires in a nonelection.year. The term of office for commissioners is three years. Serving the West Missionary church of Berne as secretary and as a member of the church council. Heller Hso served as French township trustee from 1939 to 1647. He is a graduate of the Hartford township high school. Married, he is the father of four children, the eldest of which died a few years ago. The remaining three are all married. He serves as the president of the Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of French township. He also served on the Berne-French school board for four years. Mrs. Anna Rogers is Taken By Death Mrs. Anna Rogers, 82. of Tll>ton, died at the Tipton memorial hospital Tuesday morning. She was well known in Decatur, having spent the past six summers in this city with her niece, Mrs. Jack Gray, 517 North 10th street. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Friday at the Church of he Brethren at Windfall.

Police speculated that the Jessup children missed their school bus and were hurrying to classes at the time of the accident with the oldest youth, a senior in Eminence high school, driving. Richard was a junior, Barbara in the Bth grade and Janet in the 2nd grade. James apparently applied th# brakes to keep froiin sideswiping the bus near the bridge entrance. Police said the accident wiped out the entire family of the Jessups and left them with no children. Voshell was injured only , slightly. The bodies were taken to a mortuary at Plainfield. It was the second four-fatality accidence since Jan. 1. Four per- — sons were killed at Indianapolis on Jan 2 in a car-bus crash. , One report of the accident said the bus the car hit was the one the Jessup children usually rode. Acquaintances said the children often drove to school and at other times rode the bus; Teachers and pupils at the school were, shocked by the tragedy. “They were all good, hard-work-ing pupils.” said principal Kendall Keller. “The loss is a blow to the ■entire student body.”

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