Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 47.

Entire State Is Buried Under Heavy Blanket Os Snow, Roads Bad

Living Costs . Drop Slightly For January WASHINGTON <UPD — The nation's living cuts declined for the second month in a row to the lowest level since last September, the government announced today. Lower prices for clothing, eggs, meat and new cars contributed to a drop of one-tenth of one per cent in the LatecJDepartmcnt’s consumer pp46e index The index fell to 125 4 per cent of average 19474 S prices. This meant it cost 812.54 to buy in Jan 'uary what 810 bought then. An all time record high of 125.8 was set in November. The January index was 1.3 per cent above the January. 1959. level. The decline means that nearly one million workers in the auto industry will not receive any pay increases. Another 60,000 aircraft and farm equipment workers whose wages are tied to the index tracts will take a penny-an-hour of average 1847-49 prices. This pay cut because of the drop. About 14.000 workers in the trucking Industry who get semi annual pay adjustments will re annual pay adjustments will recrease because of previous rises in the index. , Ewan Clague, commissioner of labor statistics, predicted the price level will remain stable at least through February and March. L_ SIOO,OOO Fire At Dana Lumber Yard DANA. Ind. (UPD — The S. H Pawley Lumber Co. was swept by a 8100,000 fire Wednesday. Firemen from seven towns in Indiana and Illinois fought the flames -and kept them from spreading. Heat from the blaze scorched the Baptist Church across the street from the two-story frame structure which housed the lumber firm’s business.

Berserk Man Kills Four Before Death

CHALKHILL, Pa. (UPD—Daniel Raymond cried. Then he took his high-powered rifle and laid it across a table in his neat red brick bungalow. “I'm going to use it.” Those were the last words Dan Raymond ever spoke to his w.ife of 17 years. Terrified, she fled with their three children to the nearby home of a neighbor. From there, Mrs. Raymond watched her husband turn killer and then be killed. Raymond, 45, barricaded in the little one-story bungalow, turned -a sleepy southwestern Pennsylvania mountain road into a death trap Wednesday morning. His sniper’s bullets killed four persons and wounded five others. Used Rifle And Shotgun Alternately using a rifle and shotgun, Raymond killed : —William Bund, 49, Farmington, Pa, a state Highways Department employe, who was gunned down in the cab of his cinder truck. —Mrs. Mary Frances Sisler, 61, Ohiopyle, Pa., and Mrs. Edna Maes, 53, Ohiopyle, wife Os a — Baptist minister, who were riding together. —Mrs May Maust, 20, Farmington, who was riding in an automobile with her husband and two young children. Mrs. Maust's husband, Carl, 23, and the youngsters, Mary Ann, 2, and Edward, 1, were wounded by a shotgun blast that preceded the rifle shot that killed Mrs. Maust. The father and children, Weeding and terrified, lay in their automobile in the line of fire for almost eight hours before the seige <pf Raymond’s home ended. Maust is in poor condition at Uniontown I Hospital. The children are listed as fair.

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Regional Education Meet Here Tuesday Final plans for the Tuesday meeting of region HI. Indiana I school board* association, have been announce! by Milton D. Marx. Huntington. regional chairman and member of the board of directors of the 1.5.8.A. The first general session to be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center will begin at 14 pm. The keynote addn ss wi|l ibe given by Marx. Immediately ifollowing these opening remarks. ■ a panel discussion will be held on I school problems. Any questions on any school subject will be in order j for the discussion. Serving on this panel will be Phil N. Eskew, superintendent of the Huntington I schools: Aaron T. Lindley, superintendent, Fort Wayne community I schools; Jaek Heller, president Decatur school board, and Dr. MarI ion McGhehey. executive secretary lof the Indiana school boards asso- ' elation. Marx, also president of the j Huntington board of education, will be the moderator. Over 70 reservations have been received to date for the meeting from school board members and ! superintendents in this region. All legislators from this region will be honored guests along with mem- | benr of the press-TV-radio. ’ Marx announced he has received I reservations to date from three I state senators and five state repreI sentatives. , The evening session following I dinner at 6 p.m., will be devoted entirely to legislative problems. William Bloom, president. Columbia City board of education, and state legislative ’ chairman of the Indiana school boards association, will preside over the panel. The panel will include Byron McCammon, state representative AllenWhitley counties, A. M. Bennett, superintendent Columbia City schools, and Bloom. In commenting on the meeting, Marx said “we feel that the education of Indiana school children is the most important activity our people should be concerned with. We are at the crossroads in 1960 and this meeting and the other regional meetings throughout the state will be the most important in-many years.”

Harijy Cromwell, 45, Ohiopyle RD 1, a bus driver, was shot in his car by another blast from Raymond’s shotgun. Cromwell, who was en route to Pittsburgh for plastic surgery for a facial injury, was struck in the face, neck and shoulder with the shotgun pellets. ’ Begins Crawling He began crawling. Losing all sense of time and direction, Cromwell was found some six hours later—cold, wet and bleeding—but still crawling. He is listed in fair condition. The last to feel the sting of Raymond’s bullets was Lawrence Swenglish Jr„ 18, Uniontown, Pa. Swenglish was shot through the eye when he attempted to crawl to Burd’s aid. His condition is good in Pittsburgh’s Eye and Ear Hospital. • By this , time, a party of some state troopers and vigilantes from the Uniontown area, ringed the house. But with no cover within 200 feet of the home, they were unable to advance under fire of the heavily armed and deadlyaccurate Raymond. It took a 25-ton Walker Bulldog tank, dispatched on order of Pennsylvania Gov. David L. Lawrence, to break the seige. The tank, belonging to a National Guard unit in Connellsville, was manned by two guard officers and two state troopers. The tank made two assaults against Raymond's barricaded bungalow. The first at 4:20 p.m was exploratory. After firing more than 250 rounds of machinegun ammunition against the house. It withdrew. „ The second assault, 20 minutes [later, broke the nine-hour seige.

United Pr*M Intoroatiaoal The winter's biggest general storm buried Indiana under a thick blanket of snow today, and heavy snow and hazardous driving warnings were issued. Latest Weather Bureau lorecasts called for 4 to 6 Inches of new snow this afternoon and tonight throughout the state, with possibly even more. For the central third of the state, the forecasts said the total accumulation may be more than six Inches. Sleet or freezing rain was seen as possible in the southern third before temperatures drop this evening to stay below freezing at least until Saturday. Winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour were expected to cause considerable drifting of the snow A noon special bulletin by the Indianapolis Weather Bureau said: “Snow over central Indiana will continue through the rest of today. The accumulation total may exceed six Inches. Strong, gusty winds will cause considerable blowing snow and .drifting. Driving conditions are extremely hazardous wtih packed snow and slippery spots becoming impassable even on main roads. Extreme caution is advised.” The State Highway Department said in a late morning bulletin that motorists should "proceed with caution” throughout the state and limit speed to no more than 30 miles per hour. Early morning forecasts included heavy snow warnings for all parts of the state today and tonight. with 4 or more ind* of new snow accumulating to the east central area. 3 or more m other central and south portions, and 1 to 3 inches upstate. Flurries were expected again Friday and new snow was seen as possible Saturday. t The Weather Bureaus 7 a.m. rundown of snow depths at various station*. Included 8 inches m the Chicago area, 3 in the South Bend and Cincinnati areas, 2% at Shoals 2 at Newberry. 1 at Indiand Goshen, and a trace at Evansville. The State Highway Department’s 9 a.m. road condition report said snow depths of 3 to 5 inches prevailed in the southeast, with 1 to 1% inches in central and southwest an<L fall north. Many sljck spots were reported on highways and while crews worked to lessen the driving hazards, department spokesmen urged motorists to proceed with caution.” —— —- — The snow, latest recorded in the winter's snowiest week in .terms of the state as a whole, fell as temperatures dropped below freezing over most of Hoosierland and promised to stay there awhile. Temperatures ranged at. high points Wednesday from 30 at Fort Wayne to 41 at Evansville. Overnight lows ranged from 20 at South Bend to 33 at Evansville and in the Louisville area. Highs today will range from 22 to 37, low* tonight from 19 to 30, and highs Friday from the mid 20s to around 30. In some areas, the new snow whirled in on stiff winds. Gusts up to 29 miles per hour were reported in the Indianapolis area. BULLETIN Daniel Cook, aged 92, of Geneva route 2, died at 11:50 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. where he had been a patient since Jan. 25. Hie body was removed to the Hardy & Hardy funeral home at Geneva. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. INDIANA WEATHER Snow this afternoon and tonight with 4 to 6 inches or more over most of the state. Friday cloudy with snow flurries likely north and east. Continued cold. East to northeasterly winds 29 to 39 miles per hoar and considerable drifting west and north this .afternoon, tonight in the 20s. High Friday mostly in the 20s except near 30 extreme south. Sunset today 8:32 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Friday 7:23 a. m. e.d.t. Outlook for Saturday: Cloudy with snow possibly mixed with rata extreme south. Lows 18 to 28. Highs 25 to 35.

Decatur, Indiana, Thuridcy, Feb. 25, 1960,

House Seeks To Override Veto

bulletin WASHINGTON I UPD -The Uou.r today upheld President FJaenbower'i veto of s Democratic MU to boost federal ■pending to eouibst pellation of rivers, stresuss sod Iskes. WASHINGTON < UPII -House Democrat* tried today to overturn President Eisenhower's veto of a politically potent bill to expand federal grants for local water pollution control. But the move appeared doomed Democratic leaders conceded there was little chance they couki gather the required 2-to-l margin to override the veto. But the author of the measure, * Rep. John A. Blatnik (d-Minn), claimed he was only "a couple of votes - ' short. Democrats figured they had an election-year issue even if the veto stood up. The President said he rejected the measure because he felt water pollution was a "uniquely local" problem. The Democrats have been able to upset only one Eisenhower veto in seven years. • The vetoed measure would have hiked federal grants to cities and towns to help them finance construction of sewage treatment S ants to combat waterway poltion. . . M Other Congressional News: Civil Rights: Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) said he feared the Senate would pass a “strong civil rights bill that would tea "humiliation” to the South. Byrd

Storm System Pounds Nation

United Press International K A far-ranging storm system carrying a bewildering assortment or vicious winter weather pounded the country from Texas to the Atlantic Coast today. Ice covered much of the South; heavy snow blanketed parts of the Middle West, and a marauding band of thunderstorms threatened to spawn tornadoes in parts of Florida and Georgia. Four persons were killed as freezing rain blazed highways across the South. Power lines snapped under the heavy burden of ice, leaving thousands without heat or light. Many schools were closed Heavy snow war n i ng s were posted from Kentucky northeast ward through Pennsylvania and New York, with the snow falling at the rate of more than an inch an hour. St. Louis got four inches from midnight to 3 a.m. today. The U.S. Weather Bureau warned that thunderstorms moving across northern Florida' and southern Georgia were expected to touch off hail and damaging wind storms. Tornadoes were also a possibility, the weatherman said. A subzero cold wave chased the storm across the Plains. The mercury dropped to 17 degrees below zero at Goodland,-Kan., 13 below at Hill City, Kan., 12 below at North Platte, Neb., and 11 below at Valentine, Neb. But the icebox of the nation was Colorado where the thermometer dipped to 18 below at Lamar and Two Warsaw Sisters Killed In Accident WARSAW, Ind. (UPD—Two sisters were killed today in a cartruck accident during a heavy snowstorm. Dead were Mrs. Roscoe Smith, 55, Milford, and Mrs. Bertha Meek, 53, Syracuse.* State police said that a car driven by Mrs. Meek, assistant librarian at Syracuse, skidded on the slippery surface of Ind. 15 two miles north of Leesburg into the path of a fruit truck driven by Albert .L. Sturdivant, 34, of Logansport.

said In a prepared speech that the South particularly opposed a section of the administration proposal which would declare the Supreme Court’s desegregation decisions the “supreme law of the land.” Manuals: The House Committee on Un-American Activities called Air Force Secretary Dudley C. Sharp to testify in private about withdrawal of a training manual that linked some US. churches with Qiairman Francis E Walter 'D-Pa • has criticized the withdrawal and contended the charges were true. Two other House groups want to know why the manual was issued i . .Sehryrta: Supporters of school aid pushed for quick approval by i the House Education Committee of a compromise three-year, 975million dollar school construction bill. Behind the move was the desire to get full House action on the measure before debate starts March 10 on civil rights legislation. ..Prices: Victor G Reuther, administrative assistant and brother of United Auto Workers 'UAW) President Walter P. Reuther urged Congress to put teeth in a proposed "price stability bill. Reuther told the Senale Banking Committee in testimony that the UAW backed the intent of the bill to specify "price stebility” as a goal under the National Employment Act. But he said the measure should be toughened to require, advance announcement of proposed price hikes.

Leadville. , , A one-inch snowfall closed schools in both Dallas and Fort Worth? but the youngsters weren t the only ones enjoying the storm. Some of their elders —organized ski parties on normally green Texas hills and police reported several couples ice skating at a downtown Dallas intersection. Meanwhile, a new storm center developed in southern Idaho and led the Weather Bureau to pre diet another 46 inches of new snow for the Colorado Rockies Thunderstorms were forecast for the Gulf states today with snow flurries expected around the Great Lakes into New Eng'a ll " Other flurries or scattered showers were predicted for the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies. Advertising Index advertising index Advertiser A& P Tea Co. ——2, 3,4, 6,7 Adams Theatre ... 8 Beavers Oil Service, Ihc. 7 John Brecht Jewelry V——* Bower Jewelry Store— i 3. Butler Garage - - 4 - Burk Elevator Co. —- 5 Briede Studio -- 3 Bulmahn’s Farm Supply 5 Decatur Super Service 7 First Methodist Church - 2 — — - 4 Goodyears Kaye's Shoe Store j-- 2 Klenks —— ® Lords 3 Moose T „—------- 8 Model Hatchery —----- 5 Herman L. Miller & Wilkins Bros. —- 3 Price Men’s Wear ' Standard Food Store 8 Schafers $ L. Smith Ins. Agency, Inc. —- 5 Smith Drug Co. --3, 5, 6 Stewarts Bakery 2 Stucky & Co. — ® Schmitt Meat Market 2 Clark Smith, Builder ... — 6 Shaffer’s Restaurant 2 Sudduth’s Market 1 Teeple — — 5 Teen Togs —-- 3 Wolff’s— 4

Former Drug Head Deplores Sales Policies WASHINGTON 'HF!* — A f»r US drug firm told JUn«lr invvMi I gator* vxtay nr qun ni* yw in i medical profeukxi Dr Maftin Sridcll. of North Hollywood. Calif, ‘aid the New York drug firm of Charlc* Pfizer ft Co. hi* former employer. had| ■g perverted marketing attitude/' Seidell voiced the charge at the I Senate antitrust and monopoly | tKHMamirawv comwwd -tor tn I , quiry into alleged high prices and ■ profit* in the drug industry. I Chairman Estr* Ki4auvrr <D | Tenn I • ha* complained In pa*t hearing* that tome major drug ! manufacturer* were guilty of mi«representing their pniduct* in advertisement* Seidell told the subcommittee ’ this was one of the big reasons he I quit Pfizer and moved to CahforI nia where he is now associate | medical director of Riker Laboratories at Northridge. The subcommittee called Seidell , for testimony because of an arti- ' clc which appeared last September in the magazine "Saturday Review.” . . The article said Pfizer published an ad on "enarax." a drug used for treating spasms in the digestive tract, which gave the ' impression the medicine had been i successful in treating 448 out of | 512 cases. The magazine said this was not true and neither was a Claim in the same ad that the drug had I been used in clinical tests for ' more than a year. _ . "Saturday Review' said seidell who originally had proposed i creation of the drug, objected to the ad but it was still used in a 'promotion "blitz” on doctors a , Dallas, Tex., during March of last year. Local Man's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Bessie Baughman, 82, mother of Orville G. Baughman of this city, died at 3:45 o clock Wednesday afternoon at the Memorial hospital at Kenton, O. Death was attributed to complications suffered last Friday in a fall at the home of another son, Ralph, in Kenton. She was born near Lewistown. 0., and was a lifelong resident of Ohio. Her husband, Sherman Baughman, preceded her in death. Surviving are nine sons, Orville G. Baughman of Decatur, Ralph and Chester Baughman, both of Kenton. Dwight. Ogue, Edward, Howard and Earl Baughman, all of Adam, 0., and George Baughman of Warsaw; one daughter, Mrs. Milford Lisk of Sharon. Pa.;l 30 grandchildren; 14 great-grand-children, and one brother, Earl Smith of Bellefontaine, 6. Two daughters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Hanson funeral home in Ada, 0., with burial in the Round Head cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. Vicious Hit-Run Case In New York " NEW YORK (UPD—She lay there under the car like a large rag doll. Her once bright red hair ribbon was streaked with dirt and she was dead. Robin Joyner. 4, a tot 3 feet, 4 inches tall was New York City’s 14ttt hit-and-run victim isl recent "weeks. Statistlcssayshe won’t be the last, but her death will be regarded as one of the most callous of those left to die by panicked drivers. < Never Reaches Hospital The little Negro girl was playing in front of the crowded Harlem tenement where she lived Wednesday afternoon. A sudden dash into the street, a moving taxi and Robin was struck down, severely injured. A crowd gathered. The stocky Negro taxi driver stopped, quickly i picked up the injured child and told the crowd he was rushing her to a hospital. Robin never Reached the hospital. She was found two hours later dead under a parked car, her body crumpled and broken. Teamed Vicious Case James Hunter was walking along the street two blocks from the accident and two hours afterwards. He thought he saw a rag doll trhder a car. He reached under the car and pulled out the body of Robin li.

• <- ST IKE IN BRASlLlA—President Eisenhower and Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschck, right, stand at attention as the national anthems are played in Brasilia, capital of Brazil. This photo was transmitted directly from Brasilia by radio. ■

Motorists Warned Os Driving Hazards The Adams county sheriff’s de-| partment listed the area roads and i highways as "hazardous” and warned motorists to exercise ex« treme caution in driving today as the Decatur area has been hit by , a blustery, drifting snowfall. A report of road conditions, shows that U. S. 27 north and south is extremely slick and drifting in spots, while. U.,S. 224 is drifting with driving conditions made perilous. The county stone roads are not as bad as the concrete or asphalt pavement, but still considered dangerous. Continued snow and drifting will make them worse, the report showed. Streets Salted City streets have been salted but the continued snow will make conditions worse. Sectional tourney fans are advised to start for the tourney gt Monroe a little earlier than usual and to drive the stretch with caution. With almost one inch of snow covering the city in varying heights of drifts, Decatur can expect more of the same throughout the day, according to the weatherman. River Drops local weather observer Louis Landrum reported .8 inch of show at noon today with St. Marv’s

Ike Given Third - Brazilian Welcome

SAG PAULO, Brazil 'UPD — President Eisenhower flew to this | sprawling industrial city today ? from Rio de Janeiro for his third! exhuberant Brazilian welcome in] three days. " Rain poured from the grey tskies and the temperature was an extremely humid 80 degrees, making it uncomfortable for the thousands waiting along the Sao Paulo streets to cheer the American President, Hundreds of trucks and buses | sped into town this morning with workers from outlying " factories ! determined to outstrip the greetlings given Eisenhower in Brasilia and Rio. Front Page Pictures An indication of the warmth of the welcome was shown by Sao Paulo’s newspapers, all of which covered their front pages with pictures of Eisenhower and bannerline stories on his arrival in Rio ' Wednesday. He was greeted by Gov. Carlos Alberto Carvalho Pinto and U.S Consul General- William P. Cochran, Mayor Adhemar de Batros and high church dignitaries who : welcomed him to "the fastest growing city in the world.” Eisenhower flew here today; from Rio tor a five-hour visit to . see tor himself what probably is j the most dynamic city in the mod-: ern world — one. that has grown from 579.000 people in 1920 to a , metropolis of 3,500,000, bigger even than Rio. Sao Paulo hacks the novelty of nearly complete Brasilia, the future capital,, and the charm of Rio. but citizens planned to outdo ■them both in the warmth of their f welcome. Virtually all employes

river at a low 1.92 feet. Landrum, who measures the amount of snowfall by melting the fluffy stuff and multiplying by 10. said the 7 a. m. reading was .3 inch of snow. Four Men Arrested In Theft Os Checks The arrest of four Indiana men has cleared the theft of 400 Mank checks stolen from the Scott & Siding Corp, of Fort Wayne. The men had forged 815,000 worth of the payroll Hanks. Several checks had been passed in Adams codnty during the four month spree. The remaining blanks have also been recovered. Fort Wayne police announced that James Horton. 32, of Muncie, admitted the burglary of the checks from the Fort Wayne firm Oct. 4. Arrested with Horton were Clyde Grigsby. 33. of near Muncie; Donald E. Walker, 23. and Richard Marvin Johnson. 29. both of Muncie. The quartet was arrested at Whitehall, O. Detectives in Fort Wayne said that the men had cashed a variety of the checks for about S7O-890, making small purchases and taking the rest in change. The northeastern Indiana and northern Ohio area had been hardest hit by the check passers.

were given the day off for the | occasion. —. Modern City The center of Sao Paulo is a [modern skyscraper city. and with TKe approach of Mardi Gras the tickertape reception awaiting Eisenhower was expected to outdazzle the Broadway ticker tape parades of the 19205. Eisenhower was driving through the. center of ' the city to deliver a speech at j lunch. .— ; Sao Paulo is 220 miles west ; southwest of Rio and 30 miles ini land from Santos, its port on the. Atlantic. Flying time from Rio was only an hour for Eisenhowe on the third and last day of his visit to Brazil. He leaves Friday, for Argentina. As- Eisenhower began the last day in Brazil close associates reported the Chief Executive actual - |ly working harder on his South. American trip than he “did last Dei comber when “he visited 11 countries in Asia, the Middle East ‘and i Europe; Got Up Early The duration of this trip is a week shorter than his December i venture in personal diplomacy I but Eisenhower’s days in Latin America are more jampacked and • Although Eisenhower was up ' until well after midnight Wednesi day night, he had to get up before 7 a m. to take a helicopter from ■ the embassy residence in Rio to Galeao airport in Rio harbor and thence by the propeller-powered Columbine 111 to Sao Paulo. , Eisenhower was the honor guest Wednesday night at a glittering = state dinner given by Kubitschek in colorful Itamaraty Palace.

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