Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1960 — Page 1

01. LVIII. No 54.

Vicious Late Season Storm Pounds At New England; Over 50 Dead

United Pms International A vicious late season storm that took more than 50 lives and shackled the nation's bi< I e s . cities pounded New England today with foot-deep snow and gale force winds. Another ten inches of snow were predicted for the bard - hit Northeast, which suffered under 1? inches of snow and 50 m.p.h. winds Thursday. Ice-cold temperatures increaseo the March misery across the nation The mercury fell to one degree above zero In Wichita. Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., this morning to set March 4 records in both cities. . A , United Press International counted at least 52 persons killed by the onslaught of ice. snow and mH as it swept from coast to coast, burying the north under layers of snow and numbing the South with roof-crushing burdens of ice. „ Heavy Storm Toil Pennsylvania counted at least six storm dead. Massachusetts and Indiana had five each and Texas. Ohio, and Colorado each renorted four dead. The usually conservative Chicago Weather Bureau summed up the deadly siege of weather with Xe that "conditions could best be described as miser- ** j *• A foot of new snow caused an 18-mile traffic jam in Pennvivania. Hundreds of stalled cars clogged Boston streets. New York City, the nation’s mightiest poS. came to a standstill under 14 inches of snow. Another 14 inches covered southern New England. Virginia report•a a foot and a half, 11 inches Wankel central Illinois andJJoston recorded eight inches heaviest of the Temperatures Plunge A blast of ice-cold air the Midwest. Temperatures fel to 23 degrees below zero at SD and sub-zero readings were reported deep in the central plains St Gale Minings went up from Eastoort, Maine, to the Virginia Capes Tides up to four feet above S battered the Atlantic Seaice and snow storm deepened the misery in Dixie The ice snapped power lines, rumed trees, collapsed the roof of a school auditorium and caused than 5 age to Arkansas timber trees. Schools Close Qrhnols in the Ohio and Missisotnni valleys closed down by the "Sre rf h t?mnto“to'mete”’ln e tio J? s J" mclS y of snow Stranded Elgh Lmen in their Washington eivU r m h bP d snSv te ’ hamstrung Detroit The sno *. burK h, Boston and Baltimore,-Pitsburg”’ f fi s nar n n g Philadelphia w J * a « ic s all th * drifts, Airports shut cittes e «^^ tr w Y or k to West down from Virginia. — „ Advertising Index Page Advertiser g Adams Theatre Adams County Farm Bureau Co-op 41 Beavers Oil Service. Inc. —- 5. • Budget Loans — Butler Garage a Burk Elevator Co. ». Chevrolet Cowens Insurance Agency - < Conrad’s ‘‘66” Service ... 7 Ehinger’s “Boston Store - J Federal Land Bank Ass’n —- ‘ Kohne Drug Store ----- 31 3 The Little Elevator Co. —- £ Maico Hearing Service -------- 2 Model Hatchery 3 Niblick & Co. — 3 T, Smith Insurance Agency, inc. 5 Smith Drug Co:—— ‘ Stucky & Co. — Shaffer’s Restaurant- —7 Stop Back News Stand ....— i Teeple — . Victory Bar , Veterans of Foreign Wats 7 Church Page Sponsors 6 i

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

County And Slate Officials Confer Two members of the state board of account? met with several county officials Thursday at the offices of county auditor Ed Jaberg in order to solve several problems on ditch business. Gene Beard and Robert Cotterly. state officials, toid the local officials that the mix-up in ditch funds could be solved by transferring the surplus from the various ditch allocations to the general ditch fund. < total of $37,000 is on hand in the fund to pay $35 - 000 due in bills. The mix-up resulted mainly from the fact that no assessments can be made on ditches until the job is completed, and the fact that the general fund is not large enough to cover estimated costs throughout the year. A special appeal will be made to the state legislature next year to provide additional funds by taxation to the county for this purpose. As it now stands, one large ditch cost can wreck the set-up in the general fund. The county also learned that it can obtain ditch assessment payments every month to keep a surplus in the general fund, rather than wait for the semi-annual payments as has been the case in the past. The treasurer can transfer these payments to the general ditch improvement fund monthly, according to the state officials. An income of $3-4.000 is expected by May to further boost the nearly depleted ditch fund, according to Jabexg. who said that the county will not need to curtail new ditch projects if this plan works out satisfactorily. Included at the meeting were Herman Moellering. surveyor; Dave Macklin, county attorney, and deputies from the surveyor’s and auditor's offices. Indiana Farm Income Is Down 20 Per Cent WASHINGTON (UPD — The Agriculture Department said today the average farm net income in Indiana last year was $2,188. down 20 oer cent from 1958. The average percentage decline of spending income in Indiana compared with a 14% per cent drop nationally. Total farm income in the nation last year was 11 billion dollars, compared with 18.1 billion dollars in 1958.

Ike Relaxing At Puerto Rico Base

RAMEY AIR FORCE BASE. Puerto Rico (UPD — President Eisenhower relaxed today in balmy 80 degree temperatures from the rigors of his 10-diy South American tour and planned a full afternoon of golf over the magnificent Dorado course. Eisenhower flew here TTiursday afternoon from Surinam (Dutch Guiana) where his big Air Force jet had landed on three engines after developing an oil leak over the Amazon jungles of Brazil. He had transferred to a second jet carrying his son, Maj. John Eisenhower, and other members of the White House staff. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter flew Thursday night to Charleston, S.C., where he landed because of the snowstorm in Washington and John’s wife Barbara was flying here for a weekend in the sun with her husband and father-in-law. Eisenhower had only one duty to perform today before taking a helicopter to the Dorado Beach and Golf Club which was built by Laurence Rockefeller in cooperation with the Puerto Rican government—a brief speech to the American assembly, a group of US. and South American intellectuals he helped found when he was president of Columbia Uni-

Senate Nears 100-Hour Meet

WASHINGTON (UPl>—The Senate. struggling to hold its collective temper, neared the 100-hour mark today in a five-day-old civil rights filibuster marked by a new endurance record for around-the-1 clock talking. Noon signaled the passing of 96 consecutive hours in session since senators began meeting day and night in an effort by Democratic; and Republican leaders to crack a southern talkathon against civil. rights legislation. ' An early - morning eruption ofi tempers involving two supporters] of the bill was soothed over and i southerners resumed their lengthy - speeches. The flare-up ended with handshakes. smiles and apparently no hurt feelings. Senate Democratic ] Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas said afterward he preferred to wait at least until next week before trying to shut off the filibuster with a rarely used cloture pe*At 1:38 a.n> e.s.t. the Senate had been in session day and night for 85 hours and 23 minutes, except for a 15-minute recess, equalling the record set during a 1954 filibuster on atomic energy. That debate was broken by a 24-minute recess. Set Another Record The civil rights talkathon win set the record for a continuous session unbroken by any tempo-

Purdue Counselor At School March 7 Charles Henry, Purdue Ul } lve J'" sity admissions counselor, will be the guest speaker at a meeting for parents of prospective college students at Decatur high school March 7, 7:30 p.m. Decatur principal Hugh J. Andrews said this morning that because school officials have become increasingly aware of the need for more help for the high school graduates who desire further train ing, this meeting is one of the moves to assist in this direction. Letters explaining the need of counselling and for this meeting were mailed to about 90 parents this week, requesting them to attend the special meeting. Deane T. Dorwin, DHS counselor, prepared the arrangements. Henry will speak on the problems of training, and will endeavor to answer all questions pertain-

versity. Eisenhower returns to Washington sometime late Sunday- Press Secretary James Hagerty said Eisenhower would report to the nation by radio and television on his 15,500-mile tour but that he did not know when the broadcast would come. In the .meantime the President planned only to relax beneath the palm trees and the blue Caribbean sky.

oCenlen fflleditation (By Rev. Harold J. Brind, First Presbyterian Church) “THE DIVINE MOTIF’ Isaiah 45:5-13 “I am the‘Lord, and there is none else, There is no God beside Me.” As the third person of the Trinity. Christ said, “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father” and so it is, as we look at Christ we see God. We see Christ feeding the hungry and we know that God cares for our physical needs and economic problems., We see Him weeping at the tomb of Lazarus, and we know God is sympathetic in our sufferings and sorrows. We want to know does God forgive sins, and we see Jesus bending over a sinful woman and saying, "Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more.” We hear Him saying, “I go to prepare a place for you, and we are at rest, regarding the future. „

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAM'S COUNTY

Decotur, Indiana, Friday, March 4, 1960

racy recess if it’s still going at 11 38 p.m. The old mark. 54 hours I and 10 minutes, was set during a 11915 debate on President Woodrow I Wilson's ship purchase act. The gag rule flare-up started (when Sen Wayne Morse <D-Ore > placed a cloture petition on the Senate clerk’s desk and Serf Thruston B. Morton <R-Ky.) tore! 1 the paper to shreds and dropped , it into a waste basket. I The lawmakers later shook, . hands and dismissed the incident ] i with smiles. Morse Move "Premature’ Morse vainly sought support for ; I his cloture petition after both Republicans and liberal Democrats gave a cold shoulder to Johnson s I attempt to end the filibuster with ■ ia compromise civil rights plan. 1 The Morse move was viewed as having little significance. To sueceed any effort to shut off the talkathon would have to be backed by the Democratic and Republican leaders in order to win the necessary two-thirds maJohnson said he viewed Morse s move as “extremely premature. He said he was "very reluctant ' to ever vote cloture ’’ Morse, a civil rights supporter, sought unanimous consent to have his petition placed on the clerks desk where senators could write the 15 additoinal signatures needed to bring the matter to a vote

ing to the subject. A large crowd is being anticipated by local school | Henry was chosen because it was felt that he could assist parents in learning a bit of the insight of what is expected from the parents as well as what the colleges and universities expect from the student. t . . • The meeting will take place m the high school building, with a coffee hour following. I Steiner Candidate ! . For School Board Martin Steiner, a Monro?- Demo- ! crat, filed for the position of school I board member at Adams Central ! this morning. He will run on the Democrat ticket in the primary May 3. Steiner is seeking thg position currently held by Harold Schwartz, who has announced that he will not i seek re-nomination after eight years. Steiner is district sales manager for Moorman Manufacturing and has ilved in Monroe since 1941. He is past president of the P.T.A. and past treasurer and president of the Monroe Lions club. As a member of the Monroe volunteer fire department, he currently serves as assistant chief. He is a member of the Monroe Methodist church. The father of five children,two of whom have been graduated from Adams Central, he has a son on the Greyhound basketball team. A native of Berne, he lived there 24 years before moving to Monroe. His wife is the former Lillian Marquart.

Dr. Clate Risley To Be Banquet Speaker Dr. Clate Risley, executive secretary of the national Sunday school association, will be th*' speaker for the. pre-Sunday school , convention banquet • th#f will be held in Berne March to Dr Risley has tx-i-n very active in Sundav school work for many years From 1943 to 1952 he was pastor of the Hillyard Baptist church in Spokane, Wash. As the result of his labors, the Sunday school grew from one of the smallest in that city to one of the largest in the state. The church recently completed a new quarter of a million dollar building to house its growing Sunday school Dr. Risley was born in Montana. He is a graduate of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, with further studies at the University of California at Los Angeles and Whitworth College. In October. 1955. at the 10th annual national Sunday school convention in Spokane, he Was givep the title "Mr. Sunday school of America." Reservations for the banquet must be made by March 7. All pastors and Sunday school teachers and workers are urged •to attend the banquet. Reservations can bt made with the pastor or the superintendent of churches by March 7.

Wayne Rolhgeb Is Speaker At Rotary Wayne Rothgeb, farm director for station WKJG radio and TV, was the guest speaker at Thursday evening's weekly of the Decatur Rotary club. Roy Kalver was program chairman and H. P. Schmltt. Jr., presided. Rothgeb, who Is a Purdue graduate and served as agricultural agent of Jay county before his present assignment, described the tours for farmers which he had let the past two years to Rusia. He said that, there are two kinds of farms in Russia, the state farm and the collective farm. The collective farm is an adaptation of the farm following a strike several years ago and allows more freedom and independence to its workers. Each farm is about as large as a township. It has its own schools, central buildings, etc. Each worker is assigned some specific job, as tractor driver, baker, etc. On the collective farms the workers are paid in kind as in food, milk, etc., plus a small amount of land, perhaps two acres, which they may farm on their own and sell its products. National allotments are determined and then each farm is given a quota. If more can be produced this surplus can be sold to improve facilities. On state farms, workers are paid a wage but have no personal acreage. These farms are preferred by the authorities and seem to get the best equipment. Rothgeb told several interesting' personal episodes concerning their guides. One said he did not attend church because one who did would get poorer grades in school and; lose favor with the authorities. The i speaker also told of taking Russian (Continued on page eight) INDIANA WEATHER Heavy snow flurries and snow squalls continuing in extreme north this afternoon and early tonight with several inches new snow' likely in many sections. Partly cloudy with scattered snow flurries over remainder of state this Afternoon, clearing central and south tonight. Saturday sunny south, partly cloudy north, show flurries continuing extreme north. Very cold tonight, continued cold Saturday. Low tonight- zero to 10 above, locally lower in some spots central and south. High Saturday 18 to 25. Sunset 6:40 p. m. e. s. t., Sunrise Saturday 7:13 a.m. e.s.t. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly sunny but cold.. Low Saturday night zero to 10 above, high Sunday . mostly in 20s.

Most Os Main Roads Opened Over County With of thr mwifi . n > n *w. citv awl cntinty. Adurn* rYMihtv dig* ping »Hit <>( thrir «now«i in hnmm m.iintxl rkwrd. Ihr bmUl tffrcU of th<’ recent unnw have tubaUlrd County highway superintendent Ijiwrvncr Noll report* that 450 milfi nt county highway hayv been

Snow Drifting High winds arc again drifting snow, and dodng the county’s rural roads. Uwrence Noll, county highway superintendent, warned at 1 p in. today. The highway department has worked around | the clock several days during the past week, and asks that . emergency calls be limited to just that—emergencies Some people have taken advantage of the department by calling for emergency help when it was not at all necessary. The half-dozen pieces of equipment are being used on a regular basis, and emergency calls arc costly in the over-all county plan. opr-ned by his four snow plows; which have workid around the clock in an effort to free residents - from drifts which reached 4-5 feet depths. City Streets Cleaned City street commissioner Adolph Kolter and his crews opened all the main streets, many of the heavily travelled streets, and a few of the side streets in the city. The report from city weather observer Louis Landrum listed the total snowfall for the week at seven inches, with four inches being added yesterday. Only .2 inch wa§ added from 7 a m. Thursday to this morning. Landrum recorded the level of St. Mary's river at 1.77 feet, the third day it has remained less than two feet. Noll told how his crews had opened lanes and roads for two more funerals, two public sales, and to get one French township woman to the hospital so she could have her babv. Noll said that a few reports drifted back that some residents had complained that the crews did not open several roads yesterday. He refuted the statements, by saying that as soon as the crews did plow, the wind would cover the road with drifts.

Calls Swamp Office His office has been swamped wtih calls all night and this morning and to date the following roads are open: The Tile Mill road between state road 124 and 118: road 38 through French township; road 12 to 101; road 30 from 118 to Bunker Hill; Bunker Hill roatf; aria roads 4. 20, Salem and Winchester are completely open. He noted that his crews are uncovering all the roads as quick as they can get to them. He urged the public to bear with them. School absences took a return to near normal in the two Decatur high schools and St. Joseph s grade school as only the county pupils failed to attend classes this morning. School Buses Curbed AU school bus transportation has been curbed, arid the absences at the public high school are mainly from Union township. Os the total 46 at home there. 30 are from Union township. At Decatur Catholic, 48 are out in the high school with 108 absent in the elementary school. Yesterday. these; were almostdoubled.

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Hoosiers Dig Out Os Snow

t (tiled ftrrx* InternaUtHial Wt-wthrr > cmwectcri dnUit m Indiana »• ft* result rtf climbed to at te*«< »ev<-n •• addi j tion.al heavy *m>w jilt northern InwkllMl* Houston, 17. Marton. Hr waa Injured fatally this morning when a car driven by Ms wister. Rhtetey. aklddad on the snow and ice onto a railroad crossing in Jonesboro into the path of a Chesapeake A (Mito Railroad train. Hia steter and Bob Smith, another paasenger. leaped from the car and were u<*t injured. John Spayd Sr . 54. Evansville, became the fourth snow-shoveling casualty reported since Wednesday night's snowstorm. Sjxiyd was stricken with u fatal heart attack Thursday. The U. S. Weather Bureau at Indianapolis predicted "aeverai inches new snow" likely in many upstate sections this afternoon and early tonight. The remainder of Hoosierland could expect scattered snow flurries this afternoon and clearing conditions central and south tonight. The South Bend area reported heavy snow around mid-morning, and U S. 31 between Lakeville and Lapaz was blocked when a truck jack-knifed in heavy snow. Police said several automobiles skidded into a ditch, but no injuries were reported. Thousands of pupils enjoyed a ■ long weekend holiday, but highway workers were busy as the state slowly dug out from snow drifts that reached 10 feet high in the Ijifayette area. At least three persons suffered fatal heart attacks Thursday while I shoveling snow; another was I killed in a traffic crash during » blinding snowstorm, and an Air ; Force man was killed in a snow- | plow mishap at Bunker Hill Air Force Base near Peru. The heart attack victims were E.E. Champlin. 68. Huntington; William Goins, 57, Rosedate, and Roy H. Brandes, 66. a Marion County sheriff's deputy. M-Sgt. Charles W. Landman, 38. was crushed by a snowplow at the Bunker Hill base. Wilma Delp. 20, Indianapolis, was killed on U.S. 36 near Avon in a two-

Negro Students In South Plan Future

by United Press International.. Negro college students in Alabama’s capital city called a mass meeting today to plot the future course of their anti-segregation campaign. But Negro demonstrators at Nashville. Tenn.. called off a “back to jail” movement. A two-day snow and ice storm which paralyzed most of the South caused at least a momentary lull pi the month-old Negro campaign against segregated eating facilities, libraries and schools. More than 1,000 students at Alabama State College < Negro) Montgomery, Ala., vowed Wednesday night to quit school in protest against state action expelling nine students for an anti-segregation demonsration. Boycott Exams ; The students boycotted their winter examinations for a short time Thursday but returned to class in the afternoon. Marzette Watts of Montgomery, one of the nine expelled, callyd today’ meeting to plan the next move. The meeting wqs scheduled for 7 p.m. e.s,t. At Nashville, 145 persons arrested for sitdown demonstrations at segregated lunch counters of dime, drug and department

ear cf«»*h al tha height <4 the •inrm Wednesday night Marr Ana* llarrira Bunker Hili reported » lncbr« rd nviw «n the ground M at 1 a m. e •14 Goahen had I inrhw 1 inch since Thunatay; Fbrt Wayne, Indianajadu and E*»n«villa had T Inches; Sindh Rend, and the Chkagn and t/Mihvllk* area* • inchea. U wan snowing this morning al Indlanapili*. Fort Wi me. Goshen. South Bend. Lafayette. and the Chicago ,<nd UaiHVille arraw The overnight temperature plunged tn twn degree* below irru at Goshen. South Bend had a low of one above, Fort Wayne had five, seven, Indianapolis eight. • Tlw f:v«-day outlook, meanwhile. called tor U-mperaUirei averaging 12 tn It degrcea below normal for the pcr><>d ending Wednesday. Normal high* range from 4fl north to .15 south. Normal lows from 22 to 211 "Wen baJow normal throughout the next five da ya," the outlook said. However, it called for temporary moderation over the weekend and only one-fourth of an inch precipitation, mostly a« snow Sunday or Monday. Roadi Haaardous Tonight's temperatures could again plunge below gero in scattered upstate portions, the weatherman said, following afternoon highs ranging from about 20 to the low 20s. north to M»thState Police reported that mo. 22 north of Portland was closed because of snow drifts. They said most other roads reported closed Thursday were passable, although they warned that driving was hazardous due to slick spots in many areas. The State Highway Department said a few secondary roads remained closed, but that highway conditions should be improved by this afternoon. At Anderson, the 8,000-seat Church of God auditorium, largest in the city, collapsed Thursday under the weight of drifting snow. Part of the roof and the entire south wall th s r 4 ?‘ year ‘ old frame structure buckled. Near Fort Wayne. State Police Trooper Richard Schepper, 32, Fort Wayne, sustained severe leg bruises Thursday night when he was run over by dual wheels of an empty auto carrier trailer. . ? r

stores changed their minds about going to jail rattier than paying SSO fines. Thirty who chose to go to jau were released under app ea bonds. The rest were freed under appearance bonds to await trial. Nashville Mayor Ben West appointed a bi-racial committee to “study the issues involved in the sitdown demonstrations” which have been carried on largely by students from predominantly Negro Fisk University. Raise Defense Fund Florida Gov. Leroy Collins also called for an end to sitdown demonstrations which have taken place in Tampa. Tallahassee, Sarasota. Daytona Beach and St. Petersburg, Fla. Collins said the demonstrations lead to disorder, and “disorder leads to anger to the general welfare.” It was announced in New York that a committee has been formed to raise' $200,000 for defense of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., an .— Atlanta Negro** minister ■ indicted in Alabama on perjury charges. King posted $4,000 bond to await trial on charges he lied about his state income taxes for two years while a resident of Montgomery. Ala.

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