Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 59.

Meetings To Plan For School Census

Chtinnrn *nd member* of the census subcommittee of the school corporation rrorpniuU<m study committee will meet nest Monday and Tuesday evening*, one-half of th* county each night, to talk over the censu* forma and method*. Harold Schwarts and Elmer D Johnson. co-chairmen, announced today Chairmen from the north »i« townships. Preble. Root. Union. Kirkland. Washington, and St Mary*, a* well a* Decatur. Pleasant Mill* rnd Treble, will meet Monday at Z P m. at the Decatur library. The south group, including French, Monroe. Blue Creek, ilartfoid. Wabash. and Jcffer*on township*, a* well as Monroe, Berne. Geneva. Linn Grove, and other towns, will meet at 8 pm. Tuesday in the cafeteria of the Berne school. 7.aM Copl** A total of 7.000 copies, entitled the Adams county school census record, have been mimeographed for the committee by the county superintendent of schools. Gail Grabill The one-pa ge form includes all the perUnent information for the survey. The first line of the blank includes the date, school corporation, and census taker s name Question 1 includes the address, number of residents, telephone number, section, and location from the nearest town, if rural. Question 2 includes the husband's name, occupation, employer, and location of employment: question 3 is the same for the wife. Question 4 deals with the years in the community, whether

Five County Schools Closed By Weather Five county schools were out on vacation today because of the drifting snow which made the roads hazardous, it was reported this morning. Pleasant Mills pupils were sent home by bus about 1 p.m. Wednesday because of furnace trouble and snow warnings. Adams Central was also dismissed early. Today. Adams Central, Pleasant Mills, Bobo, Berne, and Jefferson did not have school. Geneva. Hartford, and Monmouth, as well as all three Decatur schools, were in session. Rural mail carriers reported that they were able to make their route on Wednesday, but that drifts were beginning to form by noon. Sheriff Merle Affolder stated that roads in the south part of the county were dangerous, especially south of Coppess Corners.

Music Festival At DHS Friday Night For the fourth annual high school music festival at the Decatur high school auditorium, R. Robert Mitchum, director of music at Wabash College, and Maurice F. Shadley, director of bands at Indiana University, will share the podium Friday evening. The starting time for the musical event is 8 p.m. with tickets , for adults listed at 60 cents, and school-age tickets at 40 cents. Tickets will be available at the , door, according to Miss Helen ] Haubold, choral teacher, and Clint , Reed, band director, both of Deca- ( tur high school. 1 Berne-French and Bluffton high schools will join with the local ( high school to present the eve- j ning’s musical fare. Dr. Freeman i Burkhalter and Melvin Crafton, of Berne, and James Krehbiel, of Bluffton, are the music teachers i at their respective schools. The program for the event is: Combined Choirs •‘Blessing, Glory and Wisdom” —Bach-Tkach

oCenten (By Rev. Stuart H. Brightwell, Decatur Baptist Church) “The Carpenter's Son” Read St. Matthew 13:54-58 > The Lord Jesus spent the greatest part of and useful labor as a carpenter, for St. Marks j , the carpenter, , the son of Mary?’’ This was on the part or me Saviour, an example of great humility. Peter p® iti h Navv as a put aside his royal dignity and .entered the Bntfeh Navy as a ship carpenter so that he might learn to build • jmoorthomeland. This was a worthy purpose, but was it of ance than that of the Son of God? If Peter, harto the of Russia, might leave his rightful station and hum Ne. employment and thus win the applause of men, why migh King of Kings set the example for a far greater purpose-He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”

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the home is owned or rented, and the age of the re»ld*nc*. line 5 U>||* whether the children are transported by bus. walk, or drivt. | St* U*U th* school and preschool children, giving nom*. •*«. age data of birth, grad*, school, and for pre grade children the school they plan to attend, and the year they would first attend lane 7 covers children between the age* of « and !• not in school Space is left al th* bottom for any comment the cenau* taker or person interviewed might I have Schwartz and Johnson both.explained. *«t he meetmg Monday night the re**on« for th* particuir question. u.ed The information 1* most important in plotting the future need* of the county. Maps Beady A three-page explanatory sheet will be given to each census taker. and fully explained, with • question and answer period Parochial children will be included in the survey. A total of 20 maps of each township have been enlarged to. about 18 inches square so that each census taker can plot where the children live, and the type student involved (high school, junior high, elementary, pre-school, or parochial.! Maps of Decatur are also being m epared. Ten maps of Geneva Berne and Monroe on a workable scale are being provided by I&M. who provides electricity for those One huge county map, to which all information will be transferred, has also been designed.

••Before The Ending of the Day” —Healey Willan “Mah Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord” —Negro Spiritual •‘Roots and Leaves” —Ralph E. Williams “Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair” —Appalachian Folk Song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor ..' —Berlin-Ringwald Combined Bands Overture "Eroica” —Ludwig van Beethoven "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg” —Richard Wagner “Our Glorious Land” —J. Olivadote ■ “Impressions of a Scottish Air —James D. Ployhar “Forgotten Dreams” p —Leßoy Anderson "Syncopated Clock” —Leßoy Anderson Band and Choir “To Music” —Davenport and Walters

Slate Senate Vote On Cloture Motion

WASHINGTON (UPD — The Senate and House both came to grips today with the civil rights issue. The Senate, meeting at 9 am. e.s.t. in an air of sadness over the death of Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore ), was scheduled to vote at 2 p.m. on a cloture motion to cut off the civil rights talkathon. Southerns, Senate leaders and rights backers forecast defeat of the gag rule effort. The House meets at noon to start debate on its own civil rights bill. Southern Democrats vowed to use every parliamentary weapon to delay a final vote. But House leaders forecast a measure would be passed by next Thursday It could provide away to break the Senate stalemate. _ Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) renewed his prediction that advocates of the gag rule would fail to muster a majority — much less the twothirds vote needed to limit debate, GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen (Ill.) said he generally agreed with this forecast. Sen Jacob K. Javits (R-N.YJ, a leader of the cloture move, said the liberals were lining up their

Attempt To Launch Sphere Postponed WASHINGTON <UR> — An attempt to launch a tb-pound apace prob* Into a sun orbit between th* earth and Venu* ha* been jxwt|»>nrd b*c*u»* of hiding difficult!**. th* federal space agency announced today. Th«- National Aeronautic* and Spurt- Administration had planned to put a brachb*ll-*ta*d aluminum sphere Into a 506-mllllon-mill* solar orbit to explore space between the earth and Venn* In announcing th* postponement. NASA said a new firing date for this probe "has not been scheduled" The intention had been to launch th* 26-inch space vehicle at Cape Canaveral. Fla,, today. Difficul ties encountered in fueling the three stage Thor-Able rocket, bowever, forced postponement of the shot. NASA said. The scientific package, with solar cell "paddlewheels” jutting from it. carried equipment to test feasibility of radio communications over planetary distances up to 50 million miles. The sphere contained an ultra high frequency 150 Watt transmitter. The various instruments were designed to provide information on micrometeors, radiation, magnetic fields and temperatures in space.

Fort Wayne Bank Teller Is Indicted FORT WAYNE. Ind. (UPD—A bank teller Undergoing medical treatment at Veterans Hospital here was served Wednesday with a federal indictment charging him with four counts of false entry. Ralph (Chick) Shimer, 36. father of four children and for nine years a teller at the downtown branch of the Lincoln National Bank & Trust Co. here, was not arrested or required to post bond He must appear for arraignment when ordered by U. S. District Atty. Kenneth Raub. A federal grand jury at Hammond returned the indictment last Thursday after investigating a $23,000 shortage in bank accounts handled by the teller. The indictment charges that Shimer made false entries on Nov. 3, Nov. 10. Nov. 24’and Dec. 1, 1959, in the account of*a Fort Wayne supermarket chain. The shortage was discovered in January when the firm asked for a year-end account statement. Shinier if convicted faces a maximum fine of $5,000 and five vears in prison on each of the four counts.

speakers for the next phase of the civil rights battle while “trying to get out maximum support” for the gag rule vote The showdown comes near the end of the fourth week of Senate debate on civil rights. The chamber remained in session around 1 the-clock, except for two brief breaks and Sunday off, from Feb. 29 to Tuesday night. After a long struggle, the House finally was calling up a four-point bill its Judiciary Committee approved last August. But rights advocates and southerners both agreed the main fight would be over attempts to tack on the administration’s voting referee plan. Advertising Index Advertiser Page A&P Tea Co. 3,6, 7 Adams Theater 8 Burk Elevator — 5 JBower. —* —- -- - 3 Brecht Jewelry 7 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. -----7 Butlers Garage Inc ■.— 5 Clauser Furniture -—u 7 Ehingers — 3 Gambles — 2A Goodyear —— 81 Goodin ® Haflich & Morrissey — - 3 Holthouse Furniture - lA, 4A Kane Paint & Wallpaper „-7 Kiddie Shop —— 2 Emerson Lehman, Auctioneer .. 5 -Jani Lyn 3 Miller & Jones -’2 Moose —— 7 Model Hatchery 5 Niblick & Co. — 2 Sudduths Market —- 4 Leland Smith Ins. Co. 5 Shaffer’s Restaurant 6 Smith Drug 4,5, 6 The Suttles Co. - 4 Schmitt Meats ..— ----- 7 4 Walter Sudduth Family ———4 Standard Grocery ...- .2------ 3A Stewarts Bakery - —- 6 Sheets Furniture 8 Teen Togs —————— — 2 Teeple Truck Lines 5

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Incendiary Bombs From Plane Burn 4,000 Tons Os Sugar Cane In Cuba

Second Severe Storm In Week Cripples South By United Pres* r.Wernalional . Th* second sever* storm in a week crippled the South today with staggering burdens of snow land ice. Governors in at least five states declared states of emergency The storm closed schools and businesses. knocked out communications and isolated whole communities and scores of farmers. Up to 20 inches of snow fell on parts of Tennessee. Virginia and North Carolina. Another four to six inches was predicted from North Carolina up the Atlantic Seaboard into Ohio, West Virginia. Pennsylvania and New Jersey ■' ■ - As the storm moved up the East Coast, it merged with another wintrv blast which scourged the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys with record-breaking snows and heavy drifts. New Storm Brewing The Weather Bureau said another snow storm was building up in the Rockies and "possibly could very rough” as it moves into the Plain states. Dozens of highways and most rural roads were closed throughout the South and East and weather officials posted hazardous drtv- 1 inging warnings for the area. Gov. Bert T. Combs of Kentucky ordered a state of emergency and put the National Guard at the disposal of snowed-in towns. Highways throughout the state were impassable. Drift* Cover Roads -- North Carolina Gov. Luther H. Hodges ordered the state Highway Department to take emergency action to clear 10 to 15-foot drifts off highways in the western part of the state. * Virginia Gov. J Lindsay Almond sent National Guardsmen into the state's snowbound southwestern mountains where 18 inches fell and Gov. Ernest V. Holings of South Carolina declared a state of emergency for 10 stricken counties buried by 1 six inches of snow. Georgia Gov. Ernest Vandiver asked President Eisenhower for immediate federal aid for poultry farmers in 21 north Georgia counties hard-hit by the two storms Tea- inches of new snow covered northern Georgia and took a heavy toll of property. The “new "storm took at least 16 ■ lives —including 6 in Illinois and 4 in Missouri, raising the death toll in the week-long seige of weather to well over 200. H 12 Pages

Rescue Slowed By Roof Falls

LOGAN, W.Va. (UPD — Rescue workers trying to reach 18 miners entombed more than two days deep inside a smoldering coal pit reported today that the only “aveanues of approach” were blocked Tay roof fallsPaul Lingo, deputy state mines director, said the rescue teams could get to within only 2.000 feet from the spot where the trapped men are believed to have barricaded themselves. “.It looks as though it’s going to be another long day,” Lingo said. “The only two possible avenues of approach to where we believe the miners to be are blocked by roof falls.” Lingo said the intense heat from •the fire was preventing the cuers from shoring up the tunnel to prevent the roof falls. The roof calls actually occurred Wednesday, but were not revealed by officials until today- . Workers leaving the mine after 11 hours inside the shaft reported that conditions underground were terrible.

HAVANA (UPD — Incendiary bomb* dropped by a light plane burned nearly 4.000 ton* of sugar cane on a plantation near the west Cuban town of Conaolacion del Sur, it was reported today. Dispatched from Pinaf del Hio estimated the amount of the burned can* at 3 800 ton*. It was Impossible immediately to determine where the crop-burning plane came from. iln similar instances In the past. Premier Fidel Castro's revolutionary regime has charged that the planes came from liases in the United States. The State Department apologized for one such Incident tntotving a private plane v-hich flew out of Florida Ro nib Suspects Held Earlier reports from Pmar del Rio said three men were arrested there Wednesday in connection j with an alleged plot to bomb the local headquaters of Castro's , July 26 rebel movement. One of the men. identified as ‘ Luis Gonzalez Henriquez, was captured with a bomb in his possession. Police said Gonzalez had confessed taking part in a num:ftoer of previmt* terror bombings. Gonzalez's father and an ex-sol-dier were seized as accomplices i of the bomber. In Havana, the government registered new advances in its conIflict with the independent press i and radioNews Pictures Seised Packets of news pictures of last week’s’ munition-ship blast, •■consigned to the United States by United Press International and Associated Press, were seized during the week end by Army in.Jelligence agents who said they wanted “to see if they offered clues to the explosion.” The pictures have not been returned. The independent Artalejo radio station announced Wednesday that it is discontinuing domestic news commentaries rather than allow pro-Castro employes to attach "editor’s notes” branding newscast items “false" or "unethical. A court here ruled Wednesday that newsmen and printers may continue to insert comparable „ footnotes commenting on ( press copv until the Supreme Court i rules on their constitutionality in . a test case brought by Informa- [ ciones, one of Havana s four remaining independent newspapers. Engineer Is Killed In Train Derailment ADDIEVILLE. 111. (UPD — Ernie L. Ramsey, Evansville. Ind . ■ an engineer for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, was killed I Wednesday when a string of freight cars derailed and struck the engine of another train. 1 Ramsey had pulled his train on--1 to a siding to let another freight 1 pass. A box car of the passing freight lost a wheel. Several of the cars crashed into Ramsey s engine. t. ; Railroad officials said a fireman safety just before the crash and was not hurt.

“Thee’s a lot of smoke and steam and the heat is terrific," said Clifford Bowen, 40. one of the rescuers.'“They are trying to cool off the area with water but it looks like it will take quite a while before they can get past the hot area.” • * The main question was whether carbon monoxide fumes and dense smoke seeped through a barricade and suffocated the miners, trapped since 8:30 am. Tuesday. Mine officials declined to speculate whether the men would be found alive. There were too many factors to consider. If the miners had sealed themselves off from the fire and the deadly fumes, a limited air supply posed the biggest danger. The air supply depends on the size of the pocket in which the men wera trapped. The crews said water in some Xtlaces cWas. chest ..high,..~ The miners were imprisoned in the Holden No 22 mine of the Island Creek Coal Co. in southwestern West Virginia.

War n Os More Snow In State

United Pro** International Central and Southern Indiana, already staggering linger on* of the deepest snow* of the 2oth Century. braced for new "heavy" accumulation* tonight. Forecasters said the fourth storm would start tonight ami continue into Friday, with snowfall "likely to become heavy late tonight or early Friday." Snow was expected it> the state's northern’ third, too. Jbut there was no indication it would approach the depths expected in the south, where up to 13 inches of white 'already lay across the ccuntryside from previous storms ' in the last two weeks. Revised forecasts eliminated the possibility of sleet or rain mixed with the snow in the far south. The revisions called for terripejatures’ Below freezing, a few de-grees-dower than previously had been expected. Meteorologists at the Weather Bureau cautiously avoided predictions on the amount of new snow which might accumulate. However, unofficial indications were that 2 to 4 inches might fall between late tonight and midday Friday. Already, the depth of snow on the ground measured up to 13 inches, with Evansville bearing the heaviest load. There was 9 inches on the ground at South Bend. Indianapolis ana a north central are around Peru. Eight inches was measured at Lafayette and Louisville. 6 at Goshen, 5 at Cincinnati and 4 at Fort WayneTemperatures were expected to moderate today or tonight after another cold night. The mercury dipped to 6 above at Goshen, 7

Reign Os Terror On Negroes Is Charged United Press International The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr accused Alabama ofticials today ot trying to incite a riot at Montgomery in hopes that Negroes would be blamed. He said he has asked President Eisenhower to intervene against a “reign of terror.” King, the Negro minister who led a successful boycott of segregated city buses at Montgomery five years ago, said he has wired the President to intervene “by instructing the attorney general to take immediate action in your name to restore law and order in the capital of Alabama.” Montgomery has been the central point during the past two weeks of southwide Negro protests against racial segregation. Nine students at Alabama State College bNegro) were expelled on orders of Gov. John Patterson and the State Board of Education for leading a demonstration against segregation in the county court house. Police armed with tear gas and nightsticks broke up a Negro rally at the campus Tuesday. King, who moved to Atlanta last month, charged that Montgomery police and local and state officials have “inhibited” the hold-

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above at South Bend, 8 nt Fort Wayne. 9 at Indianapolis and 12 at Ijifayette. It was relatively warm overnightly in the far south, with Cincinnati getting a low of 21. Evansville 23 and Louisville 24. Highs Wednesday ranged from' 22 at Irrfayette to 32 at Evansville. Today's high* will range from 25 to 35. tonight's lows from 20 to 32. and Friday's highs from the upper 20s to 38 The warmup will be short-lived, forecasters said. It will turn colder again late Friday and Saturday will be mostly cloudy and a little colder. Weather - connected accidents continued to take a toll of Hoosier lives. Joseph O. Randolph. 59, Princeton, was crushed beneath the wheels of a coal truck he' was helping push from a snowbank where it had stalled at a mine near Oakland City Wednesday Robert King, 11. Dale, died in a Huntingburg hospital Wednesday from injuries suffered in a sled accident near his home last Saturday. State, county and city road crews fought Wednesday's latest snow in an effort to restore traffice to normal. Most highways were passable, but many cars and trucks slipped and skidded off icy surfaces to become mired in snowbanks. Many schools closed Wednesday remained shut today. ’Others reopened. A few schools have been closed for a The first of the three snowstorms struck the state two weeks ago today, the second a week ago today.

ing of Negro religidbs services and have had telephones of Ne : gro leaders tapped. He saidpolice “infiltrated . the college campus" of Alabama State armed *ith rifles, shotguns and tear gas. Declines Comment On Doerfer Quilting WASHINGTON (UPD — The White House declined comment today on whether President Eisenhower has requested the resignation of Chairman John C Doerfer of the Federal Communications Commission —or even if he .is.eensiderins.dL..— Press Secretary James C. Hagerty would not comment on a published report that the White House was reviewing Doerfer’s testimony before the House subcommittee investigating payola and other malpractices of broadcasters. Neither would he comment when asked whether Doerfer called at the White House Wednesday to see the President or White House aides. • . "There is nothing before the President on which to act,” Hagerty said, “so I have no comment everywhere.” Doerfer testified last week that he had been the guest aboard the yacht of a broadcaster for six nights during a Florida vacation

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California Kills Death Penalty Ban SACRAMENTO. Calif. <UPI» — California lawmaker* today killed a proposal to abolish capital punishment—a measure for which Caryl Chessman had said he would give his life. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 8-7 to keep the bill from the upper chamber's floor. Opponents of the gas chamber said, therefore, the abolition measure was dead. Chessman, who is scheduled to die May 2. said recently that his case was so inflamatory to the lawmakers that his existence prevented abolition. To remove himself as an issue, he wrote the governor “kill me.” The senators’ action cleared U»e way for author-convict’s execution as well as the gassing of 20 other men on death row and Elizabeth Duncan, a convicted murderess. Gov. Edmund G Brown is legally unable to commute Chessman s sentence and he has said he would not grant him a reprieve from his May 2 date with death. The capital punishment question came up in the Legislature when Brown reprieved Chessman 10 hours before his eighth appointment with the gas chamber on Feb 19. Brown then called a special session of the lawmakers to consider the controversial issue for the ninth time. Similar bills were defeated eight times in the past 27 years. In view of the Senate committee's action. Assembly leaders said they would not press for abolition in the lower house. It was expected that bc‘h houses would adjourn the special session later today. This would prevent any more conrideration of the death penalty until 1961. Brown has said he would resume his fight against the gas chamber at that time. last month. His host was George B. Storer, president of the Storer Broadcasting Co. of Miami Beach, which owns five television stations and seven radio stations. Doerfer insisted he had done nothing to violate ethics; He said he had “assertained Mr. Storer had no matter pending before the commission of an adjudicatory nature” when he accepted the hospitality INDIANA WEATHER Snow spreading northward over state tonight and Friday with snow likely to become heavy south portion late tonight or-early Friday. Not so cold central tonight. Low tonight 10 to 18 north. 18 to 28 south. High Friday mostly in the 20s. Sunset today 6:46 p. m. c.d.t. Sunrise Friday 7:04 a. m. c.d.t. Outlook for Saturday: Mostly cloudy, not much temperature change. Lows 20 to 30. Highs 27 to 38. Man Is Killed By Fall Under Truck PRINCETON. Ind. 'UPD — Joseph O. Randolph. 59, Princeton, was killed Wednesday when h ? slipped beneath the wheels of a coal truck he was helping push from a snowbank where it stalled at a coal mine east of Oakland City.