Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 67.

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TAMPA, Fla. (UPD — Floodwaters from four days of torrential rains rose slowly through the northern suburbs of this industrial port city today sending an estimated 1.000 persons from their homes. The flood was expeeted to crest late today or Sunday, but the rains stopb-d as the storm center moved out to sea. In addition to floods, the storm threw hailstones and a 70-mile-an-hour wind Friday at Fort Myers. 100 miles south of Tampa. Five federal highways in westcentral Florida were closed by high water. The Suwannee River was rising, and lake levels in central Florida reached dangerous heights. The flobdwaters swirled over the top of a 420-foot dam across the Hillsborough River in Tampa, and water stood as deep as three feet in nearby residential areas“We urge all homes in low areas south of the dam to be evacuated at once.” Mayor Julian Lane said late Friday night after a personal inspection of the waterworks dam- , Leroy Roberson, director of Kca Cross activities in central Florida, estimated at least 5,000 persons were effected by the flooding in the central part of toe state including 1.000 who left their homes in .Tampa. ■ Gov. Leroy CoUins called out 340 National Guardsmen to help those in low-lying sections leave their homes. What possessions they were able to take with them were piled in the gymnasium of a high school serving as rescue command post. Miller Is Reelected By Rural Carriers The Adams county rural carriers met in a convention-planning meeting at Berne Thursday night, and elected officers with Tom Miller being reelected president. Jerry Dubach, of Geneva as vice president, and Sherman Stuckey, of Berne, as secretarytreasurer. , Program "P.M.” a nightly feature on Fort Wayne radio, devoted 11 minutes of its show Friday night to plan for the two million dollar stamp exhibits planned for the state convention in Decatur in July. Another portion of the program Monday will also portray what the convention will have in store for local and state carriers. At the meeting in Berne, Richard Maloney and Gerald Durkin, both of Decatur, were named to the resolutions committee. Members of the ladies auxiliary also elected officers with Mrs. Sherman Stucky being chosen president. Mrs. Jerry Dubach, was named vice president, and Mrs. Gerald Durkin was named secre-tary-treasurer. Plans for the convention received considerable attention from the group, and things seem to be progressing at a well-received rate, according to Miller. Barbara Fiechter Associate Editor Miss Barbara Fiechter, a Junior at Indiana University, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fiechter, of Decatur route 4, has been named an associate editor of the Indiana Daily Student, campus newspaper, tor the rest of the second semester. William T. Joyce Tn.dianapolis senior, was named editor.

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Spring Will Arrive Officially Sunday United Press International Light snow fell in Indiana today in winter’s last few hours. Spring will arrive Sunday morning at 9:43 a.m. c.d.t. amid subnormal temperatures but under fair skies. The latest snow was recorded in the Ohio River areas of Evansville and Louisville and at Terre Haute. Forecasts called for a few snow flurries in the north and light snow elsewhere today. But the outlook for Sunday was generally fair with temperatures cresting between 34 to 37 north and near 40 southCloudiness will develop’ for spring's first full day Monday and rain or snow is likely, the Weather Bureau said. Friday highs were an identical 33 at all Indiana points logged in the daily temperature report except at Fort Wayne, where it was 34. Overnight lows ranged down to 10 above zero at Goshen, 15 at Fort Wayne, 16 at South Bend, 23 at Indianapolis and 29 at Evansville. - ----- Highs today will range from 34 to 39 and lows tonight from near 20to the mid 20s. Driver Killed When Train Hits Auto MISHAWAKA, Ind. (UPD—Leon E. Cuthbert, 42, South Bend, was killed Friday when his car was hit by a Grand Trunk & Western Railroad freight train at a crossing east of here.

Senate Slows Rights Action

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Congress wrangled through another week of debate over civil rights Vrith the spotlight this week on the House, where an unusual coalition developed among Republicans and southern Democrats. Action slowed in the Senate, where the touchy election-year debate over civil rights legislation has raged for five consecutive weeks. Senators apparently were resigned to waiting for a House bill. House leaders hoped to reach final action sometime next week on a measure which the Senate could accept without change. The week also saw President Eisenhower ask Congress for a series of programs ranging from extension of the Sugar Import Act with new authority to regulate quotas to a long-range overhaul of the nation’s transportation system. The President’s messages to Congress this week included requests for: . -a four-year extension of the Sugar Act, with presidential authority to revise quotas of foreign nations to assure this country’s sugar supply. Key Republicans doubted Eisenhower would get the whole request but held out hope for a compromise which would allow quota revisions while Con-

Association Plans For Sale Election The association for the betterment of Decatur met briefly this morning to prepare for the April 26 election on the aale of the municipal electric utility. Louis Jacobs, president, announced A vote favorable to the sale wfll mean that the city council ean complete the present contract agreement with Indiana-Michigan, Jacobs pointed out. While appraisal of the plant was ‘very favorable” to the sale, it cannot be completed without a “yes” vote at the election April 26. Mayor Donald Gage has already Stated that regardless of whether or not the plant is sold, the steam and diesel plants will be closed, he pointed out. The sale of toe plant will allow those workers desiring to continue employment to work for I&M. An election day organization similar to the one used last fall will be set up by the association, Jacobs concluded. wF Two Teen-Age Boys Killed In Accident SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (UPD — The wreckage of a car containing toe bodies of two teen-age boys was found shortly after daWn “today in a, stream along Ind. 44 about two miles northeast of here. The victims were identified as Ronnie Mohr, 17, and Larry Tungate, 18. senior and junior respectively. in Waldron high school. Mohr, the driver, bled to death two hours after Tungate"’ was killed outright in the crash an hour after midnight, a coroner's report said. The car landed in water hubcap deep as it sped off a side road into the highway and flew through toe air.

gress is not in session. —A super salesmanship program to sell more American products abroad and bring more U.S. dollars back home. —A sweeping overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws- The proposals would double the number of persons admitted annually under quptas and provide a home for political refugees—A 10 - year program to revitalize the nation’s transportation system. It would be based on less government regulation of rates and routes and “increasing reliance on private enterprise?’ Other major developments: Defense: Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. told the combined Senate Space and Preparedness Committees this country has “several times” more nuclear weapons than Russia. Gates said “we have, in combination, enough (striking power) to bring destruction to anyone who attacks us.” Schools: The House Education Committee approved a three-year federal aid-to-education bill that would provide $975,000,000 to help build schools. It eliminated a Senate - passed provision for federal funds to improve teachers’ salaries. 't

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 19,1960.

Soviet Russia Proposes Unlimited Moratorium Over Nuclear Testing

Confesses To Slaying Os Postal Agents CHICAGO (UPD—A 37-ycar-old man early today confessed he shot and killed two postal inspectors who had arrested him and two companions for mail theft last Monday, police said. Police Capt. Frank Pape said I toe killer, identified as George I Wilson, and an accomplice. Wil- ■ Ham Perkins. 36, were arrested late Friday night on Chicago’s South Side after police traced 1 them through a clue left by one 1 of the inspectors. 1 A third man. known only as “Nick,” also was sought. Pape said Wilson revealed how he tricked the inspectors. John McAuliffe Jr.. 36. and Benedette Spizzirri. 42. into thinking he was unarmed and then shot them from the rear seat of the inspectors* ctr. ' The inspectors’ bodies were found slumped in toe front seat of their car late Monday night at a desolate intersection just south of toe Loop. A mail bag taken from the thieves was found in the trunk of their car. McAuliffe and Spizzirri, Misguised as laborers and working as undercover agents for the U.S. post office, had spotted toe thieves taking the bag from a New York Central freight platform. Norval D. Fuhrman Seeks Nomination Norval D. Fuhrman, lifelong resident of Root township, Friday afternoon filed his candidacy for the Republican nomination as Adams county treasurer, subject to the May 3 primary election. Fuhrman, active in Republican party circles all his life, served one term as county treasurer in 1948 and 1949. He is -toe first Republican to file for the treasurer's office. He has operated his farm in Root township since retiring from office in 1949. The candidate attended the first 10 grades at the Monmouth school and then was graduated from the Decatur high school. He formerly served as Republican precinct committeeman in West Root. A member of toe Mt. Pleasant Methodist church, Fuhrman is presently lay leader and church school superintendent. He and his wife, the formes Dorothy Sprunger of Berne, have three children. A daughter, Grace, is a senior at the Parkview memorial hospital school of nursing; a son, John, is married and attending the G.E. apprentice school at Fort Wayne, and their younger son, Roy, is a junior at Monmouth high school. Advertising Index Advertiser — Page Adams Theatre - 3 Burk Elevator Co -—- 5 Butler Garage — — — *» Beavers Oil Serviced Inc 6 Bower Jewelry Store ------—. 3 W. H. Brown & Sons 5 Chamber of Commerce ——— 4 Fred Corah, Insurance ,—- — 4 Citizens Telephone Co 4 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp — 6 First State Bank of Decatur .— 6 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home — 3 Green Belt Chemical Co 6 Geneva Lions Club 3 Fairway —3, 4, 6 Husmann’s Decorating House 3 Klenks — 6 Pike Lumber Co , 5 Mies Recreation 4 Rash Insurance Agency —— 6 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Smith Drug Co . 3, 5 Shaffer’s Restaurant 3 Teeple 5 Victory Bar „ «m»-j4. Yost Gravel-Readymix. Inc 6 Zwick Funeral Home 4 Church Page Sponsors - 2

I GENEVA (UPD — The Soviet Union today offered the West an unlimited moratorium on nuclear I testing until scientists on both I sides have worked out away of detecting small nuclear blasts underground. The surprise move was seen as one that may go far toward breaking the East-West deadlock on disarmament Soviet delegate Semyon Tsarap-j i kin made the offer to a specially-! , convened session of the nucleai test ban talks here. Soviets Propose Treaty He proposed that Russia and ■ the West sign a treaty under which both would agree to halt nuclear test explosions until scien- ! tists have worked out away to ' detect the small - scale underground blasts, which are easy to 1 muffle or confuse with earto--1 quakesThe Soviet proposal set no time limit for the moratoriumAlthough it did not satisfy all Western demands, the Soviet proposal went far towards meeting Western objections. Western diplo-i mats regarded it as one of the biggest Soviet concessions since the talks opened in 1958. Valuable Boost To Talks It was expected to provide a valuable boost to the parallel East - West disarmament conference, which opened here TuesA nuclear test ban would form an important part of ? an overall disarmament treaty. ' The special nuclear-test session came at a time whert the main, 10 - nation Geneva disarmament conference was in recess after days of preliminary skirmishing. The two conferenced are separate, but any major development in the nuclear talks was sure to afect the general disarmament negotiations. BULLETIN LA PAZ, Bolivia (UPD — A . military revolt against the government of President Hernan SHes Zuazo broke out today. Heavy gunfire could be heard in the center of the city and first reports said there were several dead and wounded. Truckloads of soldiers and armed civilians roared through the city streets, and government observation planes took to the air to as-; * sess the size of the rebellion. a . Humphrey, Kennedy Stumping Wisconsin WASHINGTON (UPD — Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey’s presidential backers today sought rural votes in toe forthcoming Wisconsin primary by charging that Sen. John F. Kennedy has supported the GOP administration on many key farm issues. Kennedy (Mass.) and Humphrey (Minn.) are stumping toe state this week end seeking support for the Democratic presidential nomination in the April 5 primary. Both men consider the race important to their hopes. Humphrey strategists have sent to campaign workers in Wisconsin a “comparative farm voting record” prepared by the state’s Farmers -for - Humphrey committee. Humphrey supporters said the document showed that Kennedy supported Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson on 27 major farm legislation votes between 1953 and 1958. First public mention of the summary by the Wisconsin Humphrey committee may come today at a scheduled rally at La Crosse, Wis., for farm delegations from that state, North and South Dakota. Montana, Kansas, lowa and Minnesota. - Humphrey has been counting on piling up a big vote in Wisconsin farm districts to offset any Kennedy advantage in the cities. Kennedy has criticized Benson’s farm policies in his Wisconsin campaign and has voted with < Humphrey and other farm belt ; Democrats on a number of major farm issues in the Senate.

Nine Hurl Slightly In Three-Car Crash I A three-car accident in Pleas-1 ant Mills early this morning injured nine persons slightly as one lof the cars rammed into the rear I of two cars stopped on U. S. 33. j 168 feet west of state road 101. I Injured were: Tonie Ann Bain, I 23. of Chicago, driver of the first car, with cuts and bruises: Mrs. I Patricia Jones. 29. of Chicago, a . 1 passenger in the Bain car, with a neck injury. The women spent ; the night at toe Adams county for observation. ” Others Injured ' In toe second car. George Schinner. 16. of route 1. WillI shire. 0., received a bump on the head; Dean King, 17, of route 6. Decatur, a badly bruised ankle; Elmer Reohm, 16. of route 1. ■ Willshire. 0., and Marlin Med- | augh. 17. of route 1. Willshire, 10.,I0., received minor injuries. All but Medaugh and Reohm reported to the hospital at state police request for treatment. The car which ran into the first two cars, was driven by Donald Zies, 30. of Fort Wayne. He received a bump on the nose, while a passenger, Raymond C. Mathis, 44, was cut on toe right wrist and head. A third person in the car. Francis J. Terlosky, 26, of Fort Wayne, received a lacerated left arm and head. All were treated at the local hospital. State trooper Gene Rash and deputy sheriff Charles Arnold, who investigated, are trying to piece together a story about a fourth car. which may be responsible for toe first two cars being stopped on the roadway. Forced To Stop The two women, who entertained at a party in Willshire, were reportedly on their ,way fc>toe when an unidentified car forced them to stop on the road, they told police. Unidentified men tried to force their way into toe women's automobile, and even lifted the hood of toe car in an attempt to gain access to the vehicle. The three-car mishap occurred at 1:05 a. m. today, according to the sheriff’s report.

Study Remnants Os Shattered Airliner

TELL CITY, Ind. (UPD — A man-made bomb, a freak of nature or high - speed stress on “fatigued metal” could have sent 63 plane crash victims to their deaths, investigators said today. The answer lay in the tiny, shattered remnants of a Northwest Airlines Electra turbo-jet which disintegrated in the air Thursday and plunged 18,000 feet into a sodden farm field. Federal aviation detectives and FBI agents pored over scraps of the shattered plane as a steam shovel pried them from the 50foot crater plowed when the new $2,400,000 airliner fell to earth and exploded. The investigators, organized by the Civil* Aeronautics Board (CAB), worked on three major theories: . , ' ~ —That a demented bomber blew the plane and its unsuspecting passengers and crew members to bits as they passed over southern Indiana on a Chicago-to - Miami flight. . x , —That violent air turbulence could have destroyed the craft, the first Electra purchased by Northwest and in service only seven months. Such turbulence was reported over southern Indiana at about the time of the crash. . . —That the plane disintegrated through “metal fatigue,” which has caused other crashes of high speed airliners. The eras!) was the third Electra disaster in a little more than a yea“ and the third unexplained crash in four months. It came within days of Washington hear-

Triple Slaying Suspects Held

STARVED ROCK STATE PARK, 111. (UPD — Two "fairly i good suspects” are Ito be questioned in the Starved Rock . triple sex slayings, state police . Chief William Morris Mid today. J Morris identified the two men Jas the driver of a truck similar to one seen near the murder scene and a resident of the state i park area. » Morris refused to reveal the 1 suspects’ name and denied re- . ports they were under arrest, but said their identity was known to ' police. Both are to be picked up for ’ “more than routine questioning’ in the rape-murders of Mrs. Lil- [ lian Getting, 50. Mrs. Francis Murphv, 47, and Mrs. Mildred Lindquist. 50. all prominent suburban Chicago matrons, he said. Third Suspect Cleared A third suspect — an employe of the park lodge — was cleared of any connection with the killsaid the truck driver was questioned earlier during a routine survey of the state park area- He 1 said he decided to question the driver, again when “discrepancies” showed up in the man’s story. The second man will be quesI tioned because “information coming to our attention” tended to ' tie him to the murders, Morris ‘ said. The man has not been 1 questioned before, he said. The new leads were revealed 1 as officials prepared an evening inquest expected to reveal just how the three victims met their . death. . . . It was believed the inquest would show the women died after suffering skull fractures and that all three were raped, at least one after death. Police thus would know how demented were toe killer or killers. Film Death Clue The first piece of the gruesome riddle — where toe three suburban Chicago women were beaten to death — fell into place Friday when officials showed four pictures found in a camera lying

ings on toe death of 34 persons in a National Airlines plane crash near Bolivia, N. C. “Obviously, this plane broke up in the air,” CAB spokesman Edward Slattery said. “It is too early to tell toe cause of toe tragedy, but we will investigate all possibilities, including a bomb.”

cjCenlen yifleditcitiori < (By Rev. F. Hazen Sparks, First Methodist Church) “None of us lives to himself, and none of us I once met for the first and only time a lady who was 107 „ * nirt Insoite of her age she still had the use of a wonderful mind She was known throughout her community for her jamdy character and a keen sense of humor. When I was introduced a. a minister she replied by saying. “I am always glad to meet the ministers Now would you kindly answer a question for me. I .. am old and no good to anybody and lam a }°t of c are to myfamily Why hasn’t the Lord taken me home before this. To thi. , I replied “God has let you live 107 years m order thatJ might have P the honor of meeting you and that you might meet me. This answer pleased her and she had a good laugh. For good or for ill we are a part of all whom we meet. We ate bound together with social responsibilities and opportunities. No man lives without influencing others or enced by others. Whether we are conscious of it or not toe life of each of us, whether we are rich or poor, learned or unlearned, ?oung or o?d is exercising some kind of an influence. A more serious fact is that influence is either for good or for ul. Christ died, rose and lives again to live toe good life and that he might be the Lord of both .the living and toe dead. Because of this it is possible for some of us - to sav with Paul. “If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die. we die to the Lord: so then, whether we live or whether we die. we are the Lord’s.” • - ■_

beside the women's bodies. The color slides, apparently taken by Mrs. Otting, showed her companions happily posing i Monday only a few feet from r the Starved Rock Slate Park canyon mouth where their beaten bodies were found two days later. La Salle County State's Atty. Harlsnd Warren said the slides proved the women, out for a nature hike, were surprised by their 'sex-crazed attacker or attackers* after innocently entering the escape - proof canyon floor, bounded on three aides by 100foot sheer clifs. Monmouth Junior In Limberlost Contest Miss Winifred Rafert. Monmouth high school junior, is the first official entrant in the contest to select “Giri of the Limberlost 1960." Selection an< crowning of the Girl of the Limberlost will be tbo highlight of the annual Limberlost land party, which will be held al Geneva next Friday evening. Miss Rafert, the five foot, five inch. 130-pound daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Rafert. will present a vocal solo for the talent demonstration. Her school activities include student council, chorus. FH A and girls’ athletics. The annual party is sponsored by the Geneva Lions club. Judging in the Limberlost Girl contest will be based on beauty, personality, charm and talent. Judges will be from outside the Limberlost area. Another highlight of next Friday’s party will be special ceremonies honoring Robert H. Heller, of Decatur, former speaker of the state house of representatives, and Richard James, of Indianapolis, former lieutenant-governor, for their role in the movement to have the Geneva home of Gene Stratton Porter designated as a Limberlost state memorial. Tickets for the party, which will open with a fish fry from S to 7 p.m., will be only $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight. Sunday mostly fair with little temperature change. Low tonight near 20 north to mid 20s south. High Sunday 34 to 40. Outlook for Monday: Increasing cloudiness with rain or snow likely. Below seasonal temperatures. NOON EDITION

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