Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 84.

To Call Nikita Hand On Pact

WASHINGTON (UPD — The Wr«trm Alite* wrrr reported today willing *> • »n»*r»tr prir» irmly ' wtth Cotnmunirt E»«t Gormany U *hr P«* , P 1P there voUng in * frm election under in* terne tione I rupervukvi »ey they want it that way Authoritative source* Mid thi' will be the reply °f the United States. Britain and France to Soviet Premier Nik Ha Khrushchev if "he repeats at next month » summit conference his demand for separate peace pacts with the two Germanies. The idea of calling Khrushchev’s hand was said to have originated with Secretary of State Christian A Hertrr. who <i< aerioualy that the Soviet leader will tfrer such a procedure when the chips are (town Even if he does. American officials are convinced that the East Germans would reject the idea of separate treaties M they could express their choice free from Soviet pressure The approach admittedly contain* some elements of chance but the United States appa"-ntlv has convinced its allies that the West has more to gain than lose by gambling on this one Khrushchev repeatedly has demanded separate treaties unth the t wo occupied East and the era federal republic headed by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer The Allies have consistently rejected this, insisting that there should be a single peace treaty a reunified Germany brought together through free elections supervised by an impartial commission. Western policies and for the summit conference which opens May 1« in Pa ™. wll ’ discussed here next week at a series of foreign ministers meetings beginning Tuesday and continuing through Thursday.

Grass Fire Results In Department Co" City firemen answered a c to a grass fire at Uth and Krick streets at 4:» P-m- S damage was noted on the fire report. The call lasted only 15 minutes. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Adams Theatre —7, Bower Jewelry Store - Burk Etevgtor Co. Butler Garage, Inc .... ’ Budget Loans — R Burke Standard Service - 6 Brown Tree Treating! Service - 4 Chevrolet —--- Conrad s “66” Service -’ Cowens Insurance Agency * D & T Standard Service » 8.P.0. Elks , Ehinger’s “Boston Store -> Hammond Fruit Market » Holthouse Drug Co. — - ' Holthouse Furniture Store —-5, » Ned C. Johnson. Bill Schnepf, Auctioneers » Kohne Drug Store --- » The Little Elevator Co• Phil L. Macklin Co. —— ’ Moose — , G. C. Murphy Co it “ Model Hatchery ® Niblick & Co-- » Petrie Oil Co « Schafers L. Smith Insurance Agency. Inc 5 Smith Drug Co -—2, 5 Sutton’s Jewelry Store o Shaffer’s Restaurant • Standard Oil 6 Strickler Auto Sales -—- 2 Teeple Truck Lines 5 Walt’s Standard Service 6 Western Auto Store — ® Zintsmaster Motors — 4 Rural Church Page Sponsors - 6

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Club Assembly Held Al Rotary Meeting A club aaaembiy. devoted to community service, featured the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center George C. Thomas was chairman of the program, and Wilbur Petrie, chairman of the community service committee, introduced the speakers and outlined the program. The Rev. William C Feller outlined the purpose and activities of the Crippled Children’s society and told of the aid given by the Rotarv club: W. Guy Brown spoke on scholarships and awards, and outlined the awards and scholarships the schools of the city present and receive; Paul Bcvelhimcr. chairman of the youth committee. introduced Maurice Tccple. new scoutmaster of the Boy Scout troop 81. sponsored by the Rotary dub, and then outlined the process underway in building up the program to new Scout principles. evaluating the troop, and bringing in parents on the pro- 1 gram to help in all phases ofi the Scout work. R E. Glendening, student guest chairman, introduced the student: guests for the month of April, Herb Banning, Jr., of the Decatur high school, and James Omlor, of the Decatur Catholic hi/h school. R. Nelson Snider, principal of Fort Wayne South Side high school, will speak at the Rotary meeting next Thursday evening, speaking on the Armed Forces secondary schools in the Far East, where he recently visited.

Wells To Retire As I. U. Prexy In 1962

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. <UPD— Dr. Herman B Wells, president of Indiana University, announced today he will relinquish the office July 1,1962, when he completes 25 years of service. Weis said the universitly board of trustees accepted this morning his request that he be permitted to give up the presidency he has held since 1937. Wells said he made the request last Dec. 12. The 57-year-old Wells said the university “needs the stimulus of new leadership.” He said at the request of the trustees he will devote his time after he leaves the presidency to service in the research division of the university foundation Wells issued a prepared statement. “On July 1.1962, I shall have completed 25 years in the office of president,” he said. “These years came during one of the most dynamic eras of American education. “After such a rapid change any universtiy needs the stimulus of new leadership. Moreover, for many years I have held the opinion I should not serve in the university presidency longer than a quarter of a century, and so have expressed myself from time to time to my associates. “Accordingly, I notified the board of trustees last Dec 12 that we should seek new leadership, and a new president should be elected and installed by July 1, 1962." ® Wells succeeded Dr. William Lowe Bryan in 1937. The presidency is a $27,500-a-

Georgia Town Surrounded By Flood Wafers By I’nited Press International Rising floodwaters surrounded a j tiny Georgia town, chased 400 I person* from their homes in Misi sourl and TUinnis and stranded 900 i island-dwellers in the middle of , the Mississippi River today. The Mississippi, rising at a foot* a-day clip along southern Illinois, fksxted thousands of acres of farmland near Cairo, and forced evacuation of JOO persons from the Dogtooth Bend area near the Mississippi's confluence with the Ohio Another 200 persons were driven from their homes at Mound City. Mo., when the Missouri punched through levees there Highways Cut Off The Flint River wrapped itself 1 around Newton, Ga.. cut off the four highways out of the village ! and turned 500 Newtonians into islanders. The 300 residents of Kaskaskia 'island, near Chester. 111., began boating to the Missouri mainland as the Mississippi covered the is-land-to- ma in land road and began rising along file Kaskaskia seawalls. Warst Appears Over ; But the worst flood danger apI pea red to be over in the Midwest. The Mississippi and the Missouri ebbed slowly from their leveeI smashing crests in central Missouri and Illinois and authorities said it was unlikely any more dikes would split. As the crests rolled downstream. they met mammoth levees designed to protect river towns from floods far mightier than those now threatening The American Red Cross said at least 31.000 persons had been directly affected so far by the Missouri-Mississippi floods in eight Midwest states..

year position. It was raised from $20,000 a year during the past year. However, state officials revealed that Wells elected to accept only $20,000 and contribute the remainder to the university. Wells is I.U.’s 11th president. He has held the presidency longer than any of the others except Bryan, who served 35 years. Thus, Indiana has had only two presidents over a 58-year period . Willis Hickam of Spencer, president of the board, said the board approved Wells’ request “with great reluctance.” , “The request. • . came as a shock to the entire boand.” Hickam said. “As we discussed it with President Wells and among ourselves, we regretfully recognized its reasonableness although every member of the board would have had it otherwise.” Hickam said the school’s growth and development and its service to the state under Wells “have been so great they cannot be measured.” Hickam said the board would have ample time to “proceed in an orderly way” in the “task” of choosing a successor. Tfie foundation which Wells will serve after 1962 administers and seeks gifts and grants to the university • “I love Indiana University and I expect to spend the rest of my life in her service,” Wells said. “I am enthusiastically looking forward to (my) new assignment because I am convinced it offers a great opportunity to help make a great university greater.”

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 8, 1960

Southern Senators Wage Last-Ditch Attempt For Delaying Rights Voting

Sen. Kennedy Cuts Campaign Tour Os State LAFAYETTE. Ind (UPD-Sen. John F. Kennedy <D-Mass.» cut short his planned two-day oampaign tour of Indiana Thursday night and flew to Washington to be on hand for the Senate’s expected civil rights vote today. However, a Kennedy aide said the Massachusetts Democr at would attempt to return to Indiana this evening for a scheduled fund-raising dinner at the University of Notre Dame, where he is expected to make a major policy speech. The 815 a plate dinner was to be on behalf of the reelection campaign of Rep. John Brademas. 3rd District congressman . Kennedy barnstormed across north-central Indiana Thursday, visiting four cities and shaking ha nd s and signing autographs everywhere along the line. * CriUcixes GOP He also delivered speeches at Muncie and Lafayette, during which he urged the United States to take the initiative disarmament and criticized the Eisenhower administration's “prosperity" slogans. Shortly before he emplaned for Washington, Kennedy told a capacity audience in the Lafayette Central High School auditorium that the US. should dpvote more energy to eliminating unemployment and sub-standard housing. He said at least 15 million families have inadequate housing facilities and that seven million have an income of less than $2,000 a year. —“ Stresses Disarmament “The American people," Kennedy said, “are very nearly confronted in the executive branch with the very danger of which Franklin Roosevelt warned —a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." Earlier in the day, Kennedy said in a prepared statement that the U.S. should take the initiative in world disarmament and the longer it waits the harder disarmament will be. “The Russians realize", he told the standing-room-only crowd at Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, “and we ourselves realize, that the spread of nuclear weapons to other nations may upset the balance of power and increase the danger of an accidental war • Kennedy stressed, however, that a reliable inspection system was absolutely necessary' before any military cutback could be safely achieved. By making the first move, Kennedy said, the United States might lead Russia to believe world-wide disarmament is a' possibility. Pleased With Primary Win Also at Muncie, he told a group of Democratic women that he expects the primary elections to determine the next president and said the Hoosier primary is “very important.” Tfie Indiana delegates, Kennedy said, will have a big influence on the Los Angeles national Democratic convention in July. He said further that he was “quite pleased” with the results of the Wisconsin primary. When asked about reports that he outspent Sen. Hubert Humphrey during the Wisconsin campaign, Kennedy said his total expenditures were $72,000 although some bills have not yet been paid. Kennedy also reiterated his approval of federal aid to education and of medical help to elderly persons and expressed the wish that Cuban Premier Fidel Castro would “shave his beard and declare a general election ” Kennedy is certain to get Indiana’s first-ballot votes at the national convention, since only two minor candidates have filed against him and both Humphrey and Sen Stuart Symington declined invitations to file in the Hoosier primary.

Family Sought Here For Foreign Exchange Pupil

“WANTED: A warm-hearted' and understanding family to adopt a high schoool senior of foreign birth, to treat as their, own child for nine months beginning next fall. Either boy or girl as you choose. Family must be financially able to care for the i youngster as one of their own. If interested, call M. J. Pryor immediately.’’ While the above announcement will not appear on the classified ad page it tells in a brief, quickly- i read fashion the problem that is faced by the local affiliate of the merican Field Service. If Decatur is going to enjoy the presence of a foreign student next year in one of our high schools, a “Father and mother" for the boy or girl must be found by next Tuesday. Tfie deadline for the application to arrive in New York is April 15, so the family must be selected a few days in advance so the necessary papers can be filled out. Decatur has been fortunate the past three years to entertain three fine young men from as many different lands—Ken Eliasson from Sweden, Peter Frederici from Germany and Terje Strom from Norway. During their visit here their “parents" were Dr. and Mrs. Harry Hebble, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Petrie and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heller. Once a family has kept a student the American Field 4-H Dairy Banquet Is Held Thursday More than 250 persons at the annual 4-H dairy banquet heard Don Dauler, traveler-lecturer-ele-vator owner, tell of the differences between the Russian way of life and the American manner of living. 9 Speaking at the Pleasant Mills auditorium Thursday, Dauler explained how “A smile, a handshake, and a thank you," can do more for goodwill between the two peoples than all the political maneuvering available. Striker Wins Trophy Claude Striker, Adams Central s serjtor. received' the Pet Milk trophy as the outstanding dairy 4-H'er last night for his eight years in the field work. Lawrence Gross, Pet Milk Co. field man, presented the award. ~miL Krueckeberg, cashier of the First State Bank of Decatur, renewed the support of the businessmen and farmers who sponsor the dairy project. Larry Duff delivered the response telling the sponsors that “too often teenage efforts are misdirected, resulting in misfits in the society." He added, however, that under the guidance of projects such as 4-H. the youths of today can assume their proper place at the top of tomorrow’s society. N. Seltenright, county agent, spoke briefly, listing the overall 4-H enrollment at almost 1 000. He noted, however, a slight decline in the dairy enrollment. Sylvan Bauman reported on the duties of the adult committee, headed by chairman Roy Price, who introduced Dauler. Claren Lehman handled the job as master of ceremonies throughout the entire program. Dinner and Music Entertainment was by the German band from Geneva. “T h e Very Hungry Five,” introduced by Bill Kirchhofer. The dinner was prepared by the Pleasant Mills Methodist church group and served by the church’s young women. Dauler, who recently returned from an extensive tour erf Russia and other parts of Europe, with Wayne Rothgeb, WKJG-TV farm director, is planning another tour on his own this summer. He invited interested persons to contact him at Convoy, 0., for further information.

Service docs not wish them to repeat another year. These three Decatur families have had a rich and rewarding experience in their rule as father and mother to an exchange student and are glad to recommend it tn any one. So’ far. for next year’a student, no family has yet been found who wishes to take on both the plea-| sure and the responsibility. “What are the requirements—first, the family must be friendly and affectionate and must truly like young people. Tfiey must understand young people and be able to deal with their problems. It is not important whether or not there are children in the home, except it is more pleasant when there are youngsters near the age of the foreign students." The "parents” must be at least 40 years of age. Tfie student must have a bed of his own, although not a private room. The family must be financially able to provide good food for the student. The AFS takes care of illnesses or accidents, and the student provides his own personal effects and has sl2 a month spending money. “If you would enjoy the experience of being the ‘parents’ of an intelligent, carefully selected, high-type boy or girl from a foreign land for nine months starting next fall, contact M. J. Pryor immediately.” Richmond Pedestrian Is Killed By Truck RICHMOND, Ind. (UPI) — William Barr. 77. Richmond, died in Reid Memorial Hospital here Thursday night a few hours after he was hit by a truck ht a downtown street intersection. Police said Barr walked into the path of a truck driven by Arthur Jennings, 47, Richmond, as Jennings started to drive across the intersection. It was the first traffic fatality of the year for Richmond.

Weather Satellite Is Working Well

WASHINGTON (UPD — The federal space agency disclosed today that a mechanical failure aboard the Tiros I weather satellite is preventing it from taking, detailed cloud pictures over Russia. • ~ . Dr. T. Keith Glennan, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said at a news conference that the weather satellite “is working successfully and well. * * But he added that since Saturday evening, the satellite’s clock timer governing operation of one of the cameras has not been working properly, Tfie camera involved was a narrow angle, “high resolution” device designed to obtain the clearest pictures. ~ As a result of the timer’s failure, Glennan said, this camera has been able to take pictures only on direct command over Hawaii and adjacent Pacific areas and over New Jersey and the surrounding region of the Atlantic seaboard 101 Trips Around World This means that only the larger of the two television cameras, the so-called “low resolution” device, has been instructed since Saturday evening to take cloud cover pictures as the satellite passed over Russia, China and elsewhere in the Far East. Tiros was suc ; cessfully launched last Friday morning. Pictures taken by the large TV camera are too diffuse to show any details of objects on the ground. Since its launching. Tiros has made 101 trips around the world at an altitude of about 450 miles and has taken hundreds of photographs which have been trans-

WASHINGTON (UPD —Southerners waged a last-ditch effort today to stall off fmal Senate action on a civil right* bill certain of passage when they stop talking. Sen. J. Willia* Fulbright <DArk.i led off the concluding southern assault with a speech denouncing the Negro voting rights measure as "repugnant and unacceptable” to a large section of the country. Then, in a foredoomed move. Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.> asked the Senate to send the bill back to the Judiciary Committee for further study. Eastland, chairman of the committee. made the expected motion, on grounds the committee did not have time to give the bill "adequate" study during the five days that it had the House-passed version of the bill fete last month. His committee added 15 generally weakening amendments to It. Eastland did not ask for an immediate vote on his motion. No Further Change* Several southern senators were armed with long speeches against the modified House bill, although the Senate closed the door Thursday on any further changes in the measure. Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen (Ill.) told newsmen he was confident the Senate would vote tonight on final passage. But Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) would go no farther than to say “We re getting close to final action.” Sen. Richard B. Russell (DGa.), leader of the southern bloc, said he doubted "very seriously" that the Senate would finish action tonight. The Senate Thursday wound up 10 days of debate on changes in the bill by adopting 80-11 a final amendment by Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen .(’ll.) to meet some objections to the proposed system of federal voting referees —the heart of the legislation. Close Off Amendments The Dirksen amendment would require that last*minute Negro voting applicants, whom the court-appointed referees could declare eligible eventhoughregistration lists had closed, must

mitted electronically to ground stations at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., and Kaenar Point, Hawaii. Glennan said the experiment “has pe r f err me d exceedingly well.” “We have«in fact been embarrassed by the wealth of photographic material which has been received,” Glennan said. Public Gets Pictures Thus far no pictures have been received here from Hawaii. Some are ex'bected the first of next week. ! . ' ’Meanwhile, Glennan released all the other photographs for examination which were received at Ft. Monmouth. The photographs will be the first made available to the public since six were released last

c£enten Iffleditation (By Rev. R. C. Ludwig, Zion Lutheran Church) “FROM CRIB TO CROSS” Read Galatians 4:3-7 It’s amazing—how close the manger stands to the cross! Measured in miles, the distance from Bethlehem to Calvarv is not great Measured in years, the distance shrinks. The Eternal Son spent but thirty-three years in time. In terms of material, they are similar. There is wood in the cross and wood in the crib. The tree of the Garden at Eden and the tree of Calvary are related more closely. The devil, who by a tree overcame our father Adam, is overcome by our Brother Christ, • who dies on the tree of the cross. The same relationship appears as we think of the Christmas tree and the tree of the cross. Jesus was born to be killed His journey from the crib to the cross earned eternal Let member the events of His life’s beginning as we ponder the days of His dying. And, oh, how His life for us from crab to cross should move us to live for Him from cradle to grave!

otherwise meet state voting requirement*. Shortly afterward, the Senate gave the bill a formal final reading, thus closing off further amendments. But debate on the bill itself could continue tod<nnitely. Unseasonably Cool Weekend For Slate I'nited Press International , An unseasonably cool weekend is in store for Hoosiers, forecasters said upstate areas may get some snow flurries. Temperature forecasts for Saturday were 42 to 48 north to 52 to 58 south. There was no indication of a warmup Sunday. Furthermore, the five-day outlook called for temperatures averaging 4 to 6 degrees below normal, with a one-dgy warming trend Monday the only departure from the cool spell. Little rain was on the calendar for the period running into the middle of next week. The five-day outlook said .10 to .30 of an inch would occur in scattered showers or snow flurries Friday night and showers about Tuesday. Highs Thursday ranged from 50 at South Bend to 66 in the Louisville area. Overnight lows , from 33 at South Bend and Fort Wavne to 41 In the Louisville area. Today’s highs will range from 50 to 67, tonight's lows from 27 to 38. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued unseasonably cool tonight and Saturday. A few snow flurries or brief light showers likely north tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 28-34 north. 33-38 south. High Saturday in 48s west, 50s south. Sunset 7:18 p.m. e.s.t. Sunrise Saturday 6:17 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and continued unseasonably cool. Low Saturday night 28-35, high Sunday 45-55. weekend shortly after Tiros was fired into a 440-mile high orbit with two television cameras aboard The photos all showed cloud cover over North America. Officials said Tiros had relayed back to earth more than 1,000 pictures, including some shot over Red China and the southern part of Russia.’ It was understood that NASA had carefully screened the photographs prior to their release to prevent any charge by a foreign government that the United States was spying on its territory. But it was determined that none of the pictures showed enough detail to offend any other country. In addition to the cloud cover, they show only rough geographical outlines such as the coastlines of continents For example, a number received at Ft. Monmouth. N.J., showed the boot of Italy, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez area and eastern Mediterranean nations, and the southwest coast of Europe. L l --

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