Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 98.

■ ■ I " '* I Living Costs At New High

WASHINGTON <UPI> — Uvtng tmU uwhrd up to in all-Umc peak text month, the I-abor Dr- j partnwnl announced today A blgX p rthan-u»ual focreaac in food pr*ert arot the ronaumcr-. price Index up by 1 P*‘ r cent to 125 7 per cent of average 1947-59 price*. _ u „„„< More than MO 000 radroud workers will receive pmny-an-hour pay booata based on the advance tn living coats since laxt September. Prices of new and used carfell sharply in March and kept the index from climbing U> an even higher record level, the d<partment said The coat of used; cars alone fell 4 1 per cente-toe biggrat monthly decline in almrwt five years. Arnold Chase. Labor Department price chief, said the chances are that the index will go up slightly from now until July beCBU9C of rising grocery costa at this time of year. Prices for food rose .3 per cent last month Pork, chicken, eggs., and fresh fruita led the advance in food price tags. However, many fresh vegetables were cheaper last month because! of ample harvests of lettuce, tomatoes. cabbage, celery and onThc fractional rise sent the index to a level 1 « per cent above the March. 1959, figure. Chase said most of the increase occurred from March to October with relative stability in purices since last Advertising Index Advertiser PaR 2 Adams Theatre ■ Ass'n. for Betterment of Decatur | A. & P. Tea Co.. Inc 3 Bower Jewelry Store - * Burk Elevator. Co — < Butter Garage, Inc ” Budget Loans ‘ Burke Insurance Service •’ Delmas Bollenbacher “ Cowens Insurance Agency 2 Ellenberger Bros,, Auctioneers 6 Ehinger’s "Boston Store" ——— 3 Fairway - Farm Bureau Auto Insurance — 8 Donald F. Gage 3 Holthouse Drug Co < Holthouse Furniture Store 5 Pauline Haugk Real Estate —— 5 International College ----- ® Klenks -— * S. E. Leonardson- 1 Mvers Cleaners —-- * Niblick & Co —— , 2 Rural Electrical Consumers Ass n ,7 “t”"§mitfi~iKisuranee Agency. Inc’S Surplus Sales Directory 5 Smith Drug Co 2, 3 Sutton Jewelry Store — 8 Shaffer’s Restaurant ——- 2 Dr. Ray Stingely 5 Rosemary Spangler ’ i Teeple Truck Lines 5|

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’ tou .. Spring ctotbea. gaaolinc. amt ' hnuac furntahiaga increas'd in price and heating oil wa* cheaper aa it uaually is ■*< winter-end. the department said. i The February index was 125 a This means that H took SIIM to I buy the same goods and services j | that sold for 110 about 12 years • gO. The new increase in living costa. was anticipated on the basis of a wholesale price report last; week showing higher costa of, farm products and food in March I The wholesale price ind.-x, jumped six-tenths of one per cent) last month, the largcat monthly j rise in two years, to 120 per cent, of the 1947 -49 average This equaled the record high set last Anri) The Bureau of Statistics | said that raw winter weather in March pushed up prices of liveI stock, meats and eggs. Vegetable prices also moved up seasonally. The rise in food prices offset, some declines in other price cats-I j gories. Ixrw grocery prices had i held down the price index for| I most of the past year. Despite the new increase, one. official said the oyerall price rise for the year may be smaller than! expected two or three months ago because a widely heralded] business boom has not developed yet. Over SBOO Collected jln Cancer Crusade I First results from the Adams ' county cancer crusade showed I more than SBOO has been collected with many places still unreported ! or uncontacted. Mrs. A. R. Holt- ; house said this morning that mopping up will continue until all sources have been contacted., The reports from the Business and Professional Women s club who led the canvass through the city showed that Decatur collected about $750 of the total announced today. The three sororities, Delta Theta Tau. Tri Kappa, and Psi lota Xi, also worked the three other sections of town in the drive for research funds that started on April 20. Other volunteer workers will be listed later this week. The, report from Monmouth is not Completed. W are ffteresults frorti Burn'e’. Monroe and Geneva. Mail in contributions will be handled by Justin Bleeke at the First State Bank of Decatur. The drive will continue until at least the end of the month to assure the best oossible results from the ’ county. Mrs. Holthouse said.

Nikita Repeats Demands Over West Berlin MINTMTN «UPt> — Soviet Pre mtar Nikita Khrushchev Mid t«> I day tor Wsairm power* would Ilnar ail lights of acres* to Waal i Berlin If they refuse to sign a | peace treaty with Communist Eaat I Germany. I la • speech at Baku in south-! I cm Ruaata. Khrushchev repeated all the demands on West Berlin 1 j that touched off toe Berlin CTtab , II month* ago end brought Me ! world ckw to wwr His l»ur Mid 40 minute speech come jurt threel weeks before start of the Pads, summit conference | i Khrushchev Mated disarmament as toe first topic for the Paris] conference but Ms emjhasfa was on Berlin He said the "danger-1 ous knot of difference between I Mates" cannot be eliminated until the Mrwt withdraws Its occupation (troops. • . I Khrushchev said the German > problem ahould revolve around i I toe question of a peace treaty for .all of Germany as wail as the problem of West Bertok aTa news agency accrsmt of his speech reported. ~ If contrary to "common sense the West would not care to josn with Russia in seeking a solution Ito the problem of a peace treaty, ■•we. of course, shall go <t atone, land conclude a peace treaty with (the German Democratic Republic • East Germany i •' "If the Western powers did not ' choose to sign a peace treaty with .the GDR 'East Germany*, that 1 would not entitle them to the rights they want preserved. he • •They would naturally then fortight of access to Western Berlin by land, water and am If Russia signs a peace treaty with Communist East GeT ™ a " y ' Khrushchev said, that would pu an end to the terms arising from the surrender.” . "The rights the Western powers obtained as a result of Nazi Germany’s surrender. xnck e the right to maintain the tion regime in Western Be*• would also tore their strength, become invalid wtth respect to the GDR territory.' He said that once a peace .treaty is signed East Germany "would exercise the sovereign rights over the whole of its state tereitorv." And he pointed out that West Berlin is inside East Germany. Girl Scout Rally On Tuesday Evening The. camp rally to** 411 Dec^, Brownies. Intermediates and Girl, Scmrts. and their "families, wijl be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Tuesday evening at 6 o’clock. A pot luck supper will be served and all attending are asked to bring table service. A varied program will follow the supper. Cochairmen for the rally are Mrs. Richard Gehrig, Mrs. Arthur Girod, and Mrs. Luke Majorki. Heat Wave Showing Signs Os Weakening United Press International An April heat wave which spawned tempenatures up to more than 20 degrees above normal showed signs of weakening in Indiana today. ] After an abnormally warm weekend with .temperatures shuttling between the 60s at night and the upper 80s in the daytime, forecasters said cooler weather would invade the state on the heels of showers and thunderstorms tonight. The five-day outlook called for temperatures average 3 to 8 degrees betow normal highs of 62 to 73 and normal lows of 40 to 55. The mercury shot up to a range between 84 at Fort Wayne and 91 in the Louisville area Sunday, roughly the same levels reached Saturday. Overnight lows were in the low 60s both days. Before the hot spell relents, the mercury will range from 73 to 80 in .the north and 84 to 91 in the central and south this afternoon. The new showers activity, which may bring rather heavy rain to some areas, was expected to start .tonight and continue through Tuesday. More rain may tome around Friday or Saturday. Altogether, ft should add up to onehalf to an .inch and locally more. The outlook for Wednesday was cool. Some moderation was expected *Hw&-sday and Friday but it wil be cooler again Saturday..

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 2S t 1960.

Thousands Oi Students In Korea Riot Against Syngman Rhee’s Regime

City Votes Tuesday On Sale Os Utility

Deca*ur voters, who will cast their ballots tomorrow on the | | power question, are reminded I i that the polls will be open from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. on Tuesday. Richard D Lewton. county clerk and member of the election board, reminded board workers! and voters alike that the new time went into effect Sunday, and all of Indiana is now on eastern standard or daylight savings time. Decatur voters will take the question of whether to sell the aging city utility to Indiana and Michigan for $2,099,100 for the third time in little more than a year. The first time. April 14. 1959, the issue was defeated by a scant 200-plus votes, but the second vote found the city voters overwhelmingly in favor of ridding itself of the plant by a 777-vote margin. The second vote, however, did not count because a high appraisal figure, entered four days prior to the Nov. 3 election by three county residents, nullified the vote. A battle followed to keep tfce issue on the ballot, and the proponents to sell won the battle and the right to show their strength in the election. Another trio of appraisers was appointed after the city administration decided to accept another I & M offer. This appraisal figure showed the value of rapidly depreciating power plant at $48.109 less than the I&M offer. Edward Reifsteck. Delmas Bollenbacher, and Elmer Isch, the three appraisers, met with Mayor Donald Gage, members of the city administration, and I&M officials to report on their findings. The appraisers had the services of Frank Warner, a registered electrical engineer and manager of the Huntington county R.E.M.C. who assisted them in the appraisal. _

—- , — . . . J Congressmen Hear 1 Gen. de Gaulle

WASHINGTON (UPD — French President Charles de Gaulle told Congress today that unless the United States. Britain and Russia agree to destroy their nuclear weapons, France will be compelled to stockpile them. He told a joint session of the House and Senate that not only peace but life itself "wiH be in jeopardy if the temptation and the threat of war remain hanging over the world due to nuclear weapons-’ De Gaulle, whose government exploded the first French atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert earlier this year, said: “Failing the renunoiaition of atomic armaments by those states who are provided with them, the French republic obviously will be obliged to equip itself with such armaments.” Final Session Today De Gaulle spoke to the joint session after he and President Eisenhower concluded their presummit talks in general agreement on grand strategy for next month’s Paris meeting, with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. They announced after a topsecret session Sunday at Capip David that they were in accord on “how we shall proceed at the summit.” At today’s final session, Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville were called in, detailed on what had taken place, and helped their chiefs polish up a final communique. The visiting French leader said in his address to Congress he

I Fine Arts Festival Here Friday Night The fine arts festival, schtoulcd I for the Decatur high school audi-t torium Friday at 8 p.m., will sea-( I hire the best in area art exhibits ' gnd x nrasic recital program. The j exhibits may be viewed before and after the 8 p.m. concert, according to Miss Kathryn Kauffman, art teacher at DHS. The program for the concert is: "An American is a Lucky Man.” arranged by Simone; “Rockin Chair.” by Carmichael-Ringwald, and "Blue Skies.” by Berlin-Bou-telle, — Choir. "Whistle Your Blues Away,” by Howard — senior octet. "Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Steffe-Ringwald — Choir. , "First Roumanian Rhapsody. Enesco; "Carnival of the Animals,” Saint-Seans; Jazz Medley, arranged by Clint Reed; “Toy Symphony.” Haydn; “Tbe Music Man” highlights, Willson, — band .“O Give Thanks.’ 4 Michael Kaehr — Choir and Band. An oil painting by local artist John Sheets will be presented to a person attending the festival. Late Bulletins WASHINGTON (UPl>— The Supreme Cburt today rejected the 16th appeal of convict-au-thor Caryl Chessman. Washington <upi) —The Supreme Court agreed today to examine the constitutionality of Sunday "blue laws” in three eastern states. „ {

“does not despair at all of seeing peace established in the world” but on the nuclear ban possibilities, he said: “We have reached the last moment when an agreement appears possible.” De Gaulle pointed out that France advocates a start toward complete nuclear disarmament by cutting back on rockets and missiles which could deliver the atomic or hydrogen payloads. He said that at the forthcoming summit meeting “the fate of mankind may be oriented either to\vards calamity or towards peace." "Western Europe Ensemble” He stressed that, only Allied unity can steer the world “towards peace” and away from “calamity.” De Gaulle said: “I do not believe that the human race has ever been more threatened than it is today.” . He said world problems can be solved only by reaching “a true modus vivendi” between East and West; ; r - - He spoke of organizing a “Western Europe ensemble.” This, de Gaulle said, could create a “balance” which might one day “enable the old continent to bring a reconciliation between. its two pants, to find peace wrthkiitself. to give a fresh start to its civilization and lastly to have the possibility, together with America. to help in an atmosphere of serenity the development of the unfavored masses of Asia and of the awakening population of Africa.”

SEOUL <UPI» — Thousands of ‘duk'ot' rtnUM n gainst ttx - gnvemm<«l Vaught awl some slirmrd the home of Vice Presidtvd L« Ki Poons in an effort to lull him Lee was not at home and escaped death _ . Troops backed by tanks fired Uw gas bomba into toe students at point blank range and tired I volley after volley of rifle shots over their heads but were unable Ito control them Seven stiMients w<«* admitted to the lied Cross hospital near Lee's home. At least four of them suffered bullet wounds No deaths were report'd im- , mediately. M was the election of Lee as ' vice president last March 15 which | touched off last Tuesday’s rk*s in 'which 130 students were killed and .780 others wounded His opponents cried fraud and corruption. ÜB. Embassy Close Tonight 500 of the 7.000 student demonstrators broke down the wooden gate before Lee's home, smashed up a guard hrxise which stands at the gate and streamed into the house. Inside they battered furmture wrecked the home. / The only pCTsdn in the house was an army infantry lieutenanttoe Lee family had fled. Firing became general in the area. Tracer bullets could be seen streaking through the sky. With the army and police either unable or unwilling to control the mob, the demonstration grew quickly to 10,000 and surged toward the U.S. embassy, which has been pressing President Syngman Rhee to Are Lee. The embassy was closed and the mob rushed on by to the Lee home and to the Home Ministry, scene of some of the world rioting last week. They pushed end jammed against the iron gates although two policemen menaced them from within with machine guns. The students were out for blood now and did not care. They ripped off their shirts and dared the army to shoot them. y O rjgg"jfew Cabinet In the- mist of the demonstaßfwn it wa.4 announced thaf'Ufiee was farming, a new cabinet but the demonstrations continued and there were cries that Rhee himself resign and that Lee be deported Rhee named Huh II Chung, a former prime minister, as foreign minister; Lee Ho as home minister, and Won Seung Yul as justice minister. Hon Chin Ki, home minister in charge of the police, was Hired outrightLt. Gen. Song Yo Chan, director of martial Jaw, had eased the rigid curfew earlier today but reimposed it tonight. It had no effect and the students yelled and screamed their rage at the government. i A 600 word statement from Rhee Sunday, in which he divorced himself from party politics but gave no signs of giving up one bit of the autocratic power with which he has ruled Korva for more than 12 years, appeared to satisfy no one. Tense. Quiet Session The National Assembly met in a tense session today. Fireworks had been expected, but it appeared to be only the dress rehearsal for the real thing. Opposition Democrats shouted demands for Rhee's resignation, but there was no shoving, pushing and swinging which marked the previous session of tjhe National Assembly. Just a few more than one-half of the 233 members were Democrats said they were preparing a formal demand for Rhee’s resignation. They planned to submit the resolution to the assembly’s secretariat later today and ,to bn ?g " before the full assembly Tuesday. ° Accept Chang’s Resignation In the day IS substantive action, the assembly voted to accept Saturday’s resignation of VicePresident John Chang. There was no debate. The assembly also voted 116-0 in favor of a demand for lifting full martial law imme(Continued on Page Three)

Body Os Long. Missing Judge Found In Lake CHICAGO <UPD—Police started an mvertiuotion today into th*death of E.xi. ral Judge M Uvnn Parkinson whose body was ftamd floating in Lake Michigan near Navy Pier. All possibilities were being checked, including suicide and murder. Officials speculate'd the jtM-i.it, missing since test Oct. 26. might have been rubbed and ttu-n shoved into the kike to drown A brown IcaKher wallet found on the txdy contained no money and the judge was wearing no jewel ry. although he was known to carry one and sometimes two expensive watches. To Perform Autopsy Coroner Walter E. McCarron said his office would perform an autopsy today on the body of the 57-year-oid Indiana jurist in an effort to determine the cause of death. There was no superficial evidence of violence. ' McCarron said an inquest probaba ly will be held Tuesday. A pedestrian strolling along the lakefront Sunday spotted the body floating in a filtration plant basin north of Navy Pier and less than a half mite from where the judge disappeared six months ! ago Charles Hansen, 56, vice president of an insurance company, told police 4he body was floating face down and the back of the clothing wias sand-covered-Identified By Fingerprints Hansen notified police who recovered the body with the help of a fire boat. Police first tentatively identified Parkinson from various cards found in the wallet. However, 4tlater was positively established by fingerprints. Tne judge’s wife, Mrs. Elsie Parkinson, was shocked when she

Rochester Girl Hostage Freed

ROCHESTER, Ind- (UPI) — A former mental patient seized the 8-year-old daughter of a county judge from her bicycle as she rode to Softool .today and held her captive in his home at knife point while he bargained for custody of a former prosecutor who figured in his hospital commitment. The frightened child, Lynn Rakestraw, was freed after an hour as a prisoner with a knife at her throat when her kidnaper, Junior Eugene Swango, 27, Rochester, surrendered to police. When officers took Lynn home, it was the first her father, Judge Frederick E. Rakestraw of Fulton Circuit Court, and her mother had known her life was in danger. They believed she was in school. Rakestraw and former Fulton County Prosecutor Lawrence Brown had committed Swango to Norman Beatty Hospital at Westville in 1957. He later was released. A relative of Swango, according to Sheriff Willard Clark, persuaded Swango to give up and release the child unharmed. dark said Swango tried to telephone Rakestraw but failed to reach him. Then he telephoned Clark and offered to “trade" the girl’s life for Brown. Clark said Swango told him he would be “sorry” if police were sent to the Swango home to rescue Lynn. Judge Rakestraw said that he and his wife were spared the agony of suspense because Swango was unable to call him directly and called the sheriff in“Ttie first my wife and I knew

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received the news in her new home m lofaycSte. Ind Mo Lynn Parkmwn Jr. wife of the judge's ran, mid Um* Hdrr Parlwraon’s wife had continued to hope the judge was nitve and an itmix .'da victim. '"Dm- tcW-phon* callu fc,>m porter* cornu? as M very bad Aodt to m.“ the younger Mrs. ParkavMXI said. Police had felt all utong Uiat Parkinson, ill and apparently not himself, either rtumided into foe lake or committed suicide Parkmson complained <rf ba ling iU the day he disappeared. He did not go to court that morntog for the first time in two years. He spent a few hours in hia . office to the attornoon but annuuoced about 4:15 pm that he I was leavaqt to K‘4 a haircut and buy a birthday present for hfc ! Witnesses had reported Wping toe judge after he tel at an underpass leading to <he They quoted him aa saying: bet me alone- I want tn go to tite Lake. I Mve on the Lake. I want to go home.” But the judge was assisted into a taxi cab which took him to the Drake Hotel. There he dis- , appeared. INDIANA WEATHER Tartly cloudy and warm south and central, mostly cloudy and coater, scattered thundershowers likely extreme f north late this afternoon or? • ; evening. Showers and scattered thunderstorms in north and s west portions tonight with chanee of locally severe thunderstorms extreme north. Cooler northwest and extreme t north tonight. Tuesday mostly cloudy and cooler with showers likely probably ending west portion Tuesday morning. Low tonight from the 50s northwest f to the 80s southeast. Highs Tuesday 55 to 62 extreme north to 67 to 75 extreme south. Sunset today 7:33 p.m. Sunrise -—Tuesday 5:53 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and cooler. Lows in the 40s north, 50s south. Highs upper 50s north, near 70 south.

about the kidnaping was when the police brought her home,” Rakestraw said. — ;■ — “We sent Lynn back to school this afternoon. She is all rightThe only people hurt are the adults and we are all a little sick about it.” The father said bis daughter ■wais “very seated” at first but that “the fear left her quickly.’’--“I don't think she really understood what it was air about,” he said. Rakestraw said Lynn told them Swango stopped her bicycle as she rode to school and said: “Your Daddy wants you on the telephone.” The little girl objected, saying she would be late to school, so Swango grabbed her and forced her to accompany him to his home about 7 or 8 blocks away. “We didn’t know it then, but about everyone else did,” the father said. “The children riding with Lynn gave the alarm, and the police began to get calls a bout what was happening." The judge said Swango 'has been a chronic trouble maker and I have been in office for five years so Ljbave been involved jo “Swango had not shown any signs of being dangerous before,’ Rakestraw said. “He has been one of those chronic cases that a community doesn’t quite know what to do with because the situation has not been serious.” Rakestraw said that Swango. s wife divorced him in Rakestraw s (Continued on page eight)