Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 108.

Princess Margaret Wed This Morning

IXJNDOH (VPl>-FrtecwM Margaret twoiiTW Mn Antony Arm I utronf • !<*»•• in a rolrmn *vd [ ding ceremony before th* gmnt, *H*r of W**tmln»t*r Abbey today. In a amall voice »lmmt teat in th* recrhm of the abbey abe | promtoad to kwo. rberuh and obey th* commcmtr of hey choice ■ A» thf arehbiahop °f Canterbury proeounred them nyuv»«ri "to th* | name of U»r Father and the Son j and th* Hoiy Gbmrt." • t*or trlrt | led down the Jac* of the Q»»«* n Mother. Margaret Aimbird her vows | one* She stumbled riightly •’bi n. ■»k*d to take Armstrong • Joo*» • for better. for worae' Before aha could repeat thei phrase th* archbUhop looked up. related th* phraa* and Princes* Margaret replied without any trouble. * , Arm«tnong-Joo*» appeared nervoui and pale but got through bis lines aucceaaftdly. • His hands moved nervously. out he calmed down and a smile broke acroas his face after the Duke of Edinburgh whispered to | him It’s Margaret's Day For Margaret, it was the climax to a romance which had. overcome weeks of gossip and in nuendo and which hadbeen sub- j jectcd to the snobbery of much of European royalty. This was Margarets day. And the hundreds of thousands of Briton s Utile who cheered her on the way from Clarenc< House to the »bbey prowd *ey loved her and approved the .choice of a princess who could have bad kings or princes but chose a commoner instead . • With this ring I thee wed. intoned the archbishop of Canter- - Jones took archbishop a wedding ring made XSrTnugget of Welsh gold and suppl'd it on to the finger of die Pr Tto^ SS was a marriage that ignored many royal It was the first fame_“ -- moner had married a prince*i of Satori wyal .at the great altar which for »0 years h** crowning place of Britain sJJfcflNear Queen Elizabeth “J ♦ divorced parents of Jones: Another first for royalty, which frowns on divorce. . —in Parliament blunt questions the love field Simpson has there bees » much whispering about a royal Arnow WM-at* gX aitv only Queen Ingrid oi ™rk wJepirf the «eddM lootteThere was criticism of Arm-strong-Jones’ nd in the ab Fry. first choice as best man ’ with t e x^s er wagsirfS : ces that set tongues b 1V Rut all toe gossip and criticism mall that runs from Tratag Scuiare to Buckingham Palace, S3A£“ roof of 60,000 roses arching ecross the wide * venue ' 4 __ wrf t e a to her Sne rn“a“ «“s Strawn Film On Food Power Shown To Rotarians The film. "Tomorrow’s Food Power,” was shown to the Decatur Rotary club at its weekly meeting Thursday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community , Center. Lowell Harper was program chairman and made the introductory remarks before showing the film. . , The film, which was produced by Central Soya company showed the tremendous contribution which animal agriculture is making to the American way of life. The average American spends less than 25% of his income on food and yet has an excellent diet, probably the best in the world. It will be necessary to increase food production by 30% to maintain the present diet by 1975. Soy beans are toe raw materials from which animals make the proteins which Americans enjoy so much in daily diets. Michael Thieme, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Thieme, was the high " guest from Decatur high school A. R. Ashbaucher was welcomed back after spending toe winter in Florida, with his long attendance record still intact.

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l At tor d«»* of to* abbey. be helped Ito* g*®tly. fn*” * hr land together to*y walked ttowly I Matta. _ • WMte OrgStoW A fanfare rounded and toe bride I and the duke stood Aw • moment j before starting th* stow proct-wtoo down th* aisle | For her gown, the princes* cbos* whit* organs* topped by a diamond Uara from which lights I flashed to to* far corners of to* I abbey A diamond necklace was , around h*r throat and to bar | i right arm ah* carried a bouquet: of whit* orchids I The dress was rimpl* because i that war the way Margaret or-1 dived it from Norman Hartnell, the court dressmaker. Th* front fell in graceful lines to th* floor while the book was divided into 112 floating panels which made up; i bor train. The sleeves were wrist length. Her hair was dressed in a spei dal bouffant style on each side of I (Continued on *•«• •icM) Civil Rights Act Is Signed By Eisenhower WASHINGTON 'UPD — President Eisenhower today signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960 providing new federal help to Negroes who are denied voting privileges The six-point law also enables th* government to act against “hate" bombers and mobs obstructing court-ordered integration of public schools. It is the second civil rights law enacted during Eisenhower s tenure as president and only the second since toe reconstruction days following the Civil War'. The measure, enacted after a long and bitter fight in Congress, contains most of Eisenhower s civil rights recommendations, on in a somewhat weaker form. Atty. Gen. William P. Roger? has pledged prompt and vigorous enforcement of the new law. But his dvll rights experts saw little chance of following through the complex new referee for protecting Negroes voting rights in time to increase their balloting in this year’s election. Adams County Shows Gain In Population Adams county’s population has gained more than nine per cent in the past 10 years, according to a preliminary announcement made today by John W. Wynn, district census supervisor. Wynn reports the 1960 census courtt to date shows toe county’s population is 24,492. The supervisor stated that this figure is believed to be substantia Uy correct but is subject to revision after the returns for non-residents are credited to their proper localities and other routine checks have been made. , The official announcement or population will be made at later date by the director of the bureau of the census. Adams county’s population in the 1940 census was 21.254, and in the 1950 census was 22.393. This year s figure of 24.492 is a gain of 9.37 per cent over the 1950 total. Parents' Night At?~ School On May 12 Parents of this year’s eighth graders and next year’s prospective freshmen at Decatur high school received through the mail today, letters requesting their presence at “Parents’ night.” a meeting which is believed wiU be helpful to not only the children, but toe parents also. Some of toe things that wiU be discussed are: schedule of subjects for incoming freshmen, types of diplomas that the school grants, and an assortment of other topics which parents of freshmen should know. The meeting is set for Thursday. May 12, at 7:30 p. m. in toe Decatur high school gym. Heading ' toe program will be Hugh J. Andrews, principal of Decatur high, and Deane T. Dorwin, head of the guidance program. It is hoped that all parents rereiving these letters will make an ■ attempt to attend toe meeting. 1 A coffee hour will follow the meeting.

Break Ground Sunday For New Church Unit The Flr«»an< Date Church of the Brrthrm will t>r**k ground fur Ita nvw *dur*tkin*l unit for th* church and expanded taciltti**. Bunday morning at 11:10 o'clock In what will b* th* find atop In a tong rang* buHding program A number of years ago It became evklrnl that enlarged facilltlea would b* needed and that a building pr</gram would be needed to keep pare with the needa of the community which thr church a*rv*» First step* were mad* in October. IBM. to eatablito a building fund and to atudy the n**d.<i pre vioua to drawing plana for pre ten tattoo to th* congregation for con- | riderattan. A planning commltu-e of 13 membent studied the need* and various ways in which they could bet met. A building committee was chosen to guide the proi gram and is composed of Leter Adler. chairman. Loyd Byerly, secretary. Stanley Arnold. Loren Uech- | ty and Joseph D. Schwartx. Final I approval was given to a plan j whereby an educational unit would I be constructed so the present sanc- ■ tuary can be enlarged, and at a later time a new sanctuary can I be built in connection with the new educatipnal unit. Arthur Dean. Church of the Brethren architect of Elgin. 111., has been working on the project with the congregation to complete plans and drawings. Major Items to be included in the construction will be 12 class rooms, mother's room, rest rooms, kitchen, additional sanctuary space, baptistry, furnace to heat the old and new units, and additional off road parking space. Additional land has been acquired tb provide for parking to the rear of the church. Arrangements have been mad? with the following contractors for work on the project—Merlin Habegger, . concrete work and construction of the basement; Loren Liechty. general construction: Lehman Heating and Plumbing, heating facilities; Floyd Roth, electric installations; Ralph Liby, plumbing. Volunteer labor will also be used in the work. The Rev. John D. Mishler is completing his ninth year as pastor of the Pleasant Dale congregation. During this, time the congregation completely remodeled the parsonage in 1953 and has taken on increased responsibilities is the support of Christian education and evangelism. in the local community and in the mission work of the church at large. The membership is 230 at the present and has increased 20 per cent during this period. The attendance at the church has increased 34 per cent in the period of nine years. The congregation serves a rural community and finds "a deep challenge in serving with other churches in this area for the Kingdom of God,” Rev. Mishler stated. ’ Democrat Committee Will Meet Saturday The Democrat central committee, composed of the precinct committee men and women from the 39 county precincts, will meet in toe Adams county court room at 1 p.m. Saturday to elect a county chairman arid other officers. The present county chairman. Dr. Harry H. Hebble, is expected to win renomination unopposed. Other Democratic officers are: vicechairman, Mrs. Elmer Beer; secretary, Mrs. Austin Merriman: treasurer, Wendell Macklin. Advertising Index Advertiser Pa <« Bower Jewelry Store 3 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. ——2, 7 Butler Garage, Inc. — 5 Burk Elevator Co. — Boardman's Sewing Machine Shop — 3 Delmas Bollenbacher ———— 2 Carling Black Label Beer 7 Chevrolet 8 Cowens Insurance Agency 4 Conrad’s "66” Service — ~ 7 Chic Dry Cleaners & Laundry. _ 8 Drive-in Theatre 8 Decatur Super Service — 5 Dow Chemical Co. 6 t l . O O. Eagles _, r —— 7 Holtoouse Furniture Store —5 Husmanp’-s Decorating House.. 4 Curtis P- Jones - 3 Kohne Drug Store 3, 5 G. C. Murphy Co. — 2 Model Hatchery — 5 Maico Hearing Service 7 Niblick & Co. — 3 New Bremen Racing Ass’n. —7 Ohio Oil Co. —- 8 Petrie Oil Co. —* 2, 4 Myles F. Parrish — — 2 F. S. Royster Guano Co. — 6 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. — 3 Shaffer’s Restaurant 3 Stiefel Grain Co. 6 Teeple Truck Lines 5 E3mer Winteregg, Jr —3 Western Auto Store—l Rural Church Page Sponsors — 6

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, Moy 6, 1960

29 Are Killed, Hundreds Injured As Tornadoes Hit Oklahoma And

Plane Downed By Khrushchev Order

MOSCOW (UPD — T*ic com-1 mander al Soviet ground forces ■ told th* Supreme Soviet t<>da v that Premier Nikita S Khrushchev personally gave the order tn shoot down an American plane Sunday. Marsha) Andrei A. Grechko, who also Is a first deputy minister of j defense, said the plane was knocked out of the skies by a rocket on the first shot. He said toe rocket was "a .remarkable weapon with which Soviet armed forces in the area are equipped." "Khrushchev personally gave the order to shoot down toe plane," Grechko said. B*vi*< Delegates Cheer The 1.300 -deputies in the Supreme Soviet cheered loudly "The United States aircraft was destroyed by a rocket with the first shot,” he said. Again they applauded loudly. Grechko said rock* units had become the main components of | the Soviet armed forces The Communist Party newspaper Pravda carried a stoty in which an artillery officer named Maj M. Voronov described how his unjt felled the plane. He said the plahe was sighted by radar as soon as it crossed the border at an altitude of five miles. During the alert signal ourt warriors took their places, ” Voronov said. "The anti-aircraft unit acted very skillfully and the plane was downed. Find nane Fragments "The inhabitants of the neighboring vilages helped find fragments of the’ American plane, which had no markings of identification.” The story did not say where the artillery unit was stationed and it did not mention the fate •ot its pilot or any crew members . - fThe plane apparently was., a National Space and Aeronautics Agency jet missing since Sunday on a weather reconnaissance flight over Turkey. U.S. officials said in Washington the pilot may have blacked out and automatic controls mav have carried the plane across the Soviet border. It was unarmed.) . . As Khrushchev did when he disclosed the downing of the Plane Thursday. Grechko charged the plane incident was an atempt to prove “our defenses and our readiness to deliver a demonstrating rebuff to an aggressor.” Many of the delegates were clearly shocked and angered by Khrushchev’s dramatic c £f r . ge Thursday that a United States plane’ had intruded aggressively into Soviet ah’ space

Carolyn Luginbill

LEAD GRADUATES — Miss Luginbill is valedictorian and Miss Shoaf salutatorian of the 1960 graduating class of the Pleasant Mills high school, whose commencement exercises will be held Monday evening at the school. Miss is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Irvin Luginbill of Willshire, 6„ route 1. She has an academic -average of 95.2 per cent and itiTS Partiupated in many school activities. She is a member of the school choir, band, double sextet, mixed quartet, girls’ trio. Red Bird Sir l8 ’ quartet, and an accomplished pianist, accordionist and French horn player. She also was selected a member of the county honor band and honor choir, and is a member of the annual staff. She enter Olivet College Kankakee. 111., next fall. Miss Shoaf is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Shoaf of Decatur route 6, and has an . academic average of 92.5. She was a member of the school char and ensemble, a cheer leader, twirler for the band, school reporter for the Daily Democrat, member <rf the animal Staff and active m ' 4-H‘club work. She will enter Ball State Teachers College at Muncie next fall.

They followed with the most heated anti - American barrage heard in the Soviet Union in many months . I Americans were brandi'd gangisters” who acted like Hitlerites >HMd "two-faced” bandits pretending to be poocefui but actually stirring up the cold war. Elmer H. Amstutz Is Taken By Death Elmer Henry Amstutz, 57. son of Mr. and Mrs. William Amstutz of Decatur, was found dead Thursday evening at hiy'ttfciness establishment. 4102 Jtobinwnod drive, I Fort Wayne. He was the owner and' operator of a furniti|-e refinishkig store. x Mr. Amstutz was a member of St. Andrew’s Catholic church and resided at 3228 New Haven Ave. Surviving in addition to hie parents are his wife, Blanch M.; two daughters. Mrs. Jean Biberstine of Fort Wayne, and Miss Saundra J. Amstutz, at home; four brothers. Ervin and Everett Amstutz of New Haven. Fred • Amstutz of Harlan, and Kenneth Amstutz of Kendallville: four sisters, Mrs. Stella Hall of Wallen, Mrs. Richard D. Lewton of near Decatur, Mrs Rose Kaiser and Mrs. Ruth Scheiman, both of Tampa, Fla., and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 a. m. Monday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home, and at 10 a. m. at St. Andrew’s Catholic church, the Rev. Eugene Mulligan officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic eemetery -at- Fort- -Wayne. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Saturday. INDIANA WEATHER Showers and locally heavy thundershowers this afternoon and early tonight, diminishing later tonight. Saturday partly cloudy south, considerable cloudiness north, some rain north in morning. Cooler tonight and Saturday. Low tonight in the 40s extreme northwest, 50s remainder of state. Highs Saturday 50s north and central, low 60s extreme south. Sunset today 7:43 pm. Sunrise Saturday 5:39 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair and a little warmer. Lows 50 to 60. Highs 65 to 75.

Judy Shoaf

WILBURTON O.kla <UPI» — A brood of ugly tornado*®, herded iby boiling black thundercloud*, '■lashed across Oklahoma and Ar- . kansas during the night leaving, [hundreds of persons dead and injured. many more homoleax. and i nearly wiping this town of 2.000; off the map. At least 27 persons wore known : dead in the tornado zone, and jmorc than 250 persons were injured. some critically. Hospitals in | ’ some areas had to turn away all I but the most seriously injured pa- | tients ~ M ' Di lbert G<ner. superintendent of schools at Wilburton, said it "looked as if a bomb had been dropptri on Main Street." About 30 square blocks of this I southeastern Oklahoma college town was crushed; about 12 blocks leveled and the rest approximately 50 per cent destroyed. Siren Didn’t Work Rescue workers digging through stacks of kindling that once were homes and business buildings reported 12 persons dead, and up to 125 others injured. They expected the death toll to go higher. Garner, former coordinator for the Ground Oobserver Corps in Wilburton, was in charge of hundreds of volunteer workers. He said the siren used to warn the town couldn't be used Thursday night when the storm hit because hard rain and bad weather knocked out power about 30 minutes before the twister formed. Long lines of muddy, bedraggled people lined up in front of the court house looking for casualty Mats. Many found relatives and friends on them. Hit Many Town* About half of the downtown business section was wiped out. and block after block of homes were nothing more than rubble. The tornadoes began skipping across Oklahoma about dusk, and hammered a dozen communities in Oklahoma and Arkansas. The tornadoes struck Menefee, Greenbrier and Prescott. Ark., early today. One person was killed and 25 others injured at Menefee. There was property damage at the other two sites, but no reported injuries. The only communication out of Wilburton for several hours was by state police and ham radio Frances Powell, a county welfare director. broadcast an urgent appeal for water and food. ’ She said 1.000 gallons of water and 100 gallons of milk was needed immediately, as well as coffee, eggs, bacon and sugar. All water in the town was contaminated by the stormTwister Rips Church The twister destroyed the Calvary Baptist Church just before 50 persons were to begin a suppet The Rev. R. L. Phillips said there was no chance to escape, so they just knelt and prayed. All were Injured. "We were bounced around as if in'a cage,” Phillips said. "It seemed as it the whole earth had fallen froiri beneath us. It seemed we were falling forever...' R. L. McConnell of radio station KMUS, Muskogee, said he helped rescue workers search for victims. “We discovered one woman about 19 years old under a mattress,” McConnell said- "She was dead, lying face down in about six inches of water. The storm apparently ripped her baby out of her hands. The baby wasn t to be found She still clutched the baby's blanket.” Other twisters killed two persons at Sapulpa, three at Moffett, two at Keota, two at Bristow and one each at Hoffman and Checotah. Other funnel clouds were sighted in eastern Oklahoma near Coweta, Paden, Afton, Muskogee and Wynnewood. GOP Committee To Meet Here Saturday The Republican central commit-, tee will meet in the dining room of the Rice hotel lat 1 p.m Saturday to elect a new slate of officers, Harry “Peck” Essex, present county chairman, said today. Essex stated that he definitely planned to resign, as he has submitted his application for acting postmaster of Decatur. This past week is was rumored that John M. Doan was slated to be elected to replace Essex. Other Republican officers are r vice-chairman, Eleanor Snyder of Geneva; secretary. Glenn Neuenschwander of Berne; treasurer, Cal E. Peterson, of Decatur.

Senate Passes Distress Bill

WASHINGTON <UPO—Tb* Sen-1 ate. rejecting President Eisenhower's anti-spending warnings ■nd | veto hints, approved and sent to| the White House today a 251-mil-lion-dollar bill to aid areas where unemployment is chronic By a 45 * 32 vote, th* Senate gave final congressional approval to a bill authorizing federal loans, and grants to communities with persistently high rates of joblessness. The measure was nearly five | times larger than the 53-million-, dollar program the President has proposed. Other congressional news! Foreign Aid l House and Senate conferees agreed on a compromise $4,086,200,000 bill to authorize another year of military, economic, and technical aid abroad. The total was $88,800,000 under the President's request and $39,300,000 below the amount voted by the Senate. However, it was $47,800,000 more than the House approved. Civil Righto: President Eisenhower signed into law the hardfought 1960 civil righfs bill, hailing the voting-guarantee measure as “an historic step forward” in assuring equality for all citizens regardless of race or colorAppr*priati*aa: The Hous* Appropriations Committee approved a $3,964,781,500 money bill to finance government agriculture programs and pay off past losses on farm price supports. The amount was $170,481,690 less than the President requested for the year starting next July 1. Medical: The House Ways and Means Committee is expected to begin drafting next week a medical care plan for old folksThe measure that emerges probably will be some version of the Democrat proposal to add medical insurance to Social Security benefits with higher payroll taxes on workers and employers, to pay for it. This would reject President Eisenhower’s proposal for direct federal-state subsidies totalling $12,00,000,000 a year to help persons over 65 pay their medical bills. The elderly could join the plan on a voluntary basis. The Ways & Means Committee planned to question Welfare Secretary Arthur S. Flemming today

Ask All Facts On U.S. Plane

WASHINGTON (UPD - The United States has asked the Soviet Foreign Office far “full facts” about the U.S plane which Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev ordered shot down over southern Russia last Sunday, the State Department announced todayDepartment press officer Francis W. Tully Jr. said a note was delivered to the Russian Foreign Office this morning and “we are now awaiting a reply." The note asked particularly what happened to the pilot of the aircraft. The State Department assumes it was a civilian-piloted weather observation aircraft which is missing from its base in Adana’, Turkey. The department said it was "entirely possible” that the pilot was unconscious ‘due to failure of his oxygen system at 50,000 feet, which was reported in his last message to his home base. The White House said there has been no change in plans for President Eisenhower’s attendance at the May 16 summit meeting in Paris or his visit to Russia next month. Meanwhile, some U.S/ officials said that Khrushchev appears to be trying to lav the foundation for blaming the West if the Big Four summit conference fails to ease tensions. This was their interpretation of Khrushchev’s Roclk et - rattling speech to the Supreme Soviet Thursday, which included the disclosure that a U.S. plane was shot down over the Soviet Union last Sunday. '

for the ’bird consecutive day. Budget IWector Maurice Stans was scheduled to give his views to the committee Monday. Other cookiessional news: Payola: R<-p Samuel L. Devine |R-Ohx>i of the House payola investigating subcommittee said the group's public hearings contributed little toward solving the problem. Devine said enough information was available earlier to decide the need for remedial legislation. * Local Lady's Mother Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Minnie Horstmeyer. M. of Fort Wayne route 13, died Wednesday night at the Lutheran hosi pital. She had lived in Fort Wayne for 82 years. She was a member of the Emmaus Lutheran church and the Ladies Aid society of the church. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Roger Schuster at Decatur; two sons, Paul H. Horstmeyer of Fort Wayne, and Herbert C. Horstmeyer of Chicago; six grandchildren and 4. gfeat-grandchßdren. ♦ Funeral services win be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at Wellman * funeral home in Fort Wayne, the Rev. Erwin L. Tepker officiating. Burial will be in the Concordia Luthc-ran cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. ► r Late Bulletins WASHINGTON (UP 11 — President Elsenhower today raised possible doubt about whether he will go through ?■' with bis planned visit to Rnssla next month. KERMAN, Calif- (UPI) — Seven persons in one car were . killed today when the vehicle collided with another at a rural intersection and burst into flames. The dead were all passengers in one vehicle. The driver of the other ear was listed in serious condition.

The United States pressed its inquiry into the plane incident. American officials were convinced the Russians had destroyed an unarmed U-S. Weather plane with an unconscious Civilian pilot who accidentally strayed across the frontier from Turkey. Officials here said Khrushchev's speech, with its charges that some American authorities wanted to renew the “cold war,” appeared to be a pre-summit tactical move . rather than any indication of real Soviet despair over summit pectsThey recalled that it is the usual Russian tactic, on the eve of any big international conference to take a tough tone, presumably to stake out the Soviet bargaining position anew and try to bring pressure on the West for concessions. Despite the tough tenor of Khrushchev's speech h,e made no Khrushchev’s speech, he made no change in tne substance of any Russian position. Nevertheless, the speech had the effect of bringing back into sharp focus the basic cleavage that divides East and West, and made it clear that any progress at the summit will be less than spectacular. American officials said they believed Khrushchev felt he was on the spot in the eyes of Communist China and the East European satellites who have been pressing for a stiffer attitude toward the West. >

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