Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 150.

SIOO,OOO Proof In Stamp Exhibit if POST OFFICE MISTAKE will be one of the feature! of the stamp collection which will be on display at the Decatur ’louth and Community Center, July 3, 4 and 5. during the state rum! letter carriers' convention. The public is invited to see this collection and other highly interesting exhibits, for which there will be no charge. The exhibits will be opened at 10 a. m. Sunday. July 3.

One of two existing registered die proofs of a 1918 post office mistake will be the feature of the stamp collection which will be on exhibit in Decatur during the state rural mail carriers’ convention, July 3. 4, and 5. The die proof is valued at 3100.000. The 24-cent stamp, which was recently valued at SIO,OOO. was one of an Usue of 100 printed by the post office in 1918. The stamps had a picture of an American biplane on them, which signified the inauguration of the first air mail service between New York. Philadelphia, and Washington. The real significance of the stamps, though, was that in the process of printing, the biplane was printed upside down on the stamp. W. T. Robey, a Washington stamp’ collector, purchased $24 worth of the new stamps on the first day of issue. When the clerk handed him his sheet of 100, he immediately noticed that the airplane was printed upside down—a fact which he later reported made his heart stand still. Robey left the post office elated and just in time, because had he remained on the premises, the postal authorities could have reclaimed the stamps. Later, postal authorities tried everything but physical harm to get the stamps back, but Robey refused to part with them. He later sold the stamps for $15,000. The stamp that will be on exhibit is not from the original sheet, but it is the very original die proof as it was made in the bureau of engraving before the stamp was printed and the mistake went unnoticed. The error occurred when

Tax Extension Approval Seen

WASHINGTON (UPD — A 4-bil--Ikm dollar extension •of Korean War taxes headed today for congressional approval, stripped of a crackdown on deductions for lavish business entertainment. Senate-House conferees decided instead to let congressional and Treasury tax experts study whether business deductions for hunting lodges, yachts, theater tickets, expensive gifts and similar outlays should be curbed. The study possibly could result in legislation or tighter Internal Revenue Service rules. The conferees knocked out the Senate-approved crackdown... Friday in agreeing on a compromise bill to extend for another year curent tax rates on liquor, cigarettes, autos, travel fares, local phone calls, telegrams and corporation profits. The Senate and House wiU act on the bin next week, before the taxes are scheduled to expire at midnight Thursday. The House wiU take up the measure first. The taxes were levied during the Korean War and have been extended on -a year-to-year basis ever since. The conferees also scuttled a Senate - approved provision that would have repealed a special tux benefit for big stockholders. This break gives a 4 per cent tax credit on dividends in excess of SSO a year or SIOO in the case of married couples. The Senate-House conference retained in modified form a Senate amendment which would close a court-approved loophole for the mining industry. The loophole would cost the Treasury if possible 600 million dollars a year.

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the printer in the bureau of engraving accidentally picked up the, engraved plate at the wrong end and inserted it in the press vice l versa, thus allowing the sheet to; be printed upside down. The other existing die proof is! permanently installed in the philatelic museum in room 1315 of the post office department in Washington, D C. Inasmuch as the die proof is the property of the! American people, it has never been offered for sale, but many collectors have stated that it would bring a hundred thousand dollars or more if ever sold. , Also on display will be the onecefit Lincoln, three-cent Lincoln, four-cent Lincolp-Douglas debate, four-cent Lincoln, the regular fourcent Lincoln coil, four-cent Lincoln booklet, and four-cent Olympics. Visitors will be able to see eight uncut imperforate sheets, together with 42 progressive and color trial die proofs in this group. On a 40 foot exhibit the last 28 sheets of commemorative stamps that may now be purchased will be shown. Some of the late issues, now off sale, and several pictures of the processing ot stamp orders by the philatelic agency in Washington will also be in this exhibit. There will also be several panels containing 32 album pages of philantelic history, monographs. symbols of freedom and social symbols. Tom Miller, chairman of the program, has issued an invitation to all philatelists in the state of Indiana to amend and see the display. There is no charge and everyone is welcome.

Communists Demand Allies Leave Korea PANMUN J OM, Korea (UPD— The Communists demanded today on the 10th anniversary of their invasion of South Korea, that Allied fortes get out of the country. The Allies promptly replied that they will remain until the national is democratically reunified. The Reds charged also that the Allies are building up their forces south of the 38th Parallel. U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Marion L. Dawson dismissed the charge as a “tiresome propaganda tirade.” The Korea truce commission met in this border village at the request of the Communists, who apparently wanted to take propaganda advantage of the anniversary. While they talked, the Red radio was blasting denunciations of the United States from Peiping, Hanoi arid Pyongyang, the principal Red-held cities in Asia. The Communist broadcasts reported that anti-American mass meetings were held throughout Red Asia — most notably in Pyongyang, where the turnout was estimated at 300,000 persons. Communist Maj. Gen. Joo Chang Joon demanded the withdrawal of Allied troops from Korea at the meeting here. Dawson bluntly rejected the demand. v

Brazil Girl To Be Exchange Student Mhi Marla Hukta Correa-Da Oliveira of Rio da Janlcro. Bro rlj, will come to Decatur thia foil a* the American Field Service exchange student. It was announced today by M J. Prynr. president of the local chapter of the organization The beautiful, dark-cyrd sen<»rita will make hrr h<wnr with her American "parents." Mr and Mrs. Robert Gage of 728 N Fifth street. Miss De Oliveira is 18 years old and will enter the senior class of the Decatur Catholic high achool She is proficient In the speaking and writing of English and hopes to become an English teacher. She is the daughter of a man who has an official capacity in the Brasilian government. In response to an appeal made through a story In the Daily Democrat several months ago. seven Decatur families volunteered to become "parents" for an exchange student A thorough survey and investigation was made and Mr. and Mrs. Gage were selected by the New York office of the American Field Service. A meeting was held recently at which the local chapter of the American Field Service was reorganized. M J. Pryor was named president and members of the board are Mrs. Wilbur Petrie. Dr. James Burk and Roy Kalver. Within a short time the hqpds of all service clubs, fraternal organizations and sororities will be invited to a meeting to form an over-all organization to sponsor the exchange student program. Costs of the program for four vears have been defrayed by the Decatur Rotary club but under a new directive issued by the American Field Service no one group is permitted to assume the entire responsibility and it must be a cooperative community venture. This will be the fourth exchange student to reside in Decatur. The first was Ken Eliasson, of Sweden, whose "parents" were Dr. and Mrs. Harry Hebble. The second was Peter Frederick of Germany, whose “parentis" were Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Petrie. This year Terje Strom of Denmark made his home with Mr. »nd Mrs. Robert Heller. Miss De Oliveira, whose native is Portugese, will arrive in Decatur on or about August 15. The young lady in addition to being a brilliant student is fond of athletic sports, including swimming and tennis. Ike To Return To Washington Sunday HONOLULU (UPD —President Eisenhower, well rested after nearly a week beside the sea in Hawaii, flies back to the mainland today and the onerous task of coping with criticism of his Far Eastern trip. The Chief Executive was scheduled to take off from Hickam Air Force Base outside Honolulu at 11 p. m., e.d.t. After a post-mid-night refueling stop at Travis Air Force Base outside San Francisco he was to land at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington- between 8 and 9 p. m. e.d.t. The Chief Executive has been in Hawaii since last Monday, resting up from an arduous tour of the Philippines, Formosa, Okinawa and Korea. His visit to Japan was cancelled at the request of the Japanese government because its police seemed unable to guarantee Eisenhower’s safety against recurrent anti-American violence. ” Eisenhower’s first major official chore upon returning to Washington will be a report to the American people on his Far Eastern trip over nationwide radio and television Monday at 7:30 p. m., e.d.t. Eisenhower has spent this week playing golf and resting in oceanside quarters at the Kaneohe Marine Air Station across Oahu from Waikikf and Honolulu. Ruse Funeral Rites Sunday Afternoon Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home for Amos Lloyd Ruse, who died Thursday afternoon at the Adams county memorial host pital. The Rev. F. Hazen Sparks will officiate and burial will be in the Redman cemetery at Warren. In Friday’s edition of the Decatur Daily Democrat, three surviving sons were incorrectly listed as brothers. The sons are Buford ißuse of Warren, Wilfred Ruse of Petroleum, and Milford Ruse of Keystone.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 25, 1960.

Republican Convention Brings Decisive Defeat To Gov. Harold Handley

Tornadoes Rip At Northeastern U. S.

United Press International Tornadoes ripped out of the nation's interior Friday night to hit the Northeast with 100 mile an hour winds that flattened homes, unroofed two hotels and knocked out power to dozens of towns. At least two persons were hurt as the twisters spun through New York and Pennsylvania and dipped briefly into Vermont. Hardest hit was Rotterdam. N. Y„ near Schenectady, where several homes were destroyed. The winds tore the roofs from other houses and business buildings and sent trees crashing into homes. The storm struck Schenectady and caused two million dollars damage, then moved on to Glen Falls. N.Y.. about 50 miles north of Albany, where it trapped Mr and Mrs. Edward Hill and their! five children in the wreckage of' their demolished home. Mrs. Hil was hospitalized with I lacerations. Mrs. Mary Popolizio suffered leg cuts when she was caught in a demolished home at Schenoctady. A three-story brick and concrete buildi-ng in Schenectady was crushed by the winds. Its huge roof landed 50 yards away. A truck was hurled into the display window of a market. A series of tornadoes caused widespread damage in several communities north of Reading, Pa. The winds unroofed hotels in Berkley and Kirbyville and two farmhouses and a bam " e ® r Pennsburg. A horse was killed in a barn collapse near Pennsburg. A baby twister dipped down between Jerrersonville and Johnson, Vt, and destroyed one barn ana; damaged a house 'Die U.S. Weather Bureau said Vermont was lashed by winds over 100 miles an hour. Heavy rain and hail accompanied the tornadoes on their sweep through the East. ... . .. Torrential rains battered the Southwest from southern Texas into southeast Missouri during the night. , .. Cedar Creek, Tex., near Austin,, received 6.23 inches of ram and another 1.7 inch pelted Houston in a 25-minute downpour. Other showers fell from nor.hern Alabama into the Carolinas and southern Virginia. The Weather Bureau said the northeastern storms would move out to sea this morning, leaving the nation with prospects for a generally fair, pleasant weekend. Only a few scattered showers were predicted for the northern Rockies and along the Gulf Coast. I* Boy Hurls Egg At Mayor Os Moscow NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y. (UPD —A 20-year-old boy of Lithuanian origin was free in S2OO bail today after throwing an egg on the mayor of Moscow and television's Wyatt Earp as they posed for pictures at the Falls Friday. Police were to decide today whether charges wil be filed against Geda Janusonis, who proved at least as good a shot as a wild West gunman with his single missile. 1 • . . The egg sprayed the neck of the Russian visitor, Nikoli Bobrovnikov, and the siuts of TV actor •Hugh O’Brian and Ottawa’s Mayor George R. Nehhs. Bobrovnikov, chairman of the Moscow Soviet, O’Brian. Nelms and Niagara Falls Mayor Franklin Miller were posing for the pictures outside a restaurant when the bushy-haired youth hurled the egg at them. The TV star, "the fastest gun in the West," threw up his arm to ward off the egg but was not fast enough and it struck Bobrovnikov on the neck and splattered over the others. The foursome wiped themselves dry and regained a little of heir lost composure, finishing for the photographer, Roy Crogan. of the Niagara Falls, N. Y., Gazette.

Army Reserve Unit To Summer Training Six local members of Decatur’s | reserve unit. Battery "B. sth Howitzer Battalion. 13th Artillery, left at 8 a. m. today in convoy for Fort McCoy, Wis.. where they | will spend the next two weeks in | summer training. The remainder of the unit mem-1 Tiers. estimated to number 54. are to report at 1 a. m, Sunday at the reserve center, and are expected to leave at 3 o’clock for the some destination by bus. The group that left today conI sisted of Marvin Fast. Robert ! Switzer. Jerry Bleeke, Paul I Brown, Donald Reinking and Dick Reidenbach. The local men traveled to Fort Wayne to the battalion reserve center, joining the convoy leaving there. They then traveled to Columbia City where they will romplete the military convoy of vehicles and equipment leaving this area. The convoy will then proceed to Jamestown, 111., where they will bivouac for the night. They are expected to start their travel again in the early hours Sunday, and are expected to arrive at I Fort McCoy about noon. The group of drivers will then drive back to their area the 49 issued vehicles assigned to them for their summer training. Training for the local men will I begin with four nights in the field. During this time, they will fire the 8-inch howitzers and train in their respective unit jobs and functions. During the two weeks of training, the battalion members will be observed and judged by several Army teams as to the extent ot their knowledge and Army procedure. Social Security Man Here Once Monthly Starting in July the social security representative will be in . Decatur on the first Wednesday of each month to meet with applicants. The hours have also been changed to one hour meeting periods, —9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Heretofore the representative came to Decatur on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month and the hours were 9 a.m. until 12 noon. But new hours will begin Wednesday, July 6. The days for the rest of the year will be August 3, September 7, October 5. November 2, and December 7. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Adams County Farm Bureau - 8 Adams County Farm Bureau Co-op 4 Adams County Trailer Sales, Inc. 6 Burk Elevator Co. —4, 7 Butler Garage. Inc. 7 Citizens Telephone Co. — 6 David Col — 3 Decatur Drive In Theater 3 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. 8 First State Bank of Decatur 3 Fairway 8 Gerber’s Super Market 4 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home - 3 Goodin’s Super Market 5 Haflich & Morrissey 3 Pauline Haugk Real Estate 7 Home Dairy Products, Inc. —- 5 Ideal Dairy — ---- 5 Klenks ----- -3, '8 Pike Lumber Co. 7 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 7 Smith Drug Co. 3. Stiefel Grain Co. I——- 5 Smith Pure Milk Co. — 5 Sprunger Implement Co. — 5 Stucky’S Soil Service 8 State Gardens » — 8 Teeple Truck Lines, „.i—iT.Y—. 7 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc. 8 Zwick. Funeral Home —— .8 Church Page Sponsors 2

INDIANAPOLIS < UPD—Lt. Gov. Crawford F. Parker, who was nominated without opposition for governor at Oh- Republican Mate convention Friday, has no illusions I today about an easy coast to vic- ; tory next fall. Parker estimated to reporters that if he and the GOP state ticket win over his rival. State Sen | Matthew E. Welsh. Democract.l Vice President Richard M. Nixon) will have to carry Indiana by i 100.000 votes. But he added that he is confident that Nixon will do so because he will be the only presidential hopeful ’’who has stood up to Khrushchev.” The gubernatorial nominee also predicted that Sen. John F. Kennedy. Massachusetts, will capture the Democratic White House nomination and will be the "easiest man to beat tn Indiana.” Kennedy, he opined, won't survive the Hoosier gauntlet because “he is an Easterner and isn't mature like Nixon.” Catholicism Issue He admitted under questioning that Kennedy’s religion will hurt him in this state, saying that that factor was proved in the Hoosier presidential primary in which there was a huge defection of Indiana Democratic voters from Kennedy. ......... . Parker said he has been lucky in politics, never having beeh defeated for public office nor for party positions. Parker has won for Henry County clerk, secretary of state and for lieutenant governor. He also has served by appointment as a member of th» Public Service Commission. Governor Handley, a lame duck who will leave office in January, was defeated decisively in the quiet convention which was in marked contrast to the tempestuous Democratic gathering Tuesday. His standing at the end of the GOP convention was described accurately by a sign over a convention door which aread ’ Exit. Underneath was a picture of the governor. Handley, under cover, opposed Sen. Richard Ristine. Crawfordsville, the winner for lieutenant governor, in favor of Public Service Commissioner Robert Webb, Arcadia. Hughes Wins But the coup de grace administered to the governor was when his own secretary, Robert E. Hughes, Greenwood, prevailed for treasurer after having been tossed in the Contest wfllle the" governor was in faraway Montana. Handley returned on convention eve and denounced his aide severely, saying that he had promised not to run if State Highway Chairman John Peters, New Albany, entered the contest. ■ — Hughes won handily .over Peters and formen State Sen. Clyde R. Black, Logansport motel operator, on the first ballot. The count was Hughes, 1,002; Black, 619, and Peters, only 213. It took two ballots to settle the issue for lieutenant governor. The count on ballot one was 869- Webb. 571, and Alvin C. Cast, Kentland, Toll Road Commission member and former state chairman, 411. The final totals were Ristine, 1,301; Webb, 425, and Cast 124. Handley was awarded a consolation prize, however, when national convention delegates met and elected him chairman of ths Hoosier delegation. , Other delegation officers chosen were John Fisher, Muncie, vicechairman; H. Dale Brown. Indianapolis, credentials committee. Walter Beardsley, Elkhart, permanent organization; Edward. J. Mitchell, Evansville, rules, ana Douglas McDonald. Princeton, and Mrs. Martha Whitehead. WaWron, state vice chairman, resolutions committee. Campaign Slogan Ristine said the GOP slogan will be "peace, progress and pros nerity” and that he will run on toe record of the Handley-Parker administration. -„„ red The biggest triumph was scorea bv former State Rep. .Philip HWillkie Rushville, who swamped C Emmet Eiler. Walkerton St. Joseph County schools superintendent P 1,332 to 487, for superintendent of public instruction. The party bosses tamed to Willkie because of ins »ttaac tive program of eliminating fnUs in schools, a rather novel issue

ividly needed by the GOP. Willlue. in an acceptance speech 1 twanged again on his campaign harp, stressed mathematics, sci-l •nee, foreign languages and history in the curriculum. He also) advocated income tax credit for ■ payments of parents for college; expenses of offspring. “I want higher salaries for teachers instead of bonded palaces full of frills and gimmicks." Will-! kie exclaimed, with reference to fancy new school structures. Wyatt Perturbed However. Robert H Wyatt, po-' tent secretary of the Indiana State Teachers Association, took a dim view of young Philip, son of the late Wendell L. Willkie, a helpful name in any campaign, saying: "It serves the Republican Party right to nominate Willkie and find out how it feels to have a wild bull by the tail.” Only one other contest lasted two ballots. It was for secretary of state in which rather amateur Republicans participated. It was captured by Charles C. Hendricks. Speed, with a final count ot 960 over William Oberlin. Greencastle, 835, and James H. Trimtie. Tipton, 36. The tally on the first ballot was Hendricks, 763; Oberlin, 741. and Trimble, 312. Eight candidates, besides Parker. were nominated without opposition: They were Edwin K. Steers. Indianapolis, attorney general; MrS. Dorothy Gardner. Fort Wayne, auditor; Mrs. Virginia Caylor. Indianapolis, courts reporter; Judge Harold E. Achor, Anderson, Supreme Court, and Judges John Ryan, Indianapolis, James Cooper. Rushville, and Dewey Kelley. Whiting, and John W. Pfaff, South Bend, Appellate Court. It was a dull gathering in the main, but may have helped the party cause because of lack of bitter combats. Many of the delegates were awakened by a fiery blast of oratory from former Sen. William E. Jenner, who was not on the program but was called as a stimulant from his Lawrence County delegation by former Gov. Ralph F. Gates, permanent chairman. Jenner got the biggest applause of the somnolent gathering, which

Venezuela Is In Emergency

CARACAS (UPD — Venezuela was under a virtual state of emergency today following an assassination attempt that was expected to lay up President Romulo Betancourt for at least three weeks. The right to assemble in public, freedom of movement and other constitutional guarantees were suspended until further notice, while the government sought to determine whether the bombing in downtown Caracas Friday was the prelude to an attempted coup d’etat. A decree issued Friday also prohibited all sales of liquor, shut down airiSbrts, and imposed a partial evening curfew in CaraCSS. Country Reported Quiet The country was reported quiet, however. Life in the capital was back to near normal today, altho ugh residents stiU were stunned by the attack, and a heavy army guard surrounded the presidential palace. Betancourt, suffering from body burns and shock, felt well enough onlv hours after the attempt on his life to talk to newsmen. He was removed from the hospital unexpectedly just before midnight and brought home to his Miraflores residence, where he, apparently intended to stay during his convalescence. The quick transfer from the hospital was believed designed to assure the nation he was still in complete control of the situation. He predicted he would be back in office within 12 days. His doctors said, however, it would be at least three weeks and possibly a month before a full return to duty was possible. Even before the bombing, the president

was nothing to brag about. The delegates cheered nughtly when Jenner said; •'I am still against the New Deal and even the Republican New Deal, i hope our party remains conservative.” Fidel Castro Threatens To Seize Holdings HAVANA (UPP-Premier Fidel Castro today proclaimed an eye-for-eye policy of meeting each cut in the U.S. sugar quota with a comparable seizure of private American business holdings in Cuba. “We can lose all the sugar quota ... The United States can lose all its investments in Cuba.” Castro said in a 3>4-hour television address that began Friday night and lasted until early today “We can lose part of the sugar quota ... The United States can lose part of its investments," ha warned. The premier added that what* ever action the U.S. government decided to take on. Cuban sugar, the revolutionary regime would stick with its previous insistence that U.S. oil refineries operating in Cuba begin processing newly imported Soviet crude oil. “We’ve given these companies a few days longer to reconsider,” Castro said. “But our patience is running out, as is our combustible supply.” Castro digressed from the sugar issue long enough to accuse the Eisenhower administration of general incompetence, citing the U-2 spy plane incident and leftist rioting against the U.S.-Japanese security treaty as examples. He suggested things would be better both for Cuba and the rest at the world after the U.S. presidential elections. “It is obvious the U.S. government does not know what to do. It is a government greatly without orientation,” the young leader said.

had been ill with fatigue and an intestinal infection. President's Aide Killed Betancourt, as of Friday night, still had not been toki that his good friend and military aide, Col. Ramon A. Armas Perez, had died in the bomb blast, which occurred while the president’s motorcade was traveling along Avenida de tos Proceres on the way--a military review. The bomb, planted in an abandoned car, apparently was detonated by remote control as the motorcade passed. A policeman also was kilted. Betancourt’s wife was slightly shaken but able to visit her husband in the hospital later. Defense Minister Jose Lopez HenrlQipez and his wife suffered slight injuries. „ . The presidential chauffeur ana an unidentified motorcyclist were in hospitals on the critical list. The Betancourt regime recently was the target of an abortive coup in the provinces, and has b&en faced with anti-government activities in varying forms of seriousness since the elections which installed it in power. Police were rounding up all known extremists. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool today and tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and a little warmer. Low tonight 53 north to 62 south. High Sunday 77 north to 83 south. Outlook for Monday: Cloudy with not much temperature change and chance of light rain. noonedition

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