Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 159, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 159.

List Public School Faculties

Teachers for the Decatur public schools for the 1960-61 school year have been announced by W. Guy Brown, superintendent. The list of teachers includes eight new teachers, with one vacancy remaining. The vacancy is in the kindergarten of the Northwest elementary school. Jerry Mitchel, former Adams Central besketbalF star, and a 1960 graduate of Manchester college, will teach junior high social studies and will handle the coaching chores of the junior high basketball teem. §. Martha Smith, with a B. S. degree from Manchester College, will teach the third grade of the Lincoln. school. She has taught four years in Fort Wayne and four years in Elkhart. Also teaching third grade at the Lincoln will be Mr?. Mary Agnes Wemhoff, ,wtaq returns after teaching a jlCaf at Hoagland. Two new teachers will begin in the new Southeast elementary school. One is Mildred Kocher, graduate from Bluffton College in Ohio this summer and teach kindergarten at the school. The other is Kay Daugherty, a graduate of Huntington College. Mrs. Etoise Andrews, with many years of teaching experience at Decatur and Monmouth high schools, will be teaching junior high English at the Lincoln school. Dorothy Scnepf, a graduate of St. Francis College, will be an English teacher for Decatur high school. The other teacher is Doris Reed, who has a B.S. degree from Butler U. She will be what is known as a float and will teach music to the first three grades of all three elementary schools. Following is « list of teachers for the Decatur public schools for the 198041 school year: Northwest School Mary Helen Moran, grade 1; Irene Friedly, grade 2; Drusilla Hartman, grade 2: Marnell Shepherd. grade 3: Leona Feasel, grade 4 and physical ed.; Evelyn Detier, grade 4 end art; Glennys Roop, grade 5 and library; Paul Liechty, grade 6 and music; Hubert Zerkel, Jr., principal, mathematics and physical ed. g t School Mildred Kocher, kindergartens Ruby Swlckard. grade 1; Margaret Schnepf, grade 2; Evelyn Blaney, grade 3; Kay Daugherty, grade 4, music and physical ed.: Wilma Andrews, grade 5 and art: John Elchenberger, grade 6 and library; Sylvester Everhart, principal, science and physical ed. Lincoln School Beulah Parririi, kindergarten: Helen Zwick. kindergarten; Ruth Petrie, grade 1: Madeline Snell, gAde 1; Mary Jo Hoffman, grade 2; Wanda Miller, grade 2; S. Martha Smith, grade 3; Mary Agnes Wemhoff, grade 3; Doris Fox, grade 4; Emma Kerst. grade 4; Vera Vanßuskirk, grade 5; Audrey Bleeke, grade 5; Suzanne Smith, grade 6; Frieda Lehman, 1 grade 6. 7th and Sth grades, departmental—Dorothy Eichenauer, social studies; Jerry Mitcher, social i studies; Robert Doan, science; Raymond Lehman, science: i Eloise Andrews, English; Charles Abel, English: Jerry Leitz, mathematics; Floyd Reed, mathematics; P. Bryce 'Bsyrnas, principal and mathematics. Decatar High School Hugh J. Andrews, principal and social studies; Merritt J. Alger, mathematics, commercial: Paul Bevelhimer, English, basketball coach; John Butler. English and social Studies; Roberta Chronist-

17 Missing In Blimp’s Crash

BARNEGAT LIGHT, N.J. (UPD —Frogmen • were sped today to the wreckage of the giant Navy blimp ZPG-3W in a desperate effort to retrieve bodies of 17 men presumed dead in its gondola before heavy seas break up the crashed airship’s remains. The cause of ZPG-3W*s crash Wednesday during a mercy mission off the New Jersey coast remained a mystery. One at the three survivors denied any explosion occurred Nevy authorities feared the gondola might break up within hours and the bodies of the trapped men might be claimed forever by the sea, along with clues to what brought them to disaster. Even as two separate Navy investigations were begun into the cause of the collapse and sinking of the Mghter-tban-air ship, a longtime veteran of such flights charted the tragedy was "undoubtedly related to the questionable wisdom at building such large airships on the non-compart-mented or blimp principle. ’’ Asks Congressional Inquiry Retired DSN Vice Adm. CE. Rosendahl said in New York “This Is not Just another airship acci-

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er, .vocational, home economics;. Harry Dailey, science and math; Deane T. Dorwin, guidance counsellor, speech and journalism; Helen Haubold, vocal music; Maynard Hetrick, commerce; William Joumay, general agriculture and science; Kathryn Kauffman, art; Amos Ketchum, industrial arts, mechanical drawing; William McColly, commerce and driver training; M. Eleanor Pumphrey, librarian; Clint Reed, band. Lowell Smith, social studies; Charlotte Vera, Latin and French; Catherine Weidler, English; Rebecca Worthman, physicial health and safety: Robert Worthman, athletic coordinator, football and track coach, physical ed., health and safety; Dorothy Schnepf, English. Bloodmobile Unit In Berne Sept. 9 Persons desiring to help replace the 27 pints of blood used so far in saving the life of Robert Leroy Brown. 19, of route 2, Berne, are asked to give when the bloodmobile visits Berne September 9, Mrs. Waada Oelberg, executive director of the Adams county Red Cross, said this morning. The Parkview memorial hospital, where Brown has been a patient since his near-electrocution several weeks ago, has plenty of blood on hand at the present time, and so does the regtonal blood center. Will Be Needed However, in a few weeks, when summer accident? hit their peak, blood will again be needed. At that time it may be necessary to put out a special call. Then donors wishing to aid Brown may give in his name at the Fort Wayne regional blood center. Blood cannot be stored more than a few days, so continual collections are needed. However, most of those desiring to give replacement blood, for the Adams county young man may safely wait untU September 6. At that time the bloodmobile will visit the county in its regular bimonthly visit. Rural Youth Helps The Adams county rural youth, wishing to help the young man, are already scheduled for that time. Several others have signified that they also desire to help. All types of blood will be accepted in the name of the youth, who has had both hands, one foot, and part of the other foot removed in an attempt to save his life. Skin grafting is now under way. The back and head of the young man were also severely burned. Those who desire to be scheduled may contact the Red Cross office, and give their names and addresses, and they will be called before the next visit. Persons who are not sure if they can give blood, or who desire more information, should call the Red Cross office immediately. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair this afternoon through Friday. Cool tonight, a little higher temperatures north portion Friday. Low tonight mostly in the Ms. High Friday M 1* IS. Sunset 8:15 p.m.-Sunrise Friday 5:25 a.». Outlook for Saturday: Generally fair and a little wanner. Lows 55 to <5. Highs in the 88s.

dent to be swept under the rug with anomer condemnation of airships in general." Rosendahl blamed the tragedy partly on “the Navy's continued blind refusal to properly evaluate, admit and benefit from the rigid airship lessons of the past and so build compartmented structural airships. . He demanded a congressional or other “neutral" investigation. The Reliance class airship collapsed and went down 15 miles off the Jersey coast, south of Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island. One man who escaped from the wreckage and wax picked up died. There were three known survivors. Bight officers and IS enlisted men had been aboard. Capt. F.N. Klein Jr., commander of Flight Airship Wing One at Lakeburst, N.J., the doomed blimp's base, denied reports the airship collapsed following an oxygen explosion. ; "No one in his right mind would pump oxygen into a fuel tank.” Klein said. Lead Noise, Ne Explosion The eyewitness account of one of the survivors, Aviation Electri-

Phone Company Files Petition On Improvement W C. D. Ehinger INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A ’ three-part petition to authorize the public sale of common stock in the Citizens Telephone company of Decatur for the first time in 30 years will allow the company, if ! approved, to start a $185,000 improvement of buildings and cir- ; cults in the Decatur area, as well I as the beginning of conversion to I dial telephones in the Nappanee l area, Charles D. Ehinger, presi- , dent of the company, said today. > The petition, filed Wednesday , afternoon in Indianapolis with the . Indiana public service commission; requests authority for the Citizens ; to sell 23,000 shares of common i stock, and for the Nappanee Telaphone company, wholly owned by ; Citizensh ip .gall eorp- . pany 266 shares of stock for $49,- . 947. The third part of the petition asks for authority for Citizens to buy the 266 shares. Necessary To Borrow The sale of 266 shares of stock is necessary so that the Nappanee company can borrow additional funds to complete the $250,000 changeover to th? dial system. Improvements Here About $85,000 of the money obshares, at sl3 a share, wlil go to tained by the sale of the 23,000 a major building improvement early next year, Ehinger explained. Another SIOO,OOg will be utilized in improving the north and south I toll lines, and connecting lines, preparatory for direct intercity dial operations. Approximately $50,000 of the new issue wiH be used to buy the Napanee stock. Approximately $299,000 will be obtained from the stock issue. It is hoped that the Indiana public service commission will set an early hearing date, perhaps in the first part of August, so that the rest of the negotiations can be completed, and the stock sold in September, Ehinger continued. The sale will be made under regulation A of the U y S. securities and exchange commission, so an additional hearing will be necessary before that body.

cian 3C Antonio Contreris, Geronimo, Tex., was quoted to back up the Navy statement. “We were cruising at about 300 feqk»” Contreras was quoted as saying. "I heard a loud noise, but it was not an explosion. We hit the watef within seconds at about a 45-degree nose-down angle. No ditching alanm was wounded. I exited through an aft door." Contreras was picked up by 'the aircraft carrier Essex, which today sent- him by helicopter to the naval hospital at Lakehurst for a checkup. He received ho apparent injuries*. Weather Was Good The sl2 million Wimp was searching for two yachts missing on a race from Newport, R.1., to Bermuda when it went down. Both the yachts turned up safe. The airship disaster occurred in what might be considered an airman’s dream Os good flying weather—a 4,500-foot broken ceiling with 12 miles visibility, and a mild IX knot south-southeast wind. Two lines attached to the gondola by rescue craft snapped Wednesday night and the passen-ger-carrying section of the blimp sank in 06 feet of water. One of

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 7, 1960.

Castro Unleashes New i Nr" Wild Denunciation For i t i 31 " f - .. — . .. . ... ....— T-- ■ --- “■ . ~~~ Slash In Sugar Import

J E| s SPIRIT OF IWO JIMA >— Boy Scouts present a patriotic tableau as they raise a new 50-star U. S. flag atop wind-swept Mt. Marcy, highest peak in New York State. The boys hiked there from nearby Lake Placid.

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Expect Brown To Endorse Kennedy

LOS ANGELES (UPD — Gov. Edmund G. Brown of California is expected to endorse Sen. John F. Kennedy for the Democratic presidential nomination by Sunday or earlier and to carry with him a majority of the state’s 81-vote delegation, highly placed California Democratic informants said today. In this teeming convention city where a new wave of kingmakers arrives today, Brown was receiving calls and callers variously urging him to declare for the Massachusetts senator — and to hold off. Brown, a favorite-son candidate of the delegation, was expected to announce his support of frontrunning Kennedy as a personal choice, and release the delegation from voting for him as its "favor-

the_ rescued crewmen, said the gondola sank almost on impact. A fleet of surface craft searched the area for possible survivors until darkness hampered operations. Crashed Without Warning The blimp apparently crashed with no warning to the crew Capt. Charlie Eble, whose charter fishing boat Doris May ID, wiis in the area saw the crash. “We were blue-fishing when right on the bow we saw the blimp collapse in mid-air," Eble said. “She fell apart just like a banana." The crew of the fishing * boat pulled four crewmen from the water. One died of a broken neck before he could be brought to shore. The fatality was Edward B Turner Jr., aid controlman 3C, of Joppa, Md. The three injured survivors were Joseph G. Culllgan, avaiation electrician 2C, of Keansburg, N J., head injuries; DonaH L. Saumier, air controlman 3C, Flint. Mich., broken leg, and Antonio I Contreras, aviation electrician 3C, Geronimo, Tex., cuts and bruises. > AU were reported in fair coodi- ! tion.

ite son” on the first ballot. Although figures can change quickly in the heart of the political race, the latest poll of the California delegation by a man in close touch with all the delegates showed 53 votes would be cast for Kennedy if Brown gives the Massachusetts senator his support. Speaker Sam Rayburn arrives today to take charge of the campaign to win the nomination for his fellow Texan. Senate Democratic’Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. Other arrival will be the uncommitted Gov. David L. Lawrence of Pennsylvania, who may hold the key to the course of the convention, and Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago. Gov, G. Mennen Williams of Michigan, who declared for Kennedy a month ago, arrived Wednesday along with pro-Kenne-dy leaders of the New York Democratic organization and Sen. A.S. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma, leader of the campaign to draft Adlai E. Stevenson •'for' a .third nomination. ' • Monroney spent more than an hour with Brown at Sacramento Wednesday making his pitch for Stevenson and ■ urging against an endorsement of Kennedy. Brown was reported to h>e given no commitment. • , Johnson is scheduled to be in San Francisco late today to meet with a group of California Democratic leaders, some already pledged or leaning to other candidates. Rev. Cecil R. Smith Named Supply Pastor The Rev. Cecil R. Smith, who was pastor of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church in Decatur from 1925 to 1928, has been assigned as supply pastor of the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren, church southeast of Decatur. Rev. Smith was superannuated at the recent annual conference, but has been called back into service. He will preach at the Calvary church each Sunday morning at;10:30 o’clock. Rev. Smith and his wife now live at 814 South Main street, Bluffton, and his telephone number is 289-R.

HA VANIA, Cuba (UPIX—A growing number of Americans were reported preparing to pull out of Cuba today in the face of probable seizure of all remaining U-S,-owned property and the possibility of increasing anti-Americanism. Cuban Premier Fidel Castro underscored the deteriorating situation With another wild-eyed denunciation of the United States for slashing Cuba’s sugar quota Wednesday. ; * There has been a big exodus of American residents from Cuba in the past year, reducing from 6,000 to about 3,000 the number left here. But in the face of worsening Cuban-American relations, the exodus is being stepped up, with private companies getting their employes and families out of the country — even though the U.S. embassy is not urging Americans tp leave. “We are making no recommendations up to now.” an embassy spokesman said. “It's up to the individual.” Castro Blasts Washington In an angry post-midnight twohour speech before the closihg session of the Metal Workers Union Congress, Castro said Wednesday night the United States slashed the Cuban sugar quota in a “frenzy of hate.” This was his first public reaction to President Eisenhower’s action in cutting the sugar quota. Castro declared that the "real fight” is just starting wih the Umed States. He charged that ‘.toytag- * Cuba and ruin its econoshy. Castro did not go into any details on what plans he has for seizing U.S.-owned property in Cuba. His cabinet gave him and President Osvaldo Dorticos authorization late Tuesday night to expropriate such property by decree. Addressing himself to the United States government, the young revolutionary leader declared: "We will resist your aggressions. We now understand that the real fight is just beginning. How many years we may have to suffer your aggressions! But how heroic our people are and how geared to meet this long moving and heroic struggle!” Shows Fine Spirit Castro appeared for his midnight speaking stint at CTC Labor Federation headquarters in fine spirits. He showed no sign of the strain brought by weeks of cold war with the United States arui recent stunping defections within the ranks of the Cuban - foreign service. Although he was fully prepared far the cut in the sugar quota, observers believed the size of slasi; came as a shock to him. Eisenhower lopped off 856.000 tons from the amount of Cuban sugar, that was to have been, assigned for American domestic consumption during the remainder of this year. Experts estimated this would cost Cuba more than S7O million unless It could find other markets. Castro, in an obvious appeal for world sympathy, condemned those who “in a frenzy of hate want to sink a people in hunger and ruin.” He maintained that Cuba’s “reason" made jt stronger than the United States, with all it? “physical strentgh.”

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Late Bulletins WASHINGTON (UPI) — The State Department accused Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev today of making “slanderous attacks’’ on the U.S. during his current tour of Austria. / SYDNEY, Australia (UPI)— . The 8-year-old son of a traveling salesman who won nearly a quarter of a million dollars in * lottery was kidnaped on his way to school today. Two , hours Inter his mother received a telephone demand for $56,006 ransom. Three County Girls In State Contest Three Adams county 4-H girls will represent the Fort Wayne district in the state judging contest. Misses Barbara Carver. Lois Jean Gerke and Judy Yoder received first placing in the contest Wednesday at Columbia City. Linda King, of St: Mary’s township, received first alternate in the food preservation contest and will go to the district if one of the first two piecing girls cannot attend. Barbara Carver of Blue Creek township placed first in the clothing contest. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Carver. She has been a 4-H member for six years and has completed 12 projects. Barbara judged accessories and neck facings and rated top in a written examination. Lois Gerke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gerke of Union township, placed first in the food preservation contest. Besides the written examination she judged canned tomato juice and frozen spinach. She has been a 4-H member for 9 years. Judy Yoder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Yoder, of Monroe township, placed first in the electric project. Besides passing a written examination she judged lamp shades plus diffusing bowls and bulbs for a study lamp. She has been a 4-H member with a total of 29 projects. Others judging in the Fort Wayne contest were: Barbara Tinkham, Pamela Nidlinger, Patricia Decker, Janice Franz, Connie Berkman, Judy Mosser and Jane Girod. Accompanying the girts to Columbia City were Mrs. Ernest Girod, Miss Julia Wilson, apprentice agent, and Miss Lois Folk, home demonstration agent.

U. S. Shopping For Raw Sugar

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower’s decree cutting Cuba’s sugar quota threatened today .to bring new seizures of American property by Fidel Castro’s government. It sent the United States shopping around the world for some 900,000 tons of raw sugar to meet domestic needs in the next six months. ICSy-ought a sudden boon to other sugar producing nations. And it raised doubts that Cuba, even with a change at heart in its "little cold war” against this country, could ever fully regain its preferential spot in the U.S. sugar market. The President ordered the cut in Cuban sugar Imports shortly after he told his news conference Wednesday that the United States would take any necessary steps to protect its interests if Russia established a submarine base in Cuba. > . He said he did not regard It as "a likelihood” the Castro regimfe ' would grant “the Russians such a base. But he conceded there was always that possibility.

Near Half Million In Funds For Roads Nearly half a mnuon dollars for local road construction and improvement was received by Adams county and Its four cities and towns during 1959 from state license fees and taxes paid by the gate's automobile and truck operators. Statistics compiled by the highway planning survey department of the state highway department show that $346,596.25 went to Adams county for this purpose, and $74,098.38 went to the four towns and cities as follows: Decatur, $49,090.59; Berne, $15,373.32; Monroe, $2,889.66, and Geneva, $6,744.81. S6O Million InState Statewide, nearly million dollars was returned to the state’s 92 counties and 545 incorporated cities and towns for road improvement last year. Indiana’s trucking industry is responsible for 35.9% of the funds available, or $21,301,139.34 statewide, and $151,029.37 in Adams county. Nearby Counties Neighboring Wells county received a total of $395,487.81. with $41,022.49 going to Bluffton; $5.137.94, Ossian; $1,647.9, Poneto; $1,978.21, Uniondale; $967 47. Vera Cruz; and $344,736.31 to the'county. Jay county received $47,683.04 for Portland; $20,578.75, Dunkirk; $11,065.82, Redkey; $2,288.77. Bryant; $4,226.47, Pennville; and 81,222.04, Salamonia, and $347,751.40 for the county, for a total of $434,826.29. In Allen county, a total of 82,151,922.38 was distributed, more than four times the amount received in Adams county. Fort Wayne received $978,159.21; New Haven, $17,608.07; Monroeville, 88,520.47; Shirley City, $4,192.72; and Grabill, $2,498.08. Taxes Listed The account is collected through the motor fuel tax, motor vehicle fees, civil penalties, public service commission fees, court fees and state police miscellaneous receipts. I. Pedestrian Dies Os Head Injuries INDIANAPOLIS <UPI» —James O. Lightfoot. 59, Indianapolis, died at Marion County General Hospiies received when he was hit by tai here Wednesday of head injura car May 29. Lightfoot was struck by a car driven by Donald E. Brewer, 24, Indianapolis, who was not held.

Acting under authority giyea him last weekend by Congress, Eisenhower cut by 700,000 tons Cuba’s quota to market sugar in this country for the rest of 1960. Agriculture Department officials said the move also would deprive Cuba of a share in the Hawaiian and Puerto Rica quota deficits, amounting to another 156,000 tons. —- Cuba’s original quota for the year was 3,119,655 tons. Os this, all but 739,752 has either already been shipped here or has been certified for entry. So the cut left 39.752 still to be imported. In a special statement, the President referred to Castro's barter deals to ship sugar to Russia at a time when experts said drastic economic reforms in Cuba threaten to cut sugar production. “The inescapable conclusion is." Eisenhower said, “that Cuba has embarked on a course of action to commit steadily increasing amounts of its sugar crop to trade with the Communist bloc, thus making its future ability to fiU the sugar needs of the United States ever more unceraln.”

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