Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 178.

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. CHICAGO (UPI) — Richard M. Nixon, pledging to campaign "until our throats are raw," said today he believes he is "starting from behind" in the race for the presidency but tha{ he will win in November. , The Republican presidential nominee said anyone would “have a hole in his head” who did not admit that the GOP national ticket was “starting behind” in the race with the Democrats. Nixon also*: —Outlined a whirlwind schedule ' of early campaigning that will take him next week to Nevada, California, Hawaii end Washington state before he returns to the nation’s capital for the congressional session beginning Aug. 8. —Said the Republicans have “a fighting chance" to win control of the House of Representatives. He said that chance rests on the party’s farm program which he will spell out in his campaign. — Announced that if elected president he would put his vice president, Henry Cabot Lodge, in charge of all non-military activities in the cold war. Nixon gave a virtooso performance at the International 'Amphitheatre Thursday night. He spoke from notes and maintained a grave demanor as he outlined his view of the grim problems facing __the next president. Palitipal C'vriiniem rviiwvit vjihlmii He charged the Democrats with playing “a symphony of political • cynicism” at their recent convention. He said they adopted a program that would be disastrous for the nation and wreck the economy. - ? ■ - - “I serve notice here and now that whatever the political consequences we are not going to try to outpromise our opponents in this campaign,’’ Nixon said. He said the Democrats had "promised everything to everybody with one exception, they didn’t promise to pay the bill.” "We are not going to make promises we cannot and should not keep and we are not going to try to buy the people’s votes with their own money,” he. said. But Nixon did make sure promises of his own: For older citizens, health protection and more opportunity for a productive life: for the young, the best basic education and a full opportunity to develop intellectually, whatever their economic circumstances; for labor, higher wages and more protection against unemployment; for minorities, "the greatest progress in human rights” since Abraham Lincoln, and for farmers, "a fair share of America’s ever-in-creasing prosperity.” Have Baine Goals He agreed that Democrats and . . Republicans may have the same goals but said they differed about the road to follow in reaching them. “. . .and. the record shows that our way works and theirs doesn’t,” he said, s But mcpt of the Republican candidates speech was devoted to his view of American problems abroad. He disputed Democratic statements that the United States is falling behind in military and economic strength. "I say that at a time when the v Communists are running us down abroad, it is time to speak up for American at home,” he said. Nixon said the nationadoes need its maximum rate ofW economic growth but that this should be achieved by encouraging creative enterprise, not by expanding government functions. He said Kennedy felt that the

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world of the 1960’s needs young leadership but that . President , Charles de Gaulle of France. ’ Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ' of Great Britain, and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of Germany, were not young and it was good that they are on the side of the ! U.S.A. Mentions U-2 Flights “.. .it wes not Mr. de Gaulle ! or Mrs. Macmillan or Mrs. Adenauer But Mr. Kennedy who made the rash and impulsive sugi gestion that President Eisenhower i could have apologized or sent regrets to Mr. Khrushchev for the U-2 flights which the President had ordered to save our country . from surprise attack,” Nixon said. He expressed the belief that f non-military Communist aggression was the greatest challenge to be faced. To meet it, he proposed that government foreign aid and information agencies be reorganized and “welded together into one powerful economic and ideological striking force” under the President's direction. “When 'Mr. Khrushchev says our grandchildren will live under Communism, let us say that his grandchildren will live in freedom,” Nixon said. His show-stopper came in a story about Lincoln being asked if he believed God was on his side during the Civil War. “My concern is not whether God is on our side but whether we are on God’s side,” he quoted Lincoln. Red Cross Workers To Aid During Fair Mrs. Wanda Olberg, secretary of the Adams county chapter of the Red Cross, has anounced the names of the Red Cross volunteers who will be working the 4-H fair at Monroe The fair opens Tuesday, and will continue through Wedner-’ry and Thurday. "First aid instructors and volun-j teers and home* nursing instructors and volunteers who will be Oroi'-ing in the first aid trailer Tuesday, opening night, will be Mrs. John Hindenlang, Mrs. Roy Bixler, Mrs. Arthur Shoaf, Mrs. Wayne Schnepf, Mrs. Robert Drake, Mrs. Helen Buckingham, Mrs. Owen Muth, Mrs. Steve Armstrong, Mrs. Roger Kelly, Gerald Durkin, Harold Schlagenhauf,. Dr. Joe Morris, and Paul Neal. Those working the second night will be Mrs.~Raymond Sprunger, Mrs. Otis Sprunger, Mrs. Paul HerClaude Dennison, Mrs. Rufus man, Mrs. Marcus Luginbill. Mrs, Liechty, Mrs. Elmer Rich. Mrs. Wiliard Lehman, Roy Gilliom and Iris Lehman. Finishing up Thursday will be Mrs. Hazel Fisher, Mrs. Anna Schwaller, Mrs. Eugene Bebout, Mrs. Henry Heimann, Mrs. Arthur Shoaf, Gerald Durkin, Mrs. Maxine Ford, and Mrs. Mary Howard. Mrs. Helen Johnson will be in charge of six other volunteers who wil be working at the Red Cross display. The staff aids working the display will be Mrs. Hersel Nash, Mrs. Lucille Miller, Mrs. Wm. Schnepf, Mrs. Lee Fleming, Mrs. L. E. Archbold and Mrs. Earl Fuhrman. Jack Petrie, Gerald Durkin, and Mrs. Helen Johnson will be in charge of setting. up the equipment.

Democrats To Have Booth At 4-H Fair Byron McCammon, Democratic candidate for congress, Al Lyoshire apd Clarence R. McNabb, candidates for appellate and supreme courts, will be present to ! meet’ die voters at the county t 4-H fair, next week. ' The Democratic county com--1 mrttee will maintain a registration booth with plenty of chairs j for tired fairgoers to rest while ; they Visiting the Adams county 4-jH fair next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Dr. Har- , ry H. Hebble, Democratic county ; chairman, said today. , In addition the Democratic .. county candidates will be present . to visit with and meet the candi- . dates. \ and discuss the issues of ( the coming campaign. i Judge G. Remy Bierly, of the ’ Indiana appellate court, and a ' delegate to the recent Democratic national convention, is also ex- • pected to be present to visit with ■ his many Adams county friends ' Judge Bierly was elected two ’ years ago. and holds over for two more years before his term on the ’ appellate court is up for election again. Wife Is Held For Poisoning Husband I SPENCER, Ind. (UPI) — A ; young housewife, who gave her family vitamin pills every night ■ before bed, was held today by Owen .County authorities on I charges of involuntary manslaughter, accused of slipping strychnine capsules to her husband during their evening ritual. Mrs. Carolyn Sally Britton, 28, Spencer, was held in Owen County Jail pending a murder investigation by a grand jury. She told authorities she put the deadly pills in the vitamin bottle , and moistened them a bit as to t distinguish the poison pills from , the others. She said she had her ’ daughter, Rita, 5, distribute the ’ pills last May 23, but made sure her husband, Roy Richmond Brit--1 ton, 31, got the deadly dosage. 1 Britton was a well-to-do farmer with a 160-acre spread located -[at Whitehall, about nine miles • west of Bloomington at the juncs tion of Ind. 48 and 43. Authorities arrested Mrs. Brit- . ton Thursday after learning that , the death of her husband was caused by the poison. They i searched her house and found a poison chest containing the strychnine which was used by the farm- ’ er in destroying pests that attacked his corn. She told police she gave him the first dose on Sunday, May ' 22, and that Britton became very ill and was taken to the Bloom- • ington Hospital. He later was rei leased and sent back home where , she gave him a second dose dur- . ing their evening vitamin session. I Mrs. Britton said she hated her husband because he was mean to > her, their two children and the animals on the farm. Mrs. Britton was taken to Indi- ; anapolis today for a lie detector test. She will be returned to the jail here tonight. Authorities said she has a his--1 tory of mental illness and had ' been in-two mental institutions, ! but later released. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Anderson Industry 7 Butler Garage, Inc. 5 Burk Elevator Co 5 Burke Standard Service 6 Bobo Tent Meeting * 2 Conrad's “66” Service „ 7 Cowens Insurance Agency .... 6 Fred W. Corah, Agent ----- 8 Carling’s Black Label Beer —7 Decatur Drive-In Theater — — 8 D. & T. Standard Service 6 Fairway - —2, 3, 8 Goodins I.G.A. Market 7 Holthouse Furniture Store 5 Halderman Farm Management Service a-—— 5 Husmann’s Decorating House ■.. 3 I. & M. Electric Co. — 2 Kohne Drug Store „ 2,5, 6 Lengerich Awnings & Railings — 5 Moose ..... 7 Miller-Jones ...... 3 Model Hatchery 5 Myers Florist 1. 3 Niblick & Co. ............ .3 . B»flJJ«ien»cKwkßder(Aucttoneers Oldsmobile * ■... 2 Petrie Oil Co. -7 Quality Chevrolet-Buick, Inc. — 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc - „5 Smith Drqg Co 2, 3 Sutton JeWelry Store ... 3 Stucky & Co — 8 Stewarts Bakery — 2 Sheets Furniture Store 8 Clark Smith Builder .......... 5 Tony’s Tap ... 4 Teeple Truck Lines 5 Walt’s Standard Service 4, 6 Zurcher Mobil Service 4 Rural Church Page Sponsors .. 6

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 29, 1960.

First Working Model Os Man-Into-Sp ace Capsule Blows Into Bits In Sky

a Kennedy Sets Aim At Slam

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (UPI) —John F. Kennedy’s sights were set today on a grand slam 50state victory over Richard M. Nixon in the November presidential election. The Massachusetts senator’s confidence on that score was relayed to newsmen Thursday by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (Wash.), Democratic national chairman. Kennedy wHI meet tonight with his vice presidential running mate Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, to discuss ways to achieve that victory —starting with the August session of Congress. Johnson, accompanied by his wife. Lady Bird, and a party of 40 aides and newsmen, was scheduled to arrive at this -Cape Cod resort some time after 6 p.m. , e.d.t. Kennedy planned to greet them at the airport, the first time he has done so for any visior in the 13 days he has been here. Guests of Kennedys’ The Texas senator and Mrs. Johnson will stay overnight as guests of the Kennedys’ at their home near the beach on Nantucket ; Sound. r ' Adlai E. Stevenson, Kennedy’s foreign affairs adviser and 1952-56 forerunner on the Democratic ticket. also arrives at Cape Cod today. He will stay with friends and visit Kennedy Saturday, probably after Johnson leaves. The senator and others joined in a birthday dinner honoring the candidate’s wife, Jacqueline, on her 31st birthday Thursday. At a nationally-televised news conference on the front porch of his parents’ home, Kennedy congratulated Nixon for winning the GOP nomination and said Nixon’s choice of Henry Cabot Lodge as a running mate means “The Democrats will have a vigorous fight in the fall.” No Personal Nixon Attack Kennedy did not directly attack Nixon’s record, leading to some speculation that Kennedy might be soft-pedaling the personal attack he launched on Nixon in his July 15 speech accepting the Democratic nomination. But Jackson, talking to newsmen after meeting with Kennedy for several hours, would not agree that Kennedy’s tactics against Nixon had changed. , 1 Jackson’s main stress was in saying he .and Kennedy were agreed "that there is not s single state among the 50 that’s ‘safe’ for the Republicans.” Kennedy himself had told newsmen the same thing, saying he hoped to win Maine and Vermont, the only

Cuban Chief Urges Firing Squad Use

HAVANA (UPD—Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Marxist - Oriented economic chief of revolutionary Cuba, today urged all Latin governments to begin sending supporters of dictatorships ‘‘to the wall." He hinted those friendly to the United States should be first on tiie list. Guevara specifically mentioned Venezuela which he said had . made "the great error of not using the wall (firing squad) on time.” He also denounced the governments es Argentina, Guatemala, Nicaragua and spoke of the "humiliating spectacle of those governments serving the United States." “Let it not again be repeated that we belong to a continental alliance with our great enslaver," Guevara declared. "That is the biggest and most reviling lie that can be uttered by any government official in Latin America.” The Argentine-born revolution- ; ary spoke as Defense Minister : Raul Castro sped back toward . ' I . f

two states that went Republican in-. 1936. _.. v Continue Probe Os Helicopter Crash 1 CHICAGO (UPI) — Top federal Aeronautics investigators today pieced together thousands of tiny metal blade fragments for a clue to possible rotor malfunction that Jed to the deaths of 13 persons in Wednesday’s suburban helicoperash. Discovery of one of the S-58’s four forward 20-foot blades more than a half-mile from the suburban cemetery crash scene came .as Cook County Coroner Walter McCarron named a blue ribbon jury for an inquest next Wednesday. McCarron also subpoenaed service records of Chicago Helicopter Airways, operators of the craft along shuttle route between Mid- - way and O’Hare airports, 18 miles apart, and downtown Meigs Field. Plan Entertainment On Nights Os Fair The evening programs for the county 4-H fair have been announced by general fair manager, Homer Winteregg. The first evening will be Tuesday, and starts with a grand parade, under the supervision of Martin Steiner and Merle Affoider. Following the parade, Robert L. Brown and Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker are in charge of an entertainment festival. There are about twelve entries in the festival. Wednesday evening the program starts with a vesper service in charge of the Rev. John Mishler. The 4-H dress revue,, with Mrs Chestter Baumgartner directing, will complete the evening program. Thursday evening the program will be a band concert given by tiie Berne-French high school band. Also appearing on the program will be a popular singing group "The StarliteS.” They will present a varied program which should be very entertaining.

Cuba from an abbreviated Cairo visit, intensifying speculation that is older brother Fidel is seriously ill. Guevara, believed to wield power second only to the Castro brothers, was himself filling in for the premier at the opening of a pro-Com munist Latin American youth congress when he issued his call for the firing squad liquidation oftraitors -along the patternset by Cuba. In Cuba, “to the wall" is the call for firing squad executions Premier Fidel Castro, who often has mentioned Raul as his chosen successor, suffered what officially was described as a mild case of pneumonia ealier this month. Since then his few public appearances—the last during 26th of July celebrations in the Sierra Maestra—have shown him pale and tired-looking and lacking the fire that usually goes into his speeches to the Cuban people. Observers generally believed he was in worse health than his aides would admit.

Monsignor Schmitt Is Rotary Speaker “It is not what we acquire, but rather what we accomplish in our lives that is reaLy important,” the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schrhitt, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church, told the Decatur Rotary club at its weekly meeting Thursday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Robert Heller was program chairman and president George Thomas presided. The pastor, who was a charter member of the Delphi Rotary club, and served two years as president of the Huntington Rotary club, began by telling his Audience that he was "selling religion." The speaker emphasized that spiritual values are important in everyday life. He pointed out that “it was impossible to observe nature and our wonderful universe without realizing that there is a God. All life comes from God and He created all of us and gave each a soul. This gives a purpose to life and each human spends his life as a probation period in which to work out his salvation.” The speaker said it was foolish for humans to coneentrate on material things because these soon fade away.. “A walk through a cemetery reminds one how fleeting wealth and reputation really can be. “Each individual has a soul and is a creature which God Jias created. Realizing this gives purpose to our lives and should make the spiritual values important to us and to our dealings .with sur fellowmen. ‘Rotary principles of ‘Service above Self’, ‘he profits most who serves the best,’ and the Rotary 4-way test are further attempts to appreciate spiritual values.” X-Ray Unit Will Be In County Next Week The mobile X-ray unit will arrive in Berne Monday and will be in Adams county throughout the rest of the week. Mrs. W. Guy Brown, secretary of the Adams county tuberculosis association, is especially urging all food handlers in the area to take advantage of the unit and receive a free X-ray. Monday, the unit will be in Berne from 1:30 until 2:30 p.m. at the Smith Furniture Co., and from there will move to the Berne Furniture Co. from 3 to 4 p.m. The unit will remain In Berne Tuesday and will be at the Dunbar Furniture Co. from 10 a.m. until noon. In the afternoon the X-ray unit will be at the old bank .building from 2 until 6 p.m. Wednesday, it will come to the court house in Decatur and be stationed there from 1 until 5 p.m., after which the unit will move to the 4-H fair at Monroe. It will be opened at the fair from 7 to 9 at night and from 1 until 9 p.m. Thursday. On the final day, Friday, the mobile X-ray will be at the courthouse here in Decatur from 9 a.m. until noon. —— There is no charge for an X-ray and the removal of clothing isn’t necessary. Only overcoats, metal combs, pens, etc. must be removed. Pregnant women or anyone under the age of 18 will not be Xrayed. Once again, this is a fine opportunity for any food handler in Adams_£jMmty„to_„receive a free Xray. t ■. L.__ INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and warm this afternoon and tonight, except chance of few widely scattered thundershowers. Saturday partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers likely, turning cooler northwest by afternoon. Low tonight 65 to 72. High Saturday 87 to 93. Sunset today 8:01 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 5:43 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: fcootly fair and pleasant. Lows W to 71. Highs 88 to M. I

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — The first working model of America’s man-into-space capsule apparently was blown to bits miles high in the sky today when the Atlas missile it was riding exploded 65 seconds after a smooth launching. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration made this terse announcement little more than two hours after the inaugural flight of the type space craft that soon will carry an American on an adventure into space: “Some event occurred of a catastrophic nature, probably an explosion” about 65 seconds after the big rocket and its bell-shaped capsule were fired at 8:13 a.m. e.d.t. Scientists said the one-ton capsule probably plunged into the Atlantic Ocean and sank between four and 12 miles east of Cape Canaveral. The capsule-tipped Atlas was fired in the rain and disappeared into a bank of clouds just a few seconds later. -1. It was soon announced that scientists attempting to track the capsule’s scheduled 1,500 mile unmanned flight had lost radio contact 65 seconds after the takeoff. Search crews combed the area in an attempt to recover the wreckage. This was to have been the Mercury - capsule’s maiden flight on the Atlas and a milestone that would have gotten Project Mercury, the nation’s high' - priority and high - priced dream for manned conquest of space well off the ground. Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director of NASA’s Mercury program, said the one valuable piece of information to come from the test was that the capsule’s abort - sensing system worked as expected. The abort system, which will ride in future manned Mercury capsules, is supposed to detect malfunctions that would trigger the capsule from its booster by means of solid-fuel rockets on a 16-foot tower. The sensing system was included in today’s flight, but the escape toWer was purposely left off. Scientists said that, had an astronaut been aboard, the escape system would have worked “in plenty of time” to get him safely away from the exploding rocket. NASA officials said they would attempt a repeat shot “in the near future.” said it would take several more days of analyzing data to determine exactly what had caused the mishap. The Mercury astronauts—seven handpicked servicemen who have, volunteered for this nation’s first venture into space—were stationed at strategic points to watch the flight.

Belgium Recalls 1,500 Os Troons

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (UPI) — Belgium announced today it would recall immediately 1,500 of its 10,000 troops in the Congo in view of the United Nations emergency forces’ growing strength in maintaining law and order herer The U.N. Security Council ordered Belgium to withdraw its troops but set no time limit. The Belgian cabinet "met today in Brussels and—a spokesman announced the first 1,500 would be flown out “in the next few days." “Belgium’s military intervention in the Congo was purely to save the lives of our countrymen,” Belgian Health Minister Paul Meyers said after the cabinet meeting. The announcement did not clarify the status of Katanga Province which has declared its independence from .Congo and asked Belgium to keep its troops there. U.N. Secretary - General Dag Hammarskjold was disclosed today to have rejected suggestions he visit Katanga, apparently for fear a visit there would lend support’ to Katanga’s “secession”

Chinese Reds Free News Correspondent HONG KONG (UPD-ZThe Chinese Communists today released United Press International Correspondent Bill Yim from prison where he had been sentenced to one year on "espionage*’ charges. The M-year-ola newsman crossed the border into Hong Kong shortly after 1 p.m. The Communists had given no advance notice that he would be released, and' the first notification received by UPI was a telephone call from border guards. Yim, whose full name is Yim Yuen Lo, entered Communist China July 19, 1959, on a news assignment. He was sent to Canton to interview William Downey, brother of John Downey, one of the Americana in prison in Red China. William had made a special trip to Peiping to try again to get his brother freed. He failed. The official New China News Agency reported Feb. 6, this year, that Yim had been arrested July 28, 1959, and had been sentenced to one year in prison Jan. 31, 1960, by a peoples court. Yim was in good physical condition when he crossed the border. He said he was not physically mistreated while in prison and did , not receive any Communist « "brainwashing." — — The Communists, however, told him not to disclose details of his imprisonment, he said. Refuses To Reduce Bail For Valiton With the statement ‘"I do not ' believe this is excessive bail,” ' circuit court judge Myles F. Parrish overruled this morning the motion of Walter C. Valiton to - reduce the SIO,OOO bond which • was placed on him. Judge Parrish cited previous cases and constitutional law in ‘ explaining his decision to the de- ‘ ■ fendant. He said that the record r of a person, upon whom a bail has . been placed, must be taken into consideration as also must the 1 welfare of the public. Valiton was arrested on five counts after he was picked up tor the robbery of Baker Plumbing and Heating early Sunday morning. He has spent 15 years in jail on a first degree murder charge and nine more years on a charge i of sodomy. He Is at the present i time on a suspended sentence . from Allen county for a charge of burglary. Valiton was remanded to the Adams county jail.

from the Congo. ■ . The Belgian announcement coincided with a new demand by Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba for a withdrawal of Belgian troops whose presence, he said, threatens the whole of<iAfrica. Lumumba made the statement as he ended a two-day visit to Washington and took off for Canada to launch further appeals for economic aid. r Hammarskjold will fly direct to South Africa on, Tuesday, returning to Leopoldville Aug. 7 to confer with Lumumba. Congo (President Joseph Kasa Vubu said Thursday night that African politicians had made “a certain decision” about Katanga and would discuss it with Hammarskjold. This raised the possibility that < the Congo might evolve into a federation of six nearly autonomous states with a relatively weak central government—a position that Kasa Vubu has favored despite opposition from Lumumba.

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