Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 197.

Smith To Attend Postal Conference Clarence (John) Smith, of 935 Mercer Avenue, will leave this weekend for one Week to attend the national post office supervisor’s meting at Philadelphia, Pa., next week. Smith, a veteran Decatur post office employe, will be accompanied by his wife. The conference ‘•will inchide a one-day trip to Atlantic City, N. J., next Triday. Michigan Monastery By Moser's Land Visitors to northern Michigan who take route 31 to the Mackinaw bridge will be interested to know that the huge new $550,000 monastery being built about 30 miles south of the straits adjoins the land and summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Moser, of 344 North Tenth street. Work on the monastery for the Sacramentine Sisters started in the Spring of 1959. Although the building is not completed inside, visitors may attend masses there each Sunday at 7 and 8 a.m. and at noon. The outside of the building is finished, and work has begun on the landscaping. The kitchen, refectory or dining room, laundry, sewing rooms, art and other work rooms such as the room for making altar breads, will be completed at a later date. When the building is complete, it will provide for a Eucharistic throne for 24-hour perpetual adoration, outdoor stations of the cross, sanctuary furnishings, an organ, library, lounge and other rooms for religious observance. There will also be a printing room, power plant, infirmary, parlors, shipping and packing room and a cutting room. The Sacramentine Order was established in France in 1639 and the first monastery established in the United States was at Yonkers. N. Y. The second monastery was established in Petoskey in 1951. At the present time there are six in Europe.

Monmouth Students Detail Root Township History

(Editor’s Note. This is another of a series of historical articles written by the Monmouth speech class of Mrs. Hugh J. Andrews last spring.) Jahn K. Evans One man who figured prominently in the settlement and organization of Root township, Adams county, and Monmouth was John K. Evans, who came to Root township in 1832 and settled about a mile north of the present site of Monmouth. Here he entered from that time on a sizeable amount of land in and around Monmouth. One of his great-great-granddaughters, Nancy Rice, has gathered from family records the following information about this eariy settler. "I am the great-great-grand-daughter of the late John Evans. According to the records of our family, Mr. Evans was the son of a Robert Evans, who was born in 1788, in Massachusetts. His ancestors came from England. He also lived north of Monmouth on the same site where ouw family lives now. He came from his home in New York state to live in the twostory log house his son had built. My great-great-great grandfather Robert Evans died here in 1845 and was buried in the Evans family cemetery, located in our woods. Works For Land John King Evans, one of his sons, was born in New York, in Montgomery county in 1795. When he was twenty years old, he had bought one year at his time of his father and had gone among the farmers and worked by the month until he earned enough money to buy eighty acres of land in Columbus, Ohio. This was his beginning. In the early 1830’s, probably 1830 or -1831, John K. bought 503.67 acres of land in Root township, Adams county. This amount, included parts of sections 9, 17. 18, 20, and 21. He also bought several acres of land in Allan county. His original land grant was signed by Andrew Jackson. Mr. Evans came with two or three others whom he had hired to cut away and clear nine acres of his land, put In corn and potatoes, and build a two-story hewed log house. He chose to build his house at the place where our family now lives because of the natural spring he found there. Great-great grandfather then returned to Ohio for his wife, Margaret Wise Evans, and their three

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Three Local Boys Complete Basic GREAT LAKES, Hl. — Vance D. Krick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orley A. Krick of 204 S. Eighth St.; Donald A. Agler, son at Mrs. Norma E. Agler of 320 line st., and Larry W. Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fj Hill of 1018 W. Adams st., all of Decatur, Ind., graduat-

children and moved them into their new place in 1832. In 1940 when their family had increased to four children, Margaret Evans passed away. Great-great grandfather eventually married a second time. This woman was a Kinsey. (They had four children, also). Associate Judge John King Evans was the first and last associate judge in Adams county. In 1850 he moved to Fort Wayne and was judge of the Circuit court for a period of twelve years. He was also the first federal judge in Indiana. Thus, there is a great deal of Evans history in the Allen county records. He was considered very wealthy when he died in 1874 leaving an estate in excess of $200,000. He was buried in Fort Wayne. My great uncle Robert Evans was one of John K. Evan’s first sons. As a result of his inheritance, he owned 225 acres here in section 20 and 21. His farm was across the road from the original home place. A part of the log house still stands, and can be seen from the highway, but the land on which it stands is now property of Bill and Henry Auman. John Evans Killed My great grandfather John Evans was another of John King’s first sons. As a result of his inheritance, he acquired the home place. He married Barbara Eyanson and they had five children. But when my great grandfather was forty years old, he was killed by a train. After his death, his sister, my great aunt Harriet and her husband David Studebaker became the guardians of John and Barbara’s children, using John’s inherited trust fund to care for them. David had a barn built for them (the same one that stands on our place today) and had the log house, torn down and rebuilt. Some of the same logs were used again, to the south part of the home place, or the house in which our family lives, is about a hundred and thirty years bld. The Riee Famfly The eldest of these children of John, born in 1867, was Harriet who was to become my grandmother. She and three others were in the first class to graduate from the eighth grade school of Monmouth. She married David McClelland Rice. Grandfather Rice was a part of a history very much like that of his wife ... for his

ed from recruit training Aug. 13 at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, 111. The graduation exercises, marking the end of nine weeks of “boot camp,” included a full dress parade and review before military officials and civilian dignitaries. In nine weeks, of instruction, the “raw recruit” is developed into a Navy Bluejacket,, ready for duty with the fleet. ■ r'

ancestors came from England and then the New England states, also. When the Rices decided to leave their plantation in Culpepper county. Virginia, and move west, they freed all their slaves. But one couple who loved the family and was probably desirous of adventure, came west along with the Sampson Rice family. Since the time of the existence of the Negro family in Monmouth mentioned in a previous report and the date Sampson Rice’s family entered Root township correspond, it is very probably that these pre the same Negro people; and it would explain the mystery of how they could be free Negroes in a time of Negro slavery. Related To Pillars When the Rices first came here they boarded with Benjamin Pillars and his wife Sara Ann Rice Pillars. Sara was the daughter of Sapmson Rice. Sara’s brother, my great-great grandfather Benjamin Rice, married Benjamin Pillar’s two sisters—first Elizabeth and when she died, Mary. The Rices and Pillars probably met in Virginia or possibly on their way moving west, for Benjamin and Sara had settled here just one year before tiie rest of the Rices came. One of the first projects the Rices accomplished was that of building the Alpha Methodist church. The church was placed on a corner acre of Sampson Rice’s new farm. After about ninety years of existence the church was abandoned. My grandfather, David Rice tore the building and moved the good pieces of wood to his farm. He used the wood to build a barn. After World War 1, grandfather sold his farm to the Bohnke family, so the framework of the Alpha church is now in the possession of Mr. Bohnke. First Ballot Box The 240 acres of land the Rices purchased were in sections 16, 17 and 21. One of my ancestors furnished the ballot box used in the first election, probably the one in which Root township was organized. The box was used and handed down from generation to generation and is now believed to be in the possession Mrs. Esther Rice Hill of Chicago. Perhaps you can see now how the Evans, Rices and Pillars are related. (To Be Continued)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 20, 1960.

Mrs. Roy Hamrick Dies Friday Night Opal Edith Hamrick, 56, of 421 Elm street, died at 9:45 p.m. Friday evening at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne following a year’s illness. She had been critically ill for two weeks. The daughter of Lewis and Vern Stone Clark she was born Dec. 21, 1903 in Blue Creek township. On Nov. 21. 1921 she was married to Roy C. Hamrick, who survives. She attended the Evangelical United Brethren church. The couple had no children. One brother, Henry Clark, of Decatur; two sisters, Mrs. Ferry Rupert, of Spencerville, 0., and Mrs. Mary Garwood, of Mercer Co. 0., survive. Two sisters preceded her in death. Friends may call at the Black Funeral home after 2 p.m. Sunday. Services will be held at the funeral home at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, and at 2 p.m. at the Bethany E.U.B. church, the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas officiating. Rev. Thomas will be assisted by the Rev. C. E. Roberts. Burial will be jn the Spring Hill cemetery, northeast of Berne. Warm Weather For Weekend United Press International Indiana weather remained in a normal late-August rut today. Forecasts called for high temperatures in the 80s and lows in the 60s at least through Monday, with scattered and isolated showers for variety today and tonight, continuing Sunday in the north portion. High Friday, ranged from 81 at Evansville to 88 at South Bend and Fort Wayne, and 92 at Cincinnati, and lows ranged from 65 at Fort Wayne and Indianapolis to 70 at Evansville. Scattered showers accounted for .44 of an inch of rain at South Bend, .10 at Evansville and .08 at Indianapolis. Skies were overcast today, Sunday was scheduled to be partly cloudy and Monday “mostly sunny.” Highs today win range from near 80 to the upper 80s, low to 1 night from the low to middle 60s and highs Sunday from the mid to upper 80s. Near normal temperatures were due again Monday. U.S. Trying New Tadics LEOPOLDVILLE (UPI) — U.N. troops maintained rigid control of Ndjilli Airfield today despite new threats by Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba to call in troops from other nations to replace the U.N. force. More than 500 Sudanese, Ghanian and Moroccan U.N. troops were patrolling the runways, and everyone entering or leaving the airfield had to pass a barbed-wire barrier where identity papers were carefully checked. Instructions barring entry of any armed men except U.N. troops were strictly enforced. Speaking at a dinner honoring provincial premiers in Lepoldville Friday night, President Joseph Kasavubu denounced what he called “colonialist attempts to split and rule the country again.” Kasavubuu rged all Congolese to give full support to the central government and to the provincial governments which recognize its authority. Lumumba also attended the banquet. The provincial premiers and Lumumba decided earlier to take all necessary steps “to fight traitor KPpremier Moise) Tshombe and his accomplices in Katanga” and to reorganize” and stengthen the Congolese army by the addition of “young elements to be trained rapidly in Congo and in other countries.” 'Advertising Index Advertiser Page Burk Elevator Co 5 Butler Garage, Inc — 5 James M. Burk, M.D. 5 Citizens Telephone Co 4 Clarks Drive-In -- 3 Decatur Drive-In Theater 3 Decatur Readymix Corp 6 Ray Eichenauer 5 First State Bank ------ 6 Fairway 6 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home .. 3 Kent Realty & Auction Co -— 5 Limberlost Archery & Conservation Club - — 3 Masonic Lodge 4 G. C. Murphy & Co 3 Jpe E. Morris, D.D.S. 5 Pike Lumber Co 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Smith. Drug Co ...... 3, 5 Sherman Hotel 4 Teeple Truck Lines 5 W. A. Speakman, Inc 5 Yost Gravel Readymix, Inc .... 6 Zwick Funeral Home 4 Zintsmaster Motors 3,4, 5, 6

Rail Accord Ends Talks ; Os 15 Monfhs 1 CHICAGO (UPI)—An agreement expected to boost wages and ■ benefits more than 10 cents an hour for 550,000 non-operating rail ■ workers today left only one major 1 rail dispute unsettled. The accord, announced at the end of a 28V 2 hour bargaining f session Friday, followed presi-" ' dential fact-finding board recoml mendations and ended 15 months • of talks between the nation’s rail- . roads and 11 AFL-CIO unions representing workers not directly » involved in train operation. . Still unsettled is a dispute be- , tween the Carriers Conference , Committees and the Switchmen's Union of North American, whose 8,500 members this week rejected presidential emergency board recommendations. ’ Friday’s agreement provided 5 ■ cents an hour cash boost retro- ■ active to July 1. Benefits, including a $4,000 company - paid life insurance policy effective March 1, 1961, for each active employe, were expected to bring the total hike to more than 10 cents an hour. “A Lot Missing” Basic hourly wage for nonoperating emplyes had been $2.42 an hour. i George Leighty, chief union negotiator and chairman of the • Railway Labor Executives' Assn., i was not enthusiastic about the ■ settlement. I “There’s a lot missing,” Leighty ■ said. “We feel we presented our ‘ case quite adequately for a 15cent Jan hour) increase and yet ■ the board held firm for a mere 1 5-cent increase.” Though the unions bowed to the 1 presidential board recommenda--1 tions, generally along lines of an earlier settlement with four oper--1 ating brotherhoods, the “pattern • once again went against us.” 1 Leighty said. Theodore Short, carriers spokes- ’ man, estimated the settlement would boost- rail labor costs by ’ sll2 million a year, bringing total rail boosts to S2OO million. ' Except for insurance provisions, ’ the agreement carries no term ' limit. However, It falls under the ' Railway Labor Act which provides that the union must notify the railroads at least 30 days prior to any intention to change the existing agreement. Largest Pact on Record The new pact incorporated into base pay 17 cents an hour from previous cost-of-living boosts, but eliminated a former escalator clause. A dnion spokesman called gthe< agreement the largest single collective bargaining pact on record. Workers affected include rail clerks, station agents, telegraphers. and dining car, maintenance and shop craft employes. Besides the cash boost and insurance providion. the agreement called for: —-Equalization medical and surgical benefits for employe dependents. —Three-month extension of hospital. medical and surgical benefits to furloughed employes. —Liberalization of holiday and vacation pay rules to enable workers to qualify for two weeks' vacation after three years’ service. » .. Senate OK's Hof-Spol Aid WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Senate has authorized President to pour S7OO million in aid into two world hot spots coveted by the Communists—Africa and Latin America. At the same time, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to restore almost all the money cut by the House from Eisenhower's aid funds request. The full Senate Friday night approved 54-19 the chief executive’s special S6OO million economic assistance program for Latin America, including SIOO million for earthquake-ravaged Chile. The lawmakers followed this up by okaying 59-14 SIOO million in aid to help stabilize the chaotic Congo and possibly to assist other emerging African nations. These bills merely would ato thorize the programs. Congress would have a chance to review them when it votes the actual money. The Appropriations Committee earlier apprdved a $3,961,350,000 money bill to pay for U.S. economic and military assistance in the fiscal year that started July 1. The committee restored all but S2OO million cut from Eisenhower's request by the House. This reduction was in military aid. The committee bill carried the SIOO million for aid to the Congo.

New African Nation Withdraws By RENE BALBAUD United Press International DAKAR, Senegal £UPI» — Senegal quit the newly independent Mali. Federation today, touching off a new high - tension African crisis that produced no immediate violence. The Senegalese assembly, meeting—atter- -midnight in- - a—capitalringed by troops, voted to pull out of the union Senegal formed with the former French Sudan in January, 1959. The federation became’ independent only two months ago. T’he assembly proclaimed a thrie-month state of emergency! and the government promptly used its emergency powers to scrap all laws-and decrees giving Mali authority over Senegal. Mali Premier Modibo Keita and the Sudanese members of his cabinet were placed in house anrest under police surveillance. Colonel Soumaris, chief of staff of the Mali army, also was arrested. The Senegalese government also ordered censorship, and for several hours communications with the outside world were cut off. Keita kicked off the crisis late Friday niht by dismissiong Mali Defense Minister Mamadou Dia, a Senegalese, and proclaiming a state of emergency throughout the federation. Senghor, president of the Senegalese assembly, denounced Keita’s ’ action as an attempted “coup d’etat against the Senegalese people." Altfibugh no reason was announced for the shakeup in Mali, it was believed to be a result of the tension surrounding the selection of a president for the federation — an issue which had caused increasing friction between Senegal and Sudan. Senghor and Keita were the leading Contenders for the presidency. A chef executive for the federation was to have been elected a week from today by the clmbined legislature of Senegal, Sudan and Mali. Anderson Family Loses Dog Here A, letter from Mrs. Dorothy Moore, of Anderson, Ind., was received by the police department this morning concerning a lost dog. Mrs. Moore said that Friday, August 12, while traveling, the family stopped between Anderson and Muncie to eat. While they were eating, the dog disappeared. The dog is a fawn-colored great Dane that answers to the name Ceasar. There was a report of a dog matching the description walking along the highway between Muncie and Winchester the next day. The Moore’s have four small children, one an 11-year-old daughter who is recovering from Hepatitis and the loss of the dog is a severe blow to the girl’s recovery. The girl’s doctor advised Mrs. Moore to write to the police departments in this area in an attempt to find the dog.* Anyone seeing or picking up the dog is requested to call collect, Mrs. Dorothy Moore, 3-1786 in Anderson, Ind.

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1959 Farm Census Report Tells Os Agriculture Here

There are 130 fewer farms in Adams county today than there were five years ago, and the average farm size has increased from 105.7 acres to 114.3 acres, according to the 1959 preliminary census of agriculture, it was announced today. The total number of farms in this county is down to 1,798 from 1,928 in 1954, according to the report just issued by the Bureau of the Census, Us S, department of commerce. More Farmland There are approximately 220,800 acres of land in Adams county, and 993.1% of this, or 205,464 acres, are in farmland. There were 203,736 acres in farmland five years ago, meaning that the area under cultivation in this county is increasing,- despite the surplus of farm commodities, and the settled condition of the land here. The average value of a farm in this county has jumped more than $12,000 in just five years, from $26,574 to $38,642. Land value in the county is up almost SIOO an acre in the same period—from $222.96 to $313.42. Farm* Bigger Farms are, getting bigger, and the statistics for the county prove it. In 1954 there were just two farms between 500 and 999 acres

Chief Justice Bierly Attends U.S. Meeting

O? ■■■ .Judge G. Remy Bierly Chief Justice G. Remy Bierly, of the Indiana Appellate Court, left Decatur this morning to attend the national Chief Justice Conference at Baltimore, Md., from Aug 22-27. Judge Bierly was accompanied by his wife, and by Chief Justice and Mrs. Amos W. Jackson. Judge

Married Three Weeks, Electrocuted Friday NEW ALBANY, Ind. (UPI) — His bride of three weeks learned Friday of the death of A. J. Harvey, 23, New Albany, electrocuted at Ft. Knox, Ky., when a radio antenna he was removing brushed against a power line. Harvey was on duty with Army reservists at a two-wek training camp. He was a former New Albany High School football and track star. New Haven Man Cheated State FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD— John Vernon Stuber, 21, New Haven, pleaded innocent in U. S. District Court here Friday to three federal counts of receiving unemployment compensation while employed. Stuber was said to have received the compensation for the week ending April 18, 1959, during which time he also received wages from a contractor. He was held in Allen County Jail in lieu of SSOO bond. Also appearing before Federal Judge Robert A. Grant Friday was Henry E Magers, 42. Marion, charged with eight counts of stealing and forging U.S. Treasury checks from mailboxes. Magers pleaded guilty and his case was deferred pending a presentence investigation. Ruth Lambright, 46, Ligonier, entered a guilty plea on three counts of dispensing “stay awake' drugs without a perscription. Grant also deferred her case pending pre-sentence investigation. Frank M. Hill, 52. Fort Wayne, entered an innocent plea on two counts of using the mails to defraud. No date was set for Hill’s trial. ■ •

in size. Today there are eight. And the number of farms between 260 and 499 acres increased from 989 to 126. The number between 220 and 259 increased from 78 to 106. The 180-219 size decreased slightly from 143 to 136. The number from 140 to 179 decreased from 255 to 205. And the number between 100 and 139 cares in size deceased from 303 to 277. Those from 70 to 99 acres decreased from 406 to 343. Those from 50 to 69 decreased from 111 to 104. Because some people want a few acres while working in town, the number of farms in the 10-49 acre group increased from 338 to 343. But farms under 10 acres in size decreased from 193 to 150. More acreage on fewer farms was reported harvested in 1959, compared with 1954. In 1959, 1,547 farms harvested crops on 150,839 acres, compared with 1,663 farms harvesting 144,912 acres in 1954. Fewer Full Owners There are fewer full owners of farms, more part owners, more managers, and fewer tenants in Adams county than five years ago. Full owners decreased from 1,178 to I.OTOiz part owners increased from 396 to 414: managers, from two to five; and tenants decreased from 352 to 309. The average farmer is now slightly younger than in 1954 ; 48.3

Jackson is chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court. Second Meeting Following the conference, the two distinguished Hoosier jurists will attend the meeting of the .American ._Ba£. Association a| i Washington, DC., from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1. Judge Bierly was a delegate to the Democratic national convention in Los Angeles this year, and was in on a fascinating background of convention activity at 1 that time. Elected in 1958 Elected to the appellate court of Indiana in 1958, Judge Bierly is presently serving a four-year term. The appellate court hears cases on appeal from the local circuit courts. There are eight judges on the court. Usually a judge is assigned a case, and presented to the other judges for writes the opinion, which is then their concurrence or disapproval. Judge Bierly’s office is located in the state capitol building in Indianapolis. Enroute to Baitimore, the Bierlys will visit the family of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Terveer in Alliance, O.

Bob Hunter Hurt In Fall Off Bike The city police were called to Dayton Ave., near the diesel plant, yesterday where a boy on a bicycle was supposedly hit by a car. When they arrived, however, they found that Robert Hunter, Jr., son of Robert Hunter of 1227 Mix Ave., was riding his bicyce along ‘ Dayton when someone threw a basketball in front of him, knocking him from his bike. He fell to the street and was knocked unconscious when he hit his head on the curb. He was taken to the hospital and treated for a concusion. He was to remain in the hospital for a 24 hour observation. Willshire Car Strikes Parking Vehicle A minor, two-car accident occurred at 3:40 Friday afternoon at Monroe and Second streets. A car driven by Paul Robinson, 45, Wilshire, 0., was headed south on Second and stopped for the red - light. The second car was driven by Charles Burrell, 88, 28 High street, who while trying to park, pulled forward too far and struck the Robinson vehicle on the right front door panel. Robinson’s car was the only one damaged and that was $35. Local Bulletin Miss Florence Haney, Decatur school teacher, was found dead in her home at the corner of Fifth and Madison shortly before noon today. Dr. Gerald J. Kohne was called to the scene immediately, and coroner Elmer Winteregg, j r ., was also sum- , moned. No further details were known at press time.

years of age, compared with 48 9 years. There are 261 operators more than 65 years of age, compared with 297 five years ago. Work Off Farm And there are 942 farmers working off their farms today, compared with 825 five years ago. Os these, 623 said that their non-farm employment earnings exceeded their farm income. There are 455 cash-grain farms, 5 vegetable farms, 146 poultry farms. 285 dairy farms, and 195 other livestock farms, 290 general farms, and 425 unclassified farms. The total of commercial farms is 1,376. More Paved Roads There are 720 farms on hardsurface roads today, compared with 671 ten years ago. And there are 1,051 farms on crushed stone roads, compared with 1.355 in 1950. There are 15 farms on unimproved roads, compared with 10 in 1950. Detailed statistics on crops, livestock, equipment, etc., are presented in the preliminary report with comparable statistics tor 1954 or 1950. Copies of the county report may be obtained for 10 cents each from the Bureau of the Census, Washington 25. D.C. Just ask for the Adams County, Indiana, preliminary farm census re-

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