Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 204.

Raybum Supports Foreign Aid Hike |

BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPI) —The Senate today passed and sent to the White House a controversial medical care bill to benefit needy persons over 65. WASHINGTON (UPl)—Speaker Sam Rayburn threw his qualified support today behind an urgent administration plea for more foreign aid money. However, he noted there was strong opposition among some influential House members. The aid issue was one of several still blocking an early ‘adjournment of the current politicsdominated session of Congress, Rayburn ducked a question today on when he thought Congress could quit. The Senate, meantime, scheduled a vote on the controversial medical care bill. Its expected approval would send the electionyear measure to the White House and clear away another big bottleneck preventing adjournment. Undersecretary of State C. Douglas-Dillon carried the foreign aid plea to House leaders tpday after the Senate Appropriations Committee had recommended restoration of $l9O million of more than SSOO million cut from the President’s latest foreign aid request. The Senate committee wrote the extra funds into a last-minute catch-all appropriation bill providing extra funds for a variety of “ — government functions. The Senate hoped to act on the measure later today. Rayburn said he told the committee members "to take a good hard look" at the request for foreign aid funds. "I told them that with a budget of SBO trillion if they could be convinced that this extra sum was essential to the national Security I hoped they would give it sympathetic consideration,” Rayburn said. Other sources said Dillon at today's closed-door session urged House acceptance of the full $l9O million recommended by the Senate Appropriations Committee but indicated that the administration could if necessary get by .with a compromise figure ot about slls million. Congressional leaders hope to wind up by the weekend this bitter, unprecedented post-convention session that brought face-to-face each day the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, the Democratic vice presidential nominee and the national chairmen of the two parties. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson won agreement for a vote at 2 p.m. e.d.t. on the medical care bill which would provide federal grants to the states for health benefits for persons over 65 who are on relief or too poor to afford adequate medical attention. The Senate then planned to take up a supplemental money bill that would restore sl9l million of the $266 million Congress cut last week from President Eisenhower’s foreign aid request. Eisenhower branded the cut a danger to national security. Another hurdle still to be cleared is the deadlocked minimum wage bill. Senate-House negotiators try again this afternoon to break their stalemate. But they were pessimistic. The negotiators are trying to write a compromise between the House-approved 15 cent hike in the sl-an-hour wage floor and the Senate-passed 25 cent boost. The conferees Friday twice rejected the Senate version, sponsored by Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy. Other congressional news: —The House Agriculture Committee was called to a closed-door meeting to consider Eisenhower’s plea for power to cut sugar purchases from the Dominican Republic. Democrats did not appear anxiods to push through the request but might settle on some compromise. -Sen. Clifford P. Case, R-N.J., Introduced a bill to crack down on the "giant octopus” of organized crime. The measure would make it a crime to travel between states or use interstate or international communications facilities for racketeering. Late Bulletins WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Agriculture Committee today approved a bill to five President Eisenhower limited power to reduce sugar imports from the Dominican Republic. PHILADELPHIA (UPI.) — ' Railroad and union executives agreed today to meet in a last attempt to end the threat of a system-wide strike against the Pennsylvania Railroad.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT . OHLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Bi * ■ Borden R. Purcell

Teachers Institute In Decatur Friday Borden R. Purcell, director of professional relations for Indiana State Teachers College, will be the principal speaker at the annual pre-school meeting of the Adams county teacher’s institute, which will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Friday, beginning at 9:30 a. m. Purcell, a native of Bruceville, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. Before joining the ISTA staff, he taught at Vincennes junior high school and was formerly a teacher and principal at Whiting junior high school. He was named president of the national school public relations association and recently was appointed to a threeyear term on the national commission on teacher education and professional standards by Miss Clarise Kline, president of the national education association. In 1955 he was made director of professional relations. His duties are to coordinate the general program planning for the ISTA's seven division conventions each October, set up regional and state workshops and conferences, and he is the liason between the teaching profession and the state teacher training and licensing commission; — The meeting will begin with an invocation given by Rev. Willis Gierhart, pastor of the Methodist church in Monroe. Music will then be provided by the Monmouth high school girls’ sextet, and the address by Purcell, will follow. After some more music, a business session will be held with the election of delegates to the representative assembly of Indiana State Teacher’s College to be the main point of business. At 1:30 p. m. the faculty members will meet with their respective principals at each building to organize and make preparations for the opening day of school. The principals are Edward Heimann, Jefferson; Byron Bunker. Hartford; Hugh Tate, Adams Central; Charles Rix, Monmouth; David Rankin, Geneva and Gerald Vizard, Pleasant Mills.

Mrs. True Foreman Is Taken By Death Mrs. Pearl Foreman, 59, a native of Preble township, died at 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon at her home in Ceylon after an illness of several years. Mrs. Foreman was a member of the Mt. Hope Church of the Nazarene. Surviving are her husband, True Foreman; two sons, Gerald Foreman of Coppess Corner, and Loris Foreman, at home; two daughters, Mrs. Vera Burkey of Ceylon and Carol, at home; three grandchildren; three brothers, Vilas Luginbill of Geneva route 1, Ervin Luginbill of Monroe route 1, and Roy Luginbill of near Rockford. 0., and five sisters, Mrs. Albert Hamrick of Ohio City, 0., Mrs James Frank of Willshire, O„ Mrs. Marcus Parr of near Celina 0., and the Misses Dora and Aldine Luginbill, both of Decatur. Funeral services will be Conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Mt. Hope Church of the Nazarene, the Rev. Frank Voss and the Rev. Paul Temple officiating Friends may call at the Yager funeral home in Berne after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. - '■

Welsh Pledges United Drive i For Election FRENCH LICK, Ind. (UPI)— Matthew E. Welsh, former state senator, is the undisputed boss of the Indiana Democratic organization today? He became the big number 1 when his two chief were elected to the highest party offices by the state committee and during the fall meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association I here. J. Manfred Core, head of Welsh’s gubernatorial group, was chosen state chairman to succeed I Charles E. Ski Hen, Winamac. And I Mrs. Luella G. Cotton, CrawfordsI ville, was elected to replace Mrs. Georgia Arnsman, Lebanon, as vice chairman. Skillen and Mrs. Arnsman resigned after Welsh stripped them of all their authority. "United Campaign” The more than 1,000 Democrats who gathered at their historic spa shrine during the weekend learned defihitely that Welsh will not divorce his Statehouse bid from the Whitehouse ambitions of the Democratic presidential nominee. Sen. John F. Kennedy. Addressing the editors before the main banquet speech by Florida Gov. Leßoy Collins, Welsh said, “Let there be no mistake about it. The Democratic Party of Indiana will conduct a united cam-paign-united with the national ticket, the state ticket, and every district and county ticket. "The Democratic campaign will be a team effort and we are going to win as a team,” he said. Both Collins and Welsh admitted that there is a serious religious issue in the presidential campaign. But both said emphatically that it should be faced head-on. “It is unfortunate that there is a religious issue,” Collins said. "But we must meet It fairly and squarely.” The editors elected Frank continued on page three

Final Rites Tuesday For Ezra Ricketts Ezra-Ricketts, 82, retired farmer of Liberty township. Van Wert, county, 0., died Saturday in the Van Wert county hospital following an illness of several years. He was a native of Fairfield county. 0., and had been a resident of Van Wert county for 64 years. Mr. Ricketts, a member of the Mt. Zion United Brethren church, served as its chorister and Sunday school superintendent for a number of years. Surviving are the widow, Verdella; two sons, Wayne and Niel Ricketts of route 2, Rockford, O.; one daughter, Mrs. John Schaadt of Decatur; four grandchildren; one great-grandchild, and a brother, G. I. Ricketts of Auburn, N.Y. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert* the Rev. Albert Swenson officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery at Rockford. O. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Anderson Industry 6 A. & P. Tea Co. --- —. 3 Btirk Elevator Co — —— 5 Bower Jewelry - — 3 Budget Loans 6 Burke Insurance Service - — 2 Cowens Insurance Agency 6 Decatur Drtve In Theater 6 Ellenberger Bros., Auctioneers 5 Evans Sales and Service 5 Gerbers Super Dollar Mkt. 6 Holthouse Drug Co — 2 Holthouse Furniture Co., Inc 2, 5 Indiana University — 3 Kent Realty & Auction Co 5 Myers Cleaners — 2 Ortho Shoe Clinic 2 Quality Chevrolet-Buick, liic ... 5 Schafers --- — 4 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Smith Drug Co ... ........ 3, 4 Teeple Truck Lines 5 Tony’s Tap .................... 6

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 29, 1960.

Explosive Racial Riots Erupt In Florida; Police Employ Drastic Measures

Jurors Are Drawn In September Term Richard D. Lewton, county clerk, has announced the names of the 12 grand jurors and 24 petit jurors who will serve at the September term of the Adams circuit court. The names were drawn by jury commissioners James Gattshall and Edward Berling. The grand jurors are: Hugh Nidlinger, Union; Karen L. Herman, Wabash; Jerome Deßolt, Decatur; Willis J. Fox, Berne; Reinhold F. Sauer, Decatur: Menno Wertz, Hartford; Arthur W. Adams. Preble; Lester Sipe, Blue Creek; Elmer J. Isch, French; Harold L. Zimmerman, Geneva; Donald R. Rupert, Geneva; and Donna E. Byerly, Kirkland. The petit jurors are: Evelyn E. Beitler, Monroe; Albert R. Tinkham, Blue Creek; Paul W. Garner, St. Mary’s; Rhea B. Wall. Jefferson; Roger Moser, Monroe; Edna B. Menter, Preble; Martin Walchle, Preble; Henry B. Stahl, Hartford; Leverl E. Sharp, Decatur; Frederick G. Fosnaugh. Hartford; Clifton J. Habegger, French; Robert Long, Wabash. Richard Arnold, Kirkland; Roy W. Reinhard, Kirkland; Max Kreps, Washington; John L. King, St. Mary’s; Vera Kelly, Jefferson; Irvin R. Moore, Hartford; Herbert Burdg, Berne; Patricia Sprunger, Geneva; Robert Dedolph, Decatur; Arthur F. Weaver, Jefferson; Gordon C. Suman. St. Mary’s, and Dorothy T. Marckel, Blue Creek. ~ ■ INDIANAWEATHER Considerable cloudiness, a few showers or thundershowers, north, mostly sunny and hot south this afternoon. Mostly cloudy north and central, partly cloudy extreme south tonight with scattered showers likely central. Cooler north tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy, chance of a few showers central and not much temperature change. Low tonight 60 to 66 north, 65 to 73 south. High Tuesday 82 to 86 north, 85 to 92 south. Sunset today 7:22 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:11 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy, widely scattered thundershowers. Lows 62 to 73. Highs 82 to 92.

■h ll II ‘ -W -lw - A 1 Ip. IMgjl J > mssl 1 i L I K ■ fRF j TAKING IT EASY—Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Powers, parents of U-2 pilot Francis Powers, are shown with their daughter, Mrs. Jessica Hileman at Mrs. Hileman’s home in Glassmanor, Md. Mrs Powers holds her granddaughter, Theresa, 17 months.

U.S. Protests Congo Attack

LEOPOLDVILLE. The Congo <UPI> — U.’S. Ambassador Clare Tirnberlake moved today to pro'test vigorously against such incidents as the.beating of eight U.S. airmen by native forces. The attack led United Nations officials ■to consider ordering U.N. troops to shoot if necessary to defend themselves. Timberlake asked for an appointment with President Joseph Kasavubu to make a formal protest against the attack on the ' fliers in Stanleyville Saturday. The fliers arrived here Sunday night from Stanleyville and were taken immediately to a hospital at Lovanium University. A U.N. spokesman said three are feared to have suffered fractured skulls. New incidents between Congolese forces and U.N. officials were reported today from Banningville, about 156 miles northeast of Leopoldville. Two Swedes, one Liberian and one Australian were reported arrested by the Congolese army. Bunche Protests Attack The officials said the idea of authorizing U.N. troops to shoot if necessary to save life and ■jXoperty was being examined following the outbreak in Stanleyville in which the Americans were brutally beaten and white men at U.N- headquarters were assaulted. It had been announced earlier that Undersecretary Ralph Bunche had protested “very energetically” against the Congo troops’ attack on the U.N. headquarters. Bunche, the U.N.’s highest-ranking-Negro, was protesting an attack on two Canadian officers and a Swedish civilian by Congo troops who broke into the U.N. office. One of the Canadians was hospitalized along with the eight Americans, crewmen of a U.S. Air Force transport arriving from Kano. Nigeria, with supplies for the U.N. force in the Congo. The most seriously injured of the Americans was Sgt. Frederick Kiser, of Smyrna, Del., whose skull is believed to have been fractured by a Congo trooper’s gun butt. Chaos at Hand The situation in the Congo appeared to be verging on complete chaos, with a tribal massacre going on in Kasai Province and troops loyal to Premier Patrice Lumumba massing near the border of “independent” Katanga Province.

Scout Camporee In Decatur In October Final plans are being made for the South district Boy Scout camporee, to be held at Hanna-Nuttman park in Decatur over the October 7-8-9 week-end. The South district comprises Adams, Jay and Wells counties, and this year the annual camp-out will be hosted by the Adams qpunty leaders. Ted Hill, camporee general chairman, reports that all of the committees have their plans well started, and are in the process of final coordination. Gene Ziner will serve as campmaster, Raymond Beer and Bob Heller are co-chair-men of the program committee, Watson Maddox and Bob Zwick head the physical arrangements committee, and Gene Rydell will be in charge of judging and inspection. , About 35 troops in the district are expected to send in excess of 200 boys to the camporee. Explorer troops from the South district will furnish the junior assistants to aid the camporee administrators, and each troop will have its share of scoutmasters and assistants. One of the features of the threeday session will be the unique shoulder patch available to those boys participating. Besides designating a Scout’s attendance at a given affair, the shoulder patches are prime trading material whenever scouts get together. The patch was originated by a committee of camporee administrators, and promises to be something all the Scouts will be proud to own. The camporee offers the troops an opportunity to earn points toward their troop achievement award. To win this award, sixty per cent of the members of the troop must spend at least ten ntghts during the year camping outside.

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.) Graded School The idea of a -graded school meant one in which more than one teacher worked. The Monmouth graded school was organized in 1878 with Ray Berg as principal. At that time Monmouth supported a good literary society in which a number of pupils participated. In 1879, a two room, two story school building was built in Monmouth by trustee Perry Robinson. This was the fourth brick school building in the county and the second in Root township. In 1865, S. C. Bollman was chosen school examiner and was followed by D. D. Heller in 1873, who became the first county superintendent of schools in Adams county. We would also like to mention that Samuel L. Rugg, who helped to found and name Root township, was elected the first state superintendent of public instruction in 1858. First Brick Schools We read with interest that in 1882 the teachers of Root township organized a Shakespearean club for the purpose of amusement and mental improvement. The project was a success and continued for several years. In 1885, the work of building brick school houses began in earn-

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. <UPDAuthorities imposed drastic police measures today to hold in check explosive racial tempers that erupted into a weekend of violence and vandalism in this port city. i In the latest outbreak Sunday! night carloads of Negro youths, in defiance of 200 policemen on emergency duty, prowled through the streets firing pistols and rifles into parked automobiles an d stores. Others hurled bricks and stones as passing motorists. One woman was struck below the left eye by a brick thrown through the window of the car in which she was riding with her husband. The flareup, described by police as “primarily vandalism,” had two immediate results: —Mayor Haydon Burns ordered drastic emergency measures to halt violence and banned gatherings of more than four persons anywhere in the city. —The NAACP canceled plans to resume sit-in demonstrations today. Held For Court More than 100 persons of both Negro and white races were ordered into Municipal Court today to answer charges of inciting to riot and disorderly conduct in connection with the incidents. The trouble started with a Negro - white hair-pulling Friday, grew in intensity and violence until guns and knives flashed and the governor considered calling out the National Guard. It was alerted and ordered to stand by. In all, more than 50 persons were injured. The height of the weekend violence was neat the noon hour on Saturday when mobs of white men and youths, armed with baseball bats and other clubs, formed near variety stores where sit-in demonstrations had been conducted and clashed with Negroes. Police moved in with fire hoses to wet down the fighters. They were ajso carrying riot guns but did not use them. Three Negroes were beaten with clubs and other Negroes retaliated by throwing brickbats at whites. Violence Spreads Later the trouble fanned out of the downtown area into the residential areas, including the Negro section adjacent to highway systems. Two Negroes were shot in the leg and hand after they were reported to have hurled bottles and rocks at a passing car. A 16-year-old white boy, Howard Pelham, was stabbed in the

est. By 1892 nearly all the school buildings: two Catholic, five Lutheran. and the public schools were brick. Mrs. Moses names for us various teachers who served at Monmouth “some of them I knew and others my father and mother told me about. Ray Berg, John Walters, Miss Mertie Numbers—these belonged to my parents’ school days in the 70’s. I know that my father. Cal Kunkel, taught in the upstairs room — 6th, 7th, and Bth grade twice, since there was no high school. We know of several pupils who did so about 1887. John Parrish Teacher John Parrish, still living in Decatur, taught the upper grades about 1896. Then there were Henry Laughrey, B. F. Kiser, Ed Christen, Robert Mann and Ella Mutschier. Some of the teachers in the primary room were Effie Lewton Frank, Ethel Mann (Dr. John Grandstaff’s wife), Harriett Magley Lewton (mother of Mrs. Andrews!, Florence Kunkel (Mrs. Dale Moses), and Helen Fonner. Os course there were other teachers, but I happen to remember only these.” One more comment from Mrs. Moses. "Do you see those nice maple trees around the school house?. About 1896 our teachers took us out into the woods where we dug some maple saplings and planted them to celebrate Arbor Day. As a result, enough grew to give the school some shade.”

chest by Negroes who surrounded his stalled truck. Negroes hurled potash, a burn* ing alkali, into the face and eye of white taxicab inspector Wayne Heidler. One of the injured was Mrs. Richard Morohovich, 19, who was hit below the left eye by a brick thrown through the window of her husband’s car. She was not hurt seriously.

Sharon Matfax Is Miss Adams County Miss Sharon Mattax, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mattax of Monroe, was named Miss Adams County at the crowning ceremonies held Saturday night at the Monroe days festival. Sharon is a brown eyed* brown haired young lady who will be a junior at Adams Central high school this year. She is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and baton twirling was her talent. She appeared in a baby blue formal and was sponsored by Zurcher’s Mobile Service in Monroe. Miss Sharon Huser, daughter at Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Huser, of Hartford township, was runner-up to Miss Mattax. She was sponsored by Meshberger Bros. Stone Corp. Her talent was playing a clarinet. Miss Onalee Barkley, Miss Adams County of 1959, crowned Miss Mattax in the special ceremonies held Saturday evening at 8:30. Judges for the contest were Miss Myra Hatter of Fort Wayne, last year’s Miss Fort Wayne and also Junior Miss Indiana and Miss Queen of the Lakes of 1959. Jack Ford of Fort Wayne, and James Hamilton of Waterloo. Ford is the president of the Indiana volunteer fire department and Hamilton is the district 25-B governor of Lions International. The Monroe volunteer Are department, the Monroe rural fire department and the Monroe Hons were Sponsors of the contest and fair. Miss Mattax will now compete in the Junior Miss Indiana coijtest which will be held in Bluffton during the week of that city’s street fair which will be the week of Sept. 19.

1911 School Building In 1911 the Monmouth building was torn down and a. new commodious modern five-room graded school building was erected by trustee Charles Maley at a cost of $12,000. The school was not certified until the year 1925. In 1926 we were granted a commission for a four year high school. There was a cyclone in 1917. Bob Rice, father of Nancy, was in the first grade then. He happened to stay at home but was told how everyone ran to the basement. No one was hurt badly, but a gread deal of damage was done in Monmouth. The school house was damaged to some extent. High School Started The first high school graduating class to complete the four year course was that of 1926 with five graduates. The next year, three graduated. In the third graduating class of 1928 there were six young men and one girl. (Margaret Boerger’s father and Nancy Rice’s father were members of that class.) In 1937, the middle section, including the gymnasium, was added. Then during the school years of 1952 and '53. the third addition was made with August Selking as trustee. Today Monmouth school has 158 grade pupils, 51 junior high, and 159 senior high with a faculty of 17, extending school services to a number of student* from Preble and Union township*. All of the one room schools have, of course, been abandoned. (To Be Continued) •

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