Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 9 September 1960 — Page 1

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Citizens Telephone Planning Expansion

Announcement was made today by the Citizens Telephone company concerning two major expansion programs for the local utility. The two projects are expansion and renovation of the telephone exchange building located at 240 West Monroe street in Decatur, and a major underground conduit and manhole system extending from the exchange building to a point on highway 224 several hundred feet west of Highways 27 and 33. A contract has been signed with the Fischel company, Columbus, Ohio, contractors, for the installation of the underground manhole and conduit system. The Columbus firm was the successful bidder for the contract and will perform the construction work in conformity with plans and specifications prepared by the plant department of the Citizens Telephone company. The underground conduit system will consist of 12 ducts leaving the cable vault of the telephone company on the north side of the exchange building. It will be installed in alleys north of Monroe street and proceed west to Sixth street. At Sixth street the system will be extended northward to Nuttman avenue and will then extend west on Nuttman avenue to a point approximately 200 feet west of highways 27 and 33. At this point, the conduit system will have been tapered to a total of four ducts. The new underground system will be used for the installation of toll cables to Indianapolis, Bluffton, Monroe, Berne, and other points south of Decatur. In addition, local distribution cables will also be installed in the system as the requirements of the city become larger. Enlarge Building The company has recently retained the services of Orus Eash, architect, Fort Wayne, to prepare plans and specifications for enlargement and renovation of the telephone exchange building on West Monroe street. Tentative plans call for demolishing the structure located at the northeast corner of Monroe and Third streets and the erection of a modern, two story, fireproof building which will include new collection and commercial space, enlargement of the toll operating room, and equipment space. In addition, a second story will also be built over the present equipment room. The entire project will more than double the floor space available for operation at the downtown location. In announcing the two projects, Charles D. Ehinger, president of the Citizens Telephone company, stated: “We have long proceeded on the theory that it is vital for a telephone utility to attempt to anticipate telephone requirements for five years, and preferably ten years, in the future. A part of these two projects should handle some of our requirements until approximately 1980, however, we anticipate that some of the additions will be in service no later than 1962. “The building enlargement will be designed primarily for the purpose of telephone utility, but it is our sincere hope that, when finished, we will have a telephone utility build in.’ that will be an as- Sj ■'l

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set to the community and will further enhance the downtown improvement program which is rapidly changing the appearance of the Decatur business section.” William Small Is Speaker At Rotary William H. Small, personnel director at Central Soya Co., gave an interesting classification talk to the .Decatur Rotary club at its meeting Thursday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The club also honored six members of its scout troop who advanced to second class rank. Small pointed out that soybeans have been used for food centuries before the first written records. It was described in 2800 B.C. in a writing by an Emperor of China. In America, soybeans have been used primarily in the production of poultry and livestock and have contributed tremendously to an ever rising standard of living. “Central Soya has mid-wifed some notable innovations in the soybean processing industry and has made Decatur one of the leading processing centers of the world. The bean has been pulled, hauled, tugged, pushed, elevated, extracted, contracted, mashed, smashed, baked, fried, and parboiled by Central Soya researchers for some rather startling results. “From a beginning capitalization of $125,000 in 1934, the company has grown to sales of $285 million in 1959 and among the nation's 500 largest corporations, ranks fourth in dollar sales volume per employee.” Small concluded his remarks by describing his own particular job with the company and said that although Central Soya is big business it tries to be as human as the general store at the crossroads. The speaker explained that his jbb includes a wide gamut from safety to labor relations. He pointed out that his company today employs between 500 and 600 people and tries to give each of them job security. Rotary club members will participate in the annual Chamber of Commerce golf tournament at the Decatur golf course next Thursday rather than hold its formal meeting at the center. Members who do not play golf may check in with the secretary at the center at the regular meeting time. Indiana AFL-CIO - Reelects Officers INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana AFL-CIO reelected all its top officers Thursday at its state convention, including Dallas W. Sells as president. Delegates retained in office Jacob R. Roberts and George Colwell as vice presidents, and Max F. Wright as secretary-treasurer. A resolution prepared by the organization’s political action committee endorsing repeal of the state “right to work” law was adopted unanimously.

Light Rainfall In City This Morning Today’s early morning rain brought some relief from the sweltering heat that has been plaguing the county for the past two weeks, but it also brought • some damaging winds with it. Dan Ross, manager of the - Standard Food Market, reported ' that a center panel window in the • front of his store was blown out by the wind about 4 o’clock this morning. Ross estimated a cost of about $265 to replace the window. Decatur received only .07 inches of rain, but it did give citizens some morning relief from the heat. Elsewhere in the county, Union ’ township received the heaviest 1 rainfall, reporting .6 of an inch, 1 with St. Mary’s township close • behind with .4 of an inch. Preble received .2 of an inch and Monroe .1. Wabash had one-eighth of an inch with Blue Creek reporting not enough precipitation to register. Hartford township didn’t have any rain. Lions Club Resumes Meetings On Monday All members of the Decatur Lions club are asked to remember the first fall meeting of the year, which will be held Monday at the Youth and Community Center. Anyone wishing to check out is asked to call Frank Lybarger before 11 a.m. Monday. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and cooler this afternoon. Partly cloudy north, mostly cloudy south half and cooler tonight. Scattered thundershowers likely extreme south portion this afternoon, chance of showers south half tonight. Saturday fair north, partly cloudy south, chance of a few showers extreme south portion Saturday morning. Cooler extreme south portion Saturday. Low tonight 55 to 62 north, 60 to 66 south. High Saturday mostly in the 70s. Sunset today 7:64 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:21 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy, continued rather cool. Lews 58 to 67. Highs 79 tp 86. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 6 Burk Elevator Co. —77 5 Budget Loans ..... 2 D. S. Blair, Auctioneer 5 Buck Lake Ranch g Carling’s Black Label Beer 777 7 Cowens Insurance Agency 8 Chevrolet —77 8 Decatur Drive In Theater 8 Fairway —. ... ... _.7" 3 8 Farmers Feed Mill 77— 6 Holthouse Furniture —77 5 Kohne Drug Store __ 2, 5 Lugbill Auction 2 Lengerich Awnings & Railings _ 5 Model Hatchery 5 Niblick & Co 77 3 New Bremen Racing Ass’n " 7 Ohio Oil, Co ..7 7 Ohio Guernsey Breeders Ass’n .. 2 Petrie Oil Co. 8 Quality Chevrolet-Buick, Inc. 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Schwartz Ford Co., Inc 5 Stucky & Co f 2 Tony’s Tap ... 2 Teeple Truck Lines 7 5 Uhrick Bros. ............... _ 2 Rural Church Page Sponsors — 6

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday. Sept. 9, 1960.

Hurricane Donna Threat To Entire Southern Tip v . r ... -4 T . Jnu-r--—. i---Os Florida; Warn Miami

Rain Breaks Heal Wave In State Today By United Press International September's first rain pelted Indiana today and ended, perhaps for the season, a hot spell which went down in the records aS the warmest of 1960. Thunderstorms and showers fell from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River and dumped 1.36 inches of precipitation on Indianapolis, .76 of an inch on South Bend, .69 on Fort Wayne and .18 on Lafayette. By daiwn, the rainfall had moved into the southern extremes of the state. Before the rain came, however, the mercury took what may have been its final heat blast at Hoosiers. It climbed to 98 at Evansville, 96 at South Bend, 95 at Indianapolis and Fort Wayne and 94 at Lafayette, most of those readings being the hottest recorded all summer long. Below Normal Ahead The five-day outlook, reversing the 10-degrees-above-normal predictions of the last week or so, called for temperatures averaging near or slightly below normal for this time of year. Normal highs are 73 to 80 north, 79 to 84 south, and normal tows are 53 to, 571 north, 56 to 65 south. “Cooler tonight with little further change until another slight period of cooling Monday or Tuesday, the outlook said, adding that precipitation would range from around one-fourth inch In the extreme north to three-fourths or

Congo Resists U. N. Troops

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (UPI) — Police of secessionist Katanga Province forced United Nations guards at gunpoint today to permit two small planes to take off from the Elisabethville airport in defiance of U.N. orders. It was the first instance of open resistance to U.N. troops since they entered the Congo in July. It came as Guinea threatened to withdraw its troops from the U.N. command in support of Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba and his angry charges that the U.N. is interfering in the country’s internal affairs. Declares Himself Chief A short time , before, Lumumba fired three ministers who sided against him and published an order of the day to the army declaring that he has assumed the functions of chief of state and army commander. The order was two days old. The incident at Elisabethville, capital of President - Premier Moise Tshombe’s Katanga Province which has declared itself free of the rest of the Congo, began when two trucks filled with police arrived at the airport, among those ordered dosed by the U.N. command. The police demanded that the two planes be permitted to leave. Hie Police emphasized their demand with weapons.A U.N. spokesman said that, under strong protest. the U.N. airport controller ordered his men to help remove barriers from the runways so the Katanga government plane* could take off. Planes Head North The two small planes, carrying unidentified supplies and two men each, took off for the northern part of the province. It was believed they might be heading for the Kongolo area, where Lumumba’s troops were reported to have crossed into katangia from Kivu. A U.N. statement said the airbbliged to give way, while at the same time making a formal protest and stressing the grave consequences that might arise from a repetition of such incidents.’

Unemployment In U. S. Decreases

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Unemployment dropped by 229,000 in August to 3,788,000 jobless, the Labor Department reported today. A decline of 500,000 would have been normal for the month. The total number of job holders in the nation fell by 407,000 as a pickup in non - farm industries failed to develop. However, the August employment total of 68,282,000 was a record for the month. The department blamed early model changeovers in autos and continued sluggishness in steel for the disappointing decline in joblessness and the drop in the number of jobholders. If the usual August spurt in non-farm industries had occurred, it would have offset a drop, of 431,000 in farm jobs. Such a slackening in farm work is, usual in August. more south, mainly on Monday or Tuesday. In contrast to recent highs in the 90s and lows in the upper 60s or low 70s, the forecasts called for highs ranging from 78 to 90 today, lows ranging from 58 to 68 tonight, and highs ranging from the upper 70s to the low 80s Saturday. Partly cloudy and continued I “rather cool” was the outlook for Sunday. See Clearing Tonight Widely scattered showers or thundershowers were predicted for all areas of the state today except the extreme northwest. It will clear tonight, however, and fair weather will prevail Saturday.

1 Lumumba meanwhile accused J President Joseph Kasavubu of , high treason. On Monday Kasavubu and Lumumba had pro- ' claimed each other fired but since 1 then the premier has received support from Parliament. i A reported invasion of Katanga by Lumumba forces confronted i the U.N. force with its biggest . challenge since it started policing . the Congo. With the threat of a full-scale ■ civil war hanging over the steaming African nation, Lumumba, strengthened by parliamentary support, demanded the United Nations give up control of airports I and Leopoldville radio station or pull its 16,000 troops out of the country. Reorts from Elisabethville, un- ■ confirmed by any official sources, said a Lumumba force estimated at 200 to 300 men invaded northern Katanga from Kivu Province. Katanga President Moise : Tshomfbe, who has defied Lumumba for weeks in his attempt to set up an independent state, threatened recently to blow up all bridges and railways to block an invasion. It was not known whether he now had decided to carry out the threat. Tshombes defense forces were handicapped by the action of U.N, troops in seizing control of all air fields in the region and banning non-UJN. traffic. The Katanga government was preparing a major protest to Secretary General Dag 'HammarskjoW. The Belgian technical mission at Elisabethville already had protested to the Ideal U.N. command. < The U.N. force acted in the eastern Congo apparently to prove it was not discriminating against Lumumba’s forces fa closing airfields elsewhere. Thus the opposition to the U.N. command was building up on both sides. In Leopoldville Thursday, Lumumba charged the United Nations with having “violated” Its Security Council mandate.

Unemployment moved down from 4.017,000 in July to 3,788,000 in August. But because the normal, seasonal shrinkage of 500,000 was not realized, the unemployment rate shot up from 5.4 per cent for July to 5.9 per cent for August. This meant that in August 59 of every .1,000 men and women in the labor force was out of work and looking for a job: Seymour Wolfbein, the Labor > Department’s job expert, said “unemployment has continued for • at least the last quarter (three ■ months) of the year not to satisfy our expectations.” i He emphasized, however, that employment “is moving along at ' a very high plateau.” He said expansion in the number of jobs was “being braked mostly by the situation in steel.” ... - - ' Schedule Is Listed For Youth Center Richard Linn, manager of the Decatur Youth and Community Center, announced today the center’s winter schedule, which will go into effect Sunday. The community part of the building will be open from 10 a.m. until 10 p. m., Monday through Saturday. The youth room will be open from 3:30 p. m. until 10 p. m. Monday through Friday: 1 p. m. until 10 p. m. on Saturday and from 2 p. m. until 5 p. m. on Sundays. September activities will begin Monday with a Republican luncheon at 12:30 and the weekly Lions club meeting at 6:30. Tuesday, the Psi lota Xi honorary chapter will hold its meeting, the Republican women will hold a meeting at 7:30 p. m.. the Tri Kappa sorority at 7:45 and the Jaycees will hold a 7:30 meeting. Wednesday the 4 to 8 p. m. dance class will be held and on Thursday the Rotary club holds its regular meeting at 6:30, with I&M also holding a 6:30 meeting, and the Square Dance club will meet at 8 p. m. Friday a dance will be held after the Decatur and Garrett football game and on Saturday, the Rose garden and flower show will be held in the afternoon and evening. The Lions will meet on Monday the 19th, as will Boy Scout troop 62 at 7:30 and Explorer Post 2062 at 7:30 also. The dance class will be held on Wednesday and the Rotary and Lions will hold a joint meeting at 6:30 on Thursday. Friday night a dance will be held after the De-catur-New Haven football game and Sunday a reception is scheduled. The Central Soya Co. will hold a luncheon on Monday the 26th and the Lions and Boy Scout troop 62 will meet in the evening. Soya will have a luncheon on Tuesday also and on Wednesday the weekly dance class will be held. Thursday the Rotary club and the Square Dance club will meet and on Friday, the last day of the month, a dance will be held after the Yellow Jacket-Portland football affair. Some of the meetings which are listed for the same time on a certain day will be held in the different rooms of the center. In announcing the schedule, Linn also explained that he has been appointed by Governor Harold W. Handley to the governor's youth council for a three-year term. Some of the manager’s duties will be to act as a liason between all the recreation departments in the county, the various youth organizations and the gov- 1 ernor’s council and to promote : more recreation: in the county. ’ He also announced that the Rainbow Girls will hold a dance 1 at the center this Saturday from 1 8:30 until 11:30. i

MARATHON, Fla. (UPI)-(Hur-ricane Donna and its 150-mile-an-hour winds shifted slightly northward today bringing the whole Southern tip of Florida, including the populous Miami area, in range of its deadly winds and high tides. In an emergency warning at 10 a.m. e.d.t. the Miami Weather Bureau extended its hurricane warnings north of the Florida keys to Fort Lauderdale on the Atlantic Coast and Punta Gorda on the Gulf. Gale warnings were extended on the Gulf Coast northward from Punta Gorda to St. Marks, including Lake Okeechobee in the interior. They already flew over the east coast northward to Vero Beach. The Florida keys had been ex- ! petted to get the brunt of the big . storm with only gale winds of 56- [ 60 m.p.h. for Miami. Storm Pounds Cuba Northern Cuba felt the fury of ; the vicious storm today as it t swirled through into the Florida Straits and bore down on the keys. Widespread coastal damage was reported in Cuba. Residents of the island chain worked throughout the night boarding up homes, stores, fishing camps and tourist facilities. Hie sudden shift in direction apparently caught weather forecasters by surprise and an emergency warning was issued. In the strongest language it warned: “A dangerous hurricane now threatens most ot extreme south Florida.

“Safety precautions should be rushed with all possible urgency in the area of hurricane display and completed at the earliest possible moment from Fort Lauderdale to Key West and by evening on the Gulf Coast.” High Tides Predicted The Weather Bureau warned against storm tides up to 7 feet over most of the keys, ranging to as high as 11 feet in more vulnerable places. At 10 a.m. Donna was centered about 154 miles south-southeast of Miami and the same distance to the east-southeast ot Key West. The hurricane was moving toward the west-northwest at aix>ut 12 m.p.h. The Weather Bureau said it would maintain this direction and speed for 12 hours. The keys towns of Tavernier, Islamorada, Marathon and even normally busy Key West resembled western ghost towns as the hardy residents waited for the storm. Miami and Fort Lauderdale on the Gold Coast and Fort Myers and Naples on the Gulf Coast already had boarded up. • Business went on behind boards and metal storm shutters in downtown Miami in between squalls that thrqw winds up to 56 m.p.h. and slanting rain against the buildings. Mrs. Mary Cline Dies In Florida Mrs. Mary Jane Cline. 95, a resident of Adams county most of her life, died at 5 o’clock this morning at the Holy Cross hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She had been a patient in the hospital since July 14. Mrs. Cline was a native of Allen county but lived in Adams county most of her life, moving to Florida in 1958. Her husband, the late Jonah J. Cline, served as Adams county assessor for many years. She was born in Allen county Oct. 6, 1864, a daughter of John R. and Martha Robinson-Shaffer. Her father was a former Allen county commissioner. She was married in 1888 to Jonah J. Cline, who preceded her in death in 1942. Mrs. Cline, who taught in public schools for a number of years, was a member of the Methodist church. Surviving are three sons, Clyde, John and Harold Cline, all of Fort Lauderdale. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home in this city, the Rev. F. Hazen Sparks officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Sunday until time of the services.

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Man Is Critically Injured Near City Robert Edward Bebout, 33, route 1, Monroe, was critically injured about 5:45 o’clock this morning when he was struck by a car while walktag along y. S. 33. miles east and IV< miles south of Debtor. Bebout was walking his dog along the highway and stepped onto the pavement and was hit by the car driven by Ruth Marie Stucky, 30, route 1, Willshire. 0. The Stucky woman had just passed an oncoming truck and the headlights of the truck partially ' blinded her. It was just about sunrise and was also raining. She felt the impact and saw the dog , running. She thought she had Mt the dog, but upon getting out to investigate she found Bebout. The truck driver said he looked into his rear view mirror and saw Bebout step onto the pavement just before he was struck. Bebout was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital suffering from a very severe laceration to the head and face and a skull fracture. He was still on the critical list this afternoon. Sheriff Merle Affolder and state trooper Gene Rash investigated the accident, estimating about SSO damages to the car.

Rail Strike Forces Central Soya Layoff Tom Allwein, manager ot Central Soya’s Decatur plant, announced today that the plant has been forced to temporarily lay off approximately 50 men as a result of the dispute between the Pennsylvania railroad and the Transport Workers Union, which baa resulted in a complete shutdown of the railroad’s operations. The Pennsylvania is the only railroad serving the plant directly. Allwein said that the extent erf future layoffs would depend upon how long the strike continues. At the present time, operations of all departments have been severely curtailed. “Orders from our feed dealers for Master Mix feeds are being taken care of,” Allwein said. “To do this,” he pointed out, "it has been necessary to make increased use of trucks for direct delivery, to move materials by truck between the plant and the Nickel Plate and Erie railroads in Decatur, and to have some orders delivered from other Central Soya plants.” Others Better Off Other industries in Decatur are faring better, so far, than the Soya. George Auer, plant manager, reported that the local General Electric has not felt much of the strike. The- only product shipped out is the waste material, and that is being stored for the time being. The motors from the local plant are handled by truck, as are most of the parts coming inot the plant. The Wayne Novelty and KrlckTyndall Tile Co., have reported some very minor inconveniences, but nothing that has not already been taken care of. Both places can foresee no slowdown in production. Decatur Industries and the Decatur Casting Co. have had no trouble because of the strike. Decatur Industries, with its new plant, has other rail accesses, and does the majority of its shipping by truck. The Casting Co. has a sufficient inventory of sand, pigiron and coke on hand to last for quite some time, although it Is possible that a very long continuation ot the strike could cause some shortages. Duo Marine is another firm receiving raw materials by truck, and has not been bothered by the strike.