Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 228. ,

First Debate By Candidates

CHICAGO (UPl)—The two mat jor presidential candidates, in their first TV debate, took sum* mations of their campaign stands on domestic issues directly into the homes of millions of Americans Monday night. John F. Kennedy, speaking first, said he felt that America was not doing enough at home to keep ahead in a world of great pressures. Richard M. Nixon, speaking second, said he believed America was “aheadtof the Russians” but would have to keep working at it. It was the “great debate” carried by four major television and radio chains. Whether there was a winner, or will be after the three succeeding debates, will be determined only at the polls in November. The principals seemed happy with the show. Nixon: "It was a good sharp ex-' change of views.” Kennedy: “A very useful exchange of views.” One political observer compared the show to the early rounds of a prize fight with the opponents boxing carefully and feeling out each other’s strength without getting into a real slugging match. Nixon’s advisers said they expect to be getting reports within the next few days indicating the impact their candidate carried and how his campaign pitch is being received. First In History It was the first time in the nation's history that two presidential candidates had appeared together to debate campaign issues. This one was to be confined to domestic afairs. Os the three to come two win deal with general subjects and the last with international problems. The only comparable clash between two top political leaders occurred in this same state of Illinois 102 years ago when Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, opponents in a contest for a U.S. Senate seat, debated the issue of slavery on the eve of the Civil War. Douglas won the election* ■ - ■ Neither Kennedy nor Nixon advanced any new programs during the meeting in a Chicago studio of the Columbia Broadcasting System. They repeated many of the same themes at which they have pounded in their aerial campaign swings across the nation. Kennedy asserted the nation should move ahead faster, while Nixon said the country was ahead of the Russians and had enjoyed greater progress under President Eisenhower than former President Truman. The candidates agreed they could not discuss domestic issues —the subject of the debate —without touching on their relation to foreign problems. Speaks First Kennedy was the first speaker and departed immediately from the pre-arranged topic because “the question this year is whether the world can exist half -slave, half free.” “I think it will depend in great measure upon what we do in thei United States, on the kind of so-1 ciety we build, on the kind of |

JiOfl SO BRIEF CASE His leather brief case on the rostrum, Cuban Premier Fidel Castro delivers a marathon address to the U. N. General Assembly.

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strength we maintain,” he said.

Kennedy said the question before the American people was whether the nation was doing enough to meet the world’s problems and if it was as strong as it should be. "I should make it very clear that I do not think we are doing enough, that I am not satisfied as an American with the progress we are making,” he said. Kenney called for more elective government action in the face of lagging steel production and “the lowest economic growth of any major industrialized society.” Nixon agreed “we cannot discuss our internal afairs in the United States without recognizing that they have a tremendous bearing on our international position” and that the nation must keep movingt o meet the competition from the Communists in Russia and China. But he. rejected any idea the United States has been standing still. Makes Comparisons Comparing the country’s achievements under Eisenhower with those of Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nixon said: —‘We have built more schools in this 7% (years) than in the previous 20 years.” —“We have developed more hydroelectric power in this 7% years than was developed in any previous administration in history.” —“We find more (hospitals) have been built in this administration than in the previous administration. The same is true of highways.” —The gross national product under Truman increased 11 per cent in 7 years, under Eisenhower 19 per cent in 7 years. —Wages went up five times as much under Eisenhower as they did under Truman, while prices climbed five times as much in the Truman administration as (Continued on page 8)

Ike And Macmillan Urge U. N. Action

NEW YORK (UPI)— President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan called today for “full support’ of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and urged the United Nations to get down to “serious, sober, and constructive work.” The President and prime minister. together for 2% hours, urged the assembly to go to work on the problem of disarmament. The United States is pushing a resolution that would instruct the major powers to resume the 10nation talks which the Russians broke up in Geneva when they walked out last June 27. White House News Secretary James C. Hagerty, speaking on behalf of himself and British spokesman John Russell, disclosed the President's and prime minister’s determination to resist to the

Decatur Lions Hear Congo Missionary An up-to-date repor| by the Rev. Richard Steiner, recently, returned missionary-minister to the Congo, featured the second meeting of the Decatur Lions club season. Rev. Steiner, • currently teaching at Hartford high school, was one of many missionaries forced to leave the Congo because of the current troubles there. The Congo, with a population of 13 million people, has become a physical battleground as the tribes rally behind one of the four men trying to assume the control of the government, and an idealogical battleground, as the east and west struggle to enlist the African nation in their respective camps. Some of the basic needs for the rich productive area, as outlined by Rev. Steiner, are, first of all, a stable government. The nation is also suffering from economic problems. There is no lack of work to be done, but most of the businessmen have fled the country because of the fighting, and there is nobody in the various businesses to assume the managerial responsibilities. Education is also a problem in the Congo. A large part of the education for the people came froth the missionaries. With their departure, or withdrawal into Leopoldville, the schooling has dropped off. There are two universities in the country but the civil war situation has hampered their effectiveness and, to date, there are very few graduates. Social problems, a difference in the habits of the various tribes, have added fuel to the strife. These tribes have, as of now, failed to resolve their differences, established over the years. Noah Steury was program chairman for the evening, and club members interested in the bus trip to Columbia City for the De-catur-Columbia City football game were reminded to contact Frank Lybarger. More plans were made for the annual broom and light bulb sale, to be conducted October 10 and 11.

' utmost Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s demand that Hammarskjold be ousted and his place taken by a three-nation committee composed of one Communist, one neutralist, and one Westerner. TTie British-American statement said the President and prime ; minister “were in complete agreement as to the vital role of the United Nations, particularly in the ‘ Congo crisis and the need to g<ve full support to the secretary general in his task. “They greatly hope that after a stormy start, the General As- , sembly will now be able to concentrate on serious, sober and 1 constructive work, notably in the ! matter of disarmament.” U.S. Secretary of State Chris-/ ’ tian A. Herter and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home joined the President and prime minister after breakfast. Later the President received Cambodia’s Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Deputy Prime Minister Aklilou Ab Wold of Ethiopia. The President, according to Hagerty, has no plans to see any other foreign leaders after his 2:30 p.m. appointment with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. He will return to Washington by air in mid-afternoon. Nor does the President have any present plans to return to New York for another address to the United Nations. Hagerty declined to comment on reports that Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser had promised Eisenhower they would oppose Khrushchev's plan to alter the structure of the United Nations. The spokesman said he would not discuss private talks the President had with world leaders. Other tete-a-tetes between visiting heads of state turned the UjSf. session into a “semi-summit” conference. French President Charles de Gaulle stayed home in Paris. Macmillan indicated he would see Khrushchev as well as Eisenhower during his New York stay. Since he began private chats last Thursday with high government oficials attending the U.N. session, Eisenhower has met with leaders from 10 uncommitted or neutralist countries. He saw Indian Prime‘Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic late Monday in a bld to woo neutralist support for the United Nations and its secretary general, Dag Hammarskjold abject of Khrushchev’s wrath. *

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Several Tax Rate Cuts Made This Morning As State Studies Budgets

Late Bulletins GENEVA (UPI) —The United States proposed at the three-power nnclear test ban talks today that a moratorium not exceeding 27 months be set on small underground nuclear blasts. NEW YORK (UPI) —Russia will participate in the New York World’s Fair scheduled for 1964 and 1965, the fair committee announced today. Repentant Widow In Jail, Seeking Bail TIPTON, Ind. (UPI)—A repentant widow sat in Tipton County Jail today, hoping for early release on bail, as a court moved to recoup some of the funds she spent out of an inheritance resulting from the “prank” drowning of her husband. Sgt. Walter R. Van Vickie, a member of the Indiana National Guard, drowned Aug. 6 when some of his buddies allegedly dumped him in a river at South Bend as a “prank”. One guardsman faces involuntary manslaughter charges as a result of the death. Mrs. Hester Van Vickie, the widow, was returned on a child neglect charge last Friday frorti Morristqym, Tenn. The charge was issued after she left her children in boarding homes and departed with some acquaintances on a trip. Her attorney, Samuel Powers. Frankfort, said he hoped to have her released soon on bail. Circuit Judge Oliver Wheatley named the Citizens National Bank of Tipton as guardian of Mrs. Van Vickie’s financial affairs for the next 60 days. Evidence in a guardianship hearing was that she had purchased a house and an automobile with some of the funds received as a result of the husband’s death.

State Seeks Relief From Court Ruling

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Judge John L. Niblack today modified an injunction and permitted the State of Indiana to resume the payment of bills from past appropriations of the State Budget Committee. Niblack indicated he intended all along for the state auditor to be free to keep the government in operation from a fiscal standpoint, but only intended to prevent paying bills from future appropriations of the committee. Niblack, of Marion Circuit Court, modified the order issued Monday to insert the word "future” and thus clear the way for State Auditor Albert Steinwedel to pay current bills and obligations. Niblack acted in response to an appeal by Deputy Atty. Gen. Richard M. Givan that the judge "clarify” his ruling because the state was “hesitant to proceed with any payments.” The clarification, Givan said, made it unnecessary for him to ask a stay of execution of the order. However, Givan filed for a new trial, but Niblack turned him down, thus paving the way for the attorney general’s ofice to appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court. , But Niblack made it plain his ruling will prevent the State Budget Committee from appropriating any future money for state spending as long as it is composed of members of the legislature. This meant Indiana still has a problem, but not so immiment a problem as it had 24 hours earlier when the ruling was issued. Governor Handley, who expressed fears Monday oyer the results of the injunction, said this morning at a news conference that the next move “is up to the

Heart Attack Fatal To I & M Official Martine F. Schonefeld, 58, of Fort Wayne, division general superintendent of Indiana & Michigan Electric Co., was dead on arrival at 2:45 p. m. Monday at the Lutheran hospital, following a heart attack at the company’s office in Fort Wayne. Mr. Schonefeld, a veteran of 35, years of service with I & M, joined the company in 1925 as an engineer. He became superintendent of distribution in 1930, and was named general superintendent in 1955. He was a member of Calvary Presbyterian church, Phi Kappa Phi fraternity, the American Institure of Electrical Engineers, and the Fort Wayne Engineers’ club. Surviving arc his wife, D. Berniece; three daughters, Mrs. Catherine Warren, and Mrs. Marilyn Schultz of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Phyllis Beaverson, Findlay, O.; a brother, Albert of Columbia City, and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Krick and Mrs. Irene Hicks of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Wednesday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home, the Rev. Laverne Sandy officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p. m. today. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with chance of some rain east portion tonight or Wednesday. A little cooler tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight in the 50s north, 55 to 61 south. High Wednesday 60s north, 70s south. Sunset today 6:34 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:38 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and a few showers likely. Little temperature changes.

attorney general.” Says Hands Tied “My hands are tied at this point,” Handley said. “I feel sure the attorney general will find some way to circumvent this thing.” Handley called “nonsense” a suggestion that he resolve the issue by appointing non-legislators to the committee. “I have no authority to appoint non-legislators to the committee,” Handley said. “The law is very specific about requiring the budget commttee to be a bipartisan body made up of lawmakers. To my way of thinking, they make the best members anyway.” I Niblack ruled the committee unconstitutional because it violates the separation of powers into legislative, judicial and executive branches. Niblack held that the act creating the committee is “constitutional and lawful” but the presence of our lawmakers on it is not. Niblack said the committee could continue to function if Handley replaced the legislators with non-legislators. No Special Session The implication was that it will take an act of the legislature to straighten out the situation. Bu Handley made it clear he did not intend to call a special session if he can find any other way out of the dilemma. The next regular session is scheduled for next January. State Sen. Nelson Grills. D-Indi-anapolis, whose suit against State Auditor Albert Steinwedel resulted in the Niblack ruling, called the ruling a “landmark in constitutional history.” Grills opposes the principle of the legislature delegating its authority to appropriate funds to a committee.

The state board of tax adjustment, meeting today in the Adams county court house to consider the several budgets of the county, have already made several cuts. Under consideration this morning were the county general fund, welfare, the various township budgets and the Adams Central school budget. Blue Creek and French townships and Adams Central school budgets, were all approved as they were, but all others had some 'lvft'id of cut. Hartford township had the largest single cut, as five cents was lopped off the tuition fund. Root township had a threecent reduction of its tuition fund, also. Union township took a threecent slice in the special school fund, and Wabash lost a penny from the same category. Preble township’s poor relief fund was reduced one cent, and one cent was taken off the Monroe township rate. Three cents has been cut from the county general fund, and the county welfare fund has been cut back by two cents. This afternoon, the adjusters will continue their hearings, considering libraries, civil cities, and school cities. Three townships, St. Mary’s, Washington, and Jefferson, also are yet to be heard. Reassert Berlin's J Four-Power Status BERLIN (UPI) — The United States, Britain and France sent another note to the Soviet Union today reasserting Berlin’s fourpower status and protesting anew against Communist travel restrictions in the city. The note, signed by the Western commandants in Berlin and delivered by French Commandant Gen. Jean LaComme to Soviet Commandant Maj. Gen. Nikolai Zakharov, also warned the Russians that they will be held responsible for any interference with the three Western air corridors to the isolated city. The Western note replied to a Soviet note of Sept. 13 which in turn answered an Allied protest over East German travel restrictions. The new message stressed that the Western Allies retain full rights throughout Berlin, and that East Berlin is not part of East Germany. The East Germans claim all four-power agreements on the city are dead.

Advertising Index Advertiser Page A&P Tea Co., Inc. . 3 Ashbauchers’ Tin Shop 2 Arnold Lumber Co., Inc. 2 Adams County Farm Bureau Co-op 6 Burk Elevator Co. ..... 5 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 7 Bower Jewelry Store 3 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp 2 Evans Sales & Service 5 Ellepberger Bros., auctioneers _ 5 Fasteeth ... 4 Ford .. ... 8 Fort Wayne Tent & Awning Co. 3 F. O. 0. Eagles 7 Fairway 3, 8 Gerber’s Super Market 8 G. E. Club 7 Haugks 2 Pauline Haugk, Real Estate .... 5 Kohne Drug Store 4,5 Kohne Window & Awning Co. .. 2 Oldsmobile 6 Parr’s Tire & Implement Service 7 Petrie Oil Co ... 2 R. K. Parrish. M.D 8 Quality Chevrolet-Buick, Inc. ... 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5Schafers 4, 6 Stucky & Co. 8 Schwartz Ford Co., Inc 4* Smith Drug Co . 3 Sutton Jewelry Store 3 St. Mary’s & Blue Creek Conservation Club 7 Teeple Truck Lines 5 Universal Equipment Operators School a... 5 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc. ... 2

Adams Central Land Judging Team Tops Adams Central finished in the top spot in a county high school land judging contest held at the Joe L. Isch farm in French township Monday. The Adams Central team will now represent Adams county in the district contest, to be held October 8. Adams Central, under coach Martin Watson, finished with a total of 503 points, followed closely by the Berne-French team, coached by Doyle Lehman, who scored 498 points. Roy Mazelen's 174 points were high for the Central team, with Claude Striker scoring 171, Dwight Moser tallying 158 and David Sommers finishing with 155. Top man for Berne-French was Richard Yoder with 170, followed by Max Reinhard with 168, Gregg Liechty with 160 and Jim Lefever with 155. Decatur finished third with 482 points, Geneva was fourth with 442, a second Adams Central team tallied 424, and Hartford scored 409. Historical Society Meets This Evening The Adams county Historical society will hold its September meeting tonight at the Decatur public library. The program, starting at 8 p.m., will feature Miss Joyce Allen, of Decatur county, who will present an Indiana folk-song program. Party Headquarters Opened By Democrats Alex Campbell, national Democratic committeeman from Indiana, formally opened the county headquarters Monday night by encouraging all the people present to “get to work” for the candidates in which they believed. After Campbell's address, coffee and doughnuts were served, and most of those present remained to see the television debate between Snator John F. Kennedy and vtce president Richard M. Nixon.

Nasser Urges Ike, K. Meet

UNITED NATIONS (UPI) wPresident Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic called today for a face-to-face meeting of President Elsenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev to ease world tensions. In his first speech before the U.N. General Assembly he demanded the admission of Communist China to the United Nations and followed the Communist bloc in demanding that leftist Premier Patrice Lumumba be restored to power in the Congo. With Khrushchev sitting in the General Assembly hall and Eisenhower represented by U.S. Ambassador James J. Wadsworth, Nasser said: “We suggest that the General Assembly recommend that the two great leaders should?' under the standard of the United Nations, meet either by themselves or together with whom you select among those who are present here der the aegis of the United Nadr the aegis of the United Nations, guiding rules for a new attempt toward disarmament.” “Can far Peace” “We—the non-aligned natiohs—are entitled to make the call for peace,” Nasser said. “. . .Subsequently, we cannot hesitate to participate in laying down general rules which can lead us to fruitful results. - “We cannot help but call for the removal of military bases. We cannot help but demand that an end be put to the nuclear weapons

Austrian Plane Crashes, Seven Survive Crash MOSCOW (UPI) _ An Austrian airlines plane with 37 persons aboard crashed in fog and rain near Moscow Monday night, the Austrian embassy announced today. Thirty persons were killed. Os the seven survivors, two were American. The British-built Viscount was on a routine flight from Vienna to Moscow with 31 passengers and a crew of six when it crashed into a wooded area near the village of Krukovo, seven miles from Moscow, broke apart and caught fire. The two Americans who survivied were Maj. Edward Wooten, Wilmington, N. C., assistant U. S. air attache here, and Maj. Willis H. Knipe, Kokomo, Ind., the assistant military attache. Both were hospitalized in Moscow’s Vishnezky Clinic. Both were burned. The Soviet Tass news agency said the plane fell in a forest. The Tass report said 25 passengers and five crew members were killed, and five passengers and one crew member slightly bruised and another passenger seriously hurt. “The cause of the disaster is being ascertained with the participation of representatives of the Austria! airlines who arrived in Moscow today,” Tass said. Wooten ami Knipe have their families with them in Moscow. Each has two children. Their wives were by their bedsides during the day. Wooten was described as in good condition, although suffering from burns on the left thigh and arm. Knipe suffered serious, burns. The crash occurred as the plane was attempting to land at Moscow's Scheremtevo Airport. Early this afternoon, it was still not possible to piece together a completely coherent account. A Russian rescue worker told United Press International that “it was terribly dark and rainy and difficut to reach the scene."

test and that the big powers get rid of the huge piles stored in their dumps. “We cannot help to urge the establishment of a system of controls conducive to tranquility and security. We cannot help to call for a continuous reduction of the armaments budgets’.” Both Eisenhower and Khrushchev were present in New York but they have avoided meeting Nasser said the 95 delegations attending the assembly session had heard Eisenhower declare that the United States is ready to resume disarmament negotiations and Khrushchev state his views on the question. “I wonder what we are waiting for. . .to ask them immediately to embark without delay on what they have put before the General Assembly?” he asked. Moderate Toward West Nasser’s wide - ranging speech was generally moderate toward the West on cold war issues and the U.A.R. leader carefully stayed out of Khrushchev’s campaign to oust Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and replace him with a three-power presidium to run the United Nations. He called for the immediate seating of Red China in the U.N. accused the world organization of dodging responsibility on the Palestine question and demanded an end to French “imperialism” in Algeria. (Continued on page six)

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