Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1960 — Page 1

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Day Slated As Cabinet Aide

PALM BEACH, Fta. (UPD— President-elect John F. Kennedy, barring .unforeseen compMcatt'ans. will compete his cabinet today by fcrmaJly selecting J. Edward Day, onetime eissociade of Adtai , ■* E. Stevenson end naw » Oalifor- . nia insurance executive, as postmaster general. I Kennedy flew (to Prim Beach , from Wesb’mgfon with Day Friday night and dte two men were ' expected to Spprair >e|t a joint press conference here by midctaW Before leaving * sktsft . *■ ’ of ItyaitoWtan MiM>ridia,. reunion with his wife and two toiildren, itfhe named his 35-year-oJd brother, Robert, attorney 'general and picked C. Douglas Dillan, under secretary of state to the Eisenhower adminisrtraitron, as secretary of treasury in toe new government.. En route to Ftorida aßcrand the Kennedy family .plane, the Caroline, the prestaeot-deat, Day and the fortune a'.toroey general conferred at some length, to a pri* vate campantmenrt. Former Stevenson Aide Day, 46. is vice president in charge of western operattona for the Prudential L’fe Insurance Co. based to Los Angeles. When Stevenson was governor of Illinois, Day served as an assistant for legal and legislative matters. He also served under Stevenson as Illiniais state insurance commissioner. In the history of the Post Ofitoe Department, Jess M. Donaldson was the only postmaster general chosen from the .ranks of career postal employes. He was appointed by President Truman. Most cither postmasters general to relatively modem times have been chosen from the ranks of top-flight politic tans. Day has (been identified with business and civic activities more town potyttas. He was an honor student at toe Harvard Law School and pnaiaticed taw to Ch> <MOD where be came to know Stevenson. Switches Base to Florida For practical I purposes, the uiffl'ilWiit'Tircit'i OMbtto Florida Etafap nW mailed • swttcti to his base of cper.iattfons from hie home m Washington to me seaside ritoa of Ms father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former arrtbastsador to

S4OO In Prizes In Home Contest

■ More than S4OO in prizes will go to some 20 winners in the second annual outdoor home lighting contest, which closes to new entrants Monday, it was announced today. First place in the city-wide contest win be a SIOO government bond, awarded by the Decatur Daily Democrat. First prizes of a $25 bond each will be awarded in the four city districts. The contest is backed by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, which urges all Decatur residents to beautify their homes for Christmas. Stratton Tuesday The Stratton Place association will judge their contest Tuesday between 7 and 9 p. m., Mrs. Herman H. Kreuckeberg, chairman of the committee, announced today. Stratton Place residents wha have also entered the city contest will be judged again Thursday between 7 and 10 p. m. for the city grand prize award. Prizes of $25, $lO and $5 will be awarded by the Stratton Place association for first, second, and * third places in that area. Other members of the committee are Mrs. D. A. Swickard and Mrs. Ferris Bower. Homestead Friday The McMiillen Foundation will

ENTRY BLANK I wish to enter the 1960 Decatur-wide outdoor Christmas decoration contest for homes. I understand that four district prizes of a $25 bond each, and a grand prize of a SIOO bi»nd, plus prizes for the Homestead, Stratton Place, and McMillen Decatur homes will be given; I further understand that the judging of the area north of Monroe street, including homes and Stratton Place, will be Thursday, Dec. 22, and for the area south of Monroe street, including the Homestead, will be Friday, Dec. 23, all between the hours of 7 p. m. and 10 p. m. r Name w Address, DISTRICT, (Fill in and return to The Decatur Dally Democrat, Decatur, Ind.; deadline for receiving entries is Monday, Dec. 19, for the city-wide contest. Applications just for the Stratton Place or Homestead prizes are not necessary.)

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— Great Britain, who was due here next week wjfofibis wife, Rose. .. The presidenit-eleQt hoped to remsiin 'here until edriy January, •with some slight possibility of has halving to zip back to Washington I for one day next week, fie was attempting to avoid toe necessity of even a one-ctayreturn until after the Christmas, While theme I/Was no 5 external evidence of jta toe Secret Service was certain to tighten the seour-ity-air.-jqnd the president-elect and his"' ftafiSjfaly because- on toe : arrest of a 73-year-old man in Palm Beach who sadd heuptanned to assassinate the president-elect in a suicidal “human bomb” dynamite explosion. File Applications For Holiday Tour Decatur area residents who wish to take advantage of the special New Year’s Eve trip to New York City, that includes the regular sightseeing tours, plus a chance to spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square with thousands of fun-loving New Yorkers, should fill in the application in today’s Decatur Daily Democrat. , The cost of the tour is $99.75 pfer person on a two-to-the-room basis. The tour will leave Decatur at 2:34 p. m. Friday, December 30 • and return at 2:38 p. m. Monday, January 2, which is a legal holiday. Included in the cos tof the tour are the round trip railway fare, rooms with bath in the Hotel Edison, near Broadway; continental breakfast both ways on the train; lunch Saturday at the hotel; dinner Sunday night and the floor show with top entertainers at the International Theatre Restaurant; and a Sunday afternoon tour of New York City, including a tour through the United Nations buildtag.’* ■ V’ - ■ -•». < A' patapUet with foil, information concerntag the trip is available at the of the Decatur Daily Democrat.

> also make awards during the 1 Thursday night contest. Details • of this program have not yet been s announced. The Homestead judging will be - from 7 p. m. until 10 p. m. Frit day, the same time as the rest of r the area south of Monroe street, f Doyle Collier and Harold Hoff--1 man, co-chairmen of the Homestead Christinas lighting contest, i said this morning. , All persons in Decatur, wheths er they think their display will r win the grand prize, or not, are invited to enter the contest, so that the judges rhay have a fair i comparison of all displays. r Districts Given The district must be marked, i together with the street address, • so that the judges <can find the i homes entered in the contest. r Districts are: i Distaict one: North of Monroe . west of the Pennsylvania . railroad. * , s District two: North of Monroe s street, east of the Pennsylvania I railroad. District three: South of Monroe ! street, east of Winchester and . Second street. Districa four: South of Monroe street, west of Winchester and. 1 Second street.

Catholic Schools To Resume Monday Decatar Catholic high and St. Joseph grade school wiH both have school Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week, despite the Friday fire which destroyed ’ the stage area of the school auditorium, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt announced this morning. The Christmas musical, for which the stage was being decorated, has been moved to the Decatur public high school auditorium, Msgr. Schmitt added, at the same time, 8 p. m. Sunday. Students in the Catholic high school returned to the school building Friday afternoon, and helped dean up the water and smoke. No floor damage occurred to the auditorium, other than the stage, nor to the gym, the Monsignor reported. The Red Cross served coffee, sandwiches, and doughnuts to the firemen and volunteer workers from 12:30 p. m. until 2 p. m. Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the local chapter, reported that Mrs. Arthur Miller and Mrs. Robert Johnson helped her dispense the refreshments. The first gallon of coffee was furnished by Dick’s Grill,-and the Sisters of St Agnes provided two gallons of hot water for additional instant coffee made by the Red Cross workers. No estimate of the total cost of damage to the stage area and smoke damage to the classrooms could be given as yet. ”—fThanks To Helpers Msgr. Schmitt asked that the thanks of the Catholic school system and parishioners be given to those who helped, and especially to the Decatur school board and superintendent W. Guy Brown for the use of the school auditorium Sunday evening, to the Red Cross for help, and to Dick Linn and the Decatur Youth and Community Center for the use of their cleanup equipment. No one was reported as injured, either by the fire department, which used six regulars and 18 volunteers in fighting the fire for two hours. Adams Central FFA Is Judging* Winner The four-member first team of Adams Central FFA won the county crops 4-H and FFA judging contest, held in Bluffton Friday from 9 a. m. until 4p. m., county agent Leo N. Seltenright said this morning. The Adams Central team, coached by Martin Watson, consisted of Paul Hirschy, Dwight Moser, Roger Pyle, and Gary Workinger. Hirschy also was the high individual scorer, and Moser was fourth high individually. Berne-French Second The Berne-French team, coached by Doyle Lehman, placed second, with three team members winning hdhors in the top five individual judging contest. John Rumple, who placed second, Stanley Isch, who placed third. Max Reinhard, who placed fifth, and Earl Kennel are members of the team. The top two winners in the county will judge in the district contest next April. Adams Central’s second team placed third, and Berne’s second team placed fourth, while Geneva and Hartford placed fifth and sixth. , Several Testa Given • . .The contest was held in conjunction with the Wells county contest, but the two contests were scored separately. The county agents of Adams, Wells, and Allen counties put together the displays that were judged, and the same displays will also be used in the Allen county judging contest later. The entrants had to score and give the classes in samples of wheat, oats, soybeans and small legume seeds. In addition, they had to identify 20 different samples of weed seeds, 20 samples of crop seeds, sort and grade a class of market corn according to the regular grading system, and pass a* quiz on agronomy practices. '• 5 ' •■ ••I X’- v ’ Woman Is Killed As Two Autos Collide NORTH VERNON, Ind. (UPD— Mrs. Alfred Gossman, 58, Butlerville, was killed early today when an automobile driven by her busband, Alfred, was hit by -another car on U.S. 50 near here.

Decotur, Indiana, Saturday, Dec. 17, 1960.

World’s Worst Aviation Disaster Killed At Least 2. 135 Persons In New York

NEW YORK <LRPI)—The DCB jertitoar and the Super C'anateltation which collided over New York and fell on, the city with loss of at least 135 lives should never have oome closer than ffiive males if bath had kept on their ordered approach patterns, lit was revealed today. A team of 29 investi®ators led by (two members of the Civil Aeronautics Board and Elwood R. Quesada, head of the Federal Aviatfon Agency, launched a massive probe of ithe world’s worst aviation di.s®ister on the 57th anraiversairy today of the first flight of the Wright Brothers’ plane. The death toll surpassed the all-time record of 129 Air Force men kii&led in al 0124 Globemaster crash near Tokyo to 1953 and the 1956 collision over the Gfand Canyon killing 128 persons aboard 'United Air Lanes and TWA planes —the same lines involved in Friday’s tragedy. One hundred and twenty-seven persons in the two planes were killed plus at least eight on the ground. 83 Aboard Jet Die Eighty-three qf the 84 persons aboard the 575 mile an hour UAL jet from Chicago died when it plummeted from snowy skies like a missile .into a Brooklyn residential street at 10:37 aan. EST. The fantastic impact of the halfblock dong plane and the accompanying explosions and hotocaust killed seven persons on the street, in a fonenal parlor and the “Pillar of Fire” Methodist Church. Twelve persons were injured, ta», cadtioaUy . , - - A total of 134 bodies had been taken (to morgues. Firemen still dug through the nubble of Brooklyn’s Sterling Ptace today. There was uncertainty about toe fate of a woman tin a pink Ford on which part of the DCB fell. One fireman said he saw .the woman gat out but her whereatborits was not known. None of ithe 44 persons on the TWA prop-driven ConsteUaition from Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, survived when it exploded into jlhree pieces in toe adr and fell on ithe edge of toe Miller Army Air Field on Staten Island, 11, mites southwest across the narrows entrance to New York harbor from the UAL crash site. No Doubt Planes Hit The fast shined of doubt the DCS and the ConsteUaition did collide in flight was removed when one of the jet’s four engines was found embedded to the wreckage of itne TWA ptane on Staten Istand. Thje one survivor and sole witness! to wbat happened in toe sky was ill-year-old Stephen Baltz, son of W. S. Baltz, voice president and gendnad counsel of the Admiral Corp, from Wilmette, Hl. The boy was in critical conddtton. His father said ait Methodist Hospital this son had managed to say, “Hello, Dad,” and tried to smite, but couldn’t. 'Preyfcusly Stephen had told e doctor of looking out toe window at the “fairytend” scene of snow falling below, .then a sudden “explosion” and bolding tight to his seat until he was thrown clear of the plane an a snowbank from fast Monday's blizzard. Quesad®. and Alan S. Boyd, a Advertising Index Advertiser Page American Legion 7 Adams Theater 3 Beavers Oil Service ............ ,5 Bower Jewelry Store 3, 6 Burk Elevator Co. 5 Bower Hardware Co. - 6 Citizens Telephone Co. ... 8 Evans Sales & Service 5 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. ...... 8 Fairway 3 First State Bank of Decatur .... 6 First Baptist Church 3 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home ... 3 Goodyear Service Store ........ 7 Husnxann’s Decorating House ..4 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. 3, 5 Sherwin-Williams Co. 7 Teepile Truck Lines 5 Uhrick Broe. 6,7, 8 Vost Gravel-Readymix, Inc. .... 8 Zwick Funeral Home \ 4 Church Page Sponsors — 2

■f « ;' — Rescue wortera gather around the giant tail section of a Chicago-to-New York United Airlines r-C A J n t J vhlctf feU ’“to the street in Brooklyn, N. Y., after a midair collision with another passenger ptehe, a TWA Super Constellation. Both planes were attempting instrument landings in a snow storm.

CAB member, .revealed that shart•ly befai c the ditaster the TWA I Ofoateliaifeji received permtaston by taafftc controllers to descend from 6,000 to 5,000 feet on its ap- ; proaicti to La Guardia . It was over Ldnden, N.J., at the time. Flying By Instruments The UAL jet also, was flying at ' 5,000 feet over iPreston, N.J,, where lit was ordered to keep in a ciirciulair pattern until at wias notified to begin its approach far ' a landing at Idlewild. Bath planes were on instrument flying. Quesada and Boyd said the two Jptanes jhad fhgiht .paittenns which i should have kept them osr pairai- ! tel cowsas five miles apart at a minimum iaind 10 miles at a mammum. The inference was that one ar bath was off course. Quesada said he had listened to ■ tape recordings by bath pitots to * canitirol towers ithncughout their eaisdward flights and there had been no bint of trouble on either plane. Three 'infants died with their mothers lin the Gnashes, two on ■ toe TWA plane and one iin the UAL jetliner. It was the first jet i crash involving passengers in toe : nation. The DCB missed by only one black St. Augustine’s parochial school where 1,000 children were ; in classes. The fire roaring tram the jet's i fuel tanks set six brownstone tenements aflame and brought residents running m panic into the street. Apparently none of the occupants of those bufk&g.s was killed. Amidst the devastation au-j tomobiles exploded one by one as ■ reached their gas tanks.

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K. C Essay Contest Winners Announced David Terveer, grand knight, and Leo Alberding, youth committee chairman for the Decatur council of the Knights of Columbus, today announced the winners of the essay contest sponsored by the local council. The contest was for Catholic junior high school students in the area served by the council, including New Haven, Decatur. HessenUassel, Monroeville and Besancon. Jane Gerardot, of St. John the Baptist school, New Haven, was awarded first prize of $lO in cash. Second prize of $5 went to Beverly Knight of the Hessen Cassel Catholic school. Third prize of $2 went to Daniel Heiman of Decatur St. Joseph’s; fourth, fifth and sixth prizes of $1 each, respectively, went to Roberta Miller, Hessen Cassel. Sharope Boese, Hessen Cassel, and Daniel Butler of New Haven St. John's. Honorable mention was given to Joy Deßolt, Teresa Heiman, Daniel Durkin, all of Decatur St. Jos- ■ eph's, and Mary Catherine Giant of Monroeville St.. Rose. There were 225 entries received and council officials expressed enthusiasm over the acceptance and cooperation displayed by teachers and students. Local members, who I served as judges, stated the majorI ity of the essays were accurate and well written. Christmas Program At School Sunday The public is invited to attend the annual Christmas program of the Decatur high school in the school auditorium Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock.-The program will be presented by the high school choir and band. High school seniors who will assist in “hosting” the ev&nt inI elude Carolyn Aftolder, Grace Kelsey, Janet Kelsey, Janet Kiess, Mary E. Snyder, Jerry Angle, Kenrieth Bleeke, Barry EUis, J Larry Hall, Tom Johnson and Fred Lehrman. » INDfcWA WEATHER Fair and cold tonight. Sunday fair, continued rather cold, tow tonight 6to 14, high Sunday near 3ft. \ Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and continued rather cold.

30 Killed In German Crash

MUNICH. Germany (UPI) — A U.S. Air Farce twin-engined Convadr talking American children to England for Christmas crashed and hit a street ear dh the heart of Munich today, spewing femes into a crowd of Christmas shoppers. ■Pdice said "30 persons were hilled outright. Estimates of the demth toll nan as high as 40 hut toe crash area was in femes and it was impossible to check at once. A UjS. Air Force spokesman . said the plane canned seven crew members and 13 passengers, American service men’s children bound tor Christmas to England ■with itheir parents. AM were repcinted dead. The fiery wreckage struck a crowded streetcar and hundreds of Christmas shoppers watched to honror and to .panic. Many cf toe soppers .themselves were killed outright. Flaming gasoline spewed onto one man and he was burned alive. lit was the second major air disaster in 24 hours. Friday two airliners collided in a snowstorm over New York City, killing at least 135 .persons as the two planes fell in femes in Brooklyn and Staton Island. The Air Force said the plane, a 0131 military version of the Coniviair. had token off from the Munich-Riem Airport outside the city. It was loaded with students who attend a school operated by the American military as a branch of toe University of Maryland. The plane wobbled in its foggy takeoff and veered toward the center of .the city. lit clipped the tower of a church end then plummeted . into the streetcar. The femes spread to aeverad nearby houses. i Cries of the injured filled the air ais police mobilized emergency ■squads and sent them to the area , near the main railroad start? m, an area f jammed with Criatsmais shopper® and persons' for ski weeneds in the Alps. Automobiles were strewn across the street like toys, bent, twisted rind tirmtag. The U.S. Air Force send the plane was bound for Northolt Air Force Base in England and had been sent to Munich Friday to pick up the passengers. A spokesman sand he believed a.U the passengers were children.

Seven Cents

Another Air Fence spokesman ' said toe senior officer on the 1 crashed ptane wais a major, but he raid no easiuaito list WttaH be ' issued until next tA kin toave’ been notified. The arash oocimred iat 2:10 p.m. <8:10 <ajn. EST)—the height of (the ‘ busy shopping time to the area ' packed with stores and big hotels. An eyewitness sat toe Munich railway station said toe ptane hit the cross atop the spire of St. Paul's Catholic Church—a tandmark for Bavarta—■end smashed into two bouses before hitting toe street ctar. The witness said “everything blazed up on seconds—toe houses and the streetcar—and there was no time fcr neighbors (to rescue anybody.” The street was Mantih Grein Strasse, a ta.uroughfaire bned with ancient bouses. Jt was toe second great awr disaster in Munich’s history. In 1958 itwiin-engined chartered plane smashed on takeoff and kilted 21 persons including toe nine s>tar ' players of ithe Manchester (England) United football team. St. Mary's 'Program At D.H.S. Auditorium ’ The Christmas music program ’ by the Decatur Catholic high ’ school band, St. Mary's choral group, D.C.H.S. chorus and the , St. Mary’s men’s choir will be presented at the Decatur high school auditorium Sunday evening . at 8 o’clock. ft ’ Public school officials offered . use of the auditorium following . Friday’s fire which damaged the stage area of the Catholic school auditorium, making its use im- ■ possible. Leaders of the St. Mary’s groups in the program expressed their appreciation to public school t i officials for extending the audi- ; tprium use. All choir apd band ■ members are asked to report at the school at 6:45 p.m. Sunday. Good Fellows Club Previously reported $392.10 Mrs Clem Voglewede —— 5.00 I Mr. and Mrs. Al Beavers -■ 10.00 Gay’s Mobil Service ...... 10.00 TOTAL .... $417.10