The Republic from Columbus, Indiana • Page 1

1 1 j. i tl. i '1 rr'T-; -i': i Ml i Ml' 1 1 M- Average Daily Paid TonTqhf-rCoJd Circulation for October tLittle Warmer 13,435 I .1 Established 1877 1958 No. 282. COLUMBUS, INDIANA; SATURDAY; NOVEMBER 29,, 158.

PRICE SEVEN CENTS l.HE JIWENING REPUBLICAN ,1 i I i -r 1 TTo ill instil FmH. the Week in review By BOB GORDON i I i v. i i i. -Range 1 Fired ICBM issue THE THANKSGIVING Holiday arrived with, fairly moderate weather but it made its departure like1 a Heaviest snow in many a moon, I i REPUBLICAN CITY ADMTNt stratioa faces job jof filling vacancy in clerk-treasurer's office if vwl j- rcrju A 1 i iFlight Called caused by resignaHon of LpiaJ Barkhimer, effective 3f on their routes through' the 6-county Columbus area. It was their first rough weather since motor route service began.

READY TO 'MUSH Evening Republican nniotorl route; drivers! get set to cry "mush" just like Eskimo dog fled, drivers Will Cbld Keep Snow on Bitterly cold temperatures hit Indiana early io- I Ij i Jlljliik Jr VS- -f 'Pv 3' A i 1" -vvrrr i i dav in wake of Friday's cold weather is predicted at least through Monday. i The mercury slid to a lowof ten degrees iii Co-lumbus overnight, one of the" lowest temperatures reported in the state. also had a loW of Success CAPE' CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) Atlas fired Friday night was America's first intercontinental ballistic missile to travel the. full, ocean-spanning range of 6,32." miles, the Pentagon said today in a statement released by the Air Force.

he Washington announcement made formal the event that already was the cause of jubilant celebration here at the launching site where the giant ICBM thun-dred skyward in the "night. Russia Claimed successful ICBM flights more than a year ago but this was America's first success- ul venture with the so-ca lied "ultimate weapon" that would be capable of untold horror if ever launched in anger with an atomic or hydrogen device in its nose. In a terse but momentous statement, the Defense Department said the successful all-the-way flight "came less than a year after the first successful! flight of the Atlas, Imade last Dec. 17 when the test vehicle went slightly more than 500 miles." Used Three Engines "The Atlas ICBM launched yesterday was successfully test fired for the first time over the full intercontinental range, a distance of approximately 5,500 nautical miles," the Pentagon statement said. The distance is equivalent to 6,325 statute miles.

The missile was powered what the department called "this significant flight" by a three- ten as worst of the cold wav stock central poilions I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all winter. i Wit apologies to U. S. Grant (Like millions of other chilled Americans, Claire W. Schune man braces to meet; Winter's initial assault on the walks and drive of his Scottsbliiff.

Neb, home. Grim days to come will be lightened for Scbunemaa and the rest by the knowledge of inevitable band is band with that never-failing ally, Spring.) of Indiana. AH roads the Columbus area remained hazardous this morning, but a bright sun was starting a thaw on downtown streets and Qty crews hauled away tons of snow from downtown streets, giving salt 1 and sun a chance to. begin a thaw, i iStfeets and highways were a glaze of ice Friday night, but mo torists were usine extreme cau- rjon aiMi ony tw i traffic acci dents were reported in Columbus, Friday afternoon. There also were? two I rural accidents Friday The state! highway sub-district office here said it was hoped the sun and traffic over sand and salted highways would rapidly improve road conditions, bringing near 'normal for Sunday's traffic winding up the Thanksgiving week end.

Snowfall! in Columbus Friday measured slightly more than six inches. Contrary to predictions, the snow ended by mid-afternoon and no more is predicted for the southern part of the state through the week end. 4 i ,15 at 7 a. ra. The 10-degree low in Columbus overnight was lowest reading of the new season.

It was only' 15 degrees 'above jzero at 7 o'clock this morning, Lows' of 15! to '20 degrees are predicted again tonight inj Southern Indiana while in the north MAJOR NEWS IN BRIEF Carriers on The 14 motor route carriers of The Evening Republican had the first real skirmish with the weatherman Friday and came through. with flying colors. Robert Stemler, The Republican's distribution manager, af--ter checking' with all motor route drivers, said today that in spite of the worst road condir tions in years all but 64 of the "3,030 motor route subscribers received their papers Friday. "The 64 subscribers the drivers were unable to reach because of the snow will receive both the Friday and Saturday papers on today's delivery," he said. I Motor route drivers made their departure from The Eve- ning Republican building be- Jtween 2:30 and 2:45 o'clock Friday afternoon.

Three drivers did not complete their routes until after 8 o'clock, one running until 8:45. The earliest -completion was at 5:30. --r The Republican motor route delivery covers 940 miles of road throughout Bartholomew county and extending into Jennings, Jackson, Johnson, Decatur, Brown and Shelby counties. Wrecks Blamed On Ice Snow-covered streets were partially blamed for a train-car and a 2-car accident in Columbus Friday afternoon that resulted in approximately $500 damage and minor injury to a local telephone operator. Miss Louise M- Bloom, 19, 2112 Sixth street, a Bell Telephone operator, suffered shock when her car was struck by a train at the Seventeenth street railroad crossing east of Elm street at 5:30 o'clock Friday afternoon.

Miss Bloom was treated at the county hospital for, shock and then released. The car she Was driving a 1954 Ford. -was dam aged approximately $400 to the right side. I Police said the slow-moving Pennsylvania engine, engineered by E. A.

Miller, 42, New Albany, was en route north and the Bloom car was en route west on Seventeenth Seeing the approaching train. Miss Bloom applied brakes of her car, but the vehicle slid approximately 35 feet on the slick street and into the path Of the engine. Police also investigated an accident in front of 2204 Washington street at 1:20 o'clock Friday afternoon. 1 i 't Vehicles involved were a 1951 Mercury i driven by Franklin Charles Miller, 20. 3224 Nugent boulevard, and a 1958 Dodge driven by James William Roth, i 18, 2720 Washington street.

1 Front of the Roth car was damaged $85. There was no damage to Miller's car. Paper Carry Man, Hit In Road, A Johnson father of five was killed at 6 o'clock Friday night when struck by a ruck as he walked in snow(- packed car tracks on the Road 252 right-of-way a mile west of the Road 31 junction. The victim, Joseph E. Roberts, 41, Franklin route 5, was dead on arrival at Johnson county Memorial hospital.

Death was attributed to a skull fracture by coroner Walker Maguire. i According to state police Troopers Malcolm Heuss and William Torrance, Roberts was walking to his home nearby when struck from the rear by a 1953 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by David F. Shepherd, 24, Franklin route 5. Shepherd told the troopers he was driving west on Road and to avoid an oncoming eastbound car, he drove to the north! side of the roadway. State troopers said Roberts, to avoid walking in drifted snow that had piled up approximately four to" six feet onto the highway, was walking westward along the north side of the right-of-way portion of the highway.

Swerving to his right. Shepherd's truck struck thq man. knocking him onto travelled portion of the pavement. Shepherd ttold the troopers he failed to see Roberts, Roberts body has been taken to the Vandivier-Parsley funeral home in Franklin. Funeral ar- rangements have not been com-I pleted.

NO STOPS Signs Broken Down at Edinburg Another broken road sign cause of two fatal automobile accidents here in recent montlw was found Friday by a young Edinburg driver who turned it in to police there. Deputy Sheriff Walter Johns said he would pick up the stop sign at the Edinburg police station today. "I've found two torn down in Green Acres recently," Johns commented. "I went ahead and" set them back up myself." Edinburg police said the broken stop sign was found on the Edinburg-Taylorsville road by Ronald Stjjeeval; cf Edin-borg. A missing stop sign was blamed last summer for the death of Dan Hamilton, Alert garage owner, and a broken curve sign was belieyed partly the cause of death! of Mrs.

Wilma Minor, a bride of four hours, on the Crammer Alert road. V- si Roads Expected To Get Better INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The Indiana SUte Highway Department issued this report, today on road conditions in the wake of Friday's snowstorm: "No roads are closed. There are still considerable patches of snow and ice, heaviest In south and central parts. Conditions probably iwill improve a great deal by thi4 I afternoon because we are having better results with I chemicals, with temperatures a little higher." i Theft of $195 Is Reported Overnight theft of approximately $195 from the Texaco service station at Twenty-fifth! and Union streets was reported at 8 o'clock this morning by ithe owner, Andy Scudder. i Arriving for ork this morning Scudder told police he discovered a money bag containing part of Friday's receipts, missing from its usual "hiding Examining the building icity detectives said they were unable to determine howl entrance was made to the service station.

All windows and doors were locked from the inside 'detectives said. According to the service station owner the money bag contained approximately $145 in bills land I over $50 in small change; Killed wnen i-ynn assumes pis auues as county. auditor. Among front; runners for the appointment, is- mxuecK. member the city council and the1 city traffic; commission.

Paul" Morris alsd has been mentioned. The i ap pointments will be biade by th mayor with approval rof the coun-E. BURGLARS VISITED THE local Coca-Cola plant, ripped open the safe and made off with, 1 an estimated $2.400. It was theii second largest in the cuy mis- year. iargesi previous; i nam was mi iiuoqiiiuic.

IMAGINE THE SURPRISE OF; residents of 524 street when they found a skunk in their basement. Police called to In- vestigate learned the little skunk- was none other 'j tHan FifiTlla' Fleur, a member the Ernie-Kerns clown Ws ndering Fifil was returned home. 4 1 i MORE THAN 5,000 PUPILS IN the Columbus city chools held i a 1 Thanksgiv ng services' and program before recessing; Wednesday for the Thanksgiving 'H -J CUMMINS ENGINE- COM-1! pany announced plans to begin production of filter bags for diesel engines at its ew plant: in neighboring Seymour. Initial pro- duction will require a small labor force, company officials said. i BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY farmers joined the rest of the agricultural nation inj voting an end to federal corn acreage control, in a special jreferendum Tuesday.

Approximately fourth the eligible farmers in the county voted on the issue, i'j 'IJ HILL. 2l "ftTLLIAM FOR- mer member of tb Cdlumbus police department, was Reappointed to the force this week! i OBJECTORS TO THE OPERA-tiod of the Columbus Non-Ferrous Foundry on Norm Jackson street lost another round in their legal fight to halt the new industry. The city board of zoning appeals announced an appeal filed by the objectors on the issu; ince of an improvement location permit had been denied. 1 I THE ANNUAL FIREMAN-PO- lice Christmas cheer fund opened with a $17 contribution from the Lucky 7 Euchre club The goal is $4,000 to provide clothing, toys and treats for an estimated 550 Columbus area children. DOUGLAS FORMER principal of the Nashville high school, was indicted by a Brown county grand jury od a charge of embezzling $1,823 of the school funds.

Lowry was scpeduled for arraignment Friday granted a delay. i WINSTON BAIRD! but California- street. had plenty to be thankful for Thursday. He es caped uninjured whert he crash- landed his. airplane near Frank lin.

Menta Henry Franklin Vqgt, 62, of Jonesville, was declaireer ment-; ally ill by doctors Friday In Bartholomew rperiof L. Mr. Vogt will be sent to the Veterans hospital Jn larion. 'i Mr. Vogt was given the 'nation after he Was arrested Nov.

17 for turning a I false alarm. At the tiiije bf his aiv rest.be told police, 'I had io have something jo eat and 'a' place to stay" 'I In July this year hehad turp- ed in three false 'alarms in a period of 45 INDIANA Partry-- cloudy, through Sunday. Continued cold! today and tonight. Chance' of i heavy snow flurries today i and I tonight near Lake' Michigan. A Ettle warme- Sunday) in south: portion.

Lows tonight 5 to 15 north, 15 to 20 Highs Sunday around 129 extreme north to mid-lO's extreme TEMPERATURES Friday nigh 27. Last night! low! JOr Reading at a.m.: today, 15. 'A MONDAY; OUTLOOK-Partiy i cloudy central and sooth, most- ly cloudy wfth some snoW fhir-ii ties north. Contiaued i Henry i THE WEATHER be ed 'Deadline' Is Set i By East Germans BERLIN (UPI) Communist propagandist Gerhart Eisler today set June 1 as the deadline by which the Westehi powers will have to accept local Communist control of the lifelines linking Berlin iith the West. "In six months from June 1, 1959 the Western powers will have to recognize and Snegotiate wjth our Red German officials if theyfwish to go to Berlin," the bail-jumping, fugi-the from U.S.

jujstice said in an article published by the Communist organ Junge Welt. Week End 3 fee I in; at Geneva GENEVA (UPI) A special week end meet-ing of the Genev nuclear test ban talks was called ''today, presumably to receive the Western reply to secret Soviet proposals on the nuclear controls con-; troversy. Soviet sources claimed the Russian plan offered a "majo concession" to the West on the controls issue. However, details of the proposals, presented to the British and United States delega-i tions two days ago, were kept secret. I Third of Airliners Grounded: United Press International i I Deadlocked negotiations kept; one thirl of the nation's airliners grounded toda3r; apparently for portion the mercury may dropjT) 1 01 to around five degrees, the 111 LraSll Oil til weather bureau The mercury is expected toj lamage totalling $1,400 was es-rise slightly on Sunday with tirated Friday in a 2-car colH-tops in this area ranging in the on snow-slick Road 31 south 30's.

i i-of Tenth street, and three men The highest temperature here cars were treated for min-Friday was 27 degrees--the irst or injuries at the county hospital, day of the. season on which the Sheriff MtQn Chaney mercury has failed. to get above jjf crash at 1:25 the freezing mark. 'o'clock after a 1955 Chevrolet Awhile sndwstorm and continued and 15 at South Berd and Fort Wayne. More snow flurries may fall totjlahy, tonight, Sunday and Mon-dajy in the northern Indiana aras around Lake Michigan, thi weather bureau said.

Stores Open On Monday Nights Christmas shoppers win receive extra time to buy gifts dikring December as Columbus retail stores will stay open until 9 o'clock Monday night and 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon next week, and each week until Christmas, said W. Bruce Dal-ton, general chairman of Chamber of Comnjerce retail department. I Me said this will be the second year for city stores to stay open Monday nights in December, and that stores would continue to observe normal late shopping hours Friday nights. Mr. Dalton said he hoped downtown Christmas decorations, another retail department function, would be completed by Monday night.

$1,400 Damage A-Lrm DriaiJ 10 UiljVtl ayjr ivuuutu auimuvnn 854 Werner I avenue, slid cross- wajys in the highway as it' head ed north. i -I Stillabower's car was hit by a 1956 Chevrolet driven by IJunior Hujckaby, 27, 425 Delia road, Jewell Village, who was headed south on Road 31. ioth drivers and Ronald Ken-neth Furst, 18, 303 Delia road, ridfng in the Huckaby car; were treated at the hospital. Damage to Stillabower's car was set at $90P and tojHuckaby's car $500. i his formal resignation at the previous council session.

Mr.j Bark-hinier has been e'ected auditor, lo begin his term Jan. L. Uppointmeht of a clerH-treas-ufer to Complete the year 1959 v.iij be up to the mayor Also pending before the council is minimum 4iousing standards ordinance which was presented for study i two weeks agol by a subjcommittee of the Greater Columbus Action committee study ing improvement of blighted housing areas. Mayor Owens also said that a repbrt by; Robert Springer, On-J cmnau arcnueci, on recommenua-tiorjs for improvement of5fNo fire station! at; Thirteenth and Huichins avenue is now scheduled for) the Dec, 3 15 meeting of the I i lir. Springer has been asked to make recommendations ore feasibility of remodelling the old station, or rebuilding.

also is still Ouestion on the location. should it be decided to erect an tentirely new building. Damn i oouw All of "Indiana was still blanketed with 1 snow this morning. Heaviest fall was reported "at Scottsburg, 35 miles to the south, where snow reached a depth of 11 inches. The i snow was eight inches deep in the Cincinnati area, seven at i Evansville, five at Indianapolis and Louisville, four at Fort; Waynd, three at South Bend and two at Lafayette, i I Low temperatures around the state this moraine- included 12 at; Lafayettej 1 13 at Evansville engine cluster.

Prior successtui firings, all at less than the full range but employing all three were staged Aug. 28. Sept. and Nov. 17.

A spokesman for the Convair Astronautics Division of Genera! Dynamics which built the Atlas, said the flight was a complete success. Spontaneous Celebration Even before the announcement, any doubt was dispelled by broad grins on the faces of test officials and a champagne party thrown spontaneously here by Convair and Air Force missile people. Sources in Washington, who asked not. to be identified, said the missile covered a distance of 5.500 nautical miles (6,300 statute miles) and smacked into th South Atlantic within 30 miles of a target area set up for it. The Atlas, launched at 9:27 p.m.

e.s.t. and guided automatically throughout the flight by its own instruments, performed perfectly, according to the Washington spokesman. The Atlas Nvas equipped with a pointed nose -cone designed to Icorne back intact through the atmosphere from its peak altitude of 800 miles. Reconnaissance planes and recovery boats stood by at the target area. Test officials lightened the vehicle by! keeping data-recording instruments to a minimum.

Capabilities Demonstrated Two booster rocket i dropped away smoothly 130; seconds after takeoff, the three main 1 engines, which provide (Continued on Page 3.) Snows were nearly a foot deep in parts; of whije roads in southern Illinois and Ohio were clogged with 9-inch snows" that traffic to a standstill. brought Heavy! snow deposits caused the roof of an Indianapolis store to injuring four persons, while covered the escape of a robber who took almost $10,000 from an Etna Green, bank, I Temperature readings in the teens were common throughout the Midwest storm area, and dropped below zero again in North! Dakota and Minnesota. Before moving into the East with seven-inch snows at Erie, the! storm had dumped nine-and-a-half inches at Marion, 111., the heaviest November snowfall on record there, and hit Evansville, ivith its heaviest snow in 11 The snow at Evansville coincided with a walkout by the city's street 225 i (Continued TRAFFIC NEARLY PARALYZED Exiza0qus Roads Push Council studies oprialions I $eatlil Toll on Page 3.) New York state led the nation with 18 traffic fatalities, Illinois was second with 15, California listed 14, Alabama and Pennsylvania 13 each, and Ohio 12. Although jihe- National Safety Council made no prediction on highway deaths for the 102-hour period ending midnight Sunday, it said an average of 470 persons would die in a similar period 'at this time of the The UPI counted 554 traffic deaths during last year's 102-hour Thanksgiving holiday. Shifting of the storm of New England was followed by a south-Ward movement of frigid air the Gulf Coast, dropping temperatures below freezing in parts of Texas and Louisiana.

The storm was the third, major weather disturbance in less than, two weeks. Roads from Colorado to Pennsylvania were covered with ice and snow in what officials called some of the most hazardous conditions possible. Beyond Action On additional appropriation and toning amendment ordinances the 195 parking meter budget is for nights1 meeting of thj' Columbus council, The appropriations ordinance authorizing i an added $3,000 for City park; and recreation department salaries waj I given first reading at the i council's session two-weeks ago. The zoning "amendment ordinance lis rezonef a quarter-block on ithe" west side of Franklin street! south of Eighth, from M-2 multiple 1 amity district to C-2 general commercial district. The change has been recommended by the; city; plan commission.

The parking I meter i budget to acted upon by the council appropriates parkin meter fund expenditures to be imade 'next year: I -Mi i Mayor Fred C. Owens said to day po decision has been reach on appointment or a successor- tot Lynn Barkhimer, city clerk treasurer. who; submitted United Press International The wind-rain-and-snoy whiplash of a widespread storm that paralyzed Midwest traffic with record-breaking snows fell on the Northeast early Saturday, knocking out power jlipes in three states. 1 Galefprce winds Whipping along at 68 jrnilos'-per hour ripped off t-ee lihibs, toppled pcijver lines, and 1 created iiazardous driving conditions that a 1 a had pushed! the Thanksgiving weekend holiday deatli tolls past the 200 mirk. A United i Press International count showed that as of.

8:00 a.m. c.s.t. Saturday at leas :226 persons had been killed traffic accidents' since the unofficial holiday i weekend began at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday. In addition, 20 persons I lost their live iin fires, and 52! in miscellaneous accidents for a total of 298 dead, Nine of the miscellaneous deaths in Ohio i i i st: i were weauier inuucea iacari; ai- tacks, snow.

brought on by shoveling Mrs. Cooper's Brother Dies 1 ii Word has been received of the death of Fred Lafferty, 66, Of Birmingham, Ala. -Mr. Lafferty, who was the brother of Mrs. Eva Cooper of died Fjiday night following a heart attack'.

He had retired a year ago after serving for 15 years as manager of the Thelma hotel in Lakeland, 1 iMrs. who is manager of the local Hotel Behedere," has gone to Birmingham for the funeral which will be at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. -T f. 'i i i i Hi III-. li V-.