The Herald from Jasper, Indiana • 1

WEATHER Mostly sonny today. Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Not much temperature change. High today 34 to 37. Low tonight mid 20b.

High Saturday 35 to 40. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly cloudy, little temperature change, occasional light snow likely. Common sense is seeing things as they are and doing things as they should be done. DMYlhMD VOL. 65 NO.

136 Friday, March 18, 1960 Twelve Pages Today INVESTIGATORS COMB DISASTER AREA Troopers From Jasper Post At Crash Scene CAB Experts, FBI Check Everything, Including Bomb When the worst air disaster in TELL CITY, Ind. (UPD Civil Aeronautics Board experts and the FBI dug into a blackened 50-foot crater today to learn whether a bomb of (Pictures On Page 10) Indiana's history occurred yesterday afternoon in our neighboring county of Perry, phone calls started to come into the Jasper post of the Indiana State Police from as far away as England as news media tried to get the details of the terrible accident. Three calls from London were relayed through New York to the police post at Jasper. There were calls from San Francisco and Washington, D. C.

and other parts of the U. S. State troopers assigned to the Jasper post were dispatched to the scene, along with National Guardsmen from the Tell City and Evans-ville armories, to prevent looting, direct traffic and do whatever else had to be done to keep curious visitors from possibly making off with evidence that may lead investigators to discover the cause of the crash. Contrary to early reports, the Jasper unit of the National Guard did not go to the scene. Neither did the Jasper fire department.

Senator Vance Hartke's secretary called from Washington, D. this morning to inform The Daily Herald that the senator was leaving Washington at 11 a.m. today for the scene of the crash, and would be available for comment after he re-(Continued on Page 9) State police troopers and other authorities this morning began combing the area around the location where a Northwest Airlines plane crashed Thursday east of Cannelton, killing 63 people. The above picture, taken by Herald Photographer Ernie Begle, shows the smoldering crater which was left by the plummeting plane. More pictures appear on Page 10.

some other instrumentof sabotage sent 63 persons falling 18,000 feet to their deaths aboard a new Northwest Airlines passenger plane. A CAB spokesman said the turbo-prop jet, carrying 57 passengers, and six crewmen from Minneapolis and Chicago to Florida, "obviously broke up in the air." He said searchers would "investigate all possibilities, including a bomb." Edward JSlattery information chief of the CAB, said the agency's men also would check whether "metal fatigue or someother undue stress in the plane" caused the craft to disintegrate over the Ohio River Valley and, plunge into a soybean field at 4:20 pjn. e.s.t. Thursday. Slattery said the airliner was "a new plane.

It had been in service only a few weeks." FBI agent-in-charge Edward Powers, heading nearly a score of G-men at the scene, said the FBI was there "to determine whether there were any violations within our jurisdiction, principally the possibility ol Identification Is Difficult State troopers still were gathering up bodies in bags today and carting them away to a high school gym Everything At Crash Scene Was Strewn In Little Pieces (Editor's Note: Following are the on-the-scene impressions of Herald Photographer Ernie Begle at the scene of the tragic airliner crash in HARK THE HERALD For Your Lenten Reading, Meditation AGONY IN THE GARDEN (St Mark, SO THEY CAME to a plot of land called Gethsemani; and he said to his disciples, Sit down here, while I go and pray. But he took Peter and James and John with him. And now he grew dismayed and distressed: My soul, he said to them, is ready to die with sorrow; do you abide here, and keep watch. So he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass him by; Abba, Father, he said, all things are possible to thee; take away this chalice from before me; only as thy will is, not as mine is. Then he went back, and found them asleep; and he said to Peter, Simon, art thou sleeping? Hadst thou not strength to watch even (Continued on Page 12) "How To Study" Course Planned For Next Summer Perry county.) By ERNIE BEGLE Herald Staff Photographer Unless you knew beforehand, you couldn't tell by looking at the field that this was a plane crash.

It appeared more like a building had been blown apart by a huge bomb there were no large pieces of wreckage to be found at the location where the plane went down; everything was in little pieces. At the exact spot, nothing but smoke was coming out of the big hole the plane made when it hit. It was. still smoking this morning. Scattered all around, however, were pieces of clothing, parts of the plane and parts of bodies.

Bob Merder Wins Jasper Jaycees' Free Throw Award nasium in nearby Cannelton. There they were laid out on the polished floor where the school's teen-agers usually play basketball. FBI men prepared to take fingerprints (Continued on Page 9) It was announced this morning that all students of Jasper high school will receive letters from eir home room teachers, to be presented to their parents in regard to the proposed "How to Study" course which At a distance the crater, with smoke coming out, looked like a (Continued on Page 10) Fred Hollinden Is In Race For Surveyor Fred Hollinden, a mathematics teacher at Jasper High School, has announced that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the office county surveyor of Dubois county. Mr. Hollinden, a native of Ferdinand, is a 1949 graduate of Huntingburg High School.

He received (Continued on Page 12) Annual County Spelling Bee Is Set For April 9 The annual Dubois County Spelling Contest has been set for Satufday, ADril 9. at 2:00 Din. in the court To Install Dubois Pastor Next Sunday Rev. John Miihlitz will be installed as pastor of St. Peter's United Church of.

Christ (Evangelical and Reformed) I at Dubois next Sunday evening, March 20. The installation service was originally scheduled for March 6 but had to be postponed because of road conditions. Dr. Harry W. Bredeweg, president of the South Indiana Synod of the room of the Court House in Jas per, it has been announced by John it is planned to hold at the loal high school.

A representative of Purdue University will conduct the course if it is given. Principal Claude Miler said the course should be of interest to all high school students, and especially to those who plan to attend college. He said eighth-grade pupils will also be enrolled in the course if they are interested in taking it. A recent survey conducted at J. H.

S. showed the following students are interested in taking the course designed to improve their study methods: 28 seniors, 26 juniors, 9 sophomores and 16 freshmen. The 10-hour course is to be conducted on two consecutive days either morning and afternoon, or afternoon and evening with a limit of 25 students per class. The fee for the course is $10., The following dates have been reserved for the conducting of the course at Jasper high school: July 25 and 26; August 8 and August 15 and 16; and August 22 and 23. The letters which the students will give to their parents contain an enrollment blank to be signed by the parents.

The signed blank, together with the $10 fee, are to be turned in to Walter Stutz, a member of the faculty who serves as student counsellor, no later than March 31. United Church of Christ (Evan Bobby Merder, who converted .775 per cent of his free throw attempts gelical and Reformed), will be the installing minister. His office is in Hunt burg Attorney Seeks Congress Post Ben F. Garland, a Huntingburg attorney, has announced that he will seek the Democratic nomination for Eighth District congressman in the May primary. Mr.

Garland said that since Win-field K. Denton has served several terms in the office, he decided to file his intention of being a candidate, since he hiis-oposed Mr. Denton before. Mr. Garland said he does not plan to make an active campaign'.

Mr. Garland has been a candidate for the nomination on several occasions, including races against John Boehne Terre Haute. -The Rev. Fred Fahrenkamp of into points this year, received the Jasper Jaycees' annual Free Throw Award last night at the civic group's H. Teder, county superintendent 01 schools.

Mr. Teder requested that officials of each school report their school champions to his office by April 2. The winner and runner-up in the county contest will receive cash awards from The Dubois County Daily Herald. The winner will advance to the Tri-State Spelling Bee, sponsored by the Evansville Press, from which the champion will go to Washington, D. C.

for the national contest. For the past several years, all grade schools in the county have competed in the county contest. the United Church of Christ at regular dinner meeting held at the Huntingburg will bring the evening message. The service will begin at American Legion Home. Bobby, 5-10 regular guard on Jasper high school's basketball team this past year, is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Lester Merder, 1430 Jackson 7:30 p.m., and the public is invited. St. Peter's congregation wiJJ, enjoy a fellowship (carry-in) supper at 5 p.m.. with the participating ministers and their families as invited guests.

and Charles Eichel. street, Jasper. The presentation was made by Ed Stenftenagel, chairman of the Jaycees' sports and 1 youth activities committee and a former recipient of the award. Ed Stenftenagel received the first Free Throw Award that was made (Continued on Page 12) Man Tells Waiting Crowd That Plane Crashed Mental Health Group To Host 35 Patients dancer who used the name Ronnie Chicago. He had just telephoned a Miami newspaper and teamed that More Candidates File Lane, 24.

He said the airline told him. 710 would be 10 minutes late, then 30, then an hour. Finally, he said, he was told the airplane had turned back because of a storm and the flight was cancelled. He learned the news from Frain. "What am I going to do," he moaned.

Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Fleming, Pom-pano Beach, were waiting for their daughter, Lois, 19.

When Mrs. Fleming heard Frain she put her hands to her head and sobbed. Daughter, Grandchild Killed (Continued on Page 12) By RICHARD W. HATCH United Press International MIAMI (UPD "Flight T10. Cancelled." The neat white letters stood out sharply on a black board at the Northwest Orient passenger desk.

For almost an hour this was the only word 15 relatives and friends of passengers on Northwest Flight 710, which had crashed killing everyone aboard, knew of their fate. Then a tight-lipped 57-year-old man walked through the little crowd. "The plane is down," he said. The speaker was Andy Frain of Flight 710, bound from Minneapolis to Miami, had crashed at Tell City, Ind. Frains wife, Lillian, 49, was aboard.

"I had a feeling all day something was going to happen," he said. "I know my wife is gone. There's no doubt about it." Notify Relatives It was 7:45 p. m. when the airline began calling relatives Into a private office to tell them what they already feared.

Mario Gentile, Baltimore, was waiting for his wife, a singer and The Dubois County Mental Health Association will be host next Tuesday to 35 patients from the Evans-ville State Hospital at the American Legion Home in Jasper, it was announced today by Mrs. Jo Breiden-baugh, county president. The contingent from the hospital will come to Jasper by bus, arriving about 10:30 a.m. The noon meal will be served at the Legion Home. Mrs.

Breidenbaugh said that anyone interested in taking part is welcome. Those planning to stay for the noon meal should bring a covered dish, she added. County Clerk Glen W. Songer reported three more candidates have filed their intentions with his office. Fred Hollinden, Jasper, will seek the Democratic nomination for county surveyor.

Carl J. Blessdnger, 616 Second Huntingburg, filed for Democratic committeeman from Patoka No. 3, and Eugene E. Ellis, R. 1, French Lick, is seeking the Republican committee position for Columbia No.

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