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Indiana State Library Indianapolis, REPUBLICAN Vol. 208 Established 1840 Rushville, Indiana, Monday, November 14,1960 Eight Pages Seven Cents Young Slain Near Kennedy, Nixon Conier In Florida; Effort Made State Line To Heal Election Sores President-Elect Takes Initiative In Setting Up Conference At Key Of Biscavne. GOP MAY RECEIVE SOME APPOINTMENTS KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) Winner John F. Kennedy and the presidential election loser, Vice President Richard M.

Nixon, met today at a history-making conference which Kennedy hopes will heal the wounds of the campaign. Victor and vanquished, both smiling broadly, got together at 11:33 a.m. EST, at vacation headquarters at this sunbaked island haven a few miles south of Miami. Kennedy flew to the conference from his own rest spot at Palm Beach, Fla. He took the initiative in setting up historic conference.

Kennedy landed at the Miami airport and then drove here by auto. The meeting, arranged by the president-elect, was a Kennedy effort to bind up the wounds of the campaign in a national unity move. The session reportedly may deal with possible appointment by Kennedy of some Republicans to key positions in his administration. An enthusiastic crowd of Kennedy supporters swarmed past rope barriers at the airport and surged toward Kennedy. A squad of Secret Service men and Dade County deputies formed a flying wedge to get Kennedy to a convertible for his trip to Key Biscavne.

Kennedy, holding only a tiny popular vote margin over his Republican opponent, was accompanied by an old prep school chum, New York advertising man L. Billings. Kennedy and Bill- ings attended Choate Preparatory School in Connecticut. Kennedy got in some tennis Sunday afternoon before watching a movie on the lawn at night. Kennedy took the initiative in arranging the meeting with Nixon at Key Biscayne in the Miami outskirts where the vice president is vacationing.

Nixon promptly agreed. Nixon, looking trim in a gray suit, was standing in front of the Key Biscayne Hotel when the young motorcade pulled up. As Kennedy stepped from his car into a crowd of applauding well-wishers, he and the vice president shook hands heartily. It was their first meeting since their fourth and final television- radio debate late in the campaign. With spectators surging all around.

a dark gray suit with a wTiite pin walked alongside Nixon for about a block to the vice private villa, No. 69. There, as he and Kennedy entered. the president-elect intro- duced his press secretary, Pierre Salinger, to Nixon. Nixon congratulated Salinger on good during the campaign, and added: a tough job, it? How do you handle the He made that remark as cameramen crowded in from all sides Continued on Pape Three Traffic Fines Given To Eight traffic offenders received minimum fines of $1 and costs in arraignments Saturday before Justice of the Peace Robert Hinshaw.

Those fined included: James Cloud, 18, R. R. 4, Rushville. improper muffler; Harry J. Smith, 42, Glendale, 0., speeding on U.S.

52 at New Salem; Dale Plymesser, 40, Watertown, excessive truck speed on Ind. 3 south of Rushville; Ronald Eckel, 27, Greensburg, improper passing on Ind. 3 north of Rushville; Clarence Chandler, 17, reckless driving on old State Road 3 south of Rushville, changed plea to guilty from not guilty; Arthur Williams, 49, failure to yield right-of-way; Richard Jacobs, 22, R. R. 3, Rushville, speeding West Third Street; John F.

Glover, 21, 621 West Sixth, speeding West Third Street. Mercury May Hit mr mJ 70 Here Tuesday mi By The Associated Press South winds wafted a summery warmup into Indiana today, with prospects of temperatures into the 70s before a cooloff starts about Thursday. Temperatures rose into the low 60s across the state Sunday, and this lows were well above freezing, dipping only to 39 at Goshen. Marks up to 70 were forecast for today, and into the low 70s for Tuesday. Daytime temperatures at this time of year normally, range from 43 to 56 in Indiana.

The Weather Bureau said some scattered showers may fall Wednesday and Thursday, ushering in cooler weather, and heavier rains are expected late in the week. The rainfall is expected to average half to three- quarters of an inch. PAULDING, Ohio (AP) Two hunters stumbled on the body of a teen age girl early today who had been forced into a car Sunday night while walking with her younger sister. The victim was Nancy Eagleson, 14, of Paulding. Sheriff John Keeler said it was homicide, but he would not disclose the nature of the injuries.

The younger sister, Cheryl, 5, I said she and Nancy had been to I a movie and were on their way to a restaurant when the man tried to lure both of them into the car. The girl said the man dragged Nancy into the car when they re- fused. She described him as a man in a big and believed he was wearing glasses. Paulding, a town of about 2,500. is the seat of Paulding County in northwest Ohio, bordering on Allen County, Ind.

The sheriff said the Paulding High School freshman was dragged into the passing automo- bile as she and her little sister, about 4 to 5 years old, walked down a city street Sunday night. The body was found some eight i miles northeast of town, near the hamlet of Junction on Ohio 111. Keeler said the young girl ran into a nearby house and called police after seeing Nancy pulled into the car. The parents are Mr. and Mrs.

Donald Eagleson. An autopsy was performed at St. Hospital. Fort Wayne, today and Dr. Louis Schneiders said it disclosed the girl had been sexually molested and shot through the neck with a small caliber gun.

Explosion At police Escort 4 Negroes Linton Kills I 1 School As Integration BIG BUMPER Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smit complete a bow fender for a tug at Perth, Australia. It took four months for them to braid the rope as a protective shield on the tug. If Americans Were Left Bewildered By Election, What About Russians? Former Resident Expires Edward A.

Stockberger, 58, who was known in Rush County, died of a heart attack Sunday at his home in Cambridge City. A barber in Cambridge City since 1944. Mr. Stockberger was a member of the Christian Church and Masonic Lodge there. Survivors include the widow.

Mrs. Anne Marie Stockberger; two brothers, Chalmers Stockberger of Michigantown and Fred Stockberger of Hagerstown, and two sisters, Mrs. Opel Scheirer of Frank lin and Mrs. Dorothy Swingle of Greensfork. His first wife, Mrs.

Bertha Newhouse Stockberger of Rush County, died in 1953. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Fisher Mortuary in Cambridge City with burial following in Hannegan Cemetery where Masonic graveside rites will be conducted. Rites Wednesday For illuir Former Resident Wilbur Young, 51, of near Greenfield, a former Rushville resident, died at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis following skull surgery last Tuesday.

Mr. Young, who had been ill two months, w'as employed at the Naval Ordnance Center in Indian I apolis and he also was engaged in farming. He was bom near Versailles and later lived at Ninth and Perkins in Rushville for several years. Mr Young left here about seven years ago. Survivors include the widow.

Mrs. Grace Davis Young; four children; a brother, Earl W. Young west of Rushville, and three sisters. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Pasco Funeral Home in Greenfield where friends may call after 5 p.m.

today. THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY Sunset today Sunrise Tuesday Partly cloudy and continued mild through Tuesday. Low tonight 50-55. High Tuesday 68-72. 5:28 p.m.

7:26 a.m. 52 65 LOCAL TEMPERATURES 8 a m. today 1 p.m. today Sunday, November 13 1960 Highest 62 67 69 Lowest 42 30 54 Precipitation 0 .66 0 Saturday Highest 53, lowest 26 Precipitation, none. (Data by U.S.

Weather Station) Illegal oting At Evansville Found EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Prosecutor O. II. Roberts Jr. said today he will tell the Vanderburgh County grand jury he found irreg-1 ularities in both handling of absentee ballots in election.

Roberts said his investigation in-1 dicated irregularities mostly on ballots for aged in nursing homes. The prosecutor refused to ask for a special grand jury to look into Republican charges of illegal voting but agreed to report to the I grand jury called in a homicide, i Roberts is a Democrat. The jury was called to act in i the death of Jack Burdette, 36, killed in a fall from a YMCA window Nov. 3. James Holcombe, 21, tenant in a neighboring room, testified at a inquest that he pushed Burdette through the I window in an early morning argu- ment.

Castro Hoodlums Rattle Cat holies HAVANA (AP) Supporters of Prime Minister Fidel Castro clashed briefly Sunday night with Mass-goers in Santiago Cathedral over the reading of its anti-Communist pastoral letter. Shouting revolutionary slogans and chanting hymn, the crowd of about 60 persons interrupted the services. One woman was injured slightly in the scuffling. Things Going On In Kush vi 11 Tonight By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News Analyst If the Soviet man-in-the-street tries, on the basis of what he has I been told officially, to figure out I what happened in the U.

S. elec- tion, he is going to be a mighty I bewildered citizen. Throughout the campaign I newspapers told him Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M.

Nixon were Tweedledee and Tweedledum. The American i voter, he read, had no choice at all. Both candidates, said the Communist press, served exactly the same interests and had the same predatory imperialist aims. Even when it was over, a typical official press comment was that is impossible to see without a magnifying glass any marked difference between the Republican leader, Nixon and the Democrat leader, But then Ivan also was told that Three Are 11 url North Of Here In (lar Areident Three Rushville men were injured early Sunday morning when I the car in which they were travel- ing careened off State Road 3, clipping off a utility pole and hit several trees. Hurt in the one-car accident were David LeRoy Kennedy, 23, 824 North Arthur Street, the driver; and Jim Borem and George Pat- terson, both of Rushville, passen- gers in the car Kennedy suffered a badly lacerated right arm and hand and is in fair condition at Rush Memorial I Hospital.

Borem is in serious con-1 dition with head and shoulder in- juries. Patterson received a sponal I injury. The accident occurred at a curve I in the highway 11 miles north of I here. The car was en route south and failed to make a curve on the right hand side. It traveled about 345 feet in the ditch before hitting a General Telphone Company pole i and several trees.

The driver told State Trooper James Kleiman and Deputy Sheriff Harvey Faurote that he fell asleep at the wheel. The accident occurred at 3:30 a.m. 1960 model car was listed as demolished and damage to the utility pole was estimated at $25. W.S.C.S. and Wesleyan Service Guild, St.

Methodist Church. Past Noble Grand, Mrs. Herbert Walker and Miss Anna Worthington. Psi Iota Xi Sorority, Durbin Hotel. Kappa Kappa Kappa, Mrs.

J. D. Taff. Past Chiefs Club, Vera Jones. Elks Lodge, inspection and Initiation.

Rushville Auxiliary, Mrs. Victor Pope. Revival, E.U.B. Church. American Legion.

Red Men Lodge. Creative Art Association, High School. Boy Scouts. Princess Threatre. Local Teacher Hurt By Tractor R1IS industrial injured Satur- accident near I broken collar I Mark Ellis, 38, arts teacher, was day in a tractor Carthage.

Ellis suffered a hone and a cut on his hand when the tractor he was driving upset on the river road southwest of i Carthage about noon Saturday. He was brought to Rush Memorial Hospital. home is on Route 2, Carthage. He was traveling south on the road and turned around to speak to his son who was riding in a trailer behind the tractor. As he did so, the tractotr left the road on the right side and overturned.

The accident was report- I ed to the county department. the election was a repudiation of the Republican party. For Ivan, there was no explanation of how the American voters could repudiate a policy if there was no 1 difference in policies. Nor did his press attempt to ex' plain to him why an American electorate could repudiate a po- litical party while a Soviet elec- I torate could never hope to do so. of Mos! cow radio told its home audiences, I given their reply to the arms race, to military provoca- tion and to the aggravation of the I cold war which was the founda- I tion of the Eisenhower adminis- tration The election, continued the I broadcaster, expressed the people's disapproval of the political course of the U.

S. Puzzled Ivan may have wondered How come Americans get to express profound disapproval of their government? Could Ivan do likewise? And if both Democrats and Republicans represent monopoly how can the American people repudiate an arms race by electing one or the other? If both parties are. as the press has told Ivan, incurably imperialist, how can Comrade Khrushchev expect President Kennedy will represent any more than President Eisenhower did? President Eisenhower once described by Comrade Khru- schev as a man of peace? And when President Eisenhower succeeded President Truman, who until then had been the main devil in the Soviet press, Ivan read that the Americans elected a Republican as a repudiation of the Democrats and of warmongering and arms-racing? If an imperialist president is such a menacing dictator, oppressing the American people, how come they can remove him? Ivan tends to shrug his shoulders, defeated by his puzzlement. Those Russians who do otherwise just get more bewildered, like a fellow I met in a Moscow department store seven years ago. Sizing me up as an American, he sidled up and demanded: it true all Americans have I nodded and he squinted suspiciously.

tell me he pursued. does Truman have aggressive designs on the Soviet a not hower He gave me a grin and a knowing wink and said: but you know, and I still the 7, Burns 3 LINTON, Ind. 34-year- old mother died and three others in her family were burned seriously in a home explosion and i fire today blamed onto an accumulation of natural gas. The badly burned body of Joanna Leigh, 34, was found under a table in the burned-out ruins of her five-room house. Her husband, Wesley, 31, I give any coherent account of the blast but apparently carried his sons, Wesley 6, I and Michael, 5, from their beds.

I The blast apparently knocked Mrs. Leigh under the dining table where she was found. Leigh was reported in serious condition from burns on his body, face and arms in Freeman Greene County Hospital. The boys, burned on face and arms, were in fair condition. Firemen blamed the blast on an accumulation of natural gas in a crawl space under the floor of the five-room house, five miles west 1 of Linton in the White Rose com- munity.

Gas had been connected to the house only two weeks ago. The blast blew out the walls of the house. One wall was blown 70 feet against a Starts In New Orleans Russell Rites Here On Tuesday Services for Merwyn A. Russell, 53, former Rushville resident who died suddenly Friday afternoon at Spectators Boo As First Negroes Enter White Schools In 100 Years; Some Pupils Leave. STATE LEGISLATURE MAY CLOSE SCHOOLS NEW ORLEANS, La.

(AP) his home in Miami, will be I U.S. marshals accompanied four held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Wyatt Negro girls into two white schools Moore Memorial. Burial will fol- today, the first Negroes to attend low in East Hill Cemetery. white schools here in almost a A supervisor for Pan-American century- Airlines in Miami, Mr.

Russell had I White spectators booed as three lived in that city since 1942. Negro girls walked into McDonogh He was born in Bedford on De-1 No- 19 The few Negroes in the crowd applauded. Another girl en- cember 23, 1906, the son of William and Edna Grace Allen Russell, and was married on June 18, 1936, to Naomi Nash, who survives. Mr. Russell came to Rushville people to stay when he was a small boy and was i ground facing tered William Frantz School.

Police stood cautious vigil in front of the schools and ordered on the neutral the McDonogh one of the first radio op- school. erators here. He also formerly op- At McDonogh, the only disturb- erated a radio repair shop in ance caused by the entry of the Rushville. three Negro first graders was vo- A graduate of Rushville High Cal. There was no other demon- School, Mr.

Russell was a mem- stration. neighboring her of Main Street Christian house. The roof was blown off and dropped back onto the house. In addition to the widow he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

William Russell of Rushville; a daughter, Mrs. William A. Ax- Traffic Mishaps Kill 8 In State During Weekend By The Associated Press The Indiana weekend traffic toll climbed to eight Sunday night but stayed below double figures for the first time in several weeks. A Goshen woman, Mrs. Elsie Albin, 58, was killed in an accident three miles southwest of Goshen late Sunday when the car in which she was riding went out of control on Ind.

119 and smashed into a tree. Mrs. Peggy Myers, 23, Richmond, was critically injured in the accident. Verlin D. Coblantz, 22, New Par -1 yANDENBERG AIR FORCE is, Ohio, was fatally injured Sun- BASE Calif gold-plat- day in a headon collision one mile ed capsule Discoverer XVII- One white woman yelled out as Church.

He also was a member of the Negro gir)s drove in three the Pan-American Management automobiles with the federal mar- Club and the Indiana Academy of shais Science. going in there and get my children out. I no nigger she said. Some white parents entered the som of Evansville; two brothers, building reportedly to take their Francis Russell of Oakville and children out of classes. Edwin Russell of Middletown, and As one white man brought three a granddaughter, Deborah Lynn children out of the school a few Axsom of Evansville.

minutes later, a roar of approval The Rev. John Dewey and Dr. came from the white spectators Frank Helme will officiate at the huddled in front of the building at funeral services. Friends may call McDonogh. at the funeral home at any time.

minute, I said. president now. Eisen- Gas Tank Warehouse Burns At Bloomington BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Fire of unknown origin destroyed a southeast side warehouse early today in a blaze punctuated by exploding tanks of bottled gas. The warehouse was owned by Snoody Construction and Supply Co.

Destroyed in the fire were several tanks of the bottled gas, two of which exploded, a truck and building equipment. One fireman, Earl Cohee, was overcome by smoke but was not hospitalized. No damage estimate was immediately available. south of Milan. State police said the accident occurred when Jerry Walcott, 17, Dillsboro, attempted to pass in a no passing stretch of Ind.

101 and slammed into the Coblantz car. Mrs Cecile Coblantz, 58, also of New Paris, was seriously injured. An Indianapolis man, A1 O. Shaw, 76, died Sunday of injuries suffered when he was hit by a car Saturday night on an Indianapolis street. He was returning from a hospital where he had been treated for injuries inflicted by a hoodlum in a $2 robbery.

Ohio police reported the deaths Sunday of two Indianapolis brothers who were fatally injured in an accident on U.S. 35 west of Eaton, Ohio. Police said Merrill L. Miller, 24, and Glenn E. Miller, 21, were killed when their car swerved out of control on a curve and crashed.

An elderly Terre Haute woman, Mrs. Mamie Smith, 64, was killed near her home Saturday night when she was hit by a car while she was crossing a street. Police held Rose Polytechnic student Charles R. Gilbert, 21, for investigation. Another car-pedestrian accident Saturday claimed the life of Mrs.

Winnie Reed, 60, of Indianapolis, who was killed when one car bounced off another on an Indianapolis street, jumped the curb and hit her. Witnesses said the driver of the car which forced the other auto onto the sidewalk paused for a moment and then sped away. David Erischkorn, 18, Daleville, was fatally injured Saturday night when his car went out of control on a county road north of Middletown, rolled several times and skidded 900 feet. A Hammond woman, Pearl R. Bowman, 49, died Sunday of injuries suffered in a Nov.

9 crash. State police said her car skidded on a railroad overpass on U.S. 41 near Highland and smashed through a guardrail and down a 50-foot embankment. Charles Ryker, 14, Kokomo, was killed Saturday night when the car in which he was riding slammed into a truck parked on a Kokomo street. Police said the driver, Roy B.

Mclntire, 28, Kokomo, escaped serious injury. At Baton Rouge, there was some indication the legislature battling to keep the schools segregated despite the federal court order was ready to give in. House Speaker Tom Jewell, served with a restraining order to prevent his interference with the integration move, said the legislature would quit work today after a brief session. State troopers reportedly con, 7 tacted each school principal tell- given an extra day in space for ing each one to close the school New Satellite Due To Eject Capsule Today good come flying home today when a scientist presses a button. The satellite, forerunner of a legion of military sky spies, is the first of the Discoverer series to eject its capsule at a ground signal.

in line with the directive. But they reportedly were told that the principals were following the orders of the school board and remaining open. A caravan of state police officers massed on the fringes of the All the others have ejected when under orders from the Louisa timing device within the space Legislature to enforce the package clicked shut on the satel-! closure of the city's public schools, 17th pass around the earth. At least 75 officers were reported When Discoverer XVII neared its 14th trip, the Air Force decided At Baton Rouge, Lt. Col.

Thom- Sunday that it was behaving so as D. Burbank, assistant director well it could stay up a little of public safety, said there were longer. 40 officers en route to New Or- Scheduled ejection time was de- leans, layed to the 31st pass, about 5 Burbank said they were under p.m. EST today. orders from the Louisiana Legis- Plans called for the capsule to iature to enforce closing the pop from the 25-foot-long Agena public schools, second-stage rocket as it streaked I The names of the first over the North Pole, headed South.

a d-firing rockets were to slow it enough to permit a parachute to lower it over Hawaiian waters. Trapeze-trailing Flying Boxcars hoped to snag it before it hit the feat accomplished once in the long Discoverer series. One other capsule was fished from the sea by a skindiver. The latest Discoverer was launched at this big seaside missile facility at 12:42 p.m. Saturday.

The Air Force said the decision to leave it in orbit 18 extra trips was made because with the satellite have been and vehicle is performing To Meet Wednesday On Extension Glasses The office of Extended Services of Ball State Teachers College is planning a series of meetings to determine which courses should be offered by extension during the next school year. The meeting in Rushville will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday in the high school library. Doctor John R. Craddock will meet witli those people who arc interested and attempt to meet their needs for course work.

All teachers of the city and the surrounding area are invited to attend this planning session. The college officials have no way of determining which classes they should offer unless the prospective enrollees make known their needs. Negroes accepted for white schools here since the the schools were closely guarded secrets. The legislature in Baton Rouge Sunday night completed action on three sweeping concurrent resolutions designed to block the integration but U. S.

Dist. Judge J. Skelly Wright quickly enjoined the entire legislature from interfering with the eight-year-old battle. The legislature, with leaders of Gov. Jimmie H.

Davis in complete control, had rammed through resolutions which seized the New Orleans school system, authorized sergeants-at-arms at schools to prevent integration, dismissed the New Orleans school Continued on Page Three Bus Hauling Sailors Plunges Into Creek SMITHFIELD, VA. (AP) A Trailways bus carrying 40 servicemen plunged off a fog-shrouded curve into an eastern Virginia creek early today, critically injuring three passengers. Twenty seven were taken to a hospital in nearby Suffolk. Thirteen others were examined by a doctor in this community. There were no fatalities.

The bus was southbound from Washington, D.C., to Norfolk, about 50 miles away. Thirty-nine sailors and one soldier were aboard..