Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 25 January 1951 — Page 1

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MIGHTY UN NAVAL FORCE SHELLS INCHON

Cut Standards On Draftees To TaM More Men Mental, Physical Standards Lowered By Defense Dept. | '' ’ jFI ’* ' Jiuii. 25 (ll'P) ’ Thp 4kfM»HU|« HI I . i«dyy |i |tH«ji4rt in ifiiii, •< fin«Mi Al HMi |4q Iciil ; G.IkI.iHI - bi PM ,)n ' •‘-'••y I M'jHio yni|ng iWn 111 llmj -.ii.-ri ; I hr « ||| ~v| m,,|lV> WllO ■Wt'ip < IbMilli d 4 I’* wlon lln y look J Imlii' fbot t« «t V / , N 1/ di.t <i. ji.p.p. ,■ >. iit \ i,i, , M, IttWihmrg revok'd Ih«> pluu in IttlollM befurt th* lion<u< ujhivml •tv l> » i m'OlipiilHf*’ on u i -HiOHi bill bo «xt<’O<r (he (hull to is y»-nr aHili’. I'hiiJrfiMiii '(’ml Vinom asked In r /to he preipltred to discuss tomorrow ! the JHW'jißl'llty of ellmlnatlngr voluntat> »nliiitinents In new induction / program*./ J Sirs. Kisenherg ;warned that euti ling the Standards for men being drafted <Mean ;. that. later costs of / dlsabili'vtwill go up Sharply.' Con- ' take a new look at the program 'if disability benefits,!' she "said. 'J|- : T J- A A ‘‘reappraisal” .of. induction standards/ is being made, she £aid. and resulis will he announced \‘in the neat' future." . ', testified as Rep. Paul J. Kil- 1 • day, D.‘. JTex.. a key committee , member, incused the Pentagon by implicating of juggling its figures ] to strengthen Rs rase for a draft of I ; Mi s. ilqsenberg denied] that-this ! -was so. ' J j Hhe'Mtti the new' policy on physi-l cal and &ienAil . requirements wiM I be set lift noon. ’ . I By towbiink: standards, she, said. some 1 Os ' the 799.0(H) 4-F’s would , cerme ftu'o. as “full membets" fit the. armed services. But she said others still would not qualify/ pi first rate and set U|) limited her Vite Jqljs" for/tliem. - She said the new policy would ure that each biain h of service gels of mental and physical qpAiiflialions it pas\be»n com . pluineif* that tire navy and aii force | have lufen getting the bent men. | Hosipnberg y said • physical ( staiabrJ. ali-eddy pre down b> World Wm H level's, but that ilw n ■ tai stmjildrds me higher. She said T there UMllmit to how low. they yau ga ■ .V i ■ - ’ ' ' , • If we/bower the standards and take sei vice men." she said. - ? "we feel We could gi t about 150,0(H) . (extni.no n,I a! this Hm» " Committee chaimian (.’arl Vinson I; told Rosenb. ig to all rejectionn and defcvmenlk so far and refjorf whether (hanging standards'.could avert .the net d for di aft in# Rouths of IS). •- -- i / ’ Thf’ cbiintty and 1 have been considerubJy disturbed about the liberally j with which 4-F’s have been bblijlled."t he siaid. \‘lf such generosity had not-, existed, we would 'nM have had 7!)9,0tt0 of them.*// j ' Vins’dn said he b satisfied con-; ’ gross \b:H "no alternative” but tol ac</pt 4 lHe department’s draft plans , unless’iHwasn't to call up family men arid irterans. But other members. hot ho certain- were raising question*.along three lilies: i _ 1. Why I can’t the. IS-year old draft Approved with a proviso that none can /be called until ( th«? pool of men 1,9 25- -who are - t J -t-fr— ' i i. ■■. . f./ '■„ ; ChaHo Bailey Dies > At California Home Charldk Bailey, a former resident of | pecatur, died at 11:3b O’clock f Wednesday pifcht at his home ihpunland. CaL He was born / In Unior| township, a ;feon of Albert and / NHr| Hailey, and for many years wsls. an* active member of the I’nibn dliftpel Evangelical , l nit« d Brethreii ? church. Surviving a-, 1 his wife: . a son. Robert of Sur-! land: and two daughters, Mrs/ Ralph Webster of Monroeville atfd Mrs. - MHel Shehab' of ” ( ' ,,v ’ \ :i . X ildie l>My. will be fcfitrhed for funerot-servk-cs 'at the Union Chapel Rev, F. 1.. iEhgle Waterloo Officiating Arranger|#ntß have not been complb'ted, finding arrival of the body ' A > iI ‘ ' ■’ ’i ' I . 1 '• ■ h

DECATUR DA ILY DEMOCRAT \ • ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY I

Ask State To Accept Bird Sanctuary Land >ll ■ :• 3 j ■ "'1; ■'! Indianapolis. Jan. 2a ■— t l’Pi Reps. (j. Remy Bierly, Ik. l>e -atur. ;.nd Ralph (1. Hines. It. Portland, introduced a hill in the Indiana house' today authorizing the state conservation department to accept a deed to land In Adams and Jay ( (uutities to be designated the (Irtin Stiatlou Porter hir<l sitncluary. i Freeze Wails Final Action f By Government i Price-Wage Freeze Order Is Expected * Within Short Time BULLETIN Wa»hlngtrn ( Jan. 25.—-(UP) . —Price stabilizer Michael V. Disalle today ordered a price roil*back on cattle hides and calfskins —the basic raw materials' of the shoe and leather industries. The order is effectjive Monday. Prices will be rolled back to the highest level that prevailed in November. .Di Salle said the .rollback will mean a reduction of 15 percent or more in present prices. Washington, Jan. 25 —. (l’P> —- Ordjers rolling all prices' back |o Jan. 2 level* aud freezing wages and salaries awaited final govern mein clearance today.. Some officials believed the pricewage freeze Would be on by night fall. More cautipus estimates were that, legal formalities might not be completed until tomorrow. ,\ Economic stabilixi'r Eric A. Johjiston scheduled a morning conferened with price comroller Michael V. Disalle and wage stabiliser Cyrus S. Ching to put on the final touches. After that, It was a qqes- : tioii of’ how fast the controllers; coujd rush through their ; price and wage orders. Authoritative Sources said Disolle and Ching were ,sh<M)ting for a simullanepus announcement but that there Was a possibility 1 freeze might come' first, I The twin orders will make the] government, instead,.of supply and ' tlenfand, the sole arbiter of the brii ps of millions of Individual ai i ticjes. coiiimpdltles anti services I sold by hundreds of thousand* of i I business firms. And all wage mid j snlury Increases, with a few excefU , lions will have to be approved by j the government. ! / | 'Disalle said yesterday that Rieat ; amt other foodstuffs, now selling ;|! | record or near-record prices iai the I retail stores, will be rolled /back I (Turn To Pi«K«- * i “veni j | 40 Indiana Miners Escape From Fire ! Pandora Coal Mine j Is Swept By Fire Sullivan, ir.de, Jan: 25 -(UPj Forty miners esdape/d saftyly last night fire roared, through the Pandora, coal mine. Twelpty-siXiihen rod® an elevator up the 210sfoot shaft or scrambled up ventilatoi; ducts to the surface. Rescue crews brought out 14 others who wfie working deep'in the mine when friction on a belt line touched off tjie fire and Sent dense smoke bi|l<?Wing through the "passageways. v ' v Tiiiye. miners wire overcome by smoke asttroy rescued fellow diggers and foughf'r-hAjTire. Supt. Ira Puckett. 52. nnlfl remained in a hospital hnl Wayne Manuels, IS\ was released. I Crews of worker* fought to exiihguish the f tjybHorn blaze today. It was burning in a vein of coal and sumxirtifg timbers almost a mileJXmi the main shaft. ' Company officials said there w J as dtfo‘danger that the fire would eat -its lyay to a gas pocket and touch off an explosion. ' \ There was no explosion when tlif* fire brdke out about S:!10 o’cloik last night. But for si /time it Was feared that the 14 miners working beyond the flames were trapped in the diggings. A-crowd gathered around the mine entrance as rescue teams \ tTurw To Paar st«» ■ ■■ H/u \i I

Alpine “White Terror” Kills 255 ** . ■ ...... -u- - — ■■ ■ <|M * ■-Six •'--.wr— I I s * ■ L* ' K • I f a *- < r, 1 r WITH AN'tfBTIMATED 2M PERSONS dead In liiree coutitrle* In the worst Aljilne snowslides In 150 yeurs. villagers Join r«*rtt* workers at tremendous rllfk-s. 'UiisedMumit jihaws uUdJLj'alrt hlought avalanches which 7 liiernl|y hurled towns In the Hwlss. Austrian and Italian Alni. At the right. Anderbutf c OberulpSee Hotel Is badly damaged und illmost buried by the “white terrdr.” Austria altilne counted- 149 dead, with the thaw continuing. , __ ;. ' , . ■ j ill ■'— L — u— U—— i i

Free Acts Signed For Decatur Fair Fair blext July At . Hanna-Nuttman Park Capt. Ktihn'k cavalcade of wild animals will be the opening featijre free attraction' of the Decatur free fair and agiiqulturall show, to /be held at Hanna-Nuttman park next July 23 tq 2s. inclusive. The (amous act of trained wild animals was contracted Wednesday for/ the fkst thrye dajys of the fair by the free acts committee composed of Heyman KvUeckeberg. R. W. and Dick Heller. ' F' Jaqueline Teeter, famous aeiial trapize artist, who demonstraites hi r ability, without a ntl, 147 feet in the ajr. will give daily perfermam < s Lluiing the entire wtpk. The usual partial change of pro- ; gtatn will /«• made Thursday of fair 1 week, bringing new to the midway. |lelty Willis and her dogs; Danny Daniels, w6rld champion juggh r. and several others will be here during the w(*ek. The Kuhp attraction, wliich Includes/more than a dozen i'tld nniinalsU will feature a 14 yehriold j boy In the cage with three puiiia,s. i The tntirii she* will be presented jin a latge steel cage, 25 feet In diameter. For the night pirftkmanee. thei show < arries its own lights I Ing equipment. The cage wills be ’(reeled on an elevated stage. ' The Het at'ttactions wire purchased pom the Gun Sun F ; alr-/ ; booking agency of Springfield./0.. | and fiie“Sun organization Was represented by Ili/bcrt Shiiw. long-time Igem ral ot (he organiza- ) |l° n - J r . i ' ■ plans for the balance of thejair | program will be stapled sbori./ R. |W. J’ruden. executive manager’ of the Chamber of Conikierce and geeretuiy o;' t'he fair stated todap. Tjhis Will be t/he first year that /the event has been shifted to/ HaqnaNuttman park., —i'l I Seeks Go-Ahead Ort 'Overseas Air Bases i/r” ‘ ■ - j | Armed Services Ask , I Congress Authority [ u ' ~ ' 't J Washington; Jan, 25 —(UP) — The armed services asked congress today for qn, immediate, gb-ahead ()n construction of overseas /air bases add other urgent public work< projects at home and abrohdl Cpairman Richard B. Russel), “D.. I Ga.. announced after a closed-dOor ineeiing ; df his senate armed sei-y---ices conlmittee that the gldup would meet again tomorrow to hear 'AWorce and navy justifications tor I the>KQ|ects. ' \ u ■ He sald -tl)e plans involved “more ' than 11.000.00h/ooo'/ i ' / Rus-'eli saldl the navy and tjle iir force- which are responsible tor all but one of the expansion and con : ruction projects have "urbently” asked t\he Icpminittee fpr au'hi iity to go ahead. , J >, He said the program Involves buses, centers, urgent research projects and othpr publid w*orks to expand and , coin-. Struct facilities required for Nation’s military buildup. Some of the projects are very secret, be added. I • • ’ ■>!’

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 25, 1951.

Indiana House Voles Pay For Disabled Vets Votes Immediate i Payment Os Bonus / To Disabled Vets Indianapolis. Jan. 25.—(UP). — ■ote li)dl»n4 r lUHi*e passed unanimously and sent to the senate today a bill to give the state soldier bonus imiof-diately to disabled World War 14 Yeterans and next of kin of deceaseii veterans The vote Was 95 to R The bill would aipcn<l.«the 1949 bonus act which that payments to qll veterans he flayed until enough money luy in tpe bopusl fund to pay everybody enQtled to receive checks. / Without th? amendment, disabled and survivors would have to wail possibly until 1954 or 1955 for their money, / The bill was.passed shortly after two bills to ftiniiel additional millions of dollar* in state| funds to fltianclally hard-prewsed cities and ■ counties w»i'f introduced in H'** house by a of Republicans: Reps. Dudley W. Gleason, R.. Angola, mid M/enett R. Monks,' It.. Winchester, dividing sitate cigaret tax recehds, averaging around |l2. ft (H>.<•<)() a year, in a four-way spHtuip. Counties would get one-fourth jtnd cities, and towns atound 25 percent, In another bill, they suggested changing the state motor vehicle fund reducing the state's 4>hare fiom 53 to 50 percent and adding tl ie three perdent cutoff to counties and cities’ shares. Other new ’bills in the legislature this morning In the wake of a new flurry of filing activity would: \ Mqkq Hie conservation department bf-partfcsan like the state police; and/divide gamle wairdem appointments between the two parties. Abolish thf, stdte excise police force and let : state qnd locql law enforqenjent authorities, enforce the alcoholic beverage artt. Give the st£te attorney general sui>ervisqry\ powers over county sheriffs and prosecutors and permit him to dondudt grand jury investigations. * / , Abolish the'five-year-old state department of ctimmercjp and public relations to Save money in the state’s tinaneitil crisis. A rFsoluUoft exempting men in the armed forces from paying federal income on their govern inent ‘money was Introduced and adopted in the senate, Gleason .and Monks Suggested the cigaret tax. which previously has been shuttled KU), percent into the state general fund, pc divided equally between four units ot government • - the general fund, school corjWratiqns, cities and towns, and epunties. ' T . \ WEATHER Continued cold with occasional snow flurries through Friday. Low tonight 5-15, high Friday 1020./ j. ’ I r I

Local Souths Break Jail, Recaptured Slug Jailer, Flee ' To Kentucky Hills Williamstown. Ky., Jan. 25.—1 (l'l’>--Three youths, who ,disap- J pea,red. into the anow-swept pills i | after they bad beaten the Grant I county jailer Into semiconscious- 1 ncss and / escaped into, the night, were reciptured early this afternoon • v ; ( The trio were found hiding in a house alrnut three miles from town and meekly surrendered. They Were returned to the Grant county jail. ;’ Sheriff Elmer Ballard said that Noel. Now. 19; Ray Davis, IS. and Glenn Hague IS, jumped jailer la stir Heils'ley as he was returning New to a: cell block on top of the founstory/courthouse. , , New', frotn Gincjnnati. 0., was arrested hetr Tuesday night with Paul They. werti &ivit|g a truck stolen last Ft iday, iti Cincinnati. Davfs ahd Hague, both from Decatur, Indi; were being lie,ld tor grand action ou an automobile theft charge after their Arrest last October. I : / The fughives were clad only in trousers ajhtl light shirts. 18-Year-Old Youth Held For Slaying Charged In Death Os Quartermaster Alton. ||lL Jan. 25—(UP)— An army’eolodtjl’s son. accused of killing the quartermaster of fashionable /Western Military Academy, steadfastly denied the slaying to authorities today. Paql H. [Baker. Jr., 18. was held without bqnd on a murder charge mi the fatal shooting of Maj. Henry E. Suhre, 01, who Allegedly’ surprised the you,th pilfering a storeroom. Pofice chief Raymond Galloway said the cadet, described as a superior / undent who had showed /’signs of adolescent emotional instability.” refused to make a statement ’under questioning yesterday and nlght.Galloway planned \to question Baker agajh, tqday. State's attorney Lewis signed a li/urder qomplaint against th«r yo.ti|h//iaind announced that he would be jlield to the grand jury./ Baker waived a preliminary hearing. ; ,/• ■ The youth’s father, Lt. Col. Paul Hamilton Raker, and his mother arrived here last Right from Camp Breckenridge, Ky.. and visited with him in the police chjef’s office. \ young Hake'r and his father embraced, and Mrs. Baker handed the boy a paCljuge. Police said it eontdined pajamas, a bathrobe, “bedroom : slippers and tojlet l articles. Bullets fiom a .45 cafiber automatic plsthl, similar to a pistol foupd in, Baker’s room, were sent to the stiße police laboratory at Springfield; 111., tor a ballistics test. Baker’s ftroommate. barrel Bell, IS. of t’atipi, ill., told Col. C. H. Mooye, commandant of the academy, that the cadet admitted shooting SUhre after the quartermaster'fbuhd him in the storeroom tTatita Ta • *»w >

American, British And Other Allied Warships Hammer Port Os Seoul I' I. ■ ■' ! '.v '■ ■■ J . :

Mass Killer Trial Set For March 12 'T ' 1 Attorneys For Cook Enter Innocent Plea (fiklwiioma Uhy, Jan, 25 A Hornby a for badmutt Hilly Conk entereil a plea of iniioeent for hint loday and asked foderal judge HHipiiPh g ChiindliT to rxpliiln til Hint thiit they me trying “not to help kill him but to help him stjivn hW life." sot Cook’s trial on Lltidbeigh law kidnap murder chdrge* in the slaying of tl|e' fl]vimember Carl Mosser family of AtWood. 111. for March 12 after, deigns* lawyers Gomer Smith tind Jolpi Connolly said they will need at [least six weeks to prepare theiy ease. The attorneys, who hinted they will base (their arguments : or> an in.4anity pie*, asked Chandler to tell Cook they were appointed to help him. i TWe have, had nothing In (he way of cooperation from tliis)ioy." Smith said. “He | thinks we are jmU t'wo more federal officers. 1 wdnt the court to explain our, purpose to help break down this ap parent hostility.” sniit|i added 'that “if.he refuses to| take us into his confidence we want to he relieved of this responsibility of representing him.” Chandler then told Cook that “in this country before a defendapt is tried it ip customary for ’tjhe coifrtr to appoint a lawyer to defend him if he cannot provide for h|mself. “SI was careful to appoint counsel: for you that I considered mpst cpippetent. They cannot represent thn government. I know’ of ho lawyers who will represent you niore competently." filiandler then, asked I'ook if he unporstood the two' attorneys vyere on his side and the-Htl-pound defendant whispered meekly H guess so,” 1 .

Milk Prices Boosted One Cent Here Today ■'[ r ' ' h r Increase Effective With Day's Delivery i The delivered price tor milk \tePt up one cent a quart in Decat»ir today, a representative of locjal dairies Announced. Effective with the morning delivery, the prices quoted per quart are: Pasteurized milk. 2Q cents; homogenized milk, 21 cents. James Moses announced/the iipcrease for the five dairies that distribute milk in this city. He sajfl that the 'oue dairy line which delivers Imißr to tile homes would iperepse its price one cent a quart. Moses 4did that the higher price pattt for milk on the farm and the cost of delivery accounted for the latest increase The base price for raw milk on ( the farm- is- $4.50 cwt: for four percent grade milk, yii* hauler charges from 35 to 40 cents per cwt. for faun to dairy delivery, he said. A premium is paid on milk testing more than four percent, the spokesman said. For an example, he said, if the nlilk tested 4.2. the pietnium would |be 15 cents per cwt. /' ' / ! . The dairy lines process the milk, hottie (and deliver the product to homes throughout the ciiy. ——- L. j Bituminous Coal Prices To Increase Pittsburg, Jan. Z - —(UP)—Bitun* itiotis coal prices at Pennyslvpnia Ohio] and-Northern Wept. Virginia mines will go up 2b to 35 cents a ton February 1, industry source; said tortay. \ . * Some prod'ticlers already have notified customers of the increase. They said it- would] “partially com'pensate" for increased costs resulting from si.6O a day wage boost granted the pnited Mine Workers.

Report Brifish Will Turn Down Peace Formula Arab-Asia Formula For Far East Peace j Reported Rejected Luke HUci-psr, NtY:, Jan 25 (III’)— Britain will (urn down the ISinatlon Arab Aslan formula for fa| eastern peace which reportedly haw been accepted by Communist China, reliable sources said today. I The, British Opposition to the plan, which was reported here and in London to have received, Peking's blessing.. was based qn the fact that it makes no mention ;Of[a Ceqile-fire in Korea as a prime prerequisite for further steps toward' peace. The . Indian-led Arab-Asian bloc submitted its plah yesterday to the Upited/ Nations main political com* mittee in resolution which calls for a (preliminary ' seven-nation coufereniie to include Egypt and India "with/ the big five, the Communist regime representing China. The conference would attempt to elicit clarification aud amplification of Peking's position toward peace aud, if successful on that aebre, would’proceed to discuss set-, tinment of this Korean and other fq|- eastern problems. Bijit it makes no mention of the demand of the 'United States, supported by Britain and njost of the UN members, that Peking fnusti agfree to a cease-fire in Korea pe-l fore discussions can be held on any other t \ Sardar PAnnikar, the Indian ambassador to Peking, messaged hLs government that the Chinese Reds agreed to thle conference- and also expressed wfllingness for a Korean cease-fire to, take effect immediately with its start, reliable sources said. Glhdwyn Jebb, Britain's chief delegate, was scheduled to make his country's position clear when the tiu-nation political committee Jater today, it was expected • th4t he also would clarify the British attitude toward the American resolution demanding that the UN condenin cbmmunlst dliina for ‘engaging in aggression." Britain has said all along that it -J- (Turn Ta Pave *evea»

Seek Amendment To Laws On Security Ask Amendment By State Legislature City, county and school, employes who do not come under group pension plans, are planning to attend tpe legislative forum at Monroe Saturday night, in the interest of having the legislature existing laws .so they can share in social security benefits. Walter Bollinger, a veteran employe at the city light and power plant.' said that municipal employes. other than policemen and firCmen, county employes, including those at the hospital, and school house janitors would attend the ipeeting. State Senator Von A> “Pat” Eichhorn and Rep. G. Remy Bierly of this city, will speak at the meeting and answer questions on proposed legislation. Although the federal law has. been extended to include government employes in social security. Indiana law does not permit partieijpation. It was explained ' thatthe] legislature would have to ratify .ihe federal provisions and then government employes could pay th* tax for social security benefits These employes do not have any pension set-up and Bollinger stated that many were desirotus of obtaining benefits under the federal law. I

Price Five Cents.

Sea Attack Breaks Sustained Lull On Korean Front; UN Patrols On Move Tokyo, Frlrlay, Jun. 26— (Ul’i— A might/ i iiited NhUohm iwak toii<« or Amwriagn, HrlHsh and ttlliar allied warship* sailed Hmmitli tM li-llow M«a up the Ko - r*ah waa( coast Thurwday anti shallad Hu lom, (ha port of Kamil. Im hon Ijs |k mile* west of Meoul It in the port where Gen Dougins Mm Arthur turned the course of Ihe Korean was *Hh a daring amphibious landing that captured S*oul carried almost to the Yalti river houndaVy of Matichurht. However, there was no report of. any ground action accompanying the dramatic strike as an amphibious offensive. A force of cruisers and destroyers sailed up famous Flying Fish channel to make the attack. They poured . eight-inch' and six-inch shells into the already-battered/ port from the same shallow chiyif nel where MacArthur's invasion armada landed last September. I The operation was announced by a British at the Sasebo naval base in southwest Japan, it whs understood the attack w*s continuing late Thursday. The sea attack broke a sustained lull on the Korean front which has kept ground fighting to a minimum for the tatt three Week*; During Thursday United Nations patrols reentered Hoengsong and roamed as deep as 11 miles into the uo-man’s-land of central Korea without meeting the elusive communist army. ( I Air observers reported the Reds in groups ranging from 40 to 500 liid in the snow-covered hills as the patrols passed .and made no attepipt to attack, b Allied planes blasted the communists wherever they could be sighted and claimed 1.70 killed. . The communists also disappeared -from the after five days’of aerial dogfights. Five hundred / allied plane* bombed and strafed unchallenged, hitting rail centers and other targets. The continued inactivity led to speculation by some United Nations officers that the bulk of the Reds may have pulled back closer to the 33th parallel. Most field officers believed however that a. new Red attack was in thle makIng. . , . Anotherjillied tank fori/e .surged out'/orthe main defense line south of Wfrnju Thursday and ■rolled to milek north of Wonju to Hoengsong along the same road travelled yesterday. Thursday's column enteyed Hoengsong at l:30i p. m. (10:30 p.m. Wednesday' CST) without opposi(Tar* Ta Pace Seveal Course Os Training For Home Nursing A Red Cross course ot training for Instructors in home nursing and care ot the sick will begin January 29. Mrs. Max Schafey. executive secretary, announced tpday. Classes will convene January -29 and again on the 31s<. February and are open to all registered nurses and teachers of health and home economics, she said. The meetin., will be held in the county health! nurse’s office in the Decatmf library). ( ' Instruction will be given by Miss Edith L.. Petty, nursing field representative from the eastern area. Miss Petty plans to arrive In Decatur Saturday to complete final arrangements for teachings course. Further information may be had by calling Red Cross headquarters, Mrs. Schafer stated. In view of Cross committments to the civil defense program -ft-is important that certified instructors for the nursing program be available and in order tn ho eligible for certification it iA net-' (ssary that instructors have th's training,” it was explained.