Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1952 — Page 1

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.. I —■ — : —————— Wage Increase Offer Made By 6. E. Company Provides Straight Increase And Cost Os Living Boost - <J. i— 8 1 ■ ? V ' The new wage increase offer made by General Electric today to approximately 200,000 J employes which includes a straight 2*&% increase (with a 3*4 cent per hour miniipuijn) *plus a cost-of-living increase is estimated to bring 1 the total of wage increases » since and including September 15, 1951 to 9.34%, according to - John F. Welch, manager of the. Decatur plant. - The 2%% portion of the wage offer is made as last year, on the similar increases approved by the wage_ stabilization board recently for employes of companies in like circumstances in the general area of General Electric’s operations, according to Welch. He said that General Electric wants to maintain l -its ! employes, in their traditional relationships with employes of such other comparable companies. - The new jMst-of-living adjustment under -tire offer vyOuld reflect. the total percentage increase in the cost-of-living from thb bsae date of March 15, 1951 to September 15, 1952. Explaining what this means, Welch pointed out that all employes received a cost-of-living increase on September 15, 1951 amounting to 1.08%. In other words, he said, assuming that the estimated tbtal increase in the cost-of-living from the base date, 4.34%, is correct, it would result in a 3.26% addition to the 11.08% cost-of-living adjustment already, in effect. \ The company stated that the entire offer was conditioned upon pin the cost-of-living since the base i whatever approval may be neces-. sary from the wage and salary stabilization boards. v L According to WelchA General Ji offered all employed a cost-oMiving adjustment last <r, March 15. This adjustment ’ ’ amounted to 1.03% but it was not accepted by all of the unions representing G. E. employes. Welch said the United Elec- 4 trical/.Workers Union (UE), acting as the certified 5 bargaining representative for a majority of . local G.“ E. employes, can receive the cost-of-Hving part of the new offer as of August 15, 1952 instead of September. 15, 1952, provided the union representing them laccepts an alternate) proposal made by the company. This A Optional I adjustment, said Welch, would be the . percentage increase in the cost-of-living from the biise date of March 15, 1951 to August 15, 1952, and would replace but include the 1.08% adjustment -already in effect. In order for this i to become effective air wage, peni sion, insurance and other ecoI nornic matters would hive to, be 7 agreed to by the union by August 31 and any remaining non-eco-nomic matters agreed to by Sep--4 ' T» Paus* »lx> INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and warmer to- | c night and Thursday. Low tonight 6065 north, 65-70 south; high Thursday around 85 north, .1 85-90 south. ? ’.■ • . '/A |

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— . I —, — Monroe Invites 4-H Club Fair's Return Monroe Town Board Issues Invitation The Monroe town board, through its president, Homer | fWinteregg, has invited the Adams county extension committee to hold the 4-H club fair in Monroe again in 1953. They would .like to have the 4-H fair conducted just' as it was in 1952. They suggest the extension committee . arrange for an additional day given over to Future Farmers of America and an open show; and competition for organized rural womeff"fit tractions be based on extension and ;F.F.A. projects that measure production, and that such projects measure production of dairy cow toting, ton litter work, gold medal calf and sheep projects, and poultry record work. This would provide purebred breeders with a show window and competition with the High school agricultural classes under the direct supervision of their vocational agricultural teachers. h Adams county, points out county aggnt L. E. Archbold, has had a good-example of the effectiveness of , kuch a show window ini the Berne bolt show of a few years ago. In that work the suckling colts were weighed in July. By a year the colts had gained 65|) pounds and 'were eligible to show. The Berne suckling colt show drew horse buyers from a radius of 500 miles. The following spring not a salable colt could be found in the county. ' ’ Women’s organizations such as home demonstration clubs, social and educational sections of the Farm Bureau, and garden clubs could be invited to make competitive displays as part of the one day adult show. Thus the Monroe fair would, within the week, cater to those of all ages, pet and hobby clubs under 10; 4-H clubs 10 to 20; Future Farmers through high school; pure-bred breeders, and all ages and adult women groups. The county agent urges every one to discuss this new proposition. After they have formed an opinion. |he same should be given to their township extension committeemen. The extension committee will render a decision. / This method of settling copimunity questions and problems, points out Archbold, is, a democratic process and gets the answers from the interested people of the entire community; It : ds. expressed in the invitation that concessions, rides, and shows be barred; that the fair be home made, entirely under the direction and supervision of the Adams county extension committee. ■■ I —/ I Auction Graduate Exercises Friday The last of three grueling weeks of study in the Reppert school of auctioneering is now’ drawing to a close. As a fitting fulmination to the course, the class of 73, called by instructors “a good, spirited and hardworking crew," will hold a banquet at the K. of P. home> Friday at 11 a.m. at which time diplomas will be handed out and Col. Quentin Chaffee w’ill address I the auctioneers _ 16 PAGES

Truman Sets Up Close Liaison To Stevenson Campaign Strategy Is Discussed By Truman, Nominee WASHINGTON, UP — President Truman today set a close political liaison between the White House and Gov. Adla| Stevenson’s campaign headquarters in Springfield. 111. Two presidential assistants, David Bell and Clayton Fritchey, flew back to Springfield with Stevenson Tuesday after the Democratic presidential nominee spent three and one-hallshours dipcussing campaign strategy with Mr. Truman. Esablishment of the liaison was the only concrete result of the Truman - Stevenson meeting to come to light immediately. Mr. Truman’s role in the political campaign still was cloaked in mystery. But he declared himself pleased with whatever understanding he reached on the matter with Stevenson and the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. John J'. Sparkman of Alabama. Bidding the Democratic banner bearers goodbye in front of the west wing of the White House, President Truman said the meeting had been <veryl satisfactory from my viewpoint.” He indicated any agreement on his campaign role was general. He said "the details 'will be worked out at a later date.” Working out these “details” appeared to be one of the main assignments given Bell and Fritchey. - Bell has been a White House speech writer. Fritchey, a former newspaperman, was defense department director of public information until added to the White House staff recently. They will be on leave from their White House posts and off the government payroll while on the political liaison assignment. President Truman has offered to do his jutmoat to help eledS the Democratic ticket this fall, Wuding a “give-em-hell” whistle-stop campaign such as he waged in 1948. He also has said the arhount of campaigning he does is entirely up to Stevenson. Previous reports from Stevenson’s gubernatorial mansion at Springfield, HL, were that he was cool toward Che idea of a barn-sorming campaign by Mr. Tjuman. Stevenson said he was “deeply grateful” to President Truman for ITnrn To Paso Flve» Former Decatur Man Dies At Fort Wayne Funeral services for Earl Myers, 59, a former resident of this city, will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.mat the D. O. McComb funeral home, Fort Wayne. His death occurred Tuesday morning after an extended illness. James of this city, a friend of the deceased, said that Mr. Myers was employed here by the former Everett & Hite wholesale grocery company, prior to his moving to Fort Wayne. Surviving are the wife, two stepsons and a brother, Ward Myers of South Bend. 5 ' 5

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Public School Teacher Staff Is Announced Complete Faculty Is Announced By Supt. Guy Brown \ Teachers for the coming term in both the Lincoln grade school and Decatur high school, were announced today by W. Guy Brown, city superintendent of schools; the list also includes the replacements for the six teachers who resigned their positions this summer. Replacing Gladys Zimmerman, Bette Simonson and Mary Jo Hoffman in the Lincoln school are—not in respective order —Ruth Petrie, 1- Alma Brayton, 1-B; and Jesteen Cole, 3-B.’ ■ In Decatur high school Arnold Conrad, the late Diale Ross and Vaughn Miller are replaced by Fred Boiler, an I. Xj. graduate taking over the commercial class; Johnson of Ball state teachers college, English; and William Journay of Purdue, vocational agriculture and biology. *1 ' •> Bryce Thomas is the principal of the Lincojd school; the complement of teachers other than those already named are: Gladys Chamberlain and Kathryn Dorwin, kindergarten--1 and 2 respectively; Romaine L. Sprunger, 1-A; Florence" Haney, 2- Dorothy Eichenauer, 2-B; Georgia Foughty, 2-C: Lauranell Macklin, 3-A; Ruth Flora, 3-C; Vera Vanßuskirk, 4-A; Matilda Sellemeyer, 4-B; Raymond Lehman, 4-C; Opal Sprunger. 5-A; Jerry Leitz, 5-B; Glennys Roop, 5-C; Floyd Reed, 6-X; Hubert Zerkel, Jn, 6-B. Hugh J. Andrews is the principal of Decatur high school: his complement of teachers besides those named are: Merritt j.. Alger, mathematics: Hdrry Dailey, mathematics and science: Deane T. Dorwin, social studies and public speaking; Sylvester Everhart, physical education, health and safety, driver training; Helen Haubold, vocal music; Maynard Hetrick, commercial; Kathryn Kauffman, art; Amos Ketchum, industrial arts; Eleanor Pumphrey, Clint Reed, band; Lowell J. Smith, social studies; Ormajene Steller, vocational home economics; Von L. Stoffer, science; Charlotte Vera, Latin and’ English; Rebecca Walters, physical education, health and safety; Catherine Weidler, English; Robert Worthman, coach, physical education, health and safety. I Completes Faculty At Pleasant Mills Howard Hill Named As New Principal Niiftrod McCullough, trustee of St. Mary’s township (Pleasant Mills) 5 schools today announced the completion of his teaching staff for the coming school term. ‘ Howard M. Hill, who has quite a number of years of experience as principal in Randolph county schools, has been selected to head his school system for the coming year. Myron Lehman will again coach the “Spartan” - team and teach social studies. other members of the teaching staff will be; - Huser, science, tics|and social studies; Fern Broadwell, commercial subjects and girls physical. education; Lois Bodkin, Engjlish and library science; Marjorie Blocker, vocational home economics and related science; Dorothy McClean,, mifsic 1-12 and high school English; Fred Johns, industrial arts and science; Dorothy Amstutz, grades 5-6; Pearl Gehres, grades 3-4; Leia Wittwer, grades 1-2. Bobo-r-Ruth Rigdon, 5-8; Myrtle Clements, grades 1-4. , v j \. ■ ■ • I I vt . * 'J

itounfy Council To meet August 25-26 For Study Os Appropriations A special emergency appropriation meeting of the Adams county council will take place August 25 and 26 at 10 a.m. in the county auditor’s office, it was announced today by Thurman I. Drew, auditor. By law. any group of appropriations that amount to more than SI 5,000, subject to approval by the j county council, must be heard in not less than two <|ays. ’t’his latest series of requests totals $23,410. Following is a breakdown of the ; requests for county departments: The treasurer’s office asks fox S3OO to coyerV the six percent tc Which he is entitled for collecting ’ delinquent taxes. 5 For the sherlfi and special deputies, $100; telephone services for the attendance ’ officer, $125; -county agent, $165; operation of the assessor’s office $250; circuit court operations, $250; Root township deputy, $80; additional salaries for the township trustees, S4OO. Hospital I Provided a hospital manager is hired, $1,200 is requested to cover the salary for the remainder of'this year; also an additional-$1,850 is requested for properties.' Highway - Truck, tractor and diesel operation, $5,500; ‘ operating costs, gasc> tires and repairs, $3,300; stone, $5,000; unused, $4,8190, requested to be transferred to stone. It will be a public meeting; if 10 or more citizens remonstrate they may be heard by the state board of tax commissioners in their grievance wheh a subsequent hearing. is set. ' \ " Members of the county council are Harry Dehner of Union township. first district; Julius Schultz of Washington township, second distL net; C. J. Jones of Blue Creek township, third district; Chris Stahly of Hartford township, fourth district; councilmen at large, Leon Neuenschwander, William Kreqtzman and Rufus Huser. This will be the secohd special meeting of the county council this year; ’■ S-- ■ \ i ’ f Sporadic Walkouts : In Packing Plants ' Nationwide Strike Threatens Packers j CHICAGO, Ut* — Walkouts ended |t some meat packing plants today but new work stoppages chopped up at others in a dispute which threatens to develop into a nationwide packing plant strike. So far, the sporadic walkouts had caused no meat shortages and only minor dislocations in the normal ’channelling of livestock. Bqt negotiations here' covering major plants across thp country appeared to have hit a stalemate; The CIO U lited Packinghouse Workers charged Armour & Co> tyas; trying to provoke trouble by refusing to. expend union contracts virhieh expired Monday night. Contracts with other major packers expired Tuesday night. The Armour plant at Atlanta, Ga., reopened this morning and plant manager D. HI. Wilson said he hoped all workers would be back on the job before the day’s end. The plant was closed Monday''and Tuesday in a walkout by 350 employes. ’ A two-day walkout by about half Os the 2,200 Armour employes at St. Joseph, Mo., ended, and the plant resumed full scale productioh. ; Armour’s Tifton, Ga., and Fort Worth, Tex., plant, hit by partial walkouts earlier In the week, also resumed full operations. At South St]. Paul, Minn., about 2,300 CIO members who claimed the£ were “locked out” were back on the job. The workers walked out Monday, and* the company kept its plant closed Tuesday pending union as- | (Tura To Face Five) I' ’ 1 • .

; r , Schricker Asks Truman Declare Disaster Area y Serious Drought In d 21 Southern Counties Leads To Request Q IbfDIANAPOLIS, UP — Gov. e Schricker today asked the Presi--11 dent to declare 21 Southern Indiana 1 counties a “disaster area” because of a "serious drought situation.” e Schricker sent telegrams to Mr. r Truman and secretary of agriculo ture Charles F. Brannan shortly g after commerce secretary Charles f Sawyer revealed findings of a sur- >- vey indicated drought conditions e were npt considered serious in ; Indiana, e The telegrams were sent as the governor received a report of a _ farm leaders* meeting at Lafayette Tuesday. Leaders drought Wmage to Southern Indis ana crops may require $500,000 in r federal loans. s Schricker said he acted “after s careful investigation and upon the recommendation of many county agricultural agents and othm? responsible farm leaders." _ *■ -;' !, Schrkker urged action “at the o earliest possible date.” q Farmers in 21 Southern Indiana .. counties have lost as much as half j their major crops and may need r $500,00( in federal aid to finance .. future operations, state agricultural leaders said at the meeting Tues1 day. , ' Discussing the situation were the 1 Indiana agricultural mobilization committee and Ralph C. Philllppe, { state director of the farmer’s home 3 administration. \ T No recommenaauon was made 1 as to whether the area should be r classified as a “disaster” region , pending an Aug. 26 meeting, when federal statistician M. M. Justin 5 of Purdue University will present i figures: showing the scope of drought damage. Marshall Vogler,' chairman of the. Indiana production and marketing administration, will report I on Tuesday’s meeting to Schricker. I Philllppe said reports showed a 40 to 50 per cent loss among major crops in 21 southern counties along the Ohio river. He estimated a possible need for $500,000 in emergency loans to finance winter feeding and spring planting purchases. That fund ’ wound bel available to farmers who ’ Could not obtain loans locally. I ... .'4 ; i Marion J. Tinkham • . . Dies Last Evening r 5 '■ \ - • \v Farmer Found Dead ! At Home Last Night j Marlon James Tinkham, 67, Blue Creek township farmer, was found dead about 7 o’clock Tuesday evening at h}s home on Decatur route 6. Death was caused by a cerebral t ’ hemorrhage, which he apparently , suffered while eating his evening . meal. His body was found by a Neighbor. i Mr. Tinkham was born in Adams county Dec. 14, 1884, a son of William and Minerva Johnson-Tink- ; ham, and was a lifelong resident t of the county. , Surviving are three daughters, I Mrs. Raymond.Bixlet of near Berne, j Mrs. Bernard Johnson Os Fort j Wayne and Mrs. Roy Kaehr of ( catur; 11 grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Swart? of ► Columbia City and Mrs. Olive Hobj let of Willshire, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, with burial J at Rockford, O. Friends may call . at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

Geraldine Schultz Stricken By Polio - Another polio case was reported in Decatur today, with diagnosis of the illness of Geraldine Schulti 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Schultz. 707 Winchester street, as infantile paralysis. , The girl was taken to the St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne Tuesday night. Only the right leg is affected to date. She has been ill for two or three days. Another case was also reported today by a local physician, although the patient resides in Van Wert county, O. The victim is Linda Walker, three and one-half year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Walker. Both legs are affected and she also has a spinal weakness. U. S. Marines Repulse Third Reds’ Assault Toughest Battle On Western Front Again t Beaten By Marines SEOUL, Korea, UP marines, in their “toughest battle” ’ since they’ve been on the Western front, tonight slammed back the third Chinese attack on Bunker I Hill in 29 hours. The Leathernecks tore huge gaps in the lines of an advancing Chinese battalion — approximately 750 men—that struck at 9:05 p.m. under a sky luridly lighted by shell fir e- 1 ■ > ' . '\ At 10:15 p.m., a marine spokesman said, the attack wns broken. The Chinese charged recklessly through an intense barrage from their own artillery and mortars. \ Big guns kept on throwing shells into Allied lines after the Red infantrymen broke and ran. Allied artillery boomed in reply. It was the Reds third try since 4 p.m. Tuesday to knock the marines off the strategic height, five miles east of the truce village of PanmunjOm. Maj. Gen. John T. Senden. commander of the Ist marine division, said the fight for the hill was “the toughest battle since we’ve been over here” on the Western front. "The Chinese Communists are hurt,” he said. The marines captured the hill Tuesday and then in the space of 12 -hours battered back two counterattacks Involving nearly 1,200 Reds. Between 4 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. today, Selden said, the Communists hurled between 10,000 and 15,000 rounds of mortar and artillery on the embattled marine defenders. United Press correspondent Frederick C. Painton, reporting from the Bunker hill battleground, said some marines believed the Chinese Reds were doped before the attack, j \ “They were making strange noises, talking to themselves and walking right into us as if they didn’t give a damn.” one marine said. A regimental commander said he believed the heavy Allied artillery barrage had shocked them. Fifth air force and marine planes flew nearly 100 sorties in the Bunker hill area, while Sabrejets sweeping North Korea for the second straight day failed to meet any Red MIG-15 jets. Action on the Bunker hill front . was relatively quiet after the coun-ter-attacks for the rest of the day except for Communist artillery. Eighth army officers estimated the Reds fired 4,000 rounds from 6 p. m. Tuesday until 1 p.m. today. The marines also disclosed that 1 two groups of their planes destroyed a Chinese army headquarters southeast of Haeju near the 1 38th parallel on the Western front Tuesday. . Allied air power concentrated (Twwi Un Hr ’ ' - \

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Thousands Os Youths Lured * To Red Groups Attempt To Teach American Youth To Destroy Government . WASHINGTON, UP —Senate) investigators charged today the Communists have lured thousands of American youths into Red organizations in an effort to teach them how to ’’destroy their government” In a report to the senate, a “task force” of the senate internal security subcommittee described in detail how the Communist youth movement operated during and after World War II —first through the Young Communist League and then through American Youth for Democracy. The AYD, it said, was -dissolved in 1948 in order to form two baste Communist-controlled youth organizations —Young Progressives of America and Labor* Youth League. It* said the former serves as a broad youth front, getting in many young people who don’t know what Communism Is. The latter, it said, is openly Marxist and has a <nuch narrower membership. Both organizations, it said,! ?re "affiliated with communist-controll-ed international youth organizations which are in an arm of the Cominform.” It added that at one time, the Communists tried unsuccessfully to destroy the Boy Scouts of America by setting up a rival organization, the Young Pioneers. Since their failure, ft said, the Communists have been trying to infiltrate the Boy Scout/. To back up its conclusions, the subcommittee made public a 306psLge transcript of hearings the task force held on the Communist youth movement both here alxd in New York last spring. The sessions were net open to the public. Noting that Communist-controlled organizations try to influence youths in high school and other segments of American life, the subcommittee recommended that its report be given “the widest possible circulation among youth leaders, youth organizations, schoolg and colleges in this country.” Subcommittee chairman Pat MeCarran D-Nev. said he could "conceive of few greater crimes than the attempted destruction of the faith, security and pride of our youth In their country.” No Barkley Comment On Political Future PADUCAH, Ky., UP — Vice President Alben W. Barkley refused “absolutely” to comment today on whether he might again seek his old seat in the United States senate. The Veep was askhd to comment on the possibility after a Louisville labor official sent a telegram to Sen. Tom Underwood, D-Ky., urging him to withdraw in favor of Barkley. Pat Ansboury, head of Truck Drivers Local 89, AFL, also sent the telegram to Gov. Lawrence W. Wetherby. Governor Candidate Visits In Decatur George Craig, Indianapolis attorney and Republican candidate for governor, was a Decatur visitor Tuesday. He was accompanied on a visit through the business section by Harry “Peck” Essex, Fourth district Republican chairman. The candidate said that he planned to. visit 26 Indiana counties during this month. The actual speaking campaign, which will take Craig again into almost every county, will start about September |.