Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1952 — Page 1

01. L. No. 199.

Central Soya's Expansion Program To Be Celebrated With Open House At Decatur Plant On September 11. ■ a MjjtfjjggL wMP^ i 4K3 I 4 '''' b k ■ 4H * .wL I ’ 111 111 IHI till I>i F ill? ~ n K»k 111 (b * - T '* >'^»-<'. ta t£S " S '4 LraR...... . „?r. w .k. . AERIAL VIEW OF Central Soya Company’s vast plant in this city, with recent additions, making it the largest soybean processing plant in the country.

Reporter Cites Need For City Airport Here

(By JACK SCHREIBMAN) Because of the interest in the subject under discussion at -the last meeting of the city council — that of a flying field under municipal control —this first In a series of articles is being written. In light of past experiences with such ventures, citizens are entitlfed to know how this latent effoH to provide the city with fair access — is different. ; j r First of all* a number of things attributed to the failure of the Liniger airfield and McComb field which operated in the-city in the past ten years?. Both had something in common; they were privately owned and out to make money. There's nothing wrong with that, but there A, was obviously something 'wrong or one or the other or both would still be* operating. Here’s one analysis: There wasn’t ’ enough business in the case of Liniger field to warrant the continuance of an operation. Here’s why. There Were two people operating the field who wanted to make a living out of it. They worked hard all day and were entitled to at least a livi ig. They didn’t get it. What happened? They folded. Simple as all that. ' . Now, McComb field; what happened there? That field was mginly for flying instruction; it’s 'no coincidence that their business was formed about 1945: it was the end of the war and there were lots of boys coming back from the wars to take advantage of flying instruction at the government’s expense. As soon as gT I bills were 'about exhausted, McComb folded. Simple enough there: There., just wasn’t enough money coming in to support the full time personel at the field. An informed source said they got a better offer and didn't "have to kill themselves running a business thatj didn’t pay ' ° ff ’ ''' ''J There you have it! There just -wasn’t enough money coming in. In both cases the fields were run on a strictly commercial basis. Comparatively. this is ' still a small city, too small to support an airfield that is run Commercially. So much can be seen from the record. It should be enough of an answer to those gjLtizens who, when approached with the idea of a flying field, say: "Two others folded, what makes you think this will be any different?’’ A fair enough question that deserves a highly detailed answer. When the following' facts are boiled down it will be clearly shown that a

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municipally operated flying field of a modest nature such as is being proposed does not\ have to make riponey to support personnel. This is a point! to remember; it was that factor that caused! the dowiUall of the other two fields. As stated ‘ at the .st council meeting, Josephine Ivethh is running what she calls the “Highway Airport”, at the south limits of the city just off „U. S. highway* 27. She owns a plot of ground nekt to her homfe about 350 feet loni? by 200 feet wide. She leases several hundred more feet of land fpr a nominal price. She is paid up till next March. What*’ she proposed, and why she asked Col. Cornish of the C.A.A. to cqme and speak for her, was that city take over the land, operate it and ' remove exactly three hazards to flight on the east end of the strip and on the south side of the strip itself. If the city uses its resources to advantage it is estimated that it will cost the city very little to keep running. This money would go for filling in a pond on one side of the strip, cutting off a treetop, moving the grass and rolling flat!.some of the ground, and possibljf some spot grading of a minor nature. Also, the city’s high tension wires on the eaijt side Os U. S. highway 27, opposite the field; would have to be lowered slightly. ! ! At this tkne three planes m®or at this field. One belongs to Kenny Beard, the other to Bob Railing anfl the other to Miss Ivetich. Some may think it ridiculous to ga so tar to form a municipal field for just three light craft. There is enough assurance that the traffic in the field, once one is actually formecL will more than warrant the initial effort. FirsL therp are several large factories in, Decatur. Central Soya operates planes that would Use the fielld. General Electric possibly uses planes to fly its executives in and out for quick visits. Farmers can employ aerial dusters flying out bf the local field and thus perhaps cut their cost of transportation. Bag Service uses a plane. Aside from the business angle, many private planes would use the service gladly, just for pleasure purposes. ' The' difference between this municipal i. and the others that failed is that this would be a service and not a business. For the small amount of money that needs to be expended weighed against the value received, the (Tarn T® Pace Five)

Completion of a major expansion program climaxing 18 years of progress at the Decatur plant, which rounded it out as the country’s largest soybean processing plant, will be celebrated with an open house program at Central Soya Company, Inc., in this city on September 11. Central Soya Comfpany was founded in 1934 by Dale W. McMillen, Sr., of Wayne. He is chairman of the board of! the vast industry, which has plants at Gibson City, 111. Camp Hill, Pa., Marion, Ohio and Memphis,- Tenn, in addition to Decatur. > \ 1 Pictured on page nine of this newspaper is a reproduction of the front page of the September 20, 1934 issue of the Decatur DailyDemocrat, announcing the location of the industry in this city. Covering many acres in the north end of the city, the plant and batteries of towering silos form the city's skyline and the site of the nation’s largest soybean processing plant. Employing more ithan 500 persons, the local plant manager is C. I. “Scot\ty” Finlayson. In 1934 the local plant had a small nest of silos and an expeljer plant as its total productl|On facilities. Today, it is a modern, highvolume operation producing soybean meal, oil, feed concentrates, and complete feeds. Over 7-0(0 dealers and other users are serviced from this plant, making It the com-, pany’s><largest production unit. This most recent expansion program included an ultra-modern solvent extraction plant capable of processing an acre of soybeans per minute and a 118-foot high bulk feed building devoted exclusively to bulk handling of concentrates and soybean meal. The new steam power plant, dedicated late last fall, has an output of two million pounds of steam and 84,000 kilowatts of electricity; daily. Twenty new silos have been added, increasing the storage capacity to 7,500,000 bushels. • \ Open House Sept. 11 In' addition to tours of the entire plant, the day long celebration will feature numerous exhibits of production equipment, and displays of poultry and livestock. The tour on Sept. 11, will be conducted from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. find there will be refreshments for all who attend. Indiana Pays Twelfth Most Taxes In Nation INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana climbed from 13th tg 12th place among the states in federal tax collections during fiscal 1952, the Bureau of Internal Revenue revealed. / The U- S. collected $1,352,786,47(1 from Hoosiers compared with sl,195,460,954 the previous year. Higher collections were reported only from New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, California, Ohio, Texas, Missouri, New Jersey, Massachusetss and Maryland, 12 PAGES

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 22, 1952.

Current Week World Affairs Are Reviewed Good, Bad Events Are Related By U. P. > ■ By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst The week's alance sheet between the good and bad news in the hot and cold wars: THE BAD 1. The world quarantine op Russia and China forces them to collaborate, whatever their internal differences might be. Therefore the arrival of a 15-man Chinese economic and military delegation in Moscow forecast only bad news in the past has kept alive the war for the West. Such collaboration in Korea and fed arms to Communist fighters in Indo-China and Malaya. They </ovet both India and Papan and how to acheite these prizes certdinlj’ must be high on the agenda, along with whatever othei global trouble they* can brew. ! ! ? 2. It was a race against time in Iran where, like it or not, the United States and Britain are forced to. support the ailing Premier Mohammed Mossadegh to prevent the falling to the Communists. But the Communist Tudeh Party was moving more and mote in the open. American vehicles were stoned and Communist propaganda was attacking Iran’s Slhah as a traitor). 3. Border incidents between Israeli forces and their Arab neighbors are frequent occurrences. This week Syria’s strong man said there was no room for Jews in the Middle East. Egypt rebuffed a friendly gesture by the Israelis. Israeli Premier Ben-Gurion said he would take the implied Syrian threat io the United Nations as a violation of the Arabdsraieli armistice. I THE GOOD \l. Despite discouraging reports frbm both London and Paris about the slow-up in European rearmament, member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization issued assurances that 1952 goals would be reached “with perhaps of few minor adjustments. They admitted difficulties in attempts to have 50 divisions “in appropriate’’ states of readiness in Western Europe this year, but pointed to. the scores of air-fields kinder construction and salid NATO forces now were vastly stronger than six monthfc ago. 2. )!t appeared 9heAvjf ;U. !N. bombings of North Korean manufacturing and marshalling centers was paying of. At least in a loitering of morale among the North Koreans. The fact that U. N. commanders could announce thdir <Tara To Face KUckti

Indications Lewis May Call Strike In Soft Coal Industry

Heavy Bombing By UN Planes Is Continued \| Troops Repulse \ Ground Attack By Chinese Fighters SEOUL; Korea, UP — United Nations Warplanes raked Communist troop and supply concentra-, tions on both coasts of North Ko-rea-today while ground troops easily repulsjed a Chinese attack on Bunker llill. American Sabrejets ! damaged two Cominuniat MIG-15 jet fighters in a battle 30 miles south of the Suiho Dam on the Valu River. Two Sabres of a flight of four tangled with two MlGs from a flight of 16, ; scoring hits on both of th® Russian- Jrnilt fighters. \ F-51 Mustangs' destroyed or damaged (eight large , buildings in a bombing and strafing attack near Wonsan on the East Coast. Twin-engined B-26 bombers attacked a Red supply buildup area at Aniak On the Haeju Peninsula, a P Bhqrt distance from the 38th l> araMel 1 1 .■ '■ soldiers attacked Bunker Hill, five miles east of Panmunjom, £arly today but U. Nf soldiers defending the strategic height drdve them off afte’r a brief bpt sharp clash. The Chinese Reds lost more than 3,000 meh last week in trying to recapture the height. ."J •The Bth army disclosed the (jjhinese Comtnunist have brought up huge , searchlights on the Central Front in an attempt to find hidden Allied loudspeakers broadcasting demoralizing propaganda. The setarchlights appeared in tne Central Frimt before dawn Thursday, while the U. N. kept up a steady anti-war barrage at the Chinese Cobimunist “volunteers.” For two hours, the U. N. broadcast- a peter from a Chinese housewife begging her soldier-hus-band to chine home and help find food for tjis family.. The powerful beams ( picked and probed but could hotj find the ■| f • ■ b INDIANA WEATHER Fair, a little cooler extreme south tonight; Saturday fair and pleasant. Low tonight near 50 noijth, 55 to 62 south; high Saturday 75 to 82. Xj\. ■ \ * . - J ... 1 i ” Opening Announced For County Schools First Attendance Is Set For August 28 The 1952-53 school year for county rtiral and consolidated schools will start Thursday morning August 28, at 8 o'clock. Students will get book lists, receive preliminary instructions concerning the; first day of classes, and re turn home for lunch. Bookstores are prepared for the rush irjsales which is expected to start Thursday afternoon and continue until after the first day of classes scheduled for Tuesday morning, September 2. No teacher shall adrpit to his classes; children below the age of six years pn the first of January following. Children who will be before the first of November should be required to enter school in September before. This is the age of entrance rule which has been adopted by the Adams •County; board of education. There Will be no classes Thursday, September 4, because that day is designated as “Farmers Day” at the State Fair and the the Adams County 4-H Band is to participate in a contest at thle fair on that date.

Appropriation Gets Tax Board's Okay Approval was given today by the state board tax commissioners on the request by August Selking, trustee of Root township, for $4,330 for\ repairs to Monmouth school, ditch assessments and special instruction at the Monmouth school. The hearing with the state board field man took place on last Tuesday. \ Young Fathers To Be Drafted Hershey States Next Summer Is Set As Earliest For Draft Revisions \ NEW YORK, UP —Major Qen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Servitst director, said today the armed forces would begin drafting fathers “next summer.” I I “We’ve got to take somebody or else decrease the armed forces,” Hershey told an American Legion commission. Hershey addressed -the national security commission which met to consider policy resolutions which will be introduced! before the 34th national convention of the American Legion here next week. Hershey said a group of about 1,000,000. fathers are available, most of them under 26 of age. He said .out of that number “you’d be lucky to get 500,000 accepted.” The Selective Service director said that out of 3,000,000 men about 1,5’00,000 have deferred. \as unfit. “A lot of them are breathing. Some of them are making |50,000 a year. I believe if we would reduce our standards somewhat, we could find some more men,” he said. He added that “1,500,000 is just tbo much as a waste 'product.” Qershey said at present th® law does not defer fathers but the presidential executive order floes. He'said in order to take the fathers the President would have to change the executive order. j > \ V 1 -—4—. Adjustment Board ! To Meet September 8 Will Scrutinize All Budgets Os Tax Units ~k meeting will take place on September 8 of the Adams county fax adjustment board to pass on all budgets in the, county—for both city and county schools, the hospital, Decatur civil city and the library. I \ . • \ Members of the board are taken from the largest city in the county, the county council, the township trustees and by appointment of the judge of the circuit court. Thus fatf, only one inember of the bi-partisan board has been named, Chris Stahly of Hartford township, a member of the county council and a Democrat. Mayor John k Doan is a member of the board by virtue of his office in Decatur, the largest citjf in Adams county. Glen bustard, county superintendent of schools said today one of the 12 township trustees would be named to serve on the board at the next meeting of the township trustees September 6. Judge Myles F. Parish said he would make his appointments, four in all, either today or tomorrow. Th i tax adjustment board has the power to either pass on budgets or lower them; they cannot raise them. After budgets pass of the hands of the board, they go x on to the state board of tax commissionetrs, where, \if approved, they become law.

Democratic Editors Open Fall Meeting Sparkman Address To Highlight Meet FRENCH LlCljL Ind. UP — Indiana Democrats optimistically launched their/ November election campaign today, ’ certain their chances of victory were heightened by the nomination of two "reluctant" candidates. The optimism was based on the nomination of Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson for President and Gbv. Henry F\. Sdhrfcker for U1 S. senator. Bqth Stevenson and Schricker long declared themselves lacking ambition for the nominations they received eventually. But dSoosier party leaders, unwilling to take no for an answer, kept harping and ’both men were chosen. Just a year ago, when the party grouped here for the annual outing of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, Stevenson was the chief speaker. He said he had “no ambitions on the national ticket.” At that time. President Truman was the center of presidential speculation. Many thought he would seek another term. Schricker also shrugged off efforts to get him in the U., S. senatorial ring at that time. He said he was “going back home and take life - easy" when his gubernatorial term ends next January. For this year’s Stevenson was invited but said he couldn't make it., Sen. John J. Sparkman, nominee for vice president, will speak Saturflay night to highlight .the two-day program. Schricker will precede Sparkman on the speakers’ platform at Saturday’s banquet. After, that, his to unseat Sen vWilliam E. Jenner starts in earnest. National Committeeman Paul ’M/; Butler and State Chairman Charles E. Skillen also will speak' to .a crowd expected to total 1,000. Sparkman, an Alabama senator with 8| gift for compromise, will arrive sometime Saturday. Sparkman told party leaders he will fly to Louisville, Ky., from Birmingham, Ala., unlesis campaign duties necessitate a trip to Springfield, 111., Stevenson’s headquarters. The editors planned a social program for their guests tonight with a breakfast speech Saturday, by Walter Johnson, history professor at the University of Chicago. Johnson was chairman of a volunteer committee which spark(Tura To Pace Plve) School Registration Schedule Announced High School Seniors Will Register Monday Registration for Decatur high school students and pupils of the seventh and eighth grades will begin next Monday, Hugh Andrews school principal, announced today. Teachers will be on duty at 9 a. m. and registration will continue throughout the day, if necessary, the principal explained. The schedule follows: Seniors, August 2S. Juniors, August 26. Sophomores, August 27. Freshmen, August 28 Seventh and eighth grades, August 29. \ \ ; Previously, registration of students was interrupted one day because of the county teachers’ institute. This year the staff city, teachers will not attend the Institute and registration will be carried through from Monday io Friday- J ' \ . Principal Andrews exects an increase in high school enrollment. He said that the senior class might number 65 and that the Freshman class would be larger than a year ago. Last May’s graduation class was the smallest in nearly two OftgSdM.

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Fails To Reach Agreement With Coal Industry Walkout May Come In September If Meetings Fail WASHINGTON, UP — John L. Lewis' has informed the Federal Mediation Service that his recent secret negotiations with the coal industry failed to produce agreement on a new wage contract, it was learned today. His report amounted to official notice he may call a in Northern soft coal fields Sept. 20, and in Southern and anthracite fields Sept. 30. United Mine Workers’ contracts expire on those dates, and the union has a rigid policy of no contract, no work. The Mediation Service confirmed it had a notice from Lewis, but declined to discuss its contents. Other reliable sources disclosed that the notice was signed by UMW Counsel Welly K. Hopkins; that it reported on the failure of recent wage negotiations; and that it gave the 30-days’ advance warning required by the Taft-Hartley law for a walkout when the contracts expire. Lewis has talked frequently since July 22 with Harry M. Moses, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators’ Assn., which represents Northern mines and “captive’* mines owned by the steel industry. Since Aug. 1, he has been in negotiations with President Joseph E. Moody of the Southern Coal Producers’ Assn. Both industry leaders are understood to be hopeful — as Lewis apparently is — that this year’s, contract negotiations can be carried on privately without the traditional full-dress show. The union imade no specific demands as io wages or other contract changes in the anthracite talks — in keeping with standard Lewis policy, which is, expected to be fillo wed as soft coal negotiations progress. \ There appears/ little question, however, that Lewis will ask a substantial rise in the $16.35 a day base pay for his miners, in addition to such fringe benefits as a stricter seniority clause. ■( — All But One Os 10 Escapees Are Caught _ PLAINFIELD, Ind. UP — Freedom Was over today for nine of 10 teen-age boys who. escaped from the Indiana Boys’ School Tuesday. All except Billy Wyatt, 16, Auburn, were back in custody. Vincennes police caught three of them early this morning, pne amid gunfire. A fourth boy, believed to be Wyatt, escaped. Rotarians Hear Burk Relate Experiences • Experiences in the grain and hay business and allied lines over a 40-year period were cited by Avon Burk, head of the Burk "Elevators in this city and community, before the Rotary club last evening. Elevators formerly dealt only In grains and hay. In recent years, coal, feed and other lines were added, the speaker explained. Burk Elevators are distributors for a nationally known poultry house product and allied lines, in addition to its handling of grains, soybeans and hay. A demonstration of a test for grade and moisture content of wheat was given by the speaker. Mr. Burk has been associated with Burk Elevators since 1912, the firm being founded by his father, the late G. T. Burk. His brother, Sim Burk, operates the elevator at Monroe. -