Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1953 — Page 1

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Petition For Hospital Addition

Offer By l|N On Exchange Os Prisoners Distinct Progress a J® Reported In First Talk On Exchange PANMUNJQM, 5 Korea UP —The United Nations told Communist " negotiators today they were ready to return 500 ailing Red soldiers daily within a week after agreement was reached on a swap of sick and wounded prisoners. The U. N. offer was in a. ninepoint program put before the. Reds at, today’s 48-minute opening talk on the exchange of ailing prisoners. j' . 'VI The N. negotiators said the first Allied-Communist talks in six months made “distinct progress.” Both sides agreed to meet again at 9 p. m. EST Monday. • ' , For their part, the Reds came Hp with a proposal to repatriate not only seriously sick and wounded y/fisoners but those less severely disabled. The latter would be sept to some neutral country to their homelands. \ It was possible that this was a device by which the Reds hoped to get back most, if not all, of their prisoners. Communist correspondent Wil- ‘ frid Burchett pointedly told Allied newsmen the Reds “want a speedy peace and are making concessions -whibh Should be mutual.” i But he added that agreement ,is far off if« the U. N. insists on’ voiuntray repatriation — allowing prisoners to decide for themselves if they* wish to return to Communism. If the Allies and the Communists agree on the exchange machinery, the talks may teas to resumption of armistice negotiations. ; Chief U. N. negotiator'Rear Admiral John Daniel said he tohf the Reds today r \ “We are prepared to repatriate directly through Panmunjom .all sick and wouinded captured personnel specified in article 109 of the Geneva. Convention. We have not divide4_\them into categories. We have total figures by nationalities which we are prepared to exchange." The Communists raised the possibility of sending some categories of sick and wounded prisoners to neutral countries for the duration of hostilities. _/> The Reds move indicated they may intend in this way to broaden the terms of the exchange of seriously sick and wounded so as to include thousands of prisoners who do not meet the rigid requirements of “seriously sicks and wounded” under the Geneva convention. —‘ Communist negotiator (Tatra Te Pace Six) Receive Report On Testing Os Cattle Livestock Sanitary \ Board Fries Report . Adams county commissioners from - 1 the livestock sanitary board of Indiana shows that out of 1,818 herds tested in the county,. including 23,837 cattle, 48 warp infected and on retest .12 cattle were found to be reactors. 1 Following is a breakdown of the report by townships: Blue Creek, 118 herds tested, 1219 cattle - r no reactors; French, 122 herds, 2,129 cattle - - no reactors; Hartford, 125 herds, 2,003 cattle * - nine realtors; Jefferson, 124 herds, £344 cattle - - no reactors; Kirkland, 89 herds, 1,35’ cattle - - one reactor; Monroe, 354 herds, 3,780 cattle - - one reactor; Root, 176 herds, 2,706 cattle - one reactor; Preble, 120 herds, 1,617 cattle - - no reactors; St. Mary’s, 103 herds, 1,305 cattle - • ‘ no reactors; Union, 141 herds, 1,701 cattle - - no reactors; Wabash. I 152 herds, 2,270 cattle - - no reactors. ' The percentage of infected animals wa5.,.0031 percent. Work on TB testing began in March of last\ year and ended on March 28 of this year. Five men were employed part-time oh the job and the cost to the county was 118,559.19. The report signed by Dr. S. M. Frtedly, supervisor of the TB test- ' in»- ' L-" _ ‘

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———. i : Join Easter Parade l I .■* . I ... a al’ s ' R, * 1 Wv JBMI ' j "> -I -jjj ■ - / , ‘ r lißfiw >-<. k .-A, ~r ALL DECKED OUT in their Easter finery, the Eisenhower grandchildren. Barbara Ann. 3, and Dwight David 11, 4, are helped intp the family automobile enroute to the National Presbyterian Church in Washington on Easter morning. Inside the car the first lady and iMrs. John Eisenhower, wife of the president’s son, await the children.

Sharp Drop In Living Costs In February Rail Workers Take Three-Cent Pay Cut As Index Declines WASHINGTON, UP — About 1,300,6'00 rail workers today took a three-ceht an hour wage cut as the government reported a; sharp drop in the cost of living during February. The pay slash was dictated by the government’s “old style” consumers’ price index for Feb. 15. Last mopth, tail employes were awarded a four-cent pay increase as a result of increased productivity in the industry to boost average hourly earnings to about.? 1.90. Today’s reduction means the wbrkers’ actual increase for the yean so far is one cent an hour. i The bureap of labor statistics brought back its “old b index” jfor both January and February, after dropping it last December for a more “modern” method of livihg costs, president Eisenhower ordered the old index revived for six months at the urging of rail unions and auto companies. < Under the old system, the bureau reported that a sharp downturn in food prices—particularly meats—caused the index to which rail \ arfe tied to fall far enough’ to forte a three-cent pay cut for railrdad employes. The February index also affects 50,000 textile workers who will al*--so take abpt.y cut— two cents an hour. \ r The January index, which would normally affect wages of 1,000,000 auto workers ajso, showed enough of a decline tbj*give them a onecent an Hour pay gut, However, the CIO Auto Workers unioh now vTut-* Tn Pace Mxl Tommie Tussing In’ Serious Condition It Tommie Tussing. 5, struck by <iar Friday morning on Thirteenths street, is now in serious condition at the Adams memorial hos-, pital, his injuries now described as a ruptured add lacerated right kidney, a ■ brain concussion and a possible spinal injury. Tommie, who lives with his mother in |a : trailer at 521 South Thirteenth- streetj was hit by a car driven by Delkne S. Bowman, 1417 Madison street Friday morning as Jie darfed lowest across the main highway. Hf was talten to the hospital and wept for observation and later hi* condition was said by hid doctori to- have turned critical although now that condition has eased off somewhat b\\ b'b J j bb \ ■|- .

' j - —— Commissioners In Monthly Session To Erect Flag Pole On Court House Lawn During the first half\of their regular monthly meeting today at the court house, . commissioners paid all claims and filially resolved the matter cf the American flag, missing from its usual spot atop the building since last fall when the chain jvarted. Instead of replacing the flag, the commissioners will erect a pole on the east lawn of the court *iouso where the wind cannbt rip the flag to shrels in a comparatively short time and where it will be easier to replace a chain if; it does break. ' As matters no*- stand; commissioners have to -eplace ihe chain every couple of months because of the high winds that* cause extreme wear and tear on the flag ar well. Commissioners will inspect a bridge abutment on the Moore road in Wabash 1 ownship to make recomniendations to remedy the piling up of rout in front of “the abutment that changes the course .of the water. . \ : The monthly report of Gebrge Fosnaugh, superintendent of the county home, shows 22 male Inmates and 11 females at the county home. Receip s for this month, and deposited > with the county treasurer, amounted to 1d.747.31; County hetlth rnrse Miks Marie Felber reported to the commissioners today that she completed hearing tests in several- icounty Schools'during .the past month and conducted a vision screening of all the pupils at Pleasant Mills high school. Hearing tests were completed at Adams Central grade and high schools, Zion, Si. Paul’s, Bobo, Kimsey. Lincoln. Muensterberg, St. 'Peter’s, St. John’s and Monmouth. On March 13 iMiss Felber attended a farm bureau at the Emanual Lutheran school and showed a movie \ entitled “The School that Learned to Eat," a nutritional education feature. 'March 23 the county nurse wept to Fort Wayne and met with a nutritionist and educational director. Three days later she went to the RQckcreek school. Wells county, for a preschool round up. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy north, cloudy south tonight with showers southeast in evening. Tuesday partly cloudy and somewhat warmer south. Low tonight 34-40 north, 4045 south. High Tuesday 50-56 north, 5660 south.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 6, 1953.

Hospital Trustees Ask Bond Issue To Finance New Addition

t Secret Device Exploded In Nevada Desert ' New Secret Atomic Device Is Exploded Over Nevada Desert LAS VEGAS, Nev. UP — The atomic energy commission exploded a new secret atomic device over the desert today, and moments later two radio-controlled fighters' carrying mice and monkeys flew through the deadly radioactive cloud. The pilotless F-80 Shooting Star planes flew into the turbulent, mushroom-shaped cloud at 30,000 feet altitude and landed 20 minutes later at Indian Springs air force base. They were guided back to the airport by T-33 jet “mother” - planes. As is customary, the AEC announced no details of the test, but said the device was dropped from a B-50 bomber and was exploded at 5,000 feet above the Yucca Flat proving ground. The flash at 7:31 am. p.st. 9:30 a.m. 1 c.S.t.. was seen and felt in some parts of Las Vegas and ' surrounding areas. At other places only a short distance awajf it > hardly was (jeep and not felt at all. A child was reported knocked [ from th> seat of a parked station wagon on a highway of ’ here, but at another spot 1 nearby 1 the blast was not felt.) The drone jets were accompa- ' nied throughout their flight by four F-86 Sabrejets and armed with guns and rockets, ready to shoot them: down should either go out of »control and endanger any lives. Because of possible radioactivity, the civil j aeronautics administration banned all airplane flights above 24,000 feet inside a line extending from Las Vegas south to Yuma, Ariz., thence east to Nogales. Mexico, and Albuquerque, ' N. M., and northeast again to Las Vegas. ' CIO Head Warns Os 6. E. Strike Jhreaf CIO Workers May Strike Any Time CINCINNATI, O.\ UP—A highranking CIO official warned today that a strike by 65,000 CIO electrical workers at General Electric, company’s 23 plants throughout the nation could come “pt any moment." ' Al Harnett, secretary treasurer of the. CIO International U lion of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers told a* meeting of CIO Locaf 647 * United Automobile Workers, whose 4,500 members are op strike at'i the GE jet engine plane at'nearby! Evendale, that he knew “very little” about a strike of 10,000 members of his union at the GE plant in, Syracuse, N. Y. “I guess the workers in Syracuse were getting an early start,” Hartnett said. j"l know this —the rest of them cap be struck at any jpinute.” : General Electric plants In the midwest includp those at Morrison, 111., wfhere electric motors are made; at DeKalb, Ill’, electronic equipment; and at Fort Wayne, Ind., for motors and transformers. At Chicago, Allan Palmer, district secretary !of the CIO Electrical Workers, bald she Morrison plant is not organized. At DeKalb, the CIO and the Independent Electrical Workers are contesting; bargaining rights for workers.

111 r 1 . . 4 Preference Policy Is Upheld || Legality Upheld By If U. S. Supreme Court .ftc ||V ASHINGTON, UP — yThe sua»e>me court unanimously igsheld the legality of a veterans’ pnrfefenee policy effective in 4 my in anufacturing plants throughout the country. Ifhe opinion chme on a test casej ia [Giving the Ford Motor Co. || t has been the policy of Ford t|| sign contracts with the United Workers (CIO) giving siftiiority credit for time in the Aed forces to all veterans, even Mathey did not work for Ford bee going into the service. Many* oiaer employers have followed the s|?he policy. test case ) was started by I >rkers—both veterans and' wans — in,the Ford plant{ Ky. They argued in against the company that s with lengthy military but no previous dmployt Ford, stood in a preferred i when layoffs were made, sought to invalidate that f the union-company conrhich gave veterans, who h|p I not previously worked for IW'dJ better seniority rights than tint-veterans. Ifc ' Bars Taxes Washington, up — The supripme court today barred states I taxing a serviceman’s propif his residence, is temporary terns from military orders. * soldiers’ and Sailors’ civil act of 1940 protects servicefrom this type of taxation, he Colorado supreme court ruled there is a loophole in (Tara To P«xr Three) rtin V. Miller aken By Death uneral Services . [ o Be Wednesday rtin V Miller, 70, died sudit 9 o’clock Sunday morning atphis home, 116 South Fifth sti |set. He had been ill since last ',s4 gust blit his death was unexpdjited. . . ''i . . i|e was employed in the Carlo|fmany years until retirement in 19 He then lived in Michigan uirtjl 19»B0. when he moved to De--44 1 'f He was born in Adems county i 1876, a son of Jesse S. and\ Jane Gayse-Miller. He was married ’in 1903 to Hattie? r, of who died in I He was married to Lucy A. Aug. 7, 1907. Miller was a veteran of the sh-American war. enlisting U'i S. army Sept. 1899; erring until his discharge 12, 1900. He was son in the Philippines. was a member of the First list chqi-ch.y . dyinK in addition to his wife x sons, Ralph of Geneva, I* of Gary, Oliver of Garyf, i of Fort Wayne; Wilbur of nti, Mich., and Robert of Mich,; two daughters, Florence Tulloch of Gary rs. Fern Frfeeland of Arling'ex.; 11 grandchildren; and Ondj brother, Andrew Milder of Foif| Wayne. Three sisters and fhree brothers are deceased. . Ifiiineral services will be conducted at p. m. Wednesday at funeral home, the Rev. Satijuej Emerick officiating. Burtai Mill be 'in the Decatur cemetery with Adams Post 43, Xmericanf Legion conducting military ■ ttteb Friends may call at the funeral 'home after 7:30 o’clock thia ■ IL- : '

■ Army And Air Force Potest Proposed Slash Balk At Manpower Cuts Proposed By Secretary Wilson WASHINGTON, UP—the army and the air force are balking at manpower cuts proposed by defense secretary Charles E. Wilson as an economy move, it was learned today. J ' Informed sources said the army has appealed to Wilson to cancel a planned slash in its troop • strength, contending it would serii ously impair the combat readiness. ' ■ i The air force has entered a similar protest against a Wilson order to reduce its civilian payroll. The appeals were the first shots in the “battle of the budget” which doubtless will be Waged with increasing furjy in the Pentagon during the next few\ weeks as the services economy edicts from the new Republican ; defense secretary. It is Wilson’s job under the military unification law to pass on the competing demands of the various services for bigger slices of the defense dollar, and to try to hold the overall total down to the lowest figure consistent with U. S. security, Conversely, the heads df the various services have a duty to fight for the dollars, men and they consider necessary to do their jobs. President , Eisenhower made it clear at 'bis news conference \last ■ Thursday that he intends to have the final say, and that his decisions will be based on a careful weighing of defense needs against the need for a balanced budget. Wilson has alx|ut completed his item-by-item review of the 845,500,000.000 military spending budget proposed by former president Truman fbr the 1954 fiscal year beginning July 1. Informants said his proposed revisions will soon be submitted to the White House for approval. Although strict secrecy has surrounded ! the military budget review, there wqre indications that the Republicans have fallen short (Turn To Pass Six) Annual Egg Hunt Is Held At Elks lodge Large Turnout For ; Annual Elks Party | | Three hundred children, including babes-in-arms, and several hundred adults turned out for the colorful Easter party and egg hunt at thq Elks home Sunday aftetnoop. i With Ideal weather featuring the day, the turnout was one of the largest ever to attend the traditional egg hunt and prize event. Gebrge Laurent, general chairman, instructed the Children to line 1 up for the egg hunt. The babeft-in-arme were carried through the Elks home, where they were presented with colorful baskets by women of the Emblem club. , Other age groups were separated for the hunt and each child received a basket ot eggs. About 100 extra gifts were distributed. The spectators lined the sidewalk around the Elks home and watched the event pity police and firemen assisted in traffic ' details and escorting the mansize rabbits to the grounds.

Dulles Urges Senate To Kill Amendment *Bill Would Limit Power On Treaties WASHINGTON, UP —Secretary of state John Foster Dulles urged the senate today to kill a proposed constitutional amendment limiting presidential treaty-making powers. President Eisenhower told him to assure congress the administration will consult “appropriate congressional leaders and committees” when any serious treaty questions arise, Dulles said. He appeared before a senate judiciary subcommittee which is considering a proposed constitutional amendment to limit the executive’s authority to negotiate international agreements. Sen. John W. Bricker (R-O.) and 63 other senators are sponsoring it. “Never before in our history has it been so necessary that our treaty power be not hampered or diluted, for on its wise and prompt exercise our very national safely may depend,” Dalles said. Dulles said "this administration is committed to the exercise of the treaty-making power only J'ithin, traditional limits," and ot as an instrument of social reform. He said it hopes to promote worldwide human rights and educational freedoms —but by education and persuasion ’ rather than shy treaty. y t He said’ the Uniited States willnot sign ia proposed United Nations covenant on human rights and will not cign the convention on political rights of women. These are not proper fields for treaty making, Dulles said, but he added that Mr. Eisenhower authorized him to say that “the executive cannot surrender the freedom of action which is necessary for its, operations in the foreign affairs field.” Questioned by Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.), chairman of the senate. foreign affairs committee, about possible abuse of treatymaking powers. Dulles said, “All (Tara Ta Six) * Juries Drawn For April Court Term New Court Term To 1 Open Next Monday Adams county jury commissioners Ed Berling and Frank C. Rowley today chose the venires sos the [grand jury and petit jurjf in preparation for the opening of the April term of the Adams circuit court next Mdnday. The grand jury panel is: , , ■Harold E. Worthman., Washing- ; ton township; Vernon J, Niblick, Root; Joseph Naumer. Jefferson; Walter Peek, Preble; David A. Macklin, 'Kirkland; Herman P. Fox, Hartford; Edwin T. Moser. Geneva; 4 ' Marvin McClain. Wabash; Lester E. Lehman, Berne; Kenneth Reif, Washington; Clarence P. Hinchman, Geneva; Fred Fuhrer, Berne. To serve on the peti.t jury are: Leo E. Engle, French township; Emil Bientz, Decatur; Roger Blum, Monroe; Carl E. Amstutz, Jefferson; Ray Ford, Wabash; Harold Mattox, Geneva; Laura Ewell, Preble; Lloyd Deßolt, De-catur-Root; David Depp, Berne; Richard J. Cook, St. Mary’s; Francis Grimm, Washington; Albert\F. Dick, Kirkland; Floyd E. Krick. Kirkland; Roger J. Kaehr, French; Burt W. Parr, Monroe; ' Hugh D. Moser, Wabash; William , Fireoved, Berne; Basil D. Gephart, , St Mary’s; Henry Neireiter, ‘ Washington; Otto Kruetzman, , Preble; Ernest J. Rekeweg, Root; Cyrus Lehman, \ Berne; Leona . Jotinson, St. Mary’s.

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Would Double Facilities Os Local Hospital Circulate Petitions Asking County For Hospital Bond Issue <' ' M Petitions were* circulated today asking the board of commissioners and the county council to authorize a $400,000 bond [issue for the purpose of obtaining funds to finance the building of a twowing, three floor addition to the Adams county memorial hospitdl'in this city. Cal E. Peterson; president of the board of hospital trustees, said that preliminary plans call for doubling the hospital's capacity from 50 to 100 beds. An estimate on the 50-bed addi- ■ tion, along with remodeling of the * hospital’s kitchen, dining room, two : surttcal rooms, (wo delivery (OB) rdoms and other enlargements JrtheApresent buildirtg which was de--1 July 29. 1923, has been furnished by Oscar Hoffman, of De- ’ trbif, architect for the original I building. Architect Hoffman, formerly of thisjcity, is a member of the architectural firm of | Shreve-Walker & Associates in Detroit. He designed the hospital in 1921 and was the supervising architect dur- ’ ing Its course of constructipn. Hospital president Peterson explained that freeholders (those who own real estate) wil be asked to sign the petition. He said that the hospital trustees wanted as many names as were possible to get on the petitions. The amount asked to finance the addition is only one-half of the county’s total bonding power® The law permits a bonded debt of two£ percent ofi the assessed valuation of the county. In Adams county, the net assessment is $40,542,375. me statutory limit would give the county a bonding credit of SBIO,OOO. The hospital trustees petition for \ a little less than half of the amount £ Identical petitions are being circulated in Berne by Wilbert Nussbaum, by Lester Stuckey in Geneva and Dee Fryback in Depatur, all of whom are co-trustees with Petersoin. “The for a hospital addition has been recognized for a number of yegrS],” Peterson commented. “In 1952 .the hospital served 2898 patients and 99 had to be placed in the halls, because room facilities were hot ample to, accommodate the sick. This is not a. commendable : condition and citizens appreciate the difficulties of operata hospital that is over crowded,” he said. Last yeair 717 babies were born jyt the hospital, an average of alpiost two a day. On certain days 18 to 20 babies have been in, the nursery. \ The national yardstick on hospital facilities recommends that there be four and one-half beds per capita. On this measurement, Adams county should have a 100-bed hospital.' The national bed average on the county*! 22,393 (1950) population rounds out that figure. The proposed additions to the north and south walls Os the hospital, which faces east on ear avenue, will be 57 feet, 3 Inches in length, three floors high. The south wing will be built over the ambulance entrance to the hospital. The ramp leading to this receiving room need not be changed, Peterson explained. The; addition to the kitchen, which will extend west and face High street, will be 49 feet in size, one stpry. The present office rooms will be moved to the north wing and this space devoted to bed rooms. The center entrance will . (Tara Ta Pa«e Six)