Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 89.

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Two Convoys Os -Allied POWs Are Spotted On Road Allied Pilots Spot Convoys Enroute To < Site Os Exchange PANMUNJOM, Korea, (UP) u Reconnaissance pilots today spot- ‘ ted two convoys of sick qnd disabled Allied* war prisoners “highballing" down-“freedom road” toward -this truce site where ailing captives of both side* in the Korean war will be exchanged on Monday. . At Paean, where the first contingent of homeward bound Chinese prisoners arrived in a U. S. landing boat, authorities had to break, up a sitdown strike of 746 surly Reds. ■ The fifth air force said a reconnaissance photo showed that ? convoy No. 1 of Allied prisoners which left Chonma near the Yalu river Tuesday had reached Yongsongr eight miles north of the Communist capital of Pyongyang. Convoy No. 2 Was seen 32 miles farther north on “freedom roail" near Sinanju on the 'Chongchogng river. i A third convoy which the Communists' had promised ‘to start rolling could not be found on the tortuous She|l - pocked highway \ leading fromthe Yalu river to Panmunjom. In all. some 68 trucks bearing probably at least half of the 605 Allied prisoners to be returned were in th© three convoys, All three convoys were headed for the Communist truce base at Kaesong, near here, the prisoners will be held until the exchange begins Monday. U.N. authorities at their base at nearby Munsan viewed .the sit-' down strike of returning Chinese prisoners as a sign of more trouble. T ' \ . ' The rebellion began after the landing ship reached Pusan and 24 patidnts had come ashore in /T>»™ Tn PR*e Rlsht) 29 To Graduate At Adams Central High Annual Graduation Exercises May 19 Twenty-nine seniors of Adams Central high school are scheduled to graduate at commencement exercises May 19, announced principal John Reed. They are: Uyle Gerber, Arlene Habegger (valedictorian), Luther Hedington, Coleen riiirschy, Donald Holloway, Hubert Isch, Earl Johnson, Ernest Liechty, Roger Longenberger, Virginia Mitchell, Mary Michaels, Edward Nussbaum, Pat Barger, Wendell Beer, Gene Bluhm, Jim Brodbeckf Roy Channess.. Dojjjftld Dick, Marilyn Derr, Ehlerding, Kenneth Ehrman, Elaihe" Freels, Eileen Funk, William Nussbaum, Walter .Osterman \ (saludatorian), Kay Ratcliff, Bill Rowden. Marvin Taylor, Eugene Weber. Speaker at the commencement! will be J. McLean Reed, superintendent of schools, Danville, 111. The baccalaureate speaker will be the Rgy. NeuehsChwander, dean of the Fort Wayne Bible school —on May 17. Beth events will take place at the Monroe Methodist church. it

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-—irqrt —u* — ( Survey Reports On , Finances, Budget Survey Report By i PTA's Committee The second survey of the Lincoln P. T. A. deals with “Finance and Budget.” s ; ! The committee Assigned to .this is J. R. Cowan, chairman, Dave Macklin, Leonard Soijday apd Mrs. Raymond Hdller. They “found that: “The school board meets July of each year and the budget is prepared by (he sphool board - and the superintendent . Teachers' Submit requests for appropriations to the superintendent which in turn are approved* or rejected by the school board/ J "The budget gpeii through various stages ’ before to be pointed twice [in newspapers, and the state and |ocal tax board have to approve it. "The board of education has open meetings for public participation. The community is ijot: represented %t these meetings sut persons are invited to attend. \ “People do have an opportunity to study thh' biidiiet before the meeting bxjt must do that on theif own initiative. “The practices i i making purchases ami service contracts are on open bid for anything costing SI,OOO or njore. On items Jess than this the school board awards contracts to buslr essesj. ’ “All financial information is available -but considerable time must be spent in studying them to determine jvhiat is best.. "The sources of revenue from the county and local units are based primarily on real and personal property 'taxes." The committee offers a breakdown of ;revenuei sources and amounts fojr (he 195j1-52 period and the o percentagies involved: Local taxfes, cent; miscellaneous,- $1,751.54, .Q7B • percent; state vocational, $1,198.66, .460 percent; state| support, 872.85. 34.40 percent; j transfer tuition,, $9,518.12; 3.60 percent; common school fund interest, $108.84, ,004 percent. 'H \ 1 “The percentage Os total state revenue that reverted to the school for 51-52 was 19.3. f'TheT>erceiitag|e cf county revenue'and local \revenue that went to the schobl for. the fiscal year of 1952 was 45.2 percent." The report divides the county and ' city revenue during fiscal 1952 as fellows: State. 4 percept pep $100; county. 16.8 percent; civil township, 3\5 perceht; sChooL 45.2 percent;! Jibrary. 3.B,\percent; eity corporation, 26.7 portent. “Very little for the budget comeS front school Activities. The income is [imiinly from athletic events and the money is spent for (Tara To P»ir» «lx) ■■ ■ Spring Festival -. Committee Will Mept On Thursday Martin F. feprunger, chairman of the entertainment committee for,the spring festival, sponsored' by the Decatur Charpber of Commerce. has: invited #ll merchants to attend a meeting at 8 p.m. !<’Thursday at the Steffen Imple-. lament store to help plan the program- I The festival will be held from Monday. May 18. to Saturday, May 23. -on Madison street, from Second to First streets. , Sprunger urges all merchants to attend and help back this citywide festival.

Army's Budget Head Tells Os Ammo Shortage Lays Shortage To J > ■ 1950 Order Issued By Gen. Marshall ’ WASHINGTON, UP — The ■ army’s top budget officer said to--1 day Korean amm\unitiqn shortages could be laid to a 1950 order by i former defense secretary George C. Marshall military spend- > ing on an assumption that the war would be over in aj year. Lt. Gen. George H. Deoker, army comptroller, (told a senate armed services subcommittee that Marshall instructed the'military in September, IPSO — three months after the Korean war began — to budget on the basis that the conflict would bnd by June 30, 195-1. Under questioning b/ Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va ), Decke? said this order could explain why the . army did not move more quickly to stqp up ammunition for Korea. Former army secretary Frank C. Pace, Jr., had testified previously that the army .did nothing about the ammunition situation early in the war because. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then United Nations supreme commander, believed the , war would be concluded in six , months. , Dicker saidv.the Marshall directive stayed in effect until Janu- , ary, 1961/ after ‘the -sGhinese Cpdimunists intervened.. Decker, the first witness as the subcommittee resumed hearings . on the ammunition shortage, said that so far as he knew the joint chiefs of staff were not consulted on the Marshall budget directive. Byrd said that, was “most astonishing." The senator the fTwrn T» Pace Klsbt) Dick Parr Dies As Berne Home Today Funeral Serviced ; Saturday Afternoon Thomas Marion (Dick) Parr, 70, retired farmer and a lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 12:45 o’clock this morning at his home in Berne. He has been 111 for the j past year and bedfast for two weeks. He was born in Adams county Nov. 18, 1882, a ihon of William Howard and Margaret Jane FosteitParr, and was married to Pearl Clase Aug. 4, 1901. His wife died Feb. 28, 1945. ' Mr. Parr was a member of the Bethel Brethren chhrch. Surviving are three sons, Marcus, Bert W. and John Parr, all of Berne; six daughters, Mrs. Jess Brewster of Geneva, Mrs. Vilas L|jglnbill and Mrs. Walter Jarrell of Berne, Mrs. Dan Price of OsMan, Mrs. Noble Reynolds of Decatur and Mrs. Don Myers 6f Poneto; 25 grandchildren;’ 14 greatgrandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. John Blowers of Centralia, 111. Three sons preceded him in death. J. iFuneral services will, be conducted at 1:30 p.m.' Saturday at the residence and at 2 o'clock at the Bqthel Brethren church, the Rev. Oi-d Gehman officiating. Burial will be in Willard (Mt. Hope) cemetery. The body will be removed from the Yager funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 10 a.m. Thursday.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wedne&4fty z April 15, 1953.

Eisenhower Will Speak To Nation Thursday On a« v ' Steps To End Warfare

19 Survivors - 01 Air Crash Praise Pilot Six Persons Killed \ As Airlines Plane Rams Mountain { SELLECK, Wash. VP — Array buddies, fresh froin basic (raiding, told today how they huddled around the wreckage of a DC-3 and, “called to each other trying to find ouL who was alive apd who was dead." Six persons wefe killed and 19 injured Tuesday jvhen the Miami Airlines plane rajnmed into the jagged Cascade Mountains in early morning darkness.p “Ally night long* I didn’t think ure’d make it," Jsaid Howard Wormuth, of Carbondale, Ph. "We just sat there wafting' and calling, to each other ‘to find OM who was alive and who was dead." "AU 22 of the set-vicepien aboard took basic trainfhg together at Camp Breckenridge, Ky„" Wormuth said. “When we left Chicago we had to furn bask for motor te* pairs. I think then we all had a feeling something wa« going tohappen.” The. plane rammed against Ce-. dar, Mountain after the pilot, C’aptT A. J. Lerett Jr., , Miami, iFla.”, radioed Boeing Fl4ld control .tower at Seattle that one had failed and the wifigs were icing. Wreckage of downed plane was sighted after noon Tuesday by a Washington state aeronautics search plane. Nine survivors wiere brought out Tuesday night in seven trucks which had been driven to within a quarter of a milfe of the wreckage after a bu 11 do s e.r plowed through a five foo|t snow blanket over a logging road; to clear a path for-’the trucks. / ; Earlier, 10 persons were flown (Tsra Tn Pave Six J Variance Granted By Appeals Board Hearing Ddtes Set By Zoning The board -Of zoning granted a variance to Mrs. Worthman to permit her to convert her residence at 227 North Sixth street into 1 a two-fgmily dwelling. The board also continued t<r April 28 the petition of Clifford Norman to store plumbing equipment in a garage at 716 Meibers street and also set Ahril 28 as a date for hearing on a (petition filed by Paul Hammond. The postponement of action on\ the Norman petitiofr was ordered because Norman failed to appear. It is the policy of the board not to hear petitions unless the petitioner is present or Represented by an attorney. I \ i ' Hammond, who purchased the site of the Adams County Trailer Sales, 240 North Thirteenth street, seeks a permit to construct an awning in front .of! his proposed fruit market. T|ie Hammond establishment will oped at its new headquarters after jPaul Strickler’s Trailer Sales moves into its new modern show and repair room farither north on Thirteenth street. This - move expected in the next; month, l> Mrs. Warthman stated in her petition that there wsre two other two family dwellings in the block where her home is situated and a petition signed by several neighbors accompanied her application. Mrs. WOrthanan planb to construct < new entrance and -have upsCairs and downstairs living apartments. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, windy and turning colder tonight with oooasionaJ showers and snow flurries north and central. Thursday moatly cloudy i and colder. Low tonight 34-40. High Thursday 44-52. I .[ .

<*Work Is Underway On Northwest Sewer Work Started Nearb | Washington Street started. Tuesday, by, Yost; .Construction -f.'o. of Decatur, general contractors. :oi) the city’s npw northwest sewer, when completed will bring a new sewage! disposal system tof hundreds pf lots in the northwest part of De-I catur. ' Workmen started at the river > near street and clearing away vVeeds apd trees.' Actual digging will start this week; ' and. laying of the tiles-will follow.! Mobert Yost of the contracting jinn said that weather would mot |be too mulch of a factor in .the iewpr construction .and tpat .work MR continue steadily npw- until 1 the more than 3,800-fo,ot main line is completed. ■ The main seivejr will be extended from the river to the corner of J Eleventh and Dayton streets. A .series of lateral sewers, which will empty into the main sewjer, then will be constructed to take in a j large area of the -northwest part of the city. \ I The Yost company has the contract for the main sewer only and Vthe laterals will built from a revolving fund as quickly as these funds become available. The main construction Is being financed by general obligation bonds. Yost said that all Adams county labor would be used on the project. The more than half a mile pf main sewer is being built to relieve a long complaiped Os situation in the north and west parts of the city. ! \ When completed, smaller sewers jn that section of the City will be channelled into the new main (Turn To Five) U. S. Casualties In Korea Now 133,463 WASHINGTON UP — American; battle casualties nbw total 133,463, an 'increase of 496 over last week’s report, tjje defense department announced topay. Although the report was a sharp drop from .the 1,039 casualties announced in last week’s report, the figure still was the second highest since last Nov, 19. It reflected recent .heavy actioin on Old Baldy and other Korea hjills. Mrs. Frank J. Krick Is Taken By Death Funeral Services i Friday Afternoon Eva| C. Krick, 72, of 324 Linel street, of Frank; J. kticK, died at 4:15 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital after an illness of six weeks of complications. '' \ \i 5 - A lifelong resident of Adams county, she was born in Root township July 3. 1880, a* daughter of Perry and Etjla Butler-Eliey, ‘and .was married! May 20, 1899. had lived in Decatur since 1905. Her husband died Sept. 6, 1952.; ‘ j. '• ' Mrs. Krick a member of the First Methodist church and the Order of Eastern Surviving are ;one daughter. Mrs. Pauline Hydd of Roslelle, N J.; three sons, Robert H. and Joseph A. Krick, both of Decatur, and Frank J. Krick, Jr., of Fort Wayne; seven [ grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two brothers, Ben H. Elzey of Detroit, [Mich,, and Fred Elzey of Chi’cago. 1114 and one sister, Mrs. ’Cora Burkholder’of Elyria, O. Funeral services, will be conducted at 1:30 p.’ m. Friday at the First Methodist church, the Rev. Samuel Emetick officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Frjtends may call at the Gillig & Doan fundral home after 7 o’clock this evening until 11 a. m." Friday. The body will He in state at the church from nobn until time of the services. I

UN Command To Take Steps To Renew Talks Clark Authorized ( * To Propose Meeting' On Truce In Korea WASHINGTON, UP — The United Nations command is ready ; take steps to reopen the long- | stalled truce negotiations ih a new dtfojktto end the KoreanVwar, Informed sources revealed that Gen. Mark W. Clark, IJ. N. poinmander in Korea, has been authorized to propose a meeting of Allied and Communist liaison officers to a date ft)r resumption of the talks. I ; t. J He also has been given a goahead, it wa4 learned, to suggest Switzerland Us a neutral state to assume control of Allied-held prisoners who refuse to return to their Communist homelands. There was rno word h,ere When Clark would deliver his proposals to Red negotiators. It wks expected he would !act quickly to spike Communist charges that the Alliies were “reluctant” to resume the truce talks. 7 • ! But he might decide to hold back in. viei' of the aitdown strike of Communist exchange prisoners and the failure of reconnaissance pilots to spot Allied POWs supposed to be enroute to Panmunjom for release. The t Allies made the agreement on the exchange of sick and 4njured prisoners a condition for resumption of full armistice tajlks. ;A real hitch on this would certainly rule out the talks. Another disturbing factor is the Communist invasion of Laos! The United States has made it plain that broadening pf the war in (Tarw To Pave Six) J ‘ ' PTA School Survey Report On Thursday I Formal Reports By Survey Committees! The school survey committees of the Lincoln schbol P. T. A. will present their formal \reports to the parent-teachers’ association which will meet, at 7:30 o’clock Thursday evening in the school auditorium. \ ' \ Survey pamphlets have been distributed to every home represented in the' Lincoln school. The pam* phlet lists the findings of the various committees on equipment, school achievement and teacher improvement, lunch program, building, transportation, school board, finances and budget. Parents are asked to read the pamphlet carefully and to note any points for further discussion by the panel of committee members. It has been suggested by Mrs. C. I. Finlayson, general chairman !in qharge of the survey, that parents bring the pamphlet to thk P. T. A. meeting for reference. •: Edward Wert, president of P. T. A. stated, “The school survey was not an end in itself, but a beginning; a basis for future work by parents of school children. It is’ an instrument to educate parents about present school facilities, and to show what problems exist, and what can be done toward solving them." He stressed the importance of attendance by all parents. An art exhibit featuring displays of art work by all students in the grade school will precede the PTA meeting. Officers for the coming P„T. A. year will be elected duringHhe business meeting. The survey report culminates flvp months of investigation 1 by PTA committee members. School board officials cooperated to complete the survey. Mrs. Finlayson said, “The committees’ aim was to discover and present facts which would help all parents .to a better understanding of the problems of education." 4'

Boomed By Lions Roy L. Price ■ Li Price Is Candidate For Lions Governor Local Man Out For District Governor Roy Price, prominent Adams county farmer and former county treasurer is being ‘sponsored bj Decatur Lions club as a candidate for governor of Liohs, clubs of dis , trict 258, it was announced Tues day at the regular meeting of the local club. ! I TJie announcement was in the form of campaign cards, carrying a biography (>f the local man. These cards will be sent to Lions clubs of the district immediately with a 100 percent endorsement from the Decatur club. The election of a governor will take place' during the state convention scheduled for French Lick April 24, 25, and 2d. Headquarters for Price will be set up prior to the conclave andj Decatur club members will engage in a hard campaign to sell their candidate. Price became a member of the local club in 1936 and was elected an official board member in 1938. He served as club, president in 1939-40 and as chairman of the educational committee in 1941-42. The Decatur member was chairman of the convention comihittee from 1950 to 1953 land served as zone chairman in 1951-52. He has attended eight state conventions and at present is a member of humerous agricultural committees. He is a member of Pleasant Mills Methodist church and served on the Boy Scout area council for 10 yedrs and an adult 4-H leader for 12 years. He is a past president of the Adams county Purdue alumni association. In addition to these achievements, Price has been active in many other agricultural and civic enterprises. Decatur club members ITura Te; Pace Five) . J Sylvester Smith Is Taken By Death 'i Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Sylvester (Wess) Smith. 80, oi one and one-halt miles south Ot Pleasant Mills, died at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Adkms county memorial hospital. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage list Wednesday but was not found dntil Friday morning. } A lifelong resident ot Adams county, he was . born in St. Mary’s township Noy. 13, 1872, a son of Jehu and Mary Ann Peterson Smith, and was never married. Surviving ire one brother, W. J. Smith of Convoy, S. C., and a sister, Mrs. Harry Ray of Pleasant Mills. One brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at* 1:30 p. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Robert Schrock officiating. Burial will be in Mt Tabor cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. ’ ■’ .! • , • - -Hr?* ■’• ? j

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Major Speech On Korea By Radio And TV Frank Discussion By Eisenhower In Address Thursday AUGUSTA, Ga. UP — The White House announced today that President Eisenhower’s speech in Washington Thursday will be a major discussion Os current efforts to end 4he itdrehri war and "the chance for peace far all peoples of the in v . The President flies to the capital Thursday, breaking into his week's vacation here, to address the Amer-~ ican Society of Editors. - The President will speak before the ASNE at 1 p.m. The speech will be carried by all the major and television networks. Press, secretary James C. Hagerty said “it will be a major speech on foreign policy and the chance for peace foF peoples of the world in 1953.” j The speech ii being “kept open” s for last-minute revisions paced to y- changing world conditions. The y President, himself, spent three e hours this morning going over a s- nearly finall draft of the address. s . The president’* frank discussion e before the American people is expected to be tempered with a warne fog tq the free world against letg ting down its defense guard just 1. because Russia is talking peace s at the moment. The announcement of t he-sign it ficance of the chief executive’s ad* dress came amidst these develop--1 meats: 1. Two convoys of sick and dist abled Allied war prisoners were s en route down “freedom road” in > Korea toward the site where ailing > captives on both sides will be exl changed Monday. Other convoys . are to follow. ‘ ,2. It was disclosed in Washington I that the United Nations Command . is ready to negotiate for reopening ot the long-stalled truce negotiations with the Communists, was revealed Gen. Mark Clark has been authorized to propose a preliminary negotiating meeting. Washington, sources ' said the President during his speech will ’* (Twri» T«» P«X* Six) Jake Bids' April 27 For Adams Central High School Will Have Eight Rooms The proposed Adams r Central high school building for which construction proposals .will be received by the school trustees at p.m. on April 27, will contain eight rooms, Robert Smith of Custer and Smith law firm, stated today. Incorporating modern architecture design, the building will be 200 tby 70 feet and located on the site west of Monroe, where the gymnasium for the school plant Is now under construction. On ground level, the building will be constructed of reinforced con- < crete and structural steel, faced with brick. The eight rooms will include science and commercial classrooms, library and toilet rooms. i The building will have its own i heating plant and separate from the Kym. The classrooms will be lighted by slkn-line flourescent bulbs. Tempered ■ air will be sup- ■ piled throughout the bulding. There will be corridor lockers and classroom storage sections in the one-floor modern' building. The appropriation for the building is approximately $162,000 and if the contract can be let, work . 4s expected to Start within 30 days. Much of* the steel framework] !for the gymnasium ha b been erected and the site is a busy place as construction progresses on this large and modern school plant. i , '■ -