Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1953 — Page 1

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Stamp Honors Future Farmers J? .- -Mg, ■ TH R»>f h i v -t r SHijfcr 0 ru jL b farm£ rs this NEW 3-CENT stamp will go on sale Oct. 13 in Kansas Cjty. Mo. to commemorate the 25 th anniversary of the Future Farmers of America. The V. S. Post Office department is issuing it in conjunction with the Future Farmers' annual convention.

County Budget Set At $254,748; - ' ; ' . • r ■ Hearing Sept. 8

f Adams county’s general fund « budget for 195A government expenses totals >254.748, an .increase of $25,000 o'Ver the preliminary * filed a year ago. The 1954 budget has been piled by Frank KitSOn, county auditor.- who authorized fts publication and fixed the dates of hearing before the county council and county commissioners will be Sept. 8 and 9. Due to a substantial reduction in the county's cash balance this year, from $146,084 in 1953 to $75,669 on July 3E this year, the estimated tax rate for 1954 must raise more money than the increase - in budgeted expenses, the auditor's office, explained. , \ Figured) bn the county’s net tax- * aMe valuation of $40,945,740. it i will take a 56 cent tax rate on each SIOO of to raise suf-j ficient funds to pay anticipated expenditures and leave the county with a $50,000 cash balance. In addition to the general fund, levies are made for the welfare department and the Adams County ’Memorial hospital.: The rates for these two divisions also are higher, than the current rates and : t with the 56-cent rat® total 72 ■ cents, compared to this; year’s total of 42 cents. 1 of Tax Rates Tlffe proposed rates for 1954 and the"" current levies on each SIOO follow: . i Fund 195 3 1954 General 20c 56c Welfare 09c 11c Hospital 03c 05c The current general fund rate is 30 cents on each SIOO of taxables. However, last year when the bud-j get. was compiled a 34 cent rate was requested. Appropriations were pruned by the county council and the state board of tax commissioners ordered a SIO,OOO reduction in the cash balance. East (year the budget showed that the county would have to raise $134,200 to finance a $229,000 biidget. To finance, rfext year’s , budget, compilation of the estimates show • that the bounty must raise. $232,492. .necessitating a 56 cent rate. The Welfare Budget The county welfare department's budget totals $211,535. Adams cbunty’s share to be raiped is estimated at entailing an 11 cent rate, compared to cur- ■ rent nine cent levy. Hospital Budget Higher The hospital's budget is about $15,000 higher than the one filed last August. -The difference be-ti-een estimated expenditures and anticipated income is $20,168. requiring a five cent rate on each SIOO, compared to the current three-cent levy. The Highway Fund Although no tax rate' is made for the county highway department. the budget :• is included in the county budget form that is compiled by the auditor. • I The budget totals $202,505> all of which is received by the county from the state gasoline tax. W.I J ' - ’ — - Frank Braun 111 In Lutheran Hospital Frank Braun, well known Decatur resident and departmental fore- , man at the Decatur General Electric Co., underwent an operation -for a bowel obstruction at Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne today. He became ill several days ago • J while on a fishing trip. While his condition, is serious, he is reported . to be resting following, the operation.

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Commissioners Hear Phone Co. Problem Pole Moving Cost Factor Os Issue nr ' ' Legality of ah unwritten contract between the CRjzen's Telephone Co. and a group of farmers in Monroe township was the leading contender at a special hearing of the county commissioners, the farmers and the utility to set-J tie up what has been called a misunderstanding. | T The fray is over whether the farmers, benefited by the Wittmer ditch; Monroe township, should pay the Citizen's Telephone Co. $202.53 because they removed telephone wires last year from the site of a proposed ditch cleaning tp \f. - easier to the machinery. The utility claims Herman Moellering, county surveyor, made it plain to them . that they would be paid by the farmers involved at the completion of the job, having received the O. K. from them. Moellering concurred in this opinion. He said he had asked the farmers involved whether they would pay |lf the utility did the job and was told “they'd pay if they had to/.’ ' , j Representing the utility were Charles Eliinger. president, Ivan Heare, outside plant superintendent and Robert Anderson, attorney. Herman Moellering was represented by county attorney David Macklin. President of the commissioners Lewis Worthman and commissioner Harley Reef attended the session. V Upon hearing what the farmery had to say, Ehinger said: “The $202 is not what bothers me —r that won’t break the Citizen’s Telephone Co.—but I have an obligation ta my efockhdlderp to saVe their investment. I also do not intend to give up the rights granted the utility.” - ; The utility claims Moellering came to Ivan Heare last year to ask him to remove poles at the ditch that had interrupted cleaning of the ditch/ Heare is reported to have asked who would pay the bill. Moellering said he would contact the farmers who would have to pay it and report back. Heare testified he was tojd to 'take them down (the poles)i” He stated however, that he quoted the price tp Moellering. but this Moellering denies. He said he had no knowledge of the bill until after the job. e “We will pay the bill if it is shown that we must pay it legally,” declared Nussbaum, speaking for the rest. ] -o Utility attorney Anderson told the group -there was £ moral obligation to pay since, there was a spoken contract between Moellering and the Telephone Co. Anderson warned that if the farmers did not pay the telephone company in the future would require court orders arid legal documents of all sorts before undertaking work for the county. Ehinger said if he walked out of the room with the word of the farmers that they would not pay, he would feel “cheated” and that the farmers bad “welched” on a bill. Ehinger declared he would change the policies of the utility regarding work with the county if they would not pay. 1 ; \ 1 Farmerg steadfastly maintained they “didn’t remember” being ap- ' _ rrua Ta P»a» Six)

GPO Employe Suspended For Not Answering E. M. Rothschild J Refuses Answer On Red Charge WASHINGTON, UP—A government printing < office GPO employee was today within an hour after, he refused tq tell senate investigators whether he is a Communist, has stolen secret government documents or has engaged in espionage. U , The employee. Edward M. Rothschild, 42-year-old bookbinder, refused on grounds of possible selfincrimination to answer questions by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s permanent investigating subcommittee. "Your • refusal is telling the world that you have been stealing secrets, that you are a member of the party and that you have engaged in espionage,” McCarthy told Rothschild. Less! than an hour later. Deputy public printer L/Cole suspended Rothschild from his job without pay pending the outcome of “congressional action” in the Case. ‘ ; -J*/ ' i•McCarthy’s permanent investigation subcommittee is looking into charges of “alleged espionage” and Communist membership by some employes at the printing office.

Pelbert Witte Not Hurt In Accident Delbert Witte, 17, route 3, rolled over in his car at about 7:15 this morning two miles north of here at the intersection of county roads near the Dent school, but escaped uninjured. Sheriff Bob Shraluka, who investigated, said Witte veered his auto to avoid hitting a car coming from his side at the intersection. Shraluka said Witte hit a rise in the road at the side —dirt extended by highway and dkchdigglng crews —and the car went out of conArol. Damage was estimated at about SSOO, the sheriff said. . a ■ • Light Plant Workers Finish Cleaning Task Light and ppwer plant workers this t week completed the periodic cleaning of the spray pond which cools water used in steam producing condensers, it was stated today by plant superintendent Lester Mitchell. \ Mitchell said cleaning consisted >of removing mud and silt that ac, cumulates in the pond over the years. The last time the bed was cleaned was in 1939, affirmed Mitchell. The job took four days.

New Lions Club ■ [ HFormed Al Monroe Rev. Johnson Is First Club FJead Adams county will have a third club of Lions, international. The club held its first organization meeting at Monroe last Friday and named officers for the first year. Rev. Ralph Johnson was elected president; Hubert Fuelling was named first vice-president; Richard Everett was elected secretary; Martin Steiner was chosen treasurer; Homer Winteregg will be Lion tamer and Gene Hike was elected tall twister. * The Monroe Lions will hold their second meeting August 31 on’ which date the charter will be closed and a date set for the charter night dinner. The new group was set up under Governor Roy Price, district 25-B; Dennis Moser; Bluffton is deputy district governor and Eli Stucky of Geneva is zone chairman. Other north&n Indiana Lions club activities in which Governor Price will take part include charter night at Poneto, Tuesday August 25 and Ladies night of the Petroleum club Wednesday night August 26. The (organization of the Monroe club, which will join Geneva and Decatur clubs in the Adams county section of district 25-B, which includes all of northeastern Indiana, was announced by state secretary George W. Bormuth, Fort Wayne. Price is the first Adams county member of any Lions club ever to serve as district governor and since taking the office he has been active in the installation of more than a half dozen new clubs.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 18, 1953.

Union Leaders Accuse Craig Os Alliance With Telephone Co. Officials

Plan Offered By Reds Vetoed By Committee V UN Group Says j No To Demand For Attendance By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP4 — The United Nations Political Committee today rejected a Russian " demand that Communist China and North Korea be invited here for discussions on setting up the Far Eastern political' confer, ence. The 60-nation committee took two separate votes on the demand made by Soviet delegate Andrei V. Vishinsky. 'lt beat down, 34 to 18 with 7 abstentions, a motion to reconsider a previous decision not to invite North Koirea, and then voted 34 to 14 with 9 abstentions against extending an invitation to Red China. Vishinsky raised also the question of ousting Nationalist China from the U. N. in favor of the Chinese Communists, but said he would wait until next September’s regular Assembly session to demand action oh this question. "The present session,” Vishinsky said, “must consider a question in which the Korean people and the Chinese people‘are vitally Interested. Consideration of this question without their participation, we believe, would be Inadmissible.” The United States prompetly opposed the Rushan demand. - “We are still convinced,” U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge J|r. told the committee, “that there is no reason why this committee should hear North Koreja nor the other aggressors, the; Chinese Communists . . . they will be contacted when the time comes to arrange the time and place of the conference. That will be the time to hear them.” Vishinsky said the Chinese and North Korean Reds “must participate in these sittings, since in their absence no success is likely to a solution of this question.” He said Russia would raise the question of China’s representation at the eighth session of the general assembly, scheduled to start Sept. 16. » “We will refrain from putting the question at this session.” Vishinsky said, “but at this time (Tura To Pace Five)

Wear Tragedy Averted\ By Work Os Neighbor

A neighbor up on his first aid fought against death late Monday morning to save the life of yearold Vicki Gehrig who accidentally became entwined in the shop apron of her father was hanging on a clothesline. ' • Louis F. Webert of 109 Harvester Lane worked a brief few minutes to revive the girl after Mrs; Gehrig carried the limp body hysterically across the street to beg frantically with Mr. Webert to do something for her little girl who had strangled and was dying, iFiremen arrived with oxygen and pulmotor apparatus but Webert bad done the job and the girl was breathing and taken to the Adams county memorial hospital. Vicki is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard behrig, of 110 Harvester Lane, across the street from the Webert’s. Mrs. Gehrig was hanging clothes on the line and thought nothing of Vicki playing around in the lines of wash. Mrs. Gehrig went into the house after hanging her husband’s work apron with the loop down. Vicki played with the Ipop and somehow became ed and the loop spun her off the ground, leaving the tot hanging helplessly, unable to utter a sound. Mrs. Gehrig came out of the

X ” ~ Hit-Skip Driver Is Arrested, Sentenced Troy Goforth Says f He Was Car Driver A man identified as Troy Goforth, 22, of Muncie, admitted' to police Monday afternoon after his capture at the local bus station that he was the driver who sideswiped a pickup and house trailer up U. S. 224 at 7 p.m. Sunday. *He was arraigned on a charge of leaving the scene of an acclgiven a scathing rebuke from Mayor John Doan, who. sentenced the veteran to 10 days in' the county jail, fined SSO ‘and costs and suspension of drivers license fbr six months. Alt area authorities w-ere alerted to be on the lookout for a car and 1 license plate that was described by a hitchhiker let out of the' hit-skip auto after the brush. Goforth, however, who Vas traveling i with a word an identified by police as Lottie Gerheart. 28, Muncie. had been driven back here by a farmer of Blue Creek township after abandoning his car and are said to have registered at a downtown hotel, | The hitchhiker, whose identity is being withheld, fingered the driver from the rear room of the bus station when police. discovered a pair answering the destrip Mon of the -two in the hit-rub yer hicle were to leave on a 1 . bus Monday from the local station. Police were on hand. The hitchhiker, who had the presence of mind to copy down the license number when things didn't -look right, identified the pair as | the onei he was riding with. He said .earlier they were drinking while he was in the car. g Goforth struck a house trailer and pickup being driven by Ralph Frederick, 27, Cleveland, 0., .who wafe riding with his pregnant Wife, Jean, 24. and two-year-old bon. None was injured. Frederick had been atempting to get back in lane after passing a car but was hit before he could move in. ' Another witness to the incident besides the hitchhiker was a Detroit doctor who offered assistance to the woman and said' he wobld come back from Michigan to testify against the hit-skip if necessary. A car identified as Goforth’s had been seen after the accident in Van Wert county—the sheriff’s department gave chase but he got away. It was also said to have been seen in Willshire, 0., where they stopped to tie down a torn fender. Police traced movements of Goforth and his companion into Blue Creek township where the couple •Tnwi To Pace «lw»

house and quickly disengaged the girl but she hung limp, blue ;in the face and not breathing. Birick marks from lack of circulrition showed on her face. Vicki looked as if she were dead. Mrs. Gehrig carried the form over tri the Weberts and Webert was at home, luckily, since G. E. went on strike for a day. Webert, schooled 4ri first aid, applied artificial respiration, using the Schaefer method or prone method and the color sopn returned to Vicki’s face and sfte commenced breathing again. Webert, a real hero, is to be recommended for a medal for saving Vicfti’s life, a member of the Gehrig family said. Webert is the fathqr of two children, Robert. 8, and Karen, 6, and a wife named Helen. He has been employed by General, Electric for 15 years. Webert’s wife —he couldn’t be reached this morning—said her husband often wondered whether he would have use of his first aid instruction and now she’s glad he did have it. Both she and' many neighbors consider the G. E. oneday strike a blessing, without which Mr. Webert would have been at work and Vicki would surely have been dead.

Response For Slate Building Craig Stales Legislators May Be Called Into Extra Session INDIANAPOLIS UP — Governor Craig reported favorable response today in first returns in his poll to determine if Indiana’s legislators would appropriate part of a generailfund surplus to build a new state pffice building. If enough of the 160 representatives and senators agree, Crai? may call. a special session of the Stade Legislature to get the project underway. The governor addressed letters tq the lawmakers late last week, pointing out? a new state office building Would cost about $15,000,000. He added, however, the state could save gbout 511,000,000 by financing construction from a $78,000,000 general surplus rather than by issuing bonds and paying interest on them. iHe asked legislators their, opinions about using some of' the surplus. Eleven of the first 12 replying said 'they considered it a wise move. The 12»b was undecided. The matter could be disposed of in a short, one-day session of the Assembly, and the governor presumably would want to limit a special session to that issue. The Indiana Municipal League says Hoosier towns are 'financially hard - pressed and should be appropriated some money from the big surplus. ’ The league’s executive committee, meeting here Monday, voiced numerous complaints, which most likely would worm their way into such a special session.* The state hoards a surplus while cities “syeat blood” over high tix rates, Indianapolis Mayor Alex Clark charged. (Mayor . Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute, the league’s president, said city property owners will “face confiscation very soon . . . The legislature forces cities to provide services without providing any revenue for doing them.”

Acting Postmaster Slated For Berne May Be 5 Weeks, Cong. Adair Says An acting postmaster for Berne should be named within the next five weeks,. Congressman E. Ross Adair, of Fort Wayne, stated in an interview while visiting here today. « • Making a tour of the fourth dis trict, Congressman Adair spent th'e day in the county commissioner's room at the court house. He was accompanied here by Richard "Dick" Prickett, his secretary. Pripkett is a former newspaperman of Albion. vExplaining the Berne postmaster appointment, the congressman said that he had been officially notified of the vacahcy that exists there, caused by the death of Mrs. Arthur Zehr, who served 20 years as postmaster. The acting postmaster will be named by the Post Office department, on the • recommendation of the congressman. ; ’ The permanent appointment will be made after the required civil service examination for all applicants ia held. Civil service will grade the tests and establish a register of eligible persons tor the appointment. The appointee must be selected from this list, Mr. Adair said. There are thjee qualifications for the postmaster ship: The person must be an American citiien; age 25 to 63; and must have resided within delivery 6f the Berne (T«» Te Sts)

E. J. Flynn, Boss Democrat, Dies Was Vacationing When Stricken

NEW YORK, (UP) — Edward J. Flynp, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and boss for 30 years of the Bronx County.; Democratic organization, died Monday night vacationing in it was announced, here today. ' £•■ Death, of the Cl-year-old lioliticlan, a/confidant of the late President FrankJSn D. Roosevelt,] was made public by Rep. Charles Buckley. D-N. Y. - The handsome, white-haired millionaire had been in poor health since Ke suffered a heart attack in May; l§so, while attending the Democratic party’s Jefferson jubilee in Chicago. However; he had until recently, taken an active part in politics and his Manhattan law firm, i ; J At the time of his death, Flynn was serving his 16th consecutive two-year term as chairman of. the executive committee of the Bronx Democratic coinmittee. it was this job as borough \ “boss” that was the core of his career as a key political figure in the state and the nation. Flynn in 1940 assumed the chairmanship of the Democratic National committee. Three years later he was forced into virtual retirement when a scandal over paving bricks caused him to withdraw from an appointment by Mr: Roosevelt as minister‘to Australia. Even after the paving brick scandal. Mr. Roosevelt placed great trust in Wynn. Flynn claimed Mn Roosevelt gave him the task of “selling” then Sen. Harry S. Truman to bigcity leaders as vice presidential candidate in 1944. He was rnarr ed to a Bronx girl. Helen Jones, in 1927 and had three \paitriok, Richard; and Sheila, all of them surviving. • ' Crowds Continue At Local Tent Meeting Don Gehrig Leads In Group Singing Despite the jfact the Monday evening service was unannounced the attendance was close to 200 persons. \ Don Gerig, of Hartford township schools, song leader, Fed the congregation in singing hymns familiar tp all. Mrs. McCune was the pianist ,and Mrs. Earl Chase was the. organist. These ladies will preside most of the time, during the series of meetings. The scripture lesson was read by Rev. Johh Detwiller, pastor of the Antioch Missionary Alliance church. Song leader, Gferig, sang a solo entitled “Jesus Took My Burden.” The evangelist. Rev. Patrick Hepry, chose the subject “The Sin God Cannot Forgive” and based the message on Mark 3: 28 & 29. He stated that sin is lawlessness and that, it is just human nature to rebel against the things we are supposed to do. He further stated that when we miss the objective , and the mark we sin. The con- ■ stant refusal to listen to the Holy i Spirit will, finally lead to the sin that God cannot forgive, or in ; other words the unpardonable sin. , The Gospel will do two things to each individual, either soften our j heart and we will yield to the calling of the Holy Spirit or harden j our heart for a final refusal. . A prayer service for the minis- < ters and all who were able to attend wax held at 8 o’clock this i morning. Services for Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock were announced at whiqh time the evangelist will bring a message on “The Signs at the Times.” The scripture lesson will be read tonight by -Rev. William Ensminger, paster of the Rivarre Circuit.

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National Guard Ordered To Be Ready To Act State Police Guide Employes At One Exchange ' ; ' , • i“ . irl INDIANAPOLIS, (UP) - Union leaders accused Gov. George N. : Craig today of helping Indiana Bell Telephone Co.’s “union-bust- i' ing and strike-busting” tactics by alerting National Guardsmen and V slate police in the 28-day-old strike. ;• Striking CIO communications workers officials charged the gov-, ernor “played right into the hands” i of Bell. They said Craig is “stumbling in the dark” and Indiana is becoming a “police state.” Craig, first moved into the dispute Monday afternoon, ordering state police to open the Clinton exchange, closed 22 hours after the utility told of repeated violence.? Police escorted Bell workers into the building without incident. Hours later. Craig the , Guard to move in should violence 1 ; develop in another city. | “The company used influence and power to get him,to officials claimed. “The governor's action grill help the company further an objective of strike and. union busting.” [ I , ' _i . ,!•■ They said Craig’s order imposed no restrictions on Bell employes, allowing the utility to move in strike-breakers from other states j and provide near-normal service. “The public is entitled to emer- • gehey service during a strike but not regular full service,” they said. “And Bell shouldn’t earn its regular revenue for sub-standard service” . . ; The CWA said Craig should ■ have “given more consideration” i - to a solution employed after vio- i . lenee at South Bend last week. There, the union agreed to limit its picket lines to 1 " CWA personnel and' Bell agreed to weed ond out- , of-town workers. At Clinton Monday three’ carloads of state troopers were ordered by the governor to keep the " exchange open. State Adjutant General Harold .j A. Doherty said his men were “ready to, move at a moment’s notice.” He said there is a “pre- I arranged plan” for use of units' if in event of hew violence in any city. ' j Some officials of the striking ; ' CIO' Communications Worker* took ' a dim view of Craig’s interference in the labor dispute. One said the -f governor was “stumbling in the ; dark.’’; Another said Indiang is . becoming a “police state.” 1 Presidents of 31 union locals adopted a resolution charging <*rwrw T» p*ar» Sts) j ; \ Work Is Resumed Al Decatur G. E.'Plant i Conference Held There This Morning Workers returned to their jobs today at the General Electric plant and normal operations were in progress. following work stoppage, when the plant closed. Conference was held this morning between John Welch, local plant manager, Henry Stauffer, president oftVE Local 924, bargaining union for the workers. 1 Neither management nor the union had a statement on the discussions’ held during the conference. The workers voted yesterday in favor of returning to their jobs today, and plant operations were resumed on regular schedule. — ? . INDIANA WEATHER T Generally fair tonlgnt and WeCkneeday; Wfltle changa in temperature. Low tonight 48-54 north, 52-58 iU aouth. High Wednesday 75-80 north, BGBS gouth. t •