Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 223.

Ike Makes Major Address In Boston * • v IJB - WEW? «. S" ■• ■ > igm w 4B x 46<Pik I T*W fefetojfeta. l££fe i 'ftai^ jv A W II A lbs I J• ■ -■w E 1 Mj " ; -' |i x 1 B HHBBHh "-li HbBIHFwi BfeBHHBHHBL PRESIDENT EISENHOWER is greeted at Logan Airport, Boston, as he arrives by air for a major address. With him are Representative Joseph Martin (left), speaker of the house, and Governor Herter of Massachusetts.

Ike Warns Os 9 tyssibility 01 Higher Taxes Congress' Leaders Are Perturbed By | Speech In Boston WASHINGTON. UP — Congressional leaders 4vere puzzled and perturbed today by President Eli senhower’s warning that high taxes may be the price of security in the H-bomb age! ; They "hoped that the President’s remarks, in a major poitical addross at Bostbxr Monday night, did not mea* that the administration will submit -A stiff new tax program to congress next year. But they recognized the possibility that Mr. Eisenhower may have been preparing the public for »just sucH* a-move. Mr. Eisenhower’s speech, delivered before a SIOO-a-plate GOP chicken dinner in the Boston Garden and broadcast to the nation by radio and television, included a ringing pledge of U. S. willingness to negotiate for peace or resist aggression. He also laid down a Republican political credo emphasizing the conviction that Americans arei’tone people” rather than ' a group-iof “conflicting classes.” % But it was his single cryptic aljHusion to high taxes that attracted most attention here. ' , , The chief executive returned to the White House early today without: elaborating on his declaration that “There is no sacrifice — no labor, no tax, no service—too hard for us to bear to support a logical and necessary defense of our freedom?’ Capital quarters attached special significance to the' statement with a warning that “the enemies of freedom” are now armed with “the most terrible weapons of destruction” —ah apparent reference to Russia’s recent H-bomb test. It is known that the administration is considering proposals for a multi-billion dollar air defense system to give 4 raer ic*n cities added protection against Soviet A-bomb or H-bomb attack. There had been speculation, even, before, Mr. Eisenhower's speech, that adoption of the defense proposals would up? set Republican hopes for a' balanced budget and tax relief next year; Secretary of the treasury George M. Humphrey said recenb ly the administration is considering a national sales tax and many other revenue proposals for posJ sible submission to congress next tear. But he said no final decisions had been reached. * Mr. Eisenhower’s vigorous restatement of U. S. foreign policy was regarded here as a reply to recent criticism by Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952 Democratic presidential nominee. Stevenson, speaking at a Chicago Democratic rally last week accused the administration of too great i reluctance to negotiate with Russian leaders for a world -peace settlement. Without referring directly to Stevenson’s charge, Mr. Eisenhower said bis gdminfstration stands ready “to join our efforts with any men truly ready to life the threat of catastrophic war from the world.” At the same time, Mr. Eisenhowsr said, “fW« will no less passionately join our own efforts to thwart any aggressor who hopes to use that threat of war to rule the world.”

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Okay Specifications For Three Laterals Special Meeting Is Held By CounciTmen The city councit in special meeting Monday night unanimously accepted the specifications for construction of three laterals to the Porter-Homewood sewer, now under construction by the Yost Construction Co. i \ The names of the laterals are: Decatur Casting Co., Giles V» Porter, and Brice Roop. It was conceded that the best possible course to follow in building laterals would be to use vitrified tile, particularly acid-resistant, where units of 25 inches and under need to go, snd reinforced concrete where the measurements are over 25 inches. Ithe reason being, according to Ralph Roop, city engineer, that the cost above 25 inches far outweighs the benefits of vitreous material over concrete. • There was some basic discussion over the theory of paying for \the sewer’s lateral, and it took at least an hour and a half to explain it to the satisfaction of all present. Lateral construction is paid for by those parties petitioning for it, plus the tap-in fee which would be thrown into the revolving fund, more or less of a service charge that would be used to support and improve sewers all- over the city? Back to th,e laterals, each person who receives benefits from a lateral must share in the expense of building it in proportion to the good he gets out of it. A “schedule of charges” is to be drawn up by the city engineer after action is token by the board of works. Roop’s specifications, which are tentative, call for these costs of construction bn the three laterals: DecatUf Casting—slo,376, charges to be figured by area. Giles Porter —$13,000, to be shared by 29 lots. j.-, Brice Roop—s77B, shared by sevlots. ' It was emphasized that only those people benefiting from a given lateral share the cost of building it —plus a tap-in fee to the main trunk. The apparent problem sticking in the minds of councilmen is how to get a petitioner who either doesn’t want to pay his share or can't pay his share of the lateral, to uphold his responsibility. The Barrett law was considered, whereby a party would be given a full 10 years to pay. at a rate of interest compounded annually. But the drawback to this, pointed out Robert Anderson, city attorney, was that construction companies would be either totally unwilling to bid on such a long-range pay basis, or else would bid very high. The alternative to this, it was disclosed, is to have the city back up the 'individual in difficulties, as a guarantor, and so giving the constructors confidence, resulting in normal bids. Another method, which was given the edge and was to be Included in the specifications, is the day waking period, whereby the city would accept bids and keep them firm for the arbitrary period of 15 days; during which each man involved, in a given lateral would be approached and asked if be would go along on the cost. By this method the city is supposed to be protected from going into agreements which cannot be fulfilled, and the contractor would get the word of the city that payment would be on time. It was decided, also unanimous<T»ro Te Pas* Five) ?

Korean Pilot Says Reds Plan Renewal Os War Runaway Pilot In Statement On New Warfare In Korea SEOUL, Korea UP —The first pilot to deliver a MIG-15 jet fighter to the U. S. air force said today the Communists^’were preparing for a resumption of warfare tn Korea. He startled reporters by saying he did not know of a SIOO,OOO reward for thb first jet delivered undamaged to American authorities. ' . The flier, identified by Seoul newspapers as Capt. Noh Keun Suk, said his only objective in making his 13-minute dash for freedom Monday was to get away from Communism because he had been reared as a Christian. \ x Noh said he knew, nothing about the reward Gen. Mark W. Clark, supreme commander of the United Nations in the Far East, offered last April for the first Mig turned over to American authorities in Korea. “But I’m very glad to hear it,”. Noh said. The young pilot told newsmen at an hour-and-15-minute ■ press conference khat previous reports of armistice violations by the Russians were true? He said he saw the Russians fly radar-equipped Mig fighters, jet bombers and twin-engine pistonpowered bombers into North Korea about 4b days ago—two or three weeks after the armistice was signed. , . & r The it’oeky, youtfi said the Reds believe the war will start again in Korea and “they are preparing tor that.” Noh, a veteran of three years’ service in the North Korean air force, said he had been planning his escape since 1950. He disclosed that he decided to surrender only minutes before he peeled off from a Mig formation and dashed to Kimpo air base near here. “My heart was Seating rapidly but I decided not to miss my opportunity,” he said. - Noh said he had not shot down any Allied planes. “1 had been planning to escape for some timej,” he said. “I tried co avoid getting in dogfights with American planes for that reason.” Thil pilot said, however, that most' Communist Mig fliers tried to avoid clashes with American F-86 Sabre jets for other\reasons. The Reds were “very much afraid” of the Sabres because of the American planes’ superior maneuverability and gunsights. “I think American pilots are suj «T*r* T* Pam Tw») Farmer Is Killed In Fall Beneath Tractor WINCHESTER, Ind., UP — The body of William C. Norman, 66, a Randolph county farmer, was found beneath the wheels of his farm tractor along a county road near Spartanburg Monday. Police be; lieved he fell from the vehicle Sunday and was crushed to death. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight; scat* tered light x frost nortn. Wednesday fair and a little warmer. Low tonight 34-42. High Wednesday 72-78.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 22, 1953.

Secy. Humphrey Again Promises Income Tax Cut Next January First

Durkin Charges Ike Reneged On Agreement Former Secretary Os Labor Charges President Reneged ST. LOUIS, UP —Former secretary of labor Martin P. Durkin today directly accused President'Eisenhower of reneging on a private agreement to support major changes in the Taft-Hartley law. ? Durkin asserted the President last month had “fully agreed’’ to go along with 19 proposed amendments' to the labor-management law. However, he said Mr. Eisenhower later “changed his position” and declined to send Durkin's pro- s posals to congress. a The 59-yegr-old AFL plumbers’ union president gave a blow-by-blow description of the background leading to his resignation in a speech prepared for delivery.befope the 72nd national AFL convention. Durkin is attending as a plumbers' delegate. \ While Durkin pinpointed his differences with the President, his remarks were mild in tone. He pointed out that “I have only tl# warmest personal feelings of friendship for the President . .'. " The Taft-Hartley issue, he said, was a “matter of principle/’ -He said he advised the President he could not remain as labor secretary because “I could not disregard my principles at this late .date: in my life.” Durkin said his amendments were drafted into a presidential message to go to congress July *3l. but this plan was dropped because of the death of Sen. Robert A. Taft that dair. Three days later, he added, the message was “leaked" : to the press and “substantial opposition” developed. He said theTTWhite House staff” then appeared reluctant to send a message, but Aug. 19 President Ejis»enhower, .in a private meeting, “fully agreed to my position. He agreed we should go right ahead ” He said the White House staff persisted in their opposition ’so Aug. 31, he turned in his resignation. Eight days later, the staff <>r«ra Rtwati _J f Statement Issued By Hospital Leader To Continue Best Possible Service “The Adams county memorial hospital board and hospital officials and personnel will continue to give every patient the best of service possible with the facilities we have.” ’ \ | This was the statement of Cal E. Peterson, president of the hospital board, after being informed that a remonstrance against the proposed $300,000 bond issue fbr hospital improvements had been filed. The remonstrance carried sufficient names, if bona fide, to defeat the proposed bond issue for this year. Peterson stated that the board would continue to serve to the best of its ability with the equipment and number of roams available, The bond issue was proposed to enlarge the bed capacity of the hospital and-also provide new and more modern equipment for patients. On numerous occasions during the last two years it has been necessary to place patients in the halls and also to place more than one patient in single rooms. “We will not abandon our plans to provide the very best for the sick people of this community,” the board president 'said, “and we will make an effort to use the funds available to the best advantage of. < our patients. As far as the board is concerned, it will abide by the mandate of the majority and do its best.”

Teen-Aged Bandit Killed In Robbery Three Companions Seized After Chase SPRINGFIELD, 111., UP — One teen-ager was shot and killed and three companions were captured after a wild chase today following a >47 burglary of a tavern-filling station at nearby Diverjton. The body of John Cenatiempo, 16. Was found about 9 a. m. one mile! south of here beside U. S. 66. The other three alleged members of the gang, held by Edwardsville police, were William Kamp, 15, Kenneth Cole, 16, and Jeanette Basye, 15. All four were from St. Louis, Mo. Cenatiempo apparently was fatally shot by Virgil' Boblitt, owner of the burglarized combinMion tavern-filling station on U. S. 66. \ Boblitt fired four shots at two , persons he found at the cash regI ister in his dimly lit tavern, which he had- locked for the night earlier. Mrs. Boblitt said she was asleep in their rooxxi beside the tavern when she heard the Bell on the cash register ring. “I nudged my husband and he got his gun. a .38 caliber pistol, and looked through the door.” she said. "He saw two persons at the cash register and I heard them >a|y, Let’s get out of here’.” “As they ran for the doctor he shot three times and then fired another ebot as they ran for the car,” she said. ’ “We found blood on the driveway after the state police car arrived about 1 o'clock,” Mrs. Boblitt said. \ Told one of the young bandits was dead. Mrs. Boblitt said “It’s just too bad they weren’t all killed." 'Mrs. Boblitt said the thieves got only “a few pennies” in the filling station. They got about $47 or S4B <Vw« To p» te «««*«> BULLETIN Maynard 'A. (Dyke) Frisinger, 69, of 520 North Third street, former Decatur postmaster, (1906-1910), and retired city mail carrier, died at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Adams county me- j morial hospital following a long illness. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home. \ Funeral arrangements ; have not been completed. Plan Polio Vaccine Tests During 1954 } Widespread Tests Planned Next Year BUFFALO, N. Y. UP vaccine which physicians hope may prove an effective polio preventive will be tested on upwards, of 300,000 children next year, the medical director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said here Monday night. Dr. Hart E. Van. Riper, of New York City, told local March of Dimes workers that the 1954 March of Dimes will be used in part for the widespread tests prior to the 1954 polio season. Plans for the tests will be announced in November, he added. • Dr. Van Riper said the vaccine was developed by®*Dr. Jonas Salk of the University of Pittsburgh medical school and has been used in inconclqsive tests on 70 children in the Pittsburgh area. “We still must test the vaccine in the field to determine that it will protect against natural infection,” Dr. Van Riper said. “In a Ufa i ted number of cases, the vac4lne has shown its ability to provide anti-body immunity, but how much immunity is needed to protect against the disease !• what we need to know."

Tax Levies In County Higher For Next Year All Taxing Units In County Facing Higher '54 Rates Tax rates in all the townships, towns and cities in the county payable in 1954 are higher than the current levies, a compilation of rates by Frank Kitson, county auditor, reveals. The rates nave Deen approved by the Adams county tax adjustment board, which concluded its session yesterday. Final action on the rates will be taken next Monday at a hearing before a representative of the state board of tax commissioners. Berne has the highest proposed rate of any taxing unit in the county, coming up with a $5.18 rate, compared with its current $3.80 levy. Decatur’s two rates are: Decatur-Washington, $4.97 and Decatur-Root, $5.06. Table* of Rate* The table of* proopsed 1954 rates and the current levies follows, on each SIOO of tax'able property: Unit 1954-.—1958 Blue Creeks2.2s $2.02 French 3.12 2.58 Hartford 2.93 2,60 Jefferson 3.55 2.90 Kirkland 2.94 2.86 Monroe 2.92 2.88 Preble 1.78 1.43 Root — 2.97 2.84 St. Mary's 3.08 2.58 Union — 2.56 1.98 Wabash 2.97 tj 2.72 Washington... 3.05 2.99 Berne 5.18 3,50 Decatur-Root 5.06 4.05 Decatur-Washington 4.97 3.93 Geneva 3.89 3.62 Monroe 3.91 3.76 Monroe-Washingtori 3.99 3.82 Open Ticket Sales Os Annual Fish Fry Annual C. C. Fry Here October 22 Ticket sale for the annual Chamber of Commerce fish fry, scheduled for Decatur high school Thursday, October 22, went on sale today, with 16 Decatur merchants under the chairmanship of M. J. Pryor, manager of the gas company. in charge of the sales. Tickets to Chamber members and local merchants are $2.50 each. The following group of merch- ' ants will have sole' distribution of the tickets, Pryor announced: L. R. Zintsmaster. Zintsmaster’B Motor Sales; Lyle Mallonee, Knapp Service Station; Carl Braun, local agent for New York Life; Ralph Habegger, Habegger Hardware Co.; Louis Jacobs, Holthouse Drug Co.; Ben Webster,,manager of Th? Why store; James McKee, manager of Newberry’s; John Halterman , Halterman’s department storor James Nawton, manager of Jewelry stote; Jack Gordon, Western Auto store; Dick Ehinger, Ehinger and Kortenber; Roy Stewart, Stewart’s Bakery; Clarence Ziner, , Culligan Water Softener service; William Linn. Washington township trustee, and Roy Price, district governor of Lions International, and Washington township dairy farmer. . Tickets may be purchased at any of the above named business establishments and the advance sale will close October 20. No tickets will be available after that date, Pryor stated. Pryor reported that one minute after the sale started at midnight Monday night, more than 25 tickets were sold among committee members attending the meeting.

General Dean Back On American Soil Reaches Honolulu On Return Flight HONOLULU UP —Gen. William F. Dean was back on American soil today for the first time in nearly six years and be said it was “the thrill of my life.” Dean arrived here Monday nigh| aboard a routine military cuation plane from Tokyo. Despite his hope that there be no ceremonies on his arrival, 200 wellwishers were on hand and gave him a tumultuous welcome. A prisoner of the Communists for three years. Dean lasttouched American soil 71 months ago when he passed through Hawaii ehroute to Korea in 1947. He was captured during the Hattie for Taejon, Korea, in the summer of 1950. The two-star general, who has been awarded the congressional medal of honor r leaves for Travis air force base, Calif., near San Francisco, at 4 p.m. e.d.t. He is scheduled to arrive in California at 2 a.m. Wednesday. On hand to greet him will be his wife, Mildred, his mother, and 17 other members of his family.. They (were all gathered at Mrs. Dead’s Berkeley home to count the anxious hours until the general's arrival. ’ ; When Dean arrived in Hawaii, he shouted as he got off the plane: “This is the thrill of my life! I feel like a million dollars.”. Dean spent the night at Pacific army headquarters as the guest of Lt Gen. John W. b'Daniel, Pacific army commander.

To Inspect Airport Here This Afternoon State Director To Confer With Board At 2 p. m. today, the Decatur board of aviation commissioners and the new state director of the Ibdiana board of aeronautics, D. C. Kriinendahl, were scheduled to meet 1 to discuss the feasability of the Hi-Way airport as a municipally controlled airstrip. Krimendahl contacted the secretary of the local board, Robert Smith, to say he "and an aide, a Mr. Mclntyre, would inspect the site to see if it came up to state specifications for a city strip. The meeting was to take place at city hall with Andy Appelman, local airman and president of the board, and the other members Robert Cole and Louis Jacobe.. At the last conclave between the former director, Col. Cornish, and the city council last year, the council was told that the site would be approved provided hazards to flight were removed, power lines, and the filling in of a “neck” about midway in the single east-west runway. The airstrip, presently being operated by Miss Josephine Ivetich, owner of part of the runway, is 2,200 feet long, longer than many runways now being operate? under city control, it was learned The west portion of the runway past, the neck now being filled in by the Krick-Tyndall Co., is owned by Ben Eiting, who leases the land to Miss Ivetich for a nomina' amount Owners of planes tied down at the port. Bob Railing, Jim Rice and Andy Appelman. pay a rental of $5 a month and share the cost ot insurance. Fort Wayne Woman Is Killed By Truck FORT WAYN.E UP — Susie Walters, 78, •of suburban Fort W*ya®» was .fatally injured Monday when struck by a truck on a county road east of here. James P. Marrls. 20, told police the woman stepped into the path of his truck and was hit as he kwerved to avoid her.

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No Answer To Future Plans On New Taxes Treasury Secretary Renews Promise In Address To Bankers

WASHINGTON, UP —Secretary of- the treasury George M. Humphrey promised anew today that Americans will receive an income tax cut due by law next Jan. 1. In a speech before the 79th annual convention of the American Bankers Association. Humphrey also pledged again that the excess profits tax on corporations -will be allowed to lapse at the same time. His address left unanswered the administration’s future plans for raising new revenue. He merely said "many further adjustments in taxes are now under consideration by the house ways and means committee and the treasury for submission to the. next congress.” . i Humphrey spoke after secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson urged the bankers to extend help to»farmer clients who face “adjustments" because -of deci i: inincome. He asked the bankers to "stay with” Uhe termors.

President Eisenhower .spoke informally to 5.000 ABA delegates and their wives in Constitution Hall. He welcomed the bankers to Washington for their first convention here since 1934 and thanked them for their “help and patriotic interest” in national problems, particularly sale of defense bonds. Os his administration, Mr. Eisenhower said it is not one “that thinks it knows all the,answers.” He said its leaders will not “sit in an. ivory tower of lonely isolation and give words of wisdom and orders which everyone must obey.’ Humphrey echoed President Eisenhower’s Boston speech of Monday night on the fiscal aspects of national defense. Mr. Risenhou’er told his Boston audience “no sacrifice —no labor, no tag, no service” is too heavy to bear in building defense. This led to speculation he might be trying to prepare the Country for a heavy new tax program. Humphrey said today, “as f promised, the excess profits tax will expire Dec. 31, and there will be no request for renewal.” He said the scheduled 10 percent cut in personal income tax due at the same time, “will become effective." \ ' This was substantially the same thing Humphrey said a week ago in a speech here to the National Press Club. Subsequently, Rep. Noah M. Mason, R-111., a member of the tax-writing ways and means committee, said Saturday he heard on “good authority” the administration will propose a 5 per cent national sales tax to help offset loss of revenue from the excess profits tax and from lower income taxes. Knowledge that Russia can produce an H-bomb makes United Stats national security “a matter of first concern,” Humphrey said, but he added this does not mean "that hope of reduction in expenditures and taxes must be aban■ddned .. j quite the contrary.’’ ' «“We cannot move as rapidly as we would like, but our course is plain, our objective is definite and we will achieve it,” he said. “I, am Sure the administration will devise and provide means of accomplishing stronger defense for leas money as time goes on.” Humphrey eaid the administration has “made substantial progress” in its efforts to balance the federal budget. The deficit now is estimated at 33.900,000,000 for the fiscal year which ends next June JHf. “Unless some unexpected event arises which substantially changes the need for money,” he said, "we believe we are finally on our way toward getting the budget under control.”