Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 100, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 100.

The “Complete Picture” 1 J I P 5 - m-" 1 ‘ f ROY COHN, chief counsel for Sen. McCarthy, grins wryly as army counsel Joseph N. Welch exhibits a picture that threw the fourth day’s hearings before the senate investigating sub-committee into a turmoil. The picture is a complete reproduction of a “cropped” version with which" strniy’ secretary Stevens was confronted on Monday which purported to be of the secretary and Pvt. G. David Schine alone. Special counsel Ray Jenkins had himself sworn in and stated he had accepted the first photograph on its face value.

Bond Issue Is Suggested To Finance Plant Million Dollar Bond Issue Is Suggested For Sewage Plant A million dollar bond issue, payable over a period of 40 years by city water patrons on the basis of amount of water used monthly, was suggested by John Ward, of Consoer-Townsend and Associates consulting engineers for the proposed sewage disposal plant in Decatur. The proposal was given to to an informal meeting of the and city officials held at city hall Tuesday night. Ward -was ftlvtted to come and give a detailed explanation of recent plans, specifications and blue prints submitted by the Chicago engineering firm to the city. The original estimate was sl, 100,000 to construct the sewage disposal plant here, which has been ordered to be constructed by the state board of health. Several months ago the council also entered into an agreement with the state health officials that if a permit was issued for construction of the Porter-Homewood sewer in Decatur, the next construction locally would be the proposed disposal plant. Ward said that he believed the original estimate could be cut down about "1100,000. He made several suggestions, which will Tie studied by local officials and council members. His plan is based °on present water consumption. The suggestion is to issue $1,000,000 in revenue bonds, to be retired over a period of 40 years. Present income from the water department is SBI,OOO. He said that interest on the bond issue would amount to between $50,000 and $60,000 annually and to that must be added $15,000 to $20,000 annual operating cost. This would utilize the total estimated annual income, based on present consumption To retire the bonds, Warn suggested doubling the present income, by doubling each consumers water bill monthly. This plan is legal according to local officials, because it is not a rate increase and public service commission approval is not reqUired. lt is merely placing a use of sewer charge on each patron; based on the amount of water used each month. A further suggestion was that the city advertise the invitation to bid in such a manner that local officials would be permitted a 90day period after receiving the bids to provide financing approval of bonding attorneys. If approval is not obtained, all bids would be rejected. This plan has been used in several instances in Indiana recently and would give the city an opportunity not only to get approval of the sale of bonds but also allow time to arrange sale of the bonds. There is still some opposition among councilmen on the entire proposal, but they agreed to give it further study. No official action was taken but it is likely the matter will be brought up for formal discussion at either the May 4 or May 18 regular council meeting. The plan as submitted calls for interceptor sewers to gather up all sewage and guide it through a disposal plant, also to be constructed. The plant would be located be(Twrn Te Page Eight)

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Phillips Speaks At Meetings Here Indiana High School Athletic Head Here L. V. Phillips, head-man of all Indiana high school athletics and especially boss at the annual state high sdhool basketball tourney, second to none in the United States, made an official visit to Decatur Tuesday. The day’s events started at noon yesterday when the commissioner attended a luncheon at the Fairway restaurant hosted by Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur high school principal and attended by school superintendent W. Guy Brown; Decatur Catholic high school head coach, Dave Terveer; Decatur Catholic high school athletic director Rev. Robert Contant and Decatur jiigh school head coach Robert Worthman, Dick Heller, representative' of the Dally Democrat, also was a guest. At 1:30 o’clock, commissioner Phillips gave an address to a joint convocation of Decatur and Decatur Catholic high school students. Phillips related many interesting incidents to the assembled students. He concluded his visit by addressing a. joints meeting of the Lions and Rotary clubs. One of his statements concerned the estimated number of people who attended the stale basketball tourney; saw' it on television and heard it on radio. He said that the Indiana Bell Telephone company had made a complete survey throughout the state and had estimated that at a very minimum, 4,000,000 persons saw- the final game by television. He continued that he was of the opinion that radio and television were making thousands of new basketball fans in Indiana every week and this fact is not hurting attendance at the games. The Commissioner also visited the Daily Democrat office Tuesday afternoon. He refused to commit himself when questioned concerning the probability of moving the Decatur sectional basketball tourney from this city to the new Adams Central gymnasium at Monrob in 1955. He did say, however, that he had stopped off at Monroe and was "very much impressed” with the Adams Central gymnasium. Phillips also related numerous problems constantly confronting his office such as complimentary tickets for the basketball tourney, civic organizations wanting to give basketball teams prizes and gifts and many complaints concerning officiating following close games. Those who had the privilege Os meeting and talking to the commissioner were high in their praise of his explanation of the conduct of his office. He has served as head man for nine years, since the death of the late Arthur Trester, first Indiana commissioner. The Indiana association has been in existence 50 years. Plan Signing Os Building Contract A special meeting of the directors of Decatur Memorial Foundation, Inc., has been called for Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Citizens Telephone Co., office, for the purpose of completing formal contracts- for the Community Center building. Contracts with Yost Construction Co., for construction of the building will be signed. The general contract awarded to the Decatur firm is for $190,400 and work on the site will probably begin next week, members of the board stated.

Stevens Tells Os Privileges Granted Schine Secretary Os Army Continues Testimony At Public Hearings WASHINGTON, (UP) — Army secretary Robert T- Stevens said today he was told that Pvt. G. David Schine paid fellow soldiers to clean his rifle, did not wear his uniform all the time, and escaped kitchen police duties while serving as a draftee at Fort Dix, N. J, Stevens also testified that he received reports that Schine had an unusual number of leaves for a draftee. Asked- ibotit' report that Schine told his company commander that he had been sent to Fort Dix to “modernize and streamline” it, Stevens said he had heard something like that but not in detail. Stevens gave the testimony under questioning by counsel Ray H. Jenkins at the senate investigating subcommittee's televised public hearings on the army-McCarthy controversy over Schine’s military career which began Nov. 3. Army officials have charged that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) and his, aides brought heavy pressure on the army to get special favorS**Tor Schine, a former McCarthy aide. McCarthy has counter - charged that the army tried to use Schine as a “hostage” to halt his investigation of alleged Reds at Fort Monmouth, N. J. McCarthy, broke into Jenkins’ questioning about Schine’s conduct at FL Dix to protest that it was “highly improper . . . completely unfair" to let Schiue b«’‘smeared without a chance to answer.” He demanded that Schine be brought to the hearing as a party to the dispute. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (DWash.) reminded McCarthy that McCarthy himself in the past has made charges against men who were not present. Other highlights of today’s session of the televised hearings: 1. McCarthy told Stevens bluntly that “some one has been or will be' guiltl" of perjury” in the hearings because so much of the testimony is directly contradictory. ‘lt’s not up to me to say who,” McCarthy added. 2. McCarthy sought, through repeated questions, to get Stevens to acknowledge that he wanted McCarthy to suspend his investigation of alleged Communists at Ft. Monmouth last fall. Stevens said igain and again that he did not want the investigation stopped, hat he objected only to -the kind >f hearings McCarthy was conducing and wanted the army to do the nvestigating. 3. Stevens testified that Roy MCohn. McCarthy’s chief counsel, wanted Schine “detailed to New lock without any training” immediately after he was drafted last Nov. 3. ’ But Stevene said, “of course, I turned that down.” 4. Stevens flatly denied, for the mcond time under oath, charges >y McCarthy and Cohn that he ried to get them to lay off the irmy and go after subversives in the air force and navy. Steveils said the charge was "unequivocal!y untrue." Special counsel Jenkins asked Stevens whether the alleged special treatment and privileges for Schine were designed to “appease” McCarthy in an attempt to dissuade his committee’s investiga(Continued on Pace Eight)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, April 28, 1954.

Chinese Reds Demand Western Powers Pull All Forces From Asia

House Group Plans Vole On Seaway Bill Will Vote Thursday On Charing Bill For Floor Action By UNITED PRESS The house rules committee today decided to vote Thursday whether to clear for floor action the long-stalled St. Lawrence seaway project linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic. Chairman Leo R. alien (R-Ill.) predicted the bill would be approved. The measure picked up support from thairman Dewey; Short (R-Mo.) of the armed serv-2 ices committee who had opposed it in the past. The joint U.S. —Canadian project has been approved by the President Eisenhower requested it both for national security and economic reasons. Short said he now is the project is necessary for na- 1 tional defense. He said ,it is jusjified "from a political and econofhic as well as military point Os view,” but it is solely on the ground* of national defense that he supports it. Other developments: Housing: Walter L. Greene, who was ousted as deputy commissioner of the federal housing administration in the housing scandals, said the rental apartment program was drawn up during World War Il when housing was scarce. He said there bad to be some “inducements” for the builders to put up apartments. It is charged that builders got so-called “windfall” profits by building the apartments for less than the government-back-ed loans they received. ♦ Draftees: Two-time draftees got happy news from chairman Short of the house armed services committee. He said the defense department had informed him that some 2,000 Gls serving second draft hitches will be discharged ahead of schedule. That may mean immediate discharge for some. Defense: Rep. Richard B. Wigglesworth (R-Mass.) said.it would be unwise to tie President Eisenhower’s hands on sending American troops to Indochina. He opposed a proposal to write such a limitation into the $28,680,706,500 defense appropriations bill being considered by the house. Rep. (Tern To Pace Six)

——— Series Os Articles On Decatur School Survey

(Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles on •the full report of the survey conducted by Indiana Universt tidying the public school enrollment, building and financial needs of Decatur.) . The Decatur community shares the nationwide need for additional education facilities brought on by the increased Birthrate and aggravated by the replacement of obsolescent buildings, increasing demand for the tax dollar and a shortage of trained teachers. Faced with these problems a survey team from Indiana university was invited to study the situation in Decatur. This team, headed by Dr. Harold H. Church, director of the division of research and field services, Includes Dr. W. Monfort Barn, Dr. W. JEberle, Dr. William Fox and William W. Chase. The accuracy of the survey was made possible with the help of the School board of trustees and the Lincoln school parent-teacher association. Decatur high school students assisted with the tabulation of survey findings. As pointed out in the survey, the Decatur system is one of the largest and most influential corporations of the city. Money expended for the schools at the expense of

Avalanche Threat For Panama Canal Danger Stems From Deep Crack In Hill BALBOA, Canal Zone UP — Men and machines worked feverishly today in steaming jungle (against an ever-increasing threat o< an avalanche that could block the vital Panama Canal. The danger stemmed from a 600Xoot deep crack in Contractor’s Hin Werlooking the canal In the famed Gaillard Cut Officials said the hill could slide into the waterway at any time and that the start of the rainy season intensified the danger. Maintenance crews, working around the clock, were cutting off the top of the hill on the landslide in an attempt to “relieve the pressure.” Canal engineers apparently hoped that by doing so, the slide, if it comes, would fall harmlessly into the jungle. , The crack was first spotted several years ago, but was so narrow it was possible to step across it. Recently however, it began widening at an alarming rate. Canal Zone authorites summoned a top U. S. army geologist from the United States last week and he was reported to have expressed grave concern. Canal Gov. Maj. Gen. John S. Seybold held an almost day-long meeting with canal engineers Tuesday’. Officials who attended said they were "instructed to Say nothing.” The hill, approximately two miles north of the Pedro Miguel Locks on the canal’s west bank, was once a continuation of Gold Hill. Gold Hill, 662 feet high and the tallest point along the canal route, was the scene of slides which resulted in closing the canal .for six months in 1917* Contractor’s Hill is 418 feet above the water line at its highest point. A recent sounding placed the depth of the crack at 600 feet. The nine-mile long Gaillard (Culebra) Cut across the isthmus linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans must be constantly dredged to maintain a clear channel. Harry Malone Dies At Hospital Tuesday Harry Malone, 70, former resident of Monroe township, died at 9:45 o’clock Tuesday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been a resident of the county home for the past year. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the IReV. Ord Gehman officiating.

the public must be properly located. This was the main purpose of the survey. , Steady Growth —The first chapter of the lengthy survey report deals with the history, geography and economic and social activities of Decatur which determine the educational needs. Building requirements are, of course, based on these needs. Decatur has experienced a moderate but steady population growth during the first half of the 20th century. The 1950 population Jof 7,271 was 24 percent greater than the 1940 population and 63 percent greater than the 1910 population. The estimated 195? population was 7,598. This indicates that the rate of increase during the current period is approximately one-half that of the 1940-1950 decade. The rate of increase could be modified by future developments in the city. Population Stable The stability of Decautr’s population is indicated by the fact that unusually large proportions of the members of families with school or preschool children have lived in Decatur two years or more, and by the fact that the residential construction in Decatur during and since 1945 has been rather evenly spread over the whole nine year period. Another indication of sta- ( Con tinned on Page Eight)

French Forces Take Post In Rear Os Reds i French Re-Occupy Position In Rear Os Communist * HANOI, Indochina (ftp) —«he • French high command saidtodhy a 3,00<>-man French striking force ’ has seized and re-occupied Muong ’ Khouam in the rear of the Viet ! Minh besieging Dien Bien Phu. ; The action, today's French communique said, centered about 35 ! miles southwest of the Red-sur-rounded fortress. The French force, under com- ' nrand of Col. Jean Marie Charles De Crevecoeur, has been operating in the rear of the Communists ever since they pulled back from the region around Luang Prabang, royal capital of Laos. French authorities cautioned against describing the French Union force at Muong Khouam a relief column for Dien Bien Phu. A small measure of relief was supplied the bone-weary defenders today by death-defying paratroop reinforcements who Jumped into the tiny, flaming fortress guided by the lights of exploding Commute artillery* shells. The volunteer paratroopers jumped into the tiny drop zone 1 during the night, the French high command announced. They were the latest in the group of French Union troops who have volunteered to join heroic defenders of the garrison, even i fhough most of them have, had no I parachute traiinng. Transport planes took off from : Red River Delta bases to dump : tons of urgently needed supplies I to Brig. Gen. Christian De Castries’ . outnumbered men. I The official report said only a i ‘negligible” quantity of the para- : chuted supplies fell into enemy | hands. Communist artillerymen kept up their incessant shelling of the fortress throughout the night and early today. Rebel troops crawled through (Turn To raxe Elxht) ■ Resurface Paris Os Streets Here Black-top Covering On Decatur Streets First street, from Monroe street south to Adams street, and Third street from Jackson north to Park street, near the steam power plant, will receive a covering of blacktop, starting this week, it was learned today. The resurfacing work will he done by Meshberger Brothers under supervision of the street committee of the council and city officials. ' . . Patching work of other city streets already has started with regular street employes doing the work. This work will continue until the Job th completed. As soon as the weather becomes mote settled; several streets will receive a coat of seal, officials said. Cost of material for the First and Third street Jobs will come from the money returned to the city by the state from gasoline tax. Expenditure on the two streets will amount to about 316,000 for material. After all of the streets have been completed and repaired, it is believed there will be some funds available for alley improvements. This work will be done later and will be limited to available funds, it was learned. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, continued cool tonight. Partly cloudy and warm Thursday. Thundershowers at night. Low tonight 40-50, high Thursday tn the 70s.

No 111 Effects From Anti-Polio Vaccine Vast Experiment Is Underway In Nation By UNITED PRIES S Not a single child has suffered ill effects from the new anti-polio inoculations although a few have been upset emotionally by the needle’s sting, repdrts showed today. s Doctors administering the shots ' to school kids in a nationwide ex. ! periment to determine the vact cine’s effectiveness against infantile paralysis said none of the 1 children suffering welts, fever, or any other immediate disorder from ’ the vaccine itself. 1 At Detroit, doctors said a few youngsters became sick from “emotional reaction” resulting ( from nervousness over the needle’s . prick. Children who objected too strenuously weren’t given shots. , (Most of the Detroit kids bragged, . however, that "it didn’t hurt a bit.” I In fact, doctors in almost every community where tests are being conducted praised the courage of the children as they lined up to receive the inoculations. "I anticipated lines of crying, 1 frightened children,” said Dr. 1 Thomas J. Martin at Public School 31 in Buffalo, N. Y„ "There wasn’t a tear all morning.” Dr. Daniel J. tuSSSr: "IhMK state health officer, said he saw only one child cry at four schools where 400-500 children received , shots. He said any reaction, such , as that caused by an allergy to . the vaccine, would have shown up t immediately after the children > were inoculated. Dr. Garth O.' Myers of the Utah t Health Department said children > who have shown sensitivity to penii cillin or streptomycin were exclud- ’ ed from the tests. In New York City, where more 1 than 14,000 youngsters have been • inoculated, a few were excused r from taking the shots because they were frigtened. Some‘school teach- ’ ers handed out lollypops and jelly ’ beans to ease their charges through the ordeal. New York mothers reacted fa1 vorably to the test. “I gave my permission, didn’t I?" one said. At Memphis, school superintendent Ernest Ball turned down a bottling company’s offer to provide free eoda pop for school children (Turn Tn Pace Eight) Phone Directory Is Being Distributed Citizens Telephone Publishes Directory An innovation in the new directory issued today by Citizens Telephone Co., is the listing of dial numbers for the Decatur fire and police departments at the bottom of each page in the Decatur division of the 100-page directory. Similar listings for Berne are given in the section for that city.’ Instructions on other emergency cal is are printed on pages four, 32 and 44. The directory is being distributed to telephone patrons in Decatur, Berne, Bryant, Linn Grove, Monroe and Pleasant Mills. There are approximately 5800, telephones in these exchanges, extensions within Offices accounting for several hundred receivers, Charles D. Ehinger, president of the company, stated. Yellow pages of the classified directory number 52. In the Decatur section the listings start with AAA and end with Zwlck - Wemhoff. Monroe and’ Pleasant Mills exchanges are included in the Decatur section. The Berne section contains the Linn Grove exchange and the Bryant exchange has its oWn division. Publication date for the directory will be May of each year, Ehinger announced. The last directory was issued in March, 1953.

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Dulles Rejects Red Plan For. Korean Peace Red China Demands ’ Nations Pull Out % In Geneva Speech f * GENEVA UP — Red China’s fore! mngsiterni W ; foreign minister Chou En-Lai today demanded in the Geneva Far Eastern conference that the west- , ern powers get out of Asia. < Chou demanded abolition of all foreign military bases in Asia, withdrawal of all foreign troops from Asia and a halt to the remilitarization of Japan. The Red Chinese premier and foreign minister addressed the conference which a short time earlier had heard U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles bluntly reject a Communist plan for a Korean peace settlement. Dulles charged that the Communist proposal would “destroy the existing government of Korea and replace it by a Communist puppet regime.” Dulles had given an advance answer to Chou’s demand for western withdrawal from all Asia by ; sharply rejecting the Red proposal for witljArawal of foreign troops from Kdrea as part es the “Korean settlement.” “The U. 8. does not desire Its troops to remain indefinitely in Korea,’’ Dulles said, “but we femember that once before we had our troops in Korea and withdrew them, as it turned out prematurely. We do not want that history to repeat Itself.” His reference was to the withdrawal of U. 8. forces from Korea which was accepted by the Communists of North Korea as an Inr vitation to attack. , In addition to demanding that the West get out of Asia, Chou called for the creation of an Asi- . atic mutual security pact restricted to Asiatics. Chou’s sweeping statement also extended to demands t|ie west give . up plans to rearm West Germany and for the creation of a Sovietproposed European security scheme. The Communist foreign minister spoke near the end of a day crowded with these developments: 1. An offer by Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov of a conference in Geneva between Red and pro-French Indochinese leaders to arrange the evacuation of 1,000 French wounded from the surrounded and battered French fortress of Dien Bien Phu. 2. Rejection by Russia of a French proposal for an immediate conference discussion of the explosive Indochinese problem because France sought to exclude rebel_ Communist leader Ho ChiMinh. 3. Western reiteration of their demand that any Indochina ceasefire agreement include adequate political safeguards against a Communist maneuver to seize all Indochina. Dulles’ rejection of the Communist proposal for Korea was the first positive action actually to be taken inside the former Palace of Nations where the conference is being held. What action there has (Turn To Paste Six) Mrs. Margaret* Evans Dies Tuesday Evening Mrs. Margaret Evans, 84, of Burr Oak, Mich., a former resident of Decatur, died at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Sturgis, Mich. Her husband, J. C. Evans, died several years ago. The family left Decatur 40 years ago. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Esther Logan of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Gertrude Burkee of Sturgis, Mich., Mrs. Dorothy Wright of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Mrs. Betty Day of Burr Oak, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Etta Mallonee of Decatur. One son is deceased. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. ,