Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1954 — Page 1

Vol Lil. No. 160.

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- Ask Two-Cent Tax Levy For 4-H Grounds County Extension Committee To Seek County Tax Levy . Members of the county extension committee decided Thursday night to circulate petitions throughtout the county to ask for a levy of two cents per >IOO of taxable pro--I>erty flo finance building and maintenance of the 4-H fair grounds in Monroe. The buildings will be part of the educational program carried out by the 4-H council under the guidance of the extension < umniittee. The committee at the Mme lime, by a vote of ff-C ts keep title to the land in the name of the 4-H council itself. A plan had been introduced to allow the county to own the land, and obtain a 99-year ieaee from the county for the 4-H council. Sylvan Sprunger. chairman of a committee appointed to inveetlgate the different ways of financing the purchase of the land, reported that 95% of the people he had talked to, not only in Adams county, but in other counties which had settled similar problems, had favored ownership by the 4-H council. The land wae purchased last year for 17.000. At the time. $3,000 was paid by the club council. and $4,000 borrowed. The extension committee has considered several methode of paying off the note. Presently under consideration is t plan, supported by both Democratic and Republican candidates tor joint representative, ami by state aehalor Von Eichorn, to transfer money from the abandoned recreation fund in this county, which includes $5.700.. to the 4-H council by legislative act. This could be done at the next session of the state legislature in January, 1955. It was also brought out that the land, if owned by the 4-H. as is the ground in Wells county, could not be taxed. Peter B. Lehman, prominent Adams county dairy farmer, was named chairman of the biiildlng and water main committee. Namedmembers of the committee were Hugo Boerger. Orison 3to)z. Robert Bailey. Everett Rice. Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, Mrs. Robert Stuber, end Mrs. Clarence Mitchel. This committee will arrange for the ihoving of the prefabricated building recently purchased from the Adams Central whool to the fair grounds, the construction of a foundation, and the laying of water pipe to the building. It will be used as a kitchen for the fair. A committee to level and seed the fair grounds this fall will be headed by Roy L. Price. Price will name the members of the committee later. A motion to Include provisions in the budget for an assistant county agent for farm management was defeated, 20-Is. P. K. Connellv. assistant county agent leader for this area, appeared and explained to th< committee that ft deril fund-s were now availably to help finance, a farm manage*ment specialist who would work directly with young farmer* to help theip with financial and business problems 'now faced In bigbusiness farming. The cost would b.ave, been born by the federal government for the rest of this yearr-and would have amounted to about S7OO travel and office expense’next year, and then a year-t’l-ara Ta Fas* Kight)

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■ '7 ■ ' * 14-H DerrjonstratiojiJudging Winners County Contests 11 . Are Held Thursday The winners of the 4-H demonstration and judging contest Thursday at Decatur high school have been announced. The judging contest included five classes. Carol Egley, a member of the Kirkland Kut-'Upa. won first place i in the demonstration event with her dieplay on "Ohl Time Apple Pie.” Second place went to Linda Raudenbush and Deanna Sipe of the Blue Creek Up and At It club with ‘ a demonstration on “Hair Styling.” Joan Kuhn'e demonstration on "Salads” won third place for the Jefferson Work and Win club. Mrs. Luke Tharnan of Paulding. 0.. judged the demonstration and awards The committee in chfJrge of the event included (lloria Koeneman and Mrs. Lester Sipe. First prites in the senior divisions of judging contests went to Ruth Teeter of the Wabash Clover , BloesomK, clothing; Audrey Kuhn, Jefferson Work uiftl Win. baiting; Patsy - Bollenbacher, St. Mary’s Kekiongas. food preparation; Norma Jean Bajjey, St. Mary's Kekiongas, home improvement, and Kathryn Shaffer, Union Pals, food preservation .• rt Other winners in the senior division were: clothing— Sharon Schuller. Preble Peppy Pal, second; Judy Brunstrup, Blue Creek Up and At It, third, and Carol Wall, Jefferson Work and Win, fourth. Baking—Berdella Alt, Hartford Happy Go Lucky, second; Elaine Blakey, Union Pals, third, and Betty Steury, Monroe Boosters, fourth. Food preparation—Ruth Zimmerman. Berne Jolly Workers, second; Ruth Sipe, Blue Creek Up and At It, third; Flossie Schwartz, Monroe Boosters, fourth, ami Dorie Cauble. Kirkland Kut-U>ps, fifth. Home Improvement — (Marilyn Arnold, Kirkland Kut-Ups, second; Eleanor Miller, Decatur Gals, third; Colleen Egley, Jefferson -Work and Whi, fourth, and MaryDick, Kirkland Kut-Ups, fifth. Food preservation— Neva Von Gunten, Wabash Cloverleaf, seco.nd.,. Carol Kaehr, Kirkland Kut-Upa,-third; Sonja Yoder, Monroe Boosters, fourth, and Gretchen Schnepp, Washington Hajipy Hustlers. fifth. Each of the judging contest featured a junior division and the winners in Gita division include: 'Clothing—Doris Bl&hm, Washington Happy Hustlers, ftiat; Anita Hodgins. Geneva Cloverblossoms, second, and Becky Neuenschwander, Wabash Cloverleaf, third. Baking -r Betty Myera, Blue Up and At It, first; Chloe Neuenschwander, Washington Happy Hustlers, second, and Janice Van Emon, Geneva Cloverblossoms, third. Food preparation—Alice Sprunger? Monroe Boosters, first; Ann , <Coatiau»d Os Pare Sis) Social Security Plan Told To Rotarians An interesting’ discussion of the federal governments Social security program was presented at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening. Christian H. Luecke, manager of the Fort Wayne office of eoclal security, led the dtacuMion, aided by Harry E. MUlar, aMistant manager. The meeting concluded with a question and answer period. Leo Kirsch was chairman of the program.

Sejy. Fhsders Urges Positive Far East Policy State Department To Re-Examine U. S. Policy Over U. N. WASHINGTON (INS) — Sep. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Vet.), called today tor a “positive” Far East policy which would offer tp consider admitting Red China to the United Nations when and if Peiping tears down the “bamboo curtain.” The blunt-spoken New Englander, in a prepared senate speech, also urged that America: 1. Launch a campaign to win the Russian people to support nnb versal disarmament. - f. Help establish free education tor the millions of overseas Chinese scattered throughout Asia and now being lured to Red China for Indoctrination. Flanders approved recent declarations in congress against admitting Red China to the UN but said they were “purely negative.” Meanwhile, the state department promised to “reexamine” U. S. policy regarding the UN if Communist China should be admitted. But is was clear that congress would not now support a demand for automatic withdrawal from the UN and was moving steadily toward a moderate "wait-and-see” policy. But the department declared that its policy would not be promoted “by any congressional action which seemed to take it for granted” that the Chinese Red regime would win a seat in the UN. i Senate majority leader William F. Knowland (R-Cal.), who first, raised the withdrawal threat, proposed a watered-down declaration calling for presidential consultation with epngress is case Peiping wins a UN seat The amendment to the mutual security aid bill was tentatively approved by the senate foreign relations committee. The department position was outlined by assistant secretary of state Thurston B. Morton in a letter to chairman Robert B. Chiperfleld (R-lll.), of the house foreign affairs committee. The letter was made public byRep. Alvin M. Bentley (R-Mich.), in testimony prepared for a foreign affairs subcommittee hearing on pls resolution calling for a reexamination of U. S, niembership in the UN if Red China is admitted. Morton's letter said that the U.S. firmly opposes the seating of the Chinese Communists in the UN or its specialized agencies and will continue to do so. . _ Futhermore. Morton said than this American policy has been made clear to other friendly governments “beyond the possibility of any misunderstanding.” Morton added: “If representatives of the Chinese Communist regime should be seated in the United Nations or any of the specialized agencies, it Is axiomatic that we would re-exam-ine our policy regarding the organization concerned, In the light of the circumstances then existing. “However, we would not think that the policy We have In mind' would bo promoted by any congressional action which teemed to take It for granted that the Chinese Communist regime woud In fact be seated.”

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Board Seeking To Hall Atom Plant Strike Stress Emergency 1 In Working Toward Court Injunction WASHINGTON (IN8) — three - man fact-finding board 1 stress stressed the "extreme emergency” of a strike in two government atomic plants today by rushing headlong toward a court injunction against the 4,600 strikers. The walkout of the CTO Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers Union moved into its third day this morning iii the atomic energy commission plants at Oak Ridge. Tenn, and Paducah, Ky. ' The special board began meeting in continuous session Thursday even before It was officially named by President Eisenhower. Tbe three officials were briefed on the labor dispute by represent tatives of the AEC and labor heari management and labor sides of the argument. The board study, being made under jprovisjohs of the Taft-Hartleg law-, U the first step toward of? tainlng an Injunction against the walkout. 7 r Unless the return to work, the President is expected to appeal to the courts for a back-to-work order as soon as he receives the fact-fiuders’ report. The three members of the board are chairman T. Keith Glennan of Cleveland, president of the Case Institute of Technology, John Floberg. a Washington, D. C, attorney and former assistant secretary of the navy; and Paul Sanders of Nashville, Tenn., a Vanderbilt university law professor. The President decided on Wednesday to call the men together to study the issues in the strike and labor secretary James P. Mitchell worked late locating them, summoning Glennan from a Florida vacation to head the survey. r Glennan described the situation in the atomic plants as one of "extreme urgency” and said the group will try to complete its hearings of interested parties today and give the President a report Saturday.

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<A civil defense program which would entail far more than lust a "sky-watch” was described to a Large group of Adams county leaders by Marvin H. 'Miller of Indianapolis Thursday night. About 75 men and women attended the meeting at the American Legion home. (Mayor John Doan, who is in charge of setting up a civil defense program, described it as the largest and most enthusiastic response he has seen since he began work on the program three years ago. ‘Miller, field director of the Indiana department of civil defense, warned that the country th in a serious predicament unlike any It has ever experienced. Ho further pointed out that Indiana is in the industrial heartland and especially . open to possible enemy attack. Referring to such an attack or to any kind of major disaster Miller said, “If we wait till it happens, it will be too late." ‘‘We are a long, long way from being prepared,” he added, stating that ‘‘we will not be prepared until every community has an active civil defense program." Indiana, the speaker continued, has five of the 50 triajor target areas Ln the United States. One of these is Fort Wayne and Adams county, as a border county, would be required to aid the stricken

lie Defector Test Refused By Sheppard Refuses To Submit To Test In Murder CLEVELAND (INS) t~ Deputy Sheriff Carl Rossbach said today ‘that Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard has refused to submit to a lie detector teat.in .connection with the fatal .ViudgeouUg of his 31-year-old wits, Marllyg. , The suburban Bay Village doctor told police that be understands the operation of' the instrument and "In my emotional state, it wduld show' some disturbance.” He told Rossbach that he might agree to the test “later on.” ; Meanwhile, personal letters written to the dead woman by friends and relatives ih 1950, including advice to preserve “the family unit,”' were being examined, by authorities as they pressed the investigation into the mystery ♦ shrouded murder early. Sunday morning. The letters were written to Mrs. Sheppard while She and her prominent husband were living in Los Angeles. But members of the family insisted that the couple had no complex marital problems and that they were “deeply in love/’ One letter-from a close relative reportedly said: "This isn’t just something that affects you and Sam. because you both have a, responsibility in Chip (the Sharp-’ pard's six-year-old son). After all, when we have children, the family unit must be preserved.” Rossbach said the doctor told him that he had some marital troubles in 1950 because, according to the doctor, his wife had not become adjusted to the life and hours of a doctor. Dr. ’ Sheppard said, however, that the difficulties, were patched up shortly. Disclosure of the letters in Dr. Sheppard's fashionable home, Which borders Lake Erie, was made as Dr. Sheppard returned to his home to relenact for police his recollection of the sadistic crime five days ago. The prominent neurosurgeon — released Thursday from Bay View hospital where he was being treated for injuries suffered at the hands of assailants he said bludgeoned his wife on the Fourth of July — also is slated for further questioning. Divers are scouring the lake area behind the Sheppard home in an effort to find the murder weapon and a T-shirt Dr. Sheppard repor(Caatinued Ob Paae Five)

area. •’lf 2,000 people were evacuated from Fort Wayne to Adams county tomorrow, what would you do with them?” Miller asked. He eaid “we would be asked to feed, shelter and give medical care to these people and unless we were ready for them we could not do It. “If it (ah* attack) breaks there will l>e two kinds of tpebple,” the speaker noted, "those who need help and those who can help." Miller also commented on this fact that. In the event of war, the people could not count on federal disaster help. “We'll have to take care of ourselves," he said. To adequately take care of any situation, civil defense experts I estimate that at least one-third of I the population must be participatJing actively in civil defense. Indiana still has nine counties without any C. D. program and many others with insufficient programs. The program explained at last night's meeting would set up an organization headed by a county civil defense director. Under him would 'l>e an advisory council made up of representatives of top organlzatlons, labor and industry. Also at the top of the organization would be a deputy director, an executive Officer, an administrative officer to handle personnel details is (Tin Ta race Six)

Reject Soviet Effort To Get Nuclear Data . .... Russian Demand To Halt Bomb Tests Flatly Rejected UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (1N8) —The United States served notice on Russia in UN today that only such information compatible with security restrictions will be made public on recent hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific. Mason Sears, U. S. representative ip the trusteeship council, firmly turned aside Soviet efforts to “fish” for secret data on the nuclear explosions. Sears, addressing himself primarily to Russia’s Valentin I. Oberemko, made two key points: 1. He said while any declassified information on the Pacific tests will be placed at the disposal . of the trusteeship council, the U.S. reserves the right to keep secret any information which American authorities consider essential to security in atomic weapons ex2. He rejected Russia's formal demand for halting hydrogen and atomic testa In the Pacific and said some of the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands may have to be displaced temporarily in the future for safety reasons during new tests. Oberemko sharply cross - examined Dwight Heine, .acting as spokesman for the Marshall Islanders, tn* an effort to support Soviet charges of U.S. disregard tar the welfare of the Marshall ’ Islanders. Britain. France and Belgium introduced a resolution endorsing the necessity of continuing the nuclear experiments. Russia already has presented a motion demanding that the tests be stopped. India is working on a similar resolution based on complaints by Marshall islanders that numerous inhabitants of those Pacific atolls were injured by the explosion of March 1 and that Japanese fishermen also suffered from that test. Frank E. Midkiff. U. S. commissioner for Pacific trust territories, ie prepared to tell the Russian and Indian delegates that the U. S. will conduct nuclear tests so long as considered necessary. The trusteeship council’s committee has before it a Marshall islands petition requesting an end to the teste in the Pacific on the ground that they are likely to be injurious to lives and property. The U. S. has assured the Marshall islanders that every possible precaution will be taken in future experiments to avoid injuries to inhabitants or to property. Harvester Workers Reject Short Week Prefer Layoffs To Four-Day Week Plan INDIANAPOLIS (INS)-rintema-tional Harvester Company's proposal that eotne plants go on a four-day week in lieu of layoffs w«g rejected tojay by United Auto WoHceta tlO, members. ’Union officials representing workers in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, (Evansville. Springfield, 0., and East Springfield plants rejected the proposal as did the Independent Farm Equipment Workers, which represents many Harvester workers, including those In the Richmond, Ind., plant. 1 'Publicity director Don Ballard said the union rejected the company's proposal because "ita acceptance would have Jeopardized pension benefits of employes nearing 66." He added that the union preferred the lay off plan to the fourday week- v

Governor Lops Off Another State Head Civil Defense Head Will Be Replaced t INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — GOV. George N. Craig lopped off another state department head today but failed to clarify immediately the contusion resulting from two other high governmental changes. The governor handed out a statement saying Fred T. Cretors was being replaced as director of the Indiana department of civil defense by Col. Edward Strobein, deputy chief of staff for operation of the fifth army. The replacement is effective Aug. 1 Col. Strobein’s scheduled retirement from the army July 15. According to the statement, Cretors is to return to the state police department,( from which he was on leave of absence. The governor did not talk directly to newsmen who haunted his outer, office, but sent word through aides that he had nothing to say at present about the offices of state labor commissioner or superintend l ent of the penal farm. As far as Gov. Craig's office 1 knew this morning, Indiana is without a state labor commissioner and has only one superintendent at the 1 Indiana State farm. 1 But those two statements by Gov. 1 Craig's execunVe secretary Horace * Coats did little to clear up the ' confusion that clogged the state--1 house corridors pending a promised statement from the chief executive. The announcement that David Hunter, former United Mine Work- ' ers official, has “resigned’' from his $9,000 a year job came late Thursday from Doxie Moore, Gov. Craig's administrative assistant. A call to Hunter at his home in Clinton brought the reply that “Mr. Hunter is away for the week ■ end.” — W. O. Beard, assistant labor commissioner, declined to say whether he was serving as acting commissioner, and added: “Any announcement will have to come from the governor.” Which put newsmen right back where they had been before—waiting for Gov. Craig to appear and fulfill his promise “to handle this Friday.” - The promise “to handle this” had been given by the governor in answer to queries about the su (Tara Ta Pare Bia) Favor Pay Increase To Postal Workers Compromise Five Percent Increase WASHINGTON (INS) — The house post office committee unanimously approved today a compromise five percent pay raise for 500,000 postal employes. * The committee thus endorsed a plan previously agreed to by house Republican leaders which reportedly calls for action at this session of congress on legislation boosting postal rates. The group, however, wrote into the pay raise bill a feature which will make it easier for congress to kill postmaster general Arthur E. Summerfield’s proposal to reclassify postal jobs. Some doubts were raised as to whether this upset the agreement with GOB lead The bill calls for a five percent pay raise for all postal employes except fourth-class postmasters and hourly-rated workers. It provides trtat the minimum pay boost shall be S2OO per year. An extra reward for long service is Included in thd bill. Instead of three longevity grades. as now, there would be four, so that employes with 21 years or more of service would get an extra SIOO per year. ' :X- ; - C* — INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and tab urday. A little warmer Saturday. Low tonight 58-64. High Saturday 80-90. ’

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Farm Measure Faces Bitter Senate fight House Committee Approves Federal Reinsurance Plan WASHINGTON senate agriculture committee completed action today on a general farm bill which faces a bitter fight from administration supporters on the senate floor. Agriculture chairman George Aiken (R-Vt.) announced that the „ committee voted 11 to 2 to report the legislation to the senate. He said two dissenting votes were cast by Sen. John Williams (RDel.,) and Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.) a former secretary ' of agriculture. .. Aiken told newsmen he hopes to 1 file the committee’s report with ■ the senate Monday with the ex- ■ pec tat ion that debate can open on L the controversial measure on Thursday. ! The chairman, who will lead the • fight for President Eisenhower’s 1 price support program.predlcted * that the senate will reverse the committee's 8-7 decision to contin- ■ ue 90 percent price supports . for » one year on wheat, corn, cotton. ? rice and peanuts. Administration leadens have heil--1 ed as a victory and havje accepted . a house-passed flexible price plan I varying supports between 82 and ■ one-half and 90 percent of parity, i Aiken said he may offer an i amendment to vary the supports , between 80 and 90 percent but that h* will fight to kill his commit- . tee’s recommendation to fix dairy price supports at 85 percent of parity in contrast to the 75 percent now in effect. — " Parity is the figure at which a farmer would receive a fair return on his product in relation to the things he buys. Just before final action was taken on the bill, Aiken said the committee voted to provide limited relief to wheat farmers hard-hit by the government's decision to slash wheat planting on the 1955 crop to 55 milliop acres. J,, Under the plan, farmers who planted fewer than 640 acres and followed conservation measures in the last two years by curbing their output will be elegible to share in the allocation of 700,000 to 800,000 additional acres over the 55 million figure. Reinsurance Plan WASHINGTON (INS) —The house commerce committee today approved President Eisenhower’s proposal for a federal reinsurance program to encourage broader health insurance coverage for American families. The committee approved a bill by its chairman, Rep. Charles A. Wolverton (R-N. J.) to establish a limited federal reinsurance service with a self-sustaining fund derived from reinsurance premiums paid by sponsors of health service prepayment plans. The measure authorizes an appropriation of 25 million dollars to provide working capital for the reinsurance fund. Ini addition, the Mil provides for the government to absorb 76 percent of the losses incurred by insurance companies resulting from (OattawS Oa Page Kight) Harry Truman Taken Home From Hospital INDEPENDENCE, Mo., (INS)— Former President Harry S. Truman returned home today from a Kansas City hospital where he underwent an appendicitis and gall bladder operation three weeks ago. Truman slipped quietly out of Research hospital this morning and was driven to his home where a room has been air-conditioned for his comfort, . . « Mrs. Truman confirmed by telephone that he was home and commented: "He is feeling fine and la sitting on the porch now. However, he’s going right to bed."