Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1955 — Page 8

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Alleged Killer Os Policeman Nabbed Ex-Convict Held In Kentucky Death FRANKFORT. Ky, HNS) —A Norwood. p„ «x*convitt forces pda■ible charges of murder, kidnaping, arm rd robbery and auto theft today in the fatal shoo.lng Os a LaGrange. Ky. pbliceman. Herman Howard, 32. was captured Sunday at a after fleeing his farm hideout where he held a farm family prisoner. Police said Howard shot patrolrnan W. B. Porter, 65, in a <IOO grocery store holdup in LaGrange Friday night, then wrecked bis car at a roadblock wt!N making his escape. Howard made his way to a barn a half mile away, where he hid until Sunday. When Mr. and Mrs. Milo Baxter came home he surprised them in their living room, tied up, Baxter aud held Mrs. Baxter and a baby hostage. He forced her to cook his dinner and even complained about the coffee. Sunday night, police said, he took the Baxter car and fled, forgetting to tie up Mrs. Baxter. She freed her husband and called state police, who immediately threw up

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1 roadblocks. Howard was caught at one of i the roadblocks -at the outskirts of ■ Frankfort. He tossed his pistol out the window’ before getting out, and made no attempt to use a shotgun in the back seat. Indicates Stand On Guaranteed Wages Stand Is Indicated By General Motors DETROIT HNS) — General Motors Corp, today indicated the stand it will take on the guaranteed annual wage issue when contract negotiations with the VAWCIO get underway a little over a iiyrnth from now. In a statement preliminary to to the corporation's annual report, president Harlow and board chairman Alfred P. Sloan, declared: _ “Public discussions of various types of so-called wage guarantee 'Plans have tended to obscure progress already made in’stabilixing employment and also have tended to divert attention from the fact there are already in 'existence employer • ' financed unemployment ( compensation systems regulated by state governments." I They went on to point out that through 1954 payments by American employers to state unemployment compensation funds amounted to nearly 32V billion and that GM alone had contributed >263,000.000 to those funds. Discussing efforts to stabilize employment, they said: “While automobile customers, exercising theif free choice, traditionally buy a large percentage of the years’ production in the spring and early summer months, GM has been able to minimize the impact of this seasonal customer preference upon employment stability by operating on an. overtime basis during these periods of peak customer demands.’’ The report shows that an average of 576.667 men and women were working for GM throughout the world last year and were paid a total of 32,610,00.000. Average weekly earnings of hourly-rated employes last year was 391.44. Trade in a Good Tow — Decatur

Quarrel Continues Over Water Control Newsman Critical Os Army Engineers WASHINGTON HNS) —The battle of the big dam versus the theory that water must be controlled where it falls on the land goes on and on and the ebd is not in sight. 7 One of the latest contributions to the squabble is a book entitled "Big Dam Foolishness.” by Elmer Peterson, an Oklahoma City newsman and a contributor to leading magazines. Peterson is particularly critical lof the army engineers corps, the agency responsible for many attempts to control flooding with big down-stream dams. The author claims that the most fertile farm valleys in the country are doomed if this policy continues. He says that several million acres will be ruined through inundation, siltation. and the like caused by what he considers a wholly unsound approach. Peterson indicates that he’s entirely sol.d on the Eisenhower administration's small watershed development program which is only now getting under way. ' Under this program, approved by congress last year, local grpups have the chief responsibility for setting up their own water controls programs. If their program is sound in the judgment of federal*experts, they can qualify for technical assistance and limited financial a I d supplied by "Washington* to develop watersheds. Started originally on a so-called pilot basis, the program is winning rather wide public acceptance and a number of projects have been approved for federal aid in recent weeks. Ih his books. Peterson says this Is the sort of program the farmer must have to control' floods on tributary streams where, he estimates, >75 to 85 percent of the damage occurs. He adds: “The tragic need, of course, is to stop water where it falls, so it will refrain from ero- ' sion, soak into the ground, pro--1 duce greater crops and raise the I water table, under an equalizing

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JMfcgsl m, Ja* SENATOR 'Margaret Thase Smith la shown about to board a plane in San Francisco for Tokyo. She will go to Formosa to interview Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang. If time permits, she will go to Hong Kong, Manila, Saigon and Bangkok. (International) process spreading over the years which revives old springs which feed clear-water streams. “Such a program is being promoted by the soil conservation service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, but it is openly oppressed by the big-dam promoters, who don’t want any of their lush pork-barrel appropriations diverted to watershed treatment." Veteran Comedian Tom Howard Dead LONG BRANCH, N. J., (INS)— Veteran comedian Tom Howard, whose last success was as quizmaster of the “It Pays to be Ignorant" radio and TV program, died Sunday at the age of 69. The old-time vaudevillian died in Hazard hospital, Long Branch, which he entered last Thursday after suffering a heart attack. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

Dulles Pledges U. S. Aid To Defend Laos Air And Sea Forces To Help Laos If Attacked By Reds SAIOON HNS)'~U. S. Secretary of Stale JiAn Foster Dulles declared today that Free Vietnam will benefit from decisions made a*, the Bangkok conference: The secretary stopped off fti Saigon after visiting Burma, Laos and Cambodia on his way back form the Southeast Asia treaty organisation talks in* Thailand. He said the eight Manila pact nations - the U. S.. Thailand, JakIstan, France. Great Britain. New Zealand. Australia and the Philippines - made “very solid progress at Bangkok in organising for peace, security, and freedom." Earlier, the secretaiy stopped off at Phnompenh to see King Sianouk of Cambodia. He promised ‘neighboring Laos Sunday that the U. S. would help with mobile air and sea might if the Communist launched an attack down through Indo-China. In his talks with Laotian Crown Prince Savang Vatthaua and strongman-premier Katay Saaorith. the secretary stressed that the U. S. is prepared to use great power to deter CortHnunist aggression. He believed that Laotians were afraid to dig out Communist subversives because of possible Red Chinese retaliation. now, the secretary believes, Laotias leaders are satisfied that the U. S. intends to protect them. This American commitment was the main reason that Dulles - who is showing signs of great fatigue - made the trip to Vientiane. He had worked hard during the three-daj’ Manila part conference at Bangkok, and then stopped off for informal talks with Burmese premier U Nu in Rangoon. Seattle • — A new power saw can cut 12-inch branches 15 feet above ground level. Salem — Oregon’s population of deer .elk. antelope and bear is estimated by wildlife authorities at about 654,000. '±_. ■ ■ Helena — Timber resources on the public domain of the U. S. have an estimated current value of more than 3100 million. Honolulu — Scientists have succeeded in increasing the sugar cane yield by “waking up” the plants at night with pow'erftM lights. Light inhibits the tassel development which affects sugar yield.

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Outline Changes In School Bus Safely Changes Outlined For State Police INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana state police today received an explanation of sweeping safety changes in design and operation of 6,000 Indiana public school bus* es. The state officers will begin school bus inspections on March 7. A state law provides that a number of changes in buses must be made by Sept. 1, including improved identification of buses by means of a chrome yellow exterior color, larger explanatory let* tering and a blue light on top. Two ’fed flashing lights at both front and rear, turn signals, forward facing seats, first aid kit, roomier seats and aisles and an emergency door are required. Also stipulated are rear ’'View mirrors on each side and a mirror to enable the driver to see children who step in front of the bus. Graduated tinted windshields and interior book or luggage racks are prohibited. The regulations also specify that 1956 buses with a capacity of 48 or more passengers must be equipped with booster-type brakes and heavy-duty generators. URGES TEENAGERS (Continued from Page One) ever attended a high school dance knows that a great many of the cbiMren who attend them sit on thl Adelines. A properly chaperoned dance offers ng fun for someone who is too shy to dance because they don't know how. These boys and girls who sit on the sidelines begin to go other places for their entertainment and some of the places are not so desirable. The opening of the Decatur Youth and Community Center in the near future will give the young people of the city a place to have frequent, perhaps weekly, dances. However, planned dances are useless if no one enjoys them. It is not too late to enroll in the 10-week course which will start sometime in March. The exact date and place will be announced after the participants have indicated the most convenient day for the weekly class. — Mrs. Brooks has extended an invitation to any parent or teenager interested in the course to call her at 3-3564 as soon as possible but no later than March 4. ' The Course is epen to ail students of the seventh grade to senior class in both Decatur schools. The size of the class Is not limited. As far as Mrs. Brooks is concerned, the more that enroll, the better. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

Baby Boy Born To Elizabeth Taylor SANTA MONICA. Calif., (INS) — Elizabeth Taylor and her ne*’ “birthday present” baby were described as "doing nicely" today at St. John's hospital. The child, a five-pound, 12-ounce boy, was born Sunday night. Atomic Test's Big Shot Is Postponed . Test Again Delayed By Bad Wetfther LAS VEGAS, Nev. (INS) — Unfavorable weather continued today to block the firing of the big shot the atomic energy commission has been trying to detonate since it started "Operation Teapot", the current series of atomic tests, on Feb. 15. The test with the powerful bomb was called off Sunday after a weather evaluation showed that winds might cause a fallout over populated areas in eastern Nevada. It is hoped now to hold the test Tuesday on the atomic proving grotond north of Las Vegas. AEC officials said that if the big shot cannot be made safely then, an alternate shot with a smaller bomb probably will be fired. CRAIG PLEADS (Continued from Page One) million to treat mental case# and then we reject a small appAipriatlon for research. It that tneory had been in practice through the years, everyone would have smallpox today. Some people are always crying for beds, beds, beds, whereas they should be saying cure, cure, cure." Craig said he was disappointed at the rejection of a proposal to lower voting age to 19, which would have been referred to the voters as a possible constitutional amendment had it survived this Assembly. Craig said he favors giving thd voters a free choice whenever such a referendum is practical. The senate met today briefly then recessed for committee meetings. Four important bills were stalled in the general assembly because of the constant conflict between the Craig and” Jenner factions of the Republican party. As the legislators began the final w’eek of their session today, the following stymied: The measures appropriating $6 million for an institution for youthful first offenders and |5 million to start construction of the sls million state office building, favored by the Cralg-faetion lawmakers.

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The bills allowing 13,500,000 for a school for veterinarians at Purdue University and hiking the gasoline tax two cents a gallon, supported by the Jenner group of legislators. Neither side appeared to be ready to weaken and, as a result, all of these measures may perish. —■ ! » Revival Services Will Open Tuesday Revival services Will open Tuesday at the Craigville Evangelistic church, with services each evenJng .at 7:30 o'clock through SunMay. The Rev. Mr. Matherlee of ‘ Findlay, 0., will be the evangelist. | The church pastor, the Rev. Walter ?: Leimenstoll,' invites the public (o attend. '

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