Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIU. No. 62.

IF PIGS CAN RIDE... THEY’LL BE PIGS &- :• ' jX '" will ■■ z||| V3| Myyy ™*‘- l -ENGING New York Central’s Robert Young with his adage that a “pig can cross the country without changing trains—but you can’t!” passengers on the Weehawken, N. J. to Orangeburg line mask themselves behind pig-like falsefaces m protest. Their line, on the west shore, which takes them to the ferry enroute to Ntew York jobs, is threatened with abandonment of passenger service-but not freight service. The disgruntled commuter’s slogan: “A hog can ride the West Shore—why can’t we’”

Yalta Papers Stir Up New Controversy State Department Reverses Plan To Release Documents BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today the long-sec-ret Yalta papers will be made public eventually but he declined to say when. WASHINGTON (INS) —GOP and Democratic leaders in congress split today over whether to accept the long-suppressed Yalta papers frtjm the state department tor ”ptWe<e’’ study by key committees. Meanwhile,, the state department which had announced it was sending 12 copies of the documents to Capitol Hill reversed itself and declared it would submit them only if committee chairmen "so desire.” Senate foreign relations committee chairman Walter F. George (D iGa.,) indicated he would not make any such request He said: "If I have any indication that the state department is going to send down the Yalta papers, then I’ll take it up with the committee.” Earlier, on the basis of the previous department announcement that it was planning to submit them to six senate and house committees, the vice president and five congressional leaders, George said he would ask his group if it would want to accept them. Persona iiy, —he —declared,ire would favor returning the papers to the state department with the recommendation that they be made public. House foreign affairs chairman James P. Richards (D S. C.,) also said he might refuse to keep confidential papers in his custody. J In wake of the vigorous protests from the two committee heads,! state department spokesman Henry Sundam said the documents i were not being sent as planned. Instead, he reported, the department is “informing committee chairmen that . . . work on the Malta and Yalta conference papers has been completed and copies will be made available on a confidential basis to the six committees if the chairmen so desire.’-’ (Besides the foreign relations committees of the two houses, the papers were to have been sent to appropriations and armed services committees and to majority and minority leaders. Senators said apparently it was British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill who objects to publication of the documents. The 1945 Yalta conference was attended by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill and the Kremlin's late Joseph Stalin. , Jt was at Yalta that Russia agreed tocome ijtfo the war against Japan, in return for "concessions which since haver facilitated Copitnunist aggression in Asia. Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland, a foreign relations committeeman. made it plain he thought the committees should accept and retain the documents “to examine them for their own background, just as they read many top secrets to give them better understanding of problems."

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Farm Achievement Banquet Last Night 33rd Annual Farm Banquet Is Held The Rev. Russell Hoy of Coshocton. 0.. told Adams county farmers last night that they must preserve the basic values in the changing rural community. Speaking at the '33rd annual farmers achievement banquet in the Adams Central gym, the Rev. Hoy pointed out that the decentralizing of population and the movement of industry to the rural areas is changing the rural community. He stated that the rural people are meeting the urban people and the two groups must cooperate He said that rural people could meet that problem of the changes by conserving a sense of the importance of the good earth, by nurturing high ideals of home and family life, by conserving the philosophy of “Pulling our share of the load" and by keeping intact the religious heritage of the rurnl community. His talk was the highlight of the banquet which also featured the awards made to top farmers in the county in the various projects. J. \\ ard Calland, master of ceremonies for the evening, introduced the chairmen of the projects. Herman Krueckeberg of the First State Bank made the awards for the five acre corn club to Walter Jhieme, senior champion -with a yield of 173.1, and Mike Lehman, 164.7, junior champion. Others who placed high in the senior division were Ervin Schuller, Ben Mazelin, Martin Habegger and Elmer Inch. Nolan Griffiths placed second in the junior division. All of these received red gold awards. Senior green gold awards went to William Reichert. Elmer Beer, Eli Kipfer. L. Reuben Schwartz. Hoy Lehman, Bill Griffiths, John Kipfer, Mrs. Roland Grote. Dan Striker, Martin Kipfer, Robert Isch, Sylvan Habegger, Karl Ray, Ivan Huser, Herbert Schaadt, Helen Egly, Ralph Berning, Leonard Kingsley. Franklin Steury, Joe L. Isch, Eli i Schwartz, James Garbpden.. and, Harve Inetehert. — Recipients of the gold awards in the senior division were Lores | Steury, Ivan L. Steury, Lester .Ad ler, Holman Egly, Harold Schwartz, ■ I Vern Lautzenheiser, Ben Gerke, Rai mon Stoller, Mrs. Herbert Schaadt, I Edwin Neuhauser, Melvin Brown. I Sherman VonGunten. Ezra Kaehr. j Erwin Bauman, Urban Linn, Alfred I Grote. Edgar Thieme, David* i Schwartz and Herman Kipfer. Hen-1 I ry Aschjeman and Menno Eicher i received silver awards. In the junior division of the corn j club green gold awards were won [ by Robert Habegger, Tedtiy Kipfer. | Keith" I GrtrntEs.' Harry Mazelin, Larry Lautzenheiser, Roger Koeneman. William Rumple and John Rumple; green gold ribbons went to Leo Busick. Ned Kipfer, Marvin Grote, Richard Kaehr,*Colleen Egly and Philip Moser, and a silver award to Michael Thieme. Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, county president of the home demonstration council, presented the first place trophy to the Decatur club for outstanding work in the home demonstration projects. Other clubs which received awards were the Jolly Housewives club, second; tb’d Limberlost club., third, and the Hartford duTf? fourth. Recognition 'in the swine projects was announced by chairman Paul Yoder, who won four gold and one silver certificates. Bew Gerke and son received three gold and two silver certificates. Winners of , the dairy project were announced by Everett Rice. Gold awards in this project went (OohtlraiMd on Page Six)

McCarthy In New Blast At Administration Charges Conspiracy To Block Hearing Os Major Peress WASHINTON —New hearings on the case of ex-Maj. Irving M. Peress began today with a charge by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-W’is.) that the Eisenhower administration “successfully conspired” to block last year’s inquiry. A sharp dispute also was disclosed between the Pentagon and Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) McCarthy’s successor as chairman of the senate investigations subcommittee, which is reviving the hearings. McClellan charged that the army is withholding a report necessary to expedite the investigation. Before the first witness could be called, McCarthy requested that McClellan summon at some future date six officials who, he said, “successfully conspired” more than a year ago to call off past hearings. Today's first witness was Maj. Floyd E. Van Sickle, Jr., who was flown to the U. S. from Germany, where he is cuYfently stationed, to testify about Peress’ application for a commission in October, 1952. At the time Van Sickle was in charge of officer procurement, un- ' def th’e doctors < dentists draft act. for the first army’s surgeon general. He said he had “no firsthand knowledge” of the Peress application because it was one of an average of 2.860 he received monthly. He also said he did not know at the time that Peress invoked the fifth amendment on two loyalty forms he filled out after he was commissioned Oct. 28 but before he went on active duty Nov. 14. (Continued on Page Six) County Tax Paying Is At Brisk Rate Nearly 50 Percent Os Payments Made (County tax paying has been at a brisk rate the last several days, Waldo Neal, county treasurer, reported today. Nearly 50 percent of the taxpayers have responded already with payments. Payment of spring installments can be made any time up to and including Monday, May 2, Neal said, but many county residents already have made their payments. Os those paying, Neal said more than 70 percent are paying their taxes for the full year- Under the statute, a taxpayer may split* his county tax bill and pay one half before the first Monday in May and the balance not later than the first Monday in November. The treasurer said that mail payments are acceptable but who remit by mail are advise, ed to ahscr inclhde a self addressed and envelope.. so .theirj duplicate can be returned to them. There is no country appropriation to pay for stamps to return tax receipts. Adams county was one of the first counties in Indiana to have tax bills mailed- out, it was learned, and final mailings were completed the first week of March. March 1 is the earliest the statements can be mailed.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 15, 1955.

United States To Use Atomic Ground, Air Weapons In Future War

Senators Vote Today On Tax Cut Measure Republican Heads Assure Eisenhower Proposal Will Lose WASHINGTON (INS) — Republican leaders assured President Eisenhower today that congress will reject the Democratic-sponsor-ed tax cut when the senate votes on the proposal this afternoon. Democratic supporters of the plan also conceded on Capitol Hill that they will be beaten. However, they contended that they are about to lose a battle but win a war by establishing a record on taxes. The GOP assurances were given to Mr. Eisenhower at his weekly legislative conference w-ith Republican congressional leaders. Balloting, which stars this afternoon, was certain to be close. The Democratic leadership felt that, although their proposal jto give lower-income families income tax relief is beaten, they have put the Republicans in a hole for next year’s election campaign. Democrats, pounding the administration and its treasury secretary in closing debate, believed they had fashioned a record on taxes that would prevent Republicans from taking full credit for any tax reduction they might propose in 1956. One Democratic spokesman said it was “all or nothing”—that if the "packaged” tax reduction proposal failed today, all other amendments also would be beaten. The compromise was to be voted on first, perhaps by mid-afternoon. Republican leaders said they were confident the senate would pass and finally send to the President a bill merely extending corporation and excise tax rates another year. They expected to lose only one or two votes and pick up four to six Democrats to support the President’s stand. Senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.) led the attcak on treasury secretary George M. . Humphrey, charging - -he wae "trying to be the best ’big business' secretary since Andrew' Mellon.” It was Johnson who pinned the label “Humphrey blooper” on the administration’s current move to correct a 1954 tax provision which. (Continued on Page Six) Panel Discussion At Lincoln PTA Thursday The Lincoln PTA will have a panel discussion during their regular meeting Thursday night at the Lincoln school. The topic is “School Reports,” with Bryce Thomas, Lincoln principal, as moderator.

Panel members will be Mrs. Louis Jacobs and the Rev. Virgil Sexton, representing the parents, and Miss Glennys Roop and Ray Lehman, representing the teachers. PTA members will be given the opportunity of asking questions of the panel- Refreshments will be served 'by the hospitality committee.

Lenten Meditation 1 SIMPLICITY OF GREATNESS “The simplicity that is Christ.” II Cor. 11:3 The London Times, in commenting'U'n a speech by an Ameri- - .can president, aaid. “Anytlwygmore. duller, commonplace it wpmld. not be easy to produce.”' The. speech* tn■ (juestton wawLinrotn's- ‘ K e * tya * ?ttr& a< Mress,, Years later XUIh sain. 6 speech , was.east inbronze on the wans of Oxford’ as the greatest utterance of the* English language. The address lived because of its simplicity. It dealt.simply with great but simple truths. need to be reminded of this in our complicated world. We like to overdo things. We makq fun of the plain and commonplace virtues. We ser)Y thrills. We worship the gaudy. We paint the IHy. We like to be sophisticated rather than sincere. This should not be. For the great , ideas are the simple ideas. The ■ great faiths are the simple faiths. The great duties are the everyday ones. The great words are the ordinary words. In the simple loves and labors of life anyone may lay claim to greatness. Jesus proved this long before the time of Lincoln.

Candidate I aSUWI, IT Z _ Bernard J. Clark Bernard J. Clark Mayor Candidate First Candidate On Democratic Ticket & Bernard J. Clark. Decatur business man, today announced his candidacy for mayor, subject to the decision of Democrat voters in the May primary election. Clark is the first Democrat to become an active candidate for the post. The candidate is a native of Decatur. His grandfather, John Mothers, came to Adams county in 1841, and his father, the lats Dr. C. 9; Clark, was a prominent physician here for many years. Graduating from Decatur high school in 1923, Clark established a mark both as a student and as an athlete. He was a member of one of Decatur’s greatest high school gridiron organizations. During the last 30 years, Claik has operated several retail businesses in Decatur. Ho attended Coyne Electric school in Chicago. At present he is owner and operator of a block of business buildings and residences at the south edge of Decatur...known a* Willow Run* For two years he operated a motel at Kendallville but he always has retained his voting residence in Decatur. —Mr. -tout mtev Clark "arnr their daughter. Rose Mary, resido on North Second street. He is a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and the Decatur Elks lodge where he has served in several official capacities including that of trustee. In announcing his candidacy, Clark said that it was his desire to give the city of Decatur ”a busi-ness-like —administration and in bringing this about he would depend on the guidance of all groups of interested persons.” He said he would make an active campaign for the post, and if successful would be in a position to make the job of mayor a full time job. Clark has never held or sought a public office before. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and colder tonight with occasional rain north half—and showers and thunderstorms south half this evening. Wednesday partly cloudy and colder. Low tonight 25-32 north, 32-40 south. High Wednesday 35-40 north, 40-45 south.

Super Rocket Is Disclosed By Air Force Supersonic Rocket Is Unveiled Today By U. S. Air Force WASHINGTON (INS) — The air force unveiled today a supersonic rocket described as the only platte-launched missile with a “brain” of its own. It is the six - foot - long cigarshaped “Falcon,” expected to become the nation’s first line of defense against enemy bombers. The missile, painted a bright orange, is tucked under the wings of all-weather jet fighters. An official announcement said that since 1950 the "Falcon” and its experimental forerunners, fired with and without explosive warheads, have been tracking and knocking down fast target drones —including jets .pre-set to take evasive action. Hughes Aircraft Co. is now producing the missile in quantity at Tucson, Ariz. The Falcon waa developed by Hughes at Culver City, Calif. The announcement waa timed for release simultaneoualy with a speech at Dayton, 0., by newly appointed air force assistant secretary Trevor Gardner, who placed new emphasis on continental air defense. Gardner said: "I believe it is safe to say that the Falcon will be one of the most important contributions to the defense of the North American continent against air attack since the development of radar.” Here is how the air force described the firing of a Falcon: 1. With his radar working day or night, the all-weather pilot scans the sky until a "blip” of light tells him of the presence of a target plane. 2. Keeping the “blip” at the center of the cross bars on his radarscope, the pilot “alerts" (turns on) the Falcon missile. 3. With its miniature radar, the missile "locks on” the target, while-its-electronic--computer-cal-the enemy plane’s course, and where it will be when the missile strikes. 4. The Falcon fires itself automatically when ready. If the target changes course after the missile is fired, the Falcon’s computer makes the necessary corrections. 9 Telephone Cables Are Cut In South Six Phone Cables Are Reported Cut ATLANTA (INS) — Six more telephone cables were reported cut today as management-union negotiators renewed efforts to settle a strike of 50,000 Southern Bell Telephone Co., employes in nine states. On another strike front in the south, the Louisville and Nashville railroad obtained a temporary court order restraining four operating Brotherhoods from honoring picket lines set up by 15,000 striking non operating workers in 13 states. The Southern Bell Telephone Co., reported that three cables were cut in widely scattered suburban sections of Atlanta and three in the city. The company offered rt reward of ssg)oo for, information leading, to the arrest and conviction -ofthose responsible and /jJaimed that about one-third of employees eligible for union membership reported for work this morning. The CWA countered with a statement that the strike, which began Monday after negotiations on a new contract broke down, was "almost 100 percent effective.” - In Evansville, Ind.v a non-strik-(Oontlnued on Page Six)

Initial Report On Tax Assessments Partial Report Is Made By Assessor A preliminary survey made by Walter Koos, Adams county assessor, shows that of personal property assessments made to date for 1955, automobile assessments in Berne have the highest average in the county. Os a total of 88 automobiles and trucks assessed in Berne to date, the total amount is $42,753 or an average per automobile of $483. Other averages of automobile assessments throughout the county as of March 14, Koos said, are: All rural, 650 automobiles assessed, total amount, $118,605 and average per auto, $352; Geneva, 75 autos assessed to date with a total value of $28,678 and an average of $382; Decatur, Washington, 317 automobiles’with a total value of SIIB,OOO or an average of $373; Decatur, IRoot, 67 automobiles totalling $24,830 and an average of $370. Koos said that one reason for the higher average in Berne was the assessing of several oil transports in the first report. The general average for automobiles and trucks probably will be less, it was pointed out. Following are first reports on assessment of household goods: Rural, with 415 homes assessed to date had a total valuation of $118,605 or an average of $286 per home. Geneva, with a total of 76 homes assessed for a total of $26,905 had an average of $382; Berne, with a total of 111 homes assessed and a total valuation of $3J,615 had an average of $483; Decatur, Washington, with a total of 332 homes assessed with a total of $84,730 had an average of $373 and Decatur, Root, with a total of 72 homes assessed had a total of $24,830 and an average of $370. Rural assessements so far reported included: Farm Implements, number assessed 298, With a value of $278,496 and an average of $935; tractors, number assessed 406 with, a total value of $154,563 and an average of $381; beef cow's, total assessed 131 with a total value of $13,750 and an average of $105; milk cows. 1,563 assessed with a total value of $166,695 and an average of $107; other cattle, 1,450 with a value of $80,367 and an average of $55; sheep 870 assessed with a total value of $14,954 and an average of sl7; sows, 673 assessed with a total value of $43,390 and an average of $65; other hogs, 2,570 with a value of $34,009 and an average of sl3. To date, 385 farms in Adams county have been assessed with a value of $1,003,718 and an average appraisal of $2,607. (Continued on rage Five) Mrs. Rosetta Wiehe Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Rosetta Wiehe, 69, of route 2, Monroeville, died Monday morning. A lifelong resident -of Allen county, she was a member of St. John's Lutheran church at Flat Rock, and the ladies aid society of the church. Surviving are her husband, Louis; a daughter, Mrs. Leola Stoppenhagen of Fort Wayne; two sons, Moritz and Edward Wiehe of Monroeville; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Krueckeberg of .Fort Wayne and Mrs. Christ Bucfier’ of. IJecatur; tw? 1 brothers, Charles Quatit of New Haven and. Martin-Quant of Fort* Wayne, and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Rodenbeck funeral home in Fort Wayne, the Rev. Henry Abram officiating. Burial will be in St. John’s Lutheran cemetery at Flat Rock. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Dulles Asserts New-Type Atom Weapons Used Says Small Atomic Weapons To Be Used In Future Fighting WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles declared today that the U. rs. probably will use new-type precision atomic ground and air weapons in any future fighting any place in the world. Dulles said he believes the newly - developed atomic weapons, of relatively small site,will make it possible to fight wars in the.future without the mass destruction of populations such as were necessary in the saturation bombings of World War 11. The secretary, at his first news conference since returning from the Southeast Asian security conference in Bangkok last month, said the new, small atomic weapons have neither fall-out nor radiation effects over large areas. He said these weapons are being dropped almost daily in American troop exercises and that the troops are deployed close to the blasts and do not suffer Hl effects. Dulles said that at the NATO council meeting last December in Paris it was generally agreed that atomic weapons would oe considered “normal” weapons of defense. His comments were at apparent variance with remarks of NATO Commander Gen. Alfred Gruenther in Paris today that atomic weapons would be used only in case of all-out war, not in the event of a limited, “brushfire war.” The state department declined any immediate comment on the conflict of views. Dulles was more gloomy about his findings during his Southeast Asian tour than he was in his radio-TV report to the nation tasj. week. ~ He' said ne returned with- a certain sense of forboding because he was impressed with the aggressive intentions of the Chinese Communists toward both Southeast Asia and Formosa. Then, he said flatly that it seems to him the Chinese Communists do not intend to stop until they are stopped by superior resistance. Dulles reiterated that the U.S. is not going to break up its defensive power in Asia into tiny fragments irrevocably committed to defend specific spots. He pointed out that in Manila last September and in Bangkok last month he emphasized that the most effective defense for the entire area would be a strategic force with heavy mobile striking power that could be used anywhere. The cabinet member said if this strength is divided up and irrevocably committed to specified sections of the front there might not be■ enough strength to defend any point that is attacked. On the question of the defense of Quemoy and Matsu, Dulles seemed to indicate that it is probable the U.S. will help Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek defend these outposts. He said that legally the President alone is empowered to decide whether an attack on these islands would be considered the first step of an attempt to invade Formosa, whose safety the U. S. (Continued on Page Six) — x_— Band Booster Fund previously Reported Friend of Band 2.0 V m..”' w * w.. "—...■'.■S . TOTAL $1311.47 Contributions can be made by sending any amount to- Band Booster fund, care of Hugh J. Andrews, principal of Decatur high school. All money received will go toward the purchase of new uniforms for the Decatur high school band.

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