Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIII. No. 95.

FAMED SAD-PAN MARRIES 4.WHB fc* .wMmIA. jRi WT jflK - 1 to 4 7 J fe jj WBtu * 1 - f Ax sa J'HW .^.. . 4 1 A SMILE is out of character in the usually sad-faced demeanor of Emmet Kelly, 56, but this one is the real thing as the famed clown of the circus is pelted with rice after his marriage to 22-year-old blonde Elveira Gebhardt, a German acrobat. The marriage was performed by the Mayor of Cliffside Park. Francis J. Murphy, at the home of Kelly's friend, Joseph Skelly of Edgewater. N. J.

President Will Honor Dr. Salk in Washington Discoverer Os Vaccine To Get National Honor WASHINGTON (INS) — Dr. Jonas E. Salk will receive a special citation from President Eisenhower today while a conference is being held to guarantee the fullest and fairest distribution of his antipolio vaccine. The 40-year%id scientist from the University of Pittsburgh will visit the White House at 2 p.m. (EST) at the President’s invitation. The Chief Executive will also honor Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Both men Will receive Mr. Eisenhower’s congratulations and thanks for their roles in developing the life-saving vaccine which at last realizes man’s hopes for an effective weapon against the crippling and often fatal disease known as ]>olio. Earlier in the day. government and congressional leaders will meet with officials of medical and pharmaceutical groups and with drug manufacturers to discuss ways and means of guarding against any “black market" in the Salk vaccine. The conference was called by Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby last" week after Mr. Eisenhower directed her to organize a voluntary system of allocating the ■ life-saving fluid so that inoculation will be available to every child in the land who needs it. Sens. Lister Hill (D Ala.), chairman, and H. Alexander Smith (R N. J.), ranking minority member of the Senate Labor Committee, and Reps. Percy Priest (D Tenn.), ton (R N.J.), ranking minority chairman, and Charles A. Wolver member of the House Commerce Committee, were invited to the closed-door session. So were representatives of the six drug firms licensed to manu facture and distribute the vaccine —Cutter Laboratories, Eli Lilly. Parke - Davis, Pittman - Moore. Sharpe and Dohme. and Wyeth Laboratories. Other groups represented inelude the American Drug Manu ..facturers. -Association, the National Association of Retail Druggists. the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and malty others—2s in all. _ < ■■jj.j-M'-an'X’J'-i'tJt.'L'.LJ u. ..: :—J : Workers Return Today To Gerieral Electric Work/resumed this morning at the Decatur plant of the General Electric company and company officials were in conference with union officials for negotiation to settle the grievance of several flange and die cast workers. These workers staged a,sit-down strike Thursday morning and forced the entire plant to stop production because of the interruption of the flow of vital parts. The plant, with the exception of the office, was idle all day yesterday as first and second shift workers were sent home. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and little change in temperatures today, tonight . and Saturday. High today 72. Low tonight 50. High Saturday 75.

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Benson Plans Visit To Dust Bowl Area To Study Erosion And Possible Cure WASHINGTON (INS) — Agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson will pay a three-day flying visit to the Dust Bowl next week as part of an overall effort to cure the problems of wind erosion permanently. Benson leaves Washington Monday in time to attend an evening meeting in Denver. From Tuesday through Thursday he will visit areas ripped up by dust storms ip Colorado, Kansas. Oklahoma. Texas and New Mexico. The itinery does not include Nebraska and Wyoming, other states which have suffered lesser damage since the storms began last November. As of April 1. the agriculture department said 10 million acres of land in the seven-state area bad been damaged due to lack of adequate cover. There has been at least one severe storm since that date: The department in the April 1 report, estiriiated that another 20 million acres might be subject to damage before the period of high winds ends this summer. Benson said he is making the trip in the light of a new program aimed at reshaping the department’s efforts in treating the problems stemming from .long-term (Continued on Page Eight)

County Councilmen In Two Day Meet Appropriations Are Considered The seven members of the county council are meeting today at the court house in Decatur to consider requests for emergency appropriations amounting to $35.694.49 for county expenses and $2,950 for hospital funds. A crowd of 4-H backers jammed the court house corridor early this morning and persons interested in appropriations were visiting the council today. In it's initial action of the two day meeting the council appointed its newest member, Frank Bohnke, "to the tax adjustment board which will meet after the county assessment is completed. The current emergency meeting in the first session which Bohnke has attended since he was elected last November. In compliance with the state law, the cpuncilmen will spend all of today considering the requests and listening to taxpayers who desire to be heard on any of the emergency appropriations. Final decision on each of the requests will be made tomorrow when the approvals or cuts will be made. Henry Dehner is presiding at the meeting. Other councilmen (Continued on Page Eight) Hotel Guests Forced To Leave Their Rooms PHILADELPHIA (INS) —About 300 guests, most of them in their night clothing, fled the St. James Hn Philadelphia fir® wrecked a nt. e in a state of be led out by lem, Mrs. Ethel was a survivor of the Hotel Wynecoff fire in Atlanta, Ga„ in which 122 persons perished.

Stockholders Os Ward Company Voting Today Control Battle Is Holding Interest Os Many Thousand CHICAGO (INS) —Montgomery Ward and Co. board chairman Sewell L. Avery meets Florida financier Louis E. Wolfson in person today for the first time in an eight-montb tug-a-war over who should rule the $721 million mail order empire. The outcome of the battle may not be known for three or four weeks until all the proxies are counted and certified. The 81-year-old Avery is slated to preside over the meeting which will decide his fate. Thousands of Ward shareholders converging on Chicago for one of the biggest meetings of its kind in history will vote on the company’s niffe directorships. There are 18 candidates. Board chairman Avery heads the nine incumbents. If as many as five directorships go to Wolfson and his associates, the Avery management will fall. Wolfson claims "at least four.” — Ward president Edmund Krider limits Wolfson to two. The history-making balloting climaxes a blistering proxy battle for the nation's second largest mail order operation. It is “owned” by 67,732 shareholders with 6,703,932 shares of stock. Because of the magnitude of the business, the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to study the proceedings—no matter~‘Who wins. A squabble over Ward's longtime system of staggered elections brought an Illinois supreme court ruling a week ago that all nine directors must run for election. Accusations of anti-trust violations erupted in Thursday's elev-enth-hour “close infighting." Wolfson. his brother. Cecil, and another board candidate. Alexander Rittmaster of New York, resigned from the board of Devoe A Reynolds Co., to "eliminate any question of inter-locking directorships.” Throughout the campaigning for shareholder support ran the cry of “What's Good for Ward?” Wolfson, the 43-year-old Florida and New York financier, who parlayed a jiink business into a multi-millon-dollar empire, asserted that Ward was being “run into the grave” by a “horse and buggy administration.” ~— Avery, who joined Ward in 1931 and hoisted it from the depression doldrums, pointed to a S3OO-mil-lion-dollar cash reserve the company has built and charged the outsiders were following a “raid pattern” in which established corporations are ‘(taken over and liquidated.” David Uhrick Gets Rector Scholarship D. H. S Student Receives Award David Uhrick. Decatur high school senior and a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Uhrick, 951 Dierkes street, has received word that he has received a Rector scholarship at DePauw University. The scholarship, which extends over the four years of college, is awarded on a basis of education competition and pays tuition to DePauw during four years with additional cash for the student in the fourth year. Value of the award is not “made public by the Rector nominating board but it is generally known the scholarship is worth a minimum of $2,000. Uhrick will graduate from Decatur high school the last week of May and will enter DePauw University at Greencastle next September. Members of the Decatur high school faculty were high In their praise of Decatur’s latest ’Rector scholar. He has maintained a high scholastic average during the four years in high school and has been a state leader in several examinations he has taken recently in competition with students of other Indiana high schools. Decatur has had two other Rector scholars in the last 10 years. They were William Bromer and William Freeby. Both of these young men made excellent grades throughout their college life. One of the requirements of continuing use of the scholarship throughout the four years of college fr that the student maintain his scholastic averages each semester.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IM ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 22, 1955.

U. S., France and Britain Answer Russian Bid On Austrian Peace Treaty

Operation Jab Near Finish In Adams County First Stage Os Work Completed By Volunteers All but a few pupils of the first and second grades in Adams county have now received the first of two Salk vaccine shots which will give them protection, against all three types of the dreaded crippler, infantile paralysis. The first stage of the county vaccination project was completed today in clinics at Decatur Lincoln. Pleasant Mills and Lutheran grade schools. The few who did not receive the vaccine are those children whose parents did not sign and return the necessary request form. The problem of what to do about the eligible youngsters who were absent from the school on the day of the clinic will be determined and announced later. It is probable that some plan will be formulated so that these children can still receive the vaccine free. The corps of physicians who staffed the clinic at- the Decatur Lincoln school this morning were Dr. Richard Parrish, Dr. Gbratt Kohne, Dr. John Carroll. Dr. James Burk and Dr. Arthur Girod. Nurses at tihs clinic were Mrs. Valair Custer, Mrs. Irene Hoffman, Mrs. Mildred Geisler, Mrs. Gail □rabill, Mrs. Joan Lutes and Miss Marie Felber. Members of the Lincoln ParentTeacher association served as volunteer workers. They included Mrs. Lowell Smith. Mrs. Delmar Van Horn, Mrs. Clyde Gould, Mrs. Robert Gay, Mrs. J. D. Markley, Mrs. Perry Mcßay and Mrs. Roland Ladd. Also helping were Mrs. Robert Hess and Mrs. Glenn (Continued on Page Eight) Scholarship Will Be Available Here D. C. H. S. Students Eligible For Test Decatur Catholic high school seniors are eligible for a $1,500 grant to study for journalistic careers under provisions of “The Archbishop Noll Scholarship for Journalism" announced this week by Our Sunday Visitor, official publiciation of the Fort Wayne Catholic diocese. Named for Our Sunday Visitor founding editor. Archbishop John F. Noll of Fort Wayne, the scholarship was established by the paper and will be made available for the 1955-56 school year. Applicants from Decatur Catholic will compete with other graduates of Catholic high schools in the Fort Wayne diocese. In the event of equality of merits between applicants, the sum will be divided according to need. Selection will be based on tests administered by the Princeton Educational Testing service in South Bend next month and on the candidate’s personal qualifications. A board of educators will assist OSV in naming the recipient. Applicants must be of "good moral character”' and “show an aptitude for journalism and a willingness to remain in college throughout the four years.” Requirement placed by the scholarship rules are that the applicant select a Catholic college and that Journalism be Included either as a major or a minor course. x Upon graduation, the applicant is in no way bound to the services of Our Sunday Visitdr. Successful applicants will be eligible to share $1,500 for each of four school years and new selections will be made each year. Our Sunday Visitor, therefore, eventually will administrate the expenditure of $6,000 annually toward the training of journalists.

Trustees Affected In Court Reversal Supreme Body Says School Boards Legal INDIANAPOLIS HNS) — The Indiana Supreme Court has reversed its own ruling of four months ago and decided that voters in certain townships may choose to take control of public schools away from the township trustee and give it to a school board. The reversal came late Thursday in a ruling on a case involving Guilford Township in Hendricks county. The Indiana Supreme Court on Dec. 22 had ruled that of a township of 3,590 or more a 1953 statute permitting voters population which also contains » or more population was invalid. But the same court, with a change of three judges since the ruling* last December, now holds that the law is constitutional. The township involved in the case contains Plainfield, a town of slightly more than 2,000. However, backers of the test case said that at least 26 other Indiana townships may conduct polls under the terms of the statute. The charge of invalidity was based on the claim that the 1953 statute constituted class legislation. The new opinion, written by outgoing Judge Ina do re fe.. Levine, held that the provision for a school board to replace trustee control in larger townships was not class legislation. The township trustee remains an ex-officio member of the school board, which would consist of a total of five members. Changes in the*lndiana Supremo Court membership since the December ruling are: Judge Levine, who is soon to resign, replaced Judge Floyd Draper, who resigned last December; Judge George Henley replaced the late Judge Frank E. Gilkison, and Judge Harold E. Achor succeeded Judge Dan C. Flanagan by election.

In the Dec. 22 ruling. Judges Draper, Bobbitt, Gilkison and Flanagan held that the statute was invalid and Judge Emmert dissented. In the reversal. Judge Emmert was joined in his minority opinion of four months ago by Judges Levine, Henley and Achor, with Judge Bobbitt the only dissenter. ‘(Continued on Page Kight) Dr. Robert Neff To Start Survey Here " Community Group To Seek Expert Advice Dr. Robert Neff, Indianapolis, has been engaged by the directors of the Community hospital association. to conduct a thorough survey of the community to determine its hospital needs. The survey started today and will continue through several weeks, according to officers of the association who believe that Dr. Neff is qualified to conduct the survey. Dr. Neff is serving as consultant to the State Board of Health and through his wide and varied experience is in a position to recom mend, following his survey, what is best for the citizens of the community, association members said. He retired January of this year from his position as administrator of the Methodist hospital in'lndianapolis. e Dr. Neff has degrees from Indiana, lowa State and DePauw universities and served as assistant to the bursar at Indiana TTniversity from 1911-13 after which he became administrator of Indiana University hospitals. During the next few years he served as superintendent of the Indianapolis City Dispensary and served as director of the Social Service ‘ department at Indiana, From 1928 to 1945 he was administrator of the state university of lowa Hospitals and from 1945 -through 1954 served as superin-

Road's Fate To Be Decided By Finance Group Craig Will Call Meeting Soon Os State Officers INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Governor George N. Craig said today that the state finance committee probably will meet next week to decide the fate of the north-south toll road. The committee then will determine whether $70,009 in state highway department funds will be used to survey a proposed new route from Lake county to a point east of Indianapolis. The governor has hinted at use of money from his emergency funr for the survey in case the committee refuses to allot highway department funds. But state treasurer John Peters, who with the governor and state auditor Curtis Rardin. comprise the finance committee, has opined that survey financing from the emergency fund would be illegal. When apprised of this opinion, the governor said: “I don’t believe anyone thinks that John Peters is a very good lawyer." " Rardin said he questioned some of the Indiana toll road commission’s expenditures, adding: "I have a lot of questions to ask about how they have been till ill tr innnAir ’* ■» , ..,'r n|nrtiui < llrWiixvy , Craig said that as head of a committee of governors, supporting President Eisenhower’s $25 billion road building program, he conferred with Washington authorities during his trip there this week. ---—r-r— — When reminded that Senator Byrd (D-Va.) is strongly opposing this program. Craig said:

Land Judging Team To National Meet Preble Team To Oklahoma City A land judging team from the Preble 4-H club will compete in the fourth annual national land judging contest at the Oklahoma state fair grounds in Oklahoma City April 28 and 29. The Preble team will represent the state of Indiana and will compete against 4-H teams from all over the nation. The team includes Roger Koeneman, Bob Bauermeister, Noel Fenner and Werner Reifsteck. The boys are coached by Cletus Gillman, director of the local soil conservation office. The team will leave Monday with Gillman. They plan to arrive a day ahead of time tor some training in the judging of Oklahoma soils: . Although the national contest is basically the same as those staged in Indiana, 'which the Preble team won, there will be many things completely new to the boys. Western soils differ in color, texture and erosion. The use and treatment of these soils is different from those in Indiana. The Krick-Tyndall Tile company ( of Decatur .is, sponsoring the Oklahoma trip for the Preble team. Although no Indiana team has ever placed in the top ten of the national event, they have always shown well among teams from east of the Mississippi river. The local team has expressed the hope that they will place high in the 1955 contest. NEW SERIAL STORY “The Inheritors”, a moving story of human conflict by Jane Abbott starts today in the Daily Democrat. You wilt enjoy reading every chapter of this splehdid novel.

Scoul-O-Rama Set For Next Week-end Adams County To Present Exhibits Throughout the nine counties of the Anthony Wayne Council, Boy Scouts of* America, over 5,000 Scouts have turned backyards, garages, basements, and even the kitchens into workshops as they prepare exhibits for the second annual Scout-O-tßama to he held at the Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, on Friday afternoon April 29 and Saturday. April 30, afternoon and evening. In a back-yard in Warren, a group of Scouts find it’ necessary to learn first aid for stings as they prepare their beekeeping demonstration. In a Decatur basement. boys in Explorer green uniforms are putting the finishing touches on their beautiful “A Scout is Reverent” display. An Angola kitchen is cluttered with tools, paste, and a stack of material that will turn into a Cub crafts demonstration. Husky lads in Portland are working feverishly in a garage to be ready to show the public wilderness survival skills. Cubs, Scouts, and Explorers in Garrett are assembling a 78-foot-long exhibit of the Trail to Scouting. Iq Ligonier older boys are putting together an exhibit about the Scout ranch in Mexico. South. Whitley boys are nailing together the supports for their railroading exhibit. In Fort Wayne a group of Cubs are trying out their colorful Indian costumes. Bluffton Scouts are carefully tending their landscape gardening demonstration. One hundred and thirty Cub Packs. Scout Troops, and Explorer Scout Posts will move into the Coliseum . Thursday to set up the 158 booth exhibits of all the things that Scouts do. The public of our nine counties is invited to come and see this colorful exposition staged by hoys 8 to 18 years of age. Adams county entries include: Troop 62—Basketry Merit Badge, Marion Robinson, Scoutmaster, Decatur; Troop 63—Reading Merit Badge, Nelson Doty. Scoutmaster, Decatur; Troop 67—Coin Collecting, Robert Yoder, Scoutmaster, Berne; Troop 2068—Aviation, Sylvan Zuercher. Explorer Advisor, Geneva.

Concert Is Planned By Aeolian Choir Local Group Will Sing At Albany The Aeolian choir of the General Electric Company, Decatur plant, will appear Sunday afternoon, April 24, at a public concert at Albany. The concert is being sponsored by the Delta Epsilon Chapter of the Tri Kappa Sorority of Albany and will be presented at the First Methodist church starting at 3 p.m. D.S.T. ■’ David C. Etnbler. director of the choir, state sthat Sunday's conchoir, states that Sunday's conThe Men's Glee club and Evangeline Embler, organist, with James Harkless, Marjorie Lou Hill. Winston Seitz, Pauline Lobsiger and Jack Lawson, soloists. Program as follows: “To Thee We Sing”, Tkach. “Adaramus Te. Christe”, Roselli. “In Peace and Joy I Now Depart", Fetler. “Salvation is Created” Tchesnokoff. The Aeolian Choir “All in a Golden Afternoon”, Fain-Simeone. “Singing in the Rain”, Brown. The All-Girl Choir “Scherzo” (from the Rustic Symphony), Goldmark. “Will-O'-the Wisp”. Nevin. Evangeline Embler, organist “The Battle of Jericho”, Bartholomew. Rlngwald. “All Through the Night”. Ringwald. JComflnued on Page Elgtit)

Suggest May 2 For Conference Os Ambassadors Date Would Be Prior To Meet In Paris May 9 WASHINGTON (INS) — The U. S., Britain and France answered Russia’s bid for Austrian peace ~ treaty talks with identical notes today suggesting that the conference begin in Vienna May 2 among the ambassadors of the tour countries. The western powers, while agreeing to prompt action toward Austrian independence, insisted that the talks be initiated at the ambassadorial level, rather than among the Big Four foreign ministers as the Soviets had urged. The foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization plan to open their talks in Paris on May 9. Hope was eprxessed that the ambassadors tn Vienna could make progress so quickly that the western foreign ministers could go to tlie Adstriah capital' after the NATO meeting to sign a completed treaty. On Monday, the Soviet Union called for a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Big Four to work out the terms of the treaty with the Austrian government in Vienna. The Soviet suggestion came after Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab agreed in Moscow to peace treaty terms that would include naturalization of Austria. U. S. officials said that a “working group" of experts of Austria will leave Washington tor Vienna this weekend to begin preliminary work With British. French and Austrian representatives. « The tripartite answer to the Russian suggestion is being delivered in Moscow today. American officials said that the plan is to release the text of the reply Saturday. Austrian Ambassador Dr. Karl Gruber, who has been to the state department twice this week, beamed optimism as he left a conference with deputy undersecretary of state Robert D. Murphy Thursday. He said he wa« confident that the long-awaited treaty which would free his country from Iff years of occupation by American. British, French and Russian troops, would be signed quickly. Earlier in the week, after talking with secretary of state John Foster Dulles, the Austrian ambassador said the Russians have made substantial concessions, particularly in the economic Heid The main American interest is the Russian agreement, apparently, to withdraw Soviet troops from Austria. Privately. U. S. officials said this withdrawal, which would be the first Soviet pullback from any place in Europe since World (Conitinugd on Page Right)

John Nahrwold Dies In Ft. Wayne Today Word has been received here of the death of John Nahrwold. 815 East Lewis Street, Fort Wayne. His death occurred today. His wife. Louise, who survives, is a sister of Henry Krueckeberg of Union township. Details of the death were not learned and funeral arrangements have not been completed. *■ • Takes Dim View On Prospects Os Uranium BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (IN’S) — Indiana University geology professors took a dim view today concerning prospects of finding lucrative fields of uranium in Indiana. Prof. John Patton said that from New Albany to Columbus, the rock - structure known as New Albany deposits of a non-value grade. There are similar deposits in southwest Indiana.

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