Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIII. No. 211.

POLITICOS BACK TO SCHOOL ' H S& g£- bFj sfc> \j "J IT WAS “SCHOOL DAYS" for 48 Republican state chairmen in Washington, meeting with National Chairman Leonard Hall to plan their 1956 election campaign strategy. Here a group of the state leaders (1. to r.I, yiles Horst, Harrisburg, Pa.; D. Eldred Rinehart, Baltimore, Md., and Elmer Nelson, Boston, Mass., attend a session of the three-day campaign, while Chairman Ball acts as instructor.

Council Cuts Proposed Rate By 11 Cents Total County Levy Set At 73 Cents By County Council The Adams county council, closing a two-day session late Wednesday, slashed the proposed county tax rate a total of 11 cents, making the total rate for county, welfare and hospital 73 cents and that is the figure which will go to the county tax adjustment board Monday for further scrutiny. Almost every county office and department came in for some reductions in the proposed budget. The county rate was reduced to SfesSMs; tbe welfare rate was cut one cent to 11 cents and the hospital rate remained unchanged at three cents. As the proposed rate now stands, taxpayers of DecaturWashington would pay a tax of 15.21 and Decatur-Root’s rate is -now $5.26. All present proposed rates are subject to further reductions by the adjustment board and also the state board of tax commissioners. The latter board will hold a final hearing here September 29 on all budgets. The budget, after the reductions. will raise a total of $289,642, deemed necessary by the county cbuncil for the proper conduct of business in the county next year. The clerk’s office was given $11,519. a reduction of S4SS from the amount asked. The auditor s office was reduced $525 to a total of $12,768. The treasurer's budget was cut S2OO to a total of $11,265. Reductions in the recorder s office amounted to $3,875, leaving $9,860 on which to operate.-Larg-est cut in the recorder's office was the request for a photostat machine. The council left $2,500 in this request, which originally was $5,000. The sheriffs office got a reduction of $1,508, leaving an amount of $15,918 with which to operate. The surveyor’s office budget was reduced $1,290 to $9,045. A cut of S4OO was made in the county agricultural agent’s department, leaving lOlff as the county’s share of salaries and expenses for that offcie, and his assistants. The budget for the jail proper was set at $4,100. a reduction of $5,525. The board of education (county superintendent} 'has a budget .of $15,700 and the health office has a total of $1,274 for next year. The county home budget was set at $25,254, a reduction of $2,600. A big cut was shown in the cburt house request, which indeludes the $25,000 elevator slash. The building budget was set- at $9,425. The” council cut the request of commissioners a total of $1,250 leaving the total in that fund at $107,654. The coroner’s budget remained unchanged at $1,445. The assessor’s office was reduced S4OO to $4,610. The Washington township assessor's budget remained at $4,610. - The prosecutor’s requests were reduced S6OO to $1,930. No changes were made in the circuit court’s requests and that budget was set at $16,340. A total of $14,828 was set aside in the election board budget and $2,057 for registration of voters. Veteran followers of the taxing fr . (ConUnuea on Page Five)

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Today 1$ Farmers' Day At State Fair Special Events At Indiana State Fair INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Tqday was farmer's day at the 103 Indiana state fair, and it will take a few more of them than have been showing up for the 1955 event to keep up with the 102nd fair. However, there's a sleeper coming up. This fair is one day longer than the 1954 event, so the 4,100 lag undoubtedly will be made up beofre fair’s end. Paid attendance up until this morning totaled 517,549 with the addition of 58,857 Wednesday. A parade of floats, bands, farm equipment and other colorful contingents of such events rolled past the grandstand today as a special farmers’ day event. Pets also appeared in the parade. Judging- ware ueariwg «n -end but some results remained unsettled in many open classes. David W. Vail, Cambridge City, showed the grand champion Tamworth boar in swine competition. Berkshire grand champ is owned by R. E. Roseberry and Sons, Hebron. In cattle, Walter Ruby, Madisonville. Ky. showed the grand champion Hereford bull, while the Polled Hereford grand champion bull was shown by Mr. and Mrs. G.E. Knowlton, Bellefontaine, O. In the barrow carcass competition in the hog barn, first place went to a Hampshire entered by Compton and Doversberg. .l-.c, Compton and Doversberger. Sharpsville, Ind. Max Woebbeking, of Woodburn, who previously showed the grand champion 4-H. steer entry, also emerged with a reserve champion with his Hampshire sheep ram entry jn opep competition. He was second to Har Mar Farms, of Cromwell. F. W. Williamson. Zenia. 0.. was owner of the grand champion Oxford ram. Darrell Rayl. Kempton, showed the reserve winner. Pam Osborn, of Marion, showed the best pen of three yearling ewes, in Shropshire competition. Noble T. Apple and daughter, of Greenfield, displayed the best pen of three yearlings ewes in the Indiana state classes. Scholarship winners among girls at the Indiana state fair school included Marilyn Thornburg, Greensburg: Barbara Miller. Huntingburg; Barbara Tepool, Evansville; Diane Bower. Carmel; Nancy Boyd. Bedford. Mrs. Meta Hinz Dies Suddenly At Cleveland Friends here have received word of the sudden death Wednesday of Mrs. Meta: Hinz, formerly of Decatur, at her home, 2928 Scranton road;' Cleveland, O. Mrs. Hinz’ husband, the Rev. A. W. Hinz, served as pastor of the Zion Lutheran church in .this city from 1914 to 1926. He is now pastor of the Immanuel Lutheran church at Cleveland. Surviving in addition to her husband are two sons, Theodore and Luther Hinz; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Scott, and several grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m.. Saturday at Cleveland. INDIANA WEATHER , Mostly fair and littls change in temperature tonight and Friday. Low tonight 48-64 north, 54-58 soutn. High Friday 75-80 north, 80-84 south.

Adenauer Goes To Moscow For Crucial Parley West German Leader Arrives In Moscow For Five-Day Meet MOSCOW (INS) — West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrived in Moscow today for a five day crucial conference with Soviet leaders on diplomatic, trade and other questions. The 79-year-old Bonn government chief and 14 key advisors will be met at the airport by Soviet Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev as well as premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, and other officials. • 'H Wtit Gerrnau spokesman ■listed members of the Soviet conference delegates as Bulganin, foreign minister V. M. Molotov, deputy premier Mikhail Pervukhin. foreign trade minister Ivan Kabanov, deputy foreign minister Vladimir Semyenov. It was understood that the only foreign diplomats invited to meet Adenauer were the American, British. French and Swedish envoys, apparently a limited arrangement to avoid any embarrassment to the West Germans by the presence of an East German and other Communist envoys. Adenauer will not have any engagements tonight. He will pay a courtesy call on Molotov at 9 a.m. Friday, meet Bulganin at the Kremlin at 9:30 a'.m., and the first session of the talks will begin at 11 a.m. In a statement before taking Off.from Bonn, Adenauer stressed his “firm determination to do everything I can to serve world peace, restore unity to our fatherland and strive to return our prisoners of war.” The negotiations get under way Friday, three months after the Kremlin invited Adenauer to visit Moscow for talks seeking “ways and means of normalizing SovietGerman relations.” Moscow agreed later to include at Adenauer’s request, discussion of German prisoners of war still held in Russia and the over-riding issue of German reunification. The chancellor, who led his nation into the North Atlantic treaty organization and close alliance w’ith the West, was to be greeted with extensive security measures, cordiality and hard bargaining at the conference table. This morning, Pravda, official Communist party newspaper, said the establishment of good relations'was “demanded by the interests of peace . . i European security . . . and the national interests of the Soviet and German peoples.” But the editorial stressed the Soviet Union felt the most important job for the conferees was “the adoption of concrete decision* concerning the establishment of normal diplomatic, economic and cultural relations.” The paper added: “Therein exactly lies the main ■task of the talks—crystal clear and understandable.” circles abroad” of attempting to Pravda also accused “certain make the accomplishment of “these tasks dependent on the solution of other problems including the reunification of Germany.” The editorial said Russia was a staunch protagonist of unity, but added, “the solution of this task now- fades serious obstacles.” ' In Bonn, where Adenauer met with his cabinet and the parliamentary foreign affairs commlt(Contwuea on rags Five)

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West Powers Appeal To Egypt, Israel To Safeguard Gaza Truce

Forest Fires Still Raging In California Thousands Os Acres Os Valuable Timber Destroyed By Fires SAN FRANCISCO (INS) —For- ' est fires continued to rage over wide-spread areas of California and southern Oregon today, destroying thousands of acres of valuable timber stands and cutting highways and railroads. One of the worst blazes black, ened an estimated 44,000 acres in the, Los Padres national forest and moved to within* about eight miles of the western edge of the coastal resort city of Santa Barbara. The main coastal highway, U. S. 101, was closed to traffic for a second time Wednesday night when flames flashed across the road. Early Wednesday the main line Southern Ptacif.c railroad was blocked by fire but was reopened later in the day and trains began moving again but were as much as six hours late. Far to the north in jCalifornia/s Siskiyou county, a flreln the Klamath national forest caused evacuation of the three settlements of Humbug, Greenhorn and Hawkinsville. This blaze for a time menaced Yreka, a town of 4.000 population, but a back fire was set to turn the flames away. The blaze was burning on a 47-mile front, having burned over 65,000 acres. 'Numerous ranch homes and cabins were destroyed in both the Los Padres and Klamath fires but an accurate count was impossible. Twenty head of cattle were reported burned to death in Santa Barbara county when they were caught in the Los Padres fire. In southern Oregon, three major fires raged out of control. Flames swept to within a mile of the town of Bly Wednesday night but a sudden shift in the wind saved the community of 1,500 persons for the time being. This blaze started in the whisky flat area near Bly. There was another fire some six or seven miles east of Bly in the round butte section where 3,600 acres of timber land were charred. nother southern Oregon blaze (OoauDueu on Five) Two Men Killed In Fire At Cleveland Two Bowling Alley Workers Are Killed CLEVELAND (INS) —Two maintenance men were burned to death and one fireman suffered minor injuries today when a $75,000 fire destroyed the Franklin recreation and Bowling alleys in Cleveland. The dead were identified as Joseph J. Treacy of New Jersey and James G. Proffitt of Detroit. Both were around 30 years old. Assistant bowling alley manager Steve Starynchak said he locked up the place shortly before 2 a. m. today, letting Proffitt out of the building at the siame ime. He said that as far as he knew there was no one in the building when he let’, and could not explain how the two clean up men got back in. Starynchak also said that $7.60 apparently was taken from a cash drawer before the fire. Firemen dug the unidentified men from the ruins after the triple three-alarm fire was brought under control. Eighteen pieces of fire equipment responded blaze, cause of which was undetermined. - Fireman Harold Stanton was injured when part of the back wall Os the building collapsed On him. He was taken to Lutheran hospital, where he was treated for minor Injuries. » Fire chief Elmer Cain estimated damage at $75,000.

Indiana Polio Total Is Now 235 Cases 33 New Polio Cases Reported This Week INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana’s polio total has mounted to 235 cases for the year, including six deaths, according to a report released today by the Indiana state board of health. Thirty three new cases were 1 added during the past week, which is a drop of two from the previous week. The 1955 level of the disease still remains well below the number of cases at the same time in 1954, when there were 316 cases; in 1953, with 347, and 1952 with 416. Seven of the 33 new cases re■ported to the state officials are in Grant county which gives that hard hit area a total of 24 cases, lake county, with three deaths to date, still leads numerically with 30 cases including four reported this week. State records lag behind local figures however, because of time in reporting and confirming the illnesses. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis chapter in Lake county lists 45 cases. And a seventh death will be recorded by next week’s state tabulation. Jason Wasson, 18-year-old -athlete. .wimfrom Union City high school this year,’ died Wednesday night in Ball Memorial hospital at Muncie. He became ill with bulbar polio Saturday. Hardest hit county on the basis of population was Scott, whose additional one, to make a total of 11. gives the county a ratio of nearly one case per 1,000 population. Starke, with two new cases fori a total seven, also is hard hit on population basis. Other counties for which new cases were reported this week, and the new total, are: Clark, 1 and 6; Clay. 1 and 1; Fayette. 1 and 2; Hancock. 1 and 1; LaPorte, 2 and 4; Madison, 1 (Continued on Page irtve. Cattle Awards For Fanners Os County Receive 17 Awards At Indiana's Fair Cattle entered in the Indiana state fair by Adams county fanners received 17 a'wards in two breeds in Wednesday’s judging, reports made public today reveal. Nine awards went to exhibitors in the Ayrshire breed and eight ribbons were awarded to breeders of Holstein-Friesian cattle in Adams county. Brigadis Queen Isabelle heifer under 18 months in the Ayrshire judging and owned by Batkhaus brothers, Decatur, route three, led all other Adams county entries by getting a first award in that age class. Other Ayrshire awards from Adams county included: Cow, two years an under three, Backhaus brothers, fourth' place; heifer calf, four months and under one year, Backhaus brothers, tenth place; bull calf, four months and under one year, Backhause brothers, eighth place; produce of dam, Backhaus brothers, second place. Backhause entries also won the following awards: Cow, two years and under three, second; heifer calf, four months and under one year, eighth; bull calf, four -months and under one year, ninth. Here are the Adams county placings in the Holstein-Friesian group: Bull, two years atid under three, Curtis Van Wullitnan, Monroe, sixth; produce of dam, Rolandes Liechty, Berne, route two, sixth: bull, two years and under three, Curtis VanWulliman, sixth; cow, four years and under five, Rolandes Liechty, ninth; get of sire, Lee Montgomery, Berne, route two, fifth; get of sire (senior), Rolandes Liechty, fourth, and produce of dam, Rolandes Liechty, sixth.

Democrats Os Decatur Open Fall Campaign Active Campaign Is Planned By Workers For City Election 'Democrat candidates for Decatur municipal offices started the campaign for the November 8 election Wednesday night in a meeting at Democrat headquarters in the Niblick building. Bernard Clark, city chairman and Mrs. Everett Hutker, vice-chairman, conducted the session. Headed by Robert D. Cole, candidate for mayor, all seven of the candidates pledged to bring the issues of the campaign to the public in a “fair but active” campaign. Cole and Mrs. Mirriam Hall, candidate for clerk-treasurer, stated they would start this week to make a complete canvass of voters. Chairman Clark urged candidates to take ah acive part in registration of voters and Ed Jaberg, Adants county clerk, explained the election laws and especially the absent voters statute to the candidates and party workers. ... Cuuavy chairman Dr, Harry Hebble attended the kick-off meeting and urged all of the candidates to make sure that every citizen of Decatur was registered. Mrs. Hutker gave a brief outline of what the women planned to do in the next two months in the way of holding meetings and assisting at headquarters. AU of the five candidates for councilmanic posts. Ed Bauer, incumbent, and Norbert Aumann, ' Clyde Drake, Lawrence Kohne and , Carl Gerber responded and pledged their assistance in waging an energetic campaign. “The councilmanic ticket appears Ito be the most representative group offered by either party in the last several elections,” Clark pointed out. “Every candidate is a family man and home owner. All are long time residents of the city and all have been interested in the civic, labor and business life of the community." Plans were started at Wednesday’s meeting to hold several public meetings in October to dischss numerous local issues of the campaign. The Dempcrat platform, (Continued on r&are Five) Mrs. Henry Graber Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Edna Graber. 70, wife of J. Henry Graber, of Root township, four miles west of Decatur, died at 7:50 o’clock Wednesday evening at the Adams county memorial_hospital. She had been ill for two years and hospitalied for the past five weeks. She was born in French township March 5, 1885, a daughter of Peter and Rachel Neuenschwander - Moeschberger, and was a lifelong resident of Adams county. She was married to J. Henry Graber Jan. 10, 1914. Mrs. Graber was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, the Women’s Guild of the church, and the Order of Eastern Star. Surviving in addition to her husband are a brother, Martin Moeschberger of French township, and two sisters. Mrs. Edwin Beer of Berne and Mrs. Ervin Walters of Vera Cruz. A sister, Mrs. Telsa Schindler, died June 11 of this year. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Zwlck funeral home, the Rev. William C. ‘Feller officiating. Burial will be in the St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed church cemetery at Vera Cruz. Friundß may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

California Solon ' Threatened By Red State Department Demands Apology WASHINGTON (INS) — Rep. Joe Holt (R Calif.), today described state department officials as “hopping mad” over a Russian officer’s threat to shoot him during a recent visit to Moscow. The Californian said no reply has yet been received from the Soviet government to a U.S. protest filed last Thursday .by American ambassador Charles E. Bohlen. Holt told newsmen that if the Russian government did not apologie, he would urge the U.S. to halt the exchange of official delegations, such as those which studied agriculture here and in the Soviet Union. He said Americans in Russia are not given the freedom to travel that Russians receive here. The 31-year-old second term congressman reported that state department officials promised to press the protest until a satisfactory reply was received from Moscow. The legislator .—a Korean war veteran '—, emphasied that he had identified himself to the Russian officer as a member of congress, but to no avail. Holt related that a Red army Ueuteßant _ leyqled a <ua aL. his head, as he sat In aa American embassy automobile on Aug. 31 and ordered him out. Holt and an embassy representative refused to accompany the lieutenant. After an hour’s delay they were permitted to leave. Probe Is Ihiminenl Over Hoppe Ouster Charges Political Motive In Firing WASHINGTON (INS) — A full scale congressional investigation appeared imminent today over the firing of Edgar E. Hoppe of Dallas, Tex., as assistant internal revenue commissioner. Hoppe charged that he was fired for "political” reasons, but treasury secretary George M. Humphrey said ~ Wednesday he was ousted for "incompetence." Chairman blin D. Johnston (DS.C.) of the senate post office and civil service committee, said the group’s staff has studied the Hoppe case. He added: “It appears a thorough investigation of this and similar cases in 'the executive branch of the government is warranted.” In Denver, chairman Robert H. Mollohan (D-W.Va.) of a house government operations subcommittee, said he will order an immediate inquiry and open hearings will be held, if justified. Hoppe, who was removed Oct. 7, 1953, has filed suit In federal court in Washington seeking $26,823 in back pay on grounds that his ouster violates civil service regulations. ..His attorney, John,..P, Witsil. said Hoppe was “banished” because’he “refused to whitewash a critical, adverse report" on a top Eisenhower appointee in the internal revenue bureau. \jHumphrey said, however, that Hoppe “was advanced to a position of importance that proved to be beyond his capacity and ability.” Gwynne Is Appointed To Head Commission DENVER (INS) — President Eisenhower named John Williams Gwyune as chairman of the federal trade commission today and appointed former Gov. Sigurd Anderson of South Dakota as a commission member. BULLETIN BURBANK, Calif. (INS) — An airliner careened off a runway and smashed into a hangar - while landing at Burbank today and police said at least two persons were killed.

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Appeal Issued Before UN To Maintain Pad Seek Agreement On Urgent Enforcement Measures For Truce UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —The western Big Three powers appealed to Egypt and Israel in the United Nations today to agree .on urgent enforcement measures to safeguard the truce in the Gaza strip and prevent further violence. The U. S., Britain and France endorsed in the security eoundl proposals to separate Israeli and Egyptian troops along the Gaw frontier by erecting “physical barriers” which would prevent contact by the two opposing sides. The proposals were made by UN truce chief General E. L. M. Burns who warned in Palestine that continued contact between Egyptian and Israeli forces on the Gaza borders threatened to bring further clashes. Immediately after the security council session began, Soviet delegate A. A. Sobolev challenged the right of Nationalist China’s Tingfu F. Tsiang to preside over the meeting or to occupy th* Chinese seat In the 11 nation body. iU. S. ambassador ffenry Cabot Lodge keynoted the urgency for taking measures to bolster last Sunday's truce in the Gaza strip by telling the morning emergency session of the security council: “We do not propose to discuss particular incidents or to assess blame. We wish to look ahead ourselves and to set down our firm conviction that the parties must begin to look ahead, and that the time for them o do so is now. "The situation calls for immediate efforts and not past recrimination.” ' :- i “. British delegate Sir PiersoiT Dixon and French representative Herve Alphand also called for urgent action to solidify the Gaza truce and for prevention of further clashes in the region. Sobolev demanded that Tsiang, who is council president for September, give up his seat in favor of the Chinese Communists. Sobolev declared “the time has come to finish such a situation in which the piece of Red China is illegally occupied.” Tsiang ruled the Russian’s statement out of order. He was seconded in his ruling by U. S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who said he took “serious exception” to the Soviet challenge. The three western powers draft* ed a resolution calling on Egypt and Israel “to take all steps necessary to bring about order and tranquility” in the Gaza area. Dangerous clashes threatening peace in the Middle East broke out there again last week. The resolution urged both sides “in particular to desist from further acts of violence and to continue the cease fire in full force (Continued on Page Five) Pleasant Mills To Have Playground Pleasant Mills high school, educational center of St. Mary’s township will have a new modern playground. including a track and baseball diamond, it was learned. The new recreational area, which will be 5.67 acres of adjoining ground, was made possible by the recent acquisition of the ground by the township. Plans for the improvement were verified today by Lester H. Brunner, St. Mary’s township trustee. Brunner said the playground area would be under supervision of the school authorities and could also be used as a picnic area in the summer months. Residents of the township have long been interested in obtaining additional ground adjoining the school slta at the edge of the town. Work will start soon on converting the land into a playground area.